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San Antonio Machine &, Supply Co.
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F. W. HEITMANN CO.
HOUSTON.
VOLUME Ll!l NO. 190.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1918—SIXTEEN PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 1805.
GERMANY PREPARES TO HENCE SLAIN AMBASSADOR
FRENCH SWEEP ALONG 2-Mll
CAPMCHB
—
FRONT
Gives Them New Front From
Longpont North to South-
ern Limits of Ambleny, a
Distance of Eight Miles.
AUSTRALIANS ADVANCE FOR
A MILE; STRAIGHTEN LINE
Italian Forces on Left Wing of
Allied Line in Albania Deal
Blow to Austrians Along Voy-
usa River Twenty Miles North
of Avlona.
Spanish Police Help
Huns Sink Merchant
Ships; Plot Unearthed
Pocket book Containing Compromising^
Communication Signed by Promi- j
nent Official Falls Into Hands
|| of Pickpocket.
| > By Associated Press.
AKCHLONA, Spain, July 8.—Signs are not wanting in a certain scction
S " of the Spanish press, of uneasiness as to what the verdict of history
i, may be on Spain's attitude during the war. In spite of a constant deluge of
) false information throughout the country by means of subsidized newspapers,
and in spite of the undoubted pro-German sentiment 0/ the army a similar
senti nent in other influential quarters, the indications are that events are
slowly bringing hone to the average Spaniard a sense of doubt as to whether
his country's interests would, alter all, not have been better served by a
neutrality frankly friendly to the ailies.
The machinations of the German espionage system in several instances
have been glaringly exposed. One of the Madrid daily newspapers, suc-
ceeded in bringing to light activities by the German embassy in connection
with the labor troubles in Spain last year while within the last few weeks
s one of the chiefs of the Barcelona police was accused of being in league with
S the German consul spy bureau for the assistance of submarines along the
) rrinct
AER CHIEF CENSOR TO
,E GEN. MARCH'S ASSISTANT
by Associated Press.
Continuing their aggressive defense
in the face of the impending German
offensive along the western battle front,
the French have once more attacked
the enemy southwest of Soissons.
Launching their blow from the eastern
side of the Retz forest, north of Long-
pont, the French have advanced over
a front of approximately two miles,
taking Chavigny Farm and the slopes
to the north and south of it. Several
hundred prisoners were captured by
the French in their sudden attack. i
This assault may be linked up closely
with the recent offensive operations at si, '
l'lerre Aigle and gives the French a new I
front Hue from Longpolnt north as far
as the southern limits of Ambleny, ;i dis-
tance of almost eight miles.
Australian troops holding positions I
astride the Komnie Kiver east of Amiens I
and north of Hamel have swept the (lor
mans hack over n front of more than a
mile and straightened out an awkward
anile held by the Hermans since the Aus-
tralians and Americans carried their lines '
forward In their spirited attack July I.
Berlin mentions local attacks in the' Clig-
non sector, which is held by Americans,
and botween the Marnc and lthelms.
Italian forces operating on the extreme
left wing of the nllj.wl lim ii*. AUwnla
have struck hard at Austrian positions
along the Voynsa (Vojutta) Kiver. which
flows into the Adriatic about twenty miles
north of the town of Avloyna, one of the
most Important places in southern Alba
Liu Vienna admits that the Austrian "ad-
vanced posts have been withdrawn to their
main positions." This report from Aus-
trian headquarters probably refers to the
action mentioned lu the French official
statement 011 Sunday night, it was said
by the war office at Paris that the Ktench
and British forces had seized heights in
Continued on Page Two Column Six.
w.s.s
coast.
It is currently reported that the discovery of the polie official's com-
plicity was made by an expert pickpocket who, in his professional activities
came into possession of a pocketbook containing several compromising com-
munications signed by the official in question. The thief at once recognized
the value of the documents and sold them to the editor of a Socialist news-
paper, who lost no time in publishing them and in bringing grave charges
against the police of aiding Germans to sink Spanish merchant vessels.
After some delay the police official was arrested and the judicial au-
thorities are investigating.
The splendid achievement of the United States in sending an army of
a million men across the Atlantic in so short a time and the mettle which
that army has shown, has not been lost on the people here, who at first were
inclined to belittle the American effort.
4
RUSSIAN BREACH
THREATENS; ARMY
BEING REINFORCES
J Whole Nation Will Be Dry Dur-
ing War if Substitute Legisla-
tion on Agricultural Bill
Adopted.
CONSENT FOR AMENDMENT
PRACTICALLY UNANIMOUS
Former Kerensky Minister
Openly Accused of Plot
to Kill Mirbach.
Is
(,L\. i iiAMi
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8.—Ma J. (Jen.
Frank Mclntyre, chief of the Insular Bu-
reau and formerly chief military censor,
It was learned today Ih slated to become
principal assistant to General March, chief
of staff, lie will succeed Maj. Gen. Win.
S. Graven, now assistant chief of staff.
Major General Mclntyro was born in
Alabama, January 5, lHttS, and appointed
to the Military Academy from that State
Continued on Page Two, Column Seven.
-W.B.y.
Would Stop Manufacture of Beer
Three Months After Law Enacted,
and Sale of Wines or Distilled
Liquors After December 31 of This
Year—Provision Made for Exports.
Street Fighting in Moscow—Bolsheviki
Say Uprising Checked—Anti-Ger-
man Forces Surround Baku.
E
-
WESTERN UNION IN NUMBER OF
CITIES DISCHARGING MEN FOR
LABOR AFFIL1 \TION.
NINE ROADS IN SOUTHWESTERN
DIVISION ARRANGED INTO
SEVERAL GROUPS.
By Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex., July 8.- Railroad officials
who will have charge of the operation of
Southwestern roads were announced to-
day by J. S. Pyeatt. Federal manager, and
approved by It. F. Bush, regional director.
W. B. Scott, Federal manager for the
Southwestern region of the ('ntted States
Kailroad Administration, announced the
following appointments for the Galveston,
Harrlsburg A San Antonio Kailroad, the
Texas A New Orleans Kailroad, the Mor-
gan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad the
Louisiana Western Railroad, the New Or
leans. 'JVxas Mexico Railway; the St
Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway, ami
the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Hallway:
General managers; G. S. Waid of Hons
ton. all lines except San Antonio »V Aran-
sas Hallway; J. S. Peter, San An-
tonio, Tex., San Antonio & Aransas Puss
Railway.
Traffic manager: Gentry Waldo of Hous-
ton. Tex., all lines.
General solicitors: Baker. Bolts, Parker
and Garwood of Houston. Tex., all lines
Chief engineer: I. A. Cottingham of
Houston. Tex., all Hues.
Purchasing affent: N. P. Randolph, New
Orleans, La., all lines.
Genersl auditor: 0. R. Cottlngham,
Houston. Tex.. Galveston. Harrisburg &
San Antonio Railway ami Texas & New
Orleans Railroad.
Auditors: O. B. Herbert, New Orleans,
La.. Morgan's Louisiana At Texas Railroad
and Louisiana Western Railroad; .1. W.
McCullough »'/»uston, Tex., New Orleans,
Texas tk ** • o Railway and St. Louis.
Brownsvlfe .< Mexico Railway; J. W.
Terry. Sal; Antonio, San Antonio & Arnis-
sas Pass (Coll way.
Locul treasu: r. C. P., I'dell, Houston.
Galveston. Harr.sburg & San Antonio Rail
road; E. Dargan, Houston, Texas & New
Orleans Railroad: St. I). J. Deblam, New
Orleans, Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Rail
road and Louisiana Western Railroad; J.
H Lauderdale. Houston, New Orleans,
Texas & Mexico Railway and St. Louis,
Brownsville A: Mexico Railway; lladen F.
Smith. San Antonio, San Antonio & Aran
has Pass Railway.
Officers reporting to those above will
continue their present duties unless other-
wise advised.
Tha nine roads in the Southwestern
region are arranged in two groups, each
under the division of a general manager.
W. R. Maxsofl, general superintendent of
th* Gulf division. Santa I*c. will be the
genersl fiianaget of one group, composed
Coatlnued on Page Three, Column Oae.
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 8.~Reports received bv
S J. Konenkamp, president of the Com
men iai telegraphers' Union, indicated that
lockouts and strikes account for tlie ab-
sence of approximately 1142 men from their
keys In Western t'nion offices today. There
was no trouble In Chicago.
Indefinitely Postponed.
By Associated Press.
eniCAHO, July S.—The strikn of teleg-
rapher* employed by the Western Union
Tele'Tuph Company, set for 0 a'cloek this
morning, did lint take place, the order for
n strike having been revoked by S. J.
Konenkamp, president of the Commercial
Telegraphers' t'nion of America, after a
long-distance telephone conference with
Secretary of Labor Wilson in Washington
last ingfit.
Secretary Wilson asked the head of the
teloirrapliers' anion not to allow Interfer-
ence with the transmission of messages "of
vital e insetjnence In the prosecution of the
war" and Mr, Konenkamp announced that
the strike had been Indefinitely postponed.
an Oinmliwed nt New Orleans.
Ry Associate*! Press.
NEW ORLEANS, July 8.--Members of
the Commercial Telegraphers' Colon if
America who reported for work at local
Continued on Page Three, Column Two.
—W.S.8.
.PAMPHLETS DROPPED BY
FLIERS INTO GERMANY
Remind Enemy 10.000,000
German-Americans Have
No Sympathy for Huns.
Sneeial Telegram to The Kxpres*.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
ON THE MARNE, July 8.—In re-
prisal for the German propaganda
carried on through the medium of
balloons, American aviators are
now dropping pamphlets into the
German lines daily, reminding the
enemy that the 10,000,000 Ger-
man-Americans in the United
States have no sympathy with the
German cause, and inviting the
enemy soldiers to renounce the
tyranny under which they are liv-
ing and come over to the right
side.
The pamphleft guarantee that
those of the German soldiers who
will do this will be sent to Amer-
ica where they will get farms or
lucrative city positions and live in
happiness. The French army au-
thorities thoroughly approve of
this new American campaign.
Several desertert already have
come into our lines as a result of
the pamphlets. Two of them came
Sunday, one a merchant, the other
a farmer. Both asserted they had
to march so much and were fed so
little and that their officers were
so brutal that they were thorough-
ly sick of the war.
BUFFETED BACK AND FORTH
OVER QUESTION OF HEARINGS
OR HASTENING DEBATE
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8, Efforts
of the Administration to secure Immediate
disposal by the Senate of the House reso-
lution authorizing the President to take
over telegraph, telephone, cable ami radio
systems, duriug the war, stirred up a bit-
ter figltt today In the upper house, In
which the Administration won and then
lost a parliamentary advantage.
The resolution wus buffeted back and
forth between the Senate Interstate Com-
merce Committee and the Senate foor iu a
stormy controversy over the question of
holding hearings or hastening Senate de-
bate and a vote. No decision was reached
or progress made and both factions pre-
pared for renewal of the struggle tomor-
row.
Penrose Fight.
Special Telegram to The Express.
WASHINGTON, 0. C., Jnly 8.—Aston-
ished and Indignant that the Interstate
Commerce Committee of the Senate report-
ed the Admlnlatratlon telegraph and tele-
phone bill to the floor this afternoon
without grautlng hearings to any inter-
ested parties, Republican Senators, led by
Penrose of Pennsylvania, forced the bill
back to the committee on a point of order.
"The reporting of the bill by the com-
mittee after less than two hours of con-
sideration »ame as a complete surprise.
Only four out of seven Senator^ voted to
report the 1)111 immediately and the seven
who attended the committee meeting ure
but a part of the full membership of
seventeen
"I do not think a more high handed
thing has been done in the history of any
legislative body, not even in Russia,"
said Senator Penrose. "I speak cooly but
my Indignation runs high. We are sup-
posed to be in tlie war for liberty but
here in the Senate liberty is outraged and
violated. The chairman of the commit
tee gathered together a corporal's guard,
Continued on Pago Three, Colnmn Three.
W.S.S.
FEDERAL AGENTS ALLEGE $1,300,-
000 PAID HIM IS TRACED TO
VON BERNSTORFF.
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 8.—Dr. Edward A.
Rumely, vice president and treasurer of
the Mail and Express Company, publisher
of the New York Evening Mall was ar-
rested here tonight in the office of Attor-
ney General Lewie, charged with perjury
In a report to A. Mitchell Palmer, alien
property custodian.
The complaint against Dr. Rumely
charges that in making a report to the
alien property custodian regarding tlie,
transaction he failed to disclose his rela-
tion with Count von Bernstorff, German
Ambassador to the 1'nlted States, and l>r
Ilelnrieh F. Albert, com men ial attache of
tho German embassy.
The Attorney General charged that the
German government paid to Rumely in
several transactions connected with the
purchase of the Mall, $1,361.000.
The payments, it was alleged, were con-
cealed until their details were discovered
by investigators of the Department of Jus-
tice and the New York State Attorney
General.
The warrant was issued by a Federal
Commissioner upon the complaint of Attor-
ney General Lewis, who had been conduct-
ing an investigation for some time iuto the
affairs of the Mail.
The Attorney General charged Rumely
purchased the stock of the Mail and Ex-
press Company iu June, 11)17, from Henry
L. Stoddard, and that In doing so he acted
on behalf of the Imperial German govern-
ment.
In an announcement tonight of the ar-
rest of Dr. Rumely. Attorney General
Lewis declared the money was paid to
Rumely from deposits of the German gov-
ernment standing In the name of Dr. Al-
bert, or of Albert aud Vou Berustorff,
Jointly, In this city. The total so far
traced, he added, is Jl.3tn.000.
The transfers of money, Mr. Lewis said,
were concealed in this manuer:
"Albert induced vurlous hanks where the
German government hud accounts to issue
cashiers' checks to the order of one Wal-
ter Lyon, a member of the former Wall
Street firm of Renskorf, Lyon At Co. This
firm, tu turn, paid the money over to
Rumely or the S. S. McClure Newspaper
Corporation, which had been organized by
Rumely for the purpose of the trausac
tion
"Dr. Rumely In his report to the alien
property custodian made no disclosure of
Continued on Page Two, Column Viva.
Special Telegram to The Kxpress.
WASHINGTON, I). C., July 8.—Stif-
fer prohibition than has yet been con-
templated was proposed today in the
Senate by the agricultural committee.
An amendment was submitted that
would stop the sale of liquor, wine and
beer January 1, 1919, and the manu-
facture of beer and wine by Novem-
ber 1.
The Norris amendment which was
up to today pending to the food stimu-
lation bill, contemplated stopping the
manufacture of beer in three months
after its passage and the sale of wine
and distilled liquor June 30, 1919.
Prohobltlonlsts Introduced the new
amendment, they said, because they feared
under tbi> Norris amendment the country
might be "placed on a whiskey basis"
for the nine months aft^r the beer manu
faeture was eliminated.
The subject of prohibition w is on the
point of being taken up today. Mat this
afternoon when progress in the food stlui
ulatlon bill was made almost to the
psychological moment, the matter of the
telegraph and telephone bill was taken
up. Some prohibitionists prlvntelv nr
eused "net" members of the Senate In
'"state Commerce Committee of endeav-
oring to sidetrack prohibition,
1'rohibltlonlsts may try to force their
ssue tomorrow, 0r may delay it until a
later time. Some took the position todav
that there were not enough Senators In
Washington to make a decisive vote.
By Associated Press.
The legislation Is proposed as a substl
tute for the pending Norris amendment
to the emergency agricultural apropria
tion hill, uhlch would stop the sale of dlh-
tllled liquor and wine on June :10, 1919, and
Continued on Page Three, Colnmn Tour.
W.S.S
By Associated Press.
Events are moving with rapidity in Russia since the assassination of
Count von Mirbach, the German ambassador at Moscow. Rumors of a counter-
revolution at Moscow come from various sources, but other dispatches say
that the uprising has been crushed, and several hundred of the revolutionists
are under arrest.
Germany seems 011 the eve of relegating the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty
to the "scrap of paper" category, for there are indications that German troops
may be sent to Moscow in the near future. There are large Teutonic forces
within 300 miles of Moscow and it is reported that they are being heavily re-
inforced. Dispatches say that Emperor Wilhelm has forbidden the German
foreign office to negotiate in any way with Russian emissaries, and the stage
appears to be set for a new act in the drama that is being played on what vas
formerly the eastern theater of the war.
Washington Silent on Situation.
It) Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8.—Absolute silence wi : .un.ng
high officials and diplomats today concerning the new pc,
to which the United States Government has agreed. Therr a , ■ u lot
that a statement from the White House was under conside.
A conference at the White House during the day between President Wilson
and the British ambassador was immediately connected with the Russian situa-
tion, which is the subject of active exchanges between the entente capitals
and Washington. It was assumed the ambassador called to hear of the con-
clusions .reached Saturday, when the President went over the question with
the State, War and Navy Secretaries, and the chief military and naval officers.
The consensus is that positive action is to be taken either at Vladivostok
or Kola on the Arctic Ocean, to give aid to any elements in Russia or Siberia
that are ready to offer armed resistance to the Germans.
Germany Reported Stirred.
By Associated Prvss.
LONDON, July 8.—The murder of Count von Mirbacl» has caused great
excitement in Germs
CAPTURED DURING HEAVY FIGHT-
ING THOSE UNITS ENGAGED
IN EARLY THIS YE4R.
By Amortated Press.
WASHINGTON. D C., July 8.-Namem
of seventy two additional American soldiers
held in prison camps in ilermauv were
announced tonight by tho War Department,
Addresses of two of the men were not
given. Of the other sevent sijtv-two
were from New Kngland States, with twen
ty one from New Haven, Conn.
Although no announcement was made, it
was assumed that the New Kngland men
were taken prisoner during the lieatv
fighting In which units from that sectlou
were eugaged early in the prewnt year
The meu, their addresses and tlie known
camps In which they are held follow:
Camp I.lnibiirg: Corps. |C
I.eo H. Ituyanskl. Terryville:
(Connecticut)
.lames F.
Calesman and Miles S. Dunning. New Ha
ven: (Pennsylvania): IrfKoy E. Congleton,
Philadelphia.
PrlvRtes- (Conneetlent): Angelo Hasso
Bristol; Frank Uutler. I<eonard Colburne,
Continued M P.*. Two, Clams PI v.
PROSECUTOR PROMISES TO RE-
VEAL PLOT AT COURT-MARTIAL
OF CORPORAL DOWUNG.
By Associated Press.
LONDON, July 8. - The trial bv court-
martial opened here today of Corp Jo-
seph Howling, who landed on the Irish
coaat >11 a German collapsible boat two
months ago and has since been a pris-
oner In the Tower of London.
Lord Cheylesmore presided over the
court. Corporal Howling, who Is slim In
build, of medium height and of a wide-
awake appearance, pleaded not guilty to
the formal charges, which ai-e under three
heads:
1. That while he was a prisoner of war
lU ilermany he Joined n hostile force
f That he endeavored to Induce otliers
to join.
.'I, That he participated In an attempt
to lafid a hostile force In Ireland.
Sir Archibald liodkln, the prosecutor
described at great length the (lerman plot
launched at the end of 11)14 for the forma-
Continued on Page Two, Column Five.
WHEATLESS AND MEATLESS
DAYS TO DE AT AN END SOON
Country to Be Asked to Ac-
cept Victory Bread
as Staple.
By ROIIKKT W. IIOBBS.
Special Telegram to The Uipress.
WASHINGTON. D. < . July 8. Helht
for the I nited States from the wheatles".
and meatless days Is near Both were
adopted as temporary expedients. With a
bumper crop of wheat ®iroady being
reaped, relaxation of the voluntary wheat-
less program of tlie food administration
'•an be expected within the next two
W<The country will probably be asked to
accept vletorv bread as Its staple bread
base, or a mixture of X) per cent wheat
flour and 20 per cent substitutes.
Our allies lr Knrone will continue uslne
n mixed brend and It Is the plan to keep
the entire allied world on a similar Uletlr
basis, hi far us may be possible. But
the whea»'es« days will go.
fV>rfles« and meatless days *'M also
go about August 1. These are big fea
tures of the new conservation prognim hut
the same conditions which cnus# the
abandonment of the whe.'itl»*ss days have
led the President to decide to veto the bill
fixing the price of wheat at $2.40 a bushel
at primary markets.
The veto has already been prepared,
after consultation betw<»en Food Adminis-
trator Hoover. Secretary of Agriculture
Houston and the President The bill It-
self only reached the White House today
and will be allowed to take It* normal
course through the agricultural depart
ment. The veto may reach Congress this
week. It was ready to go Satnrdav and
was reported on the way to the eapltol,
hut later It was discovered that the bill
had not gone through the engrossing
room so It was pulled back.
The beef needed for the armies at the
front Is from <attle, graded as henvv ex-
port cattle. This Is the same class of beef
as Is sold in hotels and high class res
tnurants. For this reason the hotels and
restaurant* were put on a eonseravtlon
basis. August 1 heavy catlV betrln »ora
lng Into the mnrket and tha siipplv prom-
ised at that time Is adequate to the needs
of the allied armies and the countries so
the restrictions will be removed. The
wheat crop this year is estimated at Wft,
Cantlnned «a Page Two, Calam P*nr.
iermany, the Exchange Telegraph Company
Copenhagen reports. All the German newspapers use violei
correspondent at
All the German newspapers use violent expressions in
commenting upon the event, but at the same time fhey are generally in agree-
ment that the Bolsheviki government was not connected with the assassination.
The Wolff I'ureuu telegram from Moscow,^'
the Copenhagen dispatch adds, declares thev
Social Revolutionists admitted they were
they
concerned In the plot to assassinate the
ambassador.
German newspapers now are pointing to
General Snvlnofr. wlvc was War Minister in
the Kerensky Cabinet, as the man behind
the Von Mirbach plot, which is being grad-
ually developed by tlie Teuton press into a
a great; anti-German movement backed by
all those men whom Germany has found to
be hindrances In her plans or aggression In
Russia. A Moscow telegram circulated by
the Wolff News Bureau of Berlin says:
"Savinkoff is considered to be responsible
for the deed. He Is, moreover, said to bo
closely connected with the Caecho-Slovak
and Social Revolutionary movements. His
whereabouts is unknown."
German newspapers are preparing the
public for a radical move against Russia as
punishment tor the Mirbach affair. Ex-
actly what this move will be Is not as yet
indicated, but L>utch and Scandinavian
newspapers hint at a march ou Moscow,
and dispatches are printed showing that
(ierman forces are now about .'U1U miles
west of that city and are being heavily
reinforced.
German newspapers give many colmuns
to developments In Lhe Mirbach case, par-
ticularly long telegrams from Moscow
praising the work that Count von Mirbach
did there and describing the alleged treaeh
eroua manner by which the assassins
gained entrance to his office by posing
us delegates of a commission for combat
ting the Social Revolutionist movemeut. it
Is stated that they fired their revolvers,
not only at Count von Mirbach, but also at
the German Councillor KWer and Lieuten-
ant Mullor, who were In the room. Imme-
diately after the firing they Jumped from -i
window, hurling hand grenades back of
them as they jumped. They leaped into a
waiting automobile and et»<ai>ed.
F1 lilting in Hoocow.
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. P. C.. July H.—Fighting
took plate in Moscow between Bolsheviki
forces and Revolutionary Socialists follow-
ing tlie assassination of Count vou Mir-
bach, the German ambassador, a<-eordlng to
an official dispatch today from SwiUor
lAOd, .
uu living the German embassy, the dis-
patch savs. the assassins took refuge In a
hiuse occupied bv the Revolutionary Social-
ists. This building was Jefeaded by mu
chine guns.
Changes In Hui.sla Predicted.
Bv Associated Prrs».
AMSTERDAM, .Inly H —"Changes In Rus-
sia are imminent,*' says the Irankfurter
Continued on Tage Two, Column Two.
W.S.S.
MRS. BUSCH TO OPEN FIGHT
FOR RECOVERY OF PROPERTY
Bv Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July N._No
tlee has been given the alien property
custodian's office that a formal move
may be expected in a few days to re
cover possession of the property of
Mrs Adolphus Husch, widow of the
millionaire .St. Louis brewer, taken over
recently by tbe government. The claim
will lie made that Mrs Busch Is a loyal
American eitHeti and that her long
stay in (lenuany with relatives ahculd
not affeet her property rights-
V. S. AIRMAN FORCED LAND
IN SWITZERLAND; INTERNED
EASTERN FRONT IS
E OF MS
MILITARISTIC POLICY BY GER-
MANY WOULD AID CAUSE OF ,
ENTENTE BELIEF.
Special Telegram to The Kxpress.
AMSTERDAM, July 8.-The world to-
night looks with more certainty than ever
to a swift resurrection of a real "eastern
front."
Most hopeful of the signs pointing la
that direction Is Germany's apparent
course. ~ "
The Berlin government Is hope-
lessly split on the question of nunlshment.
"Take Moscow, shoot them all down like
dogs!'* is the cry of the military chief*
who see a grand chance for their beloved
policy of "blood and Iron." The diplo-
matists counsel otherwise. "Ignore it,
forget it," is their advice. "Send a new
man, u democrat, who pays less attention
to proper sulutos and his trouser crease,
and more to the art of meetlug the Reda
on their own ground."
But, wise as such policy admittedly
would be for Berlin, the militarists have
on their side the wrath of the all-highest,
who, In Mirbach lost one of the most pre-
cious gems in the blue blooded corona of
old school diplomacy. The first thing the
Kaiser did upon hearing the uews of the
assassination, was to order Foreign Min-
ister von Kuehlmann to break off the ne-
gotiations with Russian delegates In Ber-
lin concerning a revision of certain clause*
iu the Brest Litovsk treaty.
Like an echo of this act of Imperial
peevishness comes tonight the report that
Von Kuehlmanu has resigned.
One thing Is regarded as certain In po-
litical quarters here tonight, namely, that
nothing could serve the allied cause more
admirably than persistence by the Kaiser
In his demund for puuishment and venge
mice; nothing could fan the flames of Rus-
sian revolt against the enslaver as would
a German "punitive expedition" to Mos-
cow and further "reprisals." But, It is
pointed out, hand In hand with the Germau
blunders that are almost certain to come
within the next few days, must go a wise,
far sighted, cautious policy on the part
of the entente. For, It is added, the slight-
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By Associated Prens.
WASHINGTON, D. C . July 8-Lleut.
James C. Ashengen. an aviator of the
Amerlean expeditionary forres, has
been lutcrned In Switzerland. The War
Department announced tonight that
the of fleer was forced to land in
Swiss territory last June 25 because
he ran out of gasoline. Lieutenant
Ashengen s home is in Chicago.
ONE MURDER BEGAN WORLD
WAR, WILL ANOTHER END IT?
By Associated Press.
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