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induce the Germans to patrnnizc thcis
own ships and indulge In ocean travel.
wish that the propaganda had been car
lier and more successful. because II is
by travel that peoples learn t" know
each other and consequently to abstain
from war
On the night nf tho usual ship con-
cert. Henry Morgcnthlu translated Il
little speech for me into German. which
, managed to get through after painfully
learning Il by heart. Now that | h;lT"
Il better knowledge "f German Il cold
sweat breaks out when | think "t tho
awful German accent with which | de-
livercd that address.
A flying trip To Berlin early In Aug
ust Ia look into the house question fol
lowed. and thea | returned tn the Unit
ed States.
In September l went (" Washington
to hc ''inStructcd" tnli,"d with the lr"si-
dent and Secretary and sat ai the feet
Of Assistant Seer. tary OF state Alvey
A. Adee. tho r"v"rrI sag" Of tho Dc
rartmcnt nf state.
On September. .. 1913. having resigned
as Justice of tn" Suprcn" Court ar tn"
State of New York. / sailed for Ger
many. I stopped on the way III Lon
don. In order To- MAX" tn" acquaintance
Of Ambassador Page certain wise per-
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sons in Washington having cXprcss"d
the belief that n personal acquaintance
of our ambassadors made II easier lor
them To- work together
Cares of a New Ambassador.
Two cares uSsqil newly appointed
ambassador. lie must first take thought
uf what hr shall wear. then where the
shall live. All other nations have beau
iiful embassies or legations In Berlin.
but found that my two immediate pre-
derrsSprS had nrrupieJ 4 villa originally
built MS Il two-family house. pleasantly
enough situated. but two miles from the
center Of 1:"rln and entirely unsuitable
Tor IN embassy
There arc few private houses In R"r-
lin. most of the people living in apart
ImentS. After some trouble I found 4
hundsomc house on the Wilhelm Platz
Immediately opposite the Chanccllur's $
palace and the Foreign Office in the
very center Of Berlin. This house had
been built as a palace for the Princess
Hatfield and had later passed into the
possession OF banking family named
Non Srhwnbach
Tho United States Government. unlike
other nations. does not own or pay the
rent of 4 suitable embassy. but gives
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CAMP LEE. Petersburg, Va, Oct.
7.-Morc than 100 drafted men
from West Virginia, Pennsylvania
and Virginia arrived al Camp Lee
today and were assigned to the
different regiments. The contih-
gent included IS from Wheeling
and &c from Hancock county. west
Virginia. 80,
Sunday in Camp Lee was n hol-
day. In addition TO welcoming 1he
incoming recruits. the mon were
much interested in the electrical
score board on which world series
game bstcwecn the New YORK
Giants and the Chicago White SoN
are being flashed.
WASH1NGTON. Oct. TN the
first ISSUE ur Trench and Camp, me
weekly newspaper for nationai
army and national guard training
camps, which makcs It's appearance
this week, there will be a letter
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THE NEW AMBASSADOR RECEIVED AT IMPRESSIVE E
CEREMONIAL BY THE EMPEROR-REC CEPIlONS
TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND TO THE 'HOF-
FAEHIG" GIVEN AT u. S. EMBASSY IN RETURN.

Morgenthau. later Ambassador to Tur-
key. Colonel George Harvey. Adolph
Ochs and Louis Wiley. OF the New York
Times: Clarence &ackay and others.
The Impcrator is a marvellous ship
uf 81. .0hn tons OF more. and at times II
is hard tn believe that one is on tho
sea. In addition 10 the regular dining
saloon. there is a grill room and RITZ
restaurant with its palm garden and. or
course. Hungarian band. There is also
Il gymnasium and swimming pool and
nightly. in the enormous ballroom dances
are given. tn: women dressing in their
best just as they dn on shore.
Colonel Harvey land Clarence Mackay
gave mo a dinner of twenty-four Cow
crS. something nf Il record Mt sea. For
long afterwards in Germany pictures or
the Imperator. including one OF the
tables set for this dinner. l saw every
where. These were sent out over
Germany as a sort Of propaganda to
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WASHINGTON. Oct. DE
cisive ascendency for the allies III
the supreme test of battle strengtp
now taking place on the Dlooay
fields of Flanders is claimed oy
Secretary Baker in the weekly re-
view of war operations issued TO-
night by the war department.
While il may be premature 10
assert that the British war ma
chine has forced decision over
the Germans. Mr.. Baker says, the
victories Of the past fortnight
threatening the German suoma-
rine bases on the Belgian coast
are conclusive indications OF al
lied superiority. With favorable
weather. he thinks. these VIC
tories will be repeated and ex-
tended.
The review, which is for the
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ed solcmnly through the streets OF Bc:-
lin. passing on the way through the cea-
ter division OF the arch known as t:ig:
Brandcnbcrger Thro, the gateway that
stands at the head OF the Un,cr d".I
Lindcn-a privilege given only on tn;
occasion.
We mounted the long stairs in the pal
nee. and in Il large room were received
by the aids and the officers OF the En-
p"ror's household. Of course all In uni
form. TEen ! WAS usiiered alone intn
the adjoining room, where the Empcror
very erect aud dressed in the black uni-
iorEl Of the Death-heAd HuSsars. stood
by a table.
! made him little speech and rrcSrl!t-
ed my letters If C"r'I.ncr and he i-';n's
of recall 0f MY predecessor. Th. F:m-
prrur then unh..ni from his vrr% rect
and impressive 5aIIitIi.c and talked with
me- in 4 very friendly manner, especially
Imnrr%Sin: 'iI. With mis- in crest IN buSi-
ness md commercial affairs.
then. III accordance With the custom,
asked leave 70 present my staff Tho
doors were opened. The S'nff rame in.
were presented tn the l;mncror. WHO
talked in Il very jolly aud agreeable way
to nil Of us. saying that he hoped above
all to see the whole Of the embassy staff
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A|||Fs' SUPERIORITY SHOWN IN
FLANDERS BAT TIE, SAYS BAKER

week ended last night, makes no
reference to the American forces
in France or to the great prepara-
tions for war going forward at
home.
"The attention OF the world"
It says, lis focused on the
titanic struggle now going on in
Flanders. The battle raging
there is proving an engagement
Of wholly unprecedented scope
and potentialities.
AT the beginning OF the week,
owing to bad weather. the Ger
mans were able to launch counter
attacks against the positions re-
Gently gained by the British: Not
withstanding the fact that the
Germans made use OF smoke
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GERMANY IN DESPERATE
NEED; EMBARGO HURTS

WASHINGTON: Oct. 7.-Information
reaching the government today indi-
Gates that while Germany Is preparing
to increase the bread and potato ration
because Of good crops. the nation Is in
desperate need Of fats.
The American embargo. II maintained.
officials say. will still further reduce
Gcrmany's fat supply. since Holland
cannot continue to send across the oor-
der large amounts Of dairy products un-
less she. receives American fcedstu1ts'
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Mornons Subscribe,

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. The
Mormon church today announced that
So50.0p0 Of the tithing funds Of the or
ganization would be used TO purchase
Liberty bonds. This is the first time In
the history of the Mormon church that
the tithe funds have ever been diverted
for purposes outside cS the church.
Twelve thousand Latter Day Saints
raised their right hands in the tabernacle
this afternoon when the announcement
fcontuued on Page Ten.)
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PERUVIAN MINISTER IS
ORDERED FROM BERLIN

LIMA. Peru. Oct. 1.-THE Peruvian
government. which yesterday handed his
passports to the German minister, today
ordered the Peruvian minister to Ger
many. A. Won Der Heyde. to leave Ber-
lin. The government also ordered to
withdrawal Of all the Peruvian consuls
| In Germany.
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C0M|SKEY AND ROWLAND ASSERT
WORLD RAG IS SEWED UP TIGHT

CHICAGO. Oct. '.-President
Corniskcy was proud and happy as
A result of Chicago's victory over
New York today. Both he and Man
aser Rowland tonight expressed
,he belief that the victory assured
the Sox. the championship of the
world.
IT never felt happier in my life
than I did in that fourth inning
when the boys went out ana
knocked in those five runs. ne
said. That clinched the hall game
for US AMI figure it just as Eooo
as clinched the worlds champion.
ship. The SoN proved their metal
in that attack and It seems now
that nothing can heat us.
I'VE are going down to New
York now to show broadway just
how we licked the Giants in the
first Two games. and If we SHOW
th.,n the fight will be all over
Wednesday night. providing the
wea,her doesn't interfere. Rowland
said the White SoH was the great
est ball team in the world. am
afraid TO say for publication JUS.
how I feel about the series now
h., said. However. I can't help put
feel absolute confidence in the re-
suit and really am hoping TO take
four straight.
Tho White Sox is the greatest
short series team in the world. ana
think. the greatest Of all time.
The boys displayed the punch IN
This game and made an easy victory
out of what started to be a tough
uphill tight"
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NHEEUNG'5 THIRD CONTINGENT
REACHES THE PETERSBURG CAMP

from President Wilson to John
Stewart Bryan Of Iichmond. Va,
editor-in-chIcf, expressing apprccia-
tion in this work Of newspaper men
and emphasizing the importance or
keeping the nation and It's soldiers
In touch.
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BY JAMES W. GERARD
American Ambassador at the German
Imperial Court, July 20, 1919 10

Amcrlcan NNlUdSSdu0T ae ~
Imperial Court, July 2e, 1915 10
February q, 1917.
Copyrisht. 1917. by the Public Ledger
Company.
Copyright Canada. 1917. by the Puohc
Ledger Company. International copy
hight. 1911. by the Public LeuKer Co,''
nanr An rights reserved. Any In
. fringement will be prosecuted.
Ambassador Gsrard's Ftrst Presentation
Mt tho Gorman Court.
The second day out on the lmperator
headed for a summers vacation. loud
knocking woke m" ut A. VI. The
radio. handed in from a friend N New
York. told me Of my appointment as
Ambassador to Germany.
Many friends were on the ship Henry
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THE WEATHER

THE WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-Forecasti
west VirSintA-Fair Monday ano
S,,, r,nnoh cooler Tuesday.
ohio erd western Pennsylvanta-
partly cloudy and much cooleT MOI
day: tuesday fair and cool
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Fair Monday and Tuesday; much
colder Tuesday.
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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-05-04
Beautiful Speech Of Hon. Fred Morris
Introducing Hon. Geo. M. Napier

men and children, and offer insult
to "Old Glory" with impunity, and
to that end the very best blood of
the sons of those men who died for
it in days now gone will be offered.
You will pardon a personal re-
miniscence. 1t was my good fortune
once to stand on the shores of Hamp-
ton Roads and watch the Mayflower,
the Presidents Yacht, proceed six
teen of the greatest battleships in
the world to the open ocean in their
tour around the world. Every sailor
stood at attention, every band was
playing the Star-Spangled Banner.
1t was an inspirin scene and
thought it was grand! Later l stood
on the far away hills of California
and watched the first foreign vessel
enter the Golden Gate during tn e
first eight months of the war. A
Norwegian Steamer, with her colors
painted half over her starboard side
in order that her identity might not
be lost. A lad who stood by was
heard to say: "When she sails be-
meath the Stars and Stripes of Fort
Hancock yonder and enters the Col
den Gate she will be safe and Sc
cure" and it occurred to me that the
thought was grand! While standing
| fhnrn in front If hn In Ill
ing on the bosom of the ocean like
god, throwing her golden tinted
fingers far up the sky, toying with
the long tresses of the evening star,
behind US was the grand City of San
Francisco, further East the tops of
the famous Berkeley Hills, painted in
all the tints, hues and colors of the
rainbow while beyond could be seen
the beautiful Sierras and even be-
yond all this lay the mighty Rockies
snow capped in all their majesty, and
| knew it was grand
But my fellow-countrymen, grand
er than all these is the sight we be-
hold here today. Thousands of peace
loving, happy American citizens are
here assembled to honor the flag we
all love so dearly and to demonstrate
that we are united in one great COM
mon purpose, that of supporting the
greatest President who mas ever
graced the White House, Hon Wood
row Wilson, in establishing peace not
only for America but for all mankind
everywhere and that the flag under
which Hull, Porter, Farragut and Dew
ey sailed the free seas of old ocean
shall and must be respected by all
men and all nations; flag whose
white represents the noblest women
on earth and the purity of our pur-
poses, whose blue represents the
principles right and justice for which
our government was founded and the
red, the sacrifices of our fathers.
who gave their life for it.
l know of no man anywhere bet
ter fitted and qualified to tell YOU
of wonderful achievements of our
flag in the past or the wonderful pos
sibilities which lie out before it in
the future, than that Prince of good
fellows, that gifted silvertongued or
ator whose name l now have the hon
or to mention, Honorable George M.
Napier.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-05-04
Ladies and Gentlemen:

Ladies and Gentlemen:
This is a momentous occasion. All
over this broad land of ours scenes
like this one are transpiring every
day, almost every hour. What does
it all mean? Twenty principal ma
tions of earth at war, more than
twenty million men are under arms,
more than ten million have either
been killed, wounded or capture, leav
ing countless millions of widows and
orphans, with more than 70 billions
of the earth's treasure spent in fur
therance of the terrible carnage, with
our own peace loving America in
preparation as a participant, we can
at least and to some extent appre-
ciate the fact that we are fast slip
ping into horrible war, that we are
living in the very midst of world IL
terally on fire.
Under circumstances like these it
is we'll that we pause and take stock
Of ourselves. We are standing on
hallowed ground today, yes ground
bathed in the blood of our fathers.
Within the four walls represented by
these business houses were brought
the wounded from the battlefields of
New Hope Church and Kennesaw
Mountain. We are standing in the
very midst of the heroic dead, they
sleep all about US. 1t is true that for
awhile one band of these heroes
fought under different banner than
that which we have met to honor to-
day, but they fought valiantly and
no less heroically than those who
fought under the Stars and Stripes,
and are none the less heroes, and
if by some supernatural power we
could call them from their long sleep
and have them here in our midst to-
day we would find them like these
old battle-scarred heroes here, who
wear the Cross of Honor over their
heart, ready to defend the flag of
our common country. AS evidence
of this we need no higher proof than
to point to the conduct of the Con-
federate soldier during the Spanish
American war; for it was up the
heights of San Juan that fighting Joe
Wheeler led American boys, many of
whom were the sons of Confederate
soldiers, to victory. These compose
the remnant of those who came out
of bloody Shilo, from the heights of
Gettysburg, Mission Ridge, Kenne-
saw Mountain and hundred other
bloody fields. Here they are. They
have met here today to honor the
Stars and Stripes. They are back
in the house of their fathers, they
are at home, thank God to stay
We rejoice in the opportunity Of
fered here in our own little City,
which has risen Phoenix like from the
ashes of the invading foe, here in
the very heart of Dixie land, to dem
onstrate to the world that the pat
riotic spirit which moved those brave
men to give up their lives in defend
ing the flag in days now gone, did
not fight in vain and that their off
springs are today united in the eff
fort, whatever may be necessary, of
demonstrating to the world that no
nation can murder helpless men, wo-
, 1917-07-12
BUILT FOR KINGS DAUGHTER
Famous French Road Constructed by
Louis XIV to Render Travel
More Easy.

The high road running along the
edge of the plateau of Craonne,
France, frequently mentioned in the
official communicates during the second
battle of the Aisne, and which is going
down to history under the name of the
"Chemin des Danes" (the ladies'
way), dates from the time of Louis
XIV.
This road, beginning at the Paris
Maubeuge road, about ten miles north
east Of Scissors, crosses the plateau
of Craonne, a distance of about twelve
miles, then descends into the valley Of
the Ailette to cross the Vauclerc
woods to the domain of the ancient
chateau of Dove, near Bouconville,
where the Princess Adelaide, Sophie
and Victoire, daughters of Louis XIV,
visited one of their ladies of honor,
Nine. de Narbonne, every summer.
The roads of the region were de-
testable. Out of consideration for the
princesses a new paved road was built
along the crest of the plateau and from
that fact 1t derives the name of the
"Chemin des Danes"
, 1917-07-12
She Used Her Voice.

The Waldorf-Astoria hotel In New
York has a maid with a voice. She
can yell louder than any Comanche on
the warpath. Recently she let loose
her voice and bellhOps and porters
rushed to her from all over the big
hostelry. In s W to her cries she
pointed to n of the rooms. 'There's
L~eprochauns in there" she cried, ait
tie devil men, with bald heads and
whiskers, leaping over the bed In yOn'
der ROOM" "Leprochauns," cried o
porter, also from the Emerald Isle, and
he devOutly crossed himself. 'Lepro-
chauns, indeed" whimpered the maid
There they are in there. I went In,
and bless my soul, If these little devils
did not go leapin' about lookin' for all
the world like Paddy McFaddeH's two
uncles over in BallyshanOn. Sure, J
won't go in there again, job or no job"
With compressed lips and doughty
manners, the little party Of men went
into the and then, after a up
pressed gasp. they laughed. For gam
boiling about were two tiny marmosets.
pets, are theyf" repeated the maid.
swell, may be they're all right, but
they look like devils just the same,
and I'll have none of them"
, 1917-07-12
heSecettS Of HE ~HdhenBd]emC
INNER LIFE OF KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE AS

They, however, were shown into his
room to wait, and there saw upon bis
table ap abusive and scurrilous tyna-
written letter in German addressed IN
the emperor. Then 1t suddenly awned
upon them that the affable u man
might be the actual author of those
infamous letters, about which all Ber-
lin knew and was talking. It was this
visit which, no doubt, revealed to the
baron the young mans hiding place,
Both mother and daughter, however
Kept their own counsel, met SeelIeer
next day, and watched, subsequently
learning, to their surprise, that he was
the son of General Won Trautmapp.
and, further, that he had as a friend
one of the personal Wallets of the en-.
peror, from whom, NJ doubt, he OBJ
tanned his inside information about
persons at court.
when his father was arrested we
knew that the young man was living
in Brussels, and at once went there in
order to induce him to come forward,
make confession, and so save the gen.
eral from disgrace" said the pretty
girl seated before me. "On arrival we
saw him alone, and told him what we
had discovered in the Rue de Provence,
whereupon he admitted to us that he
had written all the letters, and an
nounced that he intended to return to
Berlin next day and give himself up
to the police in order to secure his
fathers release"
"And why did he not do so?" 1 asked.
Because next morning he was found
dead in his bed in the hotel"
Fearing the emperor's wrath, the
B~reitenbachs, like myself, dared not
reveal what they knew-the truth.
which is here set down for the first
time-and, alas! poor General Won
Trautmann died in prison at Mulheim
last year.
Copyright. 1917. William Leoueux.)
, 1917-07-12

EDITORIAL NOTE - william L.
Queu1, who here chronicles for HIS
friend, Count Ernst Won Heltnendorn,
the latter's revelations of the inner
life of the Imperial German court, has
long been recognized throughout Eu-
rope as the possessor of its innermost
secrets.
The English "who's wbor snys of
hfmi aHe has intimate knowledge of
the secret service of Continental coun-
tries and in considered by the govern
ment (of Great Britnin) ar authority on
such mntters.o Another authority says
~Few people have been more closely Ms
ISOLATED with or know more of the
astounding inner machinery of Ger
many than he.'
LeQueux probably has more sources
of secret Information at his
than any contemporary in civil life, and
for the last six years the British Gov
ernment has made valuable use of his
vast store of secret ormat throuEh
q specially organized department with
which LeQueux works ms n voluntary
assistant.
Count Won HeItzendorn became an in
tfmatG of LeQueux several yenrs prior
to the outbreak of the warI he has been
living in retirement in France since
August, 1914, and IL WINS there that Le-
Queux received from the crown princes
late personal ndjutant Formulation to
make public these revelations of the
inner life of the Hohenzo1lerns-thnt
the democracfes of the world might
come to know the renl, but heretofore
hidden, ~personalities of the two domi-
nnnt of the nutocracy they are
now rraye against.
, 1917-07-12
Sudden Change Of Mind.

why in the world don't they give up
their automobile and try to pay some OF
their debtsf" asked the lady who was
always worrying about the troubles
other people had.
Probably" her husband replied
'for the same reason that We don't
move into an apartment we a afford,
instead Of keeping up this place and
wondering how long WI can avoid 60
ing to smash"
"oh, but I despise a man who Is
willing to let the world see that he's q
failure, instead of being brave enough
to keep up appearances, at least
Judge.