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Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09

women and children in front for us to
shoot, and in many cases they fired
on our Red Cross. Such work will
surely be stopped by the Great Archi-
tect of the Universe The French
people were very good to us, giving
US eggs, milk, bread fruit and wine
in plenty. l hope my dear wife and
children are being provided for dur
ing my absence. 1t is my only
thought all day."
William Henry Farrol, a reservist
of the Royal Warwickshire regiment,
who was wounded in. the battle at
Mons, tells of the fighting there and
at Thuin and Cambria.
"The slaughter during these three
days." he says, twas terrible, the loss
on the German side being far more
severe than that of the allies. The
scene was rendered all the more hor-
rible by the barbarous actions of the
German army. Every village they
passed through they set on fire, and
it made the hearts of the allied sold
iers ache to see the Belgian and
French people with their poor little
children leaving their homes. The
Germans have suffered already for it,
and we shall make them suffer more
for it before we have done with them.
The French and Belgian people have
heen very good to us. They are good
-natured people and though they could
i'll afford it, they gave us fruit and
cigarettes
Farrol adds that he had not been
long in the field hospital, where there
were 200 to 800 wounded soldiers, be-
fore the order came for all men who
could walk to clear out at once, as
the Germans were firing on the hos
pital, and he had rot been out an
hour before it was completely blown
up, and many officers and men must
have perished.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09
Closing the Surrender.

Toxic, Nov. 9.-The final meeting
of japanese and German military
representatives to arrange the details
of the surrender of Kiao Chau was
held this morning. The commander
of the British forces agreed to any
condition which suited the Japanese.
The Japanese will take possession of
Kiao Chau tomorrow and probably
will repair the forts which the Ger
mans were compelled to surrender.
Berlin, Nov. THE fall of Using
Tao is declared in an official state
ment here today to have no effect
on the main issue involved in the
great war.
1t is openly charged here that ia
pan is attempting to bring China
into the war in order that great
slice of her territory may be taken
for Japanese expansion. Japan's i'm
piled promise that she will restore
the territory of Kiao Chau to China
at the conclusion Of the war is de-
clared by the official German news
agency to be pure falsehood.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09
Realty Transfers
Reported daily by Peoples Abstract
and Title Company:
Deeds.

Metropolitan Bank and Trust Com
pany to Earl C. Pound, S u NV "A
section 27, 1915 res, to release any
interest in 13-1a7 mtgs.
Catherine Thiesen, executriX last
will and testament of Hans Thiesen,
deceased, to Johil Ruether and Enos
Ruether, tract 6Oi, 1916, 100 acres.
Francisco P. Mendoza to Calexico-
Mexicali Commercial and Land Com
pany, all lots 13 and Ia, block oo'
Calexico.
Imperial Valley Improvement Com
pany to Louis GaStinel, lot l, block
30, East Side addition to CaleXico
Ella L. kirkpatrick and w. Fl. Kirk
patrick, husband, o Lulu M. McAr-
thur, widow, Sc / Sc "A section b.
1915, res.
Imperial Southsite Water Company
to the California development COM
pany, commencing at a point on IN
ternational boundary lying between
United States and Mexico, which point
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09
SOME STORIES OF
INDIVIDUAL HEROISM

A Jarrow constable who Is serving
in the Royal field artillery and who
is now in hospital at Leicester
writing to his police colleagues, de-
scribes the British expeditionary forca
work during a certain undated period
as fighting all day and marching all
night"
"The Germans must have lost thou
sands of men. The brutality of our
foe was shameful. They put th5
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09

The task was given particularly to
the British contingent; and the coun-
try for six miles east of Ypres was
occupied. The pushing forward of a
further wedge into the territory held
by the Belgians was threatened.
German commanders then turned
upon this salient or advanced angle
and attacked with forces again nu-
mercially superior. They were, as is
usually the case when they make these
combined attacks, partly successful,
and from about a week ago began
driving in the outer rim of tne sail
ent, of which Ypres is the center.
They took the village of Messines and
held for the moment the village of
Hollebeke, which is only four miles
from the center of Ypres. In an
other five days fighting they have
been unable to advance.
There has happened what regular
ly happens in these affairs. The al
lies, whose policy is to wear down the
German assault until the numbers are
more equal, await the indication of
the next German offensive, then bring
up troops to meet it.
The British contingent, which suf-
fered severely in the first days of this
fighting, was reinforced by the French
in about the middle of the week-long
engagement and the two together now
hold their ground.
1t may be presumed that the next
big effort will be renewed attack
in strength to the south of Lille and
La 3assee, where, after all, is the
best opportunity for forcing the allied
line and where one would have i'm
agined that all the efforts would have
been concentrated by the Germans
from the beginning.
Finally, the new development of the
war, and one which may prove ex-
ceedingly important, particularly to
England, is the entry of Turkey into
the field.
There was an element of comedy in
this grave business. 1t was evident
that the Turkish government did not
act as a whole. Certain members of
it did as they were bid or were per-
suaded by the Germans, while other
members, including the Grand Vizier
himself, were left in ignorance.
At any rate, it suited Russia's book
exactly that Turkey should come in,
for it will make the Balkans in the
long run certainly lean toward the
Russian side.
But it is grave matter for Eng
land. 1t is question of Egypt. The
obstacle to invasion there lies in the
desert of rather more than one hun.
dred miles and marches of from one
and one-half to two days without wa.
ter supply. The thing has been done
several times in history by small
forces, but small force would be
useless against such obstacles as the
existing modern Suez canal, which was
non-existent in all historical parallels
to this threatened march from Syria
Whether it will be possible, ever
with German aid, for any considerable
force successfully to cross the isthmu.
and negotiate that obstacle, only the
future can tell. But the task will bt
very heavy one, even for the best
troops.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09
DESCRIBES WAR
SITUATION TO-DAY

SITUATION TODAY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
men now from the east to reinforce
her efforts in the west and that the
present moment is of vital Importance
to the whole campaign.
1t is to be presumed that a very
vigorous defensive will be undertaken
against further Russian pressure,
probably along the line of the Warta
river.
Trenches have been prepared for 4
long time past by the Germans in
case of retreat, but the great superb
ority in numbers that the Russians
will possess in less than three weeks
time throughout the Polish theatre of
war and the immense length of line
to be held from the Carpathians to
the Baltic make it improbable that
such resistance can be prolonged.
1t is more than likely we are about
to enter into second phase of the
war in eastern Europe, which phase
will be the defense of German ter
ritory against the Russian invasion.
In the western theatre the two chief
events of the last few days have been
failure of very heavy and tenacious
German assault upon the line of the
River User and along the seacoast
toward Calais, and, subsequent to that,
the failure of the equally tenacious
and violent effort against the Eng
lish positions around the town of
Ypres.
No one has been able to explain,
that is, no critic or soldiers writing
On the matter, why the German COM
manders, or possibly not the German
commanders at all, but the German
government and perhaps the emperor
himself, ordered what is called the
"Calais march,"
The attempt was foredoomed to fail
ure. All that country is mass of
dykes cutting up the country into
patches sometimes as small as four
or five acres, and great bodies of land
are below the high water level and
can be inundated, and, further, there
runs through the whole of this i'm
possibly difficult country the line of
the canal, or rather the canalized riv-
er, between Ypres and Nieuport.
The Germans attacked with courage
that won universal admiration and
most undoubtedly lost in the course
of the eleven or twelve days of fight
ing in this district the equivalent of
a whole army corps. They cannot
have had less than 10000 hit or
caught.
In these operations many of them
were found, from examination of the
wounded and dead and of prisoners
to belong to new reserve corps, drawn
either from partly trained material
or from men above or below the usual
military age. But no troops in the
world could have taken that line save
in overwhelming superiority of mum
bers, such as even Germany could not
bring against the twelve-mile front
involved.
When at the end Of that great ef-
fort the Germans had managed to car.
ry the canal and were standing rough
.1y upon the line of railway which runs
west of it from Ypres to Nieuport
the Belgians opened the sluices and
flooded the country, and that of course
was the end of the whole business. II
was very lamentable breakdown ot
gallant but quite impracticable at.
tempt.
Meanwhile this failure to carry the
seacoast and this concentration OF
Germans there had left it possible
for the allies to push forward imme.
dately to the south-that ic Ynrac
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09
Government Wins Suit.

Washington, Nov. 9.-The Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railroad today in the
Supreme court lost the suit against
the government for $61, 100000, the
value Of 100000 acres of land in
Oklahoma, which the railroad claimed
was granted to it by the United
States fifty years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09

parallel with the course of said Ash
canal 60 feet, thence easterly along
international boundary line to point
of beginning.
Helen M. Iasigi and T. A. Iasigi,
husband, to Walter Richardson, lots
3 and a. block 25. Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09

is center of Ash canal in 17-15, and
running thence easterly along said in
ternational boundary 80 feet, thence
northerly parallel with the course Of
said Ash canal 60 feet, thence west
erly parallel with said international
boundary 60 feet, thence southerly
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09

Baseball, Ell Centre, Thursday, Nov.12
Brawley VS.. Ell Centre. Special
train will leave Holtville p. M, re
turning $40 p. M. Holton Interurban
Railway Co.-Adv. 166
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09
To Press Subscribers

1t had always been the rule of
the publishers to require cash in
advance on all subscriptions and
to stop subscriptions at expiration
of time, but for several months
subscription credit plan has been
tried out. This has proven so un-
satisfactory that the cash in ad-
vance system will be adhered to
and all subscriptions discontinued
at expiration of time.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09

Two of the British warships beaten
by the Germans in the biggest naval
engagement of the war, which took
place off the Chilean coast on Novem-
her 3. The Monmouth (above) was
set on fire by German shells and
sunk. The Good Hope (below) was
badly crippled and at latest reports
is believed to be lost. All hands went
down with the Monmouth.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-09
Reduced Rates, Holton Interurban Ry.

account Imperial County Fair. Sale
dates, November II, 18, 10, 20, 21.
One fare for round trip. Good to re-
turn two days after date of SALE
Adv. ia
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
TIE GOVERNMENT S THE BEST FRIEIlD NEW HAVEN STOCKHOLDERS
 HAS HAD IN MANY l0NG YEARS

#~TNHE GDURANT and The Journal Courier
 u continue to moan over the harshness of of the government in dealing with the New Haven situation. For six or seven years The Farmer pointed out to these eontem poraries and to the world the tendency and inevitable result Of New Haven management. There were tears then, but these were also shed for railroad management that was conceived as the victim of brutal denlagogues and design. ing polificians.g
 The courant and The Journal Courier are just as wrong now as they were then. Then they might have used their Influence to save New Haven stockholders and free New Eng land from scandal They preferred to battle. for a regime Of ignorance and loot.
 Now when the United States government in1ervenes in the interest Of. the nation and for the benefit of New England and New Haven stockholders our contemporaries sllriek as though some virtuous gentleman were being way ylaid by highwaym
 One who scrutinizes the state of the Seigel stores and the depositors in the Seigel banks, must reach the conclusion that 1t is fortunate for the depositors that governn ent intervened. Had 1t been otherwise they would not get f4 cents on the dollar, but nothing.
 And it would be much better for New Eng land, and for New Haven stockholders, if the mana cement of the entire New Haven system could be confided to other hands. If this is not possible then as much of the system should be placed in other hands as can be-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
ENGLISH NOVELIST PASSES SIXTY-FOIJRTH MILESTONE TO-DAY.

SiIas Kftto Rocking, the English novelist, was born in Cornwall sixty four years ago to- day. At the age of twenty he was ordained minister, and for quarter of a century he was torates in Liverpool, Manchester, and other cities. It was in 1878. when the young clergyman was still on the sum ny side of thirty. that he tasted the keen delight which comes to the au- thor when his eyes rest affectionately on his first book. This first novel was s.A1ec Green and it was suffI- cient1y successful to encourage the clergyman novelist to further liter ary efforts The following year he published s.Her Benny. and this was followed in | ss6 by ..F1is Father and s.Reedyford. Since then MT. Hook u1nes. Including ssWho Shall Judge? ?'' ssThe Silent Man, Smoking Flax 2 s.Godss Outcasts' and Tor Such Is Life.''
 MT. Hooking has travelled exten- sfvely in the United States and Cana da, and has many admirers on this side Of the Atlantic He believes that the British government has made great mistake in refusing to partfcI- pate in the Panama Pacific Exposi- ton at San Francisco. and he recent ly joined with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Henry Arthur Jones, Sir Gilbert Parker D. w Hornung. and other distinguished British literary men in petition to Premier Asquith urgng hm to reconsider the decsion of the government.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
CHARACTERIZATION OF BSIIISH ARMY LIKELY 10 FOLLOW THE
 SEDlTl0l OF TORY OFFICERS

|r-T~HE OFFICERS OF the English army are
 1 taken from the most aristoeratic fam flies Of the empire. The military establish ment has been a nursery for younger sons ever since modern armies were organized, in that country.
 One of the results of the sedition among officers may not nprobably be the democra tization of the service The liberal ministry will seek to avoid the possibility that the army, through it's officers may become an in strument to maintain toryism in power long after 1t has ceased to have following among the people.
 The truth is scarcely disguised that the resignations of army officers upon the pre- text that they do not wish to fight Ulster, are politically inspired by that tory element which the people of England have for 8 long time refused to e1ltrslst their government to-
 Thus the cause of Ulster may become the last stand of toryism in England, and it may be even possible that the monarchy and the army will disappear together, the king for ever, and the army as an instrument of tory ism
 Students of history will note that the Iib- eration of Ireland is coincident with the Hbera- |tion of the English people As the aristocratic families Of England lose power, the masses of England gain power. Prosperity among the people Of Ireland is eo-incident with the grow ing prosperity of the proietariat in England.
 The democracy of England would free Ire land, but the aristoeracy of England resists, ev- en to the practIce of sedlt1on and the raising or rebellion against lawful government
 Democracy is humane wise and patient, Else Sir Edward Carson, the tory landlord, would not be a free man. He would some time since have been taught, to use the Ian- gl1age of John Burns, That IawIess lawyers must obey the law
 We're aristocraey in power in England and did man of liberal faith threaten rebellion, as Carson does, even to drilling armed troops, he would some time since have been raised to the elevation of scaffold.
 Democracy can afford to be. merciful. Dem ocratic leaders know that much old privilege will melt away and disappear in the face of this tory revolt, which shows to England, and the world that aristocracy loves privilege more than 1t loves the state.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
PROGRESS OF JAPAN

NT o COUNTRY has made greater strides s1N toward modernity in the same length of time, than apan has made. With modern army and navy, she has administered whip ping to Christian nation, and is now big enough to be Haunted as a bugaboo before the American people, A war between America and Japan which probably will never arrive, would indeed be sad return, for it was the United States that brought civilization to the Japanese.
 The first step toward the wonderful pro gress made by Japan in the last half century was taken sixty years ago when treaty Of commerce. was concluded between ancient Nip pom and the United States by Commodore Per ry who had been sent there for that purpose.
 When the American expedition reached 4esldo in 1853 the Japanese were not fover- friendly. and al first the government seemed disposed to continue it's policy Of exclusion Of foreign devils and fIleir wares but the bold- ness and diplomacy of Perry finally won the day.
 This treaty was the beginning of Japan's progress toward her present high position among the great powers of the earth Within seven months after entering into a commercial pact NH4th the United 5Statess the Japanese gov ernn8Tt concluded similar treaty with Great Britain. and Russia obtained thes same privi- leges early the following year Nagasaki and Hakodadi were opened to European and Amer ican commerce in 1856. Four years later a Japanese embassy visited the United States, and in 1862, Japanese ambassador was re- ceiyed at London, Paris Berlin, and other Eus ropean capitals.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
EDWARD P. MITCHELL,
 EDITOR OF NEW YORK SUN g. YEARS OF AGE TO-DAY.

Edward Page Mitchell, editor and vice president Of that great American Journalistic lunlinary, the New York Sun, is z way down Easter,,' by birth, having arrived in the world at Bath. Me. aixty-two years ago today. Mir MitchelI's alma mater is old Bow doin College, in his native State, which gave him the degree of A. B. in 1871, and turned him out into the world to earn a living Journalism was tt1@ magnet that attracted this son cf Bowdoin, and he had no sooner gain ed his sheepskin than he set out for Boston to beard the editors in their dens. The Advertiser accepted his profered services. and he made good so effectiyely that in 1875 he was in yited to join the staff of The Sun. For nearly forty years he has been centinL uously engaged as an editor, and 1atz terly the editor. of that publication and thousands of the most scfntfIlanf of The Suns editorials have been the product of his brain and pen. MT Mitchell has contributed numerous stories and sketches to periodicals, but has always successfully resisted the desire to write the great American novel; For some years MT. Mitchell was president of The Sun. but he re- tired to the vice presidency when Vim c. Reick obtained the controlling i'm terest in the property
 During his thirty-nine years with The Sun, MT Mitchell has spent a large part of his time in the squat 1it- tie fve-story building. of red brick. at Park Row and Frankfort street. which has been The Suns home for nearly half century. but which is now to be abandoned. The build ing is over hundred years old, and. although a mere hovel compared with skyscrapers that tower around it, is one of the landmarks of the Ameri- can metropolis. The edifice was Tam many Hall until 1867, when it was decided that the tiger had outgrown it's cage. and that a larger building had become necessary The old hall. was sold to Charles A. Dana. who had just purchased The Sun, and it was under that journalistic master that Mir. Mitchell received the training that was to fit him to become Dana's suc- cesser.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
EDITORIAL NOTES

It easy for the Mexican factions funds as who are glad osve up money for privilege living another month Mrs Woodrow Wilson is reported much better hoped that her daughters don't To too of the cooking right off.
  A nzcag 70 man a iron a won hat has been Iate judge may authority
 
 An anti-tipping bill is being considered by the New public enjoys helping out needy hotel and proprfetors by paying their help for them
 
 ordered to out which sounds so cheerful at 3
 Tfs4sis said so ps aeronsy in ovation now without uuced. the public provided with good number of fatalities
 Hoboes hiking n California bath house Diego It what risks people will
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
SETTLER AND SHADY WANT TO FILE CLAIM
 AGAINST RUBBER co.

A hearing on the motion of John Fl. Spittler and John D. SIady of this city for permission to He a claim against the Standard Rubber & Cable Go. was under way yesterday before Judge Curtis in the superior sourt This company. which had plant on Oak street, recently went into the hands of a receiver, but previous to that time $1, 800 had been borrowed from the Pequonnock bank. When this bank refused to renew the note the American Bank 6 Trust Go. re. newed it on the endorsement of Spit tier and SIady. When the com pany was unable to settle its debts, the endorsers had to make good the amount. They want to recover that money. Judge Curtis reserved deci- sion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
TAXING IT AWAY FROM THEM

A IGUsT ALBERT had s7 800 in the SeigeI -k7A bank, New York. His wife had S7oo0 and his daughter S7,000s He is 75 years old, his wife is TO years old and his daughter is advanced in years. They had jointly saved for many years and all their fortune was in the bank.
 land stockholders who put their money into New Haven, and now have little or nothing.
 The legislature of New York has thus far refused to make legislation checking similar banking. The hue and cry in Connecticut against the Federal government which tries to prevent similar railroading indicates that the General Assembly will be apt 10 furnish noth- ing remedial when ii meets again.
 Thus does the industry of relieving old men and helpless women of their cash prosper in this free country
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-24
WHAT HABIT DOES


TUABIT AND THE human stomach are II queer tough custorhers. Modern laundries filter their water before they use it There will be spots the clothing if they use city water, just as 1t comes from the faucet.
 The owner of a Turkish: bath filters his Wal ter before lie sHaviles3 his customers to swim in it. They would be olted1 by the dirtss yellow color of upfi5fered wafer as they looked upon it in the swimming pool
 The r. M. G A..syshlch is especially heed- fuI of the health of the young in whose bodily and mental education 1t assists, takes the sani- tarv precaution of Altering the water thai goes into if $ swimming pool.
 But habit has 50 accustomed many of ns siat we fake freely into our stoInaehs fluid which the laundryInan finds unsatisfactory for lire Eansii wash and the Turkish bath proprie- tof tinsllifed for the outside Of the bodies of his customers