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PARIS p COMMENT.
The "Temps' Believes h Trouble
with vienna Is Not Ended.
Special cable Despatch 10 Tar sry.

SpeClut tdoh DtSpdfcA TO THr SITS.
PARIS. Sept. 1.-THE Temps In an edi-
torial on the request made by the United
States for the recall of Ambassado
Dumba says this morning
1T would be a era We error 10 assume
that the recall OF Ambassador Dumba
suffices to safeguard the correctness and
cordially OF the traditional relations be-
tween Austria and the United states.
The Vienna Cabinets responsibility il
directly involved. President Wilson, no
matter how DESTROYS OF avoiding COM
plications, even at the price OF sacrinc-
ing his pride. cannot do less than de-
mand explanations having the value Of
excuses or an expression OF regret"
The Temps considers that Vienna must
have been f~avorably inclined toward
DR.. Dumba's strike programme and ex-
presses the opinion that Capt. Won Papen
and Ambassador Won Bernstorff are
equally guilty.
ID Dumba's recall" the Editorial
continues. serves as a reminder 10 Ber-
lin, as well as TO Vienna. We shall sec
whether German pride heeds IL"
The journal des Debats congratulate
the author OF the note requesting DR..
Dumba's recall for his democratic rude
ness OF style, which ought to shake up
the Ballplatz."
Never was a dismissal formulated
more brutally," the Journal dss Dcbats
continues. president Wilson and SEQ
rotary Lansing wished to let IT be known
at Vienna and doubtless elsewhere that
American patience was at an end
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Continued from First Page.

activities OF German and Austrian agents
in his country. This report was adj
dressed TO the German War ONCE. In
cluded with II was n copy OF Ambassador
B~ernstorf's letter to the State Depart
ment. This copy was given to Archibald
by Capt. Won Papen and not by the Am
bassador personally.
The Ambassador is thus absolved from
all connection with the case. All the
papers taken from Archibald are went
ually TO he published in England, ac-
cordtng to apparently reliable informa-
ton reaching Washington to-day. II is
understood hat they will make ex-
tremely interesting reading in this
country.
The State Department has declined 10
max the Dumba letter public n ia
expected to withhold the other papers
from publication after they are re-
ceived. The Department takes the
ground that II is not its duty 20 make
the papers public. though they concern
the interests OF this Government
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COTTON CROP CONDITIONS.
''Times-PicRyune" Finds w~ntbcr
bad and selling Free.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. l2.-The Times
Ptcdytpic tomorrow will print reports
on the condition Of the cotton crop on
September 3. The consensus liz as fol.
lows
!. With rare exceptions very serious
deterioration has occurred. In some
districts dry weather. in others excess
sive rainfall, Is held responsible for the
change.
2. Complaints OF damage by boil
weevil and other pests are heard here
and there, but the damage cannot be
called important, taking the belt as a
whole.
3. The supply Of labor for picking il
ample as a rule, more especially as this
crop promises TO fall so far shor OF
Its immediate predecessor.
=. seem inclined to sell
rather freely around the present level.
but the deficiency In yield and the as
surance of adequate financial facilities
would doubtless bring about a wide
spread holding movement In the event
OF a sharp decline.
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SLEEPLESS BRTTONS ORGANIZE
Persons Made InsOmniOus by War
Worries Form League.

LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE Christian, a
religious journal, says the newest and
oldest OF all missionary societies In the
world is the League of Night Watchers.
Because OF worry over fate OF friends
in the trenches and on b%attleships vast
numbers Of English people found Il i'm
possible TO sleep at night. Some of
them discovered that knowledge that
others similarly afflicted were praying
or perhaps merely thinking Of them
helped TO pass the hours and bring
cheer. Means Were taken to let Zach
other know names. circumstance and
causes OF worries and now the league
numbers thousands and is growing
rapidly.
The leaders held a convention recently
and decided to welcome contributions
for work To help soldiers, believing that
the formation Of plans for relief might
divert attention and induce sl.ep II
was decided also a. form two branches.
one composed Of members vino cannot
sleep because of war worries. the other
or those who must not sleep because ON
duty as nurses, guardsmen, physicians
or military officers.
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near Derazno and the Ikwa near
Dubno.
The Russian attacks near Tar
nopol have increased in violence.
Northwest Of Tarnopol the enemy
succeeded in penetrating our trenches
and occupying the village OF Dol
zanka. German and Honved bat
talions. who hurried from n%eighbor-
ing districts, caught the enemy on
both TANKS. r~econquered Dalzanka
n threw the enemy back upon
their bridgehead positions. The
enemy losses were great.
Hostile attacks to the southwest
Of Tarnopol were repulsed. on the
fronts east OF the Baka and Stripa.
on the lower Sereth and the Bess-
arabian frontier the day passed
quietly.
on the Lithuanian frontier. near
Kossow. the Austro-Hungarian troops
captured the strongly intrenched viii
lage Of Szkuraty.
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GERMANS ANXIOUS.
Fear EVIL Encct Of Note TO 4. =. on
Arabic Case.

BERLIN via Amsterdam, Sept. IA
Germany's note to the United States
concerning the destruction OF the Arabic
has been published here. Newspapers,
undoubtedly at the request OF the Gov
eminent. refrain from comment.
Il Is evident tina, the publication has
caused a new fecvng OF uneasiness in
Germany. a belief that the tension OF
German American relations will be
necessarily renewed by Germany's
stand on the Arabic case. In some circles
the Berlin Government is criticised for
the fiat refusal 20 disavow the sinking OF
the Arabic. Macmillan Harden. editor
OF Die Zukuntt, Ia among those who ex-
pressed the belief that the situation has
again assumed a serious character. He
laid stress upon the assertion that II Is
not so much the German attitude In
itself but rather ''the manner in which
the situation has beer handled that Is
likely TO bring about a new crisis.
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ALPS HONEYCOMBED.
4 Australians Set Hidden Mines All
Through the Mountains,

Special Correspondence 10 THE StN.
GENEVA, Aug. ga Swiss guide who
was formerly employed for ascents In
the Dolomites and Carudc Alps has jus,
returned from these regions to GrindeI.
wald. lie was allowed to circulate
freely among the Alpine forts above the
snow line on the Austrian side, and
gives an Interesting account Of what no
saw.
The Austrians, says the guide. A..
changing the face OF the mountains an
along the Italian frontier by the aid 0,
pneumatic drills and dynamite. with
which they are hol eycombing the Abs.
especially on the Tyrolese and Carn,
frontiers All the parapets on the stop
roads, where in former mmer tourists
in motor cars passed. have been de-.
mulished by Austrian sdpperS In Ha.,
To- allow artillery full play In the eve :
OF an Italian attack. Beautiful pi-e and
fir forests have been cut down ~ ts
same reason, leaving the Alpine routes
peri city bare, so that the s.ightest AGO..
den would mean a fall of man! u.
sand feet.
Large areas in the Alps have bes1
mined by the Austrians. who. by press.
ing a button, can hurl an avalanche q
rocks and boulders against the adydUc.
ing Italians. An elaborate system =
telephone wires connects the umu.ts
with the valley and headquarters. hIl
the Alpine routes have been mined n
several places. TO cut of the retreat =
an advancing army. To prevent Italian
aeroplanes locating batteries. the Aus
TRANS have painted their guns white
IN the higher regions they cover them
with SNOW,
on both sides heavy howitzsrs fire
daily over the mouutains-which some.
times means an elevation OF more than
5000 feet-on the railway and conc
tration camps. The guns usually Cn-
ployed are from six to twelve inches
Twelve motor wagons OF 200 horsa,
power each are required to drag = g.?
irch gun up the steep Alpine slopes
one car transports the gun carr.d-c.
another the recoll block, a third 30
gun parts and the theirs the smmu"I.
ton and supplies. Most OF the het'v
guns are hidden in caverns, with Only
a small outlet for IN" muzzle of g..
M in the mountain side.
Many OF the frontier passes a..
guarded only by a few Austrian tro "a.
but they are we'll supplied with Mann.
with which they can sweep the roads
leading up 10 the passes,
Some idea may be gained from .Hase
statements OF the great diilcu.' ns
which the Italian army is experiences
In its advance against the Austr.,Gs
who remain on the defensive.
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EVENTS IN THE WAR
ONE YEAR AGO TO-DAY
SOFTEN Der 10

Germans evacuate Amiens and are
falling back eastward between Sols-
son and Rheims, They are In re-
treat also beyond ST. Die and Lune-
Vile, The French reoccupy Raon
rEtupe. Baccarat and other towns
near the German border.
Large Belgian army defeats a Ger
nan army at Termonde. Client and
Lierre, and territory fifteen miles
south OF Antwerp IL cleared OF the
invaders.
Two Austrian armies In Galicia
are shatterSl where they were
making = desperate effort TO concen-
trbte In the vicinity OF R~avarusska.
The Russians take $4,000 prisoners
In two days,
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AUSTRIANS FORCED TO
FLEE INTO TOLMINO
Defeat by Italians on Santa
Maria Hill COmpcls Retreat
to Stronghold.
SPECIAL cable De,pa,ch 70 rnE srN.

Special cable Despdtch 10 THE SiN,
ROME, Sept 12.-Large forces oil
Austrians are retreating into Tolmino,
an important fortified town on the
Upper Isonzo, after suffering defeat al
the hands of the Italians. according TO
the official statement issued tonight by
the war Office. The statement adds
that the Austrians are constructing per
manent defence lines oil the Carso
plateau, to hold back the Italian ad'
vance on Goritz. the key to Trieste.
The official statement vas as follows
Tyrol-Trentino front-In Carnia the
artillery action was impeded by FOG
The enemy continued his fre on the
villages behind our lines.
Plezzo region-On the evening or
September 10 the enemy attempted to
attack our positions east or the slate
mex Valley. He was put to flight after
a violent bayonet encounter.
Tolmino sector-After u attack
on September 9 against Santa Maria
Hill, large detachments Of the enemy
went from the Jomlnski Valley to
Tolmino.
Lower Isonzo-Aerial reconnois-
sances ascertained that the enemy is
constructing new defences OF a perma-
rent character, and that new con-
tingents of troops with large artillery
supplies are arriving.
Our aeroplanes successfully bonn
barded the enemy's encampment near
oppachiasella ton the Doberdo pla-
teau).
The enemy bombarded the Monfa-
cone basin. damaging some vessels.
Cardinal Cassetta and Nice-Mayor
Apolloni. the latter wearing the uniform
OF a captain OF grenadiers, in~augurated
a soup kitchen in Rome this morning
for the benefit ~ the families OF soldier
at the front.
The Cardinal. IN a patriotic speech
said the ceremony was significant "a
proving that the war had eliminated al
hostility between Church and State.
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GERMANS GONE CRAZY,
SAYS COL. WATTERSON
1--WE Are No Flabby Neutrals"
-''Barbarian kultur Must
Be Smashed"

TORONTO. Ont. Sept. l?-Col Henry
Watterson. after an official visit 10 Put
Inlay, was in Toronto to-day on his
way down the 81. Lawrence" and on
TO New York to attend the tftie;h
anniversary OF the Manhattan club. In
a chat with DIR. J. A.. Macdonald. editor
OF the Toronto Globe. he aid
our German Americans? Glory, but
they were deceived. Tho whole gang
OF embassy men and the professors and
the spies-they have been az work on
US for twenty years. ! could hardly
believe II. Here were decent, honorable
men. who were my chums all my life,
my comrades and companions-whN,
when | began to see that this war
means civilization against saNagery,
freedom against dcspotism. and took
sides for civilization and freedom, those
lifetime friends went clear crazy, mad
and crazy. All right, almost any native
American will take them tt their word.
We are no nabby neutrals.
Want war? No. The mans a fool who
wants war. But II II comes TO a show
down with the despots and the world
power war lords and the place in the
sun autocrats, by jove We'll be there
and do our bit II II takes ten years.
Wilson has the restraint OF "A cul
tured gentleman and the language OF g
trained scholar. but II they fool will
him too much he can he AS heartless az
a Bengal tiger.
Don't you worry about our Irish
We nave a few professionals whose in
terest II is 10 talk about the eviction
of a century ago and ~Eugland's handlinl
| OF the Irish situation, which was ash
ninity to the limit, but our Irish leaders
OF to-day know that a liberal Govern.
ment is In power and that the right o
the Irish people to govern themselves
IL sure TO be granted. our Irish il
the States woulC fight for freedom Jus
as heroically as the lads from Dubli,
and Tipperary are lighting in Flanders
to-day.
This half made Hohenzollern dynasty
with all It's wholly barbarian kultur
must he first smashed or there can ~
no ppaCe for any of us"
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TURKISH GUNS BUSY.
lombard French Positions, hut No
Attack Is Delivered.

PARIS. Sept. l2,-There has been little
activity in the fighting at the Darda-
nelles In the past five days, according
TO an official communique issued by the
French War Office this afternoon. The
Turks In the north have directed a
heavy artillery n rife fire against the
allied trenches. French trench mortars
have destroyed two small Turkish forti-
fed positions. The communicate says
At the Dardanelles the past five
days have been very calm In the
northern zone the Turks have renewed
at various times "a violent infantry
and artillery fire, but without leaving
their trenches.
In the southern zone there Ia moth
Ing In particular to report except tho
efficient work OF our trench mortars.
which destroyed two small fortins and
caused appreciate losses TO the
enemy,
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descent, are aroused by the impertinent
actions OF the said Dumba and his CO.
c~onspirators;
And further be IL resolved hat we
rejoice In the patriotic and prompt aotion
OF u esteemed n beloved President.
his Excellency DR.. Woodrow Wilson. and
his Excellency Robert Lansing. Secre-
tary OF State OF the United states Of
America. in removing said Duinbi from
u country and proving 20 all III
enemies that evon L peace loving
certain limit;
And further be II resolved that copies
OF this resolution be forwarded TO tho
President n all members o. his Cdbi-
net"
The resolutions we're signed by Cyril
Ruman. vice-preSident OF ibis branch OF
the league. who presided AZ tho meeting.
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VON PAPEN GOES WEST.
said Il BE on His Way to Yellow
stone Park.

Capt> Franz Won Papen. military
attache OF the German Embassy. has
left New York.
Inquiries yesterday at the German
Club. where Won Papen has quarters.
elected the information that he had
gone away for the week end. but might
not return to the city for several days.
Papen, Prince Won Hatzfeldt and two
servants left for the Yellowstone Park
on Saturday afternoon. They are known
10 have been in Chicago yesterday.
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FIGHTING NOW HEAVY.
Vienna Tells of Attacks by Itni-
ians In Great Force.

VLESSA. via Amsterdam, Sept. IL
The following official statement regard
ing the operations on the Italian front
was issued here this evening
As expected. several heavy ngage
merts developed saturday on the front
OF the coastal district, especially in
the northern sector. all Of which ter
minated in the complete failure OF the
attacking italians. In the Flitsch
CPlezzo) basin renewed enemy infan-
try attacks failed to make progress.
Opposite J~Ablonica our fire forced the
enemy 10 a hasty retreat. The attack
of the Italians who had taken posi-
lions south OF JavOsek was repulsed.
In the Ursic district fighting.
heavier than ever, has been raging all
day long. Here the Sarkt Poelten
~laudwehr repulsed the enemy. Again
we firmly held all our positions.
The southern part Of the br~idgehead
at Tolmino has again been under
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EXPERTS SAIL FOR RUSSIA.
&c I'm Connection with Locomotive
and Aero Orders.

Three experts from the Baldwin Loco
motive Works sailed yesterday after
noon on the Russian liner Dwinsk for
Archangel to superintend the assem-
bling OF $50 locomotives which are to be
used on the new railroad built from
Petrograd 10 Kola. They are James l..
Butts. Jacob Parmalee and Peter de
Shelmerdine.
Seward L. Utter OF the Curtiss Aero
plane Company OF Buffalo also sailed
for Russia to look after a large ship
ment OF air machines to be used In the
war.
Two physicians were on board. Drs.
Malcolm c. Graw and Edward Egbert,
on their way TO Join the Russian Red
Cross service. The Dwinsk carried
eight cabin passengers and 400 in her
Storage.
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BERLIN BIRTH RATE DROPS.
Figures for Three Months show
Decrease of 2,5O7 since 1914.

LONDON, Sept. 12.--Reuter's corre-
epondent at Amsterdam says that there
wa a decrease OF approximately Is per
cent. in the birth rate of Berlin for July
as compared with the rate for July. 1914.
the figures being 2.520 births in July,
1915. az against 3.370 in the same month
last year.
The lumber OF births in Berlin in
May. June and July OF the present year
was 1898, AS, against 10000 for the cor
responding period in 1914.
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$50 German Women Have More
Than 20 Children Each.

BERLIN, Aug. 2S.-The Prussian sta
ttstical office has just issued its last
year book, containing details of the last
Prussian general census taken on De-
cember /, 1910. According 10 this there
were then in Prussia 7,sO9.36O married.
widowed and divorced women, of whom
only 575.5l9 had no children.
AS indicating the distribution of chill
dren a family. II may be mentioned
that S2,32l women a twelve children.
4?,629 had thirteen, 27.064 nae fourteen.
1854 had fifteen. and 1887 sixteen
children or more each. As many as
$50 women had more h twenty chill
dren. Altogether the 100000 Prussian
mothers had given birth TO 2s.3l2.s9
children, or an average OF fou children
each.
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heavy Italian g%unfre. II has n,.
come known that the Seventh iutar.
Try division, one detachment Of AlpirI
and two b~attalions of Bersaglieri. We,
ENGAGED here in attacks THURSDAY
In the district of Doberdo several
enemy attacks against the salient on
the plateau failed.
on the Tyrolean frontier Satur.
day afternoon and SUNDAY The
Italians unsuccessfully attacked IN .
sector west OF Monte Piano. with tie
fun strength of a battalion. our pos
ton in the popena Valley and e..
district OF Cristallo.
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has been crossed. on both sides OF the
Observation-Disclosures Kossowo = Slonim
road the enemy has been driven back.
This army group made 2.759 prisoners
and took eleven machine guns.
The movement Of the Austro-Germans
in Kovno province. near Vilkomir, ad.
mit,ed by the Russians, undoubtedly is
being pushed with the object OF reaching
the wilna-Dwinsk railroad and then de
Gliding on the choice OF progressing north.
ward or dashing south on wilma.
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Special cable Drspafch TO Tnr Sc

Special CdJIe Despaich 10 TUE sen.
PARIS, Sept. IA telegram from
Geneva says that the prominent Swiss
review, the Bibliotheque Universelis Ell
Reuue Suisse, has been seized by the
Swiss censor, The action was taken as
the result OF the publication OF an ar
ticle by Frank %Stapper. the Swiss pub
lIcist, In which he ironically studies the
question OF whether or not the French
ought to pray for the death Of the
German Emperor.
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ARMENIAN CHILDREN SOLD.
Women Interned u Turkey Placed
In Harems, Says Despatch.

NVecIu1 'uOIe UesDdEcN 70 The Sun.
ROME, Sept. l2-The A0ensia Ma
stondle has received a telegram from its
Bucharest correspondent stating that
500, 900 Armenians from Asia Minor are
now interned in Turkey.
The women, the despatch says, have
been placed in Turkish harems and the
children sold at auction In Constan-
tinoDle,
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BULGARS AND GREEKS CLASH,
Athens Confirms Fighting Between
Border Patrols.

PARIS. Sept. l2.-Despatches from
Athens say that the Greek Government
has officially confirmed reports of a
skirmish between Bulgarian and Greek
border patrols. and that an official in
vestigat!on will be begun at once.
The fighting is said to nave taken
place in the Kavala district.
A message late tonight from Kavala
asserts that a regular air route has been
established by the Germans from Or
ova Hungary. to Adrianople. Aero
planes. 1t is said. are continually seen
flying over Serbian and Bulgarian terri
tory. each machine loaded with supplies
for the Turks.
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sedd-eI-Dahr bonn ba ride ii.
Special Cobh Despatch TO Tns ST,

NVt'T"' 'UUI' HoNPUFtH To TIE SIN,
CoNsTANTiNoPLE, via Berlin and Ion.
don, Sept. 1.-THE following Official
statement was issued here to-day re.
garding the situation at the Darda.
nelles:
At Anafarta our artillery destroyed
ammunition carts and bombarded the
enemy trenches.
Two cruisers and n torpedo BOAT
bombarded our positions AT Sedd-el-
Bahr unsuccessfully.
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HOT SHOT FOR DUMBA.
Ex-Austrinn subjects Denouncs
Him mt a Chicago Meeting.

CHICAGO. sept. 1.-THE Teutonlc al.
lies, II especially the activities q AM
bassador Dumbi. were denounced to-day
at a mass meeting OF 700 former Aus
TRAN subjects In Pilsen Hall here.
Applause accompanied the adoption
OF resolutions characterlzlng Dr. Dunn
ba's EFFORTS to prevent Austrians from
woik n in munltlon factories as a
piece " black ~yillainy."
The audience was composed prlnci-
pally OF Bohemlans. Croatians. Servians
and Poles who formerly lived In Aus
ria-Hungary. They particular y re-
scented Or. Dumba's assertion that the
slavs are Ignorant and unclyilized''
and are In need of his protection.
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Austrian Losses Terrific.
Specia, cable Despatch TO Tnr IIs

ROME, Sept, l2-Despatches from
Cividale state that 400 prisoners were
taken In the heavy fighting near PLAYA,
most OF those captured being Hun
garians, The prisoners are quoted ~
asserting that the Austrian losses have
been terrible owing to the deadly Italian
artillery ire And furious bayonet
charges.
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Special Cdbis Despatch TO Tar suS.
LONDON, Sept, l2,-To-day's official
casualty list. covering all British fronts,
gives the number Of officers at seventy
one. OF whom twenty-five were killed,
and that OF men at 3,572. Of whom SsS
were killed. This makes to-day's total
casualties 3,6i3, OF whom 6l3 were
killed,
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Is AMERICANS ON T0URANE.
French Liner Leaves Bordeaux for
New York.

PARIS. Sept. 1.-THE French liner La
Touraine sailed last night from Bor-
deaux for New York with nifty first
cabin passengers and Atty in the second
class, OF whom twenty-five are Ameri-
cans.
Included in the passenger list are the
following members of the American am
bulance q. X. End. Il. II. Jessup, L. 8.
Glunt and Michael Bremen.
Capt. ~d'Oilliamson, representing the
Ministry OF War. is on board. II was
stated at the French Line offices thai
there is 10 falling of In the bookings
covering the next month. showing there
10 no fear OF German submarines.