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If? - "" 1 v '? ' ***? w? w@m S." ' ' ' 1 ' W? ' ;': ;?^r-v$l " P<* ' " ? la . ... ' ., i'.. . vtv ' i.5. " - -.aBB . ' i . - " ' " > . ?. ; \ ^ A,.. " < / Abbeville Press and Bailieil $1.50 ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 25, 1915. established' a year. ' ' ' - ? ; : ; . TEXT OF NOTE , SENT TO AUSTRIA f -UNITED STATES DECLINES TO PROHIBIT SALE OF AMMUNITION AND GIVES' REASONS Note Is Friendly But Very Firm Austria and Germany Reminded of Having Sold War Materials to Belligerent Nations. *. By The Associated Press. Washington-, Aug. 16?The United States, in its note to Austria-Hungary, published today, firmly but politely declines to accede to the re-y quest of the Vienna government that the exportation of arms to the allies ; .stop. . The communication replies to the recent Austrian protest that the united states, oy permitting tue export of arms to Austria's enemies, was violating the spirit of neutrality. The American note is a flat denial of that contention and upholds the right of the United States to export munitions of war. The position is justified by the recitation that the international law and the practice of nations are the security of the United States and other nations without large military . or naval establishments. The note reiterates the fact that. f . Austria-Hungary and Germany sup *1 Pytifain |;iiCU liiuiiitiuuo w uicau JLji. iiaiii uui-ing th6 Boer war. Text of the Note. Washington, Aug. 16.?The State v department last night made public "its reply rejecting views advanced in the recent Austrian note which con\ tended that exportation of war munitions from America to Austria's enemies was conducted on such a : scale as to be" "not in consonance with the definition of neutrality." . Though friendly* in tone, the note flatly denies the Austrian contentions I J 11_ xl.i ?1 - a 1 . ana recalls mat uiat country ana Germany furnished munitions to . Great Britain during the Boer war when England's enemies could not import such supplies. It insists that the American government is pursuing a strictly neutral course and adher? ing to a principle on which it would depend for munitions in the world's J markets in case it should be attacked ' by a foreign power. "The principles of international law," the communication concludes, "the practice of nations, the national safety of the United States and other nations without great military and naval establishments, the prevention of increased armies and navies, vth6 -adoption of peaceful methods for the adjustment of international differences, and, finally, neutrality itself are opposed to the prohibition by a neutral nation of the exportation of arms, ammunition, or other munitions of war to belligerent powers, during the progress of the war." Pointing to a practical and substantial reason why the United Statep aside from the question of principle, advocates and practices unrestricted 1 trade in military supplies, the note declares: "It has never been the policy of this country to maintain in time of peace a large military establishment sufficient to repel invasion by a wellequipped and powerful enemy. It I has desired to remain at peace with " all nations and to avoid any appearance of menacing such peace by the threat of its armies and navies. In consequence of this standing policy, the United States would, in the event Q If kir o iVA. wvwvik KJJ c* ivivigu puvyci, UC at the outset of war seriously, if not fatally, embarrassed by the lack of arms and ammunition and by the means to produce them in sufficient quantities to supply the requirements of national defense. The United States has always depended upon the right and power to purchase arms and ammunition from neutral nations in case of foreign attack. This right, which it claims for itself, it cannot deny to others." The United States asserts that it cannot accede to the suggestion that - it modify the rules of international usage during a war on account of special conditions and declares the idea of neutrality advanced by Austria would "involve a neutral nation in a mass of perplexities which would obscure the whole field of international obligation, produce economic confusion and deprive all commerce (Continued on page five.) - ' jmu -i ENGLAND WILL BUY SOOTH'S COTTON BRITISH GOVERNMENT PLANS MEASURE TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO SOUTH Washington, Aug. 23?That Great Britain plans measures to take care of the South's cotton crop in order to mitigate any damage that may arise as a result of. its contraband order was evidenced here this afternoon when Sir Richard Crawford, of the British Embassy, conferred with W. P. G. Harding, of the Federal Reserve board. - 41 It was generally believed that Sir Richard informed Mr. Harding that .the British Government.expects to buy up a large part of the cotton crop. 0. S. Reserve Bank to Supply Funds j "The Federal Reserve Bank will j supply enough cotton-carrying money to handle all the cotton. "It will lend all that is necessary on a l?asis of about 80 per cent of the market.valtie of the cotton." That is the way J. S. Toole, govern or pro tem of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, summed up the situation Monday. He believes the Southern cotton planter will have no trouble in carrying his cotton this year, and that the staplecan be put on the market as the demand comes without the price being beaten down by a flood of selling:. i TURKEY AND BULGARIA \ REACH UNDERSTANDING V ' ' Berlin, Aug.23, by wireless to Sayyjlle.?The Overseas News Agency today gaVe out the following: "Official reports from Sofia and Constantinople state that Turkey and Bulgaria have signed a new treaty, Turkey granting Bulgaria her desired direct railroad connection with the sea and Bulgaria agreeing toobservc a benevolent neutrality." . Germans at Constantinople London, Aug. 23?The Germans are devoting their whole attention to the fortification of Constantinople and attach no importance to the defense of Adriaiiople, says the Times' Balkan correspondent. The Turks, the correspondent says for some time have been preparing a second defensive line on the Gallipoli peninsula. : JAPAN TO START INTO THE FIGHT MORE ACTIVELY I Tokio, Aug. 23?The Kokumin Shimbun says:, "Premier Okuma states that Japan has decided to give greater assistance to Russia to prosecute the war. He could not discuss details, but allowed it to be understood that this assistance would take the form of the forwarding of greater supplies of munitions." Why Japan Goes to Russia's Aid Tokio, Aug. 23?One of Russia's greatest needs has been1 guns and ammunition. Military writers have said that the extent of recent Russian reverses has been due in part to inadequate supplies of munitions. Russia's facilities are entirely in sufficient to meet the large demandsof such a campaign as is under way. With the Baltfc Sea closed to her ves sels from without, she has been able to import supplies only through Arch angel, or over the trans-Siberian railroad. The attempt of the allies to force the Dardanelles has for one of its objects the opening of the straits route for the assistance of Russia. Large orders have been placed in the United States by Russia and extensive shipments have been made from Pacific ports. Japan also has forwarded war supplies to Russia. Advices received by the Associated Press from Vladivostok several weeks ;j i. x- ? ? agu saiu tnat great, amounts 01 supplies were being received there for transportation to the Russian front. GERMAN WORKER ENDS LIFE AT ARMS PLANT New York, Aug. 23?The second German at the National Conduit and Cable Company at Hastings-on-Hudson, to commit suicide within a week ended his life today by filling his pockets full of stones and leaping into the river. He was Christoph Dorner, a watchman, who replaces Gustave Gross, the first suicide. Both men were grieved because the plant was manufacturing munitions for the Allies, ^^ I ANOTHER LINER SUNK BY GERMANS WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINE WITHOUT NOTICE Censorship Is Puzzling to U. S, Clear Day and Fact That Bonti Were Ready^ Saver Many Passengers from Watery Grave. London. Aue. 19.?The White Star liner Arabic "was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine this morning southeast of Fastnet. I According to the White Star Line ' no- warning was given and the vessel sank in ten minutes. She was enroute from Liverpool to New York was, j therefore, without contraband. Of four hundred and tweny three persons aboard?a hundred and eighty one passengers and two hundred and forty two in the crew?thirtyfwo are missing, all but six of these being members of the crew. Whether any of the victims were Americans has not yet been determined, there being twenty six aboard It is reported that the passengers j ViaH llist. sppn a RriticVi cfoomn-r r\ya sumably, the Dunsley, torpedoed and the Arabic' passengers were adjust- j ing life preservers when the German torpedo hit the ship. The passengers took to the rafts and lifeboats and were picked up by other ships and ; taken tjo Q*eenstown. There was perfect order in launching the boats, according to many survivors. This, and the fact that' liners now traverse the war zone with lif^ boats swung out and that the day was clear prob- j ably saved many lives. Captain Will Finch and most of the officers were saved. The Arabics' tonnage was five thousand. She was the largest ship, except the Lusitania, that the Germans have torpedoed. The torpedo boat was seen to rise just before it fired the torpedo which hit the starboard side about a hun-j dred feet from the stern. New York, Aug. 19.?Careful! checking of the various lists of sur-j vivors here shows no Americans were j lost on Arabic unless some of them boarded at the last minute and were listed as of other nationalities. London, Aug. 19.?The Pres^ association announced definitely that the Arabic was sunk. She is reported to have gone down in eleven minutes off Fastnet a small island four miles southwest of Cape Clear, Ireland. It is reported that the steamer took off the passengers and crew. The White Star line received a message saying if ta linno/1 ?? - '' - .. .? uiav man; ur most 01 Ifle passengers and crew were saved. _ The company announced the vessel had 170 second and third class passengers, but none of the first, cabin and 240 in the crew. She sailed from Liverpool at 3 o'clock yesterday. The Arabic'3 tonnage was 15,801, 10,062 net. She was six hundred feet long, 65 beam and 47 deep. She was built in Belfast in 1908. Two sticks of dynamite were found on the steamer before she sailed from New York on July 28 apd she was chased by a submarine. She has been used to carry war supplies. BRITISH SUBMARINE LOST IN THE SOUNDOfficial Announcement Made That E-13 Has Gone Aground?Half of Crew Lost. London, Aug. 20.?Official* announcement was made today that a British submarine had e-ronnrJpH in the Sound. Fifteen members of the crew were saved. The official announcement follows: "A British submarine, the E-13, Lieutenant Commander Layton, on its way to the Baltic, grounded yesterday morning on the Danish island of Saltholm, in the Sound. "Fifteen officers and men are reI ported to have been saved, -while 1FT are missing. Full details will be made known as soon as they are received." "Destroyed, Berlin Says. Berlin, Aug. 20 (via London).? The following official announcement has been made by the admiralty: "During the forenoon of August 19 the British submarine E-13 was destroyed at the southern outlet of the Sound." A f y >. GALVESTON WAS SAVED BV SEA WALL PROPERTY DAMAGE VERY HEAVY BUT THE LC'SS OF LIFE NOT VERY GREAT ? - V Death List Over Country if. Heavy Lone Star State Wat Swept by a Very Disastrous Storm?One Hundred on an Island May Be Lost. Houston, Tex., Aug. 19.? 'The sea1 wall did its duty fully. Galveston was saved." These were the first words Dr. Kemon Powell, an official of the Galveston Commercial association, who arrived here late.yesterday, said. He cj.me from Gelveston, to Texas City by steamer and "motored here. The greatest property damage was r\-rt +V?<* VvAonVi wlmvn "fVin liAiioas nrava of flimsy construction. Practically all houses east of Tweritieth street and near the Boulevard were destroyed. A strip of from one-half to two. blocks wide to Fourth street was swept. Small damage was done on Broadway and the wharves were slightly damaged. When the storm approached, 5,000 sought refuge in the depot and 500 in the Scottish Rite cathedral, Rev. T. J. Sloan, of Houston, and Sheriff Kemp Wharton told of a thrilling night battle against death when a two-story wooden hotel on Virginia Beach collapsed with sixty in it. Between fourteen and twenty probably perished. Inhere are many Stories of thrilling rescues and bravery in the face of great dangers. The Surfside life-saving station tit the I mouth of the Brazos river was deniol-1 ished. Two of the crew were saved;' others, with some visitors, are thoup-ht to have nerished. Only Fourteen Bodies Found. San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 19.?Only fourteen bodies of storm victims had been recovered in Galveston al; noon Wednesday, declared Charles S. Hayden, staff correspondent of the Light; who returnecTtoday from Galveston and Houston. He doubts if more perished in,the city proper. Deaths in the-lowlands and shipping in harbor would probably reach 200. Hayden went to Galveston Monday night. He was on the first boat to reach Galveston from the mainland. He attributed the'small lif'e loss to the fact that residents heeded government warnings and sought refuge ifi big buildings in the center of the city. Fear* For Many. New Orleans, Aug. 19.?No re ports have been received yet from Marsh Island, about 150 miles southwest of here, where over a hundred are either marooned or lost. Rescue boats are on. the way. The American steamer, Harowijno, of the United Fruit company line, overdue from Belize, British Honduras, has not reported. It has aboard thirty-five passengers and a large crew. Efforts to communicate by wireless have failed. It is feared she may have gone ashore during the hurricane. no Additional fatalities. Beaumont, Aug. 19.?No additional fatalities have been reported in this district today so far as known here. Near a score are dead and a number missing. Five are dead at Port Arthur, eight or ten at Patten and one at Port Bolivar. Three bodies were seen at Sabineno, in Neches canal. There were many narrow escapes. Four hundred residents of Johnson's Bayou took to tree tops and high grounds. Homes were washed away. All lives saved. A man drifted into Port Bolivar Wednesday on a bale of cotton, nearly dead. He had been in the water since Monday. Thousands of cattle drowned in flooded ranches. The Night at Galveston CJnr> A wfrtwin Anm 1 Q pA'flirvAaci kJClU -TV II L.UI11U; XTLU^. J. %/ IVtiUgCCO v/ho spent the night of the storm in a hotel at Galveston said that'at no time did the sea run clear across the wall. The breakers sent a spray of high waves which broke with a terrific force. Two granite monuments erected to commemorate the 1900 storm were blown down and in other places iron posts were bent double. Granite coping on the sea wall was wrenched loose, and some stones carried them a block or more, ffy? ft Ml AND HARRIS SPEAK HERE OUTLINE PLANS FOR FINANCING COTTON CROP?EXPLAIN WAREHOUSE BILL Honorable Jno. L. McLaurin, State Warehouse Commissioner, and B. Harris, of Anderson, Organizer of the Farmer's Union in this State spoke in the Court House on last Wednesday, to an audience of about four hundred leading farmers and business men"of the County. Mr. J. Allen Srtrith, President of the National uanK, presided at tne meeting and introduced the speakers. - * Mr. Harm was the first speaker. He stated that the officers of the Farmers Union met in Columbia, some ten days ago, and that believing that the people of the State do not know the benefits to be derived from the State Warehouse System, a number of meetings have have been arranged in different parts of the State in order that the warehouse Commissioner might address the people as to the purpose of and benefits to be gotten out of the warehouse system. He stated that he was here to speak" also for the upbuilding and up-lift of the agricultural interests of Abbeville County, which meant the-interest of every enterprise and business man in Abbeville County. He staged that the great question before the."people was how to solve the farmers' problem, for when we have .solved that we solve all of the problems of life, in the South; that everything depends on the agricultural interests; the woold depends on the farmers for a living. He stated that farming was tfie only occupation given to man by his Maker, that all other occupations were invented'by man. He announced three 1 ? great commands which must be obeyed in o'rder to develop the country; First, diversification of rrops; -Second organization,- and (third, co-operation. Speaking on the first question he stated* that the farmer coulcl raise his living at home at one-half what it cost him to buy it on the market; that the farmer who had been raising cotton and purchasing the things upon which he lived in Abbeville'County, must quit it right now, not next year. He further stated that the farmer himself must do this, and not look to someone else to do it for him: that if the railroad trains were to quit cpming into Abeville County, it would be but a short time until the people would be face to face with starvation and he thought such a condition of affairs a shame and disgrace in a country where everything might be raised. On the subject of organization he stated that some years ago farmers in the West were burning their corn for fuel, as we all read in the papers, but since 1902 no corn had been burned for fuel although the crop had increased some two million bushels per year since tha? time. The reason of this he thought was that the Western farmers had organized and cooperated in the marketing of their crops. He stated that he had seen corn hauled to the station and sold at eighteen to twenty cents per bushel and that he bought oats at 14 cents in the Worthwest; that hogs were cpllinop of fV?nf time of 1 1 -Af nm* pound and hay at $4.00 per ton; that the farms in the West were covered by mortgages but when the people got together and gradually marketed their crops they received a proper price for same, and the farmers of the West had prospered. He was of the opinion that the farmer should get 12 l-2c for his cotton and that it can not be raised (Continued on page six.) The wreckage was scattered throughout the city. It is doubtful if any public service corporations will resume for several weeks. No newer brick buildings were badly damaged. The total number of houses, exclusive of sheds, wrecked, is estimated at ouu. estimates 01 tne damage reach high as $10,000,000. Citizens are jubilant over the sea wall. Great holes were torn on the streets inside. The four-masted schooner was blown half way across the wall. Fort Crockett soldiers rescued the sailors' greatest need. Nearly all groceries are water soaked. Five-cent packages biscuits are bringing 50 cents. Efforts to send supplies are being made as rapidly as possible, STATESMEN ARE PESSIMISTIC OVElt FINANCIAL OUTLOOK OF EMPIRE Country's Resources Are Almost Gone f" * , ^ /. ' j Chancellor Bethman-Hollvreg Reported to Have Threatened to Reaifn if Germany Continues her Policy. Amsterdam, via London, Ausr. 23? At the secret conferencie of cabinet ( ministers, political leaders and influential writers called by the German imperial chancellor before the reassembling of the Reichstag last Thurs . . day to discuss the political situation, the Telegraff says Karl Helfferich, secretary of the treasury, explained that the new German war loan would completely exhaust the empire's resources and that the increase in ex- , chequer bonds would cause bankruptcy. Therefore Dr. Helfferich urged, ii was needful to prepare for* / an honorable peace. Chancellor von Betbmann-TTnl 1 wocr according to the same report, declar- , ed that the difficulties of the empire were "'increasing and advised his hearers to ub4 their influence to soften down bel^icoae inclinations and expan sion policy in the .Reichstag and the country, aiid carefully to prepare peace proposals which would be ac- ' ceptabl^ to the' four members of the entente^: / - ."T Dr. Bamhard Dernburg's report of the . failure; of his mission in the United States and other neutral cdun ' tries, the TelegrafF says* made a stronger impression on the confer* ence. *;j General von Moltke, former chiefof the general staff, declared that he fully 9grj&ed with the chancellor and addqd tJiatr only those not fully informed^ bri\the situation could hope for the, pqssibility of complete Rus- ? sian defeat., Despite these declarations) the story concludes, the meeting refused to adopt a resolution advocating moderation in 'the Reichstag. Whereupon the chancellor declared that if a majority in the Reichstag should show an irreconcilable chauvinistic attitude he would be obliged .to resign as he could not accept responsibility for Germany's disaster. ; , , . _ ' / . DllCCIft PlftlMC [\UOuln ULnllTIU NAVAL VICTORY CZAR'S FLEET SANK ONE DREAD. NAUGHT, TWO CRUISERS AND 8 TORPEDO BOATS . London, Aug. 23?An official Russian communication, descriptive of the naval battle in the Gulf of Riga, was forwarded from Petrograd today by the correspondent of the. Central News. It gives the German losses as one dreadnaught, two cruisers and eight torpedo boats. The statement follows:' 1 "In the .Gulf of Riga, between August 16 and August 19 the Russian fleet sank or damaged no fewer than two lierman cruisers^ ana eignt torpedo boats. At the same time a Brit ish submarine sank one of the best German dreadnaughts. The Russian gunboat Sivutch was sunk in a brilliant fight in the course of which she sank a German torpedo boat while she herself was in flames and sinking." 1 SINKING OF ARABIC SHOCK TO OFFICIALS. Washington, Aug. 19.?News of a A-P A 13 tn fi c-Vt Knar tuc LVI^tUVillg VI VUV UilUOll lliiti, Arabic, with Americans aboard, came as a shock to American officials, who hoped that since the last note to Germany there would be no further aggravation of the already tense situation. While it is not known officially that any Americans were lost, the torpedoing without warning of a vessel carrying Americans has in itself been pronounced by the United States as a violation of its rights, which if repeated would be regarded as "deliberately unfriendly."