The intelligencer. (Anderson, S.C.) 1915-1917, August 15, 1915, Image 1
VOLUME IL ANDERSON, S. C. SUNDAYJMORNING, AUGUST 15, 1915.
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NUMBER 185.
APPEAL A!
MEXICO 1
RESTORI
SUGGESTS CONFERENCE OF
LEADERS ON NEUTRAL
GROUND
NO INTIMATION
OF INTERVEN V ION
Says Thought of Afflicted Coun
try Should be First Con
sideration.
Washington. Aug. 14.-The Pan
Americau appeal to Mexico now hoing
delivered to the chiefs of all factions
and governors all states, was made
public tonight by the state depart
ment. Without even nn intimation of
arni^d intervention, it callB upon the
leadera to meet somewhere in Mexico,
on neutralized ground in conference
"to adopt first steps necessary to the
constitutional reconstruction of thc
country," and to issue a call or im
mediate elections. The sorvices of
the United States or any of the other
Pan-American conferences are offered
in arranging the meeting.
The appeal calls attention to blood
shed and property waste and urges
the Mexican leaders to hold a con
ference far from tho sound of cannon,
and "with no other thought save the
thought of their afflicted land, there
lo exchange Ideas add determine fae
tate of their country." It suggests a
reply within ten days,
The pan-American conference ex
pects not to meet again until replies
--are reLulsis<ay?dswa^Ssd?B apparent
that Borne Mexicans will not reply.
The conferees are confident'they will
soon ?et enough replies to warrant
them In extending aid In arranging
the Mexican conference.
Carranza's attitude is still a matter
of speculation. It is believed if he
or any others do not accept the con
ference will be held without them.
An embargo on arms la expected to
be the first step against factions re
fusing to join Che new government.
The appeal, although addressed to
political and military leaders, takes
the form of aa announcement to Mexi
can epple ihomseives. As made pub'
Ile by state department the document ,
prefaced by this announcement:" Tho
Mexican people arc Informed that the
following communication has been
sent to many prominent ersons in
Mexico who oases authority or mili
tary power within the republic."
Then follows the appeal, dated at
Washington, August ll: "The under
signed secretary of state of the Unit
ed States, ambassadors extra-ordinnry
and -plenipotentiary ot Brazil, Chile,
and Argentina, and envoys extraordi
nary and ministers plenipotentiary of
Uolivla, Uruguay and Guatamala, ac
credited to the government . of the
United States of America, acting sev
erally and indeponedently. unani
mously send to you the folowing com
munication:
"Inspired by a roost ainceru spirit
of American fraternity, and convinced
that they rightly interpret the earnest
wish of the entire continent, hare-met
Informally at the pnggoatjon of the
secretary bf state of. the United States
to consider the Mexican situation and
. to ascertain whether their friendly
and disinterested help could be suc
cessfully employed to re-establish
peace and constitutional order In our
sister republic.
"In the heat of i>?8 frightful strug
gle which for so long has steeped la
blood thc Mexican soil,, doubtlcsa alt
may well have lost sight of the dis
solving effects of thc strife upon the
mpst vital conditions of n?tlonnl ex
istence, not only upen Uto life and
liberty of the inhabitant), but upon
ihe.prestige ana security of the coun
try.
. we cannot doubt, however-no one
can dcubt-that In the presence ot a'
sympnthttc appeal from ".-heir brothers
of America, recalling to them these
disastrous effects, asking thom to save
their mother land from tho abyss-no
one caa doubt, wo repeat-that tho
patriotism bf th? men who lead or std
In any way the bloody Strife will not
remain unmoved; no ono can doubt
that, each and every ono of them,
measuring in his own conscience his
share ufnlte responsibility-of past mis
fortune and looking forward to hui
share in the glory of the pacification
and reconstruction of tho country, will
respond, nobly and resolutely to Ulis
friondty apeal and give their best ef
forts to opening the way to some aav
inflg action. -
"We. tho undersigned, bellevo that
ii the men directing the armed move
ment In Mi-xlco-whetehr political or
gulinary chiefs-should agree to meet,
either ts person or by delegates, far
SRS ALL
PO AID IN
NG PEACE
NEW SUCCESSES!
IMPROVEMENT IN EAST
GIVE RENEWED CON
FIDENCE
GERMANS REPORT
GAIN IN ARGONNE!
Italians Have Completed Plans to j
Take G o ri zia and Advance
on Trieste.
London,. Aug. 14.-With an appnl'
eut Improvement of alie Russian situa
tion on tho oastern front, t?tere arc1
renewed expressions ot confidncco
from tlie allied countries;
Th Russians claim they ar driving
tho Germans bank from Riga and west
Dvinsk, and still keeping them away
from Rovno. Although tho Teutons
continue to advance~tn the south and
southwest, they do r?!)t mention the
capfnte.of nuns or ammunition, indi i
eating Kio pbs'RIons they are ?fofePPy)
ch ny In K werc> evacuated before -tarar?
arrival.
Von Mackensen has resinned his
advance bciweon'the Vhiprz and Bug
rivers, after a delay fr un Russian
counter attacks.
The only important news front west
is the German claim of another local
success in Argonne. The French re
port, however, says all German at
tacks repulsed, and declare a violent
cannonade is In progress In Argonne
nu the frontier of Lor. aine, and in
Vosges.
Thc French report that by mines
they destroyed German advance works
in Artois, east of Lille.
Cn the Austro-ltalian front prici
ptwlly artillery actions wif'.i. little
changes aro recorded.
A dispatch from Udine, Italy, saya
General Cadonia, the Italian com
mander in chief, has completed prepa
rations tor a general attack on the
Austrians along the Isonzo River, ho
ing thus to occupy Cnrso plateau, cap
ture Gorizia and open the road to
Trieste.
A Pome disatch says responding to
the Pope'o rocent peace appeal, Ger
many and Austria have declared their
willingness to enter peace negotia
tions provided the first overtures
came from their enemies. .
MAY DEVELOP GOLD
WINES WEAR WALHALLA
Engineers From Oklahoma In
vestigating. Properties ia
Cherokee Valley.
Walhalla. Aug. 14.-Messrs. Guy
L. Grover and Frank P. Petorson, of
Tulsa, Oklahnrca. aro in Walhalla, In
the capacity ol' engineers to make a
thorough going examination of gob!
properties at .the foot-hills north of
Walhalla Iii Cheohee Valley. Tri dato
they ara hot in a position to make
statements further than If profitable1
undertakings can bo developed,' that
the work will go forward on a big
scale. Thcro ls no doubt bot what
there is considerable gold along the
foot-hills north of Walhalla, hut. the
question ls can lt be profitably work
ed. Messrs. Hoover and Peterson are
competent, thorough going engineers
and if- the properties, warrant opera
tion, they will do so.
? A great deal of interest has been
aroused locally by tho coming of thone,
eucinccrs, and further develonmentr
will bn watched, not only bv Cheohee
Community but throughout this entire
section.
Storm 1B Florida Keys.
Key WesL Fla., Aug. 14.-A tropi
cal storm la approaching bare tonight
With a fifty milo gale.- Steamer? art*
remaining In oort. Nb serious dam
age ia reported.
^marnmm^- " " . ? ?.mii^
Where Busim
Tlte business men's camp at Platts
burg, N. V.. which is under tie
general command of General Leonard
Wdod of the United States army, wbo
r.tood sponsor for it, and Captaiu Hal
stead Dorey of the United States Army
who is in command on tho .ground,
will prove to be very successful, ac
cording to the promoters. Business
and professional men, preferably
those over thirty years of uge, have
been invltd from all parts of the na
tion to spend a mouth or less in learn
ing the elements of warfare. General
Wood believes'that a large number or
men of the first Intelligence should
be so trained that they could be quick
ly turned into officers should their
country be suddenly called into a
WAT.
BANKS TO I
CKSOP
--
BANKERS FROM EIGHT
STATES HELD MEETING
IN GALVESTON
FEDERAL RESERVE
BANKS TO HELP
Pe-Dhcoimt Papers Taken
by Banks-Plan Means Grad
ual Marketing of Crop.
-
ANKS TO AID .
Galveston, Texas, Aug. ll.-Repre
sentative Bankers from eight cotton
growing states in conference Mero to
day pledged thmselves to aid pra=
(lucers In securing fair and uniform
price for cotton, and in thiH they .were
pledged Ute support, of the four south
ern federal reserve banks.
The bankers agreed to advance
money to the producers on cotton so
that the crop need not be dumped on
the market all at once. Federal re
servo bank ? representatives agreed lo
rediscount thi3 paper. It was decid
ed to perctuate the Southern Bankers
Conference, to meot again somo time
thiB fall.
Galveston, Aug. 14.-Cotton states!
bankers assembled hero today for a J
conference on tho problem of market
ing the cotton crop. The mooting \
was called by Joseph Hirsch of Cor
pus Christi, tho president. Today's
meeting of tho hanker.--.' association is
the result of n successful warehouse
lug campaign throughout Texas dur- ?
lng the last six weeks. Informal con
Terences before the meeting developed
? sentiment favoring organization of
a "cotton states bankers association",
to hau? the main purpose of educat
ing bankers sud f?rrneT8"~!n a compre
hensive marketing pinn which will re
move early in tho season all distress
cotton. ,
F. Rt bridge Jackson, president of
the Georgia Bankers association, said.
Southern bankers should assert their
ability to prevent disaster to the cot
ton farmers nnd back this assertion
with Stilton bringing about the desired ;
renults. This can bo accomplished
regardless of what Great Britain does'
on the question of making cotton
contraband.
Washington, Aug. 14.-The cotton
cpnsnmptlon of tihe United States for
tho year ending July 81" was \f.08.
789 bales of lint and -t03,3K9 linters,
the census bureau " says. ? The 1914 \
consumption waa ii.C2C.708 bales of,
lin; .<\ud 808.675 of.linters.
On hand in all establishments and
warehouses < a July ?I thara, were;
*,18?.2!>6 bates of lint and 282,27.4 pf
Unter?: last year, 1,330.864 bales i of
lint and 118,584 ot Unters.
iss Min Prepare f
REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, AEF
SENT TO BROWNSVILLE
GEN. FUNSTON-N
MENTS RE
Washington. Aug. 14.-Ttu"> war de
partment this afternoon at General
Funston's request ordered one regi
ment of infantry from Texas City to
Brownsville. Also an apropiar.'.; a
.battery of four and seven-tenths inch
?nus, a battery of the sante calibre
Howitzers from Fort Sill. Oklnhoma.
to Brownsville.
Assistant Secretary Breckenridge
?aid the orders were Issued because
I Gin. Funston'reported thora should
to a stronger force at Brownsville,
but that Kan s ton did not report any
new developments.
Brownvllle, Texas, Aug. 14.-Car-1
rauta soldiers, lt was learned today,
temporarily took possession of Island
i Number 10 in the Rio Grande, a hun
dred miles north of hero, whilo Mexi
can raiding waa nt Its height a few
?days ago, hut have since withdrawn.
Peace officers and rangers have
adopted a summary codu for handling
suspects at Kort Brown. Following
is a report hy pence officers to tho j
army patrol at a small station north
ot Brownsville: " We met two Mexi
cans. They tried to escape. We
couldn't itentify them, so we left ]
them there." These Mexicans had
been killed.
Owing to tho slowness of travel and 1
tho great distance, thc full force of
i soldiers and rangers ordered to quell
j the raids did not reach the nn'slsned
places until lato yesterday and early
today.
Laredo. Texas. Aiig. 14 .-Accord-j
lng to word received her? u party of
?eighty Mexicana under a leader
papata and Mo Grande C ity, ninety I
iSliSs?
SUBDUE ST. LOUIS MOB!
[Striking Teamster* Attempted to]
Rescue Members From Of
ficers-Reporter Beaten.
St. Louis, Aug. 14.-Tho police
drew rovolvera'tonight and threatened
to fire Into the crowd before they
could prevent nearly a thounand strlk
: >:- leam ympathliers fren?
rescuing two mcri arrested for Incit
ing riot. Attempts were also made
by a mob of nearly a thousand on non
union driver? of mali wagons. t A
newspaper man, taken for a strike
breaker, was badly beaton.
or War, and Spot
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"
ROOP^
ED TO
30RD?R
tOPLANE, AND HEAVY GUNS
; UPON REQUEST FROM
IO NEW DEVELOP.
?PORTED.
miles below Laredo on ibo Texas
MMe. A detachment of tho fourteenth
cavalry la stationed at Zapata. With
its aid, citizens there ure prepared io
r. ."'-I. the bandit;-.
Austin, Aug. 14.-Mexicans in
Gatlalupo, Hays and Gonzales coun
ties are forming secret societies which
menace the safely of Americans, ac
cording to P. C. Weinert, manager of
the state cotton warehouso, who has
Just returned from Seglnn, whero he
WOB called to advise a group of farm
ers who had receive dtlircatenlng lot
tors.
Washington, Aug. 14.-Carranza
summarily dismissed tho mayor of
Vera Cruz from office for permitting
the recent anti-foreign d?monstra
tions, which aroused thc appro' enslon
of the American government. Of
ficial notification of this .aaa re
ceived today.
Washington. Aug. 14.-Prepara
tions have been made by the state de
partment to receive J. M. Cardoso do
Olivelra, Brazilian minister to Mexi
co in a manner to express the United
States* appreciation for his services
In the Mexican capital. The cruiser
Sacramento, delayed by a gulf storm
will arrived tomorrow at New Or
leans. It brings the Brazilian minis
ter and Guatemalan Minister Ortega.
Nogales, A,UR. 14-Mexican soldiers
entered American territory 15 miles
west of Nogales today and began
slaughtering cattle, according to a
report from Harrison ranch on the.
border. Three automobiles loaded
with armed; men started for the seem-.
WmwOF
BRITISH AMBASSADOR
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice Gets Letters
Which Canse Anxiety for
Safety.
Wash Ingle n, Aug. 14._-*-'U has peen
i learned by the Treasury that British
Ambassador Slr Cecil Sprlng^Rico' has
received threatening: lei/sirs which
have caused concern o wv .his safety.
Tho natur? of the threats ls not di
vulged, but tt?ls understand they qr?
from the same source-as the "Holt"
and "Pearce letters.
tsar of Camp*
General Leonard Wood.- sponsor.
Many well known men have already
Rone lo tin? camp for instruction.
Mayor John Purroy Mitchel or New
York was among tho first. Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., was another. Dr.
Richard Derby, son-in-law of former
President Roosevelt, was a third. A.
J. Drexel Hiddle of Philadelphia Was
another, while William j. Clothier,
the formor champion tennis player,
hurried to thu camp.
Cities: farther wost than Chicago
have furnished recruits. The cost for
the thirty day? ?B nboul ?liO, not taking
into consideration transportation anti
personal expenses..Tho camp requires
n dejxislt of $:!0 for expenses or food,
etc., and the equipment of clothing
costs about the same sum.
imus WILL
BORDER RAIDS
CAP^ANZA COMMANDER OP
POSITE BROWNSVILLE
WILL AID AUTHORITIES
FIVE MEXICAN
STATES NEUTRAL
Governors Announce Their States ]
Will Maintain Armed Neu
trality.
Brownsville, Aug. 14.-General
N'efarrato, th? Carranza commander
opposite here, today announced that
he would aid Americans by not allow
ing armed Mexicans to croan- tho bor
der, while Texas rangers and armed
civilians gavo significant warringa In
messages from raid districts telling of
encounters wi Dh Mexicans. One read,
"wo got another Mexican, but he's
dead;" another "caught four Mexicans
in depredations hero; three escaped,
fourth is pow a ptrfctly good Indian
Arar lean Consul Johnson nt Mata
mors; opposite hore, said ho believed
the raids won; caused hy former
Huerta adherenta, desiring to dis
credit the other factions.
Fire States Neutral
Kl Paso, Aug. 14.-Flvo states and
one territory of Mexico aro authorita
tively declared to have announced
through their military governors that
tho revolution IB at an end as far aa
they aro concorned. They will main
tain an armed neutrality. Their gov
ernors represent various shades of
political adulations.
LECTURES AT
CLEMSON COLLEGE
Variety of Subjects to be Dis-]
cussed During Summer
School.
Clemson College, Aug. 14.-During
tho summer sch-ol at Clemson Collcgo
there will be nightly lectures on a
variety of subjects. Among the
apeakors will be many men of promi
nence in tho state and thu lectures
Will be entertaining af wit as instruc
tlw These lectures are tree to all!
and tho people of the vicinity ot the]
coll?ge, in Anderson, Plckens and
Ccon^s. counties aro Invited to attend
an yor all of thom. On each Satur
day evening during tho school there!
will bb raov'eg pictures and these]
also will bs ?reo.
DIPLOMATS OF BOTH SIDES
WORKING HARD TO WIN
SUPPORT
tl
TEUTONS FORCES
MENACE FRONTIER
Assembling of Greek Parliament
May Decide Course of Bal
kan States.
Loudon. Aug. 14.-Affaira Io tus
Hallams aro approaching a crisis.
While diplomatic negotlationc con
tinue lu th0 effort to Induce tho state?
still neutral to Join one side or tho
other tho Teutonic powers hare mass
ed troops on tho Balkan frontiers,
supposedly to Torc? ? .7?y through to
Turkey, ahlch ?? oe badly in need
or shells.
This coure,:? rat len, which 'has been
followed by artillery .?(tacha on Ser
bian positions, ls equally* menacera
Rumania, which again has refused tc*
permit shells to pass through her ter*-'
rltory to Turkey. The Romanian army.
Is already partially mobilized and'
four new division of reserves called
Out.
Whether Greece and Serbia will
ngr?;o to Macedonia to Bulgaria
der to Induce her to Join the alltea'
-will-probably be known when the,
Greek and Serbian parliaments meet
next week. Serbio, ahowa an inclina
tion to yield, bat Greeeeaas thus far
firmly retilsed.
The Greek attitude may change
when former Premier Venizelos agata
comes into power with the reassemb
ling of the Greek parliamnt, but a
Berlin dispatch says King Constantino
ls reported to have offered him the
Premiership upon tho condition that
ho maintain strict neutrality. Should
Bulgaria attack Serbia however,
Greece la bound by treaty to aid Sor
b?a.
London, Aug. 14.-The steady pro
gress of the Bavarian forces eastward
from Warsaw is taken lhere to. Indi
cate that the Germans massing their
main movements for a drive.through
tho Russian center and continuance
of the envelopment effort in the
north along the Dvina.
Petrograd and Berlin agree that tba
Germans have occupied Sokolow,
Sied Ice and Lukow, forming a Ger
man front 60 miles east of Warsaw
and 60 miles wide. It is over halt
way the Ute Hrcst-Lltovsk linc, which
the Russians aro making a new center
of defense. This point will probably
be abandoned, awing to tho speed of
the German advance since Warsaw
fell and continued pressure toward
the north.
Petrograd claims that the Germans
have been checked between Poule
we sch and Uvlnak. Berlin does not
concede this, but in any event It does
not effect, tho advance of the flanks
farther north. SH?r the moment, how
ever, tho intensity of fighting ls giv
ing way to a scramble of retiring
forcea to avoid flin enveloping net and
rapid advance of the Germans. The
otttcomo of those movements . will
Srobably bo indicated within a few
lys.
German correspondents say th?
Russians are following the l?ctica ot
their Napoleanin campaigns, devas
tating the country so the German!
can not find shelter. The western
Held It quiet, except skirmishes.
The war cloud hangs over the Bal
kans still. A Central News Amstel
dam dispatch rays Germany ia pr?
paring for eventualities by sending
40,000 men from Warsaw to the 8ef>*
blan frontier.
Reports from the east coast ot
England aay large ejrowdn watched:
the battle ot the Brit lah airships wfta
the Zeppelins which participated ia
th A raid Thursday.
Tho British ?teamer Cairo and the
smack Amethyst were sunk today by
aubmarines.
Report SMtettle*.
London, Aug. 14.-The reports that
Germany offered Russia a separate
peace with free use of the Dardanelles
la ridiculed ty the Hamburg Nach-*
richten, says a Reuier Amsterdam dis
patch. It declares Germany does not
own the Dardanelles and can not of
fer, them io anyone . They are th?
property of the Turks, who fcava
proved their ability to defend t*-tn.
Harkens** AaVaaees.
Merlin. Aug. ?4.^-Mackenaen'a
forcea pursuing the PJusslaits from
the south have reached the line ot
tho Radsyn WldwiOdaw high road, it
Ia officially announced.