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HKARST’S M a i »a * AAltiltU .\A, AILAMA, HA., M MMV, J1AV II, !!l|:i. 9 D Chester Overton LONDON 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. 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