Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-16
Scraps and faets.

ports from Germany went into force,
TO pass the blockade. The goe
however, must be sent to a neutral
port, then shipped o. neutral vessels.
American Ambassador Page today
notified the Washington government
Of the decision. The alliance will
have to seek Germany's permission for
the & to cav that country.
Germany, ignorant Of h soul OF
France, To- is being punished Tor her
mistake" was the declaration MADE
by Premier Viviani at h opening at
Gueret, France, last Monday, OF the
departmental council OF Grouse. 'Sne
thought to find he continued, "a dl-
vided, frivolous nation, but she met an
iron wall, against whose heroic resist
ance the flower OF her army was
broken. Then behold, h iron wall
moved, supple and ~unbreakable, TO-
ward the western front, crushing ut
tie by little the army whose chle1s
were not prepared for so long n
bitter u struggle. The French nation,
misunderstood and despised, has arls-
en- READY to pile sacrifice upon sacri-
flee, with millions in arms, preparing
for Germany's chastisement. we are
certain of victory-the victory OF JUS
tice. We want Europe free, Belgium
liberated, our lost provinces restored,
HTuSSldu LSlL4 VI uoiiSNy oAANS 49,
peace of the world is irreconcilable
with it's imaginary whims. We shall
accomplish this task with u allies.
We shall write not only the history OF
france, but in the annals OF human
ity, a PAGE which our Son will read
with emotion and PRIDE
There are virtually no willing, ell
gible men left to be recruited In those
paris of the country which 1 nave
visited" writes a British army re-
cruiting officer to the london Times.
Those who remain, he says, either are
in the employ Of the state; doing work
essential for the defense OF the state,
under binding obligation to parents,
wives, children, employers, employees
or religious principles; earning such
good money that they are deaf to 9TH
er considerations; ignorant or Skulk-
els. The officer believes that IL any
considerable additional number or
men is required CONSUMPTION will be
necessary. Discussing those who de-
cline to enlis. because they are earn
ing too much money, the oftice says:
There are many small towns whlch
for several months have been full to
overlooking with billeted troops.
Iradesmen and householders have
been making more money h ever
before. Labor is nowhere to be had
OF the agricultural districts, the ofh-
Ger says: Farmers at first encouraged
their men to enlist to a. extent which
seriously hampered their business.
Now they can no longer spare a single
man. They express resentment over
the unfair competition for their en-
ployes by the government Inc local
authorities"
-Telegraphic communication be-
tween the European countries, wheth-
er belligerent or neutral, writes an
Associated Press correspondent from
The Hague, have beer affected to an
enormous extent by the war. Not
only has the time Of transmission been
greatly extended, but the cost to the
senders has been vastly increased.
Holland, for instance, in order to
communicate with neutral Spain,
route her messages by way OF Eng
land, ut double expense, since Franco
will not permit kilograms which have
been passed ever German or Austrian
lines to be taken owe her wires. Oth-
erwise it would be possible to send
the message by way of Germany and
Switzerland and thus over southern
France to Spain. In order to tele-
graph from Holland to Denmark,
Sweden or Norway, the dispatches
from Holland must pass either
through the hands Of the German or
those of the English censors, by each
of whom they are in many instances
given short shrift and often do not
reach their destination. For Ameri-
ca all cablegramS from Holland must
first go to England, with consequent
delay and sometimes suppression by
the censors, but more especially when
coming from the United States to Hol-
land, when a delay Of ten days is
nothing unusual. The question has been
raised in commercial circles here as
to what course is to be pursued to re-
cover the tolls paid to the cable COM
panies for messages which, owing 10
the action of the German, British and
French censors, have never gone over
the wires, and an investigation has
been started with the object of regu-
lating the matter after h war is
ended.
II myself will not intern" This
was the emphatic declaration OF Lieut..
Capt. Thierfelder, commander of the
German converted cruiser kronprlnZ
Wilhelm, now at Newport News, Va,
when informed by newspaper men
late Wednesday that 1t was generally
reported the cruiser ultimately would
intern at that port. 1t was rumored
that Commander ThierichenS of the
Prinz E.itel Friedrich had taken a
similar stan1, and that orders to in
tern his vessel had come from his
government. Commander Thierfelder
made no reference to probable action
Of the German government with re-
gard to the disposition to be made Of
the KronprinZ Wilhelm. Authorize
tion to take the Wilhelm into dry
dock was given to Commander Thier-
fielder in two letters from Collector
Ia-Nlton In rnn1N m tho "a nta in'G
communication of April 13, in which
was asked time to repair n make
the KronprinZ Wilhelm seaw orthy.
The commerce destroyer will be re-
moved from her anchorage into dry
dock today. The condition of the ship
and her boilers is said to be such that
it will require three weeks to complete
The Temporary repairs for which her
commander has asked h is in need
of boiler tubes which cannot be sup
piled AT Newport News and must be
manufactured elsewhere. All knowl-
edge OF the whereabouts or operations
of the German armored cruiser karls-
rhue were disclaimed by Capt. Thier-
fielder. I'VE have revcr heard from
the Karlsruhe" said the German cap
tain. "A urgeon doctor on my ship
was on Wednesday morning quoted as
having said we had heard from the
Karlsruhe. He told this merely as a
story. the newspapers like stories. |
myself would know If we had heard
from the karlsruhe. We have not
heard anything from the Karlsruhe
- Marked activity in manufacturing
and heavy exports were the features
of the March cotton statement of the
census bureau issued last Wednesday.
Manufacturers in March used 523,959
bales. exclusive of l~inters, which is a
record for monthly consumption. be-
ing 5000 bales more than has been
used in any month since the census
bureau began collecting the monthly
statistics two and q half years ago.
Cotton exports amounted to l,2OS,5i %
bales, or almost double what they
were in March last year. The months
exports brought the total for the first
eight months of the cotton year be-
ginning in August, up to 6,6S9,613
bales, or 1,246.461 bales under last
years exports for the same period.
The wars effects on cotton exports is
indicated in Germary's takinsS, which
for the eight months have been PAP
SCI bales against 2.413,112 for the
same period of last year. France has
takap laSS than half the %ulantity she