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i Jl 1 NOT A PDA fiFRMAN ambassador voices union nui /i i nu-uLnmrtu of pan american strenotb CONSTANTINE SAYS HE LOOKS OUT FOR OREECE ALONE NEEDS STRENGTH LATER King Says When Power* Wake Peace . r ■ * ' '•••••.• . • ... ... i Greece Will Have a Powerful Army Do Protect Her From Aggression and to Secure for Her Just Treat- ‘J' ment in the Settlements. “I hope you will make the peo- pli of the United States under stand that I am no more pfo-Ger- man than your president,” said King Constantine to the Associat ed Press correspondent recently, “I am pro-Greek, just as your * president tries to be - only pro- American. “It is one of the saddest evidences „ °f the blind hatreds and prejudices evoked by this war, that people who should and in their sober senses do know better, insist upofa imputing to others motives which they never could conceivably have entertained.” The king's statement was made in communicating to the correspondent an important declaration of his pol icy which he had given to a repre sentative of The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin. This declaration was made . with a view to clearing up any mis understanding respecting his inten tions which may exist in Germany. In his statement to the correspon dent of The Lokal Anzeiger, King Constantine set forth more clearly than hitherto the purpose underlying his policy which as he put it recently iu a statement to the.. Associaknl tress, was “not to be cajoled or coerced out.of neutrality." “Whether the Balkan question wilF be satisfactorily solved by this Euro pean war I do not know,” the state ment says. "None dares predict that In this part of the world another bloody war will not break out before the solution of the most complicated questions of nationality can "be reached "No one hopes more than 1 that such a disaster will be avoided. But as I have so often said, our taking part In the present coafilct is not a Balkan matter. It would merely en gulf us In the world struggle. . . . I wish no war from which my coun try does not secure a profit. While I remain at peace I shall strengUien my army as much as possible. I hope at the end of the war to have ray army strong and absolutely fresh! “That is of prime Importance for my country, for when peace does come Greece vylU be a factor of con siderable importance whereas, were she to enter a long drawnout Euro pean war she would be exhausted: for the first victims of such a war naturally are the smaller states < which have fewer resourtfs within themselves. "Our neutrality, therefore, is not a sign of weakness, but the proof of a deliberate Intention to husband our strength for later difficult times. "That Is w r hy I cling to my policy of conserving the freedom and in terests of my people without spilling tholr blood.” , . . - Respecting his,, attitude toward Germany and his brother-iri-law, Em peror William, King Constantine said: "I am absolutely free. I am boqnd by no personal interest. Ac cordingly 1 qaa-aay with a clear con science that I have only the interests of my people before my eyes. Senti ment plays very little part in politics. I do not let myself be influenced by ajiy sympathies, antipathies or other feelings. I have only the duty of - looking after interests of my people with all my ability.” THE FARMER’S COLUMN Adjournment of Second Scientific Congress Occasions Warm Sup- 1 port of President. Adjournment qf.dhe second Pan- American scientific congress last week after a thirteen-fiay session was marked by a crystalization of senti ment for an alliance of American na tions to safeguard the Western Hemi sphere from European military and commercial aggression. "It is certainly not the business of the delegates to this congress to de termine What course shall bo followed by the foreign offices of our coun tries, but we who have breathed this atmosphere of American fraternity can at leasf tot them know that this congress from the president of the United States to thfc delegate from the most distant part of the conti nent, is united in the noble desire of seekiqg political unity of tho conti nent so that the nations which com pose it may thus lend one another mutual support and thus- afford themselves better protection against foreign danger.” Ambassador Suareg's declaration was received with much applause b>» the delegates. He is known to favor strongly the establishment of . a league of the Pan-American republics for the preservation of neutrality and the protection from possible invasion by European powers. A majority of the delegates from the twenty-one Latin-Amerlcan republics hold the same views. QUESTIONS INVITED UPON ANY AGRICULTURAL TOPIC. OFFENSIVE IN WEST DC PONT PLANT HAS FIVE EXPLOSIONS IN TWO DAYS Kront Sunday to Tuesday Night Many Accidents Happen— Not At tributed to Splen. The fifth explosion in two days at the Du Pont Powder plants in the vicinity of Wilmington, Del. occur red late Tuesday night ih the Hagley yards on the outskirts that city A small wheel mill blew up and be yond destroying th? building and about a ton of powder no damage mas done. No one was in the mill The fourth explosion occurred late Tuesday afternoon at the smokeless powder plant at Carney's Point, N J.. across the Delaware river front Wilmington. Thirteen tons of pow der went off without Injuring any one. I^tst Sunday night there was blast at Carney's Point which killed three men and on Monday there was an explosion at the Hagley yards and another one at Carney's Point. ' The Du Pont company attribute the explosions to unavoidable acci dents, though the definite cause is hot known. "The large number of explosions at this time,'' said a representative of the company, is undoubtedly due to the fact thabvihe company’s force Is one-hundred times as great as when the European .war broke out and there is so much more work to be done. ‘ It is also a fact that nearly all of the orders are hurried and It is also true that some of the operative! have not been at the business long enough to acquire the experience of maqy of the older men." GINNINGS TO YEAR’S END TOTAL TO 10,000,000 BALES Interesting Articles Upon Practical Matters Which Should Interest Every Fanner. ^ , Xbft Blood is Vital in Turkey Br^F- Ing. r - Many South, Catalina people are making a start with turkeys this year. In the oplhian of the poultry husbandman at Clemson college, FBls is a good thing, as for those who con duct the business carefully turkey raising is likely to be very profitable. The demand in this country continues to increase, apparently, faster than the supply. Farmers who go into the business, however, are cautioned to give' the marketing problem con siderable attention .in advance. In the turkey publication of Ahe United States Department of Agri culture, which is Farmers’ Bulletin No. 2u0, the following rules for se lecting turkeys .for breeding are given: First. Always use as brooders tur key hens over one year old. Be sure they are strong, healthy anad vigor ous, and of good medium size. In no instance select the smaller ones. Do not strive to have them-unnaturally large. ' VX Second. The male may be a year- ing or older. Do, not imagine that itrge, overgrown males are - best. Strength, health, and vigor! with well proportioned, medium size, are the main points of excellence, t- ■- Third. Avoid close breeding. Nett bloqd is of vital importance to tur keys. Better send a thousand miles for a ney male thau, u» risk the chances of inbreeding. Secure one Th* fall so as to be assured of his health and vigor prior to the breeding sea- on. TV * acid as a aubstitutb for sulphuric. Nitrate prices have advanced since the war began, but there is an abun dant supply of nitrogenous, fertiliz ing material, and the department is endeavoring to ^ And nfdtlibdB to cheapen tho cost of' .manufacture. The secretary concludes with a warn ing to farmers to conserve all fer tilizing materials on the farm. He urges crop rotation, proper use of fertilizers and also .use of lime to in crease prod activity of the soil. 3IVIVK STORY THOMAS B. HOLMES DESCRIBES KILLING OF AMERICANS ^Germans Attack French and Claiin Gains in Champagne.' Berlin reports: An offensive movfi- raent has been inaugurated by the German forces In the Champagne. Announcement was made by the war office that French positions extending over several hundred -yards at a point northwest of Massiges had been captured by the Germans. The conquered positions are near Malsbns de Champagne. The Ger mans captured four • hundred and twenty-three prisoners. including seven officers, five ipachine-guns. and one large and seven small mine throwers. - ,* \' -+■ • JQIasMagtoo,—Jan—fr^RcfoTTflnr to-day to the report of the-United States department of agriculture on the acreage sown to wigten wheat this fall, Mr. Fairfax Harrison, presi dent of Southern Railway company, said: "This report is interesting chiefly because it shows a continuidg ten dency to diversified agriculture in the South. As compared with last year, the states of Virginia, North Carp.- lina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi all show in creased areas sown to wheat.' In South Carolina the area is the same as last year. These states as a whole show an aggregate increase over last year 9f 141,000 acres, or 2.92 per cent., while the states outside of the South show a net decrease of 4,907,- 000 acres, or 13.19 per cent." While the acreage sown is a. slender basis bn which to base an estimate of the final yield; so far as it goes it is favorable to the South as fndlcatlnr a larger yield hi o»:r section at a rniied States as a whole will tend to advance the price-” APPEARED Don't Forget to Spray. Have you made your attack on he San Jose scale yet? Remember l at this is Just about the worst enemy o* | fruit trees in South Carolina and that ^ tt;l pre-thirty and two o’cio Sole Survivor Says Mexican .Bandits Stopped Train, Shooting Americans os They Alighted From Train- Story of Crime Proves Most Das tardly Affair. , The number of foreigners murder ed west of Santa' Ysabel Monday afternoon by Mexican bandits has been placed at nineteen. f tt was authoritatively stated that Gen Pablo Lojez, a Yaqut chieftain close ly allied with Gen. Francisco Villa, ordered the massacre. About twenty bandits attacked the train, it was sajd, while two hundred were group ed mb a reserve at one tide of the right of way. Thomas; B. Holmes, the sole for eign survivor of the mass;.r re, reach- ed the border near El Pe:o Wednes- i ay .I'-out coon in->a stale of collapse hollowing It the statement of Mr. I' Vines jvj given to the state depart ment and press: "Our t~ain left Chihuahua Mondav morning, January 10, at about 11 o'clock. Tho train was stopped at or about the ranch. Haeza. a point about {SESSION TO UST 4* ECONOMY KEYNOTE FAV0M . > ■ .. ' Idles Saya He Will Harry lions Bill—Manning Receives —/v I 1 VommendattoM. House and Senate leaders declared Thursday that no attempt will be jjnade ta secure an adjournment of the General Assembly by February 1U. The, session, wiU continue for forty days. It was said. - The rc- \i!' J of the first two days would Ind ca > that this ta‘ going to be a wo;„i..£ session. The ways and means committee ef the House rfnd the finance committee of Ahe Senate are holding joint aee* sions dally, the claims of the deport ments and institutions are being dis posed of at a rapid pace. J. T. LUee, chairman of the ways and means committee, says that every effort would be made to send the appropria tion bill to the House at the earliest possible moment. Reports from the committee would Indicate that the members. are try ing to follow as closely as possible the terms of the resolution fo hold down the appropriations to two mil lion dollars, if this resolution is carrie 1 out the leaders say that tbs state tax levy will be reduced. , Gov. Manning Is receiving many messages congratulating him upon his,-position taken in the annual men sa;,e that no expensive undertakings be proposed at this session. The bill providing for an appro priation of fifty thousand dollars to icnfnrce the prohibition law waa EXPORTS FROM BERLIN Rig Falling Off Shown by the Fig ures for Year 1015. Exports from the consular district of Berlin to the United States in the fourth quarter of 1915 amounted to $628,587, comVared with $3,600,235 In the correspondi,i\g. period of 1914. .Exports to the Philippines were $443 compared with $19,3.822, Total ex ports to the United States jn 1915 were $4,377,943',' as against $16,- 250,291 in 1914; to the Philippines $29,266 compared with $203,556, - German sent goods to the value of $648 to Hawaii in 1915, and $1,333 in 1914. -.Imports amounted to $3.- 433 last year, as against $72,241 in 1914/' BRITAIN SEIZES SHIPS Takes Control in Order to Insure Supply of Grain and Food. . —The British government' is taking ' Pflclngent measures to ae« that the prevailing shortage in shlpj shall not interfere with the shipment of food and other necessaries to ports In the United Kingdom. Vessels are being requisitioned right und left for tba shipment of wheat from tho Aquri- eoa. and In shipping circles It ta re ported that tfcs admiralty iataads tc call la tba British ships sow tradlni bstwssn foreign porta. South Carolina llejMirts f. lit 1.05!) Bali's Ginned up to the IW ginning of 11)10. The eighth cotton ginning report of the season compiled from reports of census' bureau correspondents and agenjs throughouf the cotton belt an nounced that 10,643,783 bales of cot ton. Counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1915, had been ginned prior to January 1. That cortipares with 14,4.43,14 6 bales, or 90.8 per cent, of the entire 1914 crop ginned prior to January 1, last year, 13,347,721 bales, or 95.5 per cent., of the 1913 crop and 12,- 907,405, or 95.7 pbr cent, of the 1912 crop. The average quantity of cotton ginned prior to Jafhiary 1 in the last ten years was 1 1,963,038 bales, or 93.4 per cfent. of the crop. Included in the ginnings--'Were 105,799 round bales, compared with 44,904 in 191 4, 94,265 in 1913,-and" 77,999 In 19\2 y y - ■ - . Sea Islaiid cotton included num bered 88,921 bales, compared with -76,857 in 1914, 74,320 in 1913, ind 67,251 in 1912. South Carolina’s total was 1,134 - ■059 t as compared with 1,387,317 in 1914; 1,342,i3TJb J.913. and 1.173,- 216. In 1914'Sg per cent, of the crop bad been ginned, while in 1^13 at the sqme time there had been 94.6 per cent, ginned, and 95.8 per cent, in 1912, LOOKED LKIE A FIGHT rastun'-s InipnrtHiit In Fork Fi-ikIuC- tlon. A bulletin that is recommended to South Carolina hog raisers by the ex tension livestock specialists of Clem son College is Farmers’ Bulletin 411, Feeding Hogs in the South." This bulletin may be obtained by farmers from the Division of Fubllcations, De partmeqt of Agriculture. Washington. D C. A summary of the subject h pfAschted in the bulletin as follows: First Hogs can be raised at a profit in the South, and Southern farmer# s!\puld raise more of them. Second. Hogs can not be raised profitably on coiti alone Three While pork can aometides be made at a profit when corn is sup plemented with nothing but a coa eentrsted feed, still It is not wise to use concentrated supplements alone. Fourth. Hogs can be prodneed cheaper when pastures are uaed slang with the grata# than when grains are used alone. By means of pasture crops pork can lie made cheaper in South than it is possible to make it in the corn licit. Fifth. The advantages .arising from the use of pastures are. Fork costs only one-third to one- half us much when pastures are uaed as when pastures are used as when concentrated feeds alone are used. The soils are improved very mate rially as a result of growing legumes for hogs and feeding extra grains to the animals. The crops arc harvested—through the hogs—without danger of loss from rains and without expense. The hogs are under favorable health conditions; therefore, losses from disease will be lessened. A gloomy view of the pfospects for ffrtijizing. neat year's crops ia pre sented in a stiHeipept issiiKil by Sfc- retary Houston of the department of Greek Soldiers and French Almost ■ ■ mei S'-i '•f——‘'TI" Have a Battle. Athens reports via London: There was *an incident between the Greek and Entente allied troops when the latter blew up the Iron bridge, over the Struma river at Demir-Hisaar. The officer commanding the Greek guard at the bridge ordered his ngen to resist the accomplishment by the Entente allied troops of their pur pose, and at the same lime requested reinforcements. While awaiting the arrival of the reinforcements the bridge was blown up and the Entente allies then withdrew, thus avoiding further difficulty. May be Bent to Waohlagtoa. Advices from Vienna say that Count Albert Apponyi. the veteran Hungarian poH^qaLjunier. poaotbly S ay be cboe 1 A astro-H the United 1 agriculture Relief measures unYiertaken by the department since the European war disrupted the American phosphate in dustry and cut off potash imports from Germany will help, the state ment-says, but they, offer slim possi bilities that the American farmer will get a small part of the fertiliz ing materials necessary for his needs. Nitrogenous fertilizers alone will be available In the quantities needed. The secretary takes* up first the potash supply, long since exhausted in the United States by the German embargo on shipments. Investigation, says his statement, has shown four sources of supply in this country, but mone immediately available. These are the kelp of the Pacific, coast, alu- nite deposits in Utah, feldspathie rocks in the East and the mud of Searles Lakes, (California. Manufacture from feldspar has been found to’ be feasible, but. s *the cost is high. Development .of Searles Lake deposits presents technical dif- ficultitys and title to the property is involved. NJanufacturers are experi menting now, the statement says, with alunite. Kelp is offered as the best material. Three large concerns have begun manufacture, from kelp and government experts will be sent to the Pacific coast to aid in the ex perimental work. . Production will be slow for a long tithe’, the secretary points out and demand for potash in other indus tries is so great that none manufac tured in the United States will be available soon for agricultural pur- pp^ses. His statement saxs.: '“The prices offered under existing conditions' by the manufaefurers of articles will cause practically the en tire output of these concerns to be diverted from thd fertilizer industry "tt would require -ninety or more plants, costing approximately $5C,- 000, and having an operating capital of $25,000 each to prcglyce the quantity needed for agriculture. This would involve the assumption that commercial^phases of, the problem were satisfhctorily solved. The de partment is cotAidering all phases of the situation." The crippletTstate of the phosphate Industry Is attributed to the high price of sulphuric acid, much of which ta being used now la the man ufacture of war munitions The price haa jumped frota $5 to $26 a ton. Demand for tba add la so heavy that abandoned plants are being ratted for Ha manufacture The bureau of Mila meanwhile la vtU tba maaafactare of the,only effective way to control It Is to spray your trees In winter when there is no damage to foliage. Com mercial lime-sulfur. In the proportion of one gallon to nipe gallons of water, is the spray to use. The time to, use It 1s before the buds begin to swell in early spring. Ix*arn what it ComIh to Make .Y'out t'rups. , This is a good time of the year for farniera to make up their minds to keep accounts of Lbe-farm busiuess. The first of the year Is a period of new resolutions and to keep farm ac counts would be a new resolution for nearly all the farmers In South Caro lina If you sell a bale of cotton for forty doilare, do you sell at a gain or a loss? Most farmers can only guesa at this answer. The guess in this case might l>e correct, but there are many other cases In which the guess will be wrong. What combination of crops seems to be most profitable for your farm?- la wbat ways can you cut down your cost of production? of marketing* la your business belter than'it was last year, or the year be fore. or five years ago? These are some of the things a farmer ought to try to find out about just as earnest ly as a merchant or a banker tries to find out about sitniiar things In bu business. Keep accounts. This does not mean estimating what labor, or machinery or animal power ,'ought" to cost for a certain crop. It is not much better to make a guesa at each of a few items and then add them than It is to make one guess at the whole cost. The thing to do Is to keep a careful, day-to-day record of every kind of ex pense. At the end of the year, after deducting expenses, plus interest on Investment, plus value of products used in the farm home, one will have left the farm labor income, which is generally taken as an Indication of a man's success x>r failure. * If a .uian does not feel ebual to opening up a system of accounts for his whole farm, it is suggested that he keep-the records orjust one crop for this year, accounting for each de tail. The results will probably open his eyes and lead him to be an all- around farmer another year. „ . « u . v .i . v ; heartily approved by the members ef five miles west of Santa Ysabel, be-, th(J wayt ^ coinmlttee , t s said that only one member op- iba* LINEMAN ELECTROCUTED V Spartanburg Man Conics in Contort With IJve Wire. Roy H. Wingo, a lineman employ ed by the South ' Carolina Light,, Power and Railway company, w killed .at Spartxnburg Thursday morning, “supposedly from Coming in contact with a live wire” while at work in the plant of an ice cream manufacturing company oh Ezell street. .- - The young man was heard to scream, and when those near by ran to his assistance he was found in an unconscious condition on the floor under an incandescent drop light, and died within a few minutes, be fore a physlcjan could reach him. He- had gone to the building to investi gate a &>mplaint of trouble on the circuit. ' afternoon “While the train was standing at the station of Santa Ysabel two arm ed Mexicans rode by and scrutinized the train. The Mexican passengers at Santa Ysabel told me afterwards that the riders had inquired If there wpre any soldiers on the train. ' “At the point of the massacre ouc ( train was stopped in a rut so that the last car was Just outside of the rut: We were stopped by another train— the front trucks of one of the coal cars of w hich was seen to be off the track. Thla waa the first we knew of a train preceding ua There waa nobody to be seen around the train in front. "When our train was stopped New man and 1 were Bitting together and Evans came up and looked out of our window Evans. Newman. Mar- hatton and I then got off the train. Watson waa either getting off or about to do ao behind us when I look ed back and aawr him, "Just after alighting 1 heard e volley of rifle shots from s point <>n the other aide of the mt Juat above the train. Ixmktng around I could see n bunch of nhout twelve or fifteen men standing in n solid line •houbler to shoulder, shoot ing directly at us. They were fifty * or seventy-live feet away. "The coach cat off my rtew ao I could not see how many bandits there I were. The depth of the cut on the aide near Santa Yaal>el river at that point was about two feet. On the other aide It was much greater. To the rear of the tr&iu.waa an etfibank ment declining towards the river/ "Watson, after getting off. ran to wards the river. Machatton and ! followed, Machatton fell. I do not know Whether he was killed then or tripped. Watson kept running and they were still shooting at him when I turned and ran down grade where I fell In some brush probably one hundred .feet from the rear of the train. "I lay there perfectly quiet and looked around and could see the Me* irans shooting in the direction In which Watson was running. I saw that they were not shooting at me and, thinking they believed me al ready dead, I took a chance and crawled into some thicker bushes. ■ “l crawled through the bushes un til I reached the bank of the stream I then made my way to a point prob ably one hundred yards from the train. There I lay under the bank for half an hour and heard shots by ones, twos and threes. I did no( hear any sort of groans or yells or cries from our Americans. Then I con tinued farther under the bank, wad- osed the appropriation. The bill will be favorably reported to the House. NEGRO SOLDIERS START RIOTING IN HONOLULU a** District Placed Under Martial Raw After Racial Outbreak. Honolulu's "tenderloin" district was under military control Friday as a result of a systematic raid late Thursday night which waa partici pated In by approximately five non- dred troop# of the Ninth ea*%lry, colored. During tfce ds all the eutahtiutuMnte condwcyvf by white perwnaa were my of then were loaMd. Efforts of the police force to quail tha disturbances were frultleM find the section presented a scene ef con fusion until n battalion of tha Sec ond U. 8. Infantry with fixed kayoMtn and a detachment of mounted sconts appeared. When the streets had haem cleared the district was left In mili tary control. The reason for tha demonstration has not boon an nounced MU NITIONS DEPOT DESTROYED German BLEW UP BRIDGES London Tells How Allies Frepared for Looked-for Attack. v It was authoritatively announced in London Friday that the reported offensive of the Teutonic allies fastling^he stream part of tlje time until lay I i reached a point probatdy tw'o hun dred yards from the train. There 1 remained half orThree-quarters of an hour. '• “Later after goirigTo several raffch houses and picking my way cautious ly for several miles, I met up with an uni nown Mexican who directed me to Chihuahua City. I reached Chihua hua City Tuesday iriorning at about seven-thirty. The foregoing facts are of my personal knowledge.” Arrivals from Chihuahua City said that a troop train of twenty cars, conveying between five hundred and one thousand Carranza troops, had preceded the mining company special by about fifteen minutes. The en gine and two cars of this’train were said to have beten derailed by the bandits in order to stop the passen ger train of Americans. What be came of the Carranza soldiers, if they were in the military train, could not be learned. Reports of those arriving from Chihuahua were to the effect that against Salonikl did not occur, Xhq. tha hefiy oAeaeF ytathn- bwtrs a bul- rrnnors that the attack had begun against the forces of, the Allies ap parently originated in the activity of the French in blowing up the bridges connecting Salonikl with the road over which the attackers would nor mally travel. Bridges were destroy ed by the French not only at Demir- Hissar, on the Struma In the neigh borhood of Serres, but also at Kilin- dir, south of Dolran. AU.the bridges deatroyed were In Greek territory. Con W ithstand Torpedoes. ’Naval experts believe fhat all Tu- ture American battleships will be able to survive the explosion of a singleHorpedo against thelr hulls re gardless of where they are struck. Edloto Project The chief engineers of the army Tbaraday made a report to roafiroM on the development of the aouth fork of tho ■dime river opposite the town of Explodes, KHliog Seventy end Injuring Forty. An ammunition depot in the south ern section of Lille, northern France, has been blown np. An official aa- nouncement says that seventy per sons were killed nod forty Injorad. Considerable damage to property was done. The official announcement which waa contained In German army headquarters statement ia at follows: “In the southern walled-ln section of Lille an ammunition depot belong ing to the pioneer detachment, lodg ed in one of the casements dT f~I6r- ti first ion, blew- up. The nearby streets suffered to a very consider able extent., Rescue measures taken resulted up to Tuesday night In the finding of seventy killed and forty injured inhabitants. The Inhabitants believe the accident was due to on English attack.” FOUR AEROPLANES D0WNEI Germans Announce Destruction of Foot British Meehan lea. Berlin reports: “Lieutenan'. doe ike and Immelmann each shot down a British aeroplane, one northeast of Tourcolng, the other near Bapaume. In recognition of their accomplish ment they were decorated with the order of Pour le Merits by bis majel-^ ty the emperor. “A third British aeroplane was shot down by our defense guns near Ligny, northwest of Lille. Of the eight British officers on the four aeroplanes six were killed and two wounded. V let wound in the forehead in addition to other wounds. It was said that the head of C. R, Watson was com pletely blown off. One Chihuahua passenger said the mining company’s train had been pre ceded by a Carranza troop train and that the two trains were traveling ten miles apart. At one p m. Mon day it was reported to -Chihuahua that the troop train was derailed in a canyon and' at four o’clock reports of the holdup of the passenger train were received accordlng^-lo this eiory. At seven o'clock, this passen ger said, the passenger train wjth a number of Mexicans, women and*chil dren, aboard returned to Chihuahua City with the first news of tha mae- Mfia. ■ , Other passengers are reported as haviag said that whan Taqnt Indians made a rash fer Mexicans an the m n:cg special the handttn warded off their attack and saved tMr fot- among the bandits of Gen. Paklo Lopez, the Yaqui chief, a, Gen. Reyna was reputed by the conductor of the train as having placed him under guard when ne .alighted to Investi gate the derailment of the troop train ahegd. The affidavit of the condne- tor, J. Gaiidelupe Gardena, regard ing the tragedy was given the Brit ish consul at Chihuahua City and telegraphed the {British consular agent, H. C. Myles, in El Paso. In substance it follows: • - “Thfr lrain arrived at Santa Tsabel at one-fifteen p. m. Arriving at Kilo- ftietre 68, eight kilometres !>eyon<) Santa Ysabel, we encountered a train, engine No. 57 off the track. When I got off tq see what had happened the shooting started. "Afterwards Gen. Reyna came up and placed us under guard, searching us and/nlso searching the ear. All the money on the passengers and ta the car was taken. After this had taken place we left, tke Americans having been killed. "Some of the .foreigners were first shot on the train, and * number. In cluding oae Mexican. wl»o were ^wounded la the car. ware taken <40 and murdered. Borne ef them jl ed off the train and, river. Thee were followed rvfw