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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Mexico vs.. Argentine.

Buenos Aires.-Dr. Victoriano de la
Plaza, president Of Argentina, has re-
ceived a telegram from Gen. Venus
tiano Carranza, first chief Of the Mex
lean constitutionalists, which asserts
that the Washington conference,
should it decide to interfere in Next
can affairs, would commit an unpar-
donable error.
Argentina" says the dispatch, has
made herself an accomplice in a crime
against our ace which possibly may
help bring on a war between two
American nations"
Jose Luis Murature. the Argentine
foreign minister, replied to the mes
sage on behalf of DR.. de La Plaza. He
said that Argentina was taking part
in the conference with the intention
Of respecting Mexican sovereignty.
He added that the conference had dis
missed every factor which tended to
interfere with Mexican internal af-
fairs. especially every plan looking to
armed Intervention.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
DEATH TRAILS AUTO RACE
Two Killed and Two Injured in Initial
3O0-Mile Derby at Des Moines.
Rlowouts the Cause.


Des MONIES, Ia.-Two killed and two
injured marked the initial 3OO-m1le
Derby on the new mile speedway here
August Z, In which Ralph De Palma
was declared the winner, Ralph Mul-
ford second, Eddie O'Donnell third.
Joe Cooper was killed during the thir-
ty-eighth lap, when his car literally
sailed over the outer edge Of the bowl,
as he was nearing the grand stand,
and landed outside. with Cooper and
his mechanician, Louis Piel, pinned
underneath.
The second accident came near the
close OF the race, when in the 238th
lap Billy Chambers a crashed
against the inside rail, almost oppo-
site the point where Cooper had met
his death.
Morris s.. Keller, mechanician to
Billy Chandler, vas SO badly hurt that
he died at the hospital shortly before
9 o'clock August 8.
Chandler has less than an even
chance for recovery, according to ply
sicians. Piel, one of the victims of
the first accident, was reported also
to be in a critical condition, with bet
ter prospects, however, than Chandler.
In both accidents tire blowouts were
ascribed as the cause, although in the
Ease OF Cooper q broken steering
knuckle was said to have been The
immediate reason for his loss Of eon
troll.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
TWO bATTLEsH|Ps
SENT TO MEXICO
ANTlFoREicN DEMONSTRATIONS
IN cARRANzA's CAPITAL
CAUSE MOVE.
cARRANzA WARNS ARGENTINE
Provisional President Angry Because
Southern Republic Representa-
tive Took Part In Peace Con-
ference Program.

Washington.-Two American battle
ships, the Louisiana and he New
Hampshire, sailed from Newport, r.
l.. for Vera Cruz in response to ar
urgent request from Commander Nc
Nance that his little fleet of gunboats
in Mexican waters be REINFORCED in
view of ~antiforeign demonstrations at
Gen. Carranza's capital.
Are Held in Readiness.
Official reticence concerning the
movements of the Louisiana and New
Hampshire is due largely to fear that
news of their coming reaching Vera
Cruz ahead of the ships might &C
centuate the serious situation existing
there.
Commander McNamee cabled his re-
quest for re-enforcements and the two
battleships were ordered held in
readiness.
President Wilson. at Cornish, was
advised by telephone Of Commander
McNamee's report, and several hours
later a long code dispatch reached
the navy department from Cornish.
Then it became known that the
ships had been instructed to start for
Vera Cruz at once.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
TAKE TURKISH POSITION
poll and Win important Crest.
More Troops Landed.

London.-Greater efforts by the al
lies to force the Dardanelles-and
thus succor the Russians, hard pressed
by the Austro-Germans, and at the
same time influence the Balkans-and
airship raids on England and Ger
many in which many persons were
killed and wounded, were features Of
war news o. Aug. 10.
For some time news from the OAR
danelles has cen more cheerful for
the British. While no details Of opera
tons there have been given out, the
public has been told that the hope for
a successful Issue is brighter.
The renewed attempt against the
Turkish positions appears to be q
concerted one. Attacks at the tip Of
the peninsula along the Krithia road,
have gained tlresBrtish 200 yards on
a front Of 800 yards. and at Sari Bair
an important crest has been occupied
according to Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton,
the British commander.
elsewhere Gen. Hamilton re-
ports, "a fresh landing has been sue
cessfully effected and considerable
progress made"
This landing evidently surprised the
Turks, as $50 prisoners, guns and ma
terial are declared to have been taken
by the British. A Turkish official re-
port supplies the localities OF two
landings
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
MEXICAN PLAN AGREED ON
Pan American Countries Join With
Observation-Disclosures Hopeful.

Washington-The United States AMI
SIX Latin-American countries repre-
scented In the Pan-American Confer
ence on Mexican Affairs have agreed
upon q definite policy for the settle
ment Of the Mexican problem. This
announcement was made Aug. 3 by
Secretary Of State Lansing.
The plan to be carried out is ap-
proximately az follows:
First-The three leaders In Mexico
will be informed BY the Pan-Ameri-
can Conference In New York that
they must declare an armistice and
Immediately confer and agree upon .
provisional president.
Second-Should Carranza fail to
agree to this, the United States and
Latin allies will recognize the provis-
ional president who is accepted or
agreed upon by Villa and Zapata and
other patriotic elements.
Third-The factions and people OF
Mexico are to be advised that the
United States will nance the politi-
cal elements which agree to q provis-
ional president and that the proposed
new government will have the active
and moral support OF the United
States, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uru'
quay, Guatemala and Bolivia.
Fourth-It is the purpose OF these
governments after the choice of a pro
v~isional president to prevent the ship
ment of arms and ammunition to any
faction which opposes the new govern
ment.
Fifth-The shipment Of arms and
munitions of war to the new provis
iona1 government will be permitted in
unlimited quantities.
Sixth-In the reorganization OF The
government under a provisional presi
dent there will be full amnesty for al
present political prisoners and no flu
ture prescriptions.
Secretary Lansing, in discussing the
conference, said he has found it neces
sary to confer with the president M
! obtain his views. This has been dom
follows that the policy adopted has re
follows that the policy adopted hos re
ceived the full approval of Presiden
Wilson.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Search For Bandits.

Brownsville, Tex.-FOur companies
Of United States infantry arrived in
Cameron county, Texas, Aug. g.. from
Fort Mcintosh and were Immediately
e a to stations at Sebastian, Ray
mondville, San Benito and Harlingen.
No reports had been received of fur.
Their trouble at Norias ranch, go miles
north Of Brownsville, where five Mex.
lean bandits and one Mexican woman
were killed and five Americans wound.
ed in a battle. Soldiers, state and
county officers and armed citizens are
searching for the bandits.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13

Galveston, Texas.-H. w. Francis,
correspondent Of the international
News Eervice in Mexico, has been q.
rested and thrown In jail by Carransa
authorities acting under Instructions
from the secretary Of gobernacioA.
This information u contained In I CO.
blegram from the Carranaa ofncial
press bureau, which 49, rscslved here
August q Francis q charSed VIII
shavlnt 1T nS1tc3o1oam Nbo1dssns
1oxmatioa . ~ feuel1n 49,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
TAFT NOW A GRANDFATHER

Bar Harbor, Maine. = An an
nouncement of the arrival Of former
President Taft's first grandchild was
made.
The child, a boy, vas born to Mrs.
Robert Taft at her summer home
here on Saturday last, but the fact
did not become generally known un-
til Monday. Mrs. Robert Taft a a
daughter of the late Lloyd w. Bowers,
counsel for the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railroad and later Solicitor-Gen
eral of the United States.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
2 TURK CRUISERS
ARE TORPEDOED
So.
FORMER GERMAN SHIPS GOEBEN
AND eREsLAu ARE HIT BY
ALLIES, SUBMARINES.
ADVANCE IN DARDANELLEs
Daring Attempt to Pass Through
Dangerous Waters-6i0 Land
Advances Are Made.

London. "A Daily Telegraph dis
patch from Athens says the Turkish
cruiser Goeben (renamed Sultan Sc
linn after her purchase from Germany
by Turkey has been torpedoed by an
allied submarine near the Bosphorus.
The dispatch adds that the e
ran the cruiser aground in a narrow
creek, where workmen are building a
dixie all around her to enable repairs
to be made.
British submarines have also sue
ceeded in entering the Black Sea and
have torpedoed the German-Turkish
cruiser Breslau. They also t~orpedoed
one transport gunboat.
While the Russians are fighting
desperately to extricate themselves
from the Austro-German Gordon press
ing them in Poland, their allies are
working feverish1y and with consider
able success to open the Dardanelles,
through which they hope to pour
much-needed war munitions into Rus
STA.
Since Aug. Z, when fresh British
forces were landed on the Gallipoli
Peninsula, there has been almost con-
tinuous fighting on the Krithia road.
Following of the troops
on the Krithia road and those north
of the "Anzac" zone, the Australians
and New Zealanders took the often
sive Aug. II and trebled the area
they formerly held. Their comrades
to the north, who assisted them, made
no further progress, however.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
MEx|CANS PLAN 4
TEXAS CONQUEST
BORDER BANDITS FORM LEAGUE
TO CAPTURE COUNTIES
ALONG RIO cRANDE.
WOULD KILL AMERICANS
Wild Scheme Has ! Big Following
Among Ignorant class.-citixens
Are All Armed in Fear Of
Racial Uprising.

Brownsville, Texas.-Practically ev-
cry American citizen in three south
ernmost counties of Texas, Cameron,
Hidalgo and Starr, is resting under
arms in fear that the overwhelming
Mexican population of this section
may break out in a racial fight.
The Mexican disturbance has spread
rapidly westward until rumors of trou-
bles developed at Laredo, 200 miles up
the border from here. The disturbance
Of August IL anne out definitely in It's
true ~colors, an attempt to turn part of
Texas back to Mexican control, a wild
scheme. backed partly by ignorant
classes of Mexicans, helped by escaped
convicts and fugitives from justice or
the American side, assisted by a fairly
large influx of irresponsible Mexicans
from the other side, including some
Mexican soldiers, and by some of the
bitter disputes of border political con
d~itions, which in some instances kept
the American residents of this section
from realizing how strong the under
current of Mexican feeling was grow
ing.
Rangers in Hidalgo County, pursu
ing some of the gang which killed an
American trooper near Mercedes on
the night of August 10, captured a flag
bearing the words in Spanish:
Army of Liberation for Mexicans in
Texas"
They also took a horse, some litera
ture urging Mexicans to revolt ant
some kilograms, one dated Monterey
Army and federal Investigation:
showed that the organizers Of the trou
BILE under the plan of San Diego, which
calls for the death of every American
male over 16 years Of age in commu
mites along the Rio Grande and als<
along the border Of New Mxico, Arl
iona and California. It has been re
ported to Maj.-Gen. Frederick Funston
that more than 5000 Mexicans arr
pledged to this organization already
Federal officials asst winter nippet
one attempt to put this revolution
into effect when they arrested a Mexi
can on charges of sedition, discovering
in his possession details of the plan
which were published at the time.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
MEXICAN CLASH IMMINENT
Battleships Hurried to Vera Cruz,
Where Anti-American Riots Are
Feared.-More Troops.

Washington.-The situation in Mex
leo took a new and startling turn Aug.
10, and it is believed there is a strong
probability that a clash between the
United States and Carranza is immi-
nent.
Commander McNamee, in command
OF the naval forces of the east coast,
reported that mobs in Vera Cruz were
being melted to murder foreigners and
that the situation vas extrmely seri-
Gus. He asked that two ~battleships
be sent to him at once.
In response to his request, the bat
tleships Louisiana and New Hamp-
shire sailed on the night of Aug. 10
from Newport, r. l., for Vera Cruz.
The gunboat Marietta has also been
ordered from Progreso to Vera Cruz.
President Wilson has decided to cut
short his vacation at Cornish, N. H.,
and return to Washington at once.
DR.. Ortega, the Guatemalan minister
to Mexico, who was ordered expelled
by Carranza, was taken on board the
gunboat Sacramento at Vera Cruz for
safety. His wife and daughter are
with him. They will be brought to
the United States.
The navy department hurriedly pre-
pared plans to divert from Haiti some
of the marines and ships which are
now there. This will be done if the
situation at Vera Cruz becomes more
critical.
Naval officers expressed the opinion
privately that within a short time q
large part Of the Atlantic fleet will be
sent south to Mexican waters.
Announcement was made that more
troops will be sen to the Mexican Dor
der at once.
The text Of Commander McNamee's
report today was not given out, but ii
was learned from both departments
hat he described conditions as caus
ing intense fear among all foreigners
in Vera Cruz Of serious troubles. He
said there were street parades, gather
ings of mobs and incendiary speeches
with threats against foreigners.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Tax Experta in Session.

San Francisco.-Tax experts and
economists are here to attend the Ma
tional Tax Association convention.
which has attracted delegates from
nearly every state in the Union to
California and the Panama-Pacifc In.
ternational Exposition.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Minnehaha at New York.

New York.-The Atlantic Transport
Line steamer Minnehaha, which
caught fire when heavily laden with
explosives and other war munitions
on her way from New York to Liver
pool five weeks ago, reached this
port Aug. IL on the first return voy-
age since that time. The fire aboard
the Minnehaha occurred on the day
which Enrich Muenter, alias Frank
Holt, had designated in a Letter to his
wife as the time when an liner
8 hould sink, God willing"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
CAR SPURNS PEACE OFFER
Russians Determined to Wage War
Against Kaiser to Finish-Teu-
tons Plans Failed.

Petrograd.-From absolutely trust
worthy sources, the Bourse Gazette
learns that Emperor William, through
the king of Denmark, offered the Rus
SLAMS terms of peace. The reply of the
car to the Danish monarch's letter
was the categorical decision that at
the present time there could be no
question Of peace negotiations.
Having failed to carry out her orgf-
nal programme of crushing France IN
the first few months of the war, Ger
many has now altered her general
plan and is straining every nerve to
eliminate Russia from the number of
her antagonists in order to be able to
concentrate all her energies against
the allies In the west when they at
last are in a position to cause her
serious Inconvenience.
Germany had hoped, by the momen.
tum of her assault on both tanks 81
the Polish salient, to cut off and ut
terly destroy the Russian armies oc.
cupying it and thus reduce Russia to
impotence.
No doubt her calculations were
ldIScly DdScu OA9 lilo 10Cd IAdL II
Russians would cling desperately l1
the Warsaw and Vistula fortresses
and thus allow themselves to be
caught in q trap.
1t must have become clear to the
Germans that their plot was frustrat
ed. Thanks to the timely decision u
the Russian chief Of command, War
saw was evacuated promptly and with
thoroughness. The Germans will find
that the Polish capital is an embar
RAISING luxury.
The evacuation of Riga, which is be
ing done, is now described as merely q
precautionary measure. kilograms
from the town suggest that certain OF
ficials who are of the German race are
seeking to retard the work.
Large numbers of refugees from
Riga have arrived here and filled VI
the hotels. The railway stations il
the Baltic capital are still crowded
with people to secure tickets and reg
lister their luggage.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Can Do Without Cotton.

OAU 10 VVIII1OUS 0OI1O19s
acknowledgements that Ger
many now is able to dispense with
cotton In the manufacture of military
supplies Is made by the Erankfurter
Zeitung, As quoted by Reuters cor
respondent at Amsterdam. The news
paper asserts that the designation OF
cotton % ~contraband OF war would
not solve Anglo-Amerfcan difficulties,
and adds: Tn the present condition
Of q technical science no cotton
whatever is longer used Tor war pur-
poses
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Protection AGAINST Gas.

+. Paris.-Hiram Maxim is credited by
the London correspondent of the Petit
Parisien with having invented a
simple and inexpensive continuance to
protect soldiers from the effects of
deadly gases employed in battle.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
LandsIide Kills Seven.

Geneva.-Seven persons were killed
and many injured by an enormous
landslide which swept the village Of
Bagona, on the Simplon line. The vii
lage was almost completely wrecked
by the falling back of earth and stone,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Life Insurance Men Meet.

San Francisco.-Nearly 10000 life
insurance men from all parts of the
country gathered here at the opening
of a ~three-day convention of the Ma
tional Association of Life Under.
writer's.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Guaoenheims Return Land.

Denver, Colo.-The Guggenheims'
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany returned to the federal govern
ment SIP, 1868 in real money and
returned to government entry 3,476
acres Of valuable coal land the com
pany had operated under false entry,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Parliament Member Wounded.

London.-Capt. Percy Archer Give,
a member of parliament for Hereford,
shire, Ross division, has been seri-
ously wounded in Flanders by the ex
plosion of a German mine.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Ten More Ships Sunk.

London-The sinking of ten more
craft was announced Aug. IL. They
were the British steamer lakewood,
the French bark Francois, the Nor
wegian bark Norma and seven traw.
lers. The crews were saved.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
"Countr a Milwaukee Man.

Denver.-Richard Weinman of Mil
waukee was the real name of Richard
Won Millar. self-styled German count
and spy, who leaped from a train go
ing so miles an hour to escape ex-
uosure for passing worthless checks.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
British Retake Trenches.

London.-Sir John French, COM
manderin-chief of the British forces
in France, has reported that the lost
trenches at Hooga, east of Ypres, in
Belgium, have been retaken by the
British troops and that they have ad
vanced on a front of 1000 yards.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Lusitanit Passenger Found.

Washington.-The American consul
at Cork has reported thai the body Of
NJ. w. Harvey, a Lusitania passenger,
washed ashore on a small island off
the Irish coast.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Lu.itania Victims Arrive.

New York.-The bodies Of Harry J.
Keser OF Philadelphia, Herbert 8.
Stone and Linden w. Bates, Jr., OF
New York, who persisted on the Lusi-
tania, were brought here on the st.
Paul August 8.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
1ss Ia Sun at seville, Spain.

Madrid, Spain.-Seveial deatha
have been Caused in Spain by . heat
wave OF unusual intensity. The en-
perature o TO 133 degrees FAhren.
heit IN the sun at Seville and 100 =
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
Mother Of Sixteen Asks Divorce

Washington.-After living together
IS years, Mrs. Rose Ella Crawford,
mother of 16 children Of whom IL are
living. wants a divorce from John
Crawford, a carpenter.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13
RANGERS FIGHT BANDITS
Mexican Outlaws Make An Attack
Against Texas Ranch House-Five
Americans Are Wounded.

Harl1ngen, Tex. - Five American
ranchmen were wounded, two ser1-
ously, and several Mexican outlaws re-
ported killed and wounded in a fight
between Texas Rangers and Amer
can ranchers and a band of Mexican
bandits at Norias ranch, 10 miles north
of Lyford, Cameron county, Texas. on
the night of August 8, according to Q
telephone message received here from
Norias. The number of casualties to
the Mexicans, it was said, could not
be ~ascertained, owing to darkness.
The outlaws, estimated to number
between 80 and so, attacked the No
rias ranch houses shortly before dark.
Fourteen ranchmen barricaded them
selves in the house and defended the
place until 10 o'clock, when, the mes
a g said, the Mexicans withdrew tenn
porarily. Shortly after the bandits
had withdrawn sixteen Texas Rangers
and armed civilians arrived.
At 1880 o'clock the report says the
Mexicans returned and again charged
the house and were met by a volley Of
shots from the Rangers and several of
the Mexicans were killed, the number
not being known. The Mexicans ap-
parently were unaware of the arrival
of the Rangers and armed citizens and
again withdrew.
A special train left Harlingen car.
rying 35 United States soldiers and
II armed civilians to reinforce the
Americans on the Norias ranch.
Passenger trains are running through
the affected district tonight without
lights.
Fritz Georgia, night Waterman at
the Lyford, Texas, jail, vas shot and
seriously wounded August 8.
Three Escape u. S. Prison.
Leavenworth, Kansas.-Three pris-
oners on Aug. 9 successfully escaped
from the United States penitentiary
here, after having cut through two
brick walls, each n foot thick, and
then climbed to the top of the east
wing Of the prison, under construc-
ton, and lowered themselves in safety
to the ground outside, using a rope
they found in use on the construction
of the building.
The men broke open a lock upon .
| door leading to a tunnel running be-
meath the prison, n then from this
tunnel attacked the two brick walls.
The three men are: J.. B. Jones, OF
Fort Worth, Texas; Joseph Brown, Of
Chicago, and John Duffy, of Cedar
Rapids. la.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-08-13

The German ship Steinbeck, which
has teen loading lumber at Belling-
ham and which is interned at Eagle
Harbor, has been sold to American
shippers.