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1 UUtJi/Xl 1 | ?V| | GENERAL NEW BOMBS SENT A JOKE. Jackson, Miss., May 6.?Postoffice officials here tonight said packages received through the mails today byj Governor Bilbo of Mississippi, Jack-; son's mayor and a local newspaper editor, were mailed at Dur'ant, Miss.,' that they were the inventions of persons seeking to make the three men . i subjects of practical jokes, ana tnat the packages addressed to the mayor1 and newspaper man are considered harmless and have been delivered to the addressees, the one to the gov-J ernor having been shot to pieces with a shotgun. The -governor had given the pack-j ages to the local postmaster after partially opening it. It was similar in size and appearance to parcels received today by Mayor Walter A. Scott of Jackson and Frederick Sul. lens, editor of a local newspaper,; and was wrapped in brown paper, the inside of which bore the inscription,1 "GimBel Bros." New York. Novel-j ties." Postoffice heads said the pack-' ' I ages resembled those described in! newspaper dispatches recently discovered in a New York postoffice,! addressed to cabinet members and ocner prominent* men. According to a postoffice inspector, examination of the package received; by the governor disclosed a small! copper wire, to which a tag was at-' tached. On this was the instruction j "to open, pull this wire." Three small wooden toys were' found; and on the reverse side of the' tag were the words, "If you have followed instructions and pulled the wire you are entitled to play with these toys." While friends of the recipients, it; was said, are inclined to think theyj have been made subjects of practical jokers, local postoffice heads tonight said they would take no chances. It 4?vek>ped tonight that packages simwmmH. hnt larsrer in size'.! hearing: the name "Gimbel Bros., New York/' have been sent persons in other parts of the State. One, it aid, received by 'a citizen at EdWards, Miss., on examination contained two small oranges. ALLIES DISPOSE OF GERMAN COLONIES! ? Paris, May 7.?The council of three has agreed upon the disposi-j tion of the former German colonies. I The mandate for the German Sam-i osn ' Islands goes to New Zealand,' and for the other former German possession south of the Equator to; Australia. Japan is to be mandatory of the islands north of the Equator. I The official communication on this! subiect savs: "The council of three, M. Clemen-j ceau, "President Wilson and Mr.' Lloyd-George yesterday decided as to the disposition of the former German colonies as follows: "Togoland and Kamerun?France * and Great Britain shall make a joint recommendation to the league of nations as to their future. "German East Africa?The mandate shall l)e held by Great Britain. "German Southwest Africa?The: mandate shall be held by the union of South ^rica. ^ "The German Samoa Islands?The mandate shall be held by ^ew Zealand. ' The other German Pacific possessions south of the Equator excluding the German Samoan Island? and Naur?the mandate shall be held by Australia. "Nauru (Pleasant Island)?The mandate shall be given to the British Empire. "The German Pacific Islands north of Equator?the mandate shall be held by Japan. OFFICIAL WASHINGTON RESERVES ITS COMMENT Washington, May 7.?All official W*aV>inorfnn V9? rpuprvinc com ? ment on the peace treaty tonight while carefully scanning the published official summary oif its terms. In congress, where the treaty must run the gauntlet of the senate's ratification, both the leaders who are ex pected to oppose it and those who are expected to support it were holding ; .back statements while they studied **- ? - 5??? ?nf? fj prOTISlUUB. DV1UV n... riiif ^ ifSWISM -V . -' rS CONDENSED I departments were obviously lacking ! since the president and the secretary of State ar^ in Paris from where it I was assumed they would make any statement on behalf of that branch of the government. One expression here* general ;in government circles, however, was that the official summary justified the great majority of the press dis; patches from Paris for the last five months. There were few surprises and these related rather to the methods by which some of the objects of the treaty have been approached rather than the objects themselves. As a monumental production of diplomacy, the treaty takes a place in the state- department archives not only for its great length, but for its tremendous scope and the fashion in which the great variety of subjects is treated. GERMAN WAR MACHINE ABSOLUTELY KILLED Washington, May 9.?Extended study of the military terms of the peace treaty convinces army officials here that the point at which it Is proposed to start on limitation or armaments is. the absolute extirpation of militarism in Germany. Not a vestige of the vast militafy framework built up in forty years of preparation for world conquest by Germany is to be-left. j . Under the treaty any enterprise aiming at a military propaganda Is forbidden, and military education cannot be carried on except in the ranks of the army of 100,000. Such an army cannot perpetuate itself in any way or expand through turning trained men back to civil life as an unorganised reserve. The feature of the military terms ?the inhibition upon discharging from the army in any year more than ? fon+ nf if? with the twelve-year enlistment period, it is said by American aftny officers?will prevent a recurrence of the scheme by which Germany was once able to throw off the yoke Napoleon sought to impose when he limited her army to a few thousand men tf.ch year. It was appa.3 % these observers said, that the lesson of that day had been completely learned by ?he Frencji militarists generally cred itcd with haying devised the terms of the prtsent treaty. Twehre-Year Enlistments. Iha twelve-year enlistment period required, it was said, was calcuiatcd to make thu army highly distajten.1 to th<j average man. There can be for him ;io hope of advancement, but only the drudgery of soldier life. Since the dismantling of the forces on the eastern frontier was not required, it was assumed by some ob! servers here that the treaty contemplated interposing Germany and its limited army as a buffer against the Bo'sheviki in Russia. Should Russia find herself and a strong government ari?o there which could be recognized by the western powers, it was said that undoubtedly the reduction ol the eastern defense Would be insisted upon. It is the view here that the provision of the treaty reserving to some Russian government yet to be indiI cated all the benefits enjoyed by the i allied and associated powers, orob ! ably would cover such an extension. I In the meantime, however, Germany is to be kept on guard along her easti ern frontier in self-defense against j Bolshevism qnd at the1 same time acti ing as a buffer for the western powI ers. j The naval terms are, if anything, 1 more drastic than those imposed aa ' to the army, navy officers said. From j a sea power claiming a strength sec ond only to that of Great Britain, | Germany will be reduced to a naval power virtually without rank in the world.^ The six battleships she may retain, the largest not to exceed 10,000 tons, would not dare risk action with any two modern dreadnaught3, and every other department of the navai service is scaieu aown accordingly. Death to Air Service. In the provision that no capita ship might be replaced until twentj years of active service had b'een Tea dered, naval designers saw the deatl of the science of naval architecture pvsow* i% q&mf acterizes the air terms it was pointed out. All that Germany has learned of dirigible balloon building and navigation is to%be scrapped. All the experience of the war in airplane man' ufacture also is "to be discarded, and should Germany ever again be free ' to develop air navigation, she will have to build from the ground up. 1 I TPDMS PflNnFNSF.D i BY GERMAN PRESS t - i Berlin, May 9.?Condemnation of -! the peace terms is expressed by all ! the newspapers here, those of the i" extreme right referring to the con^ ' difcions as "unfulfillable," and to the treaty as "an instrument of robbery." j The Tages Zeitung says: "One thing is certain: there can be? no question of this being a peace of justice. What a peace of justice after the entente pattern and in accordance with French desire9 looks like is shown by the conditions | j which leave nothing of Germany but a torn and tattered territory." i The Freiheit says that compared with the policy Germany pursued at( Brest Litovsk, the entente peace must be termed "quite moderate,"! , but it is argued that the terms are , in sharp contradiction to President ; Wilson's fourteen points," and that j if peace is to be built on this com-J .promise, it assuredly can have nb I great and lasting foundation, 'j "A peace of annihilation" is the I caption used by Vorwaerts, which j says there is a ''ruthless desire to ilay Germany permanently low by ! force. If we sign this peace, it is j because we are bound by force, but j in our hearts we resolutely reject it. I Such a peace is an attempt to ex* I terminate a nation, not by force of arms, but by a means more brutal, economic slavery." The Frankfort Gazette says: "We are at the grave aide of right, The only doubt is whether it also 'j means the grave side of the German I nation. Never has murder been comi mitted in more courteous form or i witn inure vyiuuai c^uauuutvj;. auo j German reply will have to consider i that the draft deviates from Mr. I Wilson's 'fourteen points' as far as the east is from the west." Pr'emeir Birsch, of Prussia, speaki ing in the Prussian national assem; bly, characterized the peace terms j as representing a purely "mailed | fist" peace, which "would mean slav; ery for the fatherland " and fresh I bloodshed for Europe." '\ | THE SECTION OF OPPORTUNITY. (Industrial Index.) [j The South is the section of great; | est. opportunity. This is true because ' the South is the last great portion of ;;the country to be developed. This j fact would not be of such importance except that the South possesses im. mense resources of varied kinds* The [development of these resources has j just been begun, when what has been 11 accomplished and What may be done i are compared. ,! The South has hundreds of thous; | ands of acres of practically untilled |, lands, that are fertile or may cheap I! ly be made so, that are waiting to re'j turn large percentages upon the cost [. of cultivation. > The character of these lands, the prices at which they . may be obtained now and the climatic conditions of the South make farming an niviting and paying occupation in this section. Like any other business, it must be conducted properly to succeed, of course. The South has a wealth of waterpower. The conversion of this power into electric energy has so progressed that electricity is available for j manufacturing in a number of secj tions of "the Southeast, with all of its I desirable and profitable features. II The conditions in #he Southeast that ' affect manufacturing are most favor piDie, tms Deing especially true wiin , I regard to climate. The raw materials of rrfany kinds are here, easily i. available, and in most sections there -! are ample transportation facilities. Mercantile and general business i conditions ar& inviting. , A man can find safe and profitable i j employment in many lines in the Southeast for his money. The man without capital to inyest can find here ufrork and the . most desirable I liiri n rm I living uuauinviio. j The South is prQsperous and pro gressive. It is building and expandII ihg. The new people who come to s.thi sseetion will_enjoy the beneficial tfm section ^iU enjoy beneficial - jiroaproua condition*. ' *W;C> / / W A TCH FUR AUCT ? I GARY On Magazine Sti Seces The Most Be Residence City o / / . / ?L ' ' . ^ Three Points in 1 STYLE-] % I \ \ . \ t ; i * . I I ?i I ....The Clothes are V There is but one i Clothese offer you suit. 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