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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
SIR ROGER CASEMENT
GOES ON TRIAL WITH
CHARGE OF TREASON
High Treason Is
Charge Against
Sir Roger
KNIGHTED 81 CROWN
OF J. 0. IN 1911
Relation To Irish
And Germans
Is Charged
LONDON, May 15.—Sir Roger Case
ment arraigned today in the Bow
street police court, charged with high
treason in connection with the Irish
revolt. This trial is preliminary to the
real hearing before a panel of the High
Justice court. Few persons were ad
mitted to the court today.
Casement was arraigned together
with a private soldier held on the same
charge. A long statement counsel for
Casement presented to the magistrate
today is expected to materially short
en the first trial. Casement, it was
charged at today’s hearing, induced a
private soldier to break his oath of al
legiance to Great Britain, the act con- j
stituting high treason against the gov
ernment.
The attorney for the crown in his
opening statement to the court said
Casement went to prison camps in
Germany for the purpose of inciting
Irish prisoners to join a brigade, w-hich
te said he would take to Ireland. Sir
Reger, he alleged, promised these
prisoners that the German government
would give them ten to twenty pounds
each at the end of the war and free
transportation to America. The state
ments, the crown's attorney asserted,
were generally treated with contempt
by the loyal Irishmen to whom they
were made.
The prosecutor then told of Sir Ro
ger’s trip to Tralee, Ireland, in a Ger
man submarine and of the sinking of
a vessel carrying twenty thoustand ri
fles for use in the rebellion. When the
ciown prosecutor began the introduc
tion of witnesses, reference was made
to Casement having been knighted by
the king as recently at 1911, at which
reference the prisoner bowed his head.
JAPANESE COTTON CLOTH
15 IS GREAHIEMANQ NOW
TOKIO, May 15. —The demand for
Japanese cotton cloth of various
kinds is steadily increasing in China,
India and Russia, where stocks of
European goods are beginning to run
low on account of the continuance
of the war. Before the war Japan re
ceived from England a supply of cot
ton cloth of superior quality but she
i, now supplying England with large
quantities of this material, essim
istic views are, however, expressed in
some quarters in Japan as to the fu
ture of the cotton trade because the
manufacturers are experiencing con
siderable difficulty in obtaining the
necessary supply of dyes, stocks of
which are fast diminishing. Japan is
now trying to manufacture her own
dyes.
SHRINERS FROM
iALL SECTION ARE
AWAITING TIMES
The ceremonial cf Shriners from
Alee Temple, of Savannah, to be held
in Americus on June Bth, is attracting
attention all over this section of the
state, and most every section will fur
nish candidates in the class which will
tread the hot sands.
The work of arranging for the enter
tainment of this body is going stead
ily ahead, with W. F. Smith as chair
man of the general committee.
Americus will entertain about five'
hundred visitors on that day, and a
brilliant scene will form the doings of
the Shriners on June Bth.
Columbus is interested in the cere
monial. The following article appear
ed in the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
“Members of Alee Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, are looking forward with great
interest to the Shrine ceremonial that
is to be staged at Americus on June
Bth. The original date for this cere
monial was placed during the latter
fart of May, but the Shriners of
Americus have caused the date to be
changed to June Bth.
“It is the intention of the Shrine
club of Columbus to take in this spring
ceremonial in all its glory, and ar
rangements are being made to have
a party of ten automobiles to go to
Americus on hte above named date,
leaving here early in the morning and
returning late at night.”
Shriners Meet Tuesday.
The Shriners of Americus and Sum
ter county are urged to meet at the
courthouse Tuesday afternoon at 6
o'clock in the office of Sam R. Heys.
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4 D AILY WEATHER REPORT 4
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4 GIA: Probably fair today ♦
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Negro Troops Guarding Mexican Prisoners
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There never were happier Negroes in the world than the guards who took charge of the Mexicans sent as prisoners to Namiquipa. These
bandits had been taken in the various fights of American troops with the followers of Villa. General Pershing’s black men acted like lords of crea
tion while they stood guard over th disconsolate greasers.
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Sharp fighting is in progress today
in the western field, exceeding in in
tensity that recently noted along the
British front. On the Verdun front
notable artilery activity is reported. In
northern France and Flanders there is
increased interest in troop movements.
Paris reports today brisk artillery
action*: on both sides in the Cham
pagne region and at Verdun the play
I of the big guns is continuous. Noth-
I ing more is reported, however, on the
I western battle line.
Premier Asquith has left London and
1 is in conference at Belfast, Ireland, to
-1 day with leading Irishmen regarding
l further punitive measures in connec
-1 tion with the recent revolt.
Greece and Allies Bury Hatchet.
LONDON, May 15—The British for
• eign office announces this afternoon
that outstanding differences between
Greece and the Entente Allies have
teen settled amicably, with the result
' that there will be no violation df
. Creek neutrality.
GLASS DAY EXERCISES
OF J. & M. COLLEGE
: Class day exercises at the Third Dis-
■ tret A. & M. college will be hell
. Tuesday night, instead of tonight as
. originally planned. This out of deffer-
■ ence to the students of the Americus
■ High school who will stage a minstrel
i play at the High school auditorium to
night.
. The public will, therefore, bear in
mind that Tuesday night the Class Day
exercises of the A. & M. college will be
. held, that a splendid program will be
. carried out and that the public gen
, orally are cordially invited to attend
the exercises.
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♦ EIGHT KILLED IN POWDER 4
4 EXPLOSION IN NEW JERSEY. 4
4 GIBBSTON, N. J., May 15. 4
♦ Eight men are reported killed in 4
♦ an explosion which destroyed the 4
♦ Repauno plant of the DuPont 4
4 Powder Company. Among the 4
4 dead are believed to be the super- ♦
4 intendent and his assistant. 4
♦ The cause of the disaster has 4
♦ not been located. 4
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 15, 1916
AMERICAN MIXES If!
THE IBISH REBELLION
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James JI. Sullivan.
James M. Sullivan, former Ameri
can minister to Santo Domingo, be
fore which he was a New York law
year and a friend of William J. Bryan,
has been arrested in Dublin on some
charge in connection with the Irish
rebellion.
ML OF EXCEPTIONS
I IN RAILROAD SUIT
A bill of exceptions to the Court of
Appeals has been filed in the case of
S E. Vaughn vs. the Seaboard Air
Line railway, who was awarded a ver
dict of $15,000 for alleged personal
damages in the City Court.
Judge W. M. Harper denied a motion ‘
. for a new trial in the case and counsel
, for the railroad, E. A. and R. T. Hawk
, ins, filed an appeal. Shipp & Shep
pard represent Mr. Vaughan.
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‘P. 0.5. OF I. GIMPS
MEET IN JOINT SFSiION
The state camp of the Patriotic Ord-
Icr Sons of America, will meet in this i
.city on July 4. A joint meeting of lo-’
.cal camps Nos. 14 and 24, will be
I held tonight in their hall for the pur-j
pose of devising plans, discussing the J
•I v hys and the wherefores of the ap- !
1 proaching meeting in July.
It is planned to make this a great;
SOUTH GEORGIA
HAS COMPANY IN
READINESS NOW
ATLANTA, Ga„ May 15.—That Geor
gians stand ready to defend the nation
in time of peril was strikingly demon- j
strated in Washington, D. 0., on Satur-j
day when Jesse E. Mercer, former state
gtme warden of Georgia, tendered to
Secretary of War Baker the services of
1,000 men, as valunteers prepared to
take up arms at the first call.
For several weeks Mr. Mercer has
been quietly enlisting recruits for a
reserve regiment of volunteers around
Waycross, Brunswick, Blackshear,
Ocilla. Valdosta, Americus, Cordele,
Moultrie, Fitzgerald, Hazlehurst and
other south Georgia towns, and when
he went to Washington to tender the
services of his regiment he did not pre
sent the secretary of war with a fine
sounding hot-air speech, but with facts,
figures and names and addresses. The
services of the regiment were immed
iately and enthusiastically accepted,
and the roster was filed in the war de
partment.
The week ending Saturday was one
in which several Georgians came prom
inently to the front in the national
capital, along with Colonel Mercer and
his volunteers.
Senator Hoke Smith had the satis
faction of seeing his vocational training
provision retained in the army bill as
agreed upon by the house and senate
conferees, and the further satisfaction
of seeing his market provision further
strengthened in the senate agricultural
committee’s final draft of the agricul
tural bill. Vocational training for en
listed men in the regular army of the
United States will do more to attract
substantial young men to the service
than any other feature the government
could offer, in the opinion of army offi
cers.
Still another Georgian figuring
prominently in the Washington news
dispatches is Major P. C. Harris, of the
United States army, a brother of Hon.
William J. Harris, of the Federal
j Trade commission. Major Harris has
been promoted to the rank of assist
i
ant adjutant general and assigned to
duty at Washington. He is a graduate
of West Point, distinguished himself
(for gallantry in action in the Spanish-
I American war, and has a son at West
I Point who is forging ahead.
1 occasion for the P. O. S. of A., and a
lull attendance is urged for this meet
; ir.g tonight.
!G. I. CHAMBLISS TO
I IMPBOOS RESIDENCE
I C. A. Chambliss will improve his
residence on Barlow street, near Tay
lor. He will add another story and
| make other handsome Improvements.
John W. Shiver has been given the I
contract to do the work, which fact is 1 I
r guarantee that the improvements
will be done as they should be.
SCDTT RETURNS
TO WASHINGTON■
WITH A .REPORT;
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 15. ‘
General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of
the United States army, reached 1
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Washington early today from El Paso,
Tex. Gen. Scott brought with him a
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complete report of his conversations
with General Alxarez Obregon, secre
tary of war in the Carranza Mexican
, cabinet, concerning the border situa
tion.
It is expected several days will be re
quired for Gen. Scott to discuss fully f
with President Wilson and his advis- *
, ers the conditions as they exist in the j
. troubled republic to the south, and un- (
til then no negotiations will be umder
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taken with Emelio Arredondo, the Car- (
ranza ambassador-designate, here. Fu- (
ture negotiations upon the situation {
; are to be conducted through the state A
department, but the war department t
; will continue the efforts to put down
, bandits in northern Mexico. (
Washington officials today appeared
! anxious to learn precisely why Gen. ,
Obregon, the Mexican representative ,
at the border conference, declined to ,
i sign an agreement covering the opera- ,
ticns of American troops in Mexico, (
; though none of these officials appeared (
exercised over the possibility of future j
■ clashes between United Stales and Car- 1
ranza troops. It was announced Sun- (
I day that a “gentleman’s agreement" :
1 1
1 had been reached concerning the hunt
> for bandits in Mexico, but no formal |
■ agreement upon the subject has been j
1 signed. (
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Scott and Baker Confer.
• WASHINGTON. D. C., May 15.
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s General Scott, chief of the army gen- i
’ oral staff, conferred today with Secre- (
- tary Baker, of the war department. (
: Following the conference, Secretary
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j Baker stated the border conferences
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had generally created a favorable im-
I
pression, and expressed the opinion
that an agreement acceptable to both (
sides can be formed.
, I More Raids Are Planned.
■' SAN ANTONIO. Tex., May 15.—Re- 1 '
ceipt of information at army head-i
quarters at Fort Sam Houston that . 1
agitators across the line from Pro-! 1
gresso have planned more raids caus-4 ’
ed military officers today to strength-, ’
en the border patrol between Browns
ville and Rio Grande City. It is ex- ■ 1
pected also that an entire regiment of , ’
infantry will be sent to Progresso.
Department of justice agents today 1
reported to General Funston that agi- 1
tators in Mexico have succeeded in 1
getting a number of minor Carranza
officers to promise to co-operate with 1
or give passive support the raiders’ 1
plans.
Lanjpthorne’s Expedition Stops.
MARATHON, Tex., May 15.—The ex- ,
pedition chasing the Glenn Springs i
bandits in Mexico, stopped its dash;
today and it now awaiting reinforce
ments, acocrding to reports reaching
here this afternoon. Maj. Laingshorne,
in command of the expedition has ask
ed Gen. Funston for aid, and it is pos
sible national guard troops may be
pent over the line to his supoprt.
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’Ueditionl.
PROHIBITION IS
HERE TH STAY IN
AU OF GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Ga., May 15.—Prohibi
tion of the presen* genuine variety,
which was ushered in the first of the
■ rent month, is an established insti
tution in Georgia, according to the
concensus of opinion among newspa
pers. public officials and well informed
citizens in general.
Moreover, the strict enforcement of
the law against blind tigers, bootleg
gers and other violators is generally
accepted as a foregone conclusion.
With hardly an exception the news
papers of the state have come out
strongly in support of the laws. Some
of them were openly opposed to the
enactment of statutes so drastic in
their provisions, and others gave more
or less aid and comfort to the enemies
of the laws, but now that the laws are
written upon the statute books these
same newspapers, taking high ground,
have demanded that the laws be en
forced. They have demanded it on the
general ground that all laws should
be enforced, regardless of honest dif
ferences of opinion prior to enactment,
and have demanded it on the particu
lar ground that Georgia should en
force her prohibition laws as an ans
swer to the chargee of lawlessness
which have been spread abroad against
the state.
One after another the judges, solici
tors, sheriffs and other officers have
placed themselves squarely on record
as opposed to violations of the prohi
bition) laws, and it is significant to
note that this has happened in com
munities where previously the prohibi
tion law had little weight, as well as in
the communities where previously the
prohibition laws had little weight, as
well as in the communities where the
old law was enforced as thoroughly as
it was capable of enforcement.
. Even the city of Savannah and Chat
ham county, which have their own
ideas concerning the right of a citizen
ofwoting age to slake his thirst, have
rallied to the support of Mayor W. J.
Pierpont, the fighting chief executive
cf Savannah, in his campaign to en
force the prohibition laws, and the po
lice department of the city, as well as
the county authorities, are making it
extremely uncomfortable for blind ti
gers. Practically the same condition
prevails in Augusta, another city that
was not famous as a Sahara desert un
der the old prohibition law.
So far as Atlanta is concerned, there
is absolutely no question, nor has there
been, as to the enforcement of the law.
Beginning with the police depart
ment and going all the way up to Judge
Ben H. Hill, of Flton Superior court,
the blind tigers have been served with
notice that they cannot ply their trade,
and are being given daily doses of
treatment for failure to heed the
warning, while the upper crust is
likewise warned in no uncertain terms
that any violations of the law com
mitted by them will be visited with
heavy penalties.
The clubs that were formed for the
sole purpose of selling liquor and were
bereft of their only means of support
when the prohibition laws went into ef
fect, have gone out of business, and
in this category are included several
organizations that were patronized by
a highly representative clientile of
prominent busines and professional
merit. The bona fide social clube.
which were in existence prior to the
enactment of the old prohibition law,
and which are not dependent upon 11-
cuor profits for support, are still run-
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