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+ London.— The British cruiser ++
+ Hampshire, ■ on which Lord +
Kitchener and his staff were +
on their way to Russia, has +
been sunk off the Scottish +
coast by a mine or a German +
submarine. +
Official announcement of the +
destruction of the Hampshire #
+ was made by the British J;4'4'
Admiralty.
The following official report
4 was made: +
+ “The Admiralty reports with +
+ deep regret that the ship +
+ Hampshire, with Lord Kitch¬ +
+ ener and his staff on board,was f I
+ sunk Monday about 8 o’clock -5-^4-
+ off the Orkney Islands either
+ by a mine or torpedo.
“Four boats were seen by +:-{ 1
+ observers on the shore to leave
+ the ship.
+ “Heavy seas were running, +
+ but patrol vessels and destroy¬ +
+ ers at once proceeded to the +
+ scene. +
+ “At the same time a party +
+ was sent along the shore to +
^ search for bodies. +
+ Lord Kitchener had been +
Secretary of State for War +
since August 5, 1914, the day 4‘
+ after which declarations of war +
^ were exchanged between Eng¬ +
+ + + the land The one and death strong Germany. of Lord man Kitchener, in whom i4+
+ the British Empire had- put its +
+ trust since fighting began in ^+
Europe, came as a terriffic and
+ staggering blow. +
+ Lord Kitchener was 66 years ^
+ old, having been born in Bally- +
longford, County Kerry, Ire¬ +
land, on June 24, 1850. +
+ * + + + ++ + + 'fr+^ + ❖
RUSSIANS SMASH AT TEUTON
ALLIES ON 250-MftE FRONT
From the Pripet Marshes to Rouman-
tan Frontier Czar’s Forces Are
Striking and Gaining Ground.
London.—The long expected general
offensive of rhe Russians against the
Teutonic allies seemingly has begun.
From both Petrograd and Vienna
corne report's that the Russians are
actively engaged over a front from
the Pripet river, east of Brest-Litovsk,
to the Roumanian frontier—a distance
of about 250 miles.
The Russians everywhere are using
large numbers of guns and men, and,
according to Petrograd, have achiev¬
ed successes on many important sec¬
tors, taking 13,000 prisoners and a
number of guns and destroying, or
capturing Teuton positions.
Along the Bessarabian front, in the
Dniester region, along the lower Stri¬
ps and in Volhynia the Russian at¬
tacks have been particularly vviolent.
In the region of Olyka, in the zone of
the Volhynian fortress triangle the
Russian guns have heavily shelled a
front of more than fifteen miles in
length held by the Austrian Archduke
Joseph Ferdinand.
Echols Echo
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ECHOLS COUNTY, GEORGIA
STATENVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 101(5.
ENGLAND HOLDS
CONTROL OF SEA
Former Lord Of Admiralty, Churchill, Dis¬
cusses Great Naval Battle In
The North Sea
SAYS BRITAIN STILL LEADS
Claims That the German Losses Are
Relatively More Than Those of
the British.
London.—Great Britain still holds
undisputed supremacy of the seas, in
the judgment of Winston Spencer
Churchill, recently first lord of the
admiralty, and whose opinions on na¬
val matters are still eagerly sought
in England. Colonel Churchill gave
the following statement:
“I have had an opportunity of exam¬
ining the reports of the admirals and
of considering the information in the
possession of the admiralty. The fol¬
lowing facts seem to me to be estab¬
lished:
“The naval supremacy of the Brit¬
ish fleet in capital ships depends upon
the super-dreadnaughts armed with
13.5-inch and 15-inch gyus, and these
are sufficient by themselves to main¬
tain control of the seas. Of these vi¬
tal units of the first rank, we have
only lost one—the Queen Mary.
There appears to be no doubt that the
Germans have lost at least one com¬
parable ship. If this should be the
Lutzow or the Derfflinger, that vessel
is a heavier loss to them actually and
relatively than the Queen Mary is to
us.
“Coming to vessels of the second or¬
der, we have lost the Indefatigable
and t re Invincible These are of pn
entirely different class from the super-
dreadnaughts, and, valuable vessels'as
they are, do not rank as primary
units at the present time. A dread-
naught battleship of the Westfalen
type would be a loss comparable to
either.
“The armored cruisers Black Prince
Defense and Warrior belonged to the
third order of ships, of which we pos¬
sess a very large superiority. The
sinking of the two brand-new German
light cruisers, Wiesbaden and Elbing,
is, in fact, a more grievous loss to the
enemy.
Say Eighteen German Ships Lost
London.—The British admiralty is¬
sued a statement saying there was
the strongest grounds for the belief
that the British navy in the battle
with the Germans off Jutland had ac¬
counted for a total of eighteen Ger¬
man men-of-war and that there was
nothing to add to or subtract from
the original announcement of the Brit¬
ish losses.
The statement gave the German
losses as two battleships, two dread-
naught battle cruisers, four light crui-
sers, nine torpedo boat destroyers and
a submarine.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
rumors are current in Hamburg that
two additional German warships than
those announced in the German com¬
munication-—the battleship Westfalen
I and the battle battle. cruiser Lutzow—were wireless dis¬
| sunk in the from A Berlin said
patch received here
the German admiralty admitted the
loss of the Westfalen.
WILSON AT MEMORIAL
TO CONFEDERATE DEAL'
President Enthusiastically Received
At The Exercises In Arlington
National Cemetery.
Washington—President Wilson at¬
tended the memorial exercises held in
the confederate section Of Arlington
National cemetery, but did not speak.
The exercises were impressive in
their simplicity. Senator Vardaman,
orator of the occasion, paid tribute
to the confederate soldier and the
self-sacrificing women of the south.
Defending the right of the southern
states to secede, he declared the an¬
swer to the question, “Is well that
the confederacy failed?" rested with
■the future and the way the general
government used its power. A beau¬
tiful floral southern cross was unveil¬
ed at the base of the confederate
monument, after which flowers were
strewn over the graves of the south’s
dead, including that of General Joseph
Wheeler, the confederate hero, who
fought under the Stars and Stripes in
the Spanish-American war.
SENATOR W. G. HARDING
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In his speach as temporary chair¬
man of the Republican National Con¬
vention at Chicago, Senator Harding
made the usual Republican claims for
the success of his ticket and the usual
charges of Democratic incompetency.
ULTIMATUM BY CARRANZA
SAYS “UNSUPPORTABLE SITUA
TION” MUST BE ENDED
IMMEDIATELY
Note Declares That Presence Of The
American Troops Constitutes
An Invasion
Mexico City.—Claiming that the
words and protests of the United
States have been entirely in contra¬
diction of their acts, and that in spite
of protests not to intervene in the
affairs of Mexico, s ddiers of the Unit¬
ed States are Ij, Mexico withiv.O the
consent of nt
and in violation of Kexidfc’s sovereign¬
ty, the Mexican government now asks
for the immediate withdrawal of those
troops. The request is made in a 12,-
000-word note made public at the for¬
eign office here.
The note recites that the American
troops crossed the boret;r^.-fter the
Columbus incident without the per¬
mission of the Mexican government.
The act was not consider -d one of in¬
vasion then solely because the United
States said they had misinterpreted
the attitude of the Mexican govern¬
ment.
When the second expedition crossed
the line after the Glenn Springs inci¬
dent, the note maintains, the plea that
this was done with the consent of the
Mexican consul at Del Uio. Texas, is
untenable and that act cat ' .’•firy be
considered as one cf invasion.
“The Mexican government, there¬
fore, invites the United -States to
bring to an end this un?u .portable sit¬
uation,” the note concludes, “and to
support its protestations and declara¬
tions of friendship by an immediate
withdrawal of American trvops.”
Maintaining that the protests of
friendship by the United States and
the expressed desire for non-interven¬
tion have been contradicted by the
acts of the Washington government,the
note says the time has arrived when
Washington must declare itself clear¬
ly and unequivocally as to its future
intentions toward Mexico.
After reciting the. facts which led
to the first crossing of the frontier
by the American troops after the Villa
raid at Columbus, the note insists that
in contradiction of the word of Gen¬
erals Scott and Funston another ex¬
pedition crossed the boundary line,
thus violating all the precepts of in¬
ternational law and committing an
act of invasion.
Note Received In Washington
Washington. — General Carranza’s
latest note, bluntly questioning the
good faith of the United States gov¬
ernment and, with a threat of armed
resistance, demanding withdrawal of
American troops from Mexico, was
presented at the state department by
Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican am¬
bassador designate. A translation of
the voluminous documenf, about 12,-
000 words long, was laid before Pres¬
ident Wilson, who, at once, begnn con¬
sidering how it should be answered.
British Casualties Very Heavy In May
London.—British casualties in May
were much heavier than in either of
the two preceding months. The total
from all fields of operation was com¬
piled from published lists is 1,767 of¬
ficers and 28,470 men.
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GERMANY VICTOR
IN NAVAL BATTLE
Fourteen British Ships Are Sent To The
Bottom, While The'German Losses
Are Reported Less
WORLD’S GREATESTSEA FIGHT
The Two Fleets Came To Grips Off
Denmark Coast And Fought
Many Hours
London.—Picking its way from its
base in the Kiel canal, the German
high sea fleet emerged into the North
sea and off the coast of Jutland en¬
gaged a British fleet, through a whole
afternoon and a whole night in what
probably was the greatest naval bat¬
tle in the world’s history, so far as
tonnage engaged and tonnage destroy¬
ed was concerned.
British Loss Very Heavy
When the battle ended Great Brit¬
ain had lost the battle cruisers Queen
Mary, Indefatigable and Invincible,
the cruisers Defense, Black Prince and
Warrior and eight torpedo boat t jte-
stroyers, while the German battl w
Pommern had been sent, to the ...
tom by a torpedo and the cruiser Wies¬
baden sunk by the British, gunfire. In
addition several torpedo. craft were
missing and the smal^ cruiser Freuen-
lob had last been seen badly listed,
and was believed to have gone to the
bottom. These losses have all been
admitted by Great Britatin and Ger-
many. Aside from Great Britain’s con¬
ceded losses, Germany claims sister•-'hip thaHthe
British battleship Warspite,
of the Queen Elizabeth, and one of
the largest and most powerful ships
afloat, had been sunk; that the battle-
ship Marlborough, a vessel of 25,000
tons, had been hit by a torpedo and
a submarine had been destroyed.
Great Britain also added to Germany’s
acknowledged losses with the claim
that one dreadnaught of the German
kaiser class—vessels of 24,700 tons
and carrying a complement of 1,088
men—had been destroyed by British
torpedo craft, that another battleship
of the same class was believed to have
been sunk by gunfire, that one battle
cruised had been blown up and two
others damaged and that a subma¬
rine also had been sent to the bot¬
tom.
114,810 Tonnage Loss For England
Great Britain’s admitted loss in ton
nage was 114,810 for ttevS six battle
cruisers and cruisers. That of Ger
many, excluding the tonnage of the
Wiesbaden, of which vet- i there is
no rcord, was 15,712 The tonnage of
the capital ships sunk by the Japan¬
ese in their fight with the Russians
in the battle of Tsushima in May,
1905, aggregated 93,000. Twenty-one
Russian craft were destroyed in this
fight, including six battleships and
four cruisers. The remainder of the
sunken craft comprised coast defense
and special service vessels and torpe¬
do boats.
Loss Of Life' Considerable
That the casualties in the battle
were heavy is indicated by the fact
that of the crew of some nine hundred
on board the Indefatigable, only two
men are known to have been saved.
Full details of the fight, in which
Zeppelins are declared to have taken
part, are being gathered by the Brit¬
ish.
Battle Lasted 18 Hours • ,
The battle lasted through the after 1
noon and the following night: The
German fleet’s losses are stated, to
have been serious, but no very defi¬
nite information of these losses is’af-
forded. One battle cruiser is declar-
ed to have been destroyed and an¬
other severely damaged, while the be¬
lief is expressed that a large number
of German destroyers were disposed
of. Following quickly upon the ad¬
miralty announcement came the Ger-
man official version of the fight, which
in general confirmed the British ac¬
count, but carried the claim that the
battleship Warspite also was sunk and
other British battleships damaged. Ac¬
cording to the German version of the
battle, the German losses were the
small cruiser Wiesbaden, sunk by gun¬
fire,-and the battleship Pommern by
a torpedo, while the cruiser Frauen-
lob and a number of torpedo boats are
reported missing.
NUMRER 4(5.
SIR DAVID BEATTY
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Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty was
in command of the British ships in the
great naval battle last week. The Al¬
lies claim a wonderful victory in view
of the odds against which they were
fighting, and the commander is a
popular idol just now.
WILSON ISSUES A WARNING
IN ADDRESS PRESIDENT SCORES
THOSE WHO DO NOT PUT
U. S. FIRST
New Crisis Is Upon Us, And Spirit
Of America Must Be
Asserted
Washington.—President Wilson de¬
livered a Memorial Day address at
Arlington National cemetery in which
he defined the spirit of America, warn¬
ed J'jtizens of foreign birth not to set
themselves against the purposes of
the nation, called upon young, men to
perform voluntary military service and
defended his recent suggestion for an
of nations to preserve peace,
He spoke before an audience made
up largely of veterans of the Civil
war, who applauded him vigorously.
While he declared he had no harsh¬
ness in his heart for Americans of for¬
eign birth and expected them still to
love the sources of their origin, the
president said "America must come
first in every purpose we entertain
and every man must count upon be¬
ing cast out of our confidence, cast out
of our tolerance, who does not sub¬
mit to that great ruling principle.”
Speaking of America, made up out
of all the peoples of the world, as the
champion of the rights of mankind,
tie said: “We are not only ready to
co-operate, but we are ready to fight
against any aggression, whether from
within or without. But we must guard
ourselves against any sort of aggres¬
sion which would be unworthy of
America. We are ready to fight for
our rights when those rights are coin¬
cident with the rights of men and hu¬
manity.”
The president reiterated his sug¬
gestion mre the League to Enforce
Peace, that the United States was
ready to become a partner in any al¬
liance of the nations “which would
guarantee public right against selfish
aggression.” Of published criticisms
reminding him that George Washing¬
ton warned the nation against the “en¬
tangling alliances,” he said:
“l shall never myself consent to an
entangling alliance, hut would gladly
assent to a disentangling alliance, an
alliance which would disentangi he
peoples of the world from those com¬
binations in which they seek their
own separate and private interests,
and unite the people of the world to
preserve the peace of the world upon
a basis of common right and justice."
GERMANS CAPTURE TWO-
MILE FRONT FROM FRENCH
German Gains Extend From Southern
Ridge Of Le Mort Homme To
Ridge Of Cumieres
London.—French positions on a
front of approximately two miles, ex¬
tending from the southern ridge of Le
Mort Homme to the Cumieres village,
northwest of Verdun, have been cap¬
tured by the Germans, according to
the latest official communication from
Berlin. In addition the Teutons again
have pressed forward in thp Thiau-
mont wood, northeast of Verdun, and
added their line in the eastern part
of it.