The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 25, 1915, Page FOUR, Image 4
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THE COUNTY RECORD.
In men whom men condemn as ill.
I find so much goodness still;
In men whom MEN pronounce divipe,
I find so much of sin and blot?
I hesitate to draw thedine
Between the two?where God has not."
THURSDAY. MAR 25.1915.
Those Gory Threats.
When the "Unspeakable Turk"
issued his pronunciamento some
time ago, threatening if the allied
French and English fleet kept up
the bombardment to put in front of
s the Dardanelles forts the two thous
and English and French non-combatants?men,
women and,children?
who happened to .be in Constantinople
when the war broke out, the civ
ilized world was not greatly surprised.
The length of cruelty and barbarity
to which a despotic Sultan will go
to glut his vengeance is limited only
by fear of future trouble for himself,
such a little diversion as ridding
himself of a superfluous wife by sew.
ing her up in a sack and dropping
her into the waters of the Bosporus
being rare sport for the Oriental
monarch. '
So much for t|ie Turk. He is in/
corrigible. But when we see so-called
civilized nations, like Germany
and Russia,vyiiig with each other in
threats of bloody reprisal, it puts us
x to thinking. It makes us ponder
whether, as many students of the
subject maintain,the whole fabric of
our civilization is not built upon a
foundation of sand, to be blown
down by storms of hatred or washed
away by waves of blood-lust.
'Tissaid: "Scratch through the
skin of a Russian and you will find
a Tartar". This expression, no
doubt,applied many years ago when
Russia slumbered in benighted ignorance,
having, perhaps, made but
little progress since the reign of that
man of iron, Peter the Great. But
we had hoped that, what with contact
with modern civilization and
the guiding hand of Servius Witte,
lately deceased, and other statesmen
of modern times, to say nothing of
S S
the severe lesson taught by the war
with Japan, Russia had emerged
from the dark night of barbarism
into at least partial enlightenment; i
but it seems that the old blood- (
thirsty spirit of lawlessness still;
holds swaj\ j1
And Germany. Of this highly!.
enlightened nation it is hard to be-! i
lieve that the threat was made that!!
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she would destroy and plunder: |
three villages for every one ravaged {'
by the Russians. And yet that is the j
announcement we get as official 1
news. To begin with,it seems fool- 1
ish and futile to make such a threat,
when the Russians promptly countered
by threatening to burn and \
pillage ever}- German village and
put to death all the inhabitants
thereof.
What would be the outcome of
such savage warfare? The innocent
civilians would suffer far greater
horrors than the soldiers in the
trenches; for the latter have a chance
to escape' death and torture, but the
former none. How long could such
manner of warfare continue? Not
long, perhaps, but the briefest period
of such a reign of terror is too
horrible to contemplate. Let us
hope that both those great nations
realize that their threats were uttered
in the beat of passion, and that
after due" reflection, thcv are hearti
ly ashamed of having so Wittier!
themselves in the sight of God and
their fellow-men.
After all, Emperors and Czar*
are just ordinary mortals, as Kipling
says, "under their skins''.
i STATE and GENERAL I
jj TOPICS j
TfR 7^ TWx 7W
\ .
The Mullins Lumber.company suf
fered about $40,000 loss by fire las
week.
XXX
Governor Manning will addres
the Columbia Y M 0 A at its annua
dinner Mondav.
XXX
The present tourist season at Cam
den is the best in many years. Ther<
have been guests from as far off a
Austria and Great Britain.
XXX
The Georgetown Chamber of Com
merce entertained the Northeri
stockholders of the Atlantic Coas
Lumber corporatif) at a "smoker'
Friday night.
XXX
The residence of E C Haynswortl
at Sumter was burned Friday, en
tailing a loss of $10,000. Many val
uable books and paintings that can
not be replaced were destroyed.
XXX
The railroad men of Florence
numbering 2,000, purpose opening i
co-operative store. The capital stocl
of the enterprise will be $20,000, o
which $10,000 is already subscribed
XXX
Governor Manning has appoints
C C Featherstone,Esq,of Greenwoo<
special Judge for the court of com
mon pleas to be held at Chester nex
week, in place of Judge T JU Spain
who is ill.
XXX
Governor Manning has accepted ai
invitation to deliver the commence
ment address at Wofford College
June 7. Assistant District Attorne;
B W Crouch of Saluda will delivei
the alumni address.
XXX
Former Superior Judge L S Roai
of Atlanta, who tried and sentenced
Leo M Frank for the murder of Ma
ry Phagan,died in a hospital in Nev
York city Tuesday, where he hac
been a patient since February 26. Ii
was reported death was due tc
cancer, but this the hospital physi
clans would not confirm or deny.
XXX
Dr George Benet, formerly of Co
lumbia, is en route for Paris, when
he will enter the American hospita
and treat the wounded soldiers. After
July 20 he will be transferred tc
Servia and practice under the aus
pices of the American Red Cross so
ciety. He is but 26 years of age and
has already made an enviable reputation.
XXX
Mrs M E Scott, a widow eighty
years old, was attacked by a negro
in her home near Lowndesville, Abbeville
county, Tuesday, March 16,
suffering injuries from which she
died the next day. Charles Logan
confessed to che crime and was taken
to Columbia for safe-keeping. Logan
is a young negro, recently from
npr>rcpt.nwn. Mrs Scott lived alone
with her young grand-daughter,aged
fourteen or fifteen. The negro was
attempting to get into the young
girl's room and as he passed through
Mrs Scott's room he knocked her in
the head. The young girl escaped
through a window and gave the
alarm. Governor Manning has announced
that he will call a special
term of court next week to try Logan.
British coins are made from an
amalgam ^of 3& parts pure silver
,vith three parts of copper.
I CONCERNING THE WAR. fj
i London, March 19:?The British
I *
' battleships Irresistible and Ocean
| and the French battleship Bouvet'
! were blown up by floating mines
while engaged with the remainder ,
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; oi ine aiiieu neci in anai-Kin^ km.'
forts in the narrows of the Dard.i,
nelles Thursday.
Virtually all the crews of the two
British ships were saved,having been
transferred to other ships under a
hot fire, hut an internal explosion |
; took place on board the Bouvet af-1
i ter she had fouled the mine and
, most of her crew was lost. The
Bouvet sank three minutes after she
hit the mine.
The waters in which the ships f
were lost had been swept of mines,; t
' but the British admiralty asserts \
that the Turks and the Germans set {
i floating containers of explosives j
adrift, and these were carried down (
by the current onto the allied ships ,
gathered inside the entrance of the j
straits.
All the ships sunk were old ones. ]
The Bouvet was built nearly twenty ,
years ago and the Ocean and the Ir- ,
' resistible in 1898. They were useful, 1
, however, for the work in which j
they were engaged in the Darda;
nelles.
I The sunken British ships are being ,
; replaced by the battleships Queen
v and Implacable, vessels of a similar
type. They are said to have started
t some time ago in anticipation of just (
such losses as have now occurred.
Two other ships, the British battle ,
J cruiser Inflexible and the French
1 battleship Gaulois, were hit by shells
and damaged. British casualties, ac- ,
. cording to the British official report,
j "were not heavy, considering the
3 scale of operations."
The damage done to the Turkish
forts by the heavy bombardment has
1 not been ascertained. It is said that
t operations against them are contin'
uing. The forts attacked were those
on either side of Kephez bay and on
Kephez point outside the narrows,
1
and those on Kalid bar and Chanak
. in the narrows.
The Kephez forts replied strongly (
when the battleships advanced up
the Dardanelles and all the ships
were hit. It is asserted that these .
?1 1
j, forts finally were silenced and a (
f bombardment of those in the nar- (
. rows was under way when the three
battleships hit the mines. The blow- ,
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cessation of the fighting, which cont
tinued until darkness intervened. It
is understood the engagement was ,
resumed today.
i Latest reports indicate that Italy 1
* has severed friendly relations and
" that Germany and Austria will have 1
r one more nation to fight. Greece 1
and the Balkan States are also said
to be almost ready to join in the 1
i fray, with a penchant for the Allies, '
' Operations of the allied fleet in
the Dardanelles, interest in which 1
j 9
j has been intensified byvthe powerful (
t resistance of the Turkish forts and '
) the disaster to three of the Allies'
" battleships,have been delayed by un- J
favorable weather conditions, but it 1
is expected they will be developed (
? in full force as soon as warships now
I or. the way to replace those sunk *
- join the fleet. j
' Sixty-four members of the crew
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oi tne r rencn uauicsmv uvuiv^vuvi
[ of the three that were sent to the 1
. bottom March 18, were saved; thus
probably about six hundred men of fi
that ship perished. The loss on the
British ships Ocean and Irresistible ?
is officially announced to have been J
small. k
Land fighting is continuous, par1
ticuiarly in the east. In Poland the'r
Russians claim to have forced the
Germans back into their own terri- *
tory after the Tauroggen engagement,
and they also announce the
1 capture of Memel.
Elsewhere in the Carpathians and 8
Eastern Galicia the Russians report *
successes.and declare a sortie by the ^
Przemysl garrison was repulsed. Vi- ^
enna's account of this sortie is to the a
effect that strong Russian forces
were encountered in an easterly di- v
rection and that the Russians were *
forced to retire after an engage- 1
ment. In France the Germans have 1
gained over the^ British in the re- d
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rion of St Eloi, and report also that p
:hcy have repulsed French attacks
n Champagne, the Argonne forest
ind in the Vosges.
The French war office, on the oth-,
?r hand,describes briefly the capture
:>f a German position in the Argonne
after a two days' struggle.
According to the secretary of the j
[mperial German treasury the sub-'
scriptions to the second war loan are
much greater than those to the first.!
The two war loans amount to:
83,000,000,000.
Both British and German naval
arms are active in seizing neutral j
steamers. The Germans have seized j
two Scandinavian vessels in the Bal-1
tic and also a Dutch steamer in the j
North sea. The British have detain-1
ed a large number of steamers, and
in addition have captured a Spanish
ship proceeding for a German port
with iron ore.
No definite news has been received
regarding developments in the
Italian situation with respect to the
war, but all Italian reserve officers
born between 1882 and 1887 have
been recalled under the colors for a
limited period.
Persia has called upon Russia to
evacuate the province of Azerbaijan,
Northwest Persia, according to an
item given out by a news agency in
Berlin.
Foreign trade in France suffered J
a decrease of $126,100,000 a month
during the first two months of this
year, as compared v. ith the same period
in 1914, according to statistics!
prepared in Paris. The decrease was;
equally divided between imports and i
pxDorts.
Petrograd officially announces the!
surrender of the Galician fortress of J
Przemysl besieged by the Russians j
for several months.
Simultaneous offensives against:
the German, Austrian and Turkish!
armies from the Baltic to the Black;
Sea have been undertaken by the j
Russians and in some sections defi- j
nite progress is reported. In the;
extreme north the Germans are re- j
treating from Memel, East Prussia
and the Russians are believed to
have begun another drive at Tilsit.
In Poland there is activity all along
the front, but apparently the general
battle,which Petrograd expects,
las not begun.
The Russian army in the Caucasus
mnounces a victory over the Turks
n the fighting along the Black Sea
loast, Turkish Armenia.
After several months of inactivity,
lostilities have been resumed be;ween
Austria and her small neigh-!
jors, Serbia and Montenegro. Aj
>ttinje dispatch says the Austrians!
nade an artillery attack lasting several
days against Montenegrin potitions
all along the front,' but that
jfforts to follow this with infantry
tdvances were defeated. An artilery
battle between Austrians and I
Serbians also is reported.
On the western front no large
novements are under way.
The attack on the Dardanelles also
las been stopped temporarily owing
o bad weather.
Field Marshal Sir John French is
luoted todav by a Paris newspaper:
is predicting that the war will not
>e of long duration. He says spring j
promises well for the Allies and that
ie believes the Germans are feeling
i lack of ammunition.
Italy is preparing rapidly for
whatever may result from the negoiations
with Austria, now in an im- >ortant
stage. A rojal decree soon
3 to b$ signed .establishing rules
lesigned to suppress spies. Women
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of mtn in case cf mobilization.
An official Russian communication
describes the batt'e which preceded
the fall cf Przemysl. It is said that
the Austrians left the fortress in a
final effort to break through the
Russian lines at any cost but were
defeated quickly. Berlin newspapers
do not believe the Russian victory
will be of great influence on
the campaign as a whole, although
the loss of the city is described as a
painful blow.
Unfavorable weather still prevailed
at the Dardanelles yesterday
and no further attacks on the Turkish
fortifications were attempted.
The allied warships did not leave
their anchorages.
The size of the garrison at Przemysl
and the number of men who
surrendered to the Russians greatly
exceed all estimates. According to
Petrograd dispatches the garrison
originally consisted of 170,000 men,
of whom 40,000 were killed. Nearly
120,000 surrendered when the fortress
caDitulated.
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More men are being killed every
day in Europe than were killed in
the greatest battles of the war between
the States. This gives American
soldiers some comprehension of
the size of the European conflict.
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