Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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S. C MiUTIA LEFT MONDAY FOR MEXICAN BORDER SECOND LEAVES TUESDAY Two teroplanes were Men flying j over lower Chesapeake Bay and] Hampton Roads shortly after day-] break this morning. They were not from the Atlantic coast aeronautical ] station at. Newport News. Whether | or not they came from the armored cruiser North Carolina or one of the allied cruisers on patrol off the Vir ginia capes could not be ascertained. The machines manoeuvred back and forth over the water, at a moderate altitude. Passengers arriving Wednesday morning on an Old Ddminion liner from New York reported that when they approached t#e Virginia Capes only one foreign warship was any where in sight. A peculiar looking object lying low in the water, with HUMAN MllVEIS ADDRESS TO SENATE LAST WEEK GETS CLOSE ATTENTION Senator Tillman was heard with two masts visible, was observed and much interest last Saturday when he it was noticed that the foreign cruis er was heading directly towards it. Persons on the liners could not make out what the object was. It appeared to resemble a subma- ^ addressed the Senate on his resolu tion authorizing Mrs. David D. Oail- j lard to place a tablet in memory of her late husband in the Memorial rine, butTooked”more like two huge’ Ampitheatre at Arlington, Va. The buoys with masts above. Whether or not they could have been floaters supporting a net was the more Inter esting speculation .discussed among the passengers Whatever the ob ject was, it lay just outside the three- mile limit, where the channel is very narrow. TOWNS BURNT UP ' •‘Y', '*■* b Forest Fires Threaten Northern Part of Ontario Province. ) ed, Premier Hearst of Ontario, Can ada, announced Monday night that one hundred and eighty-four per sons lost their lives in the forest fires in northern Ontario. Only a heavy rainfall saved a structlon. Hundreds gre homeless and the dominion government has taken extraordinary measures to pro vide for the refugees. Where the town of Matheeon once Thousands of Viistors Throng Camp Sunday to Bid Soldier Boys Good* Me—Governor Manning Delivers Patriotic Address to Boys About to Leave for Dnty. The First Regiment of the South Carolina National Guard entrained Monday for the border. They will travel in three sections, Lieut. Col. McCuliy in command of the First, Maj. Spratt of the Second, and Col. Blythe of the Third section. The First comprises 1,015 enlisted men and fifty-three officers. The Field hospital company, the cavalry troop, and the engin^r com pany followed under the command of Maj. Brailsford. These units comprise: Field hospital, fifty-six men and five officers, the cavalry troops, eighty-nine men and three officers, and the engineer company, seventy-two men and four officers. The Second Regiment will entrain Tuesday. It travels In three sec tions, Maj. Bradford in charge of the First, Maj. Marchant of the Second, and Col. Springs of the Third. The Second broke camp Monday after noon and began entraining Tuesday. It Is thought that by Wednesday the entire command will be on its way to the border and Camp Moore 1 will be deserted. The quartermaster corps will be left behind to wind up the affairs and then will report to the Department of the East for fur ther orders. There are 2,350 officers and men of the South Carolina National Guard going to El Paso for border duty. The regiments and other] units will report to the commanding | officer at Fort Blits on their arrival. Monday night there are only Fort BI.ss is seven miles from B1 smouldering rains and ashes. The Pmo . _ I country surrounding it Is as barren Thousands of visitors from all as a dbeert. Only a few.atructuree in part's 6f the State vitsted Camp village of Cochrane remained Moore Sunday to bid the foldlers BUa 4i ng . the greatest lose of life good-bye. The camping grounds were | occurred at Nuahaka and MonUeth. thronged from early Sunday morn- p^iy | n min,, where Mhety-elght lag until late at night. persons were burned to death. At Gov. Manning vlsltod the camp Matheeon thirty-five perished Sundsy. He arrived In camp short- 1 T , i ty before one o'clock and his fare well talk, as commander-in-chlef of tha Bute's armed forces, wae deliv ered from the bendstand near the First Regiment. He was cordially greeted by the men who had marched to the aUad tor the add The following Is the farewell ad- dreaa of Gov Manning to tho Na tional Ooarfi: "Officers and Men of the National Guard of South Carolina: "1 am unwHUng. when the order ted Suicide la Washington Saturday, came for the movement to the bor- ] leaving letters telling of alleged Bal der. to allow you to leave South 1 feiiags while confined la British Carolina without a word of farewell prisons charged with being a Oer- from me I feel, ntr men. a deep man spy. interest la your officers sad men. Doling claimed he was oa his way That interest has been an abiding to France to engage la the man of sc one with me. I tare of artl^clal Umbo, and, aoeord- "I want to say to you that when I j Ing to Congressman Olney, English became governor, when this orgsnl- officials put him Into prison heeauso tatlon had been disbanded by my th'ee names In a note .book he car- predecessor. I first Investigated tha^ried "were of German ln;UnaUon.'' matter, and I determined after t^- veetlgatton that the order disbanding the National Guard was null and ▼old and Illegal and of no effect, f restored the Natioaal Guard to IU place In the government of Houth Carolina, and Isay to you that there la no branch that I regard with greater interest than that branch of State government which la filled by the National Guard, both In its offi cers and men. And they have justi fied that Interest and esteem which I put upon them. - "When the order came for mobili zation of our troops there was no man Id the National Guard who fail ed to respond to that call for service. You have responded like men, and I kbave felt, after you came here, a 'great interest in looking after your welfare. "You became restless here and were unwilling to stay here. I took the matter up with the department In Washington. I wrote to the presl- Senior Senator Explains How Mem ories of the Past Stormed His Soul Whenever Ho Thought of War, Bat Ho/Has Gradually Yielded to 7> Advice of Robert E. Lee. With one town completely wiped out, another almost In ruins and & score of small settlements oblltorat- the general management of the am- South Carolinian reviewed the old differences between the North and South in language full of the fire of his old days. The speech was as fol lows: * Mr. President: Last April, at the instance of Mrs. Gaillard, I conferred with thq secretary of war in regard to the bill authorizing her to place a tablet in the Memorial Ampitheatre at Arlington to the memory of her husband, the late Col. David DuBose Gaillard, of South Carolina, whose distinguished services in the digging of the Panama canal are known to the whole country. I asked the sec retary tp prepare two bills, one for Mrs. Gaillard specially, the other for Berlin Denth of Englishman Rewarded by His Government. ' 'a* Cast. Charles F<ryatt of the Great Eastern Railway steamship Brussels, which vessel was captured by Ger man destroyers last m^nth and taken Into Zeebrugge, has beon executed by shooting after trial before a German naval courtmartlal. The death sen tenre was passed upon Capt. Frjatt because of his alleged action id at tempting previously to ram a German submarine. Testimony was presented at the courtmartlal to show that while Capt. Fryatt did not belong to the armed forces he had attempted on Marsh 28 1915, while near the Maas Light ship, to ram the German submarine b-33. Capt. Fryatt and the first of ficer and the first engineer of the Brussels received from the British admiralty gold watches for "brave conduct,” and were mentioned in the House of Commons 'Hie submarine U-33, according to tne official account of the trial, had phitheatre in the future I wak disinclined at first to have anything to do with any bill for the control of Arlington Cemetery, be cause the South has always consider ed it one of her holy places—fallen great part of the province from de-1 into unhallowed hands! To the SUICIDES IN PRISON Asks Investigation of the Death of Congressman Richard Olney Instructed his secretary at Washing ton to lay before Acting Secretary of State Polk the case of Frank Dor- | lag, of Qulacy, Maas . who commit- MONEY FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS llolta*- Reeolntlon and ALLIES <i0 FORWARD SLOWLY ONlVERY battle front RUSSIANS WIN VICTORIES Slavs Turn Line of Slonlovka and Capture Brody—Turks Retreat— Allies Make More Progress Against Germans in West—Verdun Fight Dwindles. The Allies have been making pro gress on ail fronts during the week. The Russians, however, are in the lead. Two notable victories have been won by the Czar’s armies on the Galician-Volhynian line, the heavy battle on the affluents of the river Styr, on Northeastern Galicia, having elided in the Austro-German forces being driven southward and signaled to the British steamer to jin the capture by the Russians of the show her flag and to stop, but Cspt. Fryatt did not heed the signal, and. it is alleged, turned at high .speed toward the submarine, which escaped only by*diving immediately several yards below the surface. Capt. Fryatt, the official state ment says, amitted that he had fol lowed the Instructions of the British admiralty. Sentence was confirmed and the captain was executed and shot for a “franc-tleur crime against armed German sea lorces." The trial was held at Bruges. FIGHT HARD IN EAST Funds are Ready. The House Wednesday unanimous ly passed the joint resolution appro- ! printing five x hundred and forty i thousand dolla>a for the relief of the flood sufferers in North and South | Carolina and Alabama The reao- | lutloa has already pessed the Senate and all that is necessary now to make the money available for Imme- | dlate use Is the presidents signature. Then the war departmentv will Im mediately begin to disbuVpe the money in the sections of theNptates where It is needed most. , i Casement to Die To-day. According to the London news papers, all Is ready for the execution dent and I wrote to the secretary of of Sir Roger Casement, who is to be war and urged that the National Guard of South Carolina be sent to the border. You know what the re sult of that was. It came in an order that not until you were equip ped to the full war strength would you be allowed to go. "Last Sunday when I was here,- I felt that this situation could not con tinue. On last Tuesday I sat down and wrote a letter to President Woodrow Wilson and I also wrote a letter to the secretary of war and letters to other members of the cabi net. I placed these letters In the hanged in the Pentonville prison at nine oT»ock Thursday morning. lug for you to leave here without a word of farewell from me and I bid yo» eiiat word of farewell now. "I expect to go to Texas in Sep tember or the early part of October, if I am permitted to do so at that time, on official business; and It Is certainly my Intention to visit you all at that time, and I am sure that I will find that you are doing honor to the State of South Carolina. “And now In conclusion, let me hands of a personal representative; gay this word to you. The* eyes of I put that representative on the train y 0 ur State are upon you. I know and sent him to Washington and that yon are going to do your duty told him not to leave there until the and that you will have the gratifica- orders were issued and on Thursday tlon and pleasure of knowing that I got a telegram that everything whatever befalls you, wherever you was arranged and that the troops are and whenever the time may be, would be sent to the border, and that the hearts of your countrymen that order came to yon on Friday, of South Carolina are with yofl, and "I want to tell you that when 11 that the prayers of your mothers, took that action I felt that I was do- your sisters, of your wives and of In V not only what you wanted me to your friends will be with you where- do but 1 felt that I was doing what ever you go want was good for the reputation and character of the State. I am confident of it. "Soldiers, remember that you are performing a duty which cannot be | measured in dollars and cents. You - i want to remind you of the his- have earfied the gratitude of the tory that stands back of you. When citizens of onr State and as goy- t liked the secretory of war that the ernor and commander-in-chlef, I soufh Caroltoa regiments be desig- want you to feel and know that you S « The Palmetto Regiments. 1 have my prayers to Almighty God to u was on account of the excellent guide and protect you wherever yon that the 'Palmetto Regiments* may be. and I am snre that you go ZZ in he War With Mexico in with that consciousness of dnty to made In tne war | yonr State, true to yonnolese and r^ hopo that war may be .Tortod “t JEI ^ ** b^tttoflrids, fr^TinU*R'«“to W but I know that if you are W- 1 wUh 1°* ™ 1! Appomattox—to go homo aad be- caUed upon for actual war at this i **I simply want tojneke this an- come good dtiseas of tho United •you will acquit yourselves like nonnoomont: The First ‘ M like the patriots and noldlars wffl “It Is not my porpese te meke yon mown inn North, Arlington is the lost resting place of heroes who gave their lives that the United States might live; to the' South, it is the graveyard of once cherished hopes—for which there can be no resurrection. Southerners have always bitterly resented the met to which Arlington was put. Fighting heroically, were driven southward, step by atop, and to the bitterness of approaching defeat was added the gall of hnmlH- stlon when we were forced to stand by helplessly while the North took the home of our greet military lend er, Robert E. Lee. and made of it a cemetery for his and our enemies Our hearts were wrung with i ruish at tbu insolence of our quorors, end we hated them intense ly. Through all the years, Arlington has base to use the home of Lee a shrine, as It were—end we have al ways thought that the turning of it Into a cemetery for federal soldiers was aa unforgiveable wrong. So. as I say. I was disinclined to do anything In regard to the Amphi theatre. The old fires flared up again—those that burned so fiercely fifty years ago. B'ttor memories came trooping to me. I saw the Con federate soldiers marching off to de fend our boaes against the Invaders; I saw my Spartan mother giving my older brothers to the State, I saw my friends, neighbors and kinsmen leav ing their homes and loved ones to go to the battlefields of Virginia: 1 thought of the thousands and thou sands of unmarked graves of Confed erate soldiers; I saw the South, a land of sorrow, under the heels of our enemies; I saw Sherman march lag to the sea again, and from the sea through South Carolina, his train marked by burned farm houses, towns and cities whose destruction served no military purpose; I heard the widows and orphans, their hus bands and fathers slain In defence of home and fireside, wailing because they were desolate; 1 remembered when we received the news of Lee's surrender, and’ how It seemed that the end of the world had come, that the crack of doom had sounded. Then I thought of reconstruction, when horrors piled on horrors and Northern bayonets dethroned civili zation and enforced the rule of car pet-baggers. scalawags and negroes. And as I thought of these things tho .hot blood surged up, and for the xnoment I hated Yankees as Intensely aVl had In 1865. The South is In the Union, I said, but not of it, and I shall not go into partnership with the highwaymen and tvrants who robbed me and my people. But the more I thought of It, the less angry \ grew, and I finally reached the conclusion that there was no reason why I should notYmd every reason why^I should do every thing in my poder th make Arlington a Mecca for the SoutX&s well as for the North. * The war closed fifty N years ago The South fbugbt a glorious fight for a righteous cause for no man ■now—If he has regard for hls\repu- tation for Intelligence—will darVsay that we did not have a constitutional right to withdraw from the Unlo The bravest, best army that ever trod this continent kept the faith to the bitter end, and while, worn to a remnant, it was forced to yield at Appodattox, impartial history must give it the credit for having done all that was humanly possible. The struggle and final defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia brings to mind Addison’s couplet: “ Tis not In mortals to command success, But we'll ,do more, Bempronlus— well deserve if* Berlin and Vienna Claim That Slavs > Have Lost Heavily. Violent battles are being fought by the Russians and the Austro-Ger man forces virtually on the entire tront from the Prlpet river marshes in Russia southward to the region of Bucmacs, In Galicia—a distance of about two hundred miles. - The Russians, who have .sarhed the western bank pf the Stokhod river near Btolysva and Btnolary, have been forced to ■ us tain a heavy counter attack by German Infantry, which Petrograd says was repulsed with heavy casualties. Berlin as serts that In this fighting the Rus sians are exhausting themselves in futile attacks and that they have been thrown back three times rear Smolary. Northeast of ths Kovel-Rovno i all way Berlin claims aaother defeat for the Russians near Porsk, while Vienna says the west and northwest of Lutsk the Ruaston attacks lave ceased, "obviously owlag to heavy losses sustained." In Galicia, according to Potrograd, the Russians have crossed the Koro- peta river near Tohekuvdfiaemka and organised themselves la new post- Mons. taking more than one tbouaaad Austro-German prisoners. north west of Barkanov and west of Bnc- tars there has been lively fighting. Hut with no chaugu In positions re ported important railway town of Brody, 58 miles from Lemberg. On the adjoining line to the north, in the region west of Lutsk, the Czar’s forces have broken through the entire first line of the Teutonic allies and are-making rapid pro gress. Cheering news to the Rus sians also comes from the armies of Grand Duke Nicholas, which have ef fected the capture of Erzlngan, an important military depot in Asiatic Turkey, and are driving the Turkish defenders far beyond the Armenian borders. I/C»s Htriklng but substantial pro gress is reported to France by the British and French on the Somme. The last German strongholds In Lon- gueval have, been captured and the whole of the Delvllle wood, after a long struggle. Is now In the hands of Gen. Haig's men. Galas have been made near Pozlerea. where hand-to-hand fighting continues without Interruptions. The Germans to this section havd launched many counter attacks, which they claim have been partially successful. But these reports the British deny. Fierce engagements In the vicinity of Ypres Indicate that the English troops are making pro gram and are recovering considerable of the ground wrestled from the French et the outbreak of tho war The Frewch have achieved sopM program east of the Mena#, and have defeated a number of violent German attacks In the Vaegee. Fragmentary reports come from tho Yard a ■ front and evidenco tho fact that tho tsrrl fie assaults of tho Gormans on tho scarred end battered fortrem have abated, due to the traaefer of to tho Poslorm front, whom tho Teu tonic forces are attempting to the advance of tho French and their British alllm. French military authorities clare the fortrem can withstand any aaaault the Oermaae attempt aad that weakened points about tho Vor- dua front bavs been greatly strength ened during the battle's InU. In the Balkans tho heebdone ham to Ufo and have attached Who Urn Carranza and United States troopa fought aide by side la the engage ment with Mexican bandits south of Fort Hancock, Texas, early Monday, according to the official report treat Brig. Gon. Bell at MiPaso to Ua . Gen. Funston. The Incident ma. . t the first time Carranza troops hi*. t co-operated' In pursuit of the bandies on American soil. The report to Gen. Funston does not make clear tho manner to which the fight, which took place about one-thirty a. m., began, nor does it Indicate the object of the bandits la crossing to the American soil. Gen. Funston said it was possible, how ever, that the bandits, when snrpria- ed by the Americans, were attempt ing to escape from the Carranza troops who later engaged in tho fight. The latter had been in pur suit of the marauders for several days. The American force consisted of eight men under command of Ser geant Thompson, two hospital corps men and the two customs guards. They speedily surrounded the Meki- rans in the ranch house. Woods was the first to fall, laid low by a bandit who had slipped o'.tolde to aim at him. A moment later one of the hos pital corps men shot down the ban dit. It was at this point that Beartto summoned the Carranza soldiers. Brick firing followed to ■ a time. The* quiet reigned in the ranch house A cautious investigation disclosed t’tree more dead bandits Inside its v alla. The remainder had succeeded 1c get ting out and making their way over the Rio Grande. The Carranza mem followed in pursuit. Gen. Funston said that no American troopa would join the chase. The number of ban dits who escaped is not known. * I HUGHES ACCEPTS Attacks Wilson's Administration oa Any AO That army did deserve success, bpt it could not achieve It, and in my mind’s eye I see tho great Lae him self accepting to good faith the re sult of the appeal to the sword, find advising bis soldiers—the might of whom arms had boon felt oa a hun- Charles E. Hughes Monday night outlined In his speech of acceptance of the Republican nomination the to- suee upon which he will conduct hie campaign for the presidency. He as sailed the administration for the course It has pursued with refer ence to Mexico, maintenance of American righto during the Euro war, preparedness aad other great questions of the day. ■ He doctored for a pel icy of ’’firm- _ “o. ° C 7." spared to patch up the broken uni to ico, for “the unflinching maintenance of all American .Ighto on land and sea,’’ end for “adequate national de fense; adequate protection on both our western and eastern coasts." winning a series of heights which they have retained despite vio lent counter attacks The Serbians have been reout fitted and are said to present a formidable fighting front With the Iaauguration of th* Ser bian movement, the Alliee are now definitely on the offensive on all fronts for the first time since the outhreek of hostilities Rudato Is hotly pursuing the Turks retreating from Rrztogaa. aad mill tory critics declare that the recent defeat sustained by the beet troops of the Ottoman empire haa quite broken the Turkish defense, and that no further eerious offensive can he expected, eince only pert of the divl slons from the Constantinople, Thra- ceaa and Egyptian armies can he FNRT NEAR SUEZ CANAL The fourteen troops operating ea a front from the seat against the Canal also have mot with dofm the heads of tho BriM aad forced to thoa twenty-five head red behind them, tocludiag a aye ' AUSTRIANS ACTIVE the Italian lines between the Adige aad upper Isouso riven aad the Ohio ana. while to toy aad the u( they launched tofaatry against the Italians, according to Romo, The Swedish torpedoed by a merino to the Baltic while ow a age from Bwede • to Finland, accord ing to a Reuter dispatch from Stock holm Thursday. to the try to meke the Memorial Amphi theatre erected at his old home by a common country—North and South alike—representative of both sec tions. I have come to think, since the unveiling of the Confederate monu ment at Arlington, that the North it self has at last realized that Gen. Lee’s home, in'a sacred and inalien able sense, belongs to the South, and I am willing to help make of it a place where both sections can go for Inspiration. Half a century since Appomattox! There is a man in this chamber still who wore the Confederate gray— and one who wore the Union blue! Half a century since the constitution was amended by the rifle and the bayonet; since might made right; since gunpowder prevailed over logic! > I never believed it possible that I Id do it, but slowly and by de gree I have come to think that it for all concerned that the South ^was defeated. Slavery was a curse which had to be destroyed ere the 8outh\and the world eould ad vance. It wm a curse for which the South was no\more responsible than the North Both sections >ere responsibl and both paid four tong-bloody yean of pennance for therr ,oint sin. It had to go. and while a went in tho wont possible way and Its going gave birth to an apparently unsohr- able problem, still I, in and of tho Old South, am glad It la gone never to return. * I am glad, alao, that the idaa of nationality haa supplaatod that of eoafederatloa, despite tho daagur In volved. And PPL f can tad it to say heart to want to make tho Ampht- thoatn at I aak that tho Mil I Armenia has been entirely cleared^ot Turkish troops. On the Italian front the Austrian guns have been conducting a violent shelling of Gen. Cadorna’a lines, but Rome reports progress north of the recently captured Monte Clmone. Gen. Brnslloff, the Russian com mander who is pounding his way through the Austro-German front, Is the bright military star of the week^ He has won two important victories, resulting in the occupation of Brody. The battle along the line of the Sion- iovka river, which ended to the al leged rout of the Austro-German army, was stubbornly contested and the result appeared to doubt for a time. But the greatly superior strength of the Russians, together with their excellent artillery, gave them the advantage over a well-post ed enemy. The passage of the river took all the fight out of the defend ers of the eastern line. The Russian victory opens the way for an enveloping, movement from the northeast, directed against Lem berg. The army of Gen. Letchitzky, which swept across Bukowlna and Southern Galicia and now occupies a front near Stanislao, to the southeast of Lemberg, Is striking ence more-in concert with the army from Brody. The “pincers” formed by these r wings may be extended by Gen. bruallott to cut oft this *nny of Count You Bothmer, which, with re markable tenacity, haa defended dur ing the past two months the Teutonic lines west of tho Btrypa In Central Galicia. In the latter sector the trenches have bean held firmly, while tho sec tions of tho Austro-German front both north and senth have broken. Mow it may be ImpenMbto for Oea. Vos Bothmer to retain his position between the Btrypa and toe tips without running toe risk of toe ing a large part of Us Tho second victory of the Rus sians, although clearly a part of too same strategic plaa that resulted in the capture of Brody, was woa some St miles to tho aorthward to ths Lutsk sector. There the Russians took the offensive, swept thyongh too entire front line of tho enemy, cap tured over *,000 men, Including two generals, two regimental ‘command ers sad 50 other officers, and larva quantities of field pletos aad ma chine guns. | The occupation of Vlad(mlr-Vol- yaskl, an Important road center to the west of Lutsk, will almost cer tainly follow this victory, and the Russians declare they will have little trouble in currying their advance to the Bug, which marks the boundary between Yolhynla. The German war office admits some of the gains claimed by the Russiens, but reports the capture of many prisoners and the repulse of vicious attacks directed against Gen. von Linsingen’s lines south of the Turga and on both sides of the Llpa. Even should the Russians bo success ful in overrunning the sutek sector, they would not hold as —eh of the enemy’s territory as Germany aad Austria hold of R—la’s. Poland alone, every fqojt ot which is,occupied by German and Austrian troops. Is larger than all of Galicia and Bukowlna combined, and In the provinces of Courland, Vllnn, So- walk! and Grodno, as -wen as in Eastern Yolhynla, the Teutons bold a strip of Russian territory averaging about 100 miles wide by over IfiO miles in length. T'he Allied drive in the Balkans also may have begun. The Serbs have driven the Bulgars from a num ber ot hill positions on that part of tho Balonlki front west of ton Var- dar valley held by preparations had Sorb advance, and the has bfea held against ter attacks.