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Canadian Officer "Makes Good"
After Rc-l?nlisting as
a Private.
RECEIVES SEVERE WOUND
Gains Medal for His Courage
During Terrific Battle
in June.
LCjNPO.N', November I s.?Lieutenant
Q. H. Jones. a Canadian oliicer, \s:tr
d t Mil 1 Issed Seine I nil" IIV coin '
martial. lit; dei?-rmliu <1 to "make
Rood," enlisted its a private, j;ained
promotion and a m> dal by km ;
I'ouritut', and now hu.s received :? om
!nissioii ai;ai:i. I ,i< u t? si:' tlt Jones wa:<
botn at Halifax, Nova Scotia, ir> iS'Jl.
Me was practicing as a bari i:;t< r in
ll>14 at tli',- tllne when war broke out.
Hfi enlisted in Oc-.-cmber of tlur a ?.me
ye; r. trained in Canada, and tinn ca.iH
lo A Idernliot. !(?? went to the I'l'oit*
on November "0, 1915. Iff came back
on February C of this year, having been
d isrnisscd from the service two da> a
previously.
"I can't tell you." he said. "how rl.nl
I am to have t:ot my commission back.
When I was brought homo wounded
after the battle of the Somme I f. It
ths-i nothing mattered. I didn't care,
whether 1 i;ot better or not. I was
lylrifj in the hospital when I heard
from my briKadtcr that I was to be
reinstated. I cabled the news to mi
father in Canada, and yesterday, to my
Kreat amazement, li. walked into the
ward. 1 had no idea lw: was coming
to se.< me, but he was -o glad at the
news tha? 1 hint ifot my commission
bat k that he came all the way from
Canada 10 congratulate ine.
"I do not suppose 1 shall ever be
lit for active scrvic. a^aln From my
waist downwards I am burled in plas
ter of J'arls. If I can't 1:0 back to the
front, as I should like to. I hope to i.e
able to pet nom? sort or work to do
in I.'npland. When the war I* ovei
I shall back t.. Canada and take up
my legal work again.
".Mv brother. Major Jones, was out
at the front, but wa. wounded. After
live months Iti hospital he lias re
turned home r?. tike ij ;i stair appoint
ment."
\V A > IN Tllll l\ OK
I'K.IITI Mi ,\T ^ I'ltP.S
Jones returned home on February ?
and enlisted aiiasn on February I". He
Joined his battalion <-f 1 new regi
ment in France ?.>n Fehruurj -7. i'v
March -1 he wa - in The t;.b*k of t; ??
tiglit i tig at Ypics. Ho was appointed
wiring sergeant. then bombing ser
geant, but It was as *1 scout tl.at i ?
m* 1 st distinguished himself.
lm March -1 he went over to the
enemy tren< hes to examine them and
stole a snipei s plate (metal shield). A
month la I er he again went <? ver to th<
one my trcri,,!u,,s siti?I ?** uf ! ;?r:c?t ^ ?
plate. In this connection an amusing
incident happened. He -raw led aloca
to the sniper's position when the snipei
himself appeared read;. to shoot
through the plate lie was only t.
yards aw.,>. but he b
parapet, and when he ?aw young Jones,
whose reputation bad a;
(he < iermans, lo- (.mvo .1 snort of
gust and went away.
After thai Serjeant (as he now was)
Jones was put in . barge <?f the
bombers, and th?*n came the big flu lit
Rt the end of June. The Hritish had
difficulties in ascertaining the enemy'.*:
new lines, and Jones was ordered tr
go out at niulit and find out exactly
how the line stood, K nowlng how
hopeless It was to move about at night.
Jones had the daring idea of going out
by daylight
At 1 o'ebick ir. t(i. m?irr.lnp he slow
ly crept across ?Sr, Man's l.uud," and
followed an old cummunlcation tri-m h
He finally reached a sironjy sandbug
block, and. hearing the en.my on the
other side, knew h>- had arrived at their
lines.
It was impossible examine them,
as he had to keep crouching down
near the parapet 1!,- secnr* d an in
trenching tool fr vin a dead Oermun
and started to make a tunnel right
under the saiulbusrs. Me eventually
got through to the other side. eover.il
himself with sandbag* and cr.pt into
a hole. Although a (;,rniHii sentry
was firing at random, he stay d there
for two hours unharmed.
He was able to count the number of
the garrison, and to fix the ,x?ct loca
tion of the new 1 ues. and all bomhinir
and machine-gun strong points The
result was that, after a few hours the
British artillery were able t., ,|rivo
the Germans out of their positions.
In. this work Serjeant Jones was
assisted by Sergeant W A. Thompson,
who since has been killed on the
Rotntne. Uoth sergeants pot the
I>. C. M
Some weeks later Serjeant Jones
was out patrolling for twenty hours
under much Cue same circumstances
He amused himself by rending -vimar
Khayyam." This was the occasion on
which be won his liar to the it. c jt
On September 1.1 he was wounded by
machine-gun fire on the Somme. He
was In hospital in France for nine
days, and then was brought t?> the hos
pital near Newcastle, where he ?0w is.
Now that he is reinstated, he is per
fectly happy, and the nurses say tha*
since the news cam. he has mud
greater progress towards recover*
than he had done in all the previou
time he had been In the hospital.
Allowed to tin llnrcfooted.
HRRTjIN", November IS.?I'ntil re
cently to po about barefoot was a
crime punishable by law in Germany,
but the Increasing scarcity of leather
has effected a change in the orllcial
sense of decorum in this respect. Some
little while a^o the municipal authori
ties of Munich removed the ban against
barefooted youngsters, who are now
allowed, not only to go about the
streets without shoes, but also to travel
on tho street cars. Other cilies arc
following the example set.
4 I "?f
Wilson Raisell Up
to Benefit World
Editor of London Dahy News
Rejoices in-Re-Election
of President.
I By AHsocifrtcil Press. I ?
l-ONDON, Nw.-niluT IX.?"M'hon
Kurope <'iniri;tH? from the pw-sent
tp, til'* Cill *'?; of I'k ll?llliS
ph< res will liavj been fundamentally
changed in of tho Westcirn, and
tin- ? * 11 i t ????! Stjcf-K will have an au
thority in The affairs of the world
which it never had before and which,
'*v**n if it hail had, its historic Jolicy
wouhl not have permitted it to i?xer
else." -
This declaration is contained in a
feature ai t vie in the JJally t~\c\VB,
written l?y Alfred fj. Cardlner. editor
of the newspaper, who. in emphasising
? the Indebtedness Mf the entente allies
? l" 1 'lilted States in the matter of
j munitUrns. says:
We rejoice in the election of the
, most ts'iga<:ious statesman American
j politics has tiirown up sin. e Lincoln,
j If v.e had reason to he thankful that
j Mr. Wilson was elected in 1!?12. there
j i? still more reason to lie ^thankful
j that ho was re-elected in 19*16. it is
j the <i!ie indisputable gleiim of light
in the dark future that lies before the
; .It is to do something
I nobler than the building of a highei
j tariff wall f.ir tli' American plutocracy
j that he comes b;iek to power. It Is
.o establish a society of nations, and
I '"hange the whole doctrines of force
i :i! th" world."
LIBERAL IDEAS CRUSHED
rtu klm rest Nrnx|iH|irr f.'oinplalnw of
? lie "It iiNMlficul ion" ?>f Itou
uiu niu.
ISl'DA I'KST, November 1 g.?The
Hukhurest newspaper Dimineatu. which
; :<l\ ;?\ ha.- been strongly pro-Russian
and advocated the entrance of Jtou
j mania into the war. now bitterly com
Plains <f the "Russittcation" of the
! < "iiritry. It hiiv.s:
j I h<u pr? <J ':t ions* of forrn?M* Prim**
?Mini. ter t'arp have proved true. Itns
iiin tioiiary methods are crushing
our libera) institutions. Our free
const uutional government is practical
l> ?'?t"?l:>hed and tl.o Russian autocracy
! 'i*' I he 11*i? ' .an officers and sol
? !iecs jire tii. masters of Itoumania to
day. and \>x they complain that they
r:"' 1r* ??t-?' 1 wen enough by the
j populat Ion.
' Thousands of penniless fugitives
! f,re arriving n t th" capital daily from
I the districts invaded or threatened by
; the iii-iiiy <o:r h< r?>i?- army is hleed
ini: I., lie;,||| ::i tfie mountain passes on
i the Transylvanlan border, the popula
tion has been thrown into u panic by
tile disaster in the Iiohrudj i and be
i fore I lermannstridt and ivronstadt, and
? tiie situation is getting worse from
; day t? day.
Still the a) 1 ied forces m Macedonia
make mi effort ti> save Itoumania by
in energetic ??(Tensive against the Bul
garians and Germans. and the enor
mous Russian armies which were
i promised t?. us do not come We are
t"(sa k ? n by i! ?? allies, und our conn
'' >' 1 "? tr- it- d like a conquered
j.r ?vir. by Russia I'nder these con
'! ti"iis th' H? uimtnian nation can only
lupe that tli< war ma> end quickly."
HAS THRILLING EXPERIENCE
\ not rl:in t :iigiiif?-r Arrented In lluk
Uari'.it \rrlvf.s in Iliidii|>e*t After
Mnny Advrnluhen.
VIKNNA, November 1?.?Dr. Adolph
I.'x liner. an Austrian engineer, arrested
j in Rukhate.?t when Itoumania entered
war. lias arrived in Budapest after
j many adventures. Following his ,ir
i rest he spent three weeks in a dirty
prison of the Roumanian capital,
i Finally he was sent to Bessarabia,
where lie was told that he would he
sent to Siberia with the next trans
port of war prisoners.
To escape this fate the engineer pre
; tended to be a Czech and a violent
hater of <;ermany and Austria. He
asked permission to enter the Russian
army, but was told he could only be
used as a s['? After much questioning,
. the itussl in officers became convinced
of the genuineness of his alleged sym
i pathies for Russia and the cause of the
i allies.
As no claimed to know every corner
j of ti e Carpathian Mountains, he re
I reived orders to proceed to the south
i eastern part of the Rukowina to act
j as a irulde for Russian patrols. lie
? played his part so well that the Rus
i sian ot'icers trusted him fully, but all
the while he was watching for a chance
to escape to the Austro-Oerman lines.
| This chance catno when lie guided a
j small detachment through a dense
forest on a darl< night. lie managed
to evade the Russians, and safely
reached an Austrian outpost.
BOY Of SEVEN BURGLAR
\
Sun of KngJlHh Artl?< IlrenkM Into
lloiiNe and Steals From V
Safes.
NOTTINGHAM. KNO., Novemlier^lS.?
Seven-year-old Roland King, son^of a
well-known artist living jjery,'hasttKfep
convicted as an aijertfffpUshod burglar
mil sentenced to nine years in arl in-,
Mistrial school. '? ' >
K'lulpped with a liishlight, a lia.?nfiier
?ml chisel, he got iato a house, it Jvas
hown in court. opeti>d a safe and Wtole
large amount of Jmone.y. He torn
Itted many othef similar/ daring
i mes. ?*
"Crafty, cunning and a thorough Ut
ile demon," was the police description
of the child. Kvidenco in coujfi showed
Roland was clever, highly sensitive and
subject to fits of passion, iij which he
broke chairs, smashed ornamerits and
lore clothing to bits. His mother made
a pitiful figure In court when she pro
tested fearfully against V'an nrHst's
child being treated likejv ilttlo gutter
snipe." *
The hoy showod thj police where
lie had buried his looj. His mother
thought him In bed at ?th? times when
ho was committing his-Wglarlea.
BattJ? of the Somme Has In
creased Demands on Air
X
men Very Greatly.
CONSTANT FIGHTS OVERHEAD
Thrilling Stories Told by War
Correspondent of Berlin
Newspaper.
1:1:1a.IX. November IS.?Dr. Max Os
born. war correspondent of the Vos
slsche Zeitung, sviuls the following
frooin the Somme front:
"Come quick V says Lieutenant von
S . as w." reached the flying field. "Conii!
quiek: WintgctiK is about to land!"
We wont rapidly around a few
houses. sheds, and workshops! ami
were now on the I ?road, irrasr.v field.
In the sky floated a dark bird that
soon grew larger as It n'-arcd us.
Down 011 the field ovtryboilj had
gathered, everybody who happened 10
be "home," officers. soldiers and
mechanics. in the mid.st the chief and
father of the whole conclave. Captain
V., who called out to us in pure
Swabian dialect. "Wikome! This is
Ki t at!"
'"'or several minutes we watch in
"Hence the aeroplane sinking In a
lovely spiral glide. 1'reseutly the cap
tain cocks his ear and asks me softly.
Hear that?" The whole group be
comes agitated. They all whisper to
one another and ask us. "Hear it?
Hear It We two strangers hear
nothing at first. Hu? then, all at once,
we catch something?a curious snort
ing sound repeated at short intervals.
"I wonder has he really bagged an
other one?" says, a young lieutenant.
Me turns toward me. Then I per
ceive that h" has the blue "I'oin 10
Mirite" at hi.- throat. "Althaus," he
introduces himself to me. "Donner
wetter." I think to myself, "that must
be?"
"When he snorts that way with his
motor he always has shot one down;
that's his signal." says another of
ficer. He introduces himself as
"Kerthold."' Dormerwetter, Althnus.
Ihrthold. Wintgens?I've blundered
Into fast company
rAXT.tsni KM. I-HI-;
IlISIOS HKllt.VD (il\
lh<* F-'okk ?t is near the ground.
While the one-decker still is rolling
along tin- Brou!d a fantastic figure
rises behind the machine B4;n. swathed
in a dark bather, and calls out:
"/here's one moic settled."
He climbs >>ut. Jumps down, and Is
in the midEt. ';rectingR, hanuFhakings,
laughing, congratulations, questions.
"Where was it?"
"At Fs trees," and the flyer turns up
the fur-lined flaps of his helmet, puts
on a pair of eyeglasses, throws off his
? ?oat so that on his throat, too. the
"1'our le Merite" becomes visible, steps
before his captain, clicks his heels to
gether and makes his report.
It was near Kstrees?exactly over the
line?fifteen minutes ago. Altogether
he had been away half an hour. Every
thing had none with mad speed. The
German Jiail attacked the French fiver,
and had hit him at once. The enemy
wavered, fluttered earthward and final
ly tell. He had passed his dozen, and
now he is on the way to his thirteenth
or fourteenth.
"liood work. That comes in handy,"
says his captain. "Think of it, only
yesterday Frank! brought one do vti,
too! That was his sixth. I wouldn't
be surprised if he brought another one
down to-day as well "
The captain hadn't finished his sent
ence when again commotion arose in
the group. A second bird swooped
down on us from the other direction.
A VIATOIt Fit A X K I.
n.4KS IMS SKVKXTI1
It was really Frank I. and he actu
ally had bagged his seventh. The
enemy wanted to flee, but he. wouldn't
fct him get away; put the Frenchman
out of business and forced him to land
near the Hiache Farm, southeast of
I'eronne. The French flyer had been
j wounded in the chin, as a knitted cap
with traces of fresh blood, which
I-rank! brought aloiiR, showed, but not
J dangerously, and now he sal sonic
; where as a prisoner.
1 he young flying oflicers themselves
made no great bones about the matter.
"Ach, Gott!" said one. "the fellows
forward in the drumfire have to un
dergo much more terrible things and
perform far more than we."
The battle of the Somme has in
creased the demands 011 the flyers
to an immeasurable degree. In addi
tion to the enemy's heavy odds in guns
and Infantry m:usst:s, there Is the very
considerable numerical superiority of
the enemy in flying machines, against
which our air troops h.-eve to defend
tliemeslvcs. Incessantly the strange
birds coine over to bother our fiKht
itig troops, as well as our fl-nole rear
ward system of communications.
Wherever you approach the battle
front the struggle in the air con
tinues uninterruptedly. Incessantly
the swarms of aeroplanes flit across
, the sky, the antiaircraft guns bark.
The machine gun* on high sputter, and
the falling shell splinters whistle.
The German pilots and observers
tetist pull themselves together and
employ ill the cold-bloodedness and
prcs^pce of mind, caution, and clever
nets ajHsureness of hand and eye thai
is in "jhem. Hut our fighting flyers.
tlnnks*to their skill and luck, are
able to-^fliln the air ranks of the
enemy. '.
The noonday August sun burned
down on-us 011 the open flying field.
We went .Into the cool saloon cvf the
abandoned! Fronch chateau, where the
air rfnmp fy quartered. Only tho enp
tnlij who for quite a while had been
manifestly uneasy, remained outside.
A.f'tjr a few minutes he came in. call
in'cp out:
'^Thank Ood! Thcy'ro hack, nearly
? (Continued on Eighth Fags.)
Revolutionary Parade in Warsaw and Some Famous Poles
v^SVSS^V^
IJelow?The ancient white paplc borne in a great revolutionary demonstration at Warsaw, the capital of
Poland. This city was the scene of numerous sanguinary riots before tin* present war. The Russian ollirials
?repressed with severity the Polish national demonstrations.
Above, center?John Sohicski, most famous King of Poland, who saved Western Kurope from the Turks,
i Left of center?Arehdnke Kugcne of Austria, and (right of center) Prince Leopold of Hav<tria, two men dis
1 cussed as likely he put on the Polish throne by the Kmperors of (?rrmauy and Austria-Hungary.
Knds?The two most modern Poles arc?(left), Jan Ignaee Pudcrewski, pianist; (right), lleuryk
I Sicnkiewic/., author of "tjuo Vadis" and other novels.
Bitterness Displayed in an Order
Issued by General
Kiiekow.
MAlvKS K T 1 R R I X CJ APPKAl,
Oflicers and Men Gulled On to Avenge
Honor of Their Country and Lib
erate the Dobrudja?"No Pity for
Cowards."
IIHUIjIX, November 1 *>.? Tin- hatred
of th'* Ruitrarians Toward the Rouma
nians Is shown in an order issued by
tiie Rulgarian Oeneral Shekow after
tin* entrance of Hon mania into the w;?i.
which lias just been |> iblished bete.
The general says:
"Macedonia is liberated froni the
Serbian tyranny, but we attain are roin
I>?-11 ? <1 to take nil arms in order t<>
restore the justice .strangled by the
infamous treaty of Rukharest.
"Aftet we conquered Macedonia our
enemies collected a large army at Sa
loniki to rob us onee more of the soil
which is populated by our race and
belongs to us l>y the laws of (!od and
nature. The efforts of the conglom
erate forces, who violated the neutral
ity tif (ireece to attack us. remained
futile. All attacks of the Rritish,
Freneh. Italians. Serbs and Russians
have been shattered l>y the granite
wall of our heroic defense, and the day
is not far distant when our enemies
will be driven from the Rulkans com
pletely.
"Rut now the Micky. despicable
enemy beyond the fs^'iube. the infa
mous dcspoiler of our Keautiful Dob
rudja. has raised his head like a slimy
serpent. Killed with low envy an ;
Impotent hate, he again tries to pre
vent the completion of the glorious
work of our national unification. Cow
ardly, without a declaration of war.
he has sent shot and shell into our
cities on the Danube, killed our women
and children and attacked our fron
tier guards.
?'Officers anil soldiers, an enviable
lot has fallen to you' You will avenge
the honor of Iiulgaria and liberate the
Dobrudja, the home of your fathers,
from its martyrdom. Supported by the
valiant armies of our allies, yon are
strong enough to chastise the cowardly
enemy and to show these wretches thai
die Rulgarian can be hard and cruel
against the desecrators of bis father
land. Your arms must not grow tirc;l
nor your bayonets become dull, until
our arch enemy is destroyed completely.
No pity, no pardon, lor these < ?>w
ards!"
NEW RAILROAD AIDS RUSSIA
Will lie CtRi/.ed for tlie Trniisporta
tlon of Material* of
War.
KRISTIANIA, November IS.?Accord
ing tu Krautz Hansen, a^sorwor.ian sea
captain, who has just returned to
Trondhjem from Alexandrovsk, Rus
sia will not be shut off from communi
cation by means of the Arctic Sea litis
winter and so continod to the trans
Siberian route In the transportation of
war materials.
The new railroad from Pctrogrnd to
the Murman coast, where the <!ulf
stream keeps the ports open twelve
months in the year, is all complete
except a small swamp and lake section
between Kcm and kandalak.scha, he
says. During the winter the swamps
and lakes freeze, permitting sleigh
tratllc. r.y the new year ihe Ice will
be thick enough to establish communi
cation between Alexandrovsk and IV
trograd, and next summer tho whole
line of rails will be finished.
NEW YORK CITY DRY
BY 1920, SAYS RECTOR
!
i .P. A". Chalmers Talks Prohibi
tion ill New York Diocesan
('onvent ion.
MOV IKS M L'KT DKINK-SICLLKHS
i
Kpisropal Body Passes Resolution
Favoring Total Abstinence and
I'rKinp Adoption c?f Local Option
Laws in State.
NKW VOHK| November IS.?"kittle
? >1<I New York will he dry by IJ'.'ti or
forced to (to out on the Atlantic to get
its drinks."
This prediction by the Jtev J. V.
Chalmers, rector of Holy Trinity
Church, has set .Vow York thinking.
The liquor men w? re ?specially inter
ested. While Koino jeered at the idea
Of ibis stronghold of alcohol becoming
"white" territory, many privately ad
mitted they agreed with the general
trend nf tin- clergyman's remarks, while
believing it might take longer to force
the change than the four years he
granted.
More stringent laws and other
causes hiiv.- greatly reduced the num
ber of saloons in New York this year.
In the whole State 60O went out of
business on ()i't<it>i |- ] last Only part
of the eitu.i of the State havo the
right to say whetlo r they shall be
wet or dry, but a stronger light for a
State-wide local option l:.w will be
made in the next session of the Legis
lature at Albany.
Saloonkeepers agree their business
is less prolitable than ever before^
I* or oiie thing, tiie moving-picture
theaters hurt them. The workingman
takes his whole family to see the lilms,
instead of carousing in the neighbor
bond inn ivliile his wife and children
sit a. home wondering when and in
what condition he will return.
1 ?r. Chalmers's striking prediction
was made at the convention of the
Protestant Kpiscopal IHoeesc of New
York, lie exhibited a map showing
there are 170 saloons within an area
of three-quarters ?f a mile itround nis
church, which is in Iv-ist Kighty-eighth
Street. These saloons took in last
year, he said, more than $3.107.not).'
It" the city otlieials would enforce th?>
present liquor laws, lie added, at least
2.000 of the 1 ii.OOCt saloon- in the city
would he pilt out of business.
After a long discussion, ii? which
the liev. I'hilip \V. Kauntleroy. of St.
Luke's Beacon, declared that "people
cannot by legislation be Induced to
reirain from drinking," the conv* ntion
went clearly on record for total al>- '
stinence and a S* ie optional prohibi
tion bill. The resolution^adopted read:
I hat this convention, through its
social service commission, declares its
readiness to co-operate with all active
temperance forces in urging total ab
stinence for individuals, in endeavoring
to hare the present liquor laws ? n
forced, and in favoring any legislation,
such as an optional prohibition hill,
which will give the people of this State
in cities or towns a chance to speak
for themsi Ives on the question of
liccnsb or no license."
GERMANY IN GRIP OF WINTER
Several Train* Kroin llerllii Are Snow
bound Xenr Sit Inn
l-'ront ler,
I.o.VDOX. November 18.?Germany is
in the grip of winter, the lCxchangn
Telegraph Company's Berne correspon
dent ^reports. Several trains from
Berlin are snowbound near the Swiss
frontier, where extreme, cold prevails.
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SUBMARINE OFFICERS
MVE1100 EXPERIENCES
Captain of British Yes>?*I. About to
lie Sunk, Asks for
A uto^raplis.
HIS UliQIJ KST IS Git A \TET)
llt-ide of ('nniinniider of Another
Ship K*presses Pleasure at Hav
ing a Novel Advent urc?Stories
Tolil in Budapest Newspaper.
PA IMS, Nuvember IS.? A writer In
t ho newspaper Az Ksi, of Itiidapest,
drives details about liiV <>n an Austro
llungati.tn submarine, which he ob
tained fiom Ceinian otHeers. lie says
these otllcers talked very littlo of
drowning :m<l death. The coinni;inilor
of oik; ('-boat i-o!:ito?I Hint, having: mot
a I'.t itisli vessel, ho i?ot ifi?? <I her com
mander he was ahout to sink her.
"The Itr itish commander," lie con
tinued. "a phlegmatic seafarer, after
wards came on our hridue ami ad
dressed the Austrian otlieors as follows:
"liar- one of you gtMltlciilcn got a
per.ei I
"We looked at lilni in astonishment,
mill one of us handed him a pencil. "I
should like,' he went on. 'to have a
few autographs by you. gentlemen, as
a keepsake, so that I can '"elate at
homo that 1 received a pres?-m from
the Kent lemon who sent my bonny
boat under.'
"We looked at nne another, scarcely
coneo!! Hiik our hilarity, but tlnall\ one
of us fetched a novel, and we wrote
a few lines on it as a souvenir lie
thanked us. shook our hands cordially
and departed, resigned and content."
it it 11 > i: is 1'i.KAsr*!)
A T NO\I'.l. K V I'KII IMXt'l-'
Another oflicor recounted meeting an
i' lie my merchant ship about I ?"> m'h.s
from shore. An otficer hoarded her t >
toll the crew to leave her before she
was torpedoed. lie was approached bv
a pretty woman in morning dishabille,
wearing: a lace cap. but no shoes. .She
introduced herself is the captain's
wife, explained that she was on her
honeymoon trip and seemed tremend
ously amused at the idea of encounter
ing a l'-hoat. Her husband oresontly
appeared, verv sleepy, but ipiitc calr.
"Vou ar ? goiim' to sink us'"' h ?
asked, and. on receiving an all'srinative
r? ply, said to his wife: "Then pack up
your t h in s, clu l it-!''
In ii few moments several largo and
small trunks w-re tilled with feminine
attire arid trinkets, not forget i ing hats,
and the yotiin; liride asked the Aus
trian .? 111<-? r s permission to pack even
?m few bottles of wine. It was granted,
and she thanked with a curtsey. re
peating ller espl'eS ' ell of d liulit at
having had such a r >vel atlv-ntur\
Then sin jumped into the captain's
boat, while preparations were com
pleted for the t.irp iioiiu; Afterwards,
when the ship was sinking, and the
submarine was movim; off. the Aus
trian commander observed the woman
perched on her p!l? of trunks, waving
a pale green silk parasol and smilingly
making good-by signals
"She was in an open boat, a hundred
miles from the invisible shore, smiling
and laughing," added the oMlcor. "\V ?
looked for a long time ;it that green
par ii so I. and 1 must admit that tin. t
laughing bride impressed us And she
certainly made us sorry for her."
Paris writers sucgest that the con
tributor to Az Kst lias a fertile int
agination, and mention that in the
Magyar text the French word cherlo
Is used by the ltritish captain instead
of the Knglish word darting, which
a Itritishcr might reasonably have
been expected to employ.
i mnuiiui
Leaders of Race Here Doubt
if Conditions Will
He Improved.
DISLIKE IDEA OF GERMAN
PRINCE ON THE THRONE
Also Point to Possibility of Rus
sians Conquering Their His
toric Fatherland.
(Olltsi: OK KYKXTS WATCHED
Accordinji to Sonip Advlcos, Arch
<1 iilxt% Milpi'iip or Prince l*c.'npolil
Will Re llulor.
\;r:w vnrils. Xovcmbir IS.?i*n
nlloy"! pleasur ? over the creation of a
now Polish kingdom is expressed by
few Ann-ri?'.*in Pole:-'.
I .Pinters of the race her** question
wh tln-r -i Poland und*r th* tutelage of
i ;? ni'.:in> nn>i with .'i '??rmiir or Aus
trian j>i-111<? on tli'* throne of Sobieskl
will !?.? better "if than it was before
th<- present war.
The poles In Germany have been y
more turbulent, and im>re dissatisfied
than those under the Czar, and, while
the lot of the unhappy people in
Hallcia has he. n slightly belter, it is
believed here Vienna will ha\V very
little tn say. eompared with Berlin, as
t.. how i lie new state is to he managed.
There is also the possibility that the.
Russians may reconquer Poland, when
their irritation against all things Ger
man mi trh t lead them to treat thft
po|.s with greater severity than if
Kmperors Wilhelm and Fianz Josef
had not tri"d to create a new Poland
fund incidentally a Polish army to help
light the Teutons' battles) in the midst
of the treat war.
America has been (he scone of much
Polish plotting. Many Poles in tho
United States have been contributors
to various funds raised with the object
[ of restoring Poland by means of a
fevolut ion.
I'HOli ItlCSS l)K i:\ K\TS
W.\T< IlKli WITH IXTRHEST
The course of events in Poland, as
told by meager cable messages, is
I watched v. !tii extreme interest here.
.V-eording to some advices, Archduka
1 '.'i^eiir, a famous Austrian soldier, or
Prince l.copnhl of Ravnria, commander
| of the northern section of the Teutonic
i eastern, armies, w ill be crowned under
j the auspices of the two Kaisers. An
l other possibility as King is twenty*
[three-year-old Frederick Christian, a
son of the King of Saxony. His mother
is tiie e.x-i'rown Princess of Saxony,
who was divorced by the present King
of Saxony before he acceded to the
throne, afterwards married an Italian
pianist, was legally separated from
him. and had other notorious adven
tures. Tliis prince ijj brought forward
' because lie is a descendant in the sixth
! g* neration from the last elective Saxon
| Kinur of I*olattd.
In 1 ? ? 7 Augustus the Strong, Sov
ereign Klector of Saxony, was chosen
I by I he Polish aristocrats to be their
I King. lie not the votes because he
[ arrived at Warsaw with fresh corrup
tion funds when the rival candidates
had draiiieil their pockets. Augustus
was remembered f ir his many wives
and concubines. He left several hun
dred children. He died in 173:t, and
his eldest son was elected in his place,
j retaining the throne until Ins death, in
1
m .n asty or iv i \i;s
INSTF.AO or ri.rf'TOKH
The Poles by then were disgusted
with the Saxon line, and elected
Stanislas Poniatowski, a favorite of
Kmprcss Catherine of Russia. He was
crowned in ITtll, while the son of Au
gtistus II!. was simply Klector of
.Saxony. His dynasty became Kings
instead of Kleetors when Napoleon
Iloiiapai'te abolished the Holy Roman
Kmpire. A little later Napoleon also
gave the new King of Saxony the
throne of Poland, which lie lost on tho
French Kmperor's downfall.
It can be contended against tho
claims of the present Saxon princes
that their ancestors owed the throne
? >f Poland '?> election. The throne was
not hereditary; wherefore their rights
ire nil. The Te'itoirc Kmperors may
lie pleased to see oth-.-rwi;;e.
The Poles In America mostly scoff
at the idea of a Polish King, anyway.
They would mu.-h iccfer a republic,
not a state- where only the nobles had
votes, as in old Poland, but not pat
terned after the French or American
plan A large part of the Poles i*i tho
old country are Socialists, who, of
conr. e. are not at all pleased at the
turn of events, for they are sure Ger
many and Austria t|iilekl; would come
to the rescue of endangered Polish
royalty and pr>>\e:il a popular revolu
tion. just as i.t; > a assisted Austria
i i put down '.he revolt of the Hun
garians.
iiu^ ia will suffer a great lo.-<s if
Poland i ?: ?b Unitely . lien::, te i f. o:n her.
.-'he has d .iv. n e(M>,ecu a year ia
taxes .'rum Poland, v. hi h. b\ tho way,
was never officially considered a part
of Russia, the farm of a Polish king
dom being kept up.
ii:\\s i? i:i<>iii-ri:i>
TO I.IVK IN l'OI..\M?
<'ii ? ?lifferetii-e between Poland and
Russia proper of especiul interest to
ilie Unite.'l States was th" >'a'.us of
the Jews. This perseeut ???! race wart
permitted to live in Poland, and is wry
numerous there. The Jew-, wer* de
barred from settling in Russia proper.
Shis measure accounts in part for tho
backward industrial condition of
Russia.
A-. far us persecutions g>> however,
the Polish Jews in America agree that
the Poles treated them worse than tho
Russians, and th* v bell v. their lot
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