Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-14

Kettner is "On the Job

heItHef Is OH JHe JOD.
Washington, Oct. 14.-One of the
congressman who are sticking to their
jobs in Washington is William Kett-
ner Of San Diego, who is trying to
get Congress to grant relief to min
ing locators, who are asking that this
years assessment work be put off
until 1915.
Representative Kettner has as VII
tai aa interest in getting home as any
other congressman who is seeking re-
election, but he happens to be one
Of those conscientious fellows who be-
lieve that they ought to busy them
selves about the tasks that the people
elected them to do.
Perhaps the people will show their
appreciation of Congressman Wett
ner's hard, conscientious and effective
work, and perhaps they will not, but
he will have the approval of his own
conscience, in any event.
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Consular News.
Washington, Oct. Washington
last night was probably the most pro-
ductive source of news of the Euro
lean war. Consular reports, not sub
ject tc the stringent censorship rules
which are applied to press dispatches,
were issued, which indicated develop
ments far in advance of the news
which was permitted to percolate
through the London and Paris cen
sors' offices.
Consular dispatches to the state
reported that the British
consul at Ostend had placed his in
terests in the hands of the Ameri-
can consul there and that the British
would leave tomorrow,
because the occupation of the city by
the Germans was expected. These
also reported that tele-
rhone and telegraph communication
between Client and Ostend had been
cut. Ghent has been reported in the
dispatches from the front as being
occupied by the Germans.
This consular official states that
Bruges. already is in the hands of
the Germans, whose artilleryists were
reported to have begun lombard
ment of the city. A report from an
other consul contradicts this, saying
that Bruges, he learns by telephone
from this consulate, is still in the
hands of the allies.
The state department has been in
communication during the day with
the government of Germany and that
of Belgium with reference to arrange
ments for the re-victualing of the civ
ilian population of Brussels in ac-
cordance with the offer of the Unit
ed States to relieve the state of fam
inc now prevailing there. The gov
ernment had offered to distribute the
food and supplies through the Amer
ican legation in Brussels, the distri-
hutton to be under the supervision of
the American minister, Brand Whit
lock.
News from the war in the East is
contained in a dispatch from con-
sular official in Warsaw which says
that the capital OF Russian Poland is
threatened by the Germans and its
fall is expected at any moment. The
motive for conveying this information
is the consuPs expressed request for
instructions as to the care of foreign
interests during the expected period
of German occupation.
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