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Peronne Is Rich With The Old
History Os The Early France
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 15—Per
onne, the first important objective of
the Frenh and English forces when
the allies’ “big push’’ was inaugurat
ed, is described in today’s war geogra
phy bulletin of the National Geograh
iv Society as follows
“The important center of Peronne,
riel: with historic associations of
ancient and medieval France, was a
town of less than 5,000 people at the
outbreak of the war, and it had little
industrial or commercial significance,
but for nearly three hundred years it
bore an honored nom de guerre, Le
Pucelle, (The Impregnable), this dis
tinction having been accorded it in
1535, when the courageous woman,
Marie Foure, also known as Catherine
de Poix, successfully defended it
against the imperial forces of Charles
V commanded by the Count of Nassau
The title impregnable was dropped by
the city in 1815, however, for in that
year it was captured by the Duke of
Wellington. Its name stands high,
however among the cities of courage
in the days and only capitulated be
cause the civil population was being
decimated by an epidemic of Ismail- j
pox.
“The French maintained as a small !
military stronghold Paronna until ten I
years ago, when its fortifications were
razed, but up to the time of the own
■ward sweep of the Germans toward
Paris in the summer of 1914 the four
towered castle was still standing and
visitors were shown the cell in which,
in the tenth century, the unhappy
French king, Charles the Simple, post
humous son of Louis the Stammerer,
was starved to death. Charles was
kept a prisoner here by the treacher
ous Herbert, Count of Vennandois,
who had promises to aid the sovereign
against Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy.
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“Peronne was the scene of another
act of treachery against a French rul
er five hundred years later when the
‘bourgeoise king,’ ouis XI, trusting
ti the diplomacy of gold, visited
Charles the Bold. Two days after
Louis’ arrival in Paronne on a mission
of conciliation there came the news
of a supposed massacre of the bishop
and ducal governor of Liege. The
rumor was false, but Charles suspect
ing Louis of double dealing, threw the
king in prison and kept him in a cell
until he consented to sign the 'Treaty
of Peronne.’ insuring all Flanders
freedom from the jurisdiction of the
•parlement’ in Paris. This treaty was
the most humiliating episode in
Louis’ life, for the people of Picardy
taught their tame jays and magpies to
ery ‘Peronne’ and ‘Perette’ in derision
of the sovereign. Thoroughly morti
fied, Louis determmed to find a scape
goat and Cardinal Jean Balue was the
.unhappy victim. Balue fled and join
ed Harancourt, bishop of Verdun, :a
revolt. Both were captured, and Bai-'
ue was kept a prisoner for 11 years
while Harancourt was confined in an
iron cage, like a wild beast, for 13
years.
"The history of Peronne goes back
to the days of the Frankish king Clo
vis 11, who owned a villa here and
who gave it to his mayor of the pal
ace, Erehinoldus, founder es th6
monastery of St. Fursy in the seventh
century’. It received its charter from
the French crown in 1269.
“The tcfcvn is situated on the Somme
River, 94 miles by rail north of Paris,
and 35 miles east of Amiens. It is 20
miles by rail east of Fricourt, one of
the first villages taken by the British
in their offensive which began on tbe
first day of July.”
NEW PLOWS GUT THE
COST TO LOW LEVEL
PARIS, July 15. —The latest types
of traction and motor farm imple
ments experimented with at Gornay
sur Marns under the direction of a
representative of the Academy of Ag
riculture reduced the cost of plowing
land more than twenty-five percent in
comparison with the best previous
records. •
Two and a half acres were plowed
in light soil with an outlay of ten gal
lons of gasoline in four hours; be
tween thirtees and fourteen gallons
were required for the same work with
the most efficient machines tested last
fall. In heavy soil the difference in
favor of the new implements was
about the same.
The wear and tear of the machines
tried was considerable on acocuunt of
difficulties of lubrication in flying
dust, but the results were so favorable
in comparison with animal power that
ithe verdict of the Academy of Agri
culture is favorable to motor imple
ments and a general extension of
their use is recommended.
The greatest diffiaulty encountered is
the scarcity of men to operate them,
the rural population being little used
to machinery. The Academy propos
es the organization of training
schools for conductors of traction and
motor implements at once. since
these machines must be relied upon
to make up for the shortage in men
and horses for fall seeding.
SCftfILET FEVER WAS
OfiUSE OF I SCARE
PEKING, July 15. —Scarlet fever
broke out among the two hundred
American marines stationed in Peking
as a guard at the American legation.
In an effort to prevent the spread es
the disease, Colonel Neville, command
ant of the guard, ordered the men to
move out of the barracks and placed
them under canvass, with only two
men in each tent. The tents were
pitched on the recreation ground ad
joining the legation compound ard
outside the compound wall, where all
Chinese could see them plainly.
Immediately a rumor was circulated
that the American legation had
brought extra troops from the Philip
pines to protect foreigners against
possible, rioting which might result
from the unsettled political condition
ard the financial stringency brought
about by the moratorium. This rum
or grew, and added to it was a report
that the Japanese were also to bring
lin thousands of troops from Tsingtou
and Japan for the protection of for
eigners.
These reports became so insistent
that the Chinese government issued a
formal denial, explaining the, reason
for the tented colony outside the Am
erican legation compound.
Only five of the American marines
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
NO RED GROSS FOR
GERMANY IS REPLY
PARIS. July 15.—The French au
thorities have refused to allow free
passage into Germany of American
Red Cross sanitary equipment and
supplies notwithstanding the society’s
claim that such passage is justified by
article 29 of the Declaration of London
and article 16 of the Geneva Conven
tion of 1906.
The French authorities held that
article 29 of the Declaration confines
itself to asserting that 'material ex
clusively for the use of sick and
wounded is not to be classified as con
raband of war,” but these words co
not prevent such material from being
captured and confiscated for violation
cf blockade nor from being held up on
the way. Moreover, they add, the
Declaration of London was neves
ratified and therefore has no obliga
tory force.
As to artice 16 of the Geneva Con
vention the French authorities now
intimate that, considering German
methods of conducting war, they see
no reason for departing from their
prohibition of May 1916 against send
ing any goods whatever into Germany,
so cannot make any exception in favor
of the American Red Cross Society.
Gore especially as to the supplies
“end by reprovisioning Germany with
raw material that is often easy to re
cover after usage and of which the
German government has pressing
need for its military operations.”
TELEPHIIIE COMPANY NOW
ENCOURAGING THRIFT TO ALL
ATLANTA, Ga., July 115.—The
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company plan which provides for
employes of the Bell system becoming
stockholders of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company has ■
resulted, according to reports received i
in Atlanta today, in encouraging thrift
among employees on a large scale.
No less than 5 per cent of em
ployees of the New York Companies
eligible under the plan became sub
scribers, or 33 per ceijt of the total
number of employees' of the compan
ies. Os 33,000 additional shares offer
ed to employees of the entire Bell
system, 10,458 were subscribers by
5.211 employeees of the New York
Teelphone Company.
A typical subscription to four
shares at sllO last year required a
monthly payment of? 8, so that at the
end of the year the employee had
paid in $96, received $32 in dividends
and had a balance of $112.72 after
$15.28 had been deducted for interest
have the scarlet fever. These are
quarantined in a gun-shed on the city
wall adjoining the legation.
The people wnose advertisements
you read in this paper are on the level
they’re not afraid of their poods.
SOME PRORIS. BACK
GOV. KARRIS' RAGE
ATANTA, Ga., July 14.—Members of
tre legislature who took a leading part
in the enactment of the prohibition
I laws give full credit to Governor Har
j ris for making possible the enactment
j of the laws by including prohibition in
bis call for the extra session held last
fall, and they devlare the prohibition
ists over the state should rally to the
governor's support.
The fact that four candidates are in
the race for governor and that all of
these strongly endorse the prohibition
laws makes the re-election of Governor |
Harris a question purely and simply I
this: “Will the prohibitionists standi
by him?”
This situation, which is perfectly ob
vious to all observers, is the one that
is counted on by the opposition to
Governor Harris as their only hope of
encompassing his defeat. That is to
say, if the prohibition vote can be split,
the governor may not be re-elected,
whereas the prohibition vote tsands
together, his re-election is certain.
In an editorial which has attracted
widespread attehtion, Editor Volney
Williams, of the Waycross Journal-
Herald, calls upon the prohibitionists
who urged Governor Harris to include
the bills in his call to make “the real
issue an open issue, and inasmuch as
he is going to lose the anti-pTohibition
vote for what he did, to see to it that
the governor gets the prohibition vote
for the very same reason.”
ATLANTA IS PUTTING
VAGRANTS ON RUN
ATANTA, Ga., July 15.—1 f the
farmers of Georgia experience a
shortage of hands to hoe cotton, pick
peaches and perform other labor on ‘
the farm this season, it will not be I
I I
the fault of the police department of
{Atlanta, which is doing its dead*
level best to put the vagrants on the
run.
Since the new prohibition law went
into effect on May 1 the loafing ne
groes have been forced into the pool
rooms and to the streets, and are
therefore easier for the police to find.
As a means of further prosecution the
anti-vagrancy war, it has been urged
that pool rooms, both for white and
colored, be abolished entirely, as the
police say most of them are resorts
for idling and loitering.
Recently a “curfew” rule promulg
ated by Police Chief Mayo which re
quires al] persons on the streets as-j
ter 2 o'clock in the morning to give
an account of themselves, and this
rule is being rigidly enforced as still
means of keping the vagrants on the
run.
When arranged in police court the,
‘sons of rest” are given the option of
a term in the stockade or leaving the
city, which is intended to operate for
the benefit of the farmers by driving
the loafers to the rural districts. i
RAILROAD MEN WANT
MAIL PAY SETTLED
ATLANTA, Ga., July 15. —Promin-
ent railroad men here and through
out the south are urging upon con
gressmen the acceptance of the Unit
ed States senate’s proposed disposi
tion of the railway mail problem and
thereby, it is stated, achieve a defin
ite and permanent solution of this
perennial controversy.
Under the “Cummins amendment”
in the postoffice appropriation bill,
which has passed the United States
senate, the question of mail pay goes
to the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion with power to fix rates, which
rates hitherto for years have, it is
claimed, been very unfair to the rail
roads.
The railroads, according to local
railroad men, have always insisted
that all they asked was equitable
treatment and just compensation, s>
the reference of the whole dispute to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
is a compromise which, it is stated,
should be cheerfully accepted by all j
the railroads. It is also a compro
mise, as has been pointed out, which
must necessarily apepal to the pub
lic judgment as a reasonable an 1
common sense solution of a vexa
tious question.
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