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INTRIGUE MAY COST
SWEDEN MUCH FOOD
United States Will Impose
Tighter Restrictions on
All Exports.
ARGENTINE VIEW AWAITED
Effect of Possible Declaration of
War or Break In Relations Is
Considered Because of Hugo
Wheat Crop Ready.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. While the
American Government awaited develop
ments today following Secretary Lan
sing's disclosures regarding the trans
mission of official German dispatches
by the Swedish charge at Buenos Aires,
Washington officials and foreign diplo
mats turned their attention to a study
of their possible significance.
Two facts stood out . clearly . in the
minds of most observers. Sweden will
be compelled to make definite her posi
tion as a neutral and the exposure may
be taken as indicating more exactly the
Intention of the allies to see that Ger
many shall cease receiving aid from all
the Northern European neutral coun
tries. Publication of the facts, although dis
closing nothing the Government's ex
ports administrative board has not
known for some time, reveals to the
public that this Government is fully
cognizant of aid Sweden has been ren
dering the central powers and tends to
cement opinion in support of the abso
lute embargo put into effect against
Sweden, along with the other neutrals,
eix weeks ago.
Food to Be Cat Off.
It has already been declared definite
ly that no foodstuffs or other supplies
will be permitted to go to the neutrals
for at least six weeks to give this Gov
ernment an opportunity to establish
precisely their trade relations with
Germany.
Sweden, as well as the other neutrals,
has contended it has the right to export
to Germany any commodities produced
at home, even though the goods are re
placed by commodities imported from
the United States. Some American offi
cials say the war would be ended with
in six months If Swedish iron exports to
Germany were stopped.
The Swedes, it is declared, have
drained their country of foodstuffs by
taking from the food-producing indus
tries vast numbers of men and placing
them in the iron mines and the muni
tions factories which have sprung up
since the war began.
Exports Exceed Peace Basis.
Official figures show that exports of
American food to Sweden, running at
the rate of $14,000,000 a year in peace
times, jumped to $80,000,000 the first
year of the war, and since the begin
ning of the British blockade have grad
ually decreased from the high figures,
although they still are three times
above the peace basis.
The Government today still was
waiting for some Indication of how the
Swedish government regards the dis
closures of the part taken by its lega
tion in Buenos Aires in transmitting
German legation dispatches to Berlin.
Another phase of the situation that
Is receiving careful attention here is
the possible effect if Argentina breaks
relations with Germany or declares
war. Argentina this Winter will have
large quantities of wheat for export
and as a neutral she might send much
of it to the European neutrals under
the operation of the British blockade.
Host Wheat Crop Probable.
As a belligerent or with diplomatic
relations broken, however, the Argen
tine Government probably would take
control of its exports and carefully
supervise all shipments to the neutrals
to prevent any foodstuffs from reach
ing Germany.
Argentina is the only one of the big
food exporting nations now at peace
with Germany. The Argentine wheat
crop this year promises a surplus of
200,000,000 bushels, much of which, It
is said, already has been purchased by
the European neutral governments.
Whether this Government got the
dispatches it published from its own
agents or from those of one of the
allies remained a secret.
BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 10. Argentine
officials, according to newspaper ac
counts, are still unable to believe that
the dispatches sent to Berlin through
the Swedish Legation here were ac
curately translated. The Foreign Of
fice early today said that it was with
out official advices from Ambassador
Kaon or American Ambassador Btim
son. Newspapers and officials generally
believe that the government will de
mand the recall of Count Luxburg,
. German Charge at Buenos Aires, but
a rupture in diplomatic relations with
Germany is not anticipated at present,
the Argentine government preferring'
it is said, to consider the affair a per-
isonal one between the German and
.Swedish representatives here.
SWEDISH CABINET IS BLAMED
Paris Papers Condemn Acts as Viola
I tion of Good Faith.
PARIS. Sept. 10. The Swedish-German
relations are ma j a feature of
today's Paris newspapers, which, In
their Introductory notes and headlines
attach responsibility to the Swedish
government, and In particular to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The guilt of the affair must rest
upon the whole Swedish Cabinet, de
clares the Matin. In general, the press
demands that the Swedish people
promptly disown a government which
has betrayed them into such "scan
dalous violation" of good faith with the
allies.
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DONALD B. MAC MILLAX.
Donald B. MacMillan. the noted Arctic explorer, recently returned to
the United States after four years o f Isolation amidst the snow and ice
of the Far North. On his arrival h e asserted that he was mighty glad to
be back. The famous explorer is as hardy as ever and none the worse
for his protracted stay in the Arctic regions.
MacMillan's search for "Crocker Land" proved that the much-discussed
new continent was not there and was a mirage. MacMillan many times
during the four years of his stay 1 n Arctic circles was reported lost.
Several relief expeditions were sent to his rescue and news of the party
drifted Into civilization with many variations. .
GAINS ARE DENIED
Italy Contradicts Austria's
War Communications.
FIGHTING IS HAND-TO-HAND
Battle Rages In. Sector So Narrow
Only Limited Number of Troops
Can Be Used by Either
Side to Advantage.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. Official
denial of the Austrian communications
of the past two days are contained In
dispatches to the Italian embassy from
Rome.
They declare the Italian troops not
only have resisted the counter attacks
of the Austrian-German-Turkish army,
but have advanced their lines between
Castagnevizza and the sea. The Aus
trians had temporary and local suc
cess between Cello and the Hermada,
but even this gain was at once taken
from them.
The Italians, the dispatches continue,
have captured all the tunnels on the
Duino railway line, where an Immense
amount of material was taken. It Is
admitted that the Italian losses in the
Austrian counter-attacks must have
been very heavy, but the Austrians
failed completely to gain any point of
strategic value.
Aosttiana Lose 135,000.
The Italians assert that between
August 18 and September 1 the Aus
trians lost in killed, wounded and miss
ing 135,000 men, among whom were
many Germans and Turks.
A later dispatch from the Italian gov
ernment states that the Italian troops
are slowly but surely advancing with
undiminished energy.
ROME, Sept. 10. General Cadorna
continues to press the Austrian forces
in the region of the Austro-Italian front
northeast of Gorizia, according to the
official statement issued today by the
Italian War Department. Yesterday
there was a very great artillery bom
bardment south of the Ca-so.
Italian Take 145 Guns.
Since the beginning of the battle the
Italians have captured 145 guns.
UDINE, Italy, "sept. 10 The fight
against the heights northeast of Go
rizia continues night and day during
good and bad weather. The continu
ous contest seems to the observer to
be animated by superhuman force, the
Italians and the Austrians almost con
stantly enraging in hand-to-hand en
counters. A strange situation is brought about
by the two forces, virtually equal in
numbers, strength and determination,
struggling for supremacy in a circum
scribed arc where it is Impossible for
either side to employ more men or ar
tillery. Gaps In the ranks are instantly
filled and thus the contending forces
remain so balanced that victory appar
ently is impossible to either side.
. The fierceness of the struggle is
proved by the fact that in 12 hours the
Italians attacked the enemy five times.
PRIVATE SAVES LIVES
CANADIAN ISOLATED TWO DATS
NEAR ENEMY LINE.
Clothing Used to Make Bandages for
Wounded and All Are Brought
Back tm Base Safely.
CANADIAN HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, Sept.10. Private Henry Lome
McFadyen, of an Ontario battalion, has
been given a distinguished conduct
medal for splendid devotion to duty
while acting as a stretcher-bearer dur
ing a raid into the enemy's lines.
When the raiders withdrew, several
wounded men had to be left behind in
a shell hole close to the enemy's line.
McFadyen remained with them for two
days and a night, using his clothing
to bind their wounds and make them
IN ARCTIC, EXPLORER IS GLAD TO
BACK.
more comfortable, and eventually
brought all the wounded men back into
their own lines. -
The award of the military medal to
24 noncommissioned officers and men
of a French Canadian battalion which
did gallant work at the capture of
Hill 70, and had already earned high
praise for its fine achievement at Cour
celette, shows that the men from the
province had a full share In current
victory.
S. S. CITY OF CORINTH SUNK
British Freighter and Nova Scotia
Schooner Victims of Divers.
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 10. The
British freight steamship City of
Corinth, a vessel of 5870 tons gross
register, owned by the Ellerman lines,
has been sunk by a German submarine,
according to reports received here to
day in marine circles. The City of
Corinth was last reported leaving
Vladivostok for London.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10. The Nova
Scotia schooner Mlnas Queen was sunk
by a submarine on August 28 while on
the way from a French port to the
United States and in addition to Cap
tain Wilbert Loomer, of Advocate Har
bor, N. S., four of the crew, all Ameri
cans, lost their lives, according to in
formation here.
The Minas Queen was a new vessel,
having been built in 1916 at Parrsboro.
N. S., and was on her first voyage
across the Atlantic
AMERICAN AIRMEN ACTIVE
Eight Enemy Machines Brought
Down in Three Weeks.
By the Associated Press.
FRENCH FRONT IN FRANCE, Sept.
10. American aviators with the French
army are making an admirable record,
having brought down eight German
machines within the last three weeks.
Walter Rhone, of Martha Vineyard.
Mass., brought down his second enemy
machine on September 6 after a thrill
ing fight at an altitude of several
thousand feet. A. Gundlach, of Chicago,
destroyed hlc first German machine
three days ago. Both men axe in
the French escadrilla.
Paris friends of Everett Buckley, an
American aviator, who has been re
ported killed, say that the report is
not true, as he has been heard from
within the la.se two or three days.
INTRIGUERS ARE CAPTURED
German and Austrian With Arab
Band Fight in Abyssinia.
LONDON. Sept. 10. A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Jibuti, Africa, says
that a German named Holts and an
Austrian named Karmelich, who, with
40 Arabs, have been wandering in the
interior of French Somaliland about
two months, have been captured after
a strong resistance in which several
were killed.
The capture of Holts and Karmelich
is expected to result in Important reve
lations of German intrigues in Abys
sinia. STANDARD JF TALKED
Bakers and Food Administration
Discuss Problem.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10. A standard
loaf at a uniform price everywhere
was discussed between the food ad
ministration and representatives of the
Master Bakers' Association.
Many of the bakers feel that, inas
much as the Government has set the
price of wheat which will determine
the price of flour, the time la ripe for
standardizing the loaf of bread.
Aberdeen Schools Cost Given.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Sept. 10. (Spe
cial.) Operation of the Aberdeen
schools in 1918 will cost 8197,547, ac
cording to the budget adopted by the
Board of Education. Of this sum, only
$59,535 is to be raised by a direct tax
upon property. Of the total to be ex
pended 870,000 will be devoted to pay
ing teachers' salaries. The district is
to receive $28,095 from the state dur
ing the year and 834,643 from k eoun-
OF REVOLT
BERLIN
Germany Expected to Offer
Peace Terms to Prepare
Own People for End.
WHEELS MUST START SOON
Entente Officials Believe Serious
Results Would Follow Return of
Troops From Field It Com
merce Cannot Start Soon.
LONDON, Aug. 27. (By Mail.) Be
lief, strong in the minds of official Lon
don, that a very definite peace offer
will come from Germany before Win
ter, is based on a knowledge of the
situation within the German empire.
The German offer, it is expected, will
suggest immediate cessation of hostili
ties on a basis of status quo.
Entente statesmen have Indicated
fully that they will refuse such terms,
and no doubt Germany Is aware of
this. But .German leaders regard a
status quo offer from the German side
as an indispensable step in the prepara
tion of German public opinion for fur
ther concessions.
A high official authority gave the
Associated Press today the following
statement of the situation In Germany
as regards peace:
Revolution at Home Ponlble.
"There Is no doubt that the German
government is anxious to get out of the
war at the earliest possible moment on
any terms which will insure them
against revolution at home and nation
al collapse.
"Since Germany's so-called peace of
fer a year ago. the continued pressure
of the entente and the entry of the
United States have completely changed
iuo onuauon. j.ne question Is not now,
in fact, what are the war alms which
Germany will Impose before she grants
peace, but what terms she herself will
be willing to accept. That is a very
simple statement of the greatest fact in
the war situation today.
"The ent-y of the United States and
many of the South American republics
has put economic matters Into the fore
ground. The German government must
obviously view with extreme apprehen
sion the -situation at home in the
months immediately succeeding the
declaration of peace. The physical ex
haustion of the people and of the coun
try, combined with the want of food,
which cannot be Immediately remedied,
and the want of raw material for
starting manufactures, will create a
most serious situation. If, when the
troops come back from the front, it is
not possible Immediately to start again
the industrial life of the country and
provide food and work, there will al
most inevitably be a very dangerous
revolutionary movement.
Free Market Desired.
"For this reason that which the Ger
man government will seek for most in
any peace arrangement Is security that
as soon as the war is over there shall
be a free flow of food and raw ma
terials' into the country, end at the
same time free markets for German
products. If this could be secured, the
energy of the people could be at once
directed to the restoration of com
merce and industry and their Interests
so concentrated that they would be
turned away from dangerous political
considerations."
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 9. The Nach
rlchten of Hamburg, in discussing the
question of peace, -ays that both the
I Austrian ana German Pan-Germans de
clare that Austria would be false to her
trust and to Germany If she advocated
a speedy peace based on a renunciation
of annexations and indemnities by Ger
many. The Nachrichten's Vienna corre
spondent assails the Vienna Neue Frele
Presse, the Zelt and the Sunday and
Monday Gazette, all of which have
printed ai ucles intimating that Ger
many Is the great obstacle to the con
clusion of peace.
ROME, Sept. 9. Cardinal Gasparrl,
papal secretary of state, has returned
to Rome from a fortnight's vacation
and Immediately set to work, together
with Pope Benedict, on the accumula
tion of documents received during his
absence regarding the papal peace Ini
tiative. To those who approached him
Cardinal Gasparrl said:
"Whatever happens, the proposition
made by Pope Benedict in favor of
peace will have the effect of greatly
clearing the situation."
HOPE FOB PEACE IS BRIGHTER
Socialist Member of Congress Praises
President's Note to Pope.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. Represen
tative London, of New Tork, the So
cialist member of Congress, spoke on
peace in the House today. He declared
hope for the end of the war was be
coming brighter, and won applause
from both sides of the oharaber with
his explanation of the present European
situation as he sees It.
After paying a tribute to President
Wilson's recent reply to the Pope's
peace proposals, Mr. London said It
gave great encouragement to those who
desire peace. Two dominant declara
tions of the President, that there will
be no dismemberment of the central
powers and no economical warfare
after the war of bullets, are of the ut
most significance, he Insisted, because
these two steps have been considered
part of the war plans of the allies.
Reports that the Reichstag is to
draft the German peace terms, Mr. Lon
don declared, is a good sign.
SEDITION CHARGE MADE
North Dakota Attorney Must An
swer Charge September 2 7.
FARGO. N. D Sept. 10. George
Lynn, attorney at Linton, the county
seat of Emmons County, was arrested
today by United States Marshal C D.
Scott on a Commissioner's warrant
charging sedition.
The arrest was mad public this aft
ernoon at the office of the United States
Marshal here. Lynn was arraigned at
Driscoll and his ball is fixed at 81000.
His hearing is set for September 27.
WILSONS TAKE VACATION
President and Wife to Play Golf in
New England.
GLOUCESTER, Mass.. Sept. 10
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson came
ashore this morning from the Presi
dent's yacht Mayflower and were met
at the pier by Colonel and Mrs. E. M.
House, with two automobiles, ; id the
party started immediately toward Man
chester to play golf.
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LONDON, Sept. 10. Field Marshal
Haig In his official report today says
the British troops last night consoli
dated the positions captured during the
day southeast of Hargicourt, on the
Somme front In France. At several
parts of the front, German raiding
parties were dispersed.
BERLIN. Sept 10. British troops
yesterday pressed back slightly the
German reserves at Hargicourt and
Vllleret on a narrow front, the War
Office announced today. Early today
the Germans recaptured the position to
the east of Hargicourt.
PARIS, Sept. 10. Successful raids
were made by the French last night on
the German positions in the Champagne
and Argonne regions, the French War
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banks of the River Meuse, there was a
violent artillery bombardment. The
French success in the sector of the
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Blind General and Maimed Veterans
Visit Historic Ground.
MEATJX. France.. Sept. 9. Ceremonies
in connection with the celebration of
the anniversary of the Battle of the
Marne continued today with a visit to
the field of operations on the Ourcq
River, General Michael Joseph Mauno
ury, since blinded by a bullet received
while on duty in the Aisne. who com
manded the army of Paris, heading the
v.slting party. General Lamaze. one of
C -neral Maurourys principal lieuten
ants, and several hundred maimed sol
diers who took part in the battle, ac
companied their blind commander.
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services at different points on the bat
tlefield. Private, Injured In Stampede, Dies.
FORT SILL, Okla.. Sept. 10. Private
Michael Vernes, of Clifton, N. J., Bat
tery E, Eighth Field Artillery, injured
by the stampede of artillery horses on
the range here Saturday, died at the
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