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i 1 * ! I i • * I 1 i H la rc.i'i 'I'.VDAY AiiEftlCAN, aTLaNTA, GA„ .SUNDAY. JULY 4. 1915. s 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. BRENAU Co Uede-Conaervatorv four yew A,II. count of •landorrf mar. SpeoaUeoareM »n Music. Art, Expression and/ Domestic Sconce. Admission upon certificate. Locstlon is famed as hraith resort, hich altitude, bracing but mild climate. building*. 100 acres io ground *. Modern theatre for play*. concerts, fetes. Outdoor sports snd recreation*, and mans interesting soels) events. Seven oslionslaoro/ltics with highIdeala. Patron age from JO states. Expense about MOO p<-» yeat. Cowpleta story in catalogue and several bulletins free upon ttflueac Fall term begins Septemoer 14th. Address BRENAl), Box 16, Gainesville, Ga. CEORCIA MILITARY ACADEMY The South’s Nlosl Splendidly Equipped Prep School England Preparing For Prolonged War 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 ing and, if possible, increasing the present production of food In England and Wales on the assumption that the war may be prolonged beyond the har vest of 1916.” The committee Is Instructed, If It finds additional powers are necessary, to re port in time for legislative action dur ing the present session of Parliament. Is conducted on a system of prac tical ideals that make for thorough men tal, moral and phy, sical development. The school and home buildings are modern throughout and splendidly equipped in every respect. The beautiful campus is located about 1200 feet above sea level in the ideal climate of the Blue Rid&e Plateau. Only 8 miles from Atlanta, the Southern center of education and culture. Careful, individual attention is given each student, _ and each instructor has twelve students under his direct supervision for safe-guarding and night study. tt 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, Engineering and Commercial study. The efficient Military Department is in charge of a U. S. Army of- s or i ’ 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 accept such an order,” explained I. A. Aldrich, president of the concern. ficer, and has the distinction of being one of the few schools “Es pecially commended for progress’' by the U. S. War Department. For interesting, illustrated literature, address: COL. J. C. WOODWARD, A. M., Pres., COLLEGE PARK. GA freshman at the University of Illinois. 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 taining her release. 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. CAROLINA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY ATLANTA, QA. Wholesale Lumber. Shingles. Lath*. Siate.coated Asphalt Shingles. Acme Piaster. Keystone White Lime, Hydrated Lime, Standard Cement. C. Christensen, "The Denbupy Hetter." Hat. of all kinds cleaned and re- blocked Into the latest style*. 17 1-2 Walton St., Cor. Broad. (Next to Healey Building) LaGrange College FOR YOUNG WOMEN A School of Pt'actical Ideals. 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Its graduates are trained to do as well as to know. Their success is the school's greatest asset. Thorough courses In Mechanical, Electrical. Civil, Textile and Chemical Engineering. Chemistry. Architecture and Commerce. New equipment, including a $200.- 000 Power Station and Engineering Laboratory for experimental and research work. Free tuition to fifteen students tn each county In Georgia. For catalog address K. G. MATHESON, President, ATLANTA, GA.