MANUFACTURE
IRON CROSSES
AS SOUVENIR
COBLENZ, Feb. 22 (Correspondet
of the Associated Press).—A facte
at Pforzheim, near Karlsruhe, 1
been working day and night recen
turning out iron crosses to be sold
American soldiers and other trot
eager for souvenirs of the war,
cording to travelers front Germa
who have arrived in Coblenz. Wh
the Berlin authorities have disco
aged the idea of the Germans Belli
iron crosses and other war decoratio
to soldiers of the allies, quite a bu
ness has been built up in this line
the zones occupied by the Britii
French and Americans. In Coble
and other cities the burgomastr
have appealed to the self-respect
the tradespeople in endeavors to star
out the business of selling the vario
German medals and officers' insign
But the souvenir business thrJvi
nevertheless, the merchants in t
neutral areas reporting that they c;
purchase all the iron crosses and oth
decorations in any quantity desirr
These are all brought from unoccupi
Germany, the supply in the occupl
part of the Rhineland having been e
hausted soon after the allies took i
their positions at the three bridg
heads.
Owing to the fact that the autho
ties will not issue permits for tl
shipment of honor medals into the c
cupied zones, travelers say that ir<
crosses by the hundred and oth
relics of the war are being smuggh
across the border in great number
In Coblenz during the latter pa
of January iron crosses sold in tl
stores for from 9 to 12 marks eac
When the Americans first came
Coblenz the crosses were valued
from 5 to 9 marks. During the wa
around the prisoner stockades, ire
crosses were sold to the Americai
at prices ranging from 50 francs
200 francs.
The factory at Pforzheim Which h!
been manufacturing the crosses fi
the souvenir hunters is the same or
which had a contract from the Ge
man government for years for tl
making of the iron crosses given i
the German soldiers for acts <
bravery on the battlefield.
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MEXICO ROUNDS UP
BIG CRIMINAL BANI
MEXICO CITY. March 29.—Th
abandoned penal colony on the grou
of islands off the coast of Tepic
known as Las Tres Marias, it is ef
pected, will be re-established to a(
commodate the small army of habitu
al criminals which the police of th
capital have rounded up in their lates
raids. A wave of holdups and rol
beries which recently swept Mexici
City resulted in a general cleanu;
which, with less than a few weeks
brought in about 500 prisoners, man;
of whom had escaped from prison.
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PROLONG WAR
INEASTAFRICA
S IT IS CHARGED
ce LONDON, March 10 (Correspond
,ry ence of the Associated Press).—Ac
as cording to information received here
:ly from Capetown a demand has sprung
to up there for a searching investigation
ps into the manner in which the British
ic- campaign was conducted in east and
ny central Africa after General Smuts
lie had relinquished command to come to
ir- England. When he left it was be
ng lieved that the campaign had been
118 virtually concluded.
si' Owen Letcher, formerly an officer
*n in the East African expeditionary
l“’ force, reviews the campaign in a
nz series of articles in the Cape Times
rs and strongly advocates a commission
ot of inquiry, Belief prevails in Cape
lp town, it is said, that the sport of
118 yatching at Dar-es-Salaam and ele
a' phant hunting in the interior were
largely responsible for the prolonga
tion of the fighting.
The campaign is said to have ex
{j ceeded the cost of the Boer war,
1(j amounting to about $1,500,000,000. To
J(j the casualties, which were heavy in
x killed and wounded, must be added
,p many men who will suffer from fever
e_ for the rest of their lives.
The work of the Portuguese colonial
,. forces is criticised, also the huge
ie headquarters staffs maintained by the
„ British hundreds of miles from the
in scenes of the actual fighting.
;r Discussing the Portuguese, Letcher
!(j writes: “In common justice to our
a forces it must be set on record that
Pt not only did the Portuguese colonial
e army put up poor defence against the
li, marauding Germans, but that their
:o presence was a very substantial ad
it vantage to Von Lettow (German com
r, mander) inasmuch as they frequently
n embarrassed our movements and sur
is rendered to the enemy guns, rifles,
;o machine guns and supplies of which
the Germans were badly in need,
s “The engagement at Nhamacurra,
,r about thirty miles from Quelimane,
e which was fought in the beginning of
r' July, 1918, was a particularly disast
e rous event for us, since after the Por
° tuguese had lost two guns, with a lot
lf of other equipment, and the native
troops, despite the efforts of their of
ficers, had broken In disorder, the
enemy attacked Major Gore Browne’s
King African Rifles detachment and,
) largely through the employment of
the two captured guns, inflicted a
severe defeat on us.”
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I PANEL NOW BEARS
NAMES OF HEROES
LONDON, Fel). 18 (Correspondence
? of the Associated Press).—Inscribed
t on a panel which formerly held the
- announcement that the emperor of
) Germany had visited Drury Lane the
) ater, there are now the names of 250
, London actors and musicians who
r gave their lives in the war. The
panel, which recently was dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies by the
- bishop of London, was placed in the
t theater as a memorial by representa
tive members of the theatrical profes
. sion in England.
RACE SUICIDE
THREATENING
IN ENGLANI
LONDON, Feb. 28 (Correspondent
of the Associated Press).—Race su
cide, as the result of the “aristocrac
of labor,” will be the outcome of th
movement by which labor now seel
to destroy capital, according to Dea
Inge of St. Paul's cathedral, in an ai
dress recently at a meeting of th
Eugenics Education Society. Eni
land’s dense population, he assertei
will then disappear and the countr
will revert to the quiet rural Englan
of 1750, with London, bereft of he
wealth, the “spiritual capital of th
world.”
“Neither voluntary restriction t
births, which only lowers the deat
rate,” he said, “nor famine, nor pei
tilence, nor war has much effect i
reducing numbers. The late war cos
twelve million lives from the sepan
tion of husbands and wives, in add
tion to about eight million killed. Bu
those losses may be made good in
few years.
"But at home we must face th
fact that the upper and middle classe
probably will be destroyed by predi
tory taxation. We are witnessing th
erection of a new privileged ciass
an aristocracy of labor—which wi:
become exclusive and conservativ
when it has won the privilege of e;
ploiting the public for its own profii
It probably will refuse to tax itsel
for the benefit of the proletariat, s
that wljen the loot of the minority i
gone we shall no longer support th
waste products of civilization.
“From the eugenic point of vie\
this will be an advantage, but sine
the cheap races must end by cap
turing our trade, the privileged work
ers must themselves decay. The tradi
unionist probably will be allowed ti
place only one son in his union, am
will take care not to have more. Th<
industrial employment of women als<
will lower the birth rate. Thus, ii
every class there will be a tendencj
to progressive decredse.”
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