Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TffF BCMTEB fM ATCHMAN, Fstabl . j - ?? CoDSolidated Aur. 2,1 6ERM?N PLOTS EXPOSED^ frTATF DEPARTMENT Pt'P.IJSlir.R AIHH I IDN Ms Sl < HI T IMKT MINIs l.rnmn Foreign Oltuv and Von Bern atorff Sought to Organize- Reign of Tmiir In I'nltod states?Name- ?>i Willing Agents Given. Washington, net. 10.?The ?tat? de p*rtm*nt today made public two me* tares from the German foreign office to Ambassador von Bernstorff and ono from von Pernstorff to Herlin. in Which Germany demanded that Oft* nadian Pacific Rnlwuy be destroyed. It ordered that sabotage be carried on In the United Slates factories and propaganda be fostered for Influenc? ing congress. The foreign office in? formed the amlaissador that he could get Information of persons who wouhl remm't sabotage from Joseph Mac - gsrrlty of Philadelphia. John P. Keating of Chicago and Jeremiah O'Lery of New York. It said that these persons had been lndl< ated as willing? agents by Sir Hoger Casement It said that sabotage must be car lied an In munition factories, but that railroad embankments and bridges must not be destroyed. < >n September 15th von Bernstorff Informed hsi superiors that the em? bargo conference. In ward to "whose earlier fruitful co-operation Or. Hale, can g ve information" was about to launch a vigorous campaign to get a Pro-German majority ?n congresM. There was no posslbllty of the cm rasay t-elng compromised, the dis? patch added. Secretary Irnsing snid the messages had not paeeed through #he State de? partment, leaving the Inference that they were handled through some neu? tral legation. Presumably they were seised In the raid on the von Igel of flleee in New York, which outwardly greatly worried von Bernstorff. The mentl in of "Dr. Hub ? t in?d specula? tion as to Just who was meant. Dr William Bayard Hale was acting as a newspaper correspondent In Merlin at the lime and was known to he close to the German government. The mes? sages are viewed as a simple explann tlSJgl mf the German propaganda In this country favoring the munition embargo, finding expression in the Mcl^emore resolution in congress Mrs. Hale, also a writer, brought a petition of women to Washington against the shipping of arnn to the allies. Maagfi Dgaftgg t.uiu. New York. Oct. 10.?Jeremiah O'Leary denied that he ever had any? thing to do with sabotage in mu? nitions plants or knew anything aboui It. He said he had openly opposed Drita>? propaganda, but was not con? nected with German intrigues. <.<>\ I It \<>H GOES NORTH. Mr. Manning to Address Itrothcrhoo<l of St. Andrew. Columbia, Oct. 0.?Gov. Mannlns left for Philadelphia this evening, whern he will deliver an address be lore the Brotherhood of St. Andrew From Philadelphia he will visit New York and Mlneola. N. Y.. at the latter place inspecting the regiment of the "Rainbow division" in which the South Carolina battalion of engineers, under command <?r \| i or J. Monroe Johpfton. I* Include I Go\. Manning intends to conf? r with the sen. of wsi ut Washington beforo he re? turns He will be out of the State a week. HAD HAsl HAI.I WEATHER. Game May Is? Ployed t'ndcr t'nfavor able O null t km? Tmluy. I ?? r It,?A cold north? west wind, with overcast skies, gase BS of good baseball wiath er for the third w >rld series thl* af? ternoon The tuition il com in osion announced at 10 o'clock, however, that the game would be played if no more ruin f< II. The diamond is covered and la rxdh*ved to be fairly fatt. Specula tors got many of yesterday's rain checks The threatening weather cleared be fore Die hour foi the game to begli and Km wintry rasping wind died down some before the teams took the field Manager Mdlriiw directed i.u remarks to his t* am h< f.., n .,? ing tin club house. Pltcrri < 'is (.mi s| \> l II, Halt I ehi-M M to Grant 1 ?tradition or \ If redo * <w chl lion a Off l?? 'Hi.. Italian ggf erasnent has de. hi. .i not to grant si* gj .din in Tor Alfred ? I ... ebl. who kill ?d Ku.h Cruger in New York. Mied April, 1850. "Be Ina* ? 881. S SURPRISED AN UNNERVED. british MUTS i\ flaxdf.hs ?HAUUli GERMAN ih: ffnsi \ One More Such stroke Will Force Re? treat UM that Secth.n of Belgium? French Continuing Hat tie. The allied stroke In Flanders brings Into sight the end of German domina? tion of the ridge east of Ypres. /)nc more thrust or possibly two, and the rmans must bow to superior power und retreat. British guns now domi? nate that part of the ridge still held t \ the Teutons, aesldes the Roulers Menln railroad. Th<: Q< rmans deliver? ed counter attac ks against tin* Stad 'en-Yprea railroad last right, hut were repulsed except in one plaee, where the British front line wai forced back slightly. Purls reports tha* tho French are continuing the fight at their end of the Um. That the Brit? ish advance over such unfavorable terrain surprised and unnerved the Germans is apparent. The crisis resulting front the Kcrn lloff revolt has hern safely passed by Kinvda. The coalition government, Including constitutional Democrats has assumed charge. WAR CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM, All Types Included, from Supor Drendnaughis to V-Dont Clwsers. Says Daniels. Washington, Oct. 9.?The American navy's war construction program con? sists of 787 vessels, Including all types from auper-dreadnaugbts to subma? rine chasers. In making this announcement to? day. Secretary Daniels sold some of the vessels have been completed with? in the past few weeks and are now In service. The total cost Is estimated at $1,150,00,000. Many of the vessels are destroyers and arrangements have been made for carrying out the $350.000,000 supple mental destroyer program, which the navy expects to be completed in eigh? teen months i:\amlnutlon of con? tracts by the legal representatives of the builders prevented the formal signing of the agreements today with the six companies which uro to build the craft, but Mr. Daniels said only minor details stood in the way of get? ting the vessels under construction. SI I S DIN GU AM ROTATE. Revenue Agent Tries to Colle? t Inheri? tance Tax. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 9.?Walter [ Hyars, Ktati revenue agent, 11 led suit In the Jefferson County court here today to collect Inheritance ta\?s esti? mated at between $2.000,0?) 0 and $.1,000,000 on the estate of the late Mrs. Kotiert Worth Bingham. I Mrs. Blngham. formerly Mrs Hear) M. Flagler of New York, died at her home in Louisville last July. T.ae body ; was taken to Wilmington, N. C. where , relatives who asserted they wanted . the cause of her death more definitely determined "aused it to bo eghtimed. ? An autopsy was performed and some of the orgt.ns sent to New York for I OhemlceJ analysis, the result of which i nover has been announced. Mrs Bing'iam's estat" is estimated it $S0,000,Odo, including $65,000.000 I in personal propoity. ? . Recovery of the minimum estimated .imount of the inheritance taxes, it has been stated, would be sutlicient to liquidate the entire debt of the State of Kentucky. ARGENTINA MUCH CONCERNED. Dftflgtagfgai or German Intrigue to Dring About C onflict With Hru/.il Anger-, People. Buenos Aires. Oct. 11.?There |s Rtacb oonosrs among the people oi Argentina over the disclosures of the Geraeen intrigue to bring about ? ?onfllel between Argentina. Draall iroi Uruguay. The former Argentina ii.mister of finance declared In n pllbll lied article that one Of tie-man Minister Luxhurs*i dispatohei thai i, n? I hi en made public, refers to German Intrlguei in Argentina ami southern Brasil The government Im ted to take measures ggSlnSt ;, neutrality demonstration FVlday. it i ? pot led i hal K is being ihm need uitb itermsn mono) Raptoaa Hold-up and Rotmcry. Hoboken. (lei 11 Pour maakcfl robben held up two Adams Kxprt Compii if employees and shot one Brnest rlecker( i clerk, and escaped u Itb il t OSShi w hit i reported tU amount to six thousand dollais. nd Fear not?Let ?ii the ends Thon All UMTER, S. C, SAT ? RE GERMAN ARMY WEAKER. CLEAR decrease SHOWN for fi i {st time IINCE WAR begax. Allies Reach und Prepare to .Maintain Their Full Strength While Waltin'; for Coming of America's Great Army for Union of Three Groat Democracies. Washington, Oct. 9.?Germany's military strength now shows n clear deer east for the first time since tin war began, according to a review based upon data of the French gen? eral staff made public here tonight by the French high commission. Worn down and driven back by ihc never ending pounding of the al? lies on the Western front, the state? ment says, tlie Germans have made their supreme military effort alter drawing heavily upon their inactive armies in the East and calling out their 1918 and part of the 1919 re? serves. Thus while the allies have reached and prepared to maintain their full Strength while awaiting the coming of America's great army, the enemy's re? sources are diminishing at the very moment when the military situation demands that they increase. "This shows," Concludes the state? ment, "the decisive character attend? ing the operations of 1918 when three great democracies, England, Franca and America, will unite their entire Strength In attacking the enemy, In conformity with the only wound prin? ciple of war." The commission's statement, issued through the committee on public in? formation, follows: "Doth Franco-German fronts on the Aisne. 1917, and Verdun. 1916, have already been compared and it has been noted that they are practically of the same length. It has been stated that the German forces occupying them before the attack were cqualb comparable; 12 and 14 divisions. It Is known today that during the same period front May to September, th< Germans engaged 25 fresh divisions ft Verdun and that th?y have br>?*fi obliged to engage 45 on the Aisne. Furthermore, during an equal period the French took 5,863 prisoners b.X Verdun and 8,55:1 on the Aisne. "This comparison included only a small sec tor of the French front, but It showed a very interesting result due to the increase of the material forces of the allies and the improve.1 French fighting method, since adopted by the other armies, and alao, as testi? fied by the German stall' itself, apros Of the battle of the Somme, in ex? plaining their defeat. 'To the perfect use of technical methods.' "If the above comparison is extend? ed today to the entire Franco-English front, if you consider that from Apr'd 1". to June 15 the enemy engaged 10s. divisions against the Anglo-French forces, and finally, if one bears In mind that the success of the British offensive at Ypres obliged the enemy to engage 15 divisions during the la^t ten days, you can understand why the German losses on the Western front grow heavier and heavier. (They ad? mit the loss of 116,00(1 men during the month of May, 140.000 men ar - estimated by the allied staff during the month of June, etc.) "This is because the fighting on the Western front, as a matter of fact, practically never ceases. Whether in the French sectors of Verdun or the Aisne, or in the English sectors of Arras and Vpies. the lighting is only discontinued at one point to be taken up at another. In add I ton to the big attacks, s quantity of carefully pre? pared small actions which have been OrOWned With success and of which the bulletins are not able to gh'--? a clear idea Increase the attrition of the 11 er mans. "This constant activity, coinciding with tin- weaknees and Inaction oi* the Russians, also sxplans why the Ger? mans are obliged to maintain, and suc? ceed In effectually mantatnlng, three times larger ton es on the French front than on the Russian front. "(in the beginning of the summer there were 164 German divisions to Too kilometres on the French front as against 189 Auntro-Qerman and Bulgarian divisions. 77 of which were German, on the Eastern front > it In known that the Knssian winter prac? tically puts a stop to all active opei - ations and that the reaction of tin internal events in Russia on the Bast em front has allowed Germany t?> con alder it during four months a veri? table reserve for the Western front. " It Cleai l\ a ppears at present that the German staff, remembering tin critical situation in which they found themselves following the Anglo French success in the Bomme in Ivlft, fears to sec their Western front brok mat at be thy Country'* Thy God'o ? >AY, OCTOBER 13, 1917 ALIEN ENEMIES INDICTED. ALBERT ORTH CHARGED WITH AIDING ESCAPED GFR MANS. Action Against Paul Wicrso, Editor? ial Writer for Charleston American F.xpeoted to Come up in Aikcn. Aiken, Oct. 9.?'Albert Orth, editor IOf Deutsche Zeitung of Charleston, was indicted on five counts by the federal ffrand jury here today, all live indict? ments relating to alleged assistance rendered by Orth to escaped Germans. ! Orth is accused of having assisted Robert Fay, who made a sensational escape from the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, last August while serving time for conspiracy in bomb plots through which ships were destroyed, manufacturing plants wrecked, bridges , blown up, etc. Fay, it will be recalled, escaped from Atlanta penitentiary on a forged pass. It is rumored that the govern? ment authorities have captured Fay and that he was before the grand Jury In Aiken today. This, however, can not be confirmed as the govern? ment officials declined to comment. I A stranger answering to the de ! scription of Fay in custody of United States officials was seen to enter and to leave the grand jury room. It is thought that the government is cov? ering up the capture of Fay with the probable intention of indicting all in? dividuals who assisted him in eluding the officers. i Lieutenant Fay was a member of the German army and came to this country, as was proved on his trial, as a German operative. He was charg? ed with dynamiting the Weiland canal, a strategical connection between the United States and Canada. It is al? leged that Orth assisted Fay in elud? ing the federal officers, who were Oloaely on his trail. Paul Wierse, an editorial writer of the Charleston American; Capt. Klat terhoff and W. Muller, former Gorman consul at Atlanta, will be placed on j trial probably tomorrow morning, charged with conspiracy to sink the German ship Lehenfels in Charleston harbor. It is predicted that there will be sensational developments In this trial. DOCKETED IN RICH LAND. ?Tudge Prince Changes Trial Place of Game Warden Case. Columbiu, Oct. 8.?Judge George E. Prince, presiding judge of the court of common pleas*, now in session in Riehland county, today rendered hbt decision that the case brought by the State of South Carolina to test the validity of Wade Hampton Gibbes to the title of chief game warden shall be docketed in Rlchland county on . court calendar No. 2. The judge in rendering his docUdon .stated that, right or wrong, he felt , that he was following the mandate of I the Supreme Court, and if it were ; wrong that the Supreme Court would I have to say so. GERMAN BAILORS REVOLT. A Revolutionary Outbreak on Warships at Wilhelmshaven. London, Oct. 10.?A revolutionary outbreak which it was difficult to sup? press, broke out on German warships at Wilhelmshaven, says a Central News dispatch from Copenhagen. The revolt seemed widespread. Mutiny among the soldiers is reported, but it I is not grave. I en by the allied oflensives in 1917. ! "All the measures they have taken have been defensive in character, In? tended to strengthen their resistance In face of Anglo-French forces*. Not content with declining to give battle and withdrawing a portion of their front on the Hlndenburg position, ?they have transported to the Weste i ; front between January and April, a I certain number Of divisions drawn from the Eastern front. As this di 1 not suffice they have drawn the pick? ed men from each of their companies on the Eastern front, and with the assistance of the class of 1918, have formed 27 new divisions, 86 of whlc? have appeared in France. "They have then exchanged their picked troops of the Eastern front for the Inferior ones of the Western front i (Landwehr.) Finally, once the battle is begun, in order to bold out, they have ?ucceaalvely replaced, number for number. 16 exhausted division* from the French front by fresh di? visions from the Eastern front, "However, In spite of using all thei ? methods of whieh the latter have only been possible this year due to thei trouble made by the Russian revolu? tion, Germany has made her supreme' military effort. ml Trat?*?." THB TRU1 . FRENCH Mi WIMS. ATTACK DELIVERED AMID HUR? RICANE OF ARTILLERY FIRE IN CONJUNCTION WITH BRITISH. All of Observatories Dominating the I hinders Plain Are Now in Hands of the Allies. With the French Armies in Flan? ders, Oct. 9.? (By the Associated Press.)?Amid one of the most terri? fic hurricane?; of artillery fire the French army cooperating In conjunc? tion with the British early this morn? ing, won a brilliant victory, which car? ried the troops forward to a depth of half a mile along a front of about a mile, stretching from Draeibank to Wydendreeft. More than COO prison? ers and a number of cannon and ma? chine guns fell into the hands- of the French and their advance took them to a position where they command the western border of the forest at Hou tholst. The movement was a pivotal one and as a result, virtually all the ob? servatories dominating the vast Glan? ders plain now are in the hands of the allies. The attack was preceded by a howl* ing wind storm accompanied by a drenching rain, which made the ground a quagmire. The correspondent passed over the French side of the battlefields on the evening preceding the attack and found everything and everybody ready lor the dilllcult work of the morrow. But underneath the feet the ground gave way, while the atmosphere resembled a shower bath. No garments could withstand the pen? etrating qualities of the elements. All around shell holes were filled to their brims with water and the only pro? jection of the French troops toward the enemy were the drenched sand bags piled up. Here ihe shelterless ? troops had passed the day and night j awaiting orders to go over. At length, soon after 5 o'clock in the morning, definite orders arrived land the troops were glad. They went j forward with great rapidity notwith? standing the conditions, circling the shell holes and Slipping through the ! deepest mud. They knew, however, j that the success of future operatiom j depended on their efforts today. J When they reached their first ob? jective points they found the German* cowered in nests of craters which hereabouts form the first lines, the building of trenches in this section ol Flanders being impossible owing to the porous soil. Good luck had made the advance coincide with the period when the Germans were changing the troops oc? cupying their front lines. A German division was just naming over the lines to a fresh division recently ar? riving from the Russian front. The French, with a wonderful dash, were upon them before they realised the situation and killed many of them. There wag a short respite before the next forward movement was under? taken in cooperation with the British, jwho were advancing simultaneously on the French right. Slithering along over the broken and muddy ground, tho French troopers made their way quickly toward Mangelaer?, which ?soon fell into their possession. The whole scheme of operations for the day had been carried out long be? fore noon. The infantry's advance was greatly assisted by the dariigness of the aviator, who would not permit the weather conditions. Which presented the greatest danger for the airmen, to interfere with the work of reconnoi? tring for the artillery. DRASTIC- RULES FOR OIL. Under Restrictions Trade Much Less Active Yesterday. New York, Oct. 9.?Produce ex? change officials after a conference with Food Administrator Hoover today pro? mulgated drastic rules governing the cotton seed oil trade. Under these re? strictions trade today was much less active and the market decidedly weak aside from October contracts which re? flected covering orders and closed 26 points net lower. Other months were *> 1 to 8 points lower. .January sold from is to 17.68, closing 17.68 bid. Sales- 88,000; prime crude 16.07 nomi? nal. Spot IS bid; October 18.60; De? cember 17.7"?; January 17.62; March 17.6?; May I7.'?(t. Total sales 28,400. ONE TRAITOR PI NISIU.D. Ilaniel II. Wallace Gets Twenty Year* for Opposing Draft. Davenport, Iowa, Oct. II. Daniel II. Wallace was eonvieted today of violation of the espionage act and sentenced to twenty years, lie was arrested on a speaking tour during I which he stacked the draft law. ? SOUTHRON, EMMWH4 Jana, >IM> VoLXLV. No. 17*. 10 CURB DISLOYALTY. ALIEN AM) x ATI VF KXEMIES WILL BE CIX>SELY WATCHED. Redrictions Made Pos? Inlc hy Trad? ing With the Enemy Act to Be Put Into FfTcot Within Few Day?*? 1 ?resident Virtually Completes Ex? ecutive Order. I Washington, Oct. 9.?Commerce 'and communication restrictions to be entorceo^y the trading with the ene ! my act will be put into effect within a lew days under an executive order i which President Wilson has* virtually I completed after oenferring with cabi Jnet members, Vance McCormick, chairman of the exports administra? tiv? board, and acting Secretary Crosby of the treasury. Postmaster General Burleson an | nounced after the cabinet meeting j that the provision authorising the poetofflce to license foreign "anguage 1 newspapers already was in operation and that within ten days the depart? ment would begin to issue licenses. A number of papers already have filed applications. Under the tentative draft of the ox ecitive order the censorship of mails, cat les, radio and telegraph communi? cation would be entrusted to a board including representatives of the post office, war and navy departments and the exports administration. The navy 'which now censors cables, dlM the war department, which exercises control over telegraph communication to Mex? ico, probably would retain those func? tions while the new problem of cen? soring mail, directed particularly to Spain and the northern European neu? tral countries, would be given special attention by the array and exports ad jministration representatives on the |bo\rd of censors. Air. Burleson is anxious that his de? partment refrain as much as possible I ft cm the work of actually opening and censoring mail. Consequently the Pos? ta authorities probably will limit I themselves to merely cooperating with th ? active censors. Control over Imports and exports ve?ted in the president by the trading with the enemy act will be delegated to the export administration. The *x i.port administration would then have a more positive authority to forbid ?shipments suspected of being destined to Germany or her allies. The license control over enemy In : surance companies, vested in the pr?sident, probably wilL bo turned over to the war ri*.k insurance bureau of th * treasury. Commerce department officials are said to be anxious to ad . m:nister the insurance company 11 ! ce ises. Regulation of foreign ex chmge and export of coin and bullion !wculd be given to the federal reserve boird. It is- understood the commerce de , pa "tment will be given custody of en? emy property in the United States. The postmaster general said today that publications need not fear sup? pression under trading with the ene? my act unless they transgress the bounds of legitimate criticism of tho I president, the administration, tho I array, the navy or conduct of the war. We shall take great care not to let criticism which is personally or politically offensive to the adminis? tration affect our action," he said. "But j if newspapers go sa far as to impugn th?? motived of the government and tlus encourage insubordination they will be dealt with severely. 1 For instance, papers may not say that the government is controlled by Wall Street or munition manufactur? ers or any other specal interest. Pub? lication of any news calculated to urge the people to violate law will be con Oldl red ground for drastic action. We will not permit the publication or cir? culation of anything hampering the war's prosecution or attacking Im? properly our allies." Ifr. Burleson explained that the pol? icy of foreign language newspapers woi Id be judged by their past ut? terances and not by newly announced inte stlona, Qerman newspaper's not licensed ad l be required to pubihm English translations. Mr. PurtOOOB amid OJ SocI ilist paper would bo barred from the mails unless it contained treas? onable or seditious- matter. "The trouble is," he added, "that mos Soeialist p:ipers do contain this matter." In a big factory BOar Pittsburgh GO women and girls are helping to build artillery ears for use on the Frei ch front. Ac cording to the woman's buteau of the amor lean Bed Cross, half a mil* lion women in the United State? r\ro knitiing for soldiers and sailors.