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VOL. XXVIII. MANNING, S. C., WED NESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1915. HOW SUB SANK SHIP PANDEMONIUM SEIZED PASSEN; GERS ON BOARD ANCONA. U. S. AWAITS ALL FALTS Captain Says His Ship Was Given No Warning but That Shot GraMed Ship Before He Saw Undesea Boat Survivors Who Land at Malta Tell . Different Story. Ofec"al ports describing exact ly how the Italian liner Acona .was destroyed still are unavafiale and f oteiec etary lan Sing refaied fo d yning y opinion a to the attitude of the Cuited States. Press reports indicating that the ancona was given warning but that many pasqengers were lost as a. re suit of shots fred by the attacking submarine after the liner came to a halt, were read with great Interest High oficials of the American Gov ernment hold that when. heeding warning a beligerent merchantman is entitled to sufficient t1=e to place non-combatants in a Place of safety and the fact that a vesel prVtvlouly attempted to escape does not invali date that right. Many phases of the question were discussed informally by cffclah-but with the resorvation that formal comment or action nocesearilY must await detailed reports from Ambas sador !Page at Rome and American consuls in Italy and North Africa, who have. been instructed to obtain affdavits from survivors. So far it has been impossibio to ascertain defi nitely the number of Am-rican citi zens lost. All of the reports do not agree. For example a Stefani News Agency dis patch from Tunis .says: The com namw of the Ancona, who reached here Thursday, declares the subma rine gave his vessel no signal to stop. The frst sign of the presence of the submarine was a shot .from a distance of, five miles, which grazed the steamer. The Ancona stopped dead. Subsequently shells hit the boats, which were being made roady for launching, and many passengers were killed or wounded on tho deck and in the boats. Some of the passengers who had been thrown into the water proached the submarine, but were repeled and derided. Finally shells and torpedoes were fired at the An cona from a distance of 300 yards. London reports The Italian steamer Ancena was not sunk without warning, accord ing to- information obtained from survivors landed at Malta by the Router correspondent and cabled to the Continent The Reutier dispatch, which con- t tains the arst connected story of the I sinkmg of the Ancona Monday after noon twenty hours after she had left I Mesin, Sicily, follows: "We left.Naples with a fairly large number of pasengers, intending to -CH direct to New York, but soon after leaving port received a wireless message directing us to stop at t Messina for more passengers and mostly Greeks and Italians with large familieson theirway to the United States ti settle there. The majority, therefore, were women and children. I We left.Messna at 5-P.M. The presence of -enemy submarines, took all possible precautions. At exactly 1 o'clock Monday afternoon we sight ed a submarine at a great distance. She came to the surface and made full speed in our direction firing as she did so a shot which went wide across our bow. We took this to be a warning to halt.. 'Immediately there was the wild est panic aboard, not only among the women and children, but the men as well. Women screamed and chlden clung desperately to 4 the- mthers. Meanwhile the sub mine contiued to shell us, gain ing rapidly The first shot carried away the chart house. "The: engines then were stopped and the Ancona came slowly to 5 I standstill.- The submarine, whicb we could now see plainly was an Aus-1 tian, came along. We heard the commanidei talking to our captain. n a somewhat curt manner we were told the Austrian had given us a few minutes to abandon-'the ship.'* Mean while the submarine withdrew a ftt te distance. "We turned to the boats which be gan to be lowered without loss of time, but the passengers were in e pandemonium. Men, women ad chidren seemed to lose their head.' conpletely. The submarine, presum ably to accelerate our departure oninued to fire around the vessel There was rush for the first boatr lowered and in the confusion these were overturned before they were free from the davits, the occupant? falling into the water. Many were drowned before our eyes. "The shrieks of women, childrer and sk-aggliug men rent the air, bu' it seemed no help could be given *Every one was trying to act for him self. The heart-rending screams were punctuated with shot after shot de livered almost mechanically fronr the dce4~aal!ne. addingt for these shots it might have beer possile to restore a semblance of order. The conduct of the subma rine was incomprehensible. \ Not one shot was directed at the ship, but they were fired all around the vessel as if to create as much terror as possible. "About eight boats got away clear, ome with a fair complement aboard; others half empty. All drift ed from each other. "One of the survivors in describ ing his experience said: "The boat in which I found myself contained 30 mcmbers of the crew and three passengers, an Italian woman and her child besides myself. I am cer tain fully half of those aboard per ished. Some time after we entered the life boat we heard four explo sions. indicating the end of the Ancona. We remained in the boat al night, and were picked up in the morning by a British stcamer, which brought us to Malta." India Bars Bryan's Book. A Hindu editor of San Francisco has been notified that a phamphlet which he said was made up of ex tracts from Bryan's 'British Rule in India" translated for the Indians had been barred from the maill by h British government. GREEK DEPUTIES DISSOLVED Government Gets Free Hand by Dis missing Representatives. London reports Friday all doubts as to what road Greece would choose out of the muddle caused by the di vergent views of her political leaders and as to how the policies of the Skouloudis cabinet could be rendered compatible with the opinions of th'e adverse majority in the chamber of deputies, today were dispelled by a public dissolution of the chamber. Publication of the decree apparent ly was received in Athens with calm despite the fact that all elements hoped to avoid elections at the pres ent moment The government, it appears, considered dissolution the only possible means of getting full and unrestricted liberty of action. Greek officials in London and at other points continue to assert that Greece's future actions depend solely upon military considerations. As soon as Greece is convinced beyond doubt that the allies have produced enough troops to make possible a suc cesful offensive against Bulgaria and t6 remove the danger with which Greece would be confronted if she entered the war inadequately assisted Greece will immediately range her self on the side of the allies and ren der all the military co-operation of which she is capable, according to her representatives. DVINSK ISIARD NUT German Find Russiman Fortress DiffM cult to Capture. Thedifficulties of the army beseig Ing Dvinqk, because of the nature of the fortress, which is built of sand, are pictured by Capt. Von Kueschuet sky, correspondent of the Berlin Vos mische Zeitung. "Had it been of rock,' he says, experts declare it would have been knocked to pieces long ago, but an rtillery bombardment is of little avail against a sand fortress. It was :aptured fifteen times between Sep .ember fiften and October twenty-six, d still is not in the German's pos tession. It has been reduced in size me-half, without affecting strength A the remainder. Every rod of land is covered with permanent trenches, roofed securely t against scrapnel and shell fragments. d connected with so called 'fox ioles,' small shelters where the gar isons are secure against the heaviest heUs. Exploding projectiles are anothered in the sand trenches, skill uly laid out, so they are. mutually utflanking. An apparent successful ttack often means the destruction of :he assailants by the flanking fire of nachine guns. One company lost fif- 1 Y-one dead on October thirty-first " < GERMANY CONTROLSFOOD ovement to Supervise Entire I t Supply of the Nation. h Berlin reports via London Friday: Tirtually the entire food supply of he nation is expected soon to pass I inder governmental control to insure Z ; equitable distribution of supplies b t fair prices amon& the entire pop- C latIon Coffee, tea and cocoa were Aded today to the list of products S those sale will be regulated by the I tate. The federal council authoriz- < ed the chancellor to issue regula- n ions covering trade in them. s The chancellor also was authorized . o establish maximum prices for uckwheat and millet, marmalades , md 'hcney, vegetables, fruits and t auerkraut. These prices apply to , producers. Local authorities in muni- 1 ipalities of more than ten thousand pulation 'are required to fix maxi- r num prices for retailers. The auth rities in smaller places may take imilar action if they se fit. Bread, potatoes, pork, milk and ptter already have been subjected to maximum price schedule. The con umption of other meats is regulated Lnd limited by so-called "meatless lays."' ACTIVE IN MEDITERRANEAN serman and Austrian SubmarinesI Sunk Many Ships. On October 18 Count von Bern toroff, the German Ambassador, an-t onnced that he had received an offi ia communication from Berlin tO 1 he effect that German submarines iad recently sunk twenty-three yes sels, including four transports, be onging to the Allies in Mediterran San waters. 'This was the first intelligence ihich conveyed an idea of the exten Sve operations of the German boats n the waters in question. Since ;hen the loss of eleven ships has een reported.1 Austrian submarines have not 1therto been active beyond the Ar -iatic. But the Italian battleships malfi and Giuseppe Garibaldi were sunk by them on July 6 and July 19 espectively; and the submarines Medusa and Nereide also met the 1 ame fate on June 17 and August 7.1 rhe French armored cruiser, Leon ambetta, was sunk off Otranto, It Ly, April 26, by the Austrian sub carine U-5. TRIED TO ESCAPE incona Overtaken After Putting on Full Steam to Get Away. A Tunis dispatch to the Giornale d'talia gives a dramatic, though brief, account of the attack. "A submarine approached the Ancona towards noon," says this ac count, "and as soon as the steamer saw it, an attempt was made to es cape at full speed. The Ancona was overtaken and stopped. Then the submarine fired on the Ancona, sink ing her amid the desperate cries of the passengers. "The lifeboats were next attacked, the submarine, likewise firing on them. A woman, a man and two children were-killed, their bodies are at Bizerta. "The submarine then disappeared immediately, proceeding probably in he direction of the Aegean Sea. To Winter at Gallipoli. The Constantinople correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says well informed circles of the Turkish capital believe the British forces in end to spend the winter on Gal oli peninsula. Daniels' Paper Burned. For the second time since he be came a member of Wilson's cabinet, the plant of his newspaper at Raleigh was burned to the ground Friday. The loss is estimated at $50,000 for him alone. URE FOR PELERA PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE HAS FOUND CAUSE OF DISEASE STARTS BY WRONG DIET Dr. Goldberger Experiments Upon Convicts Giving Them the Disease by Improper Feeding and Curing Them by Using a Balanced Diet. Disease to Be Fought Harder Now. Discovery of the cause and care for pelagra was announced formally Thursday by the public health ser vice. The announcement foHows the recent publication of a report by Surgeon Joseph Goldberger on a year of experiments in cooperation with Southern States health officers dem onstrating the correctness of the theory that a one-sided diet disease and that a well balanced diet would ure it. "The spread of this dread malady, which ras been increasing in the Uni ted States at a terrific rate 4during the past years, may now be checked nd eventually eradicated," says the service statement. "It is estimated that 75,000 cases of the disease will ave ocurred in the United tSates in 1915 and of this number at least 7,500 will have died before the end f the year. In many sections only uberculosis and pneumonia exceed it Ls a cause of death." The final dietary tests were made )y Surgeon Goldberger and Assistant urgeon G. A. Wheeler at the farm of ;e Mississippi penitentiary where ialf a dozen of 11 convicts were given )ellagra by feeding them for five nonths on bountiful meals consisting :hiefly of meats, milk, eggs, beans md peas. The victims recently were )ardoned by the Governor and are seing restored to health through a sorrected diet. "Although the occurrence of ner rous symptoms and gastro-intestinal listurbances was noted early," says he service statement, "it was not un 11 September 12 or -about five months ter the beginning c the restricted Liet that the skin sya.ptoms so char eteristlc of pellagra began to de ,elop. The convicts upon whom the xperiment was made were kept un er continuous medical surveillance. No cases of pellagra developed in amp excepting among those men rho were on the restricted diet. The xperimenters have, therefore, drawn he , .-olusion that pellafra has been au i at least six of the 11 vol inteers as a result of the one side iet on which they subsisted. "On the basis of this discovery the 2 tates of Mississippi, Louisiana and llorida have laid their propaganda hrough their respective boards of ealth for the eradication of the dis *ase. "In earlier experiments about 200 s atients had been cured by balanced z atons-and at the end of a year there ad been a slight recurrence of the a isease in only one instance." At the annual meeting of the a outhern medical associaton at )allas, Texas, sharp differences of f pinions as to the cause and treat- e ient of pellagra marked the final ses- d ion of the asociation which conclud d its annual convention Thursday. S The dietary theory, recently ad-t anced by Dir. .Joseph Goldberger of he United States public health ser ice, and formally by the public ealth service Thursday was the prin ipal subjects of discussion and news C eports of'his fork criticised as mis sading. Several phyicians said newspapers s ad printed headline that a cure had een found but that Dr Goldberger t ad not announced anything more han a very good treatment for the isease, possible the best treatment et known. Dr. Allen Freeman of'the United tates public health service read o the pellagra symposium a copy of he diet which he said Dr. Goldberger ound hid a tendency to produce pel agra. Dr. Freeman pointed out that t was almost~ the identical diet of 'very person of small means in thet outh and appealed to the physiciane ~ o accept for their own use and ex-1 eriment the treatment Dr. Gold erger has demonstrated. "Dr. Goldberger," he said, "does hot claim to prove that diet is the r nly cause for pellagra. But he does laim that through diet he had pre- j ented pellagra and that through diet i e has produced It." Dr. Stewart L. Roberts of Atlanta C aid that as -pellagra is a wasting dis-i tse, a diet including such foods as >eas, beans and fresh meats, whichc rere among the articles recommend d by Dr. Goldberg, would tend tot rard relief for the reason that they re rich in the elements necessary to 'estore wastage. Dr. Roberts added- that he did not 1 eleve it posible to say a pellagra atient had recovered until the pas -age of at least three years, during whch timP no symptom of the dis ease appeared. He thought that when he cause of pellagra is discovered it will be either a parasite or a poison. Whatever the final proof on diet :reatment might show, said Dr 0. M. Marchman of Dallas, even if the :reatment fails, it should start tudy with renewed vigor and hope of soon ;etting pellagra under control. He said there probably are between 35,-. 200 and 50,000 pellagra cases in!1 rexas. Dr. K. H. Beall of Fort Worth| said that in 1907 the first pellagra' leath was reported in Texas and that Last year 500 death were reported.1 Dr. W. A. Dearman of Long Beach Miiss., referred to an outbreak of pel Lagra in an asylum in 'Peoria, Ill., in 1909 and declared that as good re-1 sults as Dr. Goldberger described were obtained simply by segregating the pellagra patients, and Dr. W. L. Allison of Fort Worth, chairman of the Texas State committee for the study of pellagra, aserted that the dietary theory would not explain all cases. Pellagra had been known to develop where there was no fault with the diet, he said. To Demobolize .Greek Army. An Italian dispatch senL via Paris Wednesday says the Greek army will soon be demobilized, only fifty thou-. sand men remaining under .rms. Serbians Report Success. Serbian troops operating in the de files of Kutchanik report a big suc es sver the Bulgarians on Wednes German Submarine Busy. German subs have again passed the Strait of Gibraltar and have sunk two vessels Friday. MUCH BOOSE TO kE SOLD BY FIRST OF NEW YEAI Various County Dispensaries Mus Sell Million Dollars Worth to - Clear Shelves. One million dollars' worth of li. quor must be disposed of betweei now and the first of January by th4 dispensary counties in the State o1 they will lose the money tied up ix the whiskey remaining in stock afte1 the first of next year, when prohibi tion goes into effect.. The fifteen dispensary counties hac on hand on the first of October $991, 947.38 worth of liquor, beer, wines at invoice or cost prices. This repre sents about $1,250,000 at retail prices. The sales for October from the dispensaries in the fifteen coun ties amounted to $344,451.70, sc there remains $1,200,000 worth o1 iquor still on hand in the dispensar ies in the fifteen counties. The amount of stock on hand Oct aber 1st as collected and verified by b. L. Bultman, State dispensary aud itor, amounted to $881,947.38 &t invoice price. The county of Char leston' had the largest stock, $261, 515.69, and Richland came close be ind with $205,592.26. Florence had n hand $35,835.14. The amount of stock in the other :ounties on the same date was: Aik m $54,913.21; Bamberg $20,702.77; Barnwell $46,977 98; Beaufort $38, 36.41; Calhoun $24,069.06; Dor ,hester $26,r95.94; Georgetown $11, 127.68; Jasper $ ,913.F4; Lexington ;3r,835.80; Orangeburg $89,031.65; Jnion $73,509.54; Williamsburg 12,490.71. Since this report Barnwell lost by ire through one dispensary $17,659, U1 worth of liquor. It is thought that here will be collected $10,000 on his burned stock. No stock can be sold after the first f next year when the dispensaries nust wind up and cease business. rhere is very little doubt but that everal of the counties including 3harleston, 'Richland, Orangeburg, lorence and Union will have some tock left over and unless subsequent egislation authorizes some disposi ion what remains will be a total loss o the counties. Mr. Bultman will ikely call this matter to the general ssembly in his report on the sit tation. IERLIN SAYS LINER TRIED TO FLEE FROM SUBMARINE ne Hundred Shells Fired Before Big Ship Sank-400 Passengers Lost. Three Boatloads Land. London reports Wednesday after .oon: S dispatch to Lloyds from Bi erta says that three hundred per ons on the Italian liner Ancona unk by an Austrian submarine, were rowned. Most of the lost, the mes age says, were women and children migrants. One hundred and thirty rvivors have thus far reacher Bi erta. Forty-one members of the crew nd four passengers of the Ancona, icked up at sea, have been landed t Malta. Two of the Ancona's boats, with fty-four members of the crew, land d near Cape Bon, Tunis, Wednes ay. Some of the men were injured A dispatch to Lloyds from Bizerta tates that some Americans are said liere to have been on board the An A dispatch from the Stefani News gency of Rome says that one hun red shells were fired into the An ona before she was torpedoed. Berlin reports by wireless to' Say ille on Wednesday: Information rom a reliable source is that the teamhip Ancona was sunk by an ustroHungarian submarine, says Le Overseas News Agency. "She at empted to escape and thu~s compelled le submarine to use her guns." PAGiE SEES SONNINO jnbassador Confers With the Italian Foreign Office. Rome reports via Paris Friday that le United States Ambassador Page aled at the foreign office and had a ng talk with Baron Sonnino. The ature of the "conference is unknown, ut it is assumed the sinking of the nona was discussed informally. A igid investigation of the disaster is roceeding under the direction of the talian consul at Tunis, assisted by talian naval officers. A special effort is being made to etermine all the facts relating to ternational responsibility, where arning was given and whether an pportunty was afforded the pas engers to escape It is expected his investigation will have a -bearing :any diplomatic re'presentationls ne United States may make in be alf of American passengers on ioard the steamer. WASHINGTON hEARS NOTHING )fficials Are Perplexed Over Lack of News of Ancona's Loss. State department officias were per lexed Friday over the unexplained ielays in getting definite official in omation on the sinking of the Ital an liner Ancona, with probable loss f American passengers. No dispat hes had reached the state .ie.part nent early Friday. -All informatien o far has been fragmentory. A consular official has been order 'd to Tunis from a nearby post :on he assumption that Consul James 3. Young is not there. Meanwhile ~mbassador Page atRome'is idT d to send some definite .official 4les ails. His of ficial ~dispatches 'so far naking no reference to the circum stances of the firing upon the liner, he question of warning, the nation lity of the submarine and other de ails which are to be cleared up as romptly as possible by the taking >f testimony of survivors. Turks Salvage French Submarine. The French submarine Turquoibe, -hih was badly damaged by shdre :>atteries, has been hauled to Con tantinople by the Turks and re Six Killed by Tornado. Six persons were killed an'd prop arty damage of a half million caus ed by a tornado which swept over entral Kansas Wedaeyday night. Fifty others were injured Preacher Assassinated. Rev. George C. Sweatt of Hamlet, N. C., was assassinated Tuesday night by an unknown assailant. His body BIG STEEL WORKS BURNS WITH- MUCH WAR MATERIAI Bethlehem Steel Company's Plant Al most Entirely Destroyed- Mil lions of Dollars Lost. Fireearly Wednesday almost de stroyed the No. 4 machine shop of the Bethlehem Steel Company - at So.uth Bethlehem, Pa. Machinery and war material in the building was said tc be worth millions. ' Howthe fire started has not beon determined. It was discoveLd in the boring mill section of the plant. The fire spread rapidly ahd soon the en tire building was wrapped in flames. The value of the guns alone in the shop Is said to be millions. There were about one thousand machines of different kinds In the building, run ning from lathes, shapers, drills, on down to boring machines. These ma chines. were worth from four hun dred to several thousand dollars each. - The burned shop was two hundred and firty feet wide, seven hundred feet long and four stories high. On these floors two thousand and fifty men were employed on the day and night shifts. About two hundred men were at work when the fire started and ,so rapidly did it spread that some employees had to make their escape by means.of ropes. Workmen said the fire started In oil near the entrance. First there was only a spark of fire, which the workmen started to put out by throw ing on water. . Then came a mighty flash and up leaped a flame as high as the structure, which seemed to envelope the whole building. As far as known there was no loss of life. -,Recently the burned building had been-rebuilt and expanded and equip ped at a cost said to be three million dollars It was given over to the manufacture of guns of various cali bre for the United States, England and her allies and some eight hun dred of these guns were in process of manufacture. GRIP OF CENTRAL ALLIES ON SERBIA TIGHTENING Every Hour Sees Defending Armies in More Perilous Positions De spite Fierce Resistance. Every day, every hour adds to the peril. of the Serbian armies fighting desperately to hold back the Austro Germans from the north and the Bul garians from the east, until the as sistance their Allies are sanding can reach them. The -Bulgarians have' extended their grip on the, Belgrade-Saloniki i-ailway north and south of Nish and have occupied Leskovac, south of the aaptured capital, and Alelisinac, to the north. At the latter point they are In close touch with the German army, which, after occupying Kruse vac, extended its left wing *.s far as bjunis, on the left bank of the Bulgar Morava. The Austro-Germans. advancing southward are making progress ex cept in the west, where the Montene grins are holding them. The invading forces are reaching the most difficult part of Serbia, the mountainous re gion, where the natives' knowing every hill and gulley, can offer the strongest resistance. The Austrians and Germann, however, are plentiful ly supplied with mountain guns, with which they expect to drive the de fenders from their fastnesses. In the south the ever growing strength of the French and British forces Is beginning to tell. They are pressing an energetic offensive against the Bulgars; have managed to keep the railroad clear as far as Vles and are barring the Bulgars.' route to Monastir. RIOTING IN LIVERPOOL; IRISHEN DODG1E SERVICE Nine Hundred Young Men Seek to Escape Possibility of. Service -by Tmmigration. Street rioting resulted In Liverpool Saturday from the attempt of nine hundred young Irishmen to book passage aboard the Cunarder Saxonia for New York. The would-be immi grants marched to the Cunard dock en masse amid cries of "Cowards, traitors,'' from on-lookers. The men were knocked down by women. Oth ers were decorated 'with white feath ers and mistreated by the crowd. When they arrived the Saxonia's firemen, matching the spirit of the crowd, Informed the steamship com pany they woul'd not leave with the Saxonia If the Irishmen were permit ted to sail. The company upneld the firemen and refused permission to sail to all British subjects of military age. It was stated that the same course would be followed In future ~on all Cunard liners, and, that It was hoped other lines .wouli follow the same procedure. Fiveof the detained men afterward enlisted. London says that daily increasing crowds of youths of military age are besieging the passport department of the foreign office seeking permits which they hope will enable them to escape the conscription they antici pate and fear. Most of them appar ently have disco-vered relatives in emprlica and elsewhere whom they ret obliged.to visit. - The rush has been so great since Lord Derby's recruiting scheme 'was promulgated that in the last three days more than three hundred applf cants of military age have been put aclk - while the - autlhorities''decided bnosw. to deal wittl4eitation.. Chinese Official Assassinated.' Admiral Tseng Ju Cheng, governor of Shanghas district, china, was as sassinated WednesdaW He belonged to the monarchist party.. Al'Two revo lutionists fired e1ween-rshofitohis auto. -. - * ' . - Thanks U'neleASaap - The Asahia Shimbumi, ~pesen tative paper of Japan , thi'aliks the U.nited States for its cruiser sent to the recent coronation. No other power was rep~resented by a warship. .British Destroyer. Wrecked. London ainnounced Wednesday that the torpedo boat destroyer Louis has been wrecked in the eastern Medi terranean. No lives were lost. German Cruiser Sunk. A small German cruiser was torpe doed and sunk ;by..a~eabmarise off. the coast of Sweden, according to a erln official announcement. FANEW PROBLEMS ENGLISI SiATESMEN TRYING TO MEET WAR PROBLEMS COUNTRY NEEDS HER MEN Immigrations to be Restricted Luxuries to be Curtailed-Debate in House of Commons Develops Caustic Critcism-Balfour Replies in Defence of Government. In England the British government has taken its first definite steps to ward preventing emigration of able- i bodied British subjects, who In con siderable numbers are suspected of using this means of evading military service A regulation was issued by the t Home Office requiring .subjects of I the United Kingdom 19 years old or more, and contemplating emigration to ipply at the Foreign Office for passports. If the passports are re fused, they must hand tothe officers supervising the embarkation the reply of the Foreign Officer to their passport application, together with their birth certificates, with photo graphs attached. Since the refusal -of the Canard Company to carry abroad British subjects eligible for military service last Saturday the Anchor Line and the -White Star Line have adopted an identical course. Other lines are ex- t pected to follow with similar action. t That the government also has 3 under consideration the passage of 3 sumptuary laws to insure the strict. d est domestic economy was Informa- a tion given by Premier Asquith in s the House of Commons this week. g The premier added that he would be glad to receive any suggestions F concerning such legislation. - t A member from Wiltshire had ask- d ed the Premier whether, "in view of s the serious state of the nation's 1: finances and -of the thoughtless ex- 0 travagance and unnecessary luxury n still being indulged in by many per- c: sons to the annoyance of their neigh- s bors, the Premier would consider a the' advisability . of passing drastic Mimptuary laws which would insure a the strictest domestic economy, and v put all classes upon a footing during 3 the war of greater equality in their e mode of living." a: In the House of Commons William oynson-Hicks, member of the Brent ford division of Middlesex, drew at tention 'to the condition of the royal flying corps and the naval air ser vice. He' said there was great dis- E satisfaction connected with the naval air service in regard to the organiza tion and the appointment of a chief who knew nothing about aircrafts, el above the heads of those who in fact had built up the fabric of, the ser- d vice. - It was important. added the mem ber that England should have large, new aeroplanes for the offensive next g spring, in order to meet the new air ships and new aeroplanes which.the Germans were building. He asked T why work on an English Zeppelin T had been stopped in January, and a: whether the admiralty had dropped t the policy of attacking Zeppelins by aeroplane. Arthur Lynch, Nationalist member for Westelare, attacked Lord Liege, c who,. he said, had blundered in not w oving to the defence of Liege, again d on the question of munitions, and i one again in Serbia. "The blunder in the Dardanelles," e added, "was at least .a blunder of a man who meant to do something." He contended that the war was be- C bg conducted with signal Incom etence, and that unless the're -was a hange the country was moving straight to disaster. He would sweep way sgventy per cent of the higherE ritish command, beginning with ield Marshal French, who had beenT n command fifteen months and "had ade no progress." In the last offensive, continued ti r. Lynch, the allies broke through c the German lines, but in the supe- si -or command decision was wanting o take' full advantage of the moral t victory. The Government, he .de :ared, had no plan of campaign t The idea of a successful war of attri tion was absurd. *The we.r must be on in the field. The men were good and munitions were there.c Leadership and direction were lack- c Mr. Balfour, replying to the re-U arks of Mr. Joynson-Hicks, said he did not think it ought to be assumed that the Germans had taken the lead: n aircraft construction. The admi ralty and war office desired to im- F prove the construction of the aircraft n strength, power and speed for the aerial defence of London. It would, of course, be an enor ous advantage to have overwhelm- se ing forces of aircraft which could be n urled against the invader and be- 12 ome invaders themselves, and the g overnment was doing its best to in- a rease the number of aviators and :acbles for their use. d "We are building,'' he said, "not fi n inconsiderable number of lighter t1 th'an air craft at the moment, largely e for the purpose of scouting. The a uestion of lighter than air and heav- g ier 'than'aIr craft is still undecided. h There are many persons who think ir Germany chose wrongly in choosing TI Zeppelins.". t Mr. Balfour pointed out that. al- v though when the war broke out the e air service was relatively in its in fancy, it would be found that during the progress of the wai- it had not fallen behind that against which it was matched.[ The largest part of the defence of London, continued the first lord, must be a coast defence, and as they got more of the appliances for this .purpose.they would more nearly suc- c ceed in achieving it. At present the o admiralty were limited by their a means of defense. but were making l gunsas fast as they could.D The service was being constantly ~ pulled up by the shortage of men and C no fairy waving of. wands could put C that riglht.- The aeroplane had not the' range to' enalile- it to proceed 8 from these shores 'and become a men ace. Thea 'enemy- Zeppelis, which I attacked Enrland, came from North$ Germany. Wh lich it was not easy for British aircraft to attack. With respect to the charges ofI blundering in the operations, Sir .2 Balfour said he had no doubt there was much talent in the country which was not finding 'its best operation; nor did he think that every man in high command was the very best man omniscience could discover, but nothing could be gained by such a speech as Mr. Lynch had delivered. No pi'actical suggestion had been nmade. except that every man engaged shuld be tui'ne'd out and some un- 1 specified persons Dut in to directt CABINET MEETS AGAIN Wilson Sees Advisers For First Tin Since Last July. President Wilson and the cabinE met Friday for the f!rst time sin< ast July when the German submarir question was at one of its most s( rious stages. The sinking of t: [talian liner Ancona was the mos mportant foreign question before ti :abinet but no definite action was e: pected until official details were a and. It was stated at the White Hous( iowever, that the cabinet meetin was called only because the presiden anted to-get in touch with his offic al advisers before the opening c ongress to discuss his annual mes ;age and legislation. From now o abinet meetings will be held regular y twice. a week. The principal subject taken u Priday was how to raise the mone or carrying out the defence plans. -N lefinite conclusion was reached, bu he prevailing idea was to avoid ond issue. The-subject will be con idered further at -conferences be ween the president and Democrati eaders of the senate and house. Secretary Houston said that th .gricultural interests of the countr3 rere in very good condition. Othe ptimistic reports of business condi ions were had before the cabinet PLAN RAID ON ENGLAND iermans Concentrating Efforts Upoi Building Zeppelins. The correspondent at Rotterdim o: lie London Daily Telegraph claim: 3 have learned that -in a score o: iore widely seperated places'in Ger iany the construction. of 7eppeli rigible balloons is being carried on ad that in no department of con tructional work in Germany is reater activity being .shown. Dirigibles of all types-7eppelin arseval and Schutte-are being rned out, the correspondent un erstands, with feverish haste. Ne* ieds are being built, not as-former r, of easily combustible wood, but r iron, including roofs of the same Laterial, as a protection against air raft attacks. The Krupps also are did to be engaged in building port ble sheds. From all the correspondents was ble to learn the idea is to bring the ar home to the English people, ho, hitherto, "have not felt its fects, so that they shall be more axious for 'peace.' RUSSI SEES ANOTHER WAR xpects Great Uprising Throughout the Mussulman Orient. "The reorganization and executive ianges which are being introduced the Russian army," says the Lon yn Morning Post's Petrograd cor ,spondent, "plainly indicate that the ussians contemplate a long strug e. They are making p'eparations >r a war lasting five years more. "These preparations are not being ade 'solely against the Germans. e Russians believe the Germans -e expending their last energies in i endeavor to stir up the whole of Le Mussulman orient, and Russia robably foresees the necessity for creased strength with which to ear up- the formidable struggle hich the Germans, even after their feat, will leave as a heritage be nd them.'' TELEGRAM FROM PRESIDENT angratulates Japanese Ruler and Speaks of His High Ideals. President Wilson has cabled to the mperor of Japan the following mes ~ge: a his Imperial Majesty, Yoshihito, the Emperor of Japan, Tokio: On this auspicious occasion of your ajesty's formal accession to the trone, I take pleasure in extending ~rdal felicitations and in expres ng the confidence that the influence your high ideals-of right and juis ce which will continue to guide you your exalted office will insure to e advancement of your country. I ~sure your Majesty of my best wish for your personal welfare and that your.Majesty's family and for the ntinuance of the friendly relations isting between Japan and the ited States. Woodrow Wilson EXCEED JOFFRE'S DEMANDS rench Factories Turning Out More Munitions Than He Wants. "Every branch of the munitions rvice has been extended .to a for idable extent," said Minister of unitions Thomas'in an interview ranted to a Paris newspaper. He ided: "With one or two exceptions the emands of the Commander in Chief >r all kinds of shells are now more ian covered. The estimates of Gen ral Joffre, who is especially anxious bout shells for the 155 millimeter uns, have been exactly met, while is estimates for the 105 and 120 illimeter guns have been exceeded. he numbers of shells demanded for ae '7 5's' vary daily, but on the 'hole they are being virtually coyv red." OCTOBER LIQUJOR SALES ispensary Auditor Reports on Fri. dlay Sales of Last Month. Dispensary sales in the fifteen wel unties of the State for the montla f October amounted to $344,451.70 ccording to the report made publiC riday by L. L. Bultman, State dis ensary auditor. Richland came firs1 rith $81,066.35, and Chasleston sec d with $46,084. The sales in the ther counties for the month were: iken $19,783.95; Bamberg $11,' 77,57, Barnwell $17,771.09; Beau ort $9,002.12, Calhoun $7,015.90 orchester $12,223.20, FlorenCE 44,63.81; Georgetown $10,674.64: 'asper $2,185.15; Lexington $15,. 75,45. Orangeburg $38,957.53 nlon $19,757.08; Williamsburg $7, 93.95. hills Wife and Himself. H. Carl Ruppert, a real estate mai f Richmond, Va., shot and killed hi rife and suicided afterwards at Net ork Thursday. Charleston Doctor Honored. Dr. Robert Wilson, of Charlesoin Las been elected to the presidency o he Southern Medical Association a ;TEUTONS NEED fOOD D E INTO SERBIA TOWARD *GRANAIES OF THE TURKS e e CAR SYSTEM EXTENDED , Fight Against High Cost of Living Is 9 t serious Problem-Milk Cards Out Soon--Animal and Vegetable Ois f and Fats to be Coifscated- by Bundeirath Measure. At a recent caucus of the National Liberal members of the Reichstag it was resolved that the fight against t the high cost of living due to the war was at present the most important question growing out of the conflict and that further measures sliould be taken along the lines of the food ordinances already put into effect. -The resolutions remand the intro duction of meat cards; also the -es tablishment of a far-reaching system of leaves of absence for soldiers at the front In order to maintain the efficiency of ,the .industrial- trades and of the agriculture. In addition, the sharpest punitive measures against - food speculations were advocated, including the loss of civic honors and the Immediate in troduction of graduated taxes on war profits was demanded. New -milk cards will be issued in many Berlin boroughs on Nov. 15, and there is official Intimation that preparations are being made for introducing meat cards In the near future. The Bundeurath has passed an al most revolutionary measure for $he conf'scation by the State of all stocks of animal and vegetable oils and fats having food value, which will be dis tributed and apportioned to the va rious industries by the newly organ ized State War'Corporation, modeled on the breadstuffs monopoly which has functioned so succesfully. According to private. advice ftrom English sources Germany ir makin an effort to get food finn Turkey and avail herself -of the frtle- plains-ofV he- Ottoman ally, bu.' this her, regard as almost hopeless. advices from Greek sources, howver indicate that there is a fighting. chance for help coming by' wado Constantinople.- The situatign Is One which means .atenge struggle agafnst hunger and the reachingabopt in . - .directions. for succor. A Greek merchant of New York - received advices from Constaninople - Smyrna, and other points; said that there was no doubt that Germany .would seize large granaries along the Bosporus stored' with- wheat .raised in Anatolia, and transport tt*pugh Bulgarian and Roumanlan tetory to~ Austria, and hence Into the- chief centres of her own dominions. Examination of official statistics gathered by the United tSates show7 that the exports of Tuikey'in 1913 were .4108,00".000, and that there was an increase of- cereals.andvige- - tables: She-'normnally imports $2t' * 000,000 worth -of - cereals, -chfly wheat and barley, and-exports them to the.amount of $17,000,000. Re, cent Consular reports' indicate that she has no very great excess of food for the victualing of Germany. Tur key in Europe, according to -the re ports 'of 1914, sent to the United States 320 bushels of beans and 46-3 bushels of onions and $9,~000 ~worth of assorted vegetables Here are some of the exports from a typical port of Asai Mlinor, Beirut. Dried apricots, barley, bran, corn, flour, dried fruits, lemons, olive stones, onions, peas, crushed wheat, and wine dregs. -- -. The great dietary need of Ger many is fat. From Turkey she can hardly expect to get much, for the hog, reliable source of -lard, Is not popular In the domain of the Sublime ,Porte. Turkey does. however, export a small quantity of butter, and per haps she might help out also in-pro viding fodder, the shortage of which has so curtailed the milk supply. The effor-t to Induce the fat mi- - crobe to convert sugar Into oil is an other' evidence of the lengths to which Germany had been pushed in the effort. to get a balanced ration for her- civil population. -Perhaps Greece and Turkey may help In that regard. - - Further evidences of jhe depletion of the larder of Germany-are- expect- - ed to come from neutral, countries, such as Sweden. Norway, Denmark and Holland, where acording to in formation received, many emi. ies have been sent to forage for sod until the hoped-for stupplies are ob tained from Turkey. .'These advices may be interpreted in the light of a special cable dispatch published sev eral days ago, which referred to the presenc-e of many German buyers of foodstuffs in Amsterdam who were purchasing all they. could find and putting it in storage waiting. foC or ders from their principals. REPUBUICAN BACfILJSON Will Be Ashamed of His Party If It Questions Prepare dness. Joseph H. Choate, s. leading Re publican has enthusiastially indors ed the national defense ~program of . President Wilson, and said If in the coming Congress the Rep'ublicans tried to make political capital out of this vital issue he for one .would be heartily ashamed of his party He said the question of. prepared ness was too big and too 'vital to be made a partisan issue, and that it was his hope and his belief that it would not be made the subject of at tacks on the President in the hope of gaining advantage in the coming Presidential campaign. BOOTY AT NISII Bulgarians Captured 5,000 Men and Valuable Material. Sofia reports via Paris Wednesday: "The booty captured at Nish consist ed of forty-two guns, thousands of rifles, much ammunition, seven hun dred railway cars and many automo biles. - "The retreating Serbians abandon ed numerous guns, machine guns and rifles which have not been counted Thus far five thousand prisoners tak Sen at Nish have been counted." Germiany Denies Passport Frauds. In a note to the U'nited States gov ernment Germany denies that she .concocted false passports as testi mony in English courts seem to show tand alleges, that the testimony is fic