Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-18

been cured, returning to the pattle
lines on the western front.
Mr.. Smock told of passing through
Germany into Holland. In Holland
the peace party made stops at Leyden,
DELPHI and The Hague. Leyden is the
former home of the great Rembrandt,
the famous artist.
The speaker brought out the hstori
cal point that the Pilgrim Fathers left
England for Holland, spend a year in
Holland and then came to America in
the Mayflower, He pronounced the
then king of Holland as one of the
three greatest men in the worlds his
tory, the other two being Moses and
Caesar
Mr.. Smock gave very interesting
description of the famous peace palace
built in The Hague by Carnegie at
cost of S4,000.000.
Permanent Peace Delegation.
Mr.. Ford has established at The
Hague permanent peace delegation.
In this connection Mr.. Smock said:
No, we didn't stop the war-not yet,
But we're going to. We left at The
Hague a permanent delegation of three
representatives from each of thee fol-
lowing neutral nations-Norway, Swe-
ed five from the good old L. S. ~.
These delegates are not crack pots.
The attorney general of Norway Is
one, the mayor of Stockholm is an
other, Baron Vallen of Denmark is a
third, and with William Jennings
Bryan, Jane adams and Henry Ford
as three of the five delegates from this
country, it will be readily seen the per-
sonnet of the peace expedition is not
a frivolous thing, and cannot be
laughed out of court by two or three
daily papers of New York City, which
are the opponents of muntion manu-
facturers.'
Mr.. Smock gave ii a his observation
that Germany is as bitter against the
UNITED States as it is against England,
because of the vast shipment of war
supplies from this country to the enc
mics of the central powers.
He gave as another observation that
2 Germany, early in the war, made her
great error by not turning on and cap
t turing Calais, France, On the English
5 channel, instead of going toward Paris
f With Calais in German control early
e in II war it is believed that it would
, have been comparatively easy at that
time to land expcditionary forces OF
: English soil and thus force England
t into an early peace
= Another of MIR. Shocks observa-
0 tions while in Europe was that the
= United States is hated by all of the
powers at war in Europe,
y Prettiest Women of Europe.
l, Mr.. Smock pronounced the Norwe
n gian women as the most beautiful il
= Europe. He said the finest men il
t Europe, if not in the world, are thos
k of Sweden They are strong. large
n vigorous, and of great integrity.
1.-THE English are the greatest sea
Il men in the world, and the Germans ar
the greatest soldiers said Mr.. Smock
/, The peace party started from Rot
D. terdam on the return trip to America
n Mr.. Smock then saw a German aero
<. plane drop bombs. The steamer lief
o Falmouth, England, for home. A sis
e ter ship of the ship on which was tn
!, peace party, was blown up and de
stroyed by a floating mine within thre
g hours after the ship of the peace part
e had passed over the same spot.
II Mr.. Smock gave a graphic descrp
Is ton of great storm at sea. The sh
reached the harbor of New York Jar
%, 1916
1t England Mistress of the Seas.
n. Mr.. Smock said: England, like tn
= Baptists, holds a monopoly on tn
Is waters She is undisputed mistress {
Of the seas. Taking passage on a Scan
lie dinavian liner from New York we wer
taken as captives into KirkWall on tn
RS extreme northern point Of English ter
ID ritory, and returning from Europe o
~ a Holland liner we met the same fat
~ at Falmouth, the most Southwestern
in point of Britannia's domain. Here a
as undesrables were removed togetht
of with more than a thousand sacks
ne mail bound for the United States an
i as we stood by watching proceeding
ed there was none to reason why a doZe
Englishmen CWho We're Scotchmer
d. were permitted to do this thing to net
Elk trail vessels, for the Union Jack fla
re is master of the broad expanse. Fir
er ally, the orders were given that v
could depart, the high ball was swur
ty by the captain of our boat, and it Wa
elk westward no for New York"
in Peace Party Well Received.
ad Mr.. Smock declared America new