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kVOL. XXVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDN ESDAY, OCTOBER 13,. 1913. BALKAN WAR UE SERBI-ND ITALY DISMISS BI "ARIAN AMBASSADORS liREELE FAVORS ALLE Declores Her Policy One of "Bene1 lent Neutrality"-German Atta on Serbio Has Begun-Paris I scribes Conference Between Ki Constantine and Venizelos. Berlin reports via Sayvie wfre less: A declaration of Bulgaria intention to enter the %ar witJ ermany and her allies is containe in what is described as a Bulga rian manifesta, as given out 11 Berlin Friday by the Oversea News Agency. London reports Friday: A mes sage to The Times states that th Greek government has decided t issue a declaration of its attitud of "benevolent neutrality" towa the entente powers. Nish, Serbia, reports Friday The dipIomatic rupture betwee Serbia and Bulgaria is complete The foreign office has-handed hi passports to the Bulgarian minla ter. London reports Friday: Th Bulgarian minister to Italy ha been handed his passports by thi Italian foreign minister, accordini to a Stefani News Agency dispatcl from Rome. Berlin reports by wireless Frida: The Frankfurter Zeitung asserts th -the Bulgarian government has issu a manifesto to the nation. announ ing its decision to enter the war < the side of the central powers. T1 manifesto as given out by the Ove sias News Agency follows: "The centrW1 powers have promis( us parts of Serbia, creating an Au tro-Bulgarian border line, which absolutely necessary for. Bulgaria Independence of the Serbians. "We do not believe in the promisi of the quadruple entinte. Italy, o of the Alliees, treacherously bro her treaty of 33 years. We belie, In Germany, which is lighting tl whole world to fulfill her.treaty wil Austria. "Bulgaria must fight at the vi tor's side. The Germans and Austr Hungarians are victorious on a fronts. Russia soon will have cc lapsed entirely.' Then will come t1 turn of France, Italy and Serbia. Bu garia would commit suicide if si did not fight on. the side of the cei tral powers which offers the on] possibility of realizing her desire fV union of all Bulgarian peoples." The news agency says further: "The manifesto to the people col tains valuable material in regard I Bulgarian politics and economics am states that Russia is fighting f< Constantinople and the Dardanelle Gfeat Britain to destroy Germany competition, France for Alsace 'at Lorraine and the other allies to fC foreign countries. The central poi ers are fighting to defend proper1 and assure peaceful progress. "The manifesto says thatSerbi the worst enemy of Bulgaria, has ol pressed the purely Bulgarian populi tion of Macedonia in the most ba barous manner." I~ondon reports Friday: The ne Treutoni cinvasion of Serbia is in fu swing. In command of Fi-eld Ma shal von Mackensen the German ax Austrian forces are seeking to pu! their waya soutliward in an attem1 to seize the Truiik Railway stretec ig from .Belgrade to both Salonil and Constantinople. T'he next move lies with Bulgari; Whether she will attack Serbia fro: the rear or maintain for a moment .watchful attitude, is matter of su mise, but the situation Is such th; her entry In the war seems a matti only of hours. Russian warships are already r ported to be bombarding the Bulg: rian -Black Sea port of' Varna. Frent and British troops ar being rush4 northward by train from Salonill Meanwhile at the point where tI railway approaches closest to Bu garian territory both an allied and Bulgarian army are massing. It is retorted from Italian sourc that as a precaution the Serbian go ernent is transferring all recor and archives from Nish to Isti about 50 miles from the Greek fro tier. Virtually made over in guns ar equipment, and stiffened by Britic and French forces, it is predict< here that the Serbians will off! stubborn resistance to the Austr German advance. They will be a sisted by the flood conditions in tl Morava Valley, down which vc Mackensen hopes to force his wa Estimates of the strength of tl Austro-German forces along the Se blan frontier range from 400.000 600.000 men. There may have bei withdrawals by the Austrians a: Germans from some parts of tl eastern front but the renewed effor of von Hindenburg to capture Dvin: does not indicate any weakening. Among the theories advanced nc that Germany has definitely undC taken a fresh campaign in the Bh kans is the supposition that activi on the southern end of the easte front will gradually clacken and th the Teutons will concentrate thi energies on Riga and Dvinsk. Paris reports Friday: The su porters of Former iPremier Venizel who constitute a mojrity of t Greek chamber, it has been learn on high authority, says a Havan d patch from Athens, will not oppc the new ministry so that added co: plications may be avoided at a eri cal period. Overthrow of the Zaimis cabir would involve the dissolution of t chamber which is considered< tremely hazardous as the Greek et stitution does not permit fixing date for elections during mobilizati of the army. Serbia believes, says the Mati not abandon her ally and that t Nish correspondent, that Greece v differences between King Const tine and M. Venizelos can be smoo ed over. It is maintained that1 interests of Greece are quite as mi at stake as Serbia. as both are equ ly threatened. Attention is cal also to the fact that Austria hithe has claimed rights to the port Saloniki. What purport to be tails of1 historic interview between King Ce stantine and Elutherlos Venize wl h resultcd in the latter's ree ....sc zs ,r- mninstei of Gre SOUTHERN GOVERNORS MEET AT CHARLESTON THIS FALL = Invitation of Governor Manning is Accepted by Fourteen Gover nors-Others to Come. t Announcement was made at Wash ington last week that the invitation of Governor Richard I. Manning, of South Carolina, to the governors of the South to meet in Charleston at ,o- the time of the seventh annual con vention of the Southern Commercial ck Congress to organize the house of southern governors, has been accept ed by the executives of fourteen Mg states. Governor Manning is being assist ed in the organization of the house of southern governors by Dr. Clar ence J. Owens, managing director of S the Southern Commercial Congress, who is acting as temporary secretary. The governors who have signified their intention of participating in the organization include those of Mary land, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Missis sippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. All former governors and the present lieutenant governors of the southern states have also been invit ed to attend the conference. are printed in the Greek Journal Kairol. After agreeing to mobilization as a precaution involving no change of policy the king asked the premier 3 what was the object of the concentra tion of such a streng army on the Macedonian frontier. M. Venizelos answered ths.t the object was twofold-first to defend r: the country, and second, to go to the &t aid of Serbia in case she were at d tacked by Bulgaria. - c- The king then remarked that he( in agreed with Venizelos so far as de Ie fending the country was concerned r- but could not see that Greece was called upon to help Serbia. 'The i d premier recalled the obligations im- i s- posed upon Greece by her treaty of is alliance but Constantine retorted that ' when Greece asked Serbia's aid a against Turkey in May, 1914, it was e refused. Le To further arguments on the part ,e of Venizelos the King replied that re the premier was contradicting him Le self for when the allied powers ask ;: ed -Greece to assist Serbia at the time 1 of the Austrian attack, - Venizelos e. made & promise of such assistance l y conditional upon the benevolent co- I 11 operation of Rumania and the ben 1. evolent neutrality of Bulgaria r OF These conditions not having been I- pledged, the king pointed out, he re tI fused to. join Serbia at a time when i- the Austrian forces arrayed against ly her did not exceed 150,000 and Bul n garia was not hostile. "But to-day," added the king, "the Austro-Germans are a half million to 1 whom must be added 330,000 Bul C garians and the retreat of the Rus e sians prevents the Rumanians from >r doing anything for Serbia." London reports: The long threat ened Austro-German offensive in the Balkans, with the added menace of Bulgaria, has begun in earnest. Al-c -most simultaneously with the rup ture of diplomatic relations between Sofia and the Entente two Russian 'cruisers are reported to have begun an active bombardment of the Bul garian port of Varna and an Austro r erman army, estimated at 400,000 men, with an enormous weight of i heavy artillery, started to attack Ser 1bia from north and west. According ':o Berlin, this force has crossed the C Drina, Danube and Save rivers at -nany points and firpmly established itself on the Serbian' side. SThe Anglo-French troops which were landed at Saloniki with the Stacit consent of the Greek govern Sment are being hurried northward to Sassist Serbia and, If possible, keep *:he Bulgarians from capturing the S aloniki-Nish railway, the only source by which the Serbians can ob-1 tarn 'munitions of war. ~The hoped-for-support from Greece I .has not been forthcoming, King Con *stantine, by the dismissal of Premier ,Venizelos, having shown that, while his country sympathizes with the cause of the Allies, he Is not pre > ared to go against the Central pow , rs or to fulfill the obligations of the 3reco-Serbian treaty of alliance, I which provides that one ally must go .to the assistance of the other in case 1 a f attack. p A new Greek cabinet of mixed - sympathies has been appointed and the expectation now is that unless (public opinion forces the hand of the l overnment and insists on action on1 'the sides of the Allies, Greece will re Smain neutral. It is hardly conceiv o role to the Entente diplomats that s lreece will go over to the central1 x' mowers, for, they point out, Bulgaria >x 's known to covet Greek territory, y tnd the treatment of Greek nationals 1 n Turkey makes it virtually impos r ;ible for her to become the ally of t' .hat country. SAs in Greece, public opinion in S3ulgaria is not entirely unanimous Sn support of King Ferdinand, and t -eports indicate that the Bulgarian1 nobilization is being carried out with lifficulty. The king and Premier v Radoslayoff, however, finally have r -hrown in their lot with Austria, l ermany and Turkey, having, after t' tonsultation with the ministers of i 'hose countries, rejected the de a -nands for the dismissal of the Aus I tro-German officers, who, it is al 'eged, have been engaged to comn P rnand the Bulgarian army. Bulgaria, 0- n fact, denied the presence of these b officers. The Russian, British, eC French and Italian ministers either s have left or are leaving Sofia. Italy se has given the Bulgarian minister at m Rome his passports. ti It is possible that Bulgaria may ,avoid arousing the Greek people by e simply keeping her troops on the bor hder. This would prevent Serbia from X refraining from attacking Serbia, i bringing her full strength to bear 'against the Austro-German attack. or Rumania, the other Balkan state, ,still is neutral. Rumania has not ibeen heard from, but, like Greece. h. or the moment is bent on continu ing friendly relations with all the n belligerents. Doubtless to influence h her and the other Balkan states Rus hi sia is reported to have commenced el an energetic offensive in Bukowina al and to have attacked Austrion posi le' ions no rtheost of Cz ernowitz. o'British Steamship Sunk. hc The British steamer Arabian was n- sunk and her crew has been landed. !or l'his was repc'ted Tuesday from -~ *Athens. An A. ,trian sub is suppos TAKES NEW ACTION PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE TO RECOGNIZE CARRANZA VILLA WILL FIGHT ON The United States, Argentine, Brazil and China Join in Deciding to Grant Favor to Constitutionalist Chief-Action Expected to be Taken Soon. Recognition of the Carranza gov ernment as the de facto government :f Mexico was unanimously decided upon Saturday by the Pan-American onference. Secretary Lansing is ued this statement: "The conference, after careful con sideration of the facts, has found that the Carranza party is,the only party in Mexico Which possesses the ssentials for recognition as the de ,acto government, and they have so reported to their. respective govern nents." Secretary Lansing said the United States would await responses from .he other American republics repre ented in the conference before tak ng formal action toward recognition. Ie said the conference contemplated lo interference in Mexico's internal ffairs, and that the question of an =mbargo on arms and ammuition had iot been discussed. The action. of the conference was egarded generally as the most dip .omatic step in the Mexican situation since the United States decided to withhold recognition from the Huer a government. It seems that the ,arranza government will receive the noral support of the United States tnd that an embargo will be placed n arms destined for opposing fac ions as soon as recognition actually s extended, which probably will be ithin a fortnight. The fact that the United States tready has decided to recognize the 3arranza government is thought ikely to have an important moral ffect .in Mexico. Officials believe any elements will now align them elves with Carranza. and that the atter himself will adopt a liberal at itude toward his opponents. Official advices have been received n Washington that Argentina, Brazil nd Chile are in accord with the de ision of the -United States to grant ecognition to the party led by Gen. ,rranza as the de facto government n Mexico. It became known Sunday that ome of the South American govern nents long before Saturday's con erence at which it decided to recog ize the Carranza government had uthorized their diplomatic repre entatives to favor the recognition of en. Carranza in the Pan-American leliberations. President Wilson has not received rom Secretary Lansing- a report of he proceedings of the final confer nce but several days ago he indi ated to the secretary his acquies ece in th eplan proposed. Extension of recognition is expect d within a week. This will result n an immediate embargo on arms gainst factions opposed to the Car anza government, a step which will eaken materially the resources of he Villa element. Miguel Diaz Lom ardo gave out a statement in be talf of the Villa faction declaring hat while it was a source of satis action that the United States had hown its sympathy with the Mexican onstitutonalis . revolution against ierta by recognizing a revolution ry faction, nevertheless It was in-, ended to demonstrate by further ilitary operations that the Carranza arty's supremacy was temporary. George Carothers, American con ular agent, telegraphed the state de artment the substance of a long in erview he had had with Gen. Villa at uarez in which Villa explained that te intended to continue fighting Car anza. No mention was made of .ithdrawing protection to foreigners s reported in press dispatches, but fficals realize that the legal re ponsibility for protection of foreign rs rests always with the recognized overnment for all parts of the coun ry in rebellion or not. Secretary Lansing made it clear hat, while the United States could ot condition recognition upon the ;ving of amnesty or the settlement f other questions of a strictly inter ial nature, satisfactory assurances n these and other subjects have een received from the Carranza gov ~rnment. These guarantees are as ollows: 1. Foreigners will be protected in heir lives and property. 2. The Carranza government as tmes full responsibility for claims rowing out of the revolution, and will adjust them equitably by means f international commissions. 3. No one will suffer in his life nd property on account of religious eliefs; all priests and nuns who ave not taken part in Mexican poli ics will be permitted to return, and 'ill be protected, provided they do tot participate in politics and obey he Mexican laws concerning the sep ration of church and state. 4. A decree of amnesty is in prep ration, which will enable all ele nents, irrespective of political affil ation.s heretofore, to return to Mexi so with the exception of those guilty f complicity in the plot to kill Ma ero and Saurez, or who are charged ith civil crimes. A few political eaders, who hitherto have opposed the Sarranza government, will not be permitted to return until the gov ernment is firmly established and then only if they will pledge alle giance to it. "The war is just beginning." said Gen. Francisco Villa upon receiving the news of the recognition of the Carranza faction. Villa was ready to leave for Casa Grandes, where he is said to have twenty thousand men. when the news reached hinm. Satisfaction rather than resent ment was generally expressed by the chiefs of the northern leader. Col. Darecio Silva,. assistant chief of staff. one of the three members of the original band of eight who entered the revolution with Villa. said that now would begin a campaign that would cause constant surprise. "We will enter Sonora with forty thousand men." he said: "twenty thousand are at Casa Grandes. Wc are well armed andl equipped." "Just what our plans are can not be revelled, but arrangements havt been completed for a campaign, which. I believe, will surprise thE DUMBA LEAVES COUNTRY FRANKLY SHOWING REGRET Austrian Ambassador and His Wife Leave New York for Their Home Under Safe Conduct Dr. Constantin Theodor Dumba, ambassador of Austria-Hungary to the United States, whose recall was requested by President Wilson, sailed from New York on Tuesday for Rot terdam on the steamer .Nieuw Am sterdam, accompanied by Mine. Dum ba. He leaves the embassy at, Wash ington in the care of Baron Erich Zwiedinek, who will act as charge d'affaires until a new ambassador is appointed. As the ship started, Dr. Dumba, many years the senior of his wife, came to the rail and they stood arff in arm waving adieus, both visibly affected by the going away. As the ship moved out they ran aft, and Madame threw kisses until out of sight. Neither the ambassador nor Mme. Dumba made any pretense of con cealing their regret over the end of their diplomatic usefulness. Testimonials to the personal popu larity of the ambassador and- his wife filled one stateroom almost to the ceiling. Excepting when Jane Addams went abroad on her peace mission, the steamship people could not recall so many flowers having been sent to any one voyager. Huge baskets and boxes of chrysanthe mums, roses and'orchids came from personal friends and from Austro Hungarian societies. Dr. Dumba, before going aboard, met the photographers, smiling, and with ready repartee. "Can you execute me here?" he asked, taking a stand in the middle of the pier. He readily consented to go down stairs to a better light, where he walked, talked and laughed to the complete satisfaction of the "movie" men. They called him "Doc" and asked him to look this way or that, to wave his hand and to take off his hat and smile. As though it were a real pleasure, the ambassador entered into the spirit of the thing and returned to Mine. Dumba smiling. "I should like to give you a fare well message to the American people: I love them, and I bear no ill-will to any of them," said Dr. Dumba before leaving the crowd of reporters. "I have made many friendS here, and some day, as a private citizen, I hope to be able to come back and see them: 'Injustice in my recall?' Well, that is a delicate question; we wpuld bet ter not discuss that. I can not speak on official subjects--:.you know that. But good-bye and God bless you!" -. I ENGLAND SEIZES SIPS Danish Government Loses Goods In tended to Keep Down Price of Bacon. A -dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph Company from Copenhageq says: "Somewhat of a sensation hM been created here by the announce ment that three liners of the Scan dinavian-American . line-the Oscar II, the Frederick VIII, and the Unit ed States-were ordered at Kirkwall to unload their cargoes of bacon which, it is stated, were bought by Danish merchants at the initiative of the government in order to supply the home market and keep down the cost of living. "Tho passehgers of the Frederick VIII, which arrived in Kirkwall last Thursday, are taking a smaller steamer to Copenhagen." PANAMA CANAL CLOSED Goethals Issues Orders to Blast Tops of the Hills. The Panama canal will remair closed until all danger of serious slides is passed. Governor Goethals, of the Canal zone, has issued orders to the dredging engineers to blast away the tops of the hills at Gail lard cut to bring into the channel all loose dirt and thus permanently re move the. source of the slides. Governor Goethals was unable to say when the canal again would be in condition for passage of ships, but he said he would leave November 1, the date to which the canal has been of ficially closed, -unchanged. He expressed the personal opinion, how ever, that the canal would be closed much beyond that date. ITALIANS CHIANGE PLANS Will Not Try to Take Trieste From Austrians as Intended. The original idea of taking Trieste seems to have been abandoned by the Italians. According to reports from Italian headquarters, the plan now is. that when Gorizia, with its entrench ed camp, which Is one of the most formidable natural fortifications in existence, is taken, the Italians will continue their advance along the high Carso plateau, leaving Trieste -on their right, and cut off from the re mainder of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Blow Open a Bank. Two men blew . open the vault of the State Bank at Maud, Ohio, fifteen miles south of Shawnee, early Tues day morning and escaped with four thousand dollars. A sheriff's posse pursued them. Protests Air Attack. The duchy of Luxemburg has pro tested the recent attack of the ~allied airmen on the city of Luxemdurg. says a Berlin dispatch which comes to the United States by wireless Wednesday. . Says No Warning WIa's Given. Berlin claims that the British sub which sank the German steamer Svionic. in the Baltic gave the mer chant ship no warning. about fifty American women, a host of Mexican officials and others de layed Villa's departure until Satur day. In addressing the American women Villa said: "My enemies say I have a hoard of money in the banks. I have no money. I have only faith in my cause for which I am fighting. Please tell Americans this." ".If the Pan-Americanl conferees re cognize Carranza they only open the way for anarchy in Mexico, for Car r-n-a means favoitism for the mon SUBMARINE MINE LAY"! SETS AUTOMATIC MINE As Surface Mine Explodes it is Rt placed From Beneath Waves by Another. A new type of submarines mine layer and a new and unique form C submarine mine have come to lgh in the recent activities. of Germa submarines off the French and Eng lish coasts. the new mine has: an automat' adjustment by which' one mine re places another, much as in an autc matic gun one cartridge follows an other after each explosion. Up to thi time mine-sweepers have been able t scoop up the hostile wines, lyin about ten feet below the, water. Bu the new form of mine is such that a soon as a mine-sweeper scoops of one mine it Is automatically replace by another. The existing form of mine general ly used is anchored to the bed of -har bor waters, the anchor chain givinj enough slack to bring -the mine ti within teri feet of the surface of th, water. Recently, however, as th, sweepers were at work, they discover ed that the anchor lying In the bed o the harbor, -and - holding the min, above, had been re'Placed by a smal chamber or receptacle for severa mines. These were so arranged. tha when the first mine, lri position ne: the surface, was gathered in by i mine-sweeper, the tug on the ancho: chain released another mine from thi chamber below, which automaticall: slid up the chain and took the placi of the mine which had just bee cleared away. The extent to which the'new de vice is in use is not known, but re cent operations have established tha a number of them have been placed and foreign governments have beei informed of the automatic machiner, by which the mine is renewed. It i understood that the, submarines lay, Ing this form of device give theil entire attention to that one 'purposo and are not employed for attacking ships or other offensive warfare. Each of these submarines is said t( have a capacity for carrying eight o: the automatic mine chambers, wit mines, chains, . anchors, etc. The are carried on deck and are throwr off at the points desired, the sub marine then adjusting the anchor and the automatic succession :of mines Since the detection of this device mine sweeping has- become- a mori fornildable operation, as it- is neces sary not only to scoop off the uppe mine, but in each case to go to. the bottom and remove- the entire ma chinery of renewaL ROBBERS GET $500,000 IN UNSIGNED BANK NOTES Currency Was on Way to Washing ton on Board Fast Exprese Bandits Worked 2 Hours. TwQ masked men early Friday held up and robbed a -Baltimore and OhI express train from New York to St Louis, two miles west of Central, W. Va. Their booty was taken from mail cars and is believed to be large. The county officials at Clarksburg, W. Va., were informed Friday that the robbers who held up the Balti ore and Ohio train got about one indred registered packages and inety packages of unsigned .banl) otes being sent from Washington tc anks in the middle west. The value f thie currency was estimated at five hundred thousand dollars. Grant Helm, the engineer, was at tracted by a noise from the tender, ooking over his shoulders he saw two masket men climbing over the oal carrying shot guns. One of the men ordered Helms to cut off the ngine and mail car. After he ran the locomotive two miles westward nder the cover of guns, Helms and the fireman were compelled to alight. The other man then took the three men and ran the engine and cara mile or two farther west. The rob bers then went through the mail car, looting the registered mail. Morn than two hours elapsed from the time f the robbery until the news could be sent to division headquarters ai Parkersburg and Grafton. Helms said e could not give a description of the men. He said they were experienced in the handling of a locomotive. Railroad authorities believe thai the men hurried over the hills to road near Central Station where the) had an automobile. (AISER'S WORD NOT ENOU~i Venizelos Asks Constantine if H4 Would Trust William. A story generally current in Atix ens and widely accepted is that Pre mier Venizelos at his conference wit] King Constantine on September 30 pleaded that the Serbian alliane must be observed, if for no other rea son than a means of defense againsi Bulgaria. - A close friend of King Constan tine is authority for the statenmen1 that the -King in reply exhibited telegram from the German empe'oi guaranteeing that Greece would nol be attacked by- Bulgaria if she rc mained neutral, and that the premie1 "Does your Majesty eccnsider th< word of the man whose troops in vadd Belgium sufficient protectio: for Greece?' RELEASES AMERICAN MAIS France A dmits Our Contention Tha Delay Has no Real Object. The order for the holding of Amer ican mail for two days before beini forwarded or delivered has been can celled by the ministry of war, upoi the suggestion of the Foreign office It was readily seen, on being point ed out by the American embassy, tha no adequate military purposes woul< be served by delay of American ma when the Swiss mails, although hela back the same length of time. wouli reach their destinations within a fe' hours after the time the Americal mails left port. Massacres Inhabitants. Twenty-three inhabitants of L Colorado, a mining town in the He: mosillo, Sonora, district, were ma! sacred by Yaqui Indians, who car tured the town this week. Wome: and children were beaten to death.i WILUN IU WU NUUN PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES EN= GiAGEMENT TO MRS. GALT CEREMONY IN HECEMBER n Washington Greatly Surprised at Un C expected Announcement-Friends Have Suspected it for Some Time s Bride to be is a Widow of Former Business Man. The announcement was made f Wednesday of the engagement of 1 Mrs. Norman Galt of Washington and President Woodrow Wilson. The brief announcement from the White House, made by Secretary Tu multy, came as a surprise to official Washington but to a number of inti a mates it long had been expected. From this circle came the story of a f friendship whose culmination was B viewed as a happy turn in the trod 1 bled and lonely life of the nation's 1 chief executive. t It was.3argaret Wilson and her r cousin, Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, L who drew Mrs. Galt into the White r House circle. They met her in the a early autumn of last year and were so r much attracted by her that they a sought her out more and more fre i quently. Mrs. Galt spent a month this sum - mer as a guest of the president's eld - est daughter. It was then that the t president hrd an opportunity to meet and know her. One of the most in k teresting facts, as told- by friends, Is r that. the president's daughters chose ; Mrs. Galt for their admiration and friendship before their father did. Mrs. Galt is the widow of a well known business man of Washington, who died eight years ago, leaving a jewelry business that still bears his name. She has lived in Washington since her marriage in 1896. She is t about thirty-eight years old and was Miss Edith Bolling, born in Wythe ville, Va., where her girlhood was spent and where her father, William H. Bolling, was a prominent lawyer. For many weeks Mrs. Galt and her relatives have been frequent dinner guests at 'the' White' House. Often she has accompanied the president on motorrides. She is not quite as tall as Mr. Wilson. She has dark hair and. dark eyes. Friends reg.rd her as: an unusual beauty. Her tastes are said to be strikingly similar to those of the president. She is inter ested in literature and charity work. Friends of the president expressed their pleasure over the announce ment, not only because of Mr. Wil son's personal happiness, but because they felt this new companionship would give him support and comfort I in his home life-a vital need during I the hours of strain over the nation's I problems. With the marriage of his daugh ters and the death of Mrs. Wilson, more than a year ago, the president's life had become one of solitude. His absorption in official labors began to I tell on him physically, and when ali few months ago he began to take a I renewed interest in personal affairs 1 his friends and members of the fam- I ily welcomed the distinct change I which it brought about In his health and spirits. Congratulations came from of fi cials, diplomats, friends and rela tives of President Wilson following the announcement of his engagement to Mrs. Norman Galt of Washington. The announcement gave the national capital a topic of absorbing intercst which, for the moment, overshadowed1 all questions of international or- do mestic politics. Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, was one of the fta to send congratulations and there fol lowed messages from others of the< diplomatic corps conveying the good< wishes of their governments. Definite arrangements for the wedding will be made Immediately, but It was disclosed that It will not take plzace in the White House, be - cause of the formality tat would be 1 necessary there. The ceremony, will 1 be solemnized bcfore the convening i of congress In December, either ini Mrs. Gait's home .or in a church. An extended honeymoon will be impossible, but the president's friends are urging him to accept an invita tion to attend the San Frt.ncisco andi San Diego expositions just after his1 marriage. A short sea trip may be taken on the presidential yacht May- 1 flower.1 The president gave up virtually all of Thursday to receiving congratula tions and calling with Mrs. Gait on members of their respective families. During the afternoon he went to meet a few friends at the home of Mrs. W. H. Bolling, mother of the bride-to-be,i and Thursday night he had as his 1 guests at dinner at the White Housei Mrs. Gait, her mother, Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo and several ether rela tives. Members of the party remain-1 ed at the White House for the re mainder of the evening. When the president received call ers and when he left and entered the White House he was wearing a broad smile and seemed happy. Mrs. Galt spent the morning receiving congrat ulations. The president and Mrs. Gait, with Mrs. Boiling, Miss Bones. Dr. Gray son and Secretary Tumulty, left Fri day for New York to be guests oV Col. E. M. House, the president's closest friend, and Mrs. House. They will reach New York in the afternoon and the time before dinner probably will be devoted to the purchase of an en gagement ring and to an automobile t ride. After dinner Col. and Mrs. House will give a theatre party. Saturday -morning the party will go to Phila delphia. where the president will throw out the first ball in the second game of the world's series. Imnme diately after the game the return trip to Washington will be made on a special train. SClose friends of Mrs. Gait describ ed her as a woman without hobbies or fads. She is fond of horses hut owns none. While she has tried golf she has never been an enthusiast. She is interested in the philanthropic work, but her charities have always been of the quiet kind. She herself smilingly refused to say whether she was interested in woman suffrage or a to be interviewed. The interest in the people of the. Snation, who know neither the presi Sdent nor Mrs. Galt personally w'as a shown to-day in the character of the t messages received at the White NAVY ARE BEING mm" President Confers With Daniels and Naval Officers About Shipe - to be Built. President Wilson, Secretary Dan iels and naval officers have been busy again on the navy. end of the national defense progrzm. Mr. Dan iels has not completed his esti mates, which must be made to the president by October 15, but he is gradually shaping his building plan for 1916-17. The purpose of the president and Mr. Daniels is to lay the foundation for a constructive program that will continue through three or four years, and which ultimately will make the nited States navy next to the best, if not the best, in the world. A tentative program for the next fiscal.year provides for either $112, 500,000 or $120,500,000 for the in crease in the navy. The sum provid ed for the increase in the navy fo'r the year 1915-16 was about $49,000, 000. This year's program, if carried out, probably would authorize: The construction of two - dread oughts and two battle cruisers at a total cost of $70,000,000. Five cruisers of the third class at a cost of $15,000,000, or sixteen de stroyers at a cost of $18,000,000. Thirty-five submarines, most of which would be for coast defense, and several of which would be sea going vessels, to cost $20,000,000. Aircraft to cost from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. - One supply ship, one fuel ship and one hospital ship, the. three to cost between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. The total appropriation for 1915 1916 was $147,461,864.88. It is-un ierstood that Mr. Daniels' estimates ror 1916-17 will call for nearly $250,000,000. PROTEST TO ENGLAND GOES FORWARRI SOON -I - resident Feels Free to Press Great Britain for Modification of Orders in Council. With the settlement of the Arabic :ontroversy, the dispatch to Great 3ritain of the Icng-delayed American iote on interference with trade is ex ected within a few days. President Wilson has consistently efused to send this communication hile the issues with Germany werc >ending, because the Berlin govern nent had, through its notes, given he impression that. -,n tho. actior hich the United States took witb >ne set of belligererA depended its :ouformity to intern:!ion:.1 law. As the issues with Germany appear kow, to be adjusting themselves, the resident, it is known, feels free tc >ess Great Britain for a modifica ion of the orders in council.and re trictions of American trade. Representatives of the Chicago >ckers continued their conferences vith officials of the state depart nent. As a result of the statement, ade by the packers' counsel, it is >robable the forthcoming note to 'reat Britain will contain a section >rotesting against the action of the 3ritish prize court which confiscated nore than fifteen million dollars worth of American foodstuffs be ause the consignments were sus ected of reaching German military orces eventually. MRIS PRESS FOR SWIFT BLOW rge That Army of at Least 500,000 be Sent Into the Balkans. Russia's ultimatum to Bulgaria vas welcomed in Paris as a means ot learing the Balkan situation. Little oubt is felt that France will take tringent action. Jean Herbette and ~ther specialists in foreign pclitics Lre agreed that the Allies must strike ard and swiftly if they are to ac omplsh their purposes in the Bal ans, and that half measures would e worse than useless. They state hat the Entente powers should send n five hundred or six hundred thou and men. It is stated the Italians have five undred thousand idle men under Lrins. Owing to the position of Italy n reference to certain Balkan peo les, the Italians might be precluded 'rom landing troops at Saloniki, but .he suggestion is made .that they night assist the British and French: I the Dardanelles. It is conceded that if Bulgaria should enter the war the situation ould be a dangerous one for the llies. Unless this blow were parried luckly, military strategists believe. he Serbians might be crushed be ween the Germans and Austrians on he north and the Bulgarians on the outh. in which case a Teutonic army night reach Constantinople in a com >arativcly short time. PRISONERS NEED COATS ~0,00 Germans in Siberia are With out Blankets or Overcoats. A statement that two hundred housand German prisoners of war tre in Siberia without blankets or oats was made in a cablegram ask ng relief received at San Francisco sunday by George Volkmann, mem >er of a jobbing firm, from the re jef committee of Tien Tsin, China. [t read: "Publish widely German press two undred thousand war prisoners So >eria absolutely no blankets nor :oats. Urgent need. Shipment di rect American Consul Vladivostok for special representative Department state." I I Gains in the Dardanelles. During September the allied forces at the Dardanelles have made a gain averaging three hundred yards along the centre of four miles near Sulva Bay. There have been patrol attacks and bomb attacks every night, says the report of Sir Tan Hamilton. Rumania to Mfobilize. Tnformation has reached Geneva. according to Parisian reports of Fri day, that Rumania will decree gen eral mobilization in twenty-four hours. ers sent a telegram of congratulation in which he described himself as "one f the nomaon herd." VINIi DIULL ftYLLL_"1, MANNINO AND EXPERTS STUDY PEST IN ALABAMA MUST GUARD THIS STAT Governor to Take a Week's Trip -A Inspection to the District We Boll Weevils' Ravages are Wor To Plan Fight Against This Cot ton Pest. . A News and Courier dispaLch from Columbia says: In order to see for himself what the actual conditonse are in sections ravaged by '' weevil and with the idea of ,ttieg, . some information valuable in fighting the weevil before it can extend 1ts blighting presence to this state, Gor Richard I. Manning and several the Clemson College authorities will make a- trip of inspection to the MisS sissippi Valley during the week Oco. ber 16-23. The inspection trip . be made through Louisiana and 'Affe sissippi, where the boll weevif ha5 been at its worst. In addition to the governor th party which will make the ispeeto trip will be composed of W. M. Riggsr president .of Clemson College; ., president of the Clemson b trustees; J. N Harper of Cl College, B. H. Rawls, of the industry of the United States depark meat and a trustee of Clemson Co lege, and a Mr. Hunter, a specl agent of the federal agricultural partment. The party will leave Columbia. Saturday morning on No. 9, at 7 over the Southern Railway, and'. direct from Spartanburg to New leans, reaching there Sunday moz; ing. Places which will be visited Louisiana will be: Alexandria, roe, Tallulah, and to VIcksb Miss. Other points in this State vist ed will be Natchez, Brookba Jackson, and then back to -B ham, Ala., reaching that city on day morning and come direct hom. getting back to Columbia on the loing Saturday, the entire trip - ig made in one week's time. Gov. Manning is thoroughly aliv. to the serious situation facing 'this Btate from the onward sweep of the.: bll weevil pest, which has nowO rearhed .within one hundred -and forty miles of *the South Carolln(' border. In order to prepare the peo ple for the coming of the weevil, o better still, to find some method, of bringing.it to a stand'on the GeorC gia border, if possible, he wants to; get first hand information and to se. or himself .just what are the condi tions in those socvtions of the cotton belt over which it has travelled. The governor realizes that unless' something is done to get ready thaV when the boll weevil comes At mata bring ruin and destruction.. t.-Is said by those who have seen its a ul results that the boll weeil ii worse than the pestilences. w le ;wept over Egypt when PharoalrT fused to let the children leave that Land. The governor is working day and: ight on ideas which he is able to get_ .hat might prove of benefit and-prac tical use in getting the people 6 Bouth Carolina prepared for the lreaded boll ceevil and prevent ruin and want. To draw its fangs and to :ombat in some measure its ruinous. presence the governor is making this trip to the pest-infected section of :~he cotton belt to see how the? 'han lled it and to get the benefit of prac ical experience with Its dread pres ance. The trip of the governor and his party will be through part of the-see ion where farming laid which- soln at one hundred and fifty dollars per acre dropped to five dollars per acre. with the coming' of the boll weevil. The prodhetionl of cotton ia practical L cut of f entirely in the boll weevil sections and the people must turn to rain and other crops and go into Ihe cattle industry to prevent actual want from getting them while the toll weevil rampages.-. The governor.will give the people :etaled information of his trip, and t is expected that something in the way of good ideas for fighting the boll weevil will be obtained by the South Carolinians who are' going: on this inspec.tion journey. PRESIDENT'WILSON VOTES FOR SUFFRAGE TO WOMEN ays le Casts Vote as Citizen of Newr Jersey, Not as Party Leader A State Question. e President Wilson will -vote for the women suffrage State constitutional amendment ini New Jersey at 'the pecial election October 19.~- He-iaid Wednesday he would vote not as the Leader of the Democratic party by a private citizen. Mr. Wilson said he believed -the. question should be made a party Is ;ue and should be decided by the tates. The following statement was given out at the White House: "I intend to vrote for woman suf frage in New Jersey because I believe. that the time has come to extend that privilege and responsibility to the women of thae state; but I shall vote, not as the leader of my party in the nation, but only upon my pri vate conviction as a citizen of New Jersey. called upon by the legislature of the state to express his conviction at the polls. I think that New Jer-. sey will be greatly benefitted. by the change. ".My position with regard to the way in which this great question should be handled is '.,ell known. I beleve that it should be settled by the states and not by the national government, and that in no circum stances should it be made a party question and my view has grown stronger at every turn of the agita tion." British Officers Lost, 17,074. Since the beginning of the war 17,074 British officers have been re ported on the casualty list. 5.176 are dead; 10,469 are wounded, and 1,429 are missing. Millions of Tons of Coal Ordered. France has placed an order for geveral million tons of coal from the West Virginian coal fields for de livery In six months, It was announc