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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 <
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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.
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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.
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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.