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TAKE FOUR MILES GERMAN TRENOHE ALLIES CONTINUE THEIR OFFEN SIVE NORTH AND SOUTH OF SOMME RIVER IN FRANCE. FRENCH GET 700 PRISONERS Entante Allies Straighten Lines and Obliterate Saw-Tooth Sallents Which Marked Entire Front Along Somme. -Grandcourt is Being Bombarded. German posi1lon exceeding four miles in length were captured Satur dlay nigh t and Sunday by the British and Freniich armiIesn the continua tion of their ofensive north and south of the Sonine river in France. In ad. dition quantities of war material and a lirge niuiber of prisoners foll into tl:' hands of the 1'ntente Allies--700 )ris;oners being taken by tile French alone. lileavy counter-attacks against t1he l11itirh wore rep)lused with heavy losses0 to the Germans, according to London. Near 'Thiepval the lritish took a fortifvied positiont over a front of a nile known as "the )anube trench," near Courcelette an advanc of about 1,000 yards was Imiade and fiially th1e strongly defelndebd pos itionls ati the Mouqutl fari, over wihich there had been nunwirous hard-foulght battle-! for several weeks, fell into their hands. The advan.c of the British appa r'en3tly straighitens3 oil[ the salient that had projected into their lines between 'I'llipva il 4nd Conrelette and brings 3ithir front he'rto to within a scantlt mile of Grandleot( rt and the Albert-lBapaume rtilwaly. Gran'ldeourt is now being bombarded by the rllitish. The suc. coss of thle ITnch seemiingly obliter ates anotlher of the mani saw-tooth alienlts which mIk tile entire front of the( So11mm10 and is another move of the right flank of tile lIntelte to. waird the Pocketing of Jeronne. VILLA'S TROOPS ROUTED WITH LOSS OF 600 MEN Thousand Followers of Bandit Attack Town of Chihuahua-All Prisoners Put to Death. Mexico City.-leneral Obregon, min. ister of war, annolluces that a thous. 111( followers of Francisco Villa whc attacked the town of Chihuahua were routed with a loss of six hundred met killed an111 many captured. . After the battle General Trevcino's troops were able to take part- in) the regular Inde Pen1dence parade at 11 o'clock. Dur ing the fighting General Trevino was slightly woulided in tile shoulder. Aided by some of the townspeople Villa forces attacked and took tht Penitentiary and the municipal an Fedleral palaces. General Trevin< gathered als troops, placed his artil I-ry, recaptured tie public building and comletely defeated the attael ers in tihe early nmorniing fight. 126 MERCHANT SHIPS PREY OF SUBS. IN MONTH lust," says an official admuiralty statE fmnt i5sued, "126 hIostilO merchai Sips, totalling 170,679 tons grost wore destroyed by submarines of thl Central Powers or by mines; and 3 neutral merchant ships, totalling 32 568 tolls,, carrying contraband of wa to enemies." MRS HOWE'S DEATH DUE TO PERITONITlt New London, Conn.-Mrs. Anne I Howe, only sister of President Wilsol died in a local hlotel. Mrs. llowe ha boon extremely ill for about a wet Withl peritonitis and1( the end( had bec expected at any)3 momen10t for' two day THREE BRITISH STEAMERS SUNK BY SUBMARINI Marseilles, Frlan)ce. - Tllo Britis steamers llanlgrose, Blutetowvn ani Swedish Prince have been sun1k b> submarines. The cews of tihe vese were saved and arrived here. FIVE KILLED IN AUTO CRASH NEAR NEW YORI, New York-Five persons were kIt ed, two probably fatally injured an four others less seriously hurt Sunda morning, when an automobile I which the ywere riding cralshe through a guard rail on a bridg across the Harlemn River-. Thle fly who lost their lves were hurled fror . the bridge to the roadway 25 feet bel low, awhile tihe ethers were crushe undef' the yreckage of the car. RUSSIANS, CLOSING IN, -.TAKE 3,000 TEUTONI Petrograd.-Russian troops have r< med their~ closing-in movement o the Galician town of Halicz, southeas of.Lemberg on the Dnister. The Wa Office' announced that the Teuton have been dislodged from position south of Blrzesauly, on the Zlota Iip.i northeast of Halies, and that the Rui siap were attacking along the Pod Hos'Ja~c Railway line whot tio *,O00 Gerana eOtt takei BRITISH HAVE MAE NOTABLE ADYANI SCORED LARGE SUCCESSES SIN SOMME ATTACK STARTED 11 JULY. SMASH THE GERMAN Li1 Three Towns, Two Woods, H Ground Between Combles and zleres.-Balaume Road Have Bt Taken.-Over 2,300 Prisoners. London. - Smashing the Germ line on a front of six miles north the Somme in France, the Briti forces have made probably the 14 notable advance since the Ang French offensive began July 1. Three towns, two woods and t iossession of nearly all the hi ground between Combles and the P< iercs-Uap1aumie Road fell to the Br kIh. Not oily%, did the Germans In these points buit the British drive ir perils the Combles and Thiepval I sitions on eit her end of tle Briti: front. The gaining of the high grou north of Commnhles gives the Brit i command of the approaches to Ba 111110. The advance on the northern end the front was for a distance of tv miles. Courellette, east of Thiev anl north of the Poziere-Bapaun land, and Martiinmih. south of tl ''ond. fell into the hands of Gener i' men. Purt hr south they to PIers, and the THierh wood. makii secure their possession of C.inchy. T1 Bouleaux woods. north of Combl< n1so was lost to the Germans. The Germans tinder Crown Prin Blunrecht of Bavaria. fought sfr hortly to hold their ground. and t flehting was severv all along the li More than 2.300 prisoners were talk by the British. Aiding the Briftsh in the encirc ment of Combles the French have ken additional trenches north of Proz farm. South of the river thi German trenches near Berny-on-S. terro were taken by the French w also captured 200 prisoners. Der claims the repulse of British atta< southeast of Thelpval and of Frer efforts between Rancourt and 1 Somme. The official statement mits the loss of Le Priez farm west Rancourt. WASHINGTON UNCERTAIN HOV U. S. EXPORTS WILL SUFFI Steps Have Already Been Taken Secure Information on Matter. Washington.-In the absence of formation detailing what commodil are affected by the new British strictions on American trade N Holland and the Scandinavian cc tries officials here are uncertain j how heavily American exporters .suffer. Steps to secure this infor tion already had been taken and was indicated that should any sw< ing extension of restrictive measr h e revealed it would be regarded a serious development in the con .versy over the legality of allied blt .ade methods. No report on the i t order has come through official cl ,nels but a news dinpatch regardln a were called immediately to the at 5 tion of the British embassy bty S ,.Department officials with informal r quiries as to the purpose and ae of the proposal. It was said a sim investigation would he madec thro the American embassy at London PRINCE WILLIAM OF HESSE .HAS BEEN SLAIN IN BATT dI Berlin, via Londlon.---Princ'e F k crick William of 1Ijesse has beeni a ed at Cara Orman. it was offici 3. announced by the WVar Office in report on operations on the Bal front. Tt is added that 28,000 pri: o rs were takeni in the conquest of Rumanian fortress of Turtukal. ( h corning the fighting on the Maccc dI ion trout the statemient tells of y repulse of the Entente attacks on a Moglenica sector and east of the dadr. U. S.GUN EXPORTS ASK LARGER TEST GROU Washington.-Enlargement~ of government reservation at Inc Head, Md., where the navy's big g are tested, is being urged by or I ance officials who say the Iarn a types now benig made cannot be t e out en the present proving groui a without risking destruction of life s. property nearby. An official of I :I rank cited a recent experiencen du the firing tests of a sixteon-inchlr MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE .TO BE OBSERVED TOD t. Mexican City.-The hundred a sixteenth anniversaty of the prt: t mation of Mexican independence r Ilidalgo at Dolores in 1810 wil' be s served with elaborate cer-smoi a throughout the republic In the c ,tal, where nearly every buitding -aflutter with flags and decoratedi 1 -the national colors, military and < b organisations Mil Darede thro flower-strewn streets. Sands will I h ineet the dMaM,'~' ; 7-AND THEN 1E AW GE CE . W AT% CE gh - -1 o- - en -/ . ' an" of ~ ~ sgh Jo "BORD[R BOARD IS BUSI CUNSTABULARY SIMILAR TO RU hRALES OF OLD DIAZ REGIME SUGGESTED. General Blis8 Makes Dispassionat o Statement of What He Beleves WII a, Follow the Withdrawal of Genera in Pershings Troops From Mexico. a1 New London, Conn--A suggestioi that the Mexican government creat a constab~ulary for border duty simila to the rurales of the Diaz regime wa a, made (luring a brief -session of th' American-Mexican jpint comnmissioi Sconcluding the second week of its d< b- libeCrat ions. Apparently the plan fo m a joint police force previously discus e. ed was abandoned as improcticabi en after the commissioners had conferro with Major General Tanker I-. Biisi Ie. assistant chief of staff of the Unite La- States army. Le General Bliss, it w'as learned, mad ee to the joint commission a dispassioi Li- ate statemnent of the situation he b< ho lieved wouldl 'follow General Persi lin ing's withdrawal from Mexico befor ksaproperly constituted constabulary I t to relieve his troops. It i he unders toodl he pointed out problems I ;d- the way of an effot to create a bord of .polico under dual authority. There is reason to believe the Ame ican commissioners have sought I R impress their Mexican conferees wit 'the view that Mexico must recogniz to a responsibility for the depredatioil her nationals may commit on the be i.der if good relations are to be uniti Sied. The whole questions of crea lng a non-military police force to hut rt dlown .bandits in their lill retreats 0 In based on this feeling and it is belie t ed the suggestion that the Carran l government undertake this task f Sitself as an international obligatic I came from the Mexican commissi: res as .MANY SOUTHERN CITIES SEEK tro- U. S. ARMOR PLATE PLAN' >ck Iew Washington.--Offers of sites for ti lnAiprojected $l1.000,000 government a mor-plate plant were made to t to Navy Department at hearings here 1 atmore than 100 cities andl rural loa n- ties in the Middle weest and Ea SSouithoron cities in the field for ti lgh armor plant includ e the following: ugh Alabama--Tuscaloosa Mobile, B: mingham, Gadsden. Georgia--Savannah. LE. Kentucky - Fort Thomas, Mou Vernon, Wvickliffe, Dover, Louisvill red- Middlesboro. ki- a Maryland - Baltimore, Annapoli ii INorth Carolina-Fayettvicoe, Ri eigh, Gastonia. teTennessee--Elizabettowni Brist< 'on- Virginia-Richmond, Newport New~ on- Tyce River, Portsmouth. Buena Vist the Bristol, Basic, West Point, Norfol the Petersburg, Hopewell, Alexandria. ar- p ollector of Customs Norman alton of Norfolk, was with a del gation from Norfolk and Nowpo News urging the claims of that so ND, tion. No proposal for the sale of priva the plants to the Government was Pr Ian sented, although representatives sthe principal armor-plate manufa lsturers wore present. Naval office: - saidl they regarded it as unlikely th rest any plant would be offered for sa ied and expressed the opinion that tI ids government would begin constructic and of its own establishment when a sati igh factory site had been selected. K~e 'ing competition was evinced by spoke ifle. men for the various cities. DOUBLE VICTORY WON BY AY- , DORSEY IN GEOROlI and Atlanta. Ga.-In addition to carr cla- ing an overwhelming convention vol by which will nominate him for governi ob- o the first ballot, Hugh M. Dorst lee of Atlanta, former solicitor of the A api- lanta circuit, got a majority of ti is popular vote over his three oppo vith-. ents in the Georgia Democratic pr 1vil inary, according to nearly complel ugh returns compiled here, The conve: lay tl'un which will' tesclare the primal y o#0jp00 mil be ald Bet 2*. THE WIND BLEW W.. MANNINGDEFfEATS BLEASE MORE THAN 6,000 MAJORITY FOR PRESENT EXECUTIVE OF THE PALMETTO STATE. tBlease Admits Defeat.-Dorsey, Prose I cutor of Leo Frank, Makes a Clean I Sweep For Governor In the Georgia State Primaries. k Columbia, S .C.--in one of the most ) sensational fight% for the governor 'ship since the days of "Pitchfork Ben" 3 Tillman's activities In the Palmetto 3 State, Cole L. Blease, former gover 1 nor two terms, was defeated In his -aspirations for a third term, by the r present governor, Richard 1. Manning -of Sumter, S. C. Striking a lead early SIn the e.vening, with the first official returns from various parts of the state, of about 5,000 votes, Governor iManning maintained this lead all through the evening hours. Nearly complete returns indicate a .clean-cut victory for Manning by a .majority estimated at between 3,000 .and 7,000 votes. With about 129,000 votes reported aout of a registration of little more than 150,000, the figures give Man nning 67,467 and Blease 62,390. It was rconfidently asserted that the boxes still to be heard from could not change the result. Hundreds of voters who had been 0 out of the state camne Into South Car. h olina during the day to vote again In e their home towns, and these were s said to have been largely responsible for Governor Manning's lead, in that many of them did not retur~n to their home state to vote in the first pri mary two weeks ago. Sixteen men awho were spending their vacations at or near Asheville came in on one a train for the purpose of casting thehl r oe' o a nng lv n m nc n n nfrmCaroteadviiit n wO THANcte 5,00 MAJORank, FOpR leey Admpts Gega inDthey Poe Sweepia rei Governotate eorat Statc PrImar ets. fo 08o 5 C oemia, Sh state convenoftion More 'hi compete returs are xPitchfor Be e esilyw civ iti the Pconeton voStte, Ceessary se form eat ov aspi.aoensor Nathird erms b thec of threse goetrnr, Rhad 4 Mannsingh cinthvenin, wh tr. L.rst oiiala 1t Manningep m.aotaine thin la bahln othog the ledenig. us Nlydo- -etuin rthrn offndiea clonth vorth ofor SMmaniver byn ,smaortyeithe Gerat bewne capture afrn 7,000 anote nce ndtk k, Wit about19,00risoes rpre outad of compasratieo clitl more thaegin 150000re fres gaitvolent rt ning 747and bae in2progreIs were confdeonl asefrt that the oxeso Csble to he frover coldnou chag Sthe trultb h rnh hti e e- udredsl oaf anvoter whor hdeto 0f overom the taesisae nof Soth Car c- maneian hmk townsaedlvese mawere said thave bheenquargerlmirespofnfible t fine Gorenhes Mann- ed ta homeLate Eato vote inutheist rC maryes they ezeks agdo a Sitenches n alhon were sendng-Pern vaaoa, whtc a- train foro the Proe catngrthard n thromharlote and vicinity and ly thnee hundreg mleos toaspediet inter soicto of the Germantacicut nl shiag.--ts Alorica Paun thaibran >r- oa reonrestateUie dforaWt. iy countisfraemsed asttehmen ofn5 voe- i the stat e eonventwion. Mhe oard vThes oveeryeorinominfatofth r- deovrtcnorcest in ain tndecatee o tho eetarosi h 12 voesinte conve ton, iloembr. We Gsuggestma 7to aMr.osp WiN. tte-rti at'e ben thre itw eaderns.a MARSHALL ACCEPTS HIS RENOMINATION VICE PRESIDENT IN HIS SPEECH VIGOROUSLY FLAYS THE RE PUBLICANS. SPEAKERS UPHOLD WILSON Ex-Gov. Glenn of New York Formally Notifies VIce-PresIdent He Is Choice of Democrats.--Ceremony at India. napolls.-Large Crowd Present. Indianapols.-Thomas R. Marshall formally accepted the Democratic re nomination for the Vice Presidency here, not for additional honor, he said, "but in the hope that I may as. sist in the re-election of Woodrow Wilson, who has not walked where the path has led, but who has walked where there was no path and who has left a trail." In a speech of acceptance phrased in characteristic vein, the Vice Presi dent sketched briefly the legislative achievements of the administration, in which he said he had been "an onlooker," and eulogized the Presi dent as "the man who brooded over the Republic in stormtossed times and by mere words spoke peace on the troubled seas of international poli tics." A changed administration, he declared. would not dare repeal a single one of the important measures put on the statute books since March 4, 1913. Wanting an issue, he con tinued,' the Repubbicans had turned to foreign affairs, coining such phrases as "Firm Americanism," which they could not deflne. The ceremonies were the third of the kind to be held in Indianapolis within the last few weeks. The other two notifications were for J. Frank Hanly, the ProihitFn Presidential candidate, and Chirles W. Fairbanks, Republican Vice Presidential nominee. A large number of prominent Dem ocrats from all over the United States, including National Chairman Vance McCormick, were present at the notification. Informal political conferences were held by the leaders and plans for the campaign were dis cussed thoroughly. Reports of what had been done in Indiana were made to National Chairman McCormick. Martin H. Glynn, former Governor of New York, delivered the speech of notification, after having been intro duced by J. A. M. Amdair, candidate for GoVernor of Indiana, chairman of the ceremonies. All the speakers praised the present Democratic Ad ministration, replied to the Republic an attacks which had been made on it and expressed confidence of a Dem ocratic victory. 423 PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED AS LINER BURNS. Rescued Vessels Reach Pacific Coast Steamer In Time to Take Off All Persons Aboard. Marshfield, Ore.--Fire completely destroyed the Pacinic Coast Company's liner Congress two miles off Coos Bay bar. Several vessels, which rushed to her assistance in response to distress calls helped her remove her 263 pas sengers and crew of 170. When the dredge Michie and the gas schooner Tillamook reached the Congr-ess they found the liner almost comlietely shrouded in smoke and the passengers fighting frantically to enter the lifeboats. Captain Cousin, and his crew managed to maintain control and the work of tr-ansferring the people aboard to the rescue yes. sels was carried out in an orderly manner. Before the last b~oat loadi in which Captain Cousins left the Congress the smoke and heat were almost unbear able. FIRST TEST CASE MADE OF ANTI-LIQUOR AD LAW. Atlanta.-Matthewi~ Mindy, a news boy, was held undler $500 bond here charged with selling New York, Jack sonville and Cincinnati Papers con taining liquor advertiseentu. It is the first ca';e of its kindl to be brought herec under (Georgia's new pro hibition law. PAIR INDICTED; SECRET MAIL PLOT REVEALPD. New York.-Federal investigation of an alleged plot to operate a secret mail system between this country and Germany was followed by indictmente here against Hans ildward Thompson and Frederick Uffelman on a charge of smuggling jewelry worth $25,000 in the United States on July 11. The, men wore arrested August 20. Uffel muan, it was -said, had been employed on a steamship plying. betwon here and Scandinavian ports. TORPEDO DESTROYERS TO BE HELD IN RESERVE. San Diego, Calif.-For the first timnt ini nany yedts the Pacific Coast soon~ will be without a single torpedo boat destroyer in active service, as a result of orders received here from the Navy Department at Washington to plac3 in reserve all destroyers of the first do. vision of the Pacific fleet. It was re. ported that the Navy Departmen1t con. temnplated sending a flotilla of oil burning destroyers to the Pc8 Coast for eit service, GOVERNOR MANNING HAS t5POO MAJORITY DEFEATS COLE L. BLEASE IN SEC. OND RACE IN 27 OUT OF 45 COUNTIES. DOMINICK DEFEA M 4.N Fred H. DominIck Named Congreass. man From 3d District.-Canaler Nom ated R. R. Commissioner. Columbia. - Dealing a smashing blow to Bleasism Democrats of South Carolina nominated Richard Irvine Manning for governor over Cole L. Blease. With 137,243 votes accounted for Manning received 70,986 and Blease, 66,257. The re-election of Mr. Manning has been conceded and a contest is not likely. James Cansler of Tirzah in YorI county was nominated for N railroad commissioner over Albert S. Fant of Anderson. Cansler received 75,281 votes to 53,024 for Fant. Cansler o:. Tirzah has been running for the place on the railroad board for years ani years. The vote amng the National Guarc on the border was as follows: Man ning, 493; Blease, 511; Cansler, 48E and Fant 524. The returns show that Governor Manning carried 27 out of the 45 coun ties in the state. Governor Mannini carried Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Chester, Colleton Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, DoT chester, Edgefleld, Fairfleld, Florenc( Greenville, Greenwood, Hampton, Ja* per, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexingtor. Marion, Marlboro, McCormick, O angeburg, Sumter and William9buri. Mr. Blease carried: Abbeville, Aiker Anderson, Charleston, Cherokee, Cla) endon, Georgetown, Horry, Laurent Lee, Newberry, Oconee, Pickeni Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Unio' and York. Additional returns received merel served to increase the majority u. Governor Manning over his opponen The final count will give Manning clear majority of about 5,000. Edg field was the banner Manning coun of the state. Anderson was the ba. ner Blease county. Blease had slight lead in Spartanburg and Yol' counties, while Manning's lead w huge in Greenville. The two weeks since the first p, mary, in which Governor Manniz ran second to Mr. Blease, have be( a period of intense activity, with t1 Manning men strong in their bell. that a majority of the people of V state favored the kind of governme. that Mr. Manning gave the state. T: Manning and the Cooper people ha been working night e^ Aov' o1nia + first primary and oughly organized Watchers were plh ing place to assura count. Fred H. Dominick, for many yea associated with Mr. Bloase in the law firm, has been nominated f Congress in the third district. IV Dominick received 12,762 votes 10,298 for Wyatt Aiken, incumbet. Mr. Aiken has served for 13 year as a member of congress. Blackwell has been nominated f, solicitor in the eighth circuit oy Magill. In the first circuit Hydric is leading man. Senator Sharpe has been deafeata in Lexington county by Dr. E. C. Ri gell. Mr. Sharpo was Blease's ca paign manager in 1914. It is practically certain that t house and senate will be0 overwhel! ingly anti-Blease. H. H. Evans, f~ mer member of the old state dispe sary board, has been elected to tr house from Newberry county. 0. P. Goodwin, DBease, has been 'ir featedl for the senate in Laure. county by John HI. Wharton, ferr. membeor ef the railroad commissii: J. Robert Martin has been elected licitor of the thirteenth circuit o1 D. W. Smoak. Governor Manning has receiv hundreds of telegrams and telephone messages congratulating him upon Nu~ victory. MJII Executivevs Meet In Nov. Cohtmba.--The Southern Tiext association will holdi a semi-annnun meeting at the Jefferson hotel, Columa bia, Friday and Saturday, Novemb' 17 and 18, at which the president o the associ~tion, R, E. HIeymer of' A 'e bama, will preside. It is expected tina about 560 representatives of the ta4 tile industry, superintendents:, mas' ' mechanics, overseers and other me , high up in the 'trade, representing / sonthern - 'tates from Marylan'l Texas, will attend this meeting. Many Applcante to Clemson. Clemson College. - The contimmu*~ popularity of Clemuon College and h growing demand for the work this u stitution is doing j~re shown cles r v tiejohn b,- *%: v. ,, a 059 will a 'apt' a - &al. ha I cDonnectiopm it 'U remarkcable that ao many old students return every year. Between P4 and SB per cent of the et feasoot lat(eon1 will return. that