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I 4 4 VOLUME XXXI. LATER NEWS INCREAS- I ES ROSTER OF LOSSES British Report More German ( Ships Sunk Than Was First Reported LESSDISPAiRiTY IN BATTLE COST English Claims Make "Number of the Craft Destroyed About Equal. c The conflicting claims continue to * 1 1 ii _ : c i.i.? i. i i i S v-ivuu uie issue oi uie great nuvai uaitie fought oft* the Jutland coast on * Wednesday last. There is no such great disparity in 1 losses as at first appeared in the Brit- ' ish and German reports, according to * British admiralty officials, who claim * that later reports show that two Ger- ^ man battleships went down, while * London announces the receipt of a 5 wireless from Berlin carrying an ad- 1 mission from the German admiralty 1 that anotherd German battleship, In ^ addition to the Pommern, was sunk. * Berlin has issued no further state- ^ merit regarding the German losses, which initially were given as one 'oat- ( tleship, two light ciuisers and several 1 destroyers. ' If the revised British reports are 1 accepted the losses in ships were ap- 1 proximately as follows: British: Three battle cruisers (Queen Mary, Indefatigable and Invincable); three armored cruiscri (Defense, Black Prince and Warrior); nine destroyers and one submarine. German: Two bat'tlcsTups (Westfalan and Pommern); two battlecruisers (unnamed); four light cruiser: < (including the Wiesbaden, Eibing anr" j rauenlob); six destroyers and a sub ? marine. j The British admiralty, in addition, ] has admitted that the battleship Marlborough was struck by a torpedo bul : declares she was towed safely to port, i It denies the German claim that the dreadnought Wavspite was sunk, al- : though conceding that she was dam- ] aged by gunfire. 1 The Germans are greatly elated at 1 the outcome of the engagement in vhich their main fleet under Admiral Scheer met the British, whose main ! fleet, they assert, also was engaged. That the Germans held the field after the battle is shown, they declare, by the fact that the Germans picked up ' survivors of British warships that went down. London officially denies that the British grand fleet was in the action. The battlccruiser squadron, which is reported to have rushed between the Germans and their base, seems to , < hav borne the brunt of the fight. Eleven British battleships eventual- ( ly went into the battle, it is admitted, but of those several are declared to ] j have been only partly engaged . ; f The British losses in officers were i j extremely heavy, the list including i / Rear Admiral Horace Hood, who went < down with his flagship the Invincible; Capt. Sowerby of the Indefatigable, 1 J Capt. Cay of the Invincible and Capt. i Browse of the Queen Mary. The total , British losses are estimated at about 5,000. 1 / A British admiralty official declared 11 I that the British went out looking for a fight, engaged the entire German \ high sea fleet, interrupted its plans 1 and drove it back to port. The Ger- 1 j mans, he said, sprang no surprises. ' Only one Zeppelin was seen and that was driven off. No 17 inch guns were in evidence. 1 A semi-official statement issued in i ) Berlin declares that the Germans 1 ( faced the greater part of the modern i British navy, the battlecruisers and ? light cruisers beginning the engage- 1 ment, while later the main forces on 1 both sides took part in the attack. < German torpedo boats did notable < 11 work both during the daylight battle < [' and during the night while naval air- i I ships and aeroplanes contributed ( greatly to the German success, \ I claimed. [; In the land fighting the ' Germans 1 ?te "H0R1 , z MANNING CONCLUDES SPARTANBURG TOUR V iovernor Males Many Addresses?Speaks to Homo Economics Institute. Spartanburg, June 3.?Gov. R. I. Planning left Spartanburg this aftertoon for Columbia after having spent he greater part of tw0 days in a vhirlwind campaign of the upper part >f the county. While in the upper tart of the State the governor's time vas fully occupied. He delivered iglit addresses in the county ye* torlay and last night, and this morning spoke before the home economics institute, which closed following the governor's address after being in session at Converse college for the past .hree days. At this morning's meeting at Converse the governor expressed his learty sympathy with the movement :o encourage the study of economics >y the wives and daughters of thej farmers, and declared that the movencnt would have the whole hc&i'vcd support of the administration. He ilso told of some of the measures passed during his term for the benefit of the rural communities, such as the bill creating a course of agriculture in the common schools. Gov. Manning's address was preceded by short talks by Paul V. Moore general manager of the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce, and J. E. Swearingen, State superintnedent oi education. o NEGRO DECK HAND KILLED BY DROWNING ' - A 1 1 J _ _ 1 1 1 4 1 . /x coiorea ucck nana on tne steamer Burroughs while engaged in unload ing freight from the steamer after she docked here last Thursday night, slipped off the gang plank into the river and was drowned. Another hand got a light and looked for his body to rise, but it. was not discovered until Saturday about mid-day when it floated up to the surface. The coroner held an inquest over the remains on Saturday. The deceased belonged in Georgetown, S. C., and his relatives were notified. Jennings Thompson arrived at home from B. M. I. last week to spend his vacation with his parents. o A. BELL CANDIDATE FOR MORE BUSINESS Something out of the ordinary appears in our candidate's column this week. Mr. A. Bell has become a candidate and puts in his announcement card the same as the other candidates have done. But he is running on his same old platform ol 1? #? ? ?-1 1 2 u\/uc;?9isy ciiki square dealing to one and all and solicits the business patronage of the people of his section of the county among whom he has been tloing business for a number of years. Read his card and remember he is still doing business at the same old stand. o There is really more money in thinking by itself than in working; but you put working and thinking together and you have the best combination for results that is known to human experience. o Hon. A. D. Jackson of Floyds township spent last Friday in Conway on business. His supply of cotton seed advertised for sale in this paper some time ago, has all been sold and did not supply the demand. have gained ground in the Vaux sector northeast of the fortress and beat >ff French counterattacks. They also captured heights near Zillebeke, south east of Ypres, from the British, the> say. ; The 'Austrian* report the capture ttf^WtTera* positions ctf ^Btfategic lm>ottanee in the Arsiero region, from the Italians. | iitm t ip> * RY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, FU CONWAT, S. 0., THURSDAY ?i MS ANXIOUS OVER VERDUN'S FATE Growing Restlessness, Too, at Inactivity of the British. A Paris dispatch to Tho Now York Times says: The shadow of Verdun is over Paris as at the er.d of February. Throughout tae city there is no other topic. That does not mean that confidence is weaker, but the events Of the past few days have shaken the peo pie from the comfortable feeling that the Verdun situation has reached a comparatively harmless deadlcok, and that the German drive had failed. The immensity of the new German effort compels recognition of the fact that the danger is not yet over. The newspapers do not try to hide the struggle's importance. The Matin says: "In violence, continually and above all extent, the present phase dwarfs all those preeding. It is no isolated drive at one set of positions of one side of the Meuse but a general pitched battle betwen two armies with alternatives of attack and defense" The Echo de Paris says: "The battle has developed prodigious desperation." On the boulevards the kiosks are besieged by eager groups snatching the evening papers to read the communique. Near one three six-foot Australian officers paused to read tbr war news. Regarding their stalwart proportions a helmcted permissionaire said: "It would be fine if we had two army corps of them at Verdun." The words voice the feelings of Paris to-day. OlTieial circles are as confident as ever, though admitting surprise at the continued violence of the German attacks. They do not share the popular view that an ex tempore action by the British would ease Verdun, and the semi-official press continually emphasizes the fact that a hurried move on the English front would be playing Germany's game and is neither necessary nor desirable. A high war office authority said today: "The Germans are in no bettor situation at Verdun than two months ago, while we are immeasurably stronger in guns, men and material. Their gains on the west?bringing them 14 kilometers from the citadel?are insignificant compared with the February advance on the east, which set them only seven kilometeij; disian*. To get equally close on the west would take two months more and cost 100,000 lives* while on the east, as we checked them then,it is obviously easier to hold thetn now in veiw of our great accumulations of strength and improvement of fortifications. There is no need for anxiety. Verdun will not fall/* RST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER." r, JUNE 8, 1916. \\\(r <tf, Vl^'* $A ' lJ$*-C\b <*>?. & 3ron?trup in ban Francisco Chro/iiCiO. MRS. WALKER SPENDS SOME TIME IN HORRY Home Demonstration Clubs Were Organized at Floyds and Green Sea. ^ Mrs. Walker, Assistant State ftgent, Home Demonstration Work, 1 spent three days last week in Horry 1 in the interest: of the Momo lVmon | stration work. Her purpose was to j organize the women where they desirj ed this and to give them some idea of the course prepared for them. Those who heard Mrs. Walker have a clearer conception of the purpose and i scope of the work than before. Those who missed hearing here missed much because she has a message to give j and she gives it. Mrs. Walker began this work of organization last Sepi tember. Since that time she has visited all the counties having Home Demonstration Work and has organized more than 4,000 women. While in Horry Mrs. Walker amine County Agent visited several coir, munities Among these were: Evergreen, Pauley Swamp, Ebenezer, Loris, Homewood, Green Sea, and Floyds. Meetings were held at three of these. 1c was planned to have meetings at Loris and Simpson Creek but it was impossible to hold these on account of ; ihe storm and rain. Clubs were organized at Floyd: j and Green Sea with the following of : ficers: Floyds?Pres. Mrs. Elliott; Vict ; Pres. Miss M:?.g..ie Mock; Secretary j j Mrs. Sole. Green Sea?Pres. .Mrs. A D. L vv's ! Vice Pres. Mrs. S. D. Iliyant; Sec rotary, Miss Eupha Lee These Clubs will hold a meetinc each month, taking up some household problem of interest to all. A: i ...... | mougn the attendance was smal ! much interest was shown. Mrs. Walter is planning to vi. i* . Horry again during the summer. Sii | will assist the County Agent with hei short couj'so. o Ever since the world was created man has been putting forth his ef| forts, puny though they may have I been, to improve the world as a dwel ling place through this transient life. Some drawbacks have indeed discouraged him from time to time, but the general tendency, thanks to old moth er nature, has been upward and onward to better things. had reached an impasse. "The German general staff reckons that no sacrifice of lives is too dear," says The Temps, "if the American people can be brought to share the dpihiob of President Wilson, who appears to think the war has reached an impasse j ami that nothing is to be done save to I take his advice." I rati KITCHENER FACES FIRE OF CRITICS War Secretary Submits to Heckling by Commons Committee. London.?Earl Kitchener had today what was for him the unique experience of being heckled by parliamentary critics of the war otliee. Complying with the promise made on his behalf in the House of Commons by the parliamentary under-secretary of war, Harold J. Tennant, in response to complaints of members that they had not had opportunity U question the secretary tor war, tlu lanioUS general went to one of the committee rooms of the House prepared to make a statement on the con duct of the war and to reply to questions. The war secretary was aeeom i panied by several members' of bis I stall anil the political heads of the war office. He faced some 200 members, including what are known as the "ginger groups" composed of men who demand more vigorous prosecution of war. The public was excluded rigorously . Indeed, the whole or Westminister Palace was shut off tavoid leakage of any secret information which might be elicited. I - o CLEARS RA6SDALE OF ALL CHARGES Washington.?Justice McCoy, pre siding in the District supreme today dismissed the rule which wa? issued by him two weeks ago against J. W. Kagsdale of the Sixth South Carolina district, ordering him to appear in court and state what had be come of certain notes which sonic months ago were sent him for collection by the Free Sewing Machine com pany against parties in South Caro lina. When the case was taken up the machine people desired to have the case continued but, on motion of Douglas, Ruff in & Obear, attorneys for Mr. Ragsdale, this was not done and before they had completed reading their answer to the complaint Justice McCoy ordered that the case be dismissed. It was shown that all the money involved in the case, about $1.(>00, had been collected by the sewing machim company and the purpose of the action against Mr. Ragsdale was to get the notes in hand. Mr .Ragsdale's answer that they had been unintentionally mislaid or lost was entirely sufllcient, hence the dismissal by Justice McCoy. Today's action is a complete exoneration of any carelessness or negligence on the part of Mr. Ragsdale and the fact that the case was dismissed before its attorneys had finish ed reading their answer indicates that there was no case upon which to | bring action against the South Caroj lina congressman. Mr. Ragsdale has accepted an invitation to address the rural letter carriers of South Carolina at Columbia July 3 and 4. MANY THOUSAND IN GREAT PARAGE! Chicago, June 2.?More than 130,- ! 000 persons marched through Chicago f streets today in a demonstration for adequate national preparedness. Near ly 25,000 women were in line and a million or more persons lined tin streets and cheered. The parade was 11 1-2 hours in passing a given point and was the greatest ever held in Chicago. The night division was made up largely of military organizations. The parade was said by Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry, commander of the central department, U. S. A., who sat in the reviewing stand, to be the greatest and most inspiring spectacle h'e had eVer seen. The graet parade in close order mass from curb to curb, rolled like a tide through the streets all day. ? nrm 1 if \ NO. 7 GREAT IMPROVEMENTS NOW CONTEMPLATED ? Inaugurated by Conway's Livs and Growing Civic League Members LANDSCAPE GARDENER HERE FROM N. Y. CITY Improvements Take in Court House, School Grounds and Small Park. Thanks to the activity of Conway's live and growing civic league, improvcmenis are at last on foot which will no doubt lead to the laying out and beautifying of the court house grounds, the improvement of the campus at the graded school building, the finishing of the little park which was donated a vear or two ago to the town by the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road Company, and at many other places in the town which will help Conway to become the "city beautiful." A landscape aritst from New York city was engaged by the league to come here and make plans and giv^> instructions for the performance of this work in the latest and )no$t ap-. proved modern way, Ho lUTlYQjl in the town early luat week a>.d at once went about the doing of this necessary preliminary work. Recently the league laid its plans tg secure th<J. funds for doing the work by private subscription. It is said that various business firms and business mett here contributed liberally to the cause and there is still more in sight. In the mean time the civic league is in better condition financially and from the standpoint of a growing membership than it has ever been in its history. A special worker was here a month or two ago employed b> the league to enthuse interest in I the great work they are doing and I intend to do this year. The employment of this expert to lay out the work above mentioned is another step in the direction of great things that will be accomplished here during 181 (>. Resides the work that is above Olilininr'ifnil VI1UV II III ut UVIIIU <11 Lilt; court house grounds, the school grounds and the park, it is stated that there are still other places, for instance the lake-side along Kingston Lake where beautiful and effective work will be done before the Summer time is over. SPEECH CAUSES DEEP SENSATION Berlin. June (>.?A profound sensation has been caused by the speech made yesterday before the Reichstag by Chancellor von Bcthmann-Hollv/egg, in which he declared that any further suggestions of peace by Germany would be futile and evil. His eloquent appeal to the nation to hold on until victory was theirs and the categorical defiance he hurled at England were greeted with thunders of applause. At his conclusion the chancellor received a tremendous ovn tion, the cheering being renewed again and again. All parties joined in the ovation with the exception of the conservatives and the socialises who seceded with Dr. Liebknecht. The chancellor appealed for the unity of all parties, declaring that political lines ought to be obliterated during the prosecution of the war. The conclusion of his speech brough almost the entire house to their feet in a wild outburst of enthusiasm. ?.11' ( o Paris, Juite 6.?Two attacks by the Germans on the French lines between Fort Vaux and Damlopus on the Verdun front were repulsed by the French last night, according to an official statement t issued by the war office today. 1rtte/h$ayy bombanrment of Fort Vaux continues with in- , i;r? ternuttertt' eanonading oi> the wmfc , front. ' ' '