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There’s an Echo in Every Home VOLUME 1. £ LORD KITCHENER T ■ ■mm €1 m s m i /■. wm mm - ,y-,i m w'mwP an + ■*• + + + + + + + * + + + + + 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 -x / •x:' ft i I ^ ■ ,; *■ / st ay M m r M HHl 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. There’s an Echo in Every Home 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 8 ■ ■> % S ' • > / m I / / 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.