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P 4 'REBELS AT-DBJ ARE SURRENDERING OVER SEVEN HUNDRED PRISON ERS ARE TAKEN BY ENGLISH TROOPS. MANY INCENDIARY FIRES Damage is Estimated at Ten Millions -Conditions Are Reported to Be More Satisfying. Dublin.--All the leaders of the in surrection' are reported to have sur rendered unconditionally. It also is re ported that the Four Courts district has )een re-captured. London.-An official annouincemient concerning tho situation in Ireland says: "Sevenl hundred and seven pris oners have been taken, including the Countess Marlieviscz." "The general officer in command re ports the. situation in Dublin much more satisfactory. Throughout the counqry there was still much more to be done, which would take time, but he hoped that the back bone of the re bellion had been broken. "Messengers were sent out from the rebel leaders in Dublin to the rebel bodies in Galway, Clare, Wexford, Louth and Dublin counties, ordering them to surrender, and priests and the Royal Irish Constabulary are doing their utmost to disseminate this infor mation. "As regards the situation in Dub lii, rebels from the areas of Sack Ville street, the postoffice and the Four Courts are surrendering freely. More incendiary lires took place in Sac-kvlIle street last night but the fire brigade is now able to resume work. "It is further reported that up to the present 707 prisoners have been takenl. Included among these is the Countess Markievsicz." GEN. TOWNSEND'S ARMY OF 10,000 TAKEN BY TURKS. Ill Fated British Campaign in Meso potamia Ends With Surrender. L01don.-Alother phase of the ill fated British campaign in Mesopota inia has close(d with the surrender of General Townsend and the garrison at Kut-el-Ainara on the Tigris River, about 130 miles below Bagdad. Some 10,000 men in all laid down their arms to the Turks, after having destroyed all their guns and munitions. The British Mesopotamian cam paign, waged along the Tigris from the Persian Gulf northryard, almost to the gates of L0 agad, had as its Chief ob ject the capture of that ancient city. To dlivert the Turkish forces from Gallipoli was another object. When almost at the point of achieving its main object. late last year, the effort broke down at Ctestphon, 18 miles from Bagdadi, when the Turks, alarm ed for the safety of the town of fabled memory, rushedl up rein force mente, in ilicting a defeat upon the British and complelledl their retreat 110 miles down the Tigris to Kut-el-Amara, where the Turks had them 50(lurOly hot tied uIp. General TIownsend held out for 143 days, his supliies steadily growing lower as he waited the relief of the armiy which, fIr-st under- General Ayl meor, and then unider (General Uor'ringe, battled its way up the Tigres towvard him. This hrmy enlcounter-ed strong positions of the Trurk-s blow Kut. on hoth sides(1 of the river and, although several of these were (carried, it has not beeni able to wvork mutch closer to the beleagluered garr-isonj than a score of miiles blecause of the stubbiorn3 Turk ishi resistan lce andtt food conditin 118onl the Tigres. PROSPERITY CONTINUED ITS INCREASE DURING APRIL W ~ asington.-The1 monthly survey of business conditions throughout the ,* country reported to tile leederal lHe serve Board by agents ini each re'serve *district, shows that Prosperity con. tinuedi to increase dluring April in vir tually every section of the United *States espeeially in elatern mIanufac *turing centers. A synopsis of the sur *vey by districts follows: Richmond--Business continues to show improvement. Farmers are in better financial concqition than for sometinie past. Atlanta--General conditions are un 1changed; outlook for future Conditions favorable. Tlhere is a general selling * o the cotton crop. floston--Business continues to im Prove; comparison with a year ago 'slies that in many eases the im oeet is exetreme. -New York--The volume of the goods T,,rodgeed and sold last month was Sitrobnbly greater than in any March e~cord. 8p 'RHiNQ'8 TROOPS WILL REMAIN.IN MEXICO. ~~~; 1iPaeo, Tex-Mexican and Ameri odeferees over the dispositjoiiot. agia 'f in Mexico mark ~Vtim e while General's Scott ., ha~btohil t4word from Wash ~ t~ ~s~it step te bhe taken, 1$the following facts (o datre the appasr IP A'a~iup on:Gopy. COLHENRY. LAoGt~s' 10 Col. Henry L. Rogers, quartermaster of the cavalry division In Mexico, has nothing to do but solve all transpor. tation problems, supply cavalrymen with animals, supply the 'animals with forage, furnish the soldiers with cloth. ing, camp and garison equipment, pro. vide for roads, railways and bridges, superintend the commissary and take charge of all other details not spe cifically assigned to anybody else. In Mexico, where transportation is ex ceedingly primitive, especially with Villa leading the way, Colonel Rogers has a man-size job. CARRY ARMS FOR DEFENSE SEC. LANSING STATES RIGHT RECOGNIZED BY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. Right to S!nk Merchantman Doubtful in Any Base.-Copies to Forelgn Embassies. Washington.--An official declaration of the attitude of the United States toward armed merchant ships, Just made public by Secretary Lansing, reiterates and explains the purpose of the American Government to recog nize the right of peaceful vessels to carry arms for defense and, at the same time-while referring only to warships generally-clearly sets forth the conditions under which. the Unit ed States holds submarines may at tack merchant craft. The declaration was issued in the form of a memorandum prepared by Mr. Lansing at Presiderit Wilson's (direction dluring the Secretary's brief vacation last month. Copies of it were given to each of the Embassies and legations here; and while -no of ficial- explanation was forthcoming as to the purpose of publishing the me morandum at this time, it assumed that at least the substance of it will reach the Berlin Foreign Office be fore a reply is dispatched to the American demand for abandonment of Germany's present methods of sub marine warfare. This would serve to answer in advance certain ques tions which dispatches have indicated the German Government wvas inclin ed to ask. BAND OF VILLISTAS IN CLASH WITH U. S. CAVALRY Six Mexicans Dead, ,19 Wounded Much Skirmishing in Mountains. Two Amer-icans Killed. WVashington.--The war depar-tment has just~ .given out thuis dispatch fromn Gener-al Funston: '"ollowing just received from Gen eral Pershing: "Namiquipa, April 25. -- "'A report datedi April 24 received today from Colonel Dodd states that he overtook a band of Villistas near Tomachie on 22nd at 4:-30 p. mn., kill ing six and wvounding 10 others, many probably fatally. Twenty-five horses were captured. Our loss two killed and three wounded. Fight lasted un til after dark. Impossible to tell defi nitely loss of Villasta,. Dodd's col umn when Previously heard from was at Penachic on the seventeenth. Coun try reported very rough. March made over difficult mountain trails. Villistas reported under leadership of Cervan tes, Rios Baca and Dominguez number 150 to 200. Baca reported killed at Santa Tomas. Do not give entire cred it to report of his -death. Our killed at Tomachie were Rlalph A. Law, sad-' dler, Troop L, Seventh Cavalry; Pri vate Ol -er Blonahee, Troop H. Ihley. enth Cavalry; wounded Thomas Hien ry, Seventh Cavalry; Tillmnan M. Matchias, Troop L, Seventh Cavalry. Dodd returned to Minaca.'" GERMAN U-BOATS COULD HARASS U. S. COAS'r. Wahntn-Gra U-Boat oper ations ngay be expected off New Yqrk anid other -North Atlantic habors -in case Germany ancA the United States cometo ar.This Is the opfhbor of COTT N FUTUR,[ BILL IS ADOPTED AFTER SPIRITED DEBATE 'HOUSE AS A WHOLE VOTES, 101 TO 28. IDENTICAL WITH 'ORMER Two Cents Pound Tax on Outure Cot ton Sold In Exch'anges and Other Similar Institutions. Washington.--The house, sitting as a committee of the whole, adopted the Lever cotton futures bill as an amendment to the annual agricultural measure, after a spirited "bate. The vote was 101 to 23. T1' Lever bill is identical with the fo, aer cotton. futures law, which was held uncon stitutional, by Federal Judge Hough of New York on the ground that it was a revenue bill which had improp erly originated in the senate, instead of In the house. Under the provisions of the meas ure, a tax of two cents a 1ound would be levied on all cotton sold for future delivery In any exchange, board of trade, or "similar Institutions or places of business." Adoption of this measure came af ter the house had passed, by a vote of 184 to 86, a special rule providing for consideration of the cotton future, grain-trading, and federal warehouse for agricultural products amendments, as' a rider on the agricultural appro priation measure. Under the rule, a little more than five hours' debate on the 'amendments was permitted. STORMY.DEBATE OVER NOMINATION OF BRANDEIS. Committee Members Predict Unfavor able Report on the Appointment. Washington.-A stormy debate over the nomination of Louis ). Brandeis for the Supreme Court broke in the senate, and, before it was over, pre dictions were made by two members of the Judiciary Committee-one a Deno'drat-that an unfavorable re port on the appointment would follow when the committoe reached a vote. Discussion was precipitated when Senator Sutherland of Utah, a Repub lican member of the committee, read to the senate an interview published quoting Senator Ashurst of Arizona as charging that Republican members of the Judiciary Committee were Ilibus tering In order to delay a vote on the Brandeis nomination, until after the national political conventions. Senator Ashurst stood steadfastly by the quoted statement during the heated argument, which followed, un til assured by fellowv-Democrats on the committee that there was no such filiibuater. He withdrew the charge, at the' suggestion of Senator Brando gee, after he had denounced execu tive sessions and charged that the Repnblicans were angered over the Brandeis nomination because he was a champion of the masses. FEDERAL GRAND JURY.. INDICTS EIGHT GERMANS. New York.-Trhe federal grand jury returned an indictment against the eight Germans recently arrested on the charge of engaging in a conspir. acy to place incendiary bombs on shipJs carrying munitions for the En ten to Allies and against Dri. Walter T. Schoele, pr-esident' of the New Jer sey -Agricultural Chin~ical Company, the alleged leader of the conspiracy. wvho has not yet been arrested. It was at Scheele's factory that the bombs wvere par-tly manufactured, It is alleged., The indictment was found on testi mony given by Capt. von Kleist, who wvas employed in -the Scheelo factory, and Ernest Becker, an electrician aboar-d th'e Hamburg-American Li no steamer Friedrich der Grosse. The others are -.Capt.. Otto Wolpert and Captain Eno Bode, of th'e Ham burg1American Line;~ Carl Schmidt, chief engipeer, and Frederick Kar baide, Wilhelm Parades and George Praedel, assistant engineers on the Friedrich der Grosse. FRENCH AEROPLANES SHELL GERMAN POSITIONS, Paris.-The following official corn munication states that: "North of the Aisne the cannonad ing has been rather violent in the region of Bois Des Bluttes. East of the Meuse of a violent bombardment was directed against our' positions be tween the Cote-dtu Poivre and. Douau mont. Durir~g the night of 27-28 our aeroplanes shelled the station at Au dun-le-Roman, siome military huts near' Spincourt FRACTURED SKULL AGAINST SlDA OF U. S. BATTLESMIR. Norfolk, Ya.-9oxs*ain Marvin P. punter, aged 24 of the battleship New Hampslitre, Wa~s killed here while l'oading anti .,officeer's, 'cutter.; 'fhe cabIle0 broke and Hunter was -hurled ta isp'he sidte of.the waasbig,,$# na~ig a 'fraftt,i skull. fi4 olet , . Col. W. Brownof the Tenth cav alry was In command of the 200 Amer. lean cavalrymen who killed 30 of an equal force of Villistas in the running fight at Aguas Callentes village. None of the Americans were even wounded in the battle. TO CONTINUE VILLA HUNT IF UNITED STATES WITHDRAWS CHASE FOR BANDIT LEADER MUST NOT END. Scott and Funston and De Facto Gov ernment Officials Discuss Situ ation Created by Troops. San Antonio, Texas. - Generals Scott and Funston arrived here and spent the day, leaving for -l Paso to discuss with General Alvaro, Sec retary of War of the do facto govern ment, on the situation created by the presence of American troops in Mex ico. Whether General Obregon, who reached San Luis Potosi on his way north will go to Juarez, opposite El Paso, or to some other point on the border has not been definitely stated and the war department was request ed to ascertain and advise General Scott when the conference would take place. aeneral Scott was advised by the war department that specific instruc tIons concerning the character of the discussion lie is to have wvith Obregon will be forwarded to him at once. It is believed by both of them and by army officers generally that General Obregon wvill be given to understand that the United States expects the pursuit of Villa to be0 continued re lentlessly either by his de facto forces or by those of the'United States, and that the United States Government will look to his government to gain such control of the Mexican frontier that such a raid as that at Columbus cannot be repeatedl. General Pershing's troops now oc cupy positions along a shortened line wvith strengthening centers at Nami quipa and Casas Grandes from which supporting forces couldl be dilspatchedl ralpidly to any point requiredl. The de 'facto forces in northern Mexico wereo estimated at not less than 40, . 000, Including troops in andl about Torreon. TRADE BLOCKADE AGAIN JUSTIFIED BY ENGLISH NOTE. Contends That American Protests Are Are Not "Judicially Sound and Valid." Washington. -- The latest Br-itish note, in answer to American protests against Allied interferences with nieu tral trade, made public at the state lepartment, contends that the prac-t Lices complained of are "Judicially iound and valid," and that the relief I which neutrals seek is rather' to bet )btained by the mitigation of neces ;ary hardships, than by "abrupt r 3hanges either in the theory or appli 3ation of a policy based upon admit .ed principles of international law sarefully adjusted to the altered con-t litions of modern warfare." It discloses that "an impartial and e nfluential commission" has been ap- t )ointed to find ways to minimize do- t ays and pledge the Allies to, make r heir restr-aints on tradle as little bur- n lensome to neutrals as possible. c More diplomatic correspondenceh iver the issue is expected to follow.p 'UBLISHERS TENDER. PR ES. WILSON SUPPORT. l Now York-In a toast offered to't 'resident Wilson at the lun'cheon in a onnection with the annual meeting of he Associatedl Press, Frank B. Noyes f Washington, D. C., president of the rganization, tendered ''our effection. Ja to sympathy and our' loys.support to SI he man, who, by virtule of idse great al Jfico, is out' spok '~o the ipr~d, h. GIREN~ 'EPEROR LEAVES BFORRN pd ARMY FRONT AT REQUECST OF KIASER. REGARD VISIT AS HOPEFUL Ejection of Kaiser's Personality Into the Situation is Expected to Pro. duce Good Results. Berlin, via wireless.-James W. Garard, the American Ambassador to Gormany, has gone to the German Army headquarters where he will be received by the German Emperor. Washington. - Announcement in press dispatches from Berlin that Am. zassador Gerard would confer with Emperor William was regarded by of ficials as significant. Official infor mation on the subject was lacking, but t'he opinion was expressed that the Emperor might have in mind supple menting Germany's reply to the Am erican note demanding the immediate abandonment of present methods of submarine warfare with a personal communication to President Wilson. Ambassador Gerard in visiting the Emperor is not acting under instruc tions from Washington. Consequent ly officials assumed that the visit is at the Emperor's invitation. In both official and diplomatic quarters the injection of the Emper or's personality into the situation was regarded as a hopeful indication. President Wilson expects *to receive the German reply within the next few days, it became known, although the basis for his expectation was not revealed. Up to the present he is entirely without definite information of the German -Government's inten tions. NEW FARMER'S SOCIETY IS NATIONAL IN SCOPE. Gov. Stuart of Virginia and Fairfax Harrison Are Named Directors. New York.--Gov. Henry C. Stuart of Virginta, and Fairfax Harrisoh, presi dent of the Southern Railway, were elected directors of the National Ag ricultural Society, which has just been organized here. The avowed purpose of the organi zation will be to serve as the mouth piece of the farmers of the United States in agricultural questions of Nation-wide interest. Some of the subjects which will be taken up, it was said, are rural credits, uniform agricultural legislation, the promo tion sin congested centers of popula tion of an interest in rural activities, co-operation in the conservation of natural resources, and co-operation among 'farmers in establishing better methods of marketing and distribut ing farm products. James Wilson of Iowa, Secretary of Agriculture, in the Cabinets ~of Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, was elected president of the society and .Theodore N. Vail, presi tient of the American Telegraph & relephonie Co., was elected vice presi rient. GREAT ACTIVITY ALONG THE BRITISH FRONT. London.--Great activity at various 3oints along the British front is re )orted in the latest official communi tation1. Tihe Bedfordshire Regiment ~arried out a successful raid near Car 10y. Therelhas been artillery activity it La Boisselle, H-ebuterne, Monchy m-BLols, Neuville4St. Vaast, Armen beres and Frelinghein. At Frelinghein the Germans enter id the British trenches but were riven out. Similar attacks on ~the iritish trenches on hill No. 60 and *t St. IElol were repulsed. The sectors of Avocourt and Mumi res, northwest of Verdun are - still nder heavy bombardment. The Ger ians have attempted no infantry at acks here, according to the Paris ommunication, but those artillery reparations usually presage an at ack. The Germans on the front of Had amount and Traumnont/ and between Iuaumont and Vaux, essayed attacks llowing violent bombardments but de French curtain fires held them their trenches. Artillery engagements have featur d the fighting on the other parts of ie line in France and. Belgium, al iough the French aircraft hiave car od out boombing operations against umerous German positions. The ormnan guns are keepinig tup their (navy bombardment of the Russian asition at the Ikskull bridgehead. The Russians have captured the vil. go of Chromiakoua along the Rovno ovel Railway anld put down a coun r-attack there. 00THERN.R. R. PURCHASES MUCtI NEW EQUWPMENT. Washington.-Squthernl Railway has Lot purchased 45 lodomtives, 60 'all.) eel passenger, trai care, '1,00 allit 00 ieoal care 1;897 stqel: ehtr sill INI TEAGUE REMAINS HEAD; CLAk AND REED ELECTED BRIGADE COMMANDERS. -O MEET NEXT IN CHESTER Many important Matter. Dlcussed.4 Spectacular Parade and Annual Ball End Reunion. Rock Hill.-At the concluding busi. ness session of the. South Carolina division, United Confederate Veteranls held in Fredheim's hall Gen. B. H. Teague of Aiken was re-elected com mander in chief of the division and it was decided to hold the next annula reunion of the division 4? Chetn. Col. W. A. Clark of k 'iTombi w.: elected commander of the Pho br gade of South Carolina 't it ' ceeding the late Qen. I. i. N -: m Gen. C. A. Reed of A .m a re-elected commander w). i 1 o brigade. Many matters of imno!) I < . discussed at the final buan si" The ftrst question was A.ti' - movement to have all j.tm.i ".u state pensioned, , regaro s o 1 . physical and financial co"Ioo. sentiment was fifavor f i( hh,, Another matter whic) raOh . lengthy discussion was ow o put the division on rec.-tj desirability of holding ih eral reunion of Unites - Veterans in Washingtor with the reunion of th . of the Republic. It w. this suggestion had be Washington camp of th. that the people of the tend the invitation to t the reunion, soon to b mingham. Final dispi - matter was made by ta to send uninstructed : to the Birmingham rer South Carolina division veterans favored accep tion to Washington. if while others opposed h. eral reunion outside of belonged to the Confed A strong resolution movement to have the U ment refund what is known as the cot ton tax, illegally collected from South. ern people following thbe war, the re funding being in . the nature of pen. sions to the veterans, was adopted and all camps will urge their congressmen to favor the measure. -Gen. C. Irvine Walker of Charles. ton introduced a resolution relating to the ,proposed publication of a life of Lieut. -Gen. Richard Heron Anderson, the ranking general of South Carolina troops . in the War Betwd~en the See tions. Before reading the resolutior Geni. Walker called to the front of th( stage and presented to the audience Miss Virginia Saunders of Stateburg a great-niece of Gen. Anderson an< sponsor of the South Carolina dlivil ion, and her mother, Mrs. Saunder, who is -dame of honor of the divisior and who is a niece of the late Ger. Anderson. Gen. Walker's resolutio was adopted by acclamation. The reunion closed with the veo anis' parade, in which the nilitai companies of this city and Port Mi. the Boy Scouts and nu.merous bane and organizations participated wvi. the veterans. The parade was one. the grandest spectacles of the kii ever witnessedl in Rock Hill1. It w. fully a mile in length, sonme 200 v. erans marching the entire distance foot. Beotwen two and three hundr.' of the older andl feebler vets wer taken in automobiles. The reunion ball followed at o'clock in the evening, in charge the local lodge of Elks, the crownl' social event of th~e reutmion, attend& by the sponsors and their attendana and numerous visitors. Suffers Fatal Fall. Union.-J. L. Jeton of Anders.e employed with a shafting company from a scaffold uponl which he we working on thie interior of Mona . Mills here, and was instantly killed Clemson Cadets Pass' in Review, Anderson.-Marching in colunTht platoons the corps of cadets 'of til rr son college passed in review before Mayor Godfrew atnd Lieut, Col. P. K. McCully, Jr., of the First regime- Li S. C. N. G. The parade was dC'r.vn Greenville and, Main~ streets, circuh the plaza and passing in review of 1 offcers stationed on a stand near. nourt house. More tamn 5,000 peco.1 were on the streets to see the pare-i which was pronounced one of the Fr trilitary exhibitions ever held in '.. lerson. Newberry Student .,Wins, in Contest. Columbia,-John F. Floyd, represent. ng the Newberry high .school, w'on irst place in the .tnterschiolestj ora, orical contest held at thl iiiver!;lty. Iis subject W . 90.*a6 '( ung aloyd was .tS~ Qtpiont' 0 th'e be~ iful . gold m insi1 d#r.ate (~Wh Dvans. of Colirn1a *nd hI'booI vii ld . hsn4qqrse tii Nuv LOnPted by W.$W~oapnpa n of