GERMANSDENY
THAT MEDALS
WERE OFFICIAL
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN GERMANY, Aug. 27 (Correspon
dence of Associated Press).—Sale of
a reproduction of the Lusitania
medal, which for a time was being
peddled in the occupied areas, has
been forbidden in the Rhine province
by the ober-president. Hundreds of
the medals were bought by American
soldiers as souvenirs. Writing to
Colonel I. L. Hunt, officer in charge
of civil affairs in the American area,
regarding the sale of the medals by
Germans, the ober-president says:
“I wish to inform you that such a
medal has, of course, never been
coined or caused to be coined by any
German government. The medal is
simply the outcome of misguided
thrift and greediness on the part
of certain dealers who, in a most
unwarrantable manner, published
this tasteless reproduction and have
hawked it about, without considering
for one moment that by so doing they
stimulate the animosity against Ger
many.”
The story generally current with
the sale of this issue of the medals
was that they were made in Munich
by the manufacturer of the original,
which was issued in 1915 after the
sinking of the Lusitania, and from
the same dies on which the original
issue was cast. These dies, accord
ing to the story, were ordered
destroyed by the German government
after twenty-eight medals had been
struck off, but were surreptitiously
saved by Karl Guertz, who is report
ed to have been the designer. The
German government has several
times denied that any Lusitania
medal was ever issued with consent
of any government officials.
STRELNA CONTRIBUTORS
TO ARMENIAN FUND
Mrs. V. J. Dwyer of Strelna an
nounces the receipt of subscriptions
to the Armenian and Syrian relief
funds from the following residents
of that place:
J. F. Murphy, Mike Twoney, Tom
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Dwyer,
Oliver Radbaugh, Kay Takurai, Char
ley Hunick, “Sport” McAllister, John
Corrigan, Faustino Ghidini, Ray
Lynch, Gus Gustafsson, Bob Corsi,
Tony Span, Jack Arnott, Oscar Pear
son, Hart Berg, Paddy Connelly, Mr.
and Mrs. McLeod and John J. Long.
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COMPETITION
FOR TRADE OF
ENEMY LANDS
LONDON, Aug. ,20 (by mail) —
American and British foreign trade
interests have resumed their accus
tomed pre-war code and the compe
tition for the commercial conquest of
Germany and other recently enemy
countries is well under way.
This is freely admitted by repre
sentatives here of both American and
British trade bodies. The London
head of one American business men’s
organization said:
“The business man reasons it oul
this way: ‘Evidently-—perhaps in a
year from now—we shall have re
sumed normal trade relations with
those nations which were, until a few
months ago, our enemies. Why nol
get busy now? If I don’t someone els«
will.’ So sentimental consideration;
are eliminated. The dollar and th«
pound once more are what business is
seeking.”
A sharpness of competition ap
proached in prewar days will charac
terize the conduct of foreign trade
activities during the next few years
it is generally conceded. America’s
possession of raw materials, her fa
cilities for quantity productions, ant
the fact that her industrial machiner>
is not so clogged with strikes and
other labor disturbances which are sc
seriously impairing British trade, it is
thought, insures the United States £
fair proportion of this business.
But it is pointed out that a volumv
nous foreign trade wall offset, in £
measure, the advantages indicated
which now favor American trade bid
ders.
ENGLAND PREPARING
FOR AIRCRAFT TRAFFIC
LONDON, Aug. 30 (by mail).—Ir
anticipation of the time when big
airships will be regularly arriving ir
England and departing on their long
overland and overseas journeys, offi
cers and men of the Royal air force
are being trained to the task of land
ing and putting them away.
It is a delicate operation berthing
a GOO-foot airship in a great shec
without' crushing the cars or ripping
the envelope, and must be performee
with no more apparent force than £
mother might use in wrapping up hei
babe for the night.
AUSTRALIAN VIEW OF
AMERICAN WAR EFFORT
SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 5 (b)
mail).—“The Americans were no
‘skiters,’ ” said Charles E. W. Bean
the Australian official war corres
pondent after a luncheon given hin
by the New South Wales Institute o
Journalists. Mr. Bean, prior to tin
war, was a Sydney newspaper man
“Skiting” in the American vernac
ular is boasting; perhaps the neares
approach to it’s meaning, in Americai
slang, being “four-flushing.”
“I have never yet heard an Ameri
can say that America won the war
but 1 have read it,” he went on
“America did not win the war. Then
is no doubt of that. America helpet
to finish it.”
LONDON BOBBIES WILL
NOT BE REINSTATEI
LONDON, Aug. 30 (by mail).—Si
Neville Macready, head of the metre
politan police, is determined tha
none of the constables who recentl;
went on strike will be reinstated a
long as he is at the head of the police
force.
More than a thousand men los
their places, and their pensions, whei
they struck, and now that the strike
has failed many of them have applied
for reinstatement.
Sir Neville says that every man
who actually refused duty has been
dismissed, and not one has been rein
stated. He and the home secretary,
Mr. Short, hold that men who strike
are unfitted to be policemen.
BULGARIA RECOVERING
FROM WAR’S EFFECTS
GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 28
(Correspondence of Associated Press)
—Bulgaria is one of the most tran
quil states in Europe today, says Ivan
S. Guichof, formerly Bulgarian min
ister of foreign affairs, and now min
ister to Switzerland.
Instead of resorting to revolution,
the Bulgarians have returned to their
farms and peace-time pursuits, be
lieving this to be the only way of
curing the ills caused by two succes
sive wars, the minister adds.
M. Guichof ascribes this peaceful
internal condition and the opposition
, in Bulgaria to anarchistic or commu
nist propaganda to the fact that the
majority of the Bulgarian people, 85
per cent, are peasants, owners of
their own land and homes. This is
sufficient, he says, to show that the
people so constituted as the Bulga
rians are, will always be adverse to
communistic tendencies.
. Another reason for internal peace is
the fact that crops in Bulgaria have
been good.
We have just received a line of
boys’ wearing apparel such as pants,
waists, shirts, jerseys, hose, union
suits, pajamas, shoes, etc., at the Cor
dova Dry Goods Company. 17-3
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