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THIBTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
' BRITISH LEAVE THE TIP OF THE
GALLIPOLI PENINSULA; REPORTS
SAY TROOPS ARE SURROUNDED
Wireless Report From Berlin Says
That an Allied Transport Has
Been Sunk
DARDANELL TROOPS MAY
SURRENDER TO TURKISH
Favorable News Comes For The
Germans and Their Allies in
Today’s Reports
BERLIN, Jan. 10.—(Via Wirelss to
Sayville, N. Y,) —Operations in the
western theatre of the ware were en
livened today by the inauguration of
offensive movements by German troops
in the Champagne region, wher® vio
lent infantry and artillery fighting is
in progress. Details of the en
counter have not yet been made pub
i
lie, but it is known the offensive move
ment has “progressea satisfactorily, -
and that new territory has been occu
pied. w
The German war office at noon today
issued a formal statement dealing with
activities in the Champagne country,
and setting forth, in part, the results
attained during yesterday and last
night’s fighting. The statement as
serts that ‘“French positions extending
over several hundred yards northwest
of Massignes,” have been successfully
occupied by Teuton troops. Heavy
casualty lists are anticipated, as the
territory in which the fighting occur
red is considered as probably the best
fortified of that held by the enemy in
northern France.
Transport Ship Sunk.
BERLIN, Jan. 10.— (Via Wireless to
Sayville N. Y) —Constantinople advices
given out here by the Overseas news
agency, report the sinking of an Allied
ff. ansport filled with troops at the
time the French and British forces
withdrew from the tip of the Gallipoli
peninsula.
British Are Surrounded.
BERLIN, Jan. 10. —(Via Wireless tc
Sayville, N. Y.) —Constantinople ad
vices given out by the Overseas news
agency today say the British army at
Kut El Amara, in Turkish Mesopotamia
has been completely surrounded by
the Turks. The main British army, re
t) eating down the Tigris, left ten thou
sand men at Kut El Amara to cover
the retreat, and these were surrounded
before being able to escape. A sur
render of the entire force is considered
inevitable.
Germans Begin Drive.
LONDON, Jan. 10. —The Champagne
district in northern France, Which was
the scene of a violent French offensive
last September, is now witnessing an
other gigantic drive, with the Germans
i i the role of aggressor. Attacks to
the northeast of Massignes are report
ed being made in unusual foroe.
The Teutons claim to have taken
several hundred yards of French
trenches in that region, together with
over four hundred prisoners ■ and a
number of machine guns. ,
Report From Tunis.
CONSTANTINOPLE, y!an. 10.—Ad
vices from the tip of t’fie peninsula to-
day report the taking of large quan
tities of booty by the Turks when the
Allies evacuated their last remaining
Gallipoli positions.
Fighting Less Violent in East.
LONDON, Jan. 10. —Vienna advices
today assert the Russians ceased their
attacks along the Galician and Bessa
rabian fronts Saturday fter living been
signally repulsed all along the line.
The latest Petrograd dispatches claim
the Austrians have been driven from
the east bank of the middle branch of
the Stripa river. They have also been
foiled in attempts to recapture Czar
torysk, in Volpyna, which continued
to be occupied by Russian troops.
An Athens dispatch says the Greek
government has protested vigorously
against the arrest by Entente military
authorities of Teutonic consuls on th®
Island of Mitjlene, now being occu
pied by French and English troops.
British Lose 3,000.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 10.—The British
under Gen. Townsend lost three thou
sand men attacking Shiek Said, in
Mesopotamia today, according to a
Constantinople semi-official statement.
Turks Retreating.
LONDON, Jan. 10. —Turks In Meso
potamia were in full retreat before ad
vancing British columns on January
9th (Sunday), Austian Chamberlain,
secretary for India, told members of
the house of commons today. This
is considerably at variance with Turk
official statements.
$34.50 COURT IS
HELD By RECORDER
As far as the number of cases went,
the recorders’ court was ather slim
Monday morning, but enough business
was found to cause $34.50 to go into
the city treasury, via the decisions of
Recorder Marshall.
Chief Johnson and his able corps of
patrolmen are being congratulated on
the wonderful scarcity of trouble in
the city.
♦ TO LOCATE BIG DRY ♦
♦ DOCK IN SOUTH -MAYBE ♦
♦ WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10. >Z
—Rear Admiral Stanford today ♦
’* told the house naval committee ♦
♦ that Guantanamo, Cuba, and Pen- ♦
♦ sacola, Fla., in the order named ♦
♦ are the best locations south of ♦
♦ Cape Hatteras for a dry dock ♦
4- capable of accommodating the •*
*■ largest dreadnaughts. ♦
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AMERIBDSMESsHKOROER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
EXPLOSION IN
DUPONT POWDER
PUNT IN PENN
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 10.—
Three workmen were killed and sev
eral persons slightly burned in an ex
plosion of two tons of smokeless pow
der, which wrecked the Carnes Point
plant of the Dupont Powder company,
twenty-five miles from here. Flying
debris, thrown into the air by the tre
mendous explosion, was scattered in
every direction, bits of steel and pieces
of shattered times being picked up in
some instances as far as a mile dis
tanct from the scene. Those injured
were all employees o the uDpont com
pany, but not engaged at their duties
when the explosion occurred.
The noise of the explosion was plain
ly audible here, though th® Carnes’
Point plant is twenty-five miles away.
The vibration -was very feeble here,
and no damage was occasiond thereby.
Passengers on board a ferry boat leav
ing the Carneys’ Point wharf at the
time of the explosion, tell vivid stories
of the destruction wrought by the big
blast. The ferry boat on which they
travelled was lifted partly from the
water by the force of the explosion,
and parts of the cabins were badly
damaged. All of the windows of the
ferry-boat were broken, and one or two
of the passengers sustained minor in
juries.
According to the storj’ of an employe
of the Dupont company, who was an
eye-witness of the disaster, the explos
ion occurred in the number 2 wet
house, and in the number 2 blending
tower of the plant, both >explosions be
ing simultaneous. This employe de
clares stoutly that outside agencies are
responsible for the disaster, but offi
cials of the company deny that such
could have been the case. Wire com
munication with the plant was inter
rupted shortly before the explosion,
however, and the county authorities at
Carnes’ Point, are inclined to give cre
dence to the employe’s story.
Following an investigation and defi
nite identification of the dead today,
the plant superintendent issued a for
mal statement in which he said the
dead men had no business being in
the vicinity of the explosion, and that
had they been about their own duties
would not have been injured. An in
vestigation of the catastrophe is now i
under way, county officials being as-'
sisted in their work by detectives em
ployed by the Dupont company.
M’CROHY WILL NOT
BUN THE HACE
State Senator C. R. McCrory, of El
laville, will not be a candidate for
congress, according to a statement re
ceived from him. The likelihood of
bis candidacy was published several
bays ago, but Mr. McCrory states that
he will not be in the race. The can
flblates now announced are Represent
ative Charles R. Crisp and Thomas G.
Hudson.
AMfRICUS. GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 10, 1916
Three, But Not of a Kind
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Left to Bight:—Brand Whitlock, United States Minister to Belgium; E. M.
House, President Wilson’s Messenger to American Ambassadors in Europe;
Captain Karl Boy-Ed, dismissed German Attache.
Captain Karl Boy-Ed, German at
tache of the em>a. J Fy in Washington,
stood on the deck of the Dutch liner
Rotterdam the other day, and smiled
on the photographers as he was going
away from here. The liner also car
ried Brand Whitlock, American mln-
DINNERS REPORT
IS FOUR MILLION
OFF FROM 1914
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 10.—The
eighth cotton ginning report of the sea
son compiled from reports of census
bureau correspondents and agents
throughout the cotton belt and issued
at 10 a. m. today, announced that 10,-
643,783 bales of cotton counting round
as half bales, of the growth of 1915,
have been ginned prior to January 1.
That compares with 14,443,146 bales,
or 90.8 per cent, of the entire 1914 crop
ginned prior to January 1 last year,
13,347,721 bales, or 95.5 per cent, of
the 1913 crop, and 12,907,405 bales, 95.7
per cent, of the 1912 crop. The aver
age quantity of cotton ginned prior to
January 1 in the last ten years, was
1i,963,038 bales, or 93.4 per cent, of the
crop.
Included in the ginnings were 105,-
[799 round bales, compared with 44,904
■in 1914, 94,265 in 1913 and 77,999 in
1912.
Sea ialand cotton included numbered
88,921 bales, compared with 79,857 in
1! 14, 74,320 in 1913, and 67,257 in 1912.
Ginnings prior to January 1 for Ala
bama and Georgia, with comparisons
for the last three years, and percent
age of the entire crop ginned in these
states prior to that date in th? same
years, folio: *
ALABAMA—
Year Bales Pct..
1915 1,007,408 ...
1914 1.638,648 94.6
1913 1,467,883 98 9
1212 1,289,227 97.1
GEORGIA-
19151,907,098 .
1914 2,548,808 93.6
-1513 2,293,976 97.8
ister to Belgium, back to his post in
Brussels, and Col. E. M. House, who
is going abroad with messages to
.American ambassadors at foreign
capitals. They were all happy, even
Boy-Ed, who is leaving the United
States because the United States
didn’t want him here any more.
QUIET PREWILS
IN YOUNGSTUWN
IRER RIOTING
YOUNGSTOWN. 0., Jan. 10.—The
grand; jury today began an investiga
tion into the causes of the rioting dur
ing Friday night at East Y’oungstown,
the result of which proved so disas-1
trous alike for property owners who j
sustained heavy losses, and those par-1
ticipating in the disturbances. Over
two hundred arrests in connection with
the occurrences of the night have al
ready been made, and the jail is
taxed to its upmost to provide room
for those locked upon charges of riot
ing and arson. Others are yet to be
taken into custody, but officers are pro
ceeding slowly, owing to peculiar con
ditions prevailing here.
The gates ,of the East Youngstown
plant of the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube company, which have been closed
since the inauguration of the strike
which culminated in Friday nights’
riots, are again open today, and quiet
prevails throughout the city. Many
of the employees of the company who
took no part in the disturbances here
reported for work this morning, and
the task of cleaning up the big plant
was commenced. As soon as this is
completed usual operations will be re
sumed. The Youngstown Sheet and
Tube company, it is announced, is a
subsidiary of the United States Steel
corporation.
1912 1,756,834 96.9
The next ginning report of the cen
sus bureau will be issued at 10 a. m,
Monday, January 24. and will show the
quantity of cotton ginned prior to Jan
uary 16th.
MASTER WRIGHT IS
NiiHSINinpEN ARM
Master Frank Wright, who until
Sunday was the champion sidewalk
slater living on Church street, is
pursing a broken arm today at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will
C. Wright, while reflcting over the wis
dom of attempting “fancy stunts” on
the fascinating rollers. Sunday about
noon, Master Frank and: a party of
young playmates, were indulging in
the skating pastime, when for some
reason the youngster was thrown up
on the paved walked near his parents’
residence, the impact being so force
fu! as to fracture his left arm. He
was taken into his home by his young
companions, and Dr. Frank Cato set
the broken member, which is reported
today as mending satisfactorily. The
youngster will probably be confined
to his room during several days, and
it will be the good old summer time
ere he again attempts to navigate upon
roller skates.
JUDGEANDREWJ.
COBB URGED FDR
SUPREME-BENCH
The friends of Judge Andrew J.
Cobb, of Athens, have forwarded his
name to President Woodrow Wilson
for consideration as a probable ap
pointee to the Supreme court of the
I nited States, to fill the vacancy caus
ed by the death of Justice Joseph
Rucker Lamar.
Judge Cobb is a brother of Captain
John A. Cobb, ordinary of Sumter
county, and is well known here, where
he has visited his brother. The Sum
ter county' friends of Judge Cobb are
urging his appointment by telegram
and letter to President Wilson.
It is likely that President Wilson
will make an appointment in a few
days. Judge Cobb has been a member
of the Supreme court of Georgia, and
his decisions are widely known among
the bar of the state and nation, where
he was known as high type of judge.
At present Judge Cobb is practicing
law in Athens, and because of his ad
mirable fitness for th.e position on the
highest bench in the country, his
! friends throughout the state and na
j tion are urging his appointment.
Alex C. King, of Atlanta, is a prom
inent name mentioned in connection
with the appointment, and the name of
Judge Horace M. Holden, of Athens,
has been advanced.
Should President Wilson appoint
Judge Colb, it will be pleasing to his
many friends in Americus and Sumter
county.
LUCKY DOCTOR GETS
HIS MONETS WORTH
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 10.—Dr. George
T. Brown is the luckiest investor in
Georgia. So far as the records show,
he is the only colonel in the state t o
get his full money’s worth out of that
ultra expensive uniform and trim- ,
mings which members of the gover
ror’s staff must purchase from their
pivate funds.
For, with his appointment recently
to Governor Harris’ staff, Colonel I.
Lrown has been of the retinue of four
chief executives, beginning with Gov- :
e - nor Candler, and being re-appointed
by Governors Terrell and Smith. He
retired to private life during the ad
n inistrations of Joseph M. Brown and 1
John M. Slaton, but now he has taken :
the gold lace out of the cedar chest (
again and is ready once more to serve I <
his commonwealth on tbs muddy field .1
Citv
’Veditionl
SUNDAY SCHOOL
NAMED FOB 1916
IN NEXTJONTH
The second annual “Georgia Go to
' Sunday School Day” is February 13th,
1916.
When considering the rapid progress
>
that has been made along commercial
and industrial lines in Georgia in th*
last few years, due consideration must
also be given to the progress that ha*
been made in the Sunday school work.
All over the state the religious lead
ers are putting renewed effort into th*
1 work of the Sunday school, and few
things in the state are making a*
rapid progress.
Under the auspices of the Georgia
Sunday School association, headquar
ters 1519 Building, Atlanta, many
helpful things have been put before
the Sunday school workers of the
state. This association is a co-opera
tive effort of the state of all denomi
nations to build up and increase the
efficiency of the Sunday schools of
the state, and is one of the prime fac
tors in the rapid progress that is be
ing made in the work. The officers of
the association are leaders from the
various denominations.
One very helpful and interesting
thing that was inaugurated by the as
sociation was the Georgia Go to Smt
day School Day, which was first ob
served on February 14th, '915. Thfe
was the first statewide day of the kind
‘ ever observed in the state. The asso
ciation prepared and furnished free *
special program to be used in the Sun
dry schools on that day. A large num
ber of the schools in the state used the
programs and the results were very
gratifying to those that carried out
the suggestions. For example, one
country school reported 105 present,
against 35 the year before. In one of
the large schools in Atlanta there
were 308 more people present than on
the same Sunday the year before. The
first 131 reports sent into the state
offic showed an increase of 6,332 over
the corresponding Sunday the year
before. Other reports sent in later
were just as good.
From the office of the association
comes the information that in a meet
ing of the executive committee some
time ago it was voted to observe “Go
to Sunday School Day’’ this year on
Sunday, February 13th. The commit
tee appointed to arrange the program
for the day announce that because of
their experience last year they have
been able to prepare a more attractive
program for this year and one that
will be more to the Sunday
schools. It is planned so it will not
interfere with the lesson period, but
can be used as an opening
v ith special songs, responsive read
ings which give some interesting facts
about the Sunday school work in fit*
world, the nation and in Georgia.
The day is being widely advertised.
From th? office of the state associa
tion printed matter and letters are be
ing sent to Sunday school superintend
ents in the state giving information
about how to plan for the day. Tue
suggestion is that the Sunday schools
of the state, make an effort to have an
increase of fifty per cent, over the
average attendance. Programs for
the day will be furnished free to any
white Sunday school in the state is
such quantities as may be desired.
.Such requests should be addressed to
Mr. D. W. Sims, general secretary,
Georgia Sunday School association.
Hurt Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
of dress parade, or face the formidable
filet mignon at the banquet board. Dr.
Brown was formerly a member of
Georgia legislature aucj. is-one ofjJfctf*'
most popular ,men in the stately'
NUMBER 8,