The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, January 27, 1916, Image 5
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TELLS
ABOUT HIS TRIP ABROAD
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'IN SPRING
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A. J. Bethea Gives Interesting Ac-
•oant of Conditions in the Conn-
trtas Through Which He Traveled
—Searched in Germany—Heard
BBagltohmen Debate.
A. J. Bethea, lieutenant governor
of Sonth Carolina, after undergoing
many hardships and disagreeable &?-
perlences as a member of the Fqrd
peace party, returned to Columb'a
Sunday morning from New York,
where he landed Saturday after a
, tempetuous trip across the Atlantic
•*on the liner New York.
The following interview was given
out hy Mr. Bethea:
From the day I left New York till
my retarn yesterday my trip was a
* continaous round of trying, but thrill
ing, experience. It seems almost like
a miracle that I, am left to tell the
story.
I found the bitter cold in the Scan
dinavian countries too much for me,
and in Sweden I nea ly succumbed to
its rigors. It was in Stockholm that
1 was seriously sick for several days,
< auing me to miss an earlier boat on
my return trip home. A terrible storm
at sea still further delayed my ar
rival.
The trip over was without particu
lar ineident. except for the two days
and nights in the harbor at Kirkwall,
when we were prisoners of a British
man-of-war. It is not an easy feel
ing *o have tok-pedo boats lurking
around and pointing their guns at
you, hut that U the penalty ay liave
to pay who paw. that way these days.
Ungland has literally swept the seas
and tied the boundary line beyond
which no ship dare cross till she gives
the word. The danger cone, in which
many mines are afloat, also gives you
a ticklish feeling, and is not good for
the nerves if you can not sleep.
W« landed In Christiana. Norway,
and found an interesting people and
country. It was the height of the
winter season awd everything was
white with snow. Thousands were
giving their time to skating, the great
national sport: which consist of slid
ing over the hills and mountains of
snow Sweden likewise was in the
grip of winter, but at Stockholm
theuw was a warm welcome to a beau
tiful and thrifty city.
Wages and goods are high. This
is true in all the border neutral
countrteo. Times are good in Nor
way, Sweden. Denmark and Holland,
but, of course, there are many inter
est* that suffer from the war.
An Aa America, so in these ooun-
trten, there Is some division of sen-
Mmoac on the question of the war.
Hu* It seamed to me that in Nor
way, Denmark and Holland sym
pathy was with the Allies, while
tm (hreden It wss with Germany.
has aa old grudge against
i and the other central com-
we afraid of the growing
power in Germany
la Copenhagen I left the Ford
party to hurry home. To do this it
wag aneMsary. for me to have my
passport vised for belligerent coun-
trlna. Only as a special courtesy from
German and English consuls was 1
able to accomplish this, for our coun
try, except In rare cases, grants no
passports to belligerents countries^
and orders have been issued against
it.
But 1 had good luck and this gave
me a chance to see Germany and
England at first hand in a state of
war. It also gave me the unique ex>
peiience In getting in and out of Ger-
^^Miny at the present time. They take
^Kofhing for granted. It matters not
^^bat credentials or passports or let
ters you bear, nor who'you are. You
muni submit to the test before you
p&as. And you can bet that when the
Germans do a thing it is done thor
oughly.
They tallc* little ^and ask but few
questions, but when they are done
with you, you know that you have
been examined. ’In my case every
article was taken from my baggage
and examined with the utmost care,
tmoks and papers and pictures were
taken in charge and peroxide of
hydrogen and other medicines I had
were emptied upon a heap of coal in
the belief that they were either in
visible ink or explosives.
The baggage itself was observed
with great scrutiny. Still not satis-
tied two officers escorted me to a pri
vate dressing room and I was told to
uncover. I took off my overcoat,
then my coat and stood up before the
officer and asked “How far?’’ “Keep
going,’’ he said. I continued, and
later repeated my question. “To the
skin,’’.he replied.
.*«, When thus stripped the bottoms of
my feet and my back and my head
were examined. My clothes, my
shoes, my overshoes, my watch, my
purse, nothing escaped. I came away
impressed with German efficiency,
and yet it was all done with courtesy
and order and system and dispatch.
I also visited many places and saw a
good bit of German life, as I mingled
freely with the people, and yet from
the time I entefed German territory
until I left it my whereabouts were
always known.
You may npt like their method of
warfare and you may oppose their
hard military system, but one thing
,Js certain, vou can hot visit G’ermany
T did anil come away without feel-
that they are & wonderfully skil-
. and efficient peopte^—without
•deling, too, that some of this effl-'
rienry would he a good thing for
America. ...
From Germany I passed on
throagh Holland by way of The
Hague and crossed the North Sea to
England The North Sea la literally
a bad of submarine* end mines end
no ■hip dara* to eroao'la the-night
Hindus and Chinamen ^Virtually Ex-
eluded Under Terms of New
Measures. >
Drastic restrictions would be
thrown about Japanese immigra
tion, and the Hindus as well as
Chinese virtually would be harhed
from the country by a provision
written into the immigration bill
which will be reported* ', to the
House next week. I
The new features relating to im
migration from Japan would have
their most far-reaching effect on>.the
immigrant committee whose compe
tition with American labor In the
Pacific states has aroused a pro
nounced anti-Asiatic sentiment.
As agreed upon tentatively by the
committee the exclusion section of
the bill includes a paragraph barring
“Hindus and all persons of the Mon
golian or yellow race and the Malay
or brown race.” Before a report is
made to the House, however, a pro
posed qualification probably will be
added providing that there shall be
such exemptions as may be set forth
in any “existing agreements, as to
passports or by treaties, conventiens,
or agreements that may hereafter be
entered Into.”
For several years representatives
from * the Pacific states have been
fighting for legislation to exclude
Japaneee, Chinese and Hindu labor
ers.
Two years ago the House Immigra
tion committee agreed that in order
not to burden the pending immigra
tion measures with an Asiatic exclu
sion issue there should be a separate
exclusion bill. The measure later
was dropped, however, at the sugges
tion of state department officials,
Who held that it would seriously
complicate negotiations with Japan
over the California alien land law.
Exclusion of Chinese and Japanese
students, business men. travellers
and certain other excepted classes, is
not anticipated by member* of the
committee, but the bill is expected to
put into legal form and amplify an
informal agreement entered Into
eight year* ago by Secretary of State
Root and the Japanese ambassador,
under which Japan agreed, not • to
issue passports to Japanese laborers
emigrating to the United States.
Other provisions of the bill would
raise the head tax on immigrants to
eight dollars, and would increase the
penalties. Both fines and imprison
ment would be authorised for offend-
ers, and any steamboat company
bringing an alien later deported
would be* requested to refund the
cAst of his trip.
Both the Asiatic exclusion section
and the literacy test provision of the
bil lare expected to precipitin a
vigorous debate when the measure
come* up in the House. The require
ments for a literacy test has caused
the failure of three previous immi
gration bills through presidential
veto.
mine after mine. I passed within
sight of Ostend, now held by the Ger
mans, and could hear the continuous
roar of the cannon from the trenches
near Flushing.
In England I visited the House of
Lords and the House of Commons
and heard Lloyd-George and Sir Ed
ward Carson speak on the compulsion
enlistment measure.
Ttte country is beginning to real
ise that It In at war, and both the
people and the powers that be neemi
renolved now to fight to a finish. I
saw thousands of soldiers, both In
Germany and England, who had
been or were-getttag Tendir ttr go
to the front, and the general opin
ion Is that both sides are planning
for a supreme effort in the spring.
As I have already said, my trip
home was a terrible nightmare. We
encountered a furious storm at sea.
which blew from ninety to one hun
dred miles and which lasted for
twanty-four hours. The lifeboats
were swept away, small leaks were
sprung, much crockery and furniture
broken, the ship badly torn and sev
eral passengers and crew slightly
hurt. .
One of the crew was thrown over
board, ’but recovered himself by
means of a ijfe rope, to which he was
fastened. My cabin mate and I felt
certain that the ship would go down,
and there were many others who
shared in this opinion. It Is Ao won
der that I am glad to be back in
South Carolina in favored circum
stances and among my friends.
But you ask me xyhat of the Ford
peace expedition? Did It do good or
Hot? Measured •'by motive and pur
pose, my answer is emphatically
“Yes.” No one - can measure in
fluence. No one has a right,, to say
that a movement such as this is of no
avail. If you believe as I do that
every good word spoken and every
good act done is taken into account
and blesses somebody somewhere at
some time, then r think that a move
ment for world peace, however futile
it may seem, must be credited with
being worth while.
Of Henry Ford as a big hearted,
unselfish man too much can not be
said in praise*. He has set the world,
and especially rich men, a great ex
ample. He is willing to spend his
fortune 7 , as he told me, for peace and
has demonstrated to' the world his in
terest in a great cause. Then, too,
the public must remembeft that bis
peace efforts are not finished, and no
one can .t.ell wfrat .may yet be accom
plished. I heard him. say that If he
could only scratch the surface In the
movement,, if he could only end the
war a day sooner he would be willing
to make any sacrifice of money and
means at his command.
has caused the Jiatl&ns of the earth to
think and talk for a little while pf
peace. That in Itself is worth while
GEN. WOOD SAY$ SEAS COULD
NOT STOP INVASION
STORM SIGNALS ARE OUT
In Our Present State of Unprepared
ness a Force of 150,000 Gould In
flict Incalculable Damage—Says
We£$eed Two Million—Only Ob-
'Jr*'*-* m «
tain able by Compulsion.
Gen. Leonard Wood told the
Senate military committee that the
coast line of the United States was
open to attack by any well organized
foreign army despite its equipment of
forts, mines and submarines, and that
the oceans formed no serious barriers
to invasion.
He declared that in the country’s
present state of utter unpreparedness
for war, & trained force of 1!>O,O0O
men couM inflict Incalculable damage
before ah army could be assembled
to meet it.
.Events of the European war clearly
demonstrated, the general said, that
the sea was the best medium for the
movement of troops, and he pointed
out that a force of 126,000 men, fully
equipped, had been landed at Galli
poli from a single expedition of 98
ships against submarines, mines and
an underwater screen of barbed wire
that fringed every available landing
place/
Emphasizing his conviction that
troops can not be improvised to meet
regulars, Gen. Wood declared the
fundamental basis of any policy of
adequate national defense must be
the principle that with suffrage goes
an obligation for military service.
Such a policy had been advocated by
George Washington, he said, and if it
had been adopted Canada would have
become part of the United States in
the war of 1812.
“Only once In our history have we
been prepared for war,” he added.
“That was immediately after the
Civil War, when we had 1,500,000
trained soldiers. Our diplomatic cor
respondence with France concerning
Mexico was very brief. It required
only one note because of our prepar
edness. They were told to get out
and they got out.
“There is not going to be any
weakness abroad after this war is
over. You will find that more male
citizens will have been born than
have been killed or injured. You
will have all the gold, perhaps, but It
will not do much good unless you
stiffen it with Iron,
As to the immediate needs of the
regular army. Gen. Wood expressed
the opinion that the force of regulars
with the colors should be maintained
at 210,000. Of these, he said, 20,-
000. equipped and supplied In the
year’r time, should be kept In the
Philippines: another 20,000 in
Hawaii and 15,000 at Panama.
He urged that the regulars should
have a reserve system under which in
a six year's enlistment men would be
discharged whenever their company
commanders reported them as effi
cient into a reserve, to be definitely
assigned to war stations Equipment
for membera of the reserve would be
kept at their stations and once every
two years they would be required to
Join the colors for ten days' training
to keep them up-to-date. -
Gen. Wood said that if universal
military service was not to be obtain
ed ho favored a continental army
scheme substantially aa proposed
by the war department, provided
hr absotnteTy divorced' Prom Titt
organized militia. The increases for
the regular army proposed by Secre
tary Garrision, however, he charact
erized as “ absurdly inadequate, ”
particularly as the proportion of
field artillery. He recommended that
the proportion of field guns be fixed
at five to every 1,000 rifles or sabres.
The present army standard is 3.9
per thousand, 'STthoirgh in actual e-
quipment the regulars are nearer two
per thousand.
A board recently created in the war
department has fixed on 5.9 per thou
sand as. the number necessary.
The United States would need at
least 2,000,000 men in case of war,
he, declared, and they could be ob
tained, he believed, only by comp,
sory service. At present there w ;
but 700,000 modern rifles &. S
300,000 old model weapons in gov
ernment arsenals, he said, and up to
fivd days ago the capacity of Ameri
can plants to produce rifles only 32,-
000 a day. England Alone, he said,
wanted 65,000 a day, while France
called for two rifles In reserve for
every man in tho field.
Gen..Wood was positive In declar
ing the militia was composed of a
fine personnel, but cursed by a hope
less system. Unless it-could be taken
over by^ the government and absolute
ly severed from any connection with
the states, he said. It should be aban
doned to the states entirely and not a
dollar of government money be used
upon It.
Undet a universal system, the gen
eral said, there would be 500,000
men between 18 and 25 yeuTB of age
upon whom the burden ol military
duty would rest, counting-on only 50
per cent, of the men of that age. He
believes, however, that every citizen
should be held liable for some duty
to the government in case of war.
“Gen. Wood,“ asked Senat r Cham
berlain, “an untrained army never
could have resisted Germany in
France could it?’’ __ ‘
< “They never would have known
what hit ’em,” answered Gon. Wood.
A vital factor In thp present situa
tion, he told the committee, was the
necessity of building up an officers’
VILLA CLAIMS INNOCENCE
OF AMERICAN MASSACRE
Volunteer EludM.CarraiuaAstM and
Brings Chieftain's Story to
Border.
Major Teodoro Prieto Saturday
reached the border with the follow
ing statement from Gen. Villa.
“I say, In the days when I was in
power, that I still wish to retain the
American people in my confidence.
“It was last Sunday when I first
heard of the massacre of eighteen of
your countrymen by armed Mexicans
near Santa Ys&bel. Carranza's whole
army and the power which he pro
fesses to enjoy has not worried me
as much aa the news that several of
your countrymen had been murdered
by my people. x - ;
“I knew nothing of this massacre
until slg.d&ys after it happened. It
Is untrue that I have directed my
men to murder American citizens.
"To prove my Innocence In the
matter I personally sent a body of
cavalrymen to the Santa Ysabel dis
trict to try to capture the men re
sponsible for this massacre.
"Although 1 have no friendly fuel
ing for Mr. WilSOta or men who sur
round him, I am not cruel enough to
take innocent blood to avenge my
anger.
”1 will show President Wilson and
his cabinet and the American people
that I, Francisco Villa, am fighting
for principle and that he Is an honor
able man; I will show Senor Wilson
that his recognition of Carranza is a
mistake, because I will prove that
Francisco Villa’s principles are the
dominant principles in this revolu
tion; that they are friendly to Mexi
cans as to the people of your country.
“Please give tirls message from me
full publicity. I want to reach every
'mother's heart and every intimate
friend of the men-who were so cruel
ly massacred on January 10 by my
countrymen. Carranza officials in the
Santa Ysabel district may be found
as much responsible for this murder
as my men. 1 will capture the mur
derer! and bring them to justice.*
“I have ridden hard five days from
Western Chihuahua to carry word to
the United States that Gen. Villa is
innocent of the massacm’’ said, the
officer. "Furthermore, he 4old me
to say that he will execute the men
who did It If he raptures them, even
though they belong to his own group
of followers. We were then at El
Rucio in Western Chihuahua.
“He called tor a volunteer to carry
word to the border of his Innocence
of the murder and also hia deter
mination to punish the murder*!** If
he catches them. I was chosen to
tarry the message I can not reveal
where 1 crossed the border, because
on my journey 1 had to dodge several
Carranza patrols and I expect to re
join Villa.
“The general is gathering men
about him in Weetern Chihuahua and
he will soon be strong enough to re
new the war. The rumor that he was
captnred Is false. Villa will never be
caught by these clumsy Carranaa-
Istaa. He knows the mountain coun
try too well. If he Is ever made
prisoner, it would be after he is
dead.”
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WILSON FORCES ISSUE
ONLY CHANCE OF TEUTONS
WILL DIE WITH 1916
ENGLAND WIN BY 1917
“Neutral" Observer Outlines Hto
Views Concerning Get manic Condi
tions—Food Scarce, Men Rare,
Finances Poor and Total Col lapse
Will be Reached by End of Year.
• -t •:
The New York World publishes
this dispatch from Milan, Italy. We
copy it tor whatever it is worth:
“Either the Germans will win
definitely by land during the year
1916 or the British by sea In 1917.
Thus think and fear the Germans
themselves.”
President’s Tour to Give Prepared
ness in Foremost l*ubUrlty.
President Wilson's determination
to talk to the people of the Middle
West oh national preparedness has
restored that issue as the uppermost
subject of discussion in congress. For
several weeks preparedness has been
overshadowed by the Mexican situ a-,
TTon and International questions re-
This was said to The New York
World by a well known neutral whose
books have a wide circulation In
Scandinavia. This man, who wishes
to remalp anonymous, has returned
■from several months spent in Ger-
xnany, and especially in Berlin, Ham
burg and MUhich. He is writing a
book of his impressions, and below is
the gist of them:
“You have no Idea of the hatred
and the fear—Germans have toward
England. Remember, fear as well as
hatred. Having accused England of
starting the war, they now accuse her
of wishing to carry It on to a decisive
end. The Germans know well the
English, their failings and their vir
tues. Above all, they know their cool
and determined perseverance. If the
Allies can continue the war only
through 1916 the Germans hope to
win.
“Grinding their teeth, Germans de
clare their worst—blows -have come,
from England. Before the war Ger
many had 1,000,000 square kilo
metres of colonial possessions. Near
ly all this has gone; they have lost
their Went Africa, lost Togoland, lost
their Pacific possessions, lost Klao-
chow. almost lost Kamerun. Eng
land has destroyed their colonial em
pire.
'Before the war Germany had 2,-
000 merchant ships with 80,000 sail
ors on the high seas. The English
have captured, sqak or caused to be
interned all these. The German flag
has disappeared from the oceans. Be
fore the war GMwnany exported 12.
000,000 marks' worth of stuff and
imported 13.000,000 worth. England
with her blockade,-baa destroyed thla
enormous commerce. Industries
which do not work directly for war
supplies have either gone bankrupt or
ceased to pay dividends. Even the
Berliner Tegetblett's commercial re
ports show that la true.
“The English blockade has done
far more than Germans admit
abroad, while the attempted blockade
of English ports by German subma
rine* ia an acknowledged failure tg
Germany. Th* English have sunk be
tween sixty and sevsnty submarine*
in the North Bee end are ruining Ger
many's trade with Sweden.
With the Balkan campaign, Ger
many tries to lunaeh the blockade,
but even getting Into Arta will
never give her the sea. And the
German* know that by the sea this
war will be wow In 1917. In 1910
Germany may yet hope to win by
lands. Therefore the Germans pre
pare a huge attack in Klaadere to
reach t'alai* and an expedition
against Egypt.
suiting from the European war
With the president about to tour
the country to arouse the public to
the nation's military requirements,
administration and opposition lead
ers realize that lively times are ahead
on Capitol Hill.
Democratic leaders in sympathy
with the president's preparedness
views are gratified that the chief exe
cutive will take the field, inasmuch
as there has been apparent in con
gress a tendency to adopt a waiting
policy by many members, uncertain
regarding the views of thfelp constit
uents on the subject. The president's
tour, it Is believed, vwill sefVe the
double purpose of bringing out pub
lic opinion and stirring up the legis
lators.
BOOTY OF CENTRAL POWERS
Vienna Makes Summary for Period
of the War.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the
Central News says that the total
booty of the Teutonic allies during
seventeen months of war is summed
up in Vienna as follows: „ «•
“Nearly three hundred thousand
‘‘‘Nearly three million prisoners,
ten thousand guns, forty thousand
machine guns, while four hundred
and seventy thousand square kilo
metres of enemy territory hgs been
occupied.”
At any rate the Ford expedition reserve corpk: With 4M0» students
' * In the land grant colleges under KIP'
power of suggestion. In this time of
madness when a wot id la ablaxe with
war It la a good thing to think of'
peace, talk of peace and to work for
peace. The world woaU be a aaeh
better'place In whiei to Urn If we had
more men of the type of Hoary Ford
aa4 tf we had them there wonM bo
Uary training, and crc-.j important
higher educational institution organ-
for it carries wKh It th* wonderful Jzed for training officer*, he thought
It would he an easy thing to build up
a forco of 50,000 reserve officer*. • •
Asked what need there was now
for preparedness -that did not exist a
year KEd. O**. flood said there wore
storm signals on all 0 *
On tho gnostion of
yards if mounted for a forty-five de
gree elevation. The trouble was with
the gun carriages, he said, which
limited their fire to fourteen thou
sand yards, whereas European navy
craft were sinking ships at over sev
enteen thousand yards. He placed
the United States navy fo rth among
those of the world powers, Great Fri-
tain, Germany and Japan exceeding
it in strength.
The general said belligerent gov;
ernments were buying by the tens of
thousands the Lewis machine gun,
invented by an American officer of
the coaaj artillery,-now retired, and
rejected, hy the'ordnance bureau fa
cause of faulty material used when
/fated. This gun, a one-man weapon,
he explained, ante-dated the one-man
machine gun of the German army.
^,'To ahow some of the work under
way by the army, Gen. Wood exhibit
ed to the committee tho confidential
plgtfl for the defence of Bonfxzh. com
pleted recently, taelndlag a line of
defence eighty miles la length Ho
said tho civil engineer* of tho cona-
WILL EVACUATE
IF BELGIANS MAKE
Washington Hears Hurt <
Planning Evacuation and
Indemnity.
Information has been received la
diplomatic circles In Washington that
Germany is considering making Bel-
Ktum a proposal of separata peace.
The evacuation of all Belgian terri
tory would follow.;
It is understood that the proposal,
which will be made to King Albert
)y the military governor of Belgium,
w iU include an offer to pay for th*
property damage caused by the Gor
an occupation.
Officials in close touch #lth th*
German embassy expressed the opin
ion that the offer. If made, prob
ably would be accepted. Belgium la
not one of the signatories to tho
document to which binds etaolnnna
document to which Sir Edward Grey
obtained the signatures of the French
and Russian and later the Italian
governments and which binds those
nations not to conclude a soparaio
peace.
The restoration of Belgium, wonld
leave the Allies no room for protest,
in the opinion of this authority, In
asmuch as it has been thin one point
on which the Allies have been most
Insistent as to conditions of peace.
It can be stated authoritatively
that the question of voluntarily with
drawing from all the occupied por
tions of Belgium—on tho one condi
tion that Belgium first consent* to
conclude a separate peace with tho
central powers—is now being care
fully considered in official ctrelee la
Berlin.
It Is pointed out that tho conclu
sion of such an arrangement would
accrue to the advantage of Germany
in many respects.
Announcement that the restoration
of Belgium le being considered by
Germany followed the disclosure that
the Pope has recently made such ac
tion a condition of his offering his
good offtcra for -the re eetahfisbment
of peace. Curiously enough, this
statement was forthcoming from th*
British embassy.
“Germany is not yet depressed
she is bad humored. Germans are
how grumbling at the chancellor, the
socialists and the Russian campaign
If you ask me what controls Ger
many's mental attitude. I should say
‘Anxiety about to-morrow.’
“Germans no longer hope to make
a separate peace with any one of the
Allies, no longer hope for a Rusalan
revolution or an English colonigl re
bellion; but they know that the war
will be decided by fighting. But
when? Must it drag on through
1917? Men are getting scarce.
• “Even'taklng the official returns
which come out three months late
and take no account of slightly
wounded men, Germany loses 150,
000 men per month. Up to Decern
her 1, 1916, their losses will be
4,500,000 men. This leaves them but
a little over 3,000,000, including the
classes of 1916 and 1917. At least
1,000,000 of these mutft be used for
auxiliary services. The problem is
disquieting, beca .se they can’t take
any more men away from agriculture
and industries. During last Novenf-
ber alone the number of women em
ployed • in metallurgical works and
transport rose from 140,000 to 155,'
000.
“The Austrians have ordered the
use of all their resources in men. The
Bulgars scarcely suffice for the Bal
kan front. They can’t take the Turks
into Germany for the French and
Russian fronts, because they will be
wanted for the Egyptian campaign
“The ever-lengthening German
front Is the more dangerous because
the Allies are ever meeting it. Rus
sia can, have 10,000,000 or. 12.001).-
000 men under arms by spring. Only
France has put all her available men
under arms. England and Italy have
large human resources yet.
“Of course, the Germans ijave
Ttieir .munitions and heavy guns. But
this advantage is fast disappearing
because the' Allies are doing the
same thing; The French clung to
their light guns till last spring. But
they are making heavy cannon
fast as they can. The Germans know
thlg Mnd regret It, saying their vie
tories were owing to heavy artllle:
•Take flnahcflTTU IRA ATT
underrated Germany’s financial re
sources; now they oveymtp the
Food U both dear ana scarce
Augustus Winning, secretary of the
Socialistic party, told me that
vtetMlling problem has ceased to
come a national question and 1* now
n hamaal Larisa on*. -Ha i
hat th* fact
tho Germans have ac
•art'
to I try
The withdrawal of German troops
from Belgium, according to offletels
of the German embassy, would mens
ust so much grantor military
strength for use In the near Bast It
Is understood that tho preooat Ger
man plan Includes guarding
the possibility of a permanent sea
blockade by England. If tho preooat
territorial gains, from Serbia to Bag
dad, can ha bald, the Germans be
lieve they can prosper commercially,
even If their sea-home commerce Is
Indefinitely stifled
FAQNti SERIOUS
Hard for
te Get
raemlt of
The Greek government fanes a
ous problem ta sapplylag Its
at Berras with food as th* n
th* blowing ap of railroad bridges hy
the Entente nines la northern Ore***,
and may be compelled either to with
draw or disband certain porttow of
thorn troops, according to h Rooter
dispatch from Baionlkl dated Jan
uary IS.
The destruction of tho railway
bridge at Demlra H laser has created
a sensation in Greek circles, cotttng
off as It does all communication with
eastern Macedonia except hy th* mil
itary road, which bridges tho Stroma
at KaraaenH and aloftg th* sea route
by way of Kavala.” the dispatch
tlnues. “Th* population at
and th* large concentration of Oreok
that region
pendent on Salontkl for euppHoa.’
KILLED MAnV hB HOME
Georgian Objects to Alleged
tag
Henry Williams, forty-five, of
Montgomery, Ala., was shot and in
stantly killed at nine o’clock Friday
night by M. P. Reaves of Waycroee,
Ga., at the latter’s home, according
to a statement made by Mrs. Reaves,
who witnessed the killing.
Reaves, it was said, came home un
expectedly and objected to an alleged
insulting remark made to Mr*.
Reaves. Reaves, it was reported, got
a shotgun from behind a door in the
room and fired at Williams, the load
tearing William*’ heart into shred*.
best mep have lost weight and
strength, and therefore working
power, owing to scanty nourishment.
Even rabbits—domestic one*—have
been registered by the State.. There
are milk tickets now in many dtieo.
Holland sends in huge quantities of
acorns; first the tannic acid i* ex
tracted from them, then they moke
bread of them. Tallow is eaten In
stead of butter. No wonder the Gw- i
mans are bad tempered.
There is enormous speculation In
food. But the government dare not
irritate the agrarian and rich lend
owning classes. The government has
not even ventured to tax them on
their war profits. And this proves to
me the weak part of that much
vaunted German organization. A bat
ter merchant in Berlin made a net
profit of 20,000 marks, per day on
butter when I was there. But the
government think that If the rich add
their discontent to that of the poor a
revolntion would be the speedy re
sult. ’ ’
The soldiers are no'longer well
fed. On the Swiss frontier, in Altar
tia, I saw their coffee for breakfast,
watery sonp and hard black bread at
midday and -black coffee at night—
nothing more. They no longer talk
of going An Paris or invading Eng
land. They ten yon thoy sraai: to go~
home to their wives and children.
’ "A curious order has been issued
in Germany and Austria, saying that
women punished for having lore af
fairs wHh prisoners of war wfll hear
that pi
native f
r
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