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LOSS INTENSIFIES DETERMINATION L " : British Casualties in Belgium 2,000-Germans Depart From Brussels-Fierce Battle at Malines Raged Through Night THE WEATHER Unsettled weather to night and Thursday; probably local thunder showers. VOLUME XIX, No. 239. Blease Beaten, Smith Wins By 10,000 Majority; Governorship Race Close 75 Per Cent of S. C. Vote Reported at Noon. Incomplete Returns Are: Smith 63,682: Blease 48,021. Cooper, Richards, Manning, All Together, 2 Leads in Second Primary. Columbia, S. C. —Belated returns from yesterday’s statewide primary for the nomination of candidates for United States senator, governor, congressmen and other state offices, continued to come slowly in today at noon approximately 75 jiercent of the total vote had been reported. | BY ABOUT 10,000. I Returns thus far received indicate that Senator E. D. Smith will have a clear majority of approximately 10,000 over his opponents, Gov. Cole L. Blease, L. D. Jennings and W. P. Pollock and that a second primary in this contest will be unnecessary. The incomplete returns from every county give Senator Smith 63,682 votes, Governor Blease 48,021, Mr. Jen nings 2,086, and Mr. Pollock 1,738. FOR GOVERNOR. In the gubernatorial contest, R. A. Cooper, of Laurens; R. I. Man ning, of Sumter, and John G. Richards, of Kershaw, are running very closely together for the leadership. The other eight candidates for this office have been hopelessly outdistanced. Mr. Richard, with 22,187 votes has a lead of about 50 over Cooper and 300 over Manning. The two can didates finally showing the highest vote will enter a second primary, which will be held on September sth. ALL RE-ELECTED. Of the six incumbent congressmen who had opposition in the pri mary indications at this hour are that all will be re-elected. Congress man A. F. Lever of the seventh district was unopposed. Nominations indicated for the other important state offices are as follows: * Lieut.-Governor—A. J. Bethea, Columbia. / Secretary of state—R. M. McCown, unopposed. I Comptroller general—A. W. Jones, Abbeville. Adjutant general—A. W. Moore, Aiken. Commissioner of agriculture—E, J. Watson, unopposed. FIRST ALL WATER VOYAGE. New York. —The first all-water voyage from San Francisco to New York by way of the Panama Canal was completed today with the arrival of the Pleiades of the Luckenbach Steamship Company. She sailed from San Francisco on July 24th and passed through the canal August 16th. German Forces Leave Brussels Belgians Expect to Reoccupy City. No Details English Casualties Given Public. Kaiser’s Troops Repulsed on French Southern Frontier London, sa.m. —A dispatch to The Chronicle from Antwerp says all the German troops are report ed to have departed from Brussels and that the Bel gians expect to reoccupy the city immediately. THROUGH NIGHT. London, 4:02 p. m.—A despatch from Antwerp to the Exchange Telegraph Company says the Bel gian operations beyond Malines were continued throughout the last night. The Belgian forces suc ceeded in destroying defensive works constructed by the Germans. ENGLAND STIRRED. London, 4:40 p. m.—Since the withdrawal of the' allied armies to the defenses of the French frontier, virtually no news has reached the public of the mil itary operations in southern Belgium. Owing to the difficulty of compiling a correct list along such an extended front, no details of the British casualties which Premier Asquith estimated yesterday at 2,000 yet have been received. The announcement of losses only seem to have intensified British determination. GERMANS REPULSED. London, 5:26 p. m.—German forces delivered an attack on the French southern frontier yosterdav (Tuesday). They were repulsed and retired ail along the line. This information was given out by the official bureau this afternoon. THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. ======= THE AUGUSTA HERALD GERMAN AIRPLANE FALLS. Paris, 12:20 p. m.— A German aero plane fell inside the British lines near Lille yesterday and the two officers on board were killed. OFF FOR VIENNA. Berlin (by wiraleoi). —Henry 8. Breckinridge, American assistant sec retary of war, accompanied by offi cers from the Amen User Ten nessee, left here today for Vienna. They are distributing to needy Amer icans financial relief sent by the American government. AUGUSTA, GEORGI A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOO N AUGUST 26, 1914. Austria Warson Japan London, 8:40 a. m. A Central News dispatch from Paris positively con firms that Austria has de clared war on Japan. FROM VIENNA. Rome, via Paris, 5:20 a.m. A dispatch from Vienna an nounces that Austria has declared war upon Japan. Russians at Danzig ? port w r as in circulation this afternoon that Russian troops yesterday occupied Marienburg in West Prus sia, 27 miles southeast of Danzig. This news has not been confirmed. Committee of Eighteen on Cotton Washington.—Confident of speedily handling the emergency caused by war In Europe, a committee of eighteen representative planters, manufactur ers, merchants, hankers and gavem ment officials went to work here to day on plans for financing the cotton and other staple crops and providing adequate warehouse facilities throughout producing centers. The committee was assured by Beeretary McAdoo thut all the currency needed to finance the crops would be afford ed by national banks on propely safe guarded warehouse certificates. New British War Loan London, 3:45 p. «*.—David Lloyd George, chancellor of the Ex chequer today Introduced In the house of commons a resolution as the baals for the forthcoming »»,r loan bill. The bill, Mr. Lloyd George said, would differ from the previous war loan measures In these respects: "Hirst the actual amount of money to be taken has not been fixed. The sum to be raised will Include not only the vote of credit for 1500,000.000 al ready authorised hut the sum by which the revenue would be dimin ished In consequence of the war. Hecond, the bill will not Include the precise method by which the money It to be raised. That will be left to the discretion of the treasury to be decided according to the conditions prevailing. Map Showing Sweep of German Forces Through Belgium and Into France •ANTWERP ' WATERIS^^^ SHADED PORTION pSr'.-ir into Belgium and Lv TOUL • France. ' NANCY* * Carnage Indescribable On Mons Battlefield German Gunners Bayonetted as They Stood. Roads So Jammed That Killed Remained Standing Upright. riving from Mons, certain parts of the battlefield there were covered with German dead piled so high that the Turcos, the French African troops had diffi culty in getting over the bodies to attack the Prus sians. Fished With Bayonets. London, 5:12 a, m.—A correspond ent of the Times sends the follow ing: “At Mons the troops made them selves at home. Preparations for tlio city's defence were extremely com forting In their workmanlike detail. With heavy firing audible In the dis tance British soldiers can sit quietly on the banks of the canal, calmly fishing with bayoneted rifles as fish ing rods.” The day after he wrote this the correspondent proceeded to Tournal, where he found the populace In great alarm. Six German cavalrymen mo tored into the town and Inquired whether there were any French sol diers there. They were told there were none but later French troops entered the place and killed the six Germans. The next morning a large force of Germans attacked the town and was repulsed. The correspondent continues: "Near f'harlerol I heard some sto ries of the bravery of the French sol diers. The Germans were bombarding the city. The French troops made what amounted to medieval sortie hut finding the enemy In much greater force than was expected were com pelled to wlthdray. The bombardment continued relent lessly, whereupon the French Turcos, picked troops from Algeria, debouch ed from the town and with a gallantry which must surely live In history, charged the German battery, bayonet ting all the Oerrraa gunners Their losses are said to exceed those of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. Of a I attalion only 100 men It Is reported, returned unscathed. Their bravery, however was powerless against the German advance, which crept foot hy foot through the outskirts of Charle roi to the very heart of the town. "There In the narrow strets the carnage was Indescribable. The French infantry told me that the roads became so Jammed with dead that the killed remained upright where they had been shot, supported by their dead comrades. The last stand of the Freneh was made before the railway station In front of which passes the canal. Here the Germans fought for two hours to take the bridge. After they had captured the station with heavy casualties the Germans moved rapidly ahead, taking various suburban villages." Jap Attack Fails, To Be Siege New York. -The Jsjtanese attack on Tslng-Ta'u the fortified port of the territory of Klaochow, hag failed and the Japanese are preparing for a siege, according to a cable message receiv ed here today by Count von llern storff, German ambassador to the United mates from the German em bassy at Peking. Count von Bernstorff said the cable message contained no details but merely announced the failure of the Japanese attack and the preparation for a siege. "The Information Is undoubtedly correct,” he said. $6.00 PER YEAR—FIVE CENTS PER COPY. Bombardment In Sky Appalling Antwerp Population in Gloom. Report U. S. Minister as Sending Energetic Protest to Germans. Matter for Wid est International Consideration. One Account Says 26 Killed. 60 Houses Destroyed. Meant for Royal Family. London, 1:38 p. m.—The Daily News publishes a despach from is Antwerp correspondent saying it is reported there that the American minister to Bel gium, Brand Whitlock, has sent an energetic protest to the German government against the hurling of bombs into Antwerp from a Zeppelin airship. .. London, 3:26 p. m.—A dispatch to the Reuters Telegram Company from Its Antwerp correspondent says that another raid on the city by a Zeppe lin airship was attempted last night. The effective measures taken by tho Belgian military authorities, the cor respondent continues, caused tho German airship to retire. To tha Powers. London, 7:1B a. m. —The bomb dropping exploit of the Zeppelin airship at Ant werp promises to become a matter cf the widest International consideration. Belgian authorities claim the attack was n dear violation of tho fourth Hague convention and they nre preparing to protest officially to ull the powers. Accounts vary as to the amount of damage done by the aerial fighter. One account says that twenty-six lives wero lost, although from a more conservative source It Is reported only twelve bodies were recovered so far from the ruins of the wrecked houses. 900 Damaged. A despatch which Is regarded as semi official, says 900 houses were sightly damaged end sixty nearly destroyed. This despatch was Bent to Ismdon, It is said, after a committee, Including the IJogiun secretary of state, the Itusslsn ambas sador, and King Albert's secretary, hail examined the entire city with a view to appraising the results of the aerial bombardment. The despatch says; “For the first time In history a great civilised community has been bombarded from the sky In tho dead of night. Count Zeppelin, whom the Dorman emperor calls the greatest genius of the century, has performed the greatest exploit of his life. Stagger* Humanity. He has thrown bombs on hospitals Appeal to U.S. in Bomb Dropping By Zeppelin Secretary Bryan Very Reticent in Discussing Charge of “War Against Women and Children” Presented by Bel gian Minister. Denies Official Protest by Whitlock. Washington.—E. Havenlth, the Bel gian minister, presented a protest to the state department today against what he termed "a war against wo men and children"- the Zeppelin air ship attack on Antwerp, of those killed, the minister states, four wore women. Heiretary Bryan was very reticent In discussing the attitude of the Unit ed .Stales toward such protests and Intimated that the state department could take no action. Denied by Bryan. Reported activity of Brand Whit lock the American minister, In offi cially protesting the Germany, was denied hy Secretary Bryan. Official dispatches to the Belgian legation confirmed the result of tho engagement near Malines on Aug 24 and 25. The Belgian army, the tele gram atated, repulsed three divisions of Germans near Vilvorde, east of the railway from Antwerp to Brussels. The text of the Belgian ministers Kaiser Tore Off His British Medals Before Ambassador— “Go Tell Your King" London, 4ioß a. m.—Tho burgomafl ter of Ghent says the correspondent there of Reuters has Issued a procla mation requesting that all flags be taken down and prohibiting public balls and music as not being In harmony with the national culamlty. The Express publishes the folow- Ing: "When Hlr William Edward Gos chen went to say goodbye to Emperor William the latter stalked into the room where the British ambassador was walling. The emperor was wear- HOME EDITION where Belgian, were attending German wounded. He ha. staggered humanity. "We have explored every one o', the devastated streets and found portions of ten bombs. The number of victims Is unknown. It Is sufficient that all the bombs were nimod at public buildings, such as the military barracks, the gov ernment offices and the royal pao.ee. The population Is In gloom." In Secret Place. London, 3:20 a. m.—The Belgian -oval family will abandon the temporary pal ace at Antw*rp. establishing themselves In a secret place In the city, as i resu't of the attack on Antwerp by a Zeppe'm airship, according to the Morning Post. "The attack." The Post's Antwerp cor respondent says, "was evidently design-*! against the royal family. The warrior or the air stole silently over the forts outside the city, against which no assault was made, and steered toward the pal ace. where It dropped six explosive bombs. None found the mark exactly, though all landed within the palace grounds. One narrowly escaped wreck ing the Antwerp Cathedral and three found human victims. An Am.rloan. "The first physician to arrive on the scene was Major Louis L. Seaman of New York, who served as a surgeon In the Spanish-American war. He spent the entire day attending the wounded. "The civil population Is naturally much alarmed though the greatest anxiety is for tile safety of King Albert's house hold. "A reconstruction of the Oeiman bombs by military experts shows that they wer ten Inches In diameter with an envelope one Inch thick. Their per cussion cops were loaded pith plcrlte. ft Is believed Ihe work of the airship was jisslsted by local spies for whom the mil itary Is making a painstaking search." protest wax contained in the following cablegram received by him from the Belgian mlnlNter of foreign affaire: Dead and Wounded. “During tlie night of the twenty fourth to the twenty-fifth a dirigible balloon, Zeppelin, ban flown over the city of Antwerp ami hae thrown auc ceHMfully eight hombe of a great ex ploding etrength According to an invcMtigatlon conducted by the Judi cial court there have been ten killed, all harmiOKH civilian*, among them four women; eight have been injured, of whom aeveral mortally. One bomb . - ’aa exploded above the palace where the ijueen and the royal children are living. The material damage* are enormou*. Thle bombardment con etltutea a vlaltlon of article XXVI of the fourth convention of The Hague." It In underetood here, however, that the Herman* In the battle* before I,lege and other Belgian cltlee gave due notice of their Intention to uae alrxhlp* a* la required by that ar ticle. Ing Kevernl Rritiah order* and medaia and the*e he tore off. eaylng: 'Teli your king that that la what I thlek of him and hi* medal*.' Whereupon tho emperor marched out of the room." Refugee* from Oatend tell of a cor pulent Frenchman, who a* aoon a* the boat left the wharf at Oatend took off hi* coat, veat and boot* and putting on a life preaerver aat down on the edge of the deck, continuing the whole trip In thl* costume. Asked what be meant liy *uch behavior he replied ia Juat one eloquent word, “mlnea."
