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VOL. XX\TIII. MIAN-NING,. S. C., WEDXNESDA.Y, JULY 14, 1915. NOTE MAUL PUBLIV AMERICANS WILL BE SAFE ON B NEUTRAL SHIPS IiRAVE ISSUE IS OIEATED ( c) German Reply Proposes Restricted ti -w Modus Vivendi and Offers Guaran- s( U tees With Reservations-Omits tl Reference to Reparation for Loss to ti of iAfe on Lusitania, 0 "Berlin, July S. bi "The undersigned has the honor to m make the following reply to his en- J, cellency, Ambassador Gerard, to the w note of the 10th ultimo re the imi- a, pairment of American interesto by at the German submarine war. so "The imperial government learned a 'with satisfaction from the note how tc earnestly the government of the Unit ed States is concerned in seeing the fc principles of humanity realized in the ti present war. Also this appeal finds tb ready echo in Germany and the im- w perial government is quite willing to Of permit its statements and decisions cc in the present case to be governed by w the principles of humanity Just as it Pe has done always. "The imperial government wel- ct comed with gratitude when the American government in the note of gr May 15 Itself recalled that Germany U) always had permitted itself to be c4 governed by the principles of pro- 'H gress and humanity in dealing with th the law of maritime war. Since the time when Frederick the Great nego- st tiated with John Adams, Benjamin in Franklin and Thomas Jefferson the to treaty of friendshio and commerce of hi September 8, 1785, between Prussia . and the Republic of the West, Ger- eO man and American statesmen have, ev in fact, always stood together in the to struggle for the freedom of peace- W able trade. In the international pro- th ceedint'which since have been con- da ducted for the regulation of the laws de of maritime war Germany and Ameri ca have jointly advocated progressive principles, especially the abolition of th the right of cauture at sea and the Do protection of the interests of neu- do trals- D< "Even at the beginning of the pres- Do ent war the German government 9 mediately declared its willingness, in th response to proposals of the Ameri- o can government, to ratify the decla- Lo ration of London and thereby subject L itself in the use of its naval forces to w all the restrictions provided therein in favor of neutrals. Germany like- da wise has been always tenacious of the principle that war should be conduct- tr ed against the armed and organized tr( forces of an enemy country but that ev the enemy civilian population must MI be spared as far as -Dossible from the Ki measures of war. The Imperial gov ernment cherishes the definite hope that some way will be found, when F1 -peace is concluded, or perhaps ear lier, to regulate the law .of maritime war in a manner guaranteeing the freedom of the seas, and will wel come it with gratitude and satisfac- B - tlon if it can work hand in hand with% B1 the American government on that oc easion. "If in the present war the princi ples which should be the ideal of the future have been traversed more and more, the longer its duration, the alt German government has no guilt th< therein It is known to the Ameri- lat can government how Germany's ad- ab versaies, b'y completely paralyzing tal peaceable traffic between Germany Ge and neutral countries, have aimed th4 from the very b..ginning and with in.. se' creasing lack of consideration at the -dr< destruction not so much of the armed forces as the life of the German na- "V tion, repudiating in doing so all the cli rules of international law and disre- tw garding all rights of neutrals. s13 "On November ~5, 1914. England WC declared the North sea a war area eni and by planting poorly anchored ed *mines and by the stoppage and cap- Wc ture of vessels made passage ex- tul tremely dangerous and difficult for mi neutral shipping, so (by) that ac- gu tually blockading neutral coasts and mi ports contrary to all international law. Long before the beginning of the submarine war England practically isti intercepted legitimate neutral navi- ha gation to Germany also. Thus Ge--I many was driven to a submarine war jre< on trade. On Nove'mber 14, 1914, cel the English premier declared in the Fe House of Commons that it was one bu of England's principle tasks to pre- ad vent food for the German population wl from reaching Germany via neutral pr ports. Since March 1 England has sid been taking from neutral ships with- by out further formalty all merchandise proceeding to Germany, as well as CA all merchandise coming from Ger many, even when neutral property. Just as it was also with the Boers. the German people~ is now to be given the choice of perishing fram starva tion with its women and children or Po of relinquishing its independence. "While our enemies thus loudly (Continued on last page.) AUSTRIANS LOSE 15,000 MEN IN THEIR EAGER AD)VANCE ;" Russians Turn on rncovered Flank Ce Dr of Attacking Army and are di! Turning it Back' th. German military activities, while la1 lessening in Gelicia and Southern Po- be land, apparently are in full swing lex again along the front west and north west of Warsaw. Petrograd reports he attacks on the Russian positions at CO several points in the latter section. tra Heavy losses were inflicted on the IS Germans in an assault near Jednoro- ofi jetz, the Russians say, but near Boli mow, almost directly west of War saw, a German attack resulted in the storming of first line Russian trench- ha es. In some of these the Germans to retained a foothold. f Petrograd declares that the blow sh dealt the Austrians south of Lublin. lo in South Poland, is being followed up, the Teutonic forces there being in retreat with the Russians in pur suit. A Petrograd correspondent de- r scribes the check to the Austrians as resulting from a tactical blunder bys Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, who, in g a too swift advance, left his army's C4 left wing uncovered. He says that cost the Austrians 15,000 men. A brief statement from Rome says there are no important changes along the Austre-Italiani battle line. ye but that the "action on the various fr OW OVER MUNITIONS; ROUSES ENGLISH PEOPLE ritish Cabinet Faces Throes of Ex tensive Discussions in Pub lic Meeting. London reports Friday that the re ,nt announcement of David Lloyd eorge, the minister of munitions, garding Viscount Haldane, ex-lord iancellor and secretary of war, and te investigations of the supply of ar munitions has started a political insation of the first order in the ited Kingdom. It is being made e most of by the Northcliffe press prevent what is declared to be in igue to get Lord Haldane back into .e cabinet. Premier Asquith's remarkable tri ite to Viscount Haldane, read at a eeting of the National Liberal club, tly 5, was regarded as paving the &y -for some attempt of that kind; id although most people hold it in tvisable during the war to have per nal questions threshed out publicly. small body of politicians is trying force a parliamentary discussion. Sir Henry Daiziel, liberal member r Kirkcaldy Burghs, has given no :e he will ask Premier Asquith in .e House of Commons Monday bether Lord Haldane's disclosures the proceedings of a confidential mmittee of the cabinet were made .th the premier's authority. It ap ars now that the government will rdly be able to avoid a public dis ssion. Premier Asquith will be asked to ant one day for a full discussion of e causes responsible for the defi mncy of munitions' So far Lord adane has been silent regarding e controversy. The Daily Mail Friday morning rted a campaign in favor of form ; what it calls a "people's commit 3' composed of business men of ;h reputation who never have been anected with parliament or party rnalism, with powers to call for idence and report to parliament as "what servants of the state, by lose negligence or incompetence a fate of the empire has been en agered, are still holding office un r the government." The Daily, Chronicle says: "In some quarters it is rumored it if Major General Stanley B von nop, ,master general of ordnance, es not resign, David Lloyd-George 11; and that if Major General von pon goes, Lord Kitchener also will The Daily ,News declares that more in two hundred Liberal members parliament have signed a tribue to rd Haldane for his past services, tich will be presented to him next ek, and adds: "The secret history of the Quon m Munitions committee is obvious not the proper subject of a con versy. It is worthy of note, how r, that the chairman of the com ttee was neither Lord Haldane n6r -. Lloyd-George, but was Lord tchener." ENCH CLAIM PROGRESS; . FORCE THE GERMANS BACK ody Fighting Occurs From the River Aisne to the Vos ges Region. anguinary clashes have occurred >ng the western battle line from t SAisne to the Vosges, and In the ter region the French claim a not-c .e success. They report having re-t :en the trenches captured by the rmans on June 22 and continued< dir advance until they had gained< en hundred yards along a six-hun- t id-yard front.r he French official report says: 1 te capture-I nineteen officers, in ding one battalion commander,r y doctors and seven hundred and ty-seven men, none of whom was unded, belonging to seven differ ;battalions. Our ambulances pick-r up one officer and thirty-two 1 unded German soldiers. We cap ed also one cannon of thirty-seven t limetres calibre; two machine , as, several bomb throwers andt ch ammunition." rhe German statements admits Lt hill top trenches here were de oyed by French artillery fire and I to be evacuated. rhe French also claim they have :aptured a part of the trenches re tly taken by the Germans between y-en-Haye and Le Pretre forest, tconcede the German claim to an vance in the same neighborhood, ere heavy fighting has been In >gress for several days. Both es report the capture of prisoners the hundred In these operations. BLES GERMAN NOTE; IS NOT YET MADE PUBLIC sitions of Reply Have Been Receiv. ed at Washington But Infor mation is Withheld. Berin, via London Griday: Ger ny's reply to the American note submarine warfare was delivered James W. Gerard, the American bassador late Thursday night. The note now is bei,.g translated. rtain paragraphs embodying its ncipal features already have been patched to Washington, but the1 al sections probably will not be on Swire for transmission before a e hour Friday afternoon. This is 3ause the note is of considerable .gth. rhe text of tie note will be with Id meanwvhile from the ncwspaper respondents, and permission for nsmission of summaries of it also withheld. This is done to give the icial .version the right of way. French ('raiser Bombards Town. The French cruiser Jeanne D'Arc s again oombarded the Turkish en of Alexandrette. The German .g over the German consuiate was ot down after the Turks refused to er it. Turks Lose Ammunition. Sebastopol, Russia, Friday.-A ter ic explosion occurring on the out irts of Constantinople destroyed a, eat quantity of Tu;rkish munitions war and threw the inhabitants of mstantinople into panic. Carranza Has a ('ensorship. Gen. Carranza has established a ry rigorous eensorship over news ym Paredon. Mexico. where he re ENLAND TO OBJECT1 NEUTRALITY LAWS MAY CAUSE' PROTEST OF BRITAIN INDICT FIVE ENGLISHMAN Department of Justice to Try Men In San Francisco Accused of Enlisting Recruits for the British Army Germans Violated Neutrality and t Montenegrins are Arrested in New York. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British I ambassador, fcrmally applied to the I state department Thursday for a def- t inition of the American government's 1 view as to whether English patriotic c societies or other unofficial agencies violate neutrality laws in sending c British subjects from the United e States to volunteer in the British army. Conferences between the depart ment of state and justice will be held e before an answer is given. A serious a diplomatic controversy may develop. p The practice of returning volunteers t to England has prevailed since the i] beginning of the European war, and b it is said the British government is t prepared to register an emphatic pro- t test If the United States takes the f, position that it Is illegal. I The return of indictments at San b Francisco against five persons charg ed with enlisting recruits for the d British army is understood to have precipitated the ambassador's action. According to the British contention t is unjustly discriminatory to in- e erfere with the transportation of a olunteers who are not a-tually en isted on American soil when no ob lection has been made to notifications >y consuls to reservists of countries h n the United States. In this connec- t ion emphasis is laid on the fact that wreat Britain has no reservists in ti kmerica such as other continental d owers. Department of justice officials ex lained that they have no under tanding with the state department in egard to recruiting. They pointed >ut, however, that the criminal code lainly prohibits the enlistment of 'any person" in the United States to C ght against the people of a friendly ation. The efforts of the department, it vas declared, have not been directed Lgainst volunteers returning to their wn country to fight, but against or anized efforts to irduce such return. L high official said this was demon- a trated when after the recent arrest a f representatives of the Montenegrin st overnment for violating the law the c, 45 men they had-recruited for the e ontenegrin army were allowed to P proceed. - A lull in ie neutrality campaign ti f the department of justice is ex- t iected to follow recent developments a -the return of indictments in San a 'rancisco In connection with enlist ents for the British army and the elivering of supplies to German b rarships, and the Indictment in Chi ago against the Montenegrin offi- a :ials. Department agents are said to e watching developments in New m 'rk that may lead to further arrests ti i connection with British enlist- SI ents, but the case against the Mon emegrins is believed to be complete. et Although little information con- ti erning the San Francisco prosecu- Ml ons had -reached Washington, it was ei id that the case of the men accused ri f supplying the German ships is one se f the most interesting developed by T] e government agents in many a onths. The indictments were asked ei ecase of alleged violation of the iti eutrality laws by the steamship Sac- Si mento, formerly of the Hamburg- be merican line. g Late last fall the Sacramento clear- di 4 from San Francisco for Valpa aso, and, according to the depart ent's evidence, while at sea turned Uj ver most of her cargo of supplies to e German squadron of warships rhich subsequently was destroyed off e Falkan Islands by a British fleet. Reports to Washlagton say that a rhen the Sacramento sailed from San rancisco she had aboard as a "stow way" an officer of the German navy .nd a naval reserver, and that when e steamed a few miles outsidc the olden Gate this man appeared on d ek, virtually took charge of the 'essel and got into communication byb rireless with the German fleet. Ar- t lying at Valparaiso, the Sacramento aid up for the war. ERCHANT SIIIPS ARMED , FOR TifEIR OWN DEFENCE ti ritish Ships, So Armed, Have Been p Trading Regularly Since t5 the War Began. s1 "Merchant vessels of a belligerent di iower are entitled by established and T ninterrupted usage of the sea to ti arry and use armament in self-de- vt ase," said Lord Robert Cecil, par- tI iamentary under-secretary for for- til ign affairs, in reply to a question put y Commander Carlyon W. Bellairs the house of commons Thursday. "Several neutral gover-nments," ord Cecil said, "were communicated i'th in this matter a't the outbreak if the war and .several more have en approached since at circum tances suggested. The principle of erchant ships carrying arms for elf-defense have been generally rec- m ignized and British ships so armed A iave been trading regularly. with the U2 aious countries since an early stage .fil if the war." P Comm~nder Bellairs' question was a rhether. in view of the unusual char- A cter of the German attacks on uin-t trmed merchant vessels, the govern nent would ask all neutral govern ents to allow merchant ships, arm- 0' d for purpose of defense only, to P rade with their ports in srite of the fc act that each carried a gun. e< Germany Annexes Territory. al The German government has pro laied the annexation of the Rus sian territory which has been con luered and held around the north iemn river. Gen. von Goessler has ai een appointed civil governor of the IU ew province. 0 Tragedy Over Whiskey. Following a dispute over whiskey aving been sold to his son, Henry E 3riffin, of V'aldosta, Ga.. was killed 11 venesayr bv Bert HeTndermn. h: UL uERMANS IN S. W. AFRICA i SURRENDER TO GEN. BOTHA German Forces Lay Down Their Arms in Capitulation to Union's Commander. Pretoria. South Africa, reports Fri lay, via London: General Botha, a t, -ommander of the Union of South s tfrica, has accepted the surrender of a tl German military forces in Ger- 1 nan Southwest Africa. After suppressing the rebellion gainst British authority in the s Inion of South Africa, General Botha f ook command of British operations a gainst German Southwest Africa t: .nd headed an invasion of that ter- h itory late in February. h He captured Olymbingue .May 4, 1 he important railway junction of 9 Caribib May 6 and Wind Hoek, capi- g al of the German territory, May 13. fartial law was proclaimed through- 11 ut the conquered territory. 0 German Southwest Africa, located t n the west coast of the continent, xtends from the Orange river to the d unenen river, about nine hundred P iiles. It lies between Portugese West a frica and Cape Colony, extending d astward to the British sphere. Its sl rea is 322,-.- square miles, and its t] opulation is 79,556, chiefly Hotten- h Ats and Bushmen. The population il 1 1913 was fourteen thousand, eight h undrtd and sixteen, of whom twelve liousand, two hundred and ninety- a wo were Germans. The military L rce, including police, is given in the a test reports as two thousand, nine i undred and ninety-two. The Germans surrendered uncon- s itionally following the issuance of It en. Botha's ultimatum, which ex- a ired at five o'clock Thursday even ig. With the exception of the nec sary army of occupation, the citizen rmy will be brought home as quick r as possible. Reports from London recently . ave stated that the surrender of all ti ie German forces was expected soon. ritish military experts have con- in mded that General Botha has con acted a masterly campaign. pi UGGEST THAT AMERICA z TAKE ACTION IN MEXICO d al onsular Advices State That Food Supplies are Inadequate and Famine is Threatened. Urgent suggestions that the Unit I States wait no longer than another .G onth before taking some decisive :tion to restore law and order in exico have been forwarded to the ate department by several Ameri Ln consular officers in the northerv Lrt of the republic. cc Threatened famine and the inabil- ra 7 of the contending military fac- to Dns to restore peace and establish ti4 government that could be recogniz- fo I by the United States are dwelt sh )on by the consular officers., Con- - tions more.serious than even trou-. 0( ed Mexico has seen before are pre- 0( cted unless the United States lends hand quickly. oC Recognition of some element which A] ay set up a strong government with .e moral support of the UnitP O ates is the slution usually urged. en Reports of food shortaga~ continu- T to reach the state department and e Red Cross from various parts of 5C exico. One dispatch from north stern Mexico stated that with the ilway cut again supplies in that etion would la?st only a few days. ie message added: "It will be but 8 few weeks before the entire north ,t of Mexico will be dependent on Snorthern neighbor, the United n ates, for the lives of all non-corn tants. 'They are actually in dan r of starvation." Children had p ed in large number i, it was said. ERMANY hAS OBJECTED TO th AMERICAN ADVERTISEMENT * eveland Company Advertises Ma- ex th chine for Sale Which Makes m Poisoned Shells. The German f'oreign office Thurs- T y formally called the attention of mes W. Gerard, the American am Lssador to Germany, to the adver ement of the Cleveland Automatic achine company in the American Bi achinist of May 6 on poisoned ells, pointing out that such shells -e a contravention of The Hague nvention. The department of commerce at ~ashington announced on July 2 ea at an investigation had showed tu at the Cleveland concern, which t'w blished the advertisement relative Ri the manufacture of poisonous in ells, did not manufacture explo- tr; ves of any kind, but. merely made K1 achines capable of use in the pro- V iction of shells and ammunition. gr a department held that no interna nal violation of neutrality was in- nc lved and that the confusion was ce .e result of g~fortunate wording of ar .e advertisement. th AUSTRIA OFFERS APOLOGlY si da iper Article Attacking Wilson Dis- e claimed-Official Reprimanded. tr Vienna, via London, Friday.-For- tu al apology has been made by the tri istro-Hungarian government to the iited States Minister Frederick Pen ald because of an abusive article inted in the Ueues Wiener Tagblatt tacking President Wilson and the -Bi merican people in connection with e second note to Germany on sub arne warfare. As a rigid censorship is exercised 10 .er Austrian papers, Absao enfield had informally asked the ex 'reign office if the article represent- --te Ithe opinion of the Austrian gov- w nment. The result was an apology is d a sharp reprimand for the efficial nsor. av French Destroyers Active. e French destroyers have been oper- ju ing on the Asia Minor coast, sink- pr g Turkish vessels and inflicting wl her damage. es Tornado Hits Western Town. A tornado struck St. Charles, Mo., ~ednesday afternoon but the loss of ne te is unknown as all communication isl isbehn AmatromA A1 LLIED AVIATORS DROP FATAL STEEL ARROWS ed Sharply Buries Itself ed Sharply Burier Itself in the Flesh. The arrows which allied aviators re using over the battlefields are in wo parts, a head and short flanged aft. The head measures about two nd a quarter inches, and the total mngth of the arrow is four and a half iches Both the head and the shaft are of :eel, the flange being formed of two at pieces of metal set at right agles, the ends of the four flanges ius produced being set into. the steel ead. The diametar of "the whole ead is about five-sixteenths of an tch' tapering to a fine point and the hole weight is about twenty-one rams. A German doctor gave the follow tg description of the use and effect the allies' arrows at a meeting of ie Stuttgart medical society. Three companies of German sol ers were resting when two. aero lanes circled o.verhead at a height of t )out twelve thousand metres -Sud- I nly one of thes soldiers felt a sharp t .bbing pain in his right foot, and t ought one of his fellow soldiers i d inadvertently pricked it; but the usion was soon dispe:led when he I mard cries of pain all about him.. The horses, too, became restive 1 id two were found to be wounded. oking at his foot the soldier found i iron arrow had penetrated.it. He imediately plucked it out. About teen others had been hit and the urce of the arrows being discover the men took cover under wagons. e was subsequently estimated that 1 sout fifty arrows had been discharg- t [ and every third arrow had taken .3 feet. 11 The importance of the weapons, J Lrticularly when dropped on resting b ldiers is therefore considerable and t, .e fact ..that about half the casual- s 3s consisted of wounds in the lower nbs shows how vulnerable the rest- s g soldier is to arrows from above. f, Evidently the arrows scatter con- t: erably for in one case four com- t' ,nies were simultaneously hit. One a se-was mentioned of an arrow pass- a g through the scalp without injur g the skull, but another caused v ath by entering the left temple tl d passing out again by the right. ti a (PORTS FOR WAR USES . ,CAUSES BId TRADE JUMP , P -owing Call for Barbed Wire, Steel p Rods, Horse Shoes and Metal p V Working Machinery. .t The increase in exports that are c1 averted into battlefield supplies is b pidly growing larger. In addition - a demand for foodstuffs and muni- o mns of war, there is a growing cah c r barmed wire, steel rods, horse oes and metal working machinery. o Wire exports.jumped from.27,77.5,- A 0 pounds in May, 1914, to 83,500, 0 pounds in May, 1915. G Horseshoes increased from 250,- & 0 in April, 1914, to 4,000,000 in n ril, 1915. P Wire rods increased from 98,000,- tI 0 pounds for the eleven mbnths w ding May, 1914, to 180,000,000 b unds for the same months in 1915 n< e Increase In other rods in May J3 is from 22,750,000 pounds to 83, 0,000 this year. These rods are w ed in making shrapnel-.t Metal working machinery increas- w from $1,235,000 worth In May, T~ 14, to $3,762,000 in -May,. 1915.. is ells are 'made on these' machines. pl The demand for saddies and har- o, s is growing rapidly. The exports in r the ~eleven months ending May. T 14, as compared with the same h iod of 1915, was $722,060 against h 6,000. The United States imported much >re cheese than she exported before t s war commenced, -but American te eese is in great demand abroad w. Export figurcs for May of 1914 d May of 1915 are 1,423 pounds a ainst 12,068,000. -s In May, 1914, the United Statesd ported 1,300 horses: May, 1915, e; number increased to 33,500, anda ales 273 against 13,600. IUTOIC RUSli IS hALTED EXCEPT IN ONE QUARTER itish Press for the First Time in Weeks Take Cheerful View of the Situatlon. The Austro-German rush in the it appears to be losing its momen i, except in certain sections~ be- ti een the .Vistula and the Bug. The P ssians have braced and are hold- ri ; at most points, although the Aus- 01 ans claim progress northeast of B: -asnik, and also along the river eprz in the neighborhood of Tarno- cc ad. m This-is a critical sector so far as a ri rthward blow at Warsaw is con. It ned, but it is evident the Russians pa stiffening their resistance after N air long retreat. The Britisti press, el the first time in weeks, takes a as re cheerful view of the eastern i uation. e It is noteworthy that Berlin Tues- T y claims only a gain on the north- D Poland front, leaving the south stern field entirely to the Aus- ti ans, who emphasize that an ad- si ece on the centre between the Vis- se a and the Bug was made by "Aus- D ans." ti MDER FACTORY DESTROYED ; g Mills in England Blown up Fri day by Terrific Explosion- st Curtis' big powder mills at Houns- ~ v, Middlesex, England, virtuallyg re destroyed Friday by a series of tl plosions which occurred shortly af- ti a hundred men had commenced irk. No statement of the casualtiesb yet available. The explosion was heard ten miles 'ay. It was stated at the powder 1s that only one pers an was kill- C ,but that many others were in- hi red by flying debris A smaller V\ eliminary explosion gave a warning ~ iich enabled most of the workers to w~ Russians Win in Caucasus. In the Caucasus the Russians Wed- t1: sday report having checked a Turk- al attempt at an offensive west of1 S ilavat. ' NOTE TO COME SOON VON JAGOW SAYS IT MAY BE DISPATCIIED ANY TIME SME FORM AS DRAFTED Klinister Declines to Comment Upon it in Advance But Tells of Diffi culties Under Which Negotiations Have Been Conducted-England Has Throttled Communication. Berlin, via London: The German -eply to the American note regarding ,he Lusitania and submarine warfare, Lcording to information obtained in 3erlin, probably will be delivered on saturday, July 10. The general tenor and motive of he government behind these pro >osals may be communicated confi lentially to the leading representa ives of the press Friday, but it is inderstood that publication of the ext in Berlin will be deferred until he afternoon of the day on which it s presented at Washington. James W. Gerard, American am >assador in Berlin, conferred with )r. Alfred Zimmermann, the German nder-secretary of foreign affairs, re arding the German reply to the Lmerican ndte on submarine warfare. he conference was for a further dis ussion of the German tentative pro osals. The fact that the American gov rnment will not enter into prelimi ary negotiations respecting the rthcoming note was communicated hursday to Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, nder-secretary of foreign affairs, by ames W. Gerard, the American am assador. The note will go forward a Washington in approximately the ame form as drafted. The outlines of this draft were ubmitted to Ambassador -Gerard and Drwarded to the state department, in he expectation by German officials bat the United States would suggest ny changes that might be deemed dvisable. Although, according to some unof cial dispatches from Washington, e note is considered "unsatisfac ry," it is believed t'at it is far less D that when the exchange began, nd it is hoped it will lay the basis )r continuing the negotiations. The German minister of foreign af Lirs, Gcttlieb von Jagow, has Inform I the Associated Press that the dis atch of the-note Is immediately im ending. A few changes, he 'said, erhaps would be necessary, after hich the reply would be delivered the American ambassador. Herr von Jagow asked to be ex ised from commenting in advance, ut discussed the- difficulties under hich the note had been conducted, wing to the slowness and the in ympleteness of communications and the obstruction to the free exchange r news between the German and merican press and public." He called attention to the fact that* ermany hid proposed to the United tates the direct cable between Ger any and the United States be re mired, the former country to bear ke expense, but that Great Britain, hich had had the cable cut at the *gning of the war, had taken no tice of the pr'oposals. Herr von gow then added: "Great Britain apparently does not ant the people of the neutral coun ies to be informed in an Impartial ay on the events of thir great. war. he reasons are not far to seek. That how Great Britain could mould iblic opinion in a way suiting her en purpose. America has been mis sformed about Germany's motives. his would not 'have been the case ad Germany been able to present r case to the American public.1 "In what way," asked the corre-1 ondent, "have the present nego ations been hampered by the ab nce of cable communications?" "Think only of the slowness of it .1," replied the minister. "Why we1 em to have even returned to thet iys of the middle ages, when sover gns had to send special envoys back 1 id forth between the courts to ex iange views and keep in touch with 1 e another's w ishes and attitudes."] RITISII SUBMARINE WORK(S SUCCESSFULLY1IN BALTIC SEA' ndersea Boat Passes Through Catte gat and Goes 900 Miles to Attack Its Ehemy. The British admiralty has stated Lat it was officially announced at etrograd Thursday that the subma ne which made a successful attack i a German warship on July 2 in the altic was a British boat. The British admiralty statement ntained the first public aninounce ent intimating that British subma- 1 nes were operating in the Baltic. is presumed the undersea boat ssed through the Cattegat froni the orth sea to the Baltic and then tray ed eastward for two hundred miles,1 the Bay of Danzig, where the war ip was attacked, lies in the south tstern part of that body of water. be distance from an English port to1 anzig is aoout nine hundred miles. The Russian official communica an announcing that a German war ip had been sunk by a submarine id the battleship, which T-as of the I eutschland type, was steaming at te head of a German squadron at te entrance of Danzig bay July 2i hen she was blown up by two tor ~does by a submarine.t Fighting at Cape Haytien. t Admiral Caperton reported to the ate department Wednesday that hting was going on between the i vernment and the revolutionists ree miles southeast of Cape Hay-< en. City is quiet and order is main ied, although the wounded have gun to arrive. Asquith and Kitchener Confer. Premier Asq uith and General-in bief Kitchener have visted the Eng- I h trenches in France on Tuesday. ednesday and Thursday of thisa eek A most tho.ough inspectiont as made.i Germans D~eny Misuse of Mails. 1 Berlin officially denies the report tat German authorities had opened ad censored mail on board ther HOLT'S BOMB EXPLODES IN HOLD OF THE MINNEIAIl Captain of Ammunition Ship Sa: the Fire Was Caused by Bomb Alone. Captain Claret, of the steamsh Minnehah., which arrived at Hall fax, N. S., Friday with fire raging j two of the ship's holds, stated pos tively that the threatening destru tion of the ship was due to the expl< sion of a bomb in the forward hol, There was no ammunition in th hold and nothing but a bomb cou, have caused the beginning of the fi is the opinion of the commander < the ship. When the steanaship '7as first r ported afire at sea on Thursday nigh and while the captain was sending h vessel at top speed to the harbor o Hallifax, police officials of New Yoi were bending every effort to discovi whether the assailant of J. P. Mo gan, whose dramatic letter to h wife, made known after his deat predicted the destruction of a ship sea, could have been responsible f the blaze. The Minnehaha left New York c July the fourth, bound for Londc with a cargo of fifteen thousand toi of explosives for the British ar aboard The ship's crew numbere over one hundred men. There wei no passengers on board for this tri: Captain Claret stated at Halift Friday that he received the wirele warnings which the United Stati naval department sent out broadca on Wednesday afternoon. This wan ing was upon Holt's letter that ship would be destroyed at sea on ti seventh of July, which was Wedne day. Captain Claret said all ti life boats of the ship were put J place for immediate use should dai ger develop on board. When the steamship arrived in tb harbor the fire had spread from tb hold in which it originally starte in to the adjoining hold, which wa separated from the ammunition by strong bulkhead. Captain Claret sai he knew that the ship was in fc trouble when he left New York, fc as the ship swung into the sea launch was passed which containe a party of Germans, who shouted t those on board that the Minnehah would be destroyed at sea. The ve4 sel's cargo was placed on board b German and Austrian Stevedores i Xew York. FIFTY=MILE MOTOR BOATS ARE TO ROUT SUBMARINE Llies Plan for Thirty-Foot Craft t Mount Guns and Outrun Anything Built. The C. C. Smith Boat and Engini ompany, New York, announce hursday that it had been asked b: he British, French, and Russian gov rnments to submit estimates for th< onstruction of powerful motor spee< oats, of sufficient strength to per nit the mounting of two or mor ight guns, the boats to be used, it i inderstood, in running down Germai ubmarines in the waters arouni angland and France ani in the Bal ic. The British government, it i nderstood, wants a fleet of at leas ne hundred of these craft, while thi tussians, i is said, want thirty n: orty. The number wanted by Franc s not known. The boat proposed is to be thirta eet long and seven feet beam, guam nteed to make fifty miles an hour t will be easy to navigate and ever rhen traveling at great speed will b< ble to turn sharply. The Smit] actory is in Canada, near Detroit, oi he St. Clair River, and so no pos ible violation of American neutmali y is involved. The motive power of the boats wil e furnished by twin engines, eac~h o wo hundred and fifty horse. power nd the guns will be mounted one or ach side just forward of the drivini! ear. Each bot.t can carry, if neces ary, fuel and supplies sufficient t< st several days, although it is con emplated that this will not be need d as, owing to the speed of thi ~oats, they can make port wheneve: ecessary. Furthermore, they cai e equipped with light wireless sets ach boat will displace about foul ns. TORM hIlTS CINCINNATI; TWENTY~iVE ARE DEAI teamboats, Houses, Churches anm Street Signs are Wrecked and Trees Block the Streets. With twenty-five known dead, ter 1issing and a property loss that wil xceed one million dollars, Cincin ati Thursday night was making ~aliant effort to recover from prob bly the worst storm in its history 'welve of the dead were claimed hi e Ohio river. At nine-thirty o'clock Wednesday ight the storm broke; one-half houw ter the city and its suburbs lay tricken. Its telephone system had een pr ralyzed; its street car servicE uspended and its citizens groping it akness, trying to ascertain the toll e storm had taken. Two steamboats had gore down it e Ohio river; probably one hiundred ouses were leveled; half a dozer) huch spires had fallen and feu ouses escaped damage. Down town streets were strewt ith electric signs and glass, whilt i the residence district and in thE uburbs all traffic was blocked by rees thrown across the thorough res. Some fifty club houses along e Ohio river were swept into the tream and floated away. Thursday night found the city wit11 s street car service virtually normal. 'he telephone service is rapidly re overing and the city has done almosi iraculous work in cleaning up the ebris. Search for bodies in coliaps d houses continues. Bryan Not 'Peace at Any Price." Speaking at San Francisco W. J, Iryan declared he was not for peace t any price, for he did not believE 11 wars could be prevented. Stated hat he was proud of being a soldiel i the Spanish-American war. 'our Persons Hurt Near Columbia Three passengers and a negro mai lerk were hurt near Columbia Wed esday when a passenger train run ing into the union station collided SHIPS OUR COTTON rsCARGOES HELD UP IN ENGILND ARE LATER RESIIPPED n U. So TO LOSECOTTON Since January First 801,295 Bales is Have Been Shipped From England, d -e 146,095 of Which are Bales Seized From American Shippers-Other Trade Controlled. t, is It appears from a report submitted )f to the American government by Unit k ed States Consul General Skinner at ,r London that the American cotton r which Great Britain is seizing, and is thereby keeping away from Germany, I is not being used altogether in the t United Kingdom, but has been and Is r being more or less secretly, distribut ed among the Brttish allies, and also n among the socalled neutrals whose n commerce Britain evidently seeks to control to the exclusion of American influence. d The consul general sends official e figures to prove his.case. Thus, the total imports of cotton, by Britain, x in 1915, have been 3,127,152 bales as against 2,136,620 bales in the same I period in 1914, and 1,832,542 in the it first five months of 1913. Of these imports of cotton, which a include seized cotton, there have been e 2,602,203 bales in 1915, as against 1,587,498 bales in the same period in e 1914, and 1,365,338 bales in the first n five months of 1913. Of the American cotton imported or seized, Great Britain has re-ex e ported, since .Tanuary 1, 1915, a total of 146,095 bales. There are no fig ures'to show the destination of this - re-exported Southern cotton as dis a tinguished from the destination of the general stock of re-exported cot r ton from Egypt, Brazil and the East r Indies. The totals of these re-exports a from Britain, this year, to other con d tinents or countries have been as fol D lows: Destination. ~No. of Bales Russia ."........ .328,755 Sweden . . .132,276 Germany...... .. Netherlands. . .. .-243,987 Belgium............ France .......... 32,710 Portugal.. .. ...... 63,667 Although the exportation of cop per, wrought and - unwrought, in cluding alloys, has been since the fall of 1914 prohibited by England to all destinations abroad other than British protectorates and possessions, the official returns show that in 1915 there have been re-exports (exports) of copper as follows: To the Netherlands 88,000 pounds To France ......4,150,000 pounds r To Italy ...... 90,000 pounds Britain -:ets her copper mainly from the United States and Canada, and she claims the right to seize cop per as contraband in any ship, Ameri can or otherwise, destined for her enemies. The amount of goods exported from Great Britain in the first -five months of 1915* is $731,869,000, a decrease of $317,273,000 when com pared with the first five months of 1914, before the war began. The re exports from britain show a decline of $41,610,000 in the same period. The imports, however, have increas ed $173,254,000. Two-thirds of this increase in im ports represents food, drink and to bacco. The items of wheat, grain and flour alone amounted to $39, 500,000 more than in the same per iod in 1914, not coun~tng other cere als. Cotton amounted to ,$13,322, 000 more, and wool to $12,052,000 more. The increases were In things ur gently needed for provisioning and clothing the British army, and they were the very things which the Brit ish blockade has been excluding from Germany. The bu.lk, o~f these sup plies come from the United -States. Of the decrease in British exports, $272,701,000 was in manufactures, the sale of which would have paid for the food Imported, so that the net drain on British capital in the first five months of 1915 equals the sum of the~ increase in imports plus the decrease in exports, or $490,500,000 TORNADOES SWEEP WESTERN I STATES WITli hEAVY LOS IFive States in Grip of Storms Which Swing Down Missouri Val ley From East. Tornadoes and cloudbu sts sweep ing eastward from the Missouri river valley Thursday caused heavy dam age and loss of life. Missouri, Illi nois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky were in the track of the storm. Three persons were reported dead at Dardenne, Mo., and Wentsville and Gilmore, Mo., each reported one killed. Five or more persons have been killed, :.t St. Charles, Mo. Tornadoes swept districts north of St. Louis, blowing part of a Wabash railroad train from the track and de vastating St. Charles, Mo. The wind at St. Charles blew eighty miles an hour. Similar storms were reported to have struck St. :Peter, Mo., and Law renceville. Ill., the latter place being~ a few miles west of Vincennes, Ind. First report3 said two persons wvere killed at Lawrenceville. OFFERS DYES FOR COTTON Germany Will Not Export to U. S. Unless Staple Comes Through. Efforts of the United States go ernent to secure dyestuffs from Ger mary for American manufacturers have reached a deadlock which ap pears unbreakable and officials at Washington Wednesday expressed lit tie hope of an arrangement being made which will give this country a supply of Germnan-made colors. State department officials will con tinue their efforts, but it practically is certain Germany will not permit exportation of dyestuffs unless some arrangement is made which will give Germany a much need~d sepp1' Af American cotton. Italian I ruiser Submarin;ed. The Italian armored cruiser Amal fi was torpedoled at dawn Wednesday and sunk while taking part in a ,-cannnnisance in the Upper Adriatic.