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VOL. XXVIII. MIANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY,- JULY 21, 1915. STATES ITS CLAIM STRON NOTE OF WARNING t SENT REAT BRITAIN DENY COUNCIL ORDERS Rights of Americans to be Basm Upon Recognized Rules of Inter atlonal Law-British Changes an( Their Legality Comes up for Jus tifcation. The state department Saturda3 gave out a summary of a note it ha( sent to England, informing that gov ernment that it will uphold the right of American trade. The note is a firm, flat denial o lgland's assumed right to interfere with American commerce to an ex. tent not countenanced by the recog nised rules of international law. It Is a vigorous statement that this gov ernment can not permit its commerce to be treated according to the auto. cratic regulations of British order in council and various municipal de trees The effect of the note is to shift the shadow of a real international crisis from the affairs of the United States and Germany to the issues be tween the United States and Great Britain. It is evident that Germanv has won the first ground of her de mand that as "the freedom of the seas" underlies the questions at issue between the United States and Ger many, this government must take up that subject with Great Britain. Furthermore, it is Indirect media tion between Germany and England. And, finally, it demonstrates the real Istion by the administration that it can no longer maintain an attitude of aggressive diplomacy against Ger many and continue to let the case against England slumber. The summary of the ote is as fol lows: "In view of differences which are understood to exist between the two governments as to the principle of law applicable in prize court pro ceedings -in cases invoving Ameri can shipping, to avoid any, misunder standing as to the attitude of the United States in regard to such pro eess the government of the United - States informs the British govern ment that insofar as the interests of American citizens are concerned, it win insist upon their rights under the principles and rules of international law as hithert.o established, govern ing neutral trade in time of war with out limitation or impairment by or ders in council or other municipal legislation by the British government and will not recognize validity of prize court passages taken under re straints imposed by British municipal law in, derogation of the rights of nmerican citfens under international The note means: First, that Lord Crewe stated an indefensible position when he told the United States that the British government would not consider case of seizures and detentions in prize courts as "diplomatic ques dons." Second, that the United States assets that Great Britain bad no intee-national right "to interfere -with the approach of American merchantmnen to neutral ports sit uate upon the line of coast at fected by the order in council, when sueh ships do not carry con traband or goods destined to or proceeding from ports within the belligerent territory." -Third, that the mnanner of selz ures an ddetention is laid down by international law, and that law can no more be chanted by the exigen c des of Great Britain's blockade than by the present impossibility of Germany using any other craft than a submarine to exercise the right of visit and search. Fourth, the United States does *not channenge the safectiveness of the British blockade of actual ports. of Germany, but it does challenge the extension of that blockade to cover the ports of Denmark, Swed en, Holland and Norway. Fifth, that interference with American and neutral vessels en route from American ports to other .neutral ports is a contradiction of~ the principle of free seas for free ships. Sixth, that the asseration by Great Britain of the principle of holding up all vtssels and rejecting diplomatic intervention is as illegal as the establishment byv Germany of a submarine blockade. Seventh, that the principle and practise of retaliation between Germany and Great Britain can not defeat any of the rights of neu tral commerce as defined and en joyed before the commencement of the present war. Officials are now concerned in spec ucation as to what the reply of Great Britain will be and what the United States must do in certain emergen cies to be created by that reply. If ~Great Britain stands firm. the United States has two remedies- One Is to take up particular cases and as sert that there has been "a denial o' justice." That is one of the forms of pursuing a case further when a country thinks an injustice has been done by foreign courts. The asser tion that there has been a denial of justice is a diplomatic action which can result in the gravest kind of a situation. The other recourse of the United States is to treat Great Britain. if she concedes nothing, as a nation which will not be bound by international law. It has been frequently stated * under color of local diplomatic sanc tion, that if Germany would not yield to the United States this country might break off diplomatic negotia tions. There is some reason to assume that Great Britain w il make certain concessions. It is known that Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. the British ambas sador, has reported to his govern ment the state of public sentiment ir the United States. and has suggested that it moderate its policy regarding the treatment of American trade. The ambassador left the method and ex tent of the moderation to his home government. In all quarters it is admitted thal the note will relieve the tension be tween this government and Germany for the parrent reason that it com plies very closely with Germany> main contention. Germany held that the issues be -tween this government and Gertnan CUTS FRANK'S THROAT AS HE SLEEPS IN PRISON Convict's Determined Effort to Kill Man Convicted of Mary Phagan's Murder. Leo M. Frank, doing a life term for the murder of Mary Phagan, was attacked in the Georgia State prison at Milledgeville, at eleven-ten o'clock Saturday night by a fellow .prisoner. His head was cut half off with a prison-made butcher knife that con victs had used during the day in kill ing hogs. Frank was still on the op erating table an hour after the at tack, conscious, but bleeding from the wounds. Frank was quartered in a dormi tory with about one hundred other prisoners and occupied a bunk about forty feet from one of the two doors to the large room. Creen's bunk was fourth from his. No prisoner is al lowed to leave his place without per mission from one of the two guards stationed at the dormitory at night. Shortly after elevent o'clock Friday night Creen called out for permission to get up, and it was granted. He started down the line of bunks toward the one occupied by Frank. As he reached it he, quickly grabbed Frank by the hair and delivered one blow with the knife he had conceal ed. The attacked was witnessed by the guard, who rushed to the bunk and prevented Creen from striking again. Creen was overpowered and among prisoners who rushed to Frank's aid were two physicians, one of whom also was serving a life term for murder. - The two convict-physicians gave first aid and treated the wound until Dr. Guy Compton, the prison physi cian, was summoned from his home half a mile away. The three men took twenty-five stitches in Frank's neck. I Frank asked the prison doctors again if they thought he would live. "You have a good chance to re cover," he was told Sunday. Frank smiled. "Don't punish the man who attacked me," he said. "I have nothing to fear. There is noth ing between me and God. I will be able to prove to the world that I am innocent of the crime of which they t accuse me if they give me a chance." "Doctor," he said, late Sunday af ternoon. "I am going' to live. I I must live. I must vindicate my- a self." t William Creen, the life term con- t vict, who admits that he cut Frank's m throat, was questioned again Sunday by prison authorities to ascertain if t there was a conspiracy to kill Frank. Creen asserted thr t there -was no plot. He said that he had inspiration I that he should kill Frank. and plot ted alone to kill him. He told of aiding in the butchering of hogs on a Saturday morning, how he had hid- t den a butcher knife. that had been t made out of a big file, in his cloth- t ing, carried it to bed with him, how d he attacked Frank as the lattcr slept. were so interwoven with those be tween the United States afnd Great C Britain that they must be taken up v together. The Unisted States has not b conceded this, but, accepting as true i the 'German ambassador's frequent I arguments that Germany will make b no further concessions to this coun- I try unless Great Britain relaxes the r severity of its blockade, it has decid ed to take up the subject with Great s Britain independently. I The effect, however, will be the i same in the end. If the United States t succeeds in forcing Great Britain to ( conduct its blockade according to In- I ternational law, it has the asuane t of Germany that it, too, will observe t the rules of international law in its r submarine warfare. There is no division amoig Ameri- c can diplomats as to the unassailabili- e ty of the propositions of the note toe Great Britain. Mr. Lansing roes not I inveigh against the right of visit and t search, should Great giritain choose to exercise it legally. The position of the state depart ment is that vessels should be visited and searched "if necessary," but ex peditiously, and released, or that the J cause of detention must be taken up tnd adjusted with equal expedition by diplomacy. This position of the state depart- 3 ment is flatly contradicted by Lord1 i Crewe, and presumably will be by Sir Edward Grey in the answer to the% note to Great 'Britain. Mr. Lansing has told Great Britain.I that her order in council, as it affects and has affected American commerce. is' wrong in principle and in fact, and can not be sustained under interna tional law. The department. there- I fore, .substantially demands that Great Britain return to the approved : ustoms of visit and search as the United States understands the law, t and as it existed before the promul- a gation of the order in council. No one expects this government to ; recede from its original position on, the destruction of the Lusitania as c an act wholly without warrant in law . >r justification from the humane oint of iew. The manner in which 2 he United States' position will be estated, however, in view of the rep- 1 wesentations and conversations on thei ~ubject at the department between t ecretary Lansing and Ambassador ernstorff is still problematic. The mpression is that the president must ake into favorable consideration the ~ral assurances made by the ambassa-t or, which are understood to have 21aterially changed the situation. i JURY FINDS TIIAW SANE Slayer of Stanford White Receives Favorable Decision. Harry K. Thaw was pronounced sane by the jury at New York Wed nasday. Justice Hendricks will rendeir 1 his final decision Friday. and in the. meantime the prisoner remains in custody. Thaw is disappointed be cause he was not liberated imme diately after the jury found him sane. The decision came on the first ballot. &ERICAN PACKERS INVOLVED British C'ourt Proceedings 1Has Tes,1 mony of Their Guilt. In London Friday the English gov ernent produced correspondence be ween, the Archer Company. of 11am burg. and the ('udahy Packing Cor' ,any. of America. in thle prize coirt 'roceedings to show that American ackers connivedl with the Germans o ship goods to Germany by appar ently consigning themi to neutral countries. The letters also mention er1 the Swift and -\rmour companies. AII* AT WARSAW &ERMAN TROOPS ON OFFENSIVE FROM EAST PRUSSIA TURKS LOST iROUND British Authorities Appear Satisfied With Progress Made Against Con stantinople-Teuton Rush From North Against Polish Capital Be gins Wi.i Success. Further Teutonic advances are re ported Friday in Poland, north of Warsaw, the German official state nent recording progress southeast of Kolno and south of Przasnasz, where heir troops are reported "fighting' ictoriously." The latest Russian ;tatement declares German attacks n that region were repulsed. Appr rently abandoning for the ima their attempt to outflank War aw from the south, the Germans, robably under Field Marshal von indenberg, who is reported to have aid a few days ago that he shortly would astonish the world, have re Lewed their attack on the Polish cap tal from the north. They not only have captured many >risoners south of Kotno, according ,o Berlin, but have occupied Przas iysz, a fortified town fifty miles Lorth of Warsaw, which was taken >y von Hindenberg last winter, but etaken by the Russians in their ounter offensive. This claim is part y confirmed. by the Russian official eport, which stated that the Rus ians, in the face of strong German Iorces, withdrew to their second line f entrenchments. This move on the part of the Ger ans has taken the military critics ompletely by surprise. It. was gen rally supposed that Gen. von Mack nsen would, after being strengthen d, continue his attempt to reach the ublin-Cholm railway, forcing the vacuation of Warsaw. But, as in all heir operations, the Germans have tone the unexpected. The new offensive probably will be eieral and extend from the Baltic ,round the Last Prussian border to he Vistula, west of Warsaw, for all. he Russian troops in this section aust be kept bvsy to prevent them rom concentratng' at the point where he Germans hope to break through. 'hs is the second time Field Marshal on Hindenberg has tried this. His st effort very nearly involved the ;ermans in disaster owing to the auddy ground. Now, however, there re only bad roads, or lack of roads, o contend with, but it is possible hat the Germans have built railroads their northern front, as they have one in Central Poland. Success Against Turks. London reports that confirmation as received Thursday night from ien. Sir Ian Hamilton of the success .'hich the allies were reported to ave achieved on the Gallipoli pen asula. According to this report two ines of Turkish trenches and four undred prisoners were captured. ] 'he Turks, however, clhim to have epulsed the allies' attacks. British military authorities express atisfaction with the slow progress gainst the Turks, relying on break ag their morale and on the exhaus ion of their ammunition supply. ermany's eagerness to have Ruma .in allow the passage of ammunition rough that country to Turkey is: aken to mean that the supply is] unning short.1 Two strongly held Turkish lines< eending the Dardanelles have been< aptured by the Anglo-French forcesi n the Gallipoli peninsula, said 'an nnouncemnt Thursday evening by be British official press bureau. ENLISII COAL MINERS FIRM 'iday Passed Without Any Work men Resuming Labors. London reported that the South Vales miners Friday showed an un roken front, in conformity with the esolution passed at the meeting of elegates at Cardiff Thursday, when was decided to rejiect the recoin 1endation of the executive commit ee that the men return to work. iven the men in one district who hursday night decided to resume rork reversed their decision, and .ot a pick is moving. An improvement in the situation, owever, is expected as a result of sass meetings in the various dis rcts Friday and the conferences of Valter Runciman, president of the *oard of trade, with reprcsentatives f the miners and pit owners. The men's leaders. who through ut have opposed the strike, are in lined to the view that a resumption f work may be expected Monday, nd the government's prompt action a setting up a general munitions tri unal for Wales and Monmouthshire Sthought likely to help bring a set lement. Should the Runciman conference 'riday not turn out favorably, David ~loyd-George, minister of munitions, ossibly will visit the p ,rturbed dis rict. His influence with the men in revious disputes has been very ef ective. Meantime perfect peace eigns in the coal fields. %YING FOR DETAINED COTTON kritish Government Pays Savannah Firm Quarter Million. The British embassy Friday began he practice of making payments in1 ,ashington for detained American otton cargoes, the ownership of[ chich has been satisfactorily estab- 1 ished. The first payment, a partial >e for a cargo at the rate of ten eents a pound. was about two hun Ired and fifty thousand dollars. The payment made was for the aargo of the Greek steamer Spyros 'allianos. from Savannah. which w'as ken to Falmouth and Cardiff. 'the argo is owned by Inman, Akers and Italians Gain Trenches. Genoa. Italy. Wednesday: Two niles of Austrian trenches have been aptured by the Italians, according o news from Villach, a town on the >anks of the Drava, in Austria. French Destroyers Active. French destroyers have been oper 1.ting on the Asia Minor coast, sink 'ngrkish vessels. EXPRESSES ITS REiRET FO THE NEBRASKAN ATT German Government Admits Lia1 ty, Apologizes and Offers Repar tion for Submarine's Mistake. Germany's admission of liabi and expression of regret Thurs for the German submarine attack the American steamer Nebras] pleased officials at Washington, it was the general opinion that le points raised would require the i patch of a note further to conse American rights in the war zone. memorandum stating Germany's sition reached the state departm through Ambassador Gerard at E lin. Legal officers of the American g ernment who examined the Gern memorandum pointed out that many respects the case resemb that of the William P. Frye, American ship sunk by the Pr Eitel Friedrich. In both cases G many has expressed regret and ] >ffered to compensate American c zens, but the action of the Gern commanders has been declared J tified. To admit this, officials Washington say, would establisi dangerous precedent In the Frye case Germany c, tended that it was a fair inferei from the language of the Prussi American treaty of 1826 s that American ship carrying contraba ould be destroyed if there were >ther way to stop transportation ontraband. The United States i ects to this construction of I reaty and in the case of the.Nebr kan probably will place on record view that the attack, even thou payment is assured and regrets pressed, was an illegal act. Officials take the view that ebraskan case proves conclusiv hat a merchantman must be visii efore attack to determine its i .ionality and the character of its e o. Some high officials do not .ieve the United States would ins hat in exercising the right of vii he submarine commander- actua )e required to board a merchantm >ut would hold that a ship could 'visited" by signaling a warning top and asking for the submissi )f papers. The German memorandum was t ubject of much comment in offic uarters because it bears out c( lusi->i:s reached by Lieut. John rowers, American naval attache ndon, who forwarded ir.gments netal found in the Nebraskan wj tis expression of opinion that t ressel was torpedoed. In the case he Gulflight too, American nal onstructors in London establish hat the vessel was torpedoed. The navy department's report he Nebraskan never has been ma )ublic. but in view of the admissi )y Germany, officials said that t indings of navy officers were cc irmed by ,.ie German foreign offi nemorndum. LAYERS OF SHERIFF HOOD GRANTED BAIL THURSDJ n Proceeding Before Justice Wa $7,500, $5,,000, and $3,500 Was Sums Named. Application for bail in habeas c< us proceedings was heard at La ens Thursday afternoon before ociate Justice R. C. Watts in t ~ases of Ernest Isenhower, Jet Iorrison and James D. Rawls 'airfield county in connection wi he recent tragedy at Winnsbc ourt house when Sheriff Hood a ,thers were killed. Bail was grant the sum of seventy-five hundri ye thousand and thirty-five hundr ollars, respectively. Ernest Isenhower, one of theC endants, was present at the heari ud was represented by C. L. Bleal . L. Gaston and J. W. Hannah epresented Morrison and Rawls. icitor R. A. Cooper appeared for t tate, representing the interest of icitor Henry. In addition to several affiday presented, the defendants' attorne nade brief arguments in behalf heir clients. Mr. Cooper read t )roceedings of the i-uquests held Vinnsboro and followed this with hort argument opposing the moti or bail. A crowded court. rot eard the proceedings which last ver an hour. ORTIFY CAPTURED POSITI0] talians Entrenching Themselves Former Austrian Positions. A dispatch from Verona Frid aid the Italians are strongly forti1 g all positions captured from 1 estrians. Trenches are being ex< rated and platforms constructed 'hich to mount heavy guns. Many places along the front: .ve been transformed into entren< d camps, strongly garrisoned a 'ith immense supplies of munitio1 Terrific storms continue in t gh mountain region. Violent wini al and even snow are delaying mi ay operations but the troops ngaged in fortifying dominm nt. GERM1AN FORCES IN AFRICA~ )ver Three Thousand Surrendered British General. Berlin reports that the Gern orces which recently rendered len. Blotha in Southwest Africa flu ered 204 officers and 3.094 m rith seven field pie -es anid twen wo machine guns, according to t )verseas Agency. "This force 3 natched after prolonged warfare a errible fatigues against twenty thC ;and men,'' says the agency. "T mavery of the Germans was admit' the British. who even permitt non-commissioned officerz and I rates to keep their side armsa Earthquakes in Japan. Dispatches from Tokio Friday: port earthquakes occurring at re )f one every half-hour in the isla iushu. Large ere-vasses opened he earth, and the inhabitants fleeing in distress and terror. nvestigatinlg Arrest in Berlin. Ambassa lor Gerard began inve: zating Friday the arrest of Geo; peets, an alleged representative n American copper concern. He b been under surveillance for seve: nnonths. DID NOT CONFER WITi U. S. LCK OVER ARMING TRADE SIlPS ili- Great Britain Said Nothing to This a- Country as Lord Cecil in timated of uthers. lity The United States government has day not been asked by Great Britain on whether it would permit merchant kan ships, armed for defense only, to but trade with American ports. When gal the press dispatch from London, tell lis- ing of the statement of Lord Robert rve Cecil in the House of Commons was A read to a high official of the state po- department, he said that this govern ent ment had not been sounded. ler- The position of the United States as to armed vessels, it was explained, ov- had been set forth in a statement of ian the department of State on Septem in ber 20. In this statement these para led graphs related to this particular sub the ject: C inz "A merchant vessel of belligerent f er- nationality may carry an armament I as and ammunition,' for the sole pur- e iti- pose of defense without acquiring kan the character of a ship of war. t us- "The presence of an armament and s at ammunition on board a merchant s L a' vessel creates a presumption that the I armament is for offensive purposes, d n- but the owners or agents may -over- ' ice come this presumption by evidence I 3n- showing that the vessel carries arma- a an ment solely for defense." 0 md The statement also defined in de no tail the course necessary to establish P of that a merchant vessel was not armed s Db- for offensive purpcres. fl ,he The matter of determining what s as- constituted an armed vessel was t its made necessary by the action of the s, gh German government early 'in the e ax- European war in complaining that - the steamship Adriatic, then at New a .he York, was armed, and that to permit ely her to clear would be a violation of si :ed neutrality. The United States gov- f ias ernmenf ascertained. that the Adri- n ar- atic's armament consisted of 'a gun e be- mounte: in the stern for defensive i ist purposes, and Secretary Bryan ruled Ait, that to be'so armed was proper and c Ily that clearance of the vessel would T an not constitute a violation of Ameri- si be can neutrality. . - s to The matter was taken up infor- li on mally, however, with the White Star o: Line, to which the Adriatic belonged, d he and as a result of a private arrange ial ment the gun was dismounted It t] )n- was explained at the state depart- ix H. ment at the time that in dismount- 1c in ing the gun the White Star Line act- tc of ed voluntarily, out of courtesy to the -s( ith United States,. and that it was 'not pi he required by any-.principle of inter- al of national law to disarm. w ral ed AUSTRIAN SKODA GUNS d HURL TERRIFC SHELL 1 onM he n in- Seventeen-Inch Shells Weigh, 2,800 0 ce fc Pounds and Destroy All ti sW Living Things. 10 Seven-eighths of the wounds in the bi kY Galician fighting were caused by a shells, half of which were fired from b big caliber guns, said Surgeon-Major s Lesghintseff to an interviewer on. re- d turning to Warsaw from the front. d "Bullets play no part now." he continued. "and the infantryman's rifle is a toy. Infantry merely occu- a pies the trenches the sannon have b r- won." - .u- Most devastating of all are the sI snew Skoda shells of the Germanic he allies, which are seventeen inches in c4 ;se diameter and weigh twenty-eight T1 of hundred pounds The Skoda howit- tI thzer shoots at a high angle and- its fe ro- shells penetrate twenty feet Into soft a nd earth before exploding two seconds F: ed after striking. These howitzers do id, not resemble the Krupp mortars of pl ed the same caliber, to which they are as said to be superior in every way. tr Le- When a Skoda shell hits, it means tt rg death to everything within a radius ai se, of one hundred and fifty. yards and te aeven farther off. The mere pressure ce >-o its gas rips open the bombproof is he shelters and catches those who es "~cape the metal fragments and flying st it debris. t vts This enters the body 'cavities and di of tears flesh. asunder. sometimes strip- in he ping the men o their clothes. Of is at course the men in the immediate a neighborhood of the explosion are at onannihilated. So fierce is the heat of to ym the explosion of the shells that it a: d melts rifle barrels as if they had been of struck by lightning. i S NEW SUBMARINES WILL BE . SCIENTIFICALLY EQUIPPED ti b Secretary Daniels Postpones Openingg fy- Bids for 16 to Get Latest Im- t~ a- provemients on Them. ti on - Bids for sixteen new submarines t~ ier authorized by the lazt congress will a hnot be opened until September 29, g ad Secretary Daniels has announced, in M is. order that two shipbuilding com- s he panies which have obtained patent .m s rights to build boats of a successful og 1'li. type now used by two or moro of the T re European belligerents may have a at chance to compete.1; Mr. Daniels acted, it is understood, upon the strong recommendation of tl his advisory council. It was urged in .that not only was it desirable that g, the -two big concerns involved, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry p, 4 okcompany and the New York s, Shipbuilding company be added to m the American concerns ready to fur- di an nish submarines, but also that if in- t to formation as to the Euuopcan under- la m- sea boats would be prarticularly valu- p n, able in view of the contemplated ex- as tpansion ofthat branch of the navy. e he The companies obtained the right sj as to build the European submarine d known as the Hay-Denny type some u- time ago, but interrupted comumuni- ti 'he cation with Europe due to the war b) ed nmade it impossible for them to got m ed data on which to submit bids onfl i- August 2, the date originally set for d the opening of bids. The new vesecls will be cimilar in ai size to the L type boata now in comn- ai mission. They will have a surface b re- cruising radius of between five and fc ite six thousand miles and be equipped d with the new three-inch diss.ppearing in gun recently developed by American tre naval engineers. ti ti Allies Gain 2{eights. f -Mitylene reports Wednesday that gi :ti- the allied troops at Gallipoli have 'ge taken two very important heights T of which dominate Krithia, which is ii .ad now under fire from two directions.B ral. The French and English lines have er been joined, al 7,0UU IURS SLAIN UT TO PIECES IN WORST BAT: TLE OF ENTIRE WAR ]RAVELY CHARED ALLIES )ttomans Break French Lines, Cap ture Guns and Turn Them on Al. lies-Are Beaten Back and Mur dered by Light of Allied Fleet's Searchlights-Slaughter Terrific. In a dispatch from Lemnos, via Lthens, a correspondent'of The Lon on Daily Chronicle gives an account if the big battle for the Dardanelles ought last week, in which the Allies ushed their lines forward five ighths of a mile. "The heaviest fighting which has aken place in Gallipoli peninsula ince the' allied forces landed," he ays, "was that which began late 'uesday and lasted well into Wednes lay. It resulted in the swing fo ard of the southern line of the al ed armies for about five furlongs nd in infliction of staggering losses n the enemy., "Those who were in the battle lace the Turco-German casualties at even thousand killed and between Durteen thousand and fifteen thou and wounded. Many prisoners were aken, too. The whole army in the Duthern part of the peninsula was ngaged, and the Australians and ew Zealanders further to the north so played a part. "The victory marks a definite tage in the initial work of throwing arces around Atchi Baba, which may ow without exaggeration be describ d as one of the strongest fortresses i the world. "The Allies had been resting in )mparative tranquility, and the 'rks therefore were evidently per jaded that they were experiencing a ortage of ammunition. This be ef apparently convinced the Turks E their excellent' opportunity to rive the invaders iLto the sea. 'It was late Tuesday night when ie first signs of the enemy's move tent were detected. No time was st- in flashing a warning message > headquarters. The French were >on alert, and the artillery at that Drtion of the line against which the tack was obviously being prepared as- quickly aiid strongly reinforced. "French and British machine guns ere rushed to the front till a per ct wall of heavy and light guns was L position. Then there was a short lerval of silence and waiting, al- I ost oppressive. Suddenly the still ss was riven by a tremendous burst I shells from the Turkish guns, and r a time shrapnel poured down on te French front, but the men were fely posted in dugouts,'and little ss was experienced. "From the strait a loud booming an. It was the battered Goeben work again, and during the bom-' r.dment she pounded our right with me forty eleven-inch shells. Many t d not burst; they were apparently t Turkish manufacture. "This hail of shells lasted an hour id a half and was the severest bom trdment to which our lines had )en subjected during the weeks of ruggle on the peninsula. "No sooner had the heavy fire ased than great solid masses of irks leaped forward to attack. On ey came, the silence unbroken save r their- shouts, until they reached point within sixty yards of the rench position. "Then from two hundred well aced machine guns a devastating iswering fire burst from the alliedi enches. Rifles joined in-twenty tousand of thenm; big guns flared t id lighted up the lurid scene at in- I rvals. With fine bravery the enemy mie on, not hesitating before this 1 ferno of death. "In a terribly cut-up condition the ormers reached the barbed-wire en nglements, only to find, to their 4 smay, that their artillery had been effective in the attempt to demol- C h them. "The slaughter was terrible; yet three points the enemy managedC swarm into the French trenches I id even succeeded in turning some the French weapons on the defend ig troops. The second line, however, urled itself instantly on the foe. "'We were so closely mixed up to-1 tther,' one French soldier told me, at it was almost impossible to use te bayonet, and we simply had to ish them back with our fists and e butts of our rifles until they fell Lkward into our first line trenches, ving us room to thrust and clear i way.' "Finally after several minutes of tis desperate work, the Turks, who ere not adequately supported by eir reserves, broke and ran. Then t tme the slaughter, for the machine t ins along the whole line, and the, aximis of the British naval division, ho had also been- engaged. thpough >t so heavily, simply mowed swathsc death through the mob of fleeing 1 nrks, who were visible with clear ts in the light or the ships' search ~hts, turned pitilessly on them. "Firmly held on the enemy were e ships' searchlights, thus provid-1 g a ghastly target for our deadly ins and hard-worked rifles. "In a short space of time the field 'esented a. most appalling spectacle. ldiers who fought in some of the1 treest fights in France and Flan ers, and who have been through the - rrile experiences provided by thec nding of tihe Allied forces on the 1 ninsula. say they sickened at thec vful sight which lay before their - when the diru moraing twilightt read over tile scene.t "odies were lying four and five rep upon the ground in all posi-1 ns. Fallen men lay strewn on thei irbed wire entanglements. while any of the enemy's dead still stood 1 et, propped up against the masses their stricken comrades. "Farther and farther, amid yells 1 ad groans mixed with tile shouts id whistlings of thleir officers, the i tteredl and bearon rabble retreated. howedl by relentlers death. "Tile 'sight.' said one soldier. 'wast >terrible that nmany of us could not re our guns or rifles. so much did le horrible vision of slaughter make te men tremble. This specially af- t tedl thosce in charge of th~e machineai "At lnst thle poor remnant of the trks' at tacking force was sheltered: the trenches in front of the Atcht aba slopes. The opposition our 1 mnter attack met wvas very feeble. ABBEVILLE MUKU LYLIRLD AFTER KILLING WHITE BOY Community is Quiet-Victim Seems to Have Killed Clifford Critten den Without Provocation. Some details of a lynching which occurred Monday afternoon in the McCalla woods, six miles ,east of Lowndesville, Abbeville county, have just come to light. Sunday afternoon Lucius Critten den and Clifford Crittenden, sons 6f Robert Crittenden, a well known farmer of that section, were walking down the road four miles from Lowndesville in company with Sam Pilgrim, a friend. They met Will Lozier, a negro, and Clifford Crit tenden asked Lozier to return his knife, which the negro had borrowed a day or so ago. The negro returned the knife, but a few minutes later he jerked it away from Clifford, cutting the latter's hand. Lucius Crittenden, about nine teen years of age, remonstrated with the negro and told him he would see. him later about cutting his brother;' that the negro had a gun in his pocket, and that he would not fight him as long as the gun was there. It is said that Lozier replied that he would "have to see me right now," and that.he drew his gun and fired on Lucius Crittenden, the bullet 1 striking the young man on the hip. Lozier then fired on Sam Pilgrim, but the shot went wild. When Lozier saw Lucius Critten den fall to the ground he escaped < into the bushes and made his way to the swamps. Crittenden was given < immediate medical attention, but I died from the gunshot wound early i Monday morning. < During the forenoon on Monday a large bpdy of men searched the woods for Lozier and located him about one o'clock in the afternoon. Persons some distance away declare they heard eighty shots. A man from that community Wed esday said that the negro was hang d with a rope and that his body was literally shot to pieces, and that the body was then cut down and thrown nto the river. I WUSTRIAN NOTE DISCUSSES t SIPMENT OF MUNITIONS t s t [t s Regarded Probable That Tur- t key Will Join in Protest of Dual Empire. . The United States probably will end within another fortnight a re ly to the Austro-Hungarian note ontending that extensive shipments I )f war supplies from '..,uri.ry to b he allies are "no. in consonance 0 with the definition of neutrality." Unofficially word came to Wash- m ngton Thursday that Turkey would a ollow Germany and Austria in mak- ti ng representations and should a note t4 rom Turkey arrive officials would s lelay sending their answer so as to nform the Germanic allies simul- y aneously of the unalterable view of u he United States on arms shipments. f, Germany repeatedly has laid em- e hasis on the trade in arms between he United States and the alies. In a , note replying to representations P rom the American government on he newly proclaimed war zone the egal right of the citizens of the nted States to trade in arms was onceded, but it was argued that itn as equally right of neutrals to I 'stop trade in contraband, especially he trade in arms with Germany's memies," because ~of 'violations of >ther neutral rights by Great Britain. C The Austrian note, extracts of hich have appeared in dispatches t* rom Amsterdam, points out that the imerican government would be "en- t itled to prohibit the export of war naterial" if the trade in contraband s 'takes the form of dimensions where- 5 y the neutrality of the country will n >e endangered." Details of the a (merican answer have not been di- g ~ulged, but it is underrtood the Unit- U d States will not only cite its rights 'I mder international law, but will re- ti all precedents in previous wars in c hich Germany and Austria have t een interested where importations s >f arms were carried on in extensive s roportions. RUSSIANS SINK SUBMARINE teport From London Says Famous h U-51 Was Destroyed. c: London Friday reported that the a erman submarine U-51 has been unk in the Black Sea by Russian a arships, according to information E eceived from Varna, a Bulgarian a >ort on the Black Sea by the Athens n orrespondent of the Exchange Tele- ii vaph company. b The U-51 gained fsme by eluding t he British blockade and passing U hrough Gibraltar on its way from p Vilhelmshaven,. the great German ase, to operate against the allied p leet in the Dardanelles. It has been n redited with sinking several vessels ti elonging to the allies, including the ir ritish battleship Majestic. t Later the submersible passed I; hrough the Sea of Marmora and re- nl orted to the German commander at 0 sonstantinople. If the report of her e lestruction in the Black Sea is true p he evidently was returning from the s urkish cape through the Bosporus. p >robably to operate against the Rus ian Black Sea fleet. arried the first line of the Turkish osition. Then the second line of C ur troops joined their comrades. nd after a fairly stubborn struggle he Turks were seen in headlong re reat. d "The enemy's guns developed sur- n rising activity, and for the follow- il ng two hours our men in their new b ositions were subjected to a bomn- t ardmer.t of between seven thousand e tnd eigh t thousand shells. This died c own, and the enemy then attempted e o recover the last ground. No few- c r than seven times did the Turkr url themselves against our new ines. On every occasion they were [riven back with heavy losses. When he last effort died away in disorder ~ Ld death the Britsh left swung martly forward and threw the de noralized enemy out of two addi ional lines of trenches immediately n front. "This was the last phase of the P attle along the entire line. Our r rains were here and there addled and 11 averywhere consolidated with the in al result already mentioned. The a ritish losses. were conmpratively ~ peakng, ight" * PAU1LKS AMI MU WANT BRITISH INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE STOPPED WANY SHIPS ARE HELD U ieat Men Say England Has. Over stepped the Law and That She Has no Right to Interfere With Cam goes Shipped Into Neutral Coun tries-Representations to be Made.. American meat. packers have ap >ealed to the state department to de nand that Great Britain stop inter ering with cargoes consigned to nen .ral ports and settle for fourteen nillion dollars worth of their pro licts now held in the prize court. !hey charge the British government with destruction of commerce in food 3roducts between the United- States ad other neutral nations. -,After the conference between the )ackers and.Chandler Anderson, ape ,ial counseller of the state depart nent, it was announced that the do )artment would make representa ions to Great Britain. The packers vill discuss the difficulties further vith Mr. Anderson. In a statement outlining their case Ls laid before the department, they leclare that the British government >urposely delays settlement of their laim for seized cargoes and that hey are not inclined to reopen'trade vith neutral countries unless they an be assured of delivery of their hipments to ports designated. The. statement gives the history of he detention of consignments for candinavian countries shipped be ore the British order in council was ssued in some Instances and In ot& rs before it was known to the pack rs. "As reported to the packers by heir representatives in England, AI red R. Urion," says the statement, the latest terms for the release of he cargoes as laid down by Great . ritain are held -to be so onerous as o be unacceptable. Until a week .go the packers were assured by heir representative in England the ituation would be amicably adjust d, when the new set of unreasonable arms were suggested by the authori es and immediately rejected by the ackers. "In brief these latest terms are: "That the packers guarantee Great ;ritain against claims arising out of de detention of ships. "That the packers guarantee Great ritain against claims of buyers, who ought and paid for large quantities f products seized." The packers assert that this latest tove by Great Britain is only an. ther step to delay a settlement -of ie problem and that there "appears y be absent the sincere -desire :to attle the controversy. About 'fourteen million dollars 'orth of packers' productr. are held p in the prize courts. In their con wrences with Mr. Anderson the pack rs were insistent that the American overnment should take firm action, d their statement says of this Lase of the subject: "The -packers assert that the at ick of Great Britain seemed to be creditable in view of any adjust-. ients they made to meet the Eng-' sh government in its demands. hey take the position of being en tied to full compensation for their ods, and declare that as American tizens they should be afforded pro ~ction by the United States and that iis government should take a de ~rminedl stand to protect their right. > ship to neutral countries." The statement lays particular :ress upon the cases of five cargoes lpped before November 25 last, -in etral steamers for Copentragen, ad seized on the high seas on the round that they presumably were timately destined for Germany. he cases, postpone' from time to me, are set to come up in the prize yurt soon. The ships involved are 1e Alfred B. Jornstejerne, Bjorn mn, Fridland and Arkansas. Three iled before the order in council as issued and before the order was nown' to the packers. "The paclkers call attention to a atement made by Premier Asquith 1 the House of Commons March 1 tst, that vessels with cargoes which tiled before the date of this notifi tion (order in council) will not be ffected." The statement continues: "Shortly ter the beginning of the war the ritish ambassador at Wash'ington ssured the United States govern Lent that Great Britain would not terfere with the trade in foodstuffs eween neutrals. W'th this in mind, ie packers say they were justified tmaking their shipments to neutral arts in neutral - ships. "After numerous conferences the ize court authorities finally decIded ot to release the goods except unless ie packers agreed to use the goods tEngland and give English ball tq ie full value of the seized cargoes. iasmuch as the cargoes consisted ainly of fats, oils and pig products Efat and heavy textule adapted to lder countries than England, the ickers declare it was impossible to all the cargoes and rejected the roposition." SOME MEDICINES ARE BOOZE overment Begins Crucade Against Alcoholic Preparations. The United States government Fri ay began a crusade against alcoholic Ledicinal preparations used as booze dry territory, and a list of two undred and forty-six such prepara ons were furnished the internal rev rue collectors. In some of the so tiled medicines the medicinal prop ties are so small that the mixture in be drunk by 'he glass. MILE ON CARRANZA'S CLAIMS tate Department Says RecognitioP Prospects are Bright. It was admitted at the state de artment at Washington Friday that rospects for the recognition of Car- - inza by the United States govern ent ar. very bright. The only thing iat will tend to prevent this- will be decisive victory by the Villa faction, hich recently lost eggltli Qf tM atina1 canital.