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VOLUME XVIII.
LEGISLA TION PLANNED TO A VOID STRIKE
RUMANIA DECLARES WAR ON AUSTRIA=HUNGAR¥
WILSON PREPARED
TO GO TO CONGRESS I
IS A UST RESORT
President Discusses With Par
ty Leaders Plan for Break
ing Deadlock Between Rail
roads and Employes
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(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—President
Wilson s plan for breaking the deadlock
"between the railroads and their em
ployes. as discussed in conferences to
day. was as follows:
An eight-hour law for railroads to be
come effective at a date far enough in
the future to give the railroads oppor
tunity to prepare for it.
A law patterned after the Canadian
act which creates a commission of in
vestigation and prevents lockouts or
strikes while an industrial dispute is
being Investigated.
This plan was discussed by the presi
dent with his party leaders in congress
as the basis for the next step after, the I
railroad managers have formally an
nounced their refusal to accept the plan
of settlement the president previously
proposed. They were expected to do this
at 2:80 o’clock this afternoon at a White
House conference.
Meanwhile, congress leaders gave up
hope of adjournment this week and pre
pared to stay here as long as necessary,
to provide legislation to meet the strike
situation.
Senator Newlands and Commissioner
Chambers, of the federal mediation
board, conferred today with Acting At-1
torney General Todd about the legisla
tive porgram. but all denied that legal
measures for preventing a strike had
been discussed. _
WILSON STILL HOPEFUL. .
While the president has not finally
given up hope of bringing about an
agreement through direct negotiations,
he is continuing preparations for going
before congress with his plan for legis
lation- .
The president, it was said today, ha?
repeatedly shown willingness to consent
to any plan which would Include the
principle of the elght-nour day and has
stood ready to submit to the railroad
employes any plan suggested by the ex
ecutives which had a possibility of ac
■.ptann* Up to the present the rail
road executives have based their ob
jections to the president’s plan on the
ground that the entire controversy
-hould be submitted to arbitration.
It was understood today that propo
sals of various forms have been pre
sented to the railway executives through
the White House but that they have all
been met with the statement that the
railroads stood for arbitrating the whole
controversy.
If all the engotlations fail, and the
president goes before congress prob
ably tomorrow or Wednesday, it is said
he will reveal the details of all the nego
tiations and his plan for legislation.
The four brotherhood heads, -while
they waited today for the next move
by the executives, sent President Wilson
a letter explaining that the 640 repre
sentatives had gone home and left twen
ty-four men in charge with authority to
At 4 o’clock this afternoon, after his
conference with the railway executives.
President Wilson plans to go to the capi
tol again to confer with the Democt atic
teering committee of senators to dis
cuss the proposed-legislation.
POSSIBLE LEGISLATION.
Some Progressive Republican senators
believe that in the event of a strike the
president would ask congress to direct
federal receiverships to operate the rail
roads. Probability of legislation for gov- j
ernment ownership was too remote to be i
considered in this crisis, they declared. |
Cbmpulsory arbitration they think
might be provided, but never would be |
enforced.
House leaders have no program. Chair- 1
man Adamson, of the commerce com
mittee, said nothing was determined ;
upon. Republican Leader Mann, who .
proposed last winter that congress au- .
•horize an investigation of railroad
wages, is watching the situation closely. |
The four brotherhood heads issued a
statement replying to President Rea, of|
the Pennsylvania, who last night made
an announcement that rather than give
up arbitration the roads preferred to
face a strike. The statement charged
the Pennsylvania with inconsistency in
that two years ago it fought the efforts
of its shopmen to organize and arbi
trate.
It also declared that as the controlling
interest in five smaller roads it has re
fused* them representation on the man
agers* conference committee and that
if arbitration were agreed upon it would
not apply to their roads.
POSITION OF TRAINMEN.
W. G. Lee. head of the trainmen, today
issued a statement declaring that the
brotherhoods had no intention of arbi
trating the eight-hour work day.
“It seems evident.” the statemgpt
said, “from press reports this morning
that the railway companies represented
here are determined to force a strike
rather than accept the compromise set
tlement offered by President Wilson.
“The organisations refuse absolutely
to arbitrate the question of an eight-'
hour day because we now have an eight
hour day in effect on many of the south
ern and southwestern roads and do not
propose to arbitrate whether we shall
retain something that we have had for
years and that we secured peacefully.
“The railways* former claim that our;
request would cost Sloo.ooV.oou has been
split fifty-fifty and we are reminded of
the statement that ‘figures won t lie but
liars will figure.'
•’The railways know full well that the
eight-hour day as offered by President
Wilson would not cost $20,000,000 per
annum if properly applied.
~We are still the guests of President
Wilson and will remain here.**
JOE POTTLE TAKES OP
RM OF OPPONENTS
Outlines His Own Platform to
Overwhelming Crowd of
Toombs County Voters
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
LYONS, Ga. Aug. 28. —Joseph K.
Pottle, candidate for governor, made
today one of the most effective political
speeches ever heard here when he ad
dressed a crowd of Toombs county vot
ers, who filled the court house to over
flowing.
Mr. Pottle, after outlining his own
platform, took up the records of his op
ponents and their platforms. The prin
cipal criticism he made of Governor
Harris was that the latter la too old
to fill the office again, particularly at a
time when, if the state's interests are
to be properly safeguarded, a man will
be needed in the governor’s chair who
has vigor, courage and decision.
Relative to Dr. Hardman’s candidacy
Mr. Pottle said that gentleman is basing
his campaign for governor entirely on
what he calls his record in the general
assembly. Dr. Hardman, continued Mr.
Pottle, was seeking credit for a number
of laws which were introduced by oth
ers, for other laws which were passed
by- the aid and co-operation of others,
snd for some proposed laws which have
not yet been enacted into statutes. Ho
said both Governor Harris and Dr. Hard
man are advocating a four-year term for
governor and that he himself is opposed
to a four-year term.
Mr. Pottle threw a number of high
explosives into the camp of Hugh M
Dorsey and that they did great havoc
was shown by the fact that at the
conclusion of his speech a large num
ber of his hearers came forward to tell
him of men had changed from Dor
sey supporters to Pottle supporters. Ev
erywhere Mr. Pottle oges he Is Informed
that the wave of hysteria created in cer
tain sections for Dorsey by Tom Wat
son Is rapidly subsiding; that the con
servative and thinking men are against
Dorsey almost to a man. and that those
who were for Dorsey before they had
really* given his candidacy’ much thought
are now- turning from him.
Here, as elsewhere in this section,
the voters are fast realizing that the
Dorsey boom has been punctured. And
great numbers of them are according
the credit for this fact to Mr. Pottle
who has made and is making such an
effective fight against the interests and
Issues represented by Dorsey.
Voters of this section are in sympathy
with the great fight Mr. Pottle is making
to save the Western and Atlantic (the
state-owned railroad), and they admi
his courage in fighting and exposing
Tom Watson, who he declares is "the
arch enemy of the Democratic party
and one of the chief sponsors for Dor
sey’s candidacy.”
Mr. Pottle charged that Mr. Dorsey’s
published platform on the question of
executive clemency "is a sham, a pre
tense. and a fraud.” He exhibited to
the audience verbatim copies of a large
number of letters w’ritten by Mr. Dorsey
to the governor and the prison commis
sion urging clemency for convicts, which
letters bore Mr. Dorseys signature.
Mr. Pottle said:
"Mr. Dorsey, in his published plat
form. declared the governor should not
exercise executive clemency unless there
was new evidence discovered which if
known at the time of the trial would
have authorized a different verdict, but
that not in a single one of the letters
referred to does Mr. Dorsey put his rec
ommendation for clemency on the
ground of new evidence. He gives all
sorts of reasons for the recommenda
tions in the letters, but most of them
are insufficient and many of them are
foolish and absurd.
“Among other reasons he gave why
the governor should pardon or commute
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Wheat Market Smashed
By Action of Rumania;
Price Takes Big Drop
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—Rumania's de
claration of war smashed the wheat
market. Opening prices today showed
a fall In some cases amounting to 5 3-4
cents a bushel. September delivery,
which closed Saturday at 3-4,
started today at $1.46 to $1.48 1-2.
Other options also broke wildly.
General rushes to sell took place
which were increased by the chances of
a general railway strike in the United
States.
Before the descent of prices could be
checked losses that reached to 8 l-2c a
bushel were shown for the principal
trading month, December, which sold as
low as 145 1-2 as compared with 154 at
Saturday's finish.
Notwithstanding that the tremendous
pressure to unload holdings carried
away for awhile all other considerations
the extraordinary break in values proved
too tempting for buyers to resist, and
the market showed the consequence in
rallies of 3 to 3 1-4 from the lowest
level.
Bear traders generally took the view
that the action of Rumania was likelv
to prove a big factor in forcing a more
j speedy end of hostilities or would at
least tend to hurry the opening of the
Dardanelles and so release huge Russian
shipments of wheat.
In the late dealings weakness again
became acute. Prices tumbled lower
than before and closed demoralized, 3 3-8
to 111-4 lower.
News that actual fighting between the
Rumanians and the Teutons had already
begun accompanied the final down turn
in prices, and made the trading at tne
finish a frantic whirl of excitement.
was that in one case the prisoner be
longed to one of the first families in
Cobb county and that he went to college
with the prisoner’s first cousin. In
several cases he recommended clemency
solely on the ground that he himself
had some slight doubt of the prisoner’s
guilt, although the jury, the .sanctity of
whose verdicts he now so loudly pro
claims, had no doubt whatever.”
Referring, to what he asserted was the
illegal conduct of Mr. Dorsey in ac
cepting a fee of a thousand dollars or
more from the widow Nelms, Mr Pottle
said:
“In the letter addressed to me recent
ly to which Mrs. Nelms’ nam? was sign
ed, she complains that her payment of
the fee to Mr. Dorsey and the giving of
the mortgage to him concerns herself
only. The point I am making is that
Mr. Dorsey being solicitor general and
I charged with the duty of prosecuting
the Innesses, had no right to accept
from her any compensation whatsoever,
and the fact that she might have volun
tarily paid the fee in no way excuses
him. And I contend that a man who
as solicitor general could do such an il
legal thing is unfit to be governor.”
Mr. Pottle exhibited a certified copy
* of the mortgage, or deed, given by Mrs.
• Nelms to Mr. Dorsey to secure two
! notes of SSOO each.
Toombs county voters packed the
court house almost to suffocation to- 1
day to hear Joe Pottle speak. It was!
estimated that between 8000 and 1,0001
persons heard him, many of them stand-;
ing through the hour and a half.
In few of the many places he has vis-;
ited in this campaign has Mr. Pottle
been accorded such a whole-souled re-1
ception. His hearers were so liberal in I
their applause that Mr. Pottle was forced
' to suspend several times until their en
thusiasm subsided enough for him to
continue.
Mr. Pottle was introduced by Colonel
Enoch J. Giles, a prominent lawyer of
this place, who told the large audience
that Mr. Pottle was eminently quali
fied for the governorship. The best
posted men here are confident Mr. Pot
tle will carry Toombs county.
This afternoon Mr. Pottle will speak
at Alston in this county; Tuesday morn
ing he will speak at Cordele, in Crisp
county.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1916.
I MRS. MATTIE ADAMS AND HER YOUNGEST CHILD. Mrs.
Adams has given out several conflicting statements about her rela
tions with Captain E. J. Spratling, whom she shot and killed in his
tent at the state mobilization camp Friday.
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POLITICAL NEWS FROM
ILL PARTS OF GEORGIA
Candidates and Their Sup
porters Are Keeping the Po
litical Pot Boiling
ELBERTON, Ga.. Aug, 28.—The congressional
race for the Eighth district Is hot. Recently
Thomas J. Brown, candidate opposing S. J.
Tribble, present Incumbent, challenged Mr.
Trlbnle to a joint debate for a discussion of
their different views. In this challenge he made
some caustic comments on Mr. Tribble's record.
This week Mr. Tribble answered Mr. Brown’s
challenge, but refused to meet him In joint
discussion. Mr. Tribble says bls record is being
falsified. Mr. Brown offers to pay expenses
to Washington if he Is wrong ,
CLARKESVILLE. Ga., Aug. 28.—1 n talking!
with |he members of the bar of Habersham i
cnmty your correspondent finds it a unit in its
endorsement of M. J. Yeomans as one of the
judges of the court of appeals. It is safe to
predict that he will carry Habersham county
by an overwhelming majority.
ELLAVILLE, Ga.. Aug. 28. - Gordan G. Sin
gleton spoke here Saturday afternoon, between I
5 and o’clock, in the interest of Dr. L. G. |
Hardman’s candidacy for governor. Mr. Single-;
ton stressed Dr. Hardman's record in the legis
lature, stating that he had introduced and
had been successful in having passed a bill
whereby the state furnishes free to the people
of Georgia, a serum for mad dog bite, which
had proved very valuable in sucli cases. Also
that he had been successful in having passed
other bills which had been beneficial to the
classes not able to spend large sums of money
to have themselves treated.
Mr. Singleton stated that Dr. Hardman was
the only candidate for governor who had been
a great' business success, declaring that Georgia
is facing a great indebtedness and therefore
needs a successful business man at the head of
her affairs. Mr. Singleton added that Dr. Hard
man has had success as an agriculturist, mer
chant. banker and legislator and therefore well
fitted to stand at the head of industry in
Georgia.
JONESBORO. Ga., 28.—The Jonesboro bar are
unanimous in their support of John H. Hutch
eson, of Turner county, for one of the new
places on the court of appeals, and are urging
their fellow lawyers throughout Georgia to give
Colonel Hutcheson their support in resolutions
just passed.
AMERICUS, Ga.. Aug. 28.—Congressman C.
R. Srisp was this week occupied with speaking
engagements in the interest of his campaign
for re-election which will carry him to Crisp.
Ben Hill, Turner and Clay counties.
Thomas G. Hudson delivered five speeches In
Deeley county Saturday, and speaks at Ogle
thorpe Monday. His headquarters are ararng
ing a schedule of speeches up to the day of
the primary.
The race is attracting attention over the en
tire state, and Is becoming a leading topic
of political talk in the district.
AMERICUS, Ga.. Aug. 28.—M. B. Council is!
unopposed as a candidate for tho state senate!
from the Thirteenth district, it being Sumter’s
time to furnish the senator, with Schley anJ
Macon counties ns the other units. The en
trance da.v expires on Aiignst 31, and it is not
believed he will have opposition. Tho candi
dates for representative from Sumter witli two
to be elected nre Crawford Wheatley, Stephen
Pace, Floyd P. Jones, H. J. Webb and John
D. Williams.
EATONTON, Ga., Aug. 28.—Tho many friends I
of W. Frank Ilenkins, who is a candidate for
one of the newly created judges of the court
of appeals, will lie gratified to learn of n!"
continued enthusiastic support from all over
the state. Mr. Jenkins was tendered the so
llcitorsiiip' of tlie Ocmulgee circuit when this
l>ositioo was recently made vacant, anti declined
being ambitious toward the judiciary. Among'
the state-wide honors whicii have been con-1
ferrod upon Mr. Jenkins was that of delegate |
at large of the last national Democratic con
vention. snd he was vice chairman of the Geor-i
gla delegation. He is a vice chairman of tliel
state Democratic executive committee.
COLI MBT’S. Ga.. Aug. 28.—Judge G. Y. Tig
ner, of the city court, makes the suggestion in
mi Interview today, tliat in view of the white
paper famine, tho state executive committee
declare nil uncontosted candidates nominated,
thus loavlnc only those with opposition on rhe
ticket. This will shorten the ballot, facilitntej
the work of the primary and ptove a consider
able saving according to the Judge.
VIENNA. Ga., Aug. 28.—T G. Hudson, can
didate for congress from the Third district, de
livered an address at the Dooly county court
house hero today at 10 o’clock.
THOMASVILLE, Ga.. Aug. 28. —.Roscoe Luke
is receiving numbers of assurances of support
from his friends all over the state who are in
terested in his race for one of the newlv created
places on tlie a|>pellate bench. Th? members of
the various baza Iroai all over south Georgia
HOW NEW HUTES WILL
HIT THE SMALL TOWNS
W 1,11
They Will Pay Increaed Rates
on Trade With Their Nat
ural Trading Centers
That practically all the small towns
in Georgia will pay Increased freight
rates on the bulk of their trade with
their natural trading centers, under the
general revision of Georgia intrastate
freght rates proposed by the railroads,
was developed Monday by Attorney W.
A. Wimbish, chief counsel for the Geor
gia Shippers’ association, in the hearing
before the railroad commission.
Attorney Wimbish developed this point
in his cross examination of Noah B.
Wright, general freight agent of the
Central of Georgia railroad, who oc
cupied the morning session, exclusive of
the time taken in his cross-examination,
with a presentation of the proposed
class rates from Augusta, Macon and
Columbus to Georgia points.
The railroads have admitted, all
along, that they propose a general in
crease in class rates for all distances
up to 130 miles. What Attorney Wim
bish did Monday was to show, by ques
tions propounded to Mr. Wright, how
these advances would work out in actual
practice, should the railroad commis
sion authorize the railroads to put Into
effect the new rates they propose.
First taking Augusta and Savannah
as an example, Attorney Wimbish show
ed that rates from Augusta to all in
termediate points up to 130 miles will
be advanced, and showed that rates from
Savannah to all intermediate points up
to 130 miles will be advanced.
HOW MACON WILL FARE.
Then taking Macon as an example, At
torney Wimbish swept in a circle around
that city, showing how rates are pro
posed to be advanced to intermediate
points, up to 130 miles, on all the rail
road lines radiating out of Macon.
First he took the intermediate sta
tions between Macon and Savannah, and
showed that from Macon to all inter-1
mediate stations up to 130 miles the j
rates will be advanced, and showed that;
from Savannah to all immediate stations!
up to 130 miles the rates will be ad-|
vanced.
Then he took Macon and Augusta, and
showed the same reference to in
termediate stations between those cities,
going out of Macon and out of Augusta, j
Then he took Macon and Athens, and!
showed the same with reference to in
termediate stations between those cities,'
going out of Macon and out of Athens.!
Then he took Macon and Atlanta, and
showed the same with reference to in-;
termediate stations, between those cities. l
going out of Macon and out of Atlanta.
Then he took Macon and Rome, and
showed the same with reference to inter
mediate points between those cities, go-1
ing out of Macon and out of Rome.
Continuing, he showed the same with
reference to intermediate stations be
tween Macon and Albany, between Ma
con and Cordele, between Macon and i
Brunswick, between Columbus and Al-’
bany. between Columbus and Atlanta,
and between Columbus and Rome.
have unanimously endorsed his candidacy and
those from other parts of the state are doing |
the same.
THOMASVILLE, Ga.. Aug. 28.—Alex E.
Reese, candidate for state superintendent of
schools against M. L. Brittain, has been making
a tour of south Georgia in the interest of his
race and spoke here Saturday. Mr. Keese was
listened to by a fair-sired audience. He has
been in Thomasville often before.
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CLARKESVILLE. Ga.. Aug. 28.—During the,
sesssion of the Habersham superior court, which I
has Just adjourned, Hugh M. Dorsey, Judge R. B. i
Russell and Thomas M. Bell all addressed the!
voters of this county in the interest of their
respective candidacies. The political situation
in the county is rather quiet, and all of these
gentlemen received courteous hearings.
CAPTAIN OF FULTON
BLUES SHOT IN TENT
BY UA WOMAN
“If What She Told Me Is
True,” Says H. C, Adams,
Husband of Spratling’s Slay
er, “She Was Justified”
Edgar J. Spratling, captain of Com
pany F, Fifth regiment, and a well
known practicing physician of Atlanta,
was shot and killed at noon Friday at
! Camp Harris by Mrs. H. C. Adams, of 69
I Lovejoy street, Atlanta.
Dispatches from Camp Harris state
j that the woman* approached him as he
sat at a table in front of his tent, said,
"Is this Captain Spratling?’ and, when
he nodded his head, leveled her revolver
and fired twice.
One bullet penetrated Captain Sprat-
Jing’s neck, another entered his mouth.
Ten minutes later he was pronounced
dead.
Mrs. Adams was arrested by the
guard and turned over to the sheriff
of Bibb county. She is now jailed at
Macon. Since the shooting she has re
fused to make any statement, and no
reason has been advanced for her deed.
STORY OF SHOOTING.
The following account of the shoot
ing was furnished The Journal in a spe
cial dispatch from Camp Harris:
Mrs. Adams arrived at the camp at
11:30 o’clock, getting off the train from
Atlanta at Creosote, the special station
for the camp.
She went first to brigade headquar
; ters, where she asked for Captain
! Spratling. Then she went to the hos-
I pital corps of the Fifth, right across
from Captain Spratling, and again ask
ed to be directed to his tent.
She was shown the tent, which Is
about fifty yards further along from
the hospital corps on officers’ row. At
and at the
hospital corps, it was said that Mrs.
Adams asked what sort of looking man
Captain Spratling was.
ATTRACTED ATTENTION.
As she walked aft>ng officers’ row
she attracted considerable* attention,
from both officers and, men. A woman
of about thirty-five years of age, she
was dressed in white, and appeared to
be worried about something.
One soldier remarked, "Looks like
she’s trying to collect a bill.’’
Captain Spratling was seated at the
table in front of his tent as the woman
approached. Mess call had sounded and
the orderly had just placed the meal on
the table. Seated across from him was
his first officer, Lieutenant F. A. Kysor.
•Is this Captain Spratling?” asked the
woman.
Spratling answered "yes,” and made a
movement to rise as if to give her a
chair.
The woman drew the revolver —which
was in a handbag she carried
—and without saying a word shot him
where he sat, firing twice. If he was not
killed instantly, he lived but a few min
utes and was never conscious enough to
talk.
KYSOR SEIZES WOMAN.
Lieutenant Kysor seized the wo.nan.
She began crying. "Take me away from
him! Take me away from him!”
Captain W. W. Dick of E company,
officer of the day, was in the next tent
when the shots were fired. At the re-1
port, he rushed to Captain Spratling’s
tent. He called the guard and Mrs.;
Adams was arrested.
Mrs. Adams was taken over into a
company street, where she became hys- .
terical. “Don’t crowd me; give mV
plenty of air!” she is quoted as shriek
ing.
She refused to talk.
"I have nothing to say about this
matter,” she replied to insistent ques
tions. Once she said. "I don’t know
a soul in the regiment.”
Mrs. Adams was kept in camp but a
few minutes, only until the sheriff of I
Bibb county arrived and she was given!
into his custody and taken to Macon.
The entire camp was inexpressibly!
shocked by the shooting. Besides the;
great excitement over the tragedy, deep,
grief was manifested on all sides, a« the'
dead man was universally popular. Ihe
flag at brigade headquarters was placed
t half mst.
Mrs. Maud Monk Says
Jealousy Caused Shooting
BY WABD GBEENE,
Journal Staff Correspondent.
MACON, Ga., Aug. 27.—The story of
Mrs. Maude Monk, formerly of Atlanta, j
now of Macon, declaring that Mrs. Mat- I
tie Adams was the victim of an insane |
infatuation for Captain Edgar J. Sprat- |
ling and killed hiffi in a frenzy of jeal- I
ousy because he ignored her devotion,
was’ developed last night in the investi- j
gation of Captain Spratling’s murder at
Camp Harris Friday.
Mrs. Monk says that Captain Sprat
ling showed her a letter from Mrs.
Adams in which the woman begged him
to bring her to Macon and install her ;
in a boarding house here, and threat- j
enerl to “put his lights out” if he didn’t.
Mrs. Monk says she also saw Captain
Spratling’s reply to this letter, telling I
Mrs. Adams under no circumstances to
come to Camp Harris.
Captain Spratling had known Mrs. j
Adams for several months, said Mrs. i
Monk, and had been endeavoring to get
rid of her, describing her as a "fool” ■
and declaring that she was "crazy.”
Mrs. Monk is a woman of about forty ■
years of age. She was at one time pro
prietor of the old Henderson hotel, on ■
Peachtree street, in Atlanta. About ■
four years ago she left Atlanta and
went to Columbus.
Mrs. Monk is stopping here at the
Plaza hotel, where she was interviewed
last night by Colonel Orville H. Hall,
of the Fifth regiment; Major J. M. Lin
dorme, surgeon of the Fifth; Captain
Asa Warren Candler, of C company of
the Fifth, and Major W. M. Leahy, of
(Continued 3, Col. 2.)
NUMBER 94.
FIGHTING IS STARTED
WITH THE TEUTONS ON
TRANSYLVANIAFHONT
Germany Declares War on Ru
mania and Bulgaria and
Turkey Are Expected to
Take Similar Action .
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(B- Associated Preet.)
BERLIN, Aug. 28.—(Via London.)
Germany has declared war z>n Rumania
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Aug. 28.—(Via London.)
Fighting has begun between Rumanian
and Teutonic troops on the Transylvania z
frontier, the official announcement of to
day indicates. The statement says Ru
manians have been taken prisoner.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Rumania
has entered the war with the allies. Of
ficial announcement is made at Berlin
that the existence of a state of war
with Austria-Hungary was proclaimed
in Bucharest yesterday evening.
No indications have l been received of
the Immediate effect on the military sit- j
uaton in the Balkans which now be
comes of preponderant importance, or of
the moves doubtless already inaugurated
by Rumania and by her opponent. It
is to be expected Rumania will follow
a plan of campaign mapped out by the
high council of the entente powers
whether against Austria-Hungary or
Bulgaria or both.
An indication that Rumania moved in |
accordance with a pre-determined plan
of the allies is found in the fact that
her declaration of war was made on the
same day as Italy’s declaration against
Germany.
The official announcement from Ber- i
lin adds the information that on receipt
of the news If Rumania's action the
Federal council was called for an imme- *
diate session. It was followed by decla
rations of war on Rumania. The consti
tution of the German empire stipulated
that the emperor may declare war if de
fensive, but when war is not merely de
fensive he must have the consent of the ■
Bundesrath. or Federal council.
GREEKS ARE HOUSED.
Dispatches from Athens indicate that ■
popular feeling is stirred deeply by oc- ’
cupation of Greek territory by Bulga
: rian forces, although this move was
sanctioned by the Greek government.
Fifty thousand Greeks joined in a
' popular demonstration yesterday before
, the residence of*former Premier Veni- -
zelos, an ardent suporter of the allies, j
The former premier urged that a.com—J
mittee be sent to King Constantine to !
warn him not to use his influence in tho ]
forthcoming general elections, because i
the result would be, "destructive" and s
to request him to give the present gov- j
ernment. which favors a policy of neu- I
trality. full political authority, at the I
same time preparing the army for “n 4
! possible rupture of existing conditions.” I
Little information is released by- the |
censors n regard to the campaign on tho ;
; Macedonian front. The J
’ claiming insistent gains on the wesit- 1
; ern end of the line are lengthening the J
front and pushing into Albania. An of- 1
~ ficial announcement made in London to- |
day refers oly to scattered artilllry ac- <
i lions.
Bad weather is interfering with oper- ■
atlons on the Somme front. Before Vdi- ,
dun the Germans returned to the attack 1
la-st night. Paris reports that several
assaults on French positions at bdettry ’
were repulsed.
Berlin/ Papers Comment
On Italy’s Declaration
(By Associatad Press.?
BERLIN, Aug. 28. —(Via London.)— <
Virtually all the morning papers, with
the notable exception of the Verwaertfl
commented on Italy’s declaration of war
against Germany.
The Deutsche Tages Zeitung declares i
that interest in such a declaration al- !
ways has been exceptionally small.Jn
Germany and now, without question; :
will continue so.
The Morgen Post calls Italy’s actign
an empty gesture intended to appear te
roic but actually tragic-comical and to
be received with an indifferent shrug-Of ■
the shoulders.
The Kruz Zeitung says, “Italy finally
has given way to the pressure of its
master.”
The Post sees another evidence of It
aly’s “blackmail politics.”
Arrival of Italians
Makes Greeks Gloomy
ATHENS, Aug. 27. —(Via London,
Aug. 28.>—The landing of the first con
tingent of Italian troops at Chimara (a
small seaport of Albania on the Strait i
of Otranto) causes gloom throughout all
Greece. The Greeks now f-ee not only
Eastern Macedonia in the hands of tho
Bulgars whom they expelled from there
three years ago but northern Epirus in
the hands of the Italians.
Following the landing of the Italian
troops the Greek civil officers were tem
porarily relieved of their functions and
the telegraph wires were cut but this
damage was soon repaired.
M. Pachitch, the former Serbian pre
mier has gone to (’halkis to pay his re
spects to King Peter.
Germans Repused by French
In Night Attacks on Fleury
(By Associated Press.)/
PARIS. Aug. 28. —The Germans made
several attacks upon the French post*
tions at Fleury last night, but were re
pulsed, says today’s announcement lirf'
the war office.
