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" A*?0r ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 2 1915. . established
Germany's
Fails
& No Decision as to Demands Made by
JP United States Until Government
at Washington Has Replied in 1
Tarn to Communication From Von '
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tacks by Submarines or Aeroplanes.
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Berlin, May 30.?Germany with- 1
holds its final decision on the de- 1
mands advanced by the United State?
government in connection with the
sinking of the Lusitania until the re- *
ceipt of an answer from the United J
, States to the note which Herr von 1
Jagow, the foreign minister, has de- '
livered to Ambassador Gerard, in 1
reply to the American note received 1
by the German government on May 1
15. In its reply the German govern- 1
ment declares that it is not its inten- 1
tion to submit neutral ships in the 1
war zone, which are guilty of no hostile
acts, to attacks by submarine or !
aeroplane; that it is investigating !
the circumstances in connection with '
the attacks on the American steam- 1
ers Cushing and Gulflight and that in '
all cases where neutral vessels, '
through no fault of their own, have
been damaged Germany will pay in- J
demnification.
? ' The reply urges that in the case of j'
the Lusitania, which Germany alle- 1
ges, was armed and carried large '
stores of war munitions, "it was act- '
ing in justified self-defense in seeking
with all the means of warfare at!'
its disposition to protect the lives of 1
the soldiers by destroying ammuni- 1
tion intended for the enemy."
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Pats Buck to British.
The German government recalls
the proposals submitted by the Unit-'
ed States government to Berlin and
London, designed to end the submarine
warfare and the shutting out of
food supplies from Germany which,
it declares, failed of their purpose
because of the refusal of the British;
government to agree to them. j
The following is the text of the '
German note made public today:
/ "The undersigned has the honor
y to submit to Ambassador Gerard the
following answer to the communication
of May 15 regarding the injury
to American interests through German
submarine warfare.
"Th^. imperial government has
subjected the communication of tne
American government to a thorough
investigation. It entertains also a
keen wish to cooperate in a frank
and friendly way in clearing up a
possible misunderstanding which
may have arisen in the relations be
tween the two governments through
the events mentioned by the American
government.
"Regarding, firstly, the cases of
the American steamers Cushing and
Gulflight. The American embassy
has already been informed that the
German government has no intention
of submitting neutral ships in
the war zone, which are guilty of no
hostile acts, to attacks by submarines
or aviators. On the contrary, the
German forces have repeatedly been
instructed most specifically to avoid c
am nil aU AiUtMm T
abbAV.IV.3 VII 3LH.ll OIlipS. 1
"If neutral ships in recent months j
have suffered through the German \
submarine warfare, owing to mistakes
in identification, it is a question
only of quite isolated and exceptional
cases, which can be attributed .
to the British government's abuse of
flags, together with the suspicious or
culpable behavior of the masters of
the ships. ^
The German government in all
s
cases in which it has been shown by
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its investigations that a neutral ship, ^
not itself at fault, was damaged by
German submarines or aviators, has
expressed regret over the unfortunate
accident and, if justified by con ^
ditions, has offered indemnification.
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Cuthing and Gulflight. [
"The cases of the Cushing and the r,
Gulflight will be treated on the same t
principles. An investigation of both t
cases is in progress the result of
Note
to Answer
which will presently be communicated
to the embassy. The investigation
can, if necessary, be supplanted
by an international call on the international
commission of inquiry as
provided by article 3 of The Hague
agreement of October 18, 1907.
"When sinking the British steamer
?alaba the commander of the Gernan
submarine had the intention of
allowing the passengers and crew a
full opportunity for a safe escape.
Only when the master did not obey
;he order to heave to, but fled and
summoned help by rocket signals, did
:he German commander order the
:rew and passengers by signals and
megaphone to leave the ship within
ten minutes. He actually allowed
them 23 minutes time and fired the
torpedo only when suspicious craft
ivere hastening to the assistance of
the Falaba.
"Regarding the loss of life by the
sinking of the British passenger
steamer Lusitania, the German government
has already expressed to the
neutral governments concerned its
keen regrets that citizens of their
states lost their lives.
"On this occasion the imperial
government, however, can not escape
the impression that certain important
facts having a direct bearing on
the sinking of the Lusitania may
have escaped the attention of the
American government.
"In the interest of a clear and
complete understanding, which is the
aim of both governments, the imperial
German government considers it
first necessary to convince itself that
the information accessible to both
governments about the facts of the
:ase is complete and in accord. The
government of the United States proceeds
on the assumption that the
Lusitania could be regarded as an
>rdinary unarmed merchantman. The
mperial government allows itself, in
;his connection to point out that the
Lusitania was one of the largest Bri;ish
merchant ships, built with government
funds as an auxiliary cruis?r
and carried expressly as such in
;he 'navy list' issued by the British
idmiralty.
"It is further known to the impeial
government from trustworthy
eports from its agents and neutral
jassengers, that for a considerable
;ime practically all the more valuable
3ritish merchantmen have been
quipped with cannon and ammuni;ion
and other weapon? and manned
vith persons who have been specially
rained in serving guns. The Lusi;ania,
too, according to information
eceived here, had cannon aboard,
vhich were mounted and concealed
>elow decks.
'The imperial government, further
las the honor to direct the particular
ittention of the American governnent
to the fact that the British adniralty
in confidential instructions
ssued in February 1915. recommend.
;d its mercantile shipping not only
o seek protection under neutral
lags, but also, while disguised to atack
German submarines by ramning.
As a special incitation to merhantmen
to destroy submarines the
Jritish government also offered high
>rizes and has already paid such revards.
Not at "Undefended."
"The imperial government, in view
these facts, indubitably known to
t, is unable to regard British merhantmen
in the zone of naval oprations
specified by the admiralty
taff of the German navy as 'undeended.'
German commanders conequently
are no longer able to oberve
the customary regulations of
he prize law, which they before al
fays followed.
"Finally the imperial government
lust point out particularly that the
jusitania on its last trip, as on earier
occasions, carried Canadian
roops and frar material, including
lo less than 5,400 cases of ammuniion
intended for the destruction of
he brave German soldiers who are
(Continued on Page seven.)
U. S. WILL RELIEVE=
STARVING MEXICANS
WARRING CLANS MUST
REACH AGREEMENT
President Wilson Makes Statement
Public on Tuesday, but it is Understood
That Demand Will Be
Made by United States to Ceane
Fighting.
Washington, May 30.?There were
plain indications tonight that from
now on the administration will vigorously
seek to end the chaos in Mexico.
Until President Wilson makes
public on Tuesday a statement he has
prepared, details of his plans will
not be known, but it was understood
tonight the various Mexican leaders
will be informed that the time has
come for them to stop fighting between
themselves and agree on a
government which the United States
can recognize.
It is expected that the statement
will recite famine conditions in the
Southern republic as Duval West and
other government agrents have portrayed
them. The president will point
out how patiently the American government
has waited for the Mexican
factions to adjust the problem them- ,
selves, and how helpless the Mexican
people generally have become in the
hands of the military elements.
The statement, which is to be sent
to all factional leaders, will not
announce the course the United
States expects to follow in case an
agreement does not result, but will
point out that conditions have become
intolerable and must be reme
died oy outside influences if there
are no elements in the country with
sufficient capacity to wrest the republic
from its state of anarchy. The
advisability of placing an embargo
on the exportation of arms and ammunition
to Mexico has been urged
as one means of putting a stop to 1
fighting there.
Conditions in Mexico.
A Red Cross statement issued tonight
pictured conditions among the 1
nr ; ;i;? i i? * 1
xuexican civilian population as aeplorable
with famine spreading from
city to city and through the outlying '
districts. *
"Conditions are growing steadily
worse/' said the statement. "At Mon- ]
terey several thousands are fed daily.
Farmers from the surrounding country
are coming to the city to buy
corn, but can not obtain it. Mul- <
titudes are on the verge of starva- ]
tion. ^
"At Durango the government's ef- <
forts to keep down the price of food ]
supplies failed. Food supplies are 1
becoming so scarce and the cost so s
high that the poorer classes are un- i
able to buy. 1
"At Tampico all food is about ex- i
hausted. Conditions in outlying dis- i
tricts are worse, and tales of the starvation
of the poor people are con- 1
staritly coming into the city. t
"At Vera Cruz and in the sur- j
rounding country famine conditions i
prevail. At Jalapa the general con- ?
ditions of the town is appalling. Mon- .
ey was raised by the chamber of
commerce to relieve the distress and
corn was imported, but the funds
were soon exhausted. Most distressing
scenes took place at the munici- s
pal hall when these rations were dis- j
tributed. Some 2,500 women were j
collected at 7 o'clock in the morning y
to get in line for the distribution, y
which began at 11 o'clock. Many af- x
ter waiting for hours went home cry
ing, ior tne supply ran out, ana, sum- s
ming up the case, it means the practical
starvation of the town. c
Fatal Ruth for Corn. i
"On the west coast the inhabitants ^
are reported as starving. When a F
boat load of corn was brought into e
Acapulco the rush of the people was c
so great that several children were
trampled to death and a number of *
women injured. v
"In Mexico City the situation is ^
grave. As early as March 100,000 F
persons were reported suffering from s
hunger. Conditions have grown worse ^
and many are starving. For the food ?
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Three Universities to Send 32 Surgeons
and 75 Nuirses at Britain's
Request.
New York Times.
England has called on American
surgeons to man her newest and
largest field hospital. The medical
:-chools of Columbia, Johns Hopkins
and Harvard universities, as the
three foremost centres of medical
learning: in this country, offered to
supply ihe men and nurses, and a
cablegram has been received from
the director general of the English
Army Medical Corps accepting the
cffer.
Thirty-two surgeons and physicians
and 715 nurses will be sent, i-y
the three American universities to
man the hospital. The first d Swich*
worf Tirill coil oKrtiif -fV>a Af
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June.
Sir William Osier, former/ of
Johns Hopkins university, but now
professor of medicine in Oxford university,
conceived the idea of having
the new field hospital manned by
\merican surgeons, picked by men
with whom he was professionally associated
in this country. The idea
met the approval of Lord Kitchener.
Sir William cabled to the three universities
that Engtilnd thought very
highly of the work done by volunteer
American surgeons, but that he
was anxious to add to the laurels
won by medical men from the United
States by having a unit in charge of
men sponsored by the three American
medical schools most highly
thought of in Europe.
A I.L. U _ ? - ? _
ns me result 01 a conierence 01
thr heads of the three schools, Dr.
W ?lton Martin of Columbia, Dr. Edwacd
Hall Nichols of Harvard, and
Dr. J. M. T. Finney of Johns Hopkins
were named to plan the wo :1c.
The leading medical men of rhc
ihr^e institutions, including such
rien as Dr. Harvey Cushing of Harvard,
Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, dean
of the Columbia College of Physicians
and Surgeons, and Drs. William
H. Welch and W. S. Baer of Johns
Hopkins have lent their advice and
counsel.
Pythian* Propose Fight On Plague.
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(Columbia Record.)
The proposal of the establishment
if a tuberculosis sanitarium by the
Knights of Pythias order in this State
was yesterday referred to a special
committee of which Bev. Louis J.
Bristow, of Abbeville, is chairman,
Dy the grand lodge, in annual session
it Orangeburg. This committee was
requested to report their findings reative
to the practicability of the effort
at a subsequent session of this
neeting.
Mr. Bristow is chairman of the
joard of trustees of the State Bap
;ist Hospital, at Columbia, and is regarded
as being well informed of
natters relative to the operation of
?uch institutions; as this the Knights
>i' Pythias proposed establishing.
Home From School.
Miss Charlotte Brown, who has
;pent the past year at Chicora, and
Hisses Rebecca Jones, Nellie Hardin,
Marion Cason, and Marion Mabry,
vho are all Winthrop girls, are at
lome much to the delight and pleasire
of their friends.
upplies that remain, fabulous prices
lave been reachcd, so only the rich
an buy. Epidemics prevail and medcine
is prohibitory in price. The city
las 600.000 inhabitants in danerer of
>erishing from hunger, misery and
ipidemic. Six food riots have ocurred."
While the Red Cross was giving
his statement the Carranza agency
/as making public a telegram from
/era Cruz, declaring there was no
>ossibility of a famine and that the
hortage of food was serious only in
Mexico City, where the Villa-Zapata
government controls.
LATEST WAR NEWS]
Russian* Claim Success on San
Petrograd, May 31, (via London)The
battle of the San in the vicinity
of Przemysl is developing in favor
of the Russians according to an official
announcement given out today
The Russians between May 12 and
May 24 captured nearly 19,000 of
their antagonists.
The text of the communication
follows: "In the Shavli region, in
Kovno province, the Germans continue
to resist our offensive with violent
fire, but the fighting in this district
continues to our advantage.
"On the front between the river
Pilica and the upper Vistula, we cantured
between May 12 and May 24,
209 officers and 18,617 of the rank
and file.
"In Galicia the battle on the San
river also is developing in our favor.
Our troops have successfully sustained
the offensive and last night they
crossed the River Luaeczowka and
occupied the village of Monasterz,
inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
"The offensive of the enemv alone
the front from Jaroslau to Radymno
in an easterly direction, has been
stopped by our fire.
"On other sectors of our front
there were no important changes
during Saturday."
Teutonic Attack Appears Checked.
London, May 31.?The great battle
on the San, to whch the Russians
fell back after retreating over half
of Galicia, still rages, but the Russians
assert that they have assumed
the offensive. London takes this
statement to mean that another
mighty German effort has expended
itself.
Though the fate of Przeijpysl is
still uncertain, allied circles con- (
tend that the Austro-Germans have
failed to crush the Russians in Galicia
and that their rush forward, cost
ing thousands of lives, has fallen
short, just as did the ' repeated
thrusts at Warsaw and Calais.
The official Austrian statement tonight
claims no noteworthy advances
in the East, dismissing the Przemysl
region with the brief declaration
that "the fighting continues" ancf
asserting that there have been no
serious engagements elsewhere on
the Eastern frnnt
The Russians claim victories virtually
all along the entire front, especially
beyond the Dnfiister where
they say they have taken 7,000 pris- .
oners.
In the West neither side has done ]
much of late, although the French
continue gnawing around Arras, and ,
there has been hard fighting along ]
the Yser. ,
Italy has retaliated for the Aus- j
trian air and naval raids along her (
east coast by bombarding Pola, the 1
Austrian naval base, from a dirigible, (
while Italian destroyers have made a i
dash on Monfalcone, doing considerable
damage to Austrian shipping ]
and getting away unscratched. 3
fjormnr? QiiKmarinoc liovo Koan o/*
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tive, the news tonight adding one ^
more neutral vessel to the growing
list of victims. This was the Danish
steamer Soborg, sunk 40 miles north- ^
east of the Tyne. All hands were
rescued. j
The English press is following the
German and American exchanges in
the Lusitania tragedy with the keenest
interest and there is much speculation
as to the probable American
action.
Press Invasion From the South.
Italian Frontier (via Paris), May
31.?The Italian invasion of the prog
ince of Trent is progressing from the
south along the Adige and Chinese e
rivers, from the west across the Ton- a
ale pass and from the east by way of 0
Lavaronne plateau. The attack of the
Italians is continuing all along the
zigzag frontier up to the highest part P
north of where they have occupied ii
the Ampezzo valley, together with C
the town of Cortina. 1<
Cortina is the junction of several I
railroads, the most important being p
that from Pieve di Cadore, which ii
leads to Toblach along the Drava val- r
ley. _ |G
ISSUES CALL
Band, Drum Corps and Patrol Ask
Attention.
Columbia, May 31.?If plans of
Omar Temple now forming and the
efforts of the potentate and nobles of
the Shrine succeed, South Carolina
will claim a large place in the sun
at the meeting of the Imperial Shrine
in Seattle, Wash., in July. It had
been expected that the temple would
be able to bear the expense of the
band and patrol to the Washington
metropolis, but at the ceremonial
session it was found that the state of
the treasury would not permit. Ths
men of the two organizations were
not dismayed and at once set about
seeking other ways of bringing the
mountain to Mahomet when Mahomet
could not go to-the mountain.
A meeting was held in Charleston,
at which Potentate R. A. Cooper and
Recorder Henry A. Strohecker met
Capt. Pierre Mazyck of the band,
Capt. G. J. McDowell of the patrol,
Lieut. Frank Ehrlich, Lieut. Parrott,
Lieut. Freyschmidt and Noble Boi
neau, chief musician of the band.
It was decided at the meeting to
request the potentate to issue a call
on members of Omar temple for a
contribution of $10 each to defray
the expenses of the two organiza
tions to Seattle and return. The individual
members of the organizations
will raise $2,000. The expense
of the trip will be about $8,000, leaving
about $6,000 to be raised by the
members of the temple. With the
potenate as chairman, a committee
has been appointed to look after the
matter. This committee is composed
of Pierre Mazyck, G. J. McDowell,
Frank Ehrlich, Junius Parrott, Char- *
les E. Boineau and W. F. ^Gray.
The potentate has addressed a letter
to every Shriner in South Carolina
urging him to come to the support
of the band and patrol.
Frank E. Ehrlich of Columbia has
been named as treasurer of the fund
and remittances will be made to him.
The funds must be in the hands of
Mr. Ehrlich not later than June 10
and the Shriners of the State will
have to work with a will to raise the
necessary amount.
Mr. Ehrlich has communicated
with prominent members of the temple
in various cities of the State urging
their cooperation and it is believed
that the amount will be readily
subscribed.
The members of the patrol reside
at Charleston and Sumter, while the
band and drum corps members live
at Columbia. The progress of the organizations
in the two years of their
existence has been remarkable and
their performances have featured all
leremonial sessions since their or
?amzation.
It is believed that the South Carolina
representatives will take high
rank with the several hundred bands
ind patrols to attend the meeting of
;he Imperial Shrine at Seattle.
iVOMEN ARRESTED IN BERLIN
Vn American Woman and Her Dau>
ghter are Charged With Intuiting
German Officer.
Berlin, May27.? Charged with
nsulting a German officer, Mrs. Hariet
Boyce and daughter, of San
Francisco, have been sentenced to
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nree weeKs lrapnsonmeni in tne
bavarian town of Lindau.
Ambassador Gerard at Berlin has
ent a memorial to the German forign
office in their behalf. Pending
ction mother and daughter are out
n bail.
Especially interesting is the occuation
by the Italians of the heights
i southern Trentino, where the
Ihieze valley joins the Ampolla valBy.
It was at this point that the
talian volunteers in the war of 1848
enetrated and also where Garibaldi
i 1866 established his headquarters,
adiating his action thence in the
Jiudclcaria region. ^