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Evening star., 1918-01-13
GERMAN RAIL REVENUES GROW
Returns of Third War Year 5y3 Pen.
Cent Better Than in 1915.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, December 2S.-PassenA
ger traffic revenues on German rail.
roads in the third war year show an in
crease of 5.s per cent over the record
figure of the last twelve months OF
peace august. 1913-July. 1910, accord
ing to the Norddeutsche Allegemeine
Zeitung. In the first war year revenues
fell OF 32.1 per cent, and in the second
war year Fl per cent. As regards freight
traffic, this yielded an increase of s per
cent on the record figure reached in
the year ending July 81, 1914. These
figures include the receipts from mil
ftary traffic, which, 1T is declared, tax
ing the average Of the three years.
formed only an eighth part of the total
railroad income.
The revenues for the month of Au-
showing. the development of railroad
traffic. Compared with the correspond
ing month Of 1916. the passenger traf-
fic showed an advance Of 30.6 per cent.
and of 14.1 per cent as compared with
August, 1913, the last corresponding
month of peace. Freight traffic rose
11.6 per cent as compared with August.
1916. and 19.1 per cent as against 1913.
A Vienna dispatch says the revenues
OF Austrian state railroads have risen
since the last peace year from 830,000,-
900 crowns to 1.0s0,0 900, while ex-
penditure for the current financial year
is put at 1.190.000,000 crowns.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
U. S. AIR SERVICE PILOTS
HONOR FRENCH TUTORS
Issue New YeaH Greeting to the
Men "Who Embody Worlds
idea of Heroes"
BY E. PERCY NOEL.
Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.

BY E. PERCY NOEL.
Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
PARIS. France, January IA fine
tribute expressing the appreciation of
their French tutors is published in the
Plane News. an air post newspaper.
It is as follows:
Our New Year Greeting.
"The airmen of France have earned
the admiration and envy of the whole
world. They embody all that is best
in the worlds idea of heroes.
'"They are fearless. yet modest and
unassuming, debonair and smiling, yet
courteous and gentle. They have
fought the good fight for three long
heartbreaking years. each year hold
ing many dark and bitter hours, yet
their courage and faith have never
been shaken.
Our association with the French air
men during the past year has been a
rare privilege. They have gladdened
our hearts with their kind, patient
help in our work: In this time we have
learned to love them and to value their
friendship as our richest possession.
Now, as they enter the new year
and the first gleam from the dawn of
the day of victory is visible, we want
them to know that the men of the
American air service esteem 1t a great
honor to extend to the airmen of
France a greeting and to wish them
new year in which each day shall be
more pleasant than the preceding and
each hour one that strengthens the
bond of fellowship between the airmen
Of France and the airmen of America"
Evening star., 1918-01-13
CAUGHT WITH CoNTRABAND.
Countess Was Attempting to Snug.
gle Supplies Into Germany.

AMSTERDAM. December 20.-Caught
at Zevenaar by special agent of The
Hague police while she was attempting
to smuggle into Germany eleven large
boxes said to contain underclothes. shoes,
coffee, tea and other foodstuffs. Countess
Won Platen has been held at Arnheim
court.
The countess had carefully prepared
for her encounter with the custom au-
thorities by a telephone message sup
posedly from the foreign Office at The
Hague, and telegram from the local
German consul asking for considerate
treatment; but the special agent arrived
in time to overrule these instructions
and insisted on examining the countess
luggage. where he found the contraband
Evening star., 1918-01-13
AMERICAN WOMEN IN
FRANCE WEPT At GRAVE
Sorrowed Mother Of Fallen Soldier to
Receive Consoling Letter From
French Countess.
By JUNIUs b. WOOD.

CnbIegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1918.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. January 12.-The American
mother Of young soldier buried behind
will receive letter from a French count
ess. consoling her with the assurance tina.
the tears Of an American woman fell at
the graveside even in that far-off war
swept zone. This touch Of sentiment
softened the ot6cial report of a sad oc-
currence when Regular Army engineer
ing detachment, which had been in the
trenches more than a month, returned to
the training area. Countess de Buyer
Mimeure. former American girl, famous
for her work in rebuilding devastated viii
lagos near the front and who married a
Fench general, was the good angel who
gave the softening effect of woman's
presence Mt grim military funeral under
winter skies and with German guns BOOM
ing in the distance.
The countess was making holiday pill
grimage through the villages near the
lighting zone, which is barred from the
outside world as effectively as desert
island. distributing presents to the chill
dren living in these desolate surroundings.
When she arrived at the village where
the engineers were billeted she left the
gayety to take part in the funeral, which
she learned was in progress, and then
promised to write to the mother of the
dead soldier
Countess de Buyer Mimeure is closely
associated with Ethel Crocker of San
Francisco, sister Of Princess Poniatow-
sky. IN work in the dangerous war areas,
where few civilians and women rarely are
permitted to enter. Not far from Troyes,
a residence city near the front, the en-
gineers were engaged at night In building
a new first line trench in advance Of the
trench destroyed by the German barrage
on the night the enemy raided the Ameri-
can lines in November After the first
night the fresh earth on the white snow
disclosed the work they had been doing,
and when the engineers returned the sec
ond night the German artillery broke
loose, killing one and wounding another
The others grabbed their rifles and ran
forward to assist a French patrol in re-
pelling the expected raid. No German
patrols appeared and the barrage stopped.
The men returned and worked two hours
to prove that they were not panic stricken.
When they left they carried their dead
and wounded with them.
Christmas day was unlucky for the en-
gineers, for though the turkeys arrived
the men had only one stove and green
wood to cook with, and that was not
enough. They ate canned beef instead
Most of the time they were working in
had a two hours hike on the snow each
way between the front and their billet.
They made the march back to camp in
two hours. The men are in excellent con-
dition. considering the hardships they
have experienced.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
GERMANY ADMITS SHE DREW
SWORD, SAYS BRITISH WRITER
Lovat Fraser Comments on Peace Offered to
Russia-War Aims Cleared by
Lloyd George.

the governments war aims, has reas-
sured the workers and deprived the
pacifists of their most effective am
munition. All apparently vindictive
words and phrases susceptible of dis
tortion in the interests of kaisertsm
are absent from the premiers latest
utterance. Its unwontedly mellow and
persuasive tone is believed to have re-
suited from Lloyd Georges consulta-
ton before its delivery with the labor
chiefs and the ripe statesmen of the
conservative and liberal parties, espe-
cially Mr.. Asquith. the former premier
OF state for foreign affairs.
only one word in the speech is
queried today and that is "reconsidera
ton, as applied to the question OF
understanding that might arise from
this word Is prevented by the declara-
ton that Britain will stand by the
French Ito the death" in righting this
great wrong.
Labor Party a Force.
For the government to regain the
Britain was imperative. The labor
party as reorganized and opened to the
whole Of Britain's 100000 electors
vies with either the conservative or
.ne noerai-radfcal party as a practical
trades union congress and the great
cooperative societies, representing to-
gether not much less than half the pop
ulatton OF the united kingdom, are
working In close alliance and consti-
tute body which no British govern
ment could ALLEVIATE and live.
1t was curious to see the Daily Mail
declaring that Lloyd George is show
Ing that our war aims are capable of
able to the most idealistic of the lead
ers now dominant in Russia" The
prime minister. indeed. adopted whole
heartedly the most ultra modern
phrases OF the bolsheviki and showed
that they are only new ways Of ex-
pressing the meaning and intention OF
Great Britain and the empire mo
annexa tfons, no fndemnities and no
government except by the consent OF
glove. though it may be difficult to
draw it on over the mailed fist OF
Prussia.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
KAISER IS CLOSELY
GUARDED ON TRIPS
THROUGH BELGIUM
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON, December zS-
So closely is the German en-
peror guarded when he travels
by rail through Belgium that
his movements are kept even
from the railroad officials
handling his train up to the
last possible moment, accord
ing to a correspondent of the
Chronicle, who has several
times witnessed the emperor's
arrival.
Whenever the passage of
the imperial train Is to take
place the fact is not known to
the chief railway official until
the same day, and to his SUBJ
ordinates not until a quarter of
an hour before the arrival" the
correspondent says. "In the
station the lines are all kept
free"
Describing one such arrival
of the emperor's train, the cor
respondent says: "AIl work.
men, on this occasion, whether
Belgian or German, were dis
patched outside, and access to
the station was forbidden. This
applied to all passengers as
we'll. The military guards oc-
cupying parts of the station
and environs were ordered to
leave their posts and pile their
arms. The only persons al
lowed on the platform were the
stationmaster, his employees
appointed to work the signals
and the military chief. There
was no guard of honor, no
manifestation whatever"
Evening star., 1918-01-13
By EDWARD PRICE BELL.


Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1913.
LONDON. January 12.-Interpreting the
terms OF peace offered to Russia by Ger
many, Lovat Fraser, one of the strongest
political writer's Of the day. says:
For the first time we see Germany
naked and unashamed. She has admitted
that she drew the sword and plunged the
world into deadly strife in order to gain
control Of great territories and subject
millions of hapless folk to permanent slav-
cry. We are approaching a subtle dan
ger Of the nature of which the Germans
are well aware. 1t Is not going to be easy
to make the nation understand that the
enemy can afford to relinquish most of
his gains in the west and still obtain in
the east such spoils as ultimately would
leave US in peril as great as ever.
ut Is not going to be light task to
demonstrate that it is important to fight
for a free Poland and an unconquered
the Germans make immense veiled con-
quests in the east we still shall have lost
the war and that II we leave an unde-
feated Germany to fatten on the PROSTATE
Asia, she will renew the old mad game OF
the sword at the very first opportunity.
The very names are unfamiliar to the
British public. How can they care about
the future Of Lithuania, Livonia, Esthe-
MIA, the distant Kazan and the still more
distant Bokhara?
"Yet the effort must be made, for the
fate Of the war may depend upon a right
understanding Of the intentions revealed
at Brest-Litovsk."
Evening star., 1918-01-13
H0NORS ENGLAND's RULER.
japanese Emperor Confers Rank Of
Field Marshal on King George.

TOXIC. Thursday. January 10.-Em-
Ieror Yoshihito has conferred the rank
Of field marshal upon King George of
England. The king has conferred the
same rank upon the emperor.
The newspapers refer to this exchange
of courtesies as a unique episode in
Anglo-Japanese relations which should
be marked with white stone in tha
history Of Japan.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
U. S. Prisoners in German Films.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. December 20.-A hand
full Of captured American soldiers. under
cross-questioning by German officers be-
fore a crowd of grinning Teutons, was
featured In the latest issue of ''World In
Pictures" an illustrated weekly. printed
In ten languages and distributed through
out the world by the German govern
ment's propaganda department. Another
picture shows the prisoners riding in. a
motor lorry under heavy guard. This is
entitled American Prisoners Arriving In
the German Lines giving the impression
that the twelve are only small section Of
q large number.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
To Curb Sale Of Art Objects.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
BERLIN, December 15.-Frenzied bid
ding at recent art auctions here has
prompted the Prussian chamber by
unanimous vote to authorize the gov
ernment to enact a law prohibiting or
impeding the sale abroad of art objects
or paintings Of old masters now owned
in Germany.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
British Fighters to Get Raise.

Correspondents Of the Associated Press,
LONDON. December 2s.-British fight
ing men are to get an increase in pay
which amounts to fs5.oo0.000 in the first
year and fes.ooo.ooo in the second. The
shilling a day" soldier is no more. The
new scale of pay provides minimum
rates of pay for the soldiers as fol-
lows: Privates, i shilling pence 4 day:
lance corporals. shilling pence !
day; corporals, shtllings a day. The
new regulations provide for an extre
penny day for each years service.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
Site of El Dorado Reported Found

Correspondence of the Associated Press
MADRID. December 15.-News has
been received here Of the discovery in
Brasil Of the site Of the. Incan city
known to early Spanish and Portuguese
explorers as FL Dorado. and hitherto re-
garded as legendary. The ruins are
located in fhe Manoa region. near the
Bolivian frontier. I'm the midst of a
dense forest. An archaeological expedi-
ton inclnding Brasilian. Spanish and
Portuguese scientists will make q de-
tailed study Of the district.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
Paid Heavy Proportion Of Taxes.

Correspondents Of the Assocfated Press.
PARIS. December 20.-The final acS
counting Of the fiscal department for tho
year 1918 shows that the ten departments
that have been affected by the invasion
paid between one-sixth and one-sevsnth
Of the total tax income Of France. They
paid into tho treasury 7s4.soo.s24 francs
out Of a total for the entire country Of q
little more than five billions. Eliminating
Paris and the department Of the Seine.
these ten departments paid ons-fourtA er
the balance.
Evening star., 1918-01-13

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Evening star., 1918-01-13
TO FILL THE VACANCIES
OCCASIONED BY DEATH
French Academy Soon to Receive
Two Members Recently Chosen,
Ten to Be Elected.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 28.-The most re-
Gently elected members OF the French
Academy, Gen. Lyautey and Henri Berg
son. will, it is announced. be formally
received here in the new year, after
which elections will be held to fill the
ten chairs that have become vacant
since December, 1913, the date of the
death Of Jules Claretie.
Since then the following members
have died: Henry Roujon, June, 1914;
Jules Lemaitre, August s. 1914: Albert
de Nun, October. 1914; Alfred Mezieres,
October. 1915; Paul Hervieu, October,
1915: Francis Charmes, January, 1915;
Emile Faguet. January, 1917; Marquis
de Segur, August, 1915. and Marquis de
Vogue. November, 1916.
The chair of M. Claretfe is by common
consent accorded to Marshal Joffre,
while Cardinal Annette Is mentioned for
that Of Albert de Nun. The marshal has
adhered thus far to his attitude Of pas
sive consent without making the ira
ditional application. It is said that the
Academy will not insist in his case
upon the rule.
France to sit with the Immortals.'
The drst was villars. chosen in recog-
milton Of his victory at Denain in 1712.
In his case. also. the rule recurring, as
pirants to declare their candidacy and
visit the members to solicit their votes
was waived. The other marshals OF
France who were Academicians were
dEstrees, Richelieu. de Belle Isle,
Beauvau and Duras. The last named,
the most recent before Joffre. was elect
I'd in 1775.
A recent cable dispatch said that tho
French Academy announced that "hav-
ing been sounded on the subject OF the
Evening star., 1918-01-13
VIEWS FROM ACROSS THE SEAS FOR SUNDAY STAR READE
PROPAGANDA PAPER
LEFT IN u. S. LINES
Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
New York World, Copyright, 1915.

Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
New York World, Copyright, 1915.
LONDON, January .12..-.The
Times special correspondent with
the American Army In France
telegraphss "In a house close to
the garage where correspondents'
cars are Quartered I found the
other day a torn copy Of the Con-
tinental Times, tan Independent
cosmopolitan newspaper ms 1t In
seIf-fnscribed, but in reality one
OF that type Of publications
printed I'm language foreign to
the Germans for propaganda
purposes.
at is evident that the CONT
mental Times In being surrepti-
ti0usly distributed throughout
the American Army zone and left
here and there where 1t would be
picked mp by American soldiers.
The leading article deals with
two articles purportinE to have
; been printed upon the same page
of an American newspaper One
IL entitled Moral Support for
German Liberalism and the 9TH
er. Federal Lynch Law Is De-
of that type Of publications
Evening star., 1918-01-13
Reassures British Workers.

This effort to keep the British pub
lie soundly well Informed Is rendered
immensely less difficult by Premier
Lloyd Georges latest speech to the
leaders of British trades unionism. Be
fore this there was a growing DISPOSE
ton among the working people to
question the war aims of the govern
ment. Pacifist agitators Industrious
ly stimulated this tendency. Now
Lloyd George. by specific definitions Of
Evening star., 1918-01-13
.BELG|ANS ARE RELEASED,
GERMANS INFORM DUTCH
Holland Learns That Promises Are
Kept and 1858 Were Re-
patriated Last July.
BY W. J. l.. KIEHL.

Correspondence OF The Sunday Star
and the Chicago Daily New..)
THE HAGUE. Holland, December
1s.-In parliament the minister of
foreign affairs recently declared in
answer to an Interpolation concerning
deportation in Belgium that the at
tention of the government continues to
be given to that question. He had been
informed that of the 4.197 deported
Belgians on whose behalf Holland had
intervened 1858 had been repatriated
by July II, 1917, and the German gov
ernment had assured him that the
others returned to their homes by July
Is. except those who had signified their
lister further declared that If it should
prove that any Of those Belgians were
being detained in Germany against
their will he would at once take the
necessary steps in their favor.
1t is reported, meanwhile, from the
border that fresh deportations to Ger
many have recently taken place and
continue. For a while deportations
were limited to other districts of Bel
gium. especially to the front and to
northern France.
Benzine Traction Ceases.
All benzine traction has been stopped
throughout Holland. except for motors
belonging to the army and navy and
volunteer auto service for the army.
In a few special cases permits for other
autos and motor boats may be al
lowed-for instance, for the Red Cross
and hospital autos, for physicians mo-
tor cars and police motor boats. There
are no more taxis in the town except
electric cars; no freight cars except by
fo1 CO hot tn, ocf -loy
alone 1900 chaunteurs are thrown out
of work.
II the new Russian government
should cancel it's debts and loans Hol-
Dutch bankers. for annually Some
7o0ooo 900 horins ($2s, .O0O is paid
out here as interest. which shows that
the holdings of Russian securities
OOO. .OOO). Only one of the state pension
funds would suffer-the fund for
widows and orphans Of civil servants.
All other state pension funds hold only
Dutch securities.
Reported the Safest.
The Russians were always reported
the safest and best investments. and
most bonds and railway shares are held
by small investors. SO that these would
suffer most. The Dutch minister Of
| finance does not see the situation in
| such dark aspect. however. for he fs
sure that the Russian government will
sooner or later begin to understand
| that Russia cannot get along finan-
cially without the foreign money mar
ket, and that any attempt to raise a
! loan would certainly fail unless all LA
/ bilities thus far incurred were to be
met or acknowledged in full.
/ The leading bankers hold much the
same view The only difficulty is that
most small capitalists will scarcely be
able to get along without the interest
for any length of time. Big capitalists
can always afford to await events.
| The Russian legation at The Hague
and the Russian officers now in Hol-
Iland Indignantly repudiate all the
actions of the maximalists nd have
published indignant protests in the
Dutch papers.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
DOMINGO PROSPERS
UNDER US. CONTROL
American Management of Rev.
enues AccumuIates
100000.
LIQUOR TAX is COLLECTED
LIQUOR TAX IS COLLECTED
Especial Correspondence Of The Sunday
Star and New York Worldly

Especial Correspondence Of The Sunday
Star and New York Worldly
sANTO DOMINGO CITY. December Is.
AT the close Of the first year Of
American military government the Do
minican republic finds itself in the best
financial and economic condition in its
history. More than $2,0oo,000 has been
accumulated in tho Dominican treasury
from current receipts during the past
year, sum. it is believed. which has
never before been equaled.
1t was on November %, 1915. that a
proclamation was issued establishing
a temporary military government in
the republic 1t was issued by then
Capt. H. S. Knapp now a rear admiral,
who. since assuming control for the
temporary military government, has
remained as its head.
The $4,000, 1000 which has accumulated
and internal taxes which have been COL
lected by the customs receivership
under the convention Of 1917, which
funds are set aside for the repayment
of the national debt Of $50. 100000 guar
anteed at that time by the United States
government.
o. s. Bore Many Expenses.
+. That it has been possible to accumu-
late such a large sum is due not only
to the increased prosperity of the coun-
try as a result Of year of peace, but
also to the fact that many of the ex-
penses Of the military government
which has been in temporary control
have been borne by the United States.
For instance, all the navy and marine
officers and all the marines stationed in
Santo Domingo continue to get their
pay from the United States while serv-
ing temporarily as officers in charge
Of local Dominican affairs. This has
eliminated the necessity Of payment of
the salaries to Dominican officers from
Dominican funds. and this policy has
resulted in a net saving to the Domin-
lean government.
In the proclamation establishing mill
itary government one paragraph said:
All revenue accruing to the Domini-
can government, including revenues hith-
erto accrued and unpaid-whether from
customs duties under the terms of the
treaty concluded on February s.. 1907.
the receivership established by which
remains in effect or from internal reve-
nue-shall be paid to the military gov
ernment herein established, which will, in
trust for the republic Of Santo Domingo,
hold such revenue and will make all
proper legal disbursements therefrom
necessary for the administration of the
Dominican government and for the pur-
poses Of the occupation"