Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-12

plies for the land defenses. The al
lies kept hammering, and the situa-
ton became more desperate.
EMBARGO ON SUPPLIES.
Germany had promised Turkey sup
| port 80 the Krupp interests tried to
send powder and ammunition to Tur-
| key via Rumania- Servia at this
time was still unconquered. Rumania,
however, placed an embargo on the
shipment of war supplies through her
| territory, so Germany shipped powder
in beer kegs and shells in cement
blocks. For some time Rumania did
not discover the German tricks, and
it was not until a keg of powder on a
supposed beer train exploded in Ru-
manian freight yards that Rumania
discovered what was going on. The
| Krupps had shipped a train load OF
| powder in beer kegs. On one car they
had real Bavarian beer for distribu-
| ton to Bavarian border officials, but
one night when the train was on a
side track four Rumanian railroad
men broke into a car. took out alkeg,
and when they hammered in the
burghole the barrel exploded, killing
three Of the men and wounding the
| fourth. That put a stop to the ship
ment Of war supplies through Ru-
mania
But the af1ies were still attacking
the Dardanelles, and Turkey needed
immediate assistance, so the Zeppe-
Inns were modified. Ammunition fac
tories in Germany were taken apart
and the machinery was carried to Con-
stanttnople from Temesvar, Hungary,
by Zeppelins. The, machinery was
shipped to Temsevar from Essen and
Madgeburg and carried through the
air to Turkey. Powder was carried
in the same manner. Within few
| weeks German ammunition factories
were running in Turkey, and the big
shells which the Turks needed for de-
Tending the Dardanelles were being
manufactured as fast as Turkey need
ed them. The crisis was passed. The
zeppelins had saved the Dardanellea
and Constantinople.
THE PEOPLE MISLED.
This incident, which played such a
great part in deciding the outcome
of the Dardanelles operations, was
never related to the German people
because the general staff guarded in
formation about Zeppelins more close
| ly than information about any other
! thing in Germany. The general staff
deliberately misled the German people
in order to deceive the outside world
| because the German government and
the big manufacturing interests know
that the Zeppelins during this war
have demonstrated that when peace
comes they will be the greatest and
most important means of international
communication. The Zeppelin engi-
neers know that under any conditions
except war Zeppelins cannot be de-
| stroyed as easily as people imagine.
/ One time in Temesvar l met an Aus
trian captain of a Zeppelin which had
raided Saleniki. He told me 1t took
10 hours to fly from TemesYar to
Saloniki, distance of about 700 miles.
He told me that Zeppelins could fly,
and had gone from Namur, Belgium,
where there is a base, to CONSTANT
nople. Zeppelins had gone from Con
stantinople to Bagdad, and near Bag
dad the Germans were building q
Zeppelin base for an attack on the
Suez canal. The success of the Eng
lish operations in Mesopotamia have,
of course, temporarily put an end to
these aspirations.
The German people. are very easily
deceived. One time saw a confiden-
tial report of the general staff to the
German newspapers.
EXAGGERATED REPORTS.
The report began by saying that
the East India docks near London
were burned and great storehouses of
ammunition destroyed. The docks and
storehouses on the London docks were
| burned and many ships hit. A large
cotton warehouse on Victoria docks
| was burned. st. George and Lemon
streets were badly Damaged. The city
itself and the newspaper quarter was
badly damaged. And the following OBJ
jects were especially hit:
"One tower of the Tower Bridge.
which was defended by anti aircraft
machinery.
"Chancery Lane.
Liverpool street.
'Morgate street.
'Bishopsgate and Altgate and large
number of streets, including whole
blocks of houses, were destroyed"
I have not been in London since
FEBRUARY and March, 1915, so / must
leave these statements to those who