The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 25, 1917, Image 3
SEARCH FOR RAIDER
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CRUISERS COMB SEA
SWIFT GERMAN BOAT
HAS THREE SUBS ALONG
BiHtMfc C«ptai» Anaoucec ProMnce
•' *1 UadcraeA TorrOrs—St. Tli«o-
4mA, Armed auid Manned bj the
H*A4tar, is Aiding Work of !>•-
sta^Mtion—Onljr Slight Mistreat-
mmt of PHmmers by Capbors.
N y ‘ - . ...
Th% German raidor is apparently
still at large. Th'a most authentic
• .a' *
reyart of her whereabouts indicated
aa fkarsday she was speeding north
ward with all ttie might of her pow
erful engines. The steam packet Ba
hia passed a vessel off the north-
easternmost f)Mnt~df "South Amefjfca
Thursday which she believed wa^Ihe
sea destroyer. The stranger was
making wel lover twenty knots. .
The Bahia did not approach close
enstogh to the vessel to permit an
separate description. She Qoirld not
ceaflrm the story qf survivors land
ed at Pernambuco that the German
eemmerce destroyer carried .'three
PERSHING BEGINS MOfE
TO REGAIN THE BORDER
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sahmarines of less than twenty feet
length, apparently the latest inven-
Vicn of German ingenuity in subsur-
faee warfare.
The British captain of tli© steam-
• er Netherby Hall, landed among oth-
• er s<irrivo£8 of prises taken by the
£tfd©r on hoard the Hudson Maru,
t rniahed thfe first description of the
|dW and was tire first to announce
itVthe f»ca terror mrrfpd f'ubma-
I(m—and submarines jof such a
tall alee as to mark a new era in
submarine development.
He 'estimated the length of the
three undersea^boats with which the
raider was equipped at about six
—maters -aad-apeeified :ili,at
—•—ue-a# eperatieit -was
—— sanall, they_carried some
sort of torpedoes, ammunition and
dynamite. He added that the speed
, sf the raider was about tVenty-two
knots.
The possible score of destruction
* e? (lie raTdeF"was~reduced -to twenty-
fve ships with announcement that
the eleven thousand five hundred ton
British steaknship Drina had arrived
safely at Rio. The Drina was the
biggest of all the Allied merchant-
uien Reported as missing send be
lieved to have .fallen victim to the
German commerce destroyer. That
■’ she 'should have eluded the raider
was a cause of rejoicing among Al
lied ship Owners. .
The southern Atlantic is being
•oni.bed from both north and south
in .search of the mystery shi£. Vos-j
r sels-from the-British naval base at
the Falkland islands dashed north
ward uuder forced draft, scouring
the byways of ocean travel. Two
British auxiliary cruisers put out
fr^irom Pernambuco to sweep the seas
in that locality.
Brasilian, Argentine Uruguy-
• an warships and auxiliaries patroll-
- ed the South Cbmerlcaiy coast, seek
ing not only to prevent violations of
neutrality in possible attacks by the
raider or her aurlilariee qn mer-
Preparations are Being Made for Re-
„ lease of Militia Upoa Arrival
, of the Regnlara.
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Preparations looking to the with
drawal of Gen. Pershlpg s/ punitive
expedition from Mexico are supposed
to be ip' progress. “Stop orders”
have been issued to the ordnance and
supply department at the Columbus
base, while from private sources it
Was reported that the American out
posts at £1 Valle, Charcois and San
J&equin are being drawn into the
field headquarters at Colonia DublanV
However in military circles at El
Paso lack of information is profess^
ed 9.8 to the actual movement
American outposts.
Replying to queries of Andres Gar
cia, Mexican consul general, to the
commander of the Carranzista garri
son at Casas Grandes, the latter
wires:. *;No troops have yet reached
Colonia Dublan, but many empty
trucks' ,have passed here south
bound.''
Military officials in this district
assert that huge <fuftntities^ of re-,
serve supplies and ammunition must
be moved to the border before the
actual march of troops begins. They
regard the present activity as the
first of a series of necessbrj prelim
inary .'ipoves. *
After the order of withdrawal ^
actually issued, it will take at least
two weeks for twelve thousand men
to reach American soil. The infan
try will be on .the march eight to
ten days.,
Army men in charge of transpor
tation state that the problem would
be serious if Gen. Pershing’s men
Teach Columbus to be distributed
along an eighteen hundred mile^
front of border while the militia are
homeward bound.
They declare it xrll! ta!:c from two
weeks to a month to move the num
ber designated in Saturday’s order
by Secretary of War. Bakdr. He an
nounced that fifteen to twenty
thousand national guardamen are to
be selected by Gen. Funston to bo
THE WAR LAST WEEK
TEUTONS STOPPED IN R0U=
MANIA ALONG SERETH
WORK SAW NO PROGRESS
m
flussiaas and Roumanians Make
A . . / . . ..»
Good the I An# of the River-—New
York Times Hi pert Predicts (>f-
' fonsivee in the Biset by .the Ger-
% m ‘ ' »
Next Spring.
hG week past has been character
ized by stubborn fighting in Roii-
mania, particularly along the low J er
stretches of the Sereth River, near
the mouth. The advantages which
have been gained as a result " by
either side have been entirely insig-
took the town of Vadeni, .the last
town which remained in the posses
sion of the Roumanians along the
Dahube. Its importance lies in the
fact that it is directly opposite the
Sereth from Galatz, the latter being
hidden away in the angle formed by
the confluence pf the Sereth and the
Ba^ubw.—-rr; — .
On Wednesday, however, one of
the strongest counter attacks which
the Russians have yet launched was
driven against the new Teuton posi
tion and the town was recaptured.
Thus the situation here is unchanged
from that which existed last .week.
The Teutons certainly seem to
have the advantage of position in
this
British halda have J>een not without
results. These generally may be
grouped with that class of military
operations whleh, In the days of mo
bile warfare, were termed reconnols-
sancea in force.
A reconnoissance in forte was
made by a strong body of troops, and,
while 7 its nature was reconnaissance
'issontially, there wjls sufficient
strength present to force the enemy
to develop his strength and so dis
close himself.
The function of the raidIV:,; it •
of to-day is somewhat similar, h.
first object_ is, of course, hrfarmu-
tion. Jt is important to the Allied
command in the west that the enemy
strength holding all purls of the line
be known. The best way to find this
out is to determine just what Ger
man units are irr the immediate
ch pt
of in
as may be of Interest.
Once .the units are known, the
strength’of the line is ^noWn. Also,
it is .true that prisoners talk, and
.from them may be gathered many
bits of information,.which, when put
together, ofteniell a complete story.
This is* the reason that Instructions
art invariably given to each raiding
force to bring back at least one pris
oner alive.
There are two other reasons for
Early in tha week the Germans These raTdsV the first is torblleve th®
strain of monotony from the men in
the trenches, the either to, cause the
Germans, to worry, an’d "8o preyeftt
their rest.
The rhftls'tiave come and are still
coining with such frequency— r in fact,
they are of nightly occurrence—that
tho Germans dare not rest quietly In
any portion trf " the front-but must
always be ready to receive their hos
tile visitors. That this is wearing
in the'extreme can be readily imag
ined.
It might be argued that the Ger
mans could resort to the same tactics
with the same results. So they could,
of course,; but they do not,.and there*
is* a very good reason why they re-
RACE ISSUE IN SENATE
Garrison Asks for Inquiry
Southern Election Laws.
Into
er qj ner auxiliaries on mer- wt
itmen in territorial waters, but Tto bill admittedly iB aimed at
i
•tanti
to mn down scores of wild rumors
current up and down the coast of
the existence of a wireless station
and German supply depot, lodged in
some uninhabited spot.
• The fact that the raider is capable
ef great speed was established both
by stories of survivors landed at Per
nambuco and the packet Bahia. The
captain of the British steamer Neth-
erby Hall said he understood the Ger
man rover was capable of more than
twenty knots and the Bahia asserted
ghe was speeding at that rate when
Ae showed on the horizon line off
In Grande de Norte.
Unless the strange vessel sighted
My the packet Bahia was the con
verted raider, rather than the origi
nal commerce destroyer, the German
prize steamer, St. Theodofe, has been
lost track of completely since her
.capture! -All reports agree that the
St. Theodore was ariiledr manned by
a German crew' and converted into a
raider to aid the supposed Moewe.
The captain of the British ■ strainer
Radnorshire, also landed at Pernam
buco from the Hudson Maru.
cleared up some the stories of mis
treatment of prisoners which had
first been attributed to him.
Ho made it clear that live German
commander of the raider had insist
ed .that his prisoners “make them
selves as comfortable possible”
about the rr.!'1''r: Md that
ke had no infoptuvn of ‘‘killing wo
men and*children” and tyed enlv
quartered t’ e r r i‘ ;: onp , s below, docks
when a new victim was fdchfed
t w s evident the storv of over
The"' alleged disfranchisement of
colored men in the South has led
Senator Gallinger, Republican floor
leader in the Upper house of Con
gress, to propose a congressional
committee for the purposo of invest
tigating the matter, with a^view* pos
sibly of reducJirg-Bouthern represen
tation in the nation's legislature and
in the electoral college/
The measure has been offered as
an amendment to the Owen corrupt
practices act, and virtually means
that there will be unlimited debate
on Southern representation if an at
tempt is made to pass the Owen bill.
The amendment would also in
struct the joint committee, to con
sist of five senators afid five repre
sentatives, to “take into considera
tion all conditions under which the
suffrage is exercised, denied or
abridged, no less than the laws
themselves under which It is done,”
and report its conclusions to Con
gress.
voting practices in Southern States.
Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi,
was one of those who so interpreted
the proposed amendment, regard
ing it he said:
“As far as I and th« people I rep
resent are concerned, we are willing
for any sort of a fair and honest in
vestigation of elections in the S >uth
to be • made. The more the race
question is discussed the mord I like
it. When this question is understood
In the North as it is understood in
the South, the fifteenth amendment
will be replaced and the fourteenth
modified. These amendments are
not violated in the South now, but
when it becomes necessary to violate
them to maintain white supremacy
in the South, the white people are
going to control.”
DENIES CHARGE
Germany Explains Methods of * Em
ploying Belgian Laborers. •
Germany through her embassy has-
clairtitfd justification for her depor
tation of Belgians. l*n a memoran
dum made public and which, it was
explained at the~embassy, was hand
ed the state department several days
ago, it is charged tbat the Allies are
using the Belgian deportation “to
tniiame public opinion in
and hostile countries.” 1
The niemoramiu mallegqs that se
rious unemployment in Belgium fins
his region, and from the map ifrj fl * a l n from ftoing so; it is the basic bring the war nearer to an end
,'ouli ooeai that the control of the; ^ * n nf *rsonnel and traininpr|i 8 . | n Russia. If, then, Germany
break through and foree a retire-
ment of the French llnee over a con
siderable area.
* She hoped also for the weakening
of the French army. She hoped to
bleed it to death In the Meuse Val
ley. The result of It we all know.
We know, generally, without refer
ence to actual figures, that the Ver
dun offensive cost the Germans more
than they were able to exact from
the French. Their artillery was out-
bvssed even though not outranged.
e.r supply of ammunilion was‘al-
ost « & listed, as we know from
^erman officuu statements made in
explaining the Allied successes on
the, Somme.
As Germany now knows the
strength of the Allies’ positions in
the west, that only great superiority
in shell production can break these
positions, that she Is suffering from
inferior shell production, that she is
outnumbered grievously, and that
there are reserves sufficient to make
good her enemies’ losses, while she
must go relatively unsupported, the
west Is the last place she would want
to attack.
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There are distant rumors tor the
effect that she is concentrating on
.’the Swiss frontier with (he idea ot
violating Swiss neutrality and turn
ing the French flank. That such'a
move will be made is highly improb
able, although it would be the only
apparent reason why t German/
should launch another effort in the
west. Rut if no other belligerent is
added fo those already fighting, it is
almost assured that the next German
effort wil Itake place somewhere In
the eastern theatre.
It is highly probable that some
thing will be done on the Haloniki
front, but tills is a subsidiary Held,
and even a marked success there
would not add much to the lustde oi
German arms and would arid less to
that series of events which must hap
pen in order that the war may be
brought to a close. ’ T- . ^
The only theatre where victory
AVUTDRS RESCUED
ARMY OFFICERS FOUND AFTER
BEING LOST NINE DAYS
WERE WITH LITTLE F001
Spent Time^in Honors
Radiator's Water
to K<
OCT
between the individuals of the tvyj
forces.
The German is trained entirely ,to'
he a cog in a wheel, aitd the wheel,
in turn, to be part of a machine.
m.:,n curia /° r } n ^
in fact, individualism is crushed al-
lower Sereth w’ould of necessity pass
eventually into their hands, llardly
any position Which the Russians can
take.up along the Sereth will.be free
from an enfilade tire from the Ger
G*e Danube.
Such positions could then he raked
from fhe flank while subjected to the
fire from the front. It is this fact
which mhkes the recapture of Va-
denHiu]/ remarkable, although the
town has such little military signifi
cance. It is rapidly becoming ap-
part*i)t that the German attack has
lost its power, and that the lines are
now established in the positions th^y
will maintain.
This may not prove to be the case.
But it is the wfay matters look at the
present time!. After all. if such does
prove to he tri|e caio/it will be strict
ly according'WTTfecedent, as such an
outcome has ended* every important,
advanefc. The battlevip this particu
lar field is, however,* too young to
advance an opinion as to Us ulti
mate outcome. / - v . ,
The stages of the.Gerrnen advance
from the line von Falkenhayn broke
through the mountains until^he ap
peared before the lower Sereth are
worth noting. Until the Buzeau line
was reached there was literally not
a single day when it could be said
that the advance had been halted.
It was indeed a long, uninterrupt
ed march through Roumania. Not
even before Bucharest was an at-
tefnpt tuad6 to cneck the invaders.
Every move which the Roumanians
made, the rapidity of their retire
ment, the absence of engagements,
the relatively small loss in men and
material, all pointed to the belief
that they were retiring with the idea
of reaching some position in their
rear behind which they felt the)r had
an opportunity to halt the advance.
The long distance which Russia
had to travel in order to reach the
fighting front lent color to this idea.
The whole defense would be simpli
fied, as is obvious, if the Roumanians
were to fall back behind some strong
natural obstacle, with both flanks
resting in such a way that they could
not be turned; a position at the same
time within easy and short reach of
some large railroad trunk line pene
trating Russia. • > *-
^ The first halt-was njjade along tl.e
Huzean, which, however, did not‘pos-
sess these qualifications. It is a nar
row, shallow stream, running behind
a railroad rather than in front of
one. The Roumanian resistance here,
while not prolonged, was stHl suffi
cient to indicate that anything re
sembling a, panic that might have
characterized their, former retreat
had been eliminated, arid that now
tfie situation, as well as the troops,
were well in hand. *
The line was eventually forced, but
the Roumanians had showed more
jpower than at any time" since the
early days of their offense. At least
i.V‘ delay they secured served io give
more time for fortifying tne p.o.-utiu»t
intended to be eventually^ occupied.
The next Sc.trd was along the
llimnicu. This- was much mere dt «
’dc<4 quarter
feed
a no
!'■ u e.:ns-cd .h.v the Brithdi hm. ,*ad. * .j in rti.i;-d. held the advance uq for
t! at it has-been necessary tor th ' 1
most before it can make its appear
ance! TTris is characterlsflc'CirThe"
entire, political belief of the empire
and is shown not only in the army
but in dealings with civjlians and
with other'peoples. The German sys
tem destroys all.individuality in the
soldier, renders him Incapable of a t-
ing alone, and once he is thrown on
his own resources, practically de
stroys his utility.
German training and Germsn
discipline cart drive the infantry
against a fire before which the in-* .
fantry of any other nation would *
quail and recoil. But deprice the
soldier of the moral support of a
neighbor Co right ami left, permit
him. to he alone where he must
act as an independent link entire
ly apart from the great machine
itself, and he is lost.
The soldier.of the Entente, dti the
other hand, has th£ individual in
stinct strongly developed and has a
consequent genius for independent
action. Whenever the’ commander
would go, there the individual will
go whether the commander is pres
ent or not. Jle is trained to act in
dependently, to think for himself
and to act on his own initiative w hen
it is 'necessary to do so. In other
iMxiwlti tia tVir k tiomrf* 1 Hiffr**iw‘i*
WT7 t vt n f tfiXTI vT *0 vXXxT Dcllllx? U111 vTYXIIvTTT
between the two as there is between
the forms of government which each
individual serves/
The strongly centralized govern
ment acts as a unit and ow s its
strength to this cause. The more
loosely formed government acts
through a group of units and is,
therefore, at times, incoherent. Th«
raids such as the English are making
against the German trenches demand
this ability to act independently on
the part of the individual in the
highest degree. ~
The parties that go out on such
enterprises are small and very often
become separated and have to act t&s
individuals. The resource of the in
dividual is, therefore, the basis of
success or failure.. In brief, the.
.Allies on the weet are indulging in a.
form of warfare that In peculiarly
appropriate to their particular geni
us, and this genius happens to be the 1
one that is diametrically opposite to!
that iMKHsessed hy Germany.
As the winter passes, speculation
is rife as to what the probabilities
are of offenses by fhis side or that*
•in the spring, and when they will
occur.' At the present time only
brief refernce can be made to the
problems, offensive and defensive, j
which are presented^to Germany and j
the probable location of the nexf Ger
man offensive. For it is generally
believed that- the early spring will
be characterized by a German offen-
-iye ns- we’l as by .the sort of
movement on the part ot tne*Aluej.
With reference to the coming Ger
man offensive, the first question is,
where will it take place** On the
• oc-Km front? IIy judgment is that
should be pidnmng an $utori on juiy-r
tiling like the scale of the Verdun
lighting, it will be e.xerted on the
Russian "front. This effort will not
he directed against Riga. The Ger-
minis-lurvc-aliabted
defeat Jo. the north...
of terrain in* summer due' to large,
impassable marsh areas, render im
probable success .from whatever
quarter the attack may t>® launched.
.Further south we have the Bara-
novitchi set-tor. The ground here is
much more favorable to an offense,
due to the firmer footing which is
afforded. . Here, however, there is orf
direct objective that would seem to
offer any inducement for a major
operation. -
The principal thing that would be
gained by success here would be de-<
fensive in nature, add would consist
in the elimination of that danger
which threatens the. German, force
lidding Pinsk by reason of its ad
vanced position far ahead of the re
mainder of the. German line..
Between jiarandvltchy and the
mouth of the Stokhod there is an
other large marsh area, which prbm
ises little, hope of success for the'
Germans. The Vilna-'RovnT) railroad
is here behind 1 the Russian lines, and
its cutting would undoubtedly seri
ously hinder Russian operations. But
the distance is too, great and the dif
ficulties of terrain foo overwhelming
to offer material chances of success.
South of the mouth of the Stokhod
all the way to the present position
on the Sereth, the country is not of
a character as to put undue limita
tions on an offensive operation.
Along' the Carpathian border and in
Roum&nia, the country is mountain
ous, it is true, and gives the defense
the advantage. But until.the moun
tains are reached the advantage of
position really lies with the Ger
mans.
For these reasons, therefore, the
most probable location of the attack
is somewhere between Kovel and the
Carpathian border. Victory here
would affect a considerable stretch
of the Russian line. That part of it
which is threatening Lemberg would
be forced to.give way and fall back
once more behind the Zlota Lipa
river and perhaps even further, the
line south of the Danube would be
uncovered and would have 16 carry
mit a gimilar manoeuvre, while the
line in Roumania would be turned,
And the entire border outflanked. A
like Yeault, would be obtained by a
complete success in southern Mol
davia, along-tb« lines which the Ger
mans are at present following^
In brief, if the Germans launch a
heavy movement against Russia In
the spring it will almost certainly
rorpe between Kovel and the mouth
of the Serefh River.
CAPTURED AMERICANS?
Washington Wonders Whether Gcr-
. many 'Holds Prisoners.
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German admiralty statements that
neutral subjects in the crews of ves
sels captured by the German raider
In the South Atlantic “have been
5,111 RETREAliM
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Russian and Roumanian Armies
Continue to Full Back.
who- alno eiriplia^ired the r m'rh’iB
presence’et* of a ve > J ‘
wKTel-i was .f*!PE^re?lfTy the sep ♦ er-
-ror’s ■ auxiliary —evidently a drnijs-
formed moroh.tnit ^hlu. arjn®d by tho
original raider. ,r r-hf , t the
destroyer was voB tirbvh'loned,, and
was ia mined to the batches with iwn—f 4 ,
munition, was also asserted in Ttio i, .Aomis.^ori is ma .o by_P-tro ,iu »
• .TsWtr* dWatch#/; Uysiaii and nwmaufcn
- The only fault neutral* could forces In Moldavia have made ad
find wBh the raider was P'? aet'on lional retirements ip the Oituz, Kar-
of the Go-man raider, ilidednc f‘a a ^'I’.a and Scuchit/a rer,!f>n2,| biiv it is
^'the storv of the Radnorshire’s cap- « q^erted i^at the Teutonic allies wlia
air. in-dietaimng -HTndoVi lo’-s and crb. ?cd the F*utna riven7nort .
- - • Fpkshani have been driven hack
heni to work in the*engine room avrocs.~A5he stream, suffering he^\ v
okerq aboard his .vessel -and forcing*
eni to work in the-rngine room. ... . L ,
It was also rumored amon'z t>.e i cqsualt^es. and leaving prisoners in
: ^ ; \y;n during
' '
1 been; going' on.
, In b :ni,'• then, .tFa 'a.dvup 'p ha;;
:.r;;;;al.y h!gu1\ 'nu. ea-h
ly; a ?.;ov;er a loanee t 'an it
c- .or,; tin^rl, ,-durin y the p' r
tie lines nire -ilrnos.} in the
pos iiions th^t • i b.ey.. were
K
Wd e f her this 'is a Derptanent chec*
• eck
•cie'-f'ij vl
whev last Wet
apostle of a war in the east, and, on m. ; ifl h. ;; r i.nhi uigod. Of course
rhj - plf.'U-rr / supph nted vdn F -L- i Arnerjor ns on such ships could be 1 c
keiidiayn. and ..the y<-oun -of western J considered as prisoner* of war ;on
‘ .'The ■Hhlhg! to sidef liktbe vessels.
■ ‘ dlin » perlence.'i That Ger'mkiiy Spei flng qjT tbe raiding aftuatjipu |
u ‘fared « .severe and, crushing: - de- : 4wo veehs -ayo' a prominent Htate de-
e known
apparent-
. _ . . . I, Mi _ __ serve'to
Verdun offer dve w'as .r.taried was at • :;la«=s over any ^German invasion of
« severe pnp ernsamg oe-iwo wee as ago a prominent i
; a in H e Vi (i in .s?c*or i- Wi ll < partmi nt oi liclr-l let it be
wu. 11 * tl e •' is ahdther coo dd ti at 'place tnaneuvres^ now a
t thottlma the f •> at a tap 1 Btlll» would wot
Thirst—Were Without Fo«4 ar
Water for tWnr Days-—Oaa
cer Mad to Abandon
Lieut. Col. Harry G. Bishop and
Lieut. W. A. Robertson Jr., miatipg
army aviators, exhausted from wulk-
’ng four d^ys ’n ihevuds of Sonora, *
Mexico, withbut food or water, ware
found Friday more than thirty-two
miles south of the border by a civil
ian searching party from Wanton, *
Arts.
Lieut. Robertaon was bracght~~
back to Wellton Saturday by the
searchers. Lieut. Cob Bishop, too
weak to walk, was left in charge of
four searchers In the Rosario mona-
tains, where he was found Thursday
night at ten o’clock.
, Two sandwiches and two oranges
each was all the food the men had
tasted since they left the North In
land aviation base at San Diego Jan
uary 10 on their flight, Robertaon
told the searchers.
Robertson was found Thnrmdny
and was following the tracks of the
automobile of_the searching party.
He was trailfng^he base of the Gila
mountains, 200 miles south of the /
border?- - He directed the searching ^
party to the' •■ Rosario mountains,
thirty mjles. farther sonth, where ho
bald vhe left'Bishop the day before.
Bishop' Tiad become exhausted and - •
was unable to walk. ,
Leaving. Robertson in charge of
two of the searchers, other members
southward njut *.
fooad Bishep lyiuK on tins ground Ti
a mountain pass. He was unable to
talk and, barely able to recognUa the
searchers.
Robertson said the members of
the searching party were the first
humanu'he^had seen since he land
ed. He was unable to give definite
information as to the district where
in they landed, but thought It was
250 miles or more south of the Art- ’
zona border. Members of the party
who took charge of Bishop are eix-
•pected to arrive at Wellton Saturday.
The scarchera said neither of _ tho
men was delirious when found, v
Lieut. Robertson gave hla story ia ’
detail Friday night to a representa
tive of the Aasocfated Press as fol
lows:
“We left San Diego at 8.31 a. ra.
January 10, intending to go asross ~
the mountains east tOsCale^ico. In
sufficient maps made It necessary in
rely largely on compass readings..
For this reason to keep north of tho
Mexican bhrdpr we sailed a coarse
twenty-five degrees north .of oast. I
counted on This course putting mo
into the Imperial valley well north
of the border and then having to
sail south for about fifty miles.
“In 6rder to cross the high mona- •
tains it was necessary to travel high,
averaging more than 7,000 foot
From this altitude it was Impossible
to detect a very strong north wind
which 1 encountered In tho moan-
tains.
“I then turned southeast. After
about thirty minutes on this
I could see distinctly through a
a large body of wa^er we thought In
be the Salton sea.''The only map of
this section I had showed Salton sea
much too ffir south so this confirm
ed my belief that I was right.
“Neither Col. Bishop nor myoalf
could possibly figure on the drift of
the machine. As it was hazy, it wan
impossible to pick up objects clearly.
The strong north wind also made
our rate of travel much faster than
was figured on. When about thirty
minutes of search was made for ihd
Southern Pacific Railway, which I
knew to be near Salton Sea, I decid
ed to land and investigate. Tho land
ing was almost completed when tho
aircraft struck soft ground and the
plane tipped up. This was at 12.30
p. m.. and I still thought, we were at
Salton Sea, and we wete dTHy con
vinced of our error after close exam
ination of the surrounding country.
We th^n decided on walking back to
the Imperial valley.
“We put one gallon of water from
tfte radiator in an extra oil can and,
with a light lunch, started north
west. That was at 4.30 p. m. Jan
uary 10.
“W® kept a northwest course,
And day. J!)ur water
gave out Sunday, January 14* By
that time C61. Bi^iop was so weak
our progress was slow. We agreed
!t would be wise to separate when we
ou!d travel no farther and take the
to continue
If possible,
break Wednes-
to the north-
on the 18th
the rescuing
this ' trail. I
the party about 9 a. m.
horsday. They immediately set but
to find Col. Bishop, and. following
■my directions, they founA^lm about
j 9 r». m. .Rnuary 18// Ho was too
\ve;ik to move, J bnt ridl Conscious. It
wr.c ncoer-sry to Arrive him quiet for
'i few hours mvUl he could recover
his •strength,vT was brought by
mtomohilw^this afternoon, leaving
t'«l , ip care of the rescul
rartiethf w1r> corsolldated.'*
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.survivors that the stokers for t’>c
German suffered great hardship and
'/ were* driven to their task of forcing
the Vessel at top sneed during the
cruise bv German officers ^ho adopt
ed,slave-driving tactics and demand
ed that the engine . rnori crew put
forth their greatest efforts. ^
For the most of the daytime all
survivors agreed that the raider
the tea at a -
the hands of the Russians. Dealing
with the fighting in this regibn, Ber
lin merely says, there haa been n«-
important events there, .
of twenty-tyro knots—ceaselessly
searching for her prev. Bivt at night
.<he slowed down, although below
decks the engine room was held
reidf for cramming on all possible
that il e defense is finally matching
He offenre. •
tMs proves to be the case, the
tv\ u^ftl tpsult. of coqr 4 ^, will he the
conversion of this theatre! which has given .reason to
, ^ (O--r referized by extreme mo
bility, into the prevailing unebang-
>* front where trench warfare will
he thig m!e. • *
The only other eventa-of-the week
ay* born the persistent midlm'’
which has been going on In tho west
grains: tho Gorman trenches Tho
ot yet begun., was threatening. [ months past.
She had a vast supply of ammuni-! u is making no % threats M:
ticn. and trad effected a hi? cqnecn ) moment, but the spirit of mmy
tration of heavy guns to make us e of
tc
this supply. German victories had
belfeve that the
French defense, could be battered
down and the line broken so that a
readjustment, much nearer Paris,
would hsve to.be effected. The rhe
toric of the ntore enthusiastic of the
German press ire may ignore. Ger
many did not have such hopes as
they Indicated. Bat she d*d hope to
this
offi
cials is that Germany xniust be
brought up to‘a short, sharp halt.
And, while some of the talk* may be
nut forth for German consumption
there is reason to believe that this
government-has seen the warlike
handwriting On the waif, and is pre
pared now to do more than merely
talk if Germany has .taken the long
step of making Americans prisoners
MEXICO GETS PLA
To Make Its Own
Govern
hvn Man
meat Plai
m
it Ions
Plant.
In a
A large shipment of machinery for
ilpmea
the making of munitions, purchased
by the Mexican government In la-
pin. fs expected to arrive at Man-
remillo. Mexico,. In the next two or
thre« dm- Wb*« th« pteat to ta
oneration. it is
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