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NinriNCLIGHT 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. DICKERSON, KELLY &. ROBERTS Attorneys at Law Tanner-Dickerson Building, DOUGLAS, GA. ■ W. C. Lankford. R. A. Moore. . LANKFORD & MOORE • Lawyers . DOUGLAS GEORGIA. i DR. WILL SIBBETT, Treatment of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat a Specialty. DOUGLAS, GA. W. C. BRYAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Lankford Building, DOUGLAS. GA. CHASTAIN & HENSON ATTORNEYS AT LAW Overstreet Building DOUGLAS GEORGIA. M NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PAPER. DR. GORDON BURNS Physician and Surgeon Office Union Bank Building DOUGLAS, GA. F. 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