Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-08


terrible that 1t Is feared here 1t vii
be necessary to revise all the general.
accepted text book ideas regarding
choice Of territory for military opera
tion. The Russian position In tn
BZura- -Rawka region was technical!
perfect but down the centre Of TIT
long valley the gases flowed a!
through q trough The scenes which
followed were appalling. Every living
thing suffered. Hardly a horse Of
cow or fowl remained alive. WomeI
and children, as we'll as other non
combatants and soldiers were killed II
large numbers. A careful study O.
the patients showed that in most cas-
es where death did not immediatel!
result, they were attacked with fit:
like those following tetanus the frs
day which required on the third da!
and were followed by death. Pos
mortem examination showed dilatet
hearts and spleens and watery blood
The Russian experts declare that ths
gas probably contains chloride, bro
mine and iodine.
- Some interesting particulars as te
how the captain Of the German raider
Kronprinz Eitel Friedrich. which Is
now interned at Newport News, inter.
the attention Of the British warships
is given by the captain of the British
ship Inyercoe, one Of the kronprln2
EitePs victims. The British captain
said: "They rugged up an eight-fool
kite. used the thinly drawn wire OF
Lord Thompson's sounding machine
made this fast to the kite and attach
ed to it the wireless receiver. Every
night they would send up the kite and
catch every bit Of wireless news that
was going. Their own wireless coulo
send only 900 miles, but by use OF tne
kite ARRANGEMENT, they could hear up
TO $500 miles. The news that was
picked up in this way was written In
German and put upon bulletin
board. These kites had to be flown
against the wind, and on sending
them up, the course of the ship had
to be altered so as to bring the wind
ahead. They lost sixteen kites during
the time I was on board, due to the
wind suddenly shifting, but they had
material enough to make as many
more as they wanted"
There is no halt in the advance in
the cost Of living in England. The In
dex figures in the London Statist show
that the average increase in prices or
foodstuffs since the beginning OF the
war is 43 per cent. This represents
an increase of about billion dollars
in the sum expended for food since
August l. The disconcerting thing
about these figures to the English stu
dent Of statistics is that the greater
part Of the profit from higher prices
will accrue to farmers in foreign
countries. whereas a hundred years
ago, during the Napoleonic wars, prac.
tically the whole of the advantage or
the high prices then current was reap
ed by British farmers and landown-
ers. In normal times a great rise IN
prices checks consumption. but so far
as England is concerned the present
advance has failed to do this, the
enormous war expenditure having
brought much additional income to
the Industrial classes, with the result
that the purchasing power of the mass
of people has increased more than
sufficiently to provide for the advance
in the cost Of living. Consequently
there has been no reduction in con-
sumption. In fact, the consumption
of food in recent months has shown
expansion rather than contraction.
Complaint comes from all sec
tions Of the state, says an Austin,
Texas, dispatch, that the cotton crop
is needing rain. During April there
was an excess Of rainfall in nearly
every part Of Texas and in the central
portion Of the state planting was de-
layed on this account. The crop is
about three weeks late, but it is in
exceptionally fine condition. Ample
opportunity was given for working the
fields during the last three or four
weeks Of good weather, and the plants
are free from grass and weeds. In
south Texas the crop Is well advanced
and a large yield Of the staple is
practically assured for that part Of the
state. No damage from insect pests
is reported from any quarter. Farm
ers are giving the plants more in
tensive cultivation than usual and this
fact, together with the scientific meth
cd Of selecting the seed that was quite
generally practiced, promises to add
very materially to the yield. A wide
difference of opinion still exists among
observing cotton men as to the acre
age situation. 1t is strongly contend
ed by some that the acreage reduction
movement was a failure and that the
area planted to cotton this season is
slightly in excess Of last year. The
avreage reduction in some countries
amounts to as much as Is per cent,
but on the other hand there is large
increase Of planted acreage in the
former exclusively ranch territory of
western and southeastern Texas.
A posse Of ten American cowboys
and miners rode ten miles across the
border into Santa Cruz, in Sonora,
last Saturday afternoon, leveled their
guns at the Mexican colonel command
ing the garrison, while $50 soldiers
looked on, and obtained the release of
two American boys kidnapped during
the morning, by three Of the soldiers
on the Arizona side Of the border The
colonel gave up his two 17-year- old
prisoners, George Vaughn, son of a
storekeeper at Duquesne, and Henry
Chang, son Of Chinese-American
citizen of Washington Camp, Ariz.,
without demur and the posse rode
States Santa Cruz is garrisoned by
commander Of Sonora. Washington
Camp where the MeXicans captured
the boys. and Duquesne are border
settlements, 25 miles east of Nogales.
What was expected to be gained by
the kidnapping of the boys was not
ascertained. o. K. Franklin, a miner,
reported the kidnapping. He saw the
three Mexican soldiers, mounted, near
the border driving the boys, who were
on foot ahead of them at the point
of revolvers. The boys hands were
tied. Army officers were notified, as
was Sheriff w. r. Mcknight who
promptly started with posse. Mean
time cowboys and miners from Du-
quesne had taken the trail with the
announced intention. which they pro-
ceeded to carry out, Of going into
Sonora to rescue the boys.
The prediction that war aircraft in
the not distant future will be as fear
full engines of destruction as subma-
rines was made by Secretary Daniels
in addressing the graduating class OF
the United States Naval academy
last Friday What we have seen In
these swift winged eagle eyes of the
army or navy is but the dawn of the
coming day when we shall make the
heavens carry our warcraft as easily
as we navigate sea with our dread
naughts," said the the secretary. The
speaker spoke of the marvellous de-
velopments of the submarine and add
ed, that almost daily you are startl-
ed to read of the torpedoing of a
mighty vessel by these small under
sea stilettos. The submarines pre-
cision Of aim, deadliness of execu-
ton. it's ability to do its deadly work
and disappear in a moment, challenge