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UUTI IN MRUSI, UK IN TEST U IEQIUE STIENiTI DENIGBERG IITTLED Brish Navy Wins Signal Triumphs Over Sea Wolves of German Navy -Days of Terror to British Ship ping Brought to an End-Armies St Battlf. Widely different claims of contend ing armies in the eastern and west era theatres of :war, especially con -esming the West Flanders situation, Tuesday night left but one big un disputed fact on land or sea. That was. the destruction of the German cruiser Emden and the trapping of the German cruiser Koenigsberg, the latter in a palm-lined East African river under circumstances which read aethough they were take from Stevenson. The British marine insurance rate almost instantly was cut in half-for never since the days of the Confed erate States' cruiser Alabama has there been such a successful com 2nerce destroyer as the Emden. Cheers broke forth at Lloyds on the announcement and for the moment -the struggles of the armies in France, Belgium, Russia and elsewhere were forgotten. Yet al these armies were at each other's throats--the Germans and Rusians clashing in cavalry engage mats along the German frontier; .the Rusans still harassing the Aus trfs ,ln 'Galicia, and the French, Britslh and Belgians uniting to hold bac& what appears to be a tremen tdous German attempt to break through the allied line in the vicinity olYpres. Many -dispatches speak of the movement of German troops east ward from Belgium as indicating the ied of reinforcements along the ostern frontier, but neither the treach nor German official state 'mentsindicated any slackening in the Niolence of German attacks in West Flanders. In fact, the French state Meat says that between the sea and Armentieres the opposing forces were bith acting on the offensive. As to the outcome of this double offensive the rival contentions are cntradictory, the Germans claiming aigprogress -near -Ypres and the -Frech . asserting that the German attackwas beaten back.. In view .of what seems to be a sustained and concerated German effort in this egion, the reports of the German re -aement are hardly borne out, al tlbough it is said they have moved their headquarters still farther east, this linte from Ghent to Atost. Xhe situation. along the battle line Wrance proper, from the stan po - of the Allies, was summed up ia-a dispatch from an observer with Tadan corps, who says there rhas been no marked change anywhere, though-he professes to see a gradual akening of German attacks. tside from. the military aspects of thja war. what stood out boldest Tues 1sy was Germany's' reported threat to cut ot food the United States Is msdlng~t. -Belgium, If the. Belgians 4 eietira to -their cities and e7lnsnn ffort to'resumetheir normal oerupations. -The Belg~an answer is tist it -has been impossible to resume S acsemblance of normhl activity be cause $.he:German soldiery has coin .6 'ndeered alildmpleinants. and. mate: rials' mnesry to an industrial re The British government Tuesday night Ansued 'another so-called white ~pet, reviewing therincidents which preceded the declaration of war against Turkey. It deals in the main itir the Goeben and Breslau aff air aug ets forth that the Grand Vizier a1 ilong was it least ostensibly -gainst draging Turkey into the cnfict, but ilther was powerless to e sist Enver !Bey and his associates, or while outwardly opposing them. was win1kuir at the fast approaching - s-cisis while..the Turkish and German psrib. went forward. Drish navy got into the war p uiThiesday with two suebesses -the destruction of the German cruiser-Emnden in the eastern waters of'the Indian Ocean and the -bottling up jof the Koenigsberg;. considered bier sister ship, In the western ex tremity, of the same sea. These two raiders, especially the Kmden, Mive many successes to their ebedit, and their skill in'evading the net thrown out for them has been a matter of chagrin to British naval mhen. The Emden's end came in battle as befitted .her record throughout history for, according to all accounts, even those of her victims, she played a clean ,game strictly in accordance -ith the recognized rule of naval -warfare. - After a sharp action off CocosIs land with the Australian cruiser Snydey, the German ship with heavy casualties was beached, ablaze. The German cruiser Koenigsberg met a less glorioua fate as she was bottled up in such a position that she must either be captured or surrendered, though 'In either case she probably wil be nothing but a useless hulk. The Emnden has contributed to the history of the war one of its most remarkable chapters. For sheer an dacity and success It has mew paral - lels-certainly none since the Ala bama, the famous old Confederate warship,- 'was roaming the seas. Twenty-two -ships, mostly British, have been sunk, and one has been captured by the German cruiser. Si 8nce early in August the Emnden has 'been at work. Miost of the time she was preying on British shipping in -the Indian Ocean, but late last month she suddenly appeared at Pe nang, on Malacca Straits. It was here that the Emnden performed her most daring feat. A fourth smoke stack was rigged on her deck and a Japanese flag run up. Thus disguis ed, she steamed boldly into the har bor, passing unchs"'-"ed under the British guns of the fort and fired tor pedoes which sank .the Russian cruis er Jentchug and a French destroyer. Then she steamed away and escaped through the straits. The vessels destroyed -by the Em den had a total value of about $4, 000,000, exclusIve of their cargoes. The Emden's largest guns are only 4.1-inch. Of these she had ten. Her speed of 24.5 knots -was her greatest aset, as she was able to run down merchant ships with ease and then -ecape from larger but slower vessels -that pursued her. British, Russian, French and Japanese warships in the East had been attempting for weeks to put an end to her career. It has been more or less of a mnys tery to naval men how the Emden has been able to keep at sea month after month without running short of coal and supplies. It is assumed, however, that she has obtained suf-. ficient food and fuel to meet her needs from captured ships. In at1 least one instance this is known to have been done. The captain of the< British steamer Erford, captured byi GINI REPORT OUT TEN MILLION .BALES GINNED TO NOVEMBER 1. Compares With 8,830,396 Bales Dur ing Last Year-South Carolina Figures 910,403 Bales. Important farm crops of the Unit ed States this year are worth $5,068, 742,000 or $104,000,000 more than the value of the same crops last year, notwithstanding a loss of $418,000, 000 sustained by cotton planters -on lint alone as a result of the European war. Preliminary estimates announced Monday by the Department of Agri culture and statistics of average prices paid to producers November 1 indicate that this year's wheat and corn crops are the most valuable ever grown in the United States, that the wheat and apple crops are record harvests and that the potato crop is the second largest ever raised. The huge wheat crop and the in creased price of that cereal, the large corn and apple crops and the in creased price in oats, barley and rye more than offset the big loss in cot ton. The value of important crops, bas ed on the average prices paid to pro ducers November 1 and the values last year, follow: 1914. 1913. 000s 000s omitted. omitted. Corn . . . . . $1,S85,867 $1,730,021 Wheat . . . . 858,056 587,803 Oats . . . . . 484,390 425,150 Barley . . . . 100,839 97,469 Rye . . . . . 34,387 26,153 Buckwheat 13,297 10,441 Potatoes . 219,396 230,741 Sweet potatoes 42,751 44,-0G Hay . . . . . 803,353 880,260 Flaxseed . . . 18,960 21.192 Apples . . . . 144,963 124,471 Details for important crops in prin cipal states follow: Corn. Acre Production, Yield. 000s omitted. Virginia . . . . 21.0 40,341 North Carolina. 20,.0 56,700 Tennessee . . . 23.5 78,725 Tobacco. Pounds. Virginia . . . . . . ..0 104,000 North Carolina . . . 650 146,250 South Carolina. . 730 33,580 -Floi'lda ...... 1,000 4,300 Kentucky . . . . . 910 353,535 Tennessee'. ..... 820 63,468 Connecticut . . . , 1,770 35,754 Pennsylvania . . 1,450- 47,995 Ohio'. . . . . . . 900 78,120 Wisconsin .. . . . 1,180 53,8Q8 Other details of the department's November crop report are: Corn-Acre yield 25.8 bushels; November 1 farm price 69.7 cents a bushel; corn remainfng on farms November 1 80,069,000 bushels. Wheat-Price 96.2 cents; weight per measured bushel 58.0 pounds. Oats-Price 42.5; weight 31.5. . Tobacco-Yield 853.8. FIGHING STARTS. VMi and Carranza About to Face Each Other in Battle. Generals commanding fifty thou sand men in Mexico City were reliev ed -of their commands Tuesday by Gen. Venustlano Carranza because they refused to nullify their action in signing an agreement to obey the Aguas Calientes convention. It is reported that Geni. Villa's ad vane guard: of 15,000 men is march ing sourth of Encarnacion de Diaz on its ~y to- the capital, which it is said to ~ve been order to take in the namie of Eulallo Guiterrez. Between thes~ troops and their goal is Gen. Pablo.' Gonzales, loyal to Carranza, with forty thousand troops, disposed about Queretaro City. A clash is ex pected there. In the capital there are 27,000 -men, according to official figures. Fighting of a severe character con tinues in the subum'bs of the capital. Persistent attacks are being made on Xochimilco and San Angel by Zapata followers. ~Shells rushed -to the front from the citadel are said to have been loaded with sawdust instead of pow der. It is reported, however, that the Carranza forces have everywhere been victorious in the suburban fight ing. ported to his owners that the com maznder. of the. Emden said that be fore he sank the Exford he intended to take on board his cruiser the 7,000 tons of steam coal with which the Exford was laden. The first report of the activity of the Emden was received August 6, when she was said to have been sunk in action with the Russian cruiser Askold, off Wei-Hai-Wei. This was contradicted a few days later, when word was received that the Emden had sunk the steamer City of Win chester 'on August 5, and steaming into the.Bay of Bengal five days later had sent two inore British vessels to the bottom. Within three days she had sunk four vessels there. She was accom panied by the Hamburg-American steamer Markomannia as a collier. The Markomannia was sunk on Octo ber 16 off Sumatra by a British cruiser. Leaving the Bay of Bengal the Emden sank three British steamers in the Indian Ocean on September 14. On September 22 she appeared off Madras and shelled the city, ex tinguishing her lights and disappear ing when the forts replied. Then she resumed her activity in the ticin ity of Rangoon, where more British vessels fell prey to her. Again she disappeared and was not heard from until she turned up at Ponang. The admiralty statement, which announces the destruction of the Em den in the Indian Ocean, and the bot tling up of the -Koenigsberg on the east coast of Africa, read in part as follows: "After the whereabouts of the Koe nigsberg had been indicated by the attack on the Pegasus on September 19, a certain fast cruiser wa sarrest ed by the admiralty in eastern waters and a thorough and a prolonged search by these vessels in combina tion was made, which resulted, Octo ber 30, in the Koenigsberg's being discovered by H. M. S. Chatham, Capt. Sidney R. R. Drury-Lowe, hid ing in shoal water about six miles up the Ruflii River, opposite Mafria Is land, German East Africa. Owing to a greater draught the Chatham could not reach the Koenigsberg. which probably is aground except at high water. Part of the crew of the Koe nigsberg has been landed and is en trenched on the banks of the river. ',Both these intrenchments and the Koenigsberg herself have been bom barded by the Chatham, but owing to the dense palm groves amid which the ship lies, it is not possible to es timate the damage done. Pending perations for her capture or de struction, in fact, steps have been taken to block the Koenigsberg by sinking colliers in the only navible hannel to the river and she now is mprisoned and uable to do any fur-f BRYAN IS PLEASED' ELECTION IS ENDORSEMENT Of WILSON AND HIS ACTS WILL G10W IN FAVOR Nebraskan Says Huge Shrinkage of i Progressive Wahile Unexpected Was Alone Responsible for the Gains of the Republicans - Convinced of t Righeousness of Party's Policies. Secretary Bryan, back at the state department Monday after his cam paign trip West, issued a formal statement summarizing election re sults and declaring they could not be considered other than as an indorse ment of President Wilson and his policies. Pointing to the decreased Pro gressive vote as the outstanding fea ture of :the election returns, Mr. Bryan said his had resulted in no change in the leadership of the regu lar Republican ranks; that Senator Penrose and Former Speaker Can non would represent their party in congress and the Progressives return ing - to the Republican party would have to accept all they had protested against and more. The statement reads: "The 1914 election can not be con sidered other than as an indorse ment of the president and his policies. I am so convinced of the merits of the remedial measures enacted under the president's leadership and of the righteousness of his foreign policy that I expected the voters to support the candidates who represented his views. "There were a number of causes which operatea against our party, namely, the efforts of the beneficia ries of protection who, out of resent ment, sought to make the tariff law obioxious; the disturbed conditions caused 'by the European, war, and the fact that the excellent laws passed by congress had not had tifne to prove their worth. Then, too, more Pro gressives returned to the Republican party than we expected. This alone accounted for most of the Republican gains in the House of Representa tives. "The victory, however, was suf ficiently complete to show that the people are with the president, and he is now able to continue the splendid program upon which he has entered. "The gains in the Senate are espec ially gratifying-not a single Demo crat defeated for re-election and three senatorships taken from the Republicans. "There is every reason to believe the administration will grow in popu larity as the laws go into effect, and as Democratic policies bear fruit. The new currency law is just begin ning to operate; before the next elec tion it will have indicated its claim to public confidence. "The new tariff law'can not be re pealed until after the people have had a chance to try it out, and now that the election is over the protected manufactures are already resuming work. "Some of them suspended opera tions or cut down their forces before the election and they did it under conditions which left little doubt they hoped to arouse opposition t the new tariff law. Seeing that the la.w Is here to stay, they will now proceed to'demonstrate the fallacy of the ar guments, which they used in oppos ing reduction. "The president's foreign, policies are indorsed and his hands strength ened. "The outstanding fact in the late election returns is the slump of the Progressive vote. A large percentage of the Progressive Republicans have returned to the Republican party and that, too, without any surrender on the part of the 'standpatters' and re acionaries.. The leadership of the regular Republican party has under gone no change. "Senator Penrose and ex-Speaker Cannon will represent that party in the Senate and House, and the re turning Progressives must be prepar ed to accept all that they protested against and more, for the standpat ers, after having overcome the de fection, are ever farther from re forms than they were two years ago. "The Democratic party deserves the support of all real Progressives and in the next two years in will draw to itself those Progressives who understand the radical nature of the issue which separates the Democrat from the aristocrat and the pluto crat." FIGHT IN AFRICA. Victory for Rebels Follows Loyalist Win in South Africa. "Gen. Christian De Wet, the rebel leader," says Reuter's -Prestoria cor respondent, "has been in contact with and dispersed a small government command under Gen. Conje, a mem ber of the legislature, near Dronberg. In the course of the fighting Gen. De Wet's son, Daniel, was killed. The government is sending strong rein forcements to Cronje." Reuter's Cap Town correspondent under date of Monday gives the fol lowing official communication con-i cerning the fighting in South Africa: "An engagement 'between Gen. Lammer's forces and Transvaal re .bels under Gen. Christian Beyers oc curred on the Vet river, southeast of1 Boemhoef, November 8.1 "The rebels, well armed and led by < Beyers, were entirely dispersed, los ing nine men killed, 11 men wound-i ed. 364 prisoners, 300 rifles and 300 horses. The loyalists' casualties v'ere three killed and nine wounded. R USSIAN ADVANCE. Petrograd Says it is a continued and Irresistible Offensive. Petrograd reports that 'what is de- I scribed as a continued and irresist- I ible' offensive of the Russian armyC r-sulting in the evacuation of Poland by the Germans, is reported as suc- E cessfully establishing itself in Ger man territory at Pieschen, 15 miles if west of the Russo-eGrman frontier. I In addition the Germans are said c to be generally relinquishing their g stand along the Warthe river. This advance was accomplished, it is stat ed, by the Russian cavalry movement, in outfianking the German left. Election Causes Deficit. Comptroller General Jones has an nounced that only 40 per cent. of the election advertisements can be paid for, as there is no more money for that purpose.t Fought With Shot Guns. p After an argument over their rent bill P. B. Arnold, 63. of Little Rock. Ark., his son Thomas wounded and' I. B. Dickinson, their assailant, wasy CROPS ARE LARGEST OUNTRY'S AGRICULTURE YIELD I THIS YEAR IS ENORMOUS. ation Raises Quarter Billion More Bushels of Corn This Year Than in Year 1913.. Ginning of cotton continues active *spite the low price Southern far aers are receiving and the depres ion in the industry caused by the var. During theperiod from October 18 o November 1 the ginning amounted o 2,207,114 bales, making the aggre ;ate for the season 9,828,695 bales. 'he period's ginning .was only 5,170 >ales less than * ginned during the ame period in the record production rear of 1911 and the aggregate for he season is only 142,210 bales less. "ompared with last year the ginnings o November 1 were 855,177 bales nore. In Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana md Oklahoma the ginnings to Nov -mber 1 exceed those for any of the ast eight years. Ginnings prior to November 1, by tates, with comparisons for the past hree years and the percentage of the mtire crop ginned in those states rior to that date in the same years, olow: Alabama. 1914 ......1,068,596 1913 ......1,015,788 68.5 1912 ...... 809,662 61.0 1911 ......1,088,737 64.2 Arkansas. 1914 .. .. 574,882 .... 1913 .'. 431,522 41.6 1912 ...... 440,482 57.1 1911 ......444,401 48.9 . Florida. 1914 ...... 56,645 .... 1913 .. .. .. 47,315 70.9 1912 .. .....5,362 60.1 1911 ...... 56,070 59.4 Georgia. 1914 .. .1,763,240 1913..... ..1;606,506 68.5 1912 ... .. ..1,112,419 61.4 1911 .. .. ..1,908,764 68.3 Louisianka. 1914 ...... 297,910 .... 1913 ....... 222,464 50.9 1912.. .... 261,701 69.8 1911 ...... 232,245 67.0 Mississippi. 1914 ... .. 668,756 .... 1913 . . .. 568,005 45.4 1912 .......511,678 50.9 1911 ........584,199 50.0 North Carolina. 1914 .. .. 428,362 .... 1913..... ...384,260 45.9 1912..... .496,537 54.8 1911...... 097,940 53.1 Oklahoma. 1914.. ..... 658,211 .... 1913 .. ....536.303 63.7 1912 .. .... 599,190 59.6 1911 . .. -. 554,933 54.6 South Carolina. 1914 .. ..... 910,403 .... 1913 .. -.. .. 846,468 59.7 1912 .. .. .. 730,690 59.7 1911. . ..1,022,614 60.4 Tennessee. 1914 ...... 172,718 .... 1913...... 174,379 47.5 1912 ...... 118,485 44.3 1911 ...... 211,128 48.1 Texas. 1914 . . . . . .3,470,925 . .. . 1913 .. .. . .2,950,444 78.2 1912 .......3,709,725 79.9 1911. .. .. .. 3,211,572 78.2 All Other States. 1914 .. .. -.. 58,847 .. 1913..........46,942 39.1 1912.........43,291 48.1 1911 .. .. .. 58,302 42.0 Ginnings of Sea Island cotton prior to November 1, by states: South Florida. Georgia. Carolina. 1914. '.19,270 23,184 877 1913 . .10,356 . '24,570 1,878 1912 . .11,.067 16,276 1,544 1911 . .21,038 33,841 -1,684 800 HORSES BURNED. Intended for Allies Armies They Are Destroyed by Flames. Practically all of the eight hun dred horses on board .the British steamship Rembrandt were burned or smothered to death when the ship caught afire off the Virginia capes Monday, according to information reaching Norfolk Tuesday night. The Rembrandt was bound from .Balti more to St. Nazaire, France, and the animals are understood to have been intended for thie armies of the Allies. It was reported that Capt. Edlin, of the Rembrandt, had notified offi cials of the Lamport and Holt line, owners of the steamship, that vessel was set on fire by German spies who were members of the crew. The cap tain is said to have claimed that threats against the ship were made before it steamed from Baltimore Saturdaj. No confirmation of these reports was available. Tuesday night the Rembrandt was steaming backward and forward in a 3ircle ten miles off Cape Henry, while the crew was busy disposing of the arcases in the sea..Less than-a dozen f the horses are said to be alive. It w expected that the work would be :ompleted, after. which the Rem randt will proceed to Newport News 'or repairs. Forward compartments f the ship are. reported badly dam When the fire was discovered the ;hip was 200 'miles off the Capes. [he smoke was so dense that the rew could hot reach the flames. And ;he stampeded aniinals were left to eir fate. The ship's hold was flood d and the hatches closed, these ef rts finally resulting in the fire hay g been brought under control. BANKS REFUSE AID. 0ston Financiers Appear to be Re luctant to Join Cotton Pool. Nine of the 14 national banks of loston took adverse acVon Thursday n the advisability, of entering the 135,000,000 cotton pool which is be ng formed under government aus ices to :finance the Southern cotton rop. Two others, the Commercial ,nd the Fourth Atlantic, voted to nter the pool. Many of th'e bankers were said to avor extending financial help to New' ngland cotton mills in their pur hase of cotton rather than to the rowers direct. Killed Woman and Escaped. Viola Roper of Greenville was shot I y Frank Ho'wcrd Tuesday and kill- I d. The slayer, who used a double I arrelled shot gun, escaped. i Race Horses in Charleston. About twenty special "race horse" t ains carrying 100 animals each 4 ave arrived in Charleston in pre- I aration for the coming meet. Sheriff Cleared. Hendrix Rector, sheriff of Green- t ille, has been cleared of the charge a WHEAT, OATS, RYE 'ARMERS ADVISED TO CONCEN TRATE ON THESE CROPS. V. W. Long, State Director of Agri cultural Extension Work, Gives Good Advice for 1eplacing Cotton. Thousands of cotton producers are ace to face with the problem of hav ng to plant something in the place of botton with a chance of selling the iew crop at a profit or using it at iome to advantage. About September 1, when -it be :ame apparent that the war in Eu 'ope was to be of some duration, W. W. Long, State agent and director of xtension in South Carolina for the inited States department of agricul :ure in co-operation with Clemson :ollege, undertook to centre the at .ention of the farmers of the Pal metto State on the growing of grain a.nd other crops in place of cotton rhis campaign of education in diver sification is still being carried on by dir. Long and his farm demonstrators. His office has distributed nearly 300, 000 circulars in South Carolina, giv ing detailed directions about the planting and cultivation of grain crops. .Mr. Long has advised South Caro lina cotton producers to concentrate this winter on oats and wheat. The former grain can be produced to ex cellent advantage in the Piedmont as well as in the coastal plain.. The lat ter grain is better adapted to the Piedmont section of the State than to the coastal regions. Rye, is an other- small grain that many farmers in South Carolina will plant this winter. Oats are sown in this State from August to March, but the fall sowyi crop yields better than that of mid winter and spring. The crop may be harvested for grain or cut for hay. Oats planted in the fall are ready for harvesting in May or June. This grain may be sown in cotton by using a one-horse drill just behind the cot ton pickers, this being one of the most satisfactory and least expensive methods of seeding. The cotton stalks can be cut down later in the winter, so that they will not interfere with the reaper and binder in har vest time. Mr. Long thinks . that where oats follow corn or a hay crop, such as cow peas or sorghum, the land should be plowed and the oats drilled in, though the seeds may be sown and disked in. Oats planted with a drill are not so likely to be killed in winter as those sown,broad cast. Mr. Long has recommended the Fulghum and Appler varieties of oats for seeding. One and one-half bush els of seed to the acre are generally planted and give good results, al though more or less.may be used. As a rule, the richer the land the lighter the oats should be seeded. Less seed are - required when a drill is used. Soil that is too rich or too much nitrogenous fertilizer may cause oats to lodge. For fertilizer in the south eastern cotton States, from 200 to 500 pounds of a mixture of equal parts of cotton seed meal and acid phosphate may be applied with ad vantage to each acre of oats when planted, followed in March by a ()p dressing of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda. Mr. Long has warned South Carolina -farmers who are going to plant oats on a large scale that great care should be used in harvesting the crop, as any discoloration will lower the grade of the grain. Oats can be produced in every type of soil found in the State, but wheat has, a decided preference for heavy loams and clay soils. Speaking .gen erally, yields of wheat are much larger in the hilly and mountainous seetons. Accordingly Mr. Long has recom mended tihat wheat as a market crop be attempted only in the Piedmont and that farmers in the coastal plain plant just enough for home consump tion. Wheat lands should be plowed, thoroughly fitted and pulverized with harrows and rollers, so that the seed bed will be firm with a thin layer of loose soil at the surface. A drill is the best Implement for seeding wheat, but It may be sown broadcast and disked in. Five or six pecks of wheat should be used to seed an acre. No vember is a good time to sow wheat. It may be sown later with good re suts. Bluestem, Purple Straw, Red May, Filtz and Fulcaster are the va rieties recommended to farmers in the southeast. In this section wheat should be fertilized with a mixture of 500 pounds to the acre of equal parts of cotton seed meal and acid phosphate, followed in March by a top dressing with 100 to 150 pounds of nitrate of soda. The average yield of wheat an acre in the United States is 14 tbushels. The average in the Southeastern cotton states falls below the average for the country, but a yield of 200 bushels to the acre in the southeast is not unusual. With wheat selling at war prices, there is a chance for making it a money crop in the Piedmont sections of the southeastern cotton states. Figures in- the South Carolina de partment of agriculture show that $20,000,000 worth of fiour was im ported into the State in 1913. If the cotton planters succeed in rais lng only enough wheat to supply the home demand in 1915 it will- be a large accomplishment. None of the southeastern cotton states produces enough Oats for its own use. South Carolina alone im ported $2,000,000 worth of this grain in 1913. GERMAN SIDE. Berlin Says Campaigns Are Progress ing Satisfactorily. Berlin reports that according to ~fficial information given to the press Iuesday by, Berlin wireless, the west ern campaign is making satisfactory though slow progress. Interest, how aver centres strongly in the east, where the beginning of actual opera :ions has not yet been announced. Maj. Moraht, in The Tageblatt. ex plains that the operations in 'Poland iave not yet reached a point where eaders are justified in setting forth :he situation. At the proper time, he ;ays, the people will learn 'what is ~eally happening. Meantime assurances are given hat there is no fear of a Russian in rasion of German territory In force. ['he forces patrolling the boundary tre sufficient to prevent any such novement, he adds.. Will Fire on Strangers. The Dutch forts around Flushing ave announced their intention to ire on all strange crafts found in he River Schledt. Germany Shifting Troops. It is reported from various sources hat the Germz'ns are shifting their astern troops to the Belgian field of attle. To Try for Cotton Money. Commissioner McLaurin has stated hat ie will ma~ke an effort to secure market for the warehouse receipts! IEDDY ELIMINATED ONE OUTSTANDING FEATTRE Of OUR LATEST ELECTION WORK FOR NEXT CAUCUS Democratic Members Must Choose New Party Leader and Many Im portant Chairmanships-Republi can Leader Expected to be the Same.-Lame Ducks Appear. Tuesday's elections uncovered enough interesting political situa tions to keep the country wide awake until the next presidential election shall have come along. With the Democrats satisfied with results and the Republicans jubilant over what they claim to be the handwriting on the wall fortelling a glorious G. 0. P. victory all along' the line, the average man sees enough to make him won der what the next two years -will bring forth. Thinking for himself, putting two and two together, and not taking the statements of any paid publicity agent or bureal as the real means of determining results in the near fu ture, the man with the long political nose sees that Tuesday s results are potential. Taking it for granted that what was done was not by any means to be considered a rebuke to President Wilson or his policies, foreign or domestic, from the Republican view point the most interesting develop ment, is that they believe that Col. Roosevelt as a factor in American politics has been eliminated. The slump In the Progressive vote with teh exception of California was large, -and makes the Bull Moose a negli gible quantity hereafter in the poli tics of the country. There was grim humor depicted on the faces of Republicans from those states, where Col. Roosevelt tried .hardest to defeat their candidates. His hardest fighting was done against Whitman in New York and 'Penrose in Pennsylvania. Both of these can didates polled big majorities, espec ially in the ctse of Penrose who swept everything before him. - Silver clouds are'seen by the Re publicans as a result of what has hap pened and no one will deny that for the next two years they will figh: for control of congress and the White House. That Champ Clark will again be speaker of the House is practically assured as a result of the majority that the Democrats will have in that body. The leadership of the con trolling party in the House, however, will be changed, as Representative Underwood of Alabama, now major ity leader, will go to the Senate, to which body he has already been elect ed. It is believed that Representa tive Kitchin of Ndrth Carolina who ranks next to Mr. Underwood on the ways and means committee and who will be advanced to the chairmanship of that committee when Mr. Under wood goes to the Senate, 'will be chosen as floor leader of the Demo crats at their caucus which will .be h'eld early in the new session. So far as leadership on the Repub lican side of the House is concerned there is little doubt that that place will be retained 'by Congressman "Jim" Mann of Illinois, the "watch dog" of the House. 'The loss of many Democratic mem bers means that there will be much work for the caucus to do 'when it meets to fill out these places for the Sixty-fourth congress. Where a chairman of a committee has gone down to defeat, It means that in all probability the ranlging man-that is. the man next him on the committee -will be automatically promoted to the chairmanship. Had the Republicans secured con trol of the House they would be en titled not only to name one from their party as speaker, but would also have controlled all the oher im prtant offices connected with the House, from speaker to page, and would have been in absolute posses sion of the big part of the patronage. Should the G. 0. P. people get the House two years hence those Demo crats -who have been snugly resting in good paying places will find them selves out in the cold. Ary might be expected in such a situation, the "lame duck" agrega tion has made its appearance on the scene of action. -Speculation was rife as to what the administration will do for them. Many attractive places are open which may be filled by four or five of them. Chief among the prizes which may go this "lame duck" squal, which thinks that its members are due something because of the defeat suf fered Tuesday are places on the new federal trade commission, paying $10,000 a year each for seven years, the secretaryship of the commission, which is worth $5,000 a year, and the position of director of the mint, recently made vacant by the resigna tion of George E". Roberts, which is also worth $5,000 a year. SITUATION SERIOUS. Warfare Expected Between Carr'anza and New President. Administration officials admit that the Mexican situation again had as sumed a serious aspect. Gen. Car ranza has fulfilled partially Washing ton's request for guarantees 'before withdrawing American troops from Verat Cruz, but this decree does not satisfy the main point asked by the United States-that Mexicans who served the American government dur ing the occupation of the port be not punished for such service. At 6 o'olock Tuesday night Gen. Eulalio Gutierrez, selected by the Aguas Calientes convention, was sworn in as provisional president of Mexico. Carranza has been informed and immediate hostilities against him as a rebel will begin if he does not recognize the authority of Gutierrez. RUSSIANS DEFEATED. Germans Claim to Have Repulsed In vaders Near Frontier. Berlin reports another Russiani re pulse on the blood-drenched and blood-scarred hills of the eastern frontier of East Prussia has been re ported to derlin fromi Gumbinnen under date of November S. Simultaneously with their opera tions against the main Germam army I under Gen. Von Hindenburg. on the line of the River Warthe, thie Rus sians attempted to break into East Prussia by the old route south of Wirballen, but they were met at thee frontier by Gen. Von Morgen's army High Death Rate in This State. South Carolina's death rate from consumption is 13.5 per cent. an against the rate of the entire country f only 10 per cet. FIGHTING DISEASE CLEVEN STATES FACE DANGER OUS CATTLE CONTAGION. Poot and Mouth Disease Cause Quar antine of Affected Districts--Dan ger is Alarming. The fight against the cattle disease :ontinues. Rhode Island makes the leventh state to be quarantined. dassachusetts, New York, Ohio, ?ennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Mary and, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa iompose the area already affected. Secretary Houston said this epi lemic of "one of the most contagious liseases of cattle, swine and sheep, !xceeded in area affected any of the Ive previous outbreaks in this coun ry." Unless it can be immediately ocalized and eradicated, he said, it hreatens untold losses among live itock. "So contagious is the disease," said .he secretary, "that in past outbreaks here but one animal in -the herd was fected, the entire herd, in almost ill cases, later contracted the sick 2ess. While the mortality is not high .he effects of the disease even on ani mals that recover ore such as to make them practically useless. "It is possible to cure the external symptoms, but during the process of attempting to cure one sick animal, the chances are that hundreds of others may -be infected. The treat ment or killing of a single animal in a herd, was tried in an outbreak and flid not prove effective. "Veterinary authorities of the Unit ed States are agreed that the only method of combatting the disease is to stop all movement of stock and material which have been subjeced to any danger of infection, and to kill off without delay all herds in which the disease has gained any foothold. - "In some cases, because human be ings can carry the disease to other herds, the state authorities have pre vented children of infected farms from attending school*. "At present the chief danger lies in the possibility of there being con cealed sources of infection. Every effort is being made by the state and federal authorities, not only to trace suspicious shipments, but to convince farmers of the ceriousness of the dis ease and to urge upon them to report to state or federal authorities all suspicious cases of sore mouths or lameness." RUSSIA GLAD OF CHANCE. Great Bear Will-Now Settle Turkish Question to His Satisfaction. The apology of the Turk for the assault of his fleet on Russian ports on the Black Sea has not accom plished its purpose. Both Russia and Great Britain have undertaken active military measures against him and hostilities have begun on the Red Sea. A series of incidents shows that Turkey's efforts to hold aloof from the general warfare came too late. Constantinople reports officially that Russian troops have crossed her fron tier in the Caucasus but were driven back. A British cruiser has shelled and occupied the Turkish fortified town of Akabah, on- the Red Sea in Arabia. It is announced in a new dispatch that Emperor Nocholas has ordered his Caucasian army to cross the frontier and attack the Turks; the Turkish ambassador has left the Russian capital; the Russian foreign minister has- replied to the Porte that negotiations now are impossible and an imperial manifesto issued in Petrograd says Russian confidence is firm that intervention of.Turkey will only hasten the fatal issue to that empire and that Russia will now find a way to settle the Black Sea-*prob lem handed down to her by previous rulers. PLAN NEW ATTACK. German to Start Fresh Assault Upon Lines of Allies. Rotterdam reports from all the vil lages in northern Belgium troops are moving in a westerly direction. The Germans are concentrating a huge force near the centre of their right wing in a desperate attempt to throw back the Allies The troops near the flooded district are being moved to ward Thielt for this pupose, 'but re enforcements are being pushed as near .the coast as is safe in view of the presence of the British flotilla, in order to prevent a break through the German line there, which might de velop into a serious flank attack. Troops coiitinue to arrive from the ast, and it is certain that within the next few days the whole German right wing will throw itself at .the Allies with the, same mad recklessness that haracterized their costly, futilecross ing of the Yser. tihould the attempt fail the Germans have already prepar ed positions west of Bruges, hoping that by choosing that field of battle they may successfully throw back the Allies, and in one big sweeping move ment gain the areas which they l'ave unsuccessfully attacked for the last three weeks. GERMANS ADVANCE. Allies Reports Show That They Have Lost Ground During Last Week. The military expert of The New York Times after studying the war reports of last week says while the reports from allied sources have an nounced various victories in the Yser Yys district, that nevertheless their ine proves to have been forced back seven miles to Bixschoote, five miles sort. of Ypres. Bioth to the north and to the south of this city the Ger nans have forced back the opposing irmies, but in the immediate vicinity of Ypres the British resistance stif Eened after the first retirement. The German retreat in East Prussia md Poland seems to be greater than s called for by the Russian opera ions. It seems probable that they ~ave fallen back rapidly to take up yositions where they can act on the lefesive and hold back the Russians vhile part of their forces move against thie French and British in the vest. . Charleston a Reserve City. Charleston and Birmingham, Ala., ave been named reserve cities. They ire the only two under a population >f 100,000. Cruisers Are Safe. The U. S. Cruisers Tennessee and ~orth Carolina have reported to the avy department from Turkish vaters. Coal for Germans Lost. An Odessa, Russia, disnatch says w'lve Tu:rkish and German trans orts, loaded with coal, were sunk off he coast of Anatolia. Demands Concession. lerlin reports that Japan has de ianded a concession from China in wilL Nss OCEA GIANT FLEET SUDMIARINE MARES AMERICAN NAVAL EPOCH. DILT F11E ONSWE New Craft Designed for Our Fleet May Revolutionize Warfare at Sea -Submarine to be Six Times Larg er Than Present Vessels of That Type With Speed of Battleships. There was keen interest in naval and diplomatic circles in Washington in announcing the completion of plans and specifications by the Amirican, navy department for a new type of war yessel to be technically designat ed a fleet submarine. The construction of this new and powerful vessel is a part of the government's jplai for in creasing the general efficiency of the navy. Official confirmation of evpry es sential detail of the dispatch regard ing the submarine was obtained from Secretary Daniels and Rear Admiral Richard M. Watt, chief-of the bureau of construction and repair, under whose direction the drawins.for the new type of war craft were prepared. with the permission 'of Secretary Daniels, in response to inquiries from newspaper correspondents, Admiral Watt replied- categorically to a series of questions, and in his responses, made in the presence of Secretary Daniels, Admiraf Watt confirmed the published facts regarding the charac teristics of -the new submarine, as well as the fact that bids for Its -on struction would be opened on Decem ber 15. Admiral Watt admitted that -the fleet submarine would be a new type of war craft, thit it would be double the size of any other submarine' yet' built or designed for the Aiiericin navy, that it would be a sea-kieping fleet-going submarine of more than 20 knots speed, intended for -offen sive attackin contradistinction to the existing type of coast-going ,subma-' rines, which are designed primarily for naval defense. It was made plain by AdmirgkWatt that the feature of the specifications .was not the mere size of the new fleet submarine, but the fact that it would provide for an: entirely new - type of naval war craft. It is designed to be the biggest and fastest under-water craft in the world, but the fact'that it will be able to go anywhere the American battleship fleet -goes, in stead of hugging the .coa.sts that it may cross the Atlantic Ocean. under Its own power, something no other submarine has yet done, and can'go to the middle of the .Alantic to 't tack an enemy's warships and t still have the ability to*return to-its base on the American.coast line, makes the proposed fleet submarine a radical- de parture in naval construction. Congress has appropriated $4,460, 000 for -the construction of eight or - .more new submarines, ofirhich one 'will be of this new type. After sub tracting $1,250,000, the -estimated cost of the fleet submarine, the navy will have abo'ut $3,21'0,000 with which to build the other 'seven or eight coast defense submarinesiwhicb congress authorized when It quietly provided funds for this 'new type of craft. This means that the other seven or eight'isubmarines for which~ bids will be opened on. December'15 will cost about .$450,000 each, andLa comparison of-'this with the sum of. $1,250,000 that, is to be spen~t in building the monster new submarine' is of Itself evidence that the new ves sel will be fully double :tbe size of the old ones. The American navy has never -at tempted to send a submarine across the Atlantic Ocean under its own power, and would not dream of send ing the coast defense submarines from an American port to .the Philip pines. The few submarines in the Philippines were transported there on the decks of warships. Nor has any foreign power sent any of its sub marines across any of -the big oceans. The fact Is that -no 'submarine, ever lias crossed the Atlantic or Pacific ex cept on the deck of another ship, and none is in existence that would be" risked on such 'a voyage. The fleet submarine will be expect ed to go wherever the battleship fleet may go; to cover as much distance as a dreadnought, and maintain the same speed as a heavy battleship. It will be expected to go from New York to Liverpool or to Gibraltar under Its own power. Under forced draught our battleship fleet is expected to make 20 or 21 nautical miles an hour. Unless a submarine were able to' do the same thing it could not accom pany a fleet, because the speed of a fleet is determined by the speed of its slowest unit. Our present submarines make 11 knots on the surface. The German U-9 displaces about 250 tons, and 600 tons is about the limit of size necessary for coast de fense submarines. The new fleet sub marine will displace 1,000 tons and will be six times the size of the Ger man U-9. The missIon of the fleet submarine will be primarily to attack' the enemy's battleships of the first line on the high seas. It may either be sent out to the far reache of the ocean alone to search for dreadnoughts and sink them, or it may be sent out with a battleship fleet to aid In destroying the enemy's dreadnoughts. What the influence of the complete suiccess of a fleet submarine, highly developed and built in large numbers for offensive attacks will be upon the future of tihe dreadnought and super dreadnought is as yet problematical, but it is bound to exert a marked In fluence upon the use If not upon the design of the future battleships. PAICTIES DIVIDE. Democrats Unexpectedly Gain One Congressman in Illinois. Unexpected "scratching" by down state voters probably has elected one Democrat and one Republican as con gressmen-at-large from Illinois. Pre vious returns indicated the success of both Republican candidates, but Tuesday with 29 of the 101 countIes missing, William E. Williams, Demo crat, was 9,558 votes ahead of J. Mc Can Davis, Republican. The other Republican candidate, Burnett M. Chipefield had a seemingly safe lead of 23,8'75 over Thomas P. Sullivan, Democrat. Japan Celebates Fall of Tsing Tau. The celebration in Japan over the\ fall of Tsing Tau Is described as .na tion-wide. In every city there are lantern processions and merriment nightly. Drires Off Battleships. TlI~1n renorts having driven off several battleships near the army's right wing by artillery fire. Heavy Fog Orer' Belgium. Monday battle operations in Bei gium were substantially checked by a. huge fog.