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Kaiser Not Liable,
Bernstorff Declares,
Discussing Peace
PARIS. Dec. 26—" Al! the bellig
erent* have accepted President Wil
son’s fourteen points and the only
question to be discussed is their in
terpretation. " said Count von Bern
•torff. former German ambassador
to the United States, in giving his
opinion of what Germany’s attitude
would be at the peace conference, ac
cording to the Geneva correspondent
of the Matin. /
"Germany,** declared the count,
-will keep to the president's program,
which grants* each people of an eth
nical group tin? right to dispose of
itself."
Asked if he thought the president's
program would furnish the basis for
a lasting peace. Count von Bernstorff
shrugged his shoulders.
"This is tb.f only one which can be
proposed at present." he added, "and
the attempt must be made to apply
it- At any’ rate, we shall support it. ’
1 When he was asked by the corre
spondent what attitude Germany
would adopt toward the east he re
plied. "All the questions concerning ;
the new states which have sprung i
up on the Russian frontier are the j
affairs of the allies. Let them disen- ■
tangle things as best they can. We '
wash our hands of Russia. We are |
content to safeguard as far as possi
ble the integrity of our territory, con- ,
suiting at the same time the will of .
the populations."
Asked about the white book which
Carl Kautsky is said to be prepar
ing, in Berlin. Count von Bernstorff
said; "1 don’t think the book will
reveal the individual responsibilities
of the persons who directed Ger
many in 1914. It will rather show
the collective faults of the regime.
"1 do not favor handing over the
kaiser to the allies. A sovereign is
not responsible for the policy of his
government.”
Butter as Lubricant
Sold by Profiteers
THE HAGUE.—Butter sold as a
lubricant was the way the profiteers
.vadcd the food regulations in the
German states. Food regulations
had placed a maximum price on the
sale of butter, but the rich found
a wav round it. No limit had been
placed on lubricating material by
the government, and as a result those
• with money were able to obtain all
the butter they wanted at fabulous
prices, buying it as lubricating ma
terial.
British Plan to Run
Hotels in England
LONDON. Dec. 28-—England pro
poses that English hotels shall here
after be manned by British. For
forty years nearly every hotel in
Great Britain has been filled with
alien employes. An influx of aliens
is expected as soon as peace is made
final. In the past Germans have had
preference as managers because
they usually could speak several
languages. These managers would
surround themselves with alien help.
The training which young people of
England have received in hospitals,
canteens;, stores and other war ac
tivities is declared to have fitted
them for hotel work in civil life, and
It is proposed that shorter hours,
better wages and better food than
has heretofore been served to hotel
workers shall make the work attrac
tive to them.
France Is Expecting
Sightseers Avalanche
PARIS, France, Dec. 28.—As soon
as transportation facilities permit.
France expects to be invaded by hun
dreds of thousands of sightseers who
will want to visit the battlefields.
Already the Touring Club de
France has made arrangements with
the different ministerial departments
to facilitate traveling, and plans
have been prepared to erect large
portable hotels on the battlefields.
Visit* to the northern battlefields
will'be conducted through the Brit
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Guard Is Doubtful;
Regulars Oppose It
WASHINGTON. Dec. 26 —That the
general staff recommendations for the
country's fugture military prepared
ness will not include use of national
guard is the belief of some war de
partment groups today.
Practically killing of the national
guard through the decision of Acting
Judge Advocate General Aasell will
necessitate substitution of another
methoch or reorganisation of the
guard m practically’ all states.
Thus far it is too early to know
what the country's attitude will be
toward the guard. However, it is
felt here that political considerations
and Iccal community pride will re
sult in an effort to revive the guard
in many places.
However, general staff men by rea
son of their training are naturally
favorable to a regular army organi
sation or to a system which central
ises in the war department rather
than tn the states. This spirit is be
lieved likely to cause the staff to
recommend some form of universal
military training—minus the guard—
provided it has an opportunity later
to present its views to congress.
There is much doubt here that the
country is inclined to favor the uni
versal system :.nd much will depend
upon the outcome of efforts in Paris
peace conference at obtaining a world
league of nations and a decrease of
annanent and militarism.
Italy Has Borne
1 remencious Load
In Financing War
ROME. Dec. 10.—(By Mail.)—
While the military part Italy has
Played in the war is sufficiently
known and appreciated by both the
allies and the neutral powers, the
same cannot be said of the financial
effort of the young nation which,
when her national wealth is consid
ered. is the state on which the war
has imposed and leaves the heaviest
financial burden. First of all. very
few know that if Italy has been
able to prosecute the war to a vic
torious conclusion, it has been due
to the economy practiced by her
people, to the latter's great saving
quality which war has revealed to be
a national characteristic.
Naturally, even in Italy much is
now being said about the manufac
turers' fabulous extra profits, but
even in Italy experience has proved
that in most cases the reported fabu
lous earnings of the war contrac
tors have been greatly exaggerated.
In a country which was never very
rich, one is likely to look at figures
from a point of view quite differ
ent from that of, say, an English
man. What in Italy are considered
extraordinary profits, would make
the average English manufacturer
smile.
Although the salary of an English
non-commissioned officer would
prove a blessing for an Italian of
ficer. and the pension the English
government pays to the family of
a dead soldier is drawn here only
by the widow of a superior officer,
yet the war has cost tn enormous
sum of money. The reason for this is
tnat, first of all. Italy- had to cre
ate industr'es which had never ex
isted' before, and enormous quanti
ties of foods, clothing, minerals, oils
and machinery had to be imported
r®cardiess of distances and prices.
With the declaration of war the
farmers were transferred from the
fields to the trenches, the mechanic
was mobilized and transferred to
the war plants and the munition fac
trries thus causing a steady de
crease in agricultural and industrial
production and a corresponding in
crease in importation. At the same
time exportation ceased completely.
The direct and unavoidable con
sequence of the economic situation
created by the war, was that the
daily war expenses reached a total
that was almost staggering. In or
der to meet them the government had
to float several loans, both at home
and abroad, and then raise the old
taxes and impose new ones on an al
ready much taxed people.
It Is still premature to say what
the total of Italy's war debt will be.
as it is impossible to foresee the
total value of the war orders which
are still being filled, the amount of
the money contracted to spend, what
the period of transitation from the
state of war to that of peace wil)
cost, and the amount of money re
quired to rebuild the devastated
towns and endow with new rolling
stock the railroads of the country.
At the end of the first fiscal year
which closed on June 30. Italy's war
debts amounted to lire, 44,300,000.000,
divided as follows:
War loans floated in
the kingdom 15,160,000.000
War loans floated
abroad .............. 2,300.000.000
Increase in the paper
circulation .......... 1.400,000.000
Total 14.860.000.000
Tho more optimistic are of the
oninion that at the end of the war
th* actual war bill will not exceed
$12,000,000,000.
In order to appreciate at its prop
er value th<s financial effort on
the part of Italy, one must forget
that the amount spent represent
three-fourths of Italy's national
wealth before the war. and that the
financial burden that the nation
must support for years will be ter
rific, especially because the largest
part of the monev was spent abroad
and has not benefited the in
general.
Italy realizes the enormous difficul
ties she will soon be facing, hut
while she expected to be supported
by her richer allies, she already has
begun the work of reconstruction,
on a program of strict econo
mies.
Australian Traitor
Arrested in Paris
PARIS- —A dangerous Australian
traitor, operating in France since
the beginning of the war, was ar
rested a few days after the signing
of the armistice. The name of the
individual is Reginald Dowset, and
he has been living in Paris. Before
the war, he was under suspicion, ana
is known to have received an offer
of $50,000 to procure an important
confidential military document.
Murman Trade. Hit
By Bolsheviki, Open
CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 28.—Free
trade between the Murman and Nor
way, stopped by the Bolsheviki gov
ernment, has been resumed under
British occupation of the Murman
coast. The trade enables the ex
change of wood, flour and hemp and
other Russia products for Norwegian
fish and is of great Importance to
the fishing population of Finmarken.
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was not to be used in the first bomb
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First Pictures of ''Chateau Thierry
New York’s Most Exclusive Club
> .y - ...» * 12-2 212 T?« L 2 ?■* I
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These are the first pictures of
New York’s most exclusive club,
the new "Chateau Thierry." Fiftietn
street and East River, in a. comfort
able old three-story home. Member
ship is limited to American soldiers,
sailors and marines in hospital in
New York, who have lost a leg, an
arm. a hand or have some other se
rious wound. These men are taken
daily in ambulances to this “Cheer
Up Station on the Road to Home"
and given the freedom and comforts
of the coxy rooms.
The wounded marine shown at the
left in the upper picture is Cecil Wil
son. To his right sits James Mc-
Gann. of the navy.
Chateau Thierry club is run by
New York county chapter of the Red
Cross. Harry Knapp is president
and Mrs. Shepherd K. de Forest is
chairman of the executive committee.
The club has a writing room, music
room, billiards, and all the appoint
ments of the most fashionable Fifth
avenue bachelor retreat—except a
bar, ————————
Here’s How Undrafting
Os Army Accomplished;
Sort of "Third Degree”
BY J. H. DUCKWORTH
NEW YORK.—What sort of “third
degree” are the soldiers put
throough between the time •
they arrive in New Y’ork on a
transport and the moment that they
are free to make a bee-line for home?
After watching the whole process,
from the arrival of a transport to
the entraining of the returned troops
at Hoboken for evacuation camps, 1
can assure parents and friends that
the boys are being treated right roy
ally, as is their due.
"Undrafting” the army is as big a
job as was the drafting. On "re
verse," the machinery is running as
smoothly as on “high.”
At quarantine, each transport is
boarded by an officer from the troop
movement office, who verifies all re
ports of commanding officers and
scrutinizes passenger lists. Army
and port medical officers also go on
board.
Officers are designated to take
charge of different units, and others
take posts at the pier. A sergeant
from each organization acts as
"marker” on the pier. The men line
up beside the "markers."
Then an officer of the statistical
division takes the roll call.
Arrangements have previously
been made by the transport division
to take the men either to Camp Up
ton. Mills or Merritt.
The men on naval transports de
bark at Hoboken and go directly
aboard trains. The men on army
transports debark on Manhattan
island piers and are sent to Long
Island City by ferry.
Once in camp, the men go through
a "sanitary process” lasting from
twelve to forty-eight hours. After a >
week or so in quarantine, they may
get short leave passes.
Employment bureaus at the camps, i
run 'by the department of labor, get |
the men jobs
Chaplain John T. Axton (Major Ax- .
ton, U. S. A.) has charge of thirty or- |
ganizations (Red Cross, “Y," K.” of ’
C., etc.) that look after the comfort
of the men. He sees that every man
goes off to the evacuation camps
loaded with cigarettes, candy, post
cards and other things a soldier
most needs.
FORESTER'S SOCKS ABE NOT
FORGOTTEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. The
lumberjacks and foresters who went
from the United States to France
to cut the wood needed by the al
lied armies, were not without a bit '
of Christmas in their stockings this
morning.
Many members of the Tenth and
Twentieth engineer regiments, com
posed of foresters, have no relatives
in America, and might have gone
without Christmas remembrances 1
had it not been for the American
Forestry association, which provid
ed for them out of its welfare fund.
More than $20,000 was contributed
to this fund, and one of its chief
uses was providing Christmas cheer
for the boys in , the woods of
France.
Mrs. Henry 8. Graves, wife of the
chief forester of the forestry serv
ice, was chairman of the organiza
tion of women that packed the
Christmas boxes. Each box was
just a little different from the
others, but most of them contained
knives, flash lights, fountain pens,
soap, cigarettes, tooth paste, candy,
gum and mints.
REDUCING COPPER PRICES
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Leading
producers and sellers of copper were
reported today to be freely quoting
the metal at 23 cents a pound for the
first quarter of 1919, when the pres
ent price of 26 cents fixed by the war
industries board, will no longer be
effective. Orders were being booked
freely for account of domestic con
sumers it was said .and no inquiries
were being received for deliveries be
yond March. These orders included
one for about 1,000,000 pounds.
RICE TAX REMOVED
TOKIO, Nov. 30.—The new Harn
cabinet has taken a drastic move to
solve the rice situation by removing
the import tax on foreign rice. This
measure has proved a great relief to
the Japanese people and tends to
lessen the hardship resulting from
the exorbitant price of cereals. Gov
ernmental booths are now set up in
all parts of Tokio for the distribution
of rice to the poor at moderate
prices.
GERMANY'S “BLACK HOUR"
I PARIS.—Some fatalist has jumped
| to the fact that the great war end
|ed on the eleventh hour of the
1 eleventh day of the eleventh month.
In pre-war Germany the eleventh
day of the eleventh month had al
ways a joyful significance, for on
that day was always inaugurated the
carnival season. Strange the way
fate twists itself around.
TAMIL IS KILLED
BRISTOL. Tenn., Dec. 26.—Charles
Q. Godsey and his three small chil
dren were killed last night when
their automobile turned turtle on
the Bluff City pike at Orway, Tenn.
Their bodies were found early today.
BERLIN-TURKEY BREAK
PARTS, Dec. 28.—Copies of the
Vossiche Zietung received hero gays
relations between Berlin and Turkey
have been severed.
Aside from ventilation. windows ,
are made to look out of and for li'-ht
to come in. Whv load them with ■
heavy, dust-catching hangings.
Learn to close doors, screens and
drawers quietly. The nervous system
nays toil alike for jarring sounds and
sights.
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ALL SING “HHIL, HAIL!** '
PARIS, Dee. 11.—(By Mail)—“Hail,
Hail, tne Gang's All Here,” is an j
established insiitution in l aris.
“Tipperary” also has come back ■
to life.
During armistice celebrations and I
the Alsace-Lorraine day demonstra-1
tlons, these two songs were heard,
most frequently, except for the
songs of the French. Most every
body, whether French, American or
British, knew “Tipperary.” and
everybody joined in when a Britisher
started up the chorus. There was
no American song, however, on which
even the Americans could get to
gether that would match "Tipper
ary." That is, there wasn't for a
while. Then a line of doughboys
swung down the boulevard shouting
“Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here” at
the top of their lungs.
It took, the Britishers caught the
idea, and while the French couldn’t
make out the words, they found the
tune easy, and could at least make
a noise in the general direction of
the air.
Oh, yes. everybody sang It all—
said “whataell” and everything.
Eighty Times Diseases
Have Swept World.
Killing Off Millions
Plagues, after wars have swept the
world before now, just as "flu" is
doing.
Here are some of the eighty re
corded disease epidemics and the
toll they took:
In Britain, 430 A. D., so many died
few were left to bury the dead.
All oyer Europe, Asia and Africa
in 558, millions died of plague.
In England, 1111, plague killed
domestic animals as well as human
beings. / _
in Ireland, in 1406, in 1470, in 16)4,
in 1837 and in 1847 typhus and
cholera followed famine.
London was visited by “the great
I plague,” in 1664 to 1666, and 100,-
I ttOO died.
I England had a “mysterious sweat- ,
■ ing sickness” in 1506. Victims died
three ehours after being attacked, i
The disease came back five times to ,
England and spread to Germany.
Bubonic plague, starting in ancient i
Egypt, lias swept Africa and Asia |
and invaded Europe and America re- ;
peatedly since before the Christian
era.
Not until 1900 with the discovery
of the Haffkine and Ycrsin serum
and solution remedies and the appli
cation of sanitary measures, first in
Bombay. India, and then all over the
world, did medical science succeed
in bringing bubonic plague under
control. . , ' ..
Sanitation and rat-killing drove it
out of New Orleans half a dozen
years ago. x ,
Modern methods have controlled
yellow fever, cholera, smallpox and
typhus fever plagues.
1 During the world war typhus raged
in Serbia. English and American
doctors and nurses stamped It out.
In 1665 in England people gath
ered in churches in crowds to pray
against “black death.” Others shut
themselves in their houses and all
but sealed doors and windows. Vine
gar was esteemed a preventive.
There were compounds of leaves
which were burned in houses “to
keep out the plague." The ignorant
resorted to charms sold by gypsies.
There have been a dozen world
■Epidemics of influenza. The sever
est prior to the present outbreak,
were in 1510, 1847 and 1890.
Up to 1890 the disease confined
its worst ravages to Europe and
Asia. . . , „
In 1890 thousands were str-.cxen in
the United States, while in the streets
or at work and fell as if hit by clubs.
In those days great dizziness was a
sure symptom of "flu.”
Did “Tlu” Start at Sioge of Troy?
Where did “flu” start?
There is a theory that it began
among sick soldiers exposed to bad
weather at the siege of Troy, 1184
years before Christ was born.
There's another theory tnat it
started in the poverty-stricken hov
els of Russia. It was for a long
time before 1800 a common disease
in Russia.
In 1890 American doctors found
“flu” often led to pneumonia, it
does now. Then they used phenace
tine and quinine and ventilation ot
sleeping rooms and working , places.
Now some of them use aspirin and
quinin? and good, clean air. Dr.
Rosenow, of Rochester, Minn., claims
success with a serum.
in 1890, just as now. the people
had their own preventive remedies.
They tried booze, lemons, vinegar,
eamphor, menthol and such things.
They’re trying them now. •
But nowadays wise ones get a
; “sprayer” from the druggist and some
I good germ killing medicine and spray
1 i their noses and throats every day.
Boy Plays With Pistol,
Is Shot Through Hand
Marion Hurst, twelve years old,
son of (i. L. Hurst, of 366 East Geor
i gia avenue, was shot through the
palm of his left hand while playing
with a ,22-callber pistol at his home
Thursday. He was taken to Grady
hospital, where he received medical
treatment.
It was said the youngster placed
a lead shot in a blank cartridge, and
when it exploded the shot passed
through the palm of his hand.
i RUSH FOK TRADE IS ON
LONDON. Dec. 15. — (Bv Mail)—!
i France and England are lending in
preparations for the rush to rebuild
I commercial connections.
England already has appointed
; consular agents for evacuated por
tions of France, Belgium. Italy. Ser
bia, Rumania and Montenegro. France
plans to increase the number of her
commercial agents in all countries.
Peace Will Bring
Increased Consumption
And Production of Oil
DALLAS, Tex.. Dec. 28.—Big oil
producers of the southwest predict
that peace will bring increased pro
duction and increased consumption
of fuel cil, lubricating oil and gaso
line.
They declare that to meet speci
fications for high-grade fuel oil for
admiralty purposes it was neces
sary to refine much crude oil under
wasteful conditions, which will not
obtain in tfte future.
Increased consumption, producers
say, will result from neutral mar
kets replenishing their stocks, from
more general use of motor cars in
European countries that have been
at war, and from the use in Great
Britain, France and Italy of thou
sands of motor lorries, now in the
war zone, as auxiliary systems of
overworked railways.
But this increased demand will
be more than offset by increased
production, officers of the large
Texas cpmpanies declare. Produc
tion in the north Texas field now
is 62,000 barrels a day, the Gulf
field is producing 68,000 barrels, the
Kansas fields 99,000 barrels, the
Oklahoma fields, outside of Cush
ing and Healton, 142.000. the Cush
ing 44.500 over the Healton. 42,500.
The Texas figures show an increase
over figures for the quarter ending
September 30th, which gave the to
tol production as 9,244.814 barrels,
valued at $18,091,249. This was an
increase of more than a million bar
rels over the .Tune quarter and two
million over the March quarter.
Experts here say the Mexican
fields alone have potential produc
tion of 1,000.000 barrels a day.
Producers predict that with the
i extension of the oil fields, oil sta
tions will he established at ports
throughout the world and permit of
further adoption by ships of oil
burning power systems.
VENICE REACHES OUT
2Y HENRY WOOD
VENICE. Dec. 4.—(By Mail) —
With the opening of a canal 15 miles
i long, connecting the. river Po with
the lagoons of Venice, this city now
I has direct water connection with
Turin and a long chain of important
; industrial centers in the northern
j part of Italy.
Completion of the canal at the
I present time is one of the remark
' able war achievements of Italy. Not
onlv was the entire work done, while
Italy was at war, but a section of
the canal nearly 7 miles long was
dug through the war zone in a region
constantly under Austrian bombard
ment.
I Unusual technical difficulties also
had to be overcome, owing to the
fact that the canal traverses a region
intersected hr numerous rivers like
to Po. t’atial, Bianco. Adige and
Brenta. the water levels of which are
entirely different.
The canal permits of navigation
with large barges capable of carry
in" very substantial cargos.
The canal is only one link in a
system now under construction that
will connect the Italian lakes and
rivers throughout the entire north
of Italy.
Permanent Community
Christmas Tree Suggested
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Why not
the permanent community Christmas
tree, is the question being asked
many times of the American Forres
try association which is urging me
morial trees for sailors and soldiers
in the world war.
In urging this, C. P. Wilber, acting
state forester of New Jersey, says:
“To do this will stimulate the ‘get
together’ spirit locally by Insuring
an annual gathering in the holiday
season because the tree will com
mand recognition as a temporary pro
vision from year to year may not.
Originally set with definite memorial
purpose, it will further emphasize in
a public way the recognition by its
planters and those who come after
them, of the gratitude for loyal, pa
triotic service rendered in the crucial
period of the nation and the world.’
The American Forestry association
points out the great waste in setting
up community trees every Christinas
and then throwing them away, and
suggests that permanent planting be
adopted in suitable locations wherev
er possible. The memorial tree idea
is being adopted all over the country,
reports to the association show, and
being considered as the proper set
ting for other forms of memorial
plans.
'Huns Cringe, Says
Cardinal Mercier
PARlS—Cardinal Mercier of Ma
lines, freed by the Germans after
four years of captivity, says:
“The Germans, when they are vic-
I torious, are proud, arrogant and in
solent. but in defeat they become
I humble and lowly. Hardly had tlie
armistice been signed before I re
ceived a visit from Von Lancken who
tearfully announced that the Belgians
retained in the imperial prisons on
imaginary charges would be released
at once. Several months ago Von
Lancken would not have dreamed oi
coming to me so humbly.”
Vegetable Bouquet .
For Marshal Foch
PARIS —The saleswomen of the
' Saxe Market, on armistice day,
i topped their celebration by presenting
to Marshal Foch a vegetable bouquet.
Returning from Clemenceau's office,
he passed through Saxe market. The
saleswomen hastily sought flowers,
but all were gone. Thereupon onions,
carrots, cress and curly greens were
bunched and presented to the mar
shal, wh* smilingly accepted.
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'BOMIK REGIME
REPDRTEDRESffIIiyG
ORDER MG RUSS
London Paper Declares That
Lenine and Trotzky Are
Working Out Stable Gov
ernment for Slavs
The British government will lay
before President Wilson all informa
tion it has gathered respecting the
Russian situation.
Dispatches from Archangel point
out that the Bolshevik forces there
are well supplied an dinclude good
fighting material. Any serious re
verse to the allies in northern Rus
sia, who have an enormous front to
guard would result ,it is said, in the
territory being overrun by the Bol
sheviki and probably the massacre of
those Russians who have been friend
ly to the allies.
It has been suggested that more
seasoned troops should be sent to
Russia. Sections of public opinion
here and in France, however, are op
posed to entering into a further large
venture into Russia which might
mean the starting of a new war.
Capping a growing wave of sus
picion, evidenced in the Liberal Brit
ish press during the past month,
the New Testament makes the sen
sational announcement in its current
issue, that the Bolsheviki, supported
now by many former opponents are
effecting a real restoration of Russia
and Russian order.
The New Statesman, far from be
ing an organ of the extreme radi
cals. is regarded as a sober and se
rious publication witli a large con
tribution among Liberal intellec
tuals.
The article has undoubtedly height
ened the spreading impression that
the full truth has not yet come out
in Russia.
Agitation is increasing in favor of
compelling the government to state
explicitly its attitude towards Rus
sia. It is now regarded practically
certain this agitation will result in
President Wilson being urged to de
clare his stand on the Russian sit
uation during his visit here.
“Order is more thoroughly re-es
tablished in Russia now than at any
time since the fall of czardom,” said
tlie New Statesman.
Babies of Germany
Have Suffered Most
During World War
BY EDWARD M. THIERRY
BERLIN, Germany.—lt is the ba
bies of Germany that have suffered
most.
And it is, as always, the babies
of unfortunate parentage that have
had to suffer in greatest numbers.
I have dug into mortality statis
tics to learn where the burden of
war fell hardest back of the fight
ing zones.
Here are the figures that Hasse,
member of the governing council of
sex, has given me:
The women ot Germany are to
have a hand in the government.
They will have the numbers to dom
inate the government. There will be
21,000,000 women voters and only
18,000,000 men.
Twenty-five per cent of the chil
dren born of legitimate parentage
during the war have died.
Fifty per cent of the children o 2
illegitimacy have died.
Will not the child life of Germany
be protected from future wars by
the votes of the mothers?
U. S. Protests Against
Chinese Trade Monopoly
PEKIN. Nov. 30.—(Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.) —The
American legation has lodged a pro
test with the Chinese got ernmental
authorities against the sanctioning
of an export and import monopoly
by a Chinese limited liability com
pany. plans for which were put for
ward by T’ap Julln, acting minis
ter of France, and T’ien Wen-1 ich,
minister of agriculture and com
merce.
The company is to have a capi
talization of $5,000,000 with share
holders limited to Chinese citizens,
and is to begin operations imme
diately the shares are subscribed.
The object as set forth in the official
Gazette are to "deal in all sorts of
raw and manufactured articles both
export and import, and to act as
agents for the government, for com
panies, for business firms or indi
viduals in handling both exports and
imports.”
Article six of the “regulations”
contains the feature to which espe
cial objection is made by the Ameri
can legation as a direct contraven
tion of American treaty rights on
Lite ground that it creates a monopo-
Iv which would effectively shut out
ajl competition by American firms or
corporations in the Chinese marxet.
The article provides:
“All commodities which can be ex
ported or imported only on special
permits from the government shall
be handled by the company by spe
cial permits.
“When the government or any or
ganization under the control of the
government needs articles, this com
pany shall be appointed the agent
by special permit to purchase the
goods required.”
Another article provides that when
the government wishes to “stimu
late trade in any native products” it
shall notify the company of tne fact
and shall “order the company to take
measures to increase the import or
export as a part of its obligation.”
Bergen Takes on
Importance as Port
BERGEN, Norway, Nov. 18.—Since
the war began Bergen has taken on
added importance as a shipping cen
ter. Tt has been a point where neu
tral ships gathered to be convoyed
through danger zones and all passen
gers embarked for British and Scot
tish ports. Because of the great in
flux of English-speaking tourists in
normal times, English was spoken
very generally in the larger cities
and towns even before the war. but
now nearly all Norwegians speak
English. Foreign refugees trom
Russia and Finland recently have
kept all the resort hotels in the Nor
wegian mountains crowded. Travel
has far exceeded the capacity of the
railway between Christiania and Ber
gen and the inns have been unable to
accommodate the great mass of refu
gees who are endeavoring to make
their wav across the North sea on
the crowded steamers operated by the
British government.
In spite of their proximity, Sweden
and Norway are quite unlike. The
former is more military. It is fash
ioned on German lines. Norway is
more democratic and independent. It
rejoices in Its own music and litera
ture and does not content itself with
standing in the shadow of any great
power. Monuments to Ibsen, Grieg,
Ole Bull and Bjornson show the de
votion of Norwegians to their own
men of genius.
HERE'S HOW TO FEED HUNS
LONDON. —Just before the armi
stice was declared English paners
were featuring the story of a Ger
man scientist who must not be per
mitted to return to his fatherland
because he held the secret of a won
derful food substitute which would
aid the Germans to longer resist fam
ine. Now. it is suggested, that if
Germany must be fed. this scientist
be sent home with his secret as
speedily as possible.
rZrUHO-SLOVAK COIN'S
LONDON. De". 14, (By Mail.)—
British mint officials are interested
in plans of the Czecho-Slovak nation
for new coinage. The coins win be
based on the French franc.
VETERAN AND HERO AT
FOURTEEN IS THIS SOL
DIER’S RECORD. Official rec
ords as to how Elmer Geyer,
now fourteen years old, became
a soldier and a hero are lack
ing, but he is both. Elmer, who
comes from East Pittsburg, Pa.,
was with the Three Hundred
and Eighteenth infantry. First
division, as a dispatch runner.
After fourteen men had been
killed by German snipers he was
entrusted with a message they
had attempted to deliver. He
delivered it although he was
severely wounded. This photo
graph was taken on board a
transport which had just ar
rived at New York.
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ELMER GEYER.
Iceland Colonized
First by Norwegians
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 28.—leeland,
which is about to become an equal
partner in an Danish-Icelandic fed
eral union instead of remaining * de
pendency of Denmark, was colonized
by Norwegian chiefs in the ninth
century as a republic, conquered by
Norway later and from the four
teenth century was a Danish prov
ince. Iceland was given a parlia
ment in 1874, as a result of her urge
for independence. Last year came
the separation movement which has
resulted in the bill to make Iceland
a sovereign state in federation with
Denmark and with a judge on the
supreme court bench of Denmark un
til such time as she may «desire to
establish a supreme court of her
own.
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AFTER EM OF Wj
5 For First Time Since 19]
Americans Enjoy Holidi
With the Whole World I
Peace ■
America celebrated a vic|M
Christmas. M
With the world at peace for fl
first Christmas since 1913 becafl
of tlie victories of the military forfl
of the United States'and the al)fl
the American people appeared defl
mined to make the celebrafl
memorable. This determiniufl
seemed to have been intensified ' ■
President Wilson’s Christmas nfl
sage to the American people, sajfl
that “throughout the'great naufl
with which we have been assoedfl
in this war, public opinion stronfl
sustains all proposals for a just
lasting peace.” fl
A return io the merry
of former years was apparfl
throughout the nation. Businessfl
views showed that despite the fl
certainties of reconstruction the fl
spirit of giving accompanied
good will toward men had been fl
vived. fl
In the celebration of the vieffl
Christmas, the soldiers and sailfl
who made such a Christmas posstfl
had a large part. Though a iafl
part of tlie military force of thejfl
tion remained overseas, those isl
have returned were given a
in every community and had a lafl
part in the day’s celebration. ■
In Washington the day was dfl
brated quietly but whole-heartefl
For the first time in the natiofl
history Christmas was not
at the White House. President
son. in France tor the peace couM
ence, spent the day with the Amfl
lean troops at the front. Membfl
of the cabinet and of congress spfl
the day with their families. ■
Secretary Baker attended fl
Christmas celebration for the Jlfl
children in the city, held in the fl
tunda of the capitoi. Assisted fl
500 soldiers from nearby camps,
war secretary acted as a
Santa Claus for the children
aided In the distribution of
from a large Christmas tree
from the Washington estate at Mofl
Vernon. fl
NEUFCHATFL CELEBRATESfI
NEUFCHATEL. Wednesday, isl
25. —(Havas.) —Christmas was c<fl
brated by 5,000 American soldlfl
here today. Miss Margaret Wilsfl
daughter of the president, participfl
ed. Gifts of toys and clothing igfl
given to tlie children of the viffl
ity. fl