Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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':4* DEFENSIVE GERMANY PRESSED ON EVERY FRONT BY HER FOES CAN ALLIES CRDSH HER OoiTMpMidfcnt of New York Work Cable* From Berlin That Next Few Weeks Will Answer the Quee- tlon—Cxar’a Soldiers Outnumber mm r ’’ Teutons Four and Five to One— V Verdun Attack Is Kept Up. ’W’lth half the German army battling in the west against the combined armies and military re source* of France and the British Empire; With the other half stem ming and holding back the wild, deeperatt! onsets of Russia's mil- I lions In the east, German y^Co-day H* fa the rfcfe-llke grip of a pres sure which- for a -time is likely to Increase on all fronts. Can the British Empire. Russia, Fmuce and Italy, with their popula tion «f g70,000,001), whites, blacks, browns aqd yellows, torn the screw tight enough to crush in the far- ports of -the llfl,000,000 of white of the central sasplrss, is a question that.. probably will be answered within the next few weeks. - If only numbers counted In the world conflict, and all tho peoples, whlhs or black, brown or yellow, were aqua 1 Ip intelligence, or in the intelligent direction of their physi- catTorce, the situation would appear for Germany and Aastrls- Two years of sciencs, training, patriotism, solidarity, unity of spirTt, singleness of purpose and centralised direction have out' weighed superiority In numbers and Tesourcei. hope! I Ing that their planned offensive, which -has been no secret here for some time, even to the probable point of the onaet, has leaked out, the Germans, with characteristic carefulness, cloaked their counter movements. To the apparent sur prise of the British, the Germans were waiting for them. Desplto the utmost pressure from political circles that such a policy would be construed abroad as an effort to conceal defeats; deaf to the -pleas from its own excluded press, the German General Staff hasn’t shown the slightest disposi tion to let its own people or the world know more about how the German lines are standing the French and British battering. But It freely permits the German press to print the French and Brit ish reports. For exafnple, the date linea of brief items on the Battle of the Somme in the Lokal-Anzieger are Lugano, Rotterdam, London, and Paris, everywhere except its own front. If the world interprets such an attitude as an admission that things are going badly on/the German side, the German General Staff is utterly indifferent. The Ger man public shows no signs df worry ing «bout it. The superlative accounts in the Paris and London papers tend to hreate the impression that the French and British successes haye been larger than the Germans say they are. According to the latter, It would appear the main offensive movement has narrowed down from the original forty to less than twenty kilometers (from twenty-five to twelve and one-half miles.) It is freely admitted that the French have had some success, bdt that as a result of seven days pf desperate fighting, with great hero ism and bravery on the part of the French, the furtherest point of the advance Is less than five miles. The British, on tho other hand, aside from minor local successts In a few trenches. It Is stated, are b >|pg firm ly held. Notwithstanding the offensive fur' ther north, the Germans continue pushing.the operations around after ■ASSES OF SUV COSSACKS MFi INLAND CITY BATHERS TOWN SCORNED WARNING Shark Sega la Greek oa Sunday a id Captalh Reported Its Presence on Bay of Tragedy—Flesh • Torn From Bog’s Hip to His Knee— Another Dragged Down. Captain Thomas Cottrell, a retir ed sailor, caught a glimpse of a dark gray shape swimming rapidly in the shallow waters of Mat&wan Creek Wednesday morning as he crossed the trolley yards from town. 8o impressed was be, when he re called the two swimmers killed by sharks on the New Jersey coast within two weeks, that he hurried back to his New Jersfey town and spread the warning among the residents that a shark had entered Mata Vvan, Creek. Everywhere the Captain was laughed at. How could a shark get ten miles away from the ocean, swim through Raritan Bay, and enter the shallow creek with'only seventeen feet of water at its deepest spot and nowhere more than thirty-five feet wide? So the townfolk asked one another, and grown-ups and children flocked to the creek aa usual for their daily dip. But Captain Cottrell was right, and the people are dynamiting the creek, hoping to bring to the sur face the body of a small boy the shark dragged down. In the Long Branch Memorial Hospital lies the body of a youth so terribly torn by the shark that he diqd of load of blood, and In St. Peter’s Hospital In New Bsunswick doctors are work ing to save the left leg of another lad whom the shark nipped as the big fish fled down the creek toward Raritan Bay. The dynamiters hoped, when they brought their exploaives to the creek, that besides the body they might bring up the shark where waiting with ‘ fighting oa •Vrr) » Imwo ; ha. duu. though Slowly. • The UoMneYto nSh r sMteereek'wav thtf Taking* of the im-' ' ward of Lutsk Linstageu's offensive has slowed down. portant Damloup battery. . (The French claim that this position was retaken and held.) The allies In the west have ueual- . . . .. . ... - ly managed to hammer them smooth _ \® rd 'V* Lhr again. The situation In the east can V >IU4 ' **., "P * “O'*. • M “ hardly be characterized aa so satls- •teoug offensive pressure, gaining (act0r7 ground literally foot by foot, and 7 the ibined offensives of the alllee seat and west have not yet beea able to divert the Germans from that goal. Germany is fighting day and sight against superior numbers In the west, with a her&tsm sod bravary to which the other aide la giving a lav ish tribute of praise la the euet the this, anaemic line of tUmlon- burg. Leopold, Ltaetageu and R U.- nser Is straggling against almost overwhelming odds, often four or •ve to one. Freeh armlet drummed up out of Despite earlier reports that their offensive wae brought to a stand still. the Busolans continue to ad vance southwardly, and it to look as if the Auetrtai not be able to hold them until the of the Carpathians Is The quickness with which Russia organised new armies after several defeats, and the rapidity with which ahe obtained new arms, especially guns, after losing several thousand, aad Inexhaustible supplies of am Rohela's hundred aad fifty millionsjhas caused no small sur- aad equipped with ammunition fromipriee. the arteeale of Japan aad America, are beating against those thin lines with the ceascleesneei of the sea, that cannot be otherwise than dis couraging to the stoutest hearts. Fed on food that, at the very beet, cannnot have the etrength- giving, force-producing properties which the men on the other elde have la afcufidahM: snatching a few bonra' Vest under s hall of shells and shrapnel, or sitting up stalght on the hardwood seats of jammed railroad cars shunted from front to front, from point to point, like ohut- tle-cocks on the vast loom-llke net work of the German railways, the Geevnan soldier to-day is performing feats of prodigious valor, and an en durance under diverse conditions against great odds, which some day, when military reasono exist no long er In anv of the warring countries against details that now cannot be told, will challenge the world's ad miration. The brain of the German army is at general field headquarters, but the headquarters hero can be called the chief nerve centre which regis ters all moves. It Is like a vast, cold, Impersonal machine. There Is not a trace of nervousness or anxiety noticeable there. Whether traceable to the utter lack of news from their own. side other than the laconic official re port, which tells comparatively lit tle, there Is, aside from the suspense and worry Inseparable from those whose relatives are fighting, a casse of deep gravity, which strikes one as almost ^unnatural calmness in the face momentous events. There Is great suspense. It can hardly be otehrwlse, though there is so little demonstration of U or outward in dications. With Paris, London and even New York, according to the English de spatches, in a state of excitement and suspense over the French and British offensive.. .Berlin and Ger many end the first week of the great battle absolutely unexcited. ‘ Notwithstanding the reports in the French and British press of great anxiety, nervousness, worry and fear In Germany, It can be stated this is not the fact at this stage of the of fensive. Whether it will be depends upon the French and British. Germany continues practically newsless from -her own side of the great conflict. In no great battle of equal proportions during the war sixty-eight Sunday to the battle of more than two million men. And that fag its progress. Against the lengthy and'detailed French and British official reports aa4 the page# of graphic and vlVld description of the terrible carnage the German General Staff devoted Jut twenty-four words ou Friday and sixty-eight to the. ~ VILLA LEADS BANDITS Bandit Clips Ears of Captives—Sen- Uni cot To U. 0. Improves. Mexican suthorttics in Chihuahua City believe that Villa la directing if not actually leading the bandits In their operations in adutbern Chihua hua, according to an American in cloee touch with Mexican affalrwvwho reached the* border from the state capital Tuesday. - He said that Geuoral Trevino commanding the government troops in northern Mexico.-ha* received-e#- 4 ficial'reporta that before the clash at Jimlnez the Villa forces captured and sacked the town of Diaz, several miles to the north and cut off the ears of their captives. Substantiating the story of the branding of prisoners, was the story of a Mexican soldier who reported to General Gcnzalec upon his ar rival In Juarez that his ears had been cropped after his capture lat Jiminez. The arrival said the anti- American sentiment in Chihuahua had disappeared. BET SUB WOULD ARRIVE Wall Street Broker Is Said to Have Won $20,000. Frederick Boshen, a former Wall Street br-kor, who is s*.id to have enjoyed close relations with tho Ger man Government officials In the Uni ted States, is credited in Wall street with havi.-g cleaned up $20,000 in hots in tho test two weeks on the German subsea liner Deutschland. WalL Street rogari'ed the mission of the ! ".bnarine as a myth, and bets were free'y offered at 15 to 1 that It would never put In' an ap pearance. Boshen took every bet of fered, and all day Tuesday he was busy collecting his winnings. FIGHT FOR STOKHOD Gen. Bothmcr Reinforced, Seems to Be Holding Russians. The Russians have made no no ticeable advance on any part of their front since they gained the Stokhod riyer, where the struggle continues desperately. The right bank apparently^ now has been clearod of Germans, but It is not known here whether the cros- given them a firm footing on tbe left bank. General ven. Bothmer, having received reinforcements, has succeeded in holding th the British loudly advantage from which mb la expected. further ofai senulne j| ejeqjt qeeja eq; jo the bay a mile and a half from town and spread heavy wire netting. The people of Matewaa bed been horrified by the tales of sharks which came to them from Spring Lake, Beach Haven, Asbury Park, and the other const resorts. They had been sympathetically affected by tbs re fer the spots where FU bed disappeared. Smith and Deulew were fa the lead, hut before they overtook hi id Fisher had risen and dragged himself to the opposite bank, where he collapsed. Those who reached him found the fount man’s right leg stripped of flesh from above the. hip at the waist Ifae'to a point below the knee. It was as though the limb bad been raked with heavy .dull knives. He was senseless from shock and pain, but was resuscitated by Dr. G. L. Reynolds after Recorder Arthur Van Buskirk had made a tourniquet of rope and stanched the flow of blo(>d from Fisher’s frightful wound. Fisher said it was a shark that had grabbed him. He had felt the nip of Its teeth on his leg, and had looked down and seen the fish ding ing to him. Others ashi re said they had seen the white belly of the shark as it turned when it seized Fisher. Fisher said he wasn’t in more than three or four feet of water when the fish grabbed him, and he bad no notion of sharks until that in stant. If he had thought of them at all, he said, he had felt himself safe when he got his feet on the bottom. Fisher was carried across the riv er and hurried in a motor car to the railroad station, where he was trans ferred to the hospital, but died be fore he could be carried to the oper ating table. At the creek meantime dynamite had been procurred from the store of Asher P. Woolley and arrange ments were being made to set It off, when a motor boat raced up to the steamboat pier. At the wheel waa J. R. Leffers, and in the craft lay young Dqnn. With his brother Wil liam and several others, he had been swimming off the New Jersey Clay Company brickyards at Cllffwood, half a mile below the spot where Stllwell and Fiaher were attacked. News of the accident had Jnst reached the boys, and they had hurried from the water. Dunn was the last to leave, and as be drew himself np on the brick company pier, with only his left leg trailing fa the water, the shark struck ai that. Its teeth fiF’WfTfafatB the knee of the flesh was torn pad much away. Apparently, however, the fish had struck this time In fright, for It loosed its grip on the boy at onto, and hta companions dragged him, yelling, up on to tbe pier. He waa taken to the J. Fisher bag factory near by, where Dr. H. J. Cooley of nsn^ snV Ph d I h n f Keyport dreeeod hie wound and then V 10 *® h * wa * carried In a motor car to St. . aW V' J an . v th# Peter’s Hospital In New Brunswick edles had not touched them close ly. Tonight the whole town la atirred by a personal feeling, a feeling which makes men aad women re gard the fish aa they might a human being who bad taken the lives of a boy and a youth and badly, per haps mortally, wounded another youngster. The one purpose fa which everybody sharee le to get the •hark, to kill It, aad to see Its body drawn np on the shore, where nil may look And be assured It will de stroy bo more. The death of the boy and youth and the injury to the other young- ster were due to the refusal of al most every one to believe that sharks would ever enter the shoal water where clamdiggera work at low tide. As long ago as Sunday, Frank Sister saw the shark and told It everywhere. He stopped repeat ing tha tale when everyone laugh ed him to scorn. Then today came Captain Cot trell’s warning, and with that Les ter Stllwell, 12 years old, might have been the only victim had it not been for the unfortunate coincidence that the boy suffered from fits. It supposed that an attack in the water had caused him to sink, and rescuers, with no notion that a shark had dragged him down, entered the water fearlessly. It was while trying to bring young Stllwell’s body ashore that Stanley Fisher, son of Captain W. H. Fis cher, retired Commodore of the Savannah Line fleet, lost his life. The third victim. Joseph Dunn, 12 years old, was caught as he tried to leave the water, the alarm caused by Fischer’s death at last having convinced the town that a shark really was In the creek. Stllwell was the first to die. With several other boys, he had gone swimming off a disused ^ steamboat pier at the edge of the town. He was a strong swimmer and bo swam further out than his companions. So it was that none could follow him, but several boys, instead, raced through tue town calling that Stil- well had had & fit in the water and had gone down. Tfeey said the boy rose once after his' first disappear ance. He was screaming and yel ling and waving his arms wildly. His body was swirling round and round in the water.' Fisher was one of the first to hear and immediately started for the creek. “Remember what Captain Cottrell said,’’ exclaimed Miss May Anderson a teacher in the local school, as Fischer passed her. "It may have been a shark.” VA shark here,” exclaimed Fish er, Incredulously. “I don’t care any way. I’m going after that boy.” He hurried* to the shore and don ned bathing tights. By the time he was atlred many others had reached the spot, among them Stllwell’s parents. Fisher dived Into the creek and swam to midstream where he dfaed once or twice fa search of SUlwell's body. At last he came up and cried to the throng ashore I’ve got it/*' * tings by the Russians have He was nearer the opposite shore and struck out In that direction, while Arthur Smith and Joseph Deu lew pat oat In a motor boat to briag k • cry by E. H. Bomick. There It wae said the physicians hoped to save bis leg If blood poisoning did not set In. ’ Tbe youngster steadfastly refused to tell where be lived, for, be said, he did not want bis mother to worry about him. From his relatives, how ever, It waa learned that his home is et New York. He and kls broth er had been-visiting an aunt In Clift- wood. News of the tragedies spread rap idly thrpngh neighboring towns, aad from Morgans Beach, a few miles away, cams a report that two sharks had been killed there In the morning by life guards. One was said to be twelve feet long. Peraons who saw the shark when it grabbed Fisher said they thought the fish was about nine feet long. SUB ATTACKS COAST TOWN German Submarine Bombards Small Town Tuesday Night. • The English port of Seaham har bor was attacked Tuesday night by German submarine. About thirty rounds of shrapnel were fired. One woman was killed. Ono house was stn ck by a shell. The official announcement says: “At 10:30 o’clock Tuesday night a German submarine appeared off the small undefended port of Sea- ham harbor, In the North Sea, six miles southeast of Sunderland, and a local shipping port. She '.pproach- ed within a few hundred yards of the town and then opened fire. Some thirty roun's of shrapnel were fired from a three-inch gun. Twenty rounds fell in the direction of Dalton- dale; a dozen rounds fell In and about Seaham colliery. “A woman walking through Col liery yard was seriously injured and died this morning. On. houco was struck by a shell. No other damage was done.” Cavalry Charges Toward Trenches, Dismounts, Uses Mounts as Bar ricade and Open Rapid Fire. . For some time the correspondents in Berlin have been hearing of the astonishing use of Russian cavalry on the front south of the s swamps, and getting repeated tales of charges of masses of horsemen against In- trenchments and unbroken Infantry, under conditions which would make these tactics appear the height of madess. An explanation has now been received, showing that the Is a certain amount of method In this madness. An explanation has now devised new tactics, which are em ployed not to press home an assault, but to advance a line of skirmishers rapidly across the danger zone before the actual charge is started. The role of the cavalry Is played when the infantry lines reach a point some 500 yards from the.<Austro- German trenches. A swarm of cav alry in widely extended lines is then flung forward through the intervals of the infantry lines. The horsemen dart forward at headlong speed. Soon they fling themselves to the ground and open a rapid fire against the ene my. The Cossack horses are trained to participate in this manoeuvre and lie down at the word of command and form a living breastwork for the rid ers. Under cover of the heavy fire from the dismounted horsemen the infantry lines advance across the in tervening country. Men and horses, maddened by excitement, often refuse to halt at the destined position, but tear on against the trenches and en tanglements In an unpremeditated charge. The Cossacks are being largely used In attempts to force slightly guarded river crossings, though the Russian pioneers have '.evised a new scheme for the crossing of the infan try where more resistance is looked for. Long, slender rafts are moored along the banks of the narrow rivers by which this swampy country is In tersected, concealed by overhanging bushes. At tbe proper moment the upstreem end of each raft Is released and the current swings it across tbe river, forming a series of narrow bridges for storming parties. BRITISH TAKE TWO CITIES IN FIERCE ATTACK FRIDAY Off* ive at ot Cities Daylight to After One Day’s Artillery At daylight Friday morning the British, resuming the offensive north of the Somme, attacked tho German second Une defenses aad according to the report of thoir • commander, Gen. Douglas Haig, succeeded in peo- eratlng them oa a front of four mil es. Press dispatches from tho front add that the villages of Bascatta-le- Orr.nd and Lonaaeval, north of Mon- tauban, and the remaining portion of Troncs woods were taken by tbe British. While it was expet cod the British would ot allow any great length of time to elapse before continuing their operations. It was hardly be lieved tbe second German line would be attacked after only one day of ar tillery preparation. LULL IN BOYCOTT TALK Now RUSSIANS IN FLIGHT Constantinople * Says Turks Beat Them Again at Kermanshah. Following the collapse of the Rus sian advance toward Bagdad, it was officially announced this" week in Constau'lnople that the Turkish counter offensive in Persia has made further progrees. The Russianc, in retreat, were overtaken fifteen miles east of Kermanshah, tho report Sbys, and once more put to flight, while the Russian offensive in the Tchoruk sector, near the Black Sea, has col lapsed. Z SATISFIED WITH HOUSE Wilson Says He Has No Further Rec ommendations to Make. Democratic Loader Kltchin report- ad to President Wilson today that with the passage of the corrupt prac tices bill the bouee will have com pleted the entire ledstetive program suggested to congress by the presl Suggestions of Paris Confe Discounted In England. The pronouncement of the recent Entente conference in Peris for e commercial alliance against the Cen tral Powers after the war appears to have been sidetracked In England entirely during the last fortnight. No definite p'an of action has been pro posed officially as far aa ascertain able and no unofficial schemes have been put forward. The cause for this may be the overshadowing Interest In the fight ing in France, while the departure of William M. Hughes, the Australian Premier, who is the foremost advo cate ef the “war after war,” policy, probably is a contributing factor. Before the Paris Conference the protectionist newspapers and the most bitter anti-German organs were enthusiastic for the policy and hail ed the announcements of the confer ence. The free trade press contin ues to attack the project with ridi cule. Free trade publicists and editors. Including Viscount Bryce, have is sued a manifesto giving it as their opinion that no reason ^exists for changing Great Britain’s fiscal policy after the war, and iontending the war has proved the strength of free trade and the weakness of protec tion at home and abroad. SUB CARGOES READY Repost fa That Bremen Will Go Back With Coffee. Already there Is rlscussion con- cernlhL tho return cargoes for other underwater lines which ae expected to follow the Deutschland to AmeL can shores. These vectels, it was reliably stated, will carry back the most essential foodstuffs that Ger many and Austria-Hungary need. Coffee was speciflcall ynamed as one of the commodities. It was also declared that the Bre men, constructed by the same com pany that built the Deutschland and. reported from Berlin as about to sail, will carry drugs that are much needed In this com try and which cannot be obtained fro many other than German sSurcea. see Are Reinforced. replied that he waa | the work done by the ' Mr. WU- wlth attacks against the British ou the Somme front Toeedny night. They gnlned ground fa Mamets wood and fflH IIS COAST ♦ ^ ■ NEGRO ONLY VICTIM IN CflAR- LESTON FRIDAY 4 , +. — . * ISLANDERS IN SAFETY < Up to Noon Friday Storm Whlcb Swept Atlantic Qmst Had Not Developed Expected Intensity-— Trees Cripple Trolley Service and Ferry Service fa Stopped By High Waters. ' The hurricane which struck. Charleston Thursday night abated Friday. One life was lost. Damage to shipping and tjjre~water front was not great and the balance of the city did not suffer severely.’ Hundreds of island dwellers could not be reacred today by boaJt^ or wire, but It is believed they ^e safe as they had ample warning of the approach of the storm. Many came to the city late Thursday night. Hundreds of trees were blown down and resulted in crippling trol ley and wire service. Ferry service also was affected by the heavy sea and high tides. By noon electric power; which had been turned off during the height of the storm, was turned on. The one death was that of a negro who was killed by a live wire. At 7 o’clock Thursday night hur ricane signals were hoisted over the Custom House by the weather bu reau and every effort made to dis tribute news of the warning quickly. Hurricane signals to ships at sea were sent out in the shape of rock ets from the top of the Custom House. Three huge rockets werej sent up by the local officials. Tbs first flashed into the air at 7.4! o'clock, fifteen minutes later the sec-* ond went up, and at 8.15 o’clock the third was sent. The rockets flash ed In the sir, bursted and fell. The high wind kept them from going aa far ont over the river aa they gmiut ha*e done UMlfusrtiy: Th$, radio station at the Navy Yard was Informed of the hoisting of storm signals and according to tbe usual custom, the warnings were spread broadcast by tbe wireless. In this manner ships were warned so that they may have time In which to put Into port before tbs storm breaks. Hundreds of persons crowd ed the water front during tho afternoon and evening to wat^h the hoavy seas as they dashed up against the sBttsry wall aad wharves along tho wator front. Scores crowded along tho Battery and eight-aeara wore numbered by tho hundreds. Tide waa ruaalag high, tha wind, blowing al high as sixty-two mi loo an hour at one time, made tbs seas heavy. Wava after wave dashed again*’ the wall, ita apume being thrown high Into the air. The wator rushed over tha wall aad Into tho roadway and streets. Tha high wall along South Bat tery waa being continually washed aa wave after wave dashed over tha Battery wall. The whltacapa seem ed to chrae each other over tha wall or wore broken and the spray thrown high. It was a spectacular sight. Water was deep In tha streets. Automobile parties drove machines through tho streets. The aldewaiks and along tho Battery proper were lined with interested spectators. Tho Boulevard was covered with water, aa tha waves flowed over tho wall. The dories anchored near the Yacht Club were all swamped and their maats were visible. Launches were tosaod about at their moorings aa If they were but corks. No small boats were being operated. Some of the onlookers more ven- - turesome, and more appropriately ly slad, ventured aldng the high wall ». and were drenched by the spray. Small boys took seemingly delight lo'fs being soaked as a wave was brokeft ^F agianst the vail. m —N $ FRENCH LOSE AT VERDUN £ Paris Reports Gains for Germans Around Great Fortress. I . While relative calm prevailed on both sides of the Somme, according to the official communication issued by the French war office Tuesday night, heavy fighting occurred on the right bank of the Meuse, in the Verdun sector, German forces suc ceeding in gaining a footing in the Damloup battery and in some sec tions of the French lino in the Fumin wood. * GERMANS ilsYOLD GUNS i British’ Reported to Have Captured Cannon Dated ”1874.” foie Reuter correspondent at the British front reports that two Ger man field guns bearing the date “1874” have been captured by the British. Tbe correspondent asks whether, without attaching undue importance to the incident, these guns do not indicate thd* straits to which the Germans are beginning to be reduced in order to find sufficient armament. RUSH TO CHECK SLAVS Teuton* Are Called From Balkans and Turkey. Nearly 100 military trains, convey ing some 60,000 troops, pi through Temesvar, Hungary, in the last few days, transporting Land- strumera. UMd London reports the_Oermaaa; -»• •■■■■■Mow ef •viiv veinforeedv*'delivered strong S® r hls and Montenegro, to Aransyl- vmnia to oppose the Russian advance. It Is reported also that German offi cer* commanding Bulgarian troops have beea recalled.