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Chester Overton
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SUNDAY AMERICAN’S SPECIAL CABLE . LETTERS RECEIVED FROM ALL THE GREAT
Marquis die Castefiiane
C. de Vidai-Hundt
Fritz Jaeobsolhn
^ J. M. E. O’Aqoin
4 George M. Bruce
CAPITALS OF EUROPE
BATHE AM DEATH
Civilized Nations Horrified at
Exposures Made Within Past
Few Years.
WAR THEIR SOLE DESIRE
* *
Patriotism Have No Part in Lives
of Big Men Behind the
Factories.
Special Cable to The American.
By PHILLIP EVERETT.
LONDON, May 10.—The revelations
recently made in Germany concern
ing the existence of an international
trust of armor and gun factories
which used every possible means to
create a demand for the engines of
destruction they manufacture, may
have created almost as much of a
sensation here as in Germany, for
it is realized with a certain feeling of
relief that everything in Germany is
not in such ship-shape order as we
have been used to believe.
The English people are afraid,
however, that such things are not
cor fined to Germany, Russia and
France.
Nations are paving a dreadful
price for the cult of international
hatred and there is in England not
only a political party always clamor
ing for greater naval and military
expenditures but also a press whose
specialty is creating war scares.
Papers Not Above Suspicion.
While not even the worst enenfr of
the Tory party in England would
dream of accusing it of being in
league with the great gun an armor
factories, here and abroad, there are
right here in London papers that may
not be above suspicion of being sub
sidized by Krupp and the interna
tional armor trust.
It appears indeed as if at last one
Rrcai European international trust
might give points to its American
colleagues not only in the efficiency
of its methods but also in the evil
crop thi%t springs up from its dragon
teeth, sown with skillful hands. The
world has fortunately seen nothing
like this trust before. Its trade is
death, its profits lie in the' murder
of men in capping whole nations .of
their strength for decades, its inter
est in the cultivation of human
hatred
As one paper here puts it: "Per
haps the most horrible feature of
this new’ trust is the fact that while
working by means of national
hatreds, it is itself international. The
world is horror struck by the idea
of a German armament firm fed by
French money, or of another arma
ment firm deliberately inspiring the
French pres'* (o attack the country
of its own birth. Fkit one only has
to turn over the pages of any big
financial paper to discover that near-
1\ all the great armament firms of
England, as well as of Germany and
France, are acting with entire in
difference to patriotism of any kind.
They are all alike engaged in the
operation of arming all nations with
the absolute indifference against one
another. As the nations wither and
perish, so do the dividends of these
armament firms' rifle. During tin?
years of panics, a ghastly increment
of profit has swollen the prospectuses
of thees companies and sent a ghoul
ish joy through their share-holders.
"As a mosquitoV body swells in
?ize while it fills itself with your
blood, so the shares of these gun and
armor factories swell when there is
a prospect that human blood will be
shea.” ,
Proof in Austria.
For proofs of this we need not go
back very many months. In De
cember, 1912. when a war between
Austria and Russia seemed imminent,
it was announced that Shoda, the fa
mous Austrian factory of arma
praised time and again for its patri
otism. intended to put up a branch
factory in Russia in order to supply
the Czar’s soldiers with guns to
shoot Austrian soldiers down.
About the middle of February new
rumors*? of impending war caused
the same factory’s shares to go up
30 per cent in one single hour on the
Vienna stock exchange.
And now a few weeks ago when
the pepple of England had been
scared Into believing that they were
imminent danger of an Invasion of
German airships,, a scare probably
engineered by agents of German
manufacturers of dirigibles, the Ger
man Government, one of the mofT
autocratic in tie world, found these
same manufacturers laughing at it.
when it tried to forbid them to sell
their dirigibles to England. With
them trade does not follow the flag,
their flag on the contrary runs after
trade.
The armor and gun trust threatens
to become more powerful than all
the European Governments together,
and the power will be broken only
when these Governments decide upon
disarmaments all over and the sub
mission of all international questions
to a Supreme Court of Arbitration at
The Hague. The only difficulty in
doing this will be to find a power
willing to do the beginning.
COBBLER IN CATALEPTIC
SLEPT FOR TWO MONTHS
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 10.—Leon a
young cobbler in Cherbourg, who is
only twenty-two years old, has been
In a cataleptic sleep since February
Versailles Fete to Portray All Courts of Europe
.. *•* *•* + •*
i Titled American Heiresses to Play Large Part
German Emperor Suffered Deeply
When Socialist Exposure
Was Made.
RESULT
ture of Armament Into Own
Hands Now.
Brilliant Event Staged in Time of Louis XIV
King George and Queen Mary
Taking Active Part in the
Extensive Preparttions.
I.cidv Marlborough, cast for a prominent part in the fet»
which is to include all European roya lsociety.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 10.—All the wi.
Government May Take Manufac- counciIors !1 » d wur ministers or
By FREDERICK WERNER.
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, May 10.— It is impoKsibl
not to sympathize with the Kaiser
during the present Krupp scandals,
which everyone knows are far worse
than even the socialistic papers have
found it wise to make public.
With all his .'••hortcomings there
is in all Germany no more sympa
thetic or straightforward man than
the Kaiser, whose chief fault is his
impulsiveness. No man is more sen
sitive as to German honor, no man
has done more lo keep Germany's es-
chutcheon spotless and the revela
tions made by Dr. Liebkneclit, son
of the famous Socialist leader in the
Reichstag, have spoiled the joy with
which the Kaiser looked forward first
to the wedding of his daughter,
GOOD
MAY
YET
Loci' ragot, who is arnm^in#
the* French court, the most elab-
orale to he presented.
PRESENT FEELIIIC
French Taking Much Quieter and
Forceful View of Happenings
on Frontier.
Europe may have their heads bent
ov«-* war maps, while thousands of
troops rest on their arms awaiting
orders to Join in a threatened general
conflict over Balkan Affairs; Jingoes
may scream war and French military
authorities have fits of excitement
oyer the "acidental landing of German
war balloons near French fortifica
tions. but none of this will in the .
least effect the great Versailles fete ■
to be held in June next, at which
all of the courts of Europe will be
represented.
Prince Paul of Servia, whose coun
try may become involved in Montene
gro's dispute with Austria and Ger
many, will rub elbows with nobl *s
from the court of the Kaiser, and a
daughter of the Russian Grand Duke
Michael may perhaps dance with a
courtier of the household of Emperor
Franz Josef of Austria.
American Women Prominent.
American women, wives of English
peers, will play an important part in
the event, which is being held for
charitable purposes, and will probably
exceed in gorgeousness any of the
fancy dress balls ever before given in
the British capital.
Under the patronage of King George
and. Queen Mary, the Queen Mother
Alexandra and the Pritide'Bs Christian,
the ball will be attended by nobles and
royalty from all parts of Europe, The
fete is based on the reception of
Louis XIV in the gardens at Ver
sailles and will take playe in Alber:
Hal! on June f>.
All the great courts of Europe of
the time of Louis XIV will be repre
sented by society, wpmen and noble
women. France will be the chief
court. Lady Paget, an American, is
arranging this. Count Elston will
represent Louie XIV, l>ady Dudley
will appear as Queen Maria Theresa
and Prince Paul of Servia. who has
exhibited a great fondness for London
society, will represent the Dauphin.
Women in the French Court will be
Ladies Crewe. Desborough. Islington,
Helen Vincent, Diana Manners. Cas-
tlereagh, Ingestre. Baroness E. De-
Rothschild. Mrs. Cecil Bingham and
Mrs. W. B. Leeds. Among the men
in the court will be Prince Alexander
Duchess of Marlborough, another American who will take part in the Versailles Fete, and
who is regarded as one of the most beautiful women in England.
The doctors are tinabie to exp’ain
jtfhe reason of this attack. Until r^-
•centh he was fed through a rubber
tube with milk and the yok** of egg-.
He has recovered now bis sense ofn greatest patriots :
hearing and can understand what is j as swindlers and
said to him. He cun eat, but can
which marks the ending of the long
feud between the Guelphs and the
Hohenzoljerns, and also 16 his forth
coming jubilee in June.
It would be hard to imagine a hard
er blow to the Kaiser than the indis
putable fact that the Houee of Krupp.
whose founder he personally be
friend, and whose members lie has
honored at all occasions, have thrown
disgrace on the fair name which
Germans have always had in all their
business dealings, to a man like the
Kaiser who is first of all a sincere
and enthusiastic patriot, ( rimes, such
as these of which the Krupp.s stand
convicted in the eyes’ o? the world,
in spite of the War Minister’s first
faint attempt to cover them up. are
btyond the Kaiser’s understanding,
and in his inmost heart he knows
that Dr. Liehnecht spoke the truth
when he said that this wav Germany’s
Panama scandal. which surpasses
that of France, because of the in
credible dallousness and \, rfidy o*
the prominent German capitalists,
who planned to provoke a world war
that their own business might flour
ish.
To a gnat many people in Ger
many it begins to dav\n that good
may still come from the Krupp ;van-
rials. They will give the word "pa
triotism” a new scene, since the pe-
d
r
of Rattenburg. Lords Angelesey,
Titchfleld, Castlereagh. Alexander
Thynne and Counts DeGramont, De-
Gansy and Alfred Potocki. Sir Her
bert Beerbohm Tree, the famous Eng
lish actor, will represent one of the
cardinals.
Lady FitzwilUam is arranging the
Turkish Court, and she is stopping at
no limit to accurately represent the
splendor of the East. The Turkish
Court gives her unlimited play of the
imagination. Lady Marsh is arrang- .
ing the English Court of Charles II. ‘.Special Cable 4o The American.
while the Duchess of Somerset has I PARIS Mav 10. A !■
charge of the Spanish Court. * * V, . , .
o . o .. . ^ , I sent a reporter to President Poin-
Requcsts Swedish Court. •
Viscountess Curzon, wife of Vis- | ' ! iir ‘ ’ ,s 1 an< * * ,as
count Francis Curzon, will represent i s,nt < * ^ nt ' r ' l;lln, , I * :s ' rulers with
the Queen of Sweden in the Swedish • * le information he got as to Mr.
Court, being prepared by Lady
Milmorey. Viscountess Curzon is
Poincaire Wears
Silk Hat a Month
French President Very Hard on His
Headgear—Keeps His Hat-
maker Busy.
eneh paper
Poincaire's headgear. The President
buys his hats in one of the largest
Paris
ytablishmcnt- and ha
dealt | ,
fie who have hitherto pcs d as t'.icjto represent the terrace outside Ver
tov stand revealed Uailles. Costumer and designers of
money grabbers I London are reaping a harvest. Such
the trace of feeling of con- J gorgeous costumes h
science.
particularly well qualified to repre
sent. the Queen of Sweden because of j aI llu ‘ sine- he was a rising
her beautiful fair hair and blue eyes. ! V° ,j ng lawy er. The only difference <
Countess Zia Torby. daughter of! 110W ,s th{lt instead of going to the ;
Grand Duke Michael of Russia, will j sl, °P to fnakt ’ his purchase, the di- 1
be in the Hwedish costume. J rector himself call; at the Elycss.
Among the American women who ' 1 Fh»* President follows the fa hion in
will take an active part are Lady •' the <?ut of his hats—but at a dis-
^ * 1 tance. as he himself puts it. in pri
vate life he piefers an ordinary black
felt bowler, and fog the summer a
plain straw. It is very seldom he Is
seen in anything but a silk hat now.
howe ver, and his expenditure on I
them since he became Pre-idem is a
very heavy item, for he uses on an
average one a morfth. and his hitter I
finds it necessary lo keep a stock of!
them made to order to supply the!
demand. ^
Paget, the Duchess of Marlborough.
Hon. Mrs. Cecil Bingham. Lady New-
borough. Mrs. William R Leeds, Mrs.
Schwab and Mrs. James McDonald.
The ball is in aid of the Soldiers’
and Sailors' Help Society. The in
ferior of Albert Hall will be decorated
ordered from them before.
never
Too Much Energy
Lost, Says Doctor
“Can’t Waiters” Make Up Class of
Human Beings That Are Con
tinually Restless.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 10.—“We could
quite well bear the strain of mod
ern life if we better understood how
to preserve our nerve energies” stid
Dr. Edwin Ash. a London speciality
in nervous diseases in a recent ad
dress here.
"VVe waste an enormous amount,”
he said, "in (restlessness, which in
volve- the repeated and profitless
contraction of many muscles in
tricks of manner, hurry, and haste.
There is a large class of persons who
e unable to wait for anything. They
e always anxious to get on to the
xt item in the day’s program, they
speak and act without thinking apd
so waste their energies. Such peo
ple might bo called '*'an't Walters.’"
Those who are “Can't Waiters,”
who are using up too muc h nervous
energy, should iays Dr. Ash. dili
gently practice self-control and car
ry out the following rules:
\Veai reasonably loose clothing.
Spend at least one hour daily in the
open air Always get up at the same
time. E.it >lowl.\ Dress slowly,!
-peak slowly and walk slowly i
GERMAN PAPERS EXCITED
President Poincaire and His
Cabinet Feel Confident They
Can Prevent Trouble.
By GEORGE DUFRESNE.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 10.—The two frontier
incidents at Luneville and Nancy
which were so cleverly taken advan
tage of by certain elements In Ger
many, quite i lose to the Government,
In order to stir up the lagging en
thusiasm for the army and navy ex
penditures, .ver m to have purified the
air and there is no tinge of dishar
mony between the two nations.
That this is so is particularly due
to the tactful and dignified and at
the same time firm conduct of the
French Government and as long, at
least, as the present cabinet remains
In powet everyone agrees that Pres
ident Poincaire may very well say,
"1’Etat e’est moi,” for he* is beyond
a doubt head and shoulders above
any of his present ministers, who
willingly bow to his opinions.
Proportional Strength.
To the careful observer, the two
incidents mentioned very plainly
show the proportional strength of
the two countries. Germany, which
has a keen feeling that France is
the stronger, at least, temporarily,
grew nervous and excited, while
France, in the must calm and un
concerned manner, disposed of the
two accidents 'in accordance with
the knowledge of her superior
strength. At Luneville she did what
anybody would have done in her po
sition, she treated the German of
ficers on board the Zeppelin with the
utmost politeness, and simply asked
them to give* their word of honor
that they had taken no photographs
while passing above French frontier
fortifications, while at the same Hme
she used her opportunity of examin
ing every detail of the "Z4” which had
fallen into her hands.
At Nancy, where excited French
men to a certain extent were to
blame, she felt.strong enough to ad
mit she had been at fault before any
attempt of putting on pressure on
the part of Germany.
The same course was followed by
the French press, for while the papers
of Germany lost their heads entire
ly, even a paper with chauvinistic
tendencies like "Le Matin” wrote:
"French ’public opinion will not tol
erate a foreigner being molested on
French soil, merely because he is a
German.”
Had the conditions been the same
as when "Napoleon Petit” ruled
France and Prince Bismarck was all-
powerful in Germany we whould not
have seen the two nations involved
in war.
Patriotism Strong.
In France, patriotism, especially ir.
the frontier towns, is very strong
and dramatists have added fuel lo
the fire of hatred agaist Germany by
such stirring plays as “Fritz le Uh
lan ’ and “Caeur de Francaise,” but
vo sure is President Poincaire of
being abb* to keep down any anti-
Gorman outbursts that although the
Government at first intended to for
bid performances of thu latter play
in cities near the frontier the play
was permitted everywhere, though
precautions were taken to prevent ail
demonstrations in all towns where
they were apt to occur.
The play "('aeur de Francaise, M is
particularly dangerouv. it tells of
an old French servant who invents
some thing of the greatest importance
to the (national defense. [He has
shown kindness to a young man in
great distress and gives him the run
of thp house. The man treacherous
ly takes advantage of the professor’s
abvence to steal the plans and stran
gles the daughter who discovers him
in the act. She b not dead, however,
and she swears revenge against the
German lieutenant and spy—for such
he was, who had acted so basely.
We find her afterwards acting as a
governess of a German general's fam
ily, obtaining posvession of military
secrets, for which she is condemned
to a fortress.
MILKING MACHINERY IS
ENTERED IN COMPETITION
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 10.—Throughout
the dairy world in England attention
is being directed to the series of
demonstrations 'of milking by ma
chinery which is taking place at
Bishop Auckland, the metropolis of
South Durham.
The tists arranged by tin* Royal
Agricultural Society are taking place
on the Grange Hill Farm, where Bolo-
kow and Vaughan, Limited, tiie fa
mous iron-making firm from Mid-
dlesborough. have had their cows
milked for some three or four years
by machinery.
Thirteen machines have been enter
ed. and each is being a-signed four
cows. A sample of the milk taken
from every cow is being submitted
to bacteriological examination.
The Royal Agricultural Society is
offerirg a gold medal to the winner
and about $125 in prizes.
POSTAL PACKAGE EXPLODES.
PARIS. May 10.— A serious explo
sion occurred recently in the house
of M. Luclen Sully, a singing mas
ter.
A p;
at the
ne<
Mixed Bathing Fete
Pleased Montmartre
Frolic Is Repeated by Bohemian
Set at Gay French
Capital.
! Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 10.—When Montmar
tre viw the success of the “mixed
bathing affair*.she decided to repeat
ihe festival and did si* the other day.
Thi* event became a distinctly Mont-
martriun one and afforded great de
light as well to the swimmers as t >
those of the audience who were not
prudish. (
The mo«t amusing Incident was «
spirited splashing match between a
very lively crowd of well-known Par
isian beauties and an equal number
of Montmartre artists.
A vt ry beautiful music-hall artist
wearing a transparent bathing suit
about twenty-four inches long from
North to South, in the excitement of
the tight got her bathing suit ripped
from top to bottom and although
most of those present did not notice
liny difference in her appearance, she
herself was horribly shocked and
made a rush for the dressing room
with an indescribable expression of
maidenly despair, convinced that
while until the accident happened she
had been perfectly respectable
clothes, she would now never be able
to show as much as her face again.
Submerged Town
Found in Agean
Greek Lieutenant Makes Discovery
While Charting Coast of
Island of Lemnos.
Special Cable to The American.
ATHENS, May 10.—The Ministry of
Marine states tl^at Lieutenant Bako-
pulos, while carrying out observations
entailed by the na\a! duties assigned
to him. discovered the existence <>f a
submerged town to the east of the I
Island of Lemnos, on the reefs marked
on the British Admiralty charts under
the name of Pharos Bank.
The lieutenant observed on the sea
bottom, at a depth of from 15 feet to
75 feet, some ancient ruin?', which
were perfectly visible and prove the
existence of a town of about three
miles in circumference.
Orders have been issued by the
Ministry to carry out scientific re
searches on the spot.
Pausanias, the Greek traveler and
geographer, who lived in the second
century A. D.. records that a small
island (‘ailed Chryse, off the coast of
Lemnos, was swallowed up by the
sea. There are extinct volcanoes on
Lemnos.
469 PRIESTS WIN SUIT
AGAINST NEWSPAPER
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 10.—Four hundred and
sixty-nine village prieses of the
Finisterre and Lot et Garonne depart
ments brought an action for libel
recently at Brest against the “Uri
du Peuple,” a Socialist newspaper,
which had published improper com
ments on the priesthood in connec
tion with the death some months ago
of the Abbe Chassaing.
The 460 priests won their case. The
"Uri du Peuple” was ordered to pay
$2.00 damages and costs and a fine
of ir> on each one of the 460 charges,
besides being ordered to publish the
report of the judgment In ten differ
ent newspapers.
DISHONEST DEBTOR IS
LECTURED BY JUDGE
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 10.—A debtor at
Whitechapel Oounty Court said he
assigned hi* business to his wife two
years ago and he produced the deed.
Judge Cluer said to him, ’If I had
my way I would have a bill In big
type placed outside the shop stating,
,"1 am dishonest; I won’t pay, I am
also an idle dog and do nothing, and
intend to live on my wife.”
The judge told the plaintiff that if
anyone saw the defendant spend as
much as $2 in a public-house a com
mittal order would be made at once.
!S ABLE LIVER
Sir A. Conan Doyle Proves to Be
Good Cross-Examiner Dur
ing Law Case.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 10.—The creator ot
"Sherlock Holmes" proved himself a
very able cross-examiner in the Mark
Cross Police Court recently, where he
was summoned for not keeping a
dangerous dog under control.
Like Hum Weller, he set up the
defense of an alibi and was so suc
cessful that the bench stopped the
case with the observation that it was
a clear case of mistaken identity.
The complainant a farmer, declar
ed that the defendant’s dog killed
one of his sheep, and when he went
to him, Sir A. Conan said he was
quite willing to pay compensation if
it was his dog that attacked the
sheep and gave witness $2.50.
Sir A. Conan Doyle: In this con
versation at my house, I said it was
not my dog?—Yes.
Ho in giving you the $2.50 I in no
way made any admission that it was
my dog?—Oh no!
I said if any neighbor of mine is in
difficulties. L always like to help him.
and you have lost a sheep, so I like
to help ydu to this extent?—Yes.
It was not likely I should have
a’-ked vou to shoot at the dog if I
thought it was mine?—No.
Evidence was then called proving
that the offending dog was not Sir
A. Conan Doyle’s.
Street Car Run
For Men's Profit
Russians Manage Line. Bind In
spector and Escape When
Discovered.
Special Cable to The American.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 10.—A
tramway car run on novel lines has
lately been unearthed in this city. An
Inspector of the municipal tramway
service noticed a very old-fashioned
looking car plying for traffic in a I it -
tie frequented quarter of the city. He
at once boarded the car and proceeded
to examine the tickets of the passen
gers. Observing that they bore num
bers which could not possibly be cur
rent on the company’s cars, he de
manded an explanation of the con
ductor. Thy latter tiiereupon s-'topped
the car and told the passengers to get
out. aw it had broken down. As soon
as they had left he and the driver at
once bound and gagged the inspector
and laid him on the floor inside the
car. Then they drove to a lonely spot
and decamped, leaving the inspector
to cool his heels till further notice. In
due time the official was discovered
and released, and it was then found
That the pair were running the car on
their own account, at a good profit,
iind that they were not and never had
been in the employ of the municipal
tramways*.
TERRA NOVA BOUND HOME
REACHES BUENOS AYRES
Special Cable to The American.
BUENOS AYRES, May 10.—Capt.
Scott’s ship the Terra Nova, arrived
here this morning and sailed to-night
for England.
The vessel carries the maps used by
the explorer in his search for the
South Pole, together with all docu
ments left by Capt. Scott. Everything
was under seal®, which will not he
broken until delivery is made on the
arrival »f the steamer’ in England.
The ship is under charge of Com
mander Breunell. who declined to be
interviewed concerning the details of
the articles on hoard that had be
longed to Capt. Scott.
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