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VOLUME XVIII.
BRITISH ADMIRAL HDT
OVER fIEPDHT CRUISEH
IW ILS. WEBS
Asserts Warships Have Posi
tive Orders. Not to Enter
Three-Mile Limit for Any
Purpose Whatevei
WASHINGTON, July 27.—Str Cecil
Spring-Rice. the British ambassador. m
for med Acting Secretar. Polk today that
he had received a message from the ad
miral'commanding the British squadroni
on the Atlantic coast denying that a
British warehip ’.-ad entered Chesapeake
bay a%> reported by the commander of ,
the battleship Louisiana
The ambassador said the Biitiah ships |
had strict orders not to enter the three i
mile limit of American territorial wa- .
’ere to waylay the German submarine
Deutschland or for any other purpose,
*nd the admiral bad reported these in
structions bad not been violated at any
time.
Mr. Folk was told the British admiral
was very indignant over the report that
one of his cruisers had made an incur
sion into Chesapeake bay under cover
of darkness early yesterday morning.
• The statement of the mabassador will
be accepted by the state department, but
the commander of the Txiuisiana Is being
pre«s*d for further details on h-s report
that a craft which passed him at Lynn
H»\mi signaled "English cruiser"
Officials do not know what to make of
•he case, but some are led to believe that
the American officer was the victim of
sone kind of hoax.
The armored cruiser North Carolina
•nd the destroyers sent out to the caper
for neutrality -Inty yesterday wilt con
t>nue their patrol
U. S, Naval Officers Make
No Comment Upon Denial
By Associated Pres*.)
NORFOLK. Va.. July 27.—Navy offi
cers who were aboard the Louisiana last
Tuesday night when a vessel within the
• apes was reported to have signaled that
she was an “English cruiser." today re-
eived the statement of Sir Cecil Spring
Rice without comment, insisting that it
would be manifestly improper under the
circumstances for them to say any
thing
Mystery was added to the situation to
day before Collector Hamilton by devel
opments at an inquiry into the move
ments of the Tibagy, a Brazilian mei
chant vessel, which some thought might
have been mistaken for a cruiser. The
inspector was closeted with the two of
ficers of the Tibagy and an interpret*r
for more than an hour. He refused to
discuss their testimony, but they later
a iked through a third person.
Captain Soares, of the Tibagy. declar
ed he signaled no vessel within the
capes, that he did not sight the Louis
iana. nor did he carry blinker lights,
through which. persons aboard the
txmrtraa aver, esflte the signal “English
cruiser." The only lights on board be
sides his regular signals for a merchan'
ship within the capes, he declared, were
•leetric bulbs on his mast behind .1
hoard out of which were cut the letters
♦orming the word Brasil. He was of the
•pinion that these letters could have
been mistaken for blinker lights. He
some vessel signaling him with the
Morse code, he- thought, but as It was
ot understood on board his vessel, no
ttempt was made to reply to it.
I: developed also that the Tibagy pass
, d into the cape« about 2 o'clock, or soon
fter the Louisiana entered, instead of
o'clock as had been previously offi
« ally reported.
With tne Tibagy probably eliminated
« the mystery ship inquiry turned to
ward the Neptune, a United States col
lier, to determine if she might have been
mistaken for a British cruiser. She fol
the Louisiana into the capes and
.n-ried all cf *,he signalling apparatus
hirh l-a* been described by those who
-.«-erUd they -aw a cruiser from the
ix,Jis!ana. The weakest point in the
x'ep’un» theory, however, naval authori
ties believe, is that she would flash the
-ignal "English cruiser." They do not
>elieve she would voluntarily mislead
the Louisiana in the light of the pres
ent international situation
•
Motor Vehicle Owners
Pay $18,245,713 in One
Year for License Fees
IBy Associated Pres*.'.
WASHINGTON, July 27—Motor ve
hides registered' in the United States
numbered 2,445,564 last year and >lB.-
245,713 was paid by their owners as reg
stratlon and license fees. The office of
public roads of the department of agri
culture announced today that 90 per cent
of the fees, or >18,213.387, was spent for
ouildlng and maintenance of county and
state roads. . There was an increase of
734,325 in the number of vehicles and
>5.883.780 in fees from 1914.
Only 48.300 motors were registered in
190 S. ,
The number of motor vehicles aver
aged one registration for every 44 per
ons tn the United States. lowa led
with one for every 18 inhabitants, while
in Alabama there was only one for every
200 persons Registration figures for
he country as a whole, the good roads
office explains, do not necessarily repre
sent a total number of cars, as some of
the states do not require annual regis
tration, others group pleasure and com
mercial vehicles and motorcycles in their
accounts, while still other states do not
reoutre registration of motorcycles.
300’BOTTLES WHISKY
DESTROYED AT GIRARD
» Special Dispatch to Th- Journal •
COLt'MBS. Ga-. July 27.—The first
’quor setbed in the recent Girard ra<de
tn be destroyed was that of Joe Thomp
son and Zinc Jarrows, it being smashed
by special officers today. The liquor
amounted to about three hundred bot
tles. and was ordered destroyed by the
justice of the peace before the cases
were tried about a month ago.
No appeals were aken In the cnees,
and so with the time limit up. the of
fleers went to the liquor. All the oth
er cases are still in the coudts. although
the circuit court, today, at Saele. grant
ed.an order to destroy all of the seized
liquor, thia was stopped by an appeal
by the defendant to the Alabama su
preme court.
CHiTIIHOfICHEE MI.LEV
CHOPS TDTILLT DESTROYED
In Many Instances Farmers.
Are Abandoning Land and j
Going to Cities
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBUS, Ga., July 27.—As a re
sult of the damage, and in many in- ■
stances total destruction to crops in the
Chattahoochee valley, wrought by the
recent storm and floods, scores of ten-1
ant farmers are moving out and com
i Ing to the city and going to other com
munities seeking work at the mills, on
the railroads and at other Industries,
leaving their crops that were, prior to
July 5. in a most promising condition,
abandoned.
Thousands of acres of these lands,
south of Columbus and all along the j
i course of the river to Jhe Florida line,
' on both the Georgia and Alabama sides
• of the stream, were under water for a
I solid week, from Friday, July 7 to Fri
day. July 14. Some of these lands in
the lower basin places and more imme
diately near the river were under wa
ter even longer and in view of the con
tinued rains that have prevailed every
day except yesterday, since July 5. it
has been impossible to work these lands
for the purpose of planting other crops,
and there has been nothing else for far
mers thereon to do only to abandon
them, especially in instances where they
were entirely dependent on crops on the
river bottoms.
Where the water remained on the
growing crops of corn, cotton and hay
for a period of several days they are
dead, and the loss has fallen heavily
upon the landowner and the tenant. Not
in many years have the river lands along
the Chattahoochee had promise of a
more abundant yield than that of this
vear prior to July 5. the date the rains
set in. The total rainfall in Columbus
since that date is shown by the govern
ment gauge piaintained at fire engine
house No. 1. to have been 15.82 inches;
at North Highlands and Goat Rock the
precipitation was several inches more and
I at West Point and Newnan about as
much, while at Eufaula it is understood
to have exceeded 20 inches. There have
been only six days during the month
without rain.
The thousands of acres that have been
drowned out might have been replant
ed in corn, millet, sorghum, peas, vel
vet beans and other short time hay crops
had the rains not continued as they have
daily even since the flood waters re
ceded. but if the rains were to cease
now it would be several days before
these lands would be again dry enough
to be worked and the remainder of the
growing season before the time for frost,
it is anticipated, would be tpo short for
even the quick maturing varieties of
corn, and peas except for hay and millet
and some of the other hay crops is about
all that the landowners could hope to
realise from these lands this year. Many
of them have indicated their intention
of planting such crops if the rains cease
in time, while others have indicated their
intention of abandoning these farm lands
for the year. The floods could have
hardly come at a more critical season,
that would have made more complete the
disaster to crops.
Since the calamity came, of course,
the supply merchants and landowners
have been forced to discontinue supplies
to the farm tenants on these lands and
many of them are understood to be in
almost destitute condition. The fact
that the local cotton mills and other in
dustries were facing a problem of urgept
need of labor has very materially helped
the situation. White farmers whose
crops were totally ruined or so badly
damaged as to make It necessary to
abandon them, have experienced but lit
tle trouble in finding work at the local
cotton mills for themselves and the
working members of their families, while
the negro farmers have found employ
ment at the railroads and other indus
tries. The greater number of these far
mers are negroes.
Applications for Farm
Loans Flood Treasury
<By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. July 27.—Application
I for loans under the new farm Ijan bank
. law are reaching the treasury depart
ment in great numbers, although mem
bers of a board to administer the law
have not been named by President Wil
son nor have steps been taken to desig
nate the twelve districts Into which the
United States will be divided for admin
! Istrative purposes. Many applications
are not in the form required by law.
but wherever possible the applicants
1 I have been rewarded with copies of the
I act and with the information that their
requests will eb referred to the board
when it is organised.
BOLL WEEVIL IS FOUND
;! IN TALBOT COUNTY FARM
'Special Dispatch to The Journal)
t TALBOTTON. Ga., July 27.—James
r Harrison,' a negro living about 10 miles
j west of town, noticed a lot of cotton
f squares lying in fields. He picked
i them up and on” examing them found
they had small pupae in them. He took
, some to his house and placed them In a
box. In a few days he had a nice crop
of young boll weevils.
Today when Special Farm Agent
I Plunkett, of the Southern railway, visited
Harrison's farm he pronounced the speci
men to be genuine boll weevils. He went
out into Harrison's field and picked sev
‘ eral other specimens from the cotton
stalks, finding them in the young
I squares.
There is only a small area of this
field infected but the weevils have ruin
ed practically al) the cotton in the small
J area infested.
CATTLE ARE DYINgTrOM
MYSTERIOUS DISEASE
I (Special Dispatch to The Journal.'
ALBANY. Ga.. July 27.—Worth county
' cattle are dying from a mysterious dis
t ease which Is causing farmers there
s ■ much loss. The affected cattle show no
>- i signs of sickness until they walk up
rl j to their watering places, drink, and fall
r | dead.
-1 E. K. Gulley, who runs a big farm at
ej Willingham, has lost several head of fine
si cows, and several other farmers have re
ported similar losses. Secretary John
1, H. Mock, of the Albany chamber of com
-I merce, who was in Sylvester, learned of
-1 the trouble and in an effort to aid the
h I farmers there wired the state veterinari
:- an department to send a man to Worth
d to investigate. Secretary Mock thinks
.1 It possible that some sort cf poisonous
1- fungus growth caused by the recent ex
cessive rains is causing the trouble.
BILL ALLOWING SALE
OF W. & J. WILL BE
REPORTEDFAVORABLY
Eight of Twenty-One Members
of House Committee Meet
and Hear Speaker Burwell'
Talk for Measure
It became known today that eight of t
the twenty-one members of the Western
and Atlantic railroad committee of tho |
house of representatives held a meeting
i Tuesday afternoon and voted to recom- ■
mend the passage of a bill by Repre
sentative Burwell, of Hancock county,
who is speaker of the house, looking to
the sale of the Western and Atlantic
railroad.
The bill amends the act creating the
Western and Atlantic releasing commis
sion so as to enlarge the commission s
authority by giving it power to consider
proposals for the sale of the Western
and Atlantic railroad, "in the event the
commission should be unable to nego
tiate a satisfactory lease.”
The vote of the eight members of the
Western and Atlantic committee of the
house is understood to have been six in
favor of the bill and two against It.
Those who voted in favor of the bill,
were:
Morris, of Cobb; Cole, of Bartow;
Swift, of Muscogee, Hutcheson, of Turn
er; Bradford, of Whitfield; Dart, of
Glynn.
Those who voted against the bill
were;
Andrews, of Fulton; Elders, of Tatt
nall.
Representative Burwell appeared be
fore the eight members of the commit
tee and urged them to give his bill a
favorable report. Nobody appeared
against the bill.
AMENDMENTS KILLED.
Representatives Morris, of Cobb, anfl
Cole, of Bartow, it is further learned,
wanted to amend the bill by making
it compulsory upon the Western and At
lantic re-leasing commission to sell the
mad. but the others present were tv't
willing to go this far.
ThA>e members of the committee came
in a few moments after the eight mem
bers had voted and adjourned, and ex
pressed themselves as being violently
opposed to the bill. They demanded that
the matter be re-opened so that they
could cast their votes against a favor
able report, but their demand was not
granted.
Representative Walter P. Andrews, of
Fulton county, the chairman of the com
mittee. when questioned Thursday con
cerning the details of the meeting, had
the following to say:
"The speaker asked me to call a meet
ing to consider his bill. He was very
anxious, for some reason, to get action
by the committee as quickly as possible.
I got together a sort of a hurried meet
ing, but was unable to secure the at
tendance full committee-
eight members tverATresenf. Tho secre
tary of the committee Is Representative
Morris, of Cobb. He called the roll,
informed me that a quorum was present,
and I proceeded. Whether eight mem
bers constitute a quorum of the Western
and Atlantic committee, I am not posi
tively certain. Each committee makes
its own rules as to a quorum. As I say
the speaker wanted the matter hujried
along as much as possible. He did not
ay why,, but I got the impression that he
had some political reason for wanting
It.’’
STATEMENT BY BURWELL.
Mr. Burwell Thursday stated that he
had several times requested Chairman
Andrews to call a meeting of the com
mittee to consider his bill, but that he
had been unable to get him to do so un
til Thursday afternoon.
"The session of the general assembly
is rapidly drawing to a close,” said Mr.
Burwell, ‘‘and I wanted my bill acted
upon in time to give it a chance before
the end of the session. The meeting was
called in the regular way, the secretary
calle.) the roll and announced that there
was a quorum* present. I don't know
how many members of that committee it
requires to constitute a quorum. Somtf
of the large committees provide that »
. fw members shall constitute a quorum
I submitted by argument on the bill and
the committee reported it favorably by
a vote of six to two. That is all there
Is to it.
1 Thursday morning Mr. Andrews asked
unanimous consent of the house to have
1 the bill recommitted. He stated that
there were only eight out of twenty-one
1 members of the committee present when
• the measure was considered and some
■ of those absent wish to be heard upon It.
I Representative Yeomans, of Terrell, ob
jected. Then Mr. Andrews made a mo
tion that the bill be recommitted. Speak
er Burwell ruled that the motion was out
of order and held that a motion to re
commit was not in order until the bill
came up for its third reeding.
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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1916.
THESE ARE THE MAIL MEN AT CAMP HARRIS. The picture, snapped by Staff Photographer Winn,
shows thv* postoffice detail at the camp on the motor truck by which the mail is ro g
Macon to the camp three times a day. The four chaplains are in charge at the capm postoffice.
I Thev are Rev. Andrew Jackson Smith, of the Fifth; Rev. John S. Wilder, of the First; James A.
I Moore, of the Second; and Rev. Wright T. Moore, of the First Battalion of Artillery. The non-coms and
enlisted men who sort and distribute the mail under their direction were many of them seasoned postoffice
clerks before they enlisted, so there is no delay in getting either letters or packages to the bojs.
I 'lm dCJnw SHSb H “ WT
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WM WEILS FOII '
110 FOO MM
Says Loss From Floods in
That State Will Exceed
$5,000,000
(By Associated Press.)
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. July 27.—Gov
ernor Henderson has appealed to the
people of Alabama |o aid the 26 000
homeless and destitute people in the
flooded districts of the state, rendered
so by the recent high waters.
The proclamation vgas issued Wednes
day evening, and in he calls atten
tion to the fact that fn twelve counties
there are 500,000 aCrek of cultivated
lands flooded and the entire crops there
on destroyed. The loss In these twelve
counties, he says, exceeds >5,000,000,
making the disaster the greatest that
has befallen the state in the last half
century.
Governor Henderson's proclamation
authorizes the probate judsre of each
and every county to form a relief com
mittee, and names John W. Durr, of
Montgomery, chairman of the relief as
sociation, with General W. O. Hooper, of
Selma, as Its treasurer. The liberality
of the people of the state in helping
unfortunates of foreign lands is men
tioned, and that same liberality is urged
for prompt and generous aid to the
unfortunate people of Alabama.
$2,000,000 for Relief of
Families of Soldiers Is
Favored by the Senate
WASHINGTON, July 27. —An appro
. priation of $2,000,000 for relief of depen
dent families of enhsted men in the or
ganized miltia and regular army in serv
ice on the Mexican emergency was
agreed to by the senate today in an
amendment to the army appropriation
bill. Dependent families would be given
not more than SSO a month in the dis
cretion of the secretary of war.
The army bill carrying approx,imate
ly $312,000,000 -kthen passed the sen
ate without a record vote.
Army Aviator Killed
LONDON, July 27.—Lieutenant Otto
Parschau, recently given the decoration
of Pour le Merite for bringing down his
eighth enemy-aeroplane, has been killed
in an air battle, according to a Reuter s
Amsterdam dispatch which quotes the
Frankfurter Zeitung-
'HOOSE SETS PROGROM
OF ITS SPECIHL ORDERS
Lively Discussion Provoked by
Bill for Inspection of In
stitutions
At its Thursday morning session the
house set a program of special and con
tinuing orders, beginning on Friday. The
program follows:
First, the compulsory education bill;
second, a bill providing for special regis
tration for county bond elections; third,
a bill making md>e*lsevere the penalties
for usury; fourth, a bill authorizing
counties to furnish certain school books
free at their own option; fifth, a bill
abolishing fees of solicitor-generals;
sixth, a bill providing for the inspection
by officers of the state of all elemosy
nary institutions in the state.
This program will take up several
days and will not be completed until
some time next week.
After voting on these special orders,
the house took up consideration of a
bill to provide a constitutional amend
ment so as to add three judges to the
court of appeals and otherwise expedite
the business of that court. The bill
already has been passed by the senate.
It has the indorsement of the Georgia
bar association.
NEW HOUSE BILLS.
The following bills were ntroduced in the
house on Thursday: . ,
By Mr. Cook, of Telfair —To amend aet es
tablishing city court of Mcßae.
By Mr. Matthews, of Elbert —To appropriate
$3,000 to the state tuberculosis sanitarium at
Bv Mr. Stewart, of Coffee—To amend act
establishing city court of Douglas.
By Meriwether Delegation—To amend town
charter of Bullochville.
By Jackson Delegation—To amend act estab
lishing Jackson county 'board.
By Mr. Carter, of Bacon —To amend constitu
tion so as to authorize holding of bond elections
in Bacon county. . „
By Mr. Ballard, of Columbia and others—To
regulate holding of primary elections.
By Mr. Smith, of DeKalb—To prohibit sale of
artificially bleached oats.
By Mr. Pickren, of Charlton—To amend act
establishing Charlton county board.
By Mr. Bale, of Floyd—To amend act regulat
ng condemnation of land for public roads.
By Mr. Picken. of Charlton—To amend act
establishing Charlton county board.
LOCAL BILLS PASSED.
The house on Thursday passed the following
local bills:
To amend charter of Ball Ground.
To establish new charter for city of Gordon.
To incorporate town of Braselton.
To repeal act creating city court of Wash
ington.
To amend charter of Hoschton.
To amend act creating city court of Griffin.
To amend act creatng city court of Sanders
vßle.
To amend act establishing municipal court
of Savannah.
To amend act creating city court of Hazle
hurst.
To amend charter of West Green.
To amend charter of Lawrenceville.
BILLS PASSED IN SENATE.
The following bills were passed in the senate
Thursday:
By Mr Reiser, of Effingham—To amend i
an act creating the city court of Springfield.
By Mr. Howard, of Liberty—To establish the J
i city court of Hinesville.
i By Mr. Gordy, of Chattahoochee—To amend
the charter of the town of Cusetta.
By the Muscogee delegation—To amend the
charter of the city of Columbus.
By the Burke delegation—To abolish the of-1
fice of county treasurer of Burke county.
By Mr. King, of Greene—To abolish the office I
of treasurer of Greene county.
By Mr. Beck, of Murray—To amend the char
ter of the town of Eton.
By Mr. Sumner, of Worth—To create the city
court of Sylvester.
By« Mr. Rusbln, of Dooley—To amend the .
charter of the town of Pineburst.
By Mr. Carithers, of Barrow—To provide for
four terms a year of the superior court of Bar- I
row county. To amend the charter of Statham.
By Mr. Collier, of Stephens—To amend the |
eharter of Martin.
By Mr. Cook, of Telfair—To abolish the office
of commissioner of roads and revenues of Tel
fair county.
By Mr. Clarke, of Mclntosh —To abolish the
office of treasurer of Mclntosh county.
By Mr. Boyett. of Stewart —To provide for a
salary for the treasurer of Stewart county.
By Mr. McCalla, of Rochelle—To amend the
charters of Conyers authorizing a bond issue.
By Mr. Beck of Murray—To authorize the or
dinary of Murray county to take charge of the
treasurer’s books.
By Mr. Gordy of Chattahoochee —To abolish
the Office of treasurer of Chattahoochee county.
By Mr. Carter of Bacon —To fix the pay of
the Bacon county treasurer.
Bj Mr. Arnold of Clarke —To amend the char
ter of Athens.
By Mr. Hartlev of Houston—To amend the
charter of Fort Valley.
By Mr. Beck of Murray—-To create a board
of supervisors of roads, bridges, etc,, for Mur
ray county.
By the Brooks delegation—To abolish ths of-
OVER 700 CHILDREN HIVE
BEEN KILLED Os FEME
More Than 3,000 Cases Re
ported Since Inception on
June 26
(By Associated Fres».)
NEW YORK, July 27.—0n1y a slight
decrease in the epidemic ot infantile
paralysis was noted today in the health
department’s report for the 24 hours
ending at 10 a. m. During that period
there were thirty-one deaths and 151
new- casex. "
More than 70U children now have been
killed by the plague since Its inception
o’i June 26, and there have been more
than 3,000 cases reported.
Government Warning
Against So-Called Cures
(By Associated Press.)
t WASHINGTON, July 27—The depart
ment of agriculture has instructed food
and drug inspectors “to be particularly
alert for Interstate shipments or Im
portations of medicines, the makers of
which allege that they will cure or al
leviate infantile paralysis, for which,
at the present time, no medical cure is
known.”
In making this announcement today,
the department declared that the makers
of such medicines found In Interstate
commerce will be vigorously prosecut
ed whenever evidence warrants action
under the food and drugs act. The pub
lic is warned against any preparations
put on the market and offered for sale
as being effective for the treatment of
infrfhtile paralysis.
ARMY SCOUT ADMITS HE
IS WANTED FORf FRAUD
* (By Associated Press.) •
COLUMBUS, N. M., July 27.—Guy
Johnson, the United States army scout,
who confessed to Captain J. Van
Schayck here yesterday that he was Guy
Hartman, wanted at Fort Smith, Ark.,
for internal revenue fraud, committed
during 1915, was taken to the Santa Fe,
New Mexico, penitentiary today by Un
ited States Marshal Hudspeth.
After the papers necessary for the
prisoners’ removal from the state are
signed Hartman will be taken to Fort
Smith for a hearing.
The cash bond of >20,000 which Hart
man jumped just before his trial in
May, 1915, has already been declared
forfeited. *
United States Internal Agent J. S.
Barkman who arrived here last bight
from Fort Smith, was cordially greet
ed by Hartman who said he was anxious
to waive extradition and go back to Fort
Smith immediately.
In a brief statement before he board
ed the train for Santa Fe Hartman said:
"A former business partner of mine
is responsible for my present plight.
“I should have liked to have been at
I liberty just a little while longer. I
; might then have had an opportunity to
i serve my country far more than I am
about to do now. I loved my work as
j cosut and believe that I accomplished
I something during my short time with
: General Pershing. Back in Leaven
worth or wherever else I shall be located
shortly, I can think back occasionally
i of the red blooded men in the field in
| Mexio and it will afford me a little hap
i piness to know that once I was one of
■ them.”
: flee of treasurer of Brooks county.
By the Walton delegation—To amend the char
| ter of Monroe.
By Mr. Burruss of Morgan—To create r. new
charter for Bostwick.
By Mr. Knight of Berrien—To repeal an act
creating the city court of Nashville.
By Mr. Walker of Ben Hill—To create six
road districts in and for Ben Hill county.
By Senator Bnchannon of the Ninth—To abol
ish the office of treasurer of Early <-ounty.
By Senator Dobbs of the Thirty-fifth—To
amend an act creating a board of lights and
waterworks for Marietta.
By Senator Bonner of the Thirty-first—To
extend the boundary line of Mount Airy.
NEW SENATE BILLS.
The following bills were introduced In the
senate Thursday:
By Senators Way of tee Second, and Akin
of the fourth—To amend section 3636 of th-»
cole of 1910.
By Senator Goolsby of the Twenty-eighth—
To provide a public school system for the town
of Hillsboro.
By Senator Ward of the Fifth by request—To
amend an act vstablisuinc the city court of
Douglas, Coffee county. Two bills.
NUMBER 85.
ARTILLERY IS PMB
WAY FOR RENEWAL
OFBBITISHMLT
Infantry Keeps in Close Touch
With Teutons and Frequent
Hand-to-Hand Battles Are
Reported
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 27.—Heavy
rhelling of the German lines on the
Somme front by British guns Is In
progress following the success of Gen
eral Sir Douglas Haig in clinching his
hold upon Pozierles, possession of which
is necessary to a further advance to
ward Bapaume, his objective.
London today reports activity
throughout the night by the British ar
tillery. apparently in preparation for a
renewal of the attack. The Germans in
reply are using quantities of gas and
eye-irritating shells, evidently in efforts
to interfere with the operations of the
British infantry, which is being kept
in close touch with the Germans, hand
to-hand fighting at various points being
reported.
Rumors that an important naval ac
tion has occurred in Scandinavian wa- •
ters were met today by a statement
of the British admiralty that it had
no reports of any naval activities In ;
the region indicated.
Turkish claims to advantage over the
British in cavalry skirmishes in Egypt,
in the district east of the Suez canal,
are denied in a report from the British
commander in Egypt, who reports that
he has the situation well in hand.
The sinking in the North sea by
German submarines of four Norwegian
vessels with cargoes of timber Is an
nounced from London, which reports
their destruction as part of an ener
getic campaign started by the Germans
against timber-laden vessels in those
waters.
Petrograd announces the capture of a
total of 8,250 prisoners by the Russians
in the fighting of Tuesday, when the
Teutonic lines were pressed back in
the Slonevka region of Volhynla.
After the capture of the Turkish
fortress of Erzingan, Turkish Armenia,
announced yesterday, the Russians con
tinued their pursuit of the Turks to
the westward. A depot of war mate
rials was taken in Erzingan, the Rus
sians assert.
Russians Report Capture
Os 6,250 More Teutons
(By Associated Press.) *
PETROGRAD, July 27.—(Via Lon
don.)—ln the battle Tuesday on the
i Russian western front 6,250 Teutons
were taken prisoner, says the official
. statement issued today by the Russian
war department. . The Russians also
1 captured five guns and. twenty-two ma
chine guna
Russian 'forces operating in the Cau
casus are continuing their pursuit of
t the retreating Turks, the statement says.
, In the Turkish fortress of Erzingan, the
capture of which was announosd yester
day, the Russians took a depot of war
materials.
British Troops Continue
* To Press the Germans
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, July 27.—Throughout* the
night British troops continued to press
the Germans with hand-to-hand encoun
ters at various points on the Somme
front in France, says the official Brit
ish statement issued today. •
The British official statement says:
“Throughout the night our artillery
had been active and we continued to
press the enemy with hand-to-hand en
counters at various points.
“The enemy Is using large numbers
of gas and tear-shells in the battle
area.
"Elsewhere on the British front thera
was no incident of importance In the.
last forty-eight hours."
British and French Give
Themselves No Restj
(By Associated Press.)
HEADQUARTERS CFF THE
ARMY ON THE SOMME, July 25.—(Via,
> Berlin, July 26.) —To London, July 27, (
—The French and British, giving them-
l selves no rest, are .continuing their
r forts to widen the sack like position
north and south' of the Somme whereby
i they are now pinned on three sides by>(
German atmles. Both German officers,
’ and men are confident of their ability
to hold their own and are aided by the,
( most powerful aggregation of artillery
which Germany has as yet accumulated
; in any single battle theater.
Yesterday afternoon, shortly after the
. correspondents had left the battle field,
( an artillery duel of violent proportions,
[ signalized the renewal of the struggle.,
From the intensity of the bombardment;
it was soon evident that the main ef
fort of the allies would again be made
on the line from Pozleres to Haraecourt
s the sector-whlch was the scene of such
. bitter fighting from July 0 to July 23.
The bombardment continued with in
creasing intensity the whole afternoon.
Toward evening an attack was made in
> strong force by a British division which
was headed by picked troops and bomb
> throwers.
• The attackers were able to establish
, a foothold in the German lines but were
( later driven out by a German counter
i attack. The British also succeeded in
entering temporarily the German trench
t systef in the vicinity of Longueval and
Guillemont, but here also were finally
expelled.
r General Foch supported his British *
! colleague with a determined attack
south of the Soffe. On the blpod-drench-
> ed terrain between Estrees and Soyecourt
he gained a few hundred meters of
front line trenches south of Estrees but
1 was unable to hold them.
First Arrest Is Made in
1 San Francisco Bomb Case
(By Associated Press.)
, SAN FRANCISCO. July 27.—With the
I arrest of Warren K. Billings, a shoe
l cutter, aged twenty-two. the police as
‘ serted today they were confident their
net soon would close upon a "ring of
. five.' of whom Billings is alleged to be
a member, believed to have perpetrated
1 the bomb explosion in connection with
last week’s preparedness parade.
Vigorous search is being made sot
i, Thomas Mooney, an Industrial Worker
of the World, who. the police say. has
I been missing from San Francisco since
the preparedness parade.