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OTTOMAN EMPIRE QUITS
TURKEY'S PROPOSALS MEAN UN"
CONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
T Terms Include Free Passage of the
Dardanelles to the Allied
Fleet.
? Paris, Oct. 13.?The armistice between
the Allies and Turkey was
signed today at Mudros, on the Island
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oi Liemnos, in iuo Aegean. oca,
officially announced.
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London, Oct. 31-.?Reuter's Agency
has been informed that Great Britain
has officially received definite
' peace proposals from Turkey which
are regarded as tantamount to unconditional
surrender.
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Armistice Granted.
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London, Oct. 31.?The Turkish armistice
took effect at noon today. It
is impossible as yet to publish the
full terms of the armistice, but they
include the fre$ passage of the Allied
fleets through the Bosphorus to the
Black sea, the occupation of forts on
the Dardanelles and in the Bosphorus
. .necessary to sechre the passage of
the ships, and the immediate repara.<
tion of Allied prisoners of war.
The terms of the Turkish armistice,
which now are in operation, in*
'elude the free passage of the Dardanelles
to the Allied fleet, Sir George
, Cave, the home secretary, announced
in the House of Commons today,
i V Reparation of British.
Another condition is the immedi'
ate reparation of British war prison.'*>
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Other terms, it is learned, comprise
the occupation' of the forts of the
Dardanelles and Bosphorus necessary
to secure passage of the Allied warships
through the Bosphorus to the
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ffinjlar to Bulgaria's.
,V It is expected, however, the terms
wHl be much on the line of those
igiven Bulgaria, which amounted to
unconditional surrender, leaving territorial
questions to the peace conference.
Some uneasiness is depressed by
the newspapers over a report that the
Allies are prepared to make^a bar,
sain with Turkey by which she would
be left in possession of Armenia in res
turn for a tree passage of the Dardanelles
to enablp the Allies to deal
with the German controlled Black
seft fleet. However, it is most proD
able that free passage of the straits
will be demanded unconditionally. '
A reply was sent that if the Turkish
government sent fully accredited
plenipotentiaries, Vice Admiral Calthrope,
the British cofhmander, was.
empowered to inform them of the
conditions upon which the Allies
would agree to stop hostilities and
could sign an armistice on the conditions
in their behalf.
The "Turkish plenipotentiaries ar*0;
rived at Mudros Island, off Lpmnos,
e&rly this week and an armistice was
signed by Admiral Calthorpe on behalf
of the Allied governments last
night, which will come into opera?'
- tton at noon today.
TO ENTER THE ARMY.
Senator Benet Offers for Chemical
Warfare Service.
Washington, uct. 31.?senator
Christie Benet today filed his* application
to enter the chemical warfare
service of the United States
army and took the physical examina
tion. It will probably be some days
before, he hears the result of his application.
The junior senator from South
Carolina had made his arrangements
^ for entering the army and had all
but completed the filing of his appli*
cation, when he was appointed to his
, present'position. What he is doing
now is merely carrying out his origi\
nal intention.
362,355 PRISONERS TAKEN.
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Result of Great Allied Offensive on
Western Front.
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Paris, Nov. 3.?Since the great offensive
began on the wester^ front,
on July 15 last, the Allied armies
have captured 362,355 prisoners, including
7,990 officers, as well as 6,217
cannons, 38,622 machine guns
^nd 3,907 mine throwers.
The Allies during the month of
October captured 108,343 prisoners,
including 2,472 officers, as ^ell as
2,064 cannon, 13,639 machine guns
and 1,193 mine-throwers.
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FIVE SCORE LIVES LOST.
On? Hundred Bodies Taken From
"Tunnel."
New York, Nov. 1.?Eightydive
bodies had been taken late tonight
from what is known as the Malbone
street "tunnel" on the Brighton
Beach line of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company, where a five car
train running at high speed jumped
the track on a curve and struck the
side wall with such terrific force that
the first car was demolished and the
others "buckled" until they were
jammed against the roof of the tun
nel.
. The crash occurred when the train
ahead, said to have been in charge of
a "green" motorman, jumped the
track at a switch and another train
running in the same direction plunged
into the rear cars.
The tragedy marked the first day
of a strike called by the company's
motormen to enforce the reinstatement
of 2 discharged members of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
as ordered by the national
labor board. Officials of the com*
pany professed three hours after the
accident to have no definite information
as to its cause. They said no
reports had been made to them by
members of the train crew.
District Attorney Lewis, of Kings
county, declared all the officials of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
and every person connected in any
way with the accident had been or\
dered placed under arrest. He asserted
that the company was withVinM<n(r
namo r?f thp mntnrmwn.
High Rate of Speed.
"There is no doubt," Mr. Lewis
said, "that the motorman of the
leading train was going at a high
rate of speed when he made the turn
into the cut. The front car jumped
the track and buckled. The train
following ran into the stalled car."
According to survivors of the
wreck the motorman evidently was
unused to the road, as he was compelled
to bach up at one point when
he had taken the wrong switch.
Both trains were jammed with
passengers as the strike had resulted
in a material reduction in service and
consequently delay.
Immediately aftef the crash the
wrecked cars burst into flames, adding
to the terror of those who had
escaped .injury and increasing the
peril of those pinned in the wreckage.
Police reserves from a dozen stations
were rushed to the scene of the
accident and they immediately sent
in calls for all the ambulances in
Brooklyn, while Manhattan hospitals
were asked for assistance. The fire
department was called upon to aid
the injured and remove the dead.
Rescue work was retarded by the
fact that the crash occurred in a deep
cut. It was difficult for relief workers
or survivors to labor up and
down the steep concrete walls of
what is - known as the Malbone
street "tunnel."
BRUTALITY OF HUNS SHOWN.
Documents Signed by German Commanders
Direct Destruction.
Washington, Oct. 30.?Documents
quoting .orders isued by German commanders
for the methodical destruction
of property and for the poisoning
of wells during the recent evacuation
of Belgian and French territory
have reached Washington.
'Among them is an order taken from
a prisoner, issued by the commander
of the One Hundred and Eighth Infantry
Brigade of the German army
on September 5, directing specifically
that certain villages be destroyed by
the rear guard.
Designated units are assigned to
the destruction of the villages named
and in addition the order states "it
is the duty of every one to participate
in these destructions," which
"are to be carried with method and
haste."
The order, which is signed "Week,"
presumably either the brigade commander
or his chief of staff, says "it
is recalled that wells are to be confaminafoH
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President Sends Cable.
Washington, Nov. 4.?President
Wilson today sent the following message
by cable to the king of Italy:
"May I not say how deeply and
sincerely the people of the United
States rejoice that the soil of Italy is
delivered from her enemies? In her
name I send your majesty and the
great Italian people the most enthusiastic
congratulations.
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON."
Read The Herald, $2.00 per year.
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[PRIVATE R. P. BELLI!
FRANCE AND HIS
j Headquarters Convalescent Camp,
Hospital Center, APO 780. Somewhere
in France, Oct. 1st, 1918.
Editor of The Herald:?If you remember,
as I was leaving home to
don the khaki you asked me to write
The Herald a letter occasionally. I
have thought many times of doing so,
but the strict rules of censorship
which prevail heretofore deterred
me from complying with your request,
and even now there are many
things which ordinarily I should like
I to say, but are not permissible. 1
am feeling fine and dandy and enjoying
the best of health. I am approximately
5,000 miles from home and
have exactly thirty-six cents to get
back on.
Perhaps your readers would be
glad to know something of the country
in which I am now located,
France, our great sister republic and
ally, the country of the almost sacred
heroine, Joan of Arc, and the birthplace
of one of the great heroes of
the American war for independence,
Marquis de * Lafayette; indeed, the
land of light wines, yellow jackets
and milk cows. You possibly have
also heard it dubbed the country of
beautiful women, but those folks who
termed it that had never been to
South Carolina. While there are
quite a few rather pretty girls, still,
I haven't found any growing on trees
ripe and ready to be. picked yet, and
if the country numbered as many
good looking women as it does yel
low jackets and milk cows France
would be far more interesting to a
young bachelor. And permit me to
say right here that my observations
thus far do not bear out the general
American idea of the low standard
of morals of France. ^
I first set foot upon the soil of
Europe's apostle of liberty early on
Tuesday morning, July 23rd, and
with a seventy-five-pound pack on
my-back and a Springfield rifle on
my shoulder marched through the
streets of a city of 100,000 inhabitants.
That's the day I whispered
to myself: "Lord, practicing law
was never like this." Here, as in all
other European cities of France, England
and Scotland which I have visited,
there was a noticeable, even
marked lack of the American business
hustle and enterprise. The next!
afternoon I boarded a train for a
ride of two nights and a day to the
little town in which we were to tie
quartered until sent into the imes.
French railway cars are not very
similar to those of America; they
do not have doors at each end, but
are partitioned into sections, with
about five sections to the car, each
section accommodating ten people
and having a separate entrance. The
passengers do not have individual
or double chairs or seats but all sit
together. There is a passageway at
the side in the interior of the car
which extends from one end to the
other, and on the outside there are
running boards from door to door
somewhat like those seen on some
American electric street railway
cars. The wheels are not solid, but
are constructed like cart wheels.
Sometimes if the roadbed is direct
and the engineer feeling well the
train might make as much as eight
or even ten miles per hour for a
short distance. \
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The little town to which I went is
situated in a broad rolling section
- with steep green hills rising almost
to the extent of mountains and broad
fertile valleys, all of which afford
beautiful surrounding scenery. The
town is nearly as big as Olar; yet
there is not a single store or place
of business in it save a cafe, or what
we in the States would term a bar
room. Incidentally it is operated by
and your drinks would be served by
a woman. Mark you, I said "your
drinks," not mine. -Towns nearly as
large as Bamberg have only two or
three stores and those Slightly smaller
have none at all. But they all
have their saloons. I have been ? to
quite a number of these villages and
one is typical of them all. The peo
pie get their necessities rrom wagons
which come through. When one
does find a store it is usually a little
dinky place about ten feet sq.uare in
a front room of the proprietor's
home. He does not stay in it for
business, but a bell is attached to
the door and as one enters it signals
to someone in the house that there
is a customer and out he comes to
wait on you. All of which is an indication.
of a strong sense of French
honesty and faith and confidence in
IGER WRITES OF
EXPERIENCES THERE
human nature, for if the customer
should be inclined to do so he could
of course get what he wished and
make his getaway before the storekeeper?I
shall not say merchant?
ever arrived on the scene of action.
Places which sell anything at all
usually keep wines and liquors with
their other scant lines. Nearly all
buildings are low hutty affairs, generally
one or two stories, scarcely
ever more than three, and there are
no skyscrapers even in the larger
cities. The buildings are all built
of stone and apparently have been
standing here for centuries just as
'the are now.
I found the people in the little
town clever and cordial, the girls
friendly and congenial. And singular
enough I dined several times in
French' homes and immensely enjoyed
the occasions. Water is not
served with the meals, but one may
have it upon request. Wine is always
the substitute, and even the
tiny tots nine or ten years old imbibe
freely. I quickly learned to
speak a few French words and expressions
and managed to make my
wants known usually, and with the
aid of signs could understand the
people fairly well, although I should
not dare try to rattle it Off as fast as
they for fear of tying my tongue in
a knot and contracting lock jaw.
The crops, principally wheat, oats,
grapes and truck, are abundant. All
farming is done with horses and one
never sees a mule. But a family
must be extremely poverty stricken
not >to possess a herd of from four
j to a dozen mjlk cows. That may
sound unreasonable, but they nearly
all have them just the same. I know
you wonder how big families get to be
4?t DtlAMAA 4 ihl-lTT A ^
ill rxauuc) uut tuw die jliuc ui#catcptional
siae or numbers. And yellow
jackets are thicker than the Germans
on the Hindenburg line and
nearly as big nuisance. Farm labor
as well as all other business continues
on Sunday just the same as'in the
week. All through France the roads
are simply marvelous, absolutely perfect.
And yet there is apparently
slight need for them, as one scarcely
ever sees an automobile except
American. army cars; there are no
(buggies, carriages or stages, and
j aside from an occasional cart or
wagon, bicycles are the only other
vehicles seen on the magnificent
highways. The cycles are quite common,
people riding them about from
town to town. There are no farm
houses whatever, but everybody lives
in the villages. This custom was begun
hundreds of years ago before
France progressed from an empire
to a republic, and was done with the
idea of holding the people together
for the sake of protection from outj
side tribesmen. The custom has
been followed to this day, and therefore
the little towns are naturally
inrafph vppv rlnsp tn^pthpr. and frnm
almost any village a person can get a
view of several others nearby.
So much for the rural communities;
let us now take a little trip to a
French city of 30,000 people not
very far from this place. A description
of it will give ah idea of all
the cities of like size, but of course
the larger ones are further advanced.
There are innumerable hotels. There
are no theatres, v no hacks or transfers,
no electric trolley cars, no paid
organized fire department such as our
American cities enjoy, only Catholic
churches and scarcely more than a
dozen automobiles. The streets are
very narrow and remind one a little
of Charleston, though not even as
wide as those of our own "City by the
Sea." A visit to a French barber
shop?I think curiosity shop would
bd a more appropriate name?is interesting,
not to say amusing. There
are no reclining chairs, but a patron
sits absolutely erect and in the same
position for a shave as for a hair cut.
Here also one has the exquisite
pleasure of washing his own face after
a shave, as that is evidently beneath
the barber's dignity, so he
makes you do it yourself. I purchased
a shave, hair cut, shampoo and tonic
all for the modest sum of thirty-six
cents. A hair cut alone costs twelve
cents. But 'tis not so wi^h eatables,
even though raany varieties and articles
of foodstuffs are apparently
plentiful. For instance, with the
thousands of milk cows, butter sells
for $1.50 a pound. I have seen hundreds
upon hundreds of fat sassy
looking chickens, but you couldn't
buy one with half of Wall Street, and
I eggs are a dollar a dozen. One small
FATS AND OILS FROM DEAD HUNS
Cape. G. A. Blair Confirms in Letter
Story of Horrible Practice.
Greenville, Nov. 1.?Apparent confirmation
of the charge that the Germans
"render" the bodies of their
dead soldiers in order to secure oils
and fats is contained in a letter made
public here by Miss Myrtle E. Blair,
from her husband, Capt. George A.
Blair, of the One Hundred and Seventeenth
Infantry (the old Third
Tennessee of the Thirtieth Divisioif),
which was trained at Camp
Sevier and which has been in the thick
of the fighting during the past
few months in the Cambrai area.
After describing some of the fighting,
Captain Blair, according to a
copy of the letter which Mrs. Blair
has permitted to be used by the newsnnnpirs.
savs: "I saw something* to
day that I had heard of before?but
never believed, that was the Boche
making grease of their dead. I went
into an underground passage way,
climbed a winding stair to a long
room where there was a long table
used for the dismembering and cutting
up of the bodies. At one end
the bodies were piled high, several
layers deep, while on the other side
were three huge kettles, with parts
of the bodies in them ready to 'render.'
I saw a head and different
parts of the body in one kettle which
had been left in haste. I have seen a
lot which is inclined to harden us to
the horrors of war, but this to me
was the most horrible."
PikLMETTO LAD WINS AGAIN.
William Palmer, of Bennettsville,
Downs Third Plane.
With American Army Northwest
of Verdun, Thursday, Oct. 31.?
Lieut. Jacques Swaab, of New York
city, is the newest American "ace."
Today he downed his fifth German
aviator, who fell within the American
lines at Verdun.
In an air duel Swaab fired more
than 20.0 bullets at the German, the
last few of them at a distance of
.about 200 feet. v t
? tLieut. William Palmer, 9f Ben- >
nettsville, S. C., downed an enemy
plane today, making his third.
peach is priced at fifteen cents, while
a medium sized bar of chocolate >
brings forty cents. The price of all
labor or service of any kind can be
compared or measured proportionately
to the, barber prices. And I
suppose a lawyer's fee in an important
murder case which would probably
require a week to try would be
around $3.25, while his board for
the same period would amount to
about fifty dollars. Please don't
ask me how the people live?I don't
know, except to say that they buy
very little and raise practically all
necessary provisions and supplies
for their own use.
My duties here at this place are
concerned entirely with the legal
matters of the camp, that is the
court-martial proceedings, and are
therefore pleasant and very interesting
to me, and I also think the work
will be of vast benefit to me from a
professional standpoint after it's all
"over over here," and I return to
God's own country. I am required
to familiarize myself with military
criminal law. (censored.)
I arrived in Europe on July 17 th,and
since that time have not heard
a word from back home,, I have moved
about so rapidly. However, I was
fortunate enough to receive two copies
of The Herald, the issue of July
4th and that of the 18th. And if
you feel that it would be a compliment
to the paper upon my return
I'll recite by heart for you the full
contents of both issues. I have not
seen one soul whom I knew before
my induction into the army, although
I have hundreds of former acquaintn?noo
nn fhia ciHo nf thp nnn T
have only met six men from South
Carolina; the last one of these I saw
about a month ago. The majority
of those with whom I have come in
contact or been associated are from
the West. Still, I should not say
that I am exactly homesick, even
though it would be a revelation to
once in a while run into somebody
from God's chosen spot, and in fact,
I have more than once wondered
why the world's entire population
has not taken advantage of its opportunity
and * at least attempt to
setle in Bamberg county.
When I get an opportunity to
"Pace the gates in gay Paree,'.' if you
think it's worth reading I shall try to
write another letter. With my very
kindest regards to you and the other
folks back home, I am very sincerely
yours,
PRIVATE R. P. BELLINGER.
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AUSTRIA FOLLOWS TURKEY
DUAL MONARCHY MAKES UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER.
Armistice Became Effective Monday
Afternoon.?Italian Troops
Occupy Trieste.
London, Nov. 3.?Austria is out of
the war.
At 3 o'clock Monday afternoon the
armistice, signed this afternoon, will
go into effect. By that time a greater
part of "Italia Irredenta" will be occupied
by Italian troops.
Trieste, Austria's chief seaport and
the heart of the whole Irredenta
movement, already is in Italian
hands. Strong forces were landed
by Italian warships.
Trent, capital of the Trentino,
Italy's "lost province," swarms with
Italian troops. Udine, the gate to
Venetia, is Italian once more. What
Austrians are still on Venetian soil
are dead, wounded or prisoners.
One hundred thousand captives and
2,200 guns have been counted-by the
victors up to late this afternoon.
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Italy refused to grant an armistice
as long as the enemy stood upon her
soil. That is the reason for letting
fully 12 hours elapse before the ar- : /
mistice becomes operative.- Those 12
hours will be taken up by a cleaningout
process.
First news that the armistice was
signed was made public here shortly
after Premier Lloyd-George had tele- 2
phoned it from Paris. The terms will
be published Tuesday.
They are understood to amount to
unconditional surrender.
S. C. MAN CITED.
Lieut. E. W. Springs Brings Down
German Planes.
Lancaster, Oct. 30.?The War Department
on October 26, gave out a
list of names of American aviators
fighting with the British royal flying
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planes from September 9 to 22. -The
name of Lieut. Eliott W. Springs is
again cited among others for distin- >
guiahed bravery in bringing down enemy
planes.
Col. Leroy Springs has received a
letter, dated September 20, from his <
son, Lieut. Springs, stating he had
brought down nine German planes
for which he was officially credited
by . the British government, that he
thinks he brought down six others
over the German lines for which he
has not been able to get official confirmation.
Lieut. Springs has been fighting
actively on the front since the 25th
of May, with the exception of the
month of July, when he was in a
hospital, owing to a smashup of his
machine the latter part of June. He
wrote that in a short time he would
have been in every drome in France.
The war department gives Lieut.
Springs's address as Lancaster, Pa.,
and his friends in South Carolina
will object to Pennsylvania claiming
him, though it is obviously a clerical
error that his address is not properly
given.
Girl Takes Her Life.
New York, Oct. 30.?Police reserves
guarded house tops and fire
escapes in Harlem today to prevent
any outbreak of violence among
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thousands of persons watching the
funeral cortege of 13-year-old Sadie
Dellon, who killed serself Saturday
because boys had stoned a small Jewish
flag which she displayed in honor
of her brother serving with the American
expeditionary forces.
After the flag had been stoned and
jeered at and the girl herself had
been struck by boys in the street, it
is said, the flag was taken down. The
girl barricaded herself in her father's
store and drank poison. When patrolmen
broke into the shop she was
found dead and beside her body lay
a note reading: "I cannot see my
flag insulted. Good bye all."
Negro Troops Marooned.
Asheville, N. C., Oct. 30.?Efforts
were being made at Brevard and Pisgah
Forest station today to send food
and other supplies to the 2,000 negro
soldiers and officers marooned in the
"Pink Beds" where they have been
getting out timber for use of the .
United States training camps. The
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the railroad and dirt road and a number
of the mules used in lumber operations
were drowned. The soldiers *
will devote the next few days to repairing
the dirt road to Pisgah station
and the railroad which was destroyed.
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