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AR LASTWE OF lROUN1D RAINS I ALLIES WIN BY NUMBS New York Times Reviewer Says I ef Batente is Overwhelming Fo 'T-Aurks Threaten Disaster to I idh in Mesopotami=-Battles - amet and West. Luperficially, the past week has been, from the standpoint of Untente, particularly satisfact Gallipoli has been completely a] doned by the British, Lovcen, Calais of the Adriatic., has been to by the Austrians, the British on Tigris in Mesopotamia are appare in desperate straits, the net- Rus offensive along the Styr and Stripa has apparently bee.. stop and a new German offensive in Champagne has made progress. Without further qualification would indeed be a week of woe theAllies,and correspondingly a m that would cause the greatest re; tag In Berlin. Certain qualificat are necessary, however, in order these incidents may be seen in t true proportions. In regard to the final withdr from Gallipoli. it will probably bh ailed that ever since the Serbiar vasion began these reviews have sisted on the utter uselessness maintaining the forces that have ' operating on the peninsula. F the minute the first shell from fleet was sent into Sedd-el-Bahr satire campaign was doomed to vre--a failure that each .passing nade more apparent. Al of the Allies recognized truth, but lacked the courage to knowledge defeat even in a subsid geld. Finally, when it was too the Anafarta position was evacut and the Turks were left free to centrate their strength on the . Baba line.. Whether there was a possibilit the British being driven into th e or whether the impossibility of advance finally became too evide be longer ignored, Is not known. all probability there was no I military necessity for the move. big naval artillery of the allied ontranges any shore batteries Turks have about the tip of Peninsula. Under protection of t naval guns there is every likelil that the Allies could have held o long as they were so minded. There was, however, need of t troops in other fields where ad tages could be gained corpmerrsu rIth the losses sustained. and th the most logical reason why they drawal was made. That the British will, to -some tent, lose caste as a result is -earse, inevitable. The'modern T - have .been generally regarded pretty far down in the military s and-Great Britain has been extrei frank In. expressing an opinion a thir lack of merit. Turkish territory' extended - nto the Far;East, and the Britist eat will be trumpeted throug: the empire. This will lower Br prestige, and, after this war is < ause- England considerable tro before the status of affairs is same as it was a year ago. India seems loyal, and in spit th6 Teuton propaganda for revo !not apt to cause any serious mii ~trouble.: But India will no longe: gard Britain as the invincible f that governs as it will, against w - opposition would be fruitless. zsedoning wi -come In the form - demad for government by the sent of the governed and for a o in the government, At home, in London -itself, the: 3ng will be rather one of relief. -' other operation of the war has c ed so mucn Ill-f eeling dr hostileC -dsm among the people and in pa ment. Gallipoli has been the roc: which the government has b'ee: almost constant danger of foun *Ing and breaking up. On the wi .1 may well be doubted rhether advantage thus gained in' re-es lisbingunity and faith in the govE ment at home does not offset the advantages caused by loss of preE in the East. The direct military influencew: this move 'will exert can be fouxn the number of men, both Turks ~alied troops, released for dut3 - i ther theatres. We have no off! - reports of the number of men either side thus freed. Unoffici iis. reported that the numbel *Turks is about 200,000. - To the Allies It must mean, th tore, the addition of at least 100,1 These'Iatter troops could be used wantageoiusly in almost any of ether war areas,.in Flanders, 'M potamia or Saloniki. At the la placec the threat of an attack is< -present It appears from such in -mation as has come to hand that I -xhave been sent to Saloniki to 1 ,art'in the defense. But it is not jarent even yet wheth~r the att -.-will ever come. -The details of the Saloniki posi have been sufficiently describedl previous reviews. It is only ne *-sary now to consider one feature. attacking Saloniki, the Teutons their allies will be trying to for< naturally, strong defensive posia *with a total perimeter of abouti miles and held by approxima 20,000 men, or 5,000 to the mil -aQout th'~e same ratio as prevauil the German line in France. Of this distance of fifty mi 'forty-five are so open that it may said that the adva'nce against line, almost from the moment the tacking force moved south, woulc unprotected by any features of. rain, and would be, from the be; ning, under fire from guns pla ofithea positive beforehand knowle oftedirection from which the tack'would come. tnder such circumstances, to b an even chance of success, the atta ingforcewould have to be at 14 double the defense. Not only t: -but as the Allies, through theirc trol of the sea, can supply and ri force themselves at will, the att must be able to call for new dr; for -the same purpose. -At the outset, then, at least 5( .00 men would be needed. As I--Teutons themselves have no mn than enough men to take care of -present business in hand, these wo haye to be mader up largely of E 9garlans and Turks, and it is here t the Turks released from Gallil *would be nee- ed. The invasion of HeUmnic territ by Greece's ancient and pres enemies draws into the discuss political considerations of the grav .nature. These latter may become serious as to prevent an operat against Saloniki. In such a case 200,000 Turks could be used either operations against Suez or in Me potamin. The former Is a very doubt quantity, and although numerous ports of Teutonic origin have renel us as to what was going to be d& and of the preparations that were -ing made to do it, no tangible dence has yet been produced th'at Ievents foretold had any bass in 1 The break in the Bagdad rail: at the Tauras Mountains and t:: l1 stretch over the Sinai Pen ins; where transportation is entirely wa nega~lye, so far as is now p - to 4.,a.n emeration agal ?o the British empire. In Mesopotamia, however, the situ ation is entirely different. Here there is fighting of an extremely serious nature, with the British forces ap '1R1 arently in a dire predicament. A strong addition to the Turkish forces in that theatre would be well calcu lated to produce British disaster. -'hat this may be understood clearly involves a brief summary of the I ilesopotamian campaign with an out ine of the present position as far as s known of the contending forces. When ta a British planned the ope Mesopctaizian expedition, there were, to quote in part from Mr. re" Asc:uith and in part from the lead rit- ing military reviewers of London, two objectives: one was to main in tarn the mastery of the Persian (-'uif. which the Britsh have held for 300 years, the second to pro tet t..e o. nieids at the head of the not i'ersian Gulf, just east of the the Karum Civer. ory an This expedition, begun with not thenore than 20.000 troops, was at first ke' :uccessful and occupied a line gen the rally along the Karum from Bazra tly o Ahevaz. There was, however, a sian -endezvous for the Turks at the no th: aconsiderable town of Amara, about ieu 20 miles up the Tigris from Bazra tht fi'is town was also taken, and ther( :t seemed that the British object wa i' ecomplished. fo But the Turks cut in behind this 'eel Ine by a concentration at Nasrie oic- 20 miles west of'Bazra. They were ion lisplaced from Nasrie and relieved thw )y the Shatt-el-Hai to Kut-el-Amara b.i: ihis latter to'.. n it was also neces sary to occupy, more so than ever as wa~ .t developed as the last and most ad re- :anced position necessary to cover a in Eirect attack on the head of the Per in- sian Gulf. 0. The Turks retired from Kut-el >eer \mara to Ctesiphon where they were t ron- attacked by Gen. Townshend, who. the apparently ignorant of the Turkis: the ;trength, had but one-fourth of their fail- aumbers. The result was a British day etreat back to Kut-el-Amara, which 1 .as semi-fortified. Here the Britisl: the sere - gradually surrounded by the ac- rurks. and, although they improved t iarN :he opportunity to strengthen greatly ;ate be defensive works, they were. ,ted nevertheless, by reason of the greatly con- superior numbers against which they chi- were contending, in serious danger. The British- relief force, sent out y o' mnder Gen. Aylmer, seemed in a fair sea way to force its way up the Tigris ar and effect a junction with the troops tt to at Kut-el-Amara. Latest advices. Ir iowever, are to the effect that this ocai -ellef expedition has been halted by The the Turks at Sheik Said, some-twenty flee: miles away. the In the meantime, the Turks are th, naturally sending reinforcements as b -s --apidly as possible from the wes' lod >ver the Bagdad r^'h oad. It is here a as that the 200,000 men released from ervice on Gallipoli can, if sufficient esc ransportation service is- available. ran- deal a blow to British prestige in the rate ?ast far greater than that suffered is is by the 'withdrawal from the Helles ith- >ont. Latest advices from Austria show ex- 'hat not only has the height of Yov O, '-en, which dominates Cettinje and rks Cattaro, fallen into Austrian hands as but that the Montenegrin capital it :ale :elf is occupied. The Montenegrins nely 'ave, therefore, asked for an armis s to ice, which can only be a forerunner . ,f a separate peace. It is another well -ase of practical abandonment on the de- part of the Allies of a small power iout to the force of the Teuton military itish machine. ver. Lovcen is a height about 4,000 uble feet high overlooking Cettinje and the iominating completely Cattaro. As has been stated in the press reports. 8 Of the possession of Cattaro bears the It s same relation to the Italian coast that tary Calais does to the coast of England. -re- Its strategic importance, however, orce is military rather than naval. It will hich give Austria an additional naval base The on the Adriatic, it is true, but a good of a naval base with an enemy absolutely con- controlling tne sea is not a matter olce that carries with it a preponderance of tha argument. eel- The military Importance lies in the NO facility that the position affords for aua flank movement against the at r-tempt of the Allies -to come through a- 1ahania and, in fact, against a 40 Oi orthward move from Saloniki. il When Montenegro is forced in a der- separate peace, which step is about ole. to take place, Austria, of course, wil' the be in a position to dictate such terms tab-,s may seem to her advisable. One e- of these terms will undoubtedly be di-that At-stria shall be perfctly free to use the State for her forces as she wishes.j aich A'-strong Teuton force can thus be i in in a position to operate both against and the only two roads crossing Albania in into Serbia and also against any cia; troops using either of the two north 00on r'outh lines thr t may in'itself prove ally sufficient to neutralize completely of the Italian expedition which has al ready been dispatched for Serbia and ere- to upset the entire Saloniki cam ad- As they knew the Importance of the Loveen, it is inconceivable why it was eso- not defended by the Allies. It would tter "ave been a simple matter. and one ~ver 'nan on the heights could have been for- worth three trying to reach them. hey The deeper the Allies get Into the ake '-ar and the greater the war area be- ~ ap- comes, the less able their leaders ac weem to serasp the critical points in ~ the situat~ion. - - Thero is no breadth of vision, no ces broad conception of the war as a In Many Drown When Dykes Break and Many persons have been drowned e a by t-he flood in northern Molland. On ior cte Marken Islands the death list has ifty whose discernible as yet in the . ~ey allied camp. Procrastination. de e- lay, inefficiency caused Belgium,. in then Serbia, and now Montenegro C to be completely crushed. And with each blow the allied sit- s thci -ration in the Balkan becomes less at- and less promising. The redeemuing t bc!eature to the Allies, the only thin~g C to,-- hat holds out to them hope of vie ,'riry, is superiority, not in brains edorganization, or in the individual, but I den numbers and resources. For Aus-a a.tria to occupy Montenegro will take t nen, many men. This is the weak- e aness of the whole plan. -, .eThe offensive on the Russian front T as: has during the past week somewhat tat lessened in its intensi~ty, but it has I i on- iot died down nor is it yet apparenta iu . h~ at it has been stopped. Czer-nowitz. c-hough etill in Austrian hands, is in ifts ;erious danger of falling, due to Rus-: sian gains on the heights to the I 10.aortheast.G th Austran papers dilate on the or severity of the fighting and freely t stimate the losses of their own u roops at 75,000 nien. To judge fromr ul. :dmitted losses in similar operations. da: isl is an understatement rather thaL o1 >therwise. If the Russians accomplis.. :o more than the infliction of a 1loss >ry easured by their own-and because~ 4n the counter attacks there is pro~b-0 o :biy ntot a great deal of differene es :heir moveuent has not failed. s:For the same reason the recent of Ut ~ensive Ci the Germans in the Cha'm- Ie hjagne and in the southern Veager 1 Do'i it resulted in small gains. is w so- no sense, in its relation to th~e war a a whole. a defeat for the Allies fi he Teu-ton:4, in spite of all thie aid re - ha the Btulgars and the Turks can' te ie, are biotndi to be the backbone of C. theO forces against the Ailies. And L t' 1e Teutons. if they have not alre~ady m m cce it. will soon reac-h the poin 0 x-osere every loss is a permanenit lose I e encan not be replaced by a re ba The situation with them Is the i nt- same as with Lee whena he faced os- Grant at the beginning of the t A WHAKERS flATHER CONOMY IS TilE KEY NOTE OF IMPORTANT RESOLUTION IONEY STRINiS TfIIITEN Ways and Means Committee Passes Resolution to Limit Appropriations Bill to $2,000,000-Cut of $500, 000 From Last Year's Expendi tures-Goveracr's Message. The meeting of the general assem ly each year brings together the ex eriences and views of the represen atives of the people of the State. 'uesday there gathered in Columbla group of the best and most honored itizens of the forty-four counties o: outh Carolina. They came to frame uch laws as the State will need for he ensuing year. What will be done no one knows efinitely. Prohibition! Prohibition! nil be the pivot of legislation. The pendulum is swinging far. towards otal abstinence. The Senate was in session one 'our and heard the governor's mes age. The House buckled down to rea' ork immediately-a most unusua! >roceeding. Several bills left over rom last session were considered. The most striking feature of the ay's proceedings was the endorse ent of President Woodrow Wilson .nd his administration. Representa ivc Bigham, of Aiken, presented the -esolution that was passed without bjection. It reads: Whereas, the nation has prospered n peace during the administration of Voodrow Wilson. our great Demo ratic president, despite the menaced )erils of war and financial panic, and he chaotic conditions existing in >ther lands; and Whereas these blessings. ii l -rge >art, are attributable to the m he patience and sound judg t of ?resident -Wilson, and to the wise and excellent legislation suggested by im and enacted largely through his nfluence, now, therefore, be it Resolved, by the House of Repre ;entatives of the State of South Car lina, the Senate concurring, That e c,'rdially approve and endorse thel ,minently able, wise an- satisfactory administration of our national gov -rnment under the presidency of oodrow Wilson, and that we earn ,stly commend him to the Demo !ratic party for renomination, and to he people of the United States for e-election. F it further resolved, That a duly er .lied copy of these resolutions igned by the Speaker of the House Lnd the President of the Senate, be orwarded to the president at Wash ngton. From a State standpoint the res olution of :he ways and means conmittee was the most important thing done. This resolution pro vides that the committee shall keep themppropriation within the two million dollar mark. The determination to cut down ex >enses of the State government was riven striking evidence by the pas age of a resolution by the waysand neans committee to hold the appro )riation hill this session to at least wo million dollars. - This is nearly ve 'iundred thousand dollars less han was appropriated last year and >ver eleven hundred thousand dollars ess than is asked for this session. ith this idea of pruning in mind he ways and means committee and he Senate finance committee went nto joint session to begin hearings mn requests of institutions and de artments of the government for heir wants. The message of Gov. Manning fol owed the authentic and authorized orecast published In this paper ['uesday. BATTLESU IP SINS 3ritish Pre-Dreadnought Hits Mine No Lives Lost. London announces: The British rattleship King Edward VII has been unk as the result ot striking~a mine. The entire crew was saved. The ad iraty states: "H. M. S. King VII has struck a ine. Owing to the heavry sea she ad to be abandoned and sank short y afterwards. The ship's company as ttken off without loss of life. )ny two men were injiured." The King Edward was of sixteen housand three hundred and fifty ons, laid down in 1902. She was our hundred and fifty-three feet :ag, seventy-eight feet beam and wenty-six feet draught. She had our twelve-inch guns, four 9.2-inch nd ten six-inch guns in her main attery and was equipped with four arpe~o tubes, submerged. Her speed n her trial trip was nineteen knots he had a complement of seven hun red and seventy-seven men. WAIT FOR INFORMATION Eashington Will Take up Matter With Carranza. Confirmation of the reported kill 1g of seventeen American mining :en by former Villa soldiers nea: hihuahua City, Mexico, was await .1 Wednesday with grave anxiety by resident Wilson and Secretary Lan ng. If reports are borne out by irther advices, urgent representa ons probably will be sent to Gen arranza immediately ' .:nan ding the ipture of the niurderers and that recautions be taken to guard agains! recurrence of such crinc. Officials Wednesday sought addi onal information regarding the in dent through American consular spresentatives along the border. iey had been instructed to investi :tte and report with all possib!e ste following the receipt of officia2 vices which gave few details. F1UR AEROPLANES I!OWNEDI ermans Announce Des-truction of Four British 31echanics, Berlin reports: "Lieutenare oelke d Irumneimann eucl sh:ot dow n e ritish aeroplane, one nor t-ea-t o 'C Duroing, the other neari Batu ir-cognition of their accom-pliu et they wer-e de'cora :ed with the: der of Pour le Sierite by his majes tie emperor. A third British aeopirano w: .ot lown by ou defe - guns ne-a ht British officrs on the fou. o~aes six wecre killed and two cunded. May be S'ant to Washington. Avices from Vienna say that unt Albert Apponyl, the vetera:: ungrian political leader, possibly ay e chosen to till the vacant pos: Austro-1ungarianl ambassador to e United States.a Ley can (do. lomss the~y can inflict, mt ther life blood is .rlowly ebb g and each dr'op that fails comes rom the heart that is futrnishing D e powe. mL maf t the Tentem i &MBASSADOR V9ICES UNION OF PANAERICAN STRENGTHi djournnient of Second Scientific Congress Occasions Warm Sup port of President. Adjournment of the second Pan American scientific congress last week after a thirteen-day session was marked by a crystalization of senti nent for an alliance of American na ions to safeguard the Western Hemi wphere from European military and oumercial aggression. "It is certainly not the business of the delegates to this congress to de ermine what course shall be followed by the foreign offices of our coun 'r'es, but we who have breathed this atmosphere df American fraternity ,an at least let them know 'hat this 'ongress from the- president of the United States to the delegate from he m)st distant part of the conti ient. is united in the noble desire of =eeking political unity of the conti nent so that the nations which com nose it may thus lend one another mutual support and thus afford themselves better protection against :oreign danger." Ambassador Suareg's declaration was received with much applause by the delegates. He is known to favor strongly the establishment of n eague of the Pan-Americin republic: for the preservation of neutrality and the protection from possible invasion y European powers. A majority of :he delegates from the twenty-one Latin-American republics hold the Same views., DU PONT PLANT HAS FIVE EXPLOSIONS IN TWO DAYS From Sunday to Tuesday Night Many Accidents Happen- Not At tributed to Spies. The fifth explosion In two days at the Du Pont Powder plants in the vicinity of Wilmington, Del. occur red late Tuesday night in the Hagley yards on the outskirts of that-city. A small wheel mill blew up and be yond destroying the building and about a ton of powder no damage was done. No one was in the mill. The fourth explosion occurred late Tuesday afternoon at the smokeless powder plant at Carney's Point, N. J., across the Delaware river from Wilmington. Thirteen tons of pow der went off without injuring any one. Last Sunday night there was a blast at Carney's Point which killed three men and on Monday there was an explosion at the Hagley yards and another one at Carney's Point. The Du Pont company attribute the explosions to unavoidable acci rients, though the definite cause is not known. "The large number of explosions at this time," said a representative of the company, "is undoubtedly due to the fact that the company's force is one hundred times as great as when the European war broke out and there is so much more work to be done. It is also a fact that nearly all of the orders are hurried and it is also true that some of the operatives have not been at the business long enough to acquire the experience of many of the older men." 4INNINGS TO YEAR'S END TOTAL TO 10,000,000 BALES South Caroiina P.eports 1,134,059) Bales G inned! up to the 'BQ p~~i; of 1916. The eith cotton ginning report of the seson co'npiled from reports of census bureau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt an -ounced that 10,643,783 bales of c t ton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1915, had been ginned prior to January 1. That compares with 14,443.146 bales, or 90.8 per cent. of the entire 1914 crop ginned prior to January 1, 'st year, 13,347,721 bales, or 95.5 ner cent., of the 1913 crop and 12, 907,405. or 95.7 per cent. of the 1912 crop. The -average quantity of cotton inned prior to January 1 in th'e last ten years was 11.963,038 bales, or 93.4 per cent. of the crop. Included in the ginnings were 105.799 round bales, compared *with 44.904 in 1914. 9.i,265 in 1913, and 7,999 in 1912. Sea Island cotton Included num bred 88,921 bales, compared with 76,857 in 1914, 74,320 in 1913, and 37,237 in 1912. South Carolina's total was 1,134 - 59, as compared with 1.387,317 in 1914; 1,342,237 In 1913. and 1,173, 16. In 1914 89 per cent. of the cop had been ginned, while in 1913 it thbe -same time there had been 94.6 -er cent. ginned, and 95.8 per cent. n 19i& LOIIKED LKIE A FHiIT 3reek Soldiers and French . Almost Have a Battle. Athens reports via London: There as an incident between the Greek td Entente allied troops when the tter nlew up the iron bridge over he Struma river at Derir-Hiissar. The officer commanding the Greek ;uard at the bridge ordered his men o resist the accomplishment by the utente allied troops of their pur >ose, and at the same time requestedl einorcemients. While awaiting the r-ival of the reinforcements the "lge was blown up and the Entente ilies then withdrew, thus avoiding trther difficulty. BLEW UP BRM~ES ~ondon Tells Ihow Allies Prepared. for Looked-for Attack. It was authoritatively announced n London Friday that the reported ffensive of the Teutonic allies ganst Saloniki did not occur. The umors that the attack had begun ainst the forces of the Allies ap arently originated in the activity 0. i:e French in biowing up the bridges onnecting Saloniki with the road ver which the attackers would nor ally travel. Bridges were destroy-* d by the French not only at D~emir ir. on thne Struma in the neigh oho:ed of Serrr-s. but also at Kilin r tombh of I oiran. All th:e bridges estroyedl were in Greek terriitory. BRITAIN S!EZES SHIPS ake s Control in Order to Insu-e Supply of Grnin and Food. The Pritish government is taking rigent masures to see that the rvailing shortage in ships shall not terfere with the shipment Of food : oth~er necesaries to ports in the nited Kirzdorm. Yesseis are being: squisitioned right and left for the ipment of wheat from the Ameri s, and in shipping circles it is re ~rted that the admiralty Intends to dl in the British ships now trading ARRESTS UNION DOCTOR WHEN SMALL BOY DIE: Father Asserts That Physician's Fail ure to Stay With Son Caused His Death. Following the death of a patient Dr. Theodore Maddox a Union phy si !ian, was Wednesday arrested and immediately released on bail charg.x with manslaughter. The warrant wa. sworn out by the father of Hulil Studdard, a lad of fifteen years, re siding in a mill village in Union Studdard was -accidentally . -.ot b; Oliver Austin, a boy of his own age while they were hunting Saturda afternoon. Dr. Maddox was summoned to at tend the injured youth. He applies "first aid" and left at an urgent cal from another patient to whom hi was going when called to the wo nd ed boy. Two ho. rs later, having an swered the other call, the physicia reund a 1 amputated the leg. Th1 boy died soon after the operation. The father claimed loss of bloot was the direct cause of death, an< that lack of prompt attention result ed in death. The physician says tha he responded to the call even whet already hurrying to another patient and that he did all tnat could b, done at that time; to have operate before the patient had rallied frol the shock would have meant almos certain death. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that the lad cam to his death "by misfortune acci dentally." Almost every American wh doesn't expect to volunteer, or 'wh is beyond the probable limit of pos sible conscription, will favor inter vention in Mexico. RUSSIAN FRONT IS QUIET AFTER BLOODIEST BATTLE Both Sides Admit That Fighting Ha Been Fiercest Since Begin. ning of War. There have been no fresh develop ments on the Russian front where th cold weather again has set in, th thermometer at some points touchin twenty degrees below zero. Althou3 for the moment the Russians ha. ceased their attack upon the Austre German lines from the Pripet river t. the Bessarabian frontier, informa tion from German sources is tha they have not given up the venture but are merely reorganizing thei forces for another formidable assault The Russians are reported as fort] fying the positions recently capture and in this way their front has bee: gradually extended until they occup about thirty-four miles of the eas bank of the middle reaches of th Stripa river, a position which it i deemed is secure against recapture b: the Austrians. The Petrograd official communica tiou says that the calm on the Czner owitz front is due to the huge loase and resulting demoralization of th Austrian-Hungarian army. Tha there is some basis for this statemen is evident from the statement in Hungarian newspaper that the losse on both sides in the Bessarablan b&t ties so far exceeded one hundred an seventy-five thousand, or more tha the total British losses in the whel Dardanelles campaign. Another Hungarian newspape states on the authority of a staff re port that the fighting on this from has been the bitterest and bloodies in the history of the war, both side sacrificing men in a manner withou p arallel. INVASION OF MONTENEGiRO IS PUSHED BY AUSTRIAN! Strategic Position of Mount Lovcel is Taken--To Attack Cettinge From Its Summit. The Austrians are continuing re lentlessly their invasion of Monte negro and have captured the strate gic posi:aon of ;Mount Lovcen, th guns of which dominated the Aus Itrian naval and military base at Cal taro. For days the Austrian gun at Cattaro and Austrian warship from the Adriatic had been hurlini shells against the Montenegrins a Lovcen, the capture of which, the Austrians figured, not alone woul end the menace to Cattaro, bu would bring the Austrian guns with in range of Cettinjie, the Montene grin capital. The fighting in Montenegro con Itinues all along the northern an' eastern fronts of the kingdom an' although the Montenegrins are offer ing a steady defense, they are bein: overwhelmed by superior numbers o uten, guns and machine guns. Be rane, near the eastern frontier, i Ione of the important positions taker by the invaders. FEUD CARRIED A YEAR Estill Man is Shot to Death by Hi B3rother-in-Law. As the resudt of an old feud, Hor ace Long was shot and killed at Lena Friday afternoon about twc o'clock by his brother-in-law, Calvin Shuman. About a year ago Long and Shumnan met in Hampton and Shuman was badly beaten by Long since that time bad feeling has ex isted. Friday Long was sitting on the steps of his brother's store where he is employed when Shuman, it is al leged, rode up .in his buggy, hitched~ his horse, walked over to where Long was sitting and bpented fire shooting him four times. Death wat instantaneous, one bullet going through the hearst. Shuman walked back to his buggy and drove to Hampton and surrendered. Both are married and about thirty years o: age. MUST BE FRIENDLY French Troops Ordered to Treat Greeks Civilly. Paris reports: Gen. Sarrail, com mander or the French army in the east, has issued a new order to nis troops from which the Saloniki cor tespondent of The Temps quotes the following as the most important pag sage: "I repeat again: You must -all. hoth officers and men, observe to wards the officers of the Greek army of rank superior to your own tiw Suthorized rules of deference and the out ward marks of respect. You wii be tood enough to entertain rela'tions o! friendliest comradeship with milit::T men of your own rank." Flemi Amierica~n Flag. The British steamer City of Lin coln went through the Mediterraneat sea flying the American flag as a pro etion against submarines, members tf the crew said when the steautor rrived in Boston .vionday' vith valuable cargo from Oriental ports. Aeroplanes Fight at Saloniki. | The Saloniki front is chiefly not bie as the scene of almost continued eropano skirmiishes, orne of which :ontinued for two hours. ~The Ger pans have thy Zgay lost six aero 17 AMERICANS SIOT MEXICAN BANDITS SLAUGIITER IEN iOING TO MINES NO iUARDS WITH TRAINS Carranza Government Had Given As surances of Protection to Smelt ing Company Through State De pertment-Censorship Shuts off Fuller Reports. Seventeen persons all believed to have been Americans, were killed by M?exican bandits yesterday after be ing taken from a 'exico Northwestern train fifty miles west of Chihuahua tity, robbed and stripped of their clothing, according to a message re 3eived at El Paso Tuesday night by H. C. M-yles, British vice consul, from t British Consul Scovell at Chihuahua City. The train on which the Americans were traveling from Chihuahua City I to Casihuiriachic. Chihuahua, carr'ed thousands of dollars in currency and a large quantity of supplies sent by e the American Smelting and Refining e company to its mines in Cusihuiria chic. It is believed that all the eighteen D American mining men known to have 3 been in Chihuahua City were on board the looted train. Thomas H. Holmes, the only known survivor, stated, however, in his brief telegram giving the first news of the raid, that he counted but sixteen Americans taken from the train. It is supposed the bandits belong Sd to the forces of Gen. Jose Rodri ez, a Villa supporter, known to be operating in Chihuahua against the de facto government of Mexico. Almost immediately after the first news was received a censor ship was imposed on the wires be tween Juarez and Chihuahua City by the Carranza officials. This ac tion was taken, it was said, "until the story could be verified from of ficial Mexican sources." - e According to the brief messages re ceived, the train bearing the Ameri > cans was stopped by the bandits about fifty miles west of Chihuahua I City. The mining men were taken , from the train, robbed, stripped r naked and lined up along the cars for execution. Holmes was said to have been on the extreme end of the d line and as the firing squad took b position he broke away and fled ' into the desert. ,c With feet and body cut and bleed e ing from stones and sharp cactus, he s ran until he no longer heard the 7 whistle of bullets pass him. , He suc ceeded In reaching friendly Mexicans, it is reported, and was aided to re turn to Chihuahua City. s The first news of the bandit raid e was received through a telegram I from Holmes to officials of the smelt I ing company asking them to notify a his wife that he had reached- Chi s !uahua City. His message aroused anxiety con 3 cerning the fate of the other men a known to have left Chihuahua City a for Casihuiriachic, and before the densorship was imposed they succeed r ed in getting into communication - with mining men in Chihuahua C:ty [who furnished the brief details of the t attack. S Th~e Amercans, It was said, had as 1 surances of protection given the smelting company by the Carranza government through the United States state department.. A list of American mining men in Chihuahua was prepared from roe ords of Mexican passports 'issued. This list contained eighteen names The list follows: C. R. Watson, man .ager and largest stockholder In the smelting company, El Paso; W. J. Wallace, El Paso; T. M. Evans, El Paso; W. M. Romero, El Paso; C. A. Pringle, San Francisco; -Maurice An -derson, El Paso; R. H. McHatton, El Paso; A. Couch, El Paso; Alex H. Hall, Douglas, Ai-iz.; Charles Wad .leigh, Arizona; E. L. Robinson, El - Paso; G. W. Newman El Paso; Jack Hase, Arizona; -Blomb, El Paso; R. H. Simmons, -; 3. Adams, ; J. Jones, Thomas M. Holmes, El Paso. Confirmation of the shooting of Mtanrice Anderson, a clerk, was re ccived Tuesday night. It was a brief message from his father, Roland An dlerson, at Chihuahua City to his mother reading: "Maurice Is no more. Hope to se cure h~is body." The CusihuiriachiC Mining com nany was one of the first to accer' the promise of protection made by the Carranza government to the state department and loaded a train with -uantities of provisions and consid erable money, because it was known that the natives of the district were in need. The report of the killing of the employees is taken by mining men to mean that an alleged order Issued by Gen. Villa upon his return from Sonora and after his family had ar rived in Cuba, was to be obeyed. This supposed* order to "kill all * Amecricans, loot and burn" had been reiterated by bands returning frori Sonora. It was this order that is 'c lieved to' have resulted in the deathc -ecently of Peter Kearne, bookkeepere of the Hearst interests near Madera. Chihuahua, at the -hands of Villa bandits. Another version of the ecrape of T. H. Holmes was received by offi-t cials of the Mexican Northern In a message from officials at Chihuahua City. It follows: "T. H. Holmes, a member of the a narty, who escaped, said that the a rain was boarded at four o'clock c resterday morning by twe'nty-eight t 'rmed Mexicans at Kilon:etree G8. d According to Holmes the foreigners n n the group were ordered to alight. Holmnes hid in the lavatory-. From his hiding place lhe watched h.is comn 'anions being stripped by bandits. They then ordered them to nrch to ward the west. .Holmes de: e mded G from the train and escapedi in the .arkness. "1i' a fe'w r :nute. he hea; i:hrieks mediately followC I by : silade f shots fro L the direc' ::. .cen by - the Amerier :xs and thL~ -r." A protect addressed ' Residen Wison wn: signed by :: ''g men who are in El T''o i.' hr: s pre-9 d pared to enter eGihrahua a'i open properties t:nder potccc c: the de h acto ro':ermr.I It was ,m:'dl thatr botcoe the 1 r.in. nted with emplove-s lcit C'h hahua fCity for the mnirg' camps a vord cf Ce'rranza soierts ior the train had been refused. Colem:.a .1 kolumbia P. M. :mr :::. Lef *'r Wednesday Ii reaio:umede' the -g *': ant of if orer Sc'i~ W I H eman of0 Rihand: ' .:ob - .aaster at Coinmhis. 'i ico will g . Sends JohnIL'on's Namec. The presider t Wedni esdayr sent t the Sena'te the nomlitation of Jose'ph' Johson of Spartanb::rg, to be Unoit adi State's dih:riet j'-.z fo- the we;; ern district of South Carolina. Anthony Amendment Rtepersed. The Susan B. Anthony ameadment TI arovidng for 'woman einffrag.e has o1 heei favorably reportsd to the U. S. o ESSION TO LAST 40 DAYS; ECONOMY KEYNOTE FAVORITI .les Says He Will Hurry Appropria tions Bill-Manning Receives Commendations. House and Senate leaders declared Thursday that no attempt will be nade to secure an adjournment oi he General Assembly by February 10. The session will continue for orty days, it was said. The results )f the first tiyo days would Indicatc hat this is going to be a working ecssion. The ways and means committee o1 he House and the finance committee )f the Senate are holding joint ses ions daily, the claims of the depart nents and institutions are being dis osed of at a rapid pace. J. T. Liles :hairman of the ways and means :ommittee, says that every effor1 vould be made to send'the appropria ion bill to the House at the earliest ,ossible moment. Reports from the committee woulc ndicate that the members are try ng to follow as closely as possible he terms of the resolution to hole sown the appropriations to two mil. ion dollars. If this resolution is :arriei out the leaders say that the state tax levy will be reduced. - Gov. Manning is receiving many messages congratulating him upoi his position taken in the annual mes sage that no expensive undertaking: be proposed at this session. The bill providing for an appro priation of fifty thousand dollars tc enforce the prohibition law wa: heartily approved by the members o the ways and means committee.. I was said that only one member op posed the appropriation. The bill wil be favorably reported to the House MURDER OF 16 AMERICANS CAUSES WASINGTON STh [n Congress, at the White House afi at Stat. Department Subma rine Crisis Displaced. The Mexican situation has bees brought to the boiling point again by the execution of the sixteen er more Americans near Chih ahaa. In congress, at the White House and at the state department Wed nesday it entirely displaced the submarine controversy and all e er international affairs. Secretary Lansing. after sending: demand for satisfaction to Gen. Car rapza, Issued a statement declaring I was to be deplored- that the Amen cans had not followed the state de partment's warning against exposaa their lives in the guerilla warfare re gion. and- adding: "Every step wil be taken to see that the perpetrator of this dastardly crime are appre hended and punished." - In the Senate an expected store broke as soon as it assembled.' Sen ator Sherman Republican, introdus d a resolution proposing that unles gen. Carranza gives properprotectio: to foreignlife and property the Unit ed States shquld Invite the Pan American nations which have- bee] associated in the' Mexican negotla tions to join in restoring order ant government In Mexico. WILSON 0. K.'S BILL -4 Gves Hearty Approval to Tilluam' Armor Plate Bill. President Wilson has given hi learty approval to the establishmen >f a government armor plate factor in d *ill aid the enactment of legls ition to that end as far as possible Senator Tillman, chairman.-of thi senate committde on naval affairs Thursday conferred with the presi dent abolit the South Carolinian' bill for a government factory and wai pleased with the president's supper t the measure. Hearings on the bill will begin before the Senate commit ice next Tuesd,ay. Senator Tillman believes that thk enate will accept the measure al Enost unanimously and no help from the president will be needed in tha body. In the House, however, th4 situation as to armor plate is lese mnderstood, he intimated, because o: :he presence upon the House nava f fairs committee of a large numbe: >f new men. who do not fully under tannd the workings of the steel con erns furnishing armor plate to the fovernment as do senators and rep -esentatives who have long been i y -gress and have given the subjeel .ttention and consideration for years (EGiRO SOLDIERS START RIOTINGi IN HONOLULI 'Tenderloin" District Placed Under Martial Law After Racial Outbreak. Honolulu's "tenderloin" district ras under military control Friday as .result of a systematic raid late hursday night which was partici ated in by approximately five hun red troops of the Ninth cavalry, olored. Du~ring the demnonstrations 11 the establishments conducted by lite persons were wrecked and 2any of them were looted. Efforts of the police force to queli he' disturbances were fruitless and he section presented a scene of con usioni until a 'battalion of the Sec nd U. S. infantry with fixed bayonets nd a detachment of mounted scouts ppear'ed. When the streets had been [eared the district was left in mili ry control. The reason for the emonstration has not been an ounced. TNTINS DIEPOT DESTROED erman Magazine Explodes, Killing Seventy nnd In juring Forty. An ammunition depot in the south - section of Lille, northern France. is been blown up. An official an :uncement says that seventy per ms wer" killed and forty injured. risidrable damage to property was >e. The official announcement hch was contained in German army sadquarters-statement is as follows: "ln tha so'uthern walled-in section Lille an ammunition depot belong g to the pioneer detachment, lodg I in one of the casements of a for fication, blew up. The nearby reets suffered to- a very consider >i extent. Rescue measures taken suted up to Tuesday night in the 1ding of sevenity killed and forty jured inh~abitants. The inhabitants iieve the accident was due to an iglish attack." Can Withstand Torpedoes. avl experts believe that all fu-! re Amercan battleships will be asurvxiv.e the explosion of c : orpedo against their hulls re .rd 's of where they are stru'd. Edisto Project Condemned. The chief engineers of the army: iursday niade a report to congress: . the development of the south forh the Editto river opposite the town Sengsd ORYJYOR'HS THOMAS B. HOLMES DESCRIBES KILLINGi OF AMERICANS SHOT AS THEPPEARED Sole Survivor Says Mexican Bandits Stopped Train, Shooting Americans as They Alighted From Train Story of Crime Proves Most Dae tardly Affair. The number of foreigners murder-. ed west of Santa Ysabel Monday afternoon by Mexican bandits has been placed at nineteen. It - was authoritatively stated that Gen. Pablo Lojez, a Yaqui chieftain close ly allied with Gen. Francisco Villa,. ordered the massacre. About twenty bandits attacked the train., it was ;aid, while two hundred were group ed as a reserve at one side of the right of way. Thomas B. Holmes, the sole'fdr eign survivor of. the massacre, read ad the border near El. Paso Wednes lay about noon in a state of collapse F'ollowing is the statement of Mr. Holmes as given to the state depait nent and press: "Our train left Chihuahua- Mondar morning, January 10, - at about. 11 o'clock. The. train was stopped at *r about the ranch, Baeza, a point about ave miles west of Santa Ysabel, be tween one-thirty and two o'clock that afternoon. - "While the. train' was staiding at the station of Santa Yeabel two arm ed 'Mexicans rode by and scrutinized the train: The Mexican passengeirs'= at Santa Ysabel told :me'afterwards that -the riders-had'inquired4f there were any soldiers on the train. "At the point of thengissadrcour train was stopped in a cut-so that1 last car was Just. outside.of the"cut. We were' stopped by another trin the front trucks of- one :of -the cost F cars of which was seen to be off tth. track. This was the first we. k "ieW 3 of a train preceding us. "There 'was : nobody to be seen- around the'-train ' In front. "When our. train was stoppeld'w man and I were sitting together ai&s Evans. came 'up" and: looked oit o our window. Evans, Newman, Mac hatton and.I then got. off the = Watson was :either getting t or about to do-so behind us wh f look--, ed back and saWf. him. : "tJust after alighting" I hea, volley of rifle shots from ,a on the other side of the -ci:t eas' above the train.. . LIoidg around I could see a bunch of about twelve e efteen amen-stadndinglin solid;.i r:o shoulder to shoulder, shoot-' ig directly at us. They were-fifty or seventy-five feet away. "Thecoach cut off iy view so3 could not seelhowinany bandits there were.- The. depth 'of the cut on ther side near Santa Ysab-I river at-hia point was about two feet.- On :the : other side it was much greater. Tcd the rear of the train was an embank;f ment declining towards the .riv:.:; ~."Watson, after getting of:rana to- " wards the river. 'Mabhattona nd~ followed. Machatton felt. I d notk1- s know whether -he 'was killca' then ond tripped. Watson kept ur' ng and they, were sti shooting at . Mn: w -e I turned and ran down gin :,where I fell in some brush proba~bly' ozie hundred- feet from the rerr of the train. "I lay there perfectT quets and looked around and could see~the:Mex Icans shooting -in' the'di 4tOn i which Watson was running.. I tiaW. that they were. not shooting sat mnet and, thinking they believed me al ready- dead, 1 .took- a chance sn& crawled Into some thicker bushesLS "I crawled thiotigh the bushes un til I reached the bank of the stream.92 I then -made my way to a point prol ably one hundred yards from 'the train. There I lay under the, bank for half an hour and heard shots by. ones, twos and. threes. I did nothqaz Iany sort of groans .or :yells -or cries from our Americans. Then I'con-. tinned farther under the bank, wad-. ing the stream part of the time until 1 reached a point probably two .hun -dred yards from the train. There .1 remained half or three-quarters of an Ihour. "Later after going .to several-ranch houtres and picking my way cautious ly for several miles, I met up with ani uniknown Mexican who directed me to Chinuah-ua City. I reached Chihua hua City Tuesday -morning at about seven-thirty. The foregoing facts are of my personal knowledge." Arrivals from Chihuahua City said that a troop train of twenty.. cars, donveying between diye hundred and. one thousand Carranza :troops; had preceded the mining .companrspecial' by about fifteen minutes. The- en gine and two cars'of this train were said to have been derailed by jhe bandits in order to stop the passen ger train of Americans. What be came of the Carranza soldiers, If they were in the military train, could -not be learned. Reports of those arriving from Chihuahua were to the effect that the body of each victim bears a bul-' let wound in the forehead in addition to other 'wounds. It was said that the head of C. R. -Watson was com pletely blown off. One Chihuahua passenger said, the - mining company's train had been pre ceded by -a Carranza troop train and that the two trains were traveling ten miles apart. At one p.. n. Men day it was reported to Chihuahua that the troop train was deralledi In- - a canyon and at fnur o'clock reports of the holdup of the passenger. train were received according --1o6 this story. At seven o'clock. this -passeni ger said, the passenger trair, with a number of Mexicans, women and chil dren, aboard returned to Chihuahua City with -the first news of the mas :iacre. -Other passengers are reported as having said that when Yaqui Indians made a rush for Mexicans on the - mining special the bandits warded off their attack and saved their fel :W countrymen. Blesides the reported presen-e among the bandits of Gen. Pablo Lopez, the Yaqui chief, a Gen. Reyna was reported by the conductor~ of the train as having placed him under guard when he alighted to investi gate the derairment of the tr-rop train head. The affidavit of the'conduc-< tor, J. Gadidelupe Garder.a. regard ing the tragedy was given Il e Brit ish consul at Chihuahua C.ty and telegraphed the Pritish c nsular -gent, H. C. -Myles, in El Pa-o- In .mbtance it follows: "The train arrived at Santa Ysabel - at one-fifteen p. m. Arriviug at Kilo uetre 68, eight kilometres beyond Santa Y'sabel. we encountered a train, .ngine No. 57 off the track. When I got off to see what had happened he shooting started. "Afterwards Gen. Rieyna came up nd pianrd us uinder g?uard. searching '13 and also searciLg the car. All he money on the passengers and. -.ie car was taken. After this liad ak'en place we left, the Aaericans aving been killed. 'Somoe of the foreigners were first hot on the train, and a nunber, In luding one Mexican, who'~ were ounded in the car, were taken off md nurdered. Some of them: Jump d off the train and ran towards the iver. Igese included Watson. They