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\i??TVER8H y of s a U ftU? SUMTER WATCHMAN, Eh ml Uehed April, 1840. "Be Just and Fear not?Let all the ende Thon Aims't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 18ft* Consolidated Aur. 3,1881. SUMTER, S. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1915. Vol. XL. No. 11. ALLIES ON THE AGGRESSIVE Germans Are Defending Their Positions at Both Cast and West Storm Pastes and Allied Fleet is Again Storming the Turkish Forts in Dtrdanelles?Force Has Been Landed to Attack Smyrna-French Report Storm Over West So That Lull Has Come Along Front?In West Russians Are Endeavor? ing to Push on After Successes in Carpathians?British Stize Swedish Ships -English Vessel Sunk by Submarine in English Channel. IfOI I M VkKS PROTEST. Addrca? strong Note to <#fnrunijr on Staking; of Dutch Vessel by Subma? rine. The Hague. March II.?Holland hat addressed a sharp protest to Ger? many on the sinking of the Dutch steamer Medea, which wan torpedoed by a Oermon submarine In the Eng? lish channel. M)ST sl HM WtlM l ot ND. Grapple* Submerged Vessel end Others Ahl In Iiringing It to Surface Honolulu. March 16.?A govern? ment tug reported this morning that it had hooked the American subma? rine P-l which sunk off Honolulu yesterday. The submarine was hook? ed with grappling irons and other sr.* >s are joining In the efforts to pull the craft to the surface. Turks Attack Mission. Tlflts. March 26?Turks attacked the American mission at UruinUh. Persia, on Tuesdsy. sssaulting the missionaries and carrying away the. Assyrian Christians who were refu gvelng there. The attack was led by the Turkish consul. Many Assyrians Mia i British Vessel flank by Submarine. London. March 26.?The Dritlsh steamer Delmira was torpedoed and sunk In the English channel today. Turks Msy Sue for Peace. Athens. March 26.?Newspapers to? day published the report that the Turkish government had broken with the Oermans and are preparing to sue for peace. It Is asserted that the Turkish Held marshal I has left for .Sofia and Is returning to Germany. Take? up Atta? W <>n \1 Union. Washington, March 26.?Secretary i called the attention gl idor Morgenthau at Constan? tinople to reports of an attack on an American mission at Urumleh. Persia. Negotiations for Territory Broken. Rome. March 20.?Negotiations for the cession of Austrian territory were reported broken off today. Italian entrance to the war is believed to bo Imminent. Austria rejected the pro da which were put to her. IIHtUlt Seile Swedish \es..el Glasgow. Murch 20 ? \ Vntish cruiser soiled the Sw.m,.m steamships Vera and Jeanne today and brought them here. The cargo of rice B/aj confiscated. Itut*4ann Win Three-day Fight. Petrograd. March 26.?The Aus trlans have evacuated Cxcrnowitz und sre now In full retreat toward Hun gary. The Itusslsns defeated the Austrlans in a terrific three-day bat tie on the Pruth river and now are pursuing the enomy with vigor. <.ernu?n. M.iv Withdraw Submarines. London. March 26.--The admiralty declared today that Germany's ring of submarines around the Itrlttsh Isles Is being shattered. It is predicted that the campaign against the English merchant shipping %% ill soon he ended by the recall of the submarines, which are being destroyed without accomplishing results. /epprltn \ltneks 1'ortrosn. Petrograd. March 26.?A German' Zeppelin attacked the llusslnn for? tress of I?um on the Narew river yes? terday, dropping fourteen bombs. Nine civilians were wounded. in vsi \\ riD IX ? w i: ? Thrrs* Million hti-iiui Holling hock \imtro-t.ernuins. Retrograd. Mat h 27.?Three mil? lion llusslnn nohher ' ;?*?? rolling hk.> a tidal wave upon the Austro-Ger mans along the Carpathians from the Duns Ire river to Bukowina, forcing their foes back to their fortified po? sitions in the passes and on tho crests. The Germuns aro withdrawing the major part of the forces from the Vlstula-Xiemrcn front where the spring thaws have caused a cessation of hos? tilities at most points Fron the best information obtainable the esti? mates are that only about five hun? dred and eighty 'thousand Germans are now in Poland, from which It Is deduced that two million nine hun? dred and twenty thousund hnvo been concentrated on the Dunajec and Car? pathian front to meet the Russians. The Russian war minister stated to? day that an immediate triumph for the Russians need not be expected, but their ultimate triumph Is certain. The Russians how occupy positions of great strategic importance, but they do not underestimate the strength of the enemy Severe fighting on a scale never before witnessed Is expected. Turks Resume Campaign. Constantinople, March 27 (Official). The Turks have resumed the cam? paign against Egypt with marked suc? cess. The destruction of an entire Prltish column at one point and the repulse of another at another point Is reported. Tn the latter engagement three hundred British were killed. . British Defeat Turks. London. March 27.?The British defeated the Turks at the Egyptian town of Sues. The Turks retreated to Mekhl. The British losses were slight. Austrian* Take Offenshe. Vienna. March 27 (Official).?-The Austro-Germans are taking the of? fensive in Bukowina and have driven the Russian left wing back to the Dnelster river. Zaleszosky, the Rus? sian base northwest of Czernowitz, Is being shelled by the Austrian:.. Re? ports that the Russians have taken Czernowitz are lalse. French Take Important Point. Berlin. March 27 (Official).?After five days' battle the French have cap? tured Summltt Hartmannswetler kopf. an important strategic point in the Vosges. Tho edge of the height is still held by the Germans. French aviators have dropped bombs In Rat surne. Strassburg and Metz. The Rus? sians have been repulsed while at? tempting to advance against Tilsit In' Fast Prussia Other minor successes against the Russians are reported. Will Try to Protect Americans. Constantinople, March 27.?Tho ! Vi.vr has promised Ambassa? dor Morgenthau that the Turkish go\ - ernment will do all that Is possible to protest American interests in north ? lorn Persia. He doubted the ac? curacy of the report that Turkish regulars made an attack In Christians and is investigating the matter. French Make Gains. Paris. March 27 (official).? The French have eaptured tho summit of llartrnannswellerkopf. Germans bom? barded Arras violently today. CRCISER ARRIVES. Su-ploloie .lap Ship at Monterey at Midnight Without Lights. S'an Francisco, March 27. ?To In llgatc the pres. rice of the Japanese warship ChttOSa off Monterey, the tine eutter McCulloch left s;m Francisco this morning under full ? '? tu. The foreign cruiser steamed mt.. Monterey bay at midnight dis? playing no lights or signals. PRIZE. FIGHT POSTPONED. Presldrsg id' Cubs objected to right on Basest Sunday. Havana, March 27.?The light for the ehampionshlp of the world by Johnsen and YYilhird has la-en post* po:ie,| to Monday. April Ith, The pr< aide at of Cubs objected to having UM light on Easter Sunday. SUBMARINE AGAIN LOCATED. EFFORTS BEING MADE TO SLIP CHAINS AROUND VESSEL. Rescue Party Has Been Extruding Energy on Old Anchor, Instead of F-4?Divers Make Record-Break? ing Descents. Honolulu, March 28.?The Hubmerg ?'d submarcllne F-4 has been located outside the harbor, it was announced tonight. Portions of the superstructure have been brought to the surface. The dredge California will shift moorings,' tugs will criss-cross in all directions and an attempt will be made to lift the submarine. \V. C. larks, a civil engineer, has started construction of an immense! diving bell, a 54-Inch cast iron pipe,, seven feet in height, llttod with a plate glass port. The diving bell is expected to be ready for use tomorrow. Three days' search for the losti United States submarine F-4 has re suited only in unfulfilled hopes. Dive who went down the two cabl thought to have been attached to th? submarine found the heavy body w an old anchor, probably lost by t battleship Oregon. Operations to 1 cate the missing craft were contimi until it was located. Diver Agraz, who went down the cable attached to the anchor, Wore only a helmet. Diver Evans, who descended along the second cable, reported that ha found nothing. Agraz, whose descent to a deptf of 215 feet, is said to be a world'i record, spent twenty-two minutes or the downward journey and nine and i half minutes in the ascent. The ex/ perience apparently caused him n( distress. \ Naval Constructor Julius A. F?ret declared today that the four submn rines of the Hawaiian divls'ion Wer< examined as to their stability orfly month ago. Ho said that all vfer found ip good condition* A 1 KNOWS ILL FATED BOAT. Visitor in Columbia Acquainted With F-l. The State. 1, C. Hass of New Bern, N. C, who is in Columbia, reads with special in? terest of the efforts making to raise the United States submarine F-4, which sank enrly Thursday in deep w;iier off Honolulu. Mr. Hass was in the navy, With the rating of electrician, first class, when the F-4 was building in the navy yard at Seattle and he knows several members of the crew assigned her when she was put into commission. Her commander then was Lieut. James Perdue Oldering, now in com? mand of a submarine of the larger L type. Mr. Ha..s left the service at Seattle August 7, 1912. The F-4, Mr. Hass said, is 142 feet in length, is fitted with two Deisel en? gines and carries a complement of 19 men and two officers. She has four torpedo tubes and carries eight White beads, four in th?> tubes and four in the chocks. She aas, he said, a steaming radius of 2,500 miles on oil and'of 500 miles on her butteries. Under normal conditions she should be capable of remaining submerged ten days without danger to her crew. Mr. Hass suggested, however, that her commander might have used some of his air In attempting to raise the ves? sel or that she might have become wedged between rocks. Mr. Hass is visiting his brother, the lies. Harry A. Merfeld, rabbi, in charge of the Tree of Life synagogue. RAILROADS PREPARE FOR RUSH. Commission Suggests That Linea Make Arrangements to Handle Fer? tilizer Business Quickly. Columbia, March 2fi.?The railroad commission has written the five chief railroad systems operating In South Carolina to suggest that special plans DC taken to handle the fertilizer business with dispatch this spring. The h tter says that on account of the financial conditions farmers will post? pone the purchase of fertilizer until the lust minute, and that the move? ment from the mills to the consumers may become congested unless the railroads take precautions, PETITION FOR RECEIVER. UcOrgig and Florida Railroad In Court. Augusta, Qa.( March ~A petition for n receiver was todaj (lied against the Georgia and Florida railroad Lancaster Williams of Baltimore Im president of the company, BUILD RED GROSS HOME. PRESIDENTS T.VIT AND WIESON KNEEL TO LAY CORNER STONE. Structure is Dedicated to Women of C1vi? War and is Indication of Re moral of All Sectional Feeling. Washington, March 27.?President Wilson and Former President Taft were central figures here today at the laying of the cornerstone of an $800,000 marble home for the Ameri? can Red Cross, erected as a memorial to the women of the War of Seces? sion. They kneeled together to spread mortar beneath the cornerstone. A distinguished .thcring, includ? ing members of the cabinet and the supreme court and officers of the army and navy, attended the cere? mony. Mr. Taft, Assistant Secretary Breckinridge of the war department. Miss Mabel T. Boardman of the Red Cross and Justice Lamar of the su? preme court spoke, j The president personally surpcrvis "ed the laying of the cornerstone. I Mr. Taft referred to the building as a "concrete evidence of the removal Of the scars of otir sectional conflict and of the complete unon of the ?people of our republic." He praised the Red Cross as offering to "the peo? ple of the United States a certain and effective means of relieving hu . man misery in their own country and fh the world." I ' Mr. Taft declared the new struc ; ture would he "a memorial of the ; past and an earnest of the future," adding that "it is a recognition of moral rather than physical suffering, agony and service, and therefore of a higher sacrifice even than that of meh in war." r* . "It is a loving testimonial not only to the patriotism of women," he con? tinued, "but to the silent tenacity of their gentle sympathy and affection .for their fellow beings, of which the fp\e ?f *ne mother, the sister and the daughter are types." Miss Boardman gave credit to Capt. ! J. A; iScryinrfer of New York for mak? ing the building possible. Capt. Scrymser gave money for the struc? ture, she said, because the wife of j one of his comrades in the War Be ; tween the Sections. Gen. Francis C. Bartow, served as nurse during the war. Mr. Breckinridge and Justice La 1 mar praised^ the work of women of the North and South during the War I Between the Sections. Justice I^amar i declared that the work of the women j "won preeminently that which be i longs to the house and the homo and , it is most appropriate that this mon? ument to women should be a house." ; The building is to be completed hy April. 191C. Congress appropriated $400,000 for it and the additional ,$400,000 was raised by public sub ; scriptions. j Miss Mary Custis Leo. daughter of tho Confederate leader, Robert E. Lee, was present at the ceremony. GIRL'S NARROW ESCAPE. Slides Down Polo to Save Her Life From Fire. Saluda, X. C, March 27.?A serious lire occurred in Saluda this morning at 4.30. Starting in the Poard of Trade rooms over the Carolina State ; bank it made considerable headway before discovered. The telephone op? erator, who was asleep in the adjoin? ing Offices, was awakened by smoke I and finding her way cut oil from the stairs, had to get out of the building by climbing to a terminal pole and sliding down the pole. She ran to tho switchboard and called the railroad office and then the lire department, which very soon had the lire under control, The Saluda Telephone com? pany lost the entire central office equipment. The poles and wires were torn down by the ice storm the first of this month and repairs on these had just been completed. The Board of Trade, the Carolina State bank, Walter Jones and W. C. Robertson <?? Sons' store suffered severely from water, and these had very little insur? ance. The friends of the telephone company are contributing liberally to help rebuild at once. _ MAY SEND MORE TROOPS. - tilitod States Warns Villa and Car ran/a not to lire into Brow n>\ IIlo. Washington, March 19.?The wer department is considering tho sending of additional troops to Brownsville to prevent* the town from being "shot Up" by Mexicans who are battling at Matamoras across tho Ri<? Grande. Villa and Curranzn, tho rival leaders, have been warn? ? that firing into Urownslvlle will not bo tolerated. Troops Sweeping Onward After Victory in Carpathians in Their Invas? ion of Austria. TAKE TOWNS IN POLAND AND GALICIA?GERMANS ARE SUCCESS? FUL AT NORTH, HOWEVER, AND ARE DRIVING RUSSIANS OUT OF EAST PRUSSIA AND HAVE BEGUN INVASION OF RUSSIA? IN DARDANELLES RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET HAS <X)MMENC ED BOM BAR D ICE NT ON ONE SIDE AND ALLIED FLEET IS AGAIN SHELLING FORTS ON BOTH '?US OF STRAITS?REPORTS FROM WEST INDICATE LITTLE VITY ON EITHER SIDE. i I MARTIAL LAW FOR ITALY. Military to Take Charge of Affairs? Censorship Ordered ?Mobllizatior Expected. Rome, March 29.?Martial law v . be effective throughout Italy on A ^ llrst, when the military authoi ^. will take over all telegraph, teler ^ and railroad lines. A rigorous sorship of news has been o. d. 1 Mobilization orders are expected at any moment. V EIGHT SENK WITH SHIP. Drowned When West African Mail Ship is Torpedoed by Submarine. I Cardiff, March 29.?Eight per isons were dnowned when the West African mail steamer Falsba was tor? pedoed at the mouth of the Bristol channel on Sunday. The others were ' landed from small boats. In the ear j Her dispatch it was stated that the i ship was the Aguila but it was not 'the Aguila. The crew was saved. Russian Black Sea Fleet Active. Petrograd, March 29.?The Rus : sian Black Sea fleet has begun its long threatened attack upon the Bosphorus, eighteen miles front t^nstantinopler After driving the Turkish fleet back ! into the straits, it opened again Sun ; day against the forts on both the Eu iropean and Asiatic sides. A large ! Turkish ship was cut off in the Black sea and later tried to make its way , into the Bosphorus, but was sunk. This is believed to be one of the ves? sels of the Turkish fleet, but has not yet been Identified. The Russian i fleet is continuing the bombardment ' of the Bosphorus forts today, but the ? only information issued at the ad? miralty headquarters relates to the attack on Sunday. Allied Fleet Renews Bombardment. London, March 29.?A general bombardment of the Turkish forts In , the Dardanelles was resumed at 9 ] o'clock Sunday morning by the re i lnforced Anglo-French fleet. For ? more than five hours shells were hurled from the heavy guns of the international fleet against the Turkish forts on the narrows. The weather has been excellent for operations and the shells, in direct tire burst at the rate of one every three minutes. The new defensive works which the Turks erected at Kum Kale during the re? cent cessation of hostilities were set on lire. About 11 o'clock after the severe lire against Kilid Bahr, the 'Turkish guns became silent. Russian Invaders Successful. Petrograd. March 29.?Pouring through Dukla Pass three Russian corps of one hundred and twenty 'thousand men captured live Hunga? rian towns in district of Saros, ac? cording to advices received at the war office today from the Carpathian front. While all eyes are directed to : ward the Carpathian front and the i invasion of Hungary, two new Rus? sian victories in Poland were official? ly reported, one on the SkWa river and another near the Pilica river. British Morchantship Sunk. Cardiff, Wales, March 29.?The British steamship Argula was sunk by a Qerman submarine off Bishop's Rock. German Submarines Sunk. Petrograd, March 29.?Two Ger? man submarines wore sunk by the Russian licet in the Baltic sea. Two Others also were probably destroyed states the admiralty today Lg its re? port. Drive Russians From East Prussia. Berlin, March 29 (Official). The Germans are forcing the Russians out <?f Bast Prussia ami now have in.a i ed Russian territory and stormed Taurrogon, taking three hundred pris? oners. They captured a thousand tns in the district of Kransopol. jf> Von Kluck was wounded at the ?? ern front by shrapnel, although wound is not considered serious. German Attack Repulsed. Paris, March 29.?Official.?The German observation post at Ypres has been blown up by a mine. The Ger? mans made a violent attack in at? tempting to retake the trenches lost at Epargos, but were repulsed. GERMAN SUBMARINE V-29 LOST. British Admiralty Says it Has Good Reason to Believe Vessel Has Been Destroyed. London, March 25.?The British ad? miralty stated this evening that it thought the German submarine U-29, which recently sank four British and I one French steamer in the English : channel and damaged three other ', vessels, had been sunk with all hands. \The official statement paid: j "The admiralty have good reasons to believe that the German submarine ju-29 has been sunk with all hands." The German submarine U-29 dls j placed 800 tons and was one of the laasast iotf fastest, OjL.UX? Qwpa*^ undersea boats. Two weeks ago the U-29 made a raid of the Seilly Islands and in the channel, sinking four British steamers and one French steamer and damaging three others. The submarine was chased by patrol boats, but she proved too elusive for them and when steamers tried to ram or escape her they found that the submarine was too fast, The German commander gave the crews of most of the steamers time to leave their vessels and in some cases towed them in lifeboats to passing steamers in which the seamen were taken to port. ROOSEVELT MAKES CHARGE. Says Wilson and Bryan Worked in Interest of Foreign Business Firms. Washington. March 27.?The chargo that President Wilson and Secretary Bryan endeavored in the interest of certain foreign business firms to secure for the United States the power to purchase the interned ships of one of the belligerents in the European war is made by Theodore Roosevelt, in replying to an invita? tion to testify before the ship pur? chase bill lobby that is being investi? gated by the committee of the senate. The (tetter, which Col. Roosevelt ad? dressed to Senator Walsh, chairman of the committee says: "The sources of my Information have been for months open to every intelligent man. It is perfectly apparent that we are literally purchasing * quarrel with every ship purchased from any cor? poration owning German interned els. That the purchase of Ger? man Interned ships was the purpose of the shipping bill was practically admitted by Secretary IffcAdoo before the house committee." AIRSHIP SEEN OVER CANAL? Panama Military Authorities an? Mak? ing an Exhaustive Inquiry. Panama. March 2?.?Military and I canal authorities today were investi? gating a report that an aeroplane had been been seen dying over the Pedro Miguel and the Miraflores locks. Governor Goethals, of the Canal Z< ne, and Prig. Gen. Edwards, com? mander of the military forces, both detailed men to make an exhaustive search for the machine, which is said to have been seen and heard over the locks last night. The air craft is also reported t" have down over Hill 15, which Is heavily entrenched, and also located e.ist of the Pedro Mlgul locks, of whose defence it forms a part. It is known that a Belriot machine Is owned on the Isthmus but its whereabouts has not yet been ascer? tained.