The Cordova Daily Times
VOfcUME III! NUMBER 68. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY fc| i HUMBER 20, 1917 ~ ===== PRICE TEN CENTS
BBITISH SWEEf
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♦ BRITISH HEADQUARTERS,
♦ Prance Belgium, Sept. 20. — To
♦ day'n offensive will be known as
♦ the battle of Menin road. The
♦ fair weather improved the
♦ ground, but the mud is still deep
♦ and the whole territory is cov
♦ ered with water filled shell holes,
♦ [tangled barbed wire and shat
♦ Hered trees. The German dis
♦ patch was composed largely of
♦ concrete redoubts and the Ger
♦ mans poured a wicked stream of
♦ bullets into the ranks of the ad
♦ vancing troops from redoubts.
♦ Every little elevation and all the
♦ woods are choked with rapid fire
♦ guns. The British encountered
♦ hard fighting at many places, but
♦ the magnificent artillery work
♦ made the first stage of'the Brit
♦ ish drive easier.
♦ The British barrage swept the
♦ country like a broom. The Ger
♦ mans knew the attack was com
♦ Ing, but were unaware of the ex
♦act locality. A light rain fell last
♦ night, but the weather cleared
♦ this morning and is visibly im
♦ proving.
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(By Associated Press)
ROME, Sept. 20. — Turks were
among the prisoners captured on the
Carso front. This indicates that Aus
tria is getting reserves from every
possible quarter In a last desperate
effort to stem the Italian advance.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 20. — The
conditions in Russia have occasioned
a small peace boom on the German
stock markets.
LONDON, Sept. 20. — The inaugu
ration of a new food economy cam
paign in Great Britain is announced
by Baron Rhondda, food controller.
If voluntary measures fail he will have
no compunction in putting the nation
on compulsory rations.
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(By Associated Press)
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 20. — The Swe
dish minister at Berlin has been in
Htructed to protest to Germany againsl
the Luzburg incident, it being con
firmed that German officials serioush
abused the confidence of Sweden.
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MITCHELL WINS RENOMINATION
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK. SeR 20—Mayor Mit
chell won a renomination at the Re
publican primaries, defeating Willlan
Bennett by 1,100 pluarity.
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COPPER IS STEADY.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. — Copper I:
firm, with last quarter quotations a
26 and 27 cents.
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SILVER HITS HIGH PLACES.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. — Bar silve
today reached the unprecedented mar
of *1.06 1-2.
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AMERICAN MEDLEY POPULAR
AMONG SOLDIER BOYS
LONDON, Sept. 20. — They've go
a pianola In the American Y. M. C. A
here. Somebody keeps it going all th
time. And nearly every soldier pick
out the same roll, one labeled “Auer
can Medley.” Somewhere in the midt
of the medley occurs “America.”
They have also got an English lad
—capital L—managing the books c
the Y. M. C. A. When she hear
“America" the first day she thougt
it was “God Save the King,” and stoo
up. In fact, she stood up nearly
hundred times. Finely some of th
managers, seeing they were not goin
to get any bookkeeping done, a1
preached her diplomatically and e
plained that it is legal to sit still whe
“America” is played.
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1 BLAMES UNREST
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1 (By Associated Press)
> ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 20. — Sec
> retury of Labor Wilson. In addressing
1 the business men's war council, said
hat unpatriotic business men arc
> seeking excessive profits and arc
> blamable for the spirit of unrest
> among the working class.
SECOND DRflET
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. — With
the second 200,000 draft rookies in the
country’s sixteen cantonment training
camps 'oday, the task o' making them
into fighting men begim.
The first thing every recruit did
on reaching camp was to take a bath.
From the bath houses one by one the
boys were taken before medical ex
aminers of the regular army. As a
yesult of this final and most rigid
physical test, many of the boys who
closed the door on civilian life and left
lonely mothers, wives or sweethearts
inside less than 3d hours back will bn
i back homo tomorrow, maybe tonight.
Those who pass the physical test
will be vaccinated for typhoid, para
typhoid" and smallpox. Recommenda
tions will then he made to company
commanders for special exercises for
each individual to correct any slight
physical defects. The first two weks
of training will be occupied almost
entirely with these special exercises,
light setting up drills and physical
schooling of the young soldiers to be.
During the second two weeks regu
lar training will begin. The rigorous
work will be increased gradually. The
division surgeon and his assistants
will keep a watchful eye on the gen
eral physical condition of all the men.
Thorough instruction in personal hy
giene, sanitation and first aid will be
given them during the first two
weeks.
These boys, in short, will be put into
the best physical condition they ever
were in their lives. Should anything
intervene to keep them from going
ahead toward France after their three
months of training, they will return to
civil life sound ns nuts, physically
hard and fit for any work.
As they arrived at cantonments the
men were assigned to sections of the
camp reserved for recruits from their
own local section of -the divisional
area for which each, cantonment is
established. In other words, the men
who know each other and who came
from the same states will be put
together.
As other shipments arrived yester
day, and later will arrive, the same
rule will be followed, so that, when
the entire first draft of (187,000 men
are finally In camp they will be among
fellows they know. As soon as all
the men are in camp, however, those
from the same town will be separated,
though they will remain in the same
sectional division for the general part
of the country from which they come.
This will be brought about by the
segregation of men by occupation. Ac
cording to what their previous occu
pations have been they will be trans
ferred to the different branches of the
service, such as artillery, machine
gun, infantry. Thus will the regi
mental and battalion organizations bo
kept intact, though shifting the make
up of the companies to get all the men
' of similar bent together.
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CALIFORNIA IS FIGHTING
DESTRUCTIVE MEALY BUG.
(By Associated Press)
r SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 20. —
The state board of control granted the
request of State Horticultural Com
misioner George Hecke, for a fund
of $5,000 to help in the work of con
trolling the mealy bug. This pest
^ which the state commissioner is com
hatting vigorously, has done a greal
' amount of damage in California. Tht
1 work of subduing the bug is under thi
direction of Superintendent Harrj
Smith, of the state insectary, and Cur
tlss C. Clausen, assistant superlnten
dent at the branch insectary at A1
v
hambra.
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£ There will be a general lied Cross
meeting at the Eagle hall Friday even
a lng at 8:00 o’clock.
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g The last chance tonight to sei
)- Geraldine Farrar in “Temptation,” a
c- the Empress theatre at 8 sharp. Thi:
n is splendid, so don’t miss it. Siberii
shown first.
LATE TELEGRAMS
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(Fly Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — The con
fereos on ho ar tax bill are still
unable to reach an agreement on the
postage section, as the house demands
a general zone system.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—The con
ference report on the $11,000,000,000
war credits bill, adopted by the sen
ate without a roll call, will receive the
house approval and Its final enactment
tomorrow.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 20.—Chief of
Staff Hugh L. Scott, of the United
States army, reaches the retirement
age this month, but will continue in
active service with field command.
His successor will probably be Major
General Tasher H. Bliss.
GRRDOVAN BUYS
READER BE
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One of the most important mining
Ideal:-, in the history of southern Ore
gon has been consummated within the
last day or two in the sale of the fa
mous Logan placer mine, situate on
the Grants Pass-Crescent City road
about two miles northwest of Waldo,
to George M. Esterly and associates,
of Seattle and Alaska. The puichase
price is $140,000.
An option was taken on the pro
perty by Mr. Esterly about ten months
ago. Since that time an immense
amount of sampling has been done,
the first pits numbering over one hun
dred, being put down and sampled
by Lewis Lavensaler, representing Mr.
Esterly and associates. The average
vulue of the ground as disclosed by
this ujihu-jlvr sjlintJliBg 'IHS not been
announced, but the fact that the par
ties want the option by the terms of
which final payment on the property
need not be made till December 1018
and are closing it by final payment at
this time, indicates their satisfaction
with the showing made.
The change In ownership means the
property will be operated on a con
siderable larflrer scale than heretofore
The problem in this district is the
water supply. The Logan mine owns
practically alt the available water. '1 he
new owners intend enlarging the
ditches and expect to Increase very
materially the yardage handled annu
ally. As the property has netted near
ly $40,000 annually, Mr. Esterly’s
plans when consummated mean that
the property will be a very large pro
ducer.
The mine is one of the oldest in
the state. It was in operation before
there was even a village on the pres
ent site of Grants Pass. In the early
days, supplies were brought In and
the mine output was shipped by way
-of Crescent City. Its early history is
contemporaneous with the gold rush
to Jacksonville, where $38,000,000 of
placer output was recorded by the
Wells Cargo Express Company, within
a few years.
James Logan, the seller of the pro
perty, and his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Simomns, who formerly owned the
property, and has lived on the ground
for nearly half a century, have oper
ated the property for many years.
Only about 2 per cent of the placer
ground in the Logan ownership has
been work -d. The remainder shows
by extensive sampling gold content
equaling that of the ground worked.
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RUSSIAN OFFICIAL AUTHOR
TREATISES BALKAN AFFAIRS.
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Sept. 20. — A. M.
Petrayeff, appointed assistant minis
ter for foreign affairs in July, was for
merly director of the near-eastern de .
partment of the foreign office. His
first diplomatic appointment was in
Turkey, where he made a special
study of politics. He served some
time in Macedonia. He was one of
Russia’s representatives at the Lon
don Conference, convoked during the
Balkan war of 1912-13. Later he served
as commissioner in Albania. Petray
eff has written valuable treatises on
Balkan affairs.
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D. C. Ozerwenka is receiving the
• congratulations of his friends upon the
advent of u baby girls at his home. Dr.
Chase reports that mother and daugh
ter are doing nicely.
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i Mis Helen Kelso, of Los Angeles, is
i a recent arrival at Katalla, where the
will have charge of the school there.
STANDARD BOUT
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4 LONDON. Kept 20. — The 4
4 Standard Oil Company’s tanker 4
4 Platuria, was torpedoed by a tier- 4
♦ man submarine on September 15. 4
4 Captain John Leslie and eight 4
> members of the crew were 4
4 drowned and forty-five survivors 4
4 landed. 4
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iSTlf SHIPS
SUBS
(By United Press)
LONDON. Sept. 20’ — Not until C,er
many has been floored for the teo
•ount will the world have a peep a!
the mysterious odd shaped fighters
that are beating the submarine today.
In England they are referred to vague
ly as "mystery ships” and "hush
boats.” Imaginative people give
them fantastic shapes and endow
them with powers beyond the dreams
of the greatest naval designers. So
perhaps the land faring folk will lie
disappointed when it's ail over and
the hush boats come out of the ha,.e
to he looked at by sea-port visitors.
Privileged visitors to the great na
val liases are extremely reticent about
the hush boats. For weeks the news
papers have been hinting about some
thing they know but have crossed
their hearts not to tell — something
tbout the new and mysterious sea
rowdies which despise naval footwork
but prefer to rush ,in headlong and
scrap it out with the U boat till one
>r the other goes down.
Jhe mystery ship auks with tin
►»nk »» - *«mmi,v.n and non
struct ion, ad orning to tm j,
guardians of the secret. King Cleorgc
Inspected two new types of vessels
luring his June visit -to the grand
fleet. They were in a class of then
own, and the class was never men
tloned to the public. Sea monsters
mystery ships, hush boats — they a<
’ount for some of the high UonorB re
contly conferred on naval officers.
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MUSICAL EVENING AT
RED DRAGON CLUB HOUSE
Tonight at 8 o’clock at the Red lira
?on (Tub House will be held a socia
md musical evening, given by tin
Woman's Guild of the Episcopa
:hurch. Everyone is cordially lnvitet
o attend. The informal character o
the entertainment will give rest an
ecreation to the “tired business man
ind the beauty and talent present wil
■speak volumes for its success.
1’his entertainment will be followed
t is Imped, by similar ones at intei
vals through the winter. Refresh
nents will be served and the followini
program rendered:
Vocal Solo—“Sunshine of Your Smile
. Lilian Ra
Miss Frances Fraisure.
Violin Solo.
Mr. C'layson, accompanied by Miss
Anderson.
Piano Solo—Paderewski “Minuet". .
Miss Fraisure.
Vocal Duet—“Hope Beyond" .... Bon
Mrs. Chase and Miss Shepherd.
Piano Solo.
Miss Anderson.
Vocal Solo—“A Perfect Day".
Mr. H. W. Osier.
Vocal Solo—“One Fleeting Hour" Le<
Miss Emma Shepherd.
After the entertainment a silver of
fering will be taken up.
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NEW PEDESTAL FOR BUST
OF AUTHOR-EXPLORER
(By Associated Press)
MARTINEZ, Cal.. Sept. 20.- Won'
has been received here that a new pe
lestal for the bust of John Muir, natu
Mist and explorer, is now being made
at the University of Wisconsin P
Madison, to be placed in the hi >!og>
building, where the bust of the u:i‘
versity's former student now stands
The pedestal is to bear the following
inscription:
“John Mujr. 1838 19-13. Author, ex
plorer, naturalist. A priest at nu
ture's shrine.”
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BERLIN WOOL REPLACED.
(By Associated Press)
DUBLIN, Ireland, Sept. 20. — The
council of the Dublin Chamber of Com
merce reports that Berlin wool has
now been almost entirely replaced in
Ireland by Blarney fingering wool.
|STEEL WORKERS
TEN PER CENT
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. — The Uni
ted States Steel Corporation has an
non need a ten per cent advance in
wages for Its workers, effective Oc
tober 1.
FULTON AGREES
TO FICRT JESS
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.— The victory
of Fred Fulton over Carl Morris,
clean-cut at every punch In the six
rounds of the mill, spell the words that
go with a championship battle. Wil
lard will sign articles to meet the huge
Minnesota boxer, just as certain as
the proper place to pull off the bout
is found.
Willard has stated and there is no
reason to doubt him — that he will
promote his own mill. He probably
will. Ho probably will do all the of
fering, picking of arena and all the
preliminary works. He has the money
and the nerve to tackle it. Such a
scrap could not fail to appeal to the
red-blooded fight fan. A championship
mill, after all, Is a championship mill,
and that is what makes the attraction.
There are plenty of folks in this
•ountry who think that Fulton can
beat the long, lumbering westerner
who sent Jack Johnson panting to de
feat. There are plenty of them who
can take a record book and chow just
why. Their main argument is that
Willard never in his life defeated a
good man, with the Bingle exception
of Jack Johnson, and then they are
prone to add that it took twenty-six
rounds for the big, husky white man
to lay out the faf old man .Johnson,
'ard’s. If Jess had the string of vic
tories by knockouts plastered afte
hfs name In the pugilistic records he
would be far more respected as a
champion. He hasn’t. Most of the
wins are over men that It requires an
effort to recall. And it doesn't take
t stretchy memory to recollect that
'ittle Gunboat Smith once put on a
aarty that nearly wrecked big .Tesr.
•out in California.
Fulton has won some notable victor
:es and has performed in rather ill
'ashion at times. As a whole, how
>ver, his record is worthy of consid
eration and should get him the bout
with the champion. It probably will
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SCARCITY FOOD CLOSES
FAMOUS SUMMER RESORT.
(By Associated Press)
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 20. — The
spectacle, probably unique, of a popu
lar and much frequented summer re
sort and bathing town inviting its
summer guests to leave and not rc
turn has just been presented by Sod
erttalje. The city authorities took ao
tion after a meeting at which the sea:
city of food was discussed. This, In
their opinion, made it undesirable
that Inroads should be made by sum
mer visitors on the stocks available
About 3,000 visitors are affected by
the invitation to leave.
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ONE-LEGGED STUDENT
DOES JUMPING STUNT.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 20. — W. Back
man, a young student from Umea. did
1.45 meters (a trifle more than four
feet nine inches) in the high jump at
a students' meet ■ in Orbvhus. Tin
performance is a remarkable one in
view of the fact that the jumper has
only one leg. the other having been
taken off at the knee. He plays foot
ball well, has won distinction as a
swimmer and holds a gold medal for
marksmanship.
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FINNISH PEOPLE FEAR
SHORTAGE FLOUR SUPPLY.
HELSINGFORS, Sept. 20. — Accord
ing to the Hufvudstadsblad. communes
containing 1,000.000 Inhabitants (of a
total Finnish population of 3,200,000)
have reported that their supplies ol
flour will run out at least a month be
fore the reaping of this year's crops
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LONDON, Sept. SO. — Winstor
Churchill, minister of munitions. ha>
for the time being at least, lost tin
chance of fame as a movie scenarh
writer. He had a contract to write
the story of the origin of the war foi
a film producing company, but his ap
polntment to the cabinet forced bln
to abandon the project.
SOCIALISTS ARE
RUSSIA
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Sept. 20. — There is
a growing supremacy among the ex
treme Socialist element In the coun
cils of the soldiers' and workmen's
delegates here and at Moscow. Their
radical programmes eliminating all
property owning classes from a voice
in the government causes grave con
cern. The resignation of the execu
tive committee of the Petrograd coun
cil was the direct result of the adop
tion of a resolution committing the
delegates to the ultra-Sociallst.
HAWAIIAN!) ARE
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(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, Sept. 14. — The men
>f Hawaii between the ages of tweuty
>ne and thirty have registered under
the registration provision of the selec
tive draft act.
Registration in Hawaii is a much
more complicated and difficult prob
lem than it was on the mainland, on
account of the polyglot nature of the
population. The registration board
w'as many weeks in making prepara
tions, for the reason that there are
dozens of different nationalities repre
sented in the population, and it is ne
i ressary to take steps to bring to their
notice in tHeir own several languages
the necessity and requirements for
registration.
\ large staff of interpreters had to
bo assembled, to translate into Ha
.vaiiult, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish
•nd many other languages the regis
tration proclamation and the instruc
I Rons for registration. This staff has
work tor yUs, a»<l the aev
■ ai fslnncfst of the terndor} have been
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nguages Impressing the male popu |
atlon the necessity for all those not !
‘pecifically exempt to register, wheth !
'.r liable for draft or not.
Many of the Orientals have shown
treat interest in the work, and not a j
ew Japanese and Chinese volunteered !
j ieir"Services free as translators.
In proportion to the number of those i
liable for draft. HawniUmay be called !
upon to furnish a heavier quota of sol-'
tiers than any other part of the I
United States. This is because while
ill males between twenty-one and
liirty years of age and not exempted ;
is members of the national guard or i
| ither military bodies, are required to
| register, only citizens are liable to
; Iraft, yet the number to be drafted
i s based upon total registration and
i lot upon citizen registration.
And in Hawaii considerably more
han half of the population is non
i itizen, and an inordinate proportion
if it is male and unmarried. This is
1 larticularly true of the Japanese, who
j ire nearly hulf the total population- of
he islands. Most of them are com
j aaratively young, who came to Hawaii
is laborers before the so-called "gen
lemen's" agreement between Japan
ind the United States went into force,
md who came as single men. Many of
them have since sent to Japan for
‘picture brides," but the proportion of
mmarried men among them Is very
large.
It is roughly estimated that out of
i i total population of 226,000 in the
I erritory there will be found to be as
i
he result of registration today ap
iroximately 15,000 men who are liablo
for military service under the terms
if the selective draft act. And virtual
'y all of the 15.000 will come from the
white and Hawaiian races, the Orien
tals, except such ns were born here,
being ineligible.
The work of registration is being
handled by the regular election ma
chinery, presided over by the county
I lerks and sheriffs. The offer of the
j Republican and Democrat territorial
I niunittees to give the use of their
machinery was declined by the regls
ration board on the grounds that it
migh( give a political tinge to the
occasion.
iRegistration day was declared a le
;al holiday by Governor Finkham, and
he result Is that practically all of the
'uisiness houses are closed in order
that nothing may interfere with the
employes of those houses registering
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RENO RACING MEET.
(By United Press)
RENO, Nev. Sept. 20. — The annual
Reno race meeting has opened and
Will continue for 25 days. Jack At
kins. former Coast League baseball
club owner, is conducting the meeting.
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♦ LONDON. Sept. 20.—The Brit ♦
♦ ish troops attacked at 5:45 ♦
♦ o'clock this morning on a wide ♦
♦ front east of Ypres and made Bat ♦
♦ isfactory progress, valuable posi- ♦
♦ tions being captured The Brit ♦
♦ Ish evidently intend to force the ♦
♦ Germans from the western coast ♦
♦ of Belgium and cut off the Ger ♦
; > man submarine and aeroplane ♦
♦ base in the North sea, from Zee ♦
: ♦ brugge to Nleuport, including Os ♦
♦ tend. A British drive was made ♦
| ♦ In the direction of Bottlers and ♦
♦ Courtral, when Germany removed ♦
<* the civilian population. p
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TERROR CREATED
RAIDS
(By United Press)
WITH THE FBENCH ARMIES.
Sept. 20. Ample evidence is secured
in France from time to time both of
the damage and of the terror wrought
in Germany by the French aviation
squadrons when they go to bombard
cities far back from the line.
The general policy of the French
military authorities is not to bom
bard German cities except when it is
absolutely necessary as a matter of
reprisal. When these reprisals become
necessary, however, an effort is made
to render them so effective that the
German military authorities will see
the advisability of discontinuing their
bombardment of open French cities
and towns.
The following letter, Just taken from
a German prisoner, gives so ue idea of
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famous Krupp works on the night of
July 6:
“Last night we had the visit of an
enemy air squadron, i was awakeneu
by the antiaircraft guns that began
firing a hundred rounds in succession.
The window panes trembled. The si
res of all the factories began to shriek
ami the bells sounded the alarm. It
was terrible. Rockets were shot up on
evervhand. All of the street lights
were extinguished. All of the factories
were darkened and every one sought
refuge in the caves and cellars.
“When calm was again restored
everyone went to bed. but immediately
afterwards other airplanes came and
it all began over again. Bombs were
also thrown on the Thyssen plant at
Mulheim. The new Kruppstrasa plant,
the new munition factory, is destroyed
from top to bottom (total kaput). 1
cannot give you yet the complete de
tails. 1 will write you tomorrow.
“Placards have just been posted this
instant announcing that the raids will
be repeated this evening. Nobody at
Essen will sleep tonight! May the
good God protect us well. Ah. if we
could only approach the end.
“There were revolts everywhere this
week. At Dusseldorf over lot) stores
were stoned. At Weisbaden, the same
thing. We are terribly frightened, and
think always of all the poor soldiers
at the front.”
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METROPOLITAN OF MOSCOW
SPENT TEN YEARS IN AMERICA.
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Sept. 20. — Tikhon,
whose lay name Is Vassili Qiellavin.
who was elected in July as Metropoli
tan of Moscow by joint vote of clergy
and laymen, was born in Pskoff in
1864, and educated at the Petrograil
Ecclesiastical Academy. After teach
ing In different seminaries for the
education of priests, he became, in
1897, bishop of Liublin, and in the
ytigr following bishop of Aleutsk. lie
spent nearly ten years in America. In
1907. Tikhon became bishop of Yaro
slavl, and in 1913 bishop of Lithuania
and Vilna. Tikhon is a progressive,
and a champion of radical reforms In
the Orthodox church.
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SCARCITY OF CORK
IN GERMANY.
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. Sept.
20. — Cork is at a premium in Ger
many as the country does not produce
any. and the entente blockade has In
terrupted all channels of supply. Used
corks, especially those of champagne
. bottles, are eagerly purchased and
jthey bring high prices.