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Bvf M sfc*fng Advmtnr ol Gun Crew, I laner. I mi i from a New ?>?? July i*th will be CUlar later eat by Hum ootfa* people by reason )UU McCoy, a son f. MeCejr of St. Chartas, is the naval gun crew on Uoor that was attacked Whoyrtaa- In a letter ; WTtttOO by Gunner Me? ts? tjajr of hie arrival at an " ho states that he saw m the trip to England be) Ore return trip to end. tfiet ho fired 18 shots, oayo that be would make an trip ? cries, \ ? ship sailing a fate days from the time he writ**. His ship sailed on do titto aod It lo probable that now '<? tho other etde of tho tte or en rooto back to America, artleto referred to follows: osi aa Atlantic liner a*re* eirtved at ao AUantlo port to seOOOtod a series of escapes sestets rises during the two period that elapsed from their from o British? port, it was from tho vessel's experience the Genna a submarine fleet had tho steamship for Its prey tvored so every way to send ^^sr^fcr^^^ f ^e^g^s^ ^e^^e^r^i^gsVLae tjla* Uaer woo barely missed by a The watchful gunners, al fPaaUo fee a shot at their un soartbid tho sea in vain Use sags * of a periscope. res sal woo halted by admiralty the day after leaving the Brit Submarines had been re by Isotrsysts. While the lay feove to, the destroyers the waters for miles ahead seed theo (sported that it was ss .*e for tho psasinger ohlp to proceed. ??Bardly hod she gotten under wsy then . wireless orders held her up a soesad Urns. More submarines had Sighted. For two dsys tho wallowed about awaiting to proceed. The undersea boats bean seen directly In the path or deleed by the admiralty for the vessel to cross the Atlantic, f "At top* speed the liner began hor deep for her American port. The fol? lowing morning at 11.30 o'clock the watch crlod a warning against an ap? proaching torpedo. Passengers rushed to tho side of the ship and plainly discerned the wake of the engine of doothejps It tore its way toward the liner. "The captain ordered the wheel thrown over so hard that the ship noted at an alarming angle, and tho Boot mos lent the torpedo passed astern, within twenty yards of tho vessel's rudder. The submarine was not sighted. Two days lster the ship's company asas startled by the cry of "submarine ahead!" The gunners Jumped to their beg rides and. as the ship swung from her course, they drew beads on what appeal d to be tho conning toner of a submarine about 2,000 garde distant. The next Instant the guts began to berk and sent shriek rag shells at their target. '?txty-two shots were fired, all of UNra hitting tho object or striking within a few feet of it. "The 'submarine' was sifnk, but It turned oat to bo a buoy, which had broken from Its moorings." WARRANTS TO BE APPROVED. Comptroller One re I Herogulsee Chief Game Warden. Columbia. July 31.?Carl ton W. Sawyer, comptroller genorul. tele? graphed his 'Office yesterday that he would Isere warrants to Wade Hamp? ton Gtbb.'s. recently commissioned Chief game warden, as to any other regularly commissioned officer, the comptroller goneral taking the posi? tion that be has no right to go back of a co?nmlsiilon Issued by the govern? or unless restrained by lesal author? ity Mr. Sawyer's telegram reads as fob lews "With re.erence to tho matter of paying warrants of the newly appoint? ed and commissioned game warden. W. 11. Olhbes. I do not consider that this Is a matter for me to decide hut for th^ courts. However, Inasmuch as Mr. Olhbes ha? been commisslon ed anil his bond hau been approved t<y Attorney Oenorul Peoples I have this duy served notice on A. A. Itlch srdson. former game warden that war? rants will be Issued to Mr. Olhbes aa to any other regulurly commission-d officer unh-HS proper proceedings are taken to enjoin me. I do no' sooMor that I have the right to go back of ? rommlMlnn Issued bv the governor unless some legal authority should fO? strain me." Washington. July 30.? In u state? ment Issued by the war department here today It was shown that South Carolina's quota for the next training ramps will be 2".G out of 850 appli? cation. Those < amps will open Au I 17 and cloeg November 20, ft COTTON CHOP CONDITION. Report? Show the Crop Made Gains During; Past Thirty Days. New York. July 30.?The condition of cotton, on an average date July 22. aa compiled from the replies of nearly 3.200 special correspondents of this paper Is found to be 73.3 per cent., or an Improvement of 1.6 points over last month's report, when It was 71.7 per cent. A year ago at this time it was 74.9 per cent., and in 1915 it was 77.3 per cent. During the past, ten years in only one was it below this, In 1909, being 73.1 per cent. In that year the acreage planted was 31.292,006. from which a crop of 10, 004,000 was gathered. Conditions of States, with comparisons follow: Aug. July Dlf. Aug. Aug. 1917 1917 1916 1915 N. Carolina .70.0 70.6 -0.6 73.2 78.6 a Carolina. .73.5 72.7x.08 9.0 75.6 Georgia.. . .02.4 70.3x2.1 71.0 77.5 Florida. . . .76.6 77.0x0.4 74.8 79.0 Alabama. . .71.5 69.3x2.2 61.8 76.5 Mississippi . .78.1 69.5x3.6 73.1 78.8 Louisiana . .74.1 75.3 -1.2 79.6 79.0 Texas . . . .73.2 71.7x1.6 77.0 77.0 Arkansas . .75.0 72.4x2.6 83.5 81.0 Tennesee . . .72.3 72.3 79.6 84.0 Missouri . . .80.5 80.0x0.5 80.3 80.0 Oklahoma . .76.6 77.0 0.5 81.0 72.0 Average . . .73.3 71.7x1.6 74.4 77.3 States showing Increases were: South Carolina. 0.8 per cent; Georgia, 3.1 per cent; Alabama, 2.2 per cent; Mississippi, 3.6 per cent; Texas, 1.5 per cent, and Arkansas, 2.6 per cent. A decrease of 0.6 per cent, occur? red In North Carolina in Louisiana, 1.2 per cent, and in Oklahoma, 0.5 per cent. Journal of Commerce. RAISING WAR TAXES. Income Tax Will be Increased ami Liquor WUI Pay Dollar More a Gal Washington, July 31.?An Increas? in the pending war tax bill to two billion, eight million dollars has been decided upon by the senate finance committee by Increases in corporation, normal income taxes, on the income of Individuals of more than fifteen thousand dollars annually, and further Increase of a dollar a gallon on distilled spirits and fifty cents more on beer. There are other mi? nor Increases. VOLUNTEERS FOR SECOND CAMPS. Total of More Than Seventy-two Tltou sand Seeking Chance to lie Army Officers. Washington, July 30.?For the l*y 000 places In the second officers' train? ing camps to open August 27, 72,914 men have applied, and the war de? partment Is considering accepting sev? eral thousand more than it originally intended. Preliminary examinations given the applicants by civilian phy? sicians indicate that 51,838 are physi? cally satisfactory. In most States tho number of ap pllcants is from three to five times the State's quota. VERY HOT IN NEW YORK. I lout Wave of Unusual Severity in the Great City. New York, July 31.?With the offi? cial temperature reported at 9.30 this morning at 90 degrees, four degrees higher than at the same time yester? day. New York is prepared for anoth? er period of sweltering heat. Many prostrations were reported at that hour. A cool wave in tho West prom? ises relief soon. HEAT KILLS FIFTEEN. Torrid Wave Kills Many in Chlcigo. Chicago, July 31.?Thero have been fifteen deaths from heat here wi.hln the last twenty-four hours. MUSTERED INTO SERVICE. I'liysleul Examination of Mcinls rs of Company L Completed. This morning Captain Price and Lieut. Shaw, who have been uusy since Monday morning mustering in the Sumter Light Infantry, comp eted their work. There are now 66 men and 2 officers in the company, I men and one officer ha lug been turned down on account of physical disabil? ity. When the call was first received on the 2,1th, there were only 62 men and .'! olflcers in the company, but ever since that date, two or three men have been enlisted dally and It is hopctl that many more will cnlbt be? fore the company leaves Sumter, as Captain l'.rown is very anxious to get his company up to war strength. Lieut. Shaw, who has been giving the men their physical examination, states that the Sumter men have made a very good average under him. Captain Price states ths t the booh work of Captain l'.rown in ex? cellent sind the cnuipmeut of the com? puny is also In very good shape. No? tice has been received that the fttate inspection will tsike place on August 11. and, on this account, ihe S. L. I. will hurdly leave within two weeks. FOR FREE EUROPE. Balfour Tells or England's General Aim In War. London, July 30.?John Annan Hrycc (Lihoral), rcf vring in tho house of commons today to the recent statement of Lord Robert Cecil, min? ister of blockade, that the dismem bernmont of Austria was not one of Great Britain's war aims, said the statement would create dllflculties be? cause Groat Britain's engagements with her allies could not be continued if the Austrian empire was to be main? tained. Italy, on tho strength of these en? gagements, Mr. Bryce said, would not be content merely with a rearrange? ment of tho Trentlno region. The references to Great Britain's war aims by Mr. Bryco and others, including Noel Buxton, who said that an unfortunate impression had got abroad in Europe us a result of the speeches in tho house of commons that Great Britain favored a policy of annexation, but would not define her aims, brought an interesting reply from A. J. Balfour, the foreign sec? retary. Mr. Balfour said the government had been asked to declare its policy, but he was not sure if that would be a wise course. When every min? isterial statement was treated as a pledge, it was dangerous to accede to requests for definite announcements. With respect to the Jugo-Slav and Austrian question, said the secretary, It was impossible to foretell the po? sition in which the world would find itself when the problems came to bo decided and ho would be doing a very ill service were he to attempt to define tho position now. "As everybody knows," continued Mr. Balfour, "we first entered the war to defend Belgium and prevent France from being crushed boforo our eyes. Our purposes were completely unself? ish; therefore we stood in a different position from any of our allies. We hoped to see Europe freer and more stable." Mr. Balfour expressed an opinion which was simply his own when he said that if France asked for Alsace Lorraine Great Britain should sup? port hor, but he declared that France was not fighting for Alsace-Lorraine alone; she was lighting for her very existence. As to the democratization of Ger? many, said the secretary, it las been hoped that autocracy would give place to parliamentary institutions, but nobody was foolish enough to suppose that It would be possible to impose on Germany a constitution made outside of Germany Until Ger? many was either made powerless or free ho did not think tho peace of Europe could be secured. The fight must go on, for if this war ended with a German peace, that would only be a prelude to a new European war. If the peace was to be one that England and America, which had no interest on the continent, could approve, then it would lead to a permanent settle? ment, which would In turn condr.ee to that great understanding of the na? tions, which would give Europe a se? curity It had never known before. "Germany must work out her salva? tion," continued Mr. Balfour. "You do not mend matters by imposing a constitution even if you have the pow? er. Nations must mukc their scheme of liberty for themselves, according to their own ideas and based on their history, character and hopes. "But if It Is true that tho great pow? er of German imperialism is still de? pending upon the belief that only ttu der tho Imperial system can Ger? many be great, powerful and rich, then if cxporienco shows that the im? perialistic system can produce not merely a triumph of one time, but in? evitably lead to corresponding- dis? asters at another, it may well he that those views, which found such pow? erful expression in Germany m I860 and which animated all German teachers for more than a genie rat lor before the Blsmarckslan domination, will revive with new lustre and new strength, and that Germany, With all her powers of organization and all her [Inherited cultivation, will be added to those nations which before the war could hurdly conceive how a universal war of this sort could be deliberately provoked in order to further the commercial or political interest of any single community. "When Germany has come to the level of the United States and Great Jbltain in that respect wo may hope that one of the great disturbers of the peace may forever bo eliminated. I do not know who will venture to suy for a moment that, looking at the internal condition of Germany, as far as we are allowed to sec it at the present time, the ideas for which 1 have been speaking will really grow in such fashion as to raise legitimate hopes thai In our life time we shall i see that established. But 1 am sure thai if it is not established the sov? ereignty of Europe win not be estab? lished either." Mr. and Mrs. T. It. Jenkins leave tonight for Richmond, Indiana, to spend several weeks. OUR NCRSES in FRANCE. Brief News or One of Ilse First Unit* ?Whnt of Next Winter? (By Ruth Wright Kauffman of the Vigilantes.) (Mrs. Kauffman is tho Special Cor? respondent of the Vigilantes in France and England. She is making a study there of the work that women are do? ing, in order to show American wo? men what they can do to help win the war.) Paris, July 7.?To come upon a unit of American nurses, quite by ac? cident, in a quaint Norman village on tho seacoast of Franco?well, how would you feel? I wanted to rush up to them and throw my arms about them, but?. To tell the truth, the llrst one I met was a major, who wore our simple, but impressive, U. S. R. uniform. They have been In France only two weeks, and they are one of the six units lent by our government to the British government. They aro already hard at work. Don't think that things are easy for newcomers no matter how wel? come they are. Conditions here are war conditions. Our unit came equip? ped to take care of five hundred beds; they havo 950. When appli? ances are strange, when the quarters are undergoing the moving difficul? ties of one outgoing set of nurses and doctors and one incoming set, when the climate and the food and the peo? ple and the surgical apparatus and the manners and customs are new?| "That is the way they do their washing," said the matron, as we strolled along the elevation that cor? responds to our board walks, and looked down at the half mile of hard sands enclosed between jagged white cliffs. Sheets and sheets and sheets, along the whole half mile, flat upon the sands, their corners and edges held down by bits of stone. "Who washes them?" I asked. "Oh, the women of the village. Come into tho Casino. These are the men that arrived yesterday. Four hundred and fifty of them, all at once of course. Straight from the front. Pretty bad cases, a lot of them, too." It was tho stillest room in the world. Together, the matron and 1 stood there for some minutes survey? ing the rows of beds, with those me? chanical contrivances that mean war. Occasionally a hand would move. One man had guarded his cap and kept it over his face. But there was no sound?no sound at all. "If we were /back in New York, and thirty cases had come into the accident ward, th_rc would have been more fuss," said the matron. "I can hardly understand such courage. They never whimper, not one of them." Nor do1 the nurses. Though they aro doing double work, those whom X met took their duties with the good? nature and enthusiasm that one would only expect from an American con? tingent. The matron assured mc that no one had grumbled of the almost overpowering mas3 of work?and the orderlies, who at home are not scrub the-floor orderlies by any manner of means?were buckling down to their tasks quite as if they had been used to them all their lives. "Have you any message to send to America?" I asked. "Only this," said the matron. "Train. We need trained nurses? and we shall need more. But they must be thoroughly trained." I asked about the untrained nurses, whether, when they have been work? ing for several years in hospitals?as some English Red Cross nurses are oven now doing in conjunction with this American unit?she disapproved of having their work count toward trained nursing. "It is my opinion," she emphatical? ly said, "that when the untrained nurse has a thorough course of war nursing, her work should most, assur? edly count In the matter of a cer? tificate. I should suggest that she be allowed to obtain her certificate after, say, a supplementary technical course of two or three months. We In Amer? ica have not the nursing competition that exists in England, so there is no reason for the opposition that obtains there. But at the present moment, our great need in France is the train? ed nurse." I asked what she was going to do In the winter. She was very much troubled about the winter. Now, with the delightful weather of a Norman summer, in houses and hotels built for the comfort and pleasure of the sea? son's tourists, it was easy to live, and look out at the sea and the cliffs and the blue skies. It was pleasant, too. for the convalescent soldiers to walk about the streets or lie outside in cots and chairs. Hut the houses are not built for warmth, summer will not last?-though I have no doubt It's 100 In the shade at this very hour in New York?and it must not be forgotten that coal and wood are luxuries that cannot be carelessly provided: the> are very scarce. What, then, is to become of our nurses In France nc\i winter? Are they tu have to do their work suffering from the intense coM of barely heat? ed hospitals with paper-like walls, in ? climate nearly as severe in winter as ours? Can't some ingenious Ameri? can devise ways and means of keeping them from freezing? RAILROAD DISPUTE SETTLED. Secretary of Labor Wilson Renders Decision Acceptable to Doth Sides. Washington, July 31.?The main questions in dispute between the forty thousand employees of South? eastern railroads and the roads have been settled by Secretary of Labor Wilson who gave a decision that has been accepted by both sides. The set? tlement affects the hours of labor and the wages of inspectors, train air brake repairers, safety appliance maintainers and other employees in tho car department. imrnsfif dsath list. London. July II.?A report of Brit? ish casualties in all theatres issued for publication In newspapers, in July totaled seventy-one thousand etaVeera and men. Ofllcers Killed, wounded ov missing numbered twenty live hun died. I Geo. H. Hurst, Undertaker and Embalroer. Prompt Attention to Day and Night Calls. At 0.1. CRAI0 Old Stand. N. Main. Phones: Day 539 Night 201 Evei ything in the Building Line Ali Kinds of Feed BOOTH & McLEOD, Inc. 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