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had been drawn or won by Germany.
we would have been attacked-and
that while Europe stood grinninE by
not directly at first, but through an
attack on some Central or South
American state to which IL would be
at least as difficult for US to send
troops as for Germany. And what II
this powerful nation, vowed to war,
were once firmly established in South
or Central American What Of our
boasted isolation thenT
II is only because ] believe that our
people should be informed that have
consented to write this book
There are too many thinkers.
writers and speakers in the United
States; from now on we need the
doers, the organizers and the realists,
who alone can win this contest for
US, for democracy and for permanent
peace!
Writing Of events SO new, am, Of
course. compelled to exercise a great
discretion. to keep silent on many
things of which I woulG speak, to
suspend many judgments, and to hold
for future disclosure many things the
relation of which now would perhaps
only serve to increase bitterness or
to cause internal dissension In our
own land.
The American who travels through
Germany in summertime or who
spends q month having his liver
tickled at Homburg or Carlsbad,
who has his digestion restored by
DR.. Dapper. at Rissingen, or who
4earns the lost art of eating meat at
DR.. Dengler's. in Baden. learns little
of the real Germany and its rulers,
and in these articles i tell something
of the real Germany not only that my
readers may understand the events
of the last three years. but that they
may Judge OF what is likely to hap
pen in our future relations with that
country.
l.
First Days Of Great warI
Political and DIpIomatic.
At the commencement OF the great
war / was for some days cut OF from
communication with the United
States, but we soon established q
chain of communication, at first
through Italy and later by way OF
Denmark. At all times cables from
Washington to Berlin. or vice versa,
took on the average two days In
transmission.
After the fall OF Liege, Won Jagow
sent for me and asked me whether
would transmit through the American
legation a proposition offering Bel
gium peace and indemnity IL no fur
ther opposition were made to the
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President A. the
he German mpror Of
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BILL KAISER
IS GR|EVED
FALL. or GREEK MONARCH MADE
A PAINFUL IMPRESSION
ON EMPEROR.
MESSAGE: OF SYMPATHY
Emperor Sends Telegram OF SymPa-
thy 10 Former King Constan-
tine and His Wife-Niews
Of German Press.

THE HAGUE, June l4.---lhe ap-
dication of King Constantine oi
Greece produced painful impress
sion" at the German great heaoquai
ters. according 10 dispatches re-
ceived here voday via Cologne.
The kaiserfwas greatly ehagfihea
and Immediately dispatched a iies
sage of sympathy to the fallen mon
arch and his mife, Queen sofia' VINO
is the kaisers sister
German newspapers declare that
,ho naw lingsmust obey the entente
~. a,sa q revolution OF the Venlzelos
forces will result III tue
ment of a republic.
The German lioerai press 49, o,-.ao
a declaration OF war I'o"
was imminent .ho
The Zeitung Amnilt'as a.
belief that Constantine
o.ti,. ,he result of the Russian rev.
olution.
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We :" ohf turn serve America and
can serve I'er with no private pur.
pose. "eSniist use cur flag as she
mas aiwaySused it. We are account.
aole at th4 ha, ri history and must
piead IN utter frankness what pur.
pose u Is We seek to serve.
''It is pl&in enough how ,ve ,,a,e
forced into The war. The extraordi-
nary insults and aggression of the
imperial German government left MS
no self-resp9ting choice but to take
up arms In defense OF our rights as
a free people and of our honor AS n
sovereign government.
''The military masters Of GERMANY
denied US thS right TO be neutruj
They filled Rir unsuspectina COM
munities with vicious spies and con-
spirators and bought to corrupt the
opinion OF OUT people in their own
behalf. When Ahey found they could
not do that, their agents diligently
spread setitioe amongst us and
sought To draw our own citizens
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circumst t,nees would not have taken
up arnsf Much a. we desired peace.
i was d4ied us and not Of our own
choice. ghis flag Under whiei, we
serve wod ld have been tlisi,onored II
we had Withheld our hand.
But t4at Is onl, part of the
story. w know now as clearly as
we knew before we we're ourselves
engaged ttlht we are not the enemies
OF the Gerf4an people and that they
are not ouN enemies. They did not
originate orS desire this hideous war
or wish thaGwe should be drawn ins
to is: and W. are vaguely conscious
that we are yfighting their cause as
they will softe day see it, rs well as
our own 'tfey are themselves in
the grip of the same sinister. power
that has nosV at last stretched its
ugly talons Dit and drawn blood
from ms. TheAwhale world is at war
because the yShole world is in the
grip OF that pdsser and is trying out
the great batAe which shall deter
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BUY 4 LIBERTY LOAN BOND
and join LIST OF PATRIOTS

J. H. Miller, Mfs. l. i. Andrews,
Rev. Horace Bishop, Mrs. Sam
Showers, Mrs. 81 E. Fowler, S. e..
Fowler, G. B. Walker. T. ]. Bull
lard. Mrs. LizzieS Bullard. Miss En-
ma WagenhauseE Roberta Ownby,
G. W. Kent. Mrs. Erling Helland.
Walter Grow, OzEp Gheatham, NJ. ID.
Rutherford, r. RI Rutherford, Scot
tie Rutherford, RI J. Coleman, T. q.
Choatham. Mrs. Quincy D. Getzen-
daner, u. r. NeEton, Jack Byrd
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O. w, A. NJ. BroSning ]. O. Sagg,
Orlena Mckinney, w. w, Powers,
John d. Ward, John S. Campbell.
Mrs. Della Peweix, H. j. Baber, L..
G. Curlin, Lydia J. Singleton, G.
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W. y. Sims, j P. Below, w. G.
Mcclain, w E.* Love, Southern
Printing Co, Fa S. Cronk, c. r.
Graves. R. H. Dtvis. Cary Oldham
Jr.. r. Bedford Forrest, Edw. Er-
rest Forrest. T. G. Forrest Jr.. Mrs.
Eta f. Forrest. Miss Emma Traylor,
Jack Stands, w. n. Boyd. c. w. FL
liot. K f. Bruton. t. R. Fondren
Mrs. W. A. Crow. Jno. II. Pierce
Mrs. c. NJ. suppl r. L. Parr, VIII
Mcpherson, Ernest Turns, Tom
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Farley, Walter Mncey, Thelma Rob
erts, ]. VIII Embry, j. #. Dun.
away. Walter ShHes, J. p. Keys, w
/ j. Pigg, d. W. Goodlett, A. NJ
Browning. y, R.sNewton, Jack BYRD
Eastman, Geo Sd. Cannon. Joe
Katz, Charlie sdhnare, ]. E. Duna-
way. D. c. McNAir. S. P. spalding
IT. ]. Kirk, RobE L. Sullivan, W. K
Ward. F. H. Coleman, Frank f
spalding. n. A. Ilowle. r. f. Moore
c. II. Petty, Ffank Dooley. w. F
| Fletcher
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FALLS THR0uGH ELEVATOR
SHAFT At HOTEL ROGERS

G. NJ. Williams. who lives six or
seven miles east OF Qpwn, Was quite
painfully hurt this afternoon %hen
he fell through an elevator shaft at
Hotel Rogers. Williams had been
back to the kitchens with some eggs
and on returning to- the front came
through the elevator door instead OF
the passage way. He opened the
door and stepped of and fell dis
tance of twelve feeb landing on con-
crete floor and posts for the ele-
vator TO rest upon. :
An examination8 showed him to
have sustained slight injuries to his
right foot and to his back, although
il is not believed he will suffer any
serious hurts. He was taken To =
physician for examination and AT 3
o'clock was still suffering some, but
expected to be an right in q short
time.
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mine whether is 10 be brought
under It's MASTERY or fling itself free.
s'Tle war We begun by the mill
tary masters Of German, u:so proved
to he also the 4snasters OF Austria-
Hungary. Thes& men have never re-
aarded nations Ns peoples. men, wo-
men and clildstn of like bIOod and
frame ~ themselves. for whom goy-
ernments existe1 and In whom g0v-
ernments had their life. They have
regarded them merely as seryieeabIe
organizations salich they could BY
force or intrigue bend or corrupt to
their own purposes. They nave re-
garded the smaller states in partic-
uiar and the Iskoples who could be
overwhelmed bt force, as their nat
uraI tools and Instruments Of doni-
nation. Their purpose has been long
avowed. The statesmen Of other ma
tions, to wholn that purpose was
Incredible, paid little attention; re-
garded what German professors cs-
pounded in their class rooms and
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FNT WILSON TELLS WHY AMERICAN GRNM3NT HAS ENRlD THE W0R[D wan

symbol of great eysuts. of the prea,
plan Of life worked Bout by n great
people. We are abo6i to carry il in.
70 battle. To lift iF where it will
draw the fire OF ou,|enemies. We are
ABOUT 10 bid thousands, hundreds
ot thousands, II mky be millions Of
our men, the younk, the strong. the
capable men of tie ylA,ion. to no
forth and die beI6atb il in fields
oI blood Tar away5-for what? For
some unaccustomtd thing? For
something Tor wIAch it has never
sought the fire b<fore. Americans
armies were never Before sent across
the sea. Why aIe they sent now? :?
For some new purpose. for which
this great flag has never been car
ried before, or for some old. famil-
iar, heroic purpoA. for which il has
seen men. its owl Tren, die on every
battle field in wllich Americans have
borne arms sinck the revolution?
These are questions which must
be answered. Ne are Americans.
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from their allegiaa f.e--and some Of
these agents were3 men connected
with the official eIkbassy OF the Ger
man government Itself tn chr own
capital. They so1gh by violence to
destroy our indt tktries and arrest
our commerce. 1hey tried to incite
Mexico 10 take IL arms against u.
and TO draw JapAn into hostile al
legiance with hdr--and that NOT b,
indirection, but ky direct suggestion
from the foreign office at Berlin.
They impudentlt denied us the use
of the high seaS and repeatedly ex-
ecuted their thrfats that they would
send to their death any of our peo-
pie who yentuFd TO approach the
coasts OF Europf. And many OF our
own people Wefe corrupted. Men
began to look lfpon their own neigh
bors with SUSPICION and to wonder
in their hot resentment and surprise
whether there fyas any community
in which hostile intrigue did not
work. What gkeat nations in such
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The following Ellis county citizens
have purchased Eiberty loan bonds
through the bank3 of Waxahachie:
Miss Brevard Thmpleton, Sam w.
Carothers. c. WE Simpson, w. H.
Kidd, J. W. Harrison, A. LassweH.
Middleton Printing company, J. r.
Gill. j. Henry Farlsar, Lynn d. Lass
we'll, Lee Heine, Walter Crow, II. H.
Fugate, Mrs. 0. O. Shell, s. L. Horn
beak, J. NJ. Davis and brother, Trum-
bull: P NJ. Wheatiey. Lafont Gou-
nah, c. T. spalding, j. W. Ferris.
DR.. D. G. Thompson, T. A. Ferris.
r. w. Getzendaner, Arthur d. Mack
ay, Joe Cohn. Nat G. Wise, James w.
Rockwell, w. w. Powers, A. Fl. Pail
let, Rush Williams. + NJ. Williams,
r. ]. Cole, Texas Mortgage Co, Equf-
table Farm Fortgage 60, Miss L. e.
Wltipple, G.. L. Brady j, N. Langs-
ford Mrs. Bette l.. Coleman, Ed Old
ham, Jack Il. Perkins. Tom G. Cole,
Bird Forrest, ]. w. Singleton, Geo.
A. Theilen, /. f. Dunlap, n J. Thorn
s, w. Fl. McCalpin, Geo. 2. Mizell, Jr.
Mrs. K. Z. Bruton, P. A. Chapman,
Jr., Waxahachie Rotary club, j. Lee
Penn, c. l.. Penn. Mrs. Tom Dixon
Edwin A. DuBose, w l.. Goodbar,
'.el Mcdonald, S. l.. Reese, II. e,
COX. b. H. Parks. Arson Cole, Sam
Andrews, ID. j. McGeea j. II. Simp-
son, w. r. Carrahan,s T. H. Har'
bin. w H. McAlpin, $. ii. Watson
u. Il. Coleman, Mrs. W. ID. Ander-
son, p. @. Rocket. S. p. Beard, w
il. ,Splawn. G. c. Groce, Mrs. Heller
H. Groce. Joseph Keyworth, f. l.
Pierson, o. W. Finley. Sam Cauthen
Mrs. Annie Nyeum, Grafton Nyeum
r. ]. MayfieId, Louis Giles, j Nj
Sullivan, ]. II. Wooden, Boz Ma
sonic Lodge, Mrs. E.f F. Cunning
ham. II. n. Peters. Douglass Auto
Supply company, William McManus
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THE bR| NSH
BAG ZEPPELIN
THE I.-3i WAS DESTROYED bh
BRITISH AlRMEN oNEh
THE NORTH SEA.
CREW IS PROBABLY LOST
This Is the NiIlftcenth German
Dirigible Officially Reported
destroyed Since Begin
ming of The War.

LONDON, June 14.-The German
Zoppelin I-3l was DESTROYED carry
today over the North sea by British
airmen. Chancellor of the EN-
.,oarar ponar kaw announced in
the house OF commons today.
The above is The nineteenth Yep
.o,;n ,hich the aofficiai statements
.,ora announcedS as destroyed by
british forces. According to the
count of unofficial, but reliable
listings published recently by the
London Times Che L-S1 was really
the thirty-firth German dir'sioie
destroyed since the beginning oil
the war.
The last Zsppelin officially re-
ported DESTROYED was shot down on
November 2S. 21s16. over the York
shire coast.
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THE 7dTON5
ARE RETIRING
IMPORTANT SE1TIONS OF FIRST
LINE TRENCHES ABANDON
ED BY GERMANS.
BRITISH Pressure CROWS
British Pressure Is Increasing in
Strength to the East OF Mes
sines-Position of Enemy
Precarious.

LONDON, Junes 14.--Abandon-
ment of important sections of the
, first line between the river Lys and
st. Yves by the Germans because of
the pressure OF thea British advance
east OF Messines was announced by
Field Marshal Haig today.
"Our further advance to the east
Iof Messines. combined with our pres
sure to the souths compelled the
enemy to abandon important sec
tions of the first line between the
river Lys and st. Yves the British
commander in chief asserted.
The victory thus gained by the
British forces again8emphasizes the
dominating strength#of the Wytsch-
aete- Messines ridge taken IN last
weeks great assault. The territory
surrendered to the hrltish forces the
still further retirement of the Ger
mans hack in the triangle formed
by the river Lys and the Ypres-Lille
canal. the point of which is at Com
ines, where the two waterways loin'
The enemv's position in this salient
is exceedingly precaious, due to the
river and canal hampering the rapid
operations on their part. and mill
tary observers here expressed the
belief that the evacuation of the en-
fire triangle might be foreshadowed
by the first line withdrawal reported
by Field Marshal Hafg
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WHY NATION
IS At WAR
WILSON DECLARES AMERICA IS
AT WAR IN DEFENSE OF THE
RIGHTS OF FREE PEOPLE.
MILL Be SUFFERING
He Points Out That she War win
Cause Bloodshed ana Suffering
at Home--Fiahtng for
Cause OF Right.
WASHINGTON. June 14.-Amer

WASHINGTON. JUNE l4.-Ameri-
ca is At war in defenss OF our rights
as 4 free people and Df our honor
as a sovereign government.
President Wilson this afternoon
stated why America isEfighting, add
ing warning of the hpod that must
be shed and the suffering the coun-
try must endure. but with the deep
conviction of the couary's fight for
the right. 4
The speech stung With bitterness
of the reign Of Germany. He pic
tured Germahy's military masters in
a sinister plot. intriguing and sehem-
ing to deceive their own people aud
master the powers off either nations
toaahrow abroad political power and
, toYcontrol the heart of Asia.
The president ma Md Hungary a.
the dupe of Germany's autocrati'
power, and Turkey and Bulgaria a.
their cats-paws. Zig earnestly in
Weighed against anl consideration
OF the German peacS ,eelers put ou
by those who. having set their ne
and reached the zenith OF power, fee
their feet slipping ffom under them
Likewise he bitttrly assailed III
German propaganaists who are seek
ing, by isiduous means, TO under
mine the nation al home.
He declared th4 America ha
gone across the sen for the first tim
for exactly the same purpose sh
had waged every 3victorious war.
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.PROB|NG EPIDEMIC
CATTLE POISONING.

CHICAGO, June IA Federal au-
thorities are investigating an epi-
cemic oil poisoning OF cattle in the
y'cinity OF Lake Forest Nnd Liberty
Vile, Illinois. where scoEes of cattle
have died in the past xfew days.
II. E. Thomas, living 1 iour miles
north OF Libertyyille, #lost four
Llooded Holstein cows by lead
peisoning, An open hncfet Of paint
was found in the paAure from
which the cows had drdR dRk.
VIII Doolittle lost sixteen cows
10 a similar manner Near Lake
forest.
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Sc mo TE
| SEN 7 JAPAN
pIpT MADE TO INVOLVE
TED STATES AND JAPAN
j IN CONTROVERSY.
lER EULLY EyPL AIMED
Of Japanese Aba.ed BY Publi-
|On OF Ffue Note Sent BY This
Fosarnnsnt 10 Toxic On
chipese Situation.

sHNGfoN. June 1i.--Thc
hs beta aeen the United States
apan, upset. and delicate over
Inderstsntlins as to Americas
in Gina, were straightene,l
ilsfactYily today through e,-
aohs seili 10 the American em-
Eat Tokib.
~ SANG time I'm investigation
af'ed g. ascertain the source
'g"s note purporting 10 have
a'oied itpm New York to Toxic,
aroused resentment in Japan.
'apan%e resentment was stir
hen the Asahi printed what
'e' to be the note. This mes
iade tn United States say
he Chipese revolution should
s'ea because Germany and
were about to make a separ-
zee and Japan intended send
ops intb Manohur;a.
'fue note sent to Japan mere
essed the hope of this govern
of settlement OF the internal
r in CHINA.
fequente the Japanese Times
heeptions to what it consider
erlean Interference in China
consulting Japan, though
psernment WAS not obligated
Ne such consultation. Later
r teNtfof the note was pub
~ Japan. dissipatina the an
Ee"h the bogus note aroused.
|ihns Y hm the situation might
"hpse'santly if the misap-
E''" Ntre not immediately
"a this government informed
'"ssS ~ Toxic Of the true
=" "ip, instructions 10 in
4" Japanese government of IL.
rs bee'l done,
"sahi printed the false note
& New York date line. secret
men wsre trying to trace the
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ysRoE Unions TO DISCUSS
uIoH COST OF h'N'N'

RIrENos AIRES, June IL, -.
r,a,orat;ons OF labor in all La'ih
American nations win meet at san
tiaeo Chile. October IL TO aaops
measures to meet the n'sh 'oSs ,ont
i.xlne according TO announcement
today
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oman P[0TTERS
| | ARE sT|LL ACTIVE
origin of the note today.

origin of the note today.
Secretary Lansing declared that
"whateyer Misunderstanding has
arisen was due solely to the publica.
tion of the bogus note"
Ambassador Sato has had recent
negotiations with Secretary Lansing,
presumably OF the basis OF the Chi
nese situatiom To-day Lansing said
that sato had not taken up the note
question directly with him.
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German wrifcI set forth to the
world as the koaI Of Geman policy
As rather thef dream 0f minds d.
tached from pilscticai affairs. ~ pre.
poxterOus prfvfc conceptions Or <ser-
man destiny, n An AZ the actual plans
OF responsible fulers; hut tlse ruIers
of Germany themselves knew all the
while what coirrete plans, wtut well
advanced intril ueS lay hack ~ what
tbs professors Ind wrst~-s were say
ing and vse.o 4 4.ld 70 20 forward nm
nolested, filiink sIe thrones Or HaI-
kan states WitlA German princes, laEt-
ting German dfficers at the service
OF Turkey to brill her armies and
make interest eith her government,
developing piar& Of Sedlition and re-
heiiian in Indi4 and Egypt, setting
their fires in Iersia. The demands
made by AnstrA nlson Serbia were
4 mere single ayep in 4 plan which
compassed Europe and Asia, from
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GERMAN SOCIALISTS
ANNOUNCE PEACE PLANS

STOCKHOLM. June l4.--Prelims
mary statements Of some of the peace
plans proposed by the German So
cialists declare for international set
tlement of all disputes, a decision
against commercial war following a
military war, etc.
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GREEKS / F|REO
ON THE IFRENCH
TWO FRENCH OFFICERS AND
-FOUR CAvaLRxMEN KILLED
At TOWN or LARRIssA.
VICTIMS gF| 7REAc4A[[kl
The Greek COMMANDER Of the Garri-
son Had Aareedhnot to Resist.
Later Ordered Troops to
Fire Upon French.

PARIS, June 1.-THE allies
forced abtiication q King Constan-
tine of Greece was pot accomplished
without some blood khed, according
to delayed atlvices received here
from SaIoniki.
A Greek colonel atxl4arrissa treach-
erousls fired upon tAe French cayal-
ry. killing twc Fren& Officers, four
cavaIrsmcn ana woJ)nding a score.
Sixty Greek soldiers& were killed.
. Fifty-onc officers,N including
general, were taken prisoners and
800 men were captur&d.
When the French troops occupied
Larrissa the Greek General BaSciS
argeed not to resist. osonei .riyas
of the Greek forces. however. ORDER
ed barracks detaclEMent to open
fire on the French caVRlry which re.
Piled Immediately.
Larrissa is Greek Town in Thes-
sally. twenty miles fro1 the Gulf Of
Saloniki.
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DANISH SHIPS IMMUNE
FROM GERMAN At TACK

GALVESTON. TeNas, June
f1.-That iRnmark has made
ari'anaements with Germany
To insure the safety of Danish
vessels frcn German subma-
rines was Indicated here to-
day when tMo Danish steamers
arrived with their sides paint
ell with bspad rcd and white
stripes. M
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CAPITAL STRUCK BY
HEAVY HAIL STORM

WASHINGTON. June IA Sc
we're rain and hail storm which
struck here this afternoon seemed
likely TO delay the speech at Wash
ington's monument.
The senate and house recessed
during the storm as the noise of the
hail stones On the capitofs roof
drowned out debate.
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CHANGE IN RU[ERsI
causes BL0QDSH[D'

Eiysee palace today with President
poincare and other French nota-
bles. He was ins close conference
with French war office leaders dur
ing the day, and *his headquarters
in the Hotel Crillon were scene
OF constant activity
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hsHINGTbN. June if--i'oI'ow-
,he textiof an address deliver
S,Jas by president Wilson in
of flag day:

i preside4 I said;
felIoJ Citizens:--We meet
I,ebrate flag Day because this
,hiey, we homer and under which
.re is eie emblem of unity,
oaer. ouf thought and purpose
nation. In has no other char
than thu which we give il
rneratibn 10 generation. The
r. are o,is. II floats in majes-
hence abtke the hosts that exc
|thse chdtces. whether in peace
In. Andi yet. though silent. it
{ to us-speaks to us OF the
Of the aen and women who
before u and of the records
wrote nj on it. We celebrate
b, Of III birth and from its
until MOI it has witnessed
history. las floated on high in
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PEACE Is IMPOSSIBLE NOW |
WILL FIGHT TO B|TTE9 END

PARIS, june i.i.--''Pcace is Asn
aossible now, We win go on IL the
sitter end" declared lice Premier
yiyiani in the chamber OF deputies
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|D DEALERS SUMMONED 70 :,
| APPEAR BEFORE GRAND JURY

-, associatior. the Illinois "h",e-
w crocers, association and the Ma
,ionaI wholesale Grocer's assn :. 49,.
,,on % They were summoned to . ap.
49, .s.,e tire federal grand jury
nov in session In this city.