he iloutit ^ifa fSetws.
fOL. XLl
MOUJfl AIRY, JfORTR CAROLINA, THURSDAY. AUGUST Iff, 19IS.
MO. JS
PUBLIC WELCOME
TO RETURNING 9HIP.
Strang* Adventure of Spanish
VmmI With Carman Corsair
b Told by th* Crow.
BUbo, Hpetit—Some at tha «hipa
■ hat cuota hoiaa to Hpain in lk*« 'lay*
hava utranra tlarlM to tall of (hair
advanturaa in ronnertion with liar'
man •ubmarinaa and raldera. Karaiy,
If avar, haa tha return of a Bilbao vea
«el Iwan morked l>y awh general jubi
lation aa waa mpraaaad on a rerant
iircaaion whan tha long-awaited
xtaamiihip I got* Mr mil rat urn ad to
port, ♦hen It became known that
tha vaaaal belonging to tha Campania
Motay Axnar would ataam into harbor
bat waa n mght and nina in tha evening
tha populace made praparatuma for
tha oacaaton. An immanu crowd
gathered on th« i|uay, hundred* of
rockets wara ft rail and halla wara aat
linking averywhera. She had bean
in tha hand* of rha lirrman rornair
Wolf, and had had a bad time. Thara
wara many big ilanta in tha hull where
the Wolf hud l>aen hanging up
ugainat har fit tha tima aha took her
roal away from har whan they were
on lha hiirh c.eaa.
The story told by the craw ia aa
follow*: "We net nail from Valencia
on Sept. 23, bound for India. We put
in at La* Palmaa and I.orenxo
Marques. Un Nov. 10, when We were
proceeding to Columiw to unload
Home coal there that wax meant for
the EngiUh quad r on s, the Wolf sud
denly put in an appearance, and a
hydroplane, which wax *ent out from,
her, came flyifig toward our nhip.
Then there came on hoard two Ger
mun oflicer?i wh> examiner! the rhip'*
paper* and depoaited eight bomb* on
hoard, declaring that they were tak
ing charge of the ship and giving or
der* to the captain that it muat coma
along and follow the Wolf, Eventu
ally on the lAth we arrived at the
Pamyoa Isle* in the Indian Ocean,
which inland. 500 mile* from the
Mauritiaa, are daaerte.l. At tbia stage
we were ordered to transport to the
Wolf part of the coal and prjv'.iloni
wo Lad on board, and tlia commander
offered to a«t the crew at liberty—on
the leaert inlanda! Afterward they
painted the hull of our *hip a dark
blue, and put on board 21 English
priaonera and Ave other* of varioua
nationalise* makirg a total on board
of <55 person*. Food was running
*lioi t. On the 25th we left that place,
our »Lip low being c< remand <«i by
G-rfr.an aflctrs. We -taw that we
were making a sou h. i n track and
we doubled the Cape oi Good Hope,
than coming up by the American
coa«t wha.-a aometime* the Wolf was
lout to view.
"So far the attitude of the German*
toward u* had been friendly, but sud
denly H changed to one of severity.
We duly arrive'', at Trinidad wieie we
had to transport morec oal. Afcer
ward we sailed toward the north, and
on Jan. 15 we righted at me Eojlith
warsnips, a circumstance which pro
duced a great panic on board t ie
Wolf. However, the British vessels
diJ not *ee us. or at any rate .'id not
atop ua. The Germans, having in m«id
the possibility of capture, took the
precaution of destroy ill'* all docu
ments. On the 27th and 2Hth we ran
into awful weatber in which we nearly
foundered. After that t' e Wolf went
ahead of us, ami we soon lost sight of
her altogether. After very difficult
navigation in equatorial writes we
got up into- the North Sea and passed
throught some severe temperatures in
the Arctic circle. We Vent through
the boreal region* to the latitude of
Iceland where the fronts did ua some
injury. Then we made a track V>b
the south along the Norwegian coaat,
and went ashore on the Danish coast.
Two days later we hoixted tl.e Spanish
flag When th« Germans abandoned
the Igotx Mcndi they set li.fht to some
bombs, which the captain, at the risk
of hi* life, threw into the sea."
The ship was long ago given up for
lost. Evidently if it had not run
aground in the Skager Rack it would
have gone to Germany. The Danish
Government interned the Germans
who were on board and set the crew
free. In due course the ship's in
juries were repaired and «he *«t sail
for Bilbao where she arrived with tlt<
same crew as that w ith which she had
net sail on thia moot adventurous
veyege nine month before, not n
L. man hnving been lost.
No More Sheepskin Rugs.
. London, July 28.—The manufarturt
of »he*p«kin rtift has bnn prohibit
«d by the Brit'nb army council. Thi
action has been taken b«< a use of th«
requirement* of wool and leather foi
military purpo»c».
QUICK ACTION CERTAIN
IN NEW DRAFT LAW.
CoagraM Will Yield to Urgmt
Demand for HmU.
•
Washington, Aug. 11.— (ieneral
Mirrh'i week-end atatemen: to Iht
|)rw> U rxpvrtMl Kara to ip««rl ('on
gre«* in its consideration of tha Man
power bill. Tha interview of tha
rhief of attlf, wherein ha declared
that tha allied successes should moan
redoubled American rffnrt inilaui if
talk of an early aniltnK of tha war, ia
no Ntrairht from tha -boulder that
mrmlwrii of Congress cannot effort to
delay viittitmrnt of the new draft
lawn.
Tha 18 to 45 legislation ban a clear
track phead of it. Mr-. effected by
the proposed rhango* may a* well
make their plans for regis!ration
within the next 30 to <10 day*. Tile
newHpaper headline* tellini; of <*on
tinued advancer. by the Amuilran,
HritiKh and French troop* hava arous
ed the enthusiasm of legislator* and
the national capital generally. It is
the irreateKt argument in favor of
what the administration anks for the
mobilization of the nation's man pow
er.
Confrroiw for instance, cannot pause
in face of this statement from Gen
eral Mnrrh, who speaks as one who
ha* seen service on the battlefield i of
F<nrii 6 e»«* Mill «t». ul u desk ia Wash
ington:
"This i* the time for greatest ef
fort; keep the enqpy running. It is
no time now to talk about the war be
ing over. It in the time to hit the
enemy hard."
MiMi Who llavr Sfrn.
About the lime I he manpower hiil ia
reported to a reassembled Congreaa a
doxen Dirmlnn of the hi tun* will re
turn here from the western front.
They stood on a hill overlooking the
battle of the Marne and aaw the nlag
niticant allied offensive. A shell or no
burst in their vicinity, giving them a
touch of real warfare.
Theiie men will come back iabuad
with the American fighting spirit. If
they ri«« to their opportunity, they
may do much to electrify Congress
and expedite consideration in that
body for a manpower bill.
At the psychological moment also a
doxen members of the house commit
tee or naval affairs will tcturn t? the
capital bringing with them thrilling
storiea of what the American navy is
accomplishing in foreign waters. Al
together more than a score of mem
bers of the lower house will get back
here just in time to bring effective
messages from American fighters
"over there."
In the face of their first hand
stories of America's real participa
tion in the wcr, and of the statement
of the secretary of war. General
March and General Crowtler, Con gran*
will quickly yield to the demand for
haste with the nation'* greatest man
power bill and the new draft law is
as wood as passed today.
Unquestionably there i:- still opposi
| tion in both belies to lowering the
drafi age to an 18 year minimum.
This oppoiut.en, however, is not ex
pected to pievail when met by mili
' tary opinion tml the desire of the ad
ministration to strike its heaviest
blows while the enemy is on the run.
The Hoy in School.
There are still several points to lie
worked out by the war department
in its program fcr mobilization of the
man-power of one of the questions yet
to be settled is the statute of an 18
or 19 year oft lad who is attending
school or college. Will he be per
mitted to pursue his studies until
'needed fir active service, or will the
(rovernmerit want to put him in mili
■ tary training—which latter course
1 would amount practically to univer
sal training?
Indications are that for the present
the school boy will proceed with his
studies. If he it. in college furnishing
military instruction, so much the bet
ter. The President in the final ana
lysis will say when the boy ia to cease
to be a student and become a fighter.
<>n this point Secretary Baker, re
ferring to hi* testimony before the
senate committee, says:
■ in* committee wa< especially in
i terented 011 the effuft upon college
And also whether the youitg men from
18 up would be drawn induicriminate
i ly in cfa*» one or made into a deferr
ed clans by age. and drawn later, giv
I in* them some added month* to come
i to maturity. No fixed policy ha« been
determined upon by the department,
i but the purpose was to allow the
I President to defer in claim on* the
| younpest men."
A» to Married Men.
Another farren chine problem yet
! to he folved li the problem of the mar
rwd mtn. SwrtUrjr Baker intimatea
that tha married itata—unlaaa tha
wifa haa independent income that aup
porta her—may ha miuia autoiMti
rally a rauaa fur itafarrod rlaaaiAca
tlon and without tha lUIni of a claim
for exemption by tha ragUtarad man.
Some man entitled to Hamptlm on
tha ground of dependency, tha aacra
tary aaya, may haaltata to «i> w r»
rortl a» filing a rlaim for ilafarrMl
rlaaniflcation.
"Whut I want ta *et into tha ragu
lattonfl, if poaatlila," aaya Secretary
Baker, "la to hava tham ao that tha
government doer tha aelectlng, rather
than putting it up to tha Individual.
That la, whara there la a man that
ouicht to ha exempted from tha point
of view of the national intereita, I do
not want ta put that man in the poai
tinn o£J»ving to claim exemption, but
hava him only anawar mme riuaationi
of fact and let the rulea take rara of
the rlamlflcation.
I am inclined to think that the mar
riage relation* will in itaalf consti
tute deferred claraiflcatlon."
Bombing Dtric* Make*
Airplane More Uaeful.
With the Amcrican Army '.n Eng
land. July 21.— Almont every airplane
uacd by the alliea noon will carry
bomb*. Expert* in aerial warfare
lire cmvirrci' that the general HRrlen
cy if the corp* will be increased if a
bombing drvire in added to every
plane xent out, even though it >i«
of the type once intended only for re
mpiiunrt work, ami American* now
training lr> England are being as
carefully drilled in bombing an in
handling a machine gun.
LcMona learned during the reaia
tance offered in the recent offenaive
have nerved to inrre.tne the already
high regard of both British and Amer
ican officer* in the air acrvice for the
lowflying bomti-carrying craft, and,
ever tile cam pa ami country aide where
"fcvtatora are being trained, planea are
in evidence almost every hour, dipp
ing down from high in iha air and
skimming tree top* and houaea. It ia
the newer the nearby country, barely
miaaing leaaon they are learning, and
obaervera back from the front where
the allied planea did such remarkable
work not only in acouting and dia
tricting the enemy but actually in
breaking up formation* and at pointa
checking the onward movement have
urged concentration on that form of
training.
Hritish trainer*, detailed to Amir
ican aviation ramps, have b««n liber
al in their praise of the new flier*
from oversea", their only criticism be
in* that the Americana are "a bit too
keen." Their tendency ha* been to
go in for flying stunts rather too ear
ly in training but even thia the train
en have admitted ia a valuable fault
although one not to he encouraged.
It has been pointed out to the
Americans that team work as well a.s
individuff effliciency is a prime re
quisite and the American* have stead
ied themselves to the routine their
trainers have found makes for gener
al advancement if not for individual
applause. Fancy flying, the acroba
tic work that once found favor and
drew heavy gate receipts at aerial
exhibition* in the United States, still
is taught hut the learning of that Tnrm
of flying also has come to be regard
ed merely as routine and wholly inci
dent to tha steady, low flying; desir
able for attacking camps and troops
in formation.
Accidents have occurred in the
camps where the Americans are being
trained and a few men have been
killed but the records show that the
pi^entage ia far le.»s in England
than here are inclines to attribute the
difference more to luck than to any
thing else, although there also is
pointed out the probability that the
average airplane used in England is
a better made machine than the aver
age that has bee:i used in the United
, States. .
The bombing devices being at
ntae'ied to virtually every plane in not
, thf contrivance that was used in the
early day* of the war. That used then
»■«« little nn>re than a ra4(chani«m that
' released the projectile, allowing it to
fall at a point approximately near the
• target. The device now being used
is one with which the oprator may
I with much practice become almnrt as
! proficient in marksmanship as at. ar
tilleryman is with hit gun. Almost
every light plane will carry l*>mb»
of at least 25 pounds and from the
heavier types there will he harled
the hugs containers of high i.'xplosive
not materially different from those
used by the Germans in some of the
more recent raids.
MANY SHIPS RAISED
BY SALVAGE CORPS.
Description of 3—11 of lb* M»
thoda of Railing VmmIi and
Repairing Hole* Mada by
Torpodo or by Collision.
London, Kngland- The (ml, cam
ouflaged ahipx. An* lamplee of ru
hiat art In blue md greens and whites
and Marks, to h« Keen in the BritUh
roadstead, look Milid enough, but
nearly every one haa rona in for re
pair* or la waiting to go int-> dry
<loek. They ara all lama ducks on a
quiet pond but thay will ha at sea
aifu n in due course, ami better, at
any rata, to ba a marina "walking
case" than to ba at tha bottom of the
aea. For at tha liottom of tha naa
they would certainly lie, hut for tha
ingenuity, determination, resourre
and unremitting toil, hour aftar hour,
lay aftar dny, iranarally in circum
stances of a great discomfort. unglori
fled by any Kipling af Noyaa, of tha
Admiralty Srlvaging Department.
Take, for exampia, that ma*a of
badly run color alongside tha quay
than. It la unquestionably a ship.
Solomon in all his glory waa not
arrayed like this. Impoaaihla to say
whrre ship nnda and quay begins,
and whether t!ie confusion of crane*,
derrick*, chains, ia on the (hip or off
it. It ia an intoraating study in blue,
white, black nnd cufurtion. Staring at
it ia no good. It only wavera about
and mixes itself up with tha land
scape. You hcvo to gaze innocently
the other way—till it ian't looking, ax
it were—and then turn xharpely on It.
You mo then that there are two ships
one behind the other, ami both, by all
the lawx of German calculation aiiould
be in Davy Jones' locker. Rut they
are not. One, a Stands! d Oil tanker,
one nf the biggest tank steamers in
the world, wax rnmme<(, on Are for
dayx, and sunk, nnd all that not so
vary" long ago, but there she ia, on
the point of returning to America.
Her funnela ara out of the xtraight
and their corrugation ii a study. Her
deck a have bean waved by the heat
and riae and fall from stem to a tern.
Forward a max* of old iron liea
twisted In fantastical a ha pea. hut she
ia seaworthy after repairs, and ia re
turning not ax a curioaity, nor even
ax an example of what the Britixh
salvage experts can do, but as a cargo
carrying ship, a real and serviceable
unit in the fight against Prussian
militarism.
The meaning of British salvage
work to the Allien i( told in this story
of the tanker, 51« feet by (Wt feet by
!W feet, which has been sunk and ia
afloat strain. In the dark of an ekrly
morning she collided with a United
States standard ship, carrying a gen
eral cargo including crude oil in her
fal>e bottom. The tanker, which was
carrying benzine, naptha, paraffin and
petrol, was struck in her benzine tank
and in a few minute* was burning
furiously. Hardly had the cra'h oc
curred before a British destroyer had
hurled herself alongside the tanker,
the crew and officers of the latter had
jumped aboard her without further
discussion and the destroyer was off
i like the wind. And well she might,
j for soon a quarter of a mile of sea
was ablaze with burning oil. On the
tanker, only one or two casualties oc
curred; on the standard ship muny
men were lost. As she struck the
tanker a great tongue of flame leaped
! from the letter's side and fell like a
: hand upon the other's deck, from end
{to end. firing the cargo in the hold.
For -ome time these two vessels
j blazed in the burning sea, but when
| the rescue tugs came on the scene, a
! naval commander with three of the
crew of a tug bravely hoarded the
; blazing wreck of the standard ship.
The magazine hud already exploded
and so intense was the heat that it
was only possible to hoard on the
quarter. They made fast the hawsers
from two tugs and for flve hours they
1 towed her toward land. Then a mine
exploded and broke one hawser, and
; next, two mine* exploded under her
| quarter, tearing another hole in her
in addition to the damage done by the
: collision. She was still afloat and
, burning fiercely that evening and it
' was decided to sink her so as to put
out the flames. Thirty to forty shots
were fired at her water line avoiding
the engine room, and the vessel began
! to sink and grounded at the base of
certain of thu-se chalk cliffs whiFh run
along the «outhea«t and south roasts
!of England. Similarly the tank had
been towed in «-lsewhere and sunk,
being also, alight during the tow.
Thi* incident represents the first
phase* of the work of the salvage
ship*, the rush to the reacue of a tor
pedoed, mined, or. in thi* case, burn
ing ship, the towing Her near to the
land and the beaching. It ta rarely
nwMMry, of rouraa, to airk inula
by rinlln. Than romaa th* aalrlnf of
tha wrack. Many things Have Ian
itamliriud la this war, but thara ia
no atatulard mathod of aalving a
wrark. Kvary pr oh lain haa to ha ron
aidarad naparataly, In tha light of »urh
facta aa tha rhararfSr of tha ikip, ita
poaitlon, cargo and so forth. Mnma
timaa tha problem i* foui.d unaolvacla
in no far aa tha axpanditura naraaaary
to rataa tha vasaal would ha fraalrr
than har value to tha nation wh-n
nalvad. When, hnwavar, a vaaaal haa
liaachad harnrlf, or baan liaarhad hy
tha iuffa, aha ia fairly rartain to ha
aalvad. I
Th. general procedure i» t"T ,hr
salvage «hip. to l»y them»elv«.« along
...I* <>r over the »mmL
Diver* .r. »«* down to lnv«*ig.U
th. affa.r. and they «»>" "rur"'
motnurennnU of th. M»' «' lh«
mad. by th. torp*lo «r mirwr Any
,mall hoi. th.y plug w.th wood. Sub
merribU pump. •" ,lun«
ov.rbonrd and placed by th. d.v.r* .n
po.ttion in th. «n.nken ve.n.1, or
pumping operation. m.y |» r*TT™
nut by th. bigg«r pump, on th. »•
v,» ship*. Th. pumping enable. th.
diver* to get to work on th. cargo,
faat.mng rop.. or <-h.m. roun«l ..
much of it a* po..ihl. *o that >' «•»
h. swung up to th. .urfnr.. Thm
C,V«» the *unken *hip a crtnin buoy
ancy. and it become* peemble, per
hup», ft)- tug. to bMul .t a foot or two
•t a tima. mto a WUr po-ition h.gh
er up th. b*ch. A »un U r^hed
when it Wome* po»Mbl. to g*
pump, to work on th. whole «hip. »nd
poaeibly to Ihml her. To h
re*ult in th. ca»e of • torpedoed
mined v—1. th. big hole
patched. yw. patched. with a atand
ard" patch. mad. of 12-inch-thWk
W»«d«n beam*. The patch » gen-r
ally in three pi«*«. »nrf "n "n" "h,p
for example, which th. «r,Ur »—■
the'patch weighed about 20 ton*.
The middle part weighed about 10
ton*, the low.r part. (oHowiing th.
curve of th. »hip. weighed about «i*
ton., and th. -pper p.rt "v. ton..
Thm patch ia .lung over th. ..de and
bolted in pocition partly or wholly,
by th. dW.ru. It ia .umciently larger
than the hole to .-cure it Arm -up
port from the "hip. *tde. and th.
enormou. pre**ure of th. Ma. thous
and. of pound* to th. square inch
which would buret th. patch lUelf
for a certainty, i. taken up by an
elaborate network of wooden beam*
12 inche. by 12 inche* •»PP».rt,n« th*
patch on th. inaid. of th. J».p- The*,
standard patch.* are u.ed repeatedly,
and on th. day of th. wnUr*. ww*.
one van on it. way down from N. »
ra*tle. There i* hardly any lunit to
the .i«e of hole that can be t«mP»™^
ily MM by • .Undard p.Uh—o* «»
tanker the hole of the "tarboar.l .ide
forward wa» 21 feet « inche* wide and
41 feet 6 inches long, while on an
other ship it was 48 feet long a»d 26
feet wide.
When a vew.1 ha* had the hole*
in her plu**e<* or P*u*k«d' P* 4
cargo removed and the enter pump
ed out of her. she proceed - under her
own "team very Ukely-tO the n*ar
•ft port where *he can W pe:manen -
I, repaired. In the presen.
condition of the Brl*>h porta and <Jry
dock, she may have to go ~m*
tar.ee. and may have a'ventures >
the way. One »h.p was torpe-Wd.
but not *unk. and made
,tandan patch. She proce* ^ »"
way anu was torpedoed again, the
hole made evaclly opporiU
„rd patch Tki* time
ed patches! up again, taken into
nearest dry dock and P^anen-ly re
poired. Thi* *ort of thing ha- ha.
pened more than once.
War Finance Corporation
Great Aid to the Farmer*
In compliance with telegraphed in
struction* from Secretary McAdoo.
the War Finance Corporation ha*
wired Federal rewrve hunk* at Dal
ian, Kansas City, and Minneapolis to
notaify hank* and trust companies in
their respective district*, nonmember*
as well as member* of the Federal
Reserve System, of the willingness of
the corporation to make advances to
those financial institutions which had
made loins to farmers and cattlemen.
Droughts in these districts are
creating a serious condtion for the
farmers and this action is taken to
relieve the situation.
Secretary McAdoo stated that no in
dustry was more vital to the war than
raising wheat, corn, live stock, and
other food products, and that the
| hanks should make loans on the notes
of farmers, sine* they are engaged in
an industry not only necessary and
contributory to the winning of the
war but vital to it.
CuualtiM tha Paa»
W«*k art Nearly 8,000
WulilnftMi, Aug. !!.— rjuualtlM
in the army Mi) marina rorpt o*er
muii, made pubtar today, •wrtpiol
W2, bringing the total for the wwk
to WH anil the total «ince American
troop* laiwlri* in K ranee u. 20,112.
Moat of tha ra»ualtie« for th» week
repre«ented loanaa in the fighting on
tha Marne Artie front.
(>f tha total raaualtic announced
today, 346 ware xoMier* and NT mar
ina«, rti ila of tha wwk'« total, which
included todrli»t», (.MM vara sol
dier* and 718 marinaH. Tha week'*
aggregate of 4.918 rompared wi.h
1,430 tha we> k ">efore.
The 20,112 caiualtien, total deallia,
inrlu !i' g 291 loit at *«*• men killed
in action, dead of wo'im'n, dixeaae at
riden|* and other rauita i numbered
7,71*-—! oldier*, 8,883; marine/, 831.
Tha wounded aggregated 10,874—#ei
diara, 9.048; marine*. 1£2A. and the
miming, including |>ri*or,er<, 1,522—
nold'era, 1,431. marinaii 91.
Of the week'.i ii-.rrea*a. daatha from
all cauaea aggregated 1,572, a« ram
pared with AK1 the week before; the
wounded numt>er 2,620 rompared with
732 the previou* week and the miaa
ing and priaoner* 734, rompared with
74 the week before.
While the proportion of the death*
for the week at! compared with the
wounded wa* large attention wi»« call
ed today to the fact that the casual -
tiea being reported now by General
Pnrr.hing represent an accumulation
a* the result of the fighting which ba
ir^n July 15 and it"T» not to be n«:-um
ed that the ratio of killed and wound
ed will he maintained when the Anal
toll o' the Marne-Ai>tie victory i*
complete.
Crop* of Foodatuffa
Expected to b« Large.
Washington Aug. S—Bumper crop*
of almost every foodstuff grown on
the farm were idicated again to<lay in
the department of agricultures month
ly crop report, despite a falling off in
the prospective production in practi
cally all cropa during July due to con
ditiona, principally hot and dry wea
ther.
In round figures the loss to farmers
of Utis prospective production ia rou
ghly estimated at almost three-quar
ters of a billion dollars—more than
$460,000,000 in the principal grain and
food crop* and 1250.000,000 in cotton.
Practically every crop I* growing
on larger acreage this year than that
planted last year, idicating that the
farmers have been making strenuous
efforts to meet the heavy needs of th«
■Hies and the increasing demands at
home for foodMtiffs.
Corn, the country's greatest crop,
was the heavieit sufferer from the dry
and hot weatUw of July, losing 171,
000,000 bushels in prospective pro
duction since the flrwt production fore
cast was made from June conditions.
The monetary loss to corn growers is
around $275,000,000. Krom most eve
ry part of the country there came re
ports that corn this year is from two
to three weeks ahead of its average
condition, indicating that practically
all of the crop will mature before the
dates set for first frost. That condi
tion should assure minimum injury
from frost damage.
Wheat, the harvesting of which ia
nearing completion, suffered a loss of
13,000,0M bushels, yet the crop will
be much larger than last year's and
also bigger than the average of the
five years before that.
Drought and heat made inrwl> on
potatoes. causing a loss of 15,000,000
in the prospective crop, and sweet po
tatoes production loss was estimated
at half that quanity. A notably excep
tion in the forecasts »a» that of to
bacco which showed an increa-e of
41,000,000 pounds in the prospective
crop over the forecast made in July.
German Crown Prince is
Blamed for Foe'* Disaster
London. An*." 10." Rruter's limited
correspondent with the British army
in Frsnre, sends the following dispat
rh concerning the German crown
prince:
"According to the ttatementx of
prucntrt, the German crown prince
appear* to he the most unpopular
leader in the German army. He i«
accused by them of being directly
respr;v ihle for the Mame di«it«r.
They say that the opinion ia widely
espresaed by German soldier* that
the crown prince's amateurish Inter
ference with the flan* of their ex
perienced r«ne rala was the startiac
points for the present crushing mis
fortunes oi the German armies."