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VOLUME XXXI. in' "" FINAL WARNING IS GIVEN TO GERMANY Substance of Note Sent as an Ultimatum in Favor of Humanity TELLS CONGRESS OF > COURSE HE TAKES Will Break Relations Unless Quick Change is Made in Submarine Warfare. President Wilson's long expected filial warning to Germany that th" United States will break off diplon atie relations unless she abandons her present method of submarine warfare and immediately declares her intention to do so, was delivered last week in a note to Berlin and was announced by the president in an address to a joint session of the congress. The president demands nothing less than the abandonment of submarine warfare against commerce. The note to Berlin declares: Patient to Last. "The government of the United States has been very patient. ... It has accepted the successive explanations and assurances of the imperial government as of course given in entire sincerity and good faith, and has hoped even against hope that it would prove to be possible for the imperial government so to order and control the acts of its naval commanders as to square its policy with the recognized principles of humanity as er,bodied in the law of nations. . . . 1; has mude every allowance for unprecedented conditions and has been wh'ling to wait until the facts became unmistakable and were susceptible of o:. y one interpretation." "It now owes it to a just regard for it:- own rights to say to the imperial government that that time has come. "It has become painfully evident to it that the position which it took at the very outset is enevitable, namely, the use of submarines for the destruction of an enemy's commerce is, of necessity, because of the very character of the vessels employed and very methods of attack which their employment of course involves, utterly incompatible with the principles of humanity, the long established and incontrovertible rights of neutrals and tl.c sacred immunities of noncombataets. "If it is still the purpose of the imperial government to prosecute rclentl< ss and discriminate warfare against vessels of commerce bv the use of submarines, . . . the government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one c urse it can pursue. "Unless the imperial government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present im.thods of submarine warfare against passengers and freight carrying ves> s'ds, the government of the United Slates can have no choice but to sever diplomatic reunions with the German empire altogether." Had the recent attack on the channel steamer Sussex, the note tells Germany, been an isolated case, the United States might have hoped that the I' i i i. i i i suurmwniu i-iimmuiKicr acieo in violation of his government's solemn pledges and that the ends of justice might have been satisfied by a disavowal, reparation and his proper punishment. But, it adds, this case "uiihaDnilv does not stand alone." JL A, * "On the contrary," says the note, "the government of the United States is forced by recent events to conclude that it is only one instance, ... of the deliberate method and spirit of indiscriminate destruction of merchant vessels." Proved and Admitted. The United States, the communica| tion declares, considers the torpedoing of the Sussex not only proved by the evidence but actually substantiated by the German disclaimer of responsibility. Attached to the American note as an appendix are the facts in the case of the Sussex. They show that three "Wtu "W GERMANY WILL AGREE TO DEMANDS MADE1 Thought in Washington That Berlin Will Meet With Wilson's Conditions. Washington.?There is not so much excitement in Washing m over tho German situation as might he expected for the reason that President Wilson's action had been anticipated. ! The president's note to Germany meets with the approval of practically everybody. Democrats as well as Re- j publicans. The onlly criticism that has been heard is that his firm stand, should have been taken sooner. The general feeling, though is that the nresideiu wnntn<l in ho fs?i 1* ???<! generous to th<? last degree, and sent | the ultimatum only when there was. nothing else to do. The foregoing epitamizes the expressions that have been heard about the eapitol today. Both houses of congress are going ahead with routine work and there is no evidence of excitement, although every one realizes fuly the poteh-' tialities of the situation. The general feeling is that there will he no break between Germanv and the United i States, that Germany will agree to abandon her present methods of submarine warfare and then endeavor to formulate a policy that will not be so objectionable to the United States and other neutrals. mulethrowIman CAUSING HIS DEATH1 Asa Montgomery, a citizen of this county, living near Myrtle Beach met his death last Wednesday by being thrown by a mule which he was endeavoring to ride. It seems that the mule balked and threw his rider without warning and the fall resulted in the almost instant death of Mr. Montgomery. I i I c | American army and navy officers found in the hull of the destroved I ship not only screw bolts which correspond in use and identificaiton marks with those on German torpedoes in possession of the French government at the naval station at Toulon, but that American officers actually found l'> pieces of metal which they have identified as parts of Ger-' | man torpedoes. Besides this evidence, the :udp con-1 I lends, every circumstance either admitted by Germany in her disclaimer or proved by affidavits of persons on the destroyed liner proves beyond j ' question that she was torpedoed withj out warning. In short,'the United States presents I i J l/i ? ?/ /% ?w< 4-1-k^-v ? i? - - | uiv i: * mum L <|D till: <1 JJ&LU111* tO <111 UC" ! cumulation of evidence which is held i to prove irrefutably that Germany's' assurances to the United States have I repeatedly been wantonly violated. | Copies of the American note were^ sent to representatives of neutral nations on the assumption that they are' as much interested as the United; States in the protection of neutral I rights. The document was not given to any of the belligerent diplomats, as the controversy is regarded as being solely between the United States and Germany. Won't Give II Up. Count von Bernstorff already has reiterated to Secretary Lansing that , under no circumstances will Germany | give up the submarine as a weapon of warfare, because, she contends, it is a retaliation for Great Britain's . food blockade. The ambassador has I declared, however, that his government will attempt to bring operations ' within the law of nations. This the (United States is willing to discuss ' after Germany has abandoned her present methods?not before. | Clearly the president's demand is +VlClf 4 Vl r? ncn nf iVin onl-in. VIIUV V??W UUVy Ui nit OUUIIIUI 1IIC MIUU 111 be restricted to operations against warships. Upon that rock the friendly relations between the two countries may be rent. Before another week begins settlement of the long standing issue either will be assured or Count von Bemstorff probably will have his . passports and Ambassador Gerard I will be leaving Brelin. $ovr ORRY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, CONWAY, S. C? THURSDAY, FUNSTON WANTS MORE ON BORDER Needs Men to Replace 2,300 Sent to Reinforce Pershing, San Antonio, Texas.?Headquarters is awaiting advices from the War Department regarding the troops that will be sent into the Southern department to replace the 2,300 ordered from their stations along the border to Columbus to strengthen Gen. Pershing's command in Mexico. Coincident with his action in ordering border troops to Columbus, Gen. Funston asked for outside troops to maintain the border patrol at its present strength. The only available regiments for such service are the Second cavalry, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont; Third infantry, Madison barracks and Fort Ontario, N. Y., and the Thirteenth infantry. Plattsburir barracks. N. Y. It was announced at headquarters that overnight dispatches had not been received to indicate any change in the Mexican situation. The Sixth cavalry at Marlingen and the Sev i. f?. - ? ClltCciUII 111 I tl III I \ dl, l.'Jtlg 1t* I illtr under or<lers to move to Columbus as soon as the necessary roling stock can be obtained. Upon arrival, it is believed, Gen. Pershing will use the regiment to strengthen the line of communication. JESSIELEWIS REPLIES TO NO-FENCE ARTICLE I We do not need the no-fence law in Horry County. Mr. J. says in your last issue that he will vote for it if he ever has another chance at the ballot box. I am sure he is not as poor as some others are and if he were, he would not want the no-fence law. I am against it for I am a poor man, as he may be. Yet there are lots of neo pic who own no land and are not in shape to have the law. If Mr. J. is as poor a man as those who have no land, he is very poor indeed, and he certainly does not need this law. I would be glad to know his name, hut f suppose he was ashamed to have his name printed in your paper. If he is a poor man, he would be still poorer, in my opinion, if he had what he advocates. 1 suppose he does not want anybody to know who he is. He might employ his time much better by J nil v ising his neighbors to make good fences, and perhaps build up some himself. .So far as I am concerned, 1 i would vote against it. ! JESSIE LEWIS. | Allsbrook, S. C. bemowsofs7ate for w00dr0w wilson i The Democratic club meetings in : many South Carolina towns last week were significant for the unqualified j indorsement of the policies of the adI ministration of the president and for j the renomination and election of j Woddrow Wilson. In practically all counties resolution of approval were passed for the nation's loader, j Resolutions at a number of meetings indorsed the State administration and Gov. Richard I. Manning. Some clubs took a stand against the eountv to county campaign and urarod the State convention to abolish it. Delegates were elected in all clubs to attend the county convention to be held on May I. Officers were elected. j In many sections the attendance was unusually largo while other meetings were sparsely attended. o PREPARED TO KILL MORGAN New Orleans.?Hary L. Newton, a . former munitions worker arrested here Thursday after entering into an alleged agreement to blow up a munitions plant, was prepared to kill J. P. Morgan, according to an affidavit sub mitted today in the Tombs police | court. On the strength of this document Newton was held for examina| tion next Tuesday. , FIRST, LAST. NOW AND FORF.VER. , APRIL 27, 1916. INSURANCE ACT PUT UNUER FIRE I ' Supreme Court Hears the AtA tack Upon Its Constitutionality DEMURRER FILED IN NAME OF STATE . I Case Argued Before Highest ? Tribunal and Decision Reserved. ? i Columbia.?Hearing1 on the petition j of David B. Henderson, of Charleston, | for an order to prevent the Attorney General and the insurance commissioner from forcing the terms of the > anti-compact insurance act was held before the Supreme Court last week. The petitioner was represented at I j the hearing by T. Moultrie Mordccai,) J. N. Nathans, and A. T. Smythe, ot ( the Charleston bar. ! The State officials were represented 1 be W. H. Towrrdr/I. of tlio ('oln ! ' ! bar, and Thog. H. Peoples, Attorney j General. The arguments by the attorneys for both sides contained many points and | authorities. The demurrer of the Attorney General charged that the petition did not state facts sufficient for a cause of action. After hearing the arguments, the Supreme Court took the case under advisement and will later render a decision. In the argument by the petitioners' attorneys it was charged that the Lanoy-Oilum act violates several sections of the State Constitution. RUSSIAN TROOPS ~ LANDED.IN FRANCE i Paris, April 20.?A strong force of Russian troops disembarked at Mar-! seilles at noon today. The Russians are to fight beside the allied soldiers | in France. Gen. Joffre welcomed the Russians j in an order of the day, saying their j arrival was another striking proof of -1 J-' T* i uevouon oi itussia to the common cause. The Russians are believed to have1 I embarked for France from the port of 1 Archangel on the White Sea, the only! port through which there is free communication between Russian and her allies in the west. It is considered * i i probable that the transports carrying | the troops made a wide sweep out into ! the north Atlantic before heading forj the Mediterranean to avoid the sub-! marine danger zone in the vicinity of the British Isles. In this connection it is to be noted that word reached New Yoik todaythrough private cable advices that Russia had closed tho port of Arch! ix 11 an get to an except government trailic| This may indicate that other troop movements to the western front arej either under way or in contemplation.1 Several times during the war there! | have been reports that Russia was j sending troops to tho France-Belgian' j front, travelers eve?) declaring that detachments had been seen en route through Scotland and England. No I such troops ever have appeared on the BERNSTORFF HAS j TALK WITH LANSING I wasnington.?uount von Hernstorlt the German ambassador went to the State Department for a conference with Secretary Lansing on the submarine warfare situation and also to discuss the arrest in New York of Wolfe von Igel, former secretary to the German military attache, von Papon. Secretary Lansing and the German ambassador were in conference fully 20 minutes. After the ambassador had left the secretary would make no statement regarding the discussion. vM. H THE LAST GAIL FOR DELEGATES State Sunday School Convention Meets in Charleston May 3rd-5th. A few facts about the State Sunday School Convention: It meets in Charleston Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. No one need ht elected a delegate, for every Sundax School person in South Carolina is invited and urged to attend. No credentials are necessary. All you will have to do on arriving in Charleston is to follow the guides to the place of registration where you will be assigned to a home. Kntcrtainment will be free to all those who register. Charleston is prepared to furnish homes to one thousand delegates. Delegates are asked to send in their names as soon as possible to Mr. \V. S. Lanneau, 2.'?K King Street, Charleston. The Itailroads of Soutfi Carolina have put on for the Convention an excursion rate of one and one-half fares. Ask your agent if ho has the tickets and if he has not received them have him to write and have them on hand. The program arranged for the Convention is a most attractive one. Some of the best Sunday School talent in America will be at the Convention. The music lead by C. D. Tillman of Atlanta will be one of the big1 features. With all, the greatest convention ever held in South Carolina is expected and you are urged to be present. PAUL QUATTLKBAUM. County Pres. NEGRO MAN WAS" SAID TO BE NUTTY A negro man, having every appearance of a "wild man of Borneo" was arrested by the authorities in the neighborhood of Aynor last week and lodged here for safe keeping until some disposition could be made of the subject. He was reported as acting strangely, having strange talk and was covered with vermin infesting the mere rags on his body. It was said he gave his name as John Johnson and that he came from some distant point in the State and had been staying in the woods for several weeks. His face had grown long strands of black beard and he. presented an appearance which was startling at first. He was taken up for vagrancy. FOREST FIRES DO" SOME DAMAGE Forest fires raged last week in the patches of woods ami in the hedges near the town limbs often endangering the homes of the people and sov oral suburban homes narrowly missing destruction. The fire burned down the back end of the lot of Treasurer John Holt one day and it took hard work to save his residence from the flames, the roof catching in a light blase one time. Later the fire was reported was being near the ten ant dwelling of Mr. J. J. Pitman just outside of the town. With some help l\ W. Harrison put this out and the buildings were saved. Although the fire was reported as being out in time to have prevented any trouble at all, no one took the necessary steps to extinguish it, hence the danger to the property mentioned. o Anrru ftn DKttPi 5tfl 6UHUUL | CLOSES MAY 2ND Thr closing exercises of the Green Sea Graded School will be held in the school building, Tuesday May 2nd, beginning at 8:80 in the evening. The public is cordially invited. School work will be on exhibition from three to four o'clock in the after noon. ?W. P. COKKR, Principal. ?o? S. D. Bryant of Green Sea was through this section recently. f NO. 2 GERMANY MUST YIELD TO AMERICAN VIEWS President Wilson Sent Note to Germany Demanding Immediate Compliance WENT BEFORE CONGRESS AND WAR MAY RESULT Communication Was an Ultimatum Though no Time Limit Fixed. Washington.?Prseident Wilson told Congress last week, assembled in joint session, he has given Germany a final irrevocable notification that the United States will break off diplomatic relations if her illegal submarine campaign is continued. A note, America's last word, practically an ultimatum, and demanding an immediate reply, presumably was in the Berlin foreign office as the President was speaking. !t was dispatched in accordance with the President's plan to have it before the German government at the same moment 1 ? 1 ne was addressing the American congress. The President asked no action what over of Congres. He simply informed it of the accumulation of facts proving that Germany's assurances to the United States are being violated; that the submarine campaign, despite the earnest protests of the United States, is being conducted with renewed vigor' in contravention of all the laws of nations and humanity and that he, .means to sever relations unless it is brought within the law. Diplomatic history of the world shows that such a course is almost certain to be followed by the war. ^ MEETS AT CASINO * 7 THEATRE MAY 1ST There will be a meeting of the Horry Live Stock Improvement Association in Casino Theatre next Monday May 1, at 2 P. M. All those who are interested in the improvement of live stock are asked to be present. The subjecst that will be discused will be Swine in the U. S. with an illustrated lecture. Then will follow the feeding and caring for swine; i'vpes of hogs best suited for local conditions, Pasturage for hogs, etc. o RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. ? \V. (). \V. Camp 583, AUsbrook, S. C. Whereas, The Great and Supreme Ruler of the Universe has in His infinite wisdom removed from among us one of our worthy and esteemed fellow-woodmen, J. Randol Williamson, and whereas, the long and intimate relations held with him in the faithful discharge of his duties in this society, makes it eminently befitting that we record our appreciation of him. There? fore: Resolved?That the wisdom and ability which he has exercised in the aid of organization by service, contributions and council will be felt in g ra t e f u 1 remcm b ranee. Resolved?That the sudden removal of such a life from among us leaves a vacancy and a shadow that will be deeply realized by all the members ami friends of r1 n ? ? V1IV UIUI Will prove a serious loss to the community and the public. Resolved?That with deep sympathy with the bereaved relatives of the deceased, we express our hope that even so great a loss to us all may be over-ruled for good by Him who doeth all things well. Resolved?That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the records of this Camp; a copy printed in our County papers, and a copy forwarded to the bereaved family. N. B. Allsbrook, W. C. Todd, W. M. Harrelson, Jr., COMMITTEE. %