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ATLANTA MARKETS'
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ATLANTA. GA, Jan. *—Cotton by wagon.
btMdy. 28.65 c.
KALT
tteit—Brlek. toeilcetos. pr case. $7.90; «a
pteia. 34 50'- Wbita Kock, per cwt..
•1.50; Jack Froat, 35 *4b. parUfw, $1.25;
Caoae. caae 25 2-Ib. packoqee. •1.00, blocks, 50
pooada eacb. 60c. .
CRACKERS *
Flor’.ea end* cracken, J7c per lound; Pearl
oyster craekera, 17c per posed; lemon rtraada,
lie per pound; cart wbcels, 18c per pound; all
ilto package craeaera. 90c per docen. all «*•
paekafas, 51.75 per dozen; fatally tin criapettea,
38.00 per dceer.
FIAH
Pompano, acarce, per peoad. 23c; Spanish
mackerel, per pound. 17e; trout, drawn, per
pound. 13c; boadleas reo snapper, pound. 19c;
blaefisb. pound. Ik; whiting, per pound. 12He.
waor» snapper, per poend. 12%c; mullet, per
peurd. lie; small channel cat and perch, per
per ad. JOc.
ryuFATA
curtty oata. 18a. mead. *2.00. 3Oa, round.
•0.W0; 12 family size. *-»-10; Purity gnta. 245.
round •*>•; I<*. round. s2.to>; regular Pos
tern. large. $225. assorted. «2.5 u small, $2.70;
instant Poetooi. large. $4 SO; assorted, ss.uu,
small. 34.40; Grape .butt. 15e siae. $2-85; ladi
ng cal also. 82-00; Past A'oasUes, 34.10; indi
vidual si«e, 82 OK.
CANDLES
Kennesaw stlek candy, !a barrela 15c per
pound; small chocolate dropa In SO-pound palls.
SUe per pound; Stone Mountain cboeolate drops
to 80-pooad putts. 19%e per pound; Bonbon mix
ture la 30-pound pails. Ice per pound; Fulton
mixture la 85-pound eases. 15c per pound;
Honeycomb toft? In 20-pound eases. 22c per
potrod; broken taffy In baskets, 17%c per pound;
bonanza sseertments. $9.75 each.
MEAT, LAID AND HAMS
Dry salt extra riba, 24%e; dry salt rib bellies,
medium to avers ye. 36%c; dry salt rib bellies,
average. 26 %c; Cudahy's Pnritnn brand.
hama 33e; Caday’s Rex hams. 31e; Cudahy's
sandwich boiled hams, die; Cudahy's Pnritan
lard, tierce basis. 28%e; Cudahy’s Rex lard.
27c; Cudahy's White Ribbon compound. 23%c
net pOUBd.
Cornfield bases. 10 to 12 average. S2e:A>rn
field bams. 12 to 14 average, 82c: Cornfield
picnic bams. 6 to 8 average. 24c; Onfield
broekfast bacon. 44c: Cornfield xliced baron.
1-nouad boxes. 12 to case. 52e; grocers' tacon.
wide or narrow. 37Hr; Cornfield pork sausage,
f-esh link or bulk. 23c; Cornfield wieners in
10-nee nd earton*. 21e; Cornfield loiognn aau
sare 25 pound boxes. 50c; Cornfield smoked link
“T—ee 25-po-xd boxse. 19e; Cornfield wien
ers. la pickle No. 15 kite. 83.0®; Cornfield lard,
tierce basis. 27e; compound lard, tieroe basis,
£3%e; country style lard, tierce basis, 27c.
GROCERIES
Fleur— Capitate. •12.00; Olympia. 312-30.
Meal—Atlanta Milling company plate meal.
M pounds. 82.20 ; 48 pounds. 32.22; 24 to 12 ,
Mackerel —l_-Ka>lL 5%-6-oance. 190 count,
oct: Leader. 7-ounce. 100 count, out; Anchor.
8%-9-ouace. 60 count. 85.90; 75 count. 87.30;
Crown SH-10-ounee. 60 count. 87.75 ; 75 count.
•9 0U Eureka. 18-14-ounce. 0U count, 810.0 U.
M. A M. fish flake*. 24. email. 87.45; 24,
IS-
Sardines —Key. % ells, continentals. 87.00;
keylews. % oils. Conqueror. $6.50; key, % oils,
ia cartons. Homerun. 87.35; key. % mustards.
Imperial. $7.uU, key. % mustards, m cartons,
Gamernrk. 87.50.
Meeta— Potted meats, 45e; roast beef. 8>.35;
earned beef. $4.25; tripe. $3.25; C. B. hash. ;
Ke; bamberger. steak and onions, 95c; veal
loaf. 81-75-
Coffee —Blue Ridge brand, roasted. 15c; Wall ■
brand. 505%c; AAAA. 15c; Lno, 25c.
Klee—Japs. 506 c; Honduras, medium bead.
s%t»4%c. Arkansas fancy bead. 606% c.
B i:» liifonua bteckeyea, 810.50; pink
•9 50. limns. 814.50; small whites, 814.00;
Michigan choice. $16.00.
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or even irritate the surrounding tissue
or skin. After you lift away the trouble
some corn or callus the skin underneath
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Cotton
NEW YORK. June 3.—The cotton market
was nervous and unsettled this morning. The
opening was irregular. July being 31 points
higher, while later montss showed declines of
1 to 21 points owing to the fine weather in
the soutb. favorable private condition figures,
reports of further restrictions in lancsshire
mills and unsatisfactory labor conditions in
New England. July was influenced by the
relative firmnesa of the near months in Liver
pool and there was some Liverpool buying of
that delivery against sales of new crop months.
After selling at 24.84 early, however. July
broke to 24.48 or 1 point net lower while Oc
tober sold off to 23.U3 or 15 points under Sat
urday's close. Two private crop'reports were
publiahed. one placing the condition at .81, and
the other at 81.2 with the latter showing an
, increase of 4.2 per cent in acreage.
Fluctuations were extremely nervous and ir
regular. but the volume of business was com
paratively small, and the market showed a ten-
I deney to steady until late in the morning when
I reports of submarines operating off the At-
I lantic coast caused renewed feverishness. July
■ broke from 24.90. the high point of the morn
• ing. to 24.51 or within two points of Satur
day's close while October sold off to 23.00 or
20 points net lower.
Offerings increased as the submarine news
gained circulation, although there was no ex
citement. and July sold off to 24.23, or 26
points net lower, while October touched 22.83.
! and December 22.53, or 3 7to 38 points net low
er. Selling tapered off at this level and the
, market was quiet around 2 o'clock with prices
showing rallies of a few points from the lowest.
NEW YORK COTTOM
Last. Prov.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan1..22 55 22.77 22 40 22.47 22.50 22.74
Feb 22.15 22.69
March .22 75 22.75 22.50 23.55 22.53 22.75
June 24.45 24.50
July 34 60 24.90 24.23 23.52 24.45 24.49
Aug 24.05 24.14
Sept23.6o 23.60 23.60 23.60 23.25 23.45
Oct 23.40 23.40 22.78 23.05 23.00 33.20
Nov 22.78 22.96
Dec. “22.50 23.00 22.53 22.70 22.71 22.91
HOLIDAY IM NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS, June 3.—Holiday on mar
ket exchanges.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady. 28.65 c.
New York, quiet. 29c.
New Orleans, holiday.
Augusta, steady. 29c.
Memphis, steady, 30c.
Charleston, steady. 30-.
Montgomery, steady, 29.50 c.
Boston, steady. 29c.
Philadelphia, steady. 29.25 c.
Norfolk, steady. 28c.
1 Galveston, steady. 29.50 c.
Mobile, steady. 28.50 c.
I Little Rock, steady. 29c.
Dallas, steady, 28.85 c.
Savannah, steady, 29.25 c.
St. Louis, steady, 28.50 c.
Houston, staedy. 29.50 c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 28.65 c
Sales 278
i Receipts 192
| Shipments 398
Stocks 31,778
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Ton eirregular. Sales, 2.000 bales; good mid
dling. 22.06 d.
Open Prev.
Range. Close. Close.
June 21.06 21.88
July 20.38 20.66 20.53
August 19.48 19.65 19.64
September 18.86 18.87 18.06
; October 18.48 18.42 18.66
OLD CONTRACTS
Prev.
Open. Close. Close.
1 Jone 20.39 20.49 19.78
June-July 20.31 20.41 19.70
ATLANTA COTTONSEED PRODUCTS MARKET
MARCH—
- Crude oil. prime basisl7H
Cottonseed meal. 7 per cent
ammonia 47.50 *.....
Cottoneeed meal. 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate.. 47.50
Cottonseed hulls, loose 20.50 21.50
Cottonseed hulls, sacked 25.00 26.00
Listen, clean mill runo4H .05
APRIL—
Crude oil. prime basis 07H
Cottonseed meal. 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate... 47.50
Cottonseed hulls, loose 20.50 21.00
Cottonseed hulls, sacked 25.00 20.00
, Listen, elean mill run 04’J .05
COTTONSEED QUOTATIONS
Georgia common rate pointsS7o.oo@7s.oo
Cottonseed f. o. b. Atlanta37o.ooo7B.oo
F. C. BISHOP A CO.'S COTTON LETTER.
NEW ORLEANS. June 3.—The American cot
ton markets, after a fairly exciting week, closed
with very little price charge from Monday's ear
ly figures. The bears, encouraged hy tbe gen
erally pretty weather and anticipating a favor
-1 able weekly government report and lower mar
, kits Wednesday, were free sellers on Monday
and Tuesday. The expectation of favorable
| ueathet was fully realized. but the market
: worked up. instead of down. Trade interests
i r.nt! Liverpool bought moderately and the bears
i tegan to run for cover. Cnsatisfactory advices
from tbe front brought about heavy selling Fri-
I' day and Saturday, on which Ifte early advance
■f week was lost.
The June condition report of the government
i will be issued Tuesday. It is generally admit
ted that it will show considerably higher ftg-
I vies than last year, and it may inspire specu
-1 lative selling. However, we believe in purchases
j and not sales on the report, if bearish. One
swallow does not make a summer, nor does a
couple of we<ks of good May weather inevitably
indicate a big crop. Geotgia for instance is be
ginning to need rain. Two weeks more of high
temperature v. itiiout imcipitation will change
the aspect of the situation materially in that
rtate. Cotton can withstand dry weather bet
ter now than later on. hut it must not be
overlooked that tbe cotton world will be extreme
ly sensitive to adverse crop conditions and wild
advances are likely to fellow any change for
tie worst immediate developments. Adviee of
Cerman reverses or an aggressive allied offen
sive would likewise undoubtedly cause a very
si srp upturn
We fav< r buying October on any decline Tues
day. We believe it is playing with fire to sell
short at present levels.
Some men find solid comfort in bot
tled liquids
Fine feathers make short-lived birds.
| Few fingers are burned in heaping
coals of fire on an enemy's head.
Women who marry for a home al
ways get the short end of a bargain.
A pink tea is one of the things that
| make a married man paint things red.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1918.
Grain
! CHICAGO, June 3.—Excellent crop prospects
I had a bearish effect today on the corn mar-
I ket. Illinois crops in particular were said to
; be ten days ahead of the average at this time of
the year. Opening figures which ranged from
; »r decline to Ge advance, with June $1.31 and
July, «1..;3H t0‘81.33%, were followed by a ma
terial setback all around.
Sinking of vessels off the American coast
led subsequently to a snarp break in prices.
The close was nervous. l'» to 2%e down, with
June at J1.28S and July at 31.31',i to 31.31%.
Oats sympathized with the bearish action or
corn. After opening % to H<S*4c lower with
July 6oH •“ the market underwent a
moderate additional sag. . .
Provisions rose as a result of the bullish as
pert of the monthly figures on warehouse stocks
A bulge in the hog market was also a strength
ening factor.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today; p v
Open. High. law. Close. Close.
CORN
June 1.31 1.31 1-27% 1.28% 1.30%
July ..1.33%ei.33% 1.33% 1.30% 1.31% 1.34
Augl.33 1.33 1.31% 1.32
OATS —
June db% 70% 70 70
July 65%©65% 66% 64% 65% 65%
JuLv° 8K ”40.70 41.30 40.55 40.75 40.35
Sept 40 - 60
Ju l l/ R ? > T.24.65 24.65 24.17 24.27 24.17
5ept24.65 24.75 24.35 24.50 24.40
Ju1y 188 .22.22 22.27 21.92 22.02 21.85
5ept22.65 22.72 22.40 22.45 22.32
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO.
Teday.
Wheat 5 c,rs
Corn 173 <' ars
Oata 72
Hogs 20,000 head
VISIBLE SUPPLY
Wheat, decrease, 387.000.
Corn, decrease, 1,368,000.
Oats, increase, 326,000.
Total Visible
Wheat. 1.346,000, against 28.896,000 last year.
Corn, 13,068,000, against 2,629,000 last year.
Oats, 20.822,000, against 17,454,000 last year.
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO. June 3.—Corn: No. 2 yellow,
$1.62; No. 3 yellow, $1.56@1.57; No. 4 yellow,
J 1.3201.42.
Oata: No. 3 white, 72@72%c; standard. 72%
®73%«.
Rye: No. 2. nominal: No. 3, nominal. No. 4.
J 1.53.
Barley: 3U.00@11.26.
Timothy: •S.OOQS.OO.
Clover: $18.00@28.00.
Pork: Nominal.
Lard: «20.47.
Ribs: 321.50@21.87.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, BL, June 3.—Butter— Creamery
extras, 41; creamery firsts, 41; firsts, 38@40;
seconds, 34@46.
Eggs—Ordinaries. 26@28%; firsts, 29@30%.
Cheese—Twins. 28; Young Americas. 33%.
Live Poultry-Fowls, 27%; ducks, 25; geese,
13; turkeys, 22.
Potatoes—Cars. 28; Wisconsins. 31.00@1.20.
| Atlanta Live Stock |
(Corrected by W. H. White. Jr„ president of
the White Provision Co. United States Food
Administration License No. G-21371.)
Good to choice heifers. 850 to 1,000 pounds,
•10.50 to }12.50.
Good steers, 750 to 850 pounds, $9.50 to
$11.50.
Medium to good steers, 650 to 750 pounds,
$9.00 to 310 00.
Medium to choice beef cows, 750 to 850
poends, $8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good cows. 650 to 750 pounds,
SB.OO to $9.00.
Good to choice heifers, 550 to 650 pounds.
•3.00 to $0.50.
’ The above represents ruling prices for good
quality fed cattle. Inferior grades, dairy typ-a
and range cattle quoted below.
M.-dium to good tittle, 650 to 750 pounds,
$8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good cows, 600 to 700 pounds.
$7.50 to $8.50.
Mixed common, $6.50 to 7.50.
Good fat oxen. $8.30 to $9.50.
Medium to gooff oxen, SB.OO to $9.00.
Good butcher bulls, $7.00 to SIO.OO.
Choice veal calves, SB.OO to $9.00.
Yearlings. $7.00 to SB.OO.
Prime bogs, 165 to 225 pounds, $15.25 to
$16.00.
Light hogs. 130 to 165 pounds, $14.50 to
$15.00.
$14.50.
Light pigs, 80 tn 100 pounds. $12.50 to $13.00.
Stags and roughs. $12.00 to $13.00.
The above quotations apply to good quality
mixed fed bogs.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CHICAGO, June 3.—Hogs—Receipts. 18.000;
mostly 20 to 25 above Saturday’s average;
packers buying sparingly. Heavy butchers.
•16.40@16.60; light butchers. $16.60@16.80:
prime heavy, $16.45@16.6e; heavy packing.
$16.00016.35: rough heavy. $15.50@15.85; se
lect light. $16.75@16.90; medium and light
mixed. $16.40@ 16.65; bulk. $16.50@ 16.70; pigs.
$16.25017.00.
Cattle —Receipts. 15.000; opening slow; beef
steVrs steady to strong; butcher stock steady;
calves active: Stockers and feeders steady.
Sheep—Receipts, 12.000; native lambs, re
ceipts light; market weak; western lambs
steady; bidding 10025 cents lower; light shorn
lambs. $17.35; prime natives. $19.50; native
ewes, best stock, $14.50@14.75: native year
lings and wethers, market weak.
EAST ST. LOVIS. HL. June 3.—Cattle—Re
ceipts. 5.500. including 97 Texans; market
slow; native beef steers, $11.50017.60; year
ling steers and heifers. $7.50015.50; cows,
$7.50014.50; Stockers and feeders. $8,500
12.00; calves, $7.75@14.00; cows and heifers,
$6.00013.50.
Hogs-rßeceipts. 7,500; market 25 to 30c
higher; butchers. $16.50016.90; good snd
heavy, $16.60016.80; rough. $15.00@15.60;
light, $16.75016.90: pigs. $16.50016.90.
Sheep—Receipts. 4,000; market slow; clipped
ewes. $12.00014.00; lambs. $14.00@17.00; can
ners and choppers. $7.00010.05.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Open Close
January 8.5708.58
February ' 8.6308.64
March 8.60@8.65 8.6908.70
May ?.76@7 80
June 7.8007.81
July 8.10 asked 8.1708.18
August 8.2608.27
September 8.27 asked 8.35@8.36
October 8.41@8.44
November 8.34@8.45
December 8.41 8.1508.52
Journal of Commerce
Reports Condition 81.2
NEW YORK, June 3.—As finally estimated
by Journal of Commerce the growing cotton
erep acreage shows an increase of 4.2 per
cent over last year. Taxes is a large factor
in the advance, which increased 3 per cent;
Alabama increased 12.4 per cent; Mississippi
11.2; Louisiana 7.4 and Oklahoma 7.4. All
other states showed small decreases.
The percentage condition is unusually good,
being 21.2 per cent, compared with 74 a year
ago; 72.1 in 1916 and 8.4 in 1915. These fig
ures represent prospects of an average date
May 23 and favorable weather reports since
that date must have fully sustained the out
look.
Acreage and condition by states:
North Carolina—Decrease 2, 8-1.4.
South Carolina—Decrease 1, 78.
Florida—Decrease 15. 73.
Alabama—lncrease 12.4. 77.8.
Mississippi—lncrease 11.4. 82.
Louisiana—lncrease 7.4. 82.
Texas —Increase 3. 82.2.
Arkansas —Decrease 2.4, 83.5.
Tennessee—Decrease 1, 86.
Missouri—7B.s.
Oklahoma—lncrease 7.4, 80.2.
Total—lncrease 4.2. 81.2.
Six Men Are Arrested
Following Memphis Fire
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 31. —Six men
have been taken into custody as a re
sult of a fire here early today which
destroyed the waerhouse of John Wade
and Sons ifrith a stock of grain and a
quantity of sulphur valued at $150,060.
Fire department officials say explosives
caused the fire and a negro who was
shot and wounded by a night watchman
•t the warehouse said he had been hired
by two white men whom he did not
know to stand guard outside while they
entered the building.
The watchman said he saw several
men leave the place just before the fire
started, and knocked one down.
A farmer's harvest lasts until the
summer boarders depart.
Knowledge is power. If a man places
his purse in his head no one can take
it awby from him.
FIFTEEN CRAFT SUNK
ONE REPORT DECLARES;
1 NAVY REPORTS THREE
(Continued from Page 1)
would be guarded with the same effec
tive protection which has carried them
through the infested watdfs of the Brit
ish Isles and France with a remarkably
low loss of life.
Submarine blockade in the principal
transport lanes and about the territory
containing the principal embarkation
ports for the American army has long
been counted upon by American naval
officers as one of Germany’s last cards
and preparations have been made to
, meet it.’
The navy department has received an
official report of the destruction of one
schooner by a German submarine on the
Atlantic coast.
The navy department later announced
that it had received an official report
that three American schooners had been
sunk off the coast by enemy subma
rines.
Navy Statement
The complete navy department official
statement follows:
“The navy department has been in
formed that three American schooners
have been sunk off this coast by enemy
submarines.
“The steamship Bristol, arriving at
New York this morning, reported that
the fout-masted schooner Edwin M.
Cole was sunk by a submarine at'6:3o
p. m. Sunday, fifty miles southeast of
Barnegat. N. J„ and that the Bristol
rescued the crew and brought them to
port.
“It also rescued the crew of another
sailing vessel which was sunk. The
Bristol reported that she encountered a
submarine 38 miles off Barnegat at
4:20 p. m. Sunday, and that two sub
marines were operating in that locality
“The steamship Grecian reported that
the schooner Jacob S. Haskell was sunk
by gunfire of a German submarine in
the same general vicinity at noon Sun
day. The crew was rescued.
“It was also reported that the Isa
bella D. Willey was shelled by a sub
marine.”
"Captain Newcomb, of the Cole, stated
that his vessel was attacked by a Ger
man submarine, which boarded him,
took away his papers and placed bombi
on board. The captain and crew took
to the boats. Captain Newcomb stated
that the submarine which attacked him
was abonut 200 feet long and carried
two large guns, one forward and one
aft, and a smaller gun aidmidship.
“He states that he saw distinctly one
other submarine beside the one which
attacked him, the second submarine be
ing in the near vicinity, submerged
with her periscope showing.”
Naval officials said that up to the time
Associate Press dispatches telling of the
destruction of American shipping off the
New Jersey coast by German subma
rines were received in Washington, the
navy department had no positive in
formation of the presence of enemy
raiders in home waters.
Hunting American Transports
The submarines were undoubtedly
looking for American transports. Hav
ing been checked by the American de
stroyer flotilla in the war zone, the
German admiralty apparently has con
cluded to carry the submarine warfare
to the doors of America in hope of
stopping the flow of troops which will
turn the balance against the central
powers on the western battle front.
If the German admiralty expects to
find the American ports unprotected be
cause a great force of American destroy
ers has been concentrated in the war
zone around the British isles it will
be mistaken, naval officers say. While
the anti-sufynarine craft in the war
zone are in large number, the protection
of the steamer lanes on this, side of
the Ytlantid has not beep overlooked,
and it is said there are adequate forces
in home waters to meet them.
The torpedoing of ships off Barnegat,
N. J., followed by the report of more
destructions off Nantucket shoals, near
ly two hundred miles to the north, was
taken as indication that the hostile sub
marines were operating in numbers and
that the plan of the German admiralty
probably was to concentrate the Ü
boats in a practical blockade of the
principal ports of embarkation being
used for American transports.
Recurient reports of German sub
marines on this side of the Atlantic
have been closely examined by the navy
department during the last week. Re
ports of one German submarine near
the Virginia capes were current along
Hampto i Roads Saturday night. It was
said the navy flying boats, submarine
chasers and other anti-submarine craft
I in that district immediately went to
■ sea in search of the raiders.
The master of a British vessel arriv
i ing at Norfolk on May 27 reported hav
i ing fired some shots at a submarine
1 about 150 miles off Cape Henry. Other
i incoming ships at Atlantic ports for
I the last few days have also brough
reports of sighting submarines.
There are indications that the navy
' department has been watching closelj
i reports of the appearance of enemy
U-boats in unexpected places for some
time and that the possibility of the ar
rival of the craft off American
was foreseen. Some officers believe that
a base has been established, possibly
on some desolate island to the south
or in a hidden bay. Others are con
vinced that the submarines are work
ing out of German bases.
These officials and others who have
been maintaining that bases had been
I established in the Mexican gulf or in
the West Indies declared today’s raid
fully demonstrated their theory. Th's
i theory was that the submarines whici
j participated in yesterday’s attack were
| on their way to the base in the south,
! having for their immediate object the
long lines of oil tankers carrying fuel
oil to the allied navies from the Tam
pico district of Mexico, and taking the
| opportunty to raid American shipping
while on their way.
The fact that the U-boats wasted all
.the value of surprise attack in home
waters would give them in war on
troop transports attracted attention. It
was pointed out that after all, the pres
ent German campaign must be for the
| purpose of creating an impression that
a strong patrol was being established.
| while, in fact, only a few boats, perhaps
not more than one or two. actually were
engaged.
The effect sought would be to impede
the movement of American troops, it
was suggested, and also to start a ter
rorization campaign in the United
States.
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11
(Continued from Last Issue)
f A BOUT 9 o'clock that evening I
1 ! came to a point where ahead of
, me on the right was a Belgian
, police station—l knew it from its red
lights—and on the other side of the
( street were two German soldiers in uni
, forming leaning against a bicycle.
Passes German Soldiers
Here was a problem which called for
instant decision; if I turned back the
road so as not to pass so closely to
the suspicion of the soldiers would be
instantly aroused and if I crossed the
them they might be equally suspicious.
I decided to march bravely by the Huns,
bluff my way through and trust to
[ Providence.
If anybody imagines, however, that I
was at all comfortable as I approached
i these soldiers, he must think that I am
> a much braver man than I claim to be.
My heart beat so loud I was afraid they
> would hear it. Every step I took brought
me so much nearer to what might prove
to be the end of all my hopes. It was
i anerve-racking ordeal.
’ I was now within a few feet of
I them. Another step and
> They didn’t turn a hair! I passed
right by them —heard what they were
' saying, although, of course, I didn’t un
‘ derstand it, and went right on. I can’t
i say I didn’t walk a little faster as I
: left them behind, but I tried to main-
• tain an even gait so as not to give them
any idea of the inward exultation I was
' experiencing.
No words can explain, however, how
i relieved I really felt—to know that I
• had successfully passed through the
first of a series of similar tests which I
■ realized were in store for me—although
I did not know then how soon I was
to be confronted with the second.
I As it was, however, the incident gave
• me a world of confidence. It demon
, strated to me that there was nothing
i in my appearance, at any rate, to at
: tract the attention of th? German sol
-1 diers. Apparently I looked like a Bel
i gian peasant, and if I could only work
I things so that I would never have to
! answer questions and thus give away
my nationality, I figured I would be
> tolerably safe.
i Happy and Confident
As I marched along I felt so happy
I I couldn’t help humming the air of one
of the new patriotic songs that wo used
> to sing at the airdrome back of Ypres.
j In this happy frame of mind I covered
> the next three miles in about an hour
and then I came to another little vil-
» lage. My usual course would have
been to go around it —through fields.
r back yards, woods or whatever else lay
in my v<ay —but I had gained so much
time by going through the last village
instead of detouring it and my appear
ance seemd to be so unsuspicious that 1
decided to try the same stunt again.
I stopped humming and kept very
much on the alert, but, apart from that
I walked boldly through the main street
without any feeling of alarm.
I had proceeded perhaps a mile along
the main street when I noticed ahead
of me three German soldiers standing
> at the curb.
Again my heart started to beat fast,
’ I must confess, but I was not nearly so
. scared as I had been an hour or so be-
I fore.
s I walked ahead, determined to follow
r my previous procedure in every partic
i ular.
• Heart Stops at “Halt!”
I had got to about fifteen feet away
i from the soldiers when one of them
stepped onto the sidewalk and shouted:
, “Halt!”
• My heart stopped beating fast —for a
■ moment, I believed it stopped beating
i altogether. I can't attempt to describe
• my feelings. The thought that the jig
I was up—that all I had gone through and
’ all I had escaped would now avail me
■ nothing, mingled with a feeling of dis-1
I gust with myself because of the foolish J
! risk I had taken in going through the I
village, combined to take all the staren!
out of me. and I could feel myself wilt-;
: ing as the soldier advanced to the spot
where I stood rooted in my tracks.
I had a bottle of water in one pocket:
and a piece of bread in the other, and i
as the Hun advanced to search me 1!
' held the bottle up in one hand and the
’ piece of bread in the other so that he;
could see that was all I had.
' It occurred to me that he would'
“frisk” me—that is, feel me over for;
arms or other weapons—then place me I
under arrest and march me off to the i
! guardhouse. 1 had not the slightest ideal
, but that I was captured, and there didn t
seem to be much use in resisting, un-l
armed as I was and with two other Ger
man soldiers within a few feet of us.
Like a flash it suddenly dawned on,
me. however, that for all this soldier:
■ c.oul<| have known I was only a Bel- j
gian peasant and that his object in |
i searching me, which he proceeded to do, |
was to ascertain whether I had com-1
■ mitted the common "crime” of smug- i
gling potatoes!
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The Truth About Belgium ,
BY BRAND WHITLOCK ZZZ
(Continued, from lAst Issue)
THERE was a certain gruesome
monotony in the stories after
all. They were all alike; the
same thing over and over again
j everywhere in the land; the same de
tails, the same characteristics, the
same typical deeds. One comes al
most to recognize it as the work of a
certain type, as old detectives iden
tify the work of yeggmen. and trap
pers from the signs tell whether
Cheyennes or Sioux have passed that
I way.
The Germans enter a town; take
: hostages—the burgomaster, some
: councilmen, one or two notables;
they demand money, food, wine and
' forage. All goes well enough for a
few days. The army moves on.
There is a reverse, and soldiers
swarm back into the town crying,
■ “Man hat geschossen!” Then mur
! der, pillage, fire, rape, massacre.
This happened again and again; at
Herve, at Bligny, Battice, Retinne,
Schaffen, Charleroi, Hougaerde, at
Monceau-sur-Sambre, at Gougnies,
and at Termonde —occupied twice by
the Germans, who, driven out the
first time by the Belgian troops, re
turned and almost annihilated the
town.
This is the story of the priest of
Schaffen:
“The Germans led me into my gar
den and tied my hands behind my
back. They ill-treated me in every
possible way. They prepared a gal
lows, saying that they were going to
hang me; one of them seized in turn
my head, nose and ears, going
through the gestures of cutting off
the members. They forced me to
gaze at the sun for a long time.
They smashed the arms of the black
smith, and then killed him. Once
they forced me into the mayor’s
burning house, then drew me out
again. This sort of thing lasted all
day. Toward evening they told me
, to look at the church, saying it would
I be for the last time. At a quarter
j to 7 they let me go, striking me with
their riding crops. I was covered
with blood and lay unconscious.
Then an officer had me placed on my
feet and ordered me to go on. A few
metres from them they fired on me;
I fell and was considered dead; to
this fact I owe my life. They claimed
they had been fired on from the
church tower, but this was false, for
the church door was locked and it
was they that forced it open, without
finding any one in the church.”
The atrocities have been made the
subject of two serious investigations
that of the Belgian commission,
headed by Mr. Henri Carton de
Wiart, the Belgian minister of jus
tice, and that of the English commis
sion, presided over by Lord Bryce,
formerly British ambassador at
Washington. Something of the sweep
of these investigations may be gath
ered from the fact that the report of
the Belgian commission, the Grey
Book (Le Livre Gris), forms an in
quarto volume of 525 pages. Many
brochures have appeared that treat
of these atrocities, and recently an
excellent study, “The German Army
at Louvain” and “The German
White Book” (L’Armee allemande a
Louvain en aout 1914, at le Livre
Blanc de 10 mai 1915), has been
published, which gives a sober and
convincing account of the tragedy at
Louvain and Contains an able
analysis of the White Book. Many
of the facts given in this work are
I borne out by my notes. The report
of the British commission —that is
to say, the conclusions drawn from
the evidence heard before the com
mission —contains 38 in-quarto
pages, while the evidence itself forms
j a 200-page volume of the same
i dimensions.
The tale is unending. Horror piles
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i all that auturiin, all that winter, hv
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I and when, finally one did believe
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doubting any more,“it was to despair
of the future of the human race.
And even then we scarcely realized
then, in all their sheer and utter
savagery. We heard too many;
scores and hundred and thousands
i of such recitals were told by the
•refugees—told by refugees from all z
those doomed towns in eastern Bel
gium; myriad repetitions of individ-
• ual instances, all essentially the
same, until the mass of them over
powered the imagination and sat
urated the mind with their horror.
. Words lost their meaning—were un
. able longer to depict the sinister and
tragic significance of the events they
would describe, and became cold and
bald, like statistics or terms of gen
eralization. It all seemed too sro_5 ro_
, tesque. too patiently Impossible,
there before one, in Brussels, in the
midst of familiar things, in our own
time —in the “so-called twentieth
century.” as the English parson
said, with a humor that I trust was
’ not unconscious,.
I might have had thousands of
! such tales, but I did not seek them.
I had those that were brought to i
! me. and I have struck out all that
seems like exaggeration. I was
' representing a neutral power, and I
made it a point of honor to respect
that neutrality and to see that it was
respected. Only in the case of Lou
vain did I seek information, and
then I felt that I had the right to
’ do so, because it was reported that
' the rights of Americans were in
’ volved. Finally I ceased to listen to
1 the stories and turned the relators
• lover to Gibson or to De Leval. and
- at last even they ceased to listen.
» Os what use? It was all cumulative,
corroborative. Any good trial judge
■ would have long since said, “I don’t
> care to hear any more on that
1 point.”
: An so I have left ->ut of this ae-
l count much that was told and have
i confined my statements to proved
and admitted facts. I have not told
■ about the old soldier in Brussels, un
i vieux sabreur. who used to tell his
[ "group” in the estaminet when he
sipped his faro of an afternoon how,
■ walking along the road from Alost
to Brussels, on the 20th of August,
he saw a Uhlan stab a boy, a little
( manneke, with his lance, and how
he, the viex sabreur, had folded his
a?ms and shouted "Lache!” three
. times at the Uhlan.
The reason I would not offer this
in evidence is the fact, principally,
of that detail about the folded arms.
, That is of the cinema, Indubitably,
’ and I have a constitutional dislike
for romanticism, and one finds as
' much of it among soldiers, with
their swanking, as among the novel
ists.
There are many such, and there
are many that I cannot bring my
self to repeat. They belong to the
' smokingroom, and even there one
; would be ashamed to repeat them;
they are more proper for patholog
ical study than for the mere curios
’ ity of the lay mind. Rape was com
’ mon, and at certain places even nuns •
• were not spared. Cardinal Mercier s
1 correspondence with the late Gover
nor-General Von Bisslng on this del-
1 icate point is important.
One of the allegations that seems
i to have aroused an almost morbid
curiostiy is that which relates to the
I cutting off of hands of little children.
We used to hear the story often in
i Belgium, but never in a form that
seemed to me wholly convincing. In
the report of the English Commis
sion there is given the testimony of
i three witnesses who claim to have
l seen this thing at Malines. We had
that story too. Immediately after the
> fall of Antwerp, but the testimony is_
excluded from the report of the Bel-;
. gian commission. •
(Continued Next Issue)
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