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0. . RUSSIA BOWS TO GERMANY. Congress of Soviets Agrees to Terms of Peace Treaty. March 17.?Russia has bowed to the central empires. The hard terms of the peace treaty submitted by the r Germans at Brest-Litovsk have been agreed to by the all Russian congress of Soviets, in session at Moscow, in spite of the opposition of an important element of the Russian people. The result of the vote was forecast in the announcement from Moscow on Friday that the Bolshevik delegates to the Moscow congress had at t a party caucus voted in favor of rati fication. There was a faction, however, that registered its disapproval of the treaty, but the presence of * Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, probably united his followers and enabled them to roll up a large majority in favor of accepting the provisions of the German peace treaty. The message sent by President Wil. son to the congress, in which he expressed his sympathy with the Russian people, was read at the opening session on Thursday night. It was received with marked enthusiasm and a reply embodying a resolution of appreciation was sent to the American people. Kuitur. Does Germany really do such things as poison wells and spread disease germs, wherever possible among hei enemies? Upon this point we piesent the testimony of Prof. G. F. Nicolai, formerly physician to the Imperial family of Germany ant1 professor of physiology at the University of Berlin In a recently published book from hi3 pen, entitled, "The Biology of *Var." occur these paragraphs: J "The military personage who is f numbered among the most prominent, but whose name I shall not K mention, inquired of me whether it might not be possible to fix shells with cholera germs or plague bacilli so that the shells could be sent back of the front firing line. "As I replied to him that I did not think it would do to use procedures so lacking in humanity, he answered me in a tone tinged with contempt, "Humanity is not to be considered in this war and Germany has a right to do everything she pleases'." Professor Nicolai added tnat in ( Germany many millions of people are ^ reasoning in the same way as this man, who in no other ways has manifested marked superiority of character. Others, he said, have even more cruel ideas, and a medical officer on the general staff asked him whether it would not he possible to inoculate the Russians with bacteria, saying, "With such cattle everything is legitimate." ; Professor Nicolai is known as a humane as well as a skillful physician by a number of medical men in this country who studied with him in * Germany, one of whom called our attion to these facts. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that Professor Nicolai is* now serving a term in a Ger man military prison. It is all right to do these things but it is highly improper to talk about them.?Baltimore Sun. Sugar Supply Assured. Manufacturers of essential food products have been advised by the Food Administration that they will be able to obtain their full necessary requirements of sugar for manufacturing purposes during the coming . year. ^ This applies particularly to packers of fruit, condensed milk, such vegetables for the preservation of which sugar may be necessary, as well as to the housewives, for usage in preserving purposes. As soon as the car shortage is relieved, according to the Food Administration statement, supplies of sugar will be available for these purposes. Shipments from Cuba are steadily increasing. All canners have been advised to hold for war purposes such qnanti '00 r?f cnnnpd oorn Deas. tomatoes. VAWV V* 7 ^ string beans, and salmon as they may have on hand. Such quantities as a^e not wanted will be released withh in a few days after receipt of reports showing stocks on hand, which must % be submitted to the Food -Administration before March 15. Huns Tell Oily Lie. San Antonio, March 13.?The circulation of false reports among farmers by German propagandists threat1 * ens to curtail the planting of castor I hoan? in tho nroduction of a suit V* able lubricant for airplane motors, r The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce announced today that the farmers have been informed the castor beans grow on a vine which saps the strength of the soil. An investigation will be made as to the source of the reports. m ? Read The Herald, $1.50 a yeaV. \ y Gifts of Men Serving in England. Packages containing dutiable gifts sent to members of the Expeditionary Forces temporarily serving in England will be delivered free of duty, provided the contents are bona fide gifts, the quantity is not beyond the personal requirements of the addressee, and that the parcels are addressed for delivery to the regimental address of the regiment. GERMAN' WAR PRACTICES. (Continued from page 2, column 2) forced against their will to work for the enemies ot tneir counuy, or nau been carried off like cattle into Germany, where all trace of them had been lost. "10. That cities, towns, and villages had been fined and their inhabitants maltreated because of the success gained by the Belgian over the German soldiers. "11. That public monuments and works of art had been wantonly destroyed by the invaders. "12. And that generally the Regulations of the Hague Conference and the customs of civilized warfare had been ignored by the Germans, and that amongst other breaches of such regulations and customs, the Germans had adopted a new and inhuman practice of driving Belgian men, women, and children in front of them as a screen between them and the allied soldiers." The German authorities undertook to defend themselves against the terrible indictment in the report published by the Belgian government and appointed a German commission, which collected a huge mass of materials designed to show that their acts1*1 of cruelty were merely acts of reprisals necessitated by the deeds of the Belgians. This mass of testimony was published in a German White Book with the title Die volkerrechtswidrige Fuhrung des Belgischen Yolkskriegs. j The German commission declared in its findings that the German soldiers had acted with humanity, restraint, and Christian forbearance. But the sworn statements of German soldiers, which the commission published, show the reverse to be true. German White Book Reveajs Atrocities. It has been well said that the publication of this German White Book was "an amazing official blunder." The neutral world, whose good opinion Germany sought, was not convinced by it that the Belgians had committed the atrocities with which the Germans charged them. On the other hand, this White Book, published by the German Government, will be accepted by everyone as conclusive evidence of the massacres and other brutal deeds which were carried out as "reprisals" by the orders of the German military authorities in Belgium. The names of the German officers who gave the terrible orders are published officially and "frequently the very men themselves come forward and depose coldly and callously to acts which have degraded the German army and left a stain upon its banners that (future) generations of chivalry will not efface." Indeed, in the light of the admissions of the German White Book, it is not too much to say that: the time has already come which was spoken of by President Wilson in his dispatch to President Poincare, .September 19, 1914, when he said (speaking for "a nation which abhors inhuman practices in the conduct of a war"): "The time will come when this great conflict is over and when the truth can be impartially determined. When that time arrives those responsible for violations of the rules of civilized warfare, if such violations have occurred, and for false charges against their adversaries, must of course bear the burden of the judgment of the world." (To be continued next week.) Royal Theatre Ehrhardt's First-Class Play House. Motion Pictures Every Monday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday 5 Big Beels Featuring |j the Best Plays, Come- || I cues, it.ix*. m Be sure to see the se- |j rial every Thurs- ^ clay evening ^ "PEARL WHITE IX | THE FATAL | i RING." g ? 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