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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
PAN GERMANS IN
The SADDLE NOW
in HUN AFFAIRS
Downfall of Won Kuehlmann
Due to Their Efforts.
Chancellor Hertling May Be
Forced Out, Too.
is A STRONG ANNExATI0NIST
Less Dangerous to Allies Than
Crafty KuehimanN.
Helped Huerta in Mexico in
Trouble With q. s.
Hertling May Be
Forced Out, Too.
IS A STRONG ANNExATIONIST

Zurich, July 1O.-Commenting on
Foreign Minister Kuehlmann's resig-
nation, German newspapers imply tnat
the ministerial crisis is not confined to
the ministry of foreign affairs They
declare it is inconceivable that Cham
celIor Hertling will remain If Ad-
niral Hintze is appointed foreign
minister.
London, July 1e-Resignatitn of
Foreign Minister Kuehlmann, If final
W confirmed, is interpreted as pam
German victory.
This view is strengthened by the
report that Admiral Won Hintze VIII
succeed Kuehlmann, as he not only is
close to the kaiser. but is friend and
supporter of Admiral Won Tirpitz and
Admiral Schroeder, leaders of the Bel
gian annexationists.
Less Dangerous to Allies.
However, it is considered here that
a pan-Gc: I foreign minister S not
SO dangerous to tn, allies as one or
the Kuehlmann type, who masked
Germany's plals of conquest under
continual tricky peace offensfves, CIV
ing allied pacifists debating material.
London newspapers devote consid-
cradle space to tie .scussion OF Won
HintZe's history. He is generally
characterized as the most notorious
master of intrigue in the German Dip
lOmat1C service.
Helped General Huerta.
Won Hintzes activities in China -irst
brought him international notoriety.
His behavior there was so scandalous
that he was recalled and sent to Mex
leo. He was German minister in the
latter country during Huerta's regime.
He was implicated in the plot [" fur
nish Huerta with German arms during
the United States embargo.
When the war broke out, Won Hintze
returned to Germany, disguised as an
Englishman. travelling thru the United
States. England and Holland. He was
sent to China as minister again in
1915, travelling thru the United States
once more.
Plotted Amer Atrocities.
After China broke off diplomatic
relations with Germany, Won Hintze
was sent to Christiania, where he was
involved in last summers plot in Nor
way to smuggle bombs to America for
the purpose of blowing up allied mer.
chantmen.
Resignation Confirmed.
Copenhagen, July Resignation
of Foreign Minister Kuehlmann has
been accepted by the kaiser, accord
ing to an official announcement from
Berlin received here today.
Other dispatches stated that Ad-
miral Won Hintze, German minister to
Denmark. probably would succeed
Kuehlmann.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
DEMANDS TROOPS
Austria VIII Not Accept Won
Below Without Them.
Germany Has Refused To Send
Divisions to Austria.

Rome. July 10.-Austria has de-
clined to accept the German general,
QUO Won Below. as commander-in-
chief of the forces on the Italian front
because Germany refused to send
twelve German divisions with him,
according TO the newspaper Epoca,
which bases the statement on adyices
from a Swiss source
Austria, it adds, has temporarily
given up the idea of revenging herself
for her recent defeat by Italy.
Dispatches from Rome thru Paris
on July : reported that Germany in
tended sending three army corps to
the aid of Austria to be put under
Gen. Otto Won Below as commander
in-chief on the Italian front Reports
from Zurich several days earlier de-
clared that General Won Below had
been appointed commander-in-chief
but there has bee4 no official con-
firmation that such a change in COM
mand had been effected or was con-
templated.
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but was unable to verify-a plot to
kill Mirbach and then send terrorists
into Germany to kill the kaiser,
Ludendorff and Hindenburg and
Kuehimdnn.
This plot appeared so improbable ut
the time 1 first learned of it that it
seemed but the widest of dreams
and does yet. But Mirbach has been
killed.
Closely identified with this plot are
said to have been NJ. Kamkoff, NJ.
Karelin, M Steinberg and Mme.s Spiri-
donva, all leaders of the Social Revo-
1utionists.
Kamkoff, in a recent conversation
to quit his agitation against Premier
Lenine.
I'VE are prepared to finish you be-
fore you ouch us" Kamkoff as
quoted as replying.
Members of the Left inside the gov
ernment have learned of a definite
alliance between the Bolsheviki and
Germany against International opposi-
ton and the entente. The defense of
the Bolsheviki by German newspapers
in connection with sMirbach's murder.
tends to prove such an alliance.
A concrete union of both the Right
ers and the Letters with the Menshe-
Wiki against the Bolsheviki is now to
be expected.
Kerensky's visit to County Isvolsky
in Paris has excited a stirring attack
on the former premier in Russian
newspapers. They demand to know in
whose name Kerensky is acting
abroad Kerensky is not taken seri-
ously in Russia and is discredited in
all political camps.
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SUBS HERE AGAIN
American Liner Attacked OF
Cape Henry Monday.
Believe U-BOat Had Advance
Information About Vessel.

New York, July 10.-German sub
marine activities have been resumed
off the United States coast.
An American liner from Chile, ar
irving here today with eighty-five pas
sengers and a cargo of $500 tons of
nitrate for munitions, was attacked by
a U-boat off Cape Henry. Monday
night. Two torpedoes were fired with
out warning but both missed by a mar
row margin.
Believe U-Boat aid in Wait.
The attack took place about SO
miles off the coast. Passengers be
the liners coming with its valuable
cargo and lay in wait for it. The first
torpedo swished down the side of the
steamer. Benito Alvarez of Buffalo,
N. z, was one of those who saw il.
Immediately thereafter an alarm
was given on the ship and passengers
were hurrying to the deck when, lie o
than a minute later a second torpedo
passed so close to the stern hat IL
, barely cleared the propeller. The SUBJ
marine, however. was not seen.
Thru the remainder of the night the
liner followed A zigzag course.
Early yesterday morning wireless
warnings were received by the cap
tain which caused him to alter his
course several times.
The liner was not camouf1aged and
was not armed, as it left American
waters on its southwark trip before ths
first submarine raid on this coast
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FOUGHT WITH REDS
Former German Prisoners Sid.
ed With BOISheviki.
Took Part in Battle With
CZechO-SlOvaks.

Washington, July 10.-The first
definite news of an armed body of
German and Hungarian prisoners in
Siberia was contained in a report re-
,ceived today at the state department
from the United States consul at
Vladivostok telling of the capture by
Czecho-S1ovak forces of six hundred
prisoners and the town of Nikolsk,
about eighty miles northwest of vladi-
yostok.
Red-Hun Forces Retreated.
The Czecho- -Slovaks lost forty killed
and zoo wounded. They were op-
posed by a large force of Bolsheviki
red guards and armed German ana
Hungarian prisoners. The defeated
red guards and prisoners took ar
mored trains and retreated toward
Haborzsk on the Amur river, filling
eight trains They took all the roll
ing stock at Nikolsk, and did some
damage to the roadbed. The popula-
tion of Nikolsk was reported very
friendly to the Czecho-Slovaks and
aided in repairing the road.
The prisoners taken are being held
and examined in an effort to learn
where they got their arms.
The consul reported that the Bolshe-
Wiki hanged several members of the
Nikolsk city administration and Z
nu ber of railway employees.
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STOOD KAISER
WITH A BOTTLE OF
COLOGNE IN HANDS

London, July 10.-A strange new
kind of Jas used by the Germans has
been identified as being contained in
the fumes of beech leaf tobacco.
without our tobacco" wrote a
German soldier recently to a member
of the reichstag, I'VE would not have
succeeded"
In connection with the tobacco
gas" Earl Rosner, the kaiser's star"
press agent, presents this edifying
picture of his imperial master at the
front:
There, upon a hill top in the rear
stood he, calm and heroic, a bottle of
Eau de Cologne in each hand. Far
away in the trenches, his brave SOL
diers were ramming beech loaves into
long stemmed pipes. Draw deep, me
boys (mein jungens),' said the kaiser.
burying his face in a handful of
camphor balls.
"Blow hard, in honor of the
f-therland! The British front is
coughing and cursing. That's the
stuff to give them" (great laughter
from the surrounding staff)-
The allies have efficacious counter
ants,
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ing the V1adivostok correspondent of
the Asahi, the new government in
tends to summon a constituent assem-
bly, and to restore law and order thru
out the country.
The program of the new govern
ment includes the liberation of Siberia
from the Bolsheviki; the avoidance, if
possible, of foreign interventions; uni
versal suffrage; esta ablishment of pro-
vincial council and a labor bureau;
distribution of the land among the
landless and control of economic ac-
tivities
Siberia will thus. adde's the cores
pondent become the first democratic
state in the history of Russia.
The flag adopted by the new gov
ernment consists of two stripes of
white and green.
London, July 10.-Czecho-S -Slovak
troops now operating in Russia iesire
to fight on the western front and do
not want to be mixed up in Russian
internal affairs. A memorandum to
this effect has been presented =, the
japanese foreign minister and the al
lea ambassad dors in Toxic by -oIonel
Vladimir Hurban on behalf of the
Czecho-Slovak national council, says
the correspondent of the Times at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC
Secretary Baker and British General
VIII Resume Plans.

Washington, July 10.-Secretary OF
War Baker is shortly to resume dis
cuss1on with General Brancker. avia-
ton expert of the British war mission
Oh the proposal to fly army ai-pianes
across the Atlantic Thus far Secre-
tary Baker has not officially indorsed
the project, and has simply referred
to it as a subject for daring specula-
ton.
Captain tort of the British army,
as aide to General Brancker, has al.
ready drawn up detailed plans for the
first flight which. would be either from
Newfoundland to a point On the Irish
coast, the shortest route suggested or
from Newfoundland to the Azores, Of
fering the best air currents.
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from leading member of the house:
If these suggestions were to be car
ried out in their entirety without
amendment, the American people
would readjust their habits of living
on basis of economy never before
are intended to bring home to the
people that this war is a menacing
thing that may take our bottom dol
lar. Without a doubt congress will
be deluged with prote sts.
Congress VIII Be Fair.
But everybody should remember
that the department submitted sug-
gestions merely and that congress will
regard them merely as a basis for dis
cussion. The bill must raise billion
dollars and that will require us to go
into many new fields of taxation. But
congress as whole will be opposed
to hitting any taxpayer harder than
ne can bear. The country should real
lze and must realize that everybody
viii have to bear the burden"
Favor Liquor Tax.
The proposal for doubling the
liquor, beer and tobacco taxes met
with general approval as did that for
putting a 20 per cent tax on the price
OF new automobiles. The suggestion
that a se-power tax be levied on
all automobiles already purchased,
however. was much opposed
Oppose Movie Tax.
Suggestions that admittance to moy-
les be doubled while a per cent
rental tax be collected from producers
was received with disfavor as tending
to raise the price of "the peoples
amusement too high. Congress de-
sires the people should be allowed
amusement cheaply and freely, so that
their morale may be kept up.
Object to Tax on Leased Wires.
In this connection also strong ad-
verse comment was made on the sus-
gestion for 10 per cent tax on all
leased telegraph wires. Many mem
bers declared anything tending to linn
it or hamper the fullest dissemination
of news about the war and the gov
ernment's activities will have a bad
effect upon the nations morale, will
interfere with liberty loan campaigns
and prove generally of more harm
than good. This tax they pointed out
would hit many newspapers, particu-
larly the smaller ones whose readers
are in less densely settled districts OF
wire service upon which they depend
(Contiuued Oh Page Two.b
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TAX IS ONLY WAY
Hoover Says Price Fixing Can
not Stop Profiteering.
Merely Keeps Down Prices and
Aids Distribution.

Washington, July 10.-Govern-
mental price fixing will never elimi-
nate profiteering, Food Administrator
Hoover declared today in a letter to
Senator Simmons, chairman of the
senate finance committee. Hoover
urged heavy profits taxes as the only
rceans of returning to the public
money taken from them by profiteers
He declared, however, that the price
fixing policy will be continued be-
cause of the shortages now existing IN
narIy every commodity.
Hoover'S letter was written at Sim
monss request to give the senate in
formation as to the probable effect
of government price fixing on pro-
posed war tax legislation.
Many members feared price fixing
had in many instances so reduced
profits that incre ses in war profits
or profits taxes would be Impossible
without injuring business.
Hoover's letter disposed of this the
ory in the view of Senator Simmons.
Hoover declared, for instance, that II
the price of sugar had not virtually
been fixed by the food administration
, thru agreements between producers
and refiners, sugar would be retailing
at 20 cents a pound. This. he said,
would have added $500. 100000 a
year to the country's sugar bill.
| Taxation Only Profits Remedy.
But even with the price fixing,
Hoover said. beet sugar producers will
profit heavily, some making as high
as 100 per cent. The only way the
governmen can reach these profits.
| Hoover pointed out, Is thru taxation.
Extra profits out of war are hate
full" writes Hoover. That any man
would take a profit in greater meas
ure because the goods he produces are
I needed for war or because of the
scarcity created by war. is abhorrent
| to all decent people and rightly so.
| when the youth CT the nation are being
\ called upon to sacrifice all they have
THE government is endeavor!ng to
reduce profiteering thru regulation
and trade agreem, -ts and without a
great measure of success. There are
| however, certain economic necessities
! which must dominate war reguiati Jn
| of industry and which in themselves
| { mot eliminate profiteering and
which in my view can only be accom-
| plished il reinforced by war profits
Public r" mid Get Benefit
MY view is that broad regulatory
restraints which are now in force are
| essential in commodity handling in
/ the face of shortage. I am equally
| convinced that a large percentage ot
extra normal srofits earned ont OF
| war conditions whether by more for
| tunately situated memb 1rs of regu.
| lated trades. or otherwise should be
appropriated to the public treasury
| thru taxation
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DISCIPLINE SHAKE
German General Issues Warn.
ing to Officers.
Saws Cases of Refusal To Obey
Orders Increase.

With the British Armies in France,
JULY 10-"Discipline, which is the
keystone if our army. is seriously
shaken"
General Won Der MarwitZ, com
mander of the German second army
which holds the lines astride the
Somme, east of Amiens. thus begins
his most recent order of the day, in
sisting that full punishment be dealt
out to unruly spirits.
'I cannot permit commanders to
take upon themselves to shield Off
GERS, under officers or men guilty of
breaches of discipline and military
regulations, or inflict upon them dis
cfplinary penalties of too mild a ma
ture."
A few days before this Won Der Mar
witz issued another order, which be-
gan this way:
Gases of soldiers openly refusing
to obey orders are increasing to an
alarming extent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
WRECKAGE OF HUN SHIP
Materials Picked Up on Jersey Shore
Indicate U-Boat Disaster.

New York, July 1o.-Wreckagc
from a German raider. believed by
some to have come from the mother
ship" of the U-boats. which recently
harassed shipping near here. was
washed ashore at Far Rockaway Point
near Tilden and today is in the hands
OF army officers. Six bombs and some
rockets were included in the wreck
age, which led to the belief that the
raider or mother ship had been
sunk. The bombs bore instructions
for use printed in German. They are
six inches long and four inches IN
diameter and timed to explode twenty
five seconds after being thrown "as
far as DOSsjb1e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
REDS AID BRITISH
English and BOlsheyik Soldiers
Fight Huns and Firms.
Pefend Allied Supplies Stored
on Murmansk Coast.

London, July 10.-Russian news
papers received today published de-
tails of allied activities on the Muir
mansk coast.
According to the newspapers, a de-
tachment of British marines and light
infantry landed at Murmansk, where
two British and one French warship
and several British trawlers are
anchored. The landing party, oper-
ating with an armored train, Is sup
porting the Red guards against the
Finnish and the Germans.
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Will Seek To Overthrow Power
of the BOlSheyiki.
Intends To Summon q COnStit-
uent Assembly.
To FIGHT THE CENTRAL POWERS
Czecho-S1Oyaks Want To Fight
ON Western Front.
Refuse To Continue Their Cam
paign in Russia.

London, July 1e.-A new provi-
sional government for Siberia which
has the unanimous support of the
population and which will continue to
fight the central powers, has been es-
tablished at Vladivostok. According
to a Times dispatch from Toxic quot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
Kansas Commission Attorney
Urges Relief in Federal Court.
Plea That Judge Issue Restrain
ing Order on Increase.
MANY REPRESENTATIVESTHE
Governor Capper, Mayor House
and City Attorney of Topeka.
Officials in Lineup Against Dis
tributOrS' New Rate.

Kansas City, Mo, July 10.-Fred S.
Jackson, attorney for the Kansas pub
lie utilities commission, today appear
ed before the meeting of officials from
cities affected by the proposed so
cent gas rate increase, and urged an
immediate appeal to Judge Booth of
the federal court in st. Paul.
''As Judge Booth refused to order
an increase it appears to me the most
effective action the cities could take
would be an appeal to him to issue a
restraining order to prevent the new
rate from being put into effect jack
son declared.
Judge Booth established the So
cent rate, and by so doing retained
J jurisdiction in the matter and reserved
the right to pass on future rates
Among the representatives from
cities affected today were:
Judge ]. D. Lindsey. attorney for
Missouri public service commissions;
Charles Faust, city attorney at St.
Joseph; George L. Kreck, mayor of
Lawrence; W. G. Thiele, city attor-
ney of Lawrence: W. W. Cleland, utili-
ties commissioner of Lawrence; Rob-
ert =. Foulston, city attorney of Wich-
ita; w. P. Dillard, city attorS.y of
Fort Scott, and o. w. Pingrey. city at
torney of Pittsburg; Mayor House and
City Attorney Hayden of Topeka.
Doherty Opposes It.
Henry L. Doherty head of the Cities
Service company, a gas distributing
organization, vigorously opposed. in a
telegram received here today, the 80
cent gas rate and 50-cent monthly
service charge announced recently by
the Kansas City Gas company.
Governor Capper is in Kansas City
today attending the gas rate confer
ence. He will participate in the dis
cussion of the proposed rate increase
at the hands of the distributing COM
panies.
Representative OF a number of
Kansas and Missouri cities. as well as
representatives of the public utilities
commissions of the two states. are at
tending the conference. It is probable
that as a result of today's meeting,
plans will be laid for court action
which will seek to block enforcement
of the new rate order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
RULE OUT DRY LAW
Prohibition Provision Declared
Not Germane to Bill.
Decision Is Sustained; viii
Knock Out Drys for Present.

Washington. July 10.-The war time
prohibition amendment to the emer-
gency food production bill, Senator
salisbury, of Delaware, president pro
tempore of the senate, ruled today is
not germane. and should be stricken
from the bill as an attempt to pro-
vide general legislation on appropria-
ton measure.
Senator Jones. of Washington, a
prohibition advocate, appealed from
the decision. e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-10
u. S. AVIATOR ESCAPES
Had Been Captured by Huns While
Serving With French Flyers.

Buckley, Z, Kilburn, Ill, an aviator in
the French service. who was captured
by the Germans at Verdun. has es-
capped from Germany. According to a
dispatch from Zurich to LIE Journal
he reached Switzerland. Tuesday morn
ing.
When Corporal Buckley. who was a
member of the Lafayette flying corps.
first disappeared last September, it
was reported he had been killed
i'aris friend: denied this. and in No
vember it was ascertained that Buck
ley was n prisoner in Germany after
having been wounded.
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BILL HAS THE GRIPPE
Kaiser Leaves French Front for Home
on Account of Influenza.

Rome. July 1o.-Emparor William
has fallen a victim to the influenza
that has been so prevalent in the Ger
man army, according to advices from
a Swiss source that have ref ehed the
Epoca. These declare that the en-
peror has gone home from the French
front because of the attack of Span
ish grippe as it is called and that
several members of the emperor's
family also are suffering from the
same malady-
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TODAY IN THE GREAT WAR

July 10, 1917.
Russia reports capture of Halicz
by Russians. Chancellor Won Beth
mann Hollweg rejects Socialist pro-
gram of peace without annexations
or indemnities.
July 10. 1916.
French capture Hill 81. a mile
from Perrone. Crown Prince con-
tinues to pound at Verdun de-
fenSeS.
July 10, 1915.
Austro-Germans prepare for
frontal attack on Warsaw. Ger
mans are moving great masses for
offensive on western front.
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54CIRLS
Dropped More Than so Bombs
on Ambulance Station.
Outrage Occurred in Belgium
Just Behind Allied Lines.

girl workers were killed when German
airmen made an afternoon raid on an
ambulance station at La Panne, Bel
GUM, according to a dispatch from
Flushing today. More than fifty
bombs were dropped.
La Panne is on the North sea coast
about seven miles back of the allied
lines.
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Down IS Hun Planes in Day.

London, July 10.-British air men
brought down thirteen German planes
July and lost four of their own, the
air ministry announced today. More
than 19 tons of bombs were dropped
on enemy targets.
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Tax Proposals Intended To
Bring War Home to People.
Department Schedule Will Be
Revised by Congress.
BURDEN WILL Be EQUAL|zED
Movie, Leased Wire and Auto
Horsepower Taxes Opposed.
Liquor, Tobacco, Food and Ser
want Taxes Favored.

Washington, July 1o.-Treasury de-
partment proposals for war taxes that
would put the entire nation on basis
of most rigid war economy were be-
fore congress today.
Hasty analysis of the departments IS
suggestions brought this statement