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LAND ARiY IN REAR DUTCh TINK THlE BRiTSH INTEND TO TRY FLANK MOVE ON COAST OF BELEM Think Huge Army Could be Landed at Zeebugge to Take German Righ't Wing on Its Flank-Trendhes Have Been Prepared by the Germans for This Move. News from Dutch sources received in Washington and based upon what were said to be the latest advices from that country as well as the fact that England had absolutely stopped all Channel and North Sea shipping, came a report that Englfnd has been massfng transport ships and large war vessels, which can bombard the Belgian coast while remaining out of reach of the Bremen coast, batteries and will probably try to land a new expeditionary force somewhere be twieen Heyst and Blankenbergh or elsewhere north of Ostend for the purpose of attacking tbe right flank of the German forces now attacking along the Yser canal.. The territory between the Dutch trontier and Ostend is the weak spot of. Ever since the Germans occupied the Province of West Flanders they have been obliged to guard against an attack of a British fleet upon this -point. The little villages from Heyst to Ostend have been fortified as well as could be, and at irregular inter vals along the shore batteries of field pieces have been hidden in the sand dunes to prevent the landing of Brit ish troops. After the capture of Antwerp, when no further danger threatened -the German right flank from -the Bel gian army, the harbor of Zeebrugge *was made the main naval base on the North Sea. From this port the Qer man submarines have been operating in the English Channel; But Zee brugge is an undefended port and the frtifcations , which the Germans have built there could not withstand -a3 attack by the heavy guns of a - British dreadnought. Thus far British warships have oc icasionally bombarded German bases but with little effect and without any apparent desire to make the attack a serious engagementi Lately, how ever, British aviators have been very active In West Flandjers trying to lo cate the position of the German bat -teries. During. December and January se ls apprehension was felt in Hol land about the activity of the Ger mani, in, building several lines of 'eNrth: Sea. The Germanetaoinetao trEmi M paralel with the Dutch'fron tier- and parallel with the coast of he North Sea. The German govern ent, bowever, declared that these trenches were lin no way meant Sagainst Holland. but would be used case England should attempt to force' her way through Dutch terri tory in the province of Zeeland and try' toattack Antwerp from the north. 'That-the British fleet ever should tryto reach Antwerp by forcing the Sc&heidt" is ~unbelievable, since t he Scheldt has been mined -by both the Dutch and the Germans .and the * aters of this arm of the North Sea are so shallow that they do not offer au~ceent manoeuvring. space for the -larger men-of-Wir, which would have to be used in such a large undertak '-However, -since October of last -year;' the Germans have prepared for -a BrithIattack upon this bnprotect . territory of Flanders. *The forts o(Aatwerp, many of which had never nben etehd -by the Belgians. have eby the :German and Antwerp at Wemnt ls- what it was not when the war began, a fortification of the first order and well nigh impregnable. As such it would render the great etservice should the Germans ever be forced to retire behind the line of .;ntwerp-Brussels-Namuir. For . that purpose. it has been provided with new guns outelassing and- outdistanc -ing any of the guns which the Bel gians maintained in the town before *the- surrender to the Germans. Of the other cities of West Flan ders, however, not a single one is in any way able to render an cifective resistpe to an invading force, once it has. managed to set foot on shore. Bruges and Ghent are both open cities, and- have been used exclusively as. hospital bases. 'Thicit, used by the Germans as staff headquarters until it was attack ed by a number of allied flying ma chines, is. an open village. The coun try Is flat and offers no natural nmeanis of defense. Innumerable par allel Lines of intrenchments have been ~dug during the last five months. A serious British attack made on Sthe 'seashore and supported by the long range guns of the British fleet .would. place the right wing of the German, army operating along the d ser in a very dangerous position. If it succeeded in damaging the railroad between Ge.enL and Ostend (which passes through Brugges) the chibt support of the German right .wing Kwould be threatened and a shifting ot the German line would be neces sary. Of the lines of fortification which Germany hase built along .the left banks of''the river Scheldt above Den dermonde nothing is known. Nobody has been allowed to visit that part of Belgium. In fact, since October the entire province of West Flanders has been like an'island, entirely cut off fom the west of the world. M TLF1REiAS SHIES German Repudiates British Claim o Shells That Alphyxiates. Replying to British complains that the Germans are using shells, the gases from which asphyxiate their -antagonists, a wireless dispatch from Berlin says "The German troops do not fire -any shells the sole purpose of which is- to spread asphyxiating or poison ous gases. Such gases as develop in cidentally upon the explosion of Ger man shells are less dangerous than those emanating from ordinary Brit ish. French and Russian shells. "Some developing contrivances tus ed by the Germans in hand to hand combats are in no manner contrary to the laws of warfare. On the other hand, it appears from official com munications that our opponents have been using Illegal poisonous gas shell for several months.'' ASK FAIR PLAY FOR CUIlNA Chinese Six Companies Address Let ter to Secretary Bryan. "Fair play for the Chinese repub lic' is asked in a letter sent to See retary Bryan Tuesday by the Chi nese Six Companies. represenaing a membership of eighty thousand ('hi nese in North and South America. The letter follows a cabled appeal to The Hagle Tribunal by the same or ganization and declares that China "as a republic looks to the United States for friendly interest and pro GERMAN MOVE HALTED. BRITISH TURN ATTENTION TO THE DARDANELLES. Battle Near Ypres Continues-Rus sian Offensive in Carpathian Fleet Makes Progress upon Forts. Military operations of critical im portance no'w are under way in three distinct fields of action. In Flanders the Germans once more are engaged in a struggle f r mastery of the territory near 'he Yser canal, where several months ago there occurred what was perhaps the most terrible struggle- of the war thus far. In the Carpathians the Russians again are assuming the offensive in so inother effort to push over the moun ain barrier into Hungary. e At the Dardanelles the allies have ca ucceeeded in landing troops on both is1 ides of the straits, inaugurating a w :ombined land. and sea attempt at su Constantinople. London reports Wednesday an offi- de cial announcement from the Belgian army headquarters: er "The situation on April Rg at peta p m. showed that the German artillery was evidencing little activity on the front held by the Belgian army. ai "The French, aided by the Belgian M artillqey and infantry, have taken th Lizerfne and several German trenches in the direction of Het Sas. More th than 100 dead were counted on the battlefeld. The booty comprised six quick-firing guns and 200 prisoners. th The attack continues." Berlin reports officially Wednes- le day: "The British attempts to re conquer lost ground in Flanders all have failed. to "In the Champagne, north of Le Mesnil, German troops stormed the extended French entrenchments. cl "French attacks in the forest of Le cI Pretre have been repulsed. "Against Hartmans - Wellei-k.opf to which the Germans hold, there have been no new French attacks. . "To- the northeast and east of Su walki in Russian Poland, German forces have conquered Russian posi- B tions along a front of 25 kilometres a (12 miles)." ti Paris reports officially Wednesday: b "North of Ypres we have continued te to make progress. This is particular- b ly. so-on our left. where we took six b machine guns, two bomb-throwers, much war material and several hun dred prisoners, including a number of i officers. "The enemy's losses were heavy. q At a-single point on the frout not far a] from the canal, we counted over 600 bodies of German soldiers. "On the heights of the Meuse along a the front, of Les Esparges-Sain Remy n and the trench of, Callonne. we con tinued to gain ground, advancing aabout on-e- kilometer (about two thirds of a mile) inflicting very heavy losses and destroying a Ger man battery." RE-ENACTED IN TilE EAST .ti tl ni Austrian's Capture of Ostry Compar- -V ti ed to Lookout Mountain. it Berlin reports: The storming by t Austrian troops of Ostry miountain, t reported in the Austrian official bul letin, is described by a Tageblatt cor respondent in the Carpathians as one a of the most brilliant feats of moun tain fighting of the war. Ostry mountain, with its sister height, Swinnin mountain, stormed ~ April 9. dominates the road and thec railroad from Munkacs to Lemberg. a It is approximately 3,500 feet high,~ with precipitous sides. The Russiansh had converted the mountain into as fortress, with rows of trenches ande machine -gun positions, and it ap parently was impregnable. The Austrians, commanded by Gen. Hoffman, according to the correspon dent, dashed from their positions andg charged up the precipitous height. n Position after position was taken. d Gaps torn in the Austrian lines byd machine gun fire closed automatically as successive waves of troops swept 7' upward to .success, the writer says, "like the Federal charge at Lookouth mountain, probably beyond the ex pectations of the commanders," and the summit was occupied. DRIVEN BY ELECTRICITY I h Tncle Sam to Have First Battleship a .Witli Electric Drive. Electric propelling, machinery for it the' new battleship California, the b first sea fighter of any nation to be 0o equipped with the electric drive, will ti be built by the General Electric coma " pany of New York for $431,000. Sec-I a retary Daniels . announced Monday P night. The California is building at e the New York navy yard, which sub- r mitted an estimate of $631,000 for a steam equipment. - Mr. Dainiels' decision to install elec- ti tric machinery has created, keen in terest in naval circles, and some of -ficers think the success of the experi- ai ment would mark as great an advance na in maritime propulsion as did the c: event of the steam turbine. ti Not only is the electric drive cheap- ti er to construct than a -turbine in- et stallation, said the secretary, but it w offers also superior economy in op- ti eration, a reduction in weight and ei utilization of full power in backing. flYDE FORCES BEATS GRACE ie ri Chraleston Club Meetings Show Ma jority Against Mayor. Preliminary to the mayoralty elec tion the 24 Democratic ward clubs of 0 Charleston were reorganized Satur day night, officers, executive commit teemen, delegates and alternates to the city convention being elected. st On the basis of the returns issued p by the city chairman the Hyde forces as have 13 clubs with 3 37 delegates to a the city convention, the Grace forces Gi have eight'clubs with 94 delegates pc and three clubs with 36 delegates are u in protest. The three protested clubs r are both clubs of WVard 9 and Club 2 in of Ward '10. f A large turnout of voters was re ported generally, and. although the se rothing was reported close in a numn- th~ ber of the meetings, good order pre- se railed. go - of PREAChcR RUNS AMUCK a ly fe Paiing to Glet Job He Shoots New be Pastor and Layman. th Be.ause another minister's ser- as ies were chosen in preference to his ru Ely Sullivan, a negro preacher, ran tmuck at Prospect Baptist church, in he western section of Chester coun :y. Sunday and shot down Samuel o5 anders. the deaccn whom he held re- P~ ponsible for his not securing the ap ointent, and the Rev. John Colvin. it~ visiting miinister, both of whom ~ed in a hospita.1 from the effect of :heir wounds:. Sullivan escaped. bu: s being s'archied for dlilige:.tly and de: sill probably be captured. th< for Storm t'aus~es Death in Texas.{ Over twventp:-one norsons have been iuld as a result of a severe storm hich swept thironh Texas durini liel ATTACK LEAHERS rTER TIRADES UPON PRESIDENT FAIL TO CAUSE BREAK CRITICS EXASPERATED litical Correspondents Lose Heari When All of Their. Misshaped Yarns Fail to Cause Break Be. tween Wilson and His Party As sociates. Apparently some of the anti-Wil n political writers on Washingtor d New York papers are becoming asperated over the fact that they n not get a rise out of the admin ration by their bitter and some tat ridiculous attacks, and the re It is that those attacks are gettiing ore wild and more absurd -as the ys go by. Naturally, as a result of this- in eased "craziness" of the stuff they it forth. the public is beginning tC ispect that the long campaign o: use and criticism which has beer med at Mr. Wilson and certair embers of his cabinet is inspired .at is, even that small part of the iblic which has paid any atention t< e stories. It has long been a favorite stun r newspapers which parade undei e Democratic label to offer advice id suggestions to the party and it aders, while the papers in questior e at bottom rankly Republican iey pretend to be Democratic and have the interests of the Demo atic party at heart, when, as a mat r of fact, they are wolves in sheep' othing, and are bent on bringing th< trty to defeat. Until they are foune it. such journals do far more harm the party than do those paper hich openly and frankly oppose it: en and measures. The effort to create a branch be een President Wilson and Secetar ryan, which was a favorite industr; nong such newspapers shortly afte te inauguration of the president, ha ?en allowed to subside to some ex nt, but has recently been renewe, ; some industrious delver int( aint and curious volumes of for Atten lore. It has been brought ou Lat Mr. Wilson, years ago, declare t favor of local option on the liquo estion while Mr. Bryan redentl: nounced that he was for an anti quor man as against a liquor mai >r national committeeman in Iowa i language as plain as it could b tade, Mr. Bryan declared that he di( t believe either party would toucl a the liqu r question in the plat >rms 6f 1916, but-the hostile pres nored that statement and- wen ght ahead and declared that th cretary of state had injected th uor question into the campaign 6 916, and that Mr. Wilson was o: ie -other side of the question fror iat supported by Mr. Bryan. Ye ever a word has been said by Mr Tilson or Mr. Bryan in rebuke o 1s campaigh of falsehood. It is dy Lg of its own weakness. It has been told in big headline iat Secretary Garrison and Secre try Daniels of the war and navy de artments, respectively, are not i: cord on ideas of defense but thes entlemen for the most part leav ones to fade into thin air. Somewhat different has been th rocedure of Messrs. McCoombe -airman of the nationial committee ad M~'r. Tumilty, secretary to th resident. Each of these gentleme: as in the past few days been th bject of direct false statements an :tch has replied in positive terms t le reports. it has been anxiounced that Mr. MC oombs was going to resign as chair tan of the committee: that he wa ding to be 'forced out by interest at satisfied by- his leadership: tha e was to be sued by his wife fo ivorce-that his health has broke' awn and for this reason he mus ie up the office: that Mr. Tumult to supersede Mr. McCombs, an' ave charge of the campaign of Mc ilson. in 1916. All of these statements have bee: asitively and emphatically denied b e two gentlemen in question. The latest effort to create the im ression that there is dissension 1: igh Democratic ranks is the "spe al" from New York to certain anti Iministration newspapers, to the el ct that "the impression is growing iat President Wilson is not to 'i'm t1916 and that "the question is ti put squarely up to him" by friend other po'ssible candidates in a shor me. It is laid out in this deftl: oven yarn that itching candidate e becoming restive under the im ression that-Mr. Wilson has inform I Mr. Bryan th~a. he will not seel ~-election and that this gives Mr ryan the "inside track." No intl ation is givesu as to who will pu e "question squarely up' to" Mr tilson. It may be said with the highes ithority that President Wilsoni t giving any real thought to th tmpaign of 1916. Even the conven on is more than a year away, an4 ie election nearly two years: an tere have been 'few periods in thi orlds history which held greate ings in prospects than the nex ghteen months. The campaign of nineteen-sixteel ill be taken up by the Democratis aders when the proper times ar es: until then they have more im rtant matters in hand. MAY SECURE POTASII SUPPLY ermans Want Guarantee Against It: Use in Making Ammunition. Negotiations with the Unitet aes for the r'emoval of the Germar -ohibition of the exportation of pot h salts have reached a stage wher< successful issue seems probable armany some time ago interruptec tash shipments to the United Statec tii satisfactory guarantees were ar ngedl that they would not be used the manufacture of ammunitiot r the allies. The German proposal, whicl ems to be capable of acceptance h) e United States, is that potash ex irted in exchange for cotton car s be consigned to the departmeni agriculture at Washington under guarantee that it will be used sole* for the purpose of manufacturing rtilizers and that its distribution supervised by inspectors whc >uld see that none of it fell into i hands of powder manufacturers it is charged has been the case of ber imports from Great Britain. Complains of Press. Dr. Bernard Deinburg. former col ial secretary of the German em - has issued a ntatement in New rk. bitterly assailing the press for attitude during the war. Income Tax Comies in Strong. Fuller returns make officials confi t that the income tax will exceed original estimate of $89,000,000 tis year. Raider Wilhelm InTerns. The' erman raider Kronprinz Wil nim hs decided to intern at New REFUSE TO RETIRE I AIKEN DISPENSARY OFFICIALS T BUCKING GOV. MANNING. Town of Aiken Is Considerably Arous ed Over Action-Old Scrap Opened Anew. Refusing to be checked out and to ti turn over the affairs of the Aiken .i dispensary to the newly elected and o: commissioned dispenser, officials of ti the institution in that county who lE have been in control for seveial years f past late Friday afternoon openly de- A fied Gov. Manning, disregarding the action of the gcvernor in issuing the commissions of the dispenser and of- F ficials elected at a meeting of the dis pensary board held Tuesday of last week. - The refusal of the old officials to recognize the orders of the chief exe cutive of the State and their express- a ed intention of holding on to their t< jobs, although their successors have been duly elected and commissioncd, t] has created a serious situation and is g causing much. excitement. Public sentiment is aroused and feeling is running high, as the gen- e eral public, having tired of the agi- d tation that has been going on for months over control of the dispen- S sary, a fight that started during the t] campaign of last summer when the b dispensary forces were active in sup- a port of a defeated candidate for United States senator, had welcomed the settlement of the matter of the l, control of the dispensary, as it was r thought, when Tuesday two new a members of the dispensary board .ad a third, holding over through the , failure of the county delegation to nominate a member to fill the place a of Mr. Rawls of Wagener, who had f been named at former meeting of the delegation and resigned, organiz- e ed and, according to law, elected of L ficials for the several dispensaries 0 ; throughout the county, cutting sal aries and making plans for innova tions aimed at lifting the dispensary d - out of county politics. There is much resentment on the part of the public because, defying t the governor, ignoring his orders and 5 refusing to recognize commissions is - sued by the chief executive to new of- * I ficials, certain old officials have in their attempt to retain control of the 1 - dispensary, opened the agitation t Panew. a I What will be the action of the gov r ernor when he is informed of the de- t I velopment in Aiken is not known- a When the new chairman of the dis- a i pensary board. P. P. Dyches. served notice on the dispenser of No. 1 dis a pensary at Aiken, T. J. Southall, that t I his successor, R. J. Wade, had been C I commissioned by Gov. 'Manning, Mr. t - Wade being present and armed with r s his commission, Mr. Southall refused t t to comply with the demand that he f a turn over his keys to Mr. Wade after he had been checked out. He de- a f clared that he would not step out be i fore May 1, if then. 1 Three members of the county del- j t egation held a. meeting at the offIce. . of Senator Willirams. The other mem- t f ber of the delegation. G. L. Toole, - was not notified of the meeting -at that time, it is stated. A recom s mendation was made for appointment - by the governor of another member - of the county board. Mr. Rawls' ii resignation was handed in more than a three weeks ago and since that time Sthe terms of office of the old dispen sary board :have expired and the new s goard is in charge.( ,Following the refusal of the old ,officials of the Aiken dispensary to arecognize the commissions of their i 'duly appointed succesosrs signed by SGov. Manning, and the open defiance i tegvernor late Friday after y ontetredispensaries in Aiken ~ were clised Saturday morning by the - chief of police, Jesse George, act- ~ - ing on orders from Mayor W. J. ~ s Moseley, a few minutes after -they ~ s opened. t t , Mayor Moseley stated that he ' r wanted to keep the dispensaries in I i his jurisdiction closed tight until the t governor's orders .can be obeyed. ~ y Other dispensaries throughout the ~ i county have remained open, but the t .action of Gov. alanning is being ' awaited with unusual interest, for it C Sis believed that he will act decisively ~ r in the matter during the next week. E -NEiRO INVADES HO0ME Sheriff and Posse Scouring Greenville and Pickenis for Fugitive. SSheriff Hendrix Rector and a posse S Sare scouring the upper end of Green- c yuvile county and also Pickens in c rsearch of a negrd who Saturday night ' Sat 8:30 o'clock entered the home of C - a white woman near Traveler's Rest, - in the upper section of the county, 1 :and after assaulting her, robbed the a .house. The negro called in the af- C -ternoon and talked to the woman aiidr tasked where was her husband-. H~e s .retired to the woods until dark and f then surprised her. SA negro suspect was arrested early t SSunday morning by the sheriff, but r ,he was not the man, according to the t -victim. She said the negro had had I Sscars on both cheeks and no mus- t itache; the man caught had the scars I. Sbut a mustache. He also proved a * -good alibi.a SReports are that the citizens in the upper part of the county are aroused and several have called at the jail to know if the right negro had been caught, pi-omising a visit in case he had. FREIGHT TERMINAL AT MOBILE Southern Railway Constructs Up-to- s date Depot. p Faith in the continued growth of v prosperity of Mobile is shown in the e commodious and conveniently locat- t ed freight terminal which Southern p Railway has just completed and plac ed in service there. The main build- t' ing is a U-shaped structure 142 feet ' byv60 feet with separate inbound and ti outbound warehouses, each 41 0 feet e long and 42 and 32 feet wide. re- b spectively. The building is of brick u on concrete foun'dation and presents a' a very attractive appearance. The warehouses are served by four tracks located between them, and by paved driveways which with the overhang- s1 ing roofs of the warehouses will en- c; able teams to receive and discharge o freight regardless of weather condi tlions. w In connection with the terminals o a new storage yard and a new engine ai yard were provided with facilities S for engine handling and the neces- tl sary buildings for the repair of en- nm gines and cars. The terminal is corn- Ii p3lete in every resp~ect and provides bl for a much greater volume of busi- hi ness than the Southern has ever been ni called on to handle at Mobile. It is ci Ifor the handling of the business of ca Mobile proper and is in addition to in the extensive facilities which South- tl: ern Railway and Mobile and Ohio it Railroad have for the handling of pt export and import business through y( the port of Mobile. ta Manning Commutes Two Sentences. fu Acting upon the recommendations re of the State Board of Pardons Gov. ar Manning has commuted the sentences in of James McGowan, Greenville, mu r- I al der, and Will Goggans. Newberry. th murder in life imnrisnnmcnt. - S. ENCH CAPTURE FOR URKS CLAI ALLIED TRO0l WERE DRIVEN OFF. - -4 Tficial Statements Do Not Agree to Operations in Dardanelles-T< pedo Boat Sunk. - Paris reports officially: "Duri e disembarkation Sunday of the ed forces at the Dardanelles," t ficial communication says, "Fren oops, comprising infantry and ar ry. had been designated particula r operations at Kum Kaler, on t siatic side. Their mission was co etely and successfully fulfilled. "Aided by the cannon of t rench fleet and under the fire of t iemy our troops occupied the ge, and have continued its occul on, despite seven cotinter attacks ght. suported by heavy artillery. "We took five hundred prison id the losses of the enemy app( i have been considerable. "The general disembarkation e allied forces continues uni >od conditions." Constantinople reports official Under the protection of warships 1 1emy attempted to land troops Si ay at four points on the west co E Gallipoli, namely, at the mouth ighinders, on the coast in the d -ict of Aviburn to the west of Ka epe", on the coast of Tekebur d the neighborhood of K1 ale . "The troops of the enemy wh: Lnded at Tekeburun were forced Atreat at the point of the bayon ad were pushed back to the coa art of these forces on Monday ni, ere obliged hastily to return ieir ships. The Turkish attacks H1 points are progressing succe illy. "Simultaneously a fleet approa I the Dardanelles in order to fo 2e straits from the sea, but it v bliged to retreat before our fire "The forces of the enemy wh mnded at Kum Kaleh advanced i er -the protection of warships, 1 espite a heavy bombardment 'fr 11 sides our troops drove them b ) the coast. "The enemy lost 400 men kil nd 200 taken prisoner. Our los rere insignificant. "A party of Moslem soldiers v nded with the French troops on t oint of the coast deserted the Frei nd joirfed our forces. "Before Kabatepeh -we capture4 umber of English and Australia mong them a captain and a lieut nt. "'When the enemy's fleet appron d the straits our fire sank one eir torpedo boats and damaged ther. so severely that it had to wed to Tenedos. The enemy .ot undertake any operations fr be sea against the Dardanelles ollowing day." London reports officially: lied forces under Gen. Qir Ian Hi ton have effected a landing on b ides of the Dardanelles under ex ent conditions. Many prisoners h >een taken and our forces are c inuing their advance." "After days of hard fighting ii ifficult country the troops landed allipoli peninsula are thoroug aaking good their footing with ffective hielp of the navy. 'rench have taken 500 prisone CRUISER GiETS SUPPUIES ermnan Kronprinz Wilhelm Takes Food and Coal. The German auxiliary crui Cronprinz Wilhelm, which has b a the port of 'Newport News,1 wo weeks undergoing repairs ake her seaworthy, early Mon aorning was towe~d froin her' ancd go in James river to the Chesape nd Ohio coal pier, whore she ake on between 3,500 and 4,000 t f bunker coal, it was stated at ter. The Wilhelm also will take bout a 10 days' supply of water rovisions, this being the estima me she would require to make earest German port. The formal uest for final supplies of provisi nd fuel was made several days a ollector of Customs Hamilsons1 d Monday, and after due conside ion was allowed. Installation of boiler tubes thr insider repairs were complet was said, and Capt. Tierichensi e in a position to attempt a d: ast the ernemy warships off the3 inia capes or bive notice that he ires to intern within the next ays, it is stated. The officers row of the Wilhelm insist that t] rill again put to sea to resume tl ommerce destroying voyage. Commander Thierfelder and C actor Hamilton wore in confere: nd it was reported that the collec fficially informed the captain of apidly approaching date for d ion as to internment or depart oro American 'waters. It is understood that on leav ie coal pier, Capt. Thierfelder iake formal request of the port liorities for a river patrol to gu is ship against possible hostile ick. If a guard is request unchas from the Norfolk navy ya robably will be detailed to the di s in the case of the Eitol. DESTROY SUBARINE. ritish Picket Boats Prevent Esca of Secrets to Enemy. The British admiralty nnnouni ficially Tuesday that the Brit ubmrino E-1 5 was destroyed ritish picket boats. The announcement says there: eared to have been danger thati essel would fy11 in the hands of1 aemy in a serviceable condition a ,vo picket boats were sent to1 oint at which the E-1 5 had nround. during the night of the 16 >destroy her. The picket bo: ore sub jected to a heavy gunfire 1 rpedoed the submarine and rend 1 her useless. One of the piel :>ats was sunk but all of the cr as rescued with the loss of one n: ho died of his wounds. Revolvers. A revolver is a nickle-plated si itute for bravery, which has prac L!y driven the original articlec the market. The revolver gives a puny ms ith a 5-S-inch brain and the plu a grasshopper a 100-yard rea id makes him more deadly than oux Indian. There was a time wh is country had no dangerous a als except bears and wolves, a e was safe, except on the frontie it now vast hordes of 1 6-year-c >ys who use their skulls for a dii vel bookcase, roam the streets wi arettes in their face and portal nnon in their hip pockets, prodt g obituaries with the skill and e usiasm of a cholera microbe: whi is at all times possible to meet rsonal enemy who has been chasi: u for a week, and who is rel ntly compelled to defend hims< aen lhe cetches you by filling you ! of lead that your remains w quire eight pall bearers. Revolve e now so generally used in debat domestic' quarrels and repartee sorts that 8.000 Americans die em each year. it is said.--Mitche D. Gazete CHARGE Of CRUELTY Is o BRITISi ASSERT GERMANS TREAT PRISONERS INIIMANLY as 134 ENOLAND IS AROUSED he Kitchener Says He Has Been Forced al ch to Accept Stories of Barbarity- at .11- en -ly Premier Asquith Declares Govern- pa he ment Vil Exact Reparation From G: M- of Guilty Parties at War's End. tr he War Secretary Kitchener told the da he British House of Lords Tuesday that 'i- British prisoners had been insulted, m >a- maltreated and even shot down by of at their German captors. In a state rs ment to the House on this subject he cc ar said in part: tb r I have been forced with reluc- th tance to accept as undisputably trueI o of the maltreatment by the Germin Ler army of British prisoners. The Hague convention has been flagrantly disregaided by German officers. Our he prisoners have been stripped and mal in treated in various ways, and in some ast cases the evidence goes to prove that w .f they have been shot in cod blood. t: is- Our officers, even when w unded, ta- have been wantonly insulted and fre- tr un quently struck." ia am Earl Kitchener said that as a sol- fir , dier he hitherto had always held Ger- di tl man officers in respect, but, "con- er to stant testimony that has come in, not et, only from our own escaped prisoners, B .st. but from French, Russian, Belgian g' h and American sources, has brought it to home to all who have sifted the evi- a at dence that the inhumanity displayed te ss' by the German authorities toward cc British prisoners especially is beyond sb doubt." ree "I think it only fair and right to "as say," added the secretary, "thathe 0 . German hospitals should be excepted fi Ln- in any charges of deliberate inhu- t1 manity. - Dut "Treatment of prisoners in the de- to Lm tention camps in Germany vaiies con- t siderably, according to locality. Our men in most cases suffered from want led of food and have received differential a ses treatment as compared with theii s] ho French and Russian comrades and ei h many acts of violence have been com- " ich plained of. Latterly, however, there does appear to be.a slight improve- k Iment in some respects, due, perhaps, a 'to visits of inspection made from t1 ns, time to time through the American _V en- ambassador. .i ch- "Recently, some of our officers oh have been subjected to solitary con- o of finement in retaliation for the sup- la an posed treatment of Germans in this o be country. The Hague convention does did not admit of confinement of prishners n the of war, except as an indispensible u measure of safety, and I hope bufore tl he long to obtain some evidenee of the I manner in which these officers are 0 th now being trqated by Germany. u oth "Germany has for many years pos- t, el- ed before the civilized worlds as a ave great military nation. She has abun on- dantly proved her military skill and a courage. But surely it was also for her. to set up a standard of military p on honor and conduct which would gain hly the respect, if not the friendship, of the nations. Instead, she has stboped to rhe acts which surely will stain indeliblv 'S-her military history and which would vie with the barbarous savagery of0 the Dervishes of Sudan. - i "I do not think there can be a sol-r onier of any nationality, even amongstb otheGermans themselves, who is not 0 heartily ashamed of the slur which g has been thus brought upon the pro-s ser fession of arms. The usages of war6 en have not only been outraged by the s a., infliction of cruelties on British pris- a to oners, but by a contrivance which lay must have arrested your Lordships' a or- attention, the Germans have in the h the last week intioduced a method of bi vill placing their opponents hors de comn- g ns ~bat by the use of asphyxiatfig and de- t< the terious gases; and they employ these li .o poisonous methods to prevail' when tL ontheir attack, according to rules of md war, might otherwise have failed." if ted In the House of Commons Neil s' the Primrose said that American officials P re- had visited 15 prison camps in Ger- S ons many and that reports had shown ri go. improvement in treatment accorded ii at- British prisoners.n ra- Premier Asquith said: "It. is a f horrible story from every point of nd view--one of blackest spots on even ed, German methods of war. My object ill in rising is to say, with all emphasis ash and all deliberation, that we shall not A 7ir- forget, and we ought not to forget, de- this hoi-rible record of calculated ew cruelty and crime.' ind "We shall at the end of this war ~ ley hold it to be our duty to exact such c: eir reparation against those who are a ,proved to be the guilty agents in this b .o1 matter as it may be possible for us is ace to inflict. I do not think we would c< tor be doing our duty either to those ci the brave, unfortunate men or to the u Cii honor of our country or to the plain ure dictates of humanity if we should be t content with anything less than that." t Lng Lord Landstowne, opposition lead- I w'ill er in the House of Lords, declared e: au- the charges against Germany "of cal- d Lrd ous, inhuman treatment of prisoners tI at- had been proved to the hilt," but that a ed, England had reason to be grateful to ei ird the American government for the .ty, way it had seconded the efforts of its secretary of state to secure redress. S Lord Landstowne said he deplored the fact that the admiralty had been forced to take recourse in reprisals Lpe against captive German submarine crews. The real culprits, he declar-v ed, were the German government,, 'ed "which had given them their ruthless ish commissions.' by Lord Cromer, former British agent O and consul general in Egypt, declar ap- ed there was a strong feeling in the he army against the policy of the ad he miralty regarding the treatment of nd German submarine prisoners. ai he Lord Lucas, president of the board i un of agriculture, said lhe was glad to th announce that the German govern- y its meat had given James W. Gerard. >ut the American ambassador to Ger- 1e er- many permission to visit the prisoner w cet camps, and he and the government W ew hoped that Mr. Gerard also would be la .n, permitted to investigate the treat ment of the thirty-nine British offi- es cers who are being held in prison as d< a reprisal against Great Britain's PC Lb- treatment of German submarine pris M es.~ oney' in Popcorn? b an Furman Smith, seedsman of An k derson, believes a patch of popcorn w: chi would prove profitable to the farmer. b2 a He says that most of that avhich is| til en consumed in the State comes from se 1- other sections and brings approxi-| dE ad mately $4 the hundredweight, which w; rs. is something over $2 the bushel. One th d retailer in Anderson uses about 600 of ne pounds the weeK. The variety which w th Mr. Smith recommends is the white th ile rice. tc- N. L. Willett of Augusta recomn - mends popcorn as one of the best e early combination forages. He says: t a "A rich feeding 'perfect ration' for ig age proposition for June use is one - which is largely desired by all farm dlf cers. It's true we have green foods in so plenty, but they do not carry protein like popcorn forage makes a world of re~ rs stuff and better feeding stuff than fai e anything the writer knows of. The th: of cost per acre to the grower is small. fie' of b eing only usually about $1.25 to mi l. $1.50. according to thee amount tni used."-The State. . WO ALLIES FIGHT TURKS TICIAL REPORTS CONFLICT AS TO RESULTS. rlin and Constantinople Tell of Re pulse-London Ignores Claims and Tells of Success. Constantinople reports in an offi L statement issued Friday that the .ied forces which landed on the Asi- N' c side of the Dardanelles have been tirely cleared away that a large rt of the troops which invaded the lipoli peninsula has been driven , and that several warships and insports of th'e allies have been maged. The statement follows: "No ene 7 forces remain on the Asiatic side the Dardanelles. e "Hostile forces at Gaba Tepe (west t ast of the Gallipoli peninsula, near t e tip) are obstinately maintaining. eir positions, under the protection ships. -_ "From the other parts of Gallipoli e enemy has been driven off. "We have damaged several war- I iys and transports." The following' official statement is issued from the headquarters of e German general staff: "Reports from the Dardanelles pay ibute in the bravery and enthus- 9 sm of the Turkish troops. ' In the N -st battle at Kum Kale the Turks d not fire a shot but repulsed the emy with the bayonet. "Forty warships bombarded Seddul thr. While this battle was in pro- ( -ess the Turks captured a large antity of -rifles an4 ammunition. I t Gallipoli the Turks fought unin- 1 rruptedly for two days against 'the >nstant attack of the enemy without Lowing fatigue." London reports: Serious damage > the Turkish fortification resulted om the bombardment of the allied eet which was carried out simul neously -with the landing of troops . the Dardanelles Monday, according The Chronicle's correspondent, ho thus describes the operations: "The bombardment grew terrific )out midday. British and French ips were clearly visible from the itrance to the straits. The largest arships lay at the entrance near the uropean side with others in Eren eut bay, firing heavily on Kalid ahr and the mountains beyond.- In Le distance several small ships di ted the fire of the large units on te Chanak and Kalid Bahr forts. "Away to the left-stretched the line transports which effected landings te in. the afternoon on the coasts pposite and on the peninsula. "The effect of the naval bombard ent evidently was severe. Toil col mns of smoke and fire were seen on ie heights above Seddul Bahr, Ke ez Point and Chanak. By three. clock the Seddul Bard fort seemed tterly knocked to pieces and the bat eships moved further in. The Turks Lade little attempt 'to reply to the 'arships. "Sohtrly after six o'clock the Turks rovided a diversion at Cape Helles, 'here the allies had landed a bat ry early in the morning. A Turk h battery came into sight, moving tto position to attack this. landing )rce, but before. the Turks, could pen fire one of the warships turned s attention to them and found the nge at the first shot, burying the~ attery in a cloud of dust. The .sec ad sh 11 burst in the midst of the unners. Nevertheless the Turks ;ood by their guns and managed -to re three- ineffective shots before en.successive bombs dropped by irships wiped them out. "A fierce artillery duel took- place. seven o'clock between forces -which ad landed' and Turks posted on the eights beyond Eski Hisarlik. A reat British battleship came in close >shore to assist the batteries of the nding force and silenced those of e Turks. "The net result of lhe operations' that the allies are in complete pos ~ssion of the tip of the Gallipoli eninsula and the flat shores of -via bay, . ten miles from the nar )WS' on the opposite side of the pen sula. Good progress also had been ade towards .the reduction of the >rts in the narrows." BOMBS ARE DROPPED irship or Aeroplane Flies Over Eng lish City Thursday Night. Cambridge, England, reports: The aily News says that an enemy air *aft appeared over Ipswich shortly ?ter midnight and dropped a num sr of bombs, setting several build Lgs afire. Ipswich' is in Suffolk unty and is a town of considerable >mmercal importance. It has a pop lation of 75,000. Ipswich, England, reports: A hos 1 aircraft-whether a Zeppelin or i aeroplane is not known-raided swich early Friday morning. Sov 'al bombs were dropped. An incen ary bomb struck a house, pierced e roof and fell into the bedroom or little girl. The child was uninjur The flames spread to two adjoin g houses which were almost de royed. The aircraft then passed on to 'hitton, where it also dropped ex osives. So far as known nobody as injured. [W PERSONS DIE IN STORM hers Missing as Result of Violent Windstorm Thursday. Two persons are known to be dead .d it was feared other lives were lost a violent windstorm which Thurs y night reached a velocity of near one hundred miles an hour. The wireless station on the Faral ne Islands reports that a launch th five men disappeared to the lee ird of the islands and wreckage ter was washed ashore. Property damage in this vicinity is timated at two hundred thousand lars and the damage at other coast ints is known to be considerable. On Monterey Bay fifty-four small ats were piled up on the beach. The Frankly Jealous Editor. The new electric sign in the front ndow of the Farmer's National nk is attracting considerable atten-t >n. The sign is equipped with a ries of letters so that any wordingt sired may be used. Last week it I. 1s saying. "Taxes now due, pay att is bank." We are thinking some I borrowing it and putting in thes >rds. "Subscription now due, pay att is omce."--Aurelif. Iowa. Sentinel. Germans Flee From Russians. p Pet rogra'd reports that several rLt ,king b'>dies of Germans were re eed ne-.r Kanlwarya with such avy l-s'es that therv broke and fled. V ashington, P. C'.--Few people a lizO how mnany women hire out on C ns for field labor. Tn this country I re are a million and a half women d workers. more than all the wo n dressm'akers, milliners, women lors. liat. csap, collar, cuff and shirt e iMAN FLEET OUT ARIS ANNOUNCES BOMBARIW MENT OF BELGIAN COAST LONDON IS INTERESTED 'ineteen Shells of Large Calibre are Thrown Into Town on Coast-Air men Tisiy, English East Coast on Brief Visnt to Two Towns-Revival of Activity in Poland. London reports Friday: The east oast of England has been subjected a an aerial attack accompanied by he infliction of material damage, but rithout casualties. Differences of pinion exist as to the type of air iachine used by the Germans, but 2ost people agree it was a Zeppelin. t arrived in the small hours of the aorning and spent a brief time over pswich and Bury St. Edmunds. Paris reports the presence of a erman fleet off the coast of Bel ,um and the shelling of Dunkirk rith the loss of twenty lives. Details re awaited anxiously in England. It is a fact, however, that the air aid, the Dardanelles battle and the erman sea attack on Belgium were ompelled to forego the limelight in avor of the. question of- liquor regu ation in Great Britain and the fact hat the government for the first ime since the beginning of the war ias had to meet a division of the louse of Commons. T.he attitude of he House probably reflects the opin on of the country, which is sharply livided upon the question of regulat ng consumption of alcoholic bever Lges. - Even' the Church - of England, rhich made -its first official pro iouncement at the York convocation, esolved to view with uneasiness any Lcton suggesting total.prohibition. But the strongest opposition comes prom Ireland. Some idea of the strength of this opposition to the goV rnment can be seen. Official quarters still remain reti ent concerning the military opera ions on the Dardanelles, but London apers contained a number of special ispatekes from'that region in which he claims 'are made that the allies re steadily advancing under cover of he.fire-of the fleet, but not without meeting an opposition which is cau* [ng th m heavy losses. British troops are reported in occupation of the nar rw tongue-of the peninsula north of Uiallipoli.- .Athens dispatches predict ed that this campaign.will last a long time, as the Turks occupy exception m-y well prepared positions. The fight in the west still centers around Steenstraate. .,-This -position, occupied by-the Germans, forms an irritating' wedge in the allied line. There: has been some revival of ac tivity in Russian Poland; where im provement in weather conditions has led the Germans to make anumber-of isolated attacks. These, however,-ac cording to 'Petrograd advices, have been repulsed. -In the Carpthians and Bukowina, preparations evidently are under -way - for asesumption -of operations on a laige scale, but as yet there has been no:.pronodnced chnange in the relative positions of the contending forces.' An official statement from Paris sys German warships' have .appeared ofthe Belgian coast and -have bom baded Dunkirk.. Trwenty persons were killed. ' . ' . - The~ pi-esence of the German high'" seas 'fleet in the N6rth Sea has been reported several times recently and an official statement issued in Berlin a few days ago: spoke of several ex peditions of this kind, made without encountering the British fleet. The captain of a -Swedish steamer report ed that ~on crossing the North Sea a few days ago he encountered a large number of German warships. Paris reports~ - German warships . have been seen off the Belgian coast, - according to an official statement given out in Paris Friday. Nineteen large shells have fallen on Dunkirk. The official~ notice reads: "German warships. have been re ported at large off the coast of Bcl gium. "Dunkirk received nineteen shells of large calibre.. Twenty persons were killed and forty-five wounded. Some houses were destroyed." It will be recalled that there have been several dispatches in the last week indicating . that German war ships were at large in the North Sea. evidently having evaded the British men-of-war which for many months have been doing patrol duty in front f the German naval base on the east srn side of the North Sea. The latest report along that line was brought in by Captain Scott, of Swedish steamer, who declared he had seen in the Nortii Sea a German Cleet of sixty-eight vessels of all class ss. The officer did not say where or when tie ships had been sig~.ed; but ie inference was that it was within i week. Dunkirk is on the northern coast >f France within a few miles of the Belgian frontier. It is at the north-. arn entrance of the English channel, east of Dover anid west of Ostend. There have been four engagements* >f importance in the North Sea since :he beginning of the war. The first aas the battle of Helgoland, late in August, in which a British fleet sent tour German warships to the bottom. [n October four German destroyers - vere sunk in an engagement off the , Dutch coast On December 16 ae serman cruiser squadron raided the. last coast of England, bombarding carborough and the Hartlepools. On [anuary 24 a British squadron Inter- ~ epted a German squadron while it vas crossing the North Sea to mn nother raid and sank the German :ruser Blucher. Patmont Again. Mrs. Louis R. Patmont, wife of 'Rev." Patmont, who was arrested n Newark, N. J., last week charged ith setting fire to a church, has ac ording to the News of that city, con essed to the following points: That 'atmont is not a minister: that he ras not kidnapped and confined in a. eserted building near Danville, Ill.; hat he confessed to her that he set ire to their Newton street home; hat it was her money that educated im; that he told her be paid $10 for he right to use "Reverend" and that .e told her never to write him unless he could send him money. She said hat he had never been persecuted by. ny "mysterious," "invisible" or oth r interests and that he dearly loved ublicity of any sort.-N. N. B. Iilson to Review 6t War 1'essels. President Wilson will review the tlantic fleet in New York harbor lay 27. Four divisions of battleships nd other vessels making up a total rf ;5 ships will be in the line of ;rade. Grapple With Grog Question. The British House of Coinmons is nsiderinlg a double tax upon spirits ur,.g the course of the war.