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Consolidated Au*. 3,1881. SUMTER. S. 0., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1914. Vol. XXXIX. No. 16. BAD DM 11 MIES Big Acts In Theatre of War Go to the Kaiser's Troops. Germans Successfully Rout Russian Troops at Lemberg In Gallicia?Warsaw is Hourly Expected to Fall-Belfort In Precarious Predicament?Capture of Ostend By Germans is Retarfed and Denied?Portugal Declares War, Says Report. KT SSI. WS LOS 10 OROt'ND. ? v 's Troop* Completely Defeat Kiwtom Around lambdrg. Vienna, via. Berlin, ort. lJAVlt has been ?-?mclally announced th? the Kuaalana have evacuated I?etn>berg, the capital of Gallcia, after Btrot fighting. The Kassians were com? pletely defeated along the Sun Itlvor. The allied Servian and Montenegrin armies have been driven back. The relief of Prsemysl 1? complote. Haven t Occupied Ostend. London. Oct. 14.?The admiralty ?tated late this afternoon that Os? tend has not been occupied by the Germans, but no Information has been given out as to whether the Ger? mane are approaching the own. Portugal Declare* M ar. Madrid, Oct. 14.?Portugal has de? clared war against Germany accord ina to a news dispatch from Lisbon. The report is unconfirmed. Germans Besiege Reif ort. London, Oct. 14.?A nev/s dispatch from Copenhagen states that a mes? sage from Berlin says th* Germans are preparing to lay siege to the French stronghold at Belt ort with a I**, jNfJttly all the civilians ^^P^^gff city Tintf the factories have been closed down. Germans Approach Warsaw. Washington, not. 1 l. The admis? sion that the Germans are approach? ing Warsaw Is made in a cablegram to the Bussinn embassy. It states that the battle haa begun on a line ex? tending from the vicinity of Warsaw, along the rivers Vistula and San to Prsemysl, and further to the south to river Dneister. In Fast Prussia tho situation Is unchanged. Ostend Taken by (.ormans. London. Oct. 14.?An unconfirmed report has been received that the Germans have captured Ostend. The Germans met sharp opposition as they approached outend* but were alb wed to enter the city without a ? hot bolng tired after reaching the outskirts. The Belglag and British avmy evacuated the city und pro? ceeded to the south along the coast to join the left ing of the allies In France. A number of British trans? ports left Ostend harbor carrying troops and refugees as the Germans entered the city. Great Battle In Poland. Petrograd, Oct. 14.?The strictest censorship prevails over the great bat? tle along the Vistula, where OVSff three million Kassians. Austriins and (b imans are hollovcd to be engaged In one of the Moodiest battles in tin world's history. The war olllcc mere? ly states that lighting has developed along the entire trout, stretching over two hundred miles from Warsaw to tie, Dnelstor river. Kurds Attack Kaplans. London, oct 14.?Fighting between the Busslans and Kurds has hegSS on the border of Persia, according to a n**ws dispatch from OsSSStaatlSJOple, In the tlrst engagement the Kassians lout two guns and llfty men and three ol!le?rs wa re killed. Allies < hi Im slight Gains. Paris, oot. 14.?The allies have oc? cupied YpreM, south of Ostend. The allies' flanking movement on the left wing Is making* m irk* d gains and progress )* reported at the center. There is no change <>n tin right nn in'. (??in?dal statensest, > I?enth I.M or Pallada. Petrograd, ??et. II. ? It Is officially announced that twent>-nine officers and four hundred ami llllv men wore lost when the cruiser I'allada was blown up by a German submarine In the Baltic. RiiHslans suffer Groat l<o>s. Berlin. Oct. It. The Germans are Indicting terrific losses on the Bus shins in Poland where the German nd vanco has been successful. There uro no decisive results on the west. (Of? ficial.) (?crman Minister Leaves Portugal. Lisbon, Oct. 14.?It is reported the German minister will leave Imme? diately for Madrid. y,ep|Mdlns Headed Toward England. Boulogne, Oct. 14.?A Zeppelin and two German aeroplanes Hew over this city yesterday and then turned to? ward the coast of England. NORTH C AROLINA HOVEL IURN Kl>. Twenty-five Thousand Dollar Loss in I.oulsburn?One Mau Injured. Raleigh. Oct. 14.?The Franklin Hotel, at Loulshurg was burned this morning, causing a $25,000 loss. D, E. Winfree was badly injured by fall ling walls, others slightly. GERMANS MAKING BIGGER GUNS, Declares New Pieces WIK Make Hl In< hers Look Like "Bean mow? ers.'* New York, Oct. 13.?-/Adolph F. Gall; nn engineer In'the fKdtson lab? oratories here, who arrived today on the Hellig olav, said (Lv*many was building a number of guns which would make the lft-inch siege guns used against Liege, Namur and Ant? werp "look like bean blowers. The guns, according to Mr. Gall, will have a calibre of 19.50 and 21.45 Inches, and are being rushed to com? pletion at the Krupp plant in Essen. NEGRO CONDEMNED TO CHAIR. Tommy Grioo Sentenced to Die for Assault?Other Cases In Florence Court. Florence, Oct. 1.1.?Tommy Grice, a young negro, today was found gui ty of criminal assault and sentenced to die In the electric chair on Friday, November 20. Grice at lirst pleaded guilty, but the court refused to accept his plea and he was tried and con? victed by a jury, which did not rec? ommend mercy. The crime for which the negro was convicted today was committed in Au? gust. He entered the room of a white woman and assaulted her. Grice was captured ami identified by the victim. He was taken to Columbia tor safe? keeping and brought hack for trial. Today, when the proscrutrix took th.? stand", Acting Solicitor Spe u s called on all gentlemen to leave he court room. Her story and moat of the case were heard in a practically deserted court, even attorneys leaving. There was no excitement Whatever about the court house. Thors are live cases of assault or attempted assault upon the roster for HUI term. hoher! Smith, a negro, pleaded guilty to mistreating his daughter and v si sentenced to live years' Imprison* inent. A negro boy of 1 I was arraigned for an attempt at assault, lie opened the door to a room occupied by a young girl, lud was frightened off by her screams When she aw oke. < >n at count of his youth and previous good name, he was allowed to plead guilty and in- was sentenced to live yearn COTTON CROP STATISTICS. Mills Use l*ess, Cotton and Exports Only Nominal. Washington. Oct. 14.?The govern Burnt report shows that I15.HH bales or Cotton ware consumed In Septem? ber? ngulnot 141,436 last your. The exports were I.Sfl bales. Hplnuies ac? tive, le.tfS.lSs, against 90,434,381 last vcar. Italian Minister Dead. Horn? , < let, 1'!. It is repot ted that Foreign Mildster San Glullhuu of Italv is dead. BRITISH HAD BELIEVED THEM FORTY Y FA RS BEHIND TIMES. Unexpected Mobility of Rig Gam Brought to Flay Upon Battle Linos Astounded Critics. London, < >et. IS,?Speaking of the battle of M?ns, an Fnglish soldier who was one of the few survivors of his company, s.akl to an American in the field hospital at Am tens? ??We thought the Germans wore 40 years behind the times; they are 40! years ahead." And, according* to an' Amsrloan military expert, there Is aj solid basis of truth in Tommy Atkins' statement. The Germans apparently know what they wore about, he thinks, when they refused to gener? alize too much from the Philippine, Boer and Russo-Japanese Wars. Campaigning in a populous coun? try With a la rfect road system and a hazy atmosphere is quits different ; from work In a crude open country distinguished by dry, clear air and a sharp horizon. Too little Is yet known of the actual lighting in Fu rope for accurate deductions; never? theless certain facts are apparent which will have their effect upon military practice in the United States. The outstanding facts so far no? ticeable arc the terrific effect of siege artillery In the field, the weakness of open-order lighting when a vast num? ber of men are available, the com? parative failure of aeronautics as pictured in popular imagination and the immense advantage of thorough preliminary training. Germany's great surprise in this war has been her artillery. The su? periority of her jarmy organization was already known to the world, and this superiority and her perfect prep? aration were reckoned, and properly, her greatest assets. It was also known that she had 11-inch howitz? ers, but they were supposed to be siege guns to be used against con? crete forts and nothing else. As such ? ?. ? ? . , - w they more than surpassed expecta? tions at Namur. But the mobility of 'these big guns had not even been SUS ' pected by foreign critics, and their use as Held artillery came as a great shock to the allies. In the old days artillery stood in exposed positions, as the aim was taken directly at the enemy. Conse jquently it could be captured by in? fantry and even cavalry. Hut now ! artillery fire is directed from conccal | ed positions at a high angle and is exceedingly difficult for the enemy to Und. And this Is the most Important use to which the aeroplane has been put. As the wounded British de? scribe the fight at M?ns, when their I army came so close to being wiped ? out, they had very little trouble In j keeping the German infantry in check I until the aeroplanes signaled the eor Irect range. Then the men were sim? ply blasted out of the trenches. The artillery so far captured appears to have been abandoned in retreat. To come to infantry, one which the ultimate decision In all wars rests, the Gorman lighting unit appears to be inferior to the Fngllsh or French. He fires without aiming and does not make a sulllclcnt use of cover. Hut what the German infantrymen lacks Individually is atoned for by the per? fect discipline under which he and his fellows act. American tradition trusts a great deal to the individual, The German theory trusts nothing and a relic, no doubt, of frontier fighting, considers It less important that com? mands should be sacrificed through a mistake In their disposition than that they should take it on themselves to override the orders of a superior. Much has been said by newspaper critics on the subject of close-order fighting. America learned open or? der, as wail as the art of taking the heat advantage of cover from the In Idluns. And In the Civil War the skirmish line grew of more and more Importance until it became the battle order In the last phase of the strug? gle. In the Spanish War the space intervals became greater in the Phil? ippine lighting than in the earlier Cu? ban. The tendency in South Africa also was to scatter. llussi;i abandon? ed the old solid formations in Man? churia. Tin- result was that Fnglish critics scoffed al the closely packed Infantry advances in the German maneuvers of prev ious years, Upen order, all Clitics admit, is au immense advantage when lire can be concentrated on an equal number oi enemy In close order, r.ut when Ihe batile line Is of enormous extent ihe side which utilises if- advantage oi numbers by thickening its line, as Ihe Germans <h?, can deliver n much heavier lire than Ihe ttil 11 Hue. This advantage is improved when (bo side oi superior numbers refuses to i?? RAISING OF $100,000,000 LOAN VIRTUALLY ASSURED. Federal Reserve Officers W ill Take CbargO of llaiitllin^- Money. New, York's Agreement to Contribute 150,000,000 Renders Consummation Sure. New York, Oct. 11?The raising of a $150,000,000 fund by bankers and representatives of Southern cotton planters to finance the country's cot? ton >p virtually is assured, it was announced here tonight, and the fed? eral reserve board at Washington will j be called upon to manage the fund and direct the loaning of it. New York bankers, at a conference with cotton planters' representatives ; here during the day, agreed, it is stated, to furnish $50,000,000 if the rest of the country would supply $100,(?00,000 or more under conditions agreed to at the conference. Festus J. Wade, president of the j Mercantile National Hank of St. Louis, , and a member of the St. Louis clear? ing house, issued a statement late to? night announcing the plan. Mr. Wade said that "the task put upon tin federal reserve board while onerous, was readily accepted by Secretary Mc Adoo, who recognized the gravity of the situation." Mr. Wade attended the conference and left at midnight for Washington I with the expectation, it is understood, j of discussing the plan with the mem , hers of the federal reserve board to ' morrow. Several prominent St. Louis busi? ness men, who came to New York with Mr. Wade, accompanied him to Washington. Mr. Wade's statement set forth that a definite conclusion was reached to? day between the St. Louis commit? tee and New York bankers. "Hy the action of the New York hankers," the statement said, "it may be asumed safely that the fund undoubtely will be raised within the next ten days. I "The difficulty encountered was to determine how the syndicate could be managed and money loaned at the least possible expense to the bor? rowers," Mr. Wade's statement con? tinues, "and after many conferences and telephonic communications be? tween Washington and New York it was finally concluded to turn over the entire fund to the federal reserve board at Washington, who would act as managers of same and direc t the loaning of the fund. The outline of the plan as agreed upon is as follows: "l. Organise a $150,000,000 cotton loan fund throughout the United States, which fund shall be turned checked. German theory considers human life is cheapest war material. General Grant followed the same policy, figuring that he could afford to lose two or three men if it cost the enemy one. It is still too early to learn the part cavalry is now playing. American army officers are divided into two schools on the subject of cavalry? those who believe cavalry should play its historic part in battle and those who regard cavalry as effective only In scouting, in acting as mounted in? fantry when it is necessary to rush nun to a weak point, there to dis? mount and advance on foot, and lost i ly in following up a rout. Artillery j fire and barbed wire entanglements have so far caused a great slaughter I of horses. The United States war CO ? lege had enough faith in cavalry, however, to plan a division of it at the time intervention in Mexico was threatened, Machine guns figure largely in the 1 reports, bid they are still believed to be of real advantage only in sweep* ' Ing Streets ami open roads, since their Are is scattered ami they have a tendency to jamb. They appear to do their greatest damage in pot shooting. Popular imagination Is greatly stir? red by reports of airships. Hut these are not feared by soldiers, except in cases where they arc able to signal to Hie enemy the range of their ar? tillery. Bven in scouting they fly sev? eral miles high, so high as to be un? able to detect anything more than the movements of large musses of nun, providing the atmospheric con? ditions are favorable. Deployed troops would be bard to distinguish. The an ouni of explosives tin- machines are aide to carry is. in the mllitar> phrase, contempt Ihlo. Tie' real lesson Iht? war so far teaches, buds the critic, is the im? mense advantage of military prepara? tion, Germany overlooked nothing. Her forces were seasoned and pro? visioning and transport perfect. If France, ItelgiUtll and llussia bad Ilten as poorly prepared as lae-.land. Ger? inn) would have won the war in a moid h. With Fall of Ostend and Bruges British Prepare to Ward Off Germans. GERMANS AND RUSSIANS EACH CLAIM DECISIVE ADVANTAGE in KVT?RUSSIANS DENY REPORT OP GERMAN VICTORY and Cid Vf TO BE STILL BESIEGING PBSEMBYL?BLIGHT ad vax 'AGE FOR ALLIES ON LEFT WING?BELGIAN army KS CAI" < PROM OSTEND and IS MARCHING TO join allies \<;a. ST vox KLUCK. ' /V ALLIES . JAKE SLIGHT GAIN. Gorman Movement stopp? <i ami Kvnucation of 1'osition Follow. Paris, Oct. 15.? it is officially an? nounced that progron has been made by the allies southeast of Verdun, ami that the offensive movement taken by the Germans on the allies' right wing has been definitely chocked. The Germans are proceeding from Ant? werp ami have reached the region of I Bruges, and Thielt. On the left thi enemy have evacuated their position and left the river Lys. Newspaper cs , timates of the German loss are tif teen thousand in the battle of Arras. Allies Fighting; Hard. In France, (Town name deleted by Censor), < >ct. 15.?The Belgian army j escaped from the trap set by the j Germans and expect to join the allies attacking the armies of Gen. Von IBoehm and Von Kluek. Hani light? ing is going on at (located deleted) [the allies gaining ground ami the Oer Ii . _ over to and managed by the federal ' reserve board at Washington and .loaned to the national currency oaso I ciations or to the federal reserve , hanks. j "2. All loans to he made payable en i or before one year, at the option of j the borrower, with the right to the ; federal reserve board to exteml any or all such loans made for two pe? riods of six months each," interest on such loans to be at rate of C per cent, per annum. "3. All loans to be made on the i i basis of 0 cents a pound, seeurcd by warehouse receipts on insured cotton. "4. The fund to be called f?>r by the federal reserve board in such In? stallments as may be necessary. "5. New York financial tnettutioits will subscribe $50,000,000 under above j conditions, the balance of the coun? try to subscribe not less than $100, \ 000,000. "it. The details are to 1?e worked [out by a committee to be appointed I by the federal reserve board, which unquestionably will have the support of every part of the country. "It is recognized that the caring for 'the surplus cotton crop is a national problem, one which interests all man ufactoring industries, commercial, transportation companies, agricultur? al resources and financial interest.;, and which will undoubtedly receive universal support throughout the nation. "The task put upon the federal re? serve board, while onerous, was readi? ly accepte<i by Secretary BIcAdoo, who recognized the gravity ?>f the situation, the necessity for action, as well as the practicability of the plan to meet the situation, and it is under? stood that through his guiding inllu j ence the entire fund of $150,000,000 was made available t?> the cotton growers of the South at a very mod erate rate ??f Interest when it is con? sidered that the loan is made to run a year if (he borrower so desires ami the borrower can pay the lender any time. "The committee had telegraphic advices from Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, I Oklahoma, Tennesee ami Texas that ??a<'h t?f these States unquestionably would contribute their proportionate part of the $150,000,000 which is al? lotted to the South as its part of the fund, it Is expected that all the eastern, northern anil western parts ??f the country will be willing t?? con? tribute now that New York has spoken, particularly s?? .is the man? agement of tin- fund will be placed in charge of the federal reserve board. "The president, Secretary McAdoo and the reserve board having already approved the plan of raising the fund, ii is generally understood that all de? partments of tin- government will be put be hi ml tin* surplus cotton crop to rapidly Increase its export ami also to develop the sale of tin- product to (In- \? \\ Kngland and Southern cotton manufacturers." mans appear to ho a* ;?y. (It is believed the above ^ . from Dun? kirk or Calais.) .cv Gem' dft Armies. Copenhe v>x ?It is reported that o\\: C che failure of the Rus? sians * anee German troops are beln \> ansported from the east? ern to tie western Held of war. Ifsissn TsjiIsssj Naval Battle. London, Oct. 15.?An unconfirmed report states that Turkey and Russia have opened hostilities with a naval 'engagement in the Black sea is ac Icepted with reserve here. I _ Vistula Battle Undecided. retrograd, Oct. IS.?The great bat? tle along the Vistula is now in its eighth day without (decisive result. The Russians claim that the situa? tion is favorable to them. The Vienna report claiming German vic? tories In Galicia is denied. The re | port of the rout of the Russians at Prsemayl and the German capture of Lemberg are wholly untrue. The fall of Praemsyl at anytime is expect? ed. (Official statement.) Gernutn Submarine Sunk. Edinburgh,. Oct. 1 5.?It is reported that a German submarine was sunk by British patrolships off the coast of Holland Saturday. Marching on Ostend. Berlin, (Wireless to Sayville), Oct. J 15.?It is officially announced that the i Germans repulsed the Russians south of Warsaw. The Germans now hold southern Poland up to the Vistula river. Heavy lighting is in progress 1 east of Bolssons and in the Argonnes I region of France. The Kaiser's headquarters have been moved fur? ther into France. The Germans are marching on Ostend and the French coast. Hug-land Fears Invasion. London, Oct. 15.?Pear of German ( invasion of England became Wide ! spread today when it was officially admitted that Ostend had been evacu? ated. Heavy tiring has been heard near Dunkirk. Bruges Occupied by Germans. The Hague, Oct. 13.?A news dis? patch today states that the Belgian city of Bruges was occupied by the Germans Wednesday. GetSSSUSS Cut Russian Communication. Berlin, Wireless to Sayville, Oct. 15. ?The Germans have cut the com? munication of the Russians between Warsaw and Ivangorod, a great Rus? sian fortress on the Vistula river, f?0 miles to the southeast. A battle In the vicinity of Wlrballen (Suwalkl District) Russian Poland) has been raging sines October 4th and is pro? gressing favorably to the C.ormans. O Mlicial. ) Austria MS Announce Victor, . Vienna. Oct! 16.--The Russians have occupied the fortified positions of ifidyra, stry and Sambor in Gali? cia. The Austrians are Attacking these positions, in the Carpathians the Austrians have occupied Toronya, after a four-days' battle and are pur? suing the enemy toward Wyskow. Italy to Romain Neutral. Washington. Oct. 15.- Count Degel lere, the new Italian ambassador, de? clared today that Italy will remain neutral unless, by some unforsesn development, her vital interests are threatened, French Make tiains. l'aiis. oet. K>.?The official an? nouncement at o'clock this after? noon states that the French have made nuts ?le gains between Arras and Albert on the lefl wing and that ,,t ih<- center numerous German trcnchcH have been captured near 11 heil tu*. Russian Victory at Warsaw. Petrograd, Oct. IS.?An unofficial report states that the Austrians and Germans w er?' completely defeated by the Kassians yesterday at Warsaw, losing heavily. The Itusstans took thousands of prisoners.