Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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REVERSE WHERE NAVTB WEAKEST pun n fu- III RUfl n IETIEAT *4*i‘ * KUIADE IS EVAGDATEO l < ^,.1. r ( I ! Au^Hmi CSoTemment CwididJj Ad mits -Hurt Servius Have Regalaed Pumeeioo of Their Capital—Petro- grad Kays (Jernian Troops Are Maealng Towards West of Warsaw. Berlin reports Tuesday: “Tlie Qer- man column vhirh had advanced from Soldau, East Prussia, by way of Mlawa, In the direction of Clscha now, has had to reoccupy its old po sitions-owing to the numerical sufr RJerlorlty of the enemy.” Petrograd reports: “In the Mla^a region our action continues and ine success gained, by our troops has been maintained. "On the left bank of the Vistula large forces of the enemy are con centrating. In the area presence of new bodies of the enemy, which have just reached our front, has been dis closed. "Since the morning of December.14 there has been fierce fighting between Lowics, the Vistula and the left bank of the Itzura and both sides have been alternately on the offensive and de fensive. Our troops, however, have made some progress.” Vienna reports: “In the southern theatre of war tlte retirement of our right wing Involved a change in the military situation, whiclt made it ad visable for us to abandon lielgr&de. which was evacuated without fight ing." "The moving of strong hostile forces in the south necessitated the rearrangement of our llaikan army and the withdrawal of our right wing This simple proceeding has been represented as a decided Ser vian success Servian reports of o^r losses are immeasurably exaggerat ed." "Our offensive movement directed In a southeast* rly direction from the River Diina encountered southeast of . Valjevo a greatly superior force of the taemy "Our advance had not merely to . I*e stopped, but we were compelled wlao to make more extended retlre- A manta of our troops, wrhlch for many weeks have fought obstinately and brtHUuiUr, but with many losses “ Washing!im reports Vienna, offi cially, aaylng: "In West Galicia the battle continues, and over 10,000 •Russians were captured here. In Ser- vta our offensive advancing south of Belgrade captured 20 machine guns and numerous prisoners. On the w set am front at Oornl Mllanovac (36 ■lies southeast of Valjevl) Servians . are eerlstlng obstinately. “ Visa us reports officially: “Our of- feaaive la Western Galicia has com pelled the enemy to retreat and caus- > sd tils front in South Poland to quaver. Pur troops, advancing Inde- fatlgably from the south reached Jaalo and Rajbrot. In this advance and In the last battle we took 31,000 Ruaalau prisoners. Petrograd reports via London: “Oerman frontal attacks on the Rus sian line to the west of Warsaw un der cover of night were successfully repulsed by the Russians, according ko trustworthy Information peaching Petrograd from the front. At many points along the front the Russians „ tucceeded In capturing Isolated Ger man poaltlons "Oerman attacks were met by Rus sian counter attacks In which It Is aald several hundred prisoners and one field battery were captured by the Rims lac n During the jast three days of fighting eight machine guns, two batteries of field guns and 4.000 prisoners have been taken. Except for the night attacks of the Germans there has been little heavy fighting In Poland in the last 24 hours. "According to The Army Messen ger German attacks along the East Prussian front, which were conduct ed simultaneously with their offen sive in Poland, failed because of for mldable fortifications w hich the Rus- sans constructed in fields and forests paralleling the German lines.” Berlin reports officially by wire- “The position of the Germanic ties in Poland is generally consid ered favorable, an especially favor able point beii.g the fact that the Russians appear to have assumed the defensive everywhere without the power, or energy to assume an aggres ■ive advance In any section ” Paris reports offcially: “Between the sea and the Lys the English have occupied a little forest to the west of Wytschaete. The ground gained Mon day by our troops along the Ypres canal and to the west of Hollebeke has been retained In spite of a vig orous counter-attack on the part of the enemy. "From the Belgian frontier to the Somme there Is nothing to report. Rrom the Somme to the Argonne there has been intermittent cannon- ading. Excepting In the region of Crofip, this artillery fighting has not been spirited. In the Argonne we have made some progress and retain ed the advances made by us on pre- cedlng days. "In the Vosges the railroad station 1 pt St. Leonard, in the south of St. Die, haa been violently bombarded by the Germans from a considerable dis- tance. "In Alsace there has been much activity on the part of the enemy’s artillery with the exception of before Stein bach, where an attack by Ger man Infantrymen coming from Uff- holtx, was successful In gaining a foothold. We have everywhere re tained the poaltlons won previously by ua." Berlin reports offlctally: "The rtsnnti Monday made iruitleas attacks vnrtoOs joints. Their attacks on of Tprss fail- ADMIRAL FIS KB POINTS MOST I RGKNT NEEDS. OUT ,w »cy Says It Would Take Five Years to Bring it op to Highest Efflclenc; # .. . ' to Meet Hostile Fleet. • Five years would be reehlred to put the United States navy In the highest state of efllctedcy to meet a hostile fleet, according to a statement Thursday by Rear Admiral Fiske be fore the House naval committee. The Admiral, who Is chief of the bureau of operations, member of the general board and a former president of the naval Institute, said the naiy.was de ficient in air craft, mines, scout cruls- HAMPTON ON JAIL • MIDDI« >F ATTACKED IN Nipwr; fAS ACCUSED OF ASSAULT x , —-—, ; Negro’s Body Found In the Afternoon of Following Day—Lynching Party Worked in Secrecy and There is Little Information an to Where They Came From. era, torpedo boat destroyers, .subma rlnes and and in number of trained officers and men, and had no mine sweepers. Members of the committee were arttculariy interested In Admiral lake’s views as to the possibility of foreign air craft droppng bombs on American cities. He expressed the opinion that an attacking fleet might begin sending its airships on bomb dropping flights over New York from a range of 600 or 600 miles off the coast. One foreign navy, which was not named, the-Admiral said, was more efficient than the American fleet in gunnery. This, he declared, how ever, was so anijr.because the Ameri can marksmen bad not been given adequate opportunity for practice. In speaking of the “highest state oL efficiency'’ the officer explained that he had in mind the state of a certain unnamed power, whose officers and men have inbred the spirit of a mili tary nation. “I doubt if in five years we could get the navy up to a state of the highest efficiency,” he said. “That is to the offlclency that one of the na vlea of Europe now has. I have heard some officers say It was doubt ful if It were possible to bring it up to that efficiency.’’ The German raid on tl»e British coast was referred to several ‘times and the admiral suggested that if the British had had five or six fast sub marines in the vicinity of the attack ed ports the possibility of the bom bardment would have been reduced. The officer said no enemy could attack the Panama Canal so long as the American navy controlled the sea. With the fleet defeated, howev er, he thought there would be no security for this, “the most vulner able part of our possessions.” “Couldn't you mine there as well as anywhere else and protect the mouth of the Panama Canal?” he asked. “Yen ’’ “Could you prevent a hostile fleet from coming into the canal with the defences tnere now?" “I should say not." The fortifications alone, he ex plained. would not be sufficient “be cause a hostile fleet could land men a few miles away.” The admiral said the Knroi>ean war would bring changes that no one could prophesy, and that among the possibilities for an agreement be tween some of the foreign nations ‘to let one another alone" on certain cndltlons, which might involve the Integrity of the Canal Zone Representative Gardner of Manga chusetta. will bo the final witness in the naval hearings was Allen Seymour, who was accused of attempting to criminally assault a young white girl', was tajteh lrpm the Jail at Hampton Wednesday about 1 o’clock in the morning by a mob of probably 40 or 50 men, and lynched The bullet riddled body of the man was found lying almost across a by road leading from Hampton to ihe home of his alleged would-be victim about two miles from this place, by Sheriff Williams and his party of searchers, about 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. It Is supposed that the mob turned the negro loose and told him to run and then proceeded to shoot him down, literally riddling his body with bullets. None of the people living in the vicinity seems to know anything about the killing of the prisoner One-man stated to the sheriff that he heard shots In the direction of the place where the body was found, but this Is the only statement made by any one as yet concerning the killing. Acting Coroner Murdaugh and Dr. J. B. Harvey left Hampton aftermoti- flcatlon of the finding of the' body, for the purpose of holding an Inquest Seymour was at the time of the alleged attempted assault, and at the time of his arrest, In the employ of Gypsies travelling in that section. It was suggested that Instead of a lynch ing, the taking the prisoner from the jail might have keen a rescue by his friends, but this was rejected by the authorities as hardly probable, be cause It was known that at least one automobile was at the Jail at the time. —’ The fact that an attempted crimi nal assault was alleged to have been committed did not become generally known until Wednesday morsum, al though the affair that caused the ar rest of Seymour occurred last Thurs day within four miles of Hampton. The alleged would-be vietlra la 16 years old. the daughter of a white farmer. It seem*, from statements made IK INTERNED. (■erniaa (Yuliier “Tarns In” at Guam and Waits for Peace. Voluntary internment Monday of the German converted cruiser Cor morant and her twenty-two officers and 355 men. at Guam, an American Pacific insular possession, brought what promised to be troublesome questions involving observance of American, neutrality to a prompt ad justment. As soon as the navy department learned that the Cormorant had put into Guam, short of coal, food and water, there was an immediate dis cussion of the extent to which the warship could replenish her supplies, in view of Guam’s remoteness from any German port, the decision to in tern was expected, but Captain Max well, governor of the far-away naval station, was immediately instructed to obesrve strict neutrality in all his dealings with the German command' er. The Cormorant is a converted cruiser of 5,000 tons displacement She was acquired by Germany from Russia. It Is supposed the'ship has been employed by the Germans as a commerce-destroyer in the Pacific. ed with heavy losses to the enemy. A hostile attack in the region north east of Suippes was repulsed, as well as an attack north of Verdun, with heavy losses to the attackers. 1 “In the ueighborhood of Ailly and Apremont, south of St. Mlhlel, the French tried four times to storm our positions, but in vain. Brussels has decided to pay the last contribution, 'amounting to $27,000,000 by addi tional taxes to be leved until June !5, 1915. London reports that It would ap pear that the Allies, who now have a superiority in numbers as well as in artillery, have made some progress and have withstood vigorous counter attacks delivered by t.he Germans. The fact that the Allies are in pos session of Hollebeke, in Flanders, and that heavy fighting was going on again, shows that they have made an appreciable advance during the past two. days, as last week they were be ing attacked by Invaders two miles west of St. Eloy, on the Ypres-Ar- mentleres road. seem*, by relatives of the young lady, th*t Seymour wan in hiding in a pen near a house la the rear of the realdenca, which house the young lady had en tered; that he jumped up frum the pig pen and also started toward tha house, where the young lady was, when she saw him coming she ran. The man. it seems, followed her, running after her. when the screams of the girt attracted the attentlon-of her sister. Upon seeing that he had been ob served and that assistance would be given his alleged would-be victim. It Is said that Seymour ran off. Hfr was arrested by four white men. rel atives of the girl, and turned over to Deputy Sheriff Llghtsey and lodged in jail on a charge of attempted crim inal assauft. He made several statements to the ailer and to Deputy Llghtsey, the' most Important of which was an al leged confession that he was going after the girl, when he started to wards the house In which shdtwas He also made statements. It Is said, to the effect that his purpose in go ing to the house where the girl was visiting was to steal clothing. When the man was arrested he did not have any clothing except a shirt, he stat ing that his employers had taken his other clothing and that he was freez ing. At 1 o'clock Jailer J. P. Bewers was awakened by some one in his room who demanded the keys to the jail. Mr. Bowers struck a match to ascertain the identity of the person, and as the light flared up the intrud er saw the keys^on the bureau at the head of the bed of the jailer, and snatching them up, he rushed from the room, closed the door leading to the hall and warned the jailer not to open the door. SeyrWur was tak en by the mob from the second story of the jail and the keys left on a table in the hall of the Jail down stairs. Jailer Bowers states that as th$ crowd was leaving he opened his room door and saw at least 40 men. He heard an automobile start and leave. He did pot see whether or not the persons were masked, as it was very dark. He was shut up in his room and the door was guarded until the purpose for which the crowd came was accomplished. The sher iff, Capt. Ben 8. Williams, and his deputy, J. Herman Llghtsey, were notified of the taking of Seymour and they immediately *got busy. Wed nesday morning the , authorities searched the county for some tangi ble clue to the whereabouts of the prisoner and the Identity of his cap- tors. Their activities resulted In the finding of the body, but so far there seems to be no clue to aid in the ap prehension of the lyrlchers. The alleged attempted assault oc curred about sunset last Thursday, December 10? at Lawton’s, or Hall’s, mill,,about four miles from Hamp ton and two miles from Brunson, where the young girl was visiting relatives, her home being about four miles In the country, toward Crocket- vllle, fronf'that place. The camp of the Gypsies, for whom Seymour worked, was near the scene. The man stated to the jailer that his ASKS FOR DESTROYERS GOETHALA REQUESTS WARSHIPS FOR CANAL ZONE. Activity of Belligerent Warships and Colliers Around Isthmian Water- ‘ f V- ways Games Concern, Col. Georgs W. Goethals, governor of the canal zone, announced Sun day that hla request that two swift American torpedo boat destroyers be stationed at the entrance of the Pan ama canal was prompted by recent activity of belligerent warships and colliers in the vicinity of the Isth mian waterway.^ The action 6f the Australian col lier Mallina In Wvlng Balboa with otu clearance papers, and the fact that other colliers have shown a dis position to disregard canal zone ship ping laws, convinced Col. Goethals that decisive measures should be taken to preserve the neutrality of the canal. . ^ Neariy atl the" colliers in canal waters arrived without health certifi cates and in several instances sailed without clearance papers. It is pre sumed the steamers met and coaled the Australian and English fleet which concentrated recently In the vicinity of the Pearl Islands, sixty miles southeast of Panama City. Th«~ torpedo destroyers requested by the governor are expected to do patrol duty and overhaul belligerent craft attempting to disregard the canal regulations. Alleged violations of ' the canal shipping laws have, it is said, been the subject of complaint to Sir Claude C. Mallett, British minister to Pan ama, and also have resulted in orders that the fortifications prevent unneu tral colliers remaining In porW on the zone In disregard of the ordefs of canal anthoritles. In the case of the collier Mallina it is stated that she arrived without clearance papers or a health certifi cate and with no coal or supplies. She attempted to buy $3.0(10 worth of supplies, conaisting largely of arti cles intended for a Christmas dinner for a large force. She was refused the supplies and was ordefed to de part because she refused to state her destination, as required by the canal zone laws. The coflier Protesilaus is pointed to as as a similar case. It is slated that there has been much wireless interference in canal waters on the part of eight colliers, which recently were in the vicinity of (he canal and also by large warship fleets, reported to be within twenty- five miles of both ends of the canal. Col. Goethals' request for two tor pedo boat destroyers came as a sur prise to official at Washington, who had received no previous Intimation that neutrality was being violated In the vicinity of the canal. Secretary Daniels prepared to order destroyers from Charleston or from the weat coast of Mexico. ESCAPE BRITISH ADMIT RAWING BATTLE- . SHIPS GOT AWAY. i ■* FAST GlUISEKS ABEUSED NEWS FROM MEXICO DANIEIA-SENDS CRUISER TO BN-j FORCE NEUTRALITY LEWS. i- DIYKD UNIHCK MINES. BritMi Submarine* Sink Turkish flat- tlentiipH in MbwtatKA. The first serious blow Indicted on the Turkish nrvy in the European war—the torpedoing of the battle ship Messadch by a British subma rine In the Dardanelles—wan the only striking occurrence reported" Tuesday on land or sea. The official bureau's starement is follows: "Yesterday submarine D-11, in charge of Lieut. Cbm. Nor man B. Helbrook, of the royal navy, entered the Dardanelles in splto of the difficult current, dived under five row* of mines and torpedoed the Turkish Messudch. which was guard ing the mine fields. Although pur sued by gunfire and torpedo boats the IV! 1 returned safely after being submerged, on one occasion, for nine hours. ‘When last seen the Messudch was sinking by the stern ” The Messudch was a very old boat, having been built at Blackwell, Eng land, in 1874, and reconctrnctef at Genoa in 1903. She was 332 feet long, S'g feet beam and ef-about ten thousand tons burden. She had a speed of 17 1-2 knots and her main battery consisted of two 9.2-inch gwns in turrets and twelve 6-lnch guns in battery. In the war with Greece .In 1912 the Messudch was reported bad ly damaged In a naval battle In the Dardanelles. She carried a crew of 600 men._ ^ ♦ MEXICANS EXECUTED. Daily Executions Seem to he jail the Rage in Mexico City. Between 10,0 and 150 Mexicans, many of them once prominent offi cially, have been secr£*ly executed In the City of Mexico within the last few days, according to an official report which reached the United States gov ernment Tuesday from one of its agents there, i Just who ordered the executions, has not boen disclosed, nor are the names of any of those put to death known. t Except for these executions, which areTinderstood according to the re port, to be occurring dally, conditions in the city aro quiet and President Guiterrez, with the allied Villa and Zapata forces is maintaining order. No foreigners have been injured or intimater and ^business conditions are described as improving Killed by Burglar. — C. Bt Reynolds, one of Atlanta’s leading lawyers, was shot and killed early Tuesday moralfig by a burglar Twenty-five Una Are Lost The wreck of the Dutch steamer Boger, off tha Portage— shore, re sulted In the lo—of twenty-five Uvea. the Jail. Only Seymour was taken out. The cells and outer doors of the jalF were securely locked by the | mob after Seymour was removed. home was *t Ashton, la rnlia«oa|TWe 4s no ercKemenET and every- county, which la about twenty miles from Hampton. He was about 20 years old and weighed about 160 thing seems to be the same as usual both at the scene of the alleged at tempted aa—alt and at tha home of pounds. There were six prisoner* tn the wouW-be victim. / German Attack on Northeast Coast of England Gives People Great Sur prise—Over 100 People Killed— Scarborough, Whitby and Hartle pool Buildings Seriously Damaged. The German attack upon the coast of Northern England is the boldest yet attempted by the Germans. The German naval men showed exception al seamanship in getting by the guar dian British fleet, a feat which the fleets of Napoleon were unable to ac complish. It was surmlped that the Germans had felt their way across the North Sea during the darkness, with all the lights in their ships extinguished. The route giving them the most safe ty under the circumstances would be one, due north from the western en trance of the Kiel Canal, past Den mark to a point off the southern coast of Norway, thence a straight away dash westward to the English coast. The carrying out of the long ex pected German attack was the first time that the British coast had been attacked since the American Revo lution, when John Paul Jones con ducted successful forays into Eng lish waters. Hartlepool lies in Durham, be tween 220 and 225 miles north of London, just north of the mouth of the River Tess. Scarborough lies in Yorkshire, about 45 miles down the coast in a southeasterly direction from Hartlepool. The point of attack lies approxi mately 400 miles from the Kiel Canal, where the German fleet was' concentrated at the outbreak of the war. It was necessary for the Ger man ships to steam clear acraes the North Sea. passing through mine fields and evading the powerful Brit ish patrol fleets all the way down the east const of England. A dispatch from York says that the residents of Scarborot^gh were thrown into panic by the bombard- meat. hundreds of them rushing to the railway station, where they crowded aboard trains just leaving for Hull and other cities. This tele gram said that the cannonade began at 7:5< o'clock. The morning was hazy, but despite the fog. the Ger man gunners had no difficulty in lo cating their ranges Loadon reports: Hartlepool suf fered' most There two battle cruis ers aad an armored cruiser were en gaged The British war office fixes the number of dead at Hartlepool as ■even soldiers and twenty-two civil ians and the wounded at fourteen soldiers and fifty civilians. At Scarborough, shelled ty a bat tle cruiser and an armored cruiser, thirteen casualties are reported while at Whitby two were killed and two wounded Tho following is the offltial prom bureau’s statement on the German attack on the English coast * "This morning a German cruiser force made a demonstration upon the Yorkshire coast, in the course of which they shelled Hartlepool. Whit by aad Scarborough. • “A number of their fastest ships were employed for this purpose and they remained about an hour on, the coant. They were engaged by patrol ves sels on the spot. As soon as the presence of the enemy was reported British patrolling squadron en deavored to cut them 4ff. On being sighted by the Brltisa vessein, the Germans retired at full speed, and favored by the mist, made their es cape. « j A wave of intense an„t>r hue spread over England because of the attack. Bitter denunciation. Is heard every where of a policy which* permits shelling of undefended towns. The Germans choose a night when a thick mist prevailed and must have left their base at least two hours be fore dark. As they started to return about 9 o’clock there remained about seven hours of daylight for the pur suit. which, bewever, was rendered almost impossible by the fog. How the Germans evaded all the mines and patrols remains a mystery. The booming of heavy guns off the three towns drew . hundreds to the beaches. They had no thought of a German raid, but when shells came crashing over their heads afid into the quiet streets, they dashed for shelter. Off shore the German guns did rapid work, the flashes coming Incessantly and the shells finding a mark among the buildings. Many residents took refuge in cellars: oth ers rushed from their houses, among .them women and children in their ^jilght clothes, and not a few sought the railway stations, leaving on the first trains. Various rumors were heard. One was that two German cruisers had been sunk. Many thought the long expected general naval engagement between the British and German fleets was progressing and that the shelling of the coast towns was mere ly incidental. The admifklty's report issued at 9:30, giving the news that the Ger man ships had eluded pursuit and were returning safely to their home waters, caused keen disappointment. Naval, writers express the opinion that six br eight ships were engaged. Tha Germaee-hare avattableTbr such an attack the armored cruisers BIncher, Room, Prinz Adalbert, Prlnz Heinrich and Prinz Frederich Karl 'and more than twenty cruisers of a 'smaller class General Bliss Sends His Report of Diplomatic Relations Concerning Firing at Naco. Secretary Daniels Wedensday night ordered _thff cruiser Tacoma to pro ceed from San Domingo to Colon to guard against violation of the neu trality of the Panama canal. A destroyer or gunboat may be sent from the west coast of Mexico to the Pacific entrance of the canal when more information as to condi tions at the waterway is, received. • A statement issued at the navy de partment said: “Secretary Daniels stated that the last news from Colon was that no other violations of neu trality have been committed except that by a British collier whose radio apparatus had been dismantled. The executive order as to the unneutral use of the radio will be promptly and efficiently enforced. Though no oth er violations have been reported, Sec retary Daniels, acting upon the sug gestion of Col. Goethals, will send a ship to Panama so as to be in a posi tion to make impossible any violation of the executive order. He has or dered the Tacoma, which is now in San Domingo, to this duty." British Ambassador Spring-Rice called at the state department and stated that some JJnglish ships had sailed from their home ports before they were familiar with the presi dent's proclamatioo. v He requested that they be given full information. Secretary Daniels then sent the fol lowing telegram to the government radio station at Colon: “So far as practicable inform all vessels approaching canal zone of limitations under which they must use their radio while in territorial waters of the zone.” k The ambassador pointed out/ that the British government not only has no intention of violating rules as to w ireless in American waters, but sub scribes to them and has been vitally interested in having the regulations made forbidding unneutral use of wireless equipments in American waters Secretary Garrison Thursday night gave President \vilson the latest re ports from Brig. Gen. Bllaa on the situation at Naco. where the Mexican generals have aot yet moved their forces to avoid flfing into American territory The reports showed that the aitua- tlon had undergone no apparent change, although little firing was in evidence. While the United States la determined. If neceesary to open fire on the two Mexican forcea to compel them to stop shooting into the State ef Ariseoa. (t was learned Thursday night that ao derisive ac tion was planned, pending efforts of Brig. Gen. Hagh Scott, now en roots to Naco to influence the two factions to adjust the situation The general b«$icf In official Quar ters Thursday night was that some satisfactory anderstanding would be reach ad Agants of tho Guiterrez govern ment to which Gen. Maytoreaa is loyal, claims that he la preparing to move his force dawn the railroad south of Naco. ao that he can con tinue to besiege the Carrman force under Gen. Hill with the American borfer out of the range of fire. While reports Irotn Gea Bllaa to the was department were not made pub lic it la believed they indicated that he thought he had persuaded Gen. Maytorena to stop firing across the line. Until there la a definite under standing on the whole aitvation. it la thought Gen. Blitm haa worned (»fen. Hill not to take the offensive, which. would draw the Are of the Maytorena troops. General Iturbide’s friends in Mex ico are fearful for his safety and Secretary Bryan Ttffirsday directed Consol SilHman in the Mexican capi tal ts make representations In his be- halt Itnrbide was the civil govern-' or to whom the City of Mexico was turne dover to when Gen. Blanco withdraw the last of the Carranza forces. He is raid to have been Im prisoned. Gen. Bliss Thursday telegraphed Secretary Garrison that reports that he had deliverer an ultimatum to Maytorena were “false in every par ticular.” LATEST FROM THE BORDER. Maytorena Moving Out of Range ol American Terrtory. Secretary Garrison’ Thursday night gave President Wilson the latest re ports from Brig. Gen. Bliss op th* situation at Naco, where the Mexi can generals have not yet moved their forces to avoid firing into Amer ican terrtory. The reports showed that the sit uatlon had undergone no apparent change, although little firing was k evidence. JVhile the United States h determined, if necessary, to open fin on the two Mexican forces to compe them to stop shooting into the Stat< of Arizono, It was learned Thursday night that no decisive action wai planned pending efforts of Brig. Gen Hugh Scott, now en route to Naco to influence the two factions to ad just the situation. Agents of the Guiterrez govern ment, to which Governor Maytorem Is loyal, claim that he Is preparinf to move his foices- down the rallroac south of Naco, so that he can con tinue to besiege the Carranza forc< under Gen. Hill, with the AmeFlcai border opt of the range of fire. Gnltterez Orders Cessation. Provisional President Gulttere: has ordered a ceaaatlon of all hostlll tlea around Naco, aaylng tha friend ahlp of America muat ha retained.