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INTIMATE WAR EXPERIENCES AND
OBSERVATIONS OF
LOWELL MELLET . .
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
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LONDON, Dec. 19.—First fog of th
season today. There have been fogg
days, but they don’t call it a fog her
when you can see the light in you
pipe Today they called it a fog.
Called on General Maurice. Te ex
plained some of the differences be
tween offensive and defensive wai
fare, in anticipation of a change to th
latter on the western front.
“The public is apt to believe,” sail
the general, “when the enemy gains i
bit of ground that we don't give ou
complete information. The plain fac
is that on the defensive you usuall;
don't know what you’ve lost, if yot
lose anything. When you attack yoi
have your cages ready and an office)
to count the prisoners as fast as the?
are shoved in.
“Prisoners usually are lost from th<
rent lines, where attention is prett?
ell occupied and there is no time foi
railing the roll to find out who is miss
ing. In the confusion of fighting, too
men become separated from their com
panics and it usually takes some days
to learn who is missing and who is
dead.”
The fog had not lifted when we left
the war office. In fact, it was a bit
thicker. Crossing Whitehall to the
admiralty was something of an adven
ture. It was like swimming under
water in a stream infested with sub
marines, some going upstream and
some down—most confusing.
Commander Walcott, at the admir
alty, a keen, far-sighted officer, fore
saw for our benefit the finish of the
German submarine campaign. The
commander isn’t exactly an optimist;
bis analysis of the situation showed
rather a well-reasoned confidence. I
can’t give the date when he expects
the submarine effort to end—because j
he didn’t; not because it would be
giving information to the enemy. But!
when it does end 1 will ask him if
he bad the right date in mind. Think
he’ll tell me, because he’s always been
honest about everything else.
Leaving the admiralty, you couldn’t
see the hand at the end of your armJ
^'That's the customary phrase in fog*
'hkys-t ^7' hlIg»tug a picket ft»hce
modi of the way we reached the ror
■ eign office safely. Ah except Morris.
Morris is -perfectly at home in a fog,
and'he struck out into the very midst
hv ii, making a short cut across the
Horsb Guards' parade.
At the foreign office Roxburgh, ua-j
thority on international affairs, had
progressed alphabetically through Al-j
bania, Budapest, Constantinople and(
so following to Petrograd when Mor-(
Tis arrived. He had not only got lost
in the fog, but had fallen down in the
mud of the Horse Guards parade.
Hears the Prime Minister
LONDON, Dec. 20—The “mother or
parliaments” is a good deal like her
children, or leastwise the resemblance
is very marked In the case of one
husky child, the United States con
gress. Came to this profound conclu
sion today after listening to the pro
ceedings at Westminster for some
hours. The occasion was the prime
minister’s appearance on the eve of
Christmas adjournment to discuss the
state of the war on land and sea.
Most of the speeches that preceded
that of Lloyd George bore on what
members hoped he would say; most of
those following his had to do with
what he had said or left unsaid.
The first speaker was the member
for East Glamorganshire, Mx. Ed
wards. Among the things he hoped
the prime minister would announce
was the combing out of about 200,000
single men from the coal fields for the
army, some hundreds of thousands
from munitions plants, and generally
"a ruthless re-examination of the
“badges of exemption.” Also he desired
"a definite and encouraging statement
as to that reservoir of 250,000 men in
Ireland."
Sir J. D. Rees, whom other mem
hers are required by parliamentarj
etiquette to address as “the noble lore
the member for South Nottingham,’
echoed the sentiment regarding Ire
land, but put in a word for one-mar
business concerns among his Notting
ham constituents. In conclusion h(
protested against asking for a defini
lion of war aims as “deplorable anc
unpatriotic.”
Soon following him, however, was
Major David Davies, with a very ex
plicit demand for such a definition
Firstly, he suggested, the premtei
should take the house into his confl
dence oftener. “It’s all very well,’
he said, “to make speeches to th<
; benchers at Gray's Inn. who may be
f less critical audience than the men
i bers of this house, but I certainly thin]
r he would give more confidence to th
! country if he came here oftener am
- gave us authoritative statements a
- regards the policy of the government.
- He vigorously criticized Balfour'
3 speech of the day before, saying th
| foreign office had failed to realize tha
I “the world is now being permeated b;
i new ideas which are totally at vari
t ance with some of the prehistoric
.' veiws held in the foreign office."
Diplomacy, he declared, is no longe:
ij to be regarded as the special priviiegi
l, of the foreign office. Comnnndei
'l VVedgewood interpolated:
“And of the governing classes.’*
“And, as my honorable and gailan
1 friend says, of the governing classes,'
, continued Major Davies.
] Following him there came a perfecl
j torrent of speech from a seat beneatl
j the balcony where I sat. I couldn't
j see t!u> speaker, but the evening pa
Hers note the feat that Mr. Stanton,
member for Merthyr, broke all sliced
| records, speaking 3,100 words in the
course of fifteen minutes, it must
i have been Stanton. What he wanted
the prime minister to do. he said, was
“to get more of the young men who
I are shirking around the mines or in
other industries into the army" I Tip
peroration was:
“We have these airplanes coming
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government has a little surprise In
store for us. and that one morrifng we
shall wake up and read that 500 or
1.000 airplanes have flown to Germany
and bombed them to the devil—men,
women and children, the same as they
have done our people.”
Almost missed this fine finish, for in
the midst of it f spied the boyish out
line of the prime minister—he’s really
not much bigger than Secretary of
War Baker—as he came through the
doorway back of the speaker’s dais.
No ceremony attended his entry. He
slipped in quietly and wedged himself
between Sir Eric Geddes and Bonar
Law on the front bench, where the
members of the government stt.'
Stanton sat down and ffre prime
minister stood up. He placed' a bun
dle of papers on the big desk that ex
tended from the speaker’s chair nr
front of and about half the length of'
the government bench. As he spoke
he referred to his notes, for the speech
contained many figures, said to fie a
weakness of the prime minister. While
in appearance he was as much the
evangelist as ever—the Gypsy Smith
type, not the Billy Sunday—he did not
use his evangelist voice today. The
pulpit-like effect, however, was em
phasized in other ways; by the InvoT
untary trick, for instance, of resting
his hands on the desk at a height
slightly below his shoulders, and sway
ing slowly backward and forward.
This government bench Is just a
bench, with a back, and nothing more
Lloyd George talked for almost an
hour and a half. Before he conctuded
Bonar Law, who had been slipping by
imperceptible degrees, was sitting on
the small of his back, or close thereto.
When the prime minister sat down
Sir Eric Geddes availed himself of the
chance, which he must have been wait
ing for earnestly, to brace himself by
putting one foot on the side of the big
table. Of course, it was the foot ol
the first lord of the admiralty, but
the spot where it rested was not more
than ten inches from the head of the
great gold mace, symbol of sover
elgnty, lying across the front of the
desk.
Many speakers followed. Mr. As
quiiLi s spetjcu, iiivc im:
ter's, has been fully reported. Mr
Adamson, chairman of the Labor partj
members, addressing the prime minis
ter directly, said:
“If you imagine that you are goinf
to go on making call after call for met
without some definite and distinct ar
rangement as to the conscription o
wealth, then you will find you are u]
against a very difficult proposition."
Later, when another member took Is
sue with his statement that members
of the upper classes are not found ii
, the food queues, Adamson retorted:
“I do not think you will find anj
large proportion of duchesses in thess
queues.”
It was soon after this that Lloyc
George departed. Prefacing his re
marks by saying it really wasn’t wortl
while w'hen the prime minister wasn'
there, Mr. HoggfT of Edinburgh lam
' basted the government for several min
. utes. “What we want to ask our
Helves-;’.’ be said, "and what wc want
to faKA tie prime minister wjttii is
this: Whether tbSsc government is
really competent to go on- wi** ttiw
business in. hand. I do-not think it in.”
After outlining his reasons for this
conclusion, at length, big suddenly ex,
claimed ’"The thing is so great a
farce that r do not propose to continue
my speechi further.” W'dich he didn’t.
ITALY'S HE FAME
WAS ICE DOCK HER
(By Associated Press')
NAPLES, Feb- 25.—Maciste is rap
idly supplanting the other Kalian tiltn
heroes in popular affection. Formerly
he was a longshoreman on tbe docks
here. One day a film operator, taking
the departure of a ship with some
heroes and heroines of a filta register
ing “fareweirs,” asked the Boss steve
dore to help him in the action by
hustling In some longshoremen. “I'll
get Maciste for you,” was the answer.
Maciste, faimous about the port for
his size, strength and good- humor,
registered actibn so well that he be
came a part of the movfe- company.
Today there Fs not a corner Ih tlaly
where he is unknown to movie en
thusiasts. He is particularly popular
with children, who delight to see himi
use his giant's strength in annihilat
ing some aFx or eight villains In a
drama. His most popular film Is that
where he appears as an Alpine soldier,
doing all kinds of dreadful things to
Austrians.
BRITISH SHIP COMPANIES
EARN LARGE OIVIDENDS
[ (By Associated Press)
, LONDON, Feb. 25.—An analysis of
the earnings of seventy British cargo
steamship companies for last year
shows that dividends were paid ag
gregating $13,000,000, or 19.25 per cent
on their capital. The earnings of the
same companies in pre-war days av
eraged 3.3 per cent.
The dividends of twenty-three liner
companies were 14 per cent on a cap
ital of $189,000,000.
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CONDENSED STATEMENT
Of the Financial Condition of the The First Bank of Cordova at the close
of business February 14, 1918
■ RESOURCES
Loans and discounts.$209,499.39
-jl i Bonds and warrants. 203,850.04
Banking house, furniture and fixtures... 22,987.13
Jl Cash on hand and due from banks. 131,104.54
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Total.$567,441.10
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Capital stock.$ 50,000.00
Undivided profits. 1,234.82
?eP°sits . 5131580.89
Certified checks. 425 73
Cashiers’ checks. 2,199l66
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Actual reserve held by us
(Cash on hand and due from banks) $131,104.54
Secondary reserve
(Liberty Bonds, bonds of govern
ments, count)', municipal and high
grade industrial bonds). 199,459.57
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