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Evening journal., 1918-04-13
ALL WILMINGTON IS
TO CO WITH 6 TEAMS
pusey & Jones, Eden and
Oh Pont Barred, Clubs May
Organize Rival Leagues
PUSEY'S ALSO HAS
BIG LEAGUE CHANCE

The Au-Willmington League will 90
with six teams this season. AZ a special
meeting Of the league, called last night
20 consider a reorganization TO include
eight teams, applications for member
ship having been received from the bal.
teams OF the Pusey and Jones Company
Eden-South Side Club and the Expert
mental station Of tho DUPONT Company,
The organization rejected an the appil-
cations. The action means that the
Pusey and Jones Company team may en-
Ter in the Philadelphia District ship
builders League, which also may IN
clude team from the Harlan plant.
Il is also likely that a local Industrial
league will be organized 90 include
a Harlan team, Eden, Experimental Sta
tion and Pusey's Whether the Harlan
All-Wilmington League team WI be
the member Of the proposed Industrial
league was not stated by Mr.. Gallagher,
manager Of the team Ills club has
posted Its guarantee with the All-Wll-
M nglon League TO start the season
next Saturday. If this proposed league
gels under way Wilmington would nave
IEaA UueEUAA NNAAa IAAa IAa NAN~t
noon this summer. The proposed ship
builders league, with Pusey and Jones
and Harlans as members, also would
conflict with the All-Nilmington League
as the Harlan-pusey games would be
played al South Side Park. For the
present, therefore. Wilmington baseball
IS somewhat muddled.
AZ the All-Wllmington League meet
ing the great interest that would be
created by Harlan and pusey teams in
tho organiza on wSs pointed out, but
despite this the members feel that q
slx-team league would be stronger than
an eight-club organization while so
many ball players arc IN the service
st the meeting the Browniown team
asked that 10 be allowed TO change its
name TO Eleventh Ward. The request
was granted.
10 also was announced that the VII
del team VII play Its home games al
the old Front and Union streets grounds
until that playing ground Is cut VI
into building lots. 10 Is understood tha
this will be done before tho middle O
the summer.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
MI spnING sHO0T.

Announcement OF the annual spring
shoot OF the Kent Gun Club Of Harring-
ton, Del, 10 take place next Monday,
have Just been sent out by W. h. Palm
er. capita Of the club The program
calls for five events Of twenty targets
each and twelve prizes, which VIII
consist OF Thrift Stamps and War saw
ings Stamps, viii be awarded on The
Lewis Glass system, four classes, two
prizes 10 each class In ad tion 60 this
a Lewis class opt onal and a high gun
optional for each event viii be run In.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
NEW OWNERS FOR
CITY REAL ESTATE

The following real estate transfers
have been recorded at tho city regis
trars once since Tuesday.
Vito Sangone and wife from Samuel
Blddlo and wife. No. 2s07 Market street,
$1,000.
Joseph Przbylek and wife from John
Slysz and wife, No. iii5 Sycamore street.
5000.
William G. Boyd and wife from Isabel
Fidmarsh and wife, No. i20 West Thir-
teenih street, e255O.
Elmer T. Collins from Merrctt ".
Lewis and wife. southwest OF Twenty
fourth street % feet 40 Inches south
cast Of Lomotte street, $500.
Louise Christian Sohluchter end hus.
band from Equitable Trust Company
executors, No. 800 Lincoln street, 40,
1884 West Third street. Si700 two
lots.)
Mary Ellen Bailey from Charles w
Stats and wife, No, 1923 Lancaster ave,
nue., $500.
Maryan Lukascwlc and WIFE frou
Horace Greeley Eastburn, No. 12l Souti
/ Harrison street, sii00
I The Almond Co. from George 5.
Charles. south Of Nandever avenue i3i
| feet 40 inches east OF Lamotie street
/ $3.50.
Nicola Dl Eleuierio and Wifo from
Benjamin Do Ascanis, east of H9wicl
90 feet north Of Fifth street, $3.50
Antonio Dc Leonardo and wife iron
/ Benjamin ne Ascanis, east Of Hawlel
street 2S feet north OF FIN street
$3.50.
William l.. Hamann from Chas. b
Evans, trustee, No. SOB North Franklin
street, 5000.
Blanche A. Young from Katharine
Erb, executor, north Of Third street 3
feet east Of Broome street, and ii6 fee
i-2 inch north Of Third street.
Ray Rosonblail from Joseph and sam
uel Knopp, southeast corner Second an
Orange streets, $500
4 George NJ. pcirce from Brandywin
Real Estate Co., west OF Sh,pley stree
I 1876 feet south Of Tenth street, $3.50
Susie r. Chadwick from Michael J
/, Kelly and wife, north Of Read street
) feet inch east Of Jackson street
! eli75.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
CnnIsTIAN AIIIANCT-

The regular services viii be held to-
morrow at the Christian and Mission
airy Alliance Chapel. No. 5oi West Fiflll
street, as follows. Prayer, at il
O'Clock; love feast, at lOt5 o'clock
Communion, at 10 l5 o'clock; fellow
ship. at a 30 o'clock sunday school
at , O'Clock; young peoples prayer
meeting, at $50 o'clock. followed bi
the Young peoples meeting at o'clock
and preaching by tine pastor. the Rev
>. Y. Kral, az las o'clock on the sub
iccl. "Mhy Have le Brought Us Her
/ no Dic2n
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
WET GROUNDS HALT
CHURCHLEAGUEG GAMES

Because OF wet grounds, the Church
League was unable 10 open It's 1915
season this afternoon, The disappoinl-
ment was bitter to both players and
managers, elaborate preparations hav-
ing been made for tho openers. The
teams hope to set started on next Sat
urday, however. Today's postponed
games will be played rs double-hesdors
on June s.
President Collision wishes to meet all
the team managers az this ONCE az I.8g
O'Clock tonlght.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
no sun IN MARkEr

on account OF the "nor'easter" OF this
week, no shad were 90 be had in yes
terday's market There were a tew'on
sale down state, some at Delaware
City. selling at 90 and GO cents q pound
Other nsh. however. wore 90 De had.
Sea trout wore - cents a pound, fresh
maeRerel. - cents a pound; founders
~ cents "a pound; steak cod, 20 cents q
pound. and shrimps. - cents a pound
Evening journal., 1918-04-13

up a bridge over which many miners
went 20 and from work. other such
cases are history.
But where there's ono story with a
foundation. there are so without.
This district turns out the widest
rumors imaglnablc-one a minutei
When YOU go 10 trace them down.
"vhy. everybody knows about it!'
Evening journal., 1918-04-13

That's as far as you get-cycrybody
knows about % but nobody saw it
nobody heard it
Just the same, every rumor adds rs
quota 60 the districts nerves and in
creasos tho miners feeling against The
German menace menace which
they feel Is making their alroady risky
business q lirt with horrible death.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
.SPEAKMAN co. BOYS
In MINSTREL FUN

The following program OF musical
numbers has been announced for the
speakman minstrel show 20 be given
April 20 az tho New Century Club:
Opening chorus ........... BY Company
Somewhere in France Is the Lilly"
Roy Lyman
They 60 Wild, simply Wild, over Me"
parody Percy solomon
IN tho Spring tho Birds VIII Come
Again" ...James Rainey and Spoakman
Quartet.
Long Boy y'.............Arthur Clouscr
"a Baby's Prayer az Twilight
Carlln Trio
Selections, Haverbecks String Orchestra
I'm All Bound Round With the Mason
Dixon Llne".........,....Eric Roberts
Memories" Nelson AicCleos
"Huckleberry Finn. ".....H. e. Boozer
song and Dance" .Hanct and Bainey
Liberty Bell" l"..........Aliss Ella Fisher
Bass solo lselsctcd .....A Y. GcmmllI
/ Tenor solo lselecled)....J. q. Brlghut'
/ Tho Windy Boys."..,.........L End MIL
Closing chorus. Company
B Music for dancing Gfter the show vii
De furnished by klmmcy's Orchestra.
The end men are brim full and rum
ming over with Jokes. Those who cant
/ laugh without pain are warned 90 stas
away, for the black face boys are cer'
| tainly going 10 tickle the lsugh nerve.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
TWENTY Y-ONE POLES
DOWN ALONG PIKE

TNyenly-one telephone and telegraph
poles were blown down during the past
three days along the kennett turnpike
helMeen GreenN Do and CcnlrovIlIc.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
FrRr IN HOTEL CHIMNEY.

During The storm several nights ago,
Ia chimney at The Hotel dupont caught
Ore. SO dom8ge was done, the cm-
ployes extlngIishins ihe fire by eject
Ing live steam into the ilue.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13
PIPINO-DRAPER.
srNDAY BREAKFAsT MssIoN.

Services arc being held nightly AZ
the Sunday Breakfast Mission. No. rs
Shlplcy street Ammon Heller Will
have charge Of the services tonight.
Lewis pcckey Will speak tomorrow
night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
THE Hereros Rise
1 Up in Arms

"The tribes gathered unde, the leadarship
Of Samuel Maherero, and the first great bat
tie took place OH August II and 12, 1904, at
Waterberg. There were some $4,000 natives,
including women and children, opposed to
the German field force, which consisted Of
1900 rifemen, with 100 officers, thirty can
non and twelve machine guns. The eHereros
were routed, but the warfare continued till
we'll on in the following year, and neces-
STATED the bringing of 1900 troops from
Germany.
THE Herero losses throughout the cam
paign were enormous. although their actual
casualties in the Waterberg battles we're es-
timated by German missionary, Pastor "A.
Schowalter, at only 5000. But after these
battles, says this authority. the rebels dis
appeared in the sand desert and here the
bones Of $4,000 to $4,000 men who fell vie
Tins to hunger and thirst lie bleaching {.
Thousands more hsve died in the concentra-
ton camps or on the railway works 1nyol-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

was occupied by Germans only for 8 short
time before they were forced to retreat or
ing to the battle of the Marne Some light
IS thrown on The disasters which over
Whesmed the village and its inhabitants dus-
ing those few days by the conduct OF the
Germans toward the native races in their
own colonies. A missionary from New Gu:-
nea, row serving with our forces in France
says that when the German exploring par
Sizes penetrate to districts hitherto unvisited
by Europeans it is customary for those in
command to allow the armed members Of
their expeditionary forces, by way Of
perouisite reward for their energy, 20
plumber and maltreat the defenceIess native
men and women. The same policy was pur-
sued by General Clauss when in command of
the 17tt and Goth Bavarans on their entry
into the village Of Gerbeviller; and unfor-
tunately many other villages have had
similar experience
when Sister Julie related to
me what had occurred, | told her that
people in England would in many
cases disbelieve the account unless she
would give the statement in writing and
place hey own signature and the seal Of the
Hospice on the paper. so that it might be
shown with her authority to English read.
ers. This paper has been reproduced in fac
smile, with the seal Of the Hospice and the
signature Of Sister Julie herself Her state
ment may be summarized thus:
"A young woman named Eugsnic Perrin
resisted the Germans, who, after subjectine.
her by force to the last outrages, poured
petroleum over her and set her on fire. Al,
epileptic, young man Of military age.
named Llnguenhold, non-combatant, sur-
fered in the same way in the presence Of
his mother. A baker was thrown alive into
his oven. The Mayors clerk, man named
FRANCOIS, after having a revolver held in
turn to his forehead, temples and mouth
was killed by the officer by blow on the
head An old man Of ninety-nine year.
named Barthelemy, was pinned to th.
ground b. bayonet through the right
eye; While other old men were tied to
gether in patches of five, then shot.
when they were compelled by the French
to evacuate the village the Germans brouens
up engines constructed specially for setting
the houses on fire. The homes of the people
were burned to the ground--not for military
reasons, but to cause further distress To the
inhabitants. The German word scbodeu-
treatae means malicious joy in the suffer
lngs of others; and German is the only
European language in possession of word
which so aptly describes one of the promi
nent characteristics Of the German. IF apes
or gorillas were capable of military organi-
zation they might commit just such heart
less, cruel and wanton acts remarked one
OF the correspondents. Don't let US insult
the gorilla was the comment
WILSON CREWDSON."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
The Mind and Character
L of Our Enemies

"But the crime of Gerbeviller deserves
to be recorded anew, to sink again into
the minds of the British people, not be-
cause it stands out by itself, nor is a
blacker crime, nor a crime of greater
magnitude than many others, but because
it illustrates by it's swift brutality and
utterly depraving attitudes the mind and
character of our>enemies."
And here are the facts reprinted from.
the leaf1et- Reality" They were collect
ed by Mr.. Wilson Crewdson, who writes:
AS an authorized correspondent Of the
French army visited Con Nav g. 1916>
Gerbeviller, formerly prosperous village of
over 1000 inhabitants, not far from Nancy.
The district in which this village is situated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
An English Translation of the
Original Document

ERE
Perrin kavng
polite had clothes nfre?
Absolutely Eugene
dignity and respect Immediately last
urne
Is true that nnmd Francois
The Germans before
door Of the house. and him:
shoot your" They
the officer then dispatched him a the head.
Is 1t that
the Germans threw petroleum hima sves
Yes Before his question: the eu;n;c
burned
- eN
young Pud order to esoone the c~
hid
Yes entirely but the
Durand Formerly with health
passed in the
the Red
and they shot at least fifteen men
There has young the Rel rro
and
Yet another terrible act committed Bocheb bandits
bakery baker,
trousers 1t horrible but thus
Another
They found garden
with bayonet forced the hlt his
the
the world, n,.
which the soldiers Of our nm
n approaches
Sister Julie entirely ahcv
81 =
tSigneu Y. RouaNuA Secre*ary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
What Kind of Men Are These?
reveal the mind for such savagery?

reveal the mind for such savagery? Do
they seem normal?
"On all subjects save Germany, the war
and the Kaiser--yes; on those they are
insane obsessed of the Kaiser dogma that
I'VE are intrusted here on earth with a
doubly sacred mission; not only to protect
Kultur but also to impart Kultur to
the whole of humanity
"They believe in the Kaiser's oft-vaunted
partnership with Almighty God; absolutely
in their destiny for world domination.
World power or defeat; Germany wants
no halfway result is the battle cry
"And in this crusade any instrument,
from schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) to
wanton butchery, is legitimate; any means
to the German end justifablc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

Therefore the fight had to be continued
long as there was chance of the
Herero power Of resistance reviving.
"Having externinated at least three-quar-
ters of the Herero population, the Germans
found themselves faced with a serious
shortage Of labor in the colony. A few thou
sand natives were therefore imported from
elsewhere, chiefly from British territory.
One need only add that the results were not
such as to induce other natives to follow in
their footsteps.
"The cruel and 'senseless policy pursued
by the Germans in Africa has resulted, a.
we have shown, in the determination of a
great part Of the native races under their
control. One would have thought that or
binary commercial foresight would have
prevented this apparently wilful destruction
of the native labor supply; but they appear
almost totally to have overlooked this as
pect Of the question in their blind ambition
to establish in the wlds Of Africa the same
type of military and political ascendancy as
they would impose on the Western world"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
E nforcing the Brutal
IL Rules

by means of these Instruments, super
sised by native officials and by German dis
trct commissioners, who in several cases
sere more brutal than the natives them
selves, the peculiar rules for the regulation
OF the native population were enforced.
One of these rules concerned system
81 forced labor for government works and
me plantations. The procedure was to no.
tify the headman of tribe that he must
provide SO many laborers of certain class
oy a certain date; and IL these were not
procurabic in his own district he must fetch
eordingly, with loaded guns, were sent out
70 scour the country, and the recruits were
or'ysn to the appointed place, frequently
s'0pcd or chained together. They were
s0osed in compound, with native. guards
Nao took every precaution to prevent their
sscape. Generally, about o'clock in the
aosnsng they were driven to work by native
sserseers armed with whips, and we're COM
leiled to labor. with an hours break. until
4s'k Their wages varied from three shill-
nes to six shillings per month.
any such men were fetched fron, dis
'aas parts; that is to say, they were torn
rSsy from their families and driven with
= whip along the caravan routes to the
s Vssee OF slavery. Those who fell by the way
Isl 1ssied 70 respond to repeated Aogsings
i Sks Isft 70 die. Or. solf himself admitted
~ sonth CAmsYoons Chamber Of Com
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Making the German
lV1 Name Infamous

"Sickening revelations have been made
from time to time in the Reichstag of the
fiogging system which has made the Ger
man name infamous throughout Africa.
Many of tie wretched natives died under
this punishment or from its effects. The
native police who administered it did so
often with the eye Of their German master
upon them, and when that latter was
vicious brute. ingenious tricks were resort
ed 10 for exceeding the handsome number
of lashes-twenty -fve-allowed by the Ger
man law. Ii the policeman did not please
his master in this respect he was liable to
be logged himself.
What with the forced labor, the fog
gings. arbitrary shootings by criminal plant
crs or their overseers and the corruption
OF the drink traffic, it is not surprising that
the death rate on the plantations was alb
normally high. Deputy Erzberger, speaking
in the Re;chstag on March z, quoted a letter
from a certain Father Burgt:
Some who ran away from the planta-
tions are supposed to be 'sundowners'
who will return. . . They will not
come back; not third returns. Many
die already on the road of smallpox and
dysentery; Of others their families
never hear again. I know many mothers
and wives here who wait seven, eight,
ten years and all in,-vain for son or
Il husband.
"Thus have the Germans in Africa, with
out conscience or pity, employed every de-
vice Of barbarity and every snare of civil
ization to exterminate the native canaille'
in time Of so-called peace. For more whole
sale slaughter punitive expedition was
required
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

eve were ever encountering one or an
other expression of this creed in our c.
r. B. relief work. From nigh to low, officers
thought no more Of Withholding information
necessary to us. belonging to us, or Of
making misleading statements, or, on oc-
casions, of straight lying, than of taking
glass of beer. 1t is so ordained at Berlin.
"They hypnotized people; the de-
fusion of divine appointment to regulate
the world on German lines has DESTROYED
their balance. World domination is the sole
thought; Germany the chosen of Heaven,
Kaiser Wilhelm its anointed apostle; be-
cause it is the German people and numbers
eghty-seven million souls.
"'Gott Nit Uns'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

of those who, taking their cattle, sought a
temporary refuge in the watcrless desert
Trotha kept them there, to die of slow
starvation, by closing the German frontier
against them.
"sshe poor wretches were not even given
tins chance to submit. Trotha, in the off,
cial report, pointed out that treating with
the Hereros was impossible because their
caxtains were either dead or too badly COM
promised by their dssdB for the government
to be able to negotiate with them Fur
Their, he
looked upon more or less willing sub
mission, opening door to renewing the
old racial organization, as a great po-
litical blunder, which would sooner or
later bring a sanguinary revenge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
ss\X1ar Is the True
wv Pastime"

The writer then gives some examples
of these undertakings:
"The record Of punitive expeditions in
German Africa reminds one of the German
saying: War is the true pastime' In the
Cameroons there were no fewer than twenty
nine of these military excursions between
1891 and 1903; in 1901 above twelve exped-
lions were carried out against the tribes Of
the interior and others; since 1904 there
have been seventeen in the same colony. The
record of East Africa is sixteen expeditions
Of one kind or another between 1891 and
1903, and a vast native instruction in 1905.
Southwest Africa takes third place with a
modest half-dozen within the same period;
but the rising Of the Bondelzwaarts in 1908
and the far more important Herero rebel
lion in l904'O5 redress the balance of mum.
bers.
"Of all these the most important and the
most barbarously conducted was the Herero
war. The immediate cause of the rising was
probably the seizure by German traders of
the sacrifcial cattle of the tribe in pay
ment Of debts. The tribal law forbade the
sale OF these cattle on pain Of the furious
vengeance of tho owners ancestors The
Germans. disregarding the lessons of his
tory, ignored this superstition; and the
Hereros, already exasperated by years of un-
just administration, by the unfair expro-
priatfon of native lands and other forms of
cheating in which their masters INDUCED
and by the severity of the loggings, rose
and murdered some German missionaries.
at is significant that, though there were
many English in the colony, the revolt was
directed at the first against Germans and
Germans only. Other European missionaries
were not disturbed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
What Germany
w Hoped to Get

AS General SHUTS pointed out in his ad-
dress on East Africa at the Royal Geo
graphical Society on January 90, 1918, Ger
man colonial policy has crystall;sed itself
.ata 9 scheme for the establishment of
great Central African empire, comprising
not only her former possessions, but as
much more as she can lay hands or. Her
objects are twofold. The first is to supply
the economic requirements and raw mate
fials of German industries; the second, to
create a great native army for the next
war.
"For the last two decades at least she has
been raising and training this native army,
destined to be the solution of her man
rover problem And she has employed them
prior TO the war, as soldiers and policemen,
in controlling other natives-the civilian
canalle, as Peters termed them. She has
not attempted to civilize these recruits; fox
lighting material that would have been a
waste of time. On the contrary, she has
preached to them the gospel Of unbridled
mitarsm, and that alone. Those who have
seen what this gospel has wrought among
the U.boat commanders and the white saw
ages who devastated Belgium and Northern
france can judge Of the effect upon the
primitive and savage peoples Of Africa.
ut is not surprising that the untutored
savage. thus raised to power over his fellow
men, backed by the authority Of the white
ovsrlord, given special privileges and taught
to despise his tribal chief, should be tempt
cd to benefit himself at the expense Of his
fellows, IL benefit could be got cheaply, and
that he should pay off old scores against his
former equals with the weapons Of lying,
thievng and numbering, 1t WAS natural
also that in punitive expeditions he should
give full vent to the ferocity cngendered in
aim By generations of intertribal warfare,
so long as his brutalities were allowed, If
not actually approved, by his great white
master.