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Tl y * L VOL. 23. NO. 95. SEMI-Y> TROTZKY AND i * AGENTS OF ( n " AFRICAN AGENTS SECURE ^DOCUMENTS Treachery of Bolshevik Chiefs in Russia Disclosed With Ample Proof. k EVIL SCHEMES OF KULTUR K . y Long Befo.c America Entered $ War Germany Planned to ^ Employ Anarchists to Fo'j * ment Outrages. ws. ? <x Washington. Sept. 16.?Proofs re"i 'moving any doubts that Uenlne and t" Trotzky. the Holsheviki leaders, are / . paid German agents?if indeed any doubts remain?are laid before the world today by the United States < government in the tlrst instalment of \ ^ on amazing series of official documents disclosed through the committen on public Information. I Secured in Russia by American /) ? ^ agents, these documents not only j show how the German government, i t through its imperial bank, paid its j .gcjia ro hpninfi, itoizkv ana tneir \ 'immediate associates to betray RusT \ - fnto deserting her allies, but ^ \ ' j additional proofs, If any be nec.1* V-dsary. that Germany had perfected her olans for a war of world conqu<v -nc before the assassination , at.n. vejo, conveniently furnished / her pretext. The documents further show that before the world war was four months old, and more than two years nerore the United States entered It, Mj^ Germany already was setting afoot her plans to -"'mobilize destructive agents and observers to cause explosions. strikes and outrages in this country and planned the employment of anarchists and escaped criminals" ior the purpose. On Par With Zimmerman Note. Almost ranking in their sensational nature ' i the notorious] * I"i Zimmerman 1 proposing war by It Mexico and Jap.in upon the United m I State* which was first given to the f I world through the Associated Press, yf , these documents "lay bare a new strata of Prussian intrigue, a new vidw of the workings of kultur to disrupt the allies, standing between the world and kaiserism. They dis y xioao a now story of human t reachy ery for gold which might almost well '.be described. without sacrilege as * I < /(placing its perpetrators on a pedestalm wltn Judas and his SO pieces of sll5k vor. The intrigue appears to have been carried down U 'he last detail of arrangements with typical German system ? 'Sot only do the. disclosures prove | that Lenlne. Trotzky, and their band . art >gld German agents. They show that the Bolshevikl revolution which threw Russia Into such an or-1 fry of murder and execwses as the world seldom has seen, actually was arranged by the German general staff. They show how" the paid, agents of Germany betrayed Russlal at the Brest-Lltvosk "Tpeace"' con-1 ference; how German staff officers fContinued on Page 6.) , ?S \ Do You Want You W . ? Y " "v t If yg>u don't you are liable to TAY IN ADVANCE. " It is up to you. If your paper 1 |||- > The Lancaster News.-In common ? In the conservation of news print .For the conveplence.of ouV subst remittance we have arranged the Lwt them easily to arrive at the amou The date on your'.labial, next it . on which your subscription expi . moa.?a that John Doe's'subsoriptic i>n October 1st John D^e's paper 1 f V . * nls subscription in advance of Oc . m m*-.t keep it paid in advaihee. I I 4 Irt>m the following table \? h/tt y LA *a your luminance come-forward BBi/j; prlc?jy. The Lancaster Nlavt * ^ 4>ay your suit script it 4 iE L ' - WEEKLY. LANC '.ENINE PAID PROMl jERMAN KAISER BE! CHANGES CHEAP PEARL Coming I TO AN EXPENSIVE ONE n!,i,rn which had failed to detect the do... . A at fhat ti caption he had practiced. The court declared that Varma's treatment Anothei added no value to the pearl and that 'n ^ 't had only a temporary effect which ?Tan>zntl disappeared if the pearl were rubbed Noung ' 11 or placed In alcohol. Chr'stio I district cl ?OVRR\OR MANNING WANTS mnR. Mrfl DRSEHTKltS APPRKIIAXDRD tiVPl>' nt _ , _ ? even whei Columbia. Sept. 16.?Governor,, ,, .. .. _ . , , kell, the Manning has addressed a letter to ?, " , ? ? ? I She has i every sheriff and police officer In rnno voj South Carolina urging and directing prano . ,, , , vice of tl them to apprehend all deserters and . . . ., ? , . and she delinquents under the selective ser. ?. . . . stantly. vice regulations. Any person do iv- r, , _ ..... Tied Crosi ering a wilful deserter to the nearest , . organlzatl camp or army post is entitled to a .. , . . ' " m . more tha reward of $50 for each deserter. ? x Cross, as The letter of the governor says that } p South Carolina has an enviable re- , . . worked fi cord for the small number of deser- . where mn tions charged to her, but he is de- , keenly In1 sirous of having this number further , .. ' ? of the Co reduced, and to that means he asks .. . . the war ( the co-operation of the peace officers ? ' most sucf of the State designated under tha . . organizer selective service regulations, to as- . hardest o slst in putting into effect the draft . . .. , street tha machinery. , lum to tl Raker In tendon. pr,7? *ar< Ixindon, Sept. 16.?Secretary Ra ^as ker arrived here today from Paris. wvatlon. mother. ~ spirited \ woman ol r Paper Stopped ? miss tome big news by falling to man. and the orgar ? stopped it will be your fault, for ,,R earllp with other newspapers, must help apeclalizli of <i worn paper bribers who are yet to send in theii following table, which will enable Itable wc nt due on their subscriDtion. W*. C A j your address, Indicates the dato attended red. Thus: "Jonn Doe.8-12-18" ferenees m expired August 12, 1918. Now tochnirni will be stopped unless he has paid, tobor 1st, and after that .tjate he or-the nr ..ook at your label and fipnre out doinc mo ou owe on your subscription and Columbia AT ONCE. , * Rod Crosi rs is $2.00 per year. hflr hUBb ft one year in advance of the pres- j^cen mo? k t to the LI six months In jdvance of the ?s>veciaUv tlon In tfryanMfrAt, Qr^lirir 1. , ( smffS''Vr' CASTE A LIVE PAPER IN A LIVE TOWN ASTER, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 [NENT WOMEN HIND THE GUNS /i 3 Jnited War Work Cam- 1T& 1 Will Feel Influence M of Their Work. ? g G IN COLUMBIA AMERICAN SOLDI ce of Y. W. C. A. Lead- RANK HIGH IN lie Held Wednesday and i . n ur... a., Athletic (iaines. l,l!?r;i lay Jointly With Other . , tinii Halls ami Amiis workers. ort a Wholesome men ?.* Carolina tie women behind the trans Paris, Sept. 16 IT ing Women's Christian as- 1.000,000 men of the organization in the com- petitionary forces coi 1 War Work Campaign are most moral army in t in the way of being big cording to official stat< uselves. United States medical ? ernor's wife. Mrs. Richard Attributing the extre Is state chairman?not rentage of affected met (notary chairman, but nc- to the medical progi man for South Carolina? United States forces, m s already working hard RaV that the two import at her job. Long before the production of the he wife of the governor of army were vigorous w olkja, she had done more coupled with the dive ihare in active philanthrop- t'.ons of the camp and f ail kinds, and since the tires, as either been at the head At a meeting of the executive board of every ,<*lety of ti e <\ mot-jean U nization In which women sistlng of medical ol e responsibilities in the United States army, tin very one knows and con-' operntion in the train h- r on the iaot that she the t'n ted States. >ns in the army, and every houses and the liquor knows her knows how pressed was spoken of id cheerfully she bears the duct've of rou.ts. having five of them in ac- j The Introduction in eas service. Just this lastj ramps of the United governor's mansion was|h'tie games, lihrarie >corated by a new overseas halls under the Yount five stars which was hung j fan association and o eady time-faded six-starred Hons, lectures, and whe tg. ** | ments was hailed as a anning will preside at the ,lie 8?'ut'on of the pr ate conference of the Y. W. ,n the army- Thfi wor ders In the United War ,a,ns' tho universities apaign. This conference a'so was mentioned eld in Columbia, Sept, 18- great part in ,he n,,evii vill have joint meetings Th? education <>f me Jnited War Work campaign linoa inducted by th< i South Carolina, who will rors' trough literatim a conference in Columbia distributed among the me hibits and through th the war department < r big gun behind the guns ... ... ' training camp activit W. C. A. State War Work .... . . . keep the men in the ri; on will he the wife of the .... , ? t it tide toward the prob ited States senator, Mrs. , a . cal officers stated. ienet who will lie the fifth FIND CODE TII \T work in doing for others, TO DEATH OF H n she was a girl, Alice Has daughter of Judge Haskell. rnMegrntu to Holland a fine and sympathetic so.... , .. Submarine lis ("uc? ce which Is ever at the sertose In sorrow and in jov, Was Messa sings for the soldiers con She drives her car In the . , . lA London. England, a motor corns, hut since its sensational story of t Ion she does not use It anv ... . ... . , , gram that led to the n n she did before the Red . ? , . ... Kitchener on a Rritif that would hardlv be possl.. v _ . . . just been made publi the Y. W. C. A. she has 1,,, , , .A1 * _ White, the British pub or years in any capacity st needed and she has been "How did the (,erm terested in the rapid growth Kitchener was on the lumbla organization In all How did thej Irives she has always been t*ie Hampshire was? i essful as a captain and an know' , even when she had the These questions hn f all quarters to cover, "the pounded all over the it led from the lunatic asy- !nK "inking of th< he cemetery." She Is a Krpat Brit iener and housekeeper and White answers these a hard worker for food con- Art made the revelatli In other words, as wife, ing of the British Km housekeeper, and puhlic centlv. vorker, she is an all-round "Kitchener's murdf ' the best modern type. "Is one of the great pr lohert Moorman, another '"tence of a great, ?rn type. Is the vice chair- nn(' wonderful mac she has borne the brunt of midst, ilzatlon of the campaign in "Twerty-four hour: st Statres ?? ..ho ha. voyage it was decider IK?If such could be said course of the Hampsl an who seems to be apodal- n v,8,t to made to ry lino of patriotic or char- north. >rk ahe undertaken?in Y. "?n ,hnt (,av B cable work for years. She has *? Holland asking In Blue If Id go and other con- " 'Shall Herbert en and has studied all the academy next Decemh as well as the religious part "The first censor, s itional organization besides Passed it; but the s ire than her share for the more experienced, won Y. W. C. A., church work. had gone to t ? and other war work. Both cabling the word 'the. and and herse'f h*ve at o "The answer to his it successful and prominent Initial letters of berty loan. Red Cross, and the cablegram spell? the X M^c- A- and Y. W. I " SHETLAND.' "And It was .off ??i tha^ I'n" V 4 n < Hindoo Lapidary tJive.s White American Pearl Rosy llue MEETIN of An Oriental. Paris, Sept. 16.?How an Ameri- ^ onferen can white pearl worth $14,400 was ers to I treated with a chemical, given tern- Thurst1 porarily the rosy lice of an oriental pearl and then sold for $52,000 has VN *tr V been disclosed here. For doing this, Harboza, a pearl broker, and Varina, Tll(> W() a Hindoo, were lined and sentenced wjln ir(, . | to imprisonment for faking. By use j tjH, ym of chemicals they endeavored to in- m-oj-xtion* crease the vaiue of the pearls four jnR United ,oid* something This case clears up the mystery ,,uns tjien which has existed In the Paris mar- y ket for five years since a dealer in \fanning precious stones llrst learned tlia.t i nior,.|y h, "manipulated pearls'* were being | I I V I II ?l I I som ncre. and she i Varma, who is a lapidary, claimed everv ^nv in court that ho possessed a method wns (| of inipioving American pearls an 1 <5outj, (<a, that ho had been promised a share in tjian ^or f all the profits derived in treating the J(1 vvork 0 ?>n< which led to his detection, if 'ti%sar s^e h were sold for more than $21,600. Ho or (}n (ju, was at work at it when it was seized war orRa by the police. The evidence showed sj1are(i (|, that Varma has used on the pearl 1 state. K acetate of amyl ami cohodion. | -ratulates A pearl expert. Reinach. told the 'j,a8 sjx sn judge that Varma had given the'one who pearl the rosy tint of the oriental foravolv n, pearl by glazing it with chaieals but anxjetv 0f that the glazing disappeared when tivo OVers tlie pearl was placed e n alcohol, Varma was sentenced trt ix months furthor d? in prison and to pay a fink of $1,000, i flaiI w-jth while Rarboza was sentenced for by ajr three months and to pay a fine of service 'flu *ioo. In its judgment the court ., ? M rs. M stated that sea pearls from the . . . .... coming st orient are very luminous and attain _ . . . . . C. A. lea high prices while fresh water ... . .... . . , Work car pearls, called American, are less tine, j, generally white and of lower value. , . _ I j, an n \ The pearl treated by Varma, the ... ,. , witn tno i ourt added has been offered to lead- . . . . , leaders in ing Pari, and American jewel houses , . .. " ** aIoa hold R NE^ 17, 1918. J TRIA IN1 1ACE CO EKS MUCH ILLEGAL LIQUOR MORALITY DISTILLED IN SWEI irics, Reeren- How to Make It At llonu -incuts Kx- Alworbinic Topic With All F.ITcct. Classes. le more thnn Stockholm. Sept. If?.- When American ex- friends encounter each other in istitute.s the den. says a current jest, thev lie world, ac- longer greet each other with the nients of the ual "Good '*>y. How goes it?'' ?orps. stead they say: "Good day. niely low per- is the fermentation petting aloi i in the army The reference is to the jar cont *nms of the jnR a mixture of water, sugar edical officers yeast which each assumes the c ant factors m to have standing in a warm co most moral of his house, preparatory to <1 i ork programs jnlr his own spirits. The je: rsifled recrea- course exaggerates conditions, hygenc tneas- there is more than enough trut ft to Justify it. For home-dlsti research so- flourishes in Sweden, od ( ross. con- From laboring men to lav 's ol there is no class where one can r> plan now in fim, n)pn who arp .,hlo tn ing camns of n,jvantages of this or that nn \\ here iiiw it making the "soup," as the '1'' liouid is toebn'^aUv termed of as highly pro- hOKt I1pnrn,.l? fnr distilling. 01 to cleanse the product from fuse the training an(j nf flavoring methods. So \ States of atli- spread, Indeed is ftie practice s. ion nation fju> police make apparently littl : Men s ( hns- no 0ffnr( to flIuj -,nd punish v fliei oiganlza- |nrs PXcept such as dist'11 for desonu .1111 n? a,.p punished sharply if f< great step in ? , . , The incentive to honie distillii ohlem of vice ... . the manner in which the sale of k of the chap- . . . , .. tilled liquors has lieen restricted, and the press , . to the shortage of grains, si as plaving a .. beets and potatoes The allow [ition. , ..has heen cut to two quarts n along moral ,. , three months. Before the war it 1 medical ofn-, ... a nuart each week, i which was men hv ex- There is a suspicion In e agencies of quarters that the present restric ommission of ar" needlessly severe and in ie.s served to dWated hv prohlhltion'st s?.ntii cht mental at- ^w^des will not sqffcr dictation lem, th< medi- a majority In matters of food <lr;nk. The result is home d ing. i 1 LED \ further rp^uif of th^ vovtrlf o a tn flinttllo.l 1 i .1 -c * ITf'HF\FR " ~ '14' " ?"*' k ' th?t the nrtlv boo*' obtainable in dent today has an alcohol corf1 Have Herman )f>?c than 1 1-2 nor cent has he ? 'She* land" make a "motbok." or passhnol titMng the owner to purchoso "* * I its. a very valuable possession. fnrtnnnto holder can sell hic ' Sept 16. \ 'H 't for the year for the eou!\ he code cable- of *134. and a bottle of ord lurdor of lyord whiskey which can be sold fo :h cruiser has equivalent of $20. c by Arnold Heist \(> iNTKKItl PTION OF \VA It ans know that WHIM: l?IS< TSSIVfi I?| cruiser llamp- Amsterdam. Sept. If. In ex r know where jnc an fnvitat'on to all the bel Or did they on( governments to enter Into binding discussion at some nc ive been pro- meeting place the Austro-llung world, follow- government states that the objt b warship and the conference would be to s ish general. nn exchange of views which v i questions. He show "whether those pre-requ an at a meet- exist which would make the pire union re- inauguration of peace negotia appear promising." ir," he said. The Austrian proposal, whi oofs of the ex- announced in an official commti ably-organized tion telegraphed here from Vi hine in our suggests that there tie no inte tion of the war, and that the ? before the russion would go only so f 1 to alter the considered by the participants t lire to enable fer prospects of success.'* the islands in The proposal calls for all th< | ligerents to send delegates gram was sent "confidential and unbinding d clear English: sion on the basic principles fo iter the legal conclusion of peace, in a place er?' neutral country and at a near l young man, that would yet have to be a, econd censor, upon." dered why the Note He??t All Belligerents ii?j wxpuusw or Tne proposal says the confe ' would be one of "delegates query la this: would be charged to make kno< the words In one another the conception of V ' ^governments regarding those j clples and to receive analogous ip Orkney % munlcations, as well an to re j^er ^ippt ftls and give frank and candid exp ,?*.?!{ Hamp- tioncCof. all those points which to be precisely defined." T-- r, 'v, ^ SJ ???_** SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR VITES NrtBECC . IIUIUjIJIl/ I .EN LONG LOOKED FOR ? "FEELER" IS FROM EMPEROR CHARLES ' V ' two Plea for "Confidential and "Non- ~ ; no Rinding Discussion on fiasic Principles." How NOTE SENT BILLIGERENTS ain 1 n rul ^ ,th(>r Cold Comfort Given Suggestion ^ rnorl Not Only in Washington But in London and Paris?Another St of but (ierman Ruse. h In " np Overshadowing in Interest . en M: ~h.il Kuril's hammer blows againjt tb'* ban if.| (Jermans, is the Teutonic \ ' nn' bid for peace made through the iiu- , * p< i I government of Austria llunfthod garyt The formal plea of Emperor ',1P i haries 10 the billicerents for "a ? "uow coiitulential and non-binding &' ( cussion on the basic principles * the conclusion ot peace" conies f % that j|is fji-1 s.-nsat onal move In the j "pi air ofl'ens-vo \\ ht< h h:is been J expected since the Herman anus besn!o pan to staggei bark from the fierce / >und. thrust8 0f the British, French and ik is Americans di?- Washington and the allied caT>i/"*"~ " due tals hailed the call for a cc .ence ^ igar- 0u neutral soil as another jeruian C ance |-liae to get better than they might , . each expect when the war has been carwas rjP(} the Rhine. They were convinced that Austria, whose people some have long been war-weary had been e tlons call'd upon to bear the onus of mak- p * part ii g peace overtures and thus save the , nent face of Uermany. even l'oun<i fold.Comfort. I and Not only in Washington hut in l?till- I.onilon and Paris, pacifists found ? ' cotd comfort. None of the govern- .. Hons ntents involved was inclined to take * ? if-t seriously the request that delegates v kPwe he sent to such a conference as that rf of pronosed i>y the \ustrian ruler. It en to | was pointed out that the United k on-Js,atPS nn,l entente allies have made ?nir- the;r pea<e aims so clear there - - V % The ee no mistaking them. -tph's T'ie assertion that the "central nir.ot powers leave it in no doubt that they innrv aro waging a war of defense for the r t^0 integrity and security of their territories" was greeted with added skepticism in the face of the Washington disclosure unmasking complefelv the intrigue which has wrecked Russia. Publication of docu- , tend- n,,.nfs proving beyond all question , , ' ''ePr that Uermany had waited only for a . non' plausible pretext to plunge the world ff ''1,ral into war. cast a sinister shadow over ., * ariar ,,)P ponevolent protestations of Km- ? ' ' peror William's closest ally. ' llM Women and Children Perish. V * lould jf Wf)S accompanied also by the V" V isi'es announcement that a Herman sub)e0"y I marine had sunk the British steanitions Oalway Castle with the loss of 189 lives. Ninety of those who ch is perished were women and children, mica- a ~? " ' - j /\t mr riniiit' UII1P I -DOHTH TPIlPWCCl enna^ their attacks upon shipping on this | rrup-:a|<ie of the Atlantic, shelling only * ^ "dis-1nighty miles off the coast a transport ar as! carrying Canadian sick and wound- ^ :o of- ed > N 4 ? Grim meaning was given the over5 bel-ifures by the -announcement from for a Paris that Austrian troops which iscun- tried to block the way of the Amerir the cans were utterly demoralized anil In ? [surrendered to a man while the pepce date, kite was in flight. Rritish, French greed jnn,| American troops continued their relentless pressure ag-iinst the f!cr>/" 'mans. Pershing's men advanced rence from two to three miles on a 32w'bo mile front. Hafg's forces advanced .vn to northwest of St. Quentin while their French foyes made progress south prin-^of the same city. Mangin's army com- simultaneously struck a new blow at <iuci? the German salient north' of Sois>laiu^ sons. Wheyver the allied troops atn?ej| tacked the German lines moved T > I. . * y J back.