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NAT ON'S LABOR
PROBLEM
OVER A MILLION AND A HALF
WOMEN WORK A 8 FARM HANDS
IN THE UNITED STATES.
By Pster Radford
Lecturer National Farmers' Union.
Our government never faced so tre
mendous a problem as that now lying
dormant at ths doors of congress and
the leglslstures, and which, when
aroused, will shake this nation from
center to circumference, and make
civilisation hide Its face in shame.
That problem is—women In the field.
The last federal, census reports
show we now have 1,614,000 women
working In ' the field, most of them
south of the Mason and Dixon line.
There were approximately a million
negro slsves working In the fields
when liberated by the emancipation
proclamation. We have freed our
staves and our women have taken
their plsces In bondage. W« have
broken the shackles off the negroes
and welded them upon our daughters.
The Chaln-Gsng of Civilization.
A million women in bondage In the
southern fields form tho chain-gang of
civilization the Industrial tragedy
of tho age. There is no overseer quite
so cruel as that of unrestrained greed,
|no whip that sting* Ilko tho la*h of
suborned destiny, and no auctioneer's
Jblock quite so revolting as that of or
ganized avarice.
I The president of the United States
was recently lauded by the press, and
very properly so, for suggesting medi
ation between the engineers and rail
road managers in adjusting their
schedule of time and pay. The engi
neer* threatened to strike If their
wages were not Increased from ap
proximately ten to eleven dollars per
tdsy and service reduced from ten to
eight hours and a similar readjust
ment of the overtime schedule. Our
women are working In the field, many
of them barefooted, for less than 60
cents per day, and their acheduie Is
the rising sun and the evening star,
and after tho day's work Is over they
milk the cows, slop the hogs and rock
tfye baby to sleep. Is anyone mediat
ing over their problems, and to whom
shall they threaten a strike?
Congress has listened approvingly
to those who toll at tho forge and be
hind the counter, and many of our
atatesmen have amlled at the threats
and have fanned the flame of unrest
among Industrial laborers. Rut wom
en are aa surely the final victims of
Industrial warfare as they are the
iburden-bearers In the war between na
jtlons, and those who arbitrate and
jmedlate the difference* between capi
tal and tabor should not forget that
.when the expense* of any Induitry are
unnecessarily Increased, society foots
the bill by drafting a new consignment
of women from the horns to tho field.
Pinch no Crumb From Women'* Crust
of Bread.
No financial award can be made
without someone footing the bill, and
t we commend to tho*e who accept the
,r«*poß*lblllty of the distribution of in
dustrial Justice, the (till small vole* of
:«1»* woman In th* field as ah* pleads
{for mercy, aad w* beg that thsy pinch
no crumb from bar crust of broad or
pat another patch upon her ragged
garments.
Wo beg that they listen to the
scream of horror from th* eagle on
every American dollar that Is wrung
;from th* brow of tolling woman and
hear th* Goddess of Justice hiss at a
verdict that Increase* th* want of
woman to satisfy th* greed of man.
Th* women behind the counter and
la th* factory cry aloud for sympathy
and th* pre** thunders oat In their
d*fn*« and th* pulpit plead* for
mercy, hat bow a boat th* woman In
th* A*ld? Will not (h**a powerful
exponents of hnmaa right* tarn their
talent energies and influence to her
relief? Will the Goddess of Liberty
enthroned at Washington bold the cal
loused hand and sooth* th* feverish
brow of her sex who sows and reaps
the nation's harvest or will she permit
th* male of the specie* to shov*
women—weak and weary—from th*
bread-line of Industry to the back al
leys of poverty?
. Women and Children First
Th* census enumerators tell us that
of th* 1,514,000 women who work In th*
Held* as farm hands 409.000 are six
teen year* of age and nnder. What I*
the final destiny of a nation who** fu
ture mothers spend their girlhood day*
behind th* plow, pitching hay aad
hauling manor*, aad what to to b*come
|of womaaly culture aad refinement
I that grace the home, charm society
jaad ao those maa to leap to glory la
noble achievements If oar daughters
sre raised la th* souletj of the ox aad
th* oompaalooahlp of th* plow?
la that strata between th* ag«* of
t , alxteen aad forty five are MO.OOO wom
an working aa farm hands and many
of thena with suckling babes tug
ging at their breast a, aa drenched
In perspiration, thay wield the acytha
and guide the plow. What to to be
come of that nation where poverty
break* the crown* of th* queens of
the home; despair horls a mother'*
love from it* throne and hunger drive*
innocent children from the schoolroom
jtojko boat j. ..
Tne census bureau snows mat 155,-
000 of these women are forty-five
years of age and over. There Is no
more pitiful sight In civilization than
these saintly mothers of Israel stooped
with age, drudging In the Held from
sun until sun and at night drenching
their dingy pillows with the tears of
despair as their aching hearts take
It all to Ood in prayer. Civilization
strikes them a blow when It should
give them a crown, and their only
friend Is he who broke bread with
beggars and said: "Come unto me all
ye that are weary and heavy laden and
1 will give you re»L"
Ob, America! The land of the free
and the home of the brave, the
world's custodian of chivalry, the
champion of human lights and the de
fender of the oppressed—shall we per
mit our maidens fair to be torn from
the hearthstone by the ruthless hand
of destiny and chained to the plowT
Shall we permit our faithful wives,
whom we covenanted with God to cher
ish and protect, to be burled from the
home to the harvest field, and our
mothers dear to be driven from the old
arm chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from the
forces of civilization, can we not apply
to our fair Dixieland the rule of tbe
sea —"women and children first?"
There must be a readjustment, of
the wage scale of Industry so that the
women can be taken from the field or
given a reasonable wage for her serv
ices. Perhaps the issue has never Been
fairly Alsed, but the Farmers' Union,
with trfoembershlp of ten million, puts
Its organized forces squarely behind
the Issue and we now enter upon the
docket of civilization the case of "The
Woman In the Field" and demand an
Immediate trlaL
RAILROADS APPEAL
TO PRESIDENT
Th* Common Carrier* Ask for Re
lief President Wilson Directs
Attention of Public to
Their Needs.
The committee of railroad execu
tives, headed by Mr. Frank Trumbull,
repreaehtlng ttiirty-flve of the leading
railroad aystein.i of the nation, recent
ly presented U President Wilson a
memorandum briefly reviewing the dlf
ficultlea now confronting the railroads
of the country and aaklng for the co
operation of the governmental authori
tiea and the public In aupportlng rail
road credlta and recognizing an emer
gency which requlrea that the rall
roada be given additional revenues.
The memorandum recitea that tho
European war has resulted In general
depression of buslneas on the Ameri
can continent and In tho di*locatlon
of credit* at home and abroad. With
revenuea decreaalng and Interest ratea
Increaalng the transportation systems
of tbe country face a most serious
crisis and tbe memorandum Is a
strong presentation of the candle
burning at both enda and the perils
that must ultimately attend auch a
conflagration when the flamea meet
la apparent to all. In their general
discussion th* railroad representa
tives say In part: "By reasoa of leg-
Islstlon and regulation by the federal
government and the lorty-eight state*
acting Independently of each other, a*
well a* through the action of a strong
public opinion, railroad expense* in
recent year* have vastly Increased.
No criticism is here made of the gen
eral theory of governmental regula
tion, but on the other hand, no in
genuity can relieve the carriers of ex
penses created thereby."
President Wilson. In transmitting
th* memorandum of th* railroad
president* to th* public, character-
Is** It as "a lucid statement of plain
troth." Th* prealdent recognizing
th* emergency as extraordinary, con
tinuing. saty In part:
"Yon ask m* to can th* attention
of the country to the imperative need
that railway credit* b* sustained and
th* railroads h*lp*d la svary po**lbl*
way, wb*th*r by privat* cooperative
effort or by the* action, wherever
feasible of governmental agenclee, aad
I am glad to do *o because 1 think
the need very real"
The conference was csrtalnly a
fortunate one for the nation and th*
president la to b* congratulated for
opening the gat* to a new world of
effort in which *v*ryco* may cooper
ate.
There are many Important prob
lems in our complex civilization that
wIU yield to co-ope ration which will
not lend themselvea to arbitrary rul
ing* of commissions aad financing
railroads la one of.them. The man
with th* money I* a factor that can
not be eliminated from any boalnea*
transaction and th* public I* an Inter
ested party that should always b* con
sulted and happily the president baa
Invited all to participate In the sola-
Uon of our railroad problems.
Hissed Off the fttspe.
Footlights—How did he come oat la
bis act?
Miss Sue Rrette—ln s hurry.
"How so?"
■"Why. the snake charmer followed
him, and one of her snakss biased him
off the stage-"
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Lesson X.—Fourth Quarter, For
Dec. 6. 1914.
THE INTERNATIONAL. SERIES
Text of the Lesson, Mark xvi. I S:
Matt, xxviii, Verse),
8, 7—Goldsn Text, Luke xxiv, 5. 6.
Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M.
Stearns.
The resurrection from the dead I*
tbe crowning event in all III* »>rk.
for If Christ be not risen fiiith I* viitn.
preaching Is vain, no one Im wived;
there U no forgiveness of hliih il A'or.
xv, 14-18 i. But before we consider III*
resurrection we must look nt some In
cidents In connection with Ills denth
and bi rliil which we liuvc passed over
Note the women who ministered to
Him. who followed 11 tin. who looked
'on ufui' "IT lis lie wiiH eriHitled. who
beheld where Hlx dead body wiim In Id
and returned and prepared spleen to
anoint it when the Kahliath was past
(Mark xv, 40-47; Lit He xxili. Kti _
They loved Illm greatly, but did nut
believe I hat lie would rise from the
dead, so those spices were In a mens
ure love's labor lost because or untie
lief. Note the pierced side, the blood
and water with all their Scriptural
suggestions and the fulfilled Scriptures
about Ills being pierced and not a
Lone broken (John xix. 31 .'l7: Zcch
ill, 10; Ex. xtl. 4«i
The boldness of Joseph and Xicode
mils nt a time when all others seemed
to fall, the new tomb, the loving mill
Istry and the fulfilled Scripture con
cernlng Ills grave being with the rich
In Ills death are a fascinating record
(I,uke xxIII. fiO-53: John xlx. 38-42; Isa
1111. Ui.
It would npjieur from Mutt xxvii,
.02 06, that Home of the I'hurl Keen re
membered. a* Ills disciple* did not.
thnt He bad spoken of rlKlni; again
after three day* «nd therefore the.v
bad Hl* tomb sealed. Our lesson,
verse* give us onlv the beginning of j
the resurrection story. They tell us of;
the coming of the women to the tomb
very early iu the nioruing on the first
day of the week to auolnt III* body,
wondering who would roll away the
stone for them. Ilow often we find
the stone which we thought would
hinder us rolled away when we reach
the place! We read of an earthquake
when lie died, but this I* another one
at His resurrection (Matt, xxvii, 54;
xxvlll, 2). |
Inanimate nature is moved by these
events while the heart of man remains
harder than the rocks. Some day
we shall see these angels, whose coun
tenances are like lightning and their ,
raiment white as snow, and we, too. j
shall shine as tho sun (Matt, xxvlll. 1
3-4; xHi. 43). We should be reflecting
more of ills glory now In these mortal
bodies (II Cor. 111, 181. How beautiful
It Is that the Hint word from the angel
to these deVoted wouieu was "fear
not" or "be not" iilTrlghted (verses 5,
0; Matt, xxviil. 6. Oi. So He Himself
said to the other women after He had j
appeared to Mary, as He allowed them
to hold Him by the feet and worship
Him, "lie not afraid: go tell My breth- j
ren" (Matt, xxvlll 0, 10).
With similar words He spoke to the .
disciples in the upper room that even-j
lug, saying: "Pence be unto you. Why j
are ye troubled? Heboid my baud" J
and my feel that It U 1 Myself" (I.uke !
x»lv, 30-401. Even though we full and I
fcrsake Hint He ha* only word* of ;
peace and comf'.rl for us. Matthew '
und Mark *peuk of one angel; I.uke 1
and John speak of two, but there Is uo
discrepancy, for If there were two :
there was certainly one, whether the
disciple* or women *aw one or two j
Neither I* there any discrepancy In the ■
seemingly different position* of the I
angels, for they cau move aliout more
easily than we cau. The words of the
augel concerning JCHUS, "He is risen.
He is not here" (verse (J), are some
times used by ministers at a funeral
concerning tho dead, but that Is a
wrong use of tho words, for they refer
to tho resurrection, not to the burial
of the body.
How very gracious It was of the
Lord to tell the angel to send by the
woman a special message to I'eter and
then to give I'eter a special persona!
Interview (verse 7; Luke xxiv, 341
after all bis base denial of bis Master.
It 1* always ao— weakest lambs have
largest share of their tender sbep
herd's care. The angels reminded the
women that Jesus bad said that He
would bo crucified and the third day
rise again, and yet when the women j
told the disciples that He was risen I
their words seemed to them aa Idle
tal**, and they believed them not (I.uke
xxlv, 6-11). Mark xvl. 0. aays (hut
Jesus appeared first to Mary Magda
lene, but the full record of that ap
pearance la found In John xx. 1-17.
la not Ilia appearing drat to her an
other Illustration of the same great
truth that ws saw in Hl* giving Peter
a special personal Interview ? She was
blinded by teara of unbelier. bat ono
word from Him opened her eye*. A
peculiar thing In her case waa Ills
"Touch Me not" when He afterward
allowed the other women to hold Him
by the fact.
To my mind the reason He gave her
was clear and plain. "For I am not yet
•acended to My Father" (John xs. 17).
Another wonderful thing that on ni*
way to Ula Father In Ilia resurrection
body aa our high priest lie abonld stop
to apeak to her and comfort her. Hav
ing aacended and returned. Ue could
then let others touch and haudle Illin
as n« did the others and tbe dltdple*
that evening.
QUARANTINE LIGHTENED.
Several States Given Release From
Cattle Law.
Washington.—Parte of Wisconsin.
Illinois and lowa were ordered releas
ed from aome restrictions of the Fed
eral livestock quarantine against foot
ani month disease. The order. Issued
by the department of agriculture, ef
fective November >O. provldee that
fettle for Immediate slaughter may be
shipped In interstate commerce from
the counties named aad be received
for feeding purposes, bnt not shipped
oat for feeding elsewhere.
All bnt 11 eountlee 1b Wisconsin, all
but 11 la lowa aad a eeore la Illinois
are released.
The ret ease order wIH be followed
aa rapidly aa possible by others lift
ing lite quarantine la all localities
where the dleease has beea eradi
cated.
The dlacovarr Of UM dlataao among
cattle and bo|a at Waterford. Va..
reanlted la a quarantine eorertnj
parta of London County, Virginia.
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THE PATRIOTIC
DOLLAR
CONGRESS DECREEB DOLLARS IN
DULGING IN LUXURIES MUST
FIRST SALUTE THE-FLAG.
War Revenue Tax of $105,000,000
Levied —Beer Bears Brunt of
Burden.
Congress has levied a war tax of
♦ 105,000,000 to offset a similar amount
of loss on Import revenue due to the
Euroi&an disturbances and of this
amount beer Is the heaviest
contributor, having been assessed ap
proximately *50,000,000; a stamp tax on
negotiable Instruments, it Is estimated,
will yield $31,000,000; a tax on the
capital stock of banks of $4,300,000
and a tax on tobacco, perfumes, thea
ter tickets, etc., makes the remainder.
Congress has decreed that the
brewer, thl? banker and the investor
must shoulder the mpsket and march
to the front; that milady who would
add to her beauty nj'ust first tip Uncle
Sam, and a dollar that seeks pleasure
must Urßt salute the flag; that Pleas
ure and Profit —the twin heroes of
many wars —shall fight the nation's
battles and by an Ingeniously ar
ranged schedule of taxation congress
has shifted the war budget from the
shoulders of Necessity to those of
Choice and Gain, touching In its
various ramifications almost every line
of business.
All hail the dollar that bleeds for
Its country; that bares its breast to
the fortunes of war and risks its life
to preserve the stability and Integrity
of the nation's credit
The market place has always been
a favorite stand for war revenue col
lectors The trader is a great finan
cial patriot His dollar Is the first to
rally around the star-spangled banner
and the last to hear the coo of the
dove of peace. He 1b called upon to
buy cannon; to feed and clothe the
boys In blue and each month cheer
their hearts with the coin of the
realm. Men can neither be free nor
brave without food and ammunition,
and money Is as Important a factor
in war as blood Many monuments
have been erected In honor of heroes
slain in battles, poems have been writ
ten eulogizing their noble Seeds and
the nation honors Its soldiers while
they live and places a monument upon
their graves when they die, but very
little has been said of the dollar that
bears the burdens of war.
Honor to the Dollar that Bears the
Burdens of War.
All honor to the dollar that an
swers the call to arms and, when
the battle is over, bandages the
wounds of. stripken soldiers, lays a
wreath upon the graves of fallen
heroes and cares for the widows and
orphans.
All honor to the Industries that
bend their backs under the burdens
of war; lift the weight from the shoul
ders of the poor and build a bulwark
around the nation's credit.
All honor to those who contribute
to the necessities and administer to
the comforts of the boys who are
marching; cool the fever of afflicted
soldiers and kneel with the cross bo
slde dying heroes.
A dollar may fight Its competitor in
business, Industries may struggle for
supremacy In trade and
may view each other with envy or
suspicion, but when the bugle calls
they bury strife and rally around the
flag, companions and friends, mess
mates and chums, all fighting for one
(lag, one cause and one country.
The luxuries In life have always
been the great burden-bearers In gov
ernment. We will mention a few of
them giving the annual contributions
to the nation's treasury: Liquor, $250,.
000,000; tobacco, $103,000,000; sugar,
$54,000,000; silks, $15,500,000; dia
monds, $3,837,000; millinery, $2,479,-
000; furs, $2,024,000 and automobiles,
$870,000. We collect $665,000,000 of
internal and custom revenue annually
and $450,000,000 of this amount classi
fies as luxuries, and to this amount
we should add the $100,000,000 war tax
now levied.
The war tax ia Immediately effec
tive Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the'
industries are marching $100,000,000
atrong and beneath the starry flag
they will fill the treasury again while
they shout, "Hurrah for Uncle Sam!"
In every field of human ectivlty the
demand for more competent men and
women la growing every dsy. Espe
cially so In agriculture.
Home pride la a mighty valuable as
set, and the farmer who has nons is
carrying a heavy nandicap on the
road to succees.
Work Is the salve that neals the
wounded heart
EUROPEAN WAR SHAT
TERS KING COTTON'S
THRONE
FLEECY STAPLE MUST PAY RAN
SOM INTO THE COFFERS OP
WAR.
. _
Nation Ring* With CHM of Stricken
Industry.
■y Potor Radford
Ltctunr Nsttonai rarawra* Union.
King Cotton has suffered more from
the European war than any other ag
ricultural product on the American
continent. The shells of the belliger
ents hare bursted over hie throne,
frightening hla subjects and shatter
ing his markets, and. pantostrickeo.
the nation cries not "God ssvs the
king!"
People from every walk of life bare
contributed their mite toward rescue
work Society haa danced More the
king; milady has Ssorssd that the
family wardrobe shall contain only
cotton goods: the press has plead
with the public to "hoy a hate":
bankers hare been formnlstlng hold
ing plana: congress and legislative
bodies hare deliberated orer relief
measirea; statesmen and writer*
have grown eloquent expounding the
Inalienable rights of "Hla Majesty"
and praaanting schemes for preserv
ing the financial integrity of th*
stricken staple, bat the sword of En
rope haa proved mightier than the pe«
of Aatftes is &tes n!sa apse this
product of the sunny south. Pricr*
have been bayoneted, values A3 (lied
and market! decimate# by the battling
host* of the eastern hemisphere until
the American farmer baa suffered a
war loss of 1400,000,000, and a -bale
of cotton brave enough to Tenter a
European port must pay a ransom of,
half its value of go to prison until the
war is over.
Hope of the Future Lies In Co-opera-
The Farmers' Union, through the
columns of the press, wants to thank
the American people for the friend
ship, sympathy and asslstanoe given
the cotton farmers in the hour of dis
tress ai)d to direct attention to co
operative methods necessary to per
manently assist the marketing of an
farm products.
TBb present emergency presents as
grave a situation aa ever confronted
the' American farmer and from the
viewpoint of the producer, would seem
to justify extraordinary relief meas
ures, even to the point of bending the
constitution and straining business
rules in order to lift a portion ot the
burden off the backs of the farmer,
for unless something is done to check
the invasion of the war forces upon
the cotton fields, the pathway of the
European pestilence on this continent
will be strewn with mortgaged homes
and famine and poverty will stalk over
the southland, filling the highways ot
Industry with refugees arid the bank
ruptcy court with prisoners.
All calamities teach us lessons and
the present crisis serves to Illuminate
the frailties of our marketing meth
ods and the weakness of our credit
system, and out of the financial an
guish and travail of the cotton farmer
will come a volume of discussion and
a mass- of suggestions and finally a
solution of this, the biggest problem
in the economic life of America, if,
Indeed, we have not already laid the
foundation for at least temporary re
lief.
More Pharaohs Needed In Agriculture,
Farm products have no credit and
perhaps can never hare on a perma
nent and satisfactory basis unless we
bnlld warehouses, cold storage plants,
elevators, etc., (or without storage and
credit facilities, the south it com
pelled to dump Its crop on the market
at harvest time. The Farmers' Onions
In the cotton prodncing states have
for the past ten years persistently ad
vocated the construction of storage
facilities. We have built during this
period 2,000 warehouses with a ca,
paclty of approximately 4,000,000 bales
and looking backward the results
would seem encouraging, but looking
forward, we are able to house less
than one-third of the crop and ware
houses without a credit system lose
90 per cent of their usefulness. The
problem Is a gigantic one—too great
for the farmer to solve unaided. He
must have the assistance of the bank
er, the merchant and the government.
In production we have reached the
high water mark of perfection in the
world's history, but our marketing
methods are most primitive. In the
dawn of history we find agriculture
plowing with a forked stick but with
a system of warehouses under govern
mental supervision that made the
Egyptians the marvel of civilization,
for who has not admired the vision of
Joseph and applauded the wisdom of
Pharaoh for storing the surplus until
demanded by the consumer, but In
this age we have too many Josephs
who dream and not enough Pharaohs
who hullri
RDLW
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RAISING OF MUSCOVY DUCK
Fowls Have Several Peculiarities
Which Mske'Them Distinct From
Others—Msls Is Pugnacious.
(By O. A. HOWARD.)
Muscovy ducks form a .distinct
genus, having - several peculiarities
which make them different from oth
ers. They are sometimes called the
musk duck, owing to the odor of
musk which pervades the skin, but
which is not noticeable when cooked. I
In Braill they are extensively domes- '
tloated and are prised very highly for
eating. In this country and Europe,
particularly in Germany, they are bred
In large numbers. Wild muscovies
are easily frightened and very good
flyers; they fly into trees when
alarmed and remain there for long [
periods of time before leaving their
place of concealment They some
times build their nests In branches of
trees, and also In hollows near water.'
Muscovy ducks are very unsatisfac
tory birds to keep on the farm with
other poultry, owing to their quarrel-,
some and pugnacious natures. In the |
wild state, the males light desperately,
doing great harm to each other; and
this fighting, quarrelsome disposition i
la Inherited by the domestic duck. The'
temper of the drake la spoken of as
abominable; his persecution of other
poultry Is never ceasing, and he Is
credited with having attacked even
children when his "dander was up."
The flesh of the muscovy Is considered
very good when they are young, and
compares favorably with that of any
other duck. They do not lay nearly
so many eggs as the common kinds.
When raising these ducks their wings
must be flipped to keep them from
flying.
The head of the muscovy dock Is!
rather long, and In the drake It Is
large, the top being covered with long
crest-like feathers, which rise and fall
when the bird Is alarmed. The face
la the most distinctive part of these
ducks, the cheeks being naked, with a
|
Pair of White Muecovy Ducks.
scarlet fleshy space aroond the eyes,
and the base of the bill caruncmlated
also with scarlet folds. This large,
red fsoe gives them s savage appear-,
ance, and to some It la hldeona. The
drake does not have the curled feath
ers In the tall as do other ducks. The
standard weight of the adult drake Is
- tea possds; adult dusk, ssjss posads;
young drake, eight, pounds; young
duck, six pounds.
RUSSIANS INFLICT
LOSS 10 GEM
HEAVY LOSSSES SUSTAINED BY
TUETONS THROWN AGAINST
RUSSIAN HORDE.
KAISER JOINS HIS ARMIES
Gives Encouragement to Von Hlndan
burg.—Attempt to Reach Coast
Apparently Abandoned.
London. —Latest official Russian an
nouncements still claim advantage in
the fighting in Northern Poland, but
depreciate exaggerated reports of
their successes., Germany declares
officially that tho Russlaif attacks
have been repulsed and that German
counter-attacks have been successful.
The German emperor has joined
Field Marshal von Hlndenburg In the
East to offer his advice and to encour
age his troops.
Enormous losses have been Inflicted
on the Germans, according to the Rus
sian statement, but no mention is
made of the capture of German divi
sions, so freely claimed by the Petro
grad correspondents of London and
Paris papers.
Some days must elapse before this
battle, which promises to prove the
most decisive of the war, is concluded.
So far, all that Is definitely known is
that the German advance has been
stopped. Some of the German troops
have been partly or wholly sun-round
ed but they still are fighting stub
bornly to break their way through the
Russian linee, apparently to the north
ward, where they hope to rejoin rein
forcements from Thorn.
In the battle before Cracow the
Russians claim decisive success. Dur
ing the last week they took 30,000
prisoners In that region, which* is
taken In Petro grad to mean that Cra
cow will not bar the Russian advance
in Silesia from the South but that,
with the Austrian army beaten, it will
be necessary only to mask the fort
resses.
The Russians also announce success
on the Austrian side of the Carpa
thians and against the Turks in the
C&ucusus, athough in both regions
the worst of weather has prevailed.
In the West, the Germans, although
making an occasional infantry attack,
seem content at present to bombard
the Allied positions with somewhat
lighter guns than they have been
using.
They may mean either that they are
■ending troops and artillery to the
east or that they are preparing a new
attack against the Allies.
That the enterprise that failed In
Flanders will not be repeated for the
present seems probable as the Allies
have been allowed to capture some
points of vantage around Yprea pre
viously considered necessary to the
Germans plans. There has been a
minor and Insignificant attack near
Arras.
An interesting report from Field
Marshal Sir John French covering the
period of the battle in Flanders and
the days Immediately preceding It,
shows that this battle was brought
about, first by the Allies' attempts to
outflank the Germans who countered
and then by their plans to move to
the northeast to Ghent and Bruges,
which also failed. After this the Ger
man offensive began, with the French
coast ports as the objective, but this
movement, like those of the Allies
met with failure.
Field Marshal French gives it as
his opinion that the German losses
have been thrice as great as those
of the Allies and speaks emphatically
of the future.
There apparently has been no de
velopment in the Balkan situation
but stress is laid on the cause of the
Roumanian king's speech at the open
ing of parliament, in which he said:
"I am convinced that, realizing the
importance of the present situation,
you will give the government every
assistance In passing such legislation
as is demanded by the circumstances
and required to meet the needs of the
army."
All Quiet at Flanders.
While comparative quiet prevails
along the battle lines in Flanders and
Northern France official reports from
the eastern theater of the war indicate
that the fighting at various points,
particularly in Russian Poland, has
been of a very stubborn nature.
The Russians admit tjiy between
the Vistula and the Warta Rivers the
Germans still maintain strongly for
tified positions, although their losses
are reported very large. The Rus
sians again have occupied Czernowlts
and the Austrlans are retreating pre
cipitately from Buqowina.
Emperor William, according to Ber
lin advices. Is with the German army
In the east.
Field Marshal French, commander
of the British expeditionary forces. In
an official statement gives an optimis
tic view it the situation In France and
Belgium. His report brings the op
eration only ap to November 20, but
he concludes by saying signs are in
evidence that "we are possfbly In the
last stages of the battle fsbm Ypres
to Armentleree" ss ths German artil
lery fire had slackenede and Infantry
attacks virtually haa ceased.
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TM> money was raised by a committee
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made deetltate by the war in Europe.
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Villa Troops Join Zapata.
Washington. Administration offi
cials credited reports that General
Villa's troops had Joined Zapata's
forces In Mexico City. They bad no
definite advices. The last dispatch to
, the State Department, reported that
i Zapata's men and agsnts of General
Villa controlled the dty. All official
dispatches say order is being main
tained. the only looting mentioned be
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