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I AMERICAN SHIP TORPEDOED ON HOMEWARD VOYAGE 70 MEN ARE DROWNED I'aaeen U-Itoat .Torpedoes Antilles, Which Sinks in Five Minutes— First Successful Attack Upon Ships Under U. S. Convoy—Washington * Mxperis are Trying to Figure Out How it Happened. After having made several safe journeys to France with soldiers des tined for Gen. Pershing’s expedition ary forces the American army trans port Antilles was torpedoed and sunk when homeward bound on Wednesday, October 17, with an ap parent loss of seventy lives. There were 237 men on board. Officials are confident that those who survived owe their lives to the Careful attention given by the navy department to the equipping of transports with life boats and life rafts. It is a fixed rule that enough boats and rafts shall be carried to afford a place for every man aboard, even thbugh the ship keel over and put half her boats out of commission. . The loss of the ship's engineer of ficers indicates the probability that no one of the engine and fore room force on duty escaped. Probably most of them died in the blast of the explosion of the torpedo, which tore Its way into the engine room com* part meats. The heavy loss among the army enlisted men indicated can not be TALK OF WAR ■■ » Senators Tillman and Smith and Lever Call for Support of Loan A mass meeting to push the Lib erty Loan was held In Columbia Tuesday night. Senator B. R. Till man presided during a part, of the mass meeting ; . He read his speech. He told .the 'audience very plainly that America is fighting for her very existence, the existence of human rights and democracy and that un less the people back the government the nation must surely fall. “The Liberty bond is the best way to strike the German,government,” said Senator Tillman, “and we must strike and win because the freedom of the world is at stake.” Columbians were given an insight into the rea) issues of the war. The justice of "America’s cause was ably and forcibly presented by men who have been dealing in the affairs of the nation for many years. Senator E. D. Smith made a most touching appeal to the people to get squarely behind the government. Congress man A. F. Lever called for one of the famous “hand primaries,” and every man, woman and child in the audi ence 'stood up. Not one man stood up when the question of who would have voted against declaring a state of war was put. “I tell you the people of South Carolina will all vote the same way, when the unvarnished truth is car ried to them,” said Mr. Lever, after declaring that the verdict of the au dience was unanimous on the ques tion of war. The speaker paused for a moment and then added: “And don’t you forget another thing, the truth is going to be carried to them.” This statement drew heavy applause from those in attendance. % Senators Smith and Tillman told the audience very plainly that they had voted for war. voted for the rights of Americans on the high seas, voted to make democracy safe In the world and had voted to maintain the scale* of honor In so far as this DIVIDE NINE MILLION INTO FIVE GREAT CLASSES APPROVED BY PRESIDENT accounted for until further detatls t ome in Probably they aad the aavy|ro*atry la concerned and that they u»**n were In their quarters below and could not make their way oa deck before the ship took her flaal pluage The army, aavy aad ship a officers aad the ptbtr» who nere rescued pvebablf were oa dark of Hi eabtne from which a *V*p took them to the dr* k aad a rhaace for tbetr Uvea l<a*kiag details of the attach, be* yoad the feet that the •ebaarta* was awem aad the first waratag to thowa Wtate aboard the A at!! tee eamo with the abort of I be el|*loetoe of tbe lor pedo tuaaf t bear to* mere rwrr*et *• to bow tbe a boat crept ibreagh the destroyer screea did Its work aad 1 earaped aa*balleaged A majortt f mi the officers who * w*»eMl roaaeet tbowgbl tbe traae §.«.ft *ed her rdovofteg petrels bed me directly over a lethtag sabasa rtae ehicb aaw them «o»ieg. rafara lated the dieteace aad tea ached her deadly torpedo aMbeet * ear Bftofv the* be* perterope gard it aa probable that tl • ammeeder ptched bis place, lay to wail below the ear face aatll bis micraphe** told him the petrels had poaard aad the irsaepoM aaa spa* him thee shot hie peftscopo shove eater only leap etasagh to sight aad h to safety s the tab made impose! I »f r*or«ieg the mast have 1 half by the , had ao apology to offer Senator Smith called atteatloa to the fact that the soldiers la Soath (’arollaa tralalag camps, the men a ho hetr% already ©Harml. fbpjr bodtea as a aacHflce If n*-ed h* l to date eubscrtlM) more lhaa It,* Soa,### to the Idherty loea This Is greater than the amoeht s a barn bed by the civilian pop a let loa of the ASKED NO PEACE TERMS flee to 'fere ha d# chad 1 Aa? alts mpi to to marts* > pc# batty was i Me by tbe nerea Mty # enr« iv< era Tba xeeae bwa \ iifisnlly torn M t evil **|s %llao there \ot 1 Reply tag to a qeeeOea in the Hewso ad Commons Thursday, Lord Ho ho ft t ‘or tt, minister of bear hade, dsalad that nrgetiatieae fat terms ol pear* bee taken place with the VhUcma or any of Ha agents ar etth nay ether retlgtees ergaa tael lea Jest peer tees to this. Lard Rehert had keen piked whether the Hrttiah intended l* send any re ply to 9*ope Reaedlrt a peace note Ilia response was a reqaeat that no* UMra he gtven ef the q east lea It had not been officially aa* ae one ad. he added that Ureal ttrt - tala has adapted *• Ha own the re* ply seat by the 1‘aitrd States "The clear and poeerfa! reply ef the i Preetdeat Wlleoa explained Imrd Remaining Registrants are Fixed in Order of Liability for Service!-— New Plan Does With All Complicated Machinery of the First Draft—Those With No De pendents Go First. 4 A sweeping change in the machin ery of the selective draft based on division of the 9,000,000 registrants remaining into five classes in order of their eligibility for military ser vice was announced Saturday by Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder. De tails of the plan, which has teen ap proved by President Wilson, are not disclosed.N It is calculated, however, to do away with virtually all the complicated machinery of the first draft and to make the operations of the local boards hereafter little more than rubber setarmp proceedings The plan was worked out at con ferences with local and district board officials and approved by the vari ous State authorities. Its chief fea tures are that every registered man will know his exact position and be able to arrange his affairs accord ingly. and that no man deemed nec essary in any imi»ortant Industry or needed at home to support bis fam ily will be eg Him) to the colors un less the military situation It de perate Detailed plans to govern tbe new system are being made ready for die trtbutloa to local and district board members. Oea. Crowder la a formal statement assured them tbst they woald be given ample opportunity, to familiarise themselves with theee regulations before tbe mar hi aery on a day to be fixed, seven days be ing given to each registrant to com plete and return the same. .Eveyy ^ opportunity will be offered to each man to complete his questlonalre fully and without error. “The local boards will then ex amine each questlonalre and assign each registrant to one of five classes. “These classes will be based upon every conceivable condition, from the family, or occupational stand point, that should properly be ad vanced by a man desiring to be ex cused from military duty. Class 1 will be exhausted if the nation’s needs are;such as to make It neces sary, class 2 will follow and thus each man registered will ultimately take his place if needed. ■ “Every opportunity for appeal from such classification by the local board has been retained and per fected, but proceedings have been greatly simplified. “The tedious work of the local boards has been practically elimi nated by the production of a form to be known as number 1,000, which will be the foundation stone of the new system. Through its use all the laborious work of making and post ing lists has been eliminated.^ All of the old docket sheets and records will be made unnecessary and by the arrangements of all columns the work of the local boards will be re duced to a minimum. “On this new form the complete particulars of each man’s case will appear at a glance, beginning with his order number and ending with his Induction into a military camp, while at the close of each day’s work the local board is enabled to com plete in a few minutes with a rub ber stamp what hitherto has taken hours to complete. The system la such that It will present each case almost automatically to the local board. "The completion of the new sys tem will solve problems which have confronted the provoat marshal gen eral and caused him much concern ’’One of the most serious of theee has been keeping together the great P r, ** , d» , ntq OFFICIAL DOCUMENT SHOWS PRESIDENTS EVIDENCE HIS FLAG DAY SPEECH e%f>i«i>«ioB lo ha** ge*e dew a Ml the IIBMF *M* did Tfnhahly the attach wee made well *wi at eaa. It teeh two days fee the news to reach Washington aad the dispatch shows the time that mast hat* elapsed before definite word could raarh Admiral Mam The sur vivors are believed to he already safe ashore seme* here in France or Eng land Mo far as hnowa. no high offlcom of the army or navy were due to m* tarn oa the Antilles There hi ao definite Infonaatloa oa that point, however, as only Gea Pershing knows who was seat home on tha ship The reports so far received show merely that a number of army officers and 33 enlisted men of the army were aboard Evidently Ad miral 81ms rushed his tidings off be fore he communicated with Gen. Pershing. The loss of the Antilles marks the first reduction of the transport fleet that has been operating. A very considerable number of American troops, workmen and others Involved in the prosecution of the war have been carried successfully to France and England and the unsuccessful attack on the first ontingent is the only recorded previous instance where the u-boats have succeeded even in catching sight of the vessels. So far as official advices and ma rine reports show, save in the doubt ful'case* of the Armadale, the An tilles is the first transeport sunk in trans-Atlantic service since the war began. German reports designate as a “transport,” a ship whether neu tral or belligerent, bearing supplies to the enemy or returning in ballast, while transports bearing or capable of ' carrying soldiers are called “troopships.” ♦ The first troopship' torpedoed by a submarine was the British trans port Royal Edward in the Aegean Sea on August 14, 1915. The loss was 1,002 troops; and 60 soldiers and 220 other persons were saved. Duritig the intensified u-boat cam paign in the Mediterranean for the six weeks prior to December 1, 1915, according to German admiralty re ports, German and Austrian subma rines accounted for seven “troop ships” and twenty-five “transports.” Among the former were the French steamers Xalvados, 6,000 tons, lost with 80lr French Colonial troops on November 4, and Admiral Hamelin, 5,051 tons; the British steamers California. 6,223 tons, with •troops on board; Moorina, 5,000 tons; Ramazan. 3.477 tons, Septem ber 29, last, with 500 Indian troops; . Marquette, 7.050 ' tons, on October 26, with 1,000 English troops. * Ac ting to British official only ninety-nine were unaccounted for on Hie Marquette. Besides the foregoing “troo*'st > 'R«” the British steamer Uoodfield wvs sank In the Maditerraaean wff-U*- Rehert. *‘fvue et»t the reealt of any roaaqHatiwa ef the Allies aad | do net ptmpma* to fwmMMNH or It In re ply to the qeestlea ** SUV SINK Old Type natlHwhlp Mmvtev Is Hseseeyed by the A naval battle occurred la Calf of Riga beteeua Russian OerMaa battleships, the war office announces. The Russian battleship 8lava was sunk The Slava sank aa the result of being hit several times beneath the water line. Nearly all of the mem bers of the srew were saved by Rus sian 'torpedo boata. rocco. November 30. 1915, with un known lose. The Provence was sunk by a sub marine In the Mediterranean • on February 27, 1916. She was a French ship-and went down with nearly 3,000 marines and troops, the greatest number so far lost ln«-this way in the war. ' The Russian was sunk in the Mediterranean on De cember 14 and seventeen American stablemen went down with her. The British troopship Invernla went down in the Mediterranean with 120 soldiers and 33 of the crew after a submarine attack on January 1, 1917. The Italian transport Minas was sunk on February 15 with a loss of 998 soldiers and the Serbian general, Ilia Goikovitch.,^ ^ The British transport Mendl was sunk in collision on February 21 and 625 soldiers and sailors lost their lives. There were no losses when the British troopship Ballarat was sunk in April by a submarine. Men played cards while waiting for the boats to be lowered. The British transport Arcadiqn, sunk on April 15, went down with 279 men, including 233 soldiers. The Camerohia, the 10,000-ton An chor liner used as a troopship by the British admiralty, was sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean on the same day and 140 were drowned. Later losses are as follows: May 4, British transport Transylvania, torpedoed, with a loss of 413, mostly soldiers; June 2, British transport Cameronian. torpedoed in the East ern Mediterranean, with a loss of 63 troops and civilians; June 27, Brit ish transport Armadale was sunk in the Atlantic,-.with a loss of 6 sol diers, 1 passenger, and 4 of the crew. * * - Late In September the transport reporte-t-PeiLDsjlvaiilA was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, but. according to a Japanese admiralty report, did not sink until the !,4>99 troops on board had >eea taken off by Ji IHMiNh'' next call to the cotow tv to be made under tbe new plea, this assurance Is (shea to Indicate that the second call Is not to be esparted before tbe first • f ’ • •* T Mr — Tbe. qnccena of tbe plan upon tbe completeness of tbe tkmatre Tbe quest lens to be sa vor red by tbe regtsfered men base been worked ont wttb Infinite care from the vast fond of Information •leaned from tbs find oss of tbe imM mmMmv?. Included In tbs plena of tbs n#v* emmsoi. H Is understood Is a pro- vbdon vbtcb xrttl pines tbs veestfonj of n trained attorney at tbe dftspeeal of every regftvtraot to naaist btm M mabmg bte snswvcs Tbe new plan Gee Crowder p mots out. sot ties tbs votlog qnaa- Uoe of root loo tag tbe pbyvteal an* I ammatma m regtvtrmatv until all iMi boon rtasotfiod in tbta map. Fwoomabty H win bo aorsoanry in ex a mins men under tbe now plan only wben colled op. or If greater speed ran be eerofod Ml Vbet way. to einmine and rlaaslfy pnyetrnlly all members of tbe etaao lbet la under call l'f«*- ra My H olll be necessary to ess ai lee men a Oder tbe new plan only wben called np ar If greater speed ran be secured In tbal way. to ex sail a# aad classify pbyatcnlty all msmhvw of tbe etnas that la under call A point not made rtaar In Oea Crowder’s statemeot la bow tbe rota- Uoa numbers ef tbe drawing to fix tbe order ef military I lability era to he applied It seems, how ever. tbst tbe rotation a embers of tbe men In any class olll govern the order la which they come up In that case each class group would have Its own order liability list, based oa tbs mas ter list. Tbs result of tbs new plan un doubtedly will be to place la tha first clam men who are without de pendents. whose civil occupation Is not vitally Important to the nation's work at home and who are physical ly best able to endure the hardships of wsr This will bring forward a majority of the single men of the en tire registration. Presumably married men* who have Independent Incomes also would bo placed in the first class, where the support of the dependents in their absence was assured. The new plan will afford, also, a better opportunity of conserving skilled labor. Where men needed in the various war industries are other wise eligible for front line service, means are provided for holding them back from the army under a definite, centralized plan. Following is the text of Gen. Crowder’s announcement: “With the completion of the draft of the, first army of 687,000 men a Memorable Addrees, With Its Charges Against Imperial German Govern- - »\ t” ment. Annotated to Show Facts # j Upon Which Conclusions of the President Were Rased. Just What President Wilson meant in his reply to the Pope in previous utterances, when he re ferred to Germany as an irresponsi ble government, secretly planning to dominate the world without regard to sacred obligations of nations or principles of international honor, Is set forth in an official document, made public Sunday, and entitled “The President’s Flag Day Address With Evidence of Germany’s Plans.” The address was delivered In June at the foot of the Washington mon ument. Throughout President Wil son referred to Germany's Iniquitous disregard of all human rights and privileges. This address is now pre sented with circumstantial detail to prove that the president made no statement that he had not ample evi dence to warrant. It is an official treatise on why we are at war. Prof, Wm Anderson, Wallace N’otesteln, Elmer Stell and August C. Krey, of tbe University of Minne sota. and Prof. Guernsey Jones, of the University of Nebraska, drew the parallel. In a long series of annotar prove every one of the •Aeclaratlona. The pro-, organisation of the local and district f * MOr » ••*P««® not only the (land of boards which form a numerical vlexr-; ^* rm * B * ,n ur 6>ng Austria to brow- point Is of tbe strength of an army * Serbia, but Intrigues In this division, many of these officials have COUBIr ^ b,r Herastorff. teen clamoring for relief on account PqgnbggR^ Moy-B4 a MpR FbRiR* of tha drain on tbair time. and.JbfLi* 0 * 111 *’ Alike > pot T „ profession friendship. President Wilson said ths agents of sedition were men connected with the official embassy of tbs Ger man government Itself here la oar own capital sad group of professors berkMhis up by tbe following state- ■mMs “As for espionage. Koealg. bead of the Hamburg American secret ser vice. wbe was active la Government Taken fMepo to Get Range for Firing Practice • for All Arms. / Commanding officers of Cnmp Jackson have aaked the federal gov ernment to condemn 12,000 acres of land along tha eastern frontier of the cantonment track for tha con struction of a huge rifle, machine gun and field artillery range and for manoeuvertng purposes. - Tbe land ,1s not to be condemned for purchase, • but to procure a three-year lease. The property is two and one-half miles In depth and seven aad one- half miles in length. Ths projec tion extends dirsctly eastward, in which course all projactilaq will bo fired. The Ancrum Ferry Road Is the axis of the range. The depth of tba territory to the north of this high way Is sligtly more than one mile and that to the south approximately one and one-half miles. The area Is sparsely settled and has not been brought to a high state of cultivation. It is largely com prised of thin sandy soil and cov ered with scrubby blackjacks. Pro duction of both cotton and corn has been exceedingly , limited In the greater portion. Poor qual!ty>of the soli, however, does not detract from Ita value aa a rifle or artillery range. Lieut. Col, Roberts, chief of staff. Bays It is an admirable piece of property for this purpose and when completed will bo one of the best in the country. It is not often, he emphasised, that it is possible to find suitable range sites within Immediate proximity of the cantonments. Work on the small arms target range Is already-In process Oa this will be constructed 249 rifle targets There will also bo 73 targets for machine gun practice and any num ber of figure targets which eaa ha placed anywhere for combat firing. All firing will he to the east aad pov- MMn flag, thorn in cmhiMmo tkalv da* ties for which they have proven ihemaelvee eminently fitted 'Another problem solved was the qeeetloa of expediency of continu ing the examine! ton of the entire rsmstiy, thus fixing each man's sta tus This would have involved a medical examination of each man. whoso phpsira! condition might c he age from day to dag, than n.*k lag this grant undertaking vsiu*lees ’Again under the oid tfttem <>( exemption ead discharge it have been m a rad required N cm pied man to return for phjr*raJ re-esamiaattou while Mi the mean- urn* hie lad net rial ar family statue might ha vs rhsngsi <es appeals aad he new system and calls him is e bee ho fee eceg»g am lead physically Thus the inhoru of the medsl ofm cers will he railed tor only when re qaired If the nation needs a half million men they wilt re*p n i **. h In his turn fixed hy Ids tha range Is ready tor tha artillery firing, all residents of'the area will re removed. The A scrum Ron else be patrolled daring the lery engagements, der of the range fourth of a mil# beyond the II [paal an the Aarrum Ferry Ko*< With a clear ex pane* of save one half ml lea la the range. *4oa could he lengthened a m frauds, who ledervd Gustav Mtahl to two moro. perjure hli ary |f the nsllonsl tn'dmsd for the ex- eelf aad der Is re the Last* • o«!4 taeta armed and who plotted the do st ruction of tho Welland Canal, has. la his oorh as a spy. pg—d under ' thirteen aliases la this country aad Canada As for rarraptloa of puh- I lie opt a ton. It has procuoded both openly aad under cover Dr Derm- I itmrm * ik, kill. *- *« ... ■ h. < ■ f f i i. i GERMAN FOOD SHORT Express May Trot nos Halfway thee levelvlag fusion fitee a man'll be sad others want ap aad down me hie pro par tarn land Chech tor 96.0## was dtscwv- He will he ex ered which Connt von Herastorff sent to Mirren Hraas. editor ef Fair Play A teller ass discovered which Georpe gylveofer Vlererh. editor of the FstherLnd. seat to Privy Coea- ctlk*r Albert tbe German agent * This letter srvaaged for a month ly subsidy of 11,759 There is a rec ord of U.eto paid through ths Ger man embassy to finance the lecture tear of Miss Ray Beveridge, aa Americas artist. Efforts were made hy German sympathisers to get con trol of at least one of the great New 3 orb dailies *nd about half a dotes ueektles have been devotsd to Ger man propaganda and to very little else Most important of all. la a telegram, dated January 22. 1917. for n Have Only the hy arc apytag a la tha canton Ueat Col hardly ho lory than att inch gene will !y In he seat there PrWes ae eserhftaat were ashed hy < ’■« land as only te parri The game of played la all Jackson, rail* velopaMat l construction af a front one half mile trior to I system of mod si front t reaches The rtastruet theee t trench area Hen between tho site and tho firing range and < 159 arras of land DESTROY REGIMENT Recently obtained flgurea oa German ueekly food ratios n ade public by the food admlntstra tion with the obeervatloa that It Is. far below the amount required to | hut Just made public hy the maintain bodily bealtb and vigor and tbry of state, von Herastorff asked li rtblr In hnun nsrlsns and narn^lNi iwqF—wt tor authority to mat results • Computed In terms of American housekeepers, the weekly ration amounts approximately to 416 pounds of brand, n half pack of po tatoes. a capful of beans, peas or oatmeal, a half pound of meat. 12 cubes of sugar, six Individual patties of butter and an equal amount of other fats. The caloric value of these foods In the aggregate Is less than half the amount estimated by the food administration as sufficient for n person in n sedentary occupa tion. N ANARCHY In RUSSIA new ystem will be installed for the creation of succeeding antiies, which will greatly lessen the labors of the local and district hoards. So far lias this been accomplished that it is believed that under the new system 80 per cent, of the work will he eliminated while the forms to be used will not exceed twenty in num ber as compared with approximately 182 forms which the present system requires. “Along with the reduction of la bor there will b£ provided a system which will classify each one of the nine millions of men who havd not yet been inducted into military ser vice, and each man will have been given his place in^ the national scheme of defense. “To do this it has been deter mined to obtain from each man com-' plete information of a character which will definitely fix his eco nomic worth as compared with his fellow registrant, and from the in formation thus obtained to place him in one of five classes, each to be called in turn as the need arises. , “The method ol pbtalalog Ula in formation is through a questlonalre. a aeries of questions calculated to produce the Information required This document will be mailed to mc yut In London Time* Prints Story of Con ditions in Interior. The London Times devotes a col umn to a dispatch from its Fetrograd correspondent describing the state of anarchy spreading throughout the Russian provinces. The dispatch mentions agrarian disorders in. the districts of Mohilev and Saratov; rioting in Kharkov, resulting in the arrest of fifty ring leaders, street fighting in Kursk and illicit distill ing at Veronesh which led to whole sale drunkenness and the severing of communication between ^ Tashkent, Turkestan and Petrpgradf. • “In Petrograd,” the correspond ent adds, “conditions are little bet ter with the police searching for 18,- 000 criminals. Questionable resorts and night clubs are multiplying. Gambling is on the Increase.” KAISER SEES SULTAN Emperor is Feted in Constantinople on His Royal Visit. The German emperor arrived at Constantinople Tuesday, according to a Reuter dispatch received by way to learn at the time what the govern- of Amsterdam. He was met at the ment was doing.” spend 159,999 ’in ordnr. aa oa for me mcrasions. to Influence Con gram through tha organisations you know of.' “As for the conspiracy In our midst. It has taken various forms under the fostering and munificent hand of Captain Boy-Ed. von Papon, von Rlntelen, Tauecher. von Igel, all directly connected with the German government. There Is now In the possession of the United States gov ernment a check made out to Koe nig and signed hy von Pipen, for the payment of a bomb maker who was to plant explosives disguised as coal In merchant vessels clearing from New York. Von Tlntelen fin anced labor’s peace council, which tried to orrupt legislators and labor leaders. German agents spent $600,- 000 on Huerta’s abortive attempt in this country to start a revolution In Mexico.” President Wilson declared: “And many of our own people were cor rupted.” The professors relate: “Among these were David I^amar and Henry Martin, who In the pay of von Rintelen, organized and man aged labor’s national peace council, which sought to bring about strikes, an embargo on munitions and a boy cott of hanks which subscribed to the Anglo-French loan.” Making pointed argument that the war was ndt the will or wish of the German people, and that, as Presi dent Wilson has stoutly maintained all along: “We are not the enemies of the German people and we know that they are not our enemies,” the reviewing group shows that the Ger man military party made war for conquest and for conquest alone; They say: “The German people had no chance to influence the policy of the Berlin government during the critical days when that government, sanctioning the purpose of Austria to have her will of Serbia, made European war Inevitable. They had not the chance to express opinion or llr.li.h British airmen la their recent at tack oa the Belgian Iowa of Roaleri caused the destruction of aa arena si in which was quartered a newly ar rived German regiment Thin infor mation wan contained la a dispatch from Amsterdam to tha Central News Agency aad was reported by a trust worthy correspondent on tha Dutch frontier. One of the first Inrandlary bom bn dropped struck the arsenal, which immediately burst into flames. Tba confusion was added to by airman, who, descending to a low altitude, using their machine guns freely, thereby increasing the casualty roll, which the correspondent said waa enormous. station by the sultan, the imperial princess, grand riz|er. ministers, sen ators. deputies and other prominent personages, including the Admiral von Koch. President Wilson said the military masters of Germany regarded the smaller nations merely as service^ German able organisations which they could, (bjr force or Intrigue, bend to their Tbe emperor’s reception waA lm- LFwn Rerpoee. “They have regarded posing. Turkish girls offering flow- [the smaller states In particular, aad era. The emperor drove with the tbe peoples who could not bo over- sultan and Enver Pasha, minister of Whelmed by tore#, no their natural war. to thq Tildes Kiosk, where k# tools aad last rumen ts df ths guard of honor. ' IlMr | ed.” And, proving this statement the professors say: “In telegrams signed 'Nicky* and ’Willy’ the czar and German em peror are shown to have been ar ranging in 1905 for a secret alliance against Denmark. In case of war- with England, Denmark was to be treated as Belgium has been in the present war, except that a prelim inary effort was to be made to make the Danes see and accept the inevi- / table.” Conception of the German Idea is given In quotations from German newspapers, official papers and offi cial communications, to Indicate that Germany desired to rule the earth and get It any way it could. Here are a few: “In order to live and lead a healthy and joyous life we need a vast extent of arable land.” and take whatever it requires.” “The German people is so situated in Europe that it need only to run ; “Humanitarian deains are Imbecil ity. Diplomatic chairity begins at home. Statesmanship is business. The German people are right be cause they number 87,000,000 souls.” ^ “Now, people of Germany, we , shall be masters of Europe.” Then the professors go on to show, backing up the president's re marks. how Germany filled tbe thrones of the Balkan States with German princes: put German offi cers at the service of Turkey to drill her armies; developed plane ef sedi tion aad rebellion In and tot the fires in show that the demands made by •lep In a plan « Wmm* and Asia. V