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Evening star., 1918-01-29

PARIS. January 2s.-Forty lives were
lost through the sinking Of the French
freight transport Drome and the traw-
Ter Kerbihan. which struck mines Jan
uary 23 within sight Of Marseille. The
Drome first came into contact with a
mine and the Kerbihan shortly after
ward struck another near the same
place.
Aviators later discovered other mines
in this region. which Immediately was
swept in an endeavor to clear them
away.
Steamer Cork Gets No Warning.
LONDON. January 29.-The steamship
Cork. which was sunk recently. with
the loss of twelve lives. was torpedoed
without warning. The torpedo struck
her amidships and she sank in five min
utes. Many of the passengers were in
their berths at the time. The survlv-
ors were landed at a port of western
England.
The Cork. 1879 tons gross and 2so
feet long, was built at Port Glasgow in
1899. She was owned in Dublin.
Experiences on the Andania.
LONDON. January 2s.-Dr. J. A
Harker, an official of the AmericaU
branch of the ministry of munitions,
yesterday said preparations were being
made for boat drill when the torpedo
struck the Liner Andania Sunday full
amidshps on the starboard side.
1.-THE vessel Immediately took a list
to starboard," he continued. II proceed
ed to boat No. s. which was the first to
get away. with fifteen passengers. We
rowed an hour and half and managed
to rescue several persons who were
struggling in the water before we were
taken aboard patrol vessel, which
took us to an Antrim coast town, where
Evening star., 1918-01-29
SWEDISH SHIPS FOR USE IN
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE

"A preliminary agreement has been
reached between the United States and
Sweden, according to official dispatches
from London, providing for the charter
of Swedish ships to the United States
to be used principally in the South
American trade.
Some ships of the Swedish fleet now
in American waters will be allowed to
sail with their cargoes. Others. it is
understood, will be unloaded and put
in the service of the United States.
Negotiations are proceeding In
satisfactory manner Final agreement
is looked for.
Evening star., 1918-01-29
NO OFFICIAL REPORT
!, SENT TO PRESIDENT
Executive Departments Learn
! of Czernin Speech Only
From CabIed Extracts.

The statement was authorized at the
White House last night that President
Wilson had not received a copy of
Count Czernin's speech outlining Aus
tro-Hungarian peace conditions, ana
had seen only the cabled extracts of the
address. Earlier in the day Secretary
Lansing said it had not been received
Ut the State Department
In spite of interest aroused in official
and diplomatic circles by the announce
ment of a German paper that Czernln
had informed Austrian delegations sat
urday his speech had been communl-
Gated to President Wilson in advance
of delivery, there was general dlspo-
sition to believe that the announce
ment, like the address itself, was for
home consumption. None of the neu-
trail agencies through which such
communication would be transmitted
had any information.
Col. House Sees President.
Col. E. NJ. House was caller at the
White House yesterday afternoon. His
presence gave rise to speculation as to
discussion of peace prospects, partlc-
ularly in view of reports that he
MT SOON 30 dDi pdd eSaiit- Sii
leaving the White House, however,
Col House said, while he could not
talk about his conference, he would
state there was no truth whatever in
Tumors that he was going to Europe
again shortly
There is but one official view here of
Count Czernins action in saying his
speech had been sent to the President
Of the United States, regardless of
whether such a thing actually had been
done. Reports to the State Department
told of the breaking up of pan-German
meetings by socialists who are tired of
war, while other dispatches indicated
that the pan-GermanS are sufficiently
powerful to prevent the German gov
ernment from making any concessions
from their extreme demands at Brest-
Iitovsk and elsewhere.
/ Czernin's Address Explained.
So. in the official review here the only
feasible maner in which the German
socialists could be appeased is by the in
direct means of pacific statement on
war aims by the Austrian government
This is believed to be the explanation
of Count Czernin's address and the talk
Of conveying it directly to America
1t Is conceded that if Count Czernin's
address actually should be delivered to
President Wilson at the request of the
Austrian government it might call for
2 further statement from the President.
The latter already has said, however.
that the war aims of America have
peen defined with all needed detail in
his statement of the fourteen points at
issue.
Evening star., 1918-01-29
DECLARES HUNS SEEK
WORLDS VANTAGE POINT
Lieut.. Gen. J. G. Smuts Contrasts
British and German Colonial
Viewpoints.

BY the Associated PRESS.
LONDON, January 29.-Lieut- Gen. j..
C. Smuts, lecturing before the Royal
Geographical Society on East Africa
last night, contrasted the British and
German colonial viewpoints. Germany
was not looking for homes for settlers
and had no population, particularly
farmers, for emigration.
Germany's colonial aims, the general
said, were dominated by a far-reaching
conception of world politics Her real
aims were military and in getting
strategic positions for exercising world
power. Germany's ambition. he addeu,
was for a great east and central
African empire. embracing the colonies
now owned by the British. Belgian.
French and Portuguese, lying south OF
Lake Chad and north of the Zambesi
river.
This territory. Gen. SHUTS declared,
was, first. to supply raw materials 1or
the German empire. but was mainly
for raising a great African army TO
carry out her schemes of world con-
quest.
Suppose that German East Africa
remains n part of the British empire
after the war" said Gen. SHUTS. Cries
of 'it will and must" interrupted him,
after which he confined:
Opposed to British.
"Germany's colonization methods really
mean policy diametrically opposed to
that of the British empire. which has
found its symbol in the union of South
Africa, I do not want to speak about
the disposal of German East Africa
after the war, but the law of self
preservation must apply to that coun-
try, where Prussian militarism must
never be allowed to take hold.
The east African campaign may be
Slr Mt fa tnf p
in developing the future and perma-
nent peace of the world"
Germany. Gen. Smuts said, proposed
to have harbors on the Atlantic and
Indian coasts of Africa for naval and
submarine bases, from which both ocean
American sea power brought to naught.
Native Armies Useful.
The native armies would be useful
in the next great war, to which Ger
many already was giving attention,
declared the general, who added:
The untra a:ned levies of the Union
these German trained hordes of Afri-
cans who will also be able to deal with
northern Africa and Egypt without any
help from white troops from Germany.
They will also mean great army
planted on the flank of Asia and whose
force could be felt throughout the mid
die east as far as Persia, perhaps far
ther.
Great Britain's objects in Africa are
Inherently pacific and defensive.
Looking to the future from the broad
est viewpoint and looking further upon
Africa as a halfway houses on the
road to India and Australia, the Brit
ish empire asks only internal peace and
the security of it's external communi-
cations.
Evening star., 1918-01-29
U. S. OFFICER IS DISABLED.
Lieut.. Brown, Medical Corps, Slight
ly Wounded in Action.

Gen. Pershing has reported First
Lieut.. H A Brown, Medical Reserve
Corps, attached to the British expedi-
tionary force, slightly wounded in ac-
tion, December 80. No details were
given. His mother, Mrs. Tillie Long
Brown, lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Gen. Pershing also reported the fol-
lowing deaths:
First Lieut.. Jack NJ. Wright, airplane
accident; New York.
Annabel s. Roberts, nurse, septicae-
mia; Madison, N. ].
Hubert E. Roberts, meningitis; War
rem, Ore, and Earl NJ. Norris, pneu-
monia; Jireh, Wyo.; both privates.
Evening star., 1918-01-29
PASSPORT RULE BARS WOMEN

Passport regulations Of the State
Department now permit only those
American women to go abroad whose
services are imperative1y required by
some recognized relief agency. The
explanation, as announced today, was
that the presence Of large numbers of
free-Iance workers was beginning to
prove an embarrassment to the warning
countries Passports are being denied
also to the wives of American officers
IN France.
Evening star., 1918-01-29
TWO VESSELS SUNK BY MINES;
ONE IS VICTIM OF TORPEDO

we arrived at o'clock Sunday after
noon.
"I was on deck at the time the Ana
dania was torpedoed, but saw neither
submarine nor torpedo. I believe all
the passengers were saved. but several
stokers were killed by an explosion
in the engine room"
But Little Confusion.
J. ]. Holgate. an Anglo-American
business man, said:
instructions were given to the
passengers at breakfast to prepare
for boat drill at 10 o'clock. We were
making ready to go to our stations
when the torpedo struck, and conse-
quently there was little confusion.
Owing to the heavy list. however, some
of the passengers experienced diff
Guilty in making their way to the sta
tions promptly.
..The passengers in our boat included a
Belgian woman of seventy-one years and
Russian woman with two small chill
dren. They behaved bravely.
"a friend of mine. w. ]. Nichols OF
London, told me he saw a submarine
twice; once within twenty yards OF the
lifeboat, again fifty yards distant"
There were no Americans among the
who were booked in London Tor
the Andania.
Evening star., 1918-01-29

ferencss Of the supreme war council u
tho allies At Paris.
Gen. Bliss II chairman Of the United
States War Department war council.
Col Grant is secretary Of that body.
Vice Admiral w. 8. Sims Of the Navy
is representing the United States Navy
at the conferences of representatives of
the allied powers. These conferences
are expected to result in prompt and
vigorous operations against the cen-
trail powers. both on land and sea.
Evening star., 1918-01-29
MOT LIABLE FOR EXTRA COST.

Controller Warwick of tho Treasury
has ruled that the r. p. Andrews Paper
Company is not liable for extra cost to
che Post Office Department of millions
Of parcel post insurance tags purchased
In the open market The Post Office
Department, prior to the Christmas
rush, bought the tags when the An
drews company was unable to furnish
them. The controller found that this
rush order was placed with the COM
bany beforea formal contract to sup
Ely She- -dapAxfmAnk had bean -6xnA4,
Evening star., 1918-01-29

Many Have Written
Praising Father Johns Medicine for
colds, coughs and as body builder
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1918-01-29
BELIEVE e5o.oOO WILL ENROLL.
Labor Department Officials Confident
Ship Workers DrivetWill Succeed.

Labor Department officials are con-
dent that when the drive to enroll
25O,000 shipyard workers by the public
service reserve needs, February 16, the
total number hoped for will have been
reached.
First figures of the enrolment are to
be computed Saturday. William E. Hail.
national director of the public service
reserve has called a meeting Friday of
state directors from states east and
south of North Dakota
Evening star., 1918-01-29
COL. GRANT AID TO GEN BLISS.
Acting as Military Secretary at Al
lied War Council,

Col. Q. S. Grant. Sd. Corps Of Engi-
neers, grandson Of President Grant, is
acting as military secretary to Gen. T.
H. Bliss. chief of staff. military repre-
sentative of the United States at con-
Evening star., 1918-01-29
Must End MiIitaf1 f1sua.

at cannot allow return to condi-
tions which mean the militarization of
the natives and their employment for
scheme of world power.
at cannot allow naval and subma-
rine bases to be organized on both
coasts of Africa, to the enlargement
of the sea communication of the en-
pire and the peace of the world. 1t
must insist upon through land COM
munication from one end of Africa to
the other.
"As long as there is no real change
of heart in Germany, no irrevocable
break with militarism, the law of self
preservation must be considered para
mount. No fresh extension of Prus-
sian militarism to other continents and
seas should be tolerated, and the con-
quered German colonies can be regard
ed only as guarantees for the future
peace of the world"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
UPPER cLcH" RAISE SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
COAL

The annual convention of the State
Sunday School Association viii he
held in the First Baptist church. ut
Richmond, Virginia. April Oil. This
convention is cr-dcnominational.
Many of the leading Sunday school
workers and Sunday School Secreta-
ries of all denominations in the state
will have places on the program.
All churches and Sunday Schools in
the State are cordially invited to
send delegates to this convention.
Sunday School teachers and all per-
sons interested in Sunday School
work and ministers of all dcnomina
tions will be cordially welcomed.
The Secretary Thos. c. Diggs. of
Richmond, will be glad to send pro-
grams and give full information to
all persons interested.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
PRODUCTION OF RIFLES AND
AMMUNITION.

Rifle and cartridge production in
the United States has developed in
volume and in quality on II scale as
surfing the satisfactory equipment of
the, Army, according TO II statement
authorized by the Secretary of War.
To achieve TIE rifle and nmmuni-
ton production program the govern
mcnt has expended or mas obligated
itself to cXpcnd, during 10 months of
war, $500, 100000 and 200 officers. so
600 men and 10000 women have been
engaged exclusively in the manufnc-
ture of rifles and cartridges. Two
Government plants and three private
y owned plants are engaged in max
ing rifles and one Government plant
and incn privately owned plants are
engaged i'll cartridge manufacture.
Ordnance experts in this country and
IN Europe are in agreement that the
United States Army is being cquipp-
ed with two of the best three rifles
in the world.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
REALITY IN RELIGION.

The primary call of Lent is a call
to reality in religion. The defect of
much of the religion of the present
day is its lack of vital reality. The
ever-present danger is that it should
become conventional. In the very ma
ture of things prayer and worship,
which are essential elements of relie-
ion, tend to become merely formal
acts. 1t is the easiest thing in the
world to have the form of godliness
without its power; to make, religion
a theory and not a life. So with many
men prayer has degenrated into say
ing prayers; worship into going to
church; and both alike are mechan-
zeal. 1t needs no particular insight to
see that the paramount cry of today
is for reality. Our patriotism must
be real; our sacrifice must be real;
our service must be real; Men will no
longer tolerate unreality. Mistakes
may be freely forgiven, but not con-
ventional service and sacrifice.
Religion may lack many things, but
1t must be real. 1t must be n power
manifold aspects. The objectionable
sin in religion is the unreality. This is
one of the large lessons of the world
war. Conventional religion may have
sufiiced for conventional times, but
the war has taught us that conven-
tional religion is wores than useless
in times like these. Face to face with
the supreme test of strength, it has
broken down under thes train. Men
have tride it and found it wanting. 1t
does not ring true.
Thel literature of the war bears
abundant witness to the hunger of
the man at the front for real religion.
He is face to face with naked life.
The trenches will not tolerate pre-
tense. He knows little of nice theo-
logical definition; he is suspicious
about dogma; he has no patience with
ecclesiastical controversy, but he
clings passionately and tenaciously
to religious realities. Sin is not a
theory, but stern fact. He has no
theory about prayer, but he prays
as he never did before. In the death
OF every comrade he. sees an atone
ment and a redemption. He has re-
discovered God as the Alpha and the
Omega. And the God he has found
is not an abstraction throned above
the stars, but a living reality in the
lives of hard-pressed men; a God who
is closer than breathing and nearer
than hands and feet. Religion is in
tensely real to the fighting man.
There now remains the hard task of
the long advance to victory. The
supreme need is strength to main
tain the steady gait. And Lent points
to the source of that strength. For
centuries men have found in its dis
cipline the renewal they craved; its
multiplied services have made wor-
ship more vital; prayer has become
real. The more diligently men walk
in this old and tried path, the more
will the power outside themselves
make for strength and righteousness
(From New York Tipnes.)
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
Horn Family Now Wealthy BY
Lease of Acid Iron Mineral
!. Rights to Corporation.

Most everyone has read of the great
medicinal iron deposit unearthed OH
the Horn farm down near Hickory
Mississippi, and today the highly con-
centrated product is put up under the
Aim trade mary of the Ferrodinc
Chemical Corporation which has stood
for quality and strength in medicines
for over thirty years.
DR.. R. C. Johnson, of Stringer,
Miss, in letter sometime ago said
81 have used Acid Iron Mineral in
my practice for number of years
and find that it has no equal as a
nervine, blood purifier and liver med
icine In the treatment of indiges-
ton and dyspepsia nothing can COM
pete with it,"
Just teaspoonful OF less of Acid
Iron Mineral mixed with glass of
water after meals has relieved many
a man and woman of severe stomach
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
TERRIBLY SWOLLEN
Suffering Described AS Torture
Relieved by BIacl,-Draught.

Rossvillc, Ga.-Mrs. Kate Lee Able, oil
This place. writes: "Niy husband is an
engineer, and once while lifting, he in
iured himself with piece of heavy ma
chinery. across The abdomen He was
so sore he could not bear to press on
himself at all, on chest or abdomen. He
weighed l65 lbs, and fell off until he
weighed 10 lbs, in two weeks.
lie became constipated and it looked
like ne would die. We had three different
doctors, yet with all their medicine, his
bowels failed to act. He would turn up
ten-cent bottle of castor oil, and drink
it two or three days in succession. He
did fhis yet without result. We became
desperate, he suffered so. EIe was swol-
len terribly. He told me his suffering
conld only be described as torture.
l sent and bought Thedford's Black
Draught. made him take a big dose,
and when II began TO act he tainted, he
mas in such misery, but he got relief and
began to mend at once. He got well,
and we both feel he owes his life to
'Thedford's Black-Draught."
Thedford's Black-Draught will help you
to keep fit. ready for the days work.
Try i'll NC-13l
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
ENTIRE FAMILY WIPED OUT BY
THE HUNS.

Washington, March His etnire
family-his wife, two daughters, two
sons and son-in-law killed as the
result of German craving for world
dominion is the experience of Herbert
O. Owen, who was recently appoint
ed song leader ut Key West barracks
and at Forts DeSoto and Dade, by
the commission on Training Camp
Activities of the war and navy de-
partments.
Mr.. Owens two sons and son-in-l
law were killed in action on the west
ern front. His two daughters, who
were Red Cross nurses, persisted when
the HuEs bombarded a Red Cross
hospital back of the lines in France.
His wife subsequently died of brok-
en- heart.
Mr.. Owen had been active i'm pro-
noting singing in the British navy.
giving large part of his attention to
the jackies on the warships in Lon
don harbor. He has come to this coun-
try III the hope of contributing his
share to the highly developed pro-
gram with which, profiting by the al
lies experience, American is build
ing. and strengthening the morale
of her fighting men.
Unlike the demansd of canon
ment where the song leader is in
charge of 10000 men, Mr.. Owens du
ties enable him to cover three posts,
spending rs hort time at each in turn
He is also coaching amateur theat-
rlcals ut these stations.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
NINE PAIRS OF SHOES FOR
EACH MAN.

Gen. Pershing has requested ship
ment of 1880 pairs of shoes for each
10000 men monthly, which is APP
proXimatcly nine pairs of shoes per
man per year. This quantity is in cx-
cess of actual consumption and is be-
ing used to build up II reserve for
all troops in France. When such II
supply is accumulated. the quanti-
ties per man will be reduced
The Quartermastcr Generals De-
partment now has on hand and due
on outstanding contracts, 756i 900
field shoes and 7,S73,OO0 marching
shoes. 1t will be necessary to secure
more than Il million additional shoes
during the year.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
Granted Rights
For 90 Years

troubles and pains, indigestion and
the various other symptoms of stom-
aCh disorders, and after short treat
ment not only has their appetite been
revived, but uric acid seemed to dis
appear as if by magic, leaving peo-
pie long troubled with rheumatism,
strong again and free of pain.
CDR. A. L. Johnson, of this place,
prescribed Acid Iron Mineral to me, "
writes L. c. Keen, ID. ID. S., of Hen
ry, Va, "and for the past two Win
tiers had excruciating pains from
rheumatism in my left arm. could
not raise my arm. it was so bad, but
after taking about three quarters of
a bottle he prescribed for me l was
relieved and havn't been bothered
since. In my opinion it is wonderful
blood purifier and remedy for rheu-
matism," L. C. Keen, d. d. S.
Note. Neither Doctor Johnson re-
ferred to above know the other or arc
OF any kin. The files have many peo-
pie of same name who endorse it.
The local drug sores have it or Il
large bottle will be mailed anywhere
upon receipt of 81 by the Ferrodine
Chemical Corporation, Roanoke Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08

The U. S. Fuel Administration has
announced further classification of BIZ
luminous coal mines in West Virginia
and Virginia, on the lines heretofore
laid down by the President in fixing
coal prices.
The prices, which are fixed rs fol-
lows, do not include the 45 cents al
lowance for wage increase under the
Presidents order of October 81, 1917.
For the Tug River Dictrict of West
Virginia.: Coal-mining operations on
the Norfolk and Western Railway,
west of Panther, including branches
except Newhall, Bcrwind, Cancbrake
and Hartwell--rnn of mine, S2.4O:
prepared sizes, S2.65; slack or screen
ings, S215.
For the Clinch Valley No. | Dis
trict, or Upper Clinch": Coal min
ing operations on the Norfolk and
Western Railway, Hickman to Fin
ncy, inclusive-run of mine, $3.50;
prepared sizes, $2.75; slack or screen
ings, $2.25.
The prices here announced became
effective ut IL. m., February 2S,
1918.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
LAST LAUGH.

A tram car in England was hoe
lessly overcrowded, and several peo-
pie, who had achieved the upper deck,
were transgress;ng all regulations by
standing
"Now, then" called out the girl
conductor, with emphasis, "you can't
stand on top"
"Well," said one literalist, smiling
blandly as he peered down thc steps
Eve are standing whether we can or
not
The girl answered nothing, but
promptly pressed button The car
jumped forward and the literalist in
voluntarily took a seat on the floor.
''There," said the girl, apparently
in complete good humor quoting the
barrister in famous play "you think
you can, but you can't-Ex.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-08
CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR.

The amount of sugar consumed in
the 1917 in the United States was
about 1873 pounds per capita, accord
ing to figures issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The average
annual consumption for the five year
period ending in 1916 was Si.7 lbs.
per capita.
There were about l,500,00O,O0 lbs.
of commercial stocks of sugar on
hand August 81, 1917. compared to
in 1916. New York reported the
largest stocks followed in order by
California and Louisiana.