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VOLUME V. NUMBER 29.
STRONG PROTEST
TO GREAT BRITAIN
United States Preparing Sharp Note In
Regard To Seizure Os Mails
On The High Seas
MUST MODIFYJER POLICY
Reply Os England To American Note
Is Unsatisfactory To* Pres
ident Wilson
Washington. — Negotations with
•Great Britain regarding interference
with mails to and from the United
States and interruption of neutral
commerce by the British fleet are to
be resumed in the very near future.
A note insisting sharply upon modi
fications in the. treatment of mails
already Is being prepared at the state
■department and as soon as possible
work will be begun on a reply to the
last British note defending the oper
ation of the blockade orders in coun
cil.
Secretary Lansing let it be known
that the implied condition in the Ger
man note on submarine warfare ex
pressing confidence that the United
States would hold Great Britain to
compliance with international law,
made it difficult to proceed with
the British negotiations. He said
however, that these negotia
tions would be continued promptly in
spite of the embarrassing situation.
The note now being prepared reitera
tes the- original protest of the United
States against the detention and in
terference with American mails,
A phase of interference with mails
■which -will be made the subject of spe
cial protest is the custom of taking
neutral ships into British ports for
inspection and then removing the
mails and sometimes subjecting them
to long delays.
In addition to the facts laid before
the British government in the first
note more information has been col
lected and will be embodied in the
new., communication. Many individ
uals-and business firms have protest
ed to the government against the de
lays to which their mails have been
subjected.
The refusal of Great Britain to al
low ■ hospital supplies to be sent by
the American Red Cross to Germany
and her allies still is being carefully
investigated at the state department
and a proest on this subject is ex
pected to go forward in the near fu
ture.
CANADA BULLETS STOP
Revolt of Austrians
Many Prisoners Shot Following Out
break In Interment
Camp
Cochrane, Ont.—An outbreak among
Austrian prisoners of war in the in
termerit caihp at Kapuskasing ' was
quelled by the military authorities af
ter one of the prisoners was killed,
nine seriously wounded, several fatal
ly and four slightly injured, it has
been learned here.
The revolt is said to have' been
started by about three hundred Aus
trian prisoners who were removed
from the camp at Penarium, where
they had refused to work and had
turned, on their guards. They were
taken, under heavy guard, to the Ka
puskasing camps,, about sixty ■ mites'
west of Cochrane on the Trans-Con
tinental railway.
RURAL CREDITS BILL
PASSED BY THE HOUSE
A System Os Twelve Land Banks Is
Provided, Controlled By a Farm
Loan Board
Washington.—The GlaSs rural
credits bill, providing for a federal
farm loan board and a system of
twelve land banks, passed the house
by a vote of 295 to 10. A similar
measure has already passed .the sen
ata, and the differences probably will
be worked out soon ip cpnfe,r.gnce..Bnt.
little opposition was encountered by
the bill. Under its terms, the lana
banks would lend money to farmers
at not more than six per cent interest,
through local, loan associations.
14 Workmen Killed—3o Others Hurt
Gibbstown, N. J.—Fourteen men
were kilted and about thirty injured
in a terrific explosion at the Repauno
plant of the DuPont Powder compa
ny, near Gibbstown. The blast oc
curred in the building in which-trin-
Itroluluol is manufactured and wreck
ed that structure and three others.
The dead includes the assistant super
intendent of the trinltrololuol plant.
Some of the injured were taken to a
hospital in Camden and other places,
white about a score were treated by
physicians at the plant.
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porting forts which are being 1 attacked so fiercely by the Germans.
GERMANY ADMITS ATTACK
GERMANY ASSUMES RESPONSI
BILITY FOR SINKING! OF
; Sussex
Reparation To Be Made For Injuries
To Americans Who Were On
Board Vessel
Washington.—Germany, *in a note
received by the state department by
cable from Ambassador Gerard, ad
mits that a German submarine torpe
doed the channel steamer Sussex in
violation of assurances given the Unit
ed States, expresses regret for tlie in
cident, announces’ that the submarine
commander has been “appropriately
punished,” and declares readiness to
pay-an adequate indemnity, to Ameri
cans injured on the vessel.
Offending Commander Punished
It was indicated at the state depart
ment that the German statement that
the offendipg commander had been
punished would be accepted and the
Sussex case considered closed except
for arranging for the payment of in
demnities to the several citizens of
the United States who were hurt.
Jagow Admits He Acted Impulsively
No Strings Tied To The German Note
Berlin.—The American reply to the
German note was delivered by Am
bassador Gerard to the foreign office.
The text of the American answer is
now before the public, having been
published by the morning papers in
Berlin, who comment that there were
no strings tied to the German note.
With the presentation of the note the
German-American submarine contro
versy here is regarded as settled and
negotiations so far as they' concern
the past are virtually closed. Germa
ny holds that its orders to submarine
commanders were issued without
any conditions
SOUTH’S OLD VETERANS
GATHER IN GREAT FORCE
Birmingham, Ala.—Thousand or
gray-clad veterans of the late Civil
war, remnants of the proud armies of
the Confederacy, arrived for their
twenty-sixth annual reunion, which
lasts three days. They were accom
panied by hosts of- Sons ’dnd Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, who will pro
vide the social features which have
become a prominent part of the re
union gatherings. Gen. Bennett Hi‘
Young of Louisville, Ky., commander*
in-chief of the United ■ Confederate
Veterans,-and Gen. W» E. Mickle of
New Orleans, chief of staff, were
among the first arrivals.
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U. S. Asks About Nature Os Penance
Washington.—Secretary Lansing an
..nounces that he. has. asked, .Ambassg-,
dor Gerard at Berlin to ascertain the
nature of the punishment imposed by
the German government on the com
mander of the submarine which sank
the steamer Sussex.
Steamer Founders In The Pacific
San Luis, Obispo, Cal»—The steam
er Roanoke, which left Sgn Francisco
on May 8 for Valparaiso, foundered'at
sea, about one hundred miles south
of San Francisco^ according to a story
told by three survivors who, in a life
boat, with the bodies of five of their
shipmates, drifted ashore here. The
survivors, weak, and delirious,. were
unable to give their" names or any
information of the rest of the crew,
beyond the fact that font other boats
had been launched when the steamer
sank.
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUN?Y V GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1916.
TO BE NO CHANGE IN POLICY
FAILURE OF CONFEREES TO
REACH AGREEMENT WILL
MAKE NO DIFFERENCE
General Pershing Is Concentrating
His Troops On a Shortened Line
In Mexican Territory
Washington.—After President Wil
son and his cabinet had discussed the
report of General Scott on the bor
der conference, which ended in a
deadlock, it was offilcally stated that
the failure of the conferees to reach
an agreement had brought no change
in the policy toward Mexico of the
Washington administration. There was
no evidence among administration- of
ficials of greatly increased concern
over the events at the border and in
Mexico. President Wilson left a week
end trip down the Potomac and Sec
retary Baker went to New Jersey.
Pending new orders from the presi
dent, it was made plain at the war
department that General Pershing’s
expedition Would • remain in Mexico.
Meanwhile, mobilization of National
Guardsmen from the border states and
of additional regulars to strengthen
the border patrol continues'. Should
raiding be renewed additional state
troops Will be called out, and where
ever the bandits leave a hot trail the
army will pursue them into Mexico.
An indication of the attitude of
some members of congress toward
General Carranza’s suggestion that the
American expedition be recalled, came
in the senate when Senator J. Hamit-'
ton Lewis declared he believed: the
majority of the senate never would
vote for withdrawal until the murder
ers of Americans had been punished.
He was replying to a suggestion by
Senator Kenyon that nothing adequate
was being done to safeguard the sol
diers now in Mexico,
GERMANS SMASH BRITISH
■' - - LINES AND MAKE GAINS
First Line Trenches In The Region Os
Vermelles Are Taken Over Front
Os About 500' Yards / -
London. —Switching their attack
from the Verdun region against the
French, the Germans have begun again
a sharp offensive against British line
around- -HuHuch. Preceding their
movements with the usual heavy bom
■ bardments, the Germans launched an
infantry attack against the British
■ lines in the region of-Vermelles amj,
were successful in capturing first line
trenches over a front-of . about five
hundred, ygfds. ;T.he British admit the'
loss Os the position, but say What part
of them were retaken ih a, Cjdiint^r at
tack' Berlin deciares tteayyin -their
defenseof the ’ frenlJlieiS' ®
•atgc.iij. the.counter attacks, the Brit
ish suffered heavy casual! ids--in'
addition^lost men taken prisoners and
seyeral machine ^uns.
To Fight For -Pngsession Os Appam
Norfolk, yg»-Tne former^ British
owners of ilw steamship? Appam,
brought tt> Hampton Road^y a Ger
man prize creW; were successful in
preliminary spurring ^Jteii ithe hear
ing of the libel case for possession of
the ‘vessel and cargo opened in the
federal court here.' They succeeded
in having admitted into evidence a
communication ’ from Secretary Lan
. ging to ^Ambassador Bernstorff, in
which the secretary said the liner did
'not'fall wi^Ohe protecting clauses
of the treaty of 1799.
FIERCE FIGHTING
IN ASIATIC TURKEY
Russians Have Thrown a Fresh Force
, Into The Attack Against The
j Bagdad Region
ATTEMPT TOREUEVE BRITISH
Some Os Czar’s Forces In One Hun
dred And Twenty Miles
Os Bagdad
London.—Asiatic Turkey is the only
war theater where infantry actions of
any great importance are reported. On
the. line in France and Belgium and
in /he Austro-Italian theater there
have been minor engagements. On the
Russian front bombardments alone are
in progress.
t Russians Keep Turks Busy
The Russians and the Turks are
corftinuing, their attacks and counter
attacks in the region south of the
Blaich sea littoral and also west of
the Persian border, where the Rus
sians are endeavoring to force their
way through the Mesopotamia region,
with^Bagdad and a junction with the
British forces farther south their evi
dent; objectives.
» ’Turks Claim Big Victory
To the northwest of Erzerum, in the
Kope mountain region, Constantinople
reports the repulse, with heavy losses
of Russian attacks to regain lost po
sitjons. Petrograd admits that in this'
general region, around Erzingan and
As’chkala, the' Turks forced their ad
vance guards to retire at some points,
but says the Ottoman forces desisted
in their attacks after having suffered
extremely heavy casualties.
Russians Pushing Towards Bagdad
Farther south, to the east pf Mosul,
the Russians are throwing a ' fresh
force into the attack directed against
thp Bagdad_ region. Here they have
occupied the Rowanduse region, which
lids some 120 miles north of Kasr-i-
Shirin, where they-were last reported
to be 1 operating. This would place
the Russian—troops -at points about
22t) miles north and 120 miles north
east of Bagdad.,- . .. .... .... J
FUNSTON WILL, STOP.,,. _
RAIDS BY MEXICANS
General Completes Plans For Distri
bution Os Force That Will In.
sure Safty For Border ■
iSan Antonio, Texas».-^General Fred^-
eipck Funston, has virtually- -complete®
plans for the reorganization of the
border patrol which, he believes, will.
put to an end the raids of marauding
bands from across- the'Aio Grande,
Details of the proposed re-distribii
tipn of the troops- were not-made, but
it' is understood that the' territory
along the international boundary will
be divided into 'three divisions, with
Brig. Gen. James Parker, Brig. G^i.
William A. Mann and Brig. Gen, Har
ry A.. Greene' acting as district com
mandfers. — — —— ■ —
' -With the state troops of Texas,
New ^Mexico and Arizona, and addi-.
tional regular army troops now being
mobilize^,, General Funston will have
approximately fifty, thousand men un
dbr tiis direct control. By the end of
this week he plans to have the entire
fore® in_shape. and position for serv
ice dkmgiithe’internatfbnai' tin®
'206,000 SOLDIERS FOR
i THE REGULAR ARMY
Conferees Agree On This Number For
Peace Strength; 425,000 Men
As. Reserve
' Washington'— A ' standing arm^»'tof
206,000 fighting meh. capabje^of be
ing exptmded in emergency vtp 25^-.
QOO, and backed by a federalized-NAV
tional Guard of 425,000 as a reserjjs,
was agreed on by hotts.e and senate''
conferees on the'army bill,’ - Jhie,.
would give. a..to|al'ggace strength dt
631,000 men. « ■ •
Advocates of- adequate national de
fense '-regard .^f^g^hCeyan^a.vn^ree^
ment as a Jhe cdjnjfftaiise
between ; t^ 3 ab^e^aQt! -Kejia^-t!>eas-_
twe's waft effected after wieFks of"
struggle si^aihht an,Jpsi^&^Gdetpand
(J-om hous& conferees for a Standing
army of only 14V,000 IJjep, and it had
- appeared t H^t I^6, seitateC^ghti.^,
Kn-ced to yidld- '?The senate^Wl pro
vided. for 2^- 4
Auspicious Fires At ' For^ Bli^sf T k q^aA:
;KI PasOjTexas.^Army pbsts 'and
rftationsfiioug the Mj£des wef^WtUt’fcf
^uardl^^ainst ^cehtQarUbs 'As a result
df ;t w^ at- 'FdfZ' fS^iss, wjiere
fkimeU.^t npknt^n oi^in
iitoreb'SM^jfifc_ -o^ralry-* stables,
three Army of
ficers .will dis-
close thb fires*of spon-,
taneous or acofdejijm^^tgin, H was’
said that there blj the
ammunition h<Nufc.^^inheffnßorehQnse,
where the first wtf-oetMjed, contain
ed some machfiHOnns.'l'V"'\ A\
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STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Newnan. — The city authorities
warded its $55,000 issue of 5 per cent
school improvement bonds to Atlanta
bankers, at a premium of $3,509.76.
Brunswick. —The Diocese of Geor
gia adjourned its ninety-fourth annual
convention here in St. Mark’s church
after accepting the-^invitation of St.
Paul’s church to Hold the next con
vention Jin Savannah.
Savannah. —Many letter carriers
will attend the annual convention of
the Rural Letter Carriers of the" First
district here May 30. The convention
will be held in the rooms of the Post
office Clerks’ Association.
Milledgeville.—About one hundred
and eighty seniors of ’the Georgia
Normal and Industrial college, of this
place, went to Savannah, at which
place they will be the guests of the
Savannah Rotary Club for several
days.
Atlanta. —At the state convention of
the Progressive party in Georgia, the
party went unqualifiedly on record
for Col. Theodore Roosevelt for the
presidential nomination and failing to
get the nomination to support what
ever candidate may receive his in
dorsement.
Rome.—Probably -.started by a de
fective dynamo in the electric power
plant at Armuchee, fire completely
destroyed the .plant of the Armuchee
Mills, nine miles from Rome. The
loss*. Included the flour mill, electric
plait, sawmill and cotton gin, and j
amounted to about $12,000.
Americus. —The cotton crop -planted
this' year in Sumter county is in ex
cess in acreage of last year about 10
per cent, according to people in a
position to know these facts. Be- i
cause of good weather conditions, a !
magnificent stand has been secured
and the crop is about two weeks ear
lier than usual.
Valdosta,—A disastrous wreck oc
curred on the Georgia Southern aifti
Florida.railroad, south of Council, Ga..
when eleven cars of a freighL.tnain
fell through a trestle which had been
weakened by fire.- The Ydeomotive and
the first two or'Lbree ; ears Are said
to have passed over the trestle safe
ly, the balance 'of the traiir plunging
ftn-ough. No one was., hut i.
Moultrie. —A statewide ^conference
on Rte stock raising will be held in
Moultrie on lime 27 and 28. Details
of the conference are now, being
worked out. -The confererfce Will ex
tend, qydt' a period,. <?f twq day's,' A
number of practical thscussions relat
ing to the live stock Industry will be
made. Experts on all phasfes of iDq
■stock raising will be in attendance.
< Atlanta—Clark Howell Sr., broth
er of the Gate Cqpt. Evan P. Howell,
Col. Albert Howell, Sr.; Charles A.
Howell and' Mrs. — Park ’ Woodward,
and an unefe, of Ularfc.flowell, died
at the residence of his daughter,-Mrs.
E. Gunby. Mx. Hpwel! di.ed just a
few hours ■ after the funeral of his
sister^Mbs...Li'£UU..wih> died
the day before.
Atlanta.—Bncouragemeht-hqs been
given State Geologist Dr. S. W. Mc-
Callie and D. M. Reeves in their pur
pose to organize Atlanta boys into
a scientific society for the'" study or j
archaeology and ethnology, as an- .
nounced a few days agq,_te the form
of a hearty endorseußeHt’^om Brr-R’
W. Hodge, ethnologist-intehafge of the;
Smiihs^Bian v institution^ Washington.
D,^C„ ahii < 'oa.e of the' fore^bsvrs'cien-'’
lists’ ih'.bis'fiehi in,the world.
his residence here,
'.becuiiqd the tF|ath of Judge H. W.
MeiL aged, "years. •Judge Bell in
•early mahfiodd" offered" his-services to
the Confederate cause, joining the
famqte^^Eiglitqehth Georgia Volun
•lteers^fti&ntrs.sCompuny C, and was
• often'commended ^ir his deeds of va
lor on the' field of conflict He had
;p£en fbr.a number ofsears president
of the board, of trusteed Os the Geor
gia Soldiers’ Home.
Jofaeshorfuj—Stationeli behind- the
oft breastworks used'in fife* Civil war
in the battles about'jonhsboijj^either
’the Atlanta 'Grays or the'Gate .City
r Gu^r^, war-tipi^, companies- of
'the fifth-‘regiment, will heroically de
fend that position against■Ohe-httaeks
r’Vt'sUMt.tfft’B^WPy yyankee’' company.
Jusf-which coiSpany will take the '{fart
Os the-'‘Rf'bs" and wTiich the ‘‘Yahk's”
decided. It fe'sajd that
ttb'Vr^oltide all argument/ •« captans
ot-tlte companies, will roq» a cdl^n
' 4,, 'J il-
Athens. —The summit fc^^pl of tha
University of Georgia/A^r^ding to
'■ihe'ffies of ^iteyhiton^^^
ter,. wi]l enroll aboutof'
' the .teazlers of the
The new auditorium wGi
the bpahing of'.- the/slissft^-^-^tiUK'
1,566 ,tn<-1,700 personi]^/^^
auditorium the iyceum • arixS^otrii;
lectures to the asseailjly ®nd -other
larger events of the sqmsM(r,Yerßi wi)L
beheld. N
-A-
SI.OO A YEAR
WILSON’S MOTIVES
ARE MADE PUBLIC
President Says If He Can Retain Moral
Influence Only By Force, Then
He Will Use Force
SPEAKS BEIOKPRESSCLUB
U. S. For Peace, But Must Act More
Or Less From Point Os View-Of
Rest Os World
Washington.—President Wilson has
made public a frank and intimate re
view of his three years in the white
house and his impressions of foreign
and domestic problems, delivered con
fidentially before Washington corre
spondents gathered 'at the National
Press Club. s He spoke-of the difficul
ties of the^presidency. and particular
ly of the motives which have guided
him in handling the European situa
tion.
U. S. Loves Peace
The United States, the president
said;-is for peace because she loves
peace and believes ■ the present war
has carried the jations engaged/'‘so '
far that they can not be held to .ordi- •'
nary standards of responsibility.” But,-
he added, the United States has grown
to be one of the grefft nations of *.
the world and therefore must-act
"more'or Jess from the point-of view -
lof the rest of the world.”. -. . - '
Will Use Force 1f Ne.ceSsary
’’lf I cannot retain my- moral -In
fluence over a man except by occa
sionally knocking him down,”’he* said,
“if that Js. the only basis - on 'which
he will respect me, then, for’ the sake
. ofthis- soul, I have got to occasionally
; knock him down.”
Has Lain Awake At Night
The president declared he had been
kept awake nights considering the Eu
ropean situation, because there'might
come a time when the United States
would have to do what it did-not de
sire to do, and “the great btfrden on
my spirit has been that it has been
up to me to choose when that time
came.” He added that he did not con
ceive that he had been elected .presi.-.
dent to do as he’plea^bd. “If I were
it would have been very much more
iqfeTesting, I '-he said.
m s Criticised Public Men
Impressions of public men as a-class •
were gjiven frankly by the president,
with tbe-comment that some grew and
some '‘•^welled.” He also, discussed the
relations -of the newspapers to the af
fairs of -the nation, and sounded a
warning that false Information about'
foreign affairs was more than likely
to lead to trouble.. The president's re-, ,
marks, as originally delivered, were
read by him carefully before it was
made public,' but no important por
tions werg-eliminated, and . the word
ing was. riot changed, substantially.
GENERAL CARRANZA AGREES
to the'United states* plans
- : '■ _ -
Obregon --Convinced United States
Only Wants To Suppress Ban
dits In Mexico
' Washington.—An optimistic view oT^
the Mexican border situation was laid
I bdfoi<e President Wilson and his cabi
-1 net by, Secretary Baker, after a long
confeci^^'sWith Major General Seott,
, chief of staff: .General Carranza and
his advisers, -how understand the mo
fives,.of.,the Washington government ’ *
more fully than ever before as a re- ’
suit of the conference*at ’EI Pasiy be
tween Generals Scott arid Funston and
Obregon. Mr. Baker was able to tell
the cabinet; and tension-along the in
ternational Jine has greatly relaxed.
Gen^VaY -Seott believes that the
whole situation is less acute than it
has be^n at any time since the raid
•pn FolSftnbus, N. M. General Obregon
entered the conference with much ap
prehetision, as in. Mexican ^es, he
said, it seemed as though a great force
armed with cannon and all the im
pedimenta of'war-hould riot "be 'moving
in ifuresuit merely of one bandii-chief-.
tain and ,his handful of followers. Un
dQp^tedly Obregon, reflected the fears
f4t^^Mexic9 f ... •
Tt^ijUnite^States;. gonfer^qs J cos
- Obregon and througn him, Gen
eral Carranza; that President Wilson’s
announcement of the purpose "of'the .
expedition told the whole story; that
its mission was-only tb disperse or . .
Capture the bandits. . ’ '
Vijla Is Trying To Raise New Army
~ Field Headquarters in Mexico.—
Francisco Villa has recovered from his
wounds and lias been busy for sohie
weeks attempting to raise^a new army
in the state of Durango, according to
a story told here by a Mexican, who
was captured in the engagement at
Ojos Apules, late in April.. -OMaleFj
men are riding hard on the trail of
small bands of bandits in the vicinity
of Rubio rance, 20 mites from here,
where three -Villa bandits werecAigtrrp
by an American forage detachment. It' *
is reported there were 50 4a the band.
