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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.
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The conflicting claims continue to *
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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NEGRO DECK HAND
KILLED BY DROWNING
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/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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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RY COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, FU
CONWAT, S. 0., THURSDAY
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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."
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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:
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| 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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GREAT IMPROVEMENTS
NOW CONTEMPLATED
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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
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Resides the work that is above
Olilininr'ifnil
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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.
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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- ,
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ternuttertt' eanonading oi> the wmfc ,
front. ' ' '