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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY* OCTOBER 28 DATLIN TO BEAT BIITISI VARSiIPS AID ALLE] FORES IN BELGIUM LINAN ATTACK STRONI -4 Invaders Renew Their Attempts t4 Break Through Allied Lines Fighting in Belgium and Aroun( ' Coast Described as of the Fierces Character-No Result Obtained. There has been no cessation of thi battle. in Belgium and northerr France. All official communicationi declare the fighting is of the fierces1 character character and that the Brit ish warships continue to aid the Al lies with heavy shell fire. One re port has it that the British fleet i. being assisted by a French squadron The British admiralty praises th( work on the warships and report great damage to the Germans fron their fire. It adds that the naval losses have been small and that the German artillery is having difficulty in finding the range. The operations of the British warships are under the direction of Rear Admiral Hood. Germany officially reports that a British torpedo boat destroyer off the Belgian coast has been put out of action by the German shells, and re fers optomistically to the progress of the battle along the whole front. Evidently the Germans are taking a strong offensive, because the French official communication in re ferring to the violent engagement which has been going on for several days says the. Germans have not been able to force back either the Belgian army or the Franco-British troops. Belgian villages along the coast north of Ostend are suffering severely from shell fire. Lying, as they do, between the German lines and the British warships off the beach, some are reported wiped out and others badly damaged. It is believed, how ever, that virtually all the inhabi tants fled whet the Belgian army re tired behind the Yser River. The British squadron off the coast of Belgium, which now forms the 'ex treme left wing of the allied line, has performed effective service in the last few days. The warships have played a great part in the severe fighting near Nieuport. A correspondent of the London Times reports that on Monday the beet was attacked by German sub marines, but a patrol of destroyers cameup in time to drive off the sub marines. The engagement took place while the British cruisers were firing on coast batteries. On Saturday night, according to vorrespondents in Belgium. the war ships observed that. the Germans were digging trenches along the coast, mares lighting up their operations. This enabled the ships to get the ex act range, and at daylightthey shell ed the German positions. A corre spondent of the Daily Telegraph in Belgium says the warships effectively bmbar'ded villages along the coast which had been occupied by the Ger mans. ~Between the ships and the Belglans the Germans found them selves caught in a trap and lost heav i1y. "The rattle of machine guns sup paemented the noise of the naval guns," says the. correspondent. "The -Germans, caught between two fires, began to waver and slowly gave way before the pressure of the infantry. The strength of the attack was then Increased, and soon i~ne' whole Ger man line resting on the coast was in full retreat" The British admiralty announced Thursday that the monitors Severn, Humber and Mersey have been en gaged on the Belgian coast, firing on the German right flank. Owing to the light draught of these vessels, they were able to contribute mater ially to the succestof the operations. abundantly pustifying their acquisi tion at the outbreak of the~war. De tachments with machine guns were landgl and. assisted meritoriously in the defence of Nieuport. The casual ties were one officer kifled and twelve men wounded rand missing. It is reported that British warships silenced six German batteries and Germans lost 1,600 artillerymen kill ed or wounded. The fighting in this region, a network of canals and small rivers, is taking the name of the bat tle of the canals. It is conjectured that the British are using small tor pedo boats and gunboats in these canals, supplementing with this force their larger cruisers off the coast. TWO BANDITS KILLED. American and Canadian Officers Cap. ture Band of Yeggmen. Two bandits'and Clifford Adams. Canadian immigration inspector. wert killed Thursday near Blaine. Wash. during a fight north of the interna *tional boundary between five robbers and Canadian and American omeiers The outlaws are thought to be thosi who robbed the Bank of Sedro Wool ley of $20,000 Saturday night. Another ,bandit, and E. H. Keith,.: detective, were wounded during th< fight.- Two robbers who escaped are closely pursued. One of the robber: killed had $1,500 in gold in his belt The wounded man carried $1,700 They appeared to be Russians bul there was no clue to identify them MAY BE SETTLED. Release of Oil .Steamer by British I: Hopeful Sign of Understanding. State department officials Thuirsda: night believed issues arising from ti seizure of three American oil ship soon would be adjusted satisfactorill The release of the tanker John D Rockefeller, with the explanation tha the vessel was detained only becaus of doubt as to the destination of he cargo, was construed as an admissio by the British government that ship of American registry have a right t carry oil between neutral ports with out molestation. Policeman Kills Negro. Sergeant J. W. Sanders of Unio shot and killed a negro, Corneliu Shell, who resisted arrest Saturda' House Against Total Elimination. By a vote of 64 to 36 the Housec Representatives killed the total elin Ination bill on Wednesday. BUILDING BIG SHIPS UNITED STATES BUILDING LAR( EST OF DREADNOUGHTS. Each Ship Will Displace 32,000 Tor and Main Battery Hurls a Broa< side of 16,800 Pounds. Ten days ago the secretary )f th nav signed three papers, the signin of I'ich officially started the cox struction of the world's greatest ba tieships of the super-dreadnougl type, the California, Mississippi, an Idaho. t This trio of mighty fighting shil will represent when completed a totE displacement of 96,000 tons and wi have cost the United States govert ment between $45,000,000 and $50 000,000. To man them will be ne< essary a complement of about 1,10 officers and men to the ship, exelt sive of marine detachments. They will be sister ships in ever sense of the word and each will b able to hurl a broadside of 14-inc shells, the weight of which broadsid will be 16,800 pounds. This refer only to the 14-inch guns. of whic there will be twelve to a ship, mount ed three to a turret, two turrets for wan~l and two aft. The authorization of these grea ships shows that in eight years th size of American dreadnoughts ha exactly doubled, for the ships of th Michigan class, the original dread nought type of the American navy displaced 16,000 tons, whereas th, displacement of the California an her sister ships is 32,000 tons. Th, Michigan mounts eight 12-inch gun in her main battery, which fired ii broadside would give a total of 6,801 pounds as compared to the 16.800 pound broadside of the California. After the Michigan type came th< dreadnoughts Delaware and Nortl Dakota, authorized in 1907. In thes ships the tonnage per ship was in creased to 20,000 tons and the mail batteries consisted of ten 12-inc1 guns mounted two to a turret. tw4 forward and three aft. A Delewar 12-inch broadside weights- 8,501 pounds. The next step in the progressior brings us to the Utah and Florida the first of the superdreadnoughts In them the displacement reachet 21.825 tons, and the 12-inch broad side remained in weight the same a in the case of the Delaware and Nort Dakota. The construction of thes ships began in 1900. The following year the present flee flagship Wyoming and the first divi sion flagship Arkansas were authoriz ed. They represented a great strid in American dreadnought design Each of them displaced 26,00) tons and in them the main batteries wer increased from ten to twelve 12-inct guns. A Wyoming broadside weigh 10,200 pounds. After the Wyoming and the Arkan sas the keels of the monster super dreadnoughts New York and Texa, were laid in 1911. These were th first United States warships to moun1 the powerful 14-inch ordance. Ir them the displacement we.s increase to 27,000 tons. The New Yorl broadshide of ten 14-inch gun: weighs 14,000 pounds. The Nevada and the Oklahoma which are soon to .be added to th( fleet under Admiral Fletcher, cam4 next. They displaced 27,500 ton: and, like the New York and Texas have main batteries to ten 1 4-ie guns to the ship. The turret ar rangement is different. however,~ foi instead of two guns to a turret, as i: the case with all the other ships nam. ed, the guns are mounted in four tur rets. In two of the turrets are threi guns, and in the other two turret: are two guns. This represents ar entirely new departure in Americax gun arrangement. The Nevada broad side,'like that of the ships of the Nev York class, weighs 14,000 pounds. From the New York to the Arizoni Is the next step in the progression In these ships the tonnage was In creased to 31.300 tons and two addi tional 12-inch guns were added to th' main batteries of each. In them als< the new funnel scheme of' only ont funnel to a ship was adopted. This single funnel arrangement is also fol lowed in the ships of the Nevad: class. After the Nevada come the Call fornia, Mississippi and Idaho, th< ships whose construction has .ius been authorized. No other navy i: the world possesses ships. eithe built, under construction, or author ized. that are the equal in either of fensive pay er to America's lates authorized- trio of giant fighters. I I I TO INVESTIG;ATE. Senator Smith on a Committee ti Look A fter Cotton Markets. Senator E. D. Smith was one o five senators named in a resolutioa which the Senate passed Thursda authorizir.a them to confer with th government departments with refer ence to irnterference with markets fo int cotton and cotton seed oil and t 'enort to the Senate as early as pox - ible the result of their investiga tions. Since it became apparent som time ago that the present troub] abroad would seriously interfere wit this trade. Senator Smith has bee active in seeing that everything po: sible be done to remedy the situatiox -He has had a number of conferene -with officials and will continue hi efforts until there are results. -ON BATTLE INE. Winston Churchill Said to Have Saa Sed Trenches Around Antwerp. .Winston Spencer Churchill. ti .first lord of the admiralty. who al companied the British naval brigad marines to Antwerp. was, accordin sto the marines, with them in tl trenches practically all the time. Jul before the order was given to retii e he urged the men to hold out hours longer when the big gur r would arrive. One day he recoi s noitered the position of the Germar o in an aeroplane. Truant Schoolboys St'deide. Delbert Woodruff and Llopd Piere two school boys of Freeland, Micd committed suicide Wednesday aft< playing truant rather than face the . parents. Jap~s Capture German Cruiser. The Japanese report that they ra f across two German auxiliary crui - ers. one of which was captured at the other was destroyed by her cre' REFUSE TO ADJOURN SENATE HELD TOGETHER bY SOUTHERN FIBUSTER HOUSE READY TO QUIT e g - Senator Hoke Smith Leads Success ful Tactics in an Effort to Secure d Action on Currency Amendments 's and on the Cotton Warehouse Bill i -Many Congressmen Depart. Filibustering by Southern Demo crats struggling for legislation to re lieve the cotton 'situation prevented the adjournment of congress at 6 o'clock Thursday night as had been planned. e Led by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. members from the cotton states, at the last moment, prevented S action in the Senate on a joint reso lution to adjourn sine die, already passed by the House. It appeared that unless an agreement could be reached for a recess until after the November elections congress would stay in session indefinitely without a quorum of either house in Washing ton. The collapse of the adjournment program came after every hope for its success had been held out, and supreme efforts had been made to conclude the session after adoption in both houses of the conference re port of the war tax bill. A special feature of the situation was a dash by President Wilson in an automobile from a golf course to the -capitol to reach there in time to sign the war revenue bill before adjourn ment. The president rushed into the capi tol, followed by secret service men, at 5:45 o'clock. Attired in his golf clothes and without his reading glasses; he hastened to the president's room, where the revenue measure, signed by Speaker Clark and Senator Clarke, president pro tempore of the Senate, await -d him. Borrowing glasses from Senator Hughes of New Jersey, the president signed the bill and several others. Senators ran in and out of the president's room, holding their watches, while Senator Martin vainly sought to have passed the resolution the House had passed early in the day providing for adjournment sine die at 6 o'clock. At every turn he was met by fili bustering tactics of Senator Hoke Smith, who demanded successive roll calls on motions to adjourn until Lri day. to recess until Friday and to proceed to consideration of executive business. This kept the Senate busy until 6 o'clock, the clock in the House having been turned * back meanwhile in the hope that the Sen ate might pass the resolution. When 6 o'clock arrived Democratic senators who-had been fighting for adjournment, gave up. The House resolution had died automatically and. Senator Stone moved that the Senate go into executive session. Senator Smith and his colleagues filibustered all day, but after several hours yielded long enough for a vote on the war revenue conference repor., which was agreed to, 35 to 11. An effort then was made to get up the adjournment resolution, but this was blocked on a motion to table made by the senator from Georgia. Immediately a point of no quorum was made. In the meantime the House was without a quorum and Representative Underwood conferred with Senate leaders and prevailed on them to recess until 5:30 o'clock be for attempting to adjourn, because it was necessary for the House to have a quorum present so Speaker Clark might sign the war revenue bill. The House quorum finally was ob tained, but when the Senate recon vened at 5:30 the Southern senators resumed their filibuster so determin edly that hope of adjournment soon was abandoned. The House was prepared for final adjournment. Early in the day the war revenue .bill conference report had been agreed to. Then Majority Leader Underwood brought in the resolution for the routine of final ad journment. Suppiorters of cotton relief meas ures announced they would fight ad journment until they could be assur -ed of action on the currency amend Iments and on the cotton warehouse bill. Majority Leader Underwood, however, aided by Republican Leader Mann. gathered his forces together and before the rapidly disappearing quorum of the'H-ouse disappeared the final adjournment resolution and a resolution authorizing the appoint ment of a committee to notify the president that congress was ready to adjourn were passed. SThe House hen resumed considera tion of the Glass bill to authorize banks to issue circulation on commer Dcial paper up to 100 per cent. of the bank's capital and surplus. The bill was passed to its third reading on a 'roll call, after a two-hour wait for a Iquorum. eIAs soon as the quorum appeared the speaker signed the enrolled war revenue .bill and the plans of the leaders for adjournment were com plete. At 5 o'clock Representatiye Mann forced another roll call, confi s dent that before it established a quo rum the Senate would have passed the adjournment resolution ending the session. As the roll call pro gressed and the lack of members .enough to dio business became appar ent, even the cotton belt representa tives relaxed in the expectation of adjournment. e"Alfalfa Bill'"Murray of Oklaho ma, entertained the scanty mnember e ship and the scattered crowd in the galleries by organizing a bi-partisan .e quartette, which rendered ballads of t farewell. The House took on a holi e day aspect. When 6 o'clock arrived 4the hands of the clock were turncd s5 back twenty minutes, the House mo mentarily expecting a Senate messen sger announcing the passage of the adjournment measure. The quartette, which bad grown to a chorus, evoked applause with a phenomenal rendi ,. tion of "How Dry I Am."' ,Then Majority Leader Underwood r entered the chamber. After a whis !r pered conference with the speaker he announced that all hope of final ad journment was lost and that, with no prospect of obtaining a quorum nf in the House before election day, s- there was nothing to be done but to id adjourn until Friday. One hundred . . ormore representatives, who had been waiting with their grips in th cloak rooms and their trunks at th station, filed dejectedly out 'of th chamber. Some left Washington de spite the situation, while others can celled their reservations. Cotton states leaders on both side of the capitol asserted that the: would continue their fight. In thi House the Southerners demand thi passage of amendment to the cur rency law broadening the credi power of banks in the federal reservi system. These amendments, in addi tion to increasing the amount of cur rency a bank may issue on commer cial paper to 100 per ceit. of its' cap ital and surplus, would add to thi credit power of the reserve system b: allowing member banks t deposit i reserve banks those reserves whici must now be held In their own vaults With these amendments i's couple an amendment authorizing the treas ury department to institute a systen of bank note clearances through thi federal reserve banks and to appoln1 reserve banks as redemption agentf for circulation. These bills are under consideratior in the House under a special rule and debate on them has been exhausted They will be followed, if a quorun: can be obtained for a vote on them by the Lever cotton warehouse bill. In addition to these Senator Smith asserted that he desired an amend ment to the banking laws :which would repeal the present 10 per cent, tax on State bink circulating notes, that Southern states might issue cir culation based on cotton warehouse certificates. President Wilson remained at the capitol for a few minutes after sign ing the bill, but did not comment on the failure of congress to adjourn. Early in the day he had expressed the hope that some of the cotton re lief bills might be passed. Representatives Underwood,. Mann and Fitzgerald had ,been appointed by the House to call upon the presi dent to notify him that the House was ready to adjourn. They called, but did not deliver their message. ATTACKED HIS FAMILY. Florence Negro Kills Cow and Then Attempts to Slay Family. Robert Smith., better known to the police as Jim Williams, is in jail at Florence charged with an attempt to murder his eatire family. The ne ro, who was charged with assault ing his own daughter in the recent ourt, and pleaded guilty, received a short sentence of two years and he broke away from the chain gang and returned home. He is a terror to the aegroes in the vicinity of his home ind there are very terrible tales told )f his unnaturr.: crimes against his Dwn family. It was stated in the recent court Lhat the officers of the law had much lifficulty in getting negroes to testify tgainst him, that he was so great a Lerror. The judge, however, in con sideration of his pleading guilty, sen Lenced him to two years. He broke guard at the first opportunity and made a bee line for home to take Yen geance on his family. He killed the cow, the only means f support of his family since his in arceration, because it got in his way s lie entered the premises, and with le same bludgeon he attacked his wfe in the bed with a baby and his ldest daughter. He has probably died the baby, but the others will get over it, It is thought. His son umped out of bed and ran to town to Lell the police and Sheriff Burch soon ad him behind the bars. NEEDS MORE MEN. Trele Battleships in Service Would Need 18,000 Additional Sailors. Eighteen thousand additional men vould be needed by the American navy to man all its ships for war, ac ording to Acting Secretary Roose elt, who issued a statement supple enting Secretary Daniels' recent re ply to criticisms of the navy's pre aredness. Twelve of the .33 battle ships can not be put in service on ac ount of the shortage of men, Mr. Roosevelt said. He declared, how ever, that in regard to ships and quipment the navy is in excellent eneral condition. Like Secretary Daniels, the acting secretary maintained that battleships s against submarines still are the paramount factors "in any war in hich the belligerents are separated y great distances of water." TO FEED 'BELGIANS. Eight Hundred Thousand Still in Na tive Land to pe Succored. After diplomatic negotiations last ing several weeks, in wvhiich Ameri can Ambassador Page acted as inter mediary between 'Belgium, England and Germany, an agreement has been reached by which the starving Bel gians will be fed by a commission of Americans in London and Brussels, headed by Herbert C. Hoover of Cali fornia. who has acted as chairman ol the American- relief committee is London. It is estimated that 700,090 Belgians, who still are in their own country, are on the verge of starva PROHIIBITIONISTS MEET. Hfave Conference in Columbia and D~e cide io Memoralize Legislature. Leading prohibitionists of Souti Carolina held a conference in Colum bia Thursday at which it was decidec to memoralize the general assemhl3 for legislation making the Webb lais available against shipment of liquoi from other states in "dry" countiel of this State, and, further, to under take a systematic campaign for a spe cial election next September, a which. so the prohibitionists believe the people will vote out the liquo: traffic altogether. Chief of Germans Dying? Gen. Helmuth von Moltke, chief 0 the German General Staff, is report ed dying as the result of a liver af fection. Expect Decision in the East. According to a German correspond ent the first results of the war of decisive nature are expected from th Buys 200 Bales. The Bell Telephone compan through its Charleston office ha ugt 90i bales of cotton at 10c. HOPE FOR COTTON MEN - ENGLISH MILLS MAY RE-ENTER THE OPEN MARKET. Special Advices of English Chancellor Visiting Washington Speaks of Cot ton Conditions. Problems of international exchiage at present worrying the federal re - serve .board soon will be solved, the balance of trade again will swing to the United States and the payment of immense sums of American gold to England will be rendered unneces sary, in the opinion of Sir George Paish, special adviser to the English chancellor of the exchequer, now in Washington to discuss foreign ex change conditions with treasury of'1 cis. Sir George said he believed the .London and New York stock ex changes soon would re-open. His government, he :,aid, was preparing to prevent the calling of loans on securities and with such a guaranty he thought there was little to stand in the way of reopening exchanges. Sir George declared he did not be lieve American cotton growers need fear that English manufacturers would buy Egyptian cotton in prefer ence to American. "The Egyptian cotton is not used for the same grade of manufactured goods," said he. "At present the English mills probably have a suf ficient supply on hand for a, few months. They naturally are not anx ions to buy, however, unless they are sure cotton has reached the bottom price. The margin of profit in cot ton is too small to warrant such risks. If you succeed in taking care of the surplus crop, I have no doubt you will see the English mills in the mar ket again soon. "I suppose the cotton exchanges in Xew York and New Orleans will open again shortly if the plan of the fed eral 'reserve board for a $150,000, 000 loan fund goes through. Then I think the Liverpool exchange will fol low. With cottor. selling again there is bound to be an improvement In conditions and some of the -balance against you will be wiped out.". The legislative situation has be come somewhat cleared. Cotton forces in the House, which had been holding up the revenue bill to force cotton relief legislation, gave way when the House rules committee re ported a special rule for considera tion of the Lever cotton warehouse bill and the Glass bill authorizing the acceptance of 100 per cent, com mercial paper as a basis for federal reserve currency. The rule carried a special amendment to the Glass .bill to authorize the secretary of the treasur.V to deposit in cotton and to bacco states $250,000,000 of 2 per cent. government notes maturing January 1, 1916. FINANCES MILLION BALES. Candler Leads Way for Southern Men of Wealth to Help. The first consignment of cotton for Asa G. Candler, under his proposition to finance up to 1,000,000 bales on a basis of 6c per pound, has been ac cepted from territory south of Cor dele, Ga. Mr. Candler owns twenty-five acres of ground near the railroad tracks, which will be used for corrugated iro nwarerooms in which to store cot toti thus relieved. It was stated that the first unit accommodating 5,000 bales, would be ready by Saturday next. Other units can be construct ed with great rapidity. The warerooms will be provided with sprinkler arrangements, and all cotton thus stored will be insured. Loans at a 6c basis will be made .by the Central bank, owned by Mr. Can der, such loans to run until July 15, 1915, or longer if the necessity arises. "We have all been setting back waiting for somebody to do some thing, when the remedy is in our own hands,'' said Mr. Candler. "'I hope and expect that the aid that the Cen tral Bank and Trust company is able to give will prove of immediate and substantial benefit. I also anticipate it will pave the way for similar ac tion by other institutions. "I think the conditions of pression now are as much psychological as ac tual. Give the farmer the tangible aid right now and I look for imme diate improvement.'' Mr. Candler's proposition seems to be meeting with very general com mendation. The fact that he is will ig to finance $30,000,000 worth of cotton is an indication of his tremen dous resources. Congratulatory mes sages came to him from every sec tion of the country. WANTS IT PASSED. Wilson is In Favor of Lever Ware house Bill. President Wilson is anxious for the House to immediately pass the Lever bill for the establishment of cotton warehouses and said that he believes the success of plans for loans to cot ton planters depends on this bill. It has already been passed by the Sen ate. This is the only legislative proopsal for the relief of the cotton planters which the-'president has approved. Regarding suggestions for the restric tion of the cotton crop next year the -president told callers that in his opin ion this was entirely a state question. BURIED IN QUICK SAND. Man Rescued After BeIng Imprison ed Forty-eight Hours, After 48 hours' imprisonment in quick sand, 25 feet below the earth's surface. Maurice Allen was rescued Monday by a squad of Ware, Mass., firemen, policemen and citizens who had dug a ditch 50 feet long and 30 feet deep to reach him. Allen was conscious but weak. He said he had been unable to help him self, as his feet were held by a piece -of planking. A bit and saw lowered -to him enabled him to work one of his feet free. hut another cave-in buried the tools and- left him helpless again. - An improvised diver's helmet. made from a barrel, was lowered 3 into the hole .iust after midnight and pump supplied Allen with air. Battle in Black Sea. Sifeavy fighting is: reported betweeni s Ithe Russian .B.lacltrSea fiect and the OIL Si'IPS SEIZED GRAT BRITIAN INTERFEL'$ WITH AMERICAN SHIFPING ONE SHIP IS RELEASED British Contention is That Shipments Are Designed for War Use in Ger many, Although Consigned to Neu tral Countries-State Department Has Taken up Matter. That Great Britain intends-to inter fere with shipments of American oil 'to neutral ports in the vincity of Ger many, particularly Danish ports, was established at Washington Wednes day. The reason for the British deter mination already exemplified by the seizure of three American oil ships, the Brindilla, the John D. Rockefel ler and the Platuria, all owned by the Standard Oil company, is the de sire to'prevent Germany from getting fuel for her Zeppelins and aeroplanes. The British emaintain that the ship ments of oil to Danish ports are in reality destined for German points and therefore will not be permitted to proceed. The British action goes further to ward suggesting that the Danish gov ernment is not strict in preserving its neutrality. It is reported that the British authorities believe that Den mark is yielding to the German in fluence and can not be trusted to pre vent the exportation of contraband of war into Germany. Great Britain recently has made an arrangement with the United States whereby American shippers are to en joy their usual access to the markets of Holland, Sweden and Denmark, provided these neutral countries pro hibit the exportation of contraband of war to Germany. If the British suspicions continue to be acted upon these markets will be at least par tially closed to American shippers of contraband and conditional contra band. The ships were seized by the Brit ish as follows: The Brindilla, off Sandy Hook, and now held at Halifax pending the convening of a prize ourt; the John D. Rockefeller, off the Orkney Islands, and the Platuria, off the north coast of Scotland. The Johm D. Rockefeller was re leased Thursday, after the State de partment had Instructed Ambassador Page at London to state to the Brit ish government that she had never been anything but an American vessel and to request her immediate re lease. The seizure of the Platuria had not yet been reported to the state department. It is known that the seizure of the three American oil vessels has been taken up in London and is now a mat ter of discussion between the British foreign office andlthe-l-eXian em bassy there. When the British position is offi cially explained to the United States there undoubtedly will follow an ex tended discussion, as from present indications the United States not yet prepared to accept without question the British claim to a right to hold up hese oil or other American vessels ound for neutral ports. The British, to support their case, must first prove that the oil in ques ion was destined for the enemy. It s expected that this, In the present ases, will be very difficult. Fuel, un er which general heading the Birit ish are classing all oils which can ,be sed on oil engines, even including lluminating oil, which is now used n aircraft engines by means of a special form of carbureter, Is condi ional contraband and not absolute ontraband. Were it absolute contra and of war the British would. have o prove only that the oil was des ined to points in Germany. according o the rules of the Declaration of ondon, which are the basis for the British admiralty rules in the pres et war. The British. it is believed, are pre pared to support to the limit their action with regard to these oil ships and subsequent shipments of oil to Danish ports which British cruisers may encounter on the high seas. There is no Intention to take Ameri an ships themselves as prisoners, but merely to condemn or requisition ship argoes. The importance of oil to the Ger man forces is fully appreciated ,in England. where little else is discuss ed .but the possibility of a great raid of Zeppelins and German aeroplanes across the English channel. Besides this, oil and gasoline are playing an important part thus far in the mov ing of Germany's big war motor trucks, carrying guns and provisions. Germany has no Important oil field of her own to draw on, so that unless she has a very large supply of gaso line and oil stored, importations be come absolutely necessary. INCOME TAG DODGERS. Men of Great Wealth Seem Indispos ed to Meet Uncle Sam's Tax. Unless experts who aided congress in framing the Income tax law were greatly in error, 140,000 persons with taxable incomcs have evaded the in ternal revenue collectors. Figures made public at the treasury depart ment show 357,598 returns, while congress designed the law on esti mates that there were 425,000 tax able incomes. These estimates did not include in comes between $3,000 and $4,000 on which 79,426 returns actually were made, so that the total discrepancy is 146,828. The internal revenue bureau's cam paign to detect dodgers has been pushed vigorously and it was under stood that results might be forthcom ing soon. Buried in Mine Quarry. Six white men and four negroes were buried at Bluefield, W. Va., under a quarry cave-in. One white man and one negro were rescued alive ,but the others are supposed to e dead. Germans Sink Submarine. The British new submarine E-3 was sunk Sunday by Gcrman war ships in the North Sea. Prussians Pass War Bill. The Prussian Diet Thursday passed . war bil of $.375,000,000. MAY TAKE COTfON BRITAIN MAY LIQUIDATE DEBI OF AMERICAN BANKS. New York Bankers, Reserve Boar( and British Treasury Representa tives Discuss Finances. Sir George Paish and Basil B Blackett, representing the Britisl treasury, are reconciled to the fac that the United States can not pay it maturing indebtedness to Great Brit ain In gold without serious financia disurbance, which eventually woul< be reflected in En;;land to Great Brit ain's own disadvantage. Accordingly Sir George and Mr Blackett are now engaged In formu lating with the United States treasurj officials a substitute plan for the set tlement of the Americon obligation which the British experts have esti mated at between $200,000,000 an< $25Q,000,000. The fundamentals of this plan con sist in the facilitating of a flow o: cotton and other American products but particularly the former, -to Greal Britain, in every way possible and the settlement of the balace in shor1 time notes. The details of the plan will not be worked out until a later date, when a conference will be held in Washing ton by Secretary McAdoo, members of the federal reserve board, the Eng lish treasury agents and prominent New York city ,bankers. Secretary McAdoo sent out invita. tions Wednesday to the New York bankers, but he declined to make the list public before the acceptances have been received. It is understood however, that J. P. Morgan and other leading bankers~will participate. Although no official announcement has been made, there is good reason to believe that one of the features 01 the plan now being discussed contem plates an arrangement by which Eng land may take immediately a certain amount of this year's cotton crop and give the United States credit on its account in London. Such an arrangement would oper ate toward a.reduction of the balance and be of the greatest possible aid to ward warding off the calamity now overhanging the South. In the discussions that have occur red thus far in reference to the possi bility of England taking a part of the cotton crop as a payment on maturing American obligations, the difficulty that has presented itself was the un certainty as to the future price of cot ton under the present abnormal con ditions. Any plan that is worked out for the settlement of the United States indebtedness to Great -Britain in short time notes will necessarily include the heartiest co-operation by the banks. The understanding is that United States treasury officials hope to make some arrangement by which big New York banks will give their otes and in turn accept as security the notes of the federal reserve banks in this country. TAKE MORE ISLANDS. Japanese Seize Other German Islands ~ in the Pacifie Ocean. The Japanese navy department has announced the occupation, for mili tary purposes, of strategidally impor tant islands in the Marianne (or La drane), Marshall, East Caroline and West Caroline archipelagoes. Previous announcement has been made of the occupation by Japan of islands in the Marshall and Caroline groups. The occupation of an island in the Marianne, or T.. .one group, has not heretofore been reported. Tire Marianne islands lie directly east of Luzon and a&bout 1,700 'miles from Manilla. They include Guam, acquired by the United States in 1898, where a small military force is maintained. There Is a cable station, in line between Manilla, Honolulu and San Francisco. on the islang~i. The Marianne group is about 500 miles south of the .Bonin Island, which belong to Japan. The total area of the Mariannes is about 420 square miles. MULE'S LEG CUT OFF. Mowing Machine Severs Foot Just Above Animal's Hoof. Mr. C. E. Perry, one of Jasper's largest planters, had the misfortune to lose one of his finest mules in a very unusual accident Tuesday. He was having the hay in one of his fields near Ridgeland cut with a mow ing machine, the fields being situat ed near the public road, and while at work an automobile passed nearby and one of the mules became fright ened, thus .jumping against the other mule. In some unexplainable way the mule nearest the mow blade on be ing hit by the frightened mule got his foot caught in the running mow blade, severing the foot completely off above the hoof. Medical atten tion was at once rendered, but it was soon decided that nothing could be done and Mr. Perry had the mule knocked in the head to relieve him from suffering. WAN TAN INCREASE. Eastern Railways Ask for Advance 01 5 Per Cent. on Freight Rates. Business depression and the Euro pean war were assigned as reasons why eastern railroads should have al least a 5 per cent. increase in frieghi rates, by representatives of the sys tems appearing before the interstat4l commerce commission. It was as serted that these two conditions hac led to a shrinkage of more than $75, 000,000 in the annual net revenuel of thirty-eight eastern roads, operat ing more than 59,000 miles of rail way. Seducer is Pardoned. Aquilla Sharpe, convicted in Lexc ington of seduction and sentenced t one year and $300, paid his fine an the sentence has been suspended b the governor. British Airships Lost. The British aviators who destroye the German dirigible Friday returi ed to Antwerp but landed in the lin of fire, both of the machines bein BOND ISSOE PASSES ADOPED BY TE STATE SERTE yOTE BEI 25TO 4 FACED A HARD F5HT Senators Send -ommittee to' Wash ington to Consult Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo-Want to Know if Bonds Are Securities Under rod eral Reserve Act. Rejecting amendment after amend ment and disregarding a desperate eleventh-hour fight, the Senate Wed nesady afternoon passed the joint resolution of voting $35,000,000'flve year 5 per cent. cotton bonds for the purpose of the State buying up the cotton crop. The vote was overwhelm ing-25 to 4, in addition to a pair be ing announced. Those voting -for the issue were: Ackerman, Appelt, 'Beamguard, Chris tensen, Dennis, .Earle, Ginn, Goodwin, Gross, Hardin, Hough, Johnson, John stone, Ketchin, Laney, Lawson, Lide, McCown, Nicholson, Patterson, Rich ardson, Sharpe, Stuckey, Sullivan, Verner, Young-Total 25. Those who voted against the bill were: B?4ack, Carlisle, Buck and Sinkler. Senator Williams announced that he was paired with Senator Cliftdn, who was absent; that he would have voted against the bill with Senator Clifton voting for it. The measire now goes to the House. All efforts to change the measure were rejected -by heavy majorities. An amendment -by Senator Christen sen to eliminate the buying feature and retain only the loaning feature was rejected, 8 to 24. Under the bill the State will either buy the cotton outright from the producer on a basis of ten cents per pound, or the pro ducer -an give his note to the State, together with the warehouse receipt, and obtain a loan of nine cents per pound. In either case the producer must put. up 10 per cent..in eash for interest and cost charges. Under the bill the benefits are for the producer of cotton, or for the land owner on which the cotton is grown, and holders of cotton for ben efit of producers or land owners. An amendment was adopted, at the sug gestion of Senator Nicholson, extend ing the benefits of the bond Issue to those corpprations or persons who purchased cotton outright or took it in on accounts at ten cents per pouhd prior to October 20, provided that such cotton was grown In this State and that such persons or corpora tions be citizens of this State. Senator Carilsle sought to put in an amendment permitting the sink ing fund commission to loan as much as 20 per cent. of the issue if practi cable on real estate mortgages, but this, was snowed under. Senator Sinkler offered' an amend ment fixing the value of cotton at .8 cents instead of 10, but this likewise was overwhelmingly rejected. The Senate went on record as favoring valorizing the cotton crop at 10c per pound. Senator Walker said he was against the bill because he thought it un wise, unsound and establishes a vic ious policy, and predicted that the results of'- adopting the ,bond issue would be disastrous. "We are sow ing the wind and will reap the whirl wind," he exclaimed, stating that he would vote for the bill's passage, as he favored the referendum. Senator Carlisle stated that he could not vote for the bill because to do so would be to give it sanction before the people. Senator Williams announced his In tention to vote against the bill. Stating that he did not have enough light on the measure, and that he did not 'believe under the Re serve act that currency could be got ten on the bonds, Senator Buck open ed a terrific fight on the bill just as the motion to take a vote was being brought forward. He hammered the measure vigorously and told the Sen ate: "You may vote to refer to the people, ,but you can't dodge the re sponsibility." "I wish to say to the Senator from Georgetown that we are standing in a whirlwind and are endeav ring by this measure to sow a wind to calm the cyclone now sweeping over the State," exclaimed Senator Alan John stone, who proposed the idea of a bond issue, and who has been one of its most steadfast champions. The measure was handled admir ably by Senator Lide, and just after 2 o'clock President Smith ordered the roll call, which resulted in the bill being passed 25 to 4 and ordered sent to the House. The explanations and statements of Senator J. W. McCown had much weight with the senators, and he pointed out that Senator Buck must have gotten the borrowing clause and the clause under which currency Is issued under the new federal reserve act confused. He believed that banks can take the State bonds and get cur rency Issued against them to 90 per cent. of their face value through the regional banks. Under a resolution offered by Sen ator McLaurin, the Senate sent Sena tors J. W. McCown and Robert Lide to Washington to confer with Secre tary of the Treasury McAdoo to find out just what relief can be gotten from the treasury on these bonds. Shot at Danish Submarine. An unknown foreign submarine Wednesday fired two torpedoes at a Danish submarine lying in interna tional waters. Both miissed the ship. but one exploded against the shore. Will Buy Cotton. The Victor Talking Machine com pany has authorized each of its 2,000 agents in the south to purchase for them a bale of cotton at ten cents. Torpedo Boat Destroyed. IA German torpedo boat escaped from Tsing-Tau under cover of dark ness was later found aground by the Japanese, who destroyed it. Jap Cruiser Sinks on Mine. -The Japanese cruiser Takachio hit a German mine off Kiao Chow Satur day night and was lost with her crew