St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 16, 1915
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ST. LOUIS POST: O'S PATCH TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1915. ST!OUIS POST-GISPATCH =— case the provisions of international law could not be said to apply. des the clai-: to hospitality which entent» allies declare they have on in view of the then Premier Venizelos’ invitation to them to send & force to Saloniki to enable Greece to ful- tN her treat © obligations to Servia, Which, however, Greece Earl K is likely to draw the attention of King Constantine and his Govern- ment to the fact that the constitution- alism of Gretés was guatanteed by France, Russia and Great Britain, and t it was only obtained after Great Britain had ceded the lenian Islands to the count?#y and the three Powers had agreed té contribute $9,000 yearly for the Stacy use of the King. ms Reassure Greece. This, TOW ne Rr een* eee = BO! patches today that Lord Kitchener has gone to Greece to see King Constantine indicates that that unhappy monarch is to be- come again the center of diplomatic répresentations that may decide not only his own fate but that of his country also. It is suggested that Kitchener has been empowered “to swing the big stick” over Constan- tine and remind him that he owes his present status to England, France and Russia, which put his father on the throne of Greece and “Whom Kitchener Will Try to Line Up With Allies On Bee aE i ee Pn LO pee I ley os are 7 SS >7 Sat eee ~ ‘ ~ . 4. Se KING CONSTANTINE. HB announcement in cable dis- then guaranteed the integrity and the Constitution of the country. Moreover, he will be reminded that these countries contribute $20,000 a year each for his personal use, while Germany gives nothing and that it is hardly fair, under the circum- stances. for him to lean to Germany merely because he married thé Kaiser’s sister. It will probably be indicated unmistakably that what the allied Powers have done for his family they can undo ‘speedily pro- vided his obstinacy makes _ that course necessary. MOVEMENT IN U. 8. 10 GET FOOD 10 GERMAN CIVILIANS Committee Formed in New York to Aid Non-Combatants of the Cenfral Empires. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—An organized movement to aid the civilian populatior. of Germany and Austria by sending food from the United States was taunched here today by a “Citizens’ Committee for Food Shipment,”’ consisting of 45 physi- cians, clergymen and prominent men The organization has provided for branch committees throughout the coun- try. Dr. Henry J. Wolf is chairman of the committee, whose announcement Says: the central Powers, especially Germany, is peculiar. Germany has for many years depended upon us for large quanti- ties of lard and wheat and is the prince pal purchaser of our cottonseed meal, for the support of her vast herds of cattle. The shutting off of our exports of cottonseed meal curtailed the milk supply and created problems in the feed- ing of children that are now becoming increasingly acute. “Our Government .has declared that fective, illegal and indefensible,’ and that is is entirely within the rights of any citizen of the United States to deai with civilian Germans in foodstuffs, and that these rights are not merely privi- leges. Our obligations to Germany as a customer in the past and of the futurc, and innumerable ties of relationship an4 ‘sympathy, impose a duty upon us to live up to our rights, because shipments of foodstuffs, whfle a matter of profit. able commerce to us, may become to many of our friends a matter of life and death.” a “les Cured in 6 to 14 Days ruggists refund mney, Pere. Ointment fal “4 to cure Itching ng or Pro- truding Pties. First application Kives relief. fc. PLAN TO BRING PRESIDENT HERE Members of the Democratic City Com- mittee, at a meeting last night, at 3654 Olive street, to prepare plans for a State-wide rally, on Jan. 8, “Jackson day,’” at the Coliseum, were encouraged by a report that Presoident Wilson might come to St. Louis to speak. The . President has informed the committee that, if possibie, he will be here on Jan. 8. The committee decided to open perma. nent headquarters in the Pontiac Build- ing, Seventh and Market streets. James J. Fitzsimmons, secretary of the commit- tee, will be in charge. ‘‘America’s position with reference to the present English blockade is ‘inet-! FRENGH SEIZE JAPANESE. SH ON WAY TO INDI Suspected of Carrying Arms to Mutineers, and German Is Found on Board. By Asscciated Presa. PEKIN, China, Nov.. 16.—Tne French Minister, A. R. Conty, was advised to- day that the Japanese steamship Iro had been taken into Saigon Bay, Frencn Cochin, China, by a French cruiser, on suspicion of being engaged in carrying arms to mutineers in India. On board the Iro was a man without & passport, who represenred himself to be an American. Later he admitted he was a German. He is believed to be a former German Consul in China. The Iro left Shanghai on Nov. 2, os- tensibly for Bombay, to be sold by her Japanese owners. When the Frencn cruiser approached the Iro packing cases were thrown overboard. An irregularity in the Iro’s papers and a shortage in her cargo were discovered. Illinois Horseman Dies. DECATUR, Ill., Nov. 16.--M. W. John- son, harness horse owner, died today st his home near Assumption. He was owner of Col. Cochran, a famous sire. Cold Weather Rheumatism of the blood, be worse in cold weather than in summer? The rheumatic poison in the blood is the predisposing cause of the dig- ease. If you have the taint in your blood you may have rhen:natiss. whenever the exciting cause stirs it to action. Cold weather and lamp. ness are exciting causes of rheuma- tism. They excite to action tmo- thirg already in the blood, something that you must get rid of if yoa would be free from rheumatism. What this something is, nobody knows.. Not very long ago it was thought to be uric acid. Many doc- tors now think it a microscopic or- ganism or a specific bacillus, but they cannot find the »acillus. It is a known fact that in rheuma- tism the blood becomes thin ra idly, that building up the blood re ieves the rheumatism and that there will be no return of the rheumatism as long as the condition of the blood is maintained. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are recommended for rheumatism be- cause they keep the blood rich and red. and free from rheumatic poisons. ree Book, “Bullding Up th l “ tells y r*- t the treatment. yaa opy cass to the aes, ‘Williams Medicine o.. Schenectad da gist eelis Dr. Williams” Pink Pile ane. ANCONA NOT EVEN WARNED BY BLANK SHUT, ITALY SAYS Austro - Hungarian Admiralty’s Statement Contradicted and U. S. Awaits Further Advices. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—The American, Government will await the receipt of the Austrian Government's statement of facts concerning the sinking of the Italian liner, Ancona, before considering whether any rights of Americans have been vio- lated. These facts probably will be sought through Ambassador Penfield at Vienna. The State Department now has be- fore it the Italian Government's communication addressed to neutral nations ‘Yenouncing the sinking of the Ancona as an “unparalelled atroc- ity,”” and officials have also seen the published statement of the Aus- tro-Hungarian admiralty “describing the attack. The two statements differ. Italy’s communication charges that “with- out even a blank shot of warning from the attacking “submarine,” the Ancona was shelled and that the kill- ing and wounding of passengers con- tinued after the vessel stopped. The Austro-Hungarian statement, on the other hand, declared that the Ancona attempted to escape and only after repeated shelling was brought to a stop. It is declared also that passengers and crew were given 45 minutes to escape in small boats, and the charge that the submarine fired on the boats is dénied. . Diplomatic exchanges between the American and Austrian Governments probably will follow as to the entire question of submarine warfare and the obligation of a submarine com- mander to see that neutrals are safe before destroying a prize. Steamer Cretie Reaches Naples: Pas- sengers Feared Attack. NAPLES, Nov. 16.—The steamer Cretic. from New York and Boston, has ar- rived here safely. There was intense anxiety among the passengers on board after they learned at Gibraltar of the sinking of the Ancona. The captain took all precautions against possible attack. Everyone on Board Bosnia Saved; Boatload Reaches Crete. ROME, Nov. 16.—A Stefani dis- patch from Canea says the last: boat- load of pasengers and sailors from the steamship Bosnia has reached the south coast of the Island of Crete. It now has been established that all persons who were aboard the vessel have been saved. Europa, With 1200 Passengers, rives Safely at Genoa, NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The arrival of the steamer Europa at Genoa was an- nounced today by Hartfield, Solari & Co., agents for the Italian Lines. The Europa was in the danger zone when word of the torpedoing of the Ancona reached this country. The steamer car- ried 1200 passengers. CEES 26 From Sunken Norwegian Reach Coast of Crete. CANEA,~ Crete, Nov. 16.—Two boats from the Norwegian steamer Wacousta, which was sunk by a submarine, ar- rived Sunday at Suda Bay, on the western coast of Crete, with Capt. Tsen- sen ..ad 2 sailors. Ar- Ship A dispatch from London on. Siin: -v said the Wacousta, a vessel of 1988 tons, had been sunk wen on the way from Nova scotia to Viadivostok, and that her crew had been saved. Used Whenever Quinine Is Needed. Does not affect the head. Bedause of its tonic and laxative effect, Laxative Bromo Quinine will be found better than ordinary Quinine, for any purpose for which Quinine {as used. Does not cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Remember, there is Only One ‘‘Bromo Cuinine.’’ Look for signature of E W. Grove. 25c. KREISMANN VISITS INJURED BOY Regret to Lad His Ran Down. Vincent Mahoney, Ill years old, of Fa- ther Dunne’s Newsboys’ Home, wko’was knocked down by Former Mayor Kreis- ‘mann’s automobile near Nineteenth and Locust street, yesterday, was in a se- rious condition today at the city hospi- tal. Kreismann visited the boy at the hos- pital in the morning and expressed his regret. He said the accident was un- avoidable, as the boy, who had been coasting on skates behind a wagon and let go the wagon and stumbled while skating in the path of the automobile ki xpresses Auto a eee eel = STOPS STOMACH _ DISTRESS AT ONCE Pruggists Sell Best Prescription on Earth on the Money Back Plan. Almost everybody knows that sick headache, nervousness, dizziness, bad dreams and sleeplessness are caused by a disordered stomach. : Upset stomach and indigestion happen just because the food you eat does not digest—but lies in the stomach and ferments or turns sour. stomach distress in five minutes by using Mi-o-na. Stomach Tablets, a prescription that has done more tc in fine condition than any other rem- edy known to us. A large 50-cent box of Mi-o-na Stomach tablets‘ is all you need to be convinced that there is nothing that gives such quick and lasting re- lief. If you of gas, trouble, have heaftburn, heaviness or any stomach no matter how chronic, they will help you or money back. Sold by Wolff-Wilson Drug Co., RICHARD HARDING DAVIS TELLS HOW SCENES HAVE CHANGED IN FRANCE.IN YEAR War Now Is a Matter of Routine to Peasant— Mud and Shooting of Snowballs at the Bird- men, All to Be Seen From a Trefch. tome PARIS, Nov. 15.—In Eng'and it is “war as usnal.” with such an “old established” firm digested it. has accepted the war. her bed and groan. As we approached the ‘front—which now is a French word—this was ever more evident than in Paris, where signs of war are all but invisible. Outside otf Amiens we met a regiment of Scots with the pipes playing and the cold rain splashing their bare legs. To watch them we leaned from the car window. surprise them; ed. A year ago when they passed was “roses all the way’’—or at least cis- arettes, chocolate and red wine. Now, in spite of the skirling bagpipes, no one turned his head. To the French they had become a part of the landscape. Hiow the scenes Have Changed. A year ago the roads at every 200) yards were barricaded. It was a con: tinual hurdle race. Now, except at dis- tances of four or five miles, the barr- cades have disappeared. One side of the road is reserved for troops, the other for moving vehicles. Those vehicles met —for the most part two-wheeled carts— no longer coutained peasants with their belongings, flying from dismantled vi!- lages. Instead, they carried garden truck, pigs or oalves on the way to market. On the driver’s seat the peas- ant whistled cheerfully and cracked hi‘s whip. The long lines of London busses that last year advertised soap, mustard, milk and music hails and which now are a decorous gray, the ambulances, the great guns drawn by motor trucks with Gaterpillar wheels no longer sur- prise him. The English ally has ceased to be a stianger and is a paying guest in the towns and ‘villages of Artois. The shop windows are dressed chiefly for him The names of the towps are Flemish ° the names of the streets are Flemish: the names over the shops are Flemish but the goods for sale are marmalade. tinned kippers, etc. They are capable, adaptable and oblig- If the men ask these shopkeepers for anything they haven't got, they don’t say, ““We don’t keep it;’’ they get him te write down what it is he wants and they send for it. Makes War Support Him. It is the better way. The French- man does not say, ‘‘War is ruining me;” he makes the war help to support him and at the same time gives comfor. to his ally. A year ago, in the villages, the old men stood in disconsolate groups with their hands in their pockets. Now they are briskly at work. They are working in the fields, in the vegetable gardens, helping the territorials mend the roads. On every side of them were the evi- dences of war—in the fields abandoned trenches, barbed wire entanglements shelters for fodder and ammunition, hangars for repairing aeroplanes, vast slaughter houses, parks of artillery; and on the roads endless lines of lorries, hooded ambulances, marching soldiers. To us those were of vita] interest, but to the Frenc:. peasant they are in the routine of his existenze. After a year war neither greatly distresses nor great- ly interests him. With one hand he fights—with the other he plows. We had made a bet as to which would see the first sign of real war, and the sign of it that won anc that gave gen- eral satisfaction even to the man who lost, was a@ group of German soldiers sweeping the streets of St. Pol. They were guarded only by. one of their own number and they looked fat, sleek and contented. When, on our return from the trenches, we saw them again, knew they were to be greatly envied Between standing waist high in mud in a trench and being drowned in it. buried in it, blown up or asphyxiated, the post of crossing sweeper is one to be de- sired. : The next sign of war was more thrill- ing. It was a race between a French aeroplane and German shrapnel. ‘To us the bursting shells looked like five little cotton balls. Since this war began shrapnel, when it bursts, has invariably been compared to balls of cotton, and as that is exactly what it looks like it is again so described. The balls of cot- ton did not seem to rise from the earth, but to pop suddenly out of the sky, A moment later five more it ing. we cotton | balls, |fought for inch by Inch, end indigestion and put the stomach | belching | ,shaft in a disused mine. \ like the tunnels to coal pits. don’t suffer another day; try Mi-o-, na stomach tablets on a guarantee ‘ to the boulevards—men, and leading druggists everywhere.— | appeared, much nearer Others followed, the aero- plane. leaping after it like the spray of succeeding waves. But the aeroplane steadily and swiftly _conveyed itself out of range and out of sight. On the Devastated Battle Line. To say where the trenches began and You can stop fermentation and | where they ended is difficult. We were | passing through land that had been re- It had been foot by foot. To win it back, thousands of lives had been thrown like dice upon a table There were vast stretches of mud, of fields once cultivated, but now scarred with pits, trenches, rusty barbed wires. The roads were rivere of clay. They were lined with dugouts, cellars and caves. These burrows in the earth were eupported by beams and suggested a They looked They were inhabited by a race of French unknown bearded, deep- ly tanned and caked with clay. Their uniforms were like those of foot- ball players on a rainy. day at the end of the second half. We were entering i‘rieved from the enemy. about her duties—even sits in her box ‘at the opera: That we should be interested seemed to no one else Was interest: | By Richard Harding Davis. A Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. (Copyright. 1915, by Richard Harding Davis.) is “business as wsual;” in France it The English tradesman can assure his customers that as his not even war can interfere; but France, with war actually on her soil, hag gone further and has accepted war as part of her daily life. She has not merely swallowed but It is like the line in Pinero’s play, where one woman says she cannot go to the opera because of her neuralgia. have neuralgia in my box as well as anywhere else.” The neuralgia may hurt, bat she does not take to She smiles cheerfully and courageously and goes Her friend replies: “You can In that spirit France ow what had been the viliage of Abiain, and before us rose thé famous heights 2t Mont de“uorette. To scale these heights Seemed a feat as incredible as scaling ehe Palisades of the Hudson or the sheer cliff of ‘Gibraltar. But they had been scaled and the side toward us was crawl- ing with French soldiers climbing to the trenches, descending frem the trenches, carrying to the trenches food, amm-ni- tion and fuel for the fires. A eoid rain was falling and had turned the streets of Ablain and al) the roads to it into swamps. In these were islands of bricks and lakes of water, the solidity and color of melted chocolate. Whatever you touched clung to’you. It was a land of mud, clay, liquid earth A cold wind whipped the rain against your face and chilled you to the bone; all you saw distressed and chilled your spirit. To the “poilus,” who, in the face of such desolation, joked and laughed with the civilians, you felt you vuwed an apology. for your automobile was wait. ing to whisk you back to a warm din ner, electrie lights. red wine and dry bed. The men we met were cave men When night came they would sleep tn a hole in the hill fit for a mud turtle, o: a muskrat. From a tfench that was all we éould see of this war, and it is all that the millions of fighting men can see of it —wet walls of clay as narrow as a grave, an arrow pointing to a shelter from sudden death and overhead, the rain-soaked sky, and perhaps a great bird at which the enemy is shooting snow balls. —— — National Bank Call lesued,. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—The Comp- troller of the Currency today issued a call to all national banks requiring them to report to him their condition at the close of business on Wednesday, Nov. 10 MRS. MANLEY ON TRIAL FOR KILLING PETER MAC GUIRE Policeman Testifies. Test Showed She Could Not «Have Shot Man as She Said. The trial of Mrs. Anna B. Manley, % sears old, of 923 North Compton avenue, charged with second degree murder, be- gan today in Judge Cave’s court. She is charged with killing Peter MacGutre, 42 years old; a bartender, of 208 Locust street, at 11:3 p. m. March 2, at her home. Mrs. Manley’s statement is that Mac- Guire was trying to climbd through a window and that she thought he was a turglar when she was awakened, after having gone to'bed at 11 o'clock. Wit- resses will testify that she was talking to a man at her front door 15 minutes before the shooting. MacGuire was shot in the back. The defendant is a divorcee and a spirit medium. She had giygn a seance the night that Mac@tire was killed. Police Sergt. Patrick Kirk testified that he arrived at the Manley home shortly after the shooting. He found MacGuiré's body on the lawn in front of the house, he said, and did not find any trace of bidéod anywhere, except where the body lay. Mrs. Maniey told him, he testified, that she had retired at 11 o'clock and at 11:30 was awekened by a nofsée et her window. When she turned toward the, window, she told him, she saw a man standing-on a fence beside the house, raising the sash, Without leaving her bed or raising up, she fired, Kirk said she told him. Assistant Circuit Attorney Moore asked him if a test he (Moore) and the witness had made several days ago did not snow that a person lying in the bed in Mrs. Manley’s room could not see the fence on which, she said, she saw the man standing on. Kirk replied that it had. VROOMAN SPEAKS AT CITY CLUB Agricultural Department’s Work 80 Per Cent Constructive, He Says. Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of the United States Department of Agri- culture, spoke at the City Club at the midday luncheon on the work of his de- partment. He said there had been no marked movement by the department which/| would have a regulatory effect on busi- ness. He added that 8) per cent of the department’s activities were construc- tive and only 20 per cent regulatory. The Associated Press News Service is received and printed exciusively y the Post-Dispatch in the St Louis even- ire field CHRIST WAS BEST ADVERTISER, SAYS WALTER WILLIAMS Dean_.of Columbia School Journalism So Tells at Sun- day School Convention. eS A crc Walter Williams, dean of\ the Schoo! of Journalism at the University of Mis- souri, speaking on “Christian Publicity’ this morning at the Third Baptist Church at the opening session of the golden jubilee convention of the Mis- sour! Sunday School Association, said that Christ was a master of the art of advertising, that even the Devil adver- tises, that John proved himself a great editor, and that there ig no ° tter re- porter than Luke. “Even Christ's last words were nut for silence, but for Christian publicity,” Dean Williams said. “Whenever a church has kept the good news of the gospel to itself, it has died. When it has given this news out it hes con- qjuered, “When Kitchener wanted a miliior men he advertised in the newspapers When the church wants a million strong men to aid its cause, it rings a bell for five minutes on Sunday. “When we spend as much money ai- vertising Christ as we do for advertising cigarettes, when we spend as muc!: money spreading the Gospel as we advertising soap, the great hurryine throng of humanity will stop and liste to the news of the Master. “Even the Devil advertises. He espe- cially uses electric light for tne gaye- ties of life, and then turns his victims over to darkness, as a moth might drop from a candle.’’ “Christian publicity a lesson from the Bible. There is ne better reporter, noteven in St. Loutl~, than Luke, for with his vivid phrases he wrote the greatest report in the world—the story of Christ. John proved himself to be the best editor, for freely used a biuve pencil, for tn one o his lines he states, “If I wished | could fill many volumes.”’ All this vroved by the fact that the Bible is the best seller in the world.” Churches, the speaker said, shouic take advantage of the great opportuni ties which newspapers offer them fo: Christian publicity. Even the Sunda\ newspaper—that abomination which ex- ists in no other country—may be use! with tremendous force for the cause uf Christ,”” he added. “The best method of promotion is by sensational news which give the facts. Do not be afraid of the sensationa!) newspapers, for they merely wake us up, and the world needs to be waked up by the life-giving methods of Christ.’ About 1200 delegates, from all purts of the State, afe attending the conven- tion, which will closé Thursday night. eS EE of co might well leary he r Is ——— eee oe a ST a. IS Ce oe - St caer as —e If You Really Want to Cure Yourself of Constipation— y * fone must stop depending upon laxatives and cathartics. They afford only temporary relief and are dangerously habit-forming. As a result of recent discoveries, po my | gradually discarding the use of drugs in t physicians are ¢ treatment of constipation. Instead, they prescribe regular habits, sens- ible food, and an internal lubricant. i Hg EPMO 2 YR SN ap ce pepe thn 4 REG. U.S. PAT. is odorless and tasteless, A PURE WHITE MINERAL OIL neutral, and fs absolutely not digested or absorbed into the system It acts lubricant. merely asa mechanical Nujol is not a temporary relicf in that it relieves consti Its use will not give quick, Nujol is a ya genuine remedy most natural aap toy huerleatinn the lelair of the Wnatinen sof- teni the intestinal contents, and and thus promoting Write for ‘‘The Rational Treatment of Contes: tion,’* an informative treatise on you cannot get Nujol from droge, we wil send you a pint bottle Lgpre to any point in the United States on receipt of stamps STAN pane OIL Bayonne, — 75c—money order of COMPANY New Jersey
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