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ANDERSON, S. C.TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST ll, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
S5.C0 PER ANNUM
GERMANS
BELG?/
THE FRENCH ARE
SEASONED VET
GERM AP?
NEWS IS BUT
The Occupation of the
Germans Gives No G:
Belgians Who Hoi
nable Approac
Diplomatic relations betwee
broken and the ambassadors have
A French foreign office state
by France because Austria troops
The F(rench a*e advancing in
is not known. ? .
The Germans occupy the city
hold the forts. The Belgian offi
quite satisfactory.
Strong forces guard all the a|
The Austrians before Servia
part of the Servian army is taking
The North Sea is again close
garded as significant -in view of tl
and German fleets in.lthat water.
The German cruiser Karlsri
Porto Rico, reported an engagem
with four French and; British crujs
The French government fo
casualties list, .[so thai Germans m;
French troops."
All Germans and Austrians Ii
within .24 hours-or they will be arri
No decisive I
Has Yet
(By Associated Proas.)
London. August 10.-No great bat
tle trna yet been fought on land or seal
In tbe war of seven nations, unless
the German assaults upon the for
tresses at Liege eventually asBunie the
proportions of battle in history. Both
combatants claim victory there, with
the Belgians'.; still holding the forts
and the Germans occupying the city.
The situation is. unique. There ls I
no/ confirmation ot toe .Daily MaU'a
report that tho . French have engaged !
the Germans and cut off their retreat, I
inflicting a loss ot 8,000 men. The
Belgians claim that they have taken
8,000 prisoners on Belgian soil, but |
military men regarded ali the esti
mates of the belligerents as great ex
aggerations. .
Apart from Liege the fighting of the |
first, week wtien resolved to the pro- '
per perspective eventually, doubtless,
will be considered insignificant.
CENSORSHIP OF
PRESS ?S SCORED!
Thousaivis Spent By American j
Newspapers Wasted ia Conse
quence of British Cent?n
??radon, Aug. i( ?-Cass P. O'Con
nor, the Irish Nationalist, to2*y In the
Ifouse of Common? -sain attacked
t*e press 't^?sors^lp ea?ijHshed ', by
ipa ?fitlsh '^erpm?nt H? uatt thou
sands of dollars spent by American
newspapers hjtd been wasted in .con
sequence of "the censorship, and nc
suggested that .trained newspaper
men bo added to the Btaff of the cen
sorship bureau.
The Rt. Hon. Charles Hobhouse,
speaking op behalf of the post office
authorities, disclaimed any responsi
bility for tho censorship, over which
he said the, war office exercised full
control. He said If thoro was any do.
lay in forwarding messages after
they had-taman tho censor'Ho was1
ready to do .irb?r he conld \ iii the
matter. ,
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o _ DBEW FIRST BLOOD. . o
1^-AlfMt l??~..o
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ADVANCING THEIR
ERANS TO THE
I FRONTIER
SCATTERING
: City of Liege By the
reat Annoyance to the
ld the Almost Impreg
nes to Brussels
n France and Austria have been
left the capitals.
ment says the initiative was taken
were aiding the Gernans.
Alsace, but against what opposition
' of Liege*, while the Belgian troops
pirti review is that the situation is
pproaches to Brussels.
are bombarding Belgrade, while
; the offensive in Bosnia,
d to the fishing fleets which is re
?e fact that there are large British
iihe, which arrived at San Juan,'
ent Friday night on the Bahamas
ers.. i
rbid s publication of the French
ly not know the movement of the
I.Belgium must declare themselves
i *
?attle
i. Been Fought
One of the most important develop
ments In the eyes of. experts ls the
general testimony that tho Germany
Infantry formation 1B obsolete and in
effective against the weapons of today
and meauB an enormous slaughter if
retained.
Prance and Austria finally are offic
ially at war, the ambassadors having
left the respective capitals. The
French governments broke off diplo
matic relations with Austria on the
grouuds that Austrian troop3 were
reinforcing the Germans.
Austria appears to have abandoned
the advance on Servia for a time and
apparently is co-operating with Ger
many in the supposed strategy of at
tempting to crush France before Rus
I sia can mobilize.
Financial conditions in England are
I returning to normal. Although there
j la a great disorder in many trades the
?prices of foodstuffs have risen only
slightly.
STEAMER HEADED .
TOWARD HALIFAX
White Star liner. Olympia, Is
Sighted At Sea-Destination
Not Detennmed
New Yo.k, Aug. 10.-While sixty
miles. off gandy Hook' late yesterday
the British <%nk steamer Whpello,
which arrived hero today, sighted the
Olympic, of Cte White Star -Jne,
which left Ne'r York yesterday with
I out passenger;i, apparently beaded for
England. Fron the course the Olym
I plc wita folio ving the captain of the
I VvV.peilo j repo rted, she seemed to. .be
steaming along a course which would
take her toward Halifax, where sev
eral o.* the White Star flee!, have put
in rcccuMy. Officers of the line de
nied the Olympic waa going to Ha*?
There ls now in this harbor one ot
the largest'oil tank fleets eyer as
sembled here. The tankers stretch
from Tompklnsvll?e out to - Quaran
tine, apparently afruid to 'put to
While foreign cruisers lurk in tin / -
lantic. Thay ore British and Ge i un
ships for the most part, each carry
ing thousands of tons of oil. Several
tankers which left here before war
was declared are said to have bo *,
requisitioned by the British govern,
ment as fuel carriers in tb North sea.
Xhe number of applicants at ?he
municipal employment exchange for
jobs has increased considerably ames
foreign roMrvista stranded here have
j been unable to. find a way to get
abroad.
CITY*
NG FORTS
SAD JMRNEY~
OF PRESIDENT
SPEEDING SOUTH ON A
SPECIAL TRAIN WITH
LOVED ONE
NATION MOURNS
Beautiful Floral Tributes From
Every Nation and Half Masted
Flags Proclaim Sympathy
(By Associ?t *?d Prfsn >
Washington, August 10.-Woodrow
Wilson, president of the United States
tonight was making the saddest jour,
ney of his life. In a Bpeclal train
bearing the body of Mrs Wilson to
its final resting place beside the
graves of her father and mother, he
was on the way to Rome, Ga., with
his daughters and a few members of
his own and his wife's families.
The last simple ceremony of the
funeral will take place tomorrow af
ternoon In the quiet wooded cemetery
of the Georgia town. Then the presl.
dent will turn again to the burdens
of his office and the loneliness of the
white house.
At Half Mast.
' While flags drooped at half mast
throughout the capital today and
thousands gathered in the wide ave
nue before the closed gates of the
white house grounds the first service
?#|y^itta*?l^ in.
thereast room. ' Th? flags, the crowds. !
the closing ot the government depart
ments in the afternoon and the
masses of flowers which overflowed
the east room, were the nation's only
way of expressing its sympathy.
In accordance with Mrs. Wilson's I
wish, the service was of the simplest.
There waa no music; Only the reading
of a few verses from the Bible,, a
prayer by the Rev. Sylvester Beach,'
of the church which the Wilson fami
ly attended during their years in
Princeton, N. J , and a benediction by
the Rev. J. H. Taylor, at whose church
the i president hos worshipped since
he' caine to Washington.
Few Were Present
Less than 200 were present. Be
sides the family there were a few
intimate friends, the members of the
cabinet' and their wives, the commit
tees from the Senate and house, head
ed by the vice president and. the
speaker,. and ?he. employes of the
White House.
The casket was borne from the
white house by six members of the
city police force who have -guarded '
the home, of the presidents for years.
There were no honorary pallbearers.
Few saw the funeral party pass on
Its. way to the union station, where
the train awaited it. The drive was
made over1 less frequented su-ce ta
and only three closed automobiles
bearing the president and a dozen
men. relatives and close friends of
tho family; fol lowe tho hearse.
As the party drew up before the
sUte entra?es of tho station, a vio
lent thundershower began. Within
the station a orowd had gathered that
taxed the great structure to its limits.
Outside thousands more braved the
drenching rain, to stand in silent
sympathy. Passing through a lane
walled by humanity, the casket was
carried to the waiting train. On lt
rested a single wi oath, the "sst gift
of tho president and his daughters.
. Close behind walked the president
with a secret service agent beside
him. Then followed his companions
waikinc three abreast At the train
they halted as thv. casket waa carried
h>to> the car, and stood tn silence
afterward until the president'? three
daughters and his sons-in-law arrived.
The members of the family then en
tered the private car in which the
casket had been placed. Tonight aa
the train sped southward they ?hared
the pad vigil. Other members of the
party rode th sp?cial cars and a bag
gage car carried pave ot the floral
pieces.
Beautiful Floral Offerings.
. Among th? flowers at the white
honso were many elaborate designs.
V ahfngton florista were called upon
aa ne tar before. . Orders came by
cable and telegraph from every part
ot tba world. -Scarcely a capital of
?the world or a etty ot the United
States was unrepresented. A great
blanket Of orchids sent by tho demo,
eratic club of. baltimore was carried
by stk men. Only a small part or
the flowers could bo sent with the
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Photo by American Press AMOCtatto
?r After M
This striking photograph of the wi
Just after the kuiker bad concluded a t
his war board Tile photographer caujj
bte automobile. "
COTT
IS
MONEY
OMISED
SENATOR SMITH'S FLAN TO
USE TH? VREELAND
ACT
GETS AN OVATION
The Junior Senator Wes Well Re
ceived In His Home County
Monday
(Special to The -Intelligencer.)
Bi8hopville, August 10.-The im
portant feature of the campaign meet
ing today was the declaration by Sen
ator E. D. Smith, thai he had: returned [
from a - conference with administra
tion officials in Washington, and that
John Skelton WilHarnt, comptroller
of the currency, would hold a confer
ence with W. G. McAdoo, secretary of
the treasury,'and make, a close scrut
iny ot the Vreeland-Aldrich' currency I
act to ascertain if a large Bum of mon
ey out of the treasury could bc distrib
uted to the banks of the south both
state and national? in ' order that the
farmer may hold bis cotton crop until
the market ls normal. " If the measure j
does not allow such an interpreta
tion, an amendment - allowing such
distribution will be drafted imme?i- j
ately and .given to congress for pas
sage, declared Senator Smith. His
address dealt almost wholly with the
results of the "cotton'conference" held
tn his office in Washington Sunday.
SJ. D. Jennings the only other candi-1
dato appearing at the meeting, excor
iated the pardon record of the gover-|
nor, and. the speaker contrasted the
insistent protestations, of the gover
nor, who, Hr. Jennings stated, set |
bin BC If up as the champion of "the.j
womanhood of South Carolina" while
he extended executive' clemency to I
those violating the vlrtuo of woman
hood.
Wore Whit* Blossoms.
The crowd today numbered approx
imately 1,600 persons, a number of ?
whom were women. Although a dem
onstration had been ? planned for the
governor, about SO per cent of the au
dience wore the cotton blossom. |
However, there were, some 600 at the j
depot adorned with red badges await
ing the arrival of the chief executive
whose train was delayed because of a j
freight, wreck near Columbia.
After the campaign : meeting had
adjourned, a telegram waa read from
the governor stating that the was un
able to attend, being prevented by the
accident.
W.' P. Pollock of Cheraw was <iso
absent. He telegraphed that he was
unable to attend and* sent his greet
ing? to the audience.
The meeting was ' called to order
thIS morning in tho ball park by W. L.
Parrott, county ch airman, and mayor
of Blshopviiie. After, an invocation
from Rev. D. M. Wallace of . Sumte/,
The first speakor, Senator Smith,
wea.greeted with a crash Of dheors aa
(Continued, on Pago 6.)
Var Conference
ir lord of Europe was taken In norlin
alk on war plans with the member* ut
?nt the kaiser as he was about tu enter
GERMANS LOSE
ANOTIM BOAT
NORTH GERMAN 1XOYD
STEAMER CAPTURED BY
THE BRITISH
j _____ ' ' j
j WARSHIPS ARE NEAR
War Dog of Unknown Nationality
Chases the Liner Mtnnetonsft
Into Port
New York, Aue. 10.-While incom
ing liners today brought confirma
tion that foreign warships are cruis
lng off the American coast, strict cen.
sorBhip over the cables from Ber
muda perhaps kept hidden from pub
lie knowledge the fate of North Gor
man Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Wil
helm, which toook 6,000 tons of coal
out of thia port under cover of dark
ness last week before the battleship
Florida began its enforcement of the
neutrality laws.
A Prise af War.
The BritlBh cruiner Essex has cap
tured the German Liner and ls taking
her, prise of ar, into Hamilton, Ber
muda, according to wireless mes
I sages declared to have been overheard
at sea. ,
I The Associated Press correspond.
{ent at Bermuda Indicated in a Cryptic
i dispatch that he bad Information
! which he had not been allowed to
?communicate by cable. Tbis message
I came In response to one Informing
the correspondent of the repot teu
capture of the Kronprinz Wilhelm.
Embargo OB Wireless.
I Port authorities put Into effect
more rigid enforcement of the neu
trality laws today almost simulta
neously with the arrival of the At
lantic transport liner Minnatonka
with the story that a warship, na
tionality not learned, had pursued
her during the closing hours of ber
voyage to American waters. An em
bargo was placed on the wireless ap
paratus' of every foreign ship in Nev
York harbor. This step was taken
after the authorities began to suspect
foreign cruisers at sea might be com
municating with ships of their na
tionality In port.
The chase -of the Minnatonka ended
today only after the phip steamed
Into the three-mile neutrality zone in
the vicinity of Nantucket. Three
days out from Liverpool the Minne
tonka , flying a British flag, was In
formed by wireless by the Whi;e ',
Liner Oceanic on her way to Eng
land, that a state of war existed.
Last night the Mlnnetonka failed to
disclose by wireless ber Identity to a
warship which asked it. With her port
holes blanketed and electric wires tb
every state room, cut, the Minn etona'a
sped through the fog and a few boura
later lost sight of her pursuer s
searchlights.
. Tanbie 'to Leave.'- - ..>\.*-')?'
Thousands of German and /VA
trian, reservists remain stranded here,
unable to find means of - transportation
homeward. The Holland-American
European W
Latest New
Important
(By Assocl
Great Betti
Brussels, August t I. Via Lon
fighting around Liege since Satur
the storm. There is little doubt t
yet witnessed in this war is immine
A Valual
London, August fl.-4.10 a
steamer Cap Ortegal, with $5.00i
captured by the British, according
from Buenos Ayres, July 16th foi
War Is Not ? W
London, August 10.-As a ri
through Reginald McKenna, hom<
all militant suffragettes tn prison
McKenna made this announcemen
London, August tl.-The N
again today.
London, August tl.-A tele
guim says that the French troops ?
success nf the Belgians over the G
authority reports that the Germai
and 1,700 captured.
Washington, August 10.-S
that he had received an acknowlec
der of good offices from Austria-H
Paris, .August 11.-Detachm
war troops from French Algeria tc
Home Rule 1
London, August A 1.-Parliarr
mier Asquith stated that he hope
thing in the.wav of a proposal on
to all.
France Ve*
7? ' Paris, August to.-France h
relations with Austria-Hungary. . ,
Th* Was? Ia
Laredo, Texas, August 11.
Luis Potosi to take eiitire commani
GERMAN SPIES
INVADE BELGIUM
Six Hundred Have Been Captured
And One Hundred Have
Been Executed
(By Associated Press.)
Brussels, August 10.-Brussels has
been covered by a net work of Ger
man spies. Six hundred already have
been arrested and one hundred were
shot today.
Some of the Germans captured wore '
uniforms of gendarmes, civic guards,
soldiers and officers of the Belgian
army.
Many were armed with bombs and
revolvers and rode In automobiles
bearing false numbers. They also
had in their possession telegrams
and letters with the counterfeit sig.
nature of the Belgian minister ot war.
Just before and aftei the fighting
began private signs were discovered
on bridges, military Works and ac
queducta indicating that those struc
tures would be blown up.
Several precautions have now been
taken by the military authorities. No
one ls admitted at the railway sta
tions without a military permit. Au
tomobiles are halted at every mlle.
. .The war minister has issued a pro
clamation that every German and Aus
trian who does not declare himself
swithin 24 hours will be considered a
spy . Since the Flanders provinces
were placed under martial law two
days ago more than 2,000 have been
arrested as spies.
Forty thousand volunteers have
been enrolled and have been formed
Into twenty regiments of two thous
and each.
- The train sorvice between Brussels
and Paris was resumed this morning.
Line steamship Rotterdam, carrying
1,500 Dutch reservists, sailed today
for. Amsterdam. The Lloyd-dtallano
Steamship Company announced that
its ship Caser ta would sall Thursday
for Italian ports carrying reservists
of any nationality who se ok passage.
The Lamport and Holt Lino 'an
nounced resumption uf sailings of its
ships to Brull and Argentine ports
beginning Thursday. '
Collector of the Port 1 (alone, be
fore starting for Philadelphia today
to- confer with the port authorities
there rogarding the ntutrAllty laws,
issued tte order to the customs in
spectors urging the exercise of sym
pathetic Judgment of revenue stat
utes In the examination of Americans
and others returning from Europe.
ar Bulletins;
s of All The
; Happenings
lated PreNR.)
B Imirunetw. Jf
don.-3.40 a. m.-The lull in trie
day appears to be the lull before
hat an engagement on a scale not
:nt.
>le Prize. ?
. m.-The Hamburg-American line
[),ooo in specie aboard, has been
to the Daily Mall. The liner sailed
. Southampton,
hat Sherman Said.
:sult of the war King George today
; secretary, ordered the release of
for breaches of the pc'.ce. Mr.
t in the house of commons.
orth Sea is closed to fishing fleets
gram to the Daily Mail from Bpl
irrived in time to participate tn the
erman army investing Liege. This
ns lost 8,?oo killed and wounded
ecretary Bryan today announced
lgeme^ t of President .Wilson's teh
ungary, England and France.
ents of the. famous veteran Turco
day penetrated upper Alsace*
Bill In Soak., \ . .-T V
lent adjourns for a fortnight, rre
s in the meantime to have sorrie.
home rule that wi ii be acceptable
sus Auetria, ,. -A-, C.?-.'?, .yV5.'-*^ ^
as officially broken off diplomatic
BSggSso. " / .
-General Carranza has left San
d of the constitutionalist army.
GOVERNMENT TO
HANDLE COTTON
:-yfc'i
New Scheme Proposed for fed?
eral Supervision) hi Marketing
the Cotton Crop %
-; . y *
(By Associated Press.)
Washington. August 10.-Completa
revolution In the methods ot cotton
marketing was proposed today aa
a means of relief from depression
threatened hy the cloting of foreign
markets during the European war,
The plan was also laid before the
house agricultural committee by ex
perts of tbs department of agrlcnl*'
turo, it contemplates government' su
pervision ot marketing, federal stan
dardization or trades, and establish
ment of a system of warehousing to
make baled cotton a solid basia for
credit to growers and enable them
to finance their crops until advan
tageous arrangements can bo mad o
for marketing.
C. J. Brand, chief of the division ot
marketa suggested the scheme be put
in operation tbrongh the Lever cot
ton grades bill now before the house
committee. This bill provides for fed
eral supervision of cotton, grading
amendments to enable ', the govern
ment to license cotton warehouses
where crops could be stored. Under
such- conditions he said'the new fed
eral reserve board would be able to
make cotton In the warehouses the
basia of ample credit' to growers.
The committee tomorrow will hear
cotton men of tbs south, on the pro-?
posed scheme and Will ask them, fbr
suggestions. E. J. Watson oommJa
sloner of agriculture of 8oath Cal
lina today began . organls**!ou of av
committee of growers *nd manufac
turers to present the views of the
southern cotton man.
Heat Prostrations,
(By Associated Preso.)
New York, August 10.-Heat iodsy
caused tho death of three persons in
New York. Nearly a doten others
were overcome. The temperature did
not exceed 85 degrees, but tho btim'id
ity waa high.
o* o *o 'o '6 'o ?6 *o -o >o'..'o-.^'d*^.'
J ROYALTY KILLED. %
o London, August 1V?-?A Brea- o
o sela dlspt ' to tho Exchange o
o Telegraph * upan y says arnon g, o
o the Gorma, i killed tn- assault o
o on Liege were Prince William Jbv
o of Lippe and his son. ?