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mir Batty and O . annigW i Speak Here Sunday, Dec 23 VOL. XXXII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12 1917. HOLY CITY CHRIST] AFTER Allied Victory Marks Collapse of Ef forts of Turks to Capture Suez Canal and Invade Egypt-Place Had Been Entirely Cut Off for Weeks. SACRED PLACE UNHARMED Gen. Allenby, Surrounded by Officers of Victorious Army Which Consist ed of British, French and Italian Troops, Expects to Enter City To day According to Bonar Law's Statement. London, Dec. 10.-Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, an nounced in the House of Commons to day that Jerusalem, after being sur rounded on all sides by British troops, had surrendered. The chancellor said British, French and Mohammedlan representatives were on the way to Jerusalem to safe guard the holy places. General Allenby reported that on Saturday he attacked the enemy's po sitions south and west of Jerusalem, the chancellor said. Welsh and Home County troops, advancing from the di rection of Bethlehem, drove back the enemy and passing Jerusalem on the east, established themselves on the Jerusalem-Jericho road. At the same time London infantry and dismounted yeomanry attacked the strong enemy positions west and northwest of Jeru salem and placed themselves astride the Jerusalem Schechem road. The Holy City, being thus isolated, sur rendered to General Allenby. The chancellor said General Allen by expected to enter Jerusalem offi cially tomorrow, accompanied by the officers of the British, French and Italian forces, and the heads of. the French inolitical mission. The capture of Jerusalem had been delayed to some degree, added the chlncellor, in consequence of the great care that had been taken to avoid damage to the sacred places in and around the city. In Christian Hands Again. The capture of Jerusalem by the British forces marks the end, with two brief interludes, of more than 1,200 years' possession of the seat of the Christian religion by the Moham medans. For 673 years the Holy City has been in undisputed ownership of the Turn;the last Christian ruler of Jerusalen being the German Em pefor, Frederick II, whose short-lived domination lasted from 1229 to 1244. Apart from its connection with the campaign being waged against Tur key by the British in Mesopotamia. the fall of Jerusalem marks the defi nite collapse of the long protracted efforts of the Turks to capture the Suez canal and invade Egypt. Turkey's First Move. Almost the first move made by Tur key after her entrance into the war was a campaign against Egypt across the great desert of the Sinia peninsu Ia. In November, 1914, a Turkish army variously estimated at from 75,000 .to 250,000 men marched on the Suez canal andl succeedled in reaching within striking dlistance of the great artificial waterway at several points. For several months bitter fighting took place, the canal being defended by an Anglo-Egyptian army andl aid ed by Australians and~ New Zealand ers andl French andl British forces. For the greater part of 1915 con flicting reports of the situation were receivedl from the belligerents, but in D~ecember of that year definite infor' mation showedl that the Turks had b~een dIriven back as far as El Arish, about eighty-five miles east of the canal. A Second Attempt. A lull occurred then wvhich lasted six months and in June, 1910, the rTurks again advanced as far as Ka tieh, about fifteen miles east of the canal. Here they were decisively do. feated, losing more than 3,000 prison ers and a great quantity of equip ment. Another period followved in which the situation was greatly con fused through the vagueness, and the contradhictory character of the official statements, but in December, 1916, the British stormedl El Arish and a few (lays later defeated the Tur-ks at Maghdabah, about sixty miles to the AGAIN IN :AN HANDS~ 1,200 YEARS south on the same front. Two sweeks later the invaders had been driven out of Egypt and the British forces cross ed- the border into Palestine. There had been no hint as to Eng land's intention to undertake a defi nite invasion of the Holy Land and it was with intense surprise that the world learned on March 7 that the British forces had captured El Khulil, fifteen miles south of Jerusalem. El Khulil is the modern name of ancient Hebron. Early in November the British ac tivity resulted in the capture of Ber sheba, forty. miles south of Jerusalem. -Simultaneously a coastal colunn be came active. By November 7, the city of Gaza was in their hands add the British were pursuing the Turks northward after having inflicted cas ualties estimated as in excess of 10,000. By November 22 the British had pushed within five miles of Jerusalem, *on the northwest, and on December 7, Gen. Allenby announced that he had definite possession of Hebron. Jeru salem thus was virtually cut off on all sides but the east. Fed details have come through since that (late but the incirculating movement must have been carried out rwith considerable rapidity, culminat ing in the surrender of the city. In sentimehtal and romantic aspect the capture Qf Jerusalem far exceeds 'even the fall of fable-crowned Bag dad. The modern city of Jerusalem contains about 60,000 inhabitants and is the home of pestilence, filth and fe vers, but in historic events it natural ly surpasses, to the Christian world, all the places on earth. Since the days when David wrested it from the hands of Jebusites to make it the cap ital of the Jewish race, Jerusalem has been the prize and prey of- half the races of the world. It has surpassed successively into the hands of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Rom ans, Persians, Arabs, Turks, the mot ley crowds of the crusaders, finally to fall before the descendants of Rich ard the Lion Hearted, who strove in vain for its possession more than 700 years ago. -0 CAMP JACKSON QUARAN'IiNED ON ACCOUNT OF MENINGITIS Columbia, Dec. 1o.---Two new cases of spinal meningitis developed at Camp Jackson since Sunday morning, making in all a total of twenty-three cases since the outbreak of the dis ease, with five deaths, according to a I statement by Dr. Skottowe B. Fish burne, city health officer of Columbia, who is kept in close touch with the situation, through daily reports from the medical authorities in charge of the work of suppressing the disease at the camp. A conference was held this after noon between the city board of health, Dr. Hlayne, state health omlcer; Cal. Kent Nelson, dlivision surgeon of Camp Jackson; Major Johnson, chief sanitary officer; Drm. French Simp lson, surgeon in charge of United States public hgalth service, andl leading doe tors of Columbia. At the conclusion of the conference, which was held in executive session, a statement was given to the press embodying a reso lution adlopted by the city board of health requesting the authorities to quarantine the camp excepting those who are free as carriers of menin gitis, those wvho have oflicial business in the city and civil workmen. 0 EXP'LOSION ON WAR VETSSEl,. Washington, D~ec. 10.-News of an explosion on board the submarine A-2, resulting in the (death of Joseph Schaeffer, chief electrician of the boat, was received today by the Navy Department. No dletails were given by the det partment's announcement. Schaeffer dlied from injuries after the accident. Hie was twenty-three years old1, en listed in the navy March 16, 1912, at Omaha, Neb., as an apprentice sea nman. After being honorably dis.. chargeil March 4, 1916, from the U. S. S. Iris, he reenlisted May 19, 1916, as an electrician. Ilis sister, Mrs. Clara Amen, lives at i~ngs,..eb. HURLEY WILL DRIVE FIRST VESSEL RIVET Newark Plant Expects to Turn Out a Completed Ship Every Two or Three Days as Part of Building Program. . Washington, 'Dec. 10.-The first rivet in the first fabricated steel ves sel for the United States emergency fleet corporation will be hammered tight by Chairman Hurley of the United States shipping board Decem ber 17, at Newark, N. J., it was an nounced by the board tonight. The keels of three of the ships are to be laid as the first of a contract for 150 of them, all of 5,000 tons, to be turned out by midsummer, at the rate of one every two or three clays. With contracts elsewhere there will be an aggregate of about 350 of these vessels being finished next spring and summer. The first to be started will be at the yard of the Submarine Boat Corporation in Newark, the director of which, Henry R. Sutphen, has in vited Mr. Hurley to do the initial riveting. The yard there in 76 clays has completed 96 per cent of its equipment for building the fabricated steel including 10 ship- ways and 10 miles of yard trackage. The various standardized parts for the ships are being supplied from 49 different manufacturing establishments. In the Newark yard alone there are 3,000 men ready for building the new steel ships and two other yards will turn out other vessels, those of the Mer chant shipbuilding company at Ches ter, Pa., and the International Cor poration at Hog Island, near Phila delphia. The program for the Newark yard's original contract for 50 ships, now exceeded by the speed of preparation there, was as follows: Seven in June, six in July, 10 in August, 12 in September, 14 in Octo ber and 1 in November. REV. CHARLES 13. SMITH WELCOMED AT MANNING Union Services Held in Honor of Coming of New Methodist Minister. An interesting union meeting was held in the Methodist Church Sunday night to welcome the new pastor, the Rev. Charles B. Smith. All the dif ferent denominations in town were represented, but not very numerous ly, owing to the extremely cold weather prevailing at the time. A combined choir led the singing and also rendered a voluntary of high order. The Rev. L. B. McCord, pas tor of the Presbyterian Church, acted as leader on the occasion and intro duced Mr. J. K. Breedin to represent he Baptist congregation, and the ton. Charlton DuRant to speak for the Methodists, all tendering a cor dial welcome to the new pastor, who has just cast his lot with the town. Mr. Smith, in a very pleasing man ner, responded to the greetings ten dered him. He has long been a prom inent member of the South Carolina Conference, having served as pastor at many prominent stations and also having served as presiding elder. His appointment to the charge at this place has been wvell received by the congregation and he will also find a hearty welcome at the hands of the people generally. - 0 JAPAN D)ENIES RIEQUJESTI FOR BOATS Tokio, Japan, Dec. 10.--The .Japa nese government has issued an oflicial denial of reports that the inter-allied conferene at Paris last wveek asked Japan to place more merchantment at the dlisposal of the allies for use in the Atlantic. The government adds that the ques tion of .Japanese -tonnage or trops was not touched upon by the confer ence and that JTapan is "not hound to any such obligation." .Japan, the statement adds, "must decide thes;e rquestions for herself," and "the allies understand the impracticability of sending troops to Europe." -----o - LI(lGH BEER ONLY Wash ingtoni, D~ec. 11.-A proclama, tion b~y President Wilson reducin": the alcoholic content of all beer, manufactured after Jan. 1, to 2 31-4 per cent, was madle p~ublic tonight. Tihe present proportion of alcohol is nopr cent. TELLS STORY OF COLLISION WHICH WRECK[D HALIFAX Master of French Munition Ship Says Belgian Relief Boat Violated all Signals to Run Him Down. Halifax, N. S., Dec. 10.-Captain Arme Medoc, commander of the French munitions ship Mont Blanc, today gave out the first real authen tic explanation of the explosion. It is the same story that he will tell at the inquiry which opens tomorrow. He said: "I was up on the quar ter-deck of the Mont Blanc with the pilot, Captain Mackay going up the harbor to Bedford Basin, where I was to anchor and await convoy. It was a clear morning. The water was smooth and we were at half-speed on the starboard side toward the . basin. There were no vessels in our course until we sighted the Belgian relief ship, Irmo, coming out of the basin and headed toward the Dartmouth shore. She was more than two miles away at the time. We signalled we would keep the Mont Blanc on the starboard tack, going up the basin. We healed a little more inshore so as to make clear to the Irmo our put pose. She signalled that she was coming clown on the port, which would bring her on the samo side with us. We are keeping to the right or starboard according to pilotage rules. We kept on our course, hop ing that s e would come down as she would on the starboard side, which would kee) her on the Halifax side and us to the Dartmouth side. "To our surprise the Imo kept com ing down on the port side so we sig nalled again. We saw there was dan ger of a collision and signalled to stop the engine at the same time veering slightly to port which brought the two vessels with starboards - pnrallel when about 300 feet apart. ",'fhe Imo cut into us about a third through the deck and hold and the benzola stored there, poured into the picric acid igniting it and causing a cloud of smoke to arise from the ves sel forvard. 'There was nothing else we could do so boats were lowered and the 41 of us on board rowed for the Dartmouth shore." The work of carig for the hun dreds of homeless is going on rapidly. With a freezing temperature and an other blizzard the measures of relief are not slackening. The estimates of dead as a result of last week's disaster show a wide variance. Some place them at 1,200, others at 4,000, while. others still higher. MOSCOW SCENE Ol DESI'ERA''E NIGHT FIGHTING London, Dec. 11.-Moscow, strong hold of the Cossacks and cinstitu tional democrats, is tonight in the throes of civil war and starvation. Violent street clashes were fought all day. An organized battle between the Cossacks and Bolsheviki is im pending, wvith numerical strength andI moral and material support ev identl y on the Cossacks side. The garrison is wvavering in its loy alty to the Bolsheviki. Once it goes over to the Cossacks, Moscow 'vill be lost to Lenine. Soserious is the situation in Mos cow thtat the Swvedisht consul todlay warned the Swedish residents there to leave the city, a wvarning thtat was not issued even in thte dlays of the wvorst dlistuirbances in thte past. Ensign Krylenko, the Bolsheviki "general issimio," personally hteads the forces marching against the Cos sacks. l'Troughout Rtussila the strife between lBolshevik i and Cossacks is com)~ing to a head. L~LOYD)-(GEORGE IS LO)SING .STR'ENGTH'l L.ondon, D~ec. 11 .-T-Ihe political at. mtosphere in Great Britain' has ontce more become tense. Opposition to the Lloyd-George governmentt is growving. Rtumors that it stands before a crisis beconte louder and louder. Thle pred mtier's majiority in parliament has chrunk considerably during the Iast few~ months, so much so thatt somte tf his friends urge him to qppeal to the country and ask for a general alection before a political coup) maly mcuceedl in ovettthmwhw a hi ni GERMANS C READYTC DECID BUtLESON IS DEFIED BY LABOR MEN Gompers, in Letter, Says Opposition to Postal Unions Will Be Bitterly Fought. Washington, Dec. 9.-In a state ment issued from the headquarters of the American Federation of labor in this city, Samuel Gompers, president of the federation, served notice that any attempt on the part of Mr. Bur leson to force through congress his proposal to deny postal employees the right to organize will be bitterly fought. Mr. Gomr.pcrs said: "The American Federation of Labor will resist any effort made by Post master General Burleson to put into effect his recommendation to congress that the postal employees be denie:l the right to organize and affiliate with labor. "More than ten years ago, in 1906, the American Federation of Labor presented its historic bill of griev ances to President Roosevelt and mentioned as one of the particulars the restoration of the right of direct petition to congress by government employees-a right that was denied them by executive orders issued by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. We kept this issue prominently before the public and on August 24, 1912, the sixty-second congress enacted what was then commonly called the anti gag law, a law granting postal and other government workers the right to mainta1n -their own- organizations in the interest of the men and free from the domination of the depart ment heads and also restoring to them the constitutional right of pe titioning congress. It is this which Mr. Burleson is seeking to have re pealed. We fought for its enactment, we believe it a wise, just, necessary law and we are prepared to fight against its repeal. "Mr. Burleson cannot point to a single instance where an affiliated or ganization of postale employees has threatened to strike. Ile cannot name a single officer of these organizations who has remotely suggested such al course. Personally I have addressed postal employees many times in all parts of the country. I have explain ed to them that legislation and not the strike was their weapon of last resort. "I can see no danger of a strike of postal employees if they have free access to congress and public opinion to secure the correction of their griev ances. But I can conceive of serious trouble arising if the Burleson idea of repressing men and not giving them the opportunity to organize and to come in contact with their fellow workers in a sincere desire to make better the lot of all groups of wvork ers is lput into operation. Afliliation with the labor movement is a safet valve for the postal workers, which Mr. Burleson, in a mistaken view ot' the yearnings of his employeecs, wouil:i close. "Tlhe association of the postal em ployees wvith the Ameurican I'edei'a tion of Labor is pure'ly a voluitary:. one. These me'n have comne forwari'd voluntarily in recent yearis in large numbers to become ident itied with the labor movement. This indlicate's too well that working (cond1it ions for them are not as ideal as the' post mast<( r general would have th~e publ ic helieve. These workers hav'e the right - yes it is a plublic duty-to organ i'ze anjI mq~ke knownVl theirI grievancilies ta o' ir empJloyv'rs, thei A\ mican peiople, soi that ant aiiroused( publhIic opinaion e'nnI speed(lily c'orrec'(t aniy nadinnist rat iv dlefects t hat may he har'mnful to th(' wor'keris and the serv ice."' P()Y'S Il!~',11Al U W..\THl. West biury, Conn11., l)@e. 10.---rnest l iller', 7 year's old, died today wvithin five m inuites afte1 r he had beeni punaish.. ed by i'diss Al ice Alabler, principl': of the s' hool. For several m onthls 'the boy hhad been under trea tmnt foir a nerv'ons ailliletion and weaik bOa ltL ii v. vu ETTING DELIVER JIVE BLOW Big Guns on All Fronts Opening Way for Rush of Infantry Reinforced from East War Zone. MANY AIRPLANES WAGNG BATTLES Russian Revolt Headed by Kaledines Gaining Force-Serious Situa tion in City of Moscow. Along the entire western front from the north to the Adriatic sea artillery duels of great magnitude are being fought which doubtless are the forerunners of the expected ga'-at offensive the Teutonic allies have in view before the American troops can reach the battle fronts in great num bers. On the Ypres and Arras fronts held by the British, on various sectors eastward from St. Quentin to Alsace in the hilly country bordering the Italian plains and at points along the Piave river the big guns everywhere are in operation. On the British front huge numbers of airplanes are continually engaged in battles in the air or searching out points where troops are being con centrated. The only infantry activity taking place on any of the fronts is in the nature of raiding operations. The Teutons daily continue to rein force by large numbers their already superior forces on all the fronts. In the rush of trops and munitions to the theater in which the British are operating one German train is report ed to have collided with another, re sulting in a great explosion in which several hundred soldiers were killed. Between the Brenta -an:l Piave riv trs on the northern front in Ital1y the artillery lighting is described by the Rome war offilee as intense, and there is similar activity in the coastal region near the mouth of the Piave, where the Austrians Monday captured a position in the (apo Sile region, but later were driven out with heavy losses in killed and men made pris oners. In Russia the counter-revolutionary movement, headed by Gen. Kaledines, is growing in strength. Realizing the seriousness of the situation consider able forces of troops from the Rus sian flont are being rushed from the trenches to give battle to Kaledines' Cossacks. The situation in Moscow, which is held by the Bolsheviki, is said to be serious. Unoflicial advices say street fighting has already occurred there, and that the garrison is showing sipns of mutiny against the Bol sheviki. Starvation is menacing the popula tion of the city. Btritish Official tatement. London, Dec. 1I .---Unusually active arit itllery fight ing andl aerial opera tin on the western front yest erday arie r'eportedl in todlay's ollicial com0 nmunica tion. T[his activity was pari ticularly noteworthy on the Ypres and A rras fronts. "Thre was usualI aerial aol artit lery activity yesterday on both siudes (0n the Brintish front, Particularly in the s'ctor1s soulthI of the river Scarpe~ and north of the river Lys. In these areas the hostile shelling wva- h .avy against a number of localities. "A raid attempted by the cen'my in the evening under cover of a he a vy bombardmnent against one of our posts east of Epehy was repuitlsef. A\t ttther points on the Camnbra i fronts there have been patrol encoutercts. We dispersedl hostile working paries tonl secured prisoners5. On th e re maninder of the front there was e'uhl in sp~eial to report. statement ont the western tr ent opst ttionis says: "Front of' (Criownt Prince Rupprec~(h: On the I'anders front and in art iouis sec'tor's fet wecin the cGearpi and St. Qutent in, th f atiller fir i crteased fronm midday onward. In a mt, r m fantr iy e'ngagement. thte Bri tish were' Ii'iven fr'om severalI sectilon of teanhe wvest of Gra.1iteoui. A Brit ish attatck tnor th of I, Vas\ie-rite'