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THE WEATHER Fair' Sunday; Monday pT6oably showers. er er on ,rt ne bb ra 63 or im VOL. XCIX--KO. 339. NUMEROUS SIGNS: INDICATE THE RENEWAL OF THE ALLIED DRIVES ON BOTH THE WESTERN FRONTS British in Flanders, French in tAjsne and Italians in Isonzo Increase Activity i PETAIN'S MEN MAKE GAINS Italians Take Additional Prison ers, Bringing Total in Pres ent Drive to 27,000 ' MACKENSEN SLOWING DOWN Teutons in Moldavia Seemingly Not Gaining Force fAssociated Press War Summary). With the closing of a week of comparative inactivity along the western fronts numerous signs of a revival are apparent. In Flanders the British guns are a grain thundering the threat of renewed infantry thrusts against the German lines. The Frenchwhile comparatively quies cent in the Verdun region; are giving another display of their successful dashing tactics in , the Aisne region. ... t On the Anstro-Italian , front General Cadorna apparently , has alisned his -forces for another drive in force on the Bainsizza plateau and isagain edging for ward toward Trieste on the Carso. French Make Sticcewful Sweep While the Italian offensive -has the ispect of larger importance, tile French assault in the Hurtebise region on the Aisne front Friday evening: was per haps the most interesting: development of the 24 hours. c In one sweep, "after' brief artillery preparation. General Pe tains troops arrive the Germans out of their trenches along a front of nearly a mile on the Chemin des Dames and pushed the French lines forward more than 300 yards. The newly won ground asheld asrainst three counter attacks, Paris declares. , In "the Isonzo fiKhtinsr'on Friday Gen- -m1 Cadorna's troops took more than additional prisoners, bringing the total for the offensive trp to mere than 27.000. . The Italians eantnred nrtrtitinnnl trench elements on the Carso and with stood successfully violent counter at tacks hy the Austrians on the slopes of ?te San Gabriele, German Claims Grow Leas. From the Rliaan-'RlimaTvf an fynn t- tha iGerman claims of successes are erov. less COmnrphhpnaiua 1Tia14 1Waf lh10 Mackeies. drive against the -itn iines northeast of Foksha- does not seem to be gaining the 'rc which it promised to attain for "me, and press dispatches have re ported the Rumanians hopeful of re ining Moldavia., in spite of. heavy ne repulse of an attaolr rn tha T? q n 'f lines in the Fokshani region. Ber , .c'.aims German forces carried a hitt Jwjtion there after a stiff, fight. f There is I Sinn ( vuy inan - us uk& 'ong the Russian northern front, but rn nr a Aiitirf i -tit. r.u0unce(l movement against Riga, 0 aS Was aiiccracrf V T7. A t , advices, has as yet developed. l. " -Macedonia the Entente troops : e "tacked at several noint-. Ber- in Reports repulses for the Italians. fh (f 8 and Frerch in attempts upon -.au-xiuigarian lines. RITISH CAPTLRED 74597 Lin AXS THE PAST MONTH Crtf1" 8h headiuarters in France ilirht reads: -The inimk., .!.'' PDh,r.j v ' . " "l merman prisoners kftntu ine British armies inr the 5j - August was 7.279. Includinar tri."mcers- making a total of 10.697 P n .i"' ,nc,uding 234 officers, taken -r. ?,nce the morninc- of Jnlv ai "During the past month we have including six heavy t also 2nn i.s - . . J' L"6tich , . ""niiiie guns ana to rWef a,r- These fisures are ex- I5 Fianj: uners ana guns captured 1STELI,ES till rvo. Lon,. RAIDED RAIDED BY THE BRITISH Llrried ',, k bomoinfiT raid was RIVm ?' ine naval air squadron Nme a n,?ht on the Ghistelles air- r-tenPT, V 8 lu a ritisn aamiraity ent tonight. it. e-wdLrect hIts" says the state- RhwoQ naae on sheds In the Ns ail y a flre was started. ... 1S( were senn n h l nl stend-Throurout rail- trm. " Jiany tons of exDlosives w.i?ra- Au our machines return- EVTIOUS OBJECTORS ADDRESSED BY BAKER W ' iectorsa ' Sept- Conscientious :fe add,. yLea Ior military service ! to mair oereiary jsaicer ro- train;l u protest until assigned vii.- camP to some .particular ion . their scruples. The onue re5Jf to delegation of Clergyman to Face Trial On Charge of Murdering Eight Is Alleged to Have Confessed Crime Committed in 1912, But is Now . Reported to Have Repudiated His Confession Man, Wife, Four Children and Two Visitors Were Slain With Ax. Des Moines, Iowa, ?ept. 1. With the reported repudiation of the alleged confession of Rev. sorgo .7. Kelley, itinerant clergyman, that he commit ted the Villisca ax murders of 191, preparations for his trial in connec tion with the murders next Tuesday were continued tovlay.v Kelly, according to H. M. Havner, attorney general of 'Iowa, confessed yesterday, to the county attornty and sheriff of Harrison county, -n the jail at Logan, Iowa, where ne had been fceld. ' Mr. Havner said no coercion was used in obtaining the alleged confes sion. Counsl for Kelly, on he other hand, announced that rhe clergyman had repudiated his all;gril confessions, which they said the minister had b en "scared into making" The victims oi ine muraer were it. . Aicore, .'us wife and their o-ir childr.ti: and two girls visiting the family. THE TEXT, SLAT UTTE RL1," LED TO WHOLESALE Ml.'ItllEIt Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sepc. 1. 'Slay utterly," was the text which Rev. Lynn G. J. Kelly followed when he slew with an ax Joe Mbore, his wife and four, children and the two" liitle Stillinger girls 'as they lay in their STILL DETAINING Exports Board Denies Permission for Dutch Grain Ships to Sail for Europe RATIONING WILL BE STRICT America Does Not. Intend to Let Euro pean Neutral Go Hungry, But Thin Country and Allies Must Be Supplied First. Washington, D. C, Sept. 1. Indica tions that the United States intends to ration the northern European neutral countries in the strictest fashion, were seen today in the admissibn that the Exports Administrative Board has dis approved 6f an arrangement suggest ed by the Dutch minister here and the Belgian Relief Commission for divis ion between Holland and Belgium of ,the nearly 100 Dutch grain cargoes held in American ports. The first news that permission for the ships to sail -had been denied came in a dispatch today from Rotterdam. The general understanding has been that the arrangement would be approv ed and that some of the vessels would sail Immediately. Detained Two Months Longer. The exports boards it was learned, will let no- food cargoes go to Euro pean neutrals for at least two months, or until the American government has ascertained its own food requirements for the year, and the size of crops that are to be harvested. All of the neu trals, it is held, can feed themselves without difficulty until this informa tion is available. The United States wishes to know also the size of crops to be harvested in the neutral coun tries, this fall. ' ' ' It was made clear that the United States has no intention of letting neu trals go hungry but emphasis was niocerl on the fact that, the govern ment feels its first obligation is to the American peorile and the Allies. Counter-Proposal Made. (-A counter-proposal that has been Tr,ar tn the Dutch, which the other neutrals are invited to accept, is that i all neutral vessels now in American ports loaded with fodstuffs discharge their cargoes and proceed to Australia and Java for wheat and sugar. These cargoes would be brought back to the United States and divided, between the unit states and the heutrals. American government officials feel that in asking the United . States to iupply them with foodstuffs, the neu-iT-i.i- -T,i,irt he willing to increase, the general supply of food. Corn Under Hatches .Spoiled. Most of the Dutch ships in American ports are loaded with corn, which has spoiiea ana isfi w V: feed. This was uewi - " w T."-- Td tlon by the exports board, wh ch held that the need for cattle feed Is mucn greater now. in tne J""-C" in uoiiana. : . It is not known how the- neutrals will look on the suggestion -that all their ships, numbering 160, discharge food cargoes, but it is known that Chevalier Van Rappard, the Dutch minister, does not view It with favor. Mr. Van Rappard takes the position that his government is already making great concessions in offering. to share its tood 'cargoes with th BelsUns, NEUTRAL VESSELS WTLMIN'G-TO'N", IN". beds, in Villisca on the night of June 9, 1912, according to the confession he is alleged to have made before a state agent, three Harrison county offlcials and several attorneys earl'v Friday. He had heard a sermon on that text, so the stry of his alleged confession goes, and the two words had been running through his mind for days. The night of the slaying a v ice told him to go to the Moore house and go in after he had picked up the ax in the back yard, according to the version -given out here. Ther the text came "slay utterly" and following it "suffer littli chillren to come unto me.' Kelly is said to have declared he an swered: "Yes Lord, they're coming quick, and then began slaying. t The alleged confession recounts that Kelly said he went to Villisca on Sat-urdaj- evening, June t. On Sunday he flllel two pulpits near Villisca, re turning' to -Villisca" late In the after noon. He took supper a . the he me of It9v. W. J. Ewing-, pastor of the Presbyterian c!iurch. After supper, Kelly says, he accompanied the Ewing family to church and then returned home with them. A sermon upon the text of '"Sl.iy utterly" 'which he was cogitatlrv would not permit him to sleep. Sud (Continued on Page Two.) AMERICAN PEOPLE BE PATIENT Pershing Says They Must . Not Ex pect U. S. Troops to be Rush ed to the Firing Line BIG PROBLEMS TO BE MET Says That With All Our Fresh Strength and Enthusiasm Troops Will Be In Heat of Battle In Next Year's Campaign. Paris, Sept. 1. Major General Per shing, who has remained in Paris clearing up the work at his old headquarters- and who is not going to field headquarters until Sunday or Monday, declared today in connection with the plans for the coming winter that the American people must learn the mean ing and value of 'patience, and not ex pect that the expeditionary forces landed In France can be rushed imme diately to the front line trenches. To put an inadeauate, insufficiently supplied force into actual combat, he said, would merely be making a mis take .which the Germans unquestion ably have hoped and expected the United States would make. It is the determination rather that when Amer ica does take her place in the line, shoulder to shouolder with the other allies next year she will be fully pre pared to go through the summer cam paign and make the Germans feel the full weight of her military power. "Those of us who have fully studied the situation and who know what is necessary to be done," said General Pershing to the Associated Press, "are anxious that the people at home -shall strive to realize the immensity, of the task in which we are engaged and shall; through patience and confidence, help us to accomplish that task in the shortest possible time. Everything is going Well with us both as a nation and as an army. We are making giant strides day and night but we are Just started. "We ca'me into the war without an army so now we must build an entire new organization and build it so big and so strong that we can take our place . along- with our allies, who al ready have had three years' time and experience. "I realize how very difficult it is for the people at home to visualize the war, to visualize the effort that lies behind the war. Our problems are greater than any France or Great Brit ain had to solve, but we are solving them and will continue to do so. "It -is impossible to create a vast fighting, machine merely by the wave of a wand. I wish that it were pos sible to do so, and that we might be fighting the German government this minute. We know that the only way to defeat the German army is to ham. mer.it and keep on hammering it. That is what we expect to be doln aU Qur fresh atr th and en a , during next year's cam- Ipalgn.' Investigation Near An End. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 1. Indica tions were tonight that the work of the army efficiency board sent here by the War Department to Investigate the qualifications of several officers of ths Florida National Guard, .now in Federal service, would .-be complet ed tomorrowi : ' '' CM SUNDAY MORNING, GERMANS LOSE 4 MIRE SWEEPERS III MAIIAI DATTI 3T Are Destroyed Off the and ' Coast in Engagemec' - ith British Light Forces 100 GERMAN SEAMEN LAND Many of Them Severely Wounded. Craft Were Clearing Lanes for Submarines London, Sept. 1. Four German mine sweepers were destroyed today off the coast of Jutland by British light forces, according to an announcement issued tonight by the admiralty. The official- statement reads: "Our light forces operating off the coast of Jutland (Denmark) this morn ing destroyed four enemy mine sweep ing vessels." 100 SEAMEN ARE LANDED; MANY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED Copenhagen, Sept. 1. A. naval en gagement occurred early this morning between British and German mosquito craft off Nyminde Gab," west coast of Jutland. British destroyers attacked four German .armed trawlers and drove them ashore. All four .trawlers seem to have been destroyed. A Rinkiobing Aewspper says the British continued) bombard the traw ers after they groundid, completing their destruction. About 100 German I seamen were landed, many of whomlbwere severely wounded. Medical assispLnce was sent from Rinkiobing, the ffearet large town. One rumor, has ill that 100 dead have come. ashore, bqt 440 arently -this is a distorted version 6fthV' fact that about 100 me1eacfo, snore. The German craft were presumably engaged Tr'patrolltngf and mine" 'sweep ing, to clear the route for German submarines. German airplanes and submarines, according to one account, took part in the fight. . A semi-official Danish report says that four German trawlers were driven ashore near Rinkiobing Fiord and that the crews were landed. The re mainder of the fleet of German armid trawlers fled to the south. SECOND TRAINING CAMP IS NOT YET FILLED UP Colonel Slocum Issues Definite Orders Covering- the Filling of Vacan cies as They Appear. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 1. Under Instructions from headquarters, De partment of the Southeast, Col. H. J. Slocum, commander at Fort Oglethorpe officers' training camp, today issued definite orders covering the method of filling vacancies as they developed in the various state quotas and fu ture admission to camp for training. The .order provides that no man ac tually called for the national army by draft will be accepted at the camp, re gardless of qualifications or indorse ment. T. C. Thompson, of Chattanoga. chairman of the military training camps association, has been designat ed to issue application blanks and furnish all information thereto. According to the adjutant's order, 3,936 men have registered for the Aug ust officers' training camp, wjiile 4,238 were authorized. The number by states follows: Alabama, 573; Tennessee, 470; Flor ida, 260; North Carolina, 457; South Carolina, 325; Georgia, 68t; Pennsyl vania, 1,270. Three hundred and two additional men will be called at once, including the following number of alternates to fill vacancies caused by the failure of those accepted to appear: Tennessee, 12; Pennsylvania, 58; -Georgia, 23; Florida, 6; Alabama, 2. The total number of ( officers and men now at Fort Ogglethorpe is about 27 000. . REICHMANN INQUIRY IS NEARING A CONCLUSION Two Women Testtfy as to Alleged Pro German Assertions of Colonel Nominated Brigadier General. Washington,. Sept. 1. Investigation hy a Senate Military sub-committee of alleged pro-German statements of Col. Carl Reichman, nominated to' be a brigadier general, tberay approached a conclusion. . The two principal witness es both women Mrs. James Anderson, of Victoria, B. C, wife of a Canadian officer, and Mrs. E. S. Faison, wife of Brigadier General Faison, now station ed at Greenville,' S. C, were under cross examination all day and the sub committee expects to complete its work early next week. Differences of opinion regarding the tenor of Col. Richmann's statements, held by the two women, were threshed out. Mrs. Anderson was said to have reiterated her conviction that the statements were pronounced in favor of Germany, while Mrs. Faison, in sepa rate examination, defended Col. Reich mann. Some of the statements attrib uted to him by Mrs. Anderson were said to have been flatly denied by Mrs. Fai son. Little new information was secured today by the sub-committee. Mrs. An derson, it was stated, said Col. Rich-:' mann had been quoted by Mrs. Faison as having justified &e ' sinking of the Lusitania by declaring - Americans should - have kept :ott'' the vessel,.- havr lag been warned. ' : m iihwhi nu k in 'iimiih. vim r-,v 4 SEPTEMBER 2, 1917 Peoples Council Gathering In Chicago Dispersed Upon i"; Orders From the Governor Schooner Given Up as Lost Arrives Safely At an Atlantic Port An Atlantic Port, Sept. 1. The American schooner Rostellan, re ported sunk July 10 by a German submarine, arrived here today. Through a misunderstanding, the American consul at Plymouth mis interpreted a message notifying him that a British patrol boat had res cued the vessel. As nothing further had been heard the owners of the schooner believed she had been sent to the bottom with all hands. Albert i H. Miller, commander of the vessel, on reaching port, sent a telegram to his wife in Pascagoula, Miss. She had been mourning his death. DEFEAT FOR TDEJADICALS Johnson Proposal for 80 Per Cent Maximum Levy on War Prof its Killed, 62 to 17 SPIRITED SPEECHES MADE Simmons, Lodge and Penrose .Defend Present Proposal While Johnson and LaPoilette Fight for the Higher Levy. ..Washington,. Sept. 1. Voting began today In the Senate's contest over war profits taxation in the War Revenue bill and in ' the- Initial clash thV so called radicals met decisive defeat. The Senat rejected, 62 to 17, the amendment of Senator Johnson, of Cal ifornia, leader of the high tax group, for a maximum levy of 80 per cent of this year's war profits, estimated be tween three and four billion dollars, instead of $1,268,000,000 provided in the bill. Senator LaFollette promptly offered an amendment proposing a total war profits tax of 76 per cent. He made a vigorous three hours speech in its sup port, but did not conclude and (the Sen ate recessed until Monday, prepaned to work through the holiday upoS the I Wisconsin senator's amendment and his others for levies ranging down to 52 per cent. Both sides tonight claimed victory as a result of first. test vote today, which was preceded by spirited speeches by leaders, including Senators Johnson and LaFollette for the high tax group, and Lodge, Simmons and Penrose of their opponents. The so-called conservatives were confident tne LaFollette amendment proposing higher war taxation would be rejected. Senator Johnson opened the fight with an impassioned plea for increasing tax levies on "swollen fortunes." He advocated taking the largest percent age possible of war profits, 9ateaving normal peace time profits untouched. If not taxed this year, the California senator said, millions would go un taxed. Senator LaFollette said at least $2, 000,000,000 , of distinctive war profits should be taken by the government, citing that profits of the past war per iod would be left undisturbed and nor mal peace-time profits as well. Both senators declared that the Fi nance committee leaders, in bringing in their compromise amendments to add $500,000,000 to the war profits sec tion, had been "driven and forced" by sentiment in the Senate and. through out the country for higher taxation. Chairman Simmons and Senators Lodge and Penrose made spirited explanatory replies, to the effect that the commit tee had not changed its provisions for war profits taxation but had acceded to the demand for increased rates. SOLDIERS AND NEGRO EjS CLASH AT LEXINGTON, KY. Street Flg-htlngr Takes Place as Result I of Series of Disorders Armed Men Patrol Streets. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 1. The streets of Lexington tonight are being patroll ed by armed mounted and foot- soldiers of the Kentucky National Guard and the civil authorities have augmented their night" police patrol "as the result of a series of outbreaks in the princi pal streets here today between negroes and soldiers. The town is quiet, but suppressed excitement and ill feeling is apparent and threats of further trouble are heard, but with the addi tional guards, the authorities, believe they have the situation in hand. The street fighting today was the culmination of a series of disorders be tween soldiers camped at the edge of the city and negroes who have been flocking to Lexington during the week from a -fair nearpy. One negro was taken to "the hospital in a serious con dition, while numerous other negroes received lesser injuries. The soldiers escaped with minor bruises. The local authorities re-considered their decision to request that the sol diers be i kept off the streets for th tinie'. being. rK. L DECISIVE : ! ' Assistant Chief of Police and Twenty Men Enter Hall and Quickly End Meeting NO FORMAL ADJOURNMENT Illinois Makes the Fourth State Which Has Been Closed, to the Pacifists THEY ARE STILL AT SEA National Body to Aid Local Chap ters Remains Unformed Chicago, Sept. 1. The summary dis persal of the meeting of the organiza tion committee of the Peoples Coun cil of America fdt Democracy and Terms of Peace here this afternon by the police on order from the governor added Illinois to the forbidden states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Utah.. Seymour Stedman, the local Socialist leader, and former candidate of that party for governor, who was chairman of the meeting, counselled the dele gates, who numbered about 200, to stay in Chicago, promising that a court order permitting the meeting will be applied for next Monday. Later it was decided in it, secret session of lead ers to hold no meeting in Chicago, and debate centered upon whether to force the convention on Minneapolis or go to Washington. Delegates Still Belligerent. The delegates were still belligerent and some who suggested leasing ah excursion boat and holding the meet ing on Lake Michigan were scouted as lacking the courage of their convic tions, . . '- '- . ' -v "The council is said to have a. large number of local chapters but no n tional organization to co-ordinate their efforts. It was to form such a body that Louis P. Lochner, executive secretary, sought a meeting place. It remains unformed, for the police raid cut short the proceedings before the credentials committee had time to re port Governor Lowden's attention was called to the" meeting by the Chicago chamber of commerce, which alleged that the gathering was "avowedly an tagonistic to our national purposes in the present world crisis." Policemen Act Immediately. The governor ordered that troops take the situation in hand but chang ed his mind and got Chief of Police Schuettler on the long distance tele phone.' The latter at once dispatched Wesley H. Westbrook, the assistant chief, with twenty men in autmobiles to the Westside auditorium, where the meeting was in progress. Mayor Thompson, who was at his summer home at the suburb of Lake Forest, when asked it he would pre vent the meeting being, held said: "I can do nothing to prevent them from meeting in Chicago. Pacifists are law-abiding, citizens. ' ' The delegates were in session for three hours before the police appeared but little progress had been made in affecting a permanent organization. Westbrook Orders Them Out. There had been rumors that the sol diers were coming, but none appeared and the belief prevailed that there would be no interruption. . A delegate was trying to straighten out a parlia mentary tangle, when Westbrok, fol mentary tangle, when Westbrook, fol peared. He marched straight on to the platform and delivered the governor's mandate. One delegate wanted to ad journ in parliamentary fashion, but Westbrook would not tolerate a word. Stedman and a few others wanted to be arrested to make a test case, but the police declined. The delegates then dispersed, leaving only blue eoated guards at the doors. LABOR ALLIANCE AGAIN APPEALS TO BURNQ.UIST. New York, Sept. 1. The American Alliance for. Labor and Democracy to day telegraphed another appeal to Governor Burnqulst, of Minnesota, urging him to permit the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace to hold their convention in Min neapolis. The telegram stated the al liance felt that the activities -of the council were "opposed to the best in terests of America," but maintained that the "right of free speech and peaceful assemblage rise superior to that." The alliance convention will be op ened in Minneapolis next Wednesday. The Red, White and Blue special car- rying the New xorK aeiegaxion, win leave here Monday at noon and will take on delegations at a number of points. On every car window will be an American flag. -Among the speakers will be Samuel Gompers, Charles Edward Russell, Cohn Spargo and other labor leaders arid Socialists. MISS BLANCH M'DADE IS KILLED IN AUTO COLLISION I .Several Others Injured in Accident Near - Raleigh La Night. Raleigh, N. C. Sept. 1. Miss Blanche MoDade, 25, well known Raleigh wo man, was instantly killed tonight when au automobile in which she was riding collided with a car driven by Luther Austin, automobile mechanic of Knight dale, ten miles east of here. Austin, together with two other occupants of his machine and three occupants of the car in which Miss McDade was ridings was severely if not seriously injured. Miss Lula Ford, another Raleigh girl, in the car with Miss McDade, escaped unhurt. It Is said both cars were run ning without lights. WHOIiE NUMBER 39,159 CHARGE PRESIDENT WITH IMPROPRIETY IN REPLY TD POPE Two Newspapers, Reflectors fa Vatican Opinion, Criticise , the Form Adopted DO NOT DISCUSS MERITS Critics Say the President Himself and Not Mr. Lansing Should Have Signed Note r ' Rome, Aug. 31. Criticism of the form in which President Wilson replied to Pope Benedict's peace note it vole ed by the Osservator Romano and the Corriere d'ltalia, reflectors of Vatican opinion, which take up this point with out entering- Into the merits of the. President's response, thel comment contrasting American cleverness in business with what is alluded to as an American lack of knowledge of di plomatic usages. The criticism is based, for on thing, upon the reply being signed by Secretary Lansing, while the- papal note was singed by Pope Benedict him self. This, according to these news paper critics, requirea that the an swer be signed by President' Wilson himself. xne same organs alleged imptre priety in the fact that publication of the President's answer was permitfe-1 befaro the text was delivered to the' pope whereas the papal note was sent to Ei eiand on August 9 for delivery to America and was no: published In i-cme until August 16 Objection is also made that the re ply was telegraphed, which is point ed t i. net In accord with diplomatic usage for such Important documentsT which are invariably dispatched '"by courier Finally the newspapers find in the text of the Presidential relpy contra dictions of statements contained in the President's former messages on the subject of peace. WILSON BITTERLY DENOUNCED BY NEWSPAPERS OF GERMANY Berlin, via London, Sept. 1. Presi dent Wilson's reply to the Pope's peace note was published generally, by the newspapers this morning and in the editorial comment Mr. Wilson is bit terly denounced on the score of the note's tone3 and tendency. The Lokal Anzeiger says: "president Wilson declines the Pope's mediation with the same mass of swollen phrases with which he has already satiated the German peoples. We are told that the war Is not be ing waged against the German na tion but against their 'masterr.' "The absolute mendacity of Mr. Wilson's phraseology becomes appar ent when his dictim as to the. rights of nations who are capable of shaping, their own destinies, is opposed to the wish of the German people to be gov erned by these very 'masters." Mr. Wilson therefore does not Intend to give as our liberty but to deprive us of liberty to arrive at our own de cisions. "For that matter this whole mass f words has as its sole purp.a tf.. expression of the Intention to prolong the war at any price. In this resolve Mr. Wilson, who is fighting for the freedom of, mankind, orders peaci meetings dispersed and pacifists ar rested. "This war has exposed in, its naked ness much that is low and contempti ble; its- remaining task was to ex hibit a hero like this coldly calculat ing mathematician whom by a singular fate in a momentous hour has been given the power over one hundred milllcn people." WILL DROP WILSON'S NOTE OVER THE AUSTRIAN LINES Udine, Italy, Sept. T. Austrian sol diers on this fighting front will have opportunity to read President Wil son's reply to the Pope's peace pro posal, plans having been completed for Italian airmen to distribute thousands of translations of the reply along the entire fighting front. BELGIANS ARE FORCED TO WORK UNDER FIRE Story of German Brutality as Told By an ' Escaped Belgian Reaches the State Department. Washington, Sept. 1. Further evi dence of the disregard of the Germans for the risrhts of orisoners or war atirt of gubjugated peoples has reached the State Department in the story of an escaped Belgian. Exposed to shell flre and gas works, and unprovided with protective masks the enslaved natives are being compelled to work Just be hind the German fighting lines, he as serted, where the unsanitary condi tions brought disease to those who escaped death or injury incident to battle. "It was no use trying to 'protest, one' of them is reported as saying. "It only means more trouble and misery prison' and blows. The Germans are too glad if you do resist. They have' ma.de a rule to send to Germany any man or woman who gets more than three months imprisonment. And none of these who has been deported has come back after his time." Mexican Raid Ranch. Eagle Pass, Texas, Sept. 1. Mexican bandits crossed the Rio Grande, 25 miles south, of here today and raided the Indio ranch, driving off about 30 head of cattle. Soldiers who have been stationed here recently - ..war;-withdrawn. V t -I" m 1 n. 'if. . ' !
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