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fttrc ST7MTER \& ATOHMAX, Ertah Consolidated Aug. 2,1 ._ '.?isRMANS. REMOVING CIVILIANS FROM ST. QUENTIN. Placing S'umerous Batteries in The Paris, Sept; 21.7?The Germans ap 'pear to be hastening the removal of t&e civil population of St Quentin and fires nave been observed in different ?parts of the city, says L'Echo de Par is;' It is added the Germans are plac ing- numerous batteries in St Quen tin.: ATTACKING JE2TDENBURG LINE. British Advance in Flanders and f^na|prove Other Positions?But are . Pressed Back at One Point. London, Sept. 21.?The British at tack against the Tlindenburg line northeast of St Quentin was resum ed this morning east of Epesy, it is officially announced. ^"Further steps forward have been taken by the British on the Flanders ffront .and British positions have been improved west of Messines to south of Yprcs, where a strong point has heen captured northwest of St. Quen tin. The British \also advanced their front northwest of Bellingise and .north, of Gouche wood. \ At west Villers Guislain the British h*ve been, pressed back slightly A British detachment of seven men Ibelieved'to have been captured when the Germans took Mouevres, , held their position two days during the German occupation.. When the village was- retaken the* entire party rejoin ed its unit without losses.' . Haig*s men made a thrust toward the strip of high ground in front of the Hin'denburg defenses which cover the Scheldt canal. 1. ?j-< SUCCESS BY SERBIANS. Make Important Advance and Take Many Prisoners. London, Sept. 21.?Serbian troops east of Monastir have advanced more than nine miles in one day, ani vc less than eight miles from the amir Jhighway. connecting: Frilep with Var ^rc river: The Serbian ofiicial state ment received here says that a great number of prisoners have been cap Irtired.. Also that, the allies have taken Qodyak^.>vest of the Cernar riy er; And fifteen miles southeast 03 otJTFli?JfEiNG ST. QTJENTTN. ' - ? j Tfce French Captured Benay aur Made ft-cgress to North. ? - - for" ?utaanking "^t. ^ Quentin on the e?t^??the French'last night -captur town of Benay,. and made pro ifcrejls north ^of- that P&ce, it is official lyy announced. - AMERICANS BOMBARD METZ. German Paper Says Surprise But Nc Panic : . Geneva, Friday, Sept 20?"The bombardment Of Metz by the Ameri can artillery caused surprise but nc panic," said the Metzer Zeitung, anc adds that a few persons were killed but the damage was insignificant. ALLIED SUCCESS IN RUSSLL Sunk Two Ships ami Captured- Guns London, Sept 21.;?The entente na val units and allied troops operating along the Dwina river in northerr Europe and Russia 'have sunk twe enemy ships'and captured three guns according to an official statement 01 the . British war office. Heavy losses were inflicted on the Bolshevik forces. VICTORY IX PALESTINE. British Forces Virtually Annihilate Ottoman Troops Operating: ir Holy Land. London, Sept. 22.?British troops In their drive north through Pales tine already have counted 18,00( Turkish prisoners and have collected 120 guns, according to an officia statement given out this evening bj the British war otfice. The text of the statement says: . "By S o'clock on Saturday nigh: on our left the infantry by Birafu1 had reached the line Beitejan-Sa maria-Birafur, shepherding the ene m> on the west of the Jerusalem-Na bulus roads into the arms of our cav airy operating southward from Jenii and BeLsan. "Other enemy columns vainly at tempted to escape into the Jordan val ley in the direction of Jisr-ed-Dameei which still is held by us. These col umns suffered severely from our air craft which constantly harassed then with bombs and machine gun fire fron low altitudes. "In the vicinity of Lake Tiberiu: our cavalry detachment hold Naza reth and the rail and road passage; over the Jordan at Jisr-ed-Dameer Already 18,000 prisoners have beer captured and 120 ?funs collected" DR. HAYNE WILL REMAIN. Order Transferring State Health Offi cer Revoked. Washington, Sept. 21.?Dr. Rober Wilson, Jr., chairman of the Soutr Carolina State Board of Health, to day telegraphed Senator E. D. Smith that Dr. J. A. Hayne. State health officer, had been ordered by the was department to New Haven. Conn. Thi senator was asked to have the orde; revoked, because Dr. Hayne is urgent, ly needed where he is. As a result 01 this telegram from Dr. Wilson th? war department has informed Sena tor Smith that the order has been re voked and that Dr. Hayne will re main in South Carolina. ?feed April, 1850. "Bp Zuist sj 881. STJ?3 BRITISH CONTINUE DRIVE. SUCCESSFUL ATTACK MADE BE TWEEN ST. QUENTIN LAST NIGHT. f Ground Was Gained and Several) I Strong Points Were Wrested Fromj the Germans?Successful Attacks Were Also Made Northwest of St. Qnentin?German Gained Ground at One Point But Were Later Driv en out by Counter Atack. London, "Sept. 23.?The British j last night attacked the German lines j between St. Quentin and Cambrai. | .opposite Legatelet, making progress! in the vicinity of Tcmbois farm and j capturing- a group of trenches and j j strong points on the ridge northwest I of Venduile, it is officially announc jed. i Another enemy sirong point near Bonscybony read,, just to the south was also taken by the British. Succesful local attacks; were car: ried out south of Villers-Guielan and to the northwest of St.. Qnentin. The Germans penetrated the British lines j at one point at Bothscourt during the attack- The position was re-estab lished by a counter attack-. On.-'the front between Arras and LeW&ere has been a continuation of the advance movement. In the neigh borhood, of Gavelle and southeast-of that village the British progressed on a front of three-quarters of a mile. FRENCH ENCIRCLE ST. QUENTIN. Notable Gains Made in Attacks Yes terday and Last Night?At One Point They Reach River Ol sc. Bari4 Sep. 23.?The French yester day and last night mode notable pro . gress inl encircling St. Quentin. Thev pushed in far on the South and cap tured the village of Fort Venduil. close to the Oise, nine miles southeast of St. Quentin, it is officially announc ed. From /Venduil the French push ed on to the river. North of La Fon taine they penetrated the wood in the direction of Hinacourt. BRITISH BOMB METZ. Airplanes Drop Sixteen Tons of Bombs on Iron Furnaces . in the Metz Region. ? London. ? Sept. 2 3.?British airplanes dropped nearly.sixteen tons of bombs on German airdromes and blast-fur naces in the Metz region -Saturday night, it is officially announced today. j The furnaces were at. Hagehdingon { and -Romb?che. -Four, enemy air ,| dronies were bombed. i ; ?,.?i0K KCLTN?. Non-Esentials Drafted in-Other Work The War Industries Board will is sue at once the most' drastic regula tions ever promuglated in this coun j try -.impelling male citizens of the j United States engaged in non essen I tial occupations to go into essential j employment or fight, according to a ? ruling from Washington received by [the State Council of Defense. These j regulations are being compiled and ! will be mailed to local boards in the ? next few .days. j "Because of a present million and ' a-half labor shortage, both skilled , and unskilled, in war industries with i an increased army coming," said the j statement to the State Council of I Defense, "Nathan s A. Smyth, assit ! ant director of the General United I States Employment Service, *s today mailing most drastic instructions j ever issued in this country to all coir. j munity^ labor boards instructing them to prepare and publish in every city i of the country lists of non essential I positions now being held by men that I could be filled by women. The re i suit will be that men failing or re j fusing to get out of such positions on : their own accord e.r;d take up essen ? tial work will be looked upon a? j slackers. The order is intended to i force the hand of both non essential j labor^and employers thereof. j "The lists probably will include ? clerks and office help, ticket sellers of j all kinds, attendants and similar oc j cupat:ons. This is in line with Pro j vost Marshal General Crowder's j 'work or fight' order, with instruc j tions already issued for the placing [of women in industries, with the or I der of the War Industries Board stop ping unnecessary construction, with actions limiting bank loans and the , taking of raw materials from non es j sential industries. Mr. Smythe's or : der may ultimately become the most drastic of all; for community labor I boards will insist that no man shall occupy a position v.hich a woman can fill. This nation must work or fight, and the order is made necessary be cause employers of non essential la bor have, in many case, failed to meet the issue squarely." The publication of the lists is to be progressive in character, with tho lines drawn closer from day to di.y, according to the instructions received, and as the work progresses various industries will be combed for men. FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN. I Subscribers Will be Required to Pay '? Ten Per Cent First Installment. Washington, Sept. 23.?Ten per ; cent of the Fourth Liberty Loan sub i scriptions will be required on appli cation, instead of five per cent, as for the previous loans, the treasury an nounced today. Twenty per cent will be due November 21st. twenty per cent December 19th. twenty per cent January l?th and thirty per cent Jan nary 30th. The amount of the fourth loan and the redemption date will probably be announced today. : "Spraying of pulverized coal into the ! fire boxes of steamship boilers by a ! new process produces such intense heat that the ashes literally are melt ed and run down out of the way. - i id Fefir not?Bet all the ends :ter, s. c, wedn: be thy Country'*, Thy God's m ^september 26, 1 victory in nimm. BRITISH FORCES DEFEAT CAPTURE THE ENTIRE TURKISH ARMY. IVIKI ARE OUTLAWS. SAM CALLS COUNCIL OF NATIONS TO CHECK OUTRAGES. Latest Official Report Shows Twei Five Thousand Prisoners counted For Besides 260 Guns the Entire Transport of the Sei and Eighth Turkish Arm? Allenhy Has Scored Decisive tory. -and Neutrals Asked to Consider to Impress Upon Bolshevik! >preval of World. -j London, Sept. 23, 4 P. M.?Tw? five thousand prisoners and- 260 had been counted up to yestex evening by Gen. ?Allenby's which are pushing northward thnri Palestine, it is officially annouhi The war office report states that seventh and eighth Turkish an have virtually ceased to exist, entire transport of these ai armies have been captured by British. FO-RTY THOUSAND TRAPPED^ The Entire Turkish Force in tine Surrounded by the Bri! None Can Escape. 'London, Sept. 23.?The latest pi reports from the Palestine front? dicate that none of the . Turl force of forty thousand which, been trapped by the British "jam sibly escape. ADVANCE NEAR ARRAS. British in a Small Operation Six Hundred Yards on a Eleven Hundred. With the British Forces*in Fi Sept. 23, 10. A. M.?In a smal tack east of Gravelle. in the sector, the British last night adVi ed-their lines for an average d< of six hundred yards on a fr< eleven hundred yards. AMERICANS RAID HUN LIN3 j Our Troops 3Iadc Night Attack Kill and Capture More Than Germans. '\ With. American Army in Fi Sunday, -Sept. 22 (R*euters>?% can troops >raided German lines ii neighborhood of ilaumont vi last night and captured 25 .prfi One unit attacked HaumpnC taking twenty prisoners and and wounding forty more Gei j-The prisoners taken were mei a Jaeger, battalion, formerly" i ed at Metz. ? ' ? ' ?/. ? ? : NAVAL TOAE?5H tutiens Named by DepartinieittV ipr StudentCorps. ngton, Sept. 21.?Horrified by dy reign of terror in Rus United States today called up allied and neutral nations to ir what they may do to im pon the Bolsheviki the aver th which the civilized world their wanton crimes, direction of President Wilson, ry Lansing dispatched an in instruction to every American tic representative in the for pitals. The action aligns the States with that of Grea-: and France in declaring the 'viki outlaws and public enemies ble for the murders, crinu ?cesses which have shocked the tever action may be decided >y *he nations, separately or re t, it is made clear, will be quite tfrom the prosecution of the jainst Germany. Is the text of the State. depart instructions to the American government is in receipt of nation from reliable sources re ? that the peaceable Russiar. of Moscow and Petrograd and ??'cities are suffering from an avowed campaign of marked arid are subject to whole cecutions. Thousands of per lave been shot without even a jof trial; ill-administered pris ?re filled beyond capacity and ?night scores of Russian citizen ;;klessly put to death; and ir Lble' hands are venting their passions in the daily massacre told innocents. ?;vlew of. the earnest desire o' iople of the United States to be \.-the Russian people and lend possible assistance- in their le to reconstruct- their nation i .principles of democracy and irnment and acting, therefore, fia- the interestv of the Russian i. themserves, mis . government fat it cannot be ..silent, or refrain ' expressing .its horror at th; >t terrorism. Furthermore, it is that in order to cheek~ the ^-increase of. the. indisgr'iminate of Russian .citizens, all civ >ns should . r&gister ;tneir sred. bai Washington, Sept. 22.?Naval-imits .or naval sections of the student anmy training corps are to be established at 85 universities and colleges inri 37 j States and the District of Columbia. In announ . ag tonight the navy- de - {partment t>aid students subject to j draft may enroll in the naval units or I sections by applying before-October;; i to naval 'representatives at the -Insti tutions. Student? admitted will be allowed active duty and v/ill be enrolled in the naval reserve force as apprentice seamen. The students must make their own arrangements with the in stitutions with regard to boar^ lodg ing and tuition as under the arrange ment between the war and navy de partment the latter will not enter into any contracts with the schools "as the 2t tfte"<governj^ accredited will be disposed to take some immediate action iwhich,* is en: tirely devoid from the atmosphere of belligerency and the. conduct of the war, to impress upon the perpetra tors of these crimes the aversion witli which civilization regards. their pres ent wanton acts." The reported action of the Bolshe viki in effecting an alliance with Ger many for offense and -defense is an added cause for the step.. ; Official reports from Prussia, man) coming through neutra 1. countries have told of revolting acts- that hav^ astounded and shocked the world, The reign of terror has already great ly hindered the efforts of the United States to alleviate an impending fa mine* in Russia, as it is impossible* t-r furnish much needed supplies tc that part of the country under Bolshe vik! control without actually feedin; the German army and the Germa? populace. It is conceded that there war department has done in the case of institutions having sections of the j is enough food in Southeastern* Rus student army training corps. sia and Western. Siberia to feed all Members of the naval units to be j the Russian people if a means of dis enrolled include: tribution could be effected to keep th. Alabama, university; Florida, uni- supplies from falling into Germar versity; Georgia, Georgia School of (hands. Technology, Emory 'and Georgia uni- j The alliance between the Bolshe versities; South Carolina, Clemsor. I viki and Germany presents a danger College. American Casualty List. Washington, Sept. 23.?The fol lowing casualties are reported for ?September 22: I Killed in action, 87; missing in ac j tion, 98; wounded severely, 81; died ! from wounds, 55; died from aero j plane accident, 1; died of accident ous situation to the allies in that il may affotd Germany an opportunity greatly to increase her waning mar power. / Secretary Lansing today reiteratec that the efforts of American troops ai Vladivostok and Archangel wer: solely to aid the Czecho-Slovak? tc leave Russia for the western fronl and not to establish an eastern bat tle front or in any way to interfere and other causes, 2; died of disease, j with the internal affa5rs of Rn<,sia 18; wounded, degree undetermined.) 12. Prisoners, 1. Total, 355. I Joseph L. Davis of Walhalla, S. C j and Henderson Monroe, Laurens. S. j C, are reported severely wounded. jand Austin W. Edison of Clearwater. jS. C, is reported missing. The marine casualty list for Sep tember 22 totals 19, as follows: Kill ed in action, 9; died of wounds, 3': ; wounded severely. 5; wounded, de i gree undetermined, 1; in hands of en ! omy, 1. CAMPAIGN OF MURDER. Commissary Ui^es Persecution Allied Nationals. oi . Amsterdam'. Sept. 22.?The Rus I sian People's Commissary at Vologda ; according to the Petrograd corre ! spondent of the Hamburg Nachrich j ten, has urged on the population o< j the entire Vologda province the mos The casualty list for September 231 ruthless persecution of British sub totals 673 as follows: Killed in ac? j jects and French and American cit tion. 154; missing in action, I20;jizens. wounded severely. 251; died from; Pioting against entente national wounds, 96; wounded, degree unde-; has taken place at various towns, th termined. 8; died of disease, 26; died ! correspondent says, and some French from accident and other causes, 18. men and Americans are being mur i Lieut. David W. Loring of Wilming-: dered. i ton, N. C, is reported to have died! _ from wounds. Sack M. Diggs, Su/n- j ter, S. C. and Humbert Hook, North.: WOULD STOP THE CIRCUS. ; S. C. died of disease. Hovie Mur- j _ phree of Murphy. S. C. Henry A.j Gov. Manning Fears Spread of Span i Caldwell of Spartanburg, S. C..j jsj, influenza. .Srnest Gandy, Dovesville. S. C, and'] ._ Louis A. Freeman. Spartanburg. S j Columbia, Sept 21.?As a precau w , v6Tt\y , M?"noed' E?T?djtion against the spread of Spanish Walsh of Blackville, S. C. died from|jn tW|| ^ and ^ b(l. wounds. Marine coi-ps casualties number ::^. Killed in action. IS; died of wounds. 4; wounded severely. 1: miss ing in action. 14; in hands of enemy. cause of the scarcity of labor. Gov Manning has asked th<* Stat*? Board or Health to prevent a large ob'CU; from touring the Stat<\ as it had plan ned. For aviators a New York inventorJ The 7.">th lineal descendant of ron has designed a parachute that forms j fuohis is livincr in the Chinese low:: part of its user's helmet, also beinrrjiu which the founder of the Chin*?? fastened to his coat, and which is-'religion was born and where he ?vi s kept tightly coiled until needed. | buried 25 centuries ago. A ?H Tnrtk's." THE TRUK 918. 1ft Fiji EXPOSED. BEFORE WAR BEGAX ARRANG ED TO MOVE ON AMERICA. Shortly After Hostilities Began "De-; struction Agents" Were Ordered to United States. Washington, Sept. 20.?Another convincing link in the proof that Ger many was preparing to start a war of world conquest at least six weeks be fore the excuse for it was offered by the assassination of the Austrian heir apparent at Sarajevo, concludes the amazing series of disclosures which .he American government has given to the public through secret docu ments brought out of Russia. Two authenticated documents A are included in the final chapter of the ! story which began a week ago with evidence removing any doubt that may have existed that the Russian Bolshevik government headed by Le i.ine and Trotzky, is a tool of the im perial German government" One of these is an original circular from, the German general stall, dated June 9, 114, directing that all industrial con cerns be notified to open their secret instructions for industrial mobiliza tion. Another, dated November 20, 1914, is from the German naval gen eral staff,' and reveals that within four months after hostilities began in Europe "destruction agents" were or dered to Canada and the United States.to hire anarchists and escaped criminals for the bomb plots and work of terror'which finally pkiyed a part iri drawing the United States into the war. In addition to this authenticated evidence, Edgar Sisson, who obtained the papers for the committee on .jubhc information offers a remarkable gioup of circulars put out in Russian text at Petrograd, last winter, pur porting to be copies of documents taken from the archives of the coun ter-espionage bureau of the Kerensky government, supplemented- .fc^onie from the files of the same bureau be fore the fall of the cfar. Some of this matter has beeil published previous !y in France and in this country. The circulars tell of German arrangements six months before the outbreak oi war for the . establishment of the financial agencies in hordering neutral countries which later furnished the money for the operations: of the Bolshevik^ of orders to German banks to establish close and secret re lations with American and Finnish banks; of the launching of revolution paga "vemCer;' 1^14, vah*>of I?rhc^oS??7t? German j diplomats in all neutral coun tries to Cooperate with agencies set ?p in those countries for stirring up sri ciai unrest,- strikes and... sentiment against war, within the enemy states The name of Scheidemannj the German Socialist leader, already men tioned as involved in the dealings o. j the German government with Bolshe vik i, appears attached to one of the unauthenticated documents. It is a note announcing, that 150,000 kroners have been placed to the credit of a Russian newspaper, and asking that Vorwaerts (the name . of Scheide mann's organ at Berlin) be advised of what appeared in the subsidized journal. An appendix to the concluding in stallment is what purports to be a transcript of an unique telegraphic conversation between Tchitcherin. now Bolshevik foreign minister at Retrograd, and Trotzky at Brest Litovsk last February a few days before Trotzky made his notorious no peace?no war" play. Tchitcherin is quoted as promising that a sepa rate peace by which Russia would not cause a rupture with the allies o.nd saying that England and America are "playing up to us separately." This appendix is of circulars of which (except in two cases) I have neither originals nor authenticated copies. A number of rets of them were put out in Russian text in Pe trograd and in other $ct3 of Russia in the winter (19IS) y the oppo nents of the Bolsheviki. The circu lars were declared to be copies of documents taken from the Counter j Espionage bureau of the Kcrensk; government, supplemented by som-J I earlier material from the same bu I reau when it was under the Imper ial government. The opportunity for securing them could easily have .been a corded to the agents and employees j of the bureau, for most of them j walked out when the Bolsheviki j grasped the government and couiJ I have taken freely cf the contents ot ' their departments. ; Some Ol the documents were in I eluded in the publication made in j Paris, hitherto referred to. I The simple test that I have applied j to the circulars is that of internal j analysis. To that they respond with ; out contradiction. I have not relied on them as proof, and in the light of it are more valuable for themselves than they were when they stood alone. Finally, I am now able to prove that two of the documents amons these circulars?the circular of in dustrial mobilization of June 9, 1914. and the agent's destruction circular of November 2S. 1 :* i4?are authen tic. I have them in the original Ger man printed version of 1he:r official distribution, and I have the doublv attested Russian and German record that they, in preceding tone, reposed in the tiles of the secret service ??:' Jhe Russian governnicn*. from which they wore taken by Gervrraiw r-rder an 1 -turned- over to German represent.-! tives of the German government in Petrograd with the intent of elimi nating them as international evidence against Germany. This group of circulars came into my hands tin- first wok in Fel^rum-y, 19IS, and a few days later, two du SOUTHRON. EMnbHnliwI 3me. ?*??. Vol. XLVII. Nc.13. NE9RQ SOLDIER RIOT. ATTEMPT MADE TO RESCUE 3IEN ARRESTED BY NORFOLK, VA., -POLICE. Crowd Attacks the Jail?Ten Negro Soldiers and Civilians Shot Down Before Quiet Restored. Norfolk Va... Sept. 21'.?Between three and four hundred negro civil ians, headed by a score of negro sol diers froni Camp Alexander, tonight attacked the second precinct police station in an effort to rescue two'sol diers arrested by the police on the charge '-?f robbing the cash register of a photographer's studio. More ^han half of the windows of the station were smashed by flying bullets, bricks and bottles before the officers iated by opening fire with pistols and riot guns. S Ten negro soldiers and* .civilians were shot down in the exchange of. bullets before the arrival of reserves from the central station, and naval guards gave the police sufficient man power to quell'the rioters and arrest the ringleaders. Police Sergt. White was. the only officer injured. ~He was struck in the temple by a bottle. The Crowd I*urled paving stones at the ambulance carry ing the officer to the hospital, partial ly wrecking; the vehicle. Several of the wounded at the hos pital were said tonight to be in a pre carious condition. The trouble was precipitated when the officers clubbed the two negro, sol diers arrested on the charge of rob bery. They were resisting arrest, urged to the act by companions; /The crowd quickly swelled to a mob and followed tfee officers to the sttaion, which is located in the .negro district. INFLUENZA AT. GREENVILLE. Ri<?d Quarantine Declared at Camp Servier on Account of Development of Case. . Greenville, S. C, Sept. 23.?The sol diers and the entire military reserva tion of" Camp Sevier were placed un der quarantine today on account of the development of the first suspect ed-case of Spanish influenza in* the> camp. ? " ?? . - - . i ''' ? ' ?-}...<?' ??? ,\*"\ .> SERBIANS DEFEAT BULGARS. \. Twenty Kilometers Gained . on Mq^e^ . donian Front. ^ troops ~ press! rig tl Germans in ? central MacedbnL. _ yanced more than 20 kilometers Fri day and arc now with?i fohr tniles of I the Uskub-Salonica railroad, the main * artery for the supply of. the A?stro German and Bulgarian forces oppos ing the British and French armies on the Serbian right. * An official dispatch frcstf Serbian general headquarters at a^arica re ceived today by the Serbian legation said the Serbians captured 16 villages and 12 guns and are several kilome ters to the north of the vlHage of Xavadar. Fresh Bulgarian and Ger man troops are arriving continuous ly to reinforce the enemy lines. Cutting of the Uskub-Salonica rail road, it was said here officially today, will force the retirement of the ene my left wing, and cause a general re adjustment of the enemy lines in this entire section. 'We yesterday advanced more than 20 kilometers toward the north,"* said the Serbian official statement. - "Our troops are several kilometers to i the north of Kavadar. In addition to this town we have liberated another 15 villages. Twelve guns have been taken by our cavalry. "Fresh Bulgarian and German ?troops are arriving continually to reinforce the enemy lines. ,During the retreat the Bulgarians set fire to the villagesand plundered all that re j trained tm the poverty stricken popu ! lation, thus, treating them as enemies j in spite of the claims of the Sofia* gov i ernment that this population is not j Serbian but Bulgarian." REUNION AT TULSA. Confederate Veterans Hold Annual Meeting. ; Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 22.?-Carl Hin ' ton, commander in 'chief of the Sons ! of Confederate Veterans of the United j States, arrived here this morning and : took charge of the headquarters of ! the reunion organization, marking the I official- opening of the 28th Confed i erate reunion. Admiral A. O. Wright, j commander of the Confederate Naval Veterans, aiso arrived today. The ! first program will he given Tuesday j night, when four governors and sen | a tor-elect Pat Harrison of Mississip | pi Wit' make addreses The Rev. J. W. Bachman, chap ' Iain gener.'l of the United Confeder ate Veterans, wired today that owing to ill health he would not be able to j t pen the reunion. The- government is sending two of ' the crack military bands here for the week. .A carload of government blan kets were loaned the reunion commit tee. Figures given out by the X^j*?v d.v's indicate at least 65.000yVJsitora will be here during the we^V plicate sets reseHed 'me/ I prepared a digest of the set and* Ambassador Francis cabled the ?Message in code to the State department February 9. It was nearly fqjur weeks later be fore I secured t*he originals and all the photograph/^ listed in my report. Two of these/originals were of cir culars I hart? seen in copy form four weeks ear/ter. That summarizes the ease of t/he circulars of the appendix considep^cd as evidence. Edgar Sisson. '