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' -if- WEATHER. I Ncrth and South Garo-; ina: Generally: fafr; tonight and Wednes--day", warrrer tonight on coast. .-" TODAY'S HEWS , TODAY FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE VOL. XXIV. No. 104:. I WILMI APRIL 23, 1918: PRICE FIVE CENTS. IH 'REPARE ml STATES TO LAUNCH A NEW m jili- ON HAM t 'M ! ' . - - ' ' -- -- " -- ' ? - v. : ... . . . .- . ! m ,m m - i m i .i 2s AT4 Ml F&MEm m MlllliN TWO MORE SOI i li'Mm WmhuM Am. : ON MERIT ALONE AMERICAN The British Make a Daring Raid on Ostend and Zeebrugge ATTEMPT TO BOTTLE UP THE TWO HARBORS Five Old Cruisers "Filled With Concrete For Blocking Channels Run Aground And Blown Up., ' London. April 23. British naval ' force? today raided the German, sub marine bases of Ostend and riee bru22' the Admiralty announces. viv.- old cruisers, which had been; fjled v.ith concrete for use in ;. block ling tne channels, , were -run aground. 1 blown up, and abandoned by their trews. Admiralty reports that according to incomplete information thus far re ceived, the raid met with a reasonable measure of success. The statement follows: Early this morning a naval raid was made on Ostend and Zeebrugge, which are being used by the enemy s destrover and submarine bases. Our forces are returning and tne scanty information so far received is to tne enect mat ine raia mei who a reasonable measure of success. "With the exception of covering hips, the force employed consisted of auxiliary vessels and six obsolete cruisers. Five of these cruisers, fill ed with concrete, were used as block ships and after being run aground ere in accordance with orders blown up and abandoned by the crews. A' further communique will be issued? when reports have been received from the ships which are now return ing to their bases. 1 "No report ; of casualties has yet been received.' The ports of Ostend and Zee brugge . on J.he Belgian coast" are; ih' principal bases for the operation of submarines in their campaign against shipping in the North Sea and the English channel. They are of great importance to the Germans for this purpose, and it has been recognized by the Allies that to deprive the en emy of them would be one of the most effective means of dealing with the submarine. An attack on these ports by the British fleet has been urged. Dut the British naval authorities apparently regard the land defenses as too strong to make this practicable. Various measures have been adopted to de stroy German submarines on entering or leaving these ports. Field Marshal Haig's offensive in Flanders last sum mer was generally believed to have a? one of its objectives the bending back of the German flank so as to deprive the enemy of these two points. Washington Interested. Washington. April 23. News of the British raid upon the German subma rine bases at Ostend and ZebruggA of tho attempts to bottle up those harbors, was received with grea. in- rest at the Navy Department. The wove was taken as another definite1 ftp in the carefully planned cam-! I'aisn against the TJ-boats, which, id lia. bern repeatedly predicted, .vonld begin to show material results about '-hi .time. Tjie recent raid of the British eranrl fleet into the Cattegut when 10 G'.man trawlers were sunk, was said t have been another of the steps to invent the egress of the submarines 'i ha? long been established that '')- principal bases of submarines vhHh operate in waters around the British Isles are in the captured Cl-!?-') ports. The wharves, workshops "ml basins of those harbors have been f'rONPntlv hnmhufl hv Allied airmrn n several instances with good re - SOUTH CAROLINIAN i - " ""w-ui, i x l fiU i'j ery man, woman auu umiu in tne cil TT WW T?r QIT17 T UI J TJQ Bucharest at the end of this week to can help, the speaker said. He urg X i I l r . M j a V Hill JTZ t i YO ccntinu.e the Peace negotiations with ed that every mechanic and laborer Washington, April 23. The Ameri can cr.ijio ; rron.i has "on!,,. ! rance of the English, the charge of 'he French and the pep that belongs ,0 the Americans alone," according to Lieutenant Daniel C. Roper, Jr., son of Internal Revenue Commissioner Roprr. fc a letter to his father, made pub 'ic today, Lieutenant Roper tells of ,hfc gallant fight of a young South ! arolina officer named David,' who, overwhelmed by Germans, accounted fr"" seven of the enemy before he was killed. ou. wilj be proud to-Know of the C5ye of a south Carolinian, son ot Dr. m mm mm m mmm . mm m m m m mm mm m . --mm mm mm m mmmiM m mm k m m mm . ; TODAYS CASUALTY LIST HAS43 NAMES Two Killed In Action, On Died of Wounds And Four of Disease. Washington, April 23. The cafeualty list today contained 43 names, di vided, as follows: N Killed in action, two ; ' died of wounds, one; died of disease, four; wounded severely, nine; wounded slightly, 27. Three officers are named. Lieuten ant Bernard F. McNeel was wounded severely and Lieutenants Thomas M. Holmes and Harry D. McNeil were wounded slightly. The list follows. Killed in action : Privates Frank C Cane, Daniel L. McUaffigan. Died of wounds: Private Winford Ploof. Died of disease: Cook Homer By bee, Privates James Frederick Court ney, George Lyeth, Joe Payne. Wounded severely: Lieutenant Ber nard F. McNeel, Sergeant Henry C. Schwanz, Corporal Casmier P. Ku- biak, Mechanic Joseph P. Wittcamp, Priyates Charles F. Allen, Walter A. Antoniewiez, Michael J. Cleary, Tony Plazzito, Flem Stapleton. Wounded slightly1: Lieutenants Thomas M. Holmes, Harry D. McNeil, Corporals William Carstens, William Daflamme, Edward J. Piekarski. Wounded, John Thompson, Privates Joseph J. Aleskandrowicz, Eugene M. Binion, James W. Burke, Henry C. Burtr John Erickson, Bernard F. Er- win, Raynor A. Fairty, Frank E. Hen ry Herbert F. Melvin, Robert J. Nich olson, Thomas Okleja, Harry N. Rai ney, HarryxE.-Reed, Frank T. Savage, George F. Schirick, Arthur L. P. Tarr, Foster Thomas, Harold B. Walker, J. Edwin Wickman, Neal E. CHARGES AGAINST TT4F A T rHMPANVi A. 1. KVJufltr JXH I ; Washington. April 23. Unfair; methods were charged to the Ameri- r A Cl F'Q IMFQT UrYWl can Tobacco Company in a complaint j C"VVjA"C' n ta 1 r" 1 tl today by the Federal Trade Commis- j DESTROYED BY FIRE sion on which hearings were set for j . ' June 12. Alleged v establishment of resale prices was the basis of the complaint. The commission charged that the company nas rerusea to sell to deal-; ers who failed to maintain such j prices, has sold at lower prices to j dealers who would maintain the fixed i prices and has offered its products to those who would not at prices so high they could not make a profit, has induced jobbers and wholesalers to refrain from- selling to others who do not observe the fixed prices, and has caused the diversion of retailers' orders from jobbers who do not main tain the re-sale prices to those who do. AMERICAN AIRMEN ARE WINNING HONORS Paris, April 23 Second Lieutenant uinsmore My, of Chicago, Ills., for j who stated that he has not yet made lending every aid In the gigantic tin merly of the LaFayette Escadrille, his selection. t dertakina that has bee&'wJwteaH aieu bunaay trom injuries received in an airplane accident. j Two More shocks The French government has award; gan Jacinto, Cal., April 23. Two ed the war cross to SSergeant David jmore earthquake shocks shook Henit E Putnam. of Brookline, Mass 7 ailO member of Escadrille No. 87, xiy v,uiuus, oi uBLiuii, a memuer ui irayette n,scadriiie . mourns was Kinea on Marcn 16 in an aerial wuiucll. jTULiiain, wBiiuittu anu v..ui - iins eniistea m tne ioreign legion euny m tne war, ana lougnt in me trenches for a long time, before join - ing the aviation service. David, of near Clio, S. C. He was overwhelmed by the Boche, but he had a pile of human flesh in front of him. He fought like a tiger account ed for seven Boches with his pistol, and then was fighting with an empty rifle when struck from behind. My friend was a Citadel man, a fine offi cer." An excerpt of the letter regarding young David was sent to his father in Dillon, S. C, by Commissioner Roper, and Dr. David, in acknowledg ing the letter, said: "Your son's account of my dear boy's deatk was the best that we have had, and . as he states it was glorious, and I reel quite sure that if he had had the choosing of the way that ne was to go this would have been his choice." BRUGES CANAL BLOCKED. London, April 23. In all prob ability the entrance to jthe Bruges canal has been blocked effectively in consequence of the naval raid, Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the admiralty, announced today in the House of Commons. The result of the whole opera tion, Sir Eric said, was regard&d as very successful. While the operation was in. progress, Sir Eric said, British parties were landed to distract the enemy. The officer who developed the scheme of attack was killed. Storming parties were landed on the Mole from the cruiser Vin dictive. The casualties to the 'per sonnel, said Sir Eric, were heavy in proportibn to the number en gaged. An enemy destroyer was torpedoed at Zeebruggw. Two of the blockading ships were sunk , and blown up at the entrance to the Bruges canal. The piling beside the Mole at Zebrugge was blown up by an obsolete sub marine filled with explosives. The casualties to British- craft, Sir Erie said, were one destroyer and two coastal motor boats suik and two launches missing. At Ostend two of the blockading ships were run ashore and olown up. THREE MORE SHOCKS IN SAN JANCINTO oan jacinto,. ai., April 23. Three ening. The meeting was called to or morK earthquake shocks during, the der bv President Marcn W Jacohi. night and early today made San Ja-,of cinto and Hemet "shiver," but added nothing to the destruction of the Sun-! day afternoon tremors which half- wrecked the business district and severely damaged Hemet. herp RATE INCREASE ON A. & W. RAILROAD JitesfoAps-Tfife" fn!er state commerce tentatlvelv annroved I today an increse in commodity rates tween statlons in Nortl1 Carolina on the Atlantic and Wpstprn railrn - - M A VUrU Asheville, N. C, April 23 Eagle's Nes,. the wWely known resort hotel the summit of Junaluska mountain, vvtue!vine, xs. i., was aestroy- ed by fire late yesterday and it ws said today there was little prospect that it wmild h r-hnm Tho hi,n,. ings wrere unoccupied at the tinie and the origin of the fire" has not been de-' termined. The loss is placed at about $50,000 with approximately $20,000 in- surance. Desired to Name Francis. Jefferson City, Mo., April 23. That decision had been made to appoint David R. Francis, now Ambassador to .Russia, to the United States Senate, succeeding the late Senator Stone, 1 2. C1 A. X? f1AJ- X T . uul oecreia.i v oi oiaie L-ansinsr ad- j vised against such action, was an- j nounced today by Governor Gardner, land San Jacinto yesterday at 9:07 a. Ivy, nnH Q 1 d a m Tho nurtli vi r- i. :6eemed more pronounced at Hemet than here. Loose bricks, totterins; walls and wreckage hanging precorl- iousiy were loosened by the new , shocks and fell, adding to the general .rum m thn business districts j still Tr'ng to Sting Rumania - Amsterdam, April 23 Berlin news- i payers announce mat tne uerman tor- sured is supplemented by the con ' eign secretary, Dr. Von Keuhlmann crete yard proposed a brilliant fu j and the Austro-Hungarian - foreign ture for Wilmington is assured. Ev- ! mii'-'cfor "Rot-mi Pn :'?., ntMl ... ujh . i jvumanm. xxtiuu cunan win post-.Tvho pone his proposed visit to Berlin. " Eddie Collins' New Record Chicago, April 23. Eddie Collins of the White Sox today holds the major league record for playing in conse- named to look after the various phas-. cutive games with 473. When be es of tue work to be done including started in yesterday's contest against entertainment, to look after these Detroit he had 472 games to his cred- who haTe gone elsewhere in search of it, equalling the former record held D7! fmploymen, induce them to return, qL r,wfn ,nrmn, Twi I to see that the physical nature of the Sam Crawford, former Detroit out- . , ,,-noit . city is being continually improved nemer- 'and made beautiful despite other ac- , 7 tivities, to see that food supplies are More Quarters For Americans 'made available, to prevent spirit of Paris, April 23. The Elysee Palace profiteering and to see that all buUd and the Hotel Champs Elysees have jrig supplies for work are handled been tken over by the American Ex- promptly and in order to expedite this peditionary force. Th buildings will (work. he made motion that the chair be used as offices' and quarters for offi- name a committee whose duty will cers of the American army. . ,oti44T Continued on Page Seven). City's Futtire Was Discussed At Meeting Of Represen tative Citizens. COWAN ViAS CHEERED AND CHEERED AGAIN Committee amed to Name Other Committees to See That Everything Goes Along; Smoothly. 'r ' . ' ' ' The wheels of industry were haltei ufflciently long ,:.this morning for Rowland S. H.:pyer, assistant coun sel to the Sinking Board and Emer gency Fleet wriforation, to tell the body of representative business men assembled in the " Court House that Walmington had, been selected by the government, as one of its ship building centatft-on her merits be cause of the natural advantages here for the building of ships Und that the permanency, of the undertaking would hinge very largely on the atti tude displayed py the community and citizens. He pldd a ringing tribute to the work ofjfthe shipping commit tee of the Chamber of "Commerce and to Industrial Agent James H. Cowan stressing the! eplendid impression that these gentlemen had made uponjlin through Switzerland, if Germany government officials in presenting Wilmigton's advantages and claims. It was perhaps ;,the most representa tive meeting ever held in Wilming ton and the appjause that came when ever the name of individuals who hare worked for what Wilmington the Chamber: of Commerce, who after speaking briefly, suggested that Mr. Cowan be elected chairman. At the mention of Cowan's name the ap- Plause thunderea forth and he was I unanimously elected to preside over! the meeting - ' In accpting the chairmanship ;hon- or, Mr. Cowanl stated, that it was not his desire to ' reminesce because of rthe rapiditywth Ijjigh; things, are nyJsigjB wduld4notLpeislthep mt of thfe," but he took occasion to 1 with Germany s over the submarine c nealr nf tVio iRnlianirt' firvirit that hna been manifested and after prophesy- ing that the harvest time for Wil Iminpnn was nnt in thp rtim Hiahanf mington was not ( in the dim distant future, but right at hand, he called upon Mr. Hugh MacRRae for 'a few words, saying that he was one of the men in Wilmington who years ago caught the vision of the city's pos sibilities and backed his opinion wth I his brains and money in an effort to rSTi - . L. Mr r. tn Rpnimin Frank- jn ,the one drawing electricity from the skies and the other drawing it from official Washington. He stated or tv, iV'a inMiitv nnH n-n.-ni advantages qualified long ago as a shipbuilding center and that pnsri-iVJS neers and experts admitted these ualifications; that it now remained ) De seen wnetner tne citizens woum Qualify and justify the trust that has been imposed in them. That, said Mr. MacRae, is what we are hero to Iecide today. He stressed the fact that it lay within the pbwer of the 'people of the city to assist the gov t -anient and the contracting compan- 13s in the bunding or snips. "we I avo nt Hip rrossroaris nf rifvsr nv ;;o to speak," said Mr. MacRae, "and it ,JS up to us to show that we propose here." I Continuing, he said that when the steel yard was "assured there was a ! tendency to drop the concrete yard proposition. so tar as Wilmington was 'oncen.ed, but that pressure had be?n brought to bear and that government officials had listened to the reasons why a concrete yard should be con structed here on a large scale. He 'said the head of the Liberty Ship- VnilHinp- finmnanv was snYinne to rnmP. tTptp and there was a nrobjibll- ity of action of this kind being taken and that in event the steel yard as- comes here he made to feel at home as action of this kind will do much t' ward insuring permanency ot the undertaking. - In order to best handle this situa tion he urged that committees be TO DECLARE WAR Uruguay and Argentina Are Expected to Take Action Against Germany. GERMAN PAPERS PREPARE PUBLIC Germany is Said to Be Expect ing the Break at Any Time Two Republics Waver ing for Some Time London, April 23 Uruguay and Ar genine are expected to declare war against Germany at an early date, ac cording to Berlin advices forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph's corre spondent at Amsterdam. The Ger man "newspapers have been notified to prepare the public for this devel opment, he adds. Uruguay's relations with Germany are known to have been tense for some time. On April 12 a Montevi deo dispatch indicated that a Urugu ayan mission to France had been cap tured by a German submarine. Uru- guay, the dispatch stated, asked Ber- considered that a state of war exist ea wiin me uruguayian repuDiic "as stated by the commander of a sub marine, who captured a Uruguyan military mission bound for France." If the reply should be in the affirma tive it was announced Uruguay would declare a state of war, Uruguay definitely broke diplomat ic relations with Germany by act of Congress on October 7 last, following the crisis over the relations between Argentina and Germany brought about by the Luxburg incident.' Pass ports were handed to the German minister and the neutrality rule was waived as to the Entente Allies. The attitude of Uruguay toward the Unit ed States as a . belligerent had pre piously .been markedly . sympathetic.. Argentine has been apparently, on situation several times since the pub lication last summer of the documents in which Count von Luxburg, German diplomatic representative at Buenos Aires, advised the Berlin foreign of fice, among other things, that a cer ain Argentine merchant vessel should be sunk "without trace There has, as a matter of fact, been little diplomatic communicatidn be tween Buenos Aires and Berlin in this period as Count von Luxburg was handed his passports and only re named in Argentina because his health was represented to be such as o require him to be treated in a san itarium . Dispatches from Buenos Aires in obruary indicated a growing tens i- m relations and a growing anti- iernian sentiment. omce tueii ueji nstrations have been held in tho Ar entinia capital .:n celebration - ntry of the United States into he ar and the Uruguayan authorities armed forces at Uruguay's disposal f Uruguay's northern provinces were hreatened by a German uprising in outhern Brazil. CHILDREN OF LYONS THANK AMERICANS Lyons, France, April 22. The chil dren of Lyons in a public ceremony today expressed thanks to the children of America, especially the 15,00),000 who are members of the American Red Cross. The cermony was held in the PlaceBellecour, the city's central square w-ere 3,000 school children, filled a hollow square formed by 6, 000 inhabitants, gathered to welcome the American Red Cross party head ed by H. P. Davison. Every boy car ried an American flag and every girl French tri-color. GERMAN ARRESTED ON PARIS STREET Paris, April 23. Wearing the uni form of a French infantryman, a Ger io siaaxis etn ui pajsaxrn ttik msm fl 7- 7"i: .T". lies ne Was UUIU ill aiaatc miu uou deserted from the German army af ter being brought to fhe Western front from Galicia. The police are of the opinion that the man is a German officer. CHINESE BANDITS HOLD AN AMERICAN London, April 23. An American named Love has been captured by Chinese bandits in the province of Shangtung, according to a Reuter dispatch from Peking. The Ameri can minister to China, it is added, has suggested to the Chinese govern ment the necessity of appointing an official with powers to suppress ban dits and rescue foreign captives. LUDENDORFF SAYS PEACE DEPENDS ON WESTERN FIGHTING Unless Battle is Foueht to a Finish There Can Be No Peace HINDENBURG THINKS FORCE IS NEEDED German Leaders Can See no End to War Without De- acive Result Attained on the Western Front. New York, April 23. Peace for Germany, according to General Luden- dorff, chief quartermaster general, de pends, upon the fighting on fee West ern front and without severe battles fought to a finish Germany cannot ob tain peace, rnese statements were made during an interview with Ger man newspaper correspondents at great headquarters on March 12 and reported in German newspapers of that date, which have been received here. Jbieid Marshal von mndenDurg was interviewed at the same time and the two German leaders apparently wer. convinced that for Germany force was needed . to bring about peace. The chief quartermaster general said, con cerning the fighting which has since broken out in Northern France: "TJie final fighting in the West, of course, cannot be compared to the fighting in Galicia or in Italy. The enemy has a powerful -reserve army at, hand which he .maysnjave. on. his TenytaMmi'Ugt he sees fit-i - , " '.' - But, however heavy the fighting may be, the battle must be fought out, because, without it, peace is not attainable Wilhelm Hegeler, correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt, in reporting the interview, described Von Hinden burg as "a picture of quiescent great ness," while Ludendorff gave the im pression of having "strength of -vol canic heat but curbed by will." The correspondent says that when the conversation turned to events in the East, Field Marshal von Hindenburg in referring to charges that in con cluding peace, we acted like men of violence." said it was necessary to obtain frontier safeguards. "As we wanted peace, we had to bring it about by force," was the' in terjection of General Ludendorff. Peace in the East meant a tremen dous relief for the Germans on the West, Ludendorff said, adding: "Now we are about to gain the as cendancy numerically. Of course, the transportation of troops from the East because of the bad condition of the railroads cannot be effected by tomorrow. But, at any rate, our po sition already is such that we do not have to ask, looking up anxious ly, 'Where will the enemy attack?' We ourselves are in a positioj to as sume the offensive wherever we de sire." Referring to France, General Luden dorff said: :! "We may well say without exagger ation that Fiance has dug her own grave. She is about to bleed herself to death. Undoubtedly the French are brave soldiers.'" t Lieutenant General von Ardone, the military critic, in the Tageblatt on Iarch 20, the day before the begin ning of the offensive, in an analysis of the interview upon the military leader, wrote: "The German army leaders look forward with grave concern to final fighting. The saving of Ger the an HOLLAND ABOUT TO BREAK WITH HUN The Hague, April 23 The Dutch I cabinet met yesterdav in extrabrdi- nary session I accord- The British foreign office, ing to The London Daily News, has I learned that the relations between' . Holland and Germany are very strain-; The Vaderland says an agreement " . said to have been the cause. Official has been reached regarding one point - and diplomatic circles in Loudon which has caused friction between ' were reported to look upon the situa-i Holland and Germany but that the-. -tion with uneasiness. Rumors were -old disnute concerning t.h tra.nsnort A that something in the nature of an jof sand and gravel to Germany con-" ultimatum had been delivered to Hoi-, tinues to be a stimulating block. Ger land by Germany. " !many desires to resume the practice: . ' ! - The Handelsblad of Amsterdam on jof shipping gravel through Holland i - - ' Monday expressed the belief that; but the Dutch government offers ob-54. 7:1 wiiuuu, vuuxu uwi, ucDitaic uo j communication Jthrougb HoUand eveu i Nr. RAl;AJ Tk y:ii uj, uv.utCU 1 UC1C Will UCF - I l 1- T T1 iyiucii ionger Leiay in j D rive RAIDING ACTIVITIES ' ON THE INCREASEl Enemy Massing Troops lit Front of British Lines, While Allies Are Strength: ening Their Defense. New thrusts on the Western front. by the Germans are still held in abey ance. Raiding activity has become more pronounced, but the enemy ap parently is not fully prepared for hia next blow. The Allied forces are making ready their defenses and it is believed the Germans will not delay . resumption of heavy fighting much) longer. German raids on both the Northern and Southern battlefiefilds indicate the enemy is feeling out his adver saries who realize that the longer the. Germans hold off their new attack the heavier it is likely to be. South west of Ypres the Germans are mass ing large bodies of troops on the Northern leg of the salient probably in preparation for further attempts to overcome the Mont Kemmel po sitions and outflank Ypres. They have carried out small raids in the vicinity of La Bassee and Festubert, where the Southern leg of the salient joins the old battle line. In the cen ter the British have further improved their position around Robecq. On the Pieardy battlefield the Ger mans showed increased activity North of the Somme to Albert. This is at the base of the triangle whose apex is the juncture of the Somme and Ancre rivers, almost directly East of -Amiens. .7', It is not improbable that the Ger- , mans may attack simultaneously the British lines in Flanders and those ; directly North of the Somme in an effort to wipe out the. strong Arraa f00, - beM -stubbornly to the ArrM sector . f for a month and bis line South of Al bert has fcmght off numerous -enemy attacks since the first week of the, offensive movement. South ., of the' Somme the German artillery fire con-, tinues strong on the Montdidier- ' Noyon sector. Anglo-French airmen are harras ing the enemy by dropping many tons of bombs on his military establish ments behind both battlefronts. In aerial fighting '37 German airplanea have been accounted for by Allied avi: lators. The Germans nave not repeatea their attack on the American lines East of St. Mihiel. General Pershing is understood to have reported to , Washington that the American cas- ' ualties in Saturday's brisk fight ex--7 ceeded 200 and that those of the en; emy were between 30d and 400. ' Fighting operations in Macedonia, although evidently not on a large" scale, are quite active. British, Ser-' bian, French and Italian troops have been engaged with the enemy on the. ; front between Mohastir and Doiran.v At Vetrenik the Serbians captured an important position from the Bul garians and held it against a coun ter attack. The Allied artillery has been firing he,avily on the enemy po- sitions. Relations between Holland and Germany are again reported near the breaking point and the situation is -said to be looked upon with anxiety. in official circles in London. Rumors are current in the British capital that Holland has been served by Germany 7 with a demand approaching an ulti-r-matum. The Dutch ptess is becom ing uneasy regarding Germany's at titude toward the smaller country. blood they have at all times consid ered as a sacred duty. But the Ger man people and their Allies will havt to accept the necessity that the final battle must be fought out." at 'the risk of war if she believed that oy aonig 'so victory could be ohtaifl- ed or the Western front. It was reported , recently that Ger- ? 'uauj iuuhcu wiiu uisiavur upon .nui- . land's attitude toward th seizure by jr' ,7 ' f the United States and Great Britain I of Dutch AJLl1-" iuuuhsb in junencan auu RHtinH nnrta '""-! jeutions on tne ground inat new ciy" ','. v cumstances have arisea. '::i:h'h m 5 ! r n i -A- V i i ' 111 i I i i'-A 'is -4 5.! i I 4 ft .1 .-. tfi 111 m ; 13 3 m 1 r J I'm: I Urn lid II i J n li ,! ! Mil I, Wis . ' ' : it. Si 1 1 -i mi 14 r t F : t : s 1 .