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One DoDar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6,1914. Established 1891.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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> News Items Gathered All Around the c
County and Elsewhere. t
Ehrhardt Etchings. a
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Ehrhardt, August 3.?War in Eu- s
rope is all the talk now, and all fig- r
ure what it means to the farmers, a
Some have it that the cotton will not c
be worth anything until the war ends, 1
and all kinds of prices are talked p
% about by the farmers. How, then, f
will the men who buy it for specula- a
tion do when they know what the r
farmer thinks of his own stuff? The (3
farmer who has corn, wheat, pigs and I
beeves don't worry about the prices s
he will get for his goods. He s
knows that the people must eat; their
clothes can be patched.
Saturday night we had some excitement
in town. It is reported that
one Boy Brown went to church; on *
his return he found some one in his ?
house. His wife and her sister were *
in the house at the time. He thought 1
he heard some noise more than us- *
> ual.so he scratched a match and 6tart- <
ed for his gun, when he was fired up- *
on with a pistol and killed instantly. ?
P* Two parties.were arrested and lodg- ?
ed in the county jail, both colored,
who are charged with iJeing implicat- <
e<3. <
It'seems as if life is worth very *
little any more, and when a good 1
man is going around he is liable to 1
get shot by some worthless fellow ?
trying to hide his mean Sets. I
Some cotton getting ready for the i
market in this section. s
% wnais our Kcuucyi iuisicco uv<u&
towards the school building? Sep- 2
Member will soon be here and nothing
done. c
Plenty of rain these days, it's fod- t
der pullihg time; that's usually a 1
wet time. J
Mr. Plemons accidentally shot a ^
young man, Mr. Frank Lemacks, Sat- 1
urday night. They were the beet of
friends. They took an auto ride and 1
when on the ride tried to fire a pistol
and it would not fire. Looking i
at it, when they were in the light, c
the pistol went off, the ball striking t
young; Lemacks near the mouth, I
knocking out three teeth and lodging' t
in the neck under the tongue. The 2
ball has not been located. It is a t
painful, if not serious wound. , J
It is reported that one of our can- 2
didates is a talker that you read
about. This party was talking to i
one Mr. C. L. Brant last week and t
entertained Kim so long and so well
\ that he forgot his horse and other t
duties around the house. When he
came to his senses, by the admoni
t?bn of his wife, his first thought was! ?
for his horse's wants, as it was after s
feed time. He rushed to the lot and
? 'hurriedly looked for the horse. Mr.
Brant did not see him in his usual
place and did not receive the usual
whinker from his horse so he thought
the horse was stolen. Mr. Brant
spread the report that his horse was *
stolen, and had his neighbors helping ?
him hunt. When all were hunting *
with the thought that the horse had I
been stolen, all at once they raised !
the yell that the norse was found.
All gathered together to pass their
opinion of the loss. Mr. C. L. Brant's
f horse was standing in his corn house,
well satisfied with his surroundings
and the way he had been served.
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Denmark Doings.
Denmark, Aug. 1.?Mr. John D.
Milh6us and Misses Helen and Margaret
Milhous, of Columbia are visiting
relatives here.
Misses Caro and Dorothy Hart, of
Estill, are the guests of their sister, j
Mrs. J. Wesley Crum, Jr.
Mrs. J. K. Breedin, who has been j
visiting her parents, the Rev. and i
Mrs. J. D. Huggins, has returned to j
tior homp in Mannine. I
Dr. Joel W. Wyman spent Thurs- c
day in Aiken.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bolland, of (
v Savannah, Ga., who have been the
W* - guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Asen- i
dorf, have returned to their home.
i The Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Harden t
left Monday for an extended visit to
(Yorkville and other points in the up- i
country. (
Mrs. Julia S. Payne has returned
to her home in Washington. D. C.. i
* after several months' visit to rel^- t
I ' fives here.
f Mrs. W. E. Osteen and children, of (
Florence, who have been spending
several days with Mrs. Osteen's fath- (
er, Mr. H. C. Rice, left Wednesday :
for a 6tay of several weeks at Paw- t
ley's Island. Miss Hattie Rice acJ
i companied them.
' Mrs. Corbett and Miss Marie Till- .'
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MEETING OF COTTON MEN. |
'resident of Association Plans Conference
in New Orleans. S
Atlanta, August 3.?Harvie Jorlan,
of this city, president of the
southern cotton association, today elegraphed
representatives of the
issociation througout the States in
he cotton belt, suggesting the neces;ity
for a mass meeting of farmers,
nerchants. bankers, manufacturers r
md all other allied interests of the *
otton trade, to be held in New Oreans
early in September. The pur>ose
of the conference would be to 1
ormulate and adopt such measures 1
s might be considered necessary to v
irotect the price of cotton from the
lepressing influence of a protracted e
Suropean war. President Jordan t
aid that he believed this step neces- i
ary to sound cotton interests.
Retribution that Was Swift. *
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Cy Perkins and Jim Brady were 1
rom the country, the deep country,
md they were unschooled in the craf- i
y ways of swell cafes, says the Popu- a
ar Magazine. They had spent the day t
aking in a sights the State fair just
mtside the big city, and they had
nvaded the districts notable for
tlectric lights, high prices, and poor
lervice.
After holding a caucus on a street
:orner, they decided to go into one
>f the high-class restaurants and
lave dinner. After delaying them
'or the proper length of time, a
vaiter approached them and hand>d
them a menu. Incidentally, he
)iled up in front of them the usual
mposing array of cut glasss and
iilver.
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"We might as well go in and get
t square meal," said Jim Brady.
Cv Perkins assented, and they
jrdered for dinner practically everyhing
on the menu from the soup to
luts. At the conclusion of the meal, j
Tim Brady produced & silver dollar,
vaved his hand in a lordly manner
oward the waiter, and said:
"Take the damage out of this, and
ceep the change."
The waiter came as near to lookng
embarassed as any city waiter
'ould, and ventured to remark that .
he bill was more than a dollar. He
iresented it in writing. ? It amounted
o nine dollars and sixty cents.' Jim,
ifter taking one angry glare at the c
otal, produced the ten dollar note
md stalked out of the restaurant
Vi o y} fr
lu^au ui
On the sidewalk Jim,.after indulgng
in a profane duel with nobody,
lttered this prophecy:
"Cy, some day heaven will punish
hose men for that."
" Jim,said Cy reverently, "Heav:n
has punished them already. I've
jot fifteen dollars worth of silver
ipoons in my pocket."
Summer Fiction.
"My dear boy, you haven't changid
a particle in the last thirty years."
"Dear wife: This is the first opporunity
that I have had to write to you
:ince you went away. I have been
oo busy."
"Universally proclaimed by pulpit,
>ress and public to be the greatest
>lav of modern times."
"Mr. Chairman, I rise with the
greatest reluctance to say a few
vords."
"I don't know whether you owe us
mything or not, Mr. Trimmer, but
'11 look up your account and report." a
"Harry. I wouldn't say a word to c
lurt your feelings for the world, >
>ut?" i
"I admire your nerve, old man."? s
'ortland Express. f
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nan have -eturned from a stay at Ty- c
>ee. Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Roland Griffin have r
eturned to their home in Lynchburg, i
ifter a visit to Mrs. Griffin's father,
dr. George W. Hightower.
Mrs. M. J. Owens and Mr. Durant
)\vens, of Lyndhurst, are the guests ^
>f Mr. and Mrs. John R. Minor.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Clark, of
Columbia, have returned after several
days* visit to Mr. Clark's grand- q
nother, Mrs. Alicia Cooper. C
Mrs. Gedney M. Brown, of Flor- )
snce. is visiting Mr. H. C. Rice. t
Miss Daisy Tillman has returned, r
ifter an extended visit to Meldrim. q
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Mr. Herman E. Cohen, of Rich- s
nond, Va., spent several days here v
his week. s
Mr. Counts Hutto, of Savannah, c
5a., is visiting relatives here. t
Misses Isabel Strait and Ruby c
5uess have returned from a visit to I
dr. and Mrs. J. P. Guess, at Apple- j
on. v
Maj. John Black and Messrs John, r
lr., and Walker Black are visiting r
dr. and Mrs. J. A. Walker. a
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N THE PALMETTO STATE
iOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
itate News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
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Men and Happenings.
4,676 voters are enrolled for the
irimaries in Orangeburg county. The
ote in 1912 reached 4,356.
Mail service has been instituted on
he two Coast Line trains recently
>ut oil between Atlanta and Sumter
ia Augusta.
Sumter has just concluded a boostt
trip through the section adjacent
o that city. The trip was a prolounced
success.
A machine for the maturing of coton
bolls was demonstrated in Barnveil
county last week, the result beng
reported satisfactory.
Mr. Quincy Kennedy, of Williston,
s among those marooned in Paris on
iccount of the war in Europe. The
rans-Atlantic steamship lines have
learly all suspended service, hence
he difficulty in the Americans getting
lome again.
The governor has issued a statenent
in which he denies the statenents
of Candidate Norman Creech,
>f Barnwell county, to the effect that
he governor vetoed the app'ropriaion
of $30,000 for eradication of the
attle tick, and that the governor
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uspenaea .Magistrate rowies, m vuumbia,
because the latter issued cerain
warrants against Creech. The
,'overnor states that the statements
ire untrue, and has demanded a corection
-from the Barnwell legislative
ispirant.
UNUSUAL CHARGE TO JURY.
fudge T. S. Sease Pleads for Compulsory
Education.
Spartanburg, August 4.?Inasmuch
is the question of compulsory educaion
is one of the leading issues of
he gubernatorial campaign, now on,
nuch attention has been attracted by
udge Thomas S. Sease's references
o the subject yesterday in his charge
o the grand jury at the opening of
he court qf general sessions. Judge
lease devoted most of his address to
ompulsory education, which he
tronglv approves and which he ad'ised
the grand jury to recommend to
he legislature. In part Judge Sease
aid:
"It is strange, gentlemen, if comrnlsory
education is a bad thing, that
orty or forty-one or two States of
his nation, the greatest nation on
sarth. have adopted some law along
he line of compulsory education.
"The State owes it to itself to proect
itself. The State is a perpetuity,
t goes on forever. There is no progressive
legislation unless it takes ino
consideration the future happiness
ind well-being of the generations
hat come after. You and I in our
ife time would probably see no benifits
directly flowing from a compulsory
education system, but those
:oming after, fifty years from now,
could see it.
"Ignorance is the prolific field of
lemagogy. Therefore, gentlemen, I
iave no hesitation in saying that if
ou come to the conclusion, after
lue consideration, that this county
md State needs a law along the line
>f compulsory education, say so in
our final presentment. You may
gnore it. I can't compel you to conider
it one way or the other. It is
or you, as to whether or not you will
ecommend such things "for the good
if the order' so to speak.
"1 laKe 11, geilWCUJCU, mai mcos
emarks that I have made are not
mproper."
BODY TO BE EXHUMED.
A'idow Fears Husband May Have
Been Victom of Plot.
Florence, August 4.?At the reluest
of Dr. Graham, of Cowards,
'oroner J. L. Gunn went to that plac6
.londav for the purpose of exhuming
he body of a .Mr. Miles, who died
lear there a few days ago. The reluest
was upon the insistence by the
vidow of the late Mr. Miles, whom
he fears was the victim of a plot
vhich resulted in his death. It is
tated that Mr. Miles had taken a
Irink of whiskey to relieve a pain
hat he was suffering with, and it was
inly a short time before he was dead.
it, fnrttior cfaTprl-flint it mieht be
>ossible that poison was put in the
vhiskey, and with that idea uppernost
in her mind, the widow made a
equest for the body to be exhumed
ind examined.
XO COTTON GOING ABROAD.
Steamship Coni|>anies Serve Xotic
on Railroad Companies.
Columbia, August 4.? Pursuant t
the notice served by ail trans-Atlan
tic steamship lines upon railroad com
pany agents throughout the cotto:
belt, local railroad agencies were to
day notified that the cotton expor
trade is at an end for the time being
. The principal Southern ports ship
ping cotton directly to Europe ar
Galveston, New Orleans, Charleston
Wilmington, Savannah, Norfolk, Mo
bile and Pensacola.
POLICEMAN KILLS BIG NEGRO
Who Attacked Him, Shooting is De
clared Justifiable.
Charleston, July 27.?Joseph Ro
per, a negro, was shot and killei
Saturday night by Policeman Georg
McNaughton, who fired while lyin;
on the ground, after the victim, wh
was large and powerful, had attacked
him and was beating him over th
head. The affair occurred abou
9:45 o'clock in the vicinity of Tradi
street, and the trouble arose whei
Policeman McNaughton ordered Rc
per and three other negroes to mov
on. To this order, it was testified t
at the coroner's inquest, Rcper be
came offensive and retorted "No pc
lice can move we tour." Upon ar
rest. Roner offered resistance and
fight between the two ensued.
At the inquest yesterday morning
resulting in a verdict of jastifiabi
homicide. Samuel Sanford. who wa
among the men with Roper at th
time of the shooting, testified tha
Roper was intoxicated and acted die
tastefully upon the officer's command
Policeman McNaughtun also testifie
and his story, in suostance, was iden
tical with Sanford's.
Two shots were fired by the officei
one taking effect in Roper's lef
breast and the other in the left am
The breast wound v. as near ;he hear
and caused instant death,Roper dyin
in the police automobile ca the wa
to the hospital.
JURY ACQUITS GOLDBERG.
Spartanburg Merchant Found Xc
Guilty of Murder.
Spartanburg, Aug. 3.?Abe Golc
berg, a well-known merchant, wa
found not guilty of the murder c
Chas. C. Kennedy after a short trig
in the General Sessions Court toda}
Self-defence was his plea. Kenned}
rushing at Goldberg with a knife, ra
into a broomstick which the merchac
held and received fatal injuries
Goldberg was exonerated by the coi
oner's jury, but himself asked to b
tried.
TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Little Children Die While at Play i
Barn.
Aiken, Aug. 3.?Although Aike
county has experienced many sever
electrical storms this season, the firs
toll of life was exacted yesterda
afternoon about 4 o'clock, when littl
Alvin Boyd and Ethel Ready wer
killed by lightning on the place c
Mr. Nathaniel Bovd. near Talatha.
The two little children were plaj
ing in the barn with Nick Boyd, age
ten. He ran in the house and tol
his parents that the other two child
ren had fallen, and when the peopl
ran out to the barn they found tha
they had been killed by lightning
The little boy's jawbone was broke:
and his clothes were torn to shreds
The little girl was not burned ver
much. A horse in the barn was als
killed, but the barn was not demolish
ed to any extent.
KILLKI) BOA III>1X0 TRAIX.
Itev. \V. Norwood Tillinghast, Wash
ington .Minister, is Killed.
Spartanburg, Aug. z.?nev w. l
Tillinghast, rector of an Episcopa
church in Washington, D. C.. wa
killed by a train at Morganton, N
C., yesterday afternoon at 5:3<
o'clock. He was on his vacation am
had been visiting D. R. Tillinghast a
Morganton, who is the father of Prot
J. A. Tillinghast, of this city, who i
the cousin of the man killed. Prof
Tillinghast received the news of th<
death at midnight.
It appears that .Mr. Tillinghas
was taking the train at Morgantoi
for Waynesville. He was bidding hi
friends good, bye and lingered till th<
train began to move. In some wa;
his grip caused him to fall betweei
the cars, it is thought, and he wa
instantly killed. No further particu
lars are known.
Mr. Tillinghast was the son of Rev
J. H. Tillinghast, of Eastover.
ENGLAND DECLARES WAR
e AGAINST
GKRMANY FOLLOWING
ULTIMATUM.
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? Greatest Naval and Military Powers
n of tlie World Will Soon l>e
- Invaded by War.
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* England's War Declaration. *
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l* ? London, Augu6t 4.?The Brit- *
* lsh foreign office has issued the *
* following statement: *
^ * "Owing to the summary rejec- *
* tion by the German government *
* of the request made by his Brit- *
* anic majesty's government that *
* the neutrality of Belgium should *
* b? respected, his majesty's am- *
^ * bassador at Berlin has received *
* his passports, and his majesty's *
* government has declared to the *
* German government that a state *
^ * of war exists between Great Brit- *
* ain and Germany from 11 o'clock *
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* p. m., August 4." *
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11 London, August 4.?Germany has
declared war on Great Britain according
to official announcement.
London, August 4.?Great Britain
declared war on Germany tonight.
a The momentous decision of the
British government, for which the
, whole world has been waiting, came
, before the expiration of the time lime
it set by Great Britain in her ulti
e matum to Germany demanding a satt
isfactory reply on the subject of Belgian
neutrality.
L Germany's reply was the summary
;i rejection of the request that Belgian
neutrality should be respected.
The British ambasador at Berlin
. thereupon received his passports and
t the British government notified Ger(
many that a state of war existed be,t
tween the two countries,
g All Europe is in arms.
T On the one hand. Austria-Hungary
and Germany are opposed by Russia,
France and Great Britain, Servia and
Montenegro.
Italy has declared her neutrality,
* but is mobilizing. Belgium, Holland
and Switzerland have mobilized,
j The German demand that the Belgian
government should permit the
^ free passage of German troops
^ through Belgium was answered by
hasty preparations to resist such an
advance across Belgian territory.
Sweden has made no answer to inn
quiries from Russia and Germany
regarding her attitude but is prepar''
ing to defend her neutrality.
Japan is making ready to live up
to her alliance with Great Britain in
case of certain eventualities.
Spain is reported to be preparing
a proclamation of neutrality,
n Austria-Hungary for the moment
has retired from the campaign
against Servia for th? purpose of
n holding back Russia, and Servia has
e mobilized, with the reported inten;t
tion of invading Bosnia,
y Excited and clamorous youths
e marching through that area of Lone
don which corresponds to the Broad,f
way district of New York may cause
American visitors to carry home rer.
ports that England is embarking on
d war with a light heart, but those who
d know this country realize the oppol_
site is the truth.
e Young men have been parading
t through the streets, carrying the unr
ion jack and tri-color, with voeifern
ous cheering, but the busiest section
of the metropolis has not been
v as crowded or as noisy as on minor
0 occasions of popular excitement.
Crowds gathered about the government
offices today and cheered
the ministers whenever they appeared:
the railway stations were filled
with army reserves and territorials
* in khaki, but the great mass of the
people went about their ordinary occupations
with serious faces.
Opposition to the war has been al1
most dissipated by the events of the
s past 24 hours except from sections
'. of organized labor.
0 Two liberal papers, the Chronicle
1 and the Daily News, have come into
t line and are supporting the govern'.
ment.
s David Lloyd George, chancellor of
the exchequer, announced in the
a iinneo nf rnmmons his schemes for in
suring shipping against war risks,
t i 'Because this scheme is pronml11
gated in the midst of an emergency,"
s: said the chancellor, "it is not in any
e sense a panic scheme prepared in an
y emergency."
i The committee of imperial defence
s has labored on the plan for more than
- a year, he said. Its aim was that
in case of war British commerce
. should not be interrupted by inability
to secure war risks and to insure
SAYS LET BANKERS MEET.
Byrnes Thinks They Should I)iscus9
Handling Crop Funds.
Aiken, August 4.?Representative
Byrnes, who was in the city Monday,
was asked about the suggestion that
a conference of farmers be held to
devise a plan to assist in marketing
the cotton crop. He stated that he
approved of the suggestion, but deemed
it far more important that the
bankers' association of the South
should hold a conference to devise a
plan whereby the fifty million dollars
to be deposited by the Secretary of
the Treasury in Southern banks
would be equitably distributed so that
these funds would reach banks in rural
communities, and not be deuosited
in a few large banks and loaned only
-to those banks which do business
with them, as was done a year ago.
He stated that he had already
made this suggestion to the officers
of the South Carolina bankers' association.
RAILROADS TO ARBITRATE.
Take Advice of President Wilson to
Avoid Strike.
Washington, Aug. 3.?Managers of
ninety-eight Western railroads, urged
by President Wilson to place patriotism
above property interests, consented
today to arbitrate their differences
with 55,000 enginemen and
firemen and prevented what threatened
to be one of the most extensive
transportation strikes the country
has seen.
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Virtues of Parlsiennes.
Mme. Marcel Tinarye, the author,
in a causerie on La Parisienne recently
corrected some of the notions
prevalent in England and elsewhere
regarding French women.
She characterized as an absurd legend
the opinion that the Parisienne
is fickle and frivolous. Appearances,
it was admitted, are often against her,
for in a drawing room she sometimes
looks like a doll, but in realty
is a strictly honest woman and an excellent
mother, only she does not
make a parade of her virtues. She
?c rather inclined to conceal them. **
The Pari6ienne is practical. She
knows how to give tTerself the illusion
of luxury on a modest revenue. ' .
Her ingenuity is marvelous. She can V
make the simplest room look refined
and attractive. Many Parisiennes
make their own clothes and hats and
can cook an excellent dinner. They
know the shops where they can get
the best valuee for their money and
the dates of the bargain sales. She
is a born coquette, but her apparent
lightness is only a veneer,
lightness is only a veneer.?London
Mail.
CHAMPION PILL SWALLOWER.
London Man Took 78 a Day for Five
Years.
Sir Thomas Beecham, the wealth-,
iest of the new baronets, would be
even wealthier if there were more
men like William Jessup, who, in
1816, was sued by his apothecary for
his bill.
Jessup was one who emphatically
did not take Shakespeare's advice,
"Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none
of it." In the course of the action
it was proved that between 1791 and
1816 Jessup had consumed 226.934
tlio fivA vnorc r*
IpiilO. UUllUg Hit. H?C VM1 ?J yi vvvv?
ing the action he had averaged 78
pills a day, and in 1814 he swallowed
no fewer than 51,590.
Notwithstanding this and the addition
of 40.000 bottles of medicine
Jessup lived into his 60th year.
that insurance rates should not go
so high as to cause any considerable
rise in prices.
"We are perfectly convinced," said
I he, "that with th^ protection of the
I British navy we can make certain
of that vital condition."
The chancellor expressed the hope
that the time for putting the scheme
into operation has not arrived, but if
it had, the plan would relieve the
anxiety of shipping interests.
Thousands assembled tonight before
Buckingham palace until the
king and queen, the prince of Wales
and Princevss .Mary appeared on the
balcony.
Austria Turns to Russia.
Xish. Servia, via Saloniki. August
j 2.?Austria appears for the present
I to have abandoned her aggressive
campaign against Servia. in order to
prepare for possible Russian attack.
Most of the Austrian troops, who
were concentrated at Semlin. have
been moved to an unknown destination.
The few troops remaining conduct
a desultory bombardment of
Belgrade.