Nebraska Newspapers

    NEWS OFJE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for Ail
Classes of Readers.
WAR NEWS.
In the eight months of fighting from
August to April 11, the total casual
ties among the British forces were
139,347 men.
• • •
Two Zeppelin airships visited the
east coast of England, dropping
bombs on several; towns, doing con
siderable damage t)o property.
* • *
Germany denies intention to extend
the age limit, now 45, saying large
numbers of able-bodied men under 45
are still available for the army.
* * *
The independent labor party in
annual convention at Norwich, Eng
land, cheered a suggestion that there
be a truce between Great Britain and
Germany with the object of settling
the war.
• • •
Germany is sending troops into
Hungary, and strong support of this
kind is likely to have an encourag
ing effect on the Austrians, whose
resistance has been described as
most determined.
• • •
The German auxilliarv cruiser
Kronprinz Wilhelm, following the ex
ample of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich,
has slipped into Newport News with
the record of having sunk fourteen
vessels since last August.
• * *
British steamer Wayfare, a 6,000-ton
vessel, which had been in the Liver
pool-Galveston trade for ten years
and had recently been requisitioned
by the British government, has been
towed into Queenstown and beached,
with a great rent in its side caused
by a German torpedo.
* * *
German Zeppelin airship has raid
ed the Tyne district of North-umber
land. The Zeppelin crossed the
North Sea and dropped bombs on a
number of small towns and villages,
but no reports have been received as
to the extent of the damage done, if
any.
• • •
Official report from Field Marshal
Sir John French, in command of the
British forces on the continent, places
the British losses in the fighting
which ended in the occupation of
Neuve Chapelle, at 12,811, of whom 2,
527 officers and men were killed and
8,733 officers and men were wounded.
* * •
Great Britain, in answer to a pro
test by the Chilean government
against the sinking of the German
cruiser Dresden in Chilean territorial
waters by a British cruiser squadron,
has acknowledged the charge and of
fe-^d a "full and ample apology” to
Chile.
GENERAL.
Three hundred Japanese are report
ed to have been drowned by the col
lapse of undersea galleries in the Ube
coal mine in the Shimoncseki district.
• * *
“Billy” Sunday is to be asked to go
to England to wage a prohibition
campaign among the working men of
that country, according to the New
York Tribune.
• * *
William T. Elam, the St. Joseph
physician, who, November 13, 1913,
Ehot and killed W. P. Cramer of Chi
cago, a magazine man, in a Kansas
City hotel, was granted a divorce
from Alice Bertha Elam at St. Jo
seph.
• • •
Chief Gunner’s Mate Frank Crilley
went *88 feet under water at Hono
lulu and walked along the top of the
submarine F-4, which disappeared
March 25. The depth is said by nav
al officers to be a world’s diving
record.
• • •
Rear Admiral William S. Cowles
urged greater preparedness of the
navy for war at a meeting of the New
York Geneological and Biographical
society. Admiral Cowles suggested
that every young man in the United
States should be obliged to spend a
few days each year in the service of
the navy.
• • *
Trial of Matthew Schmidt and Da
vid Caplan on a murder charge in con
nection with the dynamiting of the
Los Angeles Times building October
1, 1910, was set at Log Angeles for
September 1.
• • •
Announcement was made at Phila
delphia that the American Humane
association has designated the week
of May 17 to 22 as “kindness to ani
mals week,” during which the or
ganization purposes to interest peo
ple throughout the country in the
more humane treatment of animals.
* * *
Despite the protest of labor leaders,
the New York state senate passed the
bill designed to increase the hours of
labor for women and minors in can
ning establishments from sixty-six to
seventy-two hours a week.
• • •
“Freshmen and sophomore years in
college should be given to the high
schools, thus cutting the. college
courses to two years,” Prof. Charles
H. Judd of the University of Chicago
told 200 Kansas high school teachers
at their annual meeting at the Uni
versity of Kansas.
* • •
Mrs. Mary W. Merrick, 90 years
cld, widow of Judge William Mer
rick of the supreme court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, died at PikesviLe,
flffj -was a schoolmate of Abra
ham Lincoln.
William R. Burbank, president and
managing director of the new Hotel
Fontenelle, Omaha, died suddenly.
• • •
General Victoriano Huerta, deposed
and exiled dictator of Mexico, has ar
rived at New York on the steamer
Antonio Lopez, direct from Spain.
• • *
The bill prohibiting any kind of
boding in Cuba, which has been be
fore the legislative bodies of the re
public since the Willard-Johnson
tight, has been passed by the senate.
• • •
The Iowa senate has passed a bill
giving city councils power to force
Jitney owners to take out licenses,
establish routes and schedules and
put up indemnity bonds.
* * *
Torrents from the melting snows
of the White mountains in Arizona
overwhelmed two reservoir dams on
the Little Colorado river near St.
Johns and drowned eight persons.
* * *
Four hundred and ninety-six ships
passed through the Panama canal be
tween August 15, 1914, and February
14. 1915, according to National Cham
ber of Commerce figures issued.
Tolls were $2,126,S32.
* * *
G. Y. Baker, a forest ranger, the
son of Justice Darius Baker of the
Rhode Island supreme court, was
found dead in bis room at the Seattle
Athletic club, having shot himself
through the heart. He had been in
poor health.
• * •
Select and common councils of
Philadelphia decided to allow the
historic liberty bell to be sent to the
Panama-Pacific exposition. Resolu
tions providing for its trip across the
continent were unanimously adopted
by both branches.
• • •
Announcement that the Lehigh
railway will soon award contracts in
volving an expenditure of almost
$1,000,000 as a result of "improved
business conditions at this time” was
made ir. a letter to President Wilson
from E. B. Thomas, president of the
road.
• * *
To the inexperience of a student
motorman is charged the death of
fourteen persons, ten of them women,
who were killed in a collision be
tween a street car and a freight train
on the tracks of the Detroit. Toledo
& Iron Mountain railroad in Detroit.
WASH
• • •
‘‘I knew from experience that
whiskey and ammunition makes trou
ble, and 1 wished to close those sa
loons so as to remove the one thing
that might make trouble,” said ex
Governor Oswald West of Oregon, on
the witness stand in the Baker, Ore.,
circuit court, in explaining his action
in closing the Copperfield saloons
over a year ago.
SPORTINO
Joe Jeanette of New York defeated
Sam Langford in Boston in a twelve
round bout. The negro heavyweight
mixed freely but Langford’s apparent
lack of condition gave his opponent
an advantage.
• • •
President Wilson, several members
of 'his cabinet and a huge crowd saw
Washington defeat New York, by a
score of 7 to 0, in the opening game
of the American league base ball sea
son at Washington.
* « •
Objections to the shortness of the
school season and the securing of
suitable grounds has caused the Uni
versity of Omaha Athletic board to
give up the idea of putting a base
ball team in the field this season.
* * *
A racing bill has been introduced
in the Illinois legislature. The meas
ure would legalize racing in Illinois
and would create a state racing com
mission to be composed of three
members of the state highway com
mission.
Jack Welsh, who refereed the
Johnson-Willard fight at Havana,
Cuba, April 5, when Willard won the
world’s heavyweight championship,
said upon his return to San Francis
co that W’illard could have won the
fight in the eighth round.
WASHINGTON.
President W’ilson announced that
the route of the government’s'Alaska
railroad is to be from Seward, on Re
surrection bay, to Fairbanks, on the
Tanana river. Operations will be
started at once.
• • •
President Wilson is planning to
make his delayed trip to the San
Francisco exposition as soon as his
foreign affairs permit. His advisers
are anxious for him to make a Dum
ber of speeches in different parts ol
the country before the opening of the
next congress.
* • *
The government war risk insurance
bureau has paid its first claim
for losses due to the European war. A
treasury warrant for $401,000 was
drawn in favor of the Harris-Irby &
Vose of New York, owners j of the
American steamer Evelyn, sunk oft
the coast of Holland February 20.
• * *
Two cases of bubonic plague and
one death at Havana were reported
to the public health service
The official bacteriologist of the Cu
ban government has been placed in
charge of the situation.
• * *
Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller
of Currency Williams were made de
fendants in proceedings begun in the
District of Columbia supreme court
by the Riggs National bank of Wash
ington, which alleges that these of
ficials have combined and conspired
to wreck that institution.
* * *
Prospects of supplying fuel for the
navy from the coal fields to be opened
by the government Alaskan railroad
was discussed at a cabinet meeting
recently and it was decided to make
a thorough investigation.
125 THOUSAND IDLE
CHICAGO STRIKE THROWS HUGE
NUMBER OUT OF WORK.
MANY MILL WORKERS JOBLESS
Services of Illinois Board of Arbitra
tion Offered.—Thaw Ordered
Baik to Matteawan.
Chicago, III.—Governor E. F. Dunne
has ordered members of the state
board of arbitration to offer their
services to Chicago building trades
workmen and their employers in the
interests of industrial peace.
The strike order issued by the car
penters' district counsel was follow
ed by a retaliative measure in the
form of a -lockout directed at 16.000
carpenters engaged in construction
work all over Cook county. The lock
out debarred the union carpenters
from work on 4,000 buildings which
are being erected by 1,200 contrac
tors, who are pledged and bonded to
maintain their stand until every
union in the structural trades comes
to terms. The term^ include an anti
strike agreement covering a period of
three years. The union leaders de
clared that the strike would not end
until the demands of the men for an
increase in wages of 5 cents an hour
had been granted. It w-as estimated
that 125,000 wage earners in Chicago
were made jobless, for the lockout
and strike tieup operations on $30,
000,000 worth of work. Besides the to
tal of 60,000 unionists of various
’ branches of the building trades, at
least 60,000 more men and women in
shops and mills that furnish material
for the buildings were laid off. Em
ploying interests predicted that the
list of idle will grow unless an agree
ment to arbitrate is respected. The
labor situation in Chicago has been
growing more tense each day since
March 1, when the lathers went on
strike. The building trades unions
that are confronted with the alterna
tive of accepting the Employers as
sociation's terms or being locked out
are: Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, Cement Finishers and Mar
j ble Setters.
Thaw Ordered to Asylum Again.
New York.—Harry Kendall Thaw
has been ordered back to the state
hospital for the criminal insane at
Matteawan by the appellate division
of the New York supreme court. In
' an opinion concurred in by all the
justices the court affirmed the denial
by Supreme Court Justice Page of a
motion to return Thaw to the juris
diction of the state of New Hamp
shire, whence he was extradited to
stand trial for conspiring to escape
from the Matteawan asylum, and
ruled that the original order commit
ting him to the institution was still
valid. Plans were immediately
formulated to take the case to the
state court of appeals. A decision
adverse to Thaw came as a great sur
prise to his counsel.
Orders Investigation.
Washington.—While disinclined to
credit reports that Japan had estab
lished a naval base at Turtle Bay.
Lower California, United States of
ficials have instituted an investigation
to learn exactly what use the bellig
erent warships were making of Mex
ican territorial waters. Should it de
velop that the British and Japanese
vessels were actually using Mexican
waters as a temporary base of sup
plies it is considered possible that the
attention of the Mexican authorities
may be called to it by the Washing
ton government and the matter also
be brought to the attention of Great
Britain and Japan.
Says Neutrality Violated.
New York. — General Estevan
military governor of Lower Califor
nia, wired Francisco Urquidi, Villa
counsel general here, giving the re
sult of his investigation of reports
that Mexican neutrality is being vio
lated by operations of Japanese na
val forces in Turtle bay, Lower Cali
fornia. The telegram reports the
Japanese ships are in St. Bartholo
mew to save the grounded cruiser
Azazma. The reported mines are
nothing but small buoys showing the
the place of anchors and works of
flotation and the encampments just
fishing camps, the message says.
Make Butter From Sunflowers.
London.—According to a dispatch
to the Exchange Telegram Co. from
Amsterdam, the Prussian ministry of
railways has ordered all stationmas
ters to plant sunflowers in every bit
of available ground around the de
pots. Sunflowers, it is claimed, yield
an oil that can be used in the manu
facture of butter.
Bombs Kill German Children.
Amsterdam (Via London).—Dis
patches received from Freiburg in
Breisgau, grand duchy of Baden, an
nounce that a hostile airman dropped
bombs there, killing six persons and
injuring a large number, most of them
school children.
To Reduce Workers’ Wages.
Pittsburgh.—Reductions in wages In
the hot mill departments of the Am
erican Sheet and Tin Plate company,
an important subsidiary of the United
States Steel Co., was announced.
Omaha Wants G. O. P. Convention.
Lincoln, Neb.—That Omaha would
be the logical location for the repub
lican national convention of 1916, is
the text of a letter sent to Chairman
Hilles of the national committee by
Senator Crawford Kennedy of uns
city.
Invites Everyone to Wedding.
Joplin, Mo.—William T. Miller, 101
years old, announcing his wedding to
Mrs. Nancy B. Pike, 60, issued a gen
eral Invitation to the public to at
tend.
Fremont fire loss for year is $118,
000.
The Randolph Commercial club has
been organized.
Fairbury Presbyterians dedicate a
$15,000 church.
F. J. Kovar won the postoffice pri
mary at Schuyler.
The Boy Scout' movement is being
pushed at Louisville.
Pierce went dry by thirty votes.
Mayor Duff was re-elected.
The thirty-fourth session of the
state legislature is ended.
City Clerk Bratton of Hastings is
Serving his sixteenth year term.
George Bantel dropped dead while
plowing in his field near Kearney.
Seward bonds for new high school
building carry. Ninety women voted.
The Missouri Pacific railway is
contemplating a new yard in Omaha.
The first grand jury investigation
ever held in Hastings will open
May 10.
R. S. Brauner, a farmer living four
miles north of Stanton, committed
suicide.
Sentiment toward paving some of
the principal streets in Stromsburg is
growing.
Fire destroyed the residence of S.
A. Milgrim at Hooper, causing a loss
of $1,200.
Will Rinderspacher, Hastings butch
is circulating a petition to be api>oint
ed dog catcher.
The oil tractor meet to be held at
Hastings this year has been post
poned till next year.
Victor Snyder has purchased the
elevators formerly owned by W. H.
Lewis, at Alma and Everson.
Nebraska soil conditions are ideal,
says Secretary Mellor of the state
agricultural board in a bulletin.
Adam McMullen, elected mayor of
Wymore, orders all card tables out
of the cigar stores and pool halls.
State Engineer Johnson has adver
tised lor bids on the Platte river
bridge at North Platte, to cost $13,975.
Charles W. Bryan, brother of W. J.
Bryan, was nominated city commis
sioner in the primary election at Lin
coin.
The Hastings schools will hold a
May fete at Chautauqua park May 6
and 7. with Miss Katherine Kchl as
May queen.
Ben Deeder. Holt county, wan kill
ed by falling from a windmill tower.
Chadron expects free mail delivery
after July 1.
The Kearney district of the Catho
lie church will be honored shortly by
the establishment of a parochial
school in that city.
A petition has been issued at Hast
nigs asking that Amy Robinson, the
only woman physician there, be ap
pointed city physician.
Elbert Moren. living near Johnson,
suffered a broken arm and internal
injuries when two teams and a wagon
load of oats ran over him.
Farmers’ Business association gets
the Bell Elevator and a company of
farmers and business men buy the
Trans-Mississippi elevator at Shelby.
Nebraska is to be represented by
1,500 feet of moving picture reels in
the series of reels along the Lincoln
highway that are to be shown at the
San Francisco exposition.
The Spanish war veterans of Ne
braska will hold their eighth annua!
encampment in Omaha April 117 and
28. Governor Morehead and ex-Sen
ator Thurston will be speakers.
A continuous search is being kept
tip for the bodeis of Mrs. Archie Fer
guson and her two little daughters,
who it is believed leaped from the
steel bridge into the Platte river at
North Bend.
Deputy game wardens over the
state are warning people not t.o take
stock in rumors that a new law pass
ed allows people to fish and hunt in
•heir own counties without a ucense.
Such a bill passed the house but did
not get through the senate.
Nebraska's winter wheat crop is es
timated at from 101 to 104 per cent
of normal by the Burlington crop ex
perts in the first weekly report on
conditions, by the road. The ten
year average of conditions at this
season is taken as the normal. Con
dition In the Omaha, Lincoln and
southeastern Nebraska districts was
reported 101 per cent and In the
southwestern part of the state at 104
per cent.
The new city council of Grand
Island has been organized with the
election of August Meyer as presi
dent. Committees have been appoint
ed to work on the new sewer proposi
tion recently passed by a popular
vote.
Suit has been filed in the federal
court by Frank R. McCormick, re
ceiver of the First National bank ot
Sutton against the Luebben Baler
company asking for funds alleged to
have been lost just before the failure
of the bank. The amount sued for
is *21,691.58.
Manager Matney of the Kearney
State league baseball team, stated
that he has forty men signed for the
season.
The Nebraska State Pharmaceuti
cal association will hold its annual
convention in Omaha, June 7 to 10.
Headquarters will be at the Hotel
Fontenelle.
Since the suit of William U. Lucas
and others against the Ashland Light,
Mill and Power company, was begun
in the Saunders county district court
in 1907, at Ashland, nine persons
identified In the case, have died.
Construction of a $150,000 two
mile automobile speedway at Lin
coln is being considered by directors
of the Lincoln Commercial club.
Gateways and arches bearing the
words “Welcome to the Third City”
will be erected by the Grand Island
Commercial club over the Lincoln
I highway according to present plans.
The. personnel of the convicts now
in the state prison is higher than at
any time in the history of the state,
according to members of the Ne
braska State Prison Workers asso
elation.
LEGISLATURE ENDS
THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION ENDED
TUESDAY, APRIL 13.
TOTAL OF 308 BILLS PASSED
Appropriations for National Guard
Amounts to $67,500 for
the Biennium.
Lincoln.—Gavels of the speaker
arul the lieutenant governor whack
ing on the stands at each end of the
second floor of the state capttol
Tuesday brought the thirty-fourth
session of the state legislature to a
close at 3:30 p. m. The ceremony
was witnessed by more members than
usually remain to the end. The last
bill acted upon was the mammoth
maintenance appropriation measure.
The conference committee's report
was adopted without a fight on any
of the items. The total carried by
this measure was $2,760,820, as
against the $2,65'G\910 carried by the
bill when it left the house and
$2,806,720 when it left the senate,
dn the conference the house was
raised $112,910. This was a decrease
of only $17,500 over the sums at
tached by the upper chamber. The
voice of Secretary of War Garrison
crying out in the east for the solons
to increase the appropriation for the
national guard over the pittance al
lowed by the house, was heard in the
capitol. The appropriation was
boosted from the $37,500 allowed by
tiie house to $67,500, or a restoration
of what the guard was given by the
1913 legislature. In conference the
live stock sanitary board was allowed
$31,500. The irrigation board and
the state engineer were treated to a
conference raise amounting to near
ly $18,000 over the house figures.
The state superintendent was cut
down to $25,000. Figures on the ap
propriations of the present session
show that the total will be between
$600,000 and a million dollars lower
than 1913. That too, in spite of the
fact that state institutions required
more money than they did then and
In spite of the fact the educational
interests of the state had to have at
legislature passed in all 308 bills,
which 112 are yet in the hands of
the governor and not acted upon.
Last season the legislature passed
269 bills. Outside of the Greater
Omaha act, probably the legislation
along good road lines and the Pal
bey automobile act, may be consid
ered to be among the leading legisla
tive acts. Among the concluding
acts of the lower house was the
adoption of a resolution endorsing
the administration of President Wil
son and his cabinet.
Seven Food Dills Passed.
The food commissioner’s depart
ment fared very well at the hands of
the 1915 legislature. Of the seven
bills in which Food Commissioner
Harman was interested, not one fell
by the wayside. One of the meas
ures passed makes it a felony to sell
diseased meat. The dairy bill pro
vides for dairy inspection from May
1 to October 1, under the former law
it was only for the three summer
months. It also authorizes the de
partment to put the buying or sell
ing of cream on a quality basis. The
weights and measures amendment
provides for three inspectors instead
of two. The stock foods’ law7 requires
th.e filing of the name of each ingred
ient with the food commissioner, an
analysis and a $5 fee from the manu
facturer for each brand. The con
centrated feeding stuffs law requires
the branding of mixed feeds or parts
of whole feeds with a fat, protein or
fibre analysis.
Adds a Judce to the Ninth.
The Nichols bill, adding another
Judge to the Ninth judicial district
and putting two more counties in that
district, was signed by the governor,
despite the fact that the legislature
did not see fit to provide for an extra
judge for Lancaster county in that
bill. The governor asked for the
latter, but the senate did not agree
with him.
More Escort Wagons Arrive.
A carload of escort w7agons has
been received by Adjutant General
Hall of the National Guard in Ne
braska. The wagons are furnished
by the federal War department’.
Gibson for Kearney Normal.
The state normal board has elected
H. H. Gibson of Cornell university,
head of the department of biology
and agriculture at the Kearney nor
mal school.
Jury Commissioner for Douglas.
Governor Morehead signed the
Jury commissioner bill for Douglas
county and the loan shark bill.
Dorchester Has Pisa.
Citizens of Dorchester have put In
their case before the Railway com
mission for additional passenger serv
ice from the Burlington. The Saline
county towns want trains Nos. 2 and
3 to stop.
Property at Full Value.
Advoates of taxation reform won
tlieir only victory of the session
when the house passed- the Saunders
bill. Senate File No. 161. providing
that all property shall be listed bv
the assessor at its full value.
Nebraska-lowa Bill Defective.
A result of the hurry of the last
few days of the Nebraska legislature
has been shown in the case of H. R.
398, a bill to fix the boundary line be
tween Nebraska and Iowa near
Omaha. The bill, which appropriates
$300 for making the survey and for
the expenses of the commission, does
not recite the appropriation in the
title. This will invalidate it, accord
ing to those who say they know. The
title fif a bill is supposed to show
what the body contains.
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•Br3cn'psl immerpin citten fdjmeren
Siplag fiir ben tapferen treuen '-Bun*
bedgenoffcn bebcutet. 2ie geftung
bietet jmcifellod oon nun an ben iRuf
fen eiitcii ftnrfcu Sriippuntt unb
madjt febenfaud iibcr 100,000 IRaitn
fiir bie ^eucrlrnie frei. 2Bo biefe
Cerftdrfungen fiir bie ntffifdje ^ront
einfepen trerben, ift uns niept be*
fount, ficperlid) if aber bie bfterreidji*
fdje §ecreslcituttg bariiber unterridp-!
tci unb barauf Porbercitet, benfclben
airfmtgsPoE 311 begcgneit. SobaB ber
Jail ber geftung anBcr iprem 8>er*
lufe non eiitem ftrategifepen GiuflitB
auf be’’ SSerlauf ber Stdmpfe im aE*
3eme..tcn fein mirb.
2ie iRuffen bejeiepneten 311 ?lnfatig ■
bed si lieges 'f rjeimjsl aid bie erftc
Elappe auf Strafau unb oon bort auf
Breslau. 2ic erftc ©elagerung man*
te auigegcbeit^mcrben, bie jroeite '-Be* j
lagcrung pat jept feit tnepreren iVo*
initen eire ftatde ruffifepe £>eercdmad)t
por ber ftefte gepaltcn unb ciit Gittfa#
murbe feiteiis bee bfterrcicpifd) * nit* I
garifepen Sntppen bis jept niept ocr*
fuept, ba ficb auf aitbcrn Stiegsfcpau*
plcpeu uinjlcid’ micptigcrc Cpcratio*
:teit <tbfpiel+('n.
c oifepen ber erften 33clagerung
unb ber ;.oei*en baben fid) aber nun
bie 'Berbdltniffe fo gcftaltct, baB ber
SaE ber jveftung feine SBicptigfcit aid
'trategifepe Errnngciifdjaft bollig Per*
i Inreit pat.
irfei bent serriitteten 3uftanbc, in
meldjcm fid) bie ruffifepe iJlrmce in*
folge ber meprfaepen fepmeren 9Jicber*
lagcn befinben, fann Pon cinem fraf*
tigen SorftoB auf Strafau unb bie
beutfdi) * fdjlefifcpe ©renje feine SRc
~c mepr fein, um fo meniger, aid cine
bcutfd) * ofterreidjifdpe Xruppcnmacpi
jept im flnmarfcp anf bie jvcftnng ift.
SBare 'Braemqdl im September,
».§ bie ntffifdje Slrmee nod) gcroiffer
maBen intaft mar, gefaEen, fo marc
bie aitoglicpfeit, bafj fid) oon biefent
©tiippunfte and ber 'Bortuarfd) tiadj
ffrafau unb bie beutfepe ©reti3c ben
-j.Uanen ber ruffifdjen ©eeredleitnng
gemdB ooE3ogen pcitte, nidjt Pon ber
.$anb 311 mcifen gemefen. Cd ift Xat*
faepe, baB man bantald in IBrcslau
mit bcr iRbglidjfcit ciner iBelageruug
reepnete. SBic bie Serpaltniffe peute
liegen, ift bie 2RogIid)feit eitted rcei*
tern 33orbringcns ber iRuffen iibcr bie
Acuuna Piitaud obflia nudetpirfilnffnti
8o iff, bei Sidjte bcfcben, bcr gall
‘JSrScnujSI'S cin biEigcr ruffifdjcr
©injclcrfolg, unb bic greubc bcr 211
Iiicrtcn biirftc balb einen bcrben
!ttiitffd)!ag crfabrcn, inbcm fid) bic
barau gcfnupftcn .^offnimgcn uid]t
crfiiUcn, fonbern in§ ©egentcil um>
fdjlagen, ba Ccfterreid) . ilngarn mil
beni fommenben griitijaljr ebenfo mic
Seutiddanb cine grofce Slcfcrbcarmcc
an bic gront toirft.
Sic Scrtcibigung ber geftung
wnmSI aber bilbet cin rubmooUefe
U3Iatt in ber (^cfdjicbte bcr bfterrei
cbifd) . ungarifdjcfi 9lrmee. SBcrglci
dicn mir bamit nut einmal ben ra.
fdjen gad bcr geftungen Siittidi, Hnt
tnerpen, Ufaubcugc, etc., bic faum
etmge S&odien bent JlnpraU ber Scut
fd)en ^tanb 311 fjalten berm od) ten, jo
mug jeber eingcjieben, baB ber Aorn
manbant uni) bie $efa$ttng non
iprjemg^I fidj als .tfpelbcn nut fRubui
bebecft baben, toic and) bie *>einbc,
fclbft Siortbon, often eingettebcit.
il>rjctmpl bat cine fdjtaterige '.tuf
gabe in befter tESetfe gclmt, itibeni c:
ben rnftifdicn Slnftumi nteuuie.-. a
Gttfgebaltcn nnb tneit iifcer it*1 ■.*>' 1 ’
Jyeinbe in erfolgrettbent 'i>crtt ib:
guitgsfarnpfe anger Ole'cdit m t
bai; ©olange es cine !iiJe!:. ':
gibt, tpirb ber belbcnmrt. i me
fatting, bes hclbenniiitigeit St. . .
banten .‘gerntann oon Shtsmanef .: t
S?od;ad)tung nnb Sliterfentutng ; •
badjt trerbcn.
Xie nieberfdjlagenbe ZJirfuu: t
it?adbrid)t Pont piaile non 'i:r .in: .
bitrcf) bie offtpsUen 2Kcli
geboben tttorben, bag ber lirvig bee
I’lngriffS ber SIEiierten an’ . 7 ;t:
ber XarbancUen unter ieetg.n ll:::
frdiibctt noUftiiitbig unmogltdt tit
Xas biefige fPublifunt crntlu .
stmt erften UJJale, bag bic tiirfitd .
ifkfeftigungen in ber StWecrenge b.
Jlusbrudje bes Slrieges nerftdrft trur
belt, fobag fie fait uncinnebmbar fi::b
i'crborgene Sanbbatterien, nut bent
tdjen Sfanoncn cerfeben. unb jept r. :t
Xeutfdfen bemaunt, tnurben aim.',
[tent. Xiefelben fittb fo gefdjidt r:.:
fiert, baft bie ^liegcr ber SfUiicrt t
fie nidit entbeden fonnten.
©isger baben bie englifcb * frame
fifdicn Sfriegsfdnffe nacfi eitte.
nen Stridden nur bie alien Straub
baitericn serftiirt. 2ie be.
nidft bao reirflid)e problem tn d
griff genommcrf, ba» gelbft n :
nmB, ebe ber SScg nadtMouu.r. : ;
frei licgt. SDIilitarifdje 2 ad. r
bige fiivb ber Slitfidjt, baf; nur ..
griffe 311 Sattbe mi: ut:
Ucbcrmndit 3ttglcid) nut cue • .. :
gifdjeit ©outbarbcment fetter.-: 1
englifd) = fransofifcben Ck-ide:
bie berborgcitcn SSerteibiger b. rx:. :tb
botterien and) nur beldftigen e.:
CriitbiiUungcii biefcr unerronr:.:
ctdrfe ber Xiirfcu baben ba: b-eutid
^ublifutn )'el)r begeiftert. UeberaU
roirb cine meitere fiieberlage ber.lQt
ierten, ncrglcidjbar mit bem cmfer.
ber englifd) * franjofifdjen Jlri. : td :•
fe 3UDerfid)tIid) erroartet.
SSir fontten un§ barum be-: (3e
fiiljles nid)t erroel)rcn, taB bie e. dvr.
lage ber ?Uliiertcn bei ben Xarbanel
len bon grdfjcrer iBcbcutung an' be
rocitereit (3ang ber frtegerifdvn C:
eigniffe ift, ale- ber ^vaEL non |;rv 1
t)6l. ^ebenfafll aber rotrb ber
2d)tner3 ber i'llliiertcn burd; b .
rtiffifdjcti (rrfolg in etroa gemtKvrt
Cufcl cant ale- ftdfcr brr cnghutim
cccrdubcr.
2?cfannilidj ift Don oerfdiieben 2
tut bie Sluregung auegegang-eu. x.
bensmittcl in fPofUiarfeten tier.
Xcutfdjlanb unb Cefterreid) 11: :r
311 fdjidEcn. Xie flbfidbt licet burnt
flnr outage, baf) matt an’ bn x-.-.tie
ber burd) bie englifcfje Jilt: eu: ete
rung-C’politif arg bebrangter , retie •
odlferung in Xcutfdilanb uttb Ceitet
reid) = Ungartt jubilfe fettti:ee. tecil
tc. Uiefaimtlid) baben bie Cu t... :b.r
uid)t nur ailc fiir Xeutfduanb be
ftinmiten 8ebens>mtttel a!-:- Stouter
baitbc erflart, fonbert: uberljaiet
ben ^anbelbiu’rfefir Xeutfcblunbv t
bem fluc-Iattbe nuterbitnben.
«uf bem S&ege ber $ad
ten nun bie Xeutidianierifatter. 'a
trie Cefterrcici)er uttb Ungartt b: :
nnocrfd)dntte tBergemalttgune e- -
lanbS, toie fie ficb in ber e’lu e::.
rungspolitif 311 erfennen gil’t, trctt.j
ften§ tcilrocife unroirffam ,311 lttadvu
Unb ber iUatt ift an unb fiir ficb nut!
nur 3rocdfmdfjig. fonbern cntfpridtt
audi alien gefeclidjcn Snforbentngen.
?Ilo man barunt oott ber flttrcguitg
in SSafbington librte, befam matt fet
nen gclinben cdtreden. ber erften
Ucberrafdiung ttutrbe 0011 3uftdnbiger
ceite erflart, ber iUan fei nidtt
bnrdjfitbrbar, 2cf>cn-:-mittcI feicn Ben
(rnglanb auf bie fionterbanbcltfte .:
fefet iDorben, unb fie bliebcn Stent. -
banbe aud) bantt, roentt fie ber '1; t
3ur '-Beforgung iibergeben roitrbe
Xamit roarbie Uuoerleblidifett ber
amcrifanifd)en tpoftfenbungen e re .
gegeben. ©leicfoeitig roitrbe artge
beutet, bnfj bie 'Xoftdinter be-:- Xe.e.e, :
bafitn inftruiert roerben robrben, bte t
nad) Xcutfdilanb uttb Cefterreid) Un
gam beftimmten fiebeneiiiittclpcdcte
3ttritcf3ntocifcn. SSott biefent Cut
idjltift ift man abgefommen. Xurct)
cine non ©encraLpoftmetfier 5*ur.cv:i
erlaffene Sk’tfugung roerben be t- eit
metiter angeroicfcti, foldje tadcte
?mar auauucbinen, cber ben rlLuYn
bcrn 3u bcbcuten, bap, bie Sterienb:::
cut? itjr tKififo gcfdjiebt. lie 1-:
meiftcc fallen audj baranf acl"
biefc '-Uadfctc gcfonbcrt blcileu. :,
menu bie SPoftbampfcr oon en
Srenjern angebalien unb an? v
battbe burd.nidjt rocrbcii.
roenig 5Bcr3ogerung m ber Y
rung ber iibrigen 'jjoftfadicn c: ; i
i)Jan field, £err sBuricfou
ben Gnglbnberu moglidjft c
b:r [tout fie nidd blofe nut :
baranf, bag man inSBafbiuer
bagegen baben mirb, menu n.
Seutfdjlaub unb Cefterr di
-'eftimmten 'Poftpadete ic:r
r Icifjt fie ibuen and) nod; h. .
rcdjtlegen, bamit fie f?c leidtt •
oljnc 3eitoerluft auf ibre Sd
ben unb in ben nadjften $jcjcu
pen fonnen.
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