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Tl .a, VOL. 12, NO. 75, SKMM NEW ARMY 10 BE IN > GAMPS OCTOBER FIRST ORnRRRn niTT AT TUDRPiU w A ^ m. JL M. HlVlVLi | 1TJ TEN-DAY INTERVALS. | All Members of Draft Army to C Undergo Physical Examination Upon Arrival. ' Washington. Aug. 13.?The entire' 687.000 men composing the first in- Ti cremer.t of the army draft forces will Ji be under training early in October, j el Under orders issued today the first th thirty per cent of the quota of each i tc district will begin entraining for: at cantonments September 5, the next j cr thirty per cent September 15. and U another thirty per cent September re 30. The remaining ten per cent will cc be mobilized as soon after that date pi as possible. The plan to assemble the new oi forces in three increments distrib- gi utes the task of furnishing supplies tl< and equipment through September, hi It will also prevent serious short- b< ages In any camp, and will give the di new officers from the training camps pi time to familiarize themselves with ec meir unties gradually before respon- m sibillty for a great body of men falls m on them. The order issued means pi that about 12.000 men will reach ni each of the sixteen cantonments soon at after September 5. They will first gj be examined physically by army doc- w tors and finally accepted or rejected. P This will take some time and the U men will have to be furnished with tl temporary quarters and rationed f< while awaiting examination. If the E full quota were assembled at one tt time, great confusion would result, bi Presumably the first increment w will have been organized into skele. ton companies, battalions or regi- fl| ments before the second nrrlvps. b< To Favor Harvesting. id In farming communities, local bi boards now will arrange the lists of cl those to fill the first increment with w local crop conditions in mind. Men di pngaged in harvesting work and who ai otherwise would go with the first is third of the district quota will be pi passed over to the second or third si as mav he necessarv > Reviewing the question of dls- fc charge for dependent relatives, Gen- a eral Crowder issued a supplemental b; ruling today holding that persons ti should not be discharged because of st dependents resident abroad. "The object of the law permitting persons to be discharged provided he has a person falling within any of the classes of dependents, dependent upon him was to prevent euch dependents becoming a charge upon the American people," the ruling says. "A dependent residing abroad could not become such a 8' charge." h That conscientious objectors to a! war are not to be excused entirely A' from serving the country was made t' clear In another ruling by the pro- a( vost marshal, holding that such persons should be sent to the mobiliza- 01 tlon camps along with others draft- 01 ed. to be assigned later to non-com- 8' batant branches of the service. It w is presumed they will serve in equip- hi ment corps, the medical corps or hi , other units not employed in actual >c< combat. | hi ? J1 MUST SUPPORT CLAIM BY OATH, <t Those Wishing Exemption Be- fi cause of Occupation Must p.. :_i_ P..11 i a: j u. rufinsii run AiiiuuviiM. [. A letter received this morning: by I A the local exemption board from J. I H E. McDonald, chairman of the I)ls-| JL trlct Board for the Western District [ P of South Carolina, points out sev-'ti P eral matters of Interest and impost-1 m ance to those claiming exemption pi K from military service. Mr. McDon- ei B aid says that claims for exemption1 tl 8 on account of industrial occupation w I should be sustained. In each in-it} ft stAhce, by affidavits ard points out 2 K that his board cannot act on a m"re' j< K cM^.i hied without proof to sustain ci ([ All cla|tns of this nature should be o K| forwarded to the District Exemption a S i Board, Oraenwood, 8. C.. and not to n: 8 ; the local board or any Individual. F I ' * i riE LAI VEEKLY. ] 1RGINIANS CHARGED [TEUTON WITH BEING TRAITORS RUSSI IEN MAY HAVE DEATH GERMAN PENALTY IMPOSED. OVE harged That Mountaineers * ren^h Ti Tried to Recruit Army For pulsed t Making War on U. S. Hip Stone Gap, Va., Aug. 12.? Infantry rial of William Verdon McCoy and , "onl an(i >hn W. Phlpps, mountaineers, on 1101 been larpo of high treason, will begia in twenty-four ie United States district court here davia the morrow morning. The defend- Russians a> its are charged specifically with re- seslilting an army to make war on the *n ^an(t nlted States, fomenting rebellion, Gerinan tri sisting the conscription law and 'n?> 'n PreP inspiring to seize United States lry activll operty. hardly pern Phipps and McCoy were arrested important*i 1 May 27. 1917, by Virginia between Pi! lardsmen and department of jus- out first mt ce agents after, It 1s alleged, they straighten < id recruited and organized an oath- '"8 the sal ,?n,l mnnnt.U .1.. U..? II fi (1S to the j?i"u iiiuuiuaiu vic&ij ui nil re iiuii~| ? red men for the purpose of over- man line fr jwering the military guard station- coast as we i in Wise county, seize their arms, toward Ler urder wealthy landowners in the French ountain section and divide the pulsed Ge roperty seized among the clans- Aisne front en. Governor Stuart was selected Monday th? i one of the victims of the alleged ture the gi ing. Indictments in six counts south of A ere returned against McCoy and back all tl hipps at the June term of the positions tl nited States court at Roanoke and fensive anc le hearing tomorrow will be be- small advai ire Judge Henry C. McDowell. French frc very precaution has been taken by continues v le authorities to suppress any out- The He reak of the friends of the accused having bee hen ihe trial opens. rnkshani-Jw While opposition to conscription to the Ser cured in the plot alleged to have v?n Macke pen fomented by McCpy. socialistic z-u- a ra'i' Horns are said to have been the sechti. By aslc principle involved, "the de- ions proba aration of war" which officials say "ne north, as issued hy the leaders of the clan an(i Rumai pclarlng "that the country is ours Moldavia a rid all therein." The" oath admin- roafi north tered to the recruits, it is charged. ?f their twi ledged among other things that the Pl'es and r gner would "submit to the separa- German on of his head from his body" he- the southef >re violating the oath. McCoy is ^ay aPPare member of a family made famous objective b V the Hat field-McCoy feuds of some British aii iventy years ago, while Phipps is Kuns comp lid to be a typical mountaineer. that plan. + raiders wei I.ICKNSE FORMS READY. ,8h a?rmen, of one ma< ports that hree Sorts Approved by Secretary forced to , Hedfleld. 0 . Knnnnv av from Engh Washington. Aug. 13.?Three Five Am irms of applications for license for ers were k tiipment of goods the government! steamer f as put under export control, were mine last pproved today by Secretary Red- South Afri pld. After August 15, no applica- cans lost ons will be recognized unless made American 1 ccording to the manner prescribed, sunk off t One application covers the export submarine, f goods to neutral countries; an- safely. ther deals with the commodities for tiipment to countries associated STILL, MO 1th the United States in the war,! nd the third is for exports of iron nd steel to the allies. Under a re- Oeneral W ant ruling by President Wilson Iron Will Ye nd steel may be shipped only to the tl Ilies and then only when designed* Chariest >r actual war uses. Wood will The department of commerce will lanta and iscontinue after August 15 the the officers ractlce of merely stamping applica- ' mal comm ons for license "approved" and will been arran sue a regular form of license. ment, the + been left t TO CONSIDER CLAIMS. eommandin of the can ddftfonitl Men Summoned for Fx- ''K8'11 rp',p (nation at St. <*eorga. 1 " w"' 11 ________ j larger trai ? i throughout St. George. Aug. 13.?The exemp-;wou|d bp on board of Dorchester county will i ? ' every one leet tomorrow morning for the pur-L. B v i the war to ose of taking up the claims for ex-j mptions which have been filed since DEIjA he men Included in the first call /ere examined. Dorchester coun- District Gi I I it's quota is 122 men and of the 44 In the first call a very large ma- ( Washing >rlty of those who passed the physl- Infantry o nl test filed claims for discharge.1 the Distrli yith few exceptions, denpendency ieave camj f relatives Is the cause given. An day for th< ddltional 160 men have been sum- Greenville toned to appear on Thursday and officially n rlday of this week. not yet rea SPW*r* If . '! 7 ""Tv^TI - LANCASTER, S. 0., TUESDAY, AUG. 14, 1917 DRIVE AGAINST DID NOT GIVE ORDER EX ANSWIOGRESSES TO DESPOIL BELGIUM I S MAKING GAINS BERLIN DENIES EXISTENCE T(X :R THE SLAVS. OF ANY SUCH TELEGRAM roops Have Again Re- Says That Emperor Gave No Pre he Enemy Along the Message to Gerard on the L Aisne Front. Subject of Belgium. . j fighting on the western Berlin, Aug. 13, Via Amsterdam, j V 'specially in Flanders has ?The semi-official Norddeutsehe1 ?nip marked during the last Allgemeine Zeitung denies the exis- shal hours. In southern Mol- tence of the telegram alleged by | tliat Teuton drive aguinst the James \V. Gerard, the former Ameri-jhiw tid Rumanians progres- can ambassador to Berlin, to have I f?r been sent by Kmperor William to 'he ers the Anglo-French and President Wilson in August, 1914,| tbe lops apparently are rest- when the German emperor is quoted i T aration for further infan- as having asserted that Belgium's 'n t ty. The Germans can neutrality "had to be violated by!rik>< ait the British to hold the Germany on strategical grounds."! The lalient east of Ypres and The alleged telegram which has the Ikem and Hollebeke with- reached Berlin by way of Switzer-1 erro iking additional efforts to land has the emperor saying that lut the front. By widen- King George sent him word through f?r ient. Field Marshal Haig the emperor's brother, Prince Henry, w'tli insecurity 01 xne tier- tnat Great Britain would remain I G om Dlxmude north to the neutral if war broke out on the con- j ?itio 11 as the front southward tinent involving Germany and men is. France and Austria and Russia. The|rem troops again have re- Norddeutsehe Allgemeine Zeitung ,ani rman efforts along the says: in tl t. Sunday night and on "We are in a position to declare <len? Teutons tried to recap- that no such telegram from the em- e8t -ound lost to the French peror exists. It is true that Mr. in * illes. The French threw Gerard was given an audience on ROVI le attacks. East of the August 10, 1014, in order to give hls le French took the of- him an opportunity of placing i'resi1 succeeded in making a dent Wilson's offer of mediation be- A nee. Elsewhere on the fore the emperor. now >nt the artillery fighting "The President's personal rues- Gon iolent. sage to the emperor read as from the povl issians and Rumanians official head of one of the powers srri1 n forced to give up the which signed The Hague convention amo larasechti line and retire and I feel it to be my right and my eth river. Field Marshal duty in accordance with Article III t*ier nsen has captured Pant- of the convention to declare to you way town west of Mara- in a spirit of truest friendship that1 taking this town the Teu- I would welcome any opportunity to: ooul bly have cut the railway act in the interests of European i ma* imperilling the Russians peace whether now or at any other' KU't: nians fighting in western time that might be better fitted to!enip iround Ocna as the rail- reifder you and all concerned ser- men from Marasechti was one vices which would give me satisfac- t'on o means of obtaining sup- tion and joy. 8at>l enforcements. "This proposal was made at the; *sfa' aeroplanes which raided time when the armies of both sides sar> ist coast of England Sun- had already crossed the frontier and n,a' ntly had London as their when it seemed out of the question | ,,8h ut the prompt defense by to call a halt to events. The em- (livl ^planes and anti-aircraft peror could, therefore, only have his'<,URl elled them to abandon thanks conveyed to President Wil-|to v In the pursuit two of the I son for his t*fiw arwi ? ! nlac MUU UIUJCU.V I C" | * re brought down by Brit- mark that while the present moment ic Berlin admits the loss was too early for mediation by tl^ a w rhlne and Amsterdam re- neutral powers, the President's! a German airplane was friendly proposal might lat?r be re-1 K and in Duteh territory turned to. j pen idently while returning "The emperor then conversed for w*l< ind. some time further with Mr. Gerard | dral ericans and fourteen oth- and explained to him the events that 0' ;illed when the British led up to the outbreak of war. The; mai "itv of Athens struck a emperor particularly pointed out| on Friday near Capetown, ambiguous disloyal attitude of Great pan ca. Four of the Amerl- Britain. **op were missionaries. The "Mr. Gerard>s statement in his bark Christian has been memoirs appear to be a reproduc- rea< he Azores by a German tion of this conversation. 'n a The crew was landed "Possibly during tiie conversation, ?^a the emperor wrote a memorandum "on for the ambassador so that he might a8 1 RE CAMPS not announce anything to Washing- ,OT11 FOR ARMY OFFICERS ton that would be incorrect. In that case it would be a matter of record dis< tH?d Thinks That There destined to assist Mr. Gerard's mem- exai t He Other Op|M?rtuni- ory but it would not be a communi-' ^ es for Civilians. cation frome the emperor to Presi-;*iea on, Aug. 13.?General dent Wilson." duo leave Thursday for At Chattanooga to look over itasl ' training camps. No for- ?Dl'MjAPdllLLEV. ,hav encement exercises have arm ged by the war depart- A wedding of interest to Lancasclosing formalities having tpr pftople tooR p,ace )n charlotte' o the pleasure of each yesterday when MJss Ru(h i)uniap ig officer. In speaking charlotte became the bride of ^ak nps today. General Wood Rayniond 0 Mil!en of Hartsville. I rated his firm beliei that Rroom made his home in Lan- ' ecessary to hold other and ca9fer nt 11 a few years ago and has "ar nine camns for officers ? . . .. a number of relatives In this city.1 om< the war, and that there ? ..... , , ' i Mr. and Mrs. Millen arrived in the plenty of opportunity for .... . , . (.?h , Y' city today and will spend several' caD who wanted to get into dayg der| do so. Y l\ DKPAItTURK. * "" COL WATSON ASKED TO ATTKMt rov inrdsmen AVIII Not l.euve ??? # Tomorrow. Columbia. Aug. 13.?David P. ton. Aug. 13.?The Third Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, f the National Guard of has called a meeting In Atlanta on W rt of Columbia will not Friday for a discussion of wheat and Alb > at Fort Myers Wednes- rye growing. Commissioner E. J. Dui ? National Guard camp at Watson, of the State Department of wai as expected. It has been Agriculture, has been invited to be cat lotlAed that the camp is present and participate in the con- the dy for it. ference. ' law t New; EMPTION LINES ARE All I0WBEINGTIGHTENED. ( U MAIN Y TKY1IN1* TO WI AVOID SERVICE. ivost Marshal Says Draft Ca| aw Is For Interest of Na- I tion. Not Individual. Washington, Aug. 13.?Renewed F basis was laid by Provost Mar- abo Gen. Crowder today on the fact nav congress framed the army draft of 1 in the interest of the nation, not J one the individual. For that reason taki lines are being drawn tight in! 1 matter of exemptions. i ste? he government has acted slowly of t ringing home to the people the the 1 character of the Draft Act. a G re has been much discussion of mill exemption problem, based on an of 1 neous view of the law's purpose, the ch assumed that married men.j Oil instance, would be exempted! I lout question. han en. Crowder has taken the po- Fla in in recent ruling that married j the will be exempted only when the] Kui oval of the drafted man from his j con ily circle probably would result F he family becoming a public bur-, usii In that case it is to the inter-I to i of the government to leave him war lis civil occupation, so that the j chit 'rnraent will not have to care for' are dependents. ical industrial Knterprises. fort n interpretation similarly rigid rari has been placed upon exemp- roa s for industrial reasons. The prnnient has taken the lead in j tinizing closely individual cases the ne its employes before asking zen : they he exempted. Wherever by e is doubt, no exemption is ask- I pre ! and ^strict boards throughout the j,rjj litry have been instructed to ^Ta> ;e the government's action their att? le in dealing with claims for ex- 70G ition of men in private employ- can t. An employer seeking exemp-, / for a man he considers indispen- aha e, must prove to the board's sat- jnK ction that his industry is neces- Osr ' to the public interest or to the xel ntenance of the military estab- ass ment, and that the particular in- at dual is indispensible to the in- Ser try. Reasons would be given as sha rhy it would be impossible to re- ; paJ le the registered man, with an- cap ?r, not of military age. or with too oman. and Wholesale Attempts. I eports to the provost marshal nor eral have indicated plainly that an(j ilesale attempts to evade the the ft through the dependency clause the regulation is in progress in ly places. The additional cau- jn s sent to district boards in re- jy 1 to industrial exemption, it is fatl ed. will forestall similar attempts fi,.j >n that stage of proceedings is jRO 'hed. The government is also jirj i strong position in regard to dis-|ma rges granted by the local selec- 1 1 boards because of deDendents. - ; un) *n appeal has been recorded an- at| atically in each case, and it will ! tak possible to reopen it before the ( rict board and make sure no ,he slon of duty has heen permitted. (Je, 'he office force at Gen. Crowder's r dquarters has been materially re- jn ed and virtually all the officers fr() > have aided him in the huge ( c of carrying through the draft. . e been detailed to the national j{()] y- ek 101 IIAHNKS TO KltX'KKI). kill . six es Henderson's Place In War wei Cabinet. the .ondon. Aug. 13.?George Nicoll out res. minister of pensions, says an j ] da! announcement tonight, has ml r. appointed a member of the war Ve: inet in succession to Arthur Her- Fr< son. The Press Association says ?1)a appointment has the approval of i<io the other Labor members of the ernment. * HKADS SEW HVKTEM, ashir.p'on Arp. 13.?Dr. Charles Th pn, profpssnr of William Hood bu nwoody Institute' of Minneapolis eoi s today appointed director of vo lo ional education. He serves with n board which administers the new s r, ' vf m.-j* 1 * .IK.IS >i = $2.00 A YEAR han mm mured by germans . SHE TAKEN WHEN SUB SANK CAMPANA. ! Dtain of American Vessel and rour Bluejackets Are Now Prisoners of War. 'ive Americans are prisoners aid a German submarine, the y department believes. Four these probably are the lirst prisrs ot' the American lighting force en by the Germans. "he captain of the American Liner Campana and four members he armed guard were taken from steamer when she was sunk hv erman submarine August 6, 140 t?s west of lie de Re, off the coast ' Prance. Forty-seven survivors of steamer, which was a Standard tanker, have been landed safely. Tnfavorable weather again ia ripering large scale operations in nders, but in southern Moldavia desperate fighting between the sso-Rumanians and the Teutons tinues with increasing ferocity, 'ield Marshal von Mackensen is lg strong forces in an endeavor ireak through the entente line toil the railroad junction of Tecui. 'The Russians and Rumanians resisting valiantly the numerly superior enemy, but have been H'd to give up. at least tempolly, their positions along the raild line north of Fokshani. Germans Capture k Husso-Rumanian retirement to village of Marascheti and Fnrti, on the Sereth river, is reported Petrograd. In counter attacks ceding their retreat the Russians I Rumanians took 1,200 German soners. Berlin says that von ckensen's troops withstood strong toks and captured more than 6,i prisoners as well as eighteen non and sixty-one machine guns. Vround Ocna, northwest of Fokni and near the Transylvania with the Teutons forcing a Rula. As a counter move to the iton offensive, the Russians have umed the initiative in an attack the confluence of the Buzeu and eth rivers, southeast of Falkni and in the region of Galatz. t of the Teuton positions were tured by the Russians, who also k some prisoners, four cannon I eight machine guns. Elsewhere on the eastern front in thern Rumania, in Bukowina I on the Russo-Galaclan frontier re has been no marked activity. Weather Haul in Flanders. The weather was wet and stormy Flanders Saturday night and earSunday. and there was little initry activity, but the artillery ng continues to be intense. In an lated section north of Lens the tish sained possession of a Gern crater. During Saturday night and Sun' morning the French recaptured the remaining trench elements en by the Germans Wednesday, jerman attack south of Ailles on Aisne front was repulsed by rieral Petain's men. Berlin rets the repulse of French attacks the region of ferny, on the same nt. 3erman airplanes on Sunday raidthe south coast of England, mbs were dropped at points in *ex and Kent, some distance from ndon. Twenty-three persons were led. including nine women and children, and nearly three score re injured. British aircraft drove Germans off and pursued them to sea. Erankfort-on-the-Main, about 160 les within the German lines at rdun, has been bombarded by ?nch aviators in reprisal for Gern raids against Nancy and the ren north of Paris. + A HEAL HONEYMOON. Berlin, (via London), Aug. 13.? e municipal food bureau of Strassrg announces that newly married jples will be entitled to dtaw uble the amount of food indicated their food cards. This privilege accorded them for a period of six eks. ~T M