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The Christiania Social Demokraten
asserts that Norway has provisions for
only one month. Import prospects are
also gloomy, it is said.
The State department was advised
Sunday of the sinking August 23 of
the American schooner Carl F. Creasy,
of Bath. Me., by a submarine. The
crew of seven was saved.
According to information from Mad
rid, the Portuguese government em
ployes in the postal and telegraph
service have gone on strike. Suspen
sion of all communication has resulted,
Conscientious objectors accepted for
military service were advised by Sec
retary Baker Tuesday to make no pro
test until assigned in training camp to
some task particularly violating their
scruples.
According to the Cologne Gazette,
the first step toward the self-government
of Poland has been taken. From
now on justice will be administered in
the name of the Polish crown and by
Polish judges.
German airplanes visited the South
east coast of England Monday night,
dropping bombs at various places, ac
cording to an official statement.
The Petrograd Council of Work
men's and Soldiers' Deputies Tuesday
adopted a resolution of protest against
the re-establishment of the death pen
alty at the front. They demanded that
the measure be revoked.
H. W. Griesbach, of Sweet Grass,
Mont., and J. R. BrennHn, of Tacoma,
Wash., were listed as killed in action
in the Canadian casualty liBt issued
Monday. Among the gased is named
R. J. McAdam, Butte, Mont.
Practically one-third of the Bmall
arms ammunition supplied to General
Pershing's troops in France has been
found defetcive from chemical reaction
set up in the powder after manufac
ture at the Frankfort arsenal.
' German troops appeared for the first
time on the Carso (Italy) front Thurs
day morning, according to Austrian
prisoners. The Austrians are rushing
reinforcements from the Russo-Rou-manian
front, the prisoners Bay.
Snow has put out a serious fire near
Gordon Pass, in the Flathead country,
according to reports received at forest
service headquarters at Missoula,
Mont. All fires were abating and con
trol line have been establiched every
where. The National War Committee an
nounces a prize essay contest for chil
dren between the ages of 8 and 18 on
the topic; VWhy America Entered the
War." The prizes include a $r0 Lib
erty Bond and gold coins of $25, $15
and $10 respectively.
from a concealed position on a
mountainside near Middlesboro, Ky.,
200 shots were fired across the valley
early Monday at a party of repair
men, proceeding to the mines of the
Lower Lignite Coal company, where a
strike of union coal miners is in prog
ress. The Swiss sanitary authorities at
Basel and all along the German fron
tier are taking measures to prevent
dysentery, typhus and scarlatina.
which prevail in Rhine towns, from
entering Switzerland. All travelers
coming from Germany are required to
undergo medical examination.
Five Italian aviators have returned
from a successful flight to Vienna.
Leaving the Italian front the machines
passed over the Austrian lines unob
served and flew straight to the' Aus
trian capital, where the aviators
dropped pamphlets informing the peo
ple of the city of the great Italian vic
tory. The certificate of death of Kiolpgn,
an Indian, who died July 7, near Ko-
nan, Mont., on the Flathead Indian
reservation at the age of 110, has been
filed with the state board of health,
He was an Oregon Indian.
Membership of the American Red
Cross has reached the 3,500,000 mark
and is increasing at the rate of 25,000
to 100,000 a day, according to a head
Quarters announcement. At the be
ginning of the year the total was 275,-
000. ; -.
Federal authorities at St. Paul,
after examining John Slump, who told
Fort Snelling officers that he'was a
German spy, announced that the man
was mentally deranged and that he had
been treated at a hospital for the in
sane in Washington state.
Eleven men pleaded guilty in the
United States district court in Spo
kane Thursday to having failed to reg
ister under the selective draft law and
were sentenced to from one day to
ix months in jail. Three other men
indicted for having failed to register
pleaded not guilty.
RUSSIANS QUIT RIGA
Big Gulfport Falls Into Hands of Teu
tons, but Winter May Prevent
Pressing Their Advantage.
Riga, Russia's big port on the Gulf
of Raig, is in the hands of the Ger
mans and its garrison and the civilian
population are in retreat eastward.
Following up rapidly the advantage
they gained in driving the Russians
across the Dvina river on both sides of
Uxkrull last Saturday, the Germans
threw bridges across this stream and
soon were on the heels of the former
defenders, some of whom offered re
sistance, but others of whom showed
the white feather, giving the invaders
no trouble in marching up the eastern
bank of the Dvina toward Riga, 15
miles distant.
With the falling back of the Rus
sians from the city proper and the ad
vance of the Germans northward along
both Bides of the stream, the Russians
still defending the western bank
around Dahlen seemingly are in danger
of being caught between the two fast
moving bodies of the enemy and made
prisoner. Behind them the Russians,
in their retreat from Riga, are laying
the country in waste, burning villages
and farms. Whether the city itself
remains intact has not yet been made
known, but doubtless the guns in the
fortress and the ammunition stores
either were moved or destroyed to pre
vent them falling into the hands of the
Germans.
Aside from the strategic value of
controlling the Gulf of Riga and of a
base nearer the mouth of the Gulf of
Finland, at the head of which Petro
grad is situated, for the moment it is
impossible to Bee the importance of
the German gain, especialy with the
near approach of winter, when milli
tary operations in this northern region
are almost impossible.
Washington, D. C. Abandonment
of Riga in the face of the new German
drive into Russia, and even the evacua
tion of Petrograd itself, have been
forecast as possibilities in confidential
advices to the American government
during the last two weeks. Such a
development is not regarded with so
much alarm as might be supposed.
With Riga abandoned and German
occupation of Petrograd in prospect,
the seat of the Russian provisional
government undoubtedly will be moved
to Moscow. Much as they regret see
ing the Russian captial occupied by a
German army, the forceful thinking
men of Kussia, working to set up a
government, may regard it as a bless
ing in disguise.
There are many advantages in mov
ing the Russian capital to Moscow. It
is the center of the Conservative group
and commands the sentimental, almost
religious regard of the Russian popu
lace as the ancient capital of the old
empire, surrounded with the tradition
of Russia's greatness, the triumphs of
Alexander, Catherine and Peter the
Great.
Furthermore, some Russians of
the new government are said to
think that a German occupation of
Riga and even Petrograd, might be a
wholesome object lesson for the Radi
cal element which has been hampering
the new government, and that an ex
perience under the military heel of
Germany might convince them of the
need of supporting the government as
now constituted to save their father
land for Russia.
USE BAYONETS ON STRIKERS
Illinois Guardsmen Disperse Rioting
Mob Bricks Hurled Freely.
Springfield, 111. Charging with fixed
bayonets, Ilinois Guardsmen Monday
night dispersed a mob of more than
1000. streetcar-sympathizers who half
an hour before had wrecked tour
streetcars and were then attacking the
headquarters of the railway company
intent on wrecking and ransacking the
building. ,
Dispersed by the soldiers from the
corner In the main business section.
Where the cars had been attacked, the
mob headed for the offices of the rail
road company and the Springfield Gas
& Electric company, subsidiary.
Six soldiers on guard at the building
held the crowd in check for some time,
but bolder ones in the mob finally
started hurling bricks at the plateglass
windows, riddling the, front of the
building. As -reinforcements arrived
and charged them with the butts of
their guns, the rioters fled in confu
sion, a few of them being trampled,
but none seriously injured. No shots
were fired by the soldiers.
Holland Fears Misery.
Amsterdam Representing 150,000
workers, a trades union congress that
met here Tuesday discussed food prob
lems in connection with the stoppage
of imports from America and the un
favorable outlook for the home crops,
which have been greatly damaged by
the continuous rain storms. The meet
ing adopted resolution calling upon
the government to reduce the maxi
mum prices on food, fuel and shoe
leather, and to take other measures to'
prevent misery an! ..want among the
working classes during winter.
169 Whales Are Captured.
Aberdeen, Wash. A total of 169
whales has been brought in this season
by the four whaling ships of the Bay
City station, fifteen miles " west of
here, with Ave weeks of whale-hunting
remaining, The year's caUih will ap
proximate 250. i
Seven tons, 14,000 pounds, of whale
meat, was taken recently from one
finback, which is the largest amount
of meat furnished by any whale taken
this season.
PRESIDEN
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NEW ARMY PARADE
First Increment of Selective
Draft Leaves for Camps.
MANY MARCH AWAY
Members of House and Senate Join
Ranks of Soldiers to Pay Honor
to Departing Young Army.
Washington, D. C. The President
and congress of the United States and
the allied nations, through their diplo
matic representatives, joined Tuesday
in paying honor to the men selected
from the District of Columbia for
service in America's National army
raised for the battle for democracy.
Washington, long used to glittering
processions, opened its eyes and
cheered itself hoarse at the spectacle.
For two hours, while in other cities
throughout the Nation other thousands
moved over the first part of the long
road that may lead to French battle
fields, Pennsylvania avenue heard the
tramp of marching men, the jingle of
spurs and the rumble of artillery.
About 26,000 men, women end
children passed a reviewing stand be
fore the White House, where the Pres
ident and his guests watched the
parade. More than half of the long
line was in uniform. There were reg
ulars from infantry, cavalry and artil
lery regiments stationed near by, mar
ines from the officers' training camp
at Fort Myer and hundreds of Army
and Navy officers attached to the de
partments here.
President Wilson himself, eyes to
the front, stepping out like a freshly
trained recruit, marched at the head of
the long line, surrounded by a commit
tee of citizens which arranged the par
ade. Behind him, in unbroken ranks,
came most of the members of the sen
ate and house, in such a tribute as
they probably never have given on any
occasion in the long years Bince this
country became a nation.
When he reached the White House
the President left the ranks and took
his place in the stand by Mrs. Wilson.
It was the second time he had gone
a-foot over Pennsylvania avenue. The
first time when he led the preparedness
parade before the United States went
to war.
At the head of the senators marched
Senators Nelson and Warren, of the
Union army, and Martin and Bank
head, who fought on the Bide of the
gray in the Civil War, and with them
Senators Chamberlain, chairman of the
military committee, and Lodge, rank
ing Republican of the naval commit
tee. The house turned out hundreds
of its membership, headed by Speaker
Clark and " Uncle Joe Cannon. Sen
ators La Follette and Gronna were
conspicuously absent.
MAYOR IS HUNG IN EFFIGY
Council Votes Praise to Gov. Lowden
for Refusing Pacifist Meeting.
Chicago Chicago's City counci
sitting as a committee of the whole,
at the end of a turbulent four-hour ses
sion Wednesday, adopted by a vote of
42 to 6 a resolution praising Governor
Frank O. Lowden for his action in
overriding Mayor --William Hale
Thompson by refusing permission to
the People s Council for Democracy
and Peace Terms to meet in Illinois
and urging the Btate's chief executive
to prevent any meeting in the future
which may be inimical to the public
safety or disloyal or treasonable to the
United States.
Mayor Thompson and his friends in
the council made a stubborn parliamen
tary fight to prevent the adoption of
the resoltion.
Traffic was blocked Wednesday night
on Michigan boulevard by a large
crowd and scores of automobiles which
gathered . around an effigy ' of Mayor
Thompson, hanged to a lamp post on
an island of safety at the Randolph
street crossing of the thoroughfare.
A placard pinned to the manikin bore
the inscription:
"Sic semper Billbus.
"Veterans of foreign wars."
Rich Man's Son is Loser.
Salt Lake City George Low Ab
bott, son of a wealthy Ogden manu
facturer, who was ordered to report
for military service, but who success
fully claimed exemption, will have to
go to war, after all. Abbott claimed
exemption because he said his wife
was dependent upon him. Following
its action when it granted exemption,
the board Wednesday decided to accept
an offer made by I. N. Parker, of
Redmond, Utah, who said that he
would be prepared to support Abbott's
wife while he was on military duty. '
Peace Answer Discussed.
Amsterdam Baron von Kuehlmann,
the German foreign secretary, who is
on a visit to Vienna, discussed Wednes
day with Count Czernin, the Austro
Hungarian foreign minister, the terms
of the reply of the central powers to
the pope. - The emperor received both
ministers and heard their proposals re
garding the answer. Baron von Kuehl
mann is expected to return' to Berlin
at once and will proceed Immediately
to headquarter to report to the kaiser.
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TO AID FAMILIES OF
Red Cross Undertakes to Care
for the Dependents of Sol
, diers and Sailors.
PREPARE FOR A LARGE TASK
"Not Work of Charity, but Most Sa
cred Duty to See That They Lack
for No Comfort," Says
Director Lies.
By CHARLES LEE BRYSON.
Chicago. Many an American sol
dier and sailor will fight with Infinitely
stronger spirit In this war for the
knowledge that the American Red
Cross Is standing firm between those
he leaves at home, and the grim spec
ter of want. For the announcement has
gone forth from Washington that the
fumllles of fighting men are to be un
der the protection of the great hu
manitarian arm of the government.
The whole world knows of the work
the Red Cross has done In caring for
the sick and wounded In war, relieving
the distress of the victims of fire and
flood, earthquake, famine and tornado
In civil disaster, and organizing base
hospitals for the army and navy. But
few realize that while all this was be
ing done, preparation was under way
to look after the loved ones whom the
fighting men will leave at home.
When the United States troops were
at the Mexican border the Red Cross
found It necessary to make provision
for the families of ninny Guardsmen
who had left dependents ut home. This
made plain what must be done In case
an army of a million men should be
called abroad, and with characteristic
Red Cross forelmndednoss a plan was
at once formulated. So far as possible,
the war department will choose men
who have no dependents ; but In spite
of everything many a married man,
many a son whose mother depends on
him, and many others to whom rela
tives look for support, will go to the
front. It is these who are left behind
that will be watched over by the Red
Cross.
Department of Family Relief.
To safeguard those who may need
our care, the Red Cross has estab
lished, under the director general of
civilian relief, a new department called
that of family relief. It has called to
the head of this department Eugene T.
Lies, for many years general superin
tendent of the United Charities of Chi
cago, a man of wide experience and
ripe judgment,
Mr. Lies was one of those who at
tended a conference of national and
division officers of the Red Cross,
cnlled at Chicago by John J. O'Connor,
director of the central division, and at
this conference Mr, Lies outlined his
policy. Later, at the National Confer
ence of Charities nt Pittsburgh, Mr.
Lies enlarged upon this subject. He
made It very plain that It Is a labor of
love, and In no sense of charity, that
the Rod Cross hns undertaken.
"We must remember," said Mr. Lies,
HEADS BELGIAN RELIEF
Jonkheor Charles Ruys de Boerenr
brock, n noted Dutchman, has been ap
pointed as head of the Belgian relief
commission, succeeding Herbert Hoov
er, America's food chief.
The Jonkheer Is a Roman Catholic
deputy for a Llmburg constituency
and a son of the queen's commission
for that province. He Is an expert
social worker and hns given much as
sistance to Belgian refugees.
Hoover built a complete organiza
tion for the Belgian relief work and it
la running so smoothly that the Jonk
heer will have little trouble la con
tinuing the great machinery for the
distribution of food and clothing for
the needy In Belgium.
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U. S. FIGHTERS
"that there Is not the faintest shadow
of 'charity' In Its usual meaning, at
tached to this work we are undertak
ing. If there Is want among the fami
lies of our soldiers and sailors. It Is
not because they have been Idle or
wasteful, or Improvident, or that they
have been In anywise to blame. Rather
It is because they have done the finest
and the noblest thing possible, and
have given to their country those to
whom they have looked for support
and protection.
"We go to them, not as doing them a
charity, but as expressing our gatltude
to them for what they have done as
a duty we owe to those whom they
have given to fight our battles. Look
ing at It In this light, we can see how
little we can afford to permit any one
of these to suffer because of the noble
thing they have done."
Task a Big One.
The officers of the Red Cross have
shown a large grasp of the situation.
They realize the task that will be
theirs. This Is shown In a part of Mr.
Lies' Pittsburgh talk, in which he said.
that very soon there will be 300,000
National Guardsmen In the field, and
that "by January 1 next It Is altogether
possible that there will be under arms
about 2,800,000 men In all branches of
the service.
"We must prepare for a large task,
to be executed through the civilian re
lief committee of the various Red
Cross chapters. These committees
should have carefully chosen members,
some, at least, of whom have experi
ence In social work."
It Is not merely as a feeding and
clothing agency that the Red Cross
proposes to act toward these depend
ents, as Mr. Lies points out, but as a
sort of "next friend" In all troubles
such as wages, Insurance, ' difficulties
with landlords, Illness, accident and
the moral welfare of children.
"We would show ourselves unfit to
enjoy the blessings of democracy," says
Mr. Lies, "if, while sending our sol
diers to the front to fight the enemy,
we permitted their families at home to
fight want, disease, and moral dangers
alone. It would look like willful pun
ishment for the sacrifices made by
them.
"Only by getting close to them
through friendly , visitation, sympa
thetic Inquiry, nelghborllness and Intel
ligent interpretation of home condi
tions, can untoward fuctors be discov
ered. The Red Cross Is in the field to
do just this kind of service In addition
to supplementary relief work, and It
wants to do It as thoroughly as pos
sible." It Is In this spirit, then, that the Red
Cross Is approaching the task of pro
tecting the dependents left behind by
the fighting men. Backed by the Amer
ican people, there Is no room for doubt
as to how It will perform this task.
CALL BRITISH TARS "LIMEYS"
American Bluejackets In European
Waters Have Nickname for
Everything They See.
London. American bluejackets on
duty In European waters have a nick
name of their own for England's sail
ors and soldiers. They call them
"limeys;" the individual being known
as a "lime." The American sailor men
apply the designation to all English
fighters Just as the British refer to
their soldiers as "Tommies."
The sailor from the United States
has his nickname for nearly every
thing he sees. Bluejackets who had
served In the near and far East first
started calling British sailors and sol
diers "lime Juicers," because of their
fondness for fruit Juice and charged
water. .
Now the designation has been short
ened down and everything British Is
"limey." British soldiers' and sailors
clubs are known as "limey clubs," and
British-brewed lager beer Is commonly
spoken of as "limey beer."
HAS NINE GRANDSONS
IN BRITISH ARMY
Denver, Colo. The Victoria
Cross might be the reward of
Mrs. S. Harris, -aged seventy,
were her contributions to the
allied cause brought to the at
tention of King George. Mrs.
Harris has nine grandsons now
fighting In the British armies,
and an only son is about to en
list In Uncle Sam's army of lib
erty. All nine grandsons are broth
ers, children of Mrs. Harris'
daughter, who Is now dead. The
boys were living In Saskatche
wan, In western Canada, when
the Dominion government '. first
called for volunteers. Seven of
them enlisted In the famous
Princess Pat regiment and, de
spite the heavy casualties In
that crack organization, they
ore all alive. Two others en
tered the British navy. The
boys are Thomas, George, Wil
liam, James, J. B., Justus, Lar
ry, W. B. and Dennis Pollard,
and range In age from nineteen
to thirty-three years.
Mrs. Harris' husband was
a Confederate soldier.
Finds Lost Watch.
Bryan, u. ieer sno.v, uvtng near
Stryker, lost his watch while plowing
three years ago. ne found that Iden
tical watch dragging along behind his
riding cultivator several days ago. .It
was not ticking, but It will a soon as
aome slight repairs are made.
RECOVERS POWER OF SPEECH
if iS
Joseph Getzelowltz, dumb from;
birth, suddenly recovered his powerl
of speech in Bellevue hospital, New;
York, while . recovering from a fall. '
Several boys had been tormenting;
Getzelowltz In Henry street, near the
home of his sister," where he lived. In I
chasing the boys, he stumbled ana;
fell. A policeman picked him up and!
had him sent to Bellevue. There the(
physicians examined the young Rus-
slan and found that his vocal chords
had all the appearances of being nor-i
mal and In their opinion simply lacked!
the will to talk. While reading a
prayer book he suddenly began speak-
lng Yiddish with ease and perfect pro-1
nunclatlon.
He now speaks a few words of Eng
lish. ;
GUIDES FOR IT'S SOLDIERS
Great Britain Carefully Provides for
the Man Home on Leave ;
From the Front
London. Soldiers on leave from the
front in the early days of the war had
the greatest difficulty In finding their,
way about London and across it to;
main line centers leading to their pro!
vlnclal homes, but this has all been'
altered, and what was once chaos at
Victoria station now works like any,
part of the military machine.
This has been made possible by the
help of the volunteers of the National .
Guard and by members of the Worn-
an's Reserve Ambulance company, who
take charge of the men on arrival, j
change their French money Into Eng-,
llsh, grant them loans and personally,,
conduct them to the various stations
they may require to travel from. The,
same thing is done when leave Is upv
The soldier, used to discipline, likes;
being handed on from one to another
rather than being left in a stra'nge
place to his own devices.
IN KAISER'S ROOM, TAR
SAYS, NO KICK COMING
Lorain, O. William Kelsner,
who Joined the navy four
months ago, has written his par
ents that he is well treated,
. He 4
e in- 4
Is evidently on one of the
terned German Bhlps seized by
the United States.
"The walls are covered with
silk and Inlaid with silver. The
room to which I was assigned
was reserved for the kaiser
when the ship was German,"
says his letter. . ;
SCULPTOR TO DO HIS BIT:
Will Turn Talents From Modeling Inj
Clay to Remaking Faces of the
Wounded. j
Cleveland, O. Max Kallsh, Clevw
land sculptor, Is going to do his bIB
and it's a strange bit, too. Kallsh la
turning his talents from creating faces
In clay to remaking those of human
beings. Kallsh Is one of a small anna
of American sculptors who are going
to the battle front to help battle
scarred veterans. They propose to reV
make the mangled features of the sol
diers Injured In battle. I
They call these fellows plastiqj
sculptors.- They replace the missings
parts of the face with copper oti
papier mache nnd then graft skin over.
It. Little Is known of the science In'
America and the sculptors are going'
to France shortly to learn the fine!
points of the art
ACCLAIMED ' BRITAIN'S . HERO!
London Schoolteacher, Wounded
Battle In France, Attains
' High Fame.
In.
London. A London schoolmasten
named Wlman, who enlisted and losfl
an arm and a leg In France, returned1
to teaching after his recovery and be
came the Idol of his students.
The discipline among members of hi
class was perfect, the boys enforcing!
It among themselves. Finally, after th
authorities discovered him to be a bet'
ter teacher than ever, the school rt-
ranged for an exhibition hearing of one
of his history lessons. At this exhibit
tlon Wlman asked : ,
"Now, boys, who is the greatest ontr
standing British military hero of all:
timer .
The boys Instantly stood, cheerefl
thrice and shouted In chorus "Mr. Wl
man I"