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BLANKETED BELGIANS TRYING TO KEEP WARM BRITAIN’S REPLY FRIENDLY, BELIEF Outline of Answer to American Note Sent tó France. Italu and Allied Nation» Thought to Have Agreed (1er man y Alone Protests. The soldiers cf Belgium are poorly equipped for winter fighting, but blankets are being distributed among thetr as rapidly as possible. AMERICAN FARMS ECLIPSE RECORDS Total Output in 1914 Nearly Ten Billions. vious record being 16,693,000 bales in 1911. The value per acre flf all enumerated crops averaged about $16.44 this year, compared with $16.52 in 1913 and $16.16 in 1912. Other Neutral Countries May Join With America BUSINESS FUTURE LOOKS PROMISING Secretary Redfield Sends To All Cheering Message. London—The British government’s reply to the American note concerning contraband probably will be sent be fore the end of this week. It Is thought the answer will be friendly. An outline of the reply has been sub mitted to France, which is grvatly in terested because of the activity of the French ships in searching Mediterra nean cargoes. A statement probably will be iaaued shortly, showing that Italy has arrived at an understanding with England and the other allies concerning contraband satisfactory to all the countries affect ed. It can be stated authoritatively that only five cargoes destined for Italy have been stopped at Gibraltar since November 16. Two of these were re leased within three days and the others as soon as the alleged contraband could be removed. Since December 4 no cargoes for Italy have been intercepted by the allies. Rubber cargoes destined for Ameri can firms and held in English porta probably will be released soon or pur chased by Great Britain, which needs rubber for manuafeture of tires, bed blankets and boots. Constant negotiations are in prog ress between the allies and the neutral countries situated near Germany look ing to a tightening of the export regu lations which will prevent American shipments from reaching Germany and Austria through neighboring countries other than Italy. A loosening of the regulations apply ing to American cargoes, it is said by British officials, will depend largely on the assurances received from neutral countries that they will not assist in supplying Germany, Turkey and Aus- tria with munitions of war. U. S. Arrests Germans tor Passport frauds New York An alleged conspiracy to furnish Gorman army officers and reservists with American passports fraudulently obtained, to enable them to return to Germany from thia country without danger of molestation by French or English authorities, was brought to light Monday by the depart ment of^Juatlce. The disclosure came with the arrest of Carl Rurocde, a former agent for the North German Lloyd steamship line, and with the removal from the outward-bound steamer Bergcnafjord of a German army officer and three German reservists. All of them were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States government through the use of American |>aaa|iorta. The four soldiers were taken off the steamer, which was bound for Bergen, Norway, just as she was passing quar- sntine, and brought back to New York on a revenue cutter. All four bore photographic ¡uuaports, issued by the State department to Americana and alleged to have been furnished them by Ruroede. Other arrests are ex pected in the near future, one of a prominent »German-American in this city. Ruroede said, according to agents of the department of Justice who ques tioned him, that whatever he had done had been done x>n his own initiative and was InapirM by ¡istriotic motives. He was held in $20,000 bail, which he was unable to furnish. With him wure arrested John Aucher, his alleged asso ciate, who was also held in $20,000 bail, and Ruroede'« 17-year-old son, who was released on his own recogni zance. $ A n tl er K* tr b) In fa te Pl hl ed th th •h ur ar h< lit ar su lu Washington, D. C.—President Wil son appealed Wednesday to American shippers of non-contraband goods, such De create in Price of Egg» and In as cotton, not to allow their cargoes to Prosperity for Whole Country At a Russia Declares Germany be mixed with contraband articles. bi crease in Cattle and Calret Hand and A drice It Offered The United States government, he an Made tools ot lurks <1. Contribute to Result. To Make Preparations. nounced, could deal confidently with , ■Petrograd —Sergius Sanzonoff, Rus ce the difficulties which had arisen in the sian minister for foreign affairs, has de treatment of American commerce by published an Orange book, which deals Washington, D. C.—Heartened by Washington, D. C.—American farms Great Britain only if supported by ab with the events preceding the Turkish ho months of close study of the business solutely honest manifests. during 1914 eclipsed all records for attacks on Russian seaports in the be of the nation, Secretary Red This statement followed a discussion outlook 1 combined value of their products with Black Sea. I! by the President with his cabinet of field, of the department of Commerce, a total of almost $10,000,090,000. The Orange book contains 98 docu ca wrote a New Year ’ s greeting to the the general shipping situation and of Secretary Houston, of the department ments and is intended to throw light st and manufacturers of the the note dispatched to Great Britain merchants 1 of Agriculture, announced Thursday on what ia termed in a summary of the I'C bidding them in characteris protesting at length against the Brit- country, 1 that the value of all farm crops, farm contents issued through the Petrograd tic language to reach out for the pros animal products and farm animals sold Telegraph agency "the clandestine and vo perity he sees within their grasp. and slaughtered aggregated $9,872,- obstinate methods employed by Austro- lx NEW BRITISH ARMORED CAR There is no warrant, Mr. Redfield de 936,000. German diplomacy in forcing the th clares, for gloom or despair. The ill That was $83,000,000 more than the Turkish government reluctantly to war ioi effects of the European war on Ameri grand total for 1913, the previous so against the triple entente powers.” can enterprise is passing and new vis record year, and more than double the "The documenta in the book,” it Is Al tas for commercial venture are open value of all farm products in 1899. said in the official summary, "gave ti. Generals Scott and Villa ing with each new day. Crops this year were valued at $6,- evidence the independence of the «h “If you want prosperity, do your to Meet on Iloundary Line Ottoman that 044,480,000, and the estimated total Empire was already imj>er- share to bring it and do it now," he Washington, D. C. — Brigadier Gen lied when the German military mission by value of the animal products and of says. "Get that addition on your shop eral Scott, chief of staff of the United was established in Constantinople. It the farm animals sold and slaughtered going; it will cost you less today than States, and General Villa, commander- vanished definitely from the moment rei was $3,828,456,000. The value of six months hence. Is trade a bit dull in-chief of the forces of the Gutierres the German cruisers Goeben and Bres du crop production this year was slightly in the works? Get those improve government in Mexico, have arranged lau took refuge in the Dardanelles. less than in 1913 on account of the re no ments begun. Prices are low and to confer on the international bridge duced value of the cotton crop, brought fr< "The Young Turk cabinet, believ likely to rise. You’ve been thinking at El Paso, with a view to arriving at ing, perhaps in good faith, to conduct St about principally by the European war. of that contract work. Better start an understanding that will perma the destiny of the country, displayed a E l The corn and wheat crops, however, yourself before things get the start of nently prevent further firing into cunningneas thoroughly Oriental in en afi were the most valuable ever produced you. American territory by Mexican fac deavoring to csca|>e from Teutonic in cui in the United States, bringing the "This country slows down a bit now tions fighting along the international fluences. th i year's crop value total to only $83,- and then, but it never stops growing lines. 279,000 less than the total for last "The diplomats of Great Britain, sat and it always moves up and not down. General Villa is on his way north, France and Russia, [«¡^reiving the eri year, despite the loss of more than We don't know what it means in most and the conference will be held imme little eagerness which the Turks were gl* $300,000,000 in the value of the cotton of the United States to have real gen diately upon the arrival of the Mexi showing to permit themselves to be tio crop. eral distress. Think of Belgium and can chief. "The estimated value of the animal drawn into the war, which would in Ur Poland, O man with a grouch, and General Scott has been at Naco for evitably compromise the country, tried cit products on the farm in 1914," said slink into your hole and pull it in after two weeks trying to bring about an to persuade the pacific element in the the Agricultural Outlook, "is distinct you. There think of your sins and agreement between General May- Ottoman cabinet. ly higher than in 1913, which was your blessings and come out with your torena, commanding the Gutierrez itself a record year in the value of this "They succeeded, however, only in mi courage in working order. J force attacking the Mexican town of delaying the rupture which was a part class of products." "There are lots of good American re< that name, and General Hill, of the of the Teutonic program. “This is due to general, but slight, examples of pluck. Do you remember Carranza garrison. Hill agreed to increases in production, except for "As soon as the Auatro-German sot San Fancisco and Galveston and Chi withdraw to Augua Prieta, but May- diplomata became convinced that the Yi. sheep and swine, and in prices, and cago— Boston, Charleston, Baltimore I teorena has postponed entering into Turks were hesitating as to what more especially to a small increase in and Dayton, and many others like Be any final agreement, awaiting, it is the average farm price of eggs and to course to take, German hands led Ger One of the new armored light cars I them? Remember them as did Edison said, the arrival of General Cabral, man ships in a treacherous attack on tec a more considerable increase in the and lots of your fellow citizens, who that the British are using to good ef who is on his way north with 8000 the peaceful shores of an empire which en< farm price of cattle and calves sold J fect on the continent It carries eight showed pluck when things were hard. men to take charge of the situation. and slaughtered. was maintaining |>erfect neighborly "Nothing is the matter with the sec relations with the Turks.” "It must be borne in mind that the men and a Maxim gun in a revolving man with a grouch except an absentee amounts of these estimates do not top and has a speed of forty miles an I heart and missing nerve. Cheer up, Land Slides May Halt fat stand for net wealth produced, nor for hour. When In action the driver sltB I go to work, do your level best, quit Britain to Move Alien». wil on the floor and guides the car with Panama Canal Naval fete cash receipts, nor for profit, nor for London—Notice« to leave have been rie ' talking misery. The war's over yon income in any sense. Each product is ' the aid of a reflex mirror der, not here. Men are slaughtered Washington, D. C.—The possibility served by the police on persons regard rei valued, is in the census, when it yonder—theyr’e living here. It’s all of a postponement of the cruise of the ed as undesirable in the coast towns I reached commercial form and the ish policy of prolonged detentions of clouds there—clear day here. international fleet from Hampton adjoining the Tyneside district and I grand aggregate of all items is to be cargoes and other interference with "Get out and sell some goods. Plant Roads to San Francisco through the Sunderland. The persons affected in- bio regarded as an index number, or from American trade. some more acres; do more work than Panama canal, in connection with the elude aliens of enemy countries and ed a relative rather than from an absolute I Publication of a synopsis of the you planned. Talk cheerful talk and opening of the canal and the exposi naturalized aliens of both sexes, arid an< note, the tenure of which was con you’ll find this country of ours a pret point of view.” tion, was suggested Tuesday in the also British-born descendants of aliens, law The sales of crops last year were firmed at the White House and State ty good place after all.” course of a conference between Secre including the second generation. I department, aroused much interest, estimated at $2,928,000,000; sales of I tary Garrison and Colonel Goethals, me Exceptions arc made in cases of ad livestock $2,919,000,000, a total of | not only in diplomatic circles, but in tour German Aircraft governor of the canal. vanced age or extreme youth. Those ex| $5,837,000,000. The estimated value congress and official quarters generally. Though the great earth slides at affected must leave within eight days ere Attack Dunkirk, England Cucaraha of total sales per farm was $892, and ' Many diplomats of European and South have apparently been con due London — Four German aeroplanes quered, according to Colonel Goethals’ to an area 30 miles from he coast, ap sales per capita of rural population, American countries made formal in proved by the military authorities. quiry at the State department concern flew several times over the city of excluding towns, $139. report, the earth movements continue The value of the principal farm ing the note, and a memorandum on Dunkirk Thursday, dropping bombs as in the neighborhood of Gold Hill. At Norte Nation» Mau Unite. the subject was promised them. they went, acording to the Dunkirk that point the superincumbent masses crops this year was: There was a confident feeling in correspondent of the Daily Mail. of earth on the side of the canal, by London — The Daily Mail's Copen Com, $1,702,599,000; wheat, $878, 680,000; hay, $779,068,000; cotton, diplomatic quarters that steps would Soldiers in the streets fired on the ma their great pressure, are continuously hagen correspondent says he learns $519,616,000; oats, $499,413,000; po be taken by other leading nations of chines and one Taube seeded to be forcing rock and soil in great quanti from thoroughly trustworthy sources tatoes, $198,609,000; barley, $105,- this hemisphere, as well as by some hit, but all got away safely. ties into the canal prism. The move that the Triple Entente, resulting The official returns of the casualties ment is sufficiently extensively to re- from the recent conferences of the 908,000; tobacco, $101,411,000; sweet European neutrals, to point out to poUtoes, $41,294,000; rye, $37,018,- Great Britain their acquiescence in the show that 16 persons were killed and quire the continuous employment of Scandinavian kings at Malmoe, will be continued after the war has ended. 32 wounded. The bombs were filled dredges to maintsin the channel. 000; sdgiir beets, $27,950,000; rice, American point of view. Although no political alliance is yet with shrapnel. $21,849,000; na.r'e«i, $19,540,000, intended, it is not improbable that the For half an hour the whole city Get Busy, Edison Say». and buckwheat, $12,892,000, New York Is Wealthiest. understanding between the three small crackled with rifle shots and bombs, In the production of the foregoing West Orange, N. J. — Thomas A. New York—The wealthiest land nations eventually may result in a 14 principal crops, this year’s average Edison,'the inventor, predicted Mon which threw up dense clouds of black smoke. No sooner did one aeroplane owner in the limits of the municipal strong Scandinavian nation, divided was about 10 per cent larger than in 1913, and 6 per cent smaller than 1912, day' that 1916 will be a most prosper- seem to depart than another arrived. jurisdiction, according to a report to into three independent families. which year stands as one of the great ous year, Heaaid: “Now is the time Buildings in all parts of the city were Controller Prendergast, is the City of American is Real Santa. est aggregate productions in the for the United States to go ahead, wrecked. One child’s arm was blown New York. The assessed valuation of United States. This year two import We can manufacture cheaper today off and an old woman was killed out the city’s holdings is $1,447,547,869, Petrograd—A member of the Amer P than in many years to come, How- right. ant crops exceeded previous records— of which $1,429,491,360 is within the ican colony of Moscow has contributed ever, many of our best business men The fifth aeroplane remained as a wheat, with 891,000,000 bushels, fol city limits. Compared with the fig 3600 presents for Russian children lowing the 1913 record of 763,000,000 seem to be penny wise and pound fool sentry outside the town, ready to at ures of 1913, the value of the proper whose fathers are at the front. The dis< ish. I am surprised that commercial tack any of the allies’ aeroplanes that ties shows an increase of $71,104,689. gifts consist of gloves, shoes, caps and «WC bushels, and cotton, with 15,966,000 bales (preliminary estimate), the pre- and industrial America has been affect might seek to repel the air assailants. The increase in land values reaches other articles of clothing, and their the ed with a form of paralysis evidently the large figure of $41,689,078, while distribution is to be completed before lent as the result of the war in Europe. 40 Convicts Are Freed. George T. prei Boers Will Be Drafted. in the value of buildings and other im the Russian Christmas. This is all due to unnecessary alarm.” Marye, the American ambassador, and mui Columbia, S. C. — Fifty-five New provements, it totals $29,253,632. London—A dispatch to the Reuter Mrs. Marye passed the holidays at dur Years’ pardons, paroles and commuta Italy Irritates Vienna. Telegram company from Cape Town Moscow. pOHt Arizona I)ry Law Test On. tions granted by Governor Blease re Venice—Italy’s expedition in Av- says that Walfish Bay, on the south ciar RH- Tucson, Arix. —Ixruis Gherna, a west coast of Africa, was reoccupied Iona, which she occupied several days duced the number of prisoners in the Loss in East Is 2,000,000. on Christmas Day without opposition ago, appears to have produced consid state penitentiary, at the state farms loonkeeper, arrested January 1 by pre Txmdon — A Petrograd dispatch to arrangement to test the Arizona Pro and in county convict camps to 149. by a strong British force. A telegram erable irritation at Vienna, according L to Reuter’s Telegram company from to advices from the Austrian capital. The governor’s action put the total hibition law, was found guilty in the the Exchange Telegraph company says: Pretoria, seat of government of the It is thought there that possibly the number of prisoners to whom he has Superior court and given a sentence of "It is officially estimated that 27 Ger resj Union of South Africa, says: "It is suddenness of the Italian move may granted clemency in his four years of 90 days or a fine of $100. Gherna re man army corps are operating against ceiv attributed to office at 1644." Sixteen full pardons fused to plead prior to judgment in or Russia. Four hundred thousand Ger officially announced that the govern have disturbed plans ment intends to commandeer men for Prince von Buelow's mission at Rome, were granted, 24 prisoners were pa der to give basis for habeas corpus mans and Austrians have already been service in German Southwest Africa which is said to have included an offer roled and the sentences of 16 were com proceedings which will be instituted taken prisoners and their killed and to d Twenty-eight of the 66 were for the purpose of bringing the validi wounded are three or four times heav tlou and the Union of South Africa, as the of Southern Albania to Italy upon her muted. hou: ier.” ty of the law to a legal tost. serving terms for homicide. situation cannot be met by volunteers.” agreeing to certain conditions.