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m m points EVENT8 OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. LATE EVENTS BOILED DOWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Interesting to ths General Readers. WAR NEWS. Reply to a written question by P. A. Molteno, member of the British House of Commons, Premier Asquith gave the total British casualties during the war up to December 9, as 528,227. * * • Doubt is expressed in Vienna ilia', the Austro-Germans will attack the British and French at Saloniki on the ■ ground that so long as the entente al lies are held in that position they can do no harm. * » » Dr. Helen Nolan, who has been '• working in the American hospital at Nice, arrived in New York on the : Rochainbeau. She said that more 1 than 40,000 allied soldiers had been made totally blind since the war be j Kan. * • * It is reported from Bucharest that the transportation of cereals from Roumania to Germany and Austria Hungary, under the agreement recent ly made between Roumania and the central powers, began on Decem ber 24. * * * The scarcity of common-place ar ticles of every-day use such as needles, toilet supplies and drugs is probably more accentuated in Italv" than in any of the other belligerent ountries, because these things have been supplied to Italy almost entire ly by Germany. A A * More than 4,000,000 of the popula tion of Poland are destitute and en tirely dependent upon soup kitchens, where there is issued to reach each applicant a small loaf of bread and a pint of soup daily, according to Wil liam H. Hamilton of the American mercy and relief committee, v,ho ar rived in New York recently. GENERAL. William H. Thompson, mayor of Chi cago, requested the secretary of state of Nebraska to withdraw his name from the presidential primary ballot in Nebraska. * * * Quarantine against livestock ship ments from Illinois and New York has been re-established, according to announcement of the state livestock board in Denver. * * * Compulsory simplified military training for boys in the public high and manual training schools cl Chi cago was provided tor in a resolution Introduced at a meeting of the school board. * * * County officials at Klamath county Oregon, raised the bounty on dead coyotes to $2.75 in a campaign by Oregon, California, Iduho and Nevada authorities to stamp out rabies in the adjoining counties of the several states. * « * The Beatrice Creamery company, a Nebraska corporation, is planning the erection of an $800,000 building for warehouse purposes in Chicago. The great success the company has had in Chicago is said to have prompted erection of the building. * * * Eight men, including a congress man, a former congressman and a former attorney general of Ohio, were indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on a charge of conspiracy to foment strikes in American muni tions factories. * * * Notices of wage increases affecting many thousand employes were posted in cotton mills in various cities ol' northern New England The action followed a conference of mill treas urers at which it was agreed that im provement in business conditions war ranted an advance to operatives. * !> * The population of Massachusetts was 3,693,310 on April 1, according to an official announcement of the de cennial census taken by the state bu reau of statistics at Boston. The to tal keeps the state in sixth place in population rank, and is greater by 326,894 than the count made five years ago. * * * Fourteen hundred dollars for oi:c wagon load of farm products is the record in South Dakota. It was brought into Kennebec by Frank Holmes and contained white clover seed which netted 4,310 pounds. * * * -V healthy increase in business and earnings for 1915 was reported by the Northern States Power company, iu common with several other utility con cerns managed from Chicago. The company serves the principal cities of Minnesota and North and South Da kota. * * * 25,000 fish of several varieties were dumped into Nebraska and Iowa wa ters recently by the United States fisheries. Bass, sunfish, catfish, yel low perch and crappies were among the varieties. * * * Two indictments containing seven counts were returned against Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of Sing Sing, New York’s penitentiary, by the West chester country grand jury which has been investigating conditions in the prison. One indictment charged the warden with perjury. * * * 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. A citizen police force, 20,000 strong, in addition to the regular force, is be ing formed in Chicago. When com plete, it will give Chicago the largest police force in the world. • • • Oregon will be allowed ten dele gates in the republican national con vention at Chicago next June, four from the state at large and two from each congressional district. * * * General Carranza has bought 500 freight cars, now en route from New York to Mexico, to relieve freight con gestion there. Passenger coaches and locomotives also will be bought. * * * Bases for submaries at both ends of the Panama canal, location of pros pective mine fields, and arrangements for a fleet in the vicinity of the canal are plans that are being worked out by Governor Goethals of the Cana! zonf. • * * Statewide prohibition became effect ive in seven states January 1. They are Colorado, Iowa, Washington. Ore gon. Idalio_ Arkansas and South Car olina. When Virginia closes its sa loons on November 1, 1916, nineteen states will have Joined the dry column. * * * The antliopoid ape and the pig more nearly resemble man in the reception of ideas than other animals, according to Prof. Robert M. Yerks, of Harvard, who spoke at the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Psychological associa tion at the University of Chicago. SPORTING. Sam A. Huntley, the crack blue rock breaker of Nebraska, and a member of the Omaha Gun club, is given a place on the All-Western trapshoot ing team selected by an eastern ex pert Nebraska's greatest l'ootball season brought in the unrivalled total re ceipts of $35,397.94. with a net sur plus of $23,901.43, according to the re port of Athletic Manager Guy E. Heed, made for the 1915 games. * * ■* Young Ahearn of Brooklyn and Mike Gibbons of St. Paul, Minn., will meet for their postponed ten-round bout Tuesday night, January 18, at St. Paul. Gibbons, who has been ill with penumonia, has resumed training. * * * The twenty-round fight for the hea vyweight championship, scheduled for March 4 in New Orleans between Jess Willard and Fred Fulton of Minnesota, has been declared off, owing to a dis agreement between managers of the two fighters. » » * The owner of the St. Louis Federals baseball team paid $425,000 for the St. Louis American, it was learned. This included $25,000 commission to certain stockholders in the St. Louis Americans who swung the deal. Stock o fthe club brought $500 a share. * * * Ted Lewis of England outfought Willie Ritchie, of San Francisco in every round except one, of their ten round bout at Madison Square Gar den, New York. Only in the third round did Ritchie have anything like an even break with his opponent. • * * Less Darcy, the middleweight cham pion of Australia, easily defeated Ed die McGoortv, an American middle weight. in the eighth round of their match in Sidney. McGoorty was pun ished so severely that his seconds threw up the sponge. The fight was witnessed by 16.000 persons. * * * Thomas L. Shevlin of Minneapolis, millionaire lumberman and Yale foot ball coach, died at his home in that city. Mr. Shevlin played on the Yale team for fonr seasons, beginning with I9i>?. As a senior lie captained the eleven. During his career Yale defeated Harvard four times and Princeton three times. WASHINGTON. The illness of General Huerta is serious although not dangerous ac cording to reports received from El Paso by the Department of Justice. * * * Plans for two types of motorboat submarine destroyers designed to have a speed of at least forty-nine miles an hour have been submitted to the Navy department. * * * l.ast year's petitions bearing 3, 000.000 signatures and asking congress to forbid exportation of war munitions to Europe, are now being followed by similar appeals, and Chairman Flood soon will call a meeting of the house committee on foreign relations for a hearing on embargo bills. * * * Many officials believed that sea going submarines of 2,000 tons dis placement probably soon will be sought for the American navy as a result of lessons learned from the European war and recent maneuvers of the Atlantic fleet. • » * The mine production of gold from South Dakota in 1915 was $7,300,000, compared with $7,333,508 in 1914, and that of silver was 193,000 ounces, compared with 176,042 ounces in 1914, according to reports by Charles W. Henderson of the United States Geo logical survey. * a • Secretary Daniels said that when the increased building program for tha navy ultimately made necessary a second naval academy, the logical place for the new institution would be on the Pacific coast. * * * The war department will urge upon congress the proposition that it is vital that a definite statement of mili tary policy for the United States be put through at this session. Consist ing of a citizen army, volunteers to begin with, but based ultimately on universal military service. * * * Public office holders and members of political party committees are made ineligible for election as officers or directors of federal reserve banks by a resolution adopted, unanimously, by the federal reserve board. AGREES MINDS AUSTRIA YIELDS TO THE UNITED STATES IN ANCONA CASE. WILLING TO PHY INDEMNITY Reply to Second American Note De clares Subsea Chief Punished. Danger of Break Gone. London.—The reply of the Austrian Hungarian government to the second American note on the sinking of the steamship Ancona, with the loss of American lives fully agrees with the Washington ca'binet that the sacred laws of humanity should be taken into account also in war and empha sizes that it, in the course of this war, has given numerous proofs of the most humane feelings. The reply to the note states that the commander of the Austrian sub arine has been punished for not suf ficiently taking account of the panic aboard the Ancona, which rendered disembarking more difficult. The Aus tro-Hungarian government declares positively that enemy vessels, so long as they do not fly or offer resistance, shall not be destroyed before the per sons aboard are secured. The assurance that the United States government attaches value to the maintenance of the existing good relations between Austria-IIungarv and the United States is warmly reci procated by the Austro-Hungarian government. The reply communicated the results of the inquiry into the sinking of the Ancona, which was recently con cluded. - Austria, while announcing willing ness to pay an indemnity for the American victims of the Ancona, de clares that the government cannot ad mit responsibility for damage caused by the justifiable firing on the fleeing vessel or by the capsizing of the boats before the torpedo was fired and fur ther expresses the hope that Wash ington will be able to supply the par ticulars of how the American citizens were affected, but in the event of such evidence being lacking and the United States being unable to state how the American citizens came to their death, the Austro-Hungarian government is ready to pass lightly over this deficiency and indemnify for damages, whose proximate cause can not be fixed and hopes thereby that the incident will be regarded as ended. Settlement Seems Sure. Washington. -— Government officials believe that the danger of a break in diplomatic relations between the United States and Austro-Hungary over the sinking of the Ancona has cleared away. Punishment of the submarine commander for failure 10 take into account the panic prevail ing aboard the Ancona before tor pedoing the vessel, apparently meets the principal American demand. In effect it might be regarded as a dis avowal of the act and assurances that an incident for which an officer of the navy was punished would not hap pen again might be taken for granted. Schmidt Found Guilty. Gos Angeles, Cal.—Matthew A. Schmidt was convicted of first degree murder as the accomplice of'James B. McNamara in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building here five years ago. The specific charge was of having murdered Charles Hagerty. one of the twenty victims of the Times explo sion. The jury was out forty-six min utes. The jury fixed Schmidt's punish ment at imprisonment for life, the same penalty imposed on James B. McNamara, after the latter had con fessed in court four years ago that he placed the bomb which blew up tha newspaper plant. David Caplan, another alleged ac complice of McNamara, who was ar rested last February near Seattle shortly after Schtpidt had been takm into custody in New York, is in jail awaiting trial also on the charge of having murdered Charles Hagerty. Russia to Get War Loan in U. S. Stockholm.—Confirmation has been received here that Russia is to nego tiate a loan in the United States foi $60,000,000 for the purpose of paying for supplies ordered in that country. Blast Fatal to Two. Albert Lea, Minn.—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Howe are dead and Burl Howe, a brother, is in a serious con dition from burns suffered in an ex plosion of two cans of gasoline. Children Eat Poisoned Candy. Boston, Mass.—Five children an dead and eaverai others are seriousl; ill, as a reault, it is believed, of hav ing eaten poisoned candy. The police of the Brighton district are investigat ing the theory that some one may have been criminally responsible. Bulgarian Regiment Mutinies. Paris,—The Eleventh Bulgarian in fantry regiment, stationed at Gumuld zina, Bulgaria, has mutinied, acord ing to information reaching the the correspondent of the Petit Journal. Dogs Drag Gold Over Fields. Seward, Alaska. — The steamship Northwestern sailed for Seattle with $550,000 worth of gold bullion brought by dog teams from Iditarod and $50, 000 worth of copper. The Northwest ern will take on $100,000 worth o? copper at Prince William Sound, Estrabrook in Race. Omaha.—Henry D. Estrabrook of New York, formerly of Omaha, is now a candidate for the office of president of the United States, subject to the republican primaries. .v* r -i Norfolk has opened up its municipal skating rink at the ball park. The annual basketball game be tween the University of Nebraska and the University of Kansas is to be held at Lincoln January 14 and 15. Two couples of Kearney, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Majors, recently celebrated jointly their golden wedding anniver saries. The annual state checker meeting will be held at Hastings the first four days in February. Contestants from all over Nebraska will take part in the meet. The Midwest Retail Implement Deal ers’ association will hold their regu lar yearly convention in Omaha, com mencing January 18 and lasting four days. A monster delegation is ex pected. Regular attendance at Sunday school for six months in the punishment in flicted on six young men of Ainsworth by the Rev. C. F. Stevens of the First Christian church for joyriding in liis automobile. The municipal Christmas tree com mittee of Hastings announced that the tree was so successful that another will be decorated next year, when it is planned to have a more elaborate program. It is said that railroads in Nebraska were never in better shape than now to light snow drifts on the lines west of tho Missouri river. The Burlington has a number of new rotary plows ready for service. At the annual meeting of the Ne braska Association of County Attor neys, held in Omaha, George A. Mag ney of Omaha was elected president, and A. V. Thomas of David City was re-elected secretary-treasurer. The Nebraska Master Builders' as sociation, organization of building contractors, formed a few months ago, will hold its first annual convention January 11 and 12 in Omaha. More than 400 are expected to attend. The League of Nebraska Municipali ties will hold its seventh annual meet ing in Kearney February 9 and 10. That the convention will be the big gest ever held by the association is voiced by Secretary Roscoe Ozeman of Lincoln. Nebraska Retail Clothiers' associa tion holds an annual convention in Omaha the second Tuesday in Febru ary. This is expcted to be the biggest meeting ever held by the association An epidemic of grippe is raging in ami around Harrrlson. Nebraska won over Iowa in the two day chess tournament at Omaha. The final score by points was: Nebraska, 18Vz\ Iowa, 13I4- “Pete” Barron, Ne braska, had the high individual score, winning six games, losing one an! drawing one. Charles H. Baker of Des Moines and T. H. Pollock of Plattsmouth. who are promoting a project for oil and gas in southeastern Cass county, hav signed a contract with a Kansas City well firm for the drilling of a test well, and work will commence at one1. Although in operation only ten months. Hotel Fontenelle, Omaha’s new $1,250,000 enterprise, is already proving such a successful investment for the builders that the Douglas Ho tel company, which owns the property, lias been able to declare a six per cent dividend. Ainswrortb is to have a new rural route beginning on March 1 It will accommodate about eighty-five pat rons. This will make three routes out of the city. An auto will be used in making the deliveries. Autos have been used on the Ainsworth routes for over two years. Petitions are being circulated In Fairhury and throughout Jeferson county asking that the name of Peter Jansen be placed on the ballot for the primary elections In April as candi date for delegate from the Fourth district to the national republican con vention to be held in Chicago June 7. The Central Power company ol Grand Island, which generates its electricity by means of a water wheel at Boelus, has the contract for de livering all lighting and power used in Central City and has commenced the supply. Central City has a plant that will be held in reserve for emer gencies. President George F. \\ olz of the Fremont Commercial club has been notified that the moving pictures of the tractor meet taken last August, will be shipped to Fremont to show January 26. The film is 16,000 feet long, requiring about five hours to reel it. The picture will be shown at six other towns in the state. Stores In the town of Jansen will close during the rest of the winter at 7 o’clock with the exception of Wed nesday and Saturdays evenings, which is thought will be sufficient time for farmers to get what they need after field hours. Falrbury closes the gen et al stores at 6 o’clock with the excep tions of Saturday nights and Rock Island payday nights. The public school athletic field at Hartington has been converted Into a public skating rink by flooding It with city water. While working on an electric light pole to make a connection for a line to attach to a sample whistle which was being demonstrated to the Superior fire department, an employe got hold of two live wires and he was straightened out in view of the on lookers. His life was saved by the quick action of other employes, who reached a nearby switch and shut off the current. The F. W Woolworth company will soon open up a five and ten-ccnt store in Kearney. A Most successful community Christ mas celebration was held at Peru. The novelty of the affair was that Santa Claus arrived in e midst of the fes tivities in an aeroplane. The success of the venture greatly encourages the outlook for the local pageant which is being planned as a part of the semi centennial celebration of the found ing of the normal. This will be given as a part of the commencement exer cises in 1917. North Platte Catholics are planning the erection of a $25,000 parochial school. The sports of Valley have organ ized a gun club with a charter mem bership of fifteen. IJealrice has abandoned the use of gas for street illumination and only electric lights are now in use. Excavation has been done for the new Lyric theater at Tekamah. Work on the building will begin at once. William Wilson, an employe of a cigar factory in Hebron, was found frozen to death four miles south of that place. Citizens of Wayne are trying to get enough young men to join a militia company to fill the vacancy in the Fourth regiment. Many counties over the state have already named delegates to attend the county assessors’ meeting in Lincoln, January 19 and 20. Bids for the erection of a new fed eral postoffice building at Aurora have been opened at Washington. They range from $43,338 to $$56,000. A community club was organized at Hooper recently for the purpose of lending financial support to the town band and other public enterprises. Alexander McCarthy, 10, of Norfolk, was made ill with peritonitis, due to the application of the Steelier scissors hold by a playmate in a wrestling match. A spur track will soon be built on the Northwestern tracks at Hooper, which will be used for the unloading of automobiles and other heavy ma chinery. uev. J. j. Hamsey, pastor of the United Brethren church of Hastings, arrested on a charge of disorderly con duct, has been bound over to the dis trict court. While eating a small piece of steak in a restaurant in Omaha, John Hall,, a stone mason, aged 40, choked to death when a piece of th emeat lodg ed in his windpipe. The dedication of the new rural high school in district No. 82, Saun ders county, will take place on Janu ary 11. An elaborate program is be ing arranged for the occasion. The famous John O’Connor case is again up in district court at Hastings. There are one hundred claimants for the $100,000 estate left by the dead recluse, who died in August 1913. Preparations are going forward for the annual state poultry show at Falls City, January 17 to 22. The entry list is expected to be a large one and a splendid exhibition is anticipated. Revival meetings under the charge of Rev. W. W. Underkoffler are being conducted in the United Evan gelical church at Rosedale. There have already been several conver sions. It is said there are five automobile owners among the members of the soldiers’ home at Grand Island. An agent who visited the institution a few days ago declares he placed or ders for four more. Football will still continue at Kear ney State Normal next year, but any member backward in his studies win not be allowed on the team. Total abstinence from liquor, proper beha vior, no swearing and other stringent rules are to be enforced by the ath [ 'etic board. It begins to look like Newman Grove is actually going to get a new depot next year. A representative of the company has staked out the location. The new building will be considerably 'arger thaft the present one. It will contain two waiting rooms besides the freight room and office and will be a modern building in all respects. At the meeting of the lowa-Nebras ka-South Dakota race circuit, held at Sioux City, recently, the following '’ates were fixed for closing entries: Iowa state fair. August 14: Nebraska, August 21; South Dakota, August 28, and Sioux City, September 4. \Y. E. Mellor was elected president, and C. N. Mcllvaine secretary of the associa tion. Stone quarry work in the vicinity of Weeping Water continues to be brisk. The sand and gravel company has ordered another crusher head to be placed in their plant at the Olsen quarry west of town. They already have two crusher heads at the plant. This quarry has orders that will keep their force of men busy all winter. The twenty-sixth volume of the Lin coin city directory shows that Lincoln's population has been increased by .3,175 durinc the last year The directory contains 35,792 names and, using the multiple of 2 1-4 to represent the names of married women and children whose names are not included, indi cates a population of 80,532 at the present time. Legislators of Nebraska are to ban quet in Lincoln February 25 on the occasion of the annual reunion of the members of the Nebraska Legislative league. Secretary Henry C. Bicnmond of Omaha was there recently and made arrangements with members of the staff of the legislative reference bureau to lend assistance in the prep aration of a program for the affair. The store of Henry Martin of Moore, field was broken into recently and the safe blown open. The thief secured $50 of Mr. Baker’s money and some money of the Degree of Honor, vari ously reported from $10 to $50. No merchandise was taken. Work has been started on the big drainage ditch which is being con structed in Kearney county, just south of Kearney. The ditch is located about two miles west of that point and empties into the Platte river (here. It is a fraction over a mile in length. The matter of holding a Chautauqua in Beatrice the coming summer was discussed by the Commercial club, re cently, the sentiment of the club mem bers being against the proposition. Three attempts at making a Chautau qua in that city have failed. The Lincoln Commercial club, which is said to be the largest one in the United States, in a city of that size, not only owns one of the finest club building.s in the country, but has just bought, an adjoining building for the purpose of enlarging Its room to accommodate Us needs. 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Die fdjruc bifdjen ftauflcute unb Snbuftrieflen lupllcn fid) nid)t gebunben in Gng* [nub3 .^anbele-gciBalt liefern, nid)t iljrc @efd)dTt§u>ege unb ©erbinbuu* gen aiiofpdljcn, fid) com englifdjcn (iigennutj abidjitlircn lajien, fie ujcUen £erren ifjrcr jclbft unb ifjrcS ©>oI)lftanbc4 unb ,v?errcn ini eigenen 2anb bleiben. Sic baben and) fru£)cr als anberc Cdnbcr erfaunt, baB lie basu feljr troljl imftanbe, baB f*c burd)au§ nidjt Don (inglanb abfjdngig finb. Dent englifdjen Seeraiib unb ben ©oftbiebftdblcu begegnete Sdjtbe* j ben mit ©ergcltnng: eS lebnte ben j Inrd)3iig fiir ©*aren unb &rieg§be*j barf bon Snglanb nad) Shifllanb ab, ] iiefe fid) and) feine ©erlebung feinerj Seccberljobeit in ben eigenen 0c* j rodifern gefaflen. I'lufeerbem triffen bie Sdjireben, bafe and) Xeutfd)Ia»»b aflerlei 9iut)Iid)c?/unb fRotmenbigeS liefern unb fperreu faitn unb eiu nid)t ju unterfdjdfccnber Jhmbe ift. Die ©ergeltuitg, mit ber fid) Sdjloc* ben gegen (inglaubS 0e»aIttdtigfeit jur SBeljr fetjtc, fam b”n groflen* nxdjnfinnigen ©riten feljr ungelegen. Drobbem bcrbanbelteu fie feljr large mit Sribmcben, um bod) nod) bie Oberauffidjt liber ben fdjwebifd)en ,§anbel in bie $dnbc 311 befommen, unb fteflten, obgleidi fie bod) Idngft erfennen mufjtcn, mit tocm fie e§ gn tun batten, babnebiidienc gorberun* gen. 9?un finb bie ©erbanblungen bor einigen Dogeit ergebniSlov abge* brodjen toorben. Der Merger bar* iiber ift natiirlid) in (ritglanb gren* ienfo3. Scbmeben bat getoagt, aI5| flc«ner Staat felbftanbig bleiben nub fidj bcm „©efdjufccr fieinerer Staa ten“ nidjt untertoerfen gu toollcn! 9Iun toirb in fionbon ber ©erfudj gcmadjt, Sdjtoefcen an ©olfstoiri fd)aft unb ftrebit gu treffen. @e riic^te tourben auSgefprengt, Set)toe ben tootle fid) betn ©eutfdjen Sieicb im _$neg anfdjliefeen unb kn ge nngftigten ©anfen unb .§ankl5f)au fern ber CSttn geraten, ibre ©utbaben ou§ Scbtoeben eingugieben unb ben? eingelnen Scbtoeben feinen .Qrebil mefjr gu betoidigen. §n biefem ©er fabreu briicfeii fid) gnttaufd)ung unb ©erbrufj mit unubertrefflicber Sd)amIofigfeit au§. gttglanb toie e§ ift! Gnglanb ber „Sei'd)ii^er fiei nerer ©taatenl" Siebenfalls toirb Sdjtoebeu auf biefen idnimerlidjen i!Iu?brud) tierifetjer {Radjiudjt gefafet fein unb fid) aud) bagegen gu nx'bren toiffen. £enn Scbtoeben bat (9cle gentjeit gebabt, bie ©ngldnber m ficbgeijn STriegfnionatcn griinblicl fennen 3U lertten. iTber bie ft'cun geicfjnung. mit ber Gnglanb ficb in biefeni gad fclbft oor ader SSelt an kn ©ranger ftedt. ift bod) toertnod genug, 11m feftgctjalten gu tuerben. 3unrrlaffige Slricgsberidjtc. £err panics StcSratb, XcpefdjMt 9iebaftcur ber 9teio 9)orf ,,81111", bci jeit SluSbrudj bes iUieges bie Sia belnadjridjteu iiber bic militdrijdjeu Ope rational uuter feincr perfonlidjen Obljut bat 1111b folgiidj als cine illuto ritat auf biefcm (Scbiet bejcidjnel toerben barf, crfUirt, bap er unb fei ne JloHegen an ber „Sun'' nadjgcrc be 311 ber GrfenntniS gelangt feien, bap bie ciugig auoerldffigen striegs beridjte bie ber beutfdjen $eercs?lei tung feien. Oa§ ift fiir bie lleber fdjriftenliigner ber pro-aiglijdjen Sreffe, bie fortmiiljrenb grope 8icgc ber Ullliierteti mib fdjiocre Siebecla gen ber Ocutfdjen meiben, uni fo un angcncfjmer, al3 bie „8un" felbft cine ber biisartigften uuter bat anti beutfdjen 3cttuttgat be5 2aubc3 ift. Xie Berliner Beridjte, fo auperte fid; £crr Sic(3ratb, feien immer glaub toiirbig. 8ie giiben enttoeber ein maljrljeitx'getreuco Bilb bon ben Bor gaitgeit auf ban Sfrieggfdjaiiplufce ober fie fdjtriegen. Son ben anberen Beridjten fotine ba§ nidjt gefagt loer belt. Oie 8pe3ialitdt SiottbonS ift bie Serbreitung bon antibeutfdjen £iigen unb Serleumbuttgen. 28a3 bie friegerifdjatGreigniffe anbelaugt fo Idpt Sonbon gelcgentlidj cinmal cine grope Gnte aufflicgen, after im gansen fjcilt es fid) an ben ©erlinet Beridjt nub ignoriert bic Beridjte mis Saris? utib aus SeterSburg. Unb ba2 ift PieHeidjt bas bemerfenstoerteftl 3eugni3, loeldje? ber SBabrljcitSliebe ber beutfdjen .^eeresleitung aus?ge« fletlt toerben faun. 'Jiuffcn mirb Bergrltung angebrofjt Berlin. £ie ftalbamtlidje ..Sorbbeutfdjc SlQgemetne Settling* beridjtet, bie beutfdje Seidj-Srcgierung babe burdj cine neutrale Stadjt bet ruffifebeu 91 egierung cine Sluttoori auf iljre Sroftungen erteilt, Treldje baljin lauteten, bap beutfdje Solba ten, toeldje in Beairfen, in henen 8um-Xum*(3eidjoffe gebraudjt toor ben ttuireit, gefangen gcttotnincn toer ben, erfdjoficn toerben fallen. Sic beutfdje Segierung erfldrt in ber slnttuort, bap Sum • 2)um - ©efdjoff* iiicmalS Pott ben beutfdjen ^olbaten benupt tporben finb unb audj niemalS bciufat toerben toerben. SBenn bie ruffifdjc Segierung beutfdje ©olba ten uuter ber falfdjen Slnfdjulbigung crfdjiepen Idpt, Sum-Xum-©efd)offe gebraudjt 311 baben, fo toirb Xeutfdj ionb bie fdjdrffte Sergcltung burdj bie Grfdjiepuug ciner gleidjen Slnaabi ruffifdjer ©efangener iiben. Sldiierten feben ©riedjenlaub ba* JUJcifrr auf bie $ruft. a r i S. ©riecfjenlanb fomml bent SJerlangen ber Sldiierten nadj. G$ mirb eineu groBen 5Lcil fciner Sir mee bcmobilifieren unb bie griedji fdjen 5£ruppen, tueldje fief) jefjt in uni urn Salonifi befinben, aurucf,iief)en 'Jjieic 9iadjridjt Inngte auf ball* offi3tedent SSege bon Sltljcn Ijier an Go IjeiBt, baB bie griedjifdjc Slegie rung aber erft ju biefer Gntfrfjetbung fain, uodjbem bie S»ertrcter ber Gn tente • UKiidjtc gebrofjt, ade grtccpi fdjen $>iifen ju blocfieren, fofent ber Sldiierten nidjt Pode greifjcit iljret militarifdjcn SBeroe&iutgen gemutjrl roirb. Snljrgang 1917 nicfjt eiuuerufcu. SI nt ft e r b a m, tiber 2oitb&n Srnf bie fiirslidj in ber franjofifdjct ieputiertenfammer gefadenen Sfe bauptungen, baB SJeutfdjIanb bereit? im lenten ^abr bie Sicfruten be? ^abrgang§ 1916 ju belt SBaffen gc rnfett unb nun audj mit Slusmabm: eitter ftlaffe ben ganjett $saf)rganp 1917 bem §eer eittperleibt babe, mirb poirbcutfdjer Seitc offioted er Hubert: „®iefe SMiauptung ift burd&au« falfdj. Stidjt eittmal ber ganje §abr gang 1916 ift bei ben Salmon, au$ ift uodj nidjt ber ganje Sabrgang 1917 3ttr fdhtftening aufgcforbert - morben." i