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MURDER OF THE ROMANOFFS
Czar and His Family Suffered Most
Horrible Fate
BIOTISI FANATICS WITHOUT MEKCY
Authentic Facta as to How Russian
Royal Family Was Disposed Of
Hv? is a Story of Fiendishness That
*" . is Beyond Belief.
From the New York World.
The World has received from an official
of the Siberian government established
by the Russians at Omsk,
the following vivid resume of the governmental
judicial inquiry In the as-,
sasslnaticn pf the deposed czar, fhe
czarina and the daughter and young
son. For prudential reasons the name
of the offlcal is withheld.
^ By an Offioial of the Siberian Govern-.
ment.
Omsk, Siberia, December 12, 1918.?
Until recently-the fate of the ex-Czar
k Nicholas and his family was uncertain.
The shocking rumors regarding
w assassination recently decided the
council of ministers of the Siberian
government to-hold a judicial inquiry
? on the scene of their disappearance.
This was carefully and impartially
.conducted by men who had no monorchia!
sympathies (being themselves
advanced Liberals), verified by wit's
. nesses and documentary evidence, and
was substantiated by photographs of
ha u?nM of the tmaredv.
- Ruffian* for "Guards.
The Bolshevik, drunk with power,
N and the lust of cruelty, took the excsar,
his wife-and their five children
from the monastery of Abolak^ thirty
miles from Tobolsk, -to Ekaterinburg-,
where they were destined to spend
their last days In physical and mental
tortures. They were Interned In the
house of a professor of chemistry
> named Ipatleff. The building was of
two stories with a small courtyard
surrounded by a high wooden palisade.
The lower .floor, comfortably, even
sumptuously, furnished was occupied
by the guards, men especially recruited
from the lowest class of Bolshevik
bullies. The prisoners occupied the
? upper floor. ' .
A condemned murderer's cell Is not
more devoid of comforts than the
small, dark rooms allowed to those
who had spent their lives In luxury.
Once rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
they- were now mfcde to suffer
nrmnnta of novertv: once
supreme in power, they were insulted
and spat upon by men lower than the
beasts. The comfort of a single companion,
even of a servant, was denied
them,
Worse stllj, thpy>*knpw that their
few fttKhftd retainers?Court PKysl-'1
cjan Botkin, twp ladies-in-waiting,
Baroness Buxhoven and Mile. Naryshkina;
the pld sailor Derevenko, who
had devotedly mined . the delicate
' czarevitch frpm babyhood; the former
Gear's favorite valet and fhe ex-empress's
trusted maid (all of whom
were, with them In the Abolak monastery)?had
been shot as a reward for
^ faithful service, while the rest of their
attendants of less conspicuous loyalty
had been dispensed,
Two $msll Beds for Seven.
f>nlv two small beds were permit
ted to this family of seven persons.
The children, therefore, were forced to
s}eep on tjie floor on their father's
uniform greatcpa| apd other clpthes of
their parents. No linen, or almost
none, was prpvlded. Fpr air and exercise
they were permitted to walk in
the little courtyard an hour a day. All
the rest of the time the Rpmanoffs,
once owners of a score of palaces,
* were kept pooped up lq this small flat.
Their meals were taken to them by
pnp of the guards and eaten on a bare
a. wooden table, sitting: on a wooden
bench, from a thick bowl with five
spoons among the seven wretched
prisoners. When these humiliations
were not considered sufficient, when
they were borne by the ex-emperor
with patience and the ex-express with
silent pride, even the few spoons were
taken away as an additional vexation.
Or a synically jovial guard, as he
set down the bowl of food cooked in
the common kettle of the soldiars.
would whisk it away again, saying, "I
see you have good victuals to eat
which we' have not yet had today,"
and carry it oft down stairs. '
At opier times one of the guards
woujd come up while the family was
. seated at table and fish the beet pieces
of meat and cabbage out of their bowl
With his dirty fingers, chiefly for the
p|easure of exulting over hiis victims.
Tprtur* of Daughter*.
g In thp pvppjflg the "guards," brutes
? In human form, would carry the young
ex-grand duchesses down stairs to
their rooms, whose walls were covered
with indecent drawings and obscene
Inscriptions. One can imagine too,
well what went on there the poor.
Innocent girls shivering in the icy chill
of terror while their captors glared at
them in triumph, the coarse jests
and worse all literally within earshot
of the agonized parents.
Nor was this barbarity due to the
savAgery of Isolated individuals. The
soldiers, if one may dignify such brutes
by such a name, were under the orders
of a special Bolshevik commissioner,
# rpsppnslbjp dirpctjy to the local commissioners
of justice and public instruction,
who had full powers on all
matters pertaining to the housing and
treatment of the prisoners, and who.
In their turn, reported personally to
pt the president of the Bolshevik government
of Ekaterinburg. It would be
mistaken charity to imagine that any
or all of these leaders were not fully
aware of what was going on, and probably
nearer the truth to say that the
barbarities took place by their orders.
The martyrdom ended in ghastly J
^ tragedy on the night of June 16. For
r about h. week beforehand the guards
\ had been systematically kept in a
state of inebriety, being encouraged
jn theli' drunken orgies.
1 pid the unfortunate victims suspect
what was brewing? Did the
former czar and czarina who lived
for years Jn such dread of assassination
that, In the case of the latter at
}east, the constant terror undoubtedly
affected her mind realize that
jtbeir time had come?
m
Assassins Identified.
We d<Knot know, for none Is lefl
to tell. Nor do we know exactly
how the crime was committed
though the names cf the gang ol
murderers (consiting of four Russians.
one Lett, two Germans and
eleven Jews) ore on record and their
photographs in the hands of the Omsk
government.
But we can imagine how the miserable
prisoners, by this time forsaken
of hope, with the lose of much
they held dear benind them, sat
waiting for death; that when they
heard the steps of the ruffians on the
stairs they guessed it meant murder,
sudden, bloody and all em-bracing. We
can imagine that the wailing, broken
shieks of the women, the running feet
of the children, crazen with terror, attempting
to escape where no escape
was possible, the sighs dying lips,
the last murmured prayers.
In the co|d words or tlws report of
the judicial inquiry is tire pathetic
record:
"We found in one of the- upper
rooms of Dr. IpatieXs house (now
occupied by the staff of the Czech
General GaJda) numerous bullet
marks on the walla scarcely the
height of a man's waist from the
floor and on the floor Itself."
There is a tragedy In each syllable
Those marks were not high up as
where men 'had fought, but low
down and on the floor, as if unarmed
creatures had-crouched, to avoid their
fate. The bloodstains from the floor
have disappeared, but the Judicial investigator
found "little pools of clotted
blood filling the ballet holes to the
brim/' showing what must have been
spilled there.
Corpses Chopped, Packed in Barrels
The very night of the murder the
corpses were taken to a neighboring
wood, thero hacked in pieces and
packed in barrels. Some of the local
inhabitants say thai these barrels
were burned, others that they were
buried, others agahr that they were
thrown into an adjuti nt fake,
When Ekaterinburg was taken
from the Bolsbevikl the commission
(consisting of rcpreesntatives of,the
of the government, the prmy and of
lawyers and doctors) appointed to in*
vestigate the last days and the death
of Nicholas Romanoff and his family
arrested several people' supposed to
be witnesses of the tragedy, but their
evldence regarding the disposal of the
bodies was contradictory,
Strange to say when the ashes of
the fire In which, many testified, the
bodies ' of the Romanoffs had been
burned, were carefully raised over,
women's sho% bucklns, corset steels,
shreds of clothing, a Cross the
Altar Order pf Malta (of which the
Czar was hereditary grand master)
and some of the third largest diamonds
in the world (which the Czarina
usually- kefct sewn lp her bodice)
were found, but-no bones*M?Yet the
ashes had been undisturbed up to the
time of the investigation.
The disused shaft of a coal mine
nearby, flooded by the waters of a
neighboring lake, was then pumped
out, but np corpses could be found
there either. Mystery, therefore,
shrouds the sequel to this ghistly
tragedy, and the conflicting stories of
the very witnesses of *he last sad
scene once again illustrate the unreliability
of human tejtlmony. We only
know that though the bodies have
not yet been traced, it is practically
???in that the ex - emperor and hts
family ended thslr lives in the cruel
tortures described,
But the murderers were not content
with their terrible vengeanceOn
the same night they despatched
the ex-Czar w|th his wifp and children,
the gang proceeded to Alapaievsk,
where the following members of
the former inmperiai. family hpd been
taken tjiree days before: Ex-Grand
Duke Serge, who at the beginning of
the war was ip command of the artillery
and who until his murder had
lived in comparative freedom in Ekaterinburg;
ex-Grand Duchesrf Elizabeth,
sister of the ex-Empress, who
became a nun, after the murder of her
husband, the Grand Duke Serge, at
Moscow, in 1905; ex-Grand Dukes
John, Gabbriel, and Igor, the exCzar's
second cousins; Prince Palei
and others. This little group of lrfho
cent people the murderers now resolved
to destroy by throwing- them
into a deep pit in the Alapaievsk
mines. They were dragged to the
edge ^ of the Abyss. Silence fell on
the company while, in careless accents,
a man grave the terrible order,
"They are all to be thrown in."
One of t}ie murderers Jn whom a
spark of humanity remained roughly
blindfqlded the formqr Grand Duchess
Ellzabety. All the others were
thrpwn In at randomAs
Serge was being pushed toward
the shaft he grappbid with one of the
assassins and almost succeeded in
drawing the man over.
To destroy the evidence of their
crime the murderers next threw dynamite
and hand grenadeE into the
pit, expecting that th# explosions of the
latter would ignite the dynamite and
cover all traces of the dastardly
deed. But for some reason the grenades
failed to explode properly and
the pit remained open. *
Three months later, in October,
the region of Alapaievsk,' they took
out all thq corpses, and after photographing
them, buried them under the
loca} church.
Michael Romanoff Disappears.
The murderers apparently completed
the series of their crimes in
Perm, whither they proceeded from
Alapaievsk. Ex-Grand Duke Michael
vanished soon after their arrival.
Thus the last of the Romanoffs was
hunted down by* men who styled
w , {of the "Puplic In
Hiciu It* v.^..ov
struction of Ekaterinburg," "the People's
Justice" and the Soviet Republic.
Indians Entitled" to Citizenship. 1
Writing from an American Indian
reservation to a western newspaper,
the Rev. Red Fox Shiuhushu, a
northern Blackfoot Indian, has made
an appea) for the admission of his
race to citizenship that must have
touched the hearts and the imagination
of many who read it. "The American
flag," says this decendant of the
prehistoric Americans, "has given cit
izenship to every race unu nanu?
the world, but not the American Indian.
If our 9,000 boys offer their
lives .why should not their people become
free, as every other nationality
on the American soil? " Not only were
9,000 American Indians incorporated
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FIRST PHOTO
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This Is the first photograph of the
gates, except President Wilson, are si
dent Wilson, Henry White and Gen. 1
In the American Expeditionary Force,
but the Indians as a whole have tdken
mjore than $50,000,000 worth of
Liberty bonds and donated at least
$2,000,000 to war relief work. At this
time Mr. Skluhushu adds, "We know
not the hyphen; we know not the pro
this or pro that; we are 100 per cent
Americans." The plea deserves more
than passing attention; and there
are many modern experts in Indian
character and affairs who will feel
that it ought to be granted.?Christian
Science Monitor.
PROHIBITION AT LAST. ' ,
Two-Thirds of the State* Have Rat- <
ified Federal AmendmenL
Ratification of the Federal ponsti- .
tutional prohibition amendment last ,
Thursday, made the United States the j
first great power to take legislative nc- ,
tion to permanently stop the liquor ,
traffip. ,
Nebraska's vote gave the necessary ,
afflmative three-fourths majority of 1
the states to make effective the amend- j
ment submitted by congress in Decern- (
ber, 1917. Jt was followed by similar ,
action in the legislatures of Missouri ,
and Wyoming, making 38 states in all
which have approved a "dry" America. ]
Affirmative action by some of the ten j
state legislatures yet to act is'predicted j
by prohibition advooates. j
Under the terms of the amend- ?
ment, the manufacture, sale and 1m- ]
portation of intoxicating liquors must j
cease one year after ratification, -but ,
n>/.hlhl?lnn mill Ko a font In AVArv State i
F* V4**W?W^M Tr?M r? ? - ? ? , ; %
much earlier because of the war measure
forbidding the manufacture and <
sale of alcoholic beverages after June ]
JO-untll? the- demobilisation of mlUUtiy t
forces. Under the war-time measure (
exportation of intoxicating .liquor is f
permitted, but the great stocks now (
held in bonded warehouses will have to ] f
be disposed of before the Federal ^
amendment becopies effective. j
Discussion atf to whether the new
amendment becomes a part of the con- ,
ftltution now that 36 states have ratified
it or whether it becomes a.part of
the basis law only when each state has .
certified its action to the secretary of (
state, led Friday to a search for precedent
which showed that the only j
amendments ratified in the last half (
century?providing for income taxes t
and direct election of senators?were t
considered effective immediately the t
36th state had taken affirmative ac- t
111(11.
Senatoc-Sheppard, author pf the pro- t
hlbition amendment, held that national .
prohibition becomes a permanent fact >
January 16, 1920. (
Only fourteen of the states have cer- <
tifled their action to the state depart- ]
ment. Th'e vote of the Mississippi leg- t
islature. the first to act, has not been s
received at the state department The i
Mississippi secretary of state said Fri- i
day at Jackson that the certificate had j
been mailed to Washington immediately
after the legislature acted and that i
a duplicate would be sent if the origi- (
nal had been lost. Proclamation of the <
ratification of a new amendment is <
made, but this was said to be a formal- \
. - ? J
ity and not a requisite part or cnangIng
the constitution.
New problems of government are
raised by prospective stoppages of the
manufacture and sale ef intoxicating
liquor, as hundreds of millions pf dollars
derived from internal revenue will
have to be obtained from other spurces.
Laws of enforcement of the amendment
also will have tq be passed.
Wages and Prices. Alexander, as
nearly everybody has some time or
other heard, splved thp difficulty of
untying the Gordign knot, which nobody
had ever been able to do, by
cutting it. Something of the same
sort may have been done by those
large business concerns that are announcing
a reduction in the price of
what they have to sell without making
any corresponding reduction in
the wages of those who make it. The
argument that the price of com?edities
cannot come down until the cost
of labor comes down, and that the
cost of labor crfrmot come down until
the price of commPdlties comes down,
presents a problem quite as perplexing
as the traditional knotted, cord at
Gordium. But if a large enoiigh'nurrjber
of businesses reduce prices without
lowering wage scales, and find.
rtrnfit fVio niirrhn.sinir I ,
I CU9V|I(IU1C pi wi* Vf ? ?< ... ,?.0 j
power of the dpllar will pleasantly increase.
With more purchasing power
to tthe dpllar the w-hoje question of '
the relation of wages to the support i
of the wage-earner and his family ,
would become easier of adjustment.
Christian Science Monitor.
At St. Mihiel. The sign painter and
poster got busy before the dust had
settled in the wake of the infantry.
1 Somethimes new signs were put up,
and sometimes a German sign was
merely reversed and the desired American
inscription painted upon its
back.
There were signs telling which way
the roads led some of them and
signs that the headquarters of the
Engineers was there and the P. C. of (
the division here. But there was one
4. fhnt iilwavs attracted
SIKH. Ul ;iir (
attcntlc... It was just on the line
from which the Americans started
their advance. With an arrow pointing:
vaguely forward it read merely:
"U. S."
Stars and Stripes.
General Brancker of the British air
i'service, predicts that trans-Atlantic 1
air lines will be established by 1920. i
O'iwH'i i **+***"* :
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American peace mission, taken In the
opplng. Left to right, they are: OoL
baker H. Bliss,
GLORY OF THg MARINES
Sailor Soldiers' Have Won Universal
^ Admiration,
Something big .and breesy, something
almost epic, |s associated with
the simple wof-ds, "United States Marines."
Part of this, aa the marines
will cheerfully admit, is due to good
"publicity work." good advertising; but
advertising, there are authorities
enough to prove, never effected a great
Buccess without merit behind it, and
It is through sheer grit, courage, fighting
ability, that the "Devil Dogs" have
made themselves beloved and admired
throughout the Allied nations?and
Among the nations?and among the
first, if not the first, Jn the hearts of
their countiymen. From their exploits
under Decatur, down through their experiences
in our own day in the Bahamas,
Africa, the Fiji Islands, China,
the Philippines, the arctic^ Nicaragua,
Mexico, Haiti, to "the greatest victory
of the corps" at Chateau-Thierry,their
ieeds "resemble the imaginings of Dumas."
The holiday issue of T?e Marine*'
Bulletin, their own particular magazine,
contains tributes of sufficient
cngth and variety to makj UP a short
History of the famous corps, from its
jarliost recruit to its latest casualty,
[saac F- Marcosson contributes these
oits of first-hand observation, which
nay stand as an introduction to "The
31qry of the Marines":
No man can touch' America's part in
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he war without knowing that the ma ines
have been on the job. Long be'ore
I reached tTTe A. ETT~ In my ln-|
:essant war-wanderings, the valor of
his remarkable organization had b'e:ome
a sort of tradition in France. ^he
irst news of them came to me when J
vas with the British forces in France.
V. young lieutenant said to me:
"What sort of people are your ma*
ines?" 4
"Why?" I asked,^
"Weil, J have heard that they are
as you Americans say 'some flght;rs!'"
As a Matter of fact, both in the Brltsh
and the French armies, and more
especially among the latter who served
iide by side with the marines at ChS:eau-Thierry,
I got one long and con:inuous
chorus of praise and admira:ion
for them,
Whin I finally had the good fortune
.0 see the marines in action, and later
through the circumstances of my in- j
destination of the service of supplies I
:ame to know the former commander j
>f tneir ongaae, Major uonerar nar- i
jord I felt as if I personally knew
these men who had so gallantly and i
jo stedfastly maintained <the highest <
traditions of a branch of the service |
that is in itself a synonym with course.
It may interest Americans to know j
that the marine brigade incurred both j
i hatred and a fear on the part of the
Germans only approached by two oth>d
English-speaking units in the war:
the Anstralians and this ScotchNHighlanders.
The Germans called t}ie Australians
"Hell Terrors"; they dubbed
the Jpcks the "Ladies from Hell", and
for the marine brigade they reserved
the particular app-Jation of "Devil
Dogs."Oddly enough, thosf> three tpyes
or ngnung men wqii inc most contjejial
of the English-speaking soldiers.
Between the Australians and the marines
there w&s a pecqliar kinship born
of an impetuosity and an utter dis- ,
regard of danger that they had in
sommon. I have often seen a marine
ind an Ansae walking hand in hand
Ihroug some little French town singing
the songs of their own country and ,
presenting such an illuminating and
sncrgetic example of Anglo-Saxon re- ,
lationship as to remain always as one (
of the most delightful recollections pf
the war. "
I was up in the Chateau-Thierry section
not long after the marines stemmed
the great tide and Registered
themselves as a real ^uiwark pf civilization.
The truth pf the matter is
that Chateau-Thierry is the ifuil
brother of the battle of the Mame,
not only ip its significance t? the
rest of the war, but to the fate of the
world. If in that fateful June, 1918,
the Germans had not been checked at
that Immortal town which will forever
mark one of the high tides of marine
valor, Paris would have fallen. Paris
was to France in the Great War
what Rome was to the rest of the
world in that other day of the barbarian.
But the Hun was stopped and
no obstacle that blocked his way was
more heroic or more tenacious than
the harrier of blood and sacrifice
roared by the marine brigade.
Turkish Atrocities on Armenians.
Revolting stories ot how young girls of
the age of 10 and upward were forced'
to march naked for hpurs at a time,
over mountains in scorching heat and
freezing cold, and how thousands of
them died from the exposure, are
printed in the London Morning Post
Pt?r\ m Ifo ofoff r?Arrnunnn Hnnt In Pnn.
itantinople, who has been investigating
the massacre of the Armenians by the
Turks which commenced in the early
part of 1916. In their determination
to extinguish the whole Armenian race i
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!?7!Sii^ Zz*v-:
HotaLCrillon, Paris, where the dele- '
E. Mfflouse, Secretary Lansing, PwesIi
' " the
Turk* resorted to cruelties hitherto '
unknown to the human race since the 1
beginning of wars, according to the
correspondent,
"It ig estimated," said the oorrespon- 1
dent, '-'that 300,000 who were deported 1
to western Asia, crossed the bridge '
over the Euphrates from Sorlar to
Chlttado, and of these only 1,500 are 1
now Alive. The trials of these unhap- *
py ffifople j)id not cease at the end of (
the nKrch. The young girls were tak- 1
en into harems. "The governor of the {
vilayet released all coavlcts from the (
prlsohs, divided them into bands of 300 to
300 each, armed with clubs, and 1
sent mem io outrage ana massacre rne ?
Armenians collected In the vilayet The
convicts became weary of the task and
the'executioner was called In. He
boasted that at Diarbehir 80,000 Armenians
were put to death. He took
80.0 children, Inclosed them in a building
and aet Are to it,
"fairee month* after his accession, .
the present sultan ordered all children
who had been forcibly converted to be
returned to their homes- The governor
of Sansom on receiving the order
collected all the children In his district
and placed them on barges and
had them towed Into the Black sea and
drowned, 'i
"IK Georgia, Zekki Bey regretted
that his' soldiers had not been energetic a
enough in killing Armenians, and he g
had huge pits dug in which young f
childrw arere buried alive." t
NEGftflgB EXPERIENCE IN BATTLE a
"Leapfrog wmi-ShgftriAtroutfri
France.'' g
Competent observers agree that our
colored troops fought as nobly the c
recent war as the tropps of apy other ^
color. J^toxt to a camp-meeting. In-1 r
deed, the negro feels more at home "
Wid a deadly clash of armed forces'
than he does at work In the corn fields. 1
He feels that he Is doing the Lord's 0
work in both situations, and his spirit-'h
ual nature finds as much gratification 1
[n the pious explosions of the one as r
the fierce activity-and perils of the
other. The following New York Trib- F
une story from Camp IMx, N. J., gives H
natural emphasis to this ruling char- *
Eicteristic of the race: v
The inferno of hot work In the line *
evoked the religions fervor of negro >
troops, which never is far from the I
surface, . ;d this aspect of the fighting d
still occupies a prominent place in the o
recollection of wounded negro soldiers 1
returning to this cantonment. Thglr t
Btoriea of the line and their descriptions
of the tight places they were In b
are tinged In almost every case by the 8
conviction that Providence intervened s
in their personal behalf. s
"When Fritz spotted us hell bus' n
wide open an' tu'n all dem onregen-ret v
niggers into a ragin'. prayeh-meptjn'," I
said a sergeant. "J>en we onlimbeh b
en smite old' Satan wid de swp'd o' v
Gideon; dem Fritz es, dey Jes skedaddle
ey*y w'ich ways." t
Private Charips Walter, of the 67Qth v
Infantry, $ "ragin' prayeh-meetin'" of v
pne, was cited for hta devotion to duty t
ip cn^Tying messages junder fire when c
pll the other runner? of his outfit had \
been H^led or wounded, u
"f }es' k?p' p-praying an' a.runnln' n
an' ft-dodgin'," he said, "an* the Lord J
sure kep' step wid me, but I don't see a
Y\nm ho rinmo II T Ion no tphill 1 v nlflVfld (I
hlde?an'-?eek en leapfrog wld shells I
all ovah Prance, I reckon. g
'^But when de biggest of all come a- j
whoopin' along I wuz right out in de
open an' no shell-hole nigh. Honest b
to goodness, hit wuz big ez me an' a s
dern sight mo1 sure wheah hit wuz 1!
gwine- I flop like a rabbit an' f?d'ly v
cuddle de ypth?reckon I landed
qulcker'n dat pi' shell did.. t
Je8' laid theah a-talkln' to Jesus y
hard ez I copld en p-wuctbin' dat pi' C
shell pU de tln^e. 1 seen her fai'ly
humpin' he'se'f opten de groun' er. li
swellin' tp bps'. Bpt, thank de good p
Lord, sl^e quit er-humpin" an er-swell- o
In' and I eren' off fo* she made UD 'er C
mind w'at she gwlne do nex'."
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At the Monument of Columbus.?In
his address at the monument of Columbus.
at Genoa, Italy, the other day.
President Wilson said:' "Standing In
front of this monument, sir, f fully
recognize the significance of what you
have said. Columbus did dp a servipe j h
to mankind fn discovering Amerloa, j r
and it Is America's pleasure and Amp j h
lea's pride that she has been able tp , *
Bhow that it war a service to mankind; y
to open that great continent to settle- J g
ment, the settlement of a t^e People.,9
of a people, who they afe ire*.
desire to see other peoples free and, 1'
to share their liherty with the people j ^
of the wo,rld. ft is for this reason, no 1'
doubt besides his fipe spirit pf adyen-r t
ture, that Columbus wUl always be re- n
membered and honored, pot only here d
In the land of his birth, but through- v
out the world, as the man who led the j n
way to those fields of freedom whjoh, r
planted with a great seed, have now o
sprung up to the fructification of the 8
world." b
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Even when a woman does not re - (1
turn a man's affection she can't help
admiring his discrimination. 111
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Martin McCarter Writes ot His Ad-!
ventures In France ' j
1
SAV MUCH OF THE HAKD FIGHTING ;
Among the First American* to Go Into
Belgium Saw Many Men Killed
By 8hell* and Otherwise Had a
Very Busy Tim* of It Rounding Up
German Prisoners Feels Like a
Veteran Who Has Don* His 8hare.
Following la a "Daddy's Day" letter
from Martin McCarter, military policeman
in the Thirtieth Division, during
its campaign in France, to his
Father, J. L. McCarter, of Clover, R.
F. D. No. 1. The letter is dated
"Somewhere in France, Sunday, November
24":
I have been promising you for some
time to tell you a few happenings during
the months I have been over here.
Now an opportunity has presented itself.
Today has been set apart as
"Daddy's Day," and every soldier is
urged to write his father.
We sailed the XOth of May and landad
the 27th. Therefore we were floating
around seventeen days. When we
were out about two days from Liver
pool, the subs gave us a little chase. I
Of course, that got our wind up just r
i bit; but we landed at Liverpool all
o. K. .
From there we went to Southhampton,
England, stayed there a day or E
:wo, then came across the English
:hannel to La Havre, France, got there
the first day of June. Stayed there
Lbout a week. Then-we made a wild
lash into Belgium.
By the way, we were the first Amercan
boys to land in Belgium. Then,
ifty of us, with Lieutenant Aberna- a
:hy, went to Boulogne, France, to M.
?. school. We were over there in
ichool thirty days. Then we came to
ttaestrae, France, for furtherv inatruc- "
ions in the work that we were to do
n this great war,
We went rifht up to the frrnt for
he instructions, and there I got my
lret taste of shell fire, which was con
ant during our stay. Also there I "
rot my first glanor of "no man's land."
U1 the while we could see the shells (
ly about. And almost dally we could
ec the battles in the air. It was at
hla time that I saw my first "Fritz" ?
>lane come down.
We then, after being at _M. P.
ohool, joined the company in Bel- n
rium. It was then I got my first mall ?
rom the states. I never shall forget \
hat day. , >
We were in Belgium two months, ?
nd the greater part of the time while 8
ye ^ were ther^ we wjpre pjftdey_i&eg_ ^
Ire from one pf "JerrsV long range
P
ims.
While there we. helped the British
aptpre Kemmel HU1, a great strong- '
iold for the Germans, That was our
Irat victory. Then we moved to orthern
Franoe.
Now we were in the war proper. ^
'here we began our drive on the 29th
f September. There's where we ^
roko the Hlndenburg line; From
here they (the Germans) ran like .
abbits # ^
As you know, this was the turning ^
toint of the wnr. I went up to the
Ines twice there. Well, I might say, ^
hree times for mo. The first time I
ras at prisoner of war cage. We t
iad charge of the captured "Jerrys."
Ve handled 1,800 that day. Of course
got a few souvenirs too. The next w
rive I was in charge of advanced
tragglers' post. Then I rounded up ^
,600 German prisoners and sent them ^
o the prison cage.'
I got this bunch (1,600) from day _
reak till 11.80 that night Now to
1ve you an idea of what I had. to
t&nd up under that day, I was under
hell fire for the entire day and t}
light. |t surely was a great day s ,c]
pork for roe, That was during the w
iellocourt drive. We gpt several vtl- t,
ages and released several hundred cl01
>fext week 1 went up. again, 1 had K
nurtAAn men in mv charge. We
forked traffic in and through the
lewly captured village*. All this
Une we were under shell fire. You
an bet it wasn't very pleasant work. c
had several very close callings
nd at times I did not have very
ituch Idea of getting out alive. I b<
ust looked off at any time. All te
.round me I could see men going
own and trucks and horses being v'
ilown to atoms. But a fellow has 'to cl
et used to all such over here and gl
ust wait for his time to ''come next. c<
Anyway, I believe I have done nxy 01
dt, and can never regret the many w
acrlflces I have made and the long
1st 9f hardahipa I have gone through p
fitfi s^nee being over here.
Believe me. "Daddy." the old Thlr- w
ieth" has some "rep" over here. If r<
ou are from the Thirtieth, you are all C(
), K. with these French people.
I. must go for this time. I'm work- **
ng In an office now. Have a dandy p<
ilace. I hgve Just given you a brief
utllne. Will tell you all when I
ome home. **
M'UU O hoort full nf lov<L VOUP OnlV
on, Martin. f8
11 i CARRIED
TOMMY'? BURDEN. ,s
ncident Showing the French Feeling pi
of Gratitude. H
It was Just beyond Courtrai. on a 111
lazing hot day, writes Capt. R. F. W.
leea. Five hours before a hlg attack I ^
iad been launched npt far away; but bl
here was little to tell of war where w
re were, save the low rumble of the
una and the busy aircraft stuttering
ignals and establishing contact, I ^
The pave road wot\nd drearily down ?>
nto th? town, and out beyond It again, j8(1
Ve had stopped ou? car and were eatng
lunch on the roadalde, Presently
here game out of the town and commenced
to climb the hill a British sol- I g<
ler- But he was not alone, '.inere
fere two girls with him. As they drew
earer we could see that one girl carled
the soldier's heavy- pack and the
ther his rifle. When he saw us he
hamefacedly tried to take back his
elongings, but they would have none
f it They were determined to bear to
'ommy> burden for him. ' st
That Is Just a wayside glimpse, but tfc
i is also the symbol and sign of the Ti
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aver northern France toward her Alice
who have liberated her from the
Prussian'grip. Any soldier of the Ailed
armies was given a rousing wel;ome
such as seldom falls to the lot of
i mail. Army cars were cheered wildy
as they ripped along. Everybody
vas eager to give some material shape
.0 their gratitude?a cake, an apple;
>erhaps only a flower; for I saw one
?ld woman Gobble across the road and
rand a soldier some little wild bloom.
Tho vnmitn nf TTro nnn on urov
jack, on foot, to the villages they have
tad to leave, were the most enthuslaalc
of all. They would not let an twatached
soldier carry his own pack. It
ras no good protesting chivalry or
.nythlng of that sort the man who
reed Prance should carry no burden
rhlle a strong French girl could do it
or him, But he repaid her. His light
tadinage, his fearful French, shorten (d
the miles along the pave and there
ras many'a kind-hearted motor-lorry
triver who loaded up with civilians
md put them a- day's march upon their
tomeward way in an hour.
If Is the best alliance, this alliance
>f common cause and real affection, of
nutual help in mutual need. It will
iring France and England and Amerca
very close together. When I think
>f Alliance, I shall see no marbles, no
on!ptared presentment of great naions
In partnership. I shall see merey
an old French road and a little
rrenchwoman carrying a soldier's
TUP ftAII ED BOND.
ww" r
fc.'; 1
legrimed and 8tainad it Exoitecf tha
Imagination.
"It Isn't the clrf&n bonds of high deominatlon
that interest me," said one
f the women who sort the Liberty
onds in a vault of the federal reserve
ank, as she snapped a rubber band
round a millon dollars' worth, more
r less. ^
"It's the worn and soiled ones the
onds that look as if they had been
weated for, may be carried around in
greasy denim pocket all through the
eat and work of summer, probably
iken to bed by the owners and treatred
night and day until they were
schanged for bonds bearing a higher
ite of Interest," ', ?
The woman stood at the head of a
>ng table beside which girls were pil\g
bonds into neat packages mostly
ie brown $60 ones, but which $100
nea, the dark blue of the $600, (ho
reen of the $1,000, the red Qf (he $5tD0,
the purple of the $10>000, the mason
of the $6Q,QG0, and the light blue
r the $100,000. The bonds, some of
ism "alive" or uncanceled, and aome
f them cdead" after their vlaj?^} the
anceling machine at the fobudf the
Laircafe, were handled Dy tne ammngi
trl wo^'-ers with .a* much unooncernl
h'lf the^ pfcftr Car fare conf^j
OtUk "
"Just paper," said one of the ?P*-\
And you get so sick of them you'd
ither sort. pickles or pills or pillow
Ipe for & change."
"Just think," put in & blond creaire
whose Angers flew M aho talked,
they say a young fellow working at
le other banknote some of the bonds
e was sorting- What I can't underajid
Is Why he didn't And something
i?e to steal."
"Here," called the woman at the
ead of tne table, "is one of those I
poke of only this one Is stained with
>bacco juice as well as sweat."
She held up & bond that barely hold
igether at the creases worn to roundess
at the corners?$ paper that had
een wet man^y Umee and handled
ith dirty ftaier*
"I always feel that a bond like that
worth more than Its face value,"
Ud the contemplative woman at the
ead of the table. "No telling how
tuch It has contributed to the owner's
ifrlnftorn nr tn his habit of thrift.
nd when I think of all the $50 ones
iat have similar histories It makes
lese $1,000 green bonds look a little
leap and snobbish by comparison"
id the woman snapped a band around
vq dosen clean ones from a large
>rporatloo and the priceless soiled
ie with Its unwritten history. The
ansae City Star.
INFLUENZA QUARANTINE*
alifornia Presbyterians Say There
Must Bs No Diserimlnation.
Although the Medical Advisory
iard and the business men's commlt
1 ? A V..r?V_. Ia fltll/tv
e, appuiwvu uj uuo m^vi
te infiuensa situation, have both adlaed
against the use of masks, or the
oaing of assemblages, says a Lot Andes,
California, dispatch, the city
>uncil is trying to take some aotion
.her than the quarantine of Individ- i
*1 oases now in effect
The Los Angeles presbytery of the
resbyterlan church, in regular seeon,
on Tuesday at which 11 delegates
ere present unanimously passed a
wolution directed to the mayor and
>uncil, stating that it would not op3se
any ordinance closing every store,
leatre, church or other place where
eople assemble, if such action was
?emed necessary, "but that said pres- 1
ftery la absolutely opposed to any
teelal Quarantine which shall affect
lly certain particular gatherings, and
ild presbytery absolutely.refusea to be
>und by the terms of any special leglation.
In a speech before the council In J
resenting the resolution , the Rev. '
erbert Booth Smith, pastor of Imanuel
Presbyterian church, stated I
lat be did not think the churches of 1
os Angeles should stand for such a '
in as was formerly in effect and
hlch applied only to churches and ,
leatrea. and that If assemblages were
i be closed, the churches would Insist (
iat every assemblage, every business ^
r otherwise, except such as were ab- j
ilutely necessary, should be included. ]
Love Poem. Reproduced from a '
. ~ i
lze contest In wmcn iionona squig
ins, the Child Wonder, of Squashvllle,
on by a neck:
"Two hearts that yearn
For love's sweet prison,
Where his la her*n
And h;<r'n is hls'n.'*
Richmond Times Dispatch.
On the Gc. Comfortable incomes
day are ra.*e most of them don't
op with us lonr enough to make
ismselves comfortable. The Boston i
ranscript. i
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Ill KCUNUNUt IDC AMI I
Military Experts Recommend Force .
of Fire Inndred Thousand
'' vfr. - A ? *>: ,,'jl
TO CONSIDER ONIYEIML SEIVICE H
Probability is That tha Naxt Con* |
gross Will Do Something. Definite
Qon. March Thinks That All Arms
Exeept Poison Qas 8hould Bo Con- -jfl
tinusd Pay to bo Rodueod to ProWar
Basis.
The house military committee practically
reached an. agreement In con- : >&|n
ference with Secretary. Baker and Gen.
March, chief of staff, last Prlday, to
postpone the war department reorganisation
bill until the next session of
congress and with It a large part of the% jgjjjB
prospective debate over the future military
policy of the country.
A suggestion by Chairman Dent that
a legislative rider on the army apph>priatlon
bill continuing the existence
war organisation of the department
and the regular army for another year, j
a substitute for the reorganisation
measure, met with the approval of Mr.
Baker, and apparently with that of a
majority of the committee members.
The proposal grew orit of a conference
at which Secretary Baker and the
chief of staff explained the reorganisation
measure framed by the department,
providing to/ a regular army of
500,000 men to be raised by voluntary ,3
enlistment on a flat throe-year basis.
The hill also would have made perma- "
nent the absolute control over all
branches of the army now exorcised by * ; \
the chief of staff as a wartime neeesChalrman
Dent said it would be impdipeible
to get such a bill throoch con- JmgSM
grees in the present session. Commit- - V
tee members agree, pointing out that |B|
the war. deportment bill on its face appeared
to be a military policy measure
which abandoned the theory of universal
military obligation. Mr. Baker insisted
that this was not (he case; that
no attempt to fix the nation's policy
as to a peace time army was involved;
but agreed that the substitution of eon*
tlnulng authority appeared to be the
wisest course in view of uncertainties
of the situation abroad and lack of
time tor congressional discussion. 4
The exact form of a rider Is to be
studied by the genera) staff. It probably
will leave the strength of the force
to presidential order within limits and
subject to appropriation limitations.
The committee will take up at once
hearings on the regular appropriation
bill which provides as drawn for 600,* a
000 men.
Secretary Baker would makejM declarations
In regard to universal military
service suggestions, saying that he
would submit no proposal of that nature
until the obligations of the nation
could be gaugbd.
'The question of universal trailing '
is a question of national policy," said
General March. "It Is tho duty of the
general staff to submit recommendations
to the secretary of war whenthey
re called for. If they do not get by
the secretary, they are stopped."
General March said the army wt?
now organized under presidential ordw 1 and
^he plan Included in the staff bill
was practically that organisation. A
total strength of 609,000 men Is provided
for, he said, to be organized into
20 divisions grouped in flve'corpa. The
totAl annual cost he %?d at 61.18t?000,
estimated on a return to a base
pay of $15 a month for privates and
exclusive of $86,000,000 carried In the
fortifications bill.
All of the existing war time organizations
such aa the tank corps, transportation
and motor transportation
corps, independent air service and the ^
like, are to be continued, with the exception
of the chemical warfare service.
? ? "ft* In fit tMH of
poison gas In ttrar," General March
declared, "not that It makes any differ*
ence how you kill a soldier, but the gas
lies on the ground and penetrates back
to villages and kills women and children.
No civilised nation ought to .
use It,"
If the president is given authority to
continue wartime agencies of the army.
General March said, the plan mapped
out in the bill will be followed. It pro*
rides for six officers of the rank of
lieutenant general to take care of corps
commanders, and fixes the chief of
staff with the rank of general as the
officer taking "rank * and precedence
over all other officers."
One of the most important provisions
of the bill. General March said,
was that of giving reserve corps offl
cere ran* including uuu ox cvivim, ** Btead
of major as now provided.
"There ought not to be auch hampering
In rank of men coming in from
civil life," he aaid. '
Another condition which muat be
remedied, the general said, wag that
limiting permanent commissions from
civil life to the grgde of aecond lieutenant
If that to to be continued, he
said, "the men who fought the war,"
would be lost for those who had proved
themselves In action would not conBent
to enter the regular service In
that grade.
The bill provides for absolute promotion
by selection of all officers of
rank of captain or higherGeneral
March said the national
guard was at present "out of existence"
and added that until the men who
really compose the old guard and are
now In France have come home, not
even the governors or adjutant generals
of the states can forecast Its future.
ta~ The story of Napoleon's heart is
being revived in Paris why, no one
can explain. It Is, of course, a matter
Df record that when the body of Napoleon
was prepared for burial at St Helena,
in May, 1821, the heart was removed
>by' a medical officer, who kept
It all night in his own room and under
bis own eye in a wineglass. The noise
of the crystal breaking aroused him,
not from sleep, but rather from awaking
doze, and he started forward to see
the heart in the clutches of a huge
brown rat, which was dragging It
etcro8s the floor. One story runs that
be rescued It, but there is a gruesome
tradition that It had been so gnawed
and bitten as to be unrecognizable, and
that the doctor was Tain to substitute
the heart of a sheep, which he solderea
up In a silver urn fllled with spirits
and placed in the eaCfln.
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