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FOREIGN MINISTER RERUN TALKS OF tRE WAR NOT IN SUCH BAD SHAPE Speaker Says Dual Empire Cannot lie Ikaten and Predicts Tha| En tente Powers Will Realize Finally Their Attacks are Useless—Wants Peace Rut Not on Allies' Terms. In a thoroughly frank manner the Aiiotro-IIungarian minister of foreign affairs, Baron Stephen Burian von Rajecz, discussed in an interview with the correspondent of The Asso ciated Press the position of the dual monarchy in the world war, which, hF said, had been erroneously oha - acterized by enemiea and certain aeutrals as unsatisfactory. ‘ Austria'-Hunjary is tar from ly ing down, 'as hoped by some,” said the. minister in a tone carrying con- (iction. fit is true we would hail p>ace with joy, but not the sort of peac&sQur enemies would impose. . So long as s we have to defend ourselves against these who want to take part of our teiYltohv' ve naturally are un willing to diseusk^peactf. So long we are also determlneiKto hold out and win. The thought thaKwe are eager for peace on any term^xoriglnates probably- in minds hoping that such will become the case.” The minister then reviewed The situation prior to Koumania's decla ration of war, and said: "We offered Roumauia no territo rial concessions at any time after having discovered in the case of Italy that the world was likely po mistake our reasonable^ attitude for weak ness. Nor were we ever taken by surprise by Roumania. What did mm irwn'iw TTTffrww IN THE BALKAN COUNTRY 1 Prominent New York Attorney Vic tim of Daring Bandits. .Dwight P. Dilworth, a prominent Fr e" ch and British Commence For- ward Movements and Expects Expert Results. Reports from > the Macedonian attorney in New York city, was shot* and killed in Van Courtlandt park ] while standing beside his stalled j automobile. The crime is one of the] most baffling that has confronted front Tuesday point more strongly the police in several years, as there ever to the probability that the derers/ Utely ^ ^ t0 ^ Present thrust of the Entente forces Miss Maty V. McNiff,. who was may be the long expected general of- with Dilworth at the time of the fensive movement from this base, shooting, knows only that one of the) Of the armies of live nations as- masked men was shorter than the sembldij on this front, reported from other. They fired five shots into Dil-. several sources to number six hun- worth’s bodv after he refused to hold dred thousand men, the British r.nd up his hands antf had attacked the French are known to be exerting pair of bandits bare-handed. i heavy pressure, the British along the The killing of Dilworth is regard- Struma front, northeast of Salonikl, ed in some circles as the culmim- and the French northward along the tion of a feud in the Dilworth Jam-|Vardar oji the Serbian border, ilv. His father was murdered by French troops also are co-operat- burglars in a store in Oklahoma City,* ing with the British in the more east- Okla., two years ago. Four .uncles' erly operation, where, like their and a nephew have been murdered : allies, they have crossed the Struma, at various. times, indicating that capturing the village Yetiimah on clews to the murderers may lead in- the eacternly bank ten miles of to several states. Demir-Hissar. The British have According to the story related by seized additional trenches across the Miss McNiff. Dilworth was alone in ! river to the southeast and according New York citv, his wife having-gone 1 to a ne'ws dispatch from Athens the BLEASE SAYS ELECTION WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AGAIN to Kansas City, Mo., to visit rela tives. On the evening of ihe mur der Dilworth called Miss McNiff by telephone and incited her and M r - and Mrs. Cqtytti, with whom she boarded, to go for A drive.’ The Cor wins were indisposed and Miss Mc Niff consented 'to go alone. She as serts that she was iu the front seat with Dilworth and they had driven about an hour when they determin ed to turn the car. Dilworth drove from the main highway in the park into a secluded road, known as “Lovers’ lane,” and was- turning IBs machine when the ine stalled. Dilworth stepped frortxAhe car and was adjusting the radiautr. cap when the two bandits stepped .Tzpni the underbrush and. demanded that he hold up his hands Miss McNiff was too terrified to cry out, but as soon x a$ she heard shots Bulgarians are in retreat after a thirty-six-hour battle in which they s'ufferelj heavy losses. * . West of the Vardar, near Majadag. four miles soutlx of Gievgeli, Paris reports a rigorous offensive by the French and their allies, resulting in the penetration of Bulgarian posi tions to a depth of nearly half a mile on a two-mile front. The artillery and Infantry are also being vigorous ly employed further west along th.e front, the entire length of which now seems to be buzzing with activ ity. German army headquarters an nounces heavy fighting along both the Struma and the Vardar, declar ing the operations in the' latter re gion resulted successfully for the Bulgarians. In the Roumanian province of Do- brudja, the advance of the Uulgar MANNING SAFELY AHEAD One Thousand Men to Serv ice, ThU Fall. Trained for jTTTnr’nrw est Russian offensive, that Rome and Rratiano. the Roumanian premier, had made a definite bargalju We also knew that Roumania was not quite ready toward the end of August. “For all that, our military author ities made all possible preparations, which did not Ftintcst. as lias been believed, in holding along the Rotp-f rages mnnlan border, but which consisted In the establishment of the line of defence now occupied by our troops. Contrary to the general Impression the falling back of our troops has been «f no advantage to the Rou- irmlans. which fact has finally dawn ed on the Roumanian military com manders. since they have become very cantloua recently. “The military' field la not my de partment. I know that Roumanla's action waa no surprise, despite the fact that the Roumanian diplomats Hed to me constantly. Toward the last thetr assurance became too fer vent and their lying too patently ob vious, so I reached the conclusion that trouble waa not far off. Wheth er the declaration of war was due on Sunday or Tutaday I did not know. Rut I felt It was due, because. In ad dition, the reporta from Bucharest indicated that the Russian pressure was getting more severe each day, the Entente governments wanting to add to the weight of their own fu tile offenaives in the east and west and Salonikl the great Impression the war declaration was expected to make, but did. in reality, not make, because we were ready for it. “I will say that Rratiano played a good game, though. When the En T tciitc finally had shown ell its cards Rratiano stiffened up i manda, which were granted '/uTTy she ran for help, policemen and I rians and Germans, who are com- byalclans were soon^op the scene | manded by Field Marshal von Mack- ~~ jaalt atMMWJkT The Charleston American, Leading Rlcase Paper, Publishes Please Side of Recent I*riinary—Hints at Open Bolt to Progressive Republi cans—Manning Carried Twenty- eight Counties. With complete returns from all but one county and with official tab ulations having been made in a ma jority of the counties, the early lead of Gov. Manning of nearly 5,000 votes over Cole L.' ftlease has been sustained. Only two small boxes in McCormick county remain to be bean} from. Excluding these, Mr. Manning’s majority is 4,789. Slight errors were detected in a large pro portion of the counties in making the official count, but the discrepancies practically balanced. The total vote recorded is 137,719 against 137,79i cast two weeks ago. Th® two out standing boxes should bring the total up to that of- the first primary. By the official returns Georgetown, which has been a stronghold of Mr. Blease in several previous elections. Is placed in the Manning column by 30 votes. Chesterfield, which was also designated as t doubtful count for two davs after the ballot had been caet.'mit which had been prac tically conceded by some to the Blease forces, has also been carried by the present governor. His lead Jn Chesterfield was 63. The addition of these two gives Gov. Manning a clear majority in 28 of the 4 5 coun ties. The .7 counties carried, by Mr. Blease were: Abbeville, Aiken, An- /-vk. t The general staff of the United States army is preparing for the re organization of the aviation arm of the regular service, a reorganization which contemplates the training of about one thousand aviators, half of whom will be in the active and half in the reserve service. The plans call for an equipment which will in clude aeroplanes of all the various military types, for a thorough^ sys tem of training, for the mottlirzation and so far as possible the standard ization of the various industries which can be used in the manufac ture of aeroplanes or their equip ment for military “purposes; The greatest advance made in the new' plan for the aviation corps is that It provides means by which any young man who can pass the mental, phy sical and moral test of the regular service may obtain the practical and theoretical instruction necessary to equip him for a commission as an officer of the aerial service. The w ar, department will bpen Its first large scboOT at San Diego, Val. where sinjple machines, which re quire from twenty to thirty hours of instructlort-tov operate, will be used in preliminary lessons. Crafts in tended especially for instruction pur poses will be employed and they will be driven from 30 to 60 miles an hour while the student is under the direction of an instructor. After the simpler problems of aviation have been mustered, the instruction wi}l lead to more difficult manoeuvres. After each flight the aviator will report to the instructor and will be told of mistakes and how to correct them. The school, it is understood, will be second to none in the world. The junior military aviator will remain on probation for several months. He cannot possibly g^f in to the aviation section until his ability to do the hazardous work re quired has been proved beyond all doubt to his instructors. Later he Will be placed In charge of a hydro aeroplane and other machines of the purely land types. When he finally is assigned to a Btniailron the aviator, who is still a ALLIES P0ENB CENTRAL m- ERS FOR SMALL CAINS INTEREST IN BALKANS DENICOURT IS SERR0ENDED lice at Van Cortlandt have been on EDCNCH ARF ADVANCING* the lookout for m r n who have an- rMlrWO ARC AVVAiTUHU, noyed couples In the park. One of these “bushwacking’' blackmailers was killed in a recent encounter and the gnnoyance ceased: It is believed the murder marks a renewal of the recent series of hold-ups and out-i COSSACKS RAN NO CHANCES Made Sure of Turk IVisonen* by Cut ting off 1'ants Buttons. Paris Reports Advances on Monday —Anglo-French Drive Still ((online The new thrust by the French south of the river Somme in north ern FYance, where the important I railway town of Chaulnes is their objective has resulted in the com- | plete encircling of the village of After a recent Turkish defeat at . Deuicourt, the i’aris war office an- Harikamysh a'Russian officer met & nounced Monday. « party of five hundred captured Turks ^ Denieourt formed the center of the being brought In by fifteen smiling wedge the French are driving into Cossacks. There was something oh- , he (j ernian Hues north of Chaulnes, viously the matter with the pris-. n B resistance holding up thetr ad- oners; their hands were all myste-, vance between Berny and Vermando- riously occupied, and they walked ylRers. complete occupation of which delicately. I villages by the French was announc- The officer hailed the Cossack in e ,i Sunday night. charge and asked “Hallo, have you got a dancing class there or what?" The Cossack grinned yet„mor P broadly and replied: "Well, you see, excellency, there's more than five hundred of them and only fifteen of us. so there was a Further progress has been made by Hie French in this region, and heavy counter attacks by the Ger mans on the new French positions both north and south of the Somme have been repulsed according to Mon day's report*, which announces that the Germans sustained enormous chance they might be up to some- The French have taken thing if we weren't careful. So be fore we started we went round and cut off all their hooks, belts and trouser buttons. Now they're got their hands full, and it's no use theifr trying to bolt." twelve hundred prisoners and ten machine' guns. SUB HALTS U. S. SHIP some time before the outbreak of the war. Then Bratlano thought he would play the part of taking from ,1110 Austro-Hungarian corpse what he could. But the Entente had its own notions, which Bratlano learned ■when he was told that he was mis taken if he thought his role was merely taking pennies from a dead man. He was instructed to start Immediately, for. only In helping to down the Central Powers could he hope to gain what he wanted. The declaration of war was therefore transmitted. * "Well, Roumania will have a good chance to rue her bargain, if I am not mistaken. The fact is, we are far from completely dead, as some think.” Asked the reason for the opposi tion campaign against the Hungarian premier, Count Tisz . Baron Burian said it was merely criticism, to in dulge in which the Opposition had the right, mingled, to a certain ex tent, with the principle of “Ote toque je m’y mette,” meaning, “Get off; that I may take your set." Baron Burian did not take the Opposition move tragically; but regretted that the Opposition parties so far .lacked tact # as to 1 start that sort of thing at the present time. “But such is politics,” he ex claimed. “The fact is, *he men clam oring for power would do the same as we are doing. They are good pa triots all. Nor could they have done more." Replying to a question as to the monarchy's military and economic status at this moment, the minister said he had no anxiety on thaLscore. But he added: “Some think we are not doing enough. In addition to holding the Italians checked, we have managed to render useless Brusiloff’s great offensive, which Is not .exactly child’s play; the Russian soldier Is a valiant and stubborn enemy.” The discussion then touched on 'American-Austro-Hungarian rela tions. in the course of which the cor respondent referred to the note sent expressed in that note. America in exporting large qaaotitie® at arm®} — ahd 'arfirnmrmTm uTraoubTpmy-mnrr- Uaptain Reaches. New York and Tells buted to the' long du.ation of this war, and the damage thereby '’.flirt ed upon mankind'In irreparable. We sent that note so' that America might know our view. "That the American government could not agree to the note is the undeniable sovereign right of that nation. Thus the matter.stands. On that subject we must arways dis agree,- so far as my own personal opinion is concerned.” The minister then discussed the general situation of the dual mon archy, which he said was very satis factory, in view of the fact that the long duration of the war had made demands upon the nation, to which he formally would have thought the country unequal. “We have the determination," said he, “to emerge whole from this sad and deplorable affair, into which we were forced by a private affair with Serbia, and, which the Entente group made a pretext for a general descent upon ourselves and our allies. Soon-’ er or later it must dawn upon our enemies that this entire business is- useless. But I suppose not before the English Kitchener a^rmy has bro ken more heads f against the steel wall of Germans in France, or the French havq b§en further decimat- od; while the Russians are dying like flies every day In the feast. “But a ray of intelligence must break some time, which l hope will be soon, for the sake of all man kind. Until that day. comes our ene mies will always find us willing to ao our best to defeat their evil plans. There may be some who say that for military reasons we ought to be the first to start peace overtures. I do not think so, as long as our antagon ists speak of -the partition of our country among themselves. We have defended our soil pretty well so far, and will .do it longer—long enough to make the others tired of it, any way. In contrast to most stories of the activities of German submarines was one told in New Yqrk by Capt. E. W. Barlow, which arrived last week from Rotterdam after being stopped by a U-Boat off the French coast on August 3. “Cannonading had been heard from the shoie for several hours,” Capt. Barlow said, “whefc there sud denly came gunfire close at hand^ We could not see anything because of a thick haze over the water, al though it was clear overhead. Sdd- dently a shot whizzed over our stern. 1 stopped, and presently a submarine loomed out of the haze. ”We were flying an American flag and American Hags were painted on both siejes of our hull, with the name of our vessel and the letters U. 8. A. “The commander of the submarine ordered me to come on board his craft, which 1 did. His first words were: “ ‘Captain, you should be more careful; this is war time.’ “To which I replied, ‘Yon should be more careful. Didn't you see my flag?’ “ ‘How could I see your signajs when I could not see your boat, but only hear her?’ the German officer asked. “The German commander was most pleasant. He examined ifiy papers, then gave me a written per mit to proceed. “I am satisfied that he did not in tend to hit my ship, and I have no complaint to make.” ADVANCE ¥ ROUMANIA berry, Oconee. Pickens, Richland. 8aluda, ' Spartanburg, Union and York. ] ' No word of acceptance of the re sult ol the primary comes from cx- Governor Rlcase. The Charleston American, the Chief Bleaae peper In the Btate, .published Friday this dis patch from Columbia: Affidavits, letters and tele grams have been filed at the Blease headquarters to-day show ing the use of money, whiskey, in timidation of voters and fraud in the count of the governor'c race last Tuesday. This information comes from responslblj people from different parts of the state. When asked what action wonld be taken. If any, ex-G«v. Blease smiled and said: “I am not talk ing but I have the proof that I have been defrauded In the most debauched election ever h®ld in this State, radical days not ex cepted." It was reported later, not from Mr. Blease, bnt from one of his lieutenants, that the “evidence would be laid before tbe state exe cutive committee.” It is possible that another primary for governor will be ordered. « Because ot'these evidences of fraud coming to light feoupled with the Republican convention In ses sion here to-day all kinds . of rumors ss to probable outcome are afloat and are creating consider able comment in political circles here. While definite Information as to what-courae will be adopted by Mr. Blease and his advisers Is part of the state to his headquar ters and _the ominous silence ob served Is taken to mean that some thing definite is In the wind. Beneath this is certain talk “that there never was more danger of a formidable revolt In the Democratic party” and a full account of the Pro gressive Republican meeting held in Columbia recently. This is the talk of Bleast’s lead ing newspaper, but in the meanwhile nothing has happened to explain away Manning's apparent majority of 4,789. tn an effoit to help. The American says: As throwing a side light on the recent election an interesting story filters in from the Third Congres sional district where Dominick de feated Aiken. It Is an explanation of why Blease was defeated, while more Bleasites wete Elected than ever before. The Manning organization cen tered Its every effort on the defeat of Blease, they would trade with anybody for Manning votes in the Third district, they traded Aiken to get Blease votes. Dominick was not a party to this, in fact knew .nothing of it. In some counties trades were made over minor races like sheriff. Jp.^Anderson by these means and otmers more questionable. Man ning's vote of 900 in the first was run to 3,000 In the second. Re ports of the use of money, giving names of specific Instances, con tinue to come into Mr. Blease's office. ir.-li.tvlHR. J kST-TW.® «• Itoumania is Sweeping Through Transylvania While Bulgaria Seeks Unes of I>efence Along the Dan* ul»e—Trench Fighting on Other Front Does Not Vary. The week in Europe has been a continuation of the Allied pressure against the forces of the Central Powers, a pressure marked by many small local successes, but no one big advance. On the western and east ern fronts It is a resumption- of the bid trenchto-trench warfare, while the Balkan campaigns have witnessed fighting of a more open character, but with scarcely more rfesults. The Roumanians, centering their main efforts against the Austrians, are slowly sweeping westward through Transylvauia, tre Austrians, outnumbered, being content to fight a succession of rear guard actiona, selling the ground lost as dearly as possible. Meanwhile, a Russian force,' traversing Eastern Roumania, has clashed with von Mackensen’s army bf Germans, Turks and Bul- gars which are seeking to drive the Roumanians from all ground south of the Danube river. The Bulgarian move, r.t first thought to be a threat against Buch arest, the Roumanian capital. Is Be lieved to be for the purpose of se curing Bulgaria's northern frontier against *a Russian invasion through Roumania, the line of the Danube river being the logical defensive line for such a stand. But thv Russians appear to be working their way down the Black sea coast into Bulgaria, and Varna, the principal Bulgarian wr», ?us> ams—rShs toentlas. aU. nection with - t export United States of • arms and ammuni- tiop. The Baron said: • , “It affords me great pleasure' to •ay that the relations between the two governments are the very. beat. At the same time I mast say that personally I still adhere to the view* Father Plowed His Son Fader. Roscoe Blankenship, a farmer re- Platte county, Mo., plowed working in a field near Kansas City. The father thought the boy had gone to the- house. Instead the lad waa sleeping In a furrow. •-The,lad*was nearly suffocated before the dirt could be removed from his nose, month and ears. V Germans and Bulgarians Capture- Fortress of Sillstrlak Continuing their advance in west ern Dobrudja, the German and Bul garian forces have captured the old fortress of Silistria, which lies on the eastern bank of the Danube about twenty-five miles northeast of Turtukai and sixty ■ miles east of Pucharest, the capital of Roumania, TSB* Tthwiratr. eqnaluii the » Constanza-Bucharest Railway line. The capture of the fortress Is announced by the Berlin war office,, which adds that the Roumanians and Russians fighting in Dobrudja ap parel ly have suffered very consider able losses fluring the last few days. cross-country wonr; rn recon sanre, photography, sketching, the use of machine guns operated from aeroplanes, bomb dropping, and oth er important duties. All flights when in the squadron are made un der the direction of tbe squadron commander or his first assistant. This period may last aa long as two years. CHINESE FACE STARVATION HuiulredM of Thousands Have Been Made Homeless by Floods. Floods which are raging along the Hwat river, in Anhwei province, have made hundreds of thousands of Chi nese homeless and over one million are said to be facing starvation. President LI Yuan Hung has made a personal contribution of one hundred thousand dollars, but because of po litical dissension the government is not in position to do much to aid the sufferers. It is declared that unless the American Red Cross comes to the aid of the sufferera the death rate will be appalling. The residents of the Hwal river have been the objects of charity fof several years. On numerous occa sions floods have mined the crops and the Red Cross society provision ed them. Now the society is pre paring plans for reclamation work along the river. The improvement will cost thirty million dollars, but it will relieve tne flood slturtlon. END SUB DISCUSSION Berlin Says Resumption of Warfare is Not Being Talked. Berlin, via London: The weeks which have passed since the appoint ment of Field Marshal von Hinden- burg as chief of the general staff have been marked by almost com plete cessation of the discussion in regard to resumption of submarine warfare on the old or on a more vig orous basis. Nonpartisan newspaper observers who are in touch with leading states men and politicians express the opin ion that for the present at least there will arise no question of a change in submarine policy. The administra tion of Chancellor von Bethfnann Hollweg now feels itself fully In con trol of the situation In this respect. The controversy over the methods employed In connection with the food distatorship has now supplanted the submarine issue. \ Mexico Buying Telegraph Foies. An order for one hundred thou sand telegraph poles, averaging twenty-four feet in height, has been placed by the stat^ government of Yucatan, Mexico, with the All-Amer ican Trade association in New York city. The poles will be shipped, to Yucatan at a cost of six hundred thousand dollars. Georgetown 679 Greenville .. ..... 4,448 Greenwood 1,321 Haltfptoor. .... .. 6^0 Horry 1,789 Jasper .. .. .... 217- Blease. Manning Kershaw Abbeville . . . . .. 1.159 . 935 Lancaster Aiken .. . . 2.238 1,934 Laqrens .. 2,189 Anderson . . . . .... 4,719 2,921 Lee Bamberg .... .. .409 996 Lexington .. .. Barnwell .... .... 936 1,462 Marion 687 Beaufort .... .... 247. 298 Marlboro Berkeley .. .r 484 625 McCormick . . . . . . 383 Cglhoun . . . . . . 368 592 Newberry .. 1,642 Charleston .. 2J42 Oconee .. ,. .. .. 1.839 Cherokee.. .. ... ,. . 1.311 1,248 Orangeburg .. >.. .. 1,641 Chester . . .. 862 1.23.T Pickens .. . .. .. 2,232 Chesterfield ». 1.651 ' 2,714 Richland 0J7 flalnria. „L097 Colelton . . ’ . . .. .. T.T7T i.w . L . IB Darlington . ^ .. 1.326 1,698 Sumter ....V .. 687 Dillon 1.163 U union . - 1.594 Dorchester ,. .. .. 655 974 Williamsburg- .. ,« 893 Edgefield. .. . • U* 1,981 York. • Op •' • • • • .. 2.249 Fairfield .. .. ;. .. 598 712 • Florence .... .. .. i.fl*. 2.244 Total 709 5,018 1,594 962 If,'(02 . 289 1,302 1,460 1,797 912 2,436 '1,168 1,399 6 1,559 1.564 2.803 1.502 3,005 1,066 1,633 1.565 1,333 1.152 military garrison, according to re ports. The Russians, in addition, are working westward, In conjunc tion with the Roumanians, across the western Roumanian frontier Into Serbia, a vital point, for tbe BferUn- Constantlnople railway passes leas than thirty miles away, jeat south of Belgrade. On the Macedonian front, as the Allied line north of Salonikl, Orooce, Is now called, the British and Ser bians evinced quite a bit of activity during the week, and the Bulgarian wings were twirled back from some of the positions gained In tholr'at tacks of a few weeks ago. Consider able artillery activity also has been reported from the center of the line, but It Is not believed thrt the Allies are yet ready for heir combined smash northward. % King Constantine, of Greece, and his cabinet and political advisers continue to puxale over the riddle ahead of them. Having bowed to the demands of the Entente Alllee, Greece is in n peculiar position. Her entire territory la being used for war purposes by the Allies, who also are having considerable to say as to the conduct of the government; yet Greece nominally la at pecco with everybody, and. unleas she gets off the fence before long, there will scarcely be a crumb of tjio spoils left for her after the wrr. On the eastern battle line the Rus sians are hammering away at the Austrian line In Galicia, seeking to drive the forces of the Central Pow ers from the Dniester and the Biota LI pa rivers and to wrest Halles from the foe, three positions which coneti- lubeJitejaiUo UjuloX ilcl£J34e sX.Lejn- berg, 30 miles to the westward, n the Carpathians 'they are clearing out the Hungarians, and, further south, Gen. Brusiloffa men nr® working in conjunction with the Roumanians. On tbe western front, the British and French armies In the Somme sector keep pounding away at th® German lines, gradually forcing the Kaiser's troops backward toward th® Baupaume-Peronne-Chaulnes line. The French have launched a series of powerful attacks couth of the Somme river as far as Chilly, 20 miles away, evidently seeking to en large the wedge being driven into the enemy’s line. In the Verdun dis trict the Germans are strictly on the defensive, their only attacks being counter attacks against French gains, for the French are steadily pushing back the Germans from the advanced positions of the latter, and, unless von Hindenburg can send re inforcements to the crown prince, it is predicted that the Douaumont- Vaux line will soon change hands again. MCLAURIN TO QUIT ♦ Declares He Will Resign Position of Warehouse Commissioner. , In a letter to J. Arthur Banks, of St. Matthews, president of the South Carolina Warehouse association, given to the press Saturday after noon, John J. McLr.urin announced his intention of retirint from the of fice of warehouse commissioner at an early date, and of tendering hla res ignation to the governor. The let ter discusses the commissioner’s political affiliations during the re cent campaign, the charges bronght'* against him by Senator B. R. Till man, and tbe past and future of the warehouse system in this state. 71,264 Bottle of Beer Acted like Bomb Harriet Felix, a seven-yeareold girl of Shawtown, Del., was serious ly injured when a bottle beer that after being sCMick wffb £^ the child's handa. the bottle were so highly with tbe accsmutatlos of it® release sent tbs lag tn all dlreetloa*.