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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
BRITISH PRIZE COURT
HOLDS UP MUCH COTTON
Washington Reiterates Stand Of This
Government Upon Principle of
International Law.

That large part OF the shipments
of American cotton held up by Eng
land probably will be condemned by
the prize court was indicated in a
ruling Tuesday by the British govern
ment.
The ruling, announced by the
board of trade, held that when the
ownership of cotton shipped under
the agreement with American export
ers passes from the American shipper
to an enemy Of Great Britain, it will
not be purct ased by the British gov
ernment under the terms of the
agreement.
Any British prize court decision
that would confiscate without pay
ment cotton of American ownership
destined to a neutral country or even
to private consignees in Germany
Austria or Turkey would be contest
ed by the United States. according to
dispatch from Washington. Since
cotton has not been declared contra
band OF war, the state department
holds that it is not subject to- con.
iscation.
The British order in council pro.
vides that non-contraband goods o:
neutral ownership, if destined fol
Germany and without a pass, must
be discharged in British port, but
| that the goods. if not reQuisitioned By
the British government, shall be re
stored to the owner On such terms as
the prize court deems just. The
same rule applies to cargoes sent tc
other German ports, but with az
eventual enemy destination.
Thee provisions, aside from the
| general principles OF internationa
law, state department officials regard
as sufficiently safeguarding American
owners from confscation Of thei:
| goods.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
TEUTONIC HAMMERS BEAT
UPON DEFENCE OF WARSAW
Investiture Of Ivangorcd Puzzles
British Experts, Who De
tect Mistake,

London reports Friday: The only
districts from the Baltic to the Bug
on which the Austrians and Germe:s
are not hammering hard at the Rus
sian lines is the region opposite East
Prussia, well defended by the Mazu-
rian Lakes.
North and south of Kovno Ger
man attacks are reported, but the
main fighting is in progress south OF
Ivangorod, Lublin, and Chelm con-
nected by the railroad so valuable to
the Russians, and south Of Sokal, on
the Bug in Galicia, near the Russian
border.
Berlin's report Thursday Of the IN
vestment Of Ivangorod puzzles mill
tary experts who declare 1t tmpos-
sible that the great fortress could
have been surrounded completely.
South of Warsaw and west OF the
Vistula the Germans report a victory
which they say threw the Russians
back into Iyangorod.
AS the scene Of this success is If
teen miles from the fortress, it Is be-
lieved here the German official re-
ports must have been translated er-
roneously as claiming investment OF
the fortress itself. when the outlying
protecting forts we're meant.
On the Narew front, further north.
there has been a lull, but renewed
German activity from Kovno to the
Baltic developed into an important
engagement in which the Russians
were compelled to retire. Interest
in the fate of Warsaw is undiminish-
ed, but the stubborn Russian resist
ance is doing much to relieve depres-
sion.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28

try in seiZing American cargoeS and
in maintaining its obstructive social
ed blockade" of neutral ports on the
North Sea and Scandinavian waters.
The president is known to take an
znfavorable view Of the project to
have congress reconvene at present
for any purpose. The program now
followed by the government is ac-
cepted to indicate its decision to ad-
lust the pending disputes with both
Germany and England without in
curing the risk of mischevous under
takings that might find EXPRESSION
upon an extraordinary Assem- biage OF
the legislative branch of the govern
ment.
It is not considered at all probable
therefore that, unless compelled By
more vital matters than now exist,
congress will be called until Novem-
Der at the earliest, and then solely
for the purpose Of providing legisla-
:ion made necessary by the financial
needs of the government only re-
motely connected with the war itself.
to several matters huving no relation
% the German controversy. This
fact was accepted to indicate his sat
isfaction with both the scope and
substance of the note to Germany
which the cabinet approved.
In receiving callers in his Office.
the president departed from the daily
program he has followed since the re-
ceipt of Herr Won Jagow's note, to
which reply will soon be on its way.
The callers included Senator Sim
mons. Senator Lewis, and Represen-
tative Adamson of Georgia. MIR.
Adamson, who does not view with
favor the efforts Of the cotton pro-
ducers to mix up their commercial
troubles with the more vital patriotic
issues with Germany. said:
"The country is thoroughly salts
fed with the presidents management
Of international affairs
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
AUSTRIAN PRESS PRAISE
1ASN ~N - - -
RESISTANCE OF RUSSIANS
Morale of Army Unshattered and it Is
Doing Wonders Without
Munitions.

Berlin, Friday: A Vienna dispatch
to the National Zeitung says the fnal
Russian attempt to stop the Teutonic
advance in the critical battle south
Of the Lublin-C -Chelm railroad, south
east Of Warsaw, has failed.
The Russian southwestern front is
seriously menaced, the dispatch de-
clares. The railroad line running
through Ivangorod, Lublin and
Chelm now is only few mines north
Of the Tentonic lines, and capture OF
Lublin and Chelm is said to be a
question Of only brief time.
The correspondent of the National
Zeitung at TarnoT, Galicia, while re-
porting that the Austro-German
forces are advancing steadily, points
out that there are many difficulties.
He says the Russians have to con-
tend with lack Of ammunition, but
the statement that their morale is
shattered is untrue. They are dis
playing the greatest bravery and en-
durance, and only in the case OF con-
tingents without higher officers do
they surrender readily.
At KrasnostaV, thirty-four miles
south Of Lublin, there occurred an
engagement at close quarters which
was unusually desperate and deadly.
The Russians awaited their attacking
opponents and resisted them with the
bayonet. They had assembled strong
reserves. It was necessary literally
to throw the Russians from their
trenches.
Lack of good roads in Poland pre-
sents another disadvantage for the
invaders. Deep said makes army
movements slow. Ten to twelve teams
of horses must be utilized to draw
heavy guns.
Bitter rear guard conflicts mark
the slow retirement Of the Russians
in South Poland. They give way
only one step at a time. The CORE
spondent says their achievements, in
view Of their lack Of ammunition, are
remarkable.
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the Bug to a point north of Sokol.

the Bug to point north of Sokol.
"Under pressure of our pursuit the
enemy retreated during the night on
the entire front, stopping only at the
irruption point near krasnostay,
where he attempted some resistance,
but suffered a severe defeat.
German troops and the corps un-
der the command of Field Marshal
Won Arz captured on the sixteenth to
the eighteenth. 1920 prisoners and
twenty-three machine guns.
According to written orders which
have come into our possession. the
commanders of the enemy we're re-
solved to maintain, without regard to
losses, the positions which we now
have captured"
Vienna reports: Between the Wis
tula and Bug rivers the allied army.
pursuing the Ietiring enemy, crossed
the recent battlefield and increased
its number Of prisoners to fifty Off
GERS and thirty-fve hundred men.
"Near Sokal we took three thou
sand prisoners.
westward of the Vistula the allies
broke the Russians resistance. On
the Ilzanka river southwark and west
ward of Radon the Austrians resist
ed violent fighting. The Pennsylvania
infantry stormed TIE village of Kos
trZyn.
"Our troops occu. -, Radon Mon
day.
ION the front bt-Tcen Bukowina
and Bessarabia a r IN bridge was
dispersed"
Petrograd reports: THE enemy's
advance continued ilonday in the re-
gion of Riga and Shawl on the fronts
of Grunhof-Zagory-krupy.
I'm the Trans-Niemen region the
enemy made partial attacks against
the trenches Of one of our regiments
northeast of Suwalki. near the VIII
lage Of Glukoki, which have been dis
2uted since last Wednesday. The
enemy, assisted by numerous bat
teries, again occupied certain trench
es we had captured from him the pre-
vious day.
"On the Narew there has been light
artillery fighting. There was some
advance guard engagements.
Sunday siege artillery from the
fortress of Nowo Goergievsk success
fully bombarded the heads of the
enemy's columns.
"Retween the Vistula and the Bug
the enemy carefully approached our
new front. On the Bug the enemy's
attacks in the kry-low-Sokal section
continue. In the region Of Sokal the
enemy mas extended his forces slight
ly on the right bank OF the Bug.
"On the Dniester after stubborn
fighting we cartured five hundred
prisoners and five machine guns"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
MkCKENSEnI STRANGELY QUIET
Field Marshal ctays Silent-Reports
are in Conflict.

Contradictory reports regarding
the extent Of the Austro-Hungarian
reverse at Krasnik, in Southern Po-
land continue, some even claiming
that the Teutons are contempla ting
a general retreat. The mystery Of
the situation is the persistent silence
maintained by Field Marshal Won
Mackensen. who, apparently, is max
ing no effort to resume the German
advance on Warsaw.
Petrograd b lieves this inaction is
due to the fear Of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen that his left flank would
be exposed while the Austrians we're
on the defensive. but some fear is
expressed by London observers that
the brilliant German military COM
mander is planning an unexpected
cOuD
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
RUSSIAN ATTACKS STRONG
ALONG RIVER DNEESTER
Bring up Heavy Reinforcements and
Make Repeated Efforts to Break
the Austrian Lines

Berlin reports dispatch from
Czernowitz, the capital of Bukowina,
on Wednesday, telling of heavy fight
ing along the Dniester near the Buk-
owina- -Galician border The Russians
brought up heavy reinforcements and
determinedly attempted to retake
their old positions on the left bank of
the river. They were supported by
heavy artillery, but the dispatch says
their attacks failed.
Along the Bessarabian front also
the Russians have made desperate at
tacks during the last four night.
They broke into the Austrian posi-
lions in one place, but the attacking g
forces subsequently were captured.
Monday night the Russians made
eight assaults at many points on this
front.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
RUSSIANS COMPLAIN
Fail to Understand Inactioa on the
Western Front

Coincident with dispatches saying
the spirit Of the Russian army is u2-
broken comes the report from Lon
don that the feeling is growing that
Russia is doing more than her share
in the war burden. These complaints,
according to special correspondents
in st. Petersburg. are not confined to
the rank and file. Russian newspa-
pers contrast the colossal battle in
which their nation is engaged with
the comparative inaction along the
western front.
Socialists War About War.
A Socialist meeting in London end
ed in a fight when prominent Socl-
alist was interrupted in the midst Of
a war speech by speaker who urged
cessation of hostilities by compro-
mise.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
PAYING FOR DETAINED COTTON
British Government Pays Savannah
Firm Quarter Million.

The British embassy Friday began
the practice of making payments in
WASHINGTON for detained American
cotton cargoes, the ownership of
which has been satisfactorily estab-
lished. The first payment, partial
ore for a cargo at the rate of ten
ccrts a nound, was about two hun
dred and fifty Thousand dollars.
The payment made was for the
cargo of the Greek steamer Spyros
Vallianos. from Savannah. which was
taken to Falmouth and Cardiff The
cargo is owned by Inman, Akers and
IDman
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
NOTE TO ENGLAND READY
Wilson ard Lansing Put Final Touch
on Our 'Protest."

The new American note to Great
Britain protesting further against in
reference with commerce between
the Caited States and neutral nations
was almost finished Fr.day at con-
ference between President Wilson
and Secretary Lansing. It will go to
London probably next week.
The note has been delayed partly
because of the presidents desire to
complete the last German note before
taking up the issue with Great Bri-
tain, and partly because Of develop
mentS in the British situation.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
Women Volunteer to Work.

Fifty thousand women tried to i'm
press upon Lloyd-George, English
minister of war munitions, tie neces-
sity Of using theoir labor wherever
possible so that men can go to the
front. Mrs. Pankhurst and the min
lister sat together in a box.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
Kills Wife. stepson and Self.

Chester Hall. oe Detroit, Mich,
Friday shot and killed his wife and
his serenteen-year-old stepson dur
ing family quarrel. over the lack
of employment by the stepson.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
HefuSeS Sixteen ParfiGnS.

Governor Manning Wednesday I'D
held the finds Of the pardon board in
Is cases. where recommendations
were made that the petitioners serve
out the sentences passed by the trial
Judges.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
Demand Action From Germany.

The press of Norway. according to
London DISPATCHES Friday. is de-
manding satisfaction for the torpe-
doing of Norwegian ships by the Ger
mans.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
Investigating Arrest in Berlin.

Ambassador Gerard began investi
eating Friday the arrest of George
Spects. an alleged representative O
an American copper concern. He hat
been under surveillance for severa
months.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
Deny London Story.

Berlin papers stamp the London
dispatch that the German Emperor
predicted the end Of the war in Octo-
ber as "a plain invention"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
Paris Paper Sells high.

The Paris Journal has been sold
for S4.400,000.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28

ing toward the Narew. The German
reserve landwehr fighting in this dis
trict of woody and -marshy ground,
which is extremely favorable to the
resistance of the enemy, accomplish
ed notable deeds.
"The army of Gen. Won Gallwitz,
advancing further, now is standing
with all its troops on the Narew line
southwest of Ostrolenka and Nowo
Georgieysk. (Nowo Georgievsk is
strong fortress about ten miles north
west of Warsaw at the confluence Of
the Vistula and the Bug).
"The Russians who did not find
protection in their Notifications and
treated across the Narew. (The Ma
rev joins the Bug at Sierock, eigh-
teen miles northwest of Warsaw
The number of prisoners taken by us
has been increased to 101 officers and
2S,760 men.
I'm Poland between the Vistula
and the Pilica the Russians are re-
treating eastward.
'In the southeastern theatre: The
enemy, defeated on the seventeenth
by the army under Gen. Won Woyrisch
northwest of Sienno. attempted to ar
rest our pursuit in his previously pre-
pared positions behind the 1lzanka
sector. The Silesian landwehr storm
ed enemy advanced positions near
Clepilow. The same troops during
the night entered the line near kras-
anow and Baranow. which also is
wavering with a decision imminent.
"Between the upper Vistula and
the Bug the battle of the allied troops
under Field Marshal Won MackenZen
is proceeding with unabated violence.
At the irruption point near Pilai!lo-
vice ard Krasnostav the Russians
made desperate efforts to avert de-
feat. Fresh troops sent against ours
were defeated, however.
Further east in the Grabovetz dis
trict, allied troops advanced across
The Washington herald., 1915-11-07

and were about two hundred and fifty
miles to the south Of Madagascar when
g sudden cry OF alarm was raised on the
ward the north and nfakins 4 slow drift
as We worked away at or capture
which was a sixty-barrel whale. All
work was suspended at the cry. and such
OF US as ran forward were psralyxed 20
see a monster whale coming for US and
only quarter OF a mile away. His head
was held SO high that he looked like an
island moving along the surface. We
and not an order was given. The big fell
low came at railroad speed and passed
us on the starboard side. We had our
dead whale on the other. He ran so
close as to rub us all the way along. and
twenty of Us took notice that his right
eye was gone and that he had the 90
scar on his head. He ran for Q quarter
as he went down he stood on his head
while you could sount forty. The swell
he kicked up sent half a dozen seas
aboard, and was a quarter OF an hour
kept a sharp lookout for Jim" but did
not see him again for several montns.
Eight days after the adventure he was
seen by an English whaler more than
lowered for he smashed a boat and caus-
ed the loss OF four lives. He had q run
Of about four years, and when finally
killed by q Bristol whaler he had five
The Brazilian was known by several
names, but the Scotch and English whal-
ers called him the BLACK Death" That
whale had been known fer I'VE years,
when we first fell in with him, and ho
ran q career of four of five more and
then disappeared, no one getting the
prize. We fell In with him about 100
miles OF Bahia one morning just after
daylight. We were running to the south
under q light breeze and the big fellow
preached on our port quarter, and not
over q quarter of q mile away. / hap
pened to have my eyes on the spot and
saw him come up. He came out Of the
water as II forced by hydraulic pressure,
and I believe there was all Of thirty
feet Of him IN the afr before he fell with
such q tremendous splash as to make
half q dozen OF the crew cry out in
alarm. While he was In the air plain
" saw that he had two or three whaling
lines wrapped around him, and one OF
them was at least fast to a harpoon. The
ship was brought to the wind at once
and down went three or four boats in a
breath Some Of the watch below trm-
bled up and into the boats without dress
ting. The whale lay broadside on to us,
forging ahead and then backing as II to
get rid Of the lines. He was q good nine
ty feet long and the blacklist whale II
ever saw, Ny boat mad few feet the
start and we had TO run softly SO as not
to disturb him. The last few yards were
made with the paddles alone. We came
on him at an angle 90 as to be out OF his
most against him before the iron wssl
The Washington herald., 1915-11-07
A HAPPY BUNCH
One Good Thing Goes With Another.

how, 1t can be helped suppose I
s ST.. Z, 10Y don't want to stand up be-
wen. good day. I'd Ike to give
you one punch for the sake of the
Sse ue w sS' II. nj aave .h
try to pick up a row IN a saloon Sue
cessor for the man I have grown for
and lost. good-day."
had been walking all day to
reach the hamlet of Bentonville and
as ! entered the place at s1ndowa
ern a rough-iookins man accosted
me with:
"LOoE-a-hers. stranger. don't quite
Sorry for that but can't help it,"
10. / don't like your looks" he
a suspicious character"
have you ag,hOrity to 90 that .
constable. and ! shall lock you up as
II tried 70 argue the matter with
him. but he was 'sot' and ugly to boot.
and he was taking me to the ioeku2
to the extent of suggesting that be
taken before the justice OF the peace.
for immediate examination. After
and crowd numbering q score of
people accompanied US. The Judge
was eating supper. but he hurried
up and came over to his office in the
back end of q store and opened courc.
When all was ready. he asked of the
officer:
Tom. what's the charge agin' the
suspicion" replied Tom
"Suspicion OF what?'
Dunno. Jest a sort o. suspicion"
II declare, but I don't see nuthin'
suspicious about him." said his honor
as he looked me over. stranger. who
be your
told him.
"Blissieid"
"whar' you goin'?''
"On to Mountville tomorrow"
"Nuthin' suspicious about that.
What made you think him suspicious.
dunno. but it came over me that
DO you want to sw'ar out a war
rant ag'in him.?
Guess not"
Then the prisoner is discharged.
went to the hotel and got supper.
and after the meal sat down on the
veranda for smoke. In the course OF
i've minutes the same constable walk
ed up the steps and approached me
Stranger. I've come TO apologize"
For srresting me? Yes: you were
hasty, but it's all right"
Thank you. You see. it's jest this
way; I've bin a constable in this
The Washington herald., 1915-11-07

thrown. He got one from the second
boat at the same instant, while the third
was passing his fukes fifty feet away.
That bulky monster moved sster IA as
high in air. and when they came down
they smashed the third boat INTO a mass
OF splinters and killed one man. The
others had avoided the blow by goine
over the side and. diving deep. He then
began rolling over and over. winding tht
lines about his body and when he had
repeated this maneuver a dozen times
he started of with such 4 rush that both
boats were filled. with water and tn
lines had to be cut. The fourth boat
cnne and picked us up and assisted US
aboard ship, and breakfast was served
We had just finished II when the whale
who had run to the east out Of sight
came tearing back and passed within q
hundred feet OF our bows as he ran e
the west. We could plainly see our two
harpoons sticking into him. as well as a
third one. much rusted, while lines trail
ed away from him as he ran In a dozen
directions Twice afterward within
three months We raised this same whale
but as we now knew him to be a fighter
our captain let him go in peace.