The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-11-09


The Missing Grand Vizier.
Recently reports from allied sources
have asserted that Said Hahn. the
Turkish grand vizier, has been missing
for more than year, and that he is
believed to have been murdered Mt the
instigntion of someone in the party Of
Enver Bey. This may, of course, be
merely one OF the picturesque ro-
mnncfS such as those which had the
German crown prince suicide, in
sane or nssassinated Il dozen times in
the early days Of the war. Again,
there may be truth in 1t. The in
! trigues of various parties in Constan-
tinople have been effectually covered
up in the last two years
The major military operations on all
fronts have been Detailed with con-
siderable fullness for tile last year.
but early in the war the CENSORSHIP,
particularly that of the British nno
French. was SO strict thnt there wus
little chance to supplement the bare
narrative of the progress of events
with any descriptive stories of the
things that were actually taking place.
The French offensive i'm Alsncc-I,or-
rainr and the ArtlcnnrS i'm August
E'lf, Tor instance, must have offered
Il great amount of picturesque mntrri-
al. particularly in the districts where
the French forces were welcomed as
drlirrrrrS, the vanguard of revenge
for 1871. But the disasters to the al
lies III Nhnnur. Mons, ana Charlrrn
ami the resultant retreat to the Marine
took up the public interest to such an
extent that even yet few persons out
SHE OF French and German military
circles know much about the other
fr"nch oifrnSirrS Of the earlier weeks
"l the war. except that there were bat
Ties ranking with those of 1870 that
have since become world-fnmo,lS. and
that the French were everywhere driv-
on back
Germans Silent on Victories.
All the warning nations. as Il matter |
OF policy. have said more than was |
necessary about their defeats; but The |
Germans seem to be the only ones who |
nave suppressed information about |
glorious victories This is particularly |
true in the case of Tannrnhrrg, where
lilnd"nburg nnnihlntrd the first RUS
sian armies invading East Prussia. and /
won his fame and popularity with Il
SlhSl" victory. Tannrnbrrg was one
oi IN" few specimens Of the old-faSh.
toned hattle-a conflict between twu
neither nf them Il part of u
'"hG line. but mlnruvrlllg indrprnd-
'hlly in The open field and finally com
ing together for Il fight to The decision .
ON ground unhnnIprrcd by any but the
most temporary ntrcnchmcnts-that
his war has seen und it was probably
the largest. Yet next to nothing Is
known about the details OF Tnnnen-
berg, outSid" of san circles; the Sto-
rirS that have grown UP in Germany
of Russians driven by thousands into
SWnmpS. where they drowned in mire
ana StnGnnnt water, Enve been pro-
n"nncrd mythical i'm great degree hy
no less an authority than Hindenburg
himself On the first anniversary of
the battle. an American correspondent
wrote n 1,00O-w0rd story of it, but
presumably on account Of the restric-
tions Of the censorship. he devoted all
his time t" descriptions of the ter
cidcncr Of 81 great German victory on
the ground where the Poles defeated
the Teutonic knights in 141O. and pro-
German rhnpsodirS on the turning
aside of the Slav peril. OF the men
engaged and the men lost at Tanncn-
| herg. OF the strategy and tactics of
the encounter, of how the battle was
actually lost and won. there was al
most nothing.
Tnnnrnberg was battle as eXtrn-
SiVr as Sedan, and nS decisive so far
as IN" erect on the particular cam
| phlGn was concerned. And vet almost
all thnt is known nf il. after two wears
is that the army of SamSonor was an
hihilatrd and that of Rrnncnknmpf
badly beaten; that The Germans took
prisoners I'm numbers unprecrdcntcd
NJ to that time although since they
nay" h""n fur surpassed, and that by
some sort of mancuvrring Hindenburg
forced the Russians into position
wh"r" the swampS placed them at a
conSldrrnblr disadvantage ana con.
tributcd to the German victory.
Disappearance Of Won Rinteen.
Even this country has furnished its
share OF mysteries that will perhaps
never find Il solution. There was
Capt. Franz Won Rntclrn, whom r,i-
NOR has credited with royal blood. and
whose Whereabouts have been one of
the voSt vainly sucsScd-at mysteries
of the war. 1t will he recalled that
the captain fled from his residence, the
New York Yacht club, his social
hnnntS, and his prominent friends in
New York, when passport frauds and
other drviltry in which he was the
prime fnctOr Wore about to be rXnOSrd