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AUSTRIAN FORCES
REDUCED Itl SIZE
JOIN AT RZESOW
Anniei of Dual Kingdom Forty Per
Cent Smaller Than When the
War Be gfan.
ROAD -TO BUDAPEST LEFT OPEN
Busiian Military Critio Regards the
First Period of Western Strug,
gle m Closed.
GERMANY MUST RELY ON SELF
Kaiser Will Be Required to Do Bat
' tie at the Same Time on
, Both Sides.
AUSTRO-SERVIAN REPORTS VARY
Claim Servians Are Driven Out May
Be Discounted.
GERMAN OFFICER PUT ON TRIAL
I'ntrnant Charged Before Coart.
Martial with Responsibility (or '
Atrocities Alleged t'oinmltted
1b Reaalan Poland.
LONDON, Sept. X6. A dispatch to
the Express from Rome states that
the two Austrian armies commanded
by Generals Dankl and Auff enberg
have joinedTforcee at Rzesow, thir
teen miles northeast of Jaroslau and
. thirty-two miles due north of Prse
mysl. In the course of tils opera-
tlon, the dispatch says, they lost 40
per cent of their numbers.
The Petrograd correspondent of
the Exchange Telegraph company
quotes the military critic, Micha
lowskl, as saying that Russia's vic
tory during the last week over three
Austrian armies on the line from the
Vistula to .the Carpathians leaves
the road to Budapest, along the
. northern base, of. the Carpathians,
completely open. ..The first period
o.fthe war on the western frontier,
he adds, thus ends. 1 v
Depeada oa Ge-iaaay.
The debacle for It seems nothing less
- In the Auatrlan armies, means that Ger
many will have, more and more to rely
mainly on itself; hence there will be
a greater Interdependence of events In
. the eastern and western fields of opera
tions. What new forces Germany can put into
t the campaign In the weatern area-must
henceforth depend In a great meaaure on
. how far tt can neglect the Russian move
ment on Breelau, the capital of the Prus
sian province of Silesia, 190 miles south-
x east of Berlin. -
According to reports today. Emperor
William, himself, has gone to East Prus
sia to take chief command of the Ger
man armies oppoeing the Russian invad
ers. He may have gone there, but little
credit 18 attached to the assertion that he
proposes to take the active command out
of the hands of a fighting general of the
caliber" of Von Hlndenberg.
There la the usual diversity of stories
today regarding the Auatro-Servian oper-
' ations. The Austrian general ataff claims
to have driven the Servians out of the
province of 'Banat and from the eastern
district of Slavonia.
The Servians, however, hitherto 'have
. shown a marked capacity for reappearing
In the same or better positions after
(Continued on Page Two, Colcmn One.)
. The;Weather .
Forecast till 7 p. m. Thursday:
For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity
Fair, alighty cooler.
Temperatnres at Omaha Yesterday
Hours. . Deg.
6 a. m 73
6 a. m 73
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a. in 73
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1814. Bl3. 1912. 1911.
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Ueel yesterday 73 b 4 J
Mean temperature SO 62 64 74
Preclpitatiun 12 '.23 .00 .00
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal:
Normal teinperatura 66
Kxceas for the day t. n
Total excess alnce March 1 C&
Normal precipitation............ .11 loch
Kxcesa for the day 01 Inch
Total rainfall alnce March 1.... 20. a Inches
Drflclrncy alnce March 1 3 4s inches
reftciency for cor. period, 1918. 7.21 Inches
Ief iclency for cor. period, 1!)12. 3 63 Inches
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Salt Lake City, clear
i-aiila Fe, clear.... ..
Hherio'an, cloudy ,
Hioux City
f Valentine, dear
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HAYOC 111 TERMONDE
RECALLSSAYAGERY
Powell Tells of Ruin and Destruc
tion He Saw in Peaceful I
Belgian City.
PETROL CART TO SPREAD FIRE
People Offered Neither Beslstaaee
Kar Pravacattaa, Even Oetau
Admit raataaa tVark
f Art Destroyed.
r K. ALKXANDKR POWELL.
ANTWERP. Sept. (Special Cable
gram 16 New York World and Omaha
Bee.) In the light of recent events the
familiar saying ''Scratch a Russian and
you will find a .Tartar." should be al
tered so as to read, "Scratch a German
and you yfll find a Savage." In, fact, so
far as I can see the main difference be
tween Oerinan methods of warfare and
those employed ' by the red-skinned ..sav
ages who. once terrorised our western
plains. Is that the Germans have not yet
adopted the. scalping knife. The war Is
till youn, however. . Perhopa. .thoy may
come to iW.v V. .
Rala In Peaceful Tawal : '
Tou see "l hav Just returned from Ter
monde. - Only a few days ago Termonde
was as quaint, peaceful and prosperous
a place as you -could find in a iong day's
journey.' It contained 16,000 Industrious,
inoffensive Inhabitants and some of the
most interesting buildings In Flanders.
Today the grear part of its Inhabitants
are homeless fugitives upon the country
side, their former homes either blackened
walla or heaps of brick and plaster. " Re
treating Germans showed toward 1 Ter
monde the same ruthless brutality with
which they treated Aerschot and Lou
valn. .
General Von Boehn, during my recent
conversation with hlm. eacuaed the burn
ing of Aerschot by asserting that the
burgomaster's con had assassinated the
German chief-of-staff. He extenuated
the destruction of Louvaln by claiming
that cltisens had fired upon the soldiers.
But neither of these excuses is valid so
far as Termonde la concerned.
Even German prisoners admit thaV the
.townspeople' offered neither resistance
nor ' provocation. Tet today after the
German evacuation Termonde looks 'like
the fire, swept portion of San Francisco.
Fully two-thirds of the city baa been de
stroyed. .Practically allof the better
class residences have been sacked " arid
burned. The splendid Rue de Egllee Is
now lined with charred walls and totter
ing masonry.'
Tha Twelfth century, church of Notre
Dame containing Van Dyke's "Crucifix,
ion", and his ''Adoration of the B.d.
herds," ha been gutted by. flamea". That
this wanton destruction was not due to
an unintentional spread of the flamea is
conclusively proved . by a German mtll-
.:" :-'-' " r . ?" """'
"11 . . '" . Pump
u mim ior spraying petrol, which wast
found after the evacuation.
And if any further proof were needed
f the cold bloodedness of It one Only
had to read the Inscription, "Good people
do not burn," scrawled In chalk on the
doora at the few houses standing.
Geroalnao Oatelaaaed. '
"Befora they left two German soldiers
dragged from her bed and publicly as
saulted the invalid wife of a policeman.
I imsgine that If the. old war chief Gero
ntrao, whose name wis once the synonym
for cruelty throughout the aouthwest,
could have been with me In Termopdo
today lie would have admitted quite
frankly tbat there was nothing he could
teach the Germans.
Australian Fleet
Busy for Weeks
LONDON. Bept. W.-A dispatch to the
Times from Sydney, dated Tuesday says
that Rear Admiral Sir George Patey,
commander of the Australian fleet, re
ports that the German losaea at Herberta.
hoeha, la tha Bismarck archipelago, were
twenty to thirty killed and seventeen
O-arman officers and noncommissioned
officers made prisoners.
Aa Australian fleet left Sydney Imme
diately following the outbreak of the war,
according to the dispatch, and co-operated
with the China squadron. It searched
for the' enemy's eruieera, put out of ac
tion the enemy's wireless station in the
Pacifier convoyed the New Zealand es
peditionary force to Samoa and the Aus
tralia a expedition to Mlerbertspohe. and
patrolled the trade route. The fruitier
Melbourne, It la atated, covered over 11,000
miles, mostly In the tropica.
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KAISER WILHELM AT THE FRONT A rare photo
graph, showing; Emperor William of Germany conversing
vwith officers of the German aviation corps, who are ex
hibiting to him photographs and plans taken during flights
, over the Belgian lines.-
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Allies and Gernians Engage
-PARIS, fiept. 1 The German armies
who failed, according to French Judg
ment, to pletce a, road for their retreat
1 by way of the frontier toward Mete, ap-
parantly , hayedeclded to fight another
great battle) for supremacy la toe terri
tory northeast of Paris. '
They have taken up line almost as ex
tensive as that of the battle oflMarna.
and' for the last two days there Has been
In progress -u desperate struggle in which
the entire Gernan force that made the
rapid anarch on Paris, has been engaged.
The allied troops, strengthened by new
arrivals, also ere bringing their whole
strength Into play. Their purpose Is to
dislodge the Germans, who In some quar
SHERIFF OF CLAY
KILLED BY BANDIT
i
Official is Shot Down While Pur
-suing the Murderer of Henry
. P. Trout.
GRAIN
MAN IS FOUND DEAD
anrrui uivri . aaae ano.ia m ivan
, alnar Flg-h with Desperado Is .
Killed After Which Mar
terer Kills feejf.
1
HARVARD, Neb.. Sept. 16. (Special Tel
egramsThree men ere dead and' one
wounded as the result' of a tragedy here
this morning. The dead are:
HENRY TROUT, found murdered In
his office.
SHERIFF CHARL.KS BANDTCR80N
of Clay Center, killed In a running bat
tle with the murderer. ' - - .
UNKNOWN TRAMP, who took his
own life
In a field seven miles north
of ner, aftr he na(1 been .urrounded
by a posse.
Trout was found dead In his of floe.
Robbery was apparently the motive for
the crime. A tramp was located a short
distance from here, soon aftsrwards, and
the sheriff and Deputy George -Phillips
started In pursuit: Jn a running battle
with the tramp Sanderson was killed
and Phillips wounded. A posse closed
In. on the murderer and his body was
found in a field.. He had shot himself
through the head. V ' -
At S o'clock Sheriff Bar.derson received
a report that v a horseman, pushing his
mount to the utmost. as riding out of
town from the north side. SandeVaon and
Phillips, in Sanderson's automobile gave
chaae and caught up with the man three
miles southeast of Glltner.
. .Sanderson got out of the ear and
shouted to the man. In answer the horse
man opened fire. Sanderson was wounded
by the first shot, but was able to' empty
his revolver before he died. Phillips was
wounded In the arm and shoulder. He
was taken to Aurora for treatment.
Baadlt Travels North.
After shooting Mr. Trout the bayidtt
took a direct route north out of the elty
on foot, reaching the home of Roy kfe
grue In Hamilton county, where he en
gaged In a short conversation with him
and passed on. Mr. Megrue was sus
picious of htm and when the report of
tbe shooting came with a general call
to patrons to watch for the murderer ha
at once mounted a horse and got -on the
trail first notifying the authorities here
of hta suspicion. ,
Sheriff Sanderson and George W. Phil
lips of the telephone company at once
took up tha pursuit In an auto and were
stopped by the man ppenlng fire upon
them Iff the road near the homes of
(Continued un Pas Two, Column Three.)
All Strength in New Battle
ters are believed to be suffering from
exhaustion due to their long continued
marches and counter marches, coupled
with Incessant and fierce encounters of
their tlanlt and' rear guard' a they re
tired, and. the advance -RuaiM .Tjf.ihe al--llea.
. .' ' " .- :
The position occupied by the Germans
ror the second extended engagement, es
pecially at the western end of their line.
appear td-be suited naturally for tho
combat, which, according to French mili
tary critics, will have a far-reaching In
fluence on the future progress- of the
war. The Germans are stationed: on a
great plateau , of undulating country. In
terspersed here and there with wooded
heights. l a
BRITISH OBJECT TO
U.S. FLAGON YESSEL
Brazilian Authorities Induced to
Refuse ''Clearance to Steamer
Robert Dollar.
IS OWNED BY CAITFORNIANS
Repreaeatatlre Kaha la Con terrace
vlth Bryaa and State Depart
meat Aaka Braall to Recaa;
alae Transfer of Ship.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ll-Braaillan
authorities at Rio de Janeiro have-refused
clearance to' the former British steamer
Robert Dollar, recently transferred to the
American flag, and the State department
has' taken up the situation through the
American ambassador.
. When, the captain of the Dollar raised
the American flag the , British consul at
Rio do Janeiro Is reported to have refused
his consent to the transfer - and the
BraslHan. government accordingly de
clined to, grant a clearance.
.Representative Kahn, acting for Cali
fornia owners of the - steamer has been
In final conference with Secretary Bryan,
and today the State department cabled
Instructions to Ambassador Morgan to
ask Brazil to recognise the transfer and
clear the vessel.
Colorado Miners
Accept Peace Plan
TRINIDAD, Colo., Sept. 16-Colorado
union coal miner In convention late to
day voted to accept the. peace plan rec
ommended by President Wilson. The vote,
which came after three days of vigorous
debate, was S3 to I.
The Colorado mine owners have called
a meeting to be held la Denver on Satur
day, at which tha same proposal is to be
considered. '
After the convention adpourned officers
of the United Mine Workers of Amiria
sent President Wilson a telegram notify
ing him that the strikers were ready to
return to work under the terms of a
three-year truce treaty drawn up by
Hywel Davies and William R. Fair ley,
federal mediator appointed by Secretary
Wilson of the Department of Labor.
The afternoon session of the convention
was featured by speeches by John R.
I-awson, Colorado member of the execu
tive board of the United Mine Workers,
and K. U Doyle district secretary, both
of whom at first had opposed the presi
dent proposal. Both loday urged that
Uie plan bo adopted.
COMBAT IS
U.S. CHIEF TELLS
WILHELM FUTURE
TO PASS ON WAR
Wilton Telli Kaiier Time to Come
Later When Nation Will Try
the Sase.
AMERICA MUST NOT TAKE SIDES
Executive Aiterts Read Statement
with the Qravett Interest
and Concern.
GRATIFIED BY COMMUNICATION i
Wilson Honored Should Turn to Him
at Representative of People Neu
tral and Seeking; Truth.
HE SPEAKS WITH FRANKNESS
Knows Emperor Will Expect Him to
td as One Friend to Another.
PRESIDENT CAN'T SAY MORE
Aaaerls Day of Arroaatlaar. Will
Come Whea Nations of Karoae
Will Assemble to Deteraalaa
rtttlement.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-Prealdent
Wilson ' today replied to Kmperor Wil
liam's protest that the allies were using
dum dim bullets. The president's reply
follows closely the statement made today
to the Belgian commlalonera protesting
against alleged German atrocities. His
reply to President Polncare's measaga
will follow the same lines. N .
The text of the president' reply to
Emperor William was as follows: ( j
"I received your imperial majesty's Im
portant communication of the 7th and
have read It with gravest interest and
concern. I ejn honored that you should
have turned to me for an impartial Judg
ment at the representative of a people
truly titelnterested- aa. reapwta tha pres
ent r and truly desirous of knowing
and accepting the truth.
Can't Par More. - .
"Tou will, I am sure, not expect me
to say more. Presently, I pray God
,very soon, this war will be over. The
day of accounting will then come, when
I take it for, granted the nations ' of
ISurope will assemble to determine a
settlement. ' Where wrongs have been
committed their consequences and the
relative responsibility Involved will be as
sessed, i
"The nations of the world havrf for
tunately by agreement made a plan for
such a reckoning and settlement. What
such a plan cannot compass, the opinion
of mankind, the final arbiter in such
matters, will supply. It would be un
tviee. It would be premature, for a single
government, however fortunately sepa
rated from the present struggle. It would
even be Inconsistent with the neutral
Position of a natlpn, which like this has
no part In, the contest, to form or ex
press a final Judgment
Speaka Frankly.
"I i speak thus frankly, because I
know that you will expect and wish me
to do so aa one friend should to another
and because I Yeel sure that such a res
ervation of Judgment until the end of the
war. when' all Us events and circum
stances can be seen In their entirety and
In' tbelr true relation will commend It
self to you as a true expression of sin
ters neutrality
"WOODROW WILSON."
fftao Chow Station ,
Taken by Japanese
TOKIO. Bept. 11 The railway station
at Klao Chow, five mile from th bay of
that name and opposite Ting Tsau, the
Cierman fortified fort, was occupied on
.September 13 by Jspanese scouts, ac
cording to an official announcement made
today.
It Is officially announced that a Japa
nese aeroplane dropped bombs on the bar
rack.a of the Germans at Taing-Tao and
that the machine returned safely , to its
headquarters. Th destroyer flotilla oper
ating from La os h an bay near Tslng-Tao.
drove in the enemy's patrols.
Captured Uhlans
First Demand Food
PARIS.' Hrpt. IS. A detachment of
forty I'hlans, who had been wandering
In the woods of Fontaln-Bleau alnce the
engagement at klontmlrall was sur
rounded yesterday by a. company of ter
ritorial Infantry. They were nearly
famlfthed and their first request was for
something to eat and drink. ',
Another detachment of Uhlan captured
near Auberge, swd when taken by the
French troops:
"Do what you .like with us afterward,
but first trlve us something to est We
are dying pf hunger." ,
Aviator Killd by
A 2,000-Foot Fall
PL'EBLO, Colo., Sept. 18. Weldon B?
Cooke, aviator, was killed In- a plunge of
J.OW feet In his aeroplane while giving
an exhibition fligb' " - fair
grounds today,
AGAIN RAGING
War Summary
An official French atalamcnt Is
sued In Paris yesterday after
noon stated that the German
army was fighting a defensive
battle along Its front from Noyon,
a town on th Olae river, fourteen
miles northeast of Complegne, to
a point north of Verdun.
This would Indicate a. battle
front of approximately 110 mllo.
with the extreme west at a' point
fifty-five mllos northeast of Tarls.
The German general rtaff an
nounced yesterday that the sit
uation on the west front was still
favorable. It was added that the
allies have not won a victory at
any point on the whole battle
front and tat the Gernians could
look with confidence to the out
come. An official statement issued at
Vienna declares that the Servian
Invader of. Hungary have been
defeated along the whole line.
Demonstrators against Italy's
attitude of neutrality were sup
pressed by the military In Rome.
According to advices received In
Rome, probably from Austrian
sources, two Austrian armies In
Gallcla have effected a Juncture
at Rressow, thirty-two miles
north of Frxemysl.
It Is announced at Toklo that
Japanese scout bare occupied the
railway etatlon five miles from
the Bay of Klao Chow. .
WILOK REPLIES '
TO THEJELGIAHS
President Says it Would Be Unwise
for Neutral Government to Form
or Express Judgment.
PRAYS DAILY WAR WILL CEASE
High roinrataalna Declares Germans
Were, Bratal, Attacked Defease
leas and Destroyed Prep-
- ' '
rrty la .lavaslna.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-Tha' Belgian
commUslon, whlth. eome to protest
against alleged Orrman atroolt!cs In Bel
glum, was received in the east room of
the Whit House todny by President WIN
son. N
Accompanied by Minister llavrnth, the
commissioners arrived at th State de
partment Just before t o'clock and were
received by Fecretary Bryan who took
them to the White House.
Wilson's Statraaeal.
President Wilson suld to the commis
sion: 1
'Tennlt me to sky with what sincere
pleasure I receive you as representatives
of the K'ng of the Belgians, a people for
whom X he people of the United States feel
so strong a friendship and admiration; a
king for whom they entertain so sincere
a respect and express my hope that we
may have many opportunities of earjaTrfg
and deserving their regard. .
"You are not mistaken In believing that
the people of this country to give Justice,
seek the true path of progress, and hav
a passionate regard for the Ytght of hu
manity.
Thaskt for Doraateat.
"I thank you for the document you
hav 'put in my hands containing the re
sult of 'an Investlgstion made by a
Judicial committee appointed by th Bel
gian government to look In th matter
of which you have come to speak. I will
give It my moat etttentlve peraual and
my most thoughtful consideration.
"Tou will) I am sure, not expect me to
say more. Presently, I pray God very
soon, this war will be over. Th day of
accounting will then come,' when, I take
It, for granted, the nations of Europe will
assemble to determine a settlement.
Where wrong hav been committed,
their consequence and the relative re
sponsibility Involved will be assessed.
"It would be unwise, it will be pre
mature for a single government, how
ever fortunately aeparated from th prea
ent atruggle, -it would be Inconsistent
with th neutral position of any nation,
whleh Ilk this has no part in th con
teat to form or, express a final Judg
ment." Belalaa "talemeat. - .
The text of the statement of the Bel
gian high commission was as follow:
"Excellency, his nisjesly, the king of
the Belgians, hss charged us with a spe
cial mlsalon to the president of the United
Stales
"Let me say to you how much we feel
ourselves honored to have been called to
express th sentiments of our king and of
our whole nation to the Illustrious states
man whom the American people have
called to the highest dignity of the com
monwealth. "As far as I am concerned, I have al
ready been able, during. a previous trip,
to fully appreciate the noble virtues of the
American nation and I am happy to take
this opportunity to express the admira
tion with which they Inspired me.
"Over since Its Independence was first
established, Belgium has been declared
neutral in it perpetuity. This neutrality
guaranteed by the powers, has recently
been violated by one of them. Had we
consented to abandon our neutrality for
th benefit of one of the belligerents ws
would have betrayed our obligations to
aards the others, and It wa th sense of
our International obligations, as well as
that of our dignity and honor, that hffi
driven us to resistance.
"The consequences suffered by the Bel-
(Continued on Pag Two, Column Four.)
IN FRANCE
ANOTHER BATTLE
Its PROGRESS ON
FRENCH GBpUND
Reports from Paris Relate that Re,
treating Germans Are Making
Stand on High Ground.
KAISER HAS NEW ADVANTAGE
His Armies Now Fighting Under.
More Favorable Conditions Than
in Recent Encounters. "
PRINCE IN DANGEROUS PLACE
Heir Apparent, According to London
Reports, in Dangerous Position .
by Von Kluck'i Shifting.
BERLIN DEMAND IS - ALLAYED
Clamor for War News Satisfied with
TTr nul S-mv'a Pesistanoa '."
CZAR'S ATTACK WAS A RUSE
nasalaaa larr.trd Koe.l.-b.r. to)'
Make Kalaer Sead Troop Thfr.
and Weaken Parle Attaela-
A U'ltkSMIW.
BI'l.I.KTI!f. : '-' .
BKRL.IN, Sept. 16 (By Wireless
Via 8ayvllle, L. I.) The German
prospects In the battle In the arn
region are still characterised In Ber
Un as favorable.
Tbe geacral staff has authorized
the announceemnt that nowhere
along U Hne of battle have the
British or French forces won a vic
tory. No details of the fighting In
France Is given out and it Is said
that no decisive turn of events seems
probable for soma time to, eome.
" bvllktipi. ':.'.
' LONDON, Sept. It. (5:28
tn.) ;The official press bureau to-"
ay gave out a statement which says:
"The general position attending
the Atsne river fight continues very
favorabte. ' The enemy has delivered
several counter attacks, especially
against the first army corps. Thesa
have been repulsed and the Germans
have given way slightly blre our
troops and the French armies on our
right and left.
"The enemy's lose la very heavy
and we have taken 200 prisoners."
BILLKTIN.
PARIS, Sept. 16. -According to of
ficial announcement made this af
ternoon, the German army is fight
ing a defensive battle along its front
from Noyon to a point near Verdun.
PARIS. Sept. 16. The official
communication of Monday! which
referred to the preceding day's de
velopments,-aald that, the enemy
.showed a disposition to resist north
of the Alsne river. Yesterday's of
ficial communication said that the
enemy had restated on the line from
Craonne and the forest of L'Algle,
north of Compiegne. VAs a simple
rear guard stand against the allies
this would scarcely last forty-eight
hours, so there must be another brg
battle In progress since Sunday,.
The forces that constitute .the cen-!
ter in the battle of Marne seem also
to be seeking a position on the same
line, while the erown prince's array
in Argon ne continues to retreat la
that direction. '
The Germans have on this line the d
vantage of high, ground, with! the right
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Canada Is Awake--
. a nr
Are We . 1
EVERY industrial fibre
in our food Canadian
neighbor is already tingling
with hope and courage.
Canada is shipping her
grain and farm products to
Europe s'he is starting her
mills and factories.
She sees in the war a duty
and an opportunity. It Is ours
to shgre in even greater'' proper- -tlon.
The world markets are i
open. We have the raw-rca- .
terial the men the money
and we are getting the ships. . (
Don't SitArpund Waiting
to See What Is Going
to Happen
It Has Happened .
