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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-25
MANY ARREsTS.

Petrogrd, March 24.--About 1000
arrests have been made here by the
reyolutionists police, and over 5000
at Moscow.
The former Czar and Czarina are
strongly guarded to prevent their as.
sassination by fanatical radicals.
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18th INFANTRY ARRIVE.

Atlanta, March 24.-TLe Seven.
tconth Infantry. United States regu-
lars, which is to guard the mterned
German sailors, arrived today.
A soldier whose name was not dis.
closed committed suicide by shooting
himself fifty miles north OF Mobile,
Ala.
Seven hundred German sailors will
leave Philadelphia on Monday, to be
intevned at Forts Mcpherson and
Oglethorpe
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CARRANzA BUYS
JAPAN MUNITIONS
STEAMER ON WAY NOW TO De
LIVER CARGO AND ALSO 27
GUN EXPERTS.

San Francisco, March PA copy
OF japanese newspaper received
here says that Carranza has been
; buying military supplies from Japan
The steamer koto Hira Maru, with
load of munitions, is now en- route
from Japan to Mexico. Twenty-seyen
japanese gun experts are aboard the
vessel. Three Mexican commission
ers arranged the transactio in spite
OF the fact that Japan agreed TO SCI!
munitions only to the allies.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-25

human suffering in time OF war and
in time Of peace. It has certain ma
chinery that must be kept intact ana
be ready for instant action This ma.
chinery is supplied by dollar mem.
berehip
The society is under tremendous.
ly heavy strain. 1t has sent relief
workers to Belgium, Poland, Servia,
and France 1t asks to send stiIl more.
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GERMANS RAISE
ARMY IN MEXICO
10000 MEN REPORTED oRGANIz'
ED TO SEIZE PROPERLY AND
-. -. 49,
FIGHT OMITTED STATES.

dalrestons M9Eeh GA German
army Of 100000 men Is being made
Up in Mexico to seize German and
American property and make war on
the United States. according to a re.
por5 reaching here tonight from
fairly reliable sources.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-25
GRAND DUKE KILLED?

Amsterdam, March PA Stock
holm dispatch reaching here says
that Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolae-
witch, uncle of the deposed Car and
commander in chief of the Russian
armies in the CaucauGus, has been
dismissed because of his relations
with The old government
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-25
CoLORED WOMAN DEAD.

Emma Lee, one Of Brunswick's best
known colored women, passed away
Thursday night and the funeral will
occur this afternoon at 2:30 from st
PauFs church. She had many friend
among the white people.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-25

COL HOUSE CALLS ON LANSING

New York. March 24.-Col. House
the presidents adviser, conferred
with Secretary Of State Lansing late
today. Both declined to discuss the
object of the conference.
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REicHSTAG PARTIES ACTIVE.

Berlin, March 24---Extraordinary
activity is seen in all parties in the
Reichetag No statement is forth
coming, but events are being watch
cd with deepest interest
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WILL. DECLARE WAR.

London, March 24-Advices from
Zurich today quote German newspa.
pers az declaring that Germany will
declare war against the United States
just as soon as an armed merchant
man fires upon German submarine.
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RED CROSS ORGANIZES
CYCLONE VICTIMS RELIEF

New Albany, Ind, March 24.-Fri.
days cyclone victims tonight are
known to number at least 46 dead,
200 injured with 500 families home
less. The work OF relief, under Red
Cross guidance, is we'll under way
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HUMANE ACT GETS
PRELATE 8 YEARS
VICAR GENERAL SEGRAlVE OF
BELGIUM IMPRISONED BY
THE GERMANS.

London. March PA sentence of
nine years Imprisonment was given
Mgr Segraive. vicargcneral to Car.
dinal Mercier, head of the Roman
Catholic church in Belgium, by Ger
man authorities. He was accused of
sheltering a discharged French sol,
dier for one night
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BUFFALO FEARS SPIES,

Buffalo, N. Y, March 24.-An ap-
peal for military protection by plants
here and at Niagara Falls has been
made to Governor Whitman. The
national guard may be ordered out.
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THAW HEARING FRIDAY.

Harrisburg, Pa, March 24.--Gov-
ernOr Brumbaugh will hear argu-
ments in the application for extradi-
ton of Harry x. Thaw to New York
this coming Friday.
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der way.

der way.
Howard Coffin, chairman of the
committee on industries, reported
that a survey of the nations re-
sources had been completed and that
every manufacturing concern that can
make goods needed by the army is
listed
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GREETINGS SENT puMA.

Rome, March 24---The Russian rev.
olution was the subject OF an enthu-
siastie demonstration today
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
GERMANY HOLDS
AMERICAN CONSULS
Four Officials Detained as
Hostage for Consul Mueller,
Awaiting Passports.
MOI DELAYED BY THE U. s.

Washington, Feb. 2S,-Four Amer
can cbnsuls are being detained in Ger
many, while the Berlin government
awaits official advices that all German
consuls in this country, ordered to
Central ard South America, have been
permitted to proceed.
The German governments action IS
based on circumstances which, through
no fault of the United States, de-
tanned Consul Mueller at Havana,
Cuba, while he was on his way from
Atlanta to Quito, Ecuador.
The American consuls detained in
Germany are Consul Henry C. P.
Damn, transferred from Aachen to
Harput, Turkey; Consul John O..
Wood, transferred from Chemnitz to
Messina; Vice Consul w. Bruce Wal
lace, transferred from Magdeburg to
Constsntinople; Vice Consul c. Innes
Brown, transferred from Mannheim to
Constantinople.
Two notes have been received from
the German government on the sub
Ject; the first a week ago, charging
that the United States had detained
Mueller at Havana, and second to-
day, asking for reply to the first and
also containing statement on
charges that American consuls and
their wives departing from Germany
had been subjected to indignities. 1t
added that as soon as Mueller had
been allowed to proceed, the Amer
lean consuls could go on.
That the German government has
been misnformed regarding Consul
Mueller and other German consuls
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01

at the time the ncwspape' articles
were cabled.
As for treatment said in newspaper
dispatches from Europe to have been
accorded American consuls and men,
bers of their families, Germany de-
clares that Instructions were given
that they should receive every per-
sonal consideration.
However, it is made clear that on
the grounds Of military necessity there
were many conditions incident to the
crossing of the frontiers to which
Americans, the same as citizens of
other nationalities, had to submit. 1t
was impossible, Germany asserts, that
all the military regulations could be
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01

formerly stationed in the United
States, is certain. The departure Of
none has been hindered by this gov
eminent. Mueller was forced to re-
main in Havana longer than he at
first thought would be necessary, and
he cabled Berlin that he was detained
there. The German government is
believed to have taken this to mean
that the United States was responsible
for the detention.
As a matter of fact Mueller was
forced to remain in Hawai- because
of temporary lack OF transportation
and failure to receive passports from
the Ecuadorean government. He left
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01

Havana for his new post several days
ago.
In the note received today, Ger
many complains against published re-
ports recently cabled to the United
States from The Hague, in which it
was stated that American consular
officials leaving Germany had been
mistreated. 1t is stated that every
thing possible was done to provide
for the comfortable and safe departure
of the American officials and blame
for the alleged misrepresentation is
placed upon Vice Consul Harold F.
Quarton, formerly at Berlin, whom
Germany believes to have been the
only consular oficia, in The Hague
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
Banker and Two Sons
Sentenced to Prison

Chicago, Feb. 2S,-William H.
Paisley and his sons, James T. and
Oliver F., charged with receiving de
posts after they knew their three
banks here to be insolvent, were found
guilty today.
The sons were sentenced to three
years and the father to one year in
prison.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01
London Schools Close;
No Men to Handle Coal

London, Feb. l2.-Many Lon
don schools have been closed on &C
count Of their inability to get coal.
The coal dealers have plenty Of the
fuel. but are unable to find men to de-
liver it.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-01

done away with at the time the Amer
lean consular and diplomatic officials
were crossing the frontier.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
Neutrality Costs
 Switzerland Heavily

Berne, Switzerland, April 10.- Switzerlands extraordinary expenses that have grown out of the war will amount, by the end of this year, to about 70O,000,00O francs, it is esti- mated. That figure, however, covers only the cost of maintaining Swiss neutrality-guarding the boundaries, etc. There must be raised in addition from 20,000,0O0 to 30,000,000 francs annually to pay the interest on other debts. In all it is reckoned that for interest charges and sinking funds the state is going to have to. produce an even 100,000,000 francs income above what it ordinarily raises.
 Thus far only about one-third of this sum has been assured. The to- bacco monopoly proposed by the Bundesrat is but one of number of measures that will be necessary in the immediate future. And the monopoly proposition is already meeting with strong opposition.
 Though Berne has the reputation of being less expensive residence city than Zurich or Geneva, it has been hit very hard by the war. The cost of food has risen on the average 48.9 per cent, above the figures that pre- vailed before the war. Clothing and other commodities probably have ex- ceeded this figure. The figures have been compiled and published to show how urgently necessary are advances in salary for government officials.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
THE HOLY CITY

Jerusalem, the holy icity of both Jews and Christians, is likely as a re- suit of this war to be permanently lost to the Turks, who have already been deprived of the possession ot Mecca, the holy city of the Moham- medans. That the ancient city which was for so long the center of the wor- ship of Jehovah may again become the capital of a Jewish state, under the protection of the Allied powers, is now more than a possibility, and has become a probability. In the years to come it may be that the sa- cred shrines of the Christian faith will be guarded by Jewish troops, in- stead of by the stalwart, cynical Turks and Arabs who formerly kept the peace among the squabbling Christian sects. It must be admitted that the Turkish soldiers performed their du- ties impartially and well in keeping peace among the 'infidel dogs" as they called the Christians, and their cynicism was justified by the fact that the Christians were always fight ing among themselves for the posses sion of the shrines of the faith in which Jerusalem abounds.
 Jerusalem was taken by the Sara cens in the year 637, and was held by them until the period of the Cru saAAn Annnp 1ah1nnnnASnw G~r ra~Aam
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
QUEEN HoRTENsE.
Few queens of modern times ha

Few queens of modern times have been more absolute in character, and few have possessed more beauty and talent, than the fair but frail Hor- tense of Holland. Born in Paris 134 years ago today, April 10, 1783, she was the daughter of the immortal Josephine by her first husband, Alexandre Beauharnais. In compli- ance with the wishes of her imperial stepfather, Napoleon, she was given in loveless marriage to Louis Napol- con, although she was then violently in love with another man. The ele- vation of Louis to the Dutch throne made Hortense a queen, but royal re- responsibilities did not sober her. and she was the mistress of dozens of prominent men. One of these, Ad- miral Veruel, a Dutch naval officer, was commonly supposed to have been the father of Napoleon III. M. de Morny, universally recognized as the illegitimate half-brother of Napoleon TIL, was the son of Hortense and the Comte de F1ahaut. Another son of Hortense, George de Heeckeren d'Anthes, was taken by his father, Baron de Heeckeren, to Russia. There he married a sister of the wife of Pushkin, the great Russian poet, and paid such attentions to Mime. Pushkin that a duel was fought, in which the bard was slain. A descend ant of this son of Hortense was re- gently killed in battle
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
Annamite Soldiers
 Sentenced to Death

Billancourt, Department of the Seine, France, April 10.-Seven An- namites of the Colonial Corps station ed here have just been sentenced to penalties ranging from a years inn prisonment to death for taking the life of Nguyen van Lock, one of their comrades. in Chinese fashion.
 Van Lock, the only Annamite sol- dier here who spoke French, was un- popular with his compatriots who ac- cused him of brutality, cheating at cards, and usury; he lent them small sums at 100 per cent. interest, they claimed.
 Seven Annamite conspirators, ap- preached his cot silently one night. Four of them seized him by the legs and arms and held him while another chosen for the execution seized him by the throat and strangled him to death. All seven then gave vent to exultant joy, each one in turn ap- preaching the victim and stimulating the act of strangling him.
 Ninety-three Annamite soldiers were in the barracks ward where this assassination was committed but not one of them would reveal it. It was only the finger marks upon the vic- tin's throat that gave the surgeons traces of the crime.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
CIV. COMST0CK
 EX-DEMOCRAT|C
 CHAIRMAN, DIES
Prominent Lawyer Sue. cumbs After Brief Illness
 In Montville Home

Norwich, April 10-The death of Charles w. Comstock, former chair man of the Democratic state commit tee and prominent member of the state and New London county bars, at his home fin the Uncasville section of Montville, last night, followed a brief sickness. The news of his death came as a shock to his many friends, who were not aware that he had been sick.
 MT. Comstock was taken with a cold two weeks ago. This developed into the grip. He thought he had re- covered sufficiently on Saturday to come into his office here. His strength was overtaxed and he had a weak spell while entering the building and fainted on the stairs. He was taken home in an ambulance. It was not thought that the setback was serious Yesterday he had another fainting spell and his death came unexpectedly in the evening.
 MT. Comstock was in his 18th year. He was born in Montville and had lived there his entire life. He was active in politics for many years as a Democrat, serving in the legislature and becoming chairman of the Dem- ocratic state committee in succession to John J. Walsh of Norwalk about 1905.
 He was followed by George Forster of Rockville about 1912. As state chairman MT. Comstock was brought into touch with men of affairs in ev- erv town and city in the state es. pecially during the first campaign of Judge Simeon E. Baldwin for the gov- ernorship. AS an attorney he plead ed in many cases that received notice, and he was frequently seen at the state capitol before committees at hearings on various measures.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
War Horses Are
 Made Great Pets

With the British Armies in France, April 9.-it would be difficult to find more pampered lot of beings than the war horses. In the stress Of bat tie they suffer with the men, but the number of>equine "casualties' among the hundreds of thousands of horses employed is really very small
 There are veterans among the hor- ses which have been three or four times wounded; there are even those which have suffered nervous break downs from the shattering shock of shells. If they were men in khaki they would have gold stripes of hon. or upon their sleeves; but the faith fdl old horses go back to the front time and time again, asking nothing in the way of rank or distinction.
 What they get instead is the very best of food and plenty of it, the kind est of care and the keenest of appre- citation of the services they render. Visitors to the battle zone invariably express amazement at the appearance and condition of the horses. Just now they are snug and warm under the self-protection' of their~long win ter coats. They are fat and strong muscled. They plod and splash con tentedly through the mud in twos, threes, fours or twelves, dragging guns and heavy wagons behind them, with never the necessity of a harsh word or 8 whiplash from their dri- vers. The men come to love the horses. Officers who have been here from the beginning (and there are Cfi fnx 1Af% 1 time they have never seen an act of cruelty toward horse or mule.
 One reason for the splendid appear ance of the horses at the front is the fact that the moment one begins to show signs of over-fatigue or debilita- tion he is taken out of service and sent back to the hospital to recuper- ate. Occasionally, too, the horses come down with mud blisters upon which their backs, with an injured foot that may not have been noticed in time. or with some of the diseases that equine flesh is heir to. It is a great tribute to the veterinary service, however, that most of the old contagious dis eases that used to decimate the ranks of horses in wartime have effectually been stamped out and no longer give concern. Glanders, for instance, once a dread scourge,, is now thing of the past. None Of the horses in France are infected. Occasionally a case comes With new shipment from abroad, but it is quickly eliminated
 At the end of two years of the South African war fully 90 per cent. of the horses had been affected by the mango.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
AMBASSADOR FLETCHER.

When Henry Prather Fletcher was retained in the diplomatic service of the United States. by President Wilson it was a high recognition of his abil- ity for Mir. Fletcher is lifelong Re- publican. When MT. Fletcher was recalled from Chile, and given the difficult post of ambassador to Mexi- co-a task requiring diplomatic abil- ity and tact of the highest order the administration paid him a re- markable compliment. There were many able Democrats who would have been willing to essey the task of soothing and placating the somewhat ruffled and peevish Senor Carranza, but President Wilson evidently decid-- ed that the soothing syrup bearing the signature of MT. Fletcher was in dicated in this particular case.
 It was in the Pensylvannia village of Greencastle-so called because it. has no castle of any color-that MT. Fletcher was born just A years ago today, April 10, 1873. He was .edu- cated in a private school and at the Cham mbersburg Academy, and then spent four years delving into legal lore under the direction of the Hon. D. Watson Rowe. Upon his admission to the bar he became the junior mem Der of the firm of Row. & Fetch CT.
 MT. Fletcher was one of those who gained his start along the road to fame as a trooper of the Rough Rid CTS. When Dr. Leonard Wood, an army surgeon and Theodore Roose- welt, assistant secretary of the navy, launched that military organization, young Fletcher was filled with mili- tary ardor, and enlisted as a private in Troop K of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, as the Rough Rid- CTS were officially known. He, shar- ed in the glory that descended upon that famous regiment. Having had a taste of fighting, he wanted more, and went to the Philippines as first lieu tenant and. battalion adjutant with the 4Oth Volunteer Infantry. He served until 1902, when he began his diplo- matic cSreer as second secretary of the American legation to Cuba. Later he was first secretary of the American legations in China and Portugal. In 1909 he was appointed minister to Chile, and later was elevated to am bassadorial rank. To MT. Fletcher more than any other man is due the cordial relations now existing between Chile and the United States, and when he left Santiago last year the press and officials of the Tong republic" voiced their regret and lauded his .ef- forts toward influencing the develop ment of the Pan-American spirit
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
NAME MUNITIONS
 BOARD OF 20 TO AID PREPARATION
Committee Will Be Similar to Organization In
 Great Britain

Washington, April 10-The forma- tion of a General Munitions Board to take charge of the arming ] and equipping of the new American forces was announced yesterday by the Coun- oil of National Defense. Frank A. Scott, vice president of the Warner & Swazey Go. of Cleveland, and an ex- pert on the production of munitions, will head the board.
 The new board creates machinery for g. Government Department of Mu- nitions, with it's head a cabinet minis ter if conduct of the war brings the need.
 Twenty men, 15 of them army and navy officers, make up the board. Besides MT. Scott, its civilian mem- bers are Bernard M. Baruch, Howard F. Coffin, Julius Rosenwald and Dr. Franklin Martin. From the army there are Big.-Gen. Thomas Cruse, Col. F. G. Hodgson, Col. H. Fisher, Lieut.-Col. J. E.'Hoffer. Major P. E. Pierce, Major Charles Wallace and Capt. A. B. Barker. From the navy are Rear-Admiral H. H. Rousseau, Rear Admiral W. s. Capps, Com mander R. H. Leigh, Commander T. A. Kearney, Dr. R. c. Holcomb, Pay master J. H. Hancock, Lieut.. W. B. LemIy and Lieut.. M. c. Howe.
 The efforts of the board will be de- voted to co-ordinating the making of purchases by the army and the navy and assisting in the requirement of raw materials and manufacturing fla cilities. It will devote especial atten- ton to making orders, for the army and the navy. have precedence over orders for private manufacturers.
 It is not the present intention that the newly appointed board shall have authority to issue purchase orders, or to bind the government in contracts for purchases. Existing orders for the delivery of naval and military material will not be disturbed, unless unforeseen conditions make this neces- Sary.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-10
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
SHIP BUILDING.

The three masted schooner built by MT. J. H. Moore, at his shipyard, East Bridgeport, was launched this afternoon. MT. T. F. Gregory christ ened' her, the E. " Glover: Her di- mensions are, keel 115 feet, breadth of beam 30 feet, depth of lower hold 9k feet, between decks A feet, deck 125 feet over all, tonnage about 400.
 The rigging was put up by Fuller of New York, the sails manufactured by Messrs. Stafford & Graham, New York. The painting of cabin and em- bellishments has been artistically done by our tofnsman, MT. J. Samis.
 She is named after B. vi Glover, Esq, of Philadelphia, a gentleman we'll known in the coal trade. Capt w. Ingersol1. well known in the coast ing trade, takes command of the yes sel. May prosperous gales long wait the gallant ship and her captain from haven to haven for very many years. MT. Moore is about to lay down another keel of the same size and tonnage.