The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 29, 1914, Image 1
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VOL. 9. NO t(tt. SEMI-]
DEFEAT OF CROWN PRINCE
THE SALVATION OF PARIS
Route of His Army Saved
French Capital from Siege.
% ?????
24 MILES IN ONE NIGHT.
The Battle Was Terrible. With
Belgian* have retaliated against tl
threat of the Germans to bring u
their great siege guns before An
werp.
Along the great western battle lit
the struggle still continues to be gei
eral, with most determined attael
being made on each flank. Bol
sides evidently have realized thi
mass attacks In the center are futi
in the present exhausted state of tl
armies.
Reports of actions come from a
most every section of the Russii
frontier. Emperor William is repor
ed to be in East Prussia and tl
German offensive probably under h
eyes has recommenced against Ge
eral Rennenkampf. Petrograd b
lieves that this movement, becaui
of its limited front, is a diversion
relieve the threatened German 1 ii
from Kalisz to Cracow. The Au
.... ... ~
Artillery Fire E.\cee<T1nK Anything
in History. ,
London, Sept. 28.?A Sezanne dis-<
patch to The Daily Telegraph dated
September 21, says:
"The first German army thorough- i
ly whipped on French soil was that i
of the crown prince. Its rout saved 1
Paris.
"At the time of their victory the j
"t '
French did not know the extent of
the damage they had inflicted on the !
enemy. Actually they had smashed
the flower of the German military
power.
"General Von Kluck's misfortunes
were due directly to the rout of the j
v* vn II |1I IIIVC n ivii mug Ull I lit- III III
of September 6th. It actually retreated
twenty-four miles during
that night.
"In the plan of the German oper- i
at ions the path that premised the |
greatest glory was reserved for the
crown prince, but the French army i
opposed him with splendid strategy. I
In retreat they fought stubbornly j
over every inch of the ground ami
when the time came for the offensive
they assumed it in the most effective I
manner.
Describing the battle of September j
6th, the correspondent says: j
"The battle began at daybreak
and continued until dusk^. The artillery
fire exceeded anything in his-1
tory. The shell were timed as falling
thirty in thirty seconds.
"The losses, especially to the Ger*
mans, were enormous. One estimate
by a trained observer places as
high as 100,000 the German casualties,
of which 20,000 were killed.
* no r renrn aiso sunereu neavuy.
?ne corps was wiped out. When 1
night came neither side could claim
much advantage.
"Then on the night of the 6th and
?th came the mysterious German retreat.
Various theories were advanced
to explain it. First, there
may have been a sortie from Verdun.
Second, the army transport service
may have broken down. This, after
the enormous expcnditiure of ammunition,
might have compelled the
crown prince's army to fall back or
be captured.
"The fighting on this wing continued
for several days, but the Germans
were only trying to save what
vas left of the badly crippled army
from complete destruction.
"With the crown price retreating,
there was nothing left for General
Von Kluck's and Von Buelow's
armies but to execute the same
maneuvers. This brought about
the battle of the Oise and all subsequent
fighting, and the rumor persist?
that the erown price was wounded.
Whether that Is so or not, his
army almost disappeared from the
theatre of operations."
XKVILIjR CJOKS HKaiF.lt.
Secretary to Congressman Johnson
<?ets New Job.
Washington Special to Charleston
News and Courlerfl Sept. 28.?Mr.
I). W. A. Neville, of Clinton, lias
resigned as secretary to Represtntatlve
Joseph T. Johnson, of the
Fourth district, in order to accept a
desirable position as special agent In
the bureau of the census. Mr. Neville
actually took up his new work severY
a! days ago. He bad served with
much success as Congressman Johnson's
"right-hand man" ever since
Postmaster Flke, of Spartanburg,
relinquished the same position to as
Bume hlB present responsibilities.
f
I Violent Attacks of Germans Are
Sal<l to Have Heen Repulsed.
Paris. Sept. 28.?The following
official communication wnB given out
in Paris this afternoon:"There
is nothing new to report
in the general situation. Relative
calm prevails along a portion of the
front. Nevertheless, at certain
points, notably between the river
Alsne and the Argonne district, the
enemy had delivered further violent
attacks, which, however, have been
repulsed."
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VEEKLY.
NORMAL FAIili WEATHER.
Weather Hnreau Forecast** ltrigli
Days for Week.
Washington, Sept. 27.?Normu
foil urAotKne iditk IU?I. a?
..... ^oauic., miu nine ruin, wa
forecasted by the weather bureau to
night for the week.
"There will be showers." as bulle
tin says, "attending a disturbanc
that will appear in the far West am
move eastward, crossing the centra
valleys about Wednesday and th
Kastern states Thursday or Frida>
otherwise the week will be one o
generally fair weather.
"This disturbance will be preced
cd by rising temperature and be fol
lowed by a change to cooler weathe
over the northern half of the coun
try.
"Temperatures during the wee
will average near the normal ove
practically all parts of the country.
DISTINCT GAIN MADE
ON GERMAN RIGHr
Both Armies Kenlixe That Attack
in <'enter Are Futile Are Bending
All Knergy to Flanks.
I.ondon, Sept. 28.?In the past 4
hours there has been extraordinar
activity wherever antagonists fat
each other in the great theatre t
war, but none of the encounters aj
parently has been decisive. Officii
communications of yesterday state
the attack on the German right ht
made a distinct advance and this ve
sion is supported by official Berli
advices which state that the allii
have made extensive ndvanci
against the German extreme right.
By making desnerate sorties tl
man ioroes sun are retiring on i r
cow and besides having taken son
of the forts around Przetuysl tl
Russian cavalry is said to be pourii
through the Car pathians onto tl
plains of Hungary. Although tl
success of that movement is official
denied from Budapest, which a
nounces that the repeated at temp
J the Russian cavalry to enter tl
country have been repulsed, hu
I ried efforts are being made along tl
\uatrian frontier to strengthen for
! ress garrisons.
Electric currentf are a markt
i feature of the defensive arrang
] arents. Wires have been laid ov
all the strategic points on tlje fro
tier and these connect with a powe
tul power station at Rlva.
MAW Wllili UVK AT HOMK.
; Indications That Farmers Are llee
ing Advice of
Clemson College Special to Clia
leston News and Courier, Sept. 27.Information
received from all par
of the state indicate that farme
are enthusiastically putting in
practice the tilings that Clemsi
College has been urging them to <
for this autumn and winter. Fro
many places come letters written I
men who declare their intention
put large acres in oats and whet
More interest than ever before is h
iing shown in hog raising. N
merous requests for poultry info
niatlon have been received. Mai
announce their intantlon to pla
home gardens large enough t<* onah
them really to "live at home" th
winter.
It appears likely that the Eur
pcan war, as many have hoped
would, will teach the Southern fa
mer the folly of the one crop syste
as forcefully that he will adopt wis
ways. It begins now to look as
South Carolina farmers will not on
manage to live and keep their far
llles, hands and beasts through tl
winter, but. by planting oats ai
wheat and raising hogs, will ha
dome money crops to bring the
cash next spring.
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LANCASTER, S. C. fl
PCMCDAI PADDAM7A
Ill
Pillaging n( Canipoclie.
r" New York. Sept. 28.?Serious uj
" risings and disturbances in Can
38 peche, Mexico, were reported by pas
38 sengers and ofiicers of the steamshi
i Ksperanza, which arrived in Ne<
ie York today from Vera Cruz and Pre
ie ' greso. Canipeche. to this date, hn
'P been comparatively free from revolt
tionary troubles and in that distri*
; many of the wealthier residents c
1(3 central Mexico, as well as depose
11_ federal officers, took refuge. Storit
ls | were told the steamship's officers i
^ Progreso of pillaging and robber
al at Campeche by Constitutional!!
'e | soldiers and in Progreso, one of th
" | snip s omeers said, robberies an
hold-ups were of nightly occurrent
1* j and no effort was ihade to give p<
in , lice protection. The Bsperanza wt
I* ' in Vera Cruz when the order <
l" ! President Wilson directing Generi
's i Funston to prepare to evacuate tli
11" ! city was received. The majority <
G" the residents of Vera Cruz, the ship
officers said, were made uneasy I
the order. When the Bsperanza le
Vera Cruz she had on board 2."if* pa
R" sengers, some of whom had left hu
a* rledly upon hearing that the Amer
can forces were to be withdraw:
On arrival at Progreso Mexican otl
,K cers wanted to arrest 1(5 passenge
said to have been prominent sit]
:u> porters of the Huerta governmen
'y i The captain of the Bsperanza pi
n" out to sea and the passengers
Is question were transferred to tl
10 Cruiser Salem. The Bsperanza, wil
r" I a naval officer aboard, then wei
ie I back to Progreso and cleared f<
i Havana.
11 SHOULD SUPPORT
? WILSON POLICIE
11 Secretary Bryan Declares It K
sential That l/ovver Chamber
l>e Democratic.
Asheville. N. C., Sept. 26.?In i
address delivered here tonight in tl
,j. interest of Congressman James '
Gudger, Jr., the Democratic con,ire
r_ sional candidate in this district, Se
retary Bryan declared that the ele
tion of a Democratic majority in tl
rs house is vitally necessary to the su
to cessful accomplishment of Preside)
jn . Wilson's plans for remedial legi
jo lation.
Secretary Bryan paid a glowit
l,y tribute to President Wilson whi
to touching upon national and Inte
Lt national affairs.
"I have been in politiics for J
u_ - years," said Mr. Bryan, "and in th
ir_' time I have met no braver man thi
1V Wood row Wilson. He was tl
.., bravest man in tho notlnn ...K....
11 L " " "n" '
|0 were passing through the rece
jg Mexican crista. The President kne
the situation better than anyboi
0_ else, and tonight every mother in tl
country is thanking Ood becau
r. Woodrow Wilson did not send h
nj son to war in Mexico.Had tl
er President listened to the clamor f
jf war which came*from certain qua
jy ters he would not now be In a po?
n. tion where the warring nations
tjp Kurope ask the United States to lot
after their diplomatic Interests."
ve
m Pew of us become round-shoul
ercd from carrying other people
burdens.
t ULMLlVnL uniWtilLfl
MAY WITHDRAV
s
Outcome of Conference Awaitec
0 With Interest.
J
1 RESIGNATION REQUESTED
e .
Latin-American Colony Itplirvr
lf' That First Chief Will Avoitl
Further Bloodshed.
ll_
Washington, Sept. 28.?Develop
_ nients in the Mexican situation, es
, pecially the outcome of conferenc<
between representatives of C&rranzi
^ and Villa were awaited with interes
,r today. The prevailing opinion in tin
Latin-American colony was that Car
ranza would withdraw and furtlie
bloodshed would be avoided.
P
L Message Reaches Carranza.
Mexico City. Sept. 28.?Villa'
telegram requesting Carranza to re
sign as supreme chief of the Consti
s tutionalists in favor of Fernand
j Calderon reached Carranza here las
y night.
*6 1
^ It was signed by Villa, several o
his chiefs and several doctors, law
)yers
and prominent Constitutional
ill . .
. ists.
HTKSDAV, SKPTKMHKK
POWERFUL BOMBS
I DROPPED IN PAI
I German Aeronaut Scatters P.
siles of Death.
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?. MUCH DAMAGE IS DO)
s Man StaixliiiK on Street Co
With Dau^litt'i' lias Heail
mown on.
Paris, Sept. 27.?Four bo
i- were dropped on Paris from a i
e man aeroplane today. One ml;
a exploded in Avenue du Trocai
t and blew off the head of a man sti
e ing on a corner with his daugt
- The child was wounded. The o
r i bombs did little damage.
Crowds, taking advantage
' beautiful autumn day, were pi
enading on the banks of the S
ft
when the aeriial warrior appe
almost directly over the Eiffel To
It is believed the first bomb droi
was intended for the wireless stu
on the tower or possibly for a ne.
building containing army st<
It landed in Avenue du Trocar
^ j not far from the tower, and the
plosion was heared for many blc
Houses in the vicinltty were b
damaged. The bomb struck on
j \ block from the American e in bass
No. 5 Rue de Chaillot, where Am
} | sador Myron T. llerrick, who did
p accompany the Government to
w. I deaux, still makes his home,
j In the wake of the bomb flutt
_ i a German lint*
is i ?"
RUSHED FOR SHELTER
?t | At the sound of the explosion
,f 1 promenaders first rushed for she
(1 j and then, :ih the airship moved
>s hurried to the scene of the have
it A cordon of police was thi
>y j about the debris and the man
body of the man was found am
ie moved. Near his body the girl
d discovered.
!? ! Among the houses damaged
J- ! the residence of the Prince of ;
is aco. The buildings containing
)f j tillery stores suffered consider
j At the time of the attack ser
ie | were being conducted in the Ai
>f can Holy Trinity church in Av
s j de l'Alma.
Many of the congregation fl?
n the street.
In the midst of the excitemen
aeroplane dropped three
do 111 !>H. one landed among a
J. 1 of cows pastured o nthc Auteuil
course. One row was killed
PS
! others stunned. A third bom I
'J in line Vineuse and a fourth in
' do la Pompe, a quarter in v
many Americans live. Tom
tivelv little damage was don<
ie
either instance.
( The missiles dropped today
the most powerf i that have
ir
used in the ac.ial raids on Pari
MEN rROM WRECK
PICKED UP AT S
Sixty of Cutter Tahoma's
It vscued by Steaine.s?Scarf
>1; (Ie for Others.
Washington. Sept. 27.?Foil
111 fleer ; and 56 men aboard the
ie nue cutter Tahonn when die
| ashoie on the \\ -stern Ale
s* Island i last week have been n
up by the steamer Cordova and
' ' vey ship Patterson. near Ai
111 Island. Advices today to re\
v~' Mit?cr headi . uarers; said search
nt proceeding for 2" others from
H I Tahoma, who handed from boai
1 nearby islands.
The message indicator ;hr ' th
homa will be a total loss. No d<
r" of the condition of the rescued
! were given. The sixty refugees
54 i the Tahoma in four boats. VVh
at they were cruising when four
?> -
nuu utncu ICIUR'" I'll IMIf CM I 111
u> merous inlands, was not lndicat
the messuge, which was sent
"* Cuptain Iteynolds, commanding
Bering sea fleet.
I The Tahoma struck Septembe
1<" She had aboard eighty-three per
He Revenue cutter service officer
PI night were without informatio
to the cause of the Tnhoma's
t>r hap. That slie had stumbled
T" an uncharted rock or lost her
ings in a fog were suggested a
,)f planations.
^ The Cordova was bound
, Nome to Seattle, when wireles
t-ercepted her and sent her hun
| to the Tahomn's aid. The Patt<
; was sent from Unalyaska.
2t). 1914,
lilt VAN Cl'TS WOOD. ^
Wants to l'nivc That His lloalth '
rtlrt is (tetter.
IN Ashevllle, N. C., Sept. 28.?To
prove that his health and strength
are both improved. Secretary of
ilis- William J. Bryan, here on a q
brief vacation, this morning pointed
to a large pile of wood which he had
cut from a tree which he felled at
NE. h'8 summer home on Sunset tnoun- J
tain.
rner "That does not look like a sick ^
man's work, does it?" asked the secretary
of his friends. "Cutting
down dant oak and reducing it to
tubs gtove d is easier than some other
^ei" tasks 1 have upon my hands." u
ssile Secret?rv llrvnn fool. 111 -
... j ? i v,\>ic a i \J 111 CHCl l?
dero from delivering a speech here Satur- 1
and- day night in the interest of the local '
iter. Democratic congressional ticket. 1
i Sunday afternoon he delivered a lay (
sermon before the student body and 1
of a a large audience at a local college. r
rom- The secretary and Mrs. Bryan c
eine ( plan to return to Washington early t
a red this week. (
wer. i I
>?e<l allies repel the
tion attack of germans 1
arby
ires. little Continued With Progress by 1
'ero- l/el't Wing of the Allied
1 ex" Annies,
tcks. I'aris, Sept. 27.?The following 1
adly official war bulletin was issued to- '
>y day: 1
> at "First On our left wing the bat-J '
'',as fie has been continued with percepti1
not ble progress on our part. On th'e
Hor" j front between the rivers Oise and1'
Sontme and on the north of the | 1
'n '' Somine from the Aisne to Rheims
the Germans have made violent at- '
| tacks at several points, some of '
1 them being at the point of the bayslter,
oneti but they were all repulsed. In i
' on> many places the French and Ger>c
man trenches were not more than
r?wn ioo meters apart.
igled : "Second?In tlio renter from
' re* Rheima to Souain the Prussian guard
%VH3 has undertaken unsuecessfully H|
' vigi ous offensive, being hurled '
wa8 bat? hi the region of Berry Ail Bar
\lon-.(n miles northeast of Rheims and
'> ar" about 2 5 miles east of Scissons.)
ably, and Nogent L'Abbesse (thrive miles
vices due east from Rheims.) From
neri- gouan the enemy yesterday made a
enue successful attack between the highway
leading from Somme to Oha>d
to lons-Sur-Marne and the line of the
railway from St. Venshould to
t the Velouse. To the end of the day our
more troops regained the ground they had
herd 'osfrace
I "Between the region of the
and Argonne and the Meuse the enemy
? fell has not manifested activity. On the
Hue heights of the Meuse nothing new
rhich has developed, in the southern part
para- of the Woevre district the Germans
? in occupy a front which passes by St.
Mihiel and northwest to Port Anions
were son.
boon "On our right wing In Lorraine,
s. the Vosges and Alsace, there lias
been no important change."
;ea 1 .incoln Keacliey Loops the Loop
Over L one of Capitol.
Ci-ew Washington, Sept. JS. Lincoln
1> Heachey, in an . eroplane, looped tinloop
four times over the dome of the
r of- capitol today while President Wilson
rove* watched the p -rformance from a
went White Mouse \> indow. Tin- aviator
utian then made such an abrupt landing on
icked the Potomac lowlands near the
ser- Washington monument that observgatlu
crs in the t .11 wireless towers at the
renue Arlington raido station reported he
was hrd fal'.en.
i the Heachey then finished the perform
ts on ance by turning two full loops over
the White House ami more loops, tlyr
Ta- ing low over the business section of'
ptails the city, while government officials
men and thousands of spectators held
' left their breath.
ptner
>d or Will Have Prohibition,
s "'I- Boston. Sept. 27.?"Before the
pd in | Twentieth Century is one quarter*
by done we will have prohibition in the |
E the, constitution of the United States," j
declared Congressman Richmond P.
r 21. Hobson at a mass-meeting here to-j
sons, day under the auspices of the Massa s
to- chusetts and National Anti-Saloon
n as Leagues. The meeting was the closntis
ing rally of a week's state-wide proonto
hlbttion campaign.
bear
s ex- Kmperor William III.
I.ondon Sept. 27.?A dispatch to
from The Times from Geneva says The
s in- Suisse state that Kmperor William Is
rylng 111 with inflammation of the lungs as
?rson a result of having fallen into a
trench filled with water.
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$1.50 A YEAR.
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flLLA WILL Ml 5ttl\
PRESIDENCY OF MEXICO
rells Washington That He Will
Not be Candidate for Oflice.
FOLLOWS (JEN. CARRANZA.
lay Mean Mexican Peace?Zapata
Protests .Against Removal of
Troops From Vera Cruz.
Washington, Sept. U8.?Formal
innouncement from General Villa
hat he will not be a candidate for
'resident or Vice President of Mexco
was received at the state departuent
today through George C.
brothers, consul agent at Chihualua
City. This dispatch the first to
each Washington from the interior
>f Mexico since Villa's revell o-.i i,?
jeneral Carranza's authority as first
hief of the Constitutionalists, greaty
strengthened the hopes of officials
lere for a peaceful adjustment of the
liffloultiea between the two leaders.
That special significance attached
o Villa's assurance was because it
ollowed so closely the declaration of
ieneral Carranza that he would not
jecome a candidate if Villa would
?ive a similar promise and all the
nllitarv leaders were eliminated as
i>ic. ol< ntial possibilities.
The btatw department tonight was
without information from Mexico
I'ity hut it generally was believi d mi
Mlieiai circles that if General Carrnn/.a
resign 7. i-sday as lias ci.
ilec'a.ed he will, the convent', m -?'i
sd by him for that date will name as
his successor Fernando Iglesias
Calderon. whose selection has been
demanded by Villa.
Constitutionalist renres?nt?ttv??
here tonight were hopeful that the
peace commissioners dispatched by
Carranza and Villa to meet in an attempt
to adjust the existing differences
between the two factions would
reach a satisfactory solution of the
problem.
General Funston, commanding the
American troops at Vera Cruz, informed
the war department that
General Zapata, the Southern rebel
leader, had lodged a protest with him
against the surrender of Vera Cruz
to the Carranza government. Zapata
made it plain that he did not recognize
Carranza as the first chief of the
Constitutionalists. Zapata's army
make him a factor to be reckoned
with, and it is admitted that his attitude
will not be calculated to
hasten the preparations for the
Ann rican evacuation.
"Orders for the witinlmw it fmm
Mexican u;tters of the battleships
Arkansas, Delaware an?l North Dakota
had been prepared tonight and
only awaited the signature of Secretary
Daniels to become effective.
These vessels are to be relieved by
the Texas, Minnesota and Rhode Island.
which have been ordered to
Vera Cruz.
At the navy department it was said
that Secretary Daniels would release
the three battleships front Mexican
duty tomorrow. They will proceed
North for target practice msneuttr.t
and drills, which have been suspended
during their stay in Southern .raters.
In accordance with recommendations
that only four battleships be
retained for the present in Mexican
v aiers submitted to Secretary Daniels
by Rear Admiral Fletcher, it !s
proposed also to soon wlthdrav the
Virginia and Kansas, leaving the
Texas, Minnesota, Rhode Island S i
Vermont to constitute the na?l
force in Mexico.
Visited the Wounded.
London, Sept. 27. King fJeorge
and Queen Mary today motored from
Aldershot to Karnboro Hill, where
they visited the residence of the
former Empress Eugenie. A number
of wounded oflieers are quartered
there. Their majesties also visited
the wounded at the Connaught Hospital.
?
Drop Itfsmh in School.
I .on don .Sept. 29.?The operators
of a Herman Zeppelin dirigible
dropped a bomb into a school house
at Rielostok, Russia, yesterday,
killing 11 children, according to a
dispatch from Petrograd to The
Morning Post.
Even some lazy men may get busy,
but the trouble is that they don't
keep busy.