HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-10-28, Page 3'HIRTY GERMAN STEAMERS SUNK
BY BRITISH IN THE BALTIC
Submarine` Campaign is Evidently on a Very E:
tensiye Scale --German tiypocrisy
A. despatch from London saYs :Tho
daily report shows that the submarine
campaign undertaken by the British
navy in the Baltic is on a very erten-
sive scale, although complete details
are lacking owing to the fact thatthe
submarines are acting under the or-
ders of the Russian Admiralty.
The sole facts published here are
from Petrograd. It is known that
over 30 German ships have been at-
tacked by British submarines' since
the operations s began
and the number
is increasing daily. The work, which
is 'being carried out by oarly •a few
submarines, has had remarkable re. -
sults,; comparing favorably, aecoeding
to naval experts, with the work of
the entire German flotilla in the same
space of time:
The campaign is causing intense.
anger in Germany. A peculiar fea-
ture of the outburst in the press is..
the complaint that it is a violation of
rules of international law. _
SHOT ' TO DEATH'
AS ENVOYS PLED
Execution of English Nurse at Brus-
sels Causes Worldwide "
Horror.. .
A despatch from London says; The
world will read with indignation and
horror the details of the putting to
- death by the Germans of Miss Edith
Cavell,' an English woman and head
of a training school in Brussels, for
helping English, French and Belgian
soldiers to escape from Belgium. The
full report of the circumstances of, the
condemnation and execution made by
Brand Whitlock, the, American Minis-
ter at Brussels, to Walter H. Page,
the American Ambassador at Lon-
don, has been issued by the British
Government, and tells of the greatest
fight for a woman's life that was ever
fought, and of unavailing efforts of
nobles and neutrals to combat the cal-
Ious secret cunning of the Germans.
There are 17 documents in the ear -
respondence, covering in all 320 type-
written pages.
Pled With Governor.
How the secretary of the American
Legation, Hugh S. Gibson, sought out
the German Governor, von der Lanck-
en, late eat, night before the execution,
and, with the Spanish Minister, plead-
ed with the Governor and the Ger-
man officers for the English woman's
life, is graphically related in a mem-
orandum from Mr. Gibson. This doc-
ument makes reference to an appar-
ent lack. of good faith on the part of
the German authorities in failing to
keep their promises to inform the
American Minister fully of the trial
and sentence.
Minister Whitlock telegraphed to
Ambassador Page on the 12th: "Miss
Cavell sentenced yesterday and exe
cuted at 2 o'clock this morning, de-
spite our best efforts, continued until
the last moment."
.I{ept'Facts Back.,
Secretary Gibson's report says that
Conrad, an official of the German
civil branch, gave positive assurances
on the 11th that the'Ameriean Lega-
tion would be fully informed cif -the'
developments in the case, and con-
tinues.
"Despite these assurances, we made.
repeated enquiries in the course of
the day, the last one being at 6.20
p.m. Mr. Conradthen stated that
sentence had not been pronounced,
and specifically renewed his previous
assurances that he would not fail to
inform us as soon as there: was any
neivs.
"At 8,30 it was learned from an
outside source that sentence had been
passed in the course of the afternoon,
before the last conversation with Mr.
Conrad, and that' execution would
take place during the night."
WIFE OF FORMER M.P.,
A GERMAN, ARRESTED
A despatch from London says: A
sensation has been , caused in the
North Country, says the Evening
News, by the arrest of the wife of
William J. D. Burnyeat, who was a
Member of Parliament for 'White -
haven from 1906 to 1910. Mrs. Burn -
1r60 MILES AN HOUR.
The British "Super Sultet" Is Cap
of this Speed.
A member of the Royal FI
Corps, writing from an aviation c
"somewhere in Eagland," gives
idea of the routine followed by
members of the corns.
"The spot from which I am
ing," he says, "is an aerodr
perched on one. of England's
white cliffs. We of the R.F.C.
composed principally of men
have recently passed the prodigio
preliminary examination
Farnborough. Some of us await,
and night, orders which will send
skyward in pursuit of Zeppelins
•Taubes;. others are entrusted
the new machines turned out by
Royal Aircraft Factory, which we
liver 'somewhere in France' in
change for machines which for
ons reasons have to be returned
the makers. Some twenty-five- t
utes sees us across the Channel.
fifty-two minutes we glimpse thi
as they are at the base, and then h
ing delivered the new plane we w
our way back with the 'lame cluck
"Mach of our time is spent in m
ing ourselves proficient in praet
flights, in testing our knowledge
wireless telegraphy, in praetis
bomb dropping with dummies, a
generally in possessing our souls
patience until we get our orders .
wing our way to 'somewhere at
front.' -
"We read of the insistent dema
for the immediate construction
2,000, 10,000, 20,000 machines, a
mend seriously made and as salon
debated by writers who, posing as
structors of the public, prove t
they are crassly, ignorant of th
subject, Even the minimum numb
quoted is a dream impossible of re
lization. Flying machines are a
made in a day. Men skilled in
art of making thent are scarce;
glees take time to build, and the s
of the machine,. the pilot, does n
learn his work in less than four.
five months. A .man may learn
fly, and often does, in six weeks, b
that is the A B C of the professio
To be a 'serviceable member of
R.F.C. means much more than me
flying.
"It isnot generally known th
Britain now has Zeppelins, or rathe
machines of the' Zeppelin type, equ
to anything the Germans have y
built. Only'one, christened on actor
of its glittering splendor, the Sily
Queen, has been delivered, but the
are three others on the point of com
pletion.
"Then we have the 'scout caper
mental,' a . biplane of enonmou
strength and incredible swiftnes
She is as yet unnamed, but to t
members of the R.F.C. she is know
as the Super -Bullet. She can fly a
the rate of 120 miles an hour, and b
using the extra engine power wit
which 'she is fitted can increase he
speed to 160 miles an hour. More
over, she can climb -and this is he'
chief advantage over all other m
chines -to a height of 8,000 feet •
six and a half minutes."
BELGIANS ARE JOKERS.
Germans in'Brussels, However, Fai
to Appreciate Their Humor.
Practical jokes continue to annoy
e German "authorities in Brussels,
o have considerable difficulty in
tttin
g down this form of ,insult to
invaders by the Belgian pope-
0.
Machine guns were recently install
by the Germans on the roof of the
ars de Justice in order to command
Minimes and Marcelles districts,
ere the rougher elements'live. Im,
diately, as if by one thought the
ple of. the neighborhood mounted
tation guns of stovepipe on their
setops, so that the whole district
see
to bristle with artillery.
overnor General von Kissing made
jokers' pay for their fun, how-
er, at the rate of 15 marks for each
nee. The official announcement of
fine accused the jokers of;adopt-
"a method of raillery which could
y be' disastrous to the excellent re-
ons existing between the civil pop -
ion and the authorities." '
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own a fine house on the Irish Sea
coast near Whitehaven, which recent-
ly was raided by a German submar-
ine. It` was alleged at the time that
the submarine was guided by signals
from the coast.
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PROTEST FROM SWISS
IS LODGED IN BERLIN
A despatch from Berne says: The
Swiss Government has instructed its
Embassy at Berlin to lodge an ener-
getic protest against the new viola-
tion of Swiss territory by German
aviators. The protest is occasioned
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causing the injury of four 'persons
and considerable damage to property.
Switzerland .demands compensation,
and the punishment of the aviator.
WILL LICENSE WOMEN
AS 'BUS CONDUCTORS
A despatch front London says: . In
order' to release men of military age
in London it 'was ahmounced at the
Police Department . that hereafter
licenses would be issued to women to
Workas omnibus and street car con-
ductors.
Historic Bandages.
No greater curiowill probably find
its way -to thefront than one on its
way from New Zealand, sent into the
New 7,ealanch Belgian Relief. Com-
mittee by a Mrs. Lyell, of Nelson, a
South Island town, This lady, whose'
grandfather fought at Wester -boo, has
dispatched as her contribution some
old linen bearing the date of 1818 and
made is Belgium.. Strange if it again
reaches the country, where it was pur-'
chased nearly 100 years ago.
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Don't worry if ' you are dead in
love; you will come to life again.
Allies Place Time Limit on Greece
A despatch from Rome says: The
Entente allies are threatening to take
reprisals against Greece unless for-
mal _assurances are given by Greece
before the expiration of a short time
limit that she, will not intervene in
favor of Austro-Hungary, Germany
and Turkey in any case. If these as-
surances are satisfactory, then
Greece, and Roumania as well, are to
be allowed to cheese their own time
for. -intervention.
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THE WEEK'S HlhPPENINGS IN VIE WAR AREAS:
The above map shows the war developments of the past week. Determined''German attack gainat' the
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French lines near Rheims have "been sorry and costly failures. Elsewher;a- on the Western front there has
been little activity. It is reported that the Italian armies have .11egthi a general advance with a view to
relieving the pressure against the Serbians by drawing,Austritin troops to the Italian front. The Serbs are
heroically contesting every foot of territory against the Austro -German advance. Tho Bulgarians have met
with some success, and the Serbian army appears to be practically cut off from reinforcements and supplies.
The French expeditionary force in the Balkans is operating against the Bulgarian armies. The British have
effected a landing at Enos and may invade Bulgaria 'from this point. Cyprus has been offered to Greece
as an inducement to join the Entente Allies, and pressure is otherwise being brought to bear, as it is hazar-
dous for the Allies expeditionary forces to run the risk of being cut off from their base at Saloniki by a
possible enemy. Greece must declare -herself. The Germans are close to Riga, the Russian Baltic port, but
this gain is offset by Russian successes at several points on the Eastern front, notably in the centre of the
line.
SEE
AIioYE'
The
Leading - Market
Breadstulls.
Toronto, Oct, 26. -Manitoba whe
-New crop -No, 1 Northern, $1.091/
No. 2 Northern, 51.071/ , on track lak
ports, immediate shipment.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 52c, all
rail, delivered Ontario points.
American corn -No. 2 yellow, 72c,
on track lake ports.
Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, 72c,
on track Toronto.
Ontario oats -New crop -No. 2
white, 39 to 40c; No. 8 white, 37 to
39e; commercial oats, 35 to 37c, ac-
cording to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, p
car lot, 93 to 95c; wheat slightly
tough, 87 to 91e; sprouted or smutty,
70 to 85c, according to samples and
freights outside.
Peas -No, 2, nominal, per car lots,
51.60 to $1.80, according to freights
outside.
Barley -Good malting barley, 53 to
56c; feed barley, 40 to 48c, according
to reights outside. '
Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots, 78c,
according to freights outside.
Rye -No, 1 commercial rye, 80e;
No. 2, nominal, 87c; touigh rye, 70 to
75c, according to samples and freights
outside.
' Manitoba flour -First patents, in
jute bags, $5.75; second patents, in
jute bags, $5.25; strong bakers', in
jute bags, 55,05, Toronto.
Ontario flour -New, Winter, $3.G0
to $4,' according to sample, seaboard
or Toronto freights in begs, for
prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots -delivered Mont-
real freights. Bran, $22 per ton;
shorts, $24 per ton; middlings, $25
per ton; good feed flour, $1.50 per
bag.
Country Produce.
Duluth, Oct. 26.--Wheat-No. 1 �a ��11
hard, 1 $1.031/ ; No. 1 Northern, riO ES li z" ISH D
51.021; No. 2 Northern, 981 e; Mon-
tana,• No. 2 hard, 99aac; December, p rr 't '
at Cash, 98%, , May' $1.011/aa. Linseed 11 FACTORY Yi Slt'Jd K
$1.88% to $1,89%; December, �Y
51.82%; May,. $1.871%. '
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Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, Oct. 26. -Best heavy
steers, 58.25 to 58,00; good heavy
steers, $8 to $8,1.5 ; butchers' cattle,
choice, 57.60 to $7.75; do., good,
$7.10 to $7.50; do., medium, $6.50 to
57; do., common, 55 to --$5,40; butch-
ers' bulls, choice, $6.25 to $6.75; do.,
good bulls, $5.75 to $5; do., rough
bulls, $4,75 to $5.25; butchers' cows,
e1, choice, 56,45 to $6.75 do,, good, $0
Butter -Fresh dairy, 27 to 28e; in-
ferior, 22 to 23e; creamery prints, 32
to 33c; do., sdlids, 30 to 31%c.
Eggs -Storage, 30 to 31c nen doz-
en; selects, 32 to 33c; now -lard, 36 to
37e, case lots.
Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), 10
to 11%c; do., retail, 12% to lac;
combs (wholesale), per dozen, No. 1,
$2.40; No. 2, $1.50 to $2.
Poultry -Chickens, 15 to 17c; fowls,
13 to 14c; ducklings, 15 to 17c; geese,
16 to 1Sc; turkeys, 20 to 22c.
Cheese -Large, 16c; twins, 16%e.
Potatoes -The market is strong,
with car lots quoted at $1.10 to
$1.15 per bag, on track,
Provisions.
Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 14%c per
lb. in case lots. Hams -Medium, 18%
to 19c; do., heavy, 141/ to 150; rolls,
15 to 151%; -breakfast bacon 20 to
23c; backs, plain, 23 to 24c; boneless
backs, 25 to 251/ c.
Lard -The market iseasier; pure
lard, tubs, 121/ to 13c; do., pails,( 14
to 14%c; compound, tubs, ilc; do.,
pails, .11%.e.
Business in;Montreal.
Montreal, Oct. 26. -Oats -.No. 2
local white, 47c; No. 3 local white, E
46c• No. 4 local white, 45c. Barley--
Malting, 66% to 67c. Flour -Mani-
toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 1}
$5,85; seconds, $5.35; strong bakers', c
55.15; Winter patents, choice, $5.00; ev
straight rollers, 54.90 to 55; dol bags,
52.30 to $2.40. Rolled" oat -
s Bbl, I
55.15 to $5:20. tlo., bags, 90 1bs.,
52.45 to 52.50. Bran 522. Sheets,l
$25. Middlings, 530 to $31. Mou lire
530 to $33. Hay -No. 2, per ton; -517
to 56.25; do., medium, $5.25 to $5.75;
do., common, $4.50 to 55; feeders,
good, $6.50 to, $6.75 stockers, 700 to
900 lbs„ $6.25 to $6.50; canners and
cutters. $3 to 54.50; milkers, choice,
each, $65 to $100; do., -common and
medium, each, 535 to $50; springers,
$50 to $95; light ewes, 55.25 to $6.50;
sheep, heavy, 54.25 to $4;75; do.,
bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs,
$7 to $7.50; spring lambs, cwt,, $8.60
to 58.90; calves,medium to choice,
57,25 to 510.75; hogs, off cars, $9.65
to $9,90; do„ fed and watered, $9.50;
do., f.o.b., $9.15.
Montreal, Oct, 26. -Sales of choice
steers were made at $7.25 to $7.50,
good at $0.75 to $7, and the lower
grades from that down to $4.50 to
$5, while butchers' cows brought from
$4.50 td $6.50, and bulls from $4.50
to $6.25 per cwt. The trade in can-
ning stook was active at prices rang-
ing from $3 to $4.25 per cwt. Lambs,
Ontario stock, sold at $8 to $8.25 and
Quebec at $7,50 to $7.75, while sheep
brought from 54.25 to $5.25 per cwt.
glass fed
Mak fed
AccidentalDroppingof a Grenade
Caused Great Explosion in
Paris,
A despatch from Paris says: Fifty-
two persons are reported to have been
killed in an explosion in a factory in
the Rue De Tolbiac, while one hun-
dred or more were injured.
Many of the victims were women
workers in the factory which was
wrecked, as were building's in the
vicinity,
President Poincnre and Minister of
the Interior Malvy, who were imme-
diately informed of the disaster, visit-
ed the scene and gave directions to
the rescuing forces.
An auto truck was being loaded
'lien workmen accidentally dropped
one grenade, causing an explosion,
which was followed by two others in
quickk•succession.
The explosion destroyed not only
the main factory and other buildings
connected with it, but everything
within a radius of 100 yards, and
damaged buildings 500 yards distant.
The explosion was followed by fire,
but the flames were soon extinguish-
ed.
Of the 41 bodies recovered 31 are
those of women. Forty injured per-
sons were treated at the emergency
wennal which was quickly installed
at the scene. Twenty others were
removed to another hospital. It was
said that the injured would exceed
100 in number,
A report that the explosion was the
result of the rvorlc of spies was abso-
lutely denied.
.BRAVE OLD .IIUDO.LPII.
An Interesting incident of the Great
War.
The letter of a French soldier, a
translation of which appeared in an
English paper, gives us a glimpse of
the brighter side of war. The writer
tells how the Germans assaulted the
tench in their trench and were re-
ulsed. They left many cheach, and
ne roan alive and unarmed, who, al
though alone and deserted, was still
ghting bravely. A French soldier
as about to transfix him with his
ayonet when one of his comrades
hauSt the weapon aside, and in ad -
friction. of the German's fighting grit
ckled him .and took him prisoner.
e was fat and bald-headed, and in
iswer to the question put to him
aid his naive was Rudolph. The
and of his surname brought laugh -
r, and his captor said:
"A.h, well, my old Rudolph, you're
hrave;fellow. Return to your com-
des, and tell them that we know a
ave soldier when we see one."
Fearing that he was to become the
ject of a grim joke --and perhaps
be shot in the baick-he hesitated,
ren one of the French soldiers,
shing him"fot•wat-d, said:
"Go on,,you'll not be harmed."
Rudolph Iifted his hands :above his
ecliand returned to his traneh,.
Fresh French troops arrived to re-
ve, their comrades, and they were
Si about' Rudolph,- • The following
y, When firing had ceased for a
e,, the newcomers shouted across
the German trenches to ;inquire
ether Rudolph were still living,
'Jo! Jai", was the response.
'Show yourself,• then Rudolph!"
y _cried out. "We are newcomers.
have heard of your bravery, and
nt to see you:" •
Rudolph's head bobbed up above the
nth wall, and, grinning, be remove
his hehnet, patted his bald head,
ed,, and disappeared.
T French soldiers gave him three
els, and one of them remarked ad-
ringly, "I hope we may not kill
for he is a brave chap, that old
dolphl" • • ; . -i.-eta,
stock 8 to 9c and
4 to 7c per lb. Hogs, • selected lots i
$9.25 to 59,75 per cwt. weighed off
cars.
SMALL BRITISH COINS TO GO.
People Are Becoming Accustomed to
Notes of Low Denomination.
Now that ton -shilling notes • have
come into circulation and'the people
are reconciled to their use, it seems
likely that the half -sovereign gold
piece of this value may not be coined
again by Great Britain. At least,
there is a popular agitation on against
the small gold piece. According to a
well-known banker, if $1,000 in half -
sovereigns was shipped from London
to Petrograd, gold equal to one of the
pieces would, be lost by abrasion on
the way, Thus a large amount of
gold' is lost daily through the wear
and tear on these coins.
The small piece, which loses more
metal through wear and tear` than the
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sovereign; is not the only coin to be 'b
condemned by coinage reformers. t
The half-crown (two and a half shit- m
ngs) has also been attacked in the to
newspapers: as a senseless piece of II
silver', since the florin (two shillings), 111
with which it is so often confused by
nglish people as well as by strang-
rs, is the proper multiple of a shit
ng. Silver. crowns' have not been
oined for many years, and they never
ere popular because of their bulk,
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NEW RAILWAYS FOR CI•IINA.
.a. `• ob
Iva l rolected for Which Loan is
Concluded. to
wl
01 the five railways r
Y lrolectccl in nu
astern Mongolia and South Man-
huiii,'tor which a load agreement
as `practically concluded' between the he
akin government anti !. Yamaza
ren Japaneet, Minister to Pekin),lie
5 details says the Far a t as
y East, , ai e tel
llows: First, the 120 -mile line be- da
tween Kaiyuan and Ilaihmgcheng;via tim
Taolou, Takata and Tatuchuan; sec- to
ond, the 180 -mile line between Chang- wh
chug and Taonanfu via Huaite and '
Kuoerhlossu; third, the 470 -mile line
between Taonanfu and Johol via Chilithe
Feng, and fourth, the Ile -mile line We
between Hallungcheng and Kirin via wa
Chaoyangchien,: Panshih-hsien, S11u-
angyang-hsien and Machatun. tre
All these are considered' as of come ed
paratively cosMimportance than the bow
fifth line between Tsupingkai and
Taonanfu, 290 miles long. This, the
when ready for operation, is expected mi
to prove a profitable feeder to the him
South Manchuria railroad lines. Ru
to $18.:, •Cheese -Finest westerns,
1514 to 16e; finest easterns, 15 to E
151%. Butter -Choicest creamery, .c
82% to'' 33c; seconds, 32 to;3211.. v,
Eggs -Fresh, 40c; selected, 32e; No.
1 stock., 28c; No. 2 stock, 25c. Pota- P
toes -Per bag, car lots, 95c to $1,10. (tl
Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, $13.15 th
to $14.00. Pork -Heavy Canada fo
short mess, bbls., 85 to 45 pieces, ;$28
to $28,50; Canada short-cut back,
bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, $27 to 527.50.
Lard=Compouiid, tierces, 875 lbs.,
101/ c; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 10%c;
pure, tierces, 370 lbs, 12 to.125/ c;
pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 13, to
181,e. .
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, Oct. 26. -Wheat -No.
3 hard, ' 51.0414 No. 1 Northern,
$1.0014 o 1.03%; No, 2 Northern,
$1.00%; December, 97c; May,
1.013/5. . Conn -No, 3 yellow, 69 to.
Oc. Oats -No.
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�. No. _3 white, nte,.3$/i to 34e.
Flour declined; ' fancy ,patents, 56.45;
first clears, 54.85; second clears, $3.
Bran $19.
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BLANKETED- THE FRENCH LINES
WITH THEIR SUFFOCATING GASES
But E,iemy Was Driven, With Frightful Losses,,
Back to :His Trenches, Completely Unsuccessful
A despatch from Paris says: The
German infantry attack on the
French lines between the Butte -de -
Tit and Prunay, east of: Rheims, for
which' preparation was made with a
very violent bombardment, was made
Friday. Suffocating gases were used
in great quantities, so that they fairly
blanketed the French lines. Three at-
tacks of remarkable vioienoe were
made by the enemy, but all were com-
pletely stopped in front of the barbed
wire entanglements protecting the
French trenches by the French artil-
lery and machine guns. -
The front attacked has a length of
roughly five miles and was the; scene
of a: previous failure of the Germans.
in their attempt to cut through the
new French lines in Champagne. The.
artillery preparations were unusually
thorough and the gas blanket was ex-
ceptionally dense, but the • French
guns and machine guns concentrated
their. fire on the advancing Germans
So effectively that one after another
each of the attacks spent itself before'
wire cutting could be carried out, and
the Germans,' with frightful losses,
fell back to their trenches completely
unsuccessful
ACROSS THE BORDER
WRAT IS GOING ON OVER
THE STATES.
Latest Happenings in Big Repo
Condensed for Busy
Readers.
Oklahoma•. City expects compl
of'Olcliihonia's� "lee; ;angel L. 191
Dallas, Tex„ is to have a newP
office building within two years,
Brooklyn, N.Y., finds auto Thieves
specialize in stealing expensive cars.
Leach. Cross, boxer, offered $83,000
for some property being sold in New
Yorke,
St. Paul's three breweries employ
1,700 persons, and pay out $1,300,000
yearly in wages.
Milton London, aged 91, of Linden,.
N.J.; is candidate for justice of the
peace in Elizabeth.
Philadelphia's public charges last
year cost the city $822,817,95 in the
single item of coal,
Three clerks in New York natural-
ization bureau were dismissed for
taking tips from aliens.
Seattle street railway demands reg-
ulation of jitneys because they are
severely cutting profits.
The loss of weight in cattle from
the August fly pest in Kansas cost
the beef men 52,000,000.
For loss of his left arm in a plan-
ing mill at Woodside, L.I., John Roe-
mer was awarded $10,000.
A fire department school is con-
nected with the west side branch of
the Y.M.C.A. in New York.
Barney Himmelstein, aged 32, has
been sent to Sing. Sing for life from
Brooklyn as an habitual criminal.
Herbert L. Flynn, $10 -a -week clerk.
for New York City, got away with
$2,800 jury pay from one office,
Hit by the auto of Arthur I-Hetzel-
wood, of Cornwall, N.Y., Ruth Fink
asked first "Is my skirt soiled?"
Offered a lift in an auto .luring a
storm, John Whitehead was held up
and robbed therein at Cleveland,
John Hornung, cashier of the Dres-
den National Bank, near ,Zanesville,
0„ is short $74,892, and out on bond.
Peter Pacha, aged 15, arrested in
New York on suspicion, had 500 mov-
ing picture theatre tickets on his per-
son.
James Ruddy of Perth Amboy, N.J.,
lost his ticket from Elizabeth and was
killed while walking the tracks home,
Chas. Ahearn, trick cyclist, went
from Cincinnati to New York to go to
jail for non-payment of alimony to
his wife.
Sebe Teblow, ranch cook, gathered
$15,000 worth of pearls from mussels
in the Concha River, Texas, in one
afternoon.
Inspectors seeking bombs on the
Rotterdam at Hoboken found two
German stowaways anxious to fight
the allies.
John H. Wyeth, manufacturing
chemist, New York, .lied of paralysis
at Chicago, while anteing across the
continent,
Iia
bile
etion
•
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AT THE MERCY
OF ALLIED FLEET
Bulgaria's Naval Weakness on the
Sea Makes Her an Easy
Prey.
A despatch from London .says: Of.
peculiar interest at present is the
following article by the n 's
".rd�r�tdttn�:x
LEADERS THAT DON'T LEAD.
History Finds Cases Where They
Were Deposed,
Napoleon III, believed, perhaps with
justice, that his crown rested on his
emulation of the military feats of the
great Emperor, but his soldiers found
him out, and when he announced that
he wee going to the Crimea to put
himself at the head of the allied
forces the soldiers intimated plainly
that they did not want him. The end
carne just before Sedan; when he an-
nounced that he had handed over the
command of his marshals and should
serve in future as a common soldier.
Francis Joseph wisely allowed others
to bear the shame of the abortive
campaigns of his earlier: years by
keeping a good deal out of the lime-
light, and Victor Emmanuel without
a Garibaldi might have waited long
for the accomplishment of his ambi-
tions. In the present war it is gen-
orally said that the Kaiser.• has long
ceased to exercise more than a nom -1
inal control over military operations,
and it is even whispered that, Hinden-
burg retains his great commend in
spite of the royal desire to get rid of
a man of inconvenient frankness,
Calcutta Helps War,
Calcutta residents, says a Daily
Mail correspondent, have over ub-
scribed 'a sum of 275,000 required to
place a convoy of 50 motor ambu-
lances anti' a contingent of motor-
cycles at the disposal of the War Of-
fice.
H
Speakers of the British House of
Commons generally receive a pension
of 520,000, and a peerage on retire
:metal.
"You aro charged With ermittiiig
P g
your horse to stand unattended' for
over an hem'," chanted the magis-
trate, :"'Well, I defy anybody to teach
the brute to' Sit down,". protested the
prisoner, before being dragged away.,
tion
Franco -Brits
and from Saloniea that Rus
forties have already appeared off a .
na, should be a convincing indication
to Bulgaria that the allied Towers are
prepared to follow up the warning
from Petrograd by,protnpt naval and
military action. The first phase of
any such action is bound to be naval
in its character, and will afford a fur-
ther demonstration of the value of sea
power. The geographical position of
J3ulgaria makes her particularly vul-
nerable to attack from oversea:
Moreover, the water communica-
tions to her coasts, both in the Aegean
and the Black Sea, are at the presept
time, and will be, whatever happens,
controlled by the fleets of the allies.
However formidable she may prove
from a military point of view her
naval force is practically negligible,
and would be quite unable to prevent
a landing on her shores.
The only harbor of importance
which Bulgaria possesses in Mace-
donia is Dedeaghatch, which has been
several times visited by our ships
since the operations began in the Dar-
danelIes. This place, where the Bul-
garians landed in the opening stages
of the first Balkan war, is connected
by rail both with Saloniea and Con-
stantinople through Adrianople. It is
unlikely that there will be any great
,difficulty in occupying it.
It is, however, in the Black Sea that
the Bulgarian coast presents many
points on which a crescent might be
made with advantage. Neither Varna
nor Burgas has fortifications of a
modern, formidable character, as far
as is known, and little trouble should
be found in and
of the few tor-
pedo craft. Our Russian allies have
asserted their mastery in the Black
Sea in such a way that this should
present no difficulty, and they have
also organized sufficient tonnage for
the transport of an expeditionary
force.
To place such a force on shore, or
perhaps even to make a feint of doing
so, should have the effect of detaining
a large portion of the Bulgarian
army, which might otherwise be
placed on the frontier of Serbia. The
potential threat of such an operation
seems already to have been made. In
both sons the work of the allied fleets
will, it is likely, afford adequate pro-
tection against submarine attack.
AEIUAL HERO KILLED.
Was the First British Airman to
Drop Bombs.
An accident ended the career of the
youngest air squadron commander in
the royal flying corps when Captain
Gilbert W. R. 11Iapplebeelc, D.8.0„
was dashed to earth recently while,
testing a new French monoplane in
England.
Captain Mapplebeck, a Liverpool
lioy, had not yet attained his 23rd
year, and received his commission
only about six months before the out-
brealc of the war, after finishing a
course at Hendon.
It was on August 13 of last year
that young Mapplebeck flew over to
France to join the newly arrived )3ri-
tish expeditionary force. He was the -.
first British airman to make a recon-
naissance of the German lines, and
later the first to drop bombs. During
the retreat at Mons he scouted above
the advancing• Germanoansi by his re-
ports kept the British troops from be-
ing overwhelmed. On September 29 •
he was shot in an air duel 6000 :feet
above tiro German lines, yet managed
to reach the British lines, although he
was unconscious when found. He was
shot through the obdomen. His mo-
thea went over to France and nursed"
Irim back to Health. She has now re-'
eeived a letter of condolence from the
Ring. The airman's ;Distinguished