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"Be Just and Fear not?Let an the ende Thou Alms't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Troth's."
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established
Consolidated Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1916.
VoLXLI. No. 18.
ALLIES' SITUATION SERIOUS.
THE ?UM Kl T<> TAR F. THE
DARDANELLES CAFSING STIR
IN ENGLAND
Fighting 111 Fmsare Continues Along
The Entire Front, but no General
Advam<e I? Hei>ortcd?Germans
Claim to br Making Steady Progress
In Serbia Against Desperate Resist?
an-? - -Ii v Moetiug Strong Offen?
sive from Austrluna.
London. Oct. 15.?All Great Britain
Is tensely awaiting an explanation of
the government's position regarding
the Dardanelles. The demand by Lord
Milner that the British troops he
withdrawn caused a sensation. There
Is no effort to conceal the fact that
?the attitude of Greece Is unsatisfac?
tory. The withdrawal of the allied
forcaa from tha Dardanelles would
probably result In Greece Joining Ger?
many. The demand that British air
fiesta raid Berlin In retaliation for tho
Zeppelin raids Is growing moro insis?
tent.
Trench Fighting Continues.
Paris, Oct. 15.?Sharp conllicts in
the trenches In the Artols district aro
reported by the war otMce. Artillery
duels continue along the entire front
In which lK>th sides are using heavy
guns. The German attack in Lor?
raine has been broken up. There la
violent trench fighting In the Vosges.
Prisoners to be Exchanged.
London, Oct. 16.?England and Ger?
many have agreed to exchange pris?
oners from 17 to 56 who are too badly
disabled for further service.
British nu lunar I no Victory.
Copenhagen, Oct. 15.?After a brief
but severe engagement a Hrltlsh sub?
marine sunk a German destroyer in
the Baltic Thursday.
GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED.
Offensive In Vosges Was a Complete
Failure,
Paris. Oct. 16.?Official?During
the night we repulsed several coun
ter-allaoaa ua treachea we occupied
yesterday north of Rellon. After
midnight the enemy attempted to at?
tack In force between I^inge Schratz
maennole In the Vosges, but wero com?
pletely repulsed. Nothing occurred on
the rest of the front.
GKRMAN LINE BROKEN.
Russians Pushing SiMveMsrul OffcusJvc
oo Eastern Front.
Petrograd, Oct. 16.?The Russians
have thrust tho Gorman center north
of IMnsk back seventeen miles and are
continuing a successful attack. Tho
Russians captured a half mile of ene?
my trenches about Dvinsk. It la pre?
dicted tho wholo German line will
have to retreat from the position in
which they Intended to pass the win?
ter.
Ministers to I*m?vo Athens.
Berlin. Oct. 16.?An Athens dis?
patch to the Cologne Gazette states
that the Kassian und Italian minister
to Greece are preparing to leave.
King Approves Prix tarnation.
London. Oct. 16.?King George ban
approved the proclamation of war
against Bulgaria.
Will Act for England.
Washington. Oft It,?Great Brit?
ain today asked the Culled States to
take out her interests in Bulgarin.
The government will comply with the
request.
Germans Ropulso Allies.
Berlin. Oct. 16 << ifnoJol >?? The al?
lies' attaeks all along the western
front have been repulsed, the Ger?
mans taking six hundred men and
three machine guns in Champagne.
Rounianlun Rights Hcspc<i.c<l.
Petrograd. I >ct. 16.?It is nMciully
announced that Russia has no inten?
tion of \ioiating Roumonlei neutral?
H| h% nen.ling ?n army SOT OSS her ter?
ritory.
Roiimunln Strengthens Army.
Paris. Oe)Ot is.?Knumanlu has
called ihi class of 1 !? 1?'? to the color.;.
AMdl n i\\ \|?|; III M.\KI\.
Striimnlt/a an Important Fortified rit>
< apt anil.
London. < ?rt 1 *< - The allies' inv a?
sion of Bulgaria Is In foil suing.
Strumnltza. the most Important forti?
fied cily in the southwestern part of
th#? RnlflOriOn kingdom has been cap?
tor- <i. eeoordtni le as Athens dtaneteh
The BJseOOm of the Allies ncilnst the
Bulgars is expected lo have a stion"
PARTY LINES OBLITERATED.
?itter fight expected in
congress on apphopria
tions.
President Wilson Mas Approved Army
and Navy Program and llryail Will
Itally West Agaln>t Policy of Mili?
tary Preparedness.
Washington, Oct. IG.?With the an?
nouncement that the army and navy
program has been approved by Pres?
ident Wilson, the opening gun was
lired in what Is expected to be the bit?
terest congressional light in recent
yearu.
It is already certain that party lines
will be obliterated. i< will be the
seacoasts against the great middle
West. It Is already evident that the
great agricultural sections will not
accept the greatly increased expendi?
tures.
Bryan is expected to lead the light
against the measure. He declared to?
day that the expenditure of so largo a
sum encouraged the military spirit,
cultivated international hatreds and
tended toward the.swagger of the pis
tol-toter and falso standards honor.
The president will fight for the pro?
gram on the grounds of defenso and
not aggression.
WHITE HOlSE WEDDING.
The l>atc to Ho Announced Soon.
Washington, Oct. 15.?The an?
nouncement of the date of the Wilson
wedding is expected in a few days.
The details are now being arranged.
Col. E. M. House, it is believed, will
be the best man. Blue will be the
predominating color of the bride's
wardrobe. Her traveling gowns are
trimmed with seal fur. Painters and
decorators are busy at the White
House.
influence in Roumania and Greece.
The downfall of the "neutral cabinet
of Greece would not be surprising."
serbians begin retreat.
rrlin Reports Substantial Gains In
Llttlo Kingdom.
Berlin, Oct. 18.?It Is officially an?
nounced that Scrvia is beginning a re?
treat In the Macvl district. The Ger?
mans are press1 ng forward to the
south of Belgrade and captured two
villages. The Bulgarians, utter cap?
turing the heights along tho border,
are pressing toward the northeast of
Uskub.
French Ship Submarined.
Marseilles, Oct. 18.?Maritime ad?
vices state that the French steamer
Admiral Hamelln was sunk Sunday by
a German submarine In the Mediter?
ranean without warning Seventy wero
lost.
Thirty-three survivors have been
landed. The submarine first shelled
the Handln and then fired two torpe?
does, when a Trench destroyer was
seen approaching.
British Bombard Germans.
Amsterdam, Oct. 18.?British war?
ships bombarded Uli Belgian coast for
thirty hours Friday and Saturday.
Many German batteries were destroy?
ed. During the bombardment of
Zebrugge the Allies* aeroplanes inlllct
ed heavy damage o;i the German sub?
marine base.
Will Assist Allies.
Home. Oct. 18.?An Important cabi?
net meeting on the Balkan situation
was held today, after which it was re?
ported thut arrangements are being
niado to help the Allies.
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Ileuvy German Bombardment.
Havre. Oct. 18.?All of northwest?
ern Belgium from the sea to the
l'i'-neh border has rucked for the past
forty-eight hours beneath the inces?
sant bombardment of the Allies' lines
by heavy German batteries. The bom?
bardment was particularly violent at
Ypres, IMxmude and along the Yser.
A German attack against tho Belgians
near Dixmi'do V|| repulsed.
Trench Fighting Continues.
Paria, ort. is. (Official)?During
the right we repulsed three new at?
tacks at Bolsend Ilache. South of
Bomtne there was i continuous con
ftiei with Implements or trenc h war?
fare. North of Verdun the enemy at?
tempted to occupy cavities caused by
Ihe explosion of ndrn s. bul were frns
tt.it. (i. There was sharp Infantry lire
at Komeny,
flroerc Dish* tiding Army.
IjOfldon, Oct. IS. -,\n Athens dis
patch slates that ? decree dlsbandlnu.
plight etasees of Auxiliary troops wms
issued today, Tbe first Intimation that
Srttee. will dcmobollxt the army.
SOUGHT UNION IN BALKANS.
BRITISH DIPLOMACY DEVOTED
TO THAT END.
German Offers to Bulgaria at Expense
of Neighbors Too Great to lie Met.
London, Oct. 14.?Tho diplomatic
rather than the military side of the
situation was the subject of Sir Ed?
ward Grey's eagerly awaited state?
ment relative to the Balkan situation
which ho delivered today to a crowded
house of commons.
"I propose to confine myself." the
British foreign secretary said, "to a
resume of our diplomatic objects since
tho war. At the outset, we desired
that the war should not spread and In
common with our allies we assured
Turkey that If she remained neutral
Turkey and Turkey's territory should
not suffer. This situation was com?
pletely changed by the entrance of
Turkey into the war, and all obliga?
tions on the part of the allies then
ceased.
"We and our allies then concen?
trated upon securing an agreement
among the Balkan states and wo need?
ed all our intleunce to secure any ac?
cord. Unfortunately the feeling in the
Balkans is not one of union, but one of
division. It is clear nothing but a
decisive preponderant advantage lor 1
the allico would have enabled us to J
secure a policy of union.
"Wo were given to understand In
the course of the negotiations, that,
except with regard to Thrace, the cen?
tral powers had offered to Bulgaria
more to secure her neutrality than the
allies could in fairness offer. The
promises which induced Bulgaria to
declare war were given by the ccn
' tral powers at the expense of her
' neighbors and without any corre?
sponding advantage to them.
"Wo have remained throughout on
friendly relations with Roumanla, who
has favored the policy of a Balkan
union.
"It in the policy of bringing about
a Balkan war that the sovereigns and
governments of Germany, Austra
Hungary and Bulgaria?the sovereigns
and the governments?have succeeded
in cavying into effect. We were gt ?m
to understand that in order to secure
a Balkan union there were certain
concessions Bulgaria would require,
especially in'Thrace and Macedonia.
"The allies wero ready to do all in
their power to secure these for Bul?
garia, but to obtain the consent of
Servia and Greece It was an essential
preliminary that Bulgaria take sides
with the allies against Turkey. In
other words if Bulgaria was to realize
her hopes and aspirations she must
cooperate in a common cause In which
the hopes and aspirations of other
neighboring states were engaged,
j * "It will be enough to say that these
reasonable hopes and aspirations were
in the main founded upon opportu?
nity to peoples of the same race, the
same sentiments and the same religion
to Join themselves to a state under a
government most akin to them."
Premier Asquith in the house of
commons declined to grant a day for
debate on Sir Edward Grey's statc
' mont on the Balkan situation. In the
I house of lords the Marquis of Crcwe
mado a statement similar to that of
I the foreign secretary and continued:
I "This attack on Servia will only
I make sterner and fiercer the determi
! nation of tho allies to carry the war
through to a definite victory at what?
ever cost. Nothing has occurred in
any part of tho world to weaken that
resolution and we will maintain it."
During the discussion which fol?
lowed the Marquis of Crowe's state?
ment, Viscount Iftlner suggested the
withdrawal of the troops from Galll
poll and their transfer to some other
theatre of the war.
Lord Lnnsdowne, in reply, said It
was impossible for any member of
tthe government to give an under
I standing that the troops would con?
tinue In Dardanelles operations or
would be withdrawn from them.
The present situation, he declared,
I was a grave and critical one; there
were new developments and new fac?
tors in addition to the entrance of
Bulgaria into the struggle. The atti?
tude of Greece at the present moment
had not been quite fully defined and
that was another factor in the cal?
culation.
Shanklin Designs.
Washington, Oct. 15.?Arnold
Bhnnklln <>f Missouri, consul general
:it .Mexico lor the last six years has
resigned, lie had trouble with the
Rraxlllan ambassador, who has been
representing Ihe Cnited States,
Barber Lead* for Commissioner.
Birmingham. Oct, 18.?Barber i
leading over Lane in the commission?
er's race.
THE BALKAN SITUATION.
PLANS OP BRITISH AND FRENCH
STILL UNKNOWN.
Allies Attacking on German Front??
Apparently Concerted Offensive in
Eastern and Western Zones?Hard
Fighting in Servia.
London, Oct. 14.?Sir Edward Grey,
the British foreign secretary, made a
long statement in the house of com?
mons today on the situation in the
Balkans, hut as he dealt with the
diplomatic side of the question, he
added little to the knowledge of the
public and failed to satisfy curiosity
as to the progress of the Anglo
French expedition landed at Saloniki.
He did say, however, that Russian
troops would cooperate "as soon as
they were available."
The French premier, M. Vh'iani,
had more cheering news for the al?
lied cause when in the French senate
ho expressed the belief that "tho al?
lies can count on Italian cooperation
In the Balkans."
There Is much speculation as to
how Russian assistance will be af?
forded. Italy has a large number of
troops available and the means of
moving them to the desired spot, but
Russia Is handicapped, and there is
an inclination here to believe a re?
port from Rome that Petrograd has
asked Roumania to allow Russian
troops to pass through her territoy.
To grant such a request would be
construed by Germany as tantamount
to Roumanla's definite alliance with
tho entente, and doubtless would re?
sult In Austro-German troops attack?
ing Roumania. This, it is thought,
might happen any ,vay, as Germany,
already has shown her displeasure at
Roumanla's refusal to allow munitions
to pass through to Turkey, and now
It is reported that Germany has sus?
pended the postal service and is hold?
ing up all foodstuffs consigned to j
Roumania over German railways un?
til Bucharest more clearly defines its
attitude toward the central powers. \
These diplomatic questions are not
delaying military operations. Bul?
garia formally declared war on Servia
wmA the^ AustcorGerman . and.
garlan attacks on Servia arc pro?
ceeding. They are, however, meet?
ing stern resistance; and the Ser?
vians are giving ground foot by foot.
The extent of the Bulgarian invasion,
according to a Nish dispatch, con?
sists of an advance over the frontier
at one point of a mile. With this
exception, says the report, the fight?
ing line remains intact, and the rail?
ways have not been reached.
It is reported also that the allies
have begun a new offensive in the
Dardanelles. The Russians are con?
tinuing their attacks in Galicla in an
effort to clear the Austrians from the
Roumanian frontier and prevent them
from sending further reinforcements
against Servia.
In fact, there appears to be a gen?
eral attack on all the German fronts.
The British and French, Berlin re
i lates, have attacked In Flanders and
Champagne, while the German official
report of the campaign in Russia is
a record of counterattacks against
the Russians endeavoring to regain
tho initiative.
Even the Belgian coast is not ex?
cepted, British monitors having again
bombarded German positions there.
British submarines in the Baltic
have sunk ten German ore carrying
steamers and have completely paral?
yzed the ore trade between Sweden
and Germany. This has caused some
dissatisfaction in Sweden and it is
charged that two steamers were sunk
within Swedish territorial waters.
The British assert, however, that they
i
have been observing studiously in?
ternational law and have been sinking
only German steamers.
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HOMICIDE IN GEORGIA.
_
Young Man Killed nt Dnlton By Un?
known Party.
Dalton, Ca., Oct. 15.?Will Gordy,
aged eighteen, was shot and Instantly
killed in a light with an unknown
party last night. The trouble follow?
ed a trip by Gordy and some girls to
the fair.
TO SHOOT SWEDISH SUBJECT.
Board of Pardons Refuses to Interfere
with Sentence.
Salt Uike. Oct. 18.?Joseph Hills
Trom, a Swedish subject, has been re
sentenced to be shot. The board of
pardons refused any Interference with
the sentence.
Buffalo Brokers Fail.
Buffalo, < ><-t. 18. ?Paul Lambert &
fompnny, brokers, with offices In
t.i) other cities, have suspended. Their
liabilities arc it half mlllion?
LATEST WAR REPORTS.
NEWS OF FIGHTING FROM EV?
ERY FRONT.
No Indication of Victories Which
Mi^iit Sway Tide of Fortune.?Teu?
tons Proceeding Methodically With
Balkan Campaign, Though at Heavy
Cost.
London, Oct. 15.?Great Britain has
declared war on Bulgaria, and from
all the main battle fronts comes news
of continued fighting, but there are
no indications of victories which
would change the general situation.
The Austria OS, Germans and Bul?
garians arc proceeding methodically
with their invasion of Servia, which,
according to neutral reports, is costing
them a heavy loss of life, as the hard?
ened veterans of Servia are taking
every advantage of the difficult coun?
try.
The Germans have occupied Poza
revac, southeast of Semcndria, and
claim their campaign is proceeding
according to their plans. The entente
allies are perfecting their prepara?
tions to assist the Servians and every
day additional troops are landed at
Saloniki, where the French Gen. Sar
rail has taken command of the allied
forces. What steps Bussia and Italy
lhave taken to assist have not de?
veloped.
Except for Great Britain's formal
declaration of war on Bulgaria the
political situation remains unchang?
ed. Greece has announced formally
that she will not intervene in behalf
of Servia "at present," and Iloumanla,
although urged by Germany definitely
to define her position, has made no
move.
Along the western front there have
been heavy attacks by both sides, but
gains and losses are described as of
little importance. In the East the
Russians have turned to the offensive
in the region of Dvinsk, and although
the Germans claim to have repulsed
most of the Muscovite attacks, they
admit the Bussians penetrated their
line at one point.
Except for the hostilities in this
region, things are somewhat calmer
in the East, Lieut. Gen. Ivanoff, the
Russian commander, aTter his victory
in Galicia and the subsequent check
by the Germans, having for the mo?
ment shown himself satisfied with
what he achieved.
The Italians claim to have gained
some successes against the Austrians.
The Austrians deny this statement.
Outside the Balkan campaign Eng?
land is watching with the most in?
terest the operations of her sub?
marines in the Baltic. Here, after
having driven the German merchant?
men from the sea, they have sunk
one, and probably two, German tor?
pedo craft?one reported to be a tor
| pedo boat destroyer and the other a
torpedo boat?which with other war?
ships had come out to convoy ore
laden steamers. Activity of the Brit?
ish navy also is shown In the North
sea. The record shows that 24 Ger
I man trawlers have been captured and
taken into Grimsby in the past month.
DISMISSES RUSSIAN MINISTER.
M. Majaroff May bo Prosecuted for
Petrograd Interview Criticising
Government.
I Sofia, Oct 17 (via London).?M.
Majaroff, Bulgarian minister to Rus?
sia, when diplomatic relations be?
tween the two countries were broken,
has been dismissed from the dip?
lomatic service and will be prosecuted
because of an interview he is said to
have given to Petrograd newspapers
criticising the action of his govern?
ment, it is stated here.
Gen. Radmikiff and others reserve
officers who have not returned to
Bulgaria will be treated as deserters.
SUFFRAGE WILL WIN.
New Jersey Women Claim 27?,000 Ma
I jority.
Trenton, Oct. IS.?Suffrage leaders
predict that the amendment giving
women the vote will win In tomorrow's
election by twenty-five thousand.
Elaborate plans to prevent fraud at
the polls have been made.
School Teachers Killed.
Manhattan, Kan., Oct. lfi.?Fifteen
are reported to have been killed and
fifty hurt w hen a Union Pacific motor
car crashed through a wiushed out
bridge Into twelve feet of water In
nine River. Nearly all the passeng?
ers were Kiley county teachers on
their way t<> n convention at Ran?
dolph.
?
Cotton Seed Burned.
Dublin. Ga., Oct. K>.?The seed
ttouse of the Empire Oil Co., was burn
?d this morning. Tho loss was thirty
thousand dollars,
TOBACCO MARKET REPORT.
CHOP SECOND LARGEST EVER
RAISED IN STATE, BUT PRICE
LOW.
Up to September 30 the Planters Had
Marketed 37,921,390 Pounds of
Leaf.
Columbia, Oct. 15.?The tobacco
crop season is ^practically closed.
Nearly all of the warehouses have an?
nounced their closing for the year.
The few sales that will be made in
October will amount practically to
nothing. The tobacco crop season has
been a very discouraging one. Yester?
day the detailed announcement of
the September sales was made by the
department of agriculture. There was
sold during the month 12,914,004
pounds of toba for which $915,
382.95 was pa* ie average price be?
ing 7.49c per ? /und. As compared
with the mo ^ of September for the
year 1914 t' ? sales show a decrease
of G,638,98 junds and $807,806.23.
Last year c .ember was the heaviest
month, c ; to the lateness of the
?
crop.
Comr oner Watson commenting
upon t ^ obacco season for the year
yester said that the crop was the
seco? .rgest one ever raised in the
Stal /,924,396 pounds having been
marketed to the end of September.
The largest crop ever marketed was
in 1914, when it was a little over 41,
100,000 pounds. J
Up to the end of September the to?
bacco producers had received for the
1915 crop $2,760,982.18, which is a de?
crease of $1,218,321.64, as compared
to the total receipts for the 1914
crop. The sum received by the pro?
ducer this year is just about the same
thatw as received in 1912 for the 24,
300,000-pound crop. The average
price paid this season up to the end of
September was 7.28c per pound, the
lowest price that tobacco has brought
since the department of agriculture
began the keeping of the official rec?
ords, seven years ago. The lowest av?
erage price heretofore was 8.36 in the
season of 1909. The largest amount
during the nine years that the pro?
ducers. havo> raoeivad for .?ha iohacro *
crop was $4,584,000.51, and the nett
largest was for last year's crop, for
which they received a little less than
$4,000,000.
The condensed September reports
follow:
September, 1915, by markets?24
markets, 57 warehouses.
Markets Pounds sold. Amt. Pd.
Andrews. 224,428 $ 13,041.42
Aynor. 85,370 5,087.21.
Cheraw. 20,642 1,759.14
Conway .157.780 10,018.19
Darlington . . .1*711,323 i30,ieo.io
Dillon. 479,050 34,789.83
Florence. 553,196 37,369.33
Hartsville. . . . 703,761 55,114.40
Hemingway . . 470,526 24,800.17
Johnsonville .. . 242,696 15,307.55
Kingstree. 727,385 47,394.00
Lake City. . . .1,443,391 115,050.16
Lamar. 60,400 4,121.3*
Latta. 218206 15,328.84
.Loris.1*4,798 10,074.66"
'Manning. 879,689 52,318.21
j Marion. 386,661 27,396.99
Mullins. . . .1,695,436 122,663.0?
jNichols. 366,903 27,396.36
Olanta. 158,086 9,839.31
Page's Mill. . . 349,378 26,008.80
PampllOO. 96,613 6,256.42
Sumter.425,180 26,306.34
Timmonsvillc .1,297,107 96,810.70
Total .. ..12,914,004 $915,382.95
G. A. GREGORY DEAD.
Managing Editor of Savannah Morn*
ing News.
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 16.?George A*
Gregory, managing editor of the Sa?
vannah Morning News, died here last
night, aged 57 years.
Mr. Gregory had been ill since Sep?
tember 12, when, shocked by the sud?
den death of his long time associate
and friend, Elmer N. Hancock, editor
Of The News, he suffered a complete
breakdown. The . immediate cause of
death was cistic goitre.
SUBMARINE CREW SHOT.
Department of State Will Investigate
Charges Made by Germany.
Washington. Oct. 18?Secretary
Lansing refused today to comment on
the affidavits tiled by the German em?
bassy, charging that the crew of a
German submarine were shot down in
cold blood by a British patrol boat,
further than to say that a thorough
investigation would be made. Tho
ambassadors at London and Rerlin,
have been instructed to forward all
facts. The captain of the Nicosian
has already dented that any Germans
were shot and killed.