NOBLE FAMILY
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IN ALLEGIANCE
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ELOIS, France, Aug. 30 (Corres
pondence of Associated Press).—The
domain of Chambord, one of the rich
est and most interesting of the cha
teau districts of Touraine, and which
is included in the sequestered enemy
property in France, will become the
property of the state if a petition
signed by practically the entire adult
population of the department of the
Loir-et-Cher is granted.
Chambord, which for years has
been visited annually by thousands
of tourists, was a hunting preserve in
1519, when Francois 1 began to trans
form it into a royal country seat.
Since then it has served as a resi
dence for Henry II, Charles IX, Louis
XIII, Louis XIV, Stanislas and the
last Count of Chambord, pretender to
the throne of France under the title
of Henry V.
On the death of Henry V, the elder
branch of the Bourbon family became
extinct and the domain of Chambord,
with its magnificent Renaissance cha
teau, passed into the hands of the
Spanish Bourbons.
The dozen or more princes who
had an interest in the property at the
outbreak of the war were divided in
their sympathies. Two of the princes
of Bourbon Parma, Sixte and Xavier,
fought with the allies in the Belgian
army, others fought against them
with the Austrians. One of the prin
cesses of the family, who became em
press of Austria, was suspected in the
Central Empires of lukewarmness to
ward their cause. The question now
has arisen how to distinguish between
friend and foe in such cases. On
one point the people of Touraine are
agreed, and that is that the occasion
for the state to take possession of the
property should not be missed.
OPIUM IS SMUGGLED
THROUGH MEXICO
TO UNITED STATES
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12 (by mail).
—A shipment of crude opium con
signed as Japanese “cigars“ was im
ported in Mexico through Salina
Cruz on March 30, 1917, from Kobe,
Japan, according to declarations made
by W. E. Herrmann, described by the
papers here as a “German banker,
in a deposition made in court, follow
ing a vigorous anti-opium campaign
bv the press.
Except for a raid made bv police and
health officials and the legal inquiry
in which Herrmann figured, the
opium expose has not been pressed
in the courts. Although Herrmann, in
his deposition, did not give the size of
the shipment imported in 1917, the
newspapers declare it totaled -5,000
kilograms and that, at present prices,
was valued at 3,500,000 pesos. • In
the raid crude opium valued at 23,000
pesos was seized, it is said, and thous
ands of tiny empty tins, supposedly
used for retailing the prepared drug,
were found.
According to the newspapers, the
profits of the opium trade on the one
shipment referred to, ran into mil
lions of pesos. It is said that an in
volved system of smuggling resulted
in most of the narcotic being sold in
the United States. It was shipped as
“cigars,” sent over the line in auto
mobiles equipped with double gaso
line tanks, and carried across in hand
baggage by a band of Germans, ac
cording to the revelations here.
Since the Mexican law does not pro
hibit importation of opium, the fed
^ eral department of health being con
cerned only in its sale, the drug deal
ers confined their operations to sales
by devious methods in the United
States. Branches of the organization
are said to have operated at Nuevo
Laredo, Mexico, New York and San
Francisco.
During ther campagn aganst the
traffic, the papers printed charges
and names of personages as though
libel laws did not exist.
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SEATTLE. Sept. 15 (by Associated
Press).—The park department of this
city has presented to the dreadnaught
New York a goat for a mascot.
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HIGH PRICES OF j
FOODCAUSEOF1
MUCH DISTRESS
TOKIO, July 27 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—Soaring prices
for food and clothing as well as house
rent show no diminution in Japan.
The cost of living, according to the
Lorodzu, has increased ten-fold since
1887, while wages have advanced
only four-fold.
As against 36 yen a koku, for in
stance, during the rice riots of Au
gust, last year, the price of rice has
now risen to 56 yen a koku (five bush
els) and a grave food crisis has re
sulted.
Japan is a country of large families,
and with rice costing about $28 for
every five bushels the head of a fam
ily has to do some hard thinking.
Other food necessities, especially
sugar, which Japanese use consider
ably, have risen in proportion to rice.
It is the great middle class of Japan,
the people working on small salaries,
which is raising the greatest cry.
Although wealth has increased as a
result of the war, the real wealth
of the masses has decreased and the
people of Japan are relatively poor.
At the same time national tastes
have changed and the Spartan simpli
city of olden times is no longer en
dured.
Low salaries in public services have
so depleted the personnel that gov
ernment institutions like the post
office, telegraphs, police force and
schools are all undermanned. Indus
trial companies, however, are paying
dividends of from 50 to 100 per cent
and distributing big bonuses, lands
and rents are rising in value and the
farmer is hoarding his rice until he
has pushed the market to its highest
notch.
The distress of today is chiefly felt
by the law-abiding class of the nation.
No riots have occurred like last year.
The press generally blames the gov
ernment for not finding a suitable
remedy. “The situation calls for
urgent action,” writes the editor
of the Kokumin. “Some people
are about to famish. The con
tinued advance in prices has devel
oped a kind of reign of terror.”
“If it is impossible,” says the Yo
rodzu, “to bring down the price of
rice and other necessities, the gov
ernment must devise means of in
creasing incomes. Otherwise peace
and order in society can not be main
tained and the very foundation of the
nation will be endangered.”
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DUBLIN, Aug. 10 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—The Cork In
dustrial Development Association has
decided to send a commission to the
United States to promote Irish trade
interests there, and Irish manufac
turers and other buyers or sellers in
the American market are showing
keen interest in the enterprise.
In this connection the reports of
five Irish banks are made public.
They show that the amounts they
hold on deposit and credit accounts
total £96,000,000, beng an ncrease
of nearly £25,000,000 over last year.
It is estimated that when the results
of the Royal bank and of the three
Belfast banks are known and added
the total Irish bank deposits will be
seen to be about £150,000,000.
The project of making Galway a
great transatlantic port has been re
vived. The scheme proposed would
cost £2,000,000, of which parties in
terested would put up seven hundred
thousand and ask the government to
supply the balance. A deputation to
the government has been arranged.
Since the Irish housing bill has
passed through parliament the local
authorities have submitted for the
approval of the local government
board proposals for 224 sites, com
prising more than 1,034 acres. Of
these, forty-one have been approved
already, coving 789 acres, and suf
ficing for 5,586 houses. The chief
housing activity so far is in Munster,
which has put forward more than half
of the projects.
GERMAN IMMIGRANTS
ARRIVE IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 11 (by mail).
—Two hundred and forty German im
migrants arrived on a Spanish steam
ship at Very Cruz on August 10, their
destination being agricultural lands
in Chiapas, according to reports from .
the Vera Cruz correspondents of the
Mexico City papers.
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