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LOSS INTENSIFIES DETERMINATION
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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."