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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-06-07

He was very shiny with soap and
water and his hair was still damp
from parting. In his tailless black
jacket, his long gray trousers, and his
round Elton collar, he looked like
very anxious little schoolbOy, and not
royal at all.
Greetings over. and having re-
quested that his tea be half milk. with
four Jumps of sugar, he carried his
cup over beside Hedwig, and sat down
on a chair. Followed d short silence,
with the archduchess busy with the
tea things, olga Loschek watching
Karl, and Karl intently surveying the
crown prince. Ferdinand William
Otto, who disliked a silence. broke 1t
first.
Eve just taken off my winter fan
nels," he observed. 81 feel very
smooth and nice underneath"
Hilda giggled, but Hedwig reached
over and stroked his arm. "Of course
you do" she said gently.
Milky" continued Prince William
Otto, stirring his tea, docs not wear
any fannels. Miss Braithwaite thinks
he is very careless"
King Karl's eyes cleaned with
amusement. He saw the infuriated
face of the archduchess, and bent
toward the crown prince with earnest
ness
''As q matter Of fact" he said,
"since you have mentioned the Sub
ject, / do not wear any either. Your
Milky and I seem most surprisingly
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-06-07

And what then?'' he Easped. ''He
was but a boy. Perhaps you mis-
judged him. Boys are reckless"
i caught him." said the concierge.
have said it. He knew much. He
had names, places, even dates. For
mat matter, he confessed"
Then he is deadT quavered old
Adelbert.
The concierge shrugged his shout
uers. "Of course" he said briefly.
Fos a time he was kept here. in an
upper room. He could have saved
himself, If he would. We could have
used him. But he turned sulky, re-
Used speech, did not eat. When he
"a'i taken away" be added with unc-
ca1a' "he was so weak that hs could
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-06-07
THROUGH ADELBERT THE COMMITTEE OF TEN LEARNS
THE SECRET PASSAGE

synopssPrince Ferdinand Otto to the throne of
Lvona is unaware OF plots of the
grandfather the king order
the marriage of Princess Hedw
Hedwig rebels because
Captain Milky Larisch Prince OOs
Lochek, attached the
with the king of Kania spy She
threatened by the committee errors
the committees win helps
when the king who ILL., dies. Milky
loyalty
would
the kidnapping prince.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-06-07

Countess Loschek sees a
chance for revenge. The next
InstaIlment gives the exciting
details.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-06-07

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Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-27

afterward demanded and obtained After three days of negotiations the armistice was signed January 2S, 1871.
 In pursuance of this agreement, both parties withdrew their outpOsts to a distance of five miles, but all the German corps outside of Paris immediately occupied the forts lying in their front, more particularly those of Mont-Valerien and C. Denis, the ground between the forts and the walls remaining neutral ground. The German prisoners were given up and the military material followed by de grees, and the ransom" money was paid over During the armistice the first consideration of the Germans was to restore their troops to their war standing and make good their stores. All the forts they occupied around Paris weie at once armed on the fronts facing the city walls and all arrangements were made, in case of the commencement of hostilities, the strongest resistance could be made at all points. It was made an
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the British empire from days of old to the days of now.
 It is wonderful how this type of Briton recurs unfailingly through. all the cycles of the empire glory, always appearing to lead and to save in every great crisis. Away back in the time of the Hundred Years war, Sir John Chandos first came forward to mark and personify this type of Briton leader. Modest, knightly, able, with will of iron and nerves of ice, Chandos led the English to lands where they were to hold until miracle in the form of Joan of Arc appeared century later and drove them away. The Duge of Marlborough was an other of the same type of military leader, the iceberg type, with the eagle eye and resolution personified. He saved England from Louis XIV in the world decisive bat tie of Blennheim And every one knows of Lord Wellesley, later the iron duke" of Wellington, who was the victor at Water loo. Same style, same type, same charac- ter, same means, methods and results Like master, like man. The British army Is of the same stamp It fights doggedly, con- stantly, strongly, confidently, coolly, and in the end it always wins. It fits a leader of this type like glove on hand.
 Haig was born to the purple, but he has refused all titles, being content to be mere ly a knight of the prized Order of the Thistle Never splendid or spectacular or glorious in battle, but always dependable. Haig, the modest one, indifferent to fame, slowest in retreat, closest to Berlin today, he will appear upon history's page as one of the great commanders of the worlds greatest war. Fortunate England to be able to call such a Scotchman to lead her armies and such a Welshman as Lloyd George, hold the lines at home Small won der 1t Is that this little island has grown so large and waxed so great.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-27
Why France WiU GiUe
 Huns NO Armistice
From c Sermon, Oct I3, tn Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, by ReU. NeW-
 eU DWight HiLLiS.

Another reason why our soldiers at
 the front deserve our support is that
 they are called to endure such cruel
 ties as the world has never before
 known. The rage of the Hun at being
 compelled to give up north France and
 Belgium amounts to insanity. The
 Hun knows that his one hope is the chance to retreat to the heights east
 of the Mouse river, and there shorten
 his lines and reorganiZe his forces. In
 the hope of terrorizing the French General Foch and the French people, the Hun leaders ordered their soldiers to commit cruelties and excesses that would paralyze the French will; they believed that the French people would say that rather than suffer these cru cities they would allow the Hun army to retreat to place of safety. A single illustration of Hun fiendishness will exhibit the method. Captain D., with few soldiers, hurried to a village from which the Germans had retreat ed the night before. Lieutenant C. gave me the details of what his cap tain found. There was a blacksmith with his hands bound up in cloths. He was a man of 50 to 55, with open hairy chest, huge back and brawny arms The aged priest explained that in their retreat the Germans needed a smith When the Hun officers found that this blacksmith was very skill ful they held a brief conference at the door of the shop and decided that the splendid blacksmith was too valu- able a man to be left to the French and British The soldiers therefore, seized the smith, held his hands on his own anvil, and the Hun officer smash ed all the fingers with the hammer. It is the most exquisite form of agony, probably, that the human body knows.
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armistice with a strong German punch behind it.
 Humiliated the Vsnquished.
 Pending the negotiations for final peace, the armistice was twice extend cd, each time with a few additional demands upon the part of Germany. Finally, the general elections were held all over France to ratify the ne- gotiations, the national assembly met at Bordeaux and a provisional gov ernment, with M. Thiers at its head, was formed and a peace concluded. At the final conference Bismarck played his trump cards-the cession of Alsace-LOrraine, one billion dollars indemnity and the stipulation that the German army should be allowed to march triumphantly through the streets. of Paris in token of victory.
 The treaty of peace was signed at Frankfort on May 10. March l 30,000 Germans marched into Paris and took possession of parts of the city, with drawing after 4S hours, having there by satisfied their demand for the ~enemy's humiliation"
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Leaving this man to his piteOus trag-
 edy. the Huns went away. It is not
 the fact that they are cutting down
 all the orchards and vineyards, pois-
 oning the wells and footing the
 houses, but it is the fiendishness and
 degeneracy of the Hun that amazes
 us. September 26 on the edge of
 Peronne, with the guns booming just
 beyond, north of Cambrai, with two
 British soldiers I crawled into a house
 that the Germans had just footed.
 They had smashed all the china in the cupboard, and especially the delicate porcelain on the top shelf that was delicate enough to have been the spe- They had poured oil upon the floor to ruin the carpets; they had cut into ribbons the pictures on the walls; smashed the bedsteads and polluted the beds in an unmentionable way. It was an orgy of Hun rage. The Hun ravages reach their elimination in cruelties so devilish as to seem un- wrought upon old people, girls and little children. Do not de- ceive yourselves. When the full story is known this country will waken up to discover that the Hun has reserved his most exquisite tortures for Amer ican boys that have been captured, who will disappear-the details of whose tragic deaths will never be known. Today we are not dealing with men, but with wild beasts. France, therefore, is white with agony and with rage An armistice with the Huns after the cruelties of the last six weeks? One vertically believes that if any world leader dares insist upon giving the Hun a chance to retreat and recover himself, the French army will mutiny in their solemn resolve and securs a military decision.
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situation of the besieged of Paris had grown appalling Horse meat scared in price beyond aii reach, Rats, sell ing at 60 Centimes apiece, were being eagerly devoured Infants were dying by the thousands for want of milk and the whole death rate had trebled in few months. A bitter, unusual win ter was setting in. And just about this time, the Germans, having set tied their aesthetical differences in the matter of the bOmbavdment. be- gan throwing over Rooms "Iiron pills" |" Some 56, ,0OO shots were fired into the city, and at last after 132 days of starvation and appalling scenes Of misery and death, Jules Favre was sent forth from Paris to ask an armistice.
 Bismarck Wrote Proposal,.
 Fayre met Bismarck 5.t Versailles. After the first salutations. an eye witness Of the negotiations records, Favre said he had come to renew the negotiations for a truce. Bismarck interrupted him to say: The situa- ton has changed. If you are still go- ing to say not an inch, not a stone, we may break off at once. My time is valuable and yours also.' Then after a little more talk, he added. After all. why should I treat with you? Why should I give your irregu- lar republic an appearance of legality by signing an armistice with it's rep- resentative? What are you but rebels? Your emperor, if he came back, would have the right to shoot every one of you" After a few out bursts of this kind. Bismarck settled down to business. He asked Favre to write down such conditions of peace as seemed 10 him reasonable ana that they would discuss them the next day
 The next day. Bicmarck having Lad with the Emperor William and Von Moltke, had another inter view with Favre and totally ignoring FHyre's propositions, submitted his own schedule for an armistice, which was as follows:
 l. An armistice for 21 days.
 9 Disarmament of the French army. the latter to remain in Paris as pris- Ouers of war.
 g. The soldiers to give up arms and banners; officers to keep their swords.
 | The armistice to extend all over France.
 ,. Paris to pay indemnity. and give up it's forts to the Prussians.
 g. The Germans not to enter Paris during the armistice
 :. Elections to be held throughout France for a national assembly to consider conditions of peace.
 An Armistiee With a Punch.
 This was the preliminary draft of the terms of the armistice upon which the negotiations were opened. Some and changes were made before the final signature. Outside of Paris French armies were still in the field fighting. their leaders declaring their determination 10 continue the fight until more favorable terms of peace could be obtained, with no in demnities and no cession of territory. The districts in which these armies were fighting were exempted from the armistice An as an earnest of the indemnity proposition. Bismarck demanded an immediate advance of ransom money amounting to 70 million dollars This was exclusive of the one billion dollars indemnity
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When the Shoe Was
 On the Other Foot
Germany Debating 1s71 De
 anded Army of War; Exacted the Forts

Speaking of armistices, it depends after all upon whose OK is gored, how lar the goring process has proceeded, and the psychological attitudes of the respective owners of the animals en- gagged. Germany today is asking for an armistice, with what good grace, international unction and diplomatic finesse, the world outside of Germany is taking due note of and setting down it's observations.
 In 1871, France, or at least it's capi- tai, then a very much gored OK, really bled white, was asking an armistice and Germany, with its armies at her gates, was the power in whose hands lay the granting of it. Let us look back a moment, in passing, at the history of those days and see what views Germany, through her military and diplomatic experts, Bismarck, Roon and Von Moltke, then held on the subject of armistice. Precedents, while not arbitrary guides. are always valuable from the standpoint of sug- gestion.
 September l, 1870, Sedan. with its army and the emperor of France, sur rendered to the Germans. October 27 Bazaine gave up another immense French army at Metz. Gladly would France have made peace but for the avowed intentions of the German gov eYnment to demand indemnities and the cession of it's territories. Septem- ber 1 the assembly had declared the deposition of Napoleon and procla- nation was issued announcing the re- public Jules FavTe asked the Ger man emperor if he meant to furnish the 18th century with the spectacle Ot two nations destroying one another and heaping sthe dead upon the dead and ruin upon ruin. Yet, if it Is a challenge" he said. we accept-nOt an inch of our territory, not a stone Of cur fOrtresses, we will cede."
 Began Siege of Paris.
 But the German armies moved re- lentlessly forward and began the siege of Paris, and France made up her mind to fight to the bitter end. Outside of Paris she had a scattered and demOralized army of half mil lion men. Inside of Paris, she had the nanonal guard and newly recruit ed civilians, amounting to about 400, 900 men. With the armies re- leased from Sedan and Metz. Germany encircled Paris and began the memor- able siege At first there was no bombardment there were some among the German leaders who wanted to save the beautiful city" Bismarck and Roon chafed against this senti- mental restriction. 'The Parisians have too much to cat and too little to digest" wrote ROOn in November, when the situation in Paris was fast approaching the starvation stage, iron pills, namely. of which too few have been employed. Though certain intrigues stand in our way here, hope that they-the pills-will take effect; it would be too great shame to let all the glory of the war go to the devil in this way
 Meanwhile from court to court, Thiers travelled vainly seeking % cffec; a truce-'the French govern Went w@s as yet too unstable to deal with was all the assurance he could get. By the middle of November the
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and the others there present at the time that all of them that all of them that you would release as governor all the l. W. W.s convicted in labor troubles. A. I did not
 Q. You did not say that, A. No. sir. I did not.
 Another Wobbly Pal.
 Q. Do you know a man by the name of Tannehin? A Yes, sir.
 Mir. Campbell: O. He was a mem Der of the l. W. W. organization. wasn't he? A. don't know.
 o. You don't know? A. No, sir
 O. Where was he employed at the time? A. He was employed at the prison for a while
 Q. As a guard. A. Yes. sir
 Q. Do you know a man by the name of Bob Williams?
 Mir. Laney: Just a minute. if the Court please. I object to this on the ground that it is irrelevant
 The Court. You claim the founda- tion has not been laid?
 MT. Laney: Absolutely not at all
 MT. Campbell: We can't until we find out whether he knows it or not. Then we can follow it up. This is cross-examination, if the Court please.
 MT. Laney: I object to it then that it is not proper cross-examina- tion, not having been touched upon in the examination in chief. anything about L W. W.s.
 NIT. Campbell: But these men have been convicted in courts of justice of sedition and disloyalty to the United States. with whom he has had his photograph taken and then enc of them who was an alien enemy and skipped the country.
 The Court: Are you showing mem bership in that organization?
 Mir Campbell: l am showing his habitual friends are people in that organization.
 The Court: If that statement be made that his habitual friends are people in that organization. then the Court will sustain the objection.
 Enter My Dear Nike
 Mir Campbell. Q. Do you know Mike Sullivan:
 MT Laney: Object to it as irrele- want
 The Court: Overrule the objection. ] assume you are going into one of these.
 Mir. Campbell: An intimate friend of the governors. an T. W W.
 The Court: Just an intimate friend I will sustain the objection.
 Knows of the |. W. w.
 C. Do you know an organization known as the Industrial Workers of ths World. governor. A. How is that9
 c Do you know an organization known as the Industrial Workers of the World. governor. commonlycaIied the ]. W W.s. A. Yes, sir.
 O. Is II a disloyal organization A. As federal mediator went into that in Globe
 c. Is it dislOyal organization? A. l didn't go into that phase of it.
 Q. Are you a member of the organ iZation A. l am not (Witness rising to his feet and gesticulating widlyl. Q. Either honorary or A. You know it too.
 e. | do not. A You do know it. and I will tell you. Judge. ! think I ought to appeal tO you
 NIT. Laney: Just a minute, govern
 CCoutinued fror,, Paee ENx-sN
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In this installment of Governor Hunts testimony under oath in the Breen libel trial, the chief executive of Arizona is asked about his affilia- tions with Mike Sullivan. Charles Tan nehilI and other wobblies. It was to Sullivan that he wrote the Dear Mike" letter. This chapter also con- tains the cross-examination of Hunt by Judge Campbell as to whether he is a member of the l. w. w. and his statement that as governor and chair man of the Arizona Council of De fense he cannot say that the wobblies are disloyal. In answer to a question by Judge Campbell, Hunt says that he doesn't Know of any I. w. W. or ganizations in Arizona.
 This testimony opens with a ques- tion addressed to the governor asking him about his visits to l. w W. head quarters. as follows:
 Meets |. w. w. Friend. By NIT. Campbell: Q. understood you to say this morning. or today, that you had not been to the I. W. w head quarters in Phoenix: is that right? A. Yes.
 Q. You never have been? A Not that I know of
 O. Sir? A. Not that I know of.
 c. l will ask you whether on Feb ruary 6. 1918. you caled at the I. W. w. headquarters in Phoenix? A. called on Wall street, down where the labor
 Q. Don't you know that is where McMillan's office was? A. That was next door, right opposite. next door
 Q. Weren't those their headquar- ters? A. No, sir, not that I know of.
 Q. Do you know a man by the name of Payne? A. Yes. sir.
 Q. Do you know a man by the name of Stein? A. No.
 Q. On February 6. 1918. did you not go to the H. W. W. headquarters in the city of Phoenix and meet Payne and Stein, two members of that or ganization, and take them with you to see the penitentiary at Florence in the state car? A. No, sir.
 Takes Wobbly to Florence.
 Q. Did you take Payne and Stein? A. l took Payne.
 C. Did you take Stein? A No. sir, didn't get him from no |. W. W. head quarters, either.
 Q. Where did you get him? A. At the labor headquarters if l remember right
 Q. You got him from the same place Mir. McMillan works, didn't you? A. No. sir.
 e. And did you no; ask McMillan to go at that time? A I don't re member.
 e. Will you say you didn't? A. What is that?
 c. Will you say you didn't? A. say l don't remember.
 c. We'll, your best recollection about it; will you say you didn't ask Mir. McMillan. secretary A. l don't re- whether ] did or not. have asked a good many people to go to Florence.
 Q. Did you not go to the | W. w and ask them Co go with you. A l did not
 c. In the state car A. I did not
 c. And did you not tell McMillan
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-27
Belgium s Bill for Hun Damage
 Already More Than s, 1000, 900

Some of the items which figure on Germany's bill in Belgium are given as follows from an official Belgian source:
 Local contributions and fines levied by Germany on Belgium in 1914. $40, 100000.
 War contributions from November, 1914, to October, 1916. s192.OO0.000.
 War contributions. seven months. to May. 1917, S70.O00,0O0.
 War contributions from May. 1917, to May, 1918, $144,000,OO0.
 War contributions from June to October of the current year, S75, ,000,- 900.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-27

A study of the daily death reports by states from the influenza epidemic is enough to convince one that there is about as much danger at home in the peaceful U. s. A. as there is on the battle fields of France. This column is bit of fatalist as regards dan ger and sudden death believing that, after taking all reasonable precautions, one must still walk with death close at his right hand, whether he paces the peaceful avenues of home or the red lanes of war. To the stacker and the soldier both, death threat ems now, by disease at home and by shell upon the battle field. No one ever put it any better than Macauley in his lay of anci- ent Rome when he says: "Then up spake brave Horatius, the captain of the
 gate,
 TO every man upon this earth death cometh, or
 late.
 And how can man die better than by facing fearful
 odds.
 For the ashes of his fatAers the temples of his
 gods?"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-27

Raw materials and machinery taken by the Germans were reckoned by them in January. 1915. at $4O0. .000, ,00O The damage to December, 1914. esti- mated by the North German Gazette, amounted to s1.00O, ,O00, ,00O. This makes a grand total of Sl.921. 000. 900.
 These items do not include ma terial destruction and acquisitions since January. 1915. which alone must be rckeOned at billion dollars or more.
 During the winter of 1916 Belgian workingmen to the number of 1.75O,- 900 were deported to Germany. The future production of these men was thus totally lost to their country.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-27

They turned on the street lamps in Paris the other night, for the first time in months and laughed at the full moon. It was the occasion of the bringing to the famous Iuil- cries gardens of some hundreds of captured German cannon. What sight for the game, gay, gallant Parisiansl How these captured guns rumbled in the streets. There was an endless procession of them, bump ing and jolting behind the French cham pions, and they were lined up in rows in the leafy fastnesses of the great gardens. How many Frenchmen had died that these can non, made in Essen should rest in Paris ? An, Paris knows. Her houses of mourn ing are all houses But her heart is the same as it has always been throughout the s-indonitable She cheered these gunners and the guns they brought. She blinked in the usual glare of bright lamps on her long dark streets. Paris Is feeling the victory on the west front as we'll as reading about it in the dispatches.