Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-08
Straps and faets.

ed last week. Whole regiments were
annihilated at some points. They
came out of the woods, section by
section. One section, one Shell-anu
everything was wiped out. AT two or
three places which | am forbidden TO
name, corpses filled the Meuse until
the river overtiowed. This is no ns-
ure OF speech. The river bed literally
was choked by the mass of dead Ger
mans. The effect of our artillery sur
passes even our dreams. The Ger
mans use out of date shrapnel which
the Turks used in the Balkans Its
damages are so slight that one of our
artillery regiments fought for week
losing only eight killed and fourteen
wounded"
A Russian correspondent of the
London standard, says that the Jews
will in the future be admitted as OF
ficers of the Russian army ana navy.
The importance of the announcement
TO the Jews in the Russian empire was
made on official authority and was well
received in all quarters. Up TO the
present no Jew ever has been allowed
to be a military or navy officer. Inc
decree to admit them to the hlghest
ranks of both services is ofnclally
stated to be due to the gallantry WIN
which the Jews serving as co-nmon
soldiers have displayed in the oattles
already fought. The Imperial decree
has enabled the Russian commander
in-chief to confer officers commits
sions upon several Jews, who gained
exceptional distinction in the hghtlng
preceding the capture of Lemberg.
The correspondent says he has au-
thority that the commission OF the
Jews in the army and navy will be fol-
lowed by the removal Of civil law re-
strictions. and that Jews will now be
admitted to the full right of Russian
citizenship. Those Russian newspa-
pers who were formerly advocates or
relentless anti-Semitism, not only re-
frain from raising any obJecton 10
this innovation, but express approVai
in the warmest terms. The same feel
ing prevails in those circles or RuS-
sian society in which formerly 1t al
most was a breach of etiquette even 10
mention the name of Jew. The war
has swept away this remnant of pre-
iudice and has inaugurated q new era
for the Jew in Russia
Britain's confidence that the main
trade routes of the north Atlantic
have been swept clear of German war
craft was demonstrated early last sat
urday, when the state department
formally was notified by the British
ambassador that his government had
decided to disarm British merchant
craft plying between England and the
United States. The notification is con-
strued to mean that Britain no longer
fears the activities Of German naval
reserve steamers and has successfully
bottled up German and Austrian
cruisers while her own cruiser fleet Is
free to guard ocean lines. The ar
rival of the British steamer Adriatc
in New York recently with four guns
frowning from her deck, led the Ger
man ambassador to question the
United States as to the status of the
British ship. The British govern
ment took the position that so long
as the vessel was engaged in CONNER
cial pursuits direct between two ports
and was not cruising around on the
ocean, it had a right to carry arms
for protective purposes solely. Inc
"solely" brought to the United states
the necessity of passing upon every
ship that might come from belll-
gerent country to decide the size and
number of guns the ship might carry
without being considered an armed
vessel. Without yielding its position
as to the right of it's ships to carry
the secretary of state that 1t would
remove all guns from commercial
ships in order to relieve the united
States Of the problem presented.
After an all day conference with
clearing house delegates from many
large cities, says a Washington dis
patch, the Federal reserve board an
nounced last Friday it would proceed
Immediately with the organization OF
the twelve reserve banks provided for
by the new currency system. 1t gen.
orally is accepted the system can be
put in operation about October l. The
actual opening may be delayed, but II
was said the twelve banks would be
ready to do business within the next
six weeks. According to members or
the board there was little hostility
shown at the conference to early open
ing of the new system, and government
officials hope all opposition by bank
ers will be overcome before the time
of opening arrives. The conference
was confined closely to the question OF
opening and to a discussion OF foreign
and domestic exchange situation. Del
egates furnished such information as
they possessed, but left the board
without much concrete knowledge as
to the exact situation throughout the
country. a committee was named 10
consider foreign and domestic eX-
change and formulate plan by when
American obligations to Europe can
be adjusted without taking gold out
of the country. There was some in
cidental discussion Of the general IL
nancial situation and of the recent
steps taken by the treasury depart
ment TO issue additional banking cur
of f.
ing, there will be no effort on the part
of the reserve board to name the class
&C" directors for the reserve banks for
some time. Every other step which
much precede the opening of the
banks will be laid out before the dl-
rectorS are announced. Following is
the conference exchange committee:
j. 3. iTorgan, Chicago, chairman; b. r.
Strong, New York; l.. l.. Rue, Phlla-
delphia: Sol Wexler, New Orleans; L.
b. Beale, Boston.
German and Austrian consular
officers, says a Washington dispatch,
have been ordered by British author
tiles to leave Egypt Immediately. Rou-
mania has announced officially that
if she abandOns her position of neu-
trality, it will be to follow the course
taken by Italy. Great Britain has IN
formed the Onlleu SldltS lllSil
would look with favor on the send
ing OF warships to Turkish ports TO
care for Christians in case there was
a Mohammedan uprising against
them. The developments in the
highly critical situation brought about
by the feeling of the Triple Entente
that Turkey is certain to join the
conflict on the side of Germany and
Austria have been conveyed in official
dispatches to the United States gov
ernment. Great Britain's expulsion
of German and Austrian consular
officers was taken to mean that she
had determined to put an end 10
pro- German propaganda which she
believes these consular officials nave
been circulating. The affairs or
Egypt, a semi mi-sovereign state, under
the suzeranity of the sultan. have been
virtually administered by Great Brit
ain ever since the bombardment OF
AleXanderia and the suppression OF
the Arabic insurrection 80 years ago.
The natives never have lost their
aversion, however, for the intruders
and Britain believes that Germany
has been busy for a decade torment
ing anti English feeling. Word OF
the sultan's friendliness of late 10
Germany and Austria is believed by
British officials to have been spread
10 EeVpt an appeal being made not