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All German Conference.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 26.-Tne II
suit of yesterdays alderman confer
ence in Berlin is not yet known, Du
lit is expected that national al
sembly will be summoned, on IN
basis of the forty parliamentary oil:
tricts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-26

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 26.-Clashes
are feared between repatriated Ger
man and Russian war prisoners ~
eastern Germany, 1t was reported IL
dispatches received here today.
Thousands OF released Russians are
the trains enroute te
their own country while half million
hungry Germans are hurrying through
the snow toward the same railways.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-26
DAILY RANGE OF PRICES.

CHICAGO, Nov. 20
Open. High. Low. Close
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-20
Heard the German Guard Coming.

HedFo me herman 1uaro NOmin0s
proceeded along it but a few hundred
yards when 1 saw in front Of me q
fence exactly like the M I had
crossed.
"This is funny" I said to myself. II
didn't know the Dutch had q fence,
too" / advanced to the fence and
examined it closely, and judge of my
establishment when / saw beyond 1t a
pine-foot fence apparently holding
I've wires exactly like the one which
had nearly been the death of mel
l had very little time to conjecture
what it all meant, for just then I
heard a guard coming. He was walk
ing so fast that l was sure it was a
Dutch sentry, as the Huns walk much
slower.
1 was so bewildered, however, that
/ decided to take no chances, and as
the road was fairly good / wandered
down it and away from that mysteri-
GUS fence. About half a mile down 1
could see the light of a sentry sta
Aon oAu L lliOuSut WOulu gu lleIc
and tell my story to the sentries, real
1zing that as / was unarmed it was
perfectly safe for me to announce
myself to the Dutch authorities. I
couldt be interned only if I entered
Holland under arms.
As I approached the sentry box I
noticed three men in gray uniforms,
the regulation Dutch color. I was on
the verge of shouting to them when
the thought struck me that there was
just a chance I might be mistaken,
as the German uniforms were the
same color, and 1 had suffered too
many privations and too many narrow
escapes to lose all at this time by
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-20
CHAPTER XIX.
/ Am Presented to the klna.

Am Presented 10 the King.
When the dreaded 7th of December
arrived, 1 halted a taxicab and in as
matter-of-fact tone of voice as I could
command, directed the chauffeur to
drive me to Buckingham palace, as
though / was paying my regular morn
ing call on the king.
My friends version of this incident,
I have since heard, is that / seated
myself in the taxi and leaning through
the window said: buckingham pal
acel" ~whereupon the taxi driver got
down, opened the door and exclaimed
threateningly:
"If you don't get out quietly and
chuck your drunken talk, I'll jolly
quick call a bobby, biz me. if I
won't!'
But 1 can only give my word that
nothing of the kind occurred.
When I arrived at the palace gate,
the sentry on guard asked me who I
was and then let me pass at once
up to the front entrance of the palace.
There I was met by an deliberately
uniformed and equally deliberately
decorated parsonage who. judging by
the long row of medals he wore, must
have seer long and distinguished sery-
ice for tho king.
l was relieved of my overcoat, hat
and stick and conducted up a long
stairway, where l was turned owe to
another functionary, who led me to
the reception room of Earl Cromer,
the kings secretary.
There / was introduced to another
earl and a duke, whose name I do not
remember. / was becoming so bewil-
dered, in fact, that it is a wonder that
I remember as much as / do Of this
eventful day.
I had heard many times that before
being presented to the king a man is
coached carefully as to just how he is
to act and what he is to say and do.
and all this time / was wondering
when this drilling would commence.
1 certainly had no idea that / was to
he ushered into the august presence
of the king without some preliminary
instruction.
Earl Cromer and the other nobiemen
falked to me for a while and got ine
Continued on page
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-20
Continued from last week


CHAPTER XIII-He spends five days
and nights in an unoccupied house with
out food except for the scraps he picks UP
in night forays.
CHAPTER XFV-To gain confidence for
the adventures to come in his attempt to
get into Holland, he ventures one night
into a moving picture theater patronized
by German soldiers
CHAPTER XV-Some observations in 9
Belgian city.
CHAPTER XVI-He caves the city In
the daytime and after some hair-raisine
adventures reaches the frontier Of Hol'
land.
CHAPTER XVII-He passes the cleo
trically charged wire barrier that sepa'
rates Belgium from Holland by digging
under the wire. Seventy-two days aftel
he had leaped from the train he breathei
the air of freedom.
CHAPTER X~VIII-Assisted by the Brit.
ish consul at Rotterdam he finally reachet
England and gets a summons from the
king.
CHAPTER xIX-He Is presented to the
king who listens with deep interest to the
story of his adventures.
CHAPTER XX-Arrives safely in his
home town of Momence, Ill.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-20

the most treasured souvenirs Of my
adventure.
My trunk was sent to Cox & Co. I'M
due course, and now that / was In
London / thought 1 would go and claim
II.
When I arrived at the bank I APP
piled to the proper window for my
mail and trunk.
"Who are you?" 1 was asked rather
sharply.
"Well, 1 guess no one has any
greater right to Pat O'Brien's effects
than / have" / replied, "and I would
be obliged to you if you would look
them up for me-"
THAT may be all right, my friend"
our records Lieutenant O'Brien is a
prisoner Of war in Germany, and we
can't very well turn over his effects
to anyone else unless either you pre-
sent proof that he is dead and that
you are his lawful representative, or
else deliver to us a properly authenti>
ticated order from him to give them
to you"
He was very positive about 1t all,
but quite polite, and I thought I
would kid him no more.
SWELL" 1 said, II can't very well
present proofs to you that Pat O'Brien
is dead, but / will do the best I can to
prove to you that he Is alive, and IL
you haven't quite forgotten his sig
nnfrrwa -rrArn - Ia --lvr 1.rE
an order that will answer all your re-
quirements and enable you to give me
Pat O'Brien's belongings without run
ming any risks" and I scrubbed my
signature On a scrap Of paper and
handed it to him.
He looked at me carefully through
the latticed window, then jumped
down from the high chair and came
outside to clasp me by the hand.
Good heavens, leftenantl" he ex-
claimed. as he pumped my hand up
and down, "how did you ever get
away?" and / had to sit right down
and tell him and half a dozen other
people in the bank all about my ex-
periences.
/ had been in England about five
days when I received a telegram
which, at first, occasioned me almost
as much as the unexpected
sight of a German spiked helmet had
caused me in Belgium. 1t read as
follows:
"Lieut. P. A. O'Brien, Royal Flying
Corps, Regents Palace Hotel, Lon
don:
1.-THE king is very glad to hear Of
your escape from Germany. II you
are to be in London on Friday next,
December 18th, His majesty will re-
ceive you at Buckingham palace at
10 80 a. m. Please acknowledge.
"CROMER."
Of course, there was only n
thing to do and that was to obey ord
ers. 1 was an officer in the army and
the king was my commander in chief,
/ had to go, and so l sat down and
sent off the following answer:
earl Cromer, Buckingham Palace,
London:
81 will attend Buckingham palace
as directed,' Friday, December 7th. at
10 80.
LIEUT.. PAT O'BRIEN."
In the interval that elapsed, I must
confess, the ordeal of calling on the
king of England doomed up more
dreadfully every day. and 1 really
believed 1 would rather have spent an
other day in the empty house in the
big city in Belgium or, say, two more
days at Courtrai, than to go through
what l believed to be in store for me.
Orders were orders, however, and
there was no way of getting out of it.
As it turned out, it wasn't half as bad
as 1 had feared-on the contrary, it
was one of the most agreeable expe-
riences of my life.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-20
CHAPTER XVIII.
Experiences in Holland.

Experiences in Holland.
But 1 was not quite out Of the
woods.
l now knew that I was in Holland,
but just where I had no idea. 1 walked
for about thirty minutes and came to
a path leading to the right, and 1 had
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-20

4 ger,iP for ne C1ars<s ~ H. fJsgr~a
eTs T. asaiHaJ, Isis- O4s f;p-D.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
LARIMER TO RUN AGAIN
Shawnee County Sheriff Asks Second
Term on His Record.

Hugh Larimer, sheriff. today Off
cially announced that he will become
a candidate for the office he now
holds, subject to the coming primaries
and election. Larimer also filed his
candidacy petitions with Kent Raub,
county clerk.
Larimer is a Republican. He is now
completing the last lap of his first
term as sheriff and asks for re-elec-
ton on his record, which is an en-
viable one. During his term now clos
ing he has waged an intensive cam
paign against prohibitory law viola
tors and large number of the num-
erous convictions in the court of To-
peka and district courts were OBJ
tanned on evidence furnished by Lari-
mer. At no time, however, has Larimer
lost sight of the important work of
his office.
Oran Layton. who announced his
candidacy some time ago for the Of
flee of register of deeds, today filed
his petitions with Raub. Layton is at
present an assistant in the office of
Mrs. Mary Chaplin. clerk of the district
court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
LABOR BEHIND FORD
Leaders Assert Jitney Maker Will Get
AL Workers Votes.

Detroit, Mich, June 24.-Labor
ranks in Michigan are rallying for
Henry Ford as the next United States
senator from the Wolverine common
wealth. He has the implicit conf
dence of the army of workers and
also labor leaders unhesitatingly as
sert ne will have their votes no matter
under which party symbol he may
wish to run.
Leaders OF organized labor, just re-
turning from the convention of the
American Federation OF Labor in st.
Paul. are taking off their coats pre-
paratory to the fray. II Truman H.
Newberry, former Governor Chase B.
Osborn and Senator Alden Smith insist
on finish fight for the Republican
rotary of the Detroit branch of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees of
America and one Of the foremost state
leaders
IT know that the laboring men in
this state are for Henry Ford said
Mr.. Mcclellan. They believe in his
wonderful ability and in his abiding
integrity. These are the greatest as
sets any man could have in political
or industrial life. Again, organized
labor here Is solidly behind President
Wilson in his efforts to win the world
war. Wilson has said he wants Ford
for our next senator. and that's enough
good enough for President Wilson, he
certainly is good enough for every
resident and every interest in Michi-
gan"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
400 Hands Sent Today.
SHELL HUNS ON MARINE
American Troops Identify New Dfvi-
sion Opposite Them.

With the Americans on the Marine,
June, 25.-American artillery today
heavily shelled German positions north
of Beileau wood.
The, boches in this region are ex-
tremely jumpy. Last night they sent
up rockets calling for a barrage at
every suspicious sound from the wood.
The Americans, however, made no in
fantry attack.
The increasing audacity of the Ger
man airmen resulted in one of them
dropping in flames into the American
lines this morning, following an en-
counter with n French machine.
Tn American patrol vast of Chateau
Thierry last night brought in the
bodies OF two boches who had been
killed the previous night. The bodies
enabled them to identify the latest
German division to arrive in this Sec
tor as the 201st. This is regarded as
a good fighting unit. 1t was brought
from General Fuchs army in the
neighborhood of Metz ~s.--....- B.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
new BELL TOLL RATES
p. U. c. Allows Changes, Including
Increase in Some Classes.

The Kansas public utilities commits
the Southwestern Bell Telephone COM
pany to put into effect a new system
of toll rates which recent investiga-
ton by the commission showed would
eliminate many irregularities and in
eliminate many Irregularities and in
has been in effect since 1905. The
order provides many changes in exist
ing rates.
The new order will allow for some
increase in revenues to aid the COM
pany in meeting the increase in ex-
pense due to war conditions, especial
ly the increase in operators wages
Under the new schedule, 40 per cent
of the toll rates in Kansas will either
be decreased or remain unchanged.
Twenty-seven per cent of the present
schedules will be increased 5 cents a
message. while 80 per cent of the old
rates will be advanced 10 cents or
more a message.
Increases in revenues have already
been absorbed in increased operators
wages, the company showed in recent
hearings. as under rulings of the state
welfare commission many increases in
wages were required. The company
showed that in addition to the in
crease in operators wages. 1t has been
confronted with greatly increased Ia
Dor and material costs in all depart
ments.
The new order of the state commits
sion is effective July 21.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
II new CANDIDATES
Petitions of Declarations Filed With
Secretary of State Today.

Eleven new candidates for state and
district offices filed petitions or decla-
rations for party nominations today In
the office of ]. T. Botkin. secretary Of
state. A heavy LIST of new candidates
will probably be recorded late today or
Wednesday. All candidates must file
not later than Wednesday night in or
der to insure a place on party primary
ballots.
Among the candidates who filed to-
day were: Congressman Jouett
Shouse. Kinsley, Democrat candidate
for denomination from the Seventh
district; Wylie w. Cook. Kansas City.
Republican candidate for state audi
tor; Frank J. Ryan, Leavenworth. Re-
publican candidate for secretary of
state; C. E. Pyle. Parsons. Democrat
candidate for congress from Third
district; James G. Strong, Blue Rapids
Republican candidate for congress
from Fifth district; William A. John
ston, Minneapolis Republican candf-
date for denomination as chief justice
supreme court; Rosseau A. Burch, Sa-
lima, Republican candidate for asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court;
Albert L. Noble. Winfield. Republican
candidate for judge Nineteenth dis
trict; Samuel Yaggy. Syracuse. Re-
publican candidate for judge Thirty
second district; c. E. Vance. Garden
City, Republican candidate for Judge
Thirty-second district: w. F. Challis,
Westmoreland, Republican candidate
for judge Thirty-fifth district
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
400 men NEEDED
banner Will Send Them to
Harvest Fields Tonight.
Number Should Be Obtained
From Topeka Volunteers.

The harvest army enlistment cards
which were signed by Topeka men in
the recent harvest hand campaign
were turned over to the federal en-
ployment office today, according to an
announcement by c. H. Danner this
afternoon. banner is Immediately is
sued a call for about 400 volunteers
from among the list who will go to
the harvest tonight = or tomorrow
morning.
The volunteers will be sent to the
wheatfields near Larned and Great
Bend Danner said today that it was
especially desirable that the men leave
tonight so that they will be able to
begin work in the morning.
Speaking of the number of men
sent out from the local federal en-
ployment office to the harvest fields.
Danner stated that at present he was
not able to say definitely the actual
number who have gone. He did say
that the Office has sent out between
20 and rs men every day since, the
harvest started
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
HOME NURSING COURSES
Registration of New Classes in Topeka
Now Under Way.

Mrs. K. Bredel, chairman of the
nursing committee of the Red Cross
for Topeka, announces that the regis
tration for the new classes in the sec
ond series of the courses for home
nursing under the Topeka chapter of
the Red Cross, will begin this week,
and registration is arranged today at
the Y. W. C. A, the office being open
from 1880 this morning to $50 this
evening.
The new series is to be for en-
ployed women, and the classes will all
be held in the evening. In about two
weeks another series of day classes
win be opened.
Nearly ninety women took the
course of study in sanitation, hygiene
and home nursing in the courses just
completed, and many more waited to
enter the second course. There are
fifteen lectures and demonstration
periods of two hours each, and text
books, requiring reading and study,
completed. The courses are given by
trained nurses who are authorized by
the Red Cross to do the work.
The purpose of the course Is to
teach women how to take care of the
sick at home. 1t does not qualify
anyone to do nursing outside of her
own home. On account of the exodus
of trained nurses for foreign service,
home nursing is becoming necessary,
and the courses make it possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
IS NEAR ANARCHY!
Conditions in Austria Rapidly
Drifting Into Chaos.
Huns Fear Revolution would
Spread to Germany.

London, June 24.-Austria IL rapid
ly deteriorating into anarchy, says the
Amsterdam correspondent OF the
Daily Express
Emperor Karl. the correspondent
adds, has returned to Vienna to ina
that the solution of the hunger situa-
ton dominates the whole situation.
There is no sign of amelioration OF
conditions despite Germany's promise
to send several thousand tons OF grain.
1t is evident, the dispatch continues.
from Premier Won Seydler's words to
the correspondent of the Beriiner
Tageblatt, that the reduced bread ra-
ton can be maintained only IL Ger
many helps. What will happen II the
help is insufficient remains to be seen.
AS a consequence of the grain con-
f1ict. German public opinion. and espe-
cially that of the military and con-
sentative classes is becoming remark
ably anti-Austrian. This feeling has
been increasing since the retreat of the
Austrians from the Piave.
The Austrians are now hating the
Germans. Moreover. they declare they
are more harshly treated by their al
lies than by their enemies.
The Germans. the correspondent
concludes. are afraid a revolution In
Vienna will spread to Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
DRAW THURSDAY
New Registrars Will Get Their
Numbers Then.
Affects Nearly 100000 Who
Signed Up June 5.

Washington, June 25.-Plans for
the drawing to establish the draft or
der of new registrants under she Sc
lective service act were changed late
today and Provost Marshal General
Crowder announced that the drawing
stead of Friday morning, beginning at
$3.50 o'clock.
The date for the drawing was an
nounced by the war department first
as Thursday and later changed to
Friday. 1t is understood the provost
marshal generals office prefers
an dmay. succeed in having
the order changed again.
just Like Last Year.
The drawing will be held at the
senate office building, where the great
lottery was conducted last year t.
establish the order of service of the
ten million original registrants under
the selective draft law. 1t will begin
at 9 a. m. and ACCORDING to the plan
should be completed before noon.
VIII Use 1000 Capsules.
In the first drawing it was neces.
sary to use 16,500 numbers in order
to cover the lists of the largest draft
board. This time it is estimated that
the longest roll of new registrants
hardly will exceed 1000, so 1900 cap.
sules with the numbered slips will be
drawn from the bowl
From 10 O'Clock in the morning un.
til after o'clock the next morning
was required to complete the task las1
wear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
ENGINEER WAS ASLEEP
Conductor Tcstifics That Sargent Said
He Was Doing.

Hammond, Ind, June 25.-Testify-
ing before coroner's jury, Conductor
Lewis Johnson, of the Michigan Cen
tral train that ran down the Hagen
Deck-Wallace circus train at Ivanhoe
saturday, swore today that Engineer
Lon Sargent told him he was doing
when the wreck occurred.
After the crash 1 ran forward"
johnson testified. 81 ran to Sargent
and said, My God, this is awful; how
did 1t happen?'
Sargent answered, I was dozing'"
Sargent was brought here today
and Is in custody of Gary, Ind, police
under a charge of manslaughter He
refused to testify today on advice of
his attorney, who claimed right to re-
fuse on the ground that Sargent is
formally charged with manslaughter,
and his testimony might be. used
against him. District Attorney Clyde
Hunter, of Lake county, advised the
coroner that Sargents claim was
valid.
The death toll of the wreck stood
at fifty-eight today, and it was said
that all the injured now in hospitals
here and at Gary will live
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25
HAMPERS GERMANY
Austrian Defeat Embarrassing to Teu-
ton Command in West.
BY w. T. MASON.

New York, June 25.-Von linden
burg's plans for new offensive in
western France may be disorganized
by the development of a major often
sive by the Italians against the Austro-
Hungarians.
Would Have to AID Austria.
If the present retirement of the
Hapsburg armies becomes disorder1y
rout, Won Hindenburg must go to the
assistance of his ally at any cost. If
he does not, German militarism will
certainly lose its final influence at
Vienna; and Austria Hungary might
by hunger, but by defeat ON the field
of battle. Won Hindenburg has al
ready taken chances by not hurrying
help to the Hapsburgers. The Austro
Hungarians are doubtless already
blaming the Piave disaster on Ger
many's reluctance to send troops into
Italy.
Might Demoralize Enemy.
A series of fast drives by General
Diaz at this time might easily demon
alize the retreating Austro-Hungar-
ians. Once a disorderly retirement
began on the east bank Of the Piave,
pressure from VIENNA for help from
Germany would assume the character
of an ultimatum. There are difficult
ties, however, in the situation which
may make the adoption of forward
tactics by the Italians impracticable.
The Italian front is now under the
supreme control of General Foch. The
Italians themselves have made no
preparations for q major offensive of
their own this summer. They have
been waiting until General Foch gives
the word for concerted offensive by
all the allied armies, in which the
principal part will be played by the
Americans.
Foch Can't Spare Troops from France.
To insure success to a great thrust
against the Austro Hungarians, Gen
eral Foch might have to detach i'm
portant units from his forces in
France. If this were done, disclos-
| ures of weaknesses in Flanders, Pi-
cardy or Champagne might be fol-
| lowed by important consequences.
The italian front is not the main
sector of the war. 1t is doubtful,
therefore, whether General Foch
would be warranted in weakening his
defense of Paris and the channel ports
by moving large bodies of troops into
Italy for offensive purposes.