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A. OL. XXXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9,1918 PRESIDENT PUT DIRECT QUE 'GERM or ermany His Reply to Chancellor ax Spells Unconditional Surrender b AltST WITHDRAW FROM ALL INVADED TERRITORY Chancellor Max Must Say Whom He Represents and What He Means by Accepting the President's 14 Principles-It. All Means Sur render Now or Hereafter. Is Germany Now Ready to Lay Down? Herewith is the text of the Presi lent's note of inquiry transmitted to Germany today through the charge de affairs of Switzerland: Department of State, October 8,-18, Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge; on behalf of the President your note of October 6, enclosing a communication from the German governnent to the President; I am instructe:l by the President to request you to make the following communication to the Im ,perial German Chancellor. "Before making reply to the request of the Imperial German government and in order that that reply shall be as candid and straightforward as the momentous interests involved require, the President of the United States deems it necessary to assure himself of the exact meaning of the note of the fmperial Chancellor. Does the Im perial Chancellor mean that the Im perial German government accepts the terms laid down by the President in his address to the Congress of the United States on thu tghth of Janu ary last and in subsequent addresses and that its object in entering into discussions would be only to agree up on the practical details of their ap plication ? "The President feels bound to say with regard to the suggestion of an 6 armitice that he would not feel at liberty to propose a cessi ion of-arms to the governments with which the government of the United States is ass.)c:ated against the Central Pow ers as long as the armies of those powers gre upon their Soil. The good faith of any discussion would mani festly depend upon the consent of the central Powers immediately to with draw their forces everywhere from in. vaded territory. "The President also feels that he i< justified in asking whether the Imper. ial Chancellor is speaking merely for the constituted authorities of the em pire who have so far conducted th< war. le deems the answers to thest questions vital from every point o' vie-v What Wilson's Fourteen Principle Are--As Given The following are the fourteen prin -iples of President Wilson to which Chancellor Max refers: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrivedl at, after which there shal be no private international unde standings of any kind, but dliplo, mnacy shall proceed alwvays frankl3 and in the public view. 2. Absolute freedom of navigatier upon the seas, outside of territorial w-~atei's, alike in peace andl in war, ex cept as the seas may be closed ir whole or in part by international ac tion for the enforcement of interna. tional covenants. 3. The removal, as far as possible of all economic harriers and the es tabli5:hment of any equality of tr-ad, conditions among all the nations con. senitiirg to the peace and associatina themsrelves together for its mainten. ance. -. Adequate guarantees given an(. taken th'at national armaments wvill b( reduced to the lowest point consisteni with dlomestic safety. 5. A free, open-minded andl abso. lutiely impartial adjustment (if all coloniai claims, based upon a s-t rict ob servance of the principle that in de termining all such questions (of sov ereignty the interests of the popula tions concerned must have equal we(ight with the equitable claims of the government whose- title is to be determinedl. S6. The evacuation of all Russian, territory andl such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will se.. cure the best -andl freest co-operation of the other nations of the wvorld in jbtaininig for her an, unhampered and unembarrassed oportunity fr.h ian S UP THREE TIOWS TO THE AN CHANCELLOR dependent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free na tions under instikations of her own choosing; and also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The ti-eatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her nee:ds as (listijguished from their own interests and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy. 7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must. be evacuated and re stoitd, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this heal ing act the whole structure and validi ty of international law is forever im paired. 8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions re stored, and the wrong (lone to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lor-aine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may be to the in terest of all. 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of national ity. 10. ''he peoples of Austria-Hun gary, whose place among the nation: we wish to see safeguarded and as sured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous develop ment. 11. Roumania, Servia. and Monte neg ro should be evacuated, occupied territ ries restored, Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea and the relations of the several Balkan states to be determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality and international guarantees of the politi cal and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states shuld be entered into. 12. The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman empire should be as sured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now un der Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an ab solutely unmolested opportunity of au tonomous development, and the Dar denelles should be permanently opened as ajfree passage to ships and com merce of al nations under internation al guarantees. 13. An independent Polish state should be erected, which should in clude the territories inhabited by in disputable Polish populations, which shouild be assured a free andl secure access to the sea, andi whose political and~ economic independence and terri torial integrity should be guaranteed' by inter-national covenant. 14. A general association of na tions must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of afford ing mutual guarantees of political in dlependlence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. BERLIN EXCITED)LY WAITS ON WILSON Copenhagen, O-t. 8.--Helbiin, aec cordling to all (dispatches from the Gecruman capital, is awaiting excitedlyr for President Wilson's reply to the pcite offt r. Thue reichistag has been sumtmoned! for- Thursday to (discuss peace pre - sumably because the American re.ply is expected to have reached Berlin by that time. Tfhe German press showvs a t-n den ey towvard preparing ,the populace for the rejection of the peace proposarl. COUPI D)'ETrAT INTED AT IN VIENNA Amsterdam, Oct. &.-RIound'about disoatches from \' enna hint at the imminence of a coup dl-etat by the op position party. Such a possibility is openly discussedl in Viedna, th~e adl vices state, andl if carried out may lead to sensational developments as between Austria-Ilungary and Ge-r manuy TO ALL LOCA Judging from the c me so far, our people a: Liberty Loan in amoun success. In some instan to the amount of $50.0 should take $1,000.00. It is absolutely nec to canvass every man tory, but to insist also 111 adequate to their mean - Clarendon's quota 4 by Saturday, October 1 work on the part of t hearted cooperation on t our County has never must not do so this time SEN) IN NAM Please send me pror in-your territory who is fuses to do so. I sincere of this class in Clarendo al citizens have a right I man who is able to bu3 stead of doing so buys cape the scorn of his i class just -s much as tl scribe at all. Men of Clarendon ,< limit for the boys that "over there." "War is a but the cheapest thing it costs." Yours for the Fa ADDITIONAL LOCAL N[WS Dr. Milton . Weinberg is reported criticaly ill at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, where he is located. Mrs. Joe Rigby, returned home last Thursday night from Columbia, where she had been in a hospital for several weeks. Mr. Max Krasnoff of New York is in :.anning for the fall. Mr. Krasnoff is the senior member of the well known New Idea Co. Mr. T. F. Coffey has returned from St. Louis, where he bought a car of fine horses and mules for Coffey & Rigby. It is reported that there are ten cases of influenza in A. T. Mellett' house, a colored farmer living about miles east of Manning. On account of the epidemic of in V. all public places are order'" clo.;ed, and people must not congre gate anywhere. Read the official no tice in another column. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Huggins will occupy the. Bradlham home 'n Brooks street. They will. move in :s :oon as Mrs. Bradham moves to New York. The IHun peace talk is nothing but a "stall" to cripple the big Liberty Bond sale. Buy all the bonds you can stand, and believe nothing coming from Ge rmany. Mr. J1. A. surles of IBartwell, hias accepted a nosition in the grocer~y store of B. B. Breedin. Mr surles and family are occupying the Joe M. Bradham house on upper Brooks street. Mrs. D). M. Bradham has dlecidled to move to Newv York and1( will leave in a few dlays for that city. shc will be acco(mpaniedl by three of her chil - dr'en. Misses Ca ro and JTula ad Mr'. Lawrence Bradham. Th'e last report from P'lowden's Mill towishliip shows tha t more t hin eight y per cent of the very large force of em ployees of the D). WV. A lderman' & sons Co., at AlIcolu have bought bonds and that this percent age will he increased biefore the canvass is over. atvy authiorities aire now aifter the "'Weary-Willies," and each week they must show their labor cardls toi the officers. T[he women as w'!ll as the me3 nmust woirk. This is a goodl law and we( have the officers thait will enforce it. Dicd suddenly last lFriday morning, a bout five (o'clock, at htis home neari A lcalu, Mr'. R. A. H odge, aged about 415 years. The dleceasedl leaves a wvid nw and several children. HIis only son large enough toi htelp the family is now on his way to France. Died last saturday at her home in st uter, Mirs. Perry Krasnoff, and was buriedl in that city Sunday after. nt00:1. The dle'easedl once lived in Man-. ring, andl made many friends while bei'e, who iire saddened by her death. H1er husband and~ one child survive L COMMITTEES ards that have come in to re not subscribing for the ts large enough to insure ces men are taking bonds 0 or $100.00 when they !ssary, therefore, not only md woman in your terri at they subscribe amounts s. )t $640,000 must be raised 9. It will require faithful Ie committees and whole he part of our citizens, but yet fallen behind and we P1S OF SLACKERS aptly the name of any man able to buy a bond and re ly hope that we have none n; but if we have, our loy :o know who they are. The a $1,000.00 bond and in Dne for $100.00 just to es ieighbors, belongs to this te man who does not sub lon't be "pikers;" go your are fighting and dying terribly expensive thing; ibout it is the money that urth Liberty Loan, C. R. SPROTT, County Chairman. Mr. C. It. Sprott, chairman of th Liberty Loan for Clarendon County has requested soliciting committees t canvass for Liberty Bonds this Sun day. The, use of automobiles for thi purpise will not violate the gasoline less restriction, for the benefit of th Government. The government sent a represents tive here last week to inspect th postoffice building with the purpos of movimg the telegraph office in witl the postoffice. We expect in a fev days they will make the change. A telegraph lines are government con trolled and in putting the post offic and telegraph office together it wi conserve light and fui. Miss Corinne Barfield left Moalda for Columbia, where she will take course in Red Cross work. Miss Bmr field's duties when she returns will b to look after the wounded soldiers an their families. She will go around an see after the needy, and report t this Red Cross chapter. Miss Barfiel is very entertaining and she will be great comfort to those in t rouble. Members of the Executive Commit tee, Clarendon County Chapter, A. I ('., composed of Mr. Frank liurges: ir.. John S. Wilson. Airs. ,1. A. Weir berg and M rs. R. 1). Clark, went t Alc-du Friday night, October 4, 191 I for the purpose of organizing Alcol Auxiliary to Clarendon County Chap tvr. l The following officers were elect (Chairiman. M~rs. It. J1. AlIdernmn c. I )irector of WVomanc's Work, Mlrs. I It. Aldhernman. Cha irman of I Iome( Service comu Mirs. .J. L,. Tlbert. This Chapter is very glad indeed t welcomne ai new auxiary. VIRtGINIA I. WIl.SON, Mlv. C. IR. Sprot t, county cha~iirmma (if tae Liberty L~oan Committee ha. Seciuredl one of the A rmy t rucks fron 'Camp PJackson for use tn the canvas in this county. The trock will b e-amnouflaged ami loaded withb interest :egular detail of soldijers from Cami I ac kson it w ill bring to its two o our (iwn sollier's who have bieen in t hi r'ecenct figh t ing in Fra nce. These t wi sol ers will makew shmii -ch messes telling of their exper ienices onl thc: Western Front. Tlhey will he dresser in the olive drIab un iforous of our over seassoliersandwill carry the ful hers of' our expeditionary forces. The truck will make stops at t hi folliwinig pcoints: Sardinia, New ion AlIcolu, andi Al anincg. .\nc initerst ing unrt of the exercise at Manning wvil Ibe the piresent at ion oif the medals t< the mem'nbers of the loi'caI trmoop of t h< Hoy Scouts' who woin them by theic efforts in selling the bonds of thi Thrd Liberty Loan. On0 ac(counit of the condlitioni of thei roiads and bridges in the state it is nio1 Ipossc ble1 at this time to say exac'tly what (lay and hour the truck wvil above points, but the chairman oif th( c'ommflitte(' has beeni promised tw< (lays' notice in) advance of its cominui and will give it as nmuch publicity at possible. WeQ trust that ourc citizenm wvil all turn out andl give thesebo from Camp .Jackson and the Westerr Front a royal welcome to Clarendor WOMAN'S LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE M[[TS Wednesday afternoon the Woman's Fourth Liberty Loan Committee met at the Bank of Manning. Mrs. .Joseph Sprott, county chair m, presided. She explained careful ly the duty of each captain and her team, in the work to be done. Mrs. Sprott said that at the last drive so many homes were not repre sented. This time our slogan is to be "A Bond in Every Home." We want each family to feel that they have a share in this great opportunity for helping our Government. (aCrds. to ie signed by each sub scriber. were given out. Each miem ber was presented with a Liberty Bell badge for the sleeve. The tennis are as follows: Captain-- Al rs. W. P. 1.egg. .lrs. .1. 1). Gerald. .Mrs. I1. C. MeKelvey. Mrs. C. it. Sprott. Mlrs. T. E. Plowden. Airs. I)avid Levi. Aliss Gailliard. Captain--1rs. \V. G. King. Mrs. WV. M. Plowden. Airs. )r. Broadway. * 11rs. Shelby Davis. Miiss Minnie Mcleaddin. ars. Covert Plowden. Airs. Joseph Dickson. Mlrs. F. C. Thomas. Airs. E. S. Irvin. Captain, Mrs. 'T. Al. 3louzon. Mrs. T. F. Coffey. Mirs. .1. K. Breedin. Mrs. A. S. Briggs Miss Helen Boger. Captain-MArs. Joseph Sprott. Mrs. F. P. Burgess. Airs. H1. C. Thomas. Airs. W. C. Davis. Airs. English Plowden. -W-S-S I MPORTANT The Clarendon County Chapter, A.I I. C. is in urgent need of workers. The work is steadily growing larger each day. 'There are several allotments wait ing, untouched. As there is a given length of time in which to fill these orders, it is most important that each and every ono who can possibly work for the lied Cross do so. The work cannot possibly be accomplishied by a few. The urgent need of each allotment given this chapter is emphasized. The Ied Cross room is now beginning to be filled with work of different kinds---suits to be mended, labels to be sewed on garments, and the like. ''he Chapter has received orders to knit again-only sweaters and socks. These articles are badly needed. Eacb ..udy is urged, most carnestly to stop in the Red Cross room and see what, work there is for her to do. The work must be done! Clarendon County Chapter has done splendid work in the past and has a righ: to be proud. We are depended upon by leadquarters and therefore, 1 it, is the more important rearon that we do not fail them. The allotments have been given this chacter recently and -.ery close to II ether I. lence the u'rgent need of workers. I.eti us not "fall dliwn" on1 I theni. --W -- S--S NOTICE 'TO iREI) ('ROSS S'BSCRIIIERS Payments have been coming in very nicely the past two weeks. The amount collected at. the Alanning If- i fre to Oct. 8th is $251,57(i.58, and theI amount collected at the Bank of San- I tie is $2,013.50, making a total to Oct. 8th, of $27,590.08. But that is only about (; per cent. of the amount subscribecd. Send in your paymects . prompi tlIy andl let your indics lbe clear c frthe' Fourth Liberty L.oan. | * FRED L.ESE~SNE.| Ii1.o l'Treasurer.| IAYI.I-lH SA\'INGI" Bill introduced I'ropoising I ndefi nile (Continuationi Washinigtoni, Oct. 7.- Indiefinit' coni tinuationi of the "dayiwht saving'' tim schedule is proposed inc a bill inc tccolcnced todayv by Senator Caider of New York, with the endorciseent of (hairmaun lHiituh of the warc indus ties- 'bcard. who bceli, vce dayvlight sacving~ shiccibl cnct iu a.- a icial coci 5el'v~iOii dthiisuir,. I'cci'ietr , (l i c cg ' la .ll tiche pieces will te turnced: bck anc hcor at .' A.ii.io October 27 :-l'A NISH1 ( I.\lNE R~' ESIG N ' Aladid,'ii via I~lccdo. (Oct. . ThI Spancish preimier has ha~nded Kiccg A I fonic- his own'c acid hi cnt ire( c cet's iresignationhs Sheriff, Maning. S. C. teen, S. C. Code, you Schools, chulrches, pitur placS of public gathering the:-e is no crowvding in st I. . a BIG DRIVE GOES ON IN REAR OF IIINDENBURC LINE Anglo-Americans on a 21-M1ile Front Strike Shattered flindenburg Line In Itear in a Powerful Attack Ad vancing to a Depth of Three Miles and (' t.urrir Many Pri I.onduon. Oct. 8.--British and A merican troops plunged forward to day in a plowerful attack alone a mtile front letwaeen ('a mbrai ;and St.. Quoentin, dlrivin forward three mah' mt:,l thrusting t menaing: \ ". . into the rear' liositio n of the Thattvied Himb-dnhur'y. lia. Th-}i: wedte i'lnne t'ely threatens t'ne important rail town of lohait. elev' -r, miles north iast of St. Quexti,. t'heic, a drive 'southwestward toward the Oi~e would outflank the sum.thern hinge of w'hat was the I ildenbhurcg line an I force a German r t iremet c from L.aon. l'houtsalds of prison"er. w et'e ta.ke, Field MAarhlhI Ilaie annone' in his night report.. The American: ill their three-nc ce -Idvitnce :a ptured Bramcourt-le -Grand (nine miles northeast of St. Quentin), and 'ronont (a little more than three mtiles northwest of Hohain. It. is the advanici' by the Yankees which brought the menace closest t.o Iohain, for Brancourt lies only about three miles southwest of that city, which is thus threatened from the west northwest and southwest. The British captured Beauregard, alonthrehain ridge, Servain, 1alin court, Walincourt, and the trench sys tem in the vicinity. Villers-Outreaux (nine miles southeast of Cambrai and twelve northeast of St. Quentin), les. daines, Servanvillers, Niergnies. Fres nes-les-Montauban and Neuvircuil Tonight's (;erman war office nliies this grave admission: "In the center . . battle front the enemy is progressme g west of Bo hainl. Fighting is in progress on the roads leading out of Bohain." The French. on their right. a: from the Itouvroy region, captured the hills to the east and took Essigny-h Petit (four miiles northeast of St. Quentin) and Fontaine-Notre Dame (nearly six miles northeast of St. Quentin.) French army attacked frtmi the .\au chault region (east of Rhei.ns a a it front of het.ween tour and five niles and advanced to a depth of two tr!es. By this new success fuI thrust .he French iravely thret"n the whole German Suippe river line with I- nu ouitflantked. AZ the sae ihne, iranco-A .-\ i. tan forces Iaunched a powerful at:.. on the heights east of the Meuse. Thev advanced on a front of seven mcih. to :t depth of two and at. last a - i U.>ts were still 4akinct sctistacctory . ress. TIhe" A nglo-A mlerica:n advanitce m thle north bids fair to put the a :t" i: Ts i ,.s ssin tf thet hr igh.ts 1.r-. Itiiking1 the ( )sc, thus fourting hle Gernmucis tii iet ir fromc St. thm W S-S .1;UlA.N INSINCElY IN R l;clsT.\A( Ill ,t I1. fromc its Zurich crrespondem~~i .ha a lP-iish) dleptt in the rt-i-Ibsta1 *ta rtitchstacg to ret'ori '! approtii - tif hyv iirsiden~tt \\'ilsonc on .latnnarc- - shtold be (r'cted, whlic-h shoui n eodititN l tcrt ies : fiha ited I di iitbl oli sh. ao tI in . ti - )aragraph Sixteen~ l'our-. are notifiedI to close all a shows andt all other in your county. See that reets and public cornerS. .JAMES A. HAYNE, id State HtAth Ofrir..