The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 18, 1917, Image 2
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GERMAN INTRIGUE
DIPLOMATIC SECRETS BRING
IRISH LEADERS IN PLOT
TO DESTROY
Sir Rogrr C^aMom^nt Su^gCMied
Americana Who Might lie Tni»te<l
if They Could lie Knliatod to Aid
Agent* to Destroy Canadian itall
roada, and Hinder Manufactun* of
Munitiona In AnrnTican IMant*.
" Secretary I^anslng# drew upon his
collection of secret German diplo
matic correspondence a^ain Wednes
day to shed further light upon what
the German foreign office and gen
eral staff were doing in this country
while nominally^at peace with the
United States.
He gave to the public, without
comment, a* usual, threo brief cable
grams, disclosing that more than a
year before submarine piracy drove
America to war, the Berlin govern
ment was instructing Ambassador
von BemPflorff to arrange for de
struction of Canadian railroads and
•to use Irish Americans in carrying
on sabotage in their own country.
They showed, too, that von llern-
storff on his part was even at that
early dal* seeking authority to aup-
poit a campaign to Influeiico Con
gress
The two cablegrams sent to von
i'.ernstorff in January, 1!»I4, follow:
January 3. Hecfet. General staff
deeiree energetic action In regard to
proposed deal ru«t ion of Canadian
I'artfic Hallway at a«*«eral points
with a view to «witipl«*ie and prod-
tratad Interruption of (raffle Cap
tain Itorbui, »ho la now known on
your aide and la shorlly returning.
lue>Mi given laMfu* tioas Inform
the milltaiy.attach# end
i lugned i
‘'January;* Hor milliary nl-
tach# \ «*u «ea oMaia partlralnru
ns to povauns for carrying on
age in lho « acted Htatea and C
from the follow it
Joseph McUefntf. Philadelphia t.
John I* hrating Michigan A
i himg*. J Jeremiah U tanry. Id
I srU Raw. New I ort
ad laa are absolute If VW>
41m root
hat not nloa»s
lodWoird hf
In the I ailed
can he earned oot
ef factory for
«4 ear RaJleaf
t oanl eod Itovnetorff to the feraggs
offee in llefUa eas «eOt In
her I tI *
goptemher I » M ith
to report AN Is
eitl) sit of Mai tenth nineCeow sit
ergard to oheee earlier fruitful
•> perm Ion l*r Mule rau give
lion, is last ahout to enter upon a
vigor on* campaign to sere re a ma-
>onty In hath hen see of
f s * of able to Germany and r eg neats
further support TWre is no posel
hltlty of our hriug rotaprumland Re
facet telegraphic reply “
of the three men mentioned In
|hn second message, McGarrtty is a
prominent Irish leader of l*hllsde|.
l»Ma and Jeremuh o l-ea»y.
heading Uo AmgftfgR If th Mf
” Is Mflor of lluir a public stl«»n
reutly bsrrc-d frum the lualta ns.sodl-
tlou* While no on«» at the state de
part meut would undertake to posi
tively Identify the John I* Keating.
It was a»»urn«d that Ihu .man re
ferred to was John T. Keating of
Chicago and that Casement did not
know that be had been dead for sev
eral months It also was suggested
that Casement might have proposed
these names simply because he had
met the men and knew them us Irish
agitators In this country.
There was no official attempt to
Identify the Ur. Halo recommended
by von Bernstorff as an authority
on th© work of the embargo confer
ence, which so liberally bombarded
Congress with telegrams demanding
♦ that munition shipments to the
Allies cease.
Dr. William Bayard Hale, one
time envoy of President Wilson to
Mexico, and author of a biography of
the president, was in Berlin about
that time as a newspaper correspond
ent and apparently was on intimate
terms with the German government.
Dr. Hale’s attitude on the embargo
question is said to have, strained his
relations at the White House before
he went to Germany. -
la spite of the absence of formal
comment, administration officials
did not hesitate to discuss the latest,
disclosure privately and to describe
it as a natural and proper develop
ment of thu w'hole tremendous in
dictment against Germany :is an in
ternational criminal and a lawless
violator of the most elementary.and
generally accepted principles of in
ternational intercourse and comity
They declared that, not only dm*s
this correspondence, taken In con
nection with wlmt hlis already been
made public by the state department,
convict the German government
through the kaiser’s personal rep-
lotatives of violating American
itrgllty. but it clearly discloses
431,180 MEN IN CAMP
Buker Gives Out It
About the National ( amp.
The number of men of America's
new National Army either actually
under training or ordered to the IB
cantonments throughout the country
totals 431,180.
In making-public these figures
Secretary Baker Huid that shipments
of clothing to ^he camps is, keeping
pace with the arrival of 'ihe new
tfoops. Up lo October 2, the d.iy
before the second increment of draft
men was ordered out, nearly 13,-
000,0(H) articles of wearing apparel
anjd sleeping equipment had been
sent to t^e cantonments, and ship
ments are being .made daily.
* ('amp FOnston in Kansas has the
greatest quota of men of any of' the
camps, Nits number being 39,533 *
Camp I^ewis, In Washington State, is
second wjtfi 39,171, and Camp Dev
ons, Massachusetts, third with 33,-
000. Camp Custer, Michigan, has
the smallest number, IB,193.
The number of men at or ordered
to the other camps follows:
Camp Dix, New* Jersey, 19,303;
Camp Dodge, Iowa, 20,324; (’amp
Gordon. Georgia, 22,f»07;’ Camp
Grant, tlllnois, 25,502; (’amp Jack-
son,. South Carolina, LM.97.V. Caiiip
Dee. Virginia. 27.061; (’amp Meade,
Maryland, 20,3no; Camp JMke. Ar
kansas* 24,639;. C ,in, I ) Taylor, Ken
tucky, 27.463; Camp Travis, Texas.
29.2 49; (’amp Sherman. Ohio. 32.*-
#96; Camp I’lrton, New York. 29-
555.
Articles sent to cantontnenls for
the new men Include 1,402,390 blan
kets. 422.346 be^R*sacks. 4^6.719 rot-
ton hreerhe*. 239,305 WOoleR
breeches. 367.579 cotton coat*. 2o4,-
723 wo«.b*n coals, 2*9.713 oferenats,
4,##?.AM Rims nf underriot lung
and 93 7.73d palm of shoes.
All this material was manufactur
ed In this country end the quarter
master department of the army an-
a ounce# that deliveries have been
made tbal seemed impossible a fe%
weeks ago The Industries ham
been completely mobilised for the
big lash pi suRfdytaR the regular and
National Armies and
tt'Hi M RESTING
PEACET
■]' J-
ALLIES TO INSIST UPON RE
TURN OF PROVINCES
CRISIS IN GERMANY
HALF YEARS REMRD
Force
of Tt
LEADERS HAVE SPOKEN
Gorman Foreign He rotary Says A I*
Maco-I,orraine is Only ‘'Impi'diment
to Beace’*—Uoyd-Gejorge Nfiays
' <*jcat Britain Will Vontinue War
, Until Franco Kogains fho Toi-ri-
-C
Arms to l > oace. ,
tory—Chancellor Michaelis “Folds
Premier Lloyd-George made
prompt answer Thursday to the de
fiant statement of the German for
eign minister»regarding Alsace-Lor
raine. Dr. von Kuehlmann had said
that there was but one ans\^*r to the
questioft r wheTh.er Germany would
cede the provinces to France, and
that 'answer was “no.”
tee of the insurance association,
‘'that any statement Is more calcu
lated to prolong the war than the
German foreign minister, von Kuehl-
mann’s, declaration that Germany
wiULRot grant the concession of Al
sace-Lorraine to France.
M tiaW0Rrr long the war may
luM, Fitglund ImIcimN to *»t.»»nl t>>
h rams* until «Ih* ba** nsbs'iiesl her
iqqusskMsI « MUIccti from tln*tr for*
eign yoke.”
. Tbls Is th e first unqualified slate
ment on HrltalA'a pualltou regarding
th# Alsarr-I»rruine *iu**«*ti»»n to be
mad# by u responsible llrttlsh off!
tlnl In ibo war
"Grvwt HrttaAR/* Dr von Kgofil-
maaa had Mild In the Helrhatng. *‘ar-
cordiwg to our In format ha*
9lodge«l herself la France,
■III mMSf IS* Sg
qu#^ of yiMicf u.rraiae noth i«*o
Mlbally and with her armftea oo long
as France desirna lo adhere lo VH
Paternal pressure to force the
German government to set forth Its
war" aims clearly having failed on
the suPtace, internal conditions with
in the empire threaten to compel the
issuance of a full statement, of Ger-
mmy’s aims. ..V- What the German
leaders Vant, if they are. successful,
will be discussed in the: reichstag
this week, probably. w
The imperial chancellor, Dr. Mich-1 Fvery
aelis, is finding the way as difficult
as it was for hrs predecessor, von
Bethtnann-Hollweg ?tnd he must now
face the critics of the government in
the reichslag. Whether, as has been
charged,’ the bureaucracy and the
army have been furthering the pan-
German scheme of annexation a#i
indemnities, is .expected to be
hroyght out in the reichstag debate.
Minister of the Interior; Helfferieh
before the fteichtBag to ~ make a
Statenmm^qn his behaif. Helfferieh
failed to^inollify the critical mem
ber^ of^the Reichstag and the silting
was adjourned after the vice clrah-
cellor’s speech had been interrupt
ed. Gen. von Stein, the war min
ister. was jeered when he attempted
to explain pie army’s side of the ac
cusation that the high command was
AMERICA HAS MADE SPLENDID
. PROGRESS FOR THE WAR .
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
Depailment of GoveVnme'nt
Has Swung Into liliie and Exer
tions That Would Have Been As
tonishing are Taken as a Matter
of Course—Pace Has Been Set for
the World.
“I do not think,” bald the British
minister, speaking before a commit**) nsing very strong methods to help
How the greatest government on
earth went into the greatest of wars
and what it did during the six
months thereafter is told in a vivid
statement of the activities -and
achievements of the United States up
to and including Saturday, six months
after the state of war was declared,
issued officially by the Committee
on Public Information.
The statement is a story of the
transition of-a peaceful pbople fro nr
conditions of peace to conditions of -
war. and 4he transition, as the state-
mvnt says, is without precedent in
the history qf uenuxracies. With
out organization for .war, the co -R-l
tl»° call to arms
inonthM from the d
els red thoroughly oi
biit/cd for the supr
and it
ly war was dc-
;an!zed and mo*
•me task ali#ad
The IM c«»uui of I lie goxeru-
•iM*ur# urrf»mplUlimeut% up lo
date K #ef itowu mi tiiul every
n»au. oilman amt rfilbl lu the laud
.may kuow I he detail# of the war
Uimiy ami upfwevlale uhai
rtiutlhli
ptiHiratti •»€
tWrea
14of4 tleofS#*a
lo the ef|«Nrt of*’ '*3fi
|Rifv_ Kuehlmuf. lu
ir quarters lu Lauding that th#
mi fwrutqu •or ret ary irfed but ?
i Ml u ah read struh# lu rut## a
»otfui##iy hatwa#ti the Rutoute *1
*• puluted out that bo wo*
it to Mtpotul# so lohR ua
tptm lo udhem to th# Rrw
BU l#UtlOR th# doof opeO to
to out you" u ith th#
toolutrly luu**r#4 the «•«
• 04 port of th# dm tor# lewtetp-O MU
o th# t»r*t
r mid u dM
the horh* to Frape#
th«W«uh IJ«*94
Sojlour MiHIHH
IU t •SMO# both to talk
•0*11 ho agree# to pup the prhre
of uduil II tuu. ohuh MW I Ode# A tiro
the pan-German agitation.*
Former Uhanrellor von Beth-
mann-Hollweg. some months bi-for*
his resignation, ' had a test of
sirqurHi with • Admiral von Tirpitz.
I4t»* replied organizer of ruthless
s;ibnif»r<ne warfare, and th«* ehjAnc**|-
lor won. The ailniirnl sin* e has In-on
I nsy and the new fatherland party,
of whicli he is one of iho spiJUMirs,
fx-eordtujr to re'*#»nt ret*orts has hi'-i-n
v *ry active * lu t>p[M*sing the Ken h-
«ra# majortvy de« lartitfen («g nen##
without • annexations or iudi-iunille#
It lia# no# i ome to a lest between
the PiPouer* of %oii TfrpiU and th#
v*an*Geruisvis on ope side and the
In .1 io'Et V of the fte-rhat## on (He
other hee#w%drwpon• have »h*>wu
I ha* lb# TuoMpg bei n »h# oan
P«»nnaAs^anil ;hu llsmh#>ou iqgjMitTf
••i. »i ^ mBap hsiafe iu*eu#.,. m ■ . M r, n#. .
Z77.T’VT. .!* T wTST.i Jm#w:
* ‘j*** rT ** **i #•>—>»—oi i oiM
e*»ur» *■* ti.tt tu# aqttniop of t**e yssu-
CUfPMAsa dli.dlUC iF# (•# fUioo p «■• ,
plu lh|o tuu ruMR# ou th# qumtlow |
e eiw w |nrfMirwi«« Iti-y
I uurh ruRuble uf pnrmtPudulMMI
U FftlETTE *
_ I • a# iReot duf <oU<trwrtkaU VU those
_ * , V rutMouuwMMu. ur vift auL/ up rwutu
Vauutug Pout# Heath Feuah $ fbr I berate thsfe of# »huul p bull mil-
_ IlM RMP Mh#u they arw I
WihUMPR uruolo# fciher# ##u k* »*adiD
tnnuiui
•tuff
about 12,000 offlcera in the I
:,122 In the marine corpa.
Hundreds of vessels of *■
types have been transforra
patrol boats, submarine
Tho Atlantic fleet comprises
as nmny vessels as in peace til
Every battles'hip nnd cruiser thnt was
in reserve has been fully manned and
commissioned. Every warship is now
a training school and notable results
have been achieved, especially in tar
get practice.
• Since early in May United States
destroyers have been operating
the naval forces of our Allies iri
European waters against the subma- t
iir.es. Virtually all pur merchant
bhips are now convoyed.
, The nary has organized, manned
and Is operating the transport ser
vice and convoys the ^vessels'carrying
American armies to Europe. xfrT* a
transport has been* sunk or a soldier
lost in transportation.
The largest ship-construction pro
gram in history is being carried out
by the navy, comprising hundreds of
vessels, from superdreadnaughts to
submaiine chasers. Months ago con
tracts were let, for every destroyer
the American yards could build. De
stroyers which formerly took twenty
to twenty-two months to complete
are now scheduled for completion in
half that time.
Twenty training camps have*been '
erected, accommodating £5,000 men.
Navy yards have been enlarged, im
mense foundries, machine shop;* and
warehouse* erected. Work is being
pushed on dry docks, shipways and
piers. A big projectile plant la being
j^^^^jyUtqctud^u^ChgrluatowR^jy^fo^uid
try answered spe«-dily at... . ... * .
found six 1 11 IL6b6.t69 aircraft factory at Phll-
• ir#
t<
tl*r<4f#ue th#t *h» »■ >»#«**• a#
uiMt UtFhlu it# aud Gu* tuu 'atufeta
lu t*wug*<##* #a* UMhiug
t#wu, ■* C*»v M*uu>ug. tu UR
4*e#a befufe the delegute# Ml the
f »•••»• «»• .*f ia* >**«h*ea*#>*t
uf M %UdVH. 1 FhlledeGghiU M'#d
r#uduv Hht. oetd thu ihuH
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U tfGul full* tw »hew #ufV*r teut rugae |
fur the euf re Me Reguity th##e uteu V
hu indHRMl Bmr Bu uggR3ry|
■fhul
jadelphla. Extensions ol the naval
gun factory will make that plant one
of the largest of its kind.. The entire
“hhore building” program eMbrq
an exp-nditnre of f HM».'MttK<ioo
Work is pro*fHMlipg raptdtjr ogj|
fleet operating base at llamj
Hoads, which will Include troll
station fi»r D* ©n** men. aviation
tu>n. submarine base, coal piers, stor
age facilities for fleet suppll**# aud
% a?t«*tis other feututeu. a %
Uke U<a4ue-
of fWldati F* tur the urtuteu uud
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huu heeu active sftw# the uutheuuh uf
war It hi uppe uted 2 Mtmm'
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ru#oi|r#« cwMMuuitfte# aud hi waged
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r*4fc#etog th# %Rti» uggoutwe
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umru iur ufftreru have he*
wueug uReruturu uud uMguru
uf the eeufful tvuu**i«auia le«tr%rt
\uuiher f ui settled
M'NhlU u feu dor* eft*# the dhf^
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rnt I# hi ear uusme# tw the >., rwwcersle with Ike AUU-# f*a
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Afcw« :• mu.
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had aRRrexlUMilety 2U.UUU off trace; |
I (he## ar* U«»e area ad SO.UUR Th#
ad Nlaut Reus rut s effire reUvsel
Ut 3 uuu pmrae of mail a day !a#l *
tie
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A MudhMor#
4*f the
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Th* navy ha# -I** lined tu
th# number «»f
t'ouli-mpluled. but It hi
oitirielly. however, that the flotilla
either in r«»mmt#»bi
siructlou. would Ih-
bled and uh*n the program bus
completed the United Slates will
have a far greater number Of de
stroyers than any other power, tn-
tlons against Germany and the dis
closures Wednesday ore regarded as
lastly strengthening Indictment
rmt only In the new matter d
closed, but In supplying links in the
chain of evidence to connect the Ger-
|man foreign office and the <
emperor's personal representative!
|ln this country with the sinister < un
spiracy against American integrity
and the very lives of American citi
Izens.
(Secretary Lansing has conferred
pith the French ambassador and
A’ith the British”ambassador and i'
is understood that the startling dR
closure made Wednesday has beer
[made with the full Jtnowledgo an. 1
ipproval of the Entente govern
merits. That they will have an ef
feet qpon the French and .Britltd
publics as well as in America is fql
ly realized.
This further deinqrtstration of tie
perfidy and dishemoi of Ge-wnan of
ficialdom. it is hoped in adminMni
five cirelos, will tend to silence
much of the pro-German peace pn
naganda not only In. America bu
among the Entente, powers in
Europe.
Among the interesting features of
the dispatches made public lu th<
evidence that the embargo-confer
cnee, which was hel#1n thly country
in the summer of 1916, already had
received support from the German
government. Apparently the ut
Trent supplies the fRlasing thread **
■RaMW
ne%*r b* th#
UT conreO*
lb# for
with thu Allleu. urrord
in dtspuithou from the Ath#u#
f**retcu offkw t# thu Gruuh legallou
In WauhtuclaR l^rh uf uquipmunt
i# hriug remedied rapid hr with thq.
■Mr aid
“Thu ailuatlou lu Gre*. e U
|*ur
Ikw :4.«W Hww m4 t, tocTWMtaa |1~" rTT*"" — wm-
x _. ... ,4. iRuvto hi ihu army, uthur* have made
Hut or • Which hi 1 of bivuu Rluruq uud
PM. lu oi of Ihl I th T •Whr Of
thu mall avurageu
►e piece# uud lu lurruusihg.
eltUiTSui**d
uud I# bur
The later Iur fvepurtUMrut.
ordinarily aely uRh duuw#tlr ul
ha* fuuud that H ha# iRMR^gRR
fuur#lag# that hegr upug thu ggftftug-
ul dulipgau Rum# huruuuv have |§g(
Ihulr guolugirul uud tupugruphlr ut-
R*ft* lu Ihu army. uth#f» Have
■Ml* TkW «m Mlo«W br <h« 2
••The efforta of the
the story of Bernsturff's requed for
the $50,600 with which to Influence
the ealcul&ted German purpose to (‘onrress- through an unnamed or
al rang le the admlniatration in any
attempt which P might make to pro-*
that neutruHty by
» to e«nbar*“*s the ex oca tire
igf Ihego
4.. ti :-ation
It lu
me ay uf thu puruuRi whu pgrtlrtRul-
ed In the embargo
bly eer* iu Iggorancu M MH
Holy Bee t«
of vleus be
sr ai
ve ar* informed not yet resulted ti
».ny considerable step forward *inc<
he reply by the Central powers.
“Great Britain/according to ggt
nforrnatlon. has pledgeil herself U
France that she will continue th*
ight for the Conquest of Alsace-I^>r
aine. both politically and with he:
rmies, so long as France desires to
Mlherp to t*he program of regaining
hose provinces. This being the uc
ual situation, I think it proper t<
rive a clear and firm statement o‘
Mir attitude, since, curiously enough
here still seems to be a misconcep
/ion in this respect among our ene
“nWs and even among our neutra
’riends.” J
The foreign minister tlien declared
hat Germany would make no con
esskms with regard to Alsuce-Lor
nine, ^ ‘ iy 1 :"-:':
At‘the plenary-^ sitting of thr
teichstag,* Dr. Georg Michaelis, the
mperlal German cliancollor, asserted*
hat peace was impossihle as long a*-
•ermanp's enemies •demanded an>
ter man soil or endeavored to drive
^ -wedge between the German peopb
nd thei:>'emperoi“ The speeydi o
he chanciellor was delivered during
h»v discussion of the resolution
uainst propaganda in the army in
avor of a German pe.i
“Wc would get along much bet-
er;*’ raid the Chancellor,- “if those
i ho combat the peace resolution of
fuly 19 and assert that ita supporter#
.varit 4L separate peaces would*’ he
iiore Jujt toward this resolution,^-
“The German nation will > stand
ogrthcr as one man. unshakable 1snd
tersevere In this fight until Its right
nd the rights of our allies to uxi»t-
ncc and develi»pmeat are assure*!
*■ its unity thu German enipftr* I# in-
TtacOdn.
”Wu moat mg Uni lu
mill th#
«’om Inn mora sallafactory every day
Thu people are thoroughly confident
of thu efficiency of their govern
ment and they are willing lo alhnu
*he present ministry to continue in
the uork of reorganization of the
resource# of the country so thnt
hSRaece may throw her full strength
nto the war.** *
.1 • Ma.dard MiUury track. I v.7l'V'.wTT.. '* ^ ° r
I v*. ,4.-. , . ’ Mlltmal (lefense The reclamatlg
FIGHT IN NORTH SEA
T
for i
airplanes
Ing macldnes to greet battle plane#
Many obstacles have been overcome
cam# the lotting of roatrartn w . . ■
rr.-al aerial tlc-t Thl. ..iailM 1 *?*? *?? PfVf thm f 1 —*-4
«m nil. to* moro Iha. “<• **«*»»» t. I»crn*- lb
rao.i.fe from ll.ht tnia- 72 ,2.5.^ 77!? ^ , , ' MX, ,up r ,r
I An inigtiM* food supply campaign
I w»# wwg»*d among the Indian# A
0
by the ordnance
B bureau and aaarter-: "?***•**** »■ ■■■>#« and drjin*
maatet corpa. Karh la »pending moro 1 , „ , ^*** l 1 ' 0 amo k*
• k« m kjimc- »«. 1h*» Indian wards of the Government.
Indian adults und minors subscrib
ed t.» approximately $4,500,000
I
r.
S. Kxps'stJ* ('able Announcing
Operation of Decisive Import.
declared
The New rork Herald
Wednesday morning: „
“The United States government le
momentarily expecting cable mes-
ages which will relate to a naval
>peration of transcendent magnitude
•n or near the North Sea—one of
■uch importance that the whole as-
’^ct of the war may be changed.’
r hat is the information that has^
ome to the Herald from a high and
mquestionablo authority.
“There is reason to believe that
he loiig-expoetcd -desperation move’
uy Germany has been started and
hat it is being resisted with all the
>owprf thaJr the great fleets of the
Allies cafVyJjrjng into play.”
he ‘ worker merited . reccnipcnse;
vhlch creates a market for industries
’ml supplies the foundation for soci-
i! progress; which gives our ships
the possibility of a free voyage of en-
ering ports and taking coal all over
he world—a peace of the widest-
*conomic and cultural development,
v real peace. Tills peace we can at
'&in within these limits. -
‘•A* long as our my confront
us with dt'mand# which Mp|M**r
unoiceptahlr to every Mingle tier-
man,** said Dr. Mlcliaell#, “a# king
a# our opponent* wl«d» t*» inlerfere
with our frontier pout#: n# long n#
they demand tlmt we sluvll yield n
Rftere Wf lierman uuil; i hang g»
the him of driving n
than three billion dollars for equip
ping the new army. The ordnance
department organized a special sec
tion to supply WHapons essential to
modern trench-warfare, such as hand
gremides, trench mortars and drop
oombs.
Twenty-four flying .schools have
been authorized and the majority are
in operation. Many American avia
worth of the first Idherty Bonds.
Nearly a hundred topographic en
gineers have received commission# in
the array. The General Land Office
has stimulated the sale of Govern
ment lands.
The Bureau of Mnies Las submitt-
tors are now receiving Mntensive I subjects, co-op
training behind (He .battle fronts. | ^ rati "f * th 4 he ^ar Department in
The engineer department has met | , s 1 *at on ° n,t rate sup-
tire problem of increasing its per- p y resources manufacturing
munitions. A stimulated production
of coal, quicksilver, potash, petro-
e is one
problem ot increasing its per
sonnel and supplying equipment for
an army of more* than 1,000,000 1 ’ poiasu,
men • ! leum products and manganese
in addition to the cantonments; of tJie ; P r ' rno achievements. _
flying schools and officers’ tamps, jv^he chief war-time activity of the
the war department has maintained
sixteen training camps for the Ra
tional G\iard.
The surgeon general has increased
the enlisted personnel of the medical
department to more than ten times
its size aV the outbreak of the war,
there now being more than CU.oOO
men in it. - , .
Plans have been made for the con’
struction of a large hospital at each
one of the thirty-two National Guard
and National Army cantonments, and
for other large base hospitals at a
dozen or twenty potnt«\ in tire eoun-
try» A thorough-going plan for car
ing for the wounded and for return
ing them to civil life, thproughiy*
fitted lo lie useful and valuable, is
being put into effect. *»
The navy now has in service more
than three times as many men and
nearly three times as many vessels
as when war, was declared.
The n*vv ibid'marine corp# const I- i
Treasury Department has been float
ing the. Liberty loan With power
to sell the bond issues and to nego
tiate our loans to foreign Govern
ments, ttiO. Treasury Department
sieged a remarkable campaign 1 that
brought about nft/over-subscription
of the first loan. , .
HEAVY FIRE IN SOUTH
Husslans in Itoiunuiiia and Artillery
in Gixmx’o IncrojtM* Attncks.
The prospects of a return to heavy
fighting in Houmania. with the Hus-
sian* as the aggressors, seem good.
On the Houfiaiflag plain and near
Brsila the Russians have heavily
bombarded the Teutonic allied post
Dons, while the Germans in reprisal
shelled the important DanubUn tom
Gslatx, their shells rau iny *«▼-
a force of more thanaquarter j eral fires, tlh thu eastern front air
*““ OR ARHrtff —. -
lute
.of n million men On ApfmTthcrc j Riga thu Gemans, gfter a heavy
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