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VOL. XXVIII. AIANNING, S. C., WEDN ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1915. TO fT AIRSHIP ENGLAND PREPARES TO COMB ZEPPELINS AND ITS RAIDS USE FAST AEROPLANES Great Britain Counts on Attacks c Fast Flying Scout Boats to Preven Successful Bomb-Dropping Raids Publc Demands Protection Agains Airships In its efforts to protect Londoi from Zeppelin attacks the Britis1 government has given practically un limited orders for aeroplanes in thi country, which have resulted in th, development of a number of new ma chines of great speed and power, th, latest of which, a tiny scout, had it first official test recently at the flyini field in Buffalo, N Y. This scout is only thirty feet acros the wings, and is driven by a Curtis one hundred horse power motor o the latest type. It carries two men and will be used for Zeppelin chasin as well as scouting. Practically tho only fixed requirement demanded b: the British government is that theq scouts make at least one hundret miles an hour. They are planned to carry enoug fuel for at least a six-hour flight, anc this will give them a radius of mor than three hundred miles. That is they will be.able to raid many Ger man ports and towns from a base ii England and return with ease. Thel small size and great speed will mak4 them practically impossible to hit and -it is expected that the anti-air craft guns will be useless agains1 them. An officer of the British aviatior corps explained in detail the uses o1 these small scouts to a reporter oJ the New York Times, and also madi the statement that eighteen Zeppe lins had been destroyed since the firsi of the year. "We know that not fewer that eighteen Zeppelins have been account ed for by our flying squadrons and anti-airship guns," he said, "but thii information has never been given out owing to the rigid censorship, and will never le given out officially un til after the war. "Two of the Zeppelins that raided London last - Wednesday night, w( have heard, never got back to theb base, but were brought down befor( they reached the Channel. As we es timate it the Germans have lost at aviator for every person they have killed in their raids. With eighteer Zeppelins destroyed that means they have lost not fewer than five hundred men. Further, the .men the Germans lose are trained operators and consti tute as serious a loss as the Zeppe lins themselves. "People in the United States dc not fully understand the Zeppelir miad problem. The Zeppelins never come out unless it is a very dark night, and then they pass over Eng land at a height of ten thousand feet or more until they come to London or wherever they intend to droP bombs. Then they descend until their officers can get a view of their target and the bombs begin to drop. This iu usually the first information that * London has that the Zeppelins are raiding. "Immediately the British aero planes go up after them, and just ai soon as the searchlights spot them the guns begin to boom. The aero planes do not dare make-serious at tacks until the Zeppelins are driven off and no longer hang over London. The reason for that is that If one o1 *the monsters was to be destroyed iti debris would drdp into the city, and *w'ould kill more people and do more damage than all their bombs. With~ -a length of more than five hundred feet and weighing more than thirty six thousand pounds you can imagine what destruction would result. Fur ther, they are usually on fire whet they drop, and this fire alone, would be a serious menace. * "Thus the aviators have to wail until the Zeppelin~s are clear of the city, and then- they make their at tacks. That, also, is one of the rea sons that over here we have no1 heard that so many of them have been destroyed. "The problem that faces the Brit ish government is -stopping the Ger mans before they reach London. Foi *this purpose, they have ordered all the aeroplanes that can be built, and are taking them as fast as they car be shipped. It is planned to have two thousand planes in the vicinity oi London before the winter, when, ox account of the long nights, +hie Zep pelin raids will, perhaps, become matter of nightly occurrence. "With their great speed, the tin: scout machines, like the one testeC to-day, will do const:.nt patrol duty watching, always watching for Zep pelins. They will circle in the highel levels as near the Zeppelin bases al they can get, and the minute they se< the giants leaving their sheds will b< off to England to give the alarm. I the opportunity is favorable, the: may take a chance and drop one o their few bombs. But these scout are not intended as bomb droppers Their speed is more than twice, o three times, that of a Zeppelin, an< they will have given the alarm i: England tong before the Germans ar - rive. "Then the new 'Canada' type air destroyers being built in Toronto fo the government, the first of which the C/1ada, Is now being shipped carrying two thousand pounds o bombs will go out to meet the Zep pelins. These giant biplanes, on hundred and two feet across th wings, with two motors developini three hundred and twenty horse pou er, have a speed of over ninety mile an hour and can fly circles aroun1 -Zeppelins. They are fitted with th new device for assuring accuracy bombs dropping, and it is the opinio: at our testing grounds in Toront that Zeppelin raids will become sad] unprofitable to the Germans. "The little scouts will also be use when the 'Canada' machines mak their raids on German bases. Ther will not be fewer than two of themt each squadron of ten of the air-de stroyers. and they will go ahead an spy out the land and report the fore of the enemy. as well as mark th direction for the slower machine They will also act as messengers a along the fighting front. and. owin to their size, being merely 'pck editions' of the standard machine! ALLIES HAVE LOST CHANCE OF AID FROM BULiAI ' Roumanian Press Say Hope is Gon Paris Reports Serious Opposi tion to Scheme in Sofia. -Bucharest, Roumania, via Lond Friday: "The allies know that in case may they count on Bulgar: help on the Gallipoli peninsula," s the semi-official Independence f maine in an article dealing with Turco-Bulgarian agreement. "T] t have lost that part of their dip matic contest in the Balkans. It mains to be seen how the other p t will come out. King Ferdinand v leave soon for a week's vacation the Danuke. This fact completely < poses of reports concerning the aci I ities of Roumanian troops on I frontier, which in reality are noth - more than the annual manoeuvre 5 Paris reports: A dispatch of a Balkan agency from Bucharest s. - that the leaders of all the opposit a parties in Bulgaria have held a me 5 ing at which it was decided to p i lish an appeal to the country expla ing the international political sit S tion as affecting that nation. ' 5 appeal will be made on the grot f that under the present circumstan the attitude taken by the governm( is perilous. 3 The Bulgarian government's de sion to make terms with Turkey ] met with considerable opposition. J vices from Bucharest recentlY repe ed'a majority of Bulgarian statesr as favoring a reapproachment w the quadruple entente, Servia 5 Greece. SERVIAN PREMIER PRAISES ATTITUDE OF HIS NATI4 Says She Has Whipped Austria a Conceded Territory Asked for by Bulgaria. Paris, Friday: "Servia has dc her duty fully as an ally," said P mier Pachitch, as quoted by the c respondent at Nish of the Petit F I risien. "First, she has soundly be en the Austrians, second, she 1 made the concessions asked of her her great Allies in order to bri Bulgaria into the Balkan entente. "Whether Bulgaria will come ii the entente is another question. "The Balkan states are deeply ec cerned over the reported concent tion of the enemy north of Servia the purpose of going to the assistar of the Turks. As a matter of no army of the enemy has assembI in the Danube. We have continuo and detailed reports from French a ators on this point. "Moreover," the premier added a tone of deep conviction, "the S( vian army has been reorganized a is wel supplied with munitions. would render most difficult for t enemy a crossing of the mountaino c6untry. He would require at lea four hundred and fifty-thousand m to make the attempt. Where wou the Germans find them now?" STORY OF PEGOD'S DEATH Adversary Writes Father and Gil Description of Battle. The story of the death of Adoip Pegoud, the French ::viator killed cently near Petite Croix in a battle the air with a German aviator, is : lated by ?ilot Corp Kandulski, I conquerer, in a letter to his fath< published in the Berlin Tageblatt. "While flying,'' says the letti "the forts of Belfort opened f against me, the shrapnel bursti around me in the clouds. I 'a hardly out of range of the enem: guns when suddenly a French nx chine approached. The fighting to lace at a height of eight thousa feet. "The first thing I did was to swi sharply around to obtain a free ran to the flank. My observer, Lie' Billitz, immediately fired the machi gun, which, after the thirtieth sh refused to work. "Meanwhile Pegoud approached fifty metres. I encircled him or and suddenly executed a sharp cut to the left, whereby I got him on t flank, and Billitz, whose machine g again was in order, gave him rest.'' - BIGi LOAN SIIRIVELS Wall Street Now Plans to Loan All: Hall Billion. The proposed billion dollar loan Great Britain and France shrivel Thursday in the gossip of Wall str4 o half that size. Five hundred million dollars 'y ~he sum set as the amount Americ nanciers would lend. That figi ~eemed uniform in a half dozen nore repoits current in the financ ~ection. One financier was quoted aying that sum would be loaned. vill be used with the British fleet. "In addition to the 'Canada' tr or. or land aeroplanes, a number 'ydro-aeroplanes have been ordei r'y the British government. Thi re about the same as the other x estroyers, b)ut will be used for ec .:oying and submarine hunting. Ti ave a speed of about sev'enty-l n -iles an hour, are driven by two< 'undred and sixty horsepower C r i motors, and. with the stabili nd new bomb-dropping device. a ~rove a deadfly foe to the U-bo: While a submarine can not be seen a vessel on the surface of the oce n aviator can see it. ever, when i' e ~uerged twenty feet. and a ho articularly when the bomb cons: ~ ropped near it will cave its sides hv'a the mere force of the explosi - two hundred pounds of high exi -ive, as the ones carried by the 'C ada' (elass of air-destroyers do. "I is may opinion that when Curtiss company has turped out 'ral dozen of these big machines 'heir corresponding number of scol dwe will cease to hear about the 2 e elin raids, and the Germans wvill e in to have the pleasure of be 0 'lown up by the English raiders. -nean, of course. that German ha: d 'orts, and military depots will su e 'om raids. as it is not intended t he British air squadron shall e -aid defenseless cities and kill in 0 ent non-combatants. such as the nen and children w'ho have been 't ims of the Zeppelin raids in E NEWS OF THE WAR SCATTERED ITEMS GATIIERED ABOUT WORLD CONFLICT n' B6 NEWS IN SHORT SPACE a's Lys to ,he Interesting Pointers About the Signi ley can Things Which Oftentimes Es re- cape Attention--War Goes on in art 'ill Many Fields of Activity-What the on s- Dr. Karl Bachem of Cologne, Cleri iv- cal member of the Reichstag, has con- 1 the tributed an article to a German news ng paper in which he suggests the possi s." bility that the export of arms and i :he supplies from America has been ex Lys aggerated in order to provoke war be- , on tween this country and Germany. He 4 et- says he was recently assured by a ib- prominent American that American < in- war exports had never approached 1 ,a- the quantities given in the German I 'he newspapers. His conclusion is that i nd "we are systematically to be incited i es through exaggerated reports of Amer mnt ican war supplies in order to impel us to war against America. Caution ci- and reserve in this matter in criticis- I as ing the commercial methods of the 1 Ld- American government at this moment < rt- are the duties of every enlightened < en citizen." ith * nd The victory won by the Russian army near Tarnopol is received in 'Petrograd as a happy omen for the assumption of chief command of the Russian forces by Emperor Nicholas. Grand Duke Nicholas, the former N head of the Muscovite army, has started for his command in the Cau casus. The Dwinsk of the Russian-Ameri can line arrived in New York on her last trip from Archangel several days ago. The liner was delayed six days ne outside Archangel while trawlers *e- swept the channel entrance clear of s )r- German mines, four of which were 'a- found and exploded. i- * as by Dr. Giuseppe Motta, president of ag Switzerland, in a recent interview in Paris, said that neutral. nations are i justified in protesting against war I to since they are its victims. He said N they should unite their protests when r the warring nations began to show t fatigue, and that their proper policy I had ceased to be passiveness and had ce become energy. c * * ' ed During a recent storm on Monte r us Generoso, a peak nearly 6,000 feet - " higher than the latce its base touches, t a bolt of lightning struck a group of f I Swiss soldiers stationed there. Four I r- of the men were thrown over a preci ad pice and killed. it a he ue Announcement has been made by ( the French ministry of war of its in- t tention to requisition all stocks of r ld alchol in France amounting to 200 f gallons or more for the manufacture I of powder. Makers of drugs or simi- t lar products will receive each month - sufficient quantities of alcohol for I their business. es That the French output of muni- I tions is increasing was indicated by b Albert Thomas, minister of muni- i: hie tions, recently while addressing visi- I e- tors to the government factories. He t in said: "At your next visit you will see 1 e- la great change and great progress, t is but already results have been achiev- v ~r,|ed that relieve us of all anxiety." di ~r, A Labor member of Parliament, F. ~ re W. Jowett, 'who wished to go to C ag Berne. Switzerland, to attend the in- p as ternational socialist conference, has r r's been refused a passport by the Brit- I a-lish government. He is chairman of a yk the Independent Labor party. ad ** . It has been said that England has ~ ag 2,300 trawlers, mine sweepers, and ge other auxiliary vessels outside theI it. regular service engaged in sweeping ne the North Sea, from the English ' t, Channel to Iceland, in search for Ger man submarines,. to *. * ce The London Daily Express corre- I ye spondent at Geneva, Switzerland, says f tie la vast espionage plot against France t sn and England has been disclosed in i is Geneva. A German officer and twen ty others have been arrested and more arrests are expected. A writer who was admitted to un- t derground chambers of the citadel of es Verdun describes an elaborate under ground city which the French army a has arranged. He says at least 50,- g: to 000 people can be accommodated c ed there with the supplies necessary to j et their existence. The underground c spaces are from 100 to 200 feet below 3 'as ground level and are almost entirely e an cut from solid rock. There is a hos- e ret pital completely equipped, an inde-i or pendent waterworks system with two jal power stations, a mill, and immense as stores of grain in air-tight metal casks, and numerous other supplies. t _A narrow guage railroad runs through the passages and there are five electric light plants. Commodi- C cous quarters for officers and men, he of sides civilians, complete the under dground city. The Italian armies in the Cadore ev zone in front of the Monte Croce , irange have been forced to desist int ne their advance on the Austrian posi- e ur- tions and set to road building on a mer large scale, for the Austrian territory y .i5l next to the Italian frontier had pur ts posely been left in such condition as b- to interfere with the progress of an Sinvading army, although the Austrian idefense works had been provided mwith well planned lines of communi sts cation with each other and with thel in rear. i Great Britain has begun a policy of nforcing work on her war munitions by fining 240 workmen in Liverpool the in the local munitions court for re ev- fusing to wvork overtime. The fines mnd amounted to $5 apiece in our money. ts. * * ep. The transfer of Americans who en be- listed in the Foreign Legion when the1 [ng war began to a regular French regi I nment is being considered by \linister es. of War 3Millerand. This opening of 'fer the service to foreigners would be hat against all present regulations and ver practices. Before the transfer of in no- fantrymen is taken up. however, the vo- status of American aviators serving ric- under French colors will 'be consider- 1 ged. These men have hitherto been nsidered legionaries attached to the BRITISH PRIZE COURT P CONDEMNS MEAT CARGOES fiillions of Dollars Worth of Ameiri- 'B can Goods are Declared Forfeit ed to English Crown. The British prize court Thursday ,ondemned the greater part of the tb !merican products forming the car- d ;oes of four steamships. The pro lucts, valued at several million dol- W ars, are declared forfeited to the n :rown. In a lengthy judgment Sir Samuel b Evans said it was plain these ships vere carrying goods to Copenhagen t when captured, more than thirteen .imes the amount of goods which un- R er normal circumstances would have w een taken to that port. va That fact gave practical and over- tb helming assurance that the goods in vere intended for Germany, although, tr f course, it did not prove conclusive- ba ythat they were destined for any re nemy of Great Britain. 11 One circumstance throwing light in the real destination of the goods, 1 ir Samuel said, was that the expor- et ation of lard by one American com- R iany alone to Copenhagen in three th veeks after the outbreak of the war m vas twenty times more than in peri- e ids of, peace. of As to tins of canned meat, he said tr t had not been shown that they had ieen sent to Denmark in any great tuantity before the war, let hundreds m if tins were on the way when the ves- H els were captured. These tins, it m eemed, could not have been meant or any persons other than German . oldiers. loW GERMAN CROWN PRINCE hi ba ADVANCED IN VERDUN FOREST R of ra trtillery Demolished French Trenches a and Troops Rushed Forward th re at Point of Bayonet. r Beriin gives by wireless this de- bE cription of the recent victory of the b M. erman Crown Prince in the Ar- th onne: ho "The troops under Gen. von Mudra, w. omprising Wurttemburg, Lorraine ha nd -Prussian regiments, were in read- bu iess for action early in the morning. ad Lt eight o'clock the artillery opened m rith unprecedented violence. The at ain of shis demolished- the enemy renches and shook the morale of theR rench troops. R "For three hours the bombardment ontinued in undiminished intensity.. 'hen, at- eleven o'clock, the German egiments suddenly rushed forward rith bayonets fixed and stormed the renches. Thirty minutes later the - rst reports that enemy trenches had een taken arrived at headquarters. "Shortly after twelve o'clock, the no defined as the limit of the ad ance already had been passed by the tri ermans. The exhaustive prepara- tie ton by artillery fire, which the Ger- M ians had made, resulted in their suf- tie ring comparatively small losses. be 'rench soldiers taken prisoners wete be rribly exhausted and depressed." 'lying Corps. pe tei Honor after death has come to p1i ,ieutenant Frederick William Camp- ar ell of the First Canadian Battalion en the form of the most coveted of ritish military decorations, the Vic- th >ria Cross. At Givenchy on June 15 de Lst Campbell gained a foothold in Br e first line of the German trenches R 'ith a machine gun, and held it un- ga er heavy fire after nearly all' his in amrades had been killed. When the. ag ritish supply -of bombs ran out, wi ampbell took up another exposed al4 ost and succeeded single-handed in tej pulsing the German counterattack.w [e succumbed to his wounds soon al: fter. Al War has brought such a commer- Gr [al boom to Archangel, Russia's Bii orthernmost paort, that it seems to ei; e becoming a sort of Arctic Circle r.e ?ew York. Henry D. Baker, United am tates commercial attache at Petro- dir rad who has made a visit to Arch- ini gel, reports that one hundred na arehouses and thirty piers have een built there during the last few ionths, and that huge quantities of fi reight are continually passing arough on their way to other points a Russia. * * There are fifty-eight submarines in te German navy now, according to a orwegian, who has been traveling 'rough Germany. "France can count on my immor ble will to struggle on until com- d lete victory is achieved," the Czar no f Russia said recently in a talk with e ean Cruppi, former French minister Ri f foreign affairs. The Czar also told. F. Cruppi that he is constantly re eiving letters from Russian peasants rging him to stand firm and assur- th ig him that they are behind him. s * * ra German generals holding the lines thi n the western battle front have been t [e recipients of high praise and onors from the Kaiser for warding f French and English attacks while to be bulk of the German armies were is usy fighting the Russians. Five of th bese commanders have been reward- in d with the order Pour le Merite. OfR hese one, von Heeringen has figurod-. tr gain and again in the war news ince the beginning of hostilities, but tl he names of the other four--Gen- th rals von Falkenhausen, Gaede, von al ;trantz, and von Fabeck--are corn- 'fl aratively new to newspaper readers. wvl , . th Despite the war it is probable, ac. i ording to a dispatch from Berlin, th hat trotting and steeplechase racing. v'ill be revived soon in Germany. It s expected that the first meets will e held at Mariendorf, near Berlin. b3 id Karlshorst. th * * A David Lloyd-George, British minis- di er of munitions, in addressing a to ~raes Union Congress at Bristol, re- Lh ently, said: "Upon the future atti ude of labor depends the issue of the var. With you, victory is assured. 'ithout you our cause is lost.'' After or he speech the meeting adopted a ei eolution indorsing the recruiting or ampaignl. tr Saw Man Leap Into River. tI Park guards sawv a man leap from. ~rospect Point into the Niagara river md go over the American fa~s Thurs lay. In the pocket of a coat left near cc he scene were found papers bearmng m he name of Hugo Wehmeyer of Buf- tv 'ain of ETRORAD ADMITS GERMAN ADVANCE IN PINSK REGION attles in the East Continue With Great Vigor From Baltic to the Black Sea. London. Friday: Petrograd admits e Russians ari falling back in the rection of Pinsk, capture of which as announced Thursday by the Ger ans. Occupation of this town may expected to facilitate greatly the ogress of von Mackensen's forces .rough the Pripet marshes. Stern battles a'p being fought from ga to the Roumanian border, and hile the Germans continue to ad nce slowly in the north and centre, e Russians.in the south are repeat g their successes againit the Aus D-German armies, now being driven ek across the Stripa in Galicia and tiring westward, north of the Ga ,ian Vontier. While these Russian victories are ?lcomed in Russia and the allied untries as an evidence that the assi4l armies are still able to take e offensive when supplied with am unition, there is no inclination- to aggerate their importance. The en ;ements, however, keep the Aus -Germans busy and make it im rative to send southward reinforce ents which could be used to better tvantage in the north where von indenburg is directing operations of ch greater mopient. This general, who began his offen re against the Vilna-Dvinsk railway week ago, has.not yet established mself on the line. His. cavalry, iich did reach it, had been driven ck. Nevertheless he has driven the issians across the Dvina river north Dvinsk, placing that city in a ther dangerous .osition. He also has vanced north of Vilna. South of Vilna, towards Grodno, e Russians are offering stubborn sistance and have the Germans mly held. That is the situation, :, in the centre; Prince Leopold has en delayed in his advance. Von ackensen has passed his -forces rough the Pripet marshes and now lds Pinsk. From this point south Lrd the Russians are advancing and ve reoccupied a number of villages, t they dre not likely to push their vhnce much further as it would ke their northern flank vulner le. )UMANIA PLANS TO FIGHT; RULARIA ASKS EXPLANATION rman and Austrian Troops Said to be Massed on Border in Readi ness to Start Hostilities. The massing of German and Aus an troops on the Roumaniar. fron r has resulted in the Balkan nation king preparations for eventuali s. A part of her army already has en mobilized and reserves have en ordered home. A steadfast refusal of Roumania to rmit transportation through her ritory by Germany of military sup es for Turkey is supposed to have used the animosity of the central Lpires. Recent advices from Rome were to effect that negotiations were un r way for the formation of a new lkan league to be composed of lumania, Servia and Greece. Bul ra, it was said, was not included the negotiations because of her reement with Turkey by which she [ obtain possession of territory rg the Dedeaghatch railway. Non iegro probably would act in accord h- the other three powers as she eady is arrayed on the side of the1 lies in the war. Because of the concentration of eek and Roumnanian troops on the Lgarian frontier, the Bulgarian for ;n minister has instructed the rep sentatives of that country at Athens d Bucharest to request an imme Lte and definite explanation,- accord to Sofia dispatches to The Gior le d'ltalia. 3RMANS CAPTURE VILNA; RUSSIANS ARE SURROUNDED n Hindenburg Almost Closes Circle Around Troops Operating South of Fortress. The Germans occupied Vilna Sun-1 y and, by a sweeping movement rth of that city, have almost if not tirely surrounded a part of the issian army, fighting in the rail y trianle. between Vilna, Lida and The Russians now either must fighti cir way out eastward or retire in ai Ltaheasterly direction, for the only ilway left entirely in th-eir hands is at running from Vilna to Lida and nce to Baronovitchi. Von Hindenburg's army. which1 k Vilna and has reached Vileika. working in close co-operation with at of Archduke Leopold of Bavaria1 an effort to catch a part of theI aissian army,. an operation often ed without success. The Russians ekpress -confidence in outcome of the hattle, but with eir northern armies closely held mg the Dvina, and the German Lk well protected by their cavalry ich recently occupied Widsy, across Vilna-Petrograd railway, it seems possible that any aid can come to em from that direction. To Fight Zeppelins. The numerous altacks on London Zeppelin dlirigibles has impelledi British government to appointi nihral Sri' Percy Mf. Scott, formterly rector of naval gunnery practice. assume charge of the defences of mdon against air raids. British Gold Reaches Pacific. More British gold. nearly five and e-half millions of dollars in sover ns. is due to reach San Francisco the Ocean liner Sonoma from Aus alian bankers, flanks to which it onsigned will handle-it directly to e mint for recoinage. Few Additional Returns. ery few additional returns have me in since last Wednesday. The ajority for prohibition is about eenty thousand votes out of a tota' ift-two thousand. AIR RAID DEADLY NEW YORK HERALD SAYS ORE DAMAGE DONE IN LONDON CENSORS SUPPRESS NEV American Newspaper Says World N. be Shocked at Tale of Destruct] Which lay Come From Capital Any Time-No Confirmation Disaster. The New York Herald says it ha received information which, whi vague, conveys a hint, and eve more than a hint, of a Zeppeli massacre in London last Wedne day night. Added to this, the 'Bri ish colony and business men wi have connections in London ai convinced that when the full ai count of the latest raid is allowe to pass the censors it will tell of tragedy unequalled in history. ] publishing the following, the pap says it has no desire to caul alarm to those who have friends < relatives in London, but to dire< attention to the possible trag message that may come at any m< ment from the British capital. Th British censor on the day followln the raid, allowed word to be cable to the effect that no Americaz were killed. Members of the British colony New York are aroused and alarni by reports that behind the curtain silence with which the British cens< have shrouded the details of the l Zeppelin invasion of London may the most terrible story of death a destruction that the war so far I brought to England. Sweeping over the cables into N York since last Wednesday night week ago, when the German diri bles swept over the heart of Lond< Cropping bombs that dealt death a flame, there have come only . t vague and most guarded reference the raid. Behind these dispatch rigidly condensed by the censor, the appears, It was whispered among t Britons, to be hidden a story of < itruction which will amaze the woi when the full truth becomes knov These dispatches, mere fragmez )f facts, have come to -mercant louses which have offices near Ti algar Square, which seems to ha been the object of the Zeppelin . ack on London. Dispatchea ha ome to Englishmen who have re: ives there, and all of them have i reased the fear which is felt for t afety of friends and members amilies who have connections in t1 ountry. Bankers and brokers who supp< taffs of correspondents and who ha odes which ordinarily manage onvey the true facts of situatiom lespite the strict censorship, we )affled in their attempts to obta mything- like a comprehensive sto )f what really occurred that wi ight when the sky-hosts of the Ka ,r dropped their mighty explosk md inflammables into that part ondon which is the centre of I iight life. The newspaper dispatches whi ave been printed since the Lond< ensor permitted the first meagre n ice of the raid to pass are strange ~onflicting. Dispatches which mug eli the .story of the exact dama lone, through manipulation of appa mtly harmless phrases, are lackir Et is evident, that the censorship >reventing anything but words whi, nay have no double meaning frc >eing sent from London, and in mai rases it appears that dispatches >revent such -a result -are being ormulated by the censors. Repeated cables of inquiry sent Englishmen in New Yor-k to busine ssociates, friends and relatives see ng information remain unanswere Beyond the brief formal annount nent by the war office that Zeppeli 1ad killed twenty persons, wound nany and had set afire some buil ngs nothing definite r's known of t ttack. Appeals to the British ei >assy in Washington for news we ithout result. The mere fact, however, thi >iombs were hailed on persons ai )uildings in the -vicinity of Trafalg quare tells a more sinister sto ;an pages of detail could. Trafalg quare is the core or London. Wit n a radius of a mile are located h reatest official an~d private strt ;ures, her palaces, her legislati alls, her theatres and hotels. The attack was ma-de early in t evening ,according to newsprper d ,atches, which tell as broadly ast :ensor permitted of the hosts of mue vomen and children who dash 'rom the; tres and hotels to peer in he sky -where the Zeppelins float tove the mushroom of shrapt ~rom the anti-air craft guns. Various dispatches to newspape nention the appearance of flames al he crackling of broken structuri And in this vicinity there are no ye mimportant structures. The Chica Daily News correspondent cabled is office that the Daily News offic ut Trafalgar Square and Northumbt and avenue, was safe, and there onveyed the fact that the attack h; een made in the heart of the cii Another correspondent is a brief d Datch said the "eastern counties" London were bombarded. The wor 'eastern counties" is a code for t :entre of London. Almost within a stone's throw Trafalgar Square are grouped t aty's greatest hotels. There are t Ietropole, the Victoria. the Carltc ~orley's and the Grand hotels. A: [n between and around them are t Lheatres and the supper clubs, whe he night life of London has its heir ~Buckingham Palace. the residen f the King; Westminster Abbey, t Parlianment building and St. Jam< hrch are near by. Between Ti algar Scuare and the Thames riv lies Charing Cross station. Just sou of the square is Whitehall. and he re grouped the buildings from whi the destinies of the British empi re swayed. 'There are the Admir: ty buildi.ng. the War Office, t Treasury building and the oth structures wherein' official Britain hi its eing. ~To the noi'theast, and evidently the wake of the Zeppelins on ill night, are the~ Strand and Fli treet, the home of London's nev papers. On the northwest side of t ,,ur is the National Gallery a ' ISTRIKE CAUSES NEAR RIOT IN COLUMBIA ON THURSDA kTRailway Company Resumes Car Se, vice and Striking Workmen Try to Deter Workers. A riot was narrowly averted i (S Columbia on Main street, in front c the State House, Thursday afternoo following the efforts of the striker to induce men who were running th street cars to leave their places. Ay General Manager A. A. Wallace, o on the street railway, who had jumpe on the street car, which was sur at rounded by the .strikers and thei sympathizers, struck H. A. Stack, of policeman, over the head with switch rod, thinking that he was member of the crowd trying to rus Ls the car and attack him. A crow e which had gathered massed aroun n the car and there were cheers an n jeers when Mr. Wallace was carrie . off by the police to the station house . Later he was released under bond. * This incident came directly after * car was stopped on Main street, an A. W. Oxner, who was running a d motorman, was taken from the car a When this car turned from Gerva n street into Main, In front of the Stat T House, several strikers tried to in e duce the motorman to quit his place >r Just what followed is not known, bu :t some remark was made and a bi c crowd followed the street car for tw >- blocks and caught it in front of th e National Loan and Exchange Bank1 g Mr. Wallace and policemen came t d the scene, and after some time Mi S Oxner was escorted to the sidewalk A lane wide enough for automobile in to pass through was kept open wit m difficulty, and finally an automobil ed ran over G. C. Warner, manager a of the Ideal Theatre, who was In th I crowd. He was removed to the hos st pital and given attention. li After some time Mr. Oxner, accom as panied by Mr. Wallace, came back t the car arid getting on took it up th street, while some in the crowd cheer w ed and others jeered. Policeme: .a finally got the crowd to disperse. n,1 ad SHOULD ENCOURAGE MILITIA, he to DECLARES SENATOR TILLMAI re he le. National Security Leagues Gives Ou ,d Letter Written to South Caro Att lina's Senior Senator. ile. a- "Encouragement ought to be giver ye in every possible way to the variou Lt- states to drill and equip their militi ve to make them more efficient. Th a- government ought to see to it that n- supply of the necessary arms, witl e munitions enough to supply half z of million men, should be kept or is hand." Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, o ,rt South Carolina, chairman of the Sen re ate Committee on Naval Affairs, ex to pressed this sentiment in a letter ti is, the National Security League, mad( re public in New York last week. Sena in tor Tillman was asked by Presiden ry Wilson to form one of the conferenc< Id committee which is to discuss na is tional defence prior to the assembling es of congress. The National Securit: of League is conducting a nation-widE ts campaign for preparedness and Sena tor Tillman gives warm encourage meat in his letter. It reads: n "'I regard the matter of nationa o- defence as a very burning issue. En ly couragement ought to be given it h every possible way to the variou estates to drill and equip their mnilitit r. sufficiently to make them more effi gcient. Military training, if it can bE Sbrought about, should be taught ix h- every college for men throughout thi i country. The number of officer: y properly educated - to handle thE t troops should be increased. The navi e should be kept in first class condition with such additional submarines anc fast cruisers as the best naval offjcert 'E consider necessary." d. DID GREAT DAMAGE ds Berlin Reports Destructive Attack bI d- Zeppelins, E-I Berlin, Friday, by wireless t< re Tuckerton, N. J.: The German ad miralty Friday gave -out an accoun1 at of the Zeppelin raid over London or id Wednesday night of last week. ThE ar statement follows: r'y "The German naval airships suc ar cessfully attacked, on the night o h September 8-9 the west part of thE er City of London, large factories nea: c- the port of Norwich an~d the iroi ve works at Middlesborough. "Great explosions and numerou ie fires were noticed. The airships wer< .s- shelledl violently by the enemy's bat ie teries but all returned safely." d across the sti-eet is the quaint, hoar3 to old church, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields d To the southwest is the Mall, whici el caresses St. James' Park and Buck ingham Palace, which lies at its end rs That some of these structures id which are the visible founts of Grea "- Britain's power, were damaged or de ry stroyed is apparent from the edi o torials in the London newspaperL to which have been cabled- here. Th e, Daily' Telegraph said on Thursda3 r- morning: S"The only effect produced by thes< d Zeppelin attacks is to demonstrat( .the perfect efficiency of the fire de of partmrent and renew the determiua oftion of Londoners to crush the bru ds talized spirit which inspires thesE dsenseless outrages." of It will be remembered that pre he vious raids on England from sea anc L air have received summary treatmen , at first fromr the censor. The raid 01 nid Scarborough, the first of the outrageL e of the Germans against an unprotect eed, non-combatant people, was men tioned casually. Other air raids or eLondon suburbs and other points ir re England have been trerated as affairL -~ of no importance, but each time . though these attaL.s fell on districtL r not thickly settled. the death toll an< th the damage were great. Thre officia record of the dead and wounded ix all air raids is given as 117 dead re :40 wounded and two missing. Thi: -includes the official list of twent: he dead as a result of Wednesday's at er tacks. but whether the list of the lat as est victimns is correct is not knowi in The world is awaiting the openini at of the cables or the arrival here o et mail which has escaped the censor' -s- eye and which will tell the story o le the rain of death and fire from th I GLNT - LUIIN NEW YORK SPECJDATOR LOOKS FOR DEMAND AFTER WAR WORLD'S SUPPLY IS LOW Cotton Mills are Not Loaded Up, Nor f are Merchants and Buyers--Counts r on Germany and Austria Asking a for 5,000,000 Bales Whenever . They Can be Delivered. Eugene G. Scales, who operated j with James A. Patten in the 1909 I cotton -pool as a member of the' so called "Big Four," and who was reputed.to have made and lost a for tune of $10,000,000, is a bull in the present. cotton market. Mr. Scales talked for publication recently. s It was the second time'in his life that he ever did such 'a thing, says the New Y'rk Tiies, but, as he put it, he felt he was justified. The'frst - time was in 1909, when another big cotton operator tried to. promote a t plan for hoarding, cotton in the South. d "E. G.," as "the Street" calls Mr. > Scales, thought such.a plan would be B ruinous and he told his Texan friends not to be foolish. It was the European war that caus ed "E. G." to tallk. There was -such confusion in the minds of cotton 5 growers and dealers as to the effect 1 of the war on cotton, he said, that an ' old timer" hight help to clarify tbw situation. "And don't think I'm going to give you an optimistic interview because of my market position," said the op - erator. "To-day I am long less 5,000O bales of cotton. I have studied th6 cotton market intensely for twenty - years, and am basing my calculations on the government's figures." "E. G." said short sellers of cotton had better "go into hibe'rnation" be fore it was too late. Every sign Indi cated a general prosperity, he insist ed, and cotton would. share in that prosperity. The South was fortified - with plenty of money, he said, and would prevent any repetition of last t year's calamity -in the cotton trade The bears were all wrong, he said, and would soon find out that their ar guments were not well founded. This .is a time for optimists, the L cotton speculator said, and the gov ; ernment's figures, showing a 10 per L cent. reduction in acreage, shoulid convince any oie of that. While ad L mitting that a sudden peace would L upset the market temporarily, Ih L gave it as his view that -within a i month after peace-was declared there would be a great scrambling among nations for this co':utry's cotton. "I can see nothing but good busi ness in America, at least for the next few years," said Mr. Scales.' '"Ie steel mills are busy, and. that Is the test. America has the stuff to-sell, and big business must be the'resut "The cotton mills are not loaded up with cotton, and neither are the merchants, wholesalers, or retailers. They are all carrying the minimtbn of cotton in stock. These people must buy eventually. In addition,. Europe will use a great deal more of-cotton. in the next few years than sheused t in the last few years. Things once -made of silk in Europe will be ziiade tof cotton after the war Is. cver. My Sidea is that the stocks of dry goods .throughout the world are -d0w; to low ebb, other countries being. worse off than America. "So I maintain most strongly that' there is an enormous short interest. in cotton. America next season will con sume between 6,500,000 and4 7,000 000 bales of cotton. Europe takes 65 per cent. of our cotton, and the'shor in will be even greater in Europe than in America. The short .interest in actual cotton is the most enormious in the history of the cotton trade." - In this connection Mr. Scales .maia. tained that when the buying of . the, mill ownerssdid begin iii earnest they would find themselves in competitiona with the speculators. There. would. be a wave of speculation, he said? similar to that in the stock mnarket when the war stock adjusted them.s selves to new conditions. "There's Germany," 4sontinued the cotton man. "The other day she'of--' fered to buy 1,000,000 bales of cot, ton at 15 cents a pound, delivered itu Bremen. Before this year's crop haa' passed away Germany will buy that cotton and store it in America await ing peace for its shipment, an'd Ger many will pay 15 cents for it here. "Well, what do you think will hap pen to the price of cotton?" a report er asked. "Now, I am not going to advise farmers what to do -with their cot ton," he replied. "I can only give' them my idea of the future price. I am firmly convinced that the present -prices are deceiving no one but themselves, and are robbing no. one but their own wives and childreni. "In my opinion, cotton during this - season will sell very, very high-how high I do not believe any cotton man can guess within 2 cents a pound. It will go two cents a pound higher than the normal range of vision of even an optimist.. "W'2at I- say, of course, is on the assumption that the war will continue for another year or two. I do not be lieve there is a man living who would be willing to be short of cotton over night at 13 cents a pound if he knew that peace would be declared. You can say for me, however, that I, per sonally. would not be short and guar antee to stay short one month after peace was declared, even if the price were 15 cents a pound. If peace were declared Germany and Austria; would want 3,000,000 hales out of this crop, an amount too large to give them out of a crop of only 12,000,000 bales. Cotton would leap, not by points, but by cents.". 1)o Not Need U. S. Money. Government money probably will not be needed to aid in the annual fall crop -movement in territory from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains, north of Texas, according to advices received Thursday by See-. -retary McAdoo. Russian Duma Prorogued. The Russian duma was prorogued Thursday until mid-November, Presi 3dent Rodzianko announced an im I peial orde'r authiorizing the proroga tion whic-h had been transmnitted thrmmah Premnier Goremykin.