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Consolidated Aug. 2,1 muits peace heply. ??r rrs face rr is an outright &?CI3*rASrCE OF PRESI DENT WIL^N'S CON DITIONS, Signed by Foreign Minister Instead of the Chancellor. Maixmilian?Note is Viewed Suspicion I.By Associated Pressu. ?Washington, Oct. 12.?A wireless] ?iltfJdteh -sent out from Nauen, the! jjfreat German wireless station picked t~?rid. forwarded to official diplo He sources here tonight, purports ?^ptve the text of Germany's an i?r?j to President Wilson's inquiry to Ci^eeltor Maximilian on. Germany's j peace proposal. Oh its face it seems) ?r complete acceptance of President Wilson's, terms? ^L$jhe text of the note as received actt[Says Germany accepts the pres ident's terms as laid down; accepts <^cuatioh of invaded territory as iexsessary preliminary to an armistice and asks for a mixed commission to make the . arrangements; declares tfcat . the chancellor speaks "in the of .the .'German government and W\lhe German people" and that its ?hty object in entering into discus t&oiik is to agree on the practical de tails for carrying out the terms ^rt^kleiit, Wilson has laid down. _ ' Ttfe text of the note follows: . ^lljj.. reply to the questions of the jfcr^dent of the United States of ^hierica the German government *f^e.8y; declares: . ^.i^The . German government has ac the terms laid down by Pres -Kteni Wilson in his address of January 8% aad in his subsequent address on fj??joundation of a permanent peace W|^*Hice. .Consequently its object in w^fiug: ftito discussions would be ? to agree 4ipon practical details 6? the application of these terms. The .|^frnan. government believes that cgoverfimenfs of the powers asso with the government of the ^ States-also take the position 8, by {Resident Wilson in his ad iN; German government in ac tee with the Austfo-Kungarian tment for the purpose of bring tt'an armistice,-declares itself to .comply. with the provisions ^e 'president in regaruV to evacua te ;&e:rmanr government sug .?fc?ai the president "may. occa I* .tj[e: ? meeting , of a mixed com ^ for making the necessary ar femeht .coh%rning the evacua te"^rlssent' Germaii government J; Jia&._nn4crtaken jjbteL responsi ' for this step ; toward peace, has ih^r^nter^B*^ and in j r tentV**"ith the- great majority &i :r.?ip~ost?g. . The- -.-chancellor, ted in 'nil actions by . the will majority, speaks in the name., ...German' government and of ;?fre8Tnaji people. led) Solf> -fetate ? Secretary of jeign. Office." jrtin, Oteober 12, 1918. - W \ s. ;ri AU oifteial Washington was at a C^mpJete loss to.understand the text ?l*the note becoming public in' thh JjrSfr.?" ;;jffeltlier' the State "department fw;fr? Swiss iegation, which is look up VajtSi2 the* German interests, had gfr?eJved" the tepfy and it was very "St?cht*that It had been made pub fcit? through a "faux pas. ^i^Jnade no attempt to dispute it ^ulhehHclty and the diplomats to ^^oth the dispatch had been sent only, express regret that the dis . had be>n made public, irjy thib evening the newpsapei rad^hts were summoned by f?hpne to the officers of the diplo iwf mission, where many diplo i?fc'f dispatches arc received every rt.An.attache there gave out copies the dispatch in the regular way r. fthg * 'the usual distinguishing m?rtks. It: was at once flashed to the "fWh'eh Oje high officials of the of ^^IeaThed" that the dispatch har" fyt&ii nut de* public their distress wa. aimbst boundless, much as they were tfr^?e?'by its'apparent contents. 1 *"?ne' contents of the dispatch were if*tmce. communicated to Secretary ihg-and other officials of the government ' President Wilson was in fork and the contents of the i|bh were communicated to him SuVery Pr0baDle that tlle teXt ^ tfie official communication may dif fer*^ some respects as to verbiage from-the unofficial copy given out to night; but it is regarded as highly im raiwhte5that" it will show any sub siantial. difference. HUNDRED LOST LIVES. Report of Casualties in Porto Rican Eartltquake. San Juan, Sunday, Oct. 13.?With all bodies not recovered, it is prob able that a hundred or more lost their lives at Mayaguese, a seaport oh the western coast of Porto Rico in Friday** earthquake. Many in habitants are homeless and the Red Cross is sending surgical supplies and food. STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED. Strong Measures Adopted in Portugal to Maintain Order. Lisbon. Oct. 14.?The Portuguese! government has declared a state of gtafle for ah Portuguese territory j The president, as commander in chief of all military and naval units hSS taken direct command of the forces. Tranquility' reigns in the country. gifted April, 18MU "Be Joes fcj 881. St NO PEACE WITH TOISi. AUTOCRACY MUST GO DECLARES PRESIDENT. Wilson's Answer Fulfills Expectations of Supporters and Doubters?Ar mistice Can Not be Thought of While Germans Continue Atrocities on Land and Sea?If Move is to Pc Made Terms of Cessation Will .bo Dictated by Soldiers. Washington, Oct. 14.?President Wilson lias answered Germany's peace proposal with a decision which not only fulfills the expectations of sup porters of his diplomacy but also dis pels the fears of those who predicted; he would substitute victories at armsj with feats at diplomacy. No peace with kaisecism, autocracy] must go, no armistice can ever be thought of while- Germany continues! her atrocities on land and sea, one can not be considered unl?ss it is fully dictated by the allied commanders in the field in such terms as absolutely provide safeguards and guarantees that~ Germany's part will not be a scrap of paper.' This in a few words is the presi dent's answer. If it does not bring a capitulation which may be more than an uncondi tional surrender, allied diplomats and American officials believe it may cause a revolution in Germany. Beyond question it speaks for the entente allies as well as the United States. The dispatch of the president's re ply was followed by the issue of this ?formal statement at the White House by Secretary Tumulty: "The government will continue to send over 250,000 men with their sup plies every month and there will be no relaxation of any kind." Quite outside of the formal phrases of a diplomatic document, that was President Wilson's words to the world that he had no thought of stopping the fighting at this stage. The senate chamber rang with the j applause of senators as the presi dent's answer was read a few min utes after it had been announced at the State department. Senator Lodge, the president's chief critic in his course, until today, issued a statement expressing1, his gratification at the president's decision. Opinion at the capitoI and throughput official Wash ington was unanimously in approval. The official note which will convey the president's answer to the Ger man government and more import ant, the German people, was deliver ed today by Secretary Lansing to th> charge' of the Swiss legation who has been acting as the, intermediary. It was given out publicly by Mr. Lan ding at tEe State "department at ( o'clock this afternoon in full. It fol lows: "Sir: In reply to the communica tion of the German government dat jed the 12th instant, which you hand ed 'me today, I ha\'e the honor to re ? quest you to transmit the following answer: I "The unqualified acceptance by the present German government and by ji large majority of the reichstag o; the terms laid down by the president of the United States of America in his address to the congress-of the United States on the 8th of January, 1918. and in his subsequent addresses justi fies the president in making a frank and direct statement of his decision with regard to the communications of the German government of the 8th and 12th of October, 1918. "It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and j the conditions of an armistice are j matters which must be left to th? judgment and advice of the military advisers of the government of the United States and the allies' govern ments and the president feels it his duty to say that no arrangements can be accepted by the government of the United States which does not provide absolutely satisfactory safeguard and guarantees of the maintenance of the I present military supremacy of the armies of the United Sttaes and the allies in the field. "He feels confident that he can safely assume that this will also be the judgment and decision of the al lies' governments. "The president feels that it is also his duty to add that neither the gov ernment of the United States nor, he is quite sure the governments with which the government of the United States is associated as a belligerent, will consent to consider an armistice so long as the armed forces of Ger many continue the illegal and inhu mane practices which they still per sist in. "At the very time that the Ger man government approaches the gov ernment of the United States with j proposals of peace its submarines are ' engaged in sinKing passenger ships at j sea and not the ships alone, but the j very boats in which their passengers and crews seek to make their way to safety, and in their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders and France the German armies are pur suing a course of wanton destruc tion which has always been regarc" d as in direct violation of the rules a..d practices of civilized warfare. Cities and villages, if not destroyed, are be ing stripped of all they contain, not only, but often of their very inhabi tants. "The nations associated against; Germany can not be expected to agre ' to <i cessation of war while acts of inhumanity, spoliation and desolation are being continued which they just ly look upon with horror and with burning hearts. "It is necessary, also in order that id Ymr not?Dot all Hie ends Thou A?? J BITER, S. C, WBDNES TURKEY'S PLEA FOR PE&QE. jl APPEAL TO WILSON RECEIVED | J AT STATE DEPARTMENT. Long Delayed Note Asking for Restor- j i ation of Peace at Last Reached j Washington. - Washington, Oct. 14.?Turkey's '. long delayed note asking, like Aus- - tria and Germany, that President Wilson take in hand the restoration of peace, was received today at the j ? State department. j1 there may be no possibility of mis undertsanding that the president should very solemnly call the atten tion of the government of Germany l to the language and plain intent of i one of the terms of peace which the I German government has now accept j ed. It is contained in the address of the president delivered at Mount! I Vernon on the Fourth of July, last. "It is as follows: *' 'The destruction of every arbi tary power anywhere that can separ ately, secretly and of its single choice, disturb the peace of the world, or it" it can not be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual impo tence'" "The power which has hitherto con trolled the German nation is of the sort here described. It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it.. The president's words just quot ed naturally constitute a condition; precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of the German people themselves. The president feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, depend upon the definiteness and the satisfactory character of the guaran tees which can be given in this fun damental matter. It is indispensable that the governments associates against Germany should know beyond a peradventure with whom they are dealing. "The president will maksaeep bCji "The president will make a sepa rate reply to the royal and imperial government of Austria-Hungary. "Accept, sir, the renewed assur-i ances of my high consideration."^ (Signed) "Robert Lansing." . j Frederick-Odelin, ? s Charge d'Affaires, ad interim, in. charge of German interests in the* United States. - ' , i One outstanding point which does' not appear in the president's note, a point- on which the world has beep, asking questions, can be answered to night. 'I : When the president declared tljat the wrong done to - France when Germany took Alsace-Lorraine shauB be righted he meant that Alsace-Lor raine should be returned to France. Those 'who - Contend that the 'presi den's decision arranges the "situation for something more than ah uncon ditional surrender base it on the ar gument that he ha3 now passed the stage where he might have accepted a surrender of the German military and naval forces and left -the Hohen ?llen! autocracy on its throne. Mr. Wilson, according to this view, now finally has informed the German people that if they want peace they can only attain it by getting rid ol Vhe kaiser and his system. An armistice, it is true, might come first and the details of the downfall of the German autocratic govern ment might be arranged later. But this is what an armistice would' entail: First, a stop to the atrocities on land and sea and the systematic de struction and devastation in the wake of the retreating German armies ' then, the disarmament of all the Ger man forces and the deposit of their arms and munitions at points-to be chosen by the allied military com manders. Then the occupation by allied forces of certain German cities or strongholds of strategic import ance. Probably also the occupation ) of all the submarine bases and a turning over of the German fleet, sn short, it will entail a taking from Germany of everything with which she might break her word to an ar mistice, ? From that point the United State? and the allies might proceed to dis pose of what remained of kaiserism if i the German people have not done it j before, as President Wilson in his : note plainly invites them to do. While nowhere in the note does the president join openly with the entente statesmen in the demand that "the chief criminals must be deliver ed up for trial," the president's con fidants point out that he plainly sub scribes to the doctrine that the guilt of bringing on the world war is per sonal. It will be noted that the president j completely rejects the German sug i gesUon for a mixed commission to arrange an evacuation and reminds I the militarists that they will accept the terms laid down by Marshal Fcch and; the associated commanders: that they, will have no part in framing them. He makes it plain that he doc not accept <he new German govern ment headed by Chancellor Maxi milian as anything less autocratic, J anv'hmg less a creature of German! i militarism than its predecessors and J ! warns the German people that unlessj I they dest roy it the allied armies will j do co. One of the most- important points of his note is that in whn^lv he ac knowledges the present German gov ernment's unqualified acoeptamV of his peace terms and then goes oh to show that those terms provide speci fically for the substitution of a gov\ j eminent wholly responsible to the] 'Germans themselves for th* present' tsl it be thy Country'*, Thy God's 4au DAY, OCTOBER 16, 181 S TROOPS PRAISED. KAWXINSOX COXGATULATES 30TH | T DIVISION OX VICTORY. Roches Said to Have Ran Like Rab bits Before the Thirtieth Division. With the Anglo Forces on the Va lenciennes Front, Oct. 12.?(By the Associated Press.)?Gen. Sir Henry IlawJinson, commanding the British Fourth army, with which an Ameri-I cm .division i3 operating, has sent tojn the general commanding the division, [ j( comprising troops from Tennessee: and the Carolinas, the following tele gram: "On this occasion I desire to convey; to you and all the members of the staff, as well as all other ranks of? divisions my heartiest congratulations on your victory. The gallantry ofj your infantry and the precision with which the staff arrangements worked fill me with admiration and it has 1 given me great pleasure to report) your unqualified success to Field Mar shal Sir Douglas Haig. The Thirtieth division, composed of North Carolina and South Carolina and Tennessee National Guardsmen has been mentioned frequently of S?te in British official statements and dispatches from the front as taking a prominent part in the fighting in the Valenciennes area. This division captured St. Souplet, Fremont and several other towns, and one occa sion, Associated Press dispatches from the front, said the Boches ran away like rabbits before the Thirtieth. The division trained at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. Americans and British troops cap tured in the Bohain region what was probably the largest enemy ammuni tion dump ever taken. The shells, piled high, covered a large area. This capture will greatly reduce the quan tity of ammunition available to the Germans-on this section of the front. RESCUED FROM SERVITUDE French Liberate 6,500 Civilians Wher. They ? Occupied La on. Paris, Sunday, Oct. 13.?Six thou sand, five hundred civilians were lib erated when the French entered !-Laon, it is officially stated tonight. The-French have passed-far beyond the town along the whole front be tween the Oise and Ailette rivers. Stateburg War Savings Society. jp| The Stateburg-War Savings So fceiAty- during September increased its {^purchases, from $169.25 to $200.50. ^ gJJ.. !.!]!>??U..I1" ??????????"?!??? ? "< ' '? one dominated by the German mili .?' Quoting; his Mount Vernon speech of July. 4, the president reminds Ger j many that his terms call for "the j destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere, that can secretly and of its single choice disturb the peace O: world; or if it can not be presently destroyed at least its reduction to virtual impotency." Here then follows the words which ?proclaim with finality that the auto cratic government of Germany, must go and plainly invites the German people to make the change which w ' bring them peace. "The power .which hitherto hav controlled the German nation," says the president's reply, "is of the sort here described." It is within the choice of the German people to alter it. The president's words just quot ed naturally constitute a . condition precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of th2 German people themselves. The president feeh bound to say that the whole procesr of pe'ace will, in his judgment, de pend upon the definiteness and th satisfactory character of the guaran tees which can be given in this fun damental matter. It is indispensabi that the governments assoclatec against Germany should * know be yond peradventure with whom they xre dealing. This pronouncement, the president's friends say, fulfills the predictions o those who declared that when he asked Prince Maximilian if he merely represented the military leaders who had been conducting the war, he was laying the foundation to show that the new government of Germany is no less autocratic than "the others anc for a final statement to <he German people themselves that nothing but cheir autocratic government stands between them and the peace which they so fervently desire. This, the president's friends say has been til. whole theory of his diplomacy. Wher the president decided to say that if an armistice should be thought of it could not be considered without imposing terms to guaran tee the good faith of Germany ane provide for the maintenance of the military supremacy of the armies of the United States and the entente al lies, he undoubtedly knew that the al lied war council acting on the rec ommendation of Marshal Foch ha/3 decided upon necessary guarantees. These now are understood to include the occupation of Metz and Stras burg and Cublenz, the strategic keys to Germany. The next move in the great inter national drama is now expected U take place in Germany while the armies of the cobelligerents thunde* at her gates. Diplomatists are agreed that what must come from Germany now is action, not words. She may ?fter to comply with the terms and give up the guarantees which would permit an armistice. From that point the disposition ">f the autocracy migh; be considered in connection with the terms of peace. Otherwise the opin ion is unanimous thai the victorious rinies of the United States and the le allies must march on. THE TB?E I 8. ?????^? iMNSPOKIipED. HREE HUNDRED AND SEVEN TY-TWO AMERICANS UN ACCOUNTED FOR. >nly One Vessel Able to Make At tempt at Rescue, British Destroyer Taking off Three Hundred, and Sev enteen Men Picked up Alive on Scotch Coast. A British Port, Oct. 10.?A large umber of American troops have been ost as the result of the sinking of f* he transport Otranto in the North Channel between the Scottish and rish coasts in a collision with the teamer Kashmir. The Otranto after the collision was lashed to pieces on the rocks off the! ;outh Scottish coast with a probable oss of 372 American soldiers. Ihree hundred and one men were ;aken to Belfast by the British de stroyer Mounsey, the only vessel ivhich made an attempt at rescue in he terrific gale when the Kashmir, mother vessel in the convoy with the Otranto rammed the Otranto amid ;hip. Seventeen men were picked up alive on the Scottish coast. Of the 699 American soldiers on board the Otranto, 310 were landed. Seventeen were rescued alive at Islay, leaving 372 unaccounted for. The Otranto and the other vessels of the convoy were battling with the heavy seas and high winds Sunday morning. The storm was so severe and the visibility so bad that the Kashmir, a former Peninsular & Ori ential liner, crashed into the Otranto squarely amidships. The Kashmir backed away badly damaged but was able to make port. As the bows of the Kashmir were pulled from the great hole in the side of the Otranto, the water rushed in but for a time it did not serve to stop the engines. The Otranto tried to proceed but made no headway against the gale in her crippled con dition. Within a short time the water put out her fires and the Otranto drift ed helplessly toward the rocky coast of Islay Island where. most of the Tuscania victims met their deahs. The Otranto struck the rocks Sun oay night south of Saligo Bay, Islay Island, an uninhabited section where the coast line in many places rise's straight out of. the water to the rocky peaks many feet above. Thirty minutes after the crash the British destroyed Mounsey, herself damaged by the heavy rseas, appeared out of the haze in answer to the dis tress calls on the-, Otranto. When the destroyed maneuvered to get along side Captain Davideda. of the Otranto warned LieutgBftRt ?jSJraven,. com manding the . destroyer, n^t to make the attempt. ? When it was seen thaSt Craven would make the attempt anylt'ay the men were ordered to removeb tHelr shoes and hetvy clothing and u|jf to >ave themselves as best they co The destroyer stood off about feet and then rradually came n against the great odds of high w; and the wind, vhich threatened mentarily to car>y her entirely awl'5 from the Otrant* or dash her 1* pieces against the side Of the woun ed vessel. ?x^tf5***^'' As the destroyer^^-e^^e side of the Otranto the meil??egan to jump from 30 to 40 feet from her decks. The more experienced sailors of the crew of the steamer had better suc cess than the soldiers, many of whom had never seen the sea until this trip. As the destroyer steered toward the side of the steamer many of the men leaped too quickly and missed their reckoning and dropped between tha boats. Some of these disappeared in the water, but others of them were caught* and crushed to death between the boats and the life boats which had been lowered to act as buffers. The destroyer was badly shattered. The captain of the destroyer, each time it was brushed away from the side of the Otranto, again would push near enough for many more men to jump to the deck of his vessel. He described as veritable rain the num ber of men landing on the destroyer. Many of those who reached the decks of the vessel suffered broken bones or otherwise were hurt. Those who missed the deck of the destroyer went to almost instant death. Four times the battered* destroyer came along side, and each time the previous scenes were repeated. At th? end of the fourth trip she had 310 Americans, 23G of the crew, 30 French sailors and one British officer on board. The boat was full and, hav ing done all possible she started for port. The survivors saw the Otranto drifting helplessly towards rocks as they pulled toward the Irish coast. The destroyer barely had time to send a. brief message when her wireless was carried away. The little over loaded vessel had a rough trip to port. One of the American troopers on board the Otranto pictured the scene when the vessels collided. Soldiers lined the decks as though on parade, and at the word of command stood at "attention like statues. They never wavered, remaining there in military formation, exemplifying during the crisis the noblest tradiions of the army for heroism and discipline. The same thing, said the soldier, applied to the seamen. Numbers of bodies today were being washed up rapidly on the shore. It was reported that 175 had been counted at noor. and nearly all of them had been iden tified. A seaman on the Otranto described the most tragic moment of -the disas ter as that when the order came for the men to jump and save themselves. The destroyer looked like a very small boat alongside the former Orient liner and many landsmen among the SO?THROS, VoLXLVII. No, 18. ma F?L EEKING SOME PLACE Ol* SAFETY NOT YET RE VEALED. "urther Reports Heard That Turkey and Austria-Hungary Have In? formed Germany That They Win Accept President Wilson's Terms?? News Should Roost Sale of Liberty Bonds. On the wings' of necessity the Ger nans are flying eastward from their >ld battle positions from Douai to La Tere and northward from LaFere to he Meuse River. Their flight is to vard some haven of safety from the: alons of the allied hawks which ire everywhere menacing them. Meanwhile t3iere have been sent broadcast further reports that Aus^ ;ria-Hungary and Turkey, seeing that :he trend of events spells ultimate de feat, have informed Germany that they will accept President Wilson*?, peace terms. \ Notwithstanding the advantages that are being achieved over the com- . mon enemy on the battle fronts and the peace feelers in the air, President' Wilson, Secretary of State Lansing, Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and in fact, all the high officiate or the government are warning the American citizenry that the situation still is critical and that every one should rally to the support of . the \ Fourth Liberty Loan. All along the battle front the :ai-!v lied troops are advancing. From the | south of Douai to the east of Loon the enemy everywhere is giving ground eastward. The famous Chem in-des-Dames, the ridge which- fhoV. Germans had believed to be an itf. superabl? barrier to an advance north- - ward from Soissons, is being evacuat ed, while in the Champagne and along the Meuse River farther east-\ ward the French and American troops, are pushing forward, northward and their lines in the great- converging movement which is fast driving the >. enemy from Belgium and the great er portion of invaded France toward his own borders. Douai now is completely outflanked by the latest operations of the- Brit-' ish, while between Cambrai and SL Quentin the British and Americans are-still chasing the4 enemy. T^ the ^ south of St. Quentin the French ov^er. -J: a wide front have crossed-the Qjfctff-J River, and in conjunction with the re tirement of the enemy from * the ? Chemin-des-Dames, are, forcing the Germans to give up the: great St. Go bian forest, the bastion at the bend of the line where it turns eastward and also the stronghold of Loan, the : keystone of the entire southern Ger- l man line.. While from the War mapsylL wyjtfiv appear to the" casual ? observer that the Germans in thif bend pt the el j bbv7 are likely to be cut off, it seems j more probable that ^hey will be able ! to use the railways and high roads - 1 leading in all directiSns of-a; spider's^ web and effect their escape. without great losses in prisoners. Neyerthe* , less the retrograde n*vement here of necessity mut have ? Mrong ..bearing : on the stability oi v*atevernew- line the Germans may choose to stand np- !: on, and on their still igfc?vely strong fronts in Belgium anoforom; ^Vjerdun the Swiss border. ^-r-^*"^*"**-^; Italians are *acing a great-, p M t the drivingojgie enemy from Siuppe River fly the French at, numerous places. West of the'Ar-, g?nne forest, which now is held' by the French and Americans^ the Ger mans are in retreat and a number of additional towns and villages have been taken by the Franco-American forces. Eaet o( the Argonne and along the Meuse -valley the Americans are still progressing satisfactorily. The retreat of the enemy along the 85 miles of the Western line from Douai to the southeast of St. Quentin is still too fast, except on iso lated sectors, for the foot troops of the British, American and French to keep in contact wPh them. The cavalry and tanks on the plains and/ through the wooded sectors, howev er, are ,taking a terrible toll from the rear guards, while still farther back; allied airmen" af^ cutting to pieces the columns of the ^bewildered foe as they try 'to make Ttheir way toiheir next 'defense line, \yirtually no in- i fantry opposition is bafeg encounter ed. The machine gun ^emingly -is being chiefly depended uiMB D'y *n0 Germans to hold back thT^oe as their main forces retire. Earthquake Shock Recorded. Washington, Oct. 11.?A very se? vere earthquake was recorded at 10.30 this morning. The Georgetown Uni versity seismographs looked like it might have centered west of Wash ington, but there is no indication, where it was located. Mayor of Anderson Dead. } Anderson, Oct. 11.?J. H. Godfrey, 1 mayor of Anderson, S. C, died at 11.15 ? o'clock tonight. He contracted in fluenza several days ago. j American troops thought themselves \ j safer aboard the larger vessel. This . f was fatal to many of them j The victims are to be collected at | the most suitable place and buried there. A boat left Liverpool today with material for coffins, 50 laborers and carpenters and chaplains to con duct the funerals. The grave of ev ery man will be marked and chart- > ed. There were few cases among the ? dead where identification was delay- - ed. Every man had worn an identi- i Nation taj? on his wrist or neck but in some instances these were torn off and it was necessary to take finger, prints of the men. .