Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LONDON IS AGAIN RAIDED BY AIRMEI OFFICIAL REPORT SHOWS THA THIRTY-SEVEN WERE KILLED AND 141 WOUNDED. THREE RAIDERS SHOT DOWV Most Daring Raid Yet Made by Ger man Airmen-Contingent Larger and Descended Lower Than on Any Previous Raid. London.-TIe 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 anl descended much lower than on the visit of June 13, the number of killed and woundod 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. 10ng 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 however, that naval airmen who fol lowed them to Rea 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 E provision of the espionage act, was or dered put into operation July 15 b President Wilson in a proclamatio putting under license shipments to a countries of the most important e: port commodities. In a statement accompanying tlh proclamation, the President declare the government's policy will be fir: to give consideration to America needs; next, to meet as far as 1)0 sible the requirements of the allie and lastly to supply the neutral coui tries wherever practicable. It i made clear that every effort will b made to see that no supplies reach th central powers. The copimodities niamed ini tihe is put und~er control are coal, coke, fue oils, kerosene andt gasoline, includin hunkers, food grains, flour and mea fodder and feeds, meats and fats, p1 iron, steel billets, ship plates an structural shapes, scrap iron andl se-ra steel; ferro manganese fertilizer: arms, ammunitionl andi evplosives. The inclumsioni of foodstuffs in thi proclamationi lends color to statementl that the administration is considlerin the advisability of a complete emba go for sixty days on all food shli znents to give the country time to al cribe the amounts of its supplies an to give allied and neutral countrie opportunity to present a full program o ftheir requirements. CHINESE REPUBLIC IS REPORTED R E-EST ABLISH E[ Washington.-Official dispatchest the Chinese legation here said th republic had been firmly re-establishe st Nanking with Feng Kue-Chang, th former vice president, as president the new provisional government. R' publicaa troops were reported cot verged toward Peking to drive out th Manchu forces remaining in posset sion there in the name of the impel ballets. GERMAN DOES NOT KNOW WHERE TO G' Richmond, Va-Asserting that hi does not know where to go, and thi he does not want to go to Mexico, I! K. Vieter, erstwhile Oerman const hiere, could not tell what he woul do as a result of the report fror Washington, requesting~ those whl -were in charge of German consullate in this country to leave thle Unite, States, Ile recently disposed of hi tobacco warehouse property for- $100 000. WILL NOT TOLERATE ROWDYISM BY SOLDIER, New York.--Soldiers wvho interfer with free speech, free press or th~ right peaceably to assemble and pet tion the government, break the las according to a statement of Secretar of War Baker. The secretary's cori munication was in response to a r. quest against soldiers and ml tiamen "breaking up meetings, arres ing citizens, raiding rooms and hea quarters depsite the protests ot eii *~n 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 nouncement of tho safe arrival of the last of the transports with their con .Toys. At least one submarine was sunk force, showing that the Germans had r information of the coming of the ri transports and planned to get them. This announcement was issued: "The navy department at five o'clock this afternoon received word d of the safe arrival at a French port tof the last contingent of General 11Pershing's expeditionary force. At the same time information was released that the transports were twice attack ed by submarines on the way across. s "No ship was hit, not an American life was lost, andl while the navy gun ners report the sinking of one sub marine only there is reason to believe tthat others were destroyed in the first night attack." .FRANCE AND ENGLAND CELEBRATES FOURTH OF JULY. (1 d United States Soldiers Center of Cele bration in France. American Independence day was cel ebrateod enthusiastically in England gand1( 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 celebrati. The soldier8 of ,revolutionary Russia mnaintainedl their Sattempts 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 Brussiloff's men continue their efforts, especially in the region of o Birzezany and are throwing fresh forces e against the Teuton positions. d During Sunday ana Monday the o first two days of the new drive, the f Rusians captured 300 officers and 1- 18,000 men, and on Tuesday and Wed i- nesday probably added several more a thousands to the total. Twenty-nine '& guns and thirty-three machine guns 7- were taken from the Austro-Germans. Violent artillery duels have been in progress on the Konfuchk-Ziochoff sector, on the Stokhod, in Volhynia and at Brody, on the Galician-Vol ehynian border. 't In the Champagne on the western :. front the German crown prince has I nmadle another dlesperate and fruit El less effort to break the French lines ai northwest of Rheims. Attacking in force alon aneleven-mile front, the Germans made especially strong et. .1 forts aroundl Corny and Ailles and against the California-Plateou. The .F'renchl repulsed all attacks with losses. iNVESTiGATION OF RACE , RIOTS iN EAST ST. LOUIS. n East St. Lcuis, Ill.-'-A federal inves a ligation of race riots here in which I. thirty-three negroes and four whites e, were killed and approximately 310 y negro homes were burned was begun i. by Col. George H. Hunter, chief quar. 3. termaiater of the central division of the i. United States army. Colonel Hunter t. Ia under instructions to make a full I. report of the trouble to Maj. Gen, .j. Thomas H. Barry at Chicago, comn manudant oath central.. deartent. 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 11 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 loans was the first American steam ship to reach France from an Ameri can port. She was formerly the Avel laneda 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 ganization, give serial numbers to the registration cards and forward certi fled copies to Provost Marshal Gen eral Crowder. Indications are that the drawing will be held this week, but no official statment has been made as to the war department's plane. Administration officials still main tain 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 t< place in a single jury wheel in Wash ington one complete set of numbers When a number is taken from th wheel, the man in each exemptioi district whose card bears that seria number will be drafted. Thus al each number is drawn, approximatel: 30,000 men will be drafted, or one il each exemption district. If 1,200,001 men are to be called before the ei emption boards in the first selection which seems highly probable, on1: forty numbers would need to be drawn. There are numerous complications which must arise and the method o solving them can be known only whei the plan in det-ail is made. For 111 stance, the number of registered is dlividuals in each district wvho are lia ble for military service will certain1: not be the same. Aliens are regis tered, but not liable for duty, INDUSTRIAL WORKERS PLOT TO DESTROY CROPE Soux Falls, S. D.-Regular army ol fleers in South Dakota claim to hay reliable information that Industria Workers of the World leaders in th state have maps of the agricultura dlistricts of the state, and have me: stationed throughout the state wh will make simultaneous attempts t burn this season's crops. Federal officers have been al praised of the plot, and every effor will be made to apprehend those cot nected with it, it was said, The revi lations were made public as a wart ing to the farmers of the state t guard against the activities of the plo toe. WORKING OF SPIES D1SCLO~SED BY NORTHOLIFFI 1Washington-Lord Northcliffe, hen of the British mission in this oountr: authorized publication of parts of confidential speech on spies and cot sorship made to the National Pros club July 4. He described -the wor of spies in England and the flood< fatal information that pours over th cables through neustral countries Germany, and spoke of the dangers< any except technicall military an naval censorship of the press, SAMUEL GOMPERS AND ROOSEVELT IN TIL'1 New York.-Denial by Samuel Gon porn, president of the American F'e< oration of Labor, that trades union had had any share in the IEast S Lo0uis riots, which was met by a v' hement denunciation by Theodor Roosevelt of the murder of helpler negroes, precipitatedl a tumultuous di monstration at a -"ass meeting hel in Carnegie hall here in honor of th Russian msnian to the Urnted oSate CAPT..OSBORNE WOOD 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 tour 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 Tripp, assiatant edjfutant j general, stated shortly before mid i , night that the rioting crowds had for I the most part dispersed. At least fifteen negroes were shot r and killed by mobs here as they fled i from their burning homes which had S'-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. tI rested and locked up at police head. quarters. Negro quarters in varioue .parts of the city are on fire and the .flames recah the very edge of the .business district. Estimates of the number of negroeE .who perished in the fire ran as higli 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 die. -tricts and fired at the negroes as they fled from their home. .State's Attorney Schaumloeffel, ol a St. Clair county, drove through the i riot-swept district with Police Inspec. a tor Walsh, of St. Louis, Mo. The Sstate's attorney estimated that the a dead negroes would number 250. All a estimates, however, are conjectural. , The mayor of East St. Louis sent for F'ire Chief Swingley of St. Louis ,. Mo., to assist in fighting the flames, t 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 a by Chief Swingley. SKERENSKY LEADS RUSIAN TROOPS IN BRILLIANT VICTORY, Thousands of Prisonera Taken and Many Guns, d Petrograd.-The brilliant Russian 'advance, the news of which has sent a wave of rejoicing through the en atire country, was led by War Minis foer Kerensky in person. For the last four days the war min. k ister has been continuously at the front, spending every effort to urge 0the troops to advance, lie finally rode to ilhe front line trenches and placing himself at the head of the troops gave the order to advance. GREEK DESTROYER LOST IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA Paris .--The Greek destroyer Doxa |- manned by French officers and crev 5 has been blown up in the Mediterran L ean sea. Twenty-nine men includini -all the officers, were lost. The offi C cial announcement of the Doxa sayl s that the destroyer sang as the result oi a double explosion on June 28. The I Doxa was then within one hundred yards of a merchant vesel which she .was 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 the great problem that must be met in stamping out the spy evil. While it was stated that operctives 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 plotters 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 wil 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 North Carolinians a good many things they had probably not heard or thought of before, and it Is not to be questioned that he went away from Charlotte leaving the people of this city a deeper sense of duty and obli gation that falls upon every citizen in this time of national peril. IWASHINGTON GRATIFIED OVER NEWS FROM CHINA. Washington-Belief here that the monarchial coup d-etat in China Is de stined to failure, was increased by each new item of news which came to the attention of the state depart ment. Minister Relnsch reported that several, at least some of the northern military leaders, who are felt to hold the country's destiny in their hands, have taken the field in opposition to Gneral Chang Hlsun's attempt to de stroy republicanism in China. Mexico About to Get In Line. El Paso, Texas-Since the pro-ally campaign in Mexico startel by El Universal in Mexico City, the senti ment favoring the allies has reached northern Mexico, and during the past thirty days a well-defined movement favoring an open break with Germany and the alignment of Mexico on the side of the entente allies has devel oped. This has been in spite of the pro-German sentiments published daily in Chihuahua City and in other pa. pe believed to be subsidized by the Gerann In th nort LEIINGTON GETS FEDERAL FARM FUND PIRST LOAN IS MAbE FROM COLUMBIA FARM LOAN BANK. GIVES CHECK FOR $1,600 Paid to V. A. Calk and Mothor.-As. soostions Will Receive Money Rapidly Now. Columbia.-The first .loan had 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 I spirited but friendly race to secure the first money under the new govern. ment system. The loan was made to V. A. Calk and his mother, Mrs. Adelaide T. Calk 4 on 130 acres of land and was for $1,600. The interest on the loan will be five 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 handlini the farm loan act in Congress. The Columbia farm loan bank hat -been well organized and loans will now be made as rapidly as possible Appraisers have been appointed 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 check for the loan from F. J. H. Von Engel. ken, president of the bank. Buliding Houses For Divilon. Columbia.--Eighteen hundred me. are working at a driving speed for eight hours a day to build the Colum bia cantonment. The camp will be completed by September 16 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 streei railway line .to the camp. It will' not 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 the camp for the executive staff of the Hardaway Construction Company, Work is also being rushed on the con atruction of a 16 Inch water main frotn Columbia to the camp, a distance of six miles. Motor Truck company No. 40, with 33 large motor cars, is on duty at the camp. The guard duty, will be left to the Second battalion, First regi ment, National Guard of South Caro Eggs Bring Good Prices. Columbia-Prices for eggs hold e reasonably profitable range, despite thu great bulk of vegetables now being offered, Quotations throughout the state are 25 and 80 cents a dosen. But ter continues to sell~ at 85 and 40 cents, The creamery product is somewhat higher. Cloudburst at Olanta. Olanta.-There was a cloudburst in. the section from two to five miles south and southeast of Osinta, pauss, ing through the Central comniunity. towards Lake City. Fortusnately there was little wind and no hail, so that no great damage was done. The roads and rolling lands were' baily washed, some dwellings struc. by lightning and some damage to crops, especially youn~g corn and tobacco, Unless some disaster comes late~ this section will make a record corn and tobacco crops. Tax Books Closed June 80, ' Columbia.-The fiscal years of the tax department ends on June' 80 of each year and Comptroller GenN 4 Sawyer has instructed a-ll county offi.. cdals to .loso -their books op that date sos to check up and havs a settlenmon of the taxes of 1916. '98oi the next ee months the office of comptrolle 'general will be busy making th settlements. Mr. Saw yer return 'to ~Columbia a few daya ago, after ng made the sttlemts during th . at Leigton, Aikqv and Bamn