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1865
OF GALVESTON
1918
GALVESTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918.-TWELVE PAGES
NO. 123.
VOL. 38. .
IN MOHILEV REGION.
TO FRANCE
nearest point on the British coast.
NO WORD
HEROIC CANADA.
OF SHIP
MILNER GETS POST.
a
qualified for general
NO TRACE FOUND.
MINISTRY RESIGNS.
completely
It has been es-
Ukraine and Russia.
GERMANY’S BIG DEBT.
MUST PAY FULL PRICE.
SENATOR STONE’S FUNERAL.
THE WEATHER
KAISER VISITS FRONT.
LVESTON TRIB
HAVE PLANS
FOR UKRAINE
THAT EXTRA
Hour OF SUN
SHINE SUITS ME
says that such suggestions have no
foundations among those who have
knowledge of naval conditions.
The enemy, it says, has gained
little new strength for use in the
North Sea by the Baltic situation,
while the British superiority has
tablished, said the report, that native
officials are being replaced with Aus-
tro-Germans and that Austro-German
money is being forced into circula-
tion.
By Associated Press.
London, April 18.—The British
naval success against German mine
sweepers in the Cattegat recently,
says the Daily Telegraph, is suf-
ficient answer to the Germans who
say that the British grand fleet is
in hiding.
Contrasting the British fleet in
Former Vice Chancellor Warns
That There Will Be Wailing
and Gnashing of Teeth.
AREA STIFFENS
But Mrs. Worley Feels
Sure Collier is Safe.
Texas Clergy Urged to Ob-
serve Next Sunday With
Liberty Loan Services.
APPEALS FOR
SKILLED MEI
: By Associated Press. 7
! Ottawa, April 18.—Re- 8
; gardless of sacrifices, Cana- $
: da must keep her fighting {
: divisions on the Western 3
i front up to full strength, ?
| Sir Robert Borden, premier, :
, stated during a secret ses- $
; sion of the house of com- 3
: mons yesterday. An official 7
account of the meeting was 2
made public here today $
Canada also must so organ- $
ize her remaining human 3
power as to maintain, and if 3
possible, increase agricultur- $
, al production, Sir Robert $
said. ?
Many Trades Are Represented
in List—Good Men Can
Advance Rapidly.
Teutons Would Make
Colony of Territory.
Earl of Derby Departs
on Special Mission.
New Subscriptions of 107 Mil.
lions Are Reported to
the Treasury.
URGED TO REPORT
TO LOCAL BOARD
THIRD LOAN NOW
OVER A BILLION
Succeeds Earl of Derby as
War Minister in the Brit-
ish Cabinet.
9
Officials Do Not Believe Ac-
cident Explains Loss of
the Cyclops.
VISCOUNT MILNER
GIVEN HIGH POST
TEUTON BOMBARDMENT IN LOCON-ROBECQ
SECTOR MAY PRESAGE FURTHER ONSLAUGHT
NAVAL FORCES
FIND NO TRACE
GERMANY COVETS
SOUL OF AMERICA
WETS STRONG
IN NEW YORK
Defeat Pros in Larger Cities
and Retain Most of Li-
censes Involved.
Bearing of New Threat on Somme Operations
Creates Interest — Americans Penetrate
Enemy Lines in Lorraine Sector.
Blucher on Way to Battle,
General Maurice Affirms
By Associated Press.
Field Marshal Haig today reports his line on the Lys battle-
front standing intact last night as it existed yesterday morning, fol-
lowing the British retirement east of Ypres, no ground having been
lost in battling of yesterday, despite the heavy German attacks
through the entire period.
Checked for the time at least, in front of the strong British po-
sitions dominated by Kemmell Hill on the northern portion of this
front, the Germans are turning their attention to the southwesterly
sector of the battlefield.
BOMBARDMENT IN PROGRESS.
A heavy bombardment of the British positions here between
Locon and Rebecq was reported in progress this morning.
The enemy is finding himself cramped on the southerly side of
the wedge he has pushed into the British lines and seems on the
eve of an effort to widen it out here.
English Troops Have Lost No Ground, Despite
Heavy German Attacks.
BRITISH FLEET READY FOR RAFFLE HAIG'S BATTLE LINES
STAND INTACT TODAY
Those Subject to Draft
' Wanted.
HELP YOUR GOVERNMENT
by purchasing Thrift Stamps and
War Savings Certificates. For sale
at all hanks and by all postmen.
4 % Interest, Compounded Quarterly.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
BANKERS
(Unincorporated)
24th and Strand.
Services Will Be Held at Nevada, Mo.,
This Afternoon.
By Associated Press.
Nevada, Mo., April 18.—The funeral
train bearing the body of the late Sen-
ator William J. Stone, who died in
Washington last Sunday, arrived here
at 4 o’clock this morning and was met
by a committee of citizens. The casket
was taken to the First Christian
church, where a guard of honor chosen
from members of the Masonic lodge,
took it in charge.
Funeral services are to be held from
the church this afternoon. 1
By Associated Press.
London, April 18.—Official announce-
ment was made today that the Earl
of Derby has been appointed a minis-
ter extraordinary and plenipotentiary
on a special mission to France, in suc-
cession of Lord Bertie.
Viscount Milner becomes secretary
of war and J.,Austen Chamberlain, a
'member of the war cabinet.
GERMANY’S DEBT
EVOKES WORRY
which comes from
tonight. Friday,
fair.
For West Tex-
as:Generally
fair tonight and
Friday.
For Oklahoma:
Cloudy tonight; colder. Friday, gen-
erally fair.
Winds on the Texas Coast: Light
to moderate southerly to westerly.
TEMPERATURES.
Maximum temperatures recorded
in Texas during the 24 hours end-
ing at 7 a. m. today include: Gal-
veston, 84; Houston, 88: Abilene, 72;
Brownsville, 92; Dallas, 72; San An-
tonio, 86.
FRENCH RESERVES IN ACTION-BRITISH FRONT IN YPRES
NOTED MAN ------------el------------------------
FORECAST.
For Galveston
and vicinity:
Cloudy, with lo-
cal showers to-
night. Friday,
fair.
For East Tex-
as: Cloudy, with
local showers
Horrors 'Which He Sees Draws Com-
ment From Him.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, April 18.—Emperor Wil-
liam recently made a visit to the bat-
tlefield near Queant, west of Cambrai,
a war correspondent of the Berlin Lo-
kal Anzeiger writes.
“His majesty’s silence was broken
only once.” he says, “when he remarked
to an officer who stood beside him:
‘What have I not done to preserve the
world from these horrors?’"
unless they are
military service.
The statement
Furthermore at Locon the Germans
are only some three miles north of
Bethune, an important railway center,
and at Robecq are within six miles of
Lillers, a junction point on the railway
from Bethune to Hazebrouck.
The British have been holding this
sector of the front as strongly as they
are the northwesterly edge of the sa-
lient where they have held up the Ger-
man attempt to advance further toward
Hazebrouck as was indicated anew in
the repulse of fresh German attacks
last night in the Merris sector, along
the Bailleul-Hazebrouck railway.
AFTER VIMY RIDGE?
It seems not unlikely that the en-
tente high command has forecast a
possibly larger purpose to drive deter-
minedly southwestward, envelope Be-
thune and push on t’o a point where
they can compel the British to fall
back from Givenchy and the region
north of Arras, where the dominating
Vimy Ridge is the German objective.
Whether this be the larger German
Railroad Purchase of Coal Is Arranged
By Agreement.
By Associated Press.
-Washington, April 18.—Railroads
hereafter will purchase their coal at
the full market price and cars will
be evenly distributed at all mines, un-
der an arrangement., reached by’ the
railroad and fuel administrators. The
plan was accepted after President Wil-
son intervened to settle differences
between Fuel Administrator Garfield
and John Skelton Williams, director of
purchases for the railroad administra-
tion.
The local draft board for the city
of Galveston received orders this morn-
ing to the effect that skilled men of
almost every vocation in the mechan-
ical lines are wanted in the military
service. Complete lists have been re-
ceived from Austin stating just the
class of men wanted and telling the
qualifications. No persons will be ac-
cepted in any of the lines mentioned
By Associated Press.
London, Wednesday, April 17.—The
past five days have been the most anx-
ious the British people have known
since the beginning of the war. The
first phase of the German attack was
directed against both the British and
French .fronts and British troops have
had to bear the whole force of the sec-
ond attack. ,
There is no lack of confidence that
the British soldiers will do all any
men can do and there is the greatest
wall against great odds, but as. the
Germans have continued day after day
nibbling away sectors of the Flanders
front, regaining towns small and un-
important themselves, but historic as
scenes of bloody and successful battles
waged and gained in the past two
years by British, Canadians, Austral-
ians and South Africans with tremen-
dous costs, the question has forced it-
self upon the public whether it is fair
to expect them to continue fighting in-
definitely against such superior masses.
Another question is whether blame
does not rest in high quarters that the
soldiers are placed in the position of
being outnumbered constantly.
There is great anxiety for news of
the French reinforcements which Field
Marshal Haig told his army were com-
ing to his support. Gen. Maurice, di-
rector of military operations at the
war office, today likened the battle of
a Waterloo where all depended upon,
the arrival of Blucher, who was com-
ing up. If a Blucher should fail to ar-
rive is a contingency hardly discussed.
But tonight’s announcement that the
French are co-operating with the Brit-
ish in the north gives hope as far as
it goes.
In the meantime the newspapers are
discussing the situation with the
greatest freedom. The war cabinet is
being criticised sharply by some mili-
tary experts and editors. Col. Reping-
ton in the Morning Post says the Brit-
ish forces are greatly inferior in num-
bers to the Germans and says this in-
feriority is due to the refusal of the
war cabinet to act on the advice of the
general staff and the French staff for
an increase in manpower given months
ago.
Several newspapers are calling for
the return of Sir William Robertson,
former chief of the imperial general
the Cattegat with the German
raids in the Straits of Dover, the
Daily Telegraph points out that
while the Germans in their bases
on the Belgian coast are only
twenty miles from the straits, the
exploit of the Cattegat was a care-
fully planned operation conducted
more than 500 miles from the
been increased since the battle of
Jutland by the co-operation of the
American forces and the entire na-
val strength of the United States
would be available if necessary.
. Moreover, if the, German naval
forces were to be employed advan-
tageously as, the right wing of the
Germany army they should have'
been thrown in before and not dur-
ing or after the opening of the bat-
tle in France.
Hour of Reckoning Will Come, Warns
Former Official.
By Associated Press.
New York, April 18.—Germany will
have to observe the greatest economy,
for her national debt is now 124,000,-
000,000 marks and the hour of reckon-
ing will come when there will be wail-
ing and gnashing of teeth on the part
of the taxpayers. This reflection on
the German financial situation was
made in the reichstag on March 1 by
Count Arthur von Posadowsky Weh-
ner, former vice chancellor, according
to the Cologne Gazette, a copy of
which has been received here.
Continued on Seventh Page.
Special to The Tribune.
Dallas, April 18.—J. W. Hoopes, dep-
uty governor of the Federal Reserve
bank here, today issued the follow-
ing announcement:
Next Sunday, April 21,.has been des-
ignated Liberty Loan Sunday by the
secretary of the treasury. The diffi-
culty of communicating personally with
every clergyman in the Eleventh fed-
eral district impels us to appeal
through the press for a very special
observance of this day by the minis-
ters of religion.
Religion makes patriotism a posi-
tive law. To believe in God is to be
a patriot. It is unnecessary to urge
further upon the religious leaders of
this district the necessity and propri-
etry of preaching patriotism from their
pulpits.
To attempt to instruct the clergy
in the line of though which they should
follow would be folly. Yet we feel
justified in drawing attention to the
fact that there is one aspect of the
great national question which hitherto
has not received sufficient attention.
One of the terms which a victorious
Germany would impose upon this coun-
try would be the right to colonize,
.trade and educate freely in this land
of ours. Germany seeks not only our
wealth, it is the soul of America that
she covets.
Our children must be saved from
such a calamity as Teutonic domina-
tion. Conceive, if you can, the condi-
tion of this world if we allowed such
a condition to prevail. Property would
go to the man with the strongest arm
and the most unscrupulous mind. Lib-
erty would die a shameful death. Free-
dom would shriek as justice falls. Re-
ligion would perish from the - earth
and a false God, one of blood, iron and
beastiality, would be set up for the
worship of a cringing, cowering hu-
manity.
It is essentially the duty of the
clergy to save America at this pro-
found crisis of her national existence.
By Associated Press.
Washington, April 18.—New sub-
scriptions of 8107,000,000 reported to
the treasury today sent the total
liberty loan pledges over the billion
mark .to $1,059,558,000.
“This figure," said a treasury state-
mer t, “while encouraging, is unsatis-
factory to the liberty loan committees.
The daily average should not be short
of what it should be to reach the
$3,000,000,000 quota mark set for the
country as a minimum is reached or ex-
ceeded.
First preparations for the fourth lib-
erty loan to be held next October or
November, were made today and con-
sisted of an effort to save for war pur-
poses the celluloid and steel which
now go to the manufacture of liberty
loan buttons.
Frank R. Wilson, publicity director
for the loan, wrote badge manufactur-
ers for suggestions concerning a papier
mache of pasteboard substitute for the
present button, twenty million of
which have been bought for the third
lean campaign,
communication between
strategy has not yet been shown. The
development of the enemy demonstra-
tion on the Locon Robecq line, how-
ever, will be followed with close at-
tention, in view of this possibility and
its bearing upon the great struggle on
the Somme front to the south, where
the firm hold of the British on the
Arras region and the line south to
Albert, has held up the enemy push on
Amiens.
During the past 24 hours the heaviest
fighting has been along the Lys on a
front of 15 miles from west of Mer-
ville to Wytschaete. The British took
the offensive and regained Wytschaete
and Meteren, six miles east northeast
of Hazebrouck Wednesday, but the
Germans in strong counterattacks
forced them to retire again. Along the
remainder of the front, the enemy
threw wave after wave of attackers
against the France-British defenses,
but it did not falter and the Germans
gained nothing in payment for san-
guinary , losses. ?
Continued on Seventh Page.
Moscow, Wednesday, April 17.
—(By the Associated Press.) — '
Because the peasants in the vil-
lage of Novoselki, in the gov- '
ernment of Mohilex, resisted an ,
armed requisition of money by (
German troops and killed an of- i
fleer in the resulting scuffle, the '
Germans burned the village and '
from machine guns placed around ,
it they fired upon the inhabi- i
tants, ineluding women and cnil- 1
dren who tried to escape, killing ’
many of them. ,
A protest against this atrocity (
has been communicated to the ′
German government by M. Tchit- ,
cherin, Russian minister of for- (
eign affairs. €
The minister also mentions .
the fact that the Germans killed (
an entire family, even the little I
children, when they were in.- ′
formed that one member had .
participated in guerilla warfare (
against them. (
The people’s commissary for ’
foreign affairs,” the protest con- (
cludes, “expressed a feeling of I
the deepest indignation and most 1
resolutely protests against such ’
acts of violence as being un- .
worthy of a cultured people and (
contradictory to the elementary (
principles of human society. It 1
is hoped the German government
will investigate thoroughly and (
punish the offenders.” ,
REMEMBER, “A SCRAP OF PA-
PER AND HEROIC BELGIUM
Buy 3rd Liberty Loan Bonds
We will handle your application
without any charge for our services.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
“Becomes Secretary of War in British
Cabinet.
“By Associated Press.
Paris, April 18.—Viscount Milner has
′been appointed secretary of state for
‘ war in the British cabinet, according
Do Le Matin. The earl of Derby, who
i has been war minister, the paper says,
will come to Paris as ambassador in
place of Lord Bertie, who retires.
Premier Clemenceau had a long con-
ference last night with Lord Milner.
By Associated Press.
Ottawa, April 18.—The French are heavily in
action on the northern battle area, says a Reuter
dispatch from London today.
staff. The retirement of Gen. Robert-
son was followed during the past week
by that of Gen. Trenehard, chief the
air staff. Gen. Trenehard was appoint-
ed only three months ago and was re-
garded generally as the one man for
the work. He now goes because of dif-
ferences with Lord Rothermere, the
civilian head of the air establishment,
as Gen. Robertson was supposed to
have gone after differences with the
premier.
“Bring back Robertson,” is the ap-
peal with which the weekly paper John
Bull, having a great circulation among
the masses, has placarded the country
today. It would be no surprise if that
becomes a general demand tomorrow.
---» ---,—.----
By Associated Press.
Albany, N. Y., April 18.—Recapitula-
tion today on Tuesday’s and Wednes-
day’s local option elections in New
York showed that although prohibition
forces won out in a bare majority of
the thirty-nine cities voting, the wets
carried the larger municipalities and
retained more than 1,400 of the 2,132
licenses, or nearly 70 per cent of the
total involved.
Syracuse and Schenectady, the lar-
gest cities voting, went wet by big
majorities, ranging from approximate-
ly 12,000 to 2,500, respectively. Bing-
hamton, the only other second-class
city affected, went dry.
The total vote averaged 70 per cent; .
greater than that cast at the last
gubernatorial election, due chiefly to
women's participation.
The sale of intoxicants must cease
on Oct. 1, in the cities which voted dry.
GERMANS MASSACRE
RUSSIAN PEASANTS
By Associated Press.
Washington, April 18.—In carrying
out their plan to make the Uraine an
Austro-German colony, the central
powers intend to dissolve the Ukraine
rada and to install an Austro-German
government, a report reaching the
state department today said.
The Germans already have cut off
"Such a sweep,” it adds, “can
be made only by a power in real
control of the sea confronted by
an ememy who will not risk pro-
tecting his small craft, suspecting
. that such intervention might be
the prelude to a general action
which he. desires to avoid. The
Germans had large naval forces
near the scene on this particular
Monday. They did not send them
out, but on the contrary permitted
ten trawlers to be destroyed vir-
tually under their very eyes.”
The newspapers then discuss the
theory that the Germans might be
inviting naval action near their
mine fields and coast defenses, and
By Associated Press.
Norfolk, Va., April 18.—While deny-
ing that she has received word from
any source as to the fate of the missing
collier Cyclops, Mrs. Selma W. Worley,
wife of the commander of the overdue
ship, declared today that she is thor-
oughly convinced that the Cyclops is
safe and will be heard from within a
few days. Mrs. Worley characterized
as ridiculous and absurd the theory
that Commander Worley, who is a
native-born German, had sailed the
Cyclops off her course and turned the
vessel over to a German raider. She
says she is confident that the ship is
adrift at sea with her engines dis-
abled or she is short of coal. A letter
received from her husband shortly be-
fore sailing said the Cyclops’ starboard
engine was out of commission, and she
believes the port engine has broken
down, under the increased strain im-
posed upon it.
Diligent Search Has Failed to Locate
Missing Collier.
By Associated Press.
Washington, April 18.—Diligent
search by naval and merchant
ships had failed to disclose the
slightest trace of the missing naval
collier Cyclops and with the passing
of the forty-fourth day since the ves-
sel sailed from Barbados for an Atlan-
tic port, belief is growing at the navy
department that in some way she has
been destroyed or captured by the
enemy.
How this could have happened no
one professes to know, but officials re-
gard it as almost impossible that any
accident could have caused the sea to
swallow up the big vessel and the 293
persons on board without leaving a
trace and some think sooner or later
an enemy announcement will clear up
the mystery.
Publication of a dispatch from San
Francisco quoting Mrs. A. M. Anger-
mann, a sister of Lieut. Commander G.
W. Worley, commanding officer of the
Cyclops, as saying their family name
was Wichtmann and that her brother
was born in Germany and came to
America as a child, led to an examina-
tion today of the commander’s record
at the navy department. It shows that
Worley entered the service of the navy
twenty-eight years ago and at that
time gave San Francisco as his birth-
place. He attained the rank of master
in the naval auxiliary and for years
commanded colliers and supply ships.
When the auxiliary was merged with
the naval volunteers after the United
States went to war, Worley was in
command of the Cyclops and he re-
tained that assignment with the rank
of lieutenant commander.
Mrs. Worley, who lives in Norfolk,
Va., explained there today that her
husband’s name was changed legally
at Port Orchard, Wash., when he was
a young man and before he entered
the naval service. She confirmed the
statement that he was born in Ger-
many, but declared he always was an
enemy to, that country. His foster
father, she said, was namely Worley,
and he went into court to legally adopt
the name of George Wichtmann Wor-
ley.
Navy officers attach no importance
to Worley’s change of name or the
news that he was born in Germany
and scout any suggestion that his Teu-
tonic origin might be significant in
connection with the disappearance of
his ship. They point to the officer’s
clear record cf a quarter of a century
and declare that if his loyalty should
be impugned for such a reason, a con-
siderable portion of the high officers
of the navy must be under suspicion.
Selection at random of a page of the
official register of the navy today, one
official pointed out, that sixteen of
sixty names listed obviously were of
German origin,
Hungarian Officials at Outs Over Suf-
frage Reform.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, April 18.—The Hungar-
i ian ministry has resigned, a dispatch
from Budapest reports.
the adjutant general’s office sets forth
the advantages offered by this branch
of the service very briefly. The state-
ment says that the training of the men
who are enabled to go into this branch,
of the work will be very interesting
and that the practice obtained and the
material experience secured by the
men will not only enable them to se-
cure rapid advancement while they are
in the army, but will also aid them in
securing and holding positions in civil
life after the war is over. The train-
ing offered to men .of a mechanical
turn is especially valuable and should
not to be overlooked by any man who is
subject to the draft and wants to get
where he will be needed the most, says
the appeal.
The papers which arrived this morn-
ing in connection with this offer state
positively that the offer will expire on
April 27. All dafted men, the state-
ment says, who wish to take advantage
of the offer should present themselves
to the local board as soon as possible
and register for this class of service.
KIND OF MEN WANTED.
The list of the classes of labor want-
ed is as follows:
Air-brake inspectors.
Angle-iron smiths.
Auto mechanics and helpers (gener-
al, engine, magneto, or ignition).
Bargemen and boatmen.
Blacksmiths and helpers, white and
colored.
Boatbuilders and helpers.
Boilermakers and helpers.
Brakemen, flagmen,, or conductors
(railroad).
Bricklayers, white and colored.
Buglers, white and colored.
Carpenters and helpers (ship, bridge,
house, general), joiners or patternmak-
ers, white and colored.
Caulkers; wood.
Chauffers (auto, truck, or tractor),
white and colored.
Chemists.
Clerks (railroad or general), white
or colored.
Cobblers.
Commissary storekeepers.
Concrete foremen or workers.
Cooks, white and colored.
Cranemen, hoistmen, pile-drivers, or
shovel operators.
Crusher operators.
Dispatchers, engine.
Draftsmen (general, surveying, ma-
chine design, or topographical).
Engineers (civil, electrical, railroad,
or computing).
Engineers and firemen (locomotive).
Electricians (general, armature
winder, or wiremen).
Floor hands (shipyard-.
Foremen, construction (bridge, build-
ing, earthwork, ship, or railroad.
Foremen (gyratory or jaw crusher).
Gas-plant workers (acetylene, hydro-
gen, oxygen, poison, illumination, or
compressor).
Gunsmiths or operatives in gun fac-
tories.
Hostlers, locomotive.
Inspectors, car (railroad).
Inspectors (locomotive).
Instrument makers and repairmen
(engineering, optical, or electrical).
Linemen (telegraph or telephone).
Machinists and helpers (general,
bench, lathe, or railroad).
Mechanics, general.
Meteorologists or physicists.
Mine or quarry workers and helpers,
drill runners, foremen, powdermen, or
pumpmen.
Continued on Seventh Page.
A Copenhagen dispatch last night
said Premier Wekerle had decided to
resign owing to' dissension in the min-
istry over the suffrage reform bill and
that King Charles was expected to re-
quest him to form a new cabinet ex-
cluding the ministers who oppose a
compromise on the suffrage measure.
The decision of the Hungarian cab-
inet was reached at a meeting yester-
day morning at which Premier Wek-
erle presided. All the members of the
cabinet were present except Count
Szyerenyi, minister of commerce, and
Count Zichy, minister of court, who
were absent from Budapest. After a
short conference all the members pres-
ent signed the document tendering
their resignations.
Alfred Milner, first Viscount Milner,
has been a member of the British war
cabinet without portfolio since Decem-
ber 10, 1916. The Earl of Derby has
been at the head of the war office since
the Lloyd-George cabinet took office in
December, 1916. Previously he had
been director of army recruiting and
air minister.
Announcement was made some time
ago that Lord Bertie was about to
leave his post in Paris, where he has
been ambassador since 1905. Lord Ber-
tie, who was raised to the peerage
in 1915, entered the foreign office in
1863 and was formerly British ambas-
sador to Italy. He is 74 years old.
Viscount Milner has had a prominent
career in British politics and was Brit-
' ish high commissioner for South Af-
rica previous to 1905, and from 1902
to 1905 he was governor of the Trans- j
Vaal and the Orange River colonies.
He was born in 1854.
Mr. Chamberlain, the eldest son of
Joseph Chamberlain, has been a promi-
nent figure in public life for a score
of years. His last previous post was
secretary for India, which he resigned
last July after being censured by the
commission which investigated the
disastrous first campaign of the Brit-
ish in Mesopotamia.
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Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 123, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1918, newspaper, April 18, 1918; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1603816/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.