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TUR bl'Ml'KK fVATCHMAN, Etfafr Consolidated Aug. 2,1 WILHELM TO BE P?T ON TRIAL Council of Four Decide That Former Kaiser Should Be Tried V %- ? INDEMNITY OF CENTRAL POWERS FIXED They Will Be Allowed Thirty Years * in WTiieh to Pay for; War. Paris, April 9 (By the Associatedi Press).?The responsibility of the German emperor for the war and the means of bringing him to trial by i one of the allied governments, prob ably Belgium, have been definitely de- \ termined upon by the council of fo:n\ Thjs follows the definite decision on the terms of reparation for war dam ages, whereby $?,O00,0flO,COO must be! paid within the next two years, and , an, interallied commission assess :hc remaining damage for a period of 'JO years, beginning May 1, 1921. Thus iwo of the great obstacles! which stood in the path of the rapid | attainment of peace have been rc-j moved within the last 24 hours, and the period of extreme tension over; the inaction and the failure to secure j tangible results is succeeded by re-! vived confidence over the great ad- ; vance made towards a permanent set- j tlement. How far these results arc ? due to the intimations conveyed in the j summoning to France of the United ? States transport George Washington i by President Wilson is only conj-c- ? tural, but it is at least a coincidence that--the main difficulties began to; dissolve from the time that this do- j cision became known. The exact nature of these difficul-: ties is not disclosed. Friends of the j president maintain that they were j largely of a minor character, not in- j volving large principles, though the j president's adherence to his -'ii [ polrtts" as the rigid limitation of the ; scope of action appears to have run ail through the deliberations during' the tense period of the last few days. -While the tension has be^-n greatl: i reduced, it is not entirely removed, as 1 much depends on the continuation* of ? ess~wrth respect t? ffl^'iert?fh^T ing obstacles, notably the Sarr^ Val ley, the Rhine frontier, the Adriatic j issue and a number of lesser issues j which are still short of final agree ment. The agreement on responsibilities for the war is understood to have been a compromise between divided re ports presented by the commission, of which Secretary Lansing is chairman. There was a practical agreement on the general responsibility of the : German emperor for bringing on the war. but division occurred on wheth er it was feasible to bring him to .justice before an international tribu nal. The French and British view favor ed a tribunal but the American view, it is understood, favored moral in dictment without recourse to prose cution, owing to the lack of an inter national law as a basis for trial be fore an international court. Belgium, on which the war fell first and heaviest, is reported to have taken a view much similar to that of ?ho United States, while Japan and Italy were partially in accord with the American view. It was owing to these divergent viewpoints that the council devised a new plan, whereby one of the allied rations, probably Belgium, would ini tiate prosecution against the former emperor and others responsible for the breach of treaties, the invasion of territory and the destruction direct ed against this country and leading to a mor*? general spread of the war. The.exact nature of the agreement is not disclosed, but the fdregoing is be lieved to cover the main lines. The text as finally approved on reparations specifies that the enemy countries must admit responsibility for all losses and damages to allied and associated nations and their cit izens caused oy the unjustifiable a:,' gression. But, in view of the inabil ity; of the enemy countries fully to recompense these losses, the clause States, an interallied commission w;]j assess the losses or. a jHst basis foi 30 years, beginning May 1, 1921. with an initial payment of $r?,000.0no.0?)<?. Germany is to pay the entire cost of the commission and staff during the 30 years of operations. The firs: payment is to be credited against Germany's obligation t<? pay for the maintenance of the allied troops in the occupied region, and the second priority is for the payment of food relief furnished to Germany. Women at Cambridge Petition Asking Admission of Women to English University London. .March 16.?A memorial has been presented to Cambridge Uni versity urging thp admission of wo men to full university membership. *t :- s"""~?sted. should be ??hjwt the same conditions and ? . a.N men students and should wear tho cap and gown. Seven mas ters of colleges and twenty-two pro ,v--<?p ^n-r,^,] petition. Women athletes are aspiring to take part in the university's sports*. ihbed April, 18*0. 'Bei afugi a 881. TREATY HAS TRADE PROVISION Favored Nations Clause Will Safeguard Interests of Allies IT WILL BE IN FORCE FIVE YEARS There Will Be No Tariff Dis crimination Against Merchant Marine. Pari?, April 9 (Hy the Associated Press).?Provision for the mos: fa vored nation treatment in the Gor man sociated countries 12345C <; G?5 man customs system for the allied and associated countries, a single tar iff, and no Tariff discriminations has ed on the Uagr of the vessels in which goods are transported, or the route of importation or exportation will be incorporated in the pence treaty with Germany, according to the present provisional agreement. The restric tion is to he enforced for five years after the conclusion of peace and it will probably include the proviso that the tariffs in force upon imports from the associaied countries during that period shall be based on the most favored nations .schedule of 1914. The obligation to maintain under a, single tariff the 1914 schedules will be specified only for a limited period, since there is a fairly general realiza tion that Germany will be able Jinan - ially to raise the maximum of repara tion payments and limits or exclude unnecessary imports only by the im position of higher customs rates. And the proposal is under consideration to rive Germany, after the period which will be required for the study and re vision of existing tariffs, absolute freedom to increase all her duties. ' The economic problems of Alsace Lorraine and German Poland, the in dustries of which have heretofore been based on membership in the German empire and access to the German markets, probably will be given consideration by provision permitting them freedom of trade with Germany during the period of transition and readjustment until it is "prssible for thorn" To^trnlld up'new markets. Such a solution was found abso lutely essential for certain industries like cotton manufactures and the wines of Alsace-Lorraine, for which no present market exists outside Ger many. The conference experts who agreed upon this solution believe the arrangement to be equally advan tageous and acceptable to Germany. The problem of the experts in for : mulating the conditions under which Germany will be permitted to re I establish commercial relations with the rest of the world has been most complicated, since in order to provide ! for equality of trade relations and prevention of discriminations against the present opponents of Germany, it has been necessary to consider that Germany's ability to pay reparations is largely contingent on the absence of hampering restrictions on the de ? velopment of home industries and for foreign trade. it has been the endeavor in consid ering the problem to cause as litte !cs* as possible to the trad* relations before the war by virtue of special arrangements and allow Germany freedom of tariff r- gru'ation so far a is compatible with the necessities o. reparation. Columbia Railway Case Argued Before State Supreme Court, Opinion Reserved Columbia. April 8.?The appeal of the Columbia Railway, Gas and Elec tric Company, holder of the Colu:.! bia canal, from the decision of Judgf. Townsend dismissing its demurrer and the refusal of Judge Memminger to transfer its contesl with the Colum bia canal commissioner, created by an act of ihr general assembly in 1M7. to the federal court of the Sou ill Car olina Eastern district, was argued be fore the State Supreme Court today. The court reserved its opinion. (>?; June 29. 1918, Judge W. If. Town send refused the demurrer of the company that the complaint of tie Columbia Canal Commission contain ed an insufficiency of allegations an i should bo dismissed. In January. 1918, Judge R. \V. Memminger re fused to accept the order of the trac tion corporation for removal of ih litigation into the federal courts. Huns and Czechs Fight Violent Fighting on Moravian Border Reported London. April la.?Violent fighting has occurred between Hungarians and ?'zechs at LTngvar, near the Moravian Hungarian borrler. says ;i Centra' News Amsterdam dispatch. One hundred and fifty Hungarians were killed. The Czechs also had consid erable losses. Berlin. April 10.?Government troops are reported to have entered jEssen and to have occupied the Krupp plant, which, according ??> previous reports, had been seized by the Essen strfkers. The troops post ed artillery and machine guns at the entrance to the plant. uri Fear not?Let aU the endJ Thou Air SUSITEIt, S. C, SATUB UEER TURN j AT CONFERENCE! 1 Peace Terms Will Be Communi-' catecl to Germans Before Plenary Council i STATEMENT ATTRIBUTED BRITISH PEACE DELEGATES American Delegates Issue State- j : To This Action. ment Recording Opposition! Pari::. April 10.?The publication ? in Paris today of a statement, at-j itrfbutod to British; sources, that the; terms of the treaty of peace will not' be presented 10 the plenary session. of tin- peace confemce until after; they have Loon oomrnun.'caied to the! [German representatives caused great; [comment among the delegates of the! ? nations not represented on the cotui-j , oil of four. The publication brought j jfrom the American mission the state-: (meni that it is opposed to such a plan1 i State Wins Suit \ _r Attorneys Win Hard Fight fora Commonwealth Columbia. April 10.?The State of! 'i i iSo'ath Carolina was victorious in itsj ?efeuse against rhe eomp'aint ?Usd by, j J. ?VXeal Handel of Caihoun county.! ; The jury in the case returned a ver- j diet for the defendant when the! court of common pleas convened yes-j j tcrday morning. I The jury retired Tuesday afternoon-1 at 5.4? o'clock and were confined in; i th^ jury room until 1 o'elock yester-j 'day morning when the foreman an-j j nounced to the bailiffs that an agree-1 j ment hud been reached and a sealed ! i verdict bad been prooared. The men i I i : .'of' CjV their homes and reported to] .hide Seas'- at '.?.'??.') a. in. j The contest was interesting and' [ the attorneys engaged in ih-j trial j made able addresses; The plaintiff entered suit for $100.-! I 000 damages on account of the death | 'of two young daughters. Dr. Brown-' ? ing administered anti-typhoid vaccine i furnished by the State laboratory.^ [The two girls died and the claim wasj i set up that the serum had become j contaminated and caused death short- ; j 5y alter the doses were injected into the children. The following composed the jury: fA. J. DeCosta, J. T. Walker. A. C.j ! Ballentine, J. C. Campbell, F. A. Lev-! Jer. It. H. Pidcocke. E. O. Cloaninger, i ! Walker Sahrp. W. Williams. B. A. !Keith. C. ]j. Riddle and J. < >. Parker, j ' The defense was handled by S. AI [Wolfe, attorney general, assisted by Morris Lumpkin, assistant attorney; general, and Aha :\J. Lumpkin. Th<-! j plaintiff was represented by Colcock j j & Coleoek. W. X. Graydon, C. L ! jBlease and C. S. Monterih. Attorney;-1 ! for tlio plaintiff gave notice thai.' ; they would argue a motion for a new: ; j trial. Auto License Tax Sumter County's Share Up To Date Is $0,544.80 11 : i : Columbian April 8.?The State .Highway Commission through the ?;State treasurer will distribute $240.-! ! 525.40 among the forty-six counties' of the State-from automobile license f? OS paid for 1219 up to April 1st. ' In 1913$ the automobile license fees jto April 1st amounted to $195,512.40.' i The collections in in 19 were approxi mately $45,000.00 in excess of those, j in 191S up to the same date. Sumter county will receive $6,544.S'0 as its share of tho automobile license fees. Advocates of good roads are .?strongly of the opinion that every . county in the State should devote tit whole of its receipts from automobile , license fees to making permanent road improvements or on road main- \ i tenance this year, as provided by law. : Section II of the Act approved; February 20th. 1!<17. creating the1 Stale Highway Commission and im posing a license tax on motor vehicle:;, i provides that the money from tho Ji . cense tara shall be used by the coun j ties "only for the construction and ? . maintenance of roads and bridges. From reports received last year, it : appears that some of the counties turned the money from automobile license fees into the general county fund and did not use it as required by law. Americans Refused to Fight Bolshevists One Company in Archangel Sec lion Hesitated When Order ed to Front Archangel. April 10. One company of American troops recently showed some hesitation in returning u> the .fighting front south of Archangel, de claring that the war with Germany was over and the United States was not at war with the Rolshev'sts. Regimental commander in n speech said they were fighting a desperat?' defensive battle and appealed to them to stick it out. The company then left for the front. The situa tion arose when the company nnm<-<i was ordered back to the front after ( a rest period at Archangel. mrt at b*> tiiy ?jouuurj Hay God's i IDAY, APRIL 12, 19197 COTTON MEN MEET IN MEMPHIS Convention to Consider Organi zation of Fifty Million Dollar Corporation PLAN TO MARKET COTTON DIRECT State Owned Warehouses and Fi nancial Aid to Farmers Also Considered. Memphis. April 10.?Cotton plant el's, hankers and representatives of business interests of all the cotton States met here today with federal and State officials to consider the or ganization of a fifty million dollar ex porting corporation as a means of fa cilitating cotton movement to Europe. It is stated that the question of State-owned warehouses and financial aid io farmers to enable them ta hold th.dr cot:on for remunerative prices a! >o might be d'satissed. Extends Clemency Governor Acts on Eight Cases Out of Fifty-two Columbia. April 9.?Governor Coop er this afternoon extended executive clemency in eight cases out of 52 ap plicat'ons. The remainder o? the ap .??iications were refused. Acting on the recommendation of the pardon board, rhe governor granted one full pardon and six paroles during good behavior and a commutation. George Davis, a negro, who was convicted from Lauren's county in 1909 of assault with intent to rav ? sh and given 20 year-? in the peni tentiary, was paroled during good be havior, tie has served ten years. It is alleged that the prosecutrix, o white woman, was of unsavory repu tation. The case presented such an angle, thai Governor Cooper who was Solicitor ai thai time; refused to prosecute. Walter steii), a white man. con victed from Greenville county in 191? for assault and sentenced to one year's imprisonment and a line 61 $100, has his sentence commuted to the payment of the fine. John Alfred, convicted from Union in 1;?ls for larceny and given two years' imprisonment. was paroled during good behavior. He has serv ed eight months of his term. Calvin Johnson, convicted from Richland county in January of this year of adultery, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and to pay a tine of $300, received a parole during good behavior. Clemency was granted on condition that he does not go back to his second wife. Jackson produced papers in co"it to show that he had received a divorce in North Carolina from his first wife. Willie Applewhite, convicted from Marion county in 1916 for manslaugh ter and given 1 years' imprisonment, was paroled during good behavior. Samper Golphin. convicted from Aiken county in 1911 for man slaughter and sentenced to 1 a years' imprisonment, was paroled during ;ood behavior. John Gibson, convicted in Edgefie1? in March. 1919. of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, was given a full pardon. Clemency v.-.. - recommended by the presiding fudge, tho jury, the solicitor and all the county officials. Gibson, if is al Teged. killed his wife's lever. John Wilson, convicted in !91fi from Edgcfield county for house-breaking and larceny, was given a parole dur ing good behavior. His sentence would have expired next month. Governor Cooper tonight commut ed to life imprisonment the death sentence of .lohn Henry Jackson, a negro convicted from Abbeville coun ty in.'September. I'HT. for the mur der of another negro. He was to have been electrocuted April IT. French Press is Bitter Harsh Denunciation of Ameri can Peace Delegates Paris. .\prii 9.?The harsh de nunciation of the American peace delegation by the French press and charges that the ordering of the transport George Washington to come io ! .rest before its regular time is nothing short of blackmail have noi affected the American delegates who apparently are noi surprised at tin aewspa per criticism. While the Americans repeatedly re affirm their belief rhat considerable progress has been mad ? in the last three days, on? rnemb? r remarked today: ""If is not a bad idea to have the shin at Brest ready for the return." The Matin's article pungently criti cises the peace conference under large captions, reading: "Disquieting mys teries in council of four. In five months Allied governments have not solved single problem. Odessa in power of Bolsheviki." The nev.'Spaper declares if has been the method of ihe conference to put the concerns of France last. England and America having gotten all they rc n'red. "ays The Matin, "now we come, we with our bothersome de mands, and if we do not pet satisfac tion our country will be f-nr?.nTif??Ty dea !. Such will 1 e fruit of our sacri fices." *d Tratit'a/* THE TRUl one hundred known dead: i _ I j I [Destructive Tornado In Several; Western States Causes Many Deaths MANY MORE WILL DIE OF INJURIES The Property Loss Runs Into Millions But Not As Great as Reported. I Dallas, April 10.?One hundred j known dead have been listed as vic tims of the tornado, which Tuesday night and yesterday, struck northern .Texas, Southern Oklahoma and parts n si red today from the chaos caus j ed by the storm. The njured, ? many so badly hurt that they cannot recover, are expected to number sev ! eral hundred. The property damage. 1 while many thousand dollars smaller than first expected, since the path of i the storm avoided all the principal cities, striking only farm houses and .smaller villages, runs into the mil j lions. Great Triumph For The Bolshevists Capture of Odessa Gives Them Great Resources and Con trol^of Rich Territory Perl?, April 9 (By the Associated j Press).?The chief cause of anxiety . in connection with the evacuation of , Odessa by the allies and its occupa tion by the Bolsheviki lies in the fact I thai the most fertile regions in south , crn Russia have fallen into the hands of the Bolshevik forces, giving them immense resources of grain, coal and minerals. The reason for the allies' retire ment was the constantly increasing menace of the Bolshevik soldiery against the allied garrison, which was able to maintain its supplies with The greatest difficulty. The com mander, thereupon, decided to with ? draw his troops, numbering approxi mately 50.000. The troops retired to ; Roumania and Constantinople. ; The situation in Roumania and Poland is far from reassuring, even with these additional troops to hell' form a cordon against the spread of. Bolshevism. Both Roumanians and . Poles require the largest measure of aid from the allies in providing them with food, military equipment and or ganization. T: is regarded 'as essential in com petent quarters that General Haller's Polish divisions should be hurried eastward as soon as possible, for, ; otherwise, it is pointed out, there is j a possibility for the formation of a j great Bolshevist bloc consisting of Russians. Hungarians and Germans, ; which would be so powerful that immense forces would be required to 1 resist it. Statesmen of various countries :gathered in Baris discussed the Odessa question with considerable disqhie I rude today and it was reported that it .would form the subject of discussion among trie delegates to the peace con ference. It was remarked in semi-official circles that reports received from Russia previous to the evacuation of Odessa had show:; Bolshevism there to be or. the down grade, owing to : the gradual exhaustion of funds and lack of supplies. Pur the acquisition of Odessa and surrounding districts by the Bolsheviki has given them a new lease of life and placed in their .newer the means to crush temporar-1 . ily at least the rising strength of. those, groups* who air contrasting; ' most vigorously the Bolshevik pro-' gross. To Determine Boundary State of Georgia Brings Suit Against South Carolina Columbia. April ?.?Papers in the: ???..it of the Stare of Georgia before ? he Supreme Court of the United; ; States Hied i'.' the name of Governor; Hugh M. Dorsey, of that State, to de-; terrc.'ne thf boundary lines between, '-ecrg'a and South Carolina, were filed this afternoon on Governor Cooper and Attorney General Samuel M Wolfe. The Georgia authorities claim that th ? boundary between the two States should be the line beginning at the N'orth Carolina border, and the north ern or eastern hank of the rivers Chatooga, Tugalo and Savannah at the ordinary mean water level of these rivers on their eastern bank, in other words, these three streams in their entirety between South Caro lina and Georgia. The suit is brought pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Georgia General Assembly at its last session. Few War Cripples Government War Risk Bureau Issues Statement Washington. April 10.?There were only l_'r) cases of total blindness and less than four thousand amputations in the American forces in the war. the bureau of war risk insurance stat eii today. Denial was made that there were any cases where men lost both arms and both legs. Vol. XLVIIL No. 17. PRES- WILSON MAKING PROGRES Message Reaches Washington That He is Hammering Ahead With Negotiations Inews causes satisfac tion in official circles IFublic Not Informed As to Na j ture of Latest Develop | ments. i _ j Washington, April 10.?President ! Wilson is "hammering ahead" and ? has "made good progress" in his ne j gctiations in Paris, according to ad ? vices received at the White House. It ; is not stated just what progress has ? been made, but those advices seemed ; to cause considerable satisfaction in j official quarters. j Church Union in j England j Proposals Made for Consolida-; I tion of Wesleyan Methodists and Church of England I London. .March 3 (Correspondence) j ?Definite proposals for a union of j 1 he Wesleyan Methodist church with j the Church of England are made by I the Rt. Rev. Dr. Arthur F. W. In gram. Bishop of London. The bishop' suggests that -Anglicans and Wes Ieyans should unite, because, he says> "no religious body was ever closer to the church than the Wesleyans." Under his plan, bishops would be present at the ordinations of the Wesleyan Methodist church which would become an order within the Church of England, but would re tain its own practices. Wesleyan pas tors would, if they preferred, be or ; dained by Wesleyan bishops, j When the principle of union was j established, the Bishop of London (\ would favor exchange of pulpits but i he declared that he would reserve i judgment on the question of con-, j formation as he regarded it as an opeir? ? I question. -,-^ i Four Years in Hiding i -;? ; Adventures of German Army Officer in New Guinea ! Sydney. Australia, March 5 (Cor respondence of The Associated Press) ; Konard Detzler. a German army en j srineer who had been hiding in the .'New Guinea jungle for years or since j the beginning of the war has come > back to civilization and now is in an j internment camp in Australia. Detzl i er's story is on a par with other ro mantic incidents of the war as it af ! fected the South Sea. Detzler holds a captain's commis i sion. When the war began he was j surveying the boundary line between ] the then Kaiser Wilhelm land, or Ger i man Xew Guinea, and Papua, or British Xew Guinea. He decamped .' into the bush. This was a risky act, j for the bushmen prefer human flesh ; above all other kinds. When an Aus tralian force occupied Kaiser Wil ! helmland, Detzler was overlooked. For more than four years Detzler lived in the bush, near Mismis. He had a shotgun but it was not long be fore he ran out of cartridges. There I fore he lived on yams, taro and kau ? (;t variety of sweet potato) in com i mon with the natives, and upon birds j and animals which he caught by j means of snares. I Several times the Australians searched for him but Detzler manag ed to elude them. He might have stayed indefinitely in the jungle, but missionaries told the Papuans of the armistice and they in turn told him. Thereupon he surrendered! to the nearest Australian officer. While liv ing throughout the war at Mismis, Detzler wore only a lava lava (native kilt). The result is that he is almost as brown as a Papuan. He now wears i German uniform. Discussion Resumed President Wilson Presides Over League of Nations Com mission Paris. April 10.?President Wilson s erpected to preside over the league ??f nations commission when it resum ed its session today. The program railed for a discussion of the amend ments proposed by French, Ameri can and Japanese delegates. A Bolshevist Alliance Relations Established Between Russian and Bavarian Soviets Berlin. April 10.?Diplomatic rela tions have been established between the Russian and Bavarian soviet gov ernments, according to the newspa per Zwolfuhrblatt. Soviet in Salzburg London. April 10.?The proclama tion of a soviet republic in Salz burg. German-Austria, is reported in i Central News Amsterdam dispatch today, Salzburg is near the Bavarian border.