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LONDON IS AGAIN RAIDED BY AIRMEN OFFICIAL REPORT SHOWS THAT THIRTY-SEVEN WERE KILLED AND 141 WOUNDED. THREE RAIDERS SNOT DOWNI Most Daring Raid Yet Made by Ger man Airmen-Contingent Larger and Descended Lower Than on Any Previous Raid. I London.-The second descent upon London by a squadron of airplanes was made between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, when the business section of the metropolis was most crowded. It was officially an nounced that thirty-seven persons were killed and 141 injured by the raiders. Although the German contingent was larger, more daring, more delib erative in its methods and descended much lower than on the visit of June 13, the number of killed and wounded ' was, according to the first official roll, roughly, one-third the previous casual ty list. This destruction of property may have been greater, but that it is impossible to estimate. The flight of the Germans over Lon don lasted about twenty minutes. Eng lish airmen engaged the enemy for several minutes over the metropolis, and anti-aircraft guns were firing briskly, but without destroying any of the twenty or more invading machines. The admiralty was able to report hlowever, that naval airmen who fol lowed them to sea brought down three machines. A British squadron sent up from Dunkirk to intercept the return ing raiders did not encounter them because they had taken a more north erly route, but the British airmen met and destroyed seven other German machines. WILSON ORDERS EXPORT PROVISION INTO OPERATION. Becomes Effective July 15.--Complete Embargo of Foodstuffs Considered. Washington.-- Government control of American exports authorized in a provision of the espionage act, was or dered put into operation July 15 by President Wilson in a proclamation I putting under license shipments to all countries of the most important ex port commodities. In a statement accompanying the proclamation, the President declared the government's policy will be first to give consideration to American needs; next, to meet as far as pos sible the requirements of the allies, and lastly to supply the neutral coun tries wherever practicable. It is mado clear that every effort will be made to see that no supplies reach the central powers. 'rhe coplmodlities named inl the list put under contr-ol are c-oal, coke, fuel, oils, kerosene andI gasoline, including bunkers, food grains, flour andl meal, fodder and feeds, meats and fats, pig Il-on, steel billets, ship plates and structural shapes, scrap iron andi sc-rap steel; ferro manlganese fertilizers, arms, ammunitiotn and1( evpiosives. Thle inclusion of foodstuffs inl the proclamationl lends color to statements that the administration~ is c-onsidierinlg the advisability of a complete embar go for sixty days on all food ship inents to give the country time to as cribe the amounts of its su~pplies andi to give alliedl and neutral countries opportunity to presenlt a full program o ftheir requirements. CHINESE REPUBLIC IS REPORTED RE-ESTABLiSHED. Washington.-Official dispatches to the Chinese legation here said the republic had been firmly re-established at Nanking with Feng Kue-Ch~ang, the former vice president, as president of the new provisional government. Re putblican troops were reported con verged toward Peking to drive out the Manchu forces remaining in posses sion there in the name of the imper ialists. GERMAN DOES NOT KNOW WHERE TO GO Richmond, Va.--Asserting that he does not know where to go. and that he does not want to go to Mexico, E. K. Vietor, erstwhile German consul htere, coul~d net tell whiat he would do as a resullt of thle report froml Washington, requesting thlose who were in chlarge of German conlsulates~ in this coutntr-y to leave theo United States. Hie recently disp~osed of his5 tobacco warehouse proper-ty for $100.. 000. WILL NOT TOLERATE ROWDYISM BY SOLDIERS' New York.--Soldiers wilo inlterfere with free speech, free press or the right peaceably to assemble and peti tion the government, break the law, according to a statement of Secretary of War Baker. The Secretary's com. munication was in response to a re -quest against soldiers and mili tiamen "breaking up meetings, arrest. lng citizens, raiding rooms and head quarters depsite the protests of olti etns to the police." SEWARD PROSSER Seward Prosser, prominent banker and director of many big business en terprises, is chairman of the Red Cross war finance committee. TROOPS ARE SAFE IN FRANCE GERMAN UNDERSEA BOATS MADE ATTACK ON THE TRANS PORTS. Last Units of the American Expedi tionary Forces Have Arrived in France.-Not a Life Was Lost Dur ing the Transportation. Washington.-American destroyers convoying transports with troops for France fought off two submarine at tacks. The first news of the fights was given out by the committee on public information, with formal an souncement of the safe arrival of the ast of the transports with their con roys. At least one submarine was sunk Both of the attacks were made in force, showing that the Germans had information of the coming of the transports and planned to get them. This announcement was issued: "The navy department at five o'clock this afternoon received word of the safe arrival at a French port of the last contingent of General Pershing's expeditionary force. At the same time information was released that the transports were twice attack ed by submarines on the way across. "No ship was hit, not an American life was lost, and while the navy gun ners report the sinking of one sub marine only there is reason to believe that others were destroyed in the first night attack." FRANCE AND ENGLAND CELEBRATES FOURTH OF JULY1 United States Soldiers Center of Cele-f bration in France. American Independence day was cel ebrated enthusiastc-ally in England and( France as well as on the battle fronts. In Paris, a battalion of the first American expeditionary force on its way to the front was the center of the celebration. The soldiers of revolutionary Russia maintained their attempts to break through the Aus tro-German lines in eastern Galicia. Cheered by the results of the fighting during the first three days of July, General Blrussiloffs men continue their efforts. especially in the region of B3rzezany andl are throwing fresh forces against the Teuton positions. During Sunday ana Monday the first two days of the new drive, the1 Ruslans captured 300 officers and 18,000 men, and on Tuesday and Wed nesday probably added several more' thousands to the total. Twenty-nine~ guns and thirty-three machine guns; were taken from the Austro-Germans., Violent artillery duels have been in progress on the Konluchk-Zlochoff sector, on the Stokhod, in Volhynia and at Brody, on the Ga-lician-Vol hynian border. In the Champagne on the western front the German crown prince has niade another desperate and fruit less effort to break the French lines! northwest of Rheims. Attacking in force aloiig an eleven-mile front, the G~ermnans made especially strong er.I ror-ts around Corny and Ailles and against thew Callfornia-Plateou. The Ftrenchl repulsed all attacks with losses. INVESTIGATiON OF RACE RIOTS IN EAST ST. LOUIS. East St. Lcuis, Ill. '-A federal inves igation of race riots here in which hirty-three negroes and four whites were killed and approximately 310 tegro homes were burned was begun my Col. George H. Hunter, chief quar termaater of the central division of the United States army. Colonel Hunter la under instructions to make a full report of the trouble to Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry at Chicago, corn mandant of tha cnteas dartent. AMERICAN VESSEL SUNK BYSUBMARINE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE CREW WERE LOST WHEN THE SHIP WENT DOWN. ARMED NAVAL GUARD SAVED The State Department Announced the Sinking of the U. S. Steamship Orleans, But Withheld the Place and Time of Attack. Washington.--The American steam ship Orleans, of the Oriental Naviga tion company, has been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine. Four of the crew were drowned, but all members of the armed naval guard were saved. The state department, announcing the sinking, withheld the place and the time of the attack. New York.-The Orleans, a vessel of 2,808 tons gross, left here June 18 with a cargo for France, commanded by Capt. Allen D. Tucker. Of her crew of thirty-six, ten were American citizens. After Germany announced unre stricted submarine warfare, the Or leans was the first American steam ship to reach France from an Ameri can port. She was formerly the Avel lanede, and later the Menaptha, under the Argentine flag. SELECTION OF NEW ARMY NEAR AT HAND. - 4 Officials Are Silent But Drawings Will Likely Take Place This Week. Washington.-Selection day for the new national army is approaching rap idly as the local exemption boards in the various states complete their or anization, give serial numbers to the registration cards and forward certi led copies to Provost Marshal Gen iral Crowder. Indications are that he drawing will be held this week, but io official statment has been made as .o the war department's plans. Administration officials still main ain strict silence as to the method to be followed, but the recent statement by Secretary Baker that the drawing would be held in Washington. coupled with the stres laid upon the serial numbering of registration cards, indi cates the general outline of the plan. it is understood that it is proposed to place in a single jury wheel in Wash ington one complete set of numbers. When a number is taken from tho wheel, the man in each exemption district whose card bears that serial number will be drafted. Thus as each number is drawn, approximately 30,000 men will be drafted, or one in each exemption district. If 1.200,000 men are to be called before the ex emption boards in the first selection, which seems highly probable, only forty numbers would need to be drawn. There are numerous complications which must arise and the method of solving them can be known only when the plan in detail is made. For in stance, the number of registered in Elividuals in each district wvho are lia ble for military service will certainly rnot be the same. Aliens are regis tered, but not liable for duty. INDUSTRIAL WORKERS PLOT TO DESTROY CROPS. Soux Falls, S. D.-Regular army of Icers in South Dakota claim to have 'eliable information that Industrial Workers of the World leaders in the itate have maps of the agricultural listricts of the state, and have men* stationed throughout the state who will make simultaneous attempts to aurn this season's crops. Federal officers have been ap praised of the plot, and every effort sill be made to apprehend those con eted with it, it was said. The reve ations were made public as a warn ng to the farmers of the state to guard against the activities of the plot ters, AfORKING OF SPIES DISCLOSED BY NORTHCLIFFE. Washington.-Lord Northcliffe, head. f the British mission in this country, mnthorized publication of parts of a 'onfldential speech on spies and cen ;orship made to the National Press alub July 4. IHe described the work if spies in England and the flood of; ratal information that pours over the aables through neutral countries to Trermany, and spoke of the dlangers of mny except technical military and iaval censorship of the press. SAMUEL GOMPERS AND ROOSEVELT iN TILT. New York.-Denial by Samur'l Gomn ers, president of the American Fed aration of Labor, that trades unions iad had any share in the Eost St. rouis riots, which was met by a xe dement denunciation by Theodore Roosevelt of the mu--'der ot helpiess legroes, precipitatbl a tumuiiltuous de nonstration at a ,ass meeting held n Carnegie hail here in honor of the tussian mnission to the U~nitdSates. CAPT..OSBORNE WOOD rr Captain Osborne Wood, son of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, commander of the Southeastern department, Inspecting arms of a company of Harvard's regi ment. RACE RIOTS AGAIN START UP MOB FIRES HOMES OF NEGROES AND SHOOT OCCUPANTS AS THEY FLEE. Twelve Companies of National Guard on Duty.-Estimates on Number Killed During Day of Rioting Run as High as 250. East St. Louis, I11.--An estimate of the dead in the race riot and fire rang ed from fifteen to seventy-five, of whom two were white men. Buildings were still burping at four different points in the city. The property loss was estimated by City Attorney Fekete at $8,000,000. Forty injured negroes and six injur white men in one hospital and almost an equal number in another. Oolonel Trlpp, assistant adjutant general, stated shortly before mid night that the rioting crowds had for the most part dispersed. At least fifteen negroes were shot and killed by mobs here as they fled from their burning homes which had 'en set on fire by white mobs. The exact number who perished in the burning houses, if any, is unknown, and will not be ascertained until the ruins are searched. Military rule was proclamed and at the same time 300 white men were ar rested and locked up at police head quarters. Negro quarters in various parts of the city are on fire and the flames recah the very edge of the business district. Estimates of the number of negroes who perished in the fire ran as high as 100. but there was nothing authen tic on which to base these estimates except that hundreds of whites stood around the edges of the burning dis tricts and fired at the negroes as they tied from their homes. State's Attorney Schaumloeffel, of St. Clair county, drove through the riot-swept district with Police Inspec tor Walsh, of St. Louis, Mo. The state's attorney estimated that the' dead negroes would number 260. All estimates, however, are conjectural. The mayor of East St. Louis sent for Fire Chief Swingley of St. Louis, Mo., to assist in fighting the flames, which threatened to destroy a large part of the city, A company of the St. Louis fire department started to East St. Louis but was ordered back by Chief Swingley. KERENSKY LEADS RUSIAN TROOPS IN BRILLIANT VICTORY, Thousands of Prisoners Taken and Many Guns. Petrograd.The brilliant Russian udvance, the news of which has sent S wave of rejoicing through the en tire country, was led by War Minis ter Kerensky in person. For the last four days the war min later has been continuously at the. front, spendiing every effort to urgo the troops to advance. He~ finally rode to the front line trenches and placing himself at the head of tho t roops gave the ordler to advance. GREEK DESTROYER LOST IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.I Paris.--The Greek dlestroyer Doxa, manned by French officers and crew has been blown up in the Mediterran ean sea. Twenty-nine men Including all the officers, were lost. The offi-I eial announcement of the Doxa says that the destroyer sang as the result of i dlouble explosion on June 28. The Doxa was then within one hundredj I r'ards of a merchant vesel which she ma convoying. MORE COOPERATION IN HUNT_FOR SPIES PERPLEXING PROBLEMS THAT MUST BE MET IN STAMPING OUT EVIL. REPRESENTATIVES OF ALLIES Have Come to America in Effort to Run Down German Agents.-Many Schemes Set on Foot by Detectives. Washington.-More complete and efficient co-operation of United States secret service agents with those of its European allies is recognized as he great problem that must be met In stamping out the spy evil. While it was stated that opercttives of the state, war, navy, and justice departments are co-operating with good results in running down active alien enemies, it was strongly indicat ed that much remained to be accom plished in relationships with the ser vices of foreign countries. Representatives of the allies al ready are in this country, it is under stood, and are working to bring about the desired co-operative action. This work, for obvious reasons, could not be considered seriously before the United States entered the war, and the working out of the ramifications of a co-ordination scheme require un usual discussion, as well as time for setting the actual machinery in mo tion. The secret service of the United States was confronted at the entrance of America into the war with a pro gram of discouraging magnitude. The machinery of the departments, built up almost entirely for the handling of domestic problems, was suddenly required to shoulder the immense bur dent of coping with thousands of plot ters and spies. Many schemes set on foot by enemy Dlotters have been thwarted and it is said that the archives of the depart ments contain records of activities, which would, if made known, be of startling nature. That the attacks upon American transports were the result of the work of spies is accepted generally in Washington without surprise. The sailing of transports, although not mentioned by the newspapers, was known to a large number of persons, who witnesed the transfer of troops from points in the United States and their departure. MAJOR GENERAL WOOD INSPECTS CHARLOTTE SITES. During One Day's Stay He Visits Three Sites and Delivers Two Addresses. Charlotte.-Geeneral Leonard Wood, commander of the United States army, department of the southeast, spent Thursday, July 5, in Charlotte, and it was a busy day for the distinguished soldier and citizen. In addition to inspecting three pos sible sites for an army camp which it is hoped will be located at Char lotte, he found time to deliver two addresses, one to an audience of thousands on the First Presbyterian church~ lawn at six o'clock in the evening, and the other following the banquet served at the Selwyn hotel in his honor at 8:30 o'clock. For no matter how busy the general is, and in those stirring times of preparation that America may do her part in the world-struggle for democracy no man is busier, he always finds time to preach the "doctrine of preparedness" and never loses an opportunity to say a word, wherever he may be, that wi help to stir the American public to a realization of the gravity of the crisis with which the American nation is confronted. In his rather blunt, but direct and soldierly way, General Wood told N'orth Carolinians a good many things they had probably not heard or thought of before, and it is not to be guestionod that he went away from Charlotte leaving the people of this 2ity a deeper sense of duty and obli ration that falls upon every citizen in this time of national peril. WASHINGTON GRATIPIED OVER NEWS PROM CHINA. Washington.-Belief here that the monarchial coup d-etat in China is de ;tined to failure, was increased by 3ach new item of news which came :o the attention of the state depart nent. Minister Reinsch reported that ieveral, at least some of the northern nilitary leaders, who are felt to hold he country's destiny in their hands, iave taken the field in opposition to 3neral Chang Hlsun's attempt to de ;troy republicanism in China. Mexico About to Get in Line. El Paso, Texas.-Sinice the Pro-ally sampaign in Mexico startel by El Universal in Mexico City, the senti rnont favoring the allies~ has reached northern Mexico, and during the past thirty days a well-defined movement avoring an open break with Germany mnd the alignment of Mexico on the 'ide of the entente allies has devel. >ped. This has been in spie of the >ro-German sentiments published daily n Chihuahua City and in other pa 'ers believed to be subsidized by thel lermann in tnor..' LEXINGTON GETS FEDERAL FARM FUND FIRST LOAN IS MADE PROM COLUMBIA FARM LOAN BANK. GIVES CHECK FOR $1,600 Paid to V. A. Calk and Mother.--As. socations Will Receive Money Rapidly Now. Columbia.-The first .leaa has been made by the Columbia federal farm loan . bank through the Saxa-Gotha national farm loan association of Lex. ington county. The 1,000 local farm loan associations in North Carolina Georgia and Florida have been in a spirited but friendly race to secure the first money under the new govern ment system. The loan was made to V. A. Calls and his mother, Mrs. Adelaide T. Calk on 130 acres of land and was for $1,600. The interest on the loan will be flive per cent and one per cent is to be paid annually on the principal. The loan will run for thirty-six years and the amount to be paid will be $96 a year for thirty-five years and $161.44 on the thirty-sixth year. It so happens that the first loan was made in the home county of Con. gressman A. F. Lever, a member of the rural credits committee handling the farm loan act in Congress. The Columbia farm loan bank hay -been well organized and loans wil: now be made as rapidly as possible Appraisers have been appointee throughout the district and attorneys are being named to prepare the ab stracts. C. M. Efird is secretary of the as sociation securing the first loan. The abstract was prepared by W. B. Ma. non, assistant counsel of the farm loan bank and was approved by Rob ert H. Welch, general counsel. The Columbia farm loan bank made no special effort to make an early loan, but went about the work of or. ganizing the district in a business like manner, perfecting all machinery be fore attempting to let out money. Mrs. Calk and her son came to Co lumbia when they received the chec for the loan from F. J. H. Von Engel. ken, president of the bank. Building Houses For Divielon. Columbia.-Eighteen hundred mes are working at a driving speed for eight hours a day to build the Colum bia cantonment. The camp will be completed by September 15 and will house 40,000 of the new National army. Many train loads of material are be. ing received daily and other workmen will be put to work as soon as they are secured. Several barracks, each 130 'feet long and 30 feet wide, each to accommodate 160 men are being constructed. Three hundred such buildings will be re. quired for the division and several must be erected daily if the camp is to be completed. Several hundred laborers are en gaged in building the Columbia stree railway line to the camp, It will' no be many days until the line in in oper ation, which will greatly facilitate the matter of handling the laborers. Offices are being constructed at th. camp for the executive staff of the Hlardaway Construction Company Work is also being rushed en the cor struction of a 16 inch water main fron Columbia to the camp, a distance o six miles. Motor Truck company No. 40, witl 33 large motor cars, is on duty at th. camp. The guard duty w'll be 1sf to the Second battalion, First regi mont, National Guard of South Care lina. Eggs Bring Good Prices. Columbia.--Prices for eggs hold reasonably profitable range, despite th great bulk of vegetables now bein: offered. Quotations throughout th state are 26 and 30 cents a dozen. But. ter continues to sells at 35 and 40 centr The creamery product is somewhe higher. Cloudburst at Olanta. Olanta.-There was a cloudburst u. the section from two to five mil south and southeast of Oalinta, pa.' ing through the Central communit y towards Lake City, Fortunately there was little wind and no hail, at that no great damag~e was done. The~ roads and rolling lands were ba' washed, some dwellings struck lightning and some damage to cro> especially young corn and tobac Unless sonme disaster comes Ia. this section will make a record c i and tobacco crops. Tax Books Closed June 30. Columbia.-Thoe fiscal year of U' tax department ends on June 30 each year andl Comptroller Genc.. Sawyer has instructed all county a cials to plose their books op the' date so a' to check up and have a~ settlemen *.of the taxes of 1916. the next roe months the office 'f flomeitrolle ji general will be buV ' miaking th settlements. Mr. Soi Per return o Columbia a few de ago, after 5g made the settlemi'ent luring th 'k at Lexington, Aikoi ndfBam .