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THOMA8VILLE, GEORGIA, . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1014.
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GERMANS ARE DEFEATED EM MS CMM IS
IN DIG POLISH BATTLES
RUSSIANS CLAIM TO HAVE TAKEN TWO ARMY CORPS, COMPRIS
ING OVER FIFTY THOUSAND PRISONERS—DISASTER AWAITED
VON HINDENBURG, WHEN HE RAN THE WEDGE INTO THE
RUSSIAN FORCES—DETAILS OF VICTORY ARE MYSTERIOUS
LY WITHHELD, HOWEVER— NO ACTIVITY REPORTED IN THE
FRENCH BATTLE FIELD.
IBv Associated Press.)
l’oris, Nov. 27.—The Matin's Pet-
rograd correspondent telegraphs the
following statement, regarding the
recent fighting around Lodz, In Rus
sian Poland:
“One Germun army corps
which was surrounded hy Rus
sians, surrendered In n body.
This represents nearly fifty
thousand prisoners.
“Another German army corps,
whieh has been cut off, is now
completely routed.
“The Russians are attacking
with redoubled Intensity along
the Cracow line.”
entire crew, oxcepl fourteen men,
make the Admiralty's theory that
she was destroyed by an Internal ex
plosion, more plausable. <An official
inquiry, in secret, began thia morn
ing.
HOLY WAR PROCLAMATION
ISSUED AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
{By Associated Press.)
Constantinople, Nov. 27.—A
proclamation of Holy War, which
was first announced here alwut
ten days ago, was pubUshed
hero today. It is signed by the
Suitun and twenty-eight Mos
lem priests, and calls upon the
Moslem world to participate in
a “holy war" against Englnnd,
Russia and France.
HID FINANCES BEING WATCHED
UNITED STATES OWES THAT MEN WORKING FOR AMERICANS
COUNTRY AN ABNORMAL AT VERA CRUZ SAID TO HAVE
AMOUNT OF MONEY AND IT j I1EEN AKRESTED—VILLA MAY
CANNOT BE PAID AT THIS | BE IN MEXIUO CITY ALREADY.
TIME. j ‘
| (By Associated Press.p
(By associated Press.) Washington. Nov. 27.—Despite I
London, Nov. 2?.—Discussing the the Carranza guarantees that any
financial situation ' in the House of! Mexicans employed by Major-Gen-
WILSON OUT.
AGAINST TOE
NEGRESS 120
YEARS OF AGE
AERIAL BOMB DIED THIS WEEK
HAGUE TRIBUNAL DOES NOT j FOLLY ItOSEBOKO, OF NORTH
GERMANY SAYS NOTHING
DECISIVE IN POLAND YET.
(By Associated Press.)
Berlin, Nov. 27.—The official an
nouncement issue,! here today, says:
"The English ships did not attack
the Flanders coast yesterday, and
there has been no actual change
along the western arena's battle
front.
"To the north of Langemarck, the
Germans took a group of houses and
many prisoners. The German .attack
T
DETAILS OF RUSSIAN
VICTORY IN' POLAND IS
STILL BEING WITHHELD
(By Associated Press.)
l.ondon, Nov. 27.—While the the
belief grows that the Russians In
Northern PJoland have won the ”“ Dl *” | Constantinople dispatch says the remittances from abroad,
war’s greatest battle, the actual de- j *™ 8 ' . Turkish Minister of Finance has an- j connection, he said the United States
tails of the operations In this lo-j n t e war it cae.ern arena, ere | n ounced that the' interest on the owed England about five thousand
callty are still withheld, and the I* 6 ™ °° . ec8Te engagements y es ' | oan Q [ J909 would be paid only to j million dollars, and England was
whose incident begins to take on an j ay ' such bondholders who present them- j unable to collect it.
aspect of mystery. ! ... „„„ (selves at the Central office of the The chancellor then said it was
in the Argonne region has made
further progress. The French at
tacks near Aprement and also to
the east of St. Mlhiel have been re-
i pulsed.
! In the war's eastern arena, there 1
| Commons today,. Chancellor of the eral Funston, in the administration
| Exchequer Lloyd-George said Eng-. °f government at Vera Cruz, would
I land had undertaken a responsllill- not he molested. Consul Canada re-
lity which no government had ever i ported to the State Department to-
I been called upon to assume before, j day the arrest of such Mexicans. No
The Chancellor said that England 1 deta *' 3 were given,
was an essentia', part ot. the great: Consul Canada reports that the
machine which ran tile International police are still under military con-
trade of the world. Giving nn In-' trol, end continued quiet prevails
stance, he referred to t.ie cotton ! throughout the city,
trade. He said, in all its move- : Generals Hay and Villareal, Gar
ments, from the plantations to its ranzn chieftains, who were recently
ultimate destination, cotton was re- reported arrested In Mexico City,
j presented by paper signed in Eng- are known to be in Monterey, with
: land. When the United 3tates General Carranza.
. bought cotton, or silk, or tea, In, The latest dispatches received here
j Chins, payment was made through reported that General Villa and his
BONDHOLDERS WHO WOULD London by mears of these 'docu-' army wer e then forty miles front
COLLECT FROM SULTAN MUST men to. ' * 'Mexico City. As ail communication
APPEAR IN PERSON, WHICH IS War naturally affected Buch a dell-' is slow to Mexico City, officials here
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. |cate syBtem, and the deadlock which today expressed the* opinion that
>exlsted, the Chancellor said, was not General Villa probably alre-idy had
(By Associated Press.) Idue to any lack of credit in this entered the capital.
Amsterdam, Holland, Nov. 27.—A j country, t*.:t due to the failure of j
that' 7 r ' '
PAY ON DEMAND
COUNTENANCE ATTACK OF I
THAT KIND ON DEFENSELESS'
CITIES AND NON-COMBATANTS j
SAYS THE PRESIDENT.
CAROLINA, IS KNOWN TO HAVE
LIVED THROUGH ONE CEN-
Tl'KY—CAME HERE, A REF
UGEE AFTER THE WAR.
Polly Hose'-ioro, a negro woman
who died last week, on the Whaley
Place, near Boston, Is said to have
Petrograd reports that the pa
tience of the Russian populace, In
awaiting an official confirmation of
the report victory, la fast reaching
the breaking point.
The German reports describe sev
eral successful operations In the
region of til. great battle, hut ad-' AustVo^Hungarian Embassy here,
mlt that the German army has not GERMANS DEFEATED
succeeded in ending the struggle. ( . ___
A Cnrd of Thank.:.
We desire to ixpress our sincere
thanks to our friend- .nd neigh
bors, who so kindly assisted us
through the lllaess and death ot
AUSTRIAN REPORT VICTORY
OVER RUSSIANS IN GALICIA, j * , ' lnance M,m8l,r tnere ' | necessary to keep unimpeachable our beloved mother, Mrs. Mary
(By Assooiated Pre^.) , . Ithe En g"eh ot exchanges, which Chastain. We ask the tendor mer-
Washington, Nov. 27.—Austrian ! Thla ls equivalent to a suspension had become currency for the whole c , ea flf the Great 0ne above to reat
successes over the Russian offensive i of thB payment of lnt6re3t 011 thls trade world. To do so, the credit of upon each one Thell . s y mpa thy and
in the Carpathians, and also in wes-| loan ' since the war makes It almost { the nation had boon hypothecated. [ k | ndnesa wm over be remembered,
tern Galteia. were reported today in jimposslble for the bondholders to go j H e said, however, the losses upon! and cl)0rlshed ln the heart9 of ever y
Foreign Offlre dispatch to the j to Turkey to collect their interest, the whole of these transactions
The loan In question amounts to j would be small,
more than thirty million dollars. |
Ten million dollars worth of these
HER CHILDREN.
-«H Is evident that the eomttaratlve SKiiVTANS nEST AUSTRIANS ■ — thtfnda are held the London house of
failure of the Auetro-German opera- J IJf 8HOBT NAVAL BATTLE, j J. P. Morgan & Company, of New
tioii3 along the Czenstohowa front J (By Associated Press.) : York, and the Imperial Ottoman
gave the Rus3lanr an opportunity to , Nish, Servia, Nor. 27.—The latest ] Ban. The remainder ls held by
envelop General Von Hindenburg. Servian oflicial statement says: 'French bankers,
after he had thrown a wedge Into I "On (November 21, our heavy ar- j —
INTERESTING NEWS EDOM
WEST OF
arrived. It found the writer at the
! lovely home of Mr. E. R, Clark, who
: lives near Ochlocknee. He has one
(of the best arranged farms In the
county, the farm being partitioned
by several cross fences, so that the
different fields can be used when
‘needed. Mr. Clark is one of those
TIMES- farmers W - ,G believes In diversifying
(By Associated tress.)
Washington, ,\ov. 21.—President
Wilson has communicated unofficial
ly to all diplomatic representatives.
of the United States, in the bellig-‘ " een one hundred and twenty years
erent European countries, his (lls . • a ^ ‘he U tie of her death. As
approval of the attack, by bombs near 88 can be aaBer ‘ a ">® d >
from aircraft, dropped on unfortified"; 0 ca " ,e rrom North C3rol,n . R J “ 3t
'Cities whieh are occupied hy non- a,t0r ,?le war ' JelnB 0ne of the
combatants. rlasa , ' n0 ' v ' n as ' efuKeefl ' slx >' ears
, . later she was on the place of Mr.
The President was careful not to 0 M Cflrter thls at Md at
take the matter up officially, and dld^ tIme he wrote to Norti , Caro .
not make hi, communication through ,, at her , t> and as6 ertained
any department, but personally ad 4# . . •
, , ' , , . 3 l from her former owner that she was,
vised the Ambassadors aboard to . . . . . .. . .
A , . . . at the time she left, seventy-four
take this course it became known ..
a j » x .* years old.
today, nearly two months, ago. *
, , , .1 That was forty-one years ago, and
Juht how the amoassadors were to
bring the matter to the attention of
the belligerents, v-as not made clear.
; that the figurer which he got were
authentic. The negress has no chil
dren living, they have long since
died, but she has several gnand-chll-
jdren and great grand-children. Five
generations are known to exist now
she had been there then about five
years Her age. according to Mr.*
.... A . ,, Carter’s compilations, ls one hun-
t > believed, however, that he ^'tll-. . . . „
, . , „ , . dred and twenty, and he ls positive .
d their attention to an art e!e In t ,. v v i
The Hague convention, to Which a'l I
the principal belligerents were sign
ers, which provides for not less than
twc.i y-four hours notice before be
ginning the bombardment of a town '•
where there arc non-combatants.
In this county.
Aunt Polly is said to have been a
remarkable nesress. )jp to about a
■ year ago, she was a regular worker
:ln the fields, and showed a most
I wonderful amount of vitality. Her
|hundred and twenty years would
make her the oldest person in the
United States. She was born in
11795. and lived entirely through
1 one century, something that Is not
known to have boon done In the
United States. - -
ENGLISH HAVE NO TIIOUBLF. IN
FLOATING A BILLION DOLLARS ‘
AND MORE TO PAY THE WAR
EXPENSES.
MICHIGAN TO BE FLOATEO
loan of $1.750,1100,000 had been
greatly over-subscribed.
the Russian center. 'jtillery bombarded several Austrian, ui.'imivwvtitivl, „ . . ,,
On the other battlefronts. quiet >monitors off Semlln. forcing them to TMNrCQIT UUIQ nfCPniUQIRI f I ENTEWPHWR passes THRU cr °P s ' and hls P lan ls to make more announc, ' d ln ' h0 H | 0, " !e °‘
prevails. Along the Franeo-Belglan withdraw. At the .am, time we j I tlWltt H tal'UnblBLt | S^EctIoN OF THOMAS '"an one crop on the.ame land each Commons today that the Brill* war
tine, the opposing armies seem con-1silenced the enemy’s artillery. I j COUNTY’, AND WRITES OF HIS cora fodder and other like
tent to face each other. There la J ,. The battle which commenced No- i I ' or tl,e sho,s 1-lretl at U,e Launch ’ OBSERVATIONS. products. He also has a fine heard
nothing to Indicate the Germans [.ember'2D, attll continues." I s aj'« Morgcnthau Pilot Did Not | of Jersey cows, which more t.ian
have started the expected resump-1 I Heed Mlnp Warnings. 1 A represent atlve of The Times- supplies hls tnble with nice‘yellow
tion of their affort to break -through GERMAN NAVAL BASE I ' ’ Enterprise visited that portion of tho butter and plenty of milk..
the killed lines, 01 their way to the [ DESTROYED BY ENGLISH.! < By Associated Press.) county weat of Ochlocknee, and During the afternoon
I Washington, Nov. *27.—The com- found th° farmers in that sectloq
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, >.ov. 27.—Chancellor j _ . _
the Exchequer, David Lloyd- jjig Battleship on Sand Bar Will be
DESTROYEn RY RVOLIRH I (By Associated rress.) couaiy went oi ucuiocaucb, uuu ltuhuk the homes
UfeSTKOYKi) BY LXGLISH. WashlnKton Vov . 2 7—'Tie com- found the farmers In that sectloq of Mr. W. M. Patterson, and Mrs.
foaal - „ 1 , Associated Press.) Washington, Nov. 27. T.ie com . oi , |fe b))lv maklnR up thelr 9vr ,^ Lnura smith were reached, and also
Thirty miles to the east of the London, Nov. 27—Some details of .tnander of the port of Smyrna lays crop, planting oats, rye and wheat.'that of Mr. B. H. Smith. While lit
Suez canal, the British are In touch the bombardment of Zeebrugge, Bel-, al | the responsibility for the recent .Some of the oats and wheat planted tula section, which is Just north of
with the Turkish Invaders, but gtum, which the Germans were pre-, T „ rk . . , , I ore up and looking fine. Potato dig- the Bulloch mill, we learned t.iat
there I. no sign of a general an- paring a. a naval base, have reach-; 8hot8 flred ,r0m the T “ rkl8h i» alee In porgress Last Frl- Mr. B. H. Smith and Mr Harvev
. i upon the cruiser Tennessee's launch.:day’s weather had-a good many peo-1 Herne have sold their farms to Mr.
gagement there. It la expected the ed London. , pie hustling to get their cane strip- - Albert Holman, of Thomasville. The
Turks Will postpone their Invasion A correspondent of the London j while entering tuat harDor, to t ne , rfid am , pned before it was hit by farms consisted of about sixty acres,
of Egypt, because they appear to he Dally Express says a party of refu- indifference of 'he launch's helms- , the cold. , and the purchase price was $1,900.
hard-nressed in Armenia and aroJnd gees report that the first shell ■ raan '. wh0 , It Is claimed, did not The first stop last Wednesday was, pm* ,ia y B I 8 ™'
the Persian Gulf. . which the British warahlp. threw on !heed , h# warnlng of the presence 0{ a ^Sout 1«
Additional details concerning the Zeebrugse fell among the German; Ibusv with svruTcOTklng and ' acres and the purchase price was
loss off Sheorness yesterday of the submarines, which were anchored ln j ' - . ! the quality of their product was' * s . 5n0 - They will move there about
T.ils, 1a substance, L the report v flne , ndeed Mr Jone9 had - o( tl,e y ear -
of American Ambassador Morgen- j j nat finished planting about two ‘ Mr. M. 3. Spooner has moved from
thau on that matter, and Secretary;acres of wheat, and about an acre;this community to Mr. John -Abi-
Bryan said today the Incident was:of rye. iridge's p!ace over In Orady county.
• I d * Upon reaching the plantation of near the ChaHon school.
w ’ I Mr. C. 8. Barwick, we found he, too. j Thursday evening found us oom-
jwas being urgently entertained tn jfortably quartered at the hospitable
Lightened if High Water Fails
to Float It Today.
INDIANS CANNOT BOY LIQUOR
roNN Violations in Oklahoma May
Muke Secretary of Indian Affairs
Take Drastic Action.
British battleship Bulwark and her the Inner harbor. After twenty)
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 27.— Rear Ad
miral Fletcher, commanding the At
lantic battleship fleet, reported to
day that he expected to get the bat
tleship Michigan off the sandy bot-
tob, In which her stern rests, near
Cape Henry, Virginia, during the
high tide late today.
| In the event the high tide is not
1 sufficient to floa» her, she will he
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 27.—Gross
lations of tho law against selling j lightened.
liquor to the Indians, have caused ]
Cato Sells, the Indian Affairs Com-1 invoked the law giving him the right
inissioner, today to resort to drastic j to suspend payments to the Indians
measures to stop what he believed j when he is convinced that intoxl-
has become ft practice on the Osaga ■ eating liquors are within conven-
Reservatton In Oklahoma. He has 1 lent reach of them.
sailors had been killed or wounded, j syrup-making, running two mills to^ country home of Mr. J. F. Spooner,
the submarines were ordered to make ke *P hls evaporator busy.. Mr. Bar- j When Friday morning came. The
o qqfniv Pf.-H-u 'wfek plants quite a large crop of. Times-Enterprise man proceed on
a dash for safety to the English every year , and with fhe crops journey, confronted with one of the
Channel), and try to run the gaunt- j 0 f hls cTonners, Mrs. J. T. Lindsey ; must trying times of hls experience,
let of the British fleet. Some of tie : and Mr. W. A. Cumby, he Is kept nnd that was facing the extreme cold
submarines returned to ZeeBrugge, bu«y for several weeks transforming j wind, and by forcing together all
. , .... .the cane Into syrup. the energies that could be mastered,
and their fate ta still unkno n. Se -. W ednesday evening overtook this i finally reached the home of Mr.
eral German submarines ln the har-!„ (r)be 9t the beautiful home of Mr. J, W. Hall. Was sorry to learn that
bor basis dived below daring the J T. Stewart, who was also In the he had been quite sick, hut was bet-
bomhardment in order to save them- syrup business. Mr. Stewart says ter, though he was not able to be
selves. They Immediately rose again y<mr tha "
when the warships retreated. i when the noon hour of Thursday 1 (Continued on Page 4.)
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