NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OB LESSER IMPORT
Includes What Is Going On at Wash
ington and In Other Sections of
the Country.
WAR NEWS.
The entente allies have formally
recognized the provisional govern
ment of Greece in the island of Crete,
set up by former Premier Venizelos.
• • •
King Haakon of Norway has ap
proved an ordinance forbidding sub
marines of belligerent powers from
traversing Norwegian waters except
In cases of emergency.
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Seventy-four hostile aeroplanes, of
which twenty-one were French and
flfty-three British, were shot down by
the Geramns during September, ac
cording to a list compiled by German
military authorities.
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Despite the inclement weather, the
Italians continue to push their new
sffensive toward Trieste Rome offic
ials estimated that the Austrians have
lost 40,000 in killed, wounded and
captured since the offensive began.
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Loss of the German submarine mer
chantman Bremen has been virtually
conceded by Teutonic displomats in
this country who are in position to be
familiar with the movements of the
vessel. The Bremen is now one
month overdue.
.. * * *
British and French divisions with a
total of more than 1,000,000 men have
been virtually annihilated in the
Somme battle, says a German military
critic. According to figures from
Swiss sources, the Russian losses
from June 1 to October 2 were about
one million men.
• • •
A woman has been commissioned
by the government of Wuerttemberg
as second in command of a small gun
boat on Lake Constance which is em
ployed in guard duty at Friedrichas
hafen, where the Zeppelin works are
located. She has been given the
rank and uniform of lieutenant.
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GENERAL.
Iowa troops on the Mexican border
will be allowed to vote under a decis
ion just handed down by Attorney
General George Cosson at Des Moines.
* * *
A gift of $60,000 for an observatory
and thirty-six inch telescope was an
nounced at a meeting of the board of
regents of the University of Arizona.
* • •
Women were denied equal rights
with men in two actions taken by the
house of bishops in the Protestant
Episcopal general convention at St.
Louis.
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Nine persons were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed two factor
ies in the manufacturing section of
New York City.
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The wheat crop of Canada for the
present year will be only 159,123,000
bushels, as compared with 276,303,600
bushels in 1915, according to an of
ficial estimate.
• • •
Means of meeting the requirements
of the Adamson eight-hour law are to
be considered at a meeting of the
American railway association at Den
ver November 17.
• * *
Estimate of the ministry of agricul
ture of the areas sown to crops in
Argentina for the next harvest are:
Wheat, 6,511,000 hectares; oats, 1,
022,000; linseed, 1,298,000.
• • *
Officials of the First National bank
of Centralia, Okla., which was robbed
recently, announced that practically
all the notes held by the bank, to the
amount of about $75,000, had been
taken by the robbers, who also obtain
ed $6,118 in currency.
* * *
A hurricane that reached a velocity
of one hundred and fourteen miles
an hour swept over Pensacola.
Fla., lifted roofs from houses, and
sunk a number of vessels in the har
bor. One life was lost. The property
toss was estimated at $1,000,000. Sev
eral men caught on the street were
hurled through plate glass windows
hy the gale.
• • •
By writing an average of 137 accu
rate words a minute for an hour Miss
Margaret R. OWon of New York City
has again won the world’s typewriting
championship and a $1,000 cup and
beaten her own previous record.
* * *
The first carload of beets to leave
South Dakota was shipped from Nis
land to the Great Western Sugar
company at Scottsbluff, Neb. It is es
timated that over 100 cars will be
shipped from the Belle Fourche terri
tory this season.
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Chicago’s voting population for the
November election breaks all records
with the unprecedented total, men and
women, of 808,728. This places New
York ip second place with a total of
(70,000 registered voters less.
* * *
A wage increase of 3 cents an hour
and a demand for the eight-hour day
throughout the six allied crafts of rail
road sbpnwn of seventeen western
railroads was agreed upon at a confer,
ence of the shopmen at Kansas City.
Demands on the roads will be made
soon.
• * *
Carl Rosenfeld of Story county, la.,
is one of America’s leading Aberdeen
Angus cattle breeders, having taken
hundreds of prize ribbons. His wife
Just has completed a bed quilt, in
.which fi 000 nritft ribbons were used.
Flans for a campaign to make Chi
cago "dry" in 1918 was formally an
nounced at a luncheon of the Dry Chi
cago federation in the city. Fifty
thousand dollars was pledged.
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The Elephant Butte dam, at Ele
phant Butte, New Mexico, completed
recently at a cost of $5,000,900 and in.
tended to impound the largest arti
ficially retained body of water in the
world, was dedicated on Oct. 19.
* * *
A shortage of both hard and soft
coal is in prospect for New York City
fhis winter, according to the dealers,
who assert that their bins are being
depleted, their shipments delayed and
that the outlook for immediate or
eventual relief is poor.
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The proposed change in the canons
of the Protestant Episcopal church
forbidding the re-marriage of persons
divorced for causes a:'.sing after mar
riage, regardless of the cause, was re
jected by the house of deputies of the
general convention at St. Louis.
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Luis Cabrera, chairman of the
Mexican commission, placed before
the American members of the Mexi
can-American joint commission at
Atlantic City a statement from Am
bassador Designate Arredondo con
taining the assurance that his govern
ment had planned an active campaign
against Villa.
MEXICAN TROUBLE.
^hree Mexican bandits and several
constitutionalist soldi?rs were killed
last Saturday when the bandits at
tempted to hold up a train between
San Luis Potosi and Rio Varde.
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American cavalry columns are pa
trolling south, east and west of Co
lonia Dublan, field headquarters of the
punitive expeditin in Mexico, for the
first time since the Carrizal clash,
according to trustworthy advices
brought to the border.
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At no time since the mobilization of
the National Guard has it been safe
to reduce the number of men on the
Mexican border, declared Major Gen
eral Frederick Funston, commanding
the Southern department of the Unit
ed states army.
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The First Illinois cavalry will be
the first troops to leave Brownsville,
Tex., since the mobilization in July.
The regiment will be replaced by
three troops of Colorado, a squadron
of Virginia cavalry and a troop of
New Hampshire cavalry.
• • •
An official report to Maj. Gen. Fred
erick Funston confirmed reports that
a small band of Villistas is within ten
miles of General Pershing’s column.
Villa himself is at the head of 1,800
men at Guerrero, on the Mexican
Northwestern line, where Pershing's
cavalry had a battle last spring.
* * •
Francisco Villa and a part of his
bandit command took possession of
the mining town of San Andres, and
because the male population of the
town had tied to prevent being im
pressed into his service, Villa ordered
the houses burned and permitted his
men to commit atrocities upon the de
fenseless inhabitants.
WASHINGTON.
Release of the members of the Wis
consin national guard now on the
Mexican border is asked by Governor
Phillipp in a letter to Secretary of
War Baker.
* • •
Acting Secretary Roosevelt an
nounced that the four dreadnoughts
announced for the coming year will
be named Colorado, Maryland, Wash
ington and West Virginia.
• * *
Short measuring gasoline pumps,
according to an investigation by the
federal bureau of standards, are
mulcting motorists of millions of dol
lars a year. In Illinois alone The loss
is not less than $500,000 a year.
* • •
A recent executive order opening a
tract of 110,000 acres in Fresno, Mon
terey and San Benito counties, Cal.,
to homestead entry on November 7
was amended so that some of the land
will be opened November 14 and the
remainder December 12.
• • •
Need of all available soldiers In the
regular army for contiuued active serv
ice has causfd Secretary Baker to
stop all applications for furloughs to
the reserve which under the national
defense act may be requested by men
who have served one year with the
colors.
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Capt. W. R. Rush, U, S. N., com
mandant of the Boston naval yard,
who led the force of 6,000 marines
and sailors which landed at Vera
Cruz from the Atlantic fleet in 19f?7
is to retire from the service.
* * *
The supreme court refused to re
view the convictions of four labor
leaders iu the 1913 West Virginia coal
strike, who were sentenced to six
months’ imprisonment for contempt
of court in failing to obey an Injunc
tion by a federal district judge.
* * • r
Farmers who borrow through the
national farm loan associations are
not required to pay any advance com
missions. So all of these enterprises
requiring payments from farmers are
declared by the Federal Farm board
to be fraudulent.
• • •
Exports of American automobiles
during the year ending June 30,
reached the great total of $144,626,
719, exceeding by $67,700,000, the
previous record made in 1915, accord
ing to figures made public by the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce.
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Alunite deposits in the mountains
of Utah may develop a source of
American potash, in the belief of gov
ernment scientists who have been
conducting laboratory investigation
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CONDENSED HEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
OATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
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Oct. 31—Northwestern Nebraska Med
ical Society meeting, Long Pine.
Nov. 3—Nebraska “Fire Prevention
Daj*"
Nov. 2-5—Nebraska Christian En
deavor Union state convention at
Omaha.
Nov. 8-9-10—Nebraska Slate Teach
ers’ association meeting at Omaha.
November 1-4, Second Annual Cours
ing Meet at Omaha.
November 7—General Election Day
in Nebraska.
Nov. 21 23 — Farmers’ Co-operative
State Grain and Live Stock Ship
ping ass’n vonvention at Omaha.
Nov. 27 to Dec. 2—Annual Poultry
Show at Omaha.
Dec. 4 to 9—Annual Poultry and Pet
Live Stock Show at Beatrice.
Dec. 12-14—Nebraska Farmers Con
gress at Omaha.
December 20-21—National Farmers’
Equity Convention at Omaha.
A letter was received in Beatrice to
the effect that Company C of that city
would probably remain on the border
until spring. Heavy clothing has
been ordered for the men, and it is
stated that they will probably spend
the winter at Houston, Texas.
Bankers of Hastings have cut inter
est rates to depositors from 4 'to 3
per cent. They assert in explanation
there is such an unprecedented
amount of money being deposited and
such little demand for loans they find
it difficult to make a fair profit.
An unusual public sale was held
at H- mingford a few days ago. John
Mabin sold his entire potato crop, con
sisting of 8,000 bushels, and topped
the market, one brand of spuds sell
ing as high as $1.24 a bushel.
Jefferson county farmers are begin
ning to husk the cam crop, yields
ranging all the way from fifty to fifty
five bushels per a ere. Huskers are
receiving 2% to 5% cents a bushel.
Work on Hartington's new' $25,000
hotel is progressing rapidly and it Is
expected it will be practically en
closed before winter sets in. The hos
telry will be named The Hartington.
J. A. Lister, formerly editor of the
Hartington Herald, has purchased the
Crofton Journal from R. B. Cooley. Mr.
Lister is a well known Nebraska news
paper man.
E. A. Gerrard, 82 years old, editor
of the Monroe Looking Glass, and
Miss Grace McWilliams, 26, were
united in marriage at Monroe just re
cently.
Word lias been received that Paul
Ragan, son of Judge J. M. Ragan of
Hastings, has been wounded while
lighting with the allies in France.
A record for com husking was made
by Curtis Ressell of Ceresco when he
husked and cribbed 138 bushels of com
in ten and one-half hours.
March 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1917, are
the dates set for the Mid-West Ce
ment Users’ association twelfth an
nual convention at Omaha.
The Hastings school board is ask
ing for plans for a $125,000 junior
high school building to accomodate
500 pupils.
A- Richardson county farmer re
cently sold sixteen mules to a Kan
sas buyer for an average of $150 per
head.
Potatoes are being shipped from
Hemingford at the rate of about twen
ty-five cars a day.
The Northwest Nebraska Teachers’
association will hold its annual meet
in# in Rushville, November 3 and 4.
As the result of freight car short
age the Lexington flour mills have
been closed for an indefinite period.
Com throughout Gage county is av
eraging all the way from forty to
fifty bushels to the acre.
Two hundred head of cattle were
sold at auction by Davis B. Bryson at
his farm near Adams, and there were
buyers from points in Gage, Pawnee
and Johnson counties. A cow and
calf brought $171, and two black
polled Angus and Durham bulls sold
for about $150 each. All the stock
sold averaged about $90 per head.
A government expert road builder
will superintend the constructing of
two miles of gravel road at Kearney.
The highway will extend from Eigh
teenth street to the Platte river
bridge.
On December 20 and 21 the Nation
al Farmers’ Equity union is to be in
session at Omaha. This is a co-oper
ative buying and selling organization
and is to bring delegates from Mis
souri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado,
North Dakota and South Dakota,
Iowa, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Wiscon
sin.
Omaha will soon have a central
free employment bureau,- to be con
ducted Jointly by state and federal
authorities. The agency will distrib
ute laborers over Nebraska and ad
joining states.
Prospective bridegrooms have paid
the sum of $23,750 for 11,875 licenses
issued in Douglas county during the
past five years, according to statis
' tics compiled by Herbert Stubben
! dorff, license clerk in the county
judge’s office.
John Williamson, aged C5, and Mrs.
Maggie Ready, aged 64, were married
at Riverton last week. This is Mr.
Williamson’s third marriage and Mrs.
Ready’s fourth.
Butler county fair receipts for the
1916 exhibition totaled $2,565.90, or
$481.36 greater than in 1915.
A distinct education innovation this
year during the Nebraska State
Teachers Association in Omaha, No
vember 8 to 10, will be a moving pic
ture exhibition showing the resources
of Nebraska.
In the first fire drill of the season
by the children of tj>e public schools
of West Point, the building was en
tirely emptied of pupils in just 53
seconds.
As the result of injuries received
while crossing a culvert near Winne
bago a lady has brought suit against
Dakota county for the sum of $10,000.
The hearing before the Cu3ter
county board on the petition for the
proposed northeast county has been
concluded and the board found that
the petition did not contain the names
of a majority of the electors in the
said proposed new county and there
for rejected it. Thus the county di
vision fight came to an abrupt end
and the question will not be an issue
in this campaign. The ill feeling that
has existed in previous division con
tests was conspicuous this year by its
absence.
It has been predicted that the town
of Dunbar, within the next year and
a half, will have a new water works
system, electric lights, a new $20,000
hotel, better roads and several other
needed improvements, as the result of
the organization of the Dunbar Com
munity Commercial club. The town
now has an $18,000 Presbyterian
church, a $10,000 opera house and has
just completed a new $35,000 school
house.
November 21 to 23, the Farmers’
Co-operative State Grain and Live
Stock Shipping association is to hold
its convention in Omaha. This will
bring 800 delegates. This is an or
ganization that deals exclusively with
the problems of marketing.
More new members were added to
Nebraska Presbyterian churches dur
ing the past year than during any
other twelve months, according to re
ports read at the forty-third annual
session of the organization at Hast
ings.
The increase in the price of black
smiths’ work is due to the raise in
price of iron and wood material, ac
cording to the opinion expressed, by
members of the Stale Blacksmith as
sociation at the convention in Hast
ings recently.
Resolutions calling for an increase
in dues in the Nebraska grand lodge
jurisdiction of Odd Fellows, from $4
to $0. were defeated at the grand lodge
convention at Lincoln. The raise
would have applied to all subordinate
lodges in the state.
That Norfolk is growing is shown by
the fact that Glenwood addition, which
is composed of about 150 lots, which
was opened recently, was completely
sold out on the day of opening. About
$50,000 was the aggregate price of the
lots.
Hastings landed the 1917 annual
convention of the Nebraska State Bap.
tist association at the recent meeting
at Fremont. The semicentennial cel
ebration of the organization will be
held next year in connection with the
convention.
The Beatrice Young Women’s Chris
tian association will hold a conference
of associations in Beatrice early in
November, with delegates from var
ious counties in the state in attend
ance.
The highest price ever paid for du
rum wheat on the Omaha market was
reached last week when, a car sold
for $1.70 a bushel. Hard wheat sold
the same day for $1.62^ a bushel, a
record.
Members of the German Lutheran
church of Beatrice have decided to
build a strictly fire-proof, up-to-date
hospital in the city, to cost in th;
neighborhood of $75,000.
The new $20,000 depot being erected
by the Burlington at Tecumseh is as
suming shape, the foundation having
been finished last week. It is ex
pected to have the structure enclosed
in the next two months.
1,105 cars of live stock were re
ceived at the South Omaha stock
yards one day last week. This is the
largest receipts for a single day in
the history of the market.
Citizens of Buffalo county will de-„
cide at the coming election whether
the county will continue under the j
present supervisor form of govern
ment or adopt the commission plan.
A $25,000 bond proposition for the
purpose of constructing a municipal
electric light plant at Beatrice lost
by 93 votes.
Five thousand cornhuskers are
needed in Nebraska at once, it was
announced by Miss M. A. Sadler of j
the Omaha employment bureau. Sev- j
eral thousand more will be needed in j
a short time. Miss Sadler says husk- j
ers can make from $3 to $4 a day, 1
with board and room.
A full quota of teachers from Lin
coln. Nebraska City, Seward, St. Ed I
ward, Arlington, David City, West |
Point and dozens of other Nebraska ;
towns will attend the State .Teachers' j
association convention at Omaha Nov |
8, 9 and 10
The Brown and Lucas garage at Sil
ver Creek, containing seven automo
biles, owned by citizens of the town,
was completely destroyed by fire. Loss
of the building is estimated at $10,000
and the cars were valued at $5,000.
There was no insurance on the gar
age nor its contents.
Burlington railroad officials have
ordered removed a blockade of two
boxcars placed in such a way as to
prevent the Union Pacific from dou
ble-tracking across the former's right
of-way in Hastings. The blockade
was placed in August, 1912.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new $75,000 federal building at A1
liance. Masons are spending consld
erable money remodeling a building
for a suitable home for the members
of the order.
The Nebraska Association of Chris
tion Endeavorers will hold their an
nual convention in Omaha, November
2 to 5, with nearly two thousand
delegates in attendance.
The cornerstone of Niobrara's new
school building was laid last Wednes
day. Members of the Masonic order
participated.
School bonds to the sum of $200,000
were voted by the people of Hastings
at a special election. Hastings schools
have been crowded to overflowing for
several years and additional facilities ,
are badly needed.
Tekamah was chosen as the meet
ing place for 1917 convention of the
Second district of the Women’s Relief
Corps at the annual convention in
Fremont.
The Girls’ Culture club of West
Point has taken the initial step to
wards the establishment of a public
lihrorv fni* tho tnwrn
SEES NEW ALLIANCE
KAISER-CZAR-JAPAN COALITION
LIKELY, SAYS PROFESSOR.
SAYS RUSSIA HALF BANKRUPT
Predicts Muskovites Will Soon Sign
Separate Peace With Teutons—
Neutrals in Europe Busy.
Cambridge, Mass.—Hugo Muenster
berg, professor of psychology at Har
vard university, in an address before
the International Polity club of the
university asserted that he had been
reliably informed that Russia and Ger
many would sign terms of a separate
peace before spring, and that after
this peace there would be an alliance
between Germany, Russia and Japan.
“I know from reliable sources,” he
said, “that Russia is out of joint, is
half bankrupt, is starving and will
be ready for a separate peace before
spring. The result is to be an al
liance between Germany. Austria,
Russia and Japan. Japan and Russia
.ire pushing toward this combination
and an overwhelming majority of the
German people would welcome it to
day. It is the old Bismarckiau tra
dition that Germany ought to be the
friend of Russia and that such an al
liance would be her surest protection.
If we really want to bring peace for
a generation there is no hope but to
bring Germany and England to an un
derstanding before Germany and Rus
sia have made peace and formed an
alliance. Neither the English nor the
German people want this peace-today,
but they ought to want it, for»once
the new alliance is formed it will seek
to crush the ambition of England for
world power. Some neutral groups in
Europe are seeking to bring about this
understanding between Germany and
England. Yet real success can be
expected only if the government of
the United States undertakes this mas
ter work.”
Peace Petition to President.
New York.—A petition to President
Wilson, asking that the United States
take the initiative in calling a neu
tral conference of nations with a view
to terminating the European war, will
he sent to the president after election,
it was announced here by the Amer
ican Neutral Conference committee of
wliicli Hamilton Holt of this city is
president and of which four govern
ors, A. Capper, Kansas; E. F. Dunne,
Illinois; W. N. Ferris, Michigan; and
A. Yager, Porto Rico, are members.
Copies of the peace petition, which
it is asserted already has been signed
by 150,000 persons in England, are
being circulated throughout the
United States.
It is stated that the leading Amer
ican peace societies approve the ob
ject of the committee, which is made
up of 100 prominent American citi
zens.
Record in Exports.
Washington, D. C.—American ex
ports made a new record during Sep
tember, when $512,847,957 worth of
goods were sent abroad. The exports
were greater than ever before in one
month, and exceeded the previous
record, made last August, by about
$3,000,000. In announcing these sta
tistics the department of commerce
pointed out that the American export
trade was approaching the $5,000,000,
000 mark. The total of exports for
the twelve months ending with Sep
tember was $4,971,945,883, exceeding
that of the same period the year be
fore by $1,794,181,699. Imports fell
off sharply from totals of previous
months, totaling $164,128,604 for Sep
tember or less by $35,000,000 than
those of August.
Crime in Wyoming Increases.
Cheyenne, Wyo.—The fact that Col
orado went “dry” is assigned as the
principal reason for a large increase
in the number of arrests in Cheyenne.
During the first nine and one-half
months of 1916, the police records
show 1,883 persons have been arrest
ed here, as against 1,254 during the
entire preceding year. The greater
number of arrests-this year have been
for drunkenness and prostitution, a
fact, due, it is said, to the migration
to Wyoming of undesirable Colorado
characters when the latter state went
"dry” January 1, 1916.
U. S. Troops and Mexicans Clash.
San Antonio, Tex.—American troops
and Mexicans clashed near San Jose
in the Big Bend country, according to
a report received by General Funston
from Colonel Joseph Gaston, com
mander of the district. The fight
lasted forty-five minutes. No losses
were suffered by the Americans.
Exclude Germans From Oxford.
London.—The House of Commons
has passed the second reading of the
Rhoades estate bill, which would ex
elude Germans henceforth from en
joying scholarships at Oxford univer
sity under the Cecil Rhodes trust
fund.
Blast Kills Twenty Miners.
Fairmont, W. Va.—A terrific explo
sion wrecked the Jamison No. 7 coal
mine here, causing the death of 20
men who were in the mine at the
time of the explosion.
To Urge Sale of Islands.
San Juan, Porto Rico.—The dele
gates from the Danish West Indies,
on their way to Copenhagen to urge
the sale of the islands to the United
States, sailed from this port for New
York, after a week’s delay at this
point.
U-35 Commander Honored.
Berlin.—The order pour le merite
has been awarded Lieut. Cofnmander
Amauld de la P'rriere, commandfer
of the submarine U 35, for his achieve
ments in sinking 126 vessels.
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tuelle militiirifd)e Stage fann biefes
Pertrauen mir nod) meiter befeftigen,
benn XeutfdjIanbS Sadje ftebt gut
fdjon besbaib, meil burd) ben 3ufam=
menbrud) ber ruffifeben Piaffenoffen
fibe unb bie Perbinbcrung eines
ruffiftb ■ rumcinifdjen Xurd)brndje»
bie ^nitiatioe in beutfeben tgeinben
geblieben ift.
?luf bie iocoeutung ber Statnpfe bet
$erniannftabt ift in ben Seridjten
fdjon mieberljolt bingemiefen morben.
£ie £atfad)e, bafj ©eneral bon
galfenbapn, ber bisberige (ifjcf
be3 beutfdjen ©encraiftabe3, ciner
ber berborragenbffen giibrer auf
beutfdjer ©cite, mit biefer 2luf*
gabe betraut tnurbe, fpridjt fiir
bie SBidjtigfeit be3 Unternebmen3.
2)ian biitte bem friibcren ©eneral*
ftobsdjcf mofjl fount biefen tfSoften
iibertragen, tbcttti feitte ganje ?luf*
gabe nttr barin, beftanben biitte, £er*
mannftabt 3U bcrteibigcit, uttb e3 ift
biel plaufibler anjuttebmen, bafj ©e
neral bon galfenbatm ben ®cfel)I
bat, eitten ©ttrd)brud) nad) Siiben 311
berfudjett uttb meftlid) bon SBufareft
mit ber Slufrollung ber rumunifdjeit
grant ju beginttett.
tSemerfeni'mert ift ba§ giiti3lid)e
SBerfagen ber ritmanifdjen . ruffi*
fd)en Offeufibc im ©ebiete bon
Oornamatra, bem gegebenen Slit*
griffspunfte gegen Defterreid) - Un
gant, meil bon 2oruaroatra au3
bie grofjen ©ifettbabnlinicn iiber
Sllaiifenburg nad) bem Siiben Sic*
benbiirgcnS am Ieidjteften 311 unter*
brcdjen maren, mettn ttttr bie 23erge
nid)t maren. Sie uttb bie £ruppcit
ber beutfdjen iBerbiinbeten baben eitt
SBorbringcn ber geinbe bort trof) ber
grbfjten Jlnftrengungcn unmbglid)
gemadjt uttb roerben bie3 aud) in ber
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niffe ber lefjten SSodjcn baben bic3
mit iiberseugenbcr £eutlid)feit be
miefctt. SBie ber 9?eid)3faii3ler felbft
fagte, fittb fdjmere Siiimpfe im Often
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bag fRufjIanb fidi nidjt bon ber gemifj
fomtnenben beutfdjen Offenfinc Jnt
Often iibcrnimpeln laffett mid. giir
biefen gmci merben bie Sriiftc ge>
fpart.
Ste S3ulgaren tjaben ujre ^tei
fungen auf ber gansen Stout,
namcutlid) aber auf bcm tbeft>
lidjen &IiigcI, ftctig berbcffert unb
bie?, trofc mieberbolter Mngriffe ber
ber'biinbcten Serben, ffiuffen unb
Sranjofen, $ie §oljen non Haimaf.
colon, bie SKonaftir unb ben gan^en
fiiblidjen 2eil bc§ fruberen Serbian
gegen Siibett fdjiipcn foil, bleibcn ffeft
in bulgarifdjcn £iinben. ^ie 2M*
bnngen iiber ferbifdje Solbatcn, bie
auf bem beimatlidjen33obcn fompfen,
geboren ino 'Jteidj bcr Sabel. 2Jian
bat and) fcit £agen nicbt§ mebr
babon gebbrt, unb ibueu ift c§ bid*
Ieidjt ergangeii trie ben breben £on
Hofafen, bic brei Sagcmarfdje fecit
in Ungarn eiugebrungeit maren. Si*1
finb audj oitf Siimmcrfeiebcrfcben
fcerfdjmunbcn, toeil fie eben nie eji
ftiert baben.
fSiefelben iiberfdjtoenglicbcn_S2ii*
gpwnelbvngen, bie in biefem Salle
bnrtfj bie£atfatfjcn alS foldje gefennt
jeidmet feerben, fomnien and) bom
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bin, unb man barf fidjer geben, bab
cpierpont Sftorgan? Weife itadb bon
bon, um bort eine neue $250,000,.
000 . Wnlcibe amufniipfen. *rt ben
bpficribften 33emiibungen bet enten
te * fpreffe unb tbter iammerlicben
?lbleger in unfcrm Canbe, febr, fetj?
Piel 3u tun bat.
Sie ©efamtcerlufte ber Writer
tocibrenb brci donate ber Somme
Slampagne betrugen, mic nad; ben
amtlid)eu SSerluftliften auS3urcd)ncn
ift mebr als 300,000 2Jiann, im 'J/lo
nat September mebr ale 3800 tDi'ann
pro Sag. Sie Grtungenfdjaften ber
gefamteu Dffcnfioe ftellen fid) in ib
rent biBljcr toeiteften Umfang in bet
SBefefcnng pon GombleB unb ciner ge
ringfiigigen SBerldngerung ber ?ln
griffBbafiB ttbrblicb bei Siepcal unb
am Siibeiibc bei 23ermanboPiller;
bar. 21 it ein3elncn Stelleit be?
1 SlampfgebietB mogett bic Sldmpfe jur
3eit bin unb ber. tyapaumc unb fse
ronne biirftcu cineB SageB Piclleidtl
falleit, mic Gomblcg gcjalleii ift, aber
tiur nad) eincr ttocbmaligcn unb fiir
bie 2lfliierten Pielleid)t fataftropba %
Ien 3d)mdd)ung ibrer Slrafte.
©03 ben bcutfdjeti Grfolg, b. It
bie tyibglid)feit bie Deutfdje grout
tro‘g einiger Seiloerlufte 311 balten,
Por alleu Sittgett crmoglid)t, ift baB
burd) bie bcntfcbe SSertcibigung be
bingie langfamc 2?orriicfcn ber 2lOi
ierten, baB eitt 2luBbanen tpeit*rcr
ftarf befeftigter SteHuitgen Winter ei
ner pcrlorcncn Stellung geftattet.
Stumer micber merben bie 2IQiicrteu
nette „erfte unb 3mcite Cinicn" ber
Scutfdjeit 311 nebiiten baben, biB ibre
im i'lutbabc gefdjmddjten Siriifte Per
fagen. Sicfer 3citpunft mirb unb
inufj fominen, er ift eine absolute
9iotmenbigfeit, bebingt burd) bie
furdjtbareit -Cpfcr, mit benen bie 311*
liicrten tljre SSorteile 3u be3ablen Ijo
bett.
SaB ga3it ber befprotbenen Sat
fadjen, auB benen baB llnmoglidje
beB SitrtbbrucbB bnreb bie beutfdje
gront berporgebt, ift Pot alien Sin
gen baB, bug baB iSertraucn bercr.
bic auf SeutfdjlanbB pcllftdnbigei)
Sieg baucit, auf umimftoBlidjen Sat
fadien aufgebaut ift, bie burd) nidjts
auB ber &k>It gefdjafft toerben fon
nen.
.'emnbcfgncrtrag mit ber SdfiDCP,.
8 o n 5 o it. bent ipanbdvat
fontmett ^luifdjett £eutfd)Iatit> unb
ber £d)tnei3 tnirb, tnie bent Sicuter
fdjen bureau auf @runb einer *43ct •
liner Sepefdje nott Slmfletbaitt aug
gemelbet inorbcn, beftimmt, bag bie
cigettett Grgeugniffe bcr beiben Siin
ber, fotnie bie 23arcn, bie in jebem
ber beiben Sdr.bcr angeferligt tner«
ben, auggetaufdjt tnerben fbttnen, fo<
tneit fie nidjt fiir ben beimifdjen Ser
braud) beniitigt tnerben.
2feutfd)Iaub foil fid) jur monntli
dictt Sieferuttg non 253,000 ioniten
^tofjlen, fotnie and) non bebeutenbui
iblcngeu nott 0taI)I unb Gifen ucr
pflidjtet baben, bercn bie 0d)tnci) fiir
iljren eigetten ©ebraud) bcbarf. Jleibe
Jeile einigtett fid) barauf, bofj bie
Sragc ber Slusfubr - Grlaubnigfdjei
tie fo fd)neH alg mbglid) 3ur Grlebi
gung fotnmen foil.
SRit ©e3ttg ouf beutfd)e in ber
0d)tnei3 aufgcftapelte SSaren, fiir bie
3ttr 3cit feinc Slugfubrerlaubnig ge
tniibrt tnerben fann, bat bie Sttuneit
fid) nerfflicfjtet, biefe SSaren aiifait
betnabren unb fie nnd) Sfeetibigntig
be§ ®ricgeg Xeutfd)Ianb 3U3ufte(icn.
©efutbe um Slugfubr non tfricgg
material, bag in ber ©djtneii aug
fRobmatcrial berfertigt tnorben, trel
djeg au§ Teutfcblanb ftammf, roer
ben bebufg ('Jenebmigung einem
fdbtnei3erifd)en 0ottberaugfdjufe tin
terbreitet tnerben. '
SMefeg Hbfotnmen crlifcbt, tnie eg
in ber Dcpefdje beifet, int Jlpril 1917.
?Imrrifa’g rirfiger G^portbanbel.
23 a f b i n g t o n. Tex anterifa
nifrfje ©sport bat im ibi'onat Huguft
cincrt 2Bert bon $510,000,000 er
rcidjt, cine in ber ganjcn 2Belt nod) "*
nidjt bageteefcne .§bbe nnb um $35,
000,000 mebr aid ber bidljerige $6
bercforb im SJai unb um $45,000,
000 bbber aid im Sl|i'i biefed Sob
red.
, £er Smport belief fid) auf $199,
247,391, um $47,000,000 teeniger
aid im Steforbmonat Su'd- aber bo
ber aid in irgenb eiiteni borberigen
21uguft. $er ©sport belief fief) fiir
bie mit Slugufi beenbeten 12 HJionate
auf $4,750,000,000, ber Smport auf
$2,300,000,000. £ie Silanj 3»
©unficn ber 2?er.£taaten belauft fid)
auf $2,165,000,000 gegen $1,363,
000,000 refp. $374,000,000 in ben
jtrei borberigen Sabren.
itfuftralicn ftimntt fiir allgemeinc
23ef)rpffid)t.
2JI e I b o u r n e. £er aufinlifdjc
'Premier §ugbe§ bat, fropbem er tee
gen feiner .vjaltung Don ber ?lrbeiter
organifatioit, ber er angeljbrte, aud
gefdjlofjeit toorben ift, pin spicbidrit
iiber bie ©infiibrung*ber allgcmcinen
23ebrpflid)t burdigefebt. $ie gu bie*
fem 3teedc eingebradjteT'orlage teur
bc Dom 'Parlament mit 47 gegen 12
Stimmen angenonunen. ©d teitb
erteartet, baf) bad “Plebidcit audfal
leu teirb, teic ©nglaitb ed toiinfd]i ft
ba merfteurbigerteeife bie Srauen’,
bie in Sluftralien bad aCgemeine
Stimmrcdit befiben, fiir bie ©ntfen
bung teeitere'r Sruppeti nad)@uropa
finb.