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Tourlnr. elevut condition 27ft
' 1915 REO
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1914 VELIE
600
1911 OAKLAND
42i
1914 BUICK B-36
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1913 OVERLAND ' u.
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1915 HUPMOBILE
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1913 PEERLESS
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1913 KISSEL KAR
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1913 VELIE
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- 1913 CARTER CAR
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, 1912 CHALMERS'
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1913 STUDEBAKER
Touring, fin. chape 260
1913 CROW ELKHART
Touring, good chap 200
1913 OVERLAND
Touring, fin. condition : 226
1913 DETROITER
Touring , 226
1912 CHALMERS
Touring f 260
1913 AUBURN
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1914 FORD
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1914 CARNATION
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Oak C. Redlck and wlf to Hlatt
oompany, aouthwMt corner Twenty
flrat and Pratt at rets la, 48x4 $ 1,600
Allica M. Rohwer and wife to David
E. Buck, Thirty-fifth street. 11.4
reet soutn ot weoater avenue,
west aide, 40.SxlS0.fi
Hattie h. Hume and hue band to
Henry Vols, northeast corner Forty
ninth and Nicholas streets, 4812
George fc Co., to W. A. Fraaer, north
east corner Happy Hollow boule-
- vard and Paveaport street, Irregu
lar piece
Barker oompany to Ouhhllde Jacob
sen, southwest corner Thirtieth and
Lafayette avenue, 47,6rll0
Jacob P. Palter and Wife to Charlotte
H. Tartar, Davenport street. 100
feet east of Fiftieth street, south
side, 60x186
Charlotte M. Tergey and husband to
Jacob P. Falter, Orant street, 81
feet east of Twenty-ninth street,
north aide, 40x100
Henry D, Rice et al to Jennie
Storms, ijsrimore avenue, ivv xeei
west of Twenty-aecond atreet, south
side, 16x128 1,000
The Hill estte to Dora Horn, Park
avenue, zuo zeet aoutn or mcKory,
east aide, 76x160
Barker company to Emerson Bene
dict, Nicholas street, 61.1 feet of
Oregon Trail, north side, 47x130.06
Florence M. Richards et al to Fred
Carlson, Fowler avenue, IS feet east
of Twenty-seventh street, north
side, 47x101
William A, Mathews and wife to Ed
ward M. Storms, Twenty-third
street, 60 feet south of Sanler
. street, west side, 60x124
Thomas Spellman and wife to Samuel
Zlotky, Thirtieth street, 200 feet
south of Pratt street, east side,
48.76x110
Marcus F. Wood and wife to Marie
Moss, southwest corner Thlrty
elghth and Arbor streets, 118x121..
Richard Ware Hall to Charles R.
. Sherman, northeast corner Thtrty-
sixth and Farnam streeta, 112.6x140,
northwest corner Thirty-fllth and
rarnam streets, juvxiu ...
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS,
By direction of the propeVty committee
of the Board of Regents of the University
of Nebraska; bids will be received until 4
o'clock p. m. Saturday. July 22, 1011, at the
office of the undersigned, for construction
of an Agricultural Engineering building on
the University Farm campus near Lincoln.
Separate bids will be received for Installa
tion of heating thd ventilating, plumbing
and electric wiring for said building; all
bids on building construction and the several
Installations of equipment must be In strict
accordance with plans, drawings and spe
cifications aa amended now In file In the
office of the superintendent of construction
In the University Administration building at
Lincoln. Bidders must apply to and confer
with the superintendent on all matters con
cerning construction and bids thereon and
must ji all case use the blank forms pre
pared under the direction of aald superin
tendent for bidding purposes. Approximate
cost of aald building Including equipment
moeompaoled by bank cashier's checks or
certificate of deposit payable unconditionally
to the Board of Regents of the University of
Nebraska, In tbe amounts snd for purposes
stated in the 'Instructions to bidders'" ac
companying plans and specifications. Bids
must be sealed and plainly marked on the
Outside covsr "Agricultural Building" or
"Engineering Building Equipment" as 'the
ease may be (heating, plumbing, etc.). The
right is reserved to reject any and all bids.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA,
. i Bj. dales, Secretary,
, Lincoln.
FSjll-SI-Mjjrt.
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LEGAL NOTICE.
The annual meeting of the shareholders
oi me Meoraaaa savings ft Loan Assocla
tloo will be held In the Association's office,
211 South 18th Street, Saundere-Kennedy
Building, Omaha,. Nebraska, Wednesday,
July 6th, 1011, at 1 p. m. Polls for election
of three dlreotors open at IS o'clock, noon.
mu t&i e p. m. on me same aay.
JOHN B, BRANDT. Secretary.
JuS0-Jull-2-t
FLOATED O'ER CITY OF MEXICO
beneral Scott'a Pavmona Flaw Dla
coverca la a Washington
Home.
T. i .
it wac wnne looiting over an un
used portion of the residence of the
commandant at the marine barracks
at Washington that Mrs. Barnett,
wife Major General George Barnett.
discovered in a box in an unused
store room an old framed flag whose
yellow silken folds crumbled to the
touch.
Believing it to be a valuable relic,
she sent for an exnert. who Droved
it to be none other than the flag car-
nca oy tne marine corps battalion
attached to the army of occupation
under the command of Major General
Winfield Scott in its march from Vera
t-ruz to the City of Mexico in 1847.
Ihe highly elaborate decoration
upon tne old banner is painted in oil.
The painter of this device was Joseph
Bush, an artist who lived in Rnonn
in the early '40s, giving the date of
the flag to be .1843. -It
bears the legitimate insignia of
me marines, oy i.ana, oy Sea, but
the motto, "From Tripoli to the halls
of Montezuma," was painted upon
the flag at a later date. Both of
these legends are employed in the
stirring present-day "Marines' hymn,"
the first verse of which is as follows:
From the halls of Montesuma
To th. shores of Tripoli,
Wo fl.ht our country's battles
On tho land and on the aa; ,
Admiration of the nation.
We're the finest ever seen,
And we glory in tho title of ,
United States marine.
That this was too valuable a me
mento to be kept in privacy was the
decree of Commandant Barnett of the
marine corps, and he has had it
placed in the band room of the ma
rine barracks. Philadelphia Ledger.
England Asserts Raisins
Are Contraband of War
(Correspondence of The Associated Frees. )
Athens. June IS. A larn-e nurhher
of Greek exporters and agriculturists
have been hard hit by the decision of
tne nrittsn naval authorities in the
Mediterranean that dried fiira am to
be regarded as contraband of war. Aft-'
er raisins, tobacco, olive oil, wine and
silver-bearing lead; figs have been one
of the principal articles of export
from Greece.
FRENCH TELL VIEWS
Comment on British Stand in Inter
parliamentary Economic Conference.
QUOTE ADVICE OF ASftUITH'S
(Correspondence ot the Associated Press.)
Pans, June 1. Mr. Asquith's ad
vice to the British delegates to the
recent interparliamentary economic
conference to "be careful not through
excitement or blindness, or with the
desire to clinch a victory, to take
measures that wilt do you more harm
than the enemy," was well given.
the opinion of some French economic
writers.
Before the first internarli amentarv
conference there were feari in Frenrli
as well as in English circles as to
what mitrht be the results nf n.
authoritative discussion by parliamen
tarians ot international affairs, and
the results of the economic confer
ence have not allayed such fears.
Max noschiller, in the Revue de
Paris, says there is orrar dancer that
the hasty conception of these confer
ences, put into practice, would turn
against their authors, and that the
only plan of economic reciprocity be
tween the entente allies thus far de
veloped is of a nature to arouse the
liveliest apprehensions; that it was
even liable to bring about differences
and provoke grave conflicts of inter
est between the allies after the war.
M. Hoschiller declares "imnniiihl.
of application between the allies
themselves," the protectionism in four
degrees propo.sed by the conference,
as follows:
Reciprocal referential tariffs be
tween the United K inerlnm ann ...
colonial possessions.
Reciprocal and oreferrntial tariff.
secondary to" the foregoing, between
the British empire ana Its allies.
Favorable treatment, but in the
?'der ' Preference, to neutrals.
Prohibitive tariffs on oroducta of
countries now enemies of the entente
powers.
Russia's Position Considered.
In the first olarc. the nri.r.n,:.i
reciprocal tariffs proposed for the
United Kingdom for Its colonial pos
sessions put Great Britain in hostility
with Russia and in eventual conflict
with her own colonies. The latter,
M. Hoschiller t,ei-ti ...ill
larger advantages from the excep
tional situation in which events have
placed them as providers of raw ma
terials in this industrial war.
Canada, which hniicrht ma.. u.
$426,000,000 worth of goods from the
Yi otat.e a"ng' the fiscal year
1914-15 and nnl tonmniwi I.
Great Britain, notwithstanding pref
erential duties of 33 1-3 per cent,
would be reluctant tn rri i
economic arrangement that would im
pede importations from the United
States to the profit of the mother
country and pay dearer for products
which the latter would not perhaps
..I Ifamuli to lurmsn.
Canada, at the same time, is the
great competitor of Russia in the Brit
'sh rket, its exportations of wheat
iu .ngiana navinc con fmm 71
cent of the total in 1882 to 54 per cent
of the total in 1911, while Russia's
percentage of British consumption re
mained stationary at about 15 per
cent Discrimination against Russia
would shut it out of the mirb . to
gether. Russia's importations of
wneai into uermanv were sio nnn
tons, aa aroinst .lisrwi fmm r t.
M Boradaievsky, pointing out the sig
nificance Of these ftoriirea tn th. D.
n . . . . 'i
nuasian Agricultural congress, stated
that unless the entente allies facili
tate the expoortation of Russian prod
ucts the empire would be forced after
iu war into an economic arrange,
ment with Germany.
jniguuiinc, president ot an
economic commission attached to the
Russian ministry of finance, wrote re
cently that it would be impossible for
Russia to boycott a country like Ger
many, which was before the war its
best customer, unless the entente
allies opened their markets more
!?rge!y-tHe Pint ou' that Great
fni i fSSffli. w ,orei?n markets in
1913 850.ooo.oon mhie. ; i
.. . . -ill' -" ... v.ii.i, eiiu
4,40.0UU,000 rubles in alimentary
t"YuutlBi Vl wmtn AU3BU s part was
only 125,000,000 rubles, insignificent
in comparison with Russia's exports
Canada Denendunt Ml YJm V a-la-
It is Dointed out hv M H
the case of Canada that its oreaent
financial dependence on New York
will eventually make it impossible for
ii iw ireai tne united states otherwise
than on the basis of a reciprocal tariff
and that, in any case, the likelihood
of an economic war such as would be
involved in the interparliamentary
conference s proposed tariff is impos-
.uc uciwccn inc two countries.
ine interparliamentary commis.
sion s proposition of preferential tar
iffs between Great Britain and the
colonies would, in th opinion of M.
rioscnuier, make it impossible for
rrance to accept tne arrangement.
Ensland was France's heat N,atnn,aP
before the war; it bought goods to the
value of a billion and a half franr.
(principally silks, atomobiles and Dro-
v.. .iHiw in ijij articles
in wnicn Germany could not comoete.
Consequently discrimination by Great
nrtiain against Germany is of no ad
vantage to it. while discrimination
by Great Britain in favor of its colo-
les would be a substantial disadvan
tage to it.
Ihe sumptuary measures taken hv
i i . - .
uKiauu to lorce economy imnnv ita
people and thus ease exchange and
freight, and the consequent menace to
French silks and ribbons, is nninterl
out by M. Yves Guyot' as showing the
irritating character of these eco
nomic problems and how necessary it
iui me amca to go Slow.
David-Mennet. nresident nf th
Chamber of Commerce nf Parie hn
also warned the senatorial committee
on economic organization that' the
economic situation with England and
Di...:. . .ii- i .
ixueaia is must ucucate oy reason ot
the action of these countries against
French luxuries. "Our onlv nnaaihle
reply," he says, "would be to tax
products that affect the masses."
See War of Tariffs.
A war of tariffs between the allies
said by some writers to be the in
evitable consequence of the economic
war against Germany as proposed by
the parliamentary conference, ainre
discrimination against the central em-
lres would leave France and Russia
i the necessity of com oft in o- with
Great Britain for markets that would
compensate them for the loss of Ger
man and Austria trade.
"Fortunately, said an authority on
economic questions concerning the
work of the conference, "the oarlia-
mentarians who have been discussing
these questions were absolutely with
out official credentials; their discus-
5 D
"Good-Bye, Soldier Boy!" By Windsor McCay
V e Copyright, ills, International News Service.
n nunorea tnoussna or mors nomes an giving some loved one to rush to the Mexican border. For every
lad that has donned the khaki there is a tear-dimmed mother, sister, sweetheart or wife to bid him a fond adieu
there is a broken-hearted woman.
Winsor McCay, the famous cartoonist, at one of the New York City armories heard the boys singing a song
which inspired him to make this csrtoon. He says the song is a ftittag fareweU for the soldier lads. The song
at 1 1 tan Krtlrtier Hmi Th aAsia a.s
' You're a man that's brave and true, soldier boy, ,
And I'm mighty proud of you, soldier boy,
When the bugle call so clear called for men you answered
"Here I" with a voice so full of cheer, soldier boy I
Chorus. (
Soldier boy, one kiss before you go.
Soldier boy, I'll miss you, that you know. ' ,
Evry night I'll pray for you far away,
And trust to Him above to send you back some day;
In my heart a love will always yearn,
' And I'll wait for your return,
So go and fight for the cause you know is right.
God bless you, my soldier boy I
The song is both sad and Insolrina-. and it made ervne !, u a . -c .
lly the guardsmen had dropped the peace and comfort of their daily lives in response to the president's call for
""j w wav a vaj laaau sa asie
sions were mere talk, and when the
economic relations of the allies be
tween themselves and with neutrals
and the central empires are taken up
all, the uneasiness caused bv the
propositions of the previous confer
ence, will be dissipated.
"In the talk of boycotting the cen
tral empires, well-intentioned people
have been carried too far by their
own zeal. France needs German coal;
it needs the German market which, in
spite of the treaty of Frankfort, took
enougn rren.cn goons to more than
balance the coal bought by France up
to 1900. France will not easily get
seriously and officially, some, if not
coal on as good terms elsewhere and,
whatvis more important, it will hardly
be able, to trade its own goods for it.
"The i proposal to engage in a war
of tariffs has already produced one
result; It has furnished Germany with
an additional argument to overcome
the hesitancy of Austria to enter the
central European union.
Dutch-in Danger
Of Being Evicted
(Correspondence of The Associated Preas.)
Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 15.
A part of the population of Odessa, on
the Black Sea, who are of Dutch de
scent, are said to be m great danaer
ot eviction by the Russian govern,
ment unless they can prove their non.
German origin. A population of 80,.
000 is involved, and they have just ap.
plied for help to Dutch authorities
in confirming the facts of the case.
Their history is a romantic one, dat
ing back two centuries.
A considerable number of members
of the Anabaptist or Mennonite sect
left their homes in the northern Dutch
province of Friesland in the seven
teenth, century for Germany in order
to escape the persecution to which
they were subjected. Establishing
themselves in west Prussia, they
gradually spread along the entire
lower Vistula river, even into Poland.
being apparntly everywhere welcomed
for the ability in draining work which
they had acquired in their own water
ridden country.
Sends Twelve Relatives
To War and Gets Medal
(Correspondenes of The Associated Press.)
Vienna, June 15. Emperor Francis
Joseph has bestowed a madonna me
dallion ot silver into which his signa
ture is wrought, and 500 kronen in
money, upon Frau Marie Mirtler of
Waldsberg, Meiermark, in recognition
of the fact that she has given to the
army no less than seven sons, three
stepsons and two grandsons.
LANDLORDS HOST
HELPTHE TENANT
Italy Adopts Meaaurei by
Which It Is Hoped to In
crease Agriculture.
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Rome, Italy, June 21. In order to
solve the problems of farm labor and
farm production, Italy has introduced
a set of communistic measures that
are stated to be more comprehensive
than any of those yet devised by the
various countries of Europe now at
war.
By decree of the minister of agri
culture the entire farming system of
the country has been reorganized on a
mutual basis by which land owners
are forced to aid their tenants, by
which prefects of departments are re
quired to oversee the relations of both
owner and tenant, by which the gov
ernment itself is compelled to buy
and loan machinery, and, finally, by
which tenants must help each other
and loan both machinery and labor.
The decree provides for the exemn-
tion from military service of the
farmer if he be the onlv male left to
till the soil. It also encouraa-es the
employment of women labor on the
tarm, giving them proper pay and per
mitting them to make contracts of the
character customarily made in peace
times wun men laDorers.
Cheap Kates.
Laborers are granted a 75 ner cent
reduction in railway fares, iust as if
on military service, so tbat they may
be shifted cheaply from one district
to another according to labor demands
and the rotation of crops. Special
courts to settle disputes betwen labor
ers or farmers have been provided for
each farming district.
When a tenant is forced to employ
extra help the land owner is required
to pay one-half of the wages of such
help. Special commissions are also
being established in each department
,to regulate the distribution of labor, of
machinery, and of horses, mules and
oxen, no matter who the owner, so
that the most pressing crops and har
vests may be attended to in time.
These commissions are also emoow-
ered to transfer such labor, machinery
and animals from one province to an
other.
Use Brown Bread.
It is honed these measureswill keeo
up the normal production of the land
which has recently suffered severely
by the calling of farmers undir arms.
This present year the wheat'eron of
I Italy is but 94.1 per cent of last year, I
thouKh 3 Der cent more than the aver.
age of the five-year period of 1909
1913, when the yearly wheat import of
Italy was valued at over $15,000,000.
From August last to the end of March
ot this year Italy imported more than
twice as much wheat as for the pre
ceding year.
Brown bread has been the rule on
all the tables of Italy for the last four
months. The price of wheat is more
than twice what it ia in the United
States, being $8 the quintal, or $3 more
per quintal tnan Detore the war.
Soldiers Like the
Modish Dress Styles
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Berlin, June 15. The campaign of
the Munich police president, of vari
ous generals commanding home de
partments, and of the thirty-five
woman's clubs against women who
dress too modishly and conspicuously
does not meet undivided approval.
Many newspapers have been printing
editorials and letters from their read
ers, protesting against the effort to
modify feminine dress. One of these
Protestants is an officer of a hatterv
of artillery in France, who writes:
tie wno nas experienced for him
self at the front something of the
much discussed 'arravitv of the times'
does not wish at any price to see all
tne Deauty and joy ot life destroyed
by an ashengray Puritanic mood. We
think with gratitude of the women
whose beauty our soul delighted in
during the short rest at home from
the burdens of the war, and we for
bid, with all the straightforwardness
of the soldier at the front, that any
one, even in his thoughts, accuse these
women of lacking a proper apprecia
tion of the earnestness of the war.
You should ask the furloughed men,
from general down to private, whether
they would like to see Germany pop
ulated merely witn -spectacles from
those thirty-five women's clubs."
Netherlands Line
Up Annual Fairs
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Amsterdam. Netherlands. Tune 15
Annual fairs, on the lines of those at
Leipsic, Nishni Novgorod, London
and Lyons, are to be held in Amster
dam, for Holland, and at Soerabaya
for the Netherlands East Indies, ac
cording to plans set on foot by the
International Export syndicate that
has been founded for the purpose at
Amsterdam. It is intended to estab
lish sale palaces in these centers.
where manufacturers and dealers may
exhibit their products the whole year
round.
TIED WITHRED TAPE'
Methods Employed by Government
in Doing Business Assailed
by Some of Generals.
ORDERS AND CANCELLATIONS
(Correspondsncs of The Associated Press.)
Paris, June 15. Red tape in France
was expected to crumble under the
pressure of war, but it seems to show
resisting powers quite equal to those
of the armies, armor and concrete.
The late General Gallleni vigorously
assailed.it and was thought to hav
made a big breach in Its breastwnrL-ir
at leststJp-so-far ss It concerned the
war rrepartment. hvidence comes to
UthltSvery dav. however, ahnuina
that Its principal strongholds arc untouched.
Amonsr the latest examnlea nf what
the French call "paperasserie," a
mornlnar naner nrnrlni-ea a nlmt...
graph showing a roll eight and one
half yards long, made of sheets ol
official paper pasted together; it
required the time of several clerks
several days to note upon these
sheets duplicate entries of the bal
ances of pay and meal indemniticn
due to the soldiers of a single com
pany while on leave. What the same
expenditure of time and effort would
amount to In the entire army of sev-
iiimiuii wen may uc imagincu, ;
but calculated with difficulty. ' '
Mora Red Tape. ',
The Oeuvre cites a case in which
more than 2,000 postal money orders
for 10 centimes (2 cents) and 20 cen
times (4 cents), each accompanied
by a note written by hand, were sent
each month from the commanding)
bases of army corps to soldiers who
had been sent to the rear to work in
munition factories at C . The offi
cer in charge who receives these pos
tal orders at C from the different
army corps acknowledges receipt of
each order, writes a new note, adds
a new stamp and a new signature,
then sends tne order to the director
of the works in which the soldier is
employed; the works' director ack
nowledges receipt of the sums, enters ,
them in a special register, after which :
the order is finally delivered to the
soldier in exchsnge for a receipt and
which receipt takes the Inverse road
and follows the different hierarchic
suges until it gets back to the army
corps, ' The soldier, provided with '
Identifying papers, can then collect
his 2 cents or 4 cents, as the case
may be, in exchange for another re
ceipt, another signature and another
tamp.
' An order was given to all the
heada of the different services of
the war department that all clerical
work should be simplified and that
every document not indispensable
should be done away with. However,
it recently transpired that the director
of every Red Cross hospital received
a circular catling for a detailed re
port regarding each patient treated in
the , hospital, comprising four full
typewritten pages of questions. An
experimental demonstration proved
that it required two days' time of one
of the nurses to fill out this circular,
as requested for a single patient Con
sequently had the demand been com
plied with, it would have been nec
essary to multiply the hospital staff
several times to do this clerical work
in addition to the complicated book
keeping and the individual records
made up for the personal file of each
man brought into the hospital.
Mass of Orders,
The Crl de Psris cites another case
in which this red taoe in the hands
of people not expert with it multi
plies itself. A circular from the sani
tary department of an army corps in
formed the officers in command of
different units thst they were author
ized to buy shoes for the men to be
shipped from the rear at the mini
mum price of 20 francs; three days
later a new circular cancelled the
first and announced that it was a
maximum price of 20 francs that was
authorized; four days later a third
circular cancelled both the others and
announced that the authorization in
question applied only to troops in
fighting units of an army corps of
the entire force behind the front
It has often been stated that the
deficiencies of armament, both in the
army and navy, were largely the re-
suit oi rea taoe. or "Monsieur Le
Bureau," as the French call the bu-
reaucrats who resisted before the war
and are still resisting any reform
after twenty-two months of an ex
perience that shows the futility of a ;
rent ucai m incir crtori. II mo new
French vigor, born of the war, has
not overcome it, it is, perhaps, be
cause it is protected to a great extent
by politicians.
France Gives Fruit
Industry a Boost
(Correspondence ol The Associated Trass.)
Paris, June 15. The minister of ag
riculture has just organized the
French fruit Industry, both the in-.
crease in production and processes of
preserving, so as to compete with
other fruit-producing; countries.
The recent prohibition of the im
portation of fruit into France called
attention to the fact that while no
country is better adapted to the pro
duction of fruits, France consumed
annually about 60,000 tons more than
she produced. . ," .
M. Meline, minister of aa-nculture.
attributes the heavy importations of
fruits into France to the fact that.
aside from grapes, spples and pears,
tne rrencn iruit growers generally
have not developed as they might
have done, their method of cannine
and preserving, and distribution of
preserved fruits. The commission
just appointed will be expected to re
port upon the favorable localities in
France for the building of canning
establishments, and other ways of
furnishing a quick market , to fruit
growers in the regions adapted to fruit
culture.
Russian Prisoners of War
Want to Stay in Hungary
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.
Vienna, June 15. The Austro-Hun-
garian government has more than 50,- ;
wv pcLiuuue iui niiKciiamu irom nus- .
sian prisoners of war. What to do
with them ' is still a problem, but
f granting them is considered , very
ikely. These men do not wish to re- ;
turn to their country, and since Austria-Hungary
can make good use of .
them, there is no objection to their
remaining, borne of them have of
fered their services against the. Ital
ians, but this has been refused. - ...
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