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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.
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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".
JSicrau bemerft bie „Teutfd)c Crrport
Jtesue" u. a.:
„2Benn ber firieg roirflid), roie
Gorb $albane im Cberbanfe aud
fiibrte, ben iPanferott gait3 Gurofias
bcrbetfiibren foUte, fo roiirbe Giiglanb
ber $aufitleibtragenbe fein, benit ed
rotrb geroalttgc SKnlcibetnaffcn ber
Slaaten befiben, beren SPanfcrott ber
engltfdje Sorb nad) bem Srieg be
fiircfjtet. Gttglanb roirb nad) bem
ftriege genotigi fein, fetne SScrbtin*
beten inciter fmniijiefl. iifccr ffiaffci
eu balteii, unt nidjt ba3 gait^e cus
gctiefjene ilapital 311 uerlicren. Stud]
biefo Dotxcubigfeit imrb fcrnglaitb
lDirtfdjuftlid) nub inbuftricH fdjttta
d)en. (£iiglanb, oq3 biefen .ttricg be
gomint hot, 11m fcinen unbegucmen
fioiifurreiiten Xeutfdjlanb au fdjrod
cbcii, imrb au3 biejem ttYiege tnirt
idjattlid), fiaanjiefl unb itibuftrieU k
gefdjmiidjt Ijcrborgeben, bop ee langi
^safjre gebraudicu mirb, uni baS 3Jer
loreite cinjuljolen. SebcnfalB abrr
toirb c« 511 iditrad) kin, inn feine jeet
mit groRcn Shorten angefiinbigte
Slbfidtjt burdv.uktbrcn, gemcinfaiit
mit feincn Derbiinbcten eincn tnirt
fdtaftlidien terbroffclungc-frug gegen
Xcutfdilanb 311 fiibtrn."
£as Jvlottcn - ?liteOou - Drrgrnituu
—
SB q f l) i 11 g t 0 it. SBir tin fjot)ei
'■Beamier be? Diarinc • '£('1 nrtcmentc •
| oerlauten lies, biirfte man fid) be
j treffs be3 Marine • SBauprogramme
I eubgiiltig nicbt ror Grnbo besDionats
• Cftober fctjUiffig roerbrn. tir crfliir <
j tc, bap bis 311 loner 3cit bie ikr
j Staatcu fief) cin abfdjliefjcnbco Urteil
bariiber bilben fonnten, mil meldjeu
europiiifdien Diarine • Jvnffnreit fit
in 3uhtnfi 311 rechnen baton merbeu
§ieraus ergiot fid) bic Aolgcrung.
b.tp man in SRegierungsfrcijen ai
eiite iBeenbigung bee onropaifebn
ftrieges im )gcrbfte gloitbt
Diapgcbenbe Dianne - Offijiert
finb ber 2lufid)i, bap i'rafibent 28ib
fon feinesroegs auf einc Dianne er
pid)t iff, bie in Wrbpe jcber anberei
| ber Si’elt cbeubiirtig join nuifi, fon
bern ieine '-Benxiibungen barauf be
fdjranfcn ttiU, cino glollo 311 fd)ap
fen, treldje feben Stngriff auf bie Shi
ficu ber SSer. Staaten erfdgreid) ab
3Utreifen im 2tanbc ift.
£ie amcrifanifdje Dianne - Crr
perten finb ber 'ilnficht. bap bit
iauebboot - Aletifle unbcbiugt au'
eine Stiirfe non punbert i'Vabr^enger
gebradjt roerben map. SHc nonet
iauebboote luerben afiermobrrnftcr
£t)ps kin
Dlan ertjoftt junerficbtlid: baf) bn
Utongrejj foiort bie nbiigm Weibei
fiir ben 33au non Pier ©d)laditfd)iffci
ltnb ber erforbcrlidjen SIn.iabI boi
5taud)booten bemiUigen tiurb. £ii
einaelnen Dofien ttnirbcti (tdi anf -^
.$75,000,000 fiir Hd)ioditjd)iifi* uni
$50,000,000 fiir £aud)bnote fieflen.
£ic Sage in ikwftlnnb.
fRotterba m. i ic fRufjcn fja.
ben augenfdjeinlid), trie auf ben
norbiidifteu Slriegsfdjamdap an bet
Xiina, fa and) im fubofiJidiften air
2erctl) ftarfe Sruppriimafjen 311'
fammengc’3ogcn. 2’orf nerblulel fid
in fdjweien Sidiitpfeti, tune nod) at
Sl'iberftanbsfraft ruffifriur '.'Jrineeer
iitriidgeblicben ift. Slnf biefcm iiib
bftlidjfteti .Mampfplat brabt ben Mi 11 f
fen bie Wefahr cities fciuMidjcn (bin
marfdjev in Dobolicn unb '-Beffara
bieu, uadibem fid) ber Sdtliifkl 311
23oIt)t)itieii mit ben isefningcn iiujf
unb £ubno, benen fid) in'dalbe Done
no aufdjticBen roirb, bereits in ben
^rdiiben ber SScrbiinbeten bejinbet
Siiterdjen 3ar bebarf bec> OMorieu.
fd)ein§ um bie Stint beS oberfier
Aiibrer# ber gefamten niffiidjru
3i?c[jriyad)t, unb cr muk 3itgin<fj bit
crfdirccftcn tBcmolmcr bee- Siibens,
in bem bie SebcnSgiij'tlni beo gan.ieti
Micid)c§ fprubetn „bcnibignt ' Mfbet
er toirb mit Diiirdjcn Mott iiegeu uni
and.) mit Pielen 3elinfaufenben rot
erbiditeten Wefattgeneu ben nm fid
grcifeiiben Wei ft ber 'Reunite ntd)t
baitttcn fbiutett.
Ulbnalunr bcr (finful.T in bit 2$cr.
Staatc.’i.
SB aldington. \imst 2lufftcl
lung be§ §anbelsamtci ift bcr dBcrl
bcr in bent fRedjnungsiot'r 1915 m
ben Skreinigten wStaot?n eingcfiUjr
ten ©areu um $219,700,000 tjintei
bem '-iforjabr 3uriicfgcilieben Xii
vsittporte beliefen fid) cuf tnc-gcfaml
$1,674,200,000.
£cr iHiicfgang ift auf bic VIbnnbmt
ber lrinful)r Don alien -ruberm $u\
portartifeln, mit Jhtoi.uhme Don Vr
bcnsmitteln, juriidjufubmi, ia, bit
Scbcn§mittelcinf«I)r hnl gegen bae
v<abr juDcr um $49,200,000 auge
nomnien.
31 n bcr Spi§e ber trinfuhvnrtifcl
fteht 3iobr3ucfer mit finer Smnme
mm $174,000,000, bairn femmt .Cof
fee mit $106,700,000. Sicrtnollr
8teine finb in bcr {Sinfubr um inebr
al» 50 iprojent suriirfgcgangen. unb
ferner jeigtc fid) ber ffiiiifgang be
fonberS ftorf in Seibc, Sobaf. 8-piri*
tuofen nub SBeinen.
Seit 3lnfang SKai finb liber erne
DJiillion rnffifdic ©efangeiic ocnmuit
morben. fiein SBunber, bail bie bent
fd)C SRcgieruug biefco v'Obr Don enter
9MfS3dl)Iunq Slbftanb nimmt, ba bie
3al)Iung bcr ruffifcben Okfangcnen
aHe Dorbnnbcnen $ilf§!rhfte bean
fprncbt.
Ciifcl 8am Iicfcrt ben Miierten
Munition, SBaffcn, 'TTabrungSmittel
unb ©elb. vkfet brand)! cr ibnen t
nut nodi bie 'UJcnfdjen 311 liefern, ba- ft
mit man Don feiner Sfteutralitat DotU
fommen iibcrjcugt ift