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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

7 oNDON. Eng. Sept ga rare and
l. picturesque person - an adven-
turess who was not beautiful-has
finally brought her multitudinous and
successful ventures to the attention
Of the British police after many years
Of perfectly safeoperation.
She is known as Masie Crawford,
and she found the smaller towns OF
England all too ready to believe the
old dictum that Americans must IN
evitably be wealthy. for her most sue
cessful operations were conducted
playing these parts.
Daughter and heiress Of Harry
Thaw
Wife Of George Crawford. Ameri-
can millionaire, whom she divorced IN
order to marry his brother.
Widow OF Walter Crawford. the
brother. who died leaving a peculiar
viii stipulating that she should marry
-otside the family"
A working man. who was helping
the girl obtain the mythical fortune
OF Walter Crawford. mythical Ameri-
can millionaire. by agreeing 20 marry
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
Germans VIII Enter Great AirshtDs
II Contesf FQr Irade of Tie WnrId

DERLIN, Germany Sept 2o-The
= $1,000 ton passender steamer Bis
marck, the biggest liner ever built,
is nearing completion at the Hamburg
yards Of Blohm S voss. for account Of
the HamhHrg-America line. This
new ocean marvel. the construction of
which was begun at a time when the
prospect Of victory still doomed big
on the German horizon. is intended for
the Bamburg-New York route. Off
Gals Of the Hamburg America line,
however. are not cooksure that the
Bismarck viii sail under their flag.
IN fact, they viii not be disappointed
at all IL TIE mammoth liner is seized
BY the entente as part OF the 200, 600
tons Of shipping Germany is pledged
to- deliver annually under the terms
Of the peace treaty
Deprived Of its big fleet OF ocean
liners the neutrality-suspicious. line is
more and more loOkingto the freedom
Of the air as a means Of salvation and
continued dividends.
Have New AIrshfp.
The airships we delivered to the
entente are so much junk to Us, and
they are welcome to have them" de-
ciared herr Nogelsang, manager Of the
Berlin office, in discussing the con-
quest OF the air by his company.
We have developed an entirely
new type Of airship that makes all
others obsolete The Bodensee. re-
Gently completed at the Zeppelin
works in Fridrichafen. is the first
of this type TO be put into service.
Incidentally. the BOdensee is the first
passenger airship in the world to
cover a regular route. II viii ply be-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

I ONDON, Eng Sept 20.-Among the
Il most universally known faces.
Charlie Chaplin is an easy first Bona
parte, George Washington. John Bull,
ond others who also ran" and are
running yet. are in the van OF a big
field which the kaiser leads for sec
ond place The wondrous mustache.
the wavy brown hair. the stern. i'm
perious look from the side-lifted head,
is the picture the world knows as
william
But the world would not recognize
him as he looks today. within the high
walls surrounding the double-moated
castle OF Amerongen-
The village itself boasts $500 ortho-
dox prO-German souls. The Godard-
Bentinck family and three subdued
citizens are the only pro ally inhabi-
tants there I met a man yesterday
who had just arrived in London after
gen, endured for 4 specific purpose
that did not come off. I know Of no
one-outside the Bentinck family
who knows SO much about the kaiser's
looks and life as the man who i'm
parted to me this information
I saw the emperor from about 50
yards away He walks every after
noon between 3 and round the inner
moat, sometimes with the empress.
and oftener with two officers OF his
suite. He wore gray, rather sum
sery lounge suit, and a light felt hat.
One officer walked about so feet
ahead OF him and inspected the shrubs
and flowers for bomb throwers, al
though they would not hide a rat
The ex-governor Of Metz, who fol-
lowed the exemperor-as he insists on
being called-into exile. and acted as
his majordomo, has left and gone to
Berlin-he was either fired or got fed
up. as the kaiser has grown Ito put II
mildly petulant- The same old staff,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
YANKEE
SHIPBUILDERS
Famous British Constructor
Sees Keen Competition
in u s Yards.

London. Eng. Sept 20.-Harold E.
Yarrow. Of the great Glasgow firm
Of Tarrow and company. has returned
from America to scott at the scoffers
who VIII not believe that America can
suud. has built and viii continue to
suild ships.
An expert IN his line and hard
headed business man with fun IN
Outstanding Of engineering problems,
Tarrow sounds this warning to Eng
land. which has been supreme through
out the world in building and opera
ton Of ships;
IF this country does not look out
II viii wake up one morning 10 find
we are 10 longer the leading mari
time nation. and it viii then be too
late TO regain or position.
Tarropg started at Portland, sub
seduently visited shipyards in Boston
and worked Gown the coast TO New
MORT News He later Inspected the
lakes district shiphuldtng plants and
wound up with a trip up the west
coast from Los Angeles 70 Seattle,
Victoria and Vancouver.
The truth is Americans are build
ing ships not less efficiently than we
are he declared That. though
negative admission, is a significant
admission from a leading shipping
nagnate Of the nation which has ruled
the seas.
Their costs Of construction are
slowly, but surely approximating to
our oWn. / draw these conclusions
not from things which have heard,
but from things which have seen
my conclusion is that the British
worker is dangerously deluding him
self in imaging that United States
competition Is more OF less negligible.
The American steel works are, L
imagine, better on the average than
ours ] found everywhere wen equip
ped shipyards. Layouts are generally
excellent from the point Of view Of
efficiency. the cost OF handling ma
terials has been greatly reduced by
the installation Of good lifting ap-
paratus- There IS no labor resistance,
either active or passive, to the en-
ployment Of pneumatic riveting- Pow
erful upt0date air COMPRISING plants
Ar ethe rule. Electric welding IS not
REGARDED unsympsthetically by trade
unionists and the supply Of men for
PRACTICAL al purposes is adequate"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

There Is apparently 20 cultivation
OF this country at all. although Il
seems that IL would repay such labor
as would be needed 20 make the land
fruitful. The inhabitants live by fish
ing and hunting. with some lumber
ing
some OF the residents told me that
money was very easily made here
and that all the work IS done in the
winter. During the summer the in
habitauts either 90 abroad or spend
their time in fishing and hunting for
their own amusement
Looking cut Of my window I see a
large steamer on the rocks about
eight miles out She is a Lewland
Line ship Of about 1000 tons. which
the Bolsheviks wrecked by shifting
the lights. She is wei out Of the
water and. I understand. viii be sal
vaged as soon as the opportunity
arises.
So far as I can judge by several
weeks IN this country and travels
over the greater part OF this and sur
rounding territory. there is a great
opportunity here just as soon as con-
ditions are settled The land IS IN
doubtedly wealthy. particularly In
timber, and a little energy would
soon develop the resources
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
BRITAIN IS THE NEW DEFENDER OF ISLAM
Kaiser Breaking Dozen
As World FOrgetS Him
Mental Relapse Into Obuy Leaves Former Monarch With Mouth
Open Gazing Into Space; Has Aged Years Since Last Christmas

"a very thick growth Of white,
scraggly beard covers his sallow.
rather fiat cheeks and throat. and
ends four inches from his chin in
rather an artistic Van Dyck goatee-
All the men in the Utrecht district
He dresses like a country gentleman,
except at dinner. when he always
wears the uniform Of a Prussian gem
eral, and eXacts that all the formali-
ties OF the Potsdam court are strictly
observed
an hour, and it's a fact that he does
saw wood. Some Holland papers asked
how a man with only one good arm
could saw wood. One OF the Bentincks
replied that no man could use a hand
saw BY using two hands"
What about his mental condition.
I asked.
'aThe mental torture OF falling out
OF the armament, like Lucifer. and
being forgotten and unnoticed by the
world is gradually gnaWing him away,
and today he is practically undergoing
sentence in the mile-square confines
Of a Dutch moat Often-so I heard
from one who knows-he sits alone
with his lower jaw hanging heavy
under an open mouth. gazing into
space BE reads the Bible every night
sometimes aloud to the empress and
the BentinclSs. There is a sleek old
monk from the Zeiss mission 1.-THE
German colonies nine miles away
who comes over to the castle for reg
ular Sunday service. It is always hello
in the upper hall OF the castle"
What is the kaiser thinking OF
when he stares into space2 His coming
trial OF the one hereafter2" I asked.
such small worries don't trouble
him a Bit" he answered The omni-
present chronic thought Of being a
forgotten thing-samething the cat
brought in and laid under the stove
Furnishes him more than any sentence
a high OF low court could impose.
Besides in my opinion he VIII never
face a trial"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

comprising cook doctor. valet and Of
ficers-16 all told-are still the same
as you saw them there before Christ
mas.
BY the way, you remember the old
chap with the frock coat and slOuch
hat that you said looked like a re-
tired actor or an American congress
mantle one you played billiards
with and thought ne was as harmless
as a rabbit2 Eh2 Well, he turned out
to be no less parsonage than the
protecting sleuth Of the kaiser. who
was sizing YOU up as he did me He
is the slickest detective the secret
service cradles Of Bismarck and Stei-
Der ever incubated, and he has about
so Of the same ilk distributed so well
about the district that no one can
approach Amerongen without being
spotted
"As for you. II you return to Ame-
rongens you'll be guilotine0. as
they've got your history from the
time you used red ink and gall in
writing the massacres Of the Meuse.
And. again, you remember the lad OF
the empress suite who gave you the
midnight meeting and dope about
what the kaiser ate and drank2 Well,
heaven knows how the detectives
knew II. but the boy was fired across
the German border the day after you
left"
How does the kaiser look?" I
asked.
Christmas. And then he looked ten
years older than he really was He
hasn't passed the castle gates since
last December. Undoubtedly fear
keeps him inside. One would not rec
ognizs him in the street In six
months I have seen him changed as
gradually as sunset changes to a
winter frost.
No patent medicine before and az
ter pictures ever showed such a dir
ference. He bends over now and walks
slowly. like a man over 10 His hair
has grown nearly as white above the
neck as it Is above his ears.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

tween Berlin and Standardization,
making connections at the latter point
with the steamer for Switzerland In
very short time We also viii have q
regular service Berlin Copenhagen
Stockholm"
'And American I asked.
I'VE have a regular service be-
tween Hamburg and New York in
mind" replied herr Vogelsang. IF
America viii provide the sheds and
landing places we will carry passen-
gers and freight across the Atlantic
next year But for the transatlantic
service we viii require vessels much
larger than the Bodensee which the
zeppelin works are preparing to
build"
The Bodensee differs from the old
type Of Zeppelins in having the pas
senger gondola near the front. built
together with the navigation gondola
and removed from the odor Of the
engines which are in the rear. Pas
sageways built into the hull connect
the navigation and passenger gondola
with te engine gondolas. Formerly
footbridge ran from stem to stern
under the hull
Carries % People.
The Bodensee is equipped with cab
ms for % passengers, who may watch
the fleeing landscape through the
widows, reclining in comfortable deck
chairs. For tn ehungry an up-to-date
restaurant provides hot and cold
dishes from a full full fledged kitchen
Lavatories and wireless apparatus are
other conveniences offered the pas
sengers.
The Bodensee is 400 feet long. has
a space OF 200, 900 cubic feet and a
carrying capacity Of more than 20. 900
pounds. Its four engines develop 100
h. D., giving the vessel a speed OF
about IS miles an hour
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
Murmansk NotLond Office And Snow.
Has Warm Summer With - HourDays

COROKA, Murmansk, Russia, sept
y 2e.-Anybody with the idea that
Russia is a land Of ice and snow
should come out here and see just
what conditions really are. With the
sun shining for % hours in the day
and mosquitoes busy every moment
there is no Our Lady Of the SHOWS
about this place
When 7 came out here in the late
spring with the British troops 1 ex-
pected to have to bundle myself Up
in furs and travel in sleighs, If not
on skis. Instead I found a land OF
sunshine where the sun rises and
Gets in almost the same place and at
the most a couple OF hours Of dusk
land Of heat and mosquitoes. a
land Of plenty and prosperity where
the only trouble the Inhabitants seem
to have is how to spend the mOnay
they have accumulated during the
war and which, so far, they have had
no chance TO get rid Of
One Of the most interesting sights
in this section is several miles OF
lumber stacks. which have been wait
ing here for transportation overseas
since the beginning OF the war. This
lumber is valued at f10,000,000.
The town is built entirely Of wood.
some OF the houses being constructed
Of logs and others OF boards.
All refuse OF every kind IS thrown
out OF dOors-or windows.
was glad TO get out OF Murmansk
and run up to Soroka. on the Bay Of
Omega. White sea We passed by Kola
and kandalaksha, TWO very pretty
looking villages, but apparently
equally dirty as Murmansk
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
STARVATION IS
FACING PEOPLE
OF BUDAPEST
Rumanians Have Denuded
Land Of All Foodstuffs
and Livestock.
PEOPLE OF CAPITAL
LIKE BATS IN TRAP

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept Cot
- is impossible to say which has
had the worse results, the Rumanian
occupation or the grand dukes coup.
One has brought the whole economic
situation TO the ground: the other has
effectuaIly prevented any sound po-
liticaI issue.
supposing the city OF Budapest did
not exist the solution would not be
difficult Hungary would be a pure
j. agrarian state. ruled by an oil
Earchy Of feudsl landed proprietors
under a nominany constitutional
monarchy The Hungarian peasantry,
inert and rather bovine. is unlikely to
resist q reversion 10 the old system
IN this country Of rich peasants. the
standard Of living under the old re-
Eime was comparatively high. and
land hunger was not a dominant mo-
tive. such a feudal agrarian state
would not have much difficulty IN
effecting cloGe relationship with Ru-
mania The feudal Rumanian boyars
have a common interest with the
feudaI aristocracy Of Hungary.
But Budapest does exist Upon this
single fact every reactionary scheme
is bound to he shattered. A city that
has now a population Of over mill
lion and a lf-in peacetime l,OuoOey
cannot be ignored in nation OF
only 100000. It's working class is
Socialist TO a man still less can
such a city be ignored under the cir
cumstances to which all central Eu-
ropean cities have been reduced
A working class. If well FED and
provided with work, might easily be
kept quiet. especially when It is viz
tusIiy Isolated in one great city But
starving. embittered.- class-conscious,
this solid mass Of hundreds Of thou
sands Of men constitutes poltlcai
high sxplcsiVe OF tremendous force
Consequently, no stable government /
IS conceive 5le in Hungary that Goes
not contain Socialists
Leave Famine Behind.
The Eumanians have denuoea tns
whole region around Budapest OF
wheat, cattle. vegetables ana every 4
kind Of foodstuffs Nothing is enter i
ing the town. and the population. rich 4
and poor alike, are starving Bread I
disappeared even from the big hotels
DAYS ago, and there IS nothing else
They have established the most rigid /
Gordon round the city so that the !
people are caught like rats IN trap /
They have torn up railways and seized 7
he rolling stock so that later it viii
he difficult TO send help Worst OF al,
far worse than the sporadic plun0er-
ing Of dwellings by rough soldiery
that one sees daily in the streets. is
the wholesale and systematic dis
mantling Of factories Of their power
plant and machinery
Once Rumanian pressure Is removed Z
there is bound 20 be an enormous eI-
niosiou. so excited rs popular feeling ]
Business men are prophesying a sec
ond social revolution more enduring
than the last Diamandi, the kuma-
Man envoy. is here in conference with 1
the allied generals A serious Ru- (
rnaufan effort is being made toward (
personal union between Rum1nla ana I
Hungary under the same crown
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

lfesopotamla- OF Nohammedan cult.
becomes part and parcel OF the Brit
ISL colonial system
The emir OF Afghanistzn. who r1ur-
dered his reigning brother because Of
his British leanings, and then started
a foolish war against northern 1nCla.
has Just been forced to bow down %
the British lockstep- Britain cuts of
paid that monarch by India and the
emir promises TO be good
Has Vast Empire
Thus Britain has extended her CO.
lonial cloak over a vast region
Egypt. Arabia, Mesopotamia. Persia
and Afghanistan-whic with India
included. makes an empire Of the east
more vast than the ancient Persian OF
Alexander ever dreamed or
The British have shown peculiar
genius IN governing the Mohamme-
dams.
That they have gradually made con-
ditions better IN the various back
ward countries cannot be denied
Brltain's success during the var IN
holding the MOhammedans in ailsgi-
ance while she was fighting Turkey
the heart Of the Moslem world. IS
largely attributed 10 the work OF Col
Lawrence a man In his sos. who
gained greater confidence with the
Mohammedans and could direct them
with more skill than any other non
believer IN history The Turks had a
price Of $4,000 on his head That's
why his name was known 70 only
few British officials and his photo
graphs never printed until after the
armistice was signed
Future a Problem
Just how vel Great Britain viii be
able to maintain her present sway re-
mains for the next 20 OF 80 years TO
show However, the French are posi-
tive the 1Ioslem world VIII soon rebel
Just how much the French are influ-
enced in that belief By the fact some
millions OF their African subjects VIII
have to 90 to an Angio-Lusseluan
caliphate for spiritual advice is a
matter OF conjecture
It's a peculiar situation, anyhow,
the Afoslems under yoke
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
Gets VAST POWER In
The ORIENT THROUGH
new PROTECTORATES
DOMINATES M0HAMMEDAN WORLD
EXCEPTING THE SUITAN'S LAND
Hedjaz Persia, Mesopotamia, Afghanistan and Egypt
Are Under Influence of the Empire as Result Of the
World War and Settlements Made at Paris and
on Many Fields Of Battle.

7 oNDoN. Eng, sept zo.-More than
l. a pinch Of dipolmaeq VIII be re-
CURED to get Frances colonial policy
teaming with the British which today
Is IN the pinnacle Of its glory.
In nutshell. the matter over which
there may be some friction Is the Brit
ish dominance over Mohammedanism.
The French are inclined to consider
that their prestige VIII suffer II their
sfohammedan subjects are expected to
kow-tow to same caliph who in turn
bows down TO the British Union Jack.
Prestige IS a thing that is taken very
seriously by nations with semi-ciY-
The French have began TO feel the
prestige shoe pinching a bit already
in Syria, where they hope to widen
their influence.
Britain Defends Islam
Today Britain stands as the defend
er OF the Ottoman world With the
exception OF Turkey in Europe and
Turkey fl Asia Minor regarding
which no mandate has yet been deter
mined on Britain really dominates the
Mohammedan world An din the rem
nants OF Turkey Il IS British influence
that today is felt most keeniy-
The compact just signed with Per-
STA. which eliminates Russia from that
sphere OF influence" gives Britain
simply another alcoVe 10 her Moham-
medan colonial mosque Before the
war Britain's influence in Mohamme-
dan countries was chiefly conferred in
India
But with the outbreak OF war IN
1914 Britain. one OF the directing pow
ers in Egypt, proclaimed a protector
ate there, which made the Suez canal
route more easily defended
II was By help Of Arabian tribes
men. under the king OF the HedJaz
"a monarch set Up by British influ-
ence-that Gen Allenby was able TO
clinch his swift victory over the
Turks in Palestine Mecca, the holy
Mohammedan city. was freed from
Turkish control. perhaps forever.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
Conscious While Surgeons
Chisel Bone From Skull

Cincinnati. o.. Sept 2O.-Calling
for a cigaret, William Eckermeyer. 20,
walked cut Of the operating room at
a local hospital, smoking, after being
on an operating table an hour and a
half
During the operation young Eek
ermeyer retained consciousness while
the surgeon chiseled from his skull
a layer Of bone. two by three inches,
and moved IL forward over an opening
left by a previous operation.
The explanation for the young
mans consciousness is found In the
fact that the local anaesthetics used
in the army were utilized
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
Haig and Beatty Haze
No Need of Bounty of
4 Grateful GoUerrmenl

London. Eng Sept 2o.-The two
men who. between them. were made
"a millionaire" by the house OF COM
mons grants for services IN the war.
Sir Douglas Haig ard Sir David
Beatty. are both men OF wealth with
cut government aid
Neither man had urgent need for
the 100000 pounds award Beatty e
the soninlaw OF the Marshall Field
millions. Haig received a fortune
from his share Of the famous distil-
lery firm, one time known in America
as Haig & Haig.
It is understood that Haig win de-
vote the entire amount Of his grant
20 the aid o. those who have been
broken BY the war.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
4 Thorough Burglar
Cleans Entire Block

FL Dorado. Kan. Sept. 90 thor
ough" burglar visited FL Dorado. and
as result every house in one block
on North Griffith street was entered
and sums varying from 81 to $4,000
taken from each house. In addition
three houses on West Olive street !
were also entered. There is no clue.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
General Pershing VIII
Visit Home of Sisters
In Lincoln, October

Lincoln. Neb-. Sept 20-General
John J. PershiaE. commander Of the
A. Z F., who sailed for the United
States September I. will coSse to this
city about October 1. where he will
visit relatives and friends. il was an
nounced by the Commercial club here
General Pershing was commander
Of the University Of Nebraska cadet
regiment many years ago. when a
lieutenant His two sisters live here.
and his son Warren makes his home
with them. The generah VIII also
visit Laclede, No. his birthplace, and
Cheyenne, Wyo.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
British War Office Can See
No GoodInNelOfangLedLand
Monster That 7eLps Win Nar

George toi dhim that he could not
understand how the order could be
Cancelled without his knowledge. Next
day the order was restored"
Sir Arthur's troubles were not over.
however His fight with the war Of
flee was to 90 on How bitter that
fight was Is shown By the fact that
three generals demanded his dismis-
sal for presuming TO press for more
and more tanks Sir Arthur and his
colleagues won the day-and helped
TO win the war
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
sovIEr NETHons IN.

London. Eng. Sept 2O.-The latest
attempt at Soviet methods in England
is the demand. on the part OF striking
lanorers, that the typographical
unions act as censors on strike news
The printers. says the Evening
Standard, politely refused TO consider
the suggestion OF their striking
brothers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

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