Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-10-21
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4 Denmark, according to news agency
Kilograms to the Dutch press, has
iSent note to Germany suggesting
THAT certain terms of the treaties ex-
tecuted between the two countries in
the period from 1860 to. 1870 should
I be carried out. The Vadterland
] points out that Article V of the treaty
] OF 1864, which coded the dukedoms of
ISchleswig- Holstein and Lauenburg to
Prussia. provided for pleb!scite in
sGhleswig to decide whether he in
ihaoitants would prefer allegiance to
Germany or to Denmark. This provis-
! SIGN, it is declared, never has been
carried out
The German consul at Bilbao, Spain,
has handed over to the Spanish au-
thorities the German steamer Eurip-
| hia. The Spanish dolores have been
hoisted on the vessel. The transfer Of
q German steamer to Spain by the
German Consul at Bilbao probably IL
in keeping with the recent agreement
by which Spain is to get German
ships interned in Spain in exchange
for Spanish ships sunk by German
submarines. The steamer Maria, which
had been requisiticned by the Span
ish Government, has been torpedoed
by a German submarine, the Epoca
says. The steamer was used in trans
porting phosphates to Spain.
The abdication Of Emperor William
and the Crown Prince is the only
means of solving the Terrible crisis"
according to opinions expressed by
the Munich Post, the Swaebische
Tagwacht and Frankische Morgen
Post, dispatch from Zurich says. 1t
is added that the more rapidly the alb
dicaticn is brought about the better
for the country.
Last week the Rev. J. Wynee Jones,
who lived in Highlantitown, Md,
prayed in sort Of Billy Sunday way:
"Lord, if these fellows here in town
close up all the churches on Sunday
/ hope l will not live to see the day
when Thy place is shut!" Forty-fve
minutes later Dr.. Jones lay dead-a
victim of heart failure Or. Jones
was pastor in Baltimore for more
than 40 years. IN that time he built
up one o. the largest acquaintance
any pastor has crci' built up in Ba!.i
more. He founded the old Abbott
Memorial Presbyterian Church. Dr..
jones locked like President McKin-
ley. He had the same nose, the
same square mouth, the same round
cd, forcefu head.
The Germans are leyacuating Ant
werp, the London Daily Express
learns from its Belgian frontier cor
respondent. Antwerp's warehouses
are being stripped. Thirty-fvc sub
marines are being shipped overland
from the Flanders coast to kiel or
Wilhelmshaven. Airplanes are being
sent to Du"sseldorff Gin the Rhine
province.) IL correspondent says
The Who'll c Flande.r coast from OS-
tend to the Dutch bl'der is being
shcllcd and resembles wall of
flames. The Germans are blowing
up the famous Solvay poison gas fac
tory and enormous quantities Of am
munition which they are forced to
leave behind.
Count karolyi, addressing the
lower house Of the Hungarian parlia-
mcnt, denounced the dual monarchy's
foreign policy, which ne said, started
the world war by the dispatch OF the
ultimatum to Serbia. He declared
he had learned from Dr.. Wilhelm
Muchlcn, former director of the krupp
works, that Austrian diplomacy had
! dcliberatcd on the text of the utimat-
nm IN the presence Of the German
emperor. who asserted he would
'show the whole world he was no
pupnet and would strike terror into
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