Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

DOV EVENTS LED BER TO TBE SIDE OF THE ENTENTE (•KING suffers coercion Pressure of Venlzelos and Partisans of Allies, Aided by Acts of Allied Mary and ‘‘Army, Force? Declara- rf— . , v • • • , - ■ tion of War Against Bulgars to Prevent Internal Disaster. may not deprive Constantine of his VICTORY TO ROUMANIANS .lbron£ they have made Venlselos T " ,w " * WHO WON 5-DAY BATHE .Mtniea ■ > « - cue cuuuuy. _ , _ . It was Venlzelos who conceived Bucharest Says- Bulgars, Turks and and formed the Balki.n League of 1912, but it was Constantine, then crown prince, who led the Greek armies against Turkey. It was Veni- zelos who formed the Greco-Serb COTTON HUS ON SOUTHERN ower in the state, the hollow of hts I of the country. Has Qne-llifrd of Cotton Spindles In 1 '- The United State#. Eight hundred and twenty-seven textile plants, carrying 9,865,248 spindles .and 214,467 looms,‘In oper ation on the lines of the Southern Germans Attacked Boldly But Retreated in Disaster. , . „ . . . v. Railway, .Mobile and Ohio Railroad. A delayed Bucharest dispatch tells Soilt h e rn and Florida Rail- I With Greece in the war there will be sixteen belligerents, including the little republic of San Marino—four on the side of the Central Powers and twelve on the side of the Quad ruple Entente. From appearances it would seent that King Constantine’s hand has beeu_Jorced and that he had this alternative—abdication or war. But it must be remembered that m^Vevolutionary party, not oven that in iCrete which Venizelos has taken in hand to organize, has demanded abdication, while the King has re peatedly stated that the continued 1 neutrality of his country depended on ovents. The events of last winter were not encouraging .for the Allies of the Entente. They are so now. When he accepted in full the ulti matum of the Entente of June 21, oxacting how he should run his king dom, it may be said that he placed himself in the position of one who would yield to for e. majeure, whether expressed by the. bayonets of the Entente or the demonstrations of his people, ancf that the entry of Greece on the ride of the Entente was only a question of time. Since then both the Entente and 'bis people have increased their pres- aure. Bulgaria, by invading Greek territory where it was not to the in terest of the Entent to defend, has. meanwhile, added to it. The Bulgars took possession of .Kavala and gave the Greek force there the alternative of surr nderlng 1 tO’ OwiVHimy »i trr thw cwiwmawdwr-»f the Entente fleet in the harbor. Many -of them chose the latter. Warships of the Entente made r. demonstration at Piraeus, the port of Athens. The disorganized bodies of the Greek army at Salonlki, retreating from the evacuated forts on the fron tier. reorganized and placed them- .selves under revolutionary leaders to repel the Bulgars. In Athens, as part of the uTTimatum of June, whole sale arrests were m de of pro-Oer- msn officials, and the Allies took charge of the telegraph and post of fice until Premier Za mis promised to attend to them more satisfactorily himself. But even the thoroughly sympr- thetic “neutrality’’ of M. Zaimis suit ed neither the Entente nor the ris ing feeling of the people for inter vention. When on the evening of Monday. August 28. it waa learned that Rorumania had en’ered the war, demonstrations of applause were held before the legations of the Entente. The day before Venizelos had ad- * dressed a crowd of 80,000 from his balcony. He called upon the King to dissociate himself from evil in fluences and to act in accordance with the obvious will of the people. He declared his belief In the victory •of the Entente and deplored the fact that his country might not-share it. On September 12 Premier Zaimls resigned. The next selection was M. DemitracopouioS, who was at once rejected by the Entente. On Sep tember 16. Nikolas Kalogerpoulos succeeded In forming a cabinet which contained Uvo members notorious for police hostility to the Entente and it - . „ „ . . , __ , .. . Georgia Southern and Florida Rail treaty of defense In the spring of the fighting in Dobrudja up t°. way an d associated lines—that Is the 1913, but it was still Constantine, last Sunday: . ' record presented in a textile direc- now King, who successfully led the In the five days battle waged on t for 1916 Jugt lB8Ued ln booklet Greeks against the Bulgars. For the Dobrudja front the fighting form . the indU8trtal and agr i C ul- two years they divided the fame of throughout has been of a desperate tural de p artm e n t of these roads to heroes among the Greeks. | character. In the earlier Phases of 8how the ld advancement of the At about the time Prince Co stan- tfee engagement the Bulgars, with, textl)e lndust ln the South and lt8 tine had married Princess Sophia, the recklessness of despair flung nmiHihimiAn fnr fllt , ire develonment. the sister of the new German Kaiser, themselves against the allied line, in 1889, Eleutherios Venizelos was There appears to have been a con- growing into manhood as the son of siderable stiffening of German troops a wealthy merchant of, Crete, then among the Bulgarian attacking col- under Turkish rule. He was to live umns. These came on in mass for- SUB m CAUSES ENGLAND Cnill 6 TOIOOK TO BER COMMERCE uWUI / TS IN AMERICAN BANKS ON WONDERFUL GROWTH to help free the island from that rule, first as high commissi ner of the powers, and then as a minister of state at Athens. About the marriage of Prince Con stantine and the Kaiser’s sister a word should be said. The marriage was the last hint of diplomacy con veyed by Bismarck to his young sov ereign. It had also the approval of Queen Victoria;' the Kaiser’s grand mother. The Kaiser went to Athens for the wedding, and began to culti vate his brother-in-law. But two years later his sister join ed the Greek church, and this led to a family rupture between Potsdam and Athens. .At last v Queen Victoria intervened, saying: “Sophia • has doubtless acted from the inspiration of pure and lofty ideals,” but until a year ago the Kaiser and all he stood for was completely out of the Hellenic frame. Count von Mirbach- Hariff, the German minister at Athens, restored him. He convinced Constantine that his brother-in-law could not possibly lose in this war Since the Turco-Bulgarian treaty of July 22, 1915, the diplomats of the Allies in the Balkans had b Id their governments that Germany would shortly aid Austria in a sec ond Invasion of Serbia, and that Bul garia would jointbemi. There was the Franco-British expedition at Gal lipoli which must be protected. Ser bia also claimed protection. For months Venizelos had been negotiat ing with the Allies to that end. mation. Among their ranks the al lied artillery did terrible execution. “Smash through at any cost,” seems to have been the Teuton mot to. Physicially enfeebled, their ef fectives thinned by terrible punish ment, the Bulgars -and Germans made a final effort to break through the allied line. For. the supreme ef fort reinforcements were brought from other points, including a num ber of Turks hurried from Thrace. The Turks were placed in the van- guard.-Tiut the new attack was un able to make any impression on the allied line. •* The intended sledgehammer blow proved In delivery but a puny effort. The allied front along the ground of the enemy’s offensive was covered with dead. Finding the ertemy had spent himself, the Allies lost no tfme id delivering a counterstroke. Amid great enthusiasm, they dashed for ward—Serbs, Russians, and Rou manians. With the terrible fate of their comrades at Tutrakan still fresh in their memory, they leapedi the trenches with irresistible fury and flung themselves against the shattered remnants of the Teuton force. Bulgars, Germans, and Turks, un able to withstand the onslaught yielded rapidly and refused to face afresh the oncoming Allies. Aban doning artillery, munitions and many wounded, they retired • southward The hapless villages on the line of retreat suffered the vengeance of the baffled foe, who everywhere set them Great Brlatin Will lighten Grip by Refusing Supplies to Ships Car rying Blacklisted Goods. The contiftued depletion of the world’s supply of tonnage as a result of the operations of the submarines of thejCentral Powers will be met by an increase in stringent measures by which the Entente Allies design to John Skelton Williams Tells NEW POWER TO BANKERS possibilities for future development The directory shows a total of 63 5 cotton mills, 152 knitting mills, 33 woolen mills and 7 silk mills, with eleven new textile plants under con struction at the time the informa tion was compiled. The knitting mills have 23,57 9 knitting machines and 2,633 sewing machines. The names and location of the different plants, with information as to equip ment, power used and character of product, are given. According to the most recent statement of the Unit'd States cen sus bureau there are T3;245,148 cot ton spindles In the cotton growing states. Of the spindles shown tri- butary to Southern Railway lines, 68,000 are in Indiana and Missouri, while ,all the rest are located in the Southern states. These mills with additions since madi to the equip ment of established plants, make the total number of cotton spindles in the South on the Southern Railway 10,000,000 or frve-sevenths of all the spindles in the cotton growing states and almost one-third of all the cot ton spindles in the United States... control shipping, so as to Insure it being used'to the best advantage of the Allies and prevent it even Indi rectly aiding their^opponents, accord ing ta a statement made to the Asso^ elated Press by Lord Robert C6CI1, minister of war trade. Ixml Robert admitted that even the present rate of destruction, with out considering the possibility of a resumption of unrestricted United’ States Has Become ia~thfl prat,aJing..ffa.Mwaryi whoa —Every ‘ otm 'flPrc 18 phased the expedition had first landed, he bad offered them 150,000 men in secret conference. England later of fered Cyprus it return. King Con stantine and the general staff had repudiated that offer. He now offer ed them a pied-a-terre at Salonlki. and told them of the Greco-Serblan treaty, which would inevitably bring Greece into the war should Bulgaria join the Teutons in the invasion of Serbia, He was mistaken. Bulgaria join ed the Teutons, and all invaded Ser bia. The Allies landed at Salonlki. But King Constantine did not invoke the Greco-Serb treaty. He declared that no “casus foederis’’ existed, as Bulgaria was. not the only enemy. The next day Venizelos resigned the premiership. This was on October 6. For seven months he was s wan derer. On April 19 he accepted the Invitation to stand as Liberal candi date at the by-eiection in Mytliene on May 7. So Venlzelos returned to Greece. He found the country a political and social chaos. The army, still mobilized*, had almost driven the country to starvation. Athena was full of German spies and agenta fit ting out supplies for submarine bases among the Greek islands. Only Saloniki, where the Allies were, was prosperous. , There the new Serb army, refitted at the expense of France at Corfu, had already landed. He knew some thing about the plans of the Allies and of the Italio-H ximanlan treaty which would bring Koumauia into the war at .the right time^ .He be lieved that Greece, in spite of Con- with the stand of the Roumanian sol diers when at the outset they*found Xi|sa|jauina v oj pesoddo saA[dsmaq) superior foe. DAMAGED NAVAL BASE preme in World’s FtuuicUl Iw flthence—Most Use Power Profit ably Bnt Fairly. National bankers gathered in Kan sas City, Mo:, at the annual conven- subma- tion of the American Bankers’ aaso- rine warfare, meant a serioue loss to c i a ti 0 n were told Tuesday night by the world s tonnage, and that conse- . . * ,, quently it could not be expected that John Skelton Williams, comptroller British coal or other British facilities of the currency, that they could ful- should be expended on ships carrying fill their duty to the world in the goods to blacklisted firms. The En- g re at Unsocial construction following tente Allies will increase their ship- t j, e European war only if they “put ping measures, which a ready rre ^ gou j of t j ie p e0 pi e j n U8e an( | proving valuable, in making the best a ppijcation of the dollars.“ use of available tonnage in proper-1 “\Ve have outgrown responsibility Hon as the Germans succeed In de-. to our (OU ut ry ant i generation,’’ said stroying merchant ships. \yiiii am 8. “We have become ro- The minister <of war trade said sponsible to the whole world becauso that as a matter of course the En- vve have become the supreme world tente Allies would be favored, as re- power especially in finance. It la gards the use of tonnage, and that ,for you, gentlemen, to determine neutrals engaged in Entente Allies’., whether these dollars of oura shall trade,would receive the next,consia- prey upon our country and the world ' ‘ or un- eration. Neutrals suspected neutral acts, hejidded, would not en joy the usual faclliti !8. GOES TO HEAD CITIZENS Venizelos Says He Ha» Accepted Head of Defense Movement. Eliphtherios Venizelos, former premier of Greece, in a column long message to The London Timaiv, giv ing the' reasons for his action in go ing to Crete as the head of a na tional defense movement, says Wed nesday he is acting in response to a call of his countrymen because “I wm—abooHrtely cwnrlnced-Hmee who- COTTON PRICE BOOSTED BY GOVERNMENT REPORT with teeth and claws, or shall have souls put into them to upbuild.’’ The comptroller spoke before the national bank section. He reviewed the progress of banking under the federal reserve law, sketched the commanding position the United States has taken in world finance, de clared that for the first time America had become distinctly a crediting no- New York and New Orleans See Ad- 1 Hon. urged the bankers to take a more active interest In politics and vance of WO to 0*2 Points on Monday’s Deport. Berlin Says Air lUid Met With “VD Ihle Success.” The British naval base at Ports- mouth and military establishments near the mouth of the Thames and at North Shields, yincoln and Derby were attacked by the Zeppelins which raided England Monday night the German admiralty announced Wednesday. The official account fol Ipws: “On the night of September 25-26 several German airships bombarded ez’enstvely and with visible success with explosive and incendiary bombs the English naval port of Porta- mouth, fortified places near the mouth of the Thames and industrial and railroad establishments of mtll- i tary Importance In England, Includ ing North Shields, Lincoln and Der by. The airships returned unharm ed. notwithstanding strong attacks of anti-aircraft guns.’’ ~Tias never Ticca TT > coSnlxed'~By the sTainTfftr, had anpthPT chjrnrg ttr~Te=' latter. Tn their cTrcumstancVs. witn ' Abe continued success of the Entente c» ID armies on the battle fronts, inter vention was looked for most any day. Meanwhile 1 , without any royal mandate, officers of the Greek'army have- assembled as far as possible thedemoralized troops as volilnteers ana camps have been established on the hillsides around Athens. Al ready stores of munitions have been collected there and at other places; under French auspices, for the ob- vio.us use of the Greek troops. t The annual eontingotu of recruits is fixed by parliamentary,law at 25,-| 000.• The peaco^footing is 60,000 men. And the war footing on the recruit and reservist basis would produce from 280,000 to 300,000 T Military observers say, however, that such the spirit of the Greeks that an army of fully 500,000 men could be raised, including many veterans of the 'Balkans wars—for Greece suffered least of all of the Balkan •States—in spite of the disarganizi- tion wrought in the Third Army . Corps on the Saloiyki border. After the Balkan wars Greece aspired to possess a navy commen surate with the extent of her coast and the chance of a war with Tur-^ key. Aside from ssessing the old battleships (armored cruisers) Spet- sai„Hydra, and Psara, each of 5,000 tons and with three lOlYPinch, five 6-inch, and one 4-inch guns, built from 1880 to 1889; fourteen de stroyers, seven torpedo boats, and ' two submarines she had purchased in'1905, from the -Ufa!ted States the battleships Idaho and Mti&fssippi, which were renamed Kilkis and Lemnos, (14,165 lops eachr with" four 12*inch eight 8-inch, eight 7- inch, twelve, 3-inch, four 6-pounds, , and 2 1-pound guns), and in 1912 the Helle, a cruiser from China. She also possessed the ba*tlesh«p Auer- off (10,118 tons, four . 9.2-in(:h, oight 7.5-inch, and sixteen 12-pound jguns), the gift of-M. Aueroff. who left -his fortune To -the Greek navy. When the present war began Greece had building the battle cruis- er George I, In Germany, a dread^l They had tried to do the first. They i ' is-hl Tn Frafice, and a small cruis- were not strung enough to do Ute — fnar daelrngara in.England The first has been taken over by Germany. The others have been held •“subject to \he'needs of Greece” at, the place of their constrnction. Although present events in Greece deem Both her honor and her for tunes. Meanwhile, what had King Con stantine been doing*? From the date of Venizelos’ resignation until Nov ember 6 he had governed without a cabinet, except as directed by M. Zaimis foe a brief period—some Greek lawyers said without a consti tution. Then general elections were held. The soldiers under arms could not vote. The followers of Venizelos and the Socialists refrained from voting. With a chamber elected in this way Skouloudis became premier. Those were dark ’days for the Allies. Russia was held between Riga and the Roumanian frontier, the French and,English in the west: the Teutons occupied Serbia and had opened communication with Constan tinople; the Gallipoli expedition was about to be withdrawn; the Mesopo tamian expedition Was inoperative; the Turks held all Armenia, a’great TuYko-German expedition was being prepared against the Suez Canal. I-n these circumstances the King again became popular. It was be lieved by many that he had saved his country from the fate of Belgium and Serbia. "’. But there were the constantly augmenting armies of the Allies at Saloijiiki., Their sli ps still com manded the Mediterranean and the Aegean. There were the Bulgars in Macedonia'threatening Greece unless she got rid of her unwelcome guests. When in F bruary, the strain be tween 'Athens and Saloniki had al most' reached the breaking point Prince'Nicholas made A tour of some of the chancellories of the Allies to explain the attitude of his ^brother, the King, but more particularly the attitude of the Greek people. He frankly blamed his hosts for the dip lomatic and- military .condition of Balkan affairs. He said that both government and people had been drawn by two forces. First. ■'* th# Entente had wanted Ttfem to remain neutral to preserve the equilibrium of the Bal kans. and then fight to save Serbia. ■afanri He —rtediui in an open letter published in the Temps of Paris'February »: “The Eentent keeps repeating to «« that we ou(ht to have entered the strnggle to preserve’the Balkan equilibrium. That equilibrium is as necessary to us as to the other Bal kan powers. We i hall do our ut most to see that it is safeguarded. Would that equilibrium have been maintained it we bad been beaten and crushed? But has this equili brium always been so dear to the Entente,’ which at one moment exer- cised pressure pn us and on its aiIy, Serbia, that we FhouhFBe broTTPh for the benefit of .Bulgaria, to be re stored later by other, concessions In the event of victory?’’ Sufh was the situation when Ven- | izelos came back to Athens and pre pared to start his campaign as a ! candidate at Mytilene. At Athens he j launched a new Liberal'organ, the Kirix. which .attemp'ed to clear the atmosphere by publishing his leters to the King previous to hfs resigna tion as Premier in October. In a long seric# of articles he and his col- laborators laid ba^e the Balkan diplomacy for the last three .years. Venizelos was elected May 7 and took his place as a deputy in the chamber. Meanwhile the Allies, in order to bring the' crisis between Afhens and Saldniki to a head, on June 3 declared Saloniki to bo in a state of siege. Venizelos was h..stily summoned to the palace. He de manded two things: the dissolution of the chamber with a new election and the demobilization of the army so that the soldiers could vote. On those conditions he would again be come premier; then he would see. Here the Allies came to his res- -cue. They appg^mdaJted his demands and added td theTnv^-a new cabinet with • Eentente sympathies and tl^e dismissal of anti-Entente officials. These demands were in the form of an ultimatum. The King accepted, the ultimatum aud on June 21, M. Zaimis succeeded M. Skouloudis as minister and Venizelos promised to support him. The army was demo bilized and the elections set for October 8. Not long , ago Take Joneseu, former minister of interior Roumania, and now a member of the new coalition cabinet there, thus described his Greek colleague f . “That head like a Byzantine saint straight from a church fresco, that gentle and penetrating glance, that subtle smile, that irresistible sym pathy which radiates from all his be ing, the almost girlish modesty, all the more charming when combined with a will of Iron—that *« Ele i- therios Venizelos as 1 ’’ i ^ ^ ^ Children's footwe:.r is scarce, say the authorities.— All this uu auuuttr now really control Greek policy do not honestly intend to arm the coun try and drive out the invading Bul garians M. Venizelos says he advised from the beginning of the war interven tion by Greece on the side of the En tente allies and that subsequent events proved the wlsdo mof his pol icy. “I can wait no longer.” said M V’enlzeloe, “I am not heading a revo lutionary movement in the ordinary sense of (he word. The movement is not directed against the King or his dynasty. It is the last effort we can make to Induce the King to coifie forth and follow the path of duty in the protection of his subjects. As soon as he takes this coarse we shall follow his flag as loyal citizens and be led by him against our country’s foe.” a a a i WARSHIPS CONVOY CRUISERS Twelve American Battleships Protect Interned German Ship* on Trip The Cermcn interned cruisers Kronprlnz. Wilhelm and Prinz Eltel Friedrich, left the Norfolk navy yard for Philadelphia Friday morning The Kronprlnz was towed by five tugs and the Eitel started out under her own steam. They proceeded to the Virginia capes, where they were met by the twelve battleships, which will convoy the cruisers to the Philadelphia navy yard. Only eight o* the twelve bat tleships have been ap* •‘Tflcally as signed to convoy the two ~ulsers, tnitms nil twelve of them havo ;heir home stations at the Philadelpbi navy yard, and they are en route there for repairs and overhauling after target practice and manoeuv- ers, it was decided to have-tbe entire squadron accompany the German warships. This heavy escort was not Intended as a protection against hos tile action by allied ships, it was ex plained. The twelve battleships moved out from Hampton Roads at nine-twen ty, forming in line of convoy at the entrance to Jhe capes, where they waited for the Gbihuan cruisers. The flagship Wyoming will lead the line. warned them against the danger*^ too great concentration of wealth at the expense of small enterprises. W’hen the two government reports ,* l 1 .** I 1 ,*,™ 1 to * ra *P . ,• ... thought that this country of onre became public on the Now York and >htch , n 19 o2 had already reache* New Orleans cqtton exchange prices a pinnacle among the nations, has ~wtmwed an advance of -P#—te- polnts, which resulted la,a heavy vol- of its business in virtually all tba ume of trading. ’ | great cities of the land ' ’ be asked. Various agencies and agricultural “If wre should divide the new wealth interests have been predicting for created annually among all the men, some Ume that cotton would reach women .and children engaged at the highest figure of its history this work, they would have not tar from year, because of the shortage of the H.aOO per year each. of the audden demand of the ladies fAr-ehoes of gray snede, which made all the manufacturers seUe that op portunity of getting 93.10 per foot iutTu GINNING BREAKS RECORD Four Million Bales Ginned as Crop is Much Earlier Thau Before. Ginning of the cotton crop is breaking all records.. Announce ment Monday by the census bureau that 4'062,991 bales had been gin ned from this year s crop prior to September 25 jdisclosed that all for mer totals for ginning* to that date had been exceeded, even that of 1914 when the country’s largest cotton crop was grown and 3,393,752’bales were ginned to September 25. ■ Heretofore the largest quantity ginnhd prior to September 25 wafirin 191lJ when it was 3;676,659 bales Ginning /to September 1 this year amounted to 860,812 bales and from that date to September .25 the quant ity ginned was •3‘'212,179 bales. The extreme activity indicates that the crop this year is much earlier than in fonder'years, but it Is point ed out by officials that the quantity ginned to certain pc/iods is no gage of the country’s total production which this year, from all indications thus far, is below the average. Barker for Wilson. John M. Parker. Progressive notA- OanUve* in Hi Inee forage# president, has offered!—— 1 ^ . to speak in support of President Wilson in the campaign. Hie offer haa be^p yceaied., hy_the president ill ’ ake speeches fn Ohio. New crop and the enormous consumption. Some have predicted that, with prop er handling, the staple would reach the unprecedented figure of 30 cents. One of the most sensational ad-| vances in the history of the cotton! market attended the publication of I the two government reports ct Newt York and New Orleans Monday. *- | Since the beginning of this season! there have bee many perioda of ac tivity and excitement, but none of them have approached Monday's movement, either with reference to extent of fluctuations or in volume; of trading “<>ur bank deposits at this time are so huge that if there should be withdrawn an amount of deposits equal to the total present re source* of the Bank of England, the Bank of France, the Bank of Spain, the Dank of the Nether* land*. Uie Bank of Norway and the Bank of Sweden, the National Bank of Switzerland, and the Im perial Hank of Japan all rombtaed. the depoaits of our baaks would ■till be aa great as they were three were three yean ago. ‘If a balance would be struck to* The demand was stimulated by the i^; M th s M J rob ^V t '** ndltion figures of 56.3, or the low-' ““ .Z "'Jn n* Si!* time In our history, a distinctly cred iting nation. Wa hold a mortgage on the world's physical aaaeta. Tha world holds a mortgage on our soul, on eur good will and broad nobility of purpose. condition est on record, indicating a crop of of flcially llj«37.000 balea. Within a few minutes after these figures were Issued January contracts sold at 17.03 or $4.60 a bale above the clos ing price of last week. WILSON OPENING UP IMans to Meet Newspaper Men Twice a Week for Discussion. President WTlson Friday arranged to resume conferences with news- . „ . _ . paper men uhich were a feature of ™ W t0 the ““ lT “ “Patriotic Americana have a right to gloat over such a showing with swelling pride. Thoughtful Ameri cans will find fear thw wealth may bptray us into rapacity and inequal ity of distribution that will mean de struction. “The law of gravitation, aa we know, applies in finance as in the physical world. Huge actions of the first two years of his administra-1 the lower masses tion. Through this medium he is ex-l rJ** pected to discuss poTHicai tubTeriiJ' „ ^ m .? 1 frM ly | Vital business duties which He J>e- Soo'n after entering the Wh i t e ^ i r « us relat f to «P bu ‘ ,d ‘ n * ® f House the president Inaugurated the e 1 T cl * U J policy of seeing Washington corre- nil to . * n ? spondents twice a week and submit-f*!?. 01 *" 16 ”, 1 ’ ,n(,ertal(, "k" ,n the lesser ting to a cross fire of questions. ? nd * 0 . wn, and ‘ n °“ r coutr * When foreign affairs became delicate d ‘ 8 . trlct ^ Those provide the surest Mr. Wilson stopped the conferences. ““ d °k x hl f h J.° He now plans to see newspaper men, er ^p£ nat ona , ^. ea tb ' , . b ® ^K C . are ?’ twice a week while at Shadow I>awn. i « comptroller paid tribute to Secretary McAdoo. In summing up the results achieved under the fed- Democratlc leaders, and attending to ! re8er ]f® system. Mr. W illlama u- t.,,, said rates for money had been lower- The president spent several hours reading letters and telegrams from public business. Saturday he will oeeu tower- review the Fourth New Jersey regi- ed and e <l a a»*ed, business of all ment at Seagirt, N. J., and will ad-’ dress members of Yr unr Men’s Dem ocratic clubs from New York. GERMANS CLn^** GAINS East Secs Big Battle in Progress as Teutons Attack. kinds placed on a stronger foundar lions and bank failures greatly re duced. * Meanwhile l big battle is in pro gress on the eastern front in the re gion between Lutsk and Vladimir Volynski, around Sviniusky and Korynitza whe-! the Russians are at tempting to advance, but the Teutons American dollar.’’ are impeding them ' y heavy counter attacks. The German war office says these counter attacks in the region of Kor ynitza have resulted in the recaptu-e of positions lost recently by the Teu tons and that the allie’ forces have now passed on beyond them. Heavy casualties' were inflicted on the Rus- “It is certain tlurt just before ns a few months or two r three years,” he said, in conclusion, “a mighty task is to be done to reor ganize and re-establish the nations of the earth. We have the right to do it to our own profits but it is our duty and our opoprtunity for the word ‘fair’ goes hand In tuuid with the wor-l ‘profit.’ “Let us’ have the great American soul go in company with the great BIO STRIKE ON 125,000 Workmen Quit But 1'ork See Little Evidence. New The general strike of labor unions sians, says Berlin, and -in addition in sympathy with the striking street forty-one officers and twenty-eight car men was supposed to be effec- thousand men were taken 'prisoner live Wednesday, but although labor and one cannon and seventeen ma chine guns were < artured; TOOK 420,000 PRISONERS Bus«ian General Staff Announces Offensive. The Russiai; general staff an- leaders claimed that some two hun dred and fifty thousapd workers had responded to the call there was little evidence that a strike was in pro gress. Private canvassers among th# labor unions reported that at least twenty-two unions h~d -tailed to re spond to strike calls Wednesday af ternoon. The only report revived at police headquarters was that two. TTe York, and New Jerae/. The preai- dent rece: ed a letter frou- him from New Orleaaa Friday, according to an announcement hr admlnl-tr tion of- nounces that since Gen. Brusiloff be- hundred and fifty members of th# gan his offensive four hundred and painters’ union had rrfused to *•- twenty thousand offlcert and men of port for wdrE the Teutonic allies *have been made < Union workers to the number of prisoner and six hundred cannon and one hundred and twenty-five tlM two hundred and fifty machine guna sand aix hundred are oa strike and mine throwers have beta cap-. sympathy with the atrikinc tared. employeea, according to figursa "j;: