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' v - Your Label ^ VOL. 10, NO. 100, SEM1-WEEKI tmrnmaj?. IN BY VON HINDENBURG ~~ The contii slan arml< Quarter of a Million Men are not d Encircled by Teutonic vi'ina*^ ? Forces. "Aithou iranKi) SURRENDER OR DASH OUT? I ^v,ews I'he press t general at It May be That the Russians Can J The go' Extricate Themselves, But the , eently issi Situation is Not Favorable. cral resur London, Sept. 20.?The Russian tor'P8* army menaced since the fall of Vii- ' urre na by the Qerman encircling movement, Is estimated variously at 250,- AROHI 000 to 600,000 men. The conditions BLAM under which the Russians are attempting to extricate themselves fur- Claims Hi nish a striking parallel to those of Lettc which followed the capture of War- tfni saw. They may precipitate one of New yo the greatest battles fought on the Archibald, eastern front. eot who > Although no official confirmation authorltiei had been received in London from from Dr. I Perograd today of the fall of Vilnn, |an amba! the British press has accepted the here toda; German claim readily In view of the Several s s'tuatton that had been developing. ,?d the Ro Concern is expressed for the retiring ly today Russian forces. So far as can l>e Archibald' judged Field Marshal von Hinden- him foi burg's troops have flung a loop about service nn the Russians over a front of some searched '0 miles And Are not only in their (the stater rear but are menacing seriously the J awav a cn single railway line and the few avail-1 pondent. able wagon roads stretching to the *vould not south. i to the sect As at Warsaw, the number of Rus-, After 1 sian prisoners left behind with the; bald paid; evacuation of Vilna was not great | about the Apparently the only way in which ! any contei the retiring forces may ameliorate i |t js perfe, the seemingly bad situation Is by a ?i took eotfnter blow. . the trout>l< It Is pointed out that von Hin-; without k denburg's cavalry has penetrated so I and ontlr. deeply into lnoatlle country as to;8n j oare create a salient open to sudden at- .\rchiba tack. If the Russians should be able j a longer s to command relnfoicements at the \ he walked proper time and place, but It Is not. ever, he n believed here that they are In a posl-1 his secret tlon to deal such a blow effectively, rharlie M There Is much speculation as to i Per held a the German objective. Opinion is di?; Chibald th vlded whether von Hindenburg will fer the iss seek merely to close his loop, thus ment. lit capturing the army within the net. or , Washingtr will press eastward toward Minsk j and from the west through Slonim t'anada ' and again try for a decisive victory.; vnncoir Similar tactics attempted after the; possibility fall of Warsaw met with failure. probably The Russians are employine their Hie Canad familiar rear guard tactics, and the which con hope in expressed in the llritish press Iiraper, s< that they will be able to fight thei? said that ' way out without shattering losses. on the t Next to Warsaw, Vilna is the most would be r important town In western Russia questions It is a railway Junct*on of great mil5 affected h; tary importance. It was from Vilnn Among that Napoleon fled ?n disguise tn 'he propoi 1812 during the retreat from Mos- men's con cow. . ,v. , provinces: . . T - .. __ wages on NO SHIPS THROUGH mendmer CANAL IN TEN DAYS "" Karth Slides on Big IHtcli Greater __ . .. ** j Washinj TTian at Flrtil Iteimrted?Shouts . 8<H) Feet in length. ^change ! Washington, Sept. 20.?The earth , * slides in the Panama canal, neur e8, arr( Gold Hill, are much more extensive eDar men than first reported, and probably ' onsul will tie up the waterway for ten days, ^ara 80 ai This dispatch was received today by v,npr,can the war department from the acting te with governor of the canal zone: for ' ----- - Howevei coniinuea movement 01 siiaes; .p no Ame yesterday lias caused the most ser- f the ben loua shoaling of the channel sine? tubllsh dol last October. Movements have no* ,fl thl|> typ stopped. At least ten days will hi porarlly fa necessary to open the canal. Shoals, are eight hundred foet long and at, rn*, the worst point there Is only seven t pftrts. 8< feet of water with an Island Ave feet a prematui above water, one hundred feet losr iny peace,' and Bfty feet wide In the middle ol |^r Qf tbe the channel. address la "Not possible to work on J hi con- pr6nch 9o< struotlon with large dredges ur.ti! it conquests, channel to Boat them la cut through oppressed with Belgian ladder dredges without "We ar< further movement. This should fc*- many," de< done in three days. Suggest ship untary sot ping agencies be advised to consult nient says with Washington office of the Pana- by the vo ssa canal before ships leave their hsve const perta." have ft." \ VI |Y. I. ANC A8'JER.%& ^^^jEEp ON THE BRITISH El iued successes of the Rub bb on me soutnwest rront latracting tho attention of Great Syndicate to Hand rltlcs from tho .ltuatlon at Aaked by An|?l0.Fn gh the situation is regard- Commission, r as grave, the tone of in had by representatives of THE MIDDLEMAN'S ( with a representative of the afT .'emains optimistic." vernment proclamation re Largest Underwriting Syndi led has resulted in a gen- Western World Has Ever ] aption of work in the fa"*- in Process of Fornmth ere partial strikes had oe- New York Sept 20.?Tht underwriting syndicate the _ _ . world has-ever known was ii a of formation today to handle m ONDR. DTJMBA posed ?bllllon dollor,. credll 9 I>id Not Know Contents Great Britain and France w r to Agents of Austro- now shrunk. It ?u report igarian Government. sum, yet to be determined, rk. Sept. 20.?James J. F. $600,000,000 and $800,000 the American correspond- Tkj8 memnjoth syndicate, ?as intercepted by British ing to tentative arrangement i while carrying a message )umba. the Austro-Hungar- ,lave been upon, wi1 ssador, to Vienna, arrived tion-wide in its character V on the liner Rotterdam, comprise national and sta' ecret service men hoard- and trust companies from tl tterdam at Quarantine ear- tic to the Pacific. A numb immediately went to called pro-German financier s stateroom and question- reported, will go into the i r some time. The secret |f it finally is agreed that ?n were reported to haw the loan will he used to Vrchihnld. his baggage and munitions of war. oom, and to have taken -p^p syndicate will put ne belonging to the enrrps- . - ? - - nruisn ajyi h'rench ko\ Archibald denied this, and i)onds secure the loan at admit having even talked fcondg w,? pay 5 ^ cent et service men. and win be a flrgt mortKa eaving Quarantine, Archi- the entire EnKli8h empl ' I do not know anything prance and her colonies. 1 situation here. If thorn is daggering war loans raised mplated prosecution of me w,u come geoond fQ the ,0| :tly unjust. floated here. the letter which caused _ , .. , . , . _ . For the first time in hii e, from Ambassador Dumba ? * * , # , English pound sterling ha? nowledge of its contents. ? , . . - . , , , first place In international fl ely unwittingly. That L. . r J, . ? . 7?, he American dollar in this to say at present. , . , . . . . , . ,, .. .. . . The whole big bqnd Issue. Id then said he would issue. , . _ 7? . ? . ' and interest, will be pay itatement after landing. As . .. ^ M , . American dollars, down the gangplank, hownet a man he described as The bond8 w111 run flve try. The man said he was *"" U ,8 not yet known whl ercer. Archibald and Mer- THE MIDDLEMAN'S (Jit t short conference and Ar- In agreeing to have the te en announced he would de- died by an underwriting a uing of an additional state- the Ahglo-Erench financial > said he expected to go to siou apparently has deferre >n soon. views of American financiers ? ginal intention of the coi Thinking of Conscription, having been reported to pr< t'er. B. C.t Sept. 20.?The general subscription to th? of conscription in Canada without the underwriter us s will be given attention by man. ian trades union congress, Ag goou aa all lhe ternj vened here today. P. M. ,oan are detittltely aj{ree( pcretary of the congress. bankjj and trugt companieB while the question was not >_ uui illC tuuuuj, It IS 11 IK <et program. it probably w|? be invUt?d tQ become p onsidered along with other the 3yudil>atei it i8 not kn< in which labor might be many 8Uch bankg wiU be aa v the European war. u ,8 regurdod a8 cwrtaln t topics to be taken up were nu,mberghip wl? con8i8t of , ,ed el*ht hour day: rk- ()f lU8tltutlon8> anf, p088ib ipensation acts in various fortnightly payment of * Thejje banka w,u be given all railways, and propoaed profitf 8omewhere in the n its to the federal elections Uood of ona.M( of one per Is believed. Upon this poi n Hank Needed In Chili. had 1)een nia, ked diver?ence ?ton, Sept. 20.?New York ,on' ,he commissioners' p, . , .. , ? , t reported attitude having b las taken the place of Lon. .. . bankers and investors should ange for Chilean nitrate ... .... same price for the bonds. >rding to a report to the 1 . A great many American ) t of commerce. ? . ? , ,, , it is said, demurred to this General Keona at Val.. . ground that they would Iff inounces the sale to an ' T a ... ? a aaa t ? . considerable expense in band firm of 4,000 tons of nit- . * v.? , tuls and that reasonable re payment by draft on Now .... tloS 000 their trouble was no more tht r. he adds that since there rlcan bank in Chile, much MUNITIONS ^THEREI eflt of the tendency to es-' The next big question to b lar exchange must be lost, l it was said, was whether m e of exchange is only tein-j?f should be paid for rorwi ny inreiRn DanKH. i proceoiuf 01 me loau. 'I'D?;' 'slop Is aid to belletoe th*(V (1 of P?*uje Briton* Wteh. should rover m utfttiona; a jpt. 20.?"W,e do not want1 hi any American > bankers t 'e, bat a complete and last- .snouM not. TM* merits of ti ' said John Hodge, a mcm-i diKrusaed .wnatter nf whbtl British parliament, in an .rigM.4Tf' wrong to ship' m st night at a meeting of! abfond. do )nbf. At la oq :lalists. "We do not wank Kills .flnpstlpn.i What doe? but the liberation ryP alii .ritally tfhtf .{wastaoratfoi peoples S matter, it id rp^orfced, A* the B anxious to beat Ger- c'' certain banks Utvfeh wo slared Mr. Hodge, "by vol- < on verted to/rtlptkiff1. In esse vice, but If the govern-1 fund prov'dM psy^tat only I we have had the last muti moditleaiWty'er thn^ 'munlilori inntary system and must'this hup father n iar deta iription, then I aay we'll j comnrnwrtnti and Am kLeon 111 eontjhued their rotj t jj/; ye= f- ? ?? Ul TUESDAY, 8KPTEMBKK 21, 19I"i. if stone suggests earTy vipire SESSION Of THE SENATE and coniot lynchers o le Loan Would Have Special Meeting of uctetl unde inch j Upper Branch of Congress ^ giaton'c in October. Mrs. Slatoi exposition iRAFT. MUCH IS TO HE DONE. '"^Th^is had in flft icato the CoimuJttee Chairman Thinks Execn- "and we ai Known I've Docket Should l?e Cleared a honeymo an. Ilefure Hounp Meets. The Slat e largest Washington Special to Columbia \t re to 1,0 western stat?. Sept. lt>.?Senator W. J. (Iwor?la- 1 Stone of Missouri, chairman of the le,ir w I process 8enate comuiittee on foreign rela- (,uorK'a an the pro- tions, came to Washington today pri- w"e Pa?8 : loan to marily to -ent a house for the com- Franc,8CO hlch has > 'nK session of Congress and inci- ( om,n* her ed, to a ?>dentally to confer with President T>-pp*rc between wtl*on regarding a special session. 000 of the senate next mouth. | The senator believes the President) , acoor ( 8^ou|d convene the 8enate early in Berlin ,iW a said to o^ber so that the executive docket. I Butirelj II be na- may be . cleared before .. the house *** and will meets in December. He is chiefly Hprlln v te banks Interested in disposing of the pending ??ttl< le Atlan- Colombian and Nicaraguan treaties Problem c" er of Ro- w'hich remained on the executive cal-: ^ negot s it was endar when Congress adjourned last f ount V or ' .. * \i .1 i-r?v. basaador b jyndicate March. ti()flflpQQi on none of "When I last saw the President he # > ... ? .. .. regarding pay for agreed with me. ' said the senator. . . . C.ermany, i that the senate should be called in . , , ? , . ... . informed, i out the October if conditions then warranted . wui iiitr to negotiat rernment and so far as I know now there has <he lTnitPd par. The been no change in his attitude. How- flna] reylRi interest ever, I can not speak for him. He hnme ,ge upon may have altered his opinion. A long re and "It occurs to me. though, that it sit,]atl""K v Iven the would be good policy for the senate j, t Von at home to *?t to work two months in nd-:a , m<J ?n to lio 1 vance of the house so mat muui ? ? ? . forward 1 clear our executive docket and be mornjnp tors the ready to take up Che legislative pro- a nature , , yielded *ram on GTen tGrm* w,th the hou^! cials confti nance to *hen lt .J. /.. question c, respect. ."There are three matters of Un- fhe for principal WJUtnCft to be t^ken up by the new are now ( able In senate?the Colombian and Nicarn- ?inj8 optlm Kuan treaties and the reslutlon |n a pOBi yearr or P*Bfjed la8t session authorizing a re- things not ich vision of the rules, chiefly the limit-, pubHc-noti AFT In* of debate." . ' vtnce. the , All three of these subjects, the the good f senator believes, will be as vigorously surances a VUU lCfllt' ' ommis' M?posed as they were in the last ses- tied - detei d t the '?U aIU' 'ears scnat*1 's sources of ' ! not convened until December much rine quest! , t e or - ! j|ne wtil be lost at the outset that The hof nmtssion . ... . . . , .. ... . eiiid be spent on legislative mat- the nego >vi e for torg through w > bonds . mijjjp ' Colombian treaty provides to*; further iss 1 payment of $25,000,000 to that! complicate republic for the Panama canal zone _ ?? b of the Ken over during the Roosevelt ad- 'r''-v <M 1 upon, miujHtration. Colombia charges it New 1 or through-1 wug illegally deprived of this strip nlon' 1 lerstood, ? KHout compensation. Col. Uoose- United Allies to ve|t j)as (.ontended otherwise and ex- Pr?Pr*'ss m )wn how mnged several spirited letters witn dye-stufls ! ked, but gen#tor Stone over the proposed war> was s uoi tn? treaty which was fathered by For- ternational lundredft .[1(,r Secretar>. of Stale Bryan. dustries w ly thoii- ?,, . , A derm Tiie Nlcaraguan treaty authorizes jjn \ ,, he payment of $3,000,000 for the ( u<' 1 * a siuali , w Norton, wl , . ; T exclusive use during a period of 93 letghbor- , . ?. , , , resentative . years of the available canal strip cent. It ... . . , , vestigate 71 through that country, also naval III there . was one ot a sen at I'onseca bay and Corn isof dpln- tion. L . land. The purpose of this latter . . e^ously . , rhe An ? ;e.;jv is to prevent anv other power . . . een that American 1 llvtho ?'??*?"? Nicaragua,i strip for AmerIcan , r ? purposes. necrs the bankers Senator William Alden Smith.' A88oHation , t)n the of Michigan, a men,- fook part 5 her of Senator Stone's committee, i put to Hit the revented action on tiie Nicaraguan <miser Itr *- ?. .ity tast session. As the session* (turn for in equit WttS 1 drawing to a close and sen- Philadel] ate proceedings were already delav- iyor Hrookl rd by the ship bill tilibuster botn at the Phi VITH {treaties were of necessity laid asid-. several yet e settled firient to unitions it of "h Volcanoes at Work. toga as the ooratniH- ^'ariB. Sept. 20.?Multiple or up- WinterhaM* the loan if,ns o1 the Italian volcanoes are i<rooh,yn * great now oc<urr,n&. "ay* a (liaooteh from afi umPJre 1 mink It Itotne. Vesuvius, Etna and Strom- the Atlai be often 1 ar< active, a singular phono- ?ro< ItA it is mena nwVflf before recorded. None' way ?* ttblHone of the eruPtions, however, is of a (.L ;,,.. character to cause alarm. into Hrownavi I- ^nter, 'Sunday wai J of\thr <'"""UN Move. nHtrols thr attftVd--' Washington, Sept. 18.?Among the river dlatrl uld W ^hiuigeB in the consular service it is prehension, the jjte. announced that Julius D. Droher of fug across 'or con:\ South Carolina, consul at Toronto, is aftermath is. I'posV transferred to Colon, Panama, and following tl lis the Cowls W. Haskell of Columbia. S. C., along the hanelers tonsul at Belgrade, is transferred to differ<v?e*? :M*?y. deneva. dependence V ! Af\ ^ f WEATHER' N ' FORECAST; / "fc?' ^Ll Ar- ( day: Wednesday " fair. 1? ! *1.50 A YKA1I. I" "^T~-.,STWI OF CARRAHZA ...arp-.. 6 IN ASCENDANT iBsionately declaring the f Leo M. Frank no doubt "? r an impulse prompted by Prospects For His Recognichivalry, former Gov. John .. ,( ceorcla. a, mpa,.1e<l by Bn?hter 1 han Anv i is visiting the San Diego Time Past, and San Diego for an in y;, , .. * . J VILLA DENIES HIS ( the i.rst vflpHtiA" ? ftAATAMt . A >I(V ? V een years." he declared, re making it something or Says He Will Show First Chief on trip." Who's Who in Parts of North0118 probably will go from ern Mexico, nolulu before returning to Washington, Sept. 19.? Prospects Mr. Slaton says he has no for recognition of General Cartsoever in returning to ranza> wa8 admitted in official id his home. He and his quarters today, are much more faed several weeks in San vorabie than they have been at any and Los Angeles before j Ume 8lnce the Unltod states began e* to exert Its Influence toward the ee_ tablishment of a central government TORFF GIVEN !n Mexico. POWER TO ACT The decision of the Pan-Xmericatf I conference of diplomats in New York iv?s Submarine Question to study within the next three weehi v to German Ambaaaa- : "the material and moral capacity" of >r In Washington. the elements aspiring to recognition ia London. Sept. 18.?A has ied tQ the general belief here by ement of the submarine oflicials that unless the military sitan probably be arranged nation in Mexico was much changed iations in Washington. jn that period the recognition of the i Rernstorff. German am- carranza movement is practically o the United States, is in certain, of complete information The United States and the several the wishes and policy of Governments which have taken the so the Associated Press is situation under advisement intend, and has been given power however, to investigate carefully the e terms of settlement with physical state of affairs in Mexico to States subject only to (earn whether the faction in military on and approval by the supremacy give promise as well of rnment. creating a stable government, report on the submarine demonstrate in the meantime vas received here from that the Carranza movrmi'nt dn<?? HernstorfT Thursday and not control the territory it claims in ssage of instruction went Mexico will be the object of a delelo the ambassador this nation of Villa-Zapata followers exRoth dispatches were of pected to arrive here this week. They which seems to make offl- will be heard "by Secretary Lansing lent the whole submarine aR will separately the representatives an be settled satisfactory. nf cgrranza. To supplement their m which the negotiations argument here that the Carranza aking goes to strengthen movement should not be recognized ism, for Count RernstorfT because of an alleged lack, of moral tion to communicate manv capacity, the Villa party is planning adapted to inclusion in a an extensive guerilla warfare. b but. of a natnra to eon- Rnrique C. Llotente, Washington American government of representative of General Villa, reaith behind Germany's as- turned from New York tonight and .nd the government's set- expressed the confidence that within rmtation to remove the three weeks there would be ample the conflict on the subma-1 proof of the inability of Carranza to Ion. control the territory he claims. He >e is expressed here that Mould not state what plans for the tiatlons can be pushed guerilla campaign had been made, ithout delay, and that no' <ni? jR understood that General ues may be brought in to' villa, using Chiuhuahua as a base, a settlement. will send flying columns into various ? , part* of the republic and by a series ke Dyes ils Germany Did..; SOnsational ' dashes endeavor to k. Sept. 20.? The develop-i . - - T snow the helplessness of Carranza. he chemist industries ?n|.rh|ire algQ w|? be a renewal of ac. 1 States, particularly thoj UvUv ,)V fhp Zapa(a foropg jn the ude in the manufacture oi ; ltb rfnce the beginning of the M ^ L,orente scouted tbe idea thftt hown toda> in the lirst in ; any foreigners would be endangered exposition of chemical in ^ villa territory and was optimistic hich convened h? r? . bjg eXpre8S|on9 that the military onstration ol ? olor* pro s;tuation would soon show a decided merica given by I)r. ' i change that would compel the Pan10 went abroad as ? ion- ,.nVan conference to withhold of the government to in- n!(|on from Qenera| Carrailia_ the dyestuffs industries. the feat,tree of the expo..- WINNSBORO TRIAL ~ lerican Chemical Society. OPENS WEDNESDAY Electro-Chemical Society. ..... Ixonlionor. Morrison mid {?wU Institute of Mining Engin , , ( barged \\ ith Murder?True American Pulp and Paper ?M1 ? x , . . Bills Are Returned, and other organizations ... VVinnsboro Special Charleston n the exposition News and Courier. Sept. 20.?Soliciooklyn Sails for Duty in 1 K. Henry handed two hills of the Orient. indictment to the grand jury today. jhhi. Sept 1ft. The eru- <-larging Ernest Isenhow.er, Jesso yn. which has been lying Morrison and Jim Rawls with the lladelphia navy yard for; ?l"?oting of Sheriff A. D. Hood and irs. sailed today for the *mi,h on *he ???rt hou8e ?teP? replace the cruiser Sara- a? ?Ue June of court, when the flagship of Rear Admiral negro. Jules Smith, was to he tried >r of the Asiatic tleet The! on the charge of criminal ????..u a ill stop at Newport to act aeoond indictment was pased to the thip during the war game jury, charging Ernest Isenntic tleet. hower with the mar do. of Raleigh iklyn will go ro the East! Boulwere, who was shot at tbo same he Panama canal. j time. Quite a number of witness?* | appeared before the grand jury. A n? Along llio diuiiik. J" rue bill" xras returned in all three llle, Texas, Sept. 19.? C;Se8. a reported euiet by army Counsel for the several defendants oughout tbo Rio Grande a .bed for the throe days allowed ct. Thero was some hp- them by law. ami the oases have been however, of more tight- set fcur trial Wednesday morning, the Rio Oraude as the There hss b*??*n no intlms'ton from of 9tinday celebrations e ther the solicitor or counsel for he two days of disorder tbo defendants that a motion would border since Mexican in- bo made for a change of venue to between the car men and another county in th** judicial cirilav ' cuM