The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-11
news OF The WAR
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ABOUT WORLD CONFLICT

ABOUT WORLD CONFLICT
Big news in Short SPACE
Interesting Pointers About the Signi-
can Things Which Oftentimes Es-
cape Attention-War Goes On in
Many Fields of Activity-What the
Various Nations are Doing.
About 33,S5S pounds of bombs
were dropped one day last week by
French aeroplane squadron of thirty
FIVE machines on and near the rail-
road station established by the Ger
mans for strategic reasons at Wig
neulles-les-Hattonchatel, the station
serving the region of the Calonne
trenches and that Of the Forest OF
Apremont. The squadron, working
in the face of a forty-mile an hour
gale, dropped, according to the Off
cial report, III bombs Of 80 kilo-
grams each (about 1913 pounds. The
Germans have been assembling large
quantities of military stores at the
station. The bombardment started
several fires All the aeroplanes re-
turned to the French lines.
British troops are now in Serbia
fighting with the Serbians against
the Austrians, so it was stated at
Liverpool on Thursday by Crawford
Price, the British eyewitness with
the Serbian forces. He said that the
British army authorities now per-
mitted him to make this announce
ment.
Shells have been dropping into
Arras for more than 250 days. When
the war began the town had popu-
lation of $4,000; in December the
population was 1000; now 1t is
1000. A few score of the inhabl-
tants have been killed or wounded,
while the rest have left, under per-
suasion Of the military authorities.
Those who remain sleep in cellars.
The streets are overgrown with
grass. A few underground shops are
doing business.
American travellers who have
reached Greece from Turkey state
that the native Christian inhabitants
of the Ottoman empire, the Armen-
ians and Greeks, are being evlcted
fro mtheir homes by tens Of thou
sands, driven to distant places, ana
given the choice between accepting
Islam or being put to the sword.
Their houses and property are seized
by Turks. Able-bodied men are be-
ing drafted into the Turkish army.
Many Armenians, who are faring
somewhat worse than the Greeks,
have been massacred.
Gold is flowing into the Bank OF
France from private boards, in re-
sponse to the request Of the French
government. In two days more than
10,0vJ persons deposited gold. The
certificates given for the gold state
that the exchange was made for ma
tional defense.%; :
Cholera is raging in Lemberg, re-
Gently captured from the Russians,
and the Austrian and German troops
have been withdrawn in consequence,
so reports from Petrograd state.
Civilian refugees are pouring into
Russian territory. At Kiev the Lem
berg cabmen are plying tLeir trade.
The British Navy Lea -ue is urging
the government to seize all German,
Austrian and Turkish ships detained
in the ports of the British empire "as
set-off, in some measure, against
the destruction Of British merchant
vessels without warning by German
submarines"
Plans are being made in Germany
for the formation Of central BODY,
acting under the direction of the I'M
perial government, and composed OF
equal numbers of producers and con-
sumers, to improve the economic war
machinery. during the next harvest
year, especially in regerd to the hx-
ing of maximum prices and the con-
troll of the food supply. The govern
ment plans to establish systematic
control of prices of all goods neces-
,ary to the conduct of the war, TAX
ing all matters of this kind out Of the
hands Of the Individual states.
Nearly s3,oOO,oOo,oOo has been
subscribed by the people Of Great
Britain to the war loan, this being,
in the words of Chancellor of the
Exchequer McKenna, "by far and
away the largest amount subscribed
in the history of the world" The
total number of subscribers through
the Bank Of England was 500, 900,
their subscriptions being $780,
100000, while $4,000 persons have
subscribed s75,O0O,000 through the
post office, with more subscrip-
tions through the. latter channel yet
to come.
Reports from Rome state that over
10000 Turkish wounded from the
Dardanelles are now in Constantl-
nople and that the streams of wound
ed which keep pouring in from the
front are having most depressing
effect on the spirits of the Turkish
troops who have not yet been sent to
the firing line. It is said that an in
fantry division which was recently
sent to the Dardanelles from Smyrna
marched through Constantinople
weeping.
The Russian minister Of finance
has issued an order prohibiting the
export of gold.
Sir Robert Borden, premier of
Canada, last we.. attended, on the
invitation Of Premier Asquith, a 4