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VOL. XXVIii MANNING, S, C., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1914 REACH NO DECISION IEiYf FIl;T GIS TAINGPLCE IN SITE EAST AND VEST NOTHING TO REPORT OMeal News From All Nations Con vey Lite Information as to Extent ot Operadoner-MnAa Seem to be Holding New Lines-ActiitY reported in the Sudan. Heavy fghting is taking place on both eastern and western fronts, but without producing any. material change in the positions of the oppos ing armies. Beehn reports: "The Russians in West Galicia are .holding the east bank of the Dunajec river to Tuchow, and another line extends; souteast ward past Krosno. Heavy fighting is prqceeding on both these lines, and also in the Lupkow Pass. ~'etromd reports officially: "In the regio of Mlawa (north Poland) the Gerpans have fallen back to --wards the Hne of LantenburgNeid enburg (across the frontier into east Pressia). "In Galicia thi Austrian offensive is being greatly hindered by oir troops-and the operations iR this re gion 1ove taken on a character ex tremely -favorable to us. One of the uastrian divisions which was operat lng in the vicinity of Dukla Pass was easiy defeated by bayonet..chares made by- our troops. "The enemy %9ft on the battlefield 500 -kiled and we captured 10 off cers and more than 1,000 soldiers." kerogrA reports: "Russian forces are still holding at bay the German column which is seeking to ctoss the Bzura -river at Rochanzew and advance on Warsaw, 30 miles away. For three days this Geruaan army of about 200,000 men has been endeaoring to cross the rier and tbrow back the Russians who are holding the right bank. :alo@haczew continuee to be the erman 'objective in the attempt to keath '~rsaw. The Russian forces :4n the right bank of Bzura are -heavi y entrenched. Their artillery is so placed that it commands the river to s junctior with the Vistula. 18 mies orth. Southward the Russian ne extends to Opoczno, 25 miles east Pt piotrkew which was recently evac ated, and 45 mles east of Szcerc Iow, where the -Russians first oppos - d the German extreme right. "It is pointed out that the Russians -bae thus assumed positions on their thIrd'line of defense. The evacuation of Lodf, which lies to the west of this Hle, was thus in logical se qufnee to this.movement, and accord t* to the general opinion here, had o bearing on the attack onWarsaw. Qbe-Runulaas for the present- appar netly are attempting nothing more han to retard the'enezd! and to de test attempts- at tenking move . nents." Berha reports an Austrian com nvicatiLA which supplies data-show Ingtt the eastern movement of the e raftthrough .Poland and the aorthrmmmoement of the Austrians thfgeg Gala are proceedlig stead tly d inl some regions rapidly. 4pecial .dispatches from Austrian genaral headquarters say that the Austrians advanced some days as much as 30 miles, yet the official bul 1ein, declarea the Russians are re - i slting:eth heavy'forces on the lower Donaje in Geaicia, ':where heavy aih~n-I in progress. This also is true north of Lupkow Pass in the Y~sua epots:"In the Carpa %holaas our kttcsin the district of upper LareZa are progressing wel th front- nor of the Krosnow and rl'aw sa nthe. lowei- Dunajec aIisrsevere ,fghting continue" Monsandnple-reports Via Berlin 'uprisings of serious dimensions in the Sudan,. It 1sT allegedt that- the ruler of .Dar. Fur with .800,000 men Is starting to attack the, -British prov ince of El Kab," belonging to the Egyptian Sudan, and that the Mos lem population of Abu Raja has risen against the English. A train trans porting Hindu troops from Suakim to Khartuml is said to have been stopped by Bedouins and prevented from proceeding. EnPris reports: "The British troops have -attacked and Monday morning regained most of the trenches pre - viously lost. Before LUhons the ene nay delivered four successive attacks for the purpose of r-ecapturing the trenches which we liad previorusly 'won in that region, but all of them were repulsed *. "In an attack to the northwest of Paisalenne south of Noyon, we have gatied a foothold in the eniemy's trenches of the first line and have made progress in the woods of Saint Mard. - "To the north of Puisalenne, south of Noyon, the enemy executed Mon day ilght violent counter-attacks which were all repulsed. "To the south of Varnennes- we gained a foothold Monday night in Boureuilles. Our attacks continued Tuesday and we appear to have made progress in the vicinity of Boureuil les and to the west of Vauquois. ' "There is nothing to report con cerning the rest of the front." Berlin reports: "The newspapers publish an unofficial statement from headquarters in answer to the g~cial French war bulletins sof December 18. The French report asserted that several trenches had been taken in Auchy; La Blassee, St. Laurent and Blangy. The statement from head quarters says all places lie in the rear of the German positions. "A French report said the French position near Albert had reached the entanglements of the second line of German trenches. The headquarters statement admits that eighty French men came this far, but they were all captured. The French claim that the German attacks near St. Hubert all failed Is answered with the statement that the Germans took 800 prisoners in -these attacks, eyterminating utter y the 9th battalion of French Chaus seurs. "The German navy aviator, Lieut. Stephen von Prondzynski, flew over Dover. threw bombs and reconnoiter ed the position of the British fleet." Greatest Battleship Leaves U. S. The Ridavida, Argentine's latest battleship, which is the biggest in the wo-ld 'lef ew -York Monday. LEVER BILL IS PASSED PROVDES LICESES FOR COTTON AND GRAIN WAREHOUSES. Measure, Which Means Much for the Farmer Goes to Conference-Vote Was 218 and 97 Against The Lever cotton warehouse bill before the House for months was passed Monday, 218 to 97. The meas ure provides fbr federal licensing of cotton and grain warehouses and is a substitute for a Senate bill ;estricted to cotton warehouses. The bill now goes to conference between the houses. The bill approved by the adminis tration was the subject of brief de bate, its -sponsors contending that it would greatly enhance confidence- in agricultural products. Its opponents claimed it was unconstitutional. "This bill," said Representative Lever, "will result in the establish ment of uniform warehouses and uni form warehouse receipts for agricul tural products throughout the coun try. It will give a certainty and value to warehouse receipts which will make stye-the evidence of own ership of agricultural products. "It will enhance the value of ware house receipts as collateral on which loans may be sought by producers. It will give .great negotiability to agricultural reecipts for Agricultural products. "The measure will bring together more closely agricultural products and banking capital. It will result in large storage facilities for agricul tural products and will serve as an incentive to farmers to store their products and thereby save millions of dollars of weather-loss each year. It will furnish to the farmer for the first time In this- country the machin ery through which he not only may know the class or grade of his pro ducts, but its commercial value. It will put him in a position to market his crops when the demand is strong est and the price highest. It is a farmer's bill and a most far-reching forward step in our cumbersome sys tem of marketing." The bill is not compulsory in any way. Main provisions affecting cotton proposed by the bill are: Classification of cotton and. licens ing of cotton warehouses. It bonds owners and operators-of warehuses and gives the right of re covery upon the bond to the owne? of cotton stored. It licenses graders or classifers of cotton. It provic's that licensed ware houses shall issue receipts describ ing the bales stored, the receipts to be assignable when desired. It provides for maintenatice of ac curate records of cotton stored, the receipts -issued, the right of the sec retary of agriculture to examine rec ords, and requires reports from oper atos to the secretary. It authorizes the secretary. to de termine whether cotton stored in warehouses actually is of the grade or class certified in the receipt and to publish his findings. It empowers the secretary to sus pend or revoke licenses and to pub sh not only that fact, but the re srlts of investigations made. FOUND MAN DEAD. Sherifr Called to Scene of Dispute ,Finds Negro Shot in Lungs. Sunday morning a homicide of an inusual eharacter occurred near Ridgeland. It seems from the infor mation gathered that early Sunday morning an u'nknown negro calledsat the home of a negro near the town imits, stating .that he was .sick and wanted some medicine; that the ne gr man who lived~ the house stat ed that hewas a' oot" doctor and would guarantee a, cure for $3. The unknown negro paid the amount asked, it was said, but in a short while,'when the medicine rail ed to relieve the pain, he returned to the house and demanded his money back. The negro "doctor" refused to refund, it seems, until at the point of a pistol he was compelled to give up the money., 'Immediately after the unknown ne gr 'left the house the_negro "doctor" start~d for Ridgeland 'to get Sheriff Porter, although, ,it is said, telling some parties before he left what had happned and asking them to watch the negro and not let him get away., When Sheriff Porter reached the: place where the negro was last seenI he found the dead body of the un known negro. who had been shot in the 'back with buckshot, one shot having passed through his lungs. REACH NO AGREEMENT. England Still Maitains Her Author Ity to Make Searches. No definite agreement has been reached whereby England will refrain from searching ships which leave American ports with statements from English consuls that they are carry ing no contraband. England is will ing to accept these statements where there is no reason to b'elieve cargoes may have been augmented at sea, but long negotiations between England and America have resulted In no pos itive understanding. It is stated au thoritatively that consular inspec tions in most cases would expedite shipments greatly, as the number of suspected cargoes is comparatively small. Army Aviator Killed. Sailing from San Diego to inform his post of the number of troops manoeuvring there, Lieut. F. J. Gerst ner, U. S. aeroplane corps, was killed Monday when his machine fell into the Pacific. To Avoid Extra Session. Congressmen are determined to complete their program before March 4 so as to do away with the necessity for another extra session. Negro Burned at Stake. Watkins Lewis burned to death at Sylfester, La.. Saturday, made the fifth victim of mol' vengeance in Louisiana in ten days. Carnival Man Killed Self. G. D. Whitney, a carnival man, night. Domestic and financial trou TO USE SUBMARINES GERMAN ADMIRAL PLANS WAY TI STARVE BRITONS BUT TALKS ON BIg QUESTIONS -0 German Undersea Boats Could Sink Merchant Ships and Cut Of1 Food Supplies-Talks of Relations Be tween the United States and Japan -Asks Only Fairness. -Karl H. von Wiegand sends the following dispatch from Grand Gen eral Headquarters of the Kaiser in France: "America has not raised her voice in protest and has taken little or no action against England's closing the North Sea to neutral shipping. What will America say if Germany declares submarine war on all enemy mer chant ships! Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, Ger man minister of marine, regarded the strongest man in the German govern ment and possible next imperial chancellor, and whose marvellous or ganizing genius is largely responsible for Germany's fleet, peered sharply at me as he leaned forward and put the question to me. "Why not?" he continued. "Eng and wants-to starve us! We can play the same game. We can bottle her up and torpedo every English or Allies' ship which nears any harbor in Great Britain, thereby cutting off large food supplies." "What Would America Say?" Admiral von Tirpitz slowly repeat ed the first question: - "What would America say? Would not such action be only-meting out to England what she is doiag t6 us? Yes!" After severai days at the Crown atlhde's badquarters and the Ar gonna I had motored to the Kaiser's field capital in France, where all the ministries and departments of the German gevernment are now situat ed. (After this interview most .of the general staff returned to Berlin ow ing to the Kaiser's illness.) For once departing from his rigid rule not to talk with newspaper men, Admiral von Tirpits received Ine ih a private house, the home df & French banker who fled before the derman advance, and on the door 6f which was a cardboard sign," Maribe be partzient?" .Nwet G!* k-oni Piracy. Mebhtally and physically von Tir pitz is a magnificent Teuton. He has a mind of steel trap order, is a mar velous organizer and has more Bis marckian force and iron in his nature than any other German official I have met. He immediately plunged into an analysis of his views of the causes that led to the war, and traced the truth of the sea and world power de veloped by England until, as he put it, "the domineering arrogance of the British culminated in the prseat war, which England engiheered in order to crush the natural gro*th aad de velopment of the power of the Ger an emipire "Briti's domination of the sea," he declared, "was originally founded n -piracy, while her power on land was established by robbery in all parts of the world. "England and England alone is re sponsible for this war. Did Germany want anything? Did Germany make any demands on any one? Did Ger many have any quarrel with any one? No; she only wanted to be let alone to continue her peaceful growth and de. elopment. "England's anti-German policy dates back as far as 1870, after our victory over France," continued the minister. "Always dictatorial and domineering, she didn't want Ger' many to expand commercially orato take the place in the world to which her power entitled her. Throat Had to be Cut. "England is impartial. She- will cut any one's throat who gets in her way. England has no white man's scruples. Her alliance with Japan shows that. She will form an alliance with any -one, regardless of race or color, if she can profit thereby. Ger many was developing too fast, grow ing too strong and too powerful and was getting in England's way, so her throat had to be cut--that's it in a nutshell. King Edward laid plans for it years ago. He had an extraordi nary antipathy to Germany. He look. ed about and seized upon the growing Pan-Slavism in the east and the 're vanche' idea in the west as his means." "What are Your Ezcellency's views as regards the Japanese problem?" asked. Warns U. S. Against Japan. "That is for you! That is what ybt Americans will have to face and ine and we will be the onlookers."' Al this von Tirpitz straightened up. His finger pointed straight at me as h4 said quietly: "I meant that in jes1 about our being onlookers. Thal would depend on circumstances. On4 thing I will say, Germany will nevel abandon the white race. Japan wil make China a vassal and will mill tarize its millions. Then it will bi for your country to look out! Ad miral Togo once said to a European: 'Next will come a general Europeax war, then will come a great war, it which my race will be against yours.' England's act in bringing in th4 Japanese. von Tirpitz holds to b4 high treason to the white race. It it inexplicable to him that American: can view with apparent indifferenci Japanese activity in the Pacific and their apparent inability to foresei grave possibilities arising in the neal future. He spoke in a tone of deej sadness, bordering on bitterness, at he dwelt upon the attitude of Amer ea toward the war. The reportei ~anti-German sentiment in America he said he could not understand, an< added: "We just ask the American people to be fair-that is all-as fair to u: as to the others."o Praises Navy of United States. Admiral von Tirpitz paid a hig] tribute to the American navy, which he declared, was the s'uperior of thi Japanese navy. "Ship for ship, man for man," h said, "I consider the American nav outclasses that of the Japanese: ix fact, I doubt if it is surpassed by tha of any nation. Your navy has kep for which it was built." Returning tn the subject of the present war, I asked how long it might be expected to last. "That," he replied, "will depend upon England. It is said that Eng land wants a war to the hilt. If Eng land insists upon that, we can accom modate her; but there are some who still hope that England will be sensi ble and will listen to reason." As the word "sensible" sounded very significant to me, I asked: "Is Your Excellency one of those who have this hope that England will be sensible and listen to reason?". Von Tirpitz countered the interro gation with another question: "Do you believe England will be sensible?" Will Fight to "the Hilt." "That depends on what Your Ex cellency may mean by the word bens ible," I said. "If you mean an incli nation in England to accept an early or easily adjustable peace, I am not optimistic at this time." Answering my question without de fining his own; von Tirptz exclaimed: "No, I am not one of those." "Then, I take it, Germany does not want to carry the war to the bitter extreme, or 'to the hilt,' as Your Ex cellency has termed it?" "Certainly it is not our desire or wish, but if England insists upon fighting the war to the hilt we will be there." "What effect will Lord Kitchener's new army have on the war?" "We are not worried about Lord Kitchener's million. We still have several millions of fine, physically fit men to draw upon, if necessary, and if we take those not quite up to our regular- standard we can put still more millions into the field. That we will fight to the last, if necessary, I think the world no longer doubts." "Nothing has been heard from the Zeppelins lately, Your Excellency. How have they proved themselves an effective arn for the navy in this war?" Value of the Zeppelins "Persbnally," replied the Admiral, "I am of. the opifildn that the heavier type 6f the heavier thjan air machines is splendidly adapted for marine purposes, but for carrying ' large weights over a long distance the Zep pelins are, of course, superior." Discussing the work of the sub marines, I asked if one'of the lessons of the war is that dreadnought have been rendered obsolete. - "It would be diffitult at this stage to draw conclusions," repl'ed the ad miral. "That submarifies are a new and bOtent factor in nivgl warfare is uhquestibnable. Our suceiss.so far, 'however, hardly justines the cdnelu ioh that big shipsahave become obso lete. We have always. figured that submarihes coild not stay out more: thiah thriee days on account of the men becoming exhausted., We now learn that the larger types hive cruised clear around England and often repained out for fourteen days. This is accomplished by going down in shallow and quiet water, settling on the bottom and staying there while the men get their required sleep." "Will yQui- beet give the En~lfsh fleet battle?" I inquired. . . "If the English give us the oppoi' tutlity. dertainlg," said the adniiral, "but it can not be expected that our feet, numerically..one-third that of Ehglaid, will itself Oiler .btti, espe qitlly ih view .df still. othe'r militiry disidvahtage's." "Is there any truth in the reports than an invasion of England by Zep pelins is being prepared?" "I believe that submarine warfare against the enemy's merchant ships would be more effective,'' was the in direct answer. At this moment Count Tisza, the Hungarian premnie?, who hiad beeni visiting with the Itaisel!, was e?L nounced and my iuterview was brought to a close. Admiral von TZir pitz had talked with an openness and frankness which had astonished mie. -Pians Submarine Elockade. Among the impressions I carried away was that von TIirpitz advocates what would virtually be a submarine blockade of England, and that they contemplates torpedoing several mer chant ships, with the result that oth ers would not venture to approach that country wmich *ould thus be bottled up and starved. I believe also that von Tirpitz .is not one of those who clamor foi' the complete crushing of England. (even it possible), and I doubt whether, he considers itpossible. . I gather that he is opposed to an aerial invasion. of England, or an attack upon tondonl from the sky, except as a last resort, and that in his 6piniou Zeppelils so fat have not pt-oved themselves withe out strong rivals as a navy army in the heavier type of hydroplanes. It appears to me that he considers a war an almost certain development 61 the present situatioa in the Far East. But that there may- be no misun derstanding, I muzd say that these are merely my own impressions and de ductions. TWO NE~GROS KILLED. 1'ui- White Men Wounded in Desper ate Battle near Fsirplay. Two negroes were ki'led arni four white men wounded in a battle be tween the four white men and a party of r agroes at Fairplay in Ocunec ccunty. Sunday night. ii':en Green and Green u.ibson are the dead negroes. The white men sufering wounds are: Magetrate W. C. YeClure, shot in the wrt/: John c.onald, shot in the eye: Wonodrowv Campbell, suffering a wouni on the hand; Paul Marrett, sprinkled with shot. It is said that a negro burned a barn near Knox's bridge in Ocones county Saturday afternoon and that Magistrate McClure, Woodrow Camp bell, John McDonald and Paul SIar rett went to the suspected negro's house and, carrying him to the plare where the barn was burned, gave him a severe whipping. Returning they are said to have been attacked by a party of negroes led by Allen Green. Green was kill ed in the fight which followed, and Green Gibson died later from wounds received in the battle. None of the white men is believed to be' fatally wounded. Vera Cruz Seizure Cost $334,37.1. The House has passed an emergen cy deficiency bill appropriating $554. 731 to pay for expenses incurred at Vera Cruz. Killed for One Dollar. Because he refused to pay a debt of $1 Michael Malick, of Chicopee, Mass., kicked Larchec Swea in the HOW ARMIES ADVANCE EYE-WITNESS TELLS HOW ENG LISH MAKE GOOD GAINS. German Machine Guns and Obstacles Prevent Gaining of - Forward Trenches Save by Slow Progass. The great difficulties under which -military operations in France and Belgium are being conducted ir ) de scribed in a narrative of recent de velopments, written by an official ob server attached to the British head quarters and made public Sunday by the official information buroiem. The rectial brings the story of the war, as covered in these eye -witness re poits, up to December 17. "The opposition now being encoun tered resembles to some extent that met withi by us in the beginning of October, when we firzt reachei the Frtrc-Belgian frontier, and bejure the Gtrmans brought up t:riir 1ull force and assumed the offensive." rays the report: "It has oc great difference, however, and that Is that the enemy is in much greatV force an dhis positions are much stronger and better organized than :iey were two months ago. "At that time an advance on the eastern end of the line Impliod ' movement across a very difficult coun try, it does still; and for us it meant an attack on skillfully, but hastily fortified strong points or vil lages, held to a large extent by cav alry and Jaegers. With the large proportion of machine guns that we asve in front of us to-day, it is no longer a succession of isolated points. There are still such points, and some Ue the same, but thly are stronger and form part of a practically con tihuous defensive zone consisting in some places of several lines of cu4 n1igly .sited and carefully constriiet ea *orks. "This zone really aniounts to a maze 6f trenches and obsticles. Every known form of obstacle is used. En tanglements-to select the m6st cbm mon form-vary from loose coils of wire to securely staked networks of from eighteen inches to nearly six feet in height and of different widths. "These ,measures of defense are only Such is are to be expected from troops which are well trained and have ample resources and time, and there re, of course, ways iii which they tan be dverceme. But where these methods are applied, the rate i adv~nee is fiededsafilf slaw. When it is repbrted ii ladonic terms that ground has been.. gained. at a certain point, topographically the gain. may amount- to only--a -few yards. Tacti ally, on the other hand, the progress implied by even such a small step forward may be important, for a trench, a cluster of trenches, the edge of a wood, a 'building, a village, or -a knoll may have been reached, possession of whith will facilitate frther operations. "Siege approaches, such as saps, hlp the attacker to advance under cover, and go miflimite the losses, but they do not and call not obviate th6 iiability t6 a sui-prisc feceptien of the hature indicated when once the &iemy's workI dre'giined. The only crtaia method .bf pi-eventink this. is by ,a prloi.iged . bonibardment with high 6xp'lisive shells iitil trefiches, mines, and machine guns are.reduded to scrap heaps, or to mine under them ad blow them into the air." ANSWERS TAUNT. Germans Say Scarborough Was Forti fled and Whitby Had Wi'eless. A semi-oficel news agehdy at Ber. l issues a statement caratradictitig the allegati6h that in the bombard int of the English east coa.st the Germah warships attaeked unfoartified towiaS, st~ellitig churches, hotels and privte houses eatclusively. Tlhis statement points out that Scarobor ough is fortifled and that at Whitby the Gerinaus shelled only the eoast guard and wireless stations. Answerihg the taunt that the Ger mabs saved themselves only by sm perit speed, the statement says thati th derinan crulreis crassed the full breadth of the iNorth Sea tour tiffteE in six Weeks, an'd that no blame, therefore, attaches to Germany if the British fleet inissed an opportunity, especially as Germany has shown a dispsitloa to save Wiustohi Spencer Churchill, first lard of the adniiralty, the necessity of "digging the rats from the hole." USMID BLANK CARTRIDGES. Police Find That Auto. Bandits ?istol 1'ired ?io Bullets. The $13,100 bbtained by Frank G. Hohl, the automobile bandit, who Fritay fobbedi two banks at Cincin nati, Ohio, and was killed after fata ly wounding a policeman, is believed by police officers to have been shipped by parcel post to Louisville, Ky., by the robber. The police decided that one of the two i-evolvers carried by Hohl con tained blank cartridges and was ued merely to frighten those whom he en countered in the banks. Cashier George Winters, who was p6wdler burned by the discharge of Hohl's re volver, declared Hohl fired point blank at him when only a foot or so away. He was not wounded. No bullet holes were found in the walls of either bank where the bandit fired at employees. Little Child Killed. Fumbling in a bureau drawer for some letters a small Greenwood child pulled out a- pistol Friday, which went off killing Mattie Stalnakrer, nine years old. Bombs in Brussels and Dunkirk. Latest air raids have been carr-ied out by the Allies who have succeed ed in dropping bombs in Brussels and Dunkirk. Buy Aeroplanes and Armored Autos. The general appropriation bill in cludes' $400,000 for aeroplanes and $50,000 for armored automobiles for the army. Greece Buying Tents. Greece has ordered over a milliam dollars worth of tents from a Cleve land, Ohio, concern. They are sal'd to be for peaceful uses. Chile Sends Protests. Chile has protested to both Gres Britain and Germany against allege viatins of her neutrality WILL END IN MAY MYSTIC STICKS Of JAPANESE PROPHET SHOWS fUTURF. WILSONS FULURE BRiliHT Shortest Day of the Year is Selected by Dodama to Learn Secrets of the Future-Presents His Observations on the Armies and Navies Now En gaged-Roosevelt Ha Finished. Following a custom that was Im ported into Japan from China ages ago, Densho Kodama, a Japanese prophet and diviner, prayed before a fruit trimmed altar for two hours Wednesday at the Nippon club, in New York. While he prayed Kodama held in his hands bundles of slender sticks and occasionally he would burst the bundle apart, holding a por tion in each hand. He would count the sticks and then he would write in his book of divinations. At 1 o'clock, when the ceremony was concluded, Kodama gave out 1915 prophesies concerning the war, including the date of its ending, con cerning the future of President Wil son, which was bright, and the future of Col. Roosevelt, which was rather gloomy. Kodama chose Wednesday for his prayer because it was the shortest day of the year. For many years on this day, it has been his custom, he said, to ask of the "Almighty Power" about national and international events and to announce his prophe cies. "But this year I was away from my own land," he. explained, "and so I Inade my devotions and sought answers to my questions here in the Nippon club of your city. The pro phetic power which I invoked was not taught to' m as part of the Shinto relgion d any other religion. It came to the Japanese before the standard religions did. Iti Japan I would have erected on miy altar a plain piece of wood on which I would have draped decoratibns of white. But here I chdse a little green tree and ,decked It in iwhite and put fruit near it7 and-lighted c'andles. The white decorations represent truth and the lower and purity of the Almighty Power." A question submitted to Kodama had to do with Co Roesevelt's imme dite fdtdre. "It was A pidture of a stream run ning placldly .dwn hill," he answer ed. "No tendeniy to run uphill, or torrentous tendency. That means that Col. Roosevelt will be going down ill next year and never going up at all. It also means that he will submit to it. I saw this picture once before. I asked what would happen to Victo riano Huertain Mexico. He was then at the height of his power, but he ran down hill after- that as I prophecied he would." odama announced the picture he saw when he inquired about Presi dent Wilsori. "I saW a fnani rowing a boat crds rough watef," h6 said, "ad I sdw fiii r-each the other share in safety. Thik fid s that Presi dent Wilian will .fW6 tiddbles, but will solvs .them all. riglit. I predict that he will nieet thrse big problems~ next year, two of thema donfestie and one connected with foreign affairs. He will settle them- all right and when he has done so there will come an end to his unpopularity. The peo pe 'wIll like him for doing it. One will came to him from the Southwest. I would sty from afexico.. - Th~leni Iasked about the end of the war I saw a. pittrte which en' ables me to predict that the war will end heit May by the intervention of a powrftil nation. Since one of the problemas I saw brought to President Wilson camne frOm abroad I feel that he may be the powerful force which intervenes to end the war." ~odSma said that Six of the twen ty-one questieois he asked as he pray ed had to do with the armies and na vies of the warring cotintries. In ex plaining the predictions he was will ingte ventulre that all must be ful filled before May, since that month was to see the war ended. "In the first place, he said, "the British fleet will do a ver~y daring and bold thing in the spring. It *111 raid the Gei-inath haval baise and will suc cessfally assault it. The battle will be one of the greatest ever fought in naval history-One to be remember ed, and it will end in the complete destruction of the German naval base in spite of the niines guarding it. The German itriy, however, will be fore this time perform some brilliant exploits in Russia. The British cav ary will wini victories greater than the atillery and infantry, while the French artillery anid infantry will ex ceed in skill the Frefidih eavalry. "The French losses will be more staggering than the English becaue the Germans will centre their -as saults more directly upon the French than the English. I saw, when I asked about the English army, a dog swallowing a young chicken. The dog was very sick as it *had strangled upon a Done. This meant that the Germans would have much trouble trying to down the British. When]I asked about the British navy I saw a rod being struck into the midst of breaking eggs. In that way the Brit ish navy will smash the German.I saw a man being stabbed in the baclh when I asked about the French navy. I predict for it surprises where it is not prepared. One such surprise. believe, awaits it in Mediterranear waters. I saw a hunter hunting mountain over for a prize when3 asked about the Russian army. ThE prize, I would see, lay hidden upox another mountain. That means the Russian army will campaign in th< wrong direction. I predict distrus of the general staff and a lack o harmony in the Russian army. placid stream appeared to tell me th fate of the Russian navy. It mean the Russian navy will lie still an never do anything in the war. "A thunder storm with thunde claps in :..11 parts of the sky answer ed my prayer about the United State and Japan. The noise of jingoist between the two countreis will soun loud but will do little harm--mor harm in Japan than in the Unite States. A frozen sea, thawing ou depicted Japan and Germany. means that after the war good cpiri will prevail between us." Mr. Kodama, a middle-aged ma w ho wore long hair parted in tb midl. smiled a little over his pr< CHOKES WIFE TO DEATH - 4 CUTS WOMAT'S THROAT AS SHE BEGS FOR XMERCY. Greenwood Mill Village is Scene of Revolting Tragedy When Mill Man Slays His Wife. Albert Tolbert, aged about 35 years, reputed to be an industrious and sober citizen by all who have testified as to his habits of life, chok ed to death and then broke the neck of his young wife, Lola Hall Tolbert, Sunday afternoon at their home in the Panola Mill village near Green wood. The killing is supposed to have taken place about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, but no one saw the dead body of the woman for nearly ap hour, Tolbert stating that he "want ed to be sure she was dead" before he told anybody. Mrs. 'Ellenberg heard screaming, and later a pitiful appeal from the slain wife, "Albert, please, please let me up, r am so weak," but the sobs soon were heard no more. Mrs. Ellenberg had no idea of the crime which had been committed un til Tolbert opened his door, holding a bloody knife in his bloody hands, and said: "Phone the undertaker and Sheriff McMillan. I have killed her." Long domestic trouble and a lack of faith in his wife are supposed to have been the cause of .the crime. Tolbert told Mr. McCuen that he kill ed her because she had been telling lies on him, that she was unfaithful, though he did not mention any de tails, and that she had made life h-l for him. He declared that he had determined to kill her a hundred times, but had desisted thinking that she would do better. But Sunday morning Tolbert's rage seems to have overcome him and he carried out his plans of long stand ing. He at first decided to commit the deed with an ordinary. carpen ter's hammer, which was in evidence, at an early hour, but Mrs. Tolbert left the room and went to the Ellen berg side of the house. . Later she came back and he tried to cut her throat, making only a slight gash on her face, when she took the knife away from him. He then clutched her by the-throat, and, regardless . of .her cries -for mercy, choked her to death and then broke her necks. When a small crowd had arrived Tolbert called Supt. McCuen, offer ing to explain his act. Then, ner vously smoking a cigarette and show ing signs of physical collapse from great beads of perspiration on his forehead, gave Mr. McCuen the nar rative as related above. Mrs. Ellenberg said that when she heard screaming in the Tolberts' room and she thought Mr. Tolbert had fainted. The witness went to the door, peeped in and saw'Tolbert cut ting at his wife's throat. Mrs. Ellen berg returned to her own room and in about 10 minutes Tolbert called Claude. Before Mrs. Ellenberg and her son answered the witness heard the slain woman begging, "Albert, please, please let me alone," and then Tol bert was heard to say, "You will never dray any more of my pay." The Elienbergs met Tolbert at a rear door, he showed them the bloody ufe, acknowledged that he had kill d her and totd1 the Ellenberg boy to phone for the undertaker and sheriff. INV1!TS EXPWosivE. American Said to Have Projectile More Deadly Than Before. A new projectile which would scat ter a whitehot mixture of molten steel over the object of attack, and 'fll the atmosphere with deadly gas, making It impossible for fire-fighters to approach, has been Invented by John Hays Hammond Jr., according to a statement made by the Inventor at Gloucester, Mass., Monday night. The missile may appear soon in the European war, as some of the bellig erents are negotiating for its pur chase, he said. The United States is conducting experiments with the pro jectile at Sandy Hook, he added. The missile is designed for use in siege guns. Mr. Hammond explain edthat 4t carries an aluminothermic mixture which, five se-xl~ ale the projectile is discharged, turns the steel inside to white-hot mixture at a temperature of 5,400 degrees Fah renheit. When the projectile hits,. the in ventor said, it explodes, Its white-hot contents firing whatever inflammable material iP sti-ikes. To avoid the possibility of quenching the flames, Mr. Hammond said he had equipped the projectile with a chamber filled with hydrocya72ic acid, the fumes of which are deadly. WANTS THEM IN. Entente Powers Would Draw More Balkns Into the War. Following categorical assurances of the Bulgarian government that it will maintain strict neutrality in the war, the Entente powers-Great Blritain, France and Russia--have given guar antees to both Athens and Buchare..t that Belgrade will not attack Greece in the event the latter country assists Servia, and will not attack Rou mania should that state actively par ticipate in the war. This is taken to foreshadow the approaching partici pation of Roumania and Greece. Slain in Fight With Burglar. W. M. Alexander of Los Angeles, Cal.. was shot to death Tuesday morning by burglars whom he discov ered in his home. Held for Conspiracy. Eight Mexicans have been arrested at Nogales, Ariz., charged with con ,spiring to break the neutrality law of~the United States. Emperors Traveling. Emperor Nicholas has gone to Mos rcow, while the German Kaiser is re -ported to be in the west, encourag sing his troops. Handles Many Cables. English censors have to look ove 150,000 cables each day and give judg ment upon them. tpsecie-, and readily abandoned th psychic mood In which he obtainel athem. He said that when he wa eyounger and less adcpt in the art hi proheie often er.me out wrong. CGRACOW'RELIEVED [0R SECOND TinE ABANEON 91GE Of ff BATTLES BESTRUCTIE Petrograd Explains Becent Wholesale Withdrawal of Rusian Forces as Indicating Strategy of 'TdW' Movenents to Secure Best Postion for Striking the Germans. Abspecial cable to -the New York Times from Petrograd the oft cial bulletin of Tu evening makes it sutiiciently plain that wn are in for a repetition, ith differ ences, of the first invasion of -Poland. The Germans brought up vast-forces against Russia, including.the stif fened remnants-of the Austrian a mies, and reorganized thewhole ina manner highly creditable to thero cuperative powers of our formidable enemy. The German -emperor has promised tho war-worn- troops rest and rewards at Warsaw, which he ordered taken for Christmas. The Grand Duke Nicholas has-again been compeled -to abandon temper arily the main objective of his stre gic scheme and draw his armies to gether so as to hold the inner line of the whole strategic :front occupied by the respective opponents. Cracow and everything-around Qa cow thus have been"abaudomd,. as happened before. As we'know abso lutely notllgng of the, disposition of the troops occupying thi new- pel tions, it is impossible to form any opinion as to where the decislve bat tle will be joined. The wholesale withddwai of, the: Russian troops from all the positions held a few days ago, except those In front of Warsaw, indicates the strat egy of the tactical movements to se cure the best military positions for striking at the Germans. The latter have not yet succeeded in forcing the passage of the Bzurs river, about five miles upstream frinz Sochaczew. The attempt nearly suac ceeded-in fact, a certain number of German troops did get across, but were flung back. into Ithe- river and lost enormously at various - other spots. The Russians .took several thou sands of prisoners, and the Germans left thousands of dead on-the eld. after the Russians' bayonet charges, but the general result is perceptible from this bulletin. All its- definite expressions, such as geographical nimes, show- plainly that the last few days have been- occupied almost en tirely in forced marches away from positions previously,held' " On the other hand; account of fights are given without any Indies tion of the -numbers opposed to the Russians at this or that point,.so that. expressions like "masfes oTkilled"' convey no. definite Impression. It might be a regiment which lost herV ily or an army corps, but pretty cer tanily was the former. The withdrawal'is believed not to be. a retirement after unsuccessful fighting but a deliberate movemnt - intended to secure victory wtder ne* circumstances. The .elastit of movenent which the Germans have shown by the aid of railways onlry the Russians now are exhibiting for the second time without .other mea~ns of locomotion- than thase- of nature. Very great forces are being pres ed into the battle of mutual destruc tion on the separate positions- from' the left - bank of the Vistulai nea Ilow southward along the Bzura.and Rawka to-the bend of the Pilica'be low Tomuazow. Sometimes the- Risslans and som'e times the Germans take the offensive in these pitched battles, which can not be described as general. -The German offensive, which is the here est in the north, results more favoe. ably to the Russins as they approach the zone where the~Austrians predoem inte in the- enemy's ranks. The, most southerly of the hattles in Poland is on the River Nida, which flows from the north into the Vistula, thirty miles eastward of Cra cow. Here the -Russians gained a vjtory over Danki, whose task appar ently was to link up with the Austro German army on the Pilica twenty miles east of Novo Radomsk and as- - sist in the disposition of the German attempt to force a wedge between the Russian northern and southern- ar mies. Immense slaughter is taking place in these battles and will doubtless be unabated until ascendency has been definitely established. In the region of Sochaczew- thousands of civilans have been killed. The Germans uspd eight-inch guns against the town and smashed the high tenement- houses, whose inhabitants were crushed to death under-the masonry. When the population tried to flee along the broad road to Warsaw the German guns poured shell among the dense masses of men, women and children. Hundreds were trampled to death. At Lowlcz the same thing occurred, hundreds being killed under the wrecked buildings. A Russian officer who was decorat ed for the capture of six German guns at Lowicz states that- eighty German prisoners were women who had been fighting in the trenches. Five Dies in Tenement Fire. Arthur Corso, night telephone op-. erator in New York, Thursday sent in a fire alarm and hastened out to see his home in flames and his moth er and four brothers and sisters dead. Cotton Cargo for Germany. The Pathfinder, a steamship, left Galveston Friday for Germany, load ed with 6,g50- bales of cotton. * - illed While Burglarizing. When he attempted to -rob a Tes taurant at Cincinnati, Thursday, Al fred Annan was shot and killed.* Bombs Dropped on Dover. A German aeroplane dropped a bomb on Dover Thursday and escap ed, although pursued. * Jap Arms Sent to Europe. -The Japanese war minister .an nounced Frida- that 5,000,000 worth - -of arms had been sent to Europe.* Aeroplanes in Battle. SBritish aircraft Friday engaged a hostile machine which appeared ove Sherness. -