Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-01


in about eight or nine days.
Washington. June 81: The cotton
cron of 1915 was 12,40O,532 bales, ac-
cordine to a bulletin issued by the pu,
rean of census. The production IN all
the cotton growing states except TEX
as Louisiana, Oklahoma and tlorlua'
are said to have showed increases as
compared with the preceding yeai.
south Carolina showing the greales'
increase with 26.9 per cent. sea Is
land. 52.2sS running bales last year. ear
since 1899. This type of cotton now,
ever. represents only very snali
fraction of the total crop, the propors
tion for 1918 being less than one-nalI
of / per cent. All sea island cotton
grown in the United States is proauc-
ed in Florida, Georgia and South Car
oIina. Orangeburg, S. c., had the sec
ond largest crop in 1918, according 10
the report, with 110,71S bales.
The German government, headed
by Philipp Scheidemann. mad pianhe9
10 refuse to sign the peace treaty anu
to permit the Allied troops 10 iiarci
into Germany as far as the Elpe, wne Gr
a. would be attacked by strong Ger
man forces, the DanZig correspondent
of the Tageblatt declares in dlspatch
describing the details of certain plan
to create a seperate state In northeast
ern Germany. The plan falIed because
~ iealousies and differences or opinion
between the government ana tne army
leaders, the correspondent says. "a
report from Geneva THURSDAY nieh.
said Herr Scheidemann had arrived
In Switzerland after crossing the IRON
tier on foot. The last proposal mace
by the conspirators planning to oppose
the Allies. Il Is said, was to ask Polano
IN combine with eastern Germany IN
the formation Of an Independent re-
Dnblic The offer, it is declared, was
rebuffed by the Poles. who asked why
Il had not been offered 10 years ago.
THE Allied and associated powers
wi,, not ask for the extradition OF the
former German emperor, the Paris cor
RESPONDENT of the Telegram says ne
learns but will ask the Dutch govern
ment in the name Of the league OF ma
tions to see that Herr Honehzolelh
does not escape the moral conse-
ouences. 1t is expected that as mem
her of the league. Holland will inform
the former emperor that he must ap..
near before an international court or
leave the country. A highly placed
French authority on international law
told the correspondent that the pro-
ceedings against the former emperor
would be on moral grounds and the
sentence would be OF moral cnarac
ter entirely. There is no question oi
a death sentence or OF imprisonment
the correspondent told. 1t is propaDie,
the correspondent continues, tnat lhe
crimes of the former emperor against
international morality in starting the
war and in violating Belgian neutral
itv will be condemned severely, the
Hohenzollerns will be declared forever
depossd and 1t will be made lmpossiole
for the former emperor TO 90 1urlher
harm by assigning him place OF resi-
dence from which he was not TO move.
Some of the Berlin newspapers, an
nouncing the signing Of the treaty ap-
near in black borders with captions on
their Versailles items such as Ger
many's Fate Sealed" Peace ana An
initiation" The Tages Zeitung' IN
closing an editorial says: "ClemenSeau
Iloyd George and Wilson and their
accessories have sown dragons teeth
of eternal enmity" The whole German
press writes in the strain OF melan-
RmnSschan fuS saws: What we need is
a despot to compel the nation to WORK.
If we are unable to install him, our en-
emies will send him." DR.. Dernberg,
in the Tageblatt, says: The cup
drained to the dregs. There is no sense
in continuing the controversy. IL Is
better to endeavor quickly to hnd our
feet. The concessions made to us are
not without value and open the way
10 certain alleviations." The Frel-
heit. Lokal Anzeiger and Vorwaerts
ali protest against the idea Of revenge:
Count Max Montegalas, writing in the
Tapeblatt, says: There is no cnolce
but to observe the treaty to the eX-
treme limit of what is possible. Apso-
lutte candor and sincerity must form
the lodestar Of Germany's toreisn
policy"
The world war came to formal
end five years after the ASSASSINATION
of Archduke Francis Ferdinand ana
two wears and two days after the hrst
American troops landed in France. The
Austrian heir-apparent was killed al
Saraieyo, June 2S, 1914. The hrst
American contingent disembarked in
France June 26, 1917. On July 2S, 1914
one month after the death or trancls
Fedfnand, Autria declared war on Ser
bia, marking the beginning OF hostl,
lities. On August l, Germany declared
war on Russia and invaded LuXein-
burg. Germany sent her ultimatum 10
Belgium, August 2, and declared war
on France August 8. The next day
many. June 2S also is tho anniversary
of the renewal of he triple alliance be-
tween Germany Autria and Italy whlch
has been broken by the war. On June
2S, 1890. the German reichstag adopted
q hin creating a new German army,
the organization of which is greatly
diminished in power by the treaty
signed today. In American history
June 2S is the anniversary OF the pattie
Ntrhn
177S Washington defeated force un-
der Sir Henry Clinton.
World peace was signed and seal
ed in the historic hall Of mirrors at
Versailles Saturday afternoon, but un-
der circumstances which somewhat
dimmed the expectations Of those who
had worked and fought during the long
years of war and months OF negotiations
for its achievement The absence OF the
Chinese delegates. who at the last
moment were unable to reconcile them
selves to the Shantung settlement, ana
left the eastern empire outside the tor-
NAL purviews OF peace, struck the nrst
discordant note in the assembly. A
written protest which General Jan
Christian SHUTS lodged with his sig
nature was another disappointment to
the makers OF the treaty. But, bulking
larger, was the attitude Of Germany
and the German plcniDotentiaries, which
left them, as evident from the official
program Of the day and from the eX-
preston of NJ. Clemenceau, still out
side any formal reconciliation and
made actual restoration to regular re-
lations and intercourse with the AL
lied nations dependent, not upon the
signature of the 'preliminaries of
peace" today, but upon ratif-
cation by the national assembly. To
NJ Clemenceau's stern warning in his
opening remarks that they would be
expected and held. to observe the
treaty provisions legally and complete
ly, the German delegates, through DR..
Haniel Won Haimhausen, replied after
returning to the hotel that, had they
known they would be treated on diff
ferent status after signing than the al
lied representatives, as shown by their
separate exit before the general body
of the conference. they never would
have signed. Under the circumstances
the general tone of sentiment in the
eating WAS one rather of re-