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8TW : . . \ 2 ' * C , ^ . _ . ? , M ISSUED SEBII-WEEKLT, l m guist's sons, Pubiisbers.} S Hamilg $eirspapei; : $or tli^ promotion of lh(| political, ?o<ialf ^riculturai and (fommei;rial Interests of th$ peopl*. ) TER^^^^c^EJ,RviNci15^ANCI : ?? '? established 1855 YORK. S. C. TUE81'AY,. JAKUABY 34. GREATEST NAVAL DISGRACE] Story of the Surrender ot the Big German Fleet EVENT DESCRIBED BY SPECIAL WRITER Here Is the Human Interest Side of trie mosi nvmirMoig n?vai wunop.o the World Has Ever Known?Wonderful Victory Without the Firing of w a Shot. "One may have been around this war from Lapland to Bagdad and from St. Nazaire to Moscow, as 1 have been," writes a staff correspondent of the New York World in a dispatch that adds human outlines to the meager cab.ed accounts of the strangest naval surrender in history. "One may have seen the most Impressive happenings; but the few minutes following 9.15 on the morning of November & 21 on the bridge of the Texas, will always remain the most unforgetable." It was a day, as seen by this correspondent, primarily of "shattering huB man humiliation." Even among the ^ British and American sailors there was little of the rejoicing and uplift of heart that might have accompanied a sea victory bought and paid for in the old way. "British and American seamen felt as if their own profession was being held up to ignomy," writes the correspondent, "and they themselves indirectly compromised." For, as the sea-lighters' logic ran: There has never been any- naval 111-- AVI surrender in msiory uxe tins, oyanlards, French, Russians?all came out, In similar circumstances of certain doom, and fought their ships to the end. They might have fought these ships, they might have scuttled them, a few brave souls might have put up a death-or-glory "show" in the waters of the North sea. But no. "There's no use in it It won't help us. So don't let's do it!" they may have argued. The correspondent on going aboard the Texas the evening before the day of the surrender, discovered that the attitude of the American fleet toward the Teutonic debacle was unconcern mixed with contempt. He writes: The five United States battleships forming the sixth battle squadron of the Grand Fleet, New York, Texas, Arkansas, Wyoming and Florida, clearly distinguishable from all other dreadnoughts by their lattice masts, lay in the Firth of Fourth very nearly under the giant bridge spanning that waterway. As far as the eye could see in every direction there were dottea warships, while in and out coursec pinnaces and launches. Arrived at the top of the accommodation-ladder. th? executive officer led me to the ad mlr&l's cabin there being no admiaat V nd aboard. * "Make yourself comfy and the; come right along to the wardroom We're having a sort of a hop." I ex[pected a score of officers, British am American, "bunny-hugging" to a pi ano. Instead I came upon a score o pretty English women, officers' wiveand daughters, fox-trotting with Brit ish and American officers to thi strains of a jazz band. In one cornci lay spread out the most ravishing pre war tea of cream and sugar and butTj ter and white bread and delightful cakes and dainties. * And so we trotted to jazz for the rest of the evening, on the Texas, while the Germans f in one winding cortege twenty miles long, were mournfully finding theii way towards us, now guided clear of Britisn rmne-neias oy wirems, nu? hesitating at mine-fields of their own long since swept up by us. The Duke of Richmond's ball at Brussels the night before Waterloo was nothing to this. One lived each moment of each minute. The dramatic note was apt to bo intense. What were those Germans doing, saying, thinking, out in ^ the North sea that night as we toasted Der Tag at dinner, and then repairec" to a cinema show aboard? To get an gle, one must Dear in mina xnat a man's ship Is his home, his life, his p. all. The sailor's attitude to his ship Is one of awed affection: his primitive instincts impel him to defend her as a lioness defends her cubs. And here were the Germans sailing: on, on, on to surrender, to degradation, to Nemesis while wo jazz-trotted in unconcern. Beatty*s famous "operation order No. 22," showing that the British commander was going to take no chances with German trickery, was received and commented on. A young American officer explained to the correspondent: "What we fear most is a stunt by a submarine manned entirely by officers. They might easily get a couple of our ships before being done in themselves. Any battle squadron that should be attacked has orders to scatter. The rest of the line will continue as if nothing had happened. But if a solitary gun-turret moves on the German ofcino wViv the whole durned I out iacv lot will be blown out of the water The whole business makes you want to sit up and rub your temples. First people I've ever met who couldn't be even kicked into a fight!" Five minutes later we wore watching "A Princess of the Blood" on the cinema and discussing movie stars. But this night of nights it was impossible to get away from the business ^ in hand. "One of our patrol boats has Viom nn nne hundred and fifty I J/IVIWU iliviu m ^ ..... miles east of May island. Quite behaving themselves," announces a newcomer from the bridge. And one's thoughts going wandering again. Here was the kaiser's dream vanishing every minute into the Scottish mists. A dying navy a navy that had kept Eu- | rope from sleeping peacefully in its bed for nigh twenty years a navy | W..II+ fnr ?rAiiK1n nnmnlntP from its *11 tricate U-boat microphones to its pretty women agents dotted around the capitals of Europe. And this was the end steaming methodically to ward us of the night in complete surrender. So dawned The Day a blood'ess ^ Trafalgar in which *7 battleships and JBL battle-cruisers. 35 cruisers and lf~ht cruisers and 200 destrovers p' th" proud fleet, totaling perhaps 100,000 personnel and covering a stretch of water forty miles long by six wide, re celved the capitulation of thirteen Ger- , man battleships and battle-cruisers,*' 6 light cruisers and 49 destroyers manned by perhaps 17,000 officers and men under the nominal command of Admiral von Reuter, the real people in control being the lower deck. The first sh'p left the Firth of Forth in the chill mist of 2 a. m., and for the next four hours we passed out 1 to sea in one incessant stream, Bratty i bringing up the rear and weighing an- ' -bor on his flag-ship at 6 a. m. Throughout those memorable hours he command'r-in-chief kept the most ' intimate control of his armada by. i w'rclcss. Not a ship of that vast gray i ronnanv changed sneed or direction without Beatty's permission. We . sail- 1 ed out line ahead in a dozen clusters, 1 each series of vessels separated perhaps by two or three miles of water, and each ship by some 500 yards. The speed was uniform?twelve knots an hour. In the raw, icy darkness of dawn conditions on the Texas were just as on any other cruiser. In the wardroom after breakfast officers were scanning Life or The Cornhill or The Saturday Evening Post At 7,30 a. m., came the order 'general quarters." The decks were swept clear for action, the guns fully manned, with ammunition held ready for ramming home, the mystic anti-mine device, the Paravanos, swung out in front of the great ship. U-boat watch was mounted and the United States battle-ensign, the Stars and Stripes, was hoisted on high for the first time in this war. Every precaution, in fact, was taken against treachery. Daybreak revealed an icy mist and j phonnv sea. ideal for U-boats. The first to meet the Germans, far out to sea, were cinema men, the official programme beginning toward 9 a. m., when a screen of destroyers, then the loader of the pageant, the light cruiser Cardiff, came up with the enemy forty miles east of May island. "Unknown number of unknown ships steaming line ahead," she signaled, after a quaint naval custom, to the Queen Elizabeth. A few minutes later she began talking to the leading German ship, the Seydiitz: "Steam twelve knot an hour and follow me." "We can only do tenjf* replies the German. At the same moment Beatty wirelessed to the admiralty the bare facts 'hat the surrender was a fait accomr>li. I was on the bridge of the Texas at the time as the historic message ~arae in. All this time we had not yet ~cen the enemy. According to plan, the Cardiff then turned about anc" headed for harbor, leading in the Ger mans, wnue tne urana rieei, ukcwisc turning for home, divided into twc 'iant columns six miles apart, the [ 'ane in the middle allowing for the ' "'ermans. Less thar. two miles scpaated the ships. In the gun-turret.' '.he men cursed and stamped their fee' is they saw sail under,^heir noses the cry" vessels they had chased anearched for and studied and never fo \ moment had out of their minds ight and day, for four terrible years f strain. "It's a wonder no Britisl run went off by accident!" In th< urrets little black silhouettes of eacl : pe of German warship had been a.'ntcd up. We compared them with the originals before us. Officers aiie .ieu uiseusseU technicalities intently." ' bee ti.at mast camouflage on the 1 .rumenburg? Foremast higher than ...ammast? Gives the impression at a ...stance that she's going away when 1 jue's leaily coming toward jou." "Much haruer to pick up than w< ' .. eie taught. Low on the water, ooiue of 'em look fine ships. Uut or ..... i oi repair, tnougn." Mcajiwhi.e Hay-ship talked to tlay- ' -pip tiiey were twenty in all at -ea, not count.ng the . Frieurich uei ( grosse. The German ship flew, lor tne 1 uot tune, as Beatty subsequently uevieeu, the imperial ensign from tne J mainmast, white w ith black cross. A white flay had been ho.s^eu on tite nay-snip, 'the docks of the sunenu- 1 meu snips were almost deserted. Foi ken mdes anu out of signt tne gra> 1 ?.ne of Gcrman>'s fleet exteuueu. rai 1 benind again the ' German destroyers : ..ere being shepneiueu in gioups. No -eremonial too* place, nor were com- ' ailments of any kino paid. I asked one or two of the crew ot ' the Texas what they thought about it? ' "Durned yellow of them to come out like this without a s< rap." And they went on skipping and singing rag tunes and chewing, these American boys, while the Hoch See rlotte sailed on, in shame a few ca- 1 bles away. 1 suppose the Germans ' were peering out of port-holes at us just as fixedly as we were scanning them. They certainly had an extraoruinary good view of the Grand ' Fleet. All around them, east and west, south and north. 1 ne purl IIIUL DUI9UCUOIU HII1VUO the German crews piayed in the sur- 1 render is touched upon in these significant paragraphs, written alter 1 a visit to the surrendered ships. On board, owing to the presence of 1 Bolshevism, the position was an ex- 1 iraordinary one. The German crews lounged about smoking, eating, and spitting in front of their officers. They only obeyed Brisish officers! "Order these men out of this cabin," said a British officer to a German captain, pointing to a group of Soviet1 white arm-bands. "Order them:" sobbed the German at his desk, his head in his hanus. i "Older them! They take no notice. ? ~ I" i.nhin ull ' l vt: ucvu a J/* loviivi i*? *1*^ v... the way across like all the other officers." The British officer took in the situation at a glance, faced the Soviet sailors, and in fierce rasping German orucred, "Achtung!" 'lne uermans urew mem seives iu attention. "Umkehren!" The Germans turnc d about, facing t' e cabin exit. Ein, zwei, drei?vorwarts!" The Germans left the cabin. "They mutinied," expla'ncd the German officer, "because they heard your grand fleet was going to go in for Bolshevism too." Bolshevism in the grand fleet! "t d flags on the British and American dreadnoughts?I wonder how much the British admiralty intell'r-rnoe had to do with circulating in Kiel and Cuxhaven those tale3 of British fleet Bolshevism! One never knows. Saying good-bye to the Texas, I turned to Captain Blue. "Your ship's company, sir would, I gather, have preferred a fight." "Well, I wouldn't This has been the most signal victory in naval history, and I'd much prefer to bring my boys home to their mothers and sweethearts than leave them at the bottom of the North Sea." If the German sailors imagined they were on a joy ride to these shores they are by now vastly disillujirtrtrwl nmn ThrOD.flllQ rtofQ f\f tVl?m are to be sent back in German transports whence they came, the other quarter are going to spend a frozen winter of Internment up in the Orkney at Scapa, the most desolate, uninhabited, icy region of the British Isles. In due course they, too, will return to Germany but not in their present ships. And so ends Der Tag. I have come away from the grand fleet with one lominant impression. Beatty has set aut to show the Germans that they ire outside the pale. Every word and ict of this drama has been devoid of the faintest suggestion of comaraderie is between victor and vanquished. It must be a very terrible awakening for the late enemy. For, should Beatty's ioctrine be widely accepted this world is going to be a perfectly rotten place for Germans to live in for generations ahead. FOR UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE Republican Party Getting in Shape For Next Campaign. Declaring for universal female suf "rage by constitutional amendment xnd applauding speeches condemning Socialism, Bolshevism and governncnt ownership, the Republican na.ional committee at its meeting in Chicago last Friday, conferred on the Jhairman Will H. Hays, who opened :he meeting with prayer, what was .aken to be full power to conduct affairs of the party in its efforts to defeat the Democrats at the next na.ional election. Resolutions laudatory of Theodore loosevelt were adopted as introduced ay John T. King of Connecticut and ^lans were made at the suggestion of Jhairman Hays to erect a permanent nonument by popular subscription. The Democrat national administration was denounced by committeemen or what was termed its tendency to ocialism and for placing control of he government departments in the lands of the majority of the South, vhile the majority of the North paid .0 per cent, of the taxes, as worded >y Governor Beekman of Rhode Isand. It was declared by Chairman Hays nd others that it was too early to onsicier a candidate for president but any names were mentioned in the i foviYia! talk" of committeeWfti while s :parate meeting of Illinois Rcpubli- | ans made arrangements to persuade :ov. Frank O. Lowden to announce inicelf as a candidate. Two women took part in the delibt. said Governor Harding. "I hope rations, as holders of proxies and heir assistance was sought in all the lolngs of the meetings. Mrs. Medill .IeCormick of Iirnci . Chairman of .voman's executive coi mittce, read a on? report outlining plans ror woman's organizations In every State md for the active participation of \volen in the national affairs of the ?arty. j Governor Beekman of Rhode Island efirred to the recent victory of the tepublicans in the congressional elccion and said that the people of the \Torth were tired of paying 90 per cent >f the taxes and having it expended >y the minority of the South, which om'nated the Democratic national ldministration. Governor Burnquist of Minnesota, denounced Bolshevism, r.archy, and Socialism and said the tope of the country for the future was 11 the election ol a Republican presiIcnt. He spoke of the activity of the * * VT ion-Partisan Liea^ue m me nuum.ioi md said the sympathy of the Dcmoratic party had been with that organization. Governor Harding: of Iowa criticised the Democratic national adminstrat'on for its extravagance and inefficiency, and referred to W. G. McAdoo, federal director of railroads, as 'the crown prince." "This is too big and too great a ountry to be ruled by one corner of he Republican congress will see that the railroads are returned to their owners without delay." Congressman Royal Johnson of South Dakota, who appeared in the uniform of an army officer, and othera made similar addresses. The committee gave Chairman Hays a vote of confidence and authorized him to name an executive and other committees at his discretion. The committee settled a contest over the national committeeship in Louisiana, which has been pending since the last Republican national convention in 1916, by seating Emil Kuntz. a negro. F. C. Labitt was the unsuccessful contestant. Both factions agreed to abide by the decision of the committee. The British Crown Jewels. Crown jewels have been brought out of their war-time hiding place and returned to the Tower of London, says a London cable. They were not paraded back. In fact, the removal was so infoimal and (lu.et that no one, perhaps, who saw a couple of automobiks containing two nrniv officers in silk hats and frock coats and two soldiers in black over- , coats and derbies suspected that they! wiie carrying J30,000,00a worth of jewelry. A peep into one of the cars would have revealed a cardboard h^tbox, but the p eper wouldn't have known that it concealed the Imperial state crown. Nor would he have guessed that the piece of rough, heavy, red cloth he was sc ing covered the royal sceptre with its famous Cullinan diamond. In insign ficant looking boxes and parcels were the other crowns, coronets, orbs and the rest of the royal regalia. Windsor Castle, about twenty-five! miks from London, became the repository for the jewels soon after Gc rman aircraft began to bomb the metropo- | lis. They wore placed in a thick wall- j ed stone vault. THE DOMINIE'S STORY Thougtit Much of His Boys and Little of Himself * NOT VEI.Y MUCH OF A TALKER Preacher in Battle Is More Than Worth Whiie. Esoeciallv a Preacher Who Was There to Help?Marines Considered Their Doc Had the Right Kind of Courage. "Dominies" are not much heard of these days of fancy titles, but when the time comes to describe some heroic deed done by a man uniformed in nothing but rugged, indomitable courage, why then "Dominie" is a mighty useful and completely satisfactory, word. When the Hun was at the gatesof Paris and the battle of Chateaux Thierry poured out its wealth of herOstories about the Americans and theii* immortal stand, even in those days oaf story could make Itself heard. It was about "Dominie" Clifford, the man who dragged his .wounded colonel four hundred yards through a stubble-field, in a eras-mask, "amid bursting shell and rifle-bullets ripping up his clothes a little grey-haired Shotchman about' flfty-flve years old, with a decided objection to talk about himself. When cornered he talked about the marines in this way: One night about ten . years ago in a little town in the WeSt Indies where he was a missionary he , bumped into three drunken marines Just as an "M. P." hove in sight; -so he promptly took them into his care. < One of them he specially cared for an<T the boy braced up, then he lost sight i of him. After ten years came Verdun, I where he bumped into a staggering marine. Staring at the "Dominie" between hiccups he said; "Hello, ole fren. You don't know me, do you?" The "Dominie" didn't. "So thash the wa' yu' ferget yer ole frens, ish it?" Continuing, "Shay, don't you remem- j ber that guy you got to Bbign the f pledge back in the ole West Indies ten years ago?" The "Dominie" did; that marine has now earned two stripes and is still going strong. He couldn't forget the "Dominie." The way such men adapt themselves to circum- , stances Is told In The Independent, which we continue to quotes "Then there was Van," the doctor said. , "Day before yesterday at Luzy I met Van. I have been trying to help him quit just couldn't do it I came on him ^ laying in the corner of a fence wounded seriously. He wanted a cigarette. I knew it woudn't hurt him, so I lit the first cigarette that I've lit in forty 1 years and put in his mouth. I don't know as I ought to have done it, but 1 just naturally couldn't go by and leave that kid o' mine hungry for a cigarette while he was a-waiting for the ambulance. Do you think I did right?" "It wmfld have been a crime if yew > hadn't done it," I said to him. "Van looked up," said the doctor s'owly and with tears in his eyes. "Van looked up at me and said, 'Doc, I know you hate 'em, and yet you are b'g enough to light a cigarette for me. God bless you. Doc, and If I ever get well and get my strength I'll quit 'em, so help me God!' " "Do you think he will?" I asked. "No," said the doctor, "I buried him the next day." Then we tried tactfully to lead him back to his heroism, but he evaded that part and said, "I must tell you about the trick the boys played on me. "One afternoon when I was out they stole my coat and my cap and took off all my Y. M. C. A. buttons and put marine buttons in their place. I knew It was against the rules to wear thorn, but when I came in I didn't notice it and went to the officers' moss with them on. The colonel calls me 'Padre,' the major calls me Chaplain, and the boys call me 'Doc' you know," he said smiling'. "Well, the colonel loked at me funny like and he said, 'Well, Padre, I see vou've joined the marines for sure now, and have the buttons and all. i wiiii yuu, "I wns embarrassed and said, 'I'll pro home, sir, and take them off. I didn't know they were on " 'Who put them on, Padre?' " 'The boys, sir.' " 'Well if the boys put them on they want them on, 30 on they stay,' the colonel said to me.' The marvelous effect and influence such men have upon other men are toid in a touching incident, which ought to shame some of us at home who can see no good thing save in our little "ism." It was the last communion before a great and fierce fight: "The boys themselves asked for it. They knew the big fight was on the next dav and thev asked if we might not have a communion service. I went and got some of that 'van rubbish' as I call It: the French call it 'vin rouge,' and it being the best we could get, we had our communion with It. I told the boys what we were going to do and that any who did not want to partake of the Lord's Supper could.leave. Not a single soldier left. 'I took note of them and nine Catholics partook, thirteen Methodists, three Christian Scientists, n'ne Baptists, three Lutherans, three Congregationalists. two Episcopalians, one Hebrew, and twenty-three who did not profess any religion. Five of these took a definite stand for the Christ in that mreting. The next day most of them were dead." He was subdued for a few minutes and we couldn't get him to talk. He vas tninKing or inose aeaa noys or ms. Then he reached Into his pocket and milled out an envelope. Reaching into that envelope he pulled out a flve-dollar gold piece. I took it in my hands and waited for a story, for the moment forgetting even myse'f that the old fellow was still evadihg his heroic deed. The hoy that gave me that I saw just before the big fight. I passed him as he went clown under the camouflage into a communication-trench. He said, 'Doe, got any cigarettes?' "I had tried to get him to stop smoking, but couldn't resist the desire to give him some. Tt might be my last chance to serve him. I pitched him a whole package. "'Thanks, Doc; you're a good scout.' Then he came back, handed me that five-dollar gold piece and said, 'Doc, take that. If anything happens to me. send It to mother.' " "Did he get out all right?" I queried anxiously, for I knew that only a few of the boys who had taken that strategic village had gotton out. "I am sending the gold piece to his mother this afternoon, along with a letter telling her of his heroic death," he said quietly. That lad died a strange way; all one morning he'd been in the thick of it, then his major was wounded, the boy went back for help, passed all safely till a splinter hit his belt and he went down to dfeath shot by his own bullets. But all this, interesting as it wi h, was not what the Interviewers wanted; they wanted the "Dominie's" storj; at last promising not to "spread on the taffy," they got the tale. Here It Is: Then followed as simple a statement as a Scotch dominie (economical with anything, espcclalaly words) could tell. of how he and Mr, Gibbons, the newspaper reporters whom the press later eulogized for having gone over the top with the marines, were waiting in the major's tent. They were to go down front The major went off with the reporter and told the Dominie to follow with his orderly, a young lieutenant The major and the reporter were barely out of sight when a runner came in with the news that the colonel was wounded seriously and was lying in an abandoned trench on the other side of the town, about tour miles away at the far end of a wheat field. AMERICAN AVIATION. iUnited States Leads the World in Flyers and Machines. . Marvels of aviation development in the United States during the war are "more like a fairy tale than the statement of hard facts which it is in reality" were described by Major General George O. Squier, chief signal officer of the United States army, in an adaddress before the American institute Jjf electrical engineers in New York last Friday night The radio-phone, an invention which enable the American squadron commanders to direct and control by voice the movement of individual units, who in turn helped Allied artillerymen to Bllence the German guns, was extolled as one of t he greatest devices of the war. The production of 14,000 Liberty motors up to November 11 last, with an equivalent of 5,700,000 horsepower, was cited as another remarkable achievement . General Squier, in the course of his address, told of interesting experiments conducted by the signal corps 5n aerology to aid the American expeditionary forces. It was ascertained from these, he said, that above 10,000 feet 95 per cent of the winds are from West to east and often attain veloclr!es of 100 miles an hour. On November 6, 1918, at Chattanooga, Tenn., fl^-saM, a velocity of 154 miles an hour was observed at a height of 28,000 feet Another scientific accomplishment of the air service, the speaker said, was a production of helinum, a nonnflamable gas, in quantities sufficient -* 1 11-. TT-. I lur uoiiuuii uae. no piouioiou w,o,l with its use safe trans-Atlantic travel ' in dirigibles would become common- ( place. i Attributing to causes "some mill- I tary, some civil" the fact that the ' United States "had qply a handful of < iliers" when war was declared, Gen- ' jral Squier asserted that 8,600 aviators had been trained in this country when the armistice was signed, with > a toll of fatalities "astonishingly few," i about one to every 3,200 hours of fly- ? ing. At the same time, he stated, 350 1 lirms, employing 200,000 persons, were 1 engaged in the production of air- I planes. I The government decided at the out- i jet, General Squier said, not only "to ' supply the American air fighters with 1 as good, if not better, planes than those used by the enemy, but to send < into the field American aviators who 1 would be as good, if not better, than 1 those of the enemy. " In this effort i he said, the most rigid scientific tests ' were applied, revealing, among other t tacts, that 61 per cent of the candidates were capable of flying to 20,000 feet or more, 25 per cent should not fly above 15,000 l'eet, and 14 per cent were unsafe above 8,000 feet. NEW bKlTiSri CABINET ,-remier .Organizes .Government .of Strongest Men in Empire * The new cabinet of Freuner Lloyu -recite was announced Friuay nignt, -ays a Lonuon uispatch. it presents a lew surprises. The question tne iJritish newspapers are asiting is w'nether Mr. Laoyd George will rule uia cabinet or wnether his conservative auvisers will nominate him. i'ne majority of tne numbers of the cabinet m Mgh places are Conservatives, notably Andrew Bonar Law, x^ail Cuik.cn, Arinur J. Balfour ana * iscount Milner. Only lour years -Oo uieir party regarueu Mr. cnoyu w?eorge as tne conservatives touay rei'ai'u the BoaueViKL Tne premier is picged by his campaign spcecnes to a sweeping piooiam ot .Liberal reforms, particularly t..n giving of land anu houses to ..or.ung uien anu uiscnargeu soluiers. nis principal auvisers are repreaenca.. eo ci i no land owing interests who, .oilovv.ng tiauition, would place barn-is m tne way of such reforms. Tne ministers witnout portfolio, <.orbe Nicoi Barnes and Sir Eric .avuues, nave important duties tor .. ? m I which there are uo cabinet places, air. , ~.ames will represent labor at the ; 4,eiice congress while Sir Eric has undertaken the management of domobil.sation. one innovation Is the selection for tlie first time of an Inuian as a member of the government, Sir S. H. Shina having the p.ace of undersecre.ary for India. Another Is the appointment of Cecil Bishop Harms..orth, brother of Lord Northcliffe, to succeed Lord Robert Cecil as undersecretary for foreign affairs. The new British cabinet will be eaded by David Lloyd George as premier and first lord of the treasury. .t3" A United States senator, a member of the Populist party, once said that he had heard Jefferson quoted on every side of every subject discussed before that body. STORY OF 118TH INFANTRY Interesting Information From Col. Spratt's Field Orders CASUALTY LIST SHOWS HLRCIC WORK Suffering of the Officers Was Unusually Severe But the Regiment i Broke the Hindenburg Line and ' Helped End the War. Through the courtesy of Lieut. Col. I Thomas B. Spratt, a correspondent has ' been privileged to examine copies of ' held orders covering the instructions to ( the One Hundred and Eiorhteenth In tan try, Thirtieth Division, composed of ( the troops from South Carolina, and ! reports of the operations of the regi- J ment between the period from October , 6 to October 20, the period during ; which the Hindenburg line was first ' broken by these troops and their ob- ' jectives obtained. There are also original maps which were used on the held ! showing by annotation the progress ' made by the troops as they went for- ( ward to their objectives. The orders contain a wealth of de- 1 tail which seem to cover every contin- . gency from the laying down of the j first barrage to the disposition of the ; dead, wounded and prisoners, and . show the particular duty of each arm of the service, including artillery, ma- ! chine gun detachments, aeroplanes, cavalry, water supply, food, first aid, and all in such accurate detail that j the mind trained to the business should find no difficulty in any contingencyThe mass of this information is staggering to the lay mind and indicates ( the necessity for skillful training. The orders originating with the high com- ^ mand come down by grades and are written usually in all cases except by ' the majors of battalions who assemble their company commanders and per- 1 3onally go through their orders. Rtgimsnt Occupies Trenches The regiment left le Mesnil, where it ' had been stationed for two days fol- ( lowing the operations at Bellicourt on October 6 and was moved by bus con- : voy to Ronssoy, marching thence to the trenches southwest of Nauroy. On ! the same night it proceeded to the vicinity of Montbrehain and took over , the lines of the Twenty-first and the rwenty-seventh Infantry Battalions ' ind the Second Pioneer Battalion, A. , El. F. The line was continually harassed by artillery fire on both front and j flanks, but in spite of this the positions were improved and the lines advanced in some instances, while a few prisoners were captured by raids on ^ enemy posts by parties from the Third Battalion. On the following morning, with the co-operation of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Infantry."on the left, the regiment made an advance of ' 1,100 yards on a 70Q yard front, with the aid of a creeping barrage, and suffered few casualties in the operation, rhis operation was for the purpose of straightening out the line and provid- I Ing a jumping off place for an attack planned for October 8. The orders for this attack came late ind, in the absence of Colonel Wolfe, were issued to the majors by Lieutenant Colonel Spratt, who spent the whole light in the preparation in order that there should be no delay. However, there was little time after the receipt of the orders since the attack was to begin at 6 o'clock in the morning. Break Hindenburg Line Shortly after this hour the regiment attacked with the Sixth British Division on the right and the One Hun- 1 Ired and Seventeenth Infantry on the left and breaking through the Hinden- 1 burg line advanced to a depth of 5,800 < yards on a front of 2,500 yards, cap- 1 turing the village of Brancourt, the 1 lormal objective, and the high ground < I J 1 Dtiyuiiu uil a iwu uaiuiiiuii nunc, mo j latter being the contingent objective. 1 rhe advance was assisted by tanks and irtillery barrage. The advance of the 1 left battalion was steady, but the ad- 1 /ance of the right was held up tempo- < rarily by fierce resistance In Brancourt. 1 rhe normal objective was reached by the First Battalion about 8.30 in the iiorning, while the contingent objec- : tlve was reached about 12-30 in the 1 ifternoon. The enemy resistance was mainly of machine gun fire and artil- < lery, the latter In some instances firing < jver open sights at the adva; ing Infantry. In this operation the regiment ^ captured 16 officers and 750 men and < fix square miles of territory. The regiment suffered severely in casualties swing to the difficulties to be over- 1 :ome ana to tne spirit ana entnusiasm if the men who went forward to their objectives with entire disregard of exposure or impediment. The casualty list shows the names of the following commissioned officers killed in action: Capt. A. Zane Pyles, regimental adjutant; Capt. William W. Tones of Company L, First Lieut. W. Hudgens, adjutant Third Battalion; First Lieut. P. B. N. Earle of Company M, First Lieut. William A. Mulloy of rompany I, First Lieut. George F. Read of Company F, First Lieut. Wiliam K. Krampton of Company D, Second Lieut. Henry J. Erown of Company M, Second Lieut. Koper E. Farmer of Company K, Second Lieut. Tillman H. Smith of Company F, Second Lieut. William O. Stevenson of Company A, Second Lieut. William M. Tones of Headquarters company and 3econd Lieut. Charles Roehrig of Company L. Those wounded or gassed were MaJ. Heyward Mahon, Jr., commanding the First Eattalion; Major J. H. Howell, oommanding the Third Battalion; Lieut. Paul E. Bradshaw, adjutant, ' First Battalion; Lieut. S. M. Willis of Company A, Capt. Louts L. Ligon of Company B, who commanded the First Battalion after Major Mahon was i wounded;; Capt. Arthur Lee of Com- ; pany C, who commanded the First Battalion after Cantain Lieon was wound ed; Captain J. D. Crawford of Company D, Capt. Samuel W. Parks of Company G. who wa3 succeeded In turn as they were wounded by Lieut- Dozlcr and First Sergeant Frederick Nims; Lieut. J. H. Wiggs of Company H, Capt. Robt. W. Hudgens of Headquarters company, Lieut. George O. Bailey, commanding the machine gun company. Wounded or Gasred Others wounded by shell fire, rifle bullet or gas were as follows: First Lieut. Richard S. Gessford of Company r irsi j_.ieut. james Anaerson, inieui- , gence officer of Third Battalion; First < Lieut Harry E. Wlckes of Company L, 1 First Lieut Henry E. Ruhl of Head- j quarters company, First JJeut Sam J. j i Royall of Headquarters company, j < First Lieut James C. Dozier of Com- I pany G, First Lieut James E. Schwing < of Headquarters company, First Lieut 1 G. A. Neuffer, Machine Gun company; 1 Second L'.eut John B. Howard of ] Company H, Second Lieut D. T. Smith of Company G, Second Lieut Zebulon 1 Thornburg of Company F, Second i Lieut Paul F. Newell of Company G, < Second Lieut. Edgar L. McNeil, Ma- t chine Gun company; Second Lieut Jess M. Barton of Headquarters company. Second Lieut Jerry B. Fenton of Company D, Second Lieut Carl T. ' Prause of Company I, Capt Fred E. Stewart, adjutant, Signal Battalion; First Lieut W. W. Win go, Headquarters company; First Lieut Paul C. Bradshaw, adjutant First Battalion; First Lieut Harry O. Kessenlch, Headquarters company; First Lieut. Joe T. Smith of Company L, First Lieut Henry P. Ledford, M. R. E.; First Lieut. Burman E. Moore, M. R. E.; First Lieut John H. Wiggs of Company H, Second Lieut. Alfred O'Neal of Company H, Second Lieut Atlas M. Pickett of Company D, Second Lieut Robert M. Mazcy of Company L, Capt. L.* L Ligon, First Fattalion; First Lieut Edwin L. Hughes of Company A, First Lieut. Sweany I. Black mar of Company B, First Lieut. George C. Bailey, Machine Gun company; First Lieut. Wallace D. Wilkinson of Machine Gun :ompany; First Lieut David E. Penland of Company F, and First Lieut Job B. Kooh of Company E. Captain Gillespie Promoted. Company E was commanded by CJapt Richard E. Fulp during the first fight and later by Lieut. Lawlor, Captain Fulp having been sent to the staff school to take a special course in staff work. This is the only combat comDany that did not lose its commanding officer, and the Second Battalion, commanded by Major Lindsay McFadden of Rock Hill, is the only battalion that did not lose both Its major and adjutant Captain Gillespie succeeded Ma|or Howell in command of the Third Battalion and was recommended for promotion to be major; Captain L. L. Ligon succeeded Major Mahon in command of the First battalion and when be was gassed was succeeded hy Cagt Arthur Lee. Capt W. D. Workman, who had been a major and acted as brigade adjutant of the Sixtieth Brigade, was later assigned to command this battalion. Capt Ralph J. Ramer of Anderson, the popular and efficient commander >f the machine gun company, was detailed as a special instructor in the irmy school of the line and the machine gun company was commanded by Lieut George C. Bailey. The Headquarters company, commanded by Capt Robert W. Hudgens, suffered very heavy casualties, and the differ Bill specially trained men were unaoa with rifles and sent' to reinforce the depleted Infantry companies. Captain Hudgens was assigned to the command of Company O, which had lost all its jfflcers. He commanded this company In an able manner during several days Df the hottest lighting, exposing himself fearlessly and coming through | safely. A few days later, while in reg- , imental headquarters in Bohain, Capt Hudgens was severely wounded by a shell which at the same time killed Captain Pyles and Lieut. M. W. Jones ind wounded Lieut Royal. Unwounded Officers To those who were familiar with the personnel of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry the following roster of the commanding and staff offlMmolnlnff mhon lh? rftffimpnt wan withdrawn from the fight will be of Interest: Col. Orris R. Wolfe; Lieut Col. Thomas B. Spratt, Major James E. Poor*, regimental surgeon; Capt Francis J. Beatty, adjutant; Captain William F. Murrage, personnel adjutant; Capt Francis M. Mack, operations officer; Lieut John S. Lyons, chaplain; First Battalion officers, Maj. W. D. Workman, commanding; Second Lieut Doolittle of Company A, First I Lieut Matthews of Company B, First Lieut. Kephardt of Company C, First Lieut. Graves of Company D; Second 1 Battalion, Maj. Lindsay McFadden, 1 commanding; First Lieut Lawlor of i Company E, First Lieut Wister W. ] Watkins of Company F, First Lieut S'ewell of Company G, first lieutenant 1 }f Company H; Third Battalion, Major i W. L. Gillespie, commanding; First i Lieutenant Cobb of Company I, First { Lieut. Ellison S. Blake of Company K, t Second Lieut. Dwyer of Company L, First Lieut Porter of Company M; i rleadquarters company, First Lieut, i Beers; Machine Gun company, Second ] Lieutenant Phillips; Supply company, < rapt Robert T. Erown. This decimal.- j -J * ' - *1 4 -t .4 4U? 4lMA *V? .'u rosier is turn siiown ?i me uuie uic regiment was withdrawn on October 20th. After the opening flght on October 2, the regiment proceeded forward on October 9, making headway, though lomewhat retarded as a result of the ilow progress of the English on their ight. Their objectives were reached >vith the capture of 200 prisoners and Ive square miles of territory. During the operations of October 11 treat resistance was encountered and It was evident that the enemy intendsd to hold his line at all costs. Prisonjrs reported that the hills were full of machine gun nests and at the time the egiment was- not prepared with proper artillery support for the combat, as It was a case of rifles agalpst machine guns. However, two square miles of' territory were gained and the regiment was relieved for a rest and reorganiza- j tion until the night of October 16. j Work of Third Battalion. , On the morning of October 17 the 1 regiment attacked again on a thousand ; t yard front and in the dense fog of that' j morning a part of the Third Battalion | lost its direction, strayed too far to the j right and got into the town of Molain, f which they captured from the enemy < and later turned over to the British. 11 The Second Eattalion came up mean- | < while and assisted the Third in taking i the town of Et. Martin Rivere, and the i latter proceeded to within 600 yards of, i its objective, but was forced to fall i back by the unusually heavy gun fire, j Progress was made to the objectives' and the report indicates that in thej operations from October 6 to October i 20 the Thirtieth Division penetrated to a depth of over 18,000 yards, 18,000 r yuruo 01 wmcn waa maae wnue uio One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry was in the first lino. The First Battalion lost 12 officers and 479 men; the Second Battalion, 12 afflcers and 624 men; the Third Battalion, 16 officers and S14 men; Headluarters company, 10 officers and 232 ' men; Machine Qun company, four officers and 48 men, and the Supply company two men. Field orders issued by the commanding officers are full of praise and commendation for the troops whose ac:omDliahments are described as wor. thy for the generations to follow. TO HELP THE NEAR EAST South Carolina's Part Is Two Hundrod Thousand Dollars. South Carolina's allotment of the 130,000,000 for which the American Committee for Relief in the Near East s asking the people of the United 3tates for the folk of Asia Minor Is 1200,000. The drive for the amount Is icheduled for the week of January 12 :o 19, in every county In South Caroina. Tork county's proportion of the total :ontrlbuted is 39,500, and Rev. J. L. Dates of Torkville, is chairman of the :ampalgn in this county. The state organisation, which was t innounced some time ago, consists of i state chairman, William Banks Dove, lecretary of state; state publicity dl ector, William J. Cormack of Columbia. and state treasurer. El O. Black of Columbia. The executive committee ie :omposed of Dr. R. C. Reed, Hu(h R. dure hi son, William Banks, Mrs. Chrtsie Benet, Mrs. W. C. Cathcart, William a. Lyles and Dr. Reed Smith, all of Columbia. The Immediate direction of the :ounty campaign Is in charge of direcors of each congreesiona 1 district rhey are: George H. Moffett of Char* eston, First district; George h. Toole >f Aiken, 8econd district; I* Q. BoUenan of Anderson, Third district; R- E. Boggs of Spartanburg, Fourth district; EL C. Burts of Rock Hill, FUth district; J. M. Lynch of Florend, Sixth listrlet; and William-Banks of Colum3 la, Seventh district The district directors have appointed or are appointing in their respective territories, coun:y chairmen, county publicity managers and county treasurer. In addition to the foregoing, the ivomen, under the immediate supervision of Mrs. Christie Benet of Columbia, as chairman, and Mrs W. C. Cathcart of Columbia, as executive lecretary, are being organised throughjut the state. Mrs. Cathcart, who has Deen in correspondence "with women hroughout the state, stated Friday hat the women's organisation is prsc:ically completed in nearly all the :ountles and that the women, as Is customary with them, are enthusiastic over the movement State -Director Carlton and State Chairman Dove are ee again# ever the prospects of a successful consummation of the "drive." The encouragenent they are receiving throughout Lhe state leads them to believe that South Carolina will more than subicribe Its quota of $100,000. Meetings save been held In various parts of the itate at which the people have vtnted eg heir enthuslam for the great phlnlanhropy. "1 am very its''led at the manner ' n which South Carolina Is responding jo the philanthropic movement for reief of the people of the Near East, vhose sufferings have been great," said Mr. Carlton. "I haave traveled in every part of the state during the past few veeks in furtherance of the movement ind I can unhesitatingly say that no itate Is more enthusiastic over this :ause than Is South Carolina. Some of ;he leading and forward looking men >f the state have practically given up ;helr large businesses and are working 'or the movement, and with such force ind stimulus behind the solicitation for relief I am satisfied that South Carolina la 'going over me top wiu? a -ush." ? MAIL F0R*S0LDIER8. Large Quantities of Undelivered Let- ~~ ters Accumulated From eight to ten carloads of mall .'or American soldiers are undelivered n France, Second Assistant Postmaaer General Praeger told the senate xwtofflce committee Friday, and 'thousands and probably millions" of etters addressed to the men overseas will arrive in New York soon to be ?ent to the dead letter office where an ittempt will be made to return them n the writers. Blame for the failure to deliver this nail was placed on the war departnent by Mr. Praeger, who again exila.nt.fl that the army authorities hanlle all soldiers' mall in France the jostofflce department delivering outgoing mail at Hoboken and receiving eturning mail at the French ports. Mr. Praeger said one way to im>rove conditions overseas would be to lend a force of experienced mail :lerks to France to deliver the mall to he soldiers. Mr. Praeger told the committee that >ne reason for the confusion In the lelivery of mail to soldiers was the 'allure of the war department to keep lp its index system. This same cause, -- * 1 1 ? a lan ra?nnn*lhU for IC UtXIAlcu, noa iuov ... he department's delay In sending out illotments to soldiers and In reportng casualties. Another source of delay In deliverng mall promptly, he said, was the :ransferring of units of troops from >ne point to another, but he said this should cause only a few days' delay. Asked what facilities the war department had for handling mall, Mr. Praeger said about 50 experienced nail clerks were sent by that departnent overseas while the remainder of :he necessary force for this work was nade up of Inexperienced men. The second assistant postmaster general appeared before the committee to urge appropriations of 13,000, )00 for the maintenance and development of the air mall service. He predicted a great future for this service ind declared extensive plans ror developing aerial mall facilities are being made by France, England and Canada, the latter now planning the establishment of an airplane route connecting Montreal with Boston. Extension of the present air mall service between Washington and New York so as to connect Boston with Atlanta is planned, Mr. Praeger said.