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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30

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 New Orleans, December 29.-Com- parisons are to actual dates not to close of corresponding weeks: In sight sight for week, 401, ,000;- in sight for same seven days last year, 427, 900; in sight same seven days year before, 416,000; in sight for the month, 1,751,- 900; in sight same date last year. H. 4S9,000; in sight for same date year be- fore, 1,605.000 in sight for season, s,S25, ,000; in sight same date last year, 6, 315, 1000: in sight same date year be. fore, 1866, 00o
 Port receipts for season, 3,e61, 900 port receipts for same date last year 2,776,0 port receipts for same date year before last 3,6l2000.
 Overland to mills and Canada for season, 61,000; overland to mills and Canada same date last year. 716.0o0; overland to mills and Canada same date year before, 857,000
 Southern mill takings for. season, 2, = 1S9,000; southern mill takings for sea son, 2,169,000; southern mill takings same date year before, 2,17S.
 Foreign exports for week, 177,0o0; foreign exports for same seven days last year, 102,000; foreign exports for same seven days year before, 114,000; foreign exports for season, 266S, 900: foreign exports for same date last year, 1,s16.000; foreign exoprts for same date year before, 2,190,00o
 Northern spinners' takings and Canada for week. 2,651.o northern spinners' takings and Canada for same seven days last year, 63,000; northern spinners' talkings and Canada for season, 1,122.0oo; northern spinners' takings and Canada for same date last year, 1,124.000.
 Statement of spinners' takings of American cotton throughout the world This week, 353.00o. same seven days last year. 27s,000; same seven days year before, 357,000; total since September 1, 5,643,000; same date last year. 4.ss3,- 900; same date year before, 5,734.000.
 Statement of worlds visible supply Total visible this week, 5,e35, 5,000; total last week. 5,55s,00o; total same date last year. 4,620, 900: total visible same date year before, 4,3o4,0
 Of this the total American this week 4,359,000; of this the total American last week, 4.311,o ,o00; of this the total American last year, 3,3S4,000; of this the total American year before, 3,13s,- 900.
 <. All other kinds this week, 1,27s,ooo; i; all other kinds last week, 1,247,000 all other kinds last year, 1,23s,000 all other kinds year before. 1.16s,0O0.
 Visible in the United States this week, 2.733; visible in the United States this date last year, 2,6sS, ,0o0
 Visible in other countries this week 2.902,000; visible in other countries this date last year, 1,922,O0O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Government Employes of
 Germany Want More Pay

Berlin, December 2s.-Twenty-five thousand state employees, comprising the clerical staffs of all the govern ment offices, marched through Under Den Linden past the chancellery today in silent demonstration In behalf of their demand for one time post-war allowance in the coming quarter pend ing settlement of negotiations for a substantial wage increase.
 The government clerks assert that, although general increase has been granted in other occupations, they have not been considered. and their pay. which. barely sufficed before the war. does not mot the increased cost of living. Today's demonstration was re- markable because of the absence of any verbal ceremonies the men dis banding after they had filed past the government headquarters.
 The one time allowance would cost the government 7o.000.0 900 marks, whereas the new wage schedule rep resents virtually a 100 per cent in- crease over the present wages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
JUMPING ABOUT |OF RATES CAUSESA GENERAL SETBACK
Banks Must Strengten Their Reserves to Meet January Interest and Dividend
 Payments
By Amsslatss Pres.

| New York, December 29.-With call
 money jumping from 12 to 25 per cent
 and back to Is per cent and to sh ! per cent bid for short time loans, the |stock market today experienced an-
 other general setback in which many |recent gains were wholly relinquished. The stiffer money tendencies occa- |sioned little surprise, despite last Sat [urday's favorable bank statement. It N Iwas generally anticipated that local land interior banks would find 1t nec- |essary to strengthen their reserves to Eneet January interest and dividend Payments.
 E Tn conservative financial circles it Ewas freely predicted that the early weeks of the new year would witness further advances in interest and dis lcount rates, with attendant stiffening |of quotations for commercial paper. Other developments which gave momentum to the days extreme de- Eclines of 2 to points included the publication of numerous unfavorable statements of railroad earnings for November and further unstable condi- ltions in foreign exchange.
 Incidentally the Bank of England f E EAGrease In liability reserves and the h0,uerican dollar went to higher Et1emium in Paris.
 fF Graders sought to extract a degree i, comfort from the forthcoming re- ' - of the railroads to private opera kn and broadening demand for , III road equipment and copper, but |bn ge factors exerted little more than porary influence.
 ' kletal shares were relatively strong widh fe wspecialties, notably Amer ,caW Woolen, the entire list rallying lrrffsularly in the final dealings, when Fhotfts covered hurriedly in United Stafes Steel and few other leaders.
 Bonds were hesitant on the changes
 shown by speculative rails, Liberty
 and international issues also inclining
 slightly downward. Total sales (par
 value), $33,250.00O. Old United States bonds unaltered on call.
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Port Movement A.. A->r-s-A 0s-


 New Orleans: Middling, 4oc; receipts. 11.024; sales, 1460; stock, 467,239. Galveston: Middling, 42.25c; receipts, 14,215; exports, 5S.s70; sales. 1850; stock. 313,oSs.
 Mobile: Middling, ssc; receipts, 1922; stock. 23,803.
 Savannah: Middling, 39.50c; receipts. 5sso; exports, 1S.ss4; sales, 5sS7; stock, 345.354.
 Savannah: Middling, s9.50c; receipts. 5S3o; exports, 1s,ss4; sales, 5ss7; stock. 345.354.
 Charleston Middling. ssc; receipts, 1260: sales, 50; stock, 71,074. Wilmington: Mfddling, 3sc; receipts, 334; stock. 51,611
 Texas City: Stock. 8S,023 Norfolk: Middling. 3s.25c; receipts, 1874; sales, 40: stock. S5,S56. Baltimore: Stock. 565S. Boston: Middling, 39.25c; receipts 120; exports. 5s1; stock. s7o0. Philadelphia: Middling, 3s.5oc; stock 12,3S1.
 New York: MiddlinE, ss25c; exports, 691; stock, 62,5ss.
 Minor ports: Stock. 27.946. Total today: Receipts. sS.17s; ex- ports. 77.23s; stock, 1,557, 1902. Fetal for week: Receipts, 12.s74; sx-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Sugar Market ly AaaGiafeh Rress

New York, December 29.--The local market 10 rraw sugar was unsettled and no fresh business was reported with the trade tsill awaiting the out come of the bill regarding the con tinuation of government control. Ad- vices from Cuba said that the wetaher there was favorable and that over 100 centrals were now Eringing. Another private estimate placed the coming Cuban crop at 4,435,714 tons
 In refined sugar prices for old cror remain at the Sc level while new crop is offered by one refiner to his regular suctomers at 15.20c. The demand is still quito active. but business is regu- lated by the amount available, which is offered through the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Cottonseed Oil

New York, December 2s.-Cottonseed oil was steady early on short covering but later turned easy under scattered liquidation induced by the heaviness in lard and cotton Closing prices were l Sto 31 points net lower for leading deliveries. Sales, 20.6oo. Tenders, Jan uary contracts, TOO barrels; prime crude, s2o asked; prime summer yellow spot, $21; January. $21.25; March, 22.17; May, s22.31; prime winter yellow and summer white, nominal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Was News to Him"
 Bv A,ssclattd Prss,

Los Angeles, Cal, December Gs,-Fran- cis J. Heney, in telephone conversa- ton from his Santa Monica home to- night. told the Associated Press the re- quest of 8 group of western cattle grow CTS associations to President Wilson that MT. Heney serve as a special prosecutor in new suits against the meat packers was news to him." He added that in the circumstances. it would be inadvis- able for him to discuss the matter fur thar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Money Market
 kv Ass~elntsa Prr.s

New York, December Mercantile paper, 6. Sterling eo-day bills, 3.75; com mercial 6o-day bills on banks, S.T6 com mercial 6o-day bills, 3741z3 demand, 3.79. cables, S.So. Francs, demand. 1o.70; cables l0.6S. Builders, demand, g 1-4: cables, S11a. Lire, demand, 1915: cables, 1912 Marks, demand. 2.0s; cables, EOS Gov ernment and railroad bonds irregular Time loans strong; SO days, 90 days and six monts, S0Sk. Call money strong; {; ruling rate, F; bank acceptances -4%. Bar silver, 1.31. Mexican dollars, si 0os4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
French Imports Laree,

Paris. Fridav. Decenl her a a--Flrerch inn- ports for the first ten months of the past year totaied approximately 2s.0o .0oo. coo francs. while exports aggregating only 5,500. .on co., accoi ding to statistics just is- sued by the customs administration. Iln- ports increased j.000. .0o0,0d0 francs, as com pared with the corresponding period in 1918, while exports also increased, being ], 800. .90o.0oo francs greater than year ago
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Interior Movement

Houston: Middling, 41c; receipts, Ill., s6s; shipments, 1o,s25; sales. 12ss; stock, 217,724.
 Memphis: Middling, 4oc; receipts, 1o,717; shipments, s7so; sales, 1900; stock. 2S03S7.
 Augusta: Middling. Ss25c; receipts, s7o; shipments, HOO; sales, SPA; stock, 210,622. Ss2; shipments. S7s; sales 21o; stock. s2ss.
 Little Rock; Middting. 4o.5Oc; re- ceipts, l41z; shipments. g. sales, 5; stock, 57,526.
 Total today: Receipts, 25,7s5; ship ments, 21,5as; stock, S12,os1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30

Bethlehem Steel ref. -5s .... S7 Central of Georgia cons. 5s. bid. S5%
 Central leather 5s ...,...... g6 Chesapeake & Ohio cv 5s .... 80
 Chi, B. & Quincy joint 4s ..-... s5 Chi, Mil. & St. F. cv. 45zs ..... 641s Chi. R. I. & Pac. Ky. ref. 4s 67h City of Paris 6s ............... SEA Colorado & Southern ref. 4hs 7fh Denver & Rio Grande ref. 5s ... 47 Dominion of Canada 5s G9SD.. s1
 Erie gen. As .........A.. 401k Illinois Central ref. As ......... T6% Int Mer. Marine 6s .....,.. 94k Kansas City Southern ref, 5s .. 72ss Liggett & Myers 5s, bid ...... S5 Louisville & Nashville un. 4s co. S2A Missouri, K. T. lst As, bid .... 59M Missouri Pacific gen. As .. 5S
 New York Central deb. 5s .... 90% Norfolk & Western cv. 6s .... 10S% Northern Pacific As ... 7e2 Pennsylvania gen. 5s .. 91M Reading geh. 4s .. 79% Rep. Iron & Steel 5s (104O), bid. 9sh St. Louis & San Fran. adj. 6s.. 62N Seaboard Air Line adj. 5s . 34A Southern Bell Tel. 5s, bid .. s4h Southern Pacific cv. 5s .. 1O2N Southern Railway 5s . s71L Southern Railway gen. 4s .... 5sB Texas Company ev. ss, bid .,.. 102 Texas & Pacific 1st ............ s4 Union Pacific 4s .... s4H U. S. Steel 5s . 96h Yirginia-Caro. Chemical 5s ..... 94 Wabash 1st ............. 90
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Live Stock

East St. Louis, December 29.-Hogs Re- ceipts, z1,oo0; weak; bulk. 13.so91410; me dium, siS.SoG14l5; pigs, s12@13so Cattle: Receipts. Scoo weak; beef steers, medium and good, s11.75Qd6,75: veal calves si2dl6.7s; feeders and stocker steers, s6 2s G12.5o.
 Sheep: Receipts, 25oo; steady; lambs s75oa1S; ewes, s4G1o
 
 Louisville, Ky, December 29.-Hogs: Receipts .25Oo; steady to 25c; higher; lsl pounds up s1425; 12o to 165 pounds, SIS; pigs. s1a.25; throwouts, $12.25 down.
 Cattle: Receipts, TOO; active, higher; heavy steers, s125o@14; beef steers, Ssd 11.50; cows, $5@t0.5o; heifers, $S@12; fee6- CTS. ss@11; stockers, S@10.
 Sheep: Receipts. 50; steady; lambs, sls; sheep, g.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Bank of France = a..t-. A

London, December 2s.--The weekly state ment of the Bank of England shows the following changes: Total reserves de- creased e1. .S56,ooo; circulation increased c1 ,S4s,0oo; bullion decreased el07 2Sl; other securities increased eS,S31, GOO: other desposits increased eso4s, 600; public de- posits decreased s1,3O0oo0 notes reserve decreased f1,S49,0o0; government securi- ties increased e4S7.ooO. The proportion of the banks reserve to liability this week is 11.1 jer cent; last week it was 1888 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Metal Market a.. A..~a.A =

New York, December 2s.-Copper steady; electrolytic spot and first quarter, 1sa; a IS. Iron steady; No. northern, Gas; No. 8 northern, le0f1; No. southern. SS0l 40. Anthony. s.75. Metal exchange quiet. Lead strong, spot and January, 7.s21. bid. Zing strongi1, spot East St. Louis delivery, &35 bid: s asked. At Lon don. spot copper f1n 12s Sd; futures e11s -12s Sd. Electrolytic, spot f11s; futures f11. Tin. sot fSs7 15; futures fs4o 2s pd. Lead. spot e45 Is ed: futures f45 Is Cd futures f45 Is Cd. Zinc spot s57 1os futures 45s los.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Southern Bell Telephone and
 Telegraph Company

Interest on Thirty-Year First Mortgage Sinking Fund Gold Bonds of this Company due lszl' will be paid on and after January IS, to the Bankers Trust Company, No. 1e Wan Street. Ney York. N. Y.
 J. Nj. B. HoxEY, Treasurer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Dry Goods Market
By AssocIntc6 PYeee

New York. December 29.--Cotton goods were very firm today with an upward tendency. Yarns were firm and quiet. Dress goods agents were awaiting the turn of the year before naming new prices. Burlaps were firmer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Liverpool Cotton

Liverpool, December 2s.-Cotton, spot quiet, prices firm: good niddling, sod ; fully middling. 2S.75d; middling. 2f50d; low middling, 24a5d; good ordinary g sod; :;
 ordinary, 21.5od. Sales. 5000 bales, including
 4600.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Cafe Rurrlarized

The Nolan cafe at 25S1 Fourth avenue,
 North, was broken into by burglars Sun day morning. and about s6 was obtained from the cash register, The robbers did
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Hubbard Bros. & Co.

Cotton Merchants. Hanover Square. New York. Members New York Cotton Exchange. New Orleans Cation Exchange. New York erpool Cotton Associations. Orders solicited for the purchase anu sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil sor future delivery. Special attention and liberal terms given for con- sisnment of spot cotton for delivery. Cor respondenee invited.
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2sc; springs. SC; turkeys, 4Oc: ducks, s4c; geese, 2c.
 Butter, creamery, SIC.
 Eggs soc
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Potato Market.

Chicago. December 29.-Potatoes weaker; arrivals, I7 cars; northern white. sackeds s3soa3.45; northern whites. bulk, s3.4oa
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Naval Steres =
H-nL

Savannah, December 29-Turpentine firm. l591A; sales 300; receipts 314; ship ments 3o4: stock 13.s15 &Rosin firm; sales 1o0ds: receipts 11s5; shipments 15s7 stock 55,7H. Quote: B. D. E, 1e.409l6.45: F. 1S N 616E1S; c, 1S4o@1d5o; H, 16. 45Qne 521s: I. 17@1715; K. 1s.4st91s5o; M, 1s: N, 1875; we. D.1: wv. 21.2s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30

rot molest any of the tpodstuff tha lined the counters. Entrance was gaine by breaking the front plate glass win dow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Spot Cotton By Asseeiatsd Prsss

New Orleans. December 29.-Spot cotton quiet and unchanged. Sales on the spot, 3S5 bales; to arrive. 1o75 bales. Low middling. 33.25c; middling. 4oc; good middling, 41.75c. Receipts, 11,024; stock, 467.239.
 New York, December 2s.-Spot cot ton steady. Middling. 3s.25c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
New Orleans Futures

New Orleans, December 29.-Cotton closed steady, 19 points down to 5S in net
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Produce Market

Chicago, December 29.-Butter. cream cry, 5tTSsc. F
 Eggs, higher; firsts, 6sd6sc.
 Poultry, alive, higher; springs, soc fowls, s1c; turkeys, 40c.
 New York. December 2s-Butter, firm, creamery, firsts. 61m6s1kc.
 Eggs, unsettled fresh gathered frsts 7o@71c.
 Cheese, steady; average run, s0ild1Slc, St. Louis, December 2s.-Poultry, hens,
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 Total for season: Receipts. s,7s2,sso exports, 2,T45,653,
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Chicago Futures
Rice Market

New Orleans, December 29.--Rough rice no sales; receipts 75sS sacks: millers, 753S Clean rice strong; sales. Blue Rose, 7e60 pockets, B 1-Sd12 3-Sc; receipts 6eoa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-30
Cash Grain

By AssscIa,ed Press Chicago, December 2s.-Corn: No. 2 mixed unquoted; No. 5 mixed, new, s1 ss1s No. ? yellow, old, $1436p1. A. Oats: No. 3 white, S3Gs5xc; No. white s2@ss%c. Rye. No. 2 si.7s@1. .7s,z; barley, s1ssa 1.56: timothy seed, s9d12. Clover seed. sso94s; pork nominal, lard
 $2S 1sdts22; ribs s1Sp1s St. Lcuis, December 29-Corn: No. 8
 sf. f.4od1.f2; No. l, white, S.5S; May, sl.3OA Oats: No ?, SIC; No white, S4ls0S5e
 May. &c.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-04-11
TREATING SYMPTOMS INSTEAD OF DISEASE

The legislature should go slow in passing such measures as Senator
Harold Rices ant-Bolshevki bill.
Someone has properly designated the appearance of Boshevism
and like forms of propaganda as a symptom of a diseased condition OF
society, rather than the disease itself. Bolshevism is not new in the
United States except in name. AS anarChism or socialism in one de-
gree or another, it has been always with us, as it has also been in Great
Britain.
1t has never heretofore caused much concern in these two demo-
cratic nations for the reason that conditions have not been favorable
TO its spread|t has not appealed to people who are living in a healthy
social state. 1t should not cause alarm now, except there be cause. And
it should be the concern of the nation to seek out this cause and to re-
move it, rather than to attempt simply to suppress or hide the symptom
of the disease.
That is what such laws as Senator Rices would tend to do.
We have laws now to punish lawess acts. We have yet, except
in stress of war, to feel the need of laws against free speech or a free
press a freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.
It's scarcely conceivable that any form of propaganda such as Sen
ator Rices bill is aimed at, would have any weight with normal persons
In fact the absence of any legal restrictions Of the kind should be a
safeguard, in that dangerous doctrines would not have to be hidden
The symptoms of an unhealthy state would not be covered up.
Suppression of the kind suggested unpleasantly suggests the old
days in Russia under the czars. There was plenty of repression then
but anarchsm fatened on it.
The people of America will never stand for Boshevism; because
they will never submit to the conditions that bring about Bolshevisn
and other fantastic and faacious theories.
The fact that we arr troubled with l. w. W., and other dangerous
doctrines is a sign that everything is not right. 1t is our job, as re-
2Ponsible citizens of a democracy, to heed these warnings and seek out
the true cause of the trouble, and not to bhndy attack the evidence
that shows us that things are not we'll.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-04-11
INDEPENDENCE NEEDS ENCOURAGEMENT
AND PROTECTION

We want to 90 on record with a prediction: Within another two
wears most of the honest men of all political faiths in Hawaii, will be
demanding a revision of the primary election law along lines similar
to those OF Senate Bill l52 which was tabled on third reading in the
Senate this week.
And this because the abuses possible under the present law will
become intolerabe.
Maui has had experience in this connection. She will certainly
have more, as will the rest of the territory to their sorrow.
1t would almost seem from reading of the arguments against Sen
ator Badwins amendment that the writers had not read the bill at all,
but had simply jumped to the conclusion that they knew what it con-
tanned. For instance the Advertiser, under the caption independence
Needs Encouragement, says editorialy-
Under the primary law as it stands the voter can go to the booth
and assist in the nomination of the men he thinks best fitted to the of
fees to which they aspire"
the nomination of the weakest instead of the strongest mel on the op-
POSITION ticket in case there is no contest in his own party-whiCh is
just what has already taken place in past primary elections.
And the writer also says
"To get away from party politics is the purpose of the direct
primary-to take the nomination of candidates out of the hands of the
boss or bosses and to let the voters name their own tickets"
Which is of course what: it should do but at present does not. In
stead, it permits the bosses to get in their work of helping select the
poorest men OF the opposition ticket to be later slaughtered in the regu-
lar election.
1T S hard to see how the bosses could control to anything like the
extent they do now, under the straight ticket primary. Take, for ex-
ample, the very possible situation in Honolulu when the democratic
party has but n candidate in the field for delegate to congress, while
the republicans have two aspirants for that position. Under the prim-
airy law as it now stands the democratic bosses could and would issue
general instructions to their henchmen to vote for which ever repubi-
can candidate was deemed the least dangerous to their own candidate.
But under the plan proposed by Senator BaldwinIs bill just killed,
the democrats could not do this without sacrificing every other candi-
date on their ticket, because the voters would be limited in their voting
to but a single ticket.
For the further reason that under the primary law no boss can
prevent any man from becoming a candidate for any office, 1t is al
most impossible to do any "slatemaking" before the primaries that will
be sure.
1t is not necessary, desirable or practicable to do away with poTi-
cal parties. No way has yet been devised anywhere to do this. But
from the control of party bosses-which Hawai1s primary law IS it
stands does not.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-04-11
GreCian Officials
Regret The Arrest
OF Two Americans

SALONIK1, March 23-(Associated
Press)-Premier Venizelos and Gen
eral Paraskevopoulos, commander-in-
chief of the Greek army, have offered
regrets and apologies to George Hor-
ton, the American consul general here
for the unwarranted arrest of DR..
John Henry House, of Ohio, superin-
tendent of the American Missionary
School; Rev. William c. Cooper, Of
Illinois and Rev. William Paine Clark,
professors in the institution.
The charges on which the arrests
were made were entered by a Bull
garian informer, and the arrests were
by order Of a subordinate military Of
fetal. AS soon as the matter was
taken to the attention of the authori-
ties by Mr.. Horton, the accused were
released, and an investigation order
ed by General Paraskevopoulos prov
ed the charges, which had been
characterized by Horton as ridiculous
and fantastic" to be absolutely base
less.
The Rev. Mr.. Cooper was charged
with transmitting information to the
Germans through Mrs. Cooper's sis
ter who was then resident in Switzer-
land, and with obtaining employment
for a Bulgarian woman as cook in an
American consulate in order that she
might steal papers of importance and
take thcm to him at the school.
The informant als3 declared that
he had overheard DR.. House say he
had positive informatio that Mace.
donia was to be given to Bulgaria
when the peace tre7ty was signed.
When this ~ formation was given a.
the Greel authorities tha' ordered
the arrest of all person; with tIl-
garian affiII t. Ms.