Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-01
NEWS OF THE DaE

soldiers at the Reverloo Camp III BEL
eium. The men, it is said, refused
to 20 to the front and damaged their
own rifles in some cases, while othefs
fired on their officers, several OIL
whom were wounded. The mutinccrs
were finally mastered and removed
or cattle trucks The frontier guard
at Brouhourt, according to the same
authority, deserted on October ID.
Samuel seibert, 40 years old, pastor
Ct the Church of Apostles, at Carmi,
IN was attacked and beaten by q
mol after services in the church, III
which he is alleged to have declared
"any man who fights in the present
y,ar is not q Christian" and that ne
"would eve salute the United
States flag" Federal operatives
arc Investigating.
Speaking yesterday to Il congress
Of workmcn, at Berlin, Herr Braun,
undersecretary Of the German food
department told the delegates that
The subsistence Of Germany again had
ncen assured for the fourth winter OF
Inc war. The German potato crop,
ne said. was between 100000 and
4.5O0.O0 tons above the estimate ana
the corn supply for the winter al
ready had been fully secured.
Policeman James Malone's skull
was fractured by = blow and he was
shot in the hand yesterday by four
pavroll bandits who robbed the Sci
ton Manufacturing Company, at CHI
caeo, of $1,000 and escaped i n an au-
tomobile. Malone fired one shot at
them before fainting.
Important ship construction work at
the Fore River plant of the Bethie-
hem %Shipbuilding Company at
Quincy. Mass, was crippled yesterday
Nv Il strike Of machinistS. Estimates
Of the number Of men out varied
from 1900 to 5000. Union leaders
claim that the company has not COM
plicd with an understanding with the
mon reached last August to raise the
rate of pay to the level paid at navy
wards. The employees who struck
arc machinists, m%achinists' helpers,
boilers, rcamcrs and reamcrs' helpers.
The Gripping Of their departments
threw other departments out Of gear.
Four months Of abnormal rain ii:
Natal. South Africa, eliminated Sat
urday and Sunday in St storm III
which more than eight inches Of rain
fell in Cd hours, as q result OF which!
widespread destruction is reported
The Umgen; River, deeply swollen
nv the storm, swept suddenly dow7'
upon Durham, submerging the thick
~ populated district or the Spring
field flats. Many persons were swept
away and drowned. A dispatch from
Johannesburg, says the number of
British Indian natives drowned -
believed to have reached 1000.
Mrs. Laura Hull Morris, who gam
el national attention ten years ago,
when she claimed she was forcibly
elected from the White House while
attempting to call on President
Roosevelt, was burned to death III her
apartment in Washington yesterday.
A diplomatic incident 1t the time
Of the Spanish-American war nvol-
wing Il threat to use the British fleet
against any naval power seeking to
hamper the war operations OF the
United States was revealed by Sir
George Houstoun Reid, former prime
minister of Australia, in an address
yesterday in New York at q luncheon
given in his honor by the Merchants
Association. ut is not well known
that there was a project Of sending
a naval demonstration from Europe
during your last war;" Sir George
<aid. "Lord Salisbury was approach
ed got this from private, indis-
putable authority-and he said, 81
will have ncne of it." He was asked:
Suppose Europe sends one. What
about it He replied: ~ will tell
you what about it. If you begin that
sort of game you will find the Brit
Hish fleet facing YOU"
Thousands of home-going office
workers obstructed traffic on streets
leading to tie financial district in
New York last night while they
watched a spectacular fire near the
North River water front. Two fire
men we've injured. The fire which
began on the upper floors Of the
scven-story Electrical Exchange
Building, Liberty and Washington
streets, was not brought under con-
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