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Hastings on behalf of the English East
India Company. 1t now maintains its
Portuguese identity TRANQUILITY and
without friction with it's India neigh
bors. Its possession would mean little
to Germany.
Another Portuguese possession in the
far east would mean much to Germany
should Germany be able to dominate
this section of the world. This is Macao,
on the Chinese mainland, opposite
Hongkong. Why Hongkong grew in
Importance while Macao declined is a
chapter in history which does not need
recounting, but as an entrepot for trade
Macao has natural advantages equal,
and in some respects superior, to those
Of Hongkong. Were Germany able to
dominate China and to obtain posses
sion of Macao she could reasonably ex-
pect to build up a rival to Hongkong.
This. however, Is a far-fetched prob
ability.
One reason why it is far-fetched is
that Japan would have to be reckoned
with. Japan has been credited with am
bition to possess Macao, and this am
billion is not an unnatural one. A year
ago there was a report that Portugal
actually had coded Macao to Japan, but
this report has not been officially con-
firmed; at least, so far as the world
knows, Macao - ati.t g p9es2s a.on o.
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billions before the war than were
British statesmen. Portuguese policy
always had in view the necessity of
protection against the German ambi-
ton, and this threw them into closer
relation with the authorities of the
Transvaal and the other British colonies
and possessions. although at times there
was friction over various matters
The Portuguese possessions in South
Africa are Mozambique. more often de-
scribed as Portuguese East Africa. and
jacent islands, usually called Portu-
guese West Africa The Kongo stretch
es to the north of Angola, while Rho
desia and the Transvaal lie between it
and Mozambique. The African colonies
of Portugal territcrially comprise a
vast empire exceeding 100000 square
miles. The native population is in eX
cess of 100000. The actual number
of Portuguese Is small. consisting Of
traders. plantation owners. officials and
some troops from the mother country.
Mozambique has number of tropical
products which form the basis Of a
valuable export trade. Sugar is the
principal one of these articles but
there are also Oil seeds and copra, the
latter one of the most valuable OF the
tanned.
Lorenz- MARQUES is the port not only
for the Portuguese East African pos
sessions but also for a considerable
section of the Transvaal and Rho
desia- The transit traffic across Mozam-
bique is considerable. Should the Ger
mans ever succeed In their ambition to
possess this section of Africa they
would therefore be able to control the
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try would be under Germany's control.
The scheme was to drive wedge be-
tween Rhodesia and the country which,
since the Boer war, has been known
as the Union of South Africa.
The success of the allied troops most
~ from the Transvaal and the Cape. in
driving the Germans out of both Ger
man East Africa and German South
west Africa has been SO complete that
these two great sections of what once
was the Teutonic colonial possessions
in Africa have been blotted off the
map. Gen. SHUTS. the great Boer
leader, has told the world that they
neven must be restored to Germany,
whatever future status may be deter
mined for them, because this would
mean putting Germany in a position to
create the vast army of blacks.
German military leaders also have
held out the idea of the creation of this
great army. In some of the discussions
in the reichstag it has been mentioned
as one Of the reasons why Germany
must get back her African possessions,
but 1t has been discussed more fully In
newspapers and in pamphlets. Some
of these writers, in the drunkenness of
fancied triumph, have bluntly stated
that the Portuguese possessions must
become German.
Portuguese officials were perhaps bet
ter informed of Germany's African am
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fruit districts of Washington to gather
the crops. and SO hoboes come in on
freight trains and offer their services.
No other help being at hand, they are
hired. Then striking begins. Higher
pay is demanded and granted. And
the more wages hobo gets. the slower
he works and the greater damage he
does to the fruit he harvests.
THE United States and every other
nation are to be governed in the fu-
ture by hoboes and workers without
trades. These meH are to take all
property and decide for themselves
how long they will work and how
much of the wealth they produce they
will give to the boss / am quoting
the language of the organization, as
will be found on page 10 of The ]. W.
Methods
Such program" Senator Jones
continued, 'is attractive to tramps, de-
fectives and many ignorant faborers.
Sensible men. of course, laugh at IL,
but in regions where the !. w. w. Is
geographically In operation they often
do their laughing privately. Last year.
at Bisbee. Ariz-. the citizens took the
law into their own hands and loaded
several thousand members of the i.
w. W. into cattle cars and sent them
to the desert: and recently. at North
Yakima. in my own state. an officer
of the l. w. w. was tarred and feath-
cred.
During normal times the states
themselves should deal with the I. w,
w. We are fighting the Huns. how
ever. and every l. W. W. who attempts
to obstruct our action in the war
should be arrested and. as / have said,
tried by a military court. Haywood
and his hoboes then would disappear
from view"
Copyright. 1918. by James B. Morrow)
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BY CHARLES NJ. PEPPER.

~ ORTUGAL'S part in the great war
~ is now in the public mind. What
the pIucky little country was
q doing had almost been forgotten
until the word came from the western
front of the gallant fight made by Por-
tuguese troops in helping to hold the
line against the Germans. Then fol-
lowed the news that, by an arrange
ment with Portugal. the United States
had acquired naval base in the Azores.
The latter action meant a very close
cooperation in war aims between the
United States and Portugal, with prob
ably closer relation in the peace aims
that are to come.
Portugal preceded the entry of the
United States into the war by more
than a year. She cast her lot with the
entente allies partly because of the
close ties that had been maintained
with England for centuries. but more
largely because of the German menace.
The German military autocracy
menaced her in South Africa, in the At
lantic and in her own ports. When she
informed German vessels, in accord
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trade of a large area of British terri
tory. From their point Of vantage at
Lorenz- Marques they also would nave
a strategic base with which to threaten
the French Island of Madagascar. Con-
sequently, while 1t is important to Por.
tugal to retain the possession OF
Mozambique, it is equally important TO
Great Britain and to France that she
shall retain 1t. When the final war set
Element comes it may be assumed that
both England and France will take a
stand which will insure their protective
guarantee to Portugal for her East
African possessions
Angola is less extensive territorially
than Mozambique, but its area is con-
siderable and it's international signih-
canoe lies in its geographical situation
between the Kongo and what used to be
German Southwest Africa. Its principal
product for export is cacao, large guam
titles of which are shipped from the
Island of San Thome.
The Portuguese possession OF Goa In
India is a "Reminiscences of the times
when Portugal was world power, even
more than England, and her daring
navigators sailed the unknown oceans
and colonized old lands while they dis
covered new ones. 1t is all that remains
of what once were extensive possessions
in India which gradually 1essened un-
der the activities of Clyde and Warren
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CRAWL.
CONTINUED from Third Page

hacking at it with their dirks. And SO
they were still hacking at it-although 1t
had long since ceased to move or TO make
any sound--when Merode came up and
called them to a halt
Drag it inside; let Margot have
thrust at 1T. 1t is her right Pull off
the dogs disguise, and bring me the
plucky one that captured him. He shall
have absinthe enough to swim I'm. the
little king, of with it all. Lanchere.
First. the plaster, that's right. Now,
the wig and beard. and after that
What's that you say? The beard is
real? The hair is real? They will not
come OFF, Name of the devil. What
are you saying?"
The truth. mon roi-the TRUTH
Mother of disasters! 1t is not the
Cracksman--it is the real Clodoche we
have killed."
them, swayed them, and befogged their
brains; then of a sudden Merode howl
ed out: Get back, Get back! The fell
lows in there stll!' and led blind
race down the passage to the Jar
where they had seen Cleek last. 1t was
still in darkness: but an eager hand.
gripping the lever. turned on the gas
again and matches everywhere were
lifted to, the jets.
And when the light famed out and
the room was again ablaze they knew
that they might as well hope to call
back yesterday as dream of finding
Cleek again. For there on the floor,
her limp hands turned palms upward,
a chloroformed cloth folded over her
mouth and nose. lay the figure Of Mar
got, her bodice torn wide open and the
paper forever gone.
X X X X n
1t was five minutes later when the
Count Won Hetzler. crouching back in
the shadow of the square and waiting
for the return OF Clodoche, heard a
dull. whirring sound that was unmis-
takably the purr of a motor throb
through the stiffness, and, leaning for
ward. saw a limousine whirl up out OF
the darkness, cut across the square and
like a flash dash Off westward. Yet in
the brief instant it took to go past the
place where he waited there was time
for him to catch the sharp click of a
lowered window. see the clear outlines
of a mans face looking out and to
hear a voice from within the vehicle
speak
Herr Count" 1t said in clear, incisive
tones. "a positively infal1ib1e recipe
for the invasion Of England; Wait un-
til the channel freezes and then skate
over. Good night"
1TO BE CONTINUED NEXT. sTNDAY.l3
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out of difficulty. Now. the government
has him and has evidence of his trea-
son and the best thing that could be
done would be to punish him.
So two mysteries work together IN
creating awe and fear among two ele-
ments, one good and one bad: the
charmed life of the "evil genius OF
the l. W. w. and the shadowy notions
as to the real number of the industrial
workers themselves.
Absurd as this organization of no.
boes and misguided day laborers mLy
seem to those outside its zone Of crime.
1t is a very serious organization 70
those who live and do business In tie
regions where it's activities are preva-
lent or may begin at any time. Beat
ing their way on freight trains, small
armies of the l. w. w. can be mobi-
liZed in the east or west without much
difficulty. Ordinarily. the organization
operates beyond the Rocky mountains.
although it's headquarters are in Chi
cago. 1t has been particularly active
in Washington, Oregon. California and
Arizona. among the mines, farms, for
ests and orchards in that part of the
country. Any region or city, however,
is open to invasion.
big Bill" Haywood, at his desk in
Chicago. can pass his orders through
the highways and over the railroad
tracks. and from barns, haystacks.
fence corners and saloons veterans will
ward any designed battlefield to join
the forces permanently stationed there.
They are fed from back doors and
ride on bumpers and'brake rods.
II the states will not catch them.
stop their crimes and put them to
work, what else can be done? The in
quiry was taken to Wesley l.. Jones,
senator from Washington.
Members Of the Industrial Workers
of the World" he said, ARE glad usu-
ally to serve in Jail. They have beds
and food then supplied by the tax
payers. and thus. in their logic. are
taking money out of the pockets of
the capitalistic class. All taxpayers,
they say, are capitalists. Skilled me-
chanics are capitalists. they assert, and
SO are the owners of little homes.
"a uniformed man. with rifle on
his shoulder. Is the only authority that
the I. w. WIS fear OF respect. They
are very much opposed to being killed.
stopped at Wenatchee, in our state,
last fall, on my way home. A large
number Of 1. w. WIS were in Jail. They
were yelling and cursing and threat
ening to tear down the building. The
sheriff said they had been performing
in that way for several days.
Suddenly there was silence in the
jail All of his other experiments hav-
ing failed. the sheriff, sent three or four
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Col. Ellsworth then marched with a part Of his
command to the telegraph office fmost likely the
telegraph Office in the old Orange and Alexandria
railroad depot, which he seized and placed I'M
der strong guard. in order to prevent any news
of the movement of the Federal troops from being
communicated to the disunion forces south Of the
city.
While at the telegraph office he discovered the
secession flag floating the Marshall House.
and taking with him a squad Of men. proceeded
to the place. and In respectful language desired
the landlord to haul it down. The request being
refused. he proceeded with his squad to the top of
the house and hauled it down. and was met on
his return on the stairs by Jackson, who shot
him.
When he received the shot Col. Ellsworth drop
ped his sword and. SEEKING hold Of the clothing
over his breast, tore it off entirely and. looking
down upon his wound. closed his eyes and fell
dead without uttering a word.
The zouaves. when they heard Of the death Of
their commanding officer. were overwhelmed with
grief and Indignation. Many of them burst into
tears and were overcome by the event as TO
be utterly inconsolable. After while the grief
occasoned by his death was converted into such
q rage against the disunionists that the officers
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in command Of the several companies had much
to do to keep them under control.
That was a picturesque account, but
there are several unsatisfying points
about it. 1t omits all mention of the
killing Of jackson. 1t is curious that
Ellsworth would go to the center OF
the city to the flag raising and then
think later of seizing the telegraph
office. so that "disunion troops south
of the city" would have no news of the
landing. The news of the invasion"
of Virginia had spread all over the
state before the steamboats, bearing
Ellsworth's men had turned wheel
on their way to Alexandria, or before
a spade had been stuck in the clay
below the south end of the Long bridge
for the construction of Fort Runyon.
Jackson's body was laid out in the
parlor of the Marshall House. 1t was
clothed In the uniform of volunteer
artillery company. which had been or
gsnized in Alexandra several years
before the war. had passed away after
the fashion of many of the older militia
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was at the station called Hitaffer.
with its solitary house set amid
the white bloom of pear trees, the
q pale pink of apple blossoms and
the deeper pink of peach buds. that the
Rambler closed his narrative last Sun
day. Near that quaint and quiet place
he pointed out a deserted house which
had been a home of the Families jack
son, Stewart and Cults. There, among
stark black locusts, which spring had
not warmed into leaf or flower, the
Rambler drew as best he could a story
picture of the graves of James Jack
SONS father and mother and the sunken
grave in which the bloody body OF
~Jim" jackson was laid to rest a few
hours after the tragedy at the Marshall
House, Alexandria. and from which the
ashes were removed a few years ago
for refinement IN the little cemetery
ut Fairfax Court House, about eight
miles away.
When the time came for concluding
the narrative last Sunday the Rambler
had not recalled all the facts that were
floating in his memory bearing on that
episode. which deeply stirred the already
inf1amed passions of men. north ana
south, and in the north made Jacksons
name execrated. Last Sunday the
Rambler said: Standing by the OLD
house with the dormer windows, when
was his fathers home. and wnere MS
boyhood was spent. and standing py
the grave of his mother and that grave
IN which his body lay SO long. the
Rambler feels that Jackson was not a
wicked man, If by that term is meant
a man who was vicious. treacherous.
mean and sordid"
His domestic life was not so lacking
IN circumspection as to call forth com
plaint from his cotemporarles. "hen
his name became a thing of gossip fcr
millions of other men. irregularities IN
his conduct were pointed out ana disap-
proved Few men lead such 1npecca-
Bile lives that gossip cannot f1nd or m
vent something unfiattering to them,
and ii may be that even those men
died in early infancy. On the whole.
Jackson was dutiful son. as duty to
ones parents was reckoned In his time,
and the Rambler believes that the
standard of filial duty was just about
as high in the first half of the last
century as in the first quarter OF the
present jackson is said to have been
as youth hayward and headstrons'
and to have had a hot temper. Per-
haps that is true. The Rambler has
known SO many young fellows who
were wayward and headstrong- and who
had hot tempers, and who also turned
out to be men of great probity and
worth. that he confesses to feeling
something akin to suspicion toward
the young chap who has no trace of
waywardness in his disposition and no
ardor In his temper.
Jack m contracted romantic mar
riage t, did not turn out to be
silly one. d he was the father of
three girl. who grew up to be three
as charming women as Washingtonians
have known. Jackson was a states
rights man. Nearly all the men in Vir-
ginia and the states to the south of
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that could possibly be done in con-
trolling the situation is to deal speed
lily and effectually under the law with
the man who every r. w. w. believes
bears a charmed life.
He has been professional criminal
for the last thirty years." Senator Bo-
rah went on to say, and has taken
the lives Of at least eighteen men. 1t
has been proved beyond question that
he has done so, but so long as he goes
unpublished they (the I. w. W.'s) be-
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1t was Just a little while before the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
"Hitchy-Koo, 1918"

Raymond Hitchcock will begin his
summer drive at the Globe Theatre
Thursday evening in "Hitchy-Koo.
l918," an entirely new revue by Glen
McDonough and Raymond Hubbel]. AS
It's title indicates, this new pirl-and-
music show Is Hitchcockian in everv
sense of the word, the most preten-
tious entertainment the comedian has
ever offered.
Assisting Mr.. Hitchcock will be Leon
Enrol and Irene Bordoni, both of whom
contributed to the success of last sum-
mer's "Hitchy Koo." In fact, Mr.. Erro,
and Mile. Bordoni are practically Co.
stars with Mr.. Hitchcock.
In addition to this trio, the cast will
include Ray Dooley, Sara and Nellie
Kouns, Emma Haig, Florence o'Deni-
shawn, Ruth Mitchell, Laura Harris.
Eleanor Sinclair, Earl Behan. George
Moore, Charles Cartmell, Gertrude Rial
and June Roberts. A chorus of "fortv
under twenty" will be one of the bir-
gest features of the revue.
"Hitchy-Koo. 1915" will be unfolded
in two acts and eighteen scenes
promptly at $3.50. The open air roof
at the Globe has been put in working
condition, and when the weather Is
propitious the all-star show will be
given under the stars.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
Getting Together Returns
To Tosun Tomorrow

New York is to have another oppor-
unity to see Getting Together"
This remarkable war play, fostered
bv the British and Canadian Recruit
ing Mission, which has in its cast. de-
tailed to duty with it by the British
government, men VINO have seen ser
vice IN France and in Flanders. will be
presented at the Shubert Theatre for
g limited engagement beginning to-
morrow evening.
Presented last March for one week
at the Lyric Theatre, Getting To-
gether' was taken by the Brit
lsh-Canadian Recruiting Mission to
other cities and arrangements to that
END had been completed before the
New York engagement commenced.
Since leaving New York Getting To-
gether" has visited Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Buffalo, Washington, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, st. Louis and Chicago.
Getting Together" is as entertain
Ing and as thrilling as it is novel. 1t
3 the joint product of Ian Hay Major
Beith), J. Hartley Manners. and Per-
cival Knight, with songs by Lieutenant
Gitz Rice, of the First Canadian Con-
tingent. Claude W. Bostock also as
sisted in its preparation. Tho humof-
Gus as we'll as something of the seri-
Gus eide of the soldiers life is por-
trayed, and the scenes include q dug
out, front line trench and a dash
over the top, with a tank. splitting FIRE,
leading the way; section of no
Mans Land, rousing recruiting rallyS
and aspects of life On the Westssaf
front.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
It's All in the Gesture
Henry Miller Has Not Forgotten the
Knack of Moving the Air Gracefully
or Holu to Wear Safins and Breaches
By Solita SoIano

mother Of them all was like the one
recently portrayed at the Comedy The
atre in The Land of the Free" an
other piece censured by the bulletin Of
the same issue,
There are some particularly enjoy-
able things in "a Marriage of Conve-
nience." In the first act we have Miss
burke's wedding dress, Lucille Wat
sons giggle, Henry Miller's blue cape;
IN the second act, Miss Burke's
strawberryicecream gown, more gig
giles and Mr.. Mller's rush to get
back his. letter; in the third act, Miss
burke's tears, uncle's moralizing Che
rs from the provinces), Mr.. Miller's
green costume and talk of duel: in
the fourth act, Miss BuIke's apple
green gown, the embrace that fore
casts a curtain and the throwing open
Of the exits.
Mr.. Miller's new theatre is done in
charming taste. Even reception room
for visitors has been provided back
stage, and one is not received in dress
ing rooms, where Wallets lend an ear to
the conversation and join in the gen.
eral laughter. Here Mr.. Miller joined
me and explained why he has never
gone in the movies.
1t seems he received an offer a
season or so ago-"not a million dol
lars a week, but an astonishing sum
of L
ing how he could accept so much for
doing so little, little Mary Pickford
prevailed upon him to pose for trial
strip of film to see how he would
Screen"
Il could hardly wait to see the re-
suit. When at last / was disclosed
on the sheet in the projection room I
clutched my brow. Could this dreadful
shadow be 1? Where was the iaunty
manner with which l had fancied my
self entering the picture? A cold per-
spiration appeared on my forehead. In
the horror of that moment nv resolve
was made. Now no money can tempt
me to perpetuate my face and figure
on a ceiluloid strip. 1t would make me
self-conscious and I could never act
naturally on the stage again"
In the midst of my sorrow for tho
shock Mr.. Miller said he had sustained
this thought persisted: Why did not
similar sensitiveness deter Eddie Foy,
Frank Daniels, Maxine Elliott, Mary
Garden, Margaret Ellington and f. H.
Sothern? Many of these had admirers
who had never found flaw until they
played losing game with the lens Of
a ruthless movie camera.