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SUPPLIES FROM SPUN. ARRANGEMENTS MARE FOR GEN. FKRSHJNGS ARMY TO GET SUPPLIES. Karra Ship Tonnage? Mules, Army Blank eta ami Other Mut?'rial* to be Exchanged for Cotton lYotlucts. Washington, Feb. 21.?An economb agreement wtth Spain, under which General Pershlng will get mules, army blankets and other materials in that country in return for cotton, oil and other commodities from the Unit? ed States, was signed today in Mad? rid. The State department was so advised tonight by Ambassador WIK lard. The terms of the agreement could not be learned tonight and it was not known whether they had any bearing on the rate of exchange be? tween the two countries which the United States has desired to adjust be? cause of the recent depreciation of the American dollar in Spain, where it is now worth only about 75 cents. Success of the negotiations for ex? change of commodities was welcome neWS to officials here as the ability of General Perahing to buy finished ar? ticles in Spain will save ship tonnage and enable the general to build up his reserve stores much more rapidly than probably otherwise would have been possible. The negotiations which had been in progress for upwards of a month followed refusal of Spain to supply a large number of mules. 200,000 blan? kets and other materials ordered by General Pershlng. The official reason given for the failure to fill the order was said to have oeen that the Span? ish railroad system had broken down Negotiations at Madrid apparently were going on when it became known that Spanish steamers were being held up at American ports for lack of fuel. Through their control of bunker coal, the United States and the allies were in a position to stop not only the shipment of goods to Spain from the allied countries, but from neutrals aa well. Spain la dependent upon this country for large supplies of food? stuffs sa well ss other materials. RUSSIAN COURIER IN RERUN reaver Proposals of Boliihevlkl Will Not be Considered for Some Time. Amsterdam. Feb. 22.?A Russian coarler with the peace proposals of the Russian government has arrived In Berlin, according to advicea re reived here. The Nord Deutsche All? gemeine Zeitung, the Germa semi? official, organ, says the reopening of the negotiations with Russians can not be expected for some time. Dr. von Kuehlmann, Ihe German foreign secretary, says the newspaper, will employ the Interval In conduct? ing negotiations with Roumania, for which he left for Bucharest Thurs? day. The Roumanian delegato al? ready has arrived there. MESSENGER TURNED BACK. R aasia n in Search of Hoffman Not Al? lowed to Pass. Petrograd. Feb. 22. - An official statement issued today says: "The Russian preliminary messen? gers started in a motor car from Kelahitsa for Dvlnsk. but near the station at Antonopol were met by a German automobile armed with ma f hine sunn. The Kussian motor cur was allowed to pass, but the prelim? inary representative and the cominis ?loner of the fifth army were detained and brought back to Helshitsa In tie man automobile." Hleshltsa i* about )r"? miles south? east of Rigs and about 10 miles from Dvlnsk Antonopol is a village about 20 miles from Hieshitsa It is presum? ed that the preliminary messengers were carrying the form t I acceptance of Ihe Germ in \>> << ? t.-i ins to i Jen eral Hoffman, who is somewhere along the Russian front LW.l SENT TO J Ml.. F.nglamt Takes Action Against Amer? icans. London. Feb. 22.?Charles Kdwaid Boyington ami p.iui Aloysius Man? rung. American representatives of |h* i w. w. in r.m,d,?nd. wore sentenced to Six months' imprisonment today la the Bow Street poitOi court The men also were rooosnmendod fat deports tlon. They were charged with spread? ing pacifist propaganda in Bngland with a view to causing disaffection among workmen WILL 11 IVE PETROGR \l> Allied Embassies Will MOVS With P.ol shertkl to Emc?|>c Germans. Petrograd. Friday, Feb. 22.? The -idled embassies will I SOYS ivtiogrud in the event the German advame threatens the city. They are ready, however, to aid the Russians to fight the Germans. If forced to move the embassies will probably proceed In? land with the Bolshevik I government wherever It may move. SCANDINAVIA HARD PRESSED. minister to 1>I0Nmark TELLS of PliOST. Norway, Denmark and Sweden Forecd t<? Continue Neutrality Although Suffering by so Ikdug. New Vork, Feb. 21.?Dr. Maurice F. K<an, United States minister to Denmark, today addressed the Amer? ican Academy of Arts and Letters on the position of the Scandinavian na? tions in the world war. Dr. Egan n ocntly returned to the United States to recuperate from the effects of a long illness. Dr. Egan said that from the be? ginning of the war Sweden, Norway and Denmark had maintained neu? trality under extreme difficulties. Af? ter having spent ten years on the Ger? man frontier, he could see how Amer? ica had misunderstod the views and hopes of these nations. America, he declared, was a big free country, apart from any other, and with its own in? stitutions and the power to maintain them, while the three small Scandi? navian nations have lived and are living under the constant shadow of a ruthless colossus. While the Scandinavian nations are closely allied by blood. Dr. Egan continued, they have widely divergent ideals. Sweden is the least demo? cratic nation of the three. Sweden, he added, always has been inclined to be pro-German; Norway always has been anti-German. Nor? way loves England and is very friend? ly to America. "King Oscar made a grave mis? take at the time of the break." Dr. Egan continued. "He stuck to the old aristocratic rule by the overlords. All this time Denmark was under constant fear of the same fate as that I which overtook Serbia. But if Ger? man)* had assailed Denmark, Russia would have swooped down on Sweden. That fear on Sweden's part is gone, but Denmark is still under the old menace. "When the war opened the three nations were at heart opposed to each other. The quarrel was ancient and hereditary. There was no chance of any Scandinavian federation un? til the Unted States entered tho war Swcilcn no longer was menaced by Russia, Norway was strong and inde? pendent enough to light and little Denmark was almost ready to ac? cede to Germany's terms. "Before the war Denmark's best customer was England. But she ex? ported much of her foodstuffs to Ger? many, as well. Germany lately has been sending her coal and potatoes to Denmark and saying "in spite of our impoverishment, wo send you what we can, while the allies, includ? ing the great wealthy, strong Amer? ica, arc trying to starve you.' Mr. Egan warned his hearers that the wealth, culture and efficiency of tho United States h ive been so ex? ploited in Europe that it was difficult to make the small Scandinavian na? tions understand her purpose In go? ing into the war. The severe embar? go, he added, has made Bcandlnavta suffer acutely and the blockade, pre v? nting the three countries from trad? ing with belligerents, bai astonished them. The speaker said that in 1114, when Denmark was struggling against Prussia and Austria, President Lin? coln asked Denmark, then with a goodly fleet, not to Interrupt German ships proceeding with cargoes for the United States. This rennest was ac? ceded to, he added, and Denmark to? day did not quite understand why she might not receive similar treatment. The minister concluded by saying that ? propaganda now was being spread that he believed would do much to remove the growing coolness towj rds America in Scandinavia. SECOND DRAFT soon. Men for National Army Will Be Call? ed in April or May. Washington. Feb. 23.?While war department officials reiterate that no date has been set for calling the MO? Ond draft of the National Army, all available outward indications point to somo time In April or early May ? <t the latest. llh.iii.K PRICED WHEAT. Probable That Itll Crop Will Im? Ad? winced by Proclamation. Washington, Feb. 18.?There are in-1 dteatlona today that the price <>r the II11 Wheat crop will be Increased ?gob ->y presidential proclamation. I The st a i ol two dollara a bushel sei by the food control law is oonslder? od to be the minimum, and that the president has authoiity to increase' the price If he considers conditions' warrant an advance. Several hills are I pending in congress t<? raise price, some proposing thai it ; high as $2.7f> per bushel. Paris, Feb. 23.? No French ships were sunk by German submarines or mines during the week ended Febru? ary 14th AIMENIENI WITH NORWAY. EXPORTS TO GO FROM UNITED STATES. Ship to Do Released and Permitted to Sail With CorSO Badly Needed. Washington, Feb. 22.?A complete economic agreement in which Croat Britain and the other allies are in ac? cord has been reached between the United States and Norway. The terms have not yet been made public. Announcement of the successful conclusion of negotiations between the war trade board and Dr. Friedjof Nansen, the Norwegian commissioner, which have extended over several months, was contained in this state? ment issued by the hoard tonight through the committee on public in? formation. The war trade board, acting in har? mony with a similar decision of the British government in regard to the i Norwegian steamer Alfred Bobel has j decided to release the Norwegian steamer Kim, now lying in an Ameri? can port, and permit it to proceed to Norway with its cargo of oil cake for fodder purposes. Dr. Nansen, Nor? wegian commissioner in the United States, has been informed of this de? cision which was taken in view of the fact that the general negotiations with Norway have reached a point where nothing remains except the drafting of the agreement. Both cargoes, that of the Alfred Nobel, comprising flour and other foodstuffs were loaded in the Argen? tine and are covered by the new Nor? wegian rationing agreement about to be drafted. Although the terms of the final agreement have not been made public. Norway, In a note handed to the war trade board, February 14, in reply to a memorandum of the board of Jan? uary 26, acceded to most of the Amer? ican demands. It refused, however, to agree not to export to the central powers many of its own products, in? cluding Ingredlenta of munitions and supplies of war, on the ground that it depended upon /Germany for many necessary commodities and had to furnish that country supplies in re? turn. These conditions were agreed to by Norway: j That it would permit no American products to go to the central pow? ers. That it would rot export to the central powers any of Its own pro? ducts replaced by imports from Amer? ica. That it would limit its exportation of fish and fish products to the cen? tral powers to 48,000 tons annually. That in exporting to neutrals, it j would require guarantees that they would not allow to reach the central powers any products which Norway agreed not to export direct to those count rise. That where machinery, coal, oil, kerosene of other auxiliaries import? ed from the United tSates, were used in producing commodities in Norway, the product should not be shipped to the central powers. That it WOUld Institute a rationing system for its population. In addition. Norway agreed to limit its necessary oxportattons to the cen? tral powers, and, in compensation for essential supplies from the United States, and its associates, offered the '?far predominant part of its export surplus" to America and the allies "In addition to the exceedingly im? portant service and sacrifice which the Norwegian merchant marine has rendered during the war." After the receipts of the reply, some officials here contended Nor? way should not be pressed for tin acceptance of terms which she re? gards as impossible of fulfillment. They pointed to Norway's friendli? ness to the allies, her apparent readi? ness to meet conditions Imposed by America in so far as her own needs would permit, und the fact that her ships, despite ruthless attacks by German submarines, had continued to help carry the world's commerce. thus releasing allied .shipping for war work. Norway is largely dependent upon the United States and the allies for food as well as for other commodities and exports from America had beer. shandy restricted pending the out? come of the negotiations. Through its oontrol of fuel coal In this country the war trade board was able to hold U| Norwegian ships carrying food from other countries to Norway h sind? cases where the ships have to call at American ports for fuel, Under the agreement as origlnalls outlined by the war trade board Nor? way has been allotted sufficient food for one year end Uns now will be al? lowed to ko forward. Originally the agreement was for the terra of one year, subject to cancellation upon no? tice of either pm-tv, and also subject to renewal al ths expiration of the year. Detachable uppers enable a new shoe to be worn ns slippers when Jdo sired. SOLDIERS PLANNED TO SHOOT OFFICERS AND BETRAY HOLLOWS. Cleanup of Allem?Two Hundred Men Weeded Hut of Bunks of Ninety?first Division at Lewis. Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash., Feb. ?3.?Four National Army soldiers were held in the guard house today awaiting a presidential warrant from Washington which will mean their in? ternment as enemy aliens who plot? ted not only to shoot their ollicers the first time they got into action in Eu? rope but also to deliver all tho American soldiers in their organization to the German .army. The names of the men under arre:st have been withh Jd by the judge ad? vocate pending advicei from Wash ington. A general clean up of enemy aliens at Camp Lev/Is is in full swing, of? ficers said today. Thirty-four were discharged today and altogether about 200 men have been weeded out of the ranks of the Ninety-first Division. The internment or prosecution of those discharged today rests With the federal civil authorities. No further information regarding the four prisoners was made public tonight. What action in regard to their cases is to be taken has not boon revealed, the judge advocate ?tatlng that instructions were awaited fron Washington. INSTITUTE FOR NEWSPAPER ME>. Plans Being Made for Meeting a: State University. Columbia. Feb. 23.?Gaffney wa> selected as the 1918 convention city for the South Carolina Press Associa? tion, yesterday at a meeting of the executive committee which was held at the Jefferson Hotel. Newspaper publishers from many sections of the State met with the executive commit too and discussed several matters o importance to the profession. The members voted to support a newspaper institute which is to b< conducted this spring by the Univer? sity of South Carolina. The univer sity officials plan to bring loading members of the profession for ad? dresses at the institute. Tho plan fo the institute was presented to tho ed itors by August Kobn, member o* the board of trustees of the university An institute was held last year at th< University of North Carolina and proved very successful. The insti tute will continue for three days and the date will be announced later by J. L Minis and William Banks, mem? bers of a committee having the. mat? ter in charge. An important matter discussed was that of transportation over the rail? way lines for newspaper workers. The mileage exchange system was re? cently abolished by an order from Di? rector General McAdoo of the rail? ways. August Kohn, J. L. Mims and Joe Sparks were appointed as a com? mittee to take this matter up with Mr McAdoo. Mr. Kohn will go to Wash ing at an early date for a confer? ence. He may ho aooompank 1 b\ other members of the committee. The invitation to meet at Gaffno\ was e xtended by Ed. H. DeCamp, edi? tor Of the Gaffney Ledger and a vet? eran member of the association. The date for the meeting in the Cheroke? metropolis will bo nxed later by tin. executive committee. Among those attending the meet? ing were: J. L. Mims of Bdgefleld president; Joe Sparks, secretary; Au? gust Kohn of the News and Courier Bureau, Columbia; William Banks of the Columbia Record; E. H. Aull of the Newberry Herald and News; H. <;. Oateen of the Bumter Rem; L, u Wannamaker Of The News and Con rler, Charleston; J. R. MoGhoe of The Carolina Stockman and fanner; Al? lison l.oo of the Laurent: Advertiser; A. B. Jordan of the Dillon Herald, and Rlon McKlaalck of the Greenville NowV. LEWIS COMPLIMENTS SMITH. Illinois Senator Refers to Untiring Efforts of South Carolinian for Railroad Bill. Washington, Feb. 22.?While the railroad bill was being discussed in the senate today. Senator Lewis of Il? linois paid a high compliment to Sen? ator Smith of South Carolina, saying, "The chairman of this cdmmittee, tin junior senator from South Carolina. has given ceaseless energy, constant labor and unflagging perseverance t<> the work of getting out this bill from the committee and supporting and maintaining U on the door, it Is but justice to say to the chairman, and of him, that If the state of South Car? olina ever fairly appreciate! his great efforts from time to time on this door In conservation of its cotton in tcrests, it should certainly turn with commendable pride and constant, ad? miration to the distinctive efforts he has brought to bear in support of this great administrative measure." BOLSHEVIK COMMANDER BAYS 111'SSI A MUST EIGHT. Official Statement Declares There Must i>o contest for Every Villa gu and Street. Petrograd, Thursday, Foh. 1!2. (By the Associated Press).?A proclama? tion ordering resistance to the Ger? man advances, calling on all Russians to defend the fatherland and declar? ing Petrograd in a state of siege, was issued tonight from the Smolny In? stitute, the Bolshevik headuarters. The proclamation was issued at the j order of he 'People's commissaries and is signed by Premier Lenine and Ensign Krylenko, the Bolshevik com? mander in chief. "If the Germans refuse pe ice to llussia, a struggle to the death or victory for us is inevitable," says En? sign Krylenko in an'offic ial statement issued today. "The people's terror? ism must be opposed to the advanc? ing enemy," it is declared. The statement says that detach? ments. 1,000 to 1.500 strong, lightly armed, and able to entrench quickly ;nd attack determinedly, will be able to stop the German advance. What H characterised as "real revolution? ary mobilization" is ordered. Ensign Krylenko. the Bolshevik commander in chief who iss led the statement, says that if the people succeed in throwing against the ene? my concentrated masses of revolu? tionary citizens who not only in ac? cordance with military strategy but ulso secretly from every corner, ev? erywhere In small detachments and 'arge battalions, will struggle for ev? ery town, village street and house, then there are no forces which the Germans can successfully oppose against them. The statement says that Ml able bodied men must he ordered to work on fortifications and in the construc? tion of obstacles along all the routes of the German advance. Ary bour? geoisie who resists must be tried and forcibly compelled to work. Registra? tion facilities for the revolutionary army have been opened at all local councils and with the staff of the Red Army. It is added that arms will be de? livered by localities. Revolutionary discipline must be brought to th>> highest degree of efficiency by the handing over to the revolutionary tribunals all who do not obey the or? der. "All to arms! All to the defense of the revolution!" says th? state? ment. A general mobilization order for the digging of trenches is ordered. The diggers will be under the orders of the councils and every detach? ment will bo commanded by respon? sible commissiaries with unlimited powers. NO NEW OFFICIALS ALLOWED. Director General McAdoo Issues Order Against New Officials and Higher Salaries. Washington, Feb. 23.?An order restricting the creation of new of fl< il positions by the railroads or raising officers' salaries, was issued to? day by Director General McAdoo. Directory General McAdoo today also directed railroad presidents to fUrtlish him detailed information on salaries, Officers, employes, rentals and other expenses Of financial offices maintained by most of the roads in New York, it Is understod that this information may be used as a basis for demonstrating to what extent overhead expense may be curtailed or eliminated under government control. COM PI I .St) R Y C< )N S F R V AT ION PROPOSFD. f ailure of Some People to BeopOSMl to Patriotic Call May Necessitate Drastic Law. Washington. Feb. 23.?Compulsory food conservation will be neCOBSary, in the opinion of members of the house agriculture committee, which I today submitted a report on the bill giving the president power to regu? late public eating houses and the die? trlbutlon of manufactured foodstuffs. The bill does not directly affect householders. Appeals tO save food have met with gratifying results, the report says, ami adds: "But I here is a small pei cent, of people, who. ei? ther^ wilfully, or for lack of under? standing, bus failed to respond to the call made for patriotic duty." Labor Conference Will Support Brit? ish War Program. London. Feb. S3, The Inter-allied Labor Conference In session here reached an agreement today to sup-' port the British war aims program. Paris, Feb. 23.?French troops last night raider' Gorman positions north of the Ailette river, in the Champagne region, the war office announces. Prisoners and war material were, brought back by the French. _ LUCIA NOW RIOTING IN NEW ORLEANS DOCK. W. M. Evans, in V hose Yard? Repairs Were Effected, ?Aas Visitor to Co 1 ii in bia Friday. The State. YV. M. Evans, former resident of Richland county, now vice president of the Alabama Dry Dock & Ship? building Compan f of Mobile, Ala., passed through Columbia yesterday, returning from Washington where he had been in conference with the national shipping board, relative to wage adjustments. The non-sinkable ship, of which there has been recently much diacus I sion, was recently made seaworthy in Mr. Evans' yards. This vessel, the Lucia, Mr. Evans explained yesterday, was a former Austrian vessel, Intern? ed at Pensacola, at the outbreak of hostilities in Europe and seized by the American government when the Unit? ed States entered the conflict. The vessel has a net tonnage of 5,000 and is the first to be fitted out under the government's supposed non-sinkable plan. The method devised to keep the vessel afloat, after having been struck by a torpedo, is to line it with wood? en boxes, rende ed airtight by sheets of galvanized iron. The small air? tight compartments are of different dimensions, the average being about one foot by tw > feet, six feet in length. When struck by a torpedo inrushing water? into the bulkheads are restricted to the space occupied by destroyed boxes and the pliable character of th ledges of bo^es pre? vents the vessel from listing. There are more than 7 5,000 of the small air? tight compartments in the Lucia, Mr. Evans said. About 14 per cent of the cargo space is consumed by the boxes. Wholesale destruction of valuable parts was wrought by the Austrian* upon the interned Lucia, when the United States entered the war. Ap? proximately $1" 0.000 was necessary for repairs. Cylinder heads were smashed, all copper and steam piping shattered and tlattened, the steering wheel demolished and all vaJves thrown into the sea. When the ma? chinery had been rebuilt, the vessel was removed from the Mobile yards to the government dock in New leans, where tV:e bottom am were scraped and repainted. The Mobile corporation is structing Other vessels for ernment. Three mine h] tons capacity each ai struction. Four other emergency flee corpora^ being built. Two of the? wooden type, ol about 3,5? and two fabric'.ted steel v ".00 each, the t'vo latter to be connection with the Panama^ road commission. ATTACK BY ALLIED AIRMEN. Innsburck Damaged by Allied Flyers \\ ho Swooped Down for Close Eight. Buchs, Switzerland, Feb. 22 (By the Associated Pr?;*j).?Five entente al? lied airmen liyiag over the Julian Alps Wednesday afternoon found that the 'own ol* Innsburck, Austrian Tyrol, was not protected by anti aircraft guns. The airmen thereupon swoop? ed down lo w thin 3u0 yards of the ground, picke t out targets and copi? ously bombed them, including the railroad station, barracks and two new munitions factories. Soldiers and civilians were sur? prised and. being unaccustomed to an air attack, rushed into the streets and were killed. Tlie German consulate was hit and trains loaded with soldiers on their way to the T entino front were at? tacked by mil bine guns from a low altitude. BRUTAILITV AND HUMANITY. Policies of Germany and England I ompared. Londot., Fe) tt.?Contracted with the German proclamation threatening punishment ui >n the women and children of l ?' ne, Italy, if they fail? ed t>> work in the fields for sixteen hours every day, under German domi natlon, the order issued by the Brit? ish commander to the people of Je? rusalem after the capture of that city, shows the different manner in which the entente and the central powers war. The British order reads: "It is my doslre that every person should pursue his lawful business without tear of Interruption. Funh ermore, since your city is regarded *'?th affection by three of the great religions of m inklnd, and its soil has been consecrated by the and Pilgrimages of the devout for met* centuries, therefore be it known that "very sacred building, monument, holy spot, shiine. pi0U8 bequest or customary pla^e of prayer, will bo maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of those to whose faiths thev are sacred."