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VOLUME ll?_______ ANDERSON, S. C TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1915. NUMBER, 180. CLOSING IN GREAT DRIVE ON WARSAW ENDED BY OCCUPATION OF PRAGA ALLSES CAPTURE HOOGE TRENCHES Sir John French Alto Reports Cap tre of Prisoners in At tack at Hooges. London, Aug. D.-Tho Austro-Ger mans niadp new advances today against the Russians and the conflict in the west took on a "ew impetus. Sir John French, commander of the British forcoB, reported a fierce ar tillery engagement In which the Brit ish and French recaptured trendies at Hooge along a twelvo hundred yard front, with a hundred and thirty prisoners and two machine guns. The occupation of Praga reported by Berlin, brings to a dramatic cli max tho first phase of the drive at Warsaw and Poland. Praga ls 'ap eastern suburb of Warsaw with great railway Btatlons, on thc road to Pet rograd and Moscow. Few details were received on the Russians' final stand at Praga, but lt is indicated the Russians withdraw al became imperative with tho grad ual drawing together of the German Unes. Warsaw now is the apex of a vet letter V, thc arms of/which are th crivor NaroW ; on . tba. north and Vistula on thc south. The German lines aro contracting as tho armies'of tho north and south approach each Other. Tho-strip of territory across which the Russians may ..withdraw is now hardly more than thirty milos across. Besides this enveloping movement, Berlin' re ports a steady hammering at . the Great Russian fortresses, Kevho and Domza, near the lines of railway com munications to Petrograd. NoVogeorgievsk. ia the only place west of Warsaw at which the Rus sian garrison remains and its fall seems imminent. Vienna tonight officially reports that Archduke Joseph Ferdinand cap tured eight thousand Russians and that on the Dr .esler river, near the Bukowina frontier, thc Austrians cap tured sixteen hundred. Tho occupation of Warsaw unites for tho first time three br un ohos of tbe Poles hitherto divided among tho K< issi ans, Austrians and Germans. Under tho Russian regime Poland had been a hotbed of disorder. There is much interest in the attitude of the Poles toward tho Germans. Paris tonight says the day has been comparatively quiet along the entire front except that tho Germans again bombarded Rheims and for artillery actions in other places. It is an nounced that this morning twenty eight bombarding aeroplanes dropped a hundred and: sixty four sholls on the station and factories of Saaro bruccken, northeast of Motx. The statement says many fires followed, but actual damage ls apparently un known . Vienna tells ot a nattle between, patrol's eleven thousand' two hundred feet In the air on the erst of Corno Blanco in Tyrol. Thy claimed tho Italians lost heavily. It also' states - the Italian attack waa repulsed on thc Carpathian front nd mentions ar tillery actions on Dobo rd o Plateau and tn tho Plavba region. An Italian official statement tonight claimed tho capture of KO mc Aus trian trenches li tho Flava region, and described Italian successes} in upper Comelico, in Carnie, and said the situation is developing favorably for tho Italians on Carao. Plateau. . It announced tho Austrians yesterday again throw bomba-on tito Mon ral cone ship yards, causing fires which Ital ian soldiers put out. GOETHALS TOQ?IT NOVEMBER FIRST Believes fits Work on Canal is Done-Wt? Remain in Army* New York, Aug. 9.-General Goo. W. Gcothals resignation as Governor cf lhe Panama Canal Zone sent Wash ington, designated November 1 as the date of his retirement, he announced upon his arrival hero-today. He said he resigned hccatLT* he believes bis work is done in Panama. He intends io retain his commission In the army. ? * ? SLIDE IN CANAL * ? HOLDS LT BOATS + ? -- ? ? Wallington, Aug. 9.-The ? ? Panama Canal has been block- 4? ? ed by a Bilde in the dullard, ? + formerly the Culebra Cut. Tlie ? ? War Department announces ? 4? that ten vos?ela have been dc- 4? 4* laved. It is honed to clear 4* 4* the channel in three days. 4* ? * RUSSIA REFUSES PEACE OFFERS Proposal Said to Have Involved Trading of Galicia for Part of Poland-Great Struggle in East Continuer jg ? t London. Aug. 9-Russia having re jected what in longland ?H regarded as a bona-fide proposal from thc Ger man emperor for peac? with tiie sug gestion that a part .of Poland be traded, for Galicia Lie great struggle in thc cast must continue. As there is no indication of an immense offen sive: in the west, the Russian struggle for evacuation from tiie ' Teutonic ?ri remains the chief factor in the war nows". Tho Dardanelles operations will be closely watched because of their pos sible bearing on the Balkan situation which is again simmering because of tho renewed quadruple entente pres sure on Bulgaria and Greece.. The importance, of those operations have never before been so keenly realized in Groat Britain and France as now especially as tho indications are that Germany plans to deliver her next hard blow against Servia in order to link up with Turkoy. lt ls manifest that Germany looks to tho east for a settlcmcht ol the war. Without occupation of -a- favorable strategic position she will invoke Bulgaria's aid' in reaching Constantinople by over running Sorb?a. .- ." The Turks claim success in the re cent trench warfare in the Gallipoli peninsular. There bas been no note worthy change elsewhere. Teutonic forces continue their progress north east and southeast of Warsaw. The AuBtro-Hungarlans claim to have cut in two tho Russian forces near Lub lartov and southwest MIetow which retreated after losing the Lubln Obem railroad. Military observers here express the opinlot: that the Teutonic entrapping attempts have failed and gat har from official reorts Indications tbat the Rnisslatns may now bp expected to reach their new lines safely. The latest Rome official statement recounts activity by the Italian mountain troops and gains aro re ported. In Cadore the Austrians have been forced vback far as south of St Pesbeskpcs In the BurgBtall section of the valley. Tho Austrian's counter attacks were repulsed on the Carso plateau. Tho Austrian report says tho'Italian attempts to advtoncc were repulsed. Headquarters of the Austrian army In Poland. Aug. 9.-The defeat of the Russians Sunday between Lubartow and Miehow resulted in driving thc troops apart and left a large gap between them. Tho Rus sian troops north of Lubartow fled north east to Vicnrex at Leasowico and those around Mirehow fled north weet to reach Vlprez via Bara? now. Tho Russians mado a desper ate attack at Mirchow. The retreat of the left wing at Leahowicc was pronounced a route. It is known that tho number of prisoners con siderably exceeds six thousand offi cially reported. < \ French Report. Paris, Aug. 9.-There is official re porte of considerable fighting with mines and artillery last night in the Artois district.. Thc German efforts to -leave their trenches were foiled and attacks with hand grenades and bomba on tho French advanced posta wore repulsed. In tho Vosges the German attack on Lingo at one o'clock this morning failed. Further German Success. Berlin, Praga, Aug. 9-A suburb of Warsaw on the eastern bank of the Vistula has been occupied by the German troops according to a Ger man official 'statement. TURKISH STEAMER SUNK RY ALLIED SUBMARINE Constantinople, Aug. 9-Tho Tprk lah battleship Kboyr-cd-Dln 1 tarda rosea, of nlnetj-nine 'hundred tons displacement, fccnnerly the German warship Kartest Friedrich Wilhelm, has been sunk by an allied submarine according to an official Turkish state ment. .i' is Associate J edge. Washington. Aug. 9.-Geo. B. Downey, oomptrot 1er of th? treasury, waa appointed by the president to be associate judge of the court of claims. Conqueror of 1 Prince Leopoli Prince Leopold of Bavaria lcd thc : victorious Germans into Warsaw, the largest city thuu Tar taken in thc war. But tho way was tnado for him by tho bard work of General von Ilin . denburg on the north and General i Mackensen on the south. I Tho city is the most important BO far taken in the war. But thc RUB ', sian annieB ?scaned and they will re form within Russia for further at tacks on the Germ an H. Warsaw bad 872,478 population- in OFFICIJ \ ON PL PE, ?R0UBIE OH MEXICAN KR CONTINUES Five Mexican Bandits and Wo man Killed in Fight at Noni* Sunday. . - - Brownsville, Tex.. Aug. 9.-Five Mexican bandits and one Mexican woman were killed in a fight yester day at Norias. For an hour IS Americans, Including eight. soldiers, stood off 60 Mexicans. Some , of thc Americans . were wounded. They wore saved from death Just as tho ammunition gave out by the ar rival of 15 Texas rangers.' Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 9.-Offi cials today turned their attention 'to the reports that three hundred Mexi cans had crossed the border into Hi dalgo county in r.mall parties appar ently making their way to a cooecu t rt ion point. Unusual precautions i are beintl taken by officers and ranch owners to prevent outbreaks;. It was expected that United Slates soldiers would bo sent to Norris' I ranch last night to relieve tho Amerl 1 cans who were attacked by Mexican i bandits. Details of thc Norris fight I are awaited with interest owing to ! the bandits cutting thc t? lephono and ! it hoing an Isolatod country only 'meager reports reached here and thone estimated t! ? attackers at fifty to two hundred. Fourteen ranchman were later reinforced by the United States troops and Texas rangers, and repelled the attack?. Several of tho outlaws wer,., killed. The others retreated southward. Five Ameri cans, three of them soldier* were wounded. All passengor trains wore stooped last night for fear , the out laws would wr;-ck them. Additional .troops .were" sent to Ly ford, ray mondville and Sebastian. 'PK! ST ERM WANT PEACE: j COMMEND mmam co .-russ I Los Angele?, Aug. ?.-Tho con : venilon of the International Typo I graphical Union today adopted rono 1 niton* urging European notions to conclude 'bonni able and lasting peace; an I commending Wilson's handling [of foreign complication?. Warsaw} and Gern 1 of Bavaria. 1 Has been called tho most beautiful city lin eas?cm Europe. Is a great manufacturing contr?, especially of Iron and steel. Situated in the f?rtil,, plain noted for Its Immenso wheat production. Conneeted by railroad trunk lines with -Vienna,. Kiev, Moscow* Petro grad, Danzig andi Berlin. Date of Its foundation unknown, possibly in the ninth century. Not mentioneof in history until 1224. In medieval times wa? the chief ,AN TO ? 4 CE TN ? IWILL BE RATIFIED BY DIPLO MATS AT NEW YORK CONFERENCE LANSING THINKS OUTLOOK GOOD Will Urge Conference of Mexi cana to Restore Constitu tional Government. Washington. Aug. 9.-North and South America havo agreed upbn a definite plan for doallng with the Mexican problem and when tho Pan American conference ls resumed In New York Wednesday the plan will be rat i Hod. Secretary Lansing an nounced ?this afternoon. . Lansing said he could not discuss details, but said he waa decidedly en couraged over the outlook. The con ferees believe most Mexican people aro sick of war and only their fear of the military chiefs baa kept them In subjection. It ls believed with encouragement from friendly nations a large part of these people will join In ap attempt to restore the consti tutional government. It is understood thc conference has decided present the situation tn all clements in Mexico, including military chiefs and other influential mon, and urge conference to frame, a substan tial provisional government. Tills the government of tho United. StntOH and the Latin American* governments will recognize. . There bas boen some talk, of armed interventton in case any leaders . re fused to leave the field, but it <j gen erally believe an embarga oe arms against dlsaatlsfid groups would noon, atop them. WONT ATT WITH SWEDEN ON PROTEST TO GB5AT UK TAIN Washington. Aug. !>.-It was learn ed tonight that tho United States had refused to act in conjunction with Sweden, Other Scandinavian countries and Poland in a Joint protest to Great Britain regarding noutral trade. Tho United States will tako action alone. Reports of strong German sympathies tn Sweden are said to be on reason. ?ians Going In entrepot for the t.ode "?J Ilia valleys jf Uie Pilica, Wiopvx, Narew ?nd Bug with western Europe. Has hoon many times coi'iuered and reconquered, and Otas been tho icene of many bloody battles and up risings. Has been held by the Poles. Sweden, RusBla, Prussia, the French under Napoleon, Austria and again, since 1813, by rnissia. The University of Warsaw has 1,500' students and a library, of 600,000 volumes, '?.-i - 1 ? - - ~,. . ? ==_ EE IRING 4EXICO PROSPECT 6000 FOB PEAGE AMONG HA?TIENS -- American Forces in Control ?nd Rebel Leaders Laying Down Arms. Washington, Aug. 9.-With Ameri can forces controlling the principal towns, American officers administer ing at the customs houses and most nf thc revolutionary leaders promis ing co-operation, United status offi cials tonight hoped for the early res toration of permanent peace in Haiti. . Washington, Aug. 0.-Gen. Bobo, the Haden revolutionist leader, for mally resigned as chief executive, dis missed his cabinet and ordered his generals in the north to deposit their arms with the American authorities at Cane Hatten." According to of ficial dispatches Bobo has given as surances ot eMery effort to preserve Drder. CANDIDATE SPENT $2016.30 FOR ADS Aspirants for Congress in Fourth District File Campaign Ex pense Accounts. Washington. Aug. 9.-Of. the can didates for congress In tho Fourth District A. H. MUI er. of Greer, had die largest expense account, accord ing to statements flied with the chief clerk of the house hero, Miller spent $2,uiG.:tn. most of this was Cor news paper advertising. B. A. Morgan. of Greenville, spent 1339.96 most of this for advertising. 8am Nichols of Sparianburg, spent 8490.1!. mostly for advertising. 'Robert J. Gantt, of Spnrtanburg, spent bat- 821.7:?. Tills mainly was to the newspa pers. I. G. Blackwood of Spartan burg had the smallest exeas* ? / fr?.25, and this was paid to a news paper at Woodruff. All the candida tes in their statement say they receiv ed no donations or contributions. *?o?? + s \ AfocADD WONT ATTEND CONFERENCE IN N. ?. Wellington, Aug. 9.-Secre tary Lansing and tho Latin American diplomats Ul re sume their conference in New York, Wednesday afternoon, MT. Lansing announced to day. Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo will not bo pres ent as rumored. MINISTER FROM Said to Have Anticipated Car rana*'* Intention to Expel Him -Ask* U. S. Warship for Safe ; Conduct. Washington, Aug. 9.-The Carran ga ollie lal here said today that the Brazilian, minister at Mexico City who was the only diplomatic repre sentative of the United States had in Mexico has been withdrawn by his government because Carranza was preparing to expel him from the couutry as he did Senor Ortego, the Guatemalan minister. The Brazilian minister reported to tho state department that no reason had been given for the expulsion ..?it Ortega and he himself intended to sall Wednesday from Vera Cruz on the French liner for the United States. It ls believed here that the participation ot the two countries In the Pan-American conference at Washington had something to do with this development. Officials who were hoping that Carranza would join the peace conference and meet tho efforts of the conference to set tle factional strife ere .disappointed. The Carranca agent said that neither diplomat liad been op good t?nus with Carranza and U baa bean CarrRaza's intention to hand th? ^raxttluu "hta : passports as so ?rn at he reoccupies the capital. The par ticipation of Brazil and Guatemala, in the conference lt waa s dd, brought Carranza'B resentment 4 9 a climax. It was recalled though Cas tro, the Venezuelan dictator, took very much the same action when he was offended by foreign nations pressing for a settlement of affairs in Ms country. State department advices said that Carranza ls making hurried preparations to movo his capital to Mexico City from Vera Crus. The impression in Mexican circles here is that Carranza proposes to establish hiuself in Mexico City and probably proclaim 'himself as a provisional president. The Ameri can naval authorities at Vera Crus have been ordered to place the naval craft at the disposal of the two diplo mats if they wish. Lansing announced that the con ference here would be resumed on [Wednesday afternoon. Douglas Doubts lt. Washington, Aug. 9.-Charles Douglas, counsel for Carranza h said be di.: not believe that Carranza contemplated giving the Brazilian minister his passports. The neces sity of maintaining friendly relations with Brazil and the United States would preclude any over action to ward tho Brazilian minister, regard less of personal differences, he said. Other Carranza representatives dbi not hesitate to say the Brazilian minister was particularly distasteful to Carranza. "State of Quiescence." Washington, Aug. 9.-Secretary of State Lansing said he was considering American representations In Mexico City. He did not know what would be done. He assumed, however, that American diplomatic affairs would In a "sort of state bf quiescence" In Mexico City. Toe reasons for the Brazilian minister's visit to the Unti ed Staten at this time the secretary said were unknown to him. OKl'MA AUTHORIZED TO WITHDRAW HIS RESIGNATION Tokio, Aug. 9.-?Emperor Yoshlht to today authorized Premier Okuroa to withdraw his resignation. The reconstructed cabinet will be Install ed tomorrow*. CANADA HAS SENT 80,000 TROOPS TO WAR Ottawa, Aug. 9.-Canada bas sent about eighty thousand soldiers to Eu rope for war, according to figures given out tonight. Over sixty thou sand more are training lu Canada now. v ? Raising The Eastland. Chicago. Aug. 9.-The work of raising thc-steamar Eastland started today. It ls expected that the boat will bo righted tome?mw. George Fitch Anther, Dead. Berkeley,. Cal., Aug. 9.--George Fitchfi, the author, died hero tonight while on a visit, after an operation for appendicitis. BULLION BUSHLES OF WHEAT WILL BE GATHERED IN UNITED STATES THREE BILLION BUSHELS OF CORN Record Crop? of Oct?, Rye, Po tn toes and Other Crop? ara Abo Predicted. Washington, Aug. 0.-Tures billion bushels of ct r.t, ->n? and s half bil lion bushels <* oat H and a billion bushels of wheat ure In ros peet for it?iB year's American harvest, accord ing to the department of agriculture today. Record c??pa of rye, white ?and sweet potatoes, tobacco, rice sod I hay are also predicted. Farmers planted three hundred and ten million, five hundred snd forty six thousand acres, or ten million acres more than last year The wheat crop, the greatest ever grown in any country, will be worth more than I ope billion dollars. The corn crop's value may reach two billion fire bun* I dred million. GERMAN SHIPS ATTACKED RIGA I Many War Vessel* Participated in Attack Which Waa Rep?**, adi Ewerjradj^rSj.. Petrograd, Aug. 9 .-It was official ly announced tonight that a dermau fleet of nine battleships, twelve cruis ers and a I*-ge number of torpedo boat destroye,- persistently attacked the entrance to the Guif of Figs Ban day, but were repulsed everywhere. A cruiser and two torpedo boat des troyers were damaged. It is also announced . toa Germans sustained heavy losses northeast ot Kovno. and that the Russians aro pressing tho Germans southeast of Riga. GOES TO COWPERS SILLS. Mr._T. H. Henderson of This City lc 'Made Superintendent. Mr. Thomas H. Henderson, former superintendent ot Riverside snd Tox away mills, but lately superintendent of a Lynchburg, Va., sall), bas been made superintendent af the mill of the Cowpens Manufacturing; company at Cowpens, this state. He left tor Cowpena on Sunday. For the present Mrs. Henderson and children will re main in Anderson, Joining Mr. Hen derson in Cowpens later. REDFIELD TO REPORT V> WILSO* Oft EASTLAND Washington, Aug. 9.-Secretary Redfield will soon gb td Cornish, to present to Wilson the mult of his department's Investigation of the Eastland disaster. Erutqsakes Ia Earope. Hopenhelm, Germany, Aug. 9. Violent earth tremors recorded In the observatory seisemeograph indi cates a severe earthquake ia South ern Europe, probably tn Calabria or Alissa ta. ?. Gea. Tracy Barfed Monday. New York, Aug. ? -Gen. Benja min P. Tracy, a forcer secretary of the navy, was burle, dwith full mili tary honors. The funeral was held AX Trinity church and tho crowd was kso great that traffic on "Broadway wa? 'suspended. " GERMANS SECRET Claim Evidence That England, France and Italy Worked Against Her in 1906. Berlin, Aug. 9.- Another install {meat of what purports to be a. secret Belgian diplomatic represen tl ve I which Ute Germans ?Cound lc Brussels to made publk: today through the Overseas news agency. This Install ment comprises comment attributed to varions Belgian mHMnters which the Germans claim show Great Brit ain, France and Italy were working again Germany as far heh sa ala sim?