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WOULD BE A CHIME'S PENSACOLA YARDS j nop? to wa*t« or. boon aold by him for a *!on{ like the floating dock at Pet.* ■u<o{a The two I art tic cuumI yarda, y Mare Ixltnd and l/uyct Sound, got $7,804,893: the Philippine* got $1,- TO ABANDON CHARLESTON AND atatlona altogether/ and only $816 of thdt to ho *^ent In th? South. T6 me this smacks very loudly of sec tionalism and favoritism—one or both. Uncle Sam seemed, tinder Repub licans, always to have money to tako I care of the navy everywhere except | south of Hatteras; yet the stretch of coast from Hatteras to Key West and from Key West to the mouth of the TILLMAN MAKES SPEECH EXPECT® FIGHT AUSTRIANS LOOK FOR HUGE EF FORTS IN THE SPRING GERMANS OBTAIN FOOTING ... IN MALANCOURT WOODS MAI EVADE TROOPS FUNSTON ACCEPTS REPORT OF VILLA GANG’S DEFEAT EXPECT MUCH ACTIVITY ELUDE AMERICANS MORE SOLDIERS NEEDED Hits at Sectionalism Which Prevents Proper Support r ' , ' \ Plants—Points Out the I'scful- of Southern Rlo,Grande is more than 2,000 miles and has three or four good harbors. This whole subject of the neglect of the South Atlantic arnj Gulf coast' try the navy department has been : ably and fully treated tu^aju .article by Admiral John Ft. Kdwards, which! I expect to ask .to have printed as a public document soon. Admiral Kd wards Is an accomplished engineer and bis,breadth of view a.id patriotic impulses led him to defend and cham pion the Charleston Jiarbor and the Charleston navy yard, ^s well as Pen sacola navy yard, because ) e feels that they are of vital imi'ortance to tlu; healthy and pcrnianeiiLdevelop- do norknow^hAtOT'WhTtt'hr-»erthu"? ei Ft o f the United States navy. Ifo Charleston navy yard for many years Relieves any scheme of preparedness past has been a target for rtiisreprc- w hlch does not take two yards Into ■entatlon and falsehood. Its enemies ConsldePuttotf is woefblly lacking in n.ness of Naval* Yards in Southern Waters. / Senator Tillman Monday made an admirable argument for the" Charles ton navy yard before the Senate, urg ing the necessity of a battleship dry dock and a channel in tha Cooper River adequate to accommodate Uncle Sam’s big. warships to the yard. , Senator Tillman’s speech fol lows: ‘Mr. President, for some reason, I Associated Frees Correspondence From Austria—Hungary Gives Sidelights on War and Thought of People—More Feeling Than at First. 1 ' . * Though the term "spring offen sive” is admitted in the Austro-Hun garian press only in dispatches from the Entente and neutral countries, says a Vienna dispatch, there is uo doubt that much is expected of the military operation-it identifies. Military authorities in Austria are Strong Drive Northwest of Verdun— French Prisoners Number 2,500- Much War Material. Tiie Germans before Verdun are making a strong drive at the French , left flank welf toward the border of I the neighboring Afgonne region and- • j have gained ground south of Malan-I court, some ten miles northwest of j Final Capture of liandit May Dej I'Verdun ( Their first attacks took them Into 1 the Malanchurt wood and Tuesday’s French official' statement shows them to have pushed some distance further^ southwopd, occupying the Avocourt wood, the.southern section of tho Malancourt woo (fed district. The attacks have been made with Important forces, with the support of a heavy bombardment with, shells of large, calibre and .the throwing or liquid fire. Rerlin reports: West of tho Meuse Ravarlan regiments and battalions-pf Wuertteniberg landwehr, after can HIDING IN HAUNTS VILLA MAY Opportunity Has Been Given Ameri cans to Close in on Direo* ’’ V Chase of (Bandit. ’«* r'- Reports from Mexican sources that Villa had been defeated by American and Mexican troops at El Oso, near Namiqulpa, where accepted by Gen. Funston Friday as probably true, al though no coijfirtnation by Gen. Per shing had been received. ^Ipiprove- Ynon Hired Scouts—$20,000 Used ment in the working of the wireless ^ made It appear likely that Gen. Per- not inclined to believe that tho ag- ful preparations stormed the entire gressfv*-.operations, which either side strongly fortified French positions in w ill undertake, possibly in May, wIIT^nd near the forest northeast of Ava- result immediately in a debacle of court. In addition to considerable arms, in any quarter. Talk of that sanguinary losses tho enemy has so 1 to Employ Them—Gen. Pershing Pursuit Now Covers More Ground Than Expected. In view of the fact that Fran cisco Villa, fleeing with Ids oulaw followers before the advance of the advance of the American expe ditionary forces in Mexico, has reached his own country in the Guerrero district, high officers of tho army lK*liexe that he might almost indefinitely evade capture there. If x the bn-d:t chieftain makes a 8tand\Washington is satisfied that have not hesitated to hire newspaper writers, yellow Journals and maga zines, and every other class of scrib blers, who could get Into the papers, to flyblow and lie about it. Even friendly writers in magazines are sometimes careless in their state ments. For Instance: The current Leslie's Weekly, March 16, has spe cialized on Charleston: and Its edi tor, F. J 8 pi its tone, has written very entertainingly and evidently wanted to give Charleston a “fair deal.” His article Is finely Illustrated but under a photograph of the dry dock ap pears this) ‘The dock is not largo •hough for battleships and large! breadth of view and far-sightedness. I feel that to neglect to equip these two yards as they should he under conditions as they now exist would be a crime and almost a calamity. It will naturally be charged I am In terested In Charleston because It Is In South Carolina. That lie has been ' told so often and so repeatedly I have gotten used to It; but I thank God I can look north of Mason and Dixon's lino as well as south of It, and 1 am endeavoring, as chairman of the naval committee, as was proved by my works, to have the New York navy yard mado accessible. I want to build au armor plant at nature Is characterized‘as idle. At far Incurred losses amounting to| the campaign wilFquickly en£.^ Rut the same time it is felt*that the out- 1 thirty-two officers. Including two in come of the offensives timed for that command of regiments, and more period will have-Gar-reaching effect, [ than twenty-five hundred men In un- and the Central Powers are prepar-1 wounded prisoners anil much wr.r Ing with every ounce of energy for tho great battles drawing close. The vigor with which the cam paign in the Balkans has been push- material, the amount of which has if he leases his followers, military authorities agree, he can reach a haven of safety in the nearby moun tains in less than a day of riding. The'war department anxiously is awaiting word thaKcontact has been established with th<l bandits. Al- shing would break his fifth day of silence regarding operations south of Casas Grandes by rendering an ac count of the engagement at El Oso. Until now the operations against Villa have been nothing more than a ; campaign of location.' Three cavalry detachments have been working southward ailong widely separated trails, but the opportunity for direct chase now is offered, it was indicated j by staff officers who have followed I the details of t^e pursuit. ! It was not believed that the Amer- i leans would UUow-Aijlla to get out of I their sight again and that his cap ture or death appeared more likely than at any Either time Gen. Per shing. if was believed, would eoncen- tde as many of his men as possible in a pursuing force, relieving those w^o have been riding the country sbuth of Casas Grandes. RUSSIANS ATTACKING not yet been ascertained. Paris: "West of the river Meuse . _ _ tho Germans several times last night! though It was said at the department! ed is one Indication that nothing is renewed their attacks against our | that no official information as to the, Western Front Practically Quie left undone so as to be ready when front, extending from Avoncourt to whereabouts of the outlaws had been ! . the moment comes. The calling !•< Malancourt, where the bombardment* received from the border, the press . Slavs In vigorous r.rrorc. the colors In Austria-Hungary of all | by shells of long calibre continued dispatches passed men between the ages of f>0 and 55, j wlthout-lnterruption. The attacks of censor with the ei for service in the rear, is another one. Meanwhile, the manufacture of arms ami ammunition rontlnucH at a by the military! expeditionary forces" the enemy were accompanied hy the were accepted-as reliable. Adminls- throwing of flaming liquids by de- tratlon officials were deeply conrern- tachnients of men carrjiug «|>ecial machines for this purpose. "In spite of the heavy losses In flicted by our fire, the enemy was cruisers, but can take care of smaller i Philadelphia, at League Island, bo- pace greater than ever lie fore. Con •raft.* J cause l believe It Is the best place, slderlng that during thd winter rela> __ The fart Is. the dry dock can ac-1 and I shall vote for the new dock pro-: Uvely little ammunition has been . able to take possession after hand •ommndate all battleships In tho fleet posed for Norfolk. I am endeavor 1 used, the stores of this klrd must he 1 flghtltg, of the southeastern part of now that are lese than 545 feet long.I |ng now to have the navy yard ell tremendous. It Is known at any rate Malancourt wood, known as the This means any of tho battleships we lire have or are building eserpt the Ar kansas. Nevada. New York, Okla homa. Pennsylvania. Texas, Wyo ming. Arizona. California, Missis sippi. 43 and 44. Strenuous efforts •re now being made and will con tinue to be made until (he channel from the city to the navy yard is dredged sufficiently to permit any shipe In our fleet to go there. "Had the navy department Itself been friendly or even willing to be Just to Charleston, the Cooper River would have bee.i dredged out long ago and the yard made acresaible to the whole fleet. The fleet Van get Into the harbor and up to the city BO the now to have the navy yard at, merlon fully equipped for build- that tho Central Powers have enough Avoncourt wood which we occupied. ed over the report that Villa had raided American colonies, killing the residents. In the Guerrero district and In thi country adjacent to Babrlcora Villa Is at homo. For years he operated there In defiance of the laws of Mexico and Its constituted authorl- Ing battleship*, and 1 voted for and ammunition to meet any aituatloni All the efforts of the Germans Uv'-ties The mountains to the west of- urged the equipment of Mars Island without fear of running short. This " to build battleship*. la Ute tiame of God. are men eo narrow and M-lfloh and ao aertional tliat they taanot forget the paet and •Mil want to rlvertsh hatred of Ute So a Lb, aad Nowth t aj-ollaa la partira- I nr? 1 ask this question because 1 feel very strongly on this particular subject. but I do not believe very meay. or any. Senator now enlertaJj any such feeling. Many officers In high position in the navy department still believe that Charleston baa ao harbor worth • It has been there twice within l# .‘T “f* ' trary c Iasi five years 1 b “ 10 Hical The uavy yard Is sis mile, ep the' f . «eetlc Cooper n*er and there are two mud | ,0 . w * l * r ^ ** *• ,r ®*k *° ®' r,r * Austi bank, la the way ablcb will not U.I. He seem, to have a"o* any of the larger battleeblp. to ?«• *•*»•«•»» reach It. Tb* army engineers eetl- Bigtr that, for an eipeadlture of '• »• 0 ‘' ,, , '** 1 ia lJl * 11T&.Ofte only to dredge this mud out of the channel, ihe entire battleship Battleships cannot get up to the fleet now built and to be built can «>*»r )*td. II to true, without danger etrern Into the harbor at low water running Into a mud bank east of and go right on up to the navy yard D™® lelnad. where the channel Is llsefr The letter from Admiral Rea n * rrow •»**• • eharp bend son, chief of operations, which 1! •* been estimated by army engtd applies also to Bulgt rla and Turkey. In both these countries new levies of rerrulta have been made and nre be ing armed and trained. M hoUter l he I eat ml Powers will wnit for Ihe Entente «»ffcn«l*es or themselves take the Initiative, la, of ronrse, the greatest military secret of Europe at present. The claims that the Germans and Austro-Hun- gnrlana will wait for the French. British. Kusslan and Italian troops to make the first move In the various theatres of war are as devoid of) foundation as assertions to the con-! Buch views have no Just jus atloa other than the fart that the| tactical principle of the German an I; Austro-Hungarian armies has the of fensive for Ita predominant element It U possible another drive may he nndertaken against llnseia by Uie Anstro-llnngarlan and German foreru a» soon ns ground conditions permit. The march Into Russia last summer came to a halt because lines of com ma ntr atloa had been stretched to the danger point. march out from tho Avoncourt wood resulted In failure.*' CONVOYS GERMAN CRLISER 1*. B. B. Brooklyn Escorting Interned Khlp to Kan Francisco. The Faded Slates cruiser Brook lyn. which sailed from Manila last I Thursday. Is due to arrive at Guam,! Samoan Islands, Wednesday, from which port, it is understood, she will convoy to San Francisco the German cruiser Cormonnt, which sought refuge there when the was pursued by a Japanese Warship some months | ago. During the flight the Cormorant's crew tore up the wooden deck floors for fuel end the exposed Iron radial-; ed so much heat that they Buffered, several of them developing symptoms of Insanity. After the Cormorant hsd Interned nt Guam It became apparent that the During" Vhe^fairand I‘’’‘’P 1 ™ 1 h **‘ »«<* necessary |tnter moat he thle condition remedied, so that from thle angle, at restrictions Imposed made living con- \ ilia. fop rcgintlcss hiding places and routes of escape. If hard pressed Villa might abandon his men. don the garb of a peon, .and flee so far Into the sButh that It would be es- ceedlngly difficult, if not Impossible, to apprehend him. To meet Ju«t this situation Gm. Peralilnc ha* authority to employ trusted Mexican ami irfliev •cool* who have lived their live* In the moun tain ow« districts. * These men know the hiding places In which the ban dits are likely to take refute If hard pressed Upon .them as s final resort will fall the task of running Villa to #*rth. Flahorfit* nr# understood to have been completed. Gen. Funston was advised from Washington Tuesday that twenty thousand dollars bad been placed to bis credit for the pavment of (he *er- vices of guide*, scouts. Interpreters and other civilians. Already Gen Pershing has employed many scouts. Gen. Fnn«lon ha* also a«krd the war department t< r more troop* to t Into Mexico in pursuit of The lull In the Infantry flehtlng In the Verdun region of France con tinued Friday, the artillery, however, keeping tip Its active work The French guns have been energetically cannonading the GePmnn po-dtion* in the Malancourt wood on the edge of the-Argonne. northwest of Verdun.', The Intention npparently Is to break up an anticipated attempt of the Germans to debouch from thla cover and make further efforts to advance southward toward the main Une Parls-Verdun railway, four and a half miles dtgiant: Fn«t of the .M*u*e the * German bombardment appears tl have dimin ished In Intensity. oiHy Intermittent firing being reported In the'Ndcinlty of Dnuaumont and DanPoup and In the Woevre region. - Scarcely |e«s Interest is being aroused by the determined atthrks t f the Russians on the German northern ront In the oast Berlin admit* no perman nt successes for the'ltussIBn troops, but the I'etrocrad statements continue to claim advantage* gained at various points. br*b northwest of Dvtnsh. In the lacobst^dt region, and near |j»ke Naroex. to the south. Berlin dispatches declare the Ger man losses have been surprisingly small under the terrific bonitiurd- meat bv th* Ru*. • Inru. * hi!# tj * it* tacking fore** hi iv* h#**n down la !!!*»*»* 4.Confl(!*nc* U ni« pressed In VWlin on |h* mi from# of the fivl upon FI »ld Marshal v » b- nc placed •n Hludenburg. reodrempaas)zcs very strongly the. ne®t» who have charge of riven and |^ M { me Central Powers* t almost vital necessity of having a. 1 I Ifcfil “ “ * * — doi k scres.ible south of Hatteras and flisr ••.ton « dock Is *:re.x,lv there liven In the n»vy de; art merit llself there Is very great Ignoranro about the real farts concerning the navy, yard snd the Charleston harbor harbors that It would cost only fl?$.••• to dredge a channel 3fi fee, I deep. feet aide In the straight • reai bee and 1.000 feet wide In the bends (House Document 047, (1st Congress, second session). Efforts ere being made to have This, .notwithstanding one naval 1 thle Item put In the rivers and bar- board stated that Charleston was bet ter than Port Royal and urged the removal of the navy yard from Port Royal to Charleston, and another board of naval offlcvrs selected the bore appropriation bill, now being considered In the House. If It doesn't get Into that bill I shall exert all the Influenre I possess and any portua- ■lon I may have to have It locor- •Ite snd planned me yard -- a m the naval appropriation naval station, but as a navy ysrtl— bill. 1 remember some years age— snd laid It out on broad national, lines . Many naval officers are still of the opinion, because they have read It so much In northern papers, that Char leston has no harbor worth while and that the navy yard Is not acces sible because the channel to it has to | be dragged constantly. The dock silts up. I acknowledge, because of In 19o; or 1903—joining with Sen ator Hale and other members of the naval committee to have the rock at Henderson's Point, where the en trance to the Portsmouth navy yard Is, blown out of the way, at a cost of $749,000. Senator Hale was liberal enough and broad-minded enough to be will ing to have the navy yard at Charlcs- Tbuld advance Into Russia another considerable distance without expos ing their rear to danger. The “Inner Hoe of rommnnlra- tlnn” that the Central power* have now iwrfrc tr<l makee It possible that their reserves, to which under certain conrlltlon* may soon he aihled Bulgarian and TurfcWle troop*, can he concentrated at any one point for the Initial operation* without the Hues of defense el-e. where haling hern weakened enough to Insure sucre** for the offensive on the part uf tiro ponent at Urat point. Nobody seems to have realized this better than tho Dalian com mander in chief, Lieut. Gen. Cddorna, whoso steadfast refusals to sparo men for other flcjdA are looked upon as the best thing he has done. It U probable that In this he has been In- dltlons aboard the vessel unsatisfac tory for the crew. | gestl »n of Gen John - As a result It was derided by the commander of the ex naval authorities to bring the Cor morant and her crew to the United States. the quantity of silt held In ■uspen- lton an( j voted appropriations for It ■ ion in Ihe waters of Cooper Rrvcr. sufficient to develop It. Alas, old starting offensives on a colossal scale east and west. This means that in one of these theatres of war the Cen tral Powers probably will be obliged to play a waiting game. Instead of the Russian front get- Ing the attention of the general staff of the Central Powers, the French ffont may occupy them. Several fac tors argue for sjch a move. In the east the Central Powers hold all the territory needed ns a peace pawn, while the ten departments of France occupied by the Gejmans have so far not produced the desired-effect upon the republic's population. Other gains might do so. however, It is argued. In addition It Is thought ** , ' , '* ra k' e to change the general situa- flucnco'd hv'Vhe "runioi's that the Cen-! * io , n on * he western theatre of wgr before the newr British armies bet- The request was made at the sug- J. Pershing, edition, who urged that another regiment he tent to him. In hie me««a*e to the w »r department Gen. Funston asked for what he termed aq "adequate force *' AIGISTANS TO RE31II D Ia*uran< <> Adjuster* Open Office ts» Kettle up Claim*. Having perfected plana for the |m- The only reason given for strength- !j'**, l *‘* nw ‘ d,, of » h * entag Gen Pershing's force, known persons. AuguaUna Irl lay to t>e considerably more than four thousand men. was that his field of opmatlons had become so extended that hit main line of communication and the subsidiary lines were In need of strengthening. ■ - **MereVy a prwesuttonarv move.” was the way Ghn. Funston answered all Inquiries. He was askn4 If the reported movement of troops of the de facto government from garrisons In the Interier to posts on the border and reported to failure of the Oar- ranra troons In one or two Instance* to show aetlve co-operation In the pursuit of Villa had anything to do with his decision to ask for more began to discuss plans fo* retui'd ng the burned- district. An optimistic spirit prevails amorg the business men and work will go lor sard as soon at the In .urance has been ad justed. There was much speculation as.to-the amounla carried on the va rious buildings. The two newspapers, the Herald and the Chronicle, ‘art; making ar rangements to rebuild as ro-m aa possible. Orders for new equipment will he placed immediately by the two papers. , .Members of the special relief rom- mittce of frfteen_ronti ued to receive contributions nqd every effort will But the expense of keeping tho en trance to the dock open Is as noth ing compared to what has-been ex pended on I-eague Island navy yard and many other yards wo have; and It is outrageous to have these false hoods given continued circulation and not have the naval officers them selves familiar with the exact status In regard to Charleston and tho navy yard there. I ask permission to have the clerk read tho artfcle I sent to the desk, then to have it printed as a public document in largo typo. I would .road it myself wore my health more vigorous. It. goes fully into tho facts about tho Charleston and tho Charleston navy yard, too; 1 and I defy any man who has any care for his reputation ior truth to dis prove any assertion made by Mayor RheU. It is a reprint from the Manufac turers' Record of January 13, 1916.! Mr. Ithett shows conclusively the* value of the Charleston Jiarbor as an asset to the I'nited States''navy and how it lias been discriminated egefr^t ife ahtonbrnrs- hnw Uu-.jyi w yard at Charleston has been dlscrlmt- r nated against in years past. Fofmerj Secretary of the Navy George von L. 1 Meyer tried in every way possible to b' r Rlt'e and destroy the yard and congress under the Republicans co- Qgc has come on him. toorllke it has on me, and he Is no longer In the tral Powers intended an offensive against Italy In the early spring. Such a manoeuvre Is not wholly out of question. Nevertheless, It may b Senate. Republican though ho was,| Ba j,^ ( 0 highly Improbable. Mean- arid a partisan. In that regard he while, so far as the Austro-IIunga- could see. and did see, south of the 1 r | nns nro cotK - ern0( ]. seerns to be Potomac River, while some qien. In and out of Congress, have never been able to see further in that direction, because South Carolina seceded In , 1860. I am resolved to put the facts be fore the Senate whether any of tho i Senators stay and listem.or not. Tiro truth about Charleston shall get into the Record,'where it will permanent ly record tire facts about the Cliarles- welcotnc te-attack the positions along tho Isonzo and the Tyrolean border. An offensive on tire part of the Italians could not influence the mili tary situation of the Central Powers greatly, It is felt In Austria. It could brine relief to neither tho Russians nor French and Rri-tish troops, since for the defense of theso Austro-Hun garian linos but few troops are need ed. Austria-Hungary would be able. o the ton harbor and the Charleston navy , therefore, in the opinion of military harbor yard. If men will tie little-minded, . ni on to devote her energy to the Rus- narrow and sectlopal I cannot help , It, and 1 thank the Lord I am not built that way. On M^arch io, 1916, Admiral W. S. Ijenson, chief of operation, wrote Senator Tillman as follows: "The only example that has so far occurred in,, thp war now going on abroad which^emphaslzes the neces sity of a dry doe.k In the vicinity of an action, by-reasoh of serious in- 4^r^-La_a„i'tiftsei, is the case o.lJtjie British battle cruiser Liori, which was injured in the Dogger hank en gagement between the British and the Germans In January, 1915. It ’.s tho general impression that had It been necessary to tow this vessel very much further, it would have opeiated with him willingly. One striking fact about.MV Hhett's been impossible to save her artlc e is tills': The expenditures for' the six yards north of Hattcra* iiy T91! were $30,(03,001; for the Charleston yard. $720,792. and for Port Royal, $95,720. making $818,- 612 for those two. Port Royal is no •_ longer maintained as a navaf sta7Ton?| Ca The navy department under Seere- tsry DaHiels. has utiliz'd the govem- mert property and durable buildlnfrt* tb'-e «* d'sclplleary harraeka. ' If Mr Meyer's no'Icy had been ron- ttneed this saleable property rotting • rer • million dollars, would have "This emphasizes the necessity of bclnf aVe to reach a dry dock some where south of Hktterma, into which vessel* could be towed and docked In the event of Injury during an actlor tha w^jcfs t> the southward or- ape liutteras.' Blax* Eater Ispahan. A Rmter disratrh front, Te**erar tars that Re**1an for * w ••hen, tha old capital of Per*u o' - Mar h If. ' sinn theatre of war, and do this in6re completely than was tho case last summer, when men instead of trenches and other military means had to hold back the Italians. At the same time these authorities hold that offensive operations hy the Entente from the Salonikl base can- pot influence the situation in Russia and France. In the first place such operations would be local, and left largely to Ihe Bulgarians. ...Second, it is still considered probable that the Entente troops there will never undertake anything serious, If In deed they are not withdrawn before long. Military operations nealnst the Turkish troops In Mesopotamia and the Caucasus are given no better place In Austria, and another offen sive against Constnntinonle' awnesrs out of the question so long as the Fntente Is not prepared to undertake this with greater means than employ- One of t’-e thing* c"iii>t<'d unnn a* rruronabiv certain I* a rexv «'ffen»l*« hr the French Imot**. K»»me ho|<l t*»- xiewr t* at tM* wPI sywchroirGe >•(»’ e«f arfivlty hy the l*u**'a"' ha* the rhefee nt wr** *5rf Of Aeera'ien* *t will Km the Pntv'Me has tha «•"<*«*■ • • r «•* new come a factor there, though it is felt that this will not occur before next autumn. - In this connection It Is of In terest to note how a German of fensive against the-French is pic tured. Artillery, more artillery, and again artillery—artillery In such superiority that nothing ran live under its withering breath. That the Entente will do Its ut most In the spring and summer to end the w-ir has become almost cer tain, especially In view of the grad ual realization that tho hopes of re ducing the Central - Powers through lack of materials needed' for the con tinuation of the war have proved fal lacious. The partial abstinence practiced everywhere in the Central empires has had but one result—it has made the war a personal matter. NowHerd is this truer, perhaps, than In Aus tria-Hungary, where the want of this and that has gradually fostered a bitterness against Great Britain and France which did not exist a year ago. It may well be said that the re turn to Mack bread has in the Dan ube monarchy caused no fear that the armies and population wouM starve, but engendered the feeling that after all the Entente's threat was meant, and taat meeting it had become a natiora^duty/ Austrians Quit Czernowitz. An unofficial -renort received by way of "Rome.snd Lo-idon shv* fbx the Austrian* have abandoned Cxer- nowitz, rsnital of B'lkowlna. ! —or- • • .... - strength, but he declined to answer/ ma ' e ° ra * s0 fif 1 ? thousand dol- _ Some uneasiness was displayed for n ar ? ol. 0 ./ 111 " !°. or U 10 n, ’ f 'd5 r i a moment at department headquar- rel'^um to Parrtrtrafe. T v • ^en'ent* t*Ve* •»-*•*-*•*>•*- "•’C***. «*>„ *r‘P K* lerOed »«* P*r •Icire** *e the n**** neenzlazh tha of 1®tfi,Fs-e shu- .4 as ters when It was reported that the telegraph wires between Casa? Grandes and tho border had been cut, but an official renort stating that the line cut was a "buzzer" line Gen. Pershing had laid, and tliat it had open broken accidentally by some of the American forces crossing It, allayed apprehensu n. It Is not believed that Gen. Fun- ston Is worried to any extent hy re- ports of alleged .growing antagonism ain’ong certain Carranza troops, al though he is carefully studying that phase of the situnticn. It has not been forgotten at his headquarters.) however, that. Yilla has many more troops somewliere in northern Mex ico than the few hundred said to he with him in his flight. Roali/lng the mobile character of Villa's*band; it was not considered wise to expose Gen. Pershing’s lines too much. Lake Babicora, towards which one of the columns of I'nited State? troop's ^is reported to be moving. Is almost two hundred miles from the border and hy the time the columns directed towards Carmen and Nar *- qulp*-arrive at their destinations they also will be Almost as far south South of Casas Grandes the cavalry detachments, following the trail into the heart of the country where Villa Is known to have been operating, is a triangle of approximately three thoueand square miles In area. The rhase for Villa ha* grown larger than even many military ■ten whq had Ntudied tire situation ran fully todievrd It would, and it wa* pointed out that if It Iterame n«*e**ary to extend the operation* much UteSe It might Ke'neeei.*arr to move Into tire field almost a’l the remaining aaailaMe force* of fiie regular a-my w’fh the exeeo- flow of «sun# tweuti thousand mew an?* ia the w«uf era 1 d-e* i the greater part nm 4c Wew Me*Ira ami (Hi MrxWaa h»tdne uhn. Lew. Euu-4n* The Southern Adhiattnent Bureau of Atlanta will open ' an office in Augusta Monday for the adjustment of insurance, claims. A policy of two hundred thousand dollars was carried on the -soventeen-etory Em pire Life Insumnce building. It is estimated-that from two hundred and fifty to three hundred and fiftv thou sand dollars had been expended on the structure. The Chronicle build ing was insured for one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. NO REVOLT. SAYS CONSUL l. S. Representative Declare Car- . , *» ranza Troops are Loyal. American Consul Fetch at Chi huahua Friday reported there was no truth ‘in the repo r ted revo't of Gen. Herrera and the Carranza garri son at CHlhuahua. . Although Gen. Funston and Gen. Bell, on the boder. have receive 1 re-, ports confirming the story of the re volt, which they beliove r ‘to he true, the dispatch from. Consul Letcher, who is on the ground, la/take-n by officials here as confirming the statements of Carranza officials that, no such revolt has occurred. Rioting in Ireland. Rioting has oecurred'at Tullamoro, Ireland, where Sinn Fein rioters Mon day fired on the police three of whom *«re pounded, Oondit'ons In sot •• parts of Ire'anrf^woeently have been reported disturbed by-Hie carrying on of a vlrorous rampalgn'-against re cruiting. . - =ar- PI fl ft * FW I 1 letf la Tex a* J —•a al ar •' # J t«ra F «*>««• I Rml Weather Kt«»pa Infantry. ^ Bid weather srs'n ha* broken' over the Austro-Italien front but It bat not put a stop to the violent boasbeHmeitte. e*f'a'e—l to guard