NEWS OF THE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
II BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other !
Matters in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
WAR NEWS.
German losses to date total 2,- j
730,917, London newspapers figure, by j
adding the German official casualty I
lists. Of these 681,437 have been j
killed.
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A successful attack by four German j
aeroplanes on a Russian aviation sta- !
tion on Oesel island at the entrance j
to the Gulf of Riga, is announced in |
an official statement given out in .
Berlin.
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At a meeting of the lord mayors of
the German cities held in Berlin, a
manifesto was issued in order to or
ganize] properly the distribution of
victuals in the course of next winter, i
the third year of the war.
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The United States is disposed to
consider that Germany, in the latest
submarine note, virtually has admit
ted one of its submarines is guilty
of torpedoing the channel steamer i
Sussex.
Forty-two Danish ships, valued at j
11.000,000 kroner, the cargoes of which )
were valued at 20,000,000 kroner, have ;
been destroyed by submarines and
mines during the war. Eighty-seven
men have been killed.
* * *
An attempt to held a non-eonscrip- ;
tion and peace meeting in Trafalgar
Square in London was unceremon- !
iously broken up by thousands of per- j
eons who charged and dispersed the I
meeting and tore up the banners and j
flags.
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The German losses before Verdun !
rp to the present time have reached |
the huge total of 200.000 men. one of '
the greatest battle losses in the whole
range of warfare, according to esti
mates made public in Paris from a
semi-official source.
* • *
Robert Patterson Houston, unionist
member of the British parliament de- |
dared that the scarcity of shipping'
is becoming a serious problem in J
England. He estimates that since the j
beginning of the war, ocean-going
British vessels of 3,000,000 tons have j
been lost from all causes.
* * *
William Willard Howard of New
York, secretary of the Albanian re
lief committee, announced in Paris
that 150,000 persons had died of star
vation in Albania during the last
eighteen months, and that 500,000
more were likely to die before normal j
condition in that country were re- i
sumed.
GENERAL.
A hand of Villistas. numbering!
several hundred sacked Sierra Mojada. I
five miles across the Coahuiia line and j
eighty miles east of Jiminez, destroy- ;
ing many thousands of dollars' worth j
of property and looting the town of
everything cf value.
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A nationwide photographic contest
in tee interest of the “Good Roads
Everywhere” movement, with cash
prizes of $2,600 open to everybody, is
announced at the National Highway
association headquarters at Washing
ton.
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General Carranza, head of the de
facto government in Mexico, has is
sued a decree calling for a new issue
of paper money to exceed $500,000,000
to go in circulation May 1. The pres
ent circulation will be recalled by
December 1.
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Chicago's milk strike ended in a
victory for the farmers. Only one
company, the Bowman concern, failed
to sign the new scale, and its plant
was burned. As a result the retail
price of milk in Chicago is now 9
cents a quart.
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Approximately $200,000. consisting
of four packages of federal reserve
notes and one package of jewelry,
was the loot taken by James Moran,
Elias A. G. Maggs, and three com
panions from a mail truck In New
York. February 26. according to a
confession which the federal officers
said the prisoner made in Los Ange
les, Cal.
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The European war and the result
ant high price of material, particular
ly steel, has caused an increase in the
selling price of a number of standard
makes of automobiles. The new prices
in several instances, have been an
nounced by agentsj and dealers in
this territory to their clients.
* • •
Five child performers were burned
to death on the stage of the Garrick
theater at Hereford, England. It was
a children’s entertainment to provide
comforts for the soldiers.
• * *
"New York spends $1,00,000 a
day in dissipation and the nation
$50,000,000 a year for moving pictures,
but our religion is not costing us
enough," declared Rev. W. A. R.
Goodwin of Rochester, N. Y.t at a
laymen’s missionary movement in
New York City.
* * •
Former President William H. Taft,
president of the league to enforce
peace has invited the Commercial
club to Omaha to send delegates to
the national'convention of the league
in Washington, May 26 and 27.
Richard Harding Davis, author and
war correspondent, died at his home
at Mount Kisco, N. Y., from heart
trouble.
* • •
Four men, charged with complicity
in manufacturing “fire bombs” which
were placed aboard ships carrying
munitions and supplies to the entente
allies, were arrested in New York
Three of the suspects are employes
of German steamship lines.
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At least .10.000 men are expected to
avail themselves of the opportunity
that will be afforded for military
training in nine camps to be con
ducted under the general supervision
of the United States army this spring
and summer, it was announced at New
York.
* * *
Figures comniled at the leading
packing centers of the country for the
first three months of the year prove
conclusively that Omaha is the second
greatest live stock mart ic tne world.
In the first quarter Omaha outdis
tanced Kansas City, the other con
tender for second place as a live stock
center, by 301,000 head.
* * *
”\Yi!d Rob” Burman died at River
side. Calif., from injuries received
when his automobile turned over as
he speeded 100 miles an hour in the
road race at Corona. Fifteen were in
jured as a result of the accident, sev
eral of whom are expected to die. Bur
man's skull was fractured, several ribs
crushed and both legs broken in sev
eral places.
SPORTING.
Jim Coffey, the Dublin Giant, knock
ed out Geyer of Denver, in tbe iiftli
round of a ten-round match in New
York.
J> * *
In the presence of 5,000 mat fans at
Chicago Joe Steelier of Dodge, Neb.,
defeated Bill Hokuff in straight falls.
Tlie first fall in S:31, and the second
in 3; 2G.
* * *
Champion Lightweight Boxer Fred
die Welsh, through superior ring gen
eralship and experience, had a slight
shade on points in a ten-round no-de
cision bout in Milwaukee with Richie
Mitchell.
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Bill Edwards of Kansas City, mid
dleweight wrestling champion of Iowa,
Kansas and Missouri, won from Tom
my Burns of Omaha at Kansas City.
Edwards got the first fall in twenty
minutes and the second in eight.
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Herbert Vollmer of the New York
Athletic club made a new world’s
record in winning the 220-yard na
tional American Athletic union swim
ming championship in that city, the
time being 2:23 2-5.
t-. * *
Baron Pierre de Coubertin. presi
dent of the international Olympic
games committee, stated in Paris re
cently that though there will be no
Olympic games in 1916 or during the
war. that preparations for the games
in 1920 are being made so far as pos
sible.
WASHINGTON.
General Carranza, in a note to the
United States government asks toi
the withdrawal of American troope
from Mexico.
» * *
The annual river and harbor appro
priation bill, carrying $40,000,000
passed the house by a vote of 210 to
133, with every item as agreed on in
committee unchanged.
A national defense commission, a
nevy general staff and an immediate
increase in the navy were adopted at
the annual convention of the Navy
League of the United States.
• * *
More enlisted men are in active
service in the navy now than ever
before in the country’s history. Secre
tary Daniels announced just recently
that the personnel for the first time
had reached the 54,000 mark.
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Reports have reached the War de- i
partment from General Funston that
troopers of the Seventh cavalry, un
der Major Tompkins, were fired upon
by citizens in Parra', a Villa strong
hold in western Chihuahua, Mexico.
* * *
A survey of the Missouri river from
Florence, Neb., to Decatur, Neb., is
provided for by the river and harbot
bill, as it passed the house, carrying
£40,000,000. $50,000,000 for improve
mcnt from Kansas City to Sioux City
with $25,000 on revetment work.
* * *
A report issued by the comptroller
of the currency on conditions of the
country's finances on March 7, show
that total resources of national banks
was $13,338,000,000, an increase of
$2,271,000,000, or 20 per cent, within
a year. Total deposits were $10,790,
000,000, an increase of $2,198,000,000,
or nearly 25 per cent within a yeara,
or an increase of $411,000,000 since
December 31, last.
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If he had a dozen daughters and
was able to give them $1,000,000 each,
he would still insist that each know
bo wto manage her home said Senator
Smoot of Utah, favoring federal aid
for domestic science study.
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Easter rabbits will bring eggs dyed
in the brighest colors, as of yore, dye
shortage or no dye shortage. This
message comes from the commerce
department, which says that while
most dyes are hardly obtainable be
cause of the war, Easter dye supply is
little affected.
* * •
A reduction of 24 per cent in the
winter wheat crop as compared with
the estimate of April 1, 1915, is indi
cated in a department of agriculture
report just issued. The yield will be
495,000,000 bushels, it was estimated.
* * *
Secretary Baker of the War depart
ment recently told Representative Ol
ney of Massachusetts he expected to
ask congress for money to maintain
citizen soldier summer training
camps. Representative Olney urged
that $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 be re
quested.
jNEBRASKA\
} STATE NEWS j
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
April 28-29—State T. P. A. Convention
at Alliance.
April 24-25—Savannah to Seattle High
way Convention at Omaha.
May 2 — Omaha-Lincoin-l)enver Good
Hoads association convention at
Lincoln.
May 13—East Central Nebraska High
School track meet at Fremont.
May 14—Proclaimed “Mothers' Day"
in Nebraska.
May 16 to IS—State G. A. R. Encamp
ment at Lexington.
May 15-18—State Dental Society an
nual convention at Lincoln.
May 17—Nebraska Bankers' conven
tion, Group One, at Beatrice.
May 23-24-25—Stale Harness and Sad
dle Makers’ association meeting at
Columbus.
May 24-25—State Association of Com
mercial Clubs’ Convention at Omaha.
June 5 and 6—Pageant of Lincoln,
presenting “The.Gate City.”
June 5-6—Spanish War Veterans'
State Convention at North Platte.
June 12 to 15—Trans-Mississippi Bak
ers’ Ass’n convention at Omaha.
June 13 to 16—State P. E. O. Conven
tion at Alliance.
June 13-14-15—Great. Western Handi
cap Tournament at Omaha.
June 19-20-21-22—American Union of
Swedish Singers, West. Div., con
certs and convention at Omaha.
June 20 to 24—State Stockmen’s con
vention at Alliance.
June 21 to 23—Fraternal Order of
Eagles, state meeting at Lincoln.
Abraham Vansaver, a packing
house employe of South Omaha, on
a wager drank twenty-four pints of
beers and four dozen raw eggs. An
attendant prepared the feast in in
stallments by pouring a pint of beer
into a big stein and breaking two
eggs into it. Vensaver stowed them
away, one after another, and in half
an hour had finished the task without
leaving his chair. lie proposed to
tackle two dozen more eggs on the
same basis on a $10 bet, but there
were no takers.
A dike twenty miles long and
costing in the neighborhood of
$50,000, is a project contemplated
by the Elkhorn Valley drainage
district. The wall will extend
along' the east bank of the Platte
river in Douglas county and is ex
pected to prevent such Hoods as hap
pened in 1912, when $10,000 damage
was done to Douglas county roads,
also great damage in Waterloo and
Valley.
To solve its electric light problem,
which has arisen since the abandon
ment of the private plant, the village
of Winnebago is considering the ap
propriation of the waters of Omaha
creek for the purpose of furnishing
power for lighting purposes, along
the lines advocated by former Repre
sentative J. J. McAllister of Dakota
City. Arrangements are being made
to investigate the feasibility of the
plan.
Work is progressing rapidly on
Fremont’s new hotel. It is to be six
stories high and cost nearly $150,000.
Hastings won its its suit in coun
ty court to force the Missouri Pacific
railroad to pay for the installation
and maintenance of elecliic street
lights at all the railway crossings
within the city limits. The judgment
amounted to about $300.
The Trans-Mississippi Master Bak
ers’ association, which embraces the
four states of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska, will hold a four-days’
convention in Omaha June 12 to 15.
The association will put on a big ex
hibit of baking machinery, equipment
and supplies of every description us^-d
by the bakers.
The patrons of school district at
Niobrara will hold an election or.
April 24 for the purpose of deciding
on the issue of voting $17,300 bonds
for the district for the purpose of
erecting a new modern brick building
and installing up-to-date furniture.
The week of August 7 to 11 has
been named as tractor week for Fre
mont this year.
The York Commercial club is agi
tating the building of a $25,000 city
hall.
A barn on the farm of John Voles
k.v near Barneston, Gage county, was
destroyed by lire. A double corn crib,
granary an.l eight, head of horses,
4,000 bushels of grain, considerable
farm machinery and harness were
consumed by flames. The loss will
aggregate close to $5,000.
Officers of the Columbus Commer
cial club are planning on entertain
ing the members of the Nebraska
Harness and Saddle Makers’ associa
tion meeting .which will be held
there May 23, 24 and 25.
Sealed bids will be received by the
board of education at Homer till
April 27 for the erection of an addi
tion to the high school building and
also for the furnishing of a heating
plant.
A contract has been let by tlip fed
eral government for the construction
of a new post office building at Falls
City. Work is expected to begin
Juno 1.
A .concrete bridge to cost in the
neighborhood of $65,000 is to be built
across the Platte river immediately
south of Kearney.
Fremont was chosen as next year’3
meeting place by the State Bowling
association at the termination of the
tournament at Nincoln. C. L. Weekes
of Omaha was elected president.
Of the 2,312 Hastings voters who
registered last month, 1,228 swore
they affiliated with the republican par
ty and 853 with the democratic. There
were forty populists, thirty socialists
and two prohibitionists registered.
Work of excavating for the base
ment of the Fairbury Masonic temple
is under way. The building when
completed, will cost about $18,000.
The Union Pacific is working out
the details for running a dairy special
through the counties along the line of
the road in the western part of the
state. A special of this character was
run through Kansas and Colorado last
year with great benefit to the farm
ers and dairymen. The Nebraska
dairy special will probably be run
early during May and will be out on
the road a week. Stops will be made
at practically all the towns and lec
tures and demonstrations will be giv
en by dairy and live stock experts.
The case of Fred U. Tiede against
the village of Orchard in which the
former tried io ha\e his land exclud
ed from the corporate limits of the
village, was tried in the district court
and the request on the twenty-eight
acres south, of the track was granted,
but the three-cornered tract on which
the John Stelling house is located was
ruled in the corporate limits. The vil
lage board voted to carry the case lo
the supreme court as they believe
that the twenty-eight acres rightfully
belong to the town.
Fire which broke out in- the horse
yards of Hilliker, Simpson & Smith
at Grand Island last week, contractors
tor horses for the French and British
governments, caused some loss to
bui!,dit»*s and a general scare for the
section of the city occupied as the
yards. Seven hundred head of horses,
already the property of the allies,
were run out and others led to other
corrals, and not an animal was lost.
The loss of hay, buildings, etc.,
amounts to about $1,000.
Directors of the Fremont Commer
cial club have voted to loan $10,000 to
President W. H. Clemmons of Fre
mont college for the purpose of re
building the dormitory. The dormitory
was destroyed by fire in December.
A loss of $30,000 was sustained by
Mr. Clemmons and insurance of only
$11,000 was carried.
Following the recent "dry” victory
at the polls in North Platte saloon
keepers are already preparing to quit
business. A "tire sale” in one of the
saloons has already started, the pro
prietor announcing in flaming posters
that liquors, wines, cigars and other
stock will be sold out at cost, since
be is "quitting business.”
A disastrous prairie fire, aided by
hot, dry wind, did much damage in
the vicinity of North Loup before it
was got under control. Buildings were
saved with great difficulty, although
much hay was burned. It was tlie
first disastrous fire for several
i years in the locality.
J. W. Steinhart, president of the Nr
braska Association of Commercial
clubs, declared while in Omaha a few
days ago, that he expected 150 o:
more of those affiliated with the as
sociation to send representatives to
the meeting in Omaha May 24-25.
At a meeting of the Dodge county
board of supervisors it was .decidcu
not to rebuild the old court house at
Fremont, seriously damaged by fire
last December. The board plans tc
put up an entirely new building tc
cost between $100,000 and $150,000.
Preparations are being made in
Omaha for the convention and musical
festival of the western division ot
the American Union of Swedish sing
ers, which will be held June 19 to 22
A very large attendance and a very
successful festival is anticipated.
The Rialto Realty company of Oma
ha announces the purchase of 150
acres of land near the village of Ral
ston for the purpose of building .t
motion picture city. The deal in
volved $300,000. Work on the huge
project has already begun.
A committee of the Mitchell Com
munity club is working to gain for
Mitchell the next sugar factory.
There are about G'0,000 acres of irri
gated land in the vicinity, about 2T>
per cent of which is now available for
raising sugar beets.
Professor Knorr of the government
experiment station at Mitchell reports
the appearance of an alfalfa army
worm which works in the crowns o’
the alfalfa and cuts the new sprouts.
There is fear that the first crop may
be damaged considerably.
A movement has been started by
citizens of Madison for a new hotel
and it is certain that it will be con
structed during the summer.
More than 2,000 carloads of ma
terial will be shipped to Hastings for
use in the eleven miles of new paving,
on which actual work has started.
Sewer bonds to the amount of $39.
000 were voted at Ainsworth recently.
Members of the Blair library board
received word that the Carnegie libra
ry commission has granted the re
quest for a $10,000 library building
for the city. Plans for the building
will be immediately drawn and a loca
tion secured.
Thirty-eight gallons of poison for
gophers were sent to about 600 farm
ers in Gage county recently by Farm
Demonstrator Libers. The gopher
clubs recently organized in the coun
ty propose to make war on the pest
for the next few months.
Miss Elizabeth Graham of Cozad
has entered a contest being conduct
ed by an Omaha newspaper to secure
an attractive brunette for the in
genue role in Chandler Trimble’s
$100 photoplay, which the paper is
to produce in the Metropolis this
summer.
Plans are being prepared for a new
home by the Masonic lodge of Bridge
port. The building will be a two-story
brick affair.
Ten new bridges have been order
ed by the board of supervisors of
Gage county.
Charles Salisbury, a hostler em
ployed at the Rasmussen livery bam
at Blair, shot and killed his wife, and
then turned the weapon on himself,
ending his own life.
A number of the Gage county farm
ers have asked the Gage County
Crop improvement association to send
Mr. Liebers, their county agent, to
Wisconsin or some other dairy state
to buy Holsteins for them. Two
years ago the Crop Improvement as
sociation shipped in several carloads
of Holsteins from Wisconsin, which
have proven very satisfactory.
LIMITS EXPEDITION
DE FACTO CHIEF MAKES KNOWN
MEXICO’S POSITION.
SAYS V. S. PLANS ILLOGICAL
Asserts But 1,000 Men Hereafter Shall
Cross Border—Enemies Strive to
Fromote Grave Situation.
Mexico City.- The Mexican govern
ment will insist with inflexible deter
mination that any armed expedition
of the United States which enters
Mexican territory in the guise of a
punitive expedition must be limited
to 1,000 men of one service alone,
cavalry, according to a statement
made to the Associated Press by
Juan Netfali Amador, substitute sec
retary of foreign relations, just re
cently.
“Tiie Mexican government has con
tended in all of its notes to the Wash
ington State department," said the
sub-secretary, “that the sending of
heavy artillery and slow marching in
fantry on a punitive expedition is il
logical and that the work of the pres
ent so-called punitive expedition itas
more than demonstrated this, for they
have accomplished absolutely noth
ing.
■‘Mexico will and has in all of its
communications to Washington in'
sisted tiiat all punitive expeditions
must be limited to certain restricted
areas. The request of the United
States that the present expedition be
considered exceptional cannot be
agreed to by the Mexican govern
ment for the very good reason that
each day of its presence so far in
land does nothing but excite our peo
ple. This is being taken advantage
of by enemies of the constitutional
ists who are endeavoring to stage in
cidents that will cause grave interna
tional complications.
“The Parral incident is a case in !
point. I consider this happening the
last drop in the bucket, and believe
that when the American people and
the American government realize its
full significance they will giadly ac
cede to .Mexico's request, and in the
interest of peace and in line with the
traditional friendship whicii exists
between the two countries, will with
draw the troops.
“No one ever has questioned tin
honesty of the purpose of the United
Slates in limiting the present military
movement to a punitive nature, but
it is hard to convince the population
that a force of thousands of men of
three branches of the service do not
have the semblance of invaders.
“The attack on the Americans in
Parral was due to the influence of
enemies of the government. One o:
them fired point blank at an Ameri
can soldier, killing him. General
shooting then began. Although the
soldiers had orders not to enter
tewns, these men were forced into
Parral because they could get noth
ing to rat in the surrounding country
and were so far from the border that
I it was impossible to send them pro
visions, without giving this expedi
tion the appearance of being some
thin?; more than its name suggests.
"Tnat is the rt z?oil the Mexican
government lias insisted in its nctes
to Washington io the limits of the
zone which may he traversed by any
punitive expeditions. extend not
farther than forty miles, nor, in our i
opinion, should punitive expeditions |
be ailowed in the territory' of either
country for an unlimited time. Our
note of March 18. article 8. specifies
the number of troops which may pass
the boundary line must never exceed
1,000 and there must not remain in
the zone for more than five days, ex
i cept in very unusual <-ases.’’
Ready to Consider Evacuation.
Washington. — Secretary of War
Baker lias made it known tliet the
Fnitcd States is prepared to treat
with Ceneral Carranza, as proposed
in iiis recent note for the withdrawal
of American troops from Mexico.
Pending the outcome of the diplo
matic negotiations, however, the sta
tus of the expedition will remain un
ehanged and the pursuit of Villa con
tinued.
This was tiie situation as officially
stated after President Wilson and his
cabinet had considered the new
phases of the Mexican problem raised
by General Carranza's communica
tion.
To Execute Mexican Bandits.
Brownsville. Tex.—Jose Buenrostro
and Melquiades Chapa, alleged Mexi
can bandits, were found guilty of
murder here and a jury assessed the
death penalty as punishment.
Turn Plotters Over to U. S.
New York.—The four Germans ar
rested by the police here on the
charge of manuflacturing incendiary
bombs and placing them aboard war
supply shifts of t,he ehtente allies
were turned over to the federal au
thorities for prosecution.
Fear Foreign Intervention.
Peking.—Dispatches have been sent
by the Chinese government to the
revolutionary leaders urging that hos
tilities be brought to an end in order
to prevent foreign intervention.
Revolutionists Assassinated.
Shanghai.—Three leaders of the
retalutionary forces in Kwang Tung
province were assassinated and sever
al others were more or less seriously
wounded during a military conference
at Canton, capital of the province,
recently.
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French Exchange Lowest 1
New York.—French exchange fell
to the greatest discount in this mar
ket April 13, within a generation. The
Paris check broke to 607%, with ca
bles at 607.
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geforgt biitte. Tie 9Jatnr mug bent
nieufdjlidjen Grfinbungsgeifte 311 -S?il
re fontnten, ber nur bier unb ba
burd) fiinftlidje Sertcibiguugtanla
teti. Sd)ait3eu unb Grbbefeftiguugen
tiler 21rt terbeffemb eingreift.
Tat eben beftrodjeuc Sorgeldnbc
it fiir bat Sorriiden ber Teutfdjen
baburd) befonbert fdjiricrig, bag cB
bent glanfenfeucr . ber meitlidi ton
i'erbun Iiegeubcit ^ortE ton SWarre,
fiourrut unb Sromerctille antge
:ebt ift. Sclbft, menu et ben Tent*
rben gelingen follte, bie fyranjofen
burd) bie ©irfuug ber 2frtillcric nut
bem ©elanbe ju merfeit, fo mitrbe
'’icB einfad) ein Umbreben bee- Stic*
V§ bebeuteu. Tic- Trutfdjen fdBeit
in $?albe, unb bie ^rantofen fdiof
■en non ben ftortS bineiu. Tie Sor
•cbingung bet Grfolgcf* ift a!fo bie
fJieberfdnitfnng ber oben geuannten
>ortt, mat uidtt gleidjbebeutenb mit
ibrer Ginnabme ift, ba eB geniigt, fie
auger Wefedit 311 fefccn. Tod) ba*
mit finb bie Sdimierigfeiten nod)
•’id)t abgctan. Son ber meftlicben
?cite brobt cine anberc Gfcfafjr. Tie
Kinttfr ftielen fidi, irie an*? ber
iartc 3u erfeben ift. 3mifd;c:t bem
'eftungtgtirtei non Scrbnn unb ben
it!id)en JCubdugcu bet Jtrgonnen*
naibet ab, ber in feinen fiiblidien
'(ittldufcrn nod) non ben fvransojen
• Jltrgi unii’ um» ujmii lut
;cit feiner fteil nodi ber ?Ji3nc abfnl*
cnbcnllfer cine iiufjerft giinitige Hcr
'eibigungcgtellung gibt. 3?ott 2$au
!iioi§, eiitige Srlomcter fiiblidi non
Pcrcnncv, tig treit fiiblidi non Cler
mont finb bie hoben 2li3nc • lifer in
ranjofifdjen ftiinben, cine ftrtilicrie
'reHung, ganj nad) bem .ver^cn ber
vanjoiifdjon fviil'rcr unb ieben JViib
er§, ber ibrer babbaft merben
"■innte.
Xer efroeef be* SJorgebcnben ift anf
ce fount iibertttinblid) fcbcinenbcn
'cbmicrigfeiien bcim 3?orftofs nam
riiben anfmerffant 311 tnadien. G-3
t cine iliabming 3iir ©ebttib.
Sn ben lebtcn Xagcit bat and) bic
it!iebe fsront mieber cirten '4?Iats in
on 2?erid)ten be* beutfeben ©eneral
abe§ cingcnontmen. Xie fRuffcn
iben bier- burd? ibre gemaltige Of*
■n.fioe anf bem ubrbiidien Slbfdmitt
t ruffifdicn fyront permodjt. Si3-.
t ift ifjncn trots ber riefigen Cpfer |
ein Grfolg befd)icbcn gemefen. iRan
;arf fid) berubigenb fagen, bats ba§,
na* ^ranjofen nnb Giiglciubcr im
’donate Iangem ffampfc gegen bie
"eutfdie SDtauer im SBeftcn Pergebcn§
u’rfncbt baben, mirb bem fd)Icd)tcren
eolbaten im Often, bem SRuffen, nod)
niel roeniger gelingen, meungleid) es j
falfdb roiirc, bie ft'antpfe Ieicfjtmeg mit
Hfifsacbtiing 3” ftrafen.
Xer ntffifcbe fHiefe bat fid) non
feinen fiirdjterlidjen Sdiliigcit im no
rigen Sabre langfam mieber erboben.
Gr »erfnd)t fetite im SBinter aufge
ipartrn Srdftc im SInlanf gegen bic
tieutfdjen SteHutigen, einmal, moil cr
.lieHeidjt tatfiicbHd) auf einen Grfolg
Ijofft, anbrerfeitS aber and), meil er
t-e? „5icrtm3 rerum", be§ roQenbeit
RubelB, bebarf, unb ben Gttg
onb nur, menu fRufflanb arbeitet.
Hub Slrbeitcn beif'.t in biefem fvallc,
tie beutfdben 23cmuljungcn bci '-Per*
>un burd) cine ©egcnmaisregcl 311
'toren. STcait fann mit abfolutcr 8i
berbsit PorauSfagen, bafs biefet
3 toed fdjon brute nerfeblt ift. 2Pa3
m erften fitrd)tbaren Sfnfturm nid)t 1
jelang, mirb, nadibcm bic befien 1
Eruppett mieber einmal geopfert ,
norbeit, in ben fpcitcren Sfnldufcn
tod) meniger gelingen. )
Xrofe ber ungebcuer longer ruffi. 1
d)en Aront ift bo? Xcrrain, ba-5 fid) 1
urn f'lnfeben grofser .§cere§mnften 1
ignet. aufjerorbentlid) befdbriiitft. 1
?a? Centrum ber gan3en ftront gtoi* t
dien bem Oeengebfet non Xiinaburg i
■iib bem molntiifdieit geftungsbreied i
unmt fiir OffenfiPen grofjeren 8ti- 1
led raft gat nid)t in 93etrad)t. G5
jgibt bort fein Gifenbabnnct), bad eitte
idjnclle iPerteilung ber Sruppen er*
mbglidjt unb bas miroirtitdje^oljesje
nut feinen nntoegfantenSiitnpfcu unb
SBdlbern macfjt jebe militarifdjc Ope
ration unmoglid). iBcibe Iciic, fJiufj
fen tnie lentfdie, Defterrcidjer unb
llngarn, merben i()rc .'jauptfrufte al
fo auf ben beibeit gliigeln 5ur Gitt
fattung bringen, im £iinabnrg*2lb
fdjnitt bis nad) iftiga binauf, unb im
ftomcl - Slbfdjnitt, 'JSoIpnien, bid 3ur
runidnifd)en ©renje binuntcr.
Gilt foeben erft non ben jranjbfi
fcbeit unb engiijd)eu gronten t?icrgcr
suriirfgefebi'tcr 23eobad)tcr, befien
Objeftioitat in biefent gall burd) fei
ne pro-alliicrteu iReigungen unter
ftricbeit mirb, bat fid), ooriiegcnben
•■Ecridjten entfpredjenb, folgcnbcrma
gen audgefprccben:
,,'Pntifdie, fomobl mic franmpGdje
Offijiere, mtldje non ber great/(;u
riidfebren, glauben bafe 2?erbuu fal
len mirb. Tiefe Cffijiere erfldren,
bafc bie fCeutfdjcn alle ibre ft raft on
bie Grreidiung bicfed Grfolgco fe|rn.
2Bie Pcrlautet, ftcbt babiuter b: v?lb
fidu £eutfd)luub§, bie liofuffion ber
griebenouerbaublungcn 311 eroffnen,
nad)bem ed, augenfcbeinlicb fiir ben
moralifdjen Ginbrucf, foldje SBirfung
| erjielt bat. Sic cnglifcbeu Cff^icre
! fdjeinen 311 glauben, bafj bied nod)
nor betn nadjften .‘oerbft fid) ereignen
unb ber ftrieg bann 3U Gnbe fein
irb."
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tSfliiertc cnttoaffnen iftre Sdjiffc
uidjt.
23 a f f) i it g t o n. ?IHe (Sntente*
2'uidite baben burdb ifjrc biefigeu Pot
fdjafter bent Staati-bepartcmcnt for
I nu’llc Slnttoorien 3iigeben laffen, in
! toeldien ber in cinent 3irfular * 2Re
i moranbum entbaltene Porfdjlag ner
| tocrfen mirb, baft ein Sttobus Piner.bi
| gefunben toerben unb atfc iftre §ait
belvfdjiffe enttraffnci toerben fallen,
inter ber Pcbingung, baft bie 'Per.
Staaten nerfudjcn toiirben, non ben
3cntralmad;tcn cine SSerpflidjtnng ju
erlangen, folctjc unbetoaffnete Stripe
i uidjt obite Scanning non XaudjSoo
ten ober ^ilfi-frenjcru angreifen 311
| laffen.
Sd’on nont SPeginne toar itnoffi*
I jicil in afliicrtcii Sanborn erf-trt
! toorben, baft ein folcbcr plan non wn
j (Sntente • PJiidjten abgclebnt toefbni
toiirbe. file Ofrimb fjicfiir toiirbc
nngegeben, baft man fid) angeblid) auf
! beutfebe Pcrfprediungen, toegen ber |
'Pebanbhing 5PeIgien’§, nidfit nerlaf
fen fbnnc, bauntfatftlid) aber, baft
Feine Sfeubenmg in ben priipinicn
bee- fogenannten intcrnationalen (>5e
fe»e# roiibreiib be§ SJriegcS norge
noinmen toerben foHtc, trie bic-S bie
Slnnabme be-> obcnortodbnten 2Wobu-5
Pinrnbi bebeutet biitfe.
4?a§ ba-:> Staaisbcnaricmcnt in
ber ?(ngelcgei;bcit tocitcr 511 tun ge
benft. ift nod) nniidier.
Hub bodi criunrtet man, baft bentfdi?
IPPcotc .’panbelwbantpfer loar
nen follrn.
Sic fid) bie CMalicner bie „Tcicn
fioe" ber mit ©efdjiitjen beftiicftcn
^aitbelebampfcr benfen, erfcnnt ritau
aits cincr auc fHoitt ftammenben iWel
bung, bic bortige ^eitfcfjrift
rina ^ialtana" babe bereitd 12,000
Xfire al§ 2*citrdgc gur Sannulling
fiir cine 2>rdmic an bie 23cfa(sung
bec-jcnigcn italienifdjen $anbclsbant
pferc erbaiteii, ber guerft ein feinbli
d’ec Unterffti'bcot nerfenfen roiirbc.
iWebrere SdjiffabrtS • ®e}eHfd)aiten
baben 23eitrage gcgeid)nct. Ter Un
terftaatc - Sefretdr be3 ajfarinemini
fteriumS 2?attaglieri bat fcinc 3ufiint*
tniing gu biefer fogenaitnieit pntrio
tifdjen ^nitiatinc gegeben.
flhtmduien fricMicij. i
Berlin. Tie SBegiefjungen ji*•
fd)cu SRumdnicn nub ®y.Igcfiey 153
ben fid) febr gebeffert, mie bic lleber
fee ■ ffladjridjtcnagentur au3 Sofia
crfdbrt, feitbem bie rumanifdje 9te
gierung ben ©efanbten 03. 0. iRcruf
fi mit neuen Snftruftionen nacb So
fia gefdjidt bat. Tie js-rage bc3
Turdjgangcoerfebrs in SRumbniett
juriicfgcljaliencr Saren ift crlebigt;
iiber anbere roirtfdjnftlidjc ‘Xngele*
genljetten finb Cerhaiiblungcn int
©ange. Ter bulgarifdje ginangnti
nifter Tontfdjcff crfldrt, ber nirndni
fd)e ©efanbte babe eiiten Gntrourf
gum STbfdjIujj cines $anbel3nertragc§
mib bcfor.berc 21nrocifungen gur s4?fle
gc gutcr 2?egieljungen groifdjcn beit
beiben Sdnbern.
Tic „fjumnncn" 2?ritcn!
^ 2? e r I i n, brabtIo3 nad) Sapnille.
Cie dfterrcidjifdic ‘JPJarincleitung
lab iiber bie Torpebicrung be3 offer*
eid) - ungarifd)?n §ofpitaIfd)iffc3
,Gleftra" folgenben 23erid)t au3:
Tie „GIcftra" tourbe am 18. Sftdrg
,on einem fcinblidjcn Untcrfceboot
orpebiert. G3 roar flares unb prddi
igc3 Setter. Ginc Sarmmg rourbe
ud)t gegeben. Gin SWatrofe erfranf
mb groci 9tote «rcu§ - ©tftreftAm,
onrben fdjroer berromtbet. G3 ift IT
frafiere SBcrlefclng
ic3 SJoIfcrntfts auf f;oI;er Spe nor
ufteuen.