The bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 191?-19??, November 12, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME V. NUMBER 2. GERMAN FORCES STEADILY ADVANCE Teutons And Bulgars Now Closely United And Are Taking Heavy Toll Os Prisoners RUSSIANS BEGIN OFFENSIVE Austria Said To Be Concentrating 120,000 Men To Invade Montenegro London.—Beyond the fact that Lord Kitchener has departed for the Near East, there is little news from the allied side respecting Balkan affairs. Germans Capture Krusevac The Austro-Germans have succeed ed in crossing the Morava river, in Serbia, and General von Gallwitz has occupied Krusevac, one of Serbia’s largest towns, about thirty miles due northwest of Nish. The fall of Krus evae means that the branch railway line to Ushitze, near the Bosnian frontier, has been broken by the in vaders close to the point where it leaves the main Belgrade-Nish-Salon iki line. A large number of prisoners and ten guns and a lot of war mate rial fell into German hands. Montenegrins Defeat Austrians The Bulgarians also are advancing from the east; but in the west the Montenegrins claim to have inflicted another defeat on the Austrians. The Austrians are said to be concentrating a force of 120,000 men in Herzegovina for an invasion of Montenegro. Russians Drive At The Teutons The Russians continue their attacks in Courland, Volhynia and Galicia, and •while they report some successes they apparently are not making any at tempt to advance. According to Pe trograd correspondents, there is no such intention of such an attempt, the present object of the attacks being to harass the Austro-Germans and pre vent them from preparing positions for the winter. Italians Capture Col Di Lana The Italians captured the Col di Lana and after a charge through the snow hoisted the Italian flag on the summit. The Austrian war office ad mits that the Col di Lana was taken by the Italians, but declares that ■counter attacks by the Austrians re sulted in its recapture. KILLED OR DISABLED WAR VICTIMS TOTAL 15,000,000 Former High Chancellor Os England Makes This States In The House Os Lords London. —The debate on the con duct of the war and the censorship was resumed in the house of lords, when Earl Loreburn, former high chancellor, brought up the subject, declaring that he took this action ■owing to his belief that the marquis of Lansdowne, the minister without portfolio, had not made adequate re ply to the arguments of Viscount Morley. Thinks “Revolution Or Anarchy” Sure Earl Loreburn spoke of what he termed the “misadventures” of the Antwerp expedition, the loss of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock’s squadron, the Dardanelles operations and the Balkan expedition. The speak er said he had been told two months ago that fifteen million men had been killed or disabled for life and that multitudes had been added to this number since and that if the conflict continued indefinitely, “revolution' or anarchy” would surely follow in Eu rope. $10,000,000 For Year's Advertisement Chicago.—Railroads of the United States demonstrated their faith in newspaper advertising by spending $10,000,000 for newspaper space dur ing the last fiscal year, according to an address made before the Chicago Advertising association by Garrett Fort. 1,500 Amateur Poets Lose $lO Each New York.—Sixty-six of the 1,500 amateur poets scattered throughout the nation, who put up $lO to enter a song poem contest, will be called as witnesses against John T. New comber, alias John T. Hall, on trial here on charges of using the mails to defraud the public. Passport Frauds Denied By Germany Washington.—Germany, in a note to the state department, denies flatly ■testimony alleged to have been given Kin English courts that German offi ■cers “prepared false American pass- Kports and handed them to agents” ■and expresses doubt that such testi ■mony ever actwaly was given. The Kiote is in reply to a letter presented Ht>y Ambassador Gerard directing the ■ittention of the imperial government Mo statements said to have been made M>y Robert Rosenthal and George T. Mjreckow, alleged German spies. Sir HuUvtin MISS HELEN L. SUMNER IBIK fl IHI i Miss Helen L. Sumner Is the new ly appointed assistant chief of the fed eral children’s bureau. She is an au thority on child welfare laws and is compiling a reference index of all leg islation that affects children. Miss Sumner was born in Sheboygan, Wis., and is a graduate of Wellesley college. MORE TROOPS FOR SERBIA FRESH ALLIED TROOPS BEING RUSHED FROM SALONIKI INTO BULGARIA Serbian Armies Are Fighting Stern Battles As They Slowly Retire Southward London. —The vigorous support which Herbert H. Asquith, the British premier, amt. Aristide Briand, the new French premier, have promised Serbia seemingly is about to be realized. Be sides the Anglo-French troops, in cluding British cavalry, already in southern Serbia, British and French transports are daily arriving in Sal oniki and fresh troops are being rush ed to the front to attempt to check the Bulgarian march from Veles to ward Monastir, while other transports, according to a Sofia dispatch, have landed troops at Kavala, a Greek port on the Aegean sea, near the Bulgari an border. At the same time the dip lomats continue their efforts to se cure the support of Greece and Rou mania for Serbia, who fought with them in the last Balkan war. Serbians Fighting Stubbornly As time passes, however, Serbia’s position grows more critical. The Aus tro-Gennan drive from the north pro ceeds slowly, but surely, while two Bulgarian armies are aprpoaching Nish, from which place the Serbian government has mc^>d to Mistrovitsa, near the Montenegrin frontier. Russians Are On Offensive The Russians on the eastern front are delivering attacks against the Teutons at various points or success fully counter attacking at others. Ber lin admits that between the Swenton and Ilsen lakes, in the region of Dvinsk, the Germans under iFeld Mar shal von Hindenburg were forced to retire and that the Russians occupied the villages of Mikulischki and Platon ostka, taking numerous prisoners and several machine guns. AMBASSADOR WHITLOCK WILL LEAVE BELGIUM United States Minister Returning For Vacation On Account Os 111 Health Washington.—Brand Whitlock, the American minister to Belgium, cabled the state department that he was pre paring to return to the United States for a vacation on account of ill health. Mr. Whitlock's decision to return home, he advised the department, was in pursuance of orders from his physi cian. Officials had known of his ill health for some time, and several weeks ago he was instructed to leave whenever his condition required it. England Wants Another $1,250,000,000 London. —Another vote of credit will be introduced in the house of com mons soon. In announcing this fact. Premier Asquith did not,mention the amounts, but it is expected to be sl,- 250,000,000. If the credit amounts to $1,250,000,000, it will bring the to tal war credits parliament has voted up to seven and a half billion dollars. The present British expenditure on the war is at the rate of $25,000,000 daily, the increase being largely due to advances to Great Britain’s allies and expenditures on ammunition. IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915. BRITISH METHODS ARE ATTACKED United States Makes Strong Protest To England In Regard to The Rights Os Neutral Nations SAYS BLOCKADE INEFFECTIVE U. S. Declares Itself Champion Os Neutral Rights And Observance Os International Law Washington.—The United States, in its latest note'to Great Britain, made public here, covering exhaustively British interference with American trade since the beginning of the Eu ropean war, declares that the so-called blockade instituted by the allies against enemy countries on March 11 is “ineffective, illegal and indefensi ble.” Notice is served that the Unit ed States government “cannot submit to the curtailment of its neutral rights,” and it cannot “with compla cence suffer subordination of its rights and interests.” Established Rules Must Govern Ambassador Page, to whom the note was sent by special messenger for de livery to the London foreign office, was instructed by Secretary Lansing “to impress most earnestly” upon the British government that the United States “must insist that the relations between it and his majesty’s govern ment be governed not by a policy of expediency, but by those establish ed rules of international conduct to which Great Britain in the past has held the United States to account when the latter nation was a bellig erent engaged in a struggle for na tional existence.” All Phases Treated Declaring the United States “unhesi tatingly assumes” the task of cham pioning the integrity of neutral rights, the note proclaims that the American government will devote its energies to the task, exercising always an im partial altitude. The note, nearly 15,- 000 words in length, was made public by agreement between the state de partment and the British foreign of fice. It carries with it a voluminous appendix, giving the text of American naval instructions issued in 1862 and a summary and table showing hun dreds of vessels detained by British authorities since the beginning of the present war. SHIRKERS ARE KEPT IN GREAT BRITAIN Nine Hundred Irishmen Os Military Age Not Allowed To Sail—Crowd Called Them “Cowards” Liverpool.—Nine hundred Irishmen who intended to sail for New York on the Cunard line steamship Saxonia were prevented by the steamship com pany from taking passage. The com pany declined to permit them to sail after there had been several stormy encounters between the Irishmen and street crowds, which took the view that able-bodied men should not be permitted to evade liability to military service in this manner. The arrival of the Irishmen in Liverpool drew a crowd outside the steamship offices. Two Irishmen were knocked down by women. Others were set upon and decorated with white feathers. Steamer Refused To Take Them Ignoring cries of “cowards!” “trai tors!” and refusing to listen to the ap peals of the recruiting sergeant, the Irishmen marched to the dock. When they arrived the Saxonia’s firemen, catching the spirit of the crowd, in formed the steamship company they would not leave with the Saxonia if the Irishmen were permitted to sail. The company upheld the firemen, and they were not permitted to sail. Japanese Ship Sunk By The Germans Tokyo.-—The Japanese steamer Yas akuni Maru —5,118 tons gross—was sunk by a German submarine near Gi braltar. The captain and crew reach ed shore safely. The Yasakuni Maru sailed from New York, October 6, for Oran, Algeria, and arrived at Gibral tar, October 23. Fifty-five members of the French steamer Calvados, sunk by a German submarine, November 4, near the Straits of Gibraltar, have been rescued and taken to port by the British steamer Lady Plymouth. Earl Kitchener Goes To The Balkans London. —While the allies can have but little hope of Greece aiding them in the defense of Serbia, the belief persists here that it is not too late to turn the tables on the invaders. The departure for the east of Lord Kitchener after conferences in Paris with Premier Briand. General Gallienl, war minister and General Joffre, com mander-in-chief of the field forces, has given confidence that the campaign is to be carried on energetically by the man who knows the east better than almost any one else. WALTER SCHOLZ I ’ll I - Walter Scholz is one of the men held in New York on charges of con spiring to blow up munitions and steamships and damage American mu nition factories. He is a brother-in law of Robert Fay, the alleged chief plotter. GREECE VERGING ON WAR OLD CABINET RESIGNS AND NEW PREMIER IS SELECTED BY KING Venizlos Declares That The King Is Interfering With “Constitu tional Liberties” *+*+++++ + + + + + + + + + + New Greek Cabinet Formed + + + + London. —The political cri- + + sis in Greece has been over- + + Come, M. Skouloudis having ac- + + fcepted and performed the task + + of organizing a cabinet, which, + + being composed of all the mem- + + tars of the Zaimis government, + + With the exception of the ex- + + premier himself, will carry on + + the former government’s pol- + + icy of maintaining neutrality. + '*+++*+++ + + + + + + + London. —The defeat of the Greek government in the chamber of depu ties and the consequent resignation of the Zaimis cabinet is the latest sensation afforded by the Balkans. King Persists In Benevolent Neutrality Apparently determined that Mr. Zaimis shall remain in the office of prime minister, King Constantine urg ed him to retain the premiership. Ac cording to Athens dispatches, how ever, M. Zaimis declined to acqui esce in the king's desire, whereupon the king called a council of ministers, the deliberation of which may or may not determine whether Greece is to align herself against Bulgaria or per sist in her attitude of “benevolent neu trality,” which means that though the allied troops may cross her soil, her armies shall not aid them in driving the Bulgarians from Serbia. PRESIDENT MAKES APPEAL FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE America's Only Desire Is To Preserve Freedom In The Western Hemisphere New. York—President Wilson open ed the administration campaign for its national defense program in a comprehensive and carefully prepared address delivered here at the Manhat tan club banquet. He declared sol emnly that the United States had no aggressive purposes, but must be pre pared to defend itself in order to as sume “full liberty and self-develop ment.” Significantly, he said that “with ourselves in this great matter we associate all the peoples of our own hemisphere," adding that “we wish not only for the United States, but for them the fullest freedom of independent growth of action." The president was received with enthusi astic applause as he entered the ban quet hall and during bis address. Profit Os $1,410,873 For Big Exposition San Francisco. —The net profit of the Panama-Pacific exposition is now $1,410,873. it is announced. The total income of the exposition since the opening to October 31. according to the report of the comptroller, is $6,048,129. Postal Revenues Show Prosperity Washington.—October postal reve nues, Postmaster General Burleson an nounces. show a return to a normal rate of increase and are a barometer of increasing business prosperity. "Postal receipts at the fifty largest postotflees during October, which col lect one-half of the postal revenues contain important evidence of healthy and well distributed prosperity in the country. Postal increase is acknowl edged to be an accurate barometer of business conditions,” says the post master general. BIG LINER SUNK BY A SUBMARINE Italian Line Steamer Ancona Torpedoed On Way From Naples Te New York And Many Persons Drown SURVIVORS ARE WOUNDED There Were 422 Passenger Aboard And 160 Seamen—Vessel Worth Over Million Dollars London. —A large submarine flying the Austrian flag has sunk the Italian steamer Ancona from Naples for New York. Dispatches from Rome give no details of the disaster beyond the fact that 270 survivors of 582 persons have been landed at Bizerta, on the north African coast. Os those on the An cona 422 were passengers. Shells Or Torpedoes Used Some of the survivors were wound ed, which would indicate the use by the submarine of a torpedo or shells. As the Ancona was bound for New York, she could not have carried con traband. Vessel Valued At Over Million The Ancona has been in the Italian line service for six years and without her cargo was valued at more than $1,000,000. She played a prominent part in the rescue of passengers from the burning Fabre liner Sant’ Anna in mid-Atlantic last September 12. She came to the Sant’ Anna's aid and took off more than 600 passengers. The Sant’ Anna carried more than 2,000 passengers, but succeeded in checking the fire and proceeded to the Azores without further assistance from the Ancona. Washington Stirred By Tragedy Washington.—News of the sinking of the Ancona caused a sensation in this city, as it was regarded as fore shadowing a new controversy between the United States and Austria similar to the critical dispute with Germany that followed the torpedoing of the Lusitania. Before making any com ment, however, officials awaited infor mation on two points—whether the vessel was torpedoed without warn ing and whether any Americans were among the victims. MIKADO ACCEDES TO THRONE OF JAPAN Never Before Have People Been Al lowed To Witness Rites—Tradi tions Broken By Publicity Kioto. —For the first time in his tory, the people of Japan and the rep resentatives of the people of foreign lands were present at the coronation of a mikado, when Yoshihito, son of Mutsuhito, acceded to the throne of Nippon. The story of this epochal event is the history of old Japan epitomized. It is the story of the Japanese deities of heaven and earth, of the venera tion of the imperial ancestral gods and of the formal accession to sanctity of the monarch of today—Yoshihito— direct descendant of the immortal Jim mu. the first emperor and founder of the empire and descendant also, ac cording to tradition, of the sun god dess and imperial grai\d ancestress, Amaterasu Omikami, who dwelt in the heavenly regions in prehistoric ages. The essence of the accession cere mony centered about the Kashikodo koro, or sacred mirror, which repre sents the spirit of the sun goddess, Amaterasu. This divine mirror sup posed to be of bronze, though no mor tal eyes have gazed upon it. together with the sacred comma-shaped jewel necklace and the sacred sword, are known as the imperial treasures and symbolize the imperial power. The ceremony is a ritual service of ances tor worship and is held in a specially erected hall in the palace grounds known as the Shunkoden hall where the sacred mirror brought from To kyo is enshrined. Largest Corn Crop Ever Grown In U. S. Washington. —The nation’s corn crop this year is the most valuable ever grown. Based on prices paid farmers November 1. it is worth near ly two billion dollars —$1,913,025,000 in exact figures. In size it is second only to the record crop of 1912. The production is 3.090,509.000 bushels. 34,- 000.000 less than the country's previ ous biggest corn crop. Allies Have Landed 300.000 Troops Saloniki. —In the south the over growing strength of the French and British forces is beginning to tell. They are pressing an energetic offen sive against the Bulgars; have man aged to keep the railroads clear as far as Veles and are barring the Bul gars' route to Monastir. It is reported that the allies have already landed 300,000 troops at Saloniki. A hint that Italy may aid Serbia indirectly by sending troops to Albania to meet a threatened Bulgarian invasion is con tained in a semi-official Roman note. SI.OO A YEAR LITTLE ITEMS OF STATE INTEREST ’ Augusta.—The Georgia-Carolina fair 1 opened for its tenth annual exhibition. The exhibits compare favorably with । any preceding year, and the attend ance was large. Macon. —Lavonia V. Shivers, a young man who moved here from At lanta, was found dead on the sidewalk at Telfair and Boundary streets with- I in two blocks of his home. Mrietta.—After finishing her mid । day work, Mrs. Herbert Barfield, aged 25, committed suicide by shooting her self through the heart at her home, three miles from Marietta, Ga. ; Thomasville.—The Thomas county i fair closed after the most successful exhibit in its history. Thirty thou > sand people were in attendance in : one day, according to a conservative • estimate. i Columbus. —J. J. Songers and C. J. McHaffey, both of Manchester, Ga., were inpured on the Talbotton road about five miles from Columbus, when their car collided with another ma chine driven by a young man named Dismukes. Cordele. —Charlie Owen, William Knox, Steve Watson and Belton Burk halter, all young white men, are pris oners in the Crisp county jail after having arrested at Hahira, charged with the theft of an automobile be longing to Billy Greer, of Cordele. Columbus. —Charged with malicious ly breaking bottles containing a fluid with a disgusting odor in three local theaters with the purpose of harming the business of the motion picture houses, three young men are to be given a preliminary hearing in police court. Douglas.—Enthusiastic expectancy prevails in town and county over the Coffee county fair, which will open here . Elaborate displays of farm, household and domestic products are in place, and many varieties of fine cattle, hogs, horses and poultry have been entered. Albany.—c. O. Hall. 28 years old and a prominent business man of Leesburg, killed himself at his home in that place by firing a pistol bul let into his brain. The young man's parents had been for an automobile ride, and when they returned they were horrized to find the body of their ! son weltering in his own blood. Rome.—Acting under a recently en acted law of this state, Frank R. Maddox, inspector for the state de partment of agriculture, condemned four carloads of flour found here. The manufacturers failed to state on the packages whether the flour was bleached by chlorine or by electric ity. Macon. —The record Boys' Cora Club yield for Georgia this year goes to Bernard Gaston of Jackson, who showed a yield of 141.3 bushels on a single acre with a profit from the one acre of $66.43: Eddie King of Upotoi, Muscogee county, being second, with 115 bushels raised at a profit of $90.36. Brunswick. —Mrs. Lula Cary, a pretty, fascinating young woman, about 28 years of age, was lodged in the Camden county jail at St. Ma rys by Sheriq Higginbotham follow ing an indictment against her on the charge of murdering her husband, whosed eath in Camden a few months ago caused considerable discussion from one end of the county to the other owing to the fact that he died under peculiar circumstances. Leesburg.—G. W. Chance and his son, Claude Chance, indicted by the Lee county grand jury, charged with the murder of A. D. Oliver, a banker, came here and surrender to Sheriff B. R. Moreland and were placed in jail. The elder Chance said he was in Sa vannah when he learned of the indict ment and started for Leesburg imme diately. Both claim they are inno cent. Savannah. —Military preparation took a prominent position in the pro gram of the convention of the Atlan tic Deeper Waterways association, which opened here. Coastal water ways as they affect the national de fense, particularly in the maneuvering of submarines, a demonstration ot mortar firing and mine exploding at Fort Screven on Tybee island, and dis cussion by army officers of coastal defenses, were carried out. Decatur. —The wealth of DeKalb floats of every kind and description, a court house loaded full of exhibits, additional buildings with poultry and caravans live stock and hogs were the immense panorama displayed in De catur at the DeKalb County One-Day Fair. A pageant over two miles in length made up of agricultural and industrial floats, civic bodies of the different towns of DeKalb county; 5,000 school children from the varios institutions, farmers ’ organizations, boys and girls’ corn and canning clubs, boy scouts and campfire girls. Governor Harris, the state legislature, confederate veterans, delegations from other towns and counties, in automo biles and other clubs, was in evidence.