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BALBOA HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
# r ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~—————— Tlit* most responsible educational
position in Panama is held by Miss
Jessie Daniels, principal of Balboa
high school. All the students of the
graded schools, except that at Oatun,
come under her Jurisdiction and she
has proved herself to he a powerful
link connecting those serving und< r
(lie isthmian government with all they
Miss Daniels is young for her re
sponsible position and has a prepos
sessing personality, as well as execu
tive ability. She lirst went to Pana
m?- f. ....., -gs? ma to visit a sister who was married
' / to one of the zone officials and, feel
ing a desire to teach, she took a posi
tion in the graded schools at Ancon,
.:where she taught for a time before re-
T& ''v ceiving her promotion. She Is a daugh
: V- v % \ ter of Andrew Daniels of Canton, (>.,
% \ and was born in the city made famous
V ; \ as the residence of the martyred pres
’ ident, William McKinley. She received
her education in the high schools at Canton and the Western Reserve uni
versity, graduating with honors to spare.
The new building for the Balboa high school is not yet completed, but
when it is it will compare favorably with any in the States. It is being con
structed of cement, the same as was used in the construction of the famous
locks at Oatun and elsewhere along the ('anal and will cost more than $200,-
000. It is of pure Spanish type, with a patio to be tilled with rare plants and
flowers, and into which everyone of the classrooms will open. Only children
of American citizens are permitted to enjoy gratis the educational benefits
of the school, but more than 200 students have enrolled in the new institution.
BETHMANN-HOLLWEG A GREAT WORKER
Bethmann-Hollweg, chancellor of
mid has withal so little liking for
his critics have sometimes seized upon
tlon to advertise himself and thus strengthen his hold upon the people, lit*
never even goes to theaters and concerts now. hut he did allow liimself before
the war the occasional treat of a concert of good classical music.
At the general army headquarters in the west, where he has spent much
of his time since the war began, in order to keep in close personal contact
with the kaiser and the military authorities, his labors are less arduous.
There he has time to visit the troops along the front. Such outings are no
less a pleasure to him than to the soldiers, with whom he is very popular.
TRIES TO RETURN TO WAR
Having already lost a leg in the
m f returned to recuperate from his
% wounds, which were received while he
JBUm?,. ■sp»bS3os was flying over the German lines in
France. He was accompanied to this
country by his bride, who was Bar-
III?* \ T '' “ness Giselle de Vavario of Belgium.
f wk* Young Marburg, who is twenty
9ESBflHp\ A Swj&gji two years of age, had met the har
•yA Jj ' 1 * shortl\ before the outbreak of
SKTtu'lLL'' B I 'Jyr ' v,,r - while his father was still
i*|F ?v# representing the United States at the
" “ court of King Albert. The young man
had been tit the front only a month when he was wounded. He was ordered
into active service on November 5), and on January, 1915, was assigned to the
Royal British aviation corps. At the time war was declared he was a student
at Oxford university, England.
WAS PROTEGE OF GRANT
Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard,
either return from the war,
pany, and was killed, with most of his
men. in a railroad accident on his way
Thomas B„ received an appointment k
know need.”
One of Admiral Howard’s most cherished possessions today is the sword
he bought with Grant's money, an appropriate purchase for a military “grad.”
In the service, Howard has been known as a strict disciplinarian, but he
has never failed to win the affections of his men in whatever post he has
served. Whenever he changed ship an avalanche of requests flooded the navy
department from the men who had come in personal contact with the admiral
nni wished to follow him.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Giyen.
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic ,
A New Ixmdon, Conn., dispatch con
tains the information that the colli
sion which caused the merchant sub
marine Deutschland to abandon her
return voyage to Germany almost, at
its outset when a convoying tug, the
T. A. Scott, Jr., was sunk with a crew
of five men, was the subject of fed
eral investigation. It is agreed, ac
cording to the dispatch, that the sink
ing of the tug, was purely accidental,
and the crew of the Deutschland was
in no way culpable.
New York City advices say that a
gigantic plan described as “one of
the largest in the history of the world
without interest” is to be raised to
place the Jews of Europe definitely
beyond the reach of suffering after the
war.
Bleached cotton fiber, including lin
ters and hull fiber, used in the manu
facture of gun cotton and explosives
of ail kinds during the quarter end
ing June 30, exceeded anything in
history.
Former United States Judge Wil
liam H. Brawley is dead at Charles
ton, S. C. He was a former member
of congress, and was appointed to
the bench by Grover Cleveland.
Molly Elliott Seawell, author of very
widely read historical romances and
stories for boys, died at Washington,
D. C., at the age of 56. She was a
Virginian and a niece of President
John Tyler.
It is stated that prompt and final
decision of the United States Supreme
court in the railroad 8-hour contro
versy is possible, and is expected in
the leading centers of the country,
as every section is anxious that the
matter shall be settled for good and
all.
It is announced that the fifty mil
lion dollar French credit recently ar
ranged by a group 8f New York bank
ers in behalf of seventy-four large
French industrial concerns, has been
subscribed.
It is announced that a national day
light saving convention will be held
in New York City on January 30 and
31 next, to which chambers of com
merce, boards of trade, governors of
all states, mayors of 150 cities, the
American Bankers’ association, the,
American Federation of Labor and oth
er labor and scientific bodies are re
quested to send delegates.
European War
In western Wallachia, the advance
of the Austro-Hungarians continues
steadily, and Campulung, eighty miles
northwest of Bucharest, the Rouman
ian capital, is almost within the grasp
of the German invaders.
More than twenty-one hundred pris
oners were taken by the Austro-Hun
garians in the latest operations in Wal
lachia.
Rungul mountain in Moldavia, east
of Kenzivas Arhely, has been carried
by Bavarian troops.
The town of Barakli, on the right
bank of the Struma river and on the
eastern end of the Macedonia front,
has been occupied by British troops.
On the western Macedonian front in
the Monastir region, the Germans re
port all attacks of the entente force
have been repulsed.
The Franco-Serbian offensive, in the
region of the Cerna river, continues
successful, is the report from Paris.
Thirteen thousand Belgians are re
ported to have been deported to Ger
many, and it is stated that the Ger
mans plan to take some three hundred
thousand more. They will be put to
work in Germany, it is stated.
A dispatch from Beirut, Syria, says
that a war tribunal has passed a sen
tence of death on Hussein Kemal
Pasha, sultan of Egypt, on the ground
that he placed under foreign rule con
stituent#parts of the Turkish empire.
The death sentence has been con
firmed, according to an Amsterdam,
Holland, dispatch.
General Roques, French minister of
war, has informed the Greek govern
ment that General Sarrail has sent
troops to maintain a neutral zone
along the frontier of old Greece. It
is stated that the allies only propose
to use a section o fthe Greek railroad
for the purpose of a supply service to
and from Saloniki.
In Dobrudja the troops of Field Mar
shal von Muckensen are still in re
treat.
In a speech in London, Viscount
Bryce, former ambassador to the Unit
ed States, made a plea for a league
of nations to insure permanent peace.
A Norwegian torpedo boat is report
ed to have fired upon a German steam
er which refused to stop when pass
ing Stavenger, then boarded the
steamer and dismantled her wireless.
Once again the German line in
France has been hard hit by the Eng
lish, and between three and four thou
sand German prisoners wore taken.
Petrograd asserts that a majority of
German vessels which took part in a
bombardment in the Gulf of Finland
were sunk.
In Rome, Italy, sixty women and
children were killed in an air raid car
ried out by an Austrian squadron.
While the British were advancing
their front north of the Ancre river
or consolidating their newly won po
sition.-. the French and Germans were
engaged in violent combats, both
north and south of the Somme.
Berlin says that except at Beau
court, all the British attacks broke
down with heavy casualties.
Mexican News
Reports from Atlantic City, N. J.,
w r here the Mexic-Ameriean commission
is in session, are to the effect tHht
the plan of border paArol has failed
to carry because of its repudiation by
Luis Cabrera. It is stated that fur
ther opposition, characterized as quib
bling, will not long be tolerated.
It is stated in Washington that if
a satisfactory agreement can be reach
ed for ihe protection of the American
border and American lives and prop
erly in Mexico, it is believed that the
United States troops In Mexico will be
withdrawn although a strong
force will be kept along the border.
Washington
Suits by railroads attacking the con
stitutionality of the eight-hour rail
road law have been filed in many parts
of the country, and the department
of justice laid plans to defend them.
No offer has yet been made by the
railroads to settle the question by one
test case.
The state department has issued this
interesting statement: “A large num
ber of suits attacking the constitution
ality of the Adamson law have been
institution in various parts of the
United States. The department of
justice will take direct charge of
these cases and Mr. Frank Hagerman
of Kansas City, Mo., has been retain
ed to assist in their preparation and
trial.”
There will be no lapse in the service
of President Wilson because of the fact
that March 4, next, inauguration day,
falls on Sunday, as President Wilson
will take the oath of office on Sunday,
March 4.
A London dispatch anounces that
Prince George of Battenberg was mar
ried to Countess Nadejka de Torby,
daughter of Grand Duke Michaelo
vitch of Russia.
The opening of direct wireless serv
ice between the United Statese and
Japan was signalized with a message
from President Wilson to the emperor
of Japan at Tokio.
The British reply to the latest note
of the United States government pro
testing against the trade blacklist, has
been made public by the state depart
ment. The reply denies that the
rights of neutral traders under inter
national law have been ruthlessly can
celled, defines the blacklist measure as
a municipal regulation plainly concern
ing only the British government and
contends that it is designed to short
en the war.
It is stated that the British reply
to the United States protest against
the blacklist fails to meet the Ameri
can demand that the names of Ameri
can firms be stricken from the black
list. The reply, it is pointed out, how
ever, leaves open the door for further
diplomatic negotiation, which will
most probably follow.
It having been reported to the Unit
ed States government that Germany
was taking Belgians into Germany and
placing them at work, the United
States charge d’affaires at Berlin has
been instructed to take up the matter
with the German chancellor.
It is stated, in fairness to the Ger
mans, that Germany has deported Bel
gians to relieve the styain on public
charities, which, it is said, has become
intolerable in Berlin, and that Ger
many does not feel able to feed the
Belgians without getting some kind
of return.
President Wilson, back in the white
house for the first time since the cam
paign began two months ago, plunged
into work in an effort to clear his desk
of accumulated business.
State department officials make no
secret of their belief that dangerous
possibilities are presented by the re
cent developments in both the Mexi
can arid submarine questions.
A dispatch from Corunna, Spain,
says Capt. Frederick Curtis of the
American steamer Columbia, who has
arrived there with the rescued crew of
this steamship, declared that he was a
prisoner on board the German U-49
for six days after the destruction of
his vessel. *
Danger of a nation-wide strike of the
railroads, which was believed to have
been averted by the passage of the
Adamson eight-hour law, has not en
tirely disappeared, according to re
sports from the meeting of the repre
sentatives of the railroads and the
brotherhoods, which failed to
agreement as to the proper applica
tion of the law.
It is stated definitely by officials
in the confidence of the president that
his re-electicn will mean no radical
changes in any of his policies.
Arrangements for the prosecution of
Karl Armgaard (ftaves, self-styled
“master spy” and magazine writer, ar
rested on a charge of attempting to
extort $3,000 from Countess von Bern
storff, have been completed.
With regard to foreign affairs, it is
stated that the attitude of the govern
ment toward submarine warfare laid
down in the note following the sink
ing of the channel steamer Sussex and
in previous communications will be
followed strictly.
A Petrograd dispatch says that Rus
sian newspapers, commenting brief
ly on the re-election of President Wil
son, confine themselves to the general
conclusion that a more decisive for
eign policy is as much to be expected
from Mr. Hughes as it would have been
under Mr. Hughes if he had been suc
cessful.
SERBIANS AGAIN
IN NATIVE LANS
French And Serbian Forces Capture The
City Of Monastir, Where Serbs
Will Establish Capital
IS GREAT ALUED VICTORY
Allies Consider Capture Of City As
One Of Most Important Devel
opments Of War
Paris. —After having been for
months men without a country, the
Serbians are again to establish their
capital on native soii % Monastir, in
southerri Serbia, for which the entente
forces have been struggling since the
advance from their base at Saloniki
began, has bedh evacuted by the Ger
man and Bulgarian forces and occu
pied by the French and a considerable
number of Serbs.
The French and Serbians having
captured the crest of hills partly sur
rounding the valley town, the Germans
found their position untenable and
withdrew, according to Berlin, to a
new position to the north of Manastir.
Unofficial advices from Saloniki say
that a temporary capital of Serbia will
be immediately established at Monas
tir. With the reoccupation of Monastir
the railway line from the entente allied
base at Saloniki now is in entente
hands.
To the cast and southeast of Monas
tir the French and Serbian troops con
tinue to make gains in the Cerna river
region against the Teutonic allies,
having captured several towns in this
region.
world situation full of
PORTENT FACED BY WILSON
For Next Few Weeks President And
His Advisers Will Consider Inter
national Questions Only
Washington.—A portentous and com
plicated international situation now
faces President Wilson and for the
next few weeks will engage his at
tention and that of his advisers to the
practical exclusion of all but the most
urgent of domestic subjects.
In the last days of the campaign
Secretary of State Lansing frequent
ly spoke of the necessity of postponing
action on the more delicate interna
tional questions because of the uncer
tainty of the outcome of the political
contest had a direct bearing on the
success or failure of some of the ad
ministration policies.
Front now on the president expects
to deal with all foreign questions with
out embarrassment and he is receiv
ing from his advisers a summary of
the outstanding issues so essential to
taking stock of the basic situation
which must be met now that interna
tional relations have returned to their
place of prime importance. While it
is not evident that there will be any
fundamental change in policy, freedom
from fear that any move at all would
be misinterpreted as inspired by an
internal political struggle has been re
moved, President Wilson and Secre
tary Lansing feel themselves able to
act with a single eye to the interna
tional situation and their immediate
conferences on the president’s return
to Washington indicate how pressing
they feel the situation to be.
6,962 PRISONERS ARE
TAKEN BY THE BRITISH
Berlin Claims British Paid Bloody
Price —Bad Weather Checks Oper
ations In North France
London. —Bad weather is hampering
the operations on the western front
in France, but the British neverthe
less have taken twenty additional Ger
man officers and 752 men prisoners in
the Ancre sector, making their total
of prisoners since the 13th of Novem
ber, 6,962.
Berlin says that in the fighting No
vember 18, which was over a front of
seven and a half miles, the British met
w*ith a sanguinary reverse except for
insignificant gains southwest of Serre
and near Grandocourt. A French at
tack south of Sailly-Sallisel met with
a simjlar repulse. Attacks by the Aus
trians in the Adige valley and upper
Butt regions, in the latter of which
the Austrians and Italians fought hand
to hand, the Italians were victorious,
159 Persons Killed In Railroad Wreck
Laredo, Texas. —One hundred and
fifty-nine persons were killed and
many injured in a railroad wreck on
the Inter-Oceanic line to Vera Cruz,
between Dehesa and San Miguel, near
Jalapa, on November 12, according to
a report received here. The train was
said to have been running at a high
rate of speed when it left the rails.
Four cars of the train of five cars
are said to have left the tracks and
rolled over a cliff. The passengers
were literally ground to pieces.
American Killed By Villa's Bandits
El Paso, Texas. —An unidentified
American was killed when a Villa band
took Jiminez and four Americans were
seen under a guard of bandits at Par
ral during Villa's occupation of that
town, according to reports believed by
federal agents to be authentic, brought
to the border by refugees. Refugees
state that the district between Parral
and Jiminez has been cleared by Vil
la’s followers of more than two hun
dred Chinese.
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