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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-25
HAVE THE GERMANS ON THE
JUMP
Wm Be Glad When Tile Is H0meMard
Bound.

The following Letter was received
from Sergt. J. Leland Jordan, ord
nance Detch. Secteur, Postale DO,
France, by his father, Mr.. T. Scott
Jordan, this city:
France, September Is, 1918.
Dear Dad:
" am feeling rather on the bum
after spending two weeks in the
hospital Naturally was very
anxious to- be out, and through per-
suasi0n Of the doctor got out before
A was myself again. Only lost about
twenty pounds 10 that ID not 30 bad.
Was almost sure of having some mail
when coming out Of the hospital, but
nothing doing. Seems so very funny,
nearly three months without letter.
Rather hard to do without it. Some
times feel as though would stop
writing until hear from the States,
but then again I know you hear from
me even though / never hear from
you. # hope the time will soon ar
rive when they say "H0meward
Bound" Nothing will sound better to
me- What do you say? Hope you
and Mama are in the best OF health
and everything IL going fine at the
store My regards to all there. The
boys are certainly doing great work
On the front just now. II they keep
going at the rate they are going al
present, think Germany's days are
numbered. Write real often. Tell
nae ail the news. Much love,
EERGT. y. LELAND JORDAN
Ordnance Detch.
$eGteur POgtale go
Amer Regulating Station
Amer Ex. Forces, via New York
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SERGT. HERMAN 5
BECK WOUNDED IN
ACTION.
Was INJURED I'm RIGHT HIP BY SHRAP-
MEL MISS IRENE KAUFMAN, THIS
CITY, is HIS NIGHT NURSE All TUE
HOSPITAL WEARS A WRIST WATCH
TAKEN FROM Al CAPTURED GERMAN
OFFICER HIS WOUND is NOT SER
IOUS-HAS DUTCH ON THE RUN HE
SAYS.

The following letters were received
by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Beck, of
Mount Airy, from their SON, Sergt-
Herman S. Beck Of the 31Sth Infan-
try, CO. M, A- H.. F, France:
France, September 27, 1918.
Dear Mother and Father.
~ suppose by the time you receive
this letter you will know by the pap
ers that we have been into action In
the greatest battle in the history 0f
Tile war. And r. know you will be
wondering about your boy, wether
he is still alive. Well. X am, and
getting along nicely. have been
wounded in the right hip by shrapneb
but am glad to say not SO seriously.
IE arn in the Red Cross Hospital now
doing fine, so don't worry about me.
T Mut hit yesterday morning, Septem-
EbeF 26, about $50. We have the
Dutch On the gO now and are going
tO keep them going until this thing
is over, which don't think Will be
long. The Red Cross Hospital sure
does treat us fine, and dO not forget
W tell the people about W WheE you
get this Letter. We have real Ameri-
can Red Cross nurses and every one
of them is fine to us
France, September 29, 1918
I have been moved to another hos
pitaI further from Time lines. My
might nurse is Miss Irene Kaufman,
from Westminster, and ghe ig some
fine little girl. / was sure glad to
see a lady from home Az makes nne
feel, fine. VI am not hurt 50 badly, 70
\ don't worry about hIA, will zSD0n be
Y home with you justTas LETT. ana o
real soldier now, have been into ONE
/! of the greatest battles Oh the war and
ION my left wrist T have a watch
which took from the arm ofga Ger
man officer. He is prisoner now
\ Don't worry, II am getting along fine
i the thing that worries me most In
lost my dear old pipe in tine battle.
X France, October 2, 1918. Am gett-
ing along fine and Ms happy aa c@n
be here In a hospital. The Red Cross
nurses sure do treat me fine and
am getting to like the place. The
doctors and nurses are most all from
| Baltimore, SO feel quite aI
home, 20 there is nO HSG fc
! worry about me. I am "a lucky
i boy to- b. here, rather than lying ir
the field somewhere. MY hip IL com
ing along fine. I don't know how Roy
Grimm ID by this time. He was all
right when ], left the company.
have not heard from cine company
since.
v From your own boy,
SERG. HERMAN s. BECK,
3l3th InE., GO. M, IA. il. F.
q. p. @. III, 4
MI I4 France
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LIEUT.. SCHAEEFER
GETS WELL. !
WOUNDS ARE ALL HEALING HIS BACK
OPERATED UPON TWICE WALKED
THE STREETS or PARIS.

The following letter has been re-
ceived from Lieut.. Lloyd $Chaeffer
by his mother, Mrs. Mary Myers, this
city. He iS in Military Hospital,
in Paris, France, recuperating from
wounds received i'm an air battle
Dearest Mother and Folks:
"At last 7 can write you Ta few
lines, and will try and tell syOu some
thing about my case As you know
Fritz shot me down and made "a
pretty good job of it, in fact ne put
fve bullets through me, one through
my ankle, one above my knee, one
through my arm, and last bMt not
least two through my back, which
struck my shoulder blade and broke
it, then tore up something inside OF
me, g. III was At explosive The
doctors at once Sawed me up, and I
can tell you mo one thought AN would
live, but they sent me into Paris to
an American Officers Hospital and
after "a few days they discovered the
wounds in my back were starting to
poison ME, 10 they had To rip my
back open, and every morning dress
it, and suffer torturoE Of the
damned. have never suffered sc
much in all my life. I shot my man
and forced another one out Of the
fight, and was fighting the famous
Travelling Circus" at that time which
iis some feat. Will receive from The
French a Palm or two, also The
French Blesse Medal and ann sure
proud of it. The boys brought me the
goid-our Escredree insignia with
which I am tickled to death. \ sup.
pose I will be laid ND for an feN
months yet, ii has been sixteen days
now since 7 was shot and believe ms
II can pull through. All my let
wounds are healed up, and my arm
il doing well, but my back ia still
nasty. They are trying to save my
arm, as iii seems there is something
boys think I will b. sent t0 tht
States to lecture, don't know. III
a few days they are going to sew m.
back UP, and the Lord knows LIZ r ca1
stand any more, a. # ann losing m.
nerve. had the unique experlenc,
OF seeing Paris i'm am ambulance al
they rode me all through Paris com
ing into the hospital and III was 81
funny. Yesterday some df tine officer
and myself went for a short walk 4
fI wanted IT'D get my strength back il
! my leg and sEe walked the street
LOT Paris in paianaS. Gee hntt w@ hAt
lots Of fun, and am going to try an,
tEo to theatre. can move arDuny
fine as my legs are coming Q. x
They seem to- want me to nOv
around and feel so much bette
when 4 do. The hospital H. in e.
Latin quarter Oh Paris, and we se
some queer sights and enjoy the fn
walks The doctors say my physica
condition was perfect and At is dr
To that think II will pull through, y
mother I have you to thank that yo
NJ left me rum o. a kid and did not max
"a Sis OF me. Well. good night dea
folks, and don't worry as I will ib
i fine soon"
Nj Lovingly,
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MARFIELDSBURG.

Several families around here have
been suffering with flu.
Mrs Baxter Bowers iS recovering
from spell Of pneumonia.
Mrs John Myers has pneumonia
but is improving.
Owing to the fine weather the tomato
growers are still hauling tomatoes TO
Mr. Duval's factory.
Mr.. Vernon Barnes raised two, two
horse wagon loads of citrons in his
sweet corn.
Owing to the rain Sunday those who
had not used their cars for seven
Sundays in order to save gasoline,
still didn't have the pleasure Of using
them.
Ice formed On vessels 0N waiter
Tuesday and Wednesday nights OF this
week
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A Former Citizen Dead.

Miss Madeline Bowers, or Hanover,
Pa, former resident of this city, a
student nurse at Mercy Hospital,
Baltimore, died yesterday Of pneu-
mDnia r
Her death marked the first fatality
of the second-year nurses class, every
member OF which had been stricken
with influenza
Throughout the period when the
scourge was raging in the hospital
Miss Bowers stuck unhinchingly To her
post and devoted her time to nursing
her associates and others, who crowd
ed the hospital. She saw the ones
over whom she watched day and night
recover one by one and then herself
ras atricren with the disease
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LETTER FROM g. g. BEACH
The Home Paper Eagerly scanned
By che Boys Mt the Front.

The Home Paper Eagerly scanned
By the Boys at tine Front
Lieutenant O.. G. Beach, United
States Navy, attached To the u, 8. ..
Salem writes: a. reported by the
Navy Department: IA power boat
belonging to the r. s. 8. Salem, while
returning from shore encountered
heavy cross seas which filled the
boat causing 1T To sink, eighteen men
were lost Since the deplorable
accident I have had many inquiries
from parents and relatives Of young
men from our State. The eighteen
young men who lost their lives, were
from fourteen different states but
none from the state or Maryland.
The folks send me the Advocate
and 7 wonder how many people con
slider ii worth while to send their
boys the home papers The little old
town paper cannot compare I'm vol
ume TO many OF the big city papers,
but the fellow away from home eager
ly awaits the paper from home. You
pick up the big city paper that to
publish represents the brain and toll
OF thousands, you glance at the head
lines and the chances are you throw
1t aside, with the idea that you might
look AIT 1t again. The little home pa
per comes along that represents the
exceptional hard grind off brain and
toll ef very few The fellow who
gets it, If ne has time hurrfdely
glances through tO zee who's who
and why, 80 Does he throw 1t away?
Not much. He either carefully stores
it away or tucks it in his belt and at
the first opportunity you'll see him go
after it. Starting at the upper left
hand corner and winding up ait tine
lower right, careful that nothing es-
capes his eve, for its letter and a
vivid picture from his home town;
and ne wants to- know everything
that's going On there Especially is
that true of the fellow who works for
uncle Sam The fellow who sees
nothing but torn and disrupted
world, his mind full of what me wants
to do, and is trying to do. he has only
a vague idea of what is going CORN at
home, he picks up the little old town
sheet, and he reads every word every
advertisement, not the way we did at
home, for men as rule, rarely
bother about ads except those that
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NGr. Charles FIiltebridle, Carroll
street, Is dangerously ILL.,
NIr Ernest wv. Eponseller, oH the firm
-0f Englar A. Sponseller, Willis street.
is cunMnea to hfs bed by illness.
Harvey Stewart, of Mount Airy, is
- MumE thH missing ln tine casualty List
iblished this morning from France.
Capt. Charles W. Fink, who has been
Eationed at Camp Jackson, Columbia
NJ E.. hRH been transferred to Camp
herman, Alabama-
NIr. y. Hampton Baumgardner and
wife, OF Baltimore. were In this city
nm Monday attending tMG funeral of
Mrs. W. Frank Thomas
hNarylana's quota waIl ~ exceeded
hy nearly $10,000, 900. Carroll does
MMr part by pushing heF subScrtpt tions
$62 600 over her allotment.
Judge and Mrs VIM H- Thomas,
who attended the funeral OF Mrs.
Thomas brother, Mr. Daniel Roberts,
Ii Pittsburgh, have returned to their
moRm@.
Rev. Father McGuigan, who has
been ill at his home in WaSternpOrt,
MA. " slowly recovering and Is ex-
pected home within CO. next few
weeks.
Mrs. E an. Hull, who was called 40
Cumberland, Md, On account Oh the
illness of her sister-in-laW, Mrs ALBERT
Grass, has retUrned to her home tn
this city
Mrs. Thomas Robbins, who has
taken an apartment at The Brexton,
Baltimore, spent several days this
week with her parents, INIT. and Mrs
John Milton Reifsnider.
Cadet J. Bernard Fink, who was
stationed AT Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas.
has been transferred TO- Fortress
Monroe, WI, where he will BE- trained
ms nn observer i'm aviation.
AIRS. Margaret Orr, Liberty street,
has returned after spending several
days III Baltimore the past week.
While i'm Baltimore she visited her
nephew, Private Sterling Eckenrode,
mt Camp Meade.
On Thursday Doc Boyd, q driver
nf one of tha Odell trucks, cot hfs left
hand caught I'LL the chain or the ma
chime and three fingers and part of
his thumb were cut OiE The accident
happened at Finksburg, and Boyd
drove time truck with his right hand
~ far As Reisterstown, where his
wound was dressed by "a physician.
The Baltimore star of yesterday
says: It's an it'll wind, etc, firmly
believe some hundreds of North Caro-
NTmSnYrT Fnr naE nnt %hnrfFT Williams
OF Henderson, m. G., Just left this city
quarts Of good old Maryland rye? Tie
haS, and while the bottled essence ot
eternal JOY Is for ln sufferers, It will
M0 where all good whisky is intended
to 20, and little Wots the fortunate
sufferer of the aaia nU whether its
ssKealuile ~ not.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-25
BAN ON Church Services Partly Raised.

The ban on church services has
been raised in the following districts
OF Carroll county: Westminster,
Woolery's, Freedom, Berrett, MT. Airy,
Franklin and the town OF Taneytown
Day services only can be held. All
churches should b. well ventilated
Persons who have just recovered from
the influenza Oh who have coughs or
colds should not attend.
Schools will not d. opened until
further notice.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-25
Mr. Buffers Birthday.

MIR. and Mrs. 2. J. Butler, West
Main street, were pleasantly sur
prised last Friday night when Ave
autos loaded with relatives and friends
from Hampstead and vicinity called
on them The occasion was Mr. But
ler's seth birthday. The friends not
only brought good wishes. but an
abundance OF fine refreshments which
were enjoyed by I'll att a later hour.
All OF Mr.. and Mrs Buffers children
and grandchildren, with the exce3-
tion on one son, who il In the West,
we're also present
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RfttiHla,ar.

John a. Bittnger, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Bittinger, of L1ttlestONn,
died October 20 from heart failure
following two weeks illness frcna
Influenza He was aged 30 years, Y
months and days.
Mr. Bittinger had been the manager
of the B. f. Shriver Canning Co.,
LittIestown, for about eight years. He
was member OF the Holy Name
society, of &c. AlOysius Catholic
church of that place.
Funeral privately from the family
home Tuesday afternoon at o'clock,
Kev. MI j. O'Callaghan officiating
Tnterment in the Catholic cemetery.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-25
NO More Sugar for Canning I've.

Between August IT. and October
18th, 1918, eight-and-a-half million
pounds of canning sugar were issued
in Maryland
practically over, nO canning sugar
may be issued after October 23rd, 1918,
except On definite permission from
the Federal Food Administrator Tor
Maryland Dr from County Fool Ad-
ministratOT.
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WFeiste.

Mabel Weist, wife OF Harvey D.
Weist and daughter of the late John
Schaeffer, Cranberry died in WayneS-
boro, Pa, Thursday, October "a. Be
sides her husband she H. survived hy
two small children, Jack and Helen.
Her body was brought to this city
this morning and taken to her home
at Cranberry. Funeral services will
be held at the home Sunday, October
27, at 10 a. m., and interment will be
made in Krider's cemetery F. "a
Sharrer AL Son funeral director.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-25
Turn Bach Yoar Cloeks (lctpner m.

Washington, October 17.--No fur
ther effort will TO- made by Congress
TO continue the existing daylight
saving law. and thR hands of the
clocks viii be turned back an hour
on Sunday October 27, a. originally
planned. This decision was reached
today at conference between con-
gressiOnal leaders and Chairman
Baruch, of the War Industries Board,
whc had recommended that the law.
remain in force for the period Of the
war
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-25
GOrSUch.

Mrs. Annie H.. Gorsuch, wife OF the
late Phineas' A. Gorsuch, died at her
late residence, zoos Harlem avenue,
Baltimore, or pneumonia. Mrs. Cor
such lived in Westminster for num-
Der or years and was member OF
Centenary Methodist Episcopal church.
She II survived by the following child
rem: Mrs. wv. q Wheeler, of Hopewell
va; Mrs. o. O. Young, or Baltimore,
and Agnes r and T. Alfred G0rsuch.
Rev H. I'D. Lambert, OF the MethO-
dist Episcopal church, south, assisted
by Rev Joel Brown, IA former pastor
OF Centenary Methodist Episcopal
church OF Westminster had charge ot
the funeral.
She H. also survived by the follow
ing grandchildren: Misses a. Mildred
Wheeler and Dorothy IT, Wheeler, of
Va, and G. @. Young, Jr., OF
Baltimore. The pallbearers were H.
i'd Shelby, Walter Beam, William
Beam and G. c.. Young
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Funerak ssyvices for Master Leo. A.
Walsh 4 M EG old who died at the
home of A pb .srents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur TNAA[Eaf ann W- Main street,
Richmond va. we're conducted Mon
day, the nRF- Father KelThar &fdciat-
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COURT HOUSE news.
JURORS FOR NOVEMBER TERM OF
COURT DRAWN.
Transfers M Real Estate, Marriage
License, Etc

Jurors fcr November TeFm on Court.
Mhw following jurors were drawn
BY ChfcE Judge William FL. Thomas.
Tuesday afternoon, tn serve at thG
November Term Or the Circuit Court
Monday, NUvuFnber ~:
MamaMhnwm Distriet- Theodore a
IInBBun, SIudbn W. Renner, John IT,
Zimmerman, David Harry Essig.
TmlnTitUwm DHHtYNct Charles E.
Rankefd, Samuel y. Grouse Charles
E. EnelHer. David C. Fiscel.
Myers District Edward IT, Flick
dnger. Calvin E- BanRert. David D.
Geeting.
Wnolerys District Samuel y Mon
80; Andrew Jackson Raver, A1bert L.
Davis, L4 Calvin Jordan.
Freedom District. William r..
Rsnmt, Irwin E Buckingham, Herbert
T UursIer
Manchester District. Amphrey D.
HaGhInan, William Read, Charles E.
Trnnmp, George Fl r. Strevig- John M-
NnAI.
Westminster District. Fenby T..
Herring. J- Ezra Stem, John A- wv!
afxevIg, John p. Biehl, David Martin,
Charles W. King, Martin \. Leahy,
George p. Fouke, David Snyder
Babylon
Hanpstead District Edward Il
Richards. Howard F. Sharrer, Oden
E Eelster.
Eranklin District, John T. Farver
Thomas E. Moore.
MidnlahnrG District Henry Clay
Putnam, Wilson ILL., Grouse.
New Windsor District Charles ~
HOnsarE, Harry A Harman, John WV,
Baker.
Union Bridge District. Frank T
Shriver, Charles Edwin Engle.
Mt. Airy District. James F. Orr, J
Maurice Hess.
Barrett District Thomas F. Keef-
er, Frank r. Brandenburg
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Maud T. Parker, aged 20 years, q
months and 17 days, daughter OH Mr.
and Mrs. Columbus Parker, of near
Oakland Mills, died Tuesday, October
22, Of pneumonia following influenza
Besides her parents Inc is survived
by her Axandmother and three sisters,
Mabel hDsa and Ethel, two brothers,
Lest1 WI Frank The funeral SER
vice. held Wednesday, October 23,
az M Methodist Episcopal
chur burial was in adjoining
ceme gsW
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Wilbur M. Shreeve and Virginia II.
ArmneDHt, both of Finksbnrg.
HOratio Clarence Hunt, and Treva
Stella Black both of Manchester,
Earl wv. Maring, OAkland,e and
Evelyn R Williams, SylreaTflle-
EarI Winfield Roger, Manchester.
and Mary Virginia Lockhart, Rakti-
more.
William Eyster Yingling and Tillie
Wg EIalSley, both nf Marysville, Pa
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Ore!IldOrff...

Walden Orendorff, son Oft MI Ed
ward Orendorff, OF this city, died I'm
Baltimore on Friday, October A., aged
14 years, 2 months and ia days. Be
sides his father, one sister survives.
His remains we're brought tC his home
Friday morning and the funeral
was held Sunday morning at &c.
Johns Catholic church, Rev. Father
Reilly conducting the services. The
pallbearers were George Shriner,
Thomas Case, Ralph Taylor, Benny
Dyre, Scott Bair and Norman Magins
Harvey Bankard & Son funeral
directors.
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Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Carr, widow
df the late William Carr died Wednes-
day at her home at Warfieldsburg,
aged 73 years, A months and 49, days.
She IL survived by a number OF child
rem, Mrs. Nathan Haines, New Wind
sOr; Mrs. Edward Hooper, OF Arling-
ton and Miss Carrie, at home, being
daughters and William, Harry, Jesse
and Harvey Carr being sons Of the de-
ceased
Funeral services were held this
morning AIT the home and interment
made In the Church OF God cemetery,
Warfieldsburg. James M. Stoner f"n-
eral director.
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In the districts not reported, the
women worked in cooperation with
the men and turned in joint report,
90 their work should b. counted in
the grand total for the county. West
minister district was the only district
that made house To house canvass,
under the leadership of Mrs. James
Pearre Wantz.
MRS. CHARLES o. CLEMSON,
Publicity chairman.
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WOMEN DO GOOD ON
LOAN.
RAISE $l37, 600 in NINE DISTRICTS
OUT OH Ia.

The Women's- Committee under the
Council Oh Defense OIL Carroll County
had biz part ira helping to put old
Carroll over the top In the last
Liberty Loan campaign. Mrs. John
H Cunningham IA chairman FOR the
county, and Notwithstanding the
handicap or illness and distress, her
committees made good showing.
The following are the reports tO date:
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-23


ton II steel requiring five tons Of Goa
for its complete manufacture and tran:
portation.
while the need increases the deficit
increases. On July 20, following the
record week of production of July 13
there was deficit of 645,O0O tons a
week, or 1851, 900 tons total. In or
Ger to make up the total then there
would have to have been a production
Of 12,472,0OO net tons weekly for the
rest of the coal year. Now the reouir-
ed weekly production to meet the de-
felt would have to be 14,5OO,OOO net
tons.
1t is not possible to obtain from this
years increased production, compared
with last year, more than half the de-
hcit between last years production and
this years estimated requirements.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-23

erals! And who is to finance the ex-
petition? How much would it take to
mobilize and maintain, say, twenty
divisions in Siberia?
Gentlemen of the Imperial Diet Of
Japan were curious about the matter
when the question of the Siberian ex-
pedition was the talk of Tokyo. Gen.
cshima, the minister of war, told them
that it would cost about 100000 yen
for the first month, and 100000 for
each of the succeeding months to mo-
bilize and maintain one division of an
army in Siberia. The figures apply
only to an army kept close to the Pa
cifc Seaboard and on this side of Lake
II ikal. Therefore, if the japanese
army were to go four or five thousand
miles inland to the Urals, the expendi-
ture of maintenance could not be COW
cred by the estimate of the war minis
ter. Even at his figure, to mobilize
and maintain twenty divisions in the
territory close to Japan for one year
would call for more than 1,OO0,0o0,0OO
yen. And that is simply for trans
portation and maintenance. Arms
and munitions and other war materi-
ais today are no longer the low-priced
commodity that they were in the days
of the Russo-Japanese war. There
fore the enterprise would call for two
and half to three billion dollars.
Where is Japan going to get this
amount of money? Not in Japan her
self, for the simple but all convincing
reason that she hasn't it.
Then there is the little question of
certain materials essential for war
steel, for example, and cotton. When
the United States refused to let the
trihing abount of 100000 odd tons of
steel plates go to Japan, what happen
ed? The ship building industry of
that country acted very much as tho
il were suffering from a sudden at
tack of Asiatic cholera.-From "Con-
corning Japan and Siberia" by Adachi
Kinnosuke, in Asia Magazine for Au-
gust.