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The engagement Of ]. J. Dickin-
son. known generally as Major Dick
inson, as the paid agent of the Ger
man propagandists, working as spy
for George Sylvester Viereck at Wash
ington, was another Of the disclosures.
along with an interesting account OF
the alleged friendship of the ubiqui-
tous Major with men high in the coun-
cils of the Democratic Administration.
, The relations of William Bayard
Hale and William Randolph Hearst
were viewed from a new angle by the
Senators. to whom Capt. Lester stated
unequivocaliy that he believed that
Mr.. Hearst was fully cognizant OF
the anti-American principles of Hale
throughout tho employment Of the
former Wilson envoy to Mexico as Il
correspondent OF the Hearst news
papers.
In addition the Captain produced
the Golden Book" list of sub
scriptions taken throughout the United
States and inscribed with the auto
graphs of the donors of a large sum
of money collected in the United
States from sympathizers with the
German cause, 10 be devoted to the
aid of the widows and orphans of
the U-boat crews lost in action.
Capt. Lester told the committee that
following the assassination of Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand and his con-
sort at Sarajevo, Bosnia, June 20,
1914, the corps of propagandists was
started on its mission forthwith.
On July 10. 1914, twenty-one days
before the declaration Of war between
Germany and Russia, the 130 writer's
and publicists, selected from the
ranks of the civil service Of the Ger
man Empire, were started from Ber-
lin on their worldwide journey as a
battalion OF trouble makers The mem
bers of this corps, Capt. Lester told
the committee, were selected for
their ability as writer's and for their
knowledge of the countries to which
they were despatched.
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DNE IS IN ARMY GARB
Refusal to Throw Up Hands
Costs Lives of Teller and
Assistant Treasurer.
CLEAN ESCAPE FOLLOWS
Pursuing Detective Is Badly
Wounded-Raid and Murders
Occur in Ten Minutes.

Black and White taXlcab stopped
under the drip of the elevated Mt
Myrtle and Kent avenues, Brooklyn,
ut a quarter past 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Two men, emerging with
put haste, paused long enough to tell
the chauffeur that his wait would be
brief.
one of these men was tall and slim
and blond. with the fiat back and the
squared shoulders of the drilled man.
The other was an exact antlthesis,
short stout, dark and slovenly in
bearing. The chauffeur, keeping his
cars engine purring softly. watched
them with considerable curiosity (the
trip from Manhattan had been pecu-
liar and their directions puzzling) as
they walked westward with easy de-
lbe-ation along Myrtle avenue.
~ saw them enter the door of the
4sst Brooklyn Savings Bank, a solid
and venerable institution which has
heen doing business on the same spot,
the southeast corner of Myrtle and
Franklin avenues, since the day Fort
Sumter was fired on. Then his at
tention wandered to an automobile
filled with children's dolls. This put
Christmas ideas into his head, he
says.
Pistol shots and. Screams. -.
Five minutes later the report OF
pistol shots, the frenzied shouting of
men, the screaming OF women and the
echoes Of a whole neighborhood in
turmoil and fright beat upon his ears.
Dumfounded, he stood in his tracks
for two or three minutes. Then he
saw his singular patrons walk out of
the bank door with the same coolness
and lack Of haste that had marked
their entry, each threatening with his
revolver the crowd which was begin
ming to boil around the bank corner,
the tall man In the lead slightly the
short man carrying a big bag whose
fat sides were distended. The chauf-
fcur, his wits logged with uncertainty,
suspicion and fear, waited like an au-
tomaton until the gunmen returned to
his car.
The tall man with the bearing OF q
soldier and the outside dress of one,
an army raincoat and a service Stet-
son, pushed a pistol against his face
so closely that he could smell the pun
gency OF the steel. Without heat or
haste, quite politely and in a voice like
silk, the tall man said to the chauf-
feur:
Il have just killed two men for not
doins what l told them to do. You'd
better take a hint. Get in and drive
not too fast-until we tell you to stop
Vemoose!"
The chauffeur did precisely as he
was ordered to do, believing anything,
prepared for anything. He was not
surprised therefore, when a man who
proved to be a detective in plain
clothes and who had heard the echoes
OF an amazing crime and of a tragedy
eapeo from Myrtle avenue car, tried
70 stop the fleeing taxicab and was
shot down with perfect coolness by the
nll bandit.
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women Active In Campaign.

Women are taking part actively in
the eleCtioneering and there Is intense
rivalry between Mrs. Lloyd George and
Mrs. Mckenna, wife OF the former
Chancellor of the ENchequer who is
stanch supporter OF former Premier
Asquith. Premier Lloyd George is
conducting a whirlwind campaign in
South Wales violently attacking Nc
kenna in the latters own constitu-
ency and McKenna in reply is CRITICS.
ing the Prime Minister.
Miss Elizabeth Asquith admitted in
some of her speeches that the electors
sometimes made candid remarks about
her father, but, she added, He doesn't
mind" Bonar Laws daughter speak
ing at Glasgow, said: II hope you
are voting for my father and l think
you are very lucky to have the
chance"
Miss Christabel Pankhurst, the noted
suffragette, promises the voters that
when the woman's regime prevails in
Parliament every house, no matter
how small, will he lighted, heated and
served by electricity.
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Reduction of Armaments.

Continued on Second Page.
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toOnt'GGsd on Tenth PaOAA
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the waiting thousands 10y the sudden
lifting Of the mist, A'ich showed the
George Washington il came 70 itS
mooriugs at about II o'clnck, Slowly
out ot t.e haze the great battleships
moved 10 their stations, followed by
the swift torpedo craft.
stephen richon. the French Foreign
Minister; Georges I.eygues. Minister OF
Marine; Andrew Tsrdieu, head Of tha
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LLOYD GEORGE IS
SUREOF VICTORY
Majority of 1863 Seats Expected
at Parliamentary Elec-
ton To-day.
LABOR Is TRYING HARD
Women Also Campaign Ac-
tivity on Platform of Re-
lief From Drudgery.
LABOR IS TRYING HARD
SpeciGl cable Despatch 10 The Suy.
Copvriohf. 1915. all rights ressrve1.


LONDON. Dec. 13.-On the eve of the
British election. which takes place to-
morrow, the campaign wakes more
furious and at the same time more
humorous. The Lloyd George Gov
crnment, it is estimated by the Daily
ETpress, will win 435 seats, $40 Union
lists and 1875 Liberals. while the opposi-
ton parties, including Labor, will cap
ture 272, giving the Prime Minister a
majority OF 1863.
The Labor party which asserts it is
the only British political organization
which supports President Wilson'S
programme in its entirety, has adopted
scheme entitled "Labor's Fourteen
Points" which are as follows:
1, a peace of justice and reconcilia-
ton; 2, a league of peoples; 3, no cap
italiStic Intervention; !, no more mill
tarism; ., restoration OF civil liberties
s. demobilization and discharge; Z, the
right TO pensions; S, unity Of soldiers
and workers. 9, no sex disabilities; 10.
no more profteering; II. make the
rich pay: ~. real social reform, 13.
democracy i'll politics and industry,
and II, land for the people.
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NEwPoRT, Dec. 13,-Owing to the
prevalence Of influenza the Board of
Health directed to-day that schools be
closed until further notice.
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WEATHER FORECAST.

Kahn and warmer to-day; tomorrow
rain and somewhat colder.
Highest temperature yesterday, as; lowest, ae
Detailed weather reports on last page
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CeHttrEses = Fourth Pa0e.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-14
TuSCbN|A LOSS PUTS
SEAL ON FRIENDSHIP
Great Britain and United States
Brought Closer Together by
Sea Disaster.

London. 1bN maill--You ~rH,lemner
Aow many 'ierman-Americs4 h~NpAens
Won't down with the Lusitania' The
Tuscania has carried down Ntil our
,aIlant American dead SotnctNing
whose loss is Just as ominous for ,ite
future of Germany; it has buried deep
and iireyocabiv the last vestige az Brit
'sh prejudice against America lcft over
from the years Of neutrality. All Brit
ain feels today. and with an intensity
inland peoples may not realizr. IL. zig
liiicance OF the tragedy whic.l has srMt
Jour soldiers to join the thousands ~
British dead under the wave al british
waters.
No other sacrifice could %ai41e-i more
iirectly To their isles. Ever. day add
% the $4,000 British nonvo.nba,lhts
murdered by submarines in ,~iernaanN's
desperate effort TO make NIGH: ne- =.
rail oven right, no matter what ule cost
may be to the reputation oi Germany
or generations 10 come. The very
cal reductions of food to which va,
ire now submitted nave brought nome
20 every person in the kingdom the real
ties of our island existence. while To
hose connected in any way With the
'atrol or m of the seas, es-
'eciallA the labor unions of scamen. the
sever ending var against the sublna-
inc has long been the cruN Of the
whole conflict and of our future, ,ela-
.IoIIs with 1SIl.tiliN ana tllc GernlullS.
While politicians discuss peace terms.
The seamen who ave witnessed the
,orror %: deliberate murders at sea,
when have now grown so NUMEROUS
rs to be worth only a paragraph in
news value, or nave heard them related
3N those who escaped the assasSins.
IRE becoming ever more firmly resolved
never to have anything to do With
German sailors so long as the !ncm-
DRY of these evil deeds remains.
1t will never be forgotten in ENG
land that the Cnitcd States came INTO
the war on the submarine issue. Yet
the British had always q feeling that
because they We're beyond comparison
the chief sufferers from this particular
form of kultur it would be too much to
expect any other people to share the
island sentiment created by the silent
sacrifices of the sea. Now they know
this last insularity must give Way be
fore the sacrifices of America; to die
braNely at sea is as much u part of
American character as of British. Some
how, until it actually happened. people
did not realize that America would in
evitably be called upon to display this
attribute of her character, although mo-
body expected her to escape paving
freedom of the seas They realize it
ana you can be assured thai The. also
realize the moral strain under which
so many thousands of American moth
ers, sweethearts and wives must live.
during the long days while their men
are on the water; Years. OF ceuseless
anxiety hage steeled their hearts TO
their own troubles. but in these DAYS
when they think of America the, think.
too. how it was with them in 1915.
when the horror of 1t all wa< new
and %gna
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-14
The Pan-American Spirit.
Robert Lansing. in Munsey's Maaszine.

For a long time there has been manifested a stronger and STRONGER
tceLng that the American republics constitute a group which is more
closely bound together than other nations of the world. because OF
her common ideals and common aspirations-a feeling Which has
leon emphasized by their geographical isolation from other countries.
believe that TINS consciousness of unity is today general throughout
North and South America. and that it has become and will increasingly
be a powerful factor i'm our political and commercial intercourse. Ii
is the bond OF sympathy which draws together the II republics of
omr western world and makers OF them the American family of
nations.
We term this feeling the Pam American spirit, " and from it
springs the policy OF Pam Amcricamsm which the American oycrn
nnent has so strongly advocated and will continue to advocate and
follow in it's intercourse with it's neighborS.
Pam AmeIlcanlSmE more mmselfsh and broader i'm it's cou than
The Monroe doctrine. Ii is international and not national i'm it's con-
ccpticn. Its ideal is leIpfulness and corporations; and real helpful
TESS and effective cooperation demand intimate KNOWLEDGE md
mutuai sympathy.
TO that end all who believe i'm the Pam American doctrine should
allow IL o opportunity to pass which will unite us morc closely o.
nnercialy. indnstriaIly and socially with our American neighbors.
Even today. when some of the nations of North and South America
are at war with Germany, and others. by scvrring diplomatic rca-
tlons, have registered their protests AGAINST the faqrant violations of
law and humanity of which the German government has been u,1ntv
while others still continue to be neutral in the great conflict. the
Pan-Amcrican spirit lives: and it will live 10 long as the republics
of this hemisphere remain uncontaminated by the evil impulses which
plunged Europe into war.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-14
Pittsburgh stoaies May Vanish.

From the Dayton journal
Stogies soon will be Off the market.
No longer will you be able IL set a
long, slightly bent and decidedly power-
full smoke for the one-half OF a nickel.
or less. A tobacconist declares that to-
bacco is advancing so rapidly in price
that you will soon be saying .oo.ihy
to the Pittsburgh perfecto FOR keeps.
The filters used in making stogies now
are going into cigars. So you will get TN.
same tobacco that you used to enjoy. but
it will come in shorter length: anu will
cost rather more. Instead of laying "a two
bit piece on the counter and filling both
hands with two-fers or threc.ters. the
one-time stogie smoker will fin! thar sum
bringing him nothing but the privileges Of
selecting a few with band ON.
OF course, the war is at the bottom, IT
this bit of woe, az 1t is at the bottom of so
many others. Sumatra wrappers arc part
ly to blame, being grown in Holland in.
stead Of Sumatra. Millions OF dollars
worth of these wrappers, although l,nr.ht
by American tobacco concerns thut n.N
paid for, We trust). are %war-bo,;nA in
Holland. Whether these wrapper are
used In stogies is not the point. The point
is that they are a bully excuse f,r yen,lv
prying the price of tobacco upward.
which naturally eliminates all conce.-
sions to the public in the form .,r cigar
ros. cheroots and elongated smokes gen.
orally. Enjoy them while We may. citizens.
for the cigar that splits the jitney and pol
lutes the ozone has not lon: To- stay. It's
days are numbered.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-14
NEW CHIEF OF ARMY
KIN OF WASHINGTON
From the New York Times.

detailed character analysis of the man.
some can so a little further.
General March," said one briradie:.
always mad the markings of u chief of
general staff in hin because he could
see the army as a whole. He was and is
Il great artilleryman. The artillery is his
special branch of the service, but he
always has had interest and love to
spare for the infantry and cavalry and
engineers. He is both a scientific spe-
eiailst and an all round soldier"
me first time that General March
brought back something from abroad was
III iN4. when he returned from his post as
one of the American military observers
assigned teo General kuroki's ARM in the
i.usso-Japanese war. He was then q
captain OF artillery attached to the first
division of the general staff and accom-
panied Major General Crowder. then "a
colonel and chief Of that division OF staff.
Ihey were both with kurokf at the Yalu.
When the Spanish American war began,
General March. then ii first lieutenant in
me regular army, had Just been gradu-
a.ed from the artillery school at Fort
Monroe. He was thus well prepared, and
whea John Jacob Aston gave a battery for
service In the Philippines. March was
made a captain of volunteers and put in
command.
The Astor battery was one of the nota-
Dle organizations OF the war. Made up
from volunteers In New York, it was
largely composed of college men and at
tracted the attention of the country hardly
IN less degree than Roosevelt's Rough
riders. March : was himself. perhaps,
prouder Of the fact that he got his men
TO the Philippines and back again with
out q death through disease tina he was
OF the exploits of the battery in service.
The father Of the chief Of the general
staff and the other March brothers was
Francis Andrew March. the philologist
and chief A~nglo-Saxon scholar In Amer
lea and for many years professor of
English at Lafayette. An uncle of the
general was Moncure d. Conway. mother
or the noted intellectuals and a great
leader OF the liberal movement in religion
u generation ago
The new chief of the general staff can
trace two lines Of relationship with George
washington. General March's grandfather.
walker Peyton Conway. wa the son Of
John Moncure Conway and Catherine
Walker Peyton. a daughter OF Col. valen-
tine Peyton. who fought in the revolu-
ton. The latter's wife. Mary Bailey WASH
ington was the sister Of Col. William
washington. a cousin twice removed of
George Washington. The grandfather of
Mary Bailey Washington and George
washington was the same man.
The other line of relationship which
connects General March with Washing
ton runs back through the Moncure and
Daaiel families to hannah Ball., half sis
ter OF the mother of Washington. Through
these sam families the general is con,
nected with Sir Walter Raleigh.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-14

through the organization you know Of"
Not contented with waging war upon us
directly. Germany tried to stir up bad
blood between us and our %neighbors by
treacherously violating our hospitality.
Her agents used our territory as ground
on which to make plots with ~discontented
Hindoos against India. They helped to
promote which were intended
to tear Ireland and Canada from the Brit
ish empire. From our side OF the border
they made a number of direct attacks
upon Canada such as the dynamitinE Of
the international railroad bridge at Vance
boro. Me-. and the attempt to destroy the
locks of the Welland canal.
Mexico received much attention from
these gentlemen. Germany handed over
100000 to the exiled Huerta to enable him
to stir up a new revolution in his unfortu-
nate country. placed one of her warships
at his disposal. and supplied him with
arms. The famous zimmerman letter, of
January. 1917, will be remembered by
everyone.
In this letter the German minister Of
foreign affairs proposed that in case. Of
war with the United States, Mexico and
Japan should join with Germany;
promised Mexico she should receive as her
!! share. of the plumber New Mexico, Arizona
and Texas.
In this long list of outrages nothing has
been said about the submarine warfare
waged against US. 1t began with the sink
ing of the Lusitania. May {, 1915. when ia
American citizens, men. women and chill
dren. were foully murdered on the high
seas. 1t continued till the toll of American
lives had reached twice that number.
The German government stops at MOTH
ing. She has become a danger to the
whole world. The danger from her. when
we at length broke off relations, was not
remote and prob'ematical.. 1t was at hand
She was actually making war upon us.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-14
Progress Without Germany.
From the peIineator.

Everybody wondered, you viii recall. what W. would do without
German scientists. We q all been brought mp to believe that We We're
deeply ocl,n',n1 ON tho}n for scientific progress in all lines. Whcli
We AN Gel fnnc to lilmE OF sonnet hing besides war. we III be aS1onshcd
ID 'hc progress made by our chemists. oar engineers and omr medical
men as Well as by countless other mel OF research ability who have
mth"lto been submerged b. the - Made n-ticrnanN' slogan that
has obscsscd the world.
Just IN passing. Ir. simon +. flcNmor oil the Rockclclicr institute
OF New York, reports the discovery OF "a substitute for salyalsan
hitherto the only known curc for certain disease. Salvarsan was u
Germany discovery. lr. FlcXmer also announces The wonderful dis
r"NelS that tctannls % lockJaw, hitherto practically inclrabLc, cam be
ur"d by am nllccf1on INTO the veins OF Il per cent solution of ordinary
olNom salts
Yes, it looks as if we could mmdlc along. if Germany will only
ave MS time.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-03-14

They are about to put the youngcs
major general at the head of the general
staff of the United States army, and news
dispatches from Washington hail the
move as a big advance in speeding up our
war work. Those who know Mai. Gen.
Peyton Conway March. the man selected
to become acting chief of staff and later
o succeed General Bliss as permanent
chicf. with promotion to "a fun general
ship. say that from the. time lie entered
West Point and played on the first foot
pan team the military academy ever had
ms record has been one of asGressiveness.
initiative. organizing power. and a pas
zion for getting a thing done.
During the Spanish-Amcrican war. in
the fighting about Manila, the fire from
= blockhousc on a hill just outside the
American lines became so threatening
that General Macarthur saw 1t would
nave to be stopped at once. He called
Tor a commanding officer who would vol
nnteer to take the enemy position.
i VIII. shouted Captain March. and be-
tore the words We're we'll out of his mouth
he was over the embankment with half
= hundred of his men behind him. They
were artillerymen and had no arms eX-
cept revolvers. According to the rules.
a charge against a fortified position with
r%evolvers couldn't succeed. But Captain
March did it. That is the way he has
always worked.
1t is generally known that General
March went over with Pershing to have
complete charge Of the American artil-
iery forces on the front. The newspapers
during the last few lays have borne
testimony OF the effectiveness Of the
and civilians returningly lately from
France have brought back word Of the
impression General March has created by
energy and skill in organization of his
branch of the service.
An expert knowledge of general fight
ing conditions is one of the valuable
qualifications of the new chief OF staff.
He knows from first hand how our meth
DDS OF training have worked out. He
knows In practical necessities of equip
ment-what should he pushed and wha {
may wait.
There is the unanimous opinion among
army men that March is the best man
for the high place to which he has been
assigned. There Is also that unanlmity,
already mentioned, as to his strictness.
Beyond those two points you can get
a little variety Of opinion. according to
the age OF the officer questioned. II 1t is
an older nan on the active or retired list,
tell you that the general is a great
teacher. Men who were young officers
in the so-called days of the ''old army
before. the heavy artillery regiments
ceased to exist as such. and who served
then under March in the old 9Th and
9Th artillery. think Of him in very much
the same way as university graduates
think OF 4 favorite old professor who
made them work like dogs but " them
the essentials OF their after success.
Other officers shamelessly take the
..I-told.you-so'' attitude after the fact.
They knew all the time that some day
the army. although they didn't think It
would come 70
How. did you know it?'
..Just because he he'd II In him" 10 the
unsasisfactory angssef given In lieu q .