The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 08, 1917, Page 2, Image 2
i NEW CRISIS ARISES
GERMANY DECLARES UNRESTRICTED
WARFARE.
Blockade I>eclared Against England
by Germany.?Will Sink All Yes*
sels Seeking to Enter Britain.
Washington, Jan. 31.?Germany
has declared unrestricted submarine
warfare.
A starvation blockade of England,
the like of which the world never
has seen, was announced today in
notes delivered to American Ambassador
Gerard, in Berlin, and to the
State department here by Count Von
Bernstorff.
Thus begins the long feared campaign
conceived by Von Hindenburg,
it is said here, on a magnitude never
even contemplated by Von Tirpitz.
Again the United States faces severance
of diplomatic relations with
Germany with all its eventual possibilities.
President Wilson's repeated
warnings of "a world afire" and Secretary
Lansing's "verge of war"
statement are being recalled in the
capital tonight with feelings of apprehension
and misgiving.
The Super Crisis. '
Germany's action is the super
crisis of all those that have stirred
the American government in two and
a half years of world war.
Talk of peace in Europe and of
means of preserving the peace of the
world has gone glimmering.
President Wilson, incredulous at
first when the unofficial text of Germany's
warning was taken to him,
at once called for the official document,
which had just been presented
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ambassador. Mr. Lansing refused to
make a comment. President Wilson
began at once a careful study of the
document.
The president has the task of deciding
what shall he the course of the
United States. Three immediate
steps appear among the possibilities.
Another Solemn Warning.
The United States might solemnly
warn Germany against violation of
her pledges; it might be decided that
the German warning is sufficient notice
of an intention to disregard
? those pledges and a sufficient warrant
for breaking off diplomatic relations;
it might be decided to await
the results of the blockade and determine
the course of the United
States as the actual operations develop.
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On almost every side Germany's
drastic action is interpreted as an
open confession of the effectiveness
of the would-be blockade. It is regarded
as a determination to strike
back in defense.
German officials in the United
States estimate the food supply on
the British Isles will last a month.
Plan to Starve England.
Admittedly the plan is to carry
starvation to the doors of England
with swift, staggering strokes as a
fulfillment of Germany's announced
determination to use every weapon
and agency at her command to end
the war quickly. She counts on the
operations of an unheard of number
of submarines to deliver blows to
bring England to her knees within
sixty days. One German official here
predicted today the war would be
over in a month.
Conveyed to the world as her answer
to the refusal of the entente allies
to take peace, Germany's latest
warning says:
"From February 1, 1917, within
barred zones around Great Britain,
France, Italy and in the Eastern
Mediterranean ... all sea traffic
forthwith will be opposed."
Renewal of Proclamation.
It virtually is a renewal and an
extension of the celebrated submarine
blockade of the British Isles proclaimed
February 4, 1915, and which
became effective February 18, 1915,
Under it ships were sunk without
warning until Germany abandoned
the practice and gave her assurances,
f in the Sussex case, to abide by international
law. The Lusitania, Fala
ba and scores of otner snips were
sunk under the decree.
American citizens and American
ships are warned from entering the
war zones, although certain precautionary
measures are suggested, for
distinguishing American steamers
not carrying contraband according
to the German list. These conditions
in almost the same form were
rejected when proposed by Germany
early in the negotiations over the
Lusitania. At that time Germany
proposed to guarantee immunity
from attack to certain specified passenger
ships sailing on prescribed
courses with distinguishing marks
and carrying no contraband. President
Wilson rejected the proposal
promptly on the ground that the
United States was contending only
for its rights.
Hack to Sussex Case.
The new German proclamation
brushes aside the perplexing collateral
issues which have surrounded
the submarine controversy and has
brought it back to the point where
it was left at the conclusion of the
Sussex case.
Today's announcement reciting
the refusal of Germany's enemies to
discuss her peace proposals and referring
to the starvation blockade
says:
"Thus a new situation has sprung
up which forces Germany also to new
which forces Germany valso to new
decisions."
The new decision is exactly the one
forecast when the Sussex negotiations
were closed.
In the note conveying her pledges
to keep submarine activities within
international law Germany included
a threat of resumption if the United
States did not. succeed in lifting British
restrictions on commerce to Germany
and the European neutrals and
the United States in reply expressly
warned Germany that her pledges
must be absolutely unconditional.
From Sussex Note.
"Neutrals," said Germany in the
Sussex note, "cannot expect that
Germany, forced to fight for her existence,
shall for the sake of neutral
interest restrict the use of an effective
weapon if her enemy is permitted
to continue to apply at will
methods of warfare violating the
rules of international law. . . .
Should the steps taken by the United
States not attain the object ... to
have the laws of humanity followed
by all belligerent nations, the German
government would then be facing
a new situation in which it must
reserve to itself complete liberty of
decision."
To any such reservations the United
States demurred in no uncertain
terms. "The
United States feels it necessary
to state," said President Wilson's
reply, "that it takes it
fof granted that the imperial German
government does not intend to
irv.riiv that thp maintenance of its
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newly-announced policy is in any
way contingent on the course or result
of diplomatic negotiations between
the government of the United
States and any other belligerent government,
notwithstanding the fact
that certain passages in the Imperial
government's note might appear to
be susceptible of that construction."
In completing the declaration that
there must be no misunderstanding
that rights of American citizens must
not be made subject to the conduct
of some other government, the note
concluded by saying:
"Responsibility in such matters is
single, not joint; absolute, not relative."
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Staggering Surprise.
The development today came as a
staggering surprise. For weeks inspired
authoritative and almost semiofficial
statements have been coming
from Berlin indicating an absolute
decision not to resume unrestricted
submarine warfare. The complete
agreement of the emperor, Chancellor
Von Bethmann-Hollweg, Gen Von
Hindenhurg and Gen. Von Ludendorff,
that four men in whose hands
Germany's destiny lies, has been
mentioned frequently in dispatches
passing the censor.
Information received only today,
however, shows that a very careful
campaign for the full use of sea
forces has been underway recently.
It has been urged as essential to Germany's
existence and it was represented
that it would be impossible
now for President Wilson to get the
American people behind him in a
declaration of war. Congress was
represented as opposed to war.
Germany, according to information
received here, realizes that her action
may result in a break of relations,
but Berlin officials are prepared for
the rupture. Tonight they were represented
as feeling that the only
other steps open to the United States
are the calling of a conference of
neutral nations to end the blockade
or the taking of some step which I
speedily would result in peace.
Not Von Tirpitz's Plan.
Information received from the
same source is that Admiral Von Tirpitz
or his followers hid absolutely
nothing to do with the new policy.
On the contrary, it was said tonight
that Von Tirpitz was not as has heretofore
been supposed, removed from
power because he advocated ruthless
submarine warfare, but because he
did not effectively carry out the campaign
he inaugurated.
From German quarters tonight
came the information that Germany
now has from 300 to 500 submarines
ready for the campaign.
The German view is that the new
policy will improve general prospects
of an early peace. Germany is represented
as still being ready to discuss
peace at any time. However, it is
declared that German officials both in
this country and in Berlin feel that
the declaration of changed policy
should make it clear that Germany
and her allies are in the war to the
last drop of blood.
Miss Rankin's Speeches.
Xetty Rankin in congress makes
1917 a most notable year. Now is
the time to subscribe for the Congressional
Record.?St. Louis PostDispatch.
SPANELL XOT GUILTY.
Granted Change of Venue for Trial on
Charge of Killing Col. Butler.
San Angelo, Texas, Feb. 1.?Harry
J. Spanell, who was found not guilty
in district court here today of the
killing of his wife, was granted
change of venue to Coleman county
on the indictment charging him with
having killed Lieut. Col. M. C. Butler,
and was released late today on
$5,000 bond. It was stated Spanell
probably will be placed on trial at
Coleman in May for the killing of
Butler. When news of his acq.uittal
was taken to Spanell's cell in the
countv iail he save vent to his emo
tion and sobbed his wife's name repeatedly.
Spectators who were in
the court room cheered when the verdict
was read.
NEGRO DEFEATS WEEVIL.
Routed Parasite From 250 Acres at
Cost of Fifteen Cents an Acre.
According to reports from Alabama,
a negro of that State has discovered
a method of combatting the
boll weevil, and has succeeded in
raising cotton which is not bothered
in the slightest by the pest. If these
reports are true, the negro's method
deserves investigation, and a thorough
test as to its efficiency. The
.Montgomery Advertiser describes the
method as follows:
"John McDuffie, a negro planter,
six miles east of the city, has worked
out a novel and seemingly certain
means of eradicating the boll weevil.
He had 250 acres of the finest cotton
in the county, and not a single wee
vil was ever found in it. On being
asked how he killed them, he said he
did not kill them, but prevents their
coming to his cotton. McDuffie is an
intelligent man, and originated the
method of running them away himself.
If it is a fact, as is claimed, he
has found the long sought method of
preventing the waste of millions of
dollars in the South through the
ravages of the pest.
"The method is simple. McDuffie
takes crude oil, tar and camphor
gum. He puts these in a pot and
boils them. With sufficient oil in the
mixture to make it liquid, he wets
common croker sacks in the mixture,
then squeezes them as dry as he
thinks necessary. He says if too
much of the mixture is used it will
kill the young cotton. The wet sacks
are fastened by a drag stick attached
to the plow beam. Each week the
crop is plowed and dragged over with
these saturated sacks, both sides of
the cotton getting a touch from the
fumes of the mixture. On going
down one side the sack touches lightly
one side, and when the plow returns
it touches the other side.
"This method costs about 15 cents
an acre, McDuffie says. He says he
used the method with success in
1915, and last year by having the
weevils out of the way. If it is a success,
and it seemingly is, this negro
has solved a problem that has confronted
the best brains in the South
vfor the past ten years."
Turkey has put bakeries under
government rule.
v TAX NOTICE.
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for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15th day of October, 1916, until the
15th day of March, 1917, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1917, until the 31st day of January,
1917, a penalty of one per cent, will
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to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1917, until the 15th
day of March, 1917, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
THE LEVY.
For State purposes 6 1-2 mills
For county purposes 7 mills
Constitutional school tax 3 mills
Total 14 1-2 mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills
Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 .....2 mills
Colston, No. 18 4 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills
Fishpond, No. 5 ,..2 mills
Govan, No. 11 4 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Heyward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills'
Lees, No. 23 4 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills
Olar, No. 8 9 mills
O* V/N in 9 millc
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Salem, No. 9 4 mills
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
except Confederate soldiers and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1916. are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1917.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October, 1916, until
the 1st dav of March, 1917.
G. A. JENNINGS,
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