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Established in 1891.
WINTER NOT TO STOP
IMF IN Fl UNflFRS
v<ll w III hil IK WlBllW
WASHINGTON EXPERTS DO NOT
EXPECT COLD TO STOP
OPERATIONS.
ENEMIES TO GET NO REST
Weekly Review of War Operations
?Allies Have Men and Material to
Overcome Natural Obstacles?U. 8.
* Troops Take Part i nBattle.
Washington.?Military experts here
?io not expect winter to halt the great
allied drive against the Germans in
Flanders. Secretary Maker's weekly
review oC war operations discloses the
belief of the wur department that potency
of material and men will enable
the British and French commanders
to triumph over natural obstacles and
continue forcing the enemy backward
without waiting for spring.
The review touches for the lirst lime
upon the American expeditionary
forces in France, declaring the men,
liter three months intensive training,
are in efficient fighting trim and splendid
physical condition.
In dwelling upon the importance of
the bottle of Flanders and its effect
upon the morale of the Germans, the
war secretary declares it upparent that
the German high command planned ;
the recent expedition against the Itus- '
sians in the ltiga sector in order to
bolster up morale and meet impend- |
ing internal difficulties. By extending
her linee in the east, he adds. Germany
has merely added to the length j
of her line of communications and 1
increased confidence in the final allied
victory.
The review covering Lhp urnnk ??nrl.
lug October 20. follows:
"Our men in Krauce, ufler three !
months Intensive training are in splendid
physical condition and efficient
fighting trim. They have readily be- ,
come acclimatized and now feel at
home in the war zone.
"Our troops have met with the most
warm-hearted and enthusiastic reception
on the part of the armies and
people of France.
"The health of our men overseas
is reported as excellent.
"The week Just closed has been one
of relative quiet on all fronts.
Bad Weather Prevails.
"Bad weather already prevails along
?ho western front, wintry conditions ;
will soon set in and the terrin will :
uuuuuio uiv;ivuniii^iy UlllK Ull lUr itl* ,
tacking troops. Nevertheless, the potency
of allied material and men, the |
accumulation of the technical means
of combat, ai.d the preparations which
Itavo been going on for many months
will make it possible for the Hritish
and French commanders to triumph
over natural obstacles, and with few
short intervals we may expect the offensive
to press forward
"It is not anticipated that the allies
will go into winter* quarters this year.
"Tho full importance of the battle
in Flanders is beginning to be revealed.
In order to appreciate the real
significance of this engagement and
tho effect it has had on the morale of
the German army and the Germun people,
we must consider briefly the
German attacks in the Ftlga sector, in
eluding the capture of Oesel, Dago.
and othor minor islands of the Fin
nlsh gulf.
"While no attempt should be made
to belittle the importance of the positions
gained by the onemy, we cannot
fail to record that it is apparent
that the Germans undertook this expedition
with a view to l>olstering up
the morale of the country, more particularly
in order t?? be able to meot
the impending in err.al difficulties
which threaten to culminate in a re
newed cabinet crisis in the near fu
ture.
Anything for a Victory.
"The German higher command lias
Invariably picked out a weakened objective,
in order to bb able to record
a success which shculd be of political
rather than military value. The asl
and* of the Finnish coast in the hand
of the enomy in no way offset the recent
allied vlctoriej In Flanders.
TO PROSECUTE V'AR
UNTIL VICTORY IS ACHIEVED
I/inrlon ?Prnmlnr 11^"/! ^? 1
? - II unli ke HIIU
the chancellor of the exchequer, Andrew
Bonar Law. were the principal
speakers at an imposing demonstration
in Albert hall to inaugurate thi
autumn campaign for national economy.
The premier declared that the
magnitude of the enthusiasm gather
Ing in the fourth year of the war was
the beat proof of the determination of
thia country to prosecute'the war until
victory was achieved.
Will Not Buy Mexican Silver.
Washington. ? Negotiations under
which this government had agreed to
purchase 6,000.000 Mexican silver pesos
from the Mexican government, to
be melted and coined into subsidiary
silver, were declared off. Mexican
representatives were understood to
havp signified their acquiescence in
the-arrangement, but acting under in
struclions from Mexico City, they presented
new phases, which resulted in
the withdrawal by the United States
of its offer. The necessity for such 11
purchase has passed.
I
The
' "' "'tBIG. GEN; 1ERVEY !
. ^;T' ; Mp^H^L^MlK \?ZwCr
~11l?i"lTUH??^ ;
Brigadier General Jervey, now sta- j
tioned at Charlotte, N. C., is in command
of the field artillery of the
Forty-first division.
AT BAY IN THE !Y!S0N SOUND
i
CORDON OF GERMAN WARCRAFT
BARS EGRESS TO GULFS OF
FINLAND AND RIGA.
One Russian Battleship of the Old |
Type Is Sent Down and Several :
Others Are Damaged by the Superior
Ships and German Guns.
Apparently contingents of the Russian
fleet?In all about 20 warships of
variouH classes?are bottled up in
Moon sound, with u cordon of German
warcraft barring their egress north
ward bark into the Gulf of Finland or 1
to the south into the Gulf of Riga.
Grave, but outclassed by reason of \
superior gun range and heavy ton- I
nuge. the Russians guve battle to the
Germans and attempted to force buck
the enemy armada off Oesel Island.
Standing far outaido tlio shell zone of
the Russians, howover, the Runs of
the German dreadnoughts sank the
battleship Slava?a relic of the days
before the Russo-Japanese war?and
so badly damaged other units that the '
Russian flotilla was forced to seek re- I
fuge in Moon sound?lying between
Moon island and the Esteohnla coast. '
Immediately seeing their advantage
the Germans, according to the latest
German official communication began
intonsive operations against Moon island,
hammering its eastern shore batteries
until they were silenced and also
attacking the Russian guns on the
mainland, putting them out of action.
Moon island was captured and the
Russians took refuge inside Moon'
sound.
Thereupon the Germans threw warships
to the eastern part of Kassar
buy, lying to the north of Moon Island,
apparently closing the passage to
the south in the Gulf of Riga.
Already the Germans have attempted
to attack from the north into Moon
sound, but the Russian guns have held
iiirun um K niirmsiuny. Among uie i
German warships attacking the old
line vessels of the Russiun fleet were
at least two dreadnoughts of the Grosser
Kurfuerst type?vessels displacing
5.000 tons, as against 13.516 tons for
the Slava. A majority of the crew of
the Slava was saved by Russian torpedo
boats when the vessel took its
llnal plung.
CONSPIRACY TO DEFEAT
LOAN TO BE INVESTIGATED
McAdoo Aroused to Activities bv
Pro-German Workers.
Washington.?The government set in
motion the machinery to apprehend
and punish pro-German workers who
have started nn orKanized campaign in
more than a dozen states to defoat the
liberty loan.
By telegraph from Salt Lake City
Secretary McAdoo authorized the issuance
of a statement here calling upon
all hanks upon which German I
pressure lias been brought to bear in
nn effort to induce them not to aid the
loan to report the circumstances to
him and promising to prosecute to
the limit of tho law the "disloyal and
trnitorous persons" making such attempts
at intimidation.
HOOVER GIVES NOTICE THAT
"CORNER HAS BEEN TURNED"
Washington. ? Food Administrator
Hoover gave notice to the public that
"tho corner has been turned" In high
food pric es and that most of the essential
commodities should continue to.
show reductions between now and the
end of the year. At the same time he
pointed out that retail! prices are not
going down in accord with wholesale
reductions, and intlmiated that the consumer
himself might correct this by
bringing proper pressure to bear.
UNION MEMORIAL AT
VICKSBURG DEDICATED
Vicksburg, Miss. ? The dedication
of the union naval memo- i
rial at the national military park was j
the principal feature of the program |
of the national memorial reunion here j
of the blue and gray. Congressman ;
Venable, of Mississippi, represent!>ig j
Secretary of tho Navj Daniels, made '
the preser.tatalon address and Capt. '
W. F. Rlgby, secretary of the park I
commission, accepted the memorial. :
The memorial ic a granite shaft 126 j
feet high.
iMiiaft??
For
1 ? ?
FORT MILL
ZEPPELINS MOT
DOWN IN FRANCE
FOUR CAPTURED WERE RETURNING
FROM A BOMBING RAID
OVER ENGLAND.
AIRMEN BURIED UNDER GRAFT
Airplane'* Superiority Over Dirigible
Is Again Proclaimed by French?No
Bombs Were Dropped by Raiders in
France.
Paris.?Although aba first it was bellevced
that the visit of the Zeppelin
fleet to France was an independent
raid and the first step toward carrying
out the threat tmade in a German wireless
message which said it had been
decided to destroy Paris in reprisal for
French air raids on German towns, it
now is generally believed that these
eight Zeppelins, four of which were destroyd
or captured, wre returning from
nglui.d and had lost their bearings
owing to fog and probably had lost
touch with.their wireless communications.
The log book of the Zeppelin which
landed Intact shows that she had been
to England and prisoners from three
other airships confirm this. One of the
men captured said it was the lack of
gasoline that forced his Zeppelin to
descend. The raid is widely proclaimed
by French observers as being definite
proof of the superiority of the
airplanes over the Zeppelin. The day of
Zeppelin for bombardment one expert
Haid. is over. The sudden resumption
of tho use of the German dirigibles is
explained by the theory that the raiding
Zeppelins belonged to a new type
which lately had been reported to be
in the course of construction at Lake
Constance.
Of the four Zeppelins lost, two were
destroyed and two were forced to descend.
The two disabled arlships, undo
rattack by aviators and anti-air
defense posts, descended in the Saone
valley and were forced to land in the
neighborhood of Sisteron, in BassosAlpes.
The crews, after setting Are
to the airships, attempted to flee, but
were taken prisoners.
London.?Reuter's correspondent at
British headquarters in France telegraphs
that the four Zeppelins brought
down in France were airships that had
taken part in the raid on England.
It is believed, adds the correspondent,
that the fifth Zeppelin was destroyed
at Bourbone les Bains. (This
probably refers to the Zeppelin
brought down at Rambervillers, near
the Alsatian border).
"There were 11 Zeppelins In the
original group that appeared over
French territory. Rooter's correspondent
telegraphed later, and they scattered
over various parts of the country
whn attacked after a general warning
was sent out. They dropped no
bombs in France.
SENATOR HUSTINGS DIES
FROM ACCIDENTAL SHOT
Accident Occurred While Brothers
Were in Boat at Rush Lake,
Wisconsin, Duck Hunting.
Milwaukee, Wis.?United ' States
Senator Paul O. Hunting, of Wisconsin.
died at a farm house near Rush
Lake, Wis., as the result of wounds
accidentally inflicted upon him with
a shotgun by his brother, Gustave,
while hunting ducks.
Senator Hunting recently returned
to hie home at Mayville after tho
close of the extra session of Congress,
where he was one of the leading sup
porters of the administrations war
program.
With his brother he had gone on a
hunting expedition to Rush Lake and
the two were in a boat when the acrldent
occurred. He had sighted a
flock of ducks and called for his
brother to fire and at the dlscharga
of the shotgun he rone slightly, receiving
the full charge of the R?n in
his hues*. He was rushed to the farm
house, where all efforts to save his
life were unavailing.
PAMPHLET OF PRES1DENT8
FLAG DAY SPEECH PRINTED
i>a9iHii(jiuii. ? r icsiiieui wnson s
flag day nddress, with annotations
developing and explaining the President's
references to Germany's worldwide
intrigue, the lust of the Teutonic
military caste for conquest and its
plans for throwing a belt of power
across Europe into Asia, and the helplessness
of the German people themselves,
has been Issued In a pamphlet
form by the committee on public
Information.
RUSSIAN PEACE PLAN
OUTLINED BY COMMITTEE
Petrograd.?The Russian peace pro
gram. as drawn up by the central executive
committee of tho council of
workmen's and soldiers' delegates In
the form of Instructions to M Skoheleff.
ex-minister of labor. Its delegate
to the Paris conference, consists of Ifi
articles covering the hole ground
from Panama to Persia. Article XI
demands the "neutralisation" of the
Panama canal and Article IX calls for
tho restitution of German colonies.
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? S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOR]
I HAROLD BRADDOCK.
?p^
Harold Braddock, vice president ol
'the American City Bureau, and an expert
organixer of chambers of commerce,
is director of the $1,000,00C
campaign for war libraries in every
cantonment and training camp in the
United States.
! SHOTS DAMAGE U. S. 80AI
i
i .
.AMERICAN TORPEDOBOAT DE
STROYER ATTACKED SOMEWHERE
IN WAR ZONE.
nitnougn rviiiiions of Miles Have Been
Covered This la First American
Warship to Be Damaged.?Expect
Naval Battle in Baltic.
I Although American torpedobout de
stroyers have covered nearly a million
miles since the United States entered
the war, crossing the ocean, convoy
Ing vessels and chasing submarines,
only recently has a German suhmar
ine succeeded in damaging one oi
them.
The attack occurred somewhere
within the war zone, but, though the
destroyer was badly damaged, she wa<i
able to make port. One man. a gun
ner's mate, was killed, being blown
into the sea by the force of the ex
plosion of the torpedo. Five other
men were wounded.
The Germans are entirely in pos
session of the island of Oesel. at the
head of the Gulf of Riga, and the
! Russian forces still there are cut oft
i from communication with Peteograd
j small naval engagements coutinue In
I adjacent waters. Pernau, an impor
jtant gulf port north of Riga and due
j oast of Oesel island, has been combed
j by German naval airships.
GERMAN AGENTS MAKING
EFFORT TO DEFEAT LOAN
Organized Propaganda In All Parts oi
the Country.
Washington.?Pro-German agents In
the United States, accordng to reports
to the treasury department, have directed
their energies toward defeating
the Liberty Loan. Their organized
propaganda has borne fruit, from Min
nesota to Texas, it is asserted, in scat
tered localities where weak efforts
I have been made not openly, but by inI
direct methods to discurage subscriptions.
Official recognition of the propa
ganda against the loan was voiced today
by Colonel Herebert M. Lord, representing
the war department, at the
war risk insurance conference at
which the details of the new sailors'
and soldiers' insurance law are being
explained to offcers and enlisted men
from the various cantonments.
"Tncre nas been an organized effort,"
said Colonel I^ord, who was
chairman of the meeting, "to discourage
and defeat the loan."
This effort he added, has been made
by "seeking to misrepresent the patriotism
of the new national army."
An offlcal account of the proceedings
of the conference, which was behind
closed doors, issued by the treasury
department, reads as follows:
"In convincing refutation of the
slander, which was to the effect that
line men or me new muolnal army opposed
the war. Colonel Lord announced
that subscriptions from the army for
I the loan already aggregate $26 000.000
and that some cf the subscriptions
were written In foreign languages.
"The announcement caused great
!enthusiasm among the delegates from
the army and navy, marine corps and
ieoast guard (attending the conference*
500 of whom swarmed up to the platform
following the address and signed
war insurance applications, all of
t which, except forty, were for the maxllmum
of $10,000."
I
TWO KILLED IN FATAL
WRECK AT SPARTANBURG
Spartanburg. S. C.?In a wreck here
, on the Piedmont & Northern, an elec;
trie Int srurban line, two persons are
known tc have been killed and 1G
I known to have been injured.
The dead are: Corporal Arthur C.
Wright. Bnttery 13. Third Field ArtilLry.
Buffalo. N. Y.
W. Jesse Edwards. Cavins, 8. C., a
skilled lnborer employed at Camp
Wadsworth.
LL T
SR 26, 1917
TRANSPORT IS SUNK
RTGERMANTORPEDO
PROBABLY SEVENTY LIVES LOST
WHEN AMERICAN TRANSPORT
IS TORPEDOED.
SHIP WAS HOMEWARD BOUND
Number of Survivors Is 167?First
Tragedy of the Sea in Which American
Ship Engaged in War Duty
Has Been Lost.
Washington.?The American urniy
transport Antilles, homeward bound
under convoy, was torpedoed and
sunk by a German submarine in the
war zone. About 70 men are missing
and probably lost.
All the army and navy officers
aboard and the ship's master were
, among the 167 survivors. T^he miss
ling are members of the crew, three
' | civilian engineers, some enlisted men
"| of the navy, and 16 of 33 soldiers re
11 turning home for various reasons.
' Neither the submarine nor the torj
pedo was seen and tho transport, hit
I squarely amidships, sank In live mln"
j utes.
The tragedy of the sea. the first in
which an American ship engaged in
war duty has been lost, is the first of
its magnitude to bring home to the
people of the Vnited States the rigors
or' the war in which they have engaged
against Germany. It carries
tho largest casualty list of the war.
so far. of American lives, and marks
the first success of a German submarine
attacks on American transports.
1 That the loss of life was not great
1 er is due to the safeguards with
: which the navy has surrounded tin
transport service, and the quick rescue
work of the convoying warships.
Secretary Daniels announced the
, disaster in a statement based upon a
I brief dispatch from Vice Admiral
. Sims which gave few details and did
not say whether It was a day or night
. attack. An accurate list of the miss
ing cannot ho issued until General
Pershing reports the names of the
army men on the vessel und the list
of the merchant crew.
Secretary Daniels authorized the
following announcement of the Antilles
disaster:
"The department is in receipt of a
. dispatch from Vice Admiral Sims
which states that the S. S. Antilles,
an army transport, was torpedoed on
( October 17 while returning to this
country from foreign service. This
, vessel was under convoy of American
patrol vessels at the time.
"The torpedo which struck the Antilles
was not seen, nor was the sub,
marine which fired it. The torpedo
hit abreast of the engine room bulkhead,
and the ship sank within five
minutes. One hundred and sixtyseven
persons out of about two hunI
dred and thirtyy-seven on board the
| Antilles were saved About seventy
i I men are missing.
"All the naval officers and officers
i of the army who were on board the
ship at the time were saved, as were
. the officers of the ship, with the exception
of the following: Walker,
[ third engineer officer; Boyle, junior
. engineer officer, and O'Roujrke, junior
. engineer officer.
i "The following enlisted naval personnel
were lost: E. L. Kinzey, seaman
second class, next of kin, Thos.
' M. kinzey. father. Water Valley.
I Miss.; J. W. Hunt, seaman second
| class, next of kin, Isaac Hunt, father,
; Mountain Grove, Mo.. It. No. 2. Box
; 44; C. L. Ausburn, radio electrician
first class, next of kin, R. Ausburn,
brother, 2800 I^outsiana avenue, New
: Orleans, La , and H. F\ Watson, radio
electrician third class, next of kin.
Mrs. W. L. Seger, mother. Rutland.
, Mass.
t "There were about 33 of the army
enlisted personnel on board, of whom
j 17 were saved. The names of the
missing of the army enlisted person,
j nel and of the merchant crew of the
Jship cannot be given until the muster
roll in France of those on board has
been consulted. As soon as the deI
partment Is In receipt of further details
concerning the casuultlcH, they
, 1 will be made public immediately."
BIG PURCHASE OF SILVER
IS MADE FROM MEXICO
i
1 Washington.?Six million Mexican
' silver pesos have been bought by the
treasury department at 88 1-4 cents an
ounce, for minting ir.to half dollars,
dimes and quarters. The treasury acted
when faced with the necessity of
buying silver for coinage ata steadily
increasing prices, which at their
height brought the value of the metal
dangerously close to tho minted
value.
CONSPIRED TO DESTROY
SHIP AND IS ARRESTED
New York.?On a charge of conspiring
to place an explosive on a United
States converted transport, formerly a
German merchant liner, Charles W.
Walnum. believed to be a German, was
held without bail by a United States
commissioner for examination on October
24. Walnura claimed to be a
Norwegian and said he had taken out
his first naturalization papers in
this country. Me pleaded not guilty
and said he was not. a spy.
'IMES
FIVE CLASSIFICATIONS ""
INTO WHICH MEN TO BE
I DRAFTED WILL BE DIVIDED
.
| Shows Order In Which They
Will Be Called To Service.
Every Man Registered
Is Included.
Washington. The five classlfica|
tions into which men awaiting draft
. will be divided, under the new registrations.
approved by President Wilson.
have become public much before
the time planned by the provost marshal
general's office and are here published.
It was discovered that what was to
; have remained an official secret for
a week or more was divulged at a din;
ner in New York which Secretary
Baker and Provost Marshal General
.Crowder attended The pi*ovost marshal
general discussed the new reRUlations.
without intending to make
public the classification, but som"
members of n New York local exemption
hoard, thinking to elucidate the
general's speech, printed the classifli
cations on the hack of the menu card
| The classifications are us follows,
and show every man registered, to
which class he belongs and in what
order the depvndunt classifications
Will be called to service:
Class 1.
1 1 ?Single mnn without dependent
relatives.
2 ? Married man (or widower with
children) who habitually falls to support
his family.
3?Married man dependent on wife
for support.
4?Married man (or widower with
i children) not usefully engaged, family
j supported by income independent of
his labor.
5?Men not included in any other
description in this or other classes.
| 6?Unskilled laborer.
Class 2.
1 ?Married man or father of motherless
children, usefully engaged, but
J family lias sufficient income apart
from his daily labor to afford reason
ably adequate support during his absence.
2?Married man?no children?wife
can support herself decently and
without hardship.
3?Skilled farm laborer engaged In
necessary industrial enterprise.
4?Skillod industrial laborer engaged
in necessary agricultural enterprise.
Class 3.
1?Man with foster children dependent
on daily labor support.
> Mnn vL-tfh ncr.wl Inrt-m 1...
parents or grandparents dependent on
dally labor for support.
3?Man with brothers or sisters Incompetent
to support themselves, dependent
on daily labor for support.
4?County or municipal officer.
5?Firemen or policemen.
6?Necessary artificers or workmen
In arsenals, armories and navy yards.
7?Necessary custom house clerk.
8?Persons necessary in transmission
of mails.
9?Necessary employees In service
of United States.
10?Highly specialized administrative
experts.
11?Technical or mechanical experts
In industrial enterprise.
12 Highly specialized agricultural
expert in agricultural bureau of state
or nation.
13?Assistant or associate manager
of necessary Industrial enterprise.
14-?Assistant or associate manager
of necessary agilcnltural enterprise.
Class 4.
1?Married man with wife (and) or
children (or widower with children)
dependent on dally labor for support
mm in* UUICI l TTuniMUllMT aUCqilillC BU|>*
port avai'ahle.
! 2?Mariners in sea service of merchants
or citizens in United States,
i 3?Heads of necessary industrial
enterprises.
4?Meads of necessary agricultural
enterprises.
Class 5.
1 ? Officers of states or the Uniten
States.
.. ? rtoRularly or d iIt ordained ministers.
3?Students of divinity.
1 Persons In military or naval
service.
B?Aliens. |i
6?Alien enemies.
7?Persons morally unflt.
8?Persons physically, permanently
or mentally unfit.
9?Licensed pilots.
FLIES FROM HAMPTON
TO NEW YORK CITY
j Mlneola. N. Y.?Parrying eight pasI
soneers. Lieut. Sylvia Refloat! arrived
i at the government aviation field here
in his Capronl biplane, completing a
flight of about 325 miles from Hampton,
Va? In four hours 11 minutes.
BOB FITZSIMMONS DIES
AFTER FIVE DAYS* ILLNESS
Chicago?Robert Fitzsimmons. forme.r
champion heavyweight pugilist
of the world, died at a hospital here
after an Illness of five days of pneumonia.
The former champion became
111 while appearing in a vaudeville
Iheater, and his ailment was at first
diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning,
l^ater "it was discovered that he was
suffering from double (lobar) pneumonia
and physicians declared that
he could not live. |
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f$M
EXPERTS COMING 1
TO WADSWORTH I
BRITISH AND FRENCH WAR OFFI- B
CERS TO GIVE MILITARY B
TRAINING. B
WILL BEGIN THEIR WORK SOON 1
Expected That Regiments Will Be H
Strengthened by Recruits H
From Home. I
Spartanburg.?Special instructors H
from the French and British armies H
are to ronie to Camp Wadsworth to
assist in the work of training the
troops here. There will be ten of
these instructors in all. seven French
and three British, and they are expected
to enter upon their duties
about November 1.
General Philips stated that he had
recommended to the war department
that the five regiments in camp,
which had" been depleted in order to
fill up the four first line regiments to
war strength, be built up again from
the draft men. and that each regiment
lie recruited from men from its own
locality ho far as practicable. If this
plan is carried out, as it doubtless will
be, the city regiments will bo recruit
I'd with draft men from the city and
the upstate regiments will he Ailed
up with draft men from up-State. Tho
war department announced some time
ago that the regiments left out of theTwenty-seventh
Division In the reorganization
would retain' their old
regimental numbers and could in this
wpy preserve regimental history and
traditions.
The reorganization has delayed the
training work to some extent, but It
is expected that all the transfers will
be completed during the present week.
There is considerable Interest in
camp in the soldier's insurance law.
passed at the recent session of congress.
and a special committee, consisting
of Lieut. Tristam Tupper, One
Hundred and Second Engineers; Corporal
Thomas A. Robertson. Company
L. One Hundred and Seventh Infantry,
and Private Henry W. Balnea, Battery
F, One Hundred and Fifth Field Artillery.
all of whom are expert insurance
men, left for Washington, where they
will fnmillarize themselves with the
new law and the plans for putting it
into effect. Upon their return here an
active campaign will be started for insurance
in the camp.
Three Killed In Wreck.
Spartanburg.?The death at a local
hospital of Samuel F. Pearson, a civil
engineer, brought the death list of
the rear-end collision of thn lines of
the Piedmont & Northern Hallway up
to three. Pearson was crushed with
both legs broken in many places. Physicians
at the several hospitals say
others injured in the wreck will recover.
The coroner's Investigation of the
wreck was begun with Magistrate Kdwin
E. Corry presiding. Three juries
were summoned, one in each case of
death. Two of the juries returned
verdicts tonight finding the crew of
the first train responsible for the accident.
Tlio third jury, sitting in the
ease of Arthur P Wrlirht thn unhtinr
a corporal In Flattery D, One Hundred
and Sixth Field Artillery, placed no
responsibility in finding that his death
was due to a "collision between a
steam engine and an electric train on
the line of the Piedmont & Northern
Railway."
MaJ. Alien Surgen, in charge of tho
base hospital at Camp Wadsworth,
said today that all the Boldiers injured
in the wreck would recover and
that there will not be any loss of
limb.
Officials of the Piedmont & Northern
line are here attending the investigation,
but have as yet made no
statement. The members of the crew
of the first train on which the blame,
was placed by tho coroner's pries, are
being held under bail to appear before
the grand jury. Tho body of Corporal
Arthur C. Wright was sent to hU
hotue in Buffalo, N. Y., for burial.
Hog Back Artillery Range.
Spartanburg.?The Hog Back artillery
range of the Twenty-seventh Division,
now in training at Camp
Wadsworth, will embrace 16.756 acres
of land. 26 miles northeast of Spartanburg.
Options on this land, including
property of 135 different land owners
and extending to January 1. were ex
ecuted l>y the Spartanburg Chamber
of Commerce. After January 1 leases
win bo executed over a period of five
years or until the end of the war between
the United States and Germany.
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Work for Good Roads. I
Fort Mill?The committee appoint- I
ed by the Chamber of Commerce to I
take up the matter of Improving the fl
road leading to Hallos' Hrldgo has ,* I
been pushing the work In a splen^^Jk
manner. This road, which leaAjQl^^R
Pleasant Valley and other I
Lancaster county and Is also
a highway to Charlotte, is of conslHWlKafl
erable importance to Fort Mill and
tmfortunately true that during lnst^HB*S
winter at times the road was practi-^J^J
cally impassable and this torritcry
was cut off.