The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 15, 1915, Image 6

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I >j N I i| V NOT FNIHiriH FIFTY - ,IILE motor boats LI 1IUI LIU)UUll| ARE TO ROUT SUBMARINES OUTLINE OF 6ERMAN ANSWER APPEARS UNSATISFACTORY .■*)' AUlm Plan for Thirty-Foot Craft to . Moant Gnaa and Ontnui Anything Boltt. The C. C. Smith Boat and Engine U © CTiUD 1©^ nn©ITIl/rl^°y^^ N « w York - announced I Ui OlAlllI lu 1 ' I Uullilt 5 ^t»urftday that it had been asked by the British, French, and Russian gov ernments to submit estimates for the construction of powerful motor speed boats, of sufficient strength to per mit the mounting of two or more light guns, the boats to be used, it Is understood, in punning down German submarines in the waters around England and France anJ in the Bal tic. The British government, it is understood, wants a fleet of at least one hundred of these craft, while the Russians, it is said, want thirty or forty. The number wanted by France is not known. > The boat proposed is to be thirty feet long and seven feet beam, guar anteed to make fifty miles an hour. It will be easy to navigate and even when traveling at great speed will be able to turn sharply. The Smith factory is in Canada, near Detroit, on the St. Clair River, and so no pos sible violation of American neutrali ty is Involved. The motive power of the boats will be furnished by twin engines, each of two hundred and fifty horse power, and the guns will be mounted one on each side just forward of the driving gear. Each bott can carry, if neces sary, fuel and supplies sufficient to last several days, although it is con templated that this will not be need ed as, owing to the speed of the boats, they can make port whenever necessary. Furthermore, they can be equipped with light wireless sets Each boat will displace about four tons. WHEREATHENS LOST DARDANELLES SCENE OF DE FEAT BY SPARTANS Government Refuse* to Informally Discuss Forthcoming Reply Bat Of ficials are Far From Satisfied at its Expected Tenor—Situation is Oiti- cal. The United States will not engage informally in any discussion or nego tiation with Germany regarding the character of the forthcoming reply to the last American note on submarine warfare. Ambassador Gerard at Berlin has been informed that such is the presi dent's decision, and that the ambas sador is to make no comment on the tentative draft given him by the Ger man foreign office. If asked for an expression, he is to sr.y that the Unit ed States will await a formal reply before discussing the question fur ther. The outline of the German note, as cabled by Ambessador Gerard, is known to be far from satisfactory to officials. With respect to the sinking of the Lusitania, on which more than one hundred Americans perished, no admission of liability is made. Whether an extenuation or not, the view is expressed in the draft that when torpedoed it was not believed the Lusitania would sink as rapidly as she did. As for the future, citizens of the United Spates would be permitted to travel with safety on the high seas if they were passengers on American ships, or on belligerent ships not car rying munitions of war. The United States would be required to inform the German government of the date of departure of and character of ves sels carrying Americans and guaran tee that such ships had no munitions df war aboard. In this connection high officials atated that it would be an unneutral act for the United States to notify any belligerent government of the date of departure from an American port or the character of the cargo of • merchantman of a belligerent. Count Bernstorff, the German am bassador, was in communication by wireleas with his government during the day aad Is und *rstood to have advised the Berlin foreign office that the form In which the proposals had been made did not appear to be ac ceptable to the United States. He learned that the position of the Washington government was Uiat there most first be a recognition by ■y of the principle that an un I aad unresisting merchantman be visited and searched, and and crew removed to place of safety, before the ship is de- Unttl there la an agreement on this principle the American government can not diacuss any modus vivendi or temporary arrangements, It is de clared The German embassador, it ta believed, la urging hla government to make a broad statement on the principles Involved and reserve for later discussion questions concerning the separation of passenger and con traband traffic. The proposal made by Germany that belligereLt passenger vessels which do not carry munitions of war shall be immune from attack, pro vided they heed warnings of subma rines and submit to visit and search, is not regarded as of itself objection able, providing Great Britain and Germany were to enter Into sufli an agreement The American government, it is understood, would be willing to as sist in making arrangements for the safe carriage of Americans aboard belligerent passenger vessels which do not carry munitions of war if the arrangement were first made between the belligerents. Such a method, de scribed in diplomatic usages as a modus vivendi, would not involve any surrender of rights for the future and would he applicable only during a fixed period. For the United States of its own initiative to make concessions, it is Ijeld, would imperil the entire fabric o>-American rights with other l>ellig- erents. The suggestion is contained in the German note, as now dr fted, that a system of inspection ba begun ,jvhere- b* American officials end *fierman consular officers would certify to the character of the vessels carrying de parting Americans. This, it is as-i sorted, would also be an unneutral act. The United States has had no official connection with the certifica tion by British consuls of cargoes of goods consigned to neutral countries. These arrangements merely have been entered into by American ship owners themselves to protect their vessels from detentions and delays. It is considered Improbable that the ousters of British vessels would agree to any inspection by German officials or recognize the right of American officers to do other than insure against violation of rules of neu fcrallty. Aa a whole the German proposals are not regarded by well-informed officials as bringing the questions at lame between the United States and any nearer a settlement they were several weeks ago. Prasldent Wilson la expected to re turn Monday or Tuesday and the for- mal Germany reply probably will roach here about the same time. There were many evidences in of ficial circles that the German con- waa again regarded aa critl- aad that the reply aa outlined wai ^•appointing. The concessions to have been made were re- to as a slight departure from position held by Germany, •at that the Unit- a strictly legal AUSTRIAN SKODA GUNS HURL TERRIFIC SHELL nahte to any aad CREW CAUGHT ON With the Athenian Bhlps Moored Near the Beach Their Crews Were Slain While Eating Breakfast on the Shore A Glimpse Intoh^An- clent History, \y ‘ In the fighting at the Dardanelles the British have lost six battleships. They are the Ocean and Irresistible, sunk by mines in the battle of March 18; the Goliath, sunk by a Turkish destroyer in April; the Triumph and Majestic, torpedoed by a German sub marine in May, and the Agamemnon, which presumably met the same fate about the same time. This is a larger number of ships of the line than the British navy has lost in any action since' the defeats by the Dutch in the middle of the seventeenth century, and a larger number of ironclads than any navy has ever, lost, with the exception of the Russian losses in the battle of the sea of Japan in 1905. Added to the disabling of the armored vessels by gunfire in the battle of March 18, and the loss of some smaller vessels at various times, these losses have given the British people a great shock. It is a coincidence that these losses by the greatest of modern navies have occurred almost within sight of the spot which saw the ruin of the greatest sea. power of ancient times. The Athenian navy, which was founded by Themistocles, saved Europe by its victory over the Per sians ,.t Salamis in 480 B. C., and ruled the Aegean and the Mediter ranean, despite occtoional defeats until the disaster at Aigospotamol (Goat Rivers) near the present vil lage of Jumalikoi, in the Dardanelles, in 405 B. L One of ths ironies of the disaster, which made Sparta the leading power among the Gree k states, was the fact that It was not a naval battle, nor indeed a battle at all. The crews of the fleet were caught while eating breakfast on shore. The most effec tive navy of the ancient world wis ruined finally when its sailors were ■surprised on the beach with their ships drawn up nu rows on the strand, whence they\could not be launched. TreacheryXcontributed largel/Utythe disaster, ancLparty pol itics an<J its accompanying dlajoyalty ’had weakened th«r Athenians serious ly before It occurred. Warships Depended on Oars. The standard battleship of those days was the trireme, a wooden ship with a single mast and a square sail which was of very little use In the propulsion of the vessel. The mo tive power was furnished by rowers, of which each ship carried 180. In the Athenian fleet these came mostly from the lower orders of citizens, though there were a considerable number of foreign mercenaries serv ing among them, and in the latter part of the war a few slaves. The “galley slaves ' of tradition, however, were in the main a latter institution The oarsmen worked three rows of oars, and the exact arrangement of these is something over which schol ars have argued in vain. No modern shipbuilder could construct a trireme except by accident. Besides the oars men, each vessel carried from ten to twenty heavy f rmed soldiers in case of a fight at close quarters, but the accepted method of warfare was ram ming with a heavy bronze or iron beak fittejl to the prow of the ship. The Athenians, wno made great advances in the naval* warfare of their time, developed Intricate ma noeuvres looking to the disabling of the enemy’s ships or the destruction of the tactical efficiency of his squad ron, but the ram was the principal weapon by "which naval battles were decided. A feature of the trireme was its very small space for supplies. War fleets kept close to shore in those days for the excellent reason that they Imd to land frequently to get food aiijd water. When there was urgent necessity a few days’ food could be taken along in transports, but a voyage straight across the open sea was next-to impossible for a large fleet. This made naval strategy easy, for a defending fleet had oniy to p)ck out an easy harbor on the coast line and wait, with the moral certainty that its opponent would he along in the course of time. Athens as a Sea Power. The Athenian fleet had been su preme in the earlier stages of the Peloponnesian war, but after the great defeat at Syracuse in 413 B. C., when more than two hundred tri remes and about fifty thousand men were lost, their sea power was crush ed for the moment, and their allies revolted and joined the enemy. For tunately it did not take long to build a fleet in those days, but when the war was resumed on the ocean the Athenians were no longer masters of the strategic situation from Rome to the Isthmus of Suez, as they had been in the earlier part of the war, but had to fight for the control of the Aegean Se& at their very doors, and of the Hellespont and Bosporus. Then, as now, the Hellespont (Dar danelles) was of importance on ac- Germany Annexes Territory. I ^expand ^adj^nV 5ft The German government has P r °-| Athenians needed the strait free to importrthe grain on which their city population lived. After several } “ara of fighting, with the honors abput even, the Athenians and .Spartalhr both lost their best commanders. Ajcibiades, the Athenian general, teas over thrown by political enemies on strong suspicion of (reachtry, strengthened by ths fact that ht had once before been guilty. Lysender.^he Spartan admiral, was removed from office hr Seveiitorn-Inrh SIioIIm Weigh, 2,800 Pounds and Destroy AU Living Things. Seven-eighths of the wounds in the Galician fighting were caused by shells, half of which were fired from big caliber guns, said Surgeon-Major l.esghintseff to an interviewer on re turning to Warsaw from the front. "Bullets play no part now." he continued, "and the infantryman’s rifle is a toy. Infantry merely occu pies the trenches the cannon have won." Most devastating of all are the new Skoda sheila of, the Germanic allies, which are sevehteen inches in diameter and weigh twenty-eight hundred pohnds The Skoda howit- ser shoots it * high angle and its shells penetrate twenty feet into soft earth before exploding two seconds after striking. These howitzers do not resemble the Krupp mortars of the same caliber, to which they are said to be superior in every way. When a Skoda shell hits, it means death to everything within a radius of one hundred and fifty yards and even farther off. The mere pressure o Its gas rips open the bombproof shelters and catches those who es cape the metal fragments and flying debris. This enters the body cavities and tears flesh asunder, sometimes strip ping the men o their clothes. Of course the men in the Immediate neighborhood of the explosion are annihilated. So fierce is the heat of the explosion of the shells that it melts rifle barrels as if they had been struck by lightning. changes or surrender any point. Irrespective, however, of the sug gestions made ns to the future con duct of German submarines as sug gested in the preliminary draft of the German reply, one of the chief causes of the pessimism is the treatment to be accorded the Lusitania tragedy. The German government, it is un derstood, has taken the position that there was no intention to sacrifice non-combatants, the view of the Ger man commander being that the ves sel would be difficult and slow to sink and there would be ample oppor tunity to remove passengers to a place of safety. The United States said in Us note that reparation would be sought for the sacrifice of Ameri cans on the Lusitania, but Germany has denied liability for the occur rence. In some official quarters there is still liope that the refusal of Ambas sador Gerard to discuss concessions may convince the German officials of the earnesti.ess of the United States and bring about modifications. There are intimations from Berlin, however, that officials there do not believe the American government will insist op the position it took in its last note and that public opinion in the United States favored compromising the is sue. §ome high officials in Berlin, it is said, are of the opinion that public sentiment in the United States on the question of separating passengers and contraband traffic supports Mr. Bryan’s view, as expressed since his resignation. This and other phases of the question gave the situation an atmostphere of doubt and uncertain ty which it has not had since the in dications of several days ago that faetprs were at work in Berlin for a favorable settlement of the control ex claimed the annexation of the Rus sian territory whlfch has been c*o- qoered And held around th« north Niemen river. Gen. von Goessler has been appointed civil governor of the new province. ^ Montenegrins Arrested. Five Montenegrins have been ar rested at New York charged with violating the Bevtnllty laws by ln- dtUig other Montenegrins to soldiers. go Hkratidas were left in comrband of the Athenian aad Spartan fleets re spectively, Kalllkratidas, with a far superior force, blockaded the Athen ians In the^harbor of Mltylene in the yea* 408 B.,C„ whereupon a new fleet was built at Athens by desperate exertions and the blockading Spartan squadron was attacked at the islands of Arglnoussal, The result was a great victory for Athens. Kallikra- tidas, the Spartaq admiral, was killed and seventy of his ships sunk. The Athenians lost twenty-flve ships, and after ; the battle there was a great outcry among the families of their crews because the eight Athenian ad mirals had not abandoned the pur suit of the enemy to take the sailors off the sinking ships. Defeated Admirals Executed. Public excitement arose to such a height that six of the admirals were brought to trial, the other two having prudently fled to foreign parts when they heard what was in the vind,. and the assembly ot the Athenian people sat in judgment. The defense was that several subordinate com manders had been ordered to drop back with a division of the fleet to save the crews while the^mUln bodies continued the pursuit, but the subor dinates, being influential politicians, evaded the charge. Friends- of the admirals, who interposed constittby tional objections, were told thaf"Tf was an outrage that the sovereign people should not do what it pleased. The unlucky six were condemned and put to death. This naturally discouraged naval enterprise. Although the next group of admirals elected included the able Konon, none of them dared to take any active steps. Hence Lysander, who was now made chief of staff and in effect commander of the Spartan fleet, sailed past the Athenians and captured the town of Lampsakos on the Hellespont which as Lampsaki on the'Dardanelles has figures in recent dispatches. This at once not only threatened the Athenian grain sup ply, but cut off the revenue from the tariffs which the Athenians had ex acted from ships passing through the Narrows. So their fleet of 180 ves sels rowed into the strait and drew up on shore at the mouth of Goat Rivers, just across the Dardanelles from the spot where the Spartans lay at anchor. Lysander had the advan tage qf position, with a city at his back from which he could draw sup plies. The Athenians had to scatter up and down the coast every day and forage for their food. Every morning Lysander cleared hts ships for action and rowed out into the strait, which at this point is less than two miles wide. Whenever he did this the Athenians hurriedly drew up ready for action on their side of the Hellespont, but they were on the defensive, parity for psycho logical reasons and partly because a defeat for them meant ruin, while a defeat for the Spartans meant only that they would have to build an other fleet. So every day, when Ly sander withdrew to the beach and up his threat of attack, the i did likewise and scattered to get'food along the shore. Athenians Are Trapped, Lysander, however, kept several fast ecout ships to apprise him of the exadt movements of the Athenians, who were now convinced that he had been trying to surprise them and had been balked by their vigilance. Alct- bades; their former general, who had a castle near by, came down and pointed out to the fleet commanders their dangerous position, but natur ally they refused to admit that Alci- bades could tell them anything about their business. So the Athenian fleet remained in its exposed posi tion) and after the Spartan fleet had come out, drawn up in.line, and then retreated on the fifth morning, the Athenians again drew their ships up on shore and scattered along the coast. This was what Lysander had waited for. Upon signal from a scout ship his own fleet, which had not been put out of fighting trim and was ready to return at a moment's notice, turn ed about and rowed back across the Dardanelles. The Athenian ships were drawn up in rows along the beach, empty of men. The arms were in the ships or scattered along the shore, and the men were everywhere except at their positions. Konon and one or two other officers, still on the alert, managed to escape with nine ships, and, prudently refusing to go back to Athens with bad news, made their escape to a neutral port and were interned. The rest of the ships were seized and their men captured without a fight. Thereupon several of the states allied to Sparta, brought charges of atrocities against the Athenians, and Lysander ordered his men to cut the throats of the three thousand Athenian citizens among the prisoners. All that w-inter Athens was be sieged by land and sea, and in April the .town surrendered after its people had began to drop dead in the streets from starvation. The peace confer ence at which the allies deliberated on the fate of the nation which had tried to master the whole Greek world was enlivened by the demands of Thebes and Corinth, the nearest neighbors of Athens, that the state be entirely wiped out, but Sparta, the principal member of the grand alliance, being at a safe distance, de cided that it would preserve the bal ance of power to let Athens remain as a weak state dependent on Sparta. And before long the allies were fight ing among themselves over the spoils of war and the hegemony they had wrested from Athens. Seven Missing After Explosion. Seven men are mlseing at Beloit, Quebec, as a result of a cordite ex plosion at the plant of an explosive manufacturing company there, on Wednesday. - Statistics show that at least forty per cent, of humanity have Eoema in some form or other. Though non- ^ofitagious, it spreads rapidly, and Is a very distressing affliction. 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