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SMANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917. PORTO RICANS NOT TO CO TO TRAIN AT CAMP JACKSON Negro Troops, if Sent to Cantonment at Columbia, Will be Trained Separately from Whites. STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR Manning Tells Result of Conference Held in Washington Yesterday With Secretary of War Baker. Washington, Aug. 21-Porto Rican troops will not be sent to Camp Jack son. If any negro troops are sent to South Carolina camps they will be trained separately from the white troops. Governor Richard I. Manning, ac companied by Senators Tillman and Smith; Representatives Whaley and Ragsdale; Chairman D. R. Coker, of the South Carolina Council of Nation al Defense, and Messrs. R. Goodwyn Rhett, of Charleston; J. W. Lillard, William Elliott, and George L. Baker, of the Columbia Chamber of Com merce, and Prof. George McCutcheon, representing Congressman Lever, call ed on Secretary of War Baker this afternoon and presented their views with regard to the mobilization of negro and Porto Rican troops in the Palmetto State. Governor Manning authorized the following for publica tion after the conference. Governor's Statement. Secretary of War Baker met us at 12:30 today, and we discussed the question of the draft of troops in South Carolina, especially with refer ence to the negro troops. The Porto Rican troops will not be sent to South Carolina, nor will the white and negro troops be mixed. The matter was fully discussed from the standpoint of the best interests of all the troops, white and colored, and the best way to handle the proposition. Secretary Baker assured us that he would take under serious consideration all that was said and would endeavor to decide the questions involved so as to serve the welfare of all parties concerned. If any negro troops are sent to South Carolina, they will, under the long established policy of the War De partment, be kept entirely separate from the white troops. "At the opening of the meeting Sec retary Baker announced that the Por to Rican troops would not be sent to Camp Jackson at Columbia. BY THE ASOCIATED PRESS. Washington, Aug. 21.-Governor Manning, of South Carolina, accom panied by Senators Tilman and Smith and others of the State delegation in Congress, protested to the War De partment today against the encamp ment of negro troops in the State. The Carolinians protested against the pssembling of thousands of negro troops at ColumL.L and particularly against the enc.mrment of several thousand from Porto Rico. Porto Rican negroes, the delegation contendled, were unused to the South ern view of the negro question, andl should be mobilized elsewvhere. Sen ator Tillman asked that in view of the fact that Cuba has offeredl the United States a training ground on the island that the Porto Rican troops be encamped there. Secretary Baker heard wvhat the dil egation had to say and took their protest undler consideration. Recently the War Department let it be knowvn that the negro companies of troopis wVould go with their units for* training to whatever point the units had been as igned. I vie wof the fact that the Caro linmans are protesting not so much against negro troops, but against tak ing some ten thousand from Porto Rico in addition, their view may re ceive some consideration from the WVar Departmnent. Southern Senators s;aid they felt confidlent the racial problem in the training of negroc troop~s would be solved without friction. Some sym pathize with the protests of the South Carolina delegates, while others be lieved the South is the best place for training the negroes. "It certainly would be a mistake to send negroes from Northern States into the South for training," said Sen ator McKollar, of Tennessee, of -'the military affaira committee. "Of course, 'the negro and white troops should, and, I understand will be trained sep arately, I think there are nmany com rannities in tha eoouth wich wodma not COTTON SHORTAGE SAYS E. D. SMITH Germany Now Receiving No Ameri can Cotton, Declares South Carolina Senator. QUESTIONS LODGE FIGURES Not Sufficient Cotton for This Coun. try and Its Allies, Says Pal metto Solon. Washington, Aug. 21.-Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, speaking in the Senate late today, denied re ports that American cotton is finding its way into Germany and Austria. He declared that 4,000,000 bales less are being exported from this country to Europe now than when the war be gan and introduced figures showing that with but few exceptions the im portation of cotton by European coun tries is below normal. Senator Smith said figures recently introduced in the Senate by Senator Lodge, giving the amount of cotton being received at various foreign ports, are entirely wrong and mis leading and emanate from the mil] sections of New England. None Going There Now. The South Carolina Senator admitt ed that American cotton had been permitted, to reach Germany and Aus tria at the beginning of the European war, but declared that from fou months prior to the United States en trance into the struggle until the present no cotton has been permitted to reach the enemy. "The consumption of American cot ton has outstripped production," Sen ator Smith continued. "The surplu accumulated in 1913 and 1914 has been consumed and the world is facing a cotton shortage. There is not a nor mal supply for America and her Al lies. "The neutrals are not getting at much cotton now as they did befor< the war with all the demand for ex ports and the high prices. What in centive would there be for them to distribute contraband into Germany when they can get high prices else where?" asked the South Carolina Senator. 0 - ADVANCE IN BOOK PAPER Excessive and Unwarranted Says Trade Commission. Washington, Aug. 21.-The advance in prices of book payer last year wer< excessive and unwarranted, the Fed eral Trade Commission reported to day to the Senate. As a result of its investigation the commission has or dered proceedings against certair practices of manufacturers. The price advances were not war ranted either by the increase in costs or by the changes in conditions of supply and demand, the commission found. The advances were broughi about in part by the activities of members of the Paper Manufacturers Association and the secretary of th( Bureau of Statistics maintained by the manufacturers. On account of these activities the proceedlings were ordiered. -O --- GOES TO TH'IE NETHIERLAND)S Garrett to Succeed D~r. Van D~yke aIs Minister. Washington, Aug. 21.--John W Garrett of Baltimore, was nominate~l by President Wilson as minister t(: The Nether-lands and Lu xember-g. Mr. Garrett succeeds Dr.. Henry Van Dyke, wvho resignedi some time ag.o Although accred ited( also to Luxem beg as is the customr of the diplo muatic service, Mr. GIarr-ett hardly wvill go there, as the D~uchy has been over run by the Germans and now is undex their military control. object to selection as camps for train ing the negro contingents." Senator H~ardwick, of Georgia, said negroes fr-om other States should not be sent to any comunity which ob jects. "It might cause serious trouble in some cases to send in large numbers of strange negroes," he said. "Many are to be trainedi near Atlanta, how over, and I have no theard of any se rIous objection." Senator Bankhead, of Alabama, de claring separate training camps should be established for whites and negroes, said he did not believe much objection would come fro mtho South agrainst negro training camps theroa PRO-GERMANISM DENOUNCED America's Place in the War Justified-Our Citizens Ex horted to Stand By the Flag. I may be criticised by some for addressing you as I do, but the criticism of a few matters little. As a citizen of our State and our country I feel that in a time like the one through which we are passing it is proper for men to speak their views. No one can consistently say that I am exhorting the patriotism of others to go to the front and doing nothing for the country myself. I was too old to register. I was too old and physically unfit to take the officers' training course. I did my best to (1o some service by getting on a board where I felt that I was best suited to fill a position and render some service, but failed, and finally I have accepted a position which, as far as I know, is without pay, to represent the government and render what assistance I can at home in carrying out the spirit of the Selective Draft Act. I understand that there is a little bit of pro-German sentiment right here in Clarendon County, particularly in two sections or the County. Some of this is among people who are ignorant and who are to be pitied, but the surprising thing is that some of it is among a few people who are intelligent and ought to know better. When this is the case such propa ganda becomes vicious, and unpatriotic, not to say traitorous and dangerous. When people of our own country who enjoy the liberties of our country and the protection of its laws, talk against their own country and in favor of the enemy country in time of war, they are dangerous people, and are to be condemned. If they persist in it they should be, and they will be, dealt with. We have a large and in numbers a predominating negro population. These people have no actual voice in our government, only to obey the law and receive its mandates, and yet in the recent draft for service at least 95 per cent of those who were summoned have marched up for examination without a murmur. This ought to put to shame any white man who has been talking reactionary sentiments. The United States is in war. She is righteously in war. She is not in war to save France or England. She is in war to preserve the future and protect our coming generations in the liberties which we have enjoyed for the past one hundred and forty years. We did not provoke war with Germany. We did not deny the right of the high seas to any other country. But Germany provoked the war with us and drove us into it. She denied the privilege of the high seas to us to trade with other nations and to travel the high seas. The man who says that we should have stayed off the high seas simply exhibits in himself a combination of ignorance of our rights and cowardice to demand them. The man who can condone the tragedy of the Lusitania when scores of American lives were lost by the murder of the German submarine, and think of American women floating (lead upon the top of the waters with their (lead babies grasped in their arms, is nothing short of a coward of the vilest type. There are those in our State who have received high honors and whom we have trusted and elevated, but who in this time of trial to our country have proven disloyal and in public speeches have spoken reactionary and unpatriotic sentiments calculated to mislead the ignorant people and lead them into trouble. This may not be technically treason, but sub staritially it is nothing short of it. It matters not what our politics or differences may be, we~ cannot afford to follow such men. When tnoy thus lose their heads and their patriotism they become dangerous leaders. God bless every' young man who has volunteered to go to the front and do his duty, and grant that he may be brought back safe when the conflict is over so that he and we may continue to enjoy American free dom and liberty, and that we who cannot go to the front but who are forced to stay at home may pay honor and respect to those young men who will fight our battles for liberty. Again I want to say that we are not fighting a battle for England and France, but for ourselves. Under our constitution our government has th< power to send our troops to any foreign soil, or wherever the cause of American liberty demands that they should go. Incidentally England and France and other allied countries are now our friends. There are now seventeen countries, great and small, lined up on our side. It is well known throughout the entire civilized world, the purpose of Ger many to dominate the world. America will never consent to be domi nated by any country. We have enjoyed our political and religious liberty too long to allow that, and we are jealous of the rights of our posterity who shall follow us. But while primarily we are not fighting the battles of England and France, but our own, yet incidentally we are returning them justice. France helped us to get our freedom 140 years ago, and for the past two years or more the greatness of England's navy has kept us secure from invasion by the German navy. England is and has been for the past hundred years, the best friend that America has on earth. We speak the same tongue, and I believe that if Christianity is ever carried into all the remote parts of the Earth, it will be through the English tongue. While we are not fighting England's battle primarily, yet well could we afford to help hecr in helping ourselves. England owns Canada on tihe Nort~h of us. If Germany shlould triumpih over Engiand and~ be in position to demland indemnities, with hecr dlesire to conme into tie Western hemisphere, wouldl she not take Canada ? With Canada dlominated( by Gedrmany onl tile North of us, and handlit Mexico on thle Southi of us, where wvould America's peace and liberty then be? Amlerica hlas got to win this wvar. Thle peace proposal of the Pope is a vain trick and1( mere twaddle. We mlust winl it, if it takes men 60 years old1 to the front to (10 it. WVe will dod it. May our sacrifices b~e as light as possible. But this is no time for reactionists and fanatics and traitors in our own mlidst. ,J. ii. 12ESESNE. BUHIONIC' l'L2AGUIE ON Sfil1P STi( EftS ICET'ltN TO WOlII( Steamer Mahmana Ileaches London Fihrlelc o i ams(f.fik Withi 3 Comnvalesen ts. London, Aug. 21.-The British steamship Mahana arrived at Grave- i ovllTiOAm,.2. ~itm' send from Bombay oil A ugust 13 wvithi~elc osfom ierik;(Cs~iil thlree conlvalesce'nt 'cases of buboniccolilnesl te'IniseeadK plague. At the time during tile tcyfed vr eotdtdy voyage there were nine cases on cidi oohcaso ieSuhr b~oard. Six of tile victims died andApaalinClOerts'soia were buried at sea. Anothler casetim.Mesl evrlpnsinie broke out but the patient hlad since Suhr etcydsrc eesi dlied in a hospital. The ship, crew t ieoeail nteroiia and cargo are being closely guarded,.ceue.Adoeaos t~issil K AISER'S IICON CROSSES iinrs ho e ec im a dt n o A msterdlam, Aug. 21.-Deputy Mar-thstrioyonofwihascse qumardt, cif the German Reiehstag, re- conysedywe ital l f cently proposed that a muore extensive teepoe akdot distribution of iron crosses be mide~'deawr eevdb ~src Emperor William has 'caused to be N.1,Uie ie Wreso ,published the fact that 2,250,000Amrcfrumnnto ese crosses of the second-class had been wr ttevrosmnspoie disribtedup o Jno .coa minen orken Temzsemployd.Kn GERMAN LINES AROUND [ENS PIERCED BY THE CANADIAN OFFNSIVE Teutons Sacrifice Thousands of Men in Counter-Attacks Which Prove Futile. BATTLE OPENED AT DAWN Both Sides Had Prepared for Offen sive and Double Attach Sur prised Each. British Front in France and Bel iun, Aug. 21.-(By the Associated Press).-The fierce battle which be 4an at dawn today on the outskirts of the city of Lens continued throughout the day at close quarters and late this evening there was no diminution ir. the intensity of the struggle between the attacking Canadians and the Ger mans. The Canadians this morning fought their way forward with bombs and bayonets and occupied important ene my defenses north, northwest and southwest of the heart of the city, and since then the Germans have been sending in wave after wave of infan try in desperate counter-attacks. The Canadians have held their gains and the Germans have suffered very heavy casualties, as they must have expected from the nature of their couanter-thrusts in which no thought is given to the cost in life. Double Offensive. The striking feature of the battle lies in the tact that the Germans also had massed trops for a counter attack at dawn against the newly acquired Canadian positions in the northwest environs of Lens and had actually started their advance when they were surprised by encountering the onrushing Canadians in No Mans Land. Both offensives had begun at the same hour, but a heavy mist ap parently made the Germans unaware of the Canadians' preparations until the Canadians were upon them with the bayonets. Brief buL bitter fighting occurred in No Mans Land. The German oflicers tried to rally their men, but the enemy infantry gradually fell back to their trenches. The Canadians rushed for ward and leaping on the parapets. hurled masses of bombs down among great numbers of troops which had been collected for the attack. The Germans tried to flee through the com munication trenches but the Cana dians jumped among them with bay onets and bombs, killing many. (onsilerable Advance. The Canadians took up new pos to a depth of several hundred yards. which they are holding against bitter counter-attacks. On the southwest the Caradian.s wevre equally successful after very heavy fighting, in which the British artillery was brougt into play. The most strenuous fighting late in the day was proceeding in the center of the lIine west of Lens and on a little front near the left of the north w~est piosit ions, but the whole tline was a seething cald(1ront. The Catnadlians have achieved t het immiediate objects byv drawing their Iines( still closer about the liearit of the city and their goal un- t he G;ermoan coutter-attacks ue . By today's attack the Cttaianm have gainedl possession of niany rail way emtbankme(nts antd collery siding~ w-hich afford excel lent posiin Ifor 'it her olf(cnsive' or defenin.iv operm 'rthwst o ('theats ilnas of 't: eit .0 positionst: ini the~ wohlweIt suburbh nd1( as the Ge(rmanst w -re alh-Idy a 'ane(ing to attactk fth. ew C at:iiamjt lefenses fthe fightinog quiekly asseneo lie c-hatracfter of one tof the noen ianguiniary contflictM whicht the bath Wtcarred theater has se:-n. A (circu'lar- lin' aronund which the' >ppIosing forces now', are light inc is I rawti (close ablout the c ity propi~er, .vh ile the Germiatns hadl foirti lied thIem welves int concerete cellatrs atnd thug flts. No estimate of casualties or' pris mers is yet piossible, but capitur-ed lermatns wvere beginnintg to arrive >ack of both fronts at an early hour. 0 Another Loan to England. Washington. Aug. 21.--A loan of 50,000,000 was made today by the ~overnment to Great Britain. This rings the total advanced to the Al. Inn up to 1,0n6a4Ana0naa AUSTRIANS GIVING WAY BEFORE ITALIAN DRIVE More Than 10,000 Huns Made Pris oners in New Offensive-Battle on Isonzo Front Continues Without Interruption. Rome, Aug. 21.-More than 10,000 prisoners have been taken by the Ital ians in their new offensive up to yes terday evening, the war oflice an nounces. The great battle on the Isonzo front continues without interruption. The war oflice states that the Austrian line is beginning to bend and give way at various points. Enemy defenses between Corite and Selo, near the strongly fortified Star ilokva position have been captured by the Italians. The Italians, supported by floating and fixed batteries and monitors, are marching toward success, which the statement says is becoming delicated in spite of undiminished enemy resis tance. Berlin's Report on Verdun. B rlih, Aug. 21.-(Via London.) The battle before Verdun has not yet ended, the German general headquar ters staff announced today. This morn ing fresh engagements developed at various places. The statement adds: "Our troops and leaders anticipated a favorable conclusion-of the battle." - o New Convention Signed. Paris,.Aug. 21.-A wireless dispatch from Zurich says a new economic con vention between Switzerland and Ger many was concluded and signed yes terday evening at Berne. -o EXAMINE I. W. W. PRISONERS Nothing Said Concerning Release of Men at Spokane. Spokane, Wash., Aug. 21.--Exami nation of prisoners taken In a raid on the Industrial Workers of the World headquarters last Saturday was begun today in the county jail by Major Clement Wilkins, who made the ar rests, and United States District At torney Garrecht. No decision as to releasing any of the prisoners was announced. -0 - J. G. SULLIVAN PARlDONED Laurens Man Serving Six Years for Manslaughter. Columbia, Aug. 21.-Governor Man ning has granted a parole during good behavior to Joseph G. Sullivan, who was convicted at the September. 1914, term of court for Laurens County for the killing of John Cannon, of Lau rens, a popular political leader of that county. Sullivan was sentenced to six years in the State penitentiary. Since his incarceration he has been a model prisoner, winning the com mendation of the authorities of the State prison. His trial created State wide interest because of the promi nence and the local popularity of both men. Sullivan has announce'd hiis inten tioun of joining the colors after Ihis l iberIation fromi prison. The twelve trial jurors, .Judge TI. S. Sense(, the trial judlge, and the Board of Pardlons recommendled elemenev. Robert A. Cooper, of Ila,.r, , whio was the prosecuting soiib -, sa 5 id that, while it had not ILev a cus tom to reconmmnend pa rdons, yet he would not (opposXe any elemiency shown .SullIivan. In addIit ion t o t hose hun - diredls of citizens of Lamen5 ( C;(ount y s ignied petit ions praingi ) for elemenicy. Th'ie recommnen~dat ion for elemncyv a full pard~on ini the case of t he r~eommnendal~t ion of Judisge Sease, was iade to Go~(vernior Mano.ingi i on A pril 11, list, ands, while it has been hiis (cisto toi)Is follow thle r'econunienda~tion of the Iloord of Pa:rdon ;i icerl yet, he sid he had hesitaited iunt il now to take this action because h(e "realizes the seriousn'ss of the case and t he necessity for impressing upon0 the people of the State the gravity of the otfense of taking human life.' WITlE IIOUJSE LAWN Chicago, Aug. 21.--If President 4 Wilson heeds the request of the Na- 1 tional Sheep and Wool Bureau lawn mowers at the White Hlouse wvill be replaced with sheep. The bureau at a meeting here today advocated thnt the President adopt this practice in i order to set an example to the nation of the needl of a "sheep for every 1 family."