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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-07-29, Page 2G. D; MoTA'GG,.RT M. D, Mc'TTAGGART' McTaggart Bros. -- RANKEiRS -- • 'A GENERAL BANKING BUSI- NESS TRANSACTED, NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED., INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES :PUR- CHASED, H. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC,CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT- INrG 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT OFFICE, CLINTON.' W. DRYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Office- Sloan Biock CLINTON M. G. CAMERON I.C. , BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, ETC. Office on Albert Street occuped by Hr. Hooper. In Clinton on every Thursday, and on any day for which ap- pointments' are made. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. A good -vault in connection with the office. Office open every week -day. Mr. Hooper will make any appointments for Mr. Cameron. CHARLES B. HALL, Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Issuer of Marriage Licenses HURON STREET, - CLINTON DRS. GUNN & DANDIER Dr. W. Gunn, L.R.O.P., L.R. 0.6., Edin. Dr. J. C. Gaudier, B.A., M.B. Office -Ontario St., Clinton. Night calls at residence, Rattenbury St., or at Hospital. OR. J. W. SHAW -OFFICE-. SATTENBURY OFFICE-- '$ATTENBURY ST. EAST, -CLINTON DR. C. W. THOMPSON PHSYIOIAN, SURGEON, ETC. Special attention given to dis- eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Eyes carefully examined and suit- able glasses prescribed. Office and residence: 2 doors west of the Commercial Hotel, Huron St, 0R. F. A. AXON - DENTIST -- Specialist in Crown and Bridge Work. Graduate of C.O.D.S., Chicago, and R,O.D.S., To. ronto. Bayfield on Mondays from May to December, GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sale: Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by Galling Phone 13 on 157. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. Jejifiguid,CENTRAI. tioTRATFORp. OMT.• Ontario's most successful busi- nese training school. Teachers are competent, courses are thor- ough and graduates succeed, We had more applications this month than we had students graduate during the past six months. The three applications received most recently were for. Lady Stenographer at $780, Bookkeeper at $1000 and Com- mercial Teacher at $1400 per annum. Business men want our graduates. Get our free cata- logue at once. D. A. McLACHLAN, Principal, GRA . Q ,'RU. .RA -TIME TABLE. - Fertilizer We carry a Complete Stock of Stone's Natural Fertilizer. No better on the market. Hay, We pay at all seasons the highest market prices for Hay for balhig', Seeds American Feed Corn, Red Clo- ver, Alisike, Timothy and Alfalfa, FORD & McLEOD GUNTON. ALL KINDS OF COAL, WOOD, TILE BRICK TO ORDER. All kinds of Coal on hand: CHESTNUT SOFT COAL STOVE CANNEL COAL FURNACE COKE BLACKSMITHS ' WOOD 23/ in,, 3 in. and 4 in. Tile of the Best Quality. ' ARTHUR FORBES • Opposite the G. T. R. Station. Phone 69. Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GOD:ERICH DIV.. Going East, depart 7.33 a,m. (4„ Al 3.03 p.m, " ,i , 5.15 p.m: ' Going West, ar, 11,00, dp. 11.07 a.m. 'i " depart 1,35 p.m. ,e. " ar 6.32, dp. 6,45 p.m. " " departs 11,18 p.m. LONDON, HURON Sa BRUCE DIV. :Going South, ar. 7.83 dp, 8.05 p.m. departs 4.15 p.m. Going North, ar. 10.30, dp. 11.00 a.m.' departs 6.40 p.m. How is Your Cutlery Supply ? You know that Jewelry Store Cutlery is out of the com- mon class. At least, OURS i8. It carries a distinctiveness - an air of superiority, that comes from being made with the greatest care and ut- most skill from the highest - priced materials. If you can use some of this • Cutlery in your home, you will be proud of it every time you see it on the table. Carvers, cased, $3.00 up. Knives, Forks and Spoons, $1.00 doz. up. • Knives and Forks, steel, white handles, $3.00 doz. up. Let us show you our Cutlery line. Let us tell you more about why it is the most desirable that you can put your money into. W. R. COUNTER JEWELER and ISSUER of MARRIAGE LICENSES. The McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company Head office, Seaforth, -Ont. DIRECTORY OOicere; J. B. McLean. Seaforth, President; J. Con. nolly, Goderioli, Vice -President; Thos E. Hays. Seaforth, Sec.-Treas. Directors: D. F. .MaOregor, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve, Winthrop:, Wm. Rinn, Sea,. forth; John Bennoweie. Dublin; J. Evans, Beechwood; A. McEwen, Brucetield; J. B, McLean, Settorth; J. Connolly. Goderich; Robert Ferris, Harlock. Agents: Ed. Hinckley, seaforth; W. Chesney. Egmondville; J. W. Yeo, Holmes. ville; Alex Leitch, .Clinton; R. S. Jar. muth, Brodhagen. Any money to be paid in may bo paid to Morrish Clothing Co., Clinton, or at Outt'e Grocery, Goderich. Parties desirous to effect insurance or transact othev business will be.. promptly attended to on application to any of the albove officers addreeeed to their resect. ire poet -offices. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearet the scone. There is a Day Cold Coming Whv not prepare for it by ordering your winter supply of Lehigh Valley Coal. None betterin. the, world. House Phone 12. Office Phone 40. A. J. HOLLOWAY Clinton News -Record 0 L.DE FIRM£ It takes, longer to build a Heintzman & Co. Piano Than it does an ordinary piano, but it is so thoroughly built that when once com- pleted it willlast a life time, Every 'piano is built as though for a special order: Bran ;h Warerooms 38 Ontario St. STRATFO'RD Not Seen In Daytime. A farmer worked his harvest hands from 4 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night. A man looking for work hollered to a hand over in the big wheat field, asking him if he could get a job. He was advised to ask at the house, , "How do I. get there?" the appli- cant asked. "You go down this field," said the haggard laborer, "turn down the road to the barn, turn to the left and fol- low the lane," . "What color is the house painted?" asked the applicant, doubtfully. "I don't know," said the harvest hand. "I ain't never seen it iii day- light yet." CLINTON, - ONTARIO Terms of subscription -$f per year, in advance; 81.50 may be charged if not so paid. No paper discon• tinued until all arrears are paid, unless at the option of the pub. Usher. The date to .,which every subscription is paid is denoted o0 the label. Advertising Rates - Transient ad. vertisements, 10 cente per non- pareil line for first insertion and 4 conts per .line for each`subse• quent insertion. Small advertise. menta not to exceed one inch, such as "Lost," "Strayed," or "Stolen," etc., inserted once for 35 cents, and each subsequent in. sertion 10 cents. Communications intended for pub. lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. W. 3. MITCHELL, Editor and Proprietor., TENDERS FOR PULPWOOD LIMIT. Tenders. will be received by the under' signed up to and inetuding• Wednesday, tho fifteenth day of September, 1915,. for tho right to cut pulpwood on a certain area situated north of the Transcontinen- tal'Railway, west of Lao Soul and south of English River In the District of ltenora. Tenderers shall state the amount they are prepared to pay as bonus in addition to the Crown dues of 400, -per cord for spruce and 20e, per cord for other pulp - woods, or such other rates ne may from time to time be fixed by the Lieutenant. Governor in Council,+• for the right to operate a pulp mill andi a paper mill on or near the area referred to. Such tenderers shall bo required to erect a grill or mills on or near the territory, and to manufacture thewood into paper in ,the Prmince of Ontario -Ute Paper mill to be erected within such time and in such place as tho Lieutenant -Governor in Council shall direct. Parties matting tender Will be required to deposit with their, tender a marked cheque payable to tho Honourable tho Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, for ten per cent. of the .amount of their ten. der, to be forfeited in the event of their not entering into an agreement to carry out the conditions, etc. The highest or any tender not neces- sarily accepted. For particulars Ile to description of ter• ritory, capital to be invested, etc., apply to the undersigned. N.D.-No unauthorized publication of this notice will be paid for. G. H. FERGUSON, Minister of Lands, Forests and Minos. Toronto, June 5t11, 1915. NEWS -RECO RITS NEW CLUBBING RATES FOR 1914 NEW NOTE FROM WASHINGTON' President WilsonWarns Kaiseir Agairnst Repetition of " Unfriendly" Submarine Acts. : A despatch from Washington says: -The note presented at the German Foreign Office'by Ambassador Gerard, as viewed in Washington, means that, another submarine attack on Ameri- can life will result inn break between. Germany and the United States. The, climax of President` Wilson's warning to Germany in regard to the rights of Americans comes in the fin- al sentence of his note, as follows:- "] riendship itself prompts it (the United States Government) to say to the Imperial German Government that repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in con- travention of those rights must be re- garded by the Government of the United States, when they affect Am- erican citizens, as deliberately un- friendly." But that is not the only expression through which President Wilson,voices the determination of himself and the American people.. He notifies . Ger- many that- the United States will contend for its rights as a neutral, "without compromise and at any cost." Practices, of the German nav- al forces, such as have been protested by this Government, if persisted in, will constitute "an unpardonable, of- fence against the sovereignty of any neutral nation affected." ' As against these severe 'statements there is a feature of the note which is expected to go far toward allaying the deep anti-American feeling that is likely to be aroused in Germany. The President's warning that the WEEKLIES. 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We do Developing _ and Printing, Remember the place: TH ., ITEXALL.STORE United Slates will. contend for Ameri- can right's on the high seas"w>t hout, compromise and at any cost" is made to apply equally to Great ,Britain as well as to Germany. •{Fhese rights will be protected "from whatever quarter violated," is the way,Mr.,Wilson puts, it. There is no ' doubt this will be re- garded, both in Germany and in the United States, as a promise on the part of this Government to deal as vigorously and insistently with Brit- ish violation of neutral rights in the high seas as with Germany's illegal acts, It often has been asserted that could the German: Government and, people be .convinced, that the United States was sincerely endeavoring only to assert its rights and not to favor the allies as' against Germany, much of the resentment caused by the sub- marine issue would instantly disap- pear. This expression was deliberately written into the note with this phase of the German attitude in mind. There is still another feautre of the note in which the German Govern- ment may, if it chooses to do so, find some cause for gratification. The President, in two paragraphs written by his own hand, adverts to the re- marks of the German note of July 8, about the mutual interest of the two Governments in "the freedom of the seas," and opens the way to Germany to prove the sincerity of her state- ment that she really desires law to reign supremo during the war. FORCING OF THE DARDANELLES Turks Purposely Wasting Ammunitioli to' End Resistance Which They Regard as Hopeless. A despatch from Rome says: -In- formation has been received from dip- lomatic sources that the Turks as well as the allied forces on the Galli- poli Peninsula expects that the Dar- danelles will be forced within a fort- night. Because of this expectation, accord- ing to the information, the Turks are purposely wasting their ammunition in order to exhaust the supply rapidly, their object being to compel the Ger- mans to permit the discontinuance of a resistance which the Turks regard as hopeless. STEIDER,MASTER SPY OF GERMANY MAN WIIO BUILT UP INTELLIG- ENCE DEPARTMENT. Stieber First Claimed .to Be So- cialist to Betray His Friends. In 1818 at Merseberg, in Prussia, was born the man who if not the fath- er of the Prussian spy system, at any rate was its chief organizer and its developer to the point at which im- provement seems impossible, writes Mr. Morley Acklom. The parents of Stieber were of the middle class and in easy circum- stances, and they apparently destin- ed their son for the Prussian bar, for he became an unsuccessful lawyer. In 1847 we find him attached as le- gal adviser to a factory in Silesia owned by two brothers named Schoef- fer. Silesia was in those days the breeding ground of socialism, and the Schoeffer factory was honeycombed with the new doctrines. - Stieber was on the lookout for some way of advancing himself in the social scale, and he not only man- aged to marry the daughter of one of Itis employers but he induced the other to join the Socialist brother- hood of which he himself had already become a member with the idea of penetrating its secrets and methods for the information of the Berlin police. Incited by Stieber, Herr Schoeffer became such an ardent recruit and so violent in his utterances that he was arrested and imprisoned for urging Silesia to revolt. Having thus shown the authorities, rities, by causing the arrest of one of his own relatives, that he was a suitable instrument for their purposes,•.Stieb- er was rewarder] by being called to Berlin and attached to the secret po- lice with the express commission of breaking up the Socialist organize= tion in the capital. The enthusiastic letters of intro_ duction which he brought with him from the various revolutionary bodies in Silesia insured his welcome among the Socialists of Berlin, and he speedily became an influential and trusted Socialist leader, on one oc- casion heading a great procession of Socialist societies through the streets. Presented to King. It was on this occasion that he was presented to King Frederick William, He notes in his memoirs that the King was uneasy at the appearance of such numbers of Socialists, and that he reassured the monarch by tell- ing him that every precaution had been taken for his safety. Whether the fact of their leader having spoken to royalty made the Socialists suspicious of his good faith or whether in other ways some whisper of his duplicity came to their ears is not certain, but it is a fact that from this time on he was frowned upon by the' Socialist clubs and that he was shortly afterwards taken into the King's personal ser- vice and made a "poliseirat," or po- lice councillor- In this position his 'business was no longer to orate to deluded crowds and preach the abolition of police and monarchy, but to ]seep a close watch on the police officials of the kingdom and report to the King personally on their activities and loyalty. This business of spying upon spies suited hire so well that when. the chief of complained to the. Kin of_Stie- ber'spolice interference and accused him of being a traitor Frederick William bluntly told the official that he trust- ed Stieber more than any one in the Kingdom. Shortly afterward Stieber was ga- zetted official head of the Secret Service and set about organizing that army of civil spies, as apart from the regular police system, which by 1870 had grown to the number of 35,000. His emissaries covered the court it- self, the Government officers, banking mut commercial houses throughout the kingdom, as well as all persons who were in any way connected with foreign countries. By 1860 his system of observation had been extended beyond the bor- ders of Prussia to Austria, Bohemia, France, Luxemburg and Saxony. Stieber's particular duty in his new position was to supply the Prus- sian army headquarters with topo- graphical, social and military infor- mation, about Bohemia, which Bis- marck had marked out as the route which the Prussian armies were to follow in their invasion of Austria, for which he was even then prepar- ing, although the two countries were nominally acting together as close friends and allies. Stieber's successor, Herr Steinhauer, and bis agents who; as long as two years before the event; had marked clown the hotels in which the staff of- ficers were to be lodged. ALL LEEDS IS DOING,WAR WORK W WOMEN AND GIRLS MAKING MUNITIONS FOR ARMY. ' CLEANSE THE BLOOD , AND AVOID DISEASE Men your blood is impure, weals, thin and debilitated, your' system becomes susceptible to any or all diseases, Put your blood in good condition, Hood's Sarsaparilla, acts directly and peculiarly on the blood.4-it puri- fies, enriches and revitalizes it -and builds up the whole system. Rood's Sarsaparilla has stood the test of forty years. Get it today. I1 is sure to help you. Even the Very. Old Occupants of the GERMAN OFFICERS' Poor -Houses Are Working: She was very old, with as kindly a, face as I have ever seen. She'hob- bled up to the gateway of the muni- tions works and enquired if there was any chance •of a job, writes James Sherliker from Leeds, England. "Sorry, mother,' said the doorkeep- er. "We turn a hunched women and girls away every morning. Wait till the new wing is finished. That'll be your time." "A German killed my son," she ex- plained in a shaky voice. "I want to make a bullet to kill a German. , , 'Appen I'm wrong . 'appen it's wicked to 'ev such a wish . • , but a German killed my son." Hope lit up her eye as she hobbled away with the renewed , intimation that an oportunity for work would come with the addition of the new wing. By the courtesy of the manage- ment I was permitted to see the wo- men and girls of Leeds making the war material for the men at the front. . They work day and night in turns, and they work on Sundays as well. There is a keen competition in the matter of output. The winners hold a challenge shield, which is de- corated with the flags of the allies and hung in a prominent position over the machines at which' -sit the successful girls. Soldiers' Wives Work. • If a girl is taken ill or feels faint she is at once helped to a cosy rest- room, where a charming matron and a trained nurse wait upon her. Up and down the big yard tramp armed sentries in khaki, and a Boy Scout conducts the visitor to the official whom he wishes to see. All sorts and conditions of women come here. It is difficult to -day in Leeds and the surrounding districts to get a servant because domestic servants are giving up their work to go and make bullets. Girls of good middle-class families are here. Sol- diers' wives are here and soldiers' mothers; and it is fine to see the smiles of satisfaction when they in- crease the output. Ladies in all parts of the country write asking to be al- lowed to help in the work. A clergy- man's wife has offered to come along and bring her daughters, and appli- cations come from places as far dis- tant?as the Channel Islands. I am glad to learn that a film has been made showing the women and girls at work in this munitions fac- tory. I trust that it will be thrown on every ]cinema screen in the coun- try. •.11 will help recruiting, I am sure. These women are not working for money alone; they are working to help save the lads who are saving them. "What about the men?" I asked. Build Great System. Stieber disguised himself' as a pedlar and, taking a pack full of sta- tuettes of the saints and pornographic pictures, he travelled for over two years along the routes which the Prus- sian armies marched in 1860 to Sad - owe, minutely moping the country and collecting so much valuable mili- tary detail that even Von Moltke was astounded. When the war ended Stieber became a Privy Councillor of Prussia and National Minister of Police. The war of 1866 thus insured the triumph of the spy master and led to the permanent adoption of the principles for which he stood as car- dinal institutions on which, in t re future, both the military and civil governors of Prussia ,were to rely. Not content with his other multi- farious activities Steiber• also under- took to attend to the French news- paper press during the war of 1870 and in the two years preceding. Through Bismarck he aplied for and obtained a subvention worth $75,000 annually for the purpose of malting important French papers "talk Prussian," and by 1870 he claimed to control nearly a hundred writers in Paris and Provincial dailies and weeklies. When the invasion of Francewas an assured success Stieber took up his quarters in Versailles near the Ring of Freesias and organized a mob of his spies and agents, withdrawn from the already conquered districts, into a crowd who used to line the. streets and cheer the King of Prussia whenever he made his appearance in public, thus putting an artistic .finish to his work by creating the impres- sion in France that William I. was being acclaimed daily by enthusiastic Frenchmen.. Stieber did• not cease his activities for the Prussianization of Europe with the colossal coup of 1870-71. He remained Bismarck's closest intimate and by 1880 had worked out a scheme for the military organization of the Empire, of which the effects are still felt. Stieber died in 1892, wealthy, fear ed and theoretically respected. The results of his system si'e com- ing to light daily. When the invad- ing army 61 700,000 Germans entered Brussels last year and proceeded at once to distribute themselves in and around :the city without confusion or delay the world aplauseci the military genius of Von Kluck, whereas it should have paid its compliments to Paupers Helping. "Well," said my local friend, with a laugh, "if you, can find a man under eighty out Of work round about here you will have done more than I can do. The war was not very old when the workhouses were appealed to, and now hundreds of men who were paupers are helping to serve the guns. Hundreds of men who left their work years ago have returned to it. Turn- ers and fitters who believed that their two first-class tickets to Manchester, working clays were gone seem to have without, however, making use of them, found a new lease of life and energy. The habitual loafer, the street -corner man -they are all missing from their customary haunts. They are too old ter, and thus gained invaluable time, to join the colors but they are young We went to London from Liverpool, enough to make things that matter I but did not venture to stay at an most to -day." hotel, fearing discovery. We spent His face reddened as he spoke of a week living over nights in restau-' the charges of slackness made rants, night cafes and dancing sa- against the working man. "There may be a few men who slack," he said fiercely, "but I91 swear we've got none in Yorkshire. We've got t menhere working regularly 110 hours a week. That isn't slacking. Take, for example, the men who work in the Canary Cage." I smiled. "Never heard of 'em? Well, the Canary Cage is the room where we make lyddite. If you remain inside it for long your skin becomes as yel- low as a canary's wings. But we don't grumble, never -fear!" 4, Should be Off Duty. A sentry, an Irishman, was on post tween bales and boxes, without food duty for the first time' at night, when I or. drink. We spent four dreadful DARING ESCAPE FROM INTERNMENT CAMP AT LOFTHOUSE PARK. Effected Escape Through Clever Ruse and Crossed to, Europe as Stowaways. A remarkable story of an enemy prisoner's escape -beginning like a chapter of "Monte Cristo" and end- ing with the narrator's safe arrival in a safe corner of the Continent, is told in Stockholm. On June 2nd the London Daily Chronicle published the following an- nouncement:- Two German prisoners who es- caped from the internment camp at Lofthouse Park (between Wakefield• and Leeds), on Friday, May 28th, are still at large. The two men are Frederick 11. Wiener, who was transferred to Lof t - house Park from Edinburgh Castle on April 29th; and Alfred Klapproth, formerly an officer on a Hamburg - America liner, and a German naval reservist. Wiener is 35 years of age, stands 5ft. 11in., is dark, and speaks English fluently with an American accent. The other is 30, 5ft. 8in. in height, stout of build, and speaks English imperfectly. A Clever Ruse. Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent Supplies the fallowing interesting version of Wiener's adventures as given by himself: - The Frankfurter Zeitung quotes from the Aftonblad of Stockholm an account from Lieut. F. N. Wiener, an Austrian officer, of his experiences in escaping from the internment at Wakefield. Lieut. Wiener, who had settled in America, was on his way to Austria when captured by a British warship • and brought to Kirkwall, being sub- sequently interned in Wakefield with a German naval officer of the name of Alfred Klapproth. These two officers decided to at- tempt to escape together. Their first plan, to dig a subterranean passage to freedom, had to be abandoned, as it took up too much time, so they re- sorted to other tactics. They order, ed sporting costumes from the camp tailor in order to appear as British as possible. They were also able to pro- cure gold to the,extent of 130. Then they asked to see the censor knowing that he would not be in his house at the time. Talked His Way to Freedom. From the censor's office (says Wie- ner) we went to the guard -room, and I was able, thanks to my perfect command of English, to give the im- pression that we were British officers. A few generalities about military matters to the men on duty complete- ly dispelled any lingering suspicion they may have had, and we succeeded in escaping without molestation, after climbing a park wall about eight me- tres high. Our first objective was Leeds, the nearest big town. There we bought but travelling instead by third-class to Liverpool. Of course, we were in- dustriously searched for in Manches- loons. From English to French. Meanwhile, we read with much sat- isfaction reports of our escape in the papers. As my description in these reports stated that I spoke English with an American accent, we now spoke only French, and gave our- selves out to be Frenchmen. Inci- dentally we dropped the commander of the camp a postcard stating that we were no longer speaking "Am- erican," but French. After various vain attempts to se- cure passage on a cargo boat, we were finally able to steal on board the Danish steamer Tomsk, where we hid in one of the holds, crushed be - the officer of the day approached. He called: "Who -comes there?" "Officer of the day," was the re- ply. Then what are yez loin' out at trig as soon as I am able to complete night?" asked the sentry, certain personal affairs. days and nights until we reached Co- penhagen, where we again made pas- sing acquaintance with a prison. My companion has already gone to Ger- many, and I propose going on to Aus- Germany Repressing Peace Propaganda 3 A despatch from Rome says: -De- spatches from Switzerland state that the German Socialists have initiated a propaganda in favor of peace. The propaganda is being mercilessly re- pressed by the police, according to the despatches, and the Socialists are be- ing closely watched. Pacifist litera- ture has been sequestered by the au- thorities and a number of the more prominent among the propagandists have been arrested and summarily convicted in military courts, The Swiss -Baden frontier has been closed again, the despatches say, with the object of preventing the escape of the Socialists. , - • Asks for Reports on ELS, National of e Rce . A despatch from Washington says: -President Wilson has called for re- ports on the subject of national de- fence. These will be made to lam personally by the heads of the War. ami Nary Dep rtments, - The fact • ;that ibis action had been taken he - M1110 known here to -night after the relea.e for nnb1 cation of the note to .Geemisry relating to. submarine war - fere