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British patrols have again crossed
the Piave river, on the Italian front.
They forced a passage at various
points causing alarm in the enemy
lines.
John Stark, of Athol, Mass., an
American student at a French flying
school, was killed on Saturday when
his machine suddenly plunged to the
ground while he was flying at a height
of 200 yards.
An official report received from
Aden, a British port on the Southern
coast of Arabia, says that the British
destroyed the defenses of Hatum, Sat
urday.' Severe casualties were inflic
ted on the enemy.
A British torpedo-boat destroyer has
been torpedoed and Bunk in the Medi
terranean Sea according to an admiral
ty announcement issued Tuesday. All
the officers of the destoryer were
saved, but ten members of the crew
were lost.
Senator McNary is assured by the
War department that there is no
foundation for rumors, current in Ore
gon, that a transport bearing Borne of
the Oregon troops had been sunk. All
the Oregon troops, he was told, had
landed safely.
Heavy artillery fire took place dur
ing Tuesday night near Bezonvaux and
Chambrettes, Northeast of Verdun, the
Paris war office announces. A German
raid on French trenches north of Hill
804 and the opposite bank of the
Meuse was repulsed.
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
has been chosen by the senate steering
committee to be chairman of the in
terstate commerce committee, succeed
ing the late Senator Newlands. He
will have charge of the administration
railroad legislation in the senate.
At a meeting of the official board of
the parish Bchool of the Trinity Ger
man Lutheran church called Tuesday
at Sterling, Colo., to consider abolish
ing the teaching of German, it was de
cided to go a step further and suspend
school for the duration of the war.
Butter is selling in Berlin at 2.25
per pound, sugar at 56 cents a pound,
ham and bacon at $2.11 per pound, and
American soap at five bars for $1.12.
This information, received by the food
administration, comes through a reli
able source. The prices are from four
to five times as high as those prevail
ing in the United States.
Two million ripe bananas were
offered by the United States Fruit
company of Boston, Wednesday, to the
Food administration of Maryland for
distribution among the poor. Owing
to the fact that the vessel carrying the
fruit was held up a week by ice in
Chesepeake Bay, the bananas had be
come unsaleable through regular chan
nels. Reorganization of the War depart
ment, begun with the creation last
month of the war council of high gen
eral officers, advanced a step further
Tuesday with the appointment by Sec
retary Baker of Major General George
W. Goethals, acting quartermaster
general to serve also as director of
War department transportation and
storage.
Premier Clemenceau, a dispatch
from France says, has Bent this mes
sage to Premier Lloyd George: "With
my most hearty congratulations, I
hasten to send you those of the French
nation, those at the front and in the
interior, for the admirable speech In
which you so happily stated the truth
that one must never become wearyof
opposing the Germans."
The central powers, within 10'days,
will make new declarations regarding
Germany's peace conditions, a dispatch
from Geneva to the London Daily Ex
press quotes the Munich Nachrichten.
A heavy demand in London for cop
ies of the American blacklist has de
veloped the fact that the names of a
number of representatives of British
firms in South America are on the list.
Hence the American Consul General
and other American officials have been
asked for details.
Tho probability of the Germans now
taking a vigorous offensive attitude on
the western front was pointed out by
Major General F, B. Maurice, chief
director of military operations at the
London War office, in his weekly talk
to the press.
The Japanese freighter Shinyo Maru,
No. 2, of 6909 tons, Captain Matsomo
to, which left an American Pacific
port December 22 for an Oriental port,
was reported Thursday night to have
sent out a distress call from some
where on the Pacific, saying the ship
was on fire.
KAISER USES PRESS
Makes It Weapon Through Censorship
and Publishes "News" Made
Strictly to Order.
Washington, D. C. Evidences of
the care the Greman government is
taking to direct public opinion and so
to deceive not only its enemies, but its
own people is contained in a series of
secret instructions issued to the Ger
man press by the censorship, which
have fallen into the hands of the State
department.
These instructions cover a period of
less than three months of last year,
but they tell a complete story of how
the Teutonic war lords control public
opinion.
Owners of newspapers and publish
ers generally not only are limited as to
the character of the articles printed,
but in many cases are told what they
should publish and in what terms.
Labor disturbances, food shortage
and difficulties in securing and distrib
uting coal are placed under the ban,
newspapers are urged to give promi
nence to enemy losses and to certain
prescribed interpretations of interna
tional situations.
A hint of the relentlessness of the
authorities in punishing infractions of
orders is contained in one notice, in
which attention is called to the fact
that the police "have again been no
tified to seek out and to bring to ruth
less punishment originators and com
municators of untrue military, politi
cal, financial and economic reports."
In another notice similar warning is
given that the police will "proceed
energetically" against those who re
peated untrue reportB.
Interesting light is thrown upon the
Berlin view of the preparations for
war in the United States by a para
graph of an order dated June 6, last.
It says:
"While the news about America's
war preparations, Buch as the organ
ization and outfitting of an army
1,000,000 strong to reinforce the
French-English front, is looked upon,
in that form, as 'bluff', the spreading
of which may unfavorably affect the
opinion of the German people, yet the
fact must not be overlooked, on the
other hand, that the United States,
with the support of its capacity for
material and industrial management,
is arming itself for war with great
energy and tenacity.
"The war preparations in America
are therefore, as was intimated in the
reichstag at the time, not at all to be
made little of, but must be taken seri
ously without on that account being
made a source of worry."
Serious economic conditions are dis
closed by the censorship orders. One
forbids the publication of advertise
ments of dog meat for sale.
"It is desired that it should be
clearly and distinctly put in the fore
ground that the enemy offensive has
utterly failed on all fronts, that the
entente has no alternative but to at
tempt a new offensive, as the enemy's
statesmen are still against peace."
"Recent Reuter dispatches which
have entirely English reports from
Russia, concerning the commencing
dissolution of chaos, etc., and strikes
are worthy of notice. It is requested
always to make such news as English
reports and to assume an attitude of
reserve toward them and occasionally
to add thereto a critical word."
"Concerning the most recent bomb
attack by a German flying machine on
London nothing may be published."
"The publication and discussion of
the resolutions adpoted in a strike
meeting of the Leipzig Unions and of
a telegram sent to the Imperial chan
cellor are not permissible."
"The publication is to be avoided of
anything concerning the state of the
clothing material business and con
cerning the purchase of clothing ma
terial in the occupied districts as well
as in Switzerland."
Advertisements of undertaking es
tablishments which seek the removal
of the bodies of fallen soldiers are not
to be accepted."
"It is not desired to discuss or even
to mention the German importations
from abroad, especially from Holland."
"In the interest of a victorious car
rying through of the war, which is en
dangered by every stoppage of work,
expressions of the press which recom
mend a strike or express themselves
otherwise in favor of a strike are for
bidden. Utterances which are directed
against strikes are indeed not subject
to the censorship, but it is supposed
thereby that they are kept free from
immoderate sharpness which could
offer material for irritating the
people."
Expulsion Move Started.
Honolulu, T. H. Frederick FunBton
Post No. 94, VeteranB of Foreign Wars,
of this island, bus drawn up a resolu
tion which will be forwarded to con
gress asking that all known enemies
of alien birth, their sympathizers or
any other persons found guilty of giv
ing assistance of any kind to the en
emy be expelled from American soil
for the duration of the war. The Oahu
Post hopes that this matter will be
taken up by the Spanish War Veterans
and other soldiers' organizations
throughout the mainland.
Teachers Must Own Up.
Honolulu, T. H. Steps will shortly
be taken to stamp out pro-Germanism
and lukewarm Americanism among the
900 odd school teachers in Hawaii.
Henry W. Kinney, superintendent of
education, ia preparing to send out
question cards which must be filled in
by every school teacher. These cards
will contain certain questions which
must be answered with "yes" or "no"
and which, it is believed, will bring
out the pro-German sentiments.
WILSON RE-STATES
NATION S VAR AIMS
"We Stand Together" President
Says in Great Address.
ALLIES ARE UNITED
Foundation for Genuine Peace is Free
dom of Seas. Evacuation of In
vaded Lands and Reparation.
Washington, D. C. America's pro
gram of war and peace, with definite
terms upon which the nations, great
and small, fighting together against
German world domination, are ready
to lay down their arms, was given to
the world by President Wilson Tuesday
through an address to congress in joint
session.
For this program, based upon the
righting of wrongs and the safety of
peace-loving peoples desiring to live
their own lives, the President commit
ted the United States to fight and con
tinue to fight until it is achieved.
Thus he pledged the country to the al
lied policy of no separate peace.
"We cannot be separated in interest
or divided in purpose," he said. "We
stand together to the end."
The Bpeech, heard by congress,
was delivered as a direct response to
the German charge in the negotiations
with the Russians at Brest-Litovsk.
It followed closey and approved the
address of the British premier, but
was far more specific in statement of
terms, robbing of force in advance any
German peace drive designed to con
fuse the entente and American gov
ernments and their people.
Fourteen concrete proposals laid
down by the President began with the
declaration that the days of private in
ternational understandings are gone
and that covenants of peace must be
reached in the open. Briefly summar
ized, they are as follows:
. First Open covenants of peace
without private international under
standings. Second Absolute freedom of the
seas in peace or war except as they
may be closed by international action.
Third Removal of all economic bar
riers and establishment of equality of
trade conditions among nations con
senting to peace and associating them
selves for its maintenance.
Fourth Guarantees for the reduc
tion of national armaments to the low
est point consistent with domestic
safety.
Fifth Impartial adjustment of all
colonial claims based upon the prin
ciple that the peoples concerned have
equal weight with the interest of the
governed.
Sixth Evacuation of all Russian
territory and opportunity for Russia's
political development.
Seventh Evacuation of Belgium
without any attempt to limit her sover
eignty. Eighth All French territory to be
freed and restored and reparation for
the taking of Alsace-Lorraine.
Ninth Readjustment of Italy's
frontiers along clearly recognizable
lines of nationality.
Tenth Greatest opportunity for au
tonomous development of the peoples
of Austria-Hungary.
Eleventh Evacuation of Roumania,
Serbia and Montenegro, with access to
the sea for Serbia and international
guarantees of economic and political
independence and territorial integrity
of the Balkan States.
Twelfth Secure sovereignty for
Turkey's portion of the Ottoman em
pire, but with other nationalities under
Turkish rule assured security of life
and opportunity for autonomous devel
opment, with the Dardanelles perma
nently opened to all nations.
Thirteenth Establishment of and
independent Polish state, including ter
eritories inhabited by indisputably Pol
ish populations, with free access to
the sea and political and economic in
dependence and territorial integrity
guaranteed by international covenant.
Fourteenth General association of
nations under specfiic covenants for
mutual guarantees of political inde
pendence and territorial integrity to
large and small states alike.
$36,000,000 Court Award.
Denver A judgment for $36, 515,
038 to enforce a judgment for a simi
lar amount awarded in United States
court for the Southern district of New
York was returned in Federal District
court here Tuesday against the Denver
& Rio Grande Railroad company in
favor of the Equitable Trust company,
of New York.
It was the largest judgment ever
returned in the local court. It took
less than 45 minutes to empanel a
jury, present evidence and obtain a
verdict
Farmer Offers Services.
Omaha, Neb. Arnold Martin, of
Du Bois, Neb., nominated by the Unit
ed States department of Agriculture as
the world's premier intensive farmer,
Tuesday offered his services to the na
tional government through Governor
Neville, of Nebraska, to go to France
to teach intensive farming this spring.
Martin says he can teach French farm
ers so to handle their land that France
will be self-supporting and will not
call on America for foodstuffs.
SPY OUTWITTED BY
Curiosity Aroused by Actions of
Foreign Gentleman on Aber
deen Express.
DOES SOME SWIFT THINKING
Looking Stupid Is Her Specialty, and
When Officers Grab the Spy He
Looks at Old Lady
and Sight.
London. The best spy storj In a
long time comes from a medical offi
cer, one of the big guns of his corps
and profession. It Is all about the
Aberdeen Express, one of the world's
quickest long-distance runs. You leave
London after the theater, go to bed
In the train, have a cup of tea In bed
at Edinburgh, and breakfast In Aber
deen, 600 miles from town. North
ward from Edinburgh there are stops
a while on the Forth bridge, from
whence you look down onto the decks
of flrst-class battleships, and at Dun
dee, and Montrose.
The old lady boarded the train at
Edinburgh and the porter shoved her
Into a non-smoking compartment of
the day coach. The other passenger
was a foreign gentleman of what na
tionality It would be hard to sny, but
foreign. As to the lady, she seemed
a harmless old thing some fifty-three
years of age. The point Is that one
of the two was really a German spy,
and anyone's first suspicion would
point to the old lady. She owned up
frankly that she enjoyed a gossip, and
found the foreign gentleman quite a
good fellow. As to his nationality,
the accent gave no clue. She pumped
him perseveiingly.
A few stops from Edinburgh the
train stopped on the Forth bridge.
From the trains one looks down upon
a naval base of first-rate consequence.
A spy, making rapid summary of the
capital ships In full view, might pick
up Important Information.
The foreign gentleman stood up,
filling the window, shutting out the
view, and annoyed the old lady, who
also wanted to have a look. More
over, she saw him go through a long
fumbling procedure which puzzled her
extremely. What on enrth was he up
to? The only thing she saw was the
last swift movement which emptied
the bulgy part of his overcoat. And
she caught the glimpse of a wing. Now
the whole thing was clear; there must
have been a message scribbled rapidly,
folded and made fast and then sud
den release of a carrier pigeon.
The Old Lady's Specialty.
And then the foreigner flashed
round to see If the lady had noticed
anything. No, evidently not. She
looked vacant, nodding and half
asleep.
"I looked stupid," she said after
ward, "but that's my specialty."
She must have done some very swift
thinking before he had time to turn
round. Her first impulse was to run
along the corridor and find the guard
or rouse the first soldier she saw. But
then the foreigner would see by her
first movement he was In danger, and
she did not want to be strangled,
thrown out of the window, and
drowned In the Forth estuary. She be
came affable, wondering what had de
layed the train so long. He expressed
noble sentiments concerning the allies
and contempt for Germany.
But as the train pulled Into Dundee
the old lady expressed her conviction
that the morning papers would be for
sale by this time at the bookstalls. She
felt that a little run on the platform
would ease her limbs after the cramped
compartment. She would buy a paper
for the foreign gentleman also.
Half-way to the bookstall she met
a porter. It would be natural to ask
him how long the train stopped.
NO FOOD WASTE
LTlwiH X- 14 i
Rumors of waste of food at cantonment camps have been hotly resented by
officers who have charge of garbage disposal at the various camps. This picture
shows the unloading of garbage at the central depot at Camp Meade, the
cans are brought from benches underneath the windows of each mess hall.
Each can Is labeled for various sorts of refuse so that bones, cans, paper, etc,'
go Into separate receptacles. The camp's conservation officer notes the con
tents of each can as they are dumped Into motortrucks for sale to contractors.
At Camp Meade a cook who falls to scrape a bone properly Is In for a stiff call.
AN OLD
it-
"Don't be seen speaking," she said,
as she passed the porter. "There's a
spy In my carriage. Send the station
master to me at the bookstall."
When the station master came be
hind the lady spoke into an open news
paper just as though she were reading
aloud. "Don't be seen speaking with
me," she said. "There's a spy In my
carriage. The train stops at Mont
rose next, eh? Well, wire Mont
rose !"
She paid for her bundle of papers
and walked back to the carriage.
The spy seemed unsuspicious, sit
ting where she had left him, much
obliged for the newspaper. The
plucky old lady sat opposite to her
spy and entertained him until they
reached Montrose.
No Stranger.
Then came to their compartment a
British officer with an armed guard
and a detective, who greeted the spy
at once like a long-lost brother.
"Why," said he, "I've been searching
for you for months."
The spy looked out through the
window eastward and saw an armed
sentry waiting on the metals In case
he attempted escape. Then he looked
at the lady the artful old lady and
sighed.
Later the old lady received an offi
cial communication of warm congratu
lation on her patriotism, courage and
high intelligence, begging her to ac
cept the inclosure, memento of a fine
deed done for her country.
Rats Steal Flatlron.
Tarls, Mo. Some plastering fell
from the celling of the linen room at
the Glenn house recently, and Harland
Ray secured a ladder and climbed up
to knock down the loose plaster re
maining. He discovered a rat's nest
and In it were three ladies' silk stock
ings, two perfume bottles and a flat
iron, besides numerous other things
not mentioned in this Inventory. How
the rats got the Iron there remains a
mystery.
THE AMERICAN ARMY NOW 1,360,000
Grows in Few Short Months From
Force Numbering Only
110,000 Men.
OVER 300,000 ARE REGULARS
Officer Personnel Numbers More Than
80,000 Equipment of Men Much
More Diverse Than In Any
Previous War.
Washington. The latest official fig
ures put the number of enlisted men in
the armies of the United States at 1,
360,000. This Is the force that has
grown in eight months out of an army
which on April 1 numbered only 110,
000 men.
Most of them are still In the train
ing camps. Mnny of them are not yet
disciplined troops, fully equipped and
armed for battle. But there they are
1,360,000 of them, already one of the
biggest factors Hlndenburg is reckon
ing with for the campaign of 1918. To
lead them there are over 80,000 offi
cers. When the graduates of the sec
ond training camp get their first or
ders the number will be over 100,000
as many officers as there were privates
nine months ago.
Over 300,000 Regulars.
Of the new American force over 300,
000 men are regulars. In all the world
only two regular armies remain the
American and the Japanese. The oth
ers have all been swept away In the
flood of war. When the first American
ALLOWED HERE
ESCAPED FROM GERMANY
r
Gengo, a young French boy who es
caped from Germany, where he was
held prisoner, and drifted Into an
American camp In France. He was
officially adopted as mascot of the
force In training there.
HUMBLE PRUNE TAKES
THE PLACE OF SUGAR
Derby, Cohn. The sometimes
despised and often ridiculed
prune has come Into Its own
here. When the sugar famine
struck the town someone discov
ered that the sugar in a dried
prune was sufficient to give a
semblance of sweetening to a
cupful of tea or coffee. The
prune dropped In a cupful of cof
fee Is soon rendered soft by the
heat and the sugar and sweet Is
extracted In a short time. It Is
claimed that the caffeine In the
coffee offsets the taste of the
prune so that the process is not
objectionable In any way. It is
being extensively tried here by
many persons.
onslaught takes place German Land
wehr and Laudsturm troops will find
themselves opposed to an army of pro
fessional soldiers.
Behind the regulars are the 400,000
soldiers of the National Guard, regu
lars In experience, many of them,
thanks to our neighbor of the South.
After the Guard come the 600,000 men
of the new National army.
The whole military establishment,
with the marines and the auxiliary
forces thrown in, numbers a million
and a half. The expansion that has
taken place Is as If Grand Rapids had
grown In eight months to be virtually
as big as Philadelphia.
Diversity of Equipment j
The first thing to be done for the
new army was to provide them with
shelter and clothing, food and
warmth. That large undertaking Is
all but accomplished. Equally great
Is the task of providing arms. To arm
an infantry division In the Civil war
meant to provide ns many muskets and
as many bayonets as there were men
In the command. In the present war
the Job is more complicated. There are
rifles and bayonets to be furnished
now as formerly, but there are aUc
grenades and gasmasks and helmets
and trench mort"rs to be seen to. Each:
of the four Infantry regiments In a di
vision must have 480 trench knives,
192 automatic rifles and three one
pounder cannon.
The 768 men of the machine gun
battalion and the 5,068 men of the field
artillery brigade must have machine
guns and three-Inch guns In numbers
that would stagger an artillerist even
of so recent a period as the war with
Spain.
Two hundred and seventy-five thou
sand troops were made ready to fight
Spain In ISPS, though only 60,000 of
them were actually engaged.
Poker Pot for Fines.
Columbus, O. If there is anything
In the pot when a gambling place Is
raided It may be applied on the costs
and fines of the owners of the nun.
Attorney General McGhee of this state
ruies in enect , He holds that money
taken by the authorities In gambling
raids cannot be turned over to police
relief funds or city treasuries unless
one year elapses In which the owns.
does not claim It