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THBTTRTJE SOUTHRON, ^fff-TWyTff-IT Mae? Ifta,
Y, FEBRUARY 12, 1916.
Vol. XLI. No. 51.
Iii SITUATION UNCHANGED
?? i .
STRUGGLE IN WKST IN ARTOIS
REGION CONTINUES.
Send Ketof Wremen t to Wcf
Front to Jota ?00,000 Already
en Susan Driilln Reports Takln?
of French Trenches at Vlmy.
Paria. Fab. W.?The gigan?o strug?
gle between the Germans and the Al?
lies) In the Ar tola region contlnuec
with unabated fury. Artillery duels
era continuing day and night. Inter?
spersed with Infantry charges, the war
office aays, wit* neither aide able to
gain any material advantage.
?TRUGOLE IN WEST.
staking Ready for Big Of.
fetwi>/o Against Alliea.
. London. Feb. t.?The concentra?
tion of Oerman reinforcements along |
tho western front is continuing cease-1
loaaly. Today'n dispatches estlmVto
taaat six hundred thousand trodps ire
already on the northern end of the
tattle toe.
Stormed.
leiisa, rah. I.?The war office an?
nounces that the German* have storm?
ed and captured all tho first line
French trenches along an eight hun?
dred yard front west of Vlmy. The
Overmans admit the French made
gataa south of the 1 torn me river.
-f?
BIO ZEPPELIN DESTROYED.
?
Aeropltnea Snot Down Hon?
sir tihip in BiiifJnm.
im. Feb. ?.?A monster
Zeppelin of the type that recently
made a raid on Paria and London was
?hot down by pursuing French aero?
planes and the crew killed, accord?
ing to dispatches received today. The
battle occurred: near Ugne, Belgium.
KAISER'S PEACE TERMS.
Fen. f/.?Italian newspapers
leg ^LttfettBi
I sa^
Albert of Belgium. He
tho reetoration of Belgium, the
of Albeit, the payment of
an Indemnity, the amount to be fixed
by treaty giving Belgium cer?
tain rights. Ostend and Antwerp are
to become German seaports.
SERVIANS DEFEAT AUSTRIAN8,
Corfu, Feb. ?.?The Australn ad?
vance on Durraao has been checked by
tho Servlanr rhe official report says
terrific and "Hly fighting occurred
on February t, the A us tri ans leaving
tho ground covered with their dead
and dying wheu they retreated.
TO VISIT COLUMBIA?
anal Bjtnoa Urge Wilson to In?
ks Sowth Carolina Capital in
Washington. Feb. 7.?Senator B. D.
Smith and Congressman Byrnes today
called at the White Houee and strong?
ly urged the president to vUlt South
Carolina on his trip to the South.
They reminded the president that the
people of Columbia were really his
people and would not be satisfied to
have him visit othor parts of the
South and leave Columbia out. Upon
this showing the presidont said that
he would give the matter serious con?
sideration and that he greatly appre?
ciated the Invitation which had been
extended him. >
LAMSON LOANED TO NAVAL
MILITIA.
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Put at Ser
? vice of South Carolina Bluejackets.
r ?
Columbia, Feb. 8.?Gov. Manning
received a letter yesterday, announc?
ing the loan by the United States navy
of the torpedo boat destroyer Lamsor.
to the South Carolina naval militia.
The l?oat will ??e loaned under the
following condition*:
1. The officers and men of the
navy on board to be In charge of tho
vessel and to Instruct the naval mili?
tia.
f. Tho men of trc naval mllltU
are permitted to assemble on board
for study, drill and Instruction.
t. The State Is to assume respon?
sibility for loa* or dan ago to any
chart, books, Instrument*, equipment
or any part of the vessel.
4. The captain of tho ship Is to be
an officer of the navy and Is author?
ised to put off the vessel any of*
fleer or enlisted man of the naval
mllltla who disobeys his orders.
The boat will be lor tho use of all
divisions of the naval mllltla.
GIANT SUBMARINES COMPLETE
GERMANY ANNOUNCES THE EN?
TRANCE OF THREE NEW UN?
DERWATER CRAFT IN
CANAL.
Boats to Carry Crews of Sixty-five
Persons Euch and to go Seven
Thousand Miles Without Replenish?
ing Supplies?Artillery Battle on
Western Front?Dual Claim of
Success In West?Air Raids Feature
Days Events.
Ths Hague, Feb. 10.?Three super
submarines, able to go seven thousand
miles without replenishing their sup?
ply of fuel, carrying a crow of sixty
men each, with seven torpedo tubes
are Just finished at Kiel, according
to reports to the Dutch naval officials
today.
GERMANS BATTER BELFORT.
rest Guns Turned Aga i nut Key of
French Defenses.
Paris, Feb. 10.?German guns with
a range of over twenty miles aro bat?
tering Belfort fortress, the French
keystone defense of the eastern fron?
tier. French aviators are trlyng to
locate the guns which are probably
hidden In the Vosges mountains.
GERMAN RAIDER TOOK SIX.
Missing Ships Believed to Have Been
Captured by Germans.
London, Feb. 10.?Six ships which
[are listed by Lloyds as missing are be?
lieved to have been victims of mys?
terious German raider that captured
the Appam. They are the British
Satrap, Tynemouth, Hummersen,
Glenarlff, the Italian Iniziativa, the
Bpanlsh Benlliure. All have been
missing since December.
French Repulse Germans.
Paris, Feb. 10.?The French re
| pulsed several strong German night
I attacks in the vicinity f Lufojie, The
it battle around Arras continues
it and day. The French have
tared German trenchoai west of
Trenches.
Berlin, Feb. 10 (Official)?The Ger?
mans captured additional trenches
and recaptured the crater and twen?
ty-two machine guns from the French,
in the Vicinity of Vimy and near
Neuville.
German Aeroplane Raid.
Berlin, Feb. 10.?Considerable dam
is reported to the British const
! defenses at the mouth of the Thames
by two German aeroplanes dropping
bombe late yesterday afternoon. Tho
Aircraft returned safely.
Conscription law in Effect.
London, Feb. 10.?-The conscrip?
tion law went into effect today. It is
expected to add three hundred thous?
and men to the army.
A u strains Occupy Durra so.
Cettlnje, Feb. l6.?It Is reported
that the Austro-Hungarlans are now
occupying Durasso unresisted.
French Raid Smyrnla.
Athens, Feb. 10.?Two hundred
Turkish soldiers were killed and
many wounded, three military ware?
houses burned, and two ships sunk
by French aviators attacking Smyrnla
Tuesday.
WANT TORREN8 SYSTEM MADE
LAW.
Farmers in Resolution Ask Senate to
Pass Measure Already Sent by the
House.
Columbia, Feb. 8.?At a meeting of
about forty farmers and business men
held here this afternoon resolutions
I were adopted asking tho senate to
pass the Torrens system of land reg?
istration, which has already passed
the house. The meeting wan attend?
ed by farmers from Picken:?, Ander?
son, Oconee, Greenwood, Greenville
and Marlboro counties and was presid?
ed over by E. J. Smith, of Anderson.
The resolution was as follown:
"Resolved, That the general assem?
bly is urged to pass at this session
the bill instituting in this State the
Torrens system of land registration."
On motion of Mr. Glenn, of Ander?
son, the following resolution was also
adopted:
"Resolved, further, That this meet?
ing wishes to congratulate the people
of this State that tho time has come
when matters of the people's business
can bo din< ussed without regard to
factional politics."
Tho hill providing for the Torrens
land system wns made a special or?
der In the senate for tomorrow morn?
ing.
ROOM REPORTED CfffflB
GERMAN WARSHIP SAID TO HA1
BEEN TAKEN. \
Story From Bermuda but No
ftrmution or Dispatch Telling of
matic Sea Battle Between
and Roon.
New York, Feb. 9.?Advices
ceived here today assert that the Gt
.man warship Roon, alleged to be
captor of tho Appam, has been
?cured by tho British armored crul
Drake after a *hree hour fight
miles east northeast of Bermuda,
cording to a story printed by the N{
York Evening Globe.
The capture of the Roon is said^to
have been followed by seizure of tjjr o
merchantmen flying the Gerrttjtn
flag, one of which was armed.
The story is contained in a message
which The Globe states it received
in code from a reliable source in Bf
muda The message reads:
"Drake here today towing Roibn.
Took her 200 knets eaatnortheast Ber?
muda, three hours running fight
Danforth 18 men. Her losses ab<
one-third. Struck as we came ab<
Two merchantmen with her,
armed. Took both. Brought
Seagrave on sighting Roon salfd:
?Pleuse God, today I will avenge
Cradock.' Roon badly knocked ab*}ut
by 9.2. Thirty-two officers and ;'TJ9
.?cn taken in the three prises."
The Seagrave mentioned in
message is supposed to be Capt,. I
grave, who was with Admiral Crat
when the latter went down wit!
flagship, the Good Hope, whiol
sunk in an engagement with,
man squadron off Chile.
There is no Danforth among
officers in the British navy lkftjg
R. Seagrave was in command
auxiliary cruiser Orama, which'
ed part of Admiral Cradock'a
ron in the battle off Chile.
Orama escaped and later in
with the cruisers Glasgow
sank the German cruiser B\
Juan Fernandos island. ? A'ft
later Capt. Seagrave fought
agmesll:
her. The Orama was last report*
at Callao In June, 1916.
For several days repots have been
current In maritime circles here that
the German commerce raider had
been either sunk or captured by the
British. The British consulate, how?
ever, has received no official confirma?
tion.
ONLY PRIVATE ADVICES.
Washington, Feb. 9.?The British
embassy today received advices from
British agents in New York that a
man living on ?taten island, whose
name was not transmitted, had re?
ceived a private dispatch from Ber?
muda, saying the British cruiser
Drake had taken the German cruiser
Roon and some German merchant
ships.
The embassy had no further ad?
vices.
NOT AT HAMILTON.
Hamilton, Bermuda. Feb. 9.?If a
battle has taken place between the
British armored cruiser Drake and the
German cruiser Roon off Bermuda
nothing is known here of the occur?
rence. Numerous inquiries have fail?
ed to confirm the report that the
Drake attacked and captured tho
Roon. These vessels havo not reach?
ed this port, and, so far as can be
learned, no advices have been received
at Hamilton to indicate that the
Drake has taken a prize into any other
Bermuda port.
Roon Capture Not Confirmed.
London, Feb. 10.?Nothing is known
at tho admiralty about the reported
capturo of the German raider Roon
and two merchantmen near Bermuda.
HANS SCHMIDT TO DIE.
Priest to Be Electrocuted for Mur?
der of Girl.
Albany, Feb. 10.?Hans Schmidt,
an unfrocked priest and slayer of An?
na Aumuller, will be electrocuted at
Sing Sing tho week beginning next
Monday. Expected about five Monday
morning. Governor rcluscd to inter?
fere.
AN AMERICAN STEAMER TAKEN.
London, Feb. 7 (Delayed by Cen?
sor). The American steamer Corn?
ing, New Orleans to Gothenb?rg, with
a cargo of naptha and petroleum, has
been taken Into Klrkwall.
The Norwegian steamer Alstad,
Qalveston and Norfolk for Aarhuus,
taken into Klrkwall, January has
been released.
Mil TO HEAD TRADE BODY.
CHARLESTON MAN REGARDED
AS NEXT PRESIDENT OF NAT?
IONAL CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
Secretaries Garrison and Daniels to
Speak on Subject of National De?
fense.
Washington, Feb. 9.?Wholesale
inaccuracies in government export
statistics were admitted today by
Secretary Redfleld, of the department
of commerce, in a speech before tho
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. He said, however, that by an
order issued February 1 he had reme?
died the situation so far as was in his
power, and that the gross errors of
the past, caused by refusal of shippers
to give the government facts and by
antiquated laws, would not be re?
peated.
The secretary referred to a charge
made a month ago by officials of the
Chamber that the percentage of er?
rors in departmental reports was so
great it was impossible even for ex?
perts to estimate it; that single car?
goes running into thousands of dol?
lars in value left American ports with?
out being recorded and that the pub?
lished export figures for 1914 fell far
short of the actual exports. He said
this probably understated the case.
There was but slight inaccuracy in im?
port statistics, he added, as returns on
imports were more fully under govern?
ment control.
"Such errors as have existed in re?
cording exports," said ho, "are prob?
ably understated. The business of
compiling figures of $5,000,000,000 a
year, under a law of 1820, is not a
simple matter. The errors have been
caused wholly by shippers who were
unwilling to state the facts. I wel?
come your cooperation. You are my
Witnesses that there are no closed
doors in the department qf commerce.
So long an I have anything to do with
that department, if there is anything
of concealment, I will show it up.'*
Chinese minister, who declared that in
(hlna the greatest of world markets
waited the American business man,
'and Senator Fletcher of Florida, who
spoke of the work facing the Pan
American international high commis?
sion. ?
An afternoon session was devoted
to consideration of committee reports
on Federal trade, immigration, a nat?
ional budget, vocational education,
foreign relations and statistics. Ap?
proval was voted of a^ recommenda?
tion that the federal government co?
operate financially with the States in
vocational training at a maximum
expenditure of $7,200,000 a year.
Five new directors were choren as
follows:
S. B. Anderson, Memphis; Edward
A. Fllene, Boston; W. L. Clause,
Pittsburg; E. W. McCormick, New
Brunswick, N. J., and R. A. O. Mc?
Cormick, Baltimore. The directors
will meet probably tomorow to elect
officers. R. G. Rhett, of Charlestorf,
S. C, is regarded as the probable suc?
cessor to John H. Fahey, tho retir?
ing president.
With addresses tomorrow on nation?
al defence by Secretaries Garrison and
Daniels, consideration of resolutions
and election of officers the convention
will close. President Wilson will ad?
dress the annual dinner tomorrow
night.
Mr. Rhett Next in Line.
Washington, Feb. 9.?Jt Is believed
by the well-informed membership of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
"United States, now in annual session
here, that R. Goodwyn Rhett, of
Charleston, chairman of the execu?
tive committee, will be elected pres?
ident of the National Chamber for the
ensuing year.
DEMAND ON AUSTRIA.
Submarine Attack on Petrollto Made
Occasion for Sharp Note.
Washington, Feb. 10.?In a note on
the way to Vienna the United States
demands an apology for a submarine
attack on the Standard Oil steamer
Pctrolite in the Mediterranean sever?
al weeks ago. The note also demands
reparation. The vessel w;is Hying the
American Hag and was shelled with?
out warning. The submarine crow
boarded the Petrollto and seized sup
piles,
Aged Woman Burned.
Mobile, Feb. 10?Anna Calvin,
aged eighty, a widow, was burned to
death this morning when her clothing
caught from a grate.
SENATE FAVORS BEER.
WOULD ALLOW PERSONS TO PUR?
CHASE FIVE DOZEN BOTTLES
PER MONTH.
Appropriation Bill Read and Sent to
Committee to be Reported on Mon?
day?Would Give Warehouse Com?
missioner Power to Insure Farm
Property. ?
Columbia, Feb. 10.?Last night ihe
senate amended the gallon-a-montn
bill and, by a vote of 22 to 19, adopt?
ed the Hughes amendment allowing
five dozen pint bottles of beer to the
individual each month. In the morn?
ing the gallon-a-month law was re?
duced to two quarts of liquor for the
same period by the adoption of the
Carlisle amendment.
The vote last night was as follows:
Those voting for five dozen bottles
of beer: Beamguard, Bcattle, Earle,
E. C. Epps, Evans, Goodwin, Johnson,
Laney, Lee, Manning, Mulllns, O'Dell,
Padgett, Patterson, Sharp, Sinkler.
Stackey, Stuckey, Verner, Wightman,
John F. Williams and D. Reece Wil?
liams?22.
Those voting against allowing five
dozen bottles of beer were: Banks,
Black, Brlce, Carlisle, Christensen,
DuRant, Ginn, Gross, Harvey, Alan
Johnstone, Kltchin, Lide, McCown,
Nicholson, Nickles, Richardson, Sher- j
ard, Splgner and Walker?19.
Hughes, voting "aye" and R. D.
Epps "nay" were paired.
The appropriation bill was read in
the senate for the first time last
night and referred to the finance com?
mittee, which promised to report it
back to the upper body Monday.
The amendment to the tax com?
mission bill providing for a board of
review and putting back to $2,500 the
annual salary of the chairman, was ]
adopted by the senate. Those sections
of the original act, inadvertently left
out last session, were put back Into
the measure by the adoption of the
amendments last night.
The house last night killed the West
bill regulating the sale of soft drinks
connect with sewerage systems when
possible was refused passage by the
house at the night session by a vote
of 54 to 49.
Last night the house passed to
third reading the bill looking to tho
extension of the high school aid to the
city graded schools that would ac?
cept children from out of the city and
not charge them fees.
The committee on agriculture pre?
sented the companion bill to that of?
fered the senate by Mr. Manning au?
thorizing the warehouse commission?
er to undertake the insurance on
farm property.
Columbia, Feb. 10.?The Liles bill
making it mandatory on the presid?
ing judge to sentence to the chain
gang on conviction for the illicit
selling of liquor, after being amended,
passed third reading in the senate to?
day and was ordered sent to the
house for concurrence in the amend?
ment. The amendment makes it
optional on the judge to either assess
a fine or give a straight chaingang
sentence for storing or transporting
liquor. The original bill already has
passed the house.
The joint resolution authorizing J.
M. Graham of Columbia to sue the
State for alleged damages accruing
from the abolishment of the hosiery
mill at the State penitentiary passed
the senate this morning and was or?
dered for ratification.
CONDUCTORS VOTE ON STRIKE.
Wilmington, N. C, Feb. 8.?Con?
ductors of the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad are taking a referendum
VOt6 this week by order of the general
adjustment committee of tho Order
Of Railroad Conductors to determine
whether or not they shall strike in
protest against a new audit system
installed by the road. The vote fol?
lowed several weeks of negotiations
between the committee and railroad
officials.
President Kenly tonight issued a
statement to the conductors explain?
ing that the new system did not im?
ply doubt as to the ho.icsty of tho
conductors but was put in force mere?
ly as a business proposition. Atten?
tion was also called in the statement
to the promise that should the sys?
tem not work out satisfactorily after
a 00 days' trial, it would be abolished.
Vice President Western Union Dead.
New York, Feb. 10.?Belvidere
Brooks, vice president and general
manager of the Western Union Tele?
graph company, died suddenly at his
home today.
ONE HILLED, ONE WOUNDED.
THEODORE UPTON RUNS AMUCK
ON GREEK ROAD.
Lafoy Minis is Slain?Waddell Shot
Through Should r?No Explanation
of Mill Employe's Strange Conduct.
Spartanburg, Feb. 7.?Theodore H.
Upton, an employe of the Appalachia
mill, near Greer, who ran amuck on
the highway leading from Greer to
the mill early Sunday mroning, killing
Lafoy Mims of Greenville county and
wounding A. B. Waddell of Greer, is
in jail here awaiting an investigation
of his strange conduct. Upton is a
married man and is said to have sev?
eral childre v siding at Appalachia.
Sunday nif" M appeared on the
highway r g out from Greer, with
a gun in '?) land, demanding of
those W7 xu met what right they
~ ?
had on :? oad. He fir-st encountered
A. B. ? dell, against whose stom?
ach y ? irust his gun, which Wad
dellr 40 iched from his hand, but
late Aimed it to Upton, to have
hi' /again covered, and this time
% ad in the shoulder. Frightened,
At. put off for an officer, but
before he had gone far Upton came
upon three men, Lafoy Mims, John
Walker and Cliff Brown. He demanded
of these that they throw up their
hands, which they did, but in spite
of their disposition to surrender Upton
fired upon Mims, shooting him
through the heart and killing him in?
stantly.
In so far as has been developed by
the police Upton had nothing against
Mims and it is possible that he did not
know him. After the killing Upton re?
mained at the spot, having thrown his
gun away in the meantime, and was
there when the officers came to take
him in charge.
The inquest held today failed to
throw any light upon the motives of
Upton. The case is regarded as one
of the strangest in the criminal affairs
of the county.
RAILWAY AIDED SOUTH.
Southern Paid out for Operating Ex
* ??Tfssnseit en ss* nta- -aeocer ?Tssarwi ipwea?
In.
Washington, Feb. 9.?For every
dollar which the South paid to
Southern Railway company for trans?
portation during December, 1915, the
company paid to individuals and in?
dustries located n the South for la?
bor, materal, supples, and other pur?
poses, $1.17, ths beng due to the
large-amounts expended for construc
ton purposes.
The total amount disbursed by the
company during December for labor,
material, supplies, and other purposes
was $5,861,516 of which $5,082,687 or
86.71 percent was paid to individuals
and industries located in the South,
Ithis being $743,408 m excess of the to
! tal moneys paid by the South for
j transportation, according to figures
announced by Comptroller A. H.
Plant.
The expenditures by the company
during December for improvements
to its roadway and structures amount?
ed to $649,626.68 as against $845,
1504.46 during December, 1914, and
'$192,512.45 during December, 1913.
j During the six months ending with
December the expenditures for im?
provements to roadway and structures
were $3,437,391.40 as against $4,436,
265.17 for the same period in 1914 and
$1,482,653.23 during the same period
in 1913.
MEDICAL COLLEGE RECOGNIZED.
south Carolina's State Institution for
Doctors Admitted to Class A of Nat
tional Association.
Charleston, Feb. 8.?The Medical
College of South Carolina was today
admitted to membership in Class A
of the Association of American Medi?
cal Colleges by the executive council
of the body in session at Chicago. The
announcement came in a telegram
from Dr. Robert Wilson, dean of the
college, who is attending the conven?
tion. Last year the college was ad?
mitted in Class B, and this year its
application was made to be raised to
Class A, the highest in the association.
A new building and several new pro?
fessorships, added since the last ap?
plication, were cited as tho basis for
the promotion of the college to the
hiebest rank.
Only tour college? in the South ore
In Class A. They are at Richmond,
Atlanta, Tulanc and Charleston. That
the recent inspection of tho standard
of this college resulted satisfactorily is
a source of gratification. The new
class In which the college has been
placed requires a number of pro
fessors who devote their entire time
to their work.