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The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

orders about to be issued, prohibit ing the further use of barley by breweries. Failure of the oat crop necessitates the use of all available barley for army horses. It is under stood that beer will not even be made for the soldiers.
 London.-The Cunarder Ardani is reported to have been torpedoed by submarine on Sunday off the Irish coast. All the passengers, number ing 240, and the members of the crew were landed safely
 Portland.-John McCourt, special representative of the war depart ment, has informed the police of this city that they must start a clean up campaign immediately.
 Petrograd.-As a reprisal against Rumania for taking up arms against the Bolsheviki government, Trotsky has ordered the seizure of the Ru- manian gold resrve at Moscow, amounting to one billion, two hun dred million.
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The ue.-Disturbances in the Rhenish industrial district of Ger many have become so serious that soldiers with machine guns have been dispatched to the scene of riot ing to preserve order. The seat of the great Krupp works is in this section. One cause of the trouble is Germany's refusal to meet the
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Rome.-The Italians have started big offensive on the Asiago basin front and report the capture of 1900 Teutons as the result of the first days operations. The prisoners include 62 officers.
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Washington.-The new Victory bread, which has been prescribed by the food administration for gen eral use throughout the country, must sell to the public at the prices now prevailing for white bread. This announcement was made today in answer to reports that the bakers intended to advance prices on the ground that substitutes cost more than white flour.
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

marvellous achievements made thus far in preparing the nation for war, has probably killed agitation in con- gress for the reorganization of the war department. Members of con- gress now appear to be satisfied that Secretary Baker is equal to the emergency.
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Petrograd-Formal announcement has been made that diplomatic re- lations between Russia and Ru- mania have been severed. Rumanian representatives in Russia will be sent home immediately.
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02
Portland-Charles w. Fulton, for mer Oregon senator, died yesterday

Zurich.-Three housand people participated in riots which took place yesterday at Prague, Austria, follow ing the announcement that further reductions in flour rations would be required. Shop windows were smashed and the rioters were in the act of footing stocks when the police arrived on the scene and restored order.
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Petrograd. - Six hundred Red Guards have left this city for Viborg, where they will reinforce the Fin nish revolutionists and the Finnish Red Guard in the fighting which is now in progress in that country. The Russians were armed with ma chine guns. .--.. .@
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London.-The British torpedo boat Hazard was sunk in the English channel on Monday as the result of a collision. Three lives were lost.
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Amsterdam.-According to recent dispatches received from Budapest, King Charles has accepted the re- signations from the Hungarian cabi- net.
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Washington.-Congressman Meyer London, Socialist member from New York, declares that it will not be necessary for his party to include a war plank in the Socialist platform next fall. He predicts that the war will be over before the fall elections and in consequence of the restora- tion of peace, the dominant parties will find it necessary to amend their programs. London also predicts that the Socialist representation in the next congress will show a marked increase. At present, Lodon is the only Socialist in congress.
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Washington.-The frank state ment made by Secretary of War Baker, in which he disclosed the
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Washington.-A report received by the navy department states that an American patrol boat is ashore in European waters, having run a. ground during dense fog. There was no loss of life, but it is regarded as possible that the vessel will have to be abandoned.
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Echo. a Socialist paper, says that state of siege has been declared at Hamburg and other cities in that part of Germany.
 Paris. This city was raided by German airplanes during the night, the bombs dropped by the raiders causing the death of a score of per sons and injuring fifty others. The property damage was very great One of the attacking planes was brought down and the three occu- pants of the machine made prisoners.
 London.-An official statement issued today by the British admir- atty announces the loss of the trans port Aragon, the auxiliary Osmanish and destroyer in the Mediter- ranean during the latter part of December. The transport was tor pedoed on December 30 and while the destroyer was engaged in res cuing survivors, it also was attacked by U boat. The auxiliary was sunk the following day. The loss of life is reported to have been SO9, mostly soldiers. The list also in cluded eight women nurses.
 Rio de Janeiro. o.-Announcement has been made by the Brazilian gov ernment that fleet of Brazilian warships will be sent to Europe to assist the Allies in their operations against the Central powers.
 Washington.-Secretary Daniels has announced that the former Ger man liner Vaterland recently car ried eight thousand American troops across the Atlantic on single voyage, and reports indicate that the voyage was made in comfort to all.
 INllN II Al llClCS ol agreement have been signed by Fulton and Champion Jess Willard for a cham pionship match to be fought some | time next summer. James M. Ham, mil, the promoter, announces that all money in excess of actual ex- penses, will be turned over to the Red Cross society.
 New York-William B. Thomp- son, who has been in Petrograd since last July as head of the American Red Cross in Russia, contributed a million dollars to the Russians to assist in spreading the Bolsheviki ; doctrines through Germany and Aus tria. Thompson believes that the Bolshevikis represent the greatest power against Germany and her allies. The Bolsheviki propaganda, he says, is undermining the mili- tarist regimes of the Central powers ! Russian aviators are constantly em- ployed in distributing the literature among German, Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian troops and civilians
 London.-The British ship losses during the past week show an in crease over the previous period A total of , vessels were divered, of which number nine were of more than 1900 tons capacity. Tomorrow marks the commencement of the second year of the ruthless sub marine campaign, and the Germans are still a long way from ending the war on the sea.
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Seattle. - The government has placed an order with Skinner & Eddy for fourteen more steel cargo carriers, each of $500 tons capacity. The contracts involve the sum of twenty million dollars.
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London.-The war office an- nounces that sixteen tons of explos- ives have been dropped among Ger man factories and munition depots by Allied airplanes during the past twenty-four hours. Sixteen German planes have been shot down during the same period, while only one British plane is missing.
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With the American Army in France.-Four American aviators, attached to the French squadron, participated in daring daylight raid on German intuition depots yester- day and all returned in safety. Ow- ing to the fog prevailing at the time of the attack, it was impossible to estimate the damage done. It is believed, however, that satisfactory results were obtained.
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many reached the city during the second raid and only one of the machines was brought down. This fell from height of ten thousand feet, burning as it rushed toward the earth. The three men in the machine were burned to death be- fore they reached the ground. An indecisive engagement was fought with another of the raiders by a British plane, over the sea. All the British pilots returned in safety after driving off the raiders.
 Virginia, Minn.-I. w. W. agi- tators are planning a ten-day strike in the lumber camps throughout the Northwest as a protest against the arrest and prosecution of certain members of their organization. Sev- eral of the agitator leaders were taken into custody by soldiers and police and efforts have been made to run them out of the country The strike seems probable.
 San Francisco.-Miss Theodore Pollak, resident of the fashionable district of Oakland, was placed un- der arrest this morning on the charge of espoinage. Federal officers de- clare that they will connect the woman with German plots, including the Preparedness Day bomb explo- sion. The arrest of the woman and the disclosures of evidence found has strengthened the belief that Thomas Mooney was the victim of a frame-up. Letters found at the home of the suspect indicate that the same hand penned the Prepared ness Day warning and the more re- cent threats which were sent to Governor Stephens. One of the let ters found, was addressed to Indus trial Workers leaders at Chicago.
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Washington-Major-General Wood in France, was slightly wounded while on an observation tour, by an explosion which killed five French soldiers, and injured two American officers. Major Wood was injured in the arm and Leut. Col. Charles E. Kilbourne sustained an injury to the eye.
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Amsterdam. - Foreign Minister Kupfmann has predicted that a sep crate peace will be entered into be- tween Germany and Rumania at an early date.
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Marquette, Mich.-Employees of the Pioneer Iron company declare that the explosion which wrecked the company's plant yesterday was caused by time bomb. No arrests have been made as yet.
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Washington.-The supreme court of the United States has directed that a mandate be issued forthwith providing for the execution of the sentence of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkmannn. The deci- sion of the supreme court over-ruled the petition of the defendants for a rehearing on other than consti- tutional grounds.
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Zurich.-The German brewing in dustry is to be brought to a com plete standstill as the result of
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Washington. - General Crowder appeared before the senate military committee this morning for the pur- pose of urging quick action on the war departments measure, to im- prove the operation of the draft. He said that the adoption of the joint resolution for the registration of men attaining the age of 21 since June 5 will bring the total number in Class One, available for immedi- ate draft, to two million men. This number, he said, would make it un- necessary to draft registrants in other classifications.
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Rio de ro.-Announcement has been made by the Brazilian gov ernment that a fleet of Brazilian warships will be sent to Europe to assist the Allies in their operations against the Central powers.
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San Francisco. - Prof. Edward Ross, formerly of the Stanford uni versity staff and now associated with the University of Wisconsin, has just returned from five-months' visit in Russia. He says that the Bol- shevki is not fostered by German agencies, but is a popular movement for and by the Russian people. Ross says that he talked with all classes of the people in Russia and inter- viewed Trotsky, before arriving at his conclusions. Tatiana and Olga Romanoff, daughters of the former czar, are espousing the Bolsheviki cause and attending the radical meetings at Tobolsk.
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London.-A number of German airplanes visited this city between nine and ten o'clock last night and dropped a score of bombs before they were driven off. A second raid was made shortly after mid night and was still in progress at an early hour this morning. One of the enemy machines was shot down in Essex.
 Official figures given out by the government this afternoon show that Al persons were killed during the raids, nearly all the deaths occurr- ing in the city. Nearly two hundred were injured. Of the killed, there were IA men, IT women and 16 children. Fifteen planes engaged in the attacks, five of which reached London and took part in the first of the two raids. It is not known how
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Paris.-A French freighter and 2 trawler were sunk late yesterday afternoon within sight of Marseilles as the result of encountering mines Forty lives were lost.
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Washington.-The American Re- life commission in Italy has reported to the local Red Cross headquarters that the Austrians have made sev- eral raids recently on Italian hos pitals, causing considerable damage.
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Washington.-Secretary Daniels has announced that the former Ger man liner Vaterland recently car ried eight thousand American troops across the Atlantic on single voyage, and reports indicate that the voyage was made in comfort to all.
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Washington.-Official advices re- ceived in this city from several Flu ropean sources state that food riots at Cracow, Poland, have assumed such serious proportions that the Austrian prime minister has been asked to assist the local authorities in quieting the disturbances. Thous- ands of women and children parade the streets daily demanding food Martial law has been proclaimed.
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Paris s-In anticipation of renewed air aids on this city, the police have been supplied with gas masks and other preparations made to safe guard the city.
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Seattle.-Pilot Andrew Helness, who was steering the steamer Mari posa at the time that vessel was wrecked, will lose his license for a period of five months, as the result of the inquiry conducted by federal inspectors. He was found guilty of negligence and unskillfulness.
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

London.-Another air raid over England started last night shortly after nine o'clock and continued un- til after midnight. A score of towns in Eastern England were bombarGed but none of the machines penetrated the city of London. A few bombs were dropped in the outskirts of the city, but very little damage resulted.
 Thirteen airplanes participated in the raid, which was fatal to rl1e persons. Ten were injured. A num- Der of spectacular duels took place in the air, before the attacking ma chimes were finally routed.
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Marquette.-A large plant en- gagged in making refined alcohol and chemicals for the government was wrecked this morning by a violent explosion. The authorities are con- fident that the explosion was the work of a German agent.
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Washington-In the twelve months of unrestricted submarine warfare. ending last Friday, sixty-nine Ameri- can boats have been sunk by divers, representing tonnage loss of 171,- 900 gross tonnage. During the same period the United States has seized 107 German and Austrian vessels, with gross tonnage of nearly 7OO,- 900. England has suffered a loss of 1,033 ships in the same period.
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Washington.-Sec of War Baker, in replying to the charges made by Senator Chamberlain, at public hearing before the Senate committee here today, said that more than a million men were under arms in the United States today. Secre- tary Baker stated that such criticism came from the impatient American who wants to do great things greatly" and conceded that in so great an enterprise it was impos- sible that there should not be delays and shortcomings The mistakes cited in Senator Chamberlains speech declared MT. Baker, gave a dispro- portionate idea, with the intent he said, to give the country the i'm acteristic rather than occasional. The secretary said further, that every American soldier who can use a rifle has been provided with one and that more will be ready when there is need for them. Regarding the statement that France and Eng land had provided the Americans with arms and ammunition, Baker declared that those countries had taken that action at their own re- quest, having more rifles than they needed, and desiring to save cargo space for the more vital necessities. In conclusion, Baker informed the committeeman that great plans had been made for the war, but he did not make knnMn anu of tho doto ilc
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Echo. a Socialist paper, says that a state of siege has been declared at Hamburg and other cities in that part of Germany.
The Nenana news., 1918-02-02

Amsterdam.-The action of For eign Minister Czernin, who has vir- tually offered to open peace negotia- tions with the United States, is high ly displeasing to German officials and the German press. In an in- terview published in the Cologne Gazatte, Count von Leventolow de- clares that the action of the Aus trian minister endangers GeNnany's life interests.
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Denver.-Articles or agreement have been signed by Fulton and Champion Jess Willard for a cham pionship match to be fought some time next summer. James NJ. Ham, mil, the promoter, announces that all money in excess of actual ex- penses, will be turned over to the Red Cross society.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Music Notes

koscak Yamada, the celebrated jan
anese composer and conductor of the
Philharmonic Society of Toxic, Japan.
who is at present in America, will meet
the members of the Musicians Club, at
Ia West Twelfth Street, next Tuesday
evening at o'clock. He will speak on
Japanese music, past and present, with
illustrations by singers and dancers in
costume.
The Peoples Music League of the
Feople's Institute announces that the
chorus being formed under its auspices
by Ernest Bloch, the Swiss composer.
Will hold weekly rehearsals at the Man
haitian Trade School, Lexington Avenue
and Twenty-second Street, beginning
tomorrow night. All music lovers who
read music at sight are welcome as
members.
frlcda Hempcl, soprano; Merle AL
cock, contralto; Guiomar Novaes, plan
lst, and Jose Mardones, bass. will an
pear at Mr.. Bagby's musicale tomorrow
morning.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Calendar for the Current Week

SUNDAYCarneg Hall, Society,
Aeoian Hail. the
Opera House. $3.50 oncert Hppodrome,
John Mccormack
of French chanons by Yvette Guibert Greenwich
recital by Vladimir
MOND-Metropolian
carnegie Hall S:5 the benefit
soldiers; Aeoan Hail. m,
8:15
m, Mr.. Bagbys Musical Morning.
IuESDAY-Carng Hail. 2:30
tra 8:5 panofore
m, pianoforte recital
WEDNESDAY,
etta"; Carnegie Hall, 8:15 VIOLIN
Edouad Gendron, Waldorf
the St Cecilia Club
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Opera House, p
Carnegie Hail. $3.50
concert by the Symphony
recital by GretaM Mason
fRlDAY-Meropotan
Hall, Society," o. n
the Quintet
Bimore, Of
S5 of chamber the de
del Destino";
Carnegie Hail. 2:30
concert by the Symphony Society; Irving
School, rio de
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
BY the Composer

When Mr.. Winthrop Ames asked me
whether would be interested in writ
ing the incidental score for the produc-
tion of Maeterlinck's "The Betrothal."
and suggested an interview, had made
up my mind before l went to New
York. I had been considering the pos
sibility of using "The Blue Bird" as
the basis of an opera, but this newer
suggestion appealed to me as a better
task. read the script and talked with
Mr.. Ames. l found that his ideas of
an incidental score were similar to
mine-my belief and instructive expert
ence as a critic of the drama for the
now defunct Inter Ocean" having
given me an nkling Of the mechanism
of stage effect. That much settled, the
entire score was as good as done, ex-
cepting for the work. We both discarded
the "leit-motif" idea, agreeing that the
mood of each scene treated should be
taken fundamentally on its own emo
tional basis. When, normally and nat
urally, melodies seemed logically to
call for repetition, they were so used,
with due regard for variation and
elaboration.
For example, one melody is the basis
OF all the six "sweethearts'" entrances
for the six sweethearts, it seems to
me, are but so many individual mani
festations of one instinct. The six
characterizations, therefore, are mere
ly six variations on a short melody.
And the form, the spirit, the elan of
that little melody we're determined by
the key" of the first swcetheart's
lines.
So it was with the two or three mo-
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The Music of The Betrothal

conductor as Theodore Spiering,
whom we were very fortunate in secur-
ing.
But these preliminaries were the
child's play part of the work. From
music chart worked out by Mr.. Amcs
before I began to write I made the
first draft of the score. On my work
table were n metronome and stop
watch. so that when this chart said
Lamp on table lights amber, seven
seconds knew that had seven sec
onds' worth Of. music and no more
The trick lay in keeping the logic Of
long scene, and it's flucncy, despite the
eXactions of that metronome and that
asterisked stop-watch. After this
spent ten days in New York "cutting
and fitting" Almost never were Mr..
Ames' calculations inaccurate, and the
music fitted nearly every scene like a
glove Changes we made; we found
that one exit professional, for instance.
really needed a few bars more music;
we found that the middle section of
the bacchanale again, would have to be
changed, for the dancers sake, from
a minuet rhythm to the duple rhythm
established for the rest of the dance
by the six-eight stressing But all this
was merely matter of the technique
of composition. The children's iitany,
lines spoken to melody exactly ac-
companying the spoken words, was i'm
provised on the stage while the chill
dren read their script for the first time.
Several other bits took form spontane-
ously on the stage during rehearsal
Lights entrance, for example, and a bit
of hocus-pocus for the witch.
MY one regret is that l could not be
present for the final rehearsal and the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

day evening, with Nine. Aida and Mr.
De Lucca. On Thursday evening
Aida" will be given, with Mines. Mu
zio and Homer and Messrs. Crimi Mon
tesanto and Mardones. Faust" will
be the opera on Friday evening, with
Messrs. Martinell, Couznou and
Rothier and Miss Geraldine Farrar.
Miss Sophie Braslau will make her
first appearance as Preziosella in ola
Forza del Destino," at the Saturday
matinee, when the cast will include
Messrs. Caruso, De Lucca, Mardones.
Chalmers and Mines. Ponselle and
Mattfeld. A performance of LA Bo
hemo" will be given that evening at
popular prices. The cast will include
Mines. Aida and Romaine and Mcssrs.
Martinelli, Scott and De Segurola.
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/, The Yelled Figure; III, Milette, the First Sweet
heart; iii, Tyltyl; ~, Destiny

tives related to Tyltyl. So, again, with
the melody which grew into the real
~leit-motif" of the piece-despite both
ideas about set "leit-motif"- of
the "Veiled Figure" Four or five at
tempts were made to determine this
melody before both Mr.. Ames and I
were satisfied that it was found.
Excepting for these character" mel
odIes, the score has no set pattern.
Curtain changes, intermezzos, mood
backgrounds are free fantasy, deter
mined by the key of the scene. So
with the preludes to the acts. From
the start we determined upon a solo
orchestra, weight and noise being
very minor considerations. The aim
was to produce all possible color vari-
ETY., with fnesse as the ideal (Which.
] believe, is the secret of Maeterlinck's
wlzardry, as it is one Of the rare and
rich attributes of Mr. Ames' artistry).
and above all, Elasticity of expression.
These ideals demanded the help of such