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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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5u bringen. Ta^u batte ein Sir
grancig Dppenbcimer, ein ecfjtcr fin*
biger Sngliinbcr, bic tounbcrfameu
Sinful) rtrufig erfimben. Tie
fjeit beg Sceuerfdjrg unb bic Stn
fubr toicbtiger Stoffe nmrbc ben
Staaten ttur big 311 ciner getoiisett
©reuse sugeftatiben unb nur tinier
ber 'i3cbiitgung, baf; nidjtg non brut
Singcfiibrten, grntj eitterlci, tno-jer
eg fam, nad) bctn Tcutfdjeu SRdd)
ober in bie fianber fcittcr Sunbcigc
ttoffen toeiter ocrfrnditet tnerjen
burfte. Tie ^aftuitg bafiir^ iibcr
naljm ber Truft. ber fdjtuere Strcfcn
fiir Ucbertretm g erhcbeit unb tta
tiirlidj sugleidj ben einjdncti Jg>att
belsbaufern ungebiubert in bie @e*
fdjiiftgbiidjer guefett fonnte. .^oflanb
Ijat fid) suerft "inen berartigeit Dp
pettbeitner'idjen Truft nufnbtigeu laf
fen, unb ber Trait bat bereitg Ijolldif
bifdjc §attbcl§b-:iufer init ©trafen in
.Cibljc non IWillionen bdegt. Sfttd)
tliortnegen erfreut fid) eiueg folcbeit
Tntftg, bie Ukreinigteu ©taaten ba
bett bie Srfinbung beg cblen Sir
jvrancig frettbig auf fid) genontuten,
unb nad) oidem ©trduben fdjeittt
felbft bie Sdjneij, bie non alien
iReereit obncljiu abgefdjloffen, attf
Sinfufjr aug ben 'Jiadjbarldtiberii
angeteiefett ift, fid) big 311 cittern ge
nriffen ©rabe untertnorfeu 311 babett.
Tie Truftg fdjlagcn fiir Snglanb
jtttei glicgcti nut eincr stlapue: ein
mal tttabren fie bent oergeblidjen nig
lifdjeu Stuglumgcrunggfricg gegeit
Teutfdjlanb, ber Idngft nig finulog
unb unburdjfiiljrbar ertniefeu ift, bett
Sdjeitt, bann aber unb nor allem
tierroten fie ben Stigliinbern bic feitt
ften ffierbinbungett unb Sinien, bie
ber $anbd bet' mit bem Sinfuljrtnift
gefegneteu Siinber ttidjt nur nad)
Teutfdjlanb, fjitberu and) nad) an
berett Sdttbern gefunben bat, unb
ba§-IaBt fid) natiirlidj fiir Snglanb
oertnerten, iefci ini STricg unb befou
berg ttad) bem Srieg.
?lnd) Sdjlbtben foflte in ba§ $>od)
einer foldjen 5Cruftauf|id)t friedjen,
ijcit aber fiifjl abgcicbnt. 2Iu3 rein
praftifdjen Grtndgungcn. 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
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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
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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."
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