Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mm saTrao mas iatbered ABBOT WMUA CONFLICT; ns NEWS IN SHORT SPACE latcrMtlBC Pointers A boat the 81«nl- een Things Which Oftentimes Bs* cepe Attention—War Goes on in Many Fields of Activity—What the The Petrograd correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, in an article de scribing political conditions in Russia at the i present time, says that until Russia's domestic problem Is “solved one way or another,” it will exceed in popular interest any other aspect of the war. Members of the cabinet and of the duma are said by the same writer to be in conference over this problem. • * The British government has placed its flrst order for guns with Cana dian manufacturers, the number In volved being said to amount to $85,- 000,000. The order will be augment ed from time to time If the Canadian guns reach the efficiency standard set by the British government. Owing to certain formalities, the manufac ture of the guns can not begin at once, but the factories expect to start on the vrork within a month. • • Six large tAmerican locomotives bound for Russia were recently put aboard the Takuyama Maru, one of the new Japanese freight ships lying at the Bush Terminal In Brooklyn. The task of shipping was sided by sending the locomotives In pieces Three of the big boilers will be put in the steamer's hold and the others lashed to the decks and covered with tarpaulin. of British warship* oper off our coast were confirmed r few days ago when the British steam er Saint Ronald, from Yokohama and Singapore via the Sues Canal, arrived In New York and reported having been hailed by a British cruiser of the “county" clans, such as the Essex or Suffold, about twenty-five miles east of the Plre Island lightship. • • The Frankfurter Zettung publishes n eulogy of the "thoroughly polite nod conciliatory language" In which It says the American government "does not deannd, but requests" Am bassador Dutnba s recall. Readers of the paper are Informed that "things She this happen far more frequently than people imagine," and only la time of war acquire public Impor tance. * * Egypt apparently Intends to #x panrd the cotton Industry, ns ths Council of Ministers has removed the prohibition against growers dsvotlng more than one-third of their acreage to thia crop, accordlag to s dispatch from Cairo. * # Americans In London are taking the precaution of Insuring against Zeppelin raids. Neither the I'nlted States Embassy nor th# Consulate General are Insured, but that Is ths fault of ths officials rather than that of the Insurance agents, who hnvs been most assiduous lately In offering to write policies for both places Some time ago Ambassador Page had hia residence Insured to protect Its owners against loss. • • A cable dispatch to London credits the Csar of Russia with having order ed an amnesty for all political pris oners. The report comoa from Rome and gives the number of persons af fected as about 100,000. e • Persia Is said to be once more In a state of anarchy by a writer in a London paper, who asserts the sole organized military force possessed by the Persian state has been defeated In a series of engagements with the tribesmen. The mob is in revolt at Ispahan, where the German influence is now described as supreme. » • Crown Prince Humbert of Italy has Just returned from the front, where he has been enthusiastically received by the Italian soldiers. As he passed through Venice In company with his tutor, Captain Bonaldl, he was warm ly acclaimed T>y the populace. • * Reports of a frontier skirmish be tween Greek and Bulgarian patrols near Fatorna have been officially confirmed and an investigation order ed. * • • The Berlin Vorwarts reports that owing to some cases of typhus fever having been discovered In the west ern district of Berlin, the police have ordered the public to abstain from the use ot unboiled milk, • # * T Interview with King Alfonso of fipsin in which the monnrch Is qnoted as saying that the war has caused him to abandon plans for n visit to Amsr- Ica. "After the war In over. " says Alfonso In- the iatqrvtew, “the na tions will arm mors than tver. When one sees n country like Belgium, neu tralized by ^reemeat of all natlona, eventually finding no other defense than her own armed forces, It Is sasy to understand that other countries, big and little, realize that to exist it ia Indlapenzable to work In time# of pence. Even the pacifists will recog nise after this war that while the in stincts of human nature remain un modified, there are no better safe guards for right In International questions than foresight and strength." ' • * "V , The Swiss government Is consider ing the advisability of calling addi tional troops to the colors, to safe guard the northwestern frontier, as a further concentration of belligerent troops near certain portions of the Swiss boundary seems to threaten the national Integrity. v_ The French monopianist E. X. De- Mars has equalled the world's alti tude record of 21,598 feet, estab lished by the German aviator, Otto Llnnekogel, in a flight In an aero plane at Johannisthal in July, 1914. • • Figures made public by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at Washington show that shipments frdfai American ports in July of vari- 8 us war supplies totalled nearly $50,- 00,000. Explosives, including shells and other ammunitions, showed an increase from $5,911,929 in June to $9,329,303. Automobiles constitut ed the only Item to show a marked decrease. ~- * • The Ministry of Finance of France has excepted bottled champagne from the decree prohibiting the export of French wines. German champagne properties in France will not be al lowed to share In the export privi lege. Their stocks have been seques tered. • • In honor of Captain Otto Wcddi- gen, who commanded the German submarine U-9 when she sank three British cruisers and who later lost his life In command of the U-20. a memorial modeled after a submarine will be erected et Kiel, Germany. It will be built of wood, Into which nells of Iron, sliver, and gold will be ham mered until the model la covered with them. The proceeds from the sale of the nalla will be used for the relief oft he dlstreeeed In East Pruaele. • • Western news dispatches tell of the signing of a contract between capltalleta of Cleveland and Canton. Ohio, and the Ruealen government for the supply of 1.000.000 rifles The price Is said to be $*0,000,000. end the details of the matter were completed In New York. • * Many residents of London have written to the newspapers reporting that they have heard gunshots et various times. • Investigation has re vealed la tbaee cnees that the neersel war operations were sixty, seventy end even ninety miles distent. A London physician offers the explana tion 4hat what these people really beer Is the beating of their hearts • • Figure# given out et Berlin fox railroad traffic during July. 1915. ■how that the transportation of mer chnadtae on German railroads was 2.8 per cent greeter then that for the seme month of the preceding year, end set a new record. Of the total. 7.39 per cent, represented goods for the army. • • Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwe gian explorer, has published a book advocating that Norway arm herself strongly for defensive purpose* be fore it Is too late. BOSSES Mill TRADE S A warrant charging one of the principal French ship-owners with de- frending the state has been —Issued | upon complaint of the minister of marine. The man accused Is alleged to have obtained $30,000 more than their real value on each of several veaaels requisitioned by the govern ment. The money was obtained by the use of false valuation certificates. • s The entire membership of the House of Representatives of the Fed eral Parliament, the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Australia, has pledged Itself never again to pur chase German goods. •e • A dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph 'Company in London from Bucharest, Roumania, says that the League for the Liberation of Bes sarabia is opening an active cam- throughout Roumania, with ject of "awakening the instinct piensryation.” w *■ v v, r psblisbod an MAKE HAUL AT POST OFFICE Burglars Also Knter Store and Ibqx.t at Kulonia. The flrst news of the robbery at Eulonia to reach Mullins Tuesday morning came at five o'clock in a telephone message from Sheriff Dozier to Rural Policeman W. K. Brown, instructing him to be on the lookout for suspicious parties, and advised him to proceed to Smtthboro where he should inspect passenger train from Marion to Lumberton, when it reached there at seven-thirty. Mr. Brown also made search at five- forty of train No. 14, from Poston, to Hamlet, when It reached that Junc tion. ' The store of S. U. Davis, the post office and th# depot were entered by robbers and goods to the amount of several hundred dollars were stolen. From the post office cash to the amount of thirty dollars or more was stolen, and from the store of S. U. Davis, about two dozen watches, valued at more than two hundred dol lars, were stolen. It Is not thought that any goods were taken from the depot. MEAT BRITAIN IISES BOYCOTT AND THE BLACKLIST HOLDS UP RAW MATERIALS HERMAN REPORTS REVISED England Attempts to Control Ameri ca's World Trade by Forcing Man ufacturers to 8ign Guarantees Not to Sell or Export 'Goods to Any Country Withont Her Consent. On (Monday morning the New York World began a presentation of facts, illuminated by documentary ,«Yidence, which reveal the efforts of the Brit ish government to regulate and con trol trade between the United States and the rest of the world. These ac tivities are shown to have been far- reaching, materially important and invariably successful. There is no in formation to Justify the statement that they have been actually illegal or secretive. The evidence upon ..which The World bases its portrayal of British undertakings shows that the British government has succeeded in dictat ing to Americans engaged in various forms of industry the terms under which they are permitted to do busi ness with the rest of the world, and that it resorted to the “boycott” and “blacklist” to enforce its demantis. These demands, as set forth in documents accompanying these arti cles, are, In effect, that every Ameri can manufacturer -whose business compels the use of raw materials mainly obtainable in British posses sions Is compelled to sign, before re ceiving such products, guarantees partaking of the nature of an oath that he will not barter, sell or ship goods manufactured from them to any foreign country without the con sent of the British government. This application of the “boycott" to American business la extended so as to Include South America, pre sumably on the theory that American manufactured products sent there might eventually find their way to “enemy ooaatries." American buslneaa men who has# suffered by this restriction claim that ths British government haa exceeded Ita Legitimate International privilege# by practically pladng an embargo on American made goods of a miscel laneous character Into the manufac ture of which no British raw material enter. Operating through Its board Of trade, a government Institution simi lar to the United States department of commerce, and Ita recently created war trade department, the Brtttah government baa practically reorganiz ed and now exercises an almost abso lute control over th* American Indus trie* Into the manufacture of which enters wool, cotton, rubber and other raw materials. Through American trade organisa tions designated by the British gov ernment to represent It officially. American manufacturers compelled to secure supplies of raw materials grown or produced in the British Isles. Canada. Australia. New Zea land. South Africa. India. Malaysia and ita other colonlee. have been coerced Into signing agreements and guarantees not to trade with "enemy countries." Penalties for violations of these agreements are provided In the application of the "boycott" and "blacklist." F*rom documents, official records and Interviews obtained by The World the fact la clearly established that the Britisli government now practically dictate* the terms under which tl»e Importers sad manufactur er* of toe I'nlted State* are permitted to «h» business beyond the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Canadian and Panama borders. How effective the trade blockade of America has been made by Great Britain is demonstrated by specific Instances. Evidence on this point shows that in its attempt to conquer the Teutonic allies arrayed against it the British government has penalized American manufacturers by withhold' lug from them the delivery of goods and raw materials which were con tracted and paid for prior to the be ginning of the European war. American manufacturers who, for patriotic reasons, resented the trade dictation of Great Britain, have been peremptorily checked, at flrst by an admonition and warning, finally by being ''blacklisted." A few American concerns, notably too American Woolen Company (the Wool Trust), abruptly refused to ac cede to the conditions imposed by Great Britain and have been com pelled to suffer the inevitable conse quences. William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen company, recently told a friend and business associate in Boston that the American Woolen company would go into bankruptcy before It would yield to the arbitrary tt< Thp surrender to the British terms of some American firms ia Instanced In lettera In the possession of The World.- ^kn Ohio steel firm was com pelled to notify Ita customer* that It would not accept contracts from them unless guarantees were furnished that the manufactured article* would not be offetred for sale outside the United States or to any foreign coun try except Great Britain. The .undertaking* of the British government in seeking to control American trade conditions have been conducted with sublety. Legal de vices have been resorted, to In avoid ing conflict with American law*. As a matter pf fact, the hand of the British government is net directly re vealed in the application of methods by which the subjugation of Ameri can commerce has been accomplished. Insurance and steamship com panies have been compelled to insert clauses in their contracts covering shipments of American goods to all foreign countries which give the British government the right to seise all shipments consigned to ports not recognized by It. There is farther evidence presented that officials of toe British govern ment are stationed In the United States to supervise both Its export and Import trade. These officials op erate through American trade organi zations, which b*ve been compelled to accept the terms of the British government, and through banks, ex press, insurance, underwriting, for warding and steamship companies. GERMANS MUST BE SWIFT * TO CATCH RETREATING RUSS British Cabinet and Admiralty En dorse Strict Censorship. Sir John Simon, the British Home secretary, applying In the House of Commons to criticisms of the censor ship, said that Germany had sought to use the Press Bureau as a medium for advertising the German govern ment. in every neutral country, but this mission he had refused to per form. He added that the necessity for censoring certain parts of the German official communications had been confirmed both by the cabinet and the admiralty. "• Strategic Importance of Yilna Caused Busslans to Risk Many of Their Best Troop*. lioadon, Wednesday: Special dts- patc hes from Petrograd agree lhat the Russians have withdrawn safely from the Vilna salient, the strategic value of which was considered so great that the Russian staff felt justified in risk ing some of the best troop* to defend It to the last possible moment. In their withdrawal the Russians are said to have destroyed everything of military utility. Although the main army probably is safe It Is hardly likely that the whole Ruaalan force will escape without heavy losses In men and guns. Von H laden ban's cavalry, which waa expected to complete the encircling movement, is still held up between Smorgon end Molodechno. On the Vllna-Lldn-Slonim flank the German advance Is proceeding steadily but Prince Leopold's pro gress la slower, while Field Marshal von Mackensen has come to a pause beyond the Prlpet marshes If the Ruastan retreat is to be stopped successfully, the swiftest movement must come from the south and the Germans must reap the full SAID PRESIDENT IAS BURNED HIS BRINES BEHIND HIM HIT MUNITIONS POLICY advantage week. of their efforts within a BRYAN MAY GO TO EUROPE ON MISSION OF PEACE V. 8. Consulate Damaged. During the French' raid on Stutt gart. Germany. Thursday the building occupied by the American consulate was damaged bnt no occupant was hurt. demands of Great Britain. What Mr Wood said was "Great Britain could go to hell.” The American Woolen company is _ slxty-million-dollar corporation. It owns the immense Ayer Mills. Its own plant cover seven hundred acres and its mill buildings contain ten million square feet of mill space. But the American Woolen company from the British Dominions Is not able to get one iwnnd of woof, al though its business is entirely with American consumers. The declaration of Great Britain to permit Oelrichs and company, an old established American firm, to be plac ed on the wool "preference list" until It gave up its forwarding department furnishes another illustration, of British methods in dealing with American trade. This firm not only waa compelled to give up ita forwarding department, bnt to furnish guarantee* that It had no financial connection with th* Editors of American Newspapers I Foreign Tongue* Would Send Ex-Secretary Abroad. Plans to send Former Secretary Bryan on a mission of peace to the warring nations of Europe were the subject of a conference at Washing ton Friday between the former cabi net officer and Dy. William Forgo, representing editors of American newspapers published In foreign lan guages. Before visiting Mr. Bryan, Mr. Forgo, in a public statement, set forth the plan as so far developed, which contemplates a personal visit by Mr. Bryan to belligerent nations to argue for peace. In liis statement Dr. Forgo said that Mr. Bryan already had given him the impression that if the trip were undertaken, Mr. Bryan himself “will for the love of the cause not only sacrifice his time but will also pay his own expenses. The state ment lauded the former secretary of state L saying "that in all Europe, in belligerent or neutral countries, there is no American held in greater es teem than Mr. Bryan.’' Dr. Forgo said Mr.. Bryan would probably an nounce his plans after the confer ence. GREAT BRITAIN’S BLOCKADE CONTINUES TO STOP SHIPS No Reason Has Been Given for the Continued Detainment of the Tanker Corning. The continued detention of the Ameijcan tanker Corning and—the Norwegian steamer Vltalia promises to cause a revival of interest in the controveray over the question of the seizure of neutral shipping. No reason has yet been made pub lic, says a London dispatch, for the seizure of the Eorning, but Standard Oil officials, exercised over their fail ure to secure her release, have placed the case in the hands of the Ameri can government. ’ The Vltalia’s cargo was consigned to The Netherlands Oversea Trust, but the British government maintains that contracts for such a large ship ment had not been made in advance by the trust. The packers maintain they had a right to ship without pre vious orders. The State department was advised on September 10 that the Corning, from Baton Rouge to Malmo, Swe den, had arrived at Kirkwall It waa •umed by officials that aha had vol untarily pat into that port to obviate bar soixure a* a “rospect" Austrian Ambassador Criticized Lan sing’s Reply. “Certainly Very Weak” in Letter Which Archibald , • ,-v ' ‘ Carried—Text is Made Public by # 4 i the British in London. . —; Of the thirty-four American and German papers found In the posses sion of James F. J. Archibald, the American newspaper correspondent, when he was apprehended at Fal mouth, England, while proceeding from New York for Rotterdam, seven teen are described as having been made public in London and the other seventeen as being "insufficient to warrant publication.” Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador to the United States, in one letter says that Mr. Archibald "is proceeding to Germany to collect ma terial for lectures in the United States in the interest of the German cause.” In a letter addressed to Ar c bibald Count von Bernstorff^aaya: "I have heard with pleasure that you wish once more to return to Ger many and Austria after having pro moted our interests out here in such a zealous and successful manner." Capt. von Papen, the military at taches of the German embassy in Washington, in a letter to a Berlin friend said: "Mr. Archibald is going to Germany and Austria to collect new impressions from the point of view of the strictly impartial Jour nalist he has always been.” The documents Included a letter from Dr. Constantin Theodor Dumba, the Auatro-Hungarlan ambassador at Washington to Baron von Rurlan, the Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, which crPldsed Sec retary of State Lansing's reply to Baron von Burlan’e protest against the large deliveries of weapons to the Allies. The letter declares the legal arguments of Mr. Lansing are "certainly very weak,*' but adds that to return to the question is useless having regard to tb* somewhat self- willed temperament of the presi dent." Tu* letter of Dr. Dumba, dated August 20, says: "The reply of Secretary of State Lansing to the note of the 29th of June, in which your Excellency pro tested against ths enormous deliv eries of weapons and munitions to the Allies from the i'nlted States, was published here—I do not know whether with the agreement of the Austrian government^—on'’the 18th ultimo. "As was to be expected, the refusal was quite categorical. The legal ar- buments are certainly very weak, for the references to articles supplied by Germany and Austria during the Boer war are not to the.point and are misleading, for at that time Ger many claimed the right to send food stuffs to the Boers via the neutral port of I,orenzo Marques, and, if I am not mistaken, carried the point after the war against England. “The true ground for the discour aging attitude of the |ire*ldeut lie*, a* his confidant. Mr. House, already Informed me in Janaary, and now has repeated, in the fact that the anthori- tie* In a serious crisis would have to rely on neutral foreign countries for all their War materials. At no price and In no case will Mr. Wilson allow this source to dry up. “ For this reason I am of the opin ion that a return to the question, whether officially, by replies of your Excellency, or by a semi-official con versation between myself and the secretary of state, will not only be useless, but even, having regard to the self-willed temperament of the president, harmful. ' Vln this matter 1 agree entirely with the view expressed by Consul General Schwegel In a roport attach ed. The president has broken all the bridges behind him and made Ids point of view so definite that It is impossible for him to retreat from this position. "As last autumn, he can always, through his personal influence, either force the House of Representatives to take his point of view against their better judgment, or, on the other hand, in the Senate can overthrow the resolution already voted in favor ol prohibiting the export of guns and ammunitions. “In the circumstances, any attempt to force the individual states to vote parallel resolutiona through their legislative bodies offer no advantages apart from the internal difficulties which the execution of this plan pre sents. “The proposal to forbid passenger ships to carry munitions stands on a different footing, however. Mr. Bryan and his Democratic supporters would stand for this prohibition, and I be lieve the president would not show himself so faitransigeant with regard to this action. “As for the note to protest against British interference with shipping, which has so often been noticed and as-often postponed, I learn that the issue is delayed in consequence of the Imminent declaration of cotton as contraband. The feeling~*tok:h ob tains amongst the great American Im porters was accurately represented in Mr. iMeagher’s (Meeker?) speech. Meagher is one of the principal ex porters of the United States, for he is a partner in the Chicago company of Axtnput and Co.,- who, with the firm of Swift, Control the meat mar ket of the whole Western Hemi sphere. “Mr. Meagher, whom,,! recently met on a yacht, and whose acquaint ance I had already mad* in Chicago, absolutely regards England's acta as arbitrary No f*war than thirty-one 4 4 manta of hi* fra f« at nineteen million dollars, bavo detained in English porta for under suspicion that they ultimately v are Intended for Germany. "The negotiations are being so long drawn out, because Mr. Meagher and bis companion* will not accept a Mmo compromise, but Insist on full com pensation, or the release of the con signments, In which the bacon may be still sound. ^ _ “My informant farther gave me to understand he ha* not yet played hie last trump, namely, a refusal to 1m-. port meat to England under the cir cumstance*. He—that is to say the above named slaughtering houses— control the Argentine market. At the present moment they are paralyz ed here also by the action of the- British admiralty, for the latter has- commandeered most of the English freight ships intended to transport meat from Argentine. “If England stood face to face with the danger of not being able to, get any meat from the United States or Argentine she would soon give in. , J'Whst the immediate result here of making cotton contraband will be is hard to say. The anger of those interested in cotton will be enormous ly increased, but on the other hand, the fear of threatened confiscation may make the leaders of the cotton trust so yielding that they, against their better judgment, may agree to the sale of the greater part of the present supply en bloc to England, who would be In a position in the future to control the whole cotton market, and on peace being declared, to force on the whole world tills es sential raw material. (Signed) “t. Dumba.” Count von Bernstorff’s letter is one which he wrote to Secretary of State Lansing on August 18, just after the expose of the New York World, which attempted to Implicate him in efforts to create strike dis turbances. It has already been pub lished in this paper. . . A letter from Capt. von Papen, military attache of the German em*. ■» bassy, addressed to his wife and de scribing the stealing of a portfolio from Heinrich Albert, commercial at tache of the German embassy at Washington, on an elevated railroad train in New York, said: “You can imagine the sensation among the Americans. Unfortunate ly some very Important things from my report were among them, such as the buying of liquid chlorine, and about the Bridgeport Projectile Com pany, as well as documents regarding the buying np of phenol, from which explosives are made, and the acquisi tion of Wright's aeroplane patent. "But things tike that must occur. It Mems quite likely w* will meet again soon. The sinking of the Adri atic (sic) may well be the last straw. I hope In our interests the danger will blow over. How splendid on the utern front. "1 always say to the idiot Yankee* that they had better hoM their tongues. It ia better to look at all their heroism with full admiration. My friends in the army aro quite dif ferent In this way " SHIP MAY HAVE TO REMOVE GUN TO LEAVE OUR PORT i Developnient of Submarine Warfare i'aneea Change oa Governni«*nt Small Gun AtUtade. State department officials still are conferring with attaches of the Brit ish embassy regarding the merchant ship Waiamana detained at Newport News for several weeks by order of the government when she put Into port from Australia with a four-inch gun mounted on her stern. The ship was held up because of the probability that the United States would revise rules governing carry ing of the defense guns on merchant ships of belligerents In view of the development of submarine warfare When rules were laid down by thl government permitting mercha; ships to carry small defense guns enter and leave American ports, thV submarine warfare had not develop-' ^ ed. It now is apparent that small de fense guns such as merchant ships carry can destroy submarines. It was stated that the British gov ernment may decide to remove the gun from the Waiamana and not raise an issue at this time. If the gun is removed the Waiamana would' be cleared. Should this occur It was explained at the state department, it would not influence deliberations now in progress which will result In changing the regulations regarding the armament of belligerent mer chant ships. . - BULflARIA’S MOBILIZATION SHAVE STEP, SAYS LONDON Hope in English Capital is That il Does Not Mean Final Deci sion of Balkan Power. London reports: The news ths Bulgaria is mobilizing, to what en has not yet been revealed, whic reached here flrst from New York I considered the most important new of weeks. No attempt is made in any quarts to deny the tremendously grave in plications of this move on the part c the state which has from the fin been the storm centre of the whol tangled Balkan problem, but it 1 still hoped that it does not mean tha Bulgaria has finally decided to thro' in her lot with Germany, Austria an her traditional enemy, Turkey. 0 the contrary, It Is suggested that tbl last dramatic move is the final not| 11 cation to the Allies that they mill meet Bulgaria's terms. None th lea*, all the news to-day from th Balkans has been steadily mor alarming. • The British steamship Chancellor 4.6tl ton*, has been sunk Friday’ Part ot bar craw haa been saved