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| 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
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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-'
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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| 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*.
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