The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-06
news Of The War
SCATTERED ITEMS GATHERED
ABOUT WORLD CONFLICT
Big news in SHORT SPACE
Interesting Pointers About the Signi.
can Things Which Oftentimes Es-
cape Attenrion-War Goes or in
Many Fields of Activity-What the

cane Attenrion-War Goes or in
Many Fields of Activity-What the
The French have inaugurated a
new method of blocking the German
air scouts. Ten French machines
patrol q given section of the German
line at height of 1000 meters and
ten more at height of 5000 meters
the latter flying in the opposite di-
rection from the former. If a Ger
man scout tries to get through he is
attacked simultaneously by the near
est two Frenchmen, one above and
the second below. If the two are in
sufficient to stop him others join in
the fight.
The total losses of Prussian troops
alone now reach 1,740,836S accord
ing to statistics compiled in Amster-
dam.
Thirty thousand priests are stated
to be fighting in the French armies.
They are in the trenches fighting
shoulder to shoulder with the other
men. The casualty list among the
clerical soldiers is long one.
The Vorwarts, the central organ of
the German Socialist party. publish
ed at Berlin, declared recently that
after the war the imperial debt and
! pensions alone will demand an an
nual expenditure of at least $780,
100000, which is a little less than
| the united ordinary and eXtraordl-
nary imperial expenditure of 1912.
Japan has communicated officially
to Russia her decision to assist the
Cars domain by supplying munitions
of war. Japan has told Russia that
she is preparing to mobilize her en-
tire industrial resources for this pur-
pose.
The French government has an
nounced the establishment of block
ade of the entire Turkish coast of
Asia Minor, extending from the Is
land of Samos to the Egyptian from
tier. The Island of Samos is oppo-
site the port of Smyrna. According
ly, the blockade will operate against
Smyrna, as well as against the ports
of Alexandretta, Beirut, Tyre, Acre,
Jaffa and GAIA.
Ambassador Morganthau, the
American representative at Constan-
tinople, is now acting for eight ma
tions. He recently added the diplo-
matte interests of Russia, Italy, and
Montenegro to his list.
A ministerial order has been issued
in Paris permitting the export OF
wine from France to her allies and
to the United States.
Premier Venizelos of Greece, ac-
cording to reports from Rome, is urg-
ing the holding OF a conference OF
Balkan powers to discuss the Balkan
situation and to decide on an agree
ment as to a policy in the interests
!; of all of them. He is reported to dis
like what he terms the excessive in
terference of the great powers in Bal
kan affairs.
Six months in Jail is the sentence
which has been imposed by the Brit
; ish authorities upon Theodore Sing
ton, a British journalist of German
parentage, who was found guilty OF
writing for American newspapers
matter calculated to prejudice the
relations of the British government
with neutral countries"
The functions of the city govern
ment at Warsaw are being discharg-
ed by a committee of citizens. The
committee recently voted to raise a
loan of S2,500,000. Application has
, been made to the German civil gov
} ernor for permission to obtain from
Cracow school books published in
Polish, for use in the Warsaw
schools. The German military and
civil authorities are now installed in
the Russian government buildings.
Gen. Won Beseler, conquerer of Ant
werp and Noyo Georgievsk, has been
selected as governor general of the
occupied portions Of Poland and Rus
sia.
The Imperial Institution of Great
Britain has recommended peanuts as
cattle food, the recommendation COM
ing as the result Of series of eX-
periments held for the purpose OF
finding substitute for the higher
priced foods. India, China, and Afri-
ca are the great producers of pea
nuts, which are known in London as
monkey nuts"
| One thousand eight hundred par
cells, travelling from Germany by mail
to addresses in Spain and Portugal,
via the Scandinavian countries and
England, have been seized by the
French authorities at Dieppe.
No traveller leaving France will
hereafter be permitted to take out of
the country more than so francs
(S10) in coin, under a recent decree
of the finance minister. The action
is due to the scarcity of silver coin,
particularly in the frontier regions.
People have been collecting coins and
exporting them.
| The German army and navy de-
partments recently announced that
they have provided sufficient woolen
gloves, fur coats, and ear protectors
for another winter campaign
The Russian government has is
sued orders to its diplomatic repre-
sentatives to wise passports of citi-
zens of neutral countries only if their
papers show that they owed allie