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WHAT BRYAN SAYSU i ASKS WHY FRIENDSHIP FOR a WILSON IS QUESTIONED S OPPOSES PLANS FOR WAR h s f] Nebraskan Says Policy of President f Means Trouble-Wrong Philoso a phy is Being Followed-Says Ques- z t< tion is Not a Party One and He is h Not Disloyal. n William Jennings Bryan has issued another statement in connection with his attack on President Wilson's pol Icy of national preparedness. This a pronouncement was intended appar- a ently to show that Mr. Bryan could criticise the president's plan without properly subjecting himself to the charge of being' unfriendly to Mr. Wilson- r According to Mr. Bryan's state ment, the president's appeal at the Manhattan club celebration, was to all Americans and not merely to members of the Democratic party and therefore no party disloyalty was involved in criticism by Mr. Bryan. r Mr. Bryan argues in his statement that It is not disloyal for a Demo crat to differ with a Democratic pres Ident on a non-partisan issue and asks many questions suggesting p that it is proper for the American people -to let the president know what they think of his preparedness S program. Asking "What plans. have you b made for opposing the president's program?" the ex-secretary of state answers "I have no plans formulated. I am doing what I believe it the duty of every citizen to do. How can the president know what the people think unless individuals express them selves. Those -who approve of his plan do not hesitate to express them selves. Why should those who dis approve be silent? "The editors of metropolitan news papers who daily swing incense be fore the special interests do not hesi tate to express an opinion as to what the country needs. Why should a country editor like myself be denied the privilege? And why should a Democrat's friendship for the presi dent be questioned because he dif fers from the president on an issue like this, which has nothing in the history of the country or the party to commend it? "The president's appeal was not to members of his party, but to people of 'all shades of opinion.6 When did -At become -unpatriotic for a citizen to differ from a president? When did It become disloyal for a Democrat to differ from a Democratic president on an issue which the president de cares to be non-partisan? "The president said he would ask those who differed from him to ex press their opinion. He certainly will be the last to complain because his I request iscomplied. with.' A great many people-no one can. definitely state theinumber, but they are quite a multitude-believe that we can not insure the nation against war by adopting the . very policy which brought Europe into war. They be lieve that It Is more reasonable to as sume that peace can be promoted be tween nations' by -the same philoso phy which promotes peace between indilxiduals and'oommunities. "We are now spending two hun dred and fifty million dollars a year for preparedness. A great many thinkr this is enough, and are opposed to any increase at. present. The bur-t den of proof Is on those who say that an increase is necessary, andi it will *be hard to provethis in view of he president's statement that we are nott threatened from any quarter; that our relations with all nations are fiendly; that everybody knows of our capacity for defense, and thatc there is no fear among us.." 'Mr. Bryan's original statement was given Out last week.' It follows: "I have read the president's speech at New York with sorrow and con cern. He is doing what he believes to be his duty, and so Jong as a man follows .his conscience, and judg ment, we can not criticise his mo tives, but we may be compelled toC dissent from his conclusions. I feelC it my duty to dissent, and, ashe has t given his views with clearness and . emphasis, those who differ from him t are under a like obligation to express themselves with equal clearness. c "He says that his position is differ-a ent from that of the private indi- ( vidual in that the private individual c is free to speak his own thoughts anda risk his own opinion. This sentence is a little obscure. Insofar as he ex-t -presses his own opinion, he does not differ from the private citizen except that he speaks under a sense of offi cial responsibility, but where a na tior's 'fate Is Involved in a policy - every private citizen who loves his country and tries to serve it is con scious of responsibility. "The president- will not assume - -that he ist more deeply interested in 'the welfare of his country than the millions- who elected him to be for t the time being their spokesman. And I If, as he evidently believes, he is ( giving voice to -the opinions of his countrymen, he Is, of course, anxious1 to have them as frank with him as he has been with them-how otherwisei can he know whether he represcats or misrepresents their views? * "He has announced a policy which e has never before been adopted In thisc country, and never endorsed by anyc party In the country and he has no way of knowing, until he hears from the people, whether he has correctlyt Interpreted the will of the public. His appeal is not to any party, but as he says, to men of 'allishades of opin Ion.' "He asks for the hearty support of the country, meaning of course, that he wants the support, provided the people favor the policy which. he has outlined. He could not, of course, ask them to support a policy which 4 they did not endorse, especially if they .considered the policy dangerous C to .the country.I -- Froin my view of the subjiect, the plan which he proposes is not only a departure from our traditions, but at reversal of our national policy. It is t not only a menace to our peace and safety, but a challenge to the spirit of Christianity, whieh teaches us to influen'ce others by example rather r than by exciting fear. "The president says that we should I be prepared 'not for aggression, but for defence.' That Is the ground f upon which all preparation for war is made. What nation has ever pre-a pared for war 'on the theory that it was preparing for aggression? It is i only fair that the European rulerst who are involved in the present war a thought that they were contributing toward t~1e maintenance of peace when they were making elaborate preparations for defence. "It Is a false philosophy, and be- F ing false, it inevitably leads into dif ficulties. It is the spirit that makes the individual carry a revolver-and whoever carries a revolver except for defence-leads him not only to use ir It on slight provocation, but to use Ir language which -provokes trouble.| b: 'Speak softly, but carry a big stiek.' is one of the delusive maxims em- d ployed by those who put their faith T *-in force. There are two answers to 1 of it-irst, the man who speaks softly cc has not the disposition to carry a rsuaded to carry a club his voice langes as soon as he begins to rely pon the club. "If there is any truth in our re gion, a nation must win respect as a individual does, not by carrying rms, but by an upright, honorabie KI Jurse that invites confidence and in ires good will. This nation has won s position in the world without re rting to the habit of toting a pistol r carrying a club. Why reverse our olicy at this time The president II imself admits that there is no rea- U yn for change. He says: "'The country is not threatened 7om any quarter; she stands in iendly relation with all the world. [er resources and her self-respect ad capacity to care for her Qwn citi ans and rights are well known.' And ) make the statement more emphatic e adds, 'there is no fear among us.' "If we're not threatened by any ation, if our relations with all na ons are friendly, if everybody knows iat we're able to defend ourselves if ecessary, and if there is no fear mong us, why is this time chosen to t-iC evolutionize our national theories Bi nd to exchange our policy for the tiE olicy of Europe? Why abandon the to: ope that we have to long entertain- th d of setting an example to Europe? co Vhy encourage the -nations of Eu- of pe in their fatal folly by imitating kr em? Why impose upon the west- cl, rn hemisphere a policy so disas rous? May we not expect all Latin- BM ,merica to be stimulated to prepara- th ion, if we enter upon a new era of a reparation? And will not such a NI olicy make conflicts between these of epublics more probable? pr "We shall do infinite harm to the th eighboring nations as well as to pe urselves if we are drawn into this olicy which provokes war by a pre- su aration-which is impossible without ur large increase in taxation and the so rousing of a military system which fr, ets up false standards of honor.. We re now spending more than two th undred and fifti million dollars a fic ear on preparedness-ten times as 1 iuch as we are spending on agricul- ha re-and I feel sure that the tax- m ayers are not in favor of Increasing re his sum at this time, when a change th 5 not only unnecessary, but a men- so .ce to our national ideals. D "There has not been a time in fifty er ears when there was less reason to er dd to the expenses of the army and di avy, but our preparedness is in- hi reasing relatively as other nations I zhaust themselves. And there never B: ras a time and there never has been -ac time in our whole history when our st luty to the world more Imperatively lemanded self-restraint and the ac ouncils of peace. in "I hope the president will not be ul leceived by the atmosphere of the di danhattan club. That is the one tc >lace in the United States where the nammon-worshipping portion of the S, )emocratic party meets to exchange p] ompliments-there is no group far- fr her removed from the sentiment of ha he masses, whether you measure CI hat sentiment by economical, social ec >r religious- standards." a3 RITISH FORCBLY SEARCH U. S. ShIP- AT PROGRESSO t ti d ?arty From Cruiser Board American E h Ship by Force-Lies in Wait a d Outside of Harbor. h: The American steamer Zealandia tI ras forcibly searched by a party from a L British cruiser last week, says a t Nashington dispatch Wednesday, hile lying in the port -of Progresso, .1 hieico. The American consul there -eprts the cruiser now Is lying out ide presumably waiting to seize the 1 hip. On the face of such a report as the e ~onsul sent, even though incomplete, be he official conclusion now is that dj he British naval authorities not only :b iolated Mexican neutrality, but far xceeded their rights in forcibly pa earching an American ship In a neu- B ral port, et The Zealandia has figured much of 'w ate In reports of the investigations oi n British agents who were on the trail ti >f ships supposed to be fitting out In tr he United States for attacking oil- ki arrying ships from Mexican fields, B 'hede the British navy draws a great n roportion of its supply of fuel oil. ti The Zealandia has no change of egistry involved as has been th'e ase of many other A'mnerican ships ince the beginning of the war. She riginally was a Hawaiian ship and1 amne under the American flag at the1 ime of the annexation. On October 7 the Zealandia mys eriously left Pensacola, Fla., at ight, clearing for Tampico, LMexico, arrying a large stock of provisions a~ nd manned principally by a crew of ' ermans Ari American flag painted a n her hull had been painted over t nd it was reported that while at sea he flew the German colors, although hat was denied by her owners. The ship moved from Tampico to jampeche, where British agents re orted she bore a large quantity of osin for which there was no ostensi le use in Mexico, although It is used argely for making shi'apnel. They B .lso reported their suspicions that he bore a large quantity of copper nd the British view was that the hip was waiting for an opportunity o slip out with the cargo for some ort where it would find its way to ireat Britain's enemies. -g Nothing further of her movements th ras reported until Wednesday- m The forcible searching 'of an Ame1% cc can ship In a neutral uport probably si: rould constitute one of the most seri- B: >us issues to arise between the Unit d States and Great Britain, in the ni ontroversy over the British navy's fc onduct toward American shipping. bi Vhile awaiting further details, offi- a3 ials were silent. A thorough inves- ti igation will be made. AUSTROGERMAN SUCCESSES h apture Serbian Stronghold and Take te Lot of Material. t The Austro--Germans have succeed- PC d in crossing the Morava river, in cc erbia, and Gen. von Gallwitz has >ccupied Kusavac, one of Serbia's 24 argest towns, about thirty miles due to orthwest of Nish. r The fall of Krusevac means that B1 he branch railway line to Ushitze, G1 ear the Bosnian frontier, has been as roken by the invaders close to the to oint where it leaves the main Bel- ed rade-Nish-Saloniki line. A large al umber of prisoners, ten guns and a ot of war material fell into German qi iands.m The Bulgarians also are advancing Se rom the east: but in the west the sit iontenegrins claim to have inflicted pr .nother defeat on the Austrians. The we ~ustrians are said to be concentrat- tri ag a force of one hundred arad twen- th thousand men in Herzcgovina for fo n invasion of Montenegro. .... - fr JAP iEEiTES BARRED Sf efused Seats as Fraternal Delegates of Federation of Labor. da B. Suzuki and S. Yoshimatsu, rep- a ~sentativcs of labor in Japan, were th ~fused seats as fraternal delegates ba 'te American Federation of Labor, be hich began at San Francisco Mon - its thirty-fifth annual convention. his action was based upon a report thc committee on credentials. The j >mmittee recommended that the lwe tpanese be extended the courtesies'n th co envention. JIRL CLAIMS CORPSEI PASSED OCF BODY OF TRAMP AS HER IMAGINARY LOVER FEARED QUICK EXPOSURE After Going to Hospital Atlanta Girl Returns With Tale of Love "Wedding' Date Being Set She Goes to Purchase Trousseau Brings Back Body for Burial. How a girl, well known in the society of Atlanta, Ga., went to Chi cago, identified the body of a man killed on the Illinois Central trucks as that of 4 "sweetheart'' who exist ed only in her own imagination. so as to carry out a deceit she had practiced on her family, became known Sunday night. The case discloses one of the most astonishing psychopathic incidents in the memory of Chicago officials. Thc girl concocted a tale of meeting a Dr. Alleyne Hensley, of his persist ent wooing, of his gifts of flowers and candy, hos fervent letters, pro posal, acceptance and then his tragic death. Here is the story as told in tears to Dr. Bates Block, an alicnist 01 Atlanta, whose sharp questioning brought out the truth from the girl, who is Miss .Julia Cheate Crumley, daughter of the.Rev. and Mrs. How ard Lee Crumley. The idea was conceived while the girl was a patient in Johns -Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, after being operated upon for a minor disorder On her return to Atlanta the young woman told friends that she was in love with the surgeon who had saved her lifd. 'She gave his name os Dr. Hensley and said he was a widower with one child, a son. He lived, she said, in Quebec, Canada. There came to her letters from Quebec -which contained fervent mies sages of love. Flowers and candy were delivered to her by shopkeepers on telegraphic instructions from Quebec signed by Dr. Hensley, and money was forwarded by telegraph in each instance to pay for them. Finally she told her closest friends that the surgeon had proposed and she had accepted him. The marriage was to take place Wednesday, Nov ember 17. She went to New York to purchase her trousseau, meet the future bridegroom, and bring him back to Atlanta to meet her parents and friends. On Saturday she. telegraphed from New York that her fiance had been killed in a train accident near Chi cago and she was on her way to that city to recover his body nd bring it to Atranta. She arrived in Chicago on Monday morning and went to the undertak ing establishment of the Western Casket Company, where was the body of a man killed several days be fore on the Illinois Central tracks. The girl identified the body as that of her dear "brother," Dr. Hensley. She was overcome with grief and ar ranged to have the body-shipped to Atlanta. Miss Crumley paid the bill and de parted, with her dead, over the Illi nois Central Railroad. She said there would be no suit against tie rail road company, asserting that no monetary recompense could be made for the loss of her "brother.'' She arrived in Atlanta on Wednes day afternoon The parents of Miss Crumley and several of her friends viewed the bdd6y. Then some ques tions were asked. The hands of the dead man were calloused and'rough, not those of a surgeon. Finrally, the Rev. Mr. 'Crumley asked Dr. Bates Block, an alienist, to visit his daugh ter and talk to her. The doctor first viewed the body, then told Miss Crumley that she had. deceved no one by her duplicity. Miss Crumley burst into tears and confessed the entire story. She had concocted the story of the supposed wo'er and fiancee. The let ter she received she had witten her self, sent to a woman .whose name she read in a Canadian newsaper, to whom she -paid to remail the missive to her. The candy and the flowers had come from the same source. Her plans for a. big church wed ding, bridesmaids, flower girls and trousseau were the product of her disordered mind. The date of the wedding was drawing near and she had to have some means of meeting the situation. She went to New York and watched western newspapers. She read in the Chicago Herald of an unidentified man killed on the Illinois Central tracks, came to Clhi cago; learne dthat the body still was unidentified, obtained it as 1her own and went on home. A Chicago dispatch says that the body which Miss Julia Choate Crum ley of Atlanta is said to have claim ed in Chicago as that df her fiancee, Dr. Alleyne Hensley of Quebec, Can ada, was in fact that of a tramp destined for the potters field, accord ing to a statement by members of the undertaking firm which cared for the body An officer of the Western Under taking company said Miss Crumiley last Tuesday claimed the body as that of my husband. "I'm looking for the body of Dr. Hensley. 1 was told that you have a body here which I believe is that of my husband." The officer said the body of an unidentified man killed on the Illi nois Central tracks a week before was shown to Miss Crumley. "That's my husband," she said, ac dording to the officer. He said she declined to view the clothing, saying it was unnecessary and that arrange ments were made immediately for shipping the body -to Atlanta, with Miss Crumley paying the bill. MAY DEMAND RELEASE . S. Action in Hocking Case D~epends~ -rpon England's Excuse. The United States will demand peremptorily the release of tile American steanmship Hocking if Sir Edward Grey, in his reply to - tihe United States admits that tile seizure was made under any order in council of municipal law of England. If the reply of the British foreign office,' however, sets up the claim that ownership of the vessel was not wholly American, the United States will discuss the point with England as a question of fact. Tihe United States will maintain the truth of. statements made to the 'department of commerce when tihe question of ownership and the right of registry is considered. The proposition of the government wyith reference to the H-ocking and prospectively to the Winneconno was ascertained from authorinativ'e sources. Officials declare that Eng land nn attempt to justify the seiz re of the Hocking only on one of, the grounds referred to. .Italian Offensive a Failure. - Berlin announces that the thlird [talian offensive has been a comlnflete' ailure, entailing a loss of 5,387 uen. The Austrians have nmainltain d their positions. Cotton manufacturers and oiera ors from the South and New Eng and are meeting at Greenville this .ee. Oer 1,0 delgai tes are [ROUBLE IN INDIA I TCHENER GOES TO SAVE MO HAMMEDANS TO ENGLAND NREST AMONi MOSLEMS ws Reaches Washington That Brit ish Partisan, Nizam of Hyderabad, Has Been Overthrown-Japanese Embassy Says Under Treaty Japan Would Furnish Troops, f Re quested. Earl Kitchener's ultimate destina >n during his absence from the 'itish war office is said by confiden Ll information received in Washing a to be India, where, according to e same information, British rule is nfronted with a more serious state unrest than has generally been own outside of British official cir ES. Through the thick veil which the Itish censorship has thrown about e events in India and Egypt comes statement that Nawab, Sultan Ul ilk, the Nizam of Hyderabad, one the most influential of the native inces and a staunch supporter of e British, has been deposed by his ople. Thi-s development, coming after ccessive reports of mutinies and trest, is said to be the leading rea a for Earl Kitchener's departure )m Erigland. It has been officially announced at the head -of the British war of e was on his way to the theatre of erations in the Near East,' which z been generally interpreted as eaning the Balkans. Information aching the United States, however, rough channels not subject to cen rship, is that it is well known in indon among those close to the gov nment that although Earl Kitchen may stop in the Balkans to to-or nate the efforts of the allied forces, s ultimate destination is not only dia, but Egypt as well, where the ritish gateway.to Asia now is men ed by the Teutonic-Bulgariin-Turk ccesses in the Balkans. Coupled with repeated rumors of tivities of German agents foment g discontent among the native pop ation of India have come reports of saffection in Egypt, also ascribed the same sources. Since the Turks failed to cut the xez canal, mainly through the ompt arrival of colonial troops om New Zealand and Australia, it is been reported that agents from nstantinople and Berlin have been >nducting a pdrsistent propaganda nong the natives. The importance to the British of te reported downfall of the Nizam Hyderabad may be illustrated by te fact that at the critical moment hen Turkey entered hostilities and te sultan called on all Mohamme ans for .a holy war, the Nizam of yderabad, head of the largest Mo inimedaa state in India, issued a anifesto to his people in which he ?clared it to be the duty of all Mo %mmedans in India to adhere to ielr British allegiance. The Nizam so contributed two million dollars i defray the expenses of the First yderabad Imperial Lancers and the wentieth Deccan horse, who were ansported for service in Europe. Such information as has come to lashington is of an unofficial char :ter, and inasmuch as it does not nanate from sources which would interested in spreading reports of iaffection in British territory it has. sen given credence. The last reports to the state do trtment on political conditions in ritish possessions in Asia were re ~ived more than two months ago, hen details came of the mutiny 01 tives in Singapore, in which prac eally ali officers and most of the oops of a British regiment 'were .lled. An expeditionary force of ritish bluejackets captured mcr~y ttive leaders and after a brief tr.J ey were executed. At the Japanese embassy the >pinion was expressed that under Je treaty between Great Britain md Japan the latter would be >ound to furnish troops, if called apon, for duty In India or Egypt. L'e embassy, however, had no ad rices on the situation in India. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British nbassador, is'at Ottawa paying a sit to the governor general of Can a. At the embassy It was said no ~w advices had been ~received to row light on the situation. [R EDWARD (GREY TELLS ABOUT BALKAN CAMPAIGIN ilgarian King's Friendliness to Ger many Known-Assistance for Serbia Depended on Greece Many questions concerning the war ere propounded in the House of >mmons Tuesday, but little new in rmation was brought forth from .e government. Sir Edward Grey ade a long statement on political 'ditions In the Balkans and the as stance promised to Serbia by Great ritain. The sympathies of King Ferdi tnd, of Bulgaria, for Germany, the reign secretary said, always have een known, and the government was vare as early as April that negotia 2ns were in progress between Bul na and Turkey, under German in uence. As to why no assistance for Serbia td been available at the opening of e campaign, Sir Edward declared was neither willing nor compe nt to state. The foreign secretary ade clear that the movements of oops to Saloniki and from that >nt have been dependent on the nsent of Greece. Serbia was notified on Septembdr Sof the dispatch of British troops her assistance. The foreign see tary informed the Serbians Great ritain was making an offer to eece to send forces to Saloniki to sist her in fulfilling her obligations Serbia. Great Britain had labor throughout, he said, to give Serbia I assistance in her power. His use of the words "without ialification or reserv'e" in his state ent before the House of Commons ptember 28, whfen promising to as ~t Serbia, meant that concessions eviously suggested to Bulgaria 3re at an end and that British >ops would be used solely to help e friends of this nation and to fight r their and her interests. "The promise was to give our ends all assistance in our power." r Edward added, ''and that has in et been and is being done." Allies Defeated in Serbia. Berlin reports by wireless Wednes y that the Allies have been de ited with enormous losses. After .acking the defensive positions of ' Bulgarians, the Allies were dIriven :k. Many soldiers are said to have 3n captured. Nothing From Battlefields. The campaigns on the eastern and1 stern fronts have developed noth-1 SHOULI ARBITRATE 1 MANNING KEEPS UP WITH THE P STRIKES IN UP4OUNTRY MUST RESPECT PROPERTY A Governor Stands Upon the Rights of I Laborers to Organize But Say!F Property Must Not be Destroyed Wants State Law to Compel Ar bitration of Disputes. In a strong statement on the situa tion brought about by strikes at the v Judson Mill in Greenville, and the g Brogon Mills, in Anderson, Gov. t Manning has said that "some means r must be devised to bring all parties t to an amicable frame of mind." s The governor made it clear that he c believed in the right of labor to or- v ganize, but that he would not coun- s tenance violence, and that he expect- I ed the sheriffs-of Greenvillo and An- p lerson to do their duty, but added: "Il I am convinced that either of the 1 sheriffa is not.fulfilling his duty I a .m prepared to act." t Gov. Manning told of his efforts to I bring about a settlement of the c strikes, but said apparently the dis- 1 putes were no nearer a solution. He e intimates that the matter should be s submitted to arbitration, saying that t the public is inclined o believe that r those who avoid arbitr.tion "put C themselves in the wrong." The gouernor, in stating his belief t in arbitration, says he is considering t recommending to the gener.%.1 assem- s bly the passage of a compulsory arbi- i tration law in the form of board of v conciliation -The situation has been closely watched and studied by the governor I from the very first, and he has made j every effort to. bring about an agrec- E ment between emplovers and em- I ployees. He made one trip of inves- I tigation into the district and has had i reports from all sidcps, including per- c sonal representatives. The governor t now believes that* the matter has t gone far enough and .that something. must be done. Gov. Manning's st,.tement follows: "From the beginning of the strike t at Brogon Mills I have been making ( an effort to get the two sidcs to an I amicable settlement. 'I have been 4 especially active along thece lines < during the last week, but apparently < the situation is no nearer . settle- I ment than before. Nevertheless I li am not discouraged, but am still try- I ing to find a common ground on which they can meet. "At the Judson Mills, In Green ville, prospects for a settlement are more favorable. 4 "In both mills the man.ging offi- I cers have conceded the right of the I employees to organize. "Thus one of the fundamental sources of disagreement has been re moved. "There Is one thing which both sides should understand clearly. No violence will be tolerated. The sher iffs of Anderson and Greenville counties will be held sternly to their duty to maintain order. I do not anticipate that they will force me to take the preservation of order out of their hands, but if I am convinced that either of the sheriffs is not ful filling his duty, I am prepared to act. o.There is right and wrong on both sides, and the bitterness is Increas ing. As good citizens of South Caro lina, I feel that both sides should agree upon some plan that will ter minate the trouble. "Arbitration in such disagree ments has been universally recogniz ed as a safe basis. The public is everywhere much Inclined to believe that the people who avoid arbitra tion put themselves in wrong ,"The communities in which these mills are situated and the state of South Carolina are deeply interested in a just settlement being reached. Private differences of this sort will not long be tolerated by the people of the state. Some means must be devised t obring all parties an ami cable frame of mind. "At present I am gravely consid ering recommending to the legisla ture a compulsory arbitration law in the form of a board of conciliation. I am not committed to this proposi tion, but am studying its workings In other places. "All citipens will recognize that our people have the right to organ ize' if they wish to do so. It will also be:., generally recognized that the lives and property of ou rpeople must be protected. "I w ill stand to both propositions." MUNITIONS FOR TURKS Greece Shows No Change-Asks for Loan When Bulgars Protest.1 London says: While It will be some1 time before the Germans can suffi ciently repair the northern end of the railway for the transport of troops and munitions, their successes have enabled them to send supplies I to the Bulgarians and Turks by the I Danube as far as Nikopolis, from which point they 'can be sent by rail I to Sofia and Constantinople. There is no change In Greece's at titude, although 'it Is considered sig nficant that at the moment Bulgaria has again protested against the hos- f nitality afforded the allied troops at l Saloniki, the Greek government has I applied to the Allies for financial as sistance-an application which is re- 1 ceiing favorable consideration. f The Greek government also has re- t newed to the Allies an expression of 1 its intention to maintain neutrality and of its sincere good will toward the Entente powers. CAR9LNIANS ON LIST Natives of This State Have Not Re. t paid U. S. Government. t The only South Carolina names on the treasury department list justa made public of persons who have not made good to this government funds advanced to them in order that they might return home when they were caught in Europe at the outbreak of 1 the war in 1914, are as follows: Al-i eander Zuzer, Charleston, $9; s Charles Anderson, 260 Prince (?)t street, Charleston. $7; Charles Brad- I ley- Allendale, $45; Julius Brockton, a Lake City. $10.23; John Davis, Co lumbia, $39.43; Charles Farren, y Greenville, $26.70; Julius Proctor, a Lake City, $42.50. PEOPLE BEHIIND WILSON ~ Manning Says South Carolina Hearti. e r, 1y Endorses President's Stand. I The New York American sent Gov.. Manning the following telegram: ti "Do the people of your state approve President Wilson's plans for strength- h ening army and navy?" h The governor replied as follows: li "'eople of South Carolina has im- ri plicit cmnfidence in the honesty, judg- a rent, patriotism and broadiminded c, statesmanship of President. Wilson, ti and so far as I am able to learn, T heartily endorse his scand for na- g tional defence." i Hunters after deer are not the c 1E WAR LAST WEEK EVIEWER DISCUSSES GERMAN 1 g. DRIVE IN TIlE BALKANS a t LLIES MUST SEND ARMY 'ew York Times Expert Says Ser bian Army Faces Capture if Bul garians and Teutons Can Unite Sees no Prospect of Action in Egypt. The fall of Nish on Sunday last ras followed by a move of the Bul- a arians southward from the moun ain country north of the Nish-Sofia alroad, in which the Bulgarian n roops crossed this road and took c ecure possession. Thus the rail t ommunicati'n with Constantinople V as secured. Thus, what was con idered the main objective of the t] 'euton allies in the Serbian cam aign was achieved. The Turks in Gallipoli can be re leved, supplied with ammuntion in ny quantity commensurate with r heir needs, and the Galliponi cam- t >aign of the British turned into a ab omplete failure. And so it is uni ersally conceded to be. By no proc- V ss of reasoning, not even by a tretch of the imagination, can it be hought how this well conceived but aost thoroughly bungled movement an now be a success. With Turkey cut off from the cen ral empires by neutral states, and herefore absolutely dependent for teel on the output of her own am unition plants, the allied troops ;ere held by the Turkish defense ab- t olutely in position. For months the Llies had striven with every means a their power to break the line and dvance up the peninsula. But de- r pite every effort they were held in lace. What chance is there, then, or the movement to be successful tow that, in addition to their former trength, help has been added hrough direct communication with he Teuton empires? Before the line of the Danube was pened by the occupation of north- s astern Serbia, London was arguing he advisability of abandoning the ntire Gallipoli operation. Now, with >oth the Danube and the railroad . pen, will the British, for the sake f a temporary sop to their pride, -ontinue an operation which is cost ng them heavily in men and money, t d which must Inevitably result in , allure, if not in disaster? 'It does not seem possible. Serbia it present is an extremely fertile Ield for the work that the Allies nust do, and offers to the British an mxcellent opportunity to regain in hort order whatever prestige would )e lost in acknowledging defeat at :he hands of Turkey. As pointing out last week, in discussing this same phase in the 1 eastern situation, from Saloniki to ( Gallipoli is but twenty hours, and one hundred thousand British in 1 Serbia are worth two hundred and fifty thousand on the Gallipoli peinsula. There are great and se rious dangers in attempting a total withdrawal of these forces. $n fact, it is extremely doubtful if the Brit ish can let go altogether without terrible losses. Embarking lar'ge forces under' at :ack must always be attended with reat difficulty. But the war vessels >f -all the Alles--of Great Britain, >f France, of Italy-are present in great numbers and, if concentrated, ould by their shell fire do much to smplify the problem of holding the 'urkish forces' in check, while the British made good their retreat to :he coast and their embarkation. It is not necessary, however, that :he entire British army now on Gal ipoli, numbering, we are told, in the ieighborhood of two hundred and Ifty thousand men, should be with irawn. A hundred and fifty thou sand fighting a purely defensive- fight ould probably be sufficient to hold :he present lines, or, in other yords, o act as a covering force. The oth rs could be sent to Serbia. Very naturally, we have no advices n regard to what is being done or what is contemplated. Although the British have of late been prone to xr their troubles in a ratl-e: public ,.tmosphere, they can still bc close nouthed when it is necessary, and t s entirely probable that even as these ines are being writte-. a part of the allipoli troops aro being- landed at -~ aloniki. Having opened the ron~d to Con-' 1 tantinople, which, as has been stat >d, we may presume was Germany's istensible object in inaugu:'eting the erbian campa.ign, the' next problem s to defend this line and keep it ~ pen. This means that the Serbian rmy, still numbering at least two mndred thousand men, must be aeaded off and either captured, or. >y forcing a' decisive battle, defeated ind rendered Incapable of threaten ng the Berlin-Constantinople route. E The present battle line resembles a a sig question mark. the loop of which he Teutonic allies ar-e trying to close round the Serbian army. Practical- C y all of the railroad lines 'hravc been aken, so that the Serbiatn movements nust be slow, while thcir lines of upply are poor.1 The Teutons, however, have- every acility the country raffords-lines parallel to their front, fair lateral ines all running to bases vhich are mear at hand. The advance during he week, however, has been insigni cant. The only serio-.!s loss which he Serbians have sustained has been he fortified town of Kraljcvo' a The Austrians have been able to riake no headwau agrainst MIonte- t egro; the Bulgarians have made no i rogress worty of ncte since Nish ia el. This may, of-course, be because t he Tutons, having taken possession iF f the Constantinople road, are con-p ent to hold it without endeavoring r o make any further advance, On t he other hand, it is certain that the c heck could with equal propricty and n qual probability of truth be charged s gast the terrain.o The rolling country of the Danube t' *nd Save valleys has been left be- s id, and the Teutons are now in the eginning of the mountains proper. ~robems of an advance are becom rg accentuated and more difficult ofg olution. Nearly the whole state to a he sou;.h of the lines now held is, lountainous and suffers from miser- h ble communications'. The railways, the principal ofh rhich is that up the Morava valley, re in the mountainous district far P part, are totally inadequate to the e' emands that would be placed upon , hem by an active offensive to the g outh. In fact, to consider southern 'f erbia and its defensive pcssibilities. b xcept for the two communicating ~ nads coming up the valleys of the 'ardor and the alorave., there is ab olutely no good avenue of supply. 'his condition lends itself admirably >defensive work. To return to the effect that would e produced by the adlditionl of one undred thousand British from Gal poli, it is evident that the Blulga ans are attempting a drive north-' ard through this mountainous >untry without communications, so mt the Serbians may be encircled. ie Allies that are at present en- Sn tged arer proving a very embarras's- ti' Lg presence to this attempt. fil In fact, it Is proving so discon- al irting that it seems as though the cc un1. Iaina nae being gradually tore I to expend their energies here .ther than in a continuled move ent northward The addition of roe army corps with full comple ent of light artillery would not ily threaten to break the Bulgarian ft flank, but by an invasion of Bul- F1 Lria itself would threaten the rear well and the supply lines on which te southern Bulgarian army do mds. Berlin reports that the Allies iow have landed three hundred :housand men at Snloniki. If this be true, it is probable that part of his number have come from Galli oli. In connection with this num- L )er of troops it may be positively tated that when three hundred thousand troops, properly equip ped, take the field in - southern erbia the Teuton allies must be trongly reinforced or suffer de feat.. The opposing armies would be bout the same size, but most of the eutons are in the north, between ranja and Nish, and along the rthern battle front. Seven army )rps thrown into the south, where 10 Teutons are few in number. 'ould roll up the Bulgarian left ank and threaten the entire line in ie Morava valley. In spite of the opinion of British f ublidsts and war critics the Teuton b Iccesses can not be vital to any one U at Serbia. As has been oftentimes - iterated in these reviews, nothing a iat happens or can happen in Ser ia, Bulgaria,' or Constantinople can ossibly bring the war to an end. It 1 ill be decided, if at all, on the east 8 r on the west. It may, therefore, be well asked -hat the Kaiser is fighting for and e rhat was the use of beginning the e erbian campaign. One of his objects s ras, as has been previously stated in P ese revieWs, the turbulent condi- 0 ons in the Balkans, which made b me startling move at least advis- A ble, if not necessary, to overcome G eir leaning to the Entente. a There are, without doubt, other s otives. Complete avenues of com iunication, both by water and by f all, straight through to Constanti- v ople might be well calculated to b reduce confusion in the directing C ifluence in Great -Britain. I Again, is the question of creating b diversion of forces to oppose the t ,aiser in the Balkans, and so lessen 3 rhat seems to be an increasing pres ure on the west. 0 This, however, may prove a two- t dged sword. If the Allies do divert C 1aterial numbers to Serbia the Teu- 0 ons will have the greatest difficulty E a keeping the railroad line open. I 'heir control of it, with -a strong, ndefeated army on .their flank, i ould never be secure. Moreover, as a he Allies advanced in force up the a aloniki-Nish railroad in the Morava e 'alley, the advantage. of shorter c ines, due to an interior position, f rould be always with them t Against th eSerbs alone Germany an, through- vastly superior num- e ers, fully guard the road, and in al t ,robability hold it indefinitely. But t n increasing army on their flnk1 at T east double the size of the Serbian t rmy, would deprive them of al the dvantages that accrued as a result v f their early successes. There is in q his again an element that must not I e overlooked. The Kaiser Is gambling on the slowness of the Allies in sending i reinforcements, and e x p e c t a t through his now complete commu- I nications to be able to draw Into. t the Balkans enough Turks to off- r set the strength 1thich the Allies I are daily adding to their forces in. a Serbia. . e This is the great danger to the Lilies and is one which they will robably find difficult to avert. Vhile the Allies deliberate and give ut to the press many of the things hey are going to do, Germany acts. What is generally ascribed to be mother object in the Serbian move ent is the- Suez Canal and thenli gypt. The feasibility of such ale nove is not apparent. Presuming i hat the Teutonic allies can retain .nd guard the railroad from Bel- d rade to Sofia and can thus use Con-- - tantinople as a base of operations, - he line of communications, and the a nly line, is from Consta~ntinople to a leppo and fro mthence through the 1 -Ioly Land paralleling - the Eastern fediterranean coast and about sev- a *nty-five miles from It.s A few notes relative to this line r nay be mentioned. Between Scu ai and Aleppo there Is, or was a t hort time ago, a section some two s undred miles long still incompleted. E 'his is the section from Eregli t hrough Adana to Radjun. Part of s his section has probably been finish- e d by this time, but there is doubt as t o whether the conhectioni is yet com- t Presuming, however, that it has d >een completely constructed, there is till a problem to be faced in connec- 1 ion with this line from Aleppo a outh. From Aleppo the railroad uns through Hems, Damascus and evoa, from which points short t ranches shoot off to the coast to the owns of Tripoli, Beirut, and Haifa, one of which points is more than ~ fty miles from the main stem. Theb ntire line from Aleppo to Devoa Is e bout three hundred miles long. r At Devoa the railroad would haveb be left behind and the remainder f the march made overland along he northern border of the Sinai pen- a sula, th.e route running through a 1 Arish to Pantara. Altogether the ne from Aleppo to Kantara, which at the mouth of the Suez Canal, is 0 bout five hundred miles long a The danger lies in the fact that at t: most any point in this line, which ecause of its length can net be 3i uarded over the entire distance, a E low could be strhek which wvoold h mpletely paralyze the effectiveness tl f' any army of invasion with Egypt il s its objective. p Any or all of these may have been t4 a motive -power that forced the eotons into the Serbian undertak- o ig. But the Kaiser has not more e; aan five per cent. of his field forces ti ithis new venture, and it Is not ap- tl arent certainly how any process oc f< asoning can deduce the conclusion ri aat in a field far removed from the entre of force of his principal ene- sq iles, he can accomplish with this u :nall fraction of his troops which the a ther ninety-five per cent. have failed a' >accomplish in the French and Rus- tl an theatres.R The claim is ofen made, or the si ar expressed depending on the R >urcc. that tho opening of the Bel- vw rade-Constantinople road will en- h ble Germany to draw from the T urks sufficient men to make good r losses without further depleting e er rapidly declining reserves. st Optimists, or pessimists, again de lnding on the foint of views, go W rn further and expect Germ::ny to hi raw over this newly opened route c -eat numbers of Ottoman troops ht ho will not only replace casualties G jt will strongly reinforce the exist- W g numbers. In this connection it tS ibht be interesting to run over 'jefly just what the Turks are do- t The Turks at present are con- De lucting four different campaigns til eeparated from each other by over of thousand miles, over the greater SE yart cf which there are practically zec to conunications. Constantino >!e is, of ccurse, the base of supply w if all of the four. w ta First, there is thc campaign in .w, rria, a very minor affair in fhich in ore are probably not morec than p ty thousand Turks engaged-just :m out one full army corps. This itb ps seems to be waiting for an op- R .irtnto thenatan Egypt. but the' Dln SLI SINKS LINER DETAILS PUBLISHED EXx CEPT LOSS OF 200 LIVES ORK OF AUSTRAIN BOAT ner Sailing From Naples to New York is Destroyed in the Mediter ranean--Circumstances Undevelop ed but Incident May Lead to Dip lomatic Controversy. Rome, Italy, reports: The Ital an liner Ancona has been sunk b)y i large submarine flying the As rian colors. She carried 422 ps engers and sixty in the crew. Two. iundred and seventy survivors, ;onie of them wounded, have been landed at Bizerta. New York says the Ancona sailed 'om New York for Naples onOcto er 17. She had on board 1.245 Ital ,n reservists and a general cargo. le arrived at Naples on October 29, id was due to sail from Naples for ew York Tuesday. The Ancona was built-at Belfast in 908. She had a gross.of tonnage of ,210, was 482 feet in length and 58 et beam. For several months before -Italy's itrance in the war the Ancona was 2gaged in carrying home Italian re rvists from this country and sup lies for the Italian government. On ne of her trips from New York to aples late in August last year, the noona was stopped by the British at ibraltar and twenty-four Germans ad one Austrian werestaken off the Late last summer the Ancona left r Italy with 75,000 bushels of heat, 2,000 tons of hay and 200 orses for the Italian government. n the same voyage she carried 300 talians in the ,steerage, who went ack because it was said at the time iey could not get work on the New ork subway. When .the Ancona left New York a her last voyage from here on Oc ber 17,. she was in command of apt. Pietro Massardo. All of her ficers, engine - room, force, and tembers of the crew, were 1taan rio shipped from Italy. Washington says news-of the sink ig of the Ancona caused a sensMtion B it was regarded as foreshadowing new controversy between the Unit d States and Austria similar to the ritical dispute with Gei-many which alowed the torpedoing of the Lust iia. Before making any comment, how ver ,officials awaited informatioli oA iro points-whether the vessel was' rpedoed without warning and rhether any Americans were among e victims. Should it develop that the liner ras warned and ignored the warning, nd attempted to escape the rules of aval warfare, according to the ashington government's view, justi ed the use of force. If she was attacked without warn 2g and a case parillel to the Lusi nia develops, the attitude of the ruited States probably/ will be along he lines already followred with Ger zany-the dispatch of a note de ianding disavowal of the act, repar-. tion and assurances that such incl ents will not occur in the future. ITCHIENER flOES EAST ~ritsh Leader Departs on Unknown Mission to Eastern Theatre. "Lord Kitchener, at the request of Is colleagues, has left England for a hort visi tto the eastern theatre of rar.''" This announcement, made Satur ay evening, 'after a cabinet council -an unusual meeting for Saturday a-and a long audience which Pre iier Asquith had with the king, set t rest the rumors current as to the rar secretary's present intentions. Later an additionat official state ent was Issued as. follows: "The tatement that Earl Kitchener has esigned his post as secretary of state or war has already been authorita vely denied. It is equally untrue to uggest that Earl Kitchener- tender d his resigjnation, or that his visit the king had any relation to any uch 'subject, or that his 'visit to the astern theatre of war in any way etokens that such resifnation is con emplated. "On the contrary 'his visit is un ertaken by him in lscharge of his uty as secretary of state for war. rhich duty he has no intention of bandoning." pportunity Is so remote that its ac vites may be disregarded. Second, in Asia Minor. on the Rus !an frontier, still another- army has een operating. Its efforts have, how ver, been fruitless as far as positive esults are concerned, although it as accomplished the negative pur ose of preventirg a considerable ~ussian force which could be profit bly employed against the Germans d the Austrians from being sent to 1 west Russian theatre. Third, is the operation in defense f the Gallipoli penInsula, which has Iready from time to time been pret rthoroughly, reviewed. And, fourth, is the operation In esopotama, the country of the uphrates and the Tigris. Not much as been said or written in regard to is last -mentioned war theatre, but is nevertheless of considerable Im rtance and will at a later date be Len up in detail. At present It Is sufficient to poin t the different fields of Ottoman ideavor so that whoever may be in ~rested may figurd out for himself t probability of any large Turkish >rce passing over the Oriental rail )ad to German assistance In the other theatres the weec has en but little of Importance on hich to comment. Probably the ost notable event has been the? andonment, admitted by Berlin, of t attack cn Riga from the nest. eerence to last week's review will Low that the first movement against iga was directed from the south est from Mitau as a base and was ulted at Olal when the border of the trul marsh was reached. Arrested here, the Germans start another move from the west. arting from the vicinity of .Shlok, ow, afte~ weeks of effort during hich they have Incurred exrtmely avy losses, the Germans have been .ught by the rainy season, which L turned the entire coast along the ulf of Riga from some distance st of the Tirul marsh into a veri ble sca. Military operations, especially If e use of large guns is Involved, are, Lturally, under such circumstances, ipossible. As the Germans are de ndent in their advances largely on eir heavy' guns their abandonment attacks from the west .is a logical quence of present topographical n ditions. There arc no indicationis as yet at the next move will me. but it yuld not be surprising If the at eks along the Mitau-Riga railroad >uld be continued. Falling again that, the concentrations would obably be made at Dvinsk in a are desperate effort to break rough at that point and aflank the assians holding the line of the sIna ant of position.