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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
SHIPS UNDER U. s. FLAG
MORE THAN EVER BEFORE
American Shipping Shows Triple In.
crease Over Amy Pre-
viouS Year.

The American flag now floats over
more ships in the foreign trade than
at any time since 1858. Figures
made public by the department OF
commerce show a record increase in
American shipping for the year end
ed June 80. On that date there were
registered in the foreign trade 2,76S
ships totalling 1,S13,775 gross tons.
an increase Of 1853 ships and 12T ,623
tons for the year.
Practically ali the increases due tc
Practically all the increases are
due to the new American registry
law. Assistant Secretary. Sweet o!
the department of commerce said IL
statement:
This is about triple the increase
in registered tonnage for any pre-
vious year in American history. Our
registered tonnage is now much
greater than at any time since 1863.
Aerwe had 2.026,114 gross tons in
foreign trade. 1t is many times mores
efficient, however, as the steam ton
mage now amounts to 1,273.O61 gross
tons, while in 1868 it amounted tc
only 1925 tons.
THE increase from the ship regis
try act of August 1S. 1911. to June
IS. 1915, was so rapid that tonnage
under the American flag now employ
ed in foreign trade is nearly equal tc
such tonnage under the French or
Norwegian flags. British tonnage. OF
course, is more than tenfold greater
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
SENATOR TILLMAN REJOICES
OVER WILSON'S VICTORY
Patience in Giving Germany Ample
Time to Consider Facts
Prevented War

Among those who rejoiced in
Washington over the grand victory
of President Wilson in the controver-
sy with Germany over the illegal ac-
tiyities of the submarine was Sena-
tor Tillman of South Carolina.
Senator Tillman was at the White
House about the time the news OF the
German concessions was carried to
the president Before leaving Tor
home he said: ~
81 am not surprised at the result
Of the controversy over the sinking
of the Lusitania and the Arabic;
which carried American passengers.
I expected that the president would
win, for he is right. He has the law
on his side, and is acting for human
ity.
"Any man with common sense and
ordinary ability to digest information
realized the justice of President Will
sons contentious in protesting to
Germany for sinking passenger. shlps
carrying non-combatants, without
giving legal warning.
. 81 never thought for a moment but
that the German government would
finally yield to President Wilson, for
it could not have afforded to have
done otherwise. This country does
not want to go to war with Germany
or Great Britain and her allies, but
the people of the United States
would have stood behind the presl-
dent if he had broken off diplomatic
relations had Germany not agreed to
discontinue the illegal acts OF its sub
marine commanders. ~
eff the president had gone on
half cooked, without being patient
and giving Germany time to consider
seriously the views of the United
States, we might have been plunged
in war.
Colonel Roosevelt said we were
not moving fast enough, that we
should fight. 1 agree with May 1r-
win, in her letter to the president,
that the fool-killer ought to be sent
to the United States"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
GERMANY WOULD SUBMIT
BOTH CASES TO THE HAGUE
Claims for Compensations in Lusi-
tania and Arabic Cases to be
Fixed by Arbitration.

Germany, according to Count Won
Bernstorff's instructions, offers to
submit the claims for compensation
arising out of the Lusitania and Ara
bic cases to The Hague for adjudica-
ton.
It was understood that proposals
Won Bernstorff is authorized to make
will strike at the heart Of the prob
lem as affecting the United States.
They provide for immunity from at
tack without warning for passenger
steamers, which are to be destroyed
only after being halted and full op-
portunity has been given to the pas
sengers and crews to embark in the
boats under conditions Of safety.
Submarine commanders will be
advised of the expected arrival OF
liners on regular schedules. How far
beyond this provision for the safety
of the larger ships, Count Won Bern
storff's instructions go, can not be
learned.
Newspaper reports are to the eff
feet that the solution of the subma-
rine problem is coupled with a set
tlement of the negotiations with
Great. Britain, are declared in Initial
ed circles to be incorrect. It is true
that Count Won Bernstorff has been
instructed to say that the settlement
of the old blockade problem would
enable Germany to drop the whole
submarine warfare against commerce,
but this suggestion is quite apart
from the proposals indicated above,
which are Independent and uncondi-
tional.
One high government official, COM
menting on the situation, dllated on
the danger for the United States it.
self-in pressing its demands too far.
He said:
There is no telling when the Unit
ed States itself may want to use its
submarines in a life and death strug-
gle. 1t may perhaps be sorry If it has
bound it's hands too tightly ~
The German press continues to dis
play restraint, so as to avoid embar-
RAISING the government in the deli
cate negotiations.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
GERMAN ADVANCE GOES ON
AS RUSSIANS FALL BACK
Forts at Grodno Fall as Teutons
Pierce Railway Lines-Aus-
trian Success in Gaicia.

Except in the region of Riga where
the Russians are presenting for
midable front to Won Hindenburg, the
Austro-German offensive again is
ma'l;ng headway and the Russian
troops have resumed their four
months retreat.
Grodno's western forts were eVac-e
uated by the Russians after two were
destroyed by heavy guns and storm
ed by the infantry and it is CONSIDER
ed very likely that the whole fortress
already has been left to its fate, LOT
it was no longer tenable after the
Germans had crossed the Grodno-
Wilma railway, which they did at two
points and had penetrated the forest
of Bieloviezh to the southeast or the
town. Villa, doubtless, Will De the.
next objective of the Austro- Germans
on this front.
In the southeast Vienna reports a
series of successes which virtually
have driven the Russians out OF Ga
licia. They now hold only a very
narrow strip between the Sereth
river and Bessarabia. Across the
border in the latter province, the
Austrians state the Russians set hre
to villages, which might indicate a
further retreat. Thus the hopes rails
ed in the allied countries by recent
successes that Russia at least was
making stand have been dissipated.
Everywhere the Austro-Germans
claim to be advancing, but they nave
not captured of late any great num-
her of men or guns.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
GERMANY ACCEPTS WILSON'S
PRINCIPLES FOR SUBMARINES
Eon Bernstorff Calls on Lansing and
Acts on Instruction Frim
His Government.

Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, on instructions from
Berlin, verbally informed Secretary
Lansing Wednesday that the German
government had accepted the princi-
pie that passenger liners should be
warned before attack by submarines.
He will formally communicate this
information in writing later.
Secretary Lansing said: 1.-The Ger
man ambassador told NE that his
government would accept our decla-
rations regarding submarine warfare
in principle. The ambassador agreed
to reduce his statement to writing,
which he will submit to me later in
the day"
Count Won Bernstorff was Informed
that the United States could not ac-
cept as final an oral transmission of
the German point of view. Secre-
tary Lansing said he would withhold
comment until written memoran-
dunn was received.
Acceptance of the principle that
passenger ships are not to be attack
ed without warning is considered by
this government as an answer to
President Wilson's note on the Lusi-
tania and if it is established clearly
that Germany has yielded to the
United States demands in regard to
the safety of neutrals on the high
seas it is taken for granted that the
Lusitania controversy will be well
underway toward an amicable settle
ment.
Secretary Lansing said that he, did
not care to make any further state
ment at this time as he wished to
await the receipt of the written
statement. Ambassador Won Bern
storff, upon leaving the department,
went directly to the German embassy
to prepare the written statement.
On information from Ambassador
Page at London, it was learned that
state department officials have been
convinced that the German subma-
rine which sank the Arabic was it
self sunk later by British warship
and that no report from her com
mander can be expected
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
CANALS CAPACITY AMPLE
American Battleship Fleet Could be
Transferred in a Day.

Proof that the entire present main
American battle fleet, made up OF
four divisions of five ships each and
a flagship, a total of twenty-one,
could be passed through the Panama
canal in one day has been afforded by
the handling of the naval academy
practice squadron in the canal locks
on it's way to and from the Panama
Pacific exposition.
The squadron composed Of the bat
tleships Missouri, Ohio and Wiscon-
sin, the largest warships which have
so far used the canal, were put
through the locks at Pedro Miguel
and Miraflores, the Missouri and the
Ohio simultaneously in parallel, with
the Wisconsin directly in the rear.
The towing locomotives had such per-
feet control of the ships that it was
perceived that four vessels Of even
larger size could be handled in the
locks at the same time. two in each
of the duplicate chambers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
u. s. SOLDIERS CLOSING In
UPON MEXICAN BANDITS
Regular Soldiers, Texas Rangers, and
Several Hundred Citizens
in Pursuit.

Search for the band of Mexican
marauders who Thursday killed two
Americans and lost one of their num-
ber in a fight with United States SOL
diers was pressed with vigor Friday,
according to report from Browns
vile, Texas.
Three of the Mexican bandits op-
Grating just north of Brownsville
were killed Thursday night By Soun-
fy officers at Los Cuatros, fourteen
miles north of Brownsville. accord
ing to information received Friday.
In addition to the Mexican killed
Thursday night, it is said a Mexican
woman, deserted by her husband,
when the outlaws appeared at their
home was accidentally killed by Unit
ed States soldiers when she approach
ed them in the darkness in search OF
protection.
Spread, out in a close Gordon, which
left no foot of the international
boundary unpatrolled, the border
guards were ready to shoot on sight
if the fifteen remaining members OF
the band made any effort to ford the
swollen Rio Grande to Mexico and
safety.
In addition to the soldiers there
were hundreds of citizens headed by
Texas Rangers, who pursued the trail
of the Mexicans to ayenge the thefts
of cattle, burned barns, terrified Wo-
men and the deaths of half dozen
JTnita6 States citizens
The tactics of the Mexicans Thurs
day led army officers to believe that
this band has been responsible Tor
much of the outlawry of the past sew
eral weeks in border counties.
First burning a railroad trestle,
the bandits Thursday proceeded to
ua,,e away with a number OF ranch
ers' horses, burned an irrigation
pumping station and an automoolle
twelve miles north of Brownsville
and capped the day with the kldnap-
ing of three Americans.
Earl Donaldson. farmer Of Fay
cite, Mo-, and j.. H. Smith, all engine
tender, were killed and their bodies
thrown into dried lake. Stanley
Dodds. a contractor, was unharmed
5y the Mexicans, presumably because
one of the number thought he was
German. Dodds escaped from the
band when attacked by the American
soldiers.
Ancieto Piano, who is said to have
been engaged in other outlawry on
the lower border and in an effort in
Mexico to incite a revolution against
the United States, was declared by
officers to have been the leader OF
the bandits.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
BRITISH CENSOR CUTS OUT
NEWS FROM DARDANELLES
Identical Dispatches Sent Through
Berlin Comes From Lon
don Shortened.

The following is portion of a dis
patch written on August % by the
Associated Press correspondent with
the Turkish army at the Dardanelles.
Owing to the uncertainty Of trans
mission and the action of various
censors through whose hands the dis
patch would pass before reaching the
United States, the correspondent
routed one copy by way of London
and a duplicate by way Of Berlin.
The dispatch via London was re-
ceived and published on August 26.
1t was Identical in phraseology with
the dispatch received via Berlin, ex-
cept that the London cablegram did
not contain the following passages,
which evidently were stricken out by
a British censor.
The dispatch comes from the
Turkish Headquarters on the CALI
poll Peninsula" via Berlin and to
Tuckerton, n. j., by wireless. 1t has
been impossible to ascertain the total
losses of the British in the Anafarta
region in the fighting which followed
the landing Of fresh expedltlonary
force-on August s and Z.
The losses in dead on the whole
Gallipoli front which the Allies sus-
tanned as a result of the general Of
fensiye movement coincident with the
Anafarta landing exceeded twenty
thousand men, Most Of tie bodies
are still unburied. One battalion was
Officers at the Turkish headQuar-
tiers are of the opinion that the Brit
ish have expended in the actions. Of
the last two weeks nearly all the
troops landed on August s and l..
The Turkish losses are not light but
they do not approach those Of the
British. The ground thus far occu-
pied by the British is Of little mill
tary value if an attack on the Dar-
danelles forts is their objective.
The Associated Press correspond
ents saw a score of British prisoners.
The faces of the men showed the
strain under which they had been.
They complained of the quality and
quantity of the food which they had
received. They said that they had
had only meat, preserves and bis
cults. The water supply was poor
and insufficient and the sanitary SER
vice was .overtaxed by the numbers
of the wounded, so that many SICK
soldiers were. unattended. Some OF
them, the prisoners said, were aban-
doned and fell into the hands of the
Turks.
From the stories of the prisoners it
would appear that the great heat ano
the lack Of sufficient food and good
water is having depressing effect on
the British forces on the peninsula.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
GRODNO FALLS BEFORE
ARMIES OF THE KAISER
Marks the Fall of the Twelfth Fort
ress Since the Fall Of
Warsaw.

A Berlin wireless says the army OF
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
captured Grodno. Announcement 10
this effect was made at army head
quarters Friday as follows:
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's
army conquered Grodno after rapidly
forcing a passage Of the Niemen and
fighting the Russians in the streets
of the city. The Germans reached
the Niemen between the AugustoWo
canal and the Swislocz-Eennewarden
line. German cavalry advanced to
the northwest and west of Wilma. The
Russians attempted to oppose our ad-
vance, but failed, suffering extraor.
dinarily large losses. Southeast OF
Merecz the Russians were thrown
back. Gen. Won Gallwitz's troops
broke the resistance of the enemy on
the Alekszyce Swislocz road. Field
Marshal Won Hirdenburg's army cap
tured more than three thousand Rus
SLAMS, as we'll as one cannon and
eighteen machine guns.
"The army of Prince Leopold OF
Bavaria is still engaged in. battle
north of Prszany.
"The army of Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg, pursuing the Russians
reached the Jasiolda river near Sill
mex and Bereza, and also in the dis
trict of Antopol, east Of kobrln. Aus
tro-Hungarian troops are advancing
to the east and south of Boloto ana
Dubowje.
Southeastern theatre of war
Gen. Bothmer's army is advancing
and is fighting in the Sereth district.
"Western theatre of .war-Near
Souchez attacks delivered by the
French with hand grenades were re-
pulsed. In Flanders and the Cham
pagne mines were exploded success
fully"
The capture of Grodno by the Ger
mans marks the fall of the tWelftn
fortress within a month, beginning
with the fall Of Warsaw on August 3.
II was the last of the Russian fort
resses in Poland to hold out. 1t De-
came untenable when the Germans
cut the Grodno-Vilna railway line TO
tine northeast and were fighting their
way to the stronghold from west ana
south.
Grodno was regarded as a power
ful link in the Russian defenses
against invasion. 1t lies about nifty
miles from the German border, on
the trunk railway line running from
Petrograd through Villa to Warsaw:
The city of Grodno is the capital OF
Grodno province and has a popula-
ton of forty thousand.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
NEW SUBMARINE BASES
First of These Will be at New Lon-
don, Conn.

The first of the American suoma-
rine bases contemplated in the plan
for an inner defense line Of suomers,
ibles along all coasts viii be located
at New London, Conn. The build,
ings in of the marine school, abandoned
in lSl1. will be used to house the
men Of the submarine fleet detailed
to that portion of the Atlantic coast:
The TT navy department is working out
details and the new base probably
viii be in operation in very short
It is planned to give crews Of coast
dafenee submarines shore quarters.
Tfe The ships will run out to sea on daily
orrises or on patrol duty during the
dav. returning at night to the base.
Eventually It is proposed to have SIM
liar stations all along the coasts.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
PUT FINISHING TOUCHES
ON PROTEST TO BRITAIN
Civil War Citations are Rejected
Applied to Specific Cases Not
at Present Paralleled.

The demand of the United States
that Great Britain and her allies
'obey the law" in connection with
their enforcement of any blockade is
having the finishing touches placed
upon it. President Wilson and Sec
retary Lansing have united to make
the note attack-proof. It was NOT
known just when it would be sent
forward, but Secretary Lansing said
he was hopeful it would not be
long delayed.
The note opens with the direct
statement that the United States in
sists upon the rights of American cit
liens under the principles and rules
of international law, as hitherto es-
tablished, governing neutral trade IN
time of war" It then rejects the
rules of the British prize courts
which place the burden of proof on
the shipper and not on the British
government. 1t also characterizes as
contrary to existing treaty obllga-
tions" the interference by British
warships with the trade OF the Unit
ed States and the neutral countries
adjoining Germany.
It is denied specifically that the
so-called blockade of Germany con
forms to the spirit and principles OF
the essence of the rules of war" and
the Interpretation placed by Sir Ed
ward Grey on this governments po-
sition as communicated to Ambassa-
dor Page on June "a last IS declared
to be. entirely erroneous.
The Civil War citations made at
the same time are rejected on the
broad ground that they applied en-
tirely to specific cases which have no
parallel in the present negotiations.
Great Britain herself, in the opera
tions which resulted in the prepara-
tions of the declaration of London
and in The Hague convention,
fought to have the international law
dealing with maritime affairs re-
stated so that some of the very things
she now relies on to uphold her posi-
ton should be specifically rejected
and the United States cites the posi-
ton taken by the. British government
to sustain the present protest.
President Wilson is hopeful that
England will see the necessity OF ac-
cepting the position Of the United
States. It already has been made
clear to the British Ambassador that
early action is necessity.
The president realizes that unless
an arrangement can be reached with
England prior to the assembling OF
con ngress in December, the pressure
for summary action to compel the
recognition of neutral rights on the
high seas will be very hard to COM
bat.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08

States and. the imperial govern
ment are contending for the same
great object, have long stood to-
gether in urging the very prlncl-
pies upon which the government OF
the United States now so solemnly
insists. They are both contendlng
for the freedom of the seas. The
government of the United States
will, continue to contend for that
freedom, from whatever quarter
violated, without compromise and
at any cost. 1t invites the practical
co-operation of the imperial Ger
man government at this time, when
cooperation may accomplish most
and this great common object be
most strikingly and effectively
achieved.
The imperial German govern
ment expresses the hope that this
object may be in some measure
accomplished even before the pres
ent war ends. It can be. The gov
ernment of the United States not
only feels obliged to insist upon it,
by whomsoever violated or ignored,
in the protection of its own citi-
zens, but is also deeply interested
in seeing it made practicable be-
tween the belligerents themselves,
and hold itself ready at any time
to act as the common friend who
may be privileged to suggest a
way.
Whether the United States regards
this offer as pledge that it is bound
to fulfill will be left to the determl-
nation of the Washington admins
tration. It is understood that Ger
many will not press for assurances
that the offer must be carried out.
The expectation is that the position
of the United States will be outlined
to some extent in the answer to the
recent British response to the Amer
lean protest against the orders IN
council and their restrictive appllca-
bility to American trade.
1t has been an open secret that the
reply to Great Britain's representa-
tions, embraced in two notes, nao
been delayed by this government on
account of the seriousness OF the con-
troversy with Germany over the SINK
ing of the Lusitania. The present
German position shows that the Ber-
lin government appreciates TINS anu
will endeavor to remove the danger
of trouble between Germany and the
United States, so that this govern
ment will feel free to take up WIN
Great Britain the complete questions
in dispute between them.
It is now known that informal eX-
changes have been in progress oe-
tween the American and German gov
ernments, mainly through the meol,
nm of the German ambassador and
the secretary of state, and that they
have resulted in bringing about an
understanding that is con ldentlallX
expected to produce an amicable set
tlement OF the Lusitania case.
Without open acknowledgment OF
the fact. both governments have de-
cided that the day OF exchanging
view, in the form Of diplomatic notes
has passed. The belief prevails that
Germanys epistolary attitude toward
the American representations on the
Lusitania case and the German sub
marine warfare has been influenced
largely by the desire to impress the
German people with the stiffness OF
the German government in dealing
with the United States, while dis
patches from Berlin have inclined
belief there that the severa! Amerl-
can notes to Germany were also IN
tended for American home consump-
ton.