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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-07-29, Page 3ITALIAN ARMIES DRIVING AHEAD s Great Turning Movement Sweeping AU Before It With Irresistible Dash. A despatch from Rome says: -The situation of Gorizia, practically en- veloped on all sides by Italians, is hourly becoming more precarious. The great turning movement of our allies Is simply sweeping all before it with irresistible dash. The Italian troops so far have driven the enemy from their path wherever he has been en- countered. A fresh gain of ground recorded in favor of Gen. Cadorna's troops who • face the heavy artillery fire of the enemy, and continue to press forward, wrenching the country from the en- emy yard by yard. While Gorizia in the south is being hard pressed by the Italians, Tohnino in the north, hard - ly less important from a stragetic point of view, is practically surround- ed. Gen. Cadorna, thanks to the su- perior organization and skill with 'which he has manoeuvred his armies, has been able simultaneously to at- tempt the reduction of Tolmino and Gorizia. The fight for Gorizia con - tissues with unabated vigor. The pro- gress of the Italians is slow but sure. Heavy Italian artillery is battering to .,pieces Austrian defences. Throughout the struggle between the two armies as been of a desperate and sangu- Mary nature. Despite fierce Aus- trian attacks the Italians held their ground, and advanced to the neigh- borhood of Playa, where they drove the enemy back with heavy loss. So far all Austrian attempts to force the • Italian enveloping line have failed disastrously, the enemy being punned in turn and driven from the trenches, with the result that these severe en- gagements have allowed Italians to secure a firm footing on the lower left bank of the Isonzo. GERMANS MAKING SHELLS FOR ALLIES Subjects Working in Munitions Fac- tories in I.T. S. Are Guilty of Trea- son, Declares Berlin. Berlin (by Wireless via Sayville): -An official declaration is published here calling attention to the fact that "Germans working in factories in neutral countries, particularly in the United States, producing war sup- plies for the enemy rendersthemselves liable to prosecution for treason, tin- der Paragraph 89 of the Penal Code, penalizing such assistance to an en- emy with a maximum of ten years' imprisonment." Another paragraph of the Penal Code authorizes prosecution in the case of such offenses, even when com- mitted abroad, and it is understood that the German courts will proceed against offenders. .14 INTRIGUE FOR PEACE DENIED BY CAILLAUX. A despatch from Paris says: Joseph Caillaux, former Premier, who has been the target of several attacks Issmt since the beginning of the war, has - made a statement in his own defence. He declared untrue newspaper articles attributing to him the assertion that Prance should have made peace with Germany after the Battle of Charleroi. "I am as much of a patriot as any citizen of France," M. aillaux de- clared, "and nothing could be more fantastic than the declaration printed as coming from me. I declarescate- gorically that every article represent- ing me in the role of negotiator el peace between Germany and France Is groundless." +- CHILE WILL NOT PAY FOR LOSS OF BARQUE. France Claimed Germans Sank Boat hi Neutral Waters. A despatch from Santiago, Chile, says: The French Government has presented a claim to Chile for the French barque :Valentine, which was sunk last November by the Germans within the territorial waters of Chile. Chile has rejected the claim, declar- ing that she had kept her neutrality. The Valentine was sent to the bot- tom by a German cruiser half a mile off the Island of Mas A Fuera, one of the Juan Fernandez Islands in the Pacific belonging to Chile. .1. Semi -finished Steel. A despatch from Pittsburg, 'Pa;, 'says: For the first time in two years manufacturers report a scarcity of semi -finished steel. pittsburg pro- ducers of open-hearth steel billets and sheet bars have been out of the market, so far as new business is con- cerned, for some time, but the pres- sure for delivery on orders booked has been so great that shipments are be- hind. Youngstown steel makers have advanced the price of sheet bars to $23.50, Pittelsurg, the highest point in snore than two years. A month ago sheet bars were available at 520.50, Pittsburg. Tripoli Invaded by Turkish Troops. A despatch from Rome says: -The Italian newspapers report from Cairo that a Turkish -German expedi- tion has landed in Tripoli with its ob- jective Cyrenacia. The newspapers declare that Turkey thus has openly joined the war against Italy, and that it is now Italy's business to put an end to "the gang of criminals who are administering Turkey." To Exchange Wounded, A despatch from Berlin says; The Overseas News Agency gave out the following: "Negotiations between Germany and Russia for the exchange of in- capacitated prisoners of war have finally been suecossful after many fruitless efforts." FRENCH CONQUERED MORE FECIIT•PEAKS Germans in the Vosges Gradually Be- ing Driven Back Towards Muen- ster and the Rhine Valley. A despatch from London says: -The French forces have made further pro- gress on the heights dominating the valley of the Feche'in Alsace. The summit of Linge Peak, which lies near the northern branch of the river, and to the north of Muenster, was occupied after an obstinate struggle, South of the summit a foothold was secured in some quarters, which are named in the official report as Sch- ratzmannele, and in the wood of Bar- renkopf. Nine German counter-attacks were delivered in one day. against the posi- tions seized by the French in the re- gion of the Little Reichackerkopf, but all failed, according to the Paris re- port, and the French troops were able slightly to extend the conquered ground. The Berlin version is to the effect that six French attacks were successfully repulsed by Bavarian troops. • Aerial engagements, such as have characterized the operations on the western battle front daily, but appar- ently without important results for either side. Noxious Weeds. Canada has for years been tryi to rid herself of some of her rao prolific noxious weeds, but the wo has lacked the thorough support those whose duty it is to help in t eradication of the pests. Concert and organized action is necessary, a until this is secured the prospects success are not very bright. Pebl opinion is too apathetic, and weed i specters are aware of this. Prosec tions for infractions of the NOXi0 Weeds Act are rare, and consequent the penalty clause of this act has a great extent lost its effect. Mo pressure must be put upon those r sponsible for its enforcement. A lesson in cleaning up weeds mig be taken from the action of China r garding the eradication of the popp plant. The following, from a repo of the United States commercial a team at Nanking, China, indicate the method by which results are s cured in that country: "Some Intel est in 'the restriction of the cultiva tion of the poppy was aroused locall by the dismissal of the Nanking ma gistrate for having falsely reporte his district clear of poppy, and th imposition of fines on a number o other district magistrates for th same reason. The authorities ar making a serious effort to have th province cleared at an early date i anticipation of the joint inspection b British and Chinese officials prior t the prohibition of the import or sal of Indian opium." FEW SERVANTS IN LONDON NOW English Girls Now Are More Eager for War Work. The scarcity of domestic servants has become acute in London. The owner of one of the largest servants' registry offices in South London says; "For some months past the num- ber of girls applying to me for situa- tions has decreased by 50 per cent. Many have told me that they felt they ought to be doing some war work and they are now in munition factor- ies or taking men's jobs in business establishments. "Other girls who used to be avail- able for day work are being kept at home to help with the housework and the younger children, as their fath- ers are earning higher .wages and their own earnings are no longer needed. The shortage is further ac- centuated by the number of servant girls who have married soldiers, and by. the fact that very few country girls and still fewer Irish girls are coming to London." Informed the Kaiser Food Was Uneatable. ng re rk of he ed ad of ic n- u - us ly to re e - ht e - rt t- cI e - A despatch from Paris says: -Al- bert Avelline, a member of the Paris Opera Company, has returned from Germany, having been taken prisoner while acting as a stretcher-bearer. He tells of a colloquy which he says oc- curred between Emperor William and a captured French sergeant. Preceiv- ing the number of the sergeant's regi- ment on his collar, the Emperor prais- ed the regiment, saying: "I know it very well, and I think most highly of it." "Not more than I do," replied the sergeant. The Emperor then asked what the sergeant thought of the food supplied to the prisoners. "We are given ab- solutely uneatable stuff at present," Avelline says the sergeant responded: "Later on I suppose Willithn II. will give Us nothing but bricks." The Emperor's suite, M. Avelline says, was horrified at the remark, but the Emperor, unperturbed, passed on. LONGING FOR I'EACE GROWING IN GERMANY. War Weariness Strongly Evident in Wide Circle of Population. A despatch from Stockholm says: A private message to the Stockholm Tidnijen from Berlin, which curiouslY enough passed the censor, states that war weariness in Germany is becom- ing strongly evident in wide circles of population and especially among the poorer classes. Great excitement pre - THE KING IN KHAKI • this is the latest picture of His hfahastS King George, .showing him in his service uniform. Markets Of The World Breadstuffs. Toronto, July 27. -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.42 to $1.42%; No. 2 Northern, $1.39% to $1.40; No. 3 Northern, nominal, track, lake ports. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 66c; No. 8 C.W., nominal, track, lake ports. American corn -No. 2 yellow, 88%e, track, lake ports. Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, nom- inal, track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 609 No. 3 white, 59c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, pin- cer lot, $1.18 to $1.20, according to freights outside. Peas -No. 2, per car lots, nominal, according to freights outside. Barley -Good malting barley, nom- inal; feed barley, 67 to 68c, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -Car lots,nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. Rye -No. 2, nominal, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents,. in jute bags, $7; second patents,in lute i bags, $6.50; strong bakers', n jute bags, $6.30, Toronto; in cotton bags, 10c more. Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cent. patents, $4.75, seaboard, or Toronto freights in bags. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights -Bran, per ton, $27; shorts, $29; middlings, $30; good feed flour, per bag, $1,90. Country Produce. s" Butter -Choice dairy, 22 to 23c; in- ferior, 19 to 20c; creamery prints, 27 to 29c; do., solids, 26 to 28c. Eggs -21 to 22e per dozen in ease lots, and selects, 23 to 24e. Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress- ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 24 to 25c. fowl 14 to 15c Cheese -16c for large, and 16%c for twins. Old cheese, 22 to 22%c. Provisions. Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 142/2c per lb. in case lots.Hams-Medium, 18 to 18%c; do, hesky, 14% to 15c; rolls, 15 to 16e; breakfast bacon, 20 to 23e; backs, plain, 22 to 28c; boneless backs, 24 to 25e. Lard -Tubs, 114, to 12%c; do., pails, 12 to 12%c; compound, tubs, 10 to 101/sc; do,, pails, 10% to 10%c. Winnipeg Wheat. Winnipeg, July 27. -Cash quota- tions:--Wheat-No. 1 Northern, $1.34%; No. -2 Northern, 51.61 % • No. 3 Northern, $1.26%. Oats -,--No. 2 C.W., 62e; No. 3 C.W., 59c. Barley -No. 3, 71%c; No. 4, 69%c; feed, 60c. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C., $1.50%; No 2 C.W., $1.47%. Business in Montreal. Montreal, July 27. -Corn, American No. 2 yellow, 86%c. Oats, Canadian Western, No. 3, 64%c; extra No. 1 feed, 64%c; No. 2 local white, 640; No. 3 local white, 63%c; No. 4 local white, 63c. Barley, Man. feed, 75e. Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.10; seconds, $6.60; strong bakers', $6.40; Winter patents, choice, $6,25; straight rollers $5.60 to $5.80; do., bags, $2.65 to $2.75. Rolled oats, barrels, $6.25; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.90 to $3. Bran, $26. Shorts, $28. Middlings, $33 to $34. Mouillie, $35 to $40. Hay, No. 2 per on, car Sots, $20 to $21.50. Cheese, hest westerns, 13% to 149 finest sterns, 12%c. liutter, choicest rearnery, 27% to 27%e. seconds, 20% t o 26%.0. Eggs, selected, 26c; No. 1 tack, 23c; No. 2 stock, 20%c. Pota- oes, per bag, car lots, 50c. Dressed , ogs, abattoir killed, 513,50 to $14. u oi•lc, heavy Canada short mess, bbls., P 5 to 45 pieces, $29; Canada short t ut hack, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, 1.) 28.50. Lard, compound, tierces 375 lbs., 10c; wood pails, 28 lbs. net, 10%e; pure, tierces, 3'75 lbs., 12 to 12%c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs., net, 13 to 13%c. Ii 3 vails, and a proclamation of a state s of siege is expected. The Dagens $ Nyheiter comments on this by saying that even if it is exaggerated one thing is certain, that among the whole German population longing for peace is strongly felt. 843,000 Benedicts in Army. A despatch from London says: Speaking for the Government in the House of Lords, Lord Newton said that the number of married men at present in the British army was ap- proximately 843,000. The aggregate cost of separation allowances paid to wives and children of these men has been £25,000,000. No. 1 Northern, $1.43 to $1.45; No. 2 Northern, $1.38 to $1.41; July $1.43; September, 51.07%. New York, July 27. --Flour barley steady. Rye flour steady. Hay firm Hops quiet. Hides steady. Leathet firm. --- Live Stock. Toronto, July 27. -The quotations were: -Best heavy steers, $8.25 to $8.75; butchers' cattle, choice, $7.75 to 1;8 . 85; do., good, $7.35 to $7.50; do., medium, $6.75 to $7,25 do., common, $5.25 to $6; butchers bulls, choice, $6.75 to $7.50; do. good bulls $6 to $6.50; do., rough bulls, 55.25 to $5.75; butchers' cows choice, $6.75 to $7.25; do. good $6.50 to $6.75; do., medium, 4.25 to $6.25; do., common, $4.50 to $5; feed- ers, good, $6.50 to $7.50; stockers 700 to 900 lbs., $6.25 to $7.25; can- ners and cutters, $4 to $5.25; milkers choice, each, $65 to $90; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $50; spring- ers, $50 to $95; light ewes, $6 to $6.50; do., bucks, $3.50 to 54.50 yearling lamb, $6 to $7,60; spring lambs, cwt., $8 to $10.50; calves $5 to $10.25; hogs, off ears, $9 to $6.15 ' do. fed and watered, $8.75; do., f.o.b. $8.40. - Montreal, July 27.--G000 steers Et $8.25 to $8,50, fair at $7.50 to $8, medium at $6.75 to $7.25, and common at $6 to $6.50 per cwt. Choice butchers' cows and bulls sold at from $4.75 to $6.50 per cwt. An active trade was done in lambs at $8 to $9 and sheep at $4.75 to $5.50 per etvt Calves, $3 to $15 each, as to size and quality. Hogs, $9.25 to $9.75 pet cwt., weighed off cars. There were a lot of heavy hogs on the market, fol. whichlhe demand was slow, and sales of such were made at $8 to $8.75 per cwt. "RUSSIAN ATROCITIES." An Eyewitness Who Saw No Sign of Them in Galicia. Since arriving in England I have been greatly surprised at rumors of alleged Russian atrocities in Galicia I travelled extensively in Galicia dur- ing the Russian occupation, going to Lemburg, Przemysl and into the Car- pathian Mountains almost to the Us- ock Pass, writes Robert McCormick in 'the London Times. I entered Ga- licia in a Russian troop train, which stopped at nearly every station along the line. At each atop Austrian children invariably came to the train to beg, and never failed to receive sugar and cookies, while the officers threw them coppers. At one station two little Austrian tots hand in hand went along the train singing the Aus- trian National Hymn to the delight of the Russian soldiers. Doubtless they had done this when the Austrian army was passing, and had never learnt to distinguish hostile from friendly troops. At Lemburg nearly all the shops were open, I talked with many of the shopkeepers, divulging my na- tionality as an American, and was told that the Russians had kept per- fect order at all times. The only complaint I heard was over the pro- hibition of liquor, which was absolute. The villages in which battles occur- red. are badly knocked about, but there has been no wanton destruction of property either by the Russian army or by straggling Russian sol- diers. In the Carpathian Mountains the inhabitants were fraternizing with he soldiers. When I was in Lem -1 berg the Governor-General, Count Bobrinslci, was working IS boars a ay looking after the needs of the opulation rendered homeless by the var. Any country might well be roud of an army which has con- lucted war as humanely as the Rus- sians have in Galicia. Ovation for Botha in Capital Union. II. S. Markets. Minneapolis, July ,7. -Wheat -No, 1 hard, $1 . 48; No. 1 Northern, 51.37% to $1.47 14 ; No. 2 Northern, $1.34 te $1.44%; Jtily, $1..$41/2; September, $1.04%. Corn -3o. $ yellow, 77% to '78%c. Oats -No. 8 white, 5.$14 to 50%c. Flour reduced; fancy patents, $7; first clears, $5.60; second 9lears, $4. Bran, $21,50.. . Dislut , July 27. -Linseed -Cash, P $1.71; July, $1.70%; September, H 1 $1.73. Wheat -No, 1 hard, $1,45; n A despatch from Gape Town says: -Premier Botha arrived from the campaign which ended on July 9th with the surrender of Gellman .South- west Africa. The Premier reeeived: an ovation wherever he appeared. Easiness was suspended. The: city was decorated and the people throng- e d the streets. On the arrival of reinter Botha at the GO•ernment ouse 10,000 school children nails; the ational anthem. EMPRESS EUGENIE. ' Now in Her Ninetieth Year With Face Furrowed With Sorrow. Eugenie, once Empress of the French, entered upon her ninetieth year May 4, passing the day at Farn- borough, her country seat in England, in the midst of British soldiers quar- tered in the convalescent hospital she has .established in a 4.ing of her house. Anold womari, with snow-white hair gathered into a tight little knob at the base of the neck, the eyes shielded by big goggles, and the fore- head by the drooping black veil of an antiquated hat, the stout frame enveloped in the shapeless•folds of a black woollen ulster and the throat swathed in a black woolen muffler, the former Empress made her ap- pearance upon the lawn where the men who were able to be wheeled out in invalid chairs awaited her. In one hand grasping the ancient umbrella which has never been opened, to any one's knowledge, being a subterfuge for a crutch,her companion for many i years, and n the other the ' ebony cane which is frankly an aid to in- firmity, she made her way among the soldiers extending her hand in greeting and receiving their congratu- lations with bowed head. Thus she has held her last court. The tragic -eyed nonagenarian dress- ed in mourning, whose face is furrow- ed with care and figure bent with sorrow as well as age, bears to -day little trace of the radiant beauty which enraptured the world when she was crownedssas the consort of Napoleon III. And the sick soldier boys in their rough khaki uniforms, who smiled gratefully upon her as their benefactor, bore small resemb- lance to the courtiers who used to crowd her salons at the Palace of the Tuileries. With a fortune of $15,000,000, the bulk of it to be dedicated after her death to the restoration of the Bona- partist regime in France, and a vol - ominous biography compiled by a staff of genealogical experts and sec- retaries to be published three year after she is gone, Eugenie has ar ranged her own niche in history. The mausoleum in the Benedictine Abbey at Farnsworth, which she built as the last resting place of her husband and son, has long since had an addi- tion constructed after her plans for her own coffin. Eugenie was trained for a brillian marriage by her mother, a youn widow in Paris in 1834. Napoleon III. fell in love with he at a hunting party. He married he and Eugenie became the acicnowl edged empress of fashion; shp cit cided the styles of two continents, $20,000 was expended every month upon her own wardrobe and her dresses sparkled with diamonds or shimmered with lace worth $1,000 a yard. Her collection of fans, furs, laces, and jewels was the most mag- nificent of any sovereign. She was brilliantly accomplished. Her fea- tures were as delicately chiselled as a Greek medallion, her complexion exquisitely fair, and her abundant hair was of the richest auburn. In 1869 she was the cynosure of all eyes and the most feted person among the numerous royal visitors gathered at Cairo for the opening of the Suez Canal. In 1870, when Ger- many utterly defeated France, she was glad to steal out of Paris in the carriage of the American dentist, Dr. Evans, and, arriving in London, to lose herself in the crowd. Napoleon III. died in England three years after Sedan. FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What Is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. It has been decided to abandon the Kelso games this year owing to the war. A work part yhas been formed by a number of women in Walkerburn for mending soldiers' clothing: Inverness Trades Council has gone on record as being strongly opposed to compulsory military service. Falkirk foundries have received large Government contracts for stoves and ranges for the army. Dunbar Town Council is to borrow $9,000 to meet the cost of the new wall along the south of the Castle Park. TheGlasgow Town Council agreed to allow soldiers and sailors in uni- form to travel on the tram cars at half price. Archibald Thomson,, Clydebank, R.N.R., has been recommended for the D.C.X for conspicuous bravery at the Dardanelles. Inverness School Board have re- quisitioned for $48,500 to meet their deficiency, being exactly the same amount as last year. Private P. Tolland, First Battalion, Black Watch, who won the D.C.M. for conspicuous bz•avery, has been killed by falling from a railway train. By a disastrous fire that broke out at Carson Sawmills, Aberlour, nearly 6,000 feet of wood, the pro- perty of Frank Syms, of Beauly, was totally destroyed. A committee of Kidkintilloch Town Council by running a picture show at the Town Hall, has been enabled to hand over a sum of $550 to the Common Good Fund. The death of Mr. A. Bryson of s Glasgow, at the age of 76, is repot -t- ed, He was known all over the world as the editor and publisher of the "Draughts World." Mr. William Jackson, an engineer and inventor, who died in Aberdeen recently, has left the residue of his estate to found a chair of engineer- ing in Aberdeen University. t The scarcity of shop assistants due sn to enlistments has given impetus to inovenfilnt in Selkork 'towards the r closing of the shops between the hours of one and tiro o'olocic. r1$150,000 damage was done by a _ serious fire that completely gutted Nation of Tiny People. The discovery has just been made in the central portion of the French Congo of a race of pygmies hitherto totally unknown. The members of the race are said never to suprass 1.5 metres, about 4 ft. 9 in. in height. Ac- cording to "La Revue," they live en- tirely isolated in the territory of Mon- giinbo. They build huts of hemis- pherical shape in the forest in groups of from :five to thirty. The chief is an old man who exercises absolute and hereditary authority and elects his own successor. They follow a curious customs as to food, the wo- men subsisting on edible roots, while the men live on the products of the chase. According to a legend among them, the former are descended from a hedgehog and the latter from a toad. They have vague notions of good and evil, and have a certain cult of the dead, whom they inter with much piety. It Was That Color. "This scientific article says that flies will keep away from everything blue." n " that case -I suppose we can leave the milk uncovered," the furniture warehouse of Messrs. Paterson -Smith in Edinburgh. Two firemen were periously injured. The magnificent sum of $15000 has been contributed to the various war relief funds by the workmen em- ployed by Scott's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock. A bronze tablet has been unveiled in Troquet parish church to the mem- ory of Pte. J. Mackenzie, Maxwell - town, of the Scots Guards, who was awarded the V.C. for saving the lives of comrades. The Committee on War Organiza- tion in the distributing trades in Scotland has issued an appeal to shiSppers to shop early and make al- lowances for the reduction of staff due to enlistments. STEADY ADVANCE AT DARDANELLES British Section Consolidating and Extending Trenches Already Won. A despatch from London says:- "Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton reports that in the northern section of, operations a raiding party rushed a trench on the front of our line. All the enemy fled except one, who was killed. "An anti-aircraft gun was located and hit with the second round from one of our guns. The fifth round -blew it into the air. "In the southern area the Turks made an attack on sonic newly cap- tured trenches in the French section, but were repulsed with ease. "In the British section there has been steady progress daily, consoli- dating and in some cases extending the trenches won. "A small redoebt was 'captured with insignificant loss; and a successful attack was made on part of a com- munication trench held by the enemy. A Turkish machine gun' opposite our left vSas knocked out by the French' artillery. "In both sections the enemy's ar- tillery has been active." Acwo ezy-/An, Wormore PR/4-tro rtra PRE/Ycv .5042/ E7e$ . . The old Belgian lady shown in the picture. is a great friend of the • • French soldiers and is rely popular with them. They call her La loconcle (the happy, laughing. one). Despite the desperate battles Which. have been waged around her home, whichborders on a trenek of the Allied' first. line, the old woman insists on remaining within range, of and, /wars Mg With a motherly sate, for the soldier, CRITICAL SITUATIO DEVELOPS IN GREECE Majority of People Favor Interven. lion on Side of Allies, Hut king and Staff Obdurate. A despatch from Milan says: -The situation in Greece is becoming more critical daily. The great majority of the people favor intervention on the side of the Allies, but the Ktne Court and General Staff are more pro -German than ever. Their in- fluence has succeeded in getting the meeting of Parliament postponed un- til August 16th, the last delay allow- ed by the Constitution. The General Staff is also taking measures to sup- pressany interventionist manifesta- tions which might influence Parlia- ment,Bit by bit large bodies of troops aro being concentrated in and around At- hens. The struggle between Parlia- ment and the army may lead to grave incidents in Nationalist and Demo- cratic circles. Great anxiety pre- vails. The interventionists, includ- ing Venizelos, do not, conceal their discouragement as the long delays an 1 hesitation of the Gunaris Cabine have greatly compromised chances e success if Greece intervenes in the war. At the same time, the delay in the meeting of Parliament Is pot al- together unfavorable to the Venizelos - party, as it gives it time to agitate and reorganize its forces. _______* A VAIN HOPE. • German Shipping. Cannot Recover From the War for a Generation. As an extraordinary instance of the triumph of hope over experience, two extracts from an article by Dr. W. Stein, a Get -man shipping expert,' n • The Hamburg Fremdenblatt, on Trhe Future of German Shipping," may be submitted, says the Wall street Jour- nal. Here is his estimate of the capi- talization of the German maritime trade, which is probably below the mark: "It would not be excessive to place this amount as high as 1,000,000,000 marks. The two largest German shipping companies, the Norddeuts- cher Lloyd and the Hamburg -Ameri- can Line, have between them a work- ing capital of 400,000,000 marks. In addition to these, there are the Ger- matt East Africa Line, the Woermann . Line, the Hansa and many other com- panies and private owners, both large and small. 1 "Since the beginning of the war all , these have lain idle," Not to say that German vessels have been captured an4 sunk, and others are eitting their heads off In neutral or German ports. The real loss is smelling. Doctor Stein thinks that it will all come back, and that ' It will be made up by compensation and indemnities. The prospect for indemnity for anybody, in any event, grows more improbable with every day of war. i But Dr. Stein assumes a sweeping victory for Germany, including the destruction of the allied fleet, which is the only thing that could restore the German merchant marine. It is a task that would take years to ac- complish, and would leave a world so exhausted that compensation would be hopelessly out of the question, while the vessels laid up would be largely worthless. But the Herr Doctor's optimism is incurable: - "The loss and destroyed ships must be replaced as soon as possible. Our shipbuilders will have enough em- ployment for all their hands, for we shall be very unwilling to allow any of our ships to be built at English yards. There is every prospect that after the war there will be more ships sailing under the German flag than ever before. It may certainly be expected that the community of inter - at agreement entered into between he Norddeutscher Lloyd and the Hamburg -American Line will become loser than ever after the war. That he pool will again be brought to life s hardly probable." He does not realize that those fav - table trade treaties extorted by Ger- any have been abrogated, that she as incurred the enmity of the whole orld. This is bound to make itself elt in just such discrimination as at -many exercises against her own ompetitors in her colonial ports, in pith of the freedom and equal treat - cot she was allowed in every port of' is British Empire. And he forgets that the concession f favorable rates on the German ailroads came out of the German xpayers' pocket. With the terrific urden of the war cost, how can any- ing more be laid upon the shoulders the German taxpayer without driv- g him to abandon the country in de - air, even as the Eastern Roman mpire depopulated itself in similar reumstances? Rehabilitation of the German mer - utile marine, within the lifetime of y but her -younger citizens, is im- obable to -day, and will be an ins- ssibility if the war continues for other year. 3+ The Rule Applied. A school teacher of more than gen- ius proportions was giving her ss of boys a certain informal rule measurement. She began: "Twice ound my thumb, once around My ist; twice around my wrist, once und my neck; twice around my It, once around my waist-" 'And twice aresmd yet- waist, once linngidstedie. city hall," added a redo 4, The Substitute for Vodka. Elimination of vodka from Russia evidently started that immense ion tea -drinking. 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