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•} HOW OMITS FIGHT, SUDDENLY ATTACKED SOLDIERS IN SUCCESSFUL SURPRISE TOOK REFUGE IN HOUSE BandlU Stand Fire Roof of Defenders’ Driving Them Into the Open ~Xo Mexican Bodies Have Been Found But Belief is that Eight of Them Have Been Slain. The following story of the raid was Texas: * ho stoi pent from Alpine, Texas: .Villa ban dits, some seventy in number, forded the Rio Grande Friday night, and sweeping fifteen miles \ inland on American soil, raided the little set tlement of Glenn Springs and attack ed a detachment of American cav alry. consisting of nine men of Troop A, the Fourteenth cavalry. Three troopers and a little ten- year-old boy were killed; two cav alrymen were wounded and anotheK is missing. He Is believed to be a prisoner of the bandits, who are now fleeing southward into Coahulla, Mexico. ' . Two American citizens. J. Deemer, and a man named Compton, accord ing to renorts received, were carried across the Rio Grande, and reports have it that their throats were cut. A posse of fifty citizens of Marathon are in pursuit of the Villlstas. The missing. trooper is Private Roscoe Tyree. The little boy is th4 eoYi of Compton. He was deaf and dumb and the bandits are thought to have killed him because he could not nhswer their questions. / The two wounded troopers. Pri vates J. Rlrck and Frank LeFree. ■were carried to Alpine. Texas. Sun day afternoon badly hurt. Blrck’s bcdy was filled with small brass pieces of tacks Jlrcd from a shotgun. DeFree was BruYsod about the head and shoulders. In-♦ Httle- adohe -horj** otne csv- mlnmen made' their fight for life agairst the seventy or more Villa •bandits at Glenn Springs. A hail of shot fx>ur<'«t f<»r more than two hour* Into the single window of the adobe hons<>. but the cavalrymen kept up a Mend? rifle-fire In defiant answer. Then the Mexican lender ordered fire halls to he thrown on the roof, thick ly (hatehrd with randallaria. The Mating weed tortured the sol- dle-s he’ow and burnt their heads and bodies. Smashing the door the troopers broke for the open. Two were shot rnd kHled is they fled. One Is missing* find It Is Relieved ho Is dead. Another wag'1^T!ed• as tried to ellmh through a window. The Mexlenn b'ndlts fltgt attack ed a store and one or two houses In Bontiil’as. where they made Deemer 1 and Compton prisoners, and then peed fifteen miles northward to make their attack on Glenn Springs, which Is frtneed hr rugged hills. At Glenn Springs they wrecked a factory be longing to William Fills, his store and residence, besides one or two other smvlt buildings At five-thirty Fridcy evening the main body of fifty to seventy mount ed Mexican bandits forded the Rio Garde at naqulllas. and swept Into the lltt’e settlement shouting "Death to the Orlngoes.” The bandits loot ed the store of J. Deemer and set it on fire. Deemer and a clerk named OomMon were seized and bound. The bandits pocketed their loot on their horses and after setting one or two small fr>me houses ablaze galloped away northward. • Heading towards Marathan. Texas the bnndlfs In their night ride came upon Glenn Snrings, where a small detachment of nine caValtymen, un der command of Sergt Smith, rolor ed. of Troon A, Fourteenth cavalry, was stationed The Mexicans appeared suddenly tlie ton of a hill beneath which ^wlcnn Borings nest’es. Nothing of "^heir numbers are known. • Private Rlrck, on outpost duty, emptied his revolver to rouse the camp and then dished back to the tent. Bergt. Smyth’ and Private Croskem jumped to fly of the tent. Observing numbers of Mexican hand they ran to an adobe hut xGicre the six other cavalrymen wofo pre paring to make their defence. Tlie door of the houso, which had only one window, was barred and Scrgt. Smyth, seeing that his men were outnumbered by ten to. one, pave mV,»rs to shoot carefully and not waste ammunition. “Wo are up against it cold," said Smyth, "but we will show them something. Lot them Mexicans shoot t'icir heads off amjjmn out of am munition and maybe by morning wo will Ue lu a position to give them a run.’.’ • On tho rla=h from their tent Smylb and_ Croskem had lost their revolvers, having- been forced to re treat to the aclobe house half clothed because of the rapid approach of tho Mexicans The bandits poured a constant fiisilado of shots at the window and door of the adobe, house. N’bt an American cavalryman fell in the e*- changes. The little b-’rtd took firms shoot ing from the window. Riood stains' on the dry ground around tlie house was fkc only evidence that the Irtn- ~dits Suffered In the attack, but Serpt. Smyth belieVea that seven or eight bard its were killed and some were wounded, For tb.rcy long hours the flghT went on. "Just a tune while more. bov»7 and daylight' will be with us." urged Smyth, who- 1 new the bandits ild retreat cpre they became good c*ta in the light nf *dTWrt. The Vevicnrs fouzht fn sVlrmlsh fdnr.atlon. That was proof to|* Pravth’s eves that bs was dealing k with: c r’ttttanrNw'fn The aCi'kerV he~ses were H soihe distance to the r»ar aBd the j « kef-ardt mv'st*l»!**l thetc.Macks oi»| ♦ thrye eldce of t’ e tou«*. free* which! * tfcc I'm Crew t er of the Mexican bandits gave orders to throw fire bails bn the roof. “1 can’t stand It any longer,” cried Private William Cohen, when the hlnalng ttiwtch began felling. “I'll take another shot and then try and make it through the window.” Cohen leaped Into the window frame to make his dash for the open. A ballet split his skull and he feU back dead. Outside the voice of a Mexican was heard to say: “Line up on each side of the door. They must come out.” Bmyth told his men that the time had come to make a dash. The heat had burnt the tops of their heads. Private Stephen J. Colcock dashed out. His body was found next morn ing not far away riddled with bul lets. Smyth, leading the other cavalry men, turned to the left and made for the corral, the Mexicans firing at them. The body of. Private Law rence K. Rogers was found not far from the. burned house, but Tyree could not be accounted for when Smyth and his men. who reached the hills In safety, Investigated next morning. Tyree may have been made pris oner, but If so the soldiers think he nas probably been killed by now. After the attack on the American troops the bandits rushed to the wax factory-of W. K. Ellis and destroyed it, besides setting fire to the fac tory store. Ellis' home was ransack ed. A cross that hung In one room is believed to have saved the house from being burned. When morning came the Ameri can troopers crept back to the set tlement and saw the mala body of some fifty Mexicans packing their loot upon their horses on the nine American cavalrymen mounts which they had captured. Then the ban dits turned towards the Rio Grande and started for Boqulllas. Here the brigands carried Deemer and Comp ton across the river and it was re ported that their throats had tfeen cut. Tho Mexicans carried their dead and wounded away. VIGOR OF GERMAN FIGHT MARKS VERDUN ATTACKS BANDITS KIM fflliR confuses IMinilllU HILL vUI,ll| SITUATION ON BORDER ATTACK BORDER EASILY Attack of Friday May be Duplicated at Many Other Pointa. The eane with which bandits may, raid certain sections of the border,' army officers pointed out, was Illus trated in the Texas inroads. Condi tions at Glenn Springs, It Is declared, are duplicated at many other points along the line, where small groups of soldiers are protecting frontier prop erty and doing patrol duty. It was also pointed out that the raiders entered the U. S. from Coahulla, the native state of Gen. Carranza himself, and where he has maintained his control has been al- most unchallenged.' The Carranza verntnent in its negotiations has been insisting that only in Chihuahua and Sonora weri bandits active. TRANSPORT IS SUNK Faria Says Tentonic Offensive Cost THREE AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND r, -j. ■ Heavily Bat Battle is as Violent , ' as it Was in March- . Paris reports Monday: After sev enty-seven days of battle the Ger mans are making a new attack be fore Verdun with another formidable army. Fighting almost equal In vio lence to that of the beginning of March is in progress on both banka of the Meuse. The principal effort of the Ger mans is being directed against Dead Man’s Hill. Following the Napol eonic policy of attempting to turn what cannot be carried by frontal attack the Germans, with a whole army corps, made the assault by way of the ravine between Hill 304 and Dead Man’s.Hill, seeking to crush In the French line along a front of one and one-half miles. The ground there Is favorable for attack and the French commander, aware of the weakness of the posi tion, placed some of his best trained .army corps at that place. This corps disposed of the initial attack without ceding any important ground, but the battle still Is raging and. according to the latest advices, the result will not be known till sometimes later. East of the Meuse the Germans de livered four attacks on a front of two thousand yards each advance be ing made by a different Prussian regiment. The fighting there la as fierce as on the other aide of the river and as inconclusive. Gen. Neville, whose promotion to the command at Verdun put him In charge at such a critical time, is a man of sixty. Gen. Nlvelle is one of the discoveries of the war. At the outbreak of hostilities he was In com mand of tho Fifth regiment of artil lery. Gen. Joffre soon singled him out for A leading role. ONE ROY IS SLAIN MUSON PLANS NEW NOTE TO SET GERMANY STRAIGHT Will Make It PlalirThat Blockade of Great Britain Has no Con nection With Sub War. " President 'Wilson and Secretary I-ansiug conferred Sunday at the While House on tho sltnatton con fronting the United '.tales as a re sult of the latest German note re garding the conduct of submarine warfare. There are atrong Intimations In official quarters that the administra tion might send to Germany a brief communication, noting the new In structions to submarine commanders quoted In the German note and in forming the imperial government that so long as these instructions were effective diplomatic relations between the two nations could con tinue. Should such a communication be aent. uowever, it would make. It very plain that the United States will not permit Its relations with Great Britain to enter Into the controversy. It was authoritatively stated that should another ahlp carrying Ameri can citizens be sunk by a German submarine In violation of the prin ciples of International law. diplo matic relations would be severed just as soon as the facts were wstablished and without any further exchange of communications. Berlin Says Allied Ship Hit Sliu© In Mediterranean. The sinking of-an allied transport in the Mediterranean late* in April with the loss of nearly all the six hundred .Russian troops on board is reported in advices from Corfu, says tlie Overseas News Agency. The transport was sunk by strik ing, a mine about tho same lime the British b-ttleship Russell met a sim ilar fate, the advices stated. BLAMED FOR DEBACLE Former Russian . ar Minister is Sent to Prison. ' : - - Gen. W. A. SoukhomTirfoff, former Russian minister of war, has been Imprisoned In the fortress of Peter and Paul, according to a semi-pfficPul dispatch from Petrograd. as the re sult of a preliminary inquiry by Sen-i ator Bogorodsky into charges or crinrnal negligence and high treason in connection with drhr arlmtTrtytrt-' firth of the Russian army. BRITISH SINK IN BAY Ixtndon Raya Weather Conditions Prevent Continued Offenaive. The physical difficulty of any ex tended movement until dry weather aeta in la exemplified by the expe rience of a British battalion which took a section of a German trench on the Yprea-Langemarck road after tvyo day'e aprlng rains. The attacking forces sank up to their armpits In the morass, which was spotted with shell craters filled with water, help ing themselves dong with their rfHes. -crawling, half swimming, un der shell fire. After the trench had been taken the men dug out the wounded and those stuck In the mire who were not wounded. One corporal, himself wounded, took two and ah alf houra to bring another man six hundred yards through a bog. A German counter attack, caught foundering in tho mud by machine gun fire, gave up the attempt and withdrew. STATE IS FOR WILSON G # County Conventions Go on Record for Ills Re-election. South Carolina as an original ‘Wil- son *str.te stood by its conviction of four years ago and.in county con ventions expressed its approval of tho s icccssful fight waged at the Balti more convention for the nomination of the president. Practically every county instructed its delegates to the State convention to work for the re- noiulnatfon and re-election of Wil son or passed resolutions indorsing the policies of the Wilson adminis tration. Much enthusiasm for tho pj^sident was shown in county cop- ventiens, some passing resolutions of enthusiastic indorsement by^ rising votes while at others the vote was made by tae thunderous acclama tion. Only in Isolated iftstances were ,tho resolutions>opposled. With Conference Between Generals About Over New Violation Caoaea Apprehension. Renewed raiding on American ter ritory by Mexican outlaws at Glenn Springs and Boqulllas, Texas, under circumstances resembling the Colum- _ bus massacre, impressed officials at , roray by Randita or Carranza Sol- Washington Sunday night with the urgent necessity for prompt conclu- KIDNAPS TWO CITIZENS diers Takes Dank With Villa's Fa- A mous Attack on Columbus—United States Troops Move to Border to Prevent Subsequent Attacks. Three American soldiers and a ten-year-old boy have lost their lives^ and two American citizens have been kidnapped and carried south of the international boun dary to almost certain death in another raid of Mexican bandits that takes rank with Francisco Villa's famous attack on Colum bus, New Mexico. RATIO OF DEAD IS 20 TO 1 * » Up to I-atest Affray at Glenn Springs Americana Had Exacted Big Toll The punitive expedition under Brladler General John J. Perstiing has aeronnted to date for about one hundred and twenty-five Villa ban' dlts slain and between two and three hundred wounded. .Meanwhile the Ainertrana lost six killed, a ratio of twenty bandlta slain for every Amer ican life lost. In wounded the ban dits have Buffered nearly thirty eaa- ualtlea for every American hit by a bullet. While the expeditionary foreea hare not lost one officer, the Villa banda have had half a dozen of their leaders killed. The significance of this show ng was that It was made airalnst some of the most desperate fighters in Mexico, men whose repu tations have ranked high among the mlltary men produced by fixe yean of Mexican revolution. More Important than the number of bandlta killed has been their com plete loss of morele. Nowhere win they stand any longer to fight Americana. A few shots from ad vantageous ground and the bandlta run abandoning their good positions before the Americans are on equal terms. Practically all the details of the raid reaching El Paso Sunday came to Gen. Funston from Major O. B Meyer, of the Fourteenth cavalry, stationed at Marfa. According to Major Meyers the bandits, about sev enty-five in number, crossed the Rio Grande late Friday afternoon at a point south of Terlingua, Texas where there la a guard of about thirty men. From there they proceeded east ward through the desolate readier of the Big Bend country over an old wagon road toward Glenn Springs, a small ranch settlement. . — A few miles west of Glenn Spring* an American patrol ‘ of eight men from Troop A, of thp Fourteenth cavalry, under command of Sergt Smyth, was stationed. The bandit* began an attack on tlie liltlc tem porary aback in which the eight troopers were quartered before (hr single sentinel could raise an alarm. The time was about eleven—okiiock^ The attackers rushed toward the shack shouting "Viva Villa!" and “Vlvf Carranza!” They were met by a sturdy defence from the half asioep Americana, however, and fail ed In their evident attempt to make a quick capture of the patrol guard From eleven o'clock that night nntl! after two o'clock In the morn ing Sergt. Smyth fought the Mexi cans from the shelter of the patrol house, fn that time three ol hit men. Prtvate.1 Cohen. Coloe end Rogers, had been killed and he end all the rest were wounded. Thee 'he aback caught fire. It was Impossible to atay lor set so Sergt. Smith ordered a retreat Two of his men #k*re so bsdlx wounded It was necessary to .tarry them Smyth and the other men suc ceeded In removing the badly wound ed and took out the bottles of tne three dead men and carried them to a place of aafety. There was a motor truck attached to the ramp. The dead and danger ously wounded men were loaded Into this and aent toward Marathon, a atatlon on the Southern Pacific eighty-five mllea north. One man accompanied the truck. This left Smyth and two others to engage the bandits. They retreated to the low bllla and fought from be hind rocks and mounds of gravel. While this was going on, ranch men of the vicinity heard the eboot- Ing and hurried to the scene. Al though few In number they formed an adequate reinforcement and about four o’clock, as dawn neared, the Mexicans retreated. This was five hours after the fight ing began. The bandlta rode to ward the east until they came to Glenn Springs. There they looted a general store and killed the ten-year- old son of C. G. Compton. Then they proceeded to B.oqulllas, a few milt's north of the Rio Grande, wherb they seized supplies and for age and rode on again. Their next stop was at Deemera Here, according to the reports re ceived in El Paso, they looted tlie sion of the agreement with the Car ranza government to give the United States greater : liberty in crushing banditry along the border. The report of the new violation of United States soil and the killing tK five Americana from a quarter most unexpected and in which Gen. Car ranza had declared he had complete control r.gainst outlawry, occasioned great surprise. Important changes in border patrol forces, with possibly anothe punitive expedition into Mex ico from the Big Bend region of Texas, where the Glenn Springs and Boqulllas raid took place, with Pre sidio as a base, were predietpd. Confef^iTcdSvJbetyeen* Gens. Scott and Obregon regarding the Texas rrlds. It is believed, will only slight ly delay conclusion of their protocol. A message from Gen. Scott was In terpreted as meaning an early ratifi cation of the agreement. It was un derstood that Gen. Scott reported the minor phraseology changes suggested by Gen. Carranza to GetL Obregon. A reply wr«s sent Gen. Scott by Gen. Bliss, acting chief of ataff, which may result in conclusion of the pro tocol at the nett conference. CAVALRY SQUAMON ROUTS LAR6ER MEXICAN FORCE NOTHING TO DO WITH ENGLAND SAYS PRESIDENT Wilson Writes Germany That Hub Negotiations are Independent of Britiah Actions. A antq tu f lartnanj prnHIinlty haa been completed and xtent for* to an I to Berlin Monday. It will be made puhlir aoon. It la under* atood It was brief. Infornifng tier- many that as long aa the new In* atrurtiona to auhmarine command- era are oboerved diplomatic rela tions will he rontlnued hut that the United states cannot allow tier- many to dictate Its negotiations with Great .Britain. The president worked on the pro- poaed communication early Monday after hla conference with Secretary I-analog Sunday night. It la under- atood offlciala are so far agreed on the policy to be puryued that it will not be necessary to wait for th# cabi net- meeting. While the German note has avert ed, for th# prebent at leakt, a break In diplomatic relations, it was said that the president naa not oaU-fird nith the ap|»an-ut rondiUona attach ed by (acrmany. The United States by Its demand that Germany cease her attacks on vessels In violation of International law regardless of nego tiations which may be carried on with Great Britain over the food blockade. Some of the president's advisers wanted him to make no reply to the German note and only wait develop ments. but he la understood to have decllel to send the communication. MAY CALL OUT TIE MILITIA Governor of Texan Orders Command ers to be in Rendlneea. Gov. Jabea W. Ferguson, of Texas, Intimated Sunday night that iraTT troops might be called out for bor der patrol duty, aa a result of the raid on Glenn Springs and Boqulllaa by a Mexican band Friday night. • Gov. Ferguson late Sunday order ed Capt. Monroe Fox. of the State ranger service, and hla company, to the scene of tho raid and was await ing a report from the ranger cap tain before taking action. Pats Bandits to Fllgjit 1b Early Mona* Ing Who Flee Wlthoat Wait- ing for Clothes. A full, squadron of two hontlratl and thirty men of the Eeleventh cav alry surprised and routed a much larger force of Villa bandits at Ojo- Azules, seventeen mllea south of Cu- slhuirlchlc, early Thursday morning. Forty-two Mexicans were killed and a number wounded. There were no American casualties. , Further, reports from MaJ. Howz# stated that Gen. Antonio Angeles was killed. He was a relative of Felipe kngcles, the former confident of Vina, who was once mentioned, for the presidency of Mexico and who Is now living near El Paso. The American Ctiinm.nd. under Mij. Robert L. Howze, had been pur suing the badits under Gen. Crux Dominguez -and Gen. Julia Acosta, for several days when they encoun tered them encamped In the huddled adobe , huts of OJo-Azulcs. The Mexicans were completely sur prised and sprang from their pallets half clothed. Aft-r firing a few wild shots they began a flight, each man shifting fqj' his own safety. Some of them were able'to selbze their horses, alredy jaded from a hard day’s rlda previously, but othera fled into the hills afoot. MaJ. howze reported he still was ’pursuing the scattered remnant of the bend, which Is the largest re- mainglng under the Villa standard. It is believed the band ts the same as that defeated at Temochic April 22 by Col. Dodd‘'s command. , The Howze column strnck the bsnd of Mexicans near OJo-Azules, after an all-night erosa country ride, at flve-forty-flve In the' ’morning. More than fifty of the fugitives were rounded up by tho Americans after the engagement. The co'umn had marched thirty* six mllea through the mountains dur* ' hw * pt * »U»cked wttiinut eating either men or horses. It con sisted of six picked troops of the Eleventh cavalry and onj machtns gun detachment. MaJ. Howze'a re ports to Gen. Pershing said that they are continuing their chane. i HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT Wllaoa Announces Thai Scott aad Obregon Uonfrrrarq hocrerda. President Wilson announced Thursday night that tha tentative agreement between Gen. Scott and Gen. Obregon covering the future opernttons of the American and Mex ican military forces In Msxlco pro vides “a baala of co-operation which promises to prevent misunderstand ings and atrengthana tha cordial re lations of the two republics.** Ilia statement follows: "I have ezamined, with the secretary of war, the report made by Gen. Hugh U Scott of the conference between bla and Gen. Obregon. secretary of war of the republic'of Mexico. "Tha report Include# n tentative agreement coveting the future opera tions of both the American and Mexi can military forces and evidences cor dial co-oporatlon between the two governmynta In their common pur- poso. "Aa this agreement la being aub- mltted to the de facto government of Mexico It would not be proper for me to permit IU publication until that government has had an opportunity to examine and conaldar Its provi sion a. “The full text of the proposed agreement wilt be given Out infthe- dlately upon Its acceptance by both, governments. In general,! may aay that it provides a baelg of -co-ppnra- tion which promises to prevent mis understanding and strengthens the cordial relations of the two re publics." i general store of John DeemerirThen w U 1 ,\" nde "!° od ,hat order " ,iaT « they cross back Into Mexico, taking j 50 ? 11 P' ven militia commandera to be with thorn Deemers and Lois Gov » ,n readlne “ to proceed to the border on short notice. with thorn Deomers and Lois Coy, man in his employ. It Is believed that Deemers and \ fb? Sa k "'. e id e * ,ter b "" s ,0 SWEDEN TO CHECK AIRCRAFT TILLMAN DOUBTS RESULT Ilf m ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ CYMRIC SINKING? ? 4 It Is reported that the 4 rteamshin frate Vew*York for t pool. Tl.e- Gytaric bas in the service of the BrttUh gv’veiament for some tir e, paafVn- Tlie point most speculated upon was the identity of the raiders. Car ranza military officials only a day or so ago declared that this section had practically been cleared of bandits Fifteen days ago the members of the Carranza garrison at Roquilias. fi’e Mexican town Just across the Rio Grande from Boquilias, Texas, sud- dently disappeared. They have hot been heard from since and there has been a suspicion that they might have deserted to the Villa forces Military men thought they, probably participated in tho raid. Front tbo grave number of Amerl. ran and Mexican officials, it, would seem the situation between Mexico and the United States has become eonslderaidy clouded by tho new de velopments. ' • -, FORBIDS TROOP MOVEMENT Greek Government, Says Berlin, • Balks Plan to Receive Serbians. “The Ambassadors of the Entente Will Enact Law to Stop German Rc- ’ ^ connoitring Excursions. A Central News Ylisjntch from Copenhagen quotes the Dagoes Nylio- ter of Stockholm to the effect that the Swedish government lias decided to introduce a bill prohibiting"ras-1 sage of forgjgn eireraf.t pver Swedish tefritorlal waters. Jt isibleieved that the measure Is designed to check reconnoitring ex- cjrciona of German aircraft to the north over Swedish waters,- which hove been of frequent occurrenco re cently. FIGHT IN THE WEST Activity Along Western Front Dwln« dies Into Artillery Combat. A German attack against the Bel gians to the north of Dixmude Is the only infantry engagement reported at any point along the western front. Artillery bombardments, espeoially severe to the northeast of Verdun, have been the sole method of war-- fare on the other sectors. North of Dixmude, tlie Germans, after a vio lent preparatory bombardments, charged and occupied portions of throe Belgian advance ports, but the Belgians, in a counter attack, drove out the invaders. i - -RUSSIANS PUSH ON Turks In Dfarbekr are Killed or Cap tured in Large Nnmbers. • The Russians are continuing their' pursuit of the Turks in the Diarbckri region of Asia Minor. Numbers of I Turkish irfyntry have been kil'od or rv* -wa* bo (ea-*--** rr-eof the d-xjH * hxd ee bosrl ro >♦ *** »trrV VirA-tsr. * I* oo ter Uat trip. Faxt-V ta reef tV# Awie^'-a-s 1 * *ir ■•4-vx’M feet the Wa4-| + Saye- Mexican Affair it ScttlDiJ Bui German Problem Acute. The Columbia Record—prints" the following from Senator B. R. Till-i man: - ^ 1 "From all I can learn, th* Mexi can situation *eems practi-allv set. ■ doesn’t appear so hrighLv The pr*sl-| dent cannot afford »■> sed win not! Ylt'd. The Kaiser ie .between the, 'evil and the de-p bln* sea fie eee- 1 nc-t afford, to break oft rwlaUans •*th Urrl Run. His people, bating Eng-• 'a~d so. arw »-t*ire-rvri f<»» confine-' tet an Vs arise * sr'er One cue on it xnonn the final tweak.'* powers have made a final effort to i^ a. 6 bef ' n ki1 n,, or obtain from the Greek government I ntf lUre< . hy n 0SS ^ C | k! !' Con!,tnn ! 1 n ?* permission for the transportation of ? ® Sea Kv i” x T.T n trnnnn from Pm-fn to ‘ e ,5!at ** by a Turkish sub- M .over oS roHroads by way of I T-arisra. but the Greek authorities “.I, th# f nk,n * of lhre « food-laden have absolutely declined to give their' aallln * consent*" «ays the Overseas News Agency. “The Athens correspondent of tha Loka’-\n>e<zer telegraphs that the in u.eir power, ttt pigaant Uu- pan- fWHe Tells of infot mat ton TTMch 1.1 ___ arrows Greece." Four M'.re Retw-la Shot. * Four more !r*«b r»be* prisoners TRANSPORT SUNK “LYNCH” BRINGS *750 South Carolinian's Signature Fe*chen High Price In New York. , Ore wqrd, "Lynch," Monday trought $7 5(1 at the first session ot the sale of the autograph col.ection of the late Howard K. Sr.nserson, at the Anderson Art Galiery in New York. Tlie word was -written by Thomas Lynch, of South Carolina, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde|»endence. Tlie signature, one of the hardest to obtain, was cut from a volume of Swfft's works. Tho buyer was R. H. Dodd. TURKS EXCHANGE WOUNDED Britiah General Receives Offer From .Turkish Commander. Comes From Ralowka. ’ . * * , j ft Is report *4 from Salonle* that a Cermsa sebmarlp* fas tr«-edo*d s . W rowrt Urge t-*a*po»4 It 4 sx*d fbe tries- end rant Thursday. This pun w”*.tarredeed off '-Cars Rerun 1 ®S B C'- -'i flrfilfai . fimms ■rnfluem * — * •— effltial’v ta Dabbs tea etTtes east of laJeVrs ' •' T \* 1 ^lV**'* Vo-enh P***. (be ar ~ -d tast-see is whlrfc a >r y**** OW, pert to repwrrsd > have b_n istos sal VUMur i tiaa. Tha British of net Pure a a nounces that Lieut. Gea. L*k». ttfsader of the British foreg* ta T-otsmta. has received a letter Mar | frem the Turkish te-rhiet. Khali Pasha, ta agrees ta exrhasge sfeead'e atefc eed ee« tvs teat aaisber of A BO- ha 'M rtomeasK.