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f\ ^^ PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY ' VOLUME 34.?NUMBER 23. CHESTERFIELD, S. C., AUGUST 26, 1915. $1 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Ltli FRANK'S DEATH INSIDE STORY OF LYNCHINQ OF CONVICTED MURDERER i # HE MADE NO CONFESSION Second Attempt to Secure Virtim Succeeds?Passerby is Held Up at Pistol Point While Lynching Pro* coeds?Prisoner Was oNt Mistreated by Members of Mob Who Executed Him. The murder of Leo M. Frank will go unavenged by the law, nays a Btaff correspondent of the New York Times writing from Marietta, if it is to be punished in the county where It was committed. No jury in Cobb county would convict the murderers. no grand Jury would indict them, no official would undertake to prosecute them. This Is not to say that Cobb county Is terrorized, for it is not; it is to say that the vast majority of its people, even those who deplore the lynching as a violation of law, bollevo that Frank got no more than his deserts, and that the mob simply carried out the verdict of the law after it had been arbitrarily set aside by a governor who was a law partner of Frank's lawyor. The word mob does not seem dc. scriptlve, although it is correct, for these men did not display the ordinary characteristics of a mob. There was no outburst of rago, no disorder; the whole thing was dono with order, method, and precision, and with a military attention to details. Lynching mobs are usually composed of riff-raff, with a few leaders of a higher order; but this ono consisted of leading citizens in tho community, men prominent in business and social circles, and oven In church. Liquor played no part in it, as it does in most lynchings. Tho lynching had been planned for months, and the plans of the conspirators contemplated its carrying out on a night several weeks ago, but the authorities learned of it in eomo way and it was postponed until last Monday a week. These leading citizens : re to-day taking their leading p-^rts in the city's business and social affairs, with no sign upon them of guilty conscience, for they liavo none. Their consciences approvo them, and what they hear from their fellow citizens wherever thoy go adds to their selfapproval, for the city approves them, field to Have Vindicated Law. They are regarded not merely as men who can plead justification, but as men who prevented a miscarriage of justice and saved tho h.w from being set aside and mockod by a man who. huppened to fill tho governor's chair. There are in Marietta men who do not rpprove their act because of the respect for tho forms of law, but even these boltevo that the spirit cf it was set at naught by the governor, and not one of these men ?who aro few?would think of refusing to shako hands with one of the lynchers or Introducing him to his wife or revealing his identity to an officer of the law. Elsewhere than in Marietta there is much of tho same sentiment, but there is a division. There are, but outsido of Cobb county, men who fear the growth of the mob spirit after such a dramatic and spectacular exhibition and who would like to take measures to curb it. Many of . them are in Atlanta. "Many oven of these bollevo Frank guilty and are concerned not with him but with tho future of the state. They are considering the taking of steps to bring about the punishmer t of his slayers for that reason alono, but they do not know what steps to take. Frank was carried through four counties by hie captors and some of those who would lika to have them punished talk of having them indicted in some one of tho three thai War A fro VAriiAd hof nro (V KK ommt v I _ was reached. Lawyers of prominence nay that under federal law thoy could not be Indicted anywhere but In Cobb county for murder; In Baldwin county, whero Frank was taken, ? they could bo Indicted for abduction, but not murder, and in neither of the remaining two counties could they bo indicted for anything. Nobody talk3 nerlously of tho investigation Gov. Harris is promising, and there are very few who balicvo there is the slightest chance of any of the murdorcrs being put to any grave trouble, much losa punished Thoy are known to many of the citizens of Marietta, who would die rather than reveal their knowledge or evou their suspicion. Marietta in a Deadly Mood. Marietta to-day Is in a mood of braced purpose and resolve. Every stranger who comes into town is under observation the moment l-.e arrives. Its mood is one of determination to protect the men who, in its eyes, executed the law after it had been trampled on. It is resolvod that not a h. ir of tholr heads shall be harmed. Detectives or other persons who can not give a satisfactory account of themselves aro not wanted in Marietta, and it would be as well for them not to insist on knowing why. Marietta onco came within an ace of lynching Petoctlvo William J. Burns for his visit there in the Interest of Frank, and Marietta then was only angry. To-day Mariotta is in a mood of high resolve. The killing of Leo Frank was carried out by these Marietta people? for they were from Marietta?in the firm belief that they were executioners of justico, and cvory detail of tholr proceedings shows that they were acting, in their own minds, as such. (Grotesque as it may seem elsewhere, Marietta sees nothing grotesque in the fact that, -before hanging Frank, the leader of the band informed the prisoner that the sentence of the law was now about to be carried out and anked him formally if h? had anything to say. Frank was carried 175 miles In order that ho might he put to ddath at Mary phagac's former home. IThls > waa done In splta of tha fact flhat I > COURT UPHOLDS ELECTION AND REFUSES INJUNCT101 Justices and Judges Unanimous! Declare That the Appeal be and it is Dismissed. The Supreme Court justices am the circuit judges of the state Satur day afternoon unanimously hande< down a decision refusing to enjoii the prohibition referendum ^lectloi set for September 14 and refused th petition, of John Henry Chappell, i taxpayer, of Newberry, w^o asked fo the Injunction. The decision was ren dered immediately after the en ban session had adjourned and after con sultation. The order of the court follows: "The State of South Carolina, ii the Supreme Court, en banc. "John Henry Chappell, petitioner vs. R. M. McCown, Secretary of State et al. "Order: Upon hearing argumen herein and upon consideration there of, we are of opinion that the injunc tion be refused, and it is so ordered "The immediate pendency of th< election forbids us to rndiipo to art-it lng the reasons for our judgment that" will be done hereafter, and 8* Boon as the circumstances shall per mlt of It. "Eugene B. Gary, "Chief Justice. "D. E. Hydrlck, A. J. "R. C. Wattn, A. J. "T. B. Fraser, A. J. "Geo. W. Gage. A. J. "George E. Prince, Judge Tentl Circuit. "H. F. Rico, Judge Socond Clr cult. "T. S. Sease, Judge Seventh Clr cult. "J. W. DeVore, Circuit Judge. "Frank B. Gary, Judge Eighth Clr cult. "John S. Wilson, Judge Third Clr cult. "I. W. Bowman, Judge First Clr cult. "Ernest Moore, Judge Sixth Clr cult. "Mendel L. Smith, Judge Flftl Circuit.* OBREGON TURNS HIS BACK ON FOREIGN PEACEMAKER! Says Carranw* Represent* Mexlc* With Other Nations?Washington Sees Pessimistic Outlook. The hopes of the adminlstratioi and I.atln conferees that their peac< plan for Mexico would bear fruit, re ceivcd a crushing setback Saturday when Gen. Obreeon. the military leader, transmitted his reply to theii appeal and announced that he stooc solidly behind Gen. Carranza. It is now plain that Carranza wll absolutely refuso to consent to Pan American settlement of the Mexlcai problem. The Constitutional clvt governors and military commander! will back him up to a man. The ter days allowed for reply by Secretary Lansing in his note to all Mexlcai factions expires next Tuesday. There is now much pessimisn about the state department over th< Mexican situation as the administra tion had some hope that Gen. Obre gon would break with Carranza ant accept the proffered peaco parleys. ' On' the contrary, ho declines to ac cept or respond to the note officially and says he has forwarded It to Car ranza for his disposition. He an nounces also that Cairanza is Mexi co's sole representative in all dealing! with other nations. posses were upon tho track of th< abductors. It was not dono fron any ferocious motive of inflicting unnecessary pain, as is shown by tin fact that Prank was not harmed ir any way beforo his death, but bo cause it seemed to their minds of : piece with tho justice they concelvec themselves to be executing. Tin whole affair was carried out method! cally and with a plodding following out of prearranged details. me muraerors had not only plan nei tho crime for months, but hat arranged its mechanism scientifically and only ono of tho elements In ii went ,/rong. That was the plan foi the junction of two parties at Mil ledgevillt at 10 o'clock, the hour foi which t ie abduction was planned That ci nply postponed tho kidnap ping until midnight, and reculted ii tho bringing of Frank in broad day light instead of at a little after dawn That slight alteration was the onl] change made necessary by any hltcl in the arrangements. Bid Not Beg for His hlfe. Leo Frank died bravely. Ho die not beg for his life; indeed, he dl< not say anthing oxcept when ho wa; spoken to, and then he answored col lectedly. His < bductor3 had little t< say to him, as was in kcoplng witl the character they w iro In their owi eyes?tho charactor of officers o Justico, sternly and cllently executing a sentenco already dcrocd by a regu lar tribunal. How this delusion could have set tied upon 14 wliolo community ma] be hard to undorRtand. But the ox tent to which it went may bo under hioou ny me ract tn;.t tl o lyncher would hevo with them no men o lawless character or bad reputation The lawless and the violent men o Cobb county, those with a celebrit; as such, were not permitted to knov what was going on, and would no have been permitted to participate After the hanging thoso violent am lawless elements, furious at havini (Continued on last page.) Hlilp Kngliuw to Russia. Fifteen locomotives, 5.000 tons o steel rails and other railroad equip ment, aggregating 7,000 tonu, part o a large order to Philadelphia arm from the Russian government, wen being loaded on the British steam ship St. Leonards at Philadelphii Monday. Cyclone Hits tireemville. A small cyclone visited Oreenvill Fridav afternoon, leaving .me mai dead, fifty or more houses wrocke* or damaged, scores of trem uprooted wires down and doing otter damag of more or less consequence. RUSSIANS ARE PROUD OF i GREAT NAVAL TRIUMPH y Official Report Tells How Battle Be gan and Ended in German Retreat. d Petrograd, Monday: The naval bat - tie in the Qulf of Riga la describee d as follows in a statement from navj n headquarters: Q "The German fleet on August six6 teenth renewed with large forces itt a attacks on our fort at the entrance r to the Gulf of Riga. Our ships dur" ing the sixteen and seventh repulsed c the attacks on the enemy whose sec" ret preparations for entering the gull had been favored singularly by mist; weather. 11 "Taking advantage of a thick fog hostile forces of considerable size en' tered the Gulf on the eighteenth and ' our vessels retired, at the same time t continuing to resist the enemy without losing touch with him. "On the nineteenth and twentieth the enemy reconnoltered In different P directions at the same time keeping . up a fight with our ships, in -which ; our torpedo boat flotilla suffeed maa terlal losses. On our side we lost the . funboat Sivutch, which perished gloriously in an equal fight with ar enemy cruiser which was escorting torpedo craft and came up to a distance of four yards from her. The Sivutch, enveloped in flames, con tlnued to reply shot for shot until she sank, having previously sunk enemy li torpedo boats. "In view of the losses suffered and . the futility of his efforts, the enemy appears to have evacuated the Oulf ol . Riga on the twenty-first. "Between the sixteenth and twenty-first, two enemy cruisers and nc . fewer than eight torpedo boats were either sunk or placed hors de combat . Simultaneously our gallant allief succeeded in torpedoing in the Baltic . one of the most powerful dread noughts of the German fleet.'' , SUBMARINES VERY ACTIVE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY j Underwater tt-aft Get Fourteen Steamers In Two I>ays Making 47,(11)8 Tons. Fourteen steamers, with a total gross tonnage of 47,698 were destroyed by German submarines in the 4 8 hours making up last Thursday i and Friday. This toll establishes a 3 record for the period. The recrudescence of submarine / activity began August 12 and in the Ir week ending August 18 the British r admiralty reports thirteen vessels of 1 a total tonnage of 22,970 were sunk, eieven ui wiem oy underwater craft 1 and two by mines. This makes a to tal known loss of 70,668 tons of i shipping in nine days. 1 Underwater craft torpedoed Prls day the British steamers Restormel, i 2,118 tons; Baron Ersklne, 5,585 / tons; Bittern, 1,797 tons, and the i Ben Brachie, 3,908 tons; the Norwegian steamers Sverresborg, 67 4 tons, i and Bras, 1,351 tons, and the Spani ish steamer Peria Castillo, 1,920 - tons. The vessels sunk Thursday were I the Arabic, 15,801 tons; Grodno, 1 ,955 tons; Serbino, 2,205 tonB, and - Magda, 1,063 tons, a total of 21,024. , All these were Br'tlsh except the - Magda, which was Norwegian. . A submarine halted the Norwegian - mail steamer Irma, within Norwegian 3 territorial waters, but disappeared before torpedoing the vessel when - warned by a Norwegian torpedo boat 3 that the attack which apparently was i intended would constitute a violation ? of neutrality. ! LANSING CABLES GERARD i ASKING FOR INFORMATION > Secretary of State Asks Ambassador If Germans Have Oflfclal 1 Iteport. j; Secretary I.ansing Monday cabled Ambassador .Gerard at Berlin asking I if the German eovernment hnd r?. 1 ceived an official report on the sinkIng of the Arabic. The ambassador, however, was not instructed to ask for one. It was officially seated that the r American government is not yet a( i all sure of the facts and considers its information very fragmentary. Tho point now in doubt is as tc whether Germany will claim that the ! change of-course of tho liner just before she was attacked led tho subraa' rine cojnfnander to believe that she was attempting a hostile act against J him. The administration is maintaining 1 an open mind and no statement as tc the course to be pursued will be iss sued. Discussion continued Monday as tc the possibility of the United States ~ breaking off diplomatic relations with _ Germany in the event it is decided that tho sinking of the Arabic was a "dellberatoly unfriendly act." f HAITIFNC PBFPARE ATTAfV f 1 """ lftvH f v l'nlt?l HtAtM Troops are to Ilelnforcs , Admiral Caperfon. * Reliable reports received In Wash* Ington that Haltien rebels have been organizing an army to attack the American forces on the island are re sponsible for plans now being carf rled out to reinforce Admiral Caper ton's marines and bluejackets. f The marine artillery battalion a< s Annapolis, comprising three hundred a and fifty men and twelve threo-lncf - field pieces will be embarked on th? a armored cruiser Tennessee and sent to southern waters this week to awali developments at some place wher< they can be landed In a few hours. e * * n Occupy Omoweti. 1 Berlin, Monday: Oerraan troopi I, hove occupied the fortress of Oteo * wets, which was evacuated by ih< Russians , THE WARLAST WEEK . GERMANS PLAN TO FORCE RUSSIANS OUT OF WAR ARMY FACES NEW DANGER , Von llindenburg's Southern Advance ' From Kovno in Conjunction With I Mackensen'n Northern I>rive t Threatens Capture of Russians in f Ossowetz Salient. The week's operations on the Rus sian front give every Indication that I the German plan, for the present at > least, involves Russia and Russia - alone. Since it became inevitable that the i fall of Warsaw, was inevitable specut lation has been rife as to Germany's ! next move. In many quarters it was i argued that with Russia behind the Vistula and the Bug, the German > masses would be thrown against the western battle line in another drive i toward the French coast. The arguments in favor of the move rested principally on the des fensive strength of these positions: | that once the Germans held securely | the western banks, they could with a greatly reduced force hold the Russians in check while the surplus | troops could reinforce the western J line. Against this was the length of line to be held and the possibility that the Russians might manoeuvre behind it and, by massing forces at a J selected point, break through the ' German line at some weak spot, j Again, it was rumored that as Tur, key was weakening and her rnunitions becoming exhausted, Serbia was to receive the brant of the German attack. This possibility was emphasized by the concentration of Teuton troops and artillery at Orsova, a town , close to the frontiers of Hungary, Roumania, and Serbia. An attack i was actually made from thiB town against the Serbian frontier, but as this failed to materialize into a gen- i 1 eral offense, a process of elimination determined Italy as the next objec- i tive. This has also failed to materialize, and the military forecasters < have finally been forced to the con- i ' elusion, which, it is true, future ' events may prove Incorrect, that all 1 of these predictions are wrong, and I that Germany's plan Is, first and fore ' most, Russia. i mis conclusion is, 10 say the least, ' the most logical of them all. Ger- ' 1 many can not but realize, what has 1 , so often been repeated In these re- 1 views, that with all of her enemies in I the field maintaining active mobile 1 armies, her chances of success are ' , small; that it is almost hopeless to contend on an equal footing with ' such a coalition steadfast and intact. 1 ller chance to win must be based on 1 her ability to eliminate from the con- ' flict at least one of her opponents so ! 1 that she may be free to devote her 1 forces to the other. And what more ' logical candidate for elimination can 1 at the present moment be found than 1 Russia? ' Driven completely across Galicia from the Dunajer. to the Lipa, forced . north from the San across the War- , saw-Kovel railroad, the' Warsaw sail- . , ent broken in by attacks in its front nnd on its flanks, the strong line of { tho Narew forced and its defenders compelled to retire to the weaker line behind the Rug, short of ammunition and her troops wearied with inces- , sant fighting and equally incessant , , retreats, Russia presented by far the , weakest front of any of the allied powers. What more natural, then, ! than an attempt by combined attack to render Russia completely hors de . combat and force on her a peace in. dependent of her allies? Everything at tho present Juncture points to this as the immediate German object. There are other consid- | erations, too, in addition to Russia's ! present weakness. The Allies are . known to have but an inadequate supply of ammunition. Enormous 1 contracts for war material have been placed in this country, but, because of ' I the fact that our plants have to be : modified or entirely rebuilt in order to produce shell, substantial deliv- ] eries have not yet been made. > Of this Germany Is well aware. She has equally full knowledfra that by late fall the flow of shell from s this country to the Allies will be sub>, stantlal in amount and consistently \ maintained, and, although her submarine fleet will account for some of i these shipments, at least ninety-five I per cent, of them will reach their des. tlnatlon. If," then, the forces opposed to her i have not been reduced by the ellmi: nation of one of her greatest antagonists heforo the flow begins, how ; can she hope to continue during the i winter? This war has simmered . down to a war of ammunition and resources, of shell and money. The > Allies have greater wealth, and when i this supply of shell also becomes i greater Germany's superior organizaI tlon will be set at naught. . These i are fact to which the German leaders, with all their alleged egotism, are j keenly alive. To Germany, as to us, they emphasize the necessity of Rus- 1 sla's elimination. Whether Germany ( can accomplish this is for the pro- J ( phets, not for the reviewer to say. We are concerned only wit*, what has 1 been done, and what it means now, not what it may mean in future oper- ] atlonS. i The retreat of the Russians in Po- 1 > land has continued all during the ' - past week until the Teuton armies 1 are now close to Rrest-Litovsk. Ad vancing from Warsaw, north from Ivangorod and Rublin, they have ! t taken one railroad junction after an1 other, turned the more important ' into auxiliary supply depots, and > from these fleld bases have continued t their march eastward. On Sunday the capture of 8iedlce * was announced, vhe last of the important railroad points guarded by the Warsaw salllent. Ti.?: '"""is that all Rus^bn forces have retired p i completely J^^bthe salient, and the situation, Jx we*k's reports < ? left very^^ has assumed defl- i nlte foxg MBLis the location oSM GREAT BRITAIN NOW SAYS Gi COTTON IS CONTRABAND Makes Official Announcement on Hat- Ai urday?Franco to Follow Suit Soon. Cotton has been declared absolute contraband by Great Britain, according to a statement issued by the , Britluh foreign office Saturday after- .? noon. * The statement declares that the Pj government proposes to initiate measures to relieve depression which L might temporarily disturb the cotton ' market because of the contraband f order. * 1 It was learned upon Inquiry at the *; foreign office that the French gov- ? ernment will issue a similar notice at an early date. The announcement follows: "His P1 Majesty's government has declared K cotton absolute contraband. While the circumstances might have justi- a( fled such action at an earlier peribd, his Majesty's government are glad to P* think that local conditions of American interests likely to be affected are en more favorable for such a step than Pa fhOV o ? - ...v/ vio a, joti n^u, auu, mureuver, 1,1 his Majesty's government contem- Pe plate initiation of measures to re- c? lieve as far as possible any abnormal Ei depression which might temporarily disturb market conditions.'' tli The declaration is effective from lTi Saturday. A royal proclamation con- tr cerning the action was published in st a supplement of the London Gazette issued Saturday night. It is very of brief. After a preamble citing pre- f? vious proclamations concerning con- ad traband, it says: fo "Now, therefore, we do hereby de- fo clare, by and with the advice of our sii privy council, that during the continuance of the war, or until we do give further public notice, the following "to articles will be treated as absolute er contraband in addition to those set tj, out in our royal proclamations afore- j0 mentioned: an "Raw cotton, cotton linters, cotton waste and cotton yarn. co "And we do hereby further declare q( that this, our royal proclamation, shall take efTect from the date of its publication in the London Gazette." g| the battle lines are concerned. The most severe fighting in this re siou is in me section netween tbe N'arew and the Bur. The German nffenae is still directed against a rail- A> road, the one running northeast from Brest-Litovsk through Bielsk and Bialystok, thence to Grodno and Viltia. This road from Brest-Litovsk to Grodno is along the first line of Russian defense, and is, for this reason, fn vastly more important and must be th held is Russia still hopes to make a stand on the line joining these two 15l fortresses. Moreover, it parallels the co present Russian front, and by means ^ of important branches feeds directly tr. the Russian battle line. North of Grodno the Russian line of defense follows generally the Niemen River, and was intended to pass through Kovno. Rut the Germans ,ei have upset all the Russian plans by storming and finally Vptuiing this fa fortress, thereby imperilling the entire Russian right wing. At,Kovno Bi ;onslderagle material was captured jo and reported, emphasizing the failure to report such capture in connection th with the Warsaw success. Ju Not only does it expose the flank of Ri this line, but it also opens the way to D< Vilna, un open town, against which sti the Germans are advancing. In un fact, their aviators have actully been bombarding it. Vilna is also on the ecj main railroad from Warsaw to Petro- jia ?rad; and is at the junction of an- nc ather road running south of Rovno. jj, But It is the Petrograd road that will co hurt. Ry taking Vilna the Teutons will absolutely control, through the control of two termini, about two hundred and fifty miles of this artery. A1 There is another danger still that m full) as menacing and it is Itegini.i lg to appear; the successful retreat. from War.suv. was a step out. of the frying pan into the lire. Having failed in their attempt to trap the Rus- G< dan army in the Warsaw salient, the jermans, with unlooked-for versality, immediately formed an alternative plan looking again to the same object ?for it is the Russian army, not the capture of Russian territory, that is e(j the German objective. wj To this end von Hindenburg is ca pushing east and south from Kovno ()p In an attempt completely to outflank ge the Russian army by hending it back vj, on itself, while Mnekensen is driving a8 north trying to accomplish the same ro thing further* south. The result is the creation in the vicinity of Ossowet/. of Another sail- !, p>nt similar to the one at Warsaw. An 1 attack against its side will, at the "f rate of the Germun advance, soon . place the army occupying the salient n In a difTicult position. The Russian commander will have his hands full w' to extricate his forces with his usual th success. 11,1 uii Hie MuuiiitTii pari 01 me lino, that along the Dniester, and the Zlnta Li pa, there has been comparative wl quiet. There was a temporary re- nn sumption of hostilities that lasted a he day or two and resulted in some th flight Russian advantages, but mat- <>r ters soon became quiet again, the 1?! two battle lines facing each other across the rivers. The German army I I liere has no reason to take the offen- ^ slve. It Is apparently intended only as a holding fo-,ce to prevent a Russian advance, and plays no part in the general offensive plan further north. Iti On the Italian front there is nothing of special importance on which to comment. At the same time there seems to be a generol feeling of disappointment among the friends of the Quadruple Entente as to Italy's failure to make more rapid progress as jj, well as confusion as to just what the nf problem is in this theatre and what mi Italy has done to meet the situation. \j( pn Fortifying Constantinople. ne London, Monday: The (lermans in fo Turkey are devoting all their atten- ha Hon to the fortification of Constantinople. A second line has been pre- m pared on Gallipoll. nr m .^^Dvelin Brought Donn. ^H^^^Btonners have brought ah approaching Vilna. Ai dispatch froih m ERMANS MUST PREPARE FOR PEACE WITH HONOR nistertlain Reports Secret Confer- A1 enco?Empire at End of Financial Resources. Amsterdam reports via London: At m e secret conference of cabinet min- |?) ters, political leaders and influen*1 writers called by the German imsrial chancellor before the reasseming of the relchstag last Thursday \V discuss the political situation, the degraaf says Karl Heilfferish, sectary of the treasury, explained that e new German war loan would cometely exhaust the empire's financial sources and that the increase in the ;echequer bonds would cause bankiptcy. Therefore Dr. Helfferish ged. It was need to prepare for an morable peace. or Chancellor von Betlimann-Hollweg sj] icording to the same report, de- ^ ared that the difficulties of the em- I))( re were increasing and advised his j >arers to use their influence to soft- w"j i down bellicose inclinations on exitision policy In the reichstag and ja e country and carefully to prepare j iace proposals which would be ac- .j" ptable to the four members of the vr> itente. Dr. Bernhard Dernberg's report of m, le failure of his mission in the sc nited States and other neutral coun- to ies, the Telograaf says, made a ca rong impression on the conference, pp General von Moltke, former chief ti the general staff, declared that he Qt ily agreed with the chancellor and Mi Ided that only those not fully in- At rmed on the situation could hope jf< r the possibility of complete Kusin. by Despite theso declarations, the ory concludes, the meeting refused foi adopt a resolution advocating mod- so ation in the reichstag, whereupon ac e chancellor declared that if a ma- sti rit> in the reichstag should show loi irreconcilable chauvinistic attitude svv s would be obliged to resign, as he oil uld not accept responsibility for Tli jrmany's disaster. tlv , , . los ULOARIA SIGNS TREATY WITH TURKEY, SAYS BERLIN ?? an pr jroenient Said t(? Have Been Reach- t>r ed Between Sublime Perte and 011 ro ltalkan Neighbor. sic thi Berlin, Monday: "Official reports im Sofia and Constantinople state sti at Turkey and Bulgaria have sign- tin a new treaty, Turkey granting ti\ llgaria her desired direct railroad inj nnection with the sea and Bulgaria as reeing to observe a benevolent neu- sir ility." According to the German view- pa lint, the treaty between Bulgaria bei d Turkey is said to mean a benevo- ed it neutrality, if not ruore. be "This demonstrates the definite ('" ilure of the efforts of the Entente wers.to revive the alliance of the !'1 ilkan states and induce them to Jll; in in the war against Turkey." P'1 Unofficial reports late in July were at a convention had been signed 011 co ly 22. by which Turkey ceded to llgaria the Turkish portion of the (1() ideaghatch railway. The reports ()f> ited that the treaty left Bulgaria .... ipledged. (al That Bulgaria had not been pledg- to1 to any course as regards the war su ,s been the assumption under which we gotiations have been conducted by bu e Allies. Several unoffclal reports sei ncerning Bulgaria's diplomatic acuities appeared to confirm this view. es, ed UB1C MAY CAUSE BREAK IN UH'LUMAIIC KtLATIONS w, th; 8tC ivernment at Washington Is Awaittoi inn Official Dispatches on \o Its Destruction. ^ Until official information is receivon tlie sinking of the Arabic there ' II be no statement of the Ameri- ou n government's p< sition and high Jni icials will not discuss the subject. cretary I^anoing dismissc-; inter- J1lf iwers with a negative answer when 'n> ked if additional reports have been ceived from Ambassador Page. gel It was understood that tlie all im rtant report awaited before the )i(j lited States determines whether ))(. srmany has committed a "deliber- t,Q ely unfriend'y" act is expected f ' im Ambassador Gerard at Berlin. fo| Severance of diplomatic relations rc| th Germany is being discussed as of e step that would follow determt- of nun mat ino sin King or the Arabic do is deliberately unfriendly. Whetli- sin such an action would be taken tin thout first consulting congress is a bo atter of speculation. Some identl- is id with the administration believe bo at congress should bo called togetli- ot before anything is done that might gii ad to war. of FTS OFF CENSORSHIP? | SENDS OVER SOME NEWS Bh pa Qi litish Admiralty Makes Statement be Concerning Torpedoing of J'l' the Arabic. While American officials have failto understand the action of the itisli censor who shut ofT all news the Arabic, the Rritlsh admiralty Ri< ade the following announcement so onday: "The Arabic was unarmed ta ssenger ship, outward bound to a ba utral port. It was thus impossible th r her to have been carrying contra- tw ,nd to this country. "She was sunk by a German subarine without warning and she dther attempted to attack the subarlne nor to escape from It." w< Survivors of the Dunsley said that pli ie was torpedoed Just before the lis rabic was sunk and that the Ger- hti an submarine hid behind the Duns- Is y to wait^for the Arabic. do A _ . d TORPEDOES LINER RABIC GOES DOWN CLOSE BY %. LUSITANIA'S GRAVE 1 0 AMERICANS DROWNED J liite Star Liner Torpedoed on Her Way to New York, Thirty-Two Per- 1 sons Doing Drowned ? S Without Warning After other Ship Destroyed. VE| The best information available in ^|j >ndon Friday indicated that a score " more persons lost their lives in the ting of the White Star liner Arabic a German submarine Thursday orning off the South of Ireland. It id not been determined definitely letlier any Americans were among O I\- TP.1 J " - u ueou. i/i. uuiuuuu r. vvooa oi nesville, Wis., and Mrs. Josephine Brugiere, an American, who had red in Europe for a number of ars were missing. The White Star announced Friday ;>rning that all except exlght pas- >< ngers had been landed at Queens- i wn. Four were said to be Ameri- J ns. According to information ca- I ed to Washington by Lewis C. fl lompson, American consul at I leenstown, however, Dr. Wood and I rs. Brugiere are the only missing fl nericans. The other two-1?James fl >ulihan, of Philadelphia, and Thou. fl more of New York?were reported Mr. Thompson to have been saved. fl| In all about four hundred of the ur hundred and twenty-three per- ^fl ns on board tho Arabic had been rountod for. Tlie fate of the others 11 was m doubt, but an the hours lgtliened since the Arabic met with lft destruction, hopes that the H| era may have been saved faded. ie announcement that only eight of -^^fl n passengers were supposed to be ^H| It bore out earlier reports that the eat majority of the missing were jmbers of the crew. ^^fl Captain William Finch gave testl- ^^fl my to the heroism of his engineers (1 firemen, several of whom retincd at their posts to the last and obably sacrificed their lives. Othsurvivors said the torpedo killed fl^fl fright several men in the boiler g^^fl Dins. It struck on the starboard lo about one hundred feed from^^^H o stern, near tho boiler rooms. ^^^fl Tho torpedoing of the Arabic has rred England from end to end, alDUgh on account of the compara- 1 ely small loss of life, public feci; docs not show* signs of running ^^^B high as in the days following the ikinir (if tho I inltnnfo That such a hyge proportion of the ssengers and crew should have in saved in short time is regardas b.etter fortune than might have en expected. Apparently it was e to the coolness and courage of I HH q officers nti'v" crew, from Captain nch who remained at his post until st before the Arabic took her Anal H| iinge down to tlie firemen, who facdeath, to perform their duty. Fine weather and a calm sea also ntrlbuted to the outcome. In leenstown everything p sslble was nn to assist the survivors, many without clothes or j^H >ney. As in the case of the Uusl- JflH lia disaster, the citizens of Queensivn went to tKe assistance of the B (Terers. A number of the survivors suffering from minor injuries, t so far as is known none is in a ~^B rious condition. I With tlie main facts rtf the disastor fl ablished, the English public turn- fl its attention to the possible effect on relations between the United B ites and Germany. Definite word tether American lives had been lost is awaited with more eagerness H m any Otlier detail of the Arabic's B >ry yet to bo told. B Tho White Star liner Arabic was *)B -pedoed and sunk on her way to B w York by a German submarine Kj 9.15 o'clock Thursday morning M nthcast of Fast net. The steamer, according to tho fl bite Star line, was attacked with- B t warning and went down in ten B nutcs. Of the 123 persona oil ? um passengers and H mibers of tlio crow?32 aro miss? and aro bolleved to havo perishMost of those not accounted for long to the crew. Only six passenis aro reported missing. ^Hj Wliether any of thoso not accountfor are Americans ha not yet en determined, but there were only H citizens of lie United States on B ard, 22 being in second cr.bln and,. lr in the steerage. New York ports that a careful chocking B[ various li of survivors the Arabic as given out in Lonn, Washington and New York ^B owed that all passengers listed by '^B a Wiiite Star line as Americans on |B ard the vessel had been saved. It possible that some Amoricans arded the liner as sho was about B| sail and were carried in the list ^Hj /en out by the White Star line as B9 other nationalities. The Arabic rried no tirst class passengers, hav< lately been turned into a two- IB iss liner. B3 Survivors left tlio r.teamer in the ip's boats and wero picked up by ssing vessels They arrived In flH leonstown Thursdr.y night and are liB ing cared for by the White Star ie in hotels and boarding houses In . e littlo town which a short time JBH o cared for the Lusltania survivors B| i Continued on last Mm t fl Klver Huns Amuck. flH The Meromac river, lined on either hi pleasure rerts, elul> houses and summer cotKes. wont several miles out of Its nks Sunday, swept away most of ese buildings and increased to ^H9 enty. it is reported, the number of res lost in St. Louis, Mo., coHHty. Wilson Considers Cotton. President Wilson will take up this ?ek the situation resulting from the j^fl aclnr of cotton on tho contraband it by Great Britain. As a result of Hfl b study of the situation hlnnrotMt^^H ox pec ted to be aentfOMW^tfH|M|M^Hfl