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VOLUME II.
_ ANDERSON, S. C SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1915.
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BOTH WINGS OF RUSSIANS
PUT UP DETERMINED
OFFENSIVE
CENTER MAKING
STRONG DEFENSE
Russians Report Twenty-Two
Thousand Prisoners Taken in
Week tn Galicia.
London. Sept. ll.-The western
front, where emportant events are
believed impending, attracts almost
as much attention as the eastern bat
tlefields where the Russians and AJUS
tro-Germans are contending for thc
mastery of Important railway Unes.
For some time yet, however, tho
east is expected to be the scene of
more sensational actions. The Rus
sians are patting up a strong'offen
sive on both wings and aro making a
stubborn defense in thc center, where
the Tentons, although gaining daily,
are meeting increasing opposition.
Each village, stream and road in' the
Teuton's path is proving the scene of
a sanguinary engagement.
In the narrow strip of Galicia be
tween Sere th river and the Bessara
blan frontier, the Russians have been
strongly reinforced and are appar
ently w -Al supplied with guns and am
munition. The Russians report
their third victory here, bringing. :< the
total prisoners fortEe week 1d*?w*8?ny
tvro thousand:' Vienna officially ad
mits, a setback in this region. an
nouncing tonight that tho Austrians
have withdrawn their front in the
Sereth region to the heights east ot
Strips river "before superior enemy
forces."
The Russians estimated that two
and a hali million Austro-Germ.'?as
* are in the eastern front.
Artillery activity in Artois front,
in Lorraine and in other sections is
again mentioned in tho French offi
cial statement tonight. The, state
ment also declares, that German sur
prise attacks were defeated between
the Aisne, and Marne rivers. A'bomb
struggle is on tn Argonne.
The Bolgian statement tell?: of artil
lery Uro on their section of front. |
The Italians, likewise, aro bombard- !
^ing their enemy's lines, presumably ?
to find a weak spot to attack. Vienna I
tonight announced that bomb, throw: j
era compelled the retreat of Italian
infantry ort the front from Verme
gllano to Mont Cosch. It also men
tioned vigorous artillery activity of
the Italiana.
Rome announced small Infantry !
successes In the Rodo Castello zone i
abd also in the Valleyes of Camonl
ca,. upper Tirano and Ledro and told
of reeulslng minor Austrian Infantry
?ttkeks; It also announced that Che
Italians were compelled to retreat
after capturing Austrian trench?? In
Tolmin? wootton when the Austrians
used asphyxiating gases
Th? French aro considering re
cruiting In tboir colonies in Chlon|
and Equatorial Africa, whlcb would
add seven hundred thousand men to
their forces bv hext spring.
Switzerland is . renort?d copald**
lng calling out additional troon* be-!
cases of reoortcd concentration of
belligerent force* opposite her north
western frontier.
London, Sept. ll.--"While the Rus
sians have announced another, suc
cess on the i >'jth Gallcian front they
admit that In this, seddon, fighting ls
not of tho molt vital Importance.
Tba capture of 5.000 nicn tn Galleta,
the Russians say ls offset.
With Field Marshal,von Macken
sen hovering along the line the minor;
forts controlling the railroads ?re|
desired by tho Invaders. Von Mac
kensen 1ft the center IJ still pushing
h IR way through tho Pcripet marshes
townrds Pinck^ In tho north andi
3outh headquarters, a strong offen
sive has developed near Grodno, and
on the road to Rovno
Sharp fighting is reported along
the Auatro-ttallan lino, but there ie
va frwsh news, as'far as tffneiat re
porta indicate from tho Vosges and
Argom.-?. w?ero the Germans have
launched heavy attack? on tho French
trenches. The oa?> friture of th? |
eastern dlploruath puttie, lu the Bul
garian asw*Uoiv/that Sofie fools keri
psst neut? ni it-/ A sufficient reward 1
for TtirkU*, cohnesMon*.
h.^ee Report.
Paris, Sept, ll.-Artillery fighting j
at .several point* In the French line I
in ?he department of the Meuse, andi
at the front !? Lorraine, continued,!
according lt) t communication rtlv
cut by the ftaeueh war otftce.
MAY CONFER
WITH CARRANZA
Request for Conference On Bor
der On Mexican Affairs
May Be Granted. .
Washington, Sept. ll.-Officials in
touch with tho administration tonight
said Carranza'a request for a confer
ence with the Pan-American diplo
mats over the international situation
in Mexico might be granted, but Sec
retary Lansing declined to make a
statement. _
VILLA DENIES
Was Said to Have Been Injured
or Executed By Former Chief
tain When He Demanded Part
of Latter's Booty.
El Paso, Sept. lr;wt. telegram
from General Villa, dated at T?r
reos?'and received by bia brother,
Hip?lito Villa tonight at. Jaur?s, de
nied that either Villa or General
Fierro had been injured on their
visit to the ranch of General Tomas
Urbina at Ntevus aa reported today.
It had r>een reported that Villa went
to domnnd some of Urhina'a booty,
which is said tc amount to appro
ximately five million dollars, and Ur
bina executed him. Another report
was that Villa executed Urbina, who
was a former -Villa chieftain, but re
cently retired to the ranch with n
number of followers.
Washington, Sept. 14.-Tho border '
situation is now-under full control
of the federal troops, Major General
Funston reported to the war depart- ,
meat today.
The arrival of the sixth cavalry
brings the forces up to two full rogi- ?
menta, between Kltigre Arroya and
Brownsville. The force is sufficient,
according to Funston to put down any
uprising.
Mexicans Depart.
Brownsville, Sept. ll.-About two
thousand Mexicans left this section
for Mexico. Many of these, who are
termed here "good Mexicans," left
their crops unharvested. At one ranch
near Sabas tain, Texas, four Mexican
I tenant families left at one time.
I The Mexicans who fled are not
gone entirely because of the clean up
of oad ' characters made by *.he
American peace off!eera, but also for
fear of revolutionists among their
own people on tho American sk'e.
Several Mexicans havo been killed by
Forty Five Thousand People Saw
Mike Gibbons Win Hard
Fought Ten Round Bout
.Brighton Beach. Sept: ll.-Before
the largest: crowd that ever witness
ed a boxing match in- this country,
Mike Gibbons-of St. Paul, outpointed
Packe/ McFarland of Chicagoan a
ion round no decision bout he?? to
night.
The hont was hard fought from
start to finish, but Gibbons scored
moro frequent and* more effective
blows. McFarland's long absence
from the ring showed in his work.
It ls estimated the attendance was
forty-five thousand.
Are WeU Sleeked.
Kow York, Sopt. U.-Actuwl condi
tions of tho clearing hoeee banks and
trust, company for the weok ?bows
that they hold $?24.122.990 reservo
lu exc?s* of legal requirements.
French Steamer Swak
Paris. Bept. ll, <-A dispatch of
t<? Haves ."C*ncy from Algiers says
the steamer Ville do Montaganem waa
sunk . by gun fire from a Oe man
submarine. Of the sixteen memoers
of the -row throe wero wtnmded.
Tnt y were picked up.
Alian Liner Sunk 1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Tho Hesperian.
Thc Hesperian, the Allan line steam
ship, on her way from Liverpool tc
Montreal with many passengers ant
a crew among whom were - two
or three Americans, waa sunk by t
German torpedo a few days after Ger
man Ambassador von Bernstorff gav?
his word in writing-and the word ol
his government-that no moro linen
would be sunk without warning.. Thf.
officers and passengers on tba Hes
perian .say no warning was given.
This - raises anew complications' wi tr,
Germany. The strained situation
whi?h was aliviated by the state
ment ot tty! German ambassador
again exists.
Thc map shows the operations ol
the German submarines around thc
Britisli Isle*. More than 150 vessels
have, been sunk since Feb. 18. when
the German war lone decree went into
effect. Tao map thows where 111
ships have sone down between Feb.
IS and June 1.
Stanley Stanislaus Says it Will
Take America Ten Years to
Perfect Methods .of Manu
facture.
' New London, Conn., Sept. ll.
...uer lean independence in the matter
sf dye-stuffs, which has beeu so gen
erally discussed since the European
war brought au the extent to which
textile interests in this country wore
dependent upon Germany, ia a aus*
|cct commanding particular attention
it the present meeting of tho Nation
it Association of Cotton Manufactur
ara in this city.
According to an address before the
?asoclatlon today hy Dr. I. V. Stan
ley Stanislaus of Philadelphia, it
will take the United States from ten
lo twenty years to reach the point
that Germany has gained in the man
ufacture of dye-stuffs, but he con
tended that however long U took, the;
beginning must be made, and the
psychological moment for the begin
ning had arrived.
Ho said in part:
"In all this annoyance, loss, and
uncertainty, why do we not have an
american coal-tar chemical industry,
mpable of meeting the nation's ? de
mands, self-contained and indepen
lent ot foreign control, utilising our
lativs taw material.
"A careCul analysis of the oituatlon
ihows that not only ls the American
supply and the limited American pro
auction of coal-tar dye-stuffs com
pletely dominated by the American
industry, but that this 1B the case
throughout the world. Bren coun
tries such as Great Britain and
france, with ample supplies of crude
uateri?l and highly developed indus?
trial power, are in- the samo condl
J?hs as the. United St atea.
"hr 1013 the total consumption of
irtificial dre-stuffs In tho world had
ittained a value of over $52.100,000.
Germany tarnished 74 per cent of the
mtlro amount and over one-half of.
ho materials needed to make the re-"
nainder. The only country, in addi/
ion to Germany, manufacturing dye
stuffs in nay noteworthy manner for
the world's markets is Switzerland,
fhat country ?relies, however, tor its
?rode and half -manufacturar Ula
'rials chiefly upon German sources.
The dominance of Germany in tba dyc
ttuff production and commerce of the
mtlro world is so marked, and In?
latently of such potential might, that
t does not hesitate to make <t**tf felt
vhenever add whenever an "effort is
nade toward emane I pallon "rom Us
.ontrol. The methods used are those
liten associated with thc Working of
treat, industrial corporations in va
letta lauds and now effectively chock
?<1 by legal enactment fa tho United
Mates.
Night Baseball.
New York, Sop*, lt.-Night base
lal! under strong electric lights will
?a Introduced in Brooklyn on feaptem
ier- 2?, hy ?rte Buffalo and Brooklyn
federals.
by Torpedo, and Map of G<
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AMAR, JUBILEE
To Commemorate Four Hun
dredth Anniversary of Be
ginning of Reformation.
' Rock Island, 111., Sont, ll.-Plans
for the cotnniemo allon In 1917 ol the
400th anniversary of the beginning of
the reformation wure discussed nt to
day's session of thc general council of
tho Lutherur? church in America. Ono
'proposition set forth by a comm it tet
?n Jubilee Fund was to raise $2,000.
000 by 1917 and to divide this aura
between a ministerial pension fund
and missions, but the committee rec
ommended that this might be modi
fied somewhat and that a fund be
raised for ail church purposes, Ute
exact amount and purposes to be de
termined in conference with the re
presentatives of other sections of the ?
Lutheran church. October 1917 is toi
be made the quadrlcentenhlal Jubilv*
month and the entire offerings ot the
church during that time, it was pro*
posed, should be given to tbe general
council to constitute a special mem
orial fund, commemorating not only
the 400th anniversary of the reforma
tion, but. the 50th anniversary of the
general council itself.
S?BM?RTNES SINK
THREE MORE STEAMERS
Activity of. Under Sea Graft Not
Affected By Negotiations
Now in Progress.
London. Sept. ll.German sub
marines have sunk three more Brit
ish merchantmen in tho last thirty
six hours with tho Ftetttitr cargo boat
L-Aude which was sunk off the Alg
erian coast. Tho British steamers
Gnrnuhla. 1,700 tons, th? Alexandria
and the fishing smack Mfcertne were
teported sunk early, today.
Madrid dispatches state that 28
to* the crew or tho Alexandria were
landed. Cne of tho crew of the Ray
Vine was wounded by a shell. Nine
teen passengers nnd Itt or the crew'
of tho L-Audo wore landed. The
Cun?rder Alexandria was punk off
ibo Spanish coast.
Another Quake tu Italy
Rome, Sept. ll.-A s?v?re earth
ahec* was felt at Aquila last night.
Dispatches state that no loss of life
bas been reported. \
inspecting F-4.
Honolulu, Sept. ll.-The . ballast
tanks are wrecked cnv tue. United
States submarine F-4, now In the dry
dock, when? it will be t*?+?d to estab
lish a ?lue to the disaster.
?rman Operations.
INQUEST INTO DEATH
OF ALTFORO ?0D?/!
Wife Sud to Have Told HM Moth
er After Shooting That He
Had Gone to Office.
Atlanta. Sept. ll.-Tho inquest In
to tho death o? Ali G. Ford will be
bold tomorrow. Fordes mothor ls
quoted as saying today that Ford's
wife, on the morning shortly after
Ford was shot, told, her over the
telcphono that Ford had gone to tho
office.
Mra. Ford explained that she de
ceived her mothor-in-law in order
not to alarm her by telling her over
tho phone of the shooting which sha
says was accidental.
Robert Fjainea of Pensacola, Fla.
Ford's uncle, arrived today to per?
sonaliy investigate.
SARAH BERNHARDT
FORSAKES STAGE
Can't Get Accustomed to Arti
ficial Leg-To Enter Film
Business.
Paris. Sept. ll.-Sarah Bern
hard:, the world's greatest actress,
will probably never appear on the
itage again. After a single perfor
mance for the movies it waa discov
ered that she was unable to use her
36w artificial log well enough to
walk. She canceiled her American
engagement- and returned to Bor
le an x. It ls reported that she may
enter the film business managing
md staging her own productions,
hier ambition ls to "elevate the
novles."
WITHOWP INFORMATION
OS HE8FR1UAN INCIDENT
Berlin. Sept .11.-The German
orelgn out co and admiralty stated to
lay .they had no netta regarding the
lesperlan incident, concerning which'
American Ambassador Gerard reeoht
?asked information. The question
whether Americans lost their lives
when-' the Hesperian waa destroyed
irohnbly will have besting on th? ni
I mat o answer to Washington, lt is
?aid.
bACK OF DATA HjKBK
OTC DETAINED COTTON
Washington, Sept. ll.-There is a
acfc of commercial' data offered by
he British for the delay In the pur
rhssc of American cotton, detained
>y Great? Britain. An announcement
pslsttng that Ute corrrplt tts must
ireacnt billah of lading, Invoices, co
rtes of contracts and confirmation
mn tract s to be supplied to the board
>f trade waa received by Consul ?en
trai Skinner.
ARGUMENl
ARABIC
TO TH
CONSTANTINE HAS
FULLY RECOVERED
Is Interviewed By Correspondent
But Declined .to Discuss
Greek Policy.
Atl>enB, Sept. ll.-King Constan
tine of Greece, apparently completely
recovered from MB recent illness, re
ceived by the Associated Press cor
respondent at the royal summer resi
dence at Ta toi. but declined to dis
CUSB the Greek policy at this junc
ture, owing to the critical state of
national affairs. The king showed
great military knowledge of the war.
Hi? Secretary Says He May Is-)
sue Statement After He Has
Duly Considered the Situation
-At Summer Home.
New York, Sept. 4.-Intimating
that he probably would issue a state
ment when he had time to think the
situation over. Dr. Constantin Dumba,
AuBtro-Hungarian ambassador, whoso
recall has been requested, left here
today for his summer home at Lenox,
Vi ass. lie was accompanied by his
secretary, Priitce Zu Hohnlohe, who
said Dr. Dumba was quite reconciled
to thc request that he bo recalled, but
was forced to maintain a silence be
cause of hiB ppsition.
Di?. Dumba spent several hours
last night with Count Bornstorff, tho
German ambassador, but both diplo
mats declined to talk at the conclu
sion of the meeting.
Regard lt Unfavorably.
Berlin, Sept. ll.-Lack of good
will on the part of the American gov
ernment ls seen by the Morgan Post j
and the VosBicho Zeitung, Berlin
newspapers, in the United otates' re
quest to recall the Austrian ambas
sador.
The post says that should America
really demand the recall of the am
bassador only because ho warned his ]
countrymen against treason to the
fatherland, it would afford new proof
of a tardly benevolent attitude tn the |
United States.
?BTC ne Answer.
Washington. Sept. ll.-Austria has
not responded today to Piggldent Wil
son's request that she recall Ambas
sador Dumba. Officials here decline]
to comment on the situation. Nothing
further has been done in the cases ol
Captain von Papen, a German mili
tary attache, or ot Consul General
Nuber, of Austria, both of whom are
involved in the incident, which result
ed in the re-all measures.
EXPL0SI0N~WRECK3
SALOON IN WA
-
$30,000 Damage Results From
' Dynamite Explosion in
Florida City.
Tampa, Sept. ll .-One building was
entirely wrecked and a dosen others
in the vicinity damaged with a prop
erty loss of about $30,000 by the ex
plosion, supposedly of dynamite, in
tho Pied Lloa saloon this morning. No
ltv?s were lost and the cause of tho
explosion ls unknown. Alter the ex
plosion the wreckage of the Red Lion
caught fire, but the fire was confined
to'the saloon.
A clerk in a grocery store, half a
block away, was blown from the 'top
pf a refrigerator and slightly 'la
lured.
Windows were shattered for a radi
us of three blocks and tho Hal movie
Dry Goods store and another saloon
were wrecked.
Sakes Kew Swanning Record.
New Orleans, Sept. lt.- Charles
Ferreday. aged twenty, of New Or
leans, today broke tbs worlds record
for a two mlle swim, making the dis
tance In fifty-three minutes and forty
sad two-fifths seconds.
r OVER
MAY GO
E HAGUE
PROPOSAL TO THIS EFFECT
NOW BEING SERIOUSLY
CONSIDERED
SOME OFFICIALS
DOUBT RESULT
Believe it Would Mean Arbitra
tion of Principle? U. S. Has
Contended For.
Washington. Sept. ll.-The Issue
with Germar.y today became less
acute through consideration ot a pro
posal to take the disputed questions
ot fact In the Arabic case to The
Hague.
Some officials believe to do~ so
would amount to arbitrating the
principles for which the United States
has been contending and would open
the way to practically unlimited sub
marine operations with disputed'
questions of fact, and arbitration in
every case.
Others believe that without pass
ing upon the principles involved The
Haguo might be allowed to decide
whether the submarine commander
had reason to believe the Arabic was
ti rout to ram him ox trying to es
cape and whether this justified sink
ing ber.
Another note unofficially reported
to be en route from Germany had not
arrived today. It was_reported that
this note would be an explanation of
the Orduna case In which a German
submarine tried to torpedo and then
shelled the liner. Nothing devedlop
ed today to alter the case of Dr. Dum
ba, the Austrian ambassador, or any
of those connected with his case.
Washington, Sept. ll.-The note
delivered to Ambassador Gerard by
the. German foreign office . yesterday
which wat, believed to tvs a supple-,
mental communication on the sinking'
of the Arabic ls now understood to
be on an unsuccessful attempt to tor*
pedo tao Cunarder. Orduna, July 9.
Tho Orduna on a trip to the United
states, carrying twenty-two ?Amer
icans, was shelled by a submarine
after a torpedo missed her stern.
In circles close to the German
embassy, lt is saki, that wheo the
contents of the note are known, prob
ably, lt would be found that the Ger
man government claimed Justification
for the attach on the liner. What
effect the attempt to: Justify the Or
duna case msy have on the situation,
ls made delicate by the Germra
stand on th? Arabio ?nd le subject of
anxious speculation here.
BEHNSTOBFF BENIES
HE 18 IMPLICATED
New York, Sept. ll.-Count von
Bernstorff, the German ambassador,
denied that he used or attempted to
use James P. J. Ar ch bald, the Amer
ican messenger of Dr. Constantin
Dumba, the Austriau ambassador, as
a message bearer to Berlin. Bern
storff said be thought he had made
this plain in Washington ^wt repeat
ed the assertions and made the repe
tition of his denlsl imperative.
Softeaed View.
Washington, Sept. ll.-Sottined
views on the Arabic note, held by one
set ot officials her-?, inclined to far
ther negotiations with Germany, will
be urged on President Wilson. While
they agree that the German reply is
disappointing, they hold that the
Arabic case has come down
to a question of Indemnity and
fact, and the proper way to deter
mine which set of facts ls correct is
to let the case go to The Haga?..'
CASE OF PLAGUE
AT NEW ORLEANS
Waa MQd Casa and Patient Had
Recovered Before Diagnosis
Waa Confirm?t ,
New Orleans, Sept/ 1.-The dis
covery of the first human case of bu
bonlo plague, since October was an
nounced today by Dr. ft. H. Creel of
the public health service. Dr, Creel
reported that a girt of nineteen had
been-ill win: the disease In a mild
form, but recovered before ?>,-; diag
nosis was confirmed. This la th?
thirty-first human case recorded,
since the disease was found here. In
June of last year. Tba doctor said
this did not indicate any new out
break ot the plague.