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CONSTANTINE ABDICATES «IV- INO TBRONE TO HIS SON ALLIES PASS THE NEWS < FRANCE EXECUTES WOMAN WORK FOR MANNING CAPTURE NEW YORK Crown Prince Will Rule With Yeni sei** m the Reel Power Who Will yWork With Entente Alllee—Ru mors of Grave Disorders In King* dom. King Constantine, of Greece, has abdicated, according ' to a dispatch from the British official press repre sentative, at Saloniki. —-— The press representative says the king has abdicated in favor of the crown prince, with Venizelos as the power behind the throne. The new policy, he reports, will be to work with the Entente allies. According to this information, Premier Zaimis will remain at the head of the government. The corre spondent questions whether the En tente allies desire the active assist ance of Greece. Various rumors are in circulation in London in regard to the situation in Greece. Reuter dispatches from Saloniki say there has been fighting between the Greek garrison at Saloa- iki and Greek volunteers recently organized ^to assist the Greek regu lars who are resisting the Bulgarians in Macedonia. • French troops intervened to sup press the fighting and the garrison finally surrendered and marched out .j)f Saloniki. Ward Price, to whom the above dispatch is credited, is the official British press representative, designated by the government to act for all British publications in that area. ship-, but to the French military cen- ' aorahip which controls all lines of conrm unication from Athena. The fact that both eensorshipc aa well as the Britiah censorship in London have permitted this dispatch to come through is significant. On Tuesday Mr. Price sent from Saloniki a report that King Constan tine had fled from Athena to Larissa. This dispatch was discredited in Lon don official circles. Doubt, also appeared to be cast on Ita correctness by dispatches filed -from Athens Wednesday, one of them telling of coming meetlnga between the king and the Entente ministers and others having to do with the ill ness of the kiag, who recently un derwent a slight operation. It is possible, however, that the kind may have departed secretly from Athens, as reported by Mr. Price, and that his absence was con cealed from the newspaper corre spondents there. The reign of Constantine I as king of the Hellenes was brief, dating only from March 18. 1913, when his father. George 1, was assassinated in Saloniki. Brief as the reign was. Constan tine has enjoyed a period of remark able popularity and Increased the ter ritory of the Greek monarchy by over fifty per cent. Born on August 3, 1868, he was educated largely by private tutors from Leipsic, which was said to have stamped upon him a permanent Ger man Influence. Hla military educa tion was furthered by attendance at manoeuvers in Germany. He be came a brother-in-law of the Ger man emperor by .marrying the lat ter’s sister. Princess Sophia, in 1889. His alleged pro-German leanings, thus Indicated, have not been popular with his people, and during the European War a strong party antag onistic to his desire to have Greece y^Tvjserve neutrality and in favor of r^^k^.^ng the Allies, precipitated a cab- crisis which was weathered with ' oVrficulty. By the peace treaties signed after the Balkan wars, Greece added a considerable stretch of Turkish ter ritory to her domain and in Decem ber, 1913, the long desired annexa tion of the Islands of Crete was car ried out. King Constantine himself hoisting the Hellenic flag over the fort. With the entrance of Turkey into the European war the question of the intervention of Greece soon be came to be seriously considered, but King Constantine insisted upon strict neutrality. The cabinet, headed by Premier Venizelos, which was for war on the side of the Allies, finally tendered its resignation. The Venizelos party, always in the majority, has lately become insist ent, and the abdication is the result. Fifteen Thousand Militia Ordered Northward aa Strike Looms on Horizon. National Guard regiments and regular coast artillery companies en route to or from the border have been equipped with extra supplies for the journey against the possibility that a general railway strike will de lay their movements. Secretary Baker and other war de partment officials refused to discuss. by Nlne Thousand—A Vote for reports that the fifteen thousand Guardsmen suddenly ordered north ward were being moved as a precau tion against strike violence. It is known, however, that the states in which the -troops are returning are those where only a small portion of the Guard was not called into the federal service and in most of them large railway terminals are located. Approximately thirty thousand troops are under orders to move to or from the border and many of them will be en route on Monday morning, the time set for the strike. Army officials indicated that, if .the troojj trains were caught in a tie-up, the men would dertain and niake camp at whatever point they are to wait for instructions. If congress' does not authorize the drafting of train crew's for military purposes soldiers might he used to run the trains'. Every regimental commander has the names of the men under him who could drive an engine or do trainmen’s service, if any emergency arose. As long as tb^ regiments ordered north remain In fhe federal service they are not subject to the call of the governors' of their states and their participation in strike - duty would have to be on the same basis as reg ular federal troops. ANTI-BLEASE MEN FULL OFF COATS FOR OOVERNOR BLEASE LACKS MAJORITY Former Governor Polls Full Strength in First Race and Misses Election LAND NEAR PANAMA CANAL BEI IEVEB SOIIOBT BY 1AK Cooper Was a Protest Against Bleaslsm and Manning Will Get Support- Supporters of Robert A. Cooper of Laurens are 'backing up the state ment of their.cbief in which he came out for Gov. Manning, by giving their unqualified support the present chief executive for re-election. Every Cooper leader in Columbia has .endorsed Gov. Maiming and of fered their persona) support to help re-lect in the second primary. The governor was besieged witli telephone calls from every section of South Carolina from Cooper men saying that .they not only intend to give their votes, but will “pull off their coats and work for him.’’ While the-Manning forces realize that a hard fight Is presaged for the next two weeks, yet they are going into the battle confident of the tri umph two weeks hence of the pres ent chief executive and the principles for which he stands. Cooper and Manning men are preparing to stand shoulder to shoulder and work hard for the success of Gov. Manning. The Blease people were jubilant and were making all manner of claims for their chief. They are say- mBMmsamM DRAMATIC NATAL SAME ENDS - DEFENDEBS DEFEATED BLUE FLEET DESTRBYEB COOPER FORCES J0IN1N8- MANNlNt FOR NEW FMflT Trapped aa a Result of Admiral ‘ Mayo’s Strategy, the Defending Warships are “ Sunk" in Hopeless Fight Near Ambrose Lighthouse Invading Army Landed. Striking at the one point which haa been indicated repeatedly as un protected in the defence* of New YoVji city, the red, or enemy fleet, under Admiral Mayor, easily landed a large invading army at Far Rock- away at daybreak Saturday. Long before noon great howitzers had been landed and mounted on cement bases at Rocho’s Beach, pre viously madb readv by spies, and were pouring t^heir 15-inch shells into the “skyscrapers” of Manhat tan. _ Of course, all this was theorcticaf and*for the purposes or ivar prac tice, but the great red fleet actually t^id arrive, fire was opened by many guns to clear t^e Long Island coast of any defending army that would" interfere with landing enemy troops, and large transports, surrounded by many torpedo boat destroyers, an chored tw* miles off shore, nnd whale boats, theoretically filled with troops, put off and landed at Roche's Beach. Several officers came ashore and sent telephone messages to the navy department at Washington, where the war gatae umpires have been, reporting the successful "landing o( Lansing Orders Inquiry Into Report That Eastern Empire U Buy ing 60,000 Acres. Investigation of reports from Pan ama that a sixty thousand acre land concession at the Atlantic end of the canal is being sought by a Spaniard named Fernandes presumably for Jap anese Interests, was ordered Monday by Secretary Lansing. Mr. Lansing refused to discuss the report in de tail but the announcement was con sidered significant. Rumors of a similar nature have been common ever since the canal was well under way. Several months ago it was commonly believed in dip lomatic circles that private Japanese shipping interests were seeking land through Spanish Intermediaries to establish a base for atoilng coal at lower rates than could be bad from the American government monopoly base. So far as known nothing defi nite came of that plan. The present reports are that Fer nandes Is seeking or actually has se cured a sixty thousand acre land concession through the activity of Ramon Valdez, whose recent electloa to the presidency of Panama may possibly be disputed by" fhe United States because of alleged frauds and coercion. Admiral Concas, of the Spanish navy, selected bv the Panama gov ernment as umpire to -ftettle the dis pute with tlie United States over the purchase price of canal property, is alleged to have gained valuable in formation about~T!ie' c&nal Itself. Governor Calls Up Laurens M-n, Thanking Him for the State- •*- ment Given Out. Cooper and Manning forces joined Thursday in a series of conferences- when plans for a determined fight in every county and precinct wore dis cussed to re-elect Gov. Richard I. Manning. There was an optimistic spirit present and each and every one of the supporters of the two leaders was of the opinion that Gov. Manning will triumpbujp the election to be held Tuesday week. Every county in t^e State wac rep resented at a conference which con tinued for several hours in the gov ernor’s office at the State House. During the day many citizens who have been supporting the cause of Mr. Cooper called Gov. Manning over the long distance telephone and promised him their hearty support In the second primary. The administration forces are be ing organized in every county in the State, according > to telegrams and inters received - by Governor Man ning. “We have taken off our coat* an<K gone to work to overthrow Rledsism Tuesday week,” nas \e statement made In one of the tele grams. Considering the small vote cast in the recent primary election the sup porters were of the opinion that every effort must be used to secure a full vote in the second primary. OHIO CROWS WAS HELD FOR USUAL SHERIFF CONCEALED Thousand Men Take Sheriff •m Square and Put Rope Arnii Him Neck, Pulling Him Up Uatfl Um Leads Them to the Negro’s ftftdhag Place—Was Cut in Many Plneuu. A mob of three thousand peophl surrounded the Lima, jail at Lima, Ohio, Wednesday night, threatening to lynch Charles Daniels, a Bagrat held for assault on Mrs. Jolyt Bar ber, a white woman. At th« aama time an armed band of fanners gath ered in the neighborhood of the Bar ber country nome, was reported on its way to Lima. Sheriff Eley, unable to control fha mob, disappeared. He was reported to have taken the prisoner to tha new Lima State Hospital for tha Criminal Insane, reputed to be tha strongest institution of the kind In the world. An armed mob in fifty autouaobilea left the rlty for the hospital, two miles north of the city. A Gov. Manning called Mr. Cooper ■rmed-with shotguns, rifles. over the telephone et his home in I.aurens and thanked him for the statement which was given ot-l Wednesday night. WATCHIN6 RUMANIANS potters will come to them, in the face of Mr. Cooper's attitude and the positive setand that the Cooper lead ers are taking in favor og Gov. Man ning. One fact that stands out promi nently in the present situation, the same as it did two years ago and will have a decided effect on the , campaign is thst the vote cast for Manning and Cooper was not for the ( two but was s protest against Rleas- tsm and was for the principles for which Manning and Cooper stand. This is what makes the election of Gov. Manning almost certain, stated administration leaders. , ’ Gov. Manning, while he believes thst Bleasism will not again triumph In South Carolina, is eagerly going into the fight. He issued the follow ing statement: “A majority of vote* were cast against Blease. He polls his full strength In the first primary al ways. A Cooper vote Is an anti- Jtlease vote. Blease did not poll more than his normal strength and cannot better It In the second pri mary. It is the same situation as two years ago. I Martel this morning to win the fight in the second primary and am going to win it-’’ In a statement Cole L. Blease says his pre-primary estimate has been justified, and he would have ^een elected on the first primary if a full vote had been cast. “I am unable as yet to account for the shortage, unless it was due to the rain,” he said. “1 trtn thoroughly satisfied that I will hold thu iQte^hat I have." pedo boats and destroyers surround.- cohtinues the statement, "and willTed and escorted fne transports in- get at least one-half, or possibly two-thirds, of the votes which were given to Mr. Cooper, a considerable The Red fleet appeared off Far Rockaway at two o’clock Saturday morning, the battle ships standing well out to sea. Nearer shore were the cruisers, and between them the transports loaded with troops. Half a dozen large colliers posed as transports, the navy being short of such veaasls. A score or more of swift torpedo boat destroyers circled the fleet and kept their searchlights sweeping the water, seeking the peri scopes of any defending submarines that mlf.ht be in the vicinity. Wheft the fleet was “bunched" ten milee oft shore Admiral Mayo sent a laun h with staff officers ashore, throngh the dark. Aa the launch approached the beach a man seen perched on top of a bath house. He had a'powerful flash lamp, operated by a small tank of calcium carbide, such as an automobile carries. With this light he a ignalled dots and dashes to the fleet, telling them the “cohst la clear." This man was a "spr" in the employ of the enemy fleet.' The manoeuvring of the enemy fleitt was Interesting, and after day light was observed by large crowds. The staff officers in the launch re tained to the Wyoming, Admiral Mayo's flagship, at four o’clock In the morning, parrying the message flushed to them by the man on the hath house. “No defence army or vessels anywhere near; none been here for days; landing la safe.” That was the message. The flagship was seen to flash signals to the other vessels. Just as dawn was breaking a flotilla of tor- and two destroyers. With Rear Admiral Helm's fleet out of the way, only a thin line of submarines remained to protect the coast. Then these, -tao^ were, quick ly disposed of by the Red fleet, apd Hi giiihlag Ufi U |lin 11 upr rur landing of troops from his trans ports, Admiral Mayo was declared victor in the game and the ships started for Newport after four days of arduous duty at sea. The story of the game as pieced together from wireless reports to the navy department'indicated that* tha tactics of Admiral Mayo completely puzzled Rear Admiral Helm and forced him to accept battle in a posi tion' from which there was no hope of esespe. The umpire declared the Blue fleet destroyed hours before the time limit of the action expired. When the game began Rear Ad miral Halm's fleet was sssemblad at Narragansett, while Admiral Mayo ith his fleet and transport train were six hundred miles off Cape Hat- teraa. At six o'clock on the morn ing of August 23 Rear Admiral Halm received word of his enemy’s loca tion, and hia seventeen scouts swept out to sea in a long circling line. An hour later the blue battleships also were st sea following tha scouts. The cruiser Baltimore aighted five battleships, two cruisers and three other unite of the Red fleet at six o'clock in the evening of August 32. They were five hundred miles off the ensst, stesmlng west. The Balti more dared not attack such a force and presumably fled for safety. It was eleven o'clock In the morn ing of August 25 before tjie Red force again was sighted. This time it was a battleship, which was pick ed up one hundred and twenty miles off New York. Again the Blue scout was outmatched. At half past five o’clock in the afternoon of August 25 theHestroyer volverN Mill Mirroundevl the Jail prevent the e*r»pe of the negro If still there. ^ The mob ’finally, at eight-flfty o’ciovk, overpowered the police aa4 sheriff's deputy and entered the JalL The sheriff's wife opened all tho cells. The mob felled to find tho negro, but retained Its hold on the sheriff’s residence and office. Sheriff Elej^returngi mne-HWfT 1 the rioters, who demanded the) Eley refused to tell where mt taken the negro and n tnaSed the sheriff's residence. Tho lirokeAdfmn the big front ing Eley, Who escaped rear door. Mrs. Eley and her sinter, Mr. Eley's small daughter, who'wM seriously 111, followed. Part mob went to the search the clock tower, ty years ago. a mob found hidden and lynched him. Sheriff Eley warn found tha Elks' home. He principal street corner by one sand men. n rope was his neck—thrown over n way twde, and the mob Hungary Expects Russia to Use Ter ritory of Neighbor. The Hungarian newspapers.are be ing .flooded with the most pessimis tic Information con erning Rumania and that country's possible action is absorbing the press and public, ac cording to a Budapest dispatch to The London Morning Post. The Hun garian public believes, says the dis patch, that the liberty they enjoy at the hands of the censor is designed to prepare the people for the worst. The military expert of the Pesti- Xaplo says: "The entry of Rumania into the war will not at first affect the military situation in the Balkans for the Rumanians will have to ad here to the united strategip plan of the Allies and will not be pemitted to go straight for Transylvania. Dob- rudja and Bulgaria will be their Im mediate aim. Five hundred thousand men of the Rumanian army are not the chief factors for the considera tion of the Central Powers, but rath er the problems presented^ by the new territory which the Russians will be allowed to use freely in the I 91 Paris Dispatch Conveys News Shooting of a Female Spy. The execution of a woman a spy is reported Tuesday In a Havas dis patch- from Marseilles. According to this information Felice Pfaat was put to death at the Lighthouse Shooting Range, having been con victed of espionage by the council of •war of the Fifteenth Region. Invasion'of Hungary.” BULGARIA TO FIGHT ROUMANU -1,' ' r- Roumanians Continuing Advance Into Hungary. Roumanian troops are continuing their invasion of Hungary, Official announcement was made at Bucha rest .that the advance is being car ried on successfully in all directions and that the important Industrial center of Petroseny and Tarlunge valley, near Kronstadt, have been Profits Made by Ford Company occupied. Dispatches from Austrian — army headquarters have Indicated MILLION DOLLARS A WEEK portion of which is formally with us, but which went to My. Cooper on account Of personal reasons. I am confident thatd will win on the next ballot by from fifteen to twenty thousand.” . John Madison DesChamps, defeat ed for governor, announced that “through observation, careful study and deliberate judgment,” he is fully convinced of the “need of a pew political party in South Carolina.” He declares himself the “founder, organizer and promoter of the White party of South Carolina.” The platform of the new political organi zation will be announced later, stat ed its founder. " WOMEN TEACHERS AID WILSON During .Year. " *’ r ~W “ * ~* —- ,4^ profit of more than tl.000,000 ik was made by the Ford Motor ^Vany during the year which end- -JVsuly 31, according to-the financial tent eat mkfie frohlicr 'thW week. iThe year's buaiiiets totalled 1204.- 417,247; the year'* profit was 959.- 994.118 I Troops ilmn wag Monday that r office ‘ am- their troops the decision of the central powers to evacuate part of Transylvania in order to shorten the fighting front. , Oi^ the Macedonian^ front com- paratfr* quiet continues. The French war effiee announced-fh at except tor 1 ” artillery actions various points, there had begn no heivy flgSting In the last twenty-fonr hours. Aft parently both sides are awaiting the PMdjustment of political conditions ia the Balkans *~ Bulgaria's expected declaration of war on Ron mania Is anabareod at aatonJH. according to ai From Suffrage States They Send Money to Campaign Fund. Wilbur W. Marsh, Treasurer, of the Democratic National Committee, said that he was greatly surprised last week to receive contributions of from one to ten dollars from school teachers, many coming from women teachers in the suffragist states. Mr, Marsh said he had reached the f 1- lowing conclusions: , “First, the teachers have some pride in their profession, and'recent the attacks upon the schoolmaster In the White House and that the teach ing profession should be disbarred from high political service; secopd, they are in full sympathy with the president’s social welfare program, of which the child labor bill was the culmination, and, third, they have watched the development of the bureau of education under Secretary Lane, the appropriationk for this bu- reau having Increased manifold and its efficiency acocrdingly." Most of the letten he added, laid stress on the fact that the president has kept the country out of war. Greek Garrisons Surrender. The surrender .of several Greek garrisons to aPcommlttee which has taken over the- administration of part of Greek Macedonia is reported 1m s Reuter dispatch from Sslbniltl. to thie dF patch the LitUekarakurna have Yodeaa the garrl- aatPFort ports shore until they were only a mile and a half from the gently shelving beach. The battleships spread out until they formed a line three miles lodg to the eastward and then mov ed inshore. The tide was rising, being high water at six o’clock, and that' was the hour selected for the landing. Therefore the battleships were able to come in close enough to shell the city itself. As the small boats put off from the transports, theoretically to land the army, the cruisers, which had gone out to sea a little beyond the battleships, to defend them from submarine attack, opened fire on the coast t'o prepare for the landing of the troops. For war game purposes it was as sumed that a defending army had been apprised of the enemy fleet's arrival and would try to repel an In vasion, using infantry and field ar tillery. Therefore it was necessary for the fleet's guns to drive the de fenders back from the coast. The outcome of the war game again demonstrates the shortcofiiings of the American fleet In strength of units, but more particularly In that strength due to well rounded devel opment and proportlonment of tl\h various units that go to make up the Ideal fleet. Weakness in battle cruisers and scouting powers in general on the part of the “Blue” fleet and th^ evi dently fine strategy of Admiral Mayo, commanding the “Red” enemy fleet, resulted in an absolute loss of bommand of the seas for the fleet to which was entrusted theoretically protection df the United States from invasion. • . v The navy department received the following message from the umpire, Rear AdmlraJ Austin M. Knight, Sat urday afternoon: ✓ “Manoeuvre completed. Red and blue main bodies engaged nine-thirty to ten-thirty this a. m., ten miles southeast of Ambrose lightship. Blue decisively defeated; red gaining com mand of the sea; red effects landing at Far Rockaway and secures base.” Jhe ’final report closely*folloi one announcing that Rear Admiral Helm’s bine defending fleet virtually had been annihilated In a dramatic fight off Seotland lightship, at the entrance to New York harbor. With the exeeption of a fow light craft the entire blue fleet was “suak”. Tbe full extent of tbe red loaess was aot known, sHbnatb early report tbe - Bonham, later reported destroyed In .truck with Efforts of the ■»> lice to leech Klry provtd futile. With hla clothes torn off and kin M streaming from a dozen cuts, HherMT Eley yielded to the mob sad left town, presumably to lake the lyuih era to the hiding place of the ■ape* Tbe mob left town la m-re taaa one hundred automobiles. Eleywsw placed in the leading ipachlne. He suffered sereral broken ribs while re sisting tho mob. He was knoeked down and kicked la the side. Police Chief McKinney and a num ber of other policemen were badly beaten. The eptlre motor fire de partment was called out, bat arrived too late to save Eley from the mob. Driving three abreast sad with dtum- Ical teaks open, throwing liquid leSe the crowd, tbe lire engines down the street at twenty hour, just in time to action, sighted the red transports seventy-five miles off the New Jer sey coast. Relying on her speed to escape the convoying warships, the Benham followed the transports, keeping Rear Admiral Helm inform ed. At that time the blue battle fleet was fifteen miles further In shore steaming in a line parallel to the transports. At half past eight o'clock the same evening the Ben ham reported that thre~ enemy bat tleships and the transport train had headed In short to make a landing. Rear Admiral Helm drove his bat tle fleet forward to Intercept the “enemy” at daylight. He sighted the red ships at five o’clock in the morning. The transport train was steaming In toward the .Long Island ebast with Its destroyer screen thrown out to southward. During the night, however, the red battle fleet also had come iip, and steam- state commerce commission to fix ing parallel to the transports and be- schedules of wages on interstate rail- northward. BILL TO AVERT STRIKE Both House* of Congress Have Meas ure* Before Them. Bills to avert the railway strifes actually were put on their way ta passage Friday in both bousss of congress. Under a special rule providing tor a vote not later than four-thirty Fri day afternoon, the House took up tha Adamson eight-hour day bill approv ed by President Wilson and accepted by brotherhood leaders as a “satis factory settlement." 4 The Senate interstate commerce committee reported a similar Mil, which, however, contains an Impor tant provision empowering the Inter state tw'een them and the blue fleet, inter posed Itself to cut off Rear Admiral Helm’s attack. The fleets engaged promptly, but the Blue position was hopeless. To cut off^the rush of the transports for the coast It had to swing sharply to the west. As the Blue ships came to the turn they fll£d in one at a time and caught—tire—concentrated fire of Admiral Mayo’s guns. While the battle still was In pro gress Rear Admiral Helm playfed his last card. The seventeen subma rines, mobilized at Block Island the preceding night, were following the movements of the Red transports, but kept well in shore as a last line of defence. Daylight found them within an- hour or two of the chos .n landing point of the invaders. Rear Admiral Helm ordered them forward in a desperate effort to destroy the troop ships, -but they were not equal to the task, and the transports and their shielding fighting ships stem- ed by, victorious. Have Han-all Bottled Up. Berlin says: "The Bulgarian conn- - ter ^offensive agatpst Saloniki seems where two_ bags time el lfus«. ly over. Tbe Bulgarians, It iaV- Armed here, have reached an ad vanced line satisfactory-to them and are fortifying themselves, having Gen. Sarrail’e army confined in ways. It provides that the eight-honr day shall become effective January 1, 1917,'that the present pay for tfew ten-hour day shall apply to tha shorter day, that overtime shall fee paid pro rata, but adds that wfthta not less than six and not more than twelve months after Its passage the interstate commerce commfssloa shall assume jurisdiction of the qnee- tion of hours and wages and fi»»t they shall be subject-to petition for change from either the employers, the employees or the public. RYNDAM’S EXPRESS SEIZED First Time British Have Interfered With That Kind of Hntter. The Holland-America liner Rya- dam arrived in New York' Sunday from Rotterdam via Falmouth. Tfew officers said the liner had been dw- talned two days at ftlrkwalL fey. Aim British snuorttles, who took eft 146 sacks of’mail. She also #na held twenty-fonr hoars sit Fa]month, 4» talning parcel* from Holland taken off. him little breathing polyglot army of mack cfeeneo o for /the <