The Cordova daily times., 1917-05-10
you give us news. Here is his ad.

you give us news. Here is his ad dress"
 Another wife wrote of at least I could only know that my husband lived l am the mother of a little baby girl that the father has never yet seen, and this baby child pleads tC your good heart"
 These appeals do not always follow the niceties of diplomatic communica tions. Some of them are on rough paper, bought at the country store, and are in trembling handwriting of old persons. But the king does not see these defects, and his greatest satis. ! faction is in sending a personal tele. gram to some mother or child telling of the successful result of his search. When a long telegram of gratitude came recently, the king himself an swered:
 Thank you for your felicitations. I am very happy that my efforts have been satisfactory"
 It is not as easy to convey the news when a son or father has been killed. Usually the official report is brutal in it's brevity-"todt" on the German re- ports, and "decede" on the French. But the king, to avoid a shock to the family, has adopted the delicate for mula of first sending notice of a death to the mayor of a town, asking him to adopt suitable means of conveying the news to the family. The letter in that case reads:
 'l regret to inform you that, accord ing to a letter received from the am- bassador of his majesty at Berlin, de- spite all the efforts to gather infOr- nation concerning --, they have been able = learn only that he is de..t in offering his life gloriously for his country.
 Will you kindly convey this sad news with all the delicacy possible to
 -, and at the same time. in the name of the king, express his most sincere condolence and sympathy"
 There are some 15O,OOO of these dead and untraceable missing in these palace records an army greater than NapoleOn's army at Waterloo. To mark the solemnity of these 150,O00 cases, the king has placed above the records a gold frame scroll, a wreath of laurel leaves entwining a cross.
 The king has attached to the staff of the Spanish embassy at Berlin forty persons who are making these inves- tigations in all parts of Germany. It is growing so, that another seventeen will be added sono. The same kind of inquiry is being made in Austria Italy and France and other countries
 There are two large maps of Ger many and Austria, which the king comes in often to inspect. They tell at glance, by means of hierOglyphics, the exact state of each of the many prison camps. Those in Austria are indicated by star, and are almost all good. Many of those in Germany indi- cate, by hollow square, that the con dition is bad.
 There are many notable names in these records. One of them is Nine Carton de Wiart, wife of the Belgian member of the ministry. She was de ported and imprisoned at Berlin, re fusing to accept any favor because of her husbands high position. But King Alfonso intervened, and it was through his efforts that she finally was re- turned to her husband and children after months of Imprisonment.
 One of the outgrowths of the sys- tenn is the establishment of something like bank at the palace, where many thousands of francs have been sent from families to civilian and military
  prisoners. In all the details of this extensive work King Alfonso takes a personal interest, following up the more urgent cases day by day, and often framing the letters of inquiry and information. While most of the other rulers of Europe are devoting their energies to the work of warfare, King Alfonso rules over a country ct peace, and which he believes is des- tined to remain at peace, and it IS his greatest satisfaction that this has brought him the opportunity to direct this extensive work of relieving some of the misery which the war is causing.