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L VOL. 23. NO. 95. SEMI-Y>
TROTZKY AND i
* AGENTS OF (
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" AFRICAN AGENTS
SECURE ^DOCUMENTS
Treachery of Bolshevik Chiefs
in Russia Disclosed With
Ample Proof.
k EVIL SCHEMES OF KULTUR
K .
y Long Befo.c America Entered
$ War Germany Planned to
^ Employ Anarchists to Fo'j
* ment Outrages.
ws. ?
<x Washington. Sept. 16.?Proofs re"i
'moving any doubts that Uenlne and
t" Trotzky. the Holsheviki leaders, are
/ . paid German agents?if indeed any
doubts remain?are laid before the
world today by the United States
< government in the tlrst instalment of
\ ^ on amazing series of official documents
disclosed through the committen
on public Information.
I Secured in Russia by American
/) ? ^ agents, these documents not only
j show how the German government, i
t through its imperial bank, paid its j
.gcjia ro hpninfi, itoizkv ana tneir
\ 'immediate associates to betray RusT
\ - fnto deserting her allies, but
^ \ ' j additional proofs, If any be nec.1*
V-dsary. that Germany had perfected
her olans for a war of world conqu<v
-nc before the assassination
, at.n. vejo, conveniently furnished
/ her pretext.
The documents further show that
before the world war was four
months old, and more than two years
nerore the United States entered It,
Mj^ Germany already was setting afoot
her plans to -"'mobilize destructive
agents and observers to cause explosions.
strikes and outrages in this
country and planned the employment
of anarchists and escaped criminals"
ior the purpose.
On Par With Zimmerman Note.
Almost ranking in their sensational
nature ' i the notorious]
* I"i Zimmerman 1 proposing war by
It Mexico and Jap.in upon the United
m I State* which was first given to the
f I world through the Associated Press,
yf , these documents "lay bare a new
strata of Prussian intrigue, a new
vidw of the workings of kultur to
disrupt the allies, standing between
the world and kaiserism. They dis
y xioao a now story of human t reachy
ery for gold which might almost well
'.be described. without sacrilege as
* I < /(placing its perpetrators on a pedestalm
wltn Judas and his SO pieces of sll5k
vor.
The intrigue appears to have been
carried down U 'he last detail of arrangements
with typical German
system ?
'Sot only do the. disclosures prove |
that Lenlne. Trotzky, and their band .
art >gld German agents. They show
that the Bolshevikl revolution
which threw Russia Into such an or-1
fry of murder and execwses as the
world seldom has seen, actually was
arranged by the German general
staff. They show how" the paid,
agents of Germany betrayed Russlal
at the Brest-Lltvosk "Tpeace"' con-1
ference; how German staff officers
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jERMAN KAISER BE!
CHANGES CHEAP PEARL Coming I
TO AN EXPENSIVE ONE n!,i,rn
which had failed to detect the do...
. A at fhat ti
caption he had practiced. The court
declared that Varma's treatment Anothei
added no value to the pearl and that 'n ^
't had only a temporary effect which ?Tan>zntl
disappeared if the pearl were rubbed Noung ' 11
or placed In alcohol. Chr'stio I
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?OVRR\OR MANNING WANTS mnR. Mrfl
DRSEHTKltS APPRKIIAXDRD tiVPl>' nt
_ , _ ? even whei
Columbia. Sept. 16.?Governor,, ,, ..
.. _ . , , kell, the
Manning has addressed a letter to ?,
" , ? ? ? I She has i
every sheriff and police officer In rnno voj
South Carolina urging and directing prano
. ,, , , vice of tl
them to apprehend all deserters and . .
. ., ? , . and she
delinquents under the selective ser.
?. . . . stantly.
vice regulations. Any person do iv- r, , _
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ering a wilful deserter to the nearest
, . organlzatl
camp or army post is entitled to a ..
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reward of $50 for each deserter. ?
x Cross, as
The letter of the governor says that } p
South Carolina has an enviable re- , . .
worked fi
cord for the small number of deser- .
where mn
tions charged to her, but he is de- ,
keenly In1
sirous of having this number further , .. ' ?
of the Co
reduced, and to that means he asks ..
. . the war (
the co-operation of the peace officers
? ' most sucf
of the State designated under tha
. . organizer
selective service regulations, to as- .
hardest o
slst in putting into effect the draft . . ..
, street tha
machinery. ,
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Raker In tendon. pr,7? *ar<
Ixindon, Sept. 16.?Secretary Ra ^as
ker arrived here today from Paris. wvatlon.
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A LIVE PAPER IN A LIVE TOWN
ASTER, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
[NENT WOMEN
HIND THE GUNS /i 3
Jnited War Work Cam- 1T& 1
Will Feel Influence M
of Their Work. ? g
G IN COLUMBIA
AMERICAN SOLDI
ce of Y. W. C. A. Lead- RANK HIGH IN
lie Held Wednesday and
i . n ur... a., Athletic (iaines. l,l!?r;i
lay Jointly With Other
. , tinii Halls ami Amiis
workers.
ort a Wholesome
men ?.* Carolina
tie women behind the trans Paris, Sept. 16 IT
ing Women's Christian as- 1.000,000 men of the
organization in the com- petitionary forces coi
1 War Work Campaign are most moral army in t
in the way of being big cording to official stat<
uselves. United States medical ?
ernor's wife. Mrs. Richard Attributing the extre
Is state chairman?not rentage of affected met
(notary chairman, but nc- to the medical progi
man for South Carolina? United States forces, m
s already working hard RaV that the two import
at her job. Long before the production of the
he wife of the governor of army were vigorous w
olkja, she had done more coupled with the dive
ihare in active philanthrop- t'.ons of the camp and
f ail kinds, and since the tires,
as either been at the head At a meeting of the
executive board of every ,<*lety of ti e <\ mot-jean U
nization In which women sistlng of medical ol
e responsibilities in the United States army, tin
very one knows and con-' operntion in the train
h- r on the iaot that she the t'n ted States.
>ns in the army, and every houses and the liquor
knows her knows how pressed was spoken of
id cheerfully she bears the duct've of rou.ts.
having five of them in ac- j The Introduction in
eas service. Just this lastj ramps of the United
governor's mansion was|h'tie games, lihrarie
>corated by a new overseas halls under the Yount
five stars which was hung j fan association and o
eady time-faded six-starred Hons, lectures, and whe
tg. ** | ments was hailed as a
anning will preside at the ,lie 8?'ut'on of the pr
ate conference of the Y. W. ,n the army- Thfi wor
ders In the United War ,a,ns' tho universities
apaign. This conference a'so was mentioned
eld in Columbia, Sept, 18- great part in ,he n,,evii
vill have joint meetings Th? education <>f me
Jnited War Work campaign linoa inducted by th<
i South Carolina, who will rors' trough literatim
a conference in Columbia distributed among the
me hibits and through th
the war department <
r big gun behind the guns ... ...
' training camp activit
W. C. A. State War Work
.... . . . keep the men in the ri;
on will he the wife of the .... ,
? t it tide toward the prob
ited States senator, Mrs. , a
. cal officers stated.
ienet who will lie the fifth
FIND CODE TII \T
work in doing for others, TO DEATH OF H
n she was a girl, Alice Has
daughter of Judge Haskell. rnMegrntu to Holland
a fine and sympathetic so....
, .. Submarine lis ("uc?
ce which Is ever at the sertose
In sorrow and in jov, Was Messa
sings for the soldiers con
She drives her car In the . ,
. lA London. England,
a motor corns, hut since its
sensational story of t
Ion she does not use It anv ...
. ... . , , gram that led to the n
n she did before the Red . ? , .
... Kitchener on a Rritif
that would hardlv be possl..
v _ . . . just been made publi
the Y. W. C. A. she has 1,,, , , .A1 *
_ White, the British pub
or years in any capacity
st needed and she has been "How did the (,erm
terested in the rapid growth Kitchener was on the
lumbla organization In all How did thej
Irives she has always been t*ie Hampshire was? i
essful as a captain and an know'
, even when she had the These questions hn
f all quarters to cover, "the pounded all over the
it led from the lunatic asy- !nK "inking of th<
he cemetery." She Is a Krpat Brit
iener and housekeeper and White answers these
a hard worker for food con- Art made the revelatli
In other words, as wife, ing of the British Km
housekeeper, and puhlic centlv.
vorker, she is an all-round "Kitchener's murdf
' the best modern type. "Is one of the great pr
lohert Moorman, another '"tence of a great,
?rn type. Is the vice chair- nn(' wonderful mac
she has borne the brunt of midst,
ilzatlon of the campaign in "Twerty-four hour:
st Statres ?? ..ho ha. voyage it was decider
IK?If such could be said course of the Hampsl
an who seems to be apodal- n v,8,t to made to
ry lino of patriotic or char- north.
>rk ahe undertaken?in Y. "?n ,hnt (,av B cable
work for years. She has *? Holland asking In
Blue If Id go and other con- " 'Shall Herbert en
and has studied all the academy next Decemh
as well as the religious part "The first censor, s
itional organization besides Passed it; but the s
ire than her share for the more experienced, won
Y. W. C. A., church work. had gone to t
? and other war work. Both cabling the word 'the.
and and herse'f h*ve at o "The answer to his
it successful and prominent Initial letters of
berty loan. Red Cross, and the cablegram spell?
the X M^c- A- and Y. W. I " SHETLAND.'
"And It was .off ??i
tha^ I'n"
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Hindoo Lapidary tJive.s White
American Pearl Rosy llue
MEETIN
of An Oriental.
Paris, Sept. 16.?How an Ameri- ^ onferen
can white pearl worth $14,400 was ers to I
treated with a chemical, given tern- Thurst1
porarily the rosy lice of an oriental
pearl and then sold for $52,000 has VN *tr V
been disclosed here. For doing this,
Harboza, a pearl broker, and Varina, Tll(> W()
a Hindoo, were lined and sentenced wjln ir(, . |
to imprisonment for faking. By use j tjH, ym
of chemicals they endeavored to in- m-oj-xtion*
crease the vaiue of the pearls four jnR United
,oid* something
This case clears up the mystery ,,uns tjien
which has existed In the Paris mar- y
ket for five years since a dealer in \fanning
precious stones llrst learned tlia.t i nior,.|y h,
"manipulated pearls'* were being
| I I V I II ?l I I
som ncre. and she i
Varma, who is a lapidary, claimed everv ^nv
in court that ho possessed a method wns (|
of inipioving American pearls an 1 <5outj, (<a,
that ho had been promised a share in tjian ^or f
all the profits derived in treating the J(1 vvork 0
?>n< which led to his detection, if 'ti%sar s^e h
were sold for more than $21,600. Ho or (}n (ju,
was at work at it when it was seized war orRa
by the police. The evidence showed sj1are(i (|,
that Varma has used on the pearl 1 state. K
acetate of amyl ami cohodion. | -ratulates
A pearl expert. Reinach. told the 'j,a8 sjx sn
judge that Varma had given the'one who
pearl the rosy tint of the oriental foravolv n,
pearl by glazing it with chaieals but anxjetv 0f
that the glazing disappeared when tivo OVers
tlie pearl was placed e n alcohol,
Varma was sentenced trt ix months furthor d?
in prison and to pay a fink of $1,000, i flaiI w-jth
while Rarboza was sentenced for by ajr
three months and to pay a fine of service 'flu
*ioo. In its judgment the court ., ?
M rs. M
stated that sea pearls from the
. . . .... coming st
orient are very luminous and attain _ . .
. . . C. A. lea
high prices while fresh water ... .
.... . . , Work car
pearls, called American, are less tine, j,
generally white and of lower value. , . _
I j, an n \
The pearl treated by Varma, the ... ,. ,
witn tno i
ourt added has been offered to lead- . . .
. , leaders in
ing Pari, and American jewel houses , . ..
" ** aIoa hold
R NE^
17, 1918. J
TRIA IN1
1ACE CO
EKS MUCH ILLEGAL LIQUOR
MORALITY DISTILLED IN SWEI
irics, Reeren- How to Make It At llonu
-incuts Kx- Alworbinic Topic With All
F.ITcct. Classes.
le more thnn Stockholm. Sept. If?.- When
American ex- friends encounter each other in
istitute.s the den. says a current jest, thev
lie world, ac- longer greet each other with the
nients of the ual "Good '*>y. How goes it?''
?orps. stead they say: "Good day.
niely low per- is the fermentation petting aloi
i in the army The reference is to the jar cont
*nms of the jnR a mixture of water, sugar
edical officers yeast which each assumes the c
ant factors m to have standing in a warm co
most moral of his house, preparatory to <1 i
ork programs jnlr his own spirits. The je:
rsifled recrea- course exaggerates conditions,
hygenc tneas- there is more than enough trut
ft to Justify it. For home-dlsti
research so- flourishes in Sweden,
od ( ross. con- From laboring men to lav
's ol there is no class where one can
r> plan now in fim, n)pn who arp .,hlo tn
ing camns of n,jvantages of this or that nn
\\ here iiiw it making the "soup," as the
'1'' liouid is toebn'^aUv termed of
as highly pro- hOKt I1pnrn,.l? fnr distilling. 01
to cleanse the product from fuse
the training an(j nf flavoring methods. So \
States of atli- spread, Indeed is ftie practice
s. ion nation fju> police make apparently littl
: Men s ( hns- no 0ffnr( to flIuj -,nd punish v
fliei oiganlza- |nrs PXcept such as dist'11 for
desonu .1111 n? a,.p punished sharply if f<
great step in ?
, . , The incentive to honie distillii
ohlem of vice
... . the manner in which the sale of
k of the chap- . . .
, .. tilled liquors has lieen restricted,
and the press
, . to the shortage of grains, si
as plaving a
.. beets and potatoes The allow
[ition.
, ..has heen cut to two quarts
n along moral
,. , three months. Before the war it
1 medical ofn-,
... a nuart each week,
i which was
men hv ex- There is a suspicion In
e agencies of quarters that the present restric
ommission of ar" needlessly severe and in
ie.s served to dWated hv prohlhltion'st s?.ntii
cht mental at- ^w^des will not sqffcr dictation
lem, th< medi- a majority In matters of food
<lr;nk. The result is home d
ing. i
1 LED \ further rp^uif of th^ vovtrlf
o a tn flinttllo.l 1 i .1 -c *
ITf'HF\FR " ~ '14' " ?"*'
k ' th?t the nrtlv boo*' obtainable in
dent today has an alcohol corf1
Have Herman )f>?c than 1 1-2 nor cent has he
? 'She* land" make a "motbok." or passhnol
titMng the owner to purchoso
"* * I its. a very valuable possession.
fnrtnnnto holder can sell hic '
Sept 16. \ 'H 't for the year for the eou!\
he code cable- of *134. and a bottle of ord
lurdor of lyord whiskey which can be sold fo
:h cruiser has equivalent of $20.
c by Arnold
Heist \(> iNTKKItl PTION OF \VA It
ans know that WHIM: l?IS< TSSIVfi I?|
cruiser llamp- Amsterdam. Sept. If. In ex
r know where jnc an fnvitat'on to all the bel
Or did they on( governments to enter Into
binding discussion at some nc
ive been pro- meeting place the Austro-llung
world, follow- government states that the objt
b warship and the conference would be to s
ish general. nn exchange of views which v
i questions. He show "whether those pre-requ
an at a meet- exist which would make the
pire union re- inauguration of peace negotia
appear promising."
ir," he said. The Austrian proposal, whi
oofs of the ex- announced in an official commti
ably-organized tion telegraphed here from Vi
hine in our suggests that there tie no inte
tion of the war, and that the
? before the russion would go only so f
1 to alter the considered by the participants t
lire to enable fer prospects of success.'*
the islands in The proposal calls for all th<
| ligerents to send delegates
gram was sent "confidential and unbinding d
clear English: sion on the basic principles fo
iter the legal conclusion of peace, in a place
er?' neutral country and at a near
l young man, that would yet have to be a,
econd censor, upon."
dered why the Note He??t All Belligerents
ii?j wxpuusw or Tne proposal says the confe
' would be one of "delegates
query la this: would be charged to make kno<
the words In one another the conception of
V ' ^governments regarding those
j clples and to receive analogous
ip Orkney % munlcations, as well an to re
j^er ^ippt ftls and give frank and candid exp
,?*.?!{ Hamp- tioncCof. all those points which
to be precisely defined."
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VITES
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.EN LONG LOOKED FOR
? "FEELER" IS FROM
EMPEROR CHARLES
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two
Plea for "Confidential and "Non- ~ ;
no Rinding Discussion on fiasic
Principles." How
NOTE SENT BILLIGERENTS
ain 1
n rul ^
,th(>r Cold Comfort Given Suggestion ^
rnorl Not Only in Washington But
in London and Paris?Another
St of
but (ierman Ruse.
h In
" np Overshadowing in Interest . en
M: ~h.il Kuril's hammer blows againjt
tb'* ban if.| (Jermans, is the Teutonic \ '
nn' bid for peace made through the iiu- ,
* p< i I government of Austria llunfthod
garyt
The formal plea of Emperor
',1P i haries 10 the billicerents for "a ?
"uow coiitulential and non-binding &' (
cussion on the basic principles *
the conclusion ot peace" conies f %
that j|is fji-1 s.-nsat onal move In the j
"pi air ofl'ens-vo \\ ht< h h:is been J
expected since the Herman anus besn!o
pan to staggei bark from the fierce /
>und. thrust8 0f the British, French and
ik is Americans
di?- Washington and the allied caT>i/"*"~ "
due tals hailed the call for a cc .ence ^
igar- 0u neutral soil as another jeruian C
ance |-liae to get better than they might , .
each expect when the war has been carwas
rjP(} the Rhine. They were convinced
that Austria, whose people
some have long been war-weary had been e
tlons call'd upon to bear the onus of mak- p *
part ii g peace overtures and thus save the ,
nent face of Uermany.
even l'oun<i fold.Comfort.
I and Not only in Washington hut in
l?till- I.onilon and Paris, pacifists found ?
' cotd comfort. None of the govern- ..
Hons ntents involved was inclined to take *
? if-t seriously the request that delegates v kPwe
he sent to such a conference as that
rf of pronosed i>y the \ustrian ruler. It
en to | was pointed out that the United
k on-Js,atPS nn,l entente allies have made
?nir- the;r pea<e aims so clear there
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The ee no mistaking them.
-tph's T'ie assertion that the "central
nir.ot powers leave it in no doubt that they
innrv aro waging a war of defense for the
r t^0 integrity and security of their territories"
was greeted with added
skepticism in the face of the Washington
disclosure unmasking complefelv
the intrigue which has wrecked
Russia. Publication of docu- ,
tend- n,,.nfs proving beyond all question , , '
''ePr that Uermany had waited only for a .
non' plausible pretext to plunge the world ff
''1,ral into war. cast a sinister shadow over ., *
ariar ,,)P ponevolent protestations of Km- ?
' ' peror William's closest ally.
' llM Women and Children Perish. V *
lould jf Wf)S accompanied also by the V" V
isi'es announcement that a Herman sub)e0"y
I marine had sunk the British steanitions
Oalway Castle with the loss of
189 lives. Ninety of those who
ch is perished were women and children,
mica- a ~? " ' -
j /\t mr riniiit' UII1P I -DOHTH TPIlPWCCl
enna^ their attacks upon shipping on this |
rrup-:a|<ie of the Atlantic, shelling only * ^
"dis-1nighty miles off the coast a transport
ar as! carrying Canadian sick and wound- ^
:o of- ed >
N 4 ?
Grim meaning was given the over5
bel-ifures by the -announcement from
for a Paris that Austrian troops which
iscun- tried to block the way of the Amerir
the cans were utterly demoralized anil
In ? [surrendered to a man while the pepce
date, kite was in flight. Rritish, French
greed jnn,| American troops continued their
relentless pressure ag-iinst the f!cr>/"
'mans. Pershing's men advanced
rence from two to three miles on a 32w'bo
mile front. Hafg's forces advanced
.vn to northwest of St. Quentin while
their French foyes made progress south
prin-^of the same city. Mangin's army
com- simultaneously struck a new blow at
<iuci? the German salient north' of Sois>laiu^
sons. Wheyver the allied troops atn?ej|
tacked the German lines moved
T > I. . *
y J back.