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VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C., WED NESDAY JANUARY , 1916 LINER TORPEDOED PASSENGER STEAMER WAS 60= ING TO BOMBAY WHEN HIT MANY LIVES WERE LOST Four Lifeboats Got Away, Saving 150 Persons-Passengers Aboard Num bered 160 While Crew Totalled 300-American Consul is Only American Citizen Drowned. The British liner Persia carrying approximately two hundred passen gers. and a crew of between two hun dred and fifty and three hundred men was sunk by an unidentifind subma rine at one o'clock Thursday after noon off the Island of Crete, in the Eastern LMediterranean. Unofficial dispatches from Cairo state that the British steamship Persia was torpedoed without warn ing and sank in five minutes. Be tween one hundred and fifty and one hundred and sixty survivors have been landed at Alexandria, Egypt. Robert N. McNeely, American con sul at Aden, Arabia, is believed to have been drowned. Reuter's Cairo correspondent makes the unreserved statement that Mr. McNeely lost his 1ife. Charles H. Grant of Boston was saved. Details of the sinking of the Persia came in slowly, but they irdicated that the number of persons who es caped in the four boats which were put off was larger than was hoped 1 when the first news was received. The Peninsula and Oriental com pany, which owned the Persia, an nounced that one hundred and fifty eight survivors had arrived at Alex andria. The survivors comprise the chief officer, second officer, seven engi neers, twenty-seven seamen, sixty three Lascars and fifty-nine passen- t gers. A Lloyd dispatch gives the num- I ber as one hundred and fifty-three, made up of fifty-nine parsengers of whom seventeen are women and ninety-four members of the crew, in cluding fifty-nine 'Lascars. The sur vivors Include ten military cfficers t and eight persons who are not Brit- f ish' subjects. C "The ship was struck amidships on X the port side at one-ten a. m." says Reuter's correspondent at Cairo. E "She had disappeared completely by one-fifteen. "Survivors say it was little short of a miracle that any one was saved. There was no panic. Four boats were launched with the utmost promptitude. . "The captain was drowned. When last seen he was swimming after the liner had plunged. beneath the sur face." Only one dispatch concernmg the b sinking of the, Perpia has been re- s ceived by the -state department. It u came. from Consul Garrels at Alex- m andrii. Fgypt, and indicated that n Consul .McNeely, q, his way to his .o post, -had been 19k He was last i seen in the water before the steam- a ship went down. -f Consul Garrels a reported that P Charles H. Grant of Boston, another p American aboard the Persia, was among the survivors. -No submarine was seen by the sur vivors, according to the consul's re port, but an officer of the ship says 3 he saw the wake of a trpcdo. The -Perria went down in five minutes. Cable communication with the East is so slo~w that detals of the disaster are not expcted for a day or two. a The Persia sailed fre.'n London on i December 18 for Bombay, with sixty- t: one first class passengcrs and eighty- ' three second cabin p--zsengers, in- .t eluding eight children. Some of these, U including Edward Rose, a Denver 0 school boy, were lhnded at Gibraltar, te Marseilles and Malta. At Marseilles b two hundred and thirty-one passen- 0 gers, including eighty-seven women 0 and twenty-five children, were taken P aboard but line officials say that after deducting those leaving the 0 ship at various ports of call, somg t: *thing more thsn two hundred pas- 0 sengers were on the vessel, a A majority of the Persia's passen- t gers were British, bound for India, ~ including many women. Her cargo 1 was small but she carried a heavy consignment of mail. The crew was tl made up princi-pally of Lascars. S Sixty-one first class passengers and a eighty-three cabin passengers, includ- a ing eight children, boarded. the ~ steamship at London, according to r information obtained from the Penin '. sular and Oriental line. At Marseilles thirty-five of the first class and thirty-two of the second cabin boarded the boat. The com- t pany estimates that after deducting the number of passengers leaving the ship at her various ports of call about one hundred and sixty passengers were aboard when the vessel was 0 sunk.a The crew of the Persia numbered ~ between two hundred and fifty and ' three hundred men. They were near-p ly all Lascars. There was not much c cargo aboard the Persia, but she wasp carrying very heavy mail. The yes sel carried no war materials.. The Peninsular and Oriental i Steamship company Sunday night re- d ceived the following telegram from Col. C. C. Bigham, who was among the survivors of the Persia disaster: 0 "A torpedo struck the ship on the v port bow at one-five o'clock in thei afternoon when about forty miles t south of the east end of the island of Crete. No warning was given nor any attempt to assist. Within five min utes the ship had sunk. "It was impossible to lower the G starboard boats, owing to the heavy list. Five or six boats were lowered on the port side. I did not see this myself' as I was washed overboard cl when the boat capsized-.s "The conduct of the passengers G and crew was splendid, there was no F struggling and no panic. Four boats es after thirty hours at sea were pick- is ed up by a warship." s AUSTRIAN SHIIPS LOST r Aled Squadron Sinks Two Destroy ers Near C'attaro. Paris reports: "Au Austrian nava division, having come out from Cat taro for the purpose of bombarding Durazzo, certain sqiuadrons of the -Allies went forth to give battle. The Austrian torpedo boat destroyer Lika b encountered a mine and was blown up. The destroyer Triglav of the same type was destroyed by fire from the ships of the Allies. The remain- d ing warships of the enemy were pur- t sued and' fled in the direction of their SEVEN NEW STATES 405 THE PROHIBITION COUIN Friday sees Old Year Die and Vith E It More Than Three Thou sand Saloons. State-wide prohibition of 4'e sale and manufacture of intoxicting li quors become effective in seva states at midnight Friday night, putting out of business more than thee thou sand saloons, a large nunber of breweries, wholesale liquor houses V and distilleries. The states which are to enter the dry column are South Caroliia, -Iowa, Colorado, Oregon, Washin 'R' Idaho and Arkansas. 7 In Colorado, district att seys at a recent meeting agreed th echni eally the cnnstitutional , '4 ibition amendment and the enf statute do not become effective fi 11 mid- lE aight January 1, but it w lso de- 1 Dided that the expiration all 1- ji :uor licenses at midnight r lay will )ta render liquor sales on New - ear's day pi anlawful. According to on author- a Ity between two and three million p, dollars have been expended for U-Ne guor in Colorado within the lagtjrei eek. ,wa Arkansas will have its first experi-th4 mce with prohibition whel. the state-. wide law, -passed by the k.st legisla-' :ure, goes into effect. The Arkansa, of lepartment of the .pti-Saloon FE .kogue has announced :hat the!Se eague will have workers n the field Ru o see that the law is enf ed. Ant eni yrohibition leaders have Ilnnounced hat no fight will be mad or the re >eal of the law, at least til prohi4 a >ition has been giv,-1 thoroug ne rial. th In Iowa "bargain ' sales 10 qu he Ave hundred and .'w saloons oif he state were In proges Friday- ,Po Jnder the mulct act, psBed by the wa ast legislature, statutor. prohibition s s restored, pending the-ltion of tlye 'Fr text legislature and. people qn of he proposed constittital amen .. ea. ent for prohibition, wrh is to ge coi lisposed of within the e; two yea .th( In Oregon the or Ste vit; >f any kind of into.'ang liquo Is wii ibsolutely prohibite y constiu. lik ional amendment. 9rx stores re Fr tot permitted to sell iaor for y the urpose with or witSor a doct 's the trescription. Each anly may m- ten >ort for personal *ei, maxi m f ither of two quartsb, f-pirituou or shi inous liquors or j-four qi ar- the ers of malt liquor a py perlo of out our successive we . No pe n the 'ther than a comie carrier ay dri ake deliveries of r and the ur- the haser of liquor :aly is ade 'hui qually culpable w the seller Pai In the state of V n th in- mit tiative prohibitioiD w, atrifi in ly 'ovember, 1913, p' its residen s to the iurchase frcm dd. s outside the Ru tate two quarte spirituo 1i- latl uor or twelve qu of beer each per wenty days. ani Idaho went dry Filay by virt e of ter tatuary prohibitior Most o the I tate has been dry !01er local o tion Fr( nd only about. hundre and tog fty saloons will' forced o t of sul usiness. Idaho's -ohibition I w is cell aid to be the mct drastic i the siai nion. It not og prohibit the can ianufacture and ae of liqu but bey Lakes pose s on4- kind o malt r cpiriuouiiqu fA erime, cept- cbi ig *ine- for sacrimental pu oses PON ud pure alcohol fe medical, ienti- of c and mechanica uses, whi h are rib rocurable only onaxn order fr m the des robate court. . nee oft ALLIES SH E PORT tt - - I wh wo More Strat'.ie^Lauding Made th in Greek Harbors. whb Two new landaig 'by the . ntente ma lies in the Nea- East are raported tra tthe Balkans. The Britid have ha' anserred some;.roops from Salon- of t to Orlano, a s.nall Greek lort six- Wil r miles east of SQaloniki, with the off, tention of che&ing any pAsibility the Sa hostile ad'nnee from thi.s quar- stri r. The secon( landing w~s made sha y the Frencsh 2n the Greek island ual SCastelorizo oh- the southeast coast SAsia Minor, :.ot far from. the im- bul rtant seaport of Adalla. It An Athens dispatch says that the mc cupation of Adalia is the object of me so landing. A railway runs north EAdalia, and the presence there of var strong Entente force would menaceen ie commu~iication of any hostileru >rce operating against Eg'apt or the'go swer Tigris reglon. ' INa' These movements indicate that era se Entente a~ies' positions around all a~loniki are new considered secure tio1 [Id indicationsfare that the campaign of 'ound Salonikti will develop into a cep ng drawn-out warfare, as on other m onts. PROPOSES NEW PLAN ~ me .S. Wants S. A. Republic to Join in pin Compeng Arbitration. i In a new sitep 'for the preservation ha. peace on ithe American continent a id the devloment of Pan-Ameri Ln unity. t* United Stat'es has for- h ally invite 'the Latin-American re-ta ablics to~ )nin in a convention to ta; >mpel arbijrtion of' liuisdary dis utes and pibit shipment of war Aed tunitons t4v'evolutionaries. e Secretay -Lansing's proposal, de vered wit Jthe approval of Presi- an ent WilsO., to the resident Pan- in merican iblomats in Washington >r submisiain to- their home foreign fices, hashfor Its object the preser- bre4 ttion of 8ace in Pan-America that woa may fab*-the old world free of in- fr rnal dissension. me SITUATION IS BETTER d wa reece and France Seem to be Get- et ting on Well. del an< London eorts Friday that Athens bol aims t~) the d"-lomatic situation sows arowing 3diality between ye; reece .5 d the Entente powers' lat rance having assured the Greek gov- wi -nment that the occupation of the an land of Castelorizo was a neces- all ty of war and only temporary. No )ecial imnportance, according to thisth sport, is attached to the island as its th atus ' imdefined- co; .nch Seize Island Base. Fre troops have occupied the ti urkish island of Caselorizo in the e eeanj sea betwe-r tl'e Island of ni hoden Bnd the Gulf of Adalia, ac- ti rdin:z to Po-is morr.ing papers. The T osessi'n of 'easteic'rize' as a naval c< ase :s chrP'erizc 3 s indispensa- e' Deal With Ccnmpulsion. It announced in London Thurs ay Premier Asruith would in-a roir er n 1e hot:s'o of Commons IERMANY 13 BEATB MPIRE HAS SHOT HER BOL1 AND WAR ENDS IN 1916 ALIES WIN WITH MEN 'ar Correspondent Declares That Xaiser Must Go Down In Defeat Because the Allies Have an Over whelming Superiority in Ships, in Men and in Money. John Reed recently returned to w York after a sojourn with the ssian armies in the eastern war int, and a tour through the Balkan ttes. Earlier in 1915 he had been th the German armies in the west d was convinced of their invinci ity. He was correspondent of The w York World during the Mexican rolution. Otherwise Mr. Reed's r correspondence has been done for ) Metropolitan Magazine. Observations made during a year travel in Europe, where I visited gland, France, Germany, Belgium, rbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, ssia and Italy-all the belliger ts except Austria-have convinced i that Germany is already beaten, I that the war will be ended by ct autumn with the withdrawal of ) German armies from the con wed lands. [ don't see how there was ever a sibility of Germany's winning the r, unless she managed somehow to ash one of the three. great allies mnce, Russia or England. Any one these three out of it, she could ly have triumphed. Italy I don't tsider one of the vital factors in > struggle; she would have been a.l only if she had thrown her lot :h the central powers, and hung e a snapping dog on the flanks of mee. Had she remained neutral, ultimate result must have been same-Victory for the Triple En te. ro my mind it is a question of ps, men and money. Almost all bulletin board strategists at the break of the war calculated on .t basis. But the great German ve on Paris, and the fighting on Aisne-when on the map which ig against the wall of my room in ais I followed the official com niques and watchedthe apparent inevitable Teuton advance-and n the monstrous crumbling of the ssian front, and fiLally the annihi ion of Serbia, made us feel that haps superior organization, speed i mobility of forces were the de mining factors. 3y a miracle of organization -the mch and British got themselves ether in the west so that German >eriority in that regard was can ed. On the eastern front the Rus s were pressed.as far as Russians . be pressed, and the line reached -ond which an in'vading. army be ies top-heavy, and every miles of quest cancels offensive fighting er; on account of the difficulties provisionment in a vast and ter le plain where everything has been troyed by the retreating host, the :essity of constructing mighty lines tommunication where railroads are r and roads impossible, and the tude of the civilian population, o become wild beasts the moment foreigner puts foot on the soil of y Russia. inally, down in the Balkans, ere every day registers a new Ger a victory, the armies of the cen I powers, Bulgaria and Turkey, e an overwhelming preponderance force. As long as they have they 1 win; but once their numbers are set by the numbers of the enemy, y will lose, no matter w hat their tegical superiority. However, I .11 speak of the Near Eastern sit. Ion In another paragraph. What rant to indicate here is "that the letin board strategists were right. is a question of ships, men and ney-and the greatest of these is [he Allies have the financial ad tage, but that makes little differ e in the actual figthting. A bank >t country can go right on-the ith did it in the Civil War, and poleon also. And while it is gen .Ily known that the Allies can get the food, clothing and ammuni a they need-through the holding the seas-there is a huge miscon tion in the public mind about Ger ny's resources in these matters. ust because copper telephone 'es and copper kettles and copper inies were requisitioned, it doesn't an that Germany's supplies of that tal have run out. The shortage .ched, no doubt, but when I was in lin I witnessed the arrival of some lions of bars from America, which i been shipped to Savona, Italy, transported north in carloads of led vegetables." [hat copper paraded in cadts down Unter den Linden behind a mili y band, and the Americans in rge made a night of it in the ion bar. Since then Germany has med the great Serbian copper mine ne of the largest in the world for some months has been work inexhaustible deposits in Asia sor. .s for food, the newspaper tales of sad tickets, bread riots, starving men and children, soldiers on the at surrendering to get a square al, etc., have given an entirely ang idea of conditions in Germany. .the conqu~ered lands were under plough and the sowers, the rail y embankments were growing veg bles, ponds and swamps have been Lined and filled up to make gar 1s. and the Bulgarian grain crop the Rumanian grain crop were 2ght by Germany. Qermany can feed herself for seven trs with a normal increase of popu ion. It is not so easy now as it . be in two years, when the fields Sbearing and the reclaimed land worked. Germany must econo e for the time between harvests, t is all. And I may add that when ras in Berlin, last February, food t less than it did in London. So it is not an immediate ques on of food, money, munitions or ren ships. The war will be defi itely won on land, and wvon with ie preponderance of fighting men. he question is, will the Allies, all mditions on both sidles being lual, be able to dominate in sheer umbers of men? I think they will. nd I don't believe that there is a nubt of it in the mind of any one ho knows the relative populations the belligerents, and the percent ge of useful men in any such pop lation. But an they shoot ealyehI?1 In my opinion all the soldieis now are about equal in efficiefty. In fantry and artillery training doesn't vary among the different armies as much as we think. No country in the modern world has any war secrets that all the other countries a-en't familiar with. Of course the German troops Are trained to obey orders implicitly, and in a tight place they will act like a machine-without thought or will; and the French and English are al lowed a liberty of thought and action which sometimes results in costly blunders, and sometimes in impos sible victories; and Russians are dogged, terrible fighters under good leadership, and stupid under bad.offi cers, but taken as a whole in train ing and in military equipment 'both sides are equal. But you will insist that since this is a question of mere numbers of men, the Germans will take the de fensive as soon as they are pressed, and that the cost of attacking Ger many will . more than offset the numerical superiority of the Allies. That would indeed be partially true if the character of defensive warfare had not materially changed. Many officers in active service in every one of the couintries I visited told me of this change. In the first six months of the war the proportion of casualties in the attacking force was about seventy per cent. to thirty in the defending ranks. This was now modified, they said, on account of trench mortars and other new fac tdrs; so that fifty-five per cent. on the attacking side were lost to forty five per cent. on the defensive. Then, too, such is .now -the condi tion of things that at. the present time any side can take a trench by superior concentration of artillery and infantry at a given poirt, and the enemy's counter-attack can regain the trench by the same means-both sides now counter-attacking invari ably-so that one side loses approxi mately what the other side loses. Of course, if these things are true, the numbers of fighting men avail able are the important thing, and we shall not see the Germans impreg nably intrenched 'beyond the Rhine when the day comes that they with draw from the conquered lands. I think it will be generally ad mitted that that first great German army which poured down over Bel gium and France like a *gray 'ava lanche is gone. The best the Ger mans can muster in fighting men is some eight millions and that includes many incapables. The official Ger man lists of dead, disabled and pris oners totals almost four millions. Grant that the Allies. have lost as many .men as the Central Empires: still Russia and England have un touched resources in cannon food. A German military attache in a neutral capital informed me that the Central Powers' losses in the -drive against-Russia were twenty per cent. permanent losses of twenty-five hun dred thousand men. And I know of cases where men past military -age,. who were exempt on aceaint of phys-I sical infirmities, and eveD scientistsi needed in the work of making army supplies, have been called 'to the colors and are already dead in the front trench'Os. Germany is 'cettain ly getting short of men. The progress of the war san far shapes itself, to me, in three desper ate attempts by the Germans to smash their opponents' power. At the beginning they drove at France, and the battle of the Marne marked their failure. After a minor blow at England in the vain attempt to gain Calais they tried to smash Russia; but the very essential of any at tempt to cripple the northern empire, the destruction of the main Russian army, also failed on account of Gen. Alexieff's masterly retreat from War saw. Then followed the 'drive on Serbia and the entry into Constantinople; and that is nothing more, nor less than a blow at the British empire. For Constantinople is of no-'value in itself; it can only be the stepping stone 'to a much vaster project-an expedition against Egypt and, the Suez canal, or against India by way of Bagdad, or both. But in the final show down, where could Germany find the men to hold open the line from Hungary to Con stantirnople, keep a-'strong hold over European Turkey, and advance to Bagdad or to Egypt,-besides the thousands of workmen needed to build railroads across trackless coun tries, arrange for provisions and water, organize new army units: flat ter and fight the Arabs, and run the Turkish Empire as she is now doing? Where could Germany get these millions of meni? She can 'not' withdraw troops from the western front, where every month sees the French and English grow in sterngth, organization and power. She can not take them from her eastern front, where the rallying Russians are already making her reel. Even the Italian front is keeping busy a steadily greater army all the time. So, in order to beat England, France and Russia, Germany must conquer the world, which it can not do. When I was in Constantinople the Turkish newspapers published about a column of "peace rnews" every day. Every rumor of peace, every whisper of conciliation, was given the widest and most serious presentation Bryan's reported peace trip, Ford's plan, the utterances of the Pope, an interview with a Cardinal and procla mations by the various German socie ties outlining their idea of the con ditions under which peace should be concluded by Germany. Now, all the news of Europe came through the German embassy and was controlled by it. And it was evident that the, subject of peace was an absorbingly interest ing one to the Central powers. Moreover, we know that Austria has attempted to arrange a separate peace with Serbia, that at the height of German success against Russia Germany twice offered Russia a sep arate peace. And now, in the middle of Germany's widest and most spec tacular swing, when it seems to the layman as if the last thing Germany should desire was a settlement, Chan cellor von Bethmanni-HollWeg an nounces that the German empire will consider proposals from the Allies looking toward peace. For the Germans know that a peace concluded now or in the next four months will be the best peace Ger many can ever make. The burst of glory now taking place is Germany's last great bluff. Soon she will not have the men to make great smash ing drives. Perhaps even now she won't be able to finish what she has begun. And when the moment comes that she must withdraw slowly from the conquered lands and -make her shrinking battle line smaller, then I think the German common sense will face candid? the knowledge that a last-trencf defense is useless, and that it is the end--not the beginning ,o thend. SOUTH (AROLINA GOES DRY; LAW TO BE MADE TIGUTI Friday Afternoon at Sundown Sa the Final Close of the Business of Lhe Dispensaries. At midnight Friday South Car lan was numbered among the prob bition states and the dispensary sy tem, around which has centered- t1 political battles of the state for a most a quarter of a century, ceasE -to exist when the sun went down Fr day afternoon. Prohibition was vote it, by an overwhelming majority in referendum election held on Septen ber 14 this year. The general assembly, at its laA session, passed a law forbidding tl importation into South Carolina t one person of more than one gallo of spirituous liquors containing ov( ne per centum of alcqhol. - Howeve certain spirits aie permitted for th church. arts and sciences, inder a rf cent decision of the attorney genera State Senator Carlisle of Spartanbur announced several days ago that b would introduce a bill inthe-gener2 assembly 'which meets next montl repealing the so-called "gallon-e month" law, making the state absc lutely "dry" legally. In 1892 the state dispensary syi tem replaced the old open barroon and in 1907, the state-wide organ1 zation was superseeded by the count dispensary system. Fifteen countie out af forty-fdur now have diper saries. It is estimated by L. L. Bultmar state dispensary aliditor; that at leas one hundred and twenty-five thor sand dollars worth of liquor was o hand when the dispensaries closec This surplus has placed the stat authorities in a quandry, as the bil providing for *the referendum- elec tion did not provide for the disposa of any stock that might be left over and th6 position' of every official an subordinate of the system automati cally ceased Friday night. This'ralses a doubt-as to the own ership' of the remaining stock an, what disposition can be made of it a it can, not legally be- sold In~-Sout] Caroliaa. The matter will eithe have to be adjusted by the legisla ture or the courts,~it- is said. 'Bnm berg and Williamsburg counties ari the only ones .that have completel: dsposed of their' stocks. , It is- esti mated that the Columbia dispensarie will have u thirty-thousand-dolla surplus stock and -Charleston- fift: thousand dollars worth of whiskey oi hand. , Gov. Manning states that the pro hibition law will be enforced to thi letter. Representative Liles o Orangebupg at the next- session of th< egisle-ture will introduce a bill mak ng.the,penalty for conviction of th< illicit* ceiling of * liquor- a straigh chain gang sentence without thi alternative of-a fine'. BRITISl CRUISER SINKS Amed Ship Natal Lost After Explo sion, Says Admiralty. Zi'ni00g. of the'British armed cruis er Natal after an explosibn was an nounced Friday by the British ad miralty. The Natal -was. a vessel o: thirteen hundred and sixty tons lai down eleven years ago. Although ax important fighting craft, she was no classed with the first line ships o the British fleet. The Natal was sunk Thursda afternoon while in harbor as the re sut of an internal explosion. There re about four hundred survivors. The -Natal's sinking is the severesi oss which the British navy has sus aned In several months. No Britis] aval vessels of importance had bee sunk since last May. when the Iriumph and Majiestic were torpe oed at the Dardanelles. The Natal lthough a powerful man-of-war, wa: aid down eleven years ago and hel displacement was only about one alf of the largest British sea fight ers. The Natal's complement wa: seven hundred and four men. Hei isplacement was thirteen thousan4 six hundred and sixty tons. She wa: 'our hundred' and -eighty feet lonj and seventy-three feet of beam. Her largest guns were *9.2 inch f these she, carried three forwart ad three aft. She was armed alsc with four 7.5 inch guns, twenty-foul three-pounders, and three torpedt tubes. EXPECT ALLIES TO WIN Greek King Has Talk With Comn mander of French Troops. In an interview with Gen. Castel au, chief of the French genera staff, Sunday, King Constantine ex pressed doubt' that the central em pires would be able to resist indefi itely the economic, and especiall: the financial pressure of the war Gen. Gastelnau so reported the king' pinion Sunday night in a statemen to the Associated Press. The Greek sovereign asked th French commander why by the slow ness of their operationis they had per itted the crushing of Belgium an< Serbia and the failure of the Dar anelles campaign. Gen. Castelnau' reply was that nobody denied these unfortunate results were exctremel: regrettable.. SI100TS LADY AFTER DANCE Georgia Youth is Slain by Irate Par ent of the Maiden. Levie Stribbling,,twentythrge,..a 'shot and killed early" Monday nea: the home of John R. Heaton, a farm er, living near Molena, Ga., and t< whose daughter Stribbling was sai to have been engaged. According t local police authorities, Stribbling ac companied the young woman to he home late Saturday night after dance, they quarreled and he left but returned later and shot at lher Heaton, police Isaid, came out of th house and killed Stribbling. No ar rest has been made. BATTLINGi IN (GALICIA Russia is Attempting Terrific Offer sve Against Teutonic Trenches. London, reports Friday: 'Whil Vienna reports that the battles 'I: Galicia are increasing in extent an violence Russia maintains a mystc rious reticence concerning her mili tary operatons there. It seems certain, however, that ex treely importanit events the full sig nificance of which are not as yet of fcially disclosed, are occurring the only point where Russian armie can 'bring any pressure to bhear o the Balkan situation without actua y -crin umanian territory. RIAITS FOR DETAILS W AUSTRIAN RELATIONS STRAINED BY LOSS OF lE PERSIA 1 d Submarine Was Not Seen and the Be 1 d - ported Wake of Torpedo is Regard a I- ed as Peculiar-Baron Zwiedinek 't is Confident His Government Will e atisfactorily Adjust the Matter. n Anxiety over the news of the sink r ing of the British steamship Persia r, increased in official -circles at Wash e ington when a. consular dispatch - brought the information Sunday that I. the ship had been torpedoed without g warning and that at least one Ameri e can citizen, Robert 'N. MeNeely, new Ll consul at Aden, Arabia, was missing; At the same time officials were much gratified at the indication, emanating from Baron Erich Zwiedi nek, charge of the Austro-Hungarian embassy that the Vienna government would ,be quick to "satisfactorily ad just'- the matter should it develop 7 that an Austrian commander had dis s obeyed instructions- in' regard to the torpedoing of passenger-carrying ships without warning. "Judgment should be withheld pending the receipt of the facts, sur round' ig the sinking of the steamer Persia," said Baron Zwiedinek. "It m-y have happened in many 'ways. In the first place, it is not yet proved that a submarine, sank the Persia. If it was an Austrian submarine it must be determined whether the 'cir cumstances were such as to warrant . the action taken. "I am confident, at least I hope, - that the 'final explanation will' be I quite satisfactory. If the commander s of the submarine disobeyed his in i structions I fiel sure my government r will not hesitate to satisfactorily ad - just the matter. - - "From' the answer made to the last note on the Ancona alone it is quite i evident that the Austro-Hungarian - government will not countenance any 5 act which Is wrong." Complete confidence prevails in Teutonic diplomatic circles that if an Austrian submarine sank the Persia without warning the act. would be disavowed prbmptly, reparation made for Americans lost and the submarine commander severely punished. - It is understood that Baron Zwiedi nek will call upon Secretary Lansing for the purpose of informally convey ing his views on the subject of and endeavoring to 'gain an understand ng of the views of the United States for the informationof his-govern ment. . -.While Secretary Lansing declined to 'comment on the situation con fronting the United States, it became known that he and other adininistra tion:.officials. were awaiting full in - formation befo-e forming.an-opinion and determining upon any'action. Officials expressed themselves as not being convinced that a subma I rine sank the Persia. They were im pressed by the statement in the dis patch from Alexandria that the wake of the torpedo had been seen, al though no submarine wps visible. Navy officials said they would con sider it out of the ordinary, although not impossible that a torpedo fired by a submerged submarine should leave ta visible wake. -Disenssion of the case showed that Sofficials generally felt that the Unit ted States had about come to the end of its rope in conducting diplomatic negotiations over submarine war fare. There was no inclination to minimize the gravity of the situation which would develop if it was proved that' an Austrian submarine sank the Persia and a prompt disavowal from Vienna was not forthcoming. It was thought possible, however, that the IVienna' government may see fit to fol low the example set by Germany upon the sinking of the Arabic. The Arabic was torpedoed at a time when it appeared that the sub .marine controversy with Germany was on the road to settlement. A week later Count, von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, received in structions to assure the United States government that full satisfaction "more than a disavowal" would be given by the Berlin government -should the circumstances as they -were repor.ted proved to be correct. Should the developments warrant it and should the mystery surround ing the nationality of the submarine I remain unsolved the United States, it -was said, probably will address in -quiries to Austria-Hungary, Germany -and Turkey, the only nations whose rsubmarines might be in the eastern .Mediterranean. .* SThe inquiries necessarily would thave to be sent to all three nations, although it is .believed certain In all Squarters that Austria-Hungary is the -only one of the Teutonic allies with - submarines in those waters. This be i lief is -based primarily upon a state - ment recently made by Count von SBernstorff to the effect that no Ger Sman or Turkish submarines were Sknown to be operating there. Any action taken by the United States will be based upon affidavits from passengers.,.particularly Ameri cans, rather than upon officers of the ship. Final decision as to what ac tion, if any, is to be taken will be made by the president, who will re turn to Washington from Hot Springs in a day or two. Several points re I main to pe cleared up.. I Tlid state department especially de - sires additional corroboration of the 3statement that the wake of a torpedo i was seen. It regards as being signi ficant the statement that the vessel - went down in five minutes and de r sires all details upon this point, al though it is assumed that Consul Gar rels based the statement upon infor mation recei'ved from passengers. 3 It is understood that the Lusitania - and the Ancona negotiations will be allowed to remain in their present status until more definite details re garding the sinking of the Persia are at hand. Teofficial text of Austria's An cona note was received early Friday at the state department in Washing ton. The work of translating from. thie diplomatic code will take several hours 'and arrangements for publica tion will. be made later. Burned to Death. In a fire which destroyed a board ing house at Clearwater. Aiken coun t ty, Christmas night, Charlie Smith s Was burn ed to death and another mnwho had been with Smith all IChristmas day and whose name is unknown Is missing. Ausra .t1 g iShoud&Ue Iodonrepo-W reply-to ths. dn theAEnconmt ander ot the?: ~aboardtte t disembarkir~ n~e The replyot ment 4s forWarde&Beiitbi grano cdmpanyfr in of ; tr part: "In reply tote n Ancona note-t g'overnment f~~a~ Washington cabinet tw"i laws .'of humanft-J into account aleAnaa phaaizes that it,:'ithe r war,~ hasgfen r the most human e . "The Austro-Hjmgaxtanz^ ment, too, can-ositively the principle .that enemyp sels, so far as they do noAt N fer resistance, shalt not. be before the persons aboad e secured. "The assurance tyst t~ States government attae the maintenancot the iZtmng'j relations between Austiani and the :United.States iS ciprocated by-the- H i i government, whikb.n6was hei forer is anxiont t&.reider. Ta- ' tions still more.cotia - The A&ustro-Hina then communicatie r inquiry into thCarnf or cona, which w The Inquiry 1 i a heioinfe mander of the; submrine'iron i great distancecin th rstkis. fired a warning shotolthea signed at, eleven-forfy inth noon, which hea rst believed ti!I a transporVs erne t the.sm time-giving a signalfoithe ee stop. As the steaziilstdt and tried to escape the submarsin gave chase and -Aired siitensh-si - >f which three were observedto hitd The steamer stopped only iter.th# third hit, -whereupon the commander ceased firing. .ii Already during the flightt is de& lared, -when at full speed the steam ' r dropped several boats filled with be people, which at once capsized. After 2 the steamer stopped the coninander >f the submarine observed thatsixW oats were fully manned:ahd- they peedily rowed away from the1 teamer. Approaching nearer the coimand r of the submarine, zaw that a geatx anic prevailed aboard the steamer ind that he had be'fore him thepaa enger vessel Ancona, on aceount o which he gave those aboard 'more ime than was necessary to leave the essel in lifeboats. Washington reports: Danger o L break in the diplomatic relatfns >etween the United States and An - ria-Hungary over the sinkilig of 6'e iner'Ancona probablkhas'hee Tel d awa:f the officiat 4 rias reply to the second American)1 tote conforms to press dispatches sb rom London saying the communica .ion announces that the submarine ommander who torpedoed the. steam- fLP r has been punished. Wi The cabled press translation of the tb tote reached Washington too late to .,f e seen )y high officials of the gov- ]S rnment and a dispatch received nc arier from Ambassador Penfield' .i nerely said the reply had been hand-. d him and gave no Intimation as to.t ts nature.p Punishment of the submarine .S ommander for failure to take into D ccount-the panic aboard the AnconaH efore torpedoing the vessel. appar- fE ntly m'eets the principal American G emand. In effect it might be re- nE ~arded as a disavowal of the act and nE ssurances that an incident for which ta ~n officer of the navy was punished ould not happen again might be ot) ~aken for granted. o The remaining demand, ,that re-~ w aration by payment of indemnity be t nade for the injury or loss of life by m. kmnericans, would be*- an object. for d lplomatic adjustment once the other f oints at issue 'are disposed of. Although officials indicated that -x ~here were .Indications favorable, to n amicable settlement of the con- -b roversy there had been nothing. in nE ress dispatches from abroad or pub- H Ished official advices to suggest that re Lustria would admit inmediately tb rongdoing- on thle' part of her of-. I icer. COLMBIA EXCONVICT SLuYS WOMAN AN]) SUICIES econd Woman to Fall Victim to11 Hand of Murderer-Fell Dead ut on Street. - 5 Her throat cut, Mrs. Ada Geddings ~led from her home, 60)8 Sumter d treet, early Tuesday, crying for theW olice, and fell dead on the sidewalk tO efore aid could reach her. Edward W E~. White, a boarder, was found lying r cross a bed, dead, from a stab in t hie neck. A pocket knife which was t he instrument of. the tragedy was dentified as White's. a Aroused by screams, a neighbor ' ummoned the police. When reach d, the woman was dead. Both Mrs. W (eddings and White were In night-o lothes. The dou.1e tragedy occurred t four-thirty o'clock. White'was the mnly sboarder and Mrs. Geddings:'ra& s he only other occupant of the house. St White killed a woman on H'uger a treet in Columbia sixteen years ago b nud was convicted In the Richland Oi ounty court of general sessions Octo-, t er 20, 1899., of murder, the jury t ecommending him, however, to, the h nercy of the court. .b The late James Aldrich, presiding t udge, sentenced him to life imprison~ nent, and he was .committed to the enitentiary October 30, 1899.- Dur ng the preceding July he had been xamined by a commission in lunacy. . L. Blease, governor, paroled the :onviet in March, 1913, on,.condition f good behavior and abstention -from itoxicants. Threw Babes in River. Mrs. Edward Krause threw"her two e small sons into the Milford reservoirA ad then jumped In after:them nea i ilford, Conn., Tuesday. -The woman ti was rescued, bit the boys -were cx rowned. t Dynamiter Convict~d.' . - Mathew A. Schmidt was convicted at Los Angeles, Thursday night o first -degree murder as the~ acdm a plce of James. B. 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