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ARMY DRAFT CANCELLED
TELEGRAMS SENT TO BOARDS BY
GENERAL CROWDER.
Since August, 1917, Nation Has Call\
ed Into the Service 2,700,000
Citizens.
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Washington, Nov. 11.?Almost the
first action of the War Department
today after announcement of the
signing of the armistice with Germany
was the cancellation of all
army draft calls under which more
than 300,000 men had been ordered
to entrain for camps before November
30.
Urgent telegrams, prepared three
days ago at the dictation of Provost
Marshal Gen. Crowder, were sent to
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all draft boards, directing them that
the movement of 252,000 men under
orders to entrain between today and
Friday, be stopped immediately. The
_/ telegrams reached most of the boards
? in time, but a few men. are known to*
have started for camp. Secretary Baker
said, however, that wherever pos^*
sible their immediate return to civil
life would be arranged.
"I have suspended further calls
under the draft and inductions," Mr.
Baker said. "There will be for the
present no additional men brought
""ih. under the draft, and to the extent
that we can we will turn back those
l /.inen who have been entrained and
I have not yet reached - training
L camps.'5
F Honorably Discharged.
The provost marshal general's office
had no estimate of the number on
trains before the cancelling order was
issued^ All men assembled f6r enr?
training are to be considered as honhonorably
discharged from the army ,
and paid accordingly. Until further
notice no inductions or calls, except
i for the naVy and marine corps, will
be permitted. One call for a few
thousand of men for the navy is now
in preparation, but volunteers to date
have more than filled requirements
Of the navy and marine corps.
Since August, 1917, when the first
calls were issued under the army
i draft law, 2,700,000 men have been
inducted inte the army. Practically
{ all physically qualified men between
the ages of twenty-one and thirtyone
who were placed in class 1 are
now in the service. The men who
were to have moved to camp this ;
month were of the registrants enroll
I s ed September 12.
q V Many "of the men who were under
1' orders to move this week were origij
nally directed to entrain in October
but their movement was held up because
of the epidemic of Inffuenza in
the army camps last month.
/ Status of Draftees.
Gen. Crowder announced that registrants
whose induction orders are
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cancelled cr who are discharged after
their entrainment for camps will revert
to the status existing at the time
the original induction order was is.
sued, this to include resumption of
their order and serial numbers.
It also was specifically announced
.that nothing in the. cancellation of
the calls shall operate to relieve from
the consequences of his acts any registrant
who has heretofore become
i ^ delinquent or deserter.
By order of Secretary Baker, the
provost marshal general today directed
local and district boards to
"continue to completion as expeditiously
as possible the classification
of all registrants who on September
V 12 had attained their 37th birthday."
The boards were also directed at the
earliest possible^ moment to issue
questionaires to all 18-year-old
youths who registered September 12
and tn ^omnlete their classification
as early as possible.
Gen. Crowder, however, directed
the boards to discontinue immediately
"all work connected with the classification
of men who on September 12
had attained their 37th birthday and
had not attained their 46th birthday."
Congratulated By Baker.
"In entering," said Mr. Baker's
order to Gen. Crowder, "upon what
seems in view of the mighty events
of the day to be the final work of this
| - character to be done by the select!
ive service system, I extend to the
members of that system my personal
congratulations upon their truly
t. great achievements of the past year
and a half, accomplishments that
! have taxed to the utmost the time,
the ability and the endurance of ail
those engaged in the work and that
have furnished the army to which in
i large measure must be given the
credit for saving to the world both
civilization .and government by the
people. To you, members of that
system, must come a sense of duty
i well done which a loyalty, patriotism
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NEW SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY.
Would Be Formed From Parts of
Barnwell and Hampton.
Columbia, Nov. 7.?A petition was
filed in the office of Governor Manning
today asking for the appointment
of a commission and the ordering
of an- election to decide on the
formation of the proposed new county i
of Allen with Allendale as the county
seat. The proposed county is to be
formed from parts of Barnwell and
Hampton counties and would Contain
412 square miles. The petition says
that the territory contained in the
area of the proposed county will contain
more than 15,000 inhabitants
and an assessed taxable property (of
more" than $2,000,000.
No action has been taken on the
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mailer uy vjuveruui" luauuiug aa ne is
iu Atlanta today attending a conference
of.representatives of the cotton
growing states for the purpose of perfecting
a holding movement to stabilize
the# price of the staple.
The petition gives the boundaries
of the proposed new county as follows:
"Beginning at a point on the Savannah
river on the South Carolina
and Georgia boundary line opposite
Steel landing and running in a northerly
direction to a stake at Steel
landing; thence a straight line north
43 degrees east about 6.12 miles to a
stake at or near the intersection of
the Barnwell-Robbins public road
with a road leading to Millett; thence
south 73 degrees east about 5.23
miles to a stake at or near Stinson's
bridge on Lower Three Runs; thence
south 70 degrees east obout 5.50
miles to a stake at or near Goodson's
mill site; thence east about
4.72 miles to a stake on Wall branch;
thence down the run of Wall branch
to the Barnwell-Bamberg county line;
thence down the Barnwell-Bamberg
county line to its intersection with
the Barnwell-Hampton county
line to its intersection with the
eastern edge of the right of
way of the Seaboard Air Line railway";
thence in a southerly direction
along the'eastern edge of the railway
Hght of way to a stake eight
miles and 200 feet from the Hampton "
county court house; thence in a westerly
direction to the confluence of
Beach branch with the Coosawhatchie
river; thence up the run of Beach
ibranch to its intersection with the
eastern edge of the right of way of
the Southern Railway Company;
thence southerly along the eastern
edge of the right of way 3.78 miles to
a stake.
"Thence south 49 1-2 degrees west
1.68 miles to the junction of the Hudson
Ferry Road and the Sisters Ferry
Road; thence southerly along the
south side of the Hudson Ferry Road
to a stake about one-half mile above
the Long Creek bridge; 'thence in a
straight line south 71 degrees west
about 1,75 miles to a stake on the
east side of the river road; thence in
a straight line south 55 degrees west
1 ft 1Ai foot tn n ctnko hpfwpen an
ironwood tree and a small branch;
thence west 3,306 feet to a stake on
the east side of the Savannah river; .
thence continuing west to a point in
the Savannah river in the South Carolina-Georgia
State line; thence northerly
along the South Carolina-Georgia
State line to the point_of beginning."
BENET'S CAPITOL SERVICE ENDS.
South Carolina Senator Making Motor
Trip Home.
Washington, Nov. 7.?Senator
Benet wound up his official work in
Washington today and left in an
automobile with Mrs. Benet for Columbia.
They expect to reach home
about Sunday.
He had a conference with the secretary
of war this morning and took
up with him the question of getting
no 0110 Hr Hofra the Thirtieth Divis- I
vaouauj Aigwo vi v^v
Ion. "I hope some announcement will
be made about it shortly," Senator
Benet said.
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The country and the world knows
that it owes to you a debt of thanks
and gratitude which cannot be measured
by words but only by the affection,
the respect, and r.he esteem, now
yours, of those among whom you
live and from whom you have taken
that which was beyond price."
In transmitting Secretary Baker's
order to the Stale draft executives
and lpcal and distric boards, Gen.
Crowder added his personal congratulations
upon their "truly great
achievements of the past year and
a half."
GERMANY YIELDS TO
EQUIVALENT TO A
Nov. 12.?Vivtory and?peave! 1
After more .than four years of J
struggling the rights of mankind are j
served. The greatest day in the history
of nations has dawned.
The German militaristic classes?!
arrogant beyond expression?are in j
defeat.
Kaiser and Crown Prince are in
flight?refugees in an alien country.
Germanic kings and potentates no
longer hold their sway.
The Allied arms are triumphant.
Imperialistic Germany has met the
fate that ultimately must come to
any country that seeks to rule the
world.
Deserted by her allies, Germany,
on her knees, is accepting terms of
capitulation wnicn amount virtually j
to abject surrender. Except for actual
hostile military invasion, the
once great European power, the ambition
of the monarch of which was
to dominate over all, is in complete
defeat.
Edict of Allies. /
Beaten on the field of battle, the
edict of the Allied chief command is]
that the German armies shall retire')
into their own home land from all
invaded . territory. Impotent as the
German armies shall be, also as impotent
shall be the German fleet.
Colonies are lost and the hand that
sought to reach out and attain additional
territory is withered by the
ruling of the Supreme War Council
at Versailles.
Reparation and restitution, in fact,
full compensation' of all kinds, is to
be made by Germany for all the disaster
that has followed her armies1
and those of her allies throughout)
the world war.
Handwriting On Wall.
The handwriting was on the wall
for Germany. Her troops had fought
valiantly throughout the more than
four years of warfare. But what had
been considered in Germany an invincible
army was beaten in feats of
of arms by the Allied Powers. Even
before Germany's allies deserted her
the strength of the Entente Allies I
hnrt hr?nme? annarftnt TTnnrpr>?rf>ri_ I
they had resisted more than four
years the assaults of an enemy who
had been preparing for combat since
the Franco-Prussian war.
With a determination that could .
never recognize defeat, Belgium, j
France, Italy, Serbia, and Russia i
were overrun. Hard days were ex-!
perienced by the Allies, but the smiie j
of hopefulness of satisfaction in ulti- j
mate success;?never faded. When
finally the United ^States was drawn
into the war by Germany's continued j
violations of international law and j
of the precepts of humanity, the'
gleam of the dawn of victory for)
world democracy rose in the sky.
Saved by White Flag.
On the field of battle in France j
and Belgium the Germans were fast
being defeated when they flew the j
white flag of submission and asked
for terms of peace. Everywhere, from
the Belgian coast to the Moselle
river, the Allies were pressing them.
It was only a matter of time when
their armies would be decisively
beaten on the battlefield. Their gr^at
fortified lines of resistance had
crumpled successively under the impetus
of the attacks of their foes.
They were being harried everywhere I
frnm nillpT- rmct TCvpti thp ?rpat I
Rhine fortifications, it was foreseen,
would prove no barrier to the onward
rush of the victorious armies.
Hence, Germany, deserted by her allies,
? recognized that defeat stared
her in the face and capitulated.
For Germany as a nation?shorn
of her imperialistic and militaristic
powers?the defeat may not prove in
the long run of disadvantage. Already
the revolutions throughout the
country are tending towards democratization,
which may prove the salvation
of a country on^e controlled
by war lords.
Fighting Stoj>s.
Fighting on the battle/fronts end- j
ed at 6 o'clock Monday morning,
Eastern time, in the United States
The armies of the Allies at that time
were hard harrying the enemy.
The British troops were fighting
their foes across the Belgian frontier
in Belgium'. The French had all but
cleared the Germans from Northern
France. The Americans were driving
northward up the Meuse and Moselle
rivers, threatening the enemy with
capitulation by envelopment.
The hostilities ended on the eleventh
hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month of 1918. The Ameri
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ALLIED ARMS;
iBSOLDTE SURRENDER
| can infantrymen, in true sportsman[
like fashion, kept the time. Their
eyes were on their wrist watches as
they advanced up the Meuse and Moselle
sectors, in the fear that they
would fire a shot after the stipulated
time for the cessation of hostilities
arrived. Not 'one whit less exact in
their sportsmanship were the American
artillerymen behind the lines,
i -iTr>ir? ?>-cl'q tn tho cor>/"krt A tlio time*
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for the calling off of the fighting and
then loosed from their big guns?a'
thousand of them?a rain of shells as
a parting salute to the defeated foe.
Terms of Armistice.
Washington, Nov. 11.?The strictly
military terms of the armistice are
embraced in eleven specifications
which include the evacuation of all
invaded territories, the withdrawal
of the German troops from the left
bank of the Rhine and the surrender
of all supplies of war.
The terms also provide for the
abandonment by. Germany of the
treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk.
The naval terms provide for the
surrender of one hundred and sixty
submarines, fifty destroyers, six battle
cruisers, ten battleships, eight
light cruisers and other miscellan
eous ships. Beside the surrender of
160 submarines, it is required that
all others shall have their crews paid
off, put out of commission and placed
under the supervision of the Allied
and American naval forces.
All Allied vessels in German hands
arfe to be surrendered and Germany
is to notify neutrals that they are
free to trade at once on the seas with
the Allied countries.
Among the financial terms included
are restitution for damage done
by the German armies; restitution of
the cash taken from the' National
Bank of Belgium and return of gold
taken from Russia and Rumania. The
military terms include the surrender
of 5,000 guns, half field and
half light artillery; 30,000 machine
guns; 3,000 flame throwers and 2,000
airplanes.
The surrender o? 5,000 locomotives,
50,000 wagons, 10,000 motor
lorries, the railways of Alsace-Lorraine
for use by the Allies and stores
of coal and iron also are included.
The immediate reparation of all
Allied and American prisoners without
reciprocal action of the Allies
also is included. \
In connection with the abandoning
of the left bank of the Rhine it is
provided that the Allies' shall hold
the crossings of the river at Coble nz,
Cologne and Mayence, together with
bridgeheads in a thirty kilometer
radius.
The right bank of the Rhine und
that occupied by the Allies is to be
come a neutral zone and t&e hank j
held by the Germans is to be evacuated
in nineteen days, but the President
spoke of the war as "coming; to
an end."
The repatrition of the thousands
of civilians deported from France
and Belgium within ^fourteen days
also is required.
Freedom of access to the Baltic,
with power to occupy German forts
in the Kattegat, is another provision.
The Germans must also reveal mines,
poisoned wells and like agencies of
destruction and the Allied tyockade
is to remain unchanged during the
period of armistice.
AH ports on the Black sea occupied
by Germans are to be surrendered
and the Russian war vessels rer>*?ntlv
tnlrpn hv tho fjprman naval
forces also are to be surrendered to
the Allies.
These are the "high spots" of the
terms as the President read them
to congress. Germany's acceptance
of them, he said, signalized the end
of the war, because it made her powerless
to renew it.
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STRENGTH OF U. S. ARMY.
Total of 3,764,677 When Hostilities
Ceased.
Washington, Nov. 11.?The^American
army had reached a total
strength of 3,764,677 men when hostilities
ceased today, according to
official figures at the War Department.
Of that number 2,200,000
had been sent to France, Italy or
Russia. The remainder were under
arms in camps in this country.
11 What Has Been Done By America.
Washington.?America's entrance
in to the great war in April, 1917,
sounded the doom of German hopes
for the conquest of the world. The
crumbling of the central powers was
a?ciir<ari in view nf tho HramaH'. of_
forts put forth by this nation to bring
a quick and complete victory. Here
are some of the things America has
accomplished in her 19 months at
war:
Increased her army from 212,034
officers and men to approximately
3,700,000 officers and men.
Increased her navy from 82,237
officers and men to approximately
550,000 officers and men.
Landed the first contingent of the
expeditionary forces safely at a
French port in 88 days after declaring
war.
American destroyers arrived at a
British port to assist in patrol work
28 days after war was declared.
American troops went into the line
for their baptism of fire 187 days af- >
ter we entered the war.
American troops permanently took
over a part of the firing line in January,
1918, or nine months after entering
the war.
Over. 2,000,000 American troops
had arrived in Europe when the war
ended. Most of these had participated
in major fighting.
And meantime America has poured
out its gold to aid its associates > in
the war. A total of $7t732,967,666
have been loaned to the allies as
follows: Great Britain $3,745,003,000;
France $2,365,000,000; Italy,
$1,060,000,000; Belgium, $183,540,000;
Cuba, $15,000,000; Greece,
$15,790,000; Serbia, $12,000,000;
Rumania $6,666,666; Liberia, $5,000,000,
and Russia has been given a
credit of $325,000,000 of which only
$187,500,000 was paid before her collapse.
And to meet these loans and other
war bills, the American people have
contributed during the period $22,752,991,800,
divided as follows:
Liberty Loans, $16,850,471,000;
War Savings $760,600,000, and revenues
from taxes,, customs, etc., $5,181,975,000.
Expenditures forx the war totalled
to November 1st, approximately $20,*43,471,000.
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Great cantonments for training
troops have been erected all over
the country. Huge munitions plants are
under construction costing scores
of millions. Machine guns are being
produced now at the' rate of 620 a
day and 3 1-2 inch shells at the rate
of 45 a day.
Hundreds of new naval vessels of
all types from the biggest battleships
afloat to Eagle boats are under construction
or contracted for.
In th? field of aircraft production
this country had produced here 9,674
planes up to mid-October and 24,672
engines. In addition we had acquired
abroad 3,129 planes and engines and
production was going forward at a
rapid pace.
Our shipbuilding record has astonished
the world. During the war 1
period 732 ships -were launched of
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which 471 of a total 01 i.no.uuu
deadweight tons have been completed
and are in service. A total of 1,417
ships?7,326,000-deadweight tons? 1
were flying the Ainerican flag on No- 1
vember 1st. Eight hundred and f
ninety-one.1 additional ships of ap- i
proximately 2,500,000 deadweight
tons are under control of the ship- i
building board. <
Shipyard employees have increased i
from 50,000 before the war to more '
than 400,000 men now. The payroll
nf these men averages more than
$10,500,000 weekly. 1
To meet the giants efforts of Ameri- 3
ca, congr :ss early in the war appro- 3
priated over $50,000,000,000 included
in which were autnorizations for
$10,000,000,000 in loans to the al- 1
lies. %
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Of the great appropriations over .
$23,000,000,000 were set aside for (
the building up and maintenance of 1
the army, including all supplies and 1
fortifications. <
Among the other appropriations 1
were the following: (
Shipbuilding, $2,892,000,000; air- 1
craft, $1,584,000,000; navy, $2,882,- (
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REVOLUTION IN GERMANY
FOURTEEN STATES SECURELY IN
HANDS OF SOCIALISTS.
Deputy Ebert Forms Committee to
Act in Conjunction With Soldiers
and Workmen.
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Copenhagen, Nov. 11.?The revolution
in Germany is, to all intents
and purposes, an accepted fact.
The revolt has not yet spread
through the whole empire, but fourteen
of the twenty-six States, including
all the ,four kingdoms and all
other important States, are reported
securely in the hands of the revolutionists.
The small States which apparently
are not yet affected cannot hope, it
is believed -here, to stay the triumphal
progress of the Socialists.
The Kingdom of Wurtemburg has
been declared a republic and the
Kin^ has announced he will not
stand in the way of of any movement
demanded by a majority of the pople.
The free cities of Hamburg, Bremen
and Luebeck are ruled by Socialists.
In the Grand Duchies of
Oldenburg, Baden, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
and MecklenbergStrelitz,
the power of the rulers is
gone. The Grand Dukes are conferring
with delegations and promising
all reforms demanded, but their
thrones are tottering.
In Berlin great street demonstrations
took place Sunday, the marchers
carrying banners with the inscription
"freedom, peace and bread"
and singing the workingmen's Marseillaise.
The Socialist leaders Goehre
and Sudekum, who are offers
in the Landwehr, have issued an appeal
to all officers not to projre useless
bloodshed.
Deputy Ebert and other pai;ty leaders
have formed a committee of
twelve men, representing the larger
political factions, to facilitate cooperation
with the Soldiers Council:
No German press comment on the
situation has reached Copenhagen
over the Socialist-controlled wires,
except a brief appeal by Germania*
the Centrist organ to the people to
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reuieniuer irnxi cue auuyuuu ui uur
shevism would mean coninued war
with the Allies and misery for the
people. The independent Socialists,
according to a'special dispatch to the
Berlinske Tindende are demanding
further concessions.
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NOT NECESSARY TO FIX PRICE. ">
Cotton Committee Will So Report to
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President Wilson.
Washington, Nov. 7.?Fixing of
prices of raw cotton is unnecessary
and impracticable, President Wilson
will be told by the cotton investigating
committee of the War Industries
Board. This announcement was made
tonight by Dr. Thomas W. Page,
chairman of the committee. *
The committee's conclusion, Dr. -s
Page said, was based on the fact that
there is no prospective shortage of
cotton and the belief that the cotton
distriDution committee can secure a
proportionate marketing of the low- N
er as well as.- the higher grades of
cotton more effectively by other
methods. Continuance of the work
of this committee is recommended.
Dr. Page's statement was said to
embody the essential points of the
report which the committee will pre- x
sent soon to the President. It is
said that there would be no way of
enforcing a fixed price except through
"the readiness of the government to
purchase" the entire crop.
This, the statement continued,
would involve the closing of cotton
exchanges, while merchants, bankers,
or other intermediaries would be
seriously affected, and many probably
put entirely out of business.
The establishment at great cost of a
government system of inspection and
certification also would be necessary,
it was said, if price fixing was undertaken.
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)00,000; railroad, $500,000,000; war
finance corporation, $500,000,000;
war insurance, $221,400,000; interest
on the public debt; $588,000,000;
food administration including the
jrain Corporation, $162,385,000, and
for fuel administration, $2,618,000,)00.
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