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PPW^V--''" 5 ' I 31 VOL. 10, NO. 77, SEMIMORE AMERICANS VICTIMS OFSUBMARINE . Dominion Steamer Armenian TnrmiiniMl Kv r^wMOMa jk vr? |?vuwu \jivi UtailO. SEVERAL AMERICANS LOST Ship Wm Carrying Mules to EokIamI. Attitude of HUte Department Depends on Ownership. Washington, June- 30.?The Dominion freight liner Armenian, (lying the British flag and carrying ' ' mules from Neport News, Va., to [\ . England, was torpedoed and sunk Monday night by the German sub^ marine U-38 off Cornwall, Eng., and nearly a score of American muleteers aboard are reported lost, according to messages to the state department today from John S. Armstrong, Jr., consul at Bristol. Twenty-nine men in all were lost and 10 injured. The news created a sensation in official quarters, as it was the first case of loss of American lives since the sinking of the Lusitania. The action of the Wash ingion government, nowever, depends almost entirely on whether the Armenian was chartered by the British government and was, in fact, a transport of war aboard which Americans would sail at their own risk, or whether she was an unarmed merchantman. In the latter case, even though carrying contraband, the ship should have been subjected to visit and search and those aboard transferred to a place of safety before the destruction of the vessel was attempted, officials hold. In the absence of conclusive inv formation on these points officials - > ' declined to say what effect the sink^ j ( ing of the Amenlnn would have on < pending negotiations between the United States and Germany. Immediate inquiry was directed, however, to Ambassador Page at L.ondon to \ obtain more details and when Sec- j retary Lansing returns tomorrow ! Ambassador Gerard will be instruct- I ed to inquire of the German ad- I miralty as to its report. From the message received it ap- ' pears that in addition to the torpedo j at least one shot was fired from a disappearing rifle. The consul's re- ; port said the wireless house was "taken by second shot." It was not made clear whether the Armenian first was ordered to halt and re! sisted capture, requiring a second shot or whether the submarine at- 1 tacked without warnine The f?et I . that the number of the submarine was given indicated that she had come to the surface to make the attack. Mules are contraband of war, ac- j cording to all the lists of the bel-1 ligerents so there can be no doubt as to the contraband character of the Armenians cargo. Officials will make an effort to learn, however, ! whether the vessel was armed and whether she was a part of the British naval forces before the opinion: of the state department on the case j will be disclosed. All the dispatches received were! promptly telegraphed to President Wilson at Cornish, N. H.p and Sec- ' retarv Lansing at Amherst, Mass.. and it was considered probable that they would communicate with each , other while in New Kngland. The messages from Consul Arm- ; strong did not show clearly just how many Americans were lost. In his list of Americans missing, he named 23 muleteers?eight whites and 15 negroes. Later telegrams spoke of Dr. J. S. Vlso, a Porto Ki<<an, and three negroes as having been picked up by a submarine and other survivors by a Belgian trawler and transferred to two British destroyers which brought them into Bristol. Unofficial advices here tonight, were to the effect that the Armenian had been chartered by the Dominion Line to the Leyland Line, which is understood to have a contract for the shipment of mules for the British government and has made mnny trips In the mule trade in the past few months. Officials here will Inquire whether the vessel carried any British officers and what measure of control the f Continued on Page Eight.) i' * . ! WEEKLY. NOT ENLISTED HERE. AM British Recruits Taken to Other Side. New York, June 3(J.?The British consul here today declaimed any knowledge ot inducements said to have been made United States soldiers and sailors to desert the American service for the British army and navy as charged by a federal agent in San Francisco who has been investigating recruiting activities in California. "The Capt. Roche or Roach," referred to by witnesses in San Francisco, it was said, is George Roach, one of the secretaries at the consulate. Mr. Roach is not an officer. He usually attends to the applications of British subjects who want to yo home to fight, it was said, but has accepted no Americans. All applicants for war service, it was raIiI hail li??n aont >? 1" divlduals and were not entlisted until reaching the other side. EDITORS CLOSE ANNUAL MEETING Editor of The News on Executive I Committee?William Banks Elected President. Chick SpringB Special to The State, June 30.?Selecting Chick Springs as the place for the next annual meeting, electing officers and enjoying a banquet, the final sessions of the South Carolina Press Association were held here today. Chick Springe for the third time was named as the ! meeting place. William Banks of The Columbia Record was elected president with other offices filled as follows: First vice president, George W. Brunson, Jr., Greenville News; second vice | president, J. L. Mims, Kdgefleld Advertiser; secretary, Joe Sparks, The State. The executive committee is composed of August Kohn. News and Courier, Miss Juan)ta Wylie, Ivancaster News, L, M. Wannamaker, News and Courier. Tonight the editors were guests at a banquet tendered by newspaper workers of Greenville. . C. C Muller of Columbia was re-] ele\. jsident of the Master Printers' Association at the meeting this j afternoon. Addresses were delivered today by J m. i-. uonnam 01 Anaerson and John L. MrLaurin, state warehouse com-: missioner. General Bonham recalled his acqaintance with many well known South Carolina newspaper | workers of former days. Mr. Mo- i Laurin's address was from the sub- j Jeet, "The Mission or the South to Clothe the World." Many of the editors leave tomor- i row for Montreat to meet with the I North Carolina editors. REPORT ON ARMENIAN. Announced That Ship Was Engaged in Admiralty Business. Cornish, N. H., July 1.?President Wilson declared tonight that Ambassador Page had transmitted tc Wash- j ington the British admiralty's an- 1 nouncement that the steamer Ar-| menian sunk Monday by a German submarine with a loss of American ' lives, was "engaged in admiralty business." This announcement re-1 lieved tension here. The President continued to decline to discuss the incident, hilt talk of his leaving im mediately for Washington heard early In the day, was not In evidence tonight. It was indicated here to- ! night that the sinking of the Armen-I Ian would he investigated to deter-1 mine all the facts connected with the j clearance of the vessel from New- > port News and the status of the I American muleteers lost when she sank. 4 The President has not been in- i formed whether the American mule- | teers were in the employ of the I British government. The President still is awaiting , word as to when Germany's reply to the last American note on submarine warfare is to be looked for. Becker Reprieved Tntll .luly 241 by Governor Whitman. Albany, N. Y., July 1.?Governor1 Writman today granted Charles i Becker, the former New York police lieutenant under sentence of death, | a reprieve until July 26. The governor said he would take no further action in the case than the granting of the reprieve. This means that if the United States supreme court does not interfere, Becker will have to die. * tinea LANCASTER, S. C. I CLAIM BIG CAPTURES m riArrmi in mmintAiKt Germans Say Successes Have Netted Them Vast Booty. ?? CONTINUE TO ADVANCE Slavs Said to be Still In Retreat, Fierce Fighting In Neighborhood of Arras and Argonne. Captures by the German and Au? tro-Hungarian armies in their operations for the month of June numbered 140,000 officers and men and vast supplies of munitions, accord'ns tc latest official communication? fropj Berlin and Vienna. A contiv.uamt of the advance of the Austro-Germans in Galicia and Poland is reported with the Russians continuing their retreat at nearly all points. The circumstances attending the sinking by a German submarine of the Leyland line steamer Armenian with the loss of American lives are not yet fully known and the American secretary of state ansounced that t'.ie position of the American government has not yet been determined. There seems tr. be no doubt, however, that the Armenian's commander declined to heed the warning of the German craft to stop. The old British torpedo boat destroyer Lightning, the British admiralty announces, has been damaged by a mine or torpedo, 14 members of her crew being lost. In the west the ditricts north of Arras and west of the Argonne have been the scene of heavy bombardments and in the latter region the Germans, by using heavy shells and shells containing asphyxiating materials, according to the French re port, forced the first French line but were checked by the second line and driven back by counter attacks. The closing of the Uerman-Swlsf frontier Is taken to mean the Germans are sending large reinforcements to the French front. The Italians are coming up to the more strongly fortified positions held by the Austiians. Their operations have been hampered by bad weather ,Kmperor William is reported to have in his hands at army headquarters the German reply to the American note on submarine warfare. Berlin dispatches say there has been a tendency to make the reply as acceptable to the United States as possible. The British minister of munitions, David Lloyd George, has consented to receive a delegation of womert who are desi.-ous that women be permitted to serve the country in any capacity likely to aid the country. SAY GERMAN'S DID NOT AID. Survivor* of Armenian Claim Thev Offered Xo Assistance. Cardiff, Wales, July 1.?Survivors of the Armenian arriving here sav the German rnbmarine ran close to the drowning men thrown into the water by a capsizing boat, but made no effort to rescue them. Joseph Carter, a negro muleteer, of Norfolk, Ya., one of those rescued, said that his friends. King, Oukes, Speed, Small and Foreman Sodden, all were drowned. Carter said: "The submarine chased the ship for two hours and fired about 10" shells, 25 of them striking the ship 1 was in the boat with thirty-eight others when it fell Into the water. 1 was swimming nearly an hour before I was picked up. "Twenty-eight men were rescued from the water. Four members of the crew died in the lx?*t. A part of the head of one of thetn had been blown away. Another had lost both legs. One man had been blown to pieces by a shell. Captain Trickey was the last man to leave the ship." 1 t i_L_ < nnni Milking Mohey. Panama, July 1.?Figures compiled by H. A. Smith, canal auditor, indicate that the canal will show *\n excess in earnings over expenses for the first year of operation ending June 30 of approximately $250,000. MaJ. Gen. George Goethals declared today the canal would have shown a handsome return on tne investment for the first year but for the European war which reduced the number of ships passing through. \ FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1915. 'tUCO IS UNABLE 10 STOP ANARCHY H i ; Situation in Mexican Capital is Dangerous to Foreigners. . IT. S. OFFICIALS WORRIED. Hearing of v.barge* of Conspiracy Against Huerta an?l Five Companion* Postponed. Washington, July 1.?Officers of the Zapata forces in Mexico City, (lis- ' regarding orders of the convention i government, nominally in control 1 i there, are charged with inciting the i 1 masses to violence in dispatches I carried from the Mexican capital June 25, to Vera Cruz ?y courier and cabled today to the state denarimpnt I | The texts have not been made pub| 11c, but they are known to state that ' ' the lnsuborlnatlon of "some Zapata ' i officers" is rendering the situation | i more acute. No prospect of relief for the starving civil population of Mexico City is j held out in ihe dispatches. It is declared that until the railroad to Vera I Cruz is reopened there can bo no , i abatement of the suffering. Tim' convention officials, it is stated > claim to have "repulsed" the Carranza forces under General Gonzales . Apparently whatever fighting has : taken place around the city has been i in the more remote suburbs at such 1 distance from tlie residence and bus- : iness sections that no definite knowli edge of the result has come to the ' foreigners in tlir? <>itv Today's reports was the most re- j , cent word from Mexico City from any j source. What may have happened in the meantime, no one here can con - I jecture. There has been no report 1 of the occupation of the city by Car- j ranza troops, although all rolling stock at Vera Cruz has been pressed j into military service and a large ship- i I j me.nt of relief supplies of the Ameri- { can Red Cross for Pachuca has been held up for lack of cars. Reports l. from Vera Cruz said it was hoped Mm; 1 shipment would go forward today. 1 indicating that the troop movements | had been finished. If that is true, a battle for possession of the city may 1 1 i now be in progress. Much concern j j is felt for the safety of the twenty ' | thousand or more foreigners, in| eluding many Americans. Advices from the Carranza govern- ! lent to its agency here say General nnn7i Inc hoo J | ........... i, ...... ucni III011 UI'lCll lO USt' every effort to induce the Zapata ; troops to evacuate the capital with- ! I out endangering non-combatants. 1 The Zapata forces are said to number 25,000. All are on the defense i lines about tha city, leaving the busl1 ness and residence districts without j i military guards. The Caranza forces I are smaller. I Conditions Become Grave. El Paso, Texas, July 1.?Interest in the Mexican situation here centered in the arraignment set for today Derore ^ united States Commissioner Oliver, of Vlotoriano Huerta, former president of Mexico, on charges of conspiring to launch a new revolu tionary movement in the southern republic In violation of United States neutrality. Accused with Huerta were two former Mexican federal generals and three Mexican residents of El Paso. The arraignment marks the culmination of an investigation conducted by federal officials in New York Mil Washington since General Huerta established his residence on Long Isi land in April, his Journey across the country and his detention by local government officers Sunday, when he alighted from a train at Newman, N. M. Those accused toirerlier with the bond tinder which they were held j were: General Huerta, $16,000 hond General Paseual Orozco, $7,500; .General Marcelo i'araveo, $5,000: ' Jose Zozayn. El Paso. $7,500; Ike Alderete, El Paso, $4,000; Frank Alderete, El Paso. $4,000. For weeks government officials here have been cognizant of activity among refugees on this side of the border. Supplies of machine guns, | rifles, and ammunition said to have been assembled in connection with the new movement had been located in El Paso and kept under surveillance. Speculation has been rife along the ' border as to what effect the arrest 4 * Kft & i ' - t FLEET MAY COftlB OUT. ( erman Agenry Suggest* Hif; Xava Battle. Berlin, June 30. (by wireless b Say ville.)?The Overseas New agency today gave out the following "(Jprman no noeo - - ' * * ~ * n ?i |/u yr v to i C|/i III I HIl lirilCl' appearing in the Stockholm Afton bladt, which asserted that the losse of British warships were anxiouBl; kept secret by the British admiralty "At the beginning of the war thi ships of the first battle line of th< British fleet numbered about 60, bu these, The Aftonbladt article declarei have been reduced b> svstematii submarine torpedoing to 40, whib Germany hns lost no ships of tha class. "If these tactics are continue< with characteristic German endur ance. the article arcnoo V..0?v?| lUV JSVSDD1' blllty of a victorious sea battle foi the Germans against the British is near." BRITISH CAPTURE TURKISH TRENCHES Advance of Allies on Gallipot! Pen insula One of the Features of War News. London. June JO.?The British ad vance on the Gallipoll peninsula ami continued Austro-German progress in Galicia and across the Polish frontier are outstanding features of th* day's war news. The armies in the west continu ? deadlocked. From the British standpoint an ac count of operations in the Dardanelles sent by Gen. Ian Hamilton i? especially welcome, as showing that the British, aided by the French, art able to drive the Turks from theii well defended trenches if the advan tage to be gained outweighs the in evitable losses. What tlie British losses were is not stated, but assaults against tht Turks have been costly, and Englanti is prepared to face heavy casualties .? uri .iu.iui.iu unn iai communication today indicated that the Teu ?ons were being held up along th? Gnila, but a subsequent and fullei official statement made no such ad mission, although conseding thai hard fighting was in progress. HIGHER PRICE FOR COTTON. Prediction of United States Department of Agriculture. Washington, July 1.?Preliminarj estimates of the United States department of agriculture relative tc tlie acreage in cotton and the ex pected crop (his year, issued today included the following data: Total area planted, 31,535,001 acres, as compared with 37,406,00' acres last year. Crop condition on June 25 wa. 80.3, as compared with 80.0 on Ma> 2 5 this year, and 79.6 on June 2 5 last year. Estimated decrease in crop thi< year 2,454,078 bales. Acreage in South Carolina in cot ton this year 2,399,000, as compared with 2,890,000 last year this date. Crop conditions of South Carolina June 25, 76.0, as compared with 8' on May 25. this year, and 79 for 10year average. Growing conditions throughout the entire holt have been favorable during the past month, the repori stated. ofHuerta and his five co-defendant? would have on the new revolutionary movement. Since his detention it ha? been intimated in some quarters that the plans contemplated that Huertn should maintain the role of adviser, actual direction of field operations being left to others. Others have contended that the suqeess of any movement in .Mexico depends upon the personality of the leader and his active participation, arguing, therefore, that any movement organized around Huerta probably would fail unless Huerta took the field. Since Huerta's detention Sunday continued activity has been noted in Cientificio circles here, and some observes express the belief that the present plan is to attempt to launch the movement even should Huerta be held over to the federal grand Jury. El Paso, Texas, July 1.?The cast against Viotoriano Huerta. Pascua Orozco and four others, charged wit! conspiracy to violate the Unitet States neutrality laws, was postpon ed to day to July 12. The defend ants were continued under the sam< bonds. , . . Vj. ;V JSu ^ * * 2 $1.50 A YKAR .MANNING EXPLAINS . LIQUOR SITUATION : p Says Campaign is Against LawB less Element, Not Charleston. y j ASKS SUPPORT OF PRESSe p ( | Tells Kditois He Will Fight Vigor; | ously for i.aw Knforeement bk c Long as He is (Governor. 5 ' Chick Spring Special to Charleston. 1 I News and Courier, June 30.?The ' event of this, the closing day of the ' forty-first annuaJ meeting of the ' , South Carolina Press Association, was tne address delivered before the association this morning by Governor , I Richard I. Manning, in which the governor dealt fully and frankly with I the liquor situation in Charleston and ! with other matters connected with \ his administration, especially the appointment of Dr. C. Fred Williams as superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane. That part of his address dealing with the enforcement of liquor laws, I particularly in Charleston, claimed 5 probably thirty minutes of his time, | for the governor gave the editors a k ; comprehensive view of the situation, 1 its requirements, its possibilities and its difficulties. He stressed threo ideas. First he urged that whole sale condemnation of Charleston for existing conditions there is unwise ' and unwarranted. Reviewing briefly ' the Charleston situation and the way ' it has been brought about, he made ... ...?n 111iin-scin campaign tor law enforcement in Charleston is not a campaign against the city or its people, for whom the rest of the ' strte should have the most affection1 ate and kindly sentiments, but a campaign .against a iawless element, who are in conflict with the best interests of the city of Charleston, as 1 well a^ with the laws of the state, " and who have neither the sympathy - or the support of a big part of Char1 lesion's people. WITH IMPARTIALITY. Next Governor Manning, while assuring the editors that "there shall be no difference in the application of the law so far as I am concerned to Charleston and to any other place" ' went on to explain to them why it was impossible to secure sweeping ? results in Charleston over night The long-standing antagonism to the . dispensary law, the large number of tigers, as evidenced by the fact that 1 over four hundred revenue licenses > had been issued for Charleston, the ease with which liquor could be se' cured by blind tigers, so that it was f not necessary for them to keep large , quantities on hand in their places of business, the opportunities for smug? ' gling liquor into the city by water, the refusal of the grand jury to find true bills against blind tigers "re1 gardless of the law and the evidence." were all discussed by the i governor as showing the practical 1 difficulties of the situation. ASKS SUPPORT OF PRESS. Thirdly, the governor appealed to the press, which for years has clam' | ored for a better enforcement of laws, that it give him now that intelligent and patient support which ; s based on understanding, lie was ' not discouraged, he said, anil he urged his audience and through them 1 the people of Charleston and the people of South Carolina, not to be. The enforcement of the liquor laws i in South Carolina, and especially in i Charleston, is being stressed because ' of the brazenness with which this law has been violated and because 1 he law itself makes it the special luty t?t" the governor to see that it is respected. It makes no difference whether the governor is in sympathy with this law or any other law, if it has been put upon the hooks he is sworn to uphold it, and the speaker ' said he wanted his fellow citizens to know that there would be no weak1 ening on his part. Turning to what has already been accomplished in ' Charleston, he called their attention to the fact that some sixty revenue licenses have been surrendered; that ^ other blind tigers claimed to have j quit the business; that the hotels J ind clubs have abandoned the open I bar, and that he hnd received abunL | _ * ' '?s dent assurances of the sympathy and * j support of a large and influential - i .. ? (Continued on Page Eight.j