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A Modern Bluebeard _ Arrest of Landru Follows Dis appearance of a Dozen of His Fiancees Paris, May 15 (Correspondence ofj The Associated Press).?Landru, call ed by some French newspapers the "Bluebeard of Gambais," might takej rank among the most celebrated of ! French criminals, if only a few of the suspicions against him were establish ed. Re was arrested a few weeks ago. The disappearance of a round dozen of his "fiancees" is alleged. He is sus- j pected in more than a hundred oth-j err cases by husbands whose spouses have deserted their' firesides or by .;. t-families that have lost track of re)a-j : rives. The police consider most of! v the hundred additional cases as in-{ stances of disappearance that are common in Paris. A few of them present features similar to those of the -dozen fiancees and detectives are investigating them. i More than 3,000 women have been lost to sight in Paris during the war. This number is not regarded as extra ordinary considering that such disap pearances are common in Paris in normal times and that they havei been particularly favored by condi- ? tions that have prevailed since the mobilization in 1914 a great many families have been broken up or scat tered. Soldiers returning from long ab sences sometimes have found their "homes deserted and in several cases have discovered that their wives, be lieving them dead, have married again .in good faith. In cases of deliberate, desertion the unfaithful have, natur-] aBy, omitted to give their new ad dresses. Horse Holds His Own Automobile Hacks Not Permitt ed in Rome ?r _ Rome, May 10.?The horse here has not vacated his position to make room for .the automobile. There are stfll thousands of horse-drawn cabs operating in Rome while there is not a single taxicab. Two reasons are given for this equine superiority. First, there are three thousand cab drivers in Rome, according to the municipal statistics. These exercise a considerable influ ence in the municipal elections of Rome and as a consequence no motor vehicle concessions are granted. The . politicians know that in order to re tain these three thousand votes they must be faithful to the horse and an ?nemy to tue "fiiwer." Besides the supply of gasoline in ' Italy is not large and to insure enough for the military needs, it was found absolutely necessary to dis courage as much private motor ve hicular traffic as possible. Severe Fighting North of Danube ^Between Zeeho-SIovaks and Hungarian Communists Vienna, Saturday, June 7 (By the Associated. Press)?Severe fighting is in progress between Budapest and Vienna, north of the Danube, between the Czecho-SIovaks and the Hunga rian communist forces. The Hunga rians have crossed the river Neutra and are threatening Pressburg (Poz sony). The position of the Czechs in Slo vakia is more serious, as the Hunga rian communists have been stirring up the S&ovaks against the Czechs. The Hungarians point out that the Czechs refused to give the Slovaks autonomy "and also have not treated them as brothers. They add that for 1,000 years the Slovaks and Hungarians ^lived together and should continue to do so. . Patriotism is at a white heat in Prague, according to reports from the jCSsech capital. The pride of the Czechs :are legionaires who have been re garded, especially by the women, as the world's greatest soldiers. The le gionaries trained in France have been doing the best work against the Hun garians. While the Czech soldiers gen erally are Socialists, there are no in dications that they have been tainted try Bolshevism. The . Budapest government has not yet been able to secure an effective connection with the Bolsheviki in the region of Kiev because of the presence of the Poles in Galicia. It is report ed that the effectiveness of the Rus sian soviet army against the Ruma nians in Bessarabia is due to the ract that among their leaders are a large number of German officers, it is <Jn elared that the German officers have formed an organization to assist the Bolsheviki in the Ukraine. Peasants Defeated. London, June S.?Armed peasants who revolted against the Hungarian troops have been engaged in heavy fighting- in Western Hungary, which resulted in the defeat of the peasants, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Vienna says. ? Four thousand peasants assembled Friday near Oedenburg (Soprony), be tween Zinkendorff and Kollerhof. with the object of displacing the Soviet government in Oedenburg. They were intercepted on the march near Zin kendorff by the communist garrison from Oedenburg. armed with artillery and machine guns. A bloody battle followed and the peasa nts were driven hack and surrounded in Kollerhof by the Red Guards. After a short siege .it is added, Kol lerhof was stormed and many of its peasant defenders slaughtered. The I entire Oedenburg district has been j clared in a state of siege and a mili tary dictatorship proclaimed. Tampico, Mexico, May 3 9 (Corre spondence)?The government has completed the erection here of a wire less station which, it is claimed, has a sending radius at night of 2,000 House Approves Railroad Fund Democr ts Urge Larger Amount But Do Not Press Fight for Amendment Washington, June- 10.?By a vote of 305 to four the house today pass ed the bill authorizing an appropria\ tion of $750,000,000 for the railroad administration's revolving fund. Dem ocratic members urged a larger amount, but did not press any amend ment for an increase while Republi cans declared the fund would be suf ficient until late?- in the year when future needs would be known. The measure now goes to the senate where leaders plan early action. "Votes against the appropriations! were cast by Representatives An-! thony, Kansas; Ramsey er, Iowa; Woodyard, W Va? Republicans, and Thomas, Kentucky. Democrat, none of them urged his objections to the bill during the debate which was by the injunction of considerable political j discussion. Chairman Good of the appropria-1 tions committee in charge of the rail bill explained that reduction from the j $1,200,000,000 requested by Director General Hines was decided on by the committee because it was admitted that exact needs of the future were prcblemmatical. The new fund, he said would make a total of $1,250,000,000 granted the administration since the rail lines were taken over by the gov ernment. , Representative Byrnes, South Caro lina, and Bryns, Tennesee, Demo crats,' urged that a large appropria tion was necessary to make prompt monthly payment of the administra tion's expenses, the delay in which they said would adversely affect gen eral business conditions. They also asserted that the smaller amount would increase in the charge on rail road indebtedness that eventually would be paid by the government. Meanwhile in the senate, debate proceeded on the Cummins bills to re store to the interstate commerce com mission immediately its power of su pervis. n over .interstate railroad rates. Senator Nelson, Republican, of Minnesota, protested against insertion of an amendment to limit the restor ation of supervision to interstate rates. The amendment, he said, would leave intrastate tariffs at the mercy of the railroad administra 1 tion. Senator Cummins declared that to subordinate the federal government as operator of the lines to the au thority of the several States as to in trastate rates would be indefensible. Senator Pomerene, Democrat, join ed in the statement of Senator Cum mins and Nelson that the roads should be returned to? private control at the earliest moment possible. Political debate was started in the house when Representative Mageo. Republican, of New York, declared the loss from railroad operation was "continuing to increase" and blamed this to "the Democratic policy of drifting instead of acting." The rail road administration having increased wages, he said, should have the "moral courage" to make compensa tory freight and passenger rates. Representative Walsh, Republican, of Massachuetts. added. 1 "that many wages are excessive and to save the public treasury we should not hesitate to revise or reduce wages." Resenting frequent Republican ref erence to the president's absence from the United States. Representative Hardy. Democrat, of Texas, said that the "Republicans damned everything Woodrow Wilson does" and that "no crime is not laid to the league of, na tions, but nevertheless the Republi I cans don't dare to come out in open ! opposition to it." !_. j - Poincaire Appoints Bishops i Nominations for Strasburg and j Metz Announced Paris, May 3 5.?Appointment by President Poincare of new bishops for Strasburg and Metz created a re markably feeble sensation, consider ing that it was such a radical depar ture from French policy on religious questions since the separation of church and State. It was a surprise only to those to whom it had not occurred that France could not interfere with re i ligious institutions in the returned provinces. The Socialists alone man ifested resentment. Other anti-cler icals appear to have taken the view that if Alsace and Lorraine must have bishops, those bishops should be French rather than German. According to the French press, the j candidates most favored by the gov ernment were not approved by the j Vatican. Monseigneurs Ruch and j Pelt who were given the preference are, however, both ardent patriots. Siberians Resist Draft Vladivostok. May i (Correspond ence of The Associated Press)?Three hundred >oung recruits in the Siberian j army presented a petition to thejr commanding officer at Tumen. Siberia, asking that certificates be furnished them that they were obliged by the System of conscript ion to join the army and fight the Bolsheviki. They explained that they had no intention of mutiny but if they fell into the hands of the Bolsheviki they wanted a fair chance for their lives. The petition was refused. According to reliable information the voting soldiers then bafHeaded themselves jn a building not far from Trumen, some of them beginn ins:- to shoot. The commanding officer sum moned Czecho-Slovak troops to his assistance and machine suns were used against the building and the re sisting recruits. It is understood that 74 were killed and 14!? wounded. A number of soldiers in the Rus-i sian-Siberian army have brothers or relatives in the Bolshevik armies.) serving either through duress or choice? I Bolshevists of Budapest Spend Money Lavishly on Their Propaganda and Oppress the People Budapest, May S (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?This "red city" still Haunts its color scheme ar ranged for the .May day celebrations: The communists have hoisted the red banner on the castle which is the headquarters of Bela-Kun, the bis chief of the soviet. Red bunting also waves from the Motel Elungaria, where the food is hoarded and where the ministers have sequestered them selves with a bodyguard of red sol diers. It is there where it is af firmed they keep their mcst prized I hostages in durance vile. A brave show is still made.of keep ing up the government, with much dashing to and fro of ministerial au tomobiles. There have been more ar rests since the counter revolutionists succeeded in blowing up a big muni tion factory at Ersebitfalva, near here. The cost of "painting the city red" for the May day celebrations was at first estimated at twelve million crowns but today the supplementary information is forthcoming that the red bunting used in such profusion was only paper "war cloth" which proved a failure for other pitrposes. j So it was dyed red and hung up as I it came cheaper than paint. Feverish activity is going on to win j converts to communism by stirring up ! trouble in Rumania through revolu tionary agents who handle enormous sums of money; but also within the country wild efforts are being made to secure adherents. Printing presses are working over time turning out Bolshevist posters of the weirdest kind. Of course they curse capital ism and call upon all to become "voros* 'or red soldiers. All bare walls including church 'fronts, are plastered over with the declaration "Xem Nem Soha" (No, No, Never) which is the slogan for the refusal to abandon the national soil to the Rumanian and the Czech. The Press Bureau is also active. It is sending out reports signed with the names of foreign correspondents to forged articles, or else it rewrites any copy submitted for censorship. Much ingenuity is shown in several new Bolshevist magazines illustrated with comic pictures and jokes of the proletariat at the expense of the ha ted bourgeoisie. One magazine which bears the name of months in which it appears shows a fat landlord, or rather an ex-landlord, communing with a snail. "Ah. lucky beast," he snails, "thou hast still gotten thy house on . thy back." The magazine even dares to cari cature little Bella Kun with his thick overhanging lips, sometimes likened to a bulldog. The result of such propaganda is questionable, judging by the actions of three communists with whom The Associated Press correspondent rode in a train. They lolled in their com fortable seats, while a humble wo man, with a newrborn baby in her arms, stood in the corridor for fully six hours. These three men were all ; the time devouring Bolshevik litera ture but it never occurred to their humanitarian ism to give up a seat to the tired woman. They evidently knew adversity but it had not taught them charity. All this propaganda work gives em ployment to a large number of per sons, and there are special training schools for apt candidates. Recently, a group of young men speaking sever al languages went to the Foreign Of fice to seek employment, and they were told that the only work that was open was to act locally as spies or to go to Bucharest. Vienna or Paris and carry on propaganda work there. This is in contradiction to the prom ise made by the ministers to the Americans that they would not at tempt to disseminate their ideas abroad if they were left alone at home. Among ihe original converts who have been converted back again are the men of the ironworkers union who have formed a secret guard of !fourteen lb. usand members to pro tect Budapest if a massacre of the bourgeoisie be attempted. Two women of American origin, j Marcella Lind Jellinek, a singer, and i Mrs. Isidore C. Shasza, (formerly (Mary Wasserman of New York) who I is related to the Seligman banking j family, have filled their homes with j homeless friends so as to escape the i "communizing" of their apartments. Count Apponyi's house is <juite fill ed. After he left, his personal clothes and the family linen was requisition ed to the last stitch despite tin- pro tests oi" his daughters who had re mained behind with a German gov erness. When the latter made- ;t com plaint to the local red guard commis sioner, he denied any responsibility for the requisition. In many cases red guards are just plain thieves?they enter houses and take what they fancy, and the Soviet j is unable to control the lusts and j passions which its propaganda has stirred up. It is. nevertheless, truej that there are many decent fellows! i among the rod guards, whose reputa-j i tion musj suffer from the black sheepl j Improving Commercial Relations With j Mexico. : Mexico City, May i 3 (Correspond ence)? The Phamber of Commerce! here is planning to organize a trade I excursion of Mexican merchants u> j j the United States and preparing to j I receive similar missions reported to I he coming from Cleveland, New: 'York and various Southern commer- , J cial centers. ! _ I London. May 10 fCorrespondence) 1 '?The treasury has authorized the; I transmission to persons and firms) j resident in enemy territory of state ments of their accounts. Payment ofj I money to enemies remains prohibited and statements of accounts sent to j them must be accompanied by notice; that persons and firms in enemy ter ritory w?l not he permitted to <lis- j pose of funds or securities hehl for;' their account, in this country a1 the j date of the- beginning of the war. M New German Army Plan is Being Advocated Throughout Germany to Draft 500,000 Men Yearly, and Reestablish Old Military Principles With the American Army of Oc cupation, May 17 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?German mili tary experts are publishing in Ger man periodicals various suggestions for the organization of a new Ger man army. One plan is proposed by Major Gen eral von Francois who commanded a corps in the Argonne opposite the United States army last fall. His ideas' have been republished in numerous German newspapers and magazines. He proposes that 500,000 men should be drafted to service under arms each year, one-half on April 1 i and the other 250,00''? on October I. Every man capable of performing (manual labor would be subject to mil-] [itary duty for one year beginning at j his twentieth year. I The 500,000 annually drafted would [be used to defend the country from (attack and preserve order in the in I terior, he urges. All others capable of working would be drafted also on April 1 or October 3, but after re ceiving a short course in military training, they would be placed in la bor battalions to be employed in so cialized branches of industry which have been taken over by the govern ment. These men would thus be en gaged in productive activity which would pay for their own support and contribute to that of the armed forces. General von Francois advocates an army drawn up along the lines of the old model, saying: "In the training and development of men democratic innovations should be avoided, and the old military prin ciples should be maintained. One object should be the establishment of the highest possible standard of dis cipline. The authority of the officers as a class must lie restored. The means of enforcing discipline must also be reestablished by reviving the military regulations, the court martial j system, and the obligation to salute. The civilian penal code is not well adapted for use in the army. Ac tivities of the general staff and of the war department must not be curtail | ed." \ j The general said theV Germans in Jsist upon being permitted to organize i their new military establishment in j the foregoing manner. If necessary, j he said, they should refuse to sign j the peace treaty rather than relin | quish any part of this program. - I Cleaning Up Vice j Tampa Women Organize Purity League i - Tampa, Fla., June 12.?Five hun dred Tampa women have formed the Woman's Protective League and say they propose to clean up organized vice by direct action?that they pro j pose to undermine its support. ! By the establishment of a sort of I moral credit bureau this organization j proposes to furnish any woman a con j fidential report on the "double life? j of her husband if she wants one. The j inquirer does not even need to give J her own name in making the inquiry ; jshe may designate a postoffice box ad j dress or any place where an agent I of the league may deposit the report j on its investigation. ? Organizers of the bureau say that j seventy of their number have pledged, i to do the investigating work in the J open while the remainder will work in secret. j "So many have such old reprobates ? for husbands," said one of the chiefs, j "they can't work openly because j these husbands won't let them. ! Therefore they will work secretly." I The theory of the league is that if a man has not been walking the straight and narrow path one of the live j hundred will know about 4t?or at j least can find out. j - Now Zealand Aboriginees Return From the War, I Auckland, New Zealand, May 2 j (Correspondence of The Associated .Press)?Th battalion of Maoris, Xew j Zealand aborigines, who fought in the j Gallipoli campaign and afterward in (France, has been welcomed home with a great feast, hakas (war dances) [and tangi. or lament for those who fell in battle. i The Acting Prime Minister. Sir j James Allen, told them, "You Maoris hold a proud position. You have not .one conscript." From the time of its i formation early in the war th.* Maori j battalion was maintained at a strength [of 1,200 entirely by voluntary enlist ment. t Great quantities of mutton. beef, pork, and other food had been baked in earthern ovens for the occasion. About 2.H00 Maoris in all shared in this feast. There were sev eral ; oi 1 (a native delicacy) dances. ! The tangi was a scene of much j I emotion. The soldiers sal by tribes encircled by sorrowing natives. Led I by their chiefs, the mourners grieved] with low. wailing chants for those ofj their race who will never turn. AM j the treasured heirlooms of the tribes' had been brought from their sal*.'-; keeping for the welcome. There were jade ornaments, mats, ehiiri- j tains' head-dresses and beautiful] kilts. The chiefs of the various tribes delivered speeches of welcome couch ed in florid Smith Sea language, after which there was a haka by the fa-] mous Arawa tribe and the speech of welcome by sir James Allen. Argentina and Mexico. Mexico City, .May l;? (Correspond-j ence) ? Encouragement and enlarge ment of commercial relations be-j tween Argentina and Mexico was the. object of recent conferences between-J Luis Cabrera. Secretary of the Treasury, and Ricardo C. Acuna. Ar-1 gen tine consul to Mexico. The ques tion of securing ships is reported to; have been the most important subject disc used. J Let America Do It. Attitude of Rich Armenians Re-! specting Relief Work in Their Country London, May 10 (Correspondence of the Associated Press)?Relief work in i Trans-Caucasus where there has beenI untold suffering- should be taken from hands of the Americans as far as pos sible and wealthy Armenians, of whom Lhere are many, should he compelled to bear some of the financial burden in the opinion of an American observ er who has submitted a report to of ficial quarters in London. lie does not attempt to belittle what the Armenians have suffered and will suffer, but sug gests that Armenians who are in a position to help their countrymen have depended too much on relief from America. In Tiflis and in the Ervan republic Armenians themselves would prefer that Americans handle all relief work but. the report adds, that is im ; possible with the number of Ameri cans in that section of the world. The relief committee has been compelled to employ many Armenians. The report indicates that the Ar menians and Georgians of influence, the Armenians tin particular, are more I interested in entrenching themselves i before the final peace decisions than j in looking after' relief. An instance is given of this in respect to railway equipment. Georgians paint out Ar menian lettering on Armenian cars and appropriate them and the Ar menians retaliate in the same man ner. As far as actual ownership is j concerned neither had a right to the j cars in the first place as they belong j ed to Russian railroads. -1-. j Anarchy in Hungary I Soviet Rule in Buda Pest War a i Carnival of Crime I Budapest, May 7 (Correspondence of the Associated Press)?What may be the last days of the "Red" Soviet i republic here are fraught with such ! terror, hunger, mental misery, up rooting of family* ties, hearbreakins partings, flights* arrests and legal loot ings that the majority of Hungarians are praying that such days may never come again. They live like people caught in a burning house with the firemen squirting benzine on the only i escape ladder One way out may possibly be pro ! vided by the Czech and Rumanian ar ! mies, who, though national enemies of j the Magyars, are now hailed as sa i viors. The atmosphere is 'charged with fears and alarms worse than those felt on any battle front. A con tagious fear like that which prevails when an army is in rout is spreading even to foreigners whcse persons are comparatively safe from arrest owing to the wishes of Bela Kun, the Com munist leader, and other ministers to save themselves from the gallows ! when the grand collapse comes, j When fathers and sons flee the j countr yto ev:.de arrest or to join the j counter-revolutionists, their wives l and mothers whisper at the parting: j "Let us hope we may meet in happier ! times." j When the correspondent'"of The I Associated Press has had occasion to explain his nationality the listene*, whether Red Guard, peasant, or ci vilian, has remarked with envy: "What a fortunate m.. n you are, to be an American." j He would invariably ask whether it I would be possible to reach America I and whether foreigners, former ene I mies. would be permitted to land on j her sho. es. Peasants, who refuse to I furnish food to Budapest or other j cities because they are hostile to com j munism and want shoes and clothes j more than paper money, of which they ; have plenty, gladly enough sold meals land supplies to the correspondent on j the strength.of hi* American nation ality. , i The city of Budapest which a few j weeks ago had a plentiful supply of : eggs?people almost lived upon them land potatoes?is now without eggs, because of the obstinacy of the peas I ants. A great many of the stores j have been closed for lack of goods to sell, or because they have been requi I sitioned by the Soviet, j The most saddening impression the j visitor receives is that of a country in ?dissolution, being stripped day by day. I mercilessly and inexorably, of its ? riches, to benefit nobody. The rela Itively pleasant, orderly and bountiful ilife that existed in Hungary a few ? months ago. when its neighbor Aus I tria was starving, is gone for many I years to come. ; "Jf anyone wants to ho conviced of I the futility of re-making the world in ja single day with pet theories, he } should now visit Hungary," was the [remark made by an American naval I officer. It is estimated that half a [million of Hungary's best citizens have j been obliged to flee from their homes land wander across the fronters to I strange lands. I There are many stories of their at tempts to save their lives and property j some of which are like Arabian Nights I tales. It is calculated that some 3. ! 00').000.000 Kronen worth of bonds, gold coin, jewelry, plate, paintings anil works of art have boon saved from the clutches of the Red Guards and smuggled across the frontiers by blockade runners, afoot, on bicycles, j autos or peasant earts. Within a few weeks, there has grown up a system by which large percentages of the. value of such property, often amount-| ing to ".0 per cent have been given fori its safe transportation to Vienna or| Agram. Xot a few communists took j ml vantage of such methods of getting; values out of the country. Many j jewelers, however, stored their stocks) under sidewalks or hid them in holes: due: in their cellars in preference to j trusting them to blockade runners, j Washington. June 10.?The first of j the hearings on the proposed protec tive tariff legislation was held today,' by the house ways and means com-; mit tee. with representatives of sever al industries that sprang up during j the war seeking to present their ar-1 guments. j Injustice To Missionary American in Korea Not Given Fair Trial by Japanese Tokio, May 5 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?The Rev. E. M. Mowry of Mansfield, O., an Amer ican Presbyterian Missionary, had no j lawyer to represent him in the court of Pye:ig Yang when he was convicted I recently and sentenced to six months j penal servitude for sheltering Korean I agitators in the independence move j ment. The trial was held after one j day's notice to the accused and neith ! er he nor his friends who were in 'court watching but taking no part in (the case were notified until after the j Jrial that they could have asked for land obtained a postponement, I These facts are stated by the Rev. Samuel A. Moffett who has charge of the American Presbyterian missionary ?t Pyeng Yang. The Rev. Mr. Moffett has called them to the attention of the Japanese authorities at Pyeng Yang and forwarded a statement of ? the facts to the American consul at i Seoul. j The Rev. Mr. Moffett attended the j hearing in the case of the Rev. Mr. ! Mowry before the district court and made a detailed report of the pro ceedings in which he stated that he -called upon Mr. Mowry, then under arrest, on April 10. A . detective in formed Mr.. Moffett that Mr. Mowry probably would be sent to Seoul but on April 14, both Mr. Mowry and Mr. Moffett were notified that Mr. Mowry would be put on trial the next morn ing. The Rev. Mr. Moffett's transcrip tion of the evidence shows that the Rev. Mr. Mowry told the court that he was a teacher of the Union Chris tian College and principal of both the Boys' and Girls Grammar schools at Pyeng Yang and that he had taught there since 1911. He said that he had admitted to his house five Korean stu dents for two days in March after the beginning of the independence move ment. Or.e of these had been his sec ! rotary for six years and was so engag ' ed until he was arrested by the Jap : anese. The missionary had given him mon ey for school expenses for five years. ' The others were pupils he had taught. The Rev. Mr. Mowry told the court J -that he had heard that the Christians ' and students had held an independ : ence meeting at the Boys' Grammar i school, that he had nothing whatever ' j to do with it but heard they had j read a declaration of independence, j raised the Korean flag and marched down the streets shouting "mansei" ! (long live Korea). The missionary declared that he had heard that the police were going to arrest the stur dents but that when the boys came to his home they did not tell him why i they wanted to stay there, did not : say they were in hiding from the ? Japanese and that he told them that ; he could not protect them if they were doincr anything they should not do. i "Would you not think that in com i ing to the house of a Westerner there was something up?" asked the judge through an interpreter. . "Koreans often slept at my house i j and I could only guess at it in view of the times," replied the Rev. Mr. ? Mowry. "Did you know that they secretly ? distributed announcements and that i the police were hunting for them?" , asked the judge. ?'I knew the police were trying to arrest such men," said Mr. Mowryr ? "but did not know these boys had done it. . I guessed that the police : were hunting for them. They said . nothing to me about fleeing from the police. I did not hide them as fugi i tives. I made no effort to conceal i them and I told them I could not do ?jso. "If I had been informed that the ; j police were trying to arrest them and ihad concealed them it would have ; i been wrong; but I did not know that ; j they were criminals. If anyone had come to arrest them and I had con cealed them would have been wrong. Concerning the independence move ment, I had nothing whatever to do with it and kept free from it and, as fan American, told them that I could j have nothing to do with it and could give no advice." "The procurator in demanding a sentence of six months imprisonment and addressing Mr .Mowry before the eourt said, "on one side your taking employes and students who had no place to flee to was in a sense a man ifestation of human kindness." The wicker basket was then put on Mr. Mowry's head and face and he 'was led off by a policeman. The Rev. ;Mr. Moffett visited the office of anoth ; er procurator who admitted to him that Mr. Mowry was not notified of his trial until the day before it was held and that he was not asked wheth er ne wanted a lawyer. Mr. Moffett complained that the trial was brought off so suddenly that Mr. Mowry's friends h-d no chance to engage a ; lawyer. ; I The procurator told him they could ! have obtained a postponement and Mr. Moffett replied that "we were given no such information," that he had no opportunity to confer with Mr. Mowry about engaging a lawyer and I that in the interview he had held with i Mr. Mowry in jail he was strictly for I bidden to talk with the prisoner ! about his case. The procurator told Mr .Moffett that they had a right to appeal but the friend of the convict missionary point ed out that if the appeal were not successful, the Rev. Mr. Mowry would have suffered by reason of the fact that he did not have a lawyer on his first trial. Shimonoseki. Japan. May 2.?A Korean peer. Viscount Soheishun. who has just arrived from Fusan, Korea, mid a .Tananese journalist that during the recent demonstrations in Korea he received about fifteen threatening let ters a day because he issued a warn ing to Koreans that none of the Wes tern powers would interfere to sun port the demonstrations against Ja pan and that the agitation would have a very bad effect upon future relations between the Japanese and Koreans. The Viscount added that anti-Japa nese feeling was strong throughout^