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< I II niK SUMTER WATCHMAN, Estab i. Consolidated Aur. 2,1 60N0EISE0 Ii REPORTS.! ? ? i ARMIES OF TEUTONS BEING DE FEATED OS AHL SIDES. -- British, American and French Troops Strike Blow Between Cambrai and, St. Qoentin With Success From the. Outset?Many Prisoners Taken. The entente allied forces every- j where are defeating the armies ?fj the Teutonic allies. In France they; are fast carrying forward maneuvers j which are resulting in the enemy's; line giving way from the region of \ Cambrai and Verdun. Likewise in I Macedonia and Turkish theatres thej cleaning up process continues una- i bated. ,Over a front of 20 miles between; Cambrai and St. Quentin the British, American and French troops have; started a mighty drive, which in its initial stage, has thrown the enemy back from highly prized tactical po sitions to a depth of from two to five miles. Numerous towns have been captured, and seemingly all the greai defensive positions of the enemy in this region have been obliterated, large numbers of prisoners hav*: been added to the already great throngs captured since the allied of fensive began. In addition terrible casualties were inflicted on the enemy in the heavy artillery fire at the be ginning of the . attack, which began early Tuesday morning, and the ma chine gun and rifle fire of the attack ing forces, against the enemy who resisted stubbornly at various points. The American troops, fighting alongside the British, always were in the van, and when night fell their positions were the points of penetra tion of the German line were greatest. At last accounts hard fighting was still in progress, with the enemy steadily giving ground. On the southern part of the battle front, from the Rheims sector to the Meuse river the French and Ameri cans are carrying out successfully their converging movement north ward and on all sectors have gained additional ground. . Korth of Berry-au-Ba'c the French have driven their line to the junction of the Aisne and Suippe rivers placing the Germans around Laor. and eastward in greater jeopardy. I".; Champagne Gen. Gouraud's' forces have increased their gains all the wayj eastward to the region of the Ar-! goune forest, while on the eastern j ?de of the forest the Americans havr=- j improved their battle front along thej ?Aire .Valley. - j In Macedonia the Italians and j Serbs are still forcing the enemy j troops to retire in Albania and in: Serbia, whrle in Palestine the British; have "driven the Turks more than 36 miles north of Damascus. Reports! tae to the effect that the Turkish j J cabinet" has resigned and that the i Turks have sent delegates to Greece | to talk peace. US THICK OF THE FIGHT. Palmetto Lads Vie tilth Tenneseeans j U,V ( tn'Capturing Towns. - - -? ,With, the Eritish Army m France.' ?c?'Sr-(4.30 P. M.) (By the Associat-j <^;Pr^ss) ?A great victory, the re- j *wt -of which undoubtedly will prove i pXv:the widest importance especially at j this, time, has been won today by the two.British armies in the field on a ?rdnt extending twenty miles from Cambrai southward. > Americans participated in the cen ter "and htey plunged even more deep ly into the enemy positions than at first had been'intended. The Hindcn buj'g system south of Camorai new ha?? thoroughly been broken up on; -front of considerable width. ;: Elsewhere the main lines of the j Hfndehburg system have been pene trated while to the north of Cambrai it'appears to have been turned by the operations to the south. ! ? Fast whippet tanks and armored [ ?gars are reported now to be in action i jttid if it is true, as it is believed, thej offensive certainly has been exploited, j It was the Americans (Tennessee,; North and South Carolina troops ofj the Thirtieth division), who stormed and . captured Brancourt and Pre- j nYont after hard fighting. They reach ed their objectives well ahead of time.In fact this was the case al most' everywhere along the line, v East of the line the British and Americans are now in the open coun try and there seems to be reliable in- j dications that there are no lines of importance, at least, for many miles, j ? ' -. * * i AMERICAN. STEAMER SUBMARIN-; ED. British Fighter Brings Survivors of Crew to Port. ?- j Atlantic Port, Oct. 10.?The news! of the sinking by a submarine of a I large American steamship, with the! probable loss of many of her crew, j was brought today by a British freighter, which had aboard twenty; survivors of the American vessel, j . It is reported in maritime circles! that the u-boat's victim was thej Ticonderoga. formerly the German | steamer Camilla Rickmers, fifty-one i hundred tons. SERBS NEARING NISII. They Are Closely Pursuing Defeated : Austrians. j Ixmdon, Oct. 10.?Serbians pur- j cuing the defeated Ninth Austrian Division ori Monday entered I^esko vats, 22 miles south of Nish and Vlasotintze, according to the Ser bian official statement. They tool: several hundred prisoners. kJied April, 1850. "Be Sxm i 381. S eERMIHS PUT TO FLIGHT. I ?/ ???? ???. CAPTURE OF CAMERA! LINE DE- j STROYS DEFENSIVE SYSTEM. Hun Armies in Discretely Flight Be*, tween CJunbrai and St. Quentin?j Allied Cavalry Pushing the Retreat- j ing Enemy. The German armies are in full] flight before the British, American j and French forces on the front be-1. Uveen Cambrai and St. Quentin. Cam- j brai, the strong point of the enerij7, in this region has - been taken by the ; Canadians in its .entirety and north; of Cambrai the Canadians have i deeply penetrated the German line. : Out in the open in what was once; the old Hindenburg line, cavalry is j hustling the retreating foe in what virtually amounts to a rout. So fast is the retreat that columns of the al lied troops in parade formation have passed . through numerous villages, i completely out of contact with the J German. More than 10,000 prison-: j ers and between 100 and 200 gun? were captured in Tuesday's fighting ; and the continuation of the battle Wednesday resulted in further largo ! captures. ! In the fighting 23 German divisions I ?more than a quarter of a million men?have been severely manhandled. The maximum depth of the ad j vance is between eight and ten miles. The Gennans are declared to be flee ing to the east of L?e Cateau. one of I !*the most important railroad centers j in this region. Eehind them the Germans are j i leaving the country devastated, burn ! uig towns and villages as they flee. The formidable German defense j , system between Cambrai and .St ' ! Quentin has been utterly demolished j and British, American and French troops are out in the open country eastward in pursuit of the retreating j enemy. j Cambrai, the pivot point in the! former line and over which there has has been so much bitter fighting, is in British hands; numerous villages and hamlets to the south have been overrun by the allies, and thousands of Germans have been made prison er and hundreds of their guns cap- j tured. The victory seemingly is a complete one. and with General Foch's strategy working smoothly in bending back the German line in one great con verging movement the Germans ap parently are in a serious predicament. From the region northwest of Rheims to the Meuse River, north of Verdun the French and Americans are slow ly but surely pushing the Germans backward toward the Belgian border. In Macedonia and Asiatic Turkey the troops of the entente still have the enemy on the run. Nowhere is the enemy able to more than fight i retarding battles, giving ground when the pressure becomes too strong. Under the avalanche of steel hurl ed against them on the Cambrai-St.! Quentin sector the Germans could not live and were forced to flee eastward. Heavy casualties were inflicted on those of the enemy who had the temerity to endeavor to make a stand. On the other hand the casualties of the allies are declared to have been relatively small, those of the Ameri cans being less than half of the num ber of prisoners taken by them. Where the enemy intends to make his next stand can not be foretold. J but probably an effort for a turnabout | will be attempted along the Valen ciennes-Sedan front. After this line the only known German defensive position west of the Rhine is th< Meuse River. The Americans already I are threatening to make this iine un-j tenable, having started an advance up! the valley on the eastern side of the! stream toward Sedan. The maneuvers of the French I northwest of Rheims are cutting j more deeply into the German line. | despite the strong resistance offered i by the enemy to postpone the fall o< j the great St. Go'oain massif and th-r highly important strategic position? j of Laon and La Fere which seemingly' are likely to be pinched out of the battle front by the successful opera- J tions around St. Quentin and Berry I au Bac. j Strong resistance also is being im posed by the Germans against fur-1 ther advances by the French and j Americans in Champagne and east j of the Argonne forest. Particularly i heavy counterattacks have been j launched by the enemy on various po sitions but without results other than j increasing his casualties. Along the Suippe River the fighting is furious, | but the French have been able to \ make additional crossings of ths j stream. St. Etienne has changed hands several times in bitter com-! bats. West of the Argonne forest ^;he ] Americans have driven their line for- j ward to the region of Cornay on the! Aire River where they have effected; a junction with the French troops and ! seemingly the Argonne forest will soon be in allied hands. On the astern side of the Meuse the Amer icans have advanced and taken sev eral small villages and also straight ened out their line which was being enfiladed by the German guns from; the east FRENCH GOING AHEAD. Advance in St. Quentine-Lc Cateau Region and Occupy Several Towns. Paris, Oct. 10.?The French are advancing east of the St. Quenti-Le Cateau railroad, and have captured: Staves wood, Bocquieux village and; further south have taken Marcy. j They have also reached Fontaln Notre ? Dame as well as Fonsomnies. it isj officially announced. 1 id Fear not?Det an the ends Thou Ala UffiTER, SC., SATURI ~ FHT TO I FINISH. I MILITARY PARTY IN GERMAXYj WILL NOT ACCEPT WXSOX'S CONDITIONS. Cologne Gazette, Mouthpiece of Army, Says Only Conquest Can Force Ger many to Snbmit to Terms Named by America. Easel, Oct. 10.?"'Only militarj reasons could compel us to accept j 'Wilson's conditions," says the Co-j logne Gazette, in commenting on the; American reply to the German peace j proposal. "It is possible that Ger- j many may require counter guaran- j :ces, for example, for the evacuation I of all colonies occupied by the Al-j lies." 4USTRI? OFFERS MMM. PROMISE CHANGE IN GOVERN MENT TO COMPLY WITH WILSON'S STIPULA TION. ! Ministerial Council Said to Have De cided to Introduce National Auto nomy at Once. London. Oct. 10.?It is reported from Vienna that the Austro-Hungar ian ministerial council has decided to introduce national autonomy in "or der to make President Wilson's stip ulation an accomplished fact," says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. The Czech party did not participate in the deliberations, but is holding an Important meeting today. The movement favoring the proc { iamation separating Hungary and j Austria is making extremely rapid j progress among the public of the dual monarcy, Zurich dispatches say. RECRUITING IN IRELAND. 50,000 Volunteers Called for in Place of Conscription. Dublin, Sept. 25 (Correspondence! .of The Associated Press.)?Ireland soon may become "patchwerkk quilt" of conscription districts and non conscription districts, according to j members of the Irish recruiting coun cil, whose allotted time for raising ! 5?.000 volunteers as an alternative to conscription, is drawing to a close, with the allotment as yet unfilled. < The council, which is composed of five Irishmen, representing' aiL par ties, has divided the country into ten districts, with a quota for. each, and has arranged with the government that in districts which rill their quotas conscription will not be applied, even though the total of volunteers falls below the required 50.000 men. I j It is generally predicted that some j of the districts will fall far short of j their quotas. And there, conscrip tion is expected to be inaugurated, even at the cost of resistance. { The objection of many young Irish- j men to entering the army, and the! traditional Irish hostility to the War I Office is being met by recruiting j agents by pointing out the special at tractions of the Royal 'Air Force. This j service is not under control of the War Office, and it has the added ad vantage of having many non-fighting] positions. Political feeling runs high, how- j ever, and the Class of young men. j who make the best soldiers, the "mis- j sile trpops." are not volunteering in large numbers. Two or three members of the Irish Parliamentary Party have identified themselves with the recruiting cam paign, but the party as a whole, has* j held aloof. i Side by side with the operations of ! the recruiting council. Colonel Lynch, ? member of parliament, is conducting j a crusade of his own with the view of organizing a brigade ,which hej hopes to command. Colonel Lynch j fought on the side of the Boers' against Great Britain, but his fee!-! irigs towards the present war have j led him to lay aside all racial feeling! and come out on the side of the al- i lies. YANKS IN THE BREACH. _ j i Americans'Having Broken Genna j: ; Lines Are Now Going Through. London. Oct. 10.?The attack of the Anglo-American forces in the; i breach between St. Quentin and j Cambraj resulted yesterday evening J in continued advances, it is officially j reported. The British are now within two miles of Le Chateau and Sarliau-! mires and Noyelles have been captur ed. Fighting is going on southeast-of j Cambrai on both sides of CaudVy. Between the Lens and Scarpe the ? British are also advancing and keep-! ing in touch with the Germans to the west of the line of Vitrey-en-Artois. Azel les Eqqeerchin and Rouveroy. WANTS NEWS OF S. C. BOYS. Senator Beitct Asks Gen. March as to 30th Division. The News and Courier last night received the following telegram from Senator Christie Benet: V Washington. Oct. !> --Realizifl|k th;>: our people are vitally interested^ news of the Thirtieth division. I ask\ ed Gen. March today if he could give out anything in addition to what was in the papers. H<> stated that tin war department has nn other news, but has promised me that as soon as anything is available concerning our troops he will advise me. I will send ; it to you. 1 ttfrjl M t u be tar Oountry'a. Tfey God'* a >AY, OCTOBER 12, 19K FRENCH HUNT HUNS. _ i PURSUIT KEEPS UP ALL DAY EAST OF ST. QUENTIX. Important Gains Also Scored North of The Aisne and in The Champagne Region. Paris, Oct. 10.?FrencL troops last night continued their pursuit of the Germans in the region east of Si. Quentin, it 'is officially announced. They have passed Fontaine. Notre Dame and Beautroux. North of the) Aisne the French took the plateau de j Oroix and Sans Tete, while further! east a crossing of the Aisne canal was j effected. In the region of Villers-en- I Prayeres in Champagne the French j captured Lary two miles west ofi Monthois. v HUMS FEAR PUNISHMENT. FRENCH THREAT OF REPRISALS CAUSE TERROR IN GERMANY. As Day of Judgment Draws Near They Deny That Have Wantonly Burned French Towns and Devastcd the Country. London. Oct. 10.?Indications tha Germany is becoming anxious in consequence of threats of reprisals for the destruction^ of towns in France is afforded by a telegram from the semi-official Wolff bureau, received at Stockholm, saying that Douai was burning "as the result o: the continuous British bombard ment" reports that the Germans set fire to towns they are still occupying is characterized as ridiculous. They denied firing Roulers, Thourout and Lightervelde in Belgium. AMERICAN SOLDIERS GROW. ? A British Soldier Writes Home About Them. London, Sept. 25 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?"Ameri can soldiers seem to grow in the nigiu so that each morning there are more of them than before." writes a Brit ish soldier in France to his relatives in England. " Americans are the topics of conversation everywhere." he con tinues. "The villages are . full o; them. Their automobile trucks are on al) the roads, and their columns of in fantry are everywhere. We are be ginning to know the songs they sins and the phrases they use. _-"To many of us they were a com plete mystery at first. 'We had hearv of America only as a distant country. Then suddenly they were in Fiance? tail, well-trained men with a genius lor making friends and adapting themselves to new conditions. Wo watched them with curiosity at first, surprised to lind how like they were to other men. "'Then, before wo hud quite recov ered from the first pleasant surprise, they were lighting?making a repu tation in a trade where the test is not easy. They came up from their villages singing, and filtered into the trenches, more and more of them each day. The papers began to talk about their iighting, but we thought surely they cannot be doing much yet." And then all at once we began to see it for ourselves, and we were of the opinion straightway that the papers had not grasped the wonder of the facts. "They were so keen and so fresh, those first Americans. And every day others as keen and fresh are go ing up to the line, and every day their places are being aken in the village by yet others. What would the Germans say if ihey r* Jly knew all this one wonders. "They are merry and light-hearted, but underneath they are taking this business very seriously, and some oi their talk shows -it. That's the way to take one's fighting, you know? neither too much in earnest?which is morbid?nor too much as a joke? which is foolish. The wise man is he who neither overrates himself nor underrates danger. The Ameri cans are wise men. ? "The peasants like them; the old French mothers mother them. They have an instinct which gives them a realization of the homesickness which must sometimes come to these men. When years have gone by, and it ?s possible to see the war in perspective, it may be possible to give full value to what those women have done. "Meanwhile, as I was saying, the Americans go on arriving and spread ing all over France." GERMANS BURNING TOWNS l^eeing From Cambrai the Huns De vastate Countryside. With Anglo-American Forces South east of Carobrai, <>c;. 10.?This morn ing the British and Americans con tinued to advance rapidly. The whole battle on lhat field was aflame throughout the night. Many fires were observed that completely de stroyed many towns and farm houses. t HAS KAISER BILL QUIT.' Report Reaches Stockholm That Mcast of Berlin Has Ab dicated. ? i By Associ it od Press. Stockholm. Oct. 10.?There is ft persistent rumor here that Jap per or William has adbicat ed INFLUENZA EVERYWHERE. DISEASE BECOMES EPIDEMIC \ FROM COAST TO COAST. Amusement Places and Schools Oos- I ed and Gatherings Prohibited in Many States. -* Washington, Oct. 9.?Spanish in- j fiuenza now has spread to practically I every part of the country. Reports: today to the public health service j showed the disease is epidemic in j many Western and Pacific coast States : as well as in almost all regions east] of the Mississippi river. Its spread j also continued in army camps, the; number of new cases' reported being, greater than on the day before. i Influenza is epidemic in Tennessee,: i Louisiana, Mississippi, Touts, North | Carolina, Maryland, North Dakota,! Ohio, South Dakota, Missouri, Ne- \ braska, Vermont, Washington, West; Virginia, parts of Arizona, and many j other States. In Louisiana and Mis- j issippl amusement places over the', State havo been ordered closed and j all public gatherings prohibited.: Schools have been ordered closed and public gatherings prohibited at Seat tle, Bremerton, Pasco, Prosser, Sul tan and Port Angeles, Wash. The disease is reported from many parts of California, while in Texas the malady has been reported from seventy-seven counties, with the num ber of cases varying from one to 4,000 in each county. A slight decrease is noted in Massachusetts, but in the District of Columbia the malady is spreading rapidly, more than 2,000 new cases being reported. The epidemic continues in New Jer sey, and the public health service an nounced that a physician has been placed in charge at Perth Amboy >n cooperation with the State and local health authorities. New cases of influenza reported to day at army camps totalled 131,005., a slight increase over the number yesterday. There also was an in crease in pneumonia cases, with 2, S42 reported. The 820 deaths made a total of 6,553 in the camps since the epidemic started last month. Camp Funston, Kans., reported 1, 430 new influenza cases today, while Camp Custer, Mich., reported 1,000, and Camp Taylor Ky? 607. The high est number of pneumonia cases, 370, was reported at Camp Meade, Md., while Camp Custer had 275 new cases and. Camp Grant, til., 201. INFLUENZA REACHES PANDEM IC STAGE. Disease Not of Virulent Type, as a Rule, in South Carolina?Newbcrrj { Suffers Most. Columbia, Oct. 9.? The death rate from the pan-demic of Spanish in fluenza now raging throughout the United States, as far as South Caro lina is concerned, is: exceedingly low and the disease is not of a-yirulent type in a vast number, of cases, ac cording to Dr. James AcJCms Hayne, State health officer. V j Dr. Hayne, in a very conservative j estimate, places the number of case: I in South Carolina around" 10,000-, Nc I accurate statistics can be given by; the ! State health department because \h? reports are very incomplete Aj^tfcj data received is meager anfl irreal elusive. From' the information received by him, Dr. Hayne gives as his opinion that the apex of the disease has not been reached in this State, and the reports received by the health author ities show that it is still spreading notably in the Pee Dee section. Although deaths from/ the diseas' are excessively low when the number of cases are considered, said Dr. Hayne, yet there is a large casualty list. Undertakers in various parts of the State have wiretl the State board of health to send additional, supplies of death certificates, as those they had on hand have run out. The health authorities are of the opinion that the apex of the disease has been reached in Newbery and at Belton, where it appears to be on th; decline. Newberry has suffered more than any other town in the State, the I proportion of cases reported being greater per capita than from any oth ? er section so far. Every precaution has been taken by the municipal au thorities there and every means em ployed for combatting the epidemic, j According to information received by j Dr. Hayne, the stores were closed j there the first part of the week. Bennettsville has reported that the ! disease has reached an ? epidemic j stage there and has called fcr nurses I and physicians. Miss Annie Painter. I of Columbia, has been recalled from ; Dale, Beaufort County, where there ! was an epidemic of typhoid fever j among the' negroes, and has been sent j to Bennettsville. The situation at j Dale has cleared up. Mullins and j Enoree also report an epidemic of j Spanish influenza and have called for j nurses and physicians. Thornwell Or j phanage report* 17.") cases, with no i death, and desires a nurse. Dr. Hayne said that the assistants j from the American Red Cross and ; the United States public health ser I vice, both of which have promised ! nurses, have hot reported to him yet. i Two nurses have left* Arkansas for ; South Carolina yesterday, he stated, j According to reports received by ; the Sputh Carolina, health authori ties, the spread of Spanish influenza has exceeded the epidemic and has reached the pan-demic stage. No State of the Union is free from it. Washington being the last to fall ir line. Dr. Hayne is of the opinion that the fact of one having the disease and j recovery gives the patient a relative i degree of immunity, although not ab- j ' solute immunity from contracting i? i i in the near future. ; j The State Board of Health and Dr. | ' Hayne, in particular, axe exceedingly I SODTBBON, EnabUsb?d Jons, MM VoLXLvlI. No. 17. A GREAT AIR RAID. AMERICAN AIRMEN PULL OFF, GREAT STUNT. Attack Made on German Cantonments With Large Squadron of Bombing Machines?Twelve Hun Flyers Shot Down. yith American Forces, Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 10, 12.30?An Amer ican bombing expedition consisting of more than 350 machines yesterday dropped 32 tons of explosives on Ger? man cantonments in the area be tween Wavrile and Dam Villers, twelve miles north of Verdun. Their exploit marks one of the high spots in air fleet operations during the war. Twelve enemy ma chines were destroyed, and only one of the entente planes failed to re turn. In addition, American planes yes terday brought down five German machines and one balloon. With Americans Northwest of Verdun, Noon, Oct. 10?Gen. Persh ing's infantry today again went into action on the left wing of the Argonne forest, after a violent artillery bom bardment lasting all night. TREACHEROUS GERMAN. , A Wounded German Officer Attempt* j ed to Shoot an American Officer ; While in the Act of Giving Bum ! Water. i With the American Army in Field, j Sept. 25 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?An instance of S cowardly treachery on the part of a , j captured German officer who had ! been wounded and who had been of i fered help by an American officer is I told by Lieut. Edward Nichols, of Jamaica, N. Y. After the last big drive of the Al lies in August, Lieut. Nichols was placed in charge of a company of sol- - diers whose task it was to clear the> ! field of American dead and wounded, i Although his duties did not require j him to aid the German wounded on . ! the field until the Americans were j disposed of, Lieut. Nichols, who is ! only 23 years old, went to the as j sistance of a German infantry officer ? who seemed more than any of his comrades to be in need of succor. The lieutenant was in the act of unfastening his canteen and giving^ the wounded man a drink of v water when the German drew a revolver while the unsuspecting American's , face was turned, and aimed it. at- the. head of his rescuer. Eefore he could pull the. trigger^.-. however, a. quick-witted American, sergeant plunged his bayonet through' the German's heart. The German's . act was condemned even by his cap tured comrades. ; -\ PARTISIAN POLITICIAN ALWAYS... Roosevelt Can Never See Any Goodjn Wilson?Slaring Comment on Reply to Germany. Oyster Bay, Nt Y., Ockv 9.?Col. Theodore Roosevelt made lowing statement tonight dent Wilson's response man rs ago, and again and/ to that time I said this ht to be fought through un til we secured the unconditional sur render of Germany and her vassal al lies?Austria, and Turkey. To this statement I unqualifiedly adhere. I hear that the president's announce ment will be treated as an invitation to further note writing. "The effort to fight and to negoti ate at the same time is apt to dam age the fighting end of the combi nation. Personally, I believe that our sole aim should be to win the war . and not to discuss peace terms with the enemy until the war has been won." LORRAINE'S IRON AND COAL. Taken Over by a German Syndicate. Amsterdam, Sept. 25 (Correspond ence)?The immense coal and iron mines and smelting works owned by Baron De Wendel" ir. Lorraine have been sold to German syndicate for ?' the normal equivalent of $65,000,000 on the ground that they were chiefly owned by French citizens. ^The pro cess by Which thia great property was transferred from French toXfcer man ownership is called "compulso^sy^ liquidation." Baron De Wendel, reputed to be one of the richest men in Europe, was chief owner of the Lorraine coal and iron fields. His possessions in German Lorraine have long excited the cupidity of the German capital-^ ists. The potential ore supply in this field alone has been estimated at $1.900,000,000. The property was divided by the Germans in tw*> groups. The iron fields were sold to a steel combine for 50.000,000 marks. The smelting works and coal mines were purchased for J 10.000.000 marks by a syndicate headed by Councillor Vonraumer. The State reserved the right of par ticipation to the extent of fifty-one opnt in the purchase of the prop erties, f The Frankfort Zeitung in reporting the sale say.* the prices were "rea sonable," indicating that the Ger man steel, iron and coal magnate made srood bargains. gratified that the schools, churches and other organizations affected by the recent quarantine orders, are co operating, in such cheerful fashion with the mandates issued. He is | hopeful that the teachers will be paid their salaries while they are idle, particularly as the closing of the schools is nor their fault, and urges the trustees of the schools not to scatter their teaching personnel,