THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER, 1, 1906.
E IN THE I
Sixteen Balloons From Seven
Countries Enter Contest
From Tuileries Garden.
WIND IS FROM THE EAST
Eyes of Million People Watch the
Airship Start on Test of Endur
ance Santos-Dumont Pre
sents the Only Novelty.
CONTESTANTS AND THEIR BAL
LOONS. AmorlrA S&ntos-Dumont. no nam;
Lieutenant Frank , P. Lahm, United
States.
France Count de la Vaulr, Waihalla.
France Count de St. Victor, Kochn.
France Jacques Balsan, City of Cha
tcduroux. Germany Captain Abercron, Dussel- .
dorf.
Germany Herr Scherl, Schwaben.
Germany Baron von Hevald, Pot
mem. Great Britain Hon. C. S. Rolls.
Britannia. ......
Great Britain lrofeesor Huntington,
Zephyr. .
Spain Lieutenant Herrera, Ayayay.
Spain Senor Salamanca, Norte.
Spain Captain Klndelan, Montaner.
Belgium M. Van den Briesche,
OJouhi.
Italy Slirnor von Welller, Elfe.
PARIS. Sept. 30. Sixteen balloons,
averaging over 2000 cubic metres capacity
each, and representing- seven countries,
sailed away from the Tuileries Gardens,
in the heart of Paris, this afternoon in
the first competition for the Gordon Ben
nett cup for International aeronauts.
The contest was primarily a long-distance
race. The date had been carefully
selected when the prevailing winds are
from the west, in the hope of giving the
aeronauts an opportunity to break the
record of Count de la Vaulx, made in
1900, when his balloon landed in Korosty
cheff, Russia, having covered a distance
of 11S5 miles in 33 hours and 40 minutes.
But today the wind was light, hardly
more than eight miles an hour and from
the east, thus making the shores of the
Atlantic the limit of distance and robbing
the occasion of its chance as a test of
long-distance aerial traveling.
Million People Gaze Skyward.
On this account the race was a keen
disappointment to the aeronauts, who had
come from every corner of Europe. The
rules of the contest, however, provided
that in case of unfavorable atmospheric
condiuons the judges could, at their
option, make the test one of endurance
to remain in the air. Nevertheless, as a
spectacle the event was a brilliant suc
. cess. It is calculated that over a 1,000.000
peoplo watched the balloons as they sailed
away. A quarter of a millon had gathered
iosldo the gardens, while the Place do
la Concord, the bridges over the Seine, the
embankments, of the river, house tops
and every other point of vantage for
miles around was black with people. '
The terraces in the garden had been
reserved for invited guests. They were
occupied by prominent aeronauts of
Europe, as well as many distinguished
visitors from various countries, the
foreign diplomats here and the French
Ministers of War and Marine. The for
eign military attaches are especially in
terested in the event, it being regarded as
a great test of aeronautics and much
more than a mere sporting contest.
The start was preceded by the flight of
hundreds of trial ballooncttes and the
loosing of 500 homing pigeons.
Novelty by Santos-Dumont.
Each contestant is an experienced aerial
pilot, but, contrary to expectations,
Santos-Dumont, one of the two repre
sentatives of the Aero Club of America,
proved to be the only one to inaugurate
a novelty. For the purpose of keeping
afloat as long as possible he had equipped
his car with a six-horsepower verticle
propeller, with the object of lifting and
lowering his balloon without discharging
any of its precious ballast. The enthusi
astic cheers of the multitude which
greeted the ascent of Santos-Dumont
showed that he w:s a favorite and quite
as popular as his French rivals.
Major Herzy, the companion to Walter
Wellman in the Wellman-Chicago Record
Herata North Pole expedition, acted as as
sistant to Frank P. Lahm, Lieutenant in
ii.e sixth United States Cavalry, the
other American competitor.
Each balloon carried a sealed recording
barometer to work for 24 hours and a
number of envelopes to be thrown out
every two hours, in order to mark the
Individual trail. Food for three days
was also on board each car.
Moon Will Aid tlie Pilots.
Not the slightest accident marred the
start. Each enormous balloon n turn
soared aloft amid the plaudits of the
crowd and sailed gracefully away to the
westward. The full moon tonight will be
of great advantage to the pilots. In ad
dition to the cup which goes to the club
of the winner and which is to be com
peted for annually, there Is a cash prize
of J2900 to the winner, J266 to the second
and $133 to the third. There are In ad
dition several other prizes. Including the
Contcssa Campello's cup for the best
voyage, the English team prizes for me
teorological observation, the gold medal
for endurance, the Gaulois distance cup
and, the Santos-Dumont prize for the
greatest distance in 48 hours.
TROOPS ARE TO LAND
(Continued From Page 1.)
acting secretaries and chiefs of bureaus
were at their desks and every office was
humming'wlth activity. Scores of clerks
who have not worked on Sundays since
the Spanish-American War were on duty
at the War and Navy Departments and
at the headquarters of the marine corps.
General Ainsworth, Military Secretary,
and General Bell, Chief of Staff of the
Army, worked throughout the day con
cluding arrangements for the departure
of the first expeditionary force to Cuba.
Orders for the movement of the troops
were sent out last night, but today
scores of orders were sent to officers
who are on leave to join their regiments.
Transports Have Been Engaged.
General Humphrey, Quartermaster
General, practically closed arrangements
today for transports which are to con
vey the expedition to Cuba. The ships
will be ready for departure before the
troops have been mobilized at Newport
News. If It should be necessary to send
AC
BENNETT
a second expeditionary force to Cuba Im
mediately following the first, the War
Department apprehends some difficulty
on account of the quarantine laws of
the various Southern states.
A transport returning to any Southern
State from Cuba will have to remain in
quarantine five days before it can take
on a cargo of troops for Cuba. The War
Department has taken up this matter
-with the authorities of the Southern
States In the hope of arranging for a
waiver of the five-days' quarantine reg
ulation. Secretary Taft, as the head of the Pres
ident's special mission to Cuba, has
available 5000 marines and bluejackets
who could be landedr on Cuban soil In a
few hours In case of emergency. More
marines are on the way to Cuba and will
be available for emergency Bervice In
two or three days.
Sumner Takes First Troops.
It will be a full week before the forces
of the Army can be landed In Cuba. The
first detail of troops will leave New Tork
Wednesday aboard the Army transport
Sumner. They will arrive at Havana
Saturday next. It probably will be sev
eral days later before other troops of
the first expeditionary force of the Army
will be able to reach Cuba. Where they
will be landed is yet undetermined. It
is likely they will go to Havana,, but
their precise destination will not be de
termined until practically the hour of the
sailing of the transports.
No time Is being lost in hurrying troops
to the point " of mobilization Newport
News, Va. The order of President Roose
velt, received at 10:55 o'clock last night
at the War Department, was Imperative.
The text was as follows:
"Arrange for 6000 troops to start for
Cuba as soon as possible."
Orders Are Quickly Sent Out.
This telegram was received in answer
to one sent to the President yesterday
morning by the War Department offic
ials, following the message from Sec
retary Taft. Immediately upon the re
ceipt of the President's orders, tele
grams were sent to the troops selected
for Cuban service to move at once. By
midnight last night all orders to troops
had been despatched, and a dispatch re
ceived today by the Military Secretary,
General Ainsworth, Indicates that the
orders are being carried into effect.
Nine hundred men will sail from New
Tork next Wednesday on the Army trans
port Sumner. One light battery from
Fort Sheridan, at Chicago, will embark
from Port Tampa for Havana as soon as
arrangements can be completed for the
movement. The remainder of the first
expeditionary force, which will number
about 5G00 men, will sail for Cuba from
Newport News, Va.
T4ie troops to go to Cuba are battalions
of infantry from Plattsburg, N. T., Bar
racks. Accompanying them will be some
officers and men of the Medical Corps
and Hospital Corps and Signal Corps.
Loading Supplies on Sumner.
The Sumner is loading at New Tork.
She will carry commissary supplies for
the first expedition for 30 days, in addition
to the necessary supplies for her crew
and the men she will carry on the way to
Cuba. The New Tork depot of the Com
missary Department was open all last
night and all day today, and every effort
is being made to facilitate the departure
of the Sumner. It iB likely that the troops
to sail on the Sumner will be concentrated
In New Tork on Tuesday.
Commissary-General Sharp will not
cease his work on the departure of the
first expeditionary force to Cuba. As soon
as the troops are landed, which will be
within ten days, another full supply of
commissary stores for 30 days will be
sent to Cuba by a merchant liner. One
week later a third supply for 30 days will
be forwarded to Cuba. The object of
sending the supplies so rapidly is -to get
them into the depots at Havana and have
them handled without confusion.
Major Henry E. Wilkins, now assistant
to Lieutenant-ColonelA. D. Kniskern, the
purchasing commissary at Chicago, has
been ordered to Cuba as the chief com
missary of the expedition. He already
has started from Chicago for Havana.
Captain Henry G. Cole, of the Commissary-General's
office here, has started for
Cuba with a force of clerks. They will
sail from Tampa, Fla., tomorrow night
for Havana.
Commissary Well Cared For.
Captain Francis J. Koester, commissary
at the Washington Barracks, will leave
tomorrow for Newport News to superin
tend the loading of the supplies on the
transports which are to sail from that
port and to provide for the subsistence of
the troops at Newport News before their
embarkation.
Captain Leo F. Porter, of the Commissary-General's
office, will be the assist
ant to the Chief Commissary at Havana.
He probably will sail for Cuba on the
transport Sumner next Wednesday.
A dispatch was received at the War De
partment today from Brigadier-General
Theodore J. Wint, commanding the De
partment of the Missouri, that he would
arrive here Tuesday. He will be in com
mand of the troops at Newport News as
they mobilize there, and will direct their
embarkation for Cuba. Two companies of
Coast Artillery will be ordered to New
port News to act as provost guard.
SUMNER LOADED ALL NIGHT
Orders Have Been Given Transport
to Sail Tonight.
NEW TORK, Sept. 30. The equipping-
with supplies of the transport
Sumner, which late tomorrow will em
bark the first expeditionary force for
Cuba, continued uninterruptedly to
night. Orders have heen received at
Governor's Island for the Sumner to
sail at 6 o'clock tomorrow night and
late tonight these orders had not been
countermanded and it was expected the
transport would be ready to sail at the
hour specified.
The Sumner will carry 900 Ameri
can troops, comprising two battalions
of the Fifth Infantry stationed at the
Plattsburg, N. T., barracks, and a bat
talion of engineers from Washington,
D. C. The Sumner will sail from Gov
ernor's Island and probably reach Ha
vana on or before Saturday.
DES MOLNES GOES TO SANTIAGO
Cruiser Has Marines That Can Be
Landed to Keep Order.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. Announce
ment was made at the Navy Department
today that the cruiser Dee Moines, which
a few days ago was ordered from Ha
vana to Cienfuegos, Cuba, to reinforce
the Marietta and Cleveland, had been
ordered to Santiago, Cuba, and already
had sailed. The order for the move
ment of the Des Moines was given by
Secretary Taft and naval officials here
do not know the precise significance of
it. It is believed, however, to be a pre
cautionary measure and not because of
any disturbance at Santiago.
The Des Moines has a considerable
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NEW ARRIVALS of Mantel 'Clocks, Wall Clocks,
Office Clocks, Gold and Alarm Clocks. Special designs
in fancy Clocks.
Gas and Electric Lamps in handsome new designs and
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Welsbach, Block and Imperial Burners for gas lamps. '
Handsome display of new lines in Marble Busts and-.
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A visit to our Art Rooms is well worth while and will
please and interest you.
number of marines on board that could
be utilized as landing parties to pro
tect property or life. To take the place
of the Des Moines at Cienfuegos the Ta
coma sailed today from Havana.
The Prairie sailed today from Boston
and the battleship Texas from Norfolk.
The former carries IK) bluejackets and
ISO marines, and , the latter 226 bluejack
ets and 200 marines. They are expected
to reach Havana on Thursday at the
latest.
The cruiser Brooklyn with a large num
ber of marines will sail from League Is
land, Philadelphia, next Tuesday morn
ing. GREAT SATISFACTION AT ROME
Confidence Expressed That Inter
vention Will Bring Peace.
ROME, Sept. 30. Officials of the For
eign O'ffice expressed their satisfac
tion on learning of the proclamation of
a provisional government for Cuba,
and hoped that it would mean the re
establlshment of peace and order In the
island. Entire confidence is expressed
In government circles and by the press
that the United States will find a defi
nite solution of the troubled condi
tions. Official telegTams announcing Secre
tary Taft's assumption of the Govern
orship were communicated to King Vic
tor Emmanuel at the castle at Racco
nigi. Pope Pius was most interested in
the situation, and ordered that Mgr.
Aversa. the apostolic delegate, 'Should
delay. his departure for Cuba pending
further instructions.
FRANCE IS NOT SURPRISED.
-
All She Wants Is an Open Door for
Her Goods in Cuba.
PARIS, Sept. 30. The news of the es
tablishment by the United States of a
provisional government in Cuba creat
ed no surprise in official circles here,
where the refusal of the warring fac-
tions to permit War Secretary Taft and
Assistant Secretary of State Bacon to
mediate was considered to make this
step inevitable.
The action of the United States is
regarded as subserving the Interests of
all foreign countries. France's only
stake Is to safeguard her commercial
interests, and so long as the question
of the open door is not raised by some
development she is not likely to take
any action in the matter.
TROOPS FROM FORT SHERIDAN
Two Special Trains Will Convey In
fantry and Field Battery.
CHICAGO, Sept. 30. Brigadier-General
W. H. Cater, commander of the Depart
ment of the Lakes, received orders from
Washington today directing two bat
talions of the Twenty-seventh Infantry
and the Fourteenth United States Field
Battery, at Fort Sheridan, to proceed im
mediately to Newport News, where they
will embark for Cuba.
Colonel W. L. Pitcher, In command of
Fort Sheridan, ordered two special trains
of 12 cars each for Tuesday morning,
and it Is expected the troops will leave
for Newport News the same evening.
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fection. Delegates of 31 Governments
Will Meet at Berlin.
TO CONFER ON WIRELESS
Agreement Will Be Reached for an
Exchange of Messages Between
- Various Systems Now in Op
- eration In the World.
BERLIN, Sept. 30. Delegates represent
ing 31 governments will assemble here
October 3, by Invitation of the German
government, witlthe object of reaching
a common agreement for the exchange
of messages by the use of various wireless
telegraph systems, and to define the basis
on which private wireless telegraph com
panies may operate with the consent of
the governments.
The conference Is a result of the Mar
coni Company having refused to allow its
stations to do business with persons using
other than Marconi apparatus. This con
troversy began soon after the Marconi
Company, in 1901, set up stations for pub
lic telegraph purposes. The refusal of
these stations to take messages sent In
by the Slaby-Arco (German) apparatus
brought about the international wireless
telegraph conference, also by the invita
tion of Germany, In 1903. Eight govern
ments took part, as follows: The United
States, Germany, France, Great Britain,
Italy, Spain, Russia and Austro-Hungary.
The delegates of six governments agreed
in the final protocol to a Beries of recom
mendations looking toward the co-operation
of all users of wireless. The dele
gates of Great Britain and Italy, because
their governments had contracts with the
Marconi Company, did not sign the recom
mendations. Little has come of these'
recommendations. The Marconi Company
has continued to set up stations and to
refuse the messages of rival systems.
The most important act In the contro
versy in the conference was that of the
United States in 1904 directing the Mar
coni Company to remove its apparatus
from the lightship Nantucket.
Germany will propose to the conference
that an International bureau shall be es
tablished for the control of wireless tele
graphing; that each wireless station must
be connected with the ordinary telegraphs
by special lines: that the conditions un
der which wireless stations shall work
with dompanies that do not subscribe to
the conclusions of the conference shall
be laid down by the conference: that gov
ernments which do not adhere to the con
vention may do so later; and that when
controversies shall arise over the inter
pretation or application of the convention
they shall be submitted to arbitration.
Application of Algeclras Decisions.
TANGIER, Sept. 30. The Sultan has of
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Best Body Brussels at, yard ; .$1.67
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ficially charged Mohammed El Torres, his.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed
Sldi El Mokhlrl. Moroccan delegate to the
Algeclras conference on Moroccan re
forms, and El Menebhik, ex-Minister of
War, to discuss with the Ministers of tho
powers at Tangier the conditions for the
application of the decisions of the Alge
ciras conference.
ABBREVIATI0NN0T REFORM
(Continued From Page 1.)
already calls 'Mile End Road,' and will
soon call with native perfection of accent
'Mawl Enn Rowd.'
Young Actors' Speech Perverted.
"Even on the stage young actors are
rebuked for speaking as ladies and gen
tlemen used to speak, and are deliberately
taught not even parvenu English, which
is bad enough in all conscience, but pos
itively Hoxton English. The classic
beauty of speech by which Forbes Rob
ertson makes 'Hamlet' still fascinating,
in spite of its intellectual obsolescence,
will soon be mimicked (let us hope suc
cessfully) as an eccentric dialect, and Mr.
Blank (the name of the excellent actqr
escapes me for the moment) will perhaps
die prematurely, worn out by efforts to
conceal his natural propensity to speak
like a gentleman and acquire the common
language of the barrow and the motor
car in all its abhorrent smartness.
"I insist on this aspect of the case be
cause, while we seem Incapable of grasp
ing the enormous advantage of making
English the universal language both for
writing and speech or of understanding
how our spelling obstructs that consum
mation, most English men and women
would almost rather die than be convict
ed of speaking like costermongers and
flower girls. Our governing classes dropped
half the continent of North America from
sheer carelessness. Sooner than drop an
'h' they would steep Europe In blood. It,
therefore, hits them purposely in tHBir
vulnerable point.
Pitman Style Will Never Be Popular.
"For this very reason, however, the re
form cannot be effected by shortened
spelling, which Is indistinguishable from
ordinary wrong spelling. If any man
writes me a letter in which 'through' is
spelled 'thru' and "above" "abuv," I shall
at once put him down as illiterate and in
consequence plebeian, no matter what
board or what potentate sanctions his
orthography. Really phonetic spelling is
quite unmistakable in this way. No lady
or gentleman will ever be persuaded to
spell lke the late Sir Isaac Pitman, who
was a very energetic bookseller and a
very bad phonetician, but anybody mlgt
spell like Henry 8weet without compro
mising himself indeed, with positive af
firmation of having been' at Oxford. A
practically correct phonetic spelling Justi
fies itself at once to the eye as being the
spelling of an educated man, whereas
shortenings and so-called simplifications
suggest nothing but blunders.
"I, therefore, respectfully advise the
President and the board to take the bull
by the horns without wasting further
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WOMEN'S WHITE PETTICOATS FOR LESS.
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at ..ONE-THIRD OFF
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WOMEN'S SHAWLS AND FASCINATORS IN
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CHILDREN'S BONNETS AT A SPECIAL PRICE.
Children's Full Front Bonnets, of Bcngaline silk, trimmed
in large silk bow, shirred silk around face and silk
lined, colors red, navy and white; regular price $2.75;
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WOMEN'S WARM WINTER GOWNS AT REDUCTION
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time and enlarge the alphabet until our
consonants and vowels are for all prac
tical purposes separately represented and
defined. By rhyming with words in daily
use we shall then get a word notation
which may be strange at first which does
not matter but which will be neither lu
dicrous nor apparently ignorant which
does matter very much, indeed.
"One other point is of importance. The
new letters must be designed by an artist
with a fully developed sense of beauty
in writing and printing. There must be
no diacritical signs to spoil the appear
ance of the pages of new type. It is a
mistake to suppose that the Bible teaches
us the sacredness of pseudo-etymological
spelling, but it does teach us the comeli
ness of a page on which there are no
apostrophes and no inverted commas."
BIBLE NOT WORD OF GOO
BISHOP WILLIAMS SAYS BOOK
I NEEDS NO DEFENSE.
Young Men Just Out of College Are
Often. Misled by Impossibil
ities of Genesis.
DETROIT, Sept. 30. Bishop Charles D.
Williams, of the Episcopal diocese . of
Michigan, in an address to Y. M.' C. A.
members here today on "The Bible and
the Word of God," declared that the Bi
ble was not the word of God and that the
teachings to the contrary are the most
prolific sources of unbelief the church has
to contend with. The Bishop said:
"Nowhere does the Bible declare itself
the word of God.' Yet we are told we
must take It in Its entirety. It is a ven
erable book and visitors are requested
not to touch it, as it is the direct word
of God, there is no other.
"Take the young man just out of col
lege. He reads Genesis and finds impos
sible geology, astronomy and ethnology.
His teacher, when questioned, says:
Manipulate it until it fits your sciences.'
If too honest to handle the wbrd of God
craftily, the young man gives up. the Bi
ble. He refuses to stultify his reason.
The Bible needs no defense; all it
needs Is a square deal. There are those
who read it devoutly and diligently, but
I never say the Bible is the word of God.
I say the Bible and the word of God. To
those who accept the entire book as the
literal word of God I point out that it is
nowhere so stated. Christ tore asunder
the Old Testament precepts, the law of
Moses, and furnished new ones. Where
the Old Testament directed men to hate
their enemies the teachings of Christ
were to love your enemies.
"We must learn from the Scriptures
itself how to read the new Scriptures.
Some of us use it as a heathen does his
fetish or amulet a wicked use of the
book."
Lisbon Denies Loot of Bank.
LISBON, Sept. 30. The report published
In the United States that a raid on the
vaults of the Bank of Portugal was made
Friday night by robbers who carried off
$1000, and that the robbers were pre
vented from making a larger haul only by
discovery of their operations, Is untrue.
N Fifth, Sixth
and Washington Sts.
LAND FOB THE PEASANTS
ACREAGE AT LOW PRICE ON
EASY PAYMENTS.
Final Plans Are Being Completed by
the Russian Government for
the Distribution.
ST, PETERSBURG, Sept. 30.-Ths
final step to set in action the machinery
of the Government's plan for the distri
bution of land to the peasantry was ta
ken today by the publication of volumi
nous regulations to the local agrarian
commissions, under which the sale of
11.000,000 dessiatines of land in European
Russia will begin Immediately. These
commissions, which are composed of dele
gations elected by the peasants, land
owners and the Zemstvos and of repre
sentatives of the Government, act as in
termediaries in the valuation of land
and the fixing of conditions of sale. They
are charged with arrangements for emi
gration also.
The acreage in Eastern Russia and on
the Siberian steppes surrendered by the
Emperor will be sold on easy terms. The
price is less than J2 an acre, and pay
ments are spread over 50 years.
With the constitutional Democratic)
Congress only one week away and the
formation of a formidable new party on
Count Hoyden's platform, peaceful re
generation seems fully assured. The po
litical campaign Is becoming animated.
The ban upon the meetings of the Con
stitutional Democrats in St. Petersburg
and Moscow has been raised, and these
assemblies have been sanctioned subject
to the restrictions of Ex-Premier Witte's
temporary law.
Encouraged by this concession, the Con
stitutional Democrats contemplate trans
ferring their congress of October 6 from
Helsingfors to St. Petersburg, but they
will adhere to the arrangements made
to meet In the Finnish Capital uniess
they are definitely assured of non-interference,
as they are In wholesome fear of
the regulations of "reinforced security."
It is expected that about 400 delegates
will attend the congress.
The appeal for mitigation of the death
sentence passed tipon tho assassin of
General Kozlov, who was killed In Peter
hof Park last July, has been Joined by
the General's widow. After fruitless In
tercession with the commander of the
St. Petersburg garrison, Mme. Kozlov
has telegraphed the Empress, asking that
no further blood be shed upon the tomb
of her husband.
Poles Escaping From Lemberg.
WARSAW. Oct. 1. Hundreds of Poles
are fleeing from Lemberg. Owing to the
devastation of estates In that vicinity
the refugees are In most destitute con
dition. Conditions In Warsaw show no signs
of Improvement. Attacks upon the police
continue -with unabated zeal on the part
of the terrorists. Trains are held up
daily and mall cars rifled.
A rimly jeweled crown, which coat 20.
000. has disappeared from the church at
Mont. St. Michael, Rouen. One version Is
that it hKH been stolen, another that it has
been hidden by the priests to eave it from
confiscation by the government.
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