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<!*:< , v. S'y rv, PROM ? fcT?yT Hu? l MIK! -f oiiip william P. Fry? hy tho Prinz Eitel Friedrich, received here to-day, makes tlx- far-reaching claim ol' a right to destroy any American vessel carrying contraband, while agreeing to pay damages tor the act. Two points made hy the United States are rejected hy Germany. Ono was the statement of tin' American government In its note of April 28 that prize court proceedings meant unnecessary delay, all matters con cerned being susceptible of prompt settlement through diplomatic chan nels. The other was that the de struction of the Frye was "unques tionably a violation of the obligations imposed upon thc imperial govern ment under existing treaty stipula tions between the United States and Prussia." Under thc Prussian-American treaty of IS L'S. the binding force of which was admitted by Germany in its note of April 28, the right of citi zens of either country to ship arms and ammunition as well as all other kinds of contraband in their own ves sels was granted in time of war. bul each party had the rights to detain euch contraband and make payment for it if confiscated. Text of tile Note. The text of Hie Herman reply fol lows: "Foreign Office, Berlin, June 7, Ul ir?.--The undersigned has the honor to make the following reply to the note of his excellency, James W. Gerard, ambassador of the United States of America, dated April Hot li. 1015, Foreign office number 3291,on the subject of the sinking of Un American sailing vessel. William P. Prye, by the Herman auxiliary crui ser, Prinz Eitel Friedrich. "The Herman government cannot admit that, as the American govern ment assumes, the destruction of the sailing vessel mentioned constitutes a violation of tho treaties concluded between Prussia and the United States at an earlier date and now ap plicable to the relations between tho Herman Empire and the United .Mates, or of the American rights de rived t beret rom. For these treaties did not have the intention of depriv ing one of the contracting parties en? gaged in war of the right of stopping the si '?|)ly of contraband to his en emy when he recognizes the supply of such as detrimental to his mili tary Interests. "On the contrary, Article 13 of the Prussian-American treaty, of July I I, 1700, expressly reserves to the party al uar thc righi lo slop the carrying of contraband and to detain the con traband. H follows, then, that if w mn no? hp nccomolished in .???? .....i...? ... couise, nie obligation of Hie party at war to pay compensa tion to i he parties Interested of the neutral contracting party remains in force whatever ?ie the manner of stopping the supply. Subject to Prize Court. "According te general principles of international law, any exercise of the right of control over the trade in con traband is subject to the decision of Hie prize courts, even though such Tight may be restricted by special treaties. "At the beginning of the present war. Germany, pursuant to these principles, established by Inw prize jurisdiction for cases of this kind under consideration. The ease of the William P. Frye is likewise sub ject to the Cern?an prize jurisdiction, for the Prussian-American treaties mentioned contain no stipulation as to how the amount of the compensation provided by Artil le 13, of the treaties cited, is to be fixed. "The German government, there fore, complies with Its treaty obliga tions to a full extent when the prize courts instituted by it in accordance "With international law proceed in pur suance to tie- treaty stipulation and thus award the Amelie-.i interested an equitable indemnity. There would, therefore, be no foundation for a claim of the American government unless the prize court should not grant indemnity in accordance with the treaty; in such event, however, the German government would not hesitate to arrange for equitable In demnity not withstanding. "For the rest, prize proceedings of the case of the Frye are indispensa 'ble, apart from the American claims, for the reason that other claims of the neutral and enemy interested par ties are to be considered in the mat ter. "As was stated in the note of April 1 last, the prize court should have to dei ide the question whether the (destruction of the ship and cargo was legal, whether and under what GL Wi \.\ Mi.M" ?INK S? ?NI hiv >!. oibtr^o? ?.?i C Ow t>H?itmc< .wu., me Auiniralty Halton r that a German submarine had boen sunk and that six of her officers and mern hers of her crew had been captured Mr. Balfour also announced that Herman submarine prisoners hereaf ter shall be accorded treatment identical with all other German pris oners in England. Mr Balfour failed to state when or where the Cern?an submarine was sunk. In announcing the revision of the polity regarding Cern?an prison ers. h?* said: "While this does not change Brit ish opinion as to the character of the acts in which these persons are con cerned, jt must he remembered that submarine attacks on defenseless vessels are not only violations of the law, of humanity of which the Ger mans are guilty, and the government is therefore of the opinion that the submarine problem cannot now be isolated, and that the general ques tion of responsibility should be re served until the end of thc war." t'lhe question of Great Britain's I real men I of Ce* man officers and sailors captured on submarines caused a degree of ill feeling in Ger many which resulted in retaliatory measures. Soon after the beginning of Hm Cern?an submarine blockade British authorities began holding crews of submarines who fell Into her hands in confinement apart from other Cern?an prisoners, and it was intimated they would be dealt with particular severity aller the war. Germany alleged they were being maltreated and certain British pris oners in Germany were selected for treatment of equal harshness. Rep resentatives of the American embas sies in Berlin and Condon visited the prisoners in each country, and made repents on the treatment accorded the men. ? British Steamer Sunk by Submarine. Condon. .lune P The British steamer Cady Salisbury was torpe doed by a German submarine this morning and went to the bottom. The Cady Salisbury. 8S9 tons, was 23"? feet long. The Cady Salisbury, a collier, is said to have heep torpedoed wii.iout warning near the Harwil ll lightship. She sank in live minutes. Of the clew of IS, 15 wore rescued. Thc chief officer was killed and two men are missing. Cholera Reported in Vienna. Geneva, Switzerland, .lune IO, News has reached Geneva by way of Innsbruck and Buchs, Switzerland, lending to confirm previous reports that cholera has broken oui in Vi enna. One report refers to 26 cases - i..,. . . . Hes are taking all precautions. A cholera quarantine camp is being hastily constructed outside of the city. Orders have hoon dispatched to thc front for rigorous examination of e.very wounded soldier before he is transported to tho rear. Vienna newspapers have been itu bidden to mention the outbreak of cholera. Stives Himself; Loses Car. Abbeville, .lune 9.-The automo bile of J. E. Cheatham, county farm demonstrator, was completely de stroyed by fire yesterday when the Btcering gear broke and the car ran into a hank. Mr. Cheatham left Calhoun Falls ai an early hour, head ed for Abbeville. When only a few miles from Calhoun Falls and while running af a fair rate of speed, thc steering ?ear broke. The bra kef were jammed on. but tho car began to describe a cirilo and Mr. Cheat ham, thc only occultant, jumped out falling on his hip and receiving n painful but liol serious brinse. The car ran into a bank which caused the gasoline tank to explode the flames shooting about 30 feet in tho air. The car was a complete '. rec);. J; was insured. , conditions tho property sunk was lia ble to confiscation and to whom and in what amount indemnity is to be paid provided application therefor is received. "Since the decision of the prize court must first be awaited before any further position is taken by tho (b rinaii government the simplest way For tho American interested parties to settle their claims would be to enter them in tho competent records in ac cordance with the provision of tho Cern?an odo of prize proceedings. "The undersigned begs to suggest that the ambassador bring the above to ?ho knowledge Of his government and avail himself, etc. ?SIgned): "Von .Tngow. "Minister of Foreign Affairs." - _ -- at? - ? Mfn^M The Europe; .'..ims'Mii Falls <<v ? "??a i ' . Berlin. The town of Stanislo been captured by the Teuton!, in their fast ward sweep. A dispat(di from Austrian quarters to Cologne says the ll army in Bukowina, the A crown land to the east of Gali< been cut off from the Russian : in middle Galicia and is being ed eastward. Stanislau lies ?. line between Lemberg, the G. capital still held hy the Russia! Czernowitz, capita] of Bukowl A communication from the grad war office indicates tba (?crinan army which invade? Baltic provinces has won furth. (esses. Having brought in reii monts, the Germans made a ni tack and compelled the Russi! fall hack from the town of D in the province of Kovno. While some sections of the E press maintain that the Tei rush has lost its impetus, the general reeling is that unies Russians succeeded in develoi counter offensive on a colossal the entire Galician si!nation w main unfavorable to Russian a id more than likely involve abandonment of Hemberg, caji the crown land of (?alicia. In the western theater, the bul steady French gains predoi i he sit nat ion. An Bulbin Dirigible Lost. Rome, .lune !.. An Italian Ide. which attacked the Austria of F i u me yesterday, caught fir was lost. The crew is belie\ have been saved and captured b> A ust rians. Allies 1/ese Transport. London, .lune 9. The loss o Hier ship by the allies at the I? Helles is announced in an odie; port from Constantinople. It i a transpon was struck by a she set on lire, and that later it The report does not state whet was a British or French trai and whether there was loss o' The landing of new troops on G Peninsula by the allies is re; from Athens. Two Torpedo Boats Sunk Hond?n, .lune 10.-Two torpedo boats were torpodoe morning olT the east coast of E by a German submarine. The boats are the Xe. 10 a No. 12. Tho survivors, tl ii ber. have boen brought ashore, attack took place at a verj I hour. This information was II out by the admiralty to-day. The British torpedo boats, . M. .and No. 12, each had^ a comp m of men. No. IO had a di.-;.' ment of 211 tons, a speed an . n? . *.C r< .' Irr s:. ' : . . : . has been torpedoed and sunk wich by a German submarin? members of the crew were et The Erna Boldt formerly German steamer. She was c by the British and put Into by them. She was 1,045 t and 2 H fi feet long. The Grimsby steam trawl lingham was sunk in tho No Monday by the shell fire of a submarine. The crew was sa A dispatch from Maas Ia the c rews of the British trawl Vive and Edward, which ha sunk by Herman submarine * r< rescaled by a Dutch steam brought into Maas Luis. Two Trawlers Sunk. Grimsby, England, June l trawlers Tunisian and Cast be en sunk by a Herman suhm The Tunisian's crew, who lowed five minutes in which . tho boat, arrived hen- to-da> vessel was sunk with bomb.--. The Castor's crew was pickc sea. In this case also bond used by 1 he (?el ma ns. Crew in Heats 52 Hour Hartlepool, England, lune The crew of the trawler V which has been sunk by a < submarine, were landed lui morning after being *>2 hours ; in a . niall boat without food oi it The men wen? in a terrible exhaustion when picked up thc vessel which brought thom to The submarine fired five s the Velocity to send her to t tom. Gorman Retreat Annoum t. Rellin, .lune 10.-The Uer iii ia I announcement to-day st. the German forces whic h Invj , ..< Baltic provinces of Russia li treated. Tho German win; easl of Shavli has withdrawi south, towards the Belsagola liiif. Tin- statement follow . ' Western theater: Battles chez and Neuville continue. , i .ve f of Souches French alto . Day by Day. ? an 'it i ;icM iff.t i rubi ruled ' . h<: j s-a? . W? il Si>ti?M0;5 i. J.. An attack against om p.. north ot' Neuville broke down, linces attempted by the enemy of Hebuterne fulled. In the ;e of the latest battle tboro 200 cbmen were made prisoners, .i the region of Souatn and north irlus we took possession of seve neiny t rem hes. ort h of Los Mesnil a French IK> wa.s taken by storm and main 1, notwithstanding an enemy attack. A number of machin?! and four mine throwers fell into ands. the western part of t he forest Pr?tre a section of our outer ? hes remained in the hands of . tierny. jstern theater: Southeast of i the. Russians offered strong ince yesterday to our advance, progress was made. The booty by us in the last two days in istricl amounts to li,250 jiris and two machine guns, e enemy brought forward rein ?ents from a northeasterly dl l in opposition to our encire ? movement on the east of the Du On account of this menace our vas withdrawn towards the line liagola-Zoginio without being .rea witb by the enemy, nth of the Niemen we took Russian prisoners while in pur ine enemy since .lune ti. We aptured two Hags, twelve ma li guns and many field kitchens irts. theastem theater: The situa ast of Przemysl remains un id. ssh Russian forces advanced ' ' the region of Mikolaiow and yu, south and the southeast of . >rg respectively. Their attack repulsed by parts of the army (len. Uinsingen on the line of a, northeast of Drohobac and na in the Dniester section . st of Stanislau and at Kalodniz 3 and pursuit continue." italians Repulsed, ina, .lune 10.-The war office uncial ion made public to-night fliting on the Upper Dneister the district of the Dneister and nth is proceeding. Our army is g further ground in the north rection. Continually fighting, approached Obertyn and the s of I iododenka. the Italian theater of war. re I attempts of the Italians to the Ison/..) river, near I'la va, I i sea and Sagrado, have been re mised. . riv yesterday morning one of .i ir squadrons successfully ho in - d the arsenal . ? .*;e."> h. ) ct n i;? twi Un Victories ? ?ver i erl? - . ons in the Caucasus, the general f says: Hy the Dib of June we had cap ed the vast region of Van and , nt of the Sanjak of Moush. We annihilated Khalil Bey's original ps and we had cleared of Turkish ipa the whole region between Van Ourza. On the right wing we occupied nrklsh territory between the old ; ' itier and the line of the rivers , '. >rokh and Tortun and the moun I range of Tchakhir Hahn. An nsive the Turks undertook in the vince Of Azerbaijan ended in a ade." Pressing Hermans in West. .alis, June 10.- To-night's war ce communication said: 'The artillery combat has con ned in the sector to the north of ras; it has been retarded, how ?r, by a thick fog. 'Supplementary reports on the dure of Neuville St. Vnast est?b il the fact that the northeast sec II of the village and the small fort ich the enemy had organized there . re defended willi extreme ohsti ?y. ft was by a si niggle foot by I, from house to house, that our antry took possession of the en > position. 'The Hermans did not retire until last extremity. They left in our . ids a quantity of munitions, ?li ding a '77' gun and several ma ne guns. We found in the houses 1 o passageways and cellars, upward 1,000 dead Hermans. "In the region of Hebuterne wc dured from the enemy on June 7, ind it six machine guns. "in Champagne, in the region ol Lleausejour, more than a battalion ol j enemy attacked our trenches, bul r. re everywhere repulsed. A num r of dead were left on the ground "On the heights of tho Meuse, not ly at Les Hsparges. there was a vio it artillery engagement in Hu I rae of which our guns reduced li lenee Hie batteries of the enemy." LA.VSING ?i:CB??TAlU f>Jf 8TATK, i I o ': IM Ml*' ** tment f?'l I Thirty Daij ?> FUI u nw j < ... tary ot* State tor tito ad interim by t President Wilson to BUceeed William { Jennings Bryan. j i The change in cabinet took effe? t < with thi> dispatch of the new note to j t Germany on the Lusitania, which < .states in unmistakable and deter- < mined terms the demands ot' tho | ( United States. j t Differing not in object se ight- 1 prevention of war -but in method of i approaching the problem, Secretary ( Bryan resigned rather than sing;) his ( name to the note. I I The text of President Wilson's ; 1 designation of Mr. Lansing as Seere- I 1 tary for the time being says he is "to perform the duties of the otlice of Secretary of State for a period not exceeding ?50 days, until a Secretary shall have been appointed and have qualified." Germany's "Frye" Reply. Merlin, June 9. - Germany has sent a note in reidy to the prepro senatlons Of the American govern ment regarding the American sail ing ship William P. Prye, which was sunk by the German auxiliary crui ser Prinz Eitel Friedrich last Janu ary. The note reiterates the origi nal view taken hy Germany, which was that the case should he sent to a prize court. The A .nerican government asked that compensation should he paid for the destruction of the vessel without waiting for a decision by the prize court, but German;', although ready to indemnify the owners for their loss in any case, under the provis ions ol' the Germany-American treaty, holds as a general principle that owing to the possibility that others than Americans have inter ests at stake the prize court should first pass on all eases. I 7,OPS Years in tile Future. Cheyenne, Wyo., dune Ml.--The Wyoming Supreme Court has allowed a writ of error lo the United States Supreme Court in tim ease of Oscar W. White, under sentence to be hanged Juno 1 for tho murder of An- j dotson Coffee. White's appeal is based on the contention thal his eon viction of a crime alleged on official information to have ho< committed August ll'. Cull:;, 17.<?.-S years in I the future, ls a violation of I ho j Fourteenth Amendment to the Con-1 stitution of lin; United States. The mi dake In thc date, which should have been August 12, I il 13, was duo to a clerical error in neglect ing to correct the printed date on an oiii tiwi;,.ii blank i <;M,I J 'onnd? Dynamit* n t o ? . ... , sons wore injured, ono store build ing was wrecked, two dwelling houses were partly shattered, and practically every residence in the vil lage was more or less damaged when lightning struck the warehouse of the Blackshear Stores Company and ex ploded 1,600 pounds of dynamite, Every window pane in the settle ment was smashed and roofs of two or more houses were torn off. The warehouse and contents were do st roved. The shock caused by the explosion was felt for more than 20 miles in all directions. Abbeville Engineer Killed. Abbeville, Juno IO.- Engineer Fred G. Link, of Abbeville, and En gineer Brooks, of Atlanta, of the Sea board Bail way, wore killed when tho engine turned over last night on the Birmingham division. Mr. Link left Abbeville Tuesday afternoon on a tour of inspection. I It was supervising engineer for the Sea board from Birmingham to Monroe. Mr. Link was killed instantly and Brooks died a short tinto alter the ac cident. Mr. Link was a Canadian, bul had lived In Abbeville several years. He is survived hy two sisters. All added element Of tragedy to his den i h is Ibo fact that ho was to have hoon married to an Abbeville girl tho last of this month. Will Die Game at End. (Anderson Tribune.) While at Walhalla a few days ago we remarked to tho hotel proprietor on the great nu miter of very old peo ple, native of that section, we bad seen and mot during Ibo day. "They speak well for the health fulness of your town and climate,'* said the writer. "Yes, doesn't it?" said the hoted man. "H's so healthy hero that most fit' the natives say thal they will have to ho shot when judgment day tWO HlLDHEN MTUKl) ALIVE, l!u ?flo Ones Were Siui'ili'. ?"ti bj AH Earth Slid??, y Tay o death beneath an avalanche ot lin from the side of a dwp gulley icar the Enoree section, in Lauren? iounty, this afternoon. The two lit le girls were playing along the edge )f the gulley, which is an old aband ?ned road washed by rains to a depth >f about fifteen feet. lt is believed hat they slipped over the edge, dis odging a quantity of dirt, which fell ipon them. They were buried to a iepth of about four feet, and were lead when finally uncovered with (hovels. Evelyn's lefl leg was bro ten. The news of the tragedy was Drought to the mother of the girls, Who was hoeing cotton in the field, :>y Buxton, their 4-year-old brother. He had bern at play with them dur ing the afternoon. About G o'clock he ran up to his mother crying and between sobs told her that the girts had fallen into the gulley. She im mediately gave the alarm and a par ty of rescuers went to the spot. A physician made every effort to resus citate the victims, but was unsuccess ful. Mr, Taylor's place is a half mile from Lan ford Station, near Enoree. Italian Lynched by Illinois Mob. Johnston City, 111., June 10.-John Si rando, arrested In connection with the murder las! night of Edward Chapman, a wealthy farmer, was taken from jail here hy a mob late to-day and hanged to a rafter of a nearby ice house. Several persons were injured in a . light that resulted when Strando's countrymen, members of Johnston City's foreign colony, tried to rescue him after he had been suspended sev eral minutes. Thiee companies of militia are en route here to-night to prevent riot ing between the townspeople and tile foreigners. Acquitted of Murdering Child. Spartanburg, June IO.-William Johnson, the Reidville farmer, who killed his infant daughter some weeks ago, when a whip handle slipped from his hand and penetrated the child's brain, was acquitted here yesterday. Judge M. L. Bonham directed a ver dict of not guilty. Johnson was ad ministering a whipping to his ten year-old son when the handle of the whip he was using slipped from his hand and struck bis little daughter in i he anns of her mother. New "Ragless" Dance. San Francisco, June ll. "Balboa" is its name. ll is the creation of [?.No h ti 'ju ' .vit i hi net .' Masters' Auso .i . Vc He. maslci'? ..il. u?i4? to take the place of the bunny bug. . ango and all rag-lime dances The masters declare that U eradi cates the "rag" in dancing and obvi ates the vulgar. No Market for Mills. A dispatch from Spartanburg says: The receiver's sale of the property of the Enoree Manufacturing Com pany, which was authorized under a recent order of court, was not com plet ed to-day. There were m.* bid ders for the property when offered at public auction by the receiver. It is probable that tho property will be of fered for s...- again al the July saler day. Two Killed in \uto Accident. Macon, Qa., June 9.-Miss Alice Wrigley was instantly ki'led and Miss Mary Hearson was injured, dying lal er, near Macon this afternoon, when a Central of Georgia passenger train struck the automobile in which they were riding. Doth were promi nent socially. Strangled to Deatli by Cord. Eugenia Smith, 22 months old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert ..milli, of the Saluda section, was strangled lo death Monday. The child was playing on the piazza ?nd had tied a cord about her neck. She jumped to the ground a l the trail in- end of the cord caught on a nail. Hullliglit Sails. Scilly. England. June i>.-The American lank steamer Gulflight, tor pedoed by a German submarine May 1, and for whose damage Germany has offered to pay an indemnity, sailed from St. Mary's for Rouen to day under her own steam, Cures Cid Soros, Other Rem?dier Won't Cure. Thc worst cns? s. no matt? t ol how loner fttnadirtff, PIC cured by tl?*- wonderful, old reliable Or. Porter's Antiseptic llenlir.;; Oil, Itrellev* . nd [Iculoatltu (.unetime. ?Sc,SOC,$1.00