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|e thk BCMTKR u Alt HMAV, Establ Oorsolidated Au*. 2, 1 FRENCH ACHIEVE SUCCESS. om\Sl\K IN FLANUKKS OVT STANDING FKATTRK OF WEKK Bj Broadening the Yprcn Ft nut Tho Open ihr Way for Operation* or .arger Bodies of Trm'iw?T> plus. > Fire Worries Genua 11 a. _ Washington, Oct. 17.?The Frenca oueceoses In Flanders broadening the great wedge the allies are driving Into the Merman line*. Is described as the outstanding feature of ttv week ending October 13th In the re view Issued by the war department. The Tpree front was previously too narrow to permit of the proper move meat of large bodies of '.roops, but this trouble has been eliminated by the French advance. Reports show great concern of the Oer man high command over he n ? v "typhoon" lire r,: ich Is compelling the Germans to change their tactic.ii poettlona to escape the rain of shells. MKWS AT ?1KACKY. Good Crop* Thin Year and (rood Sennoii for Harvesting. wlaacky, Oct. 16.?I am glad to report favorably from this section. Wo have had excellent seasons for gattierlng our crops, and made good U*e of them torn and has .11 about all harvested, and If tho woo her continues as It now is Dm cotton will soon be gathered, as there in very little top crops. Our cotton crop will be above the average, and with the present prices of all tho farm products our farmers will be in sxcedent conditon to begin another year I am glad to see the spirit o' paying up old debts. We arc payln ; 60 and some 7S cents per hundred for picking cotton, and the colored folk> are having- a sood time. A letter from my boy at Camp Jackson states that tho soldiers are kindly treited. well fed and cloth ad. and that he liken the soldler Ufr better and better every nay. preisen the people of Columbia for their at? tentions and kindness when they visit tr s rity. Mr. J. C. Scott, after si ?Mitling* the summer In Henderson, hu ?? returmvl and will be? at the home of his daugh ter. Mrs. W. W. McCutchen for soi.ie time. His health was much Improv? ed from the trip. The annual conference of the Meth? odist Church will hold Its sessions ii the Dlshopvtlle Methodist church th> latter part of November. This will In the first t me that our beautiful lit tie town has attempted to entertalr a body of this sise. Our slstei churches show a very liberal spirit lr helping us entertain the delegates w.ilch Mh ?w? the fraternal feeling: that exist among us. Rev. Mr. Benson, pastor of the I'.;uj tUt church of lllehopville. has resiesT ed his pastoral relationship with tha church to become pastor of the Bap? tist church of Camden We hate t? soe Mr Benson leave, as tie woa ver> I -pul r Meews. R. M. Cooper, Sr. and Jr are having their homes lighted ??> electrl it Dr. Alford has been en joying thin luxury for sometime. Mr. and Mr*. Rurkett. after a pleas? ant bridal tour, have returned to their home in Ht Charles, where he hi en? gaged In bunineae. Tour paper comes very Irregul irl Homefhmg km wrong somewhere. 1 feel disappointed when The I^etn fall to reach ma at x N p m. <OAf. MINI s TO CLONl . (?prrsttMrn i latm They Cannot Grant DcmaiMln. Hprlngflel I. Od 17 The latest estimates aie that sixty coal mines In Illinois will clone as a lesult of the strike. The operators say they cm not grant the miners' demands unless the fuel administrator allow them to charge more for |fcg .,-r;.ut. 1 mm \< .<> <o\i, FAMINE. Strike Will I'nrnh/c Hm-Iim ^ of < it> Chicago. Oct. 17.?t'nlesn the gatll strike Is sett ed within ten days bus Inean In <'h<cago will be paralysed sold Fred I pnam, urenldent ol the largeet coil company In the city Chi eago ban only ten days nupplv aV-ui and no more coining, h- Hal I Washington. Oct. 17 ?It Is practi? cally certain that the I'nlted States will t>e represented at the conference of nations at war with Germany which will probubly ho held in Paris Secretary lousing authorised a state men* that it bud t?e?m .!?*?? i? i?*?r to have the ranf?renc* und that the Balled State? im conshbiing psrtlcipntlosj, Is lu d April, i860. "Be laMi 881. SI HIIITISII COMMANDER SAYS THERE IS NOTHING SPECIAL TO REPORT. Hut Weather CondltoiiH Have Improv? ed In Plunder? and Time 1? Rl|?e for Another Big Drive?-German At tacKs Repulsed by French. All Important Infantry lighting In the West Is confined to German at? tacks on the Alane, in the Champagne and in the Verdun regions, all of i which were repulsed by the French. There Is promise of a speedy re? newal of the Flanders attack, how? ever. Gen. Halg's message today said: "Nothing of special interest to report," which is practically the same statement sent heretofore when the Hrttsh opened a heavy bhnburdment preparatory to a new drive. The weather Is better in Flanders and undoubtedly the British aviators have an opportunity to get the ranges. The mud is also drying. Germany's admissions that several Macedonian villages have boen "ced? ed" to the allies may mean that the large allied armies In that section are finally taking the aggressive. This may be to forestall a Bulgarian at? tack In connection with which some believe Emperor William went to the Balkans. Petrograd reports no communica? tions with Russian forces on Oezcl Island. The rapidly working German na? val and military machine has succeed? ed in taking all of Oesel Islands, Ber? lin reports. A German dreadnaught struck a mine and made for the coast after an explosion. Its fate is un? known. U-BOAT WARFARE FAILS. Norwegian Shipping Authority As? sort* That Allies Have Made Good Defense. - Chistlana, Oct. 16.?The German plans for destroying t*he world's com? merce have failed, says the Nor? wegian Shipping Magazine, which a dan that "there im no great dang'.r of the disappearance of merchant ?hips from the aeas hy reason of tor? pedoing for at least ten years." The article Is accompanied by I chart showing 1 he curve of English and French losses for four months. March to June. "The allies- have ev *ry reason to ba of good courage nrhen they look back on these re? sults.".says the writer, "and they may fiwalt the future u-boat war with con i fldence. The chart curves show fa - rorable results for England, and this may be ascribed partly to the arm? ing of merchant ships." He believes ?i that the story of 1915-16 will be re? peated, that "the u-boats will be crip? pled unless or until the Central Pow i ? ers can find new Inventions which will t mako them powerful enough to gam the upper hand again." Another reason for this favors hie result, says the writer, is the fact that when the u-boat war started in March. Germany sent out every u boat she could muster, good, bad, snd Indifferent, and the Englls-h de? fense, which was ready, "reaped a rich harvest and crippled the dftri? gorous enemy for the ensuing months." Failure of the submarine war also is attributed In part to faul? ty construction of the latest German u-boat. SHELTER FOR PUBLIC, lb n Mi <.o\crnment Will Compel the Owners of llomh I'roof shelters \n I )pon Them. London. ( >ct. 17 ? Bomb proof shel? ters nre being card huh xed by ?h< gOl iniioMit. which has decided to compel owners of su?*h protection to open them to the public when nSOSS ?ar>. NO MORE EMERGENCY OFITt I P.s Gen till** ihis'Ntopix-d Commission in.: Army OsafeMI no'ii Ohrtl Life. Washington. Oct. 17.?General Hlls* has abruptly stopped the pnu tire of eotn in i.ssi on i ng OfllOSri from Ptrll lit' "ltd ? ;i 11 i li - them into fcCtl/C BjSnrl e before they are actually nee. I ?<l. Hs hldlontsd that the practif had "V\ ? out of bounds. II oppose. WAR CREI>IT. Let man Socialists Will Vote Against New IsWaV Amsterdam, Oct. 17.?A Germa'i Roelallst newspaper says the Boclni have derided to vote against the new s/ar credit ??f ten billion marks, which 11 t<? be suhmtttec! t?? the reich iHag in De. ember, unless Chaacelloi I Mn I. islls ret igns. nd Fear not?Dot an the en da Thon At ?MTER, 8. C, SAT OBI AFFAIRS jjj CHINA. EACH OF TWO FACTIONS CLAIM) TO BE THE LEGAL GOVERN? MENT. Rival Governments Keep up a Con? tinual Wrangle Over Which Is The Legal ami Constitutional Authority In the Republic?Feng Kuo Chang Has the Upper Hand ut Pekln. Pekin. Sept. 1 (Correspondence Wt The Associated Press)?Constltutlj?i ahty is the wall behind which ceeer, tending factions in China are taking refuge. Premier Tuan Chi-Jui insists that the republic which he re-estab? lished In Peking with Vice President Feng Kuo-chang at its head, iw the constitutional government of China. The so-called parliament at Canton consisting of fifty or sixty members of the dissolved parliament insists that it Is the constitutional govern? ment of China, and that Li Yuan hung still is the president. The "constitutionalists," now active in south China under the direction ot Sun Yat Sen, have contested every Im? portant change In the central govern ment during the last few months ! and denounced it as unconstitution? al. They say U Yuan-hung had no right to dissolve parliament, and that there certainly Is nothing in the Nan? king provisional constitution which justified such action. Consequently, according to their line of reasoning. Feng Kuo-chang Is neither the legal president nor the le? gal acting president of China. There is some doubt as to what . Feng Kuo-chang's own contention Is as to his legal status. While he has permitted all foreign legations to be j presented to him as president and signs official documents as president, he Is represented to provincial author? ities as being only acting president. It Is believed that Fen/? Kuo-chang is un? doubtedly anxious to be elected pres ! ldent by a parliament legally constl ? tuted, or constituted as legally as It b possible to do so under the present Un? settled conditions in China. He ha* held out against the plan of his SMThl ? net to have a national council fojjjeaed ?with five members from each provi? nce to act as a parliament. I Feng Kuo-chang heads a de facto government which actually exists in Peking, and has the support of nine? teen provinces and the recognition ol all important foreign powers. There? fore .the efforts of the opposition in the south to oppose the Peking gov? ernment and deny Its legal existence, thus far seem futile. WANTS KAISER'S TERMS. - ' Czernln Calls on Michaelis to Make Statement but Is Given a Vague An? swer. - London. Oct. 15.?The Deuteln Tages Zentung of Merlin, as quoted In an Exchange Telegraph dispatch fron: Amsterdam, says that Count Czernin Austro-Hungarian foreign minister recently requested the (Jerman chan ccllor. Dr. Michaelis, to state Ger? many's peace terms, urging that Ger? many make concessions In the west Count Czernln received a vague re? ply, whereupon he stated that he could no longer negotiate with Dr. Michaelis .inasmuch as the chancelloi made vague statements when clear nes.s and franknes were imperativel", necessary. These statements of The Taget Zei tung are not denied, the dispatch odds, and have caused a great .sensa lion, being particularly illustrative o tho fervent desire for peace on th part of Austria. ON HOARD OF CENSORSHIP. m _ War and Navy Ihpnrtiucnt Represen? tatives Nunied. Washington. Oct. If..?War ami navy department representatives on th* board of live authorised by tin president to censor outgoing mall cable, radio and telegraphic commu? nication, were appointed today, They are Major Cen. Frank Mclntyrc. ohlef <?f the insular Affairs Bureau, und Lieut. Commander Chas. Belknap, who have been acting consort foi their respective departments for some time, other members of the board are to be n lined ley the pOStofllce, WtW department ami George Creel, chair? man on public informal Ion, NANCY BOMBED BY GERMANS. ten Killed and Forty Wounded in I TOUCll Town. Palis, Oct. 17 Ten were killed ami folly wounded by n German raid on Nancy last night. Twenty-five German airplanes were destroyed oi forced to land Monday and Tuesday Baft at be thy Country's, Thy God'a i >AY, OCTOBER 20, 191' TAX DODGERS DETECTED. MUNITION MAKERS DEFRAUD GOVERNMENT OUT OF $17, 000,000. Escaped Special Tax by Marking; Off! Total Cost of Plants as Deprecia? tion, Claiming They Will be Value? less After tlie War. ? - Washington, Oct. 17.?Internal rev? enue agents >epe*t that the evasion te special tax of twelve and one per cent, on munitions manu jrers has so far totaled seventeen and a-half million dollars of which more than ten million will be recov? ered. One method used to report munition taxes was to charge off a large percentage, sometimes all of the plant valuation, under the head of depreciation. Manufacturers maintain that the plans wil be worthless after the war. NOT ENOUGH GRAIN. Xo Time for Boasting on Crops, for the Gada In Grain Yields Still I/eaves Our Production Far Below 1015. Despite the optimistic reports- as to the great increase in grain crops, ex? cepting wheat, this year over last year, the total production of wheat and corn for 1916 and 1917 is 490, 800,000 bushels short of the total pro? duction of the two preceding years of 1914 and 1915, and this, too, not? withstanding a gain in population of about 2,000,000 people a year and the great increase in demand by reason of the European war. The total production of wheat and corn in 1914 and 1915 was- 7.581, 300,000 bushels, as compared with the total for 1916 and 1917 of 7,093, 500,000 bushels. Here ir a vacuum of nearly 600,000,000 bushels created In the last two years as compared with the two preceding years, which of necessity spells- shortage in food and feed, which can only be made up j in part by the Increase In oats' and i potatoes. The estimated quantity of the prin? cipal grains?wheat, corn, outs, rye buckwheat, rice. etc.?produced in 1917 amounts to 5,858,400,000 bush? els, which IS 1,052,500,000 bushel; more than was raised last year; but as there was a decrease of 1,204,700, 000 bushels in 1916 from 1915, we arc still 152,200,000 bushels short o. i making up last year's grain shortage The total estimated production o' grain and principal foodstuffs thil year will reach over 6,633,000,000 bushels, but this is less by 116.700.00C bushels than the production of 1915. We have raised a large food crop thi.s year, but in proportion to the world's demand it will barely tide us over until the next harvest, when we will be compelled, as far ius Is given to the power of man. to make a great increase over our present production Thus, while boasting about the in? crease over 1916, let us not forge' that, despite the urgent call upon th farmers of the nation to do their ut? most, our production of these grain and other foodstuffs is actually 116. ; 700,000 bushels short of the yield o. 1915, while population has increased by about 4,000,000 and Europe's de? mand! have enormously increased.? From Manufacturers Record, Oct. u. IMPROVED MFE BOATS. ? , Norway Enforces Stringent Rules on Ships In War /one. Christ lanla, Oct. 17.?New and stringent regulations come into force I shortly in regard to live-saving ap j pliances to be used on Norwegian ships traversing the war zones. ; Each lifeboat must be half cover? ed with waterproof cloth as a shelter, and must be provided with oil-skins , for the crew, with signal lights, a hand pump, and ample supplies o: \ bread, meat and water. j Each ship must carry an extra boat of at least 10B cubic feet, und large enough to take the whole crew. This boat must contain air chambers and have a cork belt around it. Either this boat or on*' of the regular life I <<;its must be supplied with a motor together with fuel for two days and > | tow rope. Passenger boats must have ten cu bi?- feet of lit'? boat room for each pel s??n on board. - -. i Petrograd) Oct. 17.? The generals I arrested for participation in the Kor nlloff affair mi their departure fron. Berdltehev were compelled to walk j three miles to the railroad station,! While they Were jeered. pelted an,1 threatened by r mob of several thou? sand. They barely escaped nliv< When the mob fired on the train, I iM Troth's." TECK TRUE 7. sue fob imrtti punt. WILL MANUFACTURE AMMONIA AND NITRIC ACID ON TEN N ES SEE RIVER. After War Excess Pro^wcts Over Munitions R/equli-eincnts " ^'111 Be Sold to Make Fcrdttaar. Washington, Oct. 16.?Sheffield, Ala., as a site for one of the nitrate plants for Wlit<)*r oangreSs appropriat? ed $20,000,000, was announced today by the war department. The site is on the Tennesee River, near Slusclc, Shoals. The plant is to manufacture ammonia and nitric acid. Agreement has been reached be? tween the government and owners of the; fand as to^he price to be paid for the site. \ The secretary of war authorized the following announcement regarding the location of the government nitrate plant: "The secretary of war announces that the president has approved the location at Sheffield, Ala,, of the ini? tial ammonta and nitric acid plants to be constructed with a portion of the $20,000,000 appropriated for ni? trate supply by the national dofense act, providing a suitable site be there obtained at a reasonable price. As satisfactory prices have now been agreed upon for the transfer of the ! several parcels of lands Involved, the location of these initial plants at Shef? field may now be regarded as assured. "Sheffield. Ala., is located on ths Tennesee River Just below Muscle Shoals and Is near to the phosphate beds of Central Tenness-ee. On the j site selected there are several sub jstantlal steel buildings which can be I utilized with a saving of expense and ; of time. j "These initial plants were planned with a view to determining the best and most economical process of nitrogen fixation. Enough land Is be? ing acquired to permit of large ex l pans-ion?by the same or by other i processes?in case such expansion at [ the same place shall be decided upon. These plants will produce material of much value in the manufacture of munitions for the war. After the W?r any excess of their products over the munitions* requirements may be sold for use In fertilizer." NEW JAPANESE WARSHIPS. An Ambitious Program to Strength? en Navy Under Way. Tokio, Sept. 20 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?The construc? tion of six new destroyers for the pur? pose of naval repletion at a cost of $6,000,000 is- to be started shortly and the work will be expedited to com? plete them within the present fisca year ending April next. The destroy? ers will all be of middle size and be named the Nara, Kuwa, Tsubaki, Maki, Keyaki. and Enokl respectively. The building of the following bat? tleships, cruisers and destroyers is to begin soon at the navy dockyards and at shipbuilding yards at Xaga , saki. Battleship Mutsu. I Negate type) with a displacement of 32,0(10 tons; Cruiser Tania, with a displacement of 7,800 tons; Cruiser Kuma, with a dis? placement of 3,500 tons, and first class destroyers Kawakaze, Minekaze and Sawakazc, each of about 1,200 tons. The battleship Mutsu will carry the largest and most powerful main , gun ever mounted on any battleship of the Japanese navy, and the cruiser j Tams will be the largest warship of the kind in the Japanese navy. The first class destroyer Kawakaze. which will be one of the largest destroyers In the Japanese navy, is the substitu-| tute for the destroyer of the same name which was built in France after the outbreak of the European war land was sold later to an entente pow ! er. ' Resides these warships a big special I service ship with a displacement of' j 12,000 tons and five submarines, each (displacing Tan tons, will be built at the Kure navy dockyard. SWEDISH MAIL HEUsEI). British Embassy Holding Diplomatic Mall Pouches. Washington. Oct It!. The Swedish minister conferred with Secretary Lansing today regarding Swedish dip? lomatic mail pouches being removed from'a steamer hy British and held at the British embassy here. The United States knows nothing officially of it. The British offered to release the pouches if Sweden would consenl t<> dt sc lose their commits. The pouehe were seised after the trgentlnn :md Mexico disclosure of Swedish com pllclty in < lerman in! i Igu ; southron, ?SSSS '???> ?i? VoLXLV. No. 19. PLOTTERS ON ?IL CONSPIRED TO FOMENT REVO? LUTION IN INDIAN EMPIRE. (Hindu Witness Says German Deader* Directed Plot From Berlin and Was Paid WTell for His Participation. Chicago, Oct. 16.?Trial of Gustav H. Jacobson, Albert Wende, George Boehm and Heramba La Gupta, charged with conspiring to foment a revolution in India, was begun todi.y before Federal Judge I>andis. Baron Gurt von Beiswitz, former German consul in Chicago, was indicted with the others but is now in Germany. Jacobson is a wealthy Chicago real estate deal t. Assistant United States District At? torney Joseph Fleming in his opening, address s;.id that the government would show that the alleged plotters received their instruction from Berlin by code caolegrams. The entire plot, he said, was conceived in Berlin when the India national council was form? ed in the German capital in ItII to overthrown Eritish rule in India and force the allies to withdraw troops from the French and Belgium battle fronts to India. Attorney Fleming declared that Baron von Reischwitz in May, 1915, paid $20.00 ) to Albert H. Wehde to instigate a rebellion in India. The government's attorney also said that $20,000 was paid by the German con? sul in Chicago to another mm in furtherance of the conspiracy. Later Boehm, according to District Attorn? ey Fleming, received $1,500 from von Beiswitz and immediately left for In? dia. The detailed story of the activities of the alleged conspirators in San Francisco, Honolulu, Siam and Chi? cago and their subsequent arrest by the United States government w&sde? scribed by Mr. Fleming In closing. John Singh, a Hindu, the first wit? ness for the government, said he was in South America when he first be? came interested in the alleged plot He went to Italy and later to Berlin, where he al tended meetings of the German leaders directing the Indian revolution propaganda. The witness said he was given f 1, 000 in Berlin to come to the United States. In New York he met Wehde and La Gupti and later came to Chi? cago, where he conferred with Baron i von Reiswit"., Jacobson, Boehm snd others interested in the alleged con? spiracy. Sinjh said he went to Slam with Boehm, Wehde and von RelswltZ. At San Francisco he received $800 from trie German consul. He visited Amoy, China, where he received a package of letters bearing on the alleged plot from the German consul there. Later he went to Ma? nila and finally reached Siam. GERMAN TO CROPS SHORT. Situation in Austria Even Worse Than In Germany. London, Oct. 14.?The Press Asso? ciation from a reliable source, pub? lishes an eeomonic review of the con? ditions of the Central Powers, in the course of which it says that as a re? sult of a special investigation or? dered by the German chancellor of the 1917 harvest, it is estimated that the yield will Iks 40 per cent lower than in normal years for wheat, and 4 5 per cent, lower for rye, oats, and barley. The total harvest of wheat and rye amounts of 7,500,000 tons, compared to 132,000,00?) tons in 1913. The shortage will be party compen? sated from th ? Rumanian graneries. The reviewer considers that the food situation in Germany during the coming winter will depend mainly on the results of the potato harvest. The situation in Austria-Hungary, it is declare^!, is worse than in Bar many. L A POLLE PTE PROBE POST? PONED, Washington, Oct. 17.?The I^a Fol lette Investigation has been postpon? ed until November 2?ith when wit? nesses will he heard. Chairmsn Pomerene denied that the tempor? ary postponem ?nt carried any signifi? cance. I ^ Indians Buy IUismIii Washington, Oct. 15. ?Secretary Lansing has authorised Indian Com misloner Sells to invest $3,000,000 of the funds of the Five Civilised Tribes in i per cent. Liberty bonds, it Is expected that the Oklahoma Indians outside the five tri bei V/ill Mibscribe .< i ,000,000 more. A large part of their money comes from oil land royalties, from which ihe Indians have accumulated a fund of $6,000,000,