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ATLANTA. GA., SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1915.
JAPANESE
Gentlemen to Wear
New Decollete Shirt
Of Course. Some May Not, but the
National Fashion Committee
Thinks They Ought To.
CHICAGO, May 22.—The question
of what the gentleman will wear this
summer has at last been settled, re
lieving all nervousness. News that
has been eagerly awaited the last
fortnight and more was ordered pub
lished by the national fashion com
mittee of the Merchant Tailors’ As
sociation.
Perhaps the most important feature
of the costume which is destined to
lead the world of masculine fashions
Is the decollete or low-neck shirt of
silk. One will or will not wear with
j the shirt, according to personal taste,
| a loosely tied four-in-hand clasped
Goaded in Policy of Expansion I with a beauty pin.
I Mr. John Spann, secretary of the
and Conquest by Humbling of central organization of fashion arbi
ters, suggested that shantung, rajah
or assam silks will prove most popu
lar for suit material.
Most Warlike Nation on Earth
China by the Great Premier.
Count's Utterances Have Shown
Defiance to U.” S. and Europe,
and Nippon Has Eyes on In
dia and the Philippines.
By MERRITT F. PRESTON.
(Special Dispatch to The International
News Service.)
TOKIO, May 22.—This is the year
of triumph for Japan. It is especially
the year of triumph for Premier Shi-
genobu Okuma. leader of the party r.f
the people, and for his war cry, "Asia
for the Asiatics.” /
There has been a little discontent
at the “compromise” with China. This
was bound to be so in the most war
like nation on eaNh. Rut Japanese
who ^re better informed know' there
has been no compromise.
Thus Okuma, the one-legged Grand
Old Man of Japan, sees his great
Idea coming to fruition. He knows
the Japanese people will willingly
spend their Pood like water.
M’ith 400.000.000 Chinese laborinj
to supply munitions of war in her
rear, 60,000.000 of Japanese will pre
sent the front of their warrior nation
to the white race and tell it to get out
of the Western Pacific—and some day
will tell the French to get out of
Cochin China aDd the British to get
out of India.
All of Japan Militaristic.
Okuma exudes honey to great Brit
ain and sends messages breathing the
spirit of peace to the. United States.
Japan is not deceived.
In Japan both the nobles and ‘he
commoners are militaristic. Okuma
is a no-ble, but he has Chosen to lead
the commoners. At 77 he is still en
ergetic. He was a boy of 20 w’hen the
visit of Commodore Perry and *he
granting of treaty rights to foreign
ers by the Shogun set all Japan to
talking about the “red-haired” bar
barians. Okuma bad a great eurf-
oslty to learn about the world outside
J«pan. He heard of an American
missionary. Dr. Veerbeek, and went
to him secretly. First of all, he
learned to read the Bible. Then came
* the one political document the de
voted missionary possessed, the Dec
laration of Independence.
Declaration His Guide.
When 70 years old he said: ‘The
Declaration of Independ nee made
such an impression upon my soul
that it has been my guiding rule in
life.” Thomas Jefferson became his
model, and he studied everything he
could find about the American states
man.
Aside from his political activities,
he founded Waseda University at To-
klo in 1882. He s. w it grow' to house
5.400 students and to produce a first-
class baseball team.
In 1908. when Japan was troubled
by the United States sending the
American fleet into the Pacific, he
said:
“Nothing can be more dreaded
than crazy people, and the Japa
nese are a crazy nation. In fighting
she will go on like mad, as was w'ell
Illustrated in the late war with Rus
sia. Suppose the Americans and
Tapanese—whose Ideas of death are
Fundamentally different—should come
to fighting. The final result will be
,> a§!ly foretold.”
Warning to England.
When the Democrats came back
into power in the United States.
Count Okuma was sure they would
sell the Philippines. Another time
ne wrote of Chile and Peru as Jap
anese spheres of influence. The Brit-
sh probably have not forgotten
Tkuma s famous outburst:
‘Being oppressed by the Europeans,
.he 300,000,000 people of India are
looking for Japanese protection. The
Japanese ought to go to India, the
South Oceaq^and other parts of the
world.”
Nor will anyone who know s Japan s
history doubt that she intends to hold
Kiaochow. Caroline. Marianne and
Marshall Islands in the South Pa
cific. She took these from Germany
nnd alread> some capital Is being in
vested and experts have been Rent to
■ tu \ the exploitation of these is-
’a nds
Funeral for a Cent
In California Town
ED CENTRO, CAL., May 22.—An un
dertakers’ w r ar here ended when the
Board of Supervisors Instructed the
Coroner and all county officials that all
bodies of indigent dead be buried by a
specified undertaker.
The board resolution called attention
to a contract now in force between the
particular undertaker and the county
that "Is remarkable. For a period of
three years the undertaker contracted
to bury all indigent dead for 1 cent.
The resolution, while not naming the
figure, said it was one bearihg "but a
small margin of profit.” Officials ex
plained that the undertaker hoped to
get compensation by finding relatives of
the dead.
Professor Buries
Shakespeare in Past
EMPORIA. KANS., May 22.—Shakes
peare and Byron and others of their
class have no vital message for this
day and age. Professor William A. Mc-
Keever, head of the child welfare de
partment of the University of Kansas,
told the convention of the Kansas State
Federation of Women s Clubs.
"As modern conditions develop I am
looking to the women of America to
save the country.” said Professor Mc-
Keever, "but they will achieve very
little toward this purpose through the
study of the literary classics f want
to see them laid away in the memory
of a beautiful past.”
Bunny Didn’t Sing, So
He’s Miss Klotz’s Dog
NEW YORK. May -- —The bulldog
in controversy is But.ny, not Gaby,
and the property of Miss Maude
Klotz. singer, of No. 907 Lincoln
place. Brooklyn. Judge Farrar so de
cided w ithout leaving the bent h
Miss Mae Beatty, of No. 6S0 St.
Johns pla«*e, Brooklyn, who sued fo
possession of the animal, could not
prove her <ontenfion that the dog
ctyuld sing' with her.
Americans May Aid
Restocking of Europe
SAN FRANCISCO. May 22.—Young
Americans will be needed to repeople the
nations of Europe, according to Dr. M.
L. Young, one of the oldest surgeons
in the United States, member of the
Alma Mater Medical Society of Rush
College. Chicago. Dr. Young says he
believes the need for virile men would
be so great that European nations
might offer great inducements to male
American immigrants, even sending
ships to convey them abroad without
cost, all expenses paid. According to
Dr. Young, repopulating devastated Eu
rope probably will be conducted on a
scientific basis.
Nordica's Jewels
Valued at $250,000
NEW YORK, May 22.—Jewels
worth $250,000 left by Mme. Lillian
Nordica-Young were inventoried in
the vaults of the Fidelity Trust Com
pany, Newark. N. J.
The singer had one piece worth
$75,000. Another item was a boxful
of medals and insignia presented by
crowned heads of Europe, who were
charmed by her voice. The new’ ad
ministrator, ex-Senator Ackerson, ex
amined the treasure.
Government to Use
Flags Made of Cotton
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Cotton
flags will float over public buildings
and from Coast Guard cutters and
other vessels of the Treasury Depart
ment soon.
Tests have just been completed by
the department with flags made of
American cotton instead of imported
bunting, and these have showed that
cotton flags are serviceable, durable
and more economical than wool bunt
ing.
Villa Is Suing for Peace, After
Having Exhausted His Re
sources, Declares R. H. Cole,
Wealthy American Citizen.
Understanding With Zapata Reb
els Claimed by Constitutional
ist Agent in Washington in In
terview With 'Colonel Graves.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
WASHINGTON. May 22.—The sit-
uation in the Mexican republic seems
to have resolved itself into a decisive
fight between Villa and Carranza.
Richard H. Cole, special envoy of
Carranza, in America, predicted f he
rapidly approaching triumph of his
chief.
Mr. Cole is an Axnerican or wealth
and position, a citizen of Los Angeles
and an intimate friend, first of Ma-
dero and now' of Carranza.
According to Carranza's envoy, the
First Chief has 120,000 men under
arms, is fully equipped with ammu
nition and supplies, his troops are in
excellent spirits and full of loyalty
and determination, and he can not be*
resisted by any force in Mexico.
The Carranza envoy also assbns
the forces of Villa are disintegrating
day by day, the spirit of his men has
been lost by their leader’s defeats,
they are no longer loyal to him, his
money is gone and Villa is actually
negotiating for peace.
Envoy Cole declares the Carranza
people and Zapata have reached a
thorough understanding and will co
operate in the administration of the
Government.
“Carranza is moving forward to
Jiis gTeat responsibility with a mind,
serious and generous." said Coie,
“with his mind set on genuine con
stitutional government and the sin
cere dee ire to live as the real bene
factor of his people.
“I am in a position to dn«y most
positively, upon Carranzas author
ity. the rumor that h6 cherishes any
antagonism toward the UnitedStat.es.
He has assured me a dozen times of
late that next to the desire to build
up the peace and prosperity of Mex
ico it is his desire to establish firm
friendship and co-operation with the
people of the United States.”
Sells His Wife for
$5, but She Objects
TVILKES-BARRE. PA.. May 22.—Mi
chael Delani is under arrest on a war
rant sworn out by Rotz Rauba, who
claims Delani sold him his wife and
baby for $5 and then refused V° re *
turn the money when Mrs. Delani ob
jected to the bargain. RRuba is a
bachelor, and when complaining of his
loneliness says Delani offered to sell
Mrs. Delani and hi!* t*ab.v to him.
When Rauba. w ent to the Delani home
to take possession of his purchase he
discovered the sale was one in which
three parties and not two were nec
essary. Mrs. Delani positively re
fused to allow herself and her baby to
be sold, and chased Rautva from the
house.
Flipping of Nickel
Makes Town Go ‘Dry’
Candidates for Council Tie, Toss Up
Coin and Wet Town Ad
vocate Loses.
DANVILLE, ILL. May 22.—The flip
ping of a nickel made Danville "dry.”
Had the coin fallen "heads" instead of
"tails," this city would not now be
plunged into a war between a "dry"
Council and eight y saloon owners,
backed by public *entiment and a "wet"
election result. The recent close vote
in the Council, which refused licenses to
saloons, brought out the story.
E. A. Dyas, “dry,” and \V. 8. Garner,
"wet.” were primary candidates for
Fifth Ward Alderman. They tied in the
primary and flipped the coin. Dyas
won. He was elected. His vote in the
Council gave the “drys" a majority of
two, whereas Garner's vote W'ould have
tied the Council and left the "wet"
Ma.'or to break the deadlock.
SAYS FLEET
Judge Kicked Off Car
In Quarrel Over Fare
DENVEflR. May 22.—Justice Tullv
Scott, of the State Supreme Court, was
kicked off a street car by the conductor
and passengers who witnessed the in
cident say Justice Scott left the ear with
more than slight assistance from the
conductor.
Justice Scott started home dangling
from a strap. Seeing an empty seat he
deftlv slid into it. The conductor asked
him for his fare. He heatedly replied
that he had paid. The conductor de
nied this. The justice appealed to the
passengers, but none could qualify as a
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walked home.
Mrs. Sage's $250,000
Princeton Gift Met
NEW YORK. May 22.—Announce
ment was made at Princeton that the
university had completed the fund of
$250,000 necessary to secure U^-. gift
of a lik*» amount from Mrs. Russell
Sage. Th^ half-million dollars will
be used for the erection of a new'
dining hall, completing the Sage group
of buddings
'Splutter-Splutter'
Speed Defense Fails
NEW YORK, May 22. Curtis Weber’s
automobile is a Splutter-Splutter. (Tills
is free advertising.) /
"How do you kpow were not driving
twenty-eight miles an hour?" Judge
Jarecki asked Weber in the Speeders'
Court.
"Why. I know' absolutely," replied
Weber. "Every time my little old car
gets up a speed of sixteen miles an hour
it goes ‘splutter-spluter.’ and on this
occasion it was So quiet that I figure I
was going about six miles an hour. Just
ask my neighbors, judge. They'll ”
"Five and costs." finished the* court.
Kissless Wife Quits
Pastor ^Returns Home
GRANITE CITY, ILL. May 22.—A
kissless married life has so palled upon
Mrs. Eugenia ^nderson. 19. wife of the
Rev. Arthur R. Anderson, pastor of the
Christian Church, that she has returned
to her mother s home in St. Louis.
She says that in two months her hus
band kissed her only once, and that was
a half-hearted affair on her cheek. They
were married seven months ago. She
said he once remarked in her hearing
that he did not believe in kissing and
hugging.
"But he believed in it before we were
married," she declared.
Widow's Prayer for
Life Mate Answered
SAX FRANCISCO, May 22.—With
the marriage of Mrs. Alice Richardson
to Simon Klein the appeal of a wom
an for a life partner was answered.
Two months ago Mrs. Richardson
wrote to Clerk George Gross, of Ala
meda County, requesting that official
to obtain for her a mate. Gross gave
the letter to the newspapers and four
Oakland men replied to the widow.
Klein’s suit for Mrs. Richardson's
i hand was favorably received and Jus-
| tice ‘Quinn united the two in wedlock.
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Women.Can't Ride *
Beside Jitney Driver
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22.—If Frank
Rose, of Woodward avenue, keeps wom
en off the front seat of his jitney bus
he will be able to keep his wjfe, Mar
garet. Frank agreed to this in Superior
Judge Graham's court, when summoned
to answer his wife’s divorce complaint
that he reserved the front seat of the
machine for women only.
"How about reserving the bat*k seat
for the ladies and the front scat for
the men?" the. judge asked.
Smiling into each other's faces the
couple left the court together.
Aged 81, He Engages
Hearse, Buys Coffin
COLDWATER. MISS May 22.—J.
Presley came to towm to arrange for
his own funeral On his eighty-first
birthday he selected his coffin from an
undertaker and paid for it He also
engaged a hearse from the livery stable
and paid for that.
He is hale and hearty and gives prom
ise of living many years, but declared
he was glad the necessary arrangements
were, made and that a load hHd been
removed from his mind
For Second Time
This Couple Elope
SAN FRANCISC. May 22—John
Brantwen, a traveling salesman of this
city, and Miss Itha Banfleld. of Grant s
Pass, Oregon, eloped for a second time,
and for a second time were married.
Justice Seely, of Redwood City, per
formed the ceremony.
In obtaining the marriage license, the
couple declared that they had been mar
ried about six years ago, but that the
marriage had been annulled because of
their youth.
Arrested at Funeral
On Alimony Demand
WASHINGTON, May 22 Vincent L.
Oprdan. an inventor of Baltimore, was
arrested here on complaint of his first
wife that he whs in arrears of alimony,
while he was attending iho burial of his
third wife.
Ourdan whs indignant at his arrest at
the i emeterv
SHOWS ITS
ITALY’S MAN OF THE HOUR
Antonio Sahtndra, the Premier whose resignation was de
clined by the King. This action stopped war rioting and caused
demonstrations of joy.
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COTTON IS
GUNPOWDER,
VITAL NEED
Naval Expert Reuterdahl De
clares Big Show This Week at
New York Only Lulled Nation
Into False Sense of Security.
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Finds Our Ships Vastly Inferior
to Those of Other Powers and
Tells What is Needed—Dis
content in Crews, He Says.
By HENRY REUTERDAHL.
(The Famous Naval Expert and
Artist.)
NEW YORK. May 22.—Through
^the smoke of the three-pounders,
wreathed above the mist of the after-
a
noon, the beaming eye of the Presi
dent visualized a powerful fighting
fleet, our kingdom of the sea.
The thousands on the bank* of the
Hudson waved their greetings and
veiled their hurrahs to the "50315“ of
the navy. The cannons of the yacht
clubs along the river front vibrated
their tiny bark with the thunder of
the saluting guns of the fleet.
And from the main truck of the
Mayflower, high above the river mist,
flew the President’s emblem, a golden
eagle, a brocade in colors in com
parison to the symbol of the new
four-starred flag of Admiral Fletcher
on the Wyoming. The strains of the
"Star-Spangled Banner" echoed
against the apartment barracks of
Riverside drive.
Enthusiasm All Ashore.
With each salute the patriotic en
thusiasm of the crowd carried their
cheer across the w r ater—cheering
their own navy* their very own kin
in blue and beholding what to them
seemed an unconquerable armada,
ready to fight at the drop of a hat.
And with one mind this spectacle was
proudly visualized as the mighty
backbone behind the President’s note
to Germany.
The enthusiasm was ail ashore, a
hurrah fest simulating to the flat
dwellers a free show. But in the fleet
there was none The review' was but
part of the day’s work, part of the
"carry-on"—the command w'hich
stamps the infinite work of seakeep-
ers.
Everyone afloat knew* the effect of
the review would be misleading and
•that it would create the impression
among our people that the navy was
sufficiently strong to back us up in a
crisis like the present one.
Far from it. The American navy
can not with its present sea strength
become “a force in the cause of hu
manity." It can not successfully back
the nation's honor on the battle line
of the sea because it is too weak
“Lulled to a False Security.”
The fleet would be defeated, but
with colors flying each ship’s com
pany would meet a useless death, just
like those of gallant Cradock. who
fought to the last nail in the Pacific,
but lost because of inferior force.
Bravery alone will not win a battle,
as it might have done a hundred
years ago To-day It is the machin
ery plus the man. The man alone
can do nothing.
Most of our reviews have been
plugs In water-logged political bot
toms and carried out to add a luster
to the party in power. Misleading,
their effects are positively harmful to
the navy’s growth
And no one 'a fooled but ourselves.
We are lulled in the false security
that we are ‘all right." The foreign
navies know better and their wise
men smile at our gullibility.
We were told at the review’ in 1912
that the navy was the "greatest
ever.” Every old crock going back
to the vintage of the days w’hen the
fleet was composed of the Indiana,
the Massachusetts, a monitor, a ba
nana boat, a steam launch and a beer
bottle, was dragged out and paraded
as units of a great navy. Every navy
yard was combed to man the reserve
ships, which had hardly crews big
enough to take them out through the
Narrow s
No Real Dreadnoughts.
As ships go. we are to-day luckily
better off than three years ago. But
there were only ten dreadnoughts in
the North River, and but two more
are fitting out. This is our dread
nought capital at this moment
Then beat in mind that none of
our dreadnoughts, built or building.
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American Women To
Be Soberly Garbed
Fall Styles To Be More Somber.
Made-m*America To Be
Reality.
CINCINNATI. May 22.—Somber col
ors will predominate in woman’s ap
parel next fall, according to bits of in
formation f from behind closed doors
where the style committee of the Na
tional C$t>&k. Suit and Skirt Manufac
turers’* Association held session.
“War In Europe is cutting down the
supply of dyes imported from German
plants." wan given as the explanation
by Joseph Prince, of Cleveland, chair
man of the committee. Hints that
skirts will be longer next fall are float
ing around.
"Made in America” fashions will be
come a reality, due to the war, although
many French ideas have been obtained
and are being presented. An effort will
be made to have the convention appro
priate money to keep retailers informed
concerning conditions in wool and dye
Industries and styles.
Coeducation Failure;
249 Girls Must Go
DENVER, May 22.—Coeducation is a
failure, according to the board of trus
tees of Westminster College, which has
taken action abolishing women pupils at
the heavily endowed Presbyterian edu
cational institution.
As a resqlt 249 "co-eds” will be dis
missed Also the girls’ dormitory erect
ed at a cost of nearly $500 000. will be
devoted to other purposes.
The college trustees do not believe it
feasible to get the best results where the
sexes are mixed In classes.
State Is Asked to
Tax Girl Bachelors
SACRAMENTO. May 22 —Bachelor
girls between the ages of 21 and 30 may
be brought within the provisions of As
semblyman Maurice B. Brown’s proposed
constitutional amendment and taxed $10
every year subsequent to leap year,
under an amendment to the original
measure taxing male bachelors, present
ed in the House.
"This is too serious a matter to dis
cuss at this time," said Assemblyman
Bartlett, and by common consent ac
tion was postponed.
South America With
U. S. on German Issue
Papers Praise Wilson Note—If Re
jected. Says One, It Means
Universal War.
BIT ENOS AIRES, May 22.—La
Prenza expresses approval of Presi
dent Wilson's note to Germany. It
says that if the principle set forth
In the note do not prevail there will
be an end to neutrality and that a
universal war will follow-.
The Razon says: “The United
States and other neutral countries
have already suffered too patiently,
’morally and materially.”
The Diaria declares that "Germany
has violated th<* principles of inter
national Jaw and is deserving of no
sympathy from civilized nations. The
United States'‘ note signifies that
country will tolerate no mose ag
gressions. The war zone ought to
disappear. If not, a rupture would
not be astonishing. South America
supports the energetic attitude of the
United States."
Other newspapers in Buenos Aires
and the provinces commend the
American note.
Mrs. Bump, Bumped;
Gets $15,000 Award
NEW YORK, May 22.—Mrs. Ther
esa M. Bump, of Baltimore, won a
verdict of $15,000 in her suit against
the French line before Judge Julian
Mack in the United States District
Court. f
Mrs. Bump based her claim on in
juries which she received on the
steamship Rochambeau on April 14,
1914. -when she was returning from
Europe. She said she was going down
a dark passageway to see where the
Captain had put her pet poodle when a
heavy sea struck the vessel and threw
her against the wall, breaking her
nose, her jaw in iw'o places and knock
ing out five teeth.
Nome Stays Wet
By Narrow Margin
NOME. ALASKA, May 11 -Nome
remained in the wet column to-day by
the narrow margin of 117 votes In
the wet-drv election shloons were re
tained b\ a vote of 551 to 434
Sweethearts Sign
Contract to Marry
BUTTE. MONT., May 22.—Fearing
he would see some one he liked better
while he was in Alaska, a young woman
induced Charles Hyland to enter a con
tract to marry March 1, 1918. provided
he matches her $5,000 w-ith an equal
Rum The latter provision wan Hy
land’s. who did not want to accept any
money from his hride-to-be. Hnd was
going to "make his; pile" in Alaska.
He gave her a plain gold wedding
ring, to he worn for the first time March
1. 1918, if he succeeded in his chase for
gold. Those who knew would not re
veal the girl’s name.
Military Expert Explains Wnat
Dernburg Meant When He De
clared, Just After the Lusitania
Sank, Teutons Wanted Cotton,
Says Importation of Staple Would
Equal Guns or Submarines,
and Half of It Has Been Used
for the Making of Ammunition,
"Ho\c shall Hermann stop her suh-
marine warfare? H e will slop it, tee
announced, if England would stop her
policy of starvation. MV do not want ■
anything contrabandsaid Dr. Bern-
hard Dernburg in an interview pub,-
lished Monday. ^
Dr. Dernburg was asked, " What do
you leant?” He replied, pron prig:
“COTTON and all foodstuffs
The following article is. therefore,
of vital timeliness:
By HILAIRE BELLOC.
(Foremost Military Writer in Europe)
Everyone by this time know*, in
a general way, that cotton tg gun
powder. yej cotton was for a time
allowed to go f%eely into Germany
through the blockading cordon:
w'hich is exactly as though gur.s
and submarines and consignments of
shell had been allowed to ^et through
the cordon, save for this difference,
that Germany and Austria-Hungary
j ‘’an, at a certain rate, make guns and
shells and submarines, whereas for
cotton they are absolutely dependent
upon supplies from over the sea —
that is, upon the good will of Great
Britain among the Allies.
There are probably in Germany *
now, In reserve, 1,000.000 bales of cot
ton. It is doubtful whether Austria
has any reserve. Supposing, there
fore, that all supplies from neutral®
In Europe and all supplies from over
sea were stopped, the Teutonic force*
would presumably have to fall back
upon rather less than 500,000,000
pounds, or. in round numbers. 250.000
tons of cotton.
Half of Cotton for Gunpowder.
It is believed tl^t hitherto they
have used about half their cotton im
ports for textile fabrics and about
half for making what I shall call their
gunpowder.
They have, therefore, in reserve
about 125,000 tons of gunpowder,
which, if they could afford to stop all
civilian weaving, could possibly he
Increased to a. maximum of some
thing less than 200.000 tons.
If Germany has a maximum po
tential reserve of less than 200.000
tons of propellant explosive and a
practical reserve of not more than
125,000 tones, let us ask ourselves
how long this will last, and whether
it can be supplemented in any way.
The estimates of what the Ten** ]
tons are using vary, of course, enor
mously. Austria.* for instance, uses
a powder in which there is a propor
tion of glycerin higher than that in
the German powder. But troth of
these are higher than the proportion
in the French ^service and rn the
American.
Estimates Expenditure.
It is, further, very difficult to
guess nearer than a maximum and a,
minimum, very widely separated,
what the average expenditure is per
day, though we know accurately
enough t,he expendityfe in cotton of
any particular weapon. The French
75, for instance, would shoot away a
bale of cotton In 4QJ) rounds, nnd f he
largest existing guns would shoot it
away in less than two.
The small arn\ ammunition uses
up about a bale of cotton. 1 believe, in
about 80,000 rounds. A machine gun
actually in the field is provided first
and last with about half a bale of
cotton, and every company in the leid,
apart from Its machine guns, is pro
vided first and last with about three
bales of cotton.
The lowest estimate and I fear it
was once the. official one, to"u- has
• put the total expenditure of cotton by
Germany and Austria at 300 tons a
day. The most expert estimate I have
seen puts it at 1,000 tons a day. V\ e
will scale down the maximum at 1,000
tons and stay at 750 tons.
Even 750 tons is less likely than 1,-
000 B«»th Germany and Austria used
from the beginning an enormously
greater number of machine guns in,
proportion to thpir forces than the. Al-
■ \uain. the heavy gun, which la.
of course, the great glutton of cotton,
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