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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
MANUFACTURERS OF ALLEGED
IMPERFECT SHELLS TO BE
VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTED
(By Associated Press)

Washington, Oct. Especial atten-
ton will be given by department OF
of William J. Oliver, the wealthy
Knoxville manufacturer and nine Of
fcers Of his company arrested there
yesterday on charges Of conspiracy
and fraud in the manufacture Of de-
fective shells for the army If the
defendants are guilty, the attorney
general will seek to make an exam
pie of them.
This Is the first case developed by
the government in which executive
of a war plant have been accused Of
implication in crimes involving graft.
ing through output of defective NUM-
lions. The penalty for such an Of
fence under the sabotage act 18th irty
years imprisonment.
Agents of the departing ntof jstfce
and the army intelligence service are
said to have worked for several weeks
in the Knoxville plant gathering evil
dence. The first information that
something was wrong is said to have
come from within the plant itself
Reports of similar conspiracies else
where are being investigated.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
FUNERAL.OF
MRS. I. NJ. AIKEN
HELD YESTERDAY

Her resting place covered with
beautiful flowers which spoke OF the
love of the many friends whom she
had drawn to her Through long life
of Christian deeds t.and gentle kindli-
ness, the funeral services OF Mrs l. NJ.
Aiken took place Yesterday afternoon
at ST. Johns cemetery, the Rev. Mel
vile E. Johnson conducting the serv-
ices from Christ church.
The cortege left the residence of her
son, Captain I. He Aiken, at s 30
o'clock, with services in the church at
four o'clock. The pallbearers were her
nephews, J. Ernest, Theodore, and
Henry Baars, Bryan Dunwody. Fan
min Chipley, Dan Mcmillan and j. c..
Watson.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
FERDINAND FORMALLY
DENIES PEAC EPACT
GERMANY'S STATEMENT
(By Associated Press)

Basel, Oct. 5.-Form a1denial Of
statements made in the German press
that the Bulgarian peace proposals
were made without the consent Of all
the people, was made in Kink Ferdi-
nand's speech before the Sobranja,
according to the Bulgarian emi-offi-
cial organ Preporotz,
Semi-offfcial advices from Sofia say
that the Bulgarian press counts on
the entente nations not to betray
their elevated principles of interna-
tional justice and to take into account
Bulgaria's claims when peace Is ne
gotiated
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
M A r X ETS
New York Cotton

New York. Oct a-Cotton futures
opened steady. Oct. 1905; Dec. $3.50;
Jan. 1923; March. 3i.O5; May, 3i.o4.
The market opened steady at a de-
cline Of points to an advance OF 6
points, but there was some trade buy
ing around $3.50 for December and af-
ter selling at 3i.45 ON the call, that
delivery soon worked up to 3i65 or
IL points net higher. Otherwise the
demand was attributed to lowering for
over the weekend, while offerings
We're comparatively light after the de-
clines Of yesterday. On the bulge,
however, the market met renewal OF
hedge selling and prices soon weak
ened with December selling of to
3i.40 and January to 3i.i2 before the
end of the first hour, or about i3
points net lower.
The decline extended to 3tt9 for
December and 30.89 for January later in
the morning. or about SO to IS points
net lower on the more active months.
Selling was promoted by the favorable
weather map and improving crop con-
ditions, but the market rallied several
points toward MILDLY on trade buying
with the close steady at a net loss of
10 to % points.
Close. Oct. 3045; Dec, 3Ot5; Jan
5000; Mar. 300h May, 1910.
New Orleans Cotton
New Orleans. Oct. 5-Cotton futures
opened steady. Oct, 30.75; Dec, 3O4n
Jan. 3O.26; Mar. 1925; May, 3O2i.
Cotton closed steady at a decline of
IL to II points. Dot, 30.45; Dec, 30.i5
Jan. 30.09; Mar. 30.06: May, sou.
Chicago Grain
Chicago. Oct. 5.-Fresh declines in
the corn market today accompanied a
renewal OF peace gossip and a contin-
uation Of German defeats. Opening
prices, which ranged from 7-8c off to
to $3.50 IA, and December. 1928 5-8 to
lac advance with November, 1929 rs
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
PRESIDENTS SPEECH REACHES
REMOTEST PARTS OF INDIA

New York, Oct. 5.-Extracts from
President Wilson's speeches are be-
ing quoted by villagers in the remotest
parts OF India, where loyalty to the
allies is declared to have been foster
ed very largely by Americas entrance
into the war, according to a report
submitted to the joint centenary com
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church by the Rev. Benson Baker, SUI
perintendent of the missions in the
Meerut district.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC INTERFERES
WITH POSTAL SERVICE

The Pensacola postoffAce Is suffering
a shortage of it's clerical force, nine OF
the federal employees Were i'll yester-
day, and Mr.. Hancock asks the leniency
of the public, if the mail is late or
there are delays OF any other character
Mr.. Hancock stated last night that the
average number of employees Ill at the
postoffice since the influenza became
epidemic has been seven a day. >
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06

SUBSCRIBE FOR THE JOURNAL.
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NTH INSTRUCT REACHES % PER
cEyTTOF LIBERTY LOAN QUOTA
BY j. II. Grove.

Atlanta. oct. 5.-Incomp1ete figures
.om district loan headquarters tonight
how Si2.S00.000 subscriptions to the
ourth Liberty Loan reported from
e sixth district up to Friday night.
bis is approximately % per cent. of
e districts quota. The report shows
nrida s2.20QOOO.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
JOSEPH T. STOKES DIES
FOLLOWING SHORT ILLNESS

Joseph t. Stokes died late last night
at his home 4t9 West Chase street.
following brief illness. He was %
years of age and was the son Of
Thomas Stokes. Funeral announce
ment will be made later.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
ALLIES CAPTURE 10,58b
GERMANS IN FLANDERS

Havre, Friday, Oct. 5.-In the opera
tions in Flanders since September 90,
the Belgian, british and French forces
have taken 1880 prisoners, $50 guns.
and 600 machine guns, says the official
statement from the Belgian war office
tonight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
GERMANS HARMED LEAVING
LILLE AS BRITISH ADVANCE
(By Associated Pressl

With the British Army in France,
Oct. 5.-Wide gains of great import
ance have been made today by the
fighting of the British armies. In the
north line Hautedeul canal has been
reached and the Germans are hurried
ly evacuating Lille.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-06
THIRTY-THREE GERMAN FLYERS
TO BELGIAN OFFICERS CREDIT.

Havre, Octf Sin aerial fighting on
the Flanders front British aviators
destroyed four German machines, tho
Belgian war office announced. Lieu
senant Coppens, of the Belgian army,
Set q German balloon on fire, bring
ing his victories to 80.
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Imprisoned in the Dark Cellar
With the Rats for Her Comrades

They took her to the sehoolhouse which the Germans
had eommandeered and shut her in the basement in a
dark room where musty forgotten sehoolbooks and
broken tables stored There was almost air and
no light The huge rats which had back from the
trenches prowed around frightening the poor girl with
their evil eyes which gttered out of the darkness.
lyon charged with obstructng officer Of the
forces of occupation the conduct of his military duty
the arocous explanation given the girl by the petty
officer who locked her in the
1t was until the next day after Madeleines arr
discovered where she had been taken dared not
ask of the officers in my house, since to do would
merely emphasize the coonels anger But when dis
covered her prison, l could not help her
When Madeleine had been in the dark basement room
three days. with only occasional cup of water taken
down her by the sentneS who happened to remembe
there was a woman imprisoned below. Colonel Frezen
berg summoned me ''You will tell the young womanI
Mademoselle Madeleine when she returns to-day, bel
careful of her in the future. You will adj
her. also that if she does not wish further and more
punishment for her objectionable oenses she viii
be especially attentive to me.' Such the command
the colonel laid upon me-
Madeleine returned that afternoon-broken in spirit
her heart wounded i'll from neglect and her shat
tered by the gerng of the eyes of the rats 1t was
than week before she could leave her bed. Each
day questioning in the eyes Of the colonel who had
daughters of his at home. And each day avoided
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The Cases of Madeleine and
YUOnne- of the LdndUehr

These landwehr were part of construction division
road building, electrical mining and excavation
panies
They to restore roads, open ones and pre-
pare for the fertilization of secondary Hlndenburg line
from the Sensee Canal to Montbrehain'
The German High Command knew already, six
months before time that the British planning great
drive in region of northern France had heard the
artillery staff officers discuss the British plans with
ingy most minute knowledge of Marshal Haigs secret
preparations They had the date for its beginning
approximately fxed-''In six months they told
each other and six months later the Somme battle began
In the meantime the andwehr had prepared the new line
through region ready for possible retreat
All the landwehr were middle aged men-fathers
husbands. business and professional men Some of
the prvateS and lower officers had been professors
the universities All had been summoned from quiet
private life They representative of the real Ger
man people We hoped they would be better than the
regular soldiery They were infinitely worse
The petty officers were bleted about the town In
every house matter how Inconvenience the
were two or of these nsOent Overbearng officers
were quartered They used the softest beds and de-
manded the most comfortable room Their hosts might
sleep on the floor if there was hut one bed
! want to describe what happened to us under these
representatives of Germanys civilian population and so
will tell here the stories of Madeleine and Yvonne two
pretty French girls of whom was very fond
YvOnne the daughter of the superintendent of
the lace works at EnOy and Madeleine washe sister Of
the baif at Chateau Abancourt, which was eighteen
who my friends in Paris when the war clouds
gathered and had not returned. Medicines brother
insisted that she take refuge with when the Germans
came. Yvonne lived with her parents.
With the landwehr staff there came to my house
Colonel Frezenberg who had been of the faculty of
the University of Munich He the author of a num-
Der of psychological text books which were widely used
in German universities heard him speak at my table
of his wife and family and when letters from Germany
delivered to the officers always there packets
and envelopes from his home
The second morning after Colonel Frezenbergs ar
rival my chateau he early for walk through the
grounds around the house Madeleine who was seven
teen years DID, and of that disposition which refuses to
be depressed by danger and trials, always up with
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Copyright. 1918. by Star Company.
CONTINUED from Last STnddTJ
CHAP Err II.

HNCE have come back to America. after three years
of bondage behind the German lines in the invaded
regions of France, have been asked many times if
after ALL the reports of the barbarties and cruees of
the German officers and the German soldiers the
habitants Of the country they invaded not
less exaggerated
To all of these and the readers of these pages can
only Whatever you have heard only half the truth
have the opportunity gather their memories together
and tell at length of what they and suffered
Ihave seen British soldiers taught by many campaigns
to be accustomed to the horrors and uhessness of war;
pokng abcr with their bayonets in captured underground
defences of the Germans and among the ruins of the
villages they had just takennot for souvenirs booty
lurking death trap but for symbol sign that
would solve the greatest mystery of the Wharf.-The mind of
the German officer and soldier.
General Beseer, of the Great Headquarters Staff
chief of the Industrial Administration of the occupied
districts. came to my chateau while tour of in
specton of the Cambria region This General stern
and cold with eyes that struck me being absolutely
pitiless But decided did him injustice in eStmats
ing his character from his appearance when, Sunday
morning he was greatly perturbod because my chateau
did not include chapel for Sunday prayers
Y The General asked me, that Sunday morning when
served his breakfast in his room at what hour and in
what part of the house, religious services would be held
When told him especial provision had been made for
such services he seemed amazed Then he became very
angry and ordered me to call his aide
heard the General sorming in his room when the aide
had answered the summons General Hurt who was the
principal officer among my selfimposed guests was
notified that General Won Beseler desired to meet him
Immediately in the salon
General Won Beseer demanded to know why General
Hurt had moi had temporary chapel installed in the
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Young Countess de Gaza-Pasca Whose Chateau Fran
Occupied by Hindenburg and Others in Hig Comma
Reveals for the First Time the Details of Unsupported
Savagery Behind the German Lines in Devastated ]
France Which Stands Unparalleled byAnything In Histo

ON that fatsl August day four years ago when the German
army poured across the Belgian frontier was visiting
friends in Brussels Next day my husband joined his
regiment France the Second Howitzr Reserve have
him since He killed in battle fourteen months later
The Germans swept Suddenly the patrols Of Uhlans gal
loped Brussels then the Pusan Guard We
helpless in the hands of the enemy.
My husbands chateau Epinoy in northern France
As the German lines pressed rapidly forward into France they
passed through and beyond Epnoy and permitted
leave Brussels and 60 to my home
My homei For three years the servant in my
chateau the Inundated slave of my british German masters
My chateau had been taken for the headquarters of the Fourth
Artillery Corps and from time to time Hndenbrg and Ludendof
themselves there Twenty miles away the Great Head
quarters of the General Staff at st. Aubert
For three years lived under the shadow Of the commanding
officers Of the great German military machine and overheard their
plans mnisterd to their brutal desires and saw their monous
commands executed the desoed homes and the quveg
bodies of my neighbors.
HAVE SEEN dragged into my chateau and turned
over to the drunken caprices Of the officers.
HAVE SEEN these officers possess themselves Of my
household servants whenever fancy seized them.
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The Homeless, Wandering
Ones Turned Loose as Object Lessons

Those who made homeless allowed to go
where they pleased General BeSeler wished their
plight and their punishment to be lesson to other vii
lagos not to plead that their old and could
not much cloth he. the Prussian General de-
cree, they should furnish.
took one of the old women of Families who had lost
her home and all her earthly possessions into my house
allowed her to help much she could with the house
work. The next Sunday she sat in the back of
the salon while General Beseer prayed with his off
for the blessing of God.
II is such things these cannot explain. can
only tell of them The German soldiers spurred by their
officers exhibited wonderful labor and Skill and there
many proofs of religious piey-sometmes sentimen
tai virtues too-but their Savagery their almost unbeev
able barbarism their entire disregard of every rule of
humanity have been equaled in the history of the
world. 1t is something think no can explain.
One would think, for example, the older of Ger
many the stad settled citizens who had brought families
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into the world and who had beloved daughters of their
just budding into womanhood would have been more
considerate of US.
Certainly felt great relief-and there was almost
rejoicing in my house and in Epnoy-when two regiments
of Hessian landwehr moved in replace the line artillery
which had been our masters for some time
This about six months before the battles of the
Somme Orders had come removing the headquarters of
the Fourth Artillery Corps from Epnoy to Aubigny
landwehr staff established in my house in place of the
artillery staff
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By the Countess de GAIA Pascal

had not insisted upon such attendance.
chaplain hurriedly sent for An altar i'm
provised my salon. and all the officers of General Hurt
staff and others who beted elsewhere assem-
bled to worship with General Beseer and my
wants asked to ourselves behind the officers
watched General Beselers face with curiosity ] am
he prayed reverenty and absorbed the with
deep .earnestness.
But three days later this General Beseler
ordered the entire village of Families few miles from
Epnoy the seat of chateau burned to the ground be-
its inhabitants mostly old and women,
unable to supply him with the of cloth he had
demanded for soldiers uniforms. Homes which
hundred years old houses about which chung of
the days of Louis Philippe pretty cottages which
the only shelter of old couples. whose away
fighting for Franceal were RACED with orderly system
attic precision
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HAVE SEEN two unfortunate little born in my
house and greeted with the ribald jess Of these
HAVE SEEN the IN the cemetery my chateau
the rings crucxes and kets taken and the
gold the teeth stripped from the as-and the tossed
into heap.
HAVE SEEN the heartbron relatives reverently search
ing these heaps of bones smoothing the graves and
piecing together the broken headstones.
HAVE SEEN the deportationsths families assembled to
be apart officers command the and boys marched
Of to PARKWAY munon factories the sent away 10 work
in the fields and the pretty girls retained for the officers enter
tanment
HAVE SEEN the spies and go-thOss tirssss and
constituencies wrethes who creep back and forth through the
military lines and also watch and listen and bay the people
Of the town
HAVE SEEN their pftfuI victims marched through the
and have heard the guns Of the firing squad
HAVE SEEN Prince Eitel reelng about in the Of
he had sent for from Berlin to entertain him
But win tell this in detail; all this and thousand other
things which burned into my brain and heart and soul
through the long hours Of the endless days and nights Of that
three years Of horror.
LLAINE, COUNTESS DE GAZA-PAscAL-
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the sun for frolc with Jacques, huge sheep
dog which had been my husbands pet. Colonel
Frezenberg saw her that morning on the lawn.
She must have presented to him pretty picture,
so young and 1.-the, frocked in plain dimity,
edged with the famous lace Of Cambria, her
youthful spirits chastened but not repressed by
our predicament
Madeleine described to me afterward how it
occurred. Jacques frisked near the portly
colonel and lodged about his legs
He was an old, dull-wltted dog, and had no
enmities-even for the Germans. The colonel
spoke to Madeleine She scorned to reply or
even to notice him; since he had not addressed to
her an order such as she would have had to obey.
This was her way
The colonel revenged himself upon Jacques
kicked him with his heavy steeleapped boots.
Poor Jacques yelped with pain and surprise.
Madeleine drew herself up before the colonel
Sale bete'' e. dirty beast y she exclaimed,
looking HIM full in the face.
Sale bete7 For such words as these, Mademoi
you shall be given lesson in department" the CO
said in hot rage
Madeleine just turned away to attend to the erin
Jacques who was more hurt In pride and trust ths
body An hour later while the commanding off
aides were at breakfast file of soldiers drew up
ward and its officer demanded the woman Mademo
Madeleine, whom we have orders to place under arr
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chateau, and why his officers
were allowed to neglect their
religious duties on the Sab
bath. He upbraided General
Hurt severely. I shall never
forget hearing this impressive
Prussian, with a row of COM
paign medals and crosses on
his coat, lecture General Hurt
upon the necessity of setting
an example to his troops by
spending a portion of each
Sunday at least in communion
with God.
General Hurt was apollo
getic. He excused his neg.
lect by pleading that he had
allowed his officers to attend
religious services arranged
for the soldiers. But he was
compelled to admit that he
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-12-26
PAID U. S. FOOD HELP RELEASED
Volunteer Workers only VIII BE
Used After January I, 1919.

Washington-Paid employees OF all
state, county and local food admin
STATIONS will be discharged Jan. 1
and all activities requiring paid stats,
including the work of the sugar
equalization board, will be discontin.
ued on that date, it was announced
by the food administration.
Voluntary workers and the various
food administrators will remain until
the national food administration is
dissolved as governmental agency
by President Wilson.
The work of the food administra-
ton Offices here is gradually being
brought to an end The conservation
and policies board was dissolved and
the educational division under Ben
8. Allen has been reduced TO a small
number Of employees needed to carry
on publicity work In connection with
the program for relief of other coun.
tries.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-12-26
MOTT DEFENDS Y.w.c.A. COURSE
Many Men and Women Called From
France Because Of Unfitness.

New York-Dr. John r. Mott.
chairman of the war work council of
the Y. M. c. A. discussed in detail
here adverse criticisms directed
against the organization by soldiers
here and in France. He vigorously de-
Tended the work of the organization as
a whole but did not deny that in iso-
lated cases there was just ground for
complaint.
Dr. Mott said that 200 men and
women workers had been recalled
from France because of unfitness and
announced that there would be gen.
eral Tightening up" to correct con-
ditions which have resulted in criti-
cisms. He stated that George w.
Perkins, Mortimer II. Schiff and f. s.
Brockman have gone abroad for the
express purpose OF eliminating. so far
as possible, any further cause for com
plaintg
at is the history of every great eff
fort that mistakes are made and no
one, no matter how exalted his person
Ut NOW ulliupCdOhdDlC HIS lltCBllby >
can escape. Other important organ
izations have passed through a similar
experience. So the Y. NJ. G. A. There
is no phase of its work that has been
left untouched by critics Much Of
the adverse comment is due to mis-.
conception or to partial knowledge"
DIR. Mott then took up in question
and answer form the criticisms most
frequently heard. He explained that
the Y. M. G. A. had not concerned
itself specifically with the wounded
and i'll because 1t had agreed this
work should be done by the Red Cross.
He denied the most frequently
heard complaint which has been that
the association has been profting by
the operation of its canteens overseas.
He explained that It had been
agreed with General Pershing that IL
any profits were derived from the
canteens II should be used exclusive
ly for the benefit Of the men OF the
army.