JOHANNES, A MONK, FORETOLD
PRESENT WORLD WAR WITH
REM ARK ABLE ACCl R ACV.
ERRORS DUE TO TRANSLATION.
Prophet Told of a Monarch Who
Would Call Himself the Antichrist
and Who Represents Kaiser Wil
helm—Antichrist Will Lose His
Crow n.
In war times prophets arise and
prophecies of old are dug up. Recent- \
ly copies of newspapers from several
sources have been handed into the Co
lumbian carrying what appears to be
an authentic prophecy uttered more j
than 300 years ago. One of the news- |
papers quotes the information bureau '
at Washington as saying the prophe- '
cy is reasonably authentic. Frederick j
J. Haskins, well known newspaper j
writer, says the old prophecy of Fra- j
tre Johannes, the monk, was discov
ered in an old parchment in the con
vent of the Holy Ghost at \\ ismer,
Germany, and is kept under glass in j
the town hall.
Mr. Haskins says it is no doubt, in
,1 measure, true, and the discrepancies
between the various texts are due
largely to translation.
As a key to this prophecy one must
realize today that the kaiser is a Ger- I
man Lutheran. He has a withered
ana. Germany is the black eagle,
Austria, her ally, has also an eagle.
Russia is the white eagle. France is
the cock, England the British Em
pire, is the leopard.
The real antichrist will be one of ■
the rnonarchs of his time, a Lutheran
Protestant. He will invoke God and
give himself out as His messenger,
or apostle.
i'nis prince of lies will swear by
the Bible. He will represent himself
as the arm of the Most High, sent to j
chastise corrupt peoples.
He will have only one arm. but his |
innumerable armies who will take for
their advice the words, “God is with
us” will resemble the infernal re- 1
gions.
For a long time he will act with j
<raft and strategy. His spies will
overrun the earth, and he will be mas
ter of the secrets of the mighty. He
will have learned men in his pay, who
will maintain and undertake to prove j
his celestial mission.
A war will afford him the the op
portunity of throwing off the mask.;
It will not be in the first instance a!
war against a French monarch. But
it will be one of such nature that af
ter two weeks all will realize its uni
versal character
Not only all Christians but Mussul
man- and even more distant peoples
<
will be involved from the four quar
ters of the earth.
For the third week the angels will
perceive that the man is antichrist and
all will become his slaves if they do
not overthrow this conqueror.
Antichrist will be recognized by
various tokens—in special he will i
1
massacre the priests, the monks, the '
women, the children and the aged.
He will show no mercy, but will pass,
torch n hand, like the barbarians, but ]
invoking God.
His words of imposture will re- ;
semble those of Christians, but his I
vows of all the human race.
He will have an eagle in his arms,
there will also be an eagle in the
arms of his confederate. But the lat
ter will be a Christian and will die
from the malediction of Pope Bene
dict, who will be elected at the begin
ning of the re:gn of antichrist.
In order to conquer antichrist, it
will be necessary to kill more men
than Rome ever contained. It will
need the energies of all the kingdoms,
because the cock, the leopard and the
white eagle will not be able to make
an end of the human race.
Never will humanity have been
faced with such peril, because the
triumph of the antichrist would be
that of the demon, who will have tak
en possession of his personality.
For it has been said that twenty
centuries after the incarnation of the
word, the beast will be incarnated in
his turn and will menace the world
with as many evils as the divine in
carnation has brought it graces.
Toward the 2000 antichrist will be
made manifest. And his .army wifl
surpass in number anything that can
be imagined. There will be Christians
among his cohorts and there will be
Mohammedans among the defenders
of the lamb, as well as some heathen
soldiers.
For the first time the lamb will be
red—for blood will flow in the do
mains of the four elephants at once.
The black eagle will hurl himself
upon the cock, which will lose many
feathers. It will soon be exhausted,
but for the leopard and its claws.
The black eagle, who will come
from the land of Luther, will make a
surprise attack upon the cock.
This white eagle will come from the
north.
The black eagle will find itself
forced to let go the cock in order to
tight the white eagle, whereupon the
cock will pursue the black eagle into
the land of the antichrist, to aid the
white eagle.
When the beast finds himself lost
he will become furious.
Men will be able to cross over the
rivers on the bodies of the dead.
Antichrist will sue for peace many
times, but the seven angels who
marched before three animals of the
land, will have proclaimed that vic
tory will not be given except that on
conditions that antichrist will be
crushed like straw upon the threshing
floor.
The three animals will not be per
mitted to cease fighting so long as
antichrist has soldiers.
It will be made manifest that the
combat which will be fought out in
that part of the country in which
forges his arms is no human conflict.
The animal defenders of the lamb will
exterminate the last army of anti
christ.
Antichrist will lose his crown and
will die in solitude and madness. His
empire will be divided into 22 states,
but none will have any longer forti
cations, armies or ships of war.
The white eagle, by order of Mi
chael, will drive the crescent out of
Europe, where there will be no longer
any but Christians. He will install
himself at Constantinople.
GERMANY SUFFERS
CLOTHING FAMINE
NEW YORK, Jane 15.—The scar
city of clothing in Germany has re
sulted in an order that all municipali
ties negotiate with societies for the
utilization of materials used for hall
decorations, says the Berlin Tageblatt.
The imperial clothing board has been
forced to deny the applications of
communities for the delivery of cloth
ing and linen of rcity children sent to
the country, because of the scarcity of
supplies. Worn footwear and old
leather may be sold only to persons
and boards designated by the imper
ial board for shoe supply. The same
holds good as to all finished goods in
whole or in part of leather such as
trunks and hat and helmet boxes, foot
balls, dice boxes, saddles, school knap
sacks, harnesses, card cases.
SEEK TO PREVENT RUSH.
LONDON, June 17—In order to pre
vent the rush of workers the board of
trade tramways committee suggests
that industrial concerns should “stag
ger” their times of opening and clos
ing. By taking on and discharging
work people at intervals of ten minu
utes or so, the cars could be worked
more economically and there would be
a continuous stream of passengers in
stead of the present rush at certain
houi's of the day.
COMPLIMENTS HIS SON.
AMSTERDAM, June 17.—Kaiser
Wilhelm, congratulating the German
crown prince on his recent successes
against the allies, says that the Teu
ton armies have shattered the allied
reserves and have taken 85,000 war
prisoners since the offensive which
started March 21.
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DIRECTOR - GENERAL McADOO
TELLS OF HIS POLICY WITH RE
SPECT TO TRANSPORT ATIONLIN
GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL
Presidents of Great Railway System:
of Country Have Been Relieved
from Duty and Federal Managers
Will Take Their Places—Plan Gives
Nation Direct Control.
WASHINGTON, L). C., June 15.—
Director-General McAdoo's announce
ment of the new policy of railroad
control is as follows:
In view of the direct responsibility
for the operation of the railroads ol
the country placed upon Director Gen
eral McAdoo by the act of ingress
and by the proclamations of the presi
dent, he has been unable to escape the
conclusion that it will be advisable to
place in direct charge of each prop
erty for operating purposes a repre
sentative, to be known as the federal
manager, wfu5 will report to the re
! gional director. As far as practiea
j ble, this federal manager will be
) chosen from the operating officers of
I the particular property, who are
! therefore entirely familiar with its
employes and with its conditions.
Except so far as may be* necessary
to meet the emergency conditions
which compel the government to take
control of the railroads, the federal
manager of eaefi railroad will endeav
or to avail himself to the fullest ex
tent of the advantages incident to the
operation of the particular railroad
as a unit and the preservation of its
identity. This is believed to be of
essential importance, not only to se
cure the best results during the pe
riod of government control, but also
to give the greatest degree of reas
surance to the officers and employes
that the railroad careers upon which
they have entered will not be nar
rowed, but, if anything, will be broad
■ ened, and to give the greatest possi
ble reassurance to the stockholders
that their just interests in the prop
erties will be respected and that
nothing will be needlessly done to
have even the appearance of impair
| ing their just rights.
While in this way the responsibil
ity for the operation of the property
will be directly to the regional direct
I ors, and riot to the boards of direct
ors, it is the purpose of the director
general to accord to the board of di
rectors and their representatives the
; fullest opportunity to keep advised as
to the operation and improvement of
the properties and to maintain with
the director general and the regional
directors the fullest interchange of
views as to what is in the best inter
est of the government and of the
stockholders.
In the development of this policy
the regional directors and also the
federal managers, will be required to
sever their official relations with the
particular companies and to become
exclusive representatives of the Unit
ed States railroad administration.
The first moves in the inauguration
of this policy will be through the cre
ation of two new regions, to be known
as the “Allegheny region” and the
“Pocahontas region.”
The Allegheny region will consist,
broadly, of the Pennsylvania lines
east of and including Pittsburgh and
Erie; Baltimore & Ohio, east of Pitts
burgh and the Ohio river, including
Pittsburgh terminals; Bessemer &
Lake Erie railroad, Cumberland Val
ley railroad, Central Railroad of New
Jersey, Coal & Coke railroad, Phila
delphia & Reading railway, Western
Maryland railway, Cumberland &
Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie. This region will be plac
ed in charge of C. H. Markham as re
gional director, (wdio has resigned his
connections with the Illinois Central
and other companies,) who will have
offices in Philadelphia.
The Pocahontas region will consist
of the Chesapeake & Ohio raihvay
east of Columbus, Cincinnati arid Lou
isville; the Norfolk & Western rail
way, and the Virginian railway, in
cluding the terminals of all lines at
Hampton Roads. With the exception
of the Allegheny and the Pocahontas
regions, the eastern regions will re
main as originally defined, with A. H.
Smith as regional director, and dis
trict directors under Regional Direct
or Smith will be appointed for New
England and for that portion of the
eastern region west of Pittsburgh and
the Ohio river and. south of the Erie
main line. The selection of the re
gional directors for the Pocahontas
region and for the southern region,
succeeding Mr. Markham, as well as
of the two new district directors un
der Regional Director Smith will be
announced later.'
The same policy will be applied
from time to time, as rapidly as may
be convenient, in other parts of the
country, always with the greatest pos
sible regard for all the interests af
fected, and with a view to preserving
intact, as far as reasonably practica
ble, the operating organizations of
the companies.
PART OF PARK
J FORMER BANDITS’ STRONGHOLD
TO BE PLACED IN CONFINES
OF YELLOWSTONE.
LIVINGSTONE, Mont., June 15.—
A bandit stronghold may be added to
the Yellowstone National park. The
Jackson Hole country—once the re
sort of bad men of every class—is
the striu which it is proposed to at
tach to the reservation.
For thirty years, Jackson’s Hole
has played an important part in lurid
literature as well as in sensational
fact. Thousands of “wild west” stor
ies have mentioned that bullet-swept
region, where criminals fled from
posses and where a comparatively
few men could hold a company of sol
diers at bay.
nepresentauve iuonaeu, oi vv yom
j in^r, is fostering a measure to add
about (>0.000 acres of Wyoming pub
lic land south of the park to the Yel
lowstone reservation. There are very
few homesteaders on this land and it
is believed that their claims can be
adjusted without difficulty.
The tract is as beautiful, it is said,
as any part of the Yellowstone region
: and this is the leading reason for the
desire to add it to the park. Lofty
mountains, many of them covered
with dense forests, rise from this
: land. Great prairies, which once
were deserts, stretch for miles. Hun
dreds of striking buttes whose cran
nies furnished hiding places and fort
ifications for Indians and robbers, and
fugitives, dot the country.
Grand Teton mountain and Mount
Moran are included in the proposed
addition, but Jackson’s Hole is per
i haps the best-known spot. Again and
again, in pioneer days, Indians flash
ed into this depression and disappear
; ed. Bad men learned the secrets of
the Hole and often they got there a
few horse-jumps ahead of their pur
suers. As late as 1914, the crags
echoed to the clatter of hoofs and the
whine of bullets. On July 29, of that
year, two bandits held up eighteen
Yellowstone park coaches and after
robbing more than 100 tourists, escap
ed to the Hole. Soldiers searched and
searched and found nothing.
Now Representative Mondell hopes
to change the order of things. His
plan provides that hotels be built
where the Red Men once pitched their
: tepees; that comfortable lodges be
: erected among the crannies of the
bandits and that the government shall
! see to it that no tourist is held up—
not even by hotel men.
AMERICANS ON
ALSACE FRONT
WITH THE AMERICAN- ARMY
IN FRANCE, June 17.—The public
press is now permitted to announce
that American forces have taken over
allied sectors on the Alsace front.
The United States troops entered
these positions, relieving French
troops, May 21.
A fever is a funny thing. It makes
a fellow hot-headed and at the same
' time gives him cold feet.
FORMER PRESIDENT SEES UAL
ANCE OF POWER IN HANDS
OF UNITED STATES.
LONG FIGHT YET, HE DECLARES
Says War Will Be Mon and Over bj
Time United States Has Been in ii
Three Years Take Two Years t(
Get Started Right and Anothei
Year to Cleanup.
ROCK ISLAND, 111., June 15.—
Former Persident William H. Taft
in a speech before a large audienc<
here last night, expressed the view
that the world war wall not be ovei
for three years yet. He predictec
that the war will be won by the al
lies by the time the United States has
been in it three years. He stated thai
possibly the United States would re
quire two years to get started right
and then it would take another yeai
to defeat the Germans. The formei
president declared that he had nc
doubt whatever of the ultimate out
come of the war. He couldn’t set
anything but a complete victory foi
the allied forces.
The former president has been one
of the most loyal supporters of the
administration, despite the fact that
he is one of the leaders of the great
opposition party. lie says it is no
time now to discuss politics. It is the
time when all Americans must stand
together to win the war for human
freedom and liberty. While he has
taken ocasion to criticize the govern
ment, his criticism is always of a con
structive and helpful nature.
CHICAGO, June 15.—With mom
than a hunched homing pigeon lofts
over the country, experts in training
at every camp and new tests being
made by long flights daily, the pigeon
section of the department of signal
ing is facing the serious problem of
preventing slaughter of the birds by
persons who fail to realize their im
portance. It is understood a number
of cases are under investigation by
the department of justice here. Con
gress recently passed a law provid
ing a maximum penalty of $100 fine
and six months’ imprisonment for
killing government pigeons.
The birds twined in this country
can be used in France only for breed
ing purposes, as the winged couriers
must be put into service before they
“settle” which is at the age of eight
weeks or less. France and England
have about 60,000 of the birds and
Germany, at the opening of the war.
is said to have had 50,000. The Unit
ed States is expected to have more
homing pigeons of the “90 per cent ef
ficient” class than any country in the
world before winter, according to of
ficers.
Birds accepted by the United States
must have pedigrees and be of the
racing homer breed. Those now used
as carriers are not the original car
riers, but are known as the racing
Belgian homer, a cross from the Eng
lish carrier to the tumbler and ther
through one of the owl-pigeon breeds
“Up to a distance of thirty miles
the homing pigeon can make twc
miles a minute,” said Lieutenant Wil
liam L. Butler, department pigeon of
ficer, centi’al department signal corps
United States army. “They have
flown as far as 800 miles on a single
flight.”
“Lieutenant Butler said that these
birds, when released under the heav
iest barrage, would swing upward
cut a great circle to get their bear
ings and then dart for their lofts a1
a height of half a mile with sue!
speed as to defy anti-aircraft fire.
Recent tests have shown that or
short distance flights the birds car
surpass the wireless in speed wher
the message is of any length.
Job work at The Times office.
LONDON, June 15.—Airplane 1
i i from England to America are <
| J feasible by use of a machine trav<
' day and night at the rate of 100 r,
j an hour, declared F. Handley P
■. inventor of a type of machine na
j for him, in a recent statement to
representative of the Daily Expi
“I have received a cablegram f
1 j Canada congratulating me on
| construction of a machine to tr;
| to and from America,” continued
: inventor, “but I have no such
1 chine on hand.
“Ihe trip would be from Irelanc
New York, via Newfoundland, be
1,700 miles. An alternative jour
to America would be via the Azo:
1 i On the steadv 100-miles-an-hour
!
1 j sis you can compute all the Iong-<
I tance runs that occur to' you, incl
'j ing week-end trips to China £
| Peru.
| “For short distances, such as L<
I don to Manchester, I am not inclir
; to think that airplanes will take t
place of railways unless in case
pressing urgency. A comfortable fir
class carriage of a fast train w
continue to be a more usual course
travel. The airplane has a great a
vantage of speed, but it has seve
j handicaps in the way of wind ai
j fog and other adverse climatic cone
J tior.s.
“I do not thinjv that after the w;
wealthy men will take up private m*
tor cars. Few people can afford pr
| vate yachts, and a pleasure airplar
: would be as expensive as a yacht.
“There is no such thing as perpei
| ual safety in the air, and this is boun
j to have an effect on the average mai
, I am speaking, of course, of the irr
| mediate future only. In the ‘long rc
I suits of time’ there are infinite possi
| bilities in the evolution of aviation.
“There is an immense future fo
aircrait as aids to the world s pros
peritv, but what I call the tourist ide;
of ‘round the world in forty hours
leads nowhere and means nothing.
“In the course of time bigger ma
chines will be built with more power
ful engines to direct them, but I car
see no immediate prospect of turning
out airplanes that will carry as many
passengers as ocean liners. We must
j continue to beware of hot air in air
plane prophecies.”
GERMAN STRIKE
IS THREATENED
AMSTERDAM, June 17.—Political
strikes are arranged to take place in
Nuremberg, Germany, today, accord
ing to advices received yesterday in
Amsterdam. The strikes are called as
a protest against the reduced bread ra
tions and also because of the pospone
! ment of suffrage reform in Prussia.
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BULGARIANS FIRED
ON EMPEROR’S TRAIN
GENEVA, June 17.—The train
bearing the Austrian emperor and em
press from Constantinople, where they
I had been on a brief visit, reached Vi
I enna yesterday in a dilapidated condi
tion. Advices from the Swiss frontier
; town of Buehs give additional details
I to the reports previously received here
i of the attacks on the Austrian royal
| ties.
The train came by way of Sofia and
was stoned by Bulgarian troops. Even
some rifle shots were fired, and several
members of the royal entourage were
j injured by glass from broken windows.
Not a cheer was heard when the
Austrian royal couple passed through
Bulgarian stations, there being only
comparatively small military demon
strations.
LOCAL ATTACKS ARE
BEATEN SAYS BERLIN
BERLIN, June 17.—Official: Local
, allied attacks to the north of Bethune
L were beaten off by German forces last
( night. Local attacks to the south of
the Aisne river w'ere repulsed by our
forces. In both attacks the enemy
lost heavily.