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Submarine Siti Somewh America Willing to Arbitrate Degree of Blame, but 1 Safety of Non Washington, Sept. 13.?Conferences tnriav hptwppn President Wilson and Secretary Lansing and between Secretary Lansing and Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, brought the situation growing out of German submarine activities to the loilowmg status: 1. Tue Gern.im ambassador has been furnished with evidence of officers and survivors of the Arabic, all agreeing that linpr wn?s nroppedins: neace fully when torpedoed without warning, and has been advised that the United States desires a disavowal of the attack and reparation for the (American ^ . lives lost. 2. 'The evidence will be sent by Count von Bernstorff to the Berlin foreign office, to which it has not been available before, and probably 10 days will e!apse "before Berlin can be heard from. In some quarters it is believed . Berlin, after examining the evidence, may change its position ana disavow the action of the submarine commander, who, it is claimed in the last note, sank the liner because he thought she was about to attack him. 3. The United States has. at hand all information on the case as it now stands and is ready to decide upon its course, but action may be delayed until Berlin replies to Count '\on Bern'storff. ' 4. While the United States will not consent to arbitration of a principle or of a question involving the safety of American lives, it has accepted Germany's assurances that peaceful lin ers will not be torpedoed .without warning, and if Germany wants to RUSSIANS LIKELY TO RETREAT AGAIN OFFENSIVE NOW LINE BETWEEN"! ROY" NO AND PETROGKAD. I Believe That Slavs Will Be Forced to , Fall Rick Further, in Spite of i Kecent Sussesses in Galicia. i London, Sept. 13.?Anotlnr battering ^ offensive has taken von Hin ^enburg to [ j Ro\*nn-Pptrfv2TaH railway between Vilna and Dvinsk. The whole lAustro- j German forces have been striving to gain this railway since the fall of the Polish fortresses. The advance, which began toward the end of iast week, was carried on from three directions upon Dvinsk and the railway on either side of the town, i while further south the invaders advanced toward rVilna. The Russians, before superior forces, supplied with the usual mass of artillery, were iorc- j ed back yesterday to the lake district.,< which the railway penetrates, and now ' are making a stand there. Simultaneously the Germans pushed ' their way eastward towards Slonim and Pinsk and branch lines, while the J Austrians are fighting hard to reach Rovno, southern terminus of the line;'1 Must Fall Back Again. j ( .. - . i 1 n?n ?? it? * v? lli n ( '-.Wna X.ina 1 cm r> a.? y&i n ? , fcariasatf Jtfcb Germans it is probable the Russians will be compelled to re- 1 treat further., although their offensive in Galicia might save them by com-; pelling the Germans to send reinforce- 1 ments to this region. Therenow no doubt of Russian '? ai_ a Ji-*?' ** ? ? P/\l l/Mwin cr success in mis uiMnt'i, ivnv^ *^5 the Austrian admission of their retire- ( ment, the Germans tonight announce 1 that after repulsing Russian attacks ^ they occupied a "favorable position situated some kilometers west of our ' forjPfrer position." T"iie conditions under which the1 troops are fighting in the marshy coun- [ 1 try in the centre and on the southern ; on/i of the line are described by cor- j - respondents as most terrible. The ' country is virtually all under water through, which the Austro-Germans Jhave to advance against well prepared /Russian positions. The eastern bank j 'of the Sereth, from which the Rus-! isians are delivering their counterattacks, is a veritable fortress from j which the Russians emerge every time | their opponents approach^ taking heavy ! *oll of them in killed, wounded and j prisoners. According to the Russian, accounts nearly 30,000 prisoners have 'befcn ta&en in the fighting along this .river. - * j Artillery in Action. In the west the great artillery ' ?at- i tie continues from Belgium to the Argonne. The duel now has been going on for nearly three weeks and during the week-end had been particularly j violent around Arras, in the Argonne and Chamoagne. lAt several points the German in- j fantry, after a heavy bombardment, at-. * y \ lation | iat Cleared Up i Amount of- Reparation and Jiwnuo vj* i i wi -Combatants. arbitrate the amount of indemnity, the! question of whether the Arabic actually attempted to attack the submarine or whether her actions justified the submarine commander in believing he was about to be attacked, that probably would be agreed to. No announcements were made alter today's conferences, but it was said in well informed circles that although the American government was not pleased with the Arabic note, the situation was considered far from hopeless. The German ambassador is understood to have given wide latitude by his foreign office in handling the situation. Negotiations from now on probably will come through him and it is generally believed that settlement of the Arabic case will mean prompt clearing up of the entire submarine question, including the question of the reparation for Americans lost with the Lusitania. Xo word has come from 'Vienna, where Ambassador Penfield Is pre-j sumed to have delivered several days [ ago the note informing the Austro-j Hungarian government that Dr. Constants T. Dumba no longer is acceptable as an envoy to the United States. Notice that Dr. Dumba has been recalled is expected at any time. It was said at the state department today that information regarding participation by Capt. von Papen, the German military attache, in Ambassador Dumba's plans for handicapping American munitions plants had not been *?-J c-/-? for nn ?ar?Hrvn in rscsiveu, <?uu iuai cu iai uu ... regard to "him had been considered. tempted to storm advanced trenches, but the French say all attacks failed. Fighting of a somewhat similar character is progressing along the Austro-Italian front. The session of the British parliament which will open Tuesday will be ^ chiefly occupied with arranging to 1 Bnance the war. This win mciuae ma < le.iy of new taxes. However, many 1 Dther matters will be discussed. Com- < pulsorj; service is certain* to come in ] for consideration and on this the cab- i inet is said to be divided. < JUDGE OAKY READERS * DECISION 0> NEW LAW i Holds in, the Weston Richey Case s That the Gallon-o-Month Law . Is Unconstitutional. ] j Greenwood-Journal. 1 \ According to the Abbeville Medium, Judge Frank B. Gary held at the court ' Df general sessions this week that the ' gailon-a-month law is unconstitutional i in the case of Weston Richey. The de- i cision is of special interest in Greenwood, since a woman, who, it is al- j leged, aided Richey in bringing in a 1 trunk full of whiskey from Atlanta. ] was arrested near here. The arrest ] theVoman by Sheriff McMillan and >-v j.__ cti.TtrVi^+^-v ot o finer station uepucy OUtl'111 Y?UHC at a. on the Seaboard between Greenwood and Abbeville will be recalled. The woman was lodged in jail here, but ivas later released. i The (Medium gives the following account of Judge Gary's decision in the . Richey case: ( Judge Frank B. Gary, in the case of he State against Weston Richey, charged with transporting liquor into < :he State in violation of the law ? "iV " ^ ?<>71 nn \II0WI1 as UIC Wlicr ganuu-u uiuuu. 'aw," held that the act was unconstitutional as it interfered with interstate commerce. This decision is in line with a reccnt decision of the United States supreme court in a case brought up from Kentucky, which decision , held, in effect, "that until a State decreed that the drinking of whiskey was a crime th.v amount that could be received by an individual for lawful purposes could not be limited." The Webb-Kenyon l*w does not give tne State the right to limit the quantity received when it is for lawful purposes, but says: "that whiskey can net be shipped from one State to another when such liquor is intended by any person tc be used in violation of any law of such State." Of course if the whiskey is to be sold in violation of the law it is unlawful to receive any amount, buc the effect of this decision is to knock out our law whereby it was intmi.ir.rt tn limit the amount of whis key that could be received by any individual for ariv lawful purpose. If he drinks it himself he can receive anv amount desired. Plies Cored In 6 to 14 Days i Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching. ! Blind, Bleeding: or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 d*vs : The first application givu- Ease a-d | < GOVERNOR PAROLES VOUNG WHITE BOY MOTHER'S SEKIOlTS ILLNESS !> DILLS CLE >IE M Y. Robert Kennells Hud Served li) of 1"> Months Sentence?Allowed Once j Before to Visit Mother. 1 The State. Gov. Manning yesterday granted a parole during good behavior to Robert Kennells. a young white man convicted at the October, 1914, term of court in Greenwood county, before Judge Sease, i and sentenced to serve 15 months on! the public works of Greenwood county. < This is the same case in which the1 governor, on August 3 last, granted a ? t parole for 10 days for the purpose o: j allowing the prisoner to visit his' mother, who was at the time very ill.; The prisoner returned to the chain gang promptly at the expiration of the 10 days, and is reported to haves been a model prisoner. Judge Sease, who presided at the! trial, recommended that the sentence! be commuted to 10 months, the prose-j cuting attorney, Solicitor R. A. Cooper, j also requested that the prisoner be pa- j roled. Several letters have been re- j ceived by the governor in the case, and j the board of pardons unanimously rec-i ommended that the sentence be com- j rmitor? In nddUinn tn this thp 2T0V- i ernor yesterday received the following! letter from Dr. John W. Williams of Honea Path: "Wish to state that Mrs. Kennells is gradually growing weaker every day and before many days have gone by she will have passed into the great beyond. She is unable to get up at all! and is absolutely helpless. "I would like very much to see her last days made as happy as possible' and anything you can do will be gratefully appreciated by all parties concerned." Among the papers filed in this case is a letter from the magistrate berore whom the preliminary was held, in which the magistrate states that this boy was, in his opinion, led into the trouble by a bad companion, and that Kennells has been sufficiently punished. While the boy has been suffering , imprisonment for the crime, his j mother is now probably on her deajh j ( bed; and according to statements con- i j tained in letters received at the gov-j, ?rnor's office, she is pleading for the! 5 -eturn of her son before she dies. The j] governor today wired the supervisor j if firoanu-Arv^ nfit" fhof narnlo Vi-Q c I /i \jii " WVU V/wuuw; I.UUV iamk/ seen issued and to allow the boy to ^ ?o to his mother's bedside at once. The following is a copy of the tele- , ;ram sent to the Greenwood county , supervisor: "I have today signed parole for < Robert Kennells. Send him to his i nother's bedside at once. Parole goes : :o you by mail."' 1 The governor also sent the following :elegram to Mrs. J. H. White, Ware 1 Shoals, sister of Robert Kennells, hop- : ing that it would serve to comfort the nother: "Please -tell your mother to be of J ?ood cheer; having today signed parole j for Robert during good behavior, and have wired supervisor to send him to tiis mother's bedside at once." Little Miss Brown" Xext Tuesday. Manager Wells< of the opera house will offer Newberry movie lovers an unusually good feature cm Thursday, a comedy in five parts entitled "Little Miss Browst." Vivian Martin's much admired comedy gifts are given every chance of showing themselves in this production. She plays t&e part of Betby Brown, who has two lovers. One of whom sfee so indiscreetly ffirts with that she finds herself alone in a Hartford hotel, where she i& mistaken for the wife of a.young man who has come to the hotel to meet his wife and his uncle and aunt and he presented with some money. Betty Brown has some extraordinarily amusing adventures and misfortunes before the entanglement is-<.traiehtened out. and she sends the unwelcome lover to the right-abou* and declares for the right one. One of the most remarkable casts evea seen in a motion picture is seen in this comedy. Besides lYivian Martin, there is Chester Barnett; John Kines, W. J. Ferguson, Crauford Kent, Julia Stuart, Alberta Gallatin, all clever comedy artists. James Young directed the picture, which has some pretty and effective settings and many animated scenes of hotel and domestic life. I Excellent photoplay adds charm to a 1 piquantly pleasing and exhilarating pictures. /tuinuroTCTD c Dilie i.niviibgi E-n o i illv i W THE DIAMOND BRAND. A Ladles! Ask yonr Vrasrlnt for A\ f, (( E"\ia Chl-chea-ter s Diamond lJrand/VVv IMIIs in Red and Gold metalliAw/ -^?*2 boxes, sealed -with Blue Ribbon. \y 5piN| Take no other. Bny of yonr * i'l - ijf I>ruee??t- Ask forCIH-C'IiES-TER 9 [ C % DIAMOND 15RANI* IMLLS for 25 \ XP Jj> yearss.nownaiCcst,Safcst,Always Reliablt ?Jr ^ *>y r\r>i * ~ 'i *? r" ? ? <* - - i-lia 4.I BERNSTORFF GIVES CHANCE TO ASSIST ! COCRSE OF r. S. DEPENDS ON HOW' TECTONIC EMPIRE STEERS. i Washington Withholds Action to Sever Relations Pending' Ambassador's Communication. Washington. Sept. 14.?Prospects for j a favorable adjustment of the contro- j versies betwen the United States and i Germany depend entirely on the atti-1 tude winch tne Berlin roreign otnce will take toward the recommendations j made today by .Count von Bernstorff. j the German ambassador. as a result or' his conference yesterday with Secretary Lansing. Details of the conference became known today, throwing light on the critical point that has been reached in the relations between the two countries. The Washington government was almost ready tovsever diplomatic relaticns, but decided to delay taking any step until Germany could be fur. nished tlie evidence in its possession on tne AraDic case. Friendliness and candor are understood to have characterized the conversation between Mr. Lansing and the ambassador. The ambassador has been given an opportunity to communicate freely with his- go.ernment so that it may be clearly understood in Berlin why vV'ashington is convinced the tor pedoing of the Arabic could not have been a mistake, justified or unjusti fied. It was made clear to Count von Bernstorff that the United States wants a disavowal of the act. Arbitration can not be an iss>ue for consideration until the attitude of the German government towards the act itself is put on record. Later the American government mav take under consideration! a proposal to arbitrate, not the principle, but the indemnity to be paid for lives lost. Tension was lessened today and; there was- much more hope in both the state department and German quarters of a friendly adjustment. Much i emphasis was put on the fact that for | the first time since relations became j strained, informal discussions are pro-' ceeding at both Washington and Berlin and the first opportunity for an exchange of views confidentially and . informally has been made possible. In| tact it was said in German quarters! ;hat' understandings might now be reached in advance of the writing of 'ormal notes. The note from Berlin which Drought the situation to a crisis asserted that the submarine torpedoed :he .Arabic because her commander thought the iiner was about to attack him, refused to admit liability for indemnity for American lives lost, e\en if the commander was> mistaken in his belief, and offered to submit the matter to arbitration. The evidence submitted by the United States is regarded here as proving conclusively that. until she sub /-? lonn/iVi tVia fnrnoHrt tho Cpr. 11/ 1UUUVU Lll V LWi y vuvj UMV \? v * man submarine was concealed behind the sinking British steamer Dnnsley and could not have been seen from the Arabic. Furthermore, it is shown that the Arabic was struck in such a way that the submarine must have been at I right angles from her when the tor-! pedo was fired instead of in a position j to make ramming by the liner a pos-j sibfli'ty. I : Ambassador von Bernstorff is un-; derstood to have scrutinized this evidence carefully and to have made cer-1 tain suggestions to iris foreign office., It will probably be ten days before a reply can be received. With disavowal of the submarine commander's act, officials here feel that questions of indemnity can be left to arbitral tribunals. While awaiting for the'next wordj from Berlin Secretary Lansing expects ; to ta&e a few days'' vacation. He probably will leave after the Pan-American conference on the Mexican situation | Saturday. \ Associated Press dispatches - from j Berlin announcing that Ambassador; Gerard had been handed a note dls-1 claiming responsibility for the sinking of the liner Hesperian and expressing the belief that the ship struck a mine attracted comparatively little interest here. As the Hesperian was struck! forward when well beyond the zone; in which German submarines usually! * i operate, and as no one on board saw ! o enhmiiritio sir a tnrnedo officials had not expected an issue to develop over the case. No. 666 This la pceaeriptie& prepared etpedal?? for MALARIA or CHILLS &, FEVER. Five or six do??i will break any case, and M f?Wn then ai * tonic the Fever will not I return. It acta on the liver better ft?ft Calomel and doet not gripe or sicken. 25* I Invigorating to the Pale and Sick*? The Old Standard general strengrthet inj? tonic. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria.eviriche > jf h'ood.andbuilds jpthesyslem. A 'rue t?r. c For aaults and cL iureu. 5Uc 'Veiidinsr For October. The State. Newberry, Sept. 11.?Mr. and Mrs. i Thomas H. Cromer announce the en-! i gagement of their daughter, Laura, to I Dr. Theodore Stark Hemmingway. The j marriage is to be solemnized early in | Hof r?har ! A Bigger Can of f Bettei\ Lye If you use lye for so Of simply for household I 1 pay you to ouy MENDLESO | to the exclusion of all c you are not only assured i full strength, without adu] ! large can (20 ounces Sol i means economy. I \ No other ten cent can pounds of grease or makee One pound can makes fift For cutting grease 1 sinks, scouring woodwoi disinfecting poultry hou; VI ililVtl Q| VkM *rAV>?*%iwwva Three forms??Solid, C Two Sizes?i Insist upon Mendles* >EWBERR1 Wholesale Dealers: R. D. Smith & S>ons * Retail i)ealers: J. J. Amick Counts & Shealy A L. Rikard W. L. lathis A. X. Crosson J. C. Kinard J T. 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