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Abbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, March 1,, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. |p|? BERLIN ANI ABOUT II I Further Evidence of the Strain in Relations ^ *> A l! KJver r eace v^uesuuu AUSTRIA FEARS BIG .ALLY ' / ???? ' A . To Arwrt Catastrophe Dual Monarchy Makes Declaration of Its Policy. Washington, Feb. 27.?Further evidence of the strain in relations between Germany and Austria over ^ the refusal of the latter to participate in the renewed attack upon Russia is given in an official dispatch received here today from France. It quotes the Austrian premier as formally reiterating on February 22, that Austria-Hungary will take no part in military action against Rus-| 8ia or Rumania, and will not sendj her troops into Ukraine. ^ The dispatch refers to the meet, ing between Emperors William and Charles February 22 and says there seems little doubt that a serious conflict has arisen between the two nations which Germany is determined to settle by violent measures If nec\ essary. * | Lacking in Cordiality. The dispatch in part follows: J ' ' "Charles I paid a visit to William I ll on the 22 nd of February. Ludenworf was present at the interview. If we are to judge from the tone of the interview it must have been lacking in cordiality. There seems to be little doubt but that a serious L> . / conflict has broken out during the week between the courts of Vienna and Berlin and which Germany is determined to settle if need be by violent measures." ,jr,? IN THE WRECK. 8L. * Miss Margaret Klugh was on the train that was wrecked near Columbia on Monday. She telegraphed her mother Mrs. J. C. Klugh, that she was all right which was a great relief to Mrs. Klugh.' Miss Margaret had been spending the time that the Columbia schools were quarantined, at home with her mother, and she was returning to take nr? Vior c/?Vmr?l a^ain. "V4 ? TEN ENGINES. if The Seaboard is to have ten of the locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for Russia. The unsettled conditions over there i and the great need here made the move necessary. These engines are] I built according to Russian specifications. Two have already arrived. A L lovely chim whistle lets the natives j know they are here. j MR. COURTNEY. 1 Mr. Courtney, superintendent of I the Rescue Home in Columbia, was I here on business this week. He says 8 they are doing a fine work and the | little children are happy and enjoy& ino> li-fo Soverol AhViPvillo pnnrtr ! 4.VMV.M.V i children are living there. A small; appropriation is given by the county for the maintenance of eachj child. T. B. PENNEY. T. B. Penney was in the city oni Wednesday on business for the day.j rie^is leaving for Georgetown, where | .he 4 has a ; Civil Service ? position j in |he Internal Revenue Department at that .place. , "He wa^its to keep up with the home news and he had us to s^nd ^iim The Press and Banner. is a yjqnng man of. 0n,e qualities and will make good in his new place. ) VIENNA 3FALL OUT A "War Speech" and Not a "Peace Speech" French and English. Find Little Hope Of Peace In Hertling't Speech OBJECT tO CREATE DIVISION BETWEEN ALLIES Paris, Feb. 27.?The concensus of opinion in official and diplomatic circles concerning Chancellor Hertling's speech is that it is a "war speech" and not a "peace speech." High officials and foreign officials informed the Associated Press that the aims of Hertling's oration were three-fold: First, he desired to create a division between the Allies. Second, he wanted to stimulate peace talk in allied and neutral countries to bring aother "BrestLitovsk," and Third, it was expected he would impresse public opinion in Germany and abroad that the military officials do not rule Germany. London, Feb.. 27.?Evening papers see little hope for peace in Chancellor von x Hertling's recent speech. "With what face one wonders can von Hertfing, who is old and religious, get up in the Reichstag and declare his heart is bleeding for humanity, profess sympathy with Wilson's appeal for justice and forbearance and respect for national rights at the very time when he is publicly engaged in one of the most cynical and callous transactions known in history," says The Westminster Gazette. The Globe as Hertling's presenl | duty is to supply camouflagu behind I which the real sovereign power oi ' ? ^ / ? 1 ni np j tne lierman general oian carries uu | its operations. - . i S. A. MORRIS. I Mr. S. A. Morris, the deaf and ! dumb shoe man, is very sick at his home on Magazine street. He was ' taken ill sometime Sunday but il was not known until his neighbors | missed him and went in to see | where he was. His sister was away | on a visit and there was no one at j home with him. She came home I Tuesday. He was taken to Dr. Pry! or's hospital yesterday for an op[ eration for appendicitis. %is sister, | Mrs. Worsham, went over there with ! him. His friends wish him an early I recovery. , , OF INTEREST TO ' ) ABBEVILLE PEOPLE J ' It will be interesting to the olcjei set of Abbeville people to kno-w j that Mr. J. B. Marshall, one of the [victims of the wreck on the Southern, was the husband of Miss Lalla Zeigler, who lived in Abbeville n?any years ago, and is- well remembered here. . ; , . v . ? -.u : ) V SOUTH tAROLINAi'9 { V W VtVT HI TrtT A e nnn UUM W ^ IILIA A yUWifl. I ML-il ^ V \ > ' 'A iO ( "'. .<;> V 'Columbia, )S. G* F4b. 28.?V V Gov. Manriihgi announced to- V V day that in a conference with V V Secretary Baker ip Washing-, V V . ton this yveek, the fact was V v empnasizea oy tne secretary V t^at South. Carolina's quote V \ ^in the. next., draft would be V V 5,000 m^n and .they are. tq be V V called in small quqtas... This V V js the first indication o^ .what S. V the states .quotp in., the } next V V draft will be. 4 . . ' k, v ^ ; I SLACKER BILL PASSED By HOUSE Aliens Claiming Exemption Would Be Deported. v j DRAFTED FOR LABOR. Measure Sent to Senate After Rejection of Amendment u to Existing Treaties. ^ Washington, Feb. 27.?The socalled alien slacker bill, to bar from citizenship and authorize deportation of aliens of draft age who claim exemption from military service, and authorizing the drafting of any aliens for agricultural or mann fo/?fr?inTtrr mnvlf nroD noosoH hff t.hfl | x house tonight by a vote of 344 to 21. It now goes to the senate. The administration opposed the bill on the ground that it violates existing treaties and would embarrass the government in negotiating! treaties with its co belligerents providing for the drafting of their national residents in this country. Such treaties with Great Britain and Canada have been signed and those j with France and Italy are about completed. ? j The bill is applicable only to citi-j i sens of countries at war with GerI om olmiWo tn Amprican ! many wuv aiw 1 citizenship in the United States, but ' that they shall "be deported as soon ,! as practicable. The immigration . committee and speakers in the house | today said it would not be possible . to deport any appreciable numbec. i['of affected aliens any time soon I since ships to carry them would not [ be available. ( Before passing the bill the house . defeated 235 to 132, an amendment j by Representative- Rogers of Massachusetts, which provided that the [ act should not supercede any existM ing treaties which stipulated that : Qtofoc qhnll not subject II Ulr %J I11DVU VMVWW w i the nationals of a treaty country to ! compulsory military service. This ! amendment had been agreed to a week ago by the house sitting as a I committee of the whole. '.'.5 ,| . HIT BY BALL. i l|' * '{ ' ' > :j Hamilton Hill, of Jonesville, S. 0 | . * . r # / s a student at Ersklne, -was seriously r hurt Wednesday afternoon while ; playing ball. . From reports heard ! here he ran before1 the batter after the ball had left the pitchers hand: . The ball struck hirrt on "the sid?; of , his head knocking him flat. He was i unconsciqus.. I^e is at th^ college - dormitory and. is in a seriotis con : t ... \ dition. ... '/ i L i . 1 SPONSOR FOR THE VETERANS: : ' . ... { : . Miss. Sarah Haskell has been appointed State Sponsor for' the United Confederate Veterans by Major General. B. H. Teague of Aiken. r /The appointment is pleasing to Miss Haskell's friends all over the state and Abbeville is delighted with the compliment paid her. VISITING MRS. BARNWELL. i ' '* ' ' '' ' 'I Mrs. C. E. Edwards, Lieut. Claud Edwards and Miss Cora Thomson; are in Abbevilfe for a short visit tb Mra. J. F. Barnwell* : Lieut Edwards is in the Aviation Corps and will return shortly to his work'in camp. { . >" I i . *s 1 , ; children of Confederacy. The Children of the Confederacy will meet Saturday'aftefnoon at{the home of Miss Lavinia McCuen,C .%t font o'dock. : ' { ' .) : . t . . V\ V V VS v w v\ vv V>V v cotton market ' f > V Cotton ,'--"32 1-2cj V. j V Seed $*0*, ,* N ; v vi vt v v v vv vv vv t v vsa / V ' r / . CONGRESS SEES : AMERICAN GUNS Browning Automatic Rifle Is On Exliibition, LINE OF DUMMIES SHOT UP -V Thousand* Will Be Deliver^ Weeklly Till the Wkol? Army It Equippe<I. Washington, Feb. 27.?The latest American, contribution to warfare, the Browning automatic rifle, was officially introduced to Congress today at a demonstration staged in a remote valley in the hills that surround this city. For more than two hours the air was filled with the snarl and crash of the firing, Senators and representatives . operating the new weapons for themselves lender the direction of a squad of officers from the machine gun schools at Springfield, Mass. High army officials, including Assistant Secretary Crowell, Major Gen. Biddle, acting chief of staff, and a score of officers from tihe British, French, Italian and Belgian missions watched the demonstrations with keen interest. "Dummies" Shot Up. ? - ** ' ' There was no target practice, al! though a line of figures shaped liks men was battered to pieces by the squad of ten gunners. Members of Congress also scored repeated hits, although it was the firBt time atay erf them had handled a weapon of this [-character. 1 As to the performance of the ten guns used, there wad Yio1; a stoppage from malfunction, despite the f&ct that hundreds of :roun'ds were fired, and the squad ftora theJ schools had f ' i - | never seen the 1giiris "before ltiat Saturd?.y. ...... When firing with "the ' automatic I 1 " ! rifles vas opened today, two B'rown; ing heavy machine guns were put inI to action. ' Thousands of * bullet:' I . \ . r , , ! were sent * streaming across thte val! ley to set the dttst leaping on thi fat i hillside. Again there w?s nit a mal! and'the-dem oh strati on "was ; completed' with 'an exhibition1 of the j simplicity of c&nsthicMcfn, of the , guns oe'ng dismounted. te"ke?i aparf J and reassembled repeatedly iff a fert j minutes', time? _ * . Arniy to Use "Tlieta. ' ' I These two guns have befen selectJ i ! ed every, day and' thousands' every . i , * % .* * i r I War Department' as the weapons | with which, fher army Is soon to be j equipped. The automatic rifles used ! came from factories where the actu! al production on a quantity scale has already started, witmn a matter of -.weeks, hundreds will be. deliverj ed- every day and htousands every j week. They are to be the "over-thej top" ;guns( of tomorrow as the French I Chauchat is used by French and I American, troops today.. A .nonj commissioned officer of the dem'onj strating .detachment,, who with his I assistants has been drilled with every | type . of weapon' used by the. Allied j troops, including the. Chauchat, the j-only prototype of the new rifle, I spoke for the whole squad when he I sa'd: .. ... . . ! "That's .the , finest, gun in , the world.," . ... * * 1 *. ENGLISH TROOPS . . . , . |N NIGHT , RAID Bring Back Prisoners' and An Enemy Machine Gurt. * London, Feb'. 28.?'English troops carried out a .'successful raid last night against the enemy on Greenland Hill, north, of .the Scarpe river. Twelve prisoners^ and a machine gun were captured, says the' official1 report . .... t English, and .Scottish, troops .conducted. ^ raid in tiie Southern . portion of .Houtho^st Forest and captured 12 prisoners and three' machine guns. - : -V 29 MEN PR( PERISHED Change Is Asked r In Draft Act , 1 1 Lansing Opposes Calling Citizens of Neutral Countries Who Plan to ; Ti BECOME CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES' Tl Washington, Feb. 27.?Citizens ' of eutral countries, who have ' declared their intention to become ci.t>izens of the United States, wilj not ^ be liable to military service "in the ^ second draft under a bill drawn by ^ the War Department in. conjUnctibn m with the State Departments . The ^ bill was favorably refloated to the House by the military jaffairs' com- ^ mittee today. It wiH be > passed byj ^ b J | the Houses before the next (draft ^ call is made. r 3 . ti In a letter ' to Chairman JDertt, ^ made public today", Secretary >Lans- m I ing recommended i tht. immediate .. ! amendment of the selective' draft act ^ j "It is. highly undfesirable'that the . v CI I existing law, &ould:>st*nd ftinmodiI fied,V hfe $aid,' "as evidence of a disregard of /treaty obligations; or even I of fa supposed rule of international j conduct heretofore observed ' by. 01 i other Governments." ; ' I J The United States has treaties, obI ' IT I liging it to exempt the .nationals of ' ] Argentina, Costa Rica, <Honduias, Italy, Japan, r Paraguay, ' Serbia,! w Spain, and Switzerland; > Secretary: " II Lansifcg-eaidi Many protests ^rom; ^ r these countries have fceeri/met'; by; i discharging their nationals who hftd; ^ : . . . , ri been conBciptep. . \ j . "The President has found it to ^be ji expedient in conduct of foreign re-| P .. latlonSjV. he explained, "to indicate!]. his. willingness, to .discharge 'neytraf B ; aliens under .certain circumstances s' affe^' tfyey have been brqughi un^er ,g i his. .jurisdiction as *' commander-jij-> 1 chief of tlie army." r 1 / ^ : r"?: . "I'P >1 :::/ r t v : { i ; i ifl , . . , COURT NEWJS. . ' .. t] ' o .! ' " > ; j ' j ; J John .Henry ; Jacjp*on Goe* to. the j , Electric. Chair, f ' } I * ? * -m*' 4 J IK . 1 % i i_ Lr i _ > - i. r :j . nThe Court> of Uenerai sessions; i continued its'sessions Tuesday morn- . j J: * . . / . i ; A ing. . 4 . T^e .jury in "the case of ' CaJ; houn,.Ware found him'guilty of assault and . battery with "intent" to kill! ' 1 tn the case of The State vs. Geoi I 'in j Carter and , Johi| IJeaifst, charged II with stealing a Ibale of^ cotton, pie ? j defendants were found guilty. .J. . 1 j Howard Moore was attorney for the 1( ': defendants, while J. Moofe1 Mars asr a ! sisted the. Solicitor. ' , j 5 '' 4 ^ J * Dave London arid Jim ? Durant J were found' guflty of arson' with ^ recommendation to mercy for' the 0 | / j " * J * f~ | w , alleged burning of the T?arn of S. IM. Beaty.. J. H. Moore and Sam a I Adams Esqr.| represented the' de- ^ j feijdants while J. M. NicVles assist^ ! ed the prosecution. Hugh Mack, ^ j charged in the same indictment, was j ^ i fpund not guilty. A motion' for new j trial is pending. . The. case against T, B. Martin for ?" violating the prohibition law was F nol-prossed on the pajrme'nt 6f $75. Nancy Calhoun and Pearl Padgett were found guilty of petit' larceny j an^ sentenced to pay tines of $40 j ^ ( and. $50. respectively! ! In the case of Raymond' Hall, j K j John Hall. and Ea'rle Hall, charged . i with. burglary and larceny,' fot in I stealing money from K. L. Morrisori, .H the -defendants, were, represented by d< J.. Howard Moore and Sam Adam's lii Esq.,, and found no't guilty. .: tli The ?ame verdict .was rendered ih the case o| , The' Statje v?. fej-skine J< Patton charged witn placing 'a i;ock di on ..the., P. & N. Ry.f near' Donalds, o' j.r Moore Mars represented .the de- th fondant ^ ^ el The Grand Jury returned a "no nt bill" in the case against Claudia m ( k- . )BABLY IN WRECK >ver HalfofCrewrf I Vaval Tug Cherokee, Lost In Gale M HE STEERING GEAR BROKE \ ag'. SurviVor." Had a Drt^M ' ''-|S Experience ^in Stohn?Reseat by British Ships '* ' ? m pwio^oinwio r ttaK'-i :9*n iTtnMWd ;'H lie men are believed? to hawr? ^ leir lh?es yesterday morning ?Wv ' JmJK: te: sea-gcrin&jnaval; tug \ Chwafciii mridered m s devew gale;. iles 'off the Maryland coast Iw crvivora and the tiaSes of .''440fe 'fj$k ^ her menibers %^of the crew- of ''!? '-nine were' brought here today' >70 British rescue1 ships and landed) ; the Philadelphia ntfvy yart* --"Ifc* ggB 4^ ace of t&e rethaining inemheiif db || rl ie crew- was found.- Amonfe those? ; Jj|? ikofiin ih ' :Tn?itnV l.iaHf 'jl!Mvafll my &5BM iOOUlg' 1U v?wnv*r ^ ewall, the commander of thfe rdiharily the Cherokee carried rla ew of fortyy but: one': inair -/aftM y Dt aboard. . ' Steering1 (jmr broke. I znt>& < According to the c&ptain i of miw> P the rescue ships, the-steering y&tt* , roke during a^fifty^miltf norCh n nt 1 ale and the little" tessel was at :~i :ercy of the mountainous Sea& Tkitf & ig was thrown -' broadside to " Am* aves ad her ^hatches -'were battiiedt i. ' Two rafts were launched i?hit .^gSM't i& ere** abandoned fee" ship/'-i.;^ jSjfl: ' 'rtie captain 'said hfe found an irned boat and then sighted : fhat 5 aft with1 twelve' rrt?n.-' fhejT -were iken"aboard and' iwo died froih ?osare.' 1 V: 7 * ' ' i -'^sSjB nI saV1 3ix "bodies," "the -J capCAm , dded, "and summoned another vi?- ?.>s| el to pick th?m up- is T> wanted :fco ', ive7 assistance5 to the living OtnfioT j. Virtually alf the; tweTVe j|f|jB he r^ft were 5 unconscious' wHe? .' icked up'. Therfe were* four ^nen ^on '( he'' second' raft.1 Twer were wasBed ';$! verboaVd and the other1 two Miedi nlfll APAN'S> OFFER3 CREATES ST&L Washington; f Feb. ^ 3S.^JaW'a 10've to develpp the, feeding of , {he illies towand ' a ^prOppsal fpr{joint *1:30 rilitary-operatiori ih'Siberia jto-kfe* .$jm tie vast stores at Vladivostok and/al0 ' the trans-Siberian, Railway front ailing rinto the hands; of 1}her (jjsrian.' invaders wa*; widely discuspel mong diplomats and officials- todpj, ut all were reluptawt to give ogi? >ns for' publication. yfhile; officials re silent it is known that exchange* />*sf? f opinion are going on.'with th?)#bjct-'of perfect understanding pt- ' ')M iveen' Japan, the United States 90! ther co-belligerents, which IT? lake a plan of;joint action wli^D? cceptable :to all; and will thoroughly efine its extent and duration. , Russian representatives here > pp- 1 7$ ose action by th? Japanese eria; but. the co-belligerer^ts /are loroughly alafmed.lest vast quantjes' of supplies. fall into the handp f the Germans. : , ' -jis RENCH LOST ONE BIG VESSEL ,Paris, Feb. 28.?rOnly one- vessel - ? ) TjTj . nder 1;600 tons was lost fo enamp ibmarinep or min^s last .week-shermep were sunk. ; j * hjm night, charged With infahticidfei ' the jury is Out ;as We go to prei l the case of The State vs.' Jili. ... enry Jackson, rcftargea wun moFii\ J. Howard Moore And j. Fraftlti Davis of Greenwood, "r/preseiitetf ie defendant. ' * ! ' ' Note': The jury ik the casfe >hn. Henry Jackson return 6d a veict .of guilty of murder : 4: ft T ? * J y % ^\ clock this evening. 1 This ' iheaiAs I ' f I # '? ,? % .OJ at the defendant will' go^to' tlie ectric chair unless he5seiifcres c? ;w trial, 'or Tiiil sentence is uted. . -i .......