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ACCUSES THE ALLIES ' ■' L ' : 2 * fREEK KINA PROTESTS AGAINST THEIR ACT IN GREECE FRENCHMAN MAKES REPLY Y “Hl*h«*t Fronrfl AutlioHtj" Denlwi Violation of Greek Neutrality Com- parea With llelKlum—The Deatruc- lion of the Bridge at DeinIr'Hl.HNar —What Both Hay. The king of Greece on last Thurs- auronioned the Aaaoclated Press correspondent In Athens for the pur pose of making a protest through the press of the United States against the actios of the Allies in Greece. The message left Athens on Thursr day but was held up in Paris until Tuesday when it was released after a reply had been written by the "hlgheet French authority” and sent over the wires. Below are printed both of the documents: "It is the merest cant,” said the king, "for Great Britain and France to talk about the violation of the neu trality of Belgium and Luxemberg after what they themselves have done and are doing here. I have tried in •very way I know how to get fair »ur in the British and French press and to obtain a fair hearing from the Brttiah and French public. “No sooner had the British news papers attacked Greece with the most amazing perversion of fact and mis representation of motives than I call ed one Of their correspondents and gave him face to face a full statement of Greece's position. I have given a most fraak statement to the French press through one of the French newspapers which had been most bit terly attacking Greece. H “The only forum of public opiatou open to me Is that of the I’uited State*. The situation Is far too vital for nw to rare a snap about royal dignity In the matter of Interviews when the very Ufa of Ureere as an Independent country lajjt stake I ahall appeal to America agate and again If necea- for that fair hearing which la to me by the countries of the Allies. “Just look at the list of Greek ter ritory already occupied by the allied troops—Lemnos, Imbros, Mytllene, Castollorixa. Corfu. Salonikl, Includ- .. .... lag the Chalcldlcld peninsula and by Sm-blaa traditional enemy large part of Macedonia. In propor-1 *; l !** a^, *• 8 ® r t>**. fttacked on two « correspondent. ‘That depend*,’’ replied the king, •‘on what is meant , 'by victorious. If you mean take London, Paris and Petrograd, probably not. But I be lieve the Teutoha can defend them selves where they are for a very- long time. If economic exhauatlon does not force Germany to aue for peace, I believe It will be very difficult if not impossible to conquer her in a mili tary way." . * "Then what does your majesty think will be the outcome of the war?" The kinit refilled: "A draw— don’t you?” By royal order the above interview was countersigned "by Court Marshal Merest!. I To which the plea of tne Greek king the "highest French authortty" answers: ."The interview given by King Con stantine of Greece to the Associated Press," said this personage, “recalls point by point, observations which, both in matter and manner, show groundlessness of his accusation against the Allies. “He reproaches the Allies with ypocrlsy In talking of Germany's violation of Belgium and Luxemberg after what they have done in Greece. But the Allies talked of the violation before their own action and for the excellent reason that Germany violat ed the neutrality of Belgium . and I-sixemlxTg without excuse or provo cation and in the tajdat of peace, whereas what passed In Greece inde pendently of other consideration men tioned further on la the consequence of a long war characterized by the ruin of small peoples by Germany. "The king declares that the Allies have occupied Greek territories with out hts permission. There is no ques tion of an occupation properly speak ing but of a temporary use of certain portions. As regards the Islands re ferred to, the Kntente powers made use of them provisionally because Turkey had always refused to recog nize Greek possession of tliem, a use made with the tacit consent of Greece which only protested for form's sake, which negotiated on the subject with the Allies making certain stipulations as to methods of the utilization of the islands and receiving in exchange for mal promises as to' their purely tem porary use, as to compensation for all possible damages and even other promises not unconnected with Greek foreign policy. The Allies were every where received by the population with the greatest cordiality and were found by them to be a source of profit besides being provisioned by them “As to Haltmlkl the case la still far otherwise than King <'unstaatlnc svera. The Allies only went to Salon ikl in order to succor Serbia. Greece’s ally, and as an anawer to the mobill I YNPHFn <1 NFfiRHFt woman suffrage beaten Li iiuntu o neunued 0N flRST V0TE , N B(HJ$E GEORGIANS HANG THEM ALL ON THE SAME TREE LIMB Sixty-One Members Favor Submitting r Constitutional Amendment 'o' -v ' • » __ to People. Woman ^suffrage met defeat in the lower house of South Carolina’s gen eral assembly Thursday by a vote of slxty-one to fifty-one on a Joint reso- „ lution proposing a constitutional Forty or Fifty Men Lay Their Plana ameadment^U) -ba-aubmitted to the voters at the next general election. TAKEN AWAY IN AUTOS! Uon to all Greece It Is as if that part •f the United States which was won fVom Mexico after the Mexican war occupied by foreign troop aot so much as ‘by your leave ’ "What mattera If they promise to pay for the damage done when the war la over? They can not pay for the sufferings of my people driven •ut •( their homes. They plead mill tary necessity.. It la nadar the non Strata* df military aereaaity the* Ger tavaded BaRgtnm aad occupied "U Is ao good claiming the neu trality of Greece was not guaranteed by the powers now violating it as was the case ia Belgium, for the neutral ity of Corfu Is guaranteed by Great Britain. Prance, Russia. Austria and ' Prussia and yet that has not made aay difference in their action. "Aad what about that plea of mili tary necessity? Where is the military necessity of destroying the Demir-Hls- sar bridge which cost a million and a half drachme and which was the only practicable route by which we can re- victual my troops In eastern Mace donia'’ “The bridge was mined, it could have been blown up on a moment's notice at the enemy's approach. Jt ia admitted that thfiXu was m> enemy - MiyUfTTere near the bridge and no in dication that any was coming. What military reason wsm there, therefore, to blow up the bridge now, except to starve out the Greek troops around Merres Ih-amina.’ “Where is the necessity for tlie oc cupation of Corfu? If Greece is the ally of Serbia, so also is Italy and transportation of ..erbs tp Albania and Italy would be simpler'than to Corfu. Is it because Italians are re fusing to aore|>t Serbs, fearing a spread of cholera that the Allies thtek the Greeks want to lie endan gered by cholera any more than the Italians? "They say that they are occupying Castelloriza, Corfu and other points ia search for submarine bases. Ttf,e British legation at Athens has a standing offer of 2,000 pounds—a great fortune to any Greek fisherman —for any information leading to the defection of a submarine base but. never yet received any hews about a submarine base In Greece and never yet have any submarines been seen supplied from Greece. "The history of the Balkan politics of the Allies is a record of one crass mistake after another and now through pique over the failure of their Balkan calculations they try to unload on Greece the result of their own stupidity. ‘‘We warned them that the Galli- |toli enterprise was bound to fail, that negotiations with Bulgaria would be fruitless and that Austro-Germans would certainly crush Serbia. They would not believe and now like angry unreasonable children the Entente powers turn uponjjreece.. "They have deliberately thrown away every advantage they ever had of Greek sympathy. At the begin ning of the war 80 per cent, of the Greeks were favorable to the Entente'.’ To-day not 40, no not 20 per cent, would turn their hand to aid the Alltai." i ‘^Why does not you'* majesty not demobilize?" said the correspondent. "Perhaps I shall, but I do not feel I can afford to disarm before the fate of Balonlkl is decided.. The Allies evacuated Gallipoli after a year. One day they may change their min'd ahoqt Salonikl. leaving the place at .thatataVT of tha first comer. Salonikl sides, was not In position to obtain from the Greeks the 130,000 men stipulated for In the treaty alliance It was tu replace the men that the Allies west to Salonikl, st the request of the Greek government, which otherwise refused to mobilise. "The arrival of the Franco-Britiah forces at Salonikl baa drawn forth only a purely formal protest and the Greek military authorities have re celved order to give them every facility. "The analogy between the military necessities which rnllrd the Allies to Snlnnlkl to help Greece's ally. Serbia and those claimed by Germany for the vlotetioa of Belgium simply does not exist. The Greek people have received the Allies cordially. The Greek gov ernment. even before the arrival of the Allies, had already shown favor to the Serbians by granting them con siderable facilities for the transport of their armament as well as provi sions. The Germans crushed the Bel gians. who were defending their country, in order to reach a peaceable people beyond them. “Greece s neutrality has from the beginning been a benevolent one to ward the Allies. This has been de clared to thent_0XfjciaUy not etrty bjr M -VentftTOS but also by his successors several times, yet during recent months the Greek government lias liemtnted Germans and Austrians hi violate Its neutrality by using the Greek coasts and islands as a base for provisioning their submarines. The fact that no one has been able to locate this base exactly proves the cleverness of the Germans, but their fury at the presence of the Allies at Castellorizo,. Corfu and other well known submarine nests shows the reality of the organigati'on. “It will one day be interesting to learn the revelations made pn this subject by the papers seized on con suls and agents of the Germanic quadruplic at Salonikl, Mytllene and Corfu. It was from the coasts of these islands or peninsulas that the pirates who sank the Ancona and the Persia sot out. How, then, since that time, can one invoke even the neutrality of Corfu where on the very eve ot the French disembarkation there was a complete general staff? How can one invoke this neutrality which was established as the condi tion of a gift by England to Greece and not in the Interest of Greece, but in that of England. “Is the presence of the Serbs and the Allies at Corfu really a violation of neutrality also openly violated by the Germans? Since Greece Is un able to succor her ally, notwithstand ing a formal engagement to that ef fect, how'can she refuse her asylum? “As to cholera. It does not exist. Cases of cholerine due to ‘excess fol lowing on privation,’ were discovered among the Serbian troops, and are the crews of the French, English or Italian transports afraid ot the -dt*- ■easef*^ ITT ffHy’caae, all preventive measures have been taken. * fa Greek; I propose that It shall re main Greek." peer majesty believe that victorious ’ “The population of Corfu 4s'most sympathetic toward the French Al pine soldiers. The French govern- T»ent is sending grain and other pro- iVlelons In advance. “The charges about the bridge at Ocmir-Hlasar are withont foundation The cost of the bridge will he repaid It Xves indispensable 4o blow up thr bridge to prevent or embarrass thr enemy's transportation of his heavj artillery. “Tha king sBry* there are no troop of the enemy there. Ye* he dees no’ eeaae tolling the Alltoa that they ar> going to be attacked and. destroyed I they do mot quit the ptaea forthwith ‘TDrto the vtolewt epithets the kin/ apflU«Uo the policy ot the Alltoa they can gat change the truth. lynched. They from the jail, and started than that f Well and Enter Jail Through Huge —Murdered Men Were Taken In Autos and Hung on Side of Public Highway. Forty or fifty men, acting with precision Indicative of carefolly laid plans, took five negroes fxjpiu the Worth county Jail at Sylvester, Ga., Thursday night, carried them in automobiles to Lee county and hanged them all to one limb of a tree close by the side of the prin cipal road heading into Starkville. The negroes were being held in the Worth county jail In connection with the killing of Sheriff Moreland, of Lee county, who met his death at the hands of negroes in Worth county during the Christmas holidays. Stark ville is a hamlet three miles from Leesburg, the county seat of Lee county. \ Cutting all wires leading north from Sylvester was included in the plans of the party. For that reason the fate of the negroes was nol defi nitely knoxvn until Friday, hours after they had beer were quickly take^ loaded into automo north, but nothing was known for some fhqe. The bodies, perforated with bullet^holes, were told when found Friday morn ing. ' At about top o'clock TliunMlay night. Sheriff L. A. Potts at Sylves ter, was awakened by four or five men who announced that they had raptured a negro ami wanted to place him in Jail. They were admitted hearing a negro bound with ropes. Suspecting nothing. the officer watched the men as they calmly loosened the bonds. Suddenly the situation changed, however, as the visitors seized the officer and demanded the keys to the cells. At that moment several automobiles were driven In front of the Jail. The men hurriedly entered, joined the men who had preceded them and all who did not watch the sheriff, helped get the negroes. They were rushed out of the Jail, bundled Into the machines aad all started north at a rapid pace. The sheriff immediately attempted to r* sort to the telephone to bead off the party but It was toon ascertained that all Hnea north were out of order and later it was learned the wires had been cut. The bodies were found by Lee county citizens who were out on the /oada early Friday, apparently under the'Impression that there was reason to believe that if any of the negroes wers taken from the Jail they would be taken to Lee county, where Sher iff Moreland was poplar. Going out from Starkville a short distance, they encountered the ghast ly scene of the five men hanging to one limb within full view from the road. Apparently they had been strung up and then became targets for the tpen who had taken them from jail. Four of the victims were of one family -Felix Lake and his three sons, Frank, Dewey and Major. The fifth was Rodins Seamore. It vas believed, however, that James Keith, a negro, was the pris oner moat wanted far the lynchers. It was said that there was more evi dence against him than any of the others. Sheriff Potts, however, had taken the precaution to remove him several days ago to some .other jail, the loca tion of which he has not divulged. Moreland was killed at the home of Felix Lake when he went there to arrest a negro. It was reported that more than one of those in the house shot him and all were arrested later. Reports from Oakfield Friday were that eight automobiles passed through there late Thursday night going towards Leesburg. I^esburg citizens also reported that eight ma chines passed through that town at about twelve-thirty o’clock Friday morning. Starkville Is three miles from Leesburg, which is between eighteen and twenty miles front Syl- ▼ester. Sheriff Potts Friday stated that the men made no attempt to molest the twenty-three other prisoners in the jail. This was the first Lime that the ques tion of votes for women has been pre sented seriously and fought for de terminedly on the fldor of the House. Some marveled at Its strength In the Palmetto State, others were surprised that tt fatletT io receive a majority vote, while some were heard to pre dict that it would receive the neces sary eighty-three affirmative votes^in the lower house. Suffragists express gratification at the strength - their cause developed. Those voting yea on a motion to strike out the resolving words, there by killing the measure, were: Messrs. Arnold, Atkinson, Bailes, Beckett, Berry, Belser, Blue, Bolt, Bowles, R. D. Boyd, Bradford, Burns, Carteii Chapman, Cherry, Cothran, Crum, Dantzler, DesChamps, Durst, Ether- edge, Fair, Goggans, S. A. Graham Graydon, H. H. Harris, W. W. Harris, Hicks, Hubbard, Huffman, Hutchln son. King, Lee, LeGrand, Iceland, Lesslle, Lofton, McLaurin, Malpass, Massey, Means, Moise, Momier, Mor rison, Mower, Pegues, Reid, L. M Rogers, Sanders, Searson, Senseney, Strom, Sturkje, J. L. Walker, West, Williams, Wlngard, Wood, Workman, Wright.—61. — Those voting "no" were: Speaker Hoyt. Messrs. Austin, Baker, Barr, J. W. Boyd, Brigham,- Brown, Carey, Charles. Dennis, Dew, Dixon, Fant Fripp, Fromberg, J. J. M. Graham, Hammond, Harper, Hutto, Jackson, Johnstone, jfT. Liles, Lynch, McCul lough, Mclnnes, McKeown, McMahan Mills, Muldrow. Nunn, Odom, Oxner, H&mseur, Rivers, Robinson. W. S. Rogers Jr., Rush, Russell, Sellers Shirley. Shuler, Smith. Sumner. Toole, Traylor, Varn, WagnOn. Wal lace, Warren, White. Wolfe—51. ♦ ♦ Would Aboilwh Free .Scholarships; ~ Senator Verner, of Oconee county, charges that there is a “great deal of fraud and downright graft under the present law" relating to free scholar- They were soon fo^thcomio«.f|■ hi P• ln the ^lou* colleges of the State. Senator Carlisle, of Spartan burg, says that this business of false swearing by people to get free educa tion who are able to pay should be stopped. There is nothing misty about these utterances They are distinct; they are affirmative. The senators say that the la wrelatiag to scholarships, which allows free tuition, has become a vehicle of private graft. They charge that parents or children have sworn falsely In order to secure an education through the bounty of the State, when the parent was able to give the child the education. The amount of money, which is ex pended each year by the State gov ernment. for scholarships and . free tuition totals 1132,000. according to the figures of the Oconee senator. He says this money is given to the favor ed few. to the children of those well able to pay for the education of their children, and that Chose for whom the charity was intended do not get the benefit of the bounty of the com monwealth. 1 It is probably a fact that many of the scholarships now being used in the State colleges are held by those whose parents are able to pay their way. It is also very probably a fact that many of the free luIlIons*feiven at'the various state institutions are being used by those who have the money to pay for their instruction. The senators are aware of the laws which the legislature in the past have passed to protect the abuse of these scholarships. It was not contemplat ed that thq State pay the expenses of those able to bear their own burdens. The idea of the law, according to our information was to give the scholar ships to those boys and girls who would .not be able to attend college witYibut such aid. If.these laws have been violated an investigation of the matter should disclose those who have »sworn falsely Ajld proper steps could be taken to stop the “graft” ami to prevent Its recurrence^ Of the 613 students at the Uni versity of South Carolina all but 166 are receiving aid from the bounty of the State; 226 'having free tuition and 48 having, in addition to free tuition, scholarships valued at $100. Greek government was so little^ ctunr I students at Clemson vinced that the Gallipoli entertvrtstf College all but 110 are beneficiaries would be a failure that they tried by every means to take pdrt in it and it wfas only their exaggerated demands that caused their co-operation to be refused. If the enterprise had been a failure and° the Serbs have been crushed, the fact is due to Greece’s declining to fulfill her engagements as an ally towards Serbia an<J allow ing her territory to be surrbunded'Tjy the armies of her bitteres*. enemy. "As to the sympathies "of the Greek TU at thw lagt election to see what'they mean or to recall the fact that a while ago M. Venizelos, tb«~friend of the Entente, was cheered by thou sands of pebble. ^ ... ■ “The king declares he ran .not de mobilize. He fails to add that the .Allies continue at his request to ad vance money to Greece for its mobili zation. He ia afraid Salonikl will be no longer Greek if the Allies are Iriven from it. Then why does he want to persuade the Allies to go and why does he not take hla place beside "Concerning his opinion abont the *es,ult of the war, It-is pleasant that t sovereign so much Impressed by lermany’a power, publicly avows that •he can not be victorious. This sBbwf bow right an impartial people are is -vroclalmtag that she win of the “people; 484 having free tuition and 191 having, besides free tuition, scholarships worth $14)0. ^ Of the 899 students at Winthrop College only 116 pay their tuition; 650 get free tuition and 125 get free tuition and scholarships valued at $100. The percentage of those who pay their pay is a great deal better at the Citadel. Of the 241 students only 68 people, it is enough to examine the . . . . . . , . ... figures regarding recent abstentions JLave scholarships and free tuiUon which is valued at f300 for each in dividual. The proposal In the Senate is to abolish all of these free scholarships and to make each attendant at a State institution pay $40 a year for tuition. In the eyes of the Oconee Senator this' would help the State In stitutiona, although he admits that there may be a f.ew holding . free scholarships who are worthy of them but "they are.in a, hopeless minority Senator Carlisle thinks tha measure would help the denominstional col leges because it would remove Che unfair competition to which they have been subjected by the generosity of tha State. We think the State should help the poorer boys and #r!e to litt CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND FARMERS EXCHANGE , For Hale For Sale—African White Gaineas, $2 pair. Jno. C. Moore, Elm City, n. c. . _ •Wine-Sap Cotton Seed, $1 Hocks and eggs for sale. Miss Stellt McGlothlin, Portland, Yorkshire Pigs—$5; sev*-> weeks old. S. W. Hayes Lenoir; N. U. 1 # Frost Proof’ Cabbage Plante, 60c per per 1,000; 5,000, 50c. W. W. H. Proctor, Morrlsville, C. . > Extra Homer Pigeons, worth $2, per pair, goln^ for a few days only at 50c M. I. Walton, Eatonton, Ga. For Sale—60 extra fine Poland Chiiia pigs. 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MARTIN Tanner and Leather Dealer, COLUMBIA, 8. a Carlisle suggests, take a promissbry note from each providing for future payment. We believe, however, that the State should provide the educa tion without such aid. To. extend ^dd' to students un able tor get to. any other colleges would not be 'competing with denomi national colleges; the practice does not hurt them if the beneficiaries are unable to attend college under otfief conditions. It is only when parents send their children off to State schools on the plea of poverty, being well able to pay their way, that the denominational colleges are subject ed to uneven competition. It is caused, however, Ijw what the Oconee senator tertns "grldt,” and Is in no wise due to the innqrent possibility of good which is in the idea of fpee tuition and scholarships. It would be a much better step in our judgment if the OconOe senator had asked for a thorough investiga tion of the financial status of those who are enjoying the beneficenee of the State government with ^ view of confiscating scholarships in the brands of thoMe who have ap-right to thefti. If the .law is being violated its obed ience should be secured, and if this is done, there will be no-reason tp abolish all scholarships because of "graft" on the part of some or be cause they enable stale institptions to compete unfairly with denomina tional colleges.—The prangeburg Times and Democrat. Cklla for Hnral Credits. A coaaurrent resolution waa pant ed by the general assembly Wednes day calling upon the membera of con- from this state to work for £ on rural credits. RUSSIA STRIKING HARR ' . ’ Slavic leaders Attacking in Galicia and In Caucasus. . - The Russians with strongly rein forced armies are violently attacking the Austro-Hungarians along the Bes sarabian frontier. The Austrian offi cial report says that between Topor- outz and Boyan the Russians at sev- x eral places entered the Teutonic trenches and engaged the defenders In hand-to-hand encounters. To the northeast of Cznerowitz the Russians claim to have captured an Austriah sector and to have repulsed five des perate pounter attacks. The Russian official communica tion tells of a raid on the: Black Sea by Russian torpedo boats, one hun dred and sixty-three sailing vessels being destroyed along the Anatolian coast. In the Caucasus the Turks, Petrograd claims, were thrown from their positions in the centre of the long front, suffering heavy losses. CONTROLS WATER POWER ^ 'V - A Few Corporations are in Charge of , Most of the Sites, Control of the country’s water power used In public service corpora tions has passed into the hands of a comparatively small group pf corpora tions with an "almost endless maze of interconnections" according to a •perial report sent to congress Thurs day by the department of agriculture. Eighteen corporations are shown to be In control of more than half of the water .power employed la ops ration of public utilltIsa while more than one-quarter -of It is controlled by Mx corporations.