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NEWS BRIEFLY IOLO INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. 6REATER OR LESSER IMPORT Include* What i* Going On at Wash ington and in Other Section* of the Country. WAR MEWS. The Italian government has do dared a blockade of all ports on the Austro-Hungarian coasts. * * * A Copenhagen correspondent says ae has learned from an authoritative source that Germany is about to cal', jp 2,000,000 men. Berlin official cir :les, he states, believe that an army of 500,000 will be sufficient to cope with Italy. • • • Under stress of war, Germany, Aus tria-Hungary and Turkey have all en trusted their affairs in Great Britain :o the American embassy, thus piling »n extraordinary burden upon Ambas sador Page and making It necessary to enlarge the embassy staff. , ... The total number of war prisoners now in Germany and Austria Hun gary is 1.586,000, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung. The paper says that this total includes 1,000,000 Rus sians. 250,000 French, 25,000 English, 50,000 Belgians and 50,000 Serbians. • • • According to official announcement 3ermany, Austria and Italy have giv en formal assurance that they will lake no step to violate Swiss neutral ity. Large bodies of Swiss troops, however, have been assigned to patrol the frontiers. • * * The British-Russian blockade of Herman ports in the North and Baltic seas is a failure. Despite their migh ty fleet, it is said more than 100 ves sels, loaded with foodstuffs, have steamed unmolested into German har bors and unloaded since the blockade was established. * • • England’s navy will take all mer chant vessels bound to and from Nor way, Denmark, Sweden and Holland into British ports and will not release them unless they prove that their car goes are not reconsigned to Germany or by Germany to the United States, according to advices from London. • * * Italy, the eleventh nation to enter the world war, has thrown down the gage of battle to Austria. The Aus trian and Italian troops in vast num bers are arrayed against each other along the mountainous frontier. Most of Austria’s warships are at Pola. the great Austrian naval port in the Ad riatic. • • • Another British battleship, the T "imph. which saw service in Chi nese waters and off Smyrna, fell victim in the operations in the Dar danelles. A torpedo, whether Ger man or Turkish is not known, sent her to the bottom. The British ad miralty reports that probably the majority of the officers and c-rew were Saved. - * - OFNERAL. With gifts totalling $250,000 report ed, the fund of the Northern Baptist convention at Los Angeles for aged ministers and missionaries was swell ed to $625,000. • * * The jury in the trial of William Barnes' suit for libel against Theo dore Roosevelt at Syracuse, N. Y., re turned a verdict iu favor of the for mer president. * • • One of the last acts of the Michigan legislature was the adoption of resolu tions urging the governor of Georgia to commute the death sentence of Leo M. Frank. * * * All shipments of cotton seed oil, lubricating oils and grease to Holland from American ports have been tem porarily suspended by order of The Netherlands government. * * • The steamer Corwvn. which sailed from Seattle, May 1, with 106 passen gers, reported by wireless to Nome, Alaska, that it had run into an ice field sixty miles out from Nome. t * * • The United States circuit court of appeals at New Orleans has ruled that cotton future margins are a wa ger and cannot be collected in any court of law in the United States. • * • The Italian postoflice department notified the United States of the sus pension of the parcel post between Ihe two countries. Packages now in the mails will be returned to the Benders. * * • Tile time has come when the repub licans of the country should receive the progressives back into the party, but “they must leave behind their fads, nostrums and i*ns." according to William Howard Taft, former pres ident, who spoke before a meeting of republicans at Kansas City. ♦ * • California club women, represented by the California Federation of Wom en's dubs, went on record at San Francisco opposing ‘‘preparations for war" and in favor of international ar bitration. » * • Plans to send the newly dedicated mission car “{trace” on a trip over the railroads of California and Arizona occupied considerable attention at the Northern Baptists’ convention at Los Angeles. The car has a chapel seat ing 100 and has living quarters for a missionary family. • • • Officials of the Calumet & Hecla Mining company announce at Hough ton. Mich., that on June 12/ bonus of more than $500,000 would be dis tributed among the 10.000 employe. Fifty persons were drowned when the Chilean steamer Maximiano Er razuris struck a reef and sank oft the coast of Santiago, Chile. * • * Admiral George Dewey is the new commander of the Vermont commail dary of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He was elected at the annual meeting at Burlington. • • • Reports of committees on Christian life and work and on church co-oper ation and union took up most of the session of the fifth general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States at Rochester, N. V. « » • The H. C. Frick Coke company or Connellsville, Pa., fired 860 idle ovens, making 1,100 ovens fired with in the last week. There are now 12, 895 ovens in operation in the Con nellsville region, all of them on six days a week. * • * Charles Becker, former New York city police lieutenant, was refused a third trial on the charge of instigat ing the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. He is sentenced to die in the Sing Sing electric chair during the week of July 12. % » • An ordinance prohibiting saloons from selling spirituous liquors was in troduced in the Chicago city council by Alderman Charles P. Merriam, who, as chairman of a special com mittee, has just finished an investiga tion into the causes of crime. • * * As evidence of the tremendous wheat crop expected in northern Kan sas, and southern Nebraska this year, the Rock Island railroad recently took through Omaha to Wichita a special train of fifty cars loaded with engines and threshing machines. • * • The proposal to put forth extraor dinary efforts to obtain 1,000,000 con verts before 1920 was enthusiastically adopted by the Northwestern Baptist convention at Los Angeles. The pro gram also calls for raising the contri butions to the mission funds to $6,000,000. • * • Examiner Dow will hear the com plaint of Sioux City, Council Bluffs, St. Joe, Atchison and Kansas City, against the new Nebraska distribut ing rates at Omaha. Jone 28 These cities complain the rates discrimin ate agains them. The Nebraska rail way board answers that if this is so, it is because the roads have failed to reduce in proportion. SPO RTINO A new wr '.d billiard record was made at St. Louis when Charles Morin of Chicago scored a high run of eight een in an inter-city tournament, three cushion game. Morin won the game fifty to thirty-two. • * A F. Hargens of Davenport broke the state record for the shotput in the state high school field meet at Des Moines, when he tossed the sphere 15 feet, 7 inches. Merle Alderman of Marion held the record with 45 feet, 3 inches, made in 1907. * * • Twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, the largest amount of money ever given a winner of any sporting event of its kind in America, will go to the winner of the first internation al 500-mile motor derby to be held on { I Chicago's new speedway June 19. — WAShINOTON. Loans and discounts of national banks in New York and Chicago in creased more than $72,000,000 in the period between March 4 and May 1, | according to an announcement b> the \ comptroller of the currency. St. Louis bank showed a decrease of about $1,000,000. » * • Reform of national finance and establishment of a budget system were discussed by President Wilson and a committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The presi dent told the committee that he ex pected to go into the subject thor oughly with a special committee of the house. • • • Conferences between representa tives of the financial and business in terests of the United States and dele gates from South and Central Amer ica attending the Pan-American financial conference were continued in an effort to bring about a clear un derstanding of the desires and needs of the southern republics. To put an end to the loss and dam age of rifles and other government property issued to the state militia, Secretary Garrison has directed that hereafter all amounts for such losses be deducted from the pay of respon sible officers and enlisted men. This action became necessary because of the increasing loss of federal proper ty and the failure of militiamen pro perly to care for the equipment. *• « • President Wilson cabled to Presi dent Victorino de ia Plaza of Argen tina congratulations on the celebra tion of the one hundred and fifth an niversary of Argentine independence * * • Eight thousand extra men will be needed to harvest Nebraska’s wheat crop tliis season, according to the es timates In the hands of the Depart ment of Labor. Tt Is stated that 116, 000 harvest hands would be needed in the middle western states. They will be supplied through a Kansas City depot. * * • According to reports reaching the State department, the American con sulates at Berlin are now receiving answers to a postcard canvass order ed to determine the whereabouts and plans of Americans still in Germany. Many Americans announced their In tention to remain tn that country. • • • Gold coin and certificates in the hands of federal reserve banks In creased during the last week more than $2,000,000. according to the state ment of their condition May 21, Issued WARSHIP GOES DOWN BRITISH MAN-O’-WAR MAJESTIC SUNK IN DARDANELLES. PRINCESS IRENE BLOWN UP English Steamship in Government Service Destroyed by Explosion With Great Loss of Life. London. — The British battleship Majestic, another of the ships sup porting the allied army on the Galli poli peninsula, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Nearly all the officers and crew were saved. At about the same time the steam er Princess Irene, which was built last year for the Canadian Pacific British Columbia coast service and which was taken over by the ad miralty at the commencement of the war, was accidentally destroyed by an explosion while at anchor at Sheerness, where it was undergoing repairs. All its crew, numbering 250r except one seaman and seventy-eight dock yard workmen who were aboard, lost their lives. Sheernes is a naval arsenal on the Thames. The Majestic, which was the old est battleship on the active list of the British navy, is the sixth Capital ship lost by the allies since the be ginning of the operations against the Dardanelles and the second which has fallen a victim to German sub marines which recently arrived in those waters. The submarine menace is a grow ing one, both in the Aegean Sea and home waters, and these vessels prom ise to take an active part in the operations in the narrow waters of the Adriatic, where, as in the Aegean, numerous islands afford good shelter. While the warships are able to es cape them in the waters around the British isles, with the increase in their numbers the carrying on of sea borne trade becomes more and more hazardous. Roberts’ Execution Delayed. Lincoln. Neb.—Specifying seventy one alleged errors of law that oc curred in the trial of the case, the appeal of Roy Roberts from the death sentence imposed by the Lin coin county district court has been filed in supreme court. The appeal acts as an automatic stay of the ex ecution, which was set for June 4. The late filing of the plea gives Roberts a reprieve until next fall, at the very latest, inasmuch as the next sitting of the supreme court is the last before the summer vacation. In all probability the Roberts case will not now be brought up at tis next sitting. Roberts is alleged to have killed Vernon Oonnett, near North Platte, on August 2, 1914. The ver diet of the jury was returned Jan uary 31, 1915, after a stormy trial that attracted the attention of the state. Texas Wants Better Protection. Austin, Tex.—The lower house ot the Texas legislature adopted a con current resolution providing that the legislature urge upon the federal gov eminent in the strongest terms the imperative necessity of immediately extending and regularly maintaining its Rio tirande border patrol service for the protection of lives of Ameri can citizens. The resolution partly was inspired by the recent killing by Mexican bandits of two Texas rang ers on the border. Dollar to Supplant Pound. San Francisco.—The United States will have a favorable foreign trade balance of $1,000,000,000 at the end of this year, as against an unfavora ble one of $35,000,000 last year, Dr E. R. Pratt, chief of the bureau ol foreign and domestic commerce of the Department of Commerce, told the bankers of Idaho and Nevada ir joint convention here. The Ameri can dollar, he said, will supplant the English pound sterling as the unit of foreign exchange. Explosion Kills Twenty-One. Nanaimo, B. C.—Twenty-two men are believed to have perished as a lesult of a gas explosion in the Re serve mine of the Western Fuel com pany here. Thirteen were brought out alive shortly after the explosion oc curred. Baptists Back President Up. Los Angeles, Cal.— The Northern Baptist convention in its closing ses sions adopted resolutions indorsing the presltent's stann for neutral right* and urging national prohibition. Flood Damage $50,000. Thermopolis, Wyo.—Damage esti mated at $.‘>0,000 was done by a flood which swept this town, following a cloudburst in the mountains. A wall of water five feet high rolled into tlie town from a canon, Hooding scores of dwellings. Auto. Bumps Street Car Off Track. Chicago.—Dr. J. N Roe drovt liis automobile into a Madison street car at Dearborn street, throwing tlic street ear off the track. Dr. Roe drove his car away undamaged. Fatal Tornado in Oklahoma. Hugo, Okla.—Captain W. A. Welch, a confederate veteran, was killed and five persons injured in a tornado at Talihina. seventy-five miles north of here. Kight business houses? and twelve residences were destroyed, several damaged. 11,000 Women Police Enroll in Italy. Paris.—The Rome correspondent of the Temps telegraphs that nearly 11, 000 women have eryolled in a female police force authorized by the Italian _M^^mmmmm CONDENSED NEWS OF INTERE8T TO ALL. Scottsbluff is to have a farmers’ co operative creamery. Elks of Beatrice plan to observe Flag day June 14. A central farmers' union has been organized in the vicinity of Stella. A new marker sign is to be erected at various points leading into Kear ney. T. J. O’Keefe has been appointed i register for the United States land office at Alliance. Otto Hansen of Fremont was drowned in the Platte river near North Bend. Three thousand people attended the unveiling of the Oregon trail monument at Hebron. The quarters of the Community Welfare association at Stromsburg were dedicated last week. Barnard Ottens. who claimed to be the first alfalfa grower in the state, died at his home in Auburn. The Elkhorn Valley Editorial asso ciation will hold its nineteenth an nual session at Long Pine June 5. The Hastings city council haa called a special election for June 29 to vote on an issue of $50,000 of in tersection bonds. Although but six veterans of the Civil war are left in Firth, an appro priate celebration of Memorial day w'as held in that town. Joseph I’rovacek, his wife , two sons and a daughter were drowned during a storm at their home two miles south of Spencer. H. D. Liggett and O. L. Day have bought the Ord Quiz from W. W. Haskell. It is considered one of the oldest papers in the state. George Lash, 72 years old, a we'l known 'farmer, living on the South Loup, was instantly killed by a pas senger train at Broken Bow. Three hundred and foWy feet of track on the Sioux City line of the Burlington was washed out near Uehling by the heavy rains last week. Governor Morehead, Senator Hitch cock and Congressman Kinkaid will attend the stockmen’s convention which will be held in Alliance June 13 to 18. The state auditor has been asked to register $20,000 of school bonds of the town of Belgrade. The bonds were voted for the construction of a new school house. District Judge Welch at Madison has held that Watson L. Hurdy is county commissioner, holding that there was no election at the time J. W. Fitch received :l,G21 votes. George F. Wolz of Fremont has re ceived word that Secretary Houston of the Department of Agriculture will be unable to attend the tractor dem onstration in Fremont in August Thomas Kelly, of near Spalding, was killed by a tornado and his wife was badly injured. Their home was destroyed, along with other property on their farm and in that vicinity. The Kearney Flour mill reports that much of the wheat which was being held is again on the move. It is stated that quite a large quantity of grain was being held by the far mers. Grafton Blair, residing near Osh kosh. was killed, and everything on the Blair ranch wiped out by a tor nado in that vicinity last week. Blair's body was found over a mile away from his home. In a general way the Lincoln High way is to be followed by a good fel lowship and good roads automobile tour planned by the Omaha Com mercial club to leave Omaha June 24 and return June 2G. The trip is to lie somewhere in the North Platte coun try. Lincoln has passed an ordinance licensing jitney buses, although most of them which started about three months ago have found the business unprofitable. The license runs from $23 a year for a four-passenger bus to $100 a year for twenty passengers or more. The next democratic state conven tion should go to Hastings, if the state committee passes the plum around as it should. That’s what Merton L. Corey of Clay Center be lieves, and is endeavoring to bring informally to the attention of the committeemen. I lie Chamber or commerce ins ar ranged to have a census of Hastings taken in the fall. The work will be done under the supervision of the government census bureau at Ha stings. The work will be done under the supervision of the government cnsus bureau at Hastings’ expense. The county board of Buffalo county has applied for state bridge aid under the existing laws. It is the intension to replace the mile-long wooden bridge crossing the Platte at Kearney with a modern concrete and steel structure. The cost is placed at $65, 000. and half of it will be borne by Kearney and BuTalo counties. Fear of a smallpox epidemic at llenkelman is somewhat quieted. Few residences are now quarantined. The Gage county board of super visors is in favor of the construction of a new jail, but prefer a levy to bond issue. A cloud burst caused between fif teen and twenty thousand dollars da hi age at Tekamah. Water ran In the main business streets three feet deep. After the flood subsided, dead horses, pigs, cows and chickens were scattered through the residence sec tion of the city. Pearl Sebring. a section hand, em ployed by the Koek Island railroad, hud his neck broken when a handcar on which he was returning from work jumped the track at DuBois. All Adams county license records were broken when Thomas Battreal. 73, from Juniata, was granted, a li cense to wed Mrs. Annie Mai 62, a veteran’s widow from Burkett. Deputy Attorney General Barret, in an opinion held the $13,000 bond Issue of the city of Edgar to extend the mu nicipal lighting plant legal, and di rected the.audUor to register them. TAKES OVER PLANE OT ATE WILL OPERATE HANDI CRAFT COMPANY AT PEN. CONTRACT LABOR ABOLISHED Factory Wi'l Greatly Assist Problem of Providing Work for Idle In mates of Institution. Lincoln.—Prison contract labor In the Nebraska penitentiary was finally abolished when the state board of control took charge of the Handicraft furniture plant, payng the company $21,(14::.75 The plant will provide work for sixty men, relieving to a great ex tent the problem of providing labor for scores of men who have been Idle in the institution since the con tract with the Lee Broom and Dus ter company was canceled. The furniture plant is the first in dustry to he established by the board of control under authority granted by the last legislature, the bill carrying an appropriation of $120,000 for the purpose of providing work for the in mates of the prison. The board of control expects to in stall some other industry within a short time and in that way with whatever road work may be provid ed by various counties to employ the penitentiary inmates with healthful work, without having resort to the prison contract system. Praises Management of School. Secretary Shahan of tiie board of charities and corrections has submit ted a report to Governor Morehead on the condition of the jails and poor farms of the counties of Clay and Fil more and of the girls' industrial school at Geneva. Secretary Shahan has words of high praise for the manage ment of the industrial school and says that the new building just being com pleted is a credit to the state. In the Clay county jail he found but one pris oner and in the Filmore county jail there had not been a prisoner since November. The Clay county poor house had five inmat;s; the Filmore county poorhouse ten. Church Farm Taxable. Where a church owns a farm and the crops raised therefrom are sold and proceeds used to support the church and parsonage the land so used is not exempt from taxation, the attorney general's office held In an opinion furnished County Attor ney D. C. Fouts of Hastings Assis tant Attorney General Roe found cases where the supreme court had refused to exempt similar properties on the ground it was used for relig ious purposes. Overplus of Money. Instead of worrying how to raise money to run the schools, the tax payers of a district adjacent to Ne hawka in Cass county have $1,600 on hand and no place to put it. The money was raised through error and paid without protest, so State Super intendent of Public Instruction Tho mas has ruled it may not be refunded, but should be conserved at interest and no levies made until it is expend ed in the tegular course of schooi operation. Big Firms May Exhibit. Many smaller manufacturers and dealers in machinery are asking for space at the coming Nebraska State Fair. September 6th to 11th. The larger firms w ho combined to stay out last year are seriously considering the advisability of returning with iheir customary large exhibits this year. New Water Power Project. C. H. Gerber, president of the Ericson Lake company, lias filed an application with the state board of Irrigation for water from ('edar riv er for the purpose of supplying the town of Ericson and cottages near the laae with electric light. Chiropractic L;w in Effect on July 8. The new law regulating chiroprao tics 111 Nebraska, which goes into ef fect July 8. requires each applicant lor a license to submit to an examina tion, or admit having practiced for two years in the state without a li cense. Dr. Lucien Stark Appointed. Dr. Lucien Stark of Hartington has been appointed by Governor Morehead as a member of the board of secre taries of the state board of health to succeed Dr. F. D. Dodson of Wilber, whose term expires in July. State Fair Horse Races. Entry to the State Fair early races, beginning September Kth, closed June 1st. They consist of a half mile trot and a half mile pace for two-year-olds, each race for a purse, of $400.00. A three-year-old trot and three-year-old pace (eligible to 2:25) each for $500; 2:30 and 2.20 trots and 2:25 and 2.14 paces each for $1,000. Among conditions are one-half mile entrance money return ed to starters finishing outside the money and inside the flag. Stall rent Is free to starters, Rowden Collects Sa'ary. Colonel Have Rowden. following Ills usual custom of not drawing his salary as commandant of the Sol diers- home at Milford until he felt like it, brought in his vouchers last week and received $2,095.91). The ac cumulated interest amounted to $12.99. Rowden has always followed the practice of waiting until the amount was large enough to pay to bother with. Four years ago when he held the same Job he waited the entire term before drawing his sal ary. ! r>tefe 2lbteilung ift fiir bte j I ^aniilienglieber, toddle am I liebfte.n Deutfcb lefen. t Horn Sdiaii&laljc bo? curoRfiifdicu Golfer •• ftriegeo 35?en frifft bie Rcrnutiuortung? 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Xie C-'ietne licit nnb tUiirffiditelofigfeit ber ettgli fctjcii Slbmiralitat tritt babei tit lot* berlidtfter ©teife often jutage. uuf fie ittttft fid) bie Ifitipbriutg iiber ben '-Berluft ber SWenfdjcnIebcu rid)ten. ©ie fann cine 8diifi*gcfclljdiait tit | fo ticrtncfiener ©eife mit bent 2ebcn ibrer t'aftagierc fptelcn, bar, fie ben terforioit . Xantpfer mit ©efdjimen, | ormierten $rieg» • Dlulontobilen, mit 'Jtiiinition unb anberem tfriegsma terial belabet! ©tie fonnen aber an-j berfeits. and) anterifaitifdtc tHeifenbe fo tbridit feitt, fid) auf eittcii glintmeu ben ©ttlperfarf 311 fefcen, nnb citt fol djes Scbifi, cin ettglifdje^ ftricg»-; fab^ettg, 3tir Uebcrfaljrt bemitjett. 1 tfu ibrer (yittfd)ulbigi|ttg ift nur an- i junchmett, bar fie Pan ben ©eainten 1 ber liunarb - 2inie unb ben Dffrie- i ren ber 2u|itanio iiber ben roabreu i tEbarafter boo Sdiiffe-; gctdu)d)t mor- 1 ben fiitb. Hub gerabc non ber 2ott- j j hotter ©refje foinntt 311 aHercrit ber 1 iWetrei? fiir bieic Xatfad)e tilth tiimitit - bamit bat biefigeti anglopbilen .5 “e^ern, roelcbe bie firiegStrom- 1 l»ete gegen Xcuifdilaitb blafen, j ben ©ittb au§ ben Segeln. $oren tnir nur, tone bie 2onbon in einent bemerfen^tnerten 2eitartitcl iiber ben Siifitaniafall fagt: „©tr fonnen e§ nur fdimer Begreifen, rnie nacfi foldjcn ©armntgen utib foldjen tielfeitigen ©elegcnbeiten bie 2ufita xc. uberrafdjt tterben fonnte. fXie ' Hnnabme, bag ber fiurS beS Xatn pferf bem Stapitan be§ llnterfecboo te§ bcfamit geroefcn fein mug, tv iticfjt ju Iengncn." Jte ..Soil* fprid)t in bcin i’lrtifel bie $ofhuui; auS^ag anf bem Sdjiffe alloc- u Sorbcreitung gemefen fein ma ; m: im Salle ciltes i'fngriTfes bie i!a>ni giere 311 rotten, Serrier Ijebt bit ..Soft" bemor, bag bie Suntan:, “with a formidable battery of g-ms armiert gemeien iii. Soiibou aljo geftefjt felbft eiti. bai bie Sufitania liidit nur bem Jra: : port fiir ftriegsmaterial biente tan beru bireft als ^riegsfdjiff au -oru ftet mar. Jamit ift bas llrteil ge fprodien iiber bie gemeine .-oanb luttgsmeije ber SdjiffalirtgefeHidiari bie Seben Jaufenber non Sai-a.rerei aufs Spiel fegte, um ibre trerr. die Sabung babnrd) 311 fdiupen l!. idiroerroiegenber rcirb bie 2lnfi.-. ; - gen bie britifdie Stucffidjt unb Srntalitat bnrd) ben llndtc . bafe bie Seamtcn bie burd] b iningen erfdjrerften Saffagic- t ber Sorfpicgclung, bag e:.-. me QTeu3er bas Sdjiif geleiten nn:rc tcinfd)ten. Je3 Srofites toegen i, ben cnglifdje vanbelsintereffei; oa:. fenbe barmlofcr Safiagiere in ben iHadjen be£ Jobes gefiibrt. ?(nbererfeits finb jebodi bie Sana giere, insbefonber bie Sfmertfar.ei meldje fid) ber Sufitania anrertra. ten, an if)rem Ungliicf felbft idiu.c inbem fic einerfeit§ ben $rahlerciei ber Gitgldnber 311 oiel ©ianbei fdjcnfteu unb anbererfeitt’ bie gutgc ineiiiten SSarnungen in ben Sint fdjlugen. Hub an SBarnungen ha* es mirflid] nidit gerebit. Ja mar 3unddift Staatsfefretai Srpan, meldjcr an bie Slmenfanei bie Sfabnung riditete, both mdbren? be3 .ttrieges jebe iKeife nad] (furopa por aflem ba§ Setrcten ber ftnegc^o ncti 311 mciben, ba bas Staaf- • Je partment feine Snft babe, tregen a. r migiger ?Imerifaner mit ben fin a fubrenben Staaten in Jrubel 311 ge* / raten. uno rorra) orrniiorn, ocr aeuna (Sefanbte in 2t?afbingtckn, bat n u an lagc ber iilbfabrt ber X*»ifitama burd iiffentlidje i’lnjeigen bu< iKeivr.o . uor ber (#cfal)r getoarw ber. >■< fid) bei ber ftabrt auf fran,3bfifd)en unb ruffifdjd ausfefcen. Xa3u trafen riber 5U ano legrainme an oerfd)iebene ! ein, toelcbe bie Xobesfabrt Sev; xt.n tania borausfagten. llebcrbie ben bie '^aifagiere nod) pej burd) cine 'Jln3abl unbefannte ner gcttrarnt. Xafj bie iieutc trofc all bicjer nungen mit offenen ffugen in t., gliid bincinranitten, ift neben Scidjtfinne ber > britifdjen fpi ierc unb Xaufdjung 3U3ufd)reiben. bie englifdje iHbmiralitai tatfii niait imftanbe iit, bie englifui belsflotte ju idiiitjen, gebt au (f rflarung bee i’lbmiral Xlorb oi ar U’s 'JJeresforb beroor, baR i - nr Sreusern niangcle, urn bie .Sbaftbel: route 311 fcbiigen. Xae bdtte u:ar englifdierfeitC' bon Hafiagiercu 00 ber Slbfabrt be§ 3diiffcs fagen ’ l<’u baun ttuirbi' Pielleid)t audi bat ber fltnerifancrn eigcne .vafdicn uad Scnfation, fie nidit 311 ber Jo. Ov, fabrt bnben beroegen fbnnen. Strinen Ulinngcl on Slupr'rr. Sett Sftiegsbeginn fiat bie e®! Preffe unjeres iianbes an bie -u’.i lid)feit geglanbf, baft Xeutfdilani auSgetuingert wcrben forme. .$out< fiebt man mo 1)1 ein, baB e» bann nid)fv iff. Xefto fcfter glanbt mat nodi baran, bafj in Xentjd)lanb dlicm gel an Stnpfer nnb anberen 'Jfetancr beftelje. XaB and) bem nidi! |o ift. ,'rbcllt auv folgenber, einem reiq-: jeutfdjen Platte entnommenen i>fit •eihmg: $n letter fteit baufcn fid) bei ber ffricgb - JJobftoff . t’lbleilmtg i. Sricgsmmifteriums Dlitrefiungcn on-? illen Sd)id)teit ber Sepdifcruttg r RuBbannadjung gebmibener JMetaL teftiinbe au$ ben ipouilioltiingcn mb aus ber ^nbuftrie, __ felbu au* itirdjenglocfen fiir ben $eeresbobari JlUen Ginfenbem fiir bas> anerfen rensroerte ^ntcreffe, bas fie babnut jefunbet Ijabett, cinjeln sn banfen. r rtdjt moglicb. Xas Striegsmiinite. riimt fprid)t baber auf biefem Sfieoi jen SBeteiliflten feinen Xcnf aus. I., ^eercspermaltimg bcabjiditigt oa ifnrcgungcrt gunadift nidit naner u rcfeii, mcil fein JJiangel an alter Wctaflen beftebt. '.’(bgefcbcn bieroon niirben bei bem berodbrten Opferfnn icr Sepolferung befonbers and) b:e ninberbcgiiterten SVreife metteiferii bren tUefife art i’l'etalf bem paterla ;• lifdjcn 3roecfc jur '-Uerfugung -,u • ett, roabrcnb erbcblidi grof.ere b tcinbe, bie im f\all eiiter mirflid- • Inappbeit aus gcmerblidyn fKitlagen 3ebad)imgett unb anberen grofterr 3orrfiteu nufebar gcmadit rperben onnten, ton ben freiroifligen csamut umjeir nid;t gctroffcn miirbeu. Cliioer Wrulirnftrrif brigeicgt. G l e D c l a it fc, £. Xcr jeit 1. Jpril 1914 anbauernbe £bio-(«ru mnftreif, bem fid) 13,000 fUianr. an- « jcfd)Ioffen batten, rourbe Samitat Itadjmittag auf einer 93afis Don 47 ient£ bie Xoune beigelegt.