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Scraps and .facts. ? Prof. Lucien W. Memminger, for some years past American consul at Rouen, France, has been promoted to the consulship at Madras. India. Prof. Memminger is a citizen of Charleston and is a brother of Hon. R. W. Memminger, circuit judge. ? Forty men from the German cruiser Emden, who were left on the Cocos island when the Australian cruiser feydney forced the Emden ashore and destroyed her. have captured a collier, mounted two maxims on her and now are raiding commerce in the Pacific, according to a report received at Manila, The report came through the officers of the British steamer Malacca, Just arrived at Jolo, and has not been confirmed officially. The men of the Emden had gone ashore on Cocos Island to dismantle the wireless and fled when the Emden was destroyed. Headed by Lieut, von Mueck. they left Cocos island with a commandeered schooner and plenty of provisions, together with their own armed launch, and two boats, according to report. When they captured the collier is not stated. The Malacca reports that she steamed to Jolo without showing lights at night ? Dispatches to the German embassy at Washington, from the German minister at Santiago, Chile on Wednesday announced that the British fleet which sank the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Leipzig off the coast of Chile recently, was badly damaged and that one British ship apparently was sunk. A statement issued Wednesday night at the embassy at Washington, said: "According to information received by the German embassy from Chile the battle off the Falkland isiands lasted from 9 o'clock in the morning until 7 in the evening. On the British side the Invincible. Inflexible, Canonus, Carnarvern. Cornwall, Kent, Glasgow and Bristol were engaged. Many German officers and men were saved but lack of boats prevented the number from being larger. The British cruiser Defense did not take part and has been seen aground at Port Stanley. Only seven English cruisers left the scene of battle, so that one must have been sunk. The others were badly damaged." ? Brigadier General Bliss, commanding the United States troops on the Mexican border, reported to the war department, yesterday, that he conferred at Naco on Wednesday, with Gen. Ramirez, military secretary to Maytorena, the Villa commander. Ramirez was told what was expected of the Maytorena troops in shaping operations against the Carranza garrison so as to avoid firing across the border. Ramirez undertook to communicate the representations to Maytorena. Officials in Washington expect Provisional President Gutierrez's order to Maytorena to re-arrange his forces, if necessary, to stop the fire into Arizona, will bear fruit before all the American forces ordered to Naco get into position. No predictions are being made in official quarters as to what course the United States will pursue, but it is generally understood that after General Scott arrives at Naco, tomorrow, and conducts his negotiations with both the Mexican factions, further firing into American territory will mean that the American troops fire on the belligerents. ? King George on yesterday, proclaimed Egypt as a British protectorate and appointed Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur McMahon to be his high| commissioner for that territory. The proclamation of ^gypt as a British] protectorate was foreshadowed in I recent dispatches. On November 3, Egypt was placed under martial law and MaJ. Gen. Sir Grenfell Maxwell, commander of the forces in Egypt, was placed in military control. Advices from Constaninople have reported the Khedive Abbas Hilmid? exiled from Egypt on account of his pro-Turkish attitude?as having gone to Vienna to confer with the Austrian authorities. Previously the khedive had been reported preparing to lead an army into Egypt to wrest control from the British. Egypt, while nominally forming part of the Turkish empire, had been virtually a British /lonAnrionrv. The administration is carried on by native ministers, subject to the ruling of the khedive. Since 1883, England has been represented in the government. On the abolition of the Joint Anglo-French control in that year, the khedive. on the recommendation of England, appointed an English financial adviser without whose consent no financial decision can be taken. ? Only letters that are devoid of all gloomy news or utterances, are permitted to reach the hands of French soldiers, according to the Paris correspondence of the Associated Press. This is in accord with an irrevocable rule of the military authorities. They also insist that all communications must be either unsealed, or written on postcards. One family complained that it received letters from a son almost daily, but after a month of war he had not received a single word from home. Investigation showed that each one of the letters written by the boy's mother contained such words as "desolation ' and "despair." She was told that her son was seeing enough desolation at the front and did not need to hear about the despair at home. The style ol the letters changed and now they are arriving promptly. Cold weather and the shipment of warm clothing and other comforts to the soldiers tended to delay the delivery of letters. The automobile club volunteered its services and hundreds of automobiles carried packages to the trenches, until the Germans became aware of the arrangement. They captured ten motor cars filled with packages of heavy underwear, jerseys. sweaters, tooacco, cigareura nsoio, pipes and cigarette lighters. Some four mothers sent preserves, cakes cold chicken and pate-de-fois-eras. One package that met with an accident en route was found to contain even a bottle of perfume. ? London, December 15: The first serious blow inflicted on the Turkish navy since the entrance of the Porte into the war?the sinking of the Turkish battleship Messudieh by the British submarine B-ll in the Dardanelles?gave naval color to yesterday's war news. The feat of Lieutenant Commander Holbrook, of the B-ll, in diving under the five rows of mines in the Dardanelles and sending a torpedo against the Turkish battleship is described here as perhaps the boldest marine exploit of the war. The submarine presumably was not scratched. She escaped gun fire ord the pursuit of torpedo boats in a manner truly remarkable, and it was necessary for her crew to endure the ordeal of remaining under water for nine hours on a stretch. Russian guns have from time to time inflicted some damage on Turkish warships bombarding Russian ports, including the German-Turkish battle cruiser Goeben. but the disaster reported today robs the Porte of his first big ship. The loss of life is not estimated in the brief announcement by the official press bureau, which says: "Yesterday submarine B11, in charge of Lieut. Commander Norman B. Holbrook, of the Royal Navy, entered the Dardanelles, and. in spite of the difficult current, dived under five rows of mines and torpedoed the Turkish battleship Messudieh, which was guarding the mine fields. Although pursued by gun fire and torpedo boats the F-ll returned safely, after being submerged, on one occasion. for nine hours. When last seen the Messudieh was sinking by the stern." Lieut. Commander Holbrook. of the submarine B-ll. is one of five Dromers, an serving wim me luiuig, the sons of Col. Arthur Holbrook. a newspaper owner of Portsmouth. ? The French government in a note to the state department on Wednesday. says a Washington dispatch, gave assurance that France would not interfere in any manner with American cotton shipments either to belligerents or neutral countries. Announcement was made that France would adopt the same attitude toward cotton shipments as that of Great Britain. Great Britain had announced late in October that cotton was not and would not be considered contraband and assurance was given that there would be no interference with shipments. Since then the state department has been seeking like treatment from Frame. Ambassador Gerard informed the state department that there was practically an unlimited market for cotton in Germany so that two million bales probably could be disposed of in the empire in If 15. It was reported from Vienna that 800.000 bales can tincl a market in Austria-Hungary and Ambassador Page informed the state department that Italy was in the market. Mr. Gerard said German prices ranged from 13 to 18 cents a pound after allowing two cents for insurance, freight and other charges. Twelve vessels flying the American flag and bearing about 80,000 bales of cotton, now are loading or en route to Europe. The ultimate destination of the cargoes is Germany. Officials today felt there would be a speedy restoration of the cotton trade to normal. Secretary Eryan in a statement on the cotton situation, said: "The one practical obstacle to the supplying of the demand is the scarcity of American boats. The Holland-American line has refused to accept shipments of cotton to Rotter- j dam and the fact that American Doais are required under the conditions imposed by Germany in the raising of the embargo to bring back dyestuffs, syanide, chemicals, etc., makes the demand for American bottoms greater than the supply." Ihe ilnrkriUr tfnquirrr. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkvllle as Mall Matter of the Second Class. YORKVIIXE. 8. O.i FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1914 In an address before the Sandhill Farmers' association at Aberdeen, N. C., last Wednesday, Secretary of Agriculture Houston, of the department of agriculture, declared that he saw no certain means of meeting the present situation except through the reduction of next year's cotton crop. Now since the Germans have actually shaken up England by firing shells at some of her coast towns, no one need be surprised at further developments. It has been suggested that different events have proved the overconfidence of England and it may yet appear that this over-confidence is more serious than is realized. The dispatches now represent that the allies are on the offensive in France and Belgium, and that they calculate on driving the Germans a distance of twenty or thirty miles to their second line of defense within the next two weeks. The Germans, however, claim to be holding their own without serious difficulty. Now that the details of the Wade Cotton Loan scheme are out, it appears that the plan is strangely and wonderfully made. It seems to us that the bankers could Just as easily have raised $135,000,000,000 on that basis as $135,000,000. Almost anybody could understand that there would be no reasonable probability of a call for the money on any such terms, and under the circumstances billions would have been Just as safe as millions. The Associate Press dispatches say that when the Germans lammed it to the coast of England the other day, it was the "first time in centuries" that a hostile foreign shot had landed on English soil. The writer of that dispatch evidently forget his history somewhat. A gentleman by the name of John Paul Jones, sailing a tub of an old ship that he called the Bonhomme Richard, was pretty conspicuous along the British coast some 135 years ago, and what he did for some of the towns on the Scotch and English coasts was a plenty. And when British warships appeared he did not run away so you could notice it. either. He left the bones of the Bonhomme Richard there, it is true; but he sailed away in the Serapls, which had sunk his own ship. Messrs. J. K. Breeden, secretary of the Prohibition movement, and Rev. J. L. Harley, superintendent of the AntiSaloon league, are not exactly agreed as to their proposed method of procedure against the liquor traffic. Mr. Harley is working to secure prohibition by legislative enactment, being afraid of a referendum because of the danger of the whisky interests working up the anti-prohibition vote while the prohibitionists remain passive, and Mr. Breeden wants the matter referred to the people. We are Inclined to side with Mr. Breeden in the matter. While we believe that if the legislature should pass a statewide prohibition law, the same could be ? * I A. t- iV>> rtf t Ho eniorveu wim mc aaaoiuuic Federal government, still we think that it would be much better to have the sanction of a majority of the voters of the state. The temper of most of the farmers to whom The Enquirer has talked with reference to next year's operations, is something like this: "As things stand now there is very little prospect for the sale of the next cotton crop over the cost of production. However, things will have to get better sometime. We have been pretty liberal with our laborers heretofore, and most of them have been giving very good accounts of themselves. When they have been faithful, we do not like to tell them that we do not need them any longer, and we will not do this as long as we can help ourselves. Of course, we cannot pay out money as we have been doing, but we will try to furnish as much work as possible, and do the best we can to furnish work to others. Of course we will plant some cotton because we do not know of anything else we can do." Dispatches from London tell of the despatch of large numbers of troops from England to France, and it is explained that these are troops that were in training for the big driving movement that has been contemplated for next spring. The statement is that the troops having been gotten in readiness for battle before it was anticipated, the time for the final campaign has been moved up. All this may be true; but in view of the many suppressions and misrepresentatioi s of news that has been so obvious since the beginning of the war, one is led tu wonder whether or not it is not entirely possible that the present troop movements have an entirely different meaning. For instance, there arises a question as to whether the troops already in on the firing line have not been decimated and exhausted to such an extent that it has become necessary to either forward re-irforcements of half trained troops or abandon the front nltogeth* r. This is altogether probable. President Dahhs of the State Farm-' 1 ers' I'nion, lias issued an address ;n which he urges the necessity of the immediate re-organization of Unions all over the state. He argues that the farmers are the hardest hit by the deplorable conditions now existing and that their only hope is to get together and make organized demand for such relief as may be just. Concluding, he says: "The purpose of this address is to urge concert of action among the farmers to secure the united efforts of all the banks of the state to make use to the fullest of the new bank system in the protection of cotton while it is yet largely in the hands of the farmers. Better than ever in my recollection hnvp th? f#rmprs rpallv held cot ton. With so much of the crop in the hands of the growers, If the new currency law is not made to give them relief, the Democratic administration that has promised so much from this system, that turned down every proposition of the Farmers' Union in favor of this new system, will be stultified in the eyes of the farmers of the south. Let it not be said, farmers of South Carolina, that because we would not act together, it failed. Let it not be said of you bankers of South Carolina that you would not use it for the good of your constituents and your state. If it fails, let it be squarely up to the national administration that offered it as a cure-all for our financial troubles. "What do I suggest? Organize, reorganize and build up the local and county Unions all over the state. Do this now. Have your committees to wait on your bankers at the earliest day possible. From these county conferences send a banker and a farmer to a joint state conference of farmers and bankers. Let the national administration and the regional reserve board know that South Carolina must have results or know the reason why." MERE MENTION More than 800 miners were imprisoned in a coal mine at Fukueka, Japan, Tuesday, as the result of an explosion Another eruption of Las Ben peak, the sixty-fourth or the present series, occurred Tuesday. The volcano hurled forth a jet of vapor to a height of nearly 3,000 feet Chas. B. Reynolds, a prominent lawyer of Atlanta, wes shot and killed in a battle with a burglar In his home, Tuesday Lieut. Commander S. M. Strite, who commanded the after 8inch turret of the Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship, at the battle of Manila Bay, died at Hagerstown, Md., this week The London board ot trade has awarded Liverpool seamen an increase of 32.50 per month in wages. The seamen asked for un increase of $5 per month, owing io the extra risks they have to run on account of the war Secretai of Agriculture David F. Houston, is spending some time at Pinehurst, N. C Edward Daniel Mier, past president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and one of the foremost mechanical engineers of the world, died in New York, Tuesday Chicago authorities have announced that Ave municipal dances as a sane celebration of New Year's eve and as a counteraction to the usual revel in Chicago's cafes, will take place this year A Bon of former Premier Balthour of France, has been killed in battle at Tahaan. He was only 18 years old The New York supreme court has dismissed the suit brought by James M. Lynch, former president of the International Typographical Union, against John Kirby and other directors of the National Association of Manufacturers, for' publishing a resolution charging the union with responsibility for the dynamite explosion in the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 After 32 years of service, William S. McGuire, who is called Chicago's model policeman, resigned Tuesday No damage to Florida's citrus fruits resulted from the cold wave of this week The eldest son of Chancellor von Bethmann-Holweg of Germany, has been captured by the Russians Fire in the heart oi Atlanta's business district on Tuesday, destroyed property valued at $100,000. Grover Neves, a young farmer of Fort Gaines, Ga., was shot and killed by a negro, Jim Pink, this week. The negro refused to surrender, and he in turn was killed by a posse The Ohio supreme court has refused to review a lower court- decision that school teachers have a rieht to form unions Former President Theodore Roosevelt has declined to testify before the house naval committee, regarding the proparedness of the United States for war Gen. Victoriano Huerta, former president of Mexico, now living at Barcelona, Spain, has denounced as false a report that he has offered his support to ?Gen. Villa. The store of August Klein at Yonkers, N. Y., was robbed this week for the sixth time in six years The Arkansas supreme court has just handed down a verdict by which an insurance company, doing business in that state, is required to pay back taxes amounting to $300,000 Fire this week destroyed the famous International hotel, at Virginia City, Nev. The loss is $300,000 With an unfinished Christmas poem upon her desk, Miss Mary L. Bartlett, a Haverhill, Mass., school teacher, was found dead Monday night in her apartments, having been asphyxiated Seven thousand employes of Pittsburgh, Pa., are unable to get the wages due them by the city as the treasury is empty. An emergency bond issue will be required to pay the $290,000 due the employes The United States senate has refused to confirm the appointment of John R. Lynn to be district attorney for the western district of New York, made by President Wilson. The confirmation was held up at the instance of Senator O'Gorman, because he had not been consulted.... New Zealand has rejected the proposed nation-wide prohibition measure by an overwhelming majority New York trade experts estimate that since the outbreak of the war in Europe, Greece has spent fully $10,000,000 for war supplies and materials in the United States Seven persons ti.om onH oicht aorlrmialv inlnr ed at Cleveland. O.. Monday night, when an explosion of natural gas completely wrecked an apartment house. When a moving picture theatre at Wilmington, Del., caught fire Monday night, the 600 patrons of the place marched out in good order. The fire did damage to the amount of $100,000 The walls of a new school building at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., have sunk nine inches and are seven inches out of plumb, having been erected over a coal mine, the roof of which is settling The house committee on postoffiees and post roads has reported a bill carrying appropriations of $321,125,614 Wm. A. Orr, a New York city newspaper man. has been appointed private secretary to Governor-elect Whitman, at a salary of $6,000 a year Great Britain is said to be building ten battleships, the first pair of which will be ready within six months. The new superdreadnoughts are to be armed with ten guns each, of 15.5 inch calibre.. .. T. S. Westgate, an oil refiner and expert of Titusville, Pa., says "zoline" will do all its inventor claims for it, but that its cost of manufacture is fully equal to or in excess of the cost of gasoline Ronald F. Brennan, former United States senator from Delaware, with five associates, has been indicted by a Federal grand jury at Wilmineton. Del., for misuse of the mails in promoting fraudulent fire insurance companies. ? Although President Wilson announced Wednesday he did not favor the literacy test in the pending immigration bill, indications today were that the measure would be sent to him for approval or veto with the literacy provision unchanged. No disposition to amend that section has been apparent in the senate, where Union is under consideration. It was the literacy t? st which prompted President Taft to veto the bill just before the close of his administration.. The measure, substantially unchanged was passed by the house. President Wilson said Wednesday he had not decided what action he would take b it was passed by the senate with the literary clause included. The only important change was the elimination of the provision for medical inspectors <:n immigrant ships. The vote was 3?. to 25. Seven foreign powers had protested against the section. The senate substitute virtually re-? nacts the present inspection law. LOCAL AFFAIRS. i m NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Lyric Theatre?Will present "Washington at Valley Forge," on Christmas eve. Francis Ford and Grace Cunard in the leading roles. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Continues its big reduction sale and says the sale continues to draw the crowds. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Wants you to shop early and take advantage of its Forced Sale prices. Shieder Drug Store?Has a large supply of holiday goods and will offer them at 7 cents cotton prices. Thomson Co.?Invites special attention to its goods for the army df Christ mas gift shoppers. ' Kandy Kitchen?Is ready with big ( supplies of candies, fruits, nuts, etc., for Santa Claus buyers. City Market?Says it has the best of everything In meats, oysters, etc. Eggs at 30 cents a dozen, cash. i Enquirer Office?Will pay reward for j return of a pearl and diamond set , pendant. Dr. B. G. Black?Offers a Shetland ' pony and a thoroughbred Jersey 1 cow for sale. < M. G. Latham?Gives notice of auction sale of personal property at his home near Hoodtown, Dec. 26th. 1 T. A. Beam, Clover?Wants you to let 1 him repair your harness and shoes. , Work guaranteed, prices right. Thos. W. Boyd. Supervisor?Gives notice of letting a ferry contract at < Smith's ferry, on December 30th. < Sam M. Grist?Calls attention to far- j mers to loss sustained by exposure of cotton to the weather. ' Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Tells you not to forget It when you are ready for ] Christmas gifts?It has them. . Carroll Furniture Co.?Suggests that you give gifts that are worth giving and makes suggestions to suit. Dr. C. J. Parller, of flowing Rock, N. C., and one of the best known physicians of Caldwell county, N. C., died in the Charlotte sanltorlum at 11 o'clock last Wednesday night. Mr. R. 8. Riddle of Zeno, writes that he has Just slaughtered two 18months-old hogs for his father that netted 400 and 444 pounds. He slaughtered two mates of these hogs six weeks ago, and they netted 335 and 193 pounds. Mr. R. 8. Hartness of Yorkville No. 5, found the sorrel mare for which he advertised in The Enquirer Tuesday. The horse had strayed fnto the Tirzah neighborhood, and was recovered Wednesday. A cattle buyer of the county said . yesterday that he was having little trouble in purchasing all the hogs he 1 wants. The price runs from 5 to 8 cents per pound on the foot. This . buyer who now has about fifty head, expressed himself as being sure that he could increase the number to 200 in a short while. There is more or less misunderstanding as to the status of the coun- i ty demonstration agents, many people | being of the opinion that they are of- ? fleers of the state, and paid by the 4 state. Originally the demonstration j system was established on a basis of e funds contributed by the General Ed- 1 ucational Board (Rockefeller foundation) and administered by the depart- ] ment of agriculture. The general pur- I pose from the beginning was to have * the states take the work up later on . and provide the means to keep it going. In this county, Mr. Hughes first, < and Mr. Blair next, were appointed ' through the Federal department of ( agriculture. Some time after the ap- c pointment of Mr. Blair, Clemson col- { lege secured an arrangement on which , it had been working for some time, to * have the work directed from thsre. 1 Just exactly what the arrangement 1 was, we have not the information at ( hand to say; but a year or two ago i Mr. W. W. Long was made state t agent of Rural Demonstration Work, J with headquarters at Clemson college. ^ According to our understanding he is < paid by the Federal department of ' agriculture, mainly out of funds furnlshed by the Rockefeller foundation, ( supplemented by funds of the agricultural department, and by Clemson cpl- * lege funds. The appointment of Mr. * McKeown was secured through the ef- 1 forts of the Rock Hill Chamber of I Commerce, under an arrangement whereby that organization would pay a part of his salary, and the Federal agricultural department and Clemson ) college would pay the balance. Mr. McKeown reports to the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce and to .Mr. Long, and Mr. Blair reports to Mr. Long. Miss Garrison, the organizer of Girls' Canning clubs, is paid in part by a direct appropriation of the funds of York county and in part by the Federal department of agriculture. " ABOUT PEOPLE Rev. Dr. J. C. Galloway, pastor of the A. R. P. church of Gastonia, and former pastor of the church at Yorkville, is in bad health. Mr. B. P. Barron who has been working in southern Alabama, with headquarters at Gufalia, is spending the holidays at his home in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. James who have been visiting their son, Mr. H. B. James in Yorkville, returned to their home In Yadkinville, N. C., Wednesday. Charlie Nichols, of the Unifed States battleship Kansas, has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Nichols, in Chester. He left on December 16, to return to his ship at San Francisco. Rock Hill Herald, Tuesday: P. L. Williamson of Tlrzah, who was operated on for appendicitis at the Kennel. Infirmary a few days ago, is doing well. Mr. Williamson is a well known citizen of his community, being a veteran of the War Between the Sections. COMMON PLEAS The last case to be tried by jury at the present session of the court of common pleas was concluded yesterday, and all the jurors were discharged. The court's time today and to- j morrow will be taken up In hearing t equity cases. ^ When The Enquirer went to press ? Tuesday, the complaint of Carrie Hendricks as administratrix of the estate of R. C. Hendricks against Roddey Reid was before the court. A r verdict for the plaintiff in the sum ol $5,000 was returned Tuesday evening, jj A motion for a non-suit was grantr ed in the case of Cline vs. the Southern railway. The last Jury case of the term was the suit of A. L. Parks vs. the Southern railway. The jury found for the v . . ? . .. .... a planum in me sum 01 *10. During the three weeks of the court l: of common pleas, verdicts aggregating $13,022.92 were awarded. The term c has also been the longest held in York s county in some time. c t CITIZENS' MEETING. The Knquirer has a notice from Representative \V. J. Cherry, advising that n there will be a meeting of the leglsla- 1 tive delegation in Rock Hill on De- ^ comber 21, for the purpose of consid- a ering the county board of commission- r ers1 estimates for furnishing the new c court house, and stating that the del- 1 egauon win aiso ai ami nine ue pleased to receive suggestions from clti- ' zens as to various other kinds of legis- 1 lation that may seem necessary. Among other thines he says, which <J will surely engage the attention of the next session of the eeneral assemb''* will be the subject of good roads, farm demonstration and tomato club work, compulsory school attendance, medical inspection in the schools. It has been suggested to him, he says, "that there should be another farm demonstrator for York county, located iu the eastern section, the one now engaged being located in- the western district." "It has also been suggested,'* Mr. Cherry goes on to say, "that the several townships should have a man employed to give his entire time to the keeping up of the roads, providing him with a team or teams, and vesting him with Dower to hire hands for the purpose, in likeness to the system I of keeping up the railroads of the country." SCHOOL EXTENSION FUND County Treasurer Nell on Tuesday received a warrant from J. E. Swearngen, state superintendent of education, for $1,623 for the extension fund >f the York county schools. In speakng of the matter yesterday, County Superintendent of Education Carroll said that other York county schools would receive aid from the extension 'und as soon as their respective assistant teachers became possessed of :eacher"8 certificates. A special teachers' examination will be held some :ime in January, in order to give these :eacher8 a chance to obtain such certificates. As was stated in an article in The Snquirer of December 1, where the -egular school funds of a district are lot sufficient to run a school Ave nonths, and a special levy of at least :wo mills has been voted, the state loard of education will aid by a sum equal to the amount of the special evy. The sum received by the county ireasurer Wednesday, will be districted among Tork county schools as fellows: Massey, No. 4, $100; Roddey, No. 5, 1100; Wilson, No. 6, $100; Belmont, Mo. 7, $100; Ancona, No. 8, $100; McZfennellsville, No. 13, $100; Beersheba, Mo. 19. $63; Concord, No. 27, $66; Alison Creek, No. 31, $100; Ebenezer, Mo. 32, $100; Newport, No. 36, $100; Hopewell, No. 38, $100; Santiago, No. II, $100; Catawba, No. 53, $100; Union, Mo. 53, $100; Flint Hill, No. 55, $100; Slalrsvllie, No. 66, $100. DEATH OF 8. M. McNEEL Mr. Samuel M. McNeel died at his iome in Yorkville, on Wednesday nornlng at about 2 o'clock, and was cried in Rose Hill cemetery yesterlay afternoon, the funeral services )eing conducted from the Presbyterian church by Rev. Dr. E. E. Gillespie, his pastor, and being attended by l large concourse of sorrowing rela:ives and friends. Mr. McNeel's death was sudden and inexpected. He had been suffering 'or some days with tonsllitis, .a malidy that was not considered to be of in especially alarming nature, and vas at his desk in the Loan and Savngs bank on Monday, and went home ipparently no worse off than he had >een. His physician had charge of he case and was giving such attendince and advice as seemed necessary. During the early morning Mrs. MeCeel noticed increasing difficulty in his >reathlng, and while she was trying to lo what she could for his relief, he eassed away. Mr. McNeel was born near Bullock's 3reek church in York county, on May !7, 1856. His father was the late Sustavus L. McNeel, who acquired a competence in the conduct of a eountry store at his home. His mother's name was McGowan. He succeeded to his father's business at Buiock's Creek. He was married to Miss l neoaora nugnes 01 uuiun, m umuu, n 1885. and after continuing his busriess at Bullock's Creek until 1889, noved to Yorkvllle and began a mercantile business at this place. After nerchandlslng at this place he conlucted an Independent banking busness for a short time, but later sold :o the Loan and Savings bank, and vhen that institution got into financial embarrassment in 1901, assisted in its -ehabilitation and became president. Ke continued in the position of presllent of this bank up to the time of his leath. Mr. McNeel is survived by his wid>w, and two half brothers, Messrs. Tohn D. McNeel of Birmingham, Ala., md Mr. Paul T. McNeel of Richmond, /a., and one half sister, Mrs. B. N. Hoore of Yorkvllle. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? There was a wagon-load of turceys on the streets for sale yesterday, ind there was no trouble in disposing >f the birds. ? Yorkvllle merchants have been 'airly busy this week selling holiday ;oods. One merchant said yesterday hat he disposed of his first holiday irticles on Wednesday, and that buslless since then has been very good. ? Workmen are now engaged in layng the front steps for the new York county court house. The steps are of itone, of course, and are very heavy. 3reat skill is necessary to their proper setting. ? Yorkvllle will present,a lively apjearance after Sunday. Boys and jirls attending the various schools ind colleges will begin to come in. rhere are more than fifty of these roung people who will celebrate the fuletlde at their homes here. ? Despite the cold weather of the >a8t few days, the Lyric theatre coninues to be popular. People, how>ver, are going to see the show at an sarlier hour, and as a matter of fact, here are very few people on the itreets after nine o'clock. ? Some of the members of the Yorkrille fire department are anxious to evtve their annual oyster supper, vhich for the past two years or more las not been held. The authorities are itlll undecided whether the spread vlll be served this year or not. ? The congregation of the A. R. P. ihurch are today administering their innual pounding to the pastor, Rev. '. L. Oates. Numerous packages have >een pouring into the parsonage all lay, the packages being testimonials if the esteem in which Rev. Mr. Oates ind his family are held. ? Mr. L. G. Baber is preparing to nove his barbershop Into the quarers formerly occupied by the Westrn-Union telegraph office. The ofIce of Dr. R. H. McFadden In the up ?V.? ){fl put iiuii ui iiic oaiuc uuiiuiu^i anu vhich was gutted by fire several veeks ago, is also undergoing repairs. ? Appropriate Christmas exercises 1 vere held in the Yorkville Graded chool today. For many years it has teen the custom to decorate the school tuilding In holiday attire, have the hildren sing Christmas songs, and ;ive recitations bearing on the happy iccasion. The children were dismissed 1 his afternoon for their two weeks' loliday, ?As to Just when the boys will be illowed to shoot tire crackers has not >een announced yet. A reporter for ["he Enquirer asked Mayor Wilborn tbout the matter yesterday, and the nayor stated that a meeting of the ouncil will probably be called tonight o decide the matter. Heretofore it ias been customary to allow the !re crackers from Christmas Eve hrough New Years' day. ? One of the most unique show winlows observed by passers-by on the streets of Yorkville, is that of the Yorkville Hardware Co. The scene is one of old Santa Claus actually going down a chimney, and little boys and girls have been convinced that there is such a personage. The window is really artistic in its design, and reflects great credit on Mr. J. R. Barnwell, its designer. The floor of the window is covered with pocket-lighters and batteries for the same, while at the back is a miniature chimney banked by cotton and tints representing the giisiciiiug anuw. c?very lew seconus > the head of old St. Nicholas appears from the top of the chimney. The old . fellow nods for an Instant and then . disappears Into the chimney. 1 LOCAL LAC0NIC8 Long Holiday. ' Practically all the cotton mills of I the county will close down at noon tomorrow for the Christmas holidays, ( and will remain closed until January 4. It is understood that the majority j of the rural schools of the county will , take a two weeks' holiday. ( Bridge Completed. The bridge force of the county I chaingang has completed the Fishing ! Creek bridge on the Saluda road be- , tween Rock Hill and Chester, and the j force will very likely return to the main body of the chaingang in Bethel , township, the first of next week. Elks Lodge for Rock Hill. South Carolina Elks' lodges are to 8well their number to an even dozen 1 by the addition of a new "baby" lodge, j There are now eleven lodges in this state. The new lodge will be located i at Rock Hill, and officers will probably be installed shortly after the first of the year. Feemster-Carson. Mr. Baxter Carson and Miss Maggie Feemster were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. : James Feemster, on Yorkville No. 4, last Wednesday, Rev. Dr. W. B. Arrowood performing the ceremony. The young couple have many friends in this section. They will reside in the Delphos community. Special Levy Voted. Wprimnnt School TMiitrlrt Nn 17 on last Thursday voted a special levy of three mills for school purposes. With the coming of Piedmont Into the column of school districts carrying special levies, only live York county districts are without such levy. They are: Bethel, No. 3; Shady Grove, No. 10; Clark's Fork, No. 26; Turkey Creek, No. 34; New Zion, No. 64. Fort Mill W. 0. W. Officers. Officers elected by White Oak Camp Woodmen of the World, of Fort Mill, last Tuesday night, were as follows: Consul commander, C. W. Eason; advisory lieutenant, R C. Ferguson; banker, L. J. Massey; cleric, A. R. McElhaney; escort, W. S. Moss; watchman, R. P. Harris; sentinel, T. F. i Lytle; manager two years, J. M. Epps. Carberry Leaves. Prof. James L?. Carberry and his family left Rock Hill last Tuesday for Beaufort, where he will be employed by the Federal government as a trucking demonstrator. On Saturday night ' Prof. Carberry was the guest of honor at a banquet given in the settlement house at the Arcade mill in Rock Hill, in appreciation of the work he has done in mill village Improvement. ' Given to Library Fund. The state board of education has 1 donated 310 to the library of the Wil- : son school in district number 6. Sut- : ton's Spring, Rock Hill and Belmont : school districts have made application 1 to the board for library assistance, : and the applications will very likely : be rewarded with sums similar to 1 that awarded the Wilson school. Very ; nearly all the York county schools have libraries. Condemned for Road Purposes. Supervisor Boyd, Engineer W. W. Miller and other county officials went to Bethel township Tuesday, for the J purpose of condemning lands belong- j ing to Mr. B. W. Drennan, for road purposes. The land in question, more than an acre, is in direct line of the , road being built into the Point sec tion. Mr. Drennan declined to sell, hence the condemnation proceedings. He was offered 338 for his property. Letslie-Mc Waters. Miss Jennie Lesslie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lesslie, of Lesslie No. 1, and Mr. Preston McWaters of Cfatawba Junction, were married at the home of the bride's parents, Wednesday afternoon, Rev. W. H. Stevenson, pastor of NeeJy's Creek A. R. P. church pea*forming the ceremony in the presence of relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. McWaters will reside at Catawba, where Mr. McWaters is engaged in the mercantile buslnesa Missionary Loaves. Rev. W. E. Entzminger, Baptist missionary to Brazil, who has made 1 his headquarters in Chester during the past three months, and who it more or less well known in various parts of York county where he has ' lectured, left Chester, Wednesday for 1 New York, from whence he will soon > sail for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to re sume his work. Rerv. and Mrs. Entz- ! minger were the first to represent < Southern Baptists in mission work in i South AmericaYork Corn at Exposition. Some of the corn grown by James W. Draffln of Lesslie No. 1, winner of i the first prize in the York county ; Boys' Corn Club bontest this year, will ; be displayed at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco, next year. Six stalks of young Draffln's corn will have a place among the agricultural products of the United States, which will be exhibited by the Federal gov- , ernment. Young Draffln also has the < honor of being the first York county \ farmer to have his produce displayed i at a show of suoh great magnitude. Water Works System Completed. The laying of the pipe lines for Fort ( Mill's water works system has been completed, the pipee having been ] thoroughly tested out. All that now j remains to be done is the connection , of various residences, etc., with the ninpQ In a fpw mnro Hdvq thp HVSfpm 1 will be complete and Fo<rt Mill will be the third York county town to have a , complete water works system. It Is estimated that the reduction in insurance rates in Fort Mill on account of the water works system will more than pay the interest and sinking fund charges on the issue of bonds which paid for the new system. Large Number of Prisoners. There were 130 prisoners confined in the York county Jail from January 1. to December 8, of this year. Of course all these prisoners were not confined at the same time; but only whila awaiting trial at court. Some were in Jail only a day, and one sojourned there longer than six months. Sheriff Brown charges the oounty 40 cents per day for boarding and lodging each prisoner, and the aggregate cost for the 130 prisoners is quite a large sum. This number does not include any offenders against the town of Yorkville, none of whom are kept in jail longer than 48 hours. Measles in York. Dr. James A. Hayne, secretary of the state board of health, has issued a statement in which he undertakes to impress the desirability of suppressing the spread of measles and whooping cough. During the period from January to November of this year, he says there were 4,230 cases of measles in the state, and of these 807 were in York county. The total number of whooping cough in the state during the same period was 807. He says that the death rate carried by whooping cough Ln children under one year of age is 35 per cent, and measles with its attendant complications, kills thousands. Old Clothes Acceptable. Dr. T. N. Dulin, chairman of the sub-committee of the hail storm relief committee in Bethel township, wants the people of York and adjoining counties to understand that there is suffering, destitution and want among mnnv nf thu hall utnrin sufferers both white and colored, and old clothes of < all kinds, for both men and women, t boys and girls will be acceptable. Any- i thing In the way of clothes that is at i all serviceable will be acceptable. Con- 1 trlbutions may be shipped to Clover, s :are of Mr. W. W. Stanton, and they ivill be properly distributed by Messrs. C. Harper, J. L. Currence and S. S. , jlenn. It Is a case of "He that hath Lwo coats let him give unto his neighbor who hath none." Late Planted Corn in Bethel. o Mr. W. W. Stanton, of Bethel was F n Yorkville yesterday, and on being r isked about the condition of the corn ^ :rop that was planted after the hall siuiui, ?aiu iiiai u uau piuvru a rai. ilsappolntment. Most of the corn was ? still green when the first frost came, ind the frost followed by wet weather, lid the business. The corn where it had been left on the stalks turned blue it the cob and went to rotting rapidly. There is very little of it that is safe for feeding to stock Where the corn was cut and shocked, the condition of the grain is worse than where it was left in the field without being cut. The late planting he regarded as practically a complete loss. Ha Was Ticklish. There was a peculiar case before the court of common pleas yesterday. A Fort Mill negro was arrested in that town some time ago on a charge of lisorderly conduct. Later the charge cf resisting arrest was added, and he was convicted. According to the negro's testimony submitted in the appeal from the verdict, the policeman who arrested him, in some manner tickled him in the side. Not being able to stand tickling, the negro stooped down, and the policeman thinking he was going to draw a weapon, began pounding him with a club. Judge Efird granted the motion of ap peai rrom me verajci 01 me maRistrate's court. Still the negro is out of a good deal of money because of being ticklish. Corn In Hail District No Good. Mr. John J. Matthews of Ebenezer, passed through Yorkville, Wednesday, on his way to his farm near King's Mountain battleground, and while here told a representative of The Enauirer that from the beet information obtainable, all the corn that was planted in his neighborhood, following the great hail storm of July 6, is a complete failure. He planted 25 acres himself, following the destruction of the crops already on the land, and he finds it has practically all gone to ruin. It seems to have been blasted as the result of the early frost and the wet weather following. Mr. Matthews said that he is able to pick out some of the corn that he is willing to risk for hog feed; but he has to go over it very carefully even to get ears that look like they are good enough for that. He mentioned Messrs. E. P. Steele, J. P. Hollis, John F. Williams, Samuel Barron, and others of his neighbors, whose corn is in as bad shape as his, and said that in his opinion the same conditions existed throughout the whole hail devastated territory. Up until recently he thought his corn crop was in very good shape. Most of the hail stricken farmers, according to Mr. Matthews made good sorghum, peas and hay; but as to corn, it is a failure. Only a small quantity of fodder, even, was saved. ? Investigation of virtually all large Institutional charities and benevolences centred in New York city, during which many of the leading financiers of the country will he summoned to testify, will be undertaken by the Federal industrial relations commission soon. This has been announced by Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the commission, which closed its inquiry into the Colorado coal strike late Wednesday. Its unfinished work will be completed by agents remaining to collect data and statements from witnesses uncalled. Institutions to be Investigated include the Russell Sage foundation, the Baron de Hlrsch fund, the Carnegie benevolences, the Rockefeller charities and the Rockefeller foundation and the Cleveland foundation. The investigation is tentatively projected to begin in New York, January 11. The basis of the work is to be, according to Mr. Walsh, the charge that the creation of the foundations ? ? ? nmlntv /v# on I i cprcovill liic ucBiiiuius v& au ?i&v* v to perpetuate the present position of I predatory wealth through the co-operation of the sources of public Information. The commission will seek to determine, according to Mr. Walsh, "how the policies of these foundations are shaped and by whom; their relation to high finance; the extent which their charters may be stretched under the United States constitution, and whether they constitute a menace or a benefit to the nation." Those who will be asked to testify, according to Mr. Walsh, Include President Arthur Hadley of Yale university; Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard university; Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., John D. Rockefeller, Jr., J. P. Morgan, Daniel Guggenheim, E. H. Gary, T. N. Vail, Edward T. Stotesbury of J. P. Morgan & Co., George W. Perkins, Frank A. Vanderlip, T. P. Shonts, Jacob Schlff, Norman B. Ream, Francis L. Hlne, John Hays Hammond,, Robert W. DeForrest, Cleveland H. Hodge, H. C. Frick, Adolph Lewisohn, Thomas W. Lamont, Seth Low, Jerome D. Greene, the Rev. Fred Gates, representative of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.; Starr J. Murphy, personal counsel for John D. Rockefeller; W. L. McKenzle King, of the Rockefeller foundation; J. H. McClement, director of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company; Chap. P. Niell, John M. Glenn, director of the Russell Sage foundation; Ralph M. Eastley, chairman executive council of the National Civil federation; Allen T. Burns, director of the Cleveland foundation; Samuel Untermeyer, Robert Bruere, trustee Rand School of Socialism, New York; Dean George W. Kirschway of Columbia, Seth M. Milliken, New England mill magnate, and Senators Kenyon of Iowa and Owens of Oklahoma. ? The general education board, founded by John D. Rockefeller, to promote education within the United States without distinction of race, sex or creed, and equipped with funds aggregating nearly $34,000,000, on Wed -- * n fonnM QHAWI n CT HflW Il StliLy 13DUCU a icpvi i oiivniUQ w?. the funds have been used. This report is the first Installment of a comprehensive report covering the 12 years' activity of the board, the remainder ol which will be issued January 1. Total benefactions distributed to outside institutions through the board up to June 30 of this year amounted to $39,716,720. By direct appropriation the board has devoted 315,894,355 to universities, colleges, schools, educational conferences, rural organization work and farm demonstration work. Of the direct appropriation 3925,000 was devoted to farm demonstration work in the south. To rural organization work and that of rural school agencies more than 3140,000 was given. Negro colleges and schools received approximately 3700,000 and the Southern Education board 397,000. The report shows that the board received in 1905 the sum of 3200,000 from Miss Anna T. Jeanes, for the assistance of negro rural schools in the south. To universities, colleges and medical schools not including the negro colleges more than 313,000.000 was given by direct appropriation. At present the board's ' esources are valued at 333,939.156, of which $30 918 063 is general endowment and $3,021 093 reserve. j 1 1 c ? Berlin was aroused to enthusiasm * yesterday, according to a dispatch 1 'rom that city by the announcement o )f a great Austro-German victory >ver tbe Russians In Poland. An offi- t :ial bulletin announcing this was is- 8 sued shortly after noon. Within half <3 in hour extra editions of the papers ippeared and the whole city literally t lashed into bunting. American vlsi- a ore, who a few days ago commented t in the non-display of flags, scarcely ecognized the streets, which every- I vhere were gay, with German and c Austrian colors, at many places inter- I wined. At the reichstag, where a n Red Cross meeting was in session s vord was received from the palace ft :hat the greatest victory of the war r lad been won. The schools are closed f oday that the children may assemble p ;o celebrate the event. The first in- fl ;imation of the extent and nature of a he Russian defeat was received last light and circulated in official quar- b :ers but nothing was known of it gen- t ?rally until the official bulletin was c .published. It had been understood n hat the Russians were in a precarious b losition, but it was not hinted that a 1?,-1"- ,i'oa at hnnri Th? nffl- J irt'iai > c icouu n?o v... dal bulletin Issued yesterday reported t hat operations were "proceeding nor- t nally." which phrase is the usual ter- C nlnatlon of the official reports. It is o innwn now that thousands of Rus- c sians have been taken prisoners. r GERMANS BOMBARD BRITON iruisers from Kiel Create Great Con- ^ tarnation. A| Four fast German warships steamed flfl ut from Kiel, last Tuesday night, H iroceeded across the North Sea and ? caching the British coast at about ^ lawn on Wednesday morning bom arded the sea towns of Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby. It was the first time for over a hunIred years that a foreign foe has landid a hostile shot on British soil, and he incident has produced consternaion throughout the British Isles, and nore or less surprise throughout the 4 vorld. The first the unsuspecting inhabiants of the three towns knew of their mpendlng danger was when without varnlng, the death dealing shells from he ships came crashing through their sulldings, scattering death and deitruction, and creating general panic. The three towns bombarded are on he east coast of England, within fifty nilea of each other and all within less han two hundred miles of London. > ^ Hartlepool is a maritime base, pro- j ected by a fort. Scarborough and iVhitby are unprotected towns, close .0 the open sea, and both are to a arge extent pleasure resorts; but argely deserted by pleasure seekers it this season. Hartlepool suffered most, having jeen attacked by two battle cruisers ind an armored cruiser. The German ships commenced firing at a distance >f three or four miles, and kept up the Irlng for nearly an hour. Churches were smashed, the gas works and umber yards were set on fire, and nany houses were torn down. Seven soldiers and 22 civilians were killed ind 14 soldiers and 50 civilians were wounded. Thirteen casualties were v reported at Scarborough and two were cilled and two wounded at Whitby. A 'amous abbey at the last named place was demolished. In all the casualty " i woo irpiincu IU uc xiu, ui nuuui 31 were known to be dead. j The fort at Hartlepool answered :he Are of the Germans and the defenders claim that considerable damige was done to the enemy's ships; Jut the withdrawal of the enemy was wrought about by the appearance of items of the British fleet. It appears that Germans had evaded the British patrols of all kinds, and the British [ieet knew nothing of the attack until 4 summoned by wireless. As soon as S British ships began to appear In ferce, the Germans turned about and made for home, dropping out mines istern as they steamed away to add to the danger of pursuit. The British people had such absolute faith In their security of attack 1 by sea, that they scouted the idea of the possibility of the Germans ever being able to land a shot on their soast. It Is not supposed that the 3ermans expected to accomplish anything except to produce a great moral affect in England or maybe their purpose was a feint to cloak some other naval movement, news of which has not yet been disclosed. The moral effect has been very great. The Lloyds insurance system that fits in everything, has been shaken up tremeniously as the result of this unexpected happening, and the state of general uneasiness throughout the British islands has been tremendously increased. It has not definitely developed Just bow the German raid was managed; put the supposition is that the raiding fleet must have left Helgoland, some- , thing over three hundred miles dls- " ant, late Tuesday afternoon, and iteamed directly across to its work. Some surprise is expressed by experts it the ability of the Germans to make :he long trip across without encoun:ering some of the mines that are supposed to so thickly strew the North Sea. 80UTH CAROLINA NEWS \ ? The South Carolina Livestock asloclatlon will hold its annual meeting In Columbia, January 13, 14 and 15. ? It is estimated that the state's budjet will aggregate 12,600,000 this year, | f all obligations are met. Last year WQ :he total expenditures were $2,000,000. ' ? Work was begun on the excavations necessary for the building of the pew railway station at Spartanburg, :his week. ? Plans for the Improvement of the Jreenville county court house have peen submitted. They call for an expenditure of about $65,000. ? ? Governor Blease has appointed M. E. Kirby as magistrate for Draytontrille township, Cherokee county, to juceed H. E. Jeflferles, deceased. ? Dr. Thos. W. Jackson, formerly In the United States service, has been sleeted director of public health of * Spartanburg. A ? Governor Blease has issued a full pardon to John J. Jones, the Branchirille lawyer, who killed Abe Pearlstine it Branchvllle, in 1910. ? Allen Seymour, a negro, charged with criminal assault, was taken from the Hampton county jail early Wedpesday morning and lynched. ? Lew Williams won the decision in i prize fight with Jeff Davis, in Char eston, Tuesday night. Davis was tnocked down fourteen times during 4 :he slugfest. ? The city of Georgetown was visitid by a disastrous Are yesterday. The iamage is estimated at $40,000. Among :he residences destroyed was that of \ 5V. H*. Andrews, mayor of George:own. 4 ? Admiral Samuel McGowan, paymaster general of the United States navy, and a native of South Carolina, s visiting relatives and friends in va ious sections of the state. ? Mrs. Elizabeth Huggins, who lived tear Orangeburg, was burned to death jorly yesterday morning. Her body was found lying under the house directly beneath her room where she nad fallen through a hole which was purned through the floor. ? A petition for the pardon of Clyde \ Caldwell Clement, the Woltord Fitting school student, convicted of infantl:ide in Spartanburg, in February, and sentenced to life Imprisonment, is beng freely signed in Spartanburg and >ther places. ^ ? F. Earle Bradham, editor of the Vllendale Herald, has severed his connection with that paper to accept a position as editor of a paper at Ridgeand, Jasper county. Miss Pauline Ualder has been elected editor of the Allendale paper. She is the second voman newspaper editor in the state. ? Trains going out of Georgetown lave during the past few weeks been :arrying anywhere from 50 to 200 packages of game?wild duck, deer ind the like?to New York and Washon. The hunting season in the vicin- a ty of Georgetown has been unusually food this year. THE WAR IN EUROPE f Mews Paragraphs Telling of Happenings at the Front. Since the beginning of the war the British army has lost a total of 3.466 fflcers up to December 1st, killed and vounded. The total for the last week n November was 253, according to ifflcial statements. More than 500 towns in Poland have teen laid In waste by the Germans, ince the war began, says a London lispatch. German Socialists are alleged to be tusy trying to create sentiment igainst the continuation of the war by he fatherland. On his arrival at Rome, yesterday, 'rince von Buelow, former German hancellor, and now ambassador to taly, was Informed of the bombard; nent of the English coast by German hips, but showed no surprise. He aid this accomplishment had bean granged for prior to his departure rom Berlin, and added: "This is sim?ly the prelude to what the German leet is soon to undertake, which may stonish the world." For the fourth time since the out- 1/ ireak of the war. the French mora??< "? ?a oil nacrntlahU i'i i u III a yyttj 111^ iw w*? v0v.?.MW(V >*> urities dated before September 4. and iiaturing before March 3. 1915. has een extended for two months. According to the official report of ^ admiral von Behneke commanding he German ships that attacked the hree English towns Wednesday, the Serman ships were struck a number f times by shots from the English oast batteries, but no serious damage esulted.