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'I'.VDAY AiiEftlCAN, aTLaNTA, GA„ .SUNDAY. JULY 4. 1915.
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AERO FLIGHT OVER PARIS
IR OLIVER LODGE, j
thr famous scientist, j
who reviews contemporary >
war methods for readers of j
The American.
immiiTiirn i r iiifiinrBTTHir^^Taiwir^'"'
German Aviator and Observer Have Narrow
Escape—Former St. Louis Man Is Hero of
Battle of Lodz on the Eastern War Front.
Continued From Page 1.
I loved Paris el
\
gr remained, and
more as a conqueror.
Over the housetops I awung in *rrt*nt
circles. Little dots in the streets
•bowed me that crowd* were leather
ing They could not understand ho*
& German could handle the French In
vention more skillfully and advanta
geously than the French themselves
They began to shoot at us. It was
fine They were very bad shots. I
felt like dropping a bomb—not to kill
them, but simply to see something
blown up. Then from the direction of
Juvlsy came a French monoplane As
It was more awlft than my biplane. 1
had to turn and try to escape. My Ba
varian comrade prepared my rifle and
seized bis pistol. The Frenchman ap
proached closer and closer. I attempt
ed to reach the protecting clouds at
d.000 feet, but my pursuer flew swifter
than we, ever nearer snd nearer. Sud
denly I became aware of ft second
monoplane only 500 yards away. I f
attempted to block my path We had
to act I shot at the airman ahead of
ua. Then a turn and the major took
aim. He shot once, twice, three times
The enemy’s machine, which was now
next to us only 100 yards away, top
pled. tilted upward, and then fell to
the ground like a stone. But our
other pursuer was almost on top of
us, and shot At us with pistols. Close
to the gas lover a bullet hit the fuse
lage. Then unpenetrable fog conceal
ed us from the enemy. I could hear
the buzz of his motor grow fainter and
fainter.
Ran Into Shrapnel.
When we again emerged from this
gray ocean of clouds it was twilight.
But suddenly, before, behind and on
the sides, white smoke clouds appear
ed, bursting shrapnel Still flying
abovr* the enemy's position, we were
directly exposed to their artillery fire
Devil with It! The Are grew worse.
I knew from the little trembles that
the machine was getting blow upon
blow, but it never entered my mind
that those shrapnel balls meant death
to me. Something In man remains un
moved by logic and knowledge--espe
cially when you’re in the air. There,
of a sudden, a white-yellow fire In
front of me. The machine reared up.
The major seemed to reel to his feet.
Blood was pouring from his shoulder.
The covering of the wings was tat
tered. The motor buzzed and roared
as before, but the screw was missing
A grenade shattered our propeller, but,
thank heaven! did no worse. My ma
chine began sinking to earth I suc
ceeded In gliding, and threw the bi
plane down into the woods. The
branches and tree tops crashed to
splinters. 1 struck the steering gear,
and then waa no longer aware of what
went on around me When I again be
came conscious I was lying next to
Major G. on the forest ground, mir*
rounded by a group of German reserv
ists. Recognizing the machine, they
had forced themselves into the forest
in amali numbers to save us Major G.
had to be removed to the nearest hos
pital. I only received a crushed leg.
Your affectionate son.
Started With 1,500 Aeroplanes.
Before this war began those who
took an Interest In military affairs
thought of Germany's aerial forces in
terms of Zeppelins. It was acknowl
edged that Germany had some aero
planes. but publicly she had not done
very much with them. On December
1 last year Count von Arnim. of the
flying corps, told me v that Germany
had 1,500 aeroplanes, and that more
were being turned out every day
When I remarked my amazement,
he smiled and said, “We did not build '
them all since the war began,” Ger
many knows how to guard her mili
tary aecrets well. Just as the 42
centimeter guns were guarded, so was
her strength in aeroplanes.”
Taube means dove, the symbol of
peace. The Taube, an aeroplane of
the monoplane type, made its appear
ance over France, Belgium and Rus
sia at the outbreak of the war. So
that the German soldiers would not
Are upon it, there were painted under
Us wings two iron crosses in black.
In Berlin they began to sing a song,
“left glaube das uber fligt eln Taube ”
The Tsube Abandoned.
A few weeks of the war and the
Taube was a sensation. Then some
of the high-powered French mono
plane:: go» after it and the Germans
forsook the Taube. But every news
paper still reports uny German aero
plane as a Taube. As a matter of
fact. Germany has practically given
up the Taube. The mac hines that are
being used now are the Albatross
and Fokkar.
It was In one of these Albatross
machines that 1 flew over the French
lines
A patch of earth, purplish gray,
with Illimitable lines of black
trenches stretching away, and every
where puffing white smoke coming,
going—that was the battlefield as I
saw it below the clouds.
Unless one flies across a uar-fllled
iky he can not understand that war
..r thorn who wage it. He can not
understand the (raving that cornea
over one to drop bombs “From sneer
joy, mother (wrote the Crown Princes
flyer). I nearly went out of my mind
• • • just to se* something blown
up.” • • • They »re not wholly
sane, the*e fighter* In the sky that
is. In their machine*
They suffer from the same disor
dered ego that made Beachey and all
our exhibition flyers think themaelve*
stronger than the law of gravity, only
with them the ego is intensified to an
unbelievable extent by war Not only
are they defying gravity, but the
guns ss well.
TH* Story of Phil Wurst.
Thlr leads t<> rash deeds; It urged
Phi) Wurst to fly over Lodz under
Arc of the Russian guns. At Lodz he
did more than all the German artil
lery had been able to do. He threw
the cltv into darkness. But his story
begins In St Ix»u1s. Born in Ger
many. Phil Wurst had become a citi
zen of the United States—and an
aviator Last spring he went to Ber
lin to see his mother. With a laugh
he told her how In tho American
aviation camp* they called him the
“Crazy Dutchman." Phil Wurst had
his own ideRs about how flying ma-
< bines should be made and loudly he
announced them, particularly In St.
Louis, where he had a school. War
'ieijcxuiMwan
Briton Inspired by
Kiss of Belgian Girl
cam*; In Berlin. Phil Wurst volun- Turk*
leered A« he eald to me. "It waa a
fine chance to learn all about war
planes. And it would be fun.”
Now every German aviator hss to
earn a little yellow' and black badge,
the emblem of the Flying Corps; It is
harder to win than a second-class
Iron Cross. He has to prove hi* flt-
ne.s, his ability and his bravery. He
has to acecflnplith severe observation
tests and bomb dropping. Phil Wurft
was awarded tho badge. He "was
sent to the front. He flew over
Rhelms, dropping "bonbons,” as he
calls'them He made many valuable
reports to General Herringen. He
was transferred to the east.
One day when HIndenburg's army
was advancing on Lodz, the Polish
manufacturing city, the staff decided
that to plunge the city in darkness
would be to create panic among the
Russian soldiers and inhabitants.
They sent for the crazy Dutchman.
Destroy* Light Plant.
"Destroy the electric light plant at
Lodz,” were Wurst’* orders.
“Jawohl!”
Phil Wurst climbed into his Alba
tross and flew across Poland toward
Lodz. The Russian artillery sought
to halo him with a crown of bursting
shrapnel But Wurst cared more for
the Iron Cross; so he kept on. Above
Lodz he made some observations. He
flew on# way and then made a turn
to get the velocity of the wind. He
took his altitude and then made a *nl
TAKONDA, S. DAK.. July 2 -FI. C.
Keith is In receipt of a letter from a
friend, R. H. Johnston, a gunner in the
British army in France and Belgium, in
which some Interesting sidelights are
thrown on the war.
"The French and Belgians.'' he writes,
“nre very good to u* When we marched
Into one place an extremely pretty girl
rushed up and threw her arms around,
my neok and kissed me. I felt like
fighting six Germans and ten or fifteen
Turks But when her father came Up
and pulled oft the same stunt, kissing
me on both cheeks, I got real mad ana
told him I’d punch him in the jaw.”
Spends Kaiser’s Bean
Cash Seeing America
SAVANNAH, July 3.—After getting
rich quick at the outbreak of the Eu
ropean war by selling vast supplies of
of beans and grain to the German army,
P. Holst Knudsen. of Copenhagen, Den
mark, has arrived in Savannahh on a
“seeing America' tour in an efforr to
spend some of his easily earned cash.
The visitor states that he made a sale
of beans and grain to the Kaiser
amounting to more than $2,000,000. He
says it is rather difficult Just now to
have a good time In Europe and he de
sired to spend his coin in a peaceful
land. Knudsen will go from here to San
Francisco.
Wild Horses Sold to
Belligerent Nations
ELY. NEV., July 2 Several hun
dred head of wild horses have been
captured within the last few weeks on
ranches In the vicinity <>f Sunnyslffs,
according to a statement made here by
James Riordan, who just came in Horn
the range.
Riordan states that representative of
several of the warring nations in Eu-
culation in which figured the velocity j r0 pe visited Sunnyslde and Interviewed
of the wind and the speed of his bomb j ranchers and cowboys. They offered
to the ground. It told him exactly 1 big prices for horses, and since that
how much allowance he had to make j e *jjturtng the^wlld steeds of the
for the wind Then he circled over desert has been
Statesboro Minister
Gets Real Help
The Rev. J. Powell Telle How He
Found New Strength to Give to
His Labors.
the electric plant of Lodz.
“My first bomb,” he told me,
“missed It only hit he workshop. The
second bomb hit the dynamos. Oh, It
was fine!” And his eyes sparkled
Lodz was in darkness for nine days,
and after the Germans captured it
it took them a week to repair the
electric light plant. Twenty times up
to March 6 had Wurst flown over
Warsaw and each time he dropped
twenty bombs!
Three Types of German Bombs.
This bomb dropping Is interesting.
The German bombs are of three dis
tinct types. There is a small bomb
about the size of a baseball that la
thrown overboard by hand. The other
two bombs are mechanically dropped.
One Is for purposes of killing and
destruction by explosion, the other Is
to create fire. The explosive bombs
are shaped much like pears. Over all
they are about ten Inches, and five
inches is their greatest diameter. An
aviator never carries more than four.
They hang from the floor of the ob
server’s car. In order to prevent their
jostling against each other ami burst
ing under the aeroplane, each bomb
is held In a peculiar basketlike con
trivance. Suspended from the aero
plane are foxtr such baskets. When
they are empty they look like dan
gling slats two feet long. When they
are filled with bombs the end of these
tenuous slats of thin steel are caught
together by a wire hook and noose.
This is connected by a simple lever
system up through the floor of the
observer’s car to a tiny lever at his
elbow. Each bomb is thus held in a
wire basket. When the observer is
ready to fire, he presses a brass lever
—of which there are four—the basket
is opened, the bomb released and goes
bolting down. As it rushes through
the air a little propellerlike fan slow
ly unspins, releasing a safety catch so
that upon contact the bomb explodes.
Observation Main Thing.
The inflammable bombs, of which
only two are carried in each ma
chine, are much larger. I saw one
that was fully a foot in diameter. It
was a perfect sphere and was painted
the gray-green of the army cloth.
Like the explosives, these bombs are
dropped from the floor of the ob
server's compartment. But the bas
kets are not closed upon them, only
favorite pastime.
Drink Treating Jail
Offense in Britain
LONDON, July 3 The Gazette has
Issued the text of an order in Council
creating and defining the powers of the
"Central Control of Liquor Traffic
Roand," to regulate the sale and supply
of intoxicating liquors within prescribed
areas.
The Liquor Board is empowered to
prevent the practice of treating. Per
sons guilty of violating orders to this
effect may be prosecuted under the De
fense of the Realm act, and will be
liable to imprisonment for six months
or a fine of $500.
Chicago Leper Goes
To Join Italian Army
CHICAGO. July 3—Highland Park's
distinguished leper. Angelo Lunardl, has
gone to Italy, according to the latest ad
vices, to fight for his coutnry. Mayor
Hastings says the report is true.
“I have received Information,” says
the mayor, “that some unknown per
sons. ostensibly felolw countrymen of
Lunardl, assisted him to escape from
the jail here and convoyed him to New
York, where he was smuggled ab - rd a
ship for Italy.”
The Rev J Powell, of .Statesboro.
Ga., suffered from stomach troubles so
•eriouftly that they affected his work
He struggled on under the handicap
aa beat he could—hardly realising,
perhaps. Just bow much his sickness
was hurting him.
One day he learned of Mayr> Won
derful Remedy. Ho took the first dose
—then decided to take the full treat
ment. He wrote:
“Since using the six bottles of your
wonderful remedy I feel Ilk© another
m&n It has been quite a wonder to
me to know how one could have a
stomach disease like mine and live
and do the work I did. I Just escaped
the operating table.
“Now I can eat what I please, and it
doesn't hurt me, night or day.”
Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy gives
permanent results for stomach, liver
and intestinal ailments. Eat as much
and whatever you like No more dis
tress after eating, pressure of gae in
the stomach and around the heart. Get
one bottle of your druggist now and
try it on an absolute guarantee—if not
sarisfa* tory, money will be refunded.
^—Advertisement,
Hallboy of Page
Enlists for War
LONDON, July 3—Ambassador Wal
ter Hines Page and his secretaries
spertt « bad half hour when they dis
covered that Page Hornsby, one of the
hallboy* at Grosvenor Gardens, was
missing Search was instituted, in fear
the boy had met some serious accident.
At noon Hornsby himself called up
and solved the mystery.
“I have enlisted and won't be back
was his message
Field Guns Hidden
On Interned Vessel
the releasing hook being used Of terned in this port since last August
the hand bombs, as many as twenty was unloaded by the Italian authorities
are often taken aboard.* Near Su- Hidden under ostensible goods of no par-
walki I saw an aviator load 22 of
them Into the observer's compart
ment. They were deposited Into a
portable compartment that reminded
me of a huge box of eggs. One by one
these bombs are tossed over the sides
of the car by hand.
Now. all the aviators with whom I
have talked agree that bomb-drop
ping Is not the important thing. The
making of observations is what
counts That is the real value of
aerqnlanes to an army. To know the
location and strength of the enemy's
positions is to decide battles.
The German flyers all agree that tt
is most dangerous to make observa
tions over a fortress.
If an observer is killed. ths aviator
can still escape; if an aviator Is killed,
the observer is bound to be; the ma
chine falls. In none of the German
mono-biplane type did I see a single
double-control, whereby the observer
coult} handle the machine if his avia
tor was hit. Sooner or later these ob
servers must die; it is an inexorable
law of military mathematics.
Scion of Harvard,
Graduating, to Enlist
SIR OLIVER LODGE TELLS
E'
Princess Mary
Resents a Slur
At U. S. Stand
GARVIN CULLS TRE WHO
Means Found for Checking Submarine Raids,
He Says, but Guards Details—Development
Engines of Destruction Not Inventions.
OI
By ORTON TEWSON.
(Special Cable to The 8unday Ameri*
can.)
LONDON, June 27.—Sir Oliver
Lodge, perhaps the greatest living
scientist, welcomed the opportunity
which I gave him to speak to the
great circle of American people
reached by the Hearst newspapers.
As I was being ushered Into his
room specially set aside for his re
searches in Birmingham University,
in the heart of England, I caught a
glimpse of several of his laboratories.
Here were delicate instruments of
strange shape, at the purpose of
which the layman could only guess
and wonder—weirdly shaped retorts,
endless rows of bottles, books of ref
erence, notebooks of research, and
beyond were the humming wheels
arid restless tracery of driving belts
appertaining to the engineers' work
shop.
The principal of the great British
industrial university is no mere book
ish theorlB*, but an energetic investl-'
gator of many branches of science.
Although his device for dissipating
fogs still is a thing of wonder, his in
ventions by no means ure all In the
air, as the universal use of the Lodge
sparking plug readily proves.
Greeting Cordial.
Waving me a cordial gretting, Sir
Oliver settled down to his cross-ex-
umination with a zest which gave no
indication he was giving up a portion
of a particularly busy morning for the
benefit of the readers of the Hearst
Abruptly Leaves “Volunteer- Work
ers” Meeting When American
Attitude on Lusitania Is
Criticised.
newspapers.
While he sat there, a smile on hi»
face, his great frame overflowing the
boundaries of his chair, his head bent
a little forward by seeming weight of
his huge polished dome, with his
beard ns a support, his face wrtfw ir
radiated with a boyish gleam which
smoothed out the lines of care on the
rugged features.
I would like to know, Sir Oliver,” I
raid, “your views on some of the sci
entific aspects of the war. For in
stance, the leading papers contained
In the last few weeks a wide corre
spondence deploring the lack of or
ganization in the field of chemistry,
physics, mechanics and general in
vention. Do you think British leaders
in science are alive to these matters,
and Is the organization with them
adequate for the need or equal to
that of Austria or Germany?”
•Many of the people busy writing
papers on these matters,” broke in
Sir Oliver, “are uninformed or mis
informed. There is far more organi
zation and science in England than
the public is aware of.
Laboratories Are Busy.
It Is not known, as many recent
letter.- prove, and I am perhaps giv
ing away secrets by saying so now,
that practically since the beginning
of the war there has been In exist
ence a special war committee of the
Royal Society, of which I am a mem
ber. It includes representatives of
every branch of science, who meet
and discuss various suggestions for
research Into matters of martial im
portance.
“The laboratories of its members
are busy with investigations, and the
outcome of this work eventually will
be felt at the front.
“T have been in favor of more pub
licity in our work, but it might pos
sibly lead to the Inundation of the
committee by a flood of useless pro
posals. As it is, the members receive
numbers of suggestions from outside
sources. Some contain germs of real
worth, but the majority are useless.
Still. T think we may be missing
something of excellence.”
“Are you connected In any way
with the fighting departments?”
“Yes. From time to time we re
ceive requests from the War and Ad
miralty offices. These requests are
passed on to members of the com
mittee beat able to deal w r lth them.
Investigations are made at our labo
ratories. maybe In some university,
maybe in some private laboratory or
large manufacturing works, and the
results are communicated to official
departments and orders then are
given.
Nothing Now, He Says.
“Yes. there is nothing much the
matter with our organization." said
Sir Oliver, as he smiled the 6mile of
one who knows.
“With regard to the sclentifle In
terest/? which the war has brought
into prominence, do you think any
striking development has taken
place?”
“There is nothing new, said Sir
Oliver. “There have been develop
ments. of course, and strange rever
sions also to the old-fashioned meth
ods and engines of warfare, but when
our enemies use poison ga* they only
are employing means of destruction
which were known before the war
and forbidden
“Their Zeppelins and submarines
certainly have been Improved so as to
become a real menace, and the range
of their big guns has been Increased;
but these are only developments of
the already existing engines of de
struction and can not be called inven-
>ng in the strict sense. You will
could get him to hint at the secrets he
guards, so I changed the subject.
The Students’ Part.
“As the principal university, what
part do you think your students and
the Institution generally should play
In war?”
”A1 who can,” he said, “have been
invited to enlist. The names of those
fighting and those dead on the field
of battle you will see on the roll of
honor In the corridor.”
Here Sir Oliver * words sounded for
a few moments only during the inter
view like those of an old, careworn
man.
“Yes,” he added, “the university
can and should supply fighting forces
of the greatest importance.”
In a war of such magnitude, where
science is playing so important a part,
I thought it might be possible to as
certain the probable lines along which
Inventions might develop, so I asked:
‘'Can you give me, Sir Oliver, any
Indication or even a hint a/? to the
probable line of development of the
Allies’ fighting gear, will it be with
regard to machines on land, to gases,
to vessels in the air, on the water or
under the sea, or is it likely someone
may harness the force of nature to
work destruction on opponents?’”
Sir Oliver shook his head and re
plied:
“I am no prophet.”
Knows of No Message.
“Speaking of prophets,” I said,
“what U your opinion of the various
l>rophecie* which have been made
with regard to the war.”
“The prophets have not done them
selves justice,” was the laconic an
swer.
“But you believe, and the public ex
pects you, as a spiritualist investiga
tor, to believe that future events can
be foretold. One would think that a
world catastrophe such as the present
would have been foretold by a me
dium at some seance. Has such a
message been given?”
”1 know of no definite message,” re
plied Sir Oliver, “no authentic proph
ecy. There have been allusions
through media and many of us felt
something terrible was pending, but
there has been nothing definite.”
“What do you think of messages In
the past that are said to have fore
told this war? There was one of a
French monk which purported to
foretell the beginning and the end of
the war, a* well as the result; there
was one which prophesied the down
fall of the house of Hphenzollern when
the head of the house mounted his
horse from the wrong side, as does the
present Kaiser. There was a horo
scope of the Kaiser cast by an Amer
ican astrologer, which foretold the
downfall of the German Emperor for
last December. Are not these false
prophecies sufficient to Shake your be
lief in the existence of communion
with the spirit world?"
Speaks of Research.
"These were probably misinterpre
tation*.”
Here he spoke of the man of science
who requires that all phenomena of
his investigation shall be fully known
before judgment is passed. He con
tinued:
“I myself have Investigated none of
these prophecies, but they probably
are misinterpretations. Because some
people got hold of a cryptic Latin
screed, which is supposed to have been
written many, many years ago by a
French monk, and twist the transla
tion to make the resulting version
into a prophecy of a war already be
gun—such a fact neither affirms nor
denies the possibility of prophecy. It
does nothing. The others may be like
them.”
Pressed on this point. Sir Oliver ad
mitted, somewhat sorrowfully, I
thought, he has not come across any
case of authentic prophecy concerning
the war. When I reverted to the ques
tion Sir Oliver shook me off with a
laugh, and I am not going to make any
prophecies. They, too, might not come
true.
LONDON, July 3.—At the first
meeting of a new' league, emit led
"Lady Volunteer Workers,” held at
the London residence of Lady Wan
tage, an old friend of the royal fam
ily, and attended by the Princess
Mary, a remarkable scene occurred,
W’hlch ended in the Princess and her
governess, Mile. Dussau, by whom she
was attended, leaving the meteing
abruptly.
A discussion arose as to the position
of America in the war, and the atti
tude of the United States Adminis
tration since the sinking of the Lusi
tania was severely commented on by
several of the ladles present, notably
by a Mls« Davidson, a cousin of the
Archbishop of Canterbury. The Prin
cess Mary did not join In the discus
sion at all until Miss Davidson re
marked that It was now simply a
question of the United States choos
ing between honor and dishonor,
whereupon tho Princess said she did
not agree with that statement; to her
it seemed that It was simply a ques
tion of the United States doing what
was the wisest thing in bbviously very
difficult circumstances.
Etiquette gives the members of the
reigning house the advantage of hav
ing the last word at such discussions,
for no one is supposed to differ with
the plainly expressed opinion of any
member of the royal family. Miss
Davidson, however, apparently
thought that the considerable dispar
ity between her own age and that of
the Princess relieved her of the neces
sity of observing this rule, and she re
peated the expression of her opinion,
adding: “Your royal highness must
pardon an old person like me for not
agreeing with the opinion* of a young
person like you.”
“They are not my opinions only,”
replied the Princess.
“I know that; they are your parents’
opinions,” said Miss Davidson, “but I
still claim the liberty of having my
own opinions, which are those of a
great many of your father’s friends.”
The Princess then at once rose, and,
with her governess, left the room, and
the party immediately afterward
broke up. A* a result of the incident,
all royal support has been withdrawn
from the league, which will, of
course, die a sudden death.
New Zeppelin Goes
Out Every 20 Days
GENEVA (via Paris), July 3.—News
dispatchep reaching Geneva from Fried-
richshav-'. : set forth that double shifts
of men are now working in the Zeppelin
factories, which are turning out a com
pleted Zeppelin every twenty days.
One of the two Zeppelins destined for
operations against Italy was sent from
Friedrichshafen yesterday to replace the
dirigible destroyed over Belgium recent
ly by the Canadian aviator Warneford.
It is reported in Geneva that the Ger
man authorities are preparing for an
important combined raid of Zeppelins
and aeroplanes on Paris and London in
retaliation for the recent attack on
German towns by aviators of the Allies.
Editor of Pall Mall Gazette Declares Allies
Have Postponed Their Hopes for Months to
Deliberately Prepare for Thorough A ictory.
By JOHN L GARVIN.
(Editor of The Pall Mall Gazette. Spe
cial Cable to The Sunday
American.)
LONDON, July 3.—Last week
marked an epoch in national organi
zation, as well a/? a pinch in the Euro
pean struggle. The Allies have post
poned their hopes for months and de
liberately reorganized their methods
to assure thoroughness of a deferred
victory. Russia’s emergency has been
met by our allies with indomitable for
titude and resolution.
It means that France plays for the
present the main part of holding an
Impregnable barrier in the west. It
depends on the supreme exertions of
Great Britain during the next few
months to provide men and munitions
with an effect which will turn the
course of the war and vibrate from
one end of Europe to the other. The
situation, but on a larger scale, Is not
unlike the sterner years of ^he Napo-
leonio war9
After more than a century, this is
again the situation that suits the
British temper. We shall bear it well.
The signs of the last few' days have
satisfied us of the British temper.
With man-power, machine-power and
money-power w r e will rise to the need
with a vigor that will discomfit our
enemies, assert the supremacy of the
Quadruple Entente and astonish the
world. We have vast reserves, but
we have to mobilize them now fully
without delay. We can do it and shall.
Grave Voices Heard.
While in Germany and Austria
many enthusiasts and some experts
declare that the Russian colossus is or
soon will be overthrown and finished
for the remainder of the w'ar, other
grave voices in the central empires
warn all concerned against thinking
it is all over but the shouting. The
Russians are described as moving
back with incredible obstinacy and
immovable courage, lacking nothing
but munitions. The Bear is always
ready to maul Its pursuers.
Nevertheless, serious and perilous
as Potsdam know* the event to be, it
is practically certain Germany means
to make the crowning effort one way
or arfother to seize Warsaw and the
whole line of the Vistula, and. If pos
sible, throw Russia back beyond the
more interior line of the Bug and its
key to the fortress and Brest-Litovsk
railway junction into the marshes of
the Pripet.
Since the fall of Lemberg our allies
In the south of Poland have retreated
very slowly to a point somewhat near
er the Vistula.
It is well-nigh as great a crisis as
that of 1812, and may quite possibly
prove the greatest in Ru.^sia s annalau
Under direction of his sovereign and
with the whole Russian nation behind
him, the Grand Duke is preparing text
all emergencies. •
Factors of Time and Spaoe.
We repeat that we have absolute
confidence that the Grand Duke will
be the eventual victor, upon the con-*
dition that he be fully supported by
the colossal energy of this country in
piling up munitions.
Against Germany are the factors of
space and time. She must succeed
before November or she can nevef
succeed. The time is too short for her
purpose. Even for a partial andi tern-*
porary success he will have to pay Sfc
tremendous price.
The deeper she advances into Ru&j
sia the graver becomes the danger of
a total reverse. It must be monthd
before the Grand Duke’s armies are so
fully reorganized and refitted as to b$
able to resume the final offensive with
huger forces than ever. But even irt
the meantime the Czar’s troops will bq
better* and better equipped with every
month that passes.
We do not say too much wffien w*
suggest that this is one of the great*
est dramas in human history.
Cruiser Interned;
Officer Loses Mind
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.—lieuten
ant Herman Berka, of the engifeeerin «*
corps of the German navy, could not
stand the strain of being interned by
the United States on the Island of
Guam, and his mind gave way under it.
Suffering from the hallucination that
he was the son of the Kaiser, he was
brought into San Francisco aboard the
transport Sherman for treatment at the
Mare Island Hospital until It will be
convenient for him to be taken through
to his home In Germany.
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England Preparing
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LONDON, July 8.—The Earl of Sel-
borne, president of the Board of Agri
culture. has appointed a committee, of
which Lord Milner is chairman, to in
vestigate the report as to “what steps
should be taken by legislation or other
wise for the sole purpose of maintain
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present production of food In England
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war may be prolonged beyond the har
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The school and
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NOPLES. July 8—The German
steamer Bayern, which has been in
ticul&r importance were field guns, ms
chine guns and several aeroplanes. As
none of this war material was mentioned
in the ship’s papers, the customs au
thorities seised it all
BOSTON, July 3.—Lionel DeJer*»v
Harvard, a lineal descendant of John
Harvard, founder of Harvard Univer
sity, on being graduated from Harvard,
will return to nls home in England to
enlist in the army.
This young Briton is the first of h1s
name who ever entered H" r vard. He
has Just written a war poem for the
senior class album.
DEVICE FINDS BURIED SHELLS.
NANCY. FRANCE. July 3 - A cur!
ous invention designed to disclose by
magnetism unexploded shells buried in
the earth not more than eighteen Inches
was tested to-day. The object of the
device is to protect farmers from strik
ing live shall* with their plows.
notice, too. with the possible excep
tion of aircraft, these machines all
are necessarily of a destructive na
ture, and therefore not truly and in
any real sense contributions to the
world’s science.
Wireless Telephone.
“To my mind, the most wonderful
scientific development is long-
range wirele**- telephony. By its
means the human voice can travel for
miles and man can speak to man,
though only the air connects them
This is a true contribution to science
which the war has developed, a con
tribution which will outlast all the
engines of destruction which have
been used or still are to he made.
“In your opinion, is Great Britain
keeping pace with the enemies in the
invention of destructive w f ar machines
and has she anything to counter the
craft of Zeppelin type? Can she hold
in check the raids of submarines? Is
she keeping pace with the many in
ventions in the field of warfare?”
“Means are being found, some In
deed are in use.” he said; "means con
cerning which, for obvious reasons. I
can net give details, hut which will
counter all thepe Take, for instance,
submarines We are ”
I leaned forward eagerly, but the
spirit of caution nudged Sir Oliver at
that moment, for he ‘closed up as
tight as an oyster and no persuasion
Illinois Student, 23,
Is Canadian Captain
Conscience Refuses
$5,000,000 War Order
Thorough courses are offered for Classical,
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The efficient Military Department is in charge of a U. S. Army of-
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CHICAGO, July S.—Less than
year ago Dougal Klttermaster was
BUFFALO, N. Y., July 3.—Represent
atives of the Allies were turned down
when they offered the Aldrich Manufac
turing Company a $6,000,000 order for
800,000,000 brass shells, agreeing to pay
down one-fourth cash.
“My conscience will not permit me to
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fain "in* thi" tS "c^5liS“"SRlnSK p ®£° B0 °* £•
rr.nfe - ‘j?, 2*3““* 'somewhere In j shaved off tojS Swffill
CaDtain Klttermn.ter !» « ™ „< w again has been taken a prisoner and
lived there for fifteen years, but never
given up his Canadian citizenship. The
Kir -
elder Klttermaster sent his son to Ca
nadian military training schools, and
soon after the war started the boy was
ordered to Canada. He was a lieuten
ant then. In drilling recruits he showed
such ability that he was soon promoted
to a captaincy. When he sails for
France he will be in command of 1,600
men.
fuse to communicate the details, but it
is asserted that inquiries in the differ
ent French towns Swoboda visited elic
ited nothing against him.
Ohio Woman Is Held
As a Spy in England
URBAN A. OHIO, July 3.-Anna Hoff
man, aged 37. daughter of Mrs. Kate B.
Brunette, of this city. Is under arrest
in England a* a German spy, it became
known when her slater. Mrs C. E. Mc
Farland, here, received a letter from
Miss Hoffman asking assistance in ob
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The letter said she was being held in
Holloway prison. Her stepfather, Chris,
tonher Brunotte, has enlisted the aid of
officials here and an appeal has been
made to Secretary of State Lansing to
work for her release Miss Hoffman's
letter says she was employed In a hotel
in Ieondon when arrested and says the
authorities defend their action on the
ground that she waa known to be of
German descent.
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