VOLUME;~ XXXIII. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESD)AY, OCT. 24, 1917. UH 1 AM RICAM TRANSPORT SUNKIN TK ATIMIC Submarine Makes Su :ess ful Attack During the Past Week. ABOUT SEVENTY MEN ARE LOST Ameriejtn Transport, While leturning Under Convoy from European Port, is ''orpd(oed by Gierman Submarino Which Succeeded in Eluding Ameri can Convoys. Washington, Oct. 10.-The American army transport Antilles, homeward bound under convoy, was torpedoed and sunk by a Germttan submarine in the war zone Wednesday. About sev enty men are missing and probably are lost. All the army and navy ollicers aboard and the shiip's master were among ilthe 167 stir' ivors. The ms are lm1'tohers of' tl .'rew. three civil ian egin.er:', :on.. enlistei met1n of Ihe navy and 17 of ::oldiers rret un ing homte o'r variouis reasons. Neith er the submarine or the torpedo was seen and the itIasport, hit squarely anlidahips, sank in live minutes. 'T'his tragedy of the sea, the tirst in whichi a American ship engaged in war duty. has been lost, ii; the first, of it:; miagnitmtle to bring home to the People of the tnited States the rigors of the war in which they have engaged against G ermany. It carries the larg est casualty list of the war, so far, of Ame ran li,1 antd marks the tirst. success o.f (erlan submarine attacks oit American tran'ports. That tie loss of Ifie was not great er is du" to the safeguards with which the navy hts surrounded the transport service, altil the quick work of the con voying war chips. Secretary 1)aniels announced the disaster tonight it a statement based upon a brief dispatch from Vice Ad miral Sims, which gave fow details and lid not say whether It was a lay or night attack. An accurate list of the missing cannot he issued until (ener al Pershing roorlit.s the names of the arm: met (n f te bessel and the list of the merchant crew. Following is tle an nounicemlent: "The tr'anspo't Antilles was tot' pedoed in the war zone O(tobC'r 17. The ship, a former Morgan liner, was imder eonvoy by a naval piat rot whet attacked. The sitbtarine was not seen nor was the torpedo. "All naval and army offileers aboard were saved and all but three of the ship's o1l('eers, but lIi rkdiers ouit of :3:1 aboadI were lost." A brief dispatch to the war depa rt ment late today brouglht Ithe nows of thle disaster giving few details. It is understood that no casualty list hatir been cabledi andl even If available in Eturt'ope it probably will not he received htere tonit !)inIl t Iime fotr publIteation. ;G'r'ef at thle war d epartttmentt overt (tie hadl news "'a; mitigated by relief at (lie thought that had thte enemity got tetn the shtill ont her otutward r.oyage it wouttlId hiav~e been linf1iitely wvorse. I130 tails of (lie enemy attack and( thle r'es cue of sourvi vors areo aw'a 'ie withi imi paticec. Thel nmesi of thle soldilerls andI of' the mt ehanlt e crw iising t anTnot lse deteri'ttInedl unt i thle mu11Ster'I roli is made p;,bl eb- hvIsh navy de(parItmettt Friancee of thios;e ont hoard has been examiined. l'tbethe details 'will he' as soon as they are received. No army unltits wter' aboard the ves.. sel. Such'l otl tot's andl ment of the armty as wvere ab~oard( weire biig sett home Onl special assignments, inital id (ed homte or those to be dlischarttged for some reason or other. Trho list of these will not he available tint il it enn he obtainted fronm Goneral Per shing in Friance. 'lThe army person itel aboard thie r'eturning ship Is itot "ommuittnicatedl to the war depa)frtljenlt in advaitce. litton receipts of thte cablegram fr'oim Admfira'Il pims, (lie governmltent kept its promise not to withhlold bad news from thto ptublic. The issutante of thte attemtentt was dlolayed only uni til the navy coutld telegraph to thie families of the men known to have M1r. D ,H,. Cotints heft Monday morn lng for Atlanta to buy mules and hrors for hbtS bilineon which he hats Onenod un horo. FATIERli DIED WEDNESDAY Of F'xteisive Family Conneetton In, (Gullford County, N. C.. Confederate V1eterain. Iter. C. F .Rankin ,whose plan to attend the Sonth Carolina Presbytery t'Tuesday was suddenly disar ranged by the news of his afther's ill Iness at. Greensboro, N. C., only suc ceeded in reaching his father's bedside a few hours before his death, which occurred Wednesday afternoon. The news of 'iev. Rankin's bereavement, coning at a time when he was deeply engrossed in his change of pastorate, was received here with great sorrow and brought out many expressions of sympathy and condolence. An ac count of the death,, appearing in lie Greensboro Daily lRecord, was as fol lows: "The death of Mlr. .John Iiarrison Rankin, which occurred yesterday af ternooni at St. Ieo's iospitii. remm'we.; done of (Grcensbolro's oldest and most highly esteemed citizens. Ils brief illne s -coverl ia only a few days vaS nlts cinisideric'cd of a serious naturi and his sudden gassing was a shock to his ftiends w lio, on n(ecionit of h1is uniusuai'liy r olust health, believed hime to be good( for' a ripe old a:. T1hougth nearliy >.1venlty-six hle was wvell Ipre .:erved, ex\11hiil:', none of the( Intllrmi tie: of 'e. On :-aturday ni.lt he suf "r~ d'. 1 "(i ;' ittack (Igntot