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I, FURIOUS fIfHiT1Nf FIVE MILLION MEN OPERATE ON WESTERN BATTLE LINE -fIERCE COUNTER ATTACK Allies Hold Gains But Berlin Reports Contradict French-Teuton Line Holds Despite Terrific Frontal At tacks-British and French Offen sive Loses Idpetuous Momentum. Furious counter attacks, in which asphyxiating gases, liquid fire, artillery and the bayonet are employed are being launched by the Germans against the Allies over the greater part of the 350 mile battle front in the western theater, except at the eastern ex tremity, where storms have brought about a lull. Five million men are believed to be engaged in this mighty battle, in which the Germans are trying to check the great drive of the Anglo French and Belgian forces. Not all these troops are actually on the firing line, a big proportion of them being 'held in reserve for quick transportation to points where the greatest danger threat ens. More than.six hundred aero planes are taking part. Terrific fighting is reported from the Champagne and Argonne for est, where the Germans are des perately attacking in an effort to regain lost ground and remove the menace to the German lines of communication, which - are being shelled by the heavy French guns. Berlin: The Germans have not onl stopped the general allied offensivc but by counter attacks have gained 'considerable territory. The officia: bulletin says: "The enemy continued Tuesday hi, attempts to break through our lines without achieving any resr".. On the contrary,-he- suffered in manp places very contiderable losses, besides bringiig us an appreciable gain in' territory. *Our counter attack resulted it our capturing twenty officers and seven hundred and fifty men, increas ing the number of prisoners taken in this locality to 3.397 men, including a'number of officers. Nine addition al machine guns were captured. "At Souchez, Angres and Roclin court and also along the entire front from the Champagne to the Argonnt attacks by the French were repulsed :without a break. "In the region of Souain the enem3 ..actually brought forward masses o: cavalry, showing a remarkable lack of appreciation of the situation Naturally many of them were shol down and the others forced to flee as quickly as, possible. "During the repulse of these at 2 tacks the Saxon reserv. regiment and the troops of the Frankfort-on-the Main division especially distinguished themselves. "In the Argonne a small advance was made on our part to improve oui position at LaFille Morte. The move ment brought us the desired result besides -securing for us as prisonert four officers and two hundred and twenty men. . - On the hill at Combres the enemy positions were blown up by extensive mine explosions." London: an official communica tion just made public dealing witi the operations in France Tuesday says that in the heavy fighting around Loos the British have taker exceptionally -strong German lines o: -trenches and bombproof shelters sev eoral hundred yards in extent. Having taken the German seconc 'ne, the statement says, the Britist are now after the third line o trenches. In all more than three thlousand prisoners have 'been taket and4 twenty-one guns and forty ma 'chine guns have been captured and others destroyed. In Ch1,a.pagne the French are at tacking the German second line o trenches and are making further pro Kgress butsseemingly the Allies' offen sive movement-is not being carrief *on with the same impetuosity which characterized the first two days' op -ere.tions. The successes won are tee oganed as important but the mair object-to break through the Germa' lines-bas not been accomplished. Both the Britig~h and French have greatly improved their positions, and by gaining the' hills and crests from which. they can dominate the Ger - man lines of communication, theiu next attempt- to secure a decisive vtic' -tory'should be easier to carry out, ir, 'view of experts. here. *While in Champagne and Artoit the French and British infantry. fot lowing up the brilliant succe'sses 0' their great simultaneous onslaught ofSaturday and 'Sunday, already art hurling themselves at some pointy -against the second German line o~ defense, hp to which the first rusi carried them, at other points they arc .being called upon to face desperate German counter attacks, bent on wip. ng out the suecesses already won. So far, judging from the officia reports, these counter attacks hav* Sproven unsuccessful, the Allies hold ing grimly to the hastily intrenched positions taken before the Germar second line, in the face of every gun the Germans can bring to bear upor them. At the same time a Germar -counter offensive in the Argonne. s few miles east of the scene of the great French victory, has been stop ped short, the French official state -ment says. Meahwhile fuller and more accur ate details of the results of the first two terrible days of the attack whici broke through the German fortifie< 'lines are given in the official state ments. They alter the position of th< *lines gained in one or two minor par ticulars and add to the number o1 prisoners and booty taken. -Seventy cannon of all calibres, a vast number of machine guns and gamnetrench howitzers and other war material not yet counted fell int< the hands of the Allies, according tc the French statement from Paris This is the number actually known to have been taken, and the total mxt, exceed this. Paris: "Our troops Tuesday con *tinued to gain ground foot by fcot ir the direction of the ridges to the -east of Souchez. We took about one hundred prisoners, among wvhon, were men of the guard corps brougir back a few days ago from the Rus sian front. "In Champagne. likewise, new progress has been realized, particu larly to the north of Massiges, w'here we have taken an additional eight hundred prisoners. "The enemy has directed against our trenches in the Argonne a violent bombardment, to which we have effi caciously replied, but he has attempt ed no infantry action. "Engagements with grenades have enabled us to regain some parts of our first line where the enemy had maintained himself since Monday. "There has been intermittent can nonading in the forest of Le Pretre - n4 the region of Ban de Sapt.'' I MARCH OVER DEAD (Continued from first page.) ed to him after he had shot down three who tried to kill him. "Yet, as I have said, the resistance was prolonged in some parts of the village, and there were many cellars from which the rapid fire caused heavy losses to the besiegers. They were silenced by bombing parties, who flung hand grenades into the subterranean cellars from the head of stairways. In Loos the cellars are still full of dead. "In one of these cellars an amaz ing incident happened which reveals the highest form of courage and self sacrifice not to be denied the Ger mans. A colonel of a battalion which will be given high place in history for this day's work came into Loos after his men had already gone on to Hill 70. With signaliers and other men he established quarters, accord ing to previous arrangement, in a house practically untouched by shell fire. At this time there were very little shelling, as the artillery officer an either side were afraid of killing their own men, and the house seem ad fairly safe for the purpose of a temporary signal station. "But the colonel noticed with sur .:rise. shortly after his arrival, that '1eavy shells began to fall very close, and the German guns were obviously aiming directly for this particular building. He ordered the cellars to be searched, and three Germans were found, but it was only after he had been in the house forty minutes, that 'n a deeper cellar, which had not been ;een before, discovery was made of a werman officei, who was actually telephoning to his own batteries and Urecting their fire. "Suspecting the colonel and his tompanions were important officers lirecting the general operations, he 'ad caused shells to fall upon the 'louse, knowing - lucky shot would mean his own death as well as theirs. 'n any case he was certain to die, and he died bravely, having made this supreme sacrifice of courage. The telephone apparatus is now a trophy *n the British hands. "Meanwhile some of the battalion who fought their way through Loos were now struggling ahead to gain Hill 70. It is nearly a mile further an eastward and southward, and the road was swept with shrapnel and machine gun fire as it rose steadily up to rising ground, which is really i slope rather than a hill. "On a further ridge is a village !alled Cite St. Auguste, held by the 3ermans, overlooking the advancing British troops. From the windows of .he cottages on higher ground, and rom intrenchments in the vicinity there was an incessant storm of fire .vhich raked over the approach. "Nethertheless, the British held on, and finding a kind of ridge or para )et, dug themselves deeper in, so they had useful protection. - "The first men to approach Hill 70 arrived about 10 o'clock and clung to their positions at all costs and with heroic endurance until 11 that sight, when they were relieved by ather troops who carried on the struggle next day. This concludes Ihe chronicle of the battle in and be yond Loos until Sunday, when the po ition wan organized and the advance -ontinued -with varying success round Hill 70. "But I must go back to dawn Sat irday, where another attack was in orogress further north toward Hul inch. It was another triumph for the new army men, who formed a very ;ood proportion of the massed troops. "The struggle here was fierce and formidable, and the British had to advance under a terrible fire. That aowever, was after the first assault apon the Gerndan trenches, which were carried swiftly. "The British machine guns, of which 'we had a considerable num ber, were brought forward rapidly and the Germans lost very heavily the bayonet finishing the work of the bullets. Then the British stormed or three mile or more until they reach ad the outskirts of Hulluch, which bristled with Germhan machine guns tt all points. "Hand to hand fighting took place and the Germans yielded ground wherever the British could comeI within reach of them, but were swept )ack again and again by the tempest if bullets. The struggle continued in this direction for two whole days. "Some of the men who were en ;aged in the iii'st part of the opera ions were enjoying a rest to-day and s long as life lasts to me I shall re nember these villages in the fighting ines through which I passed to-day, hronged by those tall mud-caked ads who had fought through one of he hardest encounters which ever 'ad given victory to British arms. They had seen many of their com -ades fall. They tramped on through shambles of battle fields, but they ooked proud and exultant because hey had led a great assault and broken the German lines. "During part of the day Sir John Trench rode about these mining vii ages, and whenever he met a group f these mca he leaned over his horse and spoke to them and gave them >ersonal thanks for the gallant work ~hey had done." ORDER SITUATION SERIOUS; ARTILLERY PUT ON BORDER 'olonel Telegraphs That it May be Necessary to Follow Independ ent Gangs Into Mexico. Conditions along the Mexican bor er again have become acute. Ma. Gen. Funston reported Tuesday, and battery of mountain artillery have been dispatched to Progresso. Texas. to prevent a raid by five hundred bandits who threaten to cross into 4.erican territory. Col. Blocksom reported through len. Funston that the bandits seem d to constitute an independent band. 'If Carranza does not stop these ban lits,'' he telegraphed. "I believe we soon shall be compelled to follow them across." Secretary Garrison said hie inter 'reted the telegram to mean tl-at if onditions did not improve Col. Blocksom would find it necessary to recommend that American troops be permitted to pursue attacking forces across the line. Information placed in the hands of *he department of justice by T. B. Beltran. Carranza consul at San An tonio. bears out to an extent Col. Blocksom's report that 'the bandits seem independent of Carranza con trol. Beltran contends that former followers of Jesus Florez Mugon, eader of Socialist movements in Lower California. have~ organized to foment trouble between the United States and Mexic'o. There are intimations that outside influences are supplying funds for the alleged plot and departmernt of ustice officials have started an in vestigation. Officials hope relief for the situation will conie through via rous measures by Carranza com manders. Italian llattleship Sinks. A dispatch from London Wednes-C day announces that the Italian battle-f ship Benedetto Brin sank after the 2 GERMAN LINE BENDS A (Continued from first page.) ravery shown on both sides. No uarter was given nor asked in the reater part of the infantry fighting F n Sunday and Monday. Tn the Artois, where the country is hickly settled, the Germans fortified .11 the houses on their front, turning he ancient stone buildings of the rench into fortresses with machine -4 uns bristling from every window. 0 ven the churches were turned into b lockhouses and guns were placed in I he belfries. On the other hand, the s ighting between the French and Ger- t nans in Champagne and the Argonne s taking place in the country where t he soldiers embrace in their death 1 truggle in the field and amidst the c ills and the forests. Tremendous efforts are being nade by the French in the Argonne b o dislodge the Germans from their renches at La Fille Morte, "the gir le of death." Never was a name rore appropriate. The first line of Xerman trenchesr there are level with orpses and the fields before them re strewn with the dead of the at acking forces. In the Argonne the fighting line ies north of the old Roman road, a nonument to the handiwork of Cae ;ar's legions, which has withstood the cavages of time for centuries. North >f Auberive, Souain, Perthes, Les Mfesnil. Beausejour, Massiges and Ville Sur Tourbe the French are at tacking over a front about twenty t niles wide to drive the Germans from the Tahure-Cernay highway.and from their works defending the railroad that passes through Somme. All the roads for miles behind the German lines are shelled constantly I to prevent the shipment of ammuni- 1 tion and soldiers to the front. Masses of fresh troops are held in reserve by the French and as soon as the first line is exhausted reinforce ments are rushed forward. Field Marshal Sir John French is reported to be 'in personal command of the operations from the Lens sphere to Ypres, while General Joffre is said to be in the Champagne. AUSTRIA RECALLS DUMBA; INCIDENT CONSIDERED CLOSED Ambassador Has Been Formally Re called by His Government and Leaves on October- 5. Dr. Constantin T. Dumba, Austrian ambassador to the United States, has been formally recalled by his govern ment and the state department is ar ranging with the British and French ambassies for his safe conduct on the steamer Nieuw Amsterdam, sailing October 5. This announcement was made Tuesday. by Acting Secretary Polk, after receipt of a cablegram from Ambassador Penfield at Vienna, tell ing of his conversation with Austrian officials and a message from Dr. Dumba himself asking safe conduct in accordance with instructions from his government. The incident now is considered closed. State department officials explain ed that when the original note asking for recall was presented by Ambassa dor Penfield, the Austrian foreign of fice contemplated recalling Dr. Dum ba "on leave of absence." Dr. Dum ba himself received word to that ef feet and asked for safe conduct. Am bassador Penfield, however, was in structed to make clear to- the Aus trian foreign office that Dr. Dumba's official relation with this government must be severed and "leave of ab sence" would not be satisfactory. The Austrian foreign office then instructed Ambassador Dumba to re turn to Vienna and at the same time told .Mr. Penfield that the recall is as. a matter of course final. It has been thought that a formal answer to the note asking for the re call of Dr. Dumba might be awaited before safe conduct was obtained, but the informal assurance of the Aus trian foreign office was regarded as. sufficient. Thinking. - Few men really think, although each would deny the accusation. Although man is supposed to b~e a rational animal, thinking is actually the hardest work and the rarest he does. We hear a thing, ordinarily, and immediate'. iorm an opinion about it. Usually self-interest is at the bottom of our conclusions. We are told, for instance, that wo man suffrage is a good things and we ought to have a .law allowing women to vote. Do we look into the matter? Do we study the arguments for and against woman's suffrage? It is the same with the tariff, prohibition, the unions, the Mexican situation, the European war, in fact, everything we have anything to do with. How much more rational it would be to hold up our judgment on a question until we have had an oppor tunity to study it from every angle. Then form an opinion and stand or fall by that opinion, until we learn something of which we have been in ignorance that might change our minds on the subject. Not to be open to conviction is pig headed. Narrowness is the bane of our whole system of civilization. Let your mind be open to every argument. and think-think for y'our self.-N. N. B3. Why Not Smile? Are you angry? Is your lip cracked? Are you afraid of wrinkles? Are you suffering from an ingrowing grouch? None of them? Then, why don't you smile? History tells us of men who train ed themselves not to smile, because they wanted a stern expression of countenance. The savages also prid ed themselves on not showing any sort of emotion. Have you noticed in the photo graphs that the mothers of the war heroes of Europe are not smiling? Neither are the generals, who are doing. the killing. -Only the heroes themselves are smiling.1 A hard and stern expression does, 2ot i-ndicate a good heart nor a clear onscience. A thief seldom smiles. The woman of the streets smiles with er lips, but her eyes are hard and old. The poverty-stricken man on t he street who begs for a dime, sends is plea direct to your heart if his ippeal is accompanied by a smile. )nly~ the failures of life never smile. A smile is the cry of the sentry of ie soul.-"All's WVell!"-N. N. B. Russians Command British. t The British admiralty has an- I ounced that the reason no word is tiven out in London as to the activity >f British submarines in the Baltic is hat those operating there are under he cmmnand of the Russian admir- 1 ity. t MIove to Attack Serbia. .thens reports Wednesday that ure huntired thousand Germans and e tustrians have started an advance c owards the Serbian frontier in the c WLED TROOPS TO OCCUPY IN MACEDONIA 'TILL WAR'S END aris Newspapers Hints at Scheme Evolved by Allied Powers Teutons Mass Near Serbia. Paris, Friday, says the number of ustro-German troops concentrated n the Serbian frontier is estimated y the Nish correspondent of the 'emps at five hundred thousand. He 3ys that three hundred and thirty in ousand are Germans. The correspondent at Petrograd of lie Temps says that approval is given i influential quarters at the Russian apital to the idea of joint occupation f Macedonia by the Allies. It is be eved this would be an effective. ieans of keeping Bulgaria and Ser- n ia apart, and of defeating German ai fforts to bring Bulgaria into the war P rhile Austro German forces are in- Ii ading Serbia. t The Temps says that the French tl overnment has arrived at a certain r ecision as to what should be done to i veret an attack on Serbia by Bul- at aria. The indications are that Rus- e, ia will assent, that Italy will not op- t ose the pln and that England prob- s ose the plan and that England prob- ti The Temps says that the situation a the Balkans requires that the pros ective Bulgarian attack on Serbia a] hall be prevented by a demand on ir lulgaria for immediate demobiliza- di ion. This newspaper asserts it has rea on to believe that the reports from t< )aloniki that Bulgaria has definitely T Lgreed, to take the field on October si ifteenth are correct, and that de- n ivery of the territory recently ceded c] y Turkey is contingent on action by 3ulgaria against Serbia at that time. t] GULGARIA IS CENTER OF MANY CONFLICTING RUMORS P 0 t] [talian Sources Say German Attack n on Serbia is Coming-Allies to Land Troops at Kavala. t Rome, via Paris, Friday: Despite 0 rigorous Bulgarian censorship the s ribune claims to have dispatches t from Sofia stating that the situati .n ias been,complicated by an appar ' change of front by King Ferdinand, who has recalled. the appointment of Crown Prince Boris as commander in-chief of the -army. Sentiment in favor of Russia is reported to be in creasing in the rural districts. The Tribune's dispatches assert s that mobilization is proceeding under 1: a German staff officer, but will not c be completed for another fortnight. King Ferdinand, it is reported, has received a promise from Berlin that eight hundred thousand Austro-Ger man troops will undertake a march through the Balkans to Constanti nople. Three hundred thousand Ger mans have been concentrated at Tes- t mesvar, Hunbary, seventy-two miles northeast of Belgrade with three hun dred cannon, including fifty siege guns and sixty aeroplanes but will not be ready to attack for two weeks. It is believed here that if the Allies sent an expedition against Bulgaria it t will be landed at Kavala'on the Ae geafi Sea, which would enable the Allies to threaten both. Phillipopolis and Sofia. It is said two ultimatums .soon 'will be addressed to King Ferdinand, or.3 : by the central empires and the other by the Quadruple Entente making< Imperative an immediate decision as to the pa'% the country .is to play in t the war.~ FENCII AGAIN DEAR BRUNT IN ALLY'S FIERCE ATTACKS Hammering at Second Line of Ger man Trenches-aBritish Forces Now Number One Million. London, Friday: The French are bearing the brunt of the fighting now in progress in the western front.c They are hammering at the second1 German line in Champagne, in the direction of the Grand Pre railway, and at the same time dropping bombs ( on the line and stations to prevent , the Germans from bringing up rein forcements. 4 Absence of news from the Britsh 1 front apparently indicates that these( forces are -occupied with consolidat ing their positions in the strIp of ter ritory recently won.C The British forces now in France are estimated at a round million men, which will be increased by five hun dred thousand. Daily lengthening of 1 th obituary columns of the London newspapers is beginning to measure the price paid by the British for their recent offensive. There is no notable change on the battle front of the east. ESTABLISil NEUTRAL ZONE Berlin Reports Agreement. Between Bulgaria and Greece. Berlin to America by wireless Wed- I nesday: The Overseas News Agency I says that according to reliable infor mation Bulgaria and Greece have agreed upon the establishment of a h neutral zone between these two coun- t tries. The suggestion of a neutral zone, o the news agency says, was made by I members of the Greek general staff, p who acted in concert with King Con- F stantine. The Overseas News Agency e Ldds: Bulgaria agreed and there is no loubt that she is ready to yield to p reek wishes about the Serbian terri- t1 ories of Dioran and Gevgeti. This neans that the attempts of the En- fi tente allied powers have been frus :rated. German 'Sub' Fires Bark. si Copenhagen. via London. Friday: z< rh Norwegian bark Actie, 563 tons p ross, with a cargo of props from g rageroe to Leith, wvas set on fire A hursday night by a German sub- gi narine twenty miles south of The ir Caze, as the southern extremity of ti forway. The Actie's crew of eleven rf nen vas towed in a small boat by a< he submarine to a point near The Si gaze. Cl ------t Haitiens Surrender. At a conference of the leaders ot he rebellious Haitiens and American ni fficers, the H-aitiens agreedl to lay is [own their arms and offer no fur- at her resistance to the United States bi aar ines. el Germans (laim a Come-Ikick. ti Berlin announces Wednesday that G >art of the territory lost near Loos as been retaken from the Biritish to he north of the town. en Feds Welcome O1(1 confed. re While the G. A. R. veterans were el ncamped at Washington Tucsday an lc ld Confederate soldier visited their ed ampfire and was greeted with a earty rebel yell. KEEP NERO OUT IANNING SAYS HIE HAS NO; PLACE IN OUR POLITICS t 'ROiRESS IN EDUCATION overnor Well Pleased With Reports t Being Received From All Parts of the State-Prosperous Times Seem to be at Hand-Youth Should be Educated. "I believe in the rule of the white eople," said Governor Manning Mon lay, in response to a request from he newspaper for an- expression on he situation reported to exist in 3eaufort. "I do not feel that it is >roper for the governor to meddle in ocal politics as a rule, but in this )articular case the situation presents t very grave and serious question. rhe Democratic party stands for rhite supremacy, and to use the ne ro in an election among the Demo rats is setting a very dangerous >recedent for all future time. I can ot too strongly stress the importance >f white rule in South Carolina. The >recedent established by a bolt from be primary for the purpose of using :he negro voters in the general elec Jion is a most dangerous one. "Personally, under no circum tances would I accept a nomination :r election to any office at the hands f the negro.' said the governor. "The negro is all right in his place, but his place is certainly not .the bal lot box. This has been proven time nd time again in the past. The white man is the negro's best friend when the negro is out of politics, and the negro himself is happier and more prosperous without the ballot, for the reason that he is not then to be used for the purpose of defeating the will of the white citizens of South Caro lina." Gov. Manning was gratified over the educational progress in the state, saying: "The reports of unusually large enrollment in our public schools and colleges -are very gratifying to me. It is a healthy sign to note the awakening of our white citizens to the very great necessity for universal education, especially along practical lines--cooking, sewing, farming, me chanics. etc. "It is also an evidence of the re turn of prosperity to our land. What a marked contrast to the conditions existing a short while ago, when, as a2 affect of the European war our financial system was In a turmoil. large numbers of our people, though clamoring for the education of our boys and girls, were not in position to gather together enough money to pay even the small expense items in cidental to the education which they so much desired for their children. "Many of them could not pur'chase the books 'necessary to be used in theii schools. Now I learn, the most important question before us is how are we to provide the teachers and room necessary to properly care for the large numbers applying for ad mission. "The cry 'hard times' has been forgotten in South Carolina, and our people are looking to the future with a degree of optimismi heretofore un known. There is no questioning the fact that if we are to continue to progress along business and moral lines, we must, provide for the chil dren of South Carolina -the education to which they are entitled. "A grave responsibility rests upon the mothers and fathers of South Carolina in this matter, and -I have such great confidence in the honesty and integrity of our people that I know this r'esponsibility will be met with the proper response and the necessary facilities for the training and education of our youth will be provided. If we can not provide as well as we would like, then let us by all means provide as well as possible. "Well lighted, well ventilated and well heated school -buildings with irst class teachers are always desir able, if possible, but a log cabin, with good teacher, makes a much better place to train a child than no schoo! at all. "It is far better that the parents make personal sacrifices, if neces sary, rather than have the training of the mind of the child neglected. "The people of South Carolina are aroused along educational lines as they have never been before. This is best evidenced by the fact that in ap proximately 1,400 school districts out of a total of 2,000 in South Carolina the people have voted on themselves a special tax for the improvement of their educational system. In other words they have, by their ballots, spoken in no uncertain terms in ravor of the progress of the state and the advancement of our civilization through the training of the minds of our children. Especially is this true in the mill villages and rural com munities. "Another commendable feature about cur education progress is the advanced ideas our people are putting into practice along the line of voca tional training. I am especially in terested in this particular branch of the work. We have come to the point in our educational life where our children are now being taught to use not only their brains, but their hands as well. Every year we note that the schools are turning out more skilled mechanics and farmers, and more mechanics' wives and farmers' wives than ever before. This is true. not only of the colleges and univer-, sities, but of the smaller public and! high schools as well. My whole heart is in this work," said the governor., "and I hope that we may soon see the day when o'gr educational facili ties, especially those in the mill vil ages and rural districts, are brought to the highest standard. The money we spend in the improvement of our common schools is an investment, the return from which can not be esti mated in dollars and cents. but in the improvement of the minds of a rising generation, thereby assisting them in making of themselves better citizens. "It is the duty, and I believe the pleasure, of every true South Caro linian, to offer to the younger gener ttion every opportunity to properly prepare themselves for the struggle that awaits them in this life, and to my mind, the best method of per rorming this duty is to provide for1 :hem the education and training that s best suited to the needs of the in The governor has always been an mthusiastic advocate of education. tspecially in the common and high ;chools of South Carolina. lie is; de oting a great dleal of his time to the study of this subject jiust now. nnd vil likely have some important rec-1 >mmendations along this line at the >roper time. Nine Priisoners Ituried Alive: After clearing away one humdred et of fallen stone resculers at the ansford, Pa.. mine whieh ea'ved in uesday, rescuedl two miners whom hadl rawld up a distance of seventy-fve eet through crevices. Nine others re still envered by se'venty-five' feet EWS Of THE WAR ATTERED ITEMS GATIERED ABOUT WORLD CONFLICT Ki NEWS IN SHORT SPACE ---4 teresting Pointers About the Signi can Things Which Oftentimes Es cape Attention-War Goes on in Many Fields of Activity-What the The French have inaugurated a w method of blocking the German r scouts. Ten French machines trol a given section of the German ie at a height of 2,000 meters and n more at a height of 3,000 meters e latter flying in the opposite di etion from the former. If a Ger an scout tries to get through he is tacked simultaneously by the near t two Frenchmen, one above and e second below. If the two are in ifficient to stop him others join in ie fight. The total losses of Prussian troops Lone now reach 1,740,836? accord tg to statistics compiled in Amster m. 6** Thirty thousand priests are stated i be fighting in the French armies. hey are in the trenches fighting ioulder to shoulder with the other Len. The casualty list among the Lerical soldiers is a long one. The Vorwarts, the central organ of ie German Socialist party, publish d at Berlin, declared recently that fter the war the imperial debt and ensions alone will demand an an ual expenditure of at least $625, 00,000, which is a little less than le united ordinary and extraordi ary imperial expenditure of 1912. Japan has communicated officially > Russia her decision to assist the zar's domain by supplying munitions f war. Japan has told Russia that he is preparing to mobilize her en ire industrial resources for this pur ose. * * The French government has an ounced the establishment of a block de of the entire Turkish coast of sia Minor, extending from the Is nd of Samos to the Egyptian fron ier. Tne Island of Samos -is oppo ite the port of Smyrna. According y, the blockade will operate against myrna, as well as against the ports f Alexandretta, Beirut, Tyre, Acre, affa and Gaza. .Ambassador Morganthau, the Lmerican representative at Constan inople, is now acting for eight na ions. He recently added the diplo atic interests of Russia, Italy, and dontenegro to his list. A ministerial order. has been issued n Paris permitting the export of vine from France to her allies and o the United States. Premier Venizelos of Greece, ac ording to reports from Rome, is urg ng the holding of. a conference of 3alkan powers to discuss the Balkar ituation and to decide on an agree net as to a policy in the interest! >f all of them. He is reported to dis ike what he terms the excessive in erference of the great powers in Bal tan affairs. Six months in jail is the scntence which has been imposed by the Brit' sh authorities upon Theodore Sing on, a British journalist of Germar >arentage, who was found guilty ot riting for American newspaper! natter "calculated to prejudice the elations of the British government vith neutral countries." The functions of the city govern net at Warsaw are being discharg d by a committee of citizens. The ommittee recently voted to raisea oan of $2,500,000. Application ha! een made to the German civil gov !rnor for permission to obtain .fron racow school hooks published ii olish, for use in the Waras chols. The German military and ivil authorities are now installed it he Russian government buildings, en. von Beseler, conquerer of Ant verp and Novo Georgievsk, has beer elected as governor general of the iccupied portions of Poland and Rus la.6 The Imperial Institution of Great ritain has recommended peanuts as attle food, the recommendation com ng as the result of a series of ex~ eriments held for the purpose of nding a substitutue for the higher riced foods. India, China, and Afri a are the great producers of pea uts, which are known in London as monkey nuts." One thousand eight hundred par. els, traveling from Germany by mail o addresses in Spain and Portugal, in the Scandinavian countries and ~ngland, have been seized by the 'rech authorities at Dieppe. No traveler leaving France will ereafter be permitted to take out of e country more than 50 francs $10) in coin, under a recent decree f the finance minister. The action due to the scarcity of silver coin, articularly in the frontier regions. 'eople have been collecting coins and xporting them. The German army and navy de artments recently announced that ley have provided sufficient woolen loves, fur coats, and ear protectors >r another winter campaign. The Russian government has is. ued orders to its dliplomatic repre antatives to vise passports of citi ans of neutral countries only if their apers show that they owed alle iance to such countries before ugust 1. 1914. when the war he an. The action is taken at Wash gton to mean that it is not the in mtion of the Russian government to cognize for passport purposes the :tion of those citizens of the United tates or other neutral countries who anged their allegiance after hos lities began. The Turks have massacred a large umber of Armenians in the town of mid which place they then burned. ucording to reports from Athens, 'ought to the Greek capital by tray ers from Constantinople. Ismid is ty-six miles southeast of Constan nople, lying at the head of the uf of Ismid, in Asia MIinor. The Krupp company, so a recent ble states, has subscribed $10.000. 10 to the German war loan. The cord subscription to the loan is de ared to have been made by the Co gne Savings Bank, which subscrib .$11,20,000. * * Tondonn expertsesti~mate that the fiERMAN ARMIES CAPTURE 25,000 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS Four Great Battles are In Progress Between the Gulf of Riga and the Galician Frontier. There has been no cessation of the heavy fighting on the Russian front. From Riga to Galicia the armies are contesting every inch of the ground and at least four separate battles are in progress. Berlin reports: "Army Ca group of'Field Marshal von Hinden burg-Opposing forces which were pushed back on the southwestern front of Dvinsk attempted to make a stand in a position situated more to the rear. They were attacked and repulsed. South of Lake Drisitiata a cavalry engagement is taking place. "The operations by the army of Gen. von Eichhorn in the battle of ed Vilna, which led to the enemy's be- of ing repulsed across the Lake Marcoz by Smorgan-Wischnew line, resulted Ir U the capture of a total of seventy of. su ficers, 21,908 men, three cannon a thirty-seven machine guns and large ac quantities of baggage which the ene . my was forced to leave behind. Ar -d inventory of this booty could not b( WE taken until now because of our quicl- bo advance. The figures previously re If ported are not included in those given here. South of Smorgon ou, Lo attack is making progress. North Zo east of Wischnew we have broker 9 thr.,ugh enemy positions. On- thi E occasion two officers and three thou ? sand three hundred men were taker :n prisoners and nine machine guns cap tured. "Army group of Prince Leopold o d Bavaria-The bridgeheads east o n Baronovichi are now in our posses sion after a battle for them. Prison- t ers to the number of three hundrec 3t and fifty were captured. 3 "Army group of Field Marshal vor Mackensen-The situation is un e changed. "The army group of Ge.. von Lin r singen has forced its way across th<. u Styr below Lutsk. Under pressure o V this success the Russians are in ful n retreat north of Dubno along the en tire front." EXPECT BULGARS TO WAR ON SEROIA IN A fORTNIGH German Officers Assist Bulgariar General Staff in Drawing Up M Its Plan of Attack. - The Athens correspondent of th< Havas News Agency in a dispatch t( Paris Wednesday says it is now ex pected that Bulgaria will begin an at tack on Serbia within fifteen days. r Plans for the campaign are'now be P ing drawn up by the Bulgarian gen u eral staff, the correspondent. says ; with the assistance of numerous Ger -x man officers who have arrived ir '; Sofia. Bulgarian officers say no at 3 tack will be made on Greece. .I .KIUROPATKIN MADE CHIEF Russians Appoint Veteran of .Jap Wa: Chief of Grenadier Corps. London, Friday: Gnerela - .Alexe Kuropatkin has been appointed chie of the Russian genadier corps, ac cording to a Reuter dispatch fron Petrograd. If the report -from Petrograd 1' true it means somewhat remarkable reversal of public opinion in Russih regarding a military leader who was disgraced because of the failure o Russian arms in the war with Japan In his history of the war he franki: admitted his own mistakes. Couldn't Afford to Advertise. Jud - Shaw sold shoes and sealine war, and lamps, fishpoles and, glue tobacco, candles, gum, and tacks t slickers and sardines, too; dry good- I and hams were in his line; he deal in peas and beans; he kept the gen eral store, in fine,-sold overalls an' jeans; but Jud, somehow, he wasn* wise--"Couldn't afford-to advertise.'> 'Not that he harbored any grudge against his home town sheet; he was as any one might judge, a kindly mai .i to meet; his customers' he' treatet fair, and yet he prospered not; hi: goods were honest, one would swea * -he simply was forgot; for JIud r somehow, he wasn't wise-"Couldn' s afford to advertise." : Mail order firms from out of town much wiser in their day, paid liberal ly for their renown, and gathered il the hay; their' catalogues went every where; they advertised for trade their name went forth with trumpet , blare, and, ah! the coin they made couldn't afford, th-3y were so wise couldn't afford NOT t'advertise. Now, Jud's stuff it was just aI good; his prices were the same; the loss was ours; he simply WOULI NOT spread abroad his name! thoug. townsfolks might hpie much *pre - ferred -in- their home mart to buy, o Jud Shaw they had never heard you know the reason why, for Jud1 somehow, wasn't wisc-"Couldn't af-r ford to advertise! "-N. N. B.. Brain Fag and War. "Modern man is a top heavy being , whose brain is disproportionately su perior to his other organs," says the New York Medical Journal, and ther goes to prove that the war in Europ fr is the result of brain fag. b The Journal believes that the stress and hard mental work of thi: age tended inevitably to the reasser tion of the primitiv~e impulses. Some-~ thing had to snap, and when it dic the result was the war. Other na tions accuse Americans of living toe fast. But they do not see that we combine pleasure with work to suel a degree that, if we don't let dowvn or. the play, we are apt to remain nor mal human beings. For instance, the tired business man takes a couple of hours from the' office and goes to the ball grounds where he yells like a Comanche In dian, howls like a steam siren, cusser the visiting team and throws pop bottles at the umpire. The women relieve the tension of modern life by ha dancing, or motoring, or strenuous er physical exercise on the golf course as or tennis courts.-N. N. B. sa Fight on Serbian Border. Turin, Italy, declares that border :lr fights between Bulgarians and Ser- a bians have begun. of The Georgia farmer who said it ce was better to have fifty bushels of so corn to sell at $1.50 per than it was $5 to buy fifty at 31.50 per has a head an on his backbone. op The Greenville News says that if r a certain automobile manufacturer stops the war people wvill forgive his ba leaking radiators and hand-cranked thi cars. int to war has cost the life insurance of- $1 fices in the British empire $27.000.- fiv 000 thus far. The number of claims of the British regular line life of- sel flces are not available, but the claims sta of the industrial offices now number anm 46.000, which is 4.000 more than a po: TNEY SUBMARINES IENTOR TALKS OF PLANS TO. BUILD MYRIAD OF CRAFT lEAP AND EASY WORKED 2 be Operated by Crew of Two Men ind Destroys Battleships Costing lany Times its Value-Professor Parker Writes to Henry Ford 1bout His Idea. rhe diminutive submarine, conceiv by Professor Herschel C. Parker New York City, and recommended Henry Ford for adoption by the ited States navy, is in reality a 3mersible that acts in the water the ne as an aeroplane acts in the air, :ording to its inventor, who said it he also had invented and pateht v searchlight to be used under ter which, with the so-called "fish at," would make the present type submarine obsolete. The climber of Mount McKinley, whom Mr. Ford has given credit r the. small submersible idea, de ibed in detail his invention,, which calls a "motor torpedo" In his ap cation for a'patent, which is pend i. Since he submitted the original ins of the undersea boat to Mr. - >rd last 'July, Prof. Parker explain that he had made many improve- - mts on the submersible. It is the desire of Prof. Parker.to re his invention to the United ates. It, is his wish to make this tribution to his country's defenses. a would also have the government st his undersea searchlight, which calls a "belloscope," because it ll make possible the detection of rking submarines and obstacles to Lvigation at a distance of perhaps ore than a mile. Professor :Parker has worked out .e idea of the small submersible, 'opelled by a gasoline engine, pri arily as a defensive craft. It will Lve a cruising radius of fifty miles,. rd a speed of perhaps forty miles an >ur. In defensive operations a small Bet of these vessels could be carried L the decks of a .nother ship and nt out to meet the invaders. Be use of their speed they should the ore easily elude' destroyers and-oth submarines, run close up to vessels the invading fleet and discharge eir torpedoes with great accuracy. On the other hand, the submarines an -invading fleet may be .detectid r the beams of the helioscope sweep g undersea areas. This detector, rof. Parker suggests, Is more readily laptable to torpedo boat destroyers. quipped with it they could locate rking submarines, and . destroy tem, because the latter can not safe -be submerged to a greater depth Lan 300 feet, or -escape swift pur iers. His helioscope, according to Pro tssor Parker, will be the eyes of a ip the same as the Fessenden os-. llator is the ear to detect vibrations ader water. Thus equipped with res and ears for submarines he pre icts the ascendency of the smaller d swifter fighting craft. 'Prof. Parker explained that he sub-. itted the idea of the small submers ile to Mr. -Ford because he believe'd ie latter as an automobile manufac irer was in a better position than sybody else to equip such a boat ith the propelling power. Asked hat changes he had made in his' riginal plans, Prof. Parker said the ain improvement was in clianging te position of the torpcdo tube from eforward centre part of the sub ersible to a position directly under ie keel and beneath the centre of cavity of the boat. This had to be yne to prevent the boat from chang ig its position when the torpedo iould be fired and the distribution tits load affected accordingly. An :her improvement is a gyroscopic abilizer. In a letter to Secretary Daniels. rf. Parker says he will be only too lad to co-operate with Mr. For~d~in rery way in developing the diminu ye submersible. He asks for-the op rtunity to build the first boat of is kind, and says he also would like Shave the government consider the se of underwater searchlights, hich he asserts could be tested at a >st of not more than $500. A thousand submersibles of the nall type, which, he says, can be tiilt for the cost of a single modern readnought, Prof. Parker thinks, ill make this country invulnerable >attack by sea. Each submersible rres but one torpedo but the high eed these boats will be capable of sveloping will make it possible for em to elude flotillas and approach Sclose to the line of battleships as Sdischarge their torpedoes with un 'ring aimn. The small submersible, according SProf. Parker, should be able to ibmerge and rise. to the surface -actically with the ease of a fish. is is made possible by fins which n be warped the same as the planes an aircraft. The use of a gasoline engine is mplified by having an exhaust and iintake just above the surface of te water behind the periscope. 'hen submerged water is prevented em coming in through the exhaust rcheck valves of the ball type. The diminutive submersible, or notor ~torpedo," would require a ew of two to operate, one a pilot Ld the other a gunner. Each craft >uld carry an auxiliary periscope r use in case the regular periscope ould be shot away. A heavy spring licately adjusted to the top of the nning tower makes possible a very ick exit in case of an accident. hen the top of the tower is opened e two men operating the hoat. ac rding to Prof. Parker. will be lit ally blown out of the submersible the air pressure. School Pupil's Savings. The constant drive for "thrift'' is ving effect not only among the old people, but among school children, seen by the report of sixty-one ings banks formed in as many icago public schools last year. The report shcws that 13,638 chil en saved $27.1l5.94, and of this iount $11.200).90 has been trans 'red to regular banks. Six pupils the seventh and eighth grades con t the banks. Any sum from five ts up may be deposited, and as yn as a pupil's account amounts to ,it is transferred to a regular bank d an account with the pupil is ened. It is reasonable to suppose that al schools will adopt the teaching thrift as a subsidiary course. The iney could be deposited in the local aks in savings departments to pay ee or three and one-half per cent. erest. WVhen the account amounts $25 it could be withdrawn and a p)' bond paying four and a half or per cent could he bought. Many reputable bond houses will I a hundred dollar bond on the in lment plan. paying the full ount of interest on the air.ount de ited until the face value of the id se paid in full.-N. N. B.