The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-04


ern part Of the line.
Northeast Of Verdun the infantry ae
uVity on both sides has sIackencd.
On tho Aisnc front artillery fighting
only is reported for several days.
Washington.
Attorneys investigating seditiOu!
conspiracy for the United states gov
ernment issue this statement: "rh'
| prosecutions are under sections 6, Il
and 81 of the criminal code, and I'M
der The espionage act. Only Leaders
IN the conSpiracieS or those personally
culpable in connection with the per
pctuation Of crimes against the United
States are included as dcfcndanta'
There is little doubt now That q
large deficiency will be shown when
the first increment Of the national
army has been made. Seventeen Ma
up to war strength and several spe'
cial service forces organized out Of this
reservoir.
A further credit OF forty million dol
lars has been extended to France by
the Unitcd States government
The credit Of the allies up to Sep
tcmbor 20 amounted to S2,466, 400, 900.
Peru has demanded that the German
government give satisfaction within
| eight days for the sinking of the bark
.orton. Otherwise, diplomatic rela-
ton will be severed
Col. e. M. House. personal friend
Of the president, is collecting peace
data, but state department officials
state that this does not indicate that
the United States is looking for peace.
virtual embargo on the export of
certain foodstuffs and feeds has been
declared by the exports administra-
tive board. Such articles are food and
feed grains, oil cake and meal, animal
rats, vegetable oils and soap, caustic
soda and certain machinery.
The general conference OF Unitarian
and other Christian churches, at It's
twenty-seventh annual session in Mon.
treal, Canada, repudiated by an over
whelming vote "pacifist" resolution
concerning the entrance of the United
States into the war, and followed the
leadership of former President viii.
liam II. Taft in adopting resolution
approving President Wilson's action
and declaring that "tlle war must be
carried to q successful issue"
More than thirteen thousand head OF
cattle have been moved from drought
stricken portions of Texas to the south
eastern states since July /, the bureau
OF animal industry Of the department
OF agriculture announces.
A Mexico City dispatch says that 1t
is stated on good authority that an in.
vestigation shows that the passage of
in German code between the
German legation and Berlin by way OF
the Swedish legation and Stockholm
as revealed recently by Secretary o.
State Lansing extended rs far back rs
the early part Of 1916.
The French chamber Of deputies ha!
passed the appropriation bill for tn,
last quarter Of the year by vote o
4S0 to 4. The bill calls for 1850, O0I
francs.
The department Of agriculture an,
the food administration will cooperate
in a campaign to increase the demant
throughout the nation for cheap, pala
table and nouriShing foods. 1t Is hope,
by this method to maintain a reason
bic level Of prices.
| Return to the United States treas
ury of about $2S 900, 900 loaned to va
rous states in 1886 and never repaid i
sought in a bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Clark Of Florida. Almost ey
cry state in the Union at that tim
participated in the loan.
| Discovery of deposit OF paraffin
in chihuahua, Mexico, near the Amer
can line, is announced in official dis
patches received in Washington from
tho Mexican government
The second Liberty Loan bond issu
will be for three billion dollars an
will mature in twenty-five years, re
deemable at the option OF the secre
tary OF the treasury.
Washington hears that Germany
weakening, though not yet boaten-i
making q desperate effort for peace 4
the fear OF Americas might next yeal
The United States government, it
announced from the war department
was informed long ago that German
would start new propaganda 70
peace to avoid n winter campaign an
the effects of Amcrica's rarticipatio
j.. the war. Peace feelers were for,
cost in Washington by diplomats earl
III the month Of August.
! After two weeks work by twent,
five cntomologists OF the departmer
Of agriculture and Texas institutions
Il, Is believed there Is no longer an
danger that the pink boil worm wi
become established near Hcarne, Te.
as, where 1t was discovered in a co
ton field.
Every American Ynssnl of moro thu