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New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

Now it is amusing the Partisan
theatergoers most effectively.
No actors took part in the produc-
ton, which is composed entirely of
animated drawings, and shows what
would happen when the Germans had
conquered the world. At first q map
cf the world is shown. This fades,
and great white bear, representing
Russia, comes up on one side, and s
giant John Bull, representing England
and the Allies, appears on the other.
Between them rises small gray fig
Urea German soldier, armed with a
sword. With the sword he rips open
the stomach of John Bull, and a
stream of gold pours out at the feet
of Germany. John Bull then collapses
Another German propaganda film
exhibited here recently shows the ex-
ploits of the sea raider Moewe.
5000 Montenegrin Soldiers
Quartered in Italy Mutiny
From Special Correspondent
MILAN, April 2s.--Since the death
of King Nicholas of Montenegro at
tention has been called to the fact
that the last remnant of his army,
consisting of 5000 faithful Montenegrin
soldiers, is still quartered in mill
tary camp at Gaeta, near Naples.
Nobody knows why these survivors
of once heroic army of fighters are
still quartered at Gaeta, subjected to
strict military discipline and under
going regular daily drill, as if they
might still be used to reconquor their
country and kingdom for their king.
The Versailles peace conference ap-
parently forgot them and the Italian
government paternally feeds them
while waiting for some decision.
The new King, just proclaimed, has
forgotten to send them any message.
Recently the heroic 5000 swarthy
mountaineers became restless, grew
tired of being ignored and suddenly
made their existence known by break
ing out into mutiny against their Of
fcers. They threatened TO cause seri-
GUS disturbances with italian troops,
and carabinicri hsi to be sent to keep
order. The question now is how to
satisfy them. What they want is 80
be sent back TO Montenegro to set up
the newly proclaimed King. to break
union with Serbia, and institute gov
eminent with a Premier selected By
themselves. The italian authorities are
sorely perplexed as to what to do with
liam d.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

Velop Brava, a town of 1000 inhabi-
tants. There is excellent water at
Bravo, and if the railroad were started
from there the finished line to the
Abyssinian frontier would be thirty
miles shorter than If started from
Mogadiseo.
The supporters of Rravs have other
arguments, but the duke has estab-
lished his headquarters at Mogadisco,
and the first rails are to be laid there
very soon under his approving brown
eyes. The duke tells those who plead
for making Brava the terminal of the
railroad that the important thing is
to get the line built. He says Brava
in time will be linked with the main
Ak- * 4.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

Even now only four men stand between
him and the throne of Italy. But Luigi
Amado's present ambition is to do in
Africa for Italy what Cecil Rhodes did
there for England. He has determined
to go down in history as Luigi the
Empire Builder.
The greatest drawback in Somaliland
from the standpoint of the colonists
there has been the isolation from the
rest of the world. But to the Duke.
who until recently was the admiral of
the Italian navy, the creation of line
Of cargo boats to ply between Genoa
and Mogadiscio is small matter in
deed
With ships and railroads, however,
there would be surplus of carriers
for the commodities available, and the
duke is, therefore, working out a
scheme to bring under cultivation hun
dreds of thousands of acres of virgin
Somaliland soil Cotton, coffee, dates,
all will grow profusely if water is pro-
vided. The Duke is planning to
provide this water by huge irriga-
tion project comparable with that built
on the Nile by the British engineers.
1t is his plan to grow cotton in the
valleys of the Wady Ghebeli and the
Wady Nogal, where until now he has
had splendid sport killing leopards.
Each year these streams overflow their
banks, depositing heavy~fayers of fer
tile silt over the already rich earth.
BY Harvesting the streams it is the
dukes plan to use the surplus water to
supply the entire land.
Accompanied by native safaris the
duke is continually on the move
through Somaliland. ostensibly his
purpose for a long time was merely to
hunt. Elephants, lions, leopards, apes
and monstrous snakes were victims of
his rifles, but in his mind was buzzing
a plan to bring about metamorphosis
that would change this wild land into
modern paradise.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Magician, Claiming to Make
Warriors Invisible, Starts Revolt
grom q Special Correspondents

Frnns Special Correspondent
BRUSSELS, April 25.-The following
particulars have been published here
regarding the revolt in the Momboya
district of the Congo Free State:
"The movement began at Kole and
was fomented by native magician
who claimed to have discovered a
method of making native warriors
both invulnerabIe and invisible. He
aid big trade in the sale of his
charm. On one occasion, when the po-
lice had to intervene, their commander
ordered them to fire over the heads of
the crowd and, when the rifles rang
out without inaicting death the ma
tives decided that their fetish was q
reliable one.
"The revolt spread and it is row es-
timated that several months must
elapse before peace is restored"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Film Depicts What Germany
Expected TO Do to John Bull

F'rops Ths Tribune's EssropeeN Barean
PARIS, April 26.-All Paris is laugh
ing over a German propaganda mo-
tion picture, edited in 1917 by the
political section of the German gov
ernment and found in the enemy
trenches on the Italian front. The
film was designed for exhibition in
German army camps, and was intended
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Palestine Campaign Begun
Against Protest by AlIenby

inere were thus two parts to the
pian-an offensive in Palestine, which
aaa captured Lloyd Georges imagina-
tion' and defensive in the West, with
central command.
The Palestine campaign was begun
against Aiienby's protest and was
stopped short when LudendorT
iaunched his first offensive in Picardy.
"as unified control In the West re-
NAMED mere council of perfection.
inc British military hierarchy con-
anued to oppose it. Repington, echo-
ing their views, sneered at it and also
~ the Palestine 'side show" in his
newspaper articles. A compromise
VAS then devised by Foch and Wilson.
Ahefe was to be an executive war
aeafd at Versailles, with Foah as
Saairman and Cadorna, Bliss and 3
british general as members. This board
ss 10 have the right to demand from
saea Allied commander in chief GER
'sln number of divisions, to be placed
= strategic reserve and 60 be used
Oaiy under the boards direction.
since the Allies were expecting
saaendoTf's attack and had elected to
wa on the defensive until the Amer
ssNs Rsisiforeemsnts became available.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Many Who Vensured Into
Semaliland Were Killed

If the duke has ever been molested
By hostile natives while out on these
bunting expeditions he has kept the
facts TO himself. Many others, how
ever, who made explcrative trips into
the interior of Italian Sonaliland were
killed. This, apparently, was the fate
of Captain Bottego, who founded the
torn of LUgh. although there is nash~
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Calls Battle of ST. Quentin
Worst Defeat in British History

This was only six days before the
Battle of St. Quentin, which the author
calls the greatest defeat in British
history, since in ten days the British
army lost 8, $40 officers and 164,ss1
men.
Captain Wright accuses Petain of
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Opposition to United Command
Caused Worst Defeat of War
British Casualties at St. Quentin 8,845 Officers and
l64,88I Mem Because Haig Refused to Con-
tribute to the General Reserve

personal thrust. The author describes
the scene:
@When Clemenceau took Foch aside
and offered him the supreme command
he said to him, remembering the scene
in London a fortnight before:
"FYou have now got the place you
wanted
"Foch answered sngrily:
"'What do you mean, Prime Min
ister? You give me lost battle and
you ask me to win il, I consent, and
you think you are making me q pres
ent. l am disregarding myself en-
tirely when | accept it,
"Foch was not asked to extricate
two unlucky or unskillful generals. He
was asked to risk his whole reputation
to save two commanders from the con-
sequence of errors against which he
had never ceased to warn them. but in
which they had persisted; two COM
manders who, to evade measures Foch
had proposed in their own best in
terest and for cur common security.
entered into an intrigue that mearer
spirit could not have forgiven and for
which he has never even reproached
them. If mis- success in supreme COM
mand gives the measure Of his genius,
his acceptance Of it gives the measure
of his magnanimity."
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

VI W y HEN the camel caravans OF
N Italian Sonaliland encamp
for the night in this year of
the prophet the burnoosed
Arab traders and kinky- y-haired Somali
blacks who huddle over the grass fires
gossip Of one whom they call the
Great Hunter. They refer to the Duke
of the Abruzzi, who since 1907 has
been the subject of gossip in America
over kitchen stoves and apartment
house radiators.
The nomads of Somaliiand, however,
feel nc concern about the blighted
romance of this cousin of the King of
Italy and the American heiress, Mrs.
William HIT, who was Katherine Ell
kins, of West Virginia. Causes do not
enter into their Mohammedan phil
osophy, which sees in all events the
will Of Allah.
These dark skinned subjects of the
Italian King know that the Great
in Somsliland; that he has undertaken
TO transform this desolate, barren strip
of northeast Africa into a rich Italian
province.
With characteristic energy the
Duke, after winning from the Italian
government free hand in the carry
ing out of his improvement schemes,
has arranged for the building of a
of Mogadiscio to Afgoi. A further
branch is to be constructed to Lugh,
the largest town in the interior.
Railroad Has Been Paper
Project for Twenty Years
For twenty years this railroad has
been a paper project, but the driving
energy Of the Duke is going to trans
late ink ruled lines into steel rails.
At present the only method of trans
port in Somaliland is camel caxavans.
The exports of the colony are, there
fore, restricted to the freighting ca
pacity of the long-legged, complaining
ships Of the desert. With the compile
tion of the railroad it is hoped that
millions Of dollars worth Of products
can be exported to. Italy every year.
AT twenty-four the Duke was cele-
brated as mountain climber, and later
as a North Pole seeker. Successfully
ne held the records for having been
'furthest up'@ and "furthest north"
Born in Madrid, heir to the Spanish
throne, he was later considered for the
vacant thrones Of Albania and Greecss
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Writer Venomous in Attack
On British Military

Captain Wright has especially out
ragged English military and newspaper
opinion by attacking established mill
tary regulations. He is venomous
against Haig. In fact, he weakens his
case by his virulence. Of Haie he
writes:
The chief was
knightiy figure, with all the bearing
and temper of leader, but on verv
low plane of intelligence. as elderly
cavalrymen sometimes are. Again he
says that Haig had "a character Of
iron tenacity, and the most gentle
manly, attractive surface. but "a
mind extraordinarily slow" And more:
"Sir Douglas Haig certainly never pro-
tested at Versailles when the plan of
campaign for 1918 was adopted by the
Supreme War Council, but it NAV be
quite we'll that he did not understand
what was being done Ny own inn
preston of him during the discussion
was that he entirely failed to follow
what was being discussed"
Haig was not military genius nor
a first class commander-in-chief. He
made good record. in the early part
of the war as q commander--both in
the retreat from Mons and at Ypres.
Yet as commander-in-ch chief his shoy-
ing at the Battle of the Somme, in
1916; in the Arras, Flanders and Cam
bria offensives of 1917, and in the
Battle Of St. Quentin, in 1918, was
anything but inspiring. Under his
leadership the British army suffered
enormous casualties, with no corre-
spending strategic results. The Somme
cost $4,000 men and officers; Arras.
10000; Flanders and Gambia, asa. 600
and st. Quentin, $4,000. Haig was
an attritionist and ruthlessIy pursued
the wearing-out policy so strongly ap-
proved by Robertson But as Foch
had the candor to say in the intro
duction he wrote to Haig's dispatches:
IF war is to end in victory it must
be given character different from
this
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Pesain Furnishes 10 Divisions--
Stalls OF German Onrush

Haig couldn't relieve Coughs beaten
troops. Captain Wright says that only
one British division arrived on the 9th
Army front up to March % and that
Haig's official reports are very disln-
genuous on this point. The French did
what they could to meet the emergency:
Petain wasn't bound by his agreement
to give any aid until March 25. But by
March % he had sent ten divisions
to Coughs assistance and was able to
stall off the final German push toward
Amiens.
Meanwhile the Doullens conference
had been held. Haig was IN deep
hole and perhaps repented Of his de-
termination to perpetuate the system
of divided control. He telegraphed to
London on March "a asking Lloyd
George to come over. The Prime Min
ister sent Milner and Sir Henry Will
son. They conferred with Clemenceau'
Foch and petain at Compiegne on
March rs. CIemenceau still vac1ilated
between the two French generals. The
next day, at Doullens, Haig was pres
ent and Miner thrashed out the situa-
ton with him. Miner next talked with
CIenenceau and proposed Foch as gen
eraIissino. The French Premier as
sented. When he broke the news to
Foch he couldn't refrain from little
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Robertson Usters Protest;
Is Removed as Chief of Staff

But Foch's prescience was to 60 for
nothing. The Supreme War Council
adopted its plan early in February.
Robertson was opposed to the Palestine
offensive and was against g unified
command. Repington published in
The Morning Post of February II an
article condemning the Allied War
Councils program and expressing the
hope that Parliament will extract a
definite promise from Mr.. Lloyd
George" that the Councils decisions
shall not be carried into effect. Rob-
ertson protested against the decisions
and was relieved as Chief of Staff ON
February IA
On February 6 the Executives War
Board wrote to the Allied command
ers in chief announcing that the gem
eral reserve would be fixed initial
ly at one-seventh of the total Allied
forces. from the North Sea to to the
Adriatic, and asked each to contribute
quota proportionate to the number
of divisions which he commanded. On
February 19 Generals Pstain and Diaz
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Classic Model of Defeat
St. Quentin is Called

St. Quentin is Called
Captain Wright is mercilessIy caus-
tic. He says: "The military student
will surely come TO consider ST. Quen-
tin as model Of what a defeat ought
to be, sort of classical example with
complete perfection of its own; a
fiawless jewel of Incompetence, sur
passing even masterpieces of the same
kind like Cambria"
And he adds cynically: "Joffre,
whose mistakes in the first weeks of
the war almost lost it, remains seated
in the hearts of the French as a ma
tional hero, however much commissions
of inquiry may expose him. No doubt
if Haig had been driven into the sea
in April, 1918, as seemed likely, he
would have remained Immortality glori-
Gus and some one else would have been
to blame"
For Foch the writer has an exalted
admiration-an admiration based on
both character and talents. He draws
this striking picture of the greatest
of the Allied leaders:
"In the simplicity of his ways he has
not even an side-de-camp and he used
to arrive alone, his papers under his
arm, with an absence of ceremony as
tonishing to any one accustomed to
the .pomp that surrounds even a briga-
Gief, in the roughness of his ways, a
strong contrast TO the gent!emanly
English and the grand manner of the
Italians; in his extreme. piety; in all
these he was like a rustic French cure.
redolent of the soil, of the true soil Of
France, the soil of peasants and sol.
eiers, descendants of those who se~
complished the Gesta Del YER Frances.
very different from the glitterlng foam
of Paris. In sheer intellect he tow
ere dabove every one at the supreme
War Council
AS for the. charges against Reping.
ton. they are OF very iittle consequences
to the American readers. Repington
pictured himself sufficiently in his re-
Gently published diaries. But the Pal
estine disclosures didn't do any harm.
If the Germans took any notice Of its.
it was rightly discounted
This book is written wildly, cut Of
fuIness Of knowledge and cut of an
embittered heart. It is unusual and
deserves attention despite its excesses,
because it combines fearless OF judg-
ment with striking grasp on his
| toricaI values. ~
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
of the Intrigues Against Foch Startes England
Military Hierarchy Undermined
War Council, Wright Charges
Haig and Petain Ignored the Supreme Command
in Defensive Plan and Caused Great Losses
TO the Allies, Writer Declares

4 the creation of such q reserve was of
the utmost Importance. 1t would in
sure Immediate support at the point of
attack and also permit prompt counter
attacks. 1t was sn assurance against
any disaster like that at st. Quentin.
Captain Wright tells how Foch
OWNED the German General Stats
strategy and prepared to meet it. He
quotes him as saying to the Executivs
War Board in February, 1918:
"Ludendorff must launch his mass of
| attack either westward or southwark,
either toward the British side of the
angie in the Cambrsi region or toward
the French side of the angle and the
Rheims region. But if he is successful
and drives one or other of these lines
back, he himself presents an unguarded
and open flank; and the more success
full he is and the more he enlarges the
angle, the longer, and therefore the
more open and unguarded, his flank
will be-
i will, therefore, divide my genearl
reserve into three portions of differ
ent sizes. The smallest portion I will
place in Dauphine, close to the best
crossing into Italy; the largest I will
concentrate around Paris; the third
portion I will place around Amiens.
From the concentration of German
troops the attack must come in the
Rheims or Cambrai region; therefore
the bulk of the general reserve around
Paris is best situated to come to the
help of either region. The Amiens
portion stands behind the British Fifth
Army the weakest point of the line,
and ready to support it. The Dauphine
portion is situated so as to be able to
so to the assistance of the Swiss or the
Italians. in the unlikely event of their
being attacked, or to rejoin the rest of
the general reserve"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

divided command and scattered re-
serves"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

The first step, taken after Caporetto
had been virtually retraced. AS the
author puts 1t, in somewhat exagger-
ated form:
Before the campaign of 1913 began,
of the plan of campaign which may
be attributed to Mr.. Lloyd George,
Foch and Wilson, one part had been
published to the world, certainly with
the hearty approval and very probably
at the instigation of the chief of the
imperial general staff, Robertson; the
other half had been nullifed by an in
trigue Of which the French commander
in-chief was the author snd the Brit
ish ommander-in-chlest the instrument,
and to which the other leaders of the
alliance assented or were compelled to
assent"
Ludendorff's drive Of March II, 1918,
couldn't have been stopped in its tracks
by an army as depleted and oyer-ex-
tended as Coughs. But the Germans
could easily have been held on the line
of the Somme if there had been an
Allied general reserve TO throw in,
The Petain-H -Haig relief scheme broke
down completely. Petain couldn't ex-
tend his left in an orderly manner, as
the compact provided, because there
were no longer any British positions
there to be taken over. Contact be-
tween the French and British armies
had almost been severed. The British
right was in tn eair. Whatever his
original plans, Petain now faced the
wholly unexpected task OF restoring
connections and fighting to save
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
The Duke of Abruzzi Seeks Fame in Africa
Royal Promoter Plans the Building of Long Con.
templated Railroad and the Completion
of Great Irrigation Project

Wv r HEN the camel caravans of
W. Italian Somaliland encamp
for the night in this year of
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-19
SUGGEST U. s.
 CANCEL DEBTS
London Outlook Believes Am erica Will Cancel War
 Debt Tn the End.

LONDON, Oct. 19.-"Why America must forgive her debtors is the subject of an editorial in the Outlook, which contends that world-trade can not revive until the interrelated in ternational debts which are press ing all countries" are wiped out The Outlook advances this formula for submission to America as the British viewpoint
 We do not ask you gentlemen to cancel that billion-odd we owe you, out, of generosity or idealism, out of recognition that We did more fighting than you did, or because we lent most of the money involved to other nations who cannot pay it back to us, In fact we do not ask you to cancel the debt at all.
 We merely state our opinion that you will cancel it. not out of gener- osity or out of idealism, but out of sheer self-interest. The only ques tion is, When will you do it? You must cancel it, for until you do. your industries will be crippled, your trade will be at standstill, and your peo- pie will be out of work.
 We make no suggestion beyond expressing the opinion that the soon CT you look into the situation and do what you will have to do before long in any event, the better it will be for you and for us.''
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-19
COMMITTEE REPORT ON
 NEW BILL LOOKED FOR

The report on the New Bill hy a special committee is the principal business of importance to be taken up at the regular bi-weekly noon luncheon of the Juneau Commercial Association tomorrow. accordinp to statement made by Secretary M. s. Whittier today The committee was appointed at the last meeting of the organization with instructions to examine the measure and reso- lutioR opposing it's enactment into law and report on both at tomor- rows meeAing
 The committee is composed of R E. Robertson, Chairman, Henry Roden and w. s. Pullen. If has n meeting scheduled for this after noon at which it is expected to Tor mulate final report.
 Secretary Whittier urges fu,l attendance tomorrow as the matter IS considered of much importance The meeting will be held at tbe Gem Ice Cream Parlors.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-19

N. C., have filed suits in the Su- preme Court of the District of Co lumbia for damages totalhng this amount against the United States Railroad Administration. Mrs. King asks $75,000 for her injuries, re- ceived, she alleges, from eating veal on Pennsylvania Railroad diner while on her honeymoon trip, Dec. 30, 1919. That was during the per iod of Federal control of the roads.
 Mrs. King says the injuries. re- ceived then have left her almost helpless and in constant pain
 pr. King asks an additional $50,- 900 for the destruction of his wifes health and fer the expenee -of medi cal experts in an effortssto restore her health.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-19
MANUFACTURE !.
 or SMOKES IS
 ON DECREASE
Fewer Cigarettes Were Made in 1920 than in l9l9
 \ Industry Statistics.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-A billion more cigars, almost two billions few CT cigarettes and 14,000,000 pounds less of manufactured tobacco were produced during 1920 than during 1919, Census Bureau statistics com piled from Internal Revenue reports show.
 Pennsylvania leads in the manu- facture of large and small cigars, producing more than one-qulrter of the total which was S.057,792 large cigars and 642,64O, 300 small cigars in 1920
 North Carolina leads in the produc- tion of small cigarettes, producing more than half of the country's total output. which was 51,192,762,76S.
 New York leads in production of large cigarettes producing almost 27 per cent of the country's total of 41.0512l7.
 North Carolina leads in production