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NEWS.
R* peris 'rota Fetrograd are that
31 -iotr suSiml damage to tlie ex
tent erf l.u.m »,t >■« during the recent
tstiOrmsii demon*(ration, in which
nearly A» storm and factories and
mom t .an _• •# private lodgings were
wracked.
• • •
For the tirft time an aeroplane has
sunk a -ut>i at.i.i German airmen
bombarded a i!u- i.in submarine in
11 • Baltic near Gotland island on
Kay ;l heilivr advices from I'etro
giad assert that the submarine had
been sunk
• • •
The pr soners taken bv the German
and AttsiroHungarian armies up to
Jut-e it totalled according
io a Heritn newsjiaper The newspa
per says the total is divided as fol
low,. Russians. l^tO.WW); French
English. 54.CHW; Belgian. 41.
M*t\ Serbian. SO.bWL
• • •
Berlin reports that the preparation
erf Germany's answer to the note of
the rutted Slates concerning Ger
many * submarine warfare is being
prepared. It w*ll be mis. d by Em
pen.r William and probably will reach
the railed States neCl week
• • •
The Germrn authorities informed
the administration of the Berlin Tag* s
Zritoig that it would have to sus
pend pubic at.on for an indefinite per
iod on account erf the recent article
put -t- 1 tv t; - paper on the subject
«rf <>m)an American relations.
• • •
s.n« e Mu n began hi* ad
vance m lialtrim on May 1 he has re
taken. it i» said, more territory than
the New Ls;land state* of America,
lie ha* prutii ally c leared Galicia of
Baw»ian troop* and ha* recoyered ter
ritory rw h in copper, use and oil.
• • •
A statement given out by the Ger
man admiralty to the effect that the
Germas submarine I' IS bad been
rammed and sunk by a British tank
*teatiier after the vessel bad been
stopped i* eipected to have an Im
portant bearing on the German-Amer
x an negotiations.
• • •
The Hessian* have lost Lemberg.
The occupied tlie Galician capital
earn in September and held it con
iitiuousiv until June 12. when the
combined AustrteGerman force* com
pelled 'brn to retreat from the city,
which is only ssvety-odd miles from
tU Hu**tan frontier.
OFNUtAL.
Colonel g. Byron Hance. assistant
adjutant general to General U. S.
Grant in the ritli war. dk-d at Seat
tle He was a friend of Abraham
Lincoln
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Hail measuring from seven to elev
en ;»« h>s in circumference fell near
Famam, Neb. recently Crops were
r-.n-d and stock and buildings more
or ier« damaged.
• • •
Lieutenant Colonel John B. Mortar,
judge advocate general’s department
I'niied Slate* army, died at Fort
Leaieuworth. Kan . aged iS> years He
was regarded as one of the hading
B.i itary law atithorith * of the Cnited
Stale*
h'.-muel I*. Walker, wealthy liquor
dc. t*r of Uluefield. W Va.. has of
fered to pay the state debt of $12,
39",*2* with 3 per cent interest, m
the neat ten years and set aside $110©,
each year for permanent improve
ment*. if be be granted the sole priv
ilege of selling liquor in West Vir
ginia. Walker will file a bond of
$: *.«*» gnaran'oeing to carry out
bis agreement
• • •
John L. Sullivan is going to fight
again this time against John Barley
corn William H. Anderson, superin
tendent of the New York Anti-saloon
league, has announced that the for
mer heavyweight king will be the cen
tral figure in a series of temperance
mretings in Atlantic City, starting
Jul* A If successful, be will tour
the country against the traffic.
• • •
By a majority of four to three the
supreme court of Nebraska at Lin
coln derided that the state railway
roc,mission has no authority to raise
or lower the I-cent passenger rate
within the state.
• • •
“Two million votes and twenty
representative* in congress in 1916,"
is the slogan adopted by the national
socialist party at Chicago Engdahl
said that if the expected 2.<W«0.OOO so
cialist vole* are cast. KK» state legis
lator* will be elected on socialist
tickets throughout tbe country.
• • •
Three hundred and a<«5cty refugees
frr-m Mexico, who landed at Galves
ton. described the situation there as
"deplorable" and many said that
American Intervention was the only
•olution of tbe problem.
• • •
The traffic bureau of the Lincoln
Con mernal club has received word
frern tbe Interstate commerce com
mission that it will Investigate the
complaint concerning method* of
shipping fruit- fresh T***ubl«*
melons and the like from the western
coast to Lincoln
• • •
Or, tbe recommendation of the cor.
tutorial congregation Pope Benedict
bs- appointed the Rev. A. J. Schuler
of -be Sacred Heart and Ig»o!a
Chanel. 1 leaver. Colo., to tbe position
of b ebop of El P**». Tex
Three hundred wounded Villista
soldiers perished miserably when the
Chihuahua, Mexico, military hospital
was destroyed by fire.
• • •
The new battleship Arizona was
successfully launched at the Brooklyn
navy yard. The Arizona shares with
h«r sister ship, the Pennsylvania, the
honor of being the world's largest
battleships.
• • •
North Dakota day. at the Panama
Parltlc exposition, was celebrated by
the planting of a birth tree from the
School o? Forestry at Bottineau, N.
D. Governor L. B. Hanna was the j
principal speaker.
A motion for a change of judge to
ser\e during the numerous cases
l* tiding in Huerfano county, arising
out of the recent Colorado coal min
ers’ strike, was overruled by Judge
Granby Hillyer at Walsenburg, Colo.
• • *
Three more of the ten submarines
under construction ai the Fore River
Shipbuilding corporation’s yard at
Q"inc\. Mass , for r.n Kuropean bel
ligerent. to be delivered after the
war, will be launched within a few
days.
• • *
A loan is lteing negotiated in New
York it is stated, by influential pri
vate hankers of Paris, and will be
secured by a block of American rail
way l«onds whit h are now owned in
France The loan may exceed $50,
oCMi.Oou it is said.
SPORTING
Barney Oldfield established a new
Vmerican automobile speed record at
Speedway park, Chicago, when he
negotiated a lap in 1:04 2-5, an aver
age of 111.5 miles an hour.
* • *
The home run made by "Hans”
Wagner, the Pittsburg National vet
eran shortstop, in the recent thirteen
inning contest with Philadelphia at
Pittsburg, was the one hundredth of
Ins career, it also brought his total
number of hits to 3,131.
• • •
Battling neck and neck in a great
• -xhibition of baseball, Chicago and
Brooklyn of the National league
fought a nineteen-inning game to a
finish at Chicago. Chicago won, 4 to
3. The game set a season s record
for number of innings played.
• • •
Four world's champion pacers—
Directum 1. 1:58; Frank Bogash, jr.,
1:59%; William. 2:00, and Anna
Bradford. 2:0o%—are entered in the
$5,000 free-for-all. which is an added
feature of the blue ribbon Grand
Circuit meeting at Detroit July 26
to 30.
• • •
Henry Ordeman. the Minneapolis
heavyweight wrestler has been se
lected to meet Champion Frank A.
Gotch in a finish match at Humboldt,
la., on the afternoon of July 3. Gotch
is making his reappearance on the
mat as a benefit for the Humboldt
Agricultural society.
WASHINGTON.
Constitutionality of the Illinois pure
food law, prohibiting in effect sale of
a food preservative containing boric
acid, was upheld by the supreme court.
• • •
The Oklahoma constitutional
grandfather clause," restricting the
negro vote, was annulled as unconsti
tutional by the supreme court. The
decision was unanimous.
• • *
Nine companies of the Colorado
.-.tale militia have been ordered mus
tered out by the war department on
account of their failure to recruit up
o the required standard.
• • •
Yearly promotions for more than
12.00O postal employes in different
parts of the country will be authorized
by the Postofflce department July 1,
despite the failure of congress at its
last session to pass the postal appro
priation bill.
• • •
Loans and discounts of the 7,604 na
tional banks reporting to the comp
t;oiler of the currency at the close of
business May 1, amounted to $6,643,
887,951, an increase over March 4,
1915, of $143,933,346 and oaer June
20, 1914, of nearly $214,000,000.
• • *
All Red Cross funds available for
famine relief in Mexico have been
exhausted, and the society has issued
an urgent appeal for foodstuffs and
money. Twenty thousand persons
were reported as practically starving
in Guerrero.
• • •
Robert tensing, who as counsellor
of the state department has advised
President Wilson in law in the policy
pursued by the United States toward
belligerent governments 'since the
outbreak of the war, has been named
-ecretary of state to succeed William
Jennings Bryan.
* • •
Breaking all records in the number
of cases disposed of In one term, the
United States supreme court has ad
journed. The judges have gone on
their a.mual summer vacation. Court
does not meet again until October.
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The supreme court has reversed
the federal district court in New Jer
i sev. which dismissed the govern
: ment’s Sherman law and commodities
clause suit against the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western railroad and
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Coal
company.
• • •
Agents of the department of justice
are investigating alleged recruiting
in California for the allies in the Eu
j ropean war. it was learned. The
; mam office of the supposed recruiting
agents is in San Francisco.
• • •
Violators of the oleomargarine law
have defrauded the federal govern
ment out of at least $27,000,000, due
in stamp and special taxes, accord
ing to a statement by Secretary Mc
Adoo. unrn a r» port on an investiga
tion conducted by the international
retenue bureau.
DEMAND FOB LABOR
MANY REQUESTS REACH WASH
INGTON FOR WORKERS.
ARMY OF HARVESTERS NEEDED
Oklahoma is Said to Need Sixteen or
Eighteen Thousand and Kansas
Thirty-Five Thousand.
Washington, IX C.—War orders
from Europe, th* prospective record
breaking crop of wheat now being
harvested, and heavy yields of other
grains are crating a new demand for
labor, according to indications at the
government employment office in the
department of labor.
Requests for workers are coming
from many manufacturers and farm
ers throughout the country and from
slate labor commissioners.
Oklahoma is said to need from 16,
000 to 18,000 harvest hands, and Kan
sas 35,000.
An Oregon association has applied
for 1,000 berry pickers. An arms and
ammunition plant in Connecticut has
asked for 300 men. Zinc and lead
mines in Missouri need 1.000 laborers.
A Maryland steel company has ap
plied for 100 hands. In West Virginia
2,000 coal mine employes are wanted.
So far the department has been
more successful in the cities than in
the country in placing men who want
work. Of the 3,495 for whom it se
cured places last month, 1,500 were
sent to Chicago alone, a railroad com
pany having applied for several thou
sand track workers. It is stated that
about 25 per cent of all applicants for
jobs during May were placed through
the department’s efforts.
Officers Quit to Make Munitions.
Washington.—Offers of large sal
aries to expert ordnance officers of
the army by private manufacturers of
war munitions for European bel
ligerents have created such a serious
problem in the War department that
Secretary Garrison called upon Attor
ney General Gregory for an opinion
as to whether an army officer has an
"inalienable right” to resign his com
mission in time of peace. Four resig
nations were accepted before the
gravity of the situation was realized,
but two others recently tendered are
being held up pending the attorney
general’s decision and the formula
tion of a general policy of the depart
ment. While high officials of the gov
ernment are reluctant to permit
wholesale resignations and are even
inclined to consider it unpatriotic for
officers to quit the services for more
money, the legal authorities seriously
doubt that any law can be found to
keep an officer in the army against
his will.
Y^le Crew Wins Regatta.
Xewr London, Conn.—For the first
time in many years Yale university
crews swept the river in the annual
dual regatta with Harvard. Notwith
standing delays due to rough water
and accidents the English coached
eights of the blue with characteristic
buildog determination, fought for
victory, defeating in turn the junior,
varsity and freshmen eights of the
crimson. Victory was exceedingly
sweet to the Elis, for the university
regatta records have to be searched
for many years to find a Yale triple
victory, although similar Harvard
successes are of more frequent and
recent occurrence. To add to the
joy of the blue the varsity eight es
tablished a new up-stream course
record in winning the big race.
To Have 18 More Corps.
Zurich. Switzerland.—According to
an authoritative military source,
Germany will be able to place eight
een more army corps in the field by
the end of July. These are composed I
chiefly of the second category of the
comprising men who have never per
formed military service, but who are
in training, and in land reserves
which have been resting in the inter
ior of Germany. It is calculated that
these new corps will about equal in
! number the exhausted troops return
ing from Galicia who will be granted
partial rest, doing service as inland
reserves.
Clerks Give Bryan Gold Watch.
Washington. — Employes of the
State department presented former
Secretary Bryan with an engraved
gold watch. In accepting the watch
Mr. Bryan said that he would treas
ure it particularly because he recog
nized that it was given as a personal
token and not as “an expression of
political attachment.”
Battalion Nearly Annihilated.
Toronto, Ont.—The first western
Ontario battalion was all but annihi
lated in the action near La Bassee in
northern France on June 15 last, says
a semi-official account received here.
Out of between 600 and 700 nearly
500 were killed.
Lightning Fires Oil.
Cushing, Okla. — Thirevt-one large
oil tanks, containing more than 33,000
barrel of crude oil, were set on fire
by lightning during a terrific electric
al storm in the Cushing field.
Pere Marquette Strike Ended.
Mount Vern, III.—The forty-four
months' strike of shopmen of the Illi
nois Central and Pere Marquette rail
roads, part of the Harriman system,
ended officially J^ne 28, according to
an announcement by the American
Federation of Labor.
Swiss Airmen Fall.
Berne.—Two Swiss aviation officers
fell 300 feet near Zurich. Lieutenant
Lugrin, a well known airman, was
killed* and Lieutenant von Kaenel was
seriously injured.
Aurora is to have a new $50,000
post office.
Stromsburg will hold a big celebra
tion July 3.
A new school building is to be built
at Deweese.
tfhe town of Hazard will soon have j
a new opera house.
Ravages of the Hessian fly near
Greenwood are extensive.
Work has begun on the Lutheran
school Jiouse at Pierce.
A new home will be built for the
Stromsburg State bank.
Fremont will have over two miles
of paving laid this summer.
Work will soon start on the new
Presbyterian church at Wahoo.
The Hastings school budget for the
coming year calls for $75.0011.
The State Tennis tournament will
be held at Lincoln. July 26 to 31.
The Republican Editorial meeting
will be held at McCook July 9.
250 attended the dedication of the
Free Masons’ hail at Columbus.
C. M. Barr has resigned as superin
tendent of the Hastings schools.
During a recent storm the dam at
Leonard Douts, near Harrison, went
out.
Dates for the annual Kearney Chau
tauqua have been fixed from August
1 to 8.
A strange looking insect has been
discovered in Hastings that attacks
dandelions.
The corner stone of Broken Bow’s
$10,000 Carnegie library building was
laid last week.
The Citizens State bank of Peru is
considering the building of a new
bank building
The Bank of Commerce and the
Farmers’ State Bank of Louisville
have consolidated.
$1,000 has been raised by business
men of Ainsworth for repairing roads
leading into that place.
Governor Morehead has appointed
Ralph West of Omaha as public de
fender of Douglas county.
Voters of Sheldon will pass on an
$8,000 bond issue for a municipal
electric light plant July 27.
Bridgeport will soon vote on the
issuing of bonds for the erection of
a new school building.
Ernest Stokebrant, the young De
witt lad who was struck by lightning
during a thunder storm, died.
Figures compiled by Assessor Bar
net of York county show that there
are 909 motor cars in the county.
The Great Western Sugar company
of Scottsbluff announces that they
will erect a sugar refinery at Gering.
The reorganized Exchange t-ank
of Steele City will have a modern
home. Work on the new brick struc
ture is under way.
Damage that it is feared will total
nearly $500,000 resulted through a
heavy rain and hail which struck
Kearney and vicinity recently.
The annual convention of the na
tlaua'i association of farmers’ unions
will be held in Lincoln during the
sfete fair week, September 6 to 11»
The Red Willow county commis
sioners will build a new plank bridge
over the new channel created by re
cent floods in the Republican river
south of McCook.
Schedules have been completed for
special train service from nineteen
surrounding towns to the first big In
dependence day celebration Hastings
has attempted in recent years.
James Murphy, .formerly with the
State Food commission, has been ap
pointed to the position of chief clerk
in the office of the State Banking
board, to fill a vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mrs. Mamie Hefley.
A barn belonging to Taul Buchholz
at Beatrice was struck by lightning.
Mrs. Buchholz and two children were
in the barn, the former being stunned,
but not seriously injured. A horse in
the barn was killed by the bolt.
As result of heavy rains the listed
corn around Calloway is covered with
mud to such a depth that it canuot
come thtough. Many farmers will l-«
compelled to replant. So far this
year nearly twenty inches of rai-i n:,s
fallen.
The Chadron Commercial clut
amusement committee, for the cele
bration of July 3, has been successful
in procuring for that event the lat^’t
fad in amusements, the auto p.do
racers. Special trains over northwest
Nebraska have been scheduled.
While Governor Morehead has been
distributing offices around to a few
lucky democrats, one fell to the gov
emor recently, he being made honor
ary vice president of the Richardson
County club, composed of former res
idents of that county living in Lin
coin.
Six direct descendents of Willian
Hurry, who rang the Liberty Reil pro
claiming the signing of the Declara
tion of Independence, will be guests
of the Lincoln Commercial club July
3, when the bell stops in Lincoln on
its way from Philadelphia to the ex
position in San Francisco.
The churches of Fremont hav*
voted to hold a hig revival'meeting
in January.
George Rosentrater, while shilling
corn on 1 allin table, near Callaway,
became entangled in the belt wheel
of his gasoline engine and received
a broken arm and a crushed skull.
The Omaha Jitney ordinance, which
will go into effect July 7, provides an
occupation tax of $60 a year for the
ordinary five-seated car and requires
liability insurance to be carried that
will cost the car owner $1(15 to $1m>
a year.
Oxford ?Ui7fns have decided to
:urchase the ball park, now owned by
a stock company, for a high school
Ath ene fe.d.
The harvest of wheat has started in
Richardson county. John Mulltns cut
And shocked a field near Falls City.
June 22, on the Nemaha bottom, that.
Although somewhat injured by Hessian
fly, is believed to be good for a yield
of twenty to twenty-five bushels per
ncre. There is a great amount of red
rust in the last wheat but what the
extent of the damage from that sourco
is can ks nti»»i*i safely now.
WORK FORMCTS
POOL BELIEVES MEN COULD
MAKE GOOD AUTO NUMBERS.
NtMBERS BOUGHT IN EAST NOW
Handicraft Plant, Recently Taken
Over by State, Will Not Furnish
Employment for All.
I. ncoln.—C. W. Pool, secretary of
state, has submitted to the board of
control a plan for the establishment
of a new industry at the penitentiary.
He is of the opinion that the state
touid make a big profit manufacturing
automobile numbers. At present the
numbers are purchased front an east
ern firm at SVi cents each. This year,
the first under the new registration
law, Mr. Pool will buy about 50,000
numbers. Next year about 70,000, ex
clusive of motorcycle numbers, will
be needed, inasmuch as this year
many secured numbers under the old
law before the new- went into effect.
The industry will not conflict with
any private enterprise within the
sta’ e. Moreover, it would not require
extensive machinery. About all that
would be needed would be machines
to stamp numbers on the steel plates.
Stamping and painting in two colors
would be about all there would be to
it. T'nttcr the new- law a new set of
numbers is required each year. The
board has the idea under considera
tion. The handicraft furniture plant
at the penitentiary- was recently tak
en over by the state, but that will
not furnish employment to all the pri
soners. The numbers can be manu
factured a year ahead and the raw
material purchased at a time when
market conditions are best.
Roads Denied Raise.
Four of the seven judges of the Ne
bniska supreme court united in a de
cision denying Nebraska railroads
| the writ of mandamus sought by
them to compel the state railway
commission to grant them an in
crease in passenger rates to
cents. The suit was brought for atl
the roads by the Missouri Pacific,
which was selected, inasmuch as its
traffic conditions made the best show
ing for the necessity of an increase.
Tlie case in the supreme court was
an appeal from the railway commis
; sion, which had turned down the
roads on the cry that, in view of the
j specific enactment of the 1907 legis
lature for a 2-cent fare, it had no
power to grant an increase.
Chief Justice Morrissey, Judges
Fawcett, Hamer and Rose sustain
this view, holding that only the leg
islature can change this enactment.
The minority. Judges Barnes. Let
ton and Sedgwick, in the dissent ng
opinion, hold the view that the 1907
2-cent fare law was only a temporary
order, and subject to change later at
the hands of the commission.
It is the first case in which the su
preme court has directly passed upon
! the ratemaking powers of the com
i mission. The limitation imposed is
ol far-reaching importance.
_
Idaho to Pay Its Bonds.
Nebraska is liable to have money
on its hands in considerable quanti
ties about July 1, according to State
Treasurer Hall. He has received no
tice that the state of Idaho, which
borrowed $703,500 on a twenty-year
bond with an option of paying all or
part at the expifation of ten years,
will exercise that option on July 1,
and will take up a portion of the
bonds amounting to $330,000. In addi
tion to this money about $100,000
i more will come in on interest on the
tends held by the state firm other
j states and places where investments
j lave been made.
Membership Tripled.
Membership has tripled within the
last year in the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs
of Nebraska, which are conducted co
' operatively by the United States De
: partment of Agriculture and the Agri
I cultural Extension Service of the Col
lege of Agriculture. The enrollment
during the season of 1913 and 1914
was 2.200. This year it is over 6.000.
Excluding the Omaha and Lincoln
members, the dozen counties having
the largest enrollment in the order of
their rank are Seotts Bluff. Thurston,
Saunders. Morrill. Dakota. Fillmore.
Madison. Dawes, Burt. Gage. Kimball,
and Hall.
Morris Will Stick.
Dan Morris of Kearney will retain
his office as president of the state
normal board, to which he was elect
ed recently. Although he is the one
neutral member of the board, which
without him is evenly split into two
factions, his election was something
of an accident.
Fifty Per Cent Less Cholera.
As the simultaneous treatment for
hog cholera has been very largely
used in Nebraska during the past two
years, the Department of Animal Pa
thology at the University Farm thinks
it is fair to assume that a part of the
lessened cholera this year is due to
this method. The first six months of
1915 finds the state with 50 per cent
less cholera than a year ago. accord
ing to the department. This is taken
to disprove the contention that the
use of virus is spreading the disease.
Express Co. to Pay Its Tax.
The American Express Co. notified
Auditor Smith that it would pay its
occupation tax under the Smith law,
amounting to $9,866 for 1914. The
board of assessment had directed the
attorney general to bring suit to col
lect the tax.
Coal Contracts Awarded.
The Board of Control has awarded
coal contracts for supplying the dif
ferent state institutions, the prices
running from-’Vfe to 5 cents lower
than the contracts last year.
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uttb llcbcrfiuf) tm Seefrieg, ba#
Gnglanb Don acute famt feine# Sur*
ger# 9ialining unb Siotburft ttidjt an*
ber# befdiaifeti, al# iiber Sec. Sie
SSanbluttg Gttglattb# 311111 reinen $n*
buftrieftaat im Serein mit bent i'ln*
roadifen ber SeDolferung, baben biefe
Umtt)dl3ung oollbracbt. £ie Slot
tcnpanif be§ ^ahres 1909 mar cin
Hjarortjsmuv, ben bie 2fclcud)tung
ber Jlbbangigfeit (rnglanbe- in feiner
Sebensmittcljufubr con ber iBcbcrr
fcbung bee iii'eeree beroorrier. irou
bem blieb aber ©roBbritanniens i9e
tnufjtfcin in biefent 'liunft getriibt.
Seine SteHung 3U alien fccfriegs
recbtlicben ?fragen ging Don jeber niir
don bem Semufetfcin ieiner ?lbbang
igfeit don ber Sec au§, fonbern aus
fdilieBlicb con ber giftion ber See
berrfdjaft. So bat ©roBbritannieo
nie bae i'tioateigentum im Secfrtcg
ebeit megen biefer Slbfjangigfeit un
derlcfilicb madhen tooHen, fonbern nie.
mcnb fonnte ibm ben & r i e g g e •
gen a I*,e s 'Jiridateigen
turn briicfenb gemtg ertinnen, roeil*
bas meerbebcrrfcbenbe ?llbion feine
§errfd)aft fo feft glanbte, baB me
manb ibm in ber Sfebriicfung unb
Sdjdbigung jenee anberen gleichfom
men fonne unb an ba£ ©anfcn biefer
•t'errfdiaft ninna:^) glanbte. Unb fo
trar ce bie- iiingftbiu. Cline bas bat
tc iidi dicllcidit ba* 8cefrieg-3r«f)t.
gan3 anber* fortentroicfelt unb bote
une beute nidit obnc meitcre? bie
doflfommcn reditiidie ©mnblage fiir
unferen UnterfeebootSfrieg, ber bie
See dom Sod)e (rnglanbe cnblid) or
lofen foil.
So mag (rnglanb# Sjlinbbcit unfer
©liicf getoefen ieitt, bemt ber Hitter
fecbootsfrieg toirb biefe# ^cd) bre
dien.- Unb bod) muR id) babei immec
ttueber an bie nrage benfcn, bie mtr
bor furjem cine febr beaditensroerte
Igerfon ftcllte: „$a, aber roa# bilft
bantt unfer Unterfecbooisfrieg,
toetm nad) roie oor Taufenbe oon
Sdiiffen in englifdien $afen au§- uttb
einlaufen?" So ftanb ia 311 lefen in,
alien ettgliidjen Seituiigcn. 9?ri)men
roir nun roirflidi eiitntal btefe ?ltt
fiinbigung eitglifdier Scitungen al#
bare Wiinje, trofcbem roir nidit roif
fen, ob bie Sdblung iiberbaupt gc
madbt ift unb siemlid) fidier fein fon
ne. bafe jebc# Jhiftcn- unb J»anbel#
fdliff mit jcber 91n. unb 91bfabrt ba
rin tterbudit ift. Tie Wanner, bie
unferen Unterfeeboot#frieg planten
unb Iciten, rouRten. baR .^unberte
tton Tampfern tdglid) nad) oiefleiebt
ftunbert $dicn ©nglanb# ihre# Se
ge§ sieben fo gut. roie baf? ltitferer
ilnterfceboote rocniae Tutenbe nur
roaren, unb netw fid) nidit au# ber
(Frbe ftampfen laffen, baR biefe
Strieg#roerf3euge. Wann roie tsdnTT
audi ansgiebiger fRuhe bebiirien unb
baR ihnen fdilicRIicb and) nod) anbere
Stnfgaben mmllcn, al# ber tfanbcls
frieg. Tamil fonnte ihnen ber ©c
banfe nie fomnten. mit c i n e m
S d) I a g e ©nglonb# .V'anbclsftra
Ren reriibet unb feine Tampfer atif
bem Weercsgntnb 311 fehen. SooicI
Torpcbo# batten aUc Jxabrifen ber
SScIt jufammen fattm Iicfern fonnen.
Ta# 3*°! roar fiir uit# alfo gruttb*
fdplid) etn gam anbere#. ?fudi ber
firieg ift fBolitif unb ^Solitif limner
bie Shmft be# Wdglicbcn. Tic ?lb*
hangiafeit ©ttglattb# in feittem gan
3cn Sirtfd)aft#Ieben Pott ber ungc
ftorten unb unbebrohten Sufuljr unb
Sfbfuhr iiher See ba# ift ber .-oehel,
an bem unfer Untcrfccbootsfrieg an*
fefet. Cb uttb roie ba? Sirtldjatts*
Icben geftdrt roirb, ba# Ia&t fid) nidit
Perbcrgett. (r# fonnen oicle Tinge
ber Ceffentlidjfcit oorenthaltcn rocr
bcn. aber nidit roa# bie Sebensfiil)
mng foftet nnb ba# roiffen roir fieute
pon (Fnglanb gam genau. Sir roif
fen. bafe bie ?fn§gaben cine# 9frbci
terbausbalt? in Crnlanb jdjon im
jrcbrnar mu i>0 rprojcut geitiegen
traren unb ban bann bi? 311111 r!lpnl
bie allgemeinen ft 0 ftc 11
ber Si e fce 11 s r u b r u n g a u 1
50 i' r 0 3 e n t liber ben ^ricbeiio
burd)id)nitt itiegen nnb mii'en, da
bie ftoblen beute in Ifnglanb boppeil
fo teuer fiitb unb itnmer nod) teurei
merben. Sir rciffen and) mober bac
fonuut. Me 2d)irfsfrad)ten nad
Gnglanb fofien beute brei bio fcdi;
trial fcDiel als im Jvricben uub roei
alle? iiber 2cc fommt, erboben int
aJle tpreife bamit. Hub bie 2d)itfo
fraditcn fiitb fo bod) unb merben
it 0 d) i tn in e r b 0 b c r, moil bif
3eclcute nidit uadi liitglanb fafjrei
mollen, obne baf] man ibtten hr P'e
ben bod) Donidiert uttb ibneu ’nr ett
Okfabr, ber fie fid) ausfefcen, he.,
Sfbbne jalilt. Setter mcil bie $?er
fid)cningogef(lljd)aften natiirlid) fri
ttc 2d)irfe ant ber J>abrt nad) ling
lanb ntebr oerficbern motion, obne bai
ibneu ungebeucre Spramien gc3abl:
merben, benn fie mollen bocb Derb:
neix unb fcbliefjlid) motion and) rich
tHeebcr ibre 2d)tne nidit nad) ling
lanb fnbreti Icifen, meil ibneu bie 2a
dje iiberbaupt 311 gefabrlid) iit unt
fie bie 2d)iffe auberoroo beffer unb
fidberer ausmsVen fbnnen. Jill ba?
toerfdjmdnbe faft gans, fobalb ber Un
terfeebootfrieg anfborte, benn uufcrc
?lusIanbofreu3cr, bie in glcicbcm
2inne rcirften, fbnnen ba? beute lei
ber nidit mebr.
xo uetgen iRabrungsmittel unt
fRobftoffe fiir bie ^nbufirie gleidjer
trcife. ieuerung ber Cebensmittcl
fiifirte jur Unrube in ber '-tfenblfe
rung, sunt 33crlangeit nacb 2tetgC'
rung ber Sobne unb bamit 511 Sion
fliftcn smifchen JIrbeiter unb Jlrocit
geber, benn bie illrbeitgcber feben bo
mit bas ©efdiiift, ba§ fie non? Sriegt
ermarteten, banf GnglanbS 2eeberr
fdiaft iiberaH bin su Iiefern, mo fon?
ber beutfdje fi'onfurrent beffer uni
biHiger mar, semnnen. Streit tmu
fdjen Mrbeitgeber unb ■nebmer fiibri
imme~ ju StreifS unb SFerminbcrutif
ber 'JJrobuftion, unb bie bebeutet 311
fammen mit ben ungebeueren Sob
Ien- unb (Frjnreifen, bie non be?
Snannbeit berriibren. fcbmicrige Cfi
fenerseugung unb SRangel an ftregc
material, Don bem mir in englifdxt
Heitungen unb SRinifterrebeit Iefen
Jamit fteigt bie fRotmcnbigfcit bei
Ginfubr, bie ibrerfeits mieber bie
ft'reife treibt. Sluftcrbem aber finf
mit bem SRiicfgang bcr fProbuFtiot
bie ?Iusfubr. Hub bamit it e i g t b 11
paffine £ a n b e I § b i I a n 3
b. b. ba§ Uebermicgcn bcr (iinfulu
iibcr bie Slusfubr, ba-3 Gnglanb Iieuti
fdmn bat. ffia§ eS einfiitirt, mu ft e-:
be3anlen, Fann es bas nidit mit 95? a ■
rrn, bie c§ ausfiibrt, unb bas ift iefci
fdjon Icingft eingctrctcn, bant? in
fifolb. Tamit flieftt fein f'folb ins
flusxanb unb es bat suncit Feint
Ginnabmen mebr. bie biefen abflufe
becfcn. Unb babet tnoCen trir barer?
brnfen. baft cnglifcber IRunb nerfiin
bet. bie Ictjte IRilliarbe merbe tiefen
Srieg geminnen.
?II1 biefe flugabcn finb aus rein
englifdien CucHcn gcfdibnft. £as
ift bie Sdiraube, an ber ber Unter«
•cebootsfrieg brebt unb brebett fofl
— baft er brebt, Iciftt ficb ait engli
fdien ?lngaben 95?odie fiir ©ocfje ner
folgen, unb folattge er brebt, fann eS
mis ganj gleidi fein, ob englifdjc
Sctatntifen tauienb ober jelmtaafenr
3®iTTe in ber SDiinnte in eitglif®ei
$afen einlaufen Iaffen, e§ fann une
cudi ganj glcid) fein, ob bie Sieflamc
Ifommel geriibrt )rirb. bie cnglijcbf
Gunarb . fitnie berteilc cine bobcn
'^ioibenbe all fonft, benn all ibn
Sdiiffe bat bie Dfeaierung, unb ber
Grtag englifdier Sdiiriabrt ift im afl
gcmeiuen um 20 2*ro3ent gcfunfnt:
mir miifen abet and) biefe Spmptotne
3U tDiirbigctt, ebenfo mic ba§ beutli®
berportreienbe 23cbiirfni§ ber briti*
fcbcn fflegierung, mbglidhft niele 23er*
offcntlidumgen tuirtfcbartlidier 21 rt ju
unterbriiden unb linicre 3eitungen
nicbt in§ Canb 511 Iaffen.
®ar Gnglanb iior bem firicg mebr
£>err ober fine®!? ^rfct jcbeitfan§
foil ba§ SKecr, beffen .tferr es fi®
mdbnte, unci bienen, 23ritannien
fne®tcn.
JJer fRrid)$fflit;tIer unb bie italieni|®f
firicgserflarung.
23 e r I i n. $n einer 2tebe uor bcn>
SRci®stag, gab JRcidjefanilcr Pon
iPetbniaiiii-^olinjeg in padenber 253ci*
fe bie Grcigniffe roieber, rocldje ber
firieg-r-erfidrung 3talicn§ an Cefter*
rcidi'. llngarii porauegingen.
fRcbtier fngte, ban ^talicn bie toeit*
gcbeiibften 3ugeftdnbniffe bon ber
£oppelinonar®ie gema®t nuirben u.
Tcut?®Ionb al§ 23iirge fiir bie Grfiil*
lung berfefben eintrat.
Cbne.eincn £ropfen 23Iut
opfem biitte ^talien Xerritorium 111
Jirol unb otn Afonso erbalten fotoeit
bie italienif®e Spra®e Porberrf®t,
femer freie $>anb in 2llbaiiien, ben
ipertrollen ftafen Sfplona unb ftiidj*
tige 3ugeftmibniffe betrcifS IricfM
25?ie treit ber Treiprrbanb obet
fonftige Stnftirter binter ber firieg#.
erfliirung fteden, trirb erft bie 3u.
funft Iebren. 2Benn aber ber firieg
poriiber, irtrb baS italienif®e 2?of!
erfennen mit trel®er ftriPolitat eS
fief) in benfelbcn geftu*3t fjatte.