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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
VS. FROM ACROSS THE SEAS FOR SUNDAY STAR READERS
BRAVERY IN ACTION REWARDED
WITH THE VICTORIA CROSS
Recent Examples of Courage and Self
Sacrifice on the Field Shown IN
British War Records.

communication trench that led to
the hostile lines, and the enemy were
coming down the trench and across
the open. No doubt the burial Of the
gun had something to do with the fact
that it damned and stopped firing.
There was nothing now to hold the
enemy. Sergt. Hobson had been wound
ed. but he told the gunner to correct
the stoppage and rushed forward.
Single handed, he fought the enemy
with bayonet and dubbed rifle until
at last he was killed with rifle shot
But his bravery had saved the stu
alton. The Lewis gun again came into
action and held the enemy until re-
endorsements arrived, when the attack
was completely defeated.
Proves Himself Born Leader.
1t sometimes occurs in a difficult sit
uation that one man will stand out as a
born leader 1t is apparent that Lance
Sergt. John Moyney of the Irish guards
is such man. This Irishman, from
Rathdowney, in Queens county, won the
Victoria cross for most conspicuous
bravery and not little ability as a
leader.
He was in command of fifteen men,
forming two advanced posts. With no
water; and little food. he held the posi-
ton for ninety-six hours, though sur
rounded by the enemy. The morning
w eiie AAieAA AfsS g oASN~eAy sup W 49,
of the enemy advanced to dislodge this
party, which was, apparently, a thorn
in their flesh. Sergt. Mooney ordered
his men out of their shellholes. and,
taking the initiative, attacked the enc
my with bombs. He had a Lewis gun
with his party and used 1T with deadly
effect from the flank. The enemy got
round him, but by a charge he broke
through, himself leading the rush.
Half way across the path of the retire
ment was stream. and the sergeant
took advantage of this to cover the re-
tirement of his men. He was helped
by Lancashire man, Private Thomas
Woodcock. Between them they held up
the enemy until the whole party had
got across the stream. when they both
retired under shower of bombs
Private Woodcock receives the Vic
toria cross, as does his n. c. o., Lance
Sergt Moyney,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
RUSSIANS GO TO JAPAN.
Estimated That $1,000 Have Fled
Homes for Refuge in Nippon.
nv ERNEST w. CLEMENT.


CabIegrans to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1877.
TOXIC. Japan. December 15.-Owine
to the revolutionary disturbances at
home. many Russians are daily coming
to Japan from Petrograd and Moscow
1t is unofficia1ly reported that $4,000
Russians are in the country and that
of these 5000 have come within the last
six or eight months. 1t is a. striking
fact that the refugees are mostly o,
the middle class. Many of them are in
financial difficulties and are compelled
to obtain pecuniary assistance from
their Japanese friends or seek work.
The English and Japanese PAPERS con-
tain numerous advertisements OF per-
sons desiring to teach the Russian Ian
guage. Russian women are having an
especially. severe struggle against cold
and famine In = strange land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
GERMANY D|SAPPROVES
!. COUNT CHRN|N'S VIEWS
Declared Austria Does Not ABk-1n-
IDENTITIES or Annexations at
Russia's Expense.
by RENE FErBELMAN.

CabIerram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.
AMSTERDAM. Holland. December Is.
The news that Count Czernin had be-
come suddenly i'll and could not come
to Berlin. as planned, was received
with skepticism in Germany. Nobody
believed that illness was the cause of
his absence; the real reason, it was as
sumed everywhere, was the effect of his
speech before the o-Hungarian
delegation. in which he said that aus
tria wanted neither indemnities nor an
nexations at Russia's expense" This
statement caused widespread indigna-
ton in Germany's higher circles. esps-
ciaily the military.
German Papers Comment.
Count Czernin was to meet Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg and Gen. Lu-
dendorf in Berlin. but, as a German
paper says:
1T is obvious that no such meeting
is possible now II regrettable conse-
ouences are to be avoided by the mill
tary, pan-German and conservative
CLIQUE Germany has usually been hos
tile to Count Czernin. whom it has sus-
pected of wanting what they call a
Such q peace this clique cannot &C.
cept, especially now that Russia is sur
rendering Internationally to Prussia
The consequences of the present Ger
man Austrian trouble may be far
reaching On the one hand, Germany's
military leaders want to force Emperor
Charles to dismiss Czernin; on the
other hand, Charles is in full agree
ment with Count Czernin and his own
people for some sort of peace.
Count Czernin asserted in his speech
before the delegations that il the pres
ent negotiations of Germany and Aus
tria with Lenine fail. it will be be-
cause of Germany's extravaganf de-
mands, which the maximalists cannot
accept. In this case 1t is an open quss-
ton as to what Austria will do when
1t is shown that the Lenineists are.
ready to sign peace with Austria and
not with Germany.
There is no question yet OF Austria
agreeing to a separate peace. though 1t
seems to have agreed to the truce with
Russia. but 1t is quite certain that
Emperor Charles Will first use every
effort to bring those eager for con-
quests to reason. II this proves fmpos-
sible. public opinion in the dual empire
will be unanimous for peace. with or
without Germany Meanwhile there Is
more than a mere MISUNDERSTANDING
between Berlin and Vienna. ana hence
Count Czernin's sudden 'siiinas1"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
BERLIN INDICATIONS POINT
AGAINST PRUSSIAN REFORM
However, Big Fight Over Electoral Bill
to Test Demonstration Is In
Prospect In Germany

We're before popularity chosen reiehs-
tag. What the emperor, as king of
Prussia, can and will do to carry out
the pledge he gave in July in his
message from the throne to force cleo
toral reform is not known. Then pan
Germans will certainly do all they can
TO swerye the kaiser from his purpose.
but dispatches from the German inn
perial headquarters indicate one high
" important change.
In the past the pan-Germans have
been able to influence the emperor
mainly through the hold they had on
, Privy Councillor Valentino. chief of the
civil cabinet. and Admiral Won Mueller,
chief of the marine cabinet, who are
the closest personal advisers of the
kaiser; but both of these have now
true that they are willing to work
with Chancellor Won Hertling it will
be one of the most significant steps
in the progress toward Prussian lib
eraliSm.
Is Important Question.
Another important question is, Can
Her.ling heal the breach in his own
center party? If he could keep the zoe
centrist votes intact in favor of the
bill he would still require sixty out of
the seventy-one liberal votes and all
of the sixty radical votes to get a ma
Jority- AS he cannot get this number,
the national liberals must find a basis
for compromise which will give him
some conservative votes. Here the in
f1uence of the crown could help. The
real battle coming before the commit
tee session. the most powerful weapon
of the crown would be to prorogue the
obstreperous parliament"
1t would be a dramatic commentary
on the present German political situa-
ton were Wilhelm, as King of Prus-
STA, to use this, the most autocratic
power Of the monarch. to secure the
peoples right against the reaction
aries in the Prussian legislature. 1t
would have value in advertising the
fact of democratic progress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
BY LIEUT.. VICTOR MAC CLURE.
Especial Correspondence of The Sunday
Star and Chicago Daily News.)

LONDON, England, November 15,-
| The London Gazette of October II. with
official brevity. gives accounts of the
heroism and devotion to duty of nine
British soldiers, who have been re-
warded by the highest honor the Brit
ish soldier can win-the Victoria cross.
The brief stories from their very ret
icence tell all the more effectively of
thrilling bravery and of the exhibition
of capacity for leadership on the part
of an officer. \. c. O.'s and men.
The case OF Second Lieut.. H. f. Par
sons. who belonged to the Gloucester
regiment. is one where a junior officer
grasped the Importance of the post he
was holding. and. at the cost of his own
life. and despite severe burns from
liquid fire, saved the situation on his
part of the line. The bombers holding
the post were forced back. but Lieut..
Parsons hung on, bombing the advanc-
ing enemy and delayed them long
enough to enable a bombing party to
be formed and come into action. The
party succeeded in driving the enemy
out of the line before they reached any
of the British trenches.
How long Lieut. Parsons held the po-
sition is not stated. but we do know
that he was severely burned before the
situation developed and that, during
the time ne Heid the enemy, ne received
such severe wounds that he died from
them
Fought Until Gun Worked.
Another man who displayed the same
grasp of the facts of a situation and
gave his life to hold an important post
was Canadian infantry sergeant,
Frederick Hobson. During strong
hostile counter attack, an enemy shell
exploded on a forward post where there
was a Lewis gun and buried the gun,
killing all the crew but one man. Sergt
Hobson climbed from his trench and
ran up to the gun. He helped to dig
it out and got it into action against
the advancing enemy. The post lay in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
TEUTONS HARDEN CHILDREN
TO WAR BY MEANS OF TOYS

salute and singing die Wacht am
Rhein as they burst from coiored
eggshells. There are toy barbed-wire
entanglements, toy trenches. toy cam
non and of course, lead soldiers with
out number
Because of their peculiarly German
realism. these last are worth looking
at-sets of armed civilians entitled
| franctierurs fsnipers) are supposed
TO represent the Grimes" of Belgium
German machine gun companies, Ger
man infantry charging, German hos
pltai units with plenty of bloody band
ages and patients. sets Of fugitive
French infantry and of French and
English prisoners of war-fnally, the
most striking OF all sets, dead and
wounded Russians in every contortion
of agony.
Education Beyond Toys.
But German juvenile education in
militarism goes beyond mere toys into
the vast variety of "Kriegspiele" (war
games) from simple games of maneu-
vering on board to whole series of
literary" games played with cards on
the principle of Authors Some decks
of cards represent the German, Aus
TRAN and Turkish armies, others are
devoted to the navy and the exploits of
the Submarines.
The game which struck me as the
most unusual consisted of fifty-two
cards. each bearing the warlfke utter
ance of some German soldier or states
man. Such maxims as dying for ones
country. or how victory is sure to
crown the efforts of that peoples which
can hold out the longest appeared. In
short. German blood and IRON propa-
ganda is being carried. into every rec
reation of childhood.
In another room of this museum +
saw an original of the Lusitania medal
with its chastity design of the skeleton
selling tickets to a group of passen-
gers. / also saw a sample of the in
genious little two-pronged needle
pointed hooks which Germans in Amer
lea put into consfgnments of oats for
the purpose of killing horses. But
among all these barbaric horrors the
toy ruins made the deepest impression.
have lived OF late among too many
real ruins. know what they mean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.


CabIeEram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1917.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES, De-
cember 15.-Germany is using the
Christmas season to develop and harden
the war spirit among its children. I
have been permitted to visit curious
private museum, where I have seen
many holiday novelties in toys and
games brought from Germany through
Switzerland. That children in play
should desire to emulate their elders
Is, Of course, natural, but it was not
without amazement that 1 discovered
the latest and most popular German
toys to be small ruined houses.
Last March the kaiser's armies, in
returning from the Noyon salient, pill
Jagged, burned and destroyed all human
habitatfons with a thoroughness prob
ably unparalleled in history. This
Christmas the boys and girls. of the
tate the battlefield exploits of their
fathers and older brothers. / exam
ined a whole collection of Inexpensive
toy ruins made of some plaster COM
position and ingenfously colored to
represent the debris of incendiarism,
ranging from the modesty of shattered
cottages to the pretension of smoke
blackened chateauX. All these aston
fishing miniature ruins are French in
the tragedies at which German children
will soon be playing must all be sup
posed to take place beyond the German
frontier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
by RENE FAIBELMAy.

CabIegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1917.
AMSTERDAM, Holland, December II
(delayed). Dispatches from Berlin
grow increasingly Respondent over the
outlook for the passage of the Prus-
sian electoral reform bill. There is nc
question but that a big fight is COM
ing to test the reality of Prussian de-
mocratization. The well informed Ber-
lin correspondent of the Basier Mach
richten says:
present prospects of the adoption oil
the reform bill have sunk to the min
imum because of the split between the
national liberal and the center parties
over its support in the house of depu-
ties. The Prussian lower house, in
which the measure is pending, was
elected under the old three-class sys-
tenn. 1t is reactionary body which
is fighting even against the crown to
hold all its old privileges The fact Is
that the present house has 202 con-
seryatives and free conservatives.
Would Have 70 Members.
Under the reform bill these parties
would have only seventy-nine mem
bers, while the socialists would In
crease from ten to PA. Count Won
Hertling. Frfedberg and others repre-
senting the government have served
notice that they will not permit any
tampering with fundamental princi-
pies in the reform bill and that they
will use the full power of the govern
ment to force its acceptance, but the
reactionaries. far from surrendering,
are using all their strength and effort
in propaganda against it.
Military successes also prevent the
carrying out of the governments
promise to- the people. 1t would be a
different situation If the measure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
Banks Shaped After Bullets.

In addition to this novel invention
of the Teutonic Christmas spirit are
innumerable other playthings having
to do with the war. saw a savings
bank labeled conscientious Bertha"
shaped to initiate the famous 42-centi-
meter howitzer. ! saw jigsaw puz-
zles and toy blocks showing battle
scenes in all of which the Germans
we're bravefy- Overwhelming their foes.
Newborn papier mache babies are rep
resented ~ executing the military
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
Proud Of Wounds.

Such a cheerful hospital ward is rare.
Each patient was proud to exhibit his
wounds. Two on the nearest cots stop
ped game of Chinese chess and one
amid much laughter pulled of the
covers and waved aloft foot incased
in gray wooden sock. The venerable
white-haired owner of the limb smiled
hopefully until the surgeon overjoyed
him by interpreting his explanation Of
how the hurt was received.
All the men are identified by carefully
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-05-24

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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-05-24
Town Meeting, Saturday

Flying the flag is good, but real pa
triotism costs time, effort, money and
lives. 1t is money that we are now
called upon to give, comparatively
small amount for town to raise but
large for a few individuals to supply.
Our Public Safety Committee Is called
upon to do more than one can appre-
ciate unless he is actively engaged in
its work. It's duration of existence
is so uncertain that its finance COM
mittee feel that 1t should be support
ed by an appropriation rather than
to depend on the already too numer-
GUS subscription papers, confined to
the usual few. The expense OF main
tanning enlistment Offices, of disburse-
ments on account of mobilization,
trucking, bedding, telephone and tele-
graph bills, printing, etc, etc, have
already created quite liability, and
30 long as there are those who are
willing to gratuitously give their time
and labor 1t would seem that our town
can hardly do less than to stand the
expense.
The above refers to an article in
the town warrant for the meeting
next Saturday afternoon. The sum
already expended is not large, about
$125, but the meeting may deem II
wise to make an appropriation to pro-
vide for similar expenses which, I'M
happily, are quite certain to occur
during the coming year.
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dogs and pets, at one time he had
bear cub chained in front OF his Of
fee in Dexter. The children would
20 down and feed the cub with pea
nuts and candy, but as the bear grew
older he began to be cross so the
doctor sold him.
After the doctor went to Massachu-
sets, we only met once in a while.
The last time we met was on the
train between Boston & Bangor. He
came into the car where | was, sat
down beside me, and began to talk OF
old times. A travelling man came
into the car and seeing the doctor,
turned the seat in front and sat down
with us, commencing to talk with the
doctor. He asked him how it was he
had such success in taking out can
GERS. The doctor said, when | take
out cancer | am sure to get 1t all.
I am not afraid of little flesh. This
doctoring business is a humbug any
way. Two thirds of the sickness is
only imaginary and if you give them
something to tone them up, IL it's only
whisky, they are all right. To Illus
trate, | will tell you of a case that
came To me when | first began doc
toring. had little office in Dexter.
This gentleman remembers it. 1t
was made out of a travelling picture
saloon. | would go out in the fields
and woods and gather my roots and
herbs and dry them there. One day
a lady from Corinna came in to con-
suit me. She said she was not feel
ing well. She said that year before
she was drinking from spring and
swallowed a small snake and that DR..
Benson of Newport and DR.. Burleigh
of Dexter had treated her and she
received no help.
l knew there was no snake there
but / went into a trance and told her
there was something there but could
not tell what it was. ! gave her some
medicine and told her to take it as
directed and in week ! would go
down and see her After she left, /
went out In the field back of my Of
fee, hunting for a small snake.
could not find any but found a small
lizard which took to my office.
After killing 1t put it in some ashes.
The next week ! went down and the
lady said she was feeling better but
she could feel the snake moving
around. / went into a trance. told
her 1t was not snake but lizard,
left more medicine and told her l
would come down the next Saturday
and remove the lizard.
AS | have said, the doctor had a
big heart. He was fond of the little
boys and If there was any show in
town. the boys would be waiting
around the door for the doctor They
knew If he came they were sure of a
free ticket to the big show. One
time the doctor met blind man who
he had known from boyhood. He
gave the poor fellow a hearty hand
shake and left a $4,000 gold piece in
his hand This is only one of the
hundreds OF good deeds that passed
by his hand