The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-12
Stole Relic Of Saint.

In the metropolitan church OF
| Bucharest there exists the miracu-
lous relic of saint One day, while
the church was closed and the guard
was promenading outside. three Bull
garian soldiers arrived in an automo.
bile, and forcing the door of the cath
edral carried away the venerable rel
lie.
But entirely aside from that, Mack
ways shown himself man worthy Of
resSect and consideration.
| With the establishment OF the Ger
man soldiers in Rumania, the Ger
man authorities undertook the organi-
cation of the press. At first there was
lonly single newspaper allowed to
be published. and that in German,
but later arrangements were made for
| papers in Roumanian. There was first
the Gazeta Bucurestilor and later the
Lumina. These papers had to praise
the invaders and their acts, and to
keep Systematically silent on what
| and Italy, likewise to play up TO the
fullest extent any news unfavorable
to the allied powers.
| >"At the moment of the Italian dis
aster ON the Isonzo last year, these
papers launched special edition after
special edition in which IL was an
nounced that the entire Italians had
fallen into the hands of the Germans
and the Austrians, that the Italian
government was planning to abandon
Milan and Venice, and that the SOL
diers of Conrad We're preparing to
march on the eternal city.
II
I Cards Must be Stamped.
! Every month all the inhabitants
of Bucharest must go to the central
control bureau in order to demon
strate that they have not left the city
and to have their identity cards
stamped. done according 10 national
: ity with the result that throughout
the month there is constantly in
waiting line Of people that extends
the full length of Cantacuzent street.
Among the narvels of proves per-
formed by the Germans it is necess-
airy to cite the emission of several
billion francs OF paper money in the
name of the Banque Generate Rou-
maine, which, when it is allowed to re-
! turn to Bucharest viii have to pay
all of the bills thus put in circulation
in it's name.
Spectators in merchandise are
not very far behind. a pair OF WON
ems stockings costs from $50 10 s35,
shirt from $50 TO $40. and everything
! else in proportion.
This is not the very simple rea-
son that in all Rumania there does
not remain today a single factory, or
single industry.
"At Bucharest you might be willing
10 paw millions OF francs to have
little sterilized cotton for dressing
your wounds, little glycerin, or a
piece of velvet, but your willingness
to pay would be in vain for those
things do not exist there any more.
Practically all OF the stores are closed
because there is nothing to sell.
During my last month there SUI
gar was sold at 81 pound. A sweeten-
ed drink costs 81 a glass.
The German administration thar
should have ended as soon as the
treaty of peace was ratified by the
senate continues without opposition.
/ II Germany and Austria the misery
and famine exceeds everything that
can be or has been recounted. On the
railway coming from Bucharest the
trains for civilians have been inter
rupted and suspended for such long
number of months, that when our
train arrived at Budapest an immense
crowd OF railway workers rushed up
impelled merely by curiosity at seeing
a train arrive from Bucharest.