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HP H 12 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. H raff GERMAN SIDE . B (Continued Fiom Pago 5.) H' England, and if you want to count Egypt, against I Germany and Austria. And now, as l am writing tliis, Japan's insolent ultimatum to Germany as ' to Kiaochow Is published. I do not believe that HHj you can be deecived by Japan's alleged intention f to leturn Kiaochow to China. Do you believe H) 'that it would turn the battle ships which it hopes H) to capture from Germany or their merchant-men H' over to China, or that it intends destroying Ger- J man commerce to aid China, or to return Fort Hl Arthur and Manchuria to China? Beware of K Japan and England for your own sake? Now M that they are engaged in a conilict with oilier nations, we may still be able to construct for tt ourselves a fairly unassailable position. By what w means this can be done, whether by diplomacy i or war, you, who are in America, must know. k So far Germany has lost only a few unimport- B ant skirmishes but has won the Important battles ! of Mulhausen and Lagarde and yesterday the H tremendous victory in the series of battles around i Metz, defeating nine French army corps, captur- m ing one hundred and iifty cannon and many thou- M sands of 1-ranch soldiers. H? In. the north, the Germans advance with great H rapidity. They have entered Liege, Brussels and H Gent, they are cutting off the Belgian troops at H Antwerp and the siege of Namur has begun. M You have probably heard of the heroic cru ses of the only two men of war in the Mediterranean, the "Goeben" and the "Breslau," which, though Hf the entire French ileet and a part of the Bri ish H arc assembled there, successfully bombarded the H French colonies on the Moroccan coast, and, when W linally surrounded, broke through the British B battle line at Messina; they then came out sue- ' cesstully in some smaller skirmishes and are B1 now aiding the Turkish ileet in the Black Sea. H German mines have been laid along the English H coast, a British cruiser was sunk by these mines H olL the very mouth of the Thames, two British H destroyers crippled, and a submarine sunk. On H the other hand the Germans lost a mine laying H merchant-man after the mines were laid, and a H ' submarine, both off the English coast. Up to E , today no British man-of-war has been seen in the M North Sea, in the Baltic the Germans successfully fl bombarded the Russian harbor of Libau, some Russian ships have been lost by their own in M etficlency, and the rest of their fleet is so well 1 bottled up, that the German government an- M nounces the Baltic to be open for all commerce, H with neutral nations. B As I dictate this, a series of new successes is H being announced. fl The Germans have again captured over eighty H thousand Russians; it has developed that the H battle around Metz was probably the greatest Hg battle ever fought, the length of the battle line HH being estimated at between eighty and one liun- H dred and twenty miles. In addition an entire H British brigade, which had landed in France, has H been defeated. The Austrians have successfully U advanced in Servla and Russia. H The American colony is well and well taken H care of. Close co-operation exists between it and H the German ofiicials. The colony does every- H thing in its powor to alleviate the suffering that H is sure to come. We have been treated with the Kj utmost courtesy. H As to the future: The more enemies Freder- B ick the Great had, the more victories he won; 1 H believe history will repeat Itself. 1 J. E. NOEGGERATII, H Care Bertels, Laplace Strasse 1, Munich, con- H suiting engineer, iNew York City; Fellow Amerl- H$ can Institute of Electrical Engineers. UP AGAINST A FOX William Allen White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, contributed to the Saturday Even ing Post, of Philadelphia, a few weeks ago, an article which showed conclusive y that prohibition had converted Kansas into a veritable Utopia. While some of us smiled at his somewhat extrava gant statements we were not inclined to take issue with him because we know William. When a man has a chance to say good things about his state he ought to make a good job of it. It is not a time to be modest and retiring but rather an opportunity to blow for all ono is worth. Mr. White went the limit. If there is anything that could be said in favor of Kansas that he did not say and did not attribute to the prohibition law, we do not know what it is. Therefore we were considerably shocked last week to find in the Saturday Evening Post a reply by Hugh F. Fox, secretary of the United States Brewers' associa tion, in which Mr. White's most telling statements were shamefully attacked and disproved. And the particularly ev-operating thing about it is that Mr. Fox (n . content himself with gen eral denials of ' statements but actually pro duced proof from various government and state reports, in each instance quoting the page and paragraph where the data would be found, and from the columns of Mr. White's own newspaper! After reading Mr. Fox's article we felt sorry for Mr. White, because he has evidently forgotten since he became one of the high brows ofi Ameri can literature that accuracy is one of the founda- tion principles of successful journalism. Editor and Publisher. "They say those Mexican peons are absolutely useless." "Yes; I don't believe they're worth the paper they're printed on." Buifalo Express. "What's the quarrel between Vanessa and the corner druggist?" "He wouldn't sell her an ice cream sundae for her dog." Kansas City Journal. KENNETH C. KERR OFFERS his house for sale at a rare bargain. Owing to his non-residence he will sell his equity at a very low rate for cash; 100-foot lot, two-story pressed brick house. It's a rare chance for some one to acquire a fine home. If interested call Salt Lake Security & Trust company. MRS. BERTHA KUNTZ BAKER rAMATIC READER AT THE LADIES' LITERARY CLUB NEXT WEEK