Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SUN DIEGO nor TO RESTORE TO MEXICO ON BORDER / Coantie* Sleep With Berea te of Few UprUing Will Cmm Of All Melee Over Sixteen Old. |h few depredations by Mexican raiders were re- Brownsville in the last RUr hours, authorities in the Qronde Valley continued take measures to suppress fleas ness that almost had about a reign of terror in tlon. ipments In this matter were td to follow the conference to M at Rockport, Texas, where fuson Is spending his vaca- Beaides the governor, Adjt. ‘■Hutchings, Congressman John ler and other prominent cTtl- the state were to discuss the situation. Further proof that reaks are due to a conspiracy leans from both sides of the ■de was to be laid before Qov. an. / the raiders are acting under of San Diego" was indicate reports of United States ’ officials reaching the headquw- of the southern department at Antonio. The reports quoted literature said to have been dls- in large guantitles In the ler counties of Texas, lie killing of a Mexican supposed ive been a member of one of the of marauders at Mercedes, Thursday night, was the lat- ‘! to be reported in connection the outbreaks. Near Mercedes Mexicans had been killed sev- hours previously and twenty- i belonging to the raiders The numerous unconflrm- »rts of killings and battles be- the raiders and soldiers are L Ically every American citizen three southermost counties of Cameron, Hidalgo and Starr, under arma Wednesday night that the overwhelming Mexl- populatlon of this section may out In a racial fight. ^^"ttndlcaUd that the Mexl- ‘ disturbance spread rapidly west- until rumors of trouble de af Laredo, two hundred miles 111 border from Brownsville. The ‘ of tftop* in force ■from La re ap parent ly had bearing on the of the bandlta Into the less pop- aectlons between Brownsville [Laredo. belief Increase* that the move- , Is la reality an attempt to turn part of Texas to Mexican con- Aruijr and federal Investigators received Information that the of the trouble are work- •der the plan of San Diego, calls for the death of every i over sixteen years old n uni ties along the Kio (.ranch* IO along the border of New Arizona and California. It has been reported to MaJ. Gen. trick Funston that more than thousand Mexicans are pledged thia organisation already. Federal last winter frustrated one to put this revolution into when they arrested a Mexican Charges of sedlion, discovering in ■ion details of the plan Rich were published at the time. Bangers In Hidalgo county, pursu- aome of the gang which killed an tarican trooper near Mercedes lay night captured a flag Wed- bearing the words, in Span; “Army of Liberation for Mexicans Texos." Authorities Wednesday night tch d the river some miles below »wnsvine at point where It was »rted several hundred armed lexicons had gathered on the Mext- side of the Rio Grande, waiting cross the river under darkness. Officials have reports that seven- hundred former Carranza sol- have crossed the river along a one hundred fx 1 *! twenty miles fts the rro\>r Tip's, from a point slow Browns/flle to Rio Grande -JV Up the river. There are said gave been] at least thirty differ- no connection with Mexican Internal affairs. - "Conditions on the border," said Mr.-Garrison, "have no political sig nificance. * Lawless people are uslgg .this time of excitement to plunder and steal and we are not sure that all the lawbreakers are Mexicans. Soma of them we know are not.” Further strengthening of the bor der forces will take virtually ill available regular troqps in the coun try. Officials were considering wheth er It might not become necessary to use the National Guard should the situation take on more serious pro portions. Reports that politicians on the American side were responsible for the uprisings arounsed much resent ment. At San Benito a mass meeting of protest was held. On June 4, speakers at this meeting declared the secretary of war had been Informed that trouble was likely to break on the American side from this source. Fifty-one citizens representing all political factions addressed the fol lowing statement to the Associated Press Thursday night: “Statements attributed by you In to-day’s dispatches to the secretary of war and Gen. Funston to the ef fect that conditions of brigandage in Cameron and Hidalgo counties are due to any political feud are abso lutely without foundation. .AH fac tions here are co-operating as Ameri can citizens to restore order and ob tain absolute protection for our fam ilies and property.” • 1 The killing Thursday of three Mex ican outlaws near M rcedes, Hidalgo county, Texas, and the capture of twenty-two of the bandits’ saddle horses in the same vicinity, lead to the belief that at least one of the gangs of Mexican raiders has been scattered. Details of the fighting are not available. Federal and state offi cials refuse to discuss the matter further than to announce that threp Mexicans had been killed. Except for the fight In Hidalgo county, the situation in the Texas border coun ties apparently was quiet. News which later was confirmed says that Texas Rangers tn Hidalgo county chased eight Mexicans who reached the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Sitting on the bank of that stream on the Mexican side, the ban dits Invited the Rartgers to cross the river, saying they were the leaders sought by America nauthorlties. The Rangers withdrew, it Is believed the Mexicans are p4fT of the band which abandoned their horses earlier In the day and took to the brush. RUSSIANS EXPECT BLOW IN REGION OF BALTIC WILSON IS OVER 2,000,000 VOTES AREA* OF HIS PARTY It trossingsT' Wash! r lagton Bril la fighting tn Texas along the lean border will cause strength- of American forces there if ll Gen. Funston requests It. Sec- nry Garrison of the war depart- ttt and other officials insist, how- tr, that any such troop movement ‘ no connection with Mexican in ti affairs and would be only for Rtection of Americans in Texas, ptocretary Garrison said he had no aatlqn that Carranza troops ed the border and added that they were found in Texas they tould be disarmed and shot if they Meted. Carranza officials at San ntonia denied that any Carranza tps hd crossed the line. Requests from afficlals along the Iborder for more troopers have been Bd to Gen. Funston. Gen. Fun- has on the border and at Texas r about Seventeen thousand troops, tary Garrison telegraphed the ral that the twelve thousand mo- troops remaining at other posts i continental United States would be ! to the border If- he asked for Funston reported that the information he could gather In- that the Texas raids were by Texans having headquar- In Brownsville, who, having a fend, sent bandit gangs to ^attack each other. Sec re- expressed doubt that over the herder were the dietorbanoee Attack on Riga Ijeadn Autliorttiea to Believe Germans Will PumIi Freeh Campaign. Petrograd: The next serious blow of the German forces is expected to fall tn the Baltic region. Apparently the Invadors are not anxious to crowd the Russians out of Poland, but are expending their efforts in strengthen ing their extending wings. The naval attempt to gain control of the Gulf of Riga simultaneously with the pressing eastward of the land forces toward Friedrtchsstadt. forty-six miles southeast of Riga, and, the only railroad outlet from that port, has convinced military authori ties that the Germans contemplate early resumption of the campaign in this region. Tho swampy nature of the country south of Riga renders control of the approaches from the east essential for success. The Russians are oppos ing stubbornly the advance of the Germans. On the other hand, the advance of the Germans toward Vilkotnir, on the roads leading in the direction of Vll- na, in the government of Kovno, has given rise to the belief that the In vaders may attempt to press on to Vila. According to the military critic of the Bourse Gazette this theory is supported “by the aerial bombard ment of Vila and by the beginning of the evacuation of that city" by the Russians. It is hardly expected that his movement will be forced, how ever, until the German positions at Ponevyezh and Kovno have been made more secure from the danger of being flanked from these direc tions. LOOKS FOR AMMUNITION Government is Making Inquiries Among Private Manufacturers. Announcement that the war de partment had asked American manu facturers of war munitions for data as to their facilities for furnishing an emergency, led to some specula- supplies, particularly in tho event of an emergency, has led to some spec ulation, although officials explained that the action was in accordance, with the usual practice both in nor mal times as well as in war. The announcement declared emphatically that no purchases of war supplies was contemplated at present. The step, it is explained, was made necessary because of the fact that practically every private plant in the country is taxed to its capacity fill ing big orders from the warring na tions of Europe. General inquiry has been institut ed to ascertain whether expansion of facilities has gept pace with the de- tnand and whether the government would be certain of a source of sup ply to supplement the output of Its arsenals and armories which ordi narily produce only a part of the supplies needed. Senator Anhurst Says President Is Bound to Win Re-election at the Elections Next Year. In his capacity as political field lieutenant a^d confidential Inforov ant of President Wilson/ Senator Henry F. Asnurst of Arizona has started at Detroit a fortnight’s can vass of Michigan, with the declara tion that It will be "Wilson In 1916, and the rest nowhere.’ Cdmlng at the end of a fourteen-thousand-mile tour of the United States, made at the president’s request, and lasting since March 1 Igst, Senator Ashurst’s statements were regarded by politi cians as significant. The position of the United States, due to the European war and the troubles in Mexico, have made the president the logical party leader, says the senator. Mr. Ashurst on his tour has talked with cowboys and bankers, lumberjacks and profes sional men, and, after carefully weighing and digesting the sentiment he has found, he declares, that Mr. W’ilson is to-day two million votes stronger than his party He says that if there were a presidential elec tion to-day Mr. Wilson would carry New York handily, and come closer to sweeping Michigan than any other living Democrat. "Woodrow Wilson will run for president,’’ he said, “because he will have no other choice. I measure my words when I say that h© will be re elected president without any trouble. The people will have no other leader. It was fortunate for both Woodrow Wilson and for the United States that he became president at such a time, fortunate for him because the times made’him the one great outstanding figure in civilization to-day, and for tunate for the United States because he is the one calm, resourceful lead er whose peculiar abilities enabled him to steer the country safely through the international difficulties that have beset it. . .“From the standpoint of the great mass of the people there is but one question, and that relates to the war in Europe. The people know they have the one man to lea/I them safely througln Woodrow Wilson is that man. "Republican congressmen are in a bad way. They denounce Wilson openly for the sake of their constitu encies, and they praise him privately, because there is no other thing for them to do. "The Republicans have but one forlorn hope. Some of them affect to believe and many of them do sincere ly believe that there is one more president wrapped up In the tariff question. They will find their mis take a sad one. The tariff question is entirely submerged in the great is sues the war in Europe has brought to the foreground The solution of the tariff question lies In a tariff commission, and this Idea has many converts. We have come to see the eiTor in wasting the public wealth by giving over this question to weeks and weeks of congressional debate. “Neither will the currency ques tion detract greatly from the great Issues Involved. Many Republicans, notably Senator Weeks, voted for the currency bill." WILSON SENDVWARSHIP IN HASTE TO VERA CRUZ Report From American (’ommander Tells of Urgent Need for Plenty of Soldiers. American warships W’edn^sday were steaming at full speed for Vera Cruz, presumably under orders from President Wilson, to protect foreign interests which have been endangered there, and which will be harmed, it is thought, in anti-foreign outbreaks if the United States government in tervene#. Responding to an urgent appeal from Commander McXamee, senior Amgrican naval officer at Vera Cruz, the battleships Louisiana and New Hampshire sailed from Newport, R. I., Tuesday night as a result of anti- foreign demonstrations at the Mexi can port. The warships will reinforce the fleet of American gunbots in Mex ican waters. Officials continued their reticence Wednesday concerning the dispatch of the warships. It was feared that if it became known in advance that the war vessels were on their way Vera Cruz it might increase the tensi-’ ty of the situation there. President -Wilson, in New Hamp shire, was advised of Comamnder Mc- Namee’s report, and several hours later a long code dispatch reached the navy department from Cornish. Then it became known that the ships had been instructed to start’lmmediately for Vera Cru?. : It was understood that President Wilson himself ordered the warships sent, although no official would ad mit even that they had sailed. Care had been taken during the day to point out that any naval or military activity now only would be precau tionary to safeguard foreign interests and could not be constructed as con nected with the Pan-American confer ence to be resumed in New York. COTTON IS NOT NEEDED TO , MANUFACTURE EXPLOSIVES | London Newspaper Says Three Ger- j man Plants are Making Wood Palp Base for Explosives A citizen of a neutral state who has ] just made a tour through Germany! and acquired a large amount of In formation about the Industribl and economic conditions of the country. ‘ gives to the London Daily Chronicle an account of the work of German chemists In discovering a substitute for cotton as a basis for high explo sives. This was found in the shape of ordinary wood pulp. He says: "Experiments are still being car ried on, but sufficient progress has already been made to enable the sub-; stitute to be used freely and success fully. The great difficulty in the way of using wood pulp as a substitute for cotton is the presence of many impurities which are not found in the latter commodity. The most Im portant of these impurities are resip and oxycellulose. Unless these are completely removed the resulting ex plosives would be uncertain in ac tion, and highly dangerous to those manufacturing them. “I was not-able to discover the whole secret of the process, but in its early stages it is the same as that which is followed in turning wopdl.. Newfoundland into pulp for the manufacture of 1 • Newfoundland paper. The wood is ground, cooked, and changed into liquid form. Then it is cleansed by new processes and then pressed into sheets. It is then ready for the nitration process, and the addition of other necessary chem icals. I “Germany is under no difficulty so far as the supply of the raw ma terial is concerned. At one time she was dependent upon Scandinavia for supplies of wood pulp, but some years ago she set herself the task of making her own, since when she has become largely self-supporting tn this direction. “Three of the largest factories are now engaged in turning out the new basis for explosives, as well as the seasoned wood required for making wood pulp. Large reserves of tim ber have been accumulated from my own country and from Russia, so there is no fear of any shortage. “I was assured that if the supply of raw cotton to Germany were en tirely stopped she might be able to tide over the difficulties.’’ NEWS OFJE WAD SCATTERED ITEqS (LATHERED ABOUT WORLD CONFLICT - . » • > , „ _ .aaawiasSsM^|iksniinnsan> . ' . ' - • BIG NEWS IN SHORT SPACE ,‘-*V Interesting Pointers About the Sign!- can Things Which Oftentimes Es cape Attention—-War Goes on in Many Fields of Activity—What the Various Nations are Doing. The King of Bavaria has appointed the-German Emperor a field marshal of the Bavarian army, and the Em peror has accepted t the appointment, so it is reported Yrom Amsterdam. The incident is stated to have caused keen interest in Germany s as,it has been often held that the Emperor alone had the power to appoint field marshals. Bavarians have recently been in favor of their king asserting his position, because of the promi nent part Bavarian troops are play ing on the battlefield. has notified the United States that aliens arriving there as passengers must carry pass ports, with photographs attached, j • • American Red Cross doctors and nurses will be withdrawn from the battlefields of Europe on October 1 because of a lack of funds to keep them there longer, according to a statement made last week at Wash ington by Miss Mabel T. Boardman, chairman of the Red Cross Relief Commission. It is possible that the two units in Belgium, where the greatest need exists, will be con tinued, but the other fourteen de tachments will be recalled jon the date mentioned, when the American fund of 11,560,000 will be exhausted. In the work of cleaning up Serbia the Red Cross has used 358,783 pounds of sulphur, 700,000 bichlo ride tablets,' 7,000 gallons of kero- sine oil, 5,600 pounds of formalde hyde, 12,200 doses of cholera vac cine, 500 whitewash brushes, 70 bathtubs, 50. stepladders, and 11 automobile trucks. RUSSIANS CHECK GERMANS, , SAYS LONDON ON FRIDAY Baltic Flank is Held tn Check But Teutons Move Forward IHrert- ly Fast of Warsaw. iiondon, Friday: The Russians are holding In check the Baltic flank of the German armies which are strug gling to cut the Warsaw-Petrograd railway and are battling toward the Dvina, beyond which lay the roads to the Russian capital. This has been accomplished with the gld of rein forcements and by virtue of oneeoun- ter attack after another. The fortress of Kovno still holds out, German attacks toward Riga have been repulsed and the railway jusetioe at Dvinek remains An Rus sian hands. From Ostrolenka, north of Warsaw, to Chelm In the south, the Teutons claim to have made fur ther progress, but between Vleprz and the Bug they apparently have been thrown back with heavy loss. Per haps Field Marshal von Hlndenburg has not exerted his full power in the north, but is awaiting events In the south before hammering his hardest drive toward the Dvina, near the banks of which blk cavalry has been for some time. The fact that the Germans are able to advance with comparative rapidity due east from Warsaw while being checked on the right and left flanks, has given rise to the irppression in England and in Russia that the stout resistance offered by the Russian wings will insure the safe withdrawal of the main body of troops from the Warsaw salient. - . Contrary to many reports the main line of communication between the Polish capital and Petrograd has not been cut through. It would be cut if the Germans were to take Dvinsk. The approaching meetings of both the Greek and Servian parliaments give promise of bringing the Balkan situation to a head, though for the moment Greece and Servia refuse to concede territory. ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID Six Persons Killed on British East ern Coast. Official aimtfuncement was made in London Friday of an airship raid Thursday night on the east coast of Englanjl. Six persons were killed. One Zeppelin, the announcement says, probably was damaged, but escaped. The official announcement says that six persons were killed, twenty- three injured and fourteen houses were damaged seriously by bombs. Thursday night’s rajd of Zeppelins was the second this week. On Mon day night Zeppelins flew over the English coast and killed fourteen per sons and wounded fourteen others.- Army Aviators Meet Their Deaths. Capt. Knox and Lieut. Sutton, of the army aeroplane squadron, were in a serious accident Thursday when their machine fell a 'istance of 500 feet. The captain was killedv but the lieutenant may recover. x'S Xew Orleans Lodges Protest. A protest against interference by Great Britain r.nd her allies with cot ton shipments for neutral nations wai forwarded to President Wilson day by thq New Orleans bo trade. German Property Seized. The'Tribuna of the Seine in Paris has 'sequestered real estate to the value of $40,000,000 belonging to a German subject. Favor Submarine* and Airaraft. Secretary Daniels declared Friday there was an ovorwhslinlnc senti ment for large inereaseo In sabma- M. - t Germans Capture Sledlce. The Polish city of Siedlce, ‘ fifty- five miles southwest of Warsaw, has been captured by the Germans. This announcement was made Friday at army headquarters. Italian Consuls Leave Turkey. , The Paris Temps eays the Italian consuls in Turkey are quitting the country leaving their affairs in Amer ican hands. . \ Troop* Ready for Bordet'. President Wilson Friday gave dl- tfcat sufficient troops be held ‘Dr any emergencies os the - “* Tropical Storm on Its "Way. A weather bureau announcement siys a tropical storm swept the Weet Indiee Thursday and should reach the Florida coast la a day or so. In order to increase the enlist ments Canada has lowered the re cruiting standard. Men 6 feet 2 inches in height may now become Canadian soldiers. Hitherto the minimum height has been 6 feet 3 inches. The minimum chest measure ment is now 33 Inches for those 30 j years old or under, the former mini mum having been 33 ft inches. • - The Austrian government has agreed to spare Italian churches and monuments in Italian coast towns provided the Italians do not use them for military purposes. • • Captain H. A. Tomklnson of the British Royal Dragoons has been promoted to the rank oi major. He played No. 1 on the polo team, which took back the International Polo Cup to England, last year from the lWaited States. A convention, ceding to Bulgaria the Turaish portion of the Dedegatch railway, has been signed in Constan Unople. • • Regret has been expressed by the British government to the Norwe gian government because of the vio lation of Norwegian territorial waters by British warships, particularly the seizure of a German steamer Inside the three-mile limit. The note was cordial and was in reply to a protest by Norway. • Typhus has practically been wiped out in Serbia. The Serbian army is reported to be in good condition and probably better equipped than ever before. It is mobilized around the frontiers, ready to move at any point at any moment. • • Marconi, who is a lieutenant of engineers in the .Italian army, has been in London buying war supplies for his nation. He expresses confi dence in Italy’s ability to defeat Aus tria, and says that Italy is welj sup plied with ammunition, her factories working at high pressure day and night turning out shells. Italy, he says, is particularly well equipped with c-rigibles and aeroplanes. • * Several Americans were in Rheims recently during a heavy bombard ment. The party took refuge in a cellar for an hour. On reaching Paris, they said that on the day they were in Rheims between 500 and 600 large calibre shells were dropped on the city. • • The French*igovernment has con ferred the Military Cross upon Pro : fessor Richard Norton, founder <if the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps, -which is the chief Ren Cross unit in the Second French army. With the decoration the government sent Professor Norton a letter warm ly praising the work of the corps. • Premier Asquith has issued a printed statement showing that all casuajties in the British army and navy.“Slnce the beginning of the war tqiai 330,995. The total military Casualties up to July 18 were 321,- 889, and the total naval casualties up to July 20 were 9,106. Four thousand army officers and 499 naval officers have been killed. ’ The men, killed in the army total 57,284; in the navy, 7,430- By war theatres the total army losses have been: In ■France, 1054 officers acid 255,649 men, at the Dardanelles, 2,144 offi cers and 47,094 men; in other thea tres, 415 officers and 5,333 men. * - • • ' ’ Gabriele d’Annunslo flew over Trieste a few day* ago in the aero plane ot yeut. Miraglla. The lien- while the meaaagea. poet threw down poetic • • Sine a the outbreak of the war the Swedish army has been almost dou bled. It now has a total of 540,000 trained men, 360,000 of which are troops of the first line, the remainder being Landsturm. New training schools for non-commissioned officers have been established since last August, in which ! 60,000 nob-corns have been trained. • • Ten more large national munitions factories are to be established In Eng land, in addition to the sUteen huge national plants now In operation, ac cording to a statement made by Lloyd-GeorgeV minister of munitions. The Italian government has noti fied the Pope that it has been In formed that Germany has sent to Pola two airsMP 8 / with which it is intended to bombard Rome. The Pope has ordered art treasures of the Vatican, removed to a place of safety. • • Conan Doyle wants the British troops to wear armor, declaring it would greatly reduce the casualty lists. He suggests that each man wear a helmet, a curved plate of highly tempered steel over the heart, and a similar plate over the abdo men. i The Italian government has decid ed to make large purchases of meat and grain In the United States, not only for the army, but also for the civil population, according to reports from Rome. The purpose of the authorities is to discourage specula tion in foodstuffs, which is being ex tensively conducted. • • A committee o( “the crusade of the women of- France," which com mittee Includes many of the most prominent women In Paris, has pass ed a resolution condemning the sale of alcoholic beverages In the shops of confectioners, tobacconists, and coal merchants, and demanding that the sale of intoxicants be prohibited In communities where munitions of war are manufactured. Among the wo men son the committee are Mme. Poincare, the Duchesse de Rohan, the Comtesse de Greffulhe, and Mines. Alphonse Daubet, Emile Zola, Vivi an!, Augagneur and Deroulede. • • There have been serious riots in Seylon. In suppressing the insur rections many natives have been kill ed and many more thrown Into jail. In Colombo alone it is stated that - 1,500 persons have been sentenced to Imprisonment for varying terms. Because of a revolt of the Senusai tribes, the Italians have been forced to retire from Fezzair and go nearer the coast. The revolt has been fo mented by Turkish and German of ficers. Fezzan is a territory 400 miles long by 300 wide, bounded by Tripoli on the north and on all other sides by the Sahara Desert. • • Squadrons of Austrian cruisers and torpedo boats have several times late ly bombarded pointa on the Adriatic railway, which skirts the sea on the Italian east coast. Stations have been damaged, and locomotives and cars destroyed. • • Prince Oscar, the fifth son of Em peror William, has written a book describing a winter battle in the Champagne region, in which the French attempted an unsuccessful assault against the German lines near Perthes. The proceeds from the sale of the work will go to a relief fund for widows and orphans. SWEDEN WANTS US TO ACT WITH HER IN CABLE MAHER In Note Desire of Co-operation is In timated But little Chance for it Exists. The government of Sweden has re cently intimated a desirje that ‘the CnitediStates join in a nrotest to Great Britain against interference wih cable communications between the western hemisphere and conti nental Europe. These intimations were not in a form that required a direct answer, and it is doubtful that such an an swer will be given. But Washington feels that the question answers itself with the statement that the cables are owned by the belligerents. It Is safe to say that the American note to Great Britain on the subject, df the British blockade will make fio refer ence to interrupted cable communi cations. All cables connecting with north ern Europe pass through the British Isles, and it is understood that their ownership is British. A British cen sorship of messages passing over them sfould, therefore, afford no ground for an American protest, ex cept in the unexpected contingency m interference with American diplo matic communications. At the out break of the war, the loop from Eng land to Germany was cut, presum ably "by the British, and that was re garded as a legitimate act of war. For many months the United States has been in clos) touch with all the other important neutral pow ers regarding the inconveniences im posed on neutral ci mmerce by. the British blockade. Sweden has been more earnest-than the rest In repre T senting her displeasure at the Brit ish course. Bui even Sweden has not suggested-tllFt the United States join in any such protest on the gen eral subject of the blockade. The United States has already protested on that score, and the disposition of the smaller nations seems to be to await the outcome of the American negotiations. ■■ M .’1 ♦ ♦ » British Hold Swedish Coal. The British government fused to permit two shipla&s of coal purchased by a Swedish firm for the Swedish navy to leavo Englhnd. The Incident has brought forth much blt- ter comment from the Swedish press. tenant dropped bombs on tbs dty, says a Stockholm dispatch Friday.