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'Bight Some of Taos Aboard Xsen '
l V'-'Vasssl In JtOTie' Show.
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United Press -Staff' Correspondent. -
"With tbe vBHMsh Battle Cruiser
8quadrdn Somewhere in the North' Sea. :
March By MaiU Standing pia-
cidly at anchor.but: In formldabU bat
tle array the Brltlah navy's ighttng
: veUrana of ; (he battles ot Helgo
land, Bight and Doggerbank. were still
. waiting for the Germans to come out.
- Great,' Jong gray warships, their
r engines ready' to turn propellers; lithe
Igreyhoundish scout, cruisers and
swarms of diminutive black destroyers
v and -torpedo-boats, all -fully manned
and ready for action, . appeared anx
jous hd ; willing today . to be off In
chase or battle, v , -;--'
By courtesy of the British admiral
ty X was ' able to see at close range
the real . reason why there has been
no nval warfareA In. the North sea
since January. 24, 1915, when the Ger
man Blueher was sunk and the. Derr
f linger, Molt&e And Beldlita were' forced
Ito rua to over; fn the German mine
fields.' Since - that .time, the - German
fleeU has remained at home. -y '-s;i.Z
irw-Criffr"7,,?Si Prepared, n ..V ;
.Preparedness , personified Jn ships
and men the British squadron la ready
to remain thus for years, If necessary,
according to the off icers and men with
whom I-talked, i 'N. r't-:?
Welt: ahead ia the battle line is- th
Tiger. 7fi0 fet.ff the same fighting
cat that showed her teeth to the Blu
eher In the Doggerbank action, A dent
ed armor plate just -Above the water
line, mark of a final shot- from the
Blueher, is a listing , memento still
carried by the Tiger. . The shell was
from' one Of the Teuton's 11 inch guns,
the Tiger's officers tleclare. s It failed
to penetrate : the v. nine Inch belt - of
Krupp armor wttile the Tiger's .13 ft
Inch guns wre .perforating the equal
ly . Kxupp ' armored rOermanV battle
' cruiser."-,,,;;.'- j'-'V.-s ? r
Berlin still believes : the- Tiger- was
sunk In this action.? A possible fore-
-east' of future German naval -.war
fare in the Worth- ea-nd an..- expla
nation of "Why the German1 belief Is
firm that .the - Tiger went down was
given by one of the Tiger's officers.
When- the Blueher turned her- massive
hull to ,view, a. Zeppelin appeared 10.-
08 feet above and dropped bombs jn
i the vicinity of the boats of the Brit
ish fleet busy picking up the Bluchers
I "survivors, .-. i: -
Bams Old Tiger.
'Observers on the air. ship"-:-saw the
Blueher' death struggle and assumed
that It was theJTiger. The word ,was
carried back to Berlin and officially
announced to the world before Ger
many saw .fit to announce that the Blu
eher. was sunk. It was the same oia
Tiser. however. Which the writer Jn-
Speeted from stem to stern today, and
seeing Is believing. . : s.
Not far astern the Tiger stoodihe
other member of the battle squadron's
cat family. It was the Lion, bristling
I with guns, big and small, primed and
ready for any emergency ; Hear oy la
the New-Zealand, a gift to the navy
from New Zealand in 19i0 and which
made a record trip around the worm
Just before the war. The Princess
Reyal. 700 trim feet of fighting ship,
also was nearby, keeping silent com-
Ipany with the other Ileet units, xne
identities of which must j remain ad
miralty secrets. - -
The battle cruiser squadron is wait-
Iing for something out of the air which
will set dosens of engines racing to
ward the open sea and cause hundreds
of officers, gunners and stokers : and
thousands of seamen to Jump to their
batUe stations. Lees than 10 minutes
after th prepare- for action" - comes
from the flagship the leading scoot
cruisers ,will be tearing out to sea.
Close behind, a-few moments later, will
come the speedy battle cruisers, primed
for the long awaited but ever welcome
tction. i .
Xuntlng Submarines. Is Diversion.
Every four days some of these light-
sr craft- scout, cruisers and torpedo.
i.
Of My Ltttle Girl. They Were Yery
Orefigurmg and Caused Itching.
- Child Very Cross and Fretful.
HEALED BY CUTICURAr
SOAP AND OINTMENT
" rThenT ny little girl was three and one-
tialf months old, ah had eruptions break
xit on her head, face and arms that were a
dad of mattery scales which were very dis
Igurlng and caused Itching so that nttto
a she was I had aaawfuDy hard time keep
ng her from scratching, and at night when
: wasn't watching aha would Cry and scratch
ill the plood. would run. -. The slda was
nfiamed and red. and the srapOona mads
isr very cross and fretful. ' She got to dis-
iwea i oia noi gnow aas co ao. .
TM had nq. relief unta I used a free
iDle of CaOcura Soap and Ointaneot. :: X
Minor sad after nsmg almost a faO-
flxed bos of the CuUcura Ointment together
Vita. the. CuUcura Soap she was healed.?
;signedrMra.S. Blatter, S33 Market 8fci
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jTIth 33-p. Ekia Book on request. Ad
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Sold throughoot the world.
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Jap3iiTsLast Bob Jrigersoll Laid to Rest -v
; Sans Anyeligious Ceremony Whatevir,
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Baron 1 Katd . Was Not Back3lif!ef From Any Belief-BatiWas
Unbeliever in erv SenkeEMt ahii WestCbntikertJ"
i Toklo. March 25. (L K-vB.) "Ths,
last" or "the infidels", was' buried in
Toklo with - the fJrst absolutely non
religions funeral service ever held in
Japaa ,. Baron ; Dr. " Hiroyukl Kato,
privy councilor, former president of
Tokio Imperial university, and tutor to
his present majesty's father, the fa
mous, emperor who led Japan into -modern-ways,
was 4he last of a group ot
1 earned - Japanese who professed the
disbelief Associated wi t h. "Colonel-Is -geVsoll
and Charles Bradlaugh.
' H was not a backslider from Chris
tianity, but from " BuddhJam. r and - his
atheism exlended te-aAl religious,-, be
liefs Christian or paran. Thls jitti
tude had no effect - whatever on his
career In Japan nor did it Interfere
with ' his influence and standing.
It - did not prevent . 2000 of "the
most ' distinguished living, , Japanese,
including the representative ; of .the
emperor, from attending - the "patt
ing meeting" held at the grave.''
Von-Bellglona Parting Ceremony. ;
When 'the Oaron died, his sons,'' in
achordance With his- .Instructions, in
serted an advertisement in the news
papers, inviting friends to attend a
"non-religious parting- ceremony" at
Aoyama cemetery. " What took place
was very much what would have, oc
curred in France if a dUtinguisbed
agnostic, was buried.' The impressive
pageantry of Buddhist ritual .- the
priests in gorgeous robes with their
heads snd intoned prayers, the cages
of birds to he liberated at the
graveside as a good deed on behalf
of the departed, the ., incense to be
burned by each mourner as an offer
ing was all cut out. ; '
:- In the funeral pavilion at the cem
etery the coffin was placed on a table
and the uniform and orders of the dead
peer -were laid on it The grand stew
ard of the crown prince read a vale
dictory address, the . principal tribute
in .j which was paid to Baron Kato' s
work as a pioneer of -western learning
and a student of western religions. .
boats, ;. amble -aeaward t take ; their
patrol sUtion where the; wireless ears
can be nearer'the German coast. It is
these Craft that will give the signal.
Their diversion in, the- meantime is
hunting' the elusive submarine, many
of which, it . was learned today, have
cruised their last in quest of the battle
cruiser squadron's haven Heavy nets,
set fartheri Inland, act as the squad
ron's second line of defense against the
submarine, v Whether these' nets have
been effective for catching purposes is
answered. iThls must remain a secret!
until after the ;war t?;
' Despite the long ;wait for' the Ger
mans to emerge from Kiel or-Hellgo
land thers Is no lack of morale, due to
inactivity, among the personnel of the
British fleet. v-Th hundreds of seamen
aboard the various units can tarn their
hand to-munition making; at any hour
of the day.. -OSteel lathes in the hold
of every cruiser are busy making small
shells and parts of shells for the array, i
On the second deck of every ship is
a battery or sewing machines and a
supply of j heavy . c&nvas. -1- Tens of
thousands f -articles, useful ' to sol
dier or sailor, are . turned out weekly
In this part of the North Bea, .The
work is voluntary. 'Each- week.' small
patrol boats slip; up to the cruisers
and take aboard the munitions which
are shipped by rail . to.. -various army
depots. - - i - . ' ? ' i '
' throws See Xovls hows.y. $ ::r
A portion of the crew, off icars first.
see ''the movies on board every night.
Charlie Chaplin perform his antics for
every member, of the battle cruiser
squadron from Admiral Blank down to
the-smallest mess boy." ; : ;'. -
Periodically the great rafts, inciden
tally of American manufacture which
hang on the supers tructure. of all the
squadron's units are launched for com
petitive raft racVs by picked men ef
the crews.', .There are .many other
smaller diversions' that keep the Brit
ish Jack-tar ' from worry about his
watchful waiting. U . k ; 1 '
Among the ships -visited todayT not
ones ,was the question asked TVVhen
are the Germans going to come outT'
Officers and men. alike, apparentljtjkre
content to wait. -There are no melan
choly faces anywhere In this part of
the'North bea. t
The extension of a branch of the Si
berian ; railway - for BOO l miles ha
opened bus of the world's greatest coal
fields, , , - , - -
The, vice' minister, of education, a
former president of .Toklo imperial un
iversity, and Baron Bahatanl,' former
minister of finance, also made short-addresses.-;
The widow and 'sons and
sons-in-law thenstepped forward and
be wed low before the coffin.- Without
further: ceremony, the burial was com
pleted. Imperial sympatfty ' was- tesh
fied in the customary form by the dis
patch Of a court' chamberlain - with a
gift of silk and J1600 from the. Em
peror. ' :
The late baron is said to be the last
of the group of secularists who tn the
last-reigrv as the result of their stud
ies In the (to them) virgin fields of
western religion, fcecam uncompro
mising atheists. His .compeers are
some' of them 'dead, som of them back
unobtrusively in the Buddhist and
Shinto folds, j- ; , ,
- East and West Contrasted. ......
Th fact does not mean much,for
the - two "heathen religions of Japan
have'1 fallen into decay, and Bhiilto es
pecially, is ; now-., practically nothing
more thin -a cult of loyalty to the em
peror and remembrance of one's father.
There is no reason why an "agnostic"
of the Indifferent modern type should
cause' trouble by breaking with it.
-A. curious illustration of Japanese
complacency ig seen in the manner in
which the Japan Times, a,n organ
owned by Japanese and printed in Eng
lish for the enlightenment of the for
eigner, contrasts' the honor - paid" tor
earon isaio wun what is assumed
would have, been -th- case if a dis
tinguished wiesterner ' hsd ordered an
agnostic funeral. ? If a man of Baron
Kato's standing1 had died in the west,
says the Jajaan Times, 7 stories of a
deathbed conversion or anecdotes
showing ; that, at ; heart he .really . be
lieved in a Ood would have been forth
coming, and a secular funeral of the
kind described would have been attend'
fed by none but persona of a special
set and a few curious others. , -
Jttussia;ls Mavine
Usual Army Scandal
Offieers ; High in 8aak Xlzed TTp ta
aSegad raad 1 in . Commissary,
: Amonatlaff te XfUloms of monbles.
V Stockholm, March 25. (' Jf.. s.)
The Rustlan minister of war. has start
ed an Investigation Cof 'a , huge army
scandal In which many" high officers
are said: to.be. mixed up. - -Although
the matter fs surrounded with a great
deal of- mystery, enough has leaked
through to create "a sensation. The
Petrograd-"Retch" says that already
"nine. high 'offieers. among them agen-
erai- ne.v Deen- -arrested,- and many
mors arrests are to follow shortly.
The arrested men. are charged with
defrauding.- the $ government out--of
many millions of roubles by ordering
payment for war materials which nev
er were delivered. One army contract,
or, according to the "JEUtch." received
1,600,000 roubles for muni tlonsr 1
thouehv he umif furhliMni .n.i.
shelL be was 'only allowed to keep tenij
per j. cent or. , ine - large sum. paid to
him,-ho wever. Tfae rest went to three
high officers and several well known
leaaere ot the bureaucracy. y . ,
- Aerial JBombardiiient
Oss crash After Another Occurs While
Ooloaai Beading; XT Oood Is Boded
v Home, March 18. (TI. P.) There Ts
one new regiment in Italy that took Its
oath -of allegiance under circumstances
that teem to bode nd good for any Aus
trlans that ever happen to get in its
way. The regiment was assembled in
One of the huge barracks at Milan, The
men - stood at attention, their right
hands raised to heaven. The colonel
was reading tbe oath. - Just as the lsst
word fell f rem his lips, there cam the
terrible crash of a bursting bomb, fol
lowed by another.- and another, and sn-
other. Perceptibly, nbta single soldier
moved, but. the i eyes ef every man
turned just enough to sight the enemy
aeroplane flying overhead; and,-as the
last word fell from the lips of tbe colonel,-and
the moment came for tbe.men
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-Above, left to right r-Prince H,enry of Prnssj,' commander of the German fleet whose recently reported
dash from Kiel kept the world expectant of a -naval engagement with Great Britain; German torpedo
Below? Interloriew of 'a torpedo
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T
T
BY-
Night and Day Butrowing
v Goes on in Effort to Ad
; vance Lines Few Yards
London, March 25. (I. N. S.) H.
Warner Allen, the official Britishpress
observer, with the French army, givet
the following interesting account of
underground fighting as practised; in
the. present war: , . jr
- "Night and day the enemy is burrow
ing and pushing forward bis saps,- try
ing to gain a few yards of ground lb
the . heavy clay soli, while the' French
on their side try to bar his progress
with .counter mines and camoui lets (or
mines used - to ' destroy an - enemy's
galleries without breaking the sur- j
face), and In their turn tunnel further
and further towards the German lines.
.-"The soil ls-eodden, and to prevent
It from collapsing -on the sapper con
stant shoring up is necessary. Every
ear must be vigilant for the slightest
sound of tlie enemy's approacUl" his
purpose must be divined end everything
done so" silently as to give warning.
' Greatest Trecautioa 'Used.- :
A time comes when the French' and
the German ! burrows . are almost in
contact. The look-out men listen for
the smallest soundof .tapping 5 on the
enemy s side. - Calculations . are made
as to the position of the enemy's sap.
Then,- with tbe utmost precaution, a
hols is mads with, a crow bar in ; the
wall of earth between the two excava
tions. . '- ! -.'-y,..vH-"'V'-S'-i '
"On one occasion three sappers were
working on ailehtly, when suddenly
one of them, stopped with a warninr
word. The earth sounded hollow under
his pickax. Very cautiously a number
of j little 1 blows : drove ' his ;jichax
downwards until tbe,' point .passed
into; -Aj nothingness. There vt could
be i--?no '-. doubt that? there i was
a German 'sap immediately underneath.
With every precaution they widened
the hole until It was large enough for
one of them to pass through, and 4
man, with revolver la his hand, slipped
down Into the darkness below. -Worst
rights ronad Craters.'"' - -.
. -:is inspection i was . brief. The
German--: mine was 'empty ' , and an
guarded. - The French soldier returned
and reported to his captain, who at
one called up all the .men he could
spare to fill the German tunnel, with
explosives. .The end of the tunnel lay
GIN
OBSERVER
certainly- in the German trenches. andi"PlM was sentenced te six months lm-
ii ws iuan vuc wi uicci v. wu9 ex
plosion would be felt. .-.? Sic"
:- The i word of ' command" waa "fol
lowed by a vast explosion. The enemy's
trench was torn 'to piece a A few mln-
utes 1st er the hugs crater produced
was in French hands.
."fris xeund those craters that some
of the fiercest fighting takes place.
The knit, the, bayonet, and the gren
ade, play -the chief part.. Sometimes,
rrlth th aid of sandbags, on of these
enormous holes will be converted Into
what is really an. advanced ' fortress
i lab t outside the main- lines."
to respond, there rose up one -roar of
I swear? ' with a vehemence that mo
mentarily drowned out the crash of the
bombs. , . . A,
storage -tnagsirine p tho German naval -base.
' ' " . t '' ,"' ;
French Prisoners
. AreWell Treated
'T , : Wp -
Swedish Xaperer, Who Kas Bepcated
ly Tislted Germany; Bays" Hlthy
aad Abmadaat rood Ptowlded. -.
' .Stockholm, March 25 a,M.M.W
The famous Swedish explorer, Dr.
Sven Hedin, who has repeatedly visited
the different- fronts -of the German
army, traveled through all patts of
Germany since the beginning of the
war,;wrltgi-W jt , jf-(.' .
" ii"! haVe.eeeni.bow. tbe prisoners. are
treated in Germany, and I talked with
hundreds of them. ' The French sol
diers.. without - exception, ' praised the
kind and humane treatment . tney re
ceive fronttbeir-eaptors, They get the
same : healthy, abundant food as the
German soldiers. In most . of : ths
camps the French prisoners cook, their
own food Sometimes they: ask that
they be given more vegetables -and less
meat; - and this request ' is -' always
granted; ? " - :V: ' '-':-'
'rWith dismay I have read In foreign
I newspapers that the prisoners of war
are badly treated by the Germans. This
is a 11. and I can state- so upon my
word of honor. The life ef a captured
enemy soldier is as safe in Germany
as human power can make It safe.
4-
Switzerland Unable ;
To Stotp Espionage
Two. Crtiseas Vaalshed Oaiy Beoeatly
for Acting m XeM of Communica
tion Between Cplss aad rrsach. v ;
Bsrnei March 25. L N. 8.) In spite
of all efforts .of Swiss authorities 'to
stamp out the activities of foreign se
cret agents, espionage still flourishes In
Switzerland. Proof of this fact : was
furnished at the trial ftwo Swiss citl
sens before tliejterritorlal court at Zu
rich.' 'v-.r i ;.;'' S':j
. .The defendants some time ago opened
alleged news agencies at Zurich and
Basle. Tbey' had pretentious offices,
but their business was eeaf lned to for
warding letters .they received from
French spies in Germany to a secret
service bureau at Lyon a, ' '- and to the
military authorities In Parts. For this
work -they received a fee of I860 a
month.;: The letters handled by them
appeared f to be entirely harmless, but
they-contained much highly, important
military information, which was' writ
ten between the lines, with .invisible
ink..v;-,--v-.:?-.' Jir-f:::J
Both ' defendants were - convicted.
Their only defense was that' they did
not know the contents of the letters
they forwarded to France. One of the
prtsonment and the other to three days'
imprisonment and a, fine of 1 4 00. v -
Hindenbtirg Gives 4
. Estate to -Widows
Berlin, -March 25.-(L K. a) Field
Marshal, von Hlndenburg has fallen
heir to V Small fortune. The famous
army leader recently -received n6tlce
that a West Prussian farmer.- whose
two sens were killed in battle, has left
him aa estate of about IlliOOO.
tTh victor of Tannenberg announced
at once that he would turn the money
over to th rVief fund for widows and
children of slain soldiers, - - . .-
v Aft ''
mAiuK UKA TjitNuH::
VILLAGE C0MIiS:
A GE
L
Teuton Soldiers Considerate
and Partiriilatlyrehey
'. Charitable to Poorr '
-
Berlin, March: 25. (t N..S.)The
following letter was written to Major
Lohmann, commander of a battalion
of- the nineteenth Wurtemberg infan
try regiment, by the mayor of a small
French village in the-r' Vdsges; moun
tains:-."-; t- J:;
"Slrr Wirh considerable regret I
learn that your battalion has received
orders to leave our village and to pro
ceed to some .other pert of the. front.
The occupation of our town-by force
of the enemy will, of course, always
remain a sad memory - for us, but we
Vnrvw that vnn and mif mn rannot
be held responsible for -tha misf or-
tupe that has befallen us.
' "As far as ? you and your officers
and : soldiers, are concerned J I gladly
testify .that you have always scted
humanely and : honorably. You Shave
protected the weak and innocent and
I know - that 'your personal; f forts
have dons much to relieve our suffer
ings. Tour soldiers were - always- con?
slderate and chariUrole.: During the
year which they spent here they shared
their rations daily .with the poorest of
our citizens and they- took especial
cars to feed ths hungry children.
"More than by anything else we have
been touched by your chivalrous con
duct .- toward our owj soldiers. .Ton
treated our, wounded defenders as un
fortunate comrades and . brothers in
arms and buried our dead with greater
oimtary honors than -would have been
giyea to itnem by their own country
men, Thja will never be forgotten by
us. -Sou have honored yourselves by
giving "many proofs of T sympathy for
us and we will remember-your chival
rous conduct-long after' peace ia re
stored.' ' ' - - ' -
la ths hope that this cruel war soon
may come to an end I bid you farewell
in itb name of the population or our
village.- - -. -; ,
Telephone in Trench
;rlays runny Trick
London, March 16-Even the tele
phones - in i the trenches -play .' tricks
mpA in a while, aecordina to an of
ficer just hack from the front. Th's
officer waa - in charge or a telephone
at - an, advanced post. Us waa - talk
ing to another -officer at another post
when -the - lih -went wrong.,,-Af ter
mgny, moments of silence the Instru
ment buzzed loudly and ,hs heard a
sweet' femal voice demand: "Num
ber, please." Exasperated at" wbat
appeared to be a bad Joke, ne, asked
for his home number in London. An
other short pause and another-female
voice was heard. It. was his wife tn
London -- Joyous - greetings were" soon
interrupted fby other voices which ex
plained - that the trench line has - be
come . crossed - with -, the - .main ... head
quarters , line connectedwlth JLondotu.
RMAN
OFFICIA
rSlBERIA HELL 1H0LE,
HPDR, MEYBERG
German1, publisher Saysf His
Countrymen Dyih'g.'by; the
- Thousand at'Shiganska. - J
. Vienna. March 25. (I..K. S.H "Less
than to. per Cent of the hundreds of
thousands or German ana Auetro-Hun
garian soldiers and civilian wno have
been carried to ' Siberia ' will return
alive after the war 4s over,
- This positive --statement whs mads
by Dr. Friedrich Mayberg, a publisher
of Lemberg, who-recently returned to
his native town after. 16 months Of
terrible suffejlngln a prison camp at
BnigansKa, on tn iena, m northern
Siberia
"With many ether prominent citizens
of Xemberg, Dr, Meyberg was carried
off by the RuseJans when they took
possession of; 4h Qallcian capital In
the first stages at the war.
Karry in February of , Jast year he
reached Jakuttk, with several thou
sand other .prisoners. . From there he
and hiawfellewauffererewere senjt
north over the fiosen Iena to Shigan-
ska, a distance of about 800 miles, in
temperature often SO': degrees t below
sero. Many of the poorly clad, prison
ers died from exposure on the way, and
hundreds of them were sick when they
reached" their destination-.
'; Prisoners' Xbt Xs Awfut,
'- "There were about tOOO prisoners in
ths camp- on the Lena," the- publisher
says. "Their lot..-wag --awful. They
received only scant supplies, and there
was no .medical eara for the sick snd
wounded. T-s! .'-.
- "About 20 of th unfortunates died
daily during the' months of April' and
May, and matters became still .Worse
When the terrible Siberian summer be
gan. An epidemic of typhoid and
swamp fever '. broke out and-the death
rate more than doubled.-.';',;
' "In August, conditions became a llt
tle better; buttup- to October. 1. when
I at last received notice that my ex
change had been agreed' upon and I
"was 'started on -my; way to Yakutsk
and Europe, ever 3000 of the prisoners
had died. .---I . - . 1 .
ICaay Xasdred Selfless, j ...
"""Fifteen- hundred others were In a
of them ar alive" today." . ,
"And i.Shiganska is not the worst
hell in. Siberia," Dr, Meyberg say g In
conclusion. "From prisoners whom I
met on my Journey to the; Roumanian
frontier. I learned -that conditions are
still worse in some of the, other prison
camps, I repeat fhat when the war
rfdf i ad i ths exchange of prisoners
begins, it will be found that not 30 per
"cent of ths soldiers and civilians sent
to Siberia ar. alive..-
Dies iii Connecticut
-i New' ;Terk,?, March - ts-Nathan Co-
hen. "the man without a country,", who,
.because 'he was Insane and bis, na-
tlonalityeould not be established, was
shipped ' back and forth many ' times
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stomach distress' will go. Ko indiges
tlon, ' heartburn, -- sourness . or belching
of gasvacid, - or eructations of undi
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foul breath -or headache.
Papa's Dlapepsln m noted for' its
speed in regulating upset stomachs. It
Is the surest, Quickest and most cer
tain indigestion remedy In the whole
world,' andbesldes it Is harmless,
Millions of men and women now eat
their favorite foods without fear they
know Pape'a tlapepsin will save then
from any stomach misery. - - -
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Oreat Central VrgaalsaUon Wit t
. On Idas, That of Privlng feu-i
- f to rrem-Tleld, Being yorttoC '
London, Ttfarcn 25. (U. ' P. Pre
liminaries to the greatest commercial '
vendetta In history are on in England
today; If ngland - was unprrpared ;
for war in ' August, 1914. there is. no
indication she wut be unprepared ror
the- great K trad war against German y :
which rls to, follow sterner hostilities.
- British?oommreial, ; inanuf acturlng
and" financial Institutions ar rapidly
welding themselves Into - a ' central
organisation which wilt hava for n
sole purpess , the atrangllng- ef ; Gr-
mant trade a everywhere.- Thlg (central
organization,-as already outlined. dur- A
th a great meeting Juet held at ,th
GulldhsU.j London, has for Its pur
pose also an affiliation with British
labor- which '.win .'-givs the- British 5 ..
worker Joe- most powerful voice in
htstofyf Vti "unionism , for. the- promo.
tlon.bf JOs welfs re.? y Resolutions
adopted' agree that i tsber shall have
a'plsc' 4n Itheiergantsationantl-iad -
minittratloft'n ths shti-Gerrasa cam
paign etj'an : equal ; f ootlnr "ith i em
ployers. ' ' ; ' ;'V! v . M ? "-
hfd tbator vAeked to Join. ? f. ; '.
LkboVrhas betf ; asked' te Join In -
7reat demand ;tnr the' government s
lor a non-POiiin-Bl . miniirjsDi tjMiii-.
mefce. A remedeling ef British tech
nioal and commercial education is to
bsJ demanded ,of the, proposed minis-
try; . That the- British consular serv- h
irehroughout51 the werld- Sbsll cori-:
siaf of ' the fbeM guested and smost V
prafc'ticai' buslness-'men that Knglan.l
ran produce, . is soother deman.i. :
British -consuls, it was sgreed oy i ns
hundreds of leading commercial and
financial heads attending the meet
ing, ' shall be paid high salaries with
substantial cash bonuses for any con
siderable increase in British trade n
their respective localities.
Allied with : more thsn 180 cham
bers of commerce representing prsc- 1
tlcally every commercial center in
the British empite, the Jondon Clianl
ber of Commerce presented the fol-'
lowing 'recommendations '- which - were
unanlmouslyeiadoptedjv;i-W' v,. -,
hamberg of. OOnuatre JSsst " ,
For reclprocalv trade relations ' be -tween
all parts-of the British em,
pire; - preferential trade with Eng
land's sHll: penalising -.enemy coun- '
tries by :tarlffs And, otherwise." '
A i, committee of the , government
board or - trade commission to inves
tigate and recommend changes io ths - ;
advantage ef British commtrce ' also
is on record with a lengthy list - of ;
vital reforms designed to protect-ths -British
producer against foreign com
petition., Th . recommendations '.bar
German mechanical toys from import
snd place heavy; duties on '"enemy"
glass and Esther wear. The govern
ment is asked for a vigorous enforce
ment of foreign patent laws anl
among of her things, for laws making :
it obligatory that foreign goods be
plainly stamped as such. - - -
"Representatives from more than 100 .
British' chambers of commerce mt 'n v
Ixndon recently to . frame further .
"stumps";; for German '.''trade;..- This .
meeting combined theyolcs of 80,-
000 manufacturers and merchants. ; ,
British bankers are ' - planning . a v
meeting to discuss financial aid tor
new eommerclar enterprises to fill '
the gaps left vacant by missing Ger
man Imports. Tbe great munition,'
factories, now making shells for the.
army.' are to be refitted wlth proper
machinery' for the ? manufacture of
divers things ' the t ' formerly came
from Austria and 'Germany.
- Xnflaoaee Will Be Telt, - '
When England's, great commercial,
financial and manufacturing ring is
finally-. welded, it-will not alone en
deavor' to crowd opt German trade 10
the British Isles and England's colo-
nles, ; according to best . information
todaavi Its influencs will be felt
more strongly" at first in the coiin-'
tries : allied with England, but will
eventually spread to the four Quar
ters of ths glebes 1 -
between the. United States and South -America,
is dead. '. ; .
Thirty-five years ago Cohen -wts
born !a , Russia. As a ,boy hs 'left
heme and three years ago landed in
Baltimore with severaK thousand dol
lars which he had earned in BrarIL
He started in business and married.
His . business failed and his wife ran
away. Cohen then lost his memory
and speech and was taken to an insane
asylum. , ,
fifty-cent case "of - Pape's Dlapepeln
from any drug store - and put . your
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