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WOULD PAY eoBs $50 A MONTH.
Admira!s Wilson And Washington Also
Urge Raise For Officers.

Misunderstanding dollars a month
should be the minimum pay for naval
enlisted men, the House Naval Com
mittee was told by Admiral Wilson,
commander of the Atlantic fleet, and
Rear-Admiral Washington, Chief of
Navigation. They urged an advance Of
so per cent for enlisted men and 35
per cent. for officers.
Ninety per cent. of us are in the
navy because we love it." Admiral Will
son said. I'VE are making no demand,
and it is not a question of joining any
federation of labor. We belong to no
organization and few of us vote"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-10-17
HUNS LIE ABOUT YANks.
Spread False Reports OF Mutiny At
Coblenz.

Coblenz.-German newspapers have
given publicity to false story that
American soldiers at Coblenz had mu-
tinted on account of reduction OF
pay. At American military headquar.
tiers here it is stated that the story
which was also sent out by the Ger.
man wireless news service to neutral
countries, is absolutely without founda
ton. The story is there considered as
pure propaganda, originating with Ger
mans who desire to create a feeling
of unrest among the troops.
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8cheS, my Dack
ached all the time.
I was tired and had
no ambition for any
thing. ] had taken
a number Of rnedi-
cines which did me
no good. One day
/ read about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Conpoundand
what it had done for
women, 80 I tried
it. My nervousness
M~A - ~1~~ -
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RAILROAD MAN DECORATED.

Head Of Commission To Russia Is
Awarded D. S. M.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY. Gen. William S.
Graves, commander of American
forces in Siberia, decorated John F.
Stevens. head of the American Rail-
way Commission to Russia, with the
Distinguished Service Medal.
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Import from Germany in July
amounted to $2s1,166. and for the
seven months ending with July, 1919,
ssss.s2S.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-10-17
Britain Completes Ratification
of Treaty

London. - King George COM
pleted Great Britain's ratification
of the German peace treaty. The
document ratified by him has been
dispatched to Paris.
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HOW TO AVOID
BACkACHE and
NERVOUSNESS
Told by Mrs. Lynch From
Own Experience.

Providence, r. Ter was all run
down In health, was nervous, had head
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-10-17
ITALY RAT|F|Es
PEACE TREATIES
Assent Given to Versailles
Pacts By Royal Decree
THIRD GREAT POWER TO ACT
Italy The First Of The Powers To Act
Upon The Austrian Treaty-Wiil
Start The League OF Ma
tons On Its Career.

Rome.-King Victor Emmanuel has
ratified the German and Austrian
treaties by decree.
The Giornal D'Italia says that each
decree contains two articles, the first
authorizing the government to execute
the treaty fully, and the second set
ting forth that the decree be present
ed to Parliament to be converted into
law,
The treaties now become sin force
of execution" but the royal decree
will be presented to the new parlia-
ment for approval.
Ratification of the German treaty
by the royal decree of the King OF
Italy virtually completes the steps nee
essary for putting into effect the pact
between Germany and the Allied pow
ers which was signed at Versailles
on June % and which stipulated it
would become operative when ratified
by three Of the great powers. The
British parliament has already rati-
fed the treaty and the document now
awaits only ratification by the Fast of
Great Britain's dominions to act upon
1t, the Australian commonwealth, be-
fore becoming binding upon Great
Britain. Approval was given the con-
vention by the French Chamber of
Deputies last week and the Senate is
expected to take similar action on Fri
day or Saturday. The royal decree
of the Italian monarch must receive
approval from the next parliament,
which will meet at Rome on Decem-
Der l, but it is considered certain there
will be little trouble in securing con-
currence.
Italy, by the reported action of her
king, is the first of the powers to rat
ify the treaty with austria.
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move no part OF my body but my head.
neck and one arm.
! looked around and saw climbing
toward mo over n pile Of stones band
of about dozen mountain Arabs
ragged, unkempt and fierce eyed--the
sort of wandering nomads who during
the lawless days of the war in Arabia
and Syria would and did cheerfully
kill travellers for the sake of a pair OF
boots or a shirt. Each one carried n
rife dixie all Bedouins), and stuck
through their sashes were the usual
knives and long bone handled pistols.
The leading Bedouin had a drawn
knife in his hand and he fingered its
differing blade suggestively. He was
quite close to mo when a shout from
one of his companions brought him
TO q halt A heated argument followed,
In which most of the Arabs took part.
In those days 1 could understand
little Arabic, and in any case I was
not in a fit state TO make the mental
effort needed to understand 1t. How
ever, from frequent gestures and from
the few words / caught / was certain
that they were discussing n rather diff
ficult problem. Would 1t be wiser to
give somebody up alive and demand
baksheeSh from the Turks, or strip
the somebody of his clothes and leave
him on the hillside. or kill the some
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OF the uprushing air and leaned out to
look under the fuselage. 1 was re-
lieved TO find that the same rush OF air
that was boxing my ears had put out
the small flame. The fabric. however,
still smouldered and spanked in places
At a height of few hundred feet
brought the bus into a normal guide
and sought a landing place, only to find
that was over rocky and desolate hill
country. 1 picked out a small patch
of level ground fringed by few
stunted trees. 1t was not nearly long
enough for landing an airplane. but 1t
was certainly better than the jagged
slopes that were the only alternative.
I fiattened out and pancaked on to
the near end of this patch of ground,
ran right across It. swerved aside to
avoid a tree, and crashed into a huge
rock. OF what happened immediate
ly afterward all I can remember is
Earring shock. an uncomfortable
plunge forward. another shock, and
the beginning of what would have been
q colossal headache If Inconsistencies
had not brought relief.
When began TO regain my senses
l found that it was moonlight. The
colossal headache remained, and l felt
an intense pain in my right thigh. The
engine and the body OF the machine
were on top Of me. SO that 1 could
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body and take his clothes and leave
the body on the hillside?
Yet. being half stunned and unable
to grasp the full consciousness OF my
own identity, l did not regard myself
as being concerned in the argument,
but adopted the detached attitude Of
the cinematograph spectator. When
the problem was definitely settled by
the arrival of some men in Turkish
uniform, who kept the ragged Arabs
at a distance, looked upon the scene
much as IL It had been an old time
Wild West film showing the sheriff
and his posse riding to rescue the
heroine from the brigands.
OF the days that followed I have
vivid recollections of some highly COL
ored episodes. There was a dreadful
night ride through the hills to Ger
man headquarters. with O non-com-
missoned officer hourishing a revolver
behind me, and an Arab guide hauling
my mule across the slippery rocks.
while every Jolt tortured my injured
thigh. There was a wretched period
in the Austrian hospital at Tul-Keran,
where ! endured. beside my physical
pain, that agony of mind which comes
to nearly all newly captured prisoners,
There was a hopeless attempt TO es-
cape from this hospital by climbing
over the wall from the yard at night
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time. with the idea OF walking fifteen
miles to the sea and then swimming
southwark, past the trenches. which
we're about five miles from where
should have hit the coast. The at
tempt failed because my leg would
not allow me to walk more than 900
yards. ! returned TO the hospital and
tried to steal back unobserved. but was
caught at the door by an orderly.
unishment in n Jail in Nazareth.
Following this misfortune I was sent
to Nazareth in an open railway truck
with a group of jeering Turkish SOL
diers. AS punishment l was put into
Nazareth criminal Jail, together with
a particularly dirty Arab prisoner
The floor was Shiny and vermlnous
and. without the least exaggeration,
thousands Of bugs crawled over the
walls at night. After four days in
this pleasant home I managed TO get
into Conversatio with a German staff
officer, to whom 1 complained OF the
Turkish treatment. AS a result I was
given better quarters for the rest of
my stay in Nazareth.
A fortnight later l was sent TO Da-
mascus with some Australian officers
who had recently been captured. In
Damascus We had n wonderful plan OF
escape. Two Druse Arabs agreed to
supply DISCUSSES. ride with us TO Deraa
and then take us In the mountains east
of the Turkish front to the Dead Sea-
where we hoped to find the friendly
HedJaz Arabs, who were fighting for
the British and would obtain money to
pay the Druses. Two hours before we
had arranged to slip out OF the bar
racks the Syrian interpreter who had
been our intermediary betrayed us
We were closely guarded all night and
next morning were sent with other
prisoners to Aleppo.
Next we travelled TO Asia Minor and
in utter de-pair we found ourselves
dumped in a desolate village to he
punished because some OF us had
wanted to escape. In a little mud room
in mud hut We lived for seven days
eight British officers (two badl
wounded) and two smelly Turkish
guards. For food we were each allowed
to buy one loaf OF bread and two eggs
per day. Finally we reached Afion-
Kara Hissar, where was the largest
prisoners camp in Turkey.
| Escape from Atom Kara IIissal
seemed impossible. for II was $50 miles
from the coast. and apart from the diff
! flcultles Of disguise and language, the
whole OF the interior of Asia Minor
was infested during the past two years
OF the war by thousands OF brigands-
starving, In rags, utterly ruthless
utterly merciless and ready TO kill q
stranger as soon as look at him. Ny
only chance was to be sent to Con
stantlnople. where I hoped TO fine
| friends. How to manage this was 9
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ON
tho
TlGRiS

enough to be taken prisoner, the Pal
eStine front was ideal for the war
pilot. But If 1t were his fate to be shot
down on the wrong side OF the
trenches. it would have been better a
thousand times had he fallen into the
hands OF the Hun (who at any rate
was a more or less civilized European)
instead OF into the hands Of the I'm
speakable Turk. This discovered for
myself during the summer OF last year.
Late in the afternoon Of April "a,
1918, I left the aerodrome at jana to
search for two German aeroplanes
that were approaching the sea coast.
so the wireless message from an anti
aircraft battery said I climbed to
5000 feet in my little Newport scout,
and by steering toward the white puffs
that marked the shells fired by our
AA guns I soon caught sight OF the
two black crossed craft.
Although two to one, tho German
machines retired to the northwest i'm
mediately they saw my Newport. I
streaked after them; but the hostile
buses. being Of the latest Rumpler
type, were faster than mine. The
Newport, however. could climb quick
err so / went up a thousand feet
higher. and by diving toward the
Boches gained a certain amount OF
distance Even so they were still far
ahead, and had to climb and dive
several times more before could get
to anything like close quarters. BY
that time We were some twenty miles
beyond the trenches.
l then dived down to a position
plumb underneath one of the Rump-
lers, pulled down my top plane gun
and began to fire. Suddenly 1 heard
from behind me the ominous tat-tat-
tat-tat that denotes machine gun IRE
looked back. and saw two Albatross
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single seaters dropping toward me
from a cloud in which they had been
hiding. I swerved around in an I'm
melman turn and went to meet them.
manGuvred round the nearest AL
batross and was Just ready to fire at 1t
| when-Phut!-a dull thud came
from my tank and the gasolene began
10 pour over my legs, The observer
in the second Rumpler two scatter had
fired a burst OF bullets. and. by what
was astonishing luck for him. for his
machine was 800 yards away and
therefore well outside what Is nor
mally effective range in an aerial
fight, had sent some bullets into my
gasolene tank
MY Petrol Tank Takes Fire.
I swung around and determined to
make desperate attempt to reach the
lines before the gasolene gave out alto
gether. Then leaning out from the
cockpit and looking underneath the
machine, saw to my horror that the
lower part of the fuselage was
smouldering and that little flame was
licking its way backward, toward the
tail
There was only one thing to be done
to get down to solid earth as quickly
as possible. I banked right over and
fell in a vertical side slip, SO that II
the fire grew the flames should not
reach back to tho tail plane. 4 strange
mixture of thoughts raced at lightning
speed through my mind, including
memories OF friends and old haunts Of
every kind. But above all I was con-
scious of a thrill of fear that was so
intense as to be almost physical, and I
found myself shouting bitter curses
into the unhearing air.
With great difficulty I forced my
body through the tremendous p&1ssure
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tnrr Ior enc BTtttSb~J
TLYING with Gen. Allenby's army
r. in Palestine was splendid sport
All through the campaign in
the Holy Land the German aviators
showed far less courage than those on
the western 'front.' so that We had an
almost complete mastery OF tho air
and chased enemy machines as we
pleased.
During the spring and summer
months, when everybody gasped In the
hroillng heat the aviator was for
iunate indeed. because he could often
AAsVs the SUD scorched ground for the
cold regions above. A flight was like a
cold plunge after a Turkish bath
Even at 5000 feet the atmosphere was
warm enough for me to fly capless.
goggleless and in my shirt sleeves
Most days we longed for German ma
chimes to appear and give US an ex-
cuse for taking to the air.
And what "a country below. as seen
hy an airmanl Stretches of brown
desert that gave place to green river
asins and extravagant vegetation;
hill districts that were extraordinarily
bleak and wild; lakes and streams that
sparkled in the brilliant sunlight; and
heautitul white towns. bearing names
such as Jerusalem. Jericho. Bethlehem,
Nazareth and ShechemI
20 long as he was not unifcky
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CAPT ALAN
BOTT
De scribes Prison
Hard ships and
Relates Thrilling
Experiences in
Polling the Turks

difficult problem, as my injuries had
healed and there was nothing to Justify
an application for medical treatment
in the capital.
Then I hit upon the plan of feigning
mental arrangement | went to the
Turkish doctor and explained that as a
result of my aeroplane smash l suf-
fered badly from nervous fits. dizziness,
loss of memory and acute melancholia.
Could I not be sent to a hospital for
rest? The doctor agreed, and finally
some guards took me to CONSTANT
nople. An Australian Captain named
White had agreed to escape with me.
His plan for going to the same hos
pi.al was to put several hot poultices
on his ankle until 1t was badly marked.
and then to suggest that the said ankle
was tubercular. This bluff also sue
ceeded.
In the same ward as myself We're
seven other British officers. only one
of whom had anything the matter
with him. The rest were shamminS
various illnesses, either to gain time
while arranging an escape or in hopes
OF being passed by medical board az
sufficiently unfit 10 he sent out OF the
country.
Turkish doctors, like most Turks,
are enormously stupid. and my nerv-
Gus fits were realistic enough to con-
vince them, so that ! stayed in the
| hospital for several weeks. But get
| ting TO Constantlnople was not enough
IL must arrange to be allowed to go
about the city, SO as TO get into touch
with some people whose addresses had
! been given me. One day, while dis
I Cussing the war with the chief Turkish
doctor, he expressed a great admiration
for Mr. David Lloyd George. Remem-
| bering that under the Young Turk
regime q Grand Nizier (more or less
equivalent to a British Prime Minister)
had the power of life and death over
most people, announced casually and
untruthfully that Mr. Lloyd George
was n great man and that I was hts
cousin. That day the chief doctor pre-
scented several of his friends to Mr..
! Lloyd Georges cousin. and during tho
following week he brought me into
the city several times. took me sailing
on the Bosporus, and introduced me
to two of his lady friends. talking in
cessantly of what Mr. Lloyd George
would do If England won the war.
Fooled by n Turkish spy.
II .ater persuaded the chief doctor to
ailun me out for walks alone but for
n Turkish guard who followed at my
| heels. Thus was able to meet people
| for whom / had been looking. There
was n Greek cafe proprietor who took
letters for me. and through him met
a Britt h civilian who Cashed my
checllS or several hundred dollars. I
elso I'd into touch with various other
peopleI HON It would be still inadvis-
able I'd MENTION bur all OF whom took
great Skis in helping various British
| officers 10 escape. Finally. through the
engineer OF a Russian tramp steamer
that was then lying in the Bosporus.
opposite the Sultan's Palace, Capt,
White and arranged to be taken
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Fooled by n Turkish spy.

Continued on Eighth Page.
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GENERAL SIR EDMUND
ALLEN BIZ
coN0UERoR OF the
PALESTINE
Capt. Bott Tells of
Air Battle Against
Odds, His Cap
ture and Suisse
quent Adventures
By CAPT. ALAN BoTT, r. AT.

tAuthor Of "Cdvalry Of the Clouds"
and an aerial adventurer IN the great
tnur for tho BrittsILl
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and evsr.snehanting landmark for tho
gorge 4 f9 q. INA >. rai1wsy. sl.%b!qs. tho
somewhat steep ascent on foot, but
msdi,o Mho IKE to linger awhile In
psiia." With the feurtees Stations as, ! sa 81
pressibly beautiful View Of this rIden-
liz portion Of Southern Switzerland,
d dHS . So'e% me s ehureIs i, Of the elelstess
ed In 1863, and is p~artieulariy re-
nowned for two choice oil paintings
~ SS't <. i c f%s 3 and The The Ha%q TiInhs mt
Egypt.,' a masterpiece Of Bramantino.s
Several venerable and interestin ::
In the % city Wt9rs u are also found with.
lovely garden suburb of HIuralto there
stands. what is probably the Oldest
Vittore "ership In the canton. San
toesenth century. In tho wall Of the
rroenmre ns mere is a mail marble figure.
great Tainas san vittore. a work OF
IN Byzantine style. is also worthy Of
Across the Simplon,
from tho SwisS-Italian lake renrfon
n mu ana}l ourselves of tho great inter.
Of sWiiEer rnH ia Wb9Gh Of %alais, a part
6rated for It's scenic beauty, but also
lor the simple piety Of it's nhabitanis
sine hrst authentic mention OF tho
o.inplon Pass occurs In 1850. when a
Bishop of Sion andS a eomm DeswGen bo, the
a a VIEW M,,an Of eontslning q clause. with
inc Simplon, which, since tho Roman
era. has fallen into disuso." At tho
R Rosrha'n Sf q tbs the fGurteensh century a
erected on the summit of the Sim nion
lass. but In course OF time It feii
again into decay. In 1850 a certain
M MeshI md Stoekalper. an extremely
on the Swiss exit OF tho Simplon road
caused a so-called "towcr' 10 be erected
on the Site, which served not only
snmmer residence for himself ana his
fo ari MO-, ous aiso as a place OF refuge
rooms in the basement being placed nj
their free disposal. -
Between 1S01-1S0S, on the initiative
ot Mapoieon Bonaparte. came tho revo.
of tho Simplon road. The great T.orsi.
can had also conceived tito project or
erecting a largo hospice on the sum.
mt or the pass, which should serve as
oarraSks. II necessary. The realization
by his sudden, fall. In 1895 the St.
Augustine monks of the Great st. Rtr.
nard purchased the building in its very
unfinished condition, and. assisted by
plete it. -Four monks we're henceforth
stationed at the hospice. in order to
Snciter and assist poor and weary way
larers. However, there being hotels
near, very, few travellers avail them-
The Simplon Pass served as an inter.
national high road Of for
quite a century, until the evcntful year
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VALERIE. dating from the ninth to th,r.
teenth century. with Interesting paint
Treasures. IN the town itself ,is the
thcdral. with q tower OF the ninth
century. belonging to a former struc-
ture. n the church OF st. lThSodule,
named SO in honor Of the first Bishop
OF Sion. who is said to have lived there
from 3S1 20 391 A. q.
There is a curious legend current in
the yalais to the effect that tho pass
called Col Theodule was also named
after this first Bishop OF Sion, and
that he had to cross tho same under.
remarkable circumstances. Il
The Pope Of tha, time; IN the fourth
a very nne bell to the sanity prelate
of the Valley Of tho .Rhone. recently
converted to Christianity: But what a
task in those days OF primitive means
of transportation to transfer uch a
bulk OF metal from Rome to the Alps!
Tho bishop was at q loss as to how he
brought Within hearing distance Of His
flock. but when he had practically given
q startling offer came. Satan. ever on
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nfrfatt .sHHN.A u
lSoc. when the tunnel was completed.
S.nSe then tho great bulk OF the trafio
~ nanuled by the new way and tho
interrupted only by the natives and q
lumber OF tourists who are wise and
enough to spare sufficient
scenic wondess.
SSaisss are threatened by avalanehes.
straete eaei In dif Msrs eG@ nas,s aioSg 'G fhe
road. and in close vicinity to these
retuEes we find invariably Il simple
ww agnn cross, whispering silent
TOT II requires but little noise to
awaken Tho dormant lloness--the all
destroying avalanche.
lu the Rhonc Valley.
At Brisue: the northern end of the
symptom road. wo enter into the realm
Of the River Rhonc. a valley of fas-
cinatinG charm, descending from the
glacial peaks OF the Furka down to
Ieneva, with IN accompanying row OF
s'qe valleys on each side. romantic
realms, whore u wcndrous diversity OF
quaint customs, costumes and legends
tor.
There are few worldly events in
interest OF the Inhabitants is conse-
auently conferred on religion, and the
various Catholic holidays arc. there
80 oiNNSo Op5eENcu III Il NcTS lcI-
vent. spirit. The Corpus Christi cole
bration in the Lotschcn Valley has be-
come famous and the pilgrimage pro-
oession OF tho pious inhabitants Of
Ierinatt TO the tiny chapcl. Maria zum
Sehnee." on the schwarzsct. above the
village, is another touching sight.
weather permitting. mass is read in
tho lofty altitude Of S.393 feet on
Sundays during summer. Tho feast
our Dear Lady of the Snow is cole
brated here yearly on August 8, and
natives as well as visitors flock in
great numbers TO this romantic spot
10 attend the service.
Sion.
The capital of the Canton OF Valais,
sion, with two castlc-crowned hills
IN the background. is one Of tic most
interesting ancient cities i'm the coun.
try. Half feudal and half rustic IL
rises from ono OF the most fertile
portions of tho Rhone Valley in a
curious assembly of white houses and
gray walls. On the height to tho
north are the ruins of tho Episcopai
castle of Tourbillon, erected in 1894
and burned down in 1855. On the lower
hl'l TO the right, on tho site of n Ro-
man for,, stands tho castle of Nalcria.
surrounded by towers and other build,
inEs. among which Is the Beautifully
onorate church Of Notre Dame Of