Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — Page 2

GERMANY AT END OF HER RESOURCES

Escaped Prisoners Say There Is Insufficient Food for Soldiers and Civilians. r STARVE IN PRISON CAMPS Boy* of Seventeen In Trenches, Declare Refugee* Who Recently Reached This Country—Mothers Are Vainly Protesting. M* ■ New York. —Germany is reaching the end of her resources, according to Max Tannenbaum and Jasob Schurek. who arrived here after escaping Into Holland from German prison camps. The homes of the people have been stripped of old men and boys for the Bring line, aged men and women are at work and metals of all kinds are disappearing, the escaped prisoners Bay. The two men met each other in Holland and succeeded in reaching this country by stowing away on a steamship. Tannenbaum spent more than two years in mines and internment camps after he was forcefully taken into Germany from Russia. He days that the German people are coming to Ibok upon victory as a lost hope and are so tired of war that thousandsNjre wondering if it is worth while. The call to arms has reached seven-teen-year-old .boys, and mothers are vainly protesting. The enthusiasm of the earlier days of the war is lacking. The people are thin to the point of emaciation, because of scanty rations. To be fat is almost a crime, and to eat more than the government allotment Is sometimes punishable by death. The people are becoming less and less stirred by optimistic government announcements. Was Smuggled Across Border. , • Tannenbaum, a Russian Jew, whs allowed no freedom in Germany. He bribed a woman to smuggle him across the Dutch border. In Holland he could obtain no authority to leave that country, although he had left his wife des; titute in Russia. He met Schurek at the Russian consulate, and after unsuccessfully trying to secure steamship passage the pair boldly walked aboard a liner. They were unchallenged and reached this city by way of Halifax. Their entrance into this country was unknown to immigration officials, but they announced their presence, and after an investigation they were allowed to remain. To own a cat or dog in Germany brings a fine of SSOO. Gold has disappeared and very little nickel.is in evi■dence. Paper money is used entirely, •and it Is put into circulation by the various sections of the country. The Krupps issue their own money, which is redeemed for food. Tannenbaum was thrown into prison for standing outside a railroad station waiting for a train. He was ordered to scrub his cell every morning with •a cup of salt and a pall of water. For food he received an ounce of bread, cereal coffee, bread crumbs and soup made of potato peelings. Prisoners Beaten Frequently. In a camp where Tannebaum spent three months with French and Belgian prisoners wooden benches were the beds, and rotten bread, with potatopeel soup, was the food. The men were frequently examined by doctors, and often were marched naked on snow-covered ground for ice water baths. They were beaten on the slightest provocation. An epidemic of cholera and typhoid broke out, and when It was over the survivors were vaccinated. The German soldiers and doctors deserted the camp during the epidemic, and prisoners were left to care for the sick. Finally the cqmp was investigated by a government which ordered better food. The food allowance for the German people was as follows: For one person, one week, three pounds of bread, 30 /grams of butter, one egg, 250 grams of meat, 50 grams of sugar. 20 grams of soup, one flake of fat. The people are hungry all the time. They can have potatoes and vegetables only when there is plenty. A special permit is required for se—Curing clothes, and ai(lcles~oT apparelcan only be obtained after authorities have determined they are really needed. The soldiers fare little better, receiving poor clothes, and food enough only when there is an abundance. The soldiers receive three pounds of bread every four days when there is enough

BARS UP TO GAMBLERS AT ARMY CANTONMENTS

Memphis, Tenn.—‘•Crap shootera, card sharps and other nim-ble-fingered gentry are having a hard time breaking into the dished at United States army. cantonments. In examining apfor jobs pains were taken to look into the character of the men. The examiners in several instances found that the applicant was not a worker, but a gambler. Six professionals frt»m Memphis reached the government cantonment at Little Rock. Within an hour after their arrival they had a game “going.” They were deported. Other cantonments had the same .experience.

HOW SHE DOES HER BIT

Anxious to do her bit. and make it the most valuable deed she is capable of rendering the nation, Miss Lucille Patterson, a twenty-three-year-old artist: of prominence, ts-Aevoting her artistic talent to war work. She is now at work on a gigantic service poster for the National League for Women’s Service, and to paint it she has to work on a scaffold high above the busy throngs in the street below. poster is 20 feet high and will take the patriotic young artist at least three days to finish her task. It depicts a modern Joan of Arc holding aloft a banner and leading an army of American women in various necessary branches of the service in aid of their country. The poster will appear on the “busiest corner in New York.” The use of the billboard at Forty-second street and Fifth avenue was donated to the league.

to go around. There is practically no milk andvery little real coffee. It is drunk black. - The people discount the effectiveness of the United States in the war, these men who have just returned from Germany believe. They admit that this country has food and munitions, but they are taught that the American soldiers Ao not amount to much.

GERMANS RIVAL TURKS IN CRUELTY

Armenian Reports Them More Merciless in Persecuting Educated of His Race. NOTHING SACRED TO THEM They Have Less Respect Than Turks for Religious and Racial Customs of Their Victims Worse Than Dantes’ Inferno. Bombay.—The following statement, given to the Associated Press by a British officer now in a hospital here, presents a vivid picture of the sufferings undergone by the Armenians, of which comparatively little first-hand information has hitherto been forthcoming :

“Before I got my wound in the fighting up beyond Bagdad I came into contact on several occasions wlth a highly educated Armenian, who had esthe Tnrks and was being employed by us as an interpreter. •The • stories he told of the inhumanities inflicted upon his compatriots were so appalling that I made notes of his conversations, and have attempted here to reproduce them in something like his own language so that you can get at the heart of the man and realize w’hat he and all educated Armenians feel. The interpreter was in Constantinople until the end of last year, when he was sent to the front with a party of Armenians,' several of whom escaped.” Worse Than Dante’s Inferno. The interpreter’s story follows: “What you have read and heard about Armenia is not a hundredth part of the truth. Dante’s Inferno was a heaven compared with the hell that the Turks have made of my country. Something of the awful reality of the last twelve months I have myself seen in passing through oh the way to the front. “At Aleppo there are four factories in which, under the supervision of deported Armenians, two thousand Armenian women are being employed under terrible conditions. The women are all deportees. Qne of them said to me: ‘On a halt during our deportations I saw a gendarme bury a sick woman alive.- Cold-blooded murders were an everyday Our

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guards had orders to kill on the spot anyone who lagged a pace behind on the journey. Often several were killed at once, and there was no separate grave for them —the bodies were just thrown into a ditch together and covered. It was all horrible to behold, but our eyes eventually became hardened to the sight.’ “Bab, Messguene, and Zor are three places never to be forgotten by us Armenians. I have visited them. ( Do you know what happened there a few months since? By the order of the governor, Afif. nearly one hundred thousand of my brothers were murdered, massacred by armed Circassians. “At Bosanti I saw six railway trucks of little Armenian children being dispatched ‘to an unknown destination.’ What had these little innocents done to offend? • Was it the mere fact of being alive and being sons and daughters of our thrice unhappy race?

Worse Than the Turk*. “The German soldiers that one sees around the stations in Armenia are generally of a low type, and not far behind the Turks in their disregard for the rights of our people. Their cruelty is a little different from that of the Turks, but the difference is only one of kind. The Turk, for example, often respects certain things which we have learned to associate with our religious or racial beliefs; the German has no respect for.anything —nothing is too sacred for his profane hands. The Turk frequently used to show some respect and deference to the upper class Armenians, the educated people, regarding them as perhaps capable of being useful even in a Turkish dominion. The German, as soon as he arrived here, pointed out the educated Armenian as the most dangerous of all, and instigated the Turks into organizing a ruthless persecution of the intellectual classes of Armenians. One day they surrounded the offices of the conservative newspaper Asadamard, arrested all the staff and deported them, I know not whither. Will they ever return? Who knows? “One day I walked from a place •where thousands of jnnocent women, girls, and children were bivouacked, suffering nameless miseries. I walk-* ed away because I could not bear any more to gaze upon them, and I came to a hill where I saw a little child. I was in Turkish uniform. The child came near me and cried in Turkish: ‘Give me for God’s sake a piece of bread! For five days I have eaten nothing but this.’ He pointed to some melon skin that had been left lying by the road. I answered him in Armenian, and the poor boy jumped Into my arms, saying: ‘Art thou Armenian?’ He remained there for a minute, uttering no other word. But I fell, warm tears falling down on my cheek. "The waters of the Euphrates, the sands of the deserts of Mesopotamia, are the graves of the whole Armenian nation. I can no longer weep. My tears have frozen in my eyes.”

WAR CROSS TO WOMAN MAYOR

Mme. Pellequer, Also School mi stress at Quesmy, I* Decorated by General. Paris.—Quesmy, a little village north of the Oise, counts July 7, 1917, a* the proudest day in its modest annals. ' n that day a French general, with a guard of war veterans in attendance, came to pin the War Cross on the breast of Mme. Pellequer, the local schoolmistress and mayor, for her gallant conduct. Mme. Pellequer is one of those modest heroines of whom France has reason to be proud. When the war broke out Mme. Pellequer was teaching school in Qhesmy while her husband was similarly employed at the neighboring village of Maucourt. Her husband left for the front, and she took Over his pupils. The Germans occupied Quesmy, and found Mme. Pellequer installed as mayor, maintaining order and attending to everything. She It was who first refused to salute the Invaders, who, for once, overlooked this insubordination. Then, at last, the French returned la March, and the report they made of the noble work accomplished by Mme. Pellequer has earned her the distinct tlon reserved for the heroes of Franeev

STEER SNAPS NECK IN FIELD

Wisconsin Animal Chased, Becomes Entangled in Growth and Is Killed. Ashland, Wls.—A story about q steer that broke Its neck in a field of alfalfa was brought here by Otto Reglein. “The steer had escaped from Its peri and madly dashed for the openi field,” Regiein says. “With several neighboring farmers efforts were made to chase the animal back to its quarters. L._——__2. “Enraged becauseof its being pur-i sued, it headed for a field of alfalfa which had grown .nearly three feet) high. The steer became entangled Im the vines. In its fall the animal’s neck was broken. > “The aid of a large scythe was found necessary to reach the carcass.

Birds Ruin Gardens.

Marietta, o.—Blackbirds by the thousands are making their homes in Mound cemetery and are devastating war gardens around this city. In order to put the birds to flight and secure relief the fire department is called out each night and the hose Is turned on the birds roosting In the tree*

WINNING BIGGEST SUCCESS IN THIRTIES

Thirty-three years old and just beginning to have his most remarkable success as a pitcher—that’s the record of Eddie Cicotte. Credited this year with the most successful use of the “shine ball,” he also is given credit for having some control over a knuckle ball and is more than the average performer with the spitter. Cicotte, a veteran who, according to usual records, should be getting out of the way, heaved himself into the records for keeps when he hurled a nohit, no-run game this year. When Jack Coombs was getting his first experience as a major leaguer, Cicotte had been taken on by Detroit, found wanting and sent back. He graduated from the same club that turned Ty Cobb loose and they both went to Detroit the same year. Since the beginifing of the 1908 sea-

RETORT ENDS GRIFF’S HOWL

Silk O’Loughlin Resents Statement of Washington Leader That He Had Made Wrong Guess. Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington Americans, is considered one of the hardest losers In baseball. And

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Griff’s friends say he hates to lose an argument about as much as he dislikes to drop a ball game. Washington recently lost a game to Detroit because of a close decision which gave Cobb a base on balls. O’Loughlin was thfe umpire. Grifiith met O’Loughlin and his partner after the game. - “You two highwaymen looked fine In there today I” said the National’s manager. “What’s the matter, Griff?” asked Silk. “That third strike you missed on Cobb cost us the game, that’s all.” “You’re wrong, my boy, you’re wrong. I never piade a mistake in my life,” chirped O’Loughlin and he moved’ leaving Griffith speechless.

THIRD MAJOR LEAGUE RUMOR

Intimated That Plan May Be Put Into Effect When Season Ends—Eight - There are rumors and much whispering about the third major league plan which, it is said, may be put in effect when the season ends. The plan provides for clubs from Buffalo, Toronto, Baltimore, Newark, Indianapolis. Toledo, Milwaukee and Kansas City. Let us hope some of these predictions come true. It will be good to see those cities represented in the big leagues. They’ve got good material to work with, too.

son Cicotte has been twirling them over in theAmericanlengue^-first as a member of the Red Sox and then as a member of the White Sox. Cicotte missed participation in the 1912 world series by a hair, for he was transferred to the Chicago club in that year, after he had been turned down and spurned by Jake Stahl as of inferior caliber. Cicotte has beeh going along In an even way, winning a game here and losing one there. His most successful season was while he was with Lincoln in the Western league in 1907. He won 23 and lost 10 games. If the White Sox land the pennant, it will be largely the work of this veteran heaver. His work is the most consistent and really brilliant among all the curvers of the great baseball club.

DIAMOND NOTES

Fielder Jones says Sisler is as great as Cobb ever was. ♦ * * George Davis, once manager of the Giants and White Sox, is with the Browns as head coach and scout. * ♦ ♦ The veteran Terry Turner gets into the game occasionally for Cleveland, and he still is a high-class fielder. . Uncle Robbie is longing to get his fading champions into the first division. It shouldn’t be a difficult task. * * ♦ Jim Corbett has again picked the Giants to win. Which caused the bookies to lay bigger odds on the Reds. * ♦ * Maybe Connie Mack would lend his white elephant to the Siamese army. But it would be an awful blow to the allies. * ♦ ’*

More and more people are becoming more deeply concerned about the price of eggs than about Ty Cobb’s batting average. Branch Rickey, president of the Cardinals, is elated over the acquisition of'Goodwin, the pitcher obtained from Milwaukee. The Browns made seven errors in a ball game the other day. Fielder Jones would have been a pleasant guy to talk to after’ the game. ♦ • • Jawn McGraw probably couldn’t see the joke if Matty, Rousch, Groh and a few more Giant cast-offs should beat him out of the flag. • Eddie Lafitte, who was with the Brooklyn Feds and who has hurled for the Paterson Silk Sox of late, has quit baseball to enlist in the army. ♦ ♦ • President Wilson has announced that he wants baseball to be continued for the rest of the season at least, which assures a world series this fall. * * * Johnny Brock is the name of a young catcher who will soon join? the Cardinals. He hails from the Muskogee team of the Western association. If the war is responsible for introduclng basehall as the international pastime, it will atone for much by adding vastly to the gayety of nations. * • • Nobody ever believed that Frank Baker tampered with Pitcher Sothoron of the Browns. It looked like a case of sour grapes on the part of the disappointed Fielder Jones. z. . Philadelphia osteopath tells Guy Morton thkt the troubles with his pitching are mostly imaginary. That’s been the trouble with his winning average this year, too.

NEW WORLD PASTIME

immy Callahan Predicts Big International Series. Sees Games Between Championship Teams of England, France, Japan, United States and Possibly SouthAmertei. —” JInternational baseball after the war? A world’s series between the champion teams of England, France, the United States, Japan and possibly South America? “Why not?” asked Jimmy Callahan, ex-pilot of the Pirates, who rounded this little old globe four years ago with the All-Americans and All-Nationals, md who is now interested in baseball behind the trenches in France. “It will not surprise me if England and France take up baseball after the war,” said Jimmy. “Those people like baseball —the only trouble Is the game has never been allowed to develop there. “I like to think of that trip we took four years ago as a missionary trip. We played to vast crowds and they

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liked the game. They cheered every time a hit was made, even if it were only a foul. “But the real missionary work is going on behind the trenches now, where Americans and Canadians are playing baseball for the edification and delight of the Tommies and poilus as well as for their own pleasure.” Callahan has struck a popular note. Why not international baseball after the war? Baseball has been one of the great melting pots of America. Practically 6very nationality has contributed big stars. This refutes any idea that baseball has been cornered by* America and canriot be developed anywhere else. Looking over the records of the last few years we find that France Is represented by the great Lajoie, by Cicotte, Fabrlque, Ruth and several others. Ireland contributed the Delahantys, Pat Moran, Moriarty, Killlfer and a host of others. Scotland gave us McQuillan and Chalmers. Bates and many others are of English descent. Italy is represented by Abbatlchlo, Guisto and Ping Bodie. Many great ball players have come from Germany, Bohemia and Poland.

BASEBALL FREAK OF SEASON

Greasy Neale of Cincinnati Made Home Run and Single in One Time at Bat in Giant Game. Every baseball season produces its freaks, and 1917 is no exception to the rule. In a recent game at the Polo Grounds Greasy Neale of the Reds, got a home run and a single in one time at bat. “Can’t be done!” you say? Bet your small change first. Neale came to bat with Chase on second and hit to center field for four bases. But as Pol Perritt the Giants’ pitcher, wound up to pitch the ball that Neale slammed for a homer, a fan who had recovered a foul in the grandstand tossed it onto the field of play and Umpire Harrison raised his hand, calling time, just before the ball was hit. After a conference between umpires and managers it was decided that the home run was Illegal and Neale was called back to the plate. He drove a single to left on the next ball pitched. As he was credited with but one time at bat he made a homer and a single in «the one trip to the platter, something which doesn’t happen often.

BERRY CUTS DOWN EXPENSES

Owner of San Francisco Club Releases Manager Wolverton and Does Directing Himself. Henry Bejry. owner of the San Francisco club, has gone the other magnates of his league one better in cutting down expenses. Harry Wolverton was recently released as manager of the Seals, and now Berry is sitting on the bench and doing the directing himself, although he has never had practical experience in such work before.