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New Britain herald., 1916-08-23

otates and Mexico seemed imminent if was reported that Japan had offered Aldteflal aid to the Mexican gOvern hlert Tn the event that such a war should be brought about. Without going into the question of the nature of this offer it can be said that at that time Mexico couldn't afford to turn down any offer of help.
 Looking into the future the pres- en rulers of Mexico fear that if the Onlted States becomes embroiled with any powerful nation Mexico would be the battlefield on which the war would oe largely fought, and would be more helpless than Belgium was in the pres ent European war, for Mexico has none of the great fortresses that Bel gium had to withhold an army while she whipped her own army into fight Ing shape. The officials of the south ern republic are now convinced that, With Americas increased navy and the results of her present prepared ness program foreign power attack ing the United States would without much formality decide that the easi- est way to strike America would be through the back door of the United States, through Mexico. Mexico's ports are not fortified, and directly to the American border.
 Mexico has only a small army. Judged by the standards esta blished by the present European war, and judged by the same standards if is miserably equipped. And so her off, cials know that she would be practi- cally helpless to repulse any consider able foreign army that elected to tramp across Mexico to reach the United States.
 About the only thing we could do in such a case,' a Mexican army off, cial said to me just before I left for the United States, would be to dyna- mite our railroad bridges and trust to God.'
 '"The government of Mexico, I can state at present, would be ready to go farther than a mere treaty with the United States. It would be ready-if the United States were to make the suggestion-to make an agreement whereby the United States would &C., tually unite with the Mexican govern lent in fortifying Mexico, so that an invading force could be held off at least temporarily and the government would be willing to make an agree ment whereby American forces should be given ready access to Mexican ter ritory, in case of such a war, to meet an invading force at the ports, instead of awaiting it's arrival at the A1neri- can border.
 Alliance With America. 'In other words, a suggestion of an alliance without any reservations on Mexico's part would be very welcome
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the agreement. The logical points of
 ingress into Mexico for American ar
 mics are border points. The port for
 tificatiOnS would in no way make
 Mexico impregnable to America That
 was the answer given to the first ques-
 tion. The reply to the second was:
 "'As for the possibility of America
 being dragged into a foreign war on account of Mexico-that is a more serious question. It is so serious that
 it would justify precautionary stipula- tions in the agreement, on the part of the American government. The MeXi- can government would understand the necessity for such precautionary stip- ulations and would assent to them that is the attitude of the present
 Mexican government. There is another aspect of this phase of the situation,
 however, based on conditions already
 existant, and conditions in the making of which Mexico has no part. Your
 Monroe Doctrine creates this other
 aspect. Without any alliance of the sort suggested at present. your Mon roe Doctrine caused you to bring pres sure to bear on the French which en- abled us to end the iron regime of Maximilian.
 
 danger of the United States being dragged into war with another coun- try through Mexico as there would be after such an alliance became effect ive-t11 ough, needless to say, 1t is our hope that 1t will never be nec- essary to fight such a war, for the bur den of it would fall as much on the Mexican republic as on the United States. It would be only fair for Mexico to grant stipulations that would minimize this danger" Another question was asked of the correspondent who was being inter viewed instead of doing the interview ing. American military strhteg1sts often have pointed to the military inn portance to the. United States of Low CT California, because whole army
 fleet and any number of army trans ports could easily find shelter Tn the Gulf of California between this strip Of land and the Mexican mainland.
 The. correspondent said that this question had not been brought Up in Mexico City and that he could only venture conjecture on 1t. He did not
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to the Mexican government at the nresent time. I don't think 1t prob able that the Mexican government will make any overtures along these lines; if would want any such suggestion to come from this country, and the Otf1- cals who approve such plan realize that 1t would meet with no small de-
 gree of opposition among the 'Gringo
 hater' class in Mexico, but they feel convinced that this opposition would die out after a short time and that such an agreement would be of in
 calculable value both to Mexico and the United States-tO Mexico as an insurance against the fate of Belgium,
 to the United States as strategical
 move in the direction of preparedness against future foes.
 Mexico also feels, of course, that such a treaty would prove the foun- datiOn for a genuine and lasting | friendship between the two govern lnents and would after short time wipe out forever the inborn feeling of distrust that so many MeXicans. par icularly of the lower classes, feel to-
 ward the United States, and that has been the underlying cause of So much of the friction between the two coun- tries during recent years.
 There are several very serious questions that arise when such an al liance is considered. One is: Might not these very Notifications which it
 is suggested that the United States help to build be used against the United States in the event of war between the United States and Mexi- co? Another is: Might not such an alliance drag the United States into an unwe1come war with some foreign power as a result of some future ac- tion on MexicOs part? Thinking that these questions would be asked in America should an alliance be con- sidered, I asked the Mexican officials about these things when the subject
 was preached in Mexico City.
 " Tn the first place. they said, such | an alliance would minimize, would almost end, the possibility of war be- | tween the United States and Mexico. 1 Secondly, stipulations might be made 1 that Mexico should not fortify the | border between the United States and Mexico--this would merely be proof of l the good faith of Mexico in entering
New Britain herald., 1916-08-23
MEXICO WANTS TO
 BE OUR FRIEND
Realizes She Would Be Second Belgium if U. s. Were Attacked

New York, Aug. 23.-''The reports circulated recently to the effect that Japanese have been trying to gain a foothold in Mexico, and that they have practically sought to make an ally of the Mexican government, are not without good foundation. It can- not be denied that the Mexican gov ernment has encouraged rather than discouraged the advances made by the Japanese. And yet, anomalous as the position may appear at first glance, the Mexican fears the motives of the Japanese even more than does any of that American group which sees menace to America in every move made by the little Oriental em- pire.'
 This statement was made yesterday
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think that the Mexican government would cede Lower California under any conditions or sell it to the United states, partly because the rank and hle of the Mexican people could not be brought to agree to any such step. But he thought it not improbable that Tn such an alliance as suggested Mex lco might consent to turn over the fortlhcation of lower California entire ly to the United States, provided Lower California remained still a part or Mexico and its civil government re- manned entirely in Mexican hands The much discussed Mexican pride" would make the granting of further powers in Lower California impossi- ble, in that further powere there would infringe on Mexican sovereignty, he said.
 The principal ports in Mexico that would have to be fortified, the cOrre- spondent said, would be Vera Cruz, the terminus of the railroad to Mexico City, Puerto Mexico. terminus of the Tehuantepec railroad which crosses Mexico to the Pacific coast; Salina Cruz, the Pacific terminus of the Te- huantepec railroad; Tampico, terminus of the railroad leading directly to
 
 Ian, terminus of the line into Sonora, the Mexican state just south of the Arizona border
 There are about 25,000 Japanese who had colonized in Mexico up to the present time, the correspondent said, and in the Mexican army there were Japanese officers. including one major, four captains, and minor officers in larger numbers. These officers, how ever, he said, were not in close touch with the higher Mexican officials and associated principally with the lower classes. The colonists were not ab- sorbed into the nation in Mexico any more than they were in this country, and were feared as a nation within a nation, while there were not a few far-s1ghted Mexicans who suspected that the growing number of Japanese colontsts might some day prove the most serious sort of a menace to Mex ican sovereignty.
 The yellow peril" he said, was as much of nightmare to the Mexican as to any other people on earth. but coupled with the fear was the neces-
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by Canadian who has lived in Mex leo for sixteen years, and has just ar rived in New York on a short Vaca- tiOn. For number of years he has represented American newspapers in Mexico City, and his personal ac- Quaintance with Venustiano Carranza, the head of the de facto government, and AlVarO Obregon, it's war minister, has been so intimate and long stand ing that his dispatches have often been referred to as coming from "an inspired source" He toured Mexico as a member of Carranza's private party last year, and has travelled over
 considerable part of the country in Obregon's private car. His state- ments regarding the attitude of the men at the head of the de facto gov ernment of Mexico toward the Jap- anese can be considered as unofficially authentic.
 The present government of Mexico feels secure in it's position, and it's leaders have no longer any fear of being overthroWn by revolutionists," he said. '"They are now trying to look ahead. And, although no overtures whatever have been made to Washing ton on the subject up to this time, I am in a position to state that, instead of wishing to antagonize the Ameri- can government, the present Mexican government would like to unite with the gOvernmen of the United States in an offensive and defensive alliance.
 In Need of Friends.
 "The reason Mexico has not been able during the recent past to show her real attitude toward any foreign government that has made overtures to her has been that she felt she could not afford to alienate any possible friendships whatever. She has been badly in need of friends, even though she knew their motives in befriending her, or suspected that at the bottom they were really founded on secret hostility of the foreign government to the United States.
 "When war between the United
New Britain herald., 1916-08-23

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teen l suffered el month so I had tx1 in bed. I had he ache, backache { such pains l wo cramp double ev' month. I did know what it ' to be easy a mint My health was
 run down and
 doctors did not me anV good
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sity just at the present tune or aV ing carefully any indication or trust.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-23
''I DON'T SUFFEl
 ANY MORE
"Feel Like a New Persod
 says Mrs. Hamilton.

New Castle, Ind" From the ti I was eleven years old until was sevI
New Britain herald., 1916-08-23
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SCALP TERRIBLE. WITH DANDRUFF
Face Full of PimpIes. |tched and Developed Into Sore Eruptions.
 Hair Came Out in HandfuIs,
HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND O|NTMENT

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
The Westinghouse Mediation
Committee Meets to Ar
range Conference
MANY STRIKERS
HAVE RETURNED
President Of Electric and
Manufacturing Company Is
Ready to Meet Strikers

Pittsburg, Pa, May 5.--Peace in Pitts.
burg's industrial strife, which already
has cost three lives and resulted in the
procaiming of martial law throughout
the Turtle creek and upper Monongahela
valleys, was in prospect yesterday.
With 200 state troops patroling the
streets of East Pittsburg and Braddock,
300 of their number wounded, the second
step toward bringing about settlement
of the general strikes was taken. The
first was the appointment by the strikers
of a mediation committee of 90 Wednes-
day. The committee met with Patrick
Gildav, chief of the state bureau of ar
hitration and mediation, yesterday for
the purpose of arranging conference
with Pres. e. M, Herr Of the Westing-
house Electric & Manufacturing Co. and
officials of other companies affected by
the strike.
Herr cleared the way for mediation
yesterday when he said: Il am willing to
discuss terms of settlement of THIS strike
with any authorized committee of en-
ployes of our plant"
Five members of the mediation COM
mittee who are bona fide Westinghouse
workmen were selected to meet with
Pres. Herr.
Hundreds of strikers returned to work
when their plants We're reopened yester
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
EAST CABOT

Mrs. d. s. Hall OF Marshfeldsis spend.
ing a few days at the Barr home.
Esther Dunn, who has been spending
several weeks with her grandmother
Mrs. A. II. Dunn, is very sick there with
rheumatic fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Roy spent Wednes-
day at Barnet.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Peck and Ellwyn
Witham spent Wednesday at st. Johns
bury.
Mrs Gilbert Hill. who has been poorly
all winter. was presented a May basket
Monday afternoon by Misses Marion
Morse and Isabelle Davenport. made by
the scholars. She was much pleased by
their thoughtfulness.
Mrs. George Drew spent Wednesday
at Barre
Mr.. and Mrs 0. II. Heath of Cabot
were guests of relatives here Sunday.
Mrs. John Chandler of Peaehsm was
at her fathers. Frank Peck. Sunday.
Everett S. Chase has finished work for
Robert Barr. and went Thursday 10 his
home in West Berlin.
Mrs. John Dunn Of Hardwick was
called here Thursday by the illness of
her daughter, Esther. at A. H. Dunn's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
TOPSHAM

| The auction Of the late James Miles
property was held from his residence last
/ Tuesday There was large crowd amc
things sold WELL G. +. Smith of Barre
was auctioneer.
r. b. Smith and daughter, Mrs. Anna
Felch, were at Barre on Monday.
Married, at the home OF the groom, on
Sunday, April 30, James E. Smith and
Miss Nellie r. Dexter, Rev. J. C.. Wright
performing the ceremony.
Carroll Childs and father. Rodney
Childs, were at f. f. Powers Sunday to
see Mrs. Hattie Childs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles NJ. Seris were
over Sunday guests of Mrs. Sadie i,
Dodge at Waits River,
DR.. G. w. Darling Of South Ryegate
was called last Saturday to see Mrs Hat
tie Childs, who is very i'll with tubercular
trouble.
Miss Jessie Mckay OF West Topsham
is spending the week with her grand
mother, Mrs. Betsey Currier.
Eddie Hall is on the sick list. DIR.
Rowland was called to see him Tuesday.
Robert Hall has finished work at New
bury and is assisting his father in the
sawmill this week.
James WEIGH has moved to the O. n.
Merritt house, and his father, John
Welch, win move to the R. b. Sibley
farm, which he recently vacated.
ID. G. Mckay has rented his place here
in the village to Ira Welch of West Tops
ham for one year.
Carroll z. Hood of Hartland has been
N town few days this week. He is in
very poor health.
P. j. Mcnamara and Charles M. Seris |
we're in East Corinth Thursday.
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day morning, expressing their willing.
ness to abide by the terms agreed upon
by their committees in conference with
their employers.
The climax OF the strike disorder is
believed to have passed with Tuesdays
pitched battle. The third victim died
during Wednesday night. Two others
are in critical condition.
The probability ~ that she guardsmen
will be ordered back to their homes as
soon as tentative agreement with com
pany officials is reached by the strikers
Separate from the general peace move.
but affected by the spirit of it, the 900
striking workmen Of the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie shops at McKees Rocks have
appointed a mediation committee of II
to take up terms OF settlement with their
employers. II is expected that by early
next week the general eight hour day
strike will be completely at an end.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
LIBELED FIRST PRESIDENT.
Full Penalty for Defamer of George
Washington.

Tacoma, Wash, May 5.A verdict of
guilty was returned Wednesday night by
a superior court jury that for four days
had been sitting in the trial Of Paul H.
Haffer OF this city, accused Of libeling the
memory of George Washington. The
maximum penalty for the offense under
a state statute is ons year in the county
Jail, a fine OF $1,000 or both.
Col. Albert +. Joab, an attorney,
caused Haffer's arrest after the latter
had sent letter to newspaper refer
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
UNABLE TO BURY
DEAD BECAUSE OF
SHOVELERS' STRIKE
Twenty-Five Bodies Placed in Tomb at
Springfield Awaiting In
teIment

Springfield, Mass. May 5.-The inabil-
ity to secure shovelers as grave diggers
is delaying the burial of the dead at Oak
Grove cemetery. Supt. James G. Sackett
of the cemetery said that there are about
25 bodies in the tomb awaiting burial,
but that he cannot get grave diggers, al
though he has offered $3.50 day for
eight hours, the conditions demanded by
the strikers.
Supt. Saekett appealed yesterday to
Councilman Silvio Martineili, who acts
as counsel for the strikers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
RUSSIANS STILL LANDING.
Another Convoy Of Troops Arrives at
Marseilles.

AIsrseilles. May 5.-Another convoy Of
Russian troops arrived here yesterday
morning. This j. reported 70 be the fifth
landed for service in France. Special
and popular demonstrations vel
coined the allied forces at the docks and
along the line Of their march through
tie city 20 the Russian encsmpment at
Mira beau. in the outskirts.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
PLAINFIELD.

The next play to be given here by the
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Ionder" Plan on seeing it Monday
night and stay for the dancing adv
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05

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! would not live one
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o b lie tie d to any
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
Another Titanic WIDOW wess.

New York May announcement
uas made here yesterday that Mrs.
Henry b. Harms. widowed when the IT,
fnuiC sank has married Leslie 7. Consol-
loys of GreCuwich, Conn.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
PEACE WILL BE
SUDDEN, SAYS
AMBASSADOR PAGE
He Tells President, However, Efforts to
Mediate Will Not Be Welcomed
at This Time.

Washington, May 5.-Thomas Nelson
Page, American ambassador to Italy, who
saw President Wilson yesterday, said he
saw no immediate prospect for peace
in Europe, but believed that when peace
came, it would be suddenly, just as the
war was begun. He thought peace would
follow great victory. He did not think
that efforts to mediate would be vel
coined at this time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05

While playing at her home in ST.
Johnsbury Monday, Beatrice, sixyear-
old daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred c.
Foam, was pushed from the piazza, and
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
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were continually cracking
open and bleeding. They
were 50 sore | could not pus
them in water at ali nor even
sweep tho floor. They were
swollen and an awful sight
and I didn't want anyone 70
see them
81 noticed Cuff~u-a Sea,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05

struck in such way as to break her
right arm at the shoulder. The bone was
splintered and driven into the socket III
such manner that it could not be set
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05
HUSBAND OBJECTS
TO OPERATION
Wife Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound

Des Moines, Iowa. =" Four years ago
/ was very sick and my life was nearly
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-05

ring to Washington as "blasphemer,
slave holder" and "inyeterate drinker.