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MAY ATO STRIKE (OR LEADERS PLEASED WITH WILSON’S CONFERENCE BOTH SIDES SEE WILSON President Conforx'With Four llroth- c«hoods’ Representatives Monday Morning and 'With Managers Afterwards—Outlook Gloomy Hut Chance of Settlement Exists. Railroad manufters and brother hood leaders, deadlocked in nego tiations which threaten a nation wide railroad strike, Monday laid their case, lie fore President Wil son at Washington. • . First came thirty-five represen tatives of the brothertTBSjdsr'H'ho conferred with the nresiuent shortly after ten o’clockV^They were followed by' the committee of managers. • - The brotherhood men went into the conference firm in their deter mination not to accept an arbitra tion under the N'ewlands act which they contended always has furnished arbiters before whom the men did not have an unprejudiced opportun- tty. There were some indications that tlie president recognizing JLliat view, might propose a special arbitration before inboard of twelve members or Which the four great brotherhoods BRYAN SCORES HUGHES’ CIVIL SERVICE CHARGES Commoner Tells Kansas City People x • How Charley Served Bosses ' r .In Xew York.' William J. Bryan replied in New York Friday to criticisin'of his atti tude toward civil service made by Charles E. Hughes in a statement in which he said he “had enforced the civil service law to the letter.” Mr. Bryan challenged the Republican honiinee to state whether he had gYven appointments to I’deserving Republicans” while governor of New York. Recent .speeches of Mr. Hughes kuoted a letter Mr. Bryan had writ ten to Vick, receiver of customs in Santo Domingo, inquiring as to what position could be obtained to “re ward deserving Democrats.” "I am not ashamed of it,” the statement read. “The letter was written to an appointive officer whose office was not under the civil sej-vice and the inquiry was made in regard to offices which were not under the civil service.” The statement, after declaring Mr. Hughes to have “shown himself quit? prompt in discarging obliga tions,” declares: “As an official, I enforced the civil service law to the letter, and upon my resignation received from the em ployees in the st^ate department, more than ninety-per cent, of whom were under the civil service, a watch which I prize as a priceless treasure. But, while I observed the civil ser vice law wherever it was in force, I could lie sepresented. The presl-lfelt myself free to aid In rewarding DEFEISTHE NAVE DANIELS QUOTES EXPERTS ON IMPROVED MARKSMANSHIP ^ FLEET Secretary Shows I’p Article Entitled “A Hitless Navy” and - Produces Testimony Explainii^t the Great Strides Being Made In Securing Hits at Distances Greater Than Ever Before. TOXAWAY DAM BREAKS; inflltt IIKF OTRIKF LAKE POURS INTO S. C. *-UUIlil LIIiL UI lllIlL "Waters From Artificial I^ike in North Carolina Comes Into Sen- era Valley in I-Foot Wall. The I^ajie Toxaway dam, weaken-' ed by the recent floods, broke Sun-1 day night, sending a great wall of water down the valley toward west ern South Carolina. No lives thus far have been reported lost and warnings sent out from several cities are believed to have enabled most persons in the path of the flood to reach, safety. The - lake, an artificial body of water, was created in 1902 by East ern capitalists. It covers 550 acres to an average depth of thirty feet. The dam, an eighth of a mile long WILSON CALLS LEADERS TO CONFER AT WASHINGTON STRIKE LEADERS FUN TO PARALYZE COMMERCE WORKS TO AVERT TIE UP destroyed. dent's plan was to appeal to man acers and imp on the highest patri otic grounds to find a way to com pose their differences without a strike. Judge Chambers conferred with ■ President Wil-'on for some time and arranred for he conferences. Presi dent Wilson cancelled a long list of engagements tn orlTer to give all his •T sy« “I’nless th“ president can find a ad out it means a strike.” said A. Garris Rnllwi nkestnan o' the employees as he deserving Democrats wherever it could be done without detriment to the service. “The ‘deserving Democrat’ is not to be depised—he is as much en titled to recognition as ‘deserving KeyubHeana.’ “When he was a candidate for governor Mr Hughes received the snppprt of the railroads of New York -WmF'?H r ee«»-r r-i-nhi t¥» d-b; by vetoing the tpro-cenf passenger rate bill. He did not describe that as When a candidate for nre-ident of t'^ 1 Order shameful. xx nnn a canamau 'onductors. and official | governor, he received the ouplDort of In response to an article In con nection with a publication of an ar ticle entitled “A Hitless Navy,” ....... . ■ ^ , , ■ suffered only minor damage though Securetary Daniels has given out ^jj e wa8 completely drained. the following statement: The released waters are rusliing “The figures quoted purporting to through the Toxaway river valley, a be the hitting record of six battle kompartlveiy uninhabltated section ,, , , .1 • 'toward the Keowee river, in South ships made in the battla practice m Caro , inft An(Iersont P , ck p n8 aml February and March of this year are 0conee countle8 eomp^p,, the t er- Incorrect. The ships were firing in ritory thr p atened an(1 WR ' rnInK8 wer e the February and M*rch Practice a ; , honod all , h t ld screen targets 90 feet long and 30 h . feet high. The correct scores of the , . ships mentioned, plotted on a battle-! Persons familiar with the terri- ship target 600 feet long, 96 feet tor >' expressed the belief that the beam and 30 feet freeboard, based' w at*‘rs would spread out th® on the results of the camera obser- uninhabited country immediately Mediation Fails and Arbitration is i 'Refused by the Men—President Sends .Communication Asking Per- Personal Interviews at Washing ton and Offer Is Accepted. Action by President Wilson alone can avert a general strike on vir- and fifty feet high, was completely . railroads of the nation vations, were as follows: Hits. Nebraska 22 Louisiana 15 Kansas .. -16 Virginia 26 New Jersey 20 ' Rhode Island 3 "The firing was at long range, much longer than ever " -'fore, the Rhode Island's mean range ^eing from fifteen hundred to three thou- The town of Toxaway : and throwing approximately two mil lion men out of employment. He sent the foil wing message to repre sentatives of both sides Sunday: “I have learned with surprise and with ke< n disappointment that an agreement concerning the set tlement of the matters in controv ersy between the railways and their employees lias proved im{iossihle. “A general strike on the rail ways would at any time have a most far reaching and injurious .effect on the country. At this time the effect might lie disas trous. I feel that 1 have the right, therefore, to request, and I do hereby request, as the head of the government, that Indore any final decision is arrived at I may have a Itersonal conference with yotf here. I shall hold ni) self ready to meet )ou at any time you may he able to reach Washington. south of Lake Toxaway and thus minimize the possibility of extensive damage. The waters ultimately will flow Into the Savannah river through its various tributaries in western South Carolina. The lake was created in connection with a summer resort and bad a shore of fifteen miles..The dam was constructed at a cost of about fifty thousand‘dollars. A message- from the railroad tel egraph operator at Toxaway, de- the New York tax dodgers, the own- nardetl th«* train for Washington j ers of ’swollen fortunes,' and he paid ttly Monday morning. | his debt by sending a message to the legislature protesting against the in come tax amendment to the federal constitution. He does not describe that as shameful. “He Is now being rtipported by fhe railroads of the Fnited States and expects to pay them bark by aiding them to escape state legisla tion snd find a haven of security in 'exclusive federal control' over, the] 8 railroads: he is being supported by the shipplm: trust nnd experts to pay I) them back hy helping them to pre- ,, vent governm''nt competition. He Is ha 1 *•♦»! ch airman of the con- forinn p* r<] miniMt.iM » of railroad man- •r#rff a o w!th eighteen members of tiU went to Washing- toy) or 1 III g - ! Tl! • ‘ train' that carried the tl Mrn r rrorr sentatlve.x of the brotho rhoi iff ‘gates, placed re- billt jr upon the men for the Tilhtr# * of attrvni Ms at mediation. irro 1 r«nn pa! •1 that the untend- 1 1 it »i do of t Iho ra'lfnad man t . i , ic fqr the break. PrfM it WIVfK in called the repre- pontntl iW'M of th*» 1 !>rntherhoods to-fhe \\ Ii|ti*' -Ho lift** at ten octofk and ar- (i i* • *i 1 to 1600 tllO rommltfee of man- i 111 TU lodfatrh r afterward. * Tho pr< r»*ldont ’« » conference with t ti»• f)) on wan op< rned with a state- mont t»v Mr. Oa rretson as spokes- nan/ Mo outline d the demands for rht-1 iou** dn y and time and a half f< r>r n vortinio He insisted that sand yards greater than that of the | scribing the breke of the dam. aaid a other vessels mentioned. This was | 8 ® <> *l on of tlie structure about the due to errors in rauge-flnde( read-J*l* e a gave way withoirt Kvm i»rraai 1 warning shortly after seven o'clock ed* r*nges the Rhode* Island s shots Sunday ind that the entire structure' were bunched, as shown by the fact | Collapsed under the weight that on the battleship's target ahe °F the’thousands of tons of water, i received eight hita 0ne version of the cause of the! • rapt. Sims, „nc of our .hie-1 of- w “ ,h \‘ ‘ Ity oITtarget practice, stated la offl- »'•£ ,h * fouBdatloD at : cial hearing* liefore the House naval I * fi®*" > P r ® affairs committee that the 'marks-1 Toxaway nianship of the fleet lias Improved °f the lake Final Steps Taken to Stop Every I'ansenger and Freight Train on Systems of America. If President-Wilson fails to per suade the r'allfoa'fi men and their employers to settle their differences and a general strike ia called it will be directed from headquarters In New York. This announcement waa made Monday as the leaders of the four big railway brotherhoods and the' railroad managers reached Washington for a conference with- the head of the nation. At brotherhoods headquarters it was Nivid that all preparations had lieen made for putting into effect a strike that would stop every train, passenger aml freight, on the 225 railway systems of the Fnited States. The critical s'ate of affairs was in dicated by the anxiety displayed In every big industry which would be crippled by the failure of transpor tation. Authorities declared that while the national labor laws gare _the presi dent no right to Interfere'offlcially, the broad police powers vested in him gave him authority to put sol diers on the trains, and even to de clare martial l$w if he believed the peril of the situation called for such drastic measures. Attention was flailed to the last national railroad strike in 1894 when President Cleve land used the regular army to guard locomotives and cars. The tension in business circles showed a realization of the acute danger of a national calamity. An aggregate of financial losses running perhpps Into hundreds of millions, labor idleness and food privation,' were some of the possibilitlM which a strike presented. It was to be remembered, businesa mod said, that there is dharcely a factory of any Importance which does sot depend on a railroad for Ha products. A strike, for Instance, would mean tfiaT the"steel mills of After deliberating two hours the railway work ts accepted the invita lion as the managers had done. They announced that the leaders of the mur railroad brotherhoods would leave for Washington at midnight. I Pittsburgh will be cut off from their accompanied by thirty of the six him- j ore supplies In Michigan and Wla- dred delegates assembled in New | consin, and the automobile* tndus- 40 |ter cent.' A great many elements enter inte the preparation and train ing of the crew of a battleship. Of these the human element la the I greateat, and as long as this la so there will be, as In every other en deavor In life, varying degrees of accomplishment. Yhe practice of some ships will i excellent, ot others loss good and | le will be poor, but ntly occurs that a 1 poor thli and that d point. is the third and largest tn western North Caro lina mountains to go out since July 16, when heavy rains caused aertous floods In that section. York. An hour later the railroad' managers, nineteen In number, said j that they would leave for the capital at the same time. The final break in the negotiations | the railroad men and their j rurred Sunday after a lien *rt t i CRUISER VISITS PENSACOLA lx arbitrating ition. The it a lament ls- Frerh RattleMilp ■*.)* My*U-ri- »ar |s exet ship that supported hy the trust magnete* and (expects to pay them back by shield ing them from punishment for the i V( , ar f a || a 0 ff badly next year, extortion which they desire to prac-l},, due (hiefly to the human el he Is supported by Wall Street “Admiral Fletcher. "T^e eon er-ln-chief of the Atlantic fl< Thl WH ig out Hi and expects to pay them back by rpending American blood and squan dering money raised by taxation in order to guarantee profits on specu- were fair. President | iative investments. And yet with the addressed l^, - ' men, record which he baa made In paying rhil dlsaaler wotlld fol-1 bis 'pdllflraF obligation* at the rx- nt. sting that an pense of the public and with the reached. • pledges his speeches contain to those n arked the *pe-|«bo are now aiding his ambitions, he has the impudence to hold up for criticisms a legitimate effort to re ward competent men for service which ihoy have rendered to the cause of reform.” strike and in nent must l>* president th fiters on which the employees ireparcd to Insist. Mr. Garret- Id trout of the talking for the md lie and the prekidint dls- ! the situation thoroughly. Mr. i erom^ed to take the ds- i up with the managers in ftn to find s common ground on the two s'lle* could meet. Hel e was anxious to settle the dif-| ns quickly ;>s possible and was Charleston 1. to remain in continuous oner nil dwy if necesasry. conference was held In the | room of the While House. I crowds of tourists gathered e lawn in front of the White to hear news of Hie proceed- SEIZE CAR OF BOOZE ston Constable* Appropriate | $3,000 Worth of Reor. * t. In hla official hearings before the House naval committee in March of this year, stated, 'Our last elemen- I tary target practice waa held in the 1 fall. Tlial practice x»a» very sattw- fartory, and was not only up to the | usual standard, hut the |M*rrrntage of hits on the target was about 40 |M*r rent, greater than they were the year before, and better than. In .any previous target practice (elemen tary practice lever held at sea. This elementary practice is what is gen erally known as the gun pointers’ test, and that probably represents the efficiency of our target practice as far as straight shooting Is con cerned Visit to Ameri he battle emit of t he French nav; Pern tarola Saturday coal and has no The Amlral Aube. rani' n directly to Pe link iue, consuming weel ks on the trip. »d. the real caust definitely known. Marine observer#. Including pilots, almost to a man. are of the opinion don. The arbltratloi listed on gent propo liators In a sued Sunday night declared, how ever. the men rejected their propoel- tloa, contending that they would not arbitrate even If the railroads waiv ed the contingent proposition. A statement of the mediators. Is sued by Judge Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the board. Just before their departure for Washington, ■aid,: ‘‘After repeated efforts to bring about aa arbitration of the pending She came, so the* controversy ketween the railroads ise she could en- 1 and their employees In train and yard service, tlie I'nlted Stales board of mediation and rourtliatioa waa adtrlxed by the rrpresesitalivea of the Sunday without i employees that they would not sub- r visit becoming mlt the matters in dispute to arM- | traliou In any form. “Their employees further stated to the board that they would not ter Amlral Aube.j y, which put Into , wa» not short of need of supplies., . ft was learned, nsacola from Mar- 1 a little over two' M other gulf port and It wan ry that the papers be deliver- te captain In person, crelaer left it h tries of Michigan from supplies of I steel from Pittsburgh, the cotton I mills of New England from their eot- I ton from the south, the garment ' manufacturers of New York from htheir cloth from New England, and every industry everywhere will be cut off from coal to feed their fur- ! nacee and dynamos. Of mfire Immediate seriousness would be the question of food sup ply. The large cxunmumilies which receive the hulk of their food farftn | long distance* would he forced to ! rely on what |ir<«lurta could be I brought In by wagon, automobile, In4ley or vesaei. r The suspension of the country's 'exports, the congestion of Imports at coast sities the stranding ot hnn- ' J reds of thousands of travsiern and summer resort visitors far from their ! horn** —these are other poesibilitiee which the strike situation presents to aay nothing of Its effect on the i railroads themselves and their em ployees. that 'the cruiser's principal reason 1 arbitrate their own demand even If bette of practice.' “Referring battle pract said. ‘AM t! passed into v than any other furn: ’m *-Q S rwyq s for'averting a nation wide railway strike, or at least for the formulation of some tentative program which will be the ground work for further negotiation, bright ened Monday after President Wil- (iii had conferred with thirty-five chiefs of the great brotherhoods. After the conference, the brother hood men declared the president’s grasp of the situation and the posi tion of the men might result In an understanding being reached, and others in touch with the ctmferenee said the representatives of the men showed a disposition to co-operate to avoid a strike. , After i hearing tn® leaders of the Tneir-twb hours, the president sent for the managers for a conference at three o’clock. How far whatever progress made at the conference with the men can go toward averting a break cannot be determined upon until after the president con-fers with the manager's com’mittee. The president, aeccordihg to those who attended the morning-confer ence. showed a familiarity with the situation thaf surprised the men. “The president was most sympa thetic,’’ said one of the brotherhood leaders, “and'his Sarprising knowl edge nf Hie situation and of our posi- li'on may, result in an understanding being reached.’’ The Impression prevailed among the' brotherhood leaders that as a last res?ort. the president might ask congress for eight-hour legislation. CAPTURE MARIAMPOL Russians Take Important City in Galicia From'Austrians. __ 'MarfiamM, In Galicia, neven miles southeast of Hallcz, the town of Pod- glacy and several villages along the Chief Duncan, of the State con stables, and a squad of his men, top-' phase, which h ped off that a carload of beer would arrive in Charleston Friday morning, took charge of the car when it was sidetracked at the McCabi Chemical company’s works early in the day and late in the afternoon were still engaged in ha’uling the one hundred and twenty barrels of unlabeled beer which the Car cohtained and storing it In the constabulary office in Court House square. It is the largest seizure of beer bver made In Charleston county aud the largest seizure of any alcoholic j beverages of any consequence made by State constables since they were taken “out of the city’’ by orders from the governor. The constal les estimate the value of their seizure on a basis of thirty dollars a barrel, or a total of thirty- six hundred dollars, which is said by them to be the preseht retail price. The market value or wholesale price makes the seizure worth about twelve hundred dollars. There are one hun dred and twenty bottles of beer to the barrel, a total of fourteen thou sand Tour hundred bottles. to the long range orj re. Admiral Fletcher is target prartice ha« hat we may term a new been brought ab«ut 1 for entering the barb i soundings and to get first hand in-' 'formation of the port. Soundings! , taken when she approached, croased and left the bar did not attract 4t- , tentlon, but unusually frequent 1 . soundings over sn irregular course I caused comment among marine men. r was to make the contingent demands of the rail roads were withdrawn and also de clined to suggest any other plan or method for a peaceful settlement of the controversy. “They were informed that their derision would lie at once made known to President and al*« that the president claimed the right MORE TROOPS TO BORDER ivlt did not confine his to soundings, but Im to a pei-Honal Interview with both weighing anchor, I part lew before any drastic action waa tinned until ihe was four - miles off shore. NOT A STRONG ISSUE , TO SUPPORT WILSON Florida Progressive Declares He Will Stand for President, r— • • Edward. R. Gunby, a prominent attorney of Tampa, delegate to the Progressive party’s (national conven tion and one time candidate for gov ernor of Florida on Ihe Republican ticket, in an interview at Tampa Sunday declared that he would sup port Woodrow Wilson fop president. Mr. Gunby said he regarded Mr. Wll- son as muchi more in line with the ideals of the Progressive party than is Mr. Hughes. ■ ■■♦♦<> I The British Bewtexi Back. - .After a long period ot inactivity hy this long-rrnge firing. Hereto fore wc have considered that when a gun is well aimed at a bullseye, it will strike'the target, because the error of the gun. is so small that any'target of reasonable size at a distance of a mile or two, will catch all well aimed shots. “ ‘But, we are now going to such long ranges that the gun will no longer hit the targe.t; it will not even hit a battleship at a distance of 18,000 or 20,000 yards, no mat ter how well aimed or how carefllly tiie ballistics are calculated. The way hits are made is by means of firing what we call a salvo; that is, the firing of all the guns or a part, d , se at ^ York h followt ? tllZ Ts ^ statement Saturday night from Sec to inherent defects of the gun and . MrAdon- ballistics, we cannot cotnt upon reiar y mcauoo. Capt. Ia>s observations mediately after continued to ascertain the d«y>th of [taken. This request was. of course, the water whi'e passing tiie east side 1 granted and a large delegation of of Santa Rosa Island. Marine men i employees with u number of man- said she wax continually throwing >cers will be In Washington Monday her lead and that operation con- for Mar Department brads 83.000 Mili tia, Making Totoi lOtf.OQO. The war d^iartment announced Saturday that all nHlitlamen in mo- I billxallon ramps, totaling approxi mately thirty-five thousand men, wouliC be sent to the Mexican border | immediately. Arrangements for their transportation have been made. Department officials says Ihe or- j ganizations would not wait to be re cruited to their full strength,, but that further recruiting would be made after departure of the troops. The troops now on the bprder and . ... .. .. . in Mexico will be brought up to a a conference with the president. tota] of approxlniatel y one hundr6d •Kariy in the negotiations the rail- . h« McAdoo Rebukes Candidate Hughes for Pettifogging. Charges of Charles E. Hughes re garding the appointment of Daniel E. Finn to succeed' Henry N. Clapp gs assistant appraiser of merchan-1 these four or five shots falling with in a space, at present, of much less than 400 yards. “Mr. Hughes Is merely pettifog ging. He is welcome to a monopoly of that field. The Clapp case is a Now, if a target occupies a very unfortunate one for his purpose, space of 100 yards and you straddle I If I thought that the public was real- that target with this salvo, you will ly Interested would make-, a state- see that tbe probabilities or the J ment about it.” chances of making a hit are about 25 per cent.; so that the best thing to the. elementary target practice in we can do to-day at target practice, the fall of 1915, says: Is to bunch the salvo of five or ten arly roads had Informed the board of mediation and conciliation that they would accept arbitration.” TJie president notified the media tors flve_ days ago that they were authorized to bring to the attention of the executives of the brotherhoods the fact that he was anxious for the two sides to agree and that if they did not- he personally would take a ) hand. This was after daily com munications from the mediators had described the acuteness of the situa tion. W. G. Lee, chief of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen, made public official figures of the strike vote polled .Tune 16. A total of 128,812 votes were cast for a strike and 4,350 against it. and seventy^fire thousand men by this order. w Officials said that the ord^r would account for thirty thousand men It was stated author itatively during the present week that ninety-eight thousand five hun dred National Guardsmen are already there and in addition there are forty thousand seven hundred regulars. These figures account for one hun dred and sixty-nine thousand men, and the recruiting a ithorized after the Guardsmen reach the border is expected to increase the number of one hundred and seventy-five thou sand. KILLS frVEAR’OLD OPEN FIGHT IN MAINE Both Parties AVI11 Start Presidential k -it* Campaign There. The present week will see the opening' of the speech making cam paign among Maine voters in pre “ ‘On the completion of this prac- guns within a space of 300 or 400 ‘ tioe it was apparent that ve^- great yards, and then straddle the target records of tiie similar practice of the with that salvo and trust to the preceding year, this increase aver- prribability of making hits. This-aging about forty per cent, for all 'paration for the State election on method was so successfully carried battleships that had fired.’ And fur-j September 1. As there will be no out in the recent long range firing ther, ‘It Is believed that the dlss^m-1 test of strength between Democrat* in Cuban waters. In some cases the ination pf gunnery knowledge In*the, and Republicans in other states prior percentage of hits wax as high as at fleet during the past year kas been ( to November 7, leaders of both par- the shorter range of 10,000 or 12,- greater'than during any similar , ties look upon this contest as a politi- OOO yards. In one case a ship made period in recent years, and ‘that; cal Index. . seven hits on this small target out there now evists In the fleet an e*- a j a | of"forty-two shots. The ship opened cellent gunnery spirit and a thop- fire at 18,000 yards, aid this dls- ough Interest In the attainment of tance was gradually decreased, but battle efficiency, which cannot fail FIGHT NEAR SUEZ the average range was about 16,000 to bring about a further improve- _ . r«ntraritr«a itenor*. yards, which Is far in excess of any- meet in the hitting ability of the^ M,,, " tl,lopI * Cnntnaict * "*V<*<* of British War Office. Man Shoots Brother-in-Law Suppos ing Him a Burglar. Mistaken for a burglar, Roy Smith, the eight-yearrold son of Sam Smith, a well known farmer of the Fork Shoals section of Greenville county, was shot and instantly killed last night by his brother-in-law, John Sullivan, at Mr. Sullivan’s home. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the shooting was accidental, thus ex onerating SuliivaiL-— The little boy had gone to spend the night at the home of his brother- in-law, a short distance from hla father’s home. The family had gone to bed about eleven-thirty o’clock. Mr. Sullivan was aroused hy a noise at the back door. Taking his gun he went to the door and seeing a dark shadow came Fto the conclusion that a burglar was j trying to break in. He opened fire and killed the youth almost imme- Constantlnqple re pc that the dlately. I pon investigation. Mr. Sul- thlng we havd report of from fleet.' abroad. In response to an inquiry of .. ‘‘Captain Sims, In hit hearings be- a member of the committee. Admiral fore the House naval committee, M— — -. ._ . . ...... Fletcher skid, ‘I am greatly pleased speaking of Cgpt. PRinkett. director. Turks east oT the Sues canal have WM horrified to find that he with tbe results of Uie last target of gupucry exercise* end engineer- turned against the Brltikh and eon- killed kin little brother-In-law, tbe British along the Eophraten in j practice. It shows a high efficiency.’ ing perfornancea. aaid. 'He in the palled them to retreat with heavy _ _ _ Mesopotamia exempted an advasen. "Admiral Mayo, the present com- best equipped man, in the navy to loaaea. The London war office, how- upper Sereth river, have fallen into [ against the f urka but retreated after [ mander-ln-chlef of the Atlantic fleet, handle it.’ . ever, dispute* thin statement, assert the bands ef the Rnsslansr All along two hours’ fighting. Further ad-, nnd who wns the vice ndmlral In “Cnptnin Plnnkett. tn spenking of ing that this front evep in the Carpathian re- vancea for the Turks against tbe command of the battleship nqnaBroa the practice of tbe turret guns. mid. pursuit of the Turkish rearguard Italian theatre, glon * Petrograd renorta that tha Russians on the Persian front and tn when Admiral Fletcher wan eom- The records of the fall of ISIS iadl- which Satnrday evening had baea fur ther Cat eata AMea tn all Russian# arc contlartag their bd-, Turkish ArmeaU also are claimed by, maeder tn-<htef. In m. official letter eats that we are adraadag by leaps drives back U> a peMtlon of »tr*-al- gleam marked the Fighting Hard la F Hard flgbt'ag la the rh- the British cavalry In etlli In gioa of France, la Oaiida and bn the with fnrtWr galas vaace against the AU-tro-Gernsana. * Constantinople data of Jaiy 9, 1911, referring and arday night