Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-20
Scraps and fatts.

Glasgow woman from her son, men,
Der of the crew of the steamer kabin-
ga, which was captured by the Ems
den in the Bay of Bengal. The letter
says: The Emsden captured the ka-
binga in the Bay of Bengal, but when
Capt. Won Muller learned that our
skippers wife and children were
aboard, he presented the ship to the
lady, remarking TO the skipper: You
can inform the owners that as far as
they are concerned the kabinga has
been seized and sunk
- Secretary McAdoo on last Tues
day announced the successful conclu-
sion of the effort that has been in
progress for the past forty days or
more, to raise a fund of $135,000.0 600
TO be used to finance the southern cot
ton crop by lending money on it at s
cents a pound. For time 1t looked
as if the undertaking was to be a
complete failure; but Secretary Nc
Adoo, Paul NJ. Warburg and w. G. P.
Harding redoubled their efforts and
on Tuesday the fund was rounded out
through subscriptions of S2,00O,0OO by
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of New York. and
$1,000 600 by Bernard Baruch, also of
that city. The secretary of the treas
ury, in his statement given out Tues
day, said that the fund would have
been raised sooner, but that 1t had
been hampered by various selfish in
tereSts, especially textile manufactu-
rers, in putting obstacles in the way.
- Joseph Ulmer, a wealthy furrier
of New York, is under sentence OF
death in England as a German spy.
Timer claims to be a native-born
American citizen, and the British gov
ho weeks
in which to establish the fact, his
relatives and friends in New York, are
busy trying to procure the necessary
evidence. 1t has developed that there
is no official record Of Ulmer's birth;
but his family physician, doctor OF
73 years, has made affidavit that he
was in attendance when Ulmer was
born. Ulmers friends say that he,
being the head of big firm that has
offices in New York. London, Paris.
Leipsig and ST. Paul, went to London
early in the year for the purpose OF
trying to develop his business, and for
some time he had not been heara
from. His brother only few days
ago got information of his predica-
ment.
II found myself upon an eminence
dominating the field of action says
a French cabinet minister who is
quoted in the Paris Figaro, just after
his return from the front, in describ-
ing an artillery duel of which he was
a witness. The battlefield extended
he continued. many kilometres. On
each side 100000 men were engaged.
Yet in this immense panorama you
saw no one-not a French soldier,
not a soldier of the enemy, not bat
terry, not a horse. The cannon thun-
dered. A sharp report, puff of
smoke, which quickly disappeared.
That was one of our '75s.' A heavier
detonation reverberated, then a cloud
of thick smoke in one corner OF the
battlefield. That was one Of the heavy
German guns. Then silence. absolute
silence. In the air were balloons
which directed the fire Of the bat
teries concealed in the woods. The
200, 900 invisible men who took part
in this action were hidden under
ground.
"A dispatch to the London Stand
ard from Rome says: Details OF the
condition of the stro-Hungarian
forces related here make tale Of death
and terrible suffering. Recently the
Austrian war office sent to the front
their last line Of reserves, three parts
of whom were scarcely fit for the po-
lice work Of guarding the railways,
which they had been doing, and much
less capable of rendering service in
the field. The military authorities had
no choice but to call them up, for all
the best troops had been put out of
action in Galicia. The Hungarian cav
airy. which includes the best soldiers
the dual monarchy possesses, were all
drafted north long ago to help the
Germans push through to Calais. They
behaved splendidlv in Belgium, but
were almost all killed by the naval
guns. In addition to its losses in the
field, the Austro- Hungarian army has
been seriously affected as fighting
force by the lack of discipline even Sc
dition, seething in the ranks. Some "a
regiments from the Carpathia region
were shot down, more or less whole
sale, at the very outset OF hostilitleS
for refusing to march against the
Russians Despite the terrible exam
pie made Of mutineerS, the spirit OF
insubordination was not checked. In
the very first engagements whole regi-
ments went over to the Russians.
The London Daily Nails Paris
correspondent "ives an interview with
French airman on the new French
air bomb. Il have used both the dy-
Mantle bomb and the new bombs the
airman said. The two are very sim
liar in size and in weight. but the ef-
feet as seen from the air is very dill
ferent. When a dynamite bomb falls
upon a body Of men you can see bod
les leap up in the air. 1t is like d
small volcano in action. When one of
the new bombs bursts, it simply lays
everything out fiat within the area Of
the
whole of its force in waves. Men go
down like ninepins, buildings collapse
like houses of playing cards, guns are
turned over as If by some unseen
hand. The explosion raises virtually
no dust or smoke. Even the earth dis
turbed is instantly tlattened out by
the same extraordinary waves OF
force Extreme cold is produced at
the moment of the eXploSiOn-a cold
dropped my first bomb at a height of
about 500 feet. | was taking great
chances in flying so low, but l wished
to see the effect Of the bomb 1t fell
on a group of Germans bivouacking in
the field. l estimate that at least thir-
ty men were killed within the area OF
explosion. Death from these bombs
comes instantly from the intense cold
and the concussion.'
"A future clear and bright, with
promise of the best things" was the
way President Wilson summed up his
view of the business prospects last
Tuesday, in a letter to Secretary Nc
Adoo of the treasury department, con-
graduating him upon the opening Of
the new Federal reserve bank system.
Fundamental wrongs once right as
they may now easily and quickly be, y
wrote the president. "all differences
will clear away We are all in the
same boat, though apparently we had
forgotten it. We now know the port
for which we are bound. We have
and shall have more and more as
our new undertakings ripen, a COM
mon discipline of patriotic purposes.
We shall advance. and advance to-
gether. with a new cordiality of spir-
tied cooperation. 1t is an inspiring
prospect" Mr.. Wilson referred to the
new tariff law, the new currency law,
the new trade commission law, and
the labor provision of the new anti
trust law as the means through which
the soil has everywhere been laid
bare out of which monopoly is slowly
to be eradicated." He added that
undoubtedly the means by which
credit has been set free is at the heart
Of all these things; it is the key piece
of the whole structure" Referring to
the "Opportuneness" of the currency
law, the president said. the war which
has involved the whole of the heart