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\ f- BAmiFOR UliE FRENCn AND IEKMAN SUNS END FWBT WITH DRAW SHELLS FROM 1000 GUNS General Explains Conflict to Correspondent Who Sees Fight From High Tower—Projectiles are Rained on Every Village Back of the German Lines. A correspondent to the German "Division Headquarters Before Sou- ches," writes by courier to Berlin via The. Hague to this country under the date of Tuesday, June 22. His letter has just been received: I am an eye-witness of a part of the stubborn battle for Lille from the top of a towerlike structure more than two hundred feet above the ground. I am precariously perched on an improvised pine board bendt flankel by my fellow-guest, the young Prince Luitpold, Duke of Ba varia, the brother-in-law of the King of the Belgians, and my host, the Lieutenant General who is command er of the "Blood and Iron” division, in which he takes a pride because It has been hurled at the danger point of every French offensive to date, and the German generals all know that this might have been the decis ive battle of the world war if the French had succeeded In breaking through on a broad front. The Germans, outnumbered, are still fighting with Uieir backs to the wall—a wall of heavy mortars and howitzers that continually roar their Defiance at the thousand Frteich guns massed between Xeuvtlle and Lorette. This Is an artillery duel that stag gers the imaginations, and almost makes a nervous neutral correspond ent forget the sensation at the pit of his stomach caused by the fact that in the long upward climb he mlsglvlng- ly noticed that the town had been riddled by French shrapnel, while the general cheerfully remarked that one big shell striking squarely would bring the whole structure down. Crouching low, so that the French artillery observers may not spot us, the prince, the general and I scan the fascinating panorama of the fin ish light for the fate of a continent. That long, naked shoulder of a range of hills, treeless and apparently with out a single sheltering busb, says the general, is the famous Lorette Heights, whose every square foot is drenched with French and German blood. The German line has been forced from the crest and down the barren slope by sheer pressure of irresistible masses, and the general speaks with unstinted admiration of the death- defying bravery of the French in the depperate charges that swept ever the heights, wave after wave. But the Germans have gained a Arm footing at the bottom, and are holding their line with equal desperation and cour age Apparently the French can not gain an inch here any more, their at tacks being repulsed with cruel losses. They are forced to remain Intrenched on the heights when not charging, because on the slope they would be exposed to the murderous Ore of the German heavy artillery: consequently the Hnes here are about four or five hundred yards apart. Between the lines I see dark specks. They are the unburled French dead; here are big. dark blotches where the harvest of death has been most bountiful. On that Ore-swept slope I also see a mass of ruined masonry that was once the Chapel Of Notre Dame de Lorette, on whose altar hundreds of brave French and Germans have sacriflced their 11-es: To the left, where the naked shoulder of the heights ends and the thickly wooded slopes begin, says the general, the English forces join the French, and the English lines run in an almost straight line close to La Bmmm. My attention Is next called to a whitish, square, boxlike structure close to the top of the Lorette Heights. That Is the Souchez sugar factory, so often mentioned In dis patches and casualty lists. It has been stormed by the French and Ger mans, turn and turn about, and has changed hands a dozen times. The war has seen no bloodier fighting per square yard than there It was man to man with bayonet, knife, and rifle butt. Continuous Infighting raged for days in the up per stories of the factory, but the most awful feature of it, the general staff said, was the death grapple in the dark cellars. The opposing batteries alternately poured shells into it until, as my friends the general put It, the fac tory rather last its tactical value and the ruins were left in the hands of the French. Further to the left, between two woods, I pee the village of Souchez, where the battle is raging most fiercely. The Germans had made a successful counter-attack south of Souchez In the early morning hours. En route here I had passed a con tinuous procession of blue-gray-coat- ed French prisoners, the unbounded afoot, the wounded with blood-stain ed, bandaged heads, arms in slinga, riding in motor trucks, the severely wounded lying very still In motor ambulances—and wounded Germans —too. In a .picturesque, pathetic pro- etsslon from the ultimate front. But these French prisoners were lot cowards; on the contrary, the general had explained to mo^that only the few bravest of the brave were caatght alive. When not killed, they are those^JKfrush ahead In the face jif -aTmost certain death. courageous waver, and retreat to their trenchea. That la why an unusually large I along by sheer force of example; and this fanatical bravery of the French makes them almost loved by their German enemies. .r ., touches lies under heavy shell fire. To the left, toward Ecurle, the artil lery duel Is fiercest. A nerve shat taring “drum fire" is on. Several kilometers of the German trenches here skirt the heights which the spendthrift French artillery Is now plowing up. Splashes of dirt and smoke cloud* where the shells strike follow in such quick succession that they produce the effect of-a long- drawn gray-brown mist over the Oer man lines, or a dingy curtain that lifts occasionally. ' "Those very white smoke puffs are shrapnel; the almost black clouds show where the biggest shells are raining," the general explains, add ing with a grim note of pride: "Only the strongest nerves can hold out under that fire; but the French will never break through there.” From his aerial perch he makes use of the ever-present telephone, and gets the reassuring answer: "All’s well; no signs of an Impending French attack.” “They probably got all the fight they wanted Ln the night," he says, and then points out to me the ar row-straight double row of trees marking the broad highway from Arras to La Bassee, then the low wooded heights running to the left again and stretching to the horizon. They are h61d by the Germans. Behind them, hidden from my view, lies Neuville. That narrow -strip from Neuville to Souchez is a reeking graveyard with hardly a grave; for the living have been too busy fighting to bury the dead. At least ten thousand French dead He out there, the general estimates, and adds that the air Is so pestilen tial Oiat latterly, he believes, a gen tlemen’s agreement between the foes has come into force to allow the burial of the dead unmolested at night, hut only those In immediate proximity to the rival lines. There Is reason to believe that the French have bought their gains dear ly, the general says. He estimates their losses between thirty and forty thousand opposite his division, where they made their most desperate at tempt to break through. "The French hurled the flower of their army against us here," he says, ’’their elite Twentieth Corps, their Marine Corps, their Alpine Corps, and their Moroccan Division. The colored Frenchmen are generally negligible and don’t amount to much; but the Morocran division are splendid fight ers. Regiment after regiment has made an almost ' , ontln\ious storm of attacks since May 9. They were flung upon us bravely, but In vain.” The German losses also were heavy. The general made no attempt to conceal or minimize them, fie told me how many thousands his buffer division had loat in five weeks, but asked me to respect his confidence and not mention the figures, which, however, were very much lower than those at which he estimated the French casualties. - He added thoughtfully: "Ten French army corps are said to have been massed against the Germans on the Neuvllle-Iji Bassee line The cli max of the fierce attacks was reach ed and safely passed four days ago, though we never had a moment’s doubt of the outcome." The general pointed over a range of hills ahead, mentioned the name of an Invisible village behind the French lines, and said that the Germans had Information that Gen. Joffre came there from his headquarters some days ago and looked the situation over. The French artillery Iftfnot confin ing Its attention to harrowing the German trenches with sliell and shrapnel. They are groping more or less blindly for the cunningly plant ed German batteries. They are tak ing no chancea, and art' shelling all the villages behind the German lines. I see houses in five villages burning fiercely, with German re«*rves acting as firemen. The French particularly smother suspicious-looking patches of woods under a blanket of exploding steel. One little wood ahead acts like a magnet for the French shells that drop at the rate of two a minute till a smokeApall hangs over the tree tops. T Present,^emerges what looks like a runaway. It Is a team galloping madly to the rear for more ammuni tion. Otherwise no traffic is stirring on the roads in the fire zone. Ex cept in emergencies, food, ammuni tion, and reserves go out under the safer cover of night. From my lofty observation post it is easy for even a civilian to grasp the preponderating part that ammu nition plays and to understand why the French selected this particular point for their attempt to break through the German lines and why the Germans are grimly endeavor ing to stop them at all costs. The next defensive line is a long way to the rear. If the French gain all the hills, their artillery can sw ( eep the plains ahead. Such a success would mean* probably, the loss of Lille, hut. pos sibly the rolling-up of the whole Ger man Hue. Hence the titanic struggle. But the French artillery Is not having it all its own way. It is the Mosaic law modernized—an eye for an eye, a shell for a shell. Wherever I look in this sector of hell I see flashes of flame from the mouths of German guns. A never-ending pro cession of German shells walls and shrieks overhead on their way to ward the French lines, and I can see them strike home on the Lorette heights and near Souchez. The French have a line on one German mortar battery, but their shells are dropping Just behind It. The German artillerists go right on serving andx^ring with the mechani cal regularity' pf trained factory hands. Another German bgttery Is planted among the gravestones of a •mall village cemetery the right. The French shqUs are beginning to come most uncomfortably oqj way The general begins to look a bl Ions. He U responsible not only the life of a correspondent, but i that of a Bavarian prince. He says percentage of the French prisoners I "Pvhape we’d better go, U you’ve ^toff run woU In ndwgneo enough." hoping to drag them I I linger only long enough to jot -Uu, ANOTHER MILITIA TANGLE; . REORGANIZATION WRONfl Attortbey General Says Former Offi cers Can Keep Thetr .Comuts- 7 sions—Backs Bleaae’s Order. "This being only a reorganization, of a rearrangement or reassignment —as you may bi pleraed to term it- of the rem.-.lning companies of the militia, I am of the opinion that the officers of these regiments have not been removed In accordance with law, and that they can not be re moved or mustered out of service except as is provided by statute so long as the military companies them selves remain a part of the organized militia,” says Thomas H, Peeples, at torney general, In an exhaustive opin ion rendered on the reorganization of the South Carolina National Guard. If the opinion of the attorney gen eral is upheld by the courts, the re cent elections of militia officers are vitiated and the former regimental officers are still in command. Also, if the opinion is upheld, the procla mation of Gov. Manning, issued Jan uary 22, 1915, declaring null and void the proclamation of former Gov. Blease mustering the State National Guard out of service, Is illegal, and South Carolina has no organized militia authorized by the statutes. Military authorities think probably the opinion of the attorney general will cause a discontinuance of ‘the plans for encampments for this year; for they think that It Is improbable that the comptroller general will honor warrants for pay to what might be an illegally organized mili tia. Also, they say ‘that the proba bilities 'are that the United States disbursing officer, Major J. Shapter Caldwell, will refuse to pay out gov ernment funds until the matter Is finally adjudicated in the courts. RUSSIANS DRIVEN BACK INTO OWN TERRITORY Czar’s Annies Continue to Retreat Along anO-Mile Front— Warsaw Threatened. Driven back over their own fron tier north of Lemberg and forced to Cross the River Gnlla Lipa, in south east Galicia, the Russian armies con tinue to retreat before the Austro- Germans along a front of approxi mately two hundred and fifty miles. Berlin records progress in virtually the entire southeastern theatre, al though violent, fighting still is In progress beyond the Gnlla Lipa, which Joins the Dniester at Haltcz. Having forced a passage of this stream Gen. von Llnslngen’s army is presumably astride the railway run ning Irom Halicz to Lemberg and Stanlslau. and now doubtless is aim ing at the line which runs from Lem berg to Odessa through Tarnopol. It seems evident that Germany Is bent on further punishment for the Russians by the Intensity of their Galician campaign, but with the Rus •Ians ucross the frontier, the Ger mans will have to rely almost solely on road transport, and their ad vanees will be slower. The Itiitish press still voices the hope that the Russians soon will find a tenable line and deliver a counter blow, but there Is a note of anxiety In nearly all the accounts, together with the warning that either the cap ture of Warsaw or the seizure of the great railway lines which supply It would he disastrous to Russia, and surely would be followed by another general German offensive in the west. WASHINQTON OFFICIALS ARE LOOKING FOR PEACE Questioning Whether Carranza Will Change His .Mind and Meet Villa's Agreement. The activities of prominent Mexi cans now in the United States and others in connection with the Mexi can political situation attracted much attention in official and diplomatic circles in Washington Wednesday and caused renewed discussion of the possibility of peace in the southern epubllc. These activities included the ef forts of Gen. Felipe Angeles, Villa's right hand man, to learn the senti ment of Washington officials toward the Mexican .situation; a reported peace move, calling for a conference between Gens. Villa and Obregon on the bordpr and the prospective con ference between Gen. Carranza and Charles A. Douglas, his Washington counsel. ; __ • Mr. Douglas Laa.gpne to Vera Cruz presumably to impress upon Carranza the viewpoint of the American gov ernment as enuciated In a recent statement by President Wilson that the heads of the warring factions in Mexico must settle their differences. Officials are waiting to see if Gen. Carranza is willing to change his at titude toward peace overtures by Gen. Villa. Carranza heretofore has consistently declined such offers. Officials were interested Wednes day in unofficial reports stating that Jose Isabel Robles, minister of war In the cabinet of Eulalio Guiterrez. had announced tljat Gens. Villa and Obregon had agreed to discuss terms of peace, perhaps within two weeks. Robles was said to have hinted that the proposed conference was a result of fears of the leaders of the two fac tions that the revolution which it was generally believed Gen. Huerta was about to begin, would so complicate the situation in Mexico that Ameri can Intervention might follow. flown a summary of my final impres sions thst the. Germans are not wor- ed by the military situation, and they are more confident of vie- than 1 hove ever Been them. Then the general, the prtnc# and CHILLITONE Facte Not Malaria known since lime began and feared by every race of people, under the sun is one disease Ifedi- cal Authorities have pronounced the greatest curse to the human race. It is a known fact that more people are affected with Malarial poison than any other disease. It has been an established fact now recognized <by every competent Medical Authority that Malaria Is a germ disease having Its origin In the tiny poison germ de posited In the blood. 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Prior to this the powers had de cided to Include Scutari In the future State of Albania, and had offered compensation to King Nicholas In money and land on condition that be give up Scutari The Montenegrin king announced that he would hold Scutari against the powers, and as a result the international naval block ade of the Montenegrin coast was ex tended. Eventually, on further demand of the powers. King Nicholas decided t,o evacuate Scutari, which was occupied by an international force on May 14. 1913. A recent official note Issued by th© Montenegrin government explained that strategic and political reasons impelled the Montenegrin descent on- Alybania, and gave as an additional reason that other powers had already •occupied other portions of Albania. MEXICO’S BANISHED RULER DIES IN EXILE IN FRANCE Former President of Mexico a Pic turesque Figure, Passes Away in Paris. A dispatch/from Paris Friday an nounced th/eTdeath of Porflrio Diar, an International figures, who .Jiae been making his home in France since the revolutionists in Mexico suc ceeded in overthrowing his govern- t- which had ruled Mexico- for about thirty years. Diaz was a dic tator in the strongest sense of the term and ruled his country with an Iron hand. The revolutionists at tempted to establish a more liberal government and since that time revo lution has succeeded with revolution with such astonishing regularity that many people have come to believe that after all the strong arm squad of Dictator Diaz was the best means of preserving property and life in the republic to the south of us. The former president had not been In good health for some weeks, but hls condition was by no means consider ed serious. Consequently his death comes as a distinct surprise. Anchor Steamer Rammed. The Holland American line steam er Nieuw Amesterdam with one thou sand two hundred passengers, was rammed In the Downs Wednesday by an unknown steamer- Her port quar ter was badly damaged., Germany Cotton Needed. The department of Brandenburg has Issnnd an order prohibited the manuTactare of certain cloths made entirely of cotton. This is thought to presage a shortage of cotton.