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* IjWWWHWWWIBf •. REfllSESjROTlST (T OF NOTE TO AUSTRU ON CONTRABAND EXPORTS EMBARGO UNCONSIDERED The V -ited States Flatly Rejects Aus tria’s Appeal—Lansing Shows That Germany and Austria Hare Always Trafficked in Arms—Precedent L' Would Imperil Our Satpty. The text of tho note follows: “The government of the United States has given careful considera tion'to the statement of tho imperial and royal governments in regard to the exportation of arms and ammu nition from the United States to the countries at war with Austria-Hun gary and Germany. “The government of the United States notes with satlsf. ction the recognition by the imperial and royal government of the undoubted fact that its attitude with regard to the exportation of arms mu ammunition from the United Strtes is prompted by its intention to ‘maintain the strictest neutrality and to conform to the letter of the nrevisions of in ternational treaties,’ but is surprised to find the imporiol and royil govern ment implying that the observance of the strict principles of the l«.w under the conditions which have developed in the present war is incufficient, and asserting that this government should go beyond the long recognized rules governing traffic by neutrals and adopt measures to ‘maintain an attitude of strict parity with respect to both belligerent parties.’ Can Not Accede to This Position “To this assertion of an obligittop to change or modify the rules of in- , ternational usage on account of spe cial conditions tho goverpment of the United States cm not accede. The recognition of an oblig'.ticn of this sort, unknown to the International practice of the past, would impose upon every neutral nation a duty to sit in judgment on the progress of a war and to restrict itc commercial intercourse win a belligerent whose naval succecse^irevented the neutral from trade with the enemy. “The contention of the imperial and royal government appears to be that the advantages gained to a bel ligerent by its superiority on the sea should be equalized by the neutral powers by the establishment of a sys tem of non-intercourse with the vic tor. “The imperial and royal govern ment confines its comments to arms and ammunition, but, if the principle for which it contends is sound, it should apply with equal forco ro all articles of contraband. A belligerent controlling the high seas might pos ^ess an ample fcupply of arms and ammunition, but be in want of food and clothing. On the novel principle that equalization is a neutral duty, neutral nations would be obligated to place an embargo on such articles because one of the belligerents could not obtain them through commercial intercourse. On I .and a* Well as Sea “But, if this principle, so strongly urged by the imperial and royal gov ernment, should be admitted to ob tain by reason of the superiority of a belligerent at sea, ought it not to operate equally as to a belligerent superior bn land? Applying this the ory of equalization, a belligerent who lacks the necessary munitions to con tend successfully on land ought to be permitted to purchase them from neutrals, while a belligerent with an abundance of war stores or with the power to produce them should be de barred from such traffic. “Manifestly the idea of strict neu trality now advanced by the imperial and royal* government would involve a neutral nation in a mass of per plexities which would obscure the whole field of international obllga tipn, produce economic confysion, and deprive all commerce and Indus try of legitimate fields of enterprise, already heavily burdened by the un avoidable restrictions of war. Going to the Record “In this connection it is pertinent to direct the attention of the impe rial and royal government to the fact* that Austria-Hungary and Germany, particularly the latter, have during the years preceding the present Euro pean war produced a great surprlus of arms and ammunition, which they sold throughout the orld and espe cially to belligerents. Never during thaC period did either of them sug gest o* apply the principle now advo cated by the imperial and royal gov ernment. v "During the Boer .War between Great Britain and the South African republics, the patrol of the coasts'of neighboring neutral colonies by Brit ish.navaDvessels prevented arms and ampappitions reaching the Transvaal or' the Orange Free State. The allied republics were in a situation almost identical in that respect with that in which Austria-Hungary and Germany find themselves at the present time. Yet, in spite of the commercial isola tion of one belligerent, Germany sold to Great Britain, the other belliger ent, hundreds of thousands of kilos of explosives, gunpowder, cartridges, shot and -weapons, and it is known that Austria-Hungary also sold simi lar munitions to the same purchaser, though in smaller quantities. While, as compared with the present war, the quantities sold were small (a table of the sales Is appended), the principle of neutrality involved was the same.. If at that time Austria- Hungary and her present ally had re fused to sell arms and ammunition to Great Bfltain on the ground that to do so would violate the spirit of strict neutrality the imperial and royal gov ernment might with greater consist ency and greater force nrge Its pres ent contention la the quantities qf arms and military stores were furnished to Russia by Prus sian manufacturers; that during the recent war between Turkey and Italy, as this government Is advised, arms and ammunition were furnished to the Ottoman government by Ger many; and that during the Balkan wars the belligerents were supplied with munitions by both Austria-Hun gary and Germany. While these lat ter cases are not analogous, as is the case of the South African War, to the situation of AustrU-Hungary and Germany In the present war, they nevertheless clearly Indicate the long established practice of the two em pires in the matter of trade In war supplies. “In view of the foregoing state ments, this government is reluctant to believe that the imperial and royal government will ascribe to the Unit ed States a lack of impartial neu trality in continuing its legitimate trade in all kinds of supplies used to render the armed forces of a bellig erent efficient, even though the cir cumstances of the present war pre vent Austria-Hungary from obtaining such supplies from the markets xif the United States, which have been and remain, so far as the action and policy of this government are con-) cerned, open to all belligerents alike, t The American Policy “But, in addition to the question of principle, there is a practical and substantial reixon why the govern ment of the United States has from the foundation of the republic to the present time advocated and practiced Unnsstricted trade in arms and mill-, tary supplies. It has never been the policy of this country to maintain in time of war a large military estab lishment or stores of arms and am munition sufficient to repel invasion by a well-equipped and powerful enemy. It has desired to remain at peace with all nations and to avoid any appearance of menacing such peace by the threat t f its armies and navies. In consequence of this stand ing policy, the United States would, in the event of attack by a foreign power, be at the outset of the war seriously, if not fatally, embarrassed by the lack ^of arms and ammunition and by the mCans to produce them in sufficient quantities to supply the re quirements of national defense.- The United States has always depended upon the right and power to purchase arms and ammunition from neutral nations in case of foreign attack. This right, which *t claims for itself, it can not deny to others. “A nation whose principle and pol icy it is to rely upon international obligations and international justice to preserve its political and territo rial Integrity might become the prey of an aggressive nation whose policy and practice it is to increase its mili tary strength during times of p6aee with the design of conquest, unless the nation attr jked cr|t, after war had been declared, go into the mar kets of the wodt^and purchase the means to defend itself against the aggressor. “The general adoption by the na tions of the world of the theory that neutral powers ought to prohibit the sale of arms and ammunition to bel ligerents would compel every nation to have in readiness at all times suf ficient munitions of war to meet any emergency which might arise, and to its military and naval forces through out the progress of a war. Manifest ly, the application of this theory would result in every nation becom ing an armed camp, ready to resist aggression and tempted to employ force in asserting its rights rather than appeal to reason and justice for the settlement of international dis putes. ''v , • A World Militarism “Perceiving, as it does, that the adoption of the principle that it is the duty of a neutral to prohibit the sale of arms and ammunition to a belligerent during the progress of a war would Inevitably give the advan tage to the belligerent which had en couraged the manufacture of muni tions in time of peace and which had laid in vast stores of arms and am munition in anticipation of war, the government of the United States is convinced that the adoption of the theory would fprqe. militarism on the world and wosk against that univer sal peace which is the desire and pur pose of all nations which exalt jus tice and righteousness in their rela tions with one another. -^‘Tbe government of the United States in the foregoing discussion of the practical reason why it has ad vocated and practiced trade in muni tions of war, wishes to be uncrer- stood as speaking with no thought of expressing or implying any judgment with regard to the circumstances of the present war, but as merely put ting very frankly the argument in this matter which has been conclu sive in determining the policy of the United States. The Austrian Assertions “While" the practice of nations, so well illustrated by the practice of Austria-Hungary and Germany dur ing the South African War, and the manifest evil which would result from a change of that practice ren- dey compliance with the suggestions of the imperial and royal government out of the question,jeertain assertion- statement as grounds for its conten tions can not be passed over without comment. - “These assertions are substantially as follows: f “(11 That the exportation of arms and ammuntion from the United States to belligerents contraveires the preamble of The Hague conven tion No. 13 of (2> that it is inconsistent with the,refusal of this government to allow delivery of sup plies to vessels of war on the high seas; (3) that according to all au thorities on International law who concern themselves more properly I with the question, exportation should be prevented when this traffic as sumes such a form or such dimen sions that the neutrality of a nation becomes involved thereby. “As to the assertion that the ex portation of arms and ammunitions contravenes the preambl#' of The Hague convention No. 13 of 1907, this government presumes that ref erence is made to the last paragraph of the preamble, which is as follows: “Seeing that, in this category of ideas, these rules should not, in prin ciple, be altered, in the course of the war, by a neutral power, except in a case where experience has shown the necessity for such change for the pro tection of the rights of that power.’ “Manifestly, the only ground to change the ;ules laid down by the convention, one of which, it should be noted, expliclt'y declares that a neu.tral is not bound to prohibit the exportation of contraband of war, is the necessity of a neutral power, to do so in order to protect its own rights. The right and duty to deter mine when this necessity exists rests with the neutral, not with a belliger ent. It is discretionary, not manda tory. If a neutral power does not avail itself of the right, a belligerent is not privileged to complain, for in doing so it would be In the position of declaring to the neutral power what fs necessary to protect that power’s own rights. The imperial and royal government can. not but perceive that a complaint of this na ture would invite just rebuke. ConKisteney of Washington “With reference to the asserted inconsistency of the course adopted by this government in relation to tlie exportation of arms and ammu nition and that followed in not allow ing supplies to be taken from its ports to ships of war on the high seas, it is only necessary to point out that the prohibition of supplies to ships of war rests upon the principle that k-neutral power must not per mit its territory to become a naval base for either belligerent. A war ship may, under certain restrictions, obtain fuel and supplies in a neutral port once in three mouths. To per mit merchant vessels acting as ten decs to carry supplies more often than three months and In unlimited amount would defeat the purpose of the rule and might constitute the neutral territory a naval base. Fur thermore, this government is un aware that any Austrla-Hungartan ship of war has sought to obtain sup plies from a port In the United States, either directly ^r indirectly This subject has, however, already been discussed with the Imperial gov ernnM>nt, to which the position of this government was fully set forth De cember 24. 1914.' What the Authorities Say “In view of the positive assertion in the statement of the imperial and royal government as to the unanimi ty of the opinions of text writers as to the exportation of contraband be ing unneutral, this government has caused a careful examination of the principal authorities on international law to be made. As a result of this examination It has come to the con clusion that the imperial and royal government has been misled and has inadvertently made an erroneous as sertion. “Less than one-fifth of the authori ties consulted advocate unreservedly the prohibition of the export of con traband. Several of those who con stitute this minority admit that the practice of nations has been other wise. # "It may not be inopportune to di rect particular attention ot the decla ration of the German authority, Paul Einicke, who states that at the be ginning of a war belligerents have never remonstrated against the enact ment of prohibitions on trade in con traband, but adds that such prohibi tions may be considered as violations of neutrality, or at least as unfriend ly acts, if they are enacted during a war with the p .rpose to close unex pectedly the sources of supply to a party which heretofore had relied on them. “The government of the United States deems it unnecessary to ex tend further at the present time a consideration of the statement of the Austro-Hungarian government. The principles of international law, the practice of nations, the national safe ty of the United States and other na tions without great military and nav al establishments, the adoption of peaceful methods for the adjustment of international differences, and, fin ally, neutrality itself are opposed to the exportation of arms, ammunitions or other munitions of war to bellig _ erent powers during the progress of appearing in the Austro-Hungariafi the war.’’ ’ To the note of the United States government to Austria-Hungary, re jecting the pie* that an embargo should be put on exports of munitions to the Allies, was added as an “appendix’’ a table of the German and Austro- Hungarian exports of arms and ammunition to Great Britain during the years in which war was being waged with the Boers. The dta are as follows: German Exports of Arms and Ammunition to Great Britain ,/ —Quantity in 100 Kilos.— 99. Explosives 4,342 Gunpowder 28 Shot of malleable iron, not polished, etc. Polished, etc., not lead coated Shot, nickled, pr lead-coated with copper rings, etc 3,018 Weapons for war purposes Cartridges with copper shells and percussion caps Austro-Hungarian Exports of .Arms and Ammunitnon to Great Britain. tity in 100 Kilos.— 1902. 190 374 12 .... 1 2 . 3 80 3 LYNCH LEO FRANK WILSON HASPS METAILS OF ATTACK UPON THE LINER MOB TAKEf CONVICT FROM GEORGIA PENAL FARM HUNG UP AT MARIETTA i 1899. 1909. 1901. 1902. 4,342 6,014 5,147 3,64o 28 658 243 69 30 43.. 38 4 — — 3,018 176 .... — 18 2 904 1,595 866 * 982 -Qu&ntt 189*7 1900. 1901, Arms, exclusive of small arms Separate parts of arms .. .. Small arms T "It might he further pointed out that during the Crimean War Urge Ammunition and exploit I4« Other aamulUoa and exploaivee under tariff No. 1« 4 61 Five Autos Carry Frank One Hun- deed Miles in Dead of Night— Prison Guards are Handcuffed While Victim is Secured Body Not Mutilated and no Shota Fired. k Leo M. Frank, serving a life term at the Georgia state farm at Mil- iedgeville for the murder of Mary Phagan, and who was only saved from the gallows by Gov. Slaton com muting his sentence, was taken from the farm at 11.45 o’clock Monday night by a party of twenty-five un identified men, who hurried him away in an automobile in the direc tion of Eatonton. Shortly before seven o’clock Tues day morning he,was hanged to an oak tree in a woods two miles east of Marietta, Ga., after having been-re moved from the prison farm one hun dred miles away late* Monday night by a band of about twenty-five men. Thus ended the career of the man who for two years had maintained his innocence of the murder of Mary Phagan. Frank, on his ride to death, was clothed in a silk night shirt, with the letups “L. M. F.” embroidered over his heart. When found Tuesday a white handkerchief had been proced over his face and a piece of brown cloth bound around his limbs. His bands were bracketed before him and his feet were bound with a piece of rope. The hangman's knot lay against his right jaw. Discovery of the body was made at eight-thirty Tuesday morning by searching parties, which had been or ganized after Frank's removal from the prison farm became known. The news spread with lightning-like rap idity and within half an hour hun dreds of people, including scores of women and children, from Marietta and the surrounding,countryside be gan to arrive to vlew’lt. The scene of the hanging was with in two hundred feet of the roadway In a few hundred yards of two farm houses. Occupants of both said they had noticed nothing unusual during the early morning hours. ^However. William J. Frey, a former sheriff. In whose woods Frank was hanged, liv ing a half mile further east, said four automobiles passed his house shortly before seven o'clock Tuesday morn ing. each containing six or seven men. * M “I paid no particular attention to them." Mr. Frey added, “and the possibility of a lynching did not oc cur to me.” The mob apparently planned their work well, for they carried it through without • hitch. Between Mllledge ville and the state farm and between MilledgeviUe and Macon they cut the telephone wires and it was fully an nour or more after they had secured their man and hastened on their way before the news came opt. As far as could be learned none of the members of the mob were recog nized. All of them are said to have worn masks and all were heavily armed. Not a stipt was fired and no one was injured, as far as known. When the mob first rerxhod the state farm they separated into three groups. One went to the home of Captain Burke, the farm superin tendent, and after calling him from the house they covered him with their guns and slipped the handcuffs on him. Thlp group took Captain Burke to the prison farm dormitory and forced him to open tho door. Another group secured and hand cuffed Warden Smith in the same manner as the other had done Cap tain Burke. Two guards sleeping on the front porch ware overpowered and handcuffed also. -Warden Smith and Captain Burko both declared they failed to recog nize any of the members of the mob, but one of the convicts overheard a remark dropped by one of the. mob that they intended to take Frank to Marietta. Practically every other member of the mob then rushed to the stockade gate nearest the dormitory where Frank was being housed. Only Tuesday did the physicians discharge him from the hospital where he had been since being murderously as saulted in the dormitory. Only one member of that part of the mob that went to the dormitory talked. He gave the commands to the guards which were backed up by the arms of the other members of the mob. The body of Frank, under a heavy police guard, was placed aboard a train, which departed from Atlanta at 12.01 o’clock Wednesday morning. The-funeral party including Mrs. Frank and several Atlanta friends of the family, ^ho ,wlll accompany the body to Brooklyn, also was guarded carefully by the police until the train left the terminal station. Gov. Ngt E. Harris of Georgia has announced^that he will return to At lanta. for the purpose of aiding the prison commission In an Investiga tion, of the lynching of Frank. "The people are entitled to all the facts In the case,” said the governor, “and I propose to see that they shall.have th'fctti.” He said that a thorough in quiry will be made. Taknj Ixing Auto Rida While Ke- aolving in Hia Mind the Lat ent Happening. The official details upon which President Wilson wfll decide whether ' the sinking ot the White Star liner j Arabic‘was an act deliberately un-1 friendly to the United States,. still | were lackipg at Washington Friday. Meanwhile the president and other officials, while realizing fully the gravity of tho new situation between the United States and Germany, were keeping their minds open. ’ President Wilson left the White House early to motor to Philadelphia to visit 6ls oculist. When ho has a deep problem In bis mind, it is the president's habit to seek secutsion, after riding through the countryside. Only two official dispatches had been received. They merely transmitted the reports of the While Star liner. The United States will decide its course upon the reports of its own Officials. Ambassador Page forwarded a Wbite Star lino report that the ship was torpedoed without warning and Vice Consul Thompson at Queens town made a similar report. Neither accounted for Mrs. Josephine S- Bru- gulere, nor Dr. Edmund Woods, the two Americans still missing. There is no attempt in official quarters to minimize the situation confronting the president if investi gation develops a violation of Ameri can right%indeflance of the lost note to Germany which gave notice in final terms that.another sinking like that of the Lusitania would be con sidered an act “deliberately unfriend ly.” ^ The prospect of severance of dip lomatic, relations again came forward, but it was understood that If such a course should be decided on. it would not immediately be announced. WAR CAUSES NEW ^TEINAl Statue of Von Hindenborg. A colossal wooden statute of Field Marshal von Hindenburg thirty-nine feet high is to be unveiled August 28 on the Slegesalle in Berlin, which is lined with statues of Kaiser Wil helm’s ancestors.. Any German wish ing to drive a nail into the statue may do so on payment of 1 'mark (34 cents). It is estimated that 1,- 100,000 ■oils will be needed to cover ths figure. The procude will go to the relief of safer*rs from the war. ENGLISH POUND c-;' AUTO SLID BACKWARD DOWN STEEP MUDDY HILL Young Doctor and HU Grandmother Have Narrow Escape From Serious Injury One of the most miraculous es- capgs from instant death or serious bodily injuries occurred near 1/ezing- ton Monday afternoon, when the au to mobile of Dr. Guy B. Taylor came uncoupled just as the top of the hill coming into town from the mill vil lage was reached. Immediately the machine reversed Itself, running backward for a quar ter of a mile, or till It reached the foot of the hill, where, in spite of the efforts of Dr. Teylor, the cur run into a telephone pole near the em bankment. coming to a S-Oipl&ilil. In the machine with Dr. Taylor at the time was bis aged grandmother, who was thrown from the car when the machine came to a sudden and unexpected stop. Happily the wo man, in spite of her advanced age and feeblenesa. came out unlnjurej, save the great excitement incident to the hair-aplltting experience. The escape from death Is the more miraculous by reason of the fact that the hill was slippery, a heavy rain hawing fell during the afternoon. The brakes refusing to work, there was nothing for the uriver and occu pants of the machine to do but “sit steady in the boat" and try to keep the machine from running into the deep ditches on each aide of the nar row roadbed. OUR FARMING POPULATION Over Twelve Million Persons Engage in Agriculture in America. Of the total population in conti nental United States (excluding Alaska and other non-contiguous territory) the last federal census shows that of those engaged In gain ful occupations, 12,567,925 persons, 10 years of age and over, are engag ed in agriculture. This is approxi mately one-third of the total number engaged in agricultural pursuits is classified as follows: Agricultural laborers .. ..6,088,414 Dairymen and’ dalrywomen 35,014 Farmers, planters, and ov-~ erseers 5,981,522 Gardeners, foresters, nur serymen. etc 143,462 Lumbermen and raftsmen. 127,154 Stock raisers, herders, and drovers (approximate) . 122,189 Wood choppers 27,567 Turpentine farmers and la borers .. ••'x- .. .. 28,967 Other agricultural pursuits -- r- (approximate) ..IX,, 13,636 Apiarists .. .. .. .. .> ^2,145 -.■■■ I / . For Their Neighbors. The hardest housekeeping in the world is the housekeeping tha,t peo ple do for their neighbors. Half the troubles we have are caused by worrying about what peo ple think. What difference does it make what they think, anyway? No one can live his own life and two or three other people’s lives besidee. What’s the^ use of setting up housekeeping on the roof or oa the outside walls for the benefit of the neighbors? You would rightly be judged insane if you suggested any thing of the kind, and that is prac tically what half the people do. They can’t do this because the neighbors would talk, and they can’t do that because the neighbors wonder if they could not afford to do something else. They may not say it in so many words, but they mean it', and It* is simply a great big Vacuum in some of our natures where moral courage ought to be. Half the sting of pover ty or small means Is gone when one keeps house for himself and not for his neighbors War Orders Cmmo Decrease in Balance In Thia try for Belligerent Loss Involved In Transferring One- reocy la Very Great. ' - " ' The Amerlchn dollar ruled the fin ancial world Monday with an Iron grip. Foreign exchange have gone down to pew depths in a torre^t-eH^ bills that poured in t^e exchange markets seeking pay for big war con tracts. r ! Coincidently with the startling do cline in exchange rates came tho aa- sertlon from an unimpeachable source that every contract foe sup plies sent abroad called for payment In American dollars and not pounds sterling, which heretofore have been the standard of finance the world over. The immense losse, therefore, due to the decline in foreign «■- change rates, will be borne, to tho last penny, by foreign buyers—a sit uation exactly tlie opposite of what had heretofore been the popular be lief The maximum depreciation Mon day in pounds sterling was 4 3-4 per cent, below normal; in franc 19 per met. below normal; In Italian Urea 25 per cent. In the money markets Monday the pound sold for only $4.64; 6.02 franc equalled,* dollar, and a dollar pur^'wd J | Urea, These were the qViflsnT pm' while rates were at the lowest. TiF In the last hour of business the presence In Wall street of J. P. Mor gan for the first time since the at tack on his life six weeks ago and aa informal conference of bankers to confer on the exchange situation sent rates upward. Sterling closed at 4.64 one-half point higher than it opened sad a point and a half under 8aturday*a close, which had established a new low record. Francs gained throe points over the lower record, selling at 6-99 at the cloee, sad Urea re bounded a point, closing at 6.47. Bankers with international conneo^ tions considered a remedy at aa^taa* formal conference late Monday 19 was decided to do nothlag, chiefly because the remedy lay with the for- * eign buyers.' They were the suffer ers and theirs. It was the conseasaa of opinion, should be the task of Bet ting the money markets to rights. How this would be done was tho object of keen consideration and some snecslatioa. It generally eras believed that the present abnormal situation would not be permitted to continue long. The obvious remedy seemed to be to sell American se curities held abroad and when this contingency was studied the situa tion seemed to be pregnant with unique possibilities. A great many millions of Ameri can securities, parable in dollars, are held abroad, chiefly high claas rail road bonds and preferred stock of a selected list of American Industrial a. Should these securities be sold, at the present exchange rates la foreign markets, they would fetch far morn, than the purchasers paid for thaar_ due entirely to the depression of ex change. Thus a 91.000 American bond aoM* in Paris at par would, on account of’ prevailing exchange rate, bring ap proximately .6,000 francs. Wham purchased at par a year ago it cost the purchaser approximately 5,050 francs. The net profit would tie about 950 francs, or about 19 per cent., the percentage of depression in francs Li American exchange mar kets. In London the profit would be approximately 4%.per cent., and la Rome the profit would approximate 25 per cet. Establishment here of a big foreign credit, estimated con servatively at $500,000,000, waa thought to be absolutely necessary if exchange rates were to be restored to anything like normal. The assertion that dollars and not pounds sterling had been the finan cial standard on which all contracts for war supplies had been accepted In this country came as a distinct surprise. Aside from marking tho temporary passing of London’s con trol of the world’s treasure chests It .relieved anxiety on the part of in vestors in so-called war specialties in the stock market who were con fronted with the prospect of a largo shrinkage in prospective profits duo to. prevailing low rates of exchange. Measured in dollars and cents, it was learned that the amount of theeo war contracts, on which full or near ly full payments would be due on or before October 1, next, approximates $400,000,000 to $500,000,000. Thin is in addition to the huge total of more than $1,000,000,000 owed Europe to the United States at close of the fiscal year Jnne 30. It was also learned from an authorita tive source that the prospective prof its on some of these contracta had been greatly exaggerated; that only normal profits would accrue in most cases, and that In some instances these might be no profit at all Two Negroes Lynched. Kid Jackson and Henry Russell; negroes, were lynched at Hope Hull, near Montgomery, Ala., Wedi because they poisoned some several months "ago. . ..y-y- ) More Marines Landed. Another detachment of Ameii marines have been landed ct as the Islanders threaten refnae to disarm. X Tha war in Europe is what you'd call aa International riot. X /