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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
FRENCH TROOPS In GREECE
FIX HER FOR THE ALLIES
London Says She is Considered to
Have VIRTUALLY Acquiesced" in
Move Against Bulgar;a-

London reports Wednesday: 1t now
seems certain that Bulgaria will align
herself with Germany, Austria and
Turkey. The matter doubtless viii.
be brought to head by the landing
of allied troops in Saloniki. This
procedure is regarded here as in ef-
feet placing Greece definitely with
the Entente powers as she is consid-
cred as having virtually asquiesced
in this counter move against Bull,
garia.
Although the time allotted for the
Bulgarian reply to Russia's ultima,
tum expired yesterday afternoon
King Ferdinand, so far as has been
made known, has not seen TT to an
swer in any form. 1t is assumed that
hostilities in this new field can not
be averted.
If Bulgaria joins the Teutonic al
lies she will enter the war under con-
ditions less favorable than a few
weeks ago. The Russians with re-
inforcements and q slowly increas-
ing amount Of artillery seem to be
striking harder blows daily, and the
official German communications NO
longer register measurable distances.
The situation in the west has
reached a stage Of renewal Of pre-
parations after the allied offensive,
and the Germans are still struggling
to regain the ground lost.
Intensive artillery action again is
predominant on the French front, in
5;cating that the positions won have
been consolidated and that prepara-
tions for another attack are under
way
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
PRESENT EVIDENCE TO SHOW
PERSECUTION OF ARMENLANS
Facts Brought to Light by Committee
Who Denounce Worst Horror Of
One Thousand Years.

I Documentary evidence of atroci-
ties inflicted by the Turks on the
Armenians was made public at New
York by the committee formed by
Charles r. Crane, Cleveland H.
Dodge and others to investigate the
facts of the Armenian massacres and
to aid sufferers.
The committee states that the evil
dence was collected from sources that
are unquestioned as to the varacity
and authority of the writers, but that
for obvious reasons their names can
not be given, and in most cases
names Of towns and cities must be
concealed.
Quotations are given in the COM
mittee's report from twenty-four
sources, some of which describe in
detail instances where Armenians
have been put to death, women Tio-
lated and children slaughtered, of
robbery, torture and death by star
vation and of terrible privations en-
dured in long marches to the desert
regions to which the Armenians have
been exiled-crimes described by the
committee as SURPRISING 'in their
horror and cruelty anything that his
tory has recorded during the past one
thousand years.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13

Of human intercommunication, will
be kept a profound secret because OF
their proposed use for national de-
fense.
The secret is known only by high
officials of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, which con-
Quoted the successful experiments
this week, and one or two navy Off
GERS, who aided the engineers OF the
telephone company.
These facts became known in reply
to request for a technical descrip-
tion of the apparatus which has made
a reality Of the dream scientists have
had for decade. The request was
referred to Bancroft Gherardi, super
intendent OF plant for the telephone
company, who worked with Chief En-
gineer J. J. Carly in perfecting the
invention, or inventions. for wireless
telephony represents many lnVen-
tionS.
1.-THE request is not a reasonable
one at this time" said Mr.. Gherardl.
"In the first place our company IS in
terested in the commercial possibili-
ties of the project, for it means the
expenditure of much work and
money. We have not yet obtained
the patents, and to reveal the details
now would mean to give ourselves
away"
Suppose foreign nation were to
offer a vast sum Of money for the
rights to the Inventions, was suS-
gested to Mr.. Gherardi.
1--WE would not listen for one mo-
ment," was the reply. "This COM
pany and it's engineers will do every
thing possible to safeguard the in
terests of the American government
in the wireless telephone.'
Mr.. Gherardi said he desired to
correct the report that the invention
belonged to the government. 1t be-
longed to the telephone company,
which would do everything to facili-
tate its use by the government, he ex-
planned.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
RUSSIAN DEMANDS REJECTED;
RUMANIA GETTING READY
Bulgaria Sends Clti1natuln to Serbia
Concerning Macedonia-Time
Limit Of p Hours.

Petrograd reports Wednesday via
London: Bulgaria has rejected the
Russian demands and sent an ulti.
matum to Serbia concerning Mace
donia, according to information
which has reached the Serbian Archi-
mandrite Michael, says Moscow tel
egram to the Bourse Gazette. Bull
garia demands that Serbia reply to
the ultimatum within twenty-fouI
hours.
London reports Wednesday: Reut-
ers Athens correspondent states that
Rumania is hurriedly dispatching
troops to the Bulgarian frontier, and
otherwise taking extraordinary mill
tary measures.
The Rumanians are feverishly for
tifying Giurgevo, on the Danube forty
miles south of Bucharest. across the
river from Bulgaria, according to- ad-
vices reaching Athens. Roumanian
officers of Bulgarian origin are BE-
ing transferred to interior posts.
Young reserve officers have been
called up, and reserves who we're to
have been disbanded are being kept
with the colorS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
GREEK CABINET RESIGNS;
KING THWARTS VENIzELOS
After Being Told by Constantine That
His Support Would be With
held, Premier Quits.

King Constantine of Greece has &C
cepted the resignation of the Veni-
zelos cabinet, according to an official
dispatch which reached London We'd
nesday, being transmitted from the
British capital to the United States.
Athens reports via London We'd
nesday: After his conference with
King Constantine, Premier Venizelos
returned to the chamber Of deputies
and made statements Of the causes
of the disagreement. He then an
nounced the resignation Of the entire
cabinet. Sittings of the chamber
were suspended.
The position taken by King Con-
stantine Of Greece in his interview
with Premier Venizelos, says Lon
don dispatch, is said by the Athens
correspondent Of the Havas Agency
to have been that he could not pur-
sue to the end the policy of the Veni-
zelos cabinet
Athens reports via Paris Wednes-
day: The resignation Of Premier
Venizelos was altogether unexpected.
He conrersed with the correspondent
Of the Associated Press Wednesday at
noon in a manner which indicated the
utmost confidence in the future
course of his government. Mean
while King Constantine came to
Athens from Tstoi, the summer resi-
dence of the royal family, and sum-
moned the premier to the palace.
After terse interview in which
there was the plainest speaking, the
premier proceeded to the chamber of
deputies GG5 announced that he had
again disagreed with the king on the
foreign policy, and had presented his
resignation and that of his cabinet.
This announcement led to scene OF
wild disorder. The city is greatly
excited. There is much discussion OF
the formation of coalition cabinet.
A Reuter- dispatch from Athens
says: ''It is a long time since so
grave debate has taken place in the
Greek chamber as that which occur
red to-day, and never in the history
of the country has premier faced
an opposition, determined to over
throw him with greater self-confi-
dence and pluck.
Premier Venizelos defied his oppo-
nents to follow a different course
than that which he took
After Premier Venizelos had ex.
planned to the Chamber OF Deputies
Tuesday the circumstances connected
with the landing Of allied troops at
| Saloniki the chamber passed vote OF
confidence in the government, says
IN Athens dispatch which comes via
london. The vote was 142 to 102
with thirteen members not voting.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
BULGARIA READY TO WAR
IN REVENGE OF Her INSULTS
Berlin Reports no Word as to ANY
Reply Before Expiration Of
Russian Ultimatum.

Berlin, Wednesday, via London:
kilograms from Sofia require an
average Of sixteen hours in transmits
sion and hence no news has arrived
here concerning the events following
the expiration of the time limit set
in Russia's ultimatum. The press
expects that the Russian demands
will be refused.
Keen interest is displayed in the
situation at Saloniki and the attitude
of Greece, regarding which no predic-
tions are ventured. A dispatch from
Sofa to the Zeitung Am Mittag says:
premier Radoslavoff Of Bulgaria
to-day made the following declaration
to representatives of the government
parties:
"'We confront war and must de-
fend our national interests. We must
wrest from enemies everything they
took from us two years ago and get
satisfaction for every insult
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
CHINA AGAIN THREATENED
Japan Demands Jurisdiction Over
Koreans in Chentao.

The Associated Press has been Of
ficially informed that Japan has not
ficially informed that Japan has mott
fed China that unless Japan's de-
Koreans residing in Chentao, in the
Kirin region of Manchuria, are ac-
cepted, Japan will pursue her own
course in supporting her claim by
military force if necessary.
The Japanese claims. it is stated.
are based on the May agreement be-
tween China and Japan. China main
tains that Chentao is not mentioned
in this agreement and that the pre-
~ious agreement holds good.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
Bulnars Take Railway.

The railroad running between Mus
tapha Pasha and Dedeaghatch, in the
Aegean, was taken over by Bulgarian
staff officers Friday. Forty miles
Of this road goes through Turkish
territory
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
Fleet in War Game.

Two of the battleships defending
the Am erican coast from the attack
ing squadron put into Narragansett
Bay Tuesday in the course of their
manoeuvres, left for the sea Wednes-
day morning.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
Villa Ready for Sacrifice.

The foreign minister of General
Villa stated Wednesday that the Viii
la government was ready to make
personal sacrifices" in the interest
of harmony, says an Ell Paso dispatch
Wednesday.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13

vice demanding knowledge and sci
entifc attainment.
After President Wilson had shaken
hands with the members of the board
and made his speech. Secretary DAN
iels took the scientists on the May
flower, the presidential yacht, to the
naval proving grounds at Indian
Head to inspect the laboratory and
see tested the new iourteen-inch gun
turned out by the naval gun factory.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
Drop Bombs on NiSh.

Nish, Serbia, reports via Paris Fri
dav that on Thursday afternoon an
aeroplane from Bulgaria dropped
numerous bombs upon Nish, killing
FIVE and wounding two.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
Much Artillery Activity.

The French stotement issued by
the war office Friday described heavy
cannonading in the Champagne dis
trilt with the German artillery taking
the initiative.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
Consul General Skinner Coming.

Robert P. Skinner, American con-
sui general, will come to the United
States in the next three weeks to dis
cuss general trade conditions be-
tween this country and England.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
British Ship Summarized.

Athens reports that the British
ship Arabia was sunk by an Austrian
submarine near Cythere Tuesday
I1flirty.hve Of the crew were saved,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13

just under Is hours and 40 minutes
less than ten hours would see the
cruiser off Miami. Fla.
The distance by knots between
New York and some of the more i'm.
portant points on the route to New
Orleans are as follows: Norfolk, Va.
244; Diamond Shoal Lightship (oft
Hatteras), $50; Brunswick, Ca, 500;
Jupiter Light, Fla, 902; American
Shoal Light, Fla, 1896.
A speed of 35 knots would take a
battle cruiser from Ambrose Channel
Light to Hamburg in approximately
four days and four hours and to
Havre, France, in three days and IS
hours, records which have been look
ed upon as something which might
be accomplished some day in the dim
future, but certainly not in many
years. The distances are, respective
ly, 3,511 knots and 3,145 knots. The
distance to Bremen from New York is
1858 knots: to Liverpool, 1898: to
Rotterdam, 1927, and to Southamp-
ton, 3,095.
The United States battleship speed
record was made by the Wyoming on
July 10, 1912, when she attained o.
O45 knots. The torpedo boat Destroy
er McDougal broke all mile speed
records for her type in standardiza-
ton trials off Rockland, Me, in May,
1914. She went at the rate of 32.07
knots on her fastest mile The aver
age of her five full speed runs was
31,516 knots.
The listed speed Of the Reid, an
other destroyer, is 31.S2 knots, and
the Wadsworth. 80 knots. No other
ships in the United States navy aside
from e few of the torpedo boats are
with a speed of 80 knots
or more. The sea-going battleships
are listed at II to p knots, the ar
mored cruisers at 90 knots; three
third class cruisers, the Birmingham,
Salem, and Chester, at %, 25, and
26 knots, respectively.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13

After Mr.. Vail had made the first
experiment, various other officials OF
the American Telephone and Tele'
graph company talked by wireless to
Mr.. Carly in San Francisco. Among
them were Union n. Bethel, the
senior vice president; John I. Water
burg, director, and Bancroft Cher
ardi, engineer Of the plant. Several
scientists witnessed the tests.
At Arlington, Va, representatives
of the government experimented on
their own account. Cap. Buliard,
chief Of the navy's radio service, Was
in charge of the experimentation. All
those present-as was the case IN
New York and San Francisco-were
equipped with receiving instruments
so they might hear the conversation.
President Theodore \. Vail of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company later received message
from ]. J. Carly, the company's chief
engineer, at Mare Island, Cal, mes
sage that earlier in the day Lloyd
Espenschied, his representative at
Pearl harbor. Hawaii, had cabled
that the success Of communication
between the naval wireless station at
Arlington, Va, and the station at
Pearl Harbor Wednesday night had
been repeated Thursday night.
But the most astounding part OF
Espensched's message was that on
the mid-Pacific island he was able to
recognize clearly the voice of X. A.
Heising, of the engineering staff OF
the Western Electric company, who
was talking to him from Arlington,
four thousand miles away Thursday
night. Mr.. Espenscheii and Mr..
Heising are friends and know each
others voice.
Engineers of the telephone COM
pany pointed to the circumstance Of
Espenschied being able to identity
the voice of the man talking to him
as illustrating their claim that wire
less telephony would bring persons
into more reliable communication
than impersonal wireless telegraphy.
The projection of personality through
the ether waves they regard as
most important feature of the per1ec-
tion of the wireless telephone.
Espenschied's message to Mr.. Car
ty said that Rear Admiral Rousch.
Commander Furor and Lieutenant
Lande. of the United States navy,
stationed at Honolulu, had listened
in while Mr.. Heis;ng was talking
from Arlington and that their en-
thusiasm over the success OF the eX-
pertinent knew no bounds.
The mechanical inventions which
made possible wireless telephony
from Washington to Hawaii, and set
q new milestone In the development
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13
Want BATTLE CRUISERS
United States Navy Will Have Two
Thirty. Boats-Can Reach
Charleston From New York in IA
Hours-Gets to London in Two
Days and a Fraction. q

The outstanding and most dis
tinctive feature of the naval pro-
gram to be submitted to congress
this winter will be request for
the construction of battle cruisers
superior in speed and power to
anything afloat.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-13


tbs type of turbine.
The German battle cruisers were
designed as reply to the British
vessels of this type, and bcgmnins
with the con der Tam, authorized Ill
1909; have included the Moltke aad
Goeten. the SeidlitZ and Derflinger,
and the ErsatZ Hertha. The Won der
Tam made PA knots on trial. the
Moltke made 2S.57 knots, the Goe-
ben 2S.6 knots, and while the Seidlitz
and Derflinger were designed for 27
knots, it is understood they have
each made 90 knots. The most re-
cent of the German battle cruisers
have ten 11-inch guns, and their
heaviest arm u has run from s to 10
inches.
The Japanese have been building
four battle cruisers of the hongo
type, each designed for p knots, on
$4,000 horse power derived from tur-
bines, on a displacement of 21,500
tons. The Japanese battle cruisers
carry eight 14-inch guns each, and
10-inch armor. Except as to speed. 1t
is thought that the projected Ameri-
can battle cruisers will more nearly
the Japanese type in armor
anG armament. but in order TO obtain
the projected speed of 50 knots, it is
believed the displacement of the
American battle cruisers will run
close to $1,000 tons.
The American navy has no battle
cruisers, and is woefully lacking in
scout cruisers. Scouts are the eyes
Of the battle ship fleet. and with
out them any powerful fleet is
greatly handicapped. The recent
naval war game disclosed the ur.
gent need Of scouts. The battle
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-22
Economic Pressure. -

The impending desperate nature of naval
warfare promised on the seas surrounding the
United Kingdom readily lends strength to the
current impression that Great Britain's policy
OF economic pressure" is already seriously felt
in Germany. There is no available evidence to
sustain the impression. The action OF the Ger
man government in taking over control and dis
tribution of the food supplies OF the empire does
not necessarily imply present scarcity II Is more
in the nature OF a precaution against the eventu-
alites OF war by conserving essential resources
and preventing waste.
neutral traveller of wide and varied ex-
perience, whose credibility is vouehed for by the
London Times, prints in that paper the result
OF recent observations in Germany. The writer
discredits reports OF distress which have been
published in Dutch and Danish newspapers, and
affirms that In three weeks tour Of the empire
he found no evidence OF food distress or even
visible scarcity Of the necessaries OF life
But economic pressure as a factor In war
must be reckoned with. II is already an indirect
source OF distress in all the nations involved
and is certain TO increase as the struggle pro.
ceeds. Germany restricts the pressure at pres
snt by regulating prices as well as consumption.
In Great Britain the pressure is felt in the en-
HANGED cost Of necessaries. averaging Is pei
cent increase in meats. eggs. COAL fish and sugar
Should Germany make its naval blockade eff
fectiye the British policy OF economic pressure
may prove a boomerang
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-22
On a Joyous Mission.

The democrats at washington have set them
selves a task that must give them the maximum
OF Joy. They are to spend money at the rate Of
$s0.0OO,O00 a day for, eleven days. II Is the
public money, and this will make 1t all the easier
for them. This stupondous task is part OF the
price that will be paid for the time wasted in
the Intellectual effort TO force through congress
a shipping measure that even members of the
presidents own party could not support.
In this connection Il will be well to keep in
mind that the enormous appropriations are to
be made In face OF steadily diminishing in
come. Also. that this Is the second time this
administration has been called upon 70 pass the
general appropriation bills, and that each has
shown q total IN excess OF the last OF the great
appropriations passed by a republican congress
The economy promised during the campaign has
gone 10 join other issues then brought up and
since forgotten or only repudisted. The demo-
cratic donkey doesn't often get into the clover.
and when It does. II likes to enjoy itself but
joyride OF ssO,ooO.ooo day is going some even
for democrat.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-22
FEBRUARY TwENTY-sEcoND.
william Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant.
Pale is the February sky.
And brief the midday sunny hours;
The wind-swept forest seems to sigh
For the sweet time of love and flowers.
Yet has no month a prouder day,
Not even when the summer broods
Der meadows in their fresh array.
Or autumn tints the glowing woods.
For this chill season now again
Brings, in its annual round, the morn
When, greatest OF the sons of men,
Our glorious Washington was born.
I.o. where. beneath an icy shield,
Calmly the mighty Hudson flows!
BY snow-clad fell and frozen field,
Broadening, the lordly river goes.
The widest storm that sweeps thro' space
And rends the oak with sudden force,
Can raise no ripple on his face,
Or slacken his majestic course.
Thus. mid the wreck of thrones, shall
live.
Unmarried, undimmed, our hero's fame,
And years succeeding years shall give
Increase of honors to his name.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-22
The Railroads and the Public.

The campaign entered upon by the railroads
with the purpose Of educating the public mind
to a point where an increase in rates will be &C
cepted as a matter OF course, is being vigorously
pursued. Magnates OF fifteen railroads recently
agreed together in Chicago that their executive
officers go before the governor first, and then
after approaching the people through him, APP
pear before the legislature OF Illinois to argue
the railroads. side OF the rate question. In COM
menting on this. the Railway Age Gazette says:
BY following this procedure the railway manage
ments showing good sense. Regulation has been
unfair to the railways in the past because the public
has been misnformed. and being msinformed, has
been prejudced The public will give the railways
square deal II they will give IL chance. That II has
not given them square deal in the past has been
largely due the fact that the railways have not
made enough efforts TO get the facts regarding their
business before IT,
II the railroads had always pursued the
policy which is now being adopted and had
treated the public with the frankness that has
finally been forced upon them, there Is no doubt
they would have been met with equal frankness
and fair treatment. In the past the railroads
have pursued policy exactly the opposite. From
the highest to the lowest, officials have treated
the public IL not as an enemy at least as one
not safely to be trusted. Railroads, with allied
corporations, have controlled politics from
Washington down to the smallest station along
their lines, always in the interest OF the rail-
roads, until the revulsion against this interior
ence has amounted TO actual hostility toward the
companies. People have found II almost impos-
sibe to associate the railroad a common car
rier and public servant from the railroad as an
intermeddlen in local political affairs and the
resentment that comes from this condition has
been exemplified in restrictive legislation,
against which the railroads now complain.
If any blame is to be attached because OF
the situation in which the railroads are placed,
1t must go to the men who adopted the policy
which is now apparently being abandoned.