The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-04
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About 33,S5S pounds of bombs
were dropped one day last week by a
French aeroplane squadron OF thirty
five machines on and near the rail-
road station established by the Ger
mans for strategic reasons at Wig
neulles-les-Hattonchatel, the station
serving the region of the Calonne
trenches and that of the Forest of
Apremont. The squadron, working
in the face of a forty-mile an hour
gale, dropped, according to the Off
cial report, III bombs of 80 kilo-
grams each (about 1913 pounds. The
Germans have been assembling large
quantities of military stores at the
station. The bombardment started
several fires. All the aeroplanes re-
turned to the French lines.
British troops are now in Serbia
fighting with the Serbians against
the Austrians, so it was stated at
Liverpool on Thursday by Crawford
Price, the British eyewitness with
the Serbian forces. He said that the
British army authorities now per-
mitted him to make this announce
ment.
Shells have been dropping into
Arras for more than $50 days. When
the war began the town had popu-
lation of $4,000, in December the
population was. 1000; now it is
1000. a few score Of the inhabi7
tants have been killed or wounded,
while the rest have left, under per-
suasion of the military authorities.
Those who remain sleep in cellars.
The streets are overgrown with
grass. A few underground shops are
doing business.
American travellers who have
reached Greece from Turkey state
that the native Christian inhabitants
OF the Ottoman empire, the Armen-
ians and Greeks, are being evicted
from their home shy tens of thou
scans, driven to distant places, and
given the choice between accepting
Islam or being put to the sword.
Their houses and property are seized
by Turks. Able-bodied men are be-
ing drafted into the Turkish army.
Many Armenians, who are faring
somewhat worse than the Greeks,
have been massacred.
Gold is flowing into the Bank OF
France from private boards, in re-
sponse to the request of the French
government. In two days more than
I0,0., persons deposited gold. The
certificates given for the gold state
that the exchange was made for ma
tional defense"
Cholera is raging in Lemberg, re-
Gently captured from the Russians,
and the Austrian and German troops
have been withdrawn in consequence,
so reports from Petrograd state.
Civilian refugees are pouring into
Russian territory. At Kiev the Lem
berg camben are plying their trade.
The British Navy League is urging
the government to seize all German,
Austrian and Turkish ships detained
in the ports of the British empire as
a set-off, in some measure, against
the destruction of British merchant
vessels without ':arning by German
Plans are being made in Germany
for the formation of central BODY,
acting under the direction Of the I'm
perial government, and composed OF
equal numb bers of producers and con-
sumers, to improve the economic war
during the next harvest
year, especially in regard to the fix
ing of maximum prices and the con-
troll of the food supply. The govern
ment plans to establish systematic
control OF prices of all goods neces-
sary to the conduct of the war, TAX
ing all matters of this kind out of the
hands of the individual states.
Nearly $3,00O,O00,O00 has been |
by the people of Great |
Britain to- the war loan, this being,
in the words of Chancellor of the
Exchequer McKenna, "by far and
away the largest amount subscribed |
in the history of the world" The
total number of subscribers through
the Bank OF England was $4,000,
their subscriptions being $780,
900, 900, while $4,000 persons have
$75.000.000 through the
post offifceff, with more subscrip-
lions through the latter channel yet
20 come.
Reports from Rome state that over
$4,000 Turkish wounded from the
are now in Constanti-
1opie and that the streams Of wound
I'd which keep pouring in from the
ront are having a most depressing
effect on the spirits of the Turkish
roops who have not yet been sent to
he firing line. 1t is said that an in
'antrv division which was recently
ent to the Dardanelles from Smyrna
marched through Constantinople
Weeping.
The Russian minister of finance
las issued en- order prohibiting the
xport Of gold. ;
Sir Robert Borden. premier of
'anada. last wc,.s attended, on the