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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14

Berlin. Aug. 13.-ThA 5emi-Official
Nordeutsche Allegemetite Zeitung de-
nies the existence of the telegram al
legged by formr Ambassador Gerard to
have been sent by Emperor William
to President Wilson in August, 1914.
In this telegram it was alleged that
The emperor was quoted as saying
8elgium's neutrality had to be vioiat-
I'd by Germany on strategical grounds
The alleged telegram which reach
ed Berlin via Switzerland, has En-
oeror William saying that King
George sent him word through his
)rother, Prince Henry, that England
would remain neutral if the war
broke on the continent involving Rus
sia, France and Austria.
The Cologne Gazette says that
there is no apparent reason to doubt
he genuineness of the telegram and
chat it shows nothing more than Eng
!and's cunning and the ambitious
policy of England prior to the war"
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
WSCOUNT |SH|!
ARRIVES SAFELY
HEAD OF JAPANESE MISSION TO
U. S. TELLS PURPOSE OF
HIS VISIT.

A Pacific Port, Aug. 13-In speech
delivered here today by Viscount
Ishii. who is at the head of the i'm
perial Japanese mission to the United
States, which has just reached this
port said:
I'VE are here as representatives of
Japan and are on mission of peace
and good will We come as allies
in a common cause, as comrades in
a gigantic struggle which involves
the liberties and sacred rights of all
mankind"
The commission, it is stated, will
leave at once for Washington. The
members plan visits to several sec
tions of the county before returning
to Japan
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
MORE BLOODY
WORK Of 1RUKS
EELATED LETTER FROM THE
HOLY LAND TELLS OF CON-
DITIONS THERE.

Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 20
Press. .)-The situation in Palestine
this summer is the most serious since
the war began. AS cheme for the
looting of Jerusalem is already being
executed, and throughout the ooun-
tryside the Turk has embarked on a
calculated policy of plundering and
killing the native inhabitants so that
if they are forced to vacate the
country they will leave behind them
a desert.
The only thing that can save the
population, the only hope that buoys
them up, is that the British armies
now hammering at the gates of the
Holy Land may soon drive out the
Turks.
Information about conditions in
Palestine reaches here from many
sources. The following statement OF
the present situation is given to the
touch with all these sources:
"The attitude of the young Turks
toward the unfortunate non-Turkisl
races within their empire has al
ways been harsh and oppressive
During the war it has been an oper
sesame of robbery, exploitation anG
massacre, for the young Turks, real.
izing that the partition of the lands
under their rule is unavoidable, have
can out of the inhabitants while they
are in possession.
THE stupendous wickedness of the
determination of the Armenian ma
ton cannot be dismissed as a mere
device of oriental state-craft or as q
particular measure aimed at one par
ticular race, for it is the Turkish
policy towards not only Armenians
but Arabs, Greeks and Jews, in fact
Turk, but are not themselves Turk
ish blood
"While there was some prospect of
being able to retain or even enlarge
their empire, the Turks, although
treating their subject races badly did
not actually seek to destroy them.
Today, knowing themselves doomed
it is their calculated policy to kill
off the bulk of the inhabitants OF
Palestine and eXtort the last ounce
of money and goods from them, 81
that if they are forced to vacate the
country they will leave behind them
a desert, poverty stricken and de-
populated land.
Palestine is today somewhat cut
off from the world and news of the
dreadful happenings within its bor-
ders reaches civilization slowly. II
is usually impossible to learn the
fate Of individuals, but good gen
cral idea of the situation is in our
hands.
"The disaster that befell the Ar
menian nation is now being meted
out to the mixed non-Turkish popu
lation of Syria and Palestine. Fam
lilies are being massacred, towns and
territories evacuated. communities
plundered and given over to pillage.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
FARMERS WANT
MORE FOR WHEAT
THEY ARE. NOT SATISFIED WITH
THE PRICE OF $500 PER
BUSHEL.

Washington, Aug. 13-Following
the announcement that Herbert Hoov-
er, food administrator. will take over
control of the nations wheat on the
first of September, farmers crgani-
cations throughout the United States
are moving today to secure proper
representation on the price fixing
committees.
President Garfield, of Williams col
lege, will be chairman, but senators
and representatives will ask the pres
ident to place practical men on the
board to assist him.
Farmers are not satisfied with the
minimum price of $500 per bushel on
wheat fixed by the senate.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
GEN. CROWDER
MAKES CHANGE
IN CALLING MEN
Time Has Been Stretched Out
In Installment to Ocs
tOber lst.
TO MEET CROP CONDITIONS
Call for Thirty Per Cent on Sep
tember |, Sept. Is and Sept.
3G-WhOle Increment to be
Out Oct. /.
TO MEET CROP CONDITIONS

Washington, Aug. 13-Provost Mar
shal General CrOWder made an inter
esting announcement here today with
reference TO the date of the calling
of the first increment OF the drafted
men into the service. According to
his announcement, the entire incre-
ment will De in training quarters by
the early part of October.
Thirty per cent of the men drafted
will be ordered to camp September
1st; thirty per cent September Is;
thirty per cent September Is, and the
remaining ten per cent just as soon
as possible. In the farming sections
of the country local boards have
been instructed to arrange the lists
of the first increment with crop con-
ditions in mind.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
FIXED SALARY
FOR SOLICITOR
BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT ONE OF
SEVERAL INCLUDED IN BILL
IN THE SENATE.

The solicitor general Of the Bruins
wick circuit, as we'll as that official
of a number of other judicial dis
tricts in the state of Georgia, will
go on a salary basis on January 1st,
next, if bill already, passed by the
senate gets through lhe house, and
the indications are tnat it will, as it
has already been agreed upon.
The fight for this bill was quite a
spirited one, and in many instances
representatives from various counties
in a circuit were divided on the prop
osition, but the bill was finally pass
ed 1t did not include all judicial cir.
cults in the state, but large mum
ber of them were included in the
measure.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
THIS GERMAN
CANARD FACED
BY HARD FACTS
State Department Gives Out the
Original Cablegram of
the Kaiser.
LIE FASTENED ON GERMANY
The Message Differed Only in
the Spelling from the Emper=
or's Autograph Story Cologne
Gazette Published.

Washington, Aug. 13-On the semi
official denial by the Cologne GaZ-
cite, one of the official newspapers
of Germany, of the telegram of Kai-
ser Wilhelm to President Wilson un-
der date of August IA, 1914, made
public by Ambassador Gerard, the
state department tonight gave out
he message as originally cabled. 1t
differs only slightly from the en-
1erors autograph text, in that the
spelling was corrected. German news
papers generally in denying the au-
thencity of Gerrard's original tele
gram, charged that it was part of
the program of the enemies of Ger
many to make the world believe that
Germany is responsible for the war.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
SHORT SESSION OF
THE CITY COUNCIL
ONLY A FEW MATTERS OF ROU-
TINE NATURE HANDLED
LAST NIGHT.

The city council met in regular
session last night. Those present
were Mayor Hopkins and Aldermen
Dart, Bourne, Roberts, Leybourne
and McKinnon
Only one petition was submitted
during the evening, that from s. H
Brand asking that the gasoline sta
tion of j. H. Burroughs on Glouces-
ter street be transferred to him The
request was granted.
Report of the operations of the po
lice department for the month of
july was received and ordered filed
The city treamsurer also submitted
his July report, which was ordered
filed and published.
A resolution was introduced by the
finance committee providing for the
renewal of certain notes by the city,
which was passed and adopted
City Engineer ]. H. High appeared
before council and reported that
only one of the railroads had COM
piled with the order of the city to
place crossings at Bay and Prince
streets, the Atlantic Coast Line. He
asked for the necessary power to en-
force the order. The matter was
referred to the city attorney.
After reading current accounts for
w
council adjourned.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
UP
IN US. COURT
ALL THREE MEN IN NEW YORK
ARE HELD FOR ACTION OF
THE GRAND JURY.

New York. Aug. 13.-Two members
1f exemption board 80, Louis |. Cher
ry and DR. Samuel J. Bernfield, who
have been in the Tombs prison since
their removal from office and ar
rested, charged with conspiracy for
nay to exempt men eligible for draft,
were arraigned before United States
Commissioner Hitchcock and held in
$4,000 bail for action by the grand
jury Kalman Gruher, accused as an
exempt black distributing agent
was arraigned at the same time and
held in $500 bail All three waived
examination.
District Attorney General Conkling
who spent yesterday examining the
seized records of exemption board 49,
announced today that a thorough in
vestigation showed that the records
had been kept in accordance with the
regulations.
Reports of wholesale frauds to
evade the conscription act in New
York city were denied today by AS
sistant District Attorney Knox, but
he admitted that other boards in the
city were being investigated.
The revised figures of the work of
the 1S9 exemption boards, as far as
the various districts had reported up
to today, show that 60152 men had
been examined, of which 40,670 had
qualified. OF this number, 13,478, or
about 22 per cent, had been appar-
emily accepted.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
AMERICANS TO ITALY.

Milan, Aug. 13.-Arrangements are
being made for the sending to the
Italian front of several American am
bulance units similar to those which
have been in operation in France
since the beginning of the war. The
first unit is expected to arrive on
October 13.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
NEUTRAL COUNTRIES DO
NOT LIKE ALIEN DRAFT

Washington, Aug. 1S.-Protests
have been made to the department of
state by representative of neutral
countries against drafting for foreign
service aliens who have taken out
their first papers.
The point is raised by at least one
neutral country that if first paper
aliens" object to being drafted they
should be given an opportunity to re-
turn to their own country within a
reasonable time.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
| 800 STUDENT OFFICERS
GET THEIR COMMISSIONS

~ Washington, Aug. 13-The follow
ing student officers were commission
ed today at Fort Niagara where they
have been in training:
Paul D. Strong, Savannah, first
lieutenant; Hayward Hawkins, Sa-
vannah, second lieutenant; Ray H..
Harris, Dalton, second lieutenant
Eighteen hundred student officers
at Fort Meyer Va, were commission
ed today in the presence of the cab
met officers, members of congress
and diplomats and prominent army
and navy officers. The president was
invited to attend.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
ALLEGED LIEUTENANT
TO BE COURT MARTIALED

Savannah, aug. 13.-H. A. Locke, a
very high stepping young man who
has been in Savannah for some time
wearing the uniform of lieutenant
in the regular army, is to be court.
martialed at TT. Screven.
He was arrested by the local au-
thorities today when he tried to pass
some checks believed to have been
bad He is to be tried for desertion
and for impersonating an officer.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
CONTRACTORS WANT
LABOR CONSCRiPTlON

Washington, Aug. 13.-Conscription
of labor to carry out shipbuildine
contracts taken over by the govern
ment is urged by Pacific coast con
structors.
Facing % per cent increase in the
cost of labor, they contend that la
boring men are endeavoring to ar
range conditions whereby the present
tinue after the war, when it is eX-
pected the labor market will be glut-
ted.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
= COLBY TAKES SEAT ON
= U. S. SHIPPING BOARD

= Washington, Aug. 13-Bain- :
= bridge Colby, of New York. was =
: sworn in today as a member of \
= the shipping board. He succeeds 4
= John b. White, of Kansas City, =
Z resigned. There remains one =
: other vacancy on the board. =
= which it is understood will be !
= filled by appointment of a man =
\ from the Pacific coast. \
\ 4 \ \ I \ - y !
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
FIRST GEORGIA COTTON
BRINGS soc PER POUND

New York, Aug. 13.-The first three
bales of Georgia's new cotton crop
were auctioned off at the cotton ex-
change here today for seven hundred
dollars, or nearly fifty cents per
pound. The money was given to the
Red Cross.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
Newly Weds to Get More Food.

Berlin, Aug. 13.-The municipa
food bureau at Strassburg announces
today that newly married couple,
will be granted a double amount O
food as indicated on their food cards
for a period of six weeks.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
SAVANNAH COTTON MAN DEAD.

Savannah, Aug. 13.-C. B. Malone,
we'll known member of the Savan-
nah Cotton Exchange, died today aft
er long illness.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
= = 4 y = =
, NORTH CAROLINA CANCELS =
; ITS FOOTBALL SCHEDULES =

y Chapel Hill, N. c., Aug. l3.- =
y The University OF North Caro- =
lima today cancelled its tenta- .
= tive football schedule. The uni '
y Versity fears it cannot carry out 4
' its major athletic schedule and y
= meet obligations with reference =
\ to the war. =
4 4 4 y \ p y 5 =
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
TO REFUSE PASSPORTS
SOCIALIST CONVENTION

Zurich, Aug 13.-Leader of the
majority of the socialists in Germany,
Won Scheidman, is quoted today as
saying that Germany positively must
establish a parliamentary form of
g(iernment. He further demands the
resignation of Vice Chancellor Heller
ich and the concentration of authoV
ity in the Reichstag.
Paris, Aug. 13.-England, France
and Italy decided at recent confer
ence not to grant passports to dele
gates seeking to attend the Interna.
tional Socialist Peace conference at
Stockholm next month.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
CHRISTIANA SUNK BY
\ GERMAN SUBMARINE

Washington, Aug. 13.-The Ameri-
can bark Christiana has been sunk
off Azores by a German submarine.
The crew was saved.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-14
Government Buys Eaypt's Cotton.

Alexandria, Aug. 13-The govern
ment has purchased the entire 1917
output of cotton seed of Egypt.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
AMERICAN LABOR
 INDORSES ZIONISM

The Conference of the American AL lance for Labor and Democracy held at Minneapolis last week, unanimously passed the following resolution.
 The American Alliance for Labor and Democracy expresses it's unquali- fled approval of the avowa1 by Presi7 dent Wilson that one of the motives for Americas entrance into the war is to secure for the small nationalities the right to live their own lives on their own soil and to develop their own culture under free, national aus pfces.
 ''Inasmuch as among all these small nationalities. the Jews alone have no homeland of their own we urge upon the President and the international congress which will negotiate terms of peace, the legitimate claims of the Jewish people for the re-establish- ment of national Homeland in Pales- tine on a basis of self-government.' :
 This action is in Keeping with that of the British Labor Party which passed a similar resolution at its con ventfon in London several weeks ago,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
EMIGRATION OF
 SWEDES TO BE
 REDUCED SOON

Stockholm, Sept. 12-More earnest efforts are being made to prevent emil grafton from Sweden as 8 result of the publication of statistics showing that in 1916 more than 7,300 persons left this country, as compared with fewer than 4,10O in 1915. About 67 per cent. of those who, go are between fifteen and thirty years of age, and virtually all take passage for Amer ica.
 Notwithstanding the increased emil grafton last year, great number of Swedish-Am ericans who returned to Sweden have been induced to remain here, many having purchased farms, while for others places of work have been obtained through the instrument tality of the National Association Op- posed to Emigration.
 The endeavors of this organization, of which Dr. Adrian Molin is presi- dent, are warmly supported by the government. Prince Carl, brother of the sKingn, addressed the associations s ten year jubilee meeting recently. He said that during fifty years, 1,173, 900 Swedes emigrated, representing more than one-fifth of the country's pres ent population. In single decade, from 1881 to 1890 inclusive, 376,4O1 persons left the country, he said.
 pr. Molin described the associa- tons propaganda work, which in- cluded so4ae 800 addresses at public meetings in 1916, and told of the suc- cess in finding places of labor for re- turned emigrants
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
Warn Mariners To l.
 Procure New Charts

Because of the many recent changes in navigation of the Sound due to military and naval conditions nav1gators in this section are inform ed through the Department of Com merce that many new hydrograpfic maps of the Connecticut shore have been prepared for distribution among nav1gators and that cares hould be taken in using the older maps.sl
 Particular attention is called to tbe new chart No. 215-Connecticut Riv- CT, entrance to deep river-scale l. z00O 6 1-2 inches to the nautical mile) This chart and a companion chart of Duck Island to Mission Reef published in July are designated with special reference to intricate along snore navigation. Both may be he5 at nominal prices at the government ofrfce in this city. Federal building
 The principal feature of chart 21s IS the entrance to the Connectfcut River and it's approach from inc sound. The combined charts covay . stretch of coast. IS miles in leneth from Hatchett point on the East to Faikner island on the west.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
DUTCH GENERAL STAFF INTERESTED
 IN NEW ARM0R

The Hague, Netherlands, Sept. 12-
 The Dutch General Staff, as well as
 one or two foreign military attaches,
 are evincing considerable interest in
 new armor material devised by an in-
 ventor here.
 Broadly stated the principle on
 which it is based is that of distribut-
 ing the pressure of projecti1es and ex-
 plosives as rapidly as possible with the aid of a particular material specially fitted for that task. The armor con- sists of @ system of double plates
 with more or less space between them according to the nature of the projec- tiles it is intended to serve against, Such space is filled with material which is very similar to sand, but Is of extremely fine grain and at the same time extraordinarily hard. Ii
 further possesses high specific grav- ity. easily absorbs heat and has a high melting point, so that the separate grains do not change their form even at high temperatures. It is likewise in a great measure resistant to the operation of acids
 Superficial1y regarded, the device shows considerable similarity to the l existing arnor-plate system, whereby a filling of sand is introduced between two solid plates with the object of | snothering the projectile in its course and thus rendering it innocuous; but dem monstrations are said to have clear | ly shown difference. The inventor expects a great deal of his new pro- l tective armor as a defense against aerial bomb attacks, believing that it
 will prove capable of resisting the big gest projectiles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
DISAPPEARANCE
 OF EVIDENCE IS COURT MYSTERY
City Court Case Hangs Fire While Lawyer Quenches
 Thirst.

A deck of playing cards, three dol lars in bills and a five cent piece. con- fscated in a raid on a gambling house, a lawyer, who owing to the lack of crime failed to have reposing in his jeans not even a despised jitney, with which to quench a Sahara thirst, started hunt in the city courtroom yesterday which led from the po- lice building to a roofed oasis across the street and back again.
 The proprietor of a, gambling house had been convicted and fined, a fact for which the lawyer intended to col lect a fee. The legal disciple of the gin-fired, Persian philosopher Omar, Nnconsciously or otherwise picked up the evidence in the case, putting the cards in one pocket and the money in the other.
 Caring not about Unborn tomor- row" or dead yesterday so long as the moment "be sweet he traced his steps to a near cafe and with air non- chalant, leaned against the resp1end- ent mahogany bar, to quaff the amber fluid which never failed to warm the cookies of his heart.
 In his absence, however, the evil dence was missed. Efforts to find it failed and finally someone suggested the lawyer might have walked off with it. Lawyers being as susceptible to thirst as any other human being, if not more so, owing to the fact they talk so much, someone suddenly had 8 happy thought.
 The lawyer was found and he re- turned the deck of cards and money all but the jitney which provided the wherewithal to purchase the fluid which will dissipate a thirst. AfteS he collected from his client it is only fair to assume that he returned the missing link of evidence, perhaps with interest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
WHO PErRAxEEF Is.-

PetrcsEad, sept. 1a--sA M. Petray SefG, appsointed Assistant Minister for EFdreisn Affairs in July, was former. ny SDfrec6or of the Near Eastern De- spaxfment of tho Foreign office. His Efirlt dipanuatic appointment was in sTurFuex, where he made a special pstudv of politics He served some stimestn Nacedonia- He was one of .;Russ1Man representatives, at the Lon sdon CnnHesence, convoked during the fBalkam War of 1912-13. Later he iserred Cpmminsaoner in Albania Pe- itrayeff Shas written valuable treatises .on2 Balkan affairs.