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C'v, VOL. XXVIII. MlANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1915. MARCH OVER DEAD FRANTIC FIGITING IN HOUSE CELLARS OF LOOS TOWN HEROIC GERMAN OFFICER British Correspondent Tells How He Directed German Artillery on the House He Occupied as Prisoner Along With English Officers-Dis- C Lodge Germans With Grenades. i The British correspondents at the headquarters in France have now f been permitted to send descriptions ( of exciting phases of the great battle of Saturday and Sunday north of t Lens. a "Now, after the first rush is-over," c writes the Chronicle correspondent, 3 "there is time to tell the story of one a of the greatest achievements gained a by British troops in this war. There e were many battalions of the new t army men among those who led the g attack, and among them were the Scottish regiments, who had their b full share of horrors in the first as- a sault. b "Many of them, though belonging to regiments with famous old tradi- a tions that ha- already won glory on a the western front, were recruits but a hardly arrived in Flanders. E "These splendid boys listened - through the night of Friday last tc the intense bombardment which pre -ceded the assault, that in itself was s tremendous test of nerve, but at 6.30 h a. m. Saturday, when their officers t gave the word, the battalions leaped out of their trenches with a wild hur rah. -"They reached the enemy's lines o: 2 trenches without suffering many cas ualties and found the frst two line of barbed wire had been effectively broken down by the artillery bom bardment. The third line was uncut and was very strong wire, with grea, C barbs. The first two trenches were ca b ried with a rush at the bayonet point X a large number of Germans bein E klled. The uncut wire made the firs check,. but the British, reckless o; their -lives, attacked it desperately 'hey stood up under the deadly fir( of machine guns and forced a wa' through the entanglements. "One of the most extraordinary in eidents among the grim scenes whicl took place in . the smoke and mis came when a company of kilties ad vancing at the charge came face t( face with a very tall German who although dead with a bullet througl the- brain, stood erect, wedged ii some way in the trench. "It was so startling and uncanny that with one accord the wave of mer A - parted and swept on each side of hin as though some obscure spectre bar red the way. "Rank after rank streamed up, anc at last the great tide of men pouret through and swarmed forward to th' village, and then three-quarters of 3 mile further on. As they ran, shout ing hoarsely, they were faced by fir, fran an enormous number of ma thine gun, and from every part o the vag e there- came the stead, rattle of these weapons pouring ou -steams of lead. - -"There were machine guns in th<: windows of many houses and on tot Sof the 'tower bridge,' the tall min. -cranes whichi rose 300 feet from the centre of the. village, and in narrov A --trenches dug across the streets. Jr the cemetery to the southwest of th< town which our' men had passed -there were no less than 10~0 machin< *guns,.so it was in itself a fort 0 -great strength. "It was 8 o'clock when those wh< had not fallen reached the outskirt of the village of Loos, and for neari: -two hours there was street fightin; -of terrible character. Many battal ions were mixed up, many of their of~ - cers were killed and wounded, an< the battle was made up of individua .combats, or small groups fighting : way from house to house, and separ ate encounters in rooms and cellars la --"Although the town had been se verely damaged by our shell fire anc the church in the centre was in ruins no fire had broken out and the shell; -of houses still stood. "These were crammed with Ger man troops, who used the cellars a' trenches from which they could fir' upon the British through aperture in the street. They also fired througi *windows and doorways behind th< -shelter of thp walls, and some o them had their machine guns in th . garrets. "Here and there small parties o these German troops defended them selves with the courage of despai and would not yield uni tey wert killed to the last man. "Others were cunning and rathe courageous in their methods of fight ing. A great mass of them undoubt edly were surprised and demoralize' by the rapidity and sweeping strengt' of the British attack and it was b wholesale surrenders the British too' a large number of prisoners. "Men of this class, after the firs resistance at rifle range or with ma chine guns, seemed to have no figh in them at all. In one house entere by a little kilted signaller thirty Ger mans, including an officer, surrender - (Continued on la~st page.) PLAN JOINT REUNION -4- - Blue and Gray Will Gather in W ash ington if Confeds Agree. If the plans of Col. Hilary A. Her bert, former secretary of the navy are adopted Confederate and Unior soldiers will meet in Washington iir 1917 for a grand reunion and re view. The G. A. R. men in conven tion in Washington this week unani mously approved the plan and if th! Confederates concur a reunion wil' be held in Washington that will sur pass the fiftieth anniversary of Get tysburg held two years ago wher thousands of veterans on both side met and discussed the great battle Explosion on Italian Warship. A fire producing an explosion or. the Italian battleship Benedetto Brir killed a rear admiral and about one half of the crew. Lose Another Transport. Athens reports that the British transport Ramazam has been sunk b' a submarine and that certain mem hers of the crew have landed. IUSSIA CALLS ON BULUARIA TO LAY DOWN HER HAN] :zar's Minister is Ordered to Leave i 24 Hours if Reply of Bulgars Prove Unsatisfactory. Petrograd says the Russian miniE er has been ordered to leave Safn nless within twenty-four hours th ;ulgarian government openly break ith Austria and Germany and send .way Austrian and German officer ow in Bulgaria. A semi-official news -agency give he following ote the minister at Sofi as been ordered to hand to Mr. Ra .oslavoff, the Bulgarian premier: "The events which are taking plac a Bulgaria at this moment give evi .ence of a definite decision of Kinj 'erdinand's government to'place th< te of its country 'in the hands o ermany. "The presence of German and Aus rian officers at the ministry of wa: nd on the staff of the army, the con entration of troops in the zone bor ering Serbia and the extensive fin ncial support accepted from oui nemies by the Sofia cabinet no long r leave any doubt as to the object o: he military preparations of Bul aria. "The powers of the Entente, wh< ave itt heart the realization of th( spirations of the Bulgarian people aye, on many occasions, warned M adoslavoff that any hostile ac1 gainst Serbia would be considere a directed against themselves. Th ssurances given by the head of thi ulgarian cabinet in reply to these arnings are contradicted by th( Lts. -"The representative of Russia, *hich is bound to Bulgaria by the perishable memory of her libera on -from the Turkish yoke can not mnction by his presence preparationm >r fratricidal aggression against a Lav and allied people. The Russian inister therefore has received or ers to leave Bulgaria with all the affs of the legation and consulates ' the Bulgarian government does )t within twentyfour hours openly eak with the enemies of the Slav Luse and of Russia and does not at ice proceed to send away officers longing to armies of states which .e at war with the powers of the ntente." . S. IS NOT SATISFIED WITH LATEST GERMAN NOTE gotiations Entered Upou by von Bernstorff and Officials at Wash ington in Informal Way. Germany has failed to satify the quest of the United States that the aking of the Arabic with a loss of merican lives be disavowed and lia lity for -the act assumed by thd im rial government. This became known after a con rence between President Wilson id Secretary Lansing at which the cretary submitted a note given him turday in New York by Count von ernstorff, the German ambassador. o announcement was made after the lite House conference. Secretary Lansing mirely said that was inadvisable to comment on the tuation while negotiations were still nfidential. He declined to say what e next move would be, but it was 'arned later the German ambassa 3r would be asked to come to Wash tgton to receive the view which the merican government, takes of the st German note. Count von Bernstorff is fully au orized by his government to con ct the submarine negotiations. The gotiations are being conducted ithout publication of the texts of Le notes, messages or memoranda ,ssing between the two governments ius permitting frank discussion. &ONFF SAYS BULQARIA MUST ANSWER TO RUSSIA ussan Premier Denounces Her "Un Thinkable Treachery to Slavic Cause-Must Act or Disarm. Sergius Sazonoff, Russian ministei foreign affairs, declared to the .ssociated Press correspondent las1 'eek that if the Bulgarians persis1 their present traitorous cours< 1ey must ansyer to Russia. "The situation in the Balkans is ery grave. The whole nation i roused by the unthinkable treach ry of Ferdinand and his governmen1 the Slavic cau' . Bulgaria'owel er independence to Russia and yei eems willing now to become a vas al of Russia's enemies. "In . her attitude towards Servia rhen Servia is fighting for her ver: istence, Bulgaria puts herself in lass with Turkey. We do not be eve that the Bulgarian people sym athize with the action of their rul r. Therefore, the Allies are dispos d to give them time for reflection. lAVE IMPORTANT POSTS outh Carolina Congressmen Tak Front Rank on Committees. South Carolina will take a mor omanding position 'n the comin ession of congress than any othe ie since the WVar Between the Sec ions, unless the present plans fo ~ommittee assignments go wronl ongressman Whaley is slated for >lace on the powerful .iudiciary con ittee and Mr. Byrnes may be give i place on the appropriation commil :ee to succeed Former Congressma Joe Johnson. Congressman Aik en. s said, is being groomed for an in ortant chairmanship and Congres man Nicholls. the new member fro: the state. will he well taken care o Mr. Lever is already chairman of th agricultural committee and Mr. Fir ley ranks second on post offices an post roads. 300 Cases of Cholera. Amsterdam reports via Londo Friday that cholera is raging in Ga] 'ia the Telegraf says, and accordiri to the home office three hundre cass have been reported. Sailing Vessel Sunk. London. Friday: The sailing vess Helen Beyon has been sunk. He crew was saved. The Helen Beyc ,'iERMAN LINE HLN[ n BRITISH AND FRENCH KEEP I OFFENSIVE AROUND LENS E GERMANS ADMIT LOSSI s From London and Paris Come I S scriptions of Steady Progress .Allied Troops-Towns are Destr4 ed and Railway Communicatic Threatens-Artillery Fire Hea A special correspondent of the N York World, writing from Paris, sa he learns from the highest possil military source that the German l: r es in Champagne alone total mc than 60,000, and that the Kaise advent in that sector is evidence tt the Germans fear disaster will ov< whelm their sorely tried centre. Artois they have lost between 30,0 and 40,000. Although it is imp( sible to cable an estimate of t French casualties, I am empower to state that their total is consid ably below that of the Germans. This is remarkable, in view of t faot they were the attacking fort but it is partly explained in the tr ling number of prisoners taken by t Germans. The number of Germa captured by the French, on the oth hand, is amazingly large. Most of the wounds on the Fren side were caused by shrapnel a; machine guns, while the Germa were either entombed beneath t' artillery cloudburst immediately pi ceding the infantry attacks, sliced open by French bayonets. the fury of their charge the Freni had little time to use- their rifles e cept for stabbing purposes. "Silencing their machine guns w our hardest job-there seemed to literally thousands of these venomo weapons tearing away at us," one the first wounded officers arriving Paris told me. So ear-shattering was the canno ade, which raged for seventy-tv hours before the advance proper b gan, that many cases of deafne were reported among the gunnei whose batteries were crowded t gether with scarcely elbow room b tween the guns. In those seventy-two hours, fro noon Wednesday to noon Saturda more than (deleted) shells bur among the German intrenchments, i: cluding thousands upon thousan of huge projectiles more powerf than any yet launched from Fren< guns in field warfare. On my recent visit to the Char pagne front I got a good idea of ti difficulties confronting an attackii force on either side. Not only a: the opposing trenches 300 or 4( yards apart along the Aisne valle but to reach the German lines fro the French means running first dow: hill and then uphill across absolute open ground covered with pitfal made by shell craters, exploded min, and disused trenches. During their charge the attackit force would always have to face E intense rifle and machine gun fusi lade, and at many points be enfilad as well. During my visit seven weel ago the French sappers were burs ing mines under the enemy almo daily, an operation which at tim seemed rather purposeless. In the light of present develo meats, it is easy to understand tl mining was deliberately designed ptve the way for the artillery cyclo: even then in contemplation, by brea ing up the continuity of the Germs earthworks. For cavalry to traver territory of this kind appeared ii possible then. In the last three da the impossible has been achieve however, and at some points hors men have even sabred German art lerymen. , How they managed to g across can not be fully told. The German counter attacks in tl Argonne were no surprise to t French high command. which h: carefully planned for resistan to just such an onslaught that point. In all but a few unii portant places the famous "curtain shellfire" was sufficient to holdC the Crown Prince's troops, who losses proportionately far exceed those of the French in Champagne London reports: The flower of t British army in France is being hu: ed forward in a terrific effort to ca ture Lens and thus cripple the enti system of the German lines of col munication. It is the greatest Br ish offensive against the Germa since the war began. The English army's part in the u precedented drive in the west is t ing carried out under special orde from Lord Kitchener, the British 'i secretary, to smash the Teutonic liz or exhaust every hnman endeavor trying. The sixth day of the migi battle, whose chief storm centers between Arras and La Bassee and the Champagne and Argonne regio: found no Jl-u, in the power oft drive against the two -flanks of t German army of invasion. In the lulls between infantry saults and counter attacks the gre guns of the Allies and Germans 4 gage in shattering artillery du across fields strewn with thousat of dead and wounded. Every trc and supply train returning from 1 front is crammed with wounded, a the military hospitals are overflc eing. ;La Bassee, Lens, Vimy, Fampol Willerval, Mericourt and scores - other towns lying within the Gem r lines between Arras and the La B .see Canal are being pounded nii and day by the guns of the Brit -and French. A German salient tends west of Lens and this is bei -hammered on the north side by 1 1 British. while the French. from th It new position at hill No. 140, deli t- smashing attacks against the sou -era side. n Battered trenches. over which1 r. Allies swept when the battle be; e on Saturday, are still choked w~ - German dead. The British 1 French are relying upon their ar lery andl the bayonet : the chief h< of the German defenders is their chine guns. of which they have h d reds. SLoos. Hulluch and Angres. wh have been captured hy the Al since the "fall drive"~ becan. dheaps of ruins, the shattered hon standing like grim monuments ah piles of English. French and Geri dead who fell in the hand-to-h: el fighting in the streets. r Every dispatch from the front. in fiial and unofficial, emphasizes . -(Continnled on last page.) FRENCI STILL PROGuRESSING; BATTLE IN ARTOIS DISTRICT UP Franks Attack Trenches With Hand Grenade-Violent Germanic Bombardment. N Paris: In the great battle in the . Artois district the French have made further progress by means of attacks with hand grenades in German trenches. Announcement to this ef )e- fect was made Friday by the war of fice. The text of the communication of follows: "In the Artois district we have >- made progress by the use of hand >s grenades in the trenches and under ground passages to the east and to ry. the south of Neuville. "Two German counter attacks have w been delivered, one against a fort ys which we conquered Thursday in the >le forest of Givenchy; the other against s- the Trenches to the south of Hill 119, re where French troops had installed r's themselves. Each of these attacks at was conclusively repulsed. r- "To the north of the Aisne. near In Soupir, the enemy conducted a vio 00 lent demonstration against our >s- trenches. The firing of their artil he lerv and their infantry was not fol ed lowed by an infantry attack. r- "In the Champagne district our fires 'put a definite check to a Ger he man counter attack in the vicinity of e, Malsons de Champagne. if- "The number of 'prisoneri made e Thursday evening during our advance as to the north of Massiges is two hun er dred and eighty, including six offi cers." id OUTLINES GERMAN ATTITUDE I as e TOWARDS SMALL COUNTRIES e Dr [n ' h Holland Has Noth5-; to Fear But : Fate of Belgium and Poland Is are in Doubt. >e is Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, DT Friday: Germany's attitude toward in Holland, Belgium and Poland was I outlined in an interview given by Dr. i M- Alfred Zimmerman, under-secretary I ,o for foreign affairs, to the 'Nieuwe e- Rotterdamsche Courant. This inter ss view, reproduced in th'e Lokal An- ( 's, zieger, was given out as follows by 0- the Overseas News agency: e- "Dr. Zimmerman insisted -Holland had nothing to fear from Germany. m He said Germany would not violate y, the neutrality of Holland or interfere St with her political or economic ind'e '- pendence. Germany appreciates the t Is fact that Aolland is maintaining , ti strict 'neutrality." - :h As to Belgium, the inder-secretary stated that its future was still un I- known, but a solution of this diffi Le cult problem must be found which g will render it certain Belgium will :-e not be utilized for the purpose of >0 England. Germany has always de Y, sired peace and now wishes a guaran m tee that there will not be in the fu- 1 I- ture another war such as the present ly one. is "Poland's future also is unknown," S Dr. Zimmerman said. He expressed the conviction that "no one would be tg able to oppose Germany's will." ,d DEATH LIST MAY REACH 70 1 * IN WAKE OF GULF STORM Enormous Toll Exacted by Great Bur ie ricane Blast That Swept Gulf S Coast on Wednesday. . 4 -The death list resulting from- the hurricane whc wpt the New Or eleans section and the Miississippi gulf 1 coast Wednesday is expected to reach i sixty-five or seventy, while property ddamage will mount into the millions, according to the latest reports com piled Friday. The losses are distri ebuted as follows:C New Orleans-Nineteen dead, two 2hundred injured, property loss more ethan two million dollars. Mdississippi coast-Thirteen dead, a scores injured or missing, property tloss estimated at two million dollars. ofFrenier, La.-Twenty-five dead, about twenty injured, heavy damage eto railroads. seAutomobiilists from New Orleans dreported that the work of rehabili tation of the city was progressing e rapidly. The streets are being clean ed of debris and buildings left in a dangerous condition by the storm are re being torn down. Railroad traffic -from the west into the city has been n- partially resumed, it was reported, sand the telegraph and telephone com panies were working night and day ' to restore wire communication be ~tween the stricken city and the out h side world. It was stated no outside ar aid would be asked for New Orleans. SALLIED RESOURlCES. NEAR E|ND sBerlin Expert Figures That 'Men in he rance and Russia are About Out. Berlin reports: Gerinany has not s yet reached the limit of her military at 'efforts, while her foes are draw~ing n- near the end of their resources de als clares Mfajor Moraht, the military ds ci'itic of the Berliner Tigeblatt, in a OP review of the present sta-tus of the lie belligerents. nd Major Moraht points out tliat Ger w- many places the military age -limit at forty-five, and has not even regis ix, tered'* men younger than twenty. of while France. lie says, is pr.eparing an to send to the front nineteen-year-old s- boys and has soldiers on the fighting ht lines who are more than forty-fivc *sh years old. Boys of eighteen are al ex- 'ready fighting on the Russian front ng line. Iir OPES FOR PEACE Bulgaria Says She Intends to Threat :an en None of Her Neighbors. l( Bulgaria is threateing none of her -neighbors and still hopes for a paci fic 'settlement which "will take her >interests to account." says a semi official statement issued Friday at -Sofia and sent to Reuters. -The statement was issued because -of the attitude taken by the French re and Runssan press. It declared Bul ~ aria mobilized to face a new situa on and assure her national exist enee,('l( as wellh as heor future. SI Zeppehins Sighted. f- .\msterdam reports: Six Zeppe&ins. the flying westward, were sighted near Archnt Thursday. PLANS FOR D1READNUGIiT ARE CAREFULLY GUARDE Officials Secretive About New Idea of Defence Against Torpedo At tack-Experiment for Year. Hull plans of the two thirty-two thousand-ton superdreadnoughts, bid for which were advertised recentl3 are being closely guarded in Wash ington by navy department official as they include new ideas as to de fense against torpedq.attacks. Whil< the general characteristics of th< ships have been made public, no de tails of the hull construction havi been given out. It is understood, however, that thi experiments with floating caisson begun immediately after the effec tiveness of submarines was demon strated in the European war hav4 thrown light upon the problem o guarding ships bottoms from torped4 attacks and that provision has beei made in ,lanE for the new vessels foi greater sub-division and possibly foi a degree of Pr?ior over vital sections The caisson experiments will con. tinue probably for another year. Nav] experts are applying their theories i actual practice. The results of thi tests are kept secret. . The new ships will havethe clippei bows adopted for the Californh 3ass,- carry twelve fourteen-incl guns mounted three to a turret and will make twenty and one-half knot in hour. In size the ships will b( :ne maximum that can pass througl :he Panama Canal, 640 feet in lengtI ind ninety-eight feet in beam. PLAN TO KILL iERMAN RESISTANCE IN FRANC! [ndon Says Joffre and French are Making Decisive Test Strength of Teutonic Positions.. London, Wednesday: 'No great 'ange in conditions is shown, but 4ngland attaches high importance to ndications that the offensive move nent of the Allies is not to be relax d. A short breathing spell has been ucceeded by the hardest pressure on erman positions at the points weak ned or shattered by the Allies' rush. That it is the intention to maintain his pressure is indicated by a tele ram from Field Marshal French to he Lord Mayor of London, thanking im for his message of good will. [he British commander added that he message encouraged his trQops 'to push the immediate success to a eally decisive issue." This leads the public to believe here is to be no stalemate such ~as ollowed the battle of Neuve Chap elle but that with new British forces a the- field and ample supplies of .mmunition, General Joffre and ield Marshal French plan a real est, whether German resistance in 'rance and Belgium can be broken. [20,000 iERMANS LOST IN TIlE ALLIED OFFENSIVE ----- aris Gives War Office Estimate of Enemy Losses at Great Fig ure-Fighting Continues. German casualties in the recent ffensive of the French and British ncluding killed, wounded and pris ners, were given officially by the rench war office Wednesday as in !xcess of the strength of three army :orps-more than one hundred and wenty thousand men. There is no interruption of the ighting in Champagne. Progress of the French in the 'krtos region, northwestern France, :ontines. North of Massiges, the war office ays. one thousand Germans surren lered. RATIFY TREATY WITll TURKS ulgars Receive Territory After Issu ing Decree for Mobilization. 'aris reports Wednesday that, the rurco-Bulgarian treaty was ratified september 22, the representatives 01 rurkey attaching their signature! ynly upon receiving proof that a de ree for the m-obilization o6f the Bul larian army, really.-had been issued the Matin asserts. As a further precaution Turke3 stipulated that the Dedeaghatch' rail' road should not be. tur~ned overs tc Bulgaria until October 6, leavinl Eoiiteen days for Bulgarian mobiliza tion.' The territory will not be ceded unntik October 11, so that Turkey anc Geiiny may sed what disposition is made:of the Bulgarian army. . Mepwhile,.the, Matin, declares, the Germans are in command at Sofia a! weflV as at -Constantinople and the Teut-onic minister is reported to ha'n exprese d feep indignation becais the stratgici-ailrad to Lom--Palankt on -the Danube has not been: complet RECALL ELECTION FALS: Reaufort Incumbents Win Over Oppo nents Who Seek to Recall Them. Mayor C. E. Danner and Council man WV. F. Marscher won the recal election Tuesday over Rt. R. Legar' and J. B. Dodd by a vote of 144 ti 7. There were 158 white voters an< sixty-six negro voters. The best o order prevailed at the polls and al over town. The result is accepte' quietly. Many of those who carrie' the recall in the primary on Septem ber 17 by a vote of 94 to 15 coul not vote 'because they had lost thei registration certificates and there wa no opportunity to get duplicates. Safe Conduct for Dumba. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the Britis ambassador, Thursday took to th state department the safe conduct fo Dr. Constanltin Dumiba, the Austria ambassador, who was recalled by h~ government at the request of tl Unitedl States. German Generals Reinovedl. Amsterdam reports Wednesda that, two unnamed German genera hav- been removed from comman on account of the, recent setback th hands of the Allies. )IRELIEF TO BELOI1P 1 -4E -- t COMMISSION FLAG FLEW 01 195 SIPS LEAVING PORT LONDON SENDS A REPOR' Vastness of Work Accomplishe Among Belgians and That is Noi Being Carried Out in France i Given-People Sent Many Useles Things in Their Zeal to Help. From the latest report of the Com inission for Relief in Belgium receiv edI from London at the New York of fices, 71 Broadway. New York, mue Interesting information is obtaine4 and side lights thrown upon the va rious phases of the Commission' work of distributing food and cloth ing in Belgium. Up to June 30 th commission has had one hundred an< ninety-five ships in its service. The chartering of these ships ha been entirely free of any commis sions and great savirg in harboi dues, wharfage, stevedores, insur ance, etc., has been'effected. Thes4 ships have discharged at Rotterdan 655,295 metric tons, or 1,467,880, 800 pounds, of food and clothing. In Belgium there are more thar 4,000 separate committees engage in the work of distribution to the population, numbering a little mor( than 7,000,000, and outside of Bel gium about 2,000 charitable organi zations have aided in the work of col lecting money to buy food for the destitute, who number around 2,750, 000. Comparison of the commercial re sources of Belgium with other Euro pean nations showed, from the latest obtainable data in 1912, that Bel gium'imported 78 Der cent:- of its wheat and . flour; its population at that time being 652 to the square mile. The United Kingdom, with a popu lation of 374 to the square mile, im ported 9-2 per cent. of its wheat and flour- Germany, with 310 to the square mile, 35 per cent.; and France with 189 to the square mile, but 18 per cent., showing that France nor mally raised more wheat than any other of the belligerent powers, ex cept Russia. Belgium also Imported 70 per cent. of its peas and beans, 80 per cent. of Its barley, 47 per cent. of its rys, 21 per cent. of its oats, and 100 per cent of its corn and rice. The Bel gians did not use barley, oats, rye, or corn directly as bread-stuffs to any material extent, but consumed these grains as fodder and brewing mate. rials. Under the -immediate direction of an American delegate in each prov ince, the food distr.ibution throughout Belgium is conducted by the local committees; the principal committee being the provincial committee and the subsidiary committees being the regional and communal. These turn over to the local millers the grain provided by the commission, and the millers are compelled to account for every pound. Something of an idea of the amount of wheat that has been'con sumed within less than a year may be gained from the fact that 35,00 tons of bran have been accumulati. as a by-product; this bran being used~ to feed cattle. Through the business-like methods used by the commission in its pur. chasing department, it has been en abled to furnish to the Belgians, who can pay for their food, bread at a cost of from 10 to 2l0 per cent. lower than London prices, and moreover this bread is sold at a point, which is used absolutely toward supplying the destitute. In its financial department the commission has accomplished won ders. It is estimated that 500,000 people in Belgium, who would with out the commission's aid have been absolutely destitute, have been saved from resorting to the bread line through the operations of the com mission's department which trans mits funds from neutral countries tc the non-combatants and commercial organizations in Belgium. Many Belgians now abroad remit money every month to relatives and friends in Belgium through the com mission's financial department, and the recipients of these funds are at least partially provided with money wherewith to buy food. Payments oi this character are limited to twc pounds sterling per month to one in dividual. In the matter of the food contribu tion, the report notes a natural weak ness of many hundreds of open-heart ed, generous people in the United States and even in other countries These hundreds out- of- many thou sands of contributors have fondly be lieved that luxuries would be mos1 acceptable to the Belgian people, ani haye. sent some thousands of tons o dainties. As a matter of fact, this kind o food was not desired by the commis sion, which has opened shops in Bel gum where such luxuries are solC and the proceeds have been invari ably invested in food for the desti tute. As very good prices have bees realized, the gifts have had admir able results. In France, where the commission is now feeding something like 2,200,044 people. the same methods that havy been ::dopted in Belgium are adhere< to. There are nine districts in France which are provisioned by the conm mission. These are as follows: Lille with a population of 660.000: Valen ciennies, 620.000: St. Quentin, 330, 000; Vervins, 290,000: Charleville 10,000: Longwy. 105,000: Man beuge, 100.000; and Givet, Fumay 30,000. -Machinists Go to Europe. IHigh priced American machinist rare going to Europe at the rate c one hundred and fifty a week, says New York dispatch Wednesday. The are to work in the munitions fac tories. eLose Ship by Treachery. r flerlin reports Wednesday that i B~ritish transport has been sunki 5 the Indian ocean by the act of Mohammnedan engineer who died wit the troops he sank. British Win in Mesopotanmia. y London announces Wednesday a s important victory over the Turksi Mesopotamia. The Turks are is fu .t retreat towards Bagdad with til Bitish in pursuit, RECENT ELECTION FIGURES; PROHIBITION LEADS 25,000 Results as Reported to the Office of the Secretary of State From Each County. Complete and certified returns from all counties in South Carolina, as filed with the secretary of state, give for prohibition 41,735 votes and against prohibition 16,809. The elec tion was held September 14. The state board of canvassers has .been v called to meet October 5. Following is the vote by counties: s Dry. Wet S Abbeville .. .. .. .. 723 246 Aiken .......... 1,126 - 315 Anderson .........1,985 847 Bamberg ........ 448 232 - Barnwell ........ 543 488 - Beaufort.. .......203 164 - Berkeley ........ 248 186 i Calhoun ........ 346 185 i Charleston ...... 370 2,607 - Cherokee.. .. .... 1,209 259 5 Chester ........ 625 234 - Chesterfield ...... 887 496 Clarendon ...... 550 157 i Colleton ........ 801 226 Da::lington ...... 1,152 149 Dillon.. .. ...... 494~ 162 - Do:rchestdr ...... 454 497 7 Edgefield . . ...... 710 70 - Fa.rfield ........ 453 138 b Florence ........ 1,514 362 L Georgetown ...... 319 154 Greenville. . ......4,096 1,028 Greenwood .. .. .. 1,172 234 L Hampton . . .. E .. 545 227 1 Horry .. .. .. .. .. 861 727 Jasper.. ........ 152 46 Kershaw ........ 620 335 Lancaster. ........ 989 202 Laurens ..... 1,416 370 Lee .. .. .. .. .. 473 236 Lexington. .......1,405 572 Marion ........ 604 114 Msarlboro . ....... 828 38 Newberry . .......1,170 398 Oconee ........ 1,108 162 Orangeburg .. ..... 1,415 493 Pickens ........ 1,028 - 315 Richland ........1,257 784 Saluda.. ......... 787 136 Spartanburg ......3,338 1,251 Sumter ........ 652 244 Union.. ........ 1,281 427 Williamsburg .. .. 565 132 York ..8..........813 164 Total.... ....41,735 16,809 SOUTH CAROLINIAN KILLED ON BATTLE LINE IN FRANCE Lieut. Nicholls of Spartanburg Meets Death in Service of the British Royal Field Artillery. William Montague Nicholls, second lieutenant in tw British royal artil lery, son of Jud le and Mrs. George W. Nicholls. of Spartanburg; and brother of S. J. Nicholls, member elect of congress from this district, was killed at the front in France in the fighting that took place there be tween the English and German forces last Sunday and Monday, according to official announcement received Thursday morning from the British war office by members of his family. The following dispatch was received by Judge Nicholls: "London, England, September 30. -Deeply regret to inform you that Second Lieut. W. M. Nicholls, R. F. A., was killed in action between 26 27th September. Lord Kitchener ex presses sympathy." Lieut. Nicholls, who left for Eng land soon after the European war was declared, having resigned from the United States Naval academy at Annapolis a year previous to become a member of his father's law firm, spent several months in London be fore his service in the English army was accepted, but finally, after tak ing the oath of allegiance to Eng land, secured a commission as second lieutenant in the royal artillery and was sent to the front about a yeai ago. On March 21 he was wounded, be ing shot thro1:gh the thigh. This caused him to spend several months in a hospital, but, recovering from that wound, he was again sent to the font, possibly ::hree months ago. News of his death was not a sur prise to members of his family, since the dispatches of the last few days announcing the advance of the forces of the Allies in France and Belgium caused them to realize that Lieut. Nicholls was in the thick of the fight ing. Efforts will be made to have Lieut. Nicholls' body recovered and return-' ed to this city for burial. Such a re quest has been sent to the British war office by Judge 'Nicholls. The state department at Washington has* been asked to aid. STORM KILLS FIFTY New Orleans~ Surfers Heavy Damages Early Part of This Week. Between 50 and 60 lives lost, sev eral hundred persons injured anc - property damage to the extent of well over $2,000,000 constitute the toll of I the tropical storm which since Wed nesday has virtually isolated New - Orleans and that vicinity from the outside world. -This was the sum total of reports received by wireless, by telephone Sand occasionally by roundabout and shaky telegraph wires--all the usua: Smeans of communication still bemng useless. Unofficial reports showed loss of life and personal injury as - follows: New Orleans. 7 dead. 150 in ,jured; Frenier, La.. 25 killed: Mlan - shac, La., 17 killed; Pascagoula. - iiss., 2 killed: Mlobile, 2 killed; Nat ,chez. MIiss.. 1 killed. ENGiLAND WARNS BULGiARIA Gray Says England Will Stand to SFriends in the Balkan States. a Speaking before the House of Coin mons Sir Edward Grey, the British -foreign secretary. said: "if Bulgarian mohilization should result in Bulgaria as-,uming an ag gressive attitude on the side of our a enemies, we are prepared to give our friends in the Balkans all the support a in our power, in a manner that would h e most welcome to them. in concert with our allies, without reserve and without qualification." n .Judge Dies While Speaking. n Judge T. C. Duncan died unexpec: 11 edly at Gate City, Va., Thursda:, ee while delivering a centennial address at the county fair. BR[AKS SUB M[NAGE ENGLAND SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT HER COMMERCE CONFIRM EARLY STORIES New Methods of Defence and Offense Render Waters Around Brtish Isles a Very Dangerous Place for Submarines to Operate - News Comes to Washington. Great Britain has discovered and put into effective operation means of combatting submarines which, ac cording to official reports to the United States government, already have resulted in a loss estimated at between fifty and seventy German submarines. The reports declare that the British admiralty confidently be lieves it has crushed the German un dersea campaign. New methods of offence and 'de fence that may revolutionize naval warfare have been adopted and high British naval officers are of the.opin ion that unless the effectiveness of the submarines is increased, It no longer will be a menace to .commerce., and battle fleets. - The British censorship has pre vented the disclosure of details con cerning the developments. Within the last three weeks, however, conff dential reports to various govern ment departments from representa tives in Euro:san capitals of neutrals as well as belligerent countries, have confirmed the British admiralty re port that an effective means of deal ing with 'the submarine has been found. These reports -are - being closely scrutinized on account of the bea'ring they may have on the nav.al policy of the United States. They reaffirm- of ficers of the navy in their conviction that the dreadnought - still is the mainstay in warfare on .sea. According to the reports destruc tion or capture of fifty submarines ictually had been reported several weeks ago, and it was regarded as possible that the number might have reached seventy. A dinner was given recently in London, which, while noi a formal state affair, was attended by high. government officials, -in cel ebration of the destruction of the fif tieth underwater enemy. Reports of the dinner apparently were suppress ed by the censor. While the greatest secrecy Is thrown around the means employed the United States has information concerning the principal methods. A submarine telephone has been devel oped by which it is possible to detect the approach of a submarine from observation boats or stations planted off shore connected with points in the mainland. For capturing craft whose pres ence has not been detected or even - suspected the government's reports describe how huge nets have been tretched across the channels and in. open water near steamship lanes or in the vicinity of warships, nets sus pended between floats have been spread broadcast. Armed patrol boats watched and when the loats disappear beneath the water, showing that a submarine has become entangled, the patrols con gregate at the place, and when the victim comes to the surface; as it in evitably must to disentangle Itself, it is destroye dor captured. A spe ial type of mine also has been de vised which has been very success ful. The German methods of supplying submarines with oil and provisions, either at sea or from concealed places .long the coasts of the British Isles, ave been ferreted out and dispelled.. his compels the boats to return to their bases at more frequent inter vals and leaves them only a com paratively short time for effective duty. Destroyers, the reports declare, be come expert in the game. of subma rine hunting, and armed. trawlers. also have proved effective. But the greatest single factor, it is said, has been a newly built fleet of small sea going motor boats, armed with one or two three-inch guns and possess ing high speed. These boats liter ally swarm over suspected expanses of the water, and cover almost every miles of the channels of commeroe 'ad jacent to Great Britain. As a submarine must rise fre quently to renew its air supply and recharge the stdrage batteries by which it is propelled when submerg ed, one in the territory covered ' by the scouts is almost certain: to . be eventually seen 'and destroyed...:Tee small boats have beeri built in-lirge numbers in England, and it' Is 're ported that about five hundred .are being constructed in the United~ States and Canada to be shipped in ~sections to Great Britain. NEWS OF "UTMOST GRIAVITY" FROM BULG1ARIA, SAYS GRAY Arrival of German and Austrian Of licers to Direct Bulgars Taken to Mean Early War. Foreign Secretary Gray announced in London that German and Austrian officers were arriving in Bulgaria to direct tdie Bulgarian army. The sec retary said this was a fact which the Allies regard -'with the utmost gray it. The foreign secretary author ized the following statement: "Information has been~ received' that German and Austrian officers have been for several days, arriving in Bulgaria with a vjew to taking an active part in directing the Bulga rian army. This action is precisely similar to that taken in Turkey, where German officers forced Tur-. key to make an entirely unprovoked attack upon Russia last year. "Since the allied powers are bound to suppcrt the states which are threatened by such proceedings In Bulgaria, this news is regarded as of the umtsot gavity." Russia Wants Peace? Berlin reports by wireless: German official circles heard rumors that Russia is about to express its will ingness to make peace under certain condtion. and that these conditions are now being discussed by the Czar ad hi ministers.