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The sun., 1919-02-28
Albert in Charge OF Funds.

1t is disclosed that Albert had charge
OF much German money and that Won
Bernstorff wished TO keep him in the
United States because there is abso-
lutely no one else at my disposal who is
TO be trusted with the matter referred
to-" which included compromising docu-
ments.
Count Won Bernstorff mentions partic-
ular directions in which Won Igel and
Won Skal apart from their services for
the care OF intelligence. carried on vari-
GUS commercial measures already partly
concluded by Won Papen." The Ambss-
sador refers to a lawsuit then pending
gainst Won Ieel on account of his par
ticipation in the conspiracy to destroy
the Welland Canal. and says II is out OF
the question to pronounce his dismissal
He expresses strong desire for the
retention of the services OF Won lgel be-
cause Won Igel and Won Skal had to do
among other things with orders placed
with the Bridgeport Projectile Company
and the Aetna Powder Company, the
purchase of chlorine and of earthen ware
and with the sales OF arms-stored to
our account in New York and the state
of Washington--which we're intended for
india, the settling UP of arrangements
concerning phenUl and toluol the dis
| charge Of various law suits such as those
against koenig, Kienzle. Breitung. Will
pert and Bode, as well as arranging for
various persons and their families In
volved in these law suits.
The report says that in all these
| measures "Privy Councillor Albert has
been consulted by Won Igel as directed
at the time by Won Papen. On lmpor-
| tant questions my advice was called
| for"
The sun., 1919-02-28
WAR LOSSES $50, 900, 600, 900.
French Deputy Estimates Damage
His Country Suffered.

PARIS, Feb 27.-Thc war losses OF
France amount TO nearly s24 ,o00, 900. 900,
according TO an estimate prepared by
Louis Dubois, Deputy from the Depart
ment of the Seine. for the Budget Com
mittee OF the Chamber OF Deputies, says
the Journal.
The losses consist of damage TO land
and property. household effects, cattle
and title deeds raw materials and pro-
visions and loss to revenue and trade
The sun., 1919-02-28
Some Have Plenty.

Keeling expanded on this idea.
And on the one side millions of peo-
pie too absorbed with the rayening
thought how to get food Tor them
selves, their wives and children to
think of anything beyond the mo-
meut, too exhausted to resist; on
the other hand. favored few rela-
lively well fed persons prepared for
any violence or cr,feIty to save
themselves from losing their privi-
lege and slipping into the vortex of
famine. For. whatever may be in
the original idea OF Bolshevism. as
Keeling explained. II Is simply that
II confers upon some and denies TO
others the privilege OF eating and
that all it's other deeds OF violence
and cruelty are as nothing TO the
supreme cruelty of Withholding food
Keeling went on to explain the sys-
TEN. describing 1t without color or
emotion. as II living in that world
he had come to take its horrors for
granted.
THE peasants have got rid OF
their landlords and sat down and
divided the land continued Keeling.
They have quarrelled good deal,
but on the whole did 1t sensibly,
each taking a bit Of the best land,
then another a bit Of worse, and so
on, but while there was plenty land
for one village, there was nothing
like enough In another. so the dis
tribution was very unequal and
there was great discomfort Instead
of having the splendid time they
hoped for, they find there is moth
ing to buy and they are always be-
ing worried and threatened by the
BolsrSR >. They~Ne no ter.aA
vodka, no tobacco: they feel the
loss Of tobacco especially, and
seem TO walk about in dazed con-
dition. like men used to drugs, who
had suddenly TO go without. Peas
ants have implored me. to give them
tobacco.
"'Peasants work only Just as
much as they must TO keep them
selves alive. The next harvest is
likely TO be very bad and then
famine, which now exists In tho
towns. will begin to spread over the
country, and one dare not think
what will happen then.
my own belief Is they, Lenine
and Trotzky. know the game is up,
but do not know how to get out of It
or what to DO. Inc slightest Sibn
OF weakening and they are done.
so they simply go ahead. grinding
out everybody they think danger
GUS. Even the advanced Socialists
are beginning to speak of Carbon
as the good old times. No one Is
safe. Il used to be thought, they
did not shoot Jews. for so many of
them are Jews themselves. but two
acquaintance of mine. both Jews,
were shot short time before came
away. and they had done nothing
except to try little private trad
ing.
Thousands Have Disappeared.
at is terrible TO live in Russia
tSese tunes. AS y&u walk in PetEo-
grad WOW never see any one laugh
or smile men and women are like
shadows: little children are SO
wasted they seem 10 be all eyes.
All the time people are disappear
ing: nobody knows what becomes
Of them. Five years ago Petrograd
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but can buy nothing, have had
rubles worth 1900 (s3,000) in my
pocket and have not been able to
buy a piece bread. You don't trouble
about money. You pay shillings
tS1.25) "a lump for sugar II you can
get II. a workman's wages are
floo tsSoo) month at the old
values, but though he can still buy
a watch for f5 ts25) he cannot buy
roll of bread for ESQ (s250). Peo-
pie who have food will not sell 1t
for rubles because they are worth
nothing and there Is nothing to buy
with them. SO the Bolshevists can
not get food though they are trying
to and having fights with the peas
ants In consequences.
I believe myself there Is enough
food In Russia to keep every one
alive for the last harvest was good.
but It cannot be got and Il Is all
being boarded and concealed.
Nine -tenths the people who
keep In with the Boishevists have to
pretend to like them and would do
anything to get rid them IL they
knew how. but you have to remem-
Der the Bolshevists are clever, feed
ing the people who are likely to
hsht. Every man who joins the
Red Army is sure of his own food,
also gets food for his wife and chill
dren. The army Is fed before any
one else and out of all proportion
10 the other classes. Even work.
men get nothing until the army has
had enough, so large numbers Of
men join the army for the sake of
getting food and then have 20 keep
at II for fear of losing their food
Besides II they try any tricks they
not only are punished and shot
themselves but their wives families
and parents are starved
The sun., 1919-02-28
Feared Losses by False Bills.

The carrying on OF these tasks by
another man presents particular diff
culties," the report adds. since to make
oneself acquainted with matters which
are very intricate would result in a
discussion of all comprising documen ts
and. as ordered BY your Excellency, Is
almost out of the question.
I'm the event of Privy Councillor Al
bert returning to Germany within a
measurable time there is absolutely no
one else at my disposal who is to be
trusted with the matter referred 70.
Various parties concerned would soon
notice this and would come forward
with claims which Il would be impossi-
The sun., 1919-02-28
FALL KILLS MAJOR ANDERSON.
Fokker Machine Becomes Unman-
ageabIe in Germany.

CoBLENz, Feb 23.-Major II. B. An
derson SreD0ver. y. J.. celnander OF
the Fourth Corps. Aviation Service, was
killed on Thursday near Cochem. on
the Moselle, when the Fokker machine
in which he was flying became unman-
ageable at several thousands feet In the
air The body OF Major Anderson was
buried Sunday in the Third Army Gene
terry, near Fortress Alexander, in the
outskirts OF Coblenz.
Major Anderson was graduated from
West Point In 1919 and was among the
first Americans to come TO France In
the United States Aviation Service.
The sun., 1919-02-28
Six Days without Bread.

"I have been six days without
bread, three days without anything
-k Il sXccF' 9he so-called public
d'nner. which consisteSbs watery
soup, small piece OF salt fish and
one-elEhth OF pound OF bread
Sometimes they offered me oats, as
II | were a horse, when there was
no bread. All children are in the
hrst class. for the Bolshevlst idea
Is that all children should be charges
Of the state while their parents go
20 work, but the children are stary-
Ing in great numbers.
II you are not in the first class
o. are degraded from IL you have TO
prOwl about and try to get food Sc
crsCy; but this is a punishable Of
fence, for which sometimes people
may even be shot, People go TO the
country, taking anything they think
the peasants viii take in exchange
for food and get a bag OF -four or a
few potatoes. But 1t is Illegal to
20 out of town without a permit or
10 buy anything when you get there.
30 the Red Guard stop them and
search them as they come back. and
II they find anything confiscate 1t
and often arrest the people and
carry tnem OH.
81 saw a woman who had gone
70 the country and got thirty pounu
of -four from her own native place
FOR her children. who were starving.
Enc was seized by the Guard at the
station when she was trying to get
Dhck, and they took II from her, al
though she fell on her knees and i'm
p,0red them with sobs to let her keep
Only a few polElds.
Then when she found II was no
70 She threw herself under train
and vas killed
Norlsmen's Pay $500 MonthIy.
makes II worse that YOU have
Quantities Of money In your rocket
The sun., 1919-02-28
ITALY NEAR TO WAR
WITH JUGO-SLAVS


political grounds and stopping courlers
of the Jugo-Slav Government.
Officials of the Food Adm niss-~fnn
say that obstruction BY the italian
authorities in co trolling the railways
running inland from Triest for the time
being does not permit the movement OF
relief stores. This has brou ut .ner-
get!c representations from the food
authorities. which. II not sufficient to
check the attitude Of both sides II Is
intimated economic and financial penal
ties provided for in the plan OF the
League OF Nations may be applied to
both sides
The sun., 1919-02-28
Many Spies Employed.

"a man will stand almost any,
thing rather than see his wife, chill
dren and parents starved to death
and the use they make OF this kind
OF coercion is devilsh. Soldiers have
to be careful for there are lots OF
spies among them. Then besides
the regular Red Army there is a
special picked army which gets
everything Il wants. food or any
thing else. and all these men know
II they don't fight they will starve,
so they fight to save their own food
and TO prevent their wives and chill
dren from starving. That Is their
way OF keeping alive
How can men ut the top. Lenine
Trotzky and the rest rest ?-Lenine at
all events is supposed 10 have some
intelligence and humanity-sit there
and let this go en-? Are they devils
or maniacs" Keeling was asked
Suppose you would say they are
quite sane according TO our notions,
but as things are they cannot help
themselves and could not stop II II
they choose. They have made mon
ster areas helpless. Bolshevism is, in
fact. become a vested interest for it's
Trotzky are obliged to go on feeling
a Few, starving the many and shoot
ing objectors.'
ASK how men could be found
who would go on day after day ad-
ministerlng this dlabolical system
with this spectacle OF helpless mys-
terry under their eyes Mr.. Keeling
said:
ne
some notorious bad characters. many
mere boys wiz I'M we should call
hooligans. One boy OF II I knew
was 4 commissary with the power
OF life and death over forty villages.
He goes about armed with a pistol,
and one day thrust II In my face,
threaten ng to shoot me on the spot
] knew how to deal with him, but
the Russian peasants do not. As
seen, such lads are terrorizing whole
districts
Keeling admits frankly that he
WAS attracted by the Bolshevist idea,
and hoped at one me 1t mieht be
good for Russia IL not the world in
general. He was asked what has
happened to the Russian pe@'le?
NarIt Is Bolshevism as black as II
is painted. and II II is. how can the
whole nat on submit to it?' he said
In answer. The Russian people are
starving, and when you are starving
you do not think about other atroci-
ties; you think about nothing except
just food TO keep yourself alive.
You do not trouble much whether
you are going TO be shot yourself
or whether other people are being
shot. You are collecting food Ike
an animal. ] left Russia six weeks
ago. but even now | cannot get over
the habit OF thinking about my food.
and every day l find myself wonder
ing where the next meal Is to come
from
The sun., 1919-02-28
MUEHLON MAY FORM
BAVARIAN CABINET
krupp ex-Director Meets So
cioIists in Munich.

LONDON, Feb. 27.-Dr. Wilhelm Much
lon. former director OF the Krupp works,
has arrived in Munich and Is negotiating
with Socialist leaders there with a view
to forming a new Bavarian cabinet, ac-
cording to a Bern despatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company.
The sun., 1919-02-28

The penalty for failing to please
the Bolshevists is to be degraded
from the class in which you get some
food to the class in which you get
scarcely any. In the last few
months there has not been anything
like enough for the first class and
scarcely anything for the others.
Class ". the former rich, I should
say, has disappeared. They have
sither got out of the country or been
starved TO death o. shot or have
turned themselves into workmen in
order to get food.
II cannot tell you more. for no.
body knows. Other classes are those
that get some food and those that
GET hardly any officially. To get
food you must be in with the Boil
shevtsts. and then they put you into
the first class. II is very difficult
get there and very easy to get
out. They degrade you for slight
reasons which you cannot discover
and then you starve. Whole trade
unions have been degraded because
they opposed the Bolshevists or Of
Tended them somehow.
One has cards and coupons
SAYS Mr.. Keeling. but all private
trading is forbidden and nearly all
The shops in Petrograd are shut.
There are few hundred municipal
shops, and You arc supposed to re-
ceive half pound of bread day
potatoes, butter. meat and sugar are
fixed at reasonable prices; but as a
matter Of fact for a long time past
nothing has been sold but bread.
and even that failed for seven days
N December.
The sun., 1919-02-28
'BERNSTORFF REPORT
PROVES PLOTS HERE
Shows Money Used in In
trigues Was Paid With Ber-
Inns Approval.
ALBERT HANDLED FUNDS
Document Captured in Pales-
tine From Won Papen Given
Out by British.

LONDON, Feb. 27--Study Of the on
cial statement containing a translation
of the report from Count Won Bernstorf.
German Ambassador to the United
States, to Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollwes on August %. 1915, discloses
interesting details OF the part that the
Count and the Foreign ONCE played In
German intrigues in the United States.
Tho report gives further evidence re-
gardng the use of Wolf Won Igel George
Won Skal and Or. Heinrich Albert by the
German Government. Proof that the
money FUSED in their intrigues was paid
with the acquiescence Of the German
Chancellor. II not at his order, is con-
tanned in this report
The sun., 1919-02-28
RUSSIANS GRADED
BY RULE OF SOVIETS
Former Rich in Lowest Glass,
Which Virtually Has
Disappeared.
LABORERS TOP THE SCALE
British Worker Who Served
With Bolsheviki Nividly
Portrays Conditions.

spsctsi Ceble Despatch to THE srs ara fhe
Public Ledger.
Copyright. 1919: an rights reserved.
LONDON, Feb. 27.--A picture of condi-
ions In Russia, portrayed more Clearly
than anything yet published. is given In
the Westminster Gdsetto in an interview.
entitled The Truth About Russia" As
the Westminster Gazette generally Is re-
garded as paper with strong leaning
toward pacifsm and nowise likely Boil
shevik. and as its informant is a trades
unionist, only just arrived from Russia,
'he Interview Is attracting great atteD-
ton. The Westminster Gd=ette says:
There has lately arrived In Eng
land witness Of the internal con-
dfton of Russia whose testimony is,
We believe, more veracious and i'm
partial and likely to have more
weight with the mass of the people
than any official account given by
middle class Russians who have es-
capped from the country. This Is
II. V. Keeling. who alone probably
Of all Englishmen has seen the Boil
shevist movement from within and
can report Of his own knowledge
what the Russian working class
thinks.
Mr.. Keeling went to Russia five
years ago to teach the workmen
Of Russian firm which had ac-
CURED British patents of certain
new processes of the photographic
and printing trades For twenty
years previously he had been a
member of the British Trade Union.
He was admitted to membership in
the Russian Printing Trade Union
and thus spent all his time as
workman among workmen.
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Became Useful to soviets.

I'm 1918 he went about the coun-
Try opening workshops for repairing
all sorts Of things. In this way he
made himself so useful, not to say
Indispensable, that the Soviets in
sisted on his remaining in the coun-
try. In October last he was APP
pointed to the position of chief pho
tographer of the committee on pub
lie education. presided over by Luz
nacharski, whom he describes as an
amiable visionary with his eyes shut
to the realities of the Bolshevist
regime. How Keeling finally got out
OF Russia and the extraordinary ad-
ventures and hairbreadth escapes he
had at the frontier of Finland can
not be told yet The main fact Is
tfat he was in Russia for the whole
period OF the revolution until jan
uary . this year.
mir. Keeling Is still young
man and, although his experiences
have bitten deep into him. he has
been carried through by his remark
able vitality and intelligence. He
speaks with singular impartiality of
what he has seen and heard.
The population Gays Mr.. Keel
Ing. was originally divided by the
Bolshevists into foug categories
which exactly turn upside, down the
social classes of other countries.
These are first, manual laborers
second. clerical workers. provided
they employ nobody; third, every
body who has employed anybody
from a small householdec employing
one servant to a manufacturer en-
ploying a thousand hands; fourth,
all former idle rich. princes. aristo-
Gratis, landowners and courtiers OF
every description.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-27

[1NCIE SAM SAYS THE PURCHASER MUST PAY THE LUXURY TAX-- HERE IS THE LAW: imposed is section shall De paid by inc purchaser he time sdle and shaU De collected returned ana paid the United Sta by such uendor n the manner as pr0Dided in section 5O2.
 The Merchant Has No Decision Tn the Matter
 The merchant has decision in the matter his duty is plainly and specifically defined-and every merchant patriotic and law respecting citizen conduct his business in accordance with the law of government
 Every merchant will, of course out the tedious details incident o the collection of this tax little inconvenience to the customer possible
 patience and consideration is requested; it a and unfamiliar duty the government salespeope perform, ask your patience and cooperation
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
ASK REPORT OF
SLEEP DISEASE
Physicians of Country Become
Alarmed Over Appearance of
New Type of Epidemic.

Physicians of the country are be-
coming alarmed over the appear-
ance of a new malady, sleeping
sickness. The disease is said to
have a death toll of about % per
cent Persons suffering from the
sickness have all the symptoms of
ordinary sleep, with the exception
that their eyes sometimes remain
open.
The Illinois department of pub
lie health has taken summary &C
ton to check the spread of the dis
ease. By order of the state author
tiles the plague has been made a
reportable disease. Isolation of all
cases has been ordered. Rock Is
land or the county has thus far re-
ported no cases, according to DR..
G. T. Foster. city health commits
sioner.
Drastic action in the state came
after the official report of five cases
and two deaths. Doctors say the
new sleeping sickness is akin to in
fantile paralysis. All cases thus
far in the state followed attacks OF
Spanish influenza.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
TEN DAYS LEFT
FOR DONATIONS
Need for Clothing in Europe Great
er Now Than During War
Time, Statement Asserts.
WILL CALL FOR BUNDLES
Red Cross Will Send for Larger
Packages ii They Cannot be
Taken to Headquarters.

Just ten days remain in the Red
Cross old clothing drive.
During wartime, the people OF
Rock Island contributed in two
drives a total of nine tons of cloth
ing. The need now is greater in Eu-
rope than it was during war time
This is the statement made today by
the Rock Island chapter.
The tremendous need which ex-
lists at present is explained by two
facts. First, larger areas are open
ed up for relief work; there are
more liberated countries to which
the Red Cross now has entrance
Second, the people have endured six
more months of privation and lack
of adequate supplies; supplies fur
nished in the earlier drives are
used up; in addition those who still
depended on their own small pos
sessions during the past winter
have now exhausted them and have
worn to the last shred what gar
ments were theirs.
People who have bundles OF
clothing which are too large to be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
.DANCE-FICHT is
HELD AS USUAL
But Last Nights Battle at Holy
City, BettendOrf, More Serious
Than Customary.
ONE MEXICAN CUT AND SHOT
Another is Held for knitting Him
and Third Sought for Shot
ing Him.

The fight at the Sunday night
dance at Holy City in Bettendorf
last night was of more serious con-
sequences than the one or the
ones usually staged at the hop.
Be it known for all time that the
Holy City is the collection of de-
trucked box cars back of the Bet
tendorf shops where some two hun
dred Mexicans and negroes live,
and be it known, also, that their
Sunday night dances have for long
held a reputation in that section OF
emulating the wild west cafe and
dance hall shown in the Bill Hart
films. And a Sunday night dance
without Sunday night fight par
ticipated in by a bunch of Sunday
night DRINKS is as scarce in the
Holy City as breathing space in the
steerage of a big liner.
No one knows how the fight
started last night except that sud-
denly the dance stopped and Man
uel Garcie and some other MeXi-
can had squared off and were sail
ing into it with violence. Garcie's
opponent was getting the small end
of the battle and did the next best
thing-shouted for an ally. Ally,
asked for, came in the person Of
Hosea Ortiz, whose entrance was
marked with one flourish of a dag
ger. The knife met Garcie's upper
lip, which was severed in twain di-
rectly beneath the nose. With a
howl of pain, Garcie staggered and
l. IaE =
the door, bullet graZed his
temple. Who shot it, no one knows,
save that it was someone from
within.
Ortiz is in Jail. Manuel Garcie
may die it was stated at Mercy
hospital. Davenport, where he is
a patient. The police are looking
for the man who fired the revolver.