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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 342. rTeeUy, E.tabUshed i860; D?fljr, Janis, ?1?. ANDERSON, S. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1914. $5.00 PER ANNUM PRICE FIVE CENTS WAR DECLARED BETWEEN TURKEY AND RUSSIA WOULD REGARD AT NACO A CARANZA SAYS HE IS NOT RE SPONSIBLE FOR FIRING ACROSS LINE MAYTORENAS MEN TO BLAME Sayo He Does Not Know That Rights of Americans Have Been Violated. (By Af?wi?ud Pres?.) VERA CRUZ, T c. 12.- "If the United States employs force to atop the firing'by Mexicans across the In ternational boundary line at Naco it will be .Considered an unfriendly act, notwithstanding the friendly motives cloaking the act." ? In this manner Oenersl Carranza made answer, in s statement to the Associated Press, to thn formst notice served by the United States on both Provisional President Gutierrez and General Carranca that unless auch fir ing ceased, force would be employed to protect American territory. Carranxa's reply to the American note, which la expected to reach Wash ington tomorrow, will, repudiate re sponsibility for any shots that have crossed the line and clearly set forth that he and his government will re gard Intervention at Naco as a hostile act. At no time since the receipt of Sec retary Bryan's note calling attention ' to repeated ? wounding and killing ol residents ot the American town, has General Carranza appeared perturbed, but he has bad long conferences witta tho** clore to him, and in framing his reply, it ld said, he has been care ful not to let himself remain In an j uncertain light. "General Hill, Constitutionalist commander ot the forces at Naco, is on the defensive," continued General Car ranza, "and since his back was to thc Uno lt la difficult to ase how he could " be responsible for the firing. The fad la that Maytorena's men h?ve been at tacking, and therefore U appears reas onably clear and they, and only they, could have been to blame. "AB a matter ot fact, I do not know that the rights ot American citizen* have been violated. It seems to mc that it would be well for the state de partment to investigate this question In order .to fig the responsibility. "? remember similar instances at Bl Paso, when the Madero forcea wen attacking there. In that caso those shots' wsre tor the most part the Im prudent and curious individuals whe flocked to witness the fighting as If ll a spectacular show staged for theil benefit. "As to the use ot force, of which Mr Bryan talks, that ls something Un gravity ot which I fear he does not ful f ly appreciate. He ssys lt would noi mean an invasion of our territory, 01 a violation of our national sovereignty It would: And moreover, it would cer tainly be an act directly against th? Constitutionalists, who now. hold th? town and in favor the vmistas. wtu would ' be left free to ' conn one - theil operations. Ti would be simply tyinf General Hill's banda and leaving May to rena fre?, "I sincerely, hope that the good friendship ot the American peoplo to wards the Mexican people will prevent the consummation of Secretary Bry a ab's threat." Request That Sent to Cana! Z (By Aanehtod Pren.) WASHINGTON. Dec 13.- -Colone Goethals hss requested that destroy ers be sent to toe canal sofie' limned lately, it was learned tonight, but nt specific explanation of Ute need foi naval v?asela there was included ii the message. A reply asking f?r th ti explanation was sent at once but p< answer hah hean received from Colo net Goethals st a late hour. Officials believe, however, that tfai canal governor, has experienced- aom< difficulty in preserving the com plo t< neutrality of the tone and its territm lal waters. Hauy ships belonging ti belligerent nations are ia the vicin ity, and lt*j thought possible Colo net Goethals has found himself un able to check use of their wirelesi planta within the three-mile limit. With swift naval vessels to sid i would be an easier matter to regu lata use of wireless and it wai thought probable tonight the necee .sary destroyers wtrald be dispatcher a? soon aa Colonel Goethals explana tlon waa received. Recent activity by-British and Jap aneses warships In tba vicinity of th? canal sons which followed tho dises ter to the British fleet ruder Admira II HOSTILE ACT ooooooooooooooooooo 6 o o Governor'* Body Relnterred. o o - o o ATHENS, Ga,. Dec. 12.-AH o o that remained of the body of o o Peter Early, governor of Geor- o o gia a, century ago, was removed o o from 'itB grave in Green County o o today and relnterred at Greens- o o boro, Ga., beside the governor's o o parents. The ashes of the gover- o o nor's wife and small child were o o taken to Greensboro at the same o o time. The graves opened today o o were made in islr,. o j o .o ooooooooooooooooooo! Revokes Passes For Crossing Line. NACO, Arl?., Dec. 12.-Brlgad'.e! General Tasker H. Bliss, commander of the United States troops? here, to night revoked all pass?es for crossing tlie International lines. Later com munication into Mexico was limited to press correspondents and froight teamsters. G?n?ral Bliss, it was stated. Intend ed to break up efforts to both Mexican factions to send agents into Arizona for recruits and supplies. Representatives of General HUI, commander of the Naco, Sonora, gar rison, and of Governor May to rena, whose forces are besieging the town, were refused passes into American territory. The belligerents tonight continned exchanging Are. General Hill tonight placed two ""--millimeter Maxim guns in position. , ' No Orders to Stop Fir! ag. NACO, ARIZ., Dec. 12.-Jese Mayto rena. Insurgent governor of Sonora, who has been besetging the Carranza garrison of Naco since September, is sued a statement today declaring he had received po order from Provision al President Guti?rrez to stop firing to prevent bullets struting in American territory. He ls preparing for a final assault on Naco Tuesday night. I ? ? ' ?- - . . Second Warning Reeelved. EL PASO, Texafc. Dec 12.-A second warning from the Washington govern ment to Govern?v Mar*"rena was re ceived here today demanding that May torena withdraw immediately from the rangt, of the American border town., It had been given verbally, lt was under stood, to one o' Maytorena's agents st Washington. Pursuing Maytoreaa Force. DOUGLAS. Ari?., Dec. 12.-Two hun dred and fifty Carranza cavalrymen left Agua Prieta today in pursuit nf the IJaylorena force which captured Fronteras Isst night. After the capture of Fronteras, 30 miles south of the bor der, the Maytorena troops are report ed to have left today for Cuchuta. ----~ Threatening Windstorm Moving Northeastward -i-it ... (By Aikodated Pr*?.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 12.-- A threat ening windstorm, moving northeast ward fora be Texas coast tonight prompted tho weather bureau to order warnings to shipping displayed along the Gulf coast and Atlantic coasts from Brownsville ' to Washington. Heavy rams with occasional snow flurries and rbarply falling tempera tures are expected to accompany the disturbances eastward. Destroyers Be Cradock, bas given rise to some con cern here, although no specific re ports ot neutrality violations haws been received so far as known. Reporta of wireless interruption from Panama have led to the belief that colliers sod warships were ex changing messages, which, If they have not otherwise been open to ob jection, hsvs hindered commentai use of wireless tc a considerable extent. In view ,of Colonel Goethals *nee sage> lt is believed code m osages have been .picked up which disclosed that to eome extent the watara of the tone hare been made a base of operations by one or both of the allied fleets and that the governor wisbes to establish a patrol which will prevent further v?oin\ions of neutrality. An unofficial report was In circula tion tonight that the collier Lena, of the British auxiliary fleet, had mate improper use ot ber wireless equip ment by sending British navy code messages whll*_jrithin tho three-mile limit What steps Colonel Goethals may hare already taken or contem pl?tes beyond his request for destroy ers ls coi known, however, ead con firmation of the re?rt ae to the liena waa net' obtainable. Von! This i8 the first photograph of Field Marshal 'yen Hindenburg, consider ed by military experts to be, with General Joffre of the French army, the greatest genius developed by the war. SHORT RECESS FOR SENATORS Democrats Determined to Speed Up Legislative Program to AMAUI PT*_. ,LT_ CaMMM ' fwWQOa nui seamon. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Senate, TvjniiCrai!! in caucus today determin ed to speed up the legislative program td enfold an extra session after March 4. . . ? It waa decided to abandon a long holiday recess, the senators agreeing to coater with house readers on 'a plan to recess from December 22 to December 28 and to remain in sesBinn New Year's week except on New Year's day. It also was decided to bold night sensions of the senate at least once a week and oftener If the steering committee found it neces sary. "Appropriation bills will have the right of way In the senate as rapidly as they come from the nose," Mid Senator Kern, chairman of the cau cus. "The legislative program will not be extensive otherwise. The con servation measures, the Philippine blil end the ship purchase bill will be taken up ss soon as they come from committees. The immigration bill was not discussed in the caucus but it is expected it wiil be voted on before many days." AWARD CONTRACTS FOR DESTROYERS Socrelary Daniela Places Orders For Sis Torpedo Boat Destroy, ert Authorized by Congress. (Br Associated Prca.) - WASH INO TON, Dec. 13.-Secretary Daniels' awarded contracts today for the construction of the six' torpedo boat destroyers authorized by the hvtt naval appropriation bill as follows Fore River Shipbuilding Company, two ships, 1795,000 each; Bath Iron Works, two fhtps, $800,000 each; Cramp Shipbuilding Company, one ship, ?820,000. The sixth ship will be constructed st the Mare Island navy yard. It will be the first destroyer built in a gov? eminent yard. The appropriation bill limited the amount to be paid for each destroyer to #925100 but made no prpv*-ion for > more than six vessels Money saved in today's sward may not be used tor additional construction but must be isrhed beck to tho treasury. in this connection Mr. Daft-, lett issued thia statement: "ir the appropriation bill had al lowed the construction of six i or metre destroyers tor tba amount authorised, lt would have been possi ble for the secretary of the navy to order eev*an destroyers instead ot ala and keep within the appropriation. Secretary Daniela will ask congress *o appropriate for destroyers this year as it did for submarines last ' year, when lt made the appropriation read 'eight er mere submarines* for a given sam,** taken since he has been in Poland. 1 Despatches show that he has Just 11 captured Lodz, ? city of 450,000 in 11 Russian Poland. This is the third time he has driven his troops into Russian I WILL SE CALLEO I STANDS ON HATIt (By Awocistwl ???) WASHINGTON, Doc, 1*.-Members ul thc house of. representatives will , be called upon to take definite stands on- national prohibition and woman suffrage as a result of action today ? hy the rules committee. It was de cided to report sp?cial rules for cou- ! alderation - of constitutional amend mbtats bn both subjects. Tea and nay notes will be required: ? Chairman Henry said the ruie on the Hobson prohibition resolution ; would be presented December 22 and after eight hours debate would be pressed to a vote. Tho suffrage res- < olution, he sold, will follow Immed iately, i Prohibition and suffrage support- l ors' Immediately began to line up their i BRITISH WARSHIPS Al> MEET ON HIGH (By Associated* Proa.) PANAMA. Dec. 12.- lt was persist- . ently reported here today that als British warchipa met four British col- ? Hers yeserday on the high sess 60 miles so a th of Panama and coaled from them. It ia believed locally these warships came from Australian waters One of them is even said to be the Australian battle cruiser Australia, j Por several days there has beep ! much wireless Interference, sud lt' ls believed the colliers and the warships GERMAN OFFICER FO IN TRUNK Al (By Associated Press.) . LONDON. Dec. if.-(4:32 p. m.) A .vigilant customs officer at Grave send today captured a. German army ' officer whom he fcan'1 hiding in a huge trunk thafc Tras about to be shipped to F.otteraara. The trunk was going for wara ss ordinary mer- : chandlse on board the steamer Bats vier. The customs officer became sus- j piclous and gave orders that the pad- i i NATURALIZED AMERK WILL BE TRIE! (By Associates Prm.) .'?PARIS, Deo. 12.-Geneva police. ., says a dispatch to the Journal, have arrested a nc.iur?iissd American nam ed Muller who. lt ls alleged, organis ed an Important German syp system with ramifications in Lyons and the principal cities of eastern France. Maller, the dispatch states, will ho ' tra id by courtmarlal. Fer?ese Possibility of Complications. WASHINGTON. Dec. 12. -So Inter ested were state department officials 1 la the reported arrest of Ute Amer!- 1 ctn Muller by Geneva police that 1 American Minister Stovall waa today ' directed to make an Immediate In- 1 qulry. Should tbs report prove accu rate, officials forste the possibility ot War. and His Staff. Takt Poland. It ls the second time within i few weeks that ho came near War saw, one of tba greatest Russian cities. If he should succeed in taking lt he will have dealt a severe brow to the uinolwir INAL PROHIBITION forces for the coming . encounter, lt generally wao pred:ci?a that the spe cial rule would be passed, aa a ma jority vote only is required. Oppo nents of the two amendments, how ever, were confident that neither of them would have the necessary two thirds majority on the final vote. The prohibition amendment would forever prohibit "the sale, manufac ture for sale, transportation for sale. Importation for sale and exportation for sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes in the United States and all territory subject TO the jurisdiction tb<|'eof." The suffrage proposal declares that tho right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. ID COLLIERS I SEAS NEAR PANAMA have been In comunlcation. Ships' captains reaching Balboa have reported the nearness of British cruisers. ?Six British colliers have called at Panama daring the, last few days. A British cruiser was ?std last night to have como close in to Balboa. She is BU posed to have been trying to locaba colliers. . - ;?t A Japanese fleet is said tq be off the Chtlesn coast and tho British war ships are believed to have sailed for the south to effect a Junction. UND HIDING ?OUT TO BE SHIPPED locks be broken. When the lid was removed a man later Identified as a German officer waa lifter out of the box. He was removed to Gravesend police station. Bedding, food and water were found la the. trunk. It waa believed the officer escaped from one of the interment camps in England. It is supposed he waa en deavoring to convey inVrmatton to Germany. : AN ARRESTED; ) BY COURTMARTIAL complications through sn attempt to extradite a naturalized American citi zen fros* Switzerland, a neutral cour tly, to France. y i .... * .Vi v'.,'../ ' ' . ooooooooooooooooooo o o o Cruiser Dresde* fjiranded. o 0 BUENOS AYRES, Dae. 12.- 0 a The German cruiser Dresden, o o one of the. squadron engaged by o o tbs British warships off Falkland o o Islands and which took: to flight, o o has stranded on the Argentine o a coast near the port ot Gallegos, o a o ooooooooooooooooooo en in Poland. hopes of tho Russians. Von Minden- , borg was recently made field marshal ! by Kaiser Wilhelm for his success In the eastern war. He ls shown In the center of the photograph. OF SUPPLIES j American Red Cross Seeds 401 COM Hospital Supplies and Clothfoc to Europe. (By Aawiated Frew.) . WASHINGTON, Dec. ?2.- The American Red Cross today shipped ; 401 cases of hospital supplies and clothing for women and children to war striken countries ot Europe. Prance will receive 80 cases and an ad ditional donation of 5,000.000 cigar ettes. Germany will get 71 cases; Austria-Hungary 71 cases, and 20 ! hales of . absorbent cotton'and Belgium ! 159 cases. Enclosing a check for $100, Vice President Marshal: wrote the Red Croea today: "I fear the calls for help at home and abroad are to be numerous and all-compelling that many of ua muat curtail our pleaaurea at the behest of duty and that larger charity which apella love." Germany's Answer Not Satisfactory STOCKHOLM, (via London) Dec. 12 -Germany's- answer to Sweden's ire quest for an explanation of the lay ing of German mines which have de stroyed three Swedish vessels, ls con sidered far from satisfactory by the Swedish press, according to the Afton bladot. 'The answer denies that German ships laid mines Saturday or Sunday last but says nothing concerning pre vious days. It admits that, owing to the intention of Russia to establish a winter naval base, German mines were isid in the Aland Aschipelsgo, . "Leter tbsn Sunday," of which Sweden wss notified Mondsy after toe Swedish steamers were sunk. tamigf ants Fra Be Maced On! (By Awoelated Preta.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Resolu tions calling on the federal govern ment and the Southern States for legislation to care for immigrants who seek refuge 1n this country after the European war were adopted to night by the immigration conference called by the Southern Commercial Congress to consider the feasibility of distributing Immigrants on farms In the South. A committee was appointed to work ont some practical plan of action. Dr. Clarence J. Owens, managing director of the Southern Commercial Congress, declared In an atV ress that tbs future develorfneuT of the South was measured In terms of on efficient Industrial and agricultural immigra tion. At the sitora ooo session ot the congress Secretary of Labor Wilson predicted, that many of the destitute immigrants who would come to the United states from Europe after tho NO IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS LITTLE HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM EITHER EASTERN OR WESTERN BATTLES RUSSIAN LOSSES REPORTED HEAVY Conflicting Claim* of Advantage Aro Made by the Opposing Forces. -,, ,l" LONDON, Dec, l??*Ko important developments have? been repotted la the lest 24 hours, either in,the east ern or western battles, although fight ing of a more or lees violent charac ter continues. Conflicting claims of advantage aro made by the opposing forces. As an offset of the Russian claim of having checked the advance of three of fire German columns Invad ing their territory, the Germans state today that their cavalry has repulsed the Russisn horseman on the Bast Prussian frontier; that in North Po land the German operations ara de veloping and that in South Poland tba Russian attacks have bera unsuccess ful. It is admitted in Berlin, however, that the Russian resistance ls by no means broken, although, according to the German estimate In the battles preceding the evacuation of Leds, t"o Ruaslans lost 160,000 men, including 80,000 captured, while the German losses were light. There is tho same disparity between French and German 'accounts of tho bettles in Flanders a: ?d France. It ia apparent from both, itowover, that the Alliea have assumed at least a partial ogenslve. |^^|^^^'^<^yQ ti,a* COBS, while*the Gensans^eclsre the sttack of tbs Allies have bseu repulsed wi:h heavy losses. ' The genersl impression here, is that the Allies, with artillery and occas ional infantry attacks, are preparing the way for ? general offensive, hut In doing so are meeting with stub born resistance from the Germans, who are firmly established In en trenched positions. The advance, lt lt is possible, must therefore be slow. The Servions continue to claim suc cesses. The Austrians tried to stem de feat by sending a force from Belgrade southward against tho Servian light wlug, but this army. Ilks that re treating westward, suffered heavily; The pope's plea for a Christian truce has failed, though a majority ot the powers received lt sympatheti cally. Berlin declares Russia would not consent to the truce ss the Rua 8isn Churstmas does not fall on the esme day as that of the other coun tries. Rumor persists that the German cruiser Dresden, one of the squad ron Which was defeated fay the Brit ish Squadron In the Bp?th Atlantic, either hss been sunk or'has sought ref ugo in a neutral port. There t.% no confirmation of this report and confi dence that she will be caught ls shown by the betting on Lloyd's, which was 25 to 8 that the Dresden would ba rounded up by January S. ' Resolution Voted Down. WASHINGTON. Dee. 12.-Repre sentative Gardner's demand for a hearing on his resolution for an in vestigation into the nation's military preparedness wa? voted dow* by {(he house rales committee by a straight party vote of 6 to 3, all Democrats * voting against IL ? ' ?MW?Www<<eaa?*?MaaM?AM*^a?yWw ^v^svv^^yvwww?;????) ni Europe Can Southern Farms war could he placed on Southern farms If proper efforts ara mada to. secure them. He explained the efforts of the labor, postofflce and agricul tural department? to bring together "the jobless man and the maniese joh, the landless man '?ad the man lesa land.'* J. j. DeKinder, an expert of Dutch colonisation, who recently came from Holland, said many Dutch and Bel? gian farmers ruinad hy the war were anxious to coma to. the United States. Senator Duncan TA Fletcher, ot Florida, prealdent ot the Southern Commercial Congress, presided at the sessions. Many Southern States were represented by officials. The committee ohos rn te decide oai a definite plan to encourage desirable immigration ls composed nf Dr. Owens. T. R. Preston, Chattanooga: Hugh Mac Rae, Wilmington, N. C.; M. V. Richards, Industrial eosnmlssiener. Southern Raliway, Washington, and Rohan IC Misson, a member of. tho South Carolin* legislature. ,