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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
WILSON SENDS WARSHIP
In HASTE TO VERA CRUZ
Report From American Commander
Tells of Urgent Need for
Plenty Of Soldiers.

American warships Wednesday
were steaming at full speed for Vera
Cruz, presumably under orders from
President Wilson, to protect foreign
interests which have been endangered
there, and which will De harmed, it
is thought, in anti-foreign outbreaks
if the United States government in
terVeneS. i ~
Responding to an urgent appeal
from Commander McNamee, senior
American naval officer at Vera Cruz,
the battleships Louisiana and New
Hampshire sailed from Newport, r.
l., Tuesday. night as a result OF anti
foreign demonstrations at the Mexi-
can port. The warships will reinforce
the fleet OF American gunbots in Mex
ican waters.
Officials continued their reticence
Wednesday concerning the dispatch
of the warships It was feared that
if it became known in advance that
the war. vessels were on their way
Vera Cruz it might increase the tensi-
ty Of the situation there.
President Wilson, in New Hamp-
shire, was advised of Commander Nc
Namee'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 Immediately
for Vera Cruz.
It was understood that President
Wilson himself ordered the warships
sent, although no official would ad-
NIT even that they had sailed. Care
had been taken during the day to
point out that any naval or military
activity now only would be precau-
tionary to safeguard foreign interests
and could not be constructed as con-
nected with the Pan-American confer
ence to be resumed in New York.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18

The volume Of gold coming into
the country during May was $751;
10000. In May, 1914, it was ST.
755,062. During the past May gold
came in at New York to the amount
of s13,403,935, and at Ogdemsburg
to the amount Of s13,516,803.
The receipts of gold from Canada
during the eleven months ended with
May were S62,740,122, and from
Great Britain in the same period ST.
953,746. Canada's transfer of gold
to this country during May was s14,-
494,536, as compared with $1,045,-
GIT the same month last year. France
sent US in May this year s11,500,-
coo Of gold, having sent US in the
preceding ten months Of the fiscal
year but s52,926.
Our export Of gold to all countries
in the eleven months ended with
May was s631,720. The total i'm
port OF gold from all countries for
the eleven months OF the fiscal year
ended with May was s119,227,015.
The grand balance of trade for the
eleven months ended with May, 1915,
is o. interest to those who desire to
take a broad view Of the trade stu
alton. The total exports for the
period named were $2,500,041,924,
as compared with s2,207,507,101 for
the eleven months ended with May,
1914.
Imports were down to the end Of
May, 1915, 81, 800, and for
the same months the previous year
were s1,736,396,207.
The total of exports and imports
for the eleven months ended with
May this year was s4,016,516,524,
and the total of exports and imports
for the same months ended with
May, 1914, was s3,943,9G3,30S, CIV
ing an increase for this year over
last in the grand total Of foreign
trade, including both exports and i'm
ports, of SlL,613,216.
While this year exports have in
creased by s292,534,S23 in the
eleven months imports have fallen
off by s219,921,607. At the same
time the balance of trade for the
eleven months ended with May, 1915,
had reached the enormous amount OF
$685. 3,567,324, and, as is well known,
with the balance for the following
month of June, passed the billion
dollar mark for the first time in the
history Of the country.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
SWEDEN WANTS Us TO ACT
WITH HER In CABLE MATTER
In Note Desire of Cooperation Is IN
timated But Little Chance
for it Exists.

The government Of Sweden has re-
Gently intimated a. desire that the
United States join in a protest to
Great Britain against interference
win cable communications between
the western hemisphere and CONT
mental Europe.
These intimations were not in a
form that required a direct answer,
and it is doubtful that such an an
swer will be given. But Washington
feels that the question answers itself
with the statement that the cables
are owned by the belligerents. 1t IS
safe to say that the American note to
Great Britain on the subject Of the
British blockade will make no refer
ence to interrupted cable communi-
cations.
All cables connecting with north
ern Europe pass through the British
Isles, and it is understood that their
ownership is British. A British cen
sorship Of messages passing over
them would, therefore, AFFORD no
ground for an American protest, ex-
cept in the unexpected contingency
Of interference with American diplo-
matte communications. At the out
break of the war, the loop from Eng
land to Germany was cut, pcesum-
ably by the British, and that was re-
garded as legitimate act Of war.
For many months the United
States has been in CLOSE touch with
all the other important neutral pow
ers regarding the inconvenience i'm
posed on neutral commerce by the
British blockade. Sweden has been
more earnest than the rest in repre-
senting her displeasure at the Brit
ish course. But even Sweden has
not suggested that the United States
join in any such protest on the gen
eral subject Of the blockade. The
United States has already protested
on that score, and the disposition Of
the smaller nations seems to be to
await the outcome Of the American
negotiations.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
PLAN OF SAN DIEGO
{Continued from first page. }

responsible for all the disturbances
and emphasized that the troubles had
no connection with Mexican internal
affairs.
Conditions on the border" said
Mr.. Garrison, "have no political sig
nifcance. Lawless people are using
this time of excitement to plunder
and steal and We are not sure that
all the lawbreakers are Mexicans.
Some OF them we know are not"
Further Strengthening Of the bor-
der forces will take virtually all
available regular troops in the coun-
try. Officials were considering wheth-
er it might not become necessary to
use the National Guard should the
situation take on more serious pro-
portions.
Reports that politicians on the
American side were responsible for
the uprisings arounsed much resent
ment. At San Benito mass meeting
Of protest was held. On June 4,
speakers at this meeting declared the
secretary of war had been informed
that trouble was likely to break on
the American side from this source.
Fifty-one citizens representing all
political factions addressed the fol-
lowing statement to the Associated
Press Thursday night:
Statements attributed by you IN
to-day's dispatches to the secretary
of war and Gen. Funston to the ef-
feet that conditions of brigandage in
Cameron and Hidalgo counties are
due to any political feud are abso-
lutely without foundation. All fac
tions here are cooperating as Ameri-
can citizens to restore order and OBJ
tain absolute protection for our fam
lilies and property"
The killing Thursday Of three Mex
lean outlaws near NJ rcedes, Hidalgc
county, Texas, and the capture ot
twenty-five of the bandits saddle
horses in the same vicinity, lead tc
the belief that at least one Of the
gangs Of Mexican raiders has beer
scattered.
Details of the fighting are no
available Federal and state Off
Gals refuse to discuss the matter
further than to announce that thres
Moxicans had been killed. Excep
for the fight in Hidalgo county, the
situation in the Texas border coun
ties apparently was quiet.
News which later was confirmed
says that Texas Rangers in Hidalgt
county chased eight Mexicans wht
reached the Mexican side Of the Rit
Grande. Sitting on the bank of tha
stream on the Mexican side, the ban
dts invited the Rangers to cross thu
river, saying they were the leader
sought by America nauthorities. Th'
Rangers withdrew. 1t is believed tht
| Mexicans are part of the band which
abandoned their horses earlier in th'
day and took to the brush.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
COTTON Is NOT NEEDED TO
MANUFACTURE EXPLOSIVES
London Newspaper Says Three Ger
man Plants are Making Wood
Pulp Base for Explosives

A citizen OF q neutral state who has
just made a tour through Germany
and acquired large amount OF in
formation about the industrial and
economic conditions Of the country.
gives to the London Daily Chronicle
an account Of the work OF German
chemists in discovering substitute
for cotton as basis for high e1plo-
sives. This was found in the shape
Of ordinary wood pulp. He says:
Experiments are still being car
ried on, but sufficient progress has
already been made to enable the sub
stitute to be used freely and success
fully. The great difficulty in the way
OF using wood pulp as a substitute
for cotton is the presence Of many
impurities which are not found in
the latter commodity. The most i'm
portant of these impurities are resin
and oxycellulose. Unless these are
completely removed the resulting ex-
plosives would be uncertain in &C
ton, and highly dangerous to those
manufacturing them.
"I was not able to discover the
whole secret of the process, but in It's
early stages it is the same as that
which is followed in turning wood
into pulp for the manufacture OF
paper. The wood is ground, cooked,
and changed into liquid form. Then
it is cleansed by new processes and
then pressed into sheets. 1t is then
ready for the nitration process, and
the addition Of other necessary chem
icals.
Germany is under no difficulty
so far as the supply of the raw ma
terial is concerned. At one time she
was dependent upon Scandinavia for
supplies. of wood pulp, but some
years ago she set herself the task OF
making her own, since when she has
become largely self-supporting in
this direction.
''Three OF the largest factories are
now engaged in turning out the new
basis for explosives, as we'll as the
seasoned wood required for making
wood pulp. Large reserves OF tim
Der have been accumulated from my
own country and from Russia, SO
there is no fear Of any shortage.
II was assured that If the supply
Of raw cotton to Germany were en-
tirely stopped she might be able to
tide over the difficulties.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
the Russian army.

the Russian army.
1t must not be forgotten that the
Teutons have before them no longer
the flower Of an excellently trained
and equipped army Of millions,
which advanced on them in August,
1914, but an army whose continuous
defeats and whose loss of the greater
part of it's first line troops can not
fail, in time, to have an adverse al
feet on it's morale; an opponent who
is sorely in need of officers. NUM-
tions and supplies of all kinds. His
elimination from the campaign along
the lines just mentioned is but a
question of time. Not before it has
been accomplished will the Germanic
hosts turn to the weet,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
EXPORTS INCREASE.
WAR CAUSES BIG LEAP In MUM:
TIONS FOR WARNING
TRADE BALANCE LARGER
Statistics Tell You just How Much
Increased Demand There Has Been
Created by the War-Gold is Flow
ing Into This Country Very Rap
idly.

Large increases in exports OF e1-
plosives, iron and steel manufac-
lures, automobiles, leather, cotton
and wooden goods, chemicals, all
classes OF metal goods and in food
stuffs are shown by detailed depart
ment of commerce statistics for May,
issued last week.
There has been a large increase in
exports of all lines Of goods that are
required as war supplies, such as
iron and steel products, packing
house stuffs, wooden goods, chemicals,
cotton seed oil and cake, all metal
goods except copper, leather goods,
automobiles anu trucks, cotton goods,
and refined sugar.
Some Of these articles, as sugar,
for instance, are not classified strict
ly as war supplies, but are in demand
because Of the shutting of Of Ger
nan, Austrian, and Russian supplies
from countries like England and Tur-
key that import all the sugar they
consume.
Exports OF explosives over May,
1914, increased $5,500,000. The to-
tai for last May aggregated $780,
900. Exports OF explosives Tor eleven
months in 1914 aggregated approx
mately s6,0O0,000, while for eleven
months in the fiscal year 1915 the
total exceeds $30,00G,000.
Iron and steel exports for May ag-
gregated s26,5o0,oO0, an increase Of
S6,S00,000 over May, 1914; CONNER
cial automobile exports aggregated
S6,600,000, an increase Of $6,500,-
900; for eleven months this year
! commercial automobile exports
amount to approximately $30,500,-
900, as compared with 100000
for the previous period.
Refined sugar exports for the
eleven months aggregate S23, ,000,-
900, an increase Of more than $21,-
| 100000. Flour exports for May ag-
gregated $9,S00,000, an increase OF
s5,5O0,o0o over May, 1914. For the
eleven months flour aggregated $685.
100000, as compared with $50,000,-
900 in the 1914 period.
Leather manufacturers other than
boots and shoes increased over May,
1914, s4,s00,O0O; cotton goods, ST.
100000; brass and manufactures
thereof, s3,600,000; cars and car
riages, s2,300,0o0; cotton seed oil,
$1,4O0, 900; cheese, sl,S00,000; zinc
manufactures, s2,500,000; aero
planes, 100000.
Slight decreases occurred in e1'
ports of copper, boards, electrical
goods, agricultural implements, naval
stores, timber, tobacco, alcoholic bev-
erages, earthenware and musical in
struments.
The falling off in foreign trade
during May appears directly in pig
copper, which is Is per cent. less
than in April; boards and planks, SO
per cent. less; agricultural imple-
ments, 80 per cent. less; electrical
apparatus, 10 per cent. less, and
naval stores, 80 per cent. less.
The principal Increases, as shown
in round figures, are given In hun
dred thousands in the following
table, the comparison being with the
exports Of May, 1914:
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highly tempered steel over the heart,
and similar plate over the abdo-
men.
The italian government has decid-
ed to make large purchases Of meat
and grain in the United States, not
only for the army, but also for the
civil population, according to reports
from Rome. The purpose Of the
authorities is to discourage specula-
tion in foodstuffs, which is being e1-
tensively conducted.
A committee OF "the crusade Of
the women of France" which COM
mittee includes many Of the most
prominent women in Paris, has pass
ed resolution condemning the sale
Of alcoholic beverages in the shops Of
confectioners, tobacconists, and coal
merchants, and demanding that the
sale of intoxicants be prohibited in
communities where munitions of war
are manufactured. Among the wo-
men on the committee are Nine.
Poincare, the Duchesse de Rohan,
the Comtesse de Greffulhe, and Mines.
Alphonse Daubet, Emile Zola, Viyi-
ami, Augagneur and Deroulede.
There have been serious riots in
Seylon. In suppressing the insur-
rections many natives have been kill
ed and many more thrown into Jail.
In Colombo alone it is stated that
$500 persons have been sentenced
to imprisonment for varying terms.
Because Of a revolt of the Senussi
tribes, the Italians have been forced
to retire from Fezzan and go nearer
the coast. The revolt has been TO-
mented by Turkish and German Of
fcers. Fezzan is a territory 400
miles long by 800 wide, bounded by
Tripoli on the north and on all other
sides by the Sahara Desert.
Squadrons of Austrian cruisers and
torpedo boats have several times late
ly bombarded points on the Adriatic
railway, which skirts the sea on the
Italian east coast Stations have
been damaged, and locomotives and
cars destroyed
Prince Oscar, the fifth son of En-
peror William. has written a book
describing a winter battle in the
region, in which the
French attempted an unsuccessful
assault against the German lines
near Perthes The proceeds from the
sale of the work will go to a relief
fund for widows and orphans.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
WILSON Is OVER 1900, 600
VOTES AHEAD OF His PARTY
Senator Ashurst Says President /:
Bound to Win Reelection at
the Elections Next Year.

In his capacity as political field
lieutenant and confidential inform.
ant Of President Wilson, Senator
Henry F. Ashurst Of Arizona has
started at Detroit a fortnight's can
vass Of Michigan. with the declara-
tion that it will be Wilson in 1916,
and the rest nowhere Coming at
the end of fourteen-thousand-mile
tour of the United States, made a.
the presidents request, and lasting
since March ! last, Senator Ashurst's
statements were regarded by politi
clans as significant.
The position OF the United States.
due to the European war and the
troubles in Mexico, have made the
president the logical party leader,
says the senator. Mr.. Ashurst on his
tour has talked with cowboys and
bankers, lumberjacks and profes
sional men, and, after carefully
weighing and digesting the sentiment
he has found, he declares, that MIR.
Wilson is to-day two million votes
stronger than his party He says
that if there were a presidential elec-
tion to-day Mr.. Wilson would carry
New York handily, and come closer
to sweeping Michigan than any other
living Democrat.
Woodrow Wilson will run for
president he said, because he will
have no other choice. measure my
words when say that he will be re-
elected president without any trouble.
The people will have no other leader.
It was fortunate for both Woodrow
Wilson and for the United States that
he became president a. such time.
fortunate for him because the times
made him the one great outstanding
figure in civilization to-day, and for
tunate for the United States because
he is the one calm, resourceful lead
er whose peculiar abilities enabled
him to steer the country safely
through the international difficulties
that have beset it.
."From the standpoint of the great
mass Of the people there is but one
question, and that relates to the war
in Europe. The people know they
have the one man to lead them safely
through. Woodrow Wilson Is that
man.
Republican congressman are in a
bad way. They denounce Wilson
openly for the sake of their constitu-
encies, and they praise him privately,
because there is no other thing for
them to do.
1.-The Republicans have but one
forlorn hope. Some Of them affect to
believe and many of them do sincere
ly believe THAI there is one more
president wrapped up in the tariff
question. They will find their mis-
take sad one. The tariff question is
entirely submerged in the great is
sues the war III Europe has brought
to the foreground The solution OF
the tariff question lies in a tariff
commission, and this idea has many
converts. We have come to see the
error in wasting the public wealth by
giving over this question to weeks
and weeks of congressional debate.
Neither will the currency ques-
ton detract greatly from the great
issues involved. Many Republicans,
notably Senator Weeks, voted for the
currency bill"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
AIR RAIDS KILL 22
Germans Get il and English s on
Mondays Night Attacks.

Berlin reports: Monday forenoon
from six to eight enemy aeroplanes
attacked Zweibruecken and Sankt In
gbert, which are outside the military
district. From fifteen to twenty
bombs were dropped on Zweibruec-
ken, causing only unimportant mate
rial damage. At sankt Ingbert eight
persons were killed and two wound
ed"
London reports: An attack by Ger
man airships, which flew over the
English coast Monday night, was an
nounced. The statement says one OF
the airships was damaged by British
aeroplanes and was towed into o.
tend.
A revised list of casualties result
ing from the airship raid was given
out by the official press bureau Tues
day evening as follows: Killed: One
man, nine women and four children.
Wounded: Five men, seven women
and two children.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
Large Shipment Of Gold.

A special train carrying ffty-two
million dollars of gold and securities
shipped by the Bank of England from
London, by way Of Halifax, n. S., to
New York. arrived wednesday,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
British Aircraft in Raid

English aeroplanes claim to have
destroyed the barracks and eight
houses and to have hemharded the
city of Smyrna.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18

President Wilson s now taking up
tha question es our satlonai defense.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18

The British steamer Tacoma, 2,SS9
tons, was sunk BY submarine Fri
day. Officers and crew were saved.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18

sand men have been taken prisoners
in this region. East of Warsaw the
army Of Prince Leopold of Bavaria
has advanced to a point near the
Stanislawow-Nowo Minsk road.
Southeastern theatre: The army
of Gen. Won Moyrsch pursuing the
enemy, has reached the district north
and northeast Of Gelechow. This
army joined the left wing of the
group of armies Of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen, who is advancing from
the south"
Vienna reports: "The enemy who
retreated from the Vistula front is
being pursued. Austro-Aungarian
and German forces have crossed the
main road from Warsaw to Lublin in
an easterly direction between the
railway from Ivangorod to Lukow
and the village of Garwolin. The left
bank Of the VieprZ and the right
bank Of the Vistula near Ivangorod
having been cleared of the enemy.
Our troops crossed the Vieprz in a
northeast and northerly direction.
'The battlefelds of Lubarto and
Miechow showed traces Of the
enemy's flight The number Of pris-
oners captured by the army Of Arch
duke Joseph Ferdinand has been in
creased to eight thousand.
Between the Vieprz and the Bug
the battle continues.
.."On the Dniester up to Uzcieczko
(near the Bukowina border) our
troops repulsed the Russians at sew
eral points, capturing sixteen hun
.dred men and five machine guns"
Berlin reports on the day preced
ing the fall of Lomza: 1--WE also have
made progress against the northern
and western fronts Of Lomza. In the
asree ashsias whieh accompanied
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18

A convention, ceding to Bulgaria
the Turkish portion Of the Dedegatch
railway, has been signed in Constan-
tinople.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18

Conan Doyle wants the British
troops to wear armor, declaring it
would greatly reduce the casualty
lists. He suggests that each man
wees helmet, a curved plste Of