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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-8-15, Page 6Econozny e it O XI It& ' IS not only the most economical on account of Its great strength, but you have the refreshing and delicious qualities as well. 6430 Ask yoyr Grocer. - In Sealed Metal Packets. FOUR YEARS OF GIGANTIC STRUGGLE Ui SIGNIFICANT EVENTS HAVE MARliEti TH.61 PAST TEAR. Russia's Collapse, Italy's Defeat, The Allies' I1'oaderi'ul Defensive, and U. S. Activity. War loans approximated $31,000,000,- 000. The total war cost to the United States, according to latest available figures, is $13,800,000,000, Since the Republic entered the was' it has ex- tended credits to the Allies aggregat- ing $6,001,690,000, wed fn Supreme Conintand In the midst of the drive in the sec- tor toward Amiens the Allied pattens took a vitally important step, Then named General Fedinand Foch, hero of the first battle of the Marne, gen- eralissimo of the Allied forces on the rh•ents big with the Tata of nations western front, which includes all the have marked the fourth year of the line in Italy as well as in France. war, which now comes to a close. It Even the Merman coast, in northern has been a twelve month of alternate Russia, has been held to be under his hope and concern for the Powers of command, the Entente Alliance. Among the year's operations Of corn - It was on July 2S 1914, that Aus-I paratively lesser importance were the trig declared War on Serbia, beginnings British drives in Palestine and Mes- the great struggle. During the last: opotamia, the ,Turkish advance in the twelve months there have been occur-' Saucasus, the French and Italian of- renees that in some respects have been, fensive in Albania and the fighting of even greater import in their in-' in the German African colonies. fluence upon the world than those in' Jerusalem was captured by the ter the preceding period. Russia's collapse tisk on December 10 and shortly after - the Italian re'feat last autumn, the I ward the fall of Jericho was announe- stupendous drives of the Germans ed. Since the taking of Jericho the against the Allied armies and the won- ! British forces in Palestine -have not derful defensive operations that have' been active on the offensive. again and again checked • the enemy General Maude led the British when success for him seemed near, troops into Bagdad on March 11, and have held the world breathless . But, j shortly afterwardpdied from cholera. transcending the significance any :ITis forces ushed further up the Ti - event in the actual threatres of the;gris until the intense heat of summer war. American's full participation In the conflict, involving the trans- portation overseas of more than a mil- With the greater portion of her lion men to engage in it, must remain territory occupied by the Germans, foriah time the great outstanding fee- Austrians and Bulgarians,. with her tura of the fourth year of the struggle. Government driven from Bucharest to Two Big Offensives Jassy and with the Russian Bolsheviki openly hostile toward her, Rumania The Allies have been called upon to found herself in a critical situation. facg two great offensives during the Rumanian troops during February and Iasi year. The first of these came March advanced into Bessarabia, a last'October in'Italy,'and the second, part of the new republic of Ukraine, in France, hegen March 21. The Germs but they were hemmed in by the ene- man drives in France, while separated my forces and obliged, to withdraw. by periods of from a few days to sev- At last, on May 6, Rumania signed a eral weeks, have been considered as treaty of peace with the Central Pow- different phases of the same offensive. ers. The abortive Austrian attack against Since the collapse of Russia, the Al - Italy in June also is looked upon as lied nations have sought to find a way merely another attack against the to assist the people who are being ex- wedtern. front and not as a distinct ploited by the Germans. French, military operation. British and American forces have been But these offensives perhaps never landed on the Merman or Kola penin - would have been begun had it not been sula, on the north coast. They have for the collapse of Russia. German not actively intervened, however, be - and Austrian troops, released from the ing here only to protect Allied pro - Russian front, were taken to France party which had been landed at the and Italy to swell the masses of men port of Kola before Russia withdrew • hurled against the Allies in the west- from the Entent Alliance. ern theatre of operations. In Siberia there is a well-defined The French and Italian drive in Al- anti -Bolshevik movement which has Dania began on July 6 and is still in been built up around Cze'cho-Slovak progress. prisoners of 'war, who armed them During the year British forces in selves and inflicted defeats on the Bol: AJr4ca drove German forces before sheviki. A new government has • thirst' in German East Africa and in been set up there under General Icor- German Southwest Africa, and finally vath, president of the Chinese Eastern compelled them to disperse or surren- Railroad. Japanese, British and der. This took from Germany the American marines have been in the last of the vast colonial possessions city of Vladivostok for months. heldby her when the war began. Neutrals Submarine Warfare Countries that are not engaged in terminated operations. Rumanit Capitulates The last year has been marked by a gradual decline of submarine sinkings, as compared with the number of ships being built by the Entente Allies. The operations of the British and Ameri- can destroyers have spread terror among the "wasps of the sea," while a great mine field completed in May • by the British navy converted virtual- ly the whole North Sea into an area Norway has signed an agreement closed haagrbor ofU-Zeebrugge eies, with the United States by which come tend, harbors of and Os- tend, from width German submarines mercial relations may be carried on. Sweden has been dealing openly with the war have suffered during the twelve months. Switzerland and Hol- land, being adjacent to Gerniany, have been threatened by'the Central Powers a, number of times in matters relative to economic concessions. Holland es- pecially has been beset with difficul, ties, and at present the Allies are pro- testing against her exporting supplies to Germany. had been operated against Entente shipping, were either sealed entirely or made virtually valueless as sub- marine bases by daring naval and air raids by the British in May. During the year eleven hospital 'Germany and has been threatened with boycott by Great Britain. Both nations have lost severely through the depredations of German submarines. Denmark is in a serious plight also, i1'is great Decision Whielt Shows the Attitude of Our Southern Neighbor At the Beginning of the War, .and How the Republig's Noblest Sons and Daughters Rose to the Occasion. By Edith Brown Jtirkwood: CHAPTER T. many has declared war," he remarked Wide streets with old elms and as he passed through the room on his Wady to the gardens. "That sol It won't last long. It e,n't-these days. Pooare too eiviltied for war," . She held pp her threads to caters the pattern. "I'm not so sure, Annie," he paused again to say. "Civilisation is a queer animal to bank on. I'm not so family motor cars; the wave of aura.-" friendly hands: this is Clinton. "Daddy!" There was concern in A youth, just turned into a legal, Mrs, Mann's tone. "What's the mat - man, sat at the window of his father's ter with you, to -day? Better get law office` and looked out across the Dr: Bacon to fix you up a good tome. town 'to the tops of trees beyond a You're bine. What's the use Worry- country road. Then he closed the ing about a war in Europe? Let boolt he had been endeavoring to read them fight it out. Then maybe they'll placed it carefully on its shelf and be sontont to ;3ettlo down and live wandered out of the room and on to as they should. the street. Automatically he turned Mn Manic did no answer. With his, on especially' M the military 7,nne, to ozie of the maple -shaded thorough- gardening tools in his hands he went iwhich comprises ,the two Flanitcrs fares, stopped at the gate of a house through the big double doors of the , and gave a friendly whistle. sun poach and down the steps to rows and a great part of the Prnvinc s of A girl, reading in her sunny room, jumped to her feet and, hook in hand, ran out to the upper verandah. The youth"' thrust `his bands in his pockets and looked up at her balcony. "It's a gorgeous morning. Chuck the book and come for a hike." "To the country?", "Yah." 'Sure thing." Two minutes later the girl, her soft hair fll}tterin about her face her eyes staples; big, roomy homes set in ram - thief; ,Yards; gardens, where. flowers vie with good things to eat) prosper- ous business houses grouped about an imposing white stone courthouse; a peaceful brbok caught a growing cen- tre and made into a river tie it stray- ed from its woodland; the whir of TEUTONS STILL DEPORT BELGIANS MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TORN I� ROM HOMES. Exposed to Artilere Fire and to In, element Weather, the Survivors Are But Living Skeletons. The minister of Belgium in Wash- ington hes prepared the following from material received from the Bol., gian Government regarding • the dee pot+tation and forced labor inflicted on Belgian civilians, by order of the Ger- man Government; "The last information which has reached therBelgian Government at Le Havre, France, from occupied Bel - glum, shows that deportation and forcer labor are still being carried of�growing things. Hainaut, Hamer and Luxemburg. Cxe and Marjorie, returning two "But deportations and forced labor tame later, stopped at the gate to i have at present assumed a new charac- finish the reading of the city paper ter. The Belgians, instead of being which had just arrived, sent to Germany, as formerly, are now "What do you know about that?" being sent to work in the regions be- exclaimed Crane, ,"Those old duffer's, hind the German front in France and going to War in this day! Look here! Belgium. Besides, the Germans who The Record is sending across Ted formerly deported the Belgians under Speer, its best reporter, Remember .thepretext of Iva work to the un- made ? Yah old Speer s son.. Teel s giving � made good all right. Would I like to employed, now send them to the north alight with the joy of life, clattered go? Peach of a correspondent I'd of France and compel them to work, down the stairs 11•nd thrusting her make1 It takes mo a week to write pretending that, in virtue of Article II head in at the open door of a room a letter! Oh, you mean to fight? l of the order issued ,by the German where a matron sat tatting, called! Nix on the war stuff for me. 'Tisn't General Headquarters no October 3, "I'm going for a hike.in the country our fight anyway." 1916, every inhabitant of the country with Grand, Mother." Was that a grunt or just a throat may be compelled to give his help in case of public calamity, even outside his residence. "This modification in the policy 'of deportations took place in 1917. Then, as'a consequence of the universal pro- tests raised against this policy, the German Emperor issued instructions to the effect that deportations of una employed Belgians to Germany be stopped until further order. But these instructions were carried, out only partly and very slowly. Horeover, they did not apply to the thousands of civilians who have been sent behind the German front in France. Ordered Are Evaded "The chiefs of several German armies Intentionally misconstrued the instructions of the German Emperor. They pretended to understand that these instructions only forbade the .sending of Belgian citizens to Ger- many, but not to other regions, and thus they coRttinued sending them to the regions behind the German front in France and Belgium, "At the same time, after the Gor- man authorities had pretended to lis- ten to the protests of the neutrals and had stated that they would stop the de- portations, they ceased to take any more men under the pretext of unem- ployment. But they had recourse to Article II of the above decree of Octo- ber 3, 1916, which reads as follows: "'Every inhabitant of the country is bound to give his help in case of accidents and general danger, and also to bring relief sin cases of public calamity with all his power, even,out- side his residence: If he refuses he may be compelled by force to do so.' It has thus been sufficient for the German authorities to decide that the regions oecupied by their armies are 9n a state of public calamity' to take away from their homes, in many re- gions of Belgium, men, women and even children fourteen years old, and compel them to work. "The authorities have thus continu- ed, principally in the territories in the zone of the armies, to tear the Bel- gians away from their homes in order to transport them into the regions im- mediately behind the German front in France or In Belgium. There they are herded like cattle in special camps, compelled to do the work of.,a tary character or interest. Many are sent into the zone of operations and exposed to the fire of the Belgian or Allied batteries. Besides they are subjected to bail treatment and brutal- ity. Their complaints do not reach the outside world, for the military zone, where they are sent, is strictly closed and no delegate of a neutral power is ever allowed to enter this ter- ritory- Not only men of all walks of life, but even boys from fourteen to seventeen years of age, women and young girls ,are compelled to do hard work of military interest. Terribly Treated On the steps she ran into a stout gentleman about to enter the front door. "Freights are supposed to side- track for limitedst" she cried, "Never mind, Daddy, Pll forgive you this time." She turned only long enough to blow a kiss in his direction. The boy at the gate laughed as she, joined him. He ran Inc fingers good as new. through his tousled hair as if to tip I'm sorry -no. Dr. Bacon's the hat that never was worn.coming to dinner, "Aw-the mischief with Doc As they fell into step, the swing» Bacon;'.replied the youth, thrusting being cleared? Crane lifted his eyes and caught sight of a garden hat be- hind the rose bushes. "No, I won't come in." He handed the paper to Marjorie. "In fact I think it's time for me to be moving. So long. Go driving to -night?" he called back. "Took the fiivver all apart and cleaned it and now it's as ing, dancing step of.those accustomed his hands deep in his pockets but go- ing whistling down this street. The girl watched Klin for a moment and then turned toward the garden. "Daddy!" she called, holding out the paper. "Germany's declared war." "I know, Daughter. Bad business," "Think so?" "Looks so to War's always bad business." "Oh, well, we should worry! It's three thousand miles away." That night at the dinner table two men discussed with some anxiety the eturn of war and two women won- dered at their concern. "There'll be need of doctors," added Dr. Cacon. "Would you go?" asked Mr. Mann, recalling the words at the gate. l'Would I go?" The young doctor looked up in surprise, "Could I stay away if I were needed?" Mr. Mann glanced meaningly at Marjorie but she was looking out of the window where an automobile chugged up the street. (To be continu3'S'.) to walking together, Crane said, "I can't study on a day like this. I sup- pose the law's a necessary evil and there must be lawyers but- Marj," he broke off, "it must be some job to be a father! My dad wants me to be a lawyer because he's one and I'll make about as good a lawyer as that goose waddling off' there. And your dad! Say, the way you chum up to him is great. He scares me pink. When he turns that dignified, behold -a -man glance. on me, I shrivel. I'm more afraid to speak pleasantly to him than I'd be to pull»the Kaiser's nose." The girl threw back her head and laughed. "Yes, you'd pull the Kaiser's nose, you would! You'll: get spanked." "Oh I don't know! Maybe you think I couldn't?" He put up 'a healthy -looking right arm and drew the muscles out to their fullest. "I guess that ain't so worse. Oh, wow, look at that cardinal! Did you see him? ' Catch his coat going through the leaves? Sh-sh-shl-Don't scare him. Let's go over and watch him." With one of youth'squick changes in interest, they forgot all about the Kaiser and men and sat waiting for a glint of scarlet against the green of the trees or the blue of the sky,,., On the top -step of his front porch, Edward Mann had turned to watch his daughter walk off with the young man. Then he shook his head and entered the house. Mrs. Mann met him at the door,- "The bank smelled, stuffy and I thought I'd browse about the yard," he explained. "I met Marjie going off with Crane Chap- man. Where they bound?" "Just a stroll in the country." "Seems to me it might be better if that young chap strolled to work more often. I seppose if I were a lawyer like Fred Chapman I'd want my son to be a lawyer, too; but by gad when I set him to reading the law I'd keep him at it even if it was in mJ own office." OUR POPULAR PRINCE. • Best -Liked. Englishmen ip France is .the Prince of Wales. Ask say French officer who has been the best -liked Englishman 'in France, and ten to one his answer is the "Prince de Galles." While King George was always, at heart, a sailor, the Prince -'of Wales has shown that he .prefers the Arany to the Navy. Ln 1911 he spent three months hard training in the battle- ship lfindusten, and before th14t he had four yeare et Osborne and Dart- mouth, But it. was not until` the war broke out that he showed his true taste, and they are net naval but military, Both in Prance and' in Italy the Prince has bedn an immense success, "I don't think Crane likes the law," He has been popular with his men, his explained Mrs. Mann quietly as she brother officers, and With all the watched her husband slip outof his French and Italians with whom he has brilliantine office cont and roll has sleeves back over strong arms. "Humph!" came the response. "I guess if it was simmered down, tak- ing strolls in the country is about the only thing Crane does like -except laughing. He does that very well. Don't you think he and Marjie are to- gether a good bit?" '' . "I don't think s i," Mrs. 14Tann ans- wered looking up quickly. "They've ;more "unhealthy" the spot, the more ship have, been sunk by submarines, and it has been reported that there is been brought up together and always i he seems to eu joy it. the latest and most flagrant case of great suffering among the people of have been friends. d dont see any- On his first visit to. Italy,, he yeti-. that country, thing unusual in their being together) this violation of the Geneva convention nom ,r I:toued General Cadorulti to lot him being the destruction of the British Three new spurring have declared "Maybe not, Annie, only sometimes, visit a most perilous post held by Al - are Costa Rice, Guatemala and Haiti, The Argentine, although near a break because of the machinations of Von Lnxburg, the German ambassador at Buenos Ayres, has taken no step in that direction, Mex.ic:o has remained neutral. My Ships, The swing of the 'sea 3 'would bring back with me, and that is all. It isn't fair to corn -I He has a passion for keeping in good In the ring of my verso, whore the wild . pare Crane with Dr, Bacon. Crane is ` condition. In Italy, where be went waves rehearse. I would music embalm of the wind- tossed palm,good fun but as to-" I him one morning running around a Bright night•water pour by a flame: Mother, there isn't a matt in town;Oold in shorts and a jersey. The of- colored shore,' who wants Crane for a son-ln-law,.;