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GERMANY’S STRONGHOLD IN THE NORTH SEA - ' _ I ■ t _ .1 . ! _ . ■ • • guards had orders to till on the spot payout* who lagged h puce behind on Often several were tin*. J<»up>xi*y killed nt hnce, and there \^ns no sep- anile 'grave for tfiein—thtOtiWlies .were just thrown into a ditch together and covered. It \v»k all horrible to be- i hold, but. our eyes eventually became , hardened .to the sight.’ r r “Bab,* Messguenc. and Zor arc three f plncttj* (e ver t«y 'be .‘forgotten by us Armotfhrris. 1 have visited them. Do you-know what happened there a few month-; ,since? ltv tiro order, of tiie There Is Insufficient Food for Sol . . diers and Civilians.' guveftior. Atif, nearly one In thotj^and of‘.my.-.brothers Avert 1 deivil, ifuassliered by nrjmM < si:ins. ' , ' ■• T -— Boys of Seventeen, in Trench©®-,- De dare" Refugees Who Recently Reached This.Country—Moth ers Are Vainly Protesting. “At Iiosntitl I saw -si,\ railway win ks rrmttle Atiheidan children be ing dispatched' .‘to/un unknown desti- UHtioii.*’ Whaf/had these little iuno- cenks done to offend? Was it (lie mere fact of being alive and; being sons and daughters of our thrw-e me. happy race'' 1 Worse Than the Turks. “The German soldier-; that one sees stations [a < Armndu. lire •s around tin generally of a low type, and not far ho- || 111 ml the .Turks In t heir disregard for r the rights of our people. Th’oir crit- £ elty *ls a little different froth that of j| the Turks, hut the difference is only | one of kind. The Turk, for 'example, | often respects -certain things “ which *• 1 we have learned to associate with our religious .or racial 'beliefs'; the German 1 lias no respect for anything—nothing w is too - sacred for his profane hands, i - The Turk frequently used to show some respect and defeivnee/ to the upper class Armenians,' the educated people, regarding them as perhaps capable’.of being useful pign'ln a, Turkis.li dominion.- The German, as , soon as lie arrived here, pointed out SAN FRANCISCO HONORS JAPANESE MISSION Anxious to do her bit and make it the most valuable deed she is capable of rendering the nation, Miss Lucille Patterson, a Twenf y-threo*year-old ar tist of prominence,-is dyyoting her ar tistic talent to war work. she is now at work' on a gigantic ’service poster for tin* National League for Women’s Service, and to paint it sin* lias to work on a scaffold high above the busy] throngs in the street below. bribed a woman to smuggle him across take tin* pn the Dutch border: "In Holland lie could* three days obtain no authority to leave that coun try, although lie had left.his wife des titute ini’ Kussia; He 'met Sehurek ut the ltiissiafr consulate, and after un successfully trying to secure steamy Ship passage tile pair, boldly walked aboard a linerr .They were unchal lenged and reached tills city l»y way of Halifax. Their entrance into this country was unknown to immigration officials, hut , they aniiouhced their presence, and after an investigation thev were allowed to remain. •* - - .■•- ) To own a cat or dog in Germany brings a tiiuvof $botl. Gold luis dfsap peared nndi very little nickel N In evi dence. Paper money is used .entirely, aud it is putjnto circulation- by the various seetions of the countryr“~The which to go aroiiml. There is practically no mflk and \cVy little real coffee,. It is drunk black.' The people discount the effectiveness of the United States in the war, these men who have just returned from Ger many believe. -They admit that this country,has food ami munitions, hut they are tnught.'that the American sol- <Het*S do’bot hmount fonfftch. Military pamde lu San Francisco Uj honor .of the Japanese mission to the United States! Inset isr 4 photograph of Viscount Ldltl, head 6?-the misstpn. EX-KING CONSTANTINE’S BEAUTIFUL HOME Krujips issue their own money nation. I can no longer weepr My Is redeemed for food. Tannenluinni was thrown into prison for stunding outside a railroad station waiting for a train. He was ordered to scrub' his.,Cell every morning with • cup of salt aud a pail-of water. For food he fetvjved, an ounce of bread, cereal Toffee, hreitd crumbs and soup made of potato peelings. ^ , ' Prisoner* Beaten Frequently. / In a camp where Tanhcbaum spent three months .with French and Itcl-gian prisoners w.omlen lunches were the beds, atid rotten liread, with pota to ped _soup, "ns' tin*, food. The. men were frequently examined by doctors, and often were marched naked on snow-covered ground for ice water baths. They were beaten oil the slight est provocation. An epidemic, of chol era and typhoid broke out, and when It was over the survivors, were vacci- Bated. The German soldiers and doctors de serted the camp during the* epidemic, 1:1 ve frozen in my eyes, WAR CROSS TO WOMAN MAYOR Mme: .Pellequer, Also Schoolmistress at Quesjny, Is Decorated \ v by General. _• Paris.—Quesniy, a little village north of the Oise,'counts Julv 7, 1017, as 1 the pro.fide.st day in its modest annals. On that day a French general, with a guard of war veterans ii{ attendance, came to pin the War Cross on tlie .breast of Mine. Pellequer. tiny local sohp*dmistress and mayor, for her gal lant conduct. Mine. Pellequer is one of those mod est heroines of whom Franc** hsidTrea son to l>c pfqud. When the war liroke ■nut'-.Mine. PH|cqucr was teaching j school in Quesmyxwhile licr husband I was similarly eii]p!'*y<*d at-the ticiglc horing village of ■Maicourt, llcr hu«- JL'-'iud Jh’ft for the /front, and she took over liis pupils. ¥ ‘ The. Germans occupied Quesniy, and ; fomiYf" Mine.. Pellequer’ installed as ; tnayiuk maintaining order and attend ing to everything. Slie it was who "Hirst little first-hand refused to salifte the invaders, who, rto been forth 1 for once, overlooked tills instihordina- v 1 tion/ y -V Armenianr Reports Them More Merciless in Persecuting Ed ucated of His Race.x xvS>n They Have Less Respect, .Than Turks for Religious and Racial Customs of Their Victims — Worse Than Dahtes’ Inferno. itTTorvthe sick. Finally the camp was investi gated by a govcrmmmt commission, which ordered better food. The food allowance.for the Gentian people was as follows : For one person, one week, three pounds of bread, .'50- grams of butter, one egg, "J.'O grams of meat, f>0 grams of .sugar, 110 grams of aoup. one tlake of fat. The people are hungry all the time. They can* have .“potatoes and vegetables only when there Is plenty. " ■ A special permit Is required for se curing clothes, and articles of.apparel can .only be ohtainial jtfter authorities hhve determined \h*y lire really, need ed. Tlif- soldiers fare little "better, re ceiving poor clothes, and, food enough only when there is an alimidance. The soldiers receive,t_hree pounds of bread! evety four days when there is enough TAG fOR AMERICAN SOLDIER SAMMY IS GALLANT-IN FRANCE Wisconsin Animal Chased, .Become* Entangled in Growth and V ' ' ' Is Killed. BARS UP TO GAMBLERS AT ARMY CANTONMENTS “The steer had escaped from it> pen and tnadiy ,dash«»l 'for ,the open fields—ttegl^b+K-.- says.. .-'With several neivhhoritig' ^artmrs efforts w«*rt elijisc the animal 1 “ck to its MempH^s, Tennr=-('rap shoot s' ers. T:ird slntfps and oilier nitn- ble-fitigered gentry ar*\ having j ir hard time breaking into-*t1ie camps of wopliing iu^n/^estah- llKhed :it United States arttiy caiifbinm'hts,;. In examining ap- pllcsuits fc* Job? •'dins were tak en to look into the character of the mem The examinees in sev eral" instances found that the applicant was not a worker, hut a gambler, Six professionals from- Memphis reached t.lie goy^ ernmenf.’ can tollmen t nt Little I lock. Within an Tbur after ttieir arr'ral they ha In game “going.”.’ Vhey -were d«*tioirted. ot li«*r cnutonnientsJuul the, sanu* i made to i 7 j quartern L “Fnrnged iwcausc of its i*elng pur- !_sti<‘d. it headed for » field of -alfalfa j which hnd_ grown nearly tlir**c feet ; high. Tim st^er-Ueciimo rr.tangled li the vines In Its ^ tr*e anlmal’i o mo.dtlrs 1 have atysel-f neck wiis hrokeh. “The aid.of a .large scyth* necessary, to roach the care 1 f No timUffr u hat precarjmis position i or dream stances Uncle Sirm’s fighting mgr g*‘t .-themselves Info. It will } * .-fiext to lmp*issible for’•them to lose their Identities. Suspended around his neck every tnan will wear a metat tag. On this will he ajl the necfjisar* Birds Ruin Gardens. Marietta, O.—Blackbirds by thf thousands are raAkJftV their homes ic Moynfd Cemetery nfi^ are devastating war gardens around this city. In or der to put the birdk to flight and se- liiJLLQQ-? jLgjye: A gendorroe bury a ^Ick. n alive. D-olo- K looded murders j out ymcli night apd the hose Is turne4 ah everyday accurrence. Our , oni the birds roosting In the trees. toghaph shows the tag" as It U worn ■ronjjd the neck- , ; American chivalry to the fore. . fNUl 1 road to a charming French nffihr. " Who an