Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HrMTHit watchman, MaVi CoDSolidated Auk a, 1 MUST SURRENDER TERRITORY. GERMANY M\KIS DKM.WDS II \< kl !> UV TIIKFATS. iv' labe v Ik 1 Now Heaping Pittcr Fruits of Their Prw-e nt Any Price Vgltn Uon?(icrmntiH Make a Mock of No Annotation Proposal*. Petrograd, Wednesday, Jan. 23.? Russia must Rive up Courlund und all of the ll.ltio provinces or tlH Germans will resume militury opera lions and occupy Kevul within a week, the German delegation nt Drest-Lito vsk pence conference informed th? ftuselon representatives at the last session of the conference Adjourn? ment was taken until January 29th te permit the Russians to consider th | German terms. t IHM si si i/l II VltPlN I *? ?sengen? on Trans- Pacific Liner Tell or rhlnrs* Troops Taking Man churien Cttjr. A Pacific Port. Jan. 23.?Passengers aboard a trims-Pacific liner which ar? rived here today from the Orient brought details of th? capture by Chinese troops of the Manchurlan city of Harbin. T J. Davlw of Chicago, one of the peseengem, said the Chinese took the , in an unique hut effective man? ner. 'The f hinese commander." Mr. Da? vis said, "walked into the office of th Bolshevlkl commander and prompt' killed him. Much fighting followed Mr. Davis said. At the close of hostilities, he asserted the well drilled Chinese troops had driven the Itolshevlki sol? diers from the city. THE \t STItlAN NTKIKK. One Workmen Induced Comrades to Walk Out. Amsterdam. Jan. 3.1.?The strike in Austria, according to a dispatch from Vienna, printed in The VcsMOphe Zei? tung of Berlin, was started by a workman named Hchoersfelder. who Induced several hundred of his com? rades at the Daimler Motor Works. 13 mi lee south of Vienna, to walk out. The strike spread rapidly and on Thursday of bint week, all the muni? tion workers and factories were forc? ed to close. Mujgstreds of thousands of persons feathered In the streets. No songs were sung IJsd M banners were flown, the dispatch says, threats, grumbles and demands only being beard. The trades people Joined in he strike and all ?<hope were closed Vienna was without a newspaper for three days. Referring to the negotiations car? ried on last week between Socialists and th* government In consequent-* Of Which considerable concessions were made by the eoverntnent. the cor reepondent su "The orf1ei.il Socialist party has been completely victorious over the extreme Socialists but only paitmlty ever the government and the extrem? ists are gnashing their teeth at their failure owiftg to the attitude of the majority " In tht? opinion of the correspond? ent Important results were attained He poits out ttat Pnelfjl Minister Cserntn would not have referred to e possible compromise on the ques? tion of the evacuation of Poland Without having agreed with foreign Minister von Kuehlmann. MnONslllMKs MOID AfTlVF. Grce* Increase In Ngcjsrfscturc of 1 tfpi >r In !l<iiic Dr> states. Washington J.m 21?The dlsco\ Sry that the manufacture, of moon ?ihins whiskey Is Increasing rapidly In bone dry States, that quantitus huve been sold Illicitly to soldiers in South ?>rn camps at Spnrtanhurg, Greenville. Columbia and Chattanooga, caused In ternal Itevenue Commissioner Itopei today to announce a nation wide cam palgn in cooperation with St ite gov ernor* to suppress moonshine. Plckens and llorry rountws. South Carolina, were reported as local,tie where moonshlning flourished an : ulso most of the northwestern coun ties were mentioned as | laces wh? n stills are operated. MuH in MOtCOW. Voety kllk<d and Hundred* Wound i on Plot si) Siindii) Petrograd. Jan ? Porty person were killed and two hundred wounded In bloodv riots thst gOgWTfOd In Moscow daring the demonstration at the anmversarv celebration of "Uloodv Hunde) **>ed April, 1850. "Be Sum ai 881. srj WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE END. heading statesman tei.es OF HOVMANI.VS PEIGUT. Givut Fulth In Allies?Juiu>m u He- j Here* Right Will Finally Prevail! ami II In Country Recover Lost Provinces. Jussy, Thursday, Jan. 17 (By the I Associated Press.)?Take Joncscu. one of the leading statesmen of Rouman? ia, and vice president of the counoil of ministers, whose resiKnntion from the cabinet King Ferdinand recently J ('??dined to accept, talked with the Associated Press today about tho pres? ent position of Roumania and what the country would expect as a con? dition of peace. As to the future course of Rou? mania. gf, Jonceou declared the nou manian people would remain faithful to the entente allies until tho end. "whatever that end might be." He Said Roumania, like the United States, had drawn its sword in defense <>t freedom and Justice and that tho! hAtiOSI would never rest until those principles had been achieved. " You are asking me to speak about my country's situation, when that situation Is at its worst," said M. Joneseu to tho correspondent. "Re n ember. If Russia makes peace and we are forced to seek refuge from a foe Infinitely superior in strength of' i.innl ers. we have no corfu like Ser? bia bad when her soldiers were forced to leave their native soil. The problems and sufferings of Roumania are little known in Amer? ica. We have been rather silent I t>out them as there are many things about which w*? could not talk. For example the consequences to the en-' tente ullles of the failuro of Russia I have been enormous hut to Rouman? ia the results of that failure have beon ? Imost tragical. Yet we have borne the burden in alienee. In spite of all our misfortunes, however, I am con? vinced that my country will continue to fight until the end. Wo are un? der a pledge to remain loyal to the SAW*. . i. Msssse, "But if a general peace should come, the Roumanian nation can not tfuppori a belief that Justice win b?? given to all others and not to her? self Tbc union of Roumanian prov? ince I undt I the domination of Aus 1 triaOluiigsry?that nation so guilty j for the provocation of the war? I 1 with fret Roumania is one of the elementary conditions of a just und lastniK peace. "?Jreat Britain, France and Italy ?re pledged to restore these provinces to Roumania. While the Fnited Stater is not bound by treaty with si tall nations these nations have ca Itabhshed the Justice of their war alms by saerllletl Immensely greater In proportion to those of groat nations. 1 admire too much, however, the mor a1 Knatness of tho American soul not to know that the American people are bound to us by the most sacred tlM and that at conference of peace the. will desire to keep a scat at that moeting for Roumania at any price and at any sacrifice." CHAMBER!.AIN ANSWERS BACK. His eg lo a Question of Personal Priv i ' ! liege In Senate. Washington. Jan. 14.?Senator Chamber lain chairman of the mili? tary committee rose to a question of Personal privilege today and replied tu President Wilson's recent statement that Senator Chamberlain, in a speech R id mads an "astonishing and abso lutely unjustif able distortion of th truth." Senator Chamberlain stood firmly by his charge that the American mil? itari establishment eras enmeshed In Inefficiency, repeated Ihe stateraonti that drew President Wilson's ire, and declared that the president himself doesn't know the truth. He declared he would show that the deaths Of hundreds and Illness of thousands of ?hc men In Ihe cantonment camps rere due to ?he e/nr department th.it all epidemics could have Peer prevented If the department had beer efficient " AMERICAN sh ami R sfnk. Oeesnnn submarine Destroyed Former Qeensnn snip. Atlantic port, Jan. 21. - The Ameri can steamship Ownseo, formerly the lermas it earner Allemannls, which rai seised when the United Btatea ?ntered the war. was sunk by a sun marine saris Is Pocsmbof off the Plpnnlsh eeast in the Mediterranean aeeerdin - ?urrIvors who arrived tere today, Two members of the rev\ vc.? lOSti id Fear not?Dec all the eods Thou Mi TOTER. S. C. SA1URD WAR CABINET CONTEST. CTIAMRITRlAIX DETERMINED TO CONTINUE FKiHT. Ho Insists on Answering President Although flennte [??dere Try to Dlsoiisdri Him Frotn Policy of Dis eenelan. Washington, Jan. 23.?The contro? versy between the administration and! members of the senate military com* mlttee over proposals fer a war eabi-j net and director of munitions will be \ brought before the senate tomorrow! with prospects of spirited dis-cussion. Senator Chamberlain plans to riBo to a question of personal privilege and reply at length to President Wilson's j denunciation of the senator's recent statement that every department 1 the government had broken down in the war as a distortion of truth. Several speeches on behalf of the ad? ministration 're also planned. In a series of conferences among senate* leaders today, plans of pro? cedure In the forthcoming contest over the legislation which the presi-' dent opposes were crystalized. To? night administration spokesmen ex? pressed confidence that the military committee's bills ' would never be brought to a vote. It was agreed to? day not to oppose Senator Chumber laln's motion for reference to his com? mittee of the war cabinet bill. After? ward, however, it la proposed to refer the bill also to the naval affairs com? mittee for study regarding Its effects upon the navy. Democratic leader Martin conferred during the diiy with loaders of both, factions and also with several promi? nent Republican senators. A futilo effort was made to dissuade Senator Chamberlain from making his speech. Beyond formal reference of tho war cabinet bill to the committee no ac tjon Is expected tomorrow and to chock discussion it is planned to ad? journ tho senttte at the close of^ the diy until Monday. The White House today gave out: this ' telesfeam received hji UM llfWl dent from former Representative John | Pttegoreldi who was chairman of the1 house appropr atlons committee: "Investigation during cntiro session ending October 9th demonstrated won derful results accomplished by War Department under great difficulty. I Opening paragraph Northcllffe's book on the war graphically pictures ac compiishments Official.i desire and should have or couragement and sym? pathy rather than be hampered by (constant nuggi.ig and criticism." ; Republicans oi* the house in confer once tonight voted 75 to 9 in favor Of tlio creation of a department of bu? reau of munitions and ordnance with a director appointed by the president. There was some discussion of the war council proposal but no attempt was mnde to put the conference on record in regard to It. When the vote wmh announced the point of no quorum was made and the Conference adjourned, leaving the way open for another discussion Of the subject when another meeting Is held. The resolution voted on was introduced by Representative Giiiett, of Massachusetts, acting floor leader, ! as a substitute for the McCormick-j I-enroot resolution considered last week, it follows: "WhereaSi in the conduct on the| existing war the Republican members' of the house of representatives have taken the position that there should be no parlaanahlp, but that all' Americana should be united in the support of the government In press? ing the war to a successful conclusion, and In voting ungrudgingly the ad? ministration all the resources and powers to that end and will continue1 i o to do; and "Whereas, the need of a united country demandi thai where condl? Mona exlat causing unnecessary dele) <u waste due to the overlapping juris diction of the bureaus and depart i enta or fer other causes revealed by congressional investigation, it la their patriotic duty to lUggeal remedies for such conditions; therefore be it ' Resolved that it is the sense of thin conference there should he ere ate I i department or bureau of mu? nitions and ordnance, the director of which shall be appointed by the presi d< nt. confirmed by the senate, and be Immediately reapcnaible to the presi? dent to ayatematlse the manufacture and purchaaa of ordnance and muni Hons by means of which the success of our armed forces may be speedily attained." Rome, Jan. 24.?The weekly re port of Italian shipping losses gives the stnking of onh on* small sai)inf vesssl. ua't at be thy Country's, rny God's ei A.Y, JANUARY 26. 1918 CHAMBERLAIN TO FIGHT. WILL PRESS WAR LEGISLATION IN SENATE. Oregon Senator aud Committee to Go Ahead in Spite of President's Oppo? sition. Washington, Jan. 22.?Neither the) aggressive opposition of President Wilson nor the apparent certainty that their measure would have no j chance in the house even if passed by the senate is halting the campaign of the advocates In congress of hills to establish a war cabinet and a director of munitions. When the senate reconvenes Th?r?-1 day, according to plans made today | by Chairman Chamberlain and his as- , BOCiatea on the militarv committee be-' i hind the legislation, the contest will be opened. They propose with a mo? tion to refer the war cabinet Mil to' the military Committee as the vehicle of debate to open discussion of the merits of their war machinery or- j ganizatlon program and Senator Chamberlain expects to reply to the statement leeued by President Wilson last night criticising him for his New York speech in which the Orgeon tsen utor said the military establishment had "broken down." Administration leaders also con? ferred today at the capitol and plan? ned to tight the Chamberlain i?dis indj answer attacks upon the government'sj (conduct of the war. In preparation e ! number of Democratic senators saw the president last night. It is under? stood the president told them he be? lieved the country would support him j in his opposition to legislation that? would abandon a machine carefully developed since the war began in fa-i vor of a new and untried organization, j The president advised his visitors that under the present organisation the war record of the government has been one of great accomplishments and would result in placing abroad by next June twice the number of Ameri? cans originally planned. Mistakes in such a gigantic task, he suggested, were to be expected. To meet the arguments of the ad? ministration spokesmen Senator1 Chamborlaln and his supporters are preparing to elaborate on the defl- j ciences in providng army supplies and equipment disclosed in the commit I tee's war Inquiry. Today the Invssti nilttee decided to resume the Investi? gations next Saturday calling Surgeon 1 Gonera Gordas to testify regarding; j cantonment sanitary conditions. The i record of the investigation to date wan hastily completed today to be furnished to senators In readiness for j Thursday's debate. Late in the day Senator Chamberlain Included in the 'record a statement furnished by the I war department showing shortages o" eulpmsnt in National Guard and Nat? ional Army cantonments on January t 1. On that date the overcoat shore age was over in all camps but Camp Lee, Virginia, showed a large short age of woolen coats, Camp Funsto:. i Kansas, 50 per cent, in blankets arc Camp Funston, Kansas, and Camp Bevler, South Carolina, reported short agss of 65 and 60 per cent., respec? tively, in woolen breeches and coats. Secretary Baker submitted with his report letters retracting certain state? ments made to the committee some time ago regarding sufllciency of cloth? ing at Camp Sherman, Ohio. Prompted by President Wilson's statement last night the .ordnance bu? reau of the war department has em? barked upon a new publicity policy. While no official statement was avail? able it was indicated that wherever military necessity does not demand suppression of facts and figures, full information as to what the bureau is doing or has done will be given to th ? press. in conned on with the new p dlcy it was disclosed the reorganization of the ordnance bureau began early In May. CUT, less than a month after the declaration of a state of war. A rough draft of the reorganisations re? ferred to by President Wilson In his statement 10 far as thai bureau is concerned at last, was drawn up dur? ing May and had the approval of the president himself. PASSENGER RATES MAY DE IN? CREASED. If Freight Congestion Continues Pas? senger Travel Will Ik* Discouraged. Washington. Jan. 23.?Director Gen? eral etcAdoo told the house commit* tee today that he didn't believe in an increase in passenger fares to dis? courage travel was necessary now, but If freight congestion became so acute as to demand the passenger equipment, said ho wouldn't hesitate to maletlally increase passenger rates. outl) m ireta'a" THE TBC1 s. CHECK WAGE COMPETITION. MEASURE TO PREVENT DISOR? GANIZATION OF FARM LABOR. Enticement of Workers from Farnw by Mobilization of Labor for War Industries to Ho Stopped. Washington, Jan. 22.?Measures to chock competition for labor between the war industries and government agencies have been taken by the de? partment of labor. This was announc? ed today after a delegation of Vir? ginia truck growers headed by Rep? resentative Holland had called on Assistant Secretary Post with a pro? test that the farmers would lose a million bushels of potatoes this year If the enticement of farm laborers by industrial concerns wer? permitted to continue. The delegation was told that the de partmenl .already had directed the cancellation of extravagant advertise? ments for num. which arc considered detrimental to the government's war program. Industrial plants are being assured that all real labor needs will bo met by the United States employ? ment service, In whose hands the dis? tribution of available labor has been placed by Secretary Wilson. Mobilization of shipyard workers, a department statement tonight said, has been placed entirely in the hands of the employment service by the ship? ping board. Independent recruiting by the board and the Individual plants will be discontinued to permit a con? centration of effort during a two weeks campaign beginning next Mon? day, which will culminate in a nat? ional shipbuilders registration week, February 11. Confusion and suffering are said tc have resulted from careles? state bents as to shipyard needs. "Published statements of the num 1 ber of men who will be wanted havt been misinterpreted," said the state I ment, "as meaning that groat numben j are wanted now, whereas th ?y an ; wanted only in limited quantifies an< I of particular types at any one time 1 Men whould stick to their jobs unti ' tho department tells them that then is a shipbuilding position waiting sini what the wages and housing condi? tions are. "V.y registering in the public scr vice reserve, men can be assured thai they will .'O told when they will b< w a nted. "Employers of labor, even In so called unessential industries will b? helped by the success of the registra? tion which will make it possible fot the department to make a fair dlertri ?uttion of all calls for men and tc minimize and equalize any drain or Industry which results from unregulat? ed competition for men between w industries and different branches ol the government." Tt was estimated that from now un? til next August 400.000 men will be needed for shipbuilding, this includinp the labor turn over. Many times this number of voluntary workers Is ex? pected to be enrolled during regis? tration week. An appeal to President Wilson I speed tip governmental machinery in aid of production so as to relieve the anxiety of farmers as to labor sup? ply, credit facilities and seeds short nge was made today in memorial from the federal board of farms organiza? tion in behalf of more than 2,000,00 organized farmers. The board BSked for a reply February <? when repre? sentatives of the seven national farm organisations comprising the board together with a number of Stete mas? ters of the grange and heads of the Society of Equity and other bodice ?? ill seek an audience with the presi dent to discuss constructive pians. The memorial said: "If food is to win the war, as WO are assured on every side, the farm? ers of America mu.it produce more food in l'.UN than they did in H17. Pad unless present conditions are radi? cally changed, increased crops next year are impossible. Under existing conditions we can not equal the pre? diction of 1917 much less surpass it, and this is for reat/ons over which the farmers have no control. "The chief causes which will in BVitubly bring about a smaller crop nexl year, unless promptly movea by national action, are six in number: The shortage of farm labor; shortage of seed; prices often below the cost >f production; lack of reasonable jredit; exclusion of the farmer from iis right and necessary share in the conduct of the war, and a deep seated loubt whether he can raise the in 'reuse crops demanded of him and dill support his family and pay his lebts. "Many thousands of acres were left E SOUTHRON, liliMttlWll tmm, if*. Vol.XLV. No. 47. LEAD GLEAN LIVES. : COMMANDER PAYS HJCH TRIB BITE TO SOLDIERS IN FflAXCK. Porshlim's IfMBMB to Mothers?May Rost Assured That Their Sons Are Credit to Them, and Nation. Washington, Jan. u:'.?There never [has been a similar body of men to lead as clean liv< I as the American 'soldiers in Franc,'. Oer?. Pershing said in a cablegram today to Secretary Ba? ker in reply to in- uires as to the truth j of reports of in moderate drinking among the men. General Pershing*s message was made public by Mr. Baker in this let? ter to Governor Capper of Kansas: "You may recall writing to me sev? eral days ago concerning 'persistent reports' as to th< immoderate sale of liquor among ouv forces in France. My impression eras that these rumors were not well founded In fa**t; hut I felt it my duty to convey their con? tend to General Penning and to ask him to communicate with me as to the facts. Y'ou will be glad to know that I have Just received the following words from the commander of the American expeditionary forces: " There has never been a similar ' body of n eu to b id as clean lives as I our American soidiors in France. 11They have entered this war with the highest devotion to duty and with nO other idea than to perform these du? ll ties In the most efficient manner pos . IStole. They fully realize their obliga? tion to their own people; their friends and the country. "'A rigid program of inspection is , carried out dail> with traditional j American enthusiasm. They are en > gaged in interesting exercises in the .'open air with sin)pie diets, officers and men, like trained athletes, are . j ready for their task. Forbidden the ? ; use of strong drink and protected by - stringent regulations against sexual s'evils and supported by heir own mor 0i al courage, their good behavior is the 11 subject of most favorable comments; . especially by our t Hies, li "'American mo.hers may rest as ensured their sons are a credit to them I end to the nation and they may look . j forward to the proud day when on ! the battlefield the.-* splc ndid men will . shed a new lustre m American man t; hood.' " iii_ _^ FREIGHT EMBARGO ALTUORIZ . j ED. . ? Only Food, Fuel ami Munition- on Eastern Roads. Washington, Jan. 23.?An embargo ' on all freight, except food, fuel and 1 war munitions, on the Pennsylvania ' lines east of Pittsburg, the Baltimore j & Ohio east of the Ohio River and the ' I Philadelphia & Reading, was author . i'/ed by Director General McAdoo. The embargo is temporary and is > expected to last 01 ly a few days. Its* ? purpose is to enal v those linos which ? are heaviest bituminous coal carriers to continue specialising upon coal for ' the purpose of supplying acute con? ditions in New England, New York ! harbor and elsewhere. I ^_J _ N I SEVEN HOUR SVG4JESTKD. PrrsMciui Samuel Goeapers Makes Far Reaching Piopossl Before Labor Convention. Indianapolis, Jan. 23.?A universal sc v? n hour day during the period of the war. instead of the present spas? modic suspension 01 industries by the fuel administration to conserve coal and relieve railroad congestion, was suggested by President Gompern of the American Federation of Labor in a speech to the United Mine Workers* convention today. - - unharvested last fall bees use the necessary hands had left the farms. Already great numbers of farms near excellent market? iu idle for lack of S living return. Hill 1 OOS of acres will be wholly or partly lie next summer because the money to buj seed and subsistence will be lacking. So far we have learned there || not a single genuine farmer, represents" tive of the organised farmers of America, in any position of authority in ihe food admlnistr tlon, the advis? ory council of nation i defense or any of the other ipecial boards charged with the conduct of tin war. "Comparing their csm small earn? ings with the huge v.ar profits they see on every hand, the farmers ha\a lost confidence that the government understands the needs and ditliculties oi the fanners. Unless thai confidence can be restored, it Is useless to hops that we can maintain ti e food produc? tion of last year and much less to in < lease it."