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TUB TBUK 80CTHRON, IMMWI )?>,
iTURDAY, JULY 28, 1917,
Vol. XL1V. No. 47.
BIB WS IN FRANGL
NUMHKR NOW WITH PERMI
IJMifi EXPEDITION.
Col. O. 4. Bond Receive* Interesting
Ossnsnanlcatloa From Lieut. J. F.
Morlarty.
\ hea
Charleston. July 24.?a letter of in
tens* interest, coming as It does from
a Citadel fradvote of the class of 1917.
now an officer of the Marine Corps
who la In France with the expedition?
ary forces of the United States under
Pershlng. Lieut. J. F. Morlarty, has
been received by Col. O. J. Uond. su
Ipertntendent of the Citadel. The let?
ter lias been duly censored, and *
therefore available for publication.
The letter, dated July 4, somewhere
In France, follows:
' Somewhere in France, July 4, 1917.
"American Expeditionary Force,
"Firth Regiment, Fifteenth Company,
First Battalion.
'Dear Col. Bond:
'You will perhaps be surprised to
r from me so soon, but the war
hoe developed so many surprising
things thst this may be called a mat?
ter of slight Importance In com pa 1
soa with others. We, that is Hope.
Tar borough, Muldrow and myself,
see here In France with the expe?
ditionary force of marine-: We left?
?on-and arrived. at-on the
?. The marines were with the
first convoy, and both Mu'ci'ow and
myself are In the First Battalion, con?
sequently we had the truly great
honor of being landed with the first
Amertcaa troops on foreign soil for
aggressive warfare. The marines,
with their usual businesslike way, tied
up at the dock at 9.30 p. m. on a
certain night and In tfhe morning had
the unloading of the impedimenta un?
der way. In the afternoon the First
Battalion went ashore at a perma?
nent camp. The Paris edition of the
New York Times did not give us cred?
it for our work but passed It all on to
the army. Any way. the reason that
print was because the
and returned to their
ir oamp (the marines going ashore
liberty), an army officer touched me
on the shoulder and turning I saw
Holmes. I sure was glad to see him.
Cnter during the week I saw Spann.
Mood and Legge, and I hear that a.
Annan Cook is to bo detailed over
here.
"Hope and the ' st of the Citadel
boys are assigned to V.e Infantry
companion while I am anslgncd to a
machine gun company.
You will perhaps find the thoughts
In this letter very badly expressed, but
I am beginning to learn the type?
writer and I have to think both of
my letter and my lettering on the
typewriter. There Is a censor on the
soldiers' mall and there Is a great
deal that I would like to say in this
letter, but It Is Impossible.
"We can not put anything Into n
letter that would convey the leas:
possible Information to the enemy or
the.people at home. It Is useless to
say that the boys are In the best ol
health and are going to make th ?
best of their Pip whether things turn
out the best or not. Today Is the
Fourth of Jjly, but things go right
slong In war time and the only thing
that one could say was in keeping
with the holiday was the paying of
of the mea.
"In cose that any of the men at
school or at the training camp would
like to write or would like to know
what our nddrcsa Is you will find it at
the end of this letter,
'flood bye,
"Yours very truly,
"James F. Morlarty.
?The address: Fifth Regiment.
First Battalion, Fifteenth Company
American Expeditionary Force, United
Ststes Marines, enre Postmaster, New
York City."
This letter Is of especial interest te
the people of Charleston ?ecause the
Holmes spoken of is nono other than
J. H. Holmes. Jr . who graduated in
the i I.'ihm of I9U, and who Joined tin
regulsr army last summer. Messrs
Hp. im Mood. Yarborough and Afp Ml
Cook were graduated in the class oi
191?. Hope and Morlnrity were gntd
tinted early In May of this year. Harn
well I.*gi:c gnsfiunted in 1911.
CLEAN UP PENSAUOLA.
Secretary ItauiclM Forcing Officlnls 1?
Haid Vice District*.
Fensacola, July 25.?Following a
conference of the aovernor, county m ?
llcltor and sheriff, two hundred wo
men were arrested in a raid today
The governor prodiu-e<| a letter fron
Secret ir\ iMnhds si\mg that unle;
vice district is abolished every mai
will be withdrawn from Pensacola.
NEXT STEP IN DRAFT.
WORK NOW IN HANDS OF LO.
CAL HOARDS.
Twice Number Needed From Each
District Will be Summoned for Ex?
amination.
Washington. July 24.?With the
master lists of Friday's conscription
drawing In the mail for distribution
to the local hoards, the task of as?
sembling the National Army of a half
million has passed out of the hands
of. the f?deral government tonight
and Into those of the civilian au?
thorities who will notify the men
drawn and pass on e emptions.
As soon as the lists are received,
each board will summon for physical
examination double the number of
men In the district quota. If more
are needed the authorities will keep
on calling until the quota is fdled.
The final list shows only a few er?
rors In the unofficial report of the
drawing already transmitted through?
out the country by the press. Includ?
ing all the adjustments found neces?
sary in correcting the official list to
make up for numbers that were read
upside down, or were misread, and
also all errors in transcription In the
rush of the drawing nnd the haste to
get the figures to the wires, there are
less than two score variations between
the list compiled by the Associated
Press and the master sheet.
The surprise of tho official record 1?
the fact that the missing number In?
dicated by the drawing .of a blank
capsule as No. 10,004, was located as
serial number 6,794. It was placed
last In the master sheet and becomes
liability No. 10.R00. Number 2.780,
drawn as No. 10,498 was found to be
duplicated and was stricken out.
Since the largest district in the
.South has less than 7,000 registrants
and all numbers above the total of
tiny particular district operate as
blanks in that district, the Associated
Press did not send on its Sc atherr
Wires any numbers above 7,000.
Several variations from the, official
Hamas ses^^a^-stt^ss^ali^arrMtAa^
[flC^e^RPss^i^^ns^^r^rwWWs^a^
by the official figures'Is as follows:
No. 411 Is 6170. It was sent as 5107.
No. 456 Is 2592. It was sent as 3695.
No. 853 is 10053. It was sent as 1053.
No. 1244 Is 5307. It was sent as 5037
No. 137S is 1179. It was sent as 1170
No. 1443 Is 10021. It was sent as 1021.
No. 1618 Is 1143. It was sent as 104".
No. 1834 Is 5016. It was sent as 5618.
No. 2047 is 6036. It was sent as 6130.
No. 2312 Is 570. It was sent as 507.
No. 2693 is 5910. It was sent as 5917.
No. 3042 Is 9989. It was sent as 6860.
No. 3330 Is 4966. It was sent as 4902.
No. 3401 Is 9848. It was sent as 3848.
No. 3492 is 6128. It was sent as 602:).
No. 4210 is 5224. It was sent as 5521.
No. 4983 Is 5002. It was sent as 504 2.
No. 5175 is 2812. It was sent as 2012.
81AM WILL BE Gil FAT AID.
Barrett Emphasiies Importance of
Her Filtering War.
New York, July 23.?The announce?
ment that Slam has declared a state
of war with Germany carries greater
signlllcai.. than might at first b(
supposed, according to o ement
hero by John Barrett, director of the
Tan-American Union and formerly
United States minister to Slum.
"Slam's chief Importance in the
present wnr crisis is that it is the rice
granary or source of food supply for
China, and its action must have a
direct effect upon China's attitude to?
ward Germany," said Mr. Barrett.
"It also gives the allies now, for th?
first lime, an unbroken favorable io\\.n'
line all the way from China to the
Mediterranean, for Siam was the only
neutral territory in that entire dis?
tance of many thousands of miles. |<
also possesses an excellent little navy,
adequate to patrol the Gulf of Slam
< oast line of nearly 2,000 miles.''
SEVENTEEN BILLION DEBT,
Latest Fstimatc of the Cost of the
War.
Wushington. July 25.?The Ameri?
can war bill for the fiscal year will
total seventeen billion dollars, Senator
SniOOt told the senate today, This
was revised from his yesterday's esti?
mate of fourteen billion, two hundred
iml twenty-six million.
GUARDSMEN MOBILISED TODAY.
.Militia From Several States Called
Into Service.
Washington. July 25. ? More than
seven thousand National Guardsmen
In North Carolina, seven thousand In
Tennessee and forty thousand in New
Kngtand were mobilised for the ted
sfoj druft today.
INSURANCE FOR
cake
of depend:
consider ah'
Allowances Will he Paid
or Sailors and Soldier*
of Their Pay.
Washington, July 23c-^
government's plan for insnl
and men of the army,
rine corps against.death/'
while in service broaden!
a complex program wt
provide government all
families of soldiers and
the rehabilitation and tral
jured men to lit them for
livelihood after the war.
The program was discui
ferences among officials
navy, treasury, commerce
departments, the labor
the Council of National
the presidents and other
of leading insurance com]
United States. Issuance
policies from $1,000 to,,
cers and men at ordinary!
rate, government paying
indemnities for total or
ability and administration
tire scheme by the govei
rink insurance bureau ,'jsrj
present insuring officers1
of American merchant
among the outstanding f<
proposed program.
"The plan has not yet
nite form," it was soj|d in
issued at the treasury, late
when it has been worked
fundamentals and details,
McAdoo will present
dent for his approval,
od tho recommendatW
mitted to congress'-.atj
for its consideration.
"The whole psaposl
the fundamental ?*' ids
crnment should, as a
and humanity, adtouot
fighting men on bind <
their dependent
b it is POM
RST
lies
Give
It con
le war,
labor
ttee of
and
'Officials
of the
trance
}00 offl
tce time
cost,
ial dis
the en
it's war
Jh is at
crews
lels, are
of tho
led deii
itemont
W, "l>ut
all it*
fore tar y
prcsl
vapprov
ibe su'o
ply date
entered or are about to enter the
American army and navy.
"Under the plan discussed, It is sug?
gested that provision be made for the
support of dependents of soldiers and
sailors by giving them an allotment
out of the pay of the men and also an
allowance by the government; that of?
ficers and men be indemdifled against
death or total or partial disability;
that a system of rehabilitation and re?
education of disabled men be inaugu?
rated and that the government Insure
the lives of sailors and soldiers on
their application at rates of premium
bOMd upon ordinary risks.
"Dependents of soldiers and sailors
in service would be provided for
through allotments from their pay.
supplemented by family allowances by
the government. The amount of thr
government, allowance would depend
upon the size of the family, and as to
others than wife and children, upon
the actual dependency upon the men.
Tho family allowance ""would be only
if the sailor or soldier makes an al?
lotment for his dependents out of his
pay.
"The risk of death or total disabil?
ity would be compensated for some?
what on the analogy of workmen's
compensation acts, with the compen?
sation measured by the man's services
the size of the family and the loss to
? family. Partial disabilities would
be compensated for upon a percentage
of tho compensation for total disabil?
ity. The cost of this compensation
naturally must be paid wholly by the
government.
"In working out the new system it
is deemed essential that a system for
re-education and rehabilitation be es?
tablished, so that injured men may be
kitted as far as possible for lives ol
usefulness either in their former or
sonic other vocations.
"In the preparation of tho plans to
he laid before the president and con?
gress the laws and experiences or
other countries have been studied an
useful ideas have been suggested by
Insurance men. It is hoped to have the
plans ready in the near future as it |i
desirable that the subject be consider
ed during the present session of con?
gress."
WOMEN IN lVVTTliE.
Russlnn Women's Rnttalloti Under
Fire nt Krevo.
Petrograd, July II.?The Russian
women's battalion saw its first tight
Ing yesterday on the Krevo front. It
is reported that they were successful,
hut suffered losses to an extent not yet
known. News dispatch says the wo
men behaved well and won the re?
spect Of the men soldiers.
DEFEATED By GERMANS.
7USSIANS PAL? BACK FROM SE.
RETII LINK.
Petrogrud Dispatches Toll of Contin?
ual Itctrent or Its Troops in Fast
Gotten*.
Petrograd, July 24.?Stanislnu is
being evacuated by the Russians, ac?
cording to tonight's official statement.
The Germans have crossed the Sereth
River in the region of Mikulice
(south of Tarnopol) defeating Russian
detachments. South of the Dneister
tho Russians are retiring eastward.
After Russians had occupied the
German positions on both sides of
Dvlnsk-Vilna railroad, the statement
says, entire units returned to their
original trenches without German
pressure. A number of units refused
to obe^ command ing battle.
"The enemy o< d a height to
the north of Rog ^ vhlch the Rus?
sians captured Jl 9 ," continues the
statement. Her? f certions on the
part of Russian n ers were needed
to restrain great ^* bers of the men
from retreating. ?
?
On the Roun 1 front a "bat
O
tallon of death' ured 60 prisoners
and three macl t ;uns near Domuk.
An artillery h ^ developed on tht
remainder of t..- ont.
GERMANS ADVANCING IN GA
LICIA.
Teutonic Forces in Galicia Push For?
ward on Line 155 Miles in Length,
Herl In Says.
Berlin, July 24 (via London).?The
German forces in Galicia are advanc?
ing from the River Sereth to the
wooded Carpathians over a front 16:"
miles wltle, says the official statement
issued today by the German army
headquarters staff.
Several German divisions, the state?
ment adds, report that they have each
taken 3,000 prisoners. Numerous
heavy Russian guns have been cap?
tured and also much booty has been
the Germans. Over the en
ceeding. The statement says greal
successes have been obtained by the
German and allied arms.
The Russians have taken the offen?
sive on both ends of tho front, in the
regions of Jacobstadt and Dvin.sk, and
on the Roumanian line. The an?
nouncement says that offensive opera?
tions by Russian and Roumanian
troops in the Trotus and Putna val?
leys were defeated almost everywhere
Fresh fights developed today.
The Germans have advanced be?
yond Podhajoc, Hallcz and th?
Bystritza-Solotyina River and have
crossed the Sereth south of Tarnopol
the war office reports.
? GREAT GUNS ROARING.
Heavy Artillery in Action in Flondcr
Berlln, July 24 (via London).?Ar
artillery battle of an Intensity nevei
paralleled previously is raging day
and night in Flanders, the war officv
announces.
The German announcement indi?
cates that in all likihood the expected
British offensive is at hand. Severa
times recently Berlin has reported
heavy artillery lighting in Flanders
and the intensity of today's bombard?
ment probably denotes the last stage
of preparations before the blow
struck. It was predicted that the next
attack of the British would Rurpass
any effort previously made by them.
The opening of the offensive may nt
hastened to assist tho hard pressed
Russians.
French Repulse Attacks in the West.
Paris, July 24.?Two German at?
tacks on the Aisne front northwest ot
Brayeen-Laonnois last night were re
pulsed, the war office announced to?
day. Between Cerney and Allies the
Germani also attacked without re?
sult.
DRAFT QUOTAS CALLED.
Examinations Have Started in Same
Districts.
Washington, July 2").?Race be?
tween the first called draft quotas is
on in earnest. The calling out of men
for physical examination began this
morning In several regions. The tie
tails for actually calling the men into
service and sending them to mobilisa?
tion camps are being worked out. As
soon as men posted are accepted they
will be under military law. Should
they attempt to evade service they
would be tried by court martial. The
men will be assigned to the nennst
cantonment with troops from their
own State, as far as possible General
Crowder indicated that \ second WOUld
not l>e needed this year.
REPUBICAN PLAYS POLITICS
MANN RIXK'KS SCHEME TO GET
QUICK CONFERENCE AC?
TION.
Illinois Hcprcscntaive Tries to Bring
Politics Into National Necessity.
Washington, July 24.?The adminis?
tration's program of food legislation
encountered another delay today when
Republican Leader Mann blocked
plans to hurry the food control 1 ? to
conference. The proposal to create a
joint committee of congress on expen?
diture of the war, written into the
bill in the Senate and objected to by
President Wilson as signifying a lack
of confidence in him, was the feature
which started the trouble. The Re?
publican leader rallied many members
of his party about him and tonight
the situation had taken on the aspect
of a partisan fight virtually for the
first time since the war session mot.
Administration leaders, despairing
of sending the hill to conference un?
der an unanimous consent are prepar?
ing to bring in a special rule tomor?
row under which they expect to force
a conference and in addition to in?
struct the conferees to disagree to ail
senate amendments.
Taking the administration manag?
ers * y surprise, Mr. Mann served no?
tice *vhen the bill came up today that
he would not give the unanimous
consent for the bill to go to conference
unless a separate vote was permitted
on the war committee proposal. A
hasty canvass of those present con?
vinced the administration men that
they could not be certain of a ma?
jority against the proposal (for the
amendment) and adjournment was
taken. Unanimous consent again will
be asked tomorrow before the special
rule is invoked hut the Republican
leaders have summoned the entire
rtiembership for a vote and a partisan
division seems certain.
VALUE OF GARDENS.
Remarkable Increase of 222 Per Cent.
i???rimlrm ii b n
piled by National Emergency Food
Garden Commission now Rushing
Canning Campaign.
Washington, July 23.?A three hun?
dred and fifty million dollar crop
from mt lot and home gardens is
the way the pc pie of the United
States responded to the early spring
call of the National Emergency Food
Garden Commission for food F. O. B.
the Kitchen Door according to the
nation-wide survey announcement to?
day by Charles Lathrop Pack, the
president.
"According to our figures,' said Mr.
Pack, "there are more than three
times as many gardens in the United
States this summer as compared with
S year ago, the estimated gain belm
222 per cent. This Increase repre?
sents a gain of 1,175,000 acres, ac?
cording to the best figures available.
"Middle western States lead all
other sections with an average in?
crease in the number of gardens with
295 per cent. New England is sec?
ond with a gain of 275 per cent. The
Eastern States show an increase of 250
per cent, while the South Atlantic
group show 235 per cent. South Cen?
tral States increased the number of
gardens 200 per cent. Five points sep?
arate the I^ake States and the Pacific
coast States, the former showing an
increase of 190 per cent and the oth?
ers 1S5 per cent, but there are only
three States in the Pacific group. The
Rocky Mountain States made a great
showing with an increase of 138 per
cent.
"The increase varies with each par?
ticular section of the country as South
Dakota stands high with a gain o?
7:15 per cent, while Nevada is last
With 25 per cent, which of course Is
a fine showing for a mountain State.
This report is based upon figures ob?
tained by our field agents who trav?
eled In many parts of the coifntry.
from reports received from newspapers
which cooperated in the garden
planting campaign and from a letter
canvass of municipal officials and
civic organizations of every kind."
I HURLEY PROMISES RESULTS.
New Hood of Shippin? Board Bot'?
Board Will Qoll Talking and Build.
Washington, July 25,?"We must
build ships, not talk about them,"
said Edward N. Hurley, whose nomi?
nation as chairman of the shipping
board to succeed William Deo man Is
expected to be speedily acted upon.
"We are going to buckle and KCt
busy," he added, it was announced
that the resignation of Theodore
Hrcnt, \ ice chairman of the board,
hud ben received Hie White House
but not yet acted oil.
ENGLAND'S WAR DEBT.
KM PIRK mm KAU HAS SPENT
ABOUT $2(1,000,000,000.
Bonar Law Asks for \nd Gets Largest
Credit Yet Asked of (ominous.
London, July 24.? Moving in the
house of commons today a vote of
credit for 650,000,000 pounds, the
j largest war credit yet asked, bring?
ing Great Britain's expenditure to the
collossal total of 5,292.000.000, An
j drew Bonar Uw, chancellor of the
I exchequer, gave startling figures of
the amazing growth of Great Brit?
ain's financial burden in the world
war, and emphasized from the finan?
cial viewpoint alone the great im?
portance of the United States entering
the war as insuring that the allies
would not be deprived of victory
through lack of money.
The house was astonished to learn
that GreaJ Britain's advances to the
allies and dominions had already
reached the huge total of more than
1,000,00,000 pounds. The daily war
expenditure, although it shows im?
provement, still approaches 7,000,000
pounds daily and exceeds the budget,
estimate by 1,000,000 pounds daily.
Compared the last 77 days with ths
first 35 days of the financial year the
expenditure showed a reduction of a
million daily.
Expressing disappointment at the
necessity of such large advances to
the allies, the chancellor referred to
the British standpoint of unselfish
generosity and explained that the
cost of all the supplies for the allies
produced in Great Britain during the
war had been defrayed by England.
In an interesting reference to the
United States Mr. Bonar Law said:
"When America entered the strug?
gle, we realized that a great change
had come over the allies' financial
strength, President Wilson was slow,
and, in my judgment, rightly slow, In
bringing his country to the vortex of
this terrible war, but having come in,
he has shown he is determined to
throw the whole weight of the nation
I he heads into the scale. I am
esien pi uiUdsos mmm ?1*?
"represents will deal in this matte
with the same spirit of generosity or
rather of realization of what the whole
issue means and that we can rely on
?eceiving In the United Sttaes re?
sources which are necessary to pay for
supplies of all kinds required by the
allies in America.
"It is an open secret we had spent
so freely of our resources that those
available in America had become
nraily exhausted when our great ally
entered the struggle."
After Reginald McKenna, former
ehancelor of the exchequer, spoke,
warning the government of the ab?
solute necessity of curtailing all un?
necessary expenditure to prevent the
dangerous inflation of prices, the
general debate had no great .nterest,
the main feature being strong criti?
cism by John Dillon and others of the
Saloniki expedition. Mr. Dillon, re?
ferring to rumors that Servia wag In?
tending to make a separate peace
with Austria, and demanding that
the government say whether Servia
was to he deserted, declared that the
British army in Saloniki had been
demoralized by 18 months of inactio
in pestilential surroundings
Lord Robert Cecil, minister of
blockade, characterized Mr. Dillon's
charge as absolutely u itrue. He said
there was no intention whatever of
receding from the pledges for the full
restoration of and reparation for Ser?
via. While declining to reveal the
government's plans he said he would
restate its war aims.
"Austria is not our chief enemy,"
he said. "Germany is, and must be
our chief enemy. The broad princi?
ples we are lighting for are these:
First, that we should stand by our
allies; second, we arc fighting for a
stahle settlement, for a sound and
satisfactory peace, not a conquest of
more dominion but on some national
principle as far as might be which
would secure that settlement. When
arrived at. it should be free from
change and alteration in the future.
"Personally. I wish to see how far
Prostd* nt Wilson's proposals can 5>e
made practicable for barriers against
future wars. The government's desire
for the destruction of German militar?
ism is only part of its general purpose
to seen re a lasting peace."
The war credit was agreed to and
the house adjourned.
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KAISER IN GAIJC1A.
Berlin Reports His Arrival on East*
ern Front.
Copenhagen. July 25.?The arrival
of Emperor William on the Galician
trout yesterday morning is reported
in a Berlin dispatch.