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CaLle News and Auto Section CaLle News and Auto Section Saturday, September Sixteenth, 1916. A1SER FORMS GREAT ACHINE WAR ilk ,$ RUSSIA DEMANDS GERMAN STAI U May Bar Germans From Sel ling Fool On Italian Soil, Says Leader. WOULD PREVENT GERMANS TRADING Italian Papers Encourage the Biller Feeling Toward The Teutons. IE GM BE SET OFF ITU i LIGHT 51 New Discovery of British to Scatter Death Among the Germans. - I EXPECTS TO GET! WE SLICE Of TERRITORY THREE MEN HOLD GERMANY'S FATE ELECTRIC WIRE IS NOT NEEDED LONIH)X, Eng., Sept. 16. Bombs hurriedly buried in trenches about to be abandoned to the enemy and set off at the proper moment by light from flaming shells are the latest hor rible -weapon to be used on the west ern front. They were invented by H. Grindell Matthews, an Englishman. The device is called a "light-o-mine" and comprises an electric clockwork arrangement, attached to a series of rmnr, Switzerland. Sept. IS. The Ttnme correspondent of the Zurich Post writes: The friendly feeling towards Ger- . bombs. .... . . The apparatus Itself is about a yard long and four inches square. It con sists of a lens at one end, open and resembling a pocket flash lamp. In side is a dry battery, a sensitized plate and a clockwork, and from that lead wires. When a raid is made on the enemy trench this apparatus is car ried, and with it a line of trench bombs. Now a line of trench bombs consist merely of M or SO or 180 or 100 yards of ordinary iron piping, a little larger, for instance, than gas piping. The piping is cut in suitable lengths The papers I say ten or i icet long eacn. rrom I Aath Af lie Anrie nrnlrnAR TWO hitK ( nf wiri the nositive and the netrative ! I for the current to be trans-nitted to detonate the bombs. The piping is m?r- -Khih existed in Italy even after the declaration of war against Austria has turned into violent hate. It is only "Trecesary to mention the words "Alle Tnar.la 'Germany) and Tedescho" (Ger man to throw the average Italian into a fit of rage The formerly admired n-rp.Ti empire today signifies every-th.-g- that is despicable and abhorrent to te Italian people. T lns?ne hatred i fostered by an aetne T'-ess propagTda are :'r. r devoting many columns to s!T. ' G- r.ran atrocities and advocate an Tt ''-i1 organization modeled after hr 'P-'tih E -noire union." which aims to rin-.e rhe Germans not only out of rall Krgilsh dominions. bt practically off the face of the earth. "War of Ilate to Continue. .. re -? the leaders of the Italian -fa1'a-i ent said in a public speech: The war -will, of course, have to end some dav. because the present bloodshed can- r not go on forever, but we shall con tinue our warfare in bloodless manner after the tr-aty of peace is signed. '" 'A reconciliation between Italy and the central powers is an impossibility. The Italian race is not going to stain tts honor bv resumirg diplomatic In tercourse with two nation: who have provt A that they are or a lower level Than the African savages To Bar Ctruunn. ! ' o Gfrmar, Austrian or Hungarian will ever be permitted to eet his foot or T'-iI'an oI! again and we even In- te- ri o Tiake the exchange of letters v i-i thee Hun? a cr.me. V.'pfi th.- Teutons lay down their """Vr - 1 . ckiiOwlelge their defeat, 1ir w " ' nd that thev have become : -'v ''siracizea ana cut on iroxn the -its of the world, they will not vte .' r f 'o Ine on the small territory they will he crowded, and . emigrate, because no coun- Ti-i it them.' oughts are expressed by ' ipers wli.ch formerly were o-German and bitterly at Lilian government when It war on the side of the en- Counts Upon the -Central Powers Collapsing Dur ing the Winter. PEACE INSPRING CLAIM OF PAPERS Should Germany Continue The Struggle No Mercy Will Be Shown. r.irnfn a t -. l e. -T. . successes gained by Gen. Brusl loff in his offensive have con vinced the Russian nation that the cen tral powers will be totally crushed in a short time. The military expert of the "Novoye Vremya" predicts that Aus tria will collapse In December or Jan uary, and that the victorious Russian armies will again Invade Germany at the latest in March or April of next year. Peace Condition Discussed. All newspapers are again beginning to discuss peace conditions. The "Slovo" says: "Russia will neer be satisfied with the mere restoration of the status quo. packed tightly with alternate Cham- but is rirmly resolved to emerge irom bers of high explosive and shrapnel. , the war as a much larger empire. All into v. :'n rf f i "o: t-r W ii Tl ' S ' ' ' . yr Ifu O e n i i , . ti. -. :!. iitrrni Hi' trrte." 'Canada May Tale Over Strip Of South Alaska T,r,-fl n r;ng. Sept. ?. Negotiations. Interrupted by the war, between the T'r:r'Sh o crnment ?nd the "Washington k "inr.horit'eF respecting an International . or, n ';t r to rectify the boundary 1'ne -f southeast Alackr. are to be - -'! rd shortly At present, the 7u 1 ci! : ritfr, the northern half of T'.-tish "olumbia, and almost the entire M-" k-yic basin, are shut out from di--e( - ,-oir".unication with the Pacific r.- the co. ft line of southeast Alaska. This is an unnatural boundary, it is jrei"! lirre. anj a hindrane to the de r,c!"PrreMt of both countries. It Is be-tei-( l.re th.-tt the present Is a suit able upfoitunitv for handing over the t-ip l- I'nit'-i States territory in ques tion in Canada. bits of iron nails and slugs of metal. Trying The Mine. The raiding party carrying this equipment and preceded by a wave of grenade throwers, raids the enemy trench after a short but intense bom bardment. They bayonet or blow up with grenades the survivors in the trench, then hastily lay this line of piping, all connected up with the wires, in the bottom of the trench, covering it over with a few spadefuls of earth. The end of the long pipe-line of bombs is attached by wires to the "light-o-mine apparatus, and this is hidden in the enemy trench, leaving the bull's eve lens exposed and pointed back at some object in the French British lines. The German batteries In the rear have been advised that an enemy de tachment is occupying a front trench section at that point and a few shells I begin to drop in. That is the signal for the raiders to clear out and return to their own positions. Cautiously the enemy reconnoiters forward. Finally he armroaehes and finds it deserted. The first thing he does is to clamber over the parapet and look for wires leading across to the raiding party's positions, and, finding none, has no suspicion that a mine has been placed in his trench. nennano Are Trapped. Troops are sent forward to re occupy the trench, and just when it is comfortably held by the Germans again, a star shell Is sent up from the Franco-British position In a line fol lowing that toward which the lens of the "light-o-mine" is pointed. The light serves to set off the long line of piping, and the Germans are blown out of the trench. The mines can be set off in daylight, ordinary light having no effect on the lens. Only if the lens were directed squarely at the sun would it produce the required effect. parts of Austria where the Slav element predominates ronat come under either Russian or Servian rule. This means that Galicia and Bohemia will be an nexed by Russia, while Crotla, Bosnia and Herzegovina will become parts of Greater Servia." In regard to the annexation of Ger man territory the "Slovo" states: "The population of eastern Prussia, western Prussia. Posen and Silesia con sists largely of Slavs and it Is only natural that these large provinces will j be united with Russia. Our frontier : must be extended westward to the Shippers Of British Trawlers Are Rolling In Money During War UjRussia Allows No New nouses ouiu in empire TcotniS. Russia. Sept. ? A cur ious feature showing how great the crib's caused ' the war is in Russia. lies in the fact that no new bouses are allo-wed to be built in Russia, nor even old ones repaired. The reason for this is that the gov ernment cannot spare the necessary TiiateM.il for the erection of buildings, : lib as iron for girders and other mj-tuff- aK these are needed for war iTnrpsCN. Another reason is that 'ma-.on"; and mechanics would be needed for buildings who can be better utilized as soldiers and civilian helpers in war v ork or in farm duties. tiondon. Eng.. Sept. 9. The skipper of the Grimsby fishing trawler has no reason to complain of the war. for It has brought him unimagined wealth. Before the war he was comfortably off- tndav he is raasincr rich, earning his JSftOo'to $1.80 a year, and in one Mr! nt Vear? but if thev try to pro or two cases even more. His wile is Jo - ,hejr hopeless struggle through decked out In the finest apparel while j the"next summer no mercv will be her motor jaunts are replete with all shown to them, and in this case we will the enjoyment that the unstinted com- hesitate to make Berlin a Russian w.a.iu i u " nB. i rity -nd to annex all of Hungary.' Not so lone. rinfA tli msTiftfrlnc I "J ." Oder, even if we have to take Pomera nia and the Xeumark with their almost purely German population. The Russl fication of these provinces will not be any more difficult than that of Cour- lana ox Louruna anu x- iuuuu. AVouId Annex Armenia. The conquest of the small remnant of former European Turkey. Constantino ple and the Dardanelles, the "Slovo" considers a foregone conclusion, and it also advocates the annexation of Ar- menla ana Anatolia, as wen as ine western and southern part of Bulgaria. The rest of the Bulgarian territory the ' paper wants to turn over to Rumania and Servia. The "Bourse Gazette defines the Russian peace conditions as follows: "When peace negotiations begin Rus sia will demand all Prussian territory east of the Oder, Bohemia, parts of Moravia, Galicia, the Bukowina. Tran sylvania, the major part of Bulgaria, European Turkey with Constantinople, the Asiatic shore of the Dardanelles and the Marmora Sea, Anatolia and Ar menia, the rest of Bukowina and Tran sylvania, the Banat and parts of Bul garia will be turned over to Rumania, and Servia is also to receive a part of the Bulgarian territory. Hungary to lie Small Mnie. "Hungary, or rather what is left of this kingdom after the allies have made the new map of Europe, will be separ ated from Austria and become a small state under Russian control. i "Since no indemnity can be collected from the central powers after their de feat -and division. Russia may consider f it necessary to enlarge her territorial demands. This will surely lie done if Germany and Austria-Hungary con- , tinue their resistance much longer. J To Alakr Ilerlln Rnxxlnn City. ! "It is expected that the two doomed emDires will ask for peace in April or h .- -- -: ' l- ',e;y -'; , s .; VyX j., -,.' 'iSsipie': j. , . . , 1 jIV . w Am, , " . s V . . Faff TTpwiJSSo' J it n . . n i ii c ii 0 Hindenburg Is Given 'Abso lute Power To Crush the Enemies of the Nation. STANDS NEXT TO KAISER IN POWER GES. ton Hindenlmrg. Oen. Lurtendorff and Oen von a k .-nsen. Hindenburg is chief of the preat jrenera staff, with al-moi-t .1. -potic powers. Lmiendorft' stands at his side as quartermaster general. JIackensen is directing the offensive in the southeast, which has resulted in the invasion of Rumania. BUTONEGIRL III WORLO FDR GR0WNP1GE Heir to Japanese Throne, Must Choose Bride From Five Families. Is Patroness Of German Red Cross ELIGIBLE LIST NARROWS TO ONE T since the managing director of a fleet of fishing vessels confessed that there was not a skipper in his employ who was not making over jr.OOO a year. So many fishing trawlers have been commandeered by the admiralty that the few who remain In service find themselves with no competition what ever. Their catches of fish bring huge prices and 10 percent of the yield goes to the skipper. If he has anything of a reputation as a man who never re turns without a good catch, his services are in such demand that it is no uncom mon thing for him to be offered a bonus of J 1000 by a rival fishing vessel owner to come over. British Liquor Costs $910,000,000 a Yea- -:- -:I:- -::- -:!:- -:i:-.5.000.000 Now Demand Ban on Drinking L 1 OSDOS, Eug., Sept. 16. Statistics just published state that $910,u)0.000 U spent annually in Great Britain on alcoholic liquors. To the government this means a revenue of $340,000,000. 1 hi prohibitionists are urging that this is a criminal waste of the nation's y. They hold that while the nation is engaged in a "struggle for existence,'' an expenditure is a national disgrace. As a protest against this waste a petition containing 2.000,000 signatures iiei-n T)reented to prime minister .Asquith praying the sovemment to prohibit c! ;.U alcoholic liquor during the remainder of the war an. i montin English Educators to Promote Russ Language London. Eng.. Sept. 9. There i a strong movement here for the study of Russian in preference to Herman, ami Russian governesses are beinz engaged in many families of the well to do. Distinguished professors and lecturers have started a propaganda to push the study of Russian in British universi ties and elsewhere in England, and a determined effort is being made to carry this propaganda into commer cial and industrial spheres. It is also proposed that no German teachers be admitted to this country except under licenses issued by the board of education. British Millions for War Charily Unexpended London. Eng Sept. 9. VT. G. Ander son, labor member of parliament, has had some startling things to say on war charity frauds. "There are millions of pounds lying unexpended and unaccounted for out of the 20 to 30 millions ($100,000,000 to $150,000.0001 subscribed in Great Bri tain for charitable purposes connected with the war." he declared. "What I have proposed to the go -ernment i that th. re shall he state ontrol of all the v one-, Mitjscrf bed and i-" iig?eitioa iixs i. -n practicallv accepted." OKIO Japan. Sept. 1. When the heir to the throne of Japan wants a wife he looks around five families from whom, bv Immemorial traditions, he must choose a bride. This sensible custom saves a great deal of trouble and solves a pi oblero, which. If tackled on European lines, would be insoluble, now that Korea and China no longer possess roval families. Proposals to ived the younir crown prince to a European prlnctss wr.ubl be a piquant an.! -r.ibri rassing nowltv. Only One Eligible Ctrl. As a rule, five Japanese families would hae a choice of marnaceable daughters to offer, but as luck will iiae ii. (in: :. "my irue riiiuie Kill ill I the five at this time, and if the old rule i Is to be kept. Miss Asako Ichijo. the 11 j year old daughter of prince Sanetaro Ichijo will infallibly be empress of Ja pan if she lives for another five years. She is at present at the Peeresses school in Tokio. a charming, rather plump, young Japanese miss, not yet advanced enouch to have abandoned her kimono costume for the western dress which etiquette ordains the court women shall uglify themselves with. To lie l'roclnlmeil No. S. The emperor's eldest son, prince Hi rohito. i. to be formally proclaimed crown prince on November 3 next, when he will be 15 ears old, and the Japa nese newspapers anticipate that the declaration of his betrothal will be made at the same time. It is Interesting to trace the steps by which the newspaper sleuths discovered that young Miss Morning (that is the translation of her name) was the only choice for empress. Candidates for imperial matrimony must be chosen from five families, known as the go sekke or five regents, namely, prince Ichijo. prince Funimaro Konoye. prince Kujo. prince Takatsu kasa and prince Nijo. Prince Konoye nas neither son nor daughter. The Kujo fami'- is the fam ily from whom the present empress was chosen so. even if there were a possi ble candidate in that familj. -h. would be impossible on account of the blood relationship. The Sijo family K disqualified be cause the present he:d spent bis for (tontlnucd on page -1). mm w SESD TflDQPS INTOJOLUND Berlin Thinks British Plan an Attack on German Forces in Belgium. DUTCH NEUTRALITY "WOULD BE NO BAR BERUX. Germany. Sept. IS. The. fear that a large British army may be landed in Belgium and Holland to attack the German forces in Flanders and France from the rear ana recapture Antwerp has beea re vived. One of the foremost military Writers says in the "Armee-ond Ma rinenachrichten - (Army and Xavy ? ews) : With Him Are Macfyensen And Ludendorff As Lieu tenants To Chief, BERLIN'. Germany. Sept. 16. Hin denburg. Mackensen, Ludendorff these are the names to conjure with in Germany today. Into the hands of three masters of war, tried In the awful fire of the last two years, the kaiser has created the greatest mili tary machine in the world and all lesser chieftains now bow down before them. There comes a time in titanic strug gles when die tators become imperative. Great leaders jive way to the great est. A Grant or a NaDOleon of in exorable will curbs the mighty and forces all the vast forces of a nation into united effort. That is Germany's situation today. Encircled by the "iron band" of ene mies the kaiser has sacrificed even the astute von Falkenhayn. who him self succeeded the clever von Moltke in the early days of the war and for two years had been head of the great general staff. Now he in turn must yield place to a more splendid genius. Hindenburg. Hindenburg the Great Roefc Hindenburg Is the great rock on which the formidable armies of Ger many and her allies center. Luden dorff Is his "alter ego." his second self, his understudy, who stands by his side watching with eagle eye ready to pol ish and round off his chief's plans. Mackensen is the thunderbolt, the master of offensives, the mail clad fist with which Hindenburg strikes. He is now in charge of the desperate sit uation around Rumania, where he is attempting to shock Germany's latest enemy by such a smashing blow from the south that the Ruman attacks on other sides will weaken. German soldiers often call Macken sen "the Archangel Michael with a flaming sword." Teuton officers tak en prisoner in Russia recently told "Petroff," the famous war correspon dent of the Russkoe Slovo, how he made a score of Austrian generals cower before him and how he burned a message from the kaiser. Hindenburg and Markenn If t I claimed, work in perfect accord at present. Of Hindenburg. who became famous in the war by winning the two great battles in east Prussia and twice throwing back the Russian Invaders. more is known than of Mackensen and hundreds of reams have been written about him. He has always shown himself quite Independent of the great seneral staff. or which he is now the bead. Jinn of Mystery. He was ever a man of raysterr and scarcely known outside military circles when the war began. In army circles he was called "der verruekte Hinter den Burg" (the In sane one behind the burg) a sportive play on his name. It Is even hlnterl the supposedly omniscient great gen eral staff once printed behind his name In the secret army list the blue cross that denotes incompetence and Is the precursor of an early relegation to the despised reserve. On one point Hindenburg was de cidedly mad. and that was his stud- "The general offensive of the allies ! ? east P1""51'3- In order to be free . .. . . I irom milltarv restrict ons he request ed hii dismissal, that he might the more , onvenientlv studv the topographv of the frontier. Often he could be seen wandering lonesomeiy along some by path, unsafe bv reason of border smug glers, a towering, masterly, brooding figure. He devoted years to his beloved study ana when his j.Ians were com pleted he retired to Karlsbad, where he wrote a little red book entitled "The Collapse." which was circulated only among the members uf the war coun cil and his few private friends. In this he wrote: Trlli of Frontier Weakness. "Our east Prussian frontier seems strong but is weak. No army can hold it. The natural boundaries are either on all fronts kejps our armies hnsv. The British and French att?cks on the western front, which have their cen ter and greatest force in Picardy. do not sufficiently disclose where our enemies intend to strike their main blow. It is possible and even probable that the 'Big Rush' on both sides of the Somme is only a feint Hiding Real I'lans. "The French and British armv lead ers must have-become convinceddunng the rirst two weeks of their offensive that the German line cannot be broken on the short front east of Albert, where they started to use their batter ing ram. From the fact that they are i-uiiiiiiuius Liicir fruitless attacKs PRINCESS AUGUST WILHELM. BERLIN", Germany, Sept. 1G. Prin cess August Wilhelm. the kaiser's daughterinlaw, is patroness of the German Red Cross and very active in her work. She seconds the efforts of the countess of Itzenplitz, president of the National 'Women's societies of Ger many, who has actual direction of the women's work. They have taken over many large private castles and other buildings throughout Germany and to day the care of soldiers is sytematied wonderfully and runs with smooth, ma chine like precision. spite of their heavy lor we may I from I'amiir through Posen -v. ntih.- (Contlnoed on page 511. (Continued on page 3D. Scandal Czarina Shake.' Ru!an Red -::- i; :(: I A ngry. Abandons Cro? Society PETROGRAD. Russia. Sept. 16.-The Russian Red Crosi society lias been badlv staken by a scandal of Urge dimensions and is in danger o'f becomin- com' pletely disorganized. The czarimi. the wife of prime minister Stnerm?r and many aristocratic women have withdrawn from the society and the scandal tnav kad to criminal charges against certain high personages. Several months ago rumors about the alleged disappearance of lar-e funds found their way into the press. At fht theS rumorsTere isnored. but ther vot.gation hich disclosed an amazing state of affairs. It was ascertained that several women of high rank. ho were very active in the work of the society had received large amounts .. money which never were turned into the treasury rested aT .' V "lv,,,!,,1'rRtion was P1" before the czarina, who at once resigned as.protectoress of the society.