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t J TBJiJFMITLE m SPETS REPORT ON SE4 ; uttu comes to uoirr OREY ASKS FOR MORE TIME; ENOLAND TO SEND NEW NOTE IEAVY SEA HALTED FIGHT Bcrlta ReceivM Official Account of f the German Naval Success of the • f ' Bari/ Part of the War—Germans ; Were Later Destroyed by British 1 Battle Squadron. Bight months late, the report of Vice Admiral Count Spee of the bat tle between the Germans and the British off the Bay of ,\rauco, Chile, near Coronet, ha# reached the Ger man admiralty, says a Berlin dis patch. The naval engagement, In which three British cruisers and an auxili ary cruiser and two German cruisers and three smaller vowels took part, occurred on November 1, 1914. Vice Admiral Spec’s account was written on November S. Since then one by ana iEe ships In his fleet—the Scharnhorst, the Cnelsenau, the Nuernberg, the Lelpil* end the Dres den—have been sunk. Von Spee went down with his flagship in the battle off the Falklands. Following is Vice Admiral Spec's report in full: "The squadrons under my com mand, consisting of the large cruisers Scharnhorst and Gnelsenau and the ■mall cruisers Dresden, Nuernberg and Leipslg, steamed on the first of November about twenty miles from the Chile coast, at a twelve-mile rate, toward the south, In order to catch an English cruiser which, according to reliable Information, had anchored off Coronel the night before. On the way several cruisers were detached from the squadron to look for ap proaching steamers and sailing ves- ■els. “At 4.15 la the afternoon, bent on such a mission, the Nuernberg was Apt of sight to the northeast and the Dresden was approximately twelve miles to the rear. With the rest of the squadron, I stood about forty miles to the northeast of the Bay of Arouca. ^ “At 4.17 there were sighted. In the west and to the south, two vessels, and at 4.25 a third, about fifteen miles distant from us.- Two were •aally recognized as warthlps, prob ably the Monmouth and the Glasgow, wAlle the third was probably the aux iliary cruiser Otranto. They teemed to be taking a southerly course. Mj squadron pursued them with all pos sible speed, keeping them about four points to the starboard. The wind tras blowing a full gale from the sooth. A correspondingly high sea eras running, so that I strongly pre ferred to guard against being forced lato the lee position. "The course chosen served also to cat off the enemy from the neutral coast. At 4.35 it was noticed that the British ships were bearing more westward, and I followed eventually la a west-southwest course, the Bcharnhorst gradually overtaking them at a speed of twenty-two miles, while the Gnelsenau and the Leipslg lagged behind. The lively wireless sachange of the enemy was disturbed as much as possible. “At 5.20 the arrival of another warship was made known. This ves sel took the lead at 5.30 and was recognised as the Good Hope, the flagship of Rear Admiral Cradock. The enemy's line at once straightened out, ran up Its flags and attempted slowly to close on a southerly course. From 5.35 on I held to a southwest erly course, later to a southerly course, under diminished speed, to allow my other ships to catch up. ^ “At 6.07 the two lines stood near ly parallel to one another on a south erly course, a little more than 14,600 yards apart. The Dresden was about one mile behind and the Nuernberg was far to the rear. At 6.20, at a •distance of 13,4 00 yards, 1 turned one point toward the enemy, and at «,34, at a range of 11,260 yards I opened fire. “Wind and swell vjere head on and the vessels had heavy going, especial ly the small cruisers on both sides. Observation and dlst nee estimation were under a heavy handicap be cause of the seas which washed over the bridges. The swell was so great that it obscured the aim of the gun ners at*the 10.5 centimetre guns on the middle deck, who could not see the sterns of the enemy’s chips at all .«nd tho bows but seldom. ^ “The guns of both our armored cruisers on the other hand were ef fective, and by 6.30 already we could note the first hit on tho Good Hope. 1 at once resumed a parallel course Instead of bearing as before slightly the enemy. The English opened their Are at this time. I as sume that the heavy sea made more trouble for them than it did for us. While we ran parallel, and later, as it grew dark, when we increased the distance between us, their two ar- aaored cruisers remained covered by -firs, while they, so t'r as could be determined, hit the Scharnhorst only twice and (he Gnelsenau only four times, "At 6.53, when only 6,500 yards •part, I ordered a course one point •way from the opponent. They were ■ring more slowly at this time, white wo were able to eoun'. numerous hits. . We could see, Among other things, that the top of the forward turret of the Monmouth hod been shot away that a violent Are was burning on turret. The Scharnhorst, it is the Good Hope about ty-flve times. “In spite of our altered course, the changed theirs sufficiently so distance between us shrank hundred yards. There to ■ aspect that the enemy his artillery lasseevTing for a Wires American State Department to Withhold Note Sent Out cn Monday. A request was made Tuesday by Sir Edward Grey, British minister r for foreign affairs, that the state depart-' ment withhold from publication, aa originally planned, the text of Mon day’s British reply to the American proteat against the British order In council caused much speculation In official clrclea. No explanation waa made except that another note on the subject was promised from London within a week. Secretary Lansing declined to ad vance any theory for the supplement ing of the first communication. An American note, “how in preparation, will be delayed until the supplemen tary document is received. Officials at first suposed that statements in the las’, American note to Germany, which stated the purpose of the United States to maintain the. freedom of the seas, might have in fluenced the British foreign office to deal with that subject in the same note which defends the order In coun cil. From British sources, however, It was learned that the main purpose In asking the postponement of pubttdk- tlon was to give the British govern ment opportunity to consider the communication cabled from Washing ton July 17 on cases before prize courts. This caveat recited that the Ameri can government, would Insist on the recognition of the rights of Ameri can citizens under the principles of International law governing neutral trade in time of war without limita tion or impairment by orders in coun cil or restraints imposed by British municipal law. The British note delivered Monday Is understood to be framed on the theory that the order In council does not transgress the right of neutrals as laid down in International law, al though it is admitted that In some respects the application of the legal principle is new. In view of the re cent objection by the United States to the order In council the British government is understood to feel that this phase requires special treatment. One feature of the British note la understood to deal exhaustively with the right of a country blockade an enemy through neutral ports That the United States, if In^war with a European country outside of the Brit ish Isles, never could successfully maintain a blockade so long as the enemy country could receive unllmlt- d supplies across the borders of an djscent country Is regarded by the British as a fact which should be con sidered in dealing with the effort to shut off supplies being received by Germany through Cwedlah, Danish and Dutch porta. The decision of the United States supreme court in the Matamoros cases during the War Between the Sections la held by Great Britain not to apply to the present conditions, because at that time, except at Brownsville, there -"us virtually no way for supplies landed In Mexico to roach the Confederate States over land through Texas because of a lack of Inland transportation facilities. In case there should be an even tual disagreement as to Great Brit ain’s right to detain vecsels and car goes under the order In council, Brit ish officials point out that American Interests may bo trusted safely to the special international tribunal provid ed for in the arbitration treaty be tween the United States and Great Britain. HAS NOT BEEN PUBUSHED THE ENGUSH VIEW SUMMARY OF NOTE RECEIVED FROM LONDON Turns Down *27,000,000 Order E. T. Borrowes. a wealthy manu facturer of Portland, Mo., turned down a 327,000,000 order for rifles for the Allies. School Ship at Charleston. The Presidente Sacrimento, a school ship for the Argentine navy, arrived in Charleston harbor Thurs day morning. moon, which had risen at six o’clock, was favorable to this move. Accord ingly, I gradually opened up further distances between th > squadrons by another deflection of the leading ship at 7.45. “In the meantime it had grown dark. The range finders on the Scharnhorst used the Ire op, the Mon mouth as a guide for a tifne, though eventually all range finding, aiming, and ob«ervatio:.s became so Inexact that firing was stopped at 7.26. At 7.23 a column of fire from an ex plosion was noticed between the stacks of the Good Hope. From that time, as It seemed to me, that vessel fired no more. The Monmouth ap parently stopped firing at 7.20. “The snmll cruisers, including the Nuernberg, received by wireless at 7.30 the order to follow the enemy and to attack their ships with tor pedoes. Vision was somewhat influ enced at this hjur by a rain squall. The light cruisers were not able to find the Good Hope, but the Nuern berg encountered the Monmouth, which with a heavy list rteamed at first ahead and then parallel with her. At 8.58 the Nuernberg was able by shots at closest rangj, to capsize the Monmouth, without & shot being fired in return. Rescue work in the heavy sea was not to be thought of, especially as the Nuernberg imme diately afterward believed she had sighted the smoke of anothec enemy ship and had to prepare for a new attack \««i The Otranto turned about as soon as the first shot struck her, and later apparently ran away »t full speed. The Glasgow was able to keep up longest its fire, even though it was Ineffective, and succeeded In escap ing Iq the darkness. Both the Leip zig and the Dresden thought they saw several salvoes of hlta strike her. “Th# small cruisers had neither losses nor dxmsge in the battle. OB the Onelsenaa there were two men slightly wounded. The crews of the t lato the fight with ee- Dvery one did his duty of the sad played his pert la tbb victory." At the Request of Greet Britain .Of ficial Publication of Reply is With held—Wilson is Studying the Note at Cornish—Present Summary is Probably Authentic. The text Of the nota received from the British government Monday has been forwarded to President Wilson at Cornish for his Information. It is also being carefully studied and analyzed by Secretary Lanslng\and his advisers in the state department. A Washington dispatch to The New York Times indicated the general character and tenor of the note which waa received. Additional in formation obtained concerning the attitude of the British government as set forth In the British note. It may be summarized as follows: 1. The British government con tends that It has not departed from or altered the generally recognised principles of International law re garding blockade and contraband, and the treatment of neutral com merce, but has merely given new applications to existing principles of International law. 2. That the British government can not accept any doctrine that would treat every port of the Brit ish Isles as a blockaded port under the enforcement of the German submarine policy, while leaving Gearmany free to make use of cer tain natural neutral ports, such os Rotterdam, for commerce up tho Rhine into Germany? 3. That the British government Is observing principles of interna tional law sustained by decisions of the United Htates supreme court In the civil war cases, in which the British government contends, the court decided that the real crite rion of neutral trado la neutral consumption, and that the mero fact that trade goes through a neu tral country does not conatitnte It neutral trade. ^ 4. The British government con tends that the former distinction between land end soa carriage of trade has dlaapperred. owing to the construction and development of railroad., and the creation of the German canal system. 5. The principle of Intmiattoual law, as viewed by the British gov ernment In making 1U reply, Is that If a nation possesses com mand of the seas that nation can declare a lawful blockade and pre vent trade with the enemy, and that the criterion of whether an effective blockade exists Is whether a voyage to an enemy port is at tended with exceptional risks. 6. That while the general prin ciples of law remain the same, their application depends on cir cumstance*, and while a belligerent has no right to endanger neutral lives or legitimate neutral trade between neutrals, trade destined for an enemy under the guise of being legitimate neutral commerce, can not expect to pass freely through a neutral port Into th* enemy's country for uso by the enemy. 7. In responce to tho American contention that neutrr.l trade be tween neutrals has, "s a matter of fact, been Interfered with the Brit ish contention la that only neutral trade with belligerents la being interfered with and neutral trade with neutral nations contiguous to Germany Is greater than It was prior to the war, and In excess of the precise amounts needed by the requirements cf tho population of those contiguous neutrr.l countries. 8. In response to tho American contention thr.t American shippers have the precedents on their side, that the ev'denco is not sufficient to prove that the neutral trade in terfered with by Great Britain has been In reality trado with tho enemy, the British government contends that the so-called neutral agents situated in ne itral coun tries wore in reality agents for Germany. 9. It is argued 'y the British government that this Is matter of judicial proof or disproof, and as a jaridiclal question must even tually, under the arbitration treaty * between Great Britain and the- United States, go before an arbi tral court for determination,, but . that it would bo Impossible, at the “present moment, with tho war in Europo involving all six of the leading nations of Europo, .to find a neutral arbitrator.frhose country was not immediately interested outside of South America: .• 10. That it must be obvious that the interests of Europe in the question of continuous voyages as understood in international law decisions of the two countries, England and the United States, are diametrically opposed to those of England and the United States. It would thus appear to be the position of this British goverumeut that differences found to exist be tween the two governments as to the principles of law applicable, or re specting the application of those principles, which can not be settled diplomatically, may he submitted at the first opportunity, probably not until the war In Europe la over to arbitration under the existing treaty of arbitration between the two coun tries. ■ | —The arbitration treaty of June 4, 1908, between England and the Unit ed States provides that “differences which may arise of a legal nature” tt "relating to the Interpretation of treaties existing between the two contracting parties” and “which may not have seen possible to-settle by diplomacy, shall he referred to Permanent Court of Arbitration, es tablished at The Hague by the Con vention of the twenty-ninth of July, 1899, provided, nevertheless, they do not affect the vital Interests, the in dependence, or the honor of the two contracting states, and do not con cern the Interests of third parties.” This arbitration • convention was negotiated by Elihu Root and James Bryce. It provides that in each case the two nations, before appealing to the Court of Arbitration, should con clude a special agreement clearly de fining the matter in dispute, the scope of the powers ;of the arbitra tors, and the periods to be fixed for the formation of the arbitral tri bunal and the several stages of pro- t edure. Under the terms of the ar- itration -treaty, the advice and con sent of the Senate would have to be obtained- by the president to the spe cial agreement for arbitration. The Brlttah government is prepar ing a new note to the United States, which will deal with the general questions of contraband and block ade raised by restrictions on neutral commerce during the enforcement of the order In council policy against overseas trade with Germany. The new note will be forwarded to tho state department within a week, ac cording to the department's advices from Walter H. Page, the American ambasaador at London. Mr. Page transmitted a request from Sir Edward Grey, British Min ister for Foreign Affairs, that the British note which waa received by the Washington government be with held from publication until the new communication waa delivered. The British note was to have been given out textually at the state, de partment for publication In morning papers. An arrangement for syn chronous publication in the United Kingdom and the United States, had been made with the British govern ment, but when the request came from Sir Edward Grey, Secretary Lansing announced that the note would be considered confidential for the present. The cablegram from Ambassador Page gave no details. It did not In dicate the nature of the forthcoming note, but stated that It would deal with the shipping question. Secre tary Lansing said he had received no intimation as to the reason for or character of the new note. However, since the note that is to come will deal with the same ques tion of shipping that la covered by the note received, officials of the de partment are assuming that the forthcoming communication will be In the nature of a supplement, and that the two communications will have to be considered together aa constituting the British reply to the American contentions in favor of the rights of neutral trade under recog nized principles and rules of interna tional law. ' The preparation of a supplemen tary note by the British government will delay somewhat the transmis sion of the new Amork-an note to Great Britain dealing with the prob lems of trade and Intercourse which affect both governments under the enforcement of the order In council policy. The American reply has been In preparation some time. It had been nearly completed and was sent In Its Incomplete form to President Wilson at Cornish for consideration. The American note will not now, of course, be forwarded to Ambassador Page for delivery to Sir Edward Grey, until the second note now in preparation In London has been re ceived and considered. It is alto gether probable that the American note wlU be revised so as to serve as a response to both the new British notes. In some quarters the fact that a supplemental note wua being pr^>ar- ed by the British government was re garded aa significant. But this was not the view of Secretary Lansing or other high officials of the state de partment, who pointed out that the state department had no intimation concerning the tenor of the coming note, or Its character, and that no one In Washington had Informa tion upon which to predicate a state ment as to the '‘significance’’ of the development. The opinion was expressed In one quarter that the coming note might take cognizance of the suggestions conveyed in the ,last American com munication to Germany relative to contending for the freedom of the seas, but this suggestion was dis counted elsewhere.. The best obtain able opinion appears to be that the British note will deal more especially with the “caveat” note of July 14 from Secretary Lansing, requesting Ambassador Page to Inform the Brit ish government that the United States "will not recognize tho valid ity of prize court proceedings taken under restraints Imposed by British municipal law in derogation of the rights of American citizens under In ternational law.” Fire at Norfolk Navy Yard. A fire which resulted Inconsequen tially was discovered at the Norfolk navy yard Thursday. It Is credited to spontaneous combustion. —— ' W« develop, sad return your work la twenty-four hour* All CUUflFU COMPANY Boa MB. r%mm IT*. ORANGEBURG, &. C. Eczema Can Be Gored! 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Lcmbard Iron Works, Augusta, Ga. U. S. WANTS INFORMATION . IN CASE OF THE LEELANAW, German Commander Visited aad Searched Boat mad Took Cure of the Crew. Information on one point—^wheth er the American steamer Leelanaw’s captain waa requested to deliver out the costraband in his cargo and- waa -fwitHeg ia do so, Is needed before American officials can determine the nature of repreeentatloni which may be made to Germany on the vessel’s destruction by • German submarine. . The German commander evidently followed the raise of visit sad seureh to the letter, according te ' ^ I ports thus fqr received, and due pre cautions were taken for the safety of the crew. Consul General Skinner, at London Tuesday sent the follow ing message: ' • “Leelanaw’s crew proceeding to Dnndee. - Captain torpedoed ship states to consular agent at Kirkwall that he had ample time to leave ship before being fired opdn. Crew went on board submarine and remained some time. Ship’s boats taken in tow fifty* miles.” Previous messages reported that the crew landed at Kirkwall In the Leelanaw'w’owB' bouts: The saving' of craw removed from the case as pects which might have brought an other climax In German-American re lations Officials now regard the case only aa • diplomatic cod trover- ty. Liability probably will be admit ted by German/, It C