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Personal, Political, Foreign and Other
Intelligence Interesting to the
General Readers.
WAR NEWS.
The British house of commons
voted a bill providing for the raisin;;
Df an extra 1,000,000 men for the
trmy.
* * •
The German reichstag adopted the
credit of 10,000,000,000 marks asked
by the government, the Socialist
minority of 19 opposing the \ote, ac
cording to a Berlin dispatch.
* * *
London reports the capture of Var
na, Bulgaria’s chief Black sea port,
by the Russians. It says the bombard
ment of the Russians silenced the
Bulgarian guns and laid the town in
ruins.
* * *
Count Stephen Tisza, Hungarian
premier, in the House of Magnates at
Budapest discussed the probable dura
tion of the war. He said the length of
the conflict depended on those »who
started it.
* * *
The British announce the with
drawal of troops from Gallipoli. Eng
lish military authorities declare the
prospect of forcing a way to Constan
linople through the Dardanelles is
apparently relinquished.
* * *
Only 50,000 Serb troops escaped
from Serbia, and of these 10,000
perished in Albanian mountains, says
Sofia report. Bulgars captured 45,000
•ailroad trucks laden with war muni
tions and provisions.
* * *
Enormous quantities of ammuntion
.cannon and tents were taken by the
Turks on the withdrawal of the Brit
ish from the positions evacuated on
• he Gallipoli peninsula, it was official
ly announced in a Turkish headquar
ters’ report from Constantinople
* * A
During a discussion" in the French
chamber of Deputy in Paris Jules
Roche said the war had cost France
26.000. 000.000 francs, or $5,200,000,000.
and her enemies 47,000,000,000 francs.
Europe as a whole, he said, had ex
pended 194,000,000,000 francs ($40.
000,000,000).
• * *
The Gounaris party of Greece, sup
porting King Constantine’s neutrality
program, was returned to power by
large majorities in elections held re
sently. The “war party” supporters
of former Premier Venizelos generally
abstained from voting, on the ground
that the election was illegal.
• * •
The death at Hanover, Germany,
of General Von Emmieh, the con
queror of Liege, is announced in a
report from Berlin. General \ on Em
mich was commander of the Tenth
army corps. He figured prominently
in the early events of the war, being
in command of the German troops
which invaded Belgium.
* * *
A grand “dusting off,” largely
through hand-to-hand encounters, is
planned by Great Britain for next
spring, according to Major H. G.
Mayes, who arrived from England.
Major Mayes, who is to take charge
of bayonet and physical drill at Que
bec. said Great Britain will have
4.000. 000 trained and equipped men in
the field early next year.
GENERAL.
Seven men were drowned in the
Chesapeake bay when the oyster sloop
Lady Harrington, of Oxford, capsized
and sank in a gale of wind and rain.
• * *
The head offices of the Woodmen
of the World in Omaha distributed
something over $3,500 in cash among
410 field men and 300 office employes.
The money paid was in the nature of
a Christmas gift.
» * *
The annual Christmas gift of the
Crane company of Chicago to its em
ployees, consists this year of 10 per
cent of the annual salary of each
man or woman employed for more
than six months. Ten thousand em
ployes throughout the country share
in the company's gift, which totals
more than $700,000.
* • •
Blight hundred tons of Christmas
mail, the heaviest amount that ever
lias passed through the Chicago post
office in a single day, was handled
December 21.
• * *
Sale of horse meat for food will be
permitted in New York after January
1, the board of health announced.
Hereafter old horses, instead of be
ing sold for their bones, which are
worth little or nothing, will be fatten
ed and disposed of for meat.
* * *
Prohibitions against bull fighting in
one Mexican state and sale of intox
icaiing liquors in another have been
decreed in connection with Genera!
Carranza's reform program, it is re
ported.
• • *
In place of the usual winter de
crease or shut-down, there will be
three shifts of men put to work at the
Elba, Corsica and Belgrade, Minne
eota mines, at once, according to an
announcement made by W. P. Chinn,
superintendent of these properties.
* * *
Four lives were lost and many per
sons injured in a windstorm that de
molished scores of houses in east
Mississippi and adjoining counties of
Alabama.
Resolutions favoring a non-partisaD
tariff commission were adopted by the
National Association of Master Bakers
at a special meeting at Chicago.
• * *
City Attorney Ewing filed suits
against five former Nashville, Tenn.,
city officials and their bondsmen for
the recovery of $290,555, alleged to be
due the city.
• * *
A total of 1,219,762 head of sheep,
valued at $5,500,000, were shipped out
of New Mexico in the fiscal year end
ing November 30, according to a re
port to the governor of the sheep
sanitary board at Santa Fe.
* * *
White and negro friends of the late
Booker T. Washington, negro educa
tor, have started a popular subscrip
tion for the purchase of building and
site in Chicago which will be named
the Booker T. Washington memorial
and used as a social center and in
dustrial training school for negro
children of that city.
• * *
Formulation of the requests of rail
way engineers, firemen and trainmen
for an eight-hour day and time and a
half for overtime was completed bv
the committee having the matter in
charge at Chicago. The requests will
be mailed to the brotherhood members
for their approval. Result of the vote
will not be known before January 10.
* * *
In a detailed report the state wide
vice commission of Baltimore named
by Governor Goldborough in January,
1913, shows there are institutions in
Baltimore to which the mother of an
illegitimate child may consign her off
spring upon the payment of an agreed
sum and forever rid herself of
it. Of the hundreds of children so
taken in charge by the institutions the
commission avers that 80 to 90 pei
cent die and are buried in small plots
of grounds, one such plot, fifty-five
feet square, having been the tomb of
5,000 babies since 1886.
SPORTING.
Riche Mitchell, Milwaukee light
weight boxer, outpointed Bennie Pal
mer of Memphis in a ten-round bout
in Milwaukee.
* * •
After several weeks of conferences,
baseball officials were forced to admit
that peace between the Federal league
and organized baseball is far from
being consummated.
* * i:
The Denver Revolver club team
finished second, with 732 points, in
the military revolver match of the
United States revolver association in
New York City. The event was won
by the Pennsylvania slate police
team, with 758 points.
* * *
Mike Gibbons of St. Paul, Minn,
and Young Ahearn of Brooklyn have
been offered the date of January 18
by the management of the Capital
City Atheletic club of St. Paul, for
the ten-round fight scheduled original
ly for December 10, but which was
postponed because of Gibbons illness.
• • •
Ad Wolgast, former lightweight box
ing champion, was suspended for six
mouths by the New York state athlet
ic commission for violating a contract
with tii Harlm Sporting club of New
York city. This will prvent Wolgast
from taking part in any boxing exhi
bitions in that state during the period
of suspension.
* * *
The base ball “war,” which for
more that two years has been in pro
gress between the Federal league and
Organized Base Ball, the National and
American, and all minor leagues con
ducted under supervision of the Na
tional commission, ended when mem
bers of both organizations signed a
peace protocol which brought to an
end the career of the Federal league
at Cincinnati, Ohio.
WASHINGTON.
Tlte British embassy announced that
permission had been granted by the
British government for exportation
from Jamaica tc the United States of
dye wood shipments aggregating 4,700
tons.
* * *
The American navy should be
“equal to the most powerful maintain
ed by any other nation of the world’
net later than 1925, in the opinion ot
the navy general board, headed by
Admiral Dewey.
* * *
The American Red Cross transmit
ted to Secretary Lansing a petition
from the citizens’ committee for food
shipments, asking that safe conduct
be obtained from the entente allies
for shipments of milk for babies in
Germany and Austria.
* * •
Foreign trade of the United States
in November jumped to the unpre
cc-dented total of haif a billion dol
lars. A Department of Commerce
statement shows that imports as well
as exports broke records for the
month. A record of $5,000,000 for thc
last twelve months’ exports and im
ports was set.
Henry P. Fletcher, now ambassador
to Chile, was nominated by President
Wilson for diplomatic relations be
tween the two countries, broken olf
nearly three years ago.
* * *
Congress lias been asked to appro
priate $7,500 to purchase the suit of
clothes Abraham Lincoln wore the
night of his assassination at Ford’s
theater in 1805. Representative Rob
erts of Massachusetts, has introduced
a hill to acquire the relic, owned by a
Washington man, for the Lincoln me
morial.
* * •
The federal quarantine against ship
ments from foreign countries of Irish
potatoes affected with powdery scab
was removed by an order of the De
partment of Agriculture, effeetve Jan
uary 1.
* * *
Officially congress has been in aes
sion for two weeks. In reality the
work of congress will begin after the
Christmas holidays. Thus far the
members, have been marking time. By
the time the session is resumed, early
in January, the process of mobilization
will have been practically completed.
ALL OVER NEBRASKA
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
The State Firemen's Convention has
been dated for January IS. 19 and 20,
at Crawford.
Madison county citizens at a big
mass meeting in Madison declared un.
oualifiedly as opposed to the removal
of the county seat to Norfolk.
Michael Cunningham, Missouri Paci
fic conductor on line between Auburn
and Crete, was struck by a moving
freight train and instantly killed at
Auburn.
Following the action of the Farm
ers’ congress at Omaha the State
Grange, in session at Grand Island,
recently, adopted resolutions in favor
of state-wide prohibition.
Live stock experts of national rep
utation will give addesses at the ses
sions of the Improved Live Stock
Breeders during the week of Organ
ized Agriculture at Lincoln, January
17-22.
Eugene Grace, proprietor of the
Donahoe hotel, at Valentine, died as
the result of falling down the base
ment stairs in the annex building. He
was one of the oldest hotelmen in
Northern Nebraska.
Omaha dairy shippers have con
tracted with the Midwest Dispatch
Co., Chicago, to give their business by
reference to that company, and a line
of 700 ears is being built for it, named
the “Aksarben Dispatch.”
The names of streets and avenues
in Hastings will be permanently
marked in stone for the benefit of
strangers. The proposition was rec
ommended by Mayor Madgett and
adopted by the city council.
The corn and apple show will be
held at the Lincoln Auditorium, Janu
ary 17-22. In addition to the displays
of corn and apples. Prof. Geo. E.
Condra will portray the resources of
the state by means of moving pictures.
Congressman Reavis has sent word
that bids for the construction of the
Falls City postoffice to be one story
and basement in height and built of
rough stone, would be opened in the
supervising architect’s office on
March l.
The Fremont tabernacle where the
union revivals will be held, beginning
January 2. is about ready for the meet
ings. The tabernacle will have a
seating capacity of 2,2(H), and will be
erected so the seating capacity can
be increased.
A new system by which tab may
be kept on all exports from the United
States is being installed in offices oi
port collectors, including Omaha.
Every export must be declared before
the port collector on and after Febru
ary 1, next.
The village of Elk Creek is soon to
have a system of electric lights, both
for street lighting and commercial
purposes. A power plant is being
erected by two garage operators, who
have a street lighting contract with
the village.
Because he was opposed to the in
stallation of pool tables in the Y. M.
C. A., E. J. Alcorn, assistant secretary
of the association at Hastings, re
signed his position. Mr. Alcorn said
pool tables were contrary to his Chris
tian belief.
Patrick Harmon, 50, Seattle, Wash.,
arrived in Omaha the other day, hav
ing walked backward from San Fran
cisco, and continued on his journey
walking backward to New York City
to settle a $20,000 wager between two
Seattle clubmen.
Fireman H. H. Ault of Lincoln
suffered slight injuries when he fell
headlong from his cab on a Burling
ton passenger train locomotive near
Sarohville. He fell out of the cab
when the chain on which he was lean
ing became unhooked.
At a mass meeting of the citizens
of York for the purpose of discussing
public ownership of public utilities, a
resolution to this effect was uanimous
iy passed after a thorough discussion.
There appeared to be little opposition
to public ownership.
Railway commissioners from Ne
braska, Iowa, Missouri, North and
South Dakota, Kansas and Minnesota
held a conference in Omaha recently
relative to the proposed interstate 20
per cent passenger rate raise in this
territory. It was decided by these of
ficials to resist the increase.
Honest advertising campaign fos
tered by the Lincoln Ad club and giv
en general indorsement by merchants
and consumers of that city will cul
minate in the introduction of one or
(wo bills in the next session of the
legislature, according to members
who are now preparing them.
Men of mystery seem to be the
rule rather than the exception in
Kearney, four unidentified and un
claimed bodies having been held in
the morgue the past three weeks. Of
, these one has been interred, an un
i known, killed on the Union Pacific
tracks near Buda. The others are a
bricklayer named Gildemeir, died at a
local hospital A Filipino by the name
of Muri died at the state hospital last
week and the body of a young Hungar
1 ian, who also died at the state institu
tion.
That Great Britain will soon resort
to conscription *was the opinion ex
pressed by John O'Connell of Limer
ick, Ireland, who is visiting friends in
North Platte.
The next meeting of the Mississippi
Valley Historical society will be held
at Nashville, Tenn., April 27 to 29,
1916. The announcement of the selec
tion was made by C. S. Paine of Lin
coln, secretary of the society, follow
ing the receipt by letter of the last
vote of members of the executive com
mittee, to whom was left the choice of
a convention city.
The Farmers’ State Bank, with a
capital of $25,000, will open for busi
ness at Brunswick in the near future.
So well pleased with tlieir treatment
from Nebraskans were the members
of the Farmers’ Equity Union, during
their recent session in Omaha, they
decided to come back to that city
again next year. This decision was
reached after their association had
met in St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas
City and other cities. “We were
treated just a little better than
ever before,” said President Drayton,
in explaining why Omaha was selcted.
Gering is to have a new state bank
in the near future.
beatrice will stage the Gage county
poultry show January o to 6.
The sports of Valley have organ
ized a gun club with a charter mem
bership oi' fifteen.
Victor E. Wilson of Stromsburg, for
mer state representative, has an
nounced his candidacy for the demo
cratic nomination for railway commis
sioner.
The Elks' lodge of Grand Island is
canvassing the city for the purpose
of raising funds to build a new lodge
1 hall. it is contemplated to raise
about $50,000 for the building.
The sixteenth annual show of the
Dodge County Poultry association at
Eremont was one of tiie most success
ful exhibitions in the history of the
organization, over 1,000 birds being cn
exhibition.
A good reads “safety hrst” move
ment is being carried on at Axtell.
The road overseer is setting white
posts about five feet high at eacli end
of the bridges and culverts on all pub
lic roads.
Nearly 500,000 bushels of wheat
was sold at Omaha during the past
week for export to Europe. The grain
is being moved east in big consign
ments as rapidly as cars can be ob
tained.
A cow belonging to Elmer McCiean,
on a farm near Pohocco, in Saunders
county, gave birth to twin calves one
day recently. This is the second pair
of twins born lo this liossie in a year
and three days.
An effort is being made in Seward
to enter George iA. Merriam in the
race for the republican nomination
for secretary of state. Mr. Merriam
is serving his fourth term as mayor
of that place.
The Grand Island sugar factory has
closed its 1915 campaign after a most
successful season. During the ninety
days and night the plant was in
operation an average of 400 tons of
beets were sliced daily.
Three thousand new church mem
bers in Omaha before Easter is the
slogan adopted by the Omaha church
federation, which has inaugurated an
elaborate campaign for carrying on
its membership work.
A gravel bed said to be about twen
ty feet thick and about the same num
ber of feet under the sand, has been
discovered at Capital beach, a summer
resort near Lincoln The deposit is a
most vavluable one, it is said.
An eigmy-nve acre unimproved
farm near Ralston sold recently for
a consideration of $25,000. This would
make the price per acre nearly $275.
the highest, real estate men say, ever
paid for Douglas county farm land.
The business men of Aurora have
decided to put on a week of commun
ity interest next spring It is planned
to make the week a revival ol busi
ness and an effort will be made to get
all of Hamilton county interested.
Mabel Layton, tried for complicity
in the murder of her husband at
Scottsbiuff. for which crime her al
leged father. Dan Gordan, is now serv
ing a life sentence, was found not guil
ty after an all night session by the
jury.
Heirs to a $50,000 estate in Aurora
are missing. Attorneys have been
searching unsuccessfully for more
than a month for relatives of Alden
Nichols, 71, a bachelor, who died
there leaving a 240-acre farm and $20,
000 in securities.
The Omaha city council passed an
ordinance designed to prohibit the dis.
play of any dramatic, motion picture
or other public exhibition which might
tend to create race feeling. The ordin
ance is the result of protests made by
Omaha negro citizens against a film
production which has been showing in
the city for several weeks.
Nebraska farmers have sown 10 per
cent less winter wheat this year than
in 1914, according to the government
bureau of crop estimates at Washing
ton, D. C. The condition of llie crop
December 1 was l per cent better than
^on the same date of 1914. The report
shows that 3,507,000 acres have been
sown to winter wheat. The condition
December 1 was 94 per cent perfect.
H. H. Holmes, who has been in the
Lutheran hospital at York for the last
three weeks suffering from two gun
shot wounds which be received when
he attempted to hold up Night Watch
man Springer, made a confession to
Chief of Police Finney, that he hold
up Clark Perkins at Aurora, on
Thanksgiving night.
Poor ventilation in the schools of
Nebraska has sent 11 per cent of the
present population of the Koarnev
Tubercular hospital there for treat
ment, according 1o a report of Super
intendent E. R. Vanderslice to the
state board of control. Four school
teachers, three women and one man
were received during the last year.
Charley Peters of Panillion, heavy
weight wrestler, threw Gns Korveras,
a 200-pound Greek at the Omaha audi
torium. Peters took the first fall in
two and a half minutes with the scis
sors and an arm bar lock, hut the
second fall went twenty-seven min
utes and forty-five seconds before the
foreigner finally succumbed to tho
scissors.
Hastings was officially declared the
third city of Nebraska in population
when figures of the recently complet
ed special census reached there from
Washington anrl showed 10,873 inhab
itants, a few hundred above Grand
Island. Places are thus exchanged.
Ninety-five publications, including
newspapers and weekly and monthly
publications, go out of Omaha
through the postoffice. This means
ninety-five separate and distinct pe
riodicals that are printed in Omaha,
and entered at the Omaha postofflee
as second-class matter.
Five autoists narrowly escaped in
stant death when a brand-new ma
chine, driven by M. J. Larson of Min-”
den, skidded at a'sixty-mile clip and
turned completely over three times on
the automobile highway between
Hastings and Ingleside.
A new auto road through Wahoo is
being advocated to take the place of
the Lincoln highway along the sandy
roads north of the Platte river,
through Columbus. It will begin at
Central City on the west end at Val
ley on the east, passing through Wa
hoo. /
—
DR. BAXTER, SUPERINTENDENT
OF HASTINGS HOME, RESIGNS.
ILL HEALTH GIVEN AS CAUSE
Action Came While Probe of Manage
ment Was Under Way.—Resig
nation Will Be Accepted.
Lincoln,—Dr. M. W. Baxter, super
intendent of the state hospital for the
insane at Hastings, has tendered his
resignation, to take effect February 1,
giving as his reason ill health.
Dr. Baxter’s resignation came in
the midst of an investigation by the
board of control of his management
of the institution.
^ Commissioner Holcomb said Dr.
Baxter had voluntarily assumed all
responsibility for anything that mignt
be wrong at the institution. His ex
planation. Judge Holcomb said, was
that he did not look over the supplies
very closely, but took the sample sent
him and accepted it as indicative of
the rest of the goods.
“As an example of conditions there,
sixty suits of clothing from an order
of 10,0 were delivered and only one
was up to grade and that was sent in
as a sample,” Judge Holcomb said.
Doctor Baxter told members of the
board he and his wife were both sick
and were planning to spend some
time in the south as soon as he is re
lieved of his duties.
The board will accept the resigna
tion and gave out that the discrepan
cies at the institution will all be
made good by companies having the
contracts.
The board’s check on supplies
bought for the institution has been^
completed with satisfaction to the
members and affairs at the institution
are in good shape.
By the board of control members,
Dr. Baxter is regarded in many ways
as one of the best institution heads
the state has ever had in hospital for
insane work.
Money for Schools.
Ahalf a million dollars will be
included in the distribution of
state school funds in January, under
the new law of the 1915 legislature,
according to the estimate of State
Treasurer Hall. The last winter dis
tribution under the old law, in No
vember, 1914, amounted to only
$333,000.
Of the January distribution one
fourth will be divided equally among
the school districts of the state and
the remaining three-fourths will be
apportioned on the basis of school
population to all the districts. Small
districts will receive a greater share
than formerly and larger ones will
have their amounts materially cut
down.
There is $325,000 in the temporary
school fund now, which pstimatse in
dicate will be increased to more than
$450,000 and likely $500,000 by the
time the distribution is made.
Wants to Give Up Land.
Land Commissioner Fred Beckmann
thinks he has discovered a curiosity.
It is a man who has lived on a piece
of Nebraska land seventeen years and
now does not want it any more. The
man is Bernard Koch of Fordyce, in
Cedar county, and the land is a quar
ter s etion upon which he has been
paying a rental of $1.75 per acre pet
year. The lease runs out January 1
and Koch says he wants to give it up.
but he attaches a coupie of strings to
the proposition, one of them that the
state should pay him $3.74 for im
provements he has placed on the land
and the other is that he be permitted
to purchase the land at not more
than $3ii per acre. Mr. Beckmann has
informed Mr. Koch that the state does
not buy improvements placed on leas
ed land and that in case of sale the
price must be fixed by appraisement.
Value of Tobacco in State.
According to reports filed in the
state department of labor by manufac
turers of cigars and those engaged in
the preparation of tobacco for the
market, for the year 1914, there was
a capital of $321,136.78 invested. Em
ployment was furnished to 426, of
which 169 w'ere females. The total
paid in usages for the year was $247,
505.09; total value of stork used was
$359,669.94. The total value of pro
duction was $746,818.89. Per cent, of
sales in Nebraska 97>*. Average
wages per week. $13.79.
Tubercular Hogs Found.
Fifty per cent of the hogs on Joe
Roth’s farm west of Milford have
been found afflicted with tuberculosis,
following an inspection by a state
veterinarian. Of his twenty-six short
horn cattle, eight tested tubercular.
Files for Legislature.
The first legislative filing to reach
the secretary of state's office came in
from Scott’s Bluff county.
What Counties Pay.
Seventy-eigilt counties reporting to
Secretary Bernecker of the State
Board of Assessment show that money
raised by taxation for all purposes,
which includes state, city, school and
all taxes needed to run all departments
of state and municipal government,
amount to $20,083,501. This amount
nearly equals the total amount raised
by the entire counties of the state last
year, which was $20,105,457. While the
state tax is one mill lower than last
year, county and municipal taxes are
higher.
Chick and Egg Contest.
A junior poultry project has been
organized as a part of the Boys’ and
Girls’ Club Work of the Extension
Service of the College of Agriculture
for 1916, in addition to the corn, po
tato, gardening, pig, sewing and cook
ing projects. Any Nebraska boy or
girl under 18 years of age and over 10
may join and receive the monthly
Instruction sheets without cost This
work will be divided Into two con
tests, one an egg laying contest and
the other a hatching and rearing con
test
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fcirt fiebeu braugefctt batte, bie gol
beue greibeit 3U erlangeu. 3Bie il)m
bie3 fd)Iiefjlid) gelang, teilt er rcie
folgt mit:
„3lm 3. roiat rourbe id) nut mcicn
anbcreit Alriegsgefangenen nad) xte
.’gaore gcbracpt, roo roir 0djiff3arbei>
ten cerndjten mujjten. SPir patten
bie Sdiiffe ju Dcrlabeu unb au^ula
ben. Sie i'epanblung, bie tins jutcil
rourbe, roar eiitfo.d) fcpaubcrpafi. 3d)
fonnte es nid)t mepr ranger auspalten
unb baepte itnmer nur an gludjt unb
baper fuepte id) nad) einer ©elegen
peii 311m StuSriiden. 8m 1. Sluguft
routbeu roir auf eineni norroegifcpen
Sampfer befepdftigt. Sas Sdjiff piefj
„^>etibrid". 3d) iiberlegte c3 mir, ob
id) mit biefem ftaften fortfommen
fonnte. ©cpneE roar mein (rnifcplug
gefagt. Slbcnbs rooEte id) mid) oer*
buften. Xfcibor fonnte id) tiad) ber
Slrbeit nid)t auf bcm ©djiff bleiben.
3d) luugte mid) crft in bem £ager
fepuppen Dcrficcfcn. SiaddS rooEte id)
bann an S3 orb tlettem. SJaib roar tcp
jroifdpen SfaumrooEballen in bcm
©cpuppeit uerfeprounben. Slbenbs
fonnte icp au§ meinem Sferftcd fepen,
roie ber „$enbrii" nad) bem friegs
gefangenen Sutfaren .§einrtd) SFfiiEcr
griinblicp abgefudjt rourbe. Ucber
jroei ©tunbeit long fdjttiiffclien bie
fvramofen in aEen Gcfen unb Santcn
be§ ©cpiffeS pcritm, opne ben 3U
fitiben, ber fie Dom ©djuppen au§ be
obacptetc. ©dilieglid) rourben bie
Sabeluden Dcrfcploffen nnb uerfie*
gelt. Scr Sampfer ftacp in See, unb
tiapm cine SBacbtmannfcpaft mit, bie
ben E'liiflcr abfaffen foEte, roenn er
feine 9fafe an3 feinem 5>crfted pin
auSftedfen rourbe.
3d) roiinfdjte ben Sicuten ini ©tiflen
gliicftidje Slctfe unb badjte bann an
uieine eigene Cage. Stkts> roerbeu
foEte, rougte id) nid)t. ©infiroetlcn
fonnte id) nid)t» anbered tun, al§
mid) Derbergcn unb roarten. Sas
roaren bange ©tunben. Sen gai^ett
©onntag podtc id) 3roifd)en ®aum
rooEbaEen. Sie ©onntag 'Jtacpt rooE
te feiit Ginbe nepmeii. tEfontags fop i
idp ntduSdjcnfttE auf meinem iplape,1
unb als ber Slbeub pereingebroepen
roar, frod) id) pcrauS. 3d) fcplitp
mid) 311 cittern Xor, inn eimual per
nntjufpdpen.
23einape piittc id) einen greuben
ruf anSgeftopen; beun an ber cnoe
ren ©cite bes? Sods lag ein grope-3
©cpiff, anfdjeitienb ein ^affagier
bampfer. SDfit bent $apti mupte icp
abbantpfen, ba id) e§ [anger in bem
©epuppen niept mepr auspalten fonn
tc. 3d) roartete, bis c§ ftodbiiufel
roar, braip ein ©djlop auf, fcpob bie
Sitr Dorfidjtig auf unb fd)Iid) pin
auS.
©rop unb ftiE lag ber Sampfer
„S3alterfice" Por mir. Crr roar mit
biden Sauen an bad Socf befeftigt.
3d) fpiipte crft uniper unb Flettertc
bann an einem Sait pod). 33alb ftanb
id) ini 9iad)tbiiufel ait Serf. ©e
roupios trodi id) rooter, tus guf§
Obcrbed, roo bie 9iettuung§boote bin
gen. ein cm foId)cn 5)oot rooUte
id) mein 39itead fiir bie fJicife aitf
fdjlagen, roie id) e§ mir fd)on torber
au#gebadjt batte. $;d) frod) in ba§
3?oot, unb fanb and) nod), ban bie
(rnglanber, benen ber .flatten geborte,
ba§ SRettungsboot mit 2d)iff§atoiebad
unb Staffer fd)on fiir mid) toertro
tiantiert batten. Sofort mad)te id)
mid) iiber ben 2lorrat ber, urn erft
eimnal meinen roilben hunger au ftil
len. Satin ridjtete id) mid) biinslidj
ein. Sn bem SJoot roar e§ faft fo
gemiitlid), teie in/einem Hnterfianb.
STm nadbften Sage, Sienetag, ben 3.
Hitguft, beulte bie Sambfbfeiie, e§
golterte auf bem Sdfiff, bie SD?afcf)i
nen fefeten ein, unb fan.gfam fdjau*
fclnb fab id) ben Sagerfdjutben unb
ftranfrcid)§ ftimmel iiber ibm ter
•djroinben.
ffiobin bie ^abrt ging, baton batte
tdj fein^ blaffe ?fbmtng. Wbcr toeg
uon grnufreid), fort uon bcr Sflaue*
rei bcr Wefangencnlagcr iiiljrtc fie.
©a§ war mir genug.
gwolf unbnmlid; lange ©age unb
3idd)tc uergi tgen. ©ie tHcije aid
„blinber ^nr agier" War ieljr part.
Slbcr id) l)iel: aud. 2lm 14. Sluguft
gelangteu Wir in einen §afen, nad)
iQnebec, wie :d) fpater erfuljr.
banftc fdjon bem £>immel unb bad)te
bariiber nad), wie id) an Jdanb gelart'
gen fonnte, d§ bad ©djiff Wieber
Slnfer Iid)tete unb Weiter ful)t.
©ad war cine fd)wcre (Snttdu
fcfjung. 3d) inuBte alfo nod; longer
gebulbig mu ungewtB audbarren.
Siauge follte ed aber biennial nidjt
baueru. 31m ©onntag, ben 15. 31u*
guft, raffelter: bie ftetten unb rollten
bie ©aue. Suir waren am yiel un
fercr gabri, r.imlid), Wie id) naebber
audfanb in 3 antreal. 3<b lag nun
rubig in meinem S0oot, bid bie 9?acfvt
bereiugebrodj.n war. ©ann frod)
id) aud mein .u SSerftecf unb F)atte
balb wieber men 23obcn unter ben
giiBen.
SEBenig Ijat mfeljlct, baft bier meine
SHeifc ein bbf. (fnbe genoinmen bat- ft
te. 3fld id) hird) bie ©odanlagen
unb ©djuppe:: fdjlidj, fid id) einem
^afcnpoliaiftcr. in bie §dnbe. (Bliicf*
lidjerweife bane id) einige franjoftfebe
'■Broifen aufgiidmappt. 3d) gab micb
aid Uttatrofe bed ©ampferd „‘i?altcr*
fia" and, mir bem icb angefominen
war, unb cniiglte bem ©Wlijiftcn,
bag id) bcr. 83eg nidjt and ben ©od
anlagen finb.n tpuute. 2er 'ffolijift
betrad)tete mid) genau. 3d) fal) tat*
fadjlid) and luie ein DJatrofe in mei
ncr blauleinnien £>ofe unb einem
fcbwargeu Sweater, ©er ©dwbmann
fdjcnfte mir ^lanben. (fr War fogar
nod) fo freunblitb, feinent „Sllliier
teu" ben 2de:i aud bem ©djuppen ju
scigcn. ©ciuuoerftanblid) bcbanftc
id) micb feljr iieflid), fd)iittelte bem
gutmiitigen iiihidjter bie £>aub unb
uerabfdjiebetc micb mit ben eng!ifd)cn
Shorten: „2;anf pou fDlifter, goob
nigbt!"
Sdjleumgu ucrid)toand td) nun in
ben Strafeim ber nad)tfd)!afcnben
Stabt. 3u ber Stabt felbft roollte
id) nid)t bleifccn. Sad tear tnir ju
gefdbrlicf). Jd) aofl alfo f)inau£,
bnrd) bie SSorfta&t aufS freie gelb,
roo id) ntein JJadjtlager auffd)lug.
2ln» Stampiercn roar id) ja auS bent
gclbe geteoljnt. 9?ad) einem er
qnicfcnben Sdjlof iibcrlegte id) am
udd)ften 2florgcn tneine Cage. Sic
Safdjen toareii leer. Stein Gent tear
mein eigen 3d) niad)te tnid) oornd)
tig auf bie Suite nad) Clrbeit. 2Sier
Sage long tear mein Sndjen Pergeb
lid). 3n bie’.-r ;}eit ernatjrte id) mid)
Pon Slepfeln. bie id) mir pfliidte.
?iad)t'5 modjte id) mir nnter freiem
$immel ein 3dilafquartier.
2lnt fiinften Sage nmrbe id) bei
einem Hontroftor Garrigan aitgc
flellt. 3d) nniBte Grbqrbeitcn ner
rid)ten, bramble babei nidjt ju fpre
djeu unb uerbiente $1.60 pro Sag.
Sen §eiurid) 'JKiiller (jatte id) in
grant retd) gclajfeu. 3d) tjiefe jet?t
jgarrt) Gronner. 3d) roiirbe dieHeidjt
Ijeute nod) bie Sdjippe fdjteingen,
roenn id) nidjt in meiuer greube iiber
ba§ ben graujofen, Gnglanbern unb
bem canabiidjcn '4>olijiften gefcfclage
ne ©dfjiiiprdjeu Ijaite SluSbrud oer
Ieiften miificn. 3d) fonnte faum an*
ciictfjalten. Gin paar iPemerfungen
fielen, unb fdjon- fjatte mid) cin Se
nunaiatit, ein 3ube, ber ijJoliaet Per
raten.
3etjt teurbe bie Situation roiebet
rritifd). $orrt> Gronner Derfdjteanb.
Ginigc beutfdje Ceute untcrftiiben
mid) fjeimlid). 3Wit einem jungen
Seutfdjen 3og id) am 15. 'Jiopember
ftin pergniigt juni Stdbtelein l)inaue.
SKebrere ibieihn Iegten roir mit ber
Statin 3uriid, toorauf roir ben S3al)n
teagen mit Sd)ufter§ happen per
tjufdttcn. 3romer bie ©eleife eni
I-ang marfdtierten roir frof) unb guter
Singe burd) GotieS freie SBelt. SSir
mu&teu roeite Streden laufen, roeil
uitfer fleined SSermbgen nid)t sur
gabrt nad) fJiero j?)orf, bem Stele un
ferer SSiinfdje, au3rcid)ie. Sen len
ten Diefl ber Strode sofl uu3 roieber
cin ftol3e§ Sampfrof? unb por cinigcn
Sagen trafen roir in DJero 2)orf cin.
3dj bin sroar PoIIftanbig mitteHo*.
aber id) roerbe mid) fdjon burd)fdila
gen."
SBruffel nirfit mcljr .fMujjtjiabt 5PcI
gicne.
SI m ft e r b a m. $ie bdgifujcn
3citungcn crljiclten trie e§ bier beijjt
bie Slittpcifima befantxi ju geben, baft
Sranb SBftitlodf, ber amerifanifcbe
©efaubte in QSelgicn, nicftt nad) tPriif.
fel anriicftebrcn trirb. 2ie Siadbritf't
foil in Sclgien fcftr uberrajcbt bsbcit
2Kan glaubt, baft General ron ©if
fittg, ber beutftbe ©eneralgouuerncur
eon Selgien, bie 3ru§tncijung ©bit
locfy berlangte uub baft cr ebetxicll^
auf bie fofortige entferniuig ‘ bet
mterifanifcfjcn unb foanifdjen ©c
fanbtftftaften au§ ®ruft‘el uacEj §aurc,
ben Sift ber bclgiftftett SRegtemng,
bratxg.
£ie§ toiire htoftl ber crjte Sd,ritt
ber SBelt funb au tun, baft e§ fecm
feine belgiftfte ^aubtfiabt SBriifd
jicbt. 1
©aSbomben fitxb mxr bann cine
.tcrbotenc 9Baffe, trenn fie gegen bie f
aUtterien angetrenbet tcerbexx.