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"Be Jost end Fear sot??Lei en the Ooaeolk?Ued Aue. 9,1881. SUMTER, 8. C, V? 0ttltir0B. Ail38't at be thy Country'*, Tby Ood'i aad Tretae." THE 1TRV7E SOUTHRON, FataMiehrfl i 8DAY, AUGUST 16, 1916. Vol.XLII. NO. 62. wm mm iiei. JMBUAK tagkbl^tt prints re? view Or war situation by maj. morabt. That Offensive of Allies tp a Feilarej and Tbat Germans are aafll Maotisa of the Situation?The Drive Ridiculed an 111 Di rccted aad Fettle. \ Berlin, Aug. i.?The Berlin 'Tage? blatt" publishes a long review of the latest developments of the war by Major Mi seat Moraht. the most fa mens German military critics. He sees ae danger for the Central Powers in the present situation, although he con? cedes that the efforts of the Allies are mere serious than ever ^f ore. Jh pert he says: ?Oar saomieeare Jubilant over their joint offensive. For the first time, af \ ter many failures, they have succeeded la reaching a certain unity of action, but It Is an open question whether the British did not start their attempts at aa advanee too early and the Russians too Ie4e. This question can only he sjggesi si definitely when we learn to what extent the grouping of the Ger maa forces has been Influenced by th* strategy of the Allies. "French and BngUsh military critics 1 are astonished by the fact that so far very few transfers of German troops have taken piece. Indirectly they ad? mit that the Initiative eull remains on our side in spite of the offensive movements started against our lines ea all frosts. We are attaching be? fore Vordre ae we did before, and on the root of the western front our de? fense has increased in strength sineo the Allies tdruee their blow In Ptoardy, Strategically It matters very little If i^m^M ,,,to our ,ot "la the Ragt our defense ahm Is powerful es ever. The Russian offt stve has net changed the sti Cation and R will. In my ao4 succeed, because It Is almU , ?We are told In dispatched' flOOjMgisd that Lemberg Is to he re ijpsomf to reestablish the prestige Of the Kassian armies, but the events of Om hist two months show pi I plea whan the Generals Brust ewd Kuropatkln received ordere to IMffe. The military expert of Buda? pest "Lloyd" stsed up the Russian op? erations properly when hs remarked last wash: "The colossus mechanically starts to move, but the Russian general staff does not know which direction It will take. That is left to fate. If the steam roller seems to advance In the direction of Kovel the Russian strate? gists) announce that they Intend to capture this Important railroad cen tre. but as soon as they find their wey barred they decide that Lemberg, the capital of Gallcla, really Is the ob? ject of their efforts." There la no doubt that the Russian offensive was principally undertaken to bring relief to the French and Ital? ians and to influence Roumanla. The hope of the Allies to bring the Rou raenlan army to their side will again be disappointed, however, because the comparatively unimportant successes of General Bruslloff have made but little Impression on the government In Bucharest. "The Italians have at least tempor? arily been saved by the Russian of fenaive against the Austro-Hungarlan front In Eastern Gallcla and the Bukowina. The Austrlans were com? pelled to withdraw troops from the Italian fron'., to give up their victor? ious advanco between the Adlege and the Brenta and to fall back against their own frontier, but Count Cadorna knows very well that the sledge ham? mer blows 1 gal nit his forces will be renewed as soon as the Russian offen? sive stops. The 'big push' of the English and French on the weetern'front has not proved the success our enemies ex? pected It to be. Although the battles on both tides of the gomme continue there Is now but little danger that the Allies will break through our front. We hold t ic numerically superior forces of the enemy and give them a chance to bleed themselves to death in vain attacks. 'The small gains made by the Brit? ish and French troops have been very costly and we may well doubt wheth? er the Allies are willing to continue their terrible sacrifices Indefinitely. 'The French have done the Ton'* share of the work In Plcardy. They attacked with the greatest bravery, as they did In the Champagne a year axo, but the small strip of territory won by them Is nowhere more than 4 1-2 miles wide and they did not succeed in reaching Peronne. In their dally official reports they have far more to say about the Ger? man counter blows than about their A CIRCLE Of STEEL. ALU EH TIGHTEN KING AROUND CENTRAL POWERS. Teutons Are Fighting on the Defen? sive on Five Fronts?Drive Against Bulgarians Started In Macedonia. London, Aug. 12.?The supreme ef? forts of the allies to tighten the circle of steel around the armies of the cen? tral powers Is now in full swing for the first time since the war began, with the beginning of the drive in ' Macedonia against the Bulgarians. The Teutons are on the defensive on five fronts. England, France, Russia and Italy are making steady progress at every point. There is continuous fighting north of Pozicres. The Ger? man attacks were repulsed and the British advance ther lines. RUSSIANS TAKE HAUCZ. Austrians Seem Unable to Check Rus? sian ^Advance. Petrograd, Aug. 12.?The Russians are enveloping the Austrian city of Halles. It Is officially announced that progress is being made on the Se reth river the Russians are moving upon the important city of Jezierna on the Tarnopol-Lemberg railroad.\ ?wn attacks. They are already show? ing signs of exhaustion and looking anxiously toward their Brltsh allies, who have been plainly told by Echo de Paris and other French papers that they will have to get a move on,' to use a slang expression. "Many ?f the tfrench papers, with the consent of the censor, angrily [comment on the fact that the British .[are lagging behind and have accom? plished but little along their section of he battle front between the Ancro nd tho Summe. To refute this re? ch the English mysteriously hint at their main blow would be struck another point.. This may be true, we await further developments ly. The result of the battles ght since the first of July hau con 4 Us that the numerically enor i to the Rhine. "In the meantime our offensive against Verdun continues unimpaired. We are well able to beat baok all the desperate counter attacks of the French before tho fortress and to ad? vance nearer our go*l step by step. "The neutral press discusses the pos? sible consequences of the fall of Ver? dun. We cannot join this debate, but we know that the German general staff, trained in the spirit of Moltke, does not make largo sacrifices to gain a temporary success of doubtful value, but always looks far ahead. "The Russian offensive proves more durable than anybody expected. Af? ter a pause on the southeastern front it has started anew and at the same time General Kuropatkin began tre? mendous attacks against the lines of Field Marshal von Htndcnburg and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. In the north. Bitter battles were fought be? tween Riga and Dvlnsk along the Shtcluvra, on both sides of the Barano witchi railroad and along the < ?Kinski canal, but everywhere our ti oops vic? toriously repelled the onslaughts of the enemy. "Further south, in Volhyr.la, Gen? eral von Undingen has been compelled ! to fall back across the Stokhod river, . west of the Lutsk the Russ uns have 1 crossed the border at Brody, the army 'of General von Brothmer had to re ; tire from the Strypa to tho Koropite, the Russians have advanced a little west of Kolemea and south of the i'ruth the Austro-Hungarian front has been pushed back to the Carpathians. I "These successes of the Russians are o( little practical value, because our front has nowhere been broken. In the Bukowina General von Pflanzer Baltin faced Russian forces wl:Ich were numerically six times stronger than his. For a time his army was in a dangerous position ami threatened with annihilation, but he skillfully withdrew toward the Carpathians, In? flicting heavy losses upon the Russians in rearguard actions. His H ies re? mained intact and he was able to start a counter attack as soon as he re? ceived reinforcements. "How lonir the Russians will be able to continue their offensive can? not be estimated. Grand Duks Nich? olas again dominates the Russian ?enSml staff ami has given orders that the A Metro-Gorman lines must be broken regardless of the cn*t. The present Russian Strategical met buds are exa* tly the same as during the first year of the war. The Russian borders will continue their onslaught! until exhaustion stops them. They may reaeh the wall of the Carpi thians but there they will surely dasti them selves to pieces." WOMEN FIGHT ?II NKW ORGANIZATION B] PGES ITSELF TO STRUGG1 Will Try to Throw Twelve States Into Republican Colorado Springs, Colo., AisHll-? The National Woman's parta&h ex? ecutive conference here todayjBdgcd itself to use its best efforts intj?e 12 o(iual Suffrage States to def^p the Democratic candidate for prdjKent; congratulated the Progressive, Woht i)itlon an 1 Socialist parties upo?heir indorsement of suffrage for Wnen by national action and comrt?ded the position of Charles E. Hj?hes, the Hepublcan nominee. The statement of policy wasjpon tained in three resolutions Mw*ni mously adopted setting forth tiff at? titude of the party. The rcsoltftiona committeo was composed of Mrs.^vVll liam Kent, California, chairman; |Mrs. Charlotte Ellis, Arizona; Mrs. pora Phelps Buell, Colorado; Mrs. Jone Hart, Idaho; Mrs. Bertman Sippyj, Il? linois; Mrs. Harriet Stanton Bisten, I Kansas; Miss Hazel Hunktns, Mon? tana; Miss Mabel Vernon, Nevada; Dr. Florence Manlon Oregon; pirn. Don Coray, Utah; Mrs. Francis*Ax tell, Washington; Dr. Frances I^ane, Wyoming. Mrs. Bertha Fowler of Colorado, chairman, In calling the conference to order, termed President Wilson's at? titude toward the movement for na? tional equal suffrage as one of "cyni? cal contempt" and political ex? pediency. Women who Indorsed' the plan to secure suffrage by States* she said, were "political doormats ojf de? signing politicians." i ;jk Efforts to obtain a formal indorse? ment of Mr. Hughes by the executive committee wcro defeated. Miss Alice Carpenter of New York, chairman of the New York city Hughes alliance, supported such indorsement at the conference and afterwards issued a statement in which the election policy adopted was referred to as a political blunder. GERMAN CASUAJH?g^ ' *\* M - .Teutonic) Lists Said to Show Total "Of 3,135,000, Including 735,806 Killed. London, Aug. 11.?German casual? ties during July, according to a ta? ble compiled here from German casualty lists, totalled 122,540, bring? ing the grand total since the com? mencement of the war, taken from the same source, b, 135,177. According to these lists, since the commencement of the war the men killed or who have died of their wounds total 735,866; died of sickness 48,534; prisoners, 157,975; missing 199,642; severely wounded. 425,175; wounded, 268,085; slightly wounded, 1,152,158; wounded remaining with their units, 147,742. The figures given do not include naval casualties or losses to colonial forces. A RECORD BREAKING (HIKE. United States Marines Marched Sev? enty-six Miles in Day and Night Washington, Aug. It,?What is be? lieved to have been one of the long? est tropical hikes ever made by American troops thrown on their own resources in a hostile country, was the hike made by the Eighth company, Fourth regiment of United States ma? rines, when it covered in a day and a night, on July 2d and 3rd, the ill kilometers between Monte Christi and Santiago, Santo Domingo, after fight? ing most of the way. It is seventy (six American miles between these two points and the hike was the third i longest ever made by the United States murine corps, under any circumstan? ces that approached warfare. With a handful of United States marines, Col. Pendleton maintained , unbroken, an eighty mile line of com? munication, and the quick settling of the Dominican trouble is probably due, in the opinion of marine crops Officials, to the rapid hiking of the ; marines to the interior of the country. Tin? natives have been disarmed and there is no further lighting. The expeditionary force, under Col. Pendleton of the Marine Corps, con? sisted of two regiments of marines. John King Suffers Hurt at Calhoen Cleinson College, Aug. 11,?John Kinir. a brakcnian on a local freight, was knocked from the top of bis train by a eahle hanging low from tele? graph poles at Calhoun and falling between the cars had his leg crushed fron? the knee down. He held to the rods and was dragged for a consider? able distance. He sustained severs cats and bruises about the bead. i>r a. m. Redfern dressed the wounds and the man wa" son! to a Greenville hosplts I. COLONY FOR NEGROES ONLY. PROMOTER AND TWO OF DIREC? TORS IN CHARLESTON. In Quest of a Good Site?Project Said to Have , $1,600,000 Behind it?An Outline of the Project. News and Courier. The small steamer Attaquin, Capt. Jas. H. Haynswortk, tied up last night at the Consumers' coal pier, having aboard her the promoter and two of tho board of directors of a corporation which intends to establish somewhere in the South a co-operative industrial community for negroes exclusively. The party came here from Savannah in order to look over some of the sea | islands nearby as possible sites for their experiment. They expressed themselves as delighted with the country, and said that there was a good chance of their locating near Charleston if the people of this soc tion favored the plan. The party aboard the Attaquin in? cludes Mr. John T. Patrick, a promi? nent citizen of North Carolina, who built the well known winter resort, White Pines, and the president of the board of directors; Dr. C. V. Roman, professor of diseases of the eye at the Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., and its secretary and treas? urer; Dr. John Patrick Turner, medi? cal inspector of the public schools of Philadelphia. The last two are ne? groes. Some time ago an agitation was started among the negroes them? selves for the establishment of a com? munity where no white men should be allowed, and where the negroes might have an opportunity of meet? ing and coping with every phase of modern life. Leaders of the move? ment approached Mr. Patrick, who readily promised his aid, and suc? ceeded in enlisting the support of a person, whose name is not divulged, but who has agreed to back the pro? ject to the extent of $1,600,000. This, with funds raised by various negro societies and churches, afford ample funds for putting the plan into prac? tice as soon as a site is selected. . 1 The. 4dgn is u> puretayie.8oinewhe.rc a fertile tract of between three and five thousand acres. Forty acres of this will be set aside as space for the erection of public buildings, churches, etc. Around t'his will be a grove of trees, and the town will be laid out in squares on all sides, the ones nearer the centre being given over to stores, and those farther out being reserved for residences. A stock company will be formed, and the settlement incorporated as an in dustrial community. Stock will be sold to negroes only, and no one will be allowed to own more than one share. With each share a four-acre plot for a house will be given. The community will have authority to regulate its' own affairs, and to have a police system. The town is to be planned in a most thorough and modern way, so as to be a model from the sanitary stand? point. A silk factory, a printing shop, a sanitarium, a seed farm, an indus? trial school, and hotels for negroes and one for wliite persons exclusive? ly are to be built. It Is expected that the entire project will be self-sup? porting from the first. The plan is simply to build a community for ne? groes only, in which they can be trained under skilled instructors in various industrial branches, enjoy modern comforts, and learn how to manage their affairs all by them? selves. It is emphatically stated that no entrance of outside politics, or ag? itation of sex-equality, will be toler? ated in the town, which, by the way, is to be called Co-operation. Pupils in the industrial school will pay tuition, but laborers in the other plants will work their way, until competent, at reduced rates on a sort of apprentice system. A superin? tendent is already being trained es? pecially in a Cincinnati mill to take charge of the silk mill, which will be established. In Co-operation the ne? gro will have an opportunity to learn scientific farming, the silk trade, an Industrial craft, or the printing lousi? ness. At the same time the women will also have various advantages, one of which is that they can become trained nurses In the sanitarium. Any family of negroes who may wish to live In the town will, of course, be allowed to do so, but It is expected that churches ami other organisations will send particularly Intelligent fam? ilies to the town to Increase their use? fulness to the community In which they live, it is hoped thai Co-opera? tion will attract to Itself a large per? manent population, and it is confident? ly expected thai it will grow stead U.V. I in the nature of things, however, n proportionately large transient pop CAMPAIGNERS AT DILLON. CANDIDATES FOB STATE OFFICES MAKE ADDRESSES. Speakers Gain Attentive Hearing for Usual Prcscinatioii of Claims for Votes. Dillon, Aug. 11.?A large and a* tentive crowd heard the candid? ^ for State offices here today. T *^ was uniform good order and th didates made their usual spc s, Gov. Manning standing as heretofore on his platform of law and erder, C. L. Blcase attacking ihe administra? tion and R. A. Cooper announcing that he is not the candidate of any man or set of men. The paramount issue in the cam? paign, said Gov. Manning, is "wheth? er we are to be a lawless or a law abiding and lav/ respecting people." The reports of the solicitors the last two years fehowed a decided increusc in thel number of convictions and of this number only 4 5 havo been the beneficiaries of executive clemency. C. L. Blcase said he would not par 1 don as many convicts when he is {elected governor as ne did before as I there are not that many there now. Concerning the development and im ; provemcnts at the State Hospital for jthe Insane the speaker said the gov | ernor was "only doing what I tried ?to do." R. A. Cooper spoke to a greatly reduced crowd possibly 50 per cent, of the audience in the auditorium of 600 or 700 people retiring for dinner. This candidtae said he did not want the vote of any man who did not feel that he was voting for the best inter? est of South Carolina. He could not promise to lower taxes, that was a matter solely with the legislature and a ornor could not reduce there it he wanted to. Practically everybody withdrew for dinner at the cor elusion of Mr. Coop? er's speech ani James M. Des Champs merely t nnounced his candi? dacy. John T. Duncan spoke first. Andrew J. Bethea, candidate for lieutenant governor, was in the cora in unity in which he was. reared and was given a hearty ovatftm. A. B. Jordar., county chairman, presided. STANDARD AGAIN RAISED. Student From Four Year High School Must Have Fourteen Units to Enter University. Columbia, Aug. 12.?As the logical head of the public school system of the State, the University of South Carolina has raised the number of standard units required for full ad? mission to degre? courses from 12 units to 14 units. This step was tak? en as a means of fostering and main? taining efficient standards throughout that system, and of encouraging the raising of the standard of the 47 ap? proved, or 12 unit, high schools in the State to the 14 unit standard. PICKS UP GOLD NUGGET. Cherokee Man's Find Nets Him Nearly $100. Gaffney, Aug. 10.?Robert Parker, who lives on premises belonging to the Gaffney Land and Improvement Com? pany, was exhibiting in Gaffney yes? terday a nugget of gold which weigh? ed 107 pwts. The nugget was found by his son, ES lay Parker, the value be? ing about $97. Mr. Parker has been living on this land for Several years, and during that time has found gold worth hundred.? of dollars. It is the opinion of experts who have examined the land that there Is a rich vein of the metal there and that it would pay to devedlop it. ! illation is to be expected and even de? sired. Trained negroes will bo in greater demand elsewhere, and will frequently leave when their training j is completed. The whole chief pur? pose of the project is stated to be the increasing of the negro's economic efficiency. At the same time, it Is hoped that the large grounds <et aside for public buildings, and the fact that the en? tire population of the city will be nemo, will cause the settlement to become a social and intellectual centre for the colored people from several States. It Is also hoped that the san? itary way In which, the town will be laid out and kept, and the presence there of a sanitarium for nogTOOS ex? clusively will make the city something of a health resort as well. The present tour Is ir *~* one of inspection, bill as soon as a site Is Selected und secured, the members of the heard Slty they HTC ready to begin laying nut tin* town and organising the company. BRYAN SCORES HUGHES. ANSWER (flOOr CIVIL 8ER ? CHARGES. Conf /Points Out How Republt / ' yhdard Bcurcr Hos Used OU *' _ O ^ ftW York, Aug. 11.?William J. yan replied here today to criticism it his attitude toward civil service I made by Charles E. Hughes in a state - | ment in which he said he "had en? forced the civil service law to the let? ter." Mr. Bryan challenged the Re? publican nominee to state whether he had given appointments to "deserving Republicans" while governor of New York. Recent speeches of Mr. Hughes quoted a letter Mr. Bryan had written to Vick, receiver of customs in Santo Domingo, inquiring as to what posi? tion could be obtained to "reward de? serving Democrats." "I am not ashamed of it," the state? ment read. "The letter was written to an appointive officer whose office was not under the civil service and the In? quiry was made In regard to offices which were not under the civil ser? vice." The statement, after declaring Mr, Hugheo to have "shown himself quits prompt in discharging obligations/* declares: "As an official, I enforced the civil service law to^the letter, and upon my resignation received from the em? ployes in the State department, more than 90 per cent, of whom were un? der the civil service, a watch which I prize as a priceless treasure. But, while I observed the civil service law wherever it was in force, I felt my? self free to aid in rewarding deserv? ing Democrats wherever it could be done without detriment to the service. "The 'deserving Democrat* Is not to be despised?he is as much en? titled to recognition as 'deserving Re? publican.' "When he was a candidate for gov? ernor Mr. Hughes received the sup? port of the railroads of New York and he generously repaid the debt by veto? ing the 2 cent passenger rate bill. He did not describe Vnat as shameful. When a candidate for gevernor. he received the support of the New York tax dodgers, the owners of 'swollen fortunes,' and he paid his debt by sending a message to the legislature protesting against the Income tax amendment to the federal constitu? tion. He does not describe that as shameful. "He is now being supported by the railroads of the United Stales and as? pects to pay them back by aiding them to escape State legislation and find a haven of security in 'exclusive federal control' over the railroads; he is being supported' by the shipping trust and expects to pay them back by helping them to prevent government competi? tion. He . is supported by the trust magnates and expects to pay them back by shielding them from punish-* ment for the extortion which they de? sire to practice; he is supported by Wall Street and expects to pay them back by spending American blood aad squandering money raised by taxation in order to guarantee profits on spec? ulative investments. And yet with ths record which he had made in paying his political obligations at the expense of the public and with the pledges his speeches contain to those who are now aiding his ambitions, he has the impudence to hold up for criticisms a legitimate effort to reward compe? tent men for service which they have rendered to the cause of reform." -, j TO LET THEM STARVE. Turkey Won't Sanction Syrian Relief, Work. Washington, Ax%g. 11.?Turkey has refused to grant the request of the United States that a neutral commit? tee be permitted to undertake relief work in Syria, where thousands of na? tive Christians are reported to be I starving. Charge Miller at Constantinople In a Cablegram received at the State de? partment today said the Turkish gov? ernment had informed him relief op* erat ions in Syria w ere considered un* necessary hens use crops there were better than anywhere else in the em? pire. He added that although he was told that the decision was final, he would continue to press for favor? able action. SEAPLANES RAID DOVER. - I Gcraaaaa Make an Attack on Iniport? an; Channel Port. London, Aug. 12.?Dover, a British port of great military importance was raided at noon by two German sea? planes. An officer and six men were I wounded. No damage ana daaa to I the military wort?, the war office says.