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' '>'V ' >"-y'* : *> .. | <.-<> ? ?. ' r v -4 < * * Tl Established in 1891. lUdPCQTAIUTV UftC uiiuLii mm 11 nnu PBSEDJI GREECE RELATIONS SEVERED WITH CEN. TRAL POWERS?COUNTRY ACTUALLY AT WAR. EXPECT EARLY MOBILIZATION Venizelos' Declarations at Salonica are Binding.?Mission to United I States Will Probably be Sent. Washington. ? Uncertainty as to Greece's status In tho world war was cleared away with the receipt of official information that the Greek government not only has severed relations with all four of the central powers, but is actually in a 3tate of war with them. information has reached the state department that *the Greek minister in Paris has notified the French government that Grcoce considers herself a full belligerent and will act accordingly. He said it was not necessary to issue a formal declaration of war as the government feels it is bound by the declarations previously Issued at Salonika by Premier Venizelos, who took with him to Athens all the responsibilities and committments of the temporary Salonlkl government. As a belligerent. Greece is expected to lose no time in mobilizing her war resources and joining effectively in the common allied operations in the Balkans. The strength of the Venizelos army is placed at aoout 60,000 men, and tho remnants pi me lormer regular army, while not over 30,.000 now. has at times been mobilized to a total of 200,000 men, anad is capable of reaching 300,000, If munitions p.re proTided. The regulars practically were demobilized by the allies when fromer king Conat&ntlne held 'the organization as a threat to the allies' rear, hut can quickly be called to the colors again. While it la understood the new government has not yet mobilized this army, the classes of i916 and 1917, previously prevented by the allies from being called out, wero called to the colors about two weeks ago. A Greek mission may be sent to the United States, not only to negotiate for supplies for this army, but also to present Greece's situation as to the general word reconstruction after the war. For the present It Is probable Greece will be munitioned by the allies. i RUSSIAN AND AUSTRO GERMANS ARE AT DEATH GRIP Germans Are Worsted in Campaign From Baltic to Roumanian Frontier Against the Teutonic allies have suffered reverses?in the loss to the Russians of a part of the village of Lodzinay, in the Lomnlca river region of Galicia; in the repulse of an attack by the Russians northeast of Kalusz. and in the Champagne region of France wheer the French drove them from positions they had recaptured, indicting heavy casualties on them. From Riga ,on the Baltic Sea, to the Rumanian frontier, the Russians and Austro-Qermans along the entire front are engaged in battle, but except in Galicia, whore the Russians continue to develop thoir advantage or hold back thrusts of the Teutons, little has yet become known concerning the operations. Not alone have the Russians in their drive in Galicia made considers ble gains of terrain, but their captures of men. guns and material have been enormous. Prom July 1 to July 13. according to a Russian official communication, 36,643 officers and men of the Teutonic allied armies have been made prisoners by General Bustloff's forces and ninety^three heavy and light guns, twenty-eight trench mortars. 403 machine guns and ninetyone guns of other descriptions have been taken. The Germans in Champagne have again attempted with large bodies of men to recanture Dositions taken from them recently near Mont Haut and the Teton. SENATOR REED ATTACKS FOOD COMMISSIONER HOOVER Washington.?A wrangle over the President's appointment of Herbert C. Hoover as food administrator, occunlod virtually allthe day's debate In the Senate on the food control bill, hut meantime considerable progress on compromise amendments was made by the leaders in bi-partisan I n ferences. For more than two rs Senator Reed criticised Mr. 'vr. Senator Phelan defended the *?.od administration. I fe&a -L i ' - - Mit" i. k,. / > ?' ' v' * < VI " ' HE F T ~ JOSEPHUS DANIELS, JR. f / I 41 Josephus Daniels, Jr., son of the secretary of the navy, is serving his country in that branch of the national defenses of which his father is the head. ALL CAMPS NOW SELECTED CHARLOTTE IS OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED AS TRAINING CAMP. North and South Carolina and Tenenssee Troops Will Train at Greenville.?Other Assignments Are Made Public. Washington.?Charlotte, N. C., was chosen as a site for a national guard ' camp over Fayetteville, N. C.. "solely 1 on the ground of the accessibility of an enlarged and adequate water supply." according to a statement from the committee on public information. The statement said that Secretary , Baker expressed approval of the 1 hearty co-operation of the people of Fayetteville and their generous attitude, but pointed out a new water j supply would have to be tapped to supply the Fayetteville site, and this would take considerable time. In announcing the selection of Hat- j tiesburg. Miss., and Alexandria. La., as guard sites, the statement says: "This decision was delayed only by consideration of the splendid facilities ofTered at Jacksonville, Fla., which were highly rated by General Wood.! The Jacksonville site is one which has some peculiar advantages and will be considered by the department in connection with further plans." The Charlotte camp will get the fifth division, composed of Maine, Massa-, chusetts, Now Hampshire, Ilhode Is- , land and Connecticut troops, thirty 1 thousand men In all. In addition, there will be an avia-' tlon camp with 2.500 men and 1.200 ' j aeroplanes. Twelve thousand horses I is another item in the Charlotte camp. Conservative estimates place the monthly payroll at $1,225,000. The more enthusiastic say $1,500,000. Encampment affairs are now about ' concluded. North Carolina troops will go to Greenville, along with those of South Carolina and Tennessee, constituting the ninth division. The tenth division, composed of Aalabama, Georgia and Florida will ^ go to Macon. The sixteenth, Ohio, West Virginia. Indiana and Kentucky, will go to ; Augusta. Til A aiirlltli Von, I" n.l ' ? uu iicn uoi y i wriiUViU | Maryland. District of Columbia and Virginia, goes to Spartanburg. The eighteenth. Arkansas. Louisiana and Mississippi, goes to Montgomery. STEEL TO BE AVAILABLE AT REASONABLE COSTS. New York.?Conferences between government and officials and representatives of the steel industry concerning the nation's Rteel requirements during the war and prices to be paid by the government ended in an understanding announced by Secretary Bakor that the country's entire steel output will be made available at reasonable costs to be determined after completion of the steel investigation now being made by the trade commission. v*v ORT ; FORT MILL, S. C., THUR 8ETHHIAHH HQLttEG REIIRESFROM POST POLITICAL TURMOIL CULMINATES IN RESIGNATION OF THE CHANCELLOR. GEORGE MICHAELIS SUCCEEDS Chancellor's Resignation Came Unexpectedly.?His Retirement Seems to Have Been Forced by the Crown Prince?May Affect War London.?(British Admiralty per Wireless Press).?Dr. von BethmannHollweg, the German Imperial chancellor has resigned. Dr. Georg Mid., '-'is. Prussian under secretary of liuunce, and food commissioner has been appointed to succeed Dr. von Betlimann-liollweg. The message relnting to the resignation of the imperial German Chancellor was circulated through the wire- . 'ess stations by the German govern- . ment and was received bv the British' admiralty. It says also that the em- j peror lias accepted the resignation of i ^ I)r. von Betlimann-Hollweg and named Dr. Michaelis to succeed him. The political turmoil which has been convulsing Germany ever since j I Russia's f.rst startling success on the | resumption of her offensive, has culminated for the present in the resignation of the imperial chancellor. Dr. < von nethmann-Hollweg, but all indications serve to show that his resignation. .far from being the last act in the drama, is but the beginning of farreaching developments which are bound to affect the fabric of the Ger- { man empire and have momentous consequences on the progress of the European struggle. The resignation of the chancellor came in the end quite unexpectedly, for Dr. von eBthmann-Hollweg, in the prolonged nartv discussions and i heated debates of the main committees < of the relchstag. which have been pro- t ceeding all through the week, seemed i to have triumphed over his oppon- t ents, who have been clamoring for his head, by making concessions which c were tantamount to the formation of t a kind of imperial coalition ministry. I NAMES OF HEROES OF FORMER ? WARS GltfEN TO CAMPS I Washington.?Names of American 1 military heroes of past wars, includ- 1 ing several Confederate leaders, have 1 been given by the war department to c the thirty-two cantonments in which the national army and the national J gaurd will be mobilized for training. : In announcing the designations, the | J ueparimeiu revealed that the subject 1 has beon Riven consideration by a board of officers headed by Brigadier General Kutan, chief of the war college division, and the selections were governed by a carefully prepared polIvy. In each case the name selected is that of a man from the section represented by the troops concerned,, but not unpopular In tho vicinity of the camp. Short names were chosen for convenience, names like Washington and Lincoln were omitted because of the temporary nature of the camps and other names were avoided because they are duplicated by prominent men now living. In part the names chosen follow: For National Guards: Camp Greene, Charlotte. ,N. C., after General Nathaniel Greene, of the continental army, a native of Rhode Island. Camp Wadaworth, .Spartanburg. S. C? after Brlgadied General J. S. Wadaworth. .U. S. V.. born in New ! York. * Camp Sevier. .Greenville, ,S. C... after Brigadier General John Sevier. IT. ' S. A. member of congress from North Carolina and first governor of Tennessee. For National Army. Camp Jackson. Columbia. S. C.. after Major General Andrew Jackson. U. S. A., horn In North Carolina and chosen president from Tennessee. Camp Gordon. Atlnnta. after Lientenant General J. B. Gordon, C. 3. A., a governor of Georgia. 80LDIER TOOK HIS BRIDE TO FRANCE I An Atlantic Port.?"Somewhere in . France" Is a sergeant in the American { m my who was married Just before | ? he left the United States and ventured t to take his bride with him on the 1 transport which carried his regiment 1 overseas. She was with him as a sol- > dier, dressed in regulation khaki and < with her hair cut short. The, young ' woman has returned from France, her ' efforts to pose as a '"Sammy" having < failed * Mill SDAY, JULY 19, 1917. GUNNER CLANCY Gunner Clancy Is the Texan who Irst carried the Stars and Stripes into iction on the French front. The flag vas tied to his bayonet when he iharged with a Canadian regiment at nmy ridge on April 9. Clancy was vounded several times. , PRESIDENT ISSUES APPEAL /ALLS FOR PATRIOTISM OF BUSINESS MEN OF THE COUNTRY. Jut Promises Just Prices Will Be Paid For All Supplies.?Asks Business , Interests to Give as Freely as Those I Who Offer Lives. wasmngion.?rresiaont Wilson ap?ealed to the country's business Inter(sts to put aside every selfish consideration and to give their aid to the mtlon as freely as thoso who ro out o offer their lives on the battlefield. In a statement, addressed to the :oal operat >rs and manufacturers, he I cave assurances that Just prices will )e paid by the government and the I uiblic during the war but warned .hat no attempt to extort unusual irofits will be tolerated. "Your patriotism," said the Presl- [ lent'8 appeal, "is of the same self-dolylng stuff as the patriotism o fthe nen dead and maimed on the fields 1 >f France, or It Is no patriotism at all. | L^ot us never spea. then, of profits ; ind patriotism In tse same sentence. "I shall expect every man who is ' lot a slacker to be at my side hrougliout the great enterprise. In j t no man can win honor who thinks 1 >f himself." The President declared there must ie but one price for tho eovornment ind for the public. He expressed :onfldenee that business generally will j ie found loyal to the last degree, and hat the problem of war time prices. ! which he declared will "mean victory ' >r defeat." will he solved rightly j through patriotic co-operatlrn. In unmeasured terms. Mr Wilson :ondemned the shipowners of the 1 ountry for maintaining a schedule >f ocean freight rr.tes which has >laced "almost insurperable obstacles" n the path of the government. "The act is." he asserted, "that those who lave fixed war freight rates have aken the most effective means in heir power to defeat the armies en- j taged against Germany." Coal proluction and other industries for vhose products the government has 1 legotiated price agreements are not aken up In detail hv the President. J REVISED CENSUS ESTIMATE BASIS FOR APPORTIONMENT Washington.?Postponement of the ; Irawing of numbers of men who will ie called for examination for the na- ' ii/ii<ii 11 lull "ii? iiinui; wuiMi 11 utJl'OIlie evident that states are not completng organizations of their district exemption hoards as rapidly as war de- | ^artment officials lead hoped. Only wenty-one states have reported their organization complete, althougli in most of the otliers only a few are missing. The drawing will noi be made until the listsfor the country 1 ire complete. A so-called revised census estimate 'or the entire country compiled on he basis of the draft registration will >e used for determining apportion- j ments. Each city, county and state ! must furnish two-thirds of one per [ "ent of its paper population, accord- I ng to the new estimates, which were 1 nade for the purpose ofeqi.alizing the Iraft rather than to represent accurate population totals. I * Tim FORMAL ORDER TO" DRAFT MEN IN ARMY PRESIDENT ISSUES ORDER PROMULGATED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT. CALL 687,000 FOR SERVICE State Apportionments Are Announced. Regular Army and National Guard to Be Filed Up. Credit for Enlistments. Washington.?A formal order by President Wilson drafting 687.000 men into the military service under the selective conscription law. was promulgated by the war department together with an afYicial a llotmont slio-ving what part of the total must be furnished by each state and territory. Yhe only steps now remaining are distribution by the governors of state quotas among the local exemption dis- I irirts and the great lottery, which probably will bo held next week in which registrants are to present themselves for service or exemption. The men summoned for service will he used to fill the regular army and national guard to war strength and to organize the first 500,000 of the ' new national army. The total of these three forces will be 1.262,985 men. L.nter another 500.000 will be called out. In computing the number of men to be required from the various states, the government put to the credit of i each state every man it now has in the national guard and every man it has contributed since April 1 as a war volunteer to the regular army. Apportionment Basis. Placing on the debit side of t*he lodged the national army 500,000, hte entire national guard at war strength and the number of war volunteers needed April 1. last, to bring the regu- I lars up to war strength, the grand total was aportioned according to population. This gave a gross quota for och state, from which a net quota was computed by checking off the ; timber of national guardsmen available for federal service and the num- I ber of men given by the state to the regular army since April 1. The apportionment was made on the basis of an estimated grand total for the United States and its possessions, of 105,306.050 inhabitants. This is a paper j estimate, computed from registration returns, which comes within the law requiring distribution of quotas by population, but which equalizes in a great measure the burden that is to [fall upon the 4.559 exemption dls- i tricts. Each will furnish under this apportionment the men its total regirtation would Indicate as a fair proportion. rather than the actual population in the district would indicate, j The total of these gross quotas Is I 1,152.985 men. Credit is given to the various states for a total of 465.985 voluntary enlistments in the national 1 guard and regulars, making the total ' net quota for all states 687.000. South's Quota. Following are the net and gross quotas for tlie Southern States: State. Net. Gross. Florida 6.225 10.129 Georgia 18.227 27.209 Kentucky 14.226 22,152 Louisiana 12.582 18.4S1 Mississippi 10.801 16.429 1 North Carolina 15.074 23.480 South Carolina 10.081 15.147 Tennessee 14.528 22,152 Texas 30.545 48.110 Virginia 13,795 21.354 SWEEPING PLANS FOR BUILDING MERCHANT FLEET Wooden and Steel Ships Will Be Built. Washington.?Major General Goethals. manager of the shipping hoard's emergency fleet corporation, took full charge of the government's shipbuilding program and announced sweeping I plans for constructing the great mor- 1 chant fleet with which the United States hopes to defeat the German submarine campaign. CHANG HSUN IS NOW REFUGEE SEEKING SAFETY Washington.?Chinos* legation dispatches from Poking said that quiet tied boon restored in the capital after a battle In which . the monarchist troops of General Chang Hsun were j overwhelmed by republican forces. | The republican victory was com- j plete the dispatch said the last con- : tiugents of Chang Hflun's men having j been forced to surrender. The mou- i at.'hist general, himself was reported 1 a refuge* in the Dutch legation. . ES S1.25 Per Year. TnRAnnn markftT war>>WWW till II W OPEN FOR SEASON SALES BREAK RECORDS IN 8EVERAL TOWNS IN THE STATE. RECEIVE VERY GOOD PRICES Growers Are Well Pleased With turns.?Yields Are Promising In Most Sections. Columbia.?Last week many of the tobacco markets were opened In the sections of tho state in which the "weed" is grown commercially and without exception the prices received by the growers seetn to have been satisfactroy. A number of the towns report that the opening business has been above the average, with most of the big tobacco concerns of the country represented by buyers, all apparently eager to secure as big amount of the offerings as possible. The prices the growers were able to secure for their product this year wero con sldernbly ahead of tlie prices of the last few years. The average price seems to have been in excess of 15c por pound. The lowest average price paid for tobacco in the last eight years was for the lOO't crop, which sold for 8.35 cents, while the highest average price secured in those years was for the 1016 crop, which brought 14.11 cents per pound. The best of the crop is not ready for market for some time subsequent to the first day's sales, eo the prices paid were generally for en inferior quality. It is thought that the average for the season will be considerably more than 15 cents. Pharmacists Meet at Greenwood. Greenwood ? The South Carolina druggists were formally welcomed to Greenwood in the Knights of Pythiaa hall by Dr. Samuel C. Hodges, who dorlftrnil ft a nrlvllofra ntlilcK lxo/1 nowa* before been possible In that this was the first time that the pharmaceutical association had held a session In Greenwood. He hoped, he said, "that this would be one of the ports of entry and a constant i>olnt at which they would stop in the future." Dr. F M. HUorbee of Jonesvllle made & happy response. The regular business session then began, at which many short talks and reports were made. Following these the annual address was made by the president. Dr. J. M. Oliver, of Orangeburg. Dr. T. P. Young, chairman of the executive board, in his report said that In the past year 59 had stood the state examination. 30 passing and 29 falling. Tie also stated that a new law had heen passed, that a man in order to become a licensed state pharmacist must be a graduate of a reputable college of pharmacy. This law. however, will not go Into effect until July 1. 1911 The South Carolina Association has a total membership of 343. The association has recently be come a member of the national association. being the 40th state to join. All the visitors wore given an auio ride around the city. At 8:30 a delightful banquet was given the pharmacists at the Klks" home by the Rfd Cross society of the city Those passing the state examination held here: C.ilberf Campbell, of Helton; M. R. Judy, of St. Oeorge; Fl. C Hess. Jr.. of Charleston; J. M. Chestnut. of Clinton. N. C.; W. T. Andrews of Fairmont; II. C. Cllnckscales, of Helton, and two negroes, J. M. Smoot of Cheraw and T. R. Catling of Fdeoton, N. C. Names of New Dentists. Bennettsville.? Dr. R. I,. Speneer. secretary c?f the state board of dental examiners, announces that at a meeting of the hoard in Columbia June 2629. the following named dentists passed a satisfactory examination; O. II. Dunlap. Madison. (la.; R. P. Hudson. Helton; I). H. Lancaster, Barnwell; R. T; Douglas. Wlnnshoro; James S. Belk. Williamston; M. Rich. Blackvllle; A. J. Zuehlke, Port Royal; I,. VV. Fort, Oaffney. and J. Edens, Clearwater, rw. Big Potato Crop*. Florence- Tho chamber of commerce has Just completed tho compilation of statistic* on this spring's -* potato crop at Florence. The mono? brought into the community by the sales was. in round figures. $35,000. The potato crop was the result of the efforts of tho chamber of commorce to get tho planters busy on some new crop. Tt is a good score for that organization becuase there was opposition to the venture at. the time and aeed were unusually high. Th potatos sold for from $7 to $11 a barrel for flrata.