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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

Mr.. Henry Horton of Jordan has ac-
cepted position with the New Idea
Co, and commenced work this morn
ing.
Some people in this town are very
pious: (?) They throw up their hands
IN holy horror when they hear of peo-
PIE accepting business on Sunday,
claiming six days a week was intended
tc labor, and the seventh day of
rest--which is correct. Also they re-
fused small amount Of $1.5O, because
It wa sthe Sabbath. Yet when a $500
JOB was offered on Sunday, they "fell
off the log" The amount was too
tempting Inconsistency where art
MIR. Howard of Danvillc is here
representing the Imperial Tobacco Co.
Rev. McCord Of Sardinia occupied
the Manning Presbyterian pulpit on
last Sunday morning, and delivered q
powerful sermon on present day
topics.
There vii be very important con-
Ercgational meeting at the Presbyter-
IAN church next Sunday morning. and
1t IS urged that evary member be
present.
Vaction Class-Spccial coaching in
Manning during the summer by Mrs.
f.. G. Alsbrook for college entrance
or 10 make up grade deficiencies in
English, Latin, French, mathematics
and science. Handwriting, spelling and
6n3iness arithmetic carefully taught.
FOR information write Mrs. q. G.
Alsbrook, Manning.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

The facts and the purposes Of "Thc
Eagles Eye are right. See it at the
Pastimc Theatre every Friday.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

~, Starting July 5th, the Paatimc
Theatre will run the first episode
of the Eagles Eye" "The Hidden
Dcath" shows how and where the
plotting Of the shaking Of the Lusi-
t"nia was plani.ed
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

The local board sent the following
to Camp jackson Monday: Hall Mel.
son, Summerton; Joe Chewing, Jor-
dan; Henry Fielder, Summerton; Lloyd
Minis, Lake City; Alderman Ridgill,
Manning.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

Thomas Bagnal and Julien Brails-
iiord who volunteered for navy serv-
zee in Columbia Monday were turned
down on account of being too young.
Willie Gciger was accepted and we
learn he will be sent TO Rhode Island.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

To put. the people on their guard:
to open their eyes to hidden dangers,
and to protect them from these un-
seen foes, is the right and patriotic
purpose Of Chief Flynn's great story
OF The Eagles Eye" See 1t at the
Pastime Theatre.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

lhe tobacco season opens next
Tuesday, the 9th. Read the adver-
tiscment Of the Manning Warehouse.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

Senator Charlton DuRant has been
appointed council for the Southeastern
military division of the Y. M. c. A.
lie was ordered to Atlanta Monday,
and he is now there getting orders for
his work.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

Miss Mabel Sparks, who has been
visiting friends in St. Paul, returned
on Monday and is the guest of Miss
Fannie Weaver.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-03

THE Eagles Eye" fairly oris.lcs
with unexpected happenings. Advcn-
turc runs riot through it. New thrills
are awakened every instant. One of
the great successes Of the year"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

made by the French and British has been
none the less resourceful and fruitful. Too
much cannot be said of the devotion, hero
ism and self-sacrfce of the men who by
night as well as by day, in the smallest
craft and in the face Of the bitterest winter
gales have braved death in the performance
of their duty in order to assure the safety
of hundreds of thousands of others who
might otherwise have met with foul play
at the hands of the common enemy.
Curiousy enough, the irst type of anti
submarine vessel which | was invited to
visit was a French submarine belonging to
the patrol squadron of that district. 1t was
one of the most modern seagong sub
mersibles in service, and formed part of a
relay of vessels of that type which were
then resting their crews preparatory to
going out again on their next "Fritz hunt"
They certainly had businesslike look about
them, as they lay in the sunbaked basin.
awaiting the order that would send them
forth on mission that always had an air
of mystery about it.
Like all submarines, the French sub
marine is filled with a complex assortment
of engines, motors, accumulators, pumps,
compasses, ventilators and various other
delicate apparatus that fairly stagger the
innocent landsman on his first initiation in to
the mysteries of subsurface navigation. The
living arrangements in the modern boats
greatly improved over what they used
to be only few years ago. The sub
marine which visited had officers quarters
which | would call decidedly comfortable.
1t is true that you had to dodge all sorts
of tubes and pipes and valves every time
you attempted to move in any direction,
but you could stand erect, and that was
saying a good deal.
There is not much sto be written about
submarine work that is new, but from the
conversations | had with several sub
marine commanders | gathered that the
greatest discoveries affecting the successful
operation of their vessels have been in
connection with the perfection of the vari-
Gus weapons with which their craft are
armed, with the gyroscope compass, with
the improved range-fnding periscope, and
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

with the al-essential wireless. 1t stands
to reason that in steel vessel, where prac-
tically onehalf Of the length is devoted to
propelling machinery and most of the rest
to movable bits of metal, no possible
compensation of the ordinary magnetic
compass could be obtained so the Sperry
gyro compass, which before the war had
been installed only in the larger naval units.
very soon became an indispensable part of
the complex machinery of Goliath's most
dangerous enemy.
With regard to the range finding peri
scope, this is an ingenious arrangement
whereby the lower eyepiece is provided
with two horizontal wires, which can be
shifted vertically across the field of vision
by means of thumbscrews By adjusting
the two across until the lower wire corre-
spends with the waterline and the upper
one with the masthead of the ship under
observation, reading of the scales near
the eyeplece gives a number from which
the correct range may be established with
the aid of some standard official manual
giving the silhouettes of the various types
of naval vessels in existence, together with
their principal dimensions and masthead
heights.
But even the practsed eye of the expe-
rienced submarine commander sometimes
errs in estimating the exact character of
the vessels sighted, for the image reflected
by the prisms of the periscope does not
always allow him to make out to GER
talnty whether the ships seen are large or
small cruisers torpedo craft or lust
steamers or cargo carriers. And when
French submarine is engaged in the excit
ing sport of submarine hunting another
element of chance enters into the general
problem which leaves no time for superficial
mathematical calculations
But the real sport of war is to be found
IN that branch of the French naval SER
wee which continually and unrelentlesslv
pursues the U-boat from the air. Here the
French have developed formidable anti
submarine weapon, of which Fritz" has al
ready on more than one occasion acknowl-
edged the superiority by submerging the
moment he heard the warning hum of the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

men had long been waiting. AS the coming
tower rose above the waves two we'll aimed
bombs exploded on either side of it with
deafening roar, and Fritz was seen to dis
appear beneath the surface amid cloud of
smoke and wreckage
AS matter of fact, it is only within
the past year that the French navy has
developed the aeronautc branch of its air
service. The aerodrome which l visited
was one of a number of similar buildings
that have sprung up in various parts of
France only since the day when certain
government officials were brought to re-
alize that the army should not have g
monopoly Of everything, and it is 'onlv
just that the navy should receive the credit
1t deserves for organizing this new branch
of its air service rapidly and so we'll
In the hangers were several large dirigibles
and one or two smaller balloons tied to
their ballast. The large portal of the
hangar opened out on an enormous air
harbor, protected on three sides by tall
wind screens, where the dirigibles NAV
be man@uvred when they leave their sheds,
so as to bring them head-on to the wind
before starting them off on their flight.
During the winter season, when the wind
is violent and when the clouds are low, the
dirigibles based on the northern air sta
tlons rarely venture forth from their
homes. But between the first day of spring
and the last day Of fall the occasions are
few when the pilots do not go out on long
trips in the air. Day after day they hover
over the sea, searching the surface for the
tell-tale wake Of the U-boats. Of course
1t cannot be denied that the submarine en-
joys tremendous advantage over the air
cruiser in that it sight the large silken
envelope silhouetted against the light sky
long before the observers in the latter can
sometimes notice the submarine. But it
happens not infrequently that the roles
are reversed, and then the U-boat needs
every resource at its command to enable it
TO dodge its aerial pursuer There are
cases on record where dirigibles have sue
cessfully attacked their elusive prev. hut
with all that has been accomplished dur-
ing the past twelvemonth it is evident tha I
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
80 Around the World and Back Again =
Animals as Sentinels

A WOUNDED soldier, asked what
IA had surprised him most in the
IL IA battle zone, told Of finding
robins nest in an empty shell case.
AS a rule, birds are the finest senti-
nels among the lower-down folk. They
become aware of approaching aircraft
long before man hears anything. Early
in the war parrots were kept at the
Eiffel Tower as sentinels, but they grew
accustomed to the sound of enemy
planes and were no longer of use.
Pheasants always grow restless and chat
ter noisily if Zeppelins are approaching,
even when they are far away, so far that
man can hear no sound.
What is perhaps stranger is the fact
that such ordinary creatures as pigs
should sight balloon when it is coming
over. The "blister" makes no sound, yet
should one appear against the sky miles
from farmyard the farmer will be
made aware Of the fact by the curious
antics of his pigs and the clucking Of his
hens
Toy dogs are always susceptible to the
presence of danger, and many pet
shows uneasiness before raid. Cats,
too, show fear of gunfre and seem to
know when danger threatens.
Dogs, birds and horses are very sensi-
tive to sound Watch the birds during
daylight raid, listen to the dogs, and
visit the stable where the horse restively
stamps up and down. But that all ami
mails can accustom themselves to sounds
that cause fear is proved by our cavalry
horses, dogs that accompany their mas
ters into the firing line, and the robins
nest in the empty shell case.-From
Tit Bits
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

engine of some approaching hydroplane.
"If the submarine does not dive" remarked
a naval pilot 1--WE have the means of max
ing it regret it's lack of prudence, and even
when it has been inclined to submerge on
our approach there have been times when
we have managed to make it wish that the
seaplane had never been invented"
The seaplanes usually go out Oh patrol
IN groups of two three. and cruise over
the various assigned to them. These
areas vary almost daily, depending upon
the work in hand. Some days the pilots are
called upon merely to accompany some pass
ing merchant convoy, on others they may
be told to patrol certain Dangerous areas"
while at other times they can be ordered
out without moments warning to attack
a submarine that has been reported by the
outlying patrols. During one of my
cruises | had occasion to witness one
of the prettiest aerial operations ever car
rled out on that part of the coast 1t was
about sunrise when the wireless operator
reported that certain convoy had sighted
submarine about twenty miles along the
coast. Within few minutes all of the
machines attached to the station took the
air, fastening in the direction whence the
enemy's presence had been signalled. Near
the spot where the periscope had last been
seen to disappear there fingered several
patrol vessels. These Immediately commu-
nicated whatever information they pos
sessed regarding the U-boat's recent move
ments to the airmen, whereupon the latter
proceeded to reconnoitre the vicinity. 1t
was not long before one of the seapanes
discovered "Mr Fritz" several miles to the
eastward trying to make his escape unob-
served. From that moment on the fun
began. AS fast as the seapanes could
they dropped their depth bombs over the
moving wake of their enemy, and hastened
back to their base in search for more "am-
munition" and in this way they managed to
harass their prey so continuously during
the whole of that long summers day that
the submarine was compelled to remain sub
merged until sheer exhaustion fnallv
obliged 1t to come up to the surface That
was the moment for which the French air
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
A Visit to the French "Front de Mer''

service everything that could carry a gun.
Each of these ships was engaged in
some way other in the fight which the
civilized world is waging on the high seas
against The pirates of the twentieth CEN
tury. Lying alongside of the massive
stone quay was long row of slender, grim
looking French submarines, with their
prows pointing seaward, awaiting their
turn to go out to beat Fritz" at his own
game. In the next basin were destroyers
and gunboats replenishing their bunkers
from a seemingly inexhaustble supply of
coal previous to making their next cruise.
Moored within the inner harbor were
groups Of torpedo boats, gunboats, avisos,
yachts, trawlers and mine sweepers, while
to one side of the port half dozen war
worn and storm battered craft hugged the
sides of a weirdly camoufaged steamer
which I soon found out was nothing less
important than a repair ship capable of
tending to the wants and necessities Of
practically all of the vessels based on that
port.
Looking over the sea wall toward the
outer harbor I beheld a veritable fleet of
transports, modern transatlantic liners,
crowded with troops, which had just run
through the submarine zone There were
also supply ships, loaded with food and
clothing for the men; colliers, with thou
sands of tons of coal and oil fuel for the
ships; refrigerator ships, filed with meat
for the bluej Jackets a1oat and for the dough-
boys on shore, and cargo steamers of vari-
Gus sizes, all camoufaged in the most hide
Gus manner, not to speak of the tugs.
lighters, patrol boats and sailing craft AS
one poetically inclined landsman venturcd
to express it, that harbor looked more
like an indistinguishable tumble of huls
and masts and ventiator cows, half hid
den in the smoke of its forest of tunnels.
than the we'll ordered naval harbor | had
expected to see"
1t is not permitted to describe in detail
all Of the various measures which arc en-
ployed TO check the activities of the enemy's
submarines. But if the onslaught of the
latter iendsh in its suddenness and
caught the Allies by surprise, the defence
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
BY Robert W. Neeser
Secretary Of the Naval History Society,
Associate Of the United States
NoUaJ Institute

r. f EVER there was nation which
owed debt of gratitude to its ships
n and to its seamen, that nation is
France. Marshal Jotfre and his
heroic armies wrested victory from the
grasp Of the ruthless invader on the his
toric plains of the Marne early in the war,
and the Allied armies have maintained him
at arms length ever since; but if they have
been enabled to do this, it is because there
has been navy behind them to keep open
the lines OF communication over which
their reinforcements, their supplies and
heir arms have been brought to them from
every corner of the globe.
Before the war an agreement existing be-
tween the Entente Powers assigned various
strategic spheres of activity to each of the
Allied navies The French feet was charged
with the control Of the Mediterranean Sea,
while the British navy was concentrated in
the North Sea. But these we'll defined
limits since 1914 have existed only on
paper, for in the English Channel as we'll
as in the North Sea, in the Pacific Ocean
as well as in the South Atlantic, in the
the French seamen have acted in co6pera-
ton with their allies with a community of
spirit and action unheard of in the annals
of the sea.
1t was one part of this front de mer'
as the French are wont to call it, that
had the privilege of visiting not long ago.
by special permission of the Ministry Of
Marine, in order to see for myself just
what the French navy is doing at sea and
how it is doing it.
1t is common knowledge that the main
part of the French battle fleet is concen-
trated in the Mediterranean, not far from
the Straits of Otranto, whence it controls
by means of detached squadrons, the
strategic waters of the Adriatic, the Darda-
nelles, the Suez Canal, the Egean Sea, and
the coasts of Asia Minor and Syria Since
the evacuation of Suvla Bay the battleshps
and large crui-srs have not had a chance
to use their big guns except for target
practice. They have "stood by" always
ready to fight, bat the Austrian fleet has
never dared to venture out Of its fortified
harbors, and it has been only the smaller
vessels, the gunboats, the avisos, the con-
verted yachts, the trawlers, and the tor
pedo craft that have had their "innings,'
due to the persistent efforts made by the
enemy to revolutionze naval warfaEe by
che unrestricted use of his undersea arm
the U~boat
In one of the naval bases that visited
there was gathered collection of armed
craft such as the world has not seen since
the days Of the Spanish American War.
when the United States navy pressed into
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Cubisn in War

"Baffle painting" is the latest devel-
opment of marine camouhage, the idea
being not to make the ship invisible, but
to break up all accepted forms of ship
by masses of strongly contrasting colors,
distorting her appearance so as to de-
stroy her general symmetry and bulk,
the result being to keep the Uboats
guessing as to whether she is "going or
coming" A practical use has been found
for cubism, after all.-From the Boston
Globe
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

OUTHEAST of the Visayan Islands
lies the Island of Mindanao, the
~ traditional home of the Moros. 1t
offers great opportunities, one reads in
The Philippine Review" and in particu-
lar its southernmost province, Davao..
The writer continues:
"For years that vast area Of fertile land,
teeming with wealth that waited only for
the hand OF the farmer to bloom unto
garden of Oriental exuberance. lay Sc
cluded from the immigrants of the north,
who apprehensive Of fabulous dangers from
the band of the much feared juramentados,
had left UNDECIDED the call of fortune But
when the southern brothers, with full con-
fdence and with friendly sentiments, ex-
tended their hands to the courageous
pioneers of the Visayas and OF Luzon, well
coming them TO the land that nature has
lavishly endowed with exquisite charms and
prodigious wealth, there began the growth
Of cordial relations between the northern
and southern brothers, cognzant rs they
have become that their united effort re-
bounds to the benefits Of their common
country. Thus the call Of the land that
promises fortune and health TO the indus
trous has found willing response from
the farmers of the north
"The province OF Davao, lying fnvitiugly
il is on the southernmost point of Virgin
Mindanao, is perhaps the most productive
province Of this fertile island. Out Of
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

the development Of the aeronautic branch
OF the French naval air service is only
just beginning, and that the time is NOT
very far off when the German U-boats will
discover that as far as they are concerned
there exists no such thing as the freedom
Of the seas"
The duties imposed upon the Frenca
navy during the first two years of the wa.
were mainly of a defensive character due
to the fact that the unexpected perform.
ances of the enemy's submarines imposed
a condition of naval warfare wholly IN.
foreseen by the pre-war strategists The
French fleet, according to The admissions
of its officers, had been trained with
view to engaging an enemy in great feet
actions, but since the bottling up of the
Austrian navy within the narrow confines
of the Northern Adriatic its whole ma.
terlal and personnel has had to be re-
organized for the purpose of afording be:'
ter protection to the vulnerable tra%
routes and Of drawing the stings OF the
hornets that have been preyng upon .bera.
During the second week of my visit
aie'N eAO plCdSuIC Oh Cdl!lQR upon lue az
mlral commanding the various patro. No
tlllas of the district, and l took the occs-
sion to ask him how it was that he bad
succeeded so we'll in mastering the activi'
ties of the German submarines in tas:
region. by resorting TO the time-honorsd
custom of conveying our merchant vessels
he replied. "At first the merchant skip
pers were very much opposed to the idsA
as 1T took away from them some Of the
authority, but little by little we have sue
ceeded IN overcoming their prejudices un'A
now feel that | may safely say that ou'
merchant friends are enthusiastic sbOu'
our way of running things
In the course of four DAYS cruise n
a fast S00-ton gunboat | had the oppo'-
tunity of seeing the evolutions OF the ysEi-
Gus tiotlllas in zone that the warnings
OF the past twenty-four hours had char
acterized as dangerous On such oec''
SONS every vessel not assigned 70 otne'
duty is sent to to patrol certain arcs
of the zone" We saw some Of these oeSl
patrols in every direction. every one cleared
for action, with gun crews standing o.?
their pieces and four or five lookouts %
deck and aloft. Above our heads cruise'
the seaplanes and dirgibles. darting hen
and there, before US and OFT on our aanss
in true cavalry style. After few hoHH
we sighted smudge of smoke TO the soui''
which rapidly thickened into a large BIAS
cloud. 1t was the large troop convoy th''l
was due that afternoon. surrounded by II
protecting screen of destroyers. But u'
appearance OF all these vessels did not d.
tract the various patrol vessels frcm fa'
work IN hand, and each continued It's Vs
liant outpost duty with unabated enthus's'p
until the last of the transports Was ss'ep
anchored within the protection of the u"
Dor defences. Then the patrols were all y
called, leaving only the regular sentries %
| duty in the offing.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

rising recently in front Of the Munich town
hall, when the women protested against the
high cost of living and the scarcity of food.
The Vorwarts' says: This dispute.
which is caused by miserable $50 grammes
of meat week, has something rcpulsive
and shameful about it. 1t gives the impress
sion that the suffering people of Germany
fighting to seize the few provisions that
still remain in the country, like dogs
bones. The Bavarian government in giving
this exhibition to the world has not accom-
plished a patriotic work"