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VL\t VOL. 10. NO. 71), SKMI- WEEKLY. wzeppeun" i i: . AND DREW OF 28 Mil more than 200 n< Lieut. R. A. J. Warnetord, Cana- cral Pub,,c- hav ' candidates for th dian, Performs Feat. ed every five y< Frnie of New Yo DROPS MANY BOMBS ON IT. were cho8en by pointed quinqu , final decision in lu AItl<? IMwi* 1 ? *" * ~ w will choose the \ Above More Clumsy Foe. tQmber. They a Warneford Unhurt. Fr*nc\a Parkt London. June 7.?For the first Hopkins, educat time on record a Zeppelin in the air Palmer, teacher; has been destroyed by an aviator in preacher and 1 an aeroplane. Reginald A. J. War- Henry, Benjam neford, a young Canadian aub-lieu- Louis Agassiz, tenant in the royal navy, who mas- Rogers Clark, N, tered aeroplanlng only this spring, Thomas J. Jack: has performed the feat and tonlatit Cboate and Thon is somewhere within the British lines, jurists; Samue while the Zeppelin sprawls a wreck Henry, John J on the. roof and grounds of an or- Hamilton, stat phanage near Ghent. Saunders CuBhm Falling there a biasing mass after being struck by the young aviator's A m"FT?TP A "N bombs, its crew of 28 men \*ere killed, as also were several occu* PASSPOR pants of the orphanage buildings.' ? Some believe this Zeppelin was the Declared in New craft that raided the east coast of They Were A England last night, for since it was Citl: in the air over Belgium, between Berlin, Juno ( Ghent and Brussels at 3 o'clock In two American ell the morning, it possibly was return- den?Leon Hair ing from an expedition, not starting, uigel?have beer Dawn breaks early these days and the American e the huge Zeppelin could be sighted tions from the far off, and it is presumed that the Washington, craft was headed for her home The men. it is hanger when Warneford came wing- cisod the Amertci ing swiftly under the gray skies. present crisis am The Zeppelin, which was flying paper article tha comparatively low, began to mount of their citizens immediately, but the British wasp was speedier and climbed into the Because air in long spirals, reaching a posi- Washington, . tion, at length, over the German's plained tonight vast bulk. From this vantage point ment that the Warneford pierced the Zeppelin's Haines and Karl shell repeatedly with his incendiary revoked because T- bombt. attacks on the A STORY WITHOUT PARALLEL. They were repori nrlthmit l? ..... loftoi- *'? Kiiuuiii |ioiuiici tn 111 in mil ui UHy -1 *v"? other, is the btory which the youn/ *be press of Ge aviator will have to relate, for de- been the author tails after the light have not yet been Phlets crlticisinf told. First came the long pursuit, As the givine for according to the admiralty report courtesy on the the aeroplane was 6,000 feet up. To partment, the pr reach this altitude would require revoked through nearly 20 minutes and the Zeppelin on the ground tl meantime, could drive forward ap- their allegiance, proximately 15 miles. Revocation of Then followed the maneuvering it practically ir for position, and finally the dropping Raines or Reckn of the bombs, from which the dirig- united States b ible tried vainly to escape. Minor the war. In the explosions occurred, and, at last, one be without prot of terrific force, and the Zeppelin by this governnv burst into flames. foreign territory At the moment Warneford must otficlals said if l have been at close range over the the United Stat* dirigible, for almost simultaneously under which th< with the outburst his machine turned admission or th< completely over, and for a moment nied. he hung head down, his monoplane pitching and tossing in the swift cur- Serbian Forces rents ui sir wuiuu ruuneu up to nil j the vacuum created. Rome y(a pai Then by a desperate effort Warne- f^.rcea are c ,ntj ford righted hie machine far above tn Albania from the earth and pUned to a landing be- now are only tv hind the German lines. He alighted gcutaria, eccoi unhurt, set hie propeller going again from tjint ftt and flew off to the west. Glornale d'ltallt DIFFICULT FEAT. pied the towns < Whether the Zeppelin's machine bario, near Elba gflns and rifles were turned on the nia, while the i aviator is not disclosed, but to attain LJuma also nre such an advantageous position the advancing forces British lieutenant must have handled opposition. Alt his machine skilfully, for this is an man troops are extremely difficult feat. doned Scutaria i Although the target the Zeppelin ? presents is extensive, it can be lifted torch before it hv lia nwn hiiAvan^v irk a vraat ?-1 j ?, v'? ? D.^~v AII tuc I it 11! u height while the pursuing aeroplane England last i has to rise In spirals by the power of dropped tncenc Its engine alone. bombs, killing fl ' .As the flight in mid-air occurred 40 and causing over the part of Belgium held by the to an official ai Germans, hopes are raised In London admiralty today ^ that the Germans will be forced to The admiralty move their Zeppelin bases eastward, attack upon tli thus making raids on England more Evere, Issuing t! hazardous. "This mornlnf Some reports say that the non- tack was made combatant victims were two nuns at Evere, north < and two orphans, and that others Lieutenants J. F fjere injured, but a Keuter dispatch J- S. Mills, It. tonight says two nurses and two chll- dropped and th< dren were killed and many others in- to be In flames, jured. All versions agree that the -"It is not kno Zeppelin crew perished and this lin was inside ,b' seems certain as the great craft was a great height, c struck while more than a mile in the sides of the sh air and must ha7? been a roaring turned safely." LANCASTER. S. C.. 'I -rr..,,, TWO BIG BATTLES IN }'?kr r, PROGRESS IN. GALICIf iminated by the Ken- , e been selected as Kllssj;,ns Make Considerable Ad e five tablets inscrlb;ars in the Hail >f vance on the Lower San. rk University. They the 100 elector* ap jN THE ARRAS REGION ennlally to render i the matter and who 1 litiniate five In Sep- French r,a,ni to Huve >Ior< te as follows* Ground and to Huve Repulsed nan, aufhor; Mark \ iolent German Attacks, or; Alice Freeman London, June 6.?The allies lr ; Horace Bushnell, their offensive on the Gallipoli pen theologian; Joseph Insula on June 4 captured and hel< In Thompson and two lines of Turkish trenches alont scientists; George a front of nearly three miles. Ir athaniel Greene and Mesopotamia the British forces havi ton, soldiers; Rufus received from the Turks the surren ias Mclntyre Cooley. fder of Amara and taken more that 1 Adams, Patrick 2,000 prisoners, 13 guns, a gunboat ay and Alexander barges and steamers. The pursui tesmen; Charlotte of the Turks who were dispersed int< lan, actress. the marshes continues. As in all trench warfare, the alliei F CITIZENS' found their general advance on th< Gallipoli peninsula hindered on ac TS REVOKED count of the inability of their forcei < to penetrate wire entanglements spaper Articles That which artillery fire hus not sufll inhumed of Their ciently destroyed. This left othe r.ensliip. sections open to an enfilading fire >.?The passports of and therefore part cf the groum tizens living at Dres- gained had to he given up Sonn les and Karl Reck- j also was lost when the Turks coun i ordered revoked by j ter-attacked. mbassv. on instrnc- .... --- ? I a gain ot >'?<! yards on a front o state department at three miles In this sort of fighting however, is considered sattsfactor; said, adversely criti- j tjie Flritish, particularly as it in in government in the j tjure<\ the Turks to counter-attack 1 declared in a news- | in whlch they suffered heavy losses t they were ashamed Two battles are in progress ii h{P- Oalicia. The Russians l*ive made i considerable advance on the lowe of Attacks. trenches of the San and have drive] June 6.?It was ex- the Austro-Germans back to th at the state depart- Leug river, while to the southwes passports of Leon of Lemberg the Aostro-Germuns ar Reckncgle had been advancing, although the Russians ar > of their published | contesting every inch of the road merican government, to the Galician capital, which Is th ted to have issued an objective of the Teutonic allies. President Wilson in The regf0n norfh of Arras remain irmany and to have jnteresting point on the Westeri of circular and pam- front. Here the French claim t 5 the United States, have gained more ground, and, ac ; of posBports is a cording to their report, have repuls part of the state de- ed violent German counter-attacks ivlliges were ordered The Germans assert they have re Ambassador Gerard pulsed French attacks. The first ini lat the men violated portant battle of the Italian cam ! paign is raging for possession o the passports makes ; Tolemino where the Italians hav nposs'ible for either met with the first serious opposi ioi agle to return to the in their advance across the Adstriai >efore conclusion of I frontier. I meantime, they will Italian warships have destroyei ection usually given cables and lighthouses in the Adria ent to its subjects in tic and again have bombarded Moil State department malcone. There also lias been gom the men returned to naval activity in the Baltic, Russiai !s, there was no law an(i German squadron exchnnglu ey could be refused shots in the vicinity of the Gulf o >ir citizenship be de- Riga. Roumania is going through crisis similar to that experienced b T:?k'? Two Albanian Italy before the latter country enter "was. I ed the war. Those who favor neu is, June 7.?Serbian trality and those who favdr war he! nulng tho'r advance counter-demonstrations at Rucharea i two directions and i today, where political parties are gci vo days march from ting into shape to put forward thel ding to a dispatch views. The general opinion in Lon y received by the don is that Roumania will join th i. They have occu- allies when Italy gives the word an it Starova and Galo- that Bulgaria will foltOw her lead, san, in central Alba- With the King of Greece sufferin regions of Hasl and a relapse and in a serious conditior in their hands. The no immediate change in the attitud i have met with little of that country is expected. lanian and Mussel- _ said to have aban- FIN A LEY AGREE, several daya ago. " ? Representatives Agree on the Statu BirucK me earm. of Mongolia, n the east coast of Peking, June 6.?Representative (tight, the Zeppelin of Russia, China and Mongolia, wh liary and explosive have been in conference at Kiakhti Ive persons, injuring Clberia, for nearly a year, have con two Ares, according eluded a treaty which will determin anouncement by the the status of Mongolia. During the Chinese revolution c r also announced an 1912 Mongolia declared its Indeper te airship shed at dence of China, and was recognize bis statement: immediately by Russia as an autonc I at 2:30 a. m. an at- j mous state. Japan thereupon ei on the airship shed tended her sphere of influence ove of Brussels by Flight inner Mongolia. Wilson, R. N., and By the terms of the agreement no^ N. Bombs were reached China will retain a nomine 3 shed was observed suzerainty over Mongolia. Hussi and China agree not to interfere wit wn whether a Zeppe- the administration of Mongolia's ir ut the flames reached ternal affairs. oming out from bot'f A treaty to this effect will be sigr ed. Both pilots re- ed tomorrow by the representative of the three nations. ifitfl* J, rrKSDAV, .JI NK 8, \<)\r,. TO INVESTIGATE I NAVAL SCANDAL =i ten Amer rode eigh - Court of Inquiry for Annapolis into I ?*-. noon, levc I ase. . onel comn 150 soldle . CHEATING ON THE EXAMS. ?>?? relent kidnapped soldiers o ! Alleged That Midshipmen Have So- |)(),.(j,.r rnred Advance Copies of Questions?Seven Under Charges. ',H> (()' year-old ] i Washington, June b.?After a con- son Qf a' - fereuce with President Wilson today,1 an(j Henn I Secretary Daniels appointed a court American 5 of inquiry to investigate specific campt Ar i charges that seven midshipmen ot pOSSt. ro<i< 3 the Naval Academy had secured ad- United Sti - vance information on examinations. 1 ? . ~ .... . Santa C i The court will make a sweeping in- , , . of Jose R , quiry, however, into reports that nor of Sq t others midshipment and possibly : vvhere 'tJ)i > some instructors were involved in the , . . boys, and irregularities. tlementa ; i No attempt was made at the navy i 3 deportment tonight to minimize the i - gravity of the situation. Secretary i TO ES' 8 Daniels authorized the statement j NE\ , that the court of inquiry would make I - i thorough investigation. Will be r The annual practice cruise of the ; ?"?' s Mliilelii nm ont ?? u ? wiuvii III UuVi; I ; been begun next week, lias been in Washin e I definitely postponed in order*" that ment of 7 - i students at the academy may testify routes to , before the court of inquiry whicn the exten: f will be convened at Annapolis next to reach ( Monday. ! was anno During his conference with Secre- ter Gener . | tary Daniels. President Wilson ap- the new ' proved recommendations that three tion June ft\ cadets at the ncadamey charged with ,)efMI auth u irregularities in connection with re- temporary u i cent examinations be dismissed from | ,ion ?f P<" 7 the service. The secretary refused to service ex II ! make public the names of the mid- I Knlargi e shipment, all of whom were lower rural ser t classmen. One of them was charged Postoifice e with having offered a bribe to a civi- Plains, b; e lian employe of the academy for r.d- nn<l Ma>". u vanee information on an examina-' operating e tion while it was alleged the other : *511,262. two broke into a professor's room to ronsolidn: a ascertain the standing they had at- 8ai,l t,lat n tained in an examination. ! Ppd. Tn> 0 The seven midshipmen whose under wi cases will furnish the basis for the being reti investigation have already been Orders recommended for dismissal to the' master ge _ academy board, but Secretary Daniels for new 1 after a personal Investigation at the many lor academy decided that it was best to routes, w f go thoroughly into all cases involv- of twenty e ing others. One midshipman recom- rates. T1 1 mended for dismissal is alleged to i go ijito o ^ have had advance copies of all ? examinations to be given in French KOI ^ and Spanish and it is claimed that the other six received the informs- South ( hi tion with the full knowledge that it comprised the examination in ques- Spartai I tion. It is further claimed that frag-! June 6.? II j mentary Information concerning the the good ? examinations came into the posses-! Spartanbt sion of many other midshipmen as1 said toda; "dope." After the discovery that the ; burg, Lai a subject matter of the examination and other y had leaked out new examinations the road were prepared and held. vannah. f ^ The cadet who is said to have re- matter o ceived the advance information and chamber lt passed it on to others is understood >n ti>e eff to have claimed that it came to him of 'he r anonymously through the mail. through e The investigation brought to light. inteiVate< (j however, a report that it was sent ai1(* sPai to him by an instructor and this is in,ere8tet K one of the phases of the situation 1 1 ?"?Perat , arousing the greatest concern be- ! P?,n'8* i I f p r ill e cause of intimations that instructors have previously given "tips" to j from Aal cadets on examinations. roa(1 iR n The President and Secretary Daniels are understood to be exercised r renc over the situation, because, after the * cadets received the information, they Paris kept the matter quiet. This fact is marine tc 8 understood to have led the secretary "The F 0 * A rfA,,k? tkn -I- I -? ' ' * - I v?# uuuui nio vioiiu ui Home (II m<! I pg has Stl ' midshipmen that they did not know ' 0f a j3av j l" the information they had received tajn antj e was in fact the examinations they org Were if wer? *? pedo boa The seven midshipmen under spe- that oth< (l ciflc charges are: Ralph McK. Nel- reach the K son, Jr., of New York; Chaplin been tak< ,_ Evans of Virginia, Stuart Hamilton The Fr |f, of Connecticut, Leonard P. Wessels i ca was of of North Carolina, Donald E. Dun- \ She had v can of Michigan, Thomas W. Harri-1 son, Jr., of Virginia, James E. Moss Tu< ;l of Maryland. San Fri h Nelson is the only first class man earthqual i- among the seven directly involved, 'y throufj He stood third in his class and had damage \ I- achieved a reputation as a mathema- Lassen F g tlcian. His diploma was withheld at somnolen the graduation exercises yesterday, had been \ $1.50 A YKAK'. qijietlv working -.asrssss- to unite mexicans iean cowboys and millers t miles across the border t Cruz, Sonora, this after- Inl'nrnvil ? i--. ...... ...in unvnn m iHH IHiKIU IIV led their guns at the col- i . landing the garrison, while ill?i-^?tp?lt?l Ropi escntilt 1\es. rs looked on. and obtained le of two American boy RED ( ROSS AIDING PEOPLE, early today by three of the n the Arizona side of the \riny Transport to Leave Galveston onel gave up his two 17- W,th s,,iP".c.t of t orn prisoners, George Vaughn, I aiH' Mpunw* storekeeper at Duciuesne, Washington, June G.?Informal \r Chang, son of a Chinese- efforts?as yet without official sanccitizen of Washington ! lion?are being made by Mexicans iz., without demur and the identified with the Villa-Zapatn raove3 triumphantly back to the nient in Mexfeo to bring about a reates. j concilliation with the Carranza fac ruz is garrisoned by forces t,on. with the view of establishing a laytorena, the Villa gover- j government that could claim recogninora. Washington Camp. j tion by the United States, e Mexicans captured the I Klliseo Arrendondo, Washington Du-iuesne are border set- representative of General Carranza, 15 miles east of here. today received a message from a ' Carranga consul on the border, say710 I *"K 'ie 'ia<' ,)eP" aPProaphed by a a pttpat "PnTTTIPCI V,lla offil'ia1' speaking presumably V AUlvAli BiUU loo with authority, to learn what could , " _ I hp rlnno fi\ inHUtn ????? ? A * - ... vv IIIIVICVV^ UCttVC IlCgUllUi-iH 111 uprmtion Jinn* 15 .. . , Hons. The message was forwarded erve H2,31IO Additional without comment bv Arredondo to I'omilies. ,, , _ , ,, General Carranza ot Vera Cruz. Eton, June b.? Establish- _. . . " , ..... I have nothing official, and can, 10 r.ew rural mall delivery ... . . . . . , . . . . , therefore, moke no statement, said serve 82,390 families and . , , . . , . _ , . , Arredondo tonight, sion ot the existing service ... ,, , , . . , , ... . . ... Enrique C. Idorente. agent here of 5,400 additional families ., ..... . .... . . . the Villa-Zapata coalition, said he unced tonight by Postmas- . . ... had no official advices that any peace al ilurleson. Nearly all ot . , , , , . > , parlevs had begun, and believed any routes will go into opera- .... ... ! preliminaries in this connection lo. and postmasters have would be arronged through his lorized to employ necessarv agency. He said he had received to; carriers pending the selec- . , , . .. ... . .... , night a telegram from Miguel Diez rmanent men through civil . . . . Lombardo, secretary ot state of the .aminations. Villa-Zapata government, in which emcnt and extension of the the ,ftUer announced hls ,loparture vice was made possible. ",,rom chihuahua for Leoll to ,.onrer department statement ex- ; wjth Genera, v,Ua Qn ,he general ir a readjustment in April L|tuotion resulting in a reduction ot i pLANS tq RELIEVE SUFFERING, expenses amounting to American UeU Cro88 offlcials are Man> routes have been rapi(jjy putting into effect their plans ted with others, but it. is ' reIjev|ng Carving Mexican nonfew carriers will be drop- I .ombatant8 An army transport will msfers are being arranged ? , ieaVe Galveston, Texas, for Vera lioh experienced men are Cruz tomorrow with a large con. allied - signment of corn and beans for Mexare now awaiting the post- j,.Q city, arrangements having been ineral's signature providing made for safe passage of the supplies ural automobile service in through the Carranza lines, alities. People on these j on its return trip the transport hen living within a radius Xvill bring back any Americans or -five miles, will enjoy local other refugees who may have resettle tlrst of these routes will e(j vera Cruz from the interior and peration on August 1. who desire to leave the country. Urig. Gen. l.evol, general manage.* t 1)1 \ IK HKIHWAY. of the Red Cross, left today for the j Texas border to direct the handling "olina Towns Should Take ! of relief supplies. Active Interest. There wrs a disposition at both iburg Special to The State, the Carranza end Villa agencies here A. B. Calvert, chairman of. to treat the subject of peace parleys roads committee of the with much caution, because neither lrg Chamber of Commerce, of the representatives have professed y that he believed Spartan- to know how his respective chief irens, Newberry, Columbia, 1 would view the subject. town in South Carolina on j Informally, however, some Carbetween Columhfn find So- rt\n-a ?f?i.* "union i-.\|ni'ssp(i ineir own should take tip at once the , opinion that the efforts of the Villa f co-operating with the I elements to make peace was a conof Commerce at Asheville Cession of military failure and the ort to have the eastern end J coming disintegration of their moveDixie highway go south ment. Peace regotiations were viewthese points. Savannah is ed hy the Carranza men, therefore, I, Columbia is interested as an obstacle to an early military tanburg and Asheville are i triumph hy General Carranza, with 1, therefore he suggested consequent recognition. On the ion oetween those and other other hand, in the Villa quarters it was reiterated that General Villa ed attention to the fact that j had from the first expressed a willtieville to Spartanburg the ingness to eliminate himself and reow open and in good condi- store peace, and that recent victories by General Angeles and others indi cated that the Villa forces now had h lioat is Hank by Mine. the upper hand. . Officials Of the WaaliinBt/m BUYJune 7. The ministry of ernment declined to comment on the ?day gave out the following: j situation. rench mine layer Casa Plan ruck a mine at the entrance PORTER < HAUL TON'S CAKE. n the Aegean Sea. The cap another officer and 6 4 sail- **?!'? ? K|>eolalist Says He Was Men* picked up by a British tor- j tally Hes|x>nsil)le. t destroyer. It is possible j Como, Italy, via Paris, June 6.? er survivors were nble to 1 Porter Charlton, the American accuscoast. .vhere they may have ftd ?' having murdered his wife at ?n prisoners by the Turks " | their villa here in June, 1910, was ench mine layer Casa Blan- declared today to have been mentally 495 tons and 252 feet long, responsible at the time of his wife's a complement of 128 men. death. An opinion to this effect was presented in court by Prof. Magi? Slight Earthquakes. giotta, appointed to examine Oharlincisco, June 6.?Two slight ion's mental condition, ce shokes v/ere felt general- Charlton's trial is to he opened ;hout the city today No early next month. He has just com vas reported. Observers at pleted an autobiography which he in'eak reported the volcano tends to present In court, together t and that no earthquake *itli a long document which he has felt in that region. 1 composed in his defence.