Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?B Mm Hum AJtnut m be thj omnm Tbf Goflt ud Timmv THE TRUE 60OTHHON, Mjobu 2,1861. BVMTBR, B. 0, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1916. VoLXLI. HS.49 CAPTURES BRITISH UDER. Sobmtrine Tikes English Vessel and Brings It Across Atlantic to American Port i Weoderfml Fett Performed by German Underwater Craft \ Appem Was Seized In Mediterranean Sea and Placed in V Chatte of German Crew, Who Carried It into Fort Under K Byeeof British War Veeeeta-Appam Was on Way From South Africa to togland?Had German Prisoners on Board v ?Wae Thought to Have Been Sunk. rfolk, V*., Fsb. 1.?A German tramp steamer, Ueut. Bert com mending cepturtd the Appam and a part of the submarine's crew The Appam wae captured oft the renal/ Islands after short shell? ing. The Germane bearded the and released a number of prisoner*, disarmed all the and crew and sailed for Ueut. Berg reported to tssliB?sim Berastorff ^hls morning ae follows: "I have the honor to re pest the capture of the British liner As para. A number of passengers aboard, including the governor of W\mfm, Lsosjs. Many hags el mall and three thousand tos? of goods." The nemo was painted out after the capture and the tramp convoyed the Appam most of the way. sinking sev etel PrtUsh freighters that were en The Appam was originally bound from South African potts to England. After her capture, the submarine twelve of Its crew aboard and sailed her aeroas the Atlantic sate Norfolk,' a journey of about t> Ito miles. A lUCMAltHABUC FEAT. Crew Brought ?\Jf?lUm Ittssstlrta Face of Brits* 1 di Ssssv to he>c In the Medlterrtjvean, ar this morning flying the tag with part of a German sutwjartne crew aboard as a piise erew. The Appam was captured id tke Mediterranean and as she could set be taken into a German port she was brought here. The vessel's capture and the trip aeroas the Atlantic Is the outstanding and most remarkable feat of the sub? marine warfare. The vessel was brought Into Norfolk under the nose of British war vessels lying outside the three mile limit This Is the first British vessel cap? tured by a submarine during war. The government officials took charge of the vessel on Its arrival, allowing none aboard until its status has been de? termined. The Appam has several hundred passengers snd a valuable cargo aboard. Use Stem* of Appam. Washington, Feb. 1.?Treasury de? partment has appealed to the state department for a decision on the Ap? pam. International law experts have decided that under the Hague conven? tion the matter whither she is a le? gal or Illegal prise must be put up to Germany, which nndoubtedly will de? cide her to be legal prise. Then America must order her to depart or become permanently Interned until the end of the war. Secretary Lansing announces today that Austria has made a complete dis? avowal of the sinking of the Persia. The Austrian foreign office has cabled that all her submarines have report? ed?none knew anything regarding the Persia. Secretary Lansing says this eliminates Austria from the controver AN OTHER GERMAN SURPRISE. British Liner Turns up at Norfolk ss a German Prlao of War. Norfolk. Feb. 1.?The British Elder-Dempster liner Appam, which was thought to have been lost In the Mediterranean, triived here this morning flying the German flag with a German prUe crew aboard. The liner left South African ports two weeks ago for England with two hun? dred passengers, two hundred German prison*? and one hundred crow. Nothing having boon heard from her since, shipping circles believed her to have been a submarine victim. Paris in Mourning. Paris. Fl be..?The burial of 34 vie of the aepntOin raids was made today. All Parts mourned. Solemn yews were taken >n the coffins to avenge the deaths. Two more of the wounded died today, bringing the to tal ip to 36. GERMANS CONTINUE OFFENSIVE. I War Office Reports Capture of lYench Ground on Sonime. Berlin? Fab. 1.?The war office an? nounces that the Germans are con? tinuing their offensive, taking more ground from the French on Somme River. It also claims that a German airship raided the Allies' ships and stores at Salonika with great success. MESSAGE CAME TOO LATE. I Brandete Already Chosen When In? dorsement of Hyrdtck Reached the President. I Columbia, Fsb. 1.?M. M. Mann, clerk of the senate, has received a let [tsr from the Whits House .acknowl >edging receipt of resolutions adopted' by the general assembly, indorsing D. E. Hydrick, associate Justice of the South Carolina, supreme court, for the vacancy on the supreme bench of of the United States, crei.ted by the death of Justice/ Lamar. Ths letter explains that the president had al? ready determined upon the appoint? ment of -Louis D. Brandels before the Sooth Card ma Indorsement of Judge olerk. follows. I "The president has a sited " me to I say that before ths copy of the reso? lution of ths South Carolina legislature had reached him, with its indorse? ment of ths Hon. D. B. Hydrick, he I had determined upon the appoint* xnent of ths Hon. Louis D. Brandels i to fill the vacancy on the supreme bench." INVESTIGATE WILSON'S CHOI HO^CE^ I Senate Subcommittee to Take np Nom? ination of Brandels to Supreme Bench. Washington. Jan. 31.?The nomina? tion of Louis D. Brandels to succeed the late Justice Lamar was referred for investigation by the Judiciary com? mittee of the senate today to a sub? committee consisting of Senators Chll ton, Walsh and Fletcher, Democrats, and Cummins and Clark of Wyoming, Republicans. 0 Senator Chilton, chairman of the I subcommittee, said his committee I would hold a meeting Tuesday. "If the other members of the com? mittee agree with me, we will act quickly on the nomination," said Sen? ator Chilton. Administration senators were grati? fied at the personnel of the subcom? mittee. CAN BUILD NEW SHIPS. American Yards Can Meet Nation's Need. Washington, Jan. 31.?American shipyards. Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, chief of the bureau of con? struction, told the house naval com? mittee today, will have no difficulty in taking care of the administration's proposed navy increases. The admiral said he would submit detailed state menu later. Sixty-eight naval vessels, the ad? miral said, already were building or authorised. Nino are battleships. The naval appropriation bill, which tho committee Is considering, proposes 66 additional ships. OFF FOR DES MOINES. President Standing The Hsrd Trip Well. Chicago, Feb. 1.?President Wil? son left here at 10 o'clock this morn? ing for Des Molnes where he speaks tonight. Today Is the easiest day scheduled so far. Ho makes four rear-end speeches at towns along the route. President Wilson Is showing no 111 effects from his hard trip. He was particularly pleased over his re? ception from Milwaukee Germans. mi io iii iiii wii. UNITED STATE? UNABLE TO DE? CIDE WHArf DISPOSITION SHOULD HE MADE OF VESSEL. Berlin Pointe out to Secretary of State That Treaty Between Nations Would) Allow Germany to Bring Prise into United States' I'ort?German Officer, Prepares Daring Scheme to Hold British on Captured Vessels in . Check-?Seeking German Nevnt Base. p* -%^ Washington, Feb. 2.?Germany un? officially called to Secretary Lansing's attention this morning that the treaty between the United ?Utas and Prus^ 8ia, ratified in 17?9 and amended in 1828, gives Germany and the United States the right to bring prizes into each other's ports. Secretary Lansing admitted thatt he treaty would appljf to the Appam case if it is conclusively, shown that the Appam is a prize, and not a raider. ( THE APPAM PUZZLE. Norfolk, Feb. 2?While the .Ap? pam swung at anchor today, Brit? ish warships crow.ied close in on, the three-mile limit in anticipation of any attempt to escape. The Appam; is closely guarded, Germans patrolling the decks with carbines. The pas? sengers include the crews of seven British vessels which were sunk by the mysterious German i?lder Moewe, and high British officials who were I returning from South Aixica to ahtg land. Lieut. Berge commanding the prise crew, held the British. Boldlctn and sailors in check by planting dyna? mite in the ship's bowels, attaching electrical contrivancea to the bombs, and threatening to blow the ship to atoms If they startod anything. - / f * DEMAND SURREN DER OF APfeAM. London, Feb. 2.--The British, ^for? eign office Is expected to make a nor? mal demand on the United ?tats* {within ten, days for the surrender I ths Arfpam. In the rneaMime tl hunt for ths mysterious German raid? er Moewe. It is telieved here that the Germans have succeeded in estab? lishing a naval base on ths Canary Is? lands. The British press, expresses frank admiration for the daring of the Germans in taking v.he Appam across the Atlantic. - BERLIN SENDS ANOTHER NOTE. Berlin, Feb. 2.?While it is admit? ted that Germany and America are near a rupture over t he Lusltania case it was announced today that Berlin had forwarded to the United States new representations which It is believ? ed will be satisfactory. Allies Attack. Ghent Amsterdam, Feb. \l.?Twenty-seven allied aeroplanes bombarded Ghent, Belgium, the principal German supply base this morning. French Attack German Positions. Berlin, Feb. 2.?The French have opened a tremendous bombardment of the German positions in the Cham? pagne and Vosges. HEROIC DEED AT STATION. H. J. McVeigh Saves Lady and In* fant From Horrible Death. Florence Times. Mr. H. J. McVeigh's friends are con? gratulating him upon a very heroic deed which he performed at the Coast Line Station yesterday morning. Ho saved a lady and little baby from be /ng ground to death beneath the car wheels of an out going passenger train. From what can bo gathered the lady was In the act of getting off the train when she accidentally fell with her baby in her arms. The good wo? man was caught in some way by the running gear of the cars and was rapidly being drawn under the train when Mr. McVeigh saw her. With lightening speed he caught her in his arms and snatched her, as It were, from tho very jaws of Aeath, running a very narrow rlfk of losing his own life. Tho baby was thrown to the pavement, but fortunately only sus? taining slight injuries. Several people ivcro standing by and taw the thrill? ing occurrence. JANUARY SEIZURES, Constables Gather in Quantity of Whiskey mid Beer. Charleston, Feb. 2.?Chief Consta? ble 8. M. Duncan's tabulation of the nov\ done by the State constables here luring January shows aggregate leisures of 158 1-4 gallons of whiskey, IDG bottle of beer und 27 glasses. mj FEARS DIPLOMATIC BREAK. GERMAN NEWSPAPER SAYS THAT THERE IS PROBABILITY OP . WAR WITH UNITED STATES. Ready to Realst America With Same Aptitude as Has Been Displayed in War With Other Nations?Loudon Reports That Ool. House Was Sent Abroad at Request of Ambaasdu'or Bernstorff to See if Time Was Ripe for Peace?English Would Retaliate on Germans for Air Raids. I '? ' _ ? * ..' ? ' '?' Paris, Feb. 3.?Lusanne dispatches I quote the Frankfurter Zeitung, one of the most powerful German news? papers, as saying that relations be? tween Germany and the United States [have reached the stage where a rup? ture is imminent. The paper is quot? ed as saying "negotiations relative to the submarine question have taken a turn distinctly unfavorable. We hope there will be no rupture, but if the rorst comes Germany is ready to with? stand tho new adversary with the ahme vigor she has displayed against the others." GERMANY WANTS PEACE. (Col. House Sent to Europe at Sugges? tion of Ambassador Von Bern .-'?.or ft". London ,Feb. 3.?That Col. E. M. 'House, the president's special diplo? matic emissary, is now in Europe at Germany's express invitation, has been learned authoritatively. Count von Bernstorff, German ambassador at ?Washington, suggested Informally to Secretary Lansing that the time (might be ripe for peace proposals. [Secretary Lansing conferred with the resident who decided to send Col. (House to Europe to sound the senti pftient of the belligerents. Col., House seen the highest officials of Ger r, France and England, and will for home on February 19. The Its of his mission are unknown, \ Is regarded as significant that flp was made at the suggestion one of the belligerents. , sWj?&SCT Suggestions Made That Germans be Shot If Air Raids Continue. London, Feb. 3.?Scores of mass meetings to bo held tonight will at? tempt to force the government to adopt reprisal measures against Ger? many for the air raids. Suggestions are being made In numerous quar? ters that prominent Germans now in? terned here be held as hostages and warnings sent to Germany that they will be executed if there is further air raiding. ENGLISH SHIP SUBMARINED. I Belle of France Sunk In Mediterran? ean?Nineteen of Crew Lost. London, Feb. 3.?The British steam? er Belle of France, four thousand tons, has been submarined and sunk In the Mediterranean. Nineteen mem? bers of the crew are missing, and it is believed they perished. Twenty-two were caved. The Belle sailed from Liverpool. NEW GERMAN OFFENSIVE. Violent Attacks on Entire Yscr Front. Paris, Feb. 3.?Violent German at 1 tacks are Imminent along the entire Yser front. The Germans are bring jlng up reinforcements, strengthening (their line from Westende to Ypres. It Is believed the capture of Nleuport is the German object. Dutch Steamer Sunk. London, Feb. 3.?It is announced (that the Dutch steamer Artemis, four thousand tons, has been sunk by a German submarine. SUBMARINE K-5 SAFE. Missing Undersea Boat Found Pro? ceeding on Her Way to Key West. Washington, Feb. 1.?The missing submarine K-5 is safe and proceed? ing southward to Key West. It will reach there tonight. The navy depart? ment has received a wireless message from Lieut. Simpson, commanding the destroyer Sterrctt, that the submarine is safe and no assistance required. The Stcrrett Righted the K-5 140 miles north of Key West, steaming ten knots an hour. CHINESE REVOLT SPREADING. Emperor Yuan Sends Big Army to Vun Nan Province. Pekln, Feb. 2.?The Chinese emper? or dispatched eighty thousand govern? ment troops to the province of Yun Nan today, so widespread has become the revolt. HORSE PLUNGES INTO POND. A. D. HARRY AND LITTLE DAUGH? TER HAVE NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. Fine Stallion, Monte Christo McDon? ald, Became Frightened and Was Drowned in Second Mill Tuesday Morning. A. D. Harby and his little four year-old daughter had a very narrow escape fom drowning Tuesday morn? ing about 11.30 o'clock when the bay stallion driven by Mr. Harby became frightened as he was coming along the causeway over Second? Mill and plunged into the water. Mr. Haroy by unusual presence of mind quickly extricated himself from the buggy and standing on the top, he waited1 until his little daughter came to the top, when he seized her and swam out with her. Meanwhile the horse floundered Into still deeper water and was drowned. Mr. Harby stated that he so fully realized the close call that he and his child had, that he could not regret the loss of the horse, although he was a very valuable animal, since he and hla daughter got out safely. The accident took lpace about 11.30 o'clock In the morning when Mr. Har? by was coming into town. For some unknown cause the horse became frightened when nearly In front of the mill and before Mr. Harby could con? trol him, the animal had gone down the embankment into the water, which is about twelve or more feet deep at this point. Mr. Harby went down In the buggy, but succeeded in getting out and on top of it without going under the water, but his little daughter went under and he caught her as she came to the surface. To? day he was receiving congratulations upon his escape. The stallion lost by Mr. Harby was Monte Christo McDonald, a thorough? bred animal secured by Mr. Harby from Kentucky about, two years ago for breeding purposes. The horse Was entered here in the horse show and won several. prizes last year and ^e^yeard-ego. ? ??*M*$mijm>*- - NATON NEEDS MILLION MEN. Member of War Department; Board Says 1,025,000 Would Be Required to Defend Vital Areas. Washington, Jan. 31.?Why a force of at 'aast 1,025,000 men would be needcu to protect the "vital areas" of the United States against a strong enemy was detailed to the senate mili? tary committee today by Lieut. Col. W. G. Haan, a member of a war de? partment board which spent seven years working out defense plans. The board visited and studied minutely every part of the coast line. It reported in 1913, but its findings have been held confidential by the department. Among other injorma tion it submitted detailed working plans for meeting emergencies. Col. Haan said some of the plans were being used In changing the defenses of the Metropolitan district in ac? cordance with latest Information on range of the foreign guns and naval guns. The board's purpose, Col. Haan explained, was to determine the needed auxiliary Held fortifications and troops necessary for defense against raiding parties and did not contemplate war plans for use in case of invasion by an enemy. WILSON CLOSES TOUR. President is Elated by Reception Ac? corded Him Everywhere. St. Louis, Feb. 3.?President Wil? son closed the most momentous trip of his administration here today. Just before starting to deliver the last speech of the trip the president was as happy as a boy, not attempting to conceal his elation at the receptions accorded him on the trip, lie has traveled two thousand miles, speaking to three hundred thousand people, and everywhere he was greeted en? thusiastically. Leaving here this af? ternoon the president's train shoots straight Into Washington, whore it ar? rives tomorrow afternoon. CAN'T FIND LYNCHERS. Georgia Grand Jury, However Con* demns Heed. Lecsburg, da. Fob. 1.?The Lee county gram! jury announced today that its investigation Into the lynch? ing of five negroes near Starkvllle, this county, January 20, had proved futile. A number of witnesses were examined, in its presentments the jury condemned the lynching. The negroes hanged were held as suspects in ths killing of Sheriff Moreland of Lee countyi IX CHICAGO SPEECH T ? DENT CALLS FOR INCF ?o /. -r- sf Wants Immediate St^ s> un to Eh? large Army and T to Strength Deemed Necessa: Chicago, Jan. 31.?The United States had made preparations for immediate war as far an Ahe navy is concerned, although UtSrpresent naval force Is inadequate* l?4 size, President Wilson declare** tonight In an address before sevot ""housand persons In the audit/ at ,#re. "We mean busi? ness," he s in speaking ot the pre? paredness plans of the administra? tion. "We have given to the present fleet of the United States an organization such as it never had before, t am told by Admiral Fletcher," the president said, "And we have made prepara tlo'jtfor immediate war so far as the ri' y is concerned. *'The army," he said, as at present constituted, "is not large enough even for the ordinary duties of peace." The president repeated his warn? ings that no time must be lost in strengthening the defenses of the na? tion. He declared the government was doing everything it could for preparedness. "When I see some of my fellow citizens spread tinder where the sparks are falling I wonder what their ideal of Americanism is," the president said. America, the president said, had been cruelly misjudged by the na? tions now at war. "I know that on the other side of the water there has been a great deal of cruel misjudgment with regard to the reasons why America has remain? ed neutral. Those looking at us from a distance do not feel the strong pulses of Ideals and principles that are in us. "They do not feel the conviction of America that our mission Ik a mis? sion of peace and that righteousness can not be maintained as a standard in the midst of arms. They do not realise Jhai back , of . a\\> of _ our energy we are a body of idealists much more ready to lay down our lives for a thought than for a dollar. 'They suppose, some of them, that we are holding off because we can make money while others are dying, the most cruel misunderstanding that any nation has ever had to face." Rulers, not public opinion, brought about the present war, Mr. Wilson de? clared. "I thank God there is no man in the United States who has the au? thority to bring on war without the consent of the nation," he said. The task of the United States, he said, has been to assert the principles of law in a world in which the prin? ciples of law have broken down. "We are not now thinking of in? vasion of the territory of the United States," the president declared. "We are not asking ourselves shall we be prepared only to defend our own homes and our own shores. We stand pledged to see that both the continents of America are left free to be used by their , people as those people choose to use them under a system of national popular sovereignty as ab? solutely unchallenged as our own. "At this moment the Americas aro growing together upon that handsome privilege of reciprocal respect and de? fense." Detailed plans for strengthening the army and navy and the aviation corps and for making munitions and armament by, the government were outlined. An hour before the president was dve to speak the galleries of the audi? torium were filled. The main floor seats were taken long before he came on the stage and many were turned away. The rousing welcome with which Chicago greeted his arrival was echoed in the cheers of the crowds about the building as the presidential party came In. Mayor Thompson of Chicago occu? pied a seat on the stage near the pres? ident and Gov. Dunne of Illinois was in a box. The entrance of the president was he.aided by the playing of "The Star Spangled Danner." The crowd stood emd applauded. Mrs. Wilson sat in a l>ox. DEATH FOR YORK NEGRO. Israel Good Convicted of Criminal As asult. York, Jan. 31.?At a special term )f court, ordered by Gov. Manning md held here today, Israel Good, a 17-year-old negro, was convicted of kriminal assault upon the person of a ittle C-year-old white girl of this ounty and was sentenced by Judge Thomas S. Sease to be electrocuted m Friday, February 1!5.