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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-01-10
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gen. Die 3abluns bur45ufiibren. Die
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3dblast.el (runb 100000 Stiid).
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ginri6trng Don Sammels uno Bus
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ben tann Inter ben 10,900,000
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tuten Supernumeror gebilfe brei'
mal portam.
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gen, bic SGufisteit Der ein3eInen
DTrter tsnnsn gu Isrnen. Die bdus
figTt portommenben W0rter iinb Die
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tamsn nod oor: .un5" 1921. .000).
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finb 9,5 Yro5snt, alio aft elm Glftel
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SGlfte Der Spra9e Dor. Dabei fino
Sic bGufigiten WDrter in iiberpissenz
bsm Mabe einiilbis. bic breiiilbi9en
iino febr fslten.
Die lusbeute aus bieIsn SduTiss
observation-disclosures tann ni6bt leiht
iiberT6Gbt merben. Die Stenogras
pbie, bic S9rifttunoe. bic Shrifts
isBsrsi, bic Sdreibmaidin
bic &unit, bic Statiftit, bic Sprads
piFenidoft rnb per peiB fonit nod
pelhe DiFenfdaften, aiinite uno
@eipsrbs t0nnen iid ibrer nit sros
bem NuBen bebienen.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-01-10
Donnerfaa, 10 Sanuar 1918.
RasCaIs and Patriots.

No clear seeing individual any
more is blind to the fact that, in
order to win the war, the utmost
efforts on our part are neces-
sary. National self adulation
will not accomplish it. Dollar
patriotism will delay it, not pre-
vent it. Those who sit upon
Boards of highly patriotic no.
menclature and hand out con.
tracts to corporations in which
they are directly or indirectly
interested, at prices far in ex-
cess of reason, are rascals even
though they prate much about
their patriotism. We have been
told that certain member of a
national board ordered his fact
Ory to manufacture one million
articles which he knew full well
would be wanted by the govern
ment for our soldiers. When
the time came that the govern
ment needed those articles that
lip patriot, sitting on the board
which awarded contracts, did
not raise his voice in protest
when his corporation obtained
a contract for those million ar
ticles at a price that was ex.
orbitant. The matter was aired
in Congress but the patriot"
still holds his seat on that
board. Such tactics will not
prevent the nation from prepar-
ing but they will delay the sue
cessful prosecution of the war
because they become public
knowledge and undermine the
confidence of the people and
dampen their ardor
The government is asking
everybody to economize in a
rational way. 1t is necessary,
for the nation has been too ex-
travagant. But a visit to the
large hotels will persuade even
a casual observer that the proper
spirit of economy does not pre-
vail. A superabundance of
liyeried servants confronts the
visitor who knows that industry
is crying for man power. Musi-
clans discourse good music from
unexpected places and at inap.
propriate times while our sold
iers and sailors should be
favored with martial music
which is lacking. The visitor
meets the idle at every turn.
Patriots all, but not willing to
do more than lip service for
their country. Let us economize
IN man power and put the idle
into the army or navy.
The laudable efforts Of the adj
ministration to reduce prices of
the necessities of life are thwart-
ed wholesale by other "patri-
ots". Perfectly good food is
dumped so as to prevent glut
upon the market winch might
lower the prices of those artic-
YES. Warehouses are stocked
with foods owned by unscrup.
lous rascals whose profits are
dearer to them than the well
fare of their countrymen; who
loudly proclaim that coal must
be cheaper; that electric light
must be more sparingly used (;
that ammunition makers must be
shorn of their profits, etc.,
while secretly boarding foods at
the expense of their country.
Their actions, not their pro-
carnations, will betray them as
rascals or patriots.
I'll. Staatszeitung.)
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-01-10

8or 8eri6t. Gifter: SD
bob Sbneh bod idon einnlaI geiaet.
bob id sic nidt mebr ieben wial
slnseflagter: Gas iagte id auA
6em @enbarm ibon, aber er ipollte
bos nidt gIaubeu.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-01-10

(Tme translation filed with the Post
master at Scranton, Pa, on January ~,
1918, as required by the Act of October
d. 1910
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-01-10

Sofrates. Der WeiTe. Ipra6:
Wein Bsib 1T bOf, oas iii n,
S6ma6;
Ood ipraa er oies gang Isiis,
Dafiir mar CT Der DsiIe.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-01-10
SpIideiuifis iuollen Sinulanb als
Siepnblif anerfennen.

Die 9oIideipiti -eadridtenaeen.
tur melbete, bob bas 8onsiI Der
goIfsfommiiidre beidIoiien bat, bem
9on5iI Der slrbeiter. uno Soloaten.
9eIesaten slnerfenniing Der politi-
i6en lluabb1nsiefeit Der 8epubIit
Sinnlano porSuiblagen. Cine Son.
Serfommiiiion lit ernannt, INN 5ur
Srennune SinnIanos pon Rublano
RaBreseln au treffen.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
DEFEAT ATTEMPT TO
BLOW UP SHIPYARDS
Guard Finds Bomb and Throws II
Before 1t ExplOdes

An attempt to blow up machinery in
the plant of the Newburgh, y. Y, Ship
yards company Wednesday was frus-
trated. but only after a guard had
picked up bomb and hurled it out Of
danger. II exploded and did some
damage. but not enough to delay work
at the plant.
The bomb was placed under a COM
pressOr machine in one of the build
ings by a stranger who escaped after
beating the guard, William Hogan, who
discovered him near the machine and
demanded his wOrkman's badge. The
man was bending over and suddenly
Strengthening up struck the guard
over the head with a club. Hogan
was dazed, but on recovering from the
blow. started his search which result
ed in discovering a suspicious-looking
object under the machine. He hurled
it as far as he could and the bomb ex-
ploded when il struck, tearing the
floor and breaking about thirty win
dows.
The attempt to damage the machin-
cry evidently was intended TO delay
construction work on the ships for
the emergency fleet corporation,
which is about to begin.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
GOVERNMENT TAKES
CANNED GOODS STOCK
Gamers Ordered to Hold All Corn,
Peas, Tomatoes Beans and Salmon

All Gamers were advised Wednes-
day by the food administration to hold
for war purposes, until further ad-
vised. all canned corn, peas, tomatoes,
string beans and salmon now on hand.
Reports of such holdings must be
made at once, separate from those
to be submitted before March 15 Can
ners who have no stocks are required
to report indicating this fact Guam
titles not wanted will be released
promptly.
Reinsurance to househOlders that
the government has no intention of
communicating any canned goods.
preserves, homegrown food or usual
stocks of provisions kept for family
use was given today in placards which
the food administration will distrib-
ute The placards we're headed. do
not be fooled by the lies of the enemy
Sensational reports that the govern
ment would take over all food sup
plies have been spread by enemy prop
agandists. who in some instances rep
resented themselves as agents of the
food administration, or as govern
ment officials. They appeared first
in the southwest. il was said today
then in Wisconsin. and from there
worked to Virginia and the Atlantic
seaboard In the south the negroes
began to bury their homemade jams
and jellies and smoked meat for feal
it would be taken from them.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
SPANISH PRIZE SHIP
BEACHED BY HUNS
Two Americans Among the Prisoners
Held on Board by Germans

The Suanish steamship Igotz Mendi,
with a German prize crew from the
Pacific ocean on board, is ashore near
the Skaw lighthouse. Norway. Two
of the prisoners are Americans.
The prisoners on the Igotz Mendi
were taken from six ships which had
been sunk. Several of the prisoners
had been aboard the vessel for eight
months while she cruised in the Pa
cific ocean.
Twenty-Five persons, including nine
women, two children and two Amer
leans, have been landed by lifeboat
from the Skaw.
The Danish authorities have interned
the German commander of the Igotz
Mendi. The German prize crew re-
fused to leave the ship.
There had been an epidemic of ber-
beri an scurvy on board the vessel.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
GARFIELD SCORED
BY SENATOR REED
Responsibility for the Coal Shortage
Put on Fuel Administrator

Responsibility for the coal shortage
was placed squarely on the fuel ad-
ministration by Senator Reed of Mis-
sourl Tuesday in statement of
facts" submitted to the senate sub
committee on manufactures as a basis
for a report of its recent investiga-
tion of the fuel situation.
Senator Reeds statement was not
the report of the subcommittee which
Investigated the fuel and food admin
istrations, but a statement of his in
dividual conclusions on the facts.
The chaos now existing in the coal
business" the statement said, must
give place to stability or we will, in
the near future, be confronted by a
coal shortage of the most disastrous
character"
For this reason, Senator Reed said,
there should be an immediate an
nouncement of prices and contracts
which will be allowed to replace pres
ent coal contracts, practically all of
which terminate April l.
The statement also advocated the
announcement of a fixed time in which
the business world may safely adjust
itself to the new contracts.
Senator Reed declared the recent
fuel order closing industries east of
the Mississippi river was issued by the
fuel administration without warrant
or authority of law" in order to extri-
cate ITSELF from its self-created di-
lemma. The senator made it plain
there was no excuse for such cOndi-
tion to exist as the government on Au-
gust 10 took over the control of coal
without authority to commander
mines and ample powers to meet any
emergency
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
MEXICANS SHOOT
L. ;. CANALRYMAN
Bullet Pierces Arm OF Border Patrol
man; Fire Returned. But Snipers
Drive Men Off.

A soldier of the United States cav
airy border patrol was shot through
the upper left arm Tuesday while pa
trolling the border near San Elizaario.
80 miles east of El Paso. The soldier
was riding with a comrade when two
Mexicans opened fire. hitting one.
The other rescued his cOmrade and
carried him to safety. Captain JOS
eph y. Marx. commander of the border
patrol in the city, was shot in the right
leg Saturday afternoon by MeXicans
The soldier shot was Private Will
liam T. Coleman, a recruit. Both men
returned the fire when the MeXicans
fired on them. but Coleman was hit
and the two Americans were forced
to retire when six more Mexicans
joined the first two snipers.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01

MORE WHEAT AND HOGS.
Department OF Agriculture Puts Stres,
on These Items as War Necessities

Planting OF an increased acreage TO
spring wheat and the production of an
increased supply of other food pro-
ducts and of livestock, especially hogs,
is recommended in a supplementary
food productions program issued by
the department of agriculture. 1t re-
emphasizes and amplifies the program
for 1918 issued by the department last
August
Notwithstanding an increased pro-
ductiOn of staple crops in the United
States in 1917 there is need for more
food" the statement says Taking
into account our needs, the needs of
the nations associated with us in the
war and the needs of friendly neu-
tral nations. our best efforts will be
required to provide enough food in
1918. Whether the war continues or
not. the demands on this country, be-
cause of the increasing population
and the needs of Europe will be great
Chief emphasis should be given to
the production of the great staple
! food products, with special stress on
wheat and hogs, the leading war
foods. II is believed that the neces-
sary production can be secured
through the use of the best known
farm methods, but it may be neces-
sary to a small extent 10 sacrifice GER
tain of the less important farm crops
temporarily in the interests of others
which rank highest in Importance as
food for man"
The nartrnent states that il will
continue to assist farmers in every
feasible way to secure and safeguard
their seed supplies and to prevent
4 losses of foodstuffs from insect pests
and diseases of plants and animals
The acreage of spring wheat
should be increased" the statement
says. in order to make certain tha
we shall have an adequate supply o
wheat for our own uses and to NEE
the needs of the allies.
The department believes that
will be possible this year to secure al
r acreage in excess of the record acre
, age in 1911 without upsetting farm
plans.
1T is hoped that many farmers
especially in the northern part of tn
corn belt. will find it possible to plan
five to 10 acres additional in wheat.
ITO a small extent the acreage i
oats, if necessary. could be reduce
in the interest of wheat.
, If the acreage of spring wheat in
dicated for some states cannot b
planted, the barley acreage might b
: increased
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
WISCONSIN SENATE
FLAYS LA TOILETTE
Resolution COndems Senator for st.
Paul Speech and for His Published
Editorials.

A loyalty resolution including an
amendment cOndemning Senator La
Toilette for his attitude toward the
war was passed by the Wisconsin
state senate by a vote OF 26 to 8.
Critics of the Wisconsin senator.
in attacking his attitude, read into the
record La Follette's st. Paul speech
and editorials printed in his maga-
zine.
The resolution. which is an amend
ment to the loyalty resolution of the
republican caucus. reads as follows:
THE people of the state Of Wiscon-
sin always have stood and always will
stand sQuarely behind the present war
TO a successful end. We condemn
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette and all
others who have failed to see the
Righteousness of our nations cause
and have failed to support our govern
ment in matters vital TO the winning
Of the war. And We denounce any at
titude or utterance of theirs which has
I tended to incite sedition among the
people Of our country and to injure
/ Wisconsin's fair name before the free
peoples of the earth.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
VOLUME XVIII.
AMBASSADOR BERNSDORFF
INVOLVED IN HINDU PLOT
Prosecution Introduces German Doe
uments Showing Worldwide In
Intrigue Defense Admits Correct
DECIDING.

The United States government made
public at San Francisco Wednesday
intercepted German diplomatic cor
respondence intended to show how
German Vaccinations carried band
of Hindu plotters into the private au-
diences of ministers and statesmen,
financed lavishly their aims toward
revolution in British India.
Secret papers introduced by the
government purpOrted to show that
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, British
knight and winner of the Nobel prize
for poetry, had enlisted the interest OF
Counts Okuma and Terauch, former
premier and premier, respectively, Of
Japan in the movement to establish an
independent government in India The
intercepted correspondence, howev-
er, was indefinite as to the connections
between the japanese statesmen and
the alleged Hindu conspiratOrs. The
name of Wu-Ting-Fang, former Chi
nese minister to the United States,
also was mentioned in the documents
as one of the persons with whom Sir
Rabindranath had obtained friendly
interview.
The papers we're all introduced by
the government in closing its case
against the 80 defendants charged with
fomenting a revolution against a
friendly power.
The correspondence which was
sent from Washington for presentation
was dated for the most part at Rye,
n. Y. at one tine the summer head
quarters of the German embassy,
recounted alleged favorable inter-
views that Tagore had with Okuma,
the difficulties Wu-Ting-Fang in NOV
ing favorably because of the influence
of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, former president
of China, and revealed the hitherto
hidden source of Hindu funds.
Most of the sentences were in cryp-
tic phrases. Mystery surrounds the
identity of the authors, as only one OF
them was signed, that one by Count
Won Bernstorff, former German EN-
bassador to the United States, and was
addressed to Alfred Zimmerman. for
mer German foreign secretary. 1t was
known that this message, as well as
others which were alleged to have
passed between Won Bernsdorfi
and Zimmerman, went through the
hands of Count Won Luxburg, former
German ambassador to Argentine.
The identity of the addresses are
unknown likewise. Most of the mes
sages were addressed TO H. Eisenbuth
and a. N. G. differs at Amsterdam
The names of these persons never ap
peared in pervious published report:
of diplomatic messages.
The document were decoded b.
means of a special diplomatic cod,
prepared by the German foreign Of
flee, the key to which was given th'
state department by the German EN-
bassy before Americas declaration o
war. The defense stipulated that thu
translation of the documents wal
correct.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01

HOSPITAL SHIP TORPEDOED
IN ENGLISH CHANNEL
Small Number Reach ShOre-LOss OF
Life Probably 200.

The British hospital ship Glenart
Castle, which went down Tuesday in
the British channel, was torpedoed,
according TO survivors, "a of whom
were landed at Swansea. Nothing
has been learned of the fate of the 9TH
ers, including Red Cross doctors.
nurses and orderlies There were ap-
Fortunately 200 persons aboard the
ship, $50 Of whom we're members of
the crew.
Quartermaster Shotler. who was the
last man to leave the ship. describing
the disaster. said:
Il was on the deck at the time. A
few minutes before the torpedoing
the helmsman called attention to the
dim light flickering on the surface of
the water some distance off. 1t ap-
peared an instant later. but the off
Ger of the deck was instantly sus-
picious and ordered the course
changed He then ordered the alarm
sounded for lifeboat drill as a pre-
cautionary measure.
The order was scarcely given when
came the muffled sound Of an ex-
plOuluS lOIptuO ldl btlON inc ~ atti
line. followed by a shock, which told
us that the boat was done for.
Our action in changing the course
availed little. because all of our regu-
| lation Red Cross lights were burning
| brightly and we were as plain a tar
| get in the black night as the Germans
could wish for.
Almost everybody aboard was
asleep at the time and most of the men
tumbled to the deck in the scantiest at
tire. Few saved more than trousers
and shirt, and probobly nine out OF
every ten we're barefoOted. The men
assigned to the starboard lifebOats
found them useless. either the boats
or the davits being smashed by the
shock of the explosion.
Meantime, great difficulty was
experienced in launching the lifeboat'
on the port side. owing to the peculiar
tilt the vessel was taking as it pre-
pared to go down stern foremost. II
seven minutes we launched sever
boats, some with only a few persons
aboard. others overcrOwded.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
Allies and Austria Exchange Prisoners

The first exchange of prisoners of
war between Austria and the allies
has taken place near the Austrian
frontier at Buchs. Three hundred and
twenty-four of these exchanged pris-
oners have arrived at Geneva. They
include two American volunteers, one
English officer and 20 British colon
ials all of whom were captured on
the Turkish and Bulgarian fronts. The
others were largely English and
Scotch. Seventeen of the exchanged
men were carried from the train on
stretchers.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01

NOTED SPEAKER WAS BELGIUM BEGINNING OF WAR
COMING TO AMERICAN FALLS


travelling the the National
this conditions England will
the
the American
Mrs Clark Brussels the memorable
1914 and during the terrible that followed
through Belgium.
she
Il notified by the United States minister
the home Mrs Clark said
flag determined
Belgium
poured city
these people,
chdke
the goods the shop shelves
wholesale
Knowing
knows
the that the fullest
israton
Belgium Clark effect
william population.
As the declares Il little thinner
thinner delicate the bread line
their bowl of Mrs
mothers blinded
believe that victory be without effort
address Mrs Clark
official
today closely
directly aiding the which the S fighting
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-03-01
AMERICAN OFFICERS
RETURN FROM FRONT
Soldiers Serving Overseas Declared to
Be In Splendid Condition


Major General Adalbert Cronkhite,
commandant of Camp Lee, Peters
burg, Va, who has been making a
tour of observation of fighting con-
ditions in France; Lieutenant Colonel
c. Z. Kilbourne, who has been Major
General Leonard Woods aide and was
partly blinded in an explosion; o. c..
Hayne of Pittsburg, and NJ. Dunn of
Philadelphia, who have been serving
with the American Red Cross on the
Italian front, were among the pas
sengers aboard a French steamship
arrived at an Atlantic port on Monday.
"All that we need is some more men
Just like them," said General Cronk-
hite in commenting on the splendid
condition in which he found the Amer
ican soldiers serving overseas.
Lieutenant Colonel Kilbourne was
injured with General Wood, who was
wounded in the arm by the explosion
of a trench mortar during a demon
stration of the weapon on the western
front The major generals arm from
the elbow to the armpit was ripped
open by bit of shell. he said. Eleven
men, three of them French officers
were killed by flying fragments OF
steel Lieutenant Colonel KilbOurne
was hit under the right eye. He re-
turned in the hope that an operation
might save his sight.
Hayne and Dunn, who have returned
to join the American aviation corps
said there had been a notable improve
ment in spirit among Italian trOons
the past three months.