HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-12-05, Page 7EW GERMAN DEMOCRATIC
PARTY BANS MILITARISTS
Is Growing Enormously—NI Oppose Boishi-
vism to the Limit
Spartans timed Seizes Wireless Stations
to Send Propaganda
Berlin, Gable 4.13y the Aelsoclet-
ea pretest—A, greup of Independent
Social Democrats, closely it:entitled
with the Spartacus element of Dr,
1,4101)neebt, has seizea control or all
wireless stations In Germany, and
le now transmittinn propagande end
other news, the Berlin Tageblatt saYs
It Is informed,
Ohencenor Ebert and Herr Haase
ou behalf of the G werument, the
newspaper adds, warns the press at
aome and abroad of thts. condition,
and declare further that the Govern-
ment evill not assume responsibilitY
for wireless information no being
&tat ant of Germany.
Berlin.. Cable — (fly the Atisociat-
ea Press)—The aims of the new
GerrrianeDemeeratic party, the appeal
of which tor comprehension and sup-
,. port has been sent to President 11711-
. son, were outlined to the correspond-
ent today by Theodore Wolff, editor -
al -chief ot the • Berlin Tageblatts It
• rn on Herr Wolff's tnitiative that,
, the party was formea. lie said:
"Our party etas ben earned tO
eatipport the republic, to turtber dome -
erotic reforms on a Socialistic eeon-
culla basis,and to furnish a rallying
want for the middle classes and keep
-them from fallIng into tha pewei. of
Lae attactiortariere The party will, eq.-
turally, apnoea 13o1sheytem wita, elt
means at •Its commend. In other
words we aim to , win and, hold the
Middle clase.es for deinoeraey.."
• Herr Wolff explained thee in keep-
ing, with the party's aims, all former
members of the progressive or other
!parties. who nave Iran active An mill -
juristic and natitenalistic .egitalloes,
Or, Who, Into Dr. Gustav Stressintien
National Liberal member of S the
- Reichstag, have actively adv.:mated the
• submarine campaign, bave been flatly
infornied that, while they -cannot be
excluded from the party if they desire
to, join, they will, nevertheless, . be
rigorously excluded from au y partici-
pation in its leaclerehip. '
'The party's membership is already
*colossal,". said Herr Wolff.' 'and
'thousands or aetessions tire Miningin
•
•••••••••1,11.1.1.0111160.1400.0.11•••••••01111•1,
daily. Virtually' the Whole Progres-
eive party membership, excepting a
teW on the extreme right, wili join,
and many prominent Democrats who
formerly %toad so far to the left that
they were kept out of Imlay Comical.
Thee° ineluae men like Hugo Prams,
(19.manya foremost authority on colt -
ea -thaw -rat law, who is now drafting a
constitution for submission to the Nen
tient Assembly; Professer Walter
eithuocking, of 'Marburg Unimereity;
Professor Gerlach, Deputy Vischbeek,
and Professor Max Weber."
• 'I be left wiug of the National Lib-
erals is easo furnishing ',mutts, ac-
cording to Herr 'Wolff, These men
include Prince Sehoennelt Carolath.
Dr. ea J. Juuela Dr. Witting, Preen
dent of the Natfonal Bank or Bernie
and others.
The Nhtional Liberals who Opposed
the reform a the Prussian franchise
or favored the submarine campaign or
annexattonist policies will be excladed
from leadership. Herr Wolff declared
that his party was by far the etrong-
ost in the empire, next to the Social-
ists, It will favor the socialization of
certain industries, such as mines, and
will demood that great estates be di-
vided up for eettleraent on returning
soldiers. It holds, however,.that pri-
vate property shall not he ' touched
without full compensation.
THE FOOD OUTLOOK.
Zuricla Friday, Cable — Food con-
ditions in Germany are by no means
so critical and urgent tte De. W. ,S.
Solt, the Foreign 1%finister, would lead
the world to believe, according to, in-
fortuation received here. Gerdratia
has food enoeugh to laet until April, If
the army reserve store.% are aleced at
the disposal of the DeoPle. The4e re-
serves were drawn upon in October to
feed certain perts ot tha country, bet
they have been restored to their forme
er condition from the, last haziest'.
Since October they have net 'been
touched..
There should be no famine in Gen -
malty this winter, it is said,' tt select
rationing is enforced, and stocke,ore
methodically and regularly distributed
among the different States. •
NOTHING IS TOO GOOD FOR
THE SOLDIERS OF CANADA
Belgium lion.ors Our Boys
in Their , March to Ger-
Many.
•
With the Canadian Forces, Cable.
—By J. le. 13: Liveay, Canadian Press
correspondent),—The greatest aeeet ef
the Canadtau corps is the torp s spirit
pervading its unite. This spirit has
given it coheeie striking power, and
mutual trust an confidence that has
carried it eueceesfully, through the
eevenet trellis and under often. die-
coureging conditions, to rfnal Gae-
ta:3. This loyalteaor "one for all, and
all for one" sets the cors before ia-
dividuals Or units. It is the thing that,
in the long reit,most impresses all
those who come in coutact with the
• Canadian corps. Than 'Canadian+
whose duty forces them to remain be--
, hind will nevertheless participate 'in
spirit in the triumphant mare'h.to the
Benne. Their (Mart has been not lose.
They hate proved their valor and ten-
acity on, many a. bloody field. Tbey
share in the honor common to all,
net are content In the knowledge
that their deeds- have redounded to
tbe ereffit of their beloved cdentry,
The Belgian people of the 'Merited
areae are not one whit behind the:
French in weleoluleg our men, Every
village is gaily decorated in honor' of
the brave Allies. Nothing is too good
for Canadian soldeere. Orden have
had to be lesued that our men met
accept no food from eivilianee becaute
these ore terribly short of suppliee,
and must.so remain until the rall
heads can be brought up. An unfor-
tunate interregnum must exlet for
these poor folk as the enema falls
back and we advance. Everything pm -
allele Is being done to relieve their ne-
cessitire, :but there is much materY
among tee poorer classes.
The elty of Mons has renamed ehe
Place de la Bevarie, where the Can-
adians entered, the Place du Canada,
thus following tbe example et Valen-
ciennes.
IX -KAISER MUST STAND HIS TRIAL
FOR 0 -BOAT CRIMES AND OUTRAGES
British. Coalition Govern-+
11°1d Him Ac- Will ACCEPT
countable.
NO EXCUSES
London, Cable — (Canadian Press,
vitt Ratter's, Limaed).—If returned 'to
'power it will be the Coalition Govern.
'dent's policy to Insist upon the per.
sonal accountability of the Knitter ter
the mimes for which he personally
was responsible, stated Sir Frederica
E, Smith, British Attorney -General; In
an elealon epeeelt at Tiniborne yes-
terday.
Sir Frederick said the Government
was aetertnined. that the Kanter
• should be glace an opportunity to ans-
wer the chargee which had been pre-
ferred against litm respectbag the sub -
+marine murders and outrages on pets-
-enema• and 'the Government was equal-
ly determined to make the crimlnale
Pay the penalty.
It would make rio distinction be-
tweett the ocettpants a high oftwo
and those in humble places.
It Was also the intention of the CO-
litteri Governteent to punish Germane',
which hall broken every mw, huMai.
e»il dlvine, said Sir Prederiele.
The Attorneyeeetieral en/ that in
regard to interued (terians it was the
Goverumende Intention to Bend then
bath to Germany.
ObflcVzVood
Proebel, (hat deep andent of etifld
entente, eaid that in the early years
the ehild'e food ia a Matter or the
greatest importaime, not only May the
child by this means be made then
indolent arta inactive, sluggish er
inane, dull or bright, inert or viger-
Otue, but, ledeed, for his entire life.
BAILING VIESSEaS MAY OZPAFtT.
retswe, Nov. aneThe :easel tepee.
thirst has caneelieJ the itntimi
''hit have titan in forte 4urio4 tho
VOW littIO ft/ ilailtUng the Pipe/mien ee
*nilffiveeetee for tile mono.
jeotleti rlf tbl remevai if the 1 et1lie.
tiny,' have been tem out by tee deteat-
Mpnt, ft nd aflthRve^...10 0.14
tion. ft for Buteee swam,
or Brutal Treatment of
British Captives.
Awful Stories Told by Re-
turning Men,
Landoll. Cable — An official:state-
meta istruea to -day saye Diet sence
the armletiee was Waned 444 British
oftleers and 8,350 Men of Other ranks,
former prisoners, have arrived at Hull
from Holland and Germany, 55 offi-•
cem aid 8,210 men -of other ranks at
Dover, anti 500 from London.
'rile statement says • the protest
of the Britich Government with re-
gard to the ill treatment of flritish
prlsonere has' been communicated
to the 'German Government, aid that
the Geri:lean authorities replied thut
the German high eommand was
doing all in ite power to deliver
priecelers in good eondition, but that
the severity of the armistice condi-
tionpresented difficulties.
The German high cottonand later
Was informed that no Onuses would
be accepted by the Brittelt Govern-
Meht, and that full recompense
would be exacted for any utinteea-
sary sufferings of Britielt primenere
et war. To this the Germane- re -
Plied that they would an their ute
mon tO alleviate tan vonditione of
pritantera.
One eergeaut Who had been
Oner for seven monthspoke bit-
terly or an enforced niercit attar
hie capture. For four daye, he aid,
the prisenera laid virtually no tothi
food told whell they arrived' at vamp
ilniy were pat right to %Nark bury -
Mg mitt 'elm had died from entree
-
lion. In elle week fifteen out of
one hundred tiled. NO plty or lime
ittloe* utte At/wit to men whit wt.
ItUnbie In work thronall sleaze
Only Wawa and the impel piintehi
Meat ter half rettone were- Chill
them.
tion-Pearnise:ontel offieer of the
Ronal Army alelleal Corpa sine that
the evOret stat he saw Was nb
lioissoup, lio Was %variable In a boas
pita' where English priemusta were
tinerering badly irom eltuniterY.
While still alive a man Was put luta
a coffin and some fferman tiolltere
were preparing to nail the Ltd or the
Orrin down.
"I Prete...AO," aid the 'officer,
"that the inaneeivae not dead, but
was laughed dt and pushed to pee
eide. The Germans proceeded with
their gruesome task, noel afterward
informed me that they had netted
the coftla lid dowu 'With four and eix
Inch nails."
Artether man who eald 'he had
been captured eIght Mouths ago de-
clared he witneased the tnarder of
05 orticer in a prison camp near tlie
Alsme.
"In the camp one day," he said,
"I saw a British officer being bullied
by a German oentrY. The German
soldier waa demanding the officer's
boots, but the officer refund to part
with them. After a little further
argument the Gamin oeldisr shot
the officer and took the boote from
him as he lay dying on the ground."
CHRISTMAS IN
MAINZ FORTRESS
Canadian Any of Occupa-
tion, to Be Sent
To Raid Great German
Rhine City.
Ottawa, Despateh—Memebrs of the
Canadian army invaillog Germany
will spend a victorious Christmas in
the great Rhine fortress of Mainz,
where, it Is expected, alley will have
their headquarters until penes Is
signed.
• Situated on the left bank of the
Rhine, elaihz is one- of the oldest
-cities of Germany, and is the largest
in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. It is
one or the great fortreeses of thee
former German Empire, The tortifica.
dons, enlarged since 1871, coneast of
several lines or bastioned torts, the
citadel in the southeastern part or,
the town, anda number a detached
forts. It la commeted With Kaatel, On
the opposite bank of the river, by a
=dem bridge. The city has a, rich
military hittery extending back to
Roman times.
The Canadian. army wilich will re-
main in Germany duriug the period
of occupation has not been ..deolded
upon as yet, but it is believed that
the force will be composed of mon
volutiteering for tnis duty.
ei • e,
LOST TEN SI -10%.
White Star Line's -Record
in the War.
New Yorke Des/ratan—Tea. large
steamships aggregating 180,379 mesas
tons, were lost by the 'White Ster Line
during the watt, it was learned here to-
day. Among these \Ma the Brttaonic,
48,158 nrose tons, torpedoed In the
Aegean aea in 1916, &Wetly atter her
completion, white in British_ Govern-
ment services as o eseeplati ship.
Other largo White Star liners lost -
were the Justicia, e2,231 tone; ()ante,
17,274; ,Arabic, 15,801; Laurentle, 14,-
892; Cymric, 13,370; Afrie, 11,999;
Georgic, 10,071; Cevis, 0101; Delphic,
8,273,
War tomes of the Atlantic Trans-
port Line were five ships, totalling 61;-
665 tons, and of the Red Star Line, one
fhip, the) Southland, 11,899 tains. •
GOOD GROUND TO
DEMAND KAISER
Greatest Jurists of Britain
Are Unanimous.
Invasion of Belgium is In-
• dictable,
Lohdon, Ceble In a, speett de-
livered et Neweastlethis evening
Premier Lloyd -George, dealing -with
the question of the responsibility for
tee invasion of
elm ailed the Brit.
ish Ooverzirneut had consulted some of
the greateet jurists of the kingdom
and that they unanimously andde-
tiaitelY had arrived at the conclusion
that iu tan., judgment the formee
German Emperor was guilty' of un
indictable offenee for which he ought
to be held reeponsible.
The natuat procedure to be followed
in demanding the surrender a the
fernier Emperor of Germany to the al-
lies willsbe disarmed in London, ne-
Cording to the Daily Express. Premier
elemenceau of Franco will arrive here
Sunday with Marshal Foch,
The Betide, and French Govern-
ments, the oewepaper adds, have
reached a decision tegarding their
right to make the demand on Holland.
The Amsterdam Telegraa nye it
Understands that the members of the
former German teenperoVir eulte, Who
have bean staying at Mean, Holland,
wfll return to Germany to-tlay,
The former German !hoverer is f 11
with influenza, according to an Pace
ehangd Telegraph despatell front Am-
eterdam.
1100VER IN CHARGE
Of All Allied Relief Mea-
sures.
Parte, (table -- (By the Aseociate(1
Preee)--The plan e'or tlie aPpoluttnent
of Herbert V. !louver as DireezOr.(413-
(pa1 of Relief in charge of the entire
food and relief administration for the
European Attlee and the United States
bee been 'given approval, It was learn-
ed today, by the very tilititteit Amer!.
eat authority. It now goes before the
BaPreme War Counell for final deter-
minattou.
The relief plat involves, beeldee the
alomintment of Mr. Hoover, the 1180
of the large arteeenger shies, Bottom -
tor, Illenntrek and other big eteittneem
tit German ports, for relief work and
to help in securing the return of the
Anietien fOre0s in leutotre nithin a
compotatively Ictief period.
DYNASTIES IN RUMS
I Et laN7,01.LER
Alwayo neacherous, eraspine, cone
steeneeicee, vain aim reheating, the
ituiieezolleate1t e et:see-1U He much ,
harm by !heir itemeripeteltey aud van.
The fouudere of both honeee 'were
robber, and their dcecendante base
been robbere ever .einee. The Holten-
zollern took his nettle trout the castle
of the founder in the Swabian. Alpo,
the, "I1ly,11 Toil Howie," where tolls
were fat eibly exacted from merenanta
from 43witzer1arel and Italy to the
Pertal flay. of Nureniburg. The ori-
ginal, Hapebtirg aunt his IMMO nom
hts castle, named the 'Weeks' Nest"
Wablebtehltrea, whieh eras the home
of the robber bands he led against un-
protected traders and ope.u, towns.
One of tito liolieregollerne helped the
first Hapeburg Ottudolf I) to the throne
or the Holy Itomaa Empire iu 1272,
and another Hapeburg (Fredinand Ill)
made "An Highestat," aneeeter, Fred-
erielt, the nrst King' of Prussia for a
consideratiou of f0,000,000, veld 10,000
soldiers.
Then, as the years rolled by, atter
robbing their neighbors, they fell out
and 'tne Itohenzollera robbed the
!Hapsburg. Finally the two tallboys
conspired to rob the rest of the world,
end have at last been run to earth by
Cblef Commissioner Poch and Innate"
tors Haig, Pershieg. and Diaz, ot the
police force or rivilizanon.
Since lenteeror Sanconund sold Bran-
denburg to Frederick Helienzellern
500 yeat ,ago thme have been mauy
Hoheezollorn, ruler, but only three of
them mild lay any claim to greatness
—"All Highest's." grandpa, oid
the that Kaiser who was elected
in 1871; grandpa great -grand -uncle,
Frederick la commonly canal the
great, and Frederick's great graud-
familiatly koown as the
"Great Elector? the father of the firet
King of Pressen They were all rob-
bers, every mother'e son of them.
From the time the Great 'Electora
grandfather stole Prussia tram tho Or-
der ot Teutonic Knights, a which he
had been the sworn head, to the time
Frederick e bought his title 01 King of
Prussia in 1701, the etcetera of Bran-
denburg bad been scheming for eme,
pire. Although the laughing stock ot
other kingdoms, 'Frederica 1 assumed
50 impertaneo prempted by hit. vanity
Math toartlea the. emit Prince EU -
gene, vonintender ihe liapebura,
late ceelaimIng that lite inin-
Lin-Tr-I of the Doly itemae temeire who
teed
('Ott tnie of Icing ought
to ee haugee. •
Atm etetterick 1 ceme the Miller of
tetcderlek the Great, ohose pram:pal
buitotais appeared to be kidnapping,
eix-footere tor hie guards, and whoa
principal tuntteement was eaniug his
butchers when they uttglected to keel)
their equipment brIglit.
His eon, the great Frederlek, was
undoubtedly a great' soldier, but In his
first battle, Lamentrietiburg, he was so
frightened that he ran away, and it
was with the greate:i diffieuiry ids
generals indueed himato return to the
battleriela to celebrate e the victory
they had won. This Isrederiek Nees 0.
eouecomeelees robber, who gloried in
Ills crimes, end w:th true Hohenzol-
lern bravado exeused than on the
ground of exeedleney. He has been
descrlbeil• as bearing up agatnee
world of arms, wait a bottle of Poiseel
ui Gno pocket and a mare of bad ver
cei in the other. In his defeate. how -
1u never used the poison. He
consoled himself by writing bad ,ver -
Fes instead.
He stole Slieela front the }repairers;
when the latter . was in trouble, and
stole West Pruseta and PoEert from
Voland when, with thoee other big
robbers. of Europe. the Ilannurg and
the Romano:fa they divided the nation
of Sobiesal among theineelvee.
His successor, ale nephew, lereder
Ick Willlam IL ha e been descilbed by
his own uncle, Prince Henry of Prus-
sia, ae e "fat, indolent eaistresslovIng
good-for-nothing."
It was his eon, Frederic -1r William
the Third, who lost Piusela to Na-
po:en, who held froth 1800 to 1813. the
whole west bank of the Reline, Dant-
zic, Hamburg, Folend ,anT• over half
or the Prussian kingdom in the. hot -
low 01 his han(1 andwho compelled
the Hohenzollern ittua and the Hape-
burg emperor to itotow to him like a
.couple of laekeYs.
Frederick William the Fourth, who
succeeded' to the throne which had
been strengthened by the return of all
the- Prussian lands taken ley Napoleon,
by the 'Congrese.of Vienna in 1815, to
which were added alba Rhenish pro -
11 Is the mosl prolificand valuable fish o
• our Atiantic wa&ers.
The Codfish claims rightful pre-
cedence in Canadian waters for
flourishes in such abundanee in the
Atlantic that no other member. of
the finny tribe ean hope to rival it.
No less than 200.000,000 pounds of
-cedfish are caught and landed by
Canadian fisherman annually. Be-
cause Canadtaa housewives have
,proved indifferent to their food
value, the bulk or this amount has
been salted and dried in the past
and sentto the Latin countries of
Europe and to South America. The
home market coned very' well con-
sume ten times the amount of fresh
cod used to -day. Express trait-
portation lands it as far west es
Winnipeg in firstclass eondition and
at reasonable prices.
INCREASE Homg CONSUMPTION.
The Canada Food Boards want to
sea the lime market 'speeding up
in its consumption of codfish. Ono
reason is that domestic consumption
is bettor for the industry. 13y selling
in a fresh state, capital la turned
over *Mixt two weeks. Whoa sold
in the salted and dried state, how-
tirOn. it takes froth 'six months to a
year betere returns are made.
More Important still, it is in the
!literate of food, totteervation to buy
codfish freely and to save meat as
far as possible. The end of the war
does not spelt the end ot toed coaser.
vatton. Thrift and coneerVation
must go ou, unabated, unchallenged.
WIDE HUNTING G,R0aJND.
The habitat of ecalftsit Is the great
• shoal waters Which lie In the angle
formed by the acotth coast of New-
fottadland and the Nova Scotian and
New Englandeemets, and in the en-
ormous area extending from Cape
Cod, Mass., te Cape Chidley -on lima
son StraitS. Cod abounds in depats
of treat 20 to '70 fathoms and hae
from time immemorial boon caught
• by the baited hook awl line, al-
11y/flab some are caught by netting.
It is a cold water fish and its flesh
Is firm and palatable. It is a prattle
reproducer, Indeed, a illepollnd cod
contains something. liae 2,700,900
eggs. Thouglt a vast nubiner of
these never reach maturity, vet the
reproduction of the epodes is great
enouglt to calm any tears as to ex-
tinction, no matter how heavily the
fishery is prosecuted.
EXTENSIVE INDUSTRY.
The con raillery in Canada gives
eniploymeur to Heine 50,i)00 or G0,000
people at sea and on tiliore. Out of
one Nova Scotian port a fleet of 125
schooners, manned bY fl,n00 men,
engage almost exclusively lit the cod
fishery and their catch Is salted and
dried for export. In addition to this
"ilanh" fleet, thorleands of Veber-
tnen catch cult from small sail ttnd
1110102'.. eyaft in the !whore waters,
and three amain trawlers fishing for
it
the
Canadian markets land huge
quantities.
Cad is plentiful and cheap at 411
seasons and If the consumption were
larger it would beleheaper still. Our
forefathers used more codfish, pick-
led and dried, than we use to -day.
As a food it is rich in protein and
if properly coelted is palatable and
delleious. Folio -whit; are some
tested codfish recipes:
BOILED FRESH COD.
Wrap the fish in cheese -cloth, and
place on the rack irt a lish
with enough tepid water to cover.
Add salt and a tablespoon of vinegar.
Doll gently until the fin or tail bene
will come out if pulled lightly.
alma done, lift carefully out of the
Water, drain., dish up and serve
with pelted butter, etueltovy, par-
sley or oyster saute.
BAKEDCOD.
'Wipe the fish and .place on it
buttered baking tin. Prepare a drese-
ing of bread 'crumbs, savery .herbs,
Parsley, pepper nod salt. Bind it
With a little beaten - egg. Place
this upon the fish and eeasen. A.citt
to the top a little fat in the foal or
butter or dripieg. Bake M a mod-
erate oven for ten minttte,s ror
every pound and five minutes .exna.
Serve with Hollandaise settee with
the addition of tome anchovy, or
any sauce that may be preferred.
PRIaD COO 6T8AK.
Clean the steak. %whittle with
vett atul pepper, and dip in corn-
meal. ,C.tok in a frying -pan in • a
dripping until light brown on. each
side.
CODFISH $ALL.
1.-110 ono cup of codflah. Boil
and mash four good-sized potatoes.
Combine the peaatoes and codfish.
Mash all together, Add butter,
pepper and One beaten egg. Ron
in flour to form balls and Plate in a
fryIng-pan. Fry bream on one sato,
turn and brown the otter. These
May he egged, crumbed, and fried Itt
deep fat.
aesatenotter good method is to
take the :same materials, ont, the .
potatoes into three or feur 'pieces,
tear the thilt into pieces, and boil to -
wither until the potatoes are tender.
'11hen drain, mash and season with
butter, -pepper and egg, and drop by
spoonfuls Into deep hot fat.
NOVA SCOTIAN SALT COO.
Soak the fish overnight. Pour off
the water. Cut Into null bits. Put
on in cold water aud bring to n boll.
Pour off the boning water once Or.
twiee, and renew with fresh boiling
water. Then Add an equa.1 quantity
of potato.; pared And cut into cubo.
Clok until the potatoes are done.
Fry some slieed onions and pork
nem.) until the OnlonS are cooked.
.1c:rvo flu? fi1t and potatoui In fi
4cc1) dish and pcmr the onions ever
the Whole. Lo
Meta anti Westphalia, Wea deader*
Intend *nit hall to Abdicate in* fav
of all highest's grandpa, Who mei
tained the repatation of the nehe
zolterna aa ronbera he nualteathing h
(Mining sword end etealing lt3c1h.1esw1
liolatest from Denmark and .Alente
Lorraine from Pran.ee, after whieh 12
viai matte the fist emperor of the (lo
manic Vonfeleration. Ilia Sep Vre
vrieli, father of all higheat, reigne
hut a few menthe, dying of eance
and in 1389 all highest .Succeedeti
the throne, The fleet thing he Old wa
to place himself in front et 000,0
bayonets and eeclare his divine righ
unsheath hie shining sword and a
flounce that hencefOrtli Irohenzoller
was to be spelled with a bra
Germany with a little g,
He dropped his pilot, nismerek, I
MO, and since then he- has strtitte
acrase the tage et hietorY the vall
via Meet absolute, most coneeletteeIes
and most hypocritical military moun
tebank that even the from of Holten
soliern had ever pe.,,fiticed, declalmin
that "er3nd1ta, Frederick the Orea
and the irireat 141erter" Would hay
been =lilted had they Heed lit entail
eat timet,
And all the Hohenzelleras trot
• Frederick the first elector
Brandenburg to 'William the wince
• the last °Chia race of alone, and a
the napeburgs from Radolf the Poun
der to •Qarl, the surreuererer, sO far a
• benefiting euenkind is coucerned,
UOt worth the little fingers a the bra,v
awl noble yelling kiztg or 13e1g1um, o
the courageous old king of Serbf
whose nations the Teutonic benne
tried to submerge to gratify their los
• far power.
HAPSBURG.
No family bee tttrnhtliedlo Man
sovereigns to nuropean peaplee, n
family Wes ever leaped oeer a grea
• empire so many' years, eel probabl
no dozen families corabined ham eve
furnished so many worthleeseeitIng
and emperor as the Hapsburgs. Eve
since their robber founder, Rudolf 1
etepped, train his castle of flablohte
bur,— CelawkeeeNest), an the ilthio,e, t
thebthrone of the Hely Rome BMW
in 1272, his deecendante have, wit
one or two exceptions, and exceptin
the Luxemburg Interregnum, Intent
ed the empire or which Austria ha
nearly always been the central 'Mete.
Both as emperors of Germany an
Austria, and as kings otaSpain the
have as a rule been hatiglity, incom
Patent, extravagent and 1m1)0113118
with ingrataede aa their end charac
• terititle.
01(1 Rudole made a alert at rerorm
Ina, ween he leas elected Eimperor b
the aid of hi s the Hohenzol
lero. burgrav of Nurcritterg, anceetto
of the present .Prifesetan Kaiser, wit
was also a robber, an his name inal
cated, Hohentrighezollern atollery,
high tollhouse' ke§per, the said tool
house being a castle on the Alps
where his ancestorheld up merchant
on their Way from Switzerland be Nur
emberg. Rudolf deckled to elm
the robber barons on the Inane, and
wItat they collected by force Rudol
subsequently collected by taxation' an
thereby earned the tredit from his his
tartans, of being an honest emperor
eomething rare, apparently, at tha
time. •
Since Rudolf Introduced the Haps
burg family to history there have
beat 20 Hapsburg Kaisers or the Holy
Rennin Empire, four Kateers stt the
Austrian Empire, $1.'t Hapsburg king
of Spatn, a dozen. Hapsburggrand
dukes of Tuscany and hundreds' o
of other States, all living on the pub
lic purse and spending money lik
dwIlaitteeis,..'arohdukce counts and princes
Of all that great crew of royal graft
ere not more than half a dozen have
deserired more than a line of mentlen
In history, ualess the leloodthirety ti
ger, Ferdinand 14., aid his bigoted son
Ferdinand III„ who conducted the
thirty years' war, are deserving of
more than meatiest.
The only Hapebure monarchs who
have been remembere% with entree
are Maximilian 1, Chartee V, Firenze
And 1., Warta Teresa, Francis 11. o
Austria, and old Franz Josef. Of
most of the others. like 'General 'Cus-
ter's Indian, it might ha said, "the
bguoorgds.,Fapsburgs were dead Haps-
-Charles V was responsible for the 80
years' war whieb. freed Holland and
brought England and Holland ta the
front as leading maritime •nationa;
Ferdinand It was responsible for the
30 years' war,- which recitteed Gere
nany to such a terrible condition
that It took 200 years to recover.
Marla Teresa has always had the
.eputation of being the gavots lining
to the dark cloud of ITapsburg domin-
ation, but even she was an expensive
uxury to her subjects,
In his lilstory of. Goulette", atenzel
hows the haughty bearing of the
Tapsburg monarch, the extravagance
f bis court and the imposing dignity
1 the eroWn. Says Menzel: "Dar -
ng thereign of Charles VI, father
of' Maria Teresa, the emperor was
eheld with distaut .awe as being m-
eteor to other 'human beings, sure-
oundeil by a court Consisting or Ito
ewer than 40,0Q0 Individuals, all of
'ehom aidea in the consunaption 01
he public revenne.There were. 266
hamberlainte who *keel after num-,
roue feat:Wets,. aprocesslons, ate.,
atmaternea, nu enormotie ma-
ntle, WhIch,tne people had to fatalist',
"Half et Vienhe 'fed: from the impe'..
MI kitchens and cellars—that is, the
°tt Two casks of Ty were
itillrytlTatty
oned for sateubig the bread
Empress" parrots, twelve quarts of
est wine were roeuired for the Lan-
ress' 'night -cap -a anti twelve buckets
f wine for her -daily bath. ,•• •
"The people were degraded to .the
okst• eandition tif servility. Ths.
ath of allegiance to the Emperor cle-
ared, `the light or :Heaven fut ob-
cured by , your" MaiestY's lllhnittibls
plendour. The Uni,ers4 is not spec -
us enough to be tile eatie of allele
Vitae when your • most. faith -
and Obedient estates 'reachthe
eights of their lumpiness by eastaeg
,e.r,aselVes et, the feet at your Males -
wonders how such a wortbleeet,
Ulnae, ungrateful lint of monarchs
old rule over a groat people so
any eenturies and even the state -
cat that Austria wa!s netessary to
e rest of Europe, first, as a vanguard
ChriationitY against the Turk, and,
condly, as the representative of
atholleism, does not explain the
malty of maintaining in power the
apsburge, who were never licensed
a victim net and rarely of a gener-
a (one, and who have for tenturies
en aoted for ingratitude.---Thomag
Blynn, in Philadelphia Record.
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We quite agree with yea that it TO
time tor a lover to give up Ilona when
the lady "cuts hint dead" tri the ettette
and her father threatens to kick hire
oif the doorstep.. There, are dieconv•
agsmente otigat to theta the
erder or the most ertngulne man,
ndoz Tit -Bite,
4,6
CROWN PRINCE
Rao Not Renounced Maim
to Throne,
Thougii Its rather,
lEsiser) lias.
Lo• udon, Dec. 1. --The formal abXe-
atiou of the German l&Mpeter caused
sn'rprise In Ragland. It had teen
• supposed on tae strength .rf the
• announcement made by krInce
Milian Mt -
of Bacin, whileShanceitor, 8.14
• reports of the I3ea:A.041tt33l ctaeid-
lers' no Workmen's Delegatee that
Hohenzeltern° hau abdicated
before ho lett Gera -tatty ter tto eted.
The eisiticatiott of the reenter Ger-
man Crosse armee was aecepted tete
OR a, fact oa ate rattle basis, but it le
now believed that Frederick Williera
hut not relinquished his dealer to
.he theme, lee (4x-1e4tiperer's prone
uncia.meeto steaks tor inmeelt Duly.
Tim Paris Peat, !metal says It bu
convinced that the aseoelated powers
wit) now demand the formal abdie-
attar) of Frederica William, the former
erma Greaten I- I lice.
The text •.ot the former Gernaan
EmPeror'e act of renuticiatiou, whieb
was issued by Sae USW Cermau Gov-
ernment -in order to reply to -certain
Misunderstandings which heve arnen
with regard to the abdication,' fon
ioys;
"By the Pre; rent document I re-
nounce foievermy rie'aies to the crown
of Prussia and rights to the Cer-
men ireperla.1 crown.
"I relate) at the same time all of-
ficials of the German Empire and
Pressia and also all officers, non -
Commissional officers and soldtere of
bbs Prusetan navy auci army and of
contIngents from confederate states
from the oath of fidelity they liave
taken to meas their emperor, hinge
and supreme • Ole, .I expect from
ehem uutil a new organization of the
German Empire exists, they will ear
those who effectively bold the pewer
in Germany to protect the German
people against menacingedangers of
anarchy, famine and foreign domina-
tion,
"Made and .eaecuted atid signed by
My own hand with the imperial seal
at Amerongett, Nev. 28.
(Signed.) "WILLIAM."
• 4 •
ALLY *COMMISSION
On Maritime,.rinancial and
• .Food.Problems,
•
Paris, Dec,e 1.---0ue Of the lart-e.„ r
Projects being matured as a prelim,-
inary to the Peace teengrese is the cre-
ation of a permanent C.lts-r-41110 cora,'
lute:Mon on whieh Great Pvitain,
France, Italy and the Gutted klettes
will be repreeeoted :on all maritime,
finauclal awl food q•uesteens.
The project has been fully outlined,
and it will lee among the -main sub-
jects before the oupreme council of
premears which Is nun to assemble
Ise London.
auch a. commies:ion Would take
the place oe the three temporary
committeem now in operation Theca
temporary committees are the inter -
allied maritime committee, the in-
ter -allied finanelal committee, and
the food committee.
The functions of all three of
there eomnalttees would be merged
into a permanent • inter -allied cern-
mission accarding to the proposal
now being considered.
HUN ELECTIONS
FE8, 16 NE
Soldiers' and Workmen's
Councils Will Agree.
Demand for Retirement of
Dr.- Soil.
Berlin, Dee. 1.—The Council of the
People's eozninissionere hats fixed
February 16 tor electiOne to the Con-
etituent Aeriambly, conditional on tile
approval et the Soldier's' and Work-
men's Congrese which ineete Decem-
ber 16.
ThegEmpire will be divided into 38
electoral tuetrictse to which from slx
to 36 sent e each win be allotted, ac-
cording to the population. The 'em-
pire's territory as it exiatee before tbe
war will ba taken es the basis •of
divieion.
,
In the opinion or the Majority Soli -
.
allots and the bourgeois, According to
Die Fatima, the date, .Feb. 16,
fixed by the Council of People's Cones
missionere is .too .carly. It fa main-
tained that more time is needed to put
Into effect a pure' Soclalistie policy.
The Independent Socialists have
stated that the threatened eeperation
a the Ithiue DroVi.nce and 13avaria,
mace Itimperative that an early
electibu be held'.
The bourgeois and Socialistic preee
agree that •the Soldiers' attd Work-
nien's Congress which meets Decem-
ber 16, will accept the- election date.
Anybetly at any place ceiling itself
a Soldiers' and Workmen's Connell
will be able to send delegates. The
control of eredeutlale tent be difficult,
and this has led to fears in (tensile
settlons that the eongrese will be
Peeked,
Even optimiete are latcouragelle by
the apathetie attitude of the bour-
mole and the untiring eetivity of the
Satartatue group, or Radials.
The Tageblatt eays it has been offi-
°tally informal the noldiers' and
Workiecti'e Caine)! hate ilentanded the
Most epettly retirement at ter. NV. S.
Solt, Gentian Foreign Secretory. The
counell tarot has 'ram) admire of all
documents reletinte .10 foreign affairs
and the old Covernment srstent.
giddies,
when is a load of wood like a
string1.--When it's cord.
'Why is the leiter D like good ad-
vicet-arlesauee it nialtes men Mend.
Wlia la a horn acuriotto feeder? ---
Because he eats hest when he halt nnt
bit In his month.
Why 10 a watch like a river?--De-
cause it doeit not run long without
wit -01111;f.
charity ravr,reth g inttlifttateot
aloft; but don't let that keep 'yet front
Using eharitable.
rroo Submitted On WQrk
of IT -Boats
"ohnte,1,..,,,anev•-•401,
• In Sinking of Hospital
Siiips.
London, IPe, 1. --The British Porelgii
Office has published a palfe,r giving the
• detalle of the oinking 01 the British
• hospital chips Rewar Glenart Caetle,
Guilford Castle and LiandaverY Caste
by German submarines in .lanuary,
February, March and June 01 thili
YeJr. copy ot the staterneAt /ova
beeit sent to British diplomatic rola*
sentativee in allied and nentral coon.
tries.
air, Balfour, the Foreign SeeretarY,
Who drafted the statement, says:
"There OUA be little doubt tbat the
aerman atm:inlander attempted to
elaugater all the witnessee of Ws
crime and to sink the ship without
leaving any trade, according to Count
Luxhusg's notorious ptiraee,"
The etatemeat says in part:
"The German Government, in reply
to the protest addressed to them by
the British Government through the
apanislIdAntbassador, dated that a
German ettbroarine attacked the /teive,
tted, in the aletenee of proof, refueee
to disense the protest made by tne Brit-
ish Government against tiro attune
made, on the Glenart Castle and Guil-
ford 'Castle, 'Pete Foreign Secretary
thereppen tranemitted statements,
eupportea by a aworn declaration of
the facts in reord to the atteette on
these tteeeele, and pointed out that
there could be no doubt that, -the
submarine belonged to the German,
forces. . Thie dation, as had already
been stated, Vvas contrary Oot ortlY to
international law and the, law of
humanity, but also to a definite pledge
given hy the C4e2'man Government to
the Spaiiisly Government that the Ger-
man naval forces would not attaelt
hospital ships: except in ce,rtain testers
which add no, iuelude those 1st which
the yeeseas Were assailed."
The facts, Which have already bean
Pubilsbede conceenIng the sinktag of
these three hospital ships, as well as
the Islantevore Cantle, aro set worth In
the sitittament.
^
ALLIED CHIEFS
Foch pad Vlemenceau Given
• Ovation.
'Cries of "Good. Old Tiger!"
• for Latter,
(By James 4L Tuohy.)
• London, Dee. 1.—In my long ex-
perience I never remember seeing
London crowds go unrestralnedia en-
thusiastic as they were' in their ova-
tion given to Marshal Foch and Pre -
niter Clemexiceau to -day. Theyareere
thickly massed along the whole route,
and raithe superior to the ettpreesing
influence of the eternal, gray, damp
weather, really cheered •thezneelves
hoarse, and there' was the: true ring
of boundless admiration and gratitude
to Foch, the organizer of Viet0r7.
Foch, sitting beside the Duke 'of Con-
naught in -the -tirst carriage, saluted
• now and then •with military dIgnity.
• Immovable and unsmiling, evtdentle
the man, otttwardly at. least, Was un-
reeponsive to the popular plaudits.
Clemenceate east in. the real Gallic
mould, waved his hat at ,alt times,
and with obvious emotion in response
to such a greeting .aa it took a mon
of steel to withstand. with • calm.
Clemenceaues -vigor and vitality are
arnazMg. Ile looked hardly older
than hie companion, Lloyd George, his
eyes sparkling with delight. his mas-
sive, pugnacious head De:ri1:n*1Y bar-
ed to the chilly damp as their cox-
riage passed the equestrian statue of
George the Thire. Lloyd .•George
nudged bim, end, jerking heet thumb
in tho direction of the statue, said
something that wade Cleinencean
smile axid shake his head, evidently
a gibe about the King who lost Am-
erica for Britain. Premier Oland°,
of Italy, and Foreign hlinister'Sonnino
in the third carriage aleo veils -most
warmly..reeelved, Orlando, a hand-
some, white-haired Italian, responded
with true southern feivor, while Son-
nino the silent passed with bare& head
and an occe.aional bow. The proces-
sion was short, but it roused' the enice
teens of the vast throngs from their
sincerest depths. •
The caeering was punctuated are -
(Manta with stint ere 62 "Good old
Tiger!" for Clemeaceau. Trafalgar
Square and other vantage pointe were
black with people.
ASK NEUTRALS
z
Dec. 1. --The ricrman Gov-
'erntnent has propoaed to the Zntento
nations that a. neutral eomeninition be
establIelted to examine the question
as to who Will beheld responsible tor
the war. The proposal le catteined
in a note sent to Switzerland for
lrantnlintSliOn to Prance, -Great Britain,
Italy and the United States. It asks
tlmt all the belligerents Place their
secret documents at the dIspotrai ot
the commission,
attiG EIVATHAS0 I-1 I MIEN.
With the American Army ht
cupation, Dec. 1.--T1ie inside fats
regarding "Big Bertha" and the other
monster German guns may be loelted
up with the numerous secrets 01
Germany. InfotmatIon that reached
the Atnericatt artny officials is to the
effeet that the German guns of llealta
ealibte at verities pointe heats been
shipped te the laterite On flat ears.
Shipments of Parka ef big Rtift env
placementa else are reported. Ger-
Mate, interrogatea as to the itarpteet-
tion or "Beg Bertha" and Other large
ealibered tenon, elatre to be ignor-
ant of their present thereaboate,
1.;14143 '' a..q gIrt to certaltny et
13 rd Ice; rhs is rather P14
nen.t0641, ate