SOI L OF BAND OF CONSPIRAT
ORS FORMED IN SWITZER
LAND BY CONSTANTINE.
STREIT IS CHIEF ADVISER.
Ex-Empress Sophie Furious When
Plan to I'se President Wilson of
United States as Tool of Kaiser
Wilhelm of Germany Fails to Ma
terialize.
PARIS. July 3.—Interesting details
of the plottings of former King Con
stantine of Greece and his followers in
Switzerland are revealed in an article
published in I.e Matin from a special
correspondent who has been investi
gating the subject in that country.
Constantine, Sophie, and their train
of fifty-five persons, including several
Princes, took up their abode in several
hotels on the Dolder, a wooden hill
overlooking the lake at Zurich, in Sep
tember last, when they arrived from
San Moritz. Zurich, after much
thought, was selected for their abode
because of the numerous German
banks and other organizations repre
sented there. Ably advised by Georg
Streit, the former Greek foreign min
ister, and Theotokis, the former Greek
minister at Berlin, the ex-King has
created on the Dolder a powerful or
ganization for espionage and intrigue.
Of this organization the former
Queen Sophie is the soul, and an Aus
trian banker, Rosenberg, who before
the war operated in Paris, is the di
rector. In one of the hotels Streit di
rects the ex-king’s foreign affairs; in
another Theotokis acts as the king’s
minister of the interior. Each has
under his order’s a small army of typ
ists, and boasts of the number of re
ports they send from time to time to
the allied ministers in Switzerland.
Issues False Passports.
Theotokis manages to issue false
passports, of which Greek plotters can
obtain as many as they want from
Germany. Theotokis’s lack of princi
ple may be judged by the statement
he made before the war broke out:
“We must work with Germany,” he
said, “in order to get hold of a part of
Serbia, no matter if she is our ally.
Don’t let us have any stupid preju
dices. We must get hold of all we
I
can.
Streit sometimes develops daiing
ideas. A few months ago he struck the
idea of securing, through the medium
of President Wilson, the evacuation
of the Macedonian front by the allies,
and induced the kaiser to give bus
word of honor that neither the Bul
gurs nor their allies would take ad
vantage of this evacuation to attack
the allied army of occupation. This
ingenious manoeuvre, however, failed
pitiably.
President Wilson replied that Mace
donian afFairs concerned France, Eng
land, and Italy; and he did not con
ceal his opinion that the kaiser’s word
of honor was not a very valuable
guarantee. It was a stormy day at
the Dolder when the ex-queen Sophie
heard the plan had failed. Her anger
was all the greater, as she had allow
ed herself to be deluded into thinking
that, as William approved the propos
al, it could not fail to succeed.
In accordance with its well known
hospitable traditions, the Swiss gov
ernment courteously permits Constan
tine to enjoy all the royal privileges
extraterritorially. It does not, of
course, recognize him as a sovereign,
as it is in official relations with his
successor, King Alexander. But it al
lows him and his entourage entire
liberty.
The Germans have not lost the
^ chance to take advantage of this, as
they formerly did with the ex-Khe
dive, Abbas II.
The Hellenic Union.
Allied with Constantine’s organiza
tion, is the famous Hellenic Union,
founded in October, 1916, by Theoto
kis, who came especially to Switzer
land from Berlin for the purpose.
Among the members of this concern
are Cartalis, a former Greek deputy,
who was enabled by the father of
Theotokis, then premier, to escape
from prison after being accused of
murder at Volo. Another leading
member of the union is a certain Per
vanas, formerly a tobacco merchant
of Dresden, who went bankrupt in
Greece, and was sentenced for forgery
in Germany. The secretary of the
J union is an unfrocked priest.
Such are the pitiful creatures of
whom Constantine is making use.
Constantine has also organized a
bogus ne\s agency, which sends out;
from Arosa in the canton of Grisons, |
under sealed envelopes, telegrams
purporting to emanate from every
capital in Europe, although it receives
none from anvwhere.
A namesake of the king, a certain
Constantine, a millionaire cigarette
manufacturer of Hanover, is notablfc
for his liberal support of the fallen
king's cause.
Hut the grand paymaster of Con
stantine’s gang of undesirables is the
notorious Rosenberg. Every evening
after dinner, two or three dozen
Greeks in evening dress and mostly
armed with monocles, are to be seen
on the terraces of the hotels, near the
king’s residence, taking liqueurs
which, like the dinners, are always
paid for by Rosenberg. These men,
while their fellow-counrtymen are
fighting for the allies, boast of being
Constantine’s secret agents, and do
all kinds of shady work.
It was two of this circle who were
recently captured in Greece after be
ing landed from a submarine, and
were shot out of hand by the Greek
government.
Most of the more dangerous work,
however, is done by men recruited
from Goerlitz, where the Greek troops
who were surrendered by their treach
erous commander, Hadjopoulos, are
interned.
luaun cunciuues us urucie as
follcnvs:
“Plots against our ai'my in the east
are developed at Zurich, under cover
of Swiss hospitality. At the head of!
the conspiracy is a Hohenzollern with j
funds to the extent of two millions of j
dollars, in the care of Rosenberg, and |
enjoying all the benefits of extraterri
toriality. We do not ask Switzerland j
to abandon her benevolent traditions,
but it is an abuse of these traditions1
should she permit these perfidious |
plots to be hatched against our I
troops. Constantine’s little Court on \
ihe Dolder is amusing at first blush,
but it is impossible to smile when one |
remembers the kind of work being!
done by this little gang of spiteful
people:”
HOUSE PASSES
THE RESOLUTION
WASHINGTON, July 6.—By a vote
of 221 to 4, the house pased a resolu
tion authorizing the president to take ;
over the telegraph, telephone andi
radio systems of the nation for the j
period of the war. The senate’s ac
tion on the resolution will likely be
deferred until after the summer
recess.
FIRST MAIL FROM
THE INTERIOR ARRIVES
(Valdez Miner.)
W'm. Schmidt, the Valdez mail car
river, who left here June 1 on the in
itial trip of his summer contract, re
turned Monday from the interior, hav
ing made exceptionally good time. He
was forced to make the trip afoot on
account of the trail being blocked by
slides and snowdrifts, but averaged
thirty miles a day with 40 pounds of
first class mail on his back. Mr.
Schmidt reports the canyon blocked
with several huge slides, and that the
trail at the Summit has been badly
washed by the heavy rains of last fall.
He reports lots of huge drifts between
Ptarmigan Drop and Beaver Dam.
At some points on the trail the road
was flooded by the melting snows and
he was compelled to make a long de
tour up the mountains and down
again. Notwithstanding all these im
pei’iments Mr. Schmidt packed his
lunch, an extra pair of shoes for rest
ing his feet and 40 pounds of mail
matter, making the phenomenal aver
age of 30 miles per day.
NATIONAL ARMY MEN LEARN
HOW TO DEFEND SELVES
IN CASE OF NEED.
HOW FAKE ATTACKS ARE MADE
From the Time the Infantrymen Go
Into the Trenches, the “Gas Men”
Keep Them in a State of Expectan
cy by Means of Minor Showers of
Tear Gas Bombs.
CAMP KEARNEY, San Diego,
Calif., July 3.—Some danger and a
quantity of hard work make up the lot
of the gas non-commissioned officers
who stage the gas “attacks” being
given troops stationed here as part of
their instruction in defense measures
against gas. They go at their tasks
with a spirit of fun, however, and
lighten the most arduous work by a
jest about what its result will be on
the men in the trenches, awaiting the
onslaught with bomb or cloud that
will result from that work. The men
on the “defense” end of the operation,
too, the forces waiting in the trenches
for the gas attack to commence, of
ten furnish a good deal of humor.
The correspondent of the Associat
ed Press recently was permitted to
accompany the gas non-commissioned
officers representing the attacking
force in a large gas demonstration, in
which a battalion of the 159th (Cali
fornia) infantry and some attached
troops held a series of trenches dur
ing repeated gas attacks.
From the time the infantrymen
went into the trenches the “gas men”
kept them in a state of expectancy by
means of minor showers of tear gas
bombs, but the “principal show,” as
one gas officer called it, did not be
gin until late in the evening, several
hours after the trenches had been oc
cupied. Everything went by schedule.
At a stated time, the gas men massed
their forces along one of the trenches,
ready to give its occupants a shower
of gas bombs. At other times they
gathered about the big cylinders of
chlorine gas that were to be let loose
on the infantry.
After they had strung themselves
along the trench for the first general
attack, which was to be with bombs,
and taken cover wherever they could,
there was nothing to do but chat in
whispers and wait until the “zero
point”—the hour set for the opera
tion to commence—arrived. On the
minute when that time came, the}
began tossing bombs toward the
trench, taking care, however, that
none fell inside the walls.
As the first bomb, which happened
to be loaded with tear gas, exploded
near the front line trench, the cry of
“Gas!” came from the support trench,
well outside the affected area. A mo
ment later gas alarms were rattling
all over the trench area. One section
lacked a proper signal, but made one
of a tin can and some pebbles. For a
few seconds there were cries of “gas”
in every direction, muffled because
coming from inside the masks.
To simulate battle conditions the
better, one of the gas men tossed dy
namite bombs about the center of the
area, their heavy detonations resem
bling those of high explosive shells.
For several minutes the mixed bom
bardment continued, after which the
gas men moved on to another location,
the dynamite man carrying his bombs
in a small tin box slung over his
shoulder. The other bombers carried
canvas pouches filled with bombs.
As they moved on, the dynamite
bomber picked up a piece of cloth
from the ground. “I want that,” he
said. “I’ll tie a couple of bombs to
gether with it and make somebody
squeal.”
As the attackers distributed them
selves about the area for another as
sault, one of them had occasion to
read his orders. “Puff up on that cig
arette,” he told another bomber, “let’s
have a light.” He read the order by
the glow of the cigarette, which he
shielded in his hands, rather than dis
close the bombers’ position by strik
ing a light.
The second zero point arrived while
the flutter of fans, removing the gas
from the trench last attacked, still
could be heard plainly. For several
minutes then the heavy thud of the
dynamite bombs mingled with the
sharper explosion of the tear-gas
i bombs. The first explosion brought
| the cry of “gas” from a trench barely
! thirty yards away. One of the bomb
| ers aimed in the general direction of
I the noise and with the explosion of
that bomb the gas sentry started his
alarm. As each bomb fell near him,
this sentry worked the alarm faster;
if the explosions were a little distance
away, he slackened his efforts. One
of the bombers soon discovered this,
and placed a number of bombs near
the sentry.
“If this had been actual, I’d have
gotten that fellow ten times over,”
said the bomber, continuing to drop
dynamite bombs a little nearer, just
five yards short of the trench, where
the parapet protected the men inside,
but the noise stirred them up. The
dynamite bombers were chosen espe
cially for their proficiency—in throw
ing grenades, *as they had to be very
careful not to hit the trench and so
cause casualties.
In order to be sure they would not
strike the ti’ench with a bomb, they
had a man pace off the distance to
the floor of the parapet. They they
“set” their throwing muscles to place
the bombs just ten yards short of the
trench. A good bomber can always
place a grenade within two or three
yards of any object within his range,
even if he cannot see it, by being giv
en its location, as “twenty yards for-j
ward, three right.”
After a few minutes, the last smoke
bomb had flashed its greenish glare
over the space between the trenches
and the last tear gas bomb had spray
ed its load of anguish over the defend
ing infantry. The gas men gathered
together again, each with a comment
on what had happened.
“One of you fellows dropped a tear
gas bomb right at my feet,” said one. j
“I had to take to my mask.” Until!
that time, none of the attackers had j
used a gas mask, as they were work
ing to the windward side of their oh - -
jectives and the air currents had car-!
ried the gas away from them.
Stumbling over rocks and leaping \
over trenches in the dark, the gas men
wended their way up to one end of
the trench area, to make a cloud at
tack on the infantry from the gas
cylinders there. But the wind nad
changed, and for the next few min
utes it was a case of “all hands turn
to and carry gas cylinders!” With
six or eight men to a cylinder the gas
men had h'eavy going getting the big
containers across trenches and down a
hill to a new point of attack a quar
ter of a mile away.
They had only a few minutes left in
which to change their plans, but when
the appointed time came, they were
ready, though perspiring. Wit’; a row
of “smoke candles” ready behind the
gas cylinders they wanted a moment
and then turned, on all the cylinders
and lighted all the candles at once
The smoke and chlorine rolled over
toward the trenches in a dense cloud.
A gas sentry saw it and sounded the
aim in, a different one from that used
for bomb attacks, and afte1' a few
snouts here and there the men settled
down to await the deadly vapor in si
lence. None of them cared to take a
chance at talking, even inside a mask,
until the gas was gone.
For pei-haps five minutes the smoke
candles fizzed and the chlorine hissed
from the tanks. Then the order was
“turn it off,” and the cloud was stop
ped. The gas, however, hung over the
trenches some minutes, cutting them
off from observation from outside.
Venturing down into the area the
gas had covered, the gas non-commis
sioned officers encountered the linger
ing fumes and most of them hurried
into their masks. A few who thought
it not strong enough to necessitate
the use of masks, changed their minds
hurriedly a moment later.
After that the attacking party
broke up, each member going about a
different task. Some crawled along
communicating trenches and bombed
the “liason sentries” who maintained
communication trenches between dif
ferent lines; others bombed working
parties, and a special section devoted
its attention to battalion headquar
ters, where there were a number of
officers.
As usual, the bombers were far
from popular with the men in the
trenches. Sometimes these threaten
ed to return the fire with rocks. One
of the bombers who was throwing dy
namite bombs, feared his weapons
might hurl pebbles into a trench and
injure someone.
“Are there any rocks over there?”
he asked a comrade who had been
near a trench.
“Don’t worry,” the man assured
him, “You’re too far away from them
to throw any at you from the trench.”
ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISH
ED FIGURES IN RELIGIOUS
WORLD OF NATION.
WAS A PRINTER BY TRADE, j
Dr. Gladden’s Activity in Bringing!
Church Life Closer to Every Day;
Problems Was Well Illustrated in
I
His Personal Work in Columbus— I
Was Roosevelt’s Friend.
COLUMBUS, O., July 3.—Rev. Dr. I
Washington Gladden, the nationally
known Congregational minister and;
author, died at his home in this city;
last night. Death was not unexpected,:
as the revered minister had long beenj
in failing health. He was 81 years of;
age.
Distinguished in the religious
world, Dr. Washington Gladden also
was widely known as a magazine edi
tor and writer, and the author of num
erous books, included among which is
his “Recollections.”
While working as a printer on The
Gazette at Oswego, N. Y., Dr. Glad
den first began the practice of writ
ing. While he was pastor of the Con
gregational church at North Adams,
Mass., where he had been called in
1886, he began to contribute to The
Independent and other magazines, and
wrote his first book, “Flain Thoughs
on the Art of Living.” Later Dr.
Gladden became identified with lead
ing magazines and at the close of
duties as pastor at North Adams in
1871, he joined the staff of The Inde
pendent, seiwing as editor of the pub
lication for four years.
At the close of 1874 Dr. Gladden
resigned his editorship and went to
Springfield, Mass., as pastor of the
North Congregational church. Eight
years later he became pastor of the
First Congregational church of Co
lumbus, 0. He continued pastor of the
Columbus church for 31 years, re-i
linquishing official duty at the close!
of 1913 and continuing thereafter as
pastor emeritus.
From Sunday to Sunday during his!
active pastorate in the Ohio capital,;
he labored to disentangle Christianity j
from what he believed to be its ham
pering dogmas, to vitalize it and make
application of it to the problems of
the individual, the city, the state and
the nation.
He had no sooner began his pastor
ate than the antagonism of labor and
capital was forced on his attention by
a strike in the Hocking Valley coal
mines. Though prominent members
of his church were among the employ
ers, he spoke out from his pulpit and
in private conferences, setting up
ethical standards that were new to
many. Here too, he preached ser
mons which were subsequently gath
ered into a book called “Who Wrote
the Bible?” in which he maintained
it was written by men without un
usual inspiration, which assertion be
came the object of no few attacks
throughout the country.
It was during this active part of his
life also that he made his famous re
ference to “tainted money,” the oc
casion being consideration of a gift by
John D. Rockefeller. At a national
Congregational meeting, he severely
attacked gifts to Christian work and
Read the classified ads.
his references became known country
wide.
His activity in bringing church life
closer to every day problems was well
illustrated in his personal work in Co
lumbus. He was in the forefront of
the fight for municipal reform and in
1900-1902, he served as a member of
the Columbus City Council. He great
ly helped to frame new trolley fran
chises, improve the water supply and
organize citizens for the election of
better officials.
Dr. Gladden for many years mani
fested deep interest in educational
work and lectured before leading col
leges and univresities, both of the
United States and England.
Various honors directly connected
with his Christian ministry came to
Dr. Gladden. In 1891 he was a dele
gate to the International Congress of
Congregationalists in London, and for
three years was moderator of the
Congregational church of . America—
the highest honor in that denomina
tion in the United States.
Few of his manifestations of po
litical interest attracted more atten
tion than his friendship for Theodore
Roosevelt, which began when the lat
ter was police commissioner of New
York City. Through the instrument
aliay of Colonel Roosevelt, Dr. Glad
den was able to assist in the settle
ment of the great anthracite coal
strike in 1902.
Dr. Gladden was bora at Pottsgrove,
Pa., Feb. 11, 1836, the son of Solomon
Gladden and Amanda Daniels. Until
he was 16 his uncle got him the place
of printer’s apprentice in the office of
the Oswego Gazette. In 1885 he en
tered Oswego Academy to prepare for
the ministry. Thence in September
1856 he went to Williams College,
graduating in 1859. He married Jen
nie O. Cohoon, who had been a school
mate in Oswego Academy.
JAPS ENDORSE
WILSON’S POLICY
SEATTLE, July 6.—Pacific coast
Japanese business men, in a conven
tion held in this ctiy, have pledged
themselves to loyally support the pol
icy of President Wilson toward win
ning the world war. Many prominent
Japanese business men from all over
the Pacific coast were in attendance.
CROWDER WANTS
300 ALASKANS
WASHINGTON, July 6.—General
Crowder, provost marshal, has direct
ed that Alaska furnish three hundred
white selective draft registrants,
which have been sent to Fort William
H. Seward, as soon as they can be
mobilized.
FABIAN MILLER WRITES
TO THE VALDEZ MINER
Fabian Miller, formerly an em
ployee of the Alaskan Engineering
commission at Anchorage, writes the
following letter to the Valdez Miner.
Miller was raised in Valdez and his
mother now resides there.
Camp Mils, L. I., N. Y. 6-27-18.
Editor Miner: We are now at our
poit of embarkation waiting for the
ship that is to put us across the pond.
The Thirty-first is going to make some
showing “over there.” We have about
150 real sourdough Alaskans in this
outfit and we claim to be the star per
formers.
I ordered a picture sent to you
which was taken of the Alaskans in
the regiment at Ft. Leavenworth.
There are five officers amongst the
group including Col. F. Mears, Capt.
C. R. Breck, Capt. C. G. Jones, Lieut.
Mayhew and Lieut. Kennedy, all for
merly with the Alaskan Engineering
Commission at Anchorage. This is
one fine bunch of fellows all the way
from officers down ,and it has so far
been a very enjoyable experience.
I have had one 24-hour leave of
absence in New York city. I find the
place considerably larger than Val
dez, but it does not look half as good
to me, and when the big show is over
the fastest route north will be none
too quick for me.
Regards to all in Valdez.
PVT. FABIAN MILLER,
Co. D, 31st Eng., A. E. F., via N. Y.