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ij t TWO RBOIMKXT8 COMPOSE OUR NATIONAL GUARD. Commander-In-Chief of State mihh« All Orders Necessary to Place Soldier Boys on Required Footing—Elections for Officers to be Held Soon. General orders for a reorganization of the National Guard of South Caro lina were issued Wednesday by W. W. Moore, adjutant general, after seven companies and one band had been mustered out of service on account of general inefficiency. There are two regiments left, comprising 24 com panies. The following general order was issued by Gov. Manning, commander- in-chief: “Under the provisions of section 29, military code of South Carolina, ths following organizations of the Na tional Guard of South Carolina are hereby ordered to be disbanded: “Company F, First infantry, Wood ruff. "Company L, First infantry, York- ville. “Company E, Second infantry, Ben- net tsvllle. "Company F, Second infantry, Edgefield. Company H, Second infantry, Orangeburg. “Company K, Second infantry, Dar lington. “Band, Second infantry, Anderson. "Company F, Third infantry, Georgetown. “The adjutant general is directed to issue the necessary orders to mus ter out the above organizations.” The following order was issued by the adjutant general: "The First, Second and Third regi ments of infantry, having been re duced to eight companies each, the companies of the battalions compos ing these regiments will exist until further orders as separate companies and the regimental organization is hereby disbanded. "In order to conform the National Guard of South Carolina to the re quirements of the war department the field staff and non-commissioned staff officers of these regiments are hereby placed on the unassigned list pending the settlement of their prop erty and financial accounts. “The National Guard having been reduced to less than three regiments required to constitute a brigade, the brigade organisation la hereby dis banded. "Brig. Gen. Wilie Jones, N. Q. 8. C., haring passed the statutory age for retirement, is hereby placed on the retired list, with the rank of major general." Genet al reorganization orders were issued Wednesday from the office of ' Adjt. Gen. Moore. Under the new order there are two regiments in the National Guard. The First infantry will be made up as follows: First battalion—Company A of Greenville, Company U of Anderson, Company C of Pelzer, Company D of Laurens. Second Battalion—Company E of Union, Company F of Spartanburg, Company H of Rock Hill, Company G of Fort Mill. Third Battalion—Company I of Camden, Company K of Winnsboro, Company L of Hartsville and Com pany M of Cheraw. The Second infantry will be made up as follows: First Battalion—Company A of Charleston, Company B of Charleston. Company C of Charleston, Company .D of Charleston. Second Battalion—Company E of Columbia, Company F of Columbia, Company G of Columbia, Company H of Brookland. Thtrd Battalion—-Company M of Orangeburg, Company K of Elloree, Company L of Sumter and Company I of Tiimnonsrille. An election for a colonel and lieu tenant colonel of each regiment and for a major of each battalion will be held April 17. "Having completed the Inspections of the National Guard of this State, . • made by the adjutant general and the assistant adjutant general on behalf of the State, I have been very much gratified,” said Gen. Moore Wednes day, “to find a general improvement amongst the greater portion of the organized militia as to care of prop erty and a general preparation of property for inspections, as well as a marked improvement in the condition of the small arms. There was also noticeable a considerable improve ment in the efficiency as to drills of the greater number of the organiza tions, in the State. There has also . been a considerable increase in the personnel of enlisted strength of each BRITISH WARSHIPS ACTIVE OFF NEWPORT NEWS. Captain Thlerlehena Makes Beqveet * for Food—British Vessels Stand Guard. i The Baltimore thg. Defiance was stopped by a warship believed to have been the British cruiser Suffolk, off the Virginia Capes early Thursday and asked for newspapers and what ever Information the tug’s captain could give concerning the German auxiliary cvrulser Prlnz Eitel Fried rich. Captain Scott told the officers In charge of the small boat which ap proached his craft that so -far as he knew the Prlnz Eitel was at Newport News. The officers, according to Scott, said they got word of the Ger man ship every day but tly>ught she may have changed her position. Captain Scott added that several big columns of smoke were visible at widely separated points on the hori zon apparently indicating the posi tions of other warships. Captain Frank Taylor, a Washing ton shipping man who returned Fri day from a trip along life Virginia- Maryland coast, reported that British cruisers off the Virginia capes in wait for the German raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich, are overhauling ail ships In that vicinity and looking them over. He says his tug Advance on her last trip was overhauled by the British cruiser Essex and closely in spected under searchlights but was not stopped. The two British cruisers which have watched the entrance to New York harbor for more than a month steamed away to the south during Wednesday night, according to in coming pilots Friday. The pilots thought the warships were going to strengthen the squadron lying in wait for the Prlnz Eitel off the Virginia Capes. The German converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich began taking on provisions Friday under supervision of the United States government. Commander Th'erlchens, captain of . the merchant raider, it is understood, asked permission under neutrality regulations for supplies sufficient for a 15-days’ voyage. Only a small por- | tlon of the ship’s stores. It is said, would be taken on Friday. . The bulk l of the provisions is to be loaded Sat urday and Sunday. That the time limit granted the Eitel to remain in Newport News does not expire for some days is a report generally credited, but the port still | Is filled with British merchant ships which leave daily. If this report as to time limit is correct, after the date of expiration the German commander i would have 24 hours to leave waters of American jurisdiction. If in that Interim the merchant ship of an ene my should leave the Eitel would be ; held 24 hours more, but after that she must be given an opportunity to depart or be Interned. Close scrutiny still is being kept on the German ship by American mili tary forces and the battleship Ala bama stands guard in Hampton Roads. Reports current some time ago that German warships may have escaped from European waters to come to the relief of the Eitel seem to have no definite basis, but were re vived Friday by the report from Mad rid that the Hamburg-Amerlcan steamer Macedonia had evaded Brit ish cruisers and was making for South American waters with supplies said to be intended for German war ships. POISONED PEN ACTIVE. organization as a whole, several of the^organlzations have the minimum number required at present by the war departmentrthat Js, 65 men. "The plan of reorganization has been recommended by me for thejmat two years. From my personal obser vation, I have been thoroughly con vinced that it was the only plan court martial, was shot Thursday a Luneville, France, after the troops of the garrison had been drawn up to witness the execution. I wh . r _ hr fhn nfficinnov do Margaret Schmitt, *Frepch woman wneretry tne Manoara-oi nSenr6nced'~to death as a spy by a sired by the war department and the State authorities could be reached. Experience has taught me that those organizations which were really keep ing up with the sfandard-of efficiency were very much handicapped by or ganizations that were lukewarm in efficiency. "Under the present plan of a two- reglment formation, there will be a still greater incentive to the com panies remaining to keep up their ef ficiency to the standard required, be cause with the large number of appli cations on ftte in tilts office from rarf- •as parts of the State for permission to. organize military companies, they will feel the necessity of keeping up the work required of them, as It wit) be my Intention to see that the hip est Mate of Seeks to Make Trouble for Wives and Schoolgirls. Passaic, N. J., has a poisoned pen woman who is not only telling hus bands and wives anonymously things that are not true about their part ners, but is telling parents that their daughters in school are misbehaving. The school letters were received first. They told the parents of five girls, at school 11, alleged details of things they will be sure not to ap prove. These letters were turned over to Herman F. Weber, the at tendance officer, who made an inves tigation and found there was no foun dation for them. A few days later three husbands received letters telling thorn of the alleged doings of their wives, and one wife received a similar letter about her husband. The police were notified and the letters turned over to Chief Detective Turner. He re fuses to tell who received the letters but says they are prominent people in town. He also says that the let ters were written evidently by a wo man, in a disguised hand. So far there is no clue to the writer./ Escape Down Ladders. An explosion in the sawdust blower of a big cigar factory at Avenme C and east Seventeenth street. New York, set the building afire and sent nearly 2.00 men and women employes of the place down the fire escapes to safety. Nicholas Althuus, owner of the factory, said all his employees had been accounted for. FIVE MORE VICTIMS ARE RE PORTED SUNK ON FRIDAY. ALLIES ACTIVE IN All Berlin Describee Carpathian Fighting as Bitter—Turkey and Russia Both Deny Talk of Separate Peace Be tween Them—Submarine Operates Over Distance of 700 Miles. The Associated Press sumipkrlzei the war situation Friday as follows: "Raids by two aviators of the allies In the German province of Baden in flicted damage in the cities of Mull- helm and Nuenberg. The destruc tion of property in Mullheim is de scribed in a London dispatch as con siderable, although only^glight dam age was done in Nuenberg. "A decided extension of the range of operations of German sul marines is indicated by . Lisbon dispatch say ing the U-28 had been operating off the coast of Spain. The British steamer South Point, which Went down off Cape Finisterre, is said to have been torpedoed by the U-28. It is more than 700 miles from Cape Finisterre to the nearest German sub marine base. "The suggestion that Turkey is on the point of suing for a separate peace with Russia is repudiated by both the Turkish and Russian ambas sadors at Rome. The former is quot ed as saying there was no reason for which Turkey should seek peace. The Russian ambassador is said to have declared his government would con clude no peace separately from Great Britain and France. "The fighting in the Carpathians is described in Berlin dispatches as un usually bitter. The Russians, push ing through deep snow, are persisting in their efforts to dislodge the Aus trians from the passes and heights, but are said to have accomplished little in the way of definite successes. "The Russian war office, however, says substantial results have been achieved. In th e campaign in north ern Poland an important victory is claimed over the Germans, who are said to have retreated hastily in one section of the front west of the Nie- men river." “German submarines have sunk four more vessels, one of them flying a neutral flag. A Norwegian bark was torpedoed in the North Sea by the U-20, and three trawlers from the Tyne were blown up by the U-10 The crews of all four ships escaped “Heavy fighting has been resumed in Eastern France, near the German border. The official statement from Berlin says the French were defeated In a battle near LePetre forest and forced to give up ground they had won. “Elsewhere along the western front there were artillery encounters Thursday, but no Infantry engage ments of consequences.” Newcastle, England, reports Friday that three Tyne trawlers, the Gloxi- ana, Jason and Nellie, were sunk by the German submarine Z-10 Thurs day. After all the members of the crews were safe In sr all boats the Germans blew up the trawlers. They then towed the fishermen to wards the Tyne, until they met fish ing craft which brought the men ashore. The fishermen say the sub marine commander was genial. He supplied hot coffee and tobacco to them but told them: « “We have been ordered to sink everything. It is war and England started It.’’ lx>ndon reports Friday an Amster dam dispatch to Reuters Telegram company says . message from Berlin states that a hostile aircraft appear ed above Mullheim, Baden, at 5:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon and drop ped a bomb which caused consider able material damage. Another aviator dropped three bombs on Neunberg, also in Baden, at 7 o’clock, but the damage done.was slight. v Says If tt U Deemed Advisable Will Exclude mow From Royal House hold. t Drink la blamed to a large extent by King George for England's inabil ity to obtain necessary war materials for the army in the field, in a letter sent by the king’s private secretary, Lord Stanfordham, to Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd-George. His Majesty "feels that nothing but the most vigorous measures will suc cessfully cope with the grave situa tion now existing in our armament factories,” the letter says, and "If It is deemed advisable, will be prepared to set an example by giving up all al coholic liquor himself and by issuing orders against its consumption In the royal households." The letter says: “The king thanks you for so promptly letting him have a report of the proceedings at the meeting Wed nesday of the deputation of employ ers. His Majesty has read it with In tense interest, but also with the deep est concern. He feels that nothing but the most vigorous measures will successfully cope with the grave sit uation now existing in our armament factories. “We have before us the statements not merely of the employers, but of the admiralty and the war office, which are responsible for munitions of war and for the transport of troops and their food and ammunition. From this evidence it Is without doubt largely due to drink that we are unable to secure the output of war material indispensable to meet the requirements of the army In the field and that there has been such serious delay, In consequence of the necessary reinforcements of supplies to aid our gallant troops at the frodt. "A* continuance of such a state of things must inevitably result In the prolongation of the horrors and bur dens of this terrible war. "1 am Instructed to add that. If It be deemed advisable, the king will be prepared to set an example by giving up all alcoholic liquors himself and by issuing orders against Us con sumption in the royal households so that no difference shall be made so far as his Majesty is concerned, be tween the treatment of the rich and the poor in this question. (Signed) "Lord Stanfordham, v "The King's Private Secretary.” AMERICAN KILLED. HAS NO MONEY. Woman Shot at Spy. Be 2,500,000 in Bread Line. Before the next harvest 2,500,000 Belgians probably/will ’ be in the bread line, in the opinion of Emile Franqul, president of the national re lief committee of Brussels Russia CJalnis 600,000 • A are more than 600,000 Austrians now In prison camps la Rusal a. is reached by I ekall all of the companies remaining tn the organized militia Failing to do so. d that they be moa- Schools Close and Officers Go Unpaid in West Virginia. It developed Friday at Charleston, W. Va., that one of the state officials, who is not drawing his salary because of failure of the last legislature to ap propriate funds, is Gov. Henry D. Hatfield. John H. Darst, state audi tor, has asked A. A. Lilly, attorney general, for an opinion as to whether he can borrow money until the legis lature can be called together to make th e appropriations. Meanwhile the unusual condition is being felt in all parts of the state. Country schools are being closed, high schools placed on part time and companies of the national guard mus tered out. The effort to have the legislature meet without expense to the state and pass appropriation bills seems to have failed and there is no relief in sight. Washington Orders Investigation of Thresher's Death. Reports that an American had per ished in the war zone around the British Isles were brought officially to the attention of the United SUtes government late Thursday when Am bassador Page and Consul-General Skinner at London cabled that Leon C. Thresher, an American mining man, was supposed to have been drowned in the destruction of the British liner Falaba, by a German submarine. The reports merely transmitted un official statements and instructions were sent to both officials to begin an investigation. No action will be taken by the government until this official version of Thresher’s death has been received and all facts surrounding the destruction of the Falaba have been carefully considered. A representative of the company which had employed Thresher saw him aboard the liner before she sail ed. That is as far at official Informa tion goes and Ambassador Page or Mr. Skinner will now undertake to get statements from survivors of the steamer who can give positive evi donee that the American was drown ed. Officials had little doubt that the case eventually would form the sub ject of representations to Germany, in its note after Germany’s war zone proclamation the Washington gov ernment notified the German foreign office that it would feel compelled to hold that government to "strict ac countability” for the loss of Ameri can lives or property through the op eratlons of submarines against Brit ish merchant shipping. TO LAY CORNERSTONE. UPRISING PUT DOWN. T Trouble In Nicara^nm Apparently About Ended. An uprising in Nic&raaftm foment^ ed by Gen. Julian Irias, mlnlste war under Zelaya, has been put down, according to a cable Thursday to the Nicaraguan legation Wash ington from President Diaz. The message said a small group of revolutionists looted the towns of Sauce and Jlcaral. They AM before government forces and are now sup- peace be In Hdntffifti. 1 — - Gen. Irias was reported to be'in Coeta Rica, whence he was preparing to Mil for Habeas, Cabs. He has been active recently la epoetag -the proposed treaty bet we a Nicaragua fad the Catted Staten , Wilson and Taft to Participate in Red Cross Celebration. Plans for ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of the memorial structure to the memory of the wo men of the civil war which will be the permanent home of the Red Cross were announced at Washington Thursday. The cornerstone will be laid on Sunday, March 27, on a site soutlT of the White House. The ceremonies will begin with a prayer by the Rev. Henry N. Couden, chaplain of the House of Representa tives, veteran of the civil war. For mer President Taft, Miss Isabel T. Boardman, Assistant Secretary Breck inridge, of the war department. Rep resentative Slayden of Texas, and Senator Lea of Tennessee will speak Alter President Wilson has laid the cornerstone Justice Lamar, of the Supreme Court, will deliver a brief address, and the ceremonies will pse with a benediction by the Epis- cdbalBlshop of Washington. Report# That Merchantmen Have Been Supplying Allied Warship* With Coal Are Denied—Need of Battleship. Protection is Now Erl- dont. Enforcement of neutra'ity of the United States in the port of Norfolk and Newport News, was the subject of a protracted conference at the Nor folk navy yard late Tuesday follow ing the arrival in Hampton Roads of the battleship Alabama, which took a commanding position in the chan nel to the sea, and remained there, taking on ammunition and supplies. Participating in the conference were Rear Admiral Beatty, com mander of the Norfolk navy yard, Rear Admiral Helm, commander of the reserve Atlantic fleet, who arriv ed op the Alabama, and Norman R. Hamilton, collector of customs for the port. While the conference at the navy yard was in progress Capt. Max Thlerichens, commander of the Ger man converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, still in dock at Newport News, was closeted with customs offl- clais in the Newport News office. At the conclusion of the conference at the Norfolk navy yard, government officials refused to discuss matters with which it dealt. Primarily, it was learned, the Ala bama came to Hampton Roads to guard the neutrality interests of the United States between a German man-of-war within au American port and a fleet of warships of the Euro pean allies, which is reported hover ing off the Virginia Capes. That the situation thus presented demanded the presence of an Ameil;an warship was generally admitted. Reports that allied warships which have been off the capes |lnce the Ger man commerce raider arrived at Newport News and ventured within the three-mile Umft and that mer chant ships had furnished them with supplies had been circulated at New port News for several days before the sending of ths Alabama. As to mer chant ships, it was said that they had taken deck loads of coal after filling their bunkers and taking on other cargo. "I have investigated thoroughly one case in which a merchant ship was reported to have taken coal to a foreign warship off the capes and found it nof true," said Collector Hamilton. "This ship may have de livered to vessels at sea cogl which •h* took on board at some English port, later arrived at Newport News and departed with a full cargo of grain. She took from here 300 tons of coal, merely enough for ship’s use. A portion of tbls may hare been plac ed on her decks, this for the reason only, however, that the ship desired all space for cargo purposes.” Henry B. Holmes, agent of British shipping Interests, declared that he had absolute knowledge that no mer chant ship had taken fuel or supplies to any of the warships. Taking deck loads of coal, Mr. Holmes said, was necessary on account of extra heavy cargoes carried for foreign ports. Commander Thlerichens would not talk about bis visit to the customs officials. He returned late in the afternoon to the Eitel Friedrich, which is still moored to her dock in the shipyards. In official quarters the opinion still prevails that the German raider will fore# the United States government to intern her. but there are many who have associated with officers and men of the ship who say that she will put to sea and take a chance on escaping the blockade of the allies when served with notice to depart. Allied merchant ships continue to depart from this nort almost daily One which cleared Tuesday was the Belgian steamer Iris. In this con nection officials pointed out that the successive departure of merchant ships of enemy belligerents could not indefinitely postpone departure of the Prinz Eitel after be ng served with notice that time for repairing in American waters had expired. They pointed to a clause, which after stating that a belligerent war ship can not leave a neutral port for twenty-four hours after departure of the merchant ship of an enemy, says: "No ship of,war or privateer of a bel ligerent shall be detained in any port, harbor, roadstead or waters of the United States more than twenty-four hours by reason of the successive de partures from such port, harbor, roadstead or waters of the United States of more than one vessel of an opposing belligerent." Authorities are stolidly silent as to Swodoba, the paper anerfa, la sue* pected of having "close relations with the enemy" and correspondence found la his rooms Is said to Indicate he had been charged with the task jri blowing up the Touralne. He baa been taken to Havre. Investigation by experts appointed by Admiral Charlier, who is condaet- ing the inquiry into the steamship fire, has established. It Is said, that the blaze aboard the Tonralne must have been caused by the explosion of some detonating device. Statements made by passengers and members of the crew support this theory. The explosion was safflcleat- ly violent to wrench loose the doors of cabins nearby. The authorities be lieve the explosive had been placed with criminal intent in a trunk stored with the baggage of first class pas sengers in No. 2 hold. -Passengers examined by the state attorney at Havre are said to bave testified that they had been amazed at a statement made one night dar ing the voyage by a fellow passenger when they were discussing German threats to torpedo ships In the war zone. This passenger Is quoted as having remarked: "Oh, that Isn’t the only war zone that would be dan gerous; Germany is strong enough to k do whst she wants. This ship hsr- self, even before she reaches the war zone, might be obliged te bave re course to the doctors aad aboard to care for the passengers.* Only passing heed was giv«_ assertion, but in view of subsequent events it sppearsd to bave consider able Importance. The passenger quot ed as boasting of Germaay*s power was listed on the ship's records as "Roymond Swodoba. 38 yMrs old, an American aubject, profesaion. finan cier; destination. Parts.” Commissary Dubert, attached to the secret service, undertook the task of tracing Swoboda. He found the man was fairly well known In Parle financial circles, and bad been eoa- nected with several more or leas las- portent transactions. He was sup posed to be u Rusalaa, for be often ■poke of bis family conaeetloas at Petrograd and Moscow, He bad serv ed as foreign representative for a brober named Morrison, who eoadneta on# of tbe large brokerage bo uses la Paris. None of Swodoba'u business aseo- assoclaleawj yR.lghfflhylM • Rt elate# had seen him after tbe arrival of the Touralne at Havre, Mxreb t, bat Dubert traced him to a hotel la tbe Avenue Kleber, only fie And that he had left 10 days before after a brief stay. He registered there aa Raymond Swoboda. an American, and told the story of the Touralne fire la the hotel drawing room. ■ His man ner, however, aroused aome suspi cion. and the other guests kept aleof from him. He was traced to another hotel la the Place de Rivoli, where he was ar rested. When his room was scare bad the police declare a number of letters written In German were fonnd, which needled to point strongly to his guilt. He was turned over to the Havre po lice by the Paris authorities. of Peace. A u Petrogra(f~d{^t>atqhsays the Rus- sky Slovoe prints a-ndte^stbnatlng that Rnssla has been _ through neutral channels with o tures from Austria for a "separate Another Submarine Victim. A German submarine is believed to bave sank tbe British steamer Fal- 4bin. of 3,811 tons. A received frem tbe crew saying they bad taken u boats circumstances which actuated the government in sending a warship to Newport News, but that t8at purpose was not to protect the Prinz Eitel Friedrich within the three-mile limit of the American coast, as had been suggested, now seems apparent. The German sea raider, in all ptobability, will be interned in this port before many days, although persons who have talked with officers of the Eitel declare they are ready to brave the dangers of a dash for liberty. Just when the government has de termined that time expires for the Eitel to make repairs still remains a mystery. When that time arrives, however, opinion la prevalent that her ensign will be hauled down, her guna dismantled and ship md crew interned under terms of The Hague convention governing neutral nation* In naval warfare. ('apt Thlerlehena, commander of the German>sider, It la insisted, had hoped to bave his ship taken to New York within tbe threutoUa limit of tb* American eoaat before CHua lor Intern stent arrived. Overta.se beau made to to tbls warships of the allies lurking off tbo coast had been asked. Marine authorities, however, nforaed tbe German commander that It would be Impossible to get his ship around tbe capes within the three-mile limit syA that it also would be necessary to go beyond the three-mile limit and D»sz It also would be necessary to go be yond the three-mile limit off tbe New Jersey coast. Outside this limit au thority of the United States to give protection doee not extend, and tha plan of the German commander ap parently has been abandoned. Marine men assert, however, that one reason for the Alabama at port Is to see to it that British mer chant ships which leave almost dally, do not violate neutrality by carrying fuel to the allied warships off tbe capes. 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