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RESCUE OF WM. PliANS BEING WORKED OUT FOR MOVE tS SIBERIA. Chief of Stair Will be Able to Tell of Development of Program at His Next Conference?Japanese Officer Will Probably Command. Washington, Aug. 5.?Plans for the organization and dispatch of the . American military contingent to Rus - ;?ia to cooperate with the forces of the Allied nations in support of the I Czecho-Slovaks at Vladivostok are be ing worked out by the army general staff. Beyond the statement issued Saturday by Acting Secretary Polk that the" American forces would be a "'?few thousands" in number, no inti mation as to the size of the contin gent has been given. At the war department today it was said that 'by next Wednesday General ; ?arch,' chief of staff, would be able i"to give out a statement of as much ??of-the'plans as safely may be dis closed at that stage. - Meanwhile the rules of censorship -regarding the actual movement of -. troops do not permit of any specific statements at this time of what is be ing- accomplished but there is a good reason to believe that when General March makes his statement it will dis close that it follows rather than pre ; cedes the action that has been deter mined upon, at least in some of its leading features Meanwhile there is no objection to the statement that if the military laws >*? which govern joint action by interna i tional military forces are to be ob served in the case of this Siberian operation and there is good reason <o believe they will, the senior officer "Of the international force will be in supreme command. This rule pre . vails even where the different nation al forces making up the joint expedi tion work oa concurrent lines, though in that case the national commanders having complete control of their own .forces, are-hound to ?bey the general rules -of'the campaign outlined by the supreme commander. In this case it is assumed that Ja pan will supply the largest single body of troops hi the undertaking, and . .therefore following military rules, would naturally assign to their com mand an officer of higher rank than "those in command of the smaller American and entente forces. In the opimon of officials here this officer will De General Baron Vyehara, chief of staff of the Japanese army. The fact is recalled that the only -notable violation of this international rule of courtesy was on the occasion of the joint expedition against the Boxers in China more than a decade ago. Then the German emperor though his contingent was less than some of the others, rushed a field marshall all the way from Europe to China in or der'through his superior rank to be able to claim Germany's right to com mand the expedition. No such small statesmanship is expected to be dis ^la^^^^jhis occasion, however. for the participation in the Siberian enter prise and -already had arranged for the shipmeni to the Far East of large quantities of supplies in addition to the usual hospital service which falls to the Red Cross. ( Though acting Secretary Polk's statement made it appear that only America and- Japan were in position to* render immediate military assist ance to Siberia, information has rached Washington, that responding to the state department's appeal for aid, the British already have landed a battalion of troops at Vladivostok while a similar force of French troops from Tonquin is due there at any moment. Admiral Knight, comanding the. American naval forces on the Asiatic Station, already is at Vladivostok on his flagship and is in communication ttelce each day with the navy de partment here. He will cooperate with the military authorities. It is not permissible to indicate just where the .American troops are to come from, but'the principal American force must be drawn from a distant porat, which would seem to place the initiative in a military sense upon the Japanese forces. There will be no armed resistance at Vladivostok, as ;the port practically is dominated by the Japanese and British naval and military forces already there, though so far these have not interfered with the functions of the local authorities Assurance that no trouble is to be ex pected on tills account has been re ceived by the Russian embassy here in the shape of returns from the re sults of the municipal elections. These showed that the burgeoise and moderae Socialists polled 69 per cent, of the votes while the Bolsheviki re ceived only 31 per cent The embassy also gave out a state ment that "everywhere the population of different classes and political groups has manifested visible inter est and sympathy with the efforts of the 'United Siberian government' in cooperation with the Czecho-Slovaks to organize an army to reestablish together- with the allies a battle front against Germany; the formation of which is proceeding very successful ly." The embasy also declares that it has received definite information con-j cerning the program and intentions of the various political groups in Si beria, which, without bloodshed or violence, have succeeded the Soviets, which dispersed before the advance of the Czecho-Slovak troops. The aims of the "temporary gov ernment of Siberia." as expressed by the Russian embassy, are very am bitious, consisting of the creating of the Russian army, well disciplined in ?order to reestablish, in cooperation with the Allies, a battle front against Germany. All of the old treaties are to be recognized up to the Bolshevis uprising, the Bolshevik laws are to be repealed and a representative nat ional assembly called on the basis of universal suffrage to start the recon struction of a unified Russia. When prosperity gives way to ad versity the average man takes a back seat and turns the management over to bis wife.. KONS KILL WOUNDED. AMBULANCE SHIP SUNK?SACRI FICE OF LIVES TO GERMAN KULTUR. Death List of More Than One Hun dred as Result of Ruthless Act Near Port?One American Private Lost and Two Officers Saved. ?A British Port, Saturday, Aug. 3 (By the Associated Press).?The torpedo ing early this morning of the British ship Warilda was one of the most harrowing disasters in the history of submarine warfare. The number of dead is variously estimated from from 105 to. 130 and upward and in i eluded several women nurses. The ship carried 600 sick and wounded. Among them were seven Americans, two officers and five en listed men all of who have been ac counted for except one private. There Were about 89 nurses and members of the voluntary aid depart ment and the crew comprised about 200 men. More than 650 survivors brought here shortly after 6 o'clock were given first aid treatment, food and clothing. The patients were placed aboard spe cial trains, which had, been waiting to receive them and sent to hospitals in various parts of the country. The torpedo struck the after part of the engine room, killing the third engineer and two other members of the engine room force. The dynamo was destroyed, plunging the vessel into darkness. Just over the dynamo was the ward room which contained more than 100 patients. Most of these were killed outright by the explosion and the oth ers, many of whom had been freshly injured by the torpedo, found them selves trapped. It was impossible for outside aid to reach them and all, ex cept a few who jumped overboard and were picked up, perished. This part of the ship quickly settled and water flooded the ward room, drowning the men caged there. Stories of the fearful struggle in the darkness to rescue the helpless in valids are told by survivors. The ship remained afloat more than two hours, but for a great part of the time con tinued under headway because the en gines could not be stopped. This con dition greatly hampered the rescue work and in addition three or four boats were smashed while being lowered, throwing their occupants into the sea. All the soldier patients and the nurses testify to the heroic efforts of the officers and crew. Not withstanding the excitement and con fusion which were increased by the inky darkness,v the crew under the masterly direction of the officers went coolly and methodically about the dif ficult task of bringing the sick and wounded up on deck. As many as could be handled in this manner were placed in slings and lowered to the escorting destroyers which by wonder ful seamanship in rough water man aged to work in close enough to the sinking ship to take off men by low ering ropes. ?y!3Fhe morale -of- the wounded, lying on dec!:, waiting to be taken off, is described by members of the crew as "too fine for words." They never com plained ^and they never urged the rescue to hurry. The less seriously disabled assisted their more unfortunate mates. One boat, containing six women, was thrown against another just before touching the water and upset. Three women from the capsized craft were piv.~ed up by another small boat, along with five wounded British sol diers, all of whom had managed to keep afloat although each had an arm in a sling. The Warilda had been in the chan nel service two years and this was her first crossing from France in ?wbich she did not carry a number of German wounded prisoners. Members of the crew remarked over this fact and some expressed the opinion that it was of sinister significance. T. E. Redman, one of "the stewards, had an unusual escape. He had been placed with the six women in the first boat and when the rope broke he seized another line and climed hand over hand to the top. There he man aged to swing in from the end of the davit to the rail where a wounded "Tommy" awaiting rescue seized the steward's hand and aided him to clamber aboard. This man describ ed how one woman becoming en tangled in the ropes as she was being placed in the boat was caught be tween the boat and the side of the ship. She was frightfully injured by the pressure and begged to be releas ed, but no aid was possible. The small boat finally went adritt and the wo man fell into the sea and was drown ed. : When the steward regained the deck he rushed below to get some of his clothes. "I stumbled over wound ed in the darkness," he said. "Depth bombs were shaking the ship. I final ly found my cubby and obtained some clothes and returned to the deck. There I was placed in another boat which managed to go free without i disaster. The Warilda settled slow ly at the stern and then up-ended. When the water reached the boilers they blew up in a terrific column of fire and steam and then darkness fell again." i LENIXE AND TROTZKY HELD IN ILL FAVOR. Must be Well Guarded From Work ing of Plot Discovered in Russia. Amsterdam, Aug. 5.?A plot against) Nicolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki pre mier of Russia, and Leon Trotzky, the minister of war and marine, has been! discovered, according to a Moscow! telegram printed by the Vossischej Zeitung of Berlin on Sunday. Both of these officials have, therefore doubl ed their precautionary measures. Le nine. visited Dr. Karl Helfferich, the German ambassador at Moscow Fri day, passing through streets which had been closed to the public by a cordon of troops. Nothing short of a miracle can de prive a woman of woids. That's the reason she neglects to express her thanks when a man gives up his seat to her in a crowded street car. PKRSHIXG SENDS NAMES OF DEAD SOLDIERS. Seven Hundred and Six Names^in Ca bles From France During Day. Washington, Aug. 5.?Names of American soldiers who have fallen in the great Franco-American-' drive which turned the German offensive on the Marne into an utter defeat have begun to come in from overseas. They swelled to 70C, the total casualties made public today by the war depart ment in two separate lists. ': r Although nearly three tirnes as [great as the largest number heretofore j announced in a single day, the total today represents only a part pf the losses which have been accumulating since the great battle began July 15, and it is not to be assumed fnat it represents the losses for any one day. No estimate of the American cas ualties in this continuous fighting has been received from General Pushing and it was said authoritatively today that none is expected. 3 Of the names made publicE-today. 459 were of those who were kflled in action and 80 who died from wounds. The second list contained only., names of the dead?256 killed in action and 43 who died of wounds?but the first list showed 48 wounded severely, .100 wounded degree undetermined, and three missing in action. In tjfite first list there also were nine who '<died of disease, one of an airplane accident and six from accident an<? other causes. | Acting Secretary Crowell told] news paper correspondents today that Gen eral Pershing would supply complete and verified casualty lists as rapitUy as they can be transmitted and. that they would be given to the press and .fould speak for themselves 4as : to numbers. "We are beginning," said 'Mr. Crowell, "to receive from general Pershing the toll of victory in the Marne-Aisne offensive. sf "There is no indication of the total number of casualties and the lists made public today give the names of 706 officers and men. Other lists are coming in by cable, are being decoded and the next of kin are being notified in advance of the publication of the names in the press, pursuant to the established custom of the war depart ment "The fact that 706 casualties' are made public in a single day does rot indicate that number is the daily -av erage and there should be no specu lation on that basis. "I say this to emphasize thertkrint that there should be no speculation as to total casualties, pending redeipt of advices on thij? subject from General Pershing. Publications which-^wbuld exaggrerate or minimize the - 'total number of casualties would create un necessary anxiety among the relatives and friends of American soldiers and should, of course, be very carefully avoided. ? j "The losses reported and to cotut1 will bring sadness to many home^lfet personal grief will be tempered b? the righteousness of the cause in which these brave men have given them selves and by the pride which all free peoples take in the magnificent re sults of their heroism." ;; While casualties in offensive opera tions necessarily are heavy, officers here do not believe there has been' any unusual number among the American forces. Proof of the falsity of -the German reports of great American losses, which have been circulated to impress the German population at home is given by the fact that the American divisions which began the fighting still were taking part in it last Saturday, official reports show. It was pointed out that had the casualties among the American forces been unusualjy large, some of the di visions necessarily would have had to be withdrawn, the fact that none of them has been and that they have been fighting virtually continuously for 31 days is taken by officers here to show their losses have been much smaller than those they have inflicted I on the enemy, who has been forced 1 to withdraw many of his divisions. ARMY AND MARINE CAS?ALTD2S. Total of 498 Names?Three South Carolinians on List. Washington, Aug. 6.?The army casualty list contains three hundred and fifty-eight names. Killed in ac tion, 21; died of wounds, 6; wounded. 313; wounded degree undetermined. 7; prisoner, 1; killed in action, Sergt. Claude A. Stephenson. Anderson, S. C. Wounded severely, Private John D. Jones, Eastman, Ga.t John E. Al len, Dowling Park, Fla., Joseph W. Magell, Frand Crossing, Fla. Washington, Aug. 6.?The marine corps casualty list numbers one hun dred and forty. Killed in action, 7: died of wounds. 3: wounded severely. 18; wounded, degree undetermined, 112. Wounded, degree undetermined. Lieut. Edward D. Hope, Walterlr.o, S. C, Corporal Paul E. Bolding, Gaines ville, Ga.; Privates Herbert J. Taylor, j Fort Valley, Ga., John A .Rogers, Ol I ga Lee County, Fla., James T. Lloyd, I Jr., Greenville, S. C . Goldsboro, N. C. Aug. 6.?John Ward, a negro called as a witness in a recent trial here, told the court he was the father of thirty-five children and that thirteen sons were In mili tary service. Ward, who is sixty-two years old. has been married three times and has twenty-five living chil dren. The negro says his first wife bore fifteen children in six years?quad ruplets twice, two sets of triplets and one single child. The second wife, he said gave birth to twelve chil dren, twins twice. The third wife gave birth to eight children. Five sons in military service are now in France, and eight others are in the training camps of this country. German .Ministor to llesign. I Zurich. Aug. C.?Admiral von Ca pelle, the German minister of marine | will resign shor tly, according to Rer-| lin dispatches to the Stuttgart Tagfr'j blatt and other papers. Building Material LIME, LATH, BRICK, CEMENT, SIDINS, CEILING, PLASTER, SHINGLES, FLOORING, MOULDINGS, FIRE CLAY, FIRE BRICK, ROUGH LUMBER HOOFING PAPER, Booth ? McLeod 9* Feed- Stuffs HAY, CORN, OATS, HULLS, TANKAGE, MIDDLINGS, RICE FLOUR, WHEAT BRAN, SUGAR FEED, MEAT SCRAP, CHICKEN FEED, OYSTER SHELL, SEED OATS AND RYE, COTTON SEED MEAL Inc., Sumter, S. C. THE NEW DRAFT BILL. PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL URGES SPEED. More Men Required?Suggested That September 5 Be Fixed as Registra tion Day for Millions. Washington, Aug. 5.?Wtih an urgent recommendation from Provost Marshal General Crowder that it be enacted without delay and a sugges tion that September 5 next might be fixed as registration day for approx imately 13,000,000 men throughout the country, the administration's man power bill requiring the registration for military service of all men be tween the ages of 18 and 45 years was introduced today in the senate j and ho.ise. . I Unless immediate steps are tak en to provide additional men, General Crowder said the weekly registration of men as they attained 21 years of I age will be necessary to fill the draft quotas after September 1, when only 100,000 of the 1918 registrants will be available. t Upon the introduction of the bill Chairman Chamberlain announced the senate military committee would meet tomorrow to consider the bill. He said he did not think hearings would be necessary and only three or four days should be required to re i port jhe.biU. Chairman Dent of .the house committee said since only three members of his committee are in Washingon it was doubtful whether the bill could be acted upon before I the house reconvenes on August 19. I Suggestions made on the senate floor by Senator Curtis of Kansas that the senate abandon its program of re cesses and perfunctory sessions until August 24 if the bill can be favorab ly reported by the committee within a few days were indorsed by Senator Chamberlain. However, senate lead ers now in the city said any plans to this effect would be held in abeyance until the committee could determine just how much time would be neces sary for a thorough discussion of the bill. The bill would amend the present selective service act so as to require the registration of all men between 18 and 20 years and 32 and 45, inclu sive. While the total number of men in the latter classes would total 10.02S.973, General Crowder esti | mates the total number who would bo eligible for Class 1 would only be 601,236, owing to exemptions for de pendents or industrial and physical reasons. Between IS and 20 years his estimates show that 3,171,771 would register while 1,787,609 men would be eligible for Class 1. ?1 l PROVISIONS OF MAX POWER BILL Effort to Avoid Upsetting Industries by New Bill?Crowder Explains Changes to Senate Committee. r'ashington, Aug. 6.?Broader pro visions for exemption have been* writ ten into the man power bill now be fore congress so that the nation's war industrial fabric will not .be upset by an unduly large withdrawal of men over thirty-two for military service. Gen. Crowder appeared before the' senate military committee today to ex plain changes of wording in the meas ure. GAS ATTACK OX BRITISH. German Guns Active Northeast of! Amiens?Attack British With Gas Sliells. London, Aug. 6.?The German guns' were active last night in the region ; north of Villers Bretonr.eaux on the! front northeast of Amiens, it is olli-' cinlly announced. They threw gas shells into the British lines. MILLION MEN AT HOME. ; iiig Army Will Always Be in Train- ' ing. i Kansas City. Aug. FI.?Passing j I through here today en route to Leav-j [enworth, Kan.. Secretary Baker issued fa statement in which he said it was the purpose of the war department to keep at least 1,000,000 men train ing in camps in the United States as long as the war lasts. Secretary Baker said it was not tin- i intention of the war department to invade the deferred classifications.!] adding that with the extension of the <lr:it't age Class 1 will provide .-ill th< men necessary. Holland has ;i plant for manufac- ] taring illuminating gas from petrol-! .1 eum residue by dry distillation. 11 INCOME F8?8S TAXES. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL RE VEX IE R EPORTS. Huge Amount, However, Serves to Pay Bills of Government for Only Short Time. Washington, Aug. 6.?How the gov enment war coffers were filled with billions in taxes gathered from a wida variety of sources ranging from stamps on playing cards to huge levies on excess prolits was shown in detail today by a report of Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper to Secretary Mc Adoo for the year ending last June 30. The figures are considered especially important because they will be used by the house ways and means com mittee as a partial basis for higher taxes in the new revenue bill, which is to raise $S,000,000,000. Total internal ? revenue for the year amounted to $3,694,703,000, of which $2,839,083,000 came from income and excess profits tax payments in June and $855,619,000 from a multitude of miscellaneous sources collected in pennies, dimes and quarters added to the prices of various articles paid by consumers and poured into the treas ury by retailers, wholesalers or manu facturers to help meet war costs. Huge as these taxes seem in the aggregate, collections for the , entire year were only enough .to pay the na tion's bill for .two and a half months of war at the rate the government is spending money. Next to income and excess profits taxes, the backbone of the revenue schedule, liquor taxes brought in the most money, $443,838,000, including $317,553,000 from whiskey, brandy, wine and spirits and $126,285,000 from beer and other fermented liquors. Taxes on cigars, cigarettes and other tobacco products yielded $156,188,000. After income, excess profits, liquor and tobacco taxes, the biggest yield from any other source came from levies on transportation and utilities which went into effect November 1, amounting to $70,734,000, divided as follows: Freight, 3 per cent, $30,002, 000; passenger tickets, 8 per cent., $24,306,000; express, 5 per cent, $6, 4 5S,000; berths and state rooms, 10 per cent, $2,236,000; telephone, tele graph and radio message, 5 cents each, $6,299,000; oil pipe lines, 5 per cent, $1,433,000. j Levies on estates of deceased per sons brought in $47,452,000 and it is proposed to increase this considerably in the next bill. j Ai lusements, such as theatres, cab-1 arets, pleasure parks and dance halls.) taxed at irtually 10 per cent on the admission price, yielded for the eight mon s for the government $26,367, 000. A notable feature of the report was the item of only $12,995,000 collect ed in excise taxes on sale of arti cles usually classed as luxuries?p;.ano players, i loying picture films, jewel ry, perfumes, cosmetics, proprietary medicines, chewing gum, cameras and yachts. The volume of taxes collected dur ing the year is shown by comparison with those of the year preceding, when total collections were $S09,393, 000. REVOLT AT WILHELMSHAVEN German Sailors Mutiny Against Con-j tinuation of Submarine Warfare. j London. Aug. 7.?Rumors of a re volt by German sailors at Wilhelms haven in protest against the continu ation of the submarine war. are in circulation, according to a despatch to The Express from Amsterdam. More than fifty submarines are said to have disappeared. Twenry-throo ring lead prs of the revolt are said to have been arrested and sentenced to death. - KILLED BY ABMV TRICK. spartanburg Lad Crushed to Death I nder Wheels. Spartanburg. Aug. 6.?Joseph "ompton. a lad ten years of age, was cilled here this afternoon by an army ruck passing over his body. Several >oys are said to have been riding on he truck from Cam]) Wadsworth to ;own. when young Compton jumped iff the vehicle and fell under its ivheels. The coroner is holding an I nvest igation. An artificial coffee is being made in ?hirope from figs, dried either in the im or evaporating pans, ground into ?owder and then compressed into tab .-t:-. to be dissolved in hot water vhen desired. HEUT RECORDS BROKEN. ! THERMOMETER CONTINUES TO MOUNT STEADILY. Over One Hundred Degrees Register-' ed in Many Cities by Official In struments. Washington, Aug. 6.?High temper ature records which have marked the limits of heat waves during all the period of official observation m the northeastern quarter of the United States were broken today. Washing ton and Baltimore, by weather bureau thermometer, experienced a tempera ture of 106 degrees, a point not even approached by the mercury since 1881, and not reached then. In De troit, Mich., Harrisburg, Pa,, and To ledo, Ohio, with temperature of 104, new records were established as did Scranton, Pa., and Cleveland, Ohio, which each officially registered 100. These were the findings of the cool and cloistered instruments in - the weather bureau's minarets. Instru ments set closer to the baking pave j ments of city streets everywhere < showed the mercury mounting to heights officially unbelievable and Im possible. On Pennsylvania Avenue in the national capital one of the weath er bureau's own instruments during the day marked 114 degrees. Small hope for immediate relief for the eastern territory was?se?i?to night by experts, who study the curv ! ing map lines and cast the daily cli matic horoscope. It was said, how ever, the heat should slowly abate during the next two days over most of the area now affected.. The hot wave owes its existence, weather bu j reau officials said, to an area of low j barometric pressure which has been j moving languidly from west to east 1 across the continent, staying just a j little north of the normal track and : suffering no competition from other j disturbances to the south. In conse quence there has been a great and constant flow of the air currents up the continent, from south to north, ! wmich have gathered the accumulated heat that many days of unbroken sun shine has left on the mid-continental teritory. j The low pressure area rested i tonight above the mouth of the St. j Lawrence River and was presumably bound to dissipation over the Atlantic, but its attendant air draft has lost but little of its thermal content, the ex j perts said. Only the low humidity ! due to lack of rain has prevented a large number of heat prostrations. There was just a chance, it was said, that a West Indian hurricane now developing along the gulf coast and doing seme damage in Louisiana and Texas might cause sufficient dis turbance to break the sway of the northern low, and change the air draft, but in expert opinion the storm was too weak to accomplish the re sult. INSULTED BY NEGRO SOLBdtER. Resident of Shandon Was Frightened Monday. (The State.) A black negro soldier created some excitement on Woodrow Street in Shandon yesterday morning when lie offered an insult to a white woman. Police headquarters was phoned yes terday morning and a request was made for officers.to apprehend the negro. Officers Kelly and Talon hur ried to the scene and when they ar rived on the spot they saw a negro soldier hiding in a row of bushes. The negro was in full uniform and made a dash. He ran toward the city and then turned in near the Camden Road running in the direction of Jackson. The officers pursued the ne gro but lost sight of him after they reached the officers road. Officers and civilians searched for the negro from 10 o'clock a. m. to 1.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon when they gave up the chase. Officer K??l ly said he could have used his pistol oneo or twice during the chase but for fear of injuring some innocent per son decided not to fire at the fleeing negro. The negro soldier is described as being tall and black. COURT CONVICTS MALVY. Taris. Aug. 6.?Louis J. Malvy, for mer minister of the interior. w:*s foond guilty today of holding commu nication with the enemy and sentenc ed to live years' banishment. The ?enteiice. however, does not carry :ivic degradation.