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FREW OF SEAS
IS A BIG QUESTION
Diplomats Discuss Mat
ters to Be Taken Up
at Conference.
MANY QUESTIONS
i FOR GREEN TABLE
Puce Congress Expected to Restrict
[ Activity of Submarine Against
Ships Forming Part of Regular
i Navy.?U-Boat Operations
V May be Restricted by Peace
I Delegates.
? Paris, Nov. 24.?The restriction
I of submarine optrations against merI
chant ships so as to prevent attacks
I like that against the Lusitania doubt1
less will be proposed in the discusIsion
by the peace congress of the
"freedom of the seas" question. It
lis the view of leading naval authori
ties who have examined this branch
of the subject that submarine operaBtions
should be limited to attacking
lahips forming the regular part of a
navy. Attacks would be prohibited
against merchant ships, either paslaenger
or freight and whether anned
defensively or otherwise. According
to this view, submarines would conItinue
to be an arm of a naval ser
vice, but their service would be conI
fined strictly to naval warfare.
I This any many other subjects to
come before the peace congress are
now in a formative state as it will be
some time, perhaps a fortnight, be fore
the regular sittings of the in terallied
conference are resumed to
| arrange for the preliminaries of the
' * - A
I congress. In the meantime, uvuc
of the British, Italian or ether foreign
delegates are here except Col.
E. M. House, the American representative
to the conference, who is
confined to his bed with the grippe.
Several members of his staff also
are down with the prevailing epidemic.
But those charged with the preliminaries
are going ahead and diplomatic
circles are actively discussing
various phases of the big questions
to come before the congress.
According to information from
one nuarter, negotiations for the
can rr>t commence before early in
January. The discussion will take a
?i. i il..
month and a nan, so tnat me signling
of the protocol would not occur
before the end of February. This
will necessitate a renewal of the
armistice which expires on December
17, unless extended before that
time.
Previous to the January sittings
of th econgress, however, the interallied
conference will have sessions
during December in which President
Wilson will take part.
Active preparations for the peace
congress are shown in the requisitioning
of a large number of the
nost important hotels in Paris for
the accommodation of the extensive
rtaffs of the British, French, Ameri:an,
Italian and other delegations.
In all some 25 of the largest ho;els
in Paris have been taken, creatng
a great stringency in hotel ac:ommodations
so that army and navy
Iuiiucia auu oxc iitiumg viiv
neatest difficulty in securing quarIt
is declared that Marshal Foch,
he allied commander in chief, has
aid he will give no heed to protests
>f the German armistice delegates
aade through communications from
^oreiern Minister Solf concei'ninjr the
nanner of carrying out the armisice.
This reply doubltess will cover
.ny further representations that m <y
>e made by the Germans.
JUST ONE REASON.
There is just one reason right now
an Abbeville m n might want
i) live Iii Greeti'.vooci. nn'l ihnt is
is five cents a pound choap
o\*or there than here. It is said to
e chewable at that.
SECRETARY M'ADOO QUITS
HIGHLY IMPORTANT POST
Step Made Necessary Solely on Account
of Need for Replenishing
Personal Fdrtune Which Has
Suffered From Heavy Demands
Made by Cost of Living in
Washington.
Washington, November 23.?William
G. McAdoo has resigned office
is secretary of the treasury and director
general of railroads, to leave
he treasury on the appointment of
a successor and the railroad admin
istration on January 1, next. It was
announced last night that he had
asked President Wilson to relieve
him now that the war is over so that
lie might return to private business
after six years in office.
President Wilson has acceded to
rr. McAdoo's request and accepted
, -:s resignation.-'
Upon the new secretary of the
treasury, whoever he may be, will
devolve the task of financing the nai
tion through the transition period of
i war to peace, which probably will
j include at least two more Liberty
I 'oans and possibly also a further re|
ision of the system of war taxation.
Letters between President Wilson
j -nd Mr. McAdoo, made public today j
-vith the announcement of the re-j
| signation, give Mr. McAdoo's reai
sons for leaving the cabinet solely j
I 3 a necessity for replenishing his
j ^rsonal fortune and express the
I president's deep regret at losing his
son-in-law from his official family.
The retirement was made necesj
- ary, Mr. McAdoo said, because of j
i 'inadequate compensation," allowed!
( \ibinet officers.
The secretary also explained that
"ie is seriously in'need- of rest, although
there is no "actual impairment"
of his health.
The secretary plans to take about
Hree months' reet and then may resume
the practice of law in New
York.
The president in his letter of aci
ceptance expressed regret at the secrnfow'o
voBi'nmofiAn
j v. v vui j a avoi^uuvivu)
! ticularly to Mr. McAdoo's "distin-j
guished, disinterested and altogether
admirable service rendered the
country in both posts."
Mr. McAdoo announced his resignation
at a conference with newspaper
correspondents and made public
correspondence between himself
and President Wilson.
Mr. McAdoo explained to the correspondents
that he had intended to
resign before March 4, 1917, but remained
because of pressing war
problems. ?
As yet there is no suggestion of
vho Mr. McAdoo's successor may
ie, either as secretary of the treas-i
ury or as director general.
NEWS FROM DR. BRIGGS.
News from North Augusta, about'
the condition of Dr. Briggs is alarm-1
ling. The doctor contracted Influen-i
1 za several days ago and pneumonia
j
soon developed. He has been criti- ]
' cally ill for several days, and the,
i news yesterday was that his condi-;
! tion was most unfavorable.
! i
! Mrs. Briggs, who was Miss Eliza,
1 Gary, before her marriage, is also'
Jill, but her condition is not at pres-!
ent alarming:.
Mr. L. C. Merchant of Batesburg, i
i
; spent last Friday night in the city
with Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McCord. '
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GOVERNOR 10 PRE
SIDE AT KRESS
Will Stress Part Played
By Section in Winning
World War.
TENTH ANNUAL COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS IN BALTIMORE
Many Prominent Government Officials
Take Part in Deliberations
at Yearly Meeting?World Commerce,
International Recon?
struction Important
Subjects. J
Washington, Nov. 24?The SouthV
part in winning the world war occupies
a prominent place in the theme
of the tenth annual convention of I
the Southern Commercial Congress!
flaaamkav q f a 1 k
Ill JDaitllHUlC) J-scvcuih/d u w AV*
World commerce after the war, international
reconstruction and other
important subjects in addition to
the constructive program framed at
a conference at Atlanta in October
find a place on the official program
made public here today.
Officials of the congress look Upon
this year's convention as one'of thej
most important? in the history of the
organization and have arranged an
intensive program.
President Wilson had hoped to, be
present at the opening session, butj
his trip to France to attend the
peace conference will prevent. His'
place will be taken by Champ ClarkJ
speaker of the house, who will deliver)
the opening address.
Secretary Daniels will mobilize the(
Atlantic fleet in the Chesapeake bay
for a naval pageant. The secretary
of war has ordered an entirc^brigade
of troops under General Carter to
participate in the military parade.
Many of the diplomatic representatives
to the United States will attend
a special banquet in their hon!
or.
Many on Program.
Approximately 5,000 delegates
from all parts of the country are expected
and among those taking part
in the discussions will be members
of the president's cabinet and other
j government officials, governors of
States and mayors of cities throughout
the South and elsewhere.
Manning to Preside.
Visiting mayors will be given an
I honorary dinner Tuesday evening
| and the night session will be devoted
r>
I tu i/uc uuuac ui ouuiiACiii uuvciuurs,
with Governor Manning of South
i Carolina presiding and Secretary Mcj
Adoo as chief speaker.
Wednesday's sessions will discuss
: farm problems and world trade in
| the morning and in the afternoon the
! cotton conference will be held with
1 Col. Harvie Jordan presiding.
The trade expansion constructive
program of the Atlanta confcrence
also will be taken up Wednesday afternoon.
Agricultural problems and commercial
education for the foreign
Held will occupy Thursday morning's
sessions and the afternoon will ?e
devoted to the naval pageant.
Shipbuilding, the merchant marine
and agriculture finance, will be discussed
at Thursday night's sessions.
Friday's sessions will take up dairying
and bee keeping. j
The military parade will begin
Friday at 11 a. m. and sailors from
ilia an/1 cr?l /15nvc frnm noovKr
cantonments will march.
A pilgrimage to Mount Vernon
will he made from Washington on
Sunday in vessels placed at the disposal
of the congress l?y Secretary
Daniels.
The ' *Ohristpirs ship wr'h gifts
f./ {lif hvs sail';! others
:!1 fo'-ow ; ! ir.lenjvs of five days,
". ry i:i the Exysoai'-ioriary
ico.-- wi"! :< nap'cr?ge. The
Hed Cro-'s lias arranged for fifty
*hoiir,;vvl extra packages !o he given
ricn who fail to get one from home.
'MM SOLDIERS 10
COIf BACK S00H
Gen. March Announce!
That Demobilization
Will Be Hastened.
TOTAL CASUALTIES
MORE THAN THOUGH!
Larger Number Accounted for is
Part, However, by Trivial Wounds,
Causing Little Inconvenience
for Extended Time.
Washington, Nov. 23.?Demobilization
of the American expeditionary
forces, already in progress with the
movement homeward of sick and
o
wounded, will be "hastened by the return
at an early date, of eight divisions
of National Guard and Naj
tional Army troops, eight regiments
of coast artillery and two brigades of
field artillery. This announcement
was made today by General March,
chief of staff.
Total American casualties to November
11, when hostilities ceased,
were 236,117. This includes, General
March said, killed and died of
wounds, died of disease, unclassified
deaths, wounded, prisoners and missing.
The divisions which, Genera]
March said, have been designated by
General Pershing to return soon aa
the Rick and wounded have been
moved to the United States are:
National Guard? Thirty-first,
{Georgia, Alabama and Florida);
Thirty-fourth (Nebraska, Iowa and,
South Dakota and Minnesota); Thirty-eighth
(Indiana, Kentucky and
West Virginia), * and Thirty-nintl
(Arkansas, Mississippi arid Louisiana.)
National v Army? Seventy-sixth,
(New England); Eighty-fourth,
/Trnr?fii/?lrtr Tnrliana on/) SAiifViom
\ IkVli b UV y AAA U1U11U UliVI
Illinois); Eighty-fourth (North Illinois,
including Chicago), anc
Eighty-seventh, including Arkansas:
Louisiana, Mississippi and Southerr
Alabama.
The coast artillery regiments to be
] returned soon as possible were an
nounced as the Forty-sixth, Fortyi
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth
Fiftieth, Seventy-third, Seventyfourth
and Seventy-fifth.
The two field artillery brigades tc
; be brought home are the Sixty-fifth
j and the One Hundred and Sixty'
third. Eighty-two aero squadrons
17 construction camps and several
special units from England will b?
brought home as soon as transportation
facilities are available, General
March said.
I Casualties sustained by the AmeriI
cans were tabulated by General
I March as follows:
Killed and died of wounds, 36,154.
Died of disease, 14,811.
Deaths, unclassified, 2,204.
Wounded, 179,625.
| Prisoners, 2,163.
Missing-, 1,160.
Total, 236,117.
Many Trivial Hurt?.
While the total losses at first
ilance appeared to be almost double
'be total estimated by officers here
probable, analysis of the table, it
was pointed out, shows that among
the 179.000 wounded are included
the names of thousands of men
v.hose injuries were so trivial they
never were admitted to hospitals and
vhe record of their injury was kept
only in company and regimental
! vssing stations. The final total of
liletl, died of wounds or disease or
: the unclassified death list, the
. :ou.*:ly v/ounded and the prisoners
" ! missing, officers believe, will
work cat not in excess of 125,000.
The number of Americans taken
v::oncr by the Germans little more
'.i\A two thousand, is strikingly low,
I.: view of General March's announce
" 'at that a total 'in round numbers'
? 11,000 Germans had been capered
bv the Americans.
MANY TAXES LOWERED
IN WAR REVENUE BILL
Scale Being Revised Downward to
Meet Secretary McAdoo's Estimate
of Six Billion Dollars Needed
Instead of Larger Figure at
First Proposed. Tobacco
I Included
Washington, Nov. 23.?Reductions!
aggregating $500,000,000 in the J
yield from the new war revenue bill
were made Friday by the senate finance
committee in revising the!
measure downward to the $6,000,-1
i 000,000 total for 1919 proposed by!
Secretary McAdoo. The decrease was!
confined principally to the tobacco,!
luxury, semi-luxury and other special
and excise schedules.
Among the more important decisr
ions Friday were elimination of the
! luxury schedule proposed in the
^ house bill, levying 20 per cent, on
' costly articles of clothing and other
' merchandise and estimated to raise
$184,795,000; elimination of the
1 house tax of two cents a gallon on
gasoline, estimated to yield $40,000,
000; reduction from 1 to 5 per cent.!
r about $200,000,000 in revenue, in1
rates or many articles classed as|
semi-luxuries and a reduction of j
, about one-half in the house rates on
tobacco, a cut of about $54,000,000
, in revenue.
i \
The committee deferred decision
on the plan, suggested by Secretary
\fcAdoo and specifically presented'
; Thursday by Chairman Simmons for,
j incorporating in the measure specific
iJ -ates for 1920 taxation by which,
the total revenue yield would be'
limited to $4,000,000,000. Republi-j
:an members still vigorously oppose
,1 legislation for 1920 and the commit-,
j tee decided to pass that question
j temporarily. Saturday it resumed,
{\ revision of the miscellaneous taxes
j with a view to cutting off another
$500,000,000 necessary to reduce the
whole to $6,000,000,000.
In cutting the excise, or semi-lux'
ury schedules, the committee reduc-j
' ed, from 10 to 5 per cent, the house
1 rates on the following articles: Pia-I
no players, phonographs, photogra-i
phic films, candy, portable electric
' fans, thermos bottles, slot machines!
1 and toilet soap and powders. The:
chewing gum rate was cut from 4 to
5 3 per cent; that on hunting and!
Bowie knives from 100 to 10 perj
" cent.; on fire arms and ammunition
> from 25 to 10 per cent.; and on|
sculpture, paintings and stationery (
from 10 to 15 per cent.
> The 10 per cent, sales tax on pre-j
i! nous stones, jewelry and imitations,!
I , , . , , ,
. | ciocks, watcnes, opera glasses ana.
, I similar articles was reduced to 5 per
[ cent.
> After virtually deciding upon rerluction
of the amusement admission
I taxes, the committee finally deterI
mined to leave them unchanged as
/already reduced from the house fig-'
[' ures. The principal rate for such adj
missions is 1 cent for each five cents
| paid. The 10 per cent, tax on club
I .1 _i__ 1 - Hi. 1 J
! aues aiso was xeit uncnangea.
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THANKSGIVING THINGS. |
The Canteen Company of which
! Mrs. R. S. Link is Captain, will run
1 an exchange on Wednesday at the
| corner of the Rosenberg Block, on
the way to the post office. The mem,:bers
will offer for sale at reasonable
, prices, cakes, vegetables, chickens,
md perhaps turkeys, as well as other
, !>ings which will be useful for the
Thanksgiving dinner.
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\ MORE U-BOATS SURRE^r-E^ \
\ V
Harwich. Eng., Nov. 2 I.? V
V In the presence of Sir Erie
\ Ceddcs, first lord of the ad- V.
' ? miralty, 2S more German Uboats
surrendered today. Tliis \
\ was the most imposing floti!\
i.i to haul down the C"cm;n
\ flag th'ts f"j\ It inr!u.;'-\' C'"V- S.
\ oral vevy largo ?;ilimarines V
\ an;l four oi' the cruiser type. v?.
\ one beinpr nearly 3">0 feet in
\ lenprth. V.
STATE SUBSCRIBES
MORE THAN QUOTA
Some Counties Fall Far
Below Their Apportionment.
ORANGEBURG BANNER
COUNTY OF STATE
Spartanburg Next to Top?Elevra
Counties Will Receive Sets of
Allied Flags.
I
South Carolina's splendid resolta
in the United War Work Campaign.
besides having elicited warm telegrams
of congratulation from Dr.
John R. Mott, national director, and
R. H. King, department director for
the Southeast, have earned for a .
number of communities in the state
trophies which will be prized as
priceless testimonials of patriotism
and devotion to our troops overseas
And in camp.
In making public the awards, State
headquarters stressed the fact that,
while every district except Charleston.
accepted quotas which were increased
by 25 per cent and, in many
cases, raised the larger amount, it
was only fair that the awards be baapH
nn t.ViA nffiHfll nnnfnn and rm +V>?
mounts reported when the drive officially
closed Wednesday night.
However, the cablegram to Soutk
Carolina troops in France, naming
the counties and county chairmen
vho went over the top, was held until
Saturday night, so tljat every
county could get its rural returns all
reported. The State's total of $1,086,000,
at midnight Wednesday,
was increased steadily by late returns
during the latter part of the
week. "
Probably the proudest county i*
the State will be Orangeburg, whiek
J iL. .1 : .V.V -i T O T>
uuucx Liiv ui o. o. uuvrnan,
raised $43,000. or 162 per cent *
of its $26,500 quota. A handsoma
silk flag donated by R. H. King,
Southeastern director, will go to
Orangeburg, as the banner county of
South Carolina, Spartanburg County,
with an official report of $96,389,
was a close second*, having raised
161 per cent, of its $60,000 quota,
.vith T. M. Lyles as chairman.
To the Spartanburg district will ga
desk set of allied flags, offered by
W. D. Melton, State chairman, for
the district first to go over the top.
he district, with H. L. Bomar as
chairman and H. B. Jones, as director,
is composed of Spartanburg,
Cherokee and Union Counties.
LEAVING US.
r Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Seal and
family are leaving Abbeville this
week for Logansville, Ga., where
they will make their home in the future.
Capt. Seal will have the Logansville-Lawrenceville
run which is
a good one and will give him much
time at home. Our people will give
up the Seal family with regret. The
captain is popular with everyone and
will be missed in the different organizations
of which he has long
been a faithful member.
Mrs. Seal has a host of friends
who will miss her. She has been a
faithful member of the A. R. P.
church and its different societies and
' 1" '* ? fivi/1 If Uo f a <*nf n 1 at?r?
I. 111" y Will lliiu 11/ naiu C\/ v_ u aivug
without her generous help and good
counsel. The Seal children are popuar
at school and a wide circle of
friends are sad at their leaving us.
NEWS FROM MRS. STONE.
Friends in Abbeville will be glad
to know that Mrs. A. M. Stone, who
now at )w homo in T'.etreat,
i' ;r recov.. v.- : h?nlth
: : t'l Mo l?? tc*.ii.! J:"a King
v i?i.=rh S'/hoo1. f'V.' v.with
i.'.io dii-icully ; soon to
o back to nornu:! a:- i to keep up
.vlih thr> w'iv!> ,.vr !">ys come
u" iiov.io. ?Tv.?. ? to tie is a
.r ,vo- ; i.i Ahliovillo and
r . : } ? Had to know of her
liea'.!:h.