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(H THE UNION TIMES H VOL. LXVI. NO. 23. PART II?Pages 9 to 16 UNION. S. FRIDAY, JUNE 5>, 15)16 PART II_Pages 9 to 16 #1.00 A YEAR GERMANS C IN GRE WOl Germany apparently was the victor in the greatest naval battle in the world's history, as far as details have been made public of the meeting of the German and British fleets off the west coast of Denmark on Wednesday afternoon. At least three British battlescruisers, three cruisers and eight destroyers and the German battleship Pommern and two small German cruisers and a number of torpedo boasts were sunk in the engagement which lasted far into the night. Great Britain admits the loss of battlecruisers and cruisers with a tonnage o<" 114,810?represented by the battler?ril idpro Onnnn Mqmt Tn/Jofn klrt Aliuviavi^auiu and Invincible, and the cruiser Defence, Black Prince and Warrior. German's losses, according to the Berlin admiralty, in addition to the Pommern were the Wiesbaden and Fraulenlob, small cruisers and several torpedo boats. The Germans claim, in addition to the admitted losses of Great Britain, that the British battleship Warspite, of the largest type in the British navy, was sunk, that the battleship Marlborough was hit by a torpedo and that two cruisers of the Achilles type (the Warrior is this class) and one submarine were sent to the bottom. Another Big Claim. The British admiralty adds to the conceded loss by Germany two dreadnoughts of the Kaiser class? vessels of 24,700 tons?destroyed, the blowing up of one battlecruiser, the damaging of two other vessels of this class and the ramming and sinking of a German submarine. b'rom advices thus far received it would appear that the greatest naval battle of history has been fought. Never before have two naval forces of such magnitude as the British and German high sea fleets engaged in combat. But apparently the battle was not fought out to a point to determine mastery of the seas ,for the losses, serious as they are reported to have been, will not vitally impair the strength of either fleet. The scene of battle was in the east of.tbe N9.rth.sea. It is probable that the German fleet was on one of the excursions into the North sea which it has taken from time to time during the war and met, whether or not by design, with the British fleet. Off Coast of Denmark. Skagerack is an arm of the North sea between Norway and Denmark. The point referred to in the official German statement as Horn Riff probably is the reef off the Horn, on the southwestern extremity of Denmark. This would indicate that the battlewas fought off the coast of Denmark. From the reef to Heligoland, the main German naval base in the North sea, is about 100 miles. News of the engagement was held I back by the British authorities, pos-1 sibly pending the return home of the fleet, and the first word received of the battle came by wireless from Berlin. The loss of life in the engagement must have J)een extremely heavy. The battlecruiser Indefatigable, for < instance, from which the German admiralty reports only two men were saved, probably had more than 900 men on board, and others of the vessels sunk carried complements of men nearly as large. Previous to this battle Great Britain had lost during the war ten battleships, 11 cruisers and various smaller craft. Germany has lost 18 cruisers, 19 auxiliary cruisers, chiefly converted passenger liners and numerous smaller vessels. 1 Since the beginning of the war 1 British cruisers and destroyers have patrolled during day and night the approaches to the German fleet's base in the bay formed by the mouths of the Elbe and the Weser, protected by the mighty fortification of Wilhelm* raven on the south, on the north by I the supposedly impregnable defenses 1 of the Kiel canal and guarded by the outlying island of Heligoland. 1 A Secret Rendezvous. Until this engagement, however, no 5 German fleet has put forth in force to necessitate the giving of the alarm 1 to the British main fleet that its foe ' was coming out to give battle. The rendezvous of the British battle i fleet has been a secret, but is gen- 1 erally believed to have been in the j Orkney islands north of Scotland. ] The long months of watchful waiting by the British, however, were broken < into by two naval engagements i'n ' whiph comparatively small squadrons ] of Gorman warships were involved, I and in both of which the British were I victorious. On August 8, 1914, Ad- i miral Sir David Beatty on his flag- i ship, the battlecruiser Lion, led his : squadron in a daring dash into the Bight of Heligoland. In an engage- ment almost under the guns of this < great fortress three German armored : cruisers and two destroyers were sunk < -with a loss of 2,500 men. On January 24; 1015, a German ! :laim triu1v atest sea xld has ev] squadron attempted a raid on the British coast, encountered Admiral Beatty off the Dogger banks and in a ] running fight the German cruiser j Buecher was sunk and two of her sister ships set on fire. Several raids < have been made by German naval detachments on the British coast in which Yarmouth, Scarborough, Whitby, Hartlepool and Lowestoft have been bombarded. The last of these raids was made April 26, last, on which occasion, according to the German claim, a British destroyer and two scout ships were sunk. Submarine Losses Heavy. The most serious losses to the British fleet hitherto have been through the operations of German submarines and by means of mines. Such an instance occurred September 22, 1914, when the British cruisers Hogue, Cressy and Abouki'r were torpedoed within an hour by the German submarine U-9. The German navy, however, per- t formed brilliant feats in regions far distant from Europe, its most notable i victory being in the battle off Coro- j nel, Chile, early in the war, when the j German Far Eastern squadron, attempting to reach home waters, en- 1 countered a British fleet under Admiral Cradock. In the battle the Germans sent the British cruisers Good , Hope and Monmouth to the bottom , with all hands. A month later a pow- ( erful British squadron met the vie- j torious Germans off the Falklands , and of the five German cruisers in ( the squadron, four?the Scharnhorst, t the Gneisenau, the Nurenburg and the j Leipsig?were sent to the bottom. f The fifth, the Dresden, escaped, but j was caught later and destroyed. The British dreadnought Warspite, j reported destroyed in the North sea r engagement, is a sister ship of the ( prominent part in the attempt to force t Queen Elizabeth, which played a prominent part in the attempt to force t the Dardanelles. The Warspite was f 650 feet long and displaced 27,500 ^ tons. She was built at Devonport in < 1914 at an estimated cost of $12,500,- j 000. The Warspite is reported to have 4 carried eight 16-ineh gum in place ] of the 15-inch guns carried by the t Queen Elizabeth. She also was equipped with 12 or 16 six-inch guns, 12 r four-inch guns and four three-pound- t ers and was fitted with four 21-inch * torpedo tubes. Her complement was J 750. , The Queen Mary and Indefatigable ^ were battlecruisers of 27,000 and 18,- " 750 tons displacement, respectively. ,] The Queen Mary was 720 feet long, 87 feet beam and drew 30 feet of water. The Queen Mary was completed in 1913. She carried eight 13.5-inch, t guns, 16 four-inch guns and was , equipped with three 21-inch torpedo tubes. The Indefatigable was 578 feet long, , 79 1-2 feet beam and 27 3-4 feet deep. , This battlecruiser was equipped with eight 12-inch guns, 16 six-inch guns and had three 21-inch torpedo tubes. 1 The Queen Mary and the Indefatiga- ' hie carried complements of between 900 and 950. The Queen Mary cost about $10,000,000, while the Indefatigable cost nearly $'8,000,000. The Invincible, a battlecruiser, was laid down in 1907. She displaced 17,- . 250 tons, was 562 feet long over all, n 78 feet beam and 26 feet deep. Ilei normal complement was 731. She was , armed with eight 12-inch guns, 16 four-inch guns and three torpedo tubes. The Invincible took part in . the naval engagement off the Falkland islands in December, 1914, in which the German Pacific squadron, after defeating a British squadron off the Chilean coast, was destroyed. ( The Defense was built in 1907, dis- j placed 14,600 tons and ordinarily car- e ried 755 men. Her length was 525 feet, her beam 74 feet and her maxi- d mum draught 28 feet. She was armed with four 9.2-inch and ten 7.5-inch \ guns, 16 12-pounders and five torpedo tubes. i, The Black Prince was built in 1904, displaced 13,500 tons and carried 704 j men. She was 480 feet long and 7.'feet of beam. Her armament was six c 9.2-inch and ten six-inch guns, 20 three-DOunders and thran I tubes. The Warrior displaced 13,660 tons and was 480 feet long. Her comple- v ment was 704. She carried six 9.2- 0 inch and four 7.5-inch guns, 24 three- * pounders and three torpedo tubes. a The British dreadnought Marlbor- 8 [>ugh was of the Iron Duke class. She r was built at Devonport in 1914, dis- 1 placed 25,000 tons, was 620 feet long, j 89 1-2 feet beam and 27 feet deep. ? She carried ten 13.5-inch guns, 12 six- a inch guns and a number of smaller 8 arms. She also was equipped with four submerged torpedo tubes. The German battleship Pommero, a which was sung by a British torpedo, a displaced 12,997 tons. She was 398 i feet long, 72 feet beam and 25 feet deep. The Pommem was built in 1907 at a cost of about $6,000,000. i She carried 729 officers and men. Her i IPH FIGHT BR KNOWN armament consisted of four 11-inch guns, 14 6.7-inch guns, a number of pieces of smaller calibre and six 17.7inch torpedo tubes. The Frauenlob was a small German :ruiser displacing 2,715 tons. The German battlecruisers DerfHinge rand Lutzow, one of which the British officially announced tonight >vas blown up. are vessels of the same :lass. Each ship displaces 26,600 ;ons, is 689 feet long, 95 feet beam, with a draught of 27 1-2 feet. The Derfflinger was completed in July, 1014 o.,?i r _ ' oiiu me Liut/.uw a year later. rhe ships carried eipht 12-inch puns, 12 six-inch puns and 12 24-pounders. rhey also were equipped with four ;orpedo tubes each. The Derfflinper once before was rejorted by the British as sunk when ;he participated in an enpapement in he North sea on January 24, 1915. \ later report said that she had been >adly damaped in the fipht and was Irydocked at Hamburp for repairs. The German cruiser Wiesbaden, nentioned in the German official anlouncement as havinp been sunk, is lot listed in the naval annals. EIGHTEEN VESSELS SUNK ACCORDING TO BRITISH. London, June 4.?The British adniralty tonipht issued a statement ;ayinp there was the stronpest 'rounds for the belief that the Britsh navy in the battle with the Germans off Jutland last week had ac:ounted for a total of 18 German nen-of-war and that there was nothnp to add to or subtract from the >ripinal announcement of the British osses. The statement gave the German osses as two battleships, two dreadlought battlecruisers, four light cruis;rs, nine torpedo boat destroyers and i submarine. The pessimism which prevailed as i result of the admiralty's original itatement of losses, which now is conlidered to have been needlessly canIfd and conservative in underestimatng the extent of the German losses is- compared with those of Great Britain has been greatly lessende by he latest statement. A dispatch from Copenhagen says umors are current in Hamburg that wo additional German warships than hose announced in the German comnunication?the battleship Westfalen ind the battlecrui'ser Lutzow?were lunk in the battle. A wireless dispatch received here Saturday from 3erlin said the German admiralty adnitted the loss of the Westfalen. The admiralty statement tonieht leclares that the German losses in he fight were not only relatively but ibsolutely greater than those of the British. Maintaining its practice of ;aution, the admiralty still refrains 'rom giving the names of the lost lerman ships. The official list of the casualties imong officers shows that hardly a iingle officer of the line escaped from he British cruisers sunk in the battle, ^n additional casualty list of petty fficers shows that 43 of them were laved from the Queen Mary, Invinci>le, Fortune, Arden and Shark. None vas saved from the Indefatigable, Defense, Black Prince, Tipperary, Turbulent, Nomad or Nestor. The list gives the names of 65 men filled aboard the Warrior and of 27 nen wounded. On the ohter ships mgaged in the fight 115 men were filled and 85 wounded. THE BEST SHOW. A politician trying to find out Ole )lson's politics, asked: "What do rou think, Ole, of Wilson's running igain for president?" "Ay tank Wilson bane gude presilent. Ay tank he be elected." "Well, what do you think of Rooserelt's running for a third term?" "Ay tank Roosevelt bane gude presdent. Ay tank he be elected. "But who," asked the politician, "do 'ou think has the best show." "Ay tank Ringling Brothers."?Cininnati Enquirer. NOT SUCH BAD NEWS, EH? Short skirts will continue to be vorn next fall, according to a report if the style committee of the National Dloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' .ssociation, adopted Saturday at the Lnnual convention at Cincinnati. The eport says the short skirt's "smarttess and youthful appearance makes ts popularity universal." That means t is popular with the men as well is with the women. Well, we should lay so.?Houston Post. During the last year 79,281,735 hort tons of sand and cravo 1 h#win<? , value of $23,846,999, were dug out n the United States. The death rate of persons under 45 s decreasing; of those over 45 it is ncreasing? ONE COTTON MILL YEAR DUKE PLAN Millionaire Head of the Southern Power Company Willing to Cooperate to This End?Must Be Located on the Interurban. "One cotton mill unit a year" is the plan and purpose of Mr. James B. Duke and associates for this territory according to well authenticated statements emanating from sources thoroughly reliable. By the term "unit" is meant the mill proper, the mill village and then all the adjuncts that go along to constitute a complete plant for the production of textile products. Some of the units are large while the others are comparatively small, although all of them are relatively large when compared with the majority of mills in this section. By the term "association" it is not meant that Mr. Duke must have Messrs. W. S. Lee, C. I. Burkholder, E. C. Marshall, Z. V. Taylor or E. Thoniason in the company, but that any cotton mill men who have the ivi>uuiuon 01 oeing pood manufacturers, who are willing to go into the proposition with their money and time and who can show their ability to deliver the poods, will be financially "backed" to the limit in any textile enterprise that holds forth the promise of safe and satisfactory returns. There is only one condition precedent to the enterprise and that is that the mill must be located somewhere on the Piedmont & Northern line. It is not necessary to require that motive power shall be procured from the Southern Power system for that will be dictated by pood business judpment and sense. The vast majority of mills are now beinp "carried" by the hydroelectric system. Indeed, Mr. Duke has been quoted as declarinp that after this summer that cotton mill in this section which shows smoke escaping from its smokestack is an evidence of extravapant operation in view of the fact secondary power will be available at prices that will put coal out of the question as a competitor. Textile Center. Just the significance of this latest jjUmn of Mr. Duke is one hard to gfcasp at first blush. It means more AMP^nore that this section is to become in fact as well as in name the center of the textile interests of the south and maybe of the nation. There are mills now going up with surprising rapidity and this means that the number will be augmented. For some time past, it has been the exception when a new cotton mill was not announced for Gaston county every week or two. This prevalence of mills is to be extended to Mecklenburg and other counties within the zone of Interurban activity. The Southern Power-Duke interests today control a surprising number of cotton mills and there are scores and scores of others in which they are largely interested. It is good business for them to maintain these interests and also to cultivate others for they reap the benefits at so many turns. For instance, the Southern Power sells the current that run the mills. The Interurban brings in the raw material and then after the raw material has been spun into yarn or woven into cloth hauls the bales of manufactured product to the markets of the world; the increase in population provides more folks to ride on the trolley system and to consume power and the gradual filling in of towns augments the commercial zone which in turn reacts in behalf of the power company as well as the electric railroad. There are so many phases to the general situation that the aggregate makes it one of great advan U QfA fn tKo nAtifA?? v^?6v VV Vile j/un-ci tl/llipauy. Is Good Business. Mr. Duke's idea of one cotton mill a yaer is based upon the best business sense imaginable. Over and above all it is developing the territory which will redound to general advantafies to all parties. It is furthermore to be remembered that enterprises in which Mr. Duke^ joins hands are conducted on the very best and most up-to-date methods. He is the great apostle of efficiency, of utilization of every ounce of effort and service and those mills in which he launches must be up-to-date and upproved. His enterprises are therefore models of their kind. Those who are following the textile development of this territory, must bear in mind Mr. Duke's slogan, "One cotton mill a year" in their calculations of future growth. He has numerous other plans for development which are ye tembryonic but they will transpire in due season. Of ? _ ?? ? - - * " oix million mues on the Atlantic highway without shipwreck is the record of Howard Ernest Hinsley, purser of the American liner St. Louis. He crossed the Atlantic 2,000 times. Prof. Robert Grimshaw, or New York university, was for twenty years an efficiency expert in Germany. A new gasoline engine uses only one-twentieth of a drop of fuel at a charge. I \ v GEORGE W. TID NOW SERV1 Was Convicted of Manslaughter an ing R. Emmet Walker in Gives Out St George W. Tidwell, convicted from gc Greenville county for the killing on ps March 12, 1914, of R. Emmet Walker fa and given seven years in the state I penitentiary, arrived in Columbia to May 10 from Greenville and com- se menced his period of servitude in the in State prison. te After he was convicted at Green- tei ville Tidwell was let out of prison on rei bond pending an appeal to the su- no preme court. The convicted man said in; that he went to Alabama and was I 1 engaged in special edition work on an a Alabama newspaper for the purpose wa of raising funds to take his case into coi the higher courts. He said today that rai he notified his bondsmen where he be* was at that time. toi Later Tidwell was arrested for ail- ' leged violation of the Mann "White m< Slave" act and tried in Pmi?acnln I a Fla. lie was cleared by the jury. A is letter from L. W. Nelson, an attor- la\ ney of Pensacola, in Tidwell's pos- ma session, says that there was no case hoi against him and also spoke of the I i hiprh regard the court officials 3rd cit- ' izens of Pensaloca generally felt for tin Tidwell. Following1 his release by the nm federal authorities, Tidwell gave him- fif self up to the sheriff's office, inform- rep i'ng the Florida officials that he was cle ready to be sent back to South Caro- wh lina without requisition papers. is Gave Himself Up. ' Go Tidwell says that after he left the cit federal court he was going to the pla sheriff's office and passed a police be.\ captain and two privates on the ma street. He spoke to them and they me returned the salutation, evidently not hai knowing him, for they had instruc- far tions from South Carolina to arrest tha him on sight. Shortly afterwards the wa policemen, said Tidwell, was stopped vai by a citizen who evidently informed dei them of the identity of the pedes- shi trian they had just passed. Tidwell els said that they turned in their tracks an and came on after him. Tidwell atu quickened his pace and beat them ' to the sheriff's office. He said that in when he arrived at the court house, wo a deputy sheriff was in the office and a he surrendered. hor About this time, Tidwell recount- he ed, the policeman showed up and the ma captain said, "Tidwell, you are want- sed ed in South Carolina; thsrefore, 1 ar- of rest you." ' "Sorry captain, that T cannot ac- bul commodate you," replied Tidwell las but I have just surrendered to the str snerilT." frc Tidwel!, who is 54 years of ape, ion seems to bear up well under his mis- foi fortunes, but, judpinp from photo- 4 praphs of himself that he has in his iin possession, he has aped considerably hei within the past eiphteen months. Now wo he is a man of rather distinpuished hei appearance, with almost snow white cai hair and mustache. He has a florid of complexion and tyeiphs about 1H0 too pounds. Formally he was much heav- I d ier. He stated this morninp that he bat was commencinp his sentence and ex- bet pected to abide by all the rules and repulations of the state prison, and that he did not repret what he did in the past. He seems to repard himself as the avenper of his family's wronps. a j Tidwell tells an amusinp story about ' nis personal appearance. He said bei that while Taft was president Tid- wo well was in Augusta. At that time 1 he was much heavier than he now is tin and then also wore a mustache. His cai appearance was so much like that of ha the then president, who frequently am visited Augusta, said Tidwell, that ' people followed him on the street, nal thinking he was Taft. One day, stat- "" ed Tidwell, a crowd followed him into the Albion hotel, so he slipped out the back way and had h's mustache ' shaved off to save himself further mc embarrassment. as' The following statement was hand- *".U1 ed to the newspaper men by George , W. Tidwell: no Headlines will no doubt appear in . the newspapers all over the State to Maying -uici man Tidwell at last be- < hind the walls of the State prison.' < All the scandal of this unfortunate j?u affair will be spread as a feast before the devouring public to the detriment of my family and myself. "Never has there been an editorial written or a local story printed in the thi papers of the State showing why at George W. Tidwell is a convict in the ' State prison today. Have the 'good wh people' of the State had facts? Those mi men who love their mothers, wives, W1 sisters or daughters even as they love loc their God, have they ever been asked, "V as man to man what would you do ne under similar circumstances?' How att many would stand in G. W. Tidwell's shoes today for the same cause? "If I were a felon, if I had robbed wa you of your valuables or your family tai of its chastity, I would hang my head in shame and disgrace and never look an honest man or woman in the face ab again. What is honor? Have the ar< WELL ING SENTENCE d Given Seven Years for Killi Greenville in 1914. atement. >od old days of our forefathers issed when a man's duties to his mily and loyalty to them come first? am here today convicted according1 the laws of South Carolina and ntenced to serve a seven year term the state prison. No man ever enred the walls with a greater dermination to abide by the rules and Emulations of the institution. I am outlaw and I don't feel like a crimil, and when I put on the stripes ook upon it as an honor rather than disgrace to wear them; because T is man enough and had the moral urage to walk out in the open anil ise my hand when my home had en desecrated and my heart lay n and bleeding. 'Would to Cod there were more ?n who had this moral courage, man who is not loyal to his family not loyal to his country. But the ..c. ~r ?u:~ -A-. ? ?.-> v?i liii.-s siaie no not sustain a in in avenging wrongs where his me has been destroyed. Therefore nust suffer the penalty. 'Seven years is equivalent to a lifele for a man of my age, as I am v fifty-four years old. For over ty-two years I lived a life beyond troach, and no man could show a aner record. People say, 'Life is at you make it.' but in my case it what others have made it for me. d knows how soon some other good i/.en may have the same bitter cup ced him. No man can place himself rond it when it comes, and be a n. God protect the innocent wo11 and the young girls from the nds of the seducer. The seducer is more dangerous in a community m the negro ravisher upon the highy. lie enters your home, takes aditage of your hospitality and confiice, and under the cloak of friendp robs your home of its richest jewand fairest flowers and leaves you exile from society, a ruined home 1 a broken heart. Where is the man who with a gun one hand and a rope in the other, uld not go forth at midnight to seek ravisher who had desecrated the ne of a neighbor? Yet, where is who raises his voice to assist the n who defends his home from the lucer? Yet the seducer is the curse the nation. 'I have troubles enough of my own, t I say to you, I would shed the t drop of my heart's blood upon the eets today to protect one pure girl >m the hands of a seducer, and as ig as God lets me live T will stand the same moral principle. 'If the good people of South Caroa can see me suffer I can stay re and fight it out and I want the rm to Know I am not ashamed to he *e and to wear the stripes for the ise. I would be glad to see some the pood men and the pood women, i, who have dauphters to raise, and lon't believe they will find me the 1 man I have been pictured to be, ause I have protected my home." EX-OFFICIO. Tn a recent examination paper for >oy clerk's post was this question: 'If the president and all the memrs of the cabinet should die, who uld officiate?" Robert, a boy of 14, thought for a tie, trying in vain to recall who me next in succession. At last a ppy inspiration came to him, and he s we red: 'The undertaker."?New York Jourl A SACRIFICE. 'Did you hear about the deface nt of Mr. Skinner's tombstone?" ked Mr. Iirown a few days after the neral of that eminent captain of instry. "No; what was it?" inquired his ighbor curiously. "Some one added the word 'friends* the epitaph." 'What was the epitaph?" " 'He did his best.' "?Philadelphia blic Ledger. MERCIFUL DISPENSATION. A guest called upon to return inks for the distinguished strangers a public dinner said: "This is quite unexpected; in fact, len I came into this room I felt 1 r?V> lilro Tio?\Jol '' * * ? .v.. .<<>v uamci in nit; nuns aen. hen Daniel got into that place and >ked around he thought to himself, fhoever's got to do the after-dinr speaking, it won't he me!"?Se,le Times. An African frog sounds a call under iter that can be heard for long disices. Baboons are said to have a remarkle instinct for locating water, and e used for that purpose in Africa.