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WAR NEWS.
British casualties in all the war
areas published during the month of
February showed a total of 739 of
ficers and 17,847 men.
* • •
It was announced in the British
House of Commons that the Italian
government had requisitioned thirty
four of the thirty-seven German
steamers interned in Italian ports.
* * •
One hundred and fifty-one persons,
including fifty-five passengers and
ninety-six of the crew, lost their lives
when the Peninsular and Oriental
liner Maloja struck a mine and sank
off Dover, England.
• * *
The entente allies have massed
500,000 to 1,000,000 fresh troops at
Bordeaux, France, to be ready for
emergencies, according to passengers
who arrived in New York from
aboard the steamship, Rochambeau
• * *
Owing to the great demand for al
cohol for technical purposes. Dr. von
Bethmann-Holweg, the German im
perial chancellor, has issued an order
prohibiting temporarily the exercising
of raw alcohol for drii.king purposes.
* * >
Iowa university. announced the reg
istrar at Iowa City, has broken all
records for attendance. The registra
tion has reached 3,207. passing the
1915 mark nearly 300, and all other
totals at Iowa by greater -numbers
* * *
Great Britain's national expendi
ture for the current year will reach
the gigantic total of £1,509,000,000
($7,545,000,000), according to a state
ment by Reginald McKenna, chancel
lor of the exchequer, addressing a
meeting in London.
* * *
Two hundred and thirty-five Turk
ish officers. 12,753 men, .323 cannon,
■nine standards and large stores of
munitions, arms and provisions were
captured when the Russian army took
Erzerum fortress, the Russian war of
fice announces.
* * *
For the first February without sa
loons, Fort Dodge. Ia., has the record
of only twenty-one arrests, while in
February last year there were 153.
Of the twenty-one this year but twelve
were for drunkenness. One white
slave was among the balance.
• » •
London newspapers are of tfc" opin
ion that the new German subsea
campaign will mark the entrance in
to the war of several of the newer and
extended types of submarines, probab
ly with enlarged radius of action
and more powerful offensive power.
* * *
Australia at the request of the Brit
ish government, has put a prohibition
on the sale of typewriters manufactur
ed by the Remington Typewriter com
pany of the United States on the
ground that the corporation 1s sus
pected of spiting to enemies of the
allies.
* * *
The military pensions that the Brit
ish government is now paying amount
to £1,500,000 annually. This an
nouncement was made in the House
of Lords by Baron Newton, who said
it was calculated that the amount
could easily rise to £7,500,000, if the
war lasted until the end of March,
1917.
GENERAL.
Five townships in Christian county,
Illinois, now constitute the only terri
tory in the United States in closed
federal quarantine on account of the
live stock foot and mouth disease.
• • *
Henry James, American-horn novel
ist, who last July took the oath of al
legiance to the British crown, died in
London. Mr. James work was never
as popular in America as it was in
England, but he had many admirers
in his native country and even his
critics ranked him as one of the most
masterful writers of the past genera
tion.
* • •
A new corporation with an author
ized capital of $450,000,000 will be
formed to take over the St. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad company, ac
cording to official announcement
made in San Francisco.
• • •
The first filings under South Dako
ta's new president prefernce primary
law were made at Pierre when the
names of Woodrow Wilson and Thom
as R. Marshall were filed for the
democratic nomination for president
and vice president. May 22 is the
primary day.
* • •
For the first time in a year, hogs
on foot reached the $9 a hun
dred mark on the Toledo, Ohio mar
ket a few days ago. Packing inter
est demands are given as the cause
of the high figure.
• • •
St. Louis negro segregation meas
are carried in a special election held
recently by a majority of 34,000 in a
total of slightly more than 70,000
The measure will prevent eithei
whites or blacks becoming residents
of blocks in which a majority of res
idents are of opposite color.
* * *
The Kansas democratic state cen
tral committee at Topeka decided to
hold the state convention, at which
four delegates-at-large to the national
convention will be chosen, in Hutch
inson, April 11.
El Norto, a Mexican newspaper at
El Paso, Texas, favorable to Felix
Diax, published what purports to be
the pi An under which the nephew of
Porfirio Diaz expects to inaugurate a
newr revolution as soon as he reaches
Mexico.
« * •
Ohio school teachers won a victory
in their campaign for organization of
unions when the state supreme court
at Columbus declined to dismiss a
Clevelaml case involving the question
of their* legal right to affiliate with
labor bodies.
• • •
Within twenty-four years Mrs.
David Hughes, wife of a farmer living
W'est of Knoxville, Iowa, has made a
clear profit of nearly $21*,000 by sell
ing more than 60,000 pounds of butter.
Mrs. Hughes has marketed a w-eekly
average of sixtv-six pounds of butter.
* * *
Tire Iowa anti-tipping law was held
to be unconstitutional by Judge
George Jepson. in the district court at
Sioux City. The court held the law
was class legislation. The decision
was rendered in the case of a barber
arrested for taking a 25-cent tip.
» * •
A verdict of not guilty wns returned
by a jury at Castle Rock, Colo., in the
ease of four former striking coal min
ers, charged w'ith murder in connec
tion with the killing April 29, 1914,
of Major P. P. Lester, during coal
strike disorders near WalsenbuTg,
Colo.
Announcement was made at "Dos
Moines that an insurance company
of that city has just written a policy
for $in,8on,ono for the protection in
transportation of 72,000 horses from
Los Angeles to New York for the
French government. This is said to
be the largest livestock insurance
policy ever issued.
• * *
Steps to relieve the car shortage on
western railroads have been taken
by the American Railway association,
according to announcement by that
organization in ^Chicago. The car
service commission has found that
there is a general shortage of box
cars for the movement of grain in
the territory west of Chicago.
* * *
Three persons were killed and
many injured, seven of them serious
ly. when five cases of dvnamite, stor
ed at Mapelewood for sewer construc
tion work, exploded. Maplewood is
a suburb of St. Louis of about 5,000
persons. Approximately thirty houses
were demolished by the explosion
and many other "houses were damaged.
SPORTING.
The Wisconsin boxing commission
ruled that Battling Nelson was “too
far gone” to box Ad Wolgast, to whom
he lost the world's championship.
They had been matched to box at
Appleton April 12.
• • •
Teams numbering more than 600
will take part in the American Bowl
i ing Congress tournament in Toledo
this month. Toledo leads with 200
teams. Chicago is next with ninety
and Detroit has fifty.
* * *
John Franklin Baker, former star
third-baseman of the Philadelphia
American league base ball team, has
been bought by the New York Ameri
cans, according to announcement
made by Manager William E. Dono
van of the Yankees.
* * •
The world’s record price for an un
developed yearling troiter was estab
lished at the mid-winter sale in New
York, when St. Frusquin, sired by
San Fran, was sold to AV. R. Cox, vet
eran tramer of Dover, N. TT., for
$5,600 after spirited bidding.
Jess Willard, world’s heavyweight
champion, was examined by a physi
cian for the New A'ork State Athletic
■ commission and pronounced in per
fect physical condition. Fully dres
sed, he topped the scales at 272'A
pounds. Willard is matched to fight
Moran at Madison Square Darden
March 25.
WASHINGTON.
The senate, forty-nine to .sixteen,
confirmed the nomination of Henry 1*.
Fletcher as ambassador to Mexico,
after Senators Smith and Borah had
scored the government’s Mexican
policy and its recognition of Car
ranza.
» * *
Congressman Sloan has introduced
a bill to reimburse tlie state of Ne
braska for $42,000 spent in the pros
ecution of the campaign against the
Sioux Indians in 1861 and giving the
survivors of that Indian campaign a
pensionable status.
* * *
Fromotion of naval officers by selec
tion Instead of by seniority, an in
crease of 50 per cent in officers of all
grades, creation of a war reserve list
and restoration of the popular old
rank of commodore are proposed in a
bill drafted by the navy personnel
board and transmitted to congress by
Secretary Daniels.
• * •
Harvard university authorities were
notified by the War department that
1,050 rifles and 40,000 rounds of am
munition had been shipped for the use
of the newly formed regiment of un
dergraduates.
* • *
National banks collecting more
than the legally authorized rate of in
terest would be liable to fines equal
to the amount of loans involved un
der a bill introduced by Chairman
Glasgow of the house banking com
mittee. The minimum penalty will
be $250.
* * •
Secretary Lansing indicated that
the United States was prepared under
certain circumstances to discuss with
the German government what may
properly be regarded as defensive ar
mament for merchant ships.
* • *
A survey of the present congress
has convinced suffrage advocates that
there is no hope of obtaining from tt
action favorable to national woman
suffrage, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
resident of the national American
woman suffrage association, said at a
conference of suffrage workers.
CONVICTS TEACHING AT PENI
TENTIARY ALLOWED SPE
CIAL CLOTHES
THIRD IN PERCAPITA WEALTH
Items of General Interest Gathered
from Reliable Sources Around
the State House.
Western Newspaper Cnlon News Pervica.
Prisoners at the state penitentiary
who serve as instructors in the school
for convicts are furnished by the state
with white shirts and trousers to wear
when they are tutoring classes. Each
one is also provided by the state with
a collar and necktie. There are eleven
teachers at the penitentiary.
The state supplies prisoners at their
daily tasks with gray uniforms, and
it was felt by the prison officials that |
the teachers should have something
to distinguish them and to impress
upon their pupils, by virtue of exam
ple, the desirability of neatness and
tidiness in dress. The clothing fur
nished for this purpose is inexpensive.
An item in the January expenditures
reported to the governor, shows that
75 cents was paid for a shirt, a collar
and a tie for White, one of the in
structors.
A banner containing the words "Lan
caster School" was purchased at the
price of $4. It occupies a place in
the schoolroom, which is the old base
ment dining hall.
According to the warden’s report,
the institution contained 35S convicts
end 42 officers and employes on Feb
ruary 1. a decrease of eleven convicts
during January. The number paroled,
furloughed or remanded in January
was 23. Altogether, there are now on
parole 178; under furlough, 38; re
manded to county authorities, 5; to
tal. 221.
The state furniture factory turned
$1,757 into the penitentiary cash fund
in January, and the further sum of
$691 was collected from the Lee Broom
& Duster company for convict labor
used In Its factory.
Nebraska Third in Per Capita Wealth
Only two states stand above Nebras
ka in their per capita agricultural
wealth to rural population, according
to a table of federal statistics just
issued in bulletin form by the pub
licity department of the state board
of agriculture. North Dakota, with
$632 per capita, and South Dakota,
with $612, are at the top, while Ne
braska comes third, with $573. Iowa,
the next state in the list, has $472,
and Kansas, $423. Next in the order
of their agricultural per capita wealth
are these states; Minnesota. $318;
Illinois, $308; Wisconsin, $270; In
diana, $251; Missouri, $234; Texas.
$222; Oklahoma. $213; Ohio, $201;
Michigan, $195; Kentucky. $117: Geor
gia. $110; Pennsylvania, $103; Missis
sippi. $98; North Carolina, $92; Ala
bama. $91. In figuring the agricul
tural wealth per capita, the values of
all live stock- and the four leading
crops in each 6tate were taken
Policy Holders Are Liable.
It has been reported to the state
Insurance department that members
of mutual hail insurance companies in
Nebraska are not paying assessments
levied upon them for losses incurred
by their companies.
One of the companies, organized at
Hastings, is under investigation. It
paid only 25 cents on the dollar last
year and some of Its expenditures are
questioned by the state board. Com
missioner Eastham of the state board
has issued the following statement as
serting that policy holders of mutual
companies are hound under the law
to pay assessments;
“Commissioner Eastham of the state
insurance board has been informed
that many policy holders of mutual
hail insurance companies in the state
are refusing to pay their assessments
to the companies. The commissioner
states that in a mutual assessment as
sociation of this kind each policy
holder 1s legally liable for the full
amount of his assessment levied
rgainst him and should pay this as
sessment promptly and without com
pelling his company to resort to the
courts in order that the company may
thereby be enabled to pay its losses
promptly and that when a membeF re
fuses to pav his assessment he wrongs
each of his associate members in the
company."
Rock Island Road Files Bond.
The Rock Island railroad has filed a
bond of $50,000 in federal court, or
dered by three federal judges last
week in the decision giving the rail
road the permission to charge 3 cents
per mile passenger rates in Nebraska
and a temporary injunction against
the state railway commission from in
terfering with the increase in rates.
The American Surety company of New
York is the surety for the company.
Ttje bond has been approved by Fed
eral Judge Munger.
Dates for N. N. G. Encampment.
Dates for holding the annual en
campment of the national guard of the
state and selection of a' place for this
affair as well, are expected to be an
nounced by General Phil Hall upon
his return from a trip to Chicago.
General Hall will confer with the
officers of the central division of the
war department. He expects to be
able to prepare for a joint camp this
year with one or more adjoining
states, perhaps on a larger scale than
that.
The importance of the adequate de
fense issue and the likely decision of
congress to give the national guard
organization a distinct boost may re
sult in plans for maneuvers of ex
traordinary size and of longer dura
tion than usual, according to intima
tions at General Hall’s office before he
left.
Ross L. Hammond of Fremont, in a
statement just made public, admits
that he has been tempted to enter the
race for the United States senator
ship, but says that he has decided not
to stand for the place.
URGES 8TATE CONTROL.
Favors the Regulation of “Security”
Companies.”
State Auditor W. H. Smith is in re
ceipt of many letters of inquiry in re
gard to the standing of several com
panies organized in Nebraska as mort
gage and loan companies. security
companies and one realty company
which, according to its name, is a
bankers realty company. Auditor
Smith says the writers of the letters
appear to be under the impression
that such companies are under state
supervision. He says they are not.
They are not under the supervision of
the state banking board, the blue sky
law or the state auditor who examines
trust companies.
One writer supposed he had bought
bank stock from a company which
uses the word “banker” in its corpor
ate name. The writer said he had paid
$300 for the stock and the company
would give him but $150 for it. He
desired to know how he could get a
settlement and what the company is
making.
Mr. Smith believes the state law
should be changed so as to control and
regulate such companies.
Secretary Royse of the state hank
ing board says some companies of this
kind complained of do not come under
the installment investment law. and
the blue sky law exempts them as
stock selling companies because they
were organized before the blue sky
law went into effect. Some companies
complained of make loans, and take
mortgages and then issue bonds
against the mortgages and sell the
bonds. Others sell stock and build
and sell houses. Mr. Royse does not
favor taking control of all such com
panies because if this is commenced
it will be hard to tell where to stop
and the state would soon be control
ling every kind of business, including
department stores and the state would
he charged with being a general
guardian of the people to prevent
them from making poor bargains.
Auditor Smith believes the state
should at least prevent such com
panies from using corporate names
that are misleading and which cause
patrons to believe they are doing a
hanking business when they are not.
Saw Them After Explosion.
The story of Morton Freeman, the
boy who said he saw two men in the
basement of the state house with
pieces of brass tubing in their hands,
one of the men being armed with a
revolver, has turned.out to be true
and the men have been identified as
the night watchman who carries a re
volver on duty and the other as Gale
Harlan, janitor, who narrowly escaped
getting the effects of a charge of
powder in the pipes. At least Secre
tary of State Pool says it is true, that
the two men admit the boy saw them
with the piping in their possession,
but it turns out that time is a mater
ial factor in the case. It develops
that the boy saw all he said he saw,
but it was after and not before the
explosion. The two men had picked
up the pipes and were examining
them when the boy came into the
state bouse basement during the ex
citement.
_ 3,
Dr. Guttery Denies Allegntions.
Denials of all alleged questionable
acts and explanation of all incidents
reflecting on his character while sup
erintendent of the state hospital at
Norfolk featured the first hearing held
by the board of control with Dr. W.
D. Guttery on the stand in his own be
half.
The hearing is a continuation of the
Investigation started at Norfolk sev
eral weeks ago following the filing of
charges of Editor Use of the News
of that place.
The “laying on of hands,” which
witnesses testified the doctor persist
ed with pretty nurses, the doctor ex
plained was common with him.
“Unconsciously while commending
anybody in my employ or while talk
ing earnestly to people I put my hands
upon them,” he told the board. “1
have done that for years and
years."
The doctor said that repeatedly
tales brought to him of discretions
committed by male and female at
tendants had been sifted to the bot
tom and been found to be only gos
sip. Whenever talebearers substan
tiated their stories with evidence, he
said, the offending parties had been
dismissed from the state’s employ.
_
Tournament to Be Biggest Ever.
From tentative entries of 143 Ne
braska high schools in the sixth an
nual Nebraska high school basketball
tournament, conducted under the aus
pices of the athletic department of the
state university, the list finally nar
rowed down to eighty-nine contest
ants. After a careful checking of all
completed entries. Athletic Manager
Guy E. Reed announced there w'ould
be only eleven less than a hundred
teams competing in the big floor event
which Is booked to begin Wednesday,
March 11. Even at that the tourna
ment will shatter all Nebraska rec
ords, as the list includes nineteen
more high schools entered than ever
participated before. With sixty-nine
schools participating last spring, the
Nebraska tournament was by far the
biggest interscholastic event ever
held in the country, and Reed ex
pects the new record to stand for
some time for other states to shoot at.
Teams from eighty-nine high schools
from over the state are now listed
for competition at the basketball
tournament opening at Lincoln on
March 11.
Arrangements were eompleted last
week in six Nebraska cities for the
“university week” productions to be
given during the regular spring vaca
tion period early in April. In each of
these towns, the names of which have
not been made public, six university
organisations will appear for as many
consecutive nights. The Glee club will
will give a program one night, the
cadet band another night. The Dra
matic club, the debating teams, Dr.
George Condra with his'moving pic
tures of Nebraska, and the German
Dramatic club will follow in turn.
WORST SEA HORROR
OVER 3,000 PERISH WHEN FRENCH
CRUISER GOES DOWN.
SENATE STANDS BY WILSON
Upper House of Congress Table Pro
posal to Warn Americans to
Keep Off Armed Ships.
Paris,—It was announced at the
French ministry of marine Just recent
ly that there were nearly 4,000 men
on board the French auxiliary cruis
er Provence when it was sunk in the
Mediterranean Sea on February 2G.
It was stated that on board the
Provence were the staff of the Third
Colonial infantry regiment, the Third
battalion, the Second company of
the first battalion, the Second Ma
chine Gun company, and one extra
company, in all, nearly 4.000 men.
As the ministry of marine on Feb
ruary 29 announced that the number
of survivors of itlie Provence disaster
was estimated at 879, it is indicated
by the foregoing dispatch that up
ward of 3,130 lives were lost.
The loss of more than 3,000 lives
in the sinking of the French auxil
iary cruiser Provence is the greatest
ocean disaster of modern times. Up
to the present, the largest number of
lives ever lost in one wreck was
when the White Star Liner Titanic
struck an iceberg off the Newfound
land banks on April 14, 1912, and
sank with a death loss of 1,595. The
rescued numbered 743.
The French ministry of marine had
previously issued no statement as to
the number of persons on the Prov
ence when it went down. The vessel,
however, when in the Trans-Atlantic
service, could carry 1.950 persons, in
cluding the crew, and it has been pre
sumed that as it was transporting
troops between ports not far apart,
it was carrying a number of meu
larger than its normal capacity.
Official Announcement.
The official statement announcing
the sinking of tiie Provence said:
“The French auxiliary cruiser
Provence II, so designated to distin
guish it from the French battleship
Provence, engaged in transporting
troops to Saloniki, was sunk in the
Mediterranean on February 2G. Two
hundred and ninety-six survivors have
been brought to Malta, and about 400
to Melos by French and British patrol
vessels summoned by wireless.
No signs of a submarine were no
ticed either before or after the sink
ing.
Senate Stands By President.
Washington.—By a vote of sixty
right to fourteen the senate carried
out President Wilson's wish and
kill’ed Senator Gore’s resolution to
warn Americans off armed belligerent
ships, and thereby finally quelled in
the senate an agitation which has em
barrassed President Wilson in the
submarine negotiations with Ger
many.
The scene was such as is seldom
witnessed in the senate, voting pro
ceeded on the resolution with sen
ators shouting objections. At one
time so many senators were shouting
for the vice president’s recognition
that the sergeant-at-arms was called
to restore quiet.
After having maneuvered for two
days to get the resolution in such par
liamentary position that it was dis
| posed of without debate, the senate
then proceeded to a general discus
sion of the subject, which continued
tor several1 hours to the dismay of
administration supporters.
It was said at the White House
j that the result in the senate was sat
t isfactory and met the wishes of Presi
i dent Wilson.
Surgeons Will Cure Baby.
; lies Moines, la.—Little Dorothy
j Cleveland will not be killed by
I physicians to put her out of iter suf
i fering, as her parents asked recently.
! Neither will she be permitted to
' liie. Instead, the best surgeons in
! Des Moines have taken charge of the
| mite, and they announce that within
a few days they will perform an oper
ation which will save tlie baby’s life
and leave her normal except as to
j scars.
Little Dorothy has a facial deform
ity with which she has suffered in
such agony that the father, Charles
Cleveland, requested that Chief of Po
lice Crawford give the baby some
thing that would put her to sleep and
“never let her wake up.”
Burkett Files at Des Moines
Des Moines, la.—E. J. Burkett of
Lincoln, Neb., former senator, filed
with the Iowa secretary of state his
affidavit of candidacy for the repub
lican nomination for vice president.
Adopts Six Children.
Clticago.—Six homeless boys of less
than 6 years of age and of varying na
tionalities, are to be adopted by Mrs.
Bessie Fuller of South Porcupine,
Ontario, Canada, as a sociological ex
periment. She plans to rear the six,
regardless of color, race or creed.
Ford Asks Name Withdrawn.
Lansing, Mich.—Henry Ford asked
Secretary of State Vauhn to withdraw
his name from the Michigan republi
can primary ballot on which Ford is
a candidate for president
Teddy Has Name Withdrawn
New. York.—Theodore Roosevelt’s
determination not to allow the use
of his name as a candidate for the
presidential nomination in the spring
primary elections was emphasized
when he directed the withdrawal of
his name from the Illinois primaries.
Avalanches Kill Twenty.
London.—A dispatch to the Cen
tral News from Amsterdam says that
twenty persons have been killed and
many injured by avalanches In the
southern Tyrol.
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menn Teutfdjlanb cntmeber milieus'
ift, fid) ben britifdjen 23ebingungen 311
unterracrfen, ober menu eS fa
fdjlimm gcfdjlagcn ift, baft eS fid) tin*
tcrmerfen mttft.
Tic alte Okfdjidjte, menn e-5 ben
Gnglaitberu am fdilcdjteftcn geiit,
praljlett fie am meijten. .ijuqlcid;
aber and) ber 5kmeiS bafitr, baft fie
moljl miffett, baft cS fidj in btefent
Jtampfe fiir bas ftolsc Sllbton unt
©ein ober 3Jidjtfeiit fjanbclt.
2Iuf bem Saltan bat fid) bie Cage
auper in 21lbanicn mdjt ccrdnbert.
Tie 2Innafinte, bap bie 3cutralmdd)te
erft bie ganjlicbe Untermcrfung 211*
baniend erlebigen molten, ebc man
3ur ‘Cffenfiue auf Salonifi- oorgebt,
geminnt burd) bad ftete, menu aud)
naturgemdp Imtgfamc Sorriicfeu in
2llbanien ait SSabrfdjeinlidjfeit. Tie
gatt3e ndrblicbe $dlfte 2(Ibatiiend be*
finbet fid) in ben ^dnben ber bent*
fdjett Serbiinbcten. Tic fefte Stabt
Tirana fiel ncir einigen Tagctt miber*
ftanbdlcd unb Turrajjo, auper 21 d*
Iona, ber midjtigfte .'pafeit 2llba*
niend, ift ebcnfalls genotnmen mor*
ben.
Tie iotalicner uitb bie Truppcn
Gffab SafdjaS baben redjtjcirig er*
fauttl, bap Turaj30 nidjt 311 baltcn
mar unb baben fid) nad) Siibeu cer30*
gen, tint Slnlcita 311 Dcrtcibigcn. Tied
bringt ben Crieg mieberunt an bie
©reii3e ©riedjenlanbd, biedmal im
Seften. Son bort au§ liepc fid) cin
gemaltiger Tract auf ©riedjenlanb
audiiben, menu bie 3entralmadjte
non ibrer miiitdrifdjen SteHung We*
brand) ntadjeu moQteit. Sidjerlidj ift
nidjt mcljt 511 ermarten, bap ©ric*
djettlanb feine Seutralitat 311 ©mt*
ften ber 21fiiicrten aufgibt. Tic 21u>
martfebaft auf Siibalbanien ftebt ben
©riedjen bdber aid bie rccbi jmeifel*
fjaftc ^rcmtbfdjaft ber Gntentegrnp*
pe, bie bidber lebiglidj im 9?efjmen,
aber nidjt im ©cben beftanb.
Tie Cnmpfe an ber 21 bria baben
gemaltigcn Ginbrucf in vdalien ge
madjt. Sic iraren bie birefte Scran*
laffung sum Sefudjc frattsofifdjcr
Staatdmdmter in 9iom. Srianb, ber
2lupenminifter, mar unter ibneit. Tie
bie5be3itglid)cn Seridjte in ber 211*
liicrtenpreffe, bap bie meitefRcife Don
Saris nad) Som lebiglidj aud bem
©runbe gemadjt tourbe, um cin ein*
beillidjcred 3ufannueumirfcn ber 211=
liierten 311 erutdglidjen, barf man
nidjt ernft nebmeu. Son einent 3u=
famntenmirfen italienifdicr mtb fran*
3bfifd)cr Strcitfrdfte bat man nodi
ttie gebort, unb feitbem Oeftcrreidi*
Ungarn feine Saittter an ber 21bria
entfaltct unb ^stalien notgebrnugen
auf bie Sorberrfdjaft bort Dcrjidjtet,
ift and) ber Iepte ©rmtb fiir militii*
rifdjc Cooperation ber beiben ronta*
nifdjen Solfer abgetan morben. Tie
Sebcn bed Sremierminifterd Salait*
bra in Serona unb Turin, biej
ailed anbere aber nidjt [)off *
ttungdfrcubig toarett, fdieinen bcti
mabren ©runb 311 ber Stiniftcrreife
311 Dcrratcn. ydalicit ift fricgdmiibe.
Tie Pier gropcit Afonso * Sdjladjtcn
baben entfefclidjc Opfer in @ut unb!
Slut gefoftet, oljitc and) uur eittiger*
mapeit biefe Opfer 311 redjtfertigeit.
Salanbra meip bied. Gr meip aud),
baf; fpbterc Semiiljungen nidjt itur
ebeufo frudjtlod fein roerben, fonbern
mbglidjerrneife fogar 3ttr Calaftropbe
merbett fbunett. SSeitn ed nidjt fiir
bie Tatfadjc mdre, baf; ^stalien burd)
ben Slnfdjlup an ben Treincrbaub
bad freicSelPftbeftimmuugdredjt ocr*
loreit, triire piefleidjt beute fdjon ein
Separatfricben 3iifiaube gefommeu,
aber norldufig tnufe Station fid) nod)
betu SSillen Gnglanbd bcugen. 3u
fpdt erfettnt fein Solf, meld)Cit 3cb
ter ed beging, aid ed fid) non ©e
fdjdTtdpolitileru nub bem ©efdjrci
ber Strape in bad 21benteuer bed
Criegcd gegen feine cbcntalignt Sun*
bedgenoffen ftiir^cn tiefj, beren Gr
laubniS ed feiiten eiit3igcn T'anbge*
minn ber Icbteu ;]cit, bie Grmcrbmtg
non Tripolitanieu, nerbanfte, ber
jetjt aufd bbdjfte bebrobt ift.
Tic rufjo-britifdieu Sereinigungd*
trdume an ber Sfeftgrn^e Serfieno
finb iii3mifd)ett and) 311 Sdjaubeit ge*
morben, unb ed ift 3meifelbaft, bapj
man in itonbon ernftlidj an eiitenj
Gntfafe ber Cut*el*2tmara*2trmce
burd) bie Pont Urmia * See, Soften,
Dorriictenbeu Stiffen geglaubt bat.
Um foidje Gntfernungen (350 Stei*
ten) fiegreidj suriidflcgcn 311 Ionium,
mie bied notig mdre. mnp man mit
attberen Truppcn aid nut ruffifdjen
redjnen fonnen. 3ubcm mirb ed im*
met flarer, bap bie Scrfer fid) ettb*
giiltig auf bie Seite ber Tiirfen ge*
roorfen. Ter tjeilige Cricg, non ber
Gntente fo oft Derladjt, Ijat fcfjon mei*
tc Creife gejogen. Tad ijaben bie
Gngldubcr and) in 21cgt;pten 3U {pit*
ren befontmen, mo bie Scnufft im
Sorbmeften 3U fortmdljrenber Scun*
ruljigung Seranlaffuitg geben.
Truntcn in fDJcjifo.
Tic Sage in ilRerifo ift nod) fci*
nesroeg* gcfldrt, unb mirb fid]
and) uid)t gldtten, fclbft menu
eS gelingen follte, SBilla un
fdidblid) 311 madjen. Gs fcblt
itdmlid) Garran3a an bem 9tot
mcnbigcit — bem unentbebrlidjen
Ganrgelb. Tie 9feto ^orfer Gau
tiers, bie angegangen toorben, iljm
aus ber SBerlcgcnbeit 311 bclfcn, men
geru fid), es 3U tun, tucil fie eiut
mcrifanifdie Jlnleibe fiir cin fcblcdj
tes @cfd)dft batten. Ticfe ablcb*
nenbe J^altung ift cine golge ber
Don SBilfon bei Gcginn feincr Slbmi*
niftration erlaffetien Grfldrung,
atnerifanifebe ginanjicrS, bie im
2tu3lanbe ibr @elb anlegen teoUteu,
miifjteit bas anf ibr cigeneS ffiififo
tun. Ter SJfarftmert bc§ ante*
rifanifdjrn TollarS ift auf fiinf
Gents gefunfen. &ann man cS
ba ben gi Hampers oerbenfeit,
menu fie ibr @elb nid)t- risficrcn
molten? Gcfommt aber Garrair,a
fein (Mb, barnt mirb cS fd)on balb
genug mieber cine ncue SRcDoIntitm
in 'JWerifo geben, benn menn bort
cine tRcgienmg fein (Mb bar, be*
bait fie ibre ftttbdtiger nid)t Iange.
Ter gnrbftoffinangcl.
38 a f b i n g ton. 93on 30 \Saii*
bels * SBerbdnocn murbe ba» Staats
amt crfudit, fo rafd) alS rndglid) et*
mas aiir prleiditemug ber garbftoff*
lage ,’u tun. gtn SIBiberfpmd) 511
ben funiidien '.Hngaben bed* .§anbels
iUiimftcriunis, bap, bie sBereinigten
Staatc'n beute bereitd bie ,§dlfte ber
Dor bent ftriegc Derbtaudjten garb*
ftoffmengen im eigenen Sanbe pro
biisieren, erflaten bie beteiligten
gabrifanten, bag nur brei girmen
fid) mit ber garbftoff * ffJrobuftion
befaffen, bie faum 4500 Tonncn
pro gabr betragt, mabrenb man
2000 Tonnett pro 2Ronat braudjt.
Ticfe Sfkobuftion bcfdirdnft fid)
iiberbieS auf toenige garben; in ber
$auptfad)e fd)tDar3.
^rafibrnt bon ©natrmala frit 1898
im 3lmtr.
©fabtSuatemala. SWanuel
Gftraba ©abcra tourbe aid ^Srafibent
ber SHepublif fiir einett toeiteren £er
min, welder im SKcira 1917 begimtt
unb fed)d S°brc bauert, fiir toiebct
crtodblt erflart.
Gnt Gnbe feined jefcigen iermind
wirb 'prafibetit Gabera auf eine 19
jdbrigc 3)ienft3eit aid iPrafibcnt au
riicfbiidfen fonnett. £eit bet Gr
morbung bed i|3rafibeiitcn SReinti 93ar
riod am 8. gebruar 189S ift Gabera
im Shut.
fvlotte angcfanft.
31 m ft e r b a nt. $£ie §oHaitb«
3Imerifa - Sittie bat nadb eitter 9JieI
bung bed „!£elegraaf" bie ganae
9?bcinfIottc ber girma 3- 2- Hontgd
felb gefauft. Sie toirb SSertoenbung
fittbeu fiir aBarenbeforberunfl boa
Xeutfdjlanb nacb $oHanb.
\
3rIonb nidjt uou aUgcnteiner 35Jcfjr
pj(id)t bcriilirt.
S o n b o n. 9?ad) bem in S?raft
getrcienen ©efctje allgemeiner 23ebr*
bflidjt, fonnett aUe $iunggefellen unb
SBittkicr im 3lltcr con 18 bis 40
^abren 3toang3tDeife ber 51rntee cin*
gereibt toerben.
2lui>gefcf)Iojfen finb Perbciratetc,
Scute bcren ©etoiffen ifitten uerbietct
ffiaffen 3U gebraudjen, ©eiftlidie,
ferner foldje bic Don Pegierungsar
beiten unabfommlid) finb obcr per
fonen bie al§ §aubterndf)rer gelteit.
<Da3 ©cfcfe finbct STntoenbung auf
Cfnglanb, 8djotiIanb unb 2BaIe3,
nur Srlanb ift au§gefd)loffen.