Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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l*1 mind that all^u^l \ soiptioM to The HerA aid must now be paid ^v, . \ a/Y&W- in -advance. This is the <A <d r^^ttthe law, and we will 77| U** A&Hili ItliUft 4itlt^ft!n forTw^ch uTdatr JStf uiiiP liiamnprn mipriiiii ?*& I V*J4 * * Vt*<M -.to any of'the copi<*. Us, 00 Per Year, in Advance. BAMBEBG, S. C., THUBSDAY, JANUABY 2,19i8j Established in 1891. I as ' 1 t 2} NATIONS lli MESS: ijr? / .- L jfc Pdrc^TAL MEMBERSHIP Wfl|L BE 100 TO 120 DELEGATE. Americans Express Hope That Actual Negotiations Will Begin Early in January. yjj ,? Paris, Dec. 26.?The personnel of the peace congress graduajy is taking /' f&rm, so that the American delegates I express the hope that the various ? countries' delegates will )e announct ed and the delegates arrive for the I actual commencement ?f the negoj tiations soon after we evening of the I year. I r / A number of ti m/jin details of ? the composition of? the congress are I a^e n^pw fairly welfisetued as a result I pi recent confereacesl These indi1 cate that the torn! rpmbership of I the congress will ? between 100 and f ^0. Twenty-seyefr. c^tAtries will be r presented by delegates, including I those which declared war and a numr her which have cine into existence I asA result of the war* P Five Representatives. 8 The great Poviersf notably Great & Britain, France, the United States m and Italy, each hate slotted five dele| gates, while thb otherdelegations will B vary from one to foir members, ac| cording to the size oithe country and g the interests involve!, f Word has been iceived that the I Belgian and Portustese delegations f soon will join the j^presentatives of ? the United States, &ho thus far are I the only members? the peace conr gress to arrive, lie non-arrival of w the, others has beci the subject of v considerable surprise and adverse ? comment, the Americans taking the [ground that they fre here ready to proceed to business hut with the personnel of the covress not yet an pounced. It is understood that President Wilson's visitto England is likely to result in cy eying quite defl* nitely the view tat it is highly desirable that * the ? ngress should be I pm. Into motion -Hp the least possible delay. I Une il Lists. F While the ijrnnel of few delegations have tS| announced, unofflcial advices ^ftats that most qf f them will be f Bed substantially as j ^ follows:, ' w'"f F Belgium?P I I yams, foreign t V minister; Emil w&iai erwelde, minisl^t^ojyustice; : lonlv an Den Heuvel, I minister to thclatMn. * Portugal?slfcr Egas Moniz, For\ CignMinister 57 IritD Santo Lima, See nor Friere de Indre, Senor Santos \ Vlga and Augu.ap Vasconceilos, minister of the coldies. I , H:4 Brazil?Nilo Jecaaha, foreign min\ later; Buy Baiosa, Admiral Huet :? Baoellar and Gel. Thompowsky. t Japan?Viscoint Chinda, ambassa^ dor to Great BStain; Baron Matsui, j ambassador to prance, and two other || delegates npwJna their way to Paris. % Serbia?Nina P. Pachitch, pre| mier; Dr. M.ftt. Vesnitch and Dr. ii Cumbitch. ] j Greece?PreLier Venizelos and M. * Politis, foreignjminister. Italy, Eigland, France. ; I Italy?Premier Orlando, Baron Son' r* . nino. forflism n^nktar* T.onnir?? Bisso feS tati-Bergamascji, minister of military aid and w*r pensions; Gen. Diaz, commander-in-thief of the Italian army; Admiral Paolo Thaon Di Revel, I J| former chief of the naval staff. Great Britain ? David Lloyd r^jj George, prime minister; Arthur J. ^;|Balfour, former secretary; Andrew | ^-^Bonar Law, chancellor of the ex| ? chequer, and Geo.1 Nlcholl Barnes,* la| Vbor member of?the (war cabinet, and I vlk110 other delefaV" who has not yet l ^tteen designated, V.deut. Gen. J. G. j,s' Bmuts and Gen. Bo^ha, representing K- South Africa, are expected to accompany the British delegation, in which \ probably also will be representatives p ? of Canada, Australia and India. i France?M. Clemenceau, premier; Stephen Pichon, foreign minister and three others who have not yet been announced, although of those mentioned as probable members include Leon Bourgeois, former premier; Jules Cambon, ger^ral secretary to the ministry of. foieign affairs, and Capt. Andre Tardieft, head of the general commission fojfFranco-American b war matters, or fopaer Premier Aris|i tide Briand. W The foregoing dfcgations comprise ' those of virtua llwr.^iil the European countries whict hsifte taken part in the war, except Jsnmnia and the four * enemy countrii -iMvhose delegates have not yet be<iJn;ju|nounced. China will be represented) by one person, v Im probably the aAfc^ador to France, [/ Siam and Cuba ak|Jnumber of South K "J omH r.Antral i* niLi I hava ? - U 1 opuouwj uaio J ' f | '. *( ' HIS FIRST PAY DAY ABROAD. President's Attorney Deposits Salary Check in Bank. Washington/ Dec. 31.?President Wilson today had his first pay day outside of the limits of the United States and the treasury warrant for $6,250 drawn to his credit probably was the first presidential pay-check ever endorsed by any one other than the chief executive. When the President left the country he designated N. P. Webster, disbursing clerk at the White House, as his "attorney in fact." and Mr. Webster today re ceived the warrant, endorsed it with Mr. Wilson's name, then signed his own as attorney and deposited the warrant in the bank to -the President's credit. ^1 ! > ? Writer Uses Desk of Hun Sub Chief. Aboard Under-Sea-Chaser U-117, Harwich Harbor.?The U-117, which during June, July and August cruised up and down the American Atlantic coast sinking sailing vessels, tugs, barges, and coastwise passengei steamers, lies under a thin fog tonight in Harwich Harbor. Reduced to a curiosity. Just up the harbor floats a fleet of 89 other former German U-boats, tied up in twos and threes. Stripped of her crew' and potentiality for frightfulness, the monster submarine is nestling alongside a sister diver, while English sailors search her for booby traps. In the empty control room the butt ends of her ttfo periscopes? one for navigation and the other for range-finding?swing useless, with nc one to look through them. She returned laat September to Kiel from a 3-months cruise in American waters, with a record of 40,000 tons of shipping sent down, according to her crew. From her mine racks in the rear tq the torpedo. tubes in the praw-^ through a greasy queer-smelling jungle of 8teel,.rods and ,tubes, tiny steel walled compartments joined by manhole doors, through crews quarters, the officers and captain's cabins, the control room, the kitchen and the engine and switchboard rooms?is close to 300 feet. * The only variation in the steel lining of the passageway is the captain's cabin, where I am writing this?a pretty little den about 8 feet square, with oak-paiielled walls. Each panel is the door of a cupboard. There is just enough room for a lounge, upholstered in beautiful imitation leather (the captain's bed) a little oak desk, where he wrote his log, and a small oak armchair, with an upholstered cushion. The only other hint of luxury in the ship is the leather upholstering on the officers' berths in the 'adjoining cabin. Both are simply enlargements oi ;the direct end-to-end passageway oi the ship. , The U-117 could shoot 28 torpedoes without returning to base. She had a mine-carrying capacity of 40 inches, and a 4-inch gun on her deck in front of the conning tower. She has 3 places of control?on top of the conning tower for surface travel, in the upper control room ' *i"> l/Mirn. noi<f of tho nnnninp \ 111 lllC Ml n |r?i v V4 vuv/ tower) for semi submerged or nearthe-surface travel, and the lower control room, still further down for deep submerged sailing. A slippery steel ladder, running through the manholes in the ceiling connects the three. Here, squinting into the periscope, with one hand resting on the engine room telegraph beside him, the captain directed the actions. Behind him, with his back to him, stood the pilot, at an iron steering wheel sat perpendicularly in the wall. The life of a German submarine sailor was a series of restrictions. He climbed from his narrow iron bunk in the morning to bump into the narrow passageway to the tiny washroom. He ambled a little further along to another small compartment, where the cook bends over a square electric cooking range with a cooking surface about 30 inches square on top and a small oven below. He probably returned to his bunk to eat his ration, for there is no dining room. Perhaps he went back to the torpedo or mine room, where there is a small open floor space about 10 by 8 feet. Or, if the submarine happened to not been heard from. On the whole, the lists given above, though unofficial and subject ,to change, indicate that the delegates have been virtually formed and that they soon will be in a position to take up the work of the congress. ; \ J | X They Lie in France Where the Roses Bloom X i t ^ They lie in France ^ V Where lilies bloom; V A ifk jr Those flowers pale t jfljk ink j That guard each tomb J ^ Are saintly souls ^ ^ That smiling stand j ^ Close by them in * * ^ That martyred land, ^ And mutely there the long night shadows creep *t From quiet hills to mourn for them who sleep, A ? J While o'er them through the dusk go silently t A J The grieving clouds that slowly drift to sea J t And lately round them moaned the winter wind f Whose voice, lamenting, sounds so coldly kind, f Yet in their faith those waiting hearts abide X The time when turns forever that false tide. { i In France they lie f . X Where lilies bloom J X Those flowers fair X A A For them made room. ^ Not vainly placed ^ The crosses stand Within that brave J ' And stricken land; X ' J' Their honor lives, Their love endures, X . ^ Their noble' death ^ < ? The right assures, ! jL For they shall have their heart's desire, Jt Jte They who; unflinching, braved the fire, JL. > V Across the fields their eye3 at. last shall see ^ ? Jfc Through clouds and mist the hosts of victory. JL x, ' \ V . Aj ?Percival Allen in New York Times. A V W , e - ? ? - . T r 1 _ . :? "T , " ? . FLORIDA IN DRY COLUMN. WON'T ACCEPT OLD GUNS. ' No More Liquors, Wine or Beer to Be Americans to Decline Hans' OldHad Under New Law. Fashioned Artillery. ,.i.. n* . ; V - ; Tampa, ?la., Dec. 31. The en- ;Ck>blenz, Monday, Dec. 30.?The tire State _pf ^Florida became , dry old-fashioned heavy artillery offered at midnight tonight, when the con- American army by the Germans I jStitutional. amendment making sale, wjj[j be declined, according to a deII manufacture or transportation Of,^Q{nn "hv the. Allied Armistice Com liquors, wines or beers illegal in this ;'migg^)n ' r~" State went into effect. In a reply to a message from the This city was really the last stand American Receiving Commission at ' of the whiskey interests in the large Coblenz engaged in taking over ma cities of Florida and in only one oth-'terJa, (rom the Germans askitg what er. county was the sale of liquor be- ,lmitation8 should be piaced upon the ing carried on. The mail order and material olIered> the armlsti(,e com. package houses operating here man-!mlssion at Spa sald the majority o{ ; aged to get rid of their last rem-;the cannon deilvered must be mod. nants of stock today. One large con- ern 1 cern carried on an auction sale for The commission's instructions to two days this week to close out. the Americans were they should not A feature of the new law is that a acbept ten-centimeter guns of mod! fine of $500 or six months' imprison- I eIs preTi0us to 1904, flfteen-centi' ment, or both, is the minimum pen-|meter guns without CyIinder reCord ally for drunkenness, first offense, mechanism, 150 milimeter howitzers t and a fine of 53,000 or three years 0f models of previous to 1902 or 110. iaU> or both, for the second of-, milimeter models of a date previous fense. | to 1910. The guns of the calibers J1* m ! specified have been arriving from War's Cost in Dead. j Berlin, Essen and other points, many , ~ j of them from fresh from the factorLondon, Dec. 20. With the issue . i?g after being remodeled, of the official figures of the French The armistice commission decided losses in the war it is possible to, reception of material should conarrive at the approximate estimate tinue after January 1 and until new of the appalling toll of life. The j instructions were received. Upon the | dead, so far, number 5,936,504. The ultimate fulfillment of the armistice individual national losses in dead conditions regarding materials to be thus far announced are:- turned over, the material not acceptBritish 706,726, French 1,071,- e(j will be returned to the Germans. 300, American 58,478, Russian 1,- ^ ^ 700,000, Austrian 800,000, German i,071,300 French Soldiers Killed. ! 1,600,000. 1 The total German casualties are Parjs Dec 26._Announcement given by the Berlin Vorwaerts as 6,- was made & the chamber o( depuUes 330,000, and the Austrian total was today by M Abra2 under 3ecretary placed at 4,000,000. Serbia in kill- of 8tate that ,08ses jn offlJ | 6d. wounded and prisoners, lost 320,- C6rsJmd men kmed up t0 Novembei. [ ??? meD' "i? Present year aggregated I ' Of Course"s'h"Got It. " 1'071'3?0' dlTided 48 f0"0AwAs,:A 0ffl" cere, 31,300 and men, 1,040,000. ? Maid (about to leave)?"Might I * The Iiumber of dead- Prisoners and ask for a recommendation ma'am?" W missing was given as 42,600 offi1 Marv. what could cers and 1?780?000 mem | truthfully say that would help you I Jhe m6? ?"88'n? aggrega'f 3'00# get another place?" rofflcers and 3U'000 men' The P"8* Maid?"Just say that I know many onere 8tm livin; 10181 8'300 offlcers i of your family secrets, ma'am."? and 4S8>??? men1 Boston Transcript. xT ^ ' 7" 77 7 , , , ? New York, Doc. 26.?Italy s losses , be running on the surface, he climb- in killed, wounded, dead of disease, ed up the narrow steel ladder missing and prisoners aggregate 2,through the hatch (a manhole with 1800,000, according to Colonel Ugo a water-tight lid) to the deck. Pizzarello, of the Italian army, who l Then, if he were an engineer's arrived here recently on a mission helper he worked in a narrow aisle for his government. He gave out figbetween two sets of Diesel engines, ures today amplifying an announceIf he were in the torpedo crew he ment made in Paris last Saturday by would sfaeat under a constellation of Salvatore Barziiai, a former member steel-caged electric bulbs in a long of the Italian cabinet, that Italy had low-ceilinged compartment on the lost 500,000 men in killed or dead of lowest deck of the boat. He entered wounds, in the war. through a manhole in the wall, Disease alone took a death toll of squeezed down an aisle between two 300,000 men in the war zone, he said, rows of torpedo' racks to the tube while the number killed was 500,000 ~ ends, where he had a small free and the wounded, missing and prisonspace. ers was 2,000,000. i / FARMER KILLED BY NEGRO. W. Preston McAlhaney Slain by Willie Barnes. Branch ville, Dec. 24.?W. Preston McAlhany, one of Branchville's largest and most progressive farmers, was killed this afternoon about 4 o'clock by a negro, Willie Barnes, who lived on a farm adjoining Mr. McAlhany's. About noon Mr. McAlhany heard a shot down in his pasture a short dis/ tance from his house. He suspected that someone had shot some of his hogs, so went over and investigated. He found where the hog had been shot and from all evidence it pointed to Barnes, so about 4 o'clock Mr. McAlhany with Frank Berry and Johnnie Berry went to the negro's house. When they approached they saw him get off the front steps and go inside. , When the party was in the yard and a short distance fromr the front porch, Mr. McAlhany called to the negro to come out, spying that he wanted to see him relative to some of his hogs that had been shot. Before Mr. McAlhany had hardly spoken the negro shot him in the throat, killing him instantly. The three eye witnesses say Mr. McAlhany shot while tailing and hit the negro in the abdomen, the negro dying a few hours later*.... Mr. McAlhany . was held in high esteem by. the whole community. He was a constant worker in the Methodist church, being a steward for a number of years, school trustee and counsel commander of the Woodmen of the World. He is survived pf a widow and infant daughter.. His wife was Miss Jessie Paysinger^.of Newberry, where she is now. on a visit. He is also survived by his. fatjhap S ff MoAlhanv and Mrs. D. S/Mfri Alhany. Mr., McAlhany was 44 years of age.. Interment will be Thursday V- V morning at the family burying ground about four miles from-Branch vilie. WIERSE GOES TO PRISON. M * '? l**1 1,1 * A/7 1 y-' To Serve Sentence In Connecticwn With Sinking Idebenfels. ^ | " ' .i-r-Vii ~ . Chester, December 27.?P^f! Wierse, a former editorial writer* on. the staff of the "Charleston Am: *ican^" and four others, onei#? them a negro, started on the waiy from Charleston to the federal pet^ tentiary in Atlanta yesterday afternoon. United States Marshal James * ..-i L. Sims was in charge of the prison ers. None of the men appeared had-? ly depressed when they were lined ixjp preparatory to the trip, but a reflect tive countenance appeared to light up Wierse's face as one little negro boy in a nearby street yelled to another a Christmas greeting. The other four prisoners who accomDanied Wierse are: Joseph Taf fatt, who. was convicted of violating the federal status in Columbia* John ' A- 'J 1 Myers, convicted of white slavery violations in South Carolina. He is a resident of North Carolina. Calvin, colored, goes; to serve a term at hard iabor for violations of the liquor laws, and his employer, Daniel Jackson, goes to serve a longer term in connection with the same offense. Wierse goes to serve a term of two years on conviction of conspiracy in the sinking of the German steamship Liebenfels in the. Charleston harbor in 1917. He was at the time of the sinking an editorial writer on the "Charleston American" and a pronounced pro-German. % After his conviction his lawyers attempted to free him of the penitentiary sentence by resorting to every means known to American jurisprudence. He was found guilty of conspiracy in the sinking of the Liebenfels after she had been scuttled and put out of commission. He was fined" and aentenced to two years by Judge Henry A. M. Smith, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina. Then his attorneys appealed the case to the United States | circuit court. That court upheld the j opinion of the court below. The United States Supreme Court was asked to review the case and declined on the ground that the trial and sentence of the court of first resort had been regular ancl sound. President Wilson, was appealed to for a pordan, but declined to act. The Liebenfels was brought to the surface soon after she was sunk by United States engineers and she is now in the service of United States under the name of the Houston. m < > "Who gave the bride away?" asked mother as her daughter and Johnny, aged ten, came back from the wedding. "Bobbie did," replied Johnny. "He whispered to his mother: "Hurrah for Blanche?she's got him at last!' " j NEVS OF THE THIRTIETH ROBT. B. PLATT GIVES A BIRD'SEYE VIEW OF ITS RECORD. Took 3,900 Hun Prisoners.?Fought For 19 Days Consecutively and Lost One-third in Casualties. Mr. C. H. Piatt, of Adams Run, sends the News and Courier the following from his son, Robert B. Piatt, which will be of intense interest td every reader of this newspaper. Young Piatt is with the famous Thirtieth division, having been formerly in the Charleston Light Dragoons. In this letter he tells something of the experiences' of this now celebrated division, following its fortunes in a general way from start to finish: "Nov. 24, 1918. "My Dear Dad: Will try and tell you a little of what we have been doing since I left home. Our trip across the Atlantic consumed exactly twelve days, the first four of which were marked by the quietness of thexsea and absence of any signs of submarines, but later there came about a great change. The sea got rough; we j received wireless messages of Boche submarines having been observed at certain locationsf Our course was bent much tq the north where the sea was still rougher and the remainder of our trip was spent very much 'not at ease.' We landed at Liverpool. Prom there we went across the .southern part of England to Dover where we boarded a channel boat and crossed over to Calais, Prance. "Our first life in Prance was spent in a little town called Nordqnsque, Where We spent one month in the se Merest kind of training for tne task in front o( us, and I can well say in front of us, because as you remember Calais waS;at that time in imminent dauger of; being taken by the Huns. After our training at this , place we moved up into Belgium, established headquartOTs at a little town known as Waitou,' where our division first faced the en&ny. We were all a bit raw and perhaps a bit excited but the intelligence section found out that the Germans Were planning to abandon the historical Kemmel hill and the ground just north of it, so they let us pull off a little attack to spur them* oil. This, as you know, was eirtireC^?cb88fuI, and we began to feei tbat we were as good, if not better soldiers than the Germans. The portion of the line we had was just south of the fkmous town of Ypres. This tdwn, by the why, is only a mass of rubbish, having been totally destroyed by shell fire; * "After our rtelief in Belgium, we were sent down to the third British army for recreation and more training. Then we were transferred on still further down the line and affiliated with the Fourth British army, whicji is commanded by Gen. Rawlinson, of whom much has been written 4n the States. There was one American corps composed of the Twentyseventh and Thirtieth divisions, one corps known as the Australian corps composed wholly of Australians, and in addition two British corps. It is with these people that we did our noted fighting, breaking the Hindenburg line just north of St. Quentin. The Thirtieth division alone took 3,900 German prisoners, advanced the line of the Allies abjrtift^ thirty-six kilometers and fought with tfce 'ex|ception of two nights and one day, for nineteen straight days without stopping. How is that? During this time we lost almost one-third of our division in casualties, so we had to be sent back for a rest and refilling. "We were assigned the area near Amiens with Kerrien as our headquarters, and we were at this place, when the wires announced to us that the armistice had been signed. We were then relieved from duty with the British and transferred down to the American sector at Le Mons, about 100 miles southwest of Paris, in a little town known as Ballon. "When this letter reaches you Xmas will be drawing near and it is my profoundest wish that both you and all shall have the happiest Christmas day ever. It isn't impossible but that I might blow in about that time, but should I not be granted that pleasure, be assured that I am tfiinfcing or you ana longing ior rne day to hurry up when I may again sit down to the old table with Dad and Mama. "Very best love, always, "ROBERT H. PLATT." m < > ? * Remember our "Everready" battery service when year flash light needs a new bulb or battery* Faulk- f. ner-Electric Service Co.?adv.