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Market and Financial News Of the Day
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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
HOLLAND NEEDS FOOD
German Threats Keep 100000
Tons of Ships Idle.
America Will Not Provide Supplies
While Nation Bows to kaIser's
Will.

Washington, Sept. 21.-While 400,-
900 tons of Dutch shipping continue
to lie idle in European ports, Hollands
appeal for American supplies to meet
her food shortage is the subject of an
official statement issued by the state
department, expressing the hope that
The Netherlands government would
follow the example Of other neutrals
and open the way for general resump-
ton of trade by lifting the embargo
upon the movement of her ships.
In effect the department gives no.
tice that so long as Holland permits
herself to be inundated by German
threats to destroy even ships plying
between neutral ports, there car be mo-
arrangement for American foodstuffs
similar to those entered into by the
United States with Switzerland, Swe-
den, Norway. Denmark and Spain.
The statement discloses that The
Netherlands government never has
awaited itself of the offer of the United
States and the Allies to put 10000
tons of bread cereals at the disposal
of the Dutch people Internationally,
after the government had failed to APP
prove a tentative general agreement
reached at London last winter.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
UNANIMOUS VOTE
House Passes Bill Designed to
Raise So, 1872, 100000.
War Revenue Measure Now Goes o
Senate for Action by Tnat
Body.

Washington. Sept. 81. - The war
revenue bill, designed to raise by taxa.
ton approximately $S,1S2, 000. 900 OF
the "a or more billions needed by the
nation for the current year, has been
passed by the House.
The huge measurable largest OF
its kind In the history of any nation
now goes to the Senate.
Passage of the bill was unanimous.
A formal roll call, demanded by Ma,
jority Leader Kitchin, recorded 800
yeas and no nays, which. announced
by Speaker Clark, was greeted by q
roar of cheers and applause.
All possible speed In the bills
course through the Senate is assured,
according to leaders, the Senate
finance committee having concluded
formal hearings. Desire for the bills
enactment before the November cleo
tons has been expressed by leaders
OF both houses, but this is considered
doubtful.
Consideration of the by the
House prior TO the vote was brief. An
amendment by the House Ways and
Means committee, which drafted the
bill, extending the depletion allow
ances to gas and oil wells and mines
to include timber and other natural
deposits" was adopted.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
Mighty Strike Launched by
British, French and Friendly
Arab Forces.
BATTLE IN HOLY LAND
General AIlenby Attacks Enemey on
Sixteen-Mile Front and Drives
Him Back Distance Of
Nineteen Miles.

London, Sept. 21.-Under the i'm
petus of a mighty blow by the Brit
ish. French and friendly Arab forces,
the Holy Land is aiame and the
Turks from the Jordan river west
ward toward the Mediterranean seem.
ingly are in rout.
Added to their already great losses
In ground, men killed, wounded or
made prisoners and scores captured
in Belgium, France, Italy and the Bal.
kans, the Teutonic allies, judging from
first reports of the hostilities begun
against the Ottomans In Palestine, are
In for further extremely hard usage.
British Penetrate Il Miles.
In less than a day General Allenby's
British forces, aided by French troops
and natives under the flag Of the king
of the Hedjas, struck the Turkish line
over a front Of 16 miles and penetrated
II to q depth of 10 miles, taking more
than 5000 Turks prisoner and over
running the entire hostile defensive
system.
RhkiWoy a hh6nWoy JohStiSh bcAhse
were captured and strong forces Of
cavalry at last accounts we're well In
advance OF the attacking troops
threatening to carry out a turning
movement against the fieeting Turks
which might prove disastrous to them
Meanwhile along the shores of the
Mediterranean naval units were clear
ing the coastal roads Of the enemy By
their gunfire.
Turks Must Fight May Out.
In addition to the large number Of
prisoners taken, great quantities o.
war materials had fallen into thu
hands Of the Allied troops and thu
pressure against the enemy was goini
ON unabated.
The predicament of the Turks 4
heightened by the operations OF thu
Hedjas tribesmen on the east side o
/! the Jordan, which will prevent then
| from taking refuge across the STREAM
in the Jordan valley and compel then
to fight their way out Of their trouble
| west of the river as best they may.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
SHOWS FOE CLAIMS FALSE
General Pershing Captures German
Military Orders.

Washington, Sept. 81. - Captured
German orders prove c~onclusively that.
the German official boast that Amer
lean troops took the st. Mihiel salient
because the German army had been
considering the evacuation for years
Is a typical deception.
The official orders of the Tenth Ger
man division, dated Sept. 8, far from
giving orders for a retreat which had
been planned 'for years." gives the.
most detailed instructions for defense
of the salient. General Pershing
transmitted a copy Of the order by
cable to the War department.
The German commanders thought
they had provided for every contin-
gency.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
Loan Admitted by Brisbane.

Mr.. Brisbane In published state
ments in the Times already has stated
that he bought the paper with money
loaned by C. w. Fejgenspan, a brew.
er, and president of the Federal Trust
company of Newark, N. j.. Mr.. Bris-
bane also has published a letter from
Feigenspan defining an arrangement
by which the loan was syndicated to
Is brewers. Mr.. Palmer includes in
his disclosure this letter and also
documents to support his assertion
that the oar was made in a way to
conceal its course and purpose.
Included in Mr.. Palmer's papers are
copies of letters written by Alexan-
der Konta, evidently a German agent,
to Captain Hans Tauscher, VIGOROUSLY
associated with German propaganda in
the United States, and to DR.. Bernard
Dernberg. Germany's chief propagan-
da agent, upon the prospects of buy
ing some great American newspaper.
Mr.. Palmer, connects these with his
declaration that the influence which
the brewers attempt to exert was thor.
oughly in the interest of Germany.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
IN Grip OF WINTER
Black Sea Shore About the Last
Word In DesoIatIon.
There the Great River Danube and ~
surroundings Present ~ presry
Scene Today a When Ovid
Wrote HIs "eorrows.~

II you think the warm airs of an
eastern Riviera caress the shore OF
the Black sea. where the blue Danube
lcreeps out through as many channels
as the reedy Niles, you need to re-
make your picture. In q s your inn
agination needs a little aiding, take
down yorr dusty copy Of Ovid's "Sor-
rows"-his "Tristia"-and read once
more what he wrote back to unforgiv.
ing Rome about his first winter OF
Punishment on that coast. 1t was
nineteen centuries ago. But You might
suppose he was telling Of this very
winters work, at Nantucket, say, or
Montreal. Touch by touch his clever
lines draw the picture as plainly as
II he we're q correspondent for a mod
ern syndicate. You feel yourself shiv-
ering with him on the whitened plain,
beneath the flaring stars that circle
but never set.
There at Toni does the north wind
blow, and do they feel that bitteref
wind from the north-by-eastf II
blows. and the fields turn 10 stone; II
tears roofs away. and brings the look
out towers down fiat. Any snowl
Storm treads on storm till here and
there the heaped-up and compacted
snowc lie two winters deep. OF course
the brooks are stilled now; the water
In the lakes Is brittle, II can be dug
and shattered. OF a native, what
with his pelts and his stitched-up
breeches, all you can see Is his face;
his bearo Is white with the cold he
sucks through II. No one drinks wine
II is passed in Jumps; II q wine jar
Thsckcn, sas wine within Il stands
alone
Does the great Danube freezef Tts
blue currents have hardened into mar
BILE. II holds the ships locked fast /; not
an oar can cleave the waters. Where
the pilot steered now men 20 afoos. No
Wild Sarmatian lacks a bridge for his
greaseless ox-cart. But surely the
Black sea itself keeps open? Well,
says Ovid, II / had anything to gain
by saying what isn't so. you might NOT
believe me; but as sure as I am q
wretched exile. I have walked that sea
dry-shod. Boreas was bowling. but
he could not raise a wave. Not @
dumping dolphin could come through
20 stretch himself. Oh. Leander, 4
once upon a time a like sea had beer
yours, the scandal OF your drowning
could not have been laid upon thu
strait you had to swimi
And then. with grimmer strokes
Ovid draws the worst part Of his pic
ture. For into this winter-bound coast
over the ringing highways Of the ice
come savage foes, sweeping down OF
swif. horses ; they have poison on theiI
arrow tips. they bring thongs to lash
their cnptives; they fire with torches
what they cannot carry OF.
B---rf But II Ovid were alive agair
In this year Of grace. and once moro
writing from Toni. or as they call Il
now. Kustendji. he would not find thu
sting OF the north wind from thu
eteppes less biting than 10 centuries
ago, nor the cruelty Of man to mar
less appallings-Boston Herald.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
ENEMY WAITS FOR WINTER

Is Pinning Hope In Bad Weather, Off
GERS Say.
With American Army on Lorraine
Front, Sept. 21.-The numerical Weak
ening CT the German forces, coupled
with evidence of a decrease in their
morale, as has been shown by the tes-
timony Of prisoners taken by the
Americans. makes 1t reasonably GER
tain, according to military observers.
that the German high command does
not purpose to order the troops to do
anything more than hold their posi-
tions until the bad weather sets in.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
ALLuDEs TO PEACE OFFER
Marshal Won H~indenburg Says Opera
tons VIII Not Cease.

Washington, Sept. 21.-Ffeld Mar
shall Won Hindenburg has issued a
proclamation to the German army in
the field, according to The Zeitung ann
Mittag OF Berlin. in which the German
commander-in-chief alludes to the re-
cent Austrian peace offer, saying that
it does not involve an interruption in
the war operations.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
GERMANS READ BIG NEWS"
Cologne Gazette Tells of Divers Ter
rorizina Atlantic Coast.

New York, Sept. 81. - lombard
ment" of Wilmington, N. C, and
Charleston, S. c., by German subma-
rines and the terror" of Atlantic coast
cities whose officials have 'implored'
the American government to protect
them against a like fate. is related as
veracious news for German readers in
a recent issue of the Cologne Gazette
which has been received here.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
SUCCEEDS PAUL NJ. WARBURG
Albert straus Nominated to Federal
Reserve Board.

Washington, Sept. q. - Albert
Stratus of New York, now ~represen-
tative of the Treasury Department on
the Wal Trade Board, was nominated
by President Wilson to succeed Paul
M. Warburg as q member ct the Fed
eral Reserve Board.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
GERMANS FLEE TO HOLLAND
Desert Rhine Cities on Account Of
Allied Air Raids.

Amsterdam. Sept. 81. - Allied air
men are daily bombing Cologne. Co
blenz and other German Rhine towns,
killing or injuring many persons, says
the Het Volk.
The newspaper says the number OF
casualties published in the German
newspapers are much under the ac-
tual total. 1t adds that many residents
Of the towns that are being raided
are fleeing to Holland for safety.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26

New Haven. Conn, Sept. 21.-Ho-
mer s. Cummings sent word from his
summer home at New Canaan that he
will accept the position OF manager
of the national Democratic head
quarters in WASHINGTON. leaving here
about Sept. "a for the capital.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
APPEALS TO COAL MINERS
Fuel Administrator Emphasizes Ne.
cessity Of Great Output.

Uniontown. Pa. Sept. 21--Coal
mine workers and operators, meeting
here. were told by p. 8. Noyes, direc-
tor of conservation of the fuel admin
istration. that the more coal they
mined between now and Christmas,
the fewer casualties would be report
ed next spring to the homes Of Amer
lean soldiers.
Miners are first-line men In this war.
Mr.. Noyes said, and every day each
man lays on work results In the loss
OF coal. enough to make rs three-inch
shells for General Pershing's army.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
British and French Make Further
Progress in development Of
important Point.
10000 FOE CAPTURED
Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses In Vain
counterattacks Against British
Australians Take Outer Hin
denburp Defenses.

London, Sept. 21.--Although there
has been something of a let up in the
intensity of the fighting from the re-
gion OF st. Quentin to Cambria in the
French theater, both the British and
French armies have been able mater
tally to better their positions in front
OF both Cambria and st. Quentin.
Moeuvres, lying to the west of Cam
brai. over which there has been such
intensive lighting for more than a
week, IN which the town several times
changed hands, now is definitely Brit
ish.
The large numbers OF German dead
strewing the ground around IL attest
the value they placed on Moeuvres, q
point OF strategy in the defense Of
Cambria.
To the south. on both sides OF st.
Quentin, the British and French have
moved in more closely the jaws of the
nipper which is being poised ultimate
ly to pinch st. Quentin out OF the bat
tie line. Most of the German strong
points, which have been the means of
holding back the Allied troops In this
region, now have been overcome and
apparently II 10 only a matter Of time
when General Foch will give the order
for the pressure or the pincers and
the capture OF st. Quentin.
In Macedonia. the British, Serbians,
French and Greeks continue hard aft
or the Bulgarians. driving the enemy
before them and taking large numbers
of prisoners.
London, Sept. 21.-French and Brit
fish troops are recording further prog.
ress in the development Of st. QUEEN
tin. The German resistance continues
stubborn and battles are taking place
along a front of more than 20 miles
from south of st. Quentin to west OF
Cambria.
In the north the British are pushing
toward La Catelet and have advanced
a mile nearer the town OF the west
| capturing an important farm position
| between Epehy and Lempire.
Australians Over Hindenburg Line.
South Of this point the Australians
are east of the outpost positions Of
the Hindenburg line and the stead,
progress of the British threatens the
main defenses OF the line all the wa,
from Lempire to st. Quentin. Wesl
Of Cambrai, where the Germans me
with q serious repulse In an attempt
to check the British operations In thu
--..x r1f-rn rrZ--t-r n4- n-.--y-.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
M0DIFlEs POLITICAL RULE
Director Allows Certain Rail Men to
Finish Campaign.

Washington. Sept. 21.-Director Gen.
erai McAdoo has modified his order
banning politics from the railroads.
Hereafter persons who were already in
political when the order was is
sued by the railroad administration
will be, permitted to continue in their
campaign, but II they are elected and
desire to hold Office they must separ.
ate themselves from the railroad pay
roll
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
COTTON PRICE 70 BE FIxEE


washington. Sept. Ill Senators
from cotton growing states disclosed
that at their recent White House con-
ference President Wilson made it clear
1t was his intention not only to fix a
price for this years cotton crop. but
also to order government control OF its
distribution.
The President gave no intimation OF
what he would consider a fair price, it
was said.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
DEFENDS HIS WAR ATTITUDE
Representative Cooper Of Wisconsin
Flags His Critics.

Washington. Sept. 21.-An impas-
stoned defense Of his congressional
record, with q bitter attack on critics.
whom he said had falsely charged him
with disIoyalty. was mado In the House
by Representative Cooper OF Wiscon-
sin. Republican. He was frequently
and loudly a~pplauded and his recital
OF his record q supported by
Speaker Clark.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26

Austria Plans Bosnia 0ovcrnment.
Washington. Sept. z1.-Bosnia. Her
xogavina and Croatia are to be formed
into q single provincial government
under the Acknowledgements empire,
with Count risza, former Hungarian
premier. at its head. according to an
oficial dispatch from Switzerland.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
BLAZE IN .MUNITIoN PLANT

Many Persons KILLED and Injured at
Vienna.
Amsterdam, Sept. 21.-Many persons
have been killed or injured in a fire.
In the .Woellersdorf ammunition fac
tory in Vienna, according to an off,
cial report received here. After the
fire there was a panic among the
workers in the shell-making section OF
the factory.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
BREWERS
PROVIDED FUNDS
A. Mitchell Palmer Refers to Pur-
chase of the Washington
Times.
GIVES Fifteen NAMES
Alien Property Custodian Asserts
$375,o00 Was Loaned to Arthur
Brisbane-PoIicy Of Paper
Was to Be Pro-German.

Washington, Sept. PA. Mitchell
Palmer, Federal alien property custo-
dian, made public the names OF 10
brewers who, with the United States
Brewers association, raised a fund
of $407 900 from which $375,0OO was
loaned to Arthur Brisbane to buy the
Washington Times.
Mr.. Palmer acted Immediately after
the Senate had passed a resolution IN
troduced by Senator Jones of Washing
ton, calling upon the property custo-
dian to show the proofs on which he
made his speech in Harrisburg, Pa,
last Saturday, describing the efforts
of brewers to control a newspaper in
pro-German interests, to exert their In
fiuence upon Congress and the dbl
tional charge that the brewing inter
ests had advanced the money for the
purchase of a newspaper to fight the
battle Of the liquor traffic under the
shadow of the dome of the Capitol"
Other documents sent to the Senate
judiciary committee by Mr.. Palmer in
Guided correspondence between Ger
"a propagandists in this country and
certain brewery interests relative to
| the purchase of a newspaper to be an
~tagonistic neither to beer nor to Ger
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-26
BRITISH VESSEL ToRPEDoED
Fifty-eIsht Members Of the Crew Are
Missing.

London, Sept. 2l.-A British armed
boarding steamer was torpedoed and
sunk by a German submarine on Sept
IL, the British admiralty announced
Fifty-eight members Of the crew are
missing.
The Washington times., 1918-04-19
ALMOST MILLION
men IN RESERVE
GERMAN ARMIES

Germany stiii has approximately
seventy divisions $4,000 menl which
constitute fresh and comparatively
unused reserve force on the western
front. British military officials eSti-
mated today.
These account for the continual use
OF fresh German troops in the light
ing. Il is said.
That Germany cannot be using-at
least to any great extent-men who
have been released from Russian
prison camps since the German-Bol
sheviki peace pact, r. the conviction
here. They would make poor
fighters after long confinement and
poor food, Il Is claimed.
According TO recent diplomatic ad.
vices there are now comparatively
few German prisoners IN Russia.
There are about 4 million Austrians.
but OF these 4 Is said fully q third
are Czechs and SolVenes, whose gym
pathies are with the allies.
In estimating the fresh German
troops awaiting call to the great
Flanders conflict. British officials
here state that the Germans had about
200 divisions At the start, OF which
they have used TO date more than 12o
division8.
The Washington times., 1918-04-19
CAMP MEADE SONCSTERS
TO AID COMMUNITY SING

"Ken" Clark, song leader at Camp
Meade. and as many OF the members
OF the Camp Meade GIse Club as can
get leave for the day. are to particle
pate in the third community sing TO
be held In the auditorium OF Central
High School at 3 o'clock next sun
day afternoon II the weather Is Ia
voFable, IL Is announced. the singing
will be in the stadium at the school.
Instead OF in the auditorium, as the
attendance last Sunday taxed the ca
pacity OF the big hall and many per-
sons were turned away, unable to
ind seats.
Washington singers who attend
next Sundays sing are promised sew
eral innovations, according 10 an
nouneement OF the District OF Co
lumbia War Camp Community Serv-
ice, under whose auspices the events
are held. II Is also promised that the
soldiers Of the Camp Meade Glee Club
will sing several OF the camp and
trench songs popular with the men
OF the Seventy-ninth division OF the
national army.
The Washington times., 1918-04-19
j. S. may EMBARGO
EXPORTS TO SPAIN
# PROMISE FAILS

Persistent refusal of the Spanish
government to live up to the recent
ship agreement entered into with the
United States. may lead to an en-
barge on all exports to Spain.
The embargo, now being considered
by this government. would AFFECT
Spanish ships now loading cargoes
OF railroad supplies. agricultural i'm
plements and machinery in American
ports.
The Spanish agreement. signed
early in March provided that in re-
turn for allowing spanish ships to
carry much needed supplies to that
country. Spain would ship beans.
mules and other supplies to the
American expeditionary force. Also
France was to get a credit in Spain.
Spain has Ahipped little Of the sup
plies promised PershinE and the
French financial agreement Is lag
ging. Yet this country has permitted
export of all supplies promised.
The Washington times., 1918-04-19
ZEPPELIN MODEL
SHOWN At CAPITOL
BY D. S inventor

Before the Senate Naval COMMITTEES
and a group Of naval oflcers today.
Alfred Herbert, of Montelair, ". u.
exhibited q sixteeu-f0ot model Of an
Zeppelin and gave 3
demonstration OF Il with q view 70
having the Government purchass The
patent
In addition to tifa. members OF ne
committee. headed BY Senator Ber-
mann. chairman; Captain Erwin.
Lieutenant Smith. and Naval Con-
stfuctor Hunsaksr were present
M Herbert. who Is from Montcialr.
n. J.. told the COMMITTEES In detail
about the features OF the maehIne.
He told the COMMITTEES this country
was, IN danger Of German Zeppelin
raids.
The length Of The dirigibIs is 700
feet. It's diameter Is 20 feet. Il is de-
signed for passenger use and viii
carry fifty men Mr. Herbert says
that Il is non-siniSable. II is bulk
in twenty-thfee separate gas sec
tions. The Zeppelin igNequipDed vita
four 6o0-horsspoWsr gasoline engines
which drive eight propeilers. II bAs
q speed Of sixty-nve TO seventy miles
an hour.