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HEWS BRIEFLY TOLD INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT Include* What is Going On at Wa*tv ington and in Other Sections of the Country. WAR NEWS. All Greek reservists in Canada have been ordered home. The recall order rached the Greek consul, J. C. Walsh in Montreal from Athens. * * * The total subscription to the new German loan given out in Amsterdam totals 12,030,000,000 marks (3,007, 500,000. This is said to be the great est war loan in history. * « * ' Berlin reports that one British war ship was sunk and two others were damaged in the attack by a British squadron on German batteries along the Belgian coast. » * « An Athens dispatch to a Paris newspaper says that Bulgaria has concluded an agreement with the Teu tonic allies and will enter the war October 15. » * • Greece has decided upon mobiliza tion of its army and has called the classes of 1892 to 1911 to the colors. Athens dispatches quote the official statement that Greece intends to de fend its own rights and support Ser bia. The Greek chamber of deputies passed without debate hills declaring a state of siege in Macedonia, provid ing $30,000,OOd for mobilization of the Greek armies and authorizing the re lief of families of soldiers in case of war. * * * Every male German. Turk and Aus trian of military age in London, who has not been granted exemption, will be required to surrender to the po lice. Austrians under 51 years of age and Germans under 53 years will be interned. The Munch Post has received a report from Switzerland, that Pope Benedict is preparing a circular let ter to the belligerents, asking for a general truce on All Saints’ day, ded icated to the memory of the soldiers who have perished in the war. * « » German casualties in the recent of fensive of the French and British, in cluding killed, wounded and prison ers, were given officially by the French war office in Paris as in ex cess of the strength of three army corps (more than 120,(mo men). * * * The quick answer of Greece to Bul garian mobilization probably has been a factor in clearing the atmosphere with respect to Bulgaria’s intentions. The Bulgarian government has noti fied the powers that the mobilization of the Bulgarian army was not in tended as an offensive measure. * * * A German newspaper is authority for the report that British and French troops for service in Serbia have landed at Port Kathrin. near Saloniki, Greece, while there is a ru mor that 300,000 Austrian-German troops have begun an advance on the northeast Serbian frontier. GENERAL. Officially 13,325,553 people have passed the turnstiles at the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco up to September 24. * * * One hundred girls, who came to Winnipeg, Man., Canada, before the war started, are in various mechani cal shops taking lessons to prepare themselves for mechanical positions. Many Winnipeg girls are learning to be chauffeurs. * • • Higher average rates of interests in the United States will be one of the inevitable results of the European war, former United States Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio told the Investment Bankers’ Association of America at Denver. * » * Andrew H. Coggins, called the "king of high graders,” pleaded guil ty to stealing ore estimated to be worth $40,lMW) from the Empire mine at Grass Valley, Cal., and* was sen tenced to serve four years in the state penitentiary at San Quentin. • * « A spark from a workman’s hammer ignited a tank car of gasoline in Ard more, Okla., and as a result 50 people were killed and 200 injured. Two en tire blocks of the city was destroyed with a loss estimated at $500,000. * * * By a unanimous vote, members of the Omaha* Young People's Socialistic league adopted a resolution pledging themselves to do ‘‘all in their power to destroy the curse of militarism, and its parent, the capitalist system, which is responsible for the war hor ror.” • • • Reports stated that ten persons were killed and more than 100 in jured In New Orleans by a hurricane that swept that city. Property loss will exceed $1,000,000. * * • Mayor W. J. Hozy of Fort Wayne. Ind., tendered his good offices in an effort to settle the differences be tween the officials of the traction company and the members of the ■treet car men’s union, who walked out when demands they presented to 5 the company were rejected. * • • Five submarines, under construc tion In Vancouver. B. C.. were said to be for the Russian navy, delivery to be made at Vladivostok. The boats, after completion, will be taken apart and shipped in sections r Art Smith, aviator, flying at the ! state fair at Springfield, broke the | world’s record for looping the loop. I He made nineteen loops in succession. • * « James Keir Hardie, labor member of parliament and leader of the peace element in the British socialist party, died of pneumonia at Glasgow re cently. • • • Eighty passengers of a Southern Pa cific Mexican train were thrown into a car containing hay and the car set on fire by a band of Yaqui Indians near Torres. Sonora, according to ad i vices received at San Diego, Cal. All but twenty peri::,lied. « * * The statement was made by offic i ials of telephone companies in New Haven, Conn., that messages by wire j less telephone were sent from the wireless telegraph station at Arling ton, Va., to Honolulu, Hawaii, a dis tance of about 4,600 miles. * * * The annual pamphlet report of the T'nion Pacific Railroad company. ; made public in New York, for the * fiscal year ending June 30, last, i shows a decrease of $1,446,308 in op | eratlng income and a decrease of i $5.57S,fi06 in total income. * * * X-ray photographs of the bodies of | Colonel Robert W. Mueller and wife, I whose charred bodies were found in ' the ruins of their summer cottage i near Marquette, Wis., disclosed heavy | charges of buckshot, supposed to have been fired at a distance of about thirty feet. • • * Plans for the biggest religious re vival Chicago has seen in many years ! are announced by the Moody church. 4 tabernacle to seat 5,000 persons will be erected ahd meetings will be held nightly for six months. Mayor Thompson will open the revival on October 31. * * * ! The Carranza commander at Las I Pelados. Mexico, headed the attack ing party of Mexicans who crossed the border and in a fight with Amer ican soldiers, captured Trooper Rich ard Johnson, whom they shot and then mutilated, it was reported to southern department headquarters at San Antonia, Tex. V SPORTING. E. J. Hanlon, president of the Sioux City club of the Western league announced that the All-Ameri can and All-National league baseball stars will play in that city October 23. • * * Earl Caddock of Anita defeated War Eagle, the Indian wrestler, in Atlantic, la., in two falls, the first in thirteen minutes and the second in three minutes, both falls being won by a scissors hold. • * * The Jockey club stakes, the only 10,000 sovereign (50,000) race of the present English turf season, was run at New Market, England, and won by Lanius. name Prudent finished sec ond and Sir Cassel's Gadabout was third. * * * Official timers at the new Sheeps iiead Bay automobile speedway, New York, asserted that Eddie Ricken backer had set a new world's record for one lap of the two-mile course by covering the distance in 1:06 1-5, or at the rate of 108.76 miles an hour. That the Western league is planning to secede from organized baseball and to affiliate with the Fedorals is a statement accredited to Jack Holland of St. Joseph. Holland says the re port, believes there is an organized plan to throw over the traces and that it will be made public soon. WASHINGTON. Naturalized American citizens trav eling abroad were advised by the State departmnt to take their natural ization papers with them. * * * The western railroads have asked the interestate commerce commission to reopen and rehear the western rate case and pass upon the “funda mental issue of the need of greater revenue.” ^ President Wilson has begun exam ining the annual appropriation esti ; mates prepared by cabinet members j for presentation to congress in De cember. The president has instructed i that the estimates he kept as low as possible end that strict economy be observed. Standing on the same spot where ! fifty years ago President Andrew ! Jackson reviewed the parade of i Grand Army of the Republic, home j from the war of the rebellion, Presi dent Wilson reviewed the parade of j the feeble remnants of that army, i called by historians the most efficient i fighting force the world had known. * * * Several American philanthropists j have signified a willingness to pro ! vide funds for bringing to this coun i try persecuted Armenians in the far east who desire to emigrate, accord ing to advices that have reached the State department. • * * i National hanks wishing to sell their 2 per cent government bonds in the 1 way provided by the federal reserve j act w ill not have an opportunity to | do so until after March 31, 1916, ac ! cording to an announcement by the j Federal Reserve hoard. • * • President Wilson was appealed to j in a telegram from the St. Louis j branch of the American Neutrality league to use the influence of the ad ministration tc prevent federal re serve banks, other banks and insur ance companies lending money to any of the European belligerents. * » * The government is prepared to han dle tariff questions. President Wilson told former Governor James M. Co* of Ohio in a letter. Cox had sug gested that a tariff commission be named to investigate trade conditions. SCORES DIE IN GALE 260 KNOWN TO HAVE PERISHED IN GULF HURRICANE. PROPERTY LOSS $12,000,000 Whole Villages Are Swept Away and Thousands of People Are Left Without Homes. New Orleans, La.—Reports from (he hurricane swept coasts of Mississippi and Ixiuisiana place the known dead at IliO and the missing at 213. Of the missing 100 are believ ed to he dead. Property damage is estimated at $12,000,000. Thousands of the inhabitants of small towns along the Mississippi river are marooned on high ground, having lost every thing when their homes were washed away. A tidal wave twelve feet high swept the lowlands around New Or leans, destroying everything in its path. Boat passengers arriving from Em pire, near the Doulloth canal, fifty miles down the Mississippi, reported that only four large houses still stood at Empire. The State Conservation commission here started a rescue ves sel for that point. Many inhabitants of the flooded sections on both sides of the river were reported marooned and some were said to be clinging to tree tops. Twenty-one persons were known to be dead at Rigolets and twenty-two at Lake Catherine, both small resorts a few miles west of the Mississippi lxiuisiana state line, according to W. O. Powell, one of twelve survivors, who arrived here. Fifteen negroes and one white man were reported derd at Shell Beach, and twenty-two white persons at De La Croix Island, both small settlements in St. Betnard parish, south of here. Reports of twenty-five dead between Frenier and Des Arc, on the west shore of Lake Ponehartrain, was con firmed by a railroad man arriving at Hammond. La. The «ole survivor of a party of nine passengers and crew of the Grand Isle packet Hazel arrived here. The vessel capsized and was dashed to pieces near Grand Isle. The survivor, George Linden, engineer of the ves sel. floated fifteen miles on a piece of timber and was exhausted when pick ed up by a passing vessel. Known Dead in Louisiana. New Orleans and environs. 24. Rigolets, 21. Lake Catherine, 22 Near Frencer. 25. Eight drowned in sinking packet Hazel near Grand Isle. Reported Dead and Missing. Shell Beach. St Bernard Parish. 16. Island De La Croix. 22. Yolosky. 15 (negroes). Says Subsea Campaign Crushed. Washington.—Great Britain has dis covered and put into ofTecetive opera tion means of combating the sub marine, which according to official reports to the United States govern ment. already have resulted in a loss estimated at between fifty and seven ty German submarines. The reports declare that the British admiralty con fidently believes it has crushed the German undersea campaign. New methods of offense and defense that may revolutionize naval warfare have been adopted, and high British naval officers are of the opinion that unless the effectiveness of the sub marine is increased it will no longer constitute the menace that it has been to commerce and battle fleets. The British censorship has prevent ed the disclosure of details concern ing the developments, but, within the last three weeks confidential reports to various government departments from representatives in European capitals of neutral, as well as bel ligerent countries, have confirmed the British admiralty’s view that an ef fective means of dealing with the sub marie has been found. Gives Children Ride; Five Killed. Lancaster, Pa.—E. M. Zell, 50, and four school children were killed when their automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania express train at a grade crossing near Leola. Two other children were so badly injured that they may die. Zell had picked the youngsters up after school and was taking them for a ride in the country when the accident occurred. Post-Season Games for Federals. Chicago.—Star players of the Fed eral league have arranged a post-sea son tour of the country after the close of the season, it was announced here recently. Holland Makes a Protest. The Hague—The Dutch government has made a serious protest to Ger many concerning the passage of Ger man airships over Dutch territory. Holland declares it expects Germany to take adequate measures to avoid violation of Dutch territory. ' Half Million on Serb Line. Paris.—The number of Austro-Ger man troops concentrated on the Serb ian frontier is estimated by the Nish correspondent of the Temps at 500,000. Losses of French Light. Paris.—The French losses in the recent offensive, so costly to the Ger mans, relatively, are very light, ac cording to statements made by per sons in a position to know. Most of the wounded were struck either by bullets or splinters from shells. British Transport Is Sunk. Berlin.—The sinking of a British transport, with the loss of all but a few members of the crew, is reported in a dispatch from Constantinople tc the Overseas News agency. CONDENSER NEWS %OF INTERFST VO ALL. C. 1). Richey is erecting a $25,U00 garage at Hastings. Clearwater is to have a new high school building. Red Cloud voted $;!O,0O0 to buiid a high school recently. The new town hall at Saronville was dedicated la.-'t week. The Carnegie library in Hartington will be dedicated October 8. The Neligh Leader has changed from a weekly to a semi-weekly. $7,000 worth of property at Merri man was destroyed by fire recently. Work on Bridgeport’s sugar factory is expected to start in a month or so The $22,000 parochial school just built at Kearney, was dedicated last week. The Fairbury High school athletes organized a football eleven for this season. Nebraska Bankers’ association will hold its annual meeting in Omaha Oc tober 27 and 28. B. F. Davis, editor of the Silve" Creek Sand, died suddenly at his home in that city. Editor Stone of the Hartington Her ald, has been appointed probation of ficer of Cedar county. Fred Steiler of Lushton was se verely scratched by a large domestic cat while walking along a country road. The all star American and National league hall players are to play an ex hibition game in North Platte on Oc tober 28. Civil service examination will be hold on October 22 for rural letter carriers at Lincoln. The Omaha creamery men have de cided to cut loose front the old Elgin regime and to make Omaha its own market. In a heavy electrical storm at Bridgeport, Frank Meyers, an Kin kaider. was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning. The First Security State bank of Cedar Creek, with a capital of $10,000, has been granted a charter by the State Banking board. Nebraska Methodists in their recent convention at Lincoln, decided to make state prohibition the paramount issue from now on. Arthur Paska, a Blair man. in his haste to get on a northbound pas senger train, at Fort Calhoun, fell and lost one arm under the wheels. While attempting to drag a shotgun from a boat by the barrel, Raymond Maurer of Plattsmouth was shot through the left breast and instantly killed. John Truto of Elk Creek was killed and four others were injured when an automobile turned over near Bea trice. Arrangements have been made for the appearance on October 18 of the United States Marine band at Kear ney. james Rcraiy was thrown from his horse and trampled upon and serious ly hurt at the Nemaha county fair at Auburn. Miss Sutherland of Elwood. teach ing school near Alvo, in burninng trash raked from the yard, caught her j clothing and was severely burned. Gus Swan of Arlington, while walk ing to the farm of Frank More hem, e east of Fremont, was run down by a Northwestern freight train and killed. ] Out of forty cultures taken in South I Omaha public schools by Dr. Boler assistant city physician, twenty posi- j tive cases of nasal diphtheria were . found. Governor Morehead has issued a ! proclamation asking Nebraskans to ioin in a clean-up campaign on Octo ber 9 to forward fire-prevention work. , The State Railway commission is- , sued an order directing the Rurling- , ton to install eleetric lights at its depot and grounds at Dorchester. Playing with strychnine tablets j caused the death of the eleven- j months-old baby daughter of Ben At- j wood at Humboldt. The child was discovered playing with them, having j swallowed several. The station settlement at Roller, lust, east of Minden. is enioving the distinction of having its first store under erection. John Hoover, grain man. will have charge of the store and will deal in general merchandise. John .T. Belick of Bennington lias ! asked the railway commission to or- I der the Northwestern railroad to fur- i ninsh tank cars for (he shipping of ■ buttermilk out of Omaha. The hear ing has been set for October 11. Dr. W. R. Peters of Stanton met with an accident three miles north west of that place when the automo bile in which be was driving turned turtle and pinned him under the car, where he remained for eight hours. The State Board of Agriculture a1 loved all bills for the 1915 fair and heard a financial report. It is ex peted there will be a balance c'ose to $20,000. The next meeting of the as sociation is to be held in Lincoln in January. The completion of a Jo.OtiO barn and silo combined on the Malt Heurtz farm neer Juniata was celebrated by an old fashioned barn dance, attended by over fifty people. The tValrath, Sherwood & Kent lumber business of North Bend, a branch of the Omaha firm, was sold recently to the Farmers' Co-operative association. It is estimated that the annual loss from hog cholera In Nebraska for the last two years has been at least $5,000,000, according to a recent bul letin of the College of Agriculture. In an auto accident near Superior, Joseph Benjamin and wife were se verely injured. A loss of $100,000 to the Cudahy Packing company was entailed by the loss of the company’s new ice house at Ralston by fire. Edward Kinney was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Hanna in district court at Grand Island, upon his plea of guilty to the charge of murder in1 the second degree, when he shot Charles Meyers, an insurance man, July 15, at that place. BOARD SOLE JUDGE POWERS OF RAILWAY COMMIS SION SET FORTH IN BRIEF. TWO-GENT FARE HEARING SET Application of Missouri Pacific to En join Railroad Board to Be Heard in Omaha November 3. Lincoln.—That the Nebraska Rail way commission is the sole judge of equitable freight rates within the state, and that these rates should not necessarily be governed by the inter state commerce rates, is the sub stance of a brief prepared on behalf of the Nebraska commission by Ed P. Smith of Omaha, special counsel em ployed by the attorney general's of fice. The brie! is in reply to the crit icism of the Nebraska class rate schedule by the Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, Kansas City and Atchison. Considerable attention is given in the brief to an explanation of the equali zation of rates as between Nebraska jobbing renters, which are declared to be on practically the same basis as the adjustment made by the railroads themselves before the class rate order became effective. Answering the charge that certain roads are required “BETTER BABIES” AT NEBRASKA STATE FAIR. Elizabeth Martha Webster, Thirty Months' Old, the Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Webster of Havelock, and a Perfect Baby, Scoring 100. to make the same rate over round about routes as other roads in direct line, Special Counsul Smith intimates that the commission would be willing to allow the circuitous road to charge its rates if it cares to surrender its business to the direct lines. The hear ing of the application of the Missouri Pacific railroad against thp Nebraska Railway commission for a temporary injunction in the Nebraska 2-cer.t rale law has been set to be heard in Omaha November 3. by Judge Walter H. Sanborn of the United States cir- i cuit court. The receiver for the rail- ! road, Benjamin F. Bush, is asking the j federal court to restrain the coraniis- i sion from enforcing the 2-cent law. ' and asks that the company he allow ed to charge 3 cents a mile for pas- j sengers. Bar Commission Reappointed. The supreme court has reappointed j all the five members of the state bar | commission, whose duty is to exam ine applicants for bar examinations, investigate charges against attorneys and make recommendations on these matters to the supreme court. The five, reappointed for another yVar. are: W. L Anderson, Lincoln, secre tary; A. D. McCandless, Wymore: Bernard McNeny, Red Cloud: N. C. ] Pratt, Omaha, and J. J. Led with. Lin coln. Assessment Figures. Assessment figures from ail the counties on real estate, live stock and nuloniobiles will be published in pam phlet form by Secretary Bernecker of the State Board of Equalization to as sessors of Nebraska as a guide for their work next year. To Appoint Postmaster. Postotfice inspectors have been de tailed to make investigations with a view to appointment of a postmaster at Colyer. Morrill county. Nebraska, to fill a vacancy caused by resigna tion. Hearing On Water Rights Delayed. Attorney General Reed lias receiv ed a telegram that the hearing in the Colorado supreme court in which a large number of farmers in western Nebraska have cases will not be held in October, being laid over several months. The big suit between Wy oming and Colorado over water rights is of much concern to Nebras ka because Colorado is claiming ab solute rights to head waters of the Platte. If the Colorado claims are upheld it would be a serious blow to irrigators in the western part of Ne braska. _ Farm Investment Exceeds $25,000. The average total investment per farm in Thurston county is $25,308, according to a farm management sur vey just completed of forty-seven farms: The Investment in land and buildings is $22,214; live stock, $1,949; feed supplies. $438; machin ery, $360; and cash, $147. A major ity of the farms in the county are rented, the tenant owning everything but the real estate. The survey was made co-operatively by the United States Department of Agriculture and the College of Agriculture. Diefe 2lbteilin:g ift fiir bie ''^amilienglieber, ux>ld?e am liebften Dentfd? iefcn. Sic nnocrnmtctc i?oI(jcn (viiglutti)* ou bem jcuigeu Slugenbiicf, Da Die Slbgejanbteu Dcr Miierten pier jino, um lid) unb uamentlidi (Smglaitb ou filberuen Atugelu gu bejdjaffen, bit iijnen ben Stneg getoinnen joileii, tji eiu teingeftcinbmo Der njirtfctjaftiidjeli Sdjmailje bemerfeuoroert, bass ein engliinber inner bem ^feubontjm .Acceptor" in Dcr befannfen engli jdjen* ginang-^eilfclirift „(Sconomi)t" oetbffentlid)te. Ifr faireibt: „£ae offen eingeraumte ^iel lin gerer '-Blocfabcpoliin ift, cinen toirt fctjaftlidjeu Xrucf auf Xeutfd)lanb ausguiiben, unb toir alle finb bie gange ^eit tjtntmrd) Dofler (trroar tuna getoefen, um Slngeidjen fiir bie irpoffte (5rfd)bpfung Xeutfd)lanbs ju erbliefen. Xabei Dcrgejjeu toir in unfereni Infer, fcafc feine ©elbborfe abne iBoben ift —- and) unferc eigene nid)t —, unb bap, toir bei gortjet} ang unferer ejtraoaganten unb ter ■d)roenberifd)cu 'i)fetl)oben feiber fopf iber in ben iBanferott tjincinftiirjen. llngeadjtet ber fiolgcn 2ln3fpriid)e un ferer ©taatsmcimier iibet unfere finanjielle Stdife, ibre Slttfpielun gen auf bie fiibernen JSugcIn u. f. ro. ?rfd)ien es bem Sdjreiber biefer 3ci ien immer als cine orfenc grage, ®er ben ..mirtfdiaftiidjen Xrudt" not)! suerft 311 fiiblen Ijdben toerbe — toir ober ber geinb; ob, mit an Dereu Shorten, unfere 3?iocfabepolitif *iid)t gerabe ben ^toeef, ben toir ba mit im Singe baben, uereitelt. SESenn man feinen Dtacbbar finanjiett 311m Rriippel madjen mill, toirb man ibu bod) nid)t gtoingeit, ofonomifd) 311 oirtfdjaften, toaljrenb man fid) felbcr in einen Siaufd) con Sluftoanb ftiirst; bae aber ift bie praftifdie ©irfung unferer ^Solitif gegen Xeutfdjlanb. 23ir baben biefes Canb gestoungeu, alle feine Xenfer 311 mo bilifieren, um UJtittel unb $t>ege 311 finben, fid) aufreditguerbaltcn unb au§ toeitig oiel 311 mad)en. SBir ba ben bem Xeutfdien iKcidi gcbolfeit, fein @elb ini .'fiaufc 311 bebalten, an ftatt e<5 in Die greinbe 311 fenben. 28ir baben cs non ber Sorge be freit, bariiber uaebbenfen gu miiffcu, wic §mporte begablt toerben fallen, inbem toir ee leljrten, obne ^mporte fertig 311 toerbeu. SBir baben bem Eeutfdjen ifleid) einen 'Bortoanb Per [djafft, bcu llnterfeebootfrieg auf Jcidljtf iimpfer aiK\uibel)uen. ih>ir baben aHerbaub gereigtc .ttritif non feiten Sicutraler gegen 1111-5 felbcr nadjgemfeu, an beren I'ieinung 11110 tod) red)t niel gelcgeit fein mug. ffiirflid)! Xeiitidilaub fault uu5 oaitfoar feut. Tic Horftcllung, bap, Tcutfdjlnnb htrd) ."onager nuterroorfen locrbeti iber bar, e* and; mir ernftlid) an ber OcrfteUimg lum ftriegebebarf geftiu* bert rocrbeii faint, iff, toil* idi an rebate, Hold fo 3iemiitf) auigegeben. Tad Sianb, bon ber iibrigen ©elf abgefdjnittcn, faint fiir feinen inne ecu fiiiaiijirflru '-yebarf bequem am' 3ie 9iotcnpref?c suriicfgreifcn. ,.3il ierne Mttgein" fiub fiir Tcutfdjlanb ’in unnotiger ihmid, bleicrnc bienen jeffer feinen ;fwccfeu, nnb fo langc nan in Teutfdjlanb genug non biefer Sorte nub geniigenb Martoffelbrot fiir bic Tolbatcn bat, fonnen fie ben iTanu’f bi§ in’d llncnbncfje fortfefeen, iotneit bic mirtfdjaftlidje Scire in '-ye' trad)t foiunit. Ter logifdjc ScffliiB and biefen Uebcrlegungen lft ber, baf; mir bef ier baran tiiten, Teutfd)Ianb 311 er ianben, ailed ciii3ufiil)rcn, mas ed iraiidjt — road 3iuar abfurb flingt, iber nid)t iff. Tentfdjlnnb, ba* init 'titer fdjuellen trutfdieibiing redniete, niirbe nn^roeifclljaft fear betnidjt idje (fliiter jur (Jinfubr erroorben ba ben, roenn ed ba3U in ber L'agc geroe* fen roiire. (id butte Fein Atartaffel orot gebaefeu nnb nicfjt bae Wobma terial fiir bic dlfunition ini Maitoe felbft ’jiifaiuntengefudit. Tcutidjlanb bdttc bci ungebinberter liinfubr am licit hiniriojeriiu ruf>e gelcbt, ale ?d jefet ber Jvall ift. blber, roie roir felber c§ inerfcn: vunportc iniijfcu bcjabit roerben, nnb (irporte roerbeu jetjt nicfjt biureidjenb sorgciipmmen. ©ad fid) baraue- ergiebt, nenut man roirtfcfjaftlicfjcu Trud. .§ier liegt cin feffelubce problem; iber ba gegenrodrtig fo stele fyafto reit an bem Suegang bee idtiegee nitroirfen fonnen. 3bgcrt man, cine ieftimmte ®ntfd)eibnng soranfdjla jcn. ^ebenfafle field eS fo and, aid ib linfere 35Iodabepolitif et,rr einc Quelle ber Stiirfc aid cine 3d)toad) tng bed gcinbeS beroirft." £orb .§albatte fagtc ucitlid) im mglifdjeu Qberbaufe, „bafj ganj (fu« rosa eineni iPaufcrott juftenre". 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