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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-02-11
Alemania quiere hacer
la Daz cor los aIkan
Estan iintrigando en- esos paises haciendoles ofer-
tas seductoras, principalmente a Ruunanla
Ell p~rop6sito que p~ersiguen es quedar libres alb para dedt
carse DOR entero a la campana en- Ell frente occidental

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Habiendo hecho Alemania una paz
separada con IA Ucraina, por medio
de la cual espera que Sc le puedan en-
War grandes ~cantidades de prorlSlo-
mes V where's de las eXistenciaS que
hav en- Ia Russia meridional, ha vueI-
to sus ojos ahora hacia los Balkanes,
para yer 81 lie es possible hacer con
estos una paz separada tambien.
Una tentadora oferta ha sido hecha
a este efeeto a Rumania y en- Gre
cia nc Sc ha dejado de trafalgar por
los agSntes alemanes, cuyos complotS
V actividades han causado serias diff
cultades a los planes de los aliados
para Ia campana ofensiva que Sc pre-
para en- Ia Macedonia, a tai grade
cue han hecho que el proplo primer
Ministro de ese pals. u. Eleuterio
V~enize!os. admita que IL s~ituacion es
seria Y encarezca al gobiernc Ia
adopci6n de Te6idaS energicaS de re-
preston.
Las pruebas de los planes alema-
mes para a~rrojar a los aliadoS de!
Adriatico, a fin de quedar en- capac!-
dad de dedicar todas sus energias q
las fuerzas aliadas en- el frente occi-
dental, han sido puestas de manera
evidente en- la oferta del rey Fer
nando de Bulgaria al rey Fernando
de Rumania, cuyo teXto Sc ha recIbl-
doNya en- esta capital. En- dicha Offer
ia el rey Fernando muest-a ST. dis
posici6n para renuneiGr a. terrltorie
conguiStado en- Rumania, 10 que cons
tituve en- verdad, una oferta tan Sc
ductora que no ha dejado de desper-
tar ciertos temores respecto a Ia ma
uera como Sera recibida por Ru:n&,
MIA, especiaimente en- vista Gel hecno
de que el armisticio celebraGo con
,ese pals eSta para expirar Y e. 20
bierno rumano debe preSentar suS
+; terminus o reanudar Ia guerra.
Mientras tanto los bolsheviki nj
SOS siguen mostrando reserva y si!en-
| clio acerca de las negociacio2es Dc
paz. no obstante que los p~eri0dicoS
de Berlin d~eclaran que Trotzky acep-
tara los terminus de Aleman!a, com,
prendiendo que 81 rechazO daria lu-
! gar a 81 derrocamiento por u pro-
pics partidarios que estan deseandC
| que Sc haga la paz.
e Primer Ministro E~enizcloS. a,
dar cuenta de las condolences Cue sc
han creado en- Grecia por los com
plots alemanes, confirma Ia notlcia
del amotinamiento de fucrzas en- "a
rias regiones del pals Y anuncia la
i prorroga para Ia reunion del Par!a,
mento Y Ia expulsion de AtenaS dc
| varios lideres, anteriormente a~socia-
dos con el depuesto rey Constantine
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Sc va a investigar
la causa del reeves
%itaIiano
Ell gabinete nGmbra III COmit:
especial al que rendiran inior=
mes los generates Cador=
Nd y POrrO

ROMA, febrero l0.-Un comitc es-
pecial que ACADIA de nombrar el gabi-
nete italiano. va a empezar a practi-
car una investigation acerca de IL de-
rrota Sufrida por el ejGrcito italiano
en- Octubre del ano pasado V que ira
10 como consecuencia Ia ocupaci0n de
cast toda Ia provincial del Vcneto por
los Acknowledgements, asi como de las
circunstanciaS que contribuyeron pa
"a csc descaiabro de las fuerzas :ta-
lianas.
Este anuncio, hecho en- forma de
una nota publicada por IA Agencia
de Noticias Stefani, dice que deSpues
del nombramiento de UT comita para
Ia investigation de los acontecimien-
tos militares de fines de Octubre del
ana pasado. ell gabinete decide que ei
General Cadorna, ex-jefe del Estado
Mayor; el General Porro, sub-jefe de
dicho Estado Mayor, Y el General Ca
pello. peruaRezcan Il disposition del
Ministerio de Ia Guerra, sin ningUn
detrimento en- sus grades o autoridad,
simplemente para Ell objeto de poner-
los en- capacidad de suministrar al CO.
mite todos los detalles Y hechoS que
sean TITLES para su investigation.
FL general Gaetano Giardino, ayu=
dante en- iefe del EStado Mayor del
General Diaz, ha sido designado para
concurrir q las juntas del Supreme
Consejo de Guerra interaiiado eli Yer
sales.
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PARA CIRiR IN R%ESFRIiDn EN- ~ DIV
Tnmc pa>tillaS de LAXATIVE BRpNU
uUINlNE. Los bU'IrariuS lc dcIGlv@rTln siI
GlnrrO II 10 10 CurH7. In cada GAIA VA Ia
fimMa Gc L. ". GRONlE. 3ncs. tAdv.l
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Ell EXAMEN DE LOS TESTlGOS
DE DEFENSA.

PARIS, febrero 10.-El jurado dc
Bolo Pasha, acusado de TRACTION, es-
ia llevandose con gran rapidez y los
que han seguido el case de cerca, son
de opinion que ell proceso terminara
en- breve, mas pronto de 10 que Sc
hah!a calculado. Muchos de los teS-
tigos de Bolo no Sc encuentran en-
Francia Y Sc espera que los abogados
defensores ~empezaran a presentar sus
alegatos en- los primeros dias de la
sema2a %entrante.
E~sperabase que NJ. Joseph CaillauX
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NOTA:-Los suscriptores, al zanzibar de Residential, deoen darnos TAI
To n nueya ONO la antigua direction, a fin de poder andar ell Gamble en
nuestros ibros.
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TELEFONO, TRAVIS 24tt.

LA pRENSA es Ell per1odico meIicano de
circulation en- los Estidos Unidos,
, nor 10 tanto 81 me1or para los u
,:lantes.
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Pn,ered A second-class msttef februx,
NJ 1918. n the Post office tt San Ant0
MO, Tei., under the Act. Of March J, III
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
Government Report Shows Re-
markabIe Progress Made.
One Hundred and Ninety American
Firms Now Make Dyes
and Drugs.

Washington.-The remarkable sue
cess of the American chemists and
chemical manufacturers in developing
the dyestuffs industry, when the sup
plies of dyes from Germany were cut
off, is strikingly shown in a report
Just issued by the United States tariff
commission entitled, Census of Dyes
and Coal-Tar Chemicals, 1917"
At the outbreak of the European
war, Germany dominated the worlds
trade in dyes and drugs derived from
coal-tar. Before the war, seven Amer
lean firms manufactured dyes from
imported German materials. In 1917,
100 American concerns were engaged
in the manufacture of dyes, drugs and
other chemicals derived from coal-tar,
and of this number, 81 firms produced
coal-tar dyes from American materials
which were approximately equivalent
in total weight to the annual imports
before the wal. The total output of
the 100 firms, exclusive of those en-
gagged in the manufacture of eXplo-
sives and synthetic resins, was c
$4,000 600 pounds with a value of
about $69,000,000.
Large amounts Of the staple dyes
for which there is a great demand are
now being manufactured in the United
States. A few of the important dyes,
such as the vat dyes derived from aliz-
artn, anthracene, and carbazol, are
still not made. The needs of the wool
industry are being more satisfactorily
met than the needs of the cotton in
dustry.
The report gives in detail the names
of the manufacturers of each dye or
other product and the quantity and
value of each produced, except in
cases where the number of producers
is sc small that the operations Of in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
ALABAMA BUCK KEEPS WORD
Former Negro Preacher Evolves Per-
feet Answer to Theology
of Huns.

Paris.-"Rev." Arthur Jefferson is
his name. Before the war he used to
preach 'roun" in northern Alabama.
Now he's the Quickest buck private in
a negro regiment that has already
earned fame In the line. He evolved
the perfect answer to Prussian theol-
ogy IS minutes after he got into that
line. The Germans opposite-it was
a quiet sector-had hung out a big
sign bearing the Potsdam proclamation,
"Gott NIT uns."
Arthur Jefferson took one long look
at it. Then he disappeared into a
dugout He appeared later with the
legend, laboriously inscribed on q box:
Germans: Consign your souls to
the Lord. In bout four minutes your
bodies going to belong to Alabama"
And they did,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
POISON GAS SHIP IN
RACE WITH U-BOAT

crawled out and uncovered the subma-
rine's two guns. In another minute the
first shell came whining toward the
Torrance. 1t. too, fell away short.
Call for Help.
In the radio the operator was
pounding out the call for help, and
now came the answer that the destroy
ers were coming to aid. Down below
the whole engine force was working
madly. Suddenly a miracle happened
and the starboard engines began sup
plying power to the propeller. From
a bare seven knots the ship jumped
to ten-then eleven, twelve.
Meantime on the bridge the officers
with gas masks strapped at alert po-
sition were getting the thrill of their
whole life as the old boat picked up
speed. Sub shells now were falling
within 300 yards of the ship.
With the Terrance's new speed the
sub gained slowly, but the skipper
and officers knew it's guns would out
range their own and soon find a mark.
1t was a great race with life or death
for the goal.
Then from the edge of the world
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

inscrutable sourceu unknown to man-certainlyr not tic any newspaper man
that the world ws coming to IN end two weeks from that date. The other
woman had her doubts.
The prophetlady al sc sure of her Bible signs that she was going to
cash her bond and take her money out of the bank and pin it inside her dress
for safekeepng.
The other woman, naturally, inquired a s to the sense of taking money
into the next world especially is it IA earning interest in the bank. This
phase of the situation had its weight.
"Thats sc. There1l be $625 coming to me in January-almost enough
to pay the taxes or my lot. I guess I'll let the money be and just cash the
bond. No, 1 WON'T either. I read in the paper the other day that they IRE
going to be worth q whole lot more after the war. It's awful hard to halter
die without knowing how the war ends and see the boys con home, but W e
gotter go-an of u.s. TheeU come a rain of fire and after our bodies are
burnt to ashes some of us will be saved and the others will be weepin' and
waiin' and gnashn' of teeth"
you've got it down pretty fine haven't you? But say, Name, If we
get burnt to ashes what will we do for lungs % weep and wall with, and teeth
to do or gnashngY'
Foolish? OF course But, if you hear a couple of women pattering along
like that isn't it the most natural thing in the world to tab them down,
when yu cal com across nothing better?
And If so be the proper study of mankind is man is there any law
against counting in woman?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

him to develop the proper mental attitude toward his disability, his future
dereHct"
The reconstruction work at Walter Reed hospital, which has assumed
such national importance, and which is becoming a demonstration and training
school for other hospitals, began in a small way, with q few instructors and
a limited number of returned soldiers.
There are at present under construction four large shop bundngs-one
for lathes and heavy machine work, another for electrical work, including
teegraphy and radio; another for woodwork, including cabinet making and
carpentry, and the other for printing, photography and classes in drafting
There is also a two-stwy school building near completion, which will be used
for academic subjects. More than 700 men are at present pursuing courses
in 80 different lines of activity.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
CHARGES DEATH TO SAVE MEN
American Staff Officer Falls MORALLY
Wounded in Gallant Action in
Lorraine.

With the American Army in Lor-
raine.-The fighting on the new Amer
lean front in Lorraine was featured by
the gallant action of an American
staff officer.
When the officer saw there was
danger of part of his advancing forces
being outlanked by German machine
gunners he personally led his men In a
charge against the guns.
He captured one gun himself and
his men took the others. The officer
was wounded, probably MORALLY.
The officers troops belonged to the
division operating on the eastern wing
of the American offensive sector. They
had taken the village of Norroy and
were pressing onward in the face of
opposition from machine gun nests.
The irregular advance suddenly ak.
posed one unit tc a fanking fire aud
the officer forgot that he as a staff
officer was supposed to stay away from
the fighting and rusned in.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
TEUTON SHELLS ARE BAD

teriorating. There had been day after
day of rain during the retreat, and 1t
was believed possible that in the with
drawal the Germans had not been able
to take the usual precautions against
dampness, the result being hat many
projectiles from some of the big guns
failed to do anything more than strike
the earth with a thud.
One officer suggested that possibly
the Germans had been firing old shells
rather than no shells at all, the Off
GERS realizing that only a few of them
were exploding, but preferrlng to keep
the big guns pounding away merely in
an effort to keep up the morale of the
men putting up the rear-guard fight.
The average number of faulty shells
is generally from 2 to 8 per cent.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
Destroyers Appear as Shell Falls
but Ten Feet off
Stern.
HAS HUGE CARGO OF DEATH
Freighter Develops Engine Trouble
, and Falls Behind convoy-sub-
marine Bobs Up and Begins
Hurting Shells.
BY FRAZIER HUNT
On the Chicago Tribune.)


An American Naval Base in France.
$50 had just finished narrating how
close they had come to getting a sub
marine on the last trip when they had
brought in a big convoy of troopers.
"Some boat she is" he remarked
offhand. "We did seven thousand
knots last month and in three sub
fights. Say, what was those funny
steel drums you had piled on the deck
Of your old cargo ship when you come
In yesterday"
A lad from the Atlantic freight ferry
boat turned to the destroyer COB.
"Those steel drums you asked about
didn't have nothing at all in them ex-
cept about a million gallons Of the
most dangerous poison gas ever made.
Can you imagine what would happen
If a torpedo or even a shell had hit
n of those tanks?"
This ship, which we shall call the
Torrance, left New York as part of a
convoy of 10 stores ships.
Cargo of Death.
On this trip 1t was carrying several
thousand steel drums Of poison gas
that the army needed badly. 1t was
a dangerous cargo. Amy explosion on
board would tear open these drums Of
concentrated gas and in ten seconds
choke the crew to death. The only
hope would be to use respirators, so
a hundred gas masks were borrowed
from the army and the executive off,
Ger of the ship called all hands for in
structions three times q day.
The first ten days of the trip were
%uneventful. Then the T~errance's en-
gines began acting badly. 1t could not
make the required ten knots and slow
ly it fell behind. There were not suffi-
cient conveying destroyers to have one
remain behind, so al that stood be-
tween the Terrance's drums of death
and a German submarine was the fore
and aft guns.
Finally, at six o'clock one evening,
the gas mask drill just had ended
when the lookout in the crows nest
shouted down that a submarine was
coming to the surface on the port side,
some 5000 yards astern. And here was
the Torrance with crippled engines
hobbling along six or seven knots an
hour, with the convoy 20 miles ahead.
"Open fire with the stern gun. Call
general quarters. Send S. o. S. to the
convoy. Send word to the chief en-
gineer," were four orders the skipper
on the bridge gave first.
Through his binoculars he could see
the submarine coming to the surface.
Even now the Terrance's stern gun
was peppering away shots, but falling
short of the mark by 1900 yards.
In half a minute more the subma-
rine's coming tower opened and men
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
From so to 70 Per Cent Fail to
Explode.
During Marine Retreat the Germans
Used Old Stuff to Keep Up
Morale.

With the American Army in France.
American artillery officers estimated
recently that at certain stages of the
German retreat north of the Marine
from 30 to 20 per cent of the shells
AIRED by the enemy failed to explode.
One night, after the Germans crossed
the Vesle the enemy fired y shells
of large caliber into a wooded tract
where American troops were supposed
to be quartered and artillery experts
of one Of the divisions engaged re-
ported that only four of these shells
had exploded.
None of the American officers sug-
gested that the German shells were de-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

coon cat, so called, is a hybrid, an accident. The longhaired cat is
liable to skip for a generation or two and then com back with qualities
superior to those If its forebears. A white Angora with orange eyes is a
valuable animal, worth as much as 500 IN som places A COON n Angora
male, with tiger stripes of black and gray, will bring $25 to $50.
"f you see a cat with odd eyes-that is, with one eye red o orange and
the other blue-you "a be sure it is deaf. Yet it will catch a many mice
as any other.
"The average life of a cat is about ten years, although I have some four
teen and fifteen years old. 1 feed my cats on fresh fish when 1 cal get it 1t
Is not as heavy is meat and the cat Is not so liable to disease. Milk is very
good, but cats prefer fish to anything else, except beef. If you feed a cat
on beef one it will want it ever aftGward.
"Nany cats have the habit of licking the hair OF their breasts with their
tongues. They get little mats of hair in their stomachs and unless they get
rid of it it will finally cause death"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

came the smoke of destroyers shoot
ing ahead like flaming arrows. Thirty
knots and more they were making. In
another minute they could trace their
outline. But the sub was nearing, too.
One shell broke less than thirty yards
away.
Seconds seemed like hours, but each
brought the rescuing destroyers lear
er. They were heading straight for
the sub, and no sub cares for that.
There was one more shot, then the
gunners ran to the coming tower and
climbed inside. Two minutes later
she submerged. Their last shot hit
within ten feet of The Terrance's stern.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

0HIps Willis II sWIIIVI ItCOIU, Ile III
plane a greater altitude, as man, gen.
orally, demands a higher development
than his forbears ever dreamed of.
We will always want to know more
and more and more. Self-satisfied at
tainment means rust, and rust means
failure. And we know no such word
as fail. But it isn't a good idea to
know more than our share.
For one case, a woman in a a
was providing thrills for the woman
next. She had learned through some
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
KAISER IN SLEEP
Ohio Man Dreams He's Fighting Ger
mans and Shoots Self In
Shoulder.

Toledo, O.-John Brooks, while
dreaming he was fighting the Germans
and had the kaiser chasing upstairs
in the palace at Wilhelmstrasse, drew
a revolver from beneath his pillow and
fired at the fleeing Hun. Doctors
called to take are of Brooks said that
the bullet had passed through his
shoulder. but that he would o
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

mems FOR his laboratory, he had just taken what he thought he would require.
When the clerks attempted tt hinder his exit, Kipord drew a revolver
and started to run. The clasp O the suitcase became unfasened and
$4,000 dropped in the corridor Of the bank. KIpford a down Barclay
to Greenwich, where he was stopped by Traffic Policeman James
Smith, who placed him under arrest
AT the police station Kipford said he had stopped at the bank earlier in
the day to change a So bill, and seeing the money in the teners cage went
ut and bought a small suitcase and returned for som cash. He declared New
York a 10 town to be in without money.
He said he had n o registration card and never had heard of the draft
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
DYE INDUSTRY GROWING

dividual firms would be disclosed.
Seventeen hundred and thirty-three
chemists OF engineers were engaged
in research and chemical control of
this new industry, or So per cent Of
the total of 1868 employees. The
report also contains an interesting ac-
count Of the history and development
of the industry since the outbreak Of
the European war.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12
NEW ZEALANDERS EAT
PRISONERS, HUNS TOLD

London.-New Zealand troops
always eat their prisoners. Such
is the latest output of the Ger
man behind-the-lines propa-
ganda which recently armed the
Americans with tomahawks and
shotguns.
First the New Zealanders
give you cigarettes, then you fig
ure in their menu" officers had
informed a bunch of Huns re-
Gently captured. They refused
the cigarettes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

n bTVuI HHuHJ ptIsUHS HuVV UH-
consciously tried to spoil these men by
misdirected sympathy" said Major
Baldwin. "That is why there are GER
tain restrictions in regard to visitors
at the hospital
"The patient is not a child, neither
is he a sick man, but. a new type of
man that has met with a physical dis
ability, with the accompanying mental
shocks. He must be returned to society
as a normal member.
"The important problem is to help
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

anu WOmen VINO derive profit by breed
ing them. The ~progenitors of these
feline aristocrats were brought to
Maine many years ago by shipmasters
trading up the Mediterranean, from
Persian and African ports. Some
highly successful breeders Of Angora
cats live in Penobscot bay towns, and
they ship cats ali over America.
"The Angora," said one Of these
breeders, sis larger than the ordinary
cat, or at least looks large because Of
the greater thickness of the fur. The
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-10-12

were employees Of the contractor who is tunneEng the lew subway tube in
the vicinity of North Seventh street. The men employed there work in a
cafsson under high air pressure. OMauey n Peransky, BOTH registered for
the draft and neither returned to work that day.
They entered the air chamber in the same cage the other day, and q
glance at him convinced OMaleys gangmates that 1t would be just as well
not to crossh him. Peransky, however, was in that state of exuberant Amer
icanism which made him careless of who listened when he spoke up.
In any event. after they had been in the air chamber less than 20 minutes
somebody behind, but within eayhot Of OManey, gave uterance to the
opinion that there was a nan among them who had neglected to register
for the draft because of ant[Brtish pretudices of long standing. OManey
turned and saw Peransky standing grnning at the Jester and the jest
They had been fighting furiously for 20 minutes when Policeman Dalton
summoned by a foreman oil the earths surface who had received a distress
signal from the earths interior, arrived and stopped the fighting with a few
floor Of the air chamber, while their companions stood about terrified, in
fear apparently that the fighters would do some damage to the walls of the
air chamber and be the death of all hands.
Dalton explained aftTward that the two men had reached that point of
fighting exhaustion where the task If separating them was not ne to draw
heavily IN the resources of a trained policeman.
Mr.. OManey is undecided about returning to subway work. He says
that, after a holiday especially, the high air pressure is apt to go % his head
and make him insensble to logic and logical consequences.