Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
WILSON WOULD LIKE
TO Be IN TRENCHES
So States in Message to National
Draft Army
KUHLMANN ON PEACE MISSION
Germans Are Stripping Belgium On Ber-
Inns Orders To Cut Off Nations
Resources.

President Wilson has written a let
ter in which he says his thoughts fol-
low with envy" the men of the Ma
tional army because he would like
Ito be with them on the fields and in
the trenches where the real and final
battle for the independence of the
United States is to be fought"
The letter of the President, which
was made public yesterday, was writ
ten by him last Friday to Thomas L.
Chadbourne, Jr., of the Mayors Com
mittee on National Defense. New York
City. 1t follows:
The White House, Washington,
Aug. 80, 1917.
! My Dear Mr.. .Chadbourne:
Please say to the men on September
how entirely my heart is with them
and how my thoughts will follow
them across the sea, with confidence
and also with genuine envy, for /
should like to be with them on the
fields and in the trenches where the
real and final battle for the independ-
ence of the United States is to be
fought, alongside the other peoples of
the world, struggling, like ourselves,
to make an end of those things which
have threatened the integrity of their
territory, the lives of their people, and
the very character and independence
of their governments. Bid them Cod
speed for me from a very full heart.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON
Germans Stripping Belgium.
Information which has reached the
Belgian Government from beyond the
lines shows that what is left of Bel
gian manufacturing machinery is be
ing Systematically taken out of the
country or destroyed when not re-
moved.
The machines have been taken
from all the factories in La Provi-
dence and other nearby places within
the last fortnight.
These advices say that when the
manager of the Providence mills pro-
tested to the German officer in COM
mand against the proceeding he was
told that the orders from Berlin were
to empty Belgium of its manufactur-
ing resources, so that nothing could
be produced there.
On Vienna Peace Mission.
Baron Won Kuhlmann, the German
Foreign Secretary, who has gone on a
visit to Vienna, discussed all day yes
terday with Count Czernin, the Aus
ro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, the
terms of the reply of the Central
Powers to the Pope.
The Austrian Emperor received
both Ministers last night and heard
their proposals regarding the answer.
Baron Won Kuhlmann is expected
to return to Berlin today and will
proceed Immediately to headquarters
to report to the German Emperor
A dispatch from Budapest says the
Poster Lloyd prints the following as
coming from an inspired diplomatic
source in Vienna:
THE German Foreign Secretary,
| Baron Won Kuhlmann, always a well
come and most estimable guest, is to-
day sojourning in Vienna Mr.. Will
| son may rest assured that the Ger
man Secretary and the Austrian
Minister of Foreign Affairs are dis
cussing other matters than the es-
tablishment of new Constitutions or
! forms of government for the Central
| Powers fashioned after American
patterns and dictates.
"Only recently Secretary Won Kuhl-
mann coined the happily phrase that
not alone might but also right must
have validity in politics. The En-
| tente's politics is no longer based on
| this 1t is not alone our good for
tune but as much the good fortune of
mankind at large that the Entente
| is lacking the necessary might TO
commit this injustice"
Mob Attacks U. =. Sailors.
Attacks on American sailors on
Sunday night are reported in dis
patch from Cork to The Chronicle.
| 1t is said that gangs of young men
paraded the streets and set upon the
| Americans, who were accompanied
by their sweethearts.
One instance cited is that of two
Americans who were attacked on the
| chief street of Cork, young woman
with them being insulted and having
her hat torn off. The correspondent
reports that the sailors did nothing
| improper or contrary to good taste
to invite the attack, and as far as
could be learned did not retaliate.
l They escaped on a tramcar.
All the girls who suffered at the
| hands of the crowds, the dispatch
says, belong to the respectable middle
| class.
J An attempt was made at IL p. IN. TO
break into places where Americans
are staying. the dispatch continues,
but after short siege the attackers
departed Several parties paraded
the streets, singing Sim Fein songs
and performing military evolat;ons.
Some windows were broken. One
party raided the premises of an Off