Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 34, 21 December 1916 — Page 8

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BORDER TROOPS SHOW ABILITIES TO HIT TARGETS

, FIELD HEADQUARTERS AMERICAN EXPEDITION IN MEXICO, Dec. 21. (Correspondence of The Assbclaie Press.) Extraordinary Improvement In marksmanship is being noted in reports received at field headquarters. The regular life of the cojdiers has steadied their' nerves, and th clear air of the Mexican plateau region makes Eight ing easy. Another factor in the good showing is- the steady drill the men have received in fire control, new methods of. which are being tried by the cavalry with remarkable success; Machine gun troops also are belm; drilled to use their arms to the best advantage Recently several companies of the Sixteenth Infantry were brought north from EI Valle and demonstrations of fire control were given for the benefit of the officers stationed here. The machine gun work was under the direction of Captain F. S. Brown, assisted by Captain W. C. Short. ;. Learn Pistol Shooting. Among the most interesting experi

ments now being conducted is that in pistol firing by a detachment of cavalry, chosen at random. A pistol board, which is conducting the work, has evolved a unique line of targets worked by ropes and pulleys, which fall flat when the cavalry charge over them. The attempt Is being made to evolve a system of pistol firing while charging. At prssent the men are firing, directly ahead while leaning forward In their saddles and holding their arras Just ahead to the right of their mounts' ears. Excellent results, it is said, have already been obtained. When ammunition arrives, another Interesting test will be made, that of determining how effectually the pre?ent three-inch field gun will demolish barbed wire entanglements, trenches and bomb proofs. A line of fortifications has been constructed as nearly like those in Europe as possible. Tho artillery will be allowed to work, on tnese under conditions that would obtain in actual war and, the results of their fire will be noted.

HOTELS OF EUROPE ALTER PLANS TO MEET EXIGENCIES OF WARFARE

NATIONAL SERVICE MEETS APPROVAL ; OF WHOLE NATION

LONDON, Dec. 21. While the morning papers give much ' prominence to American and other foreign comment on Premier Lloyd-George's speech, the question of peace was sidetracked today for the discussion of the projected national service. The comment everywhere indicates the readiness of the rational to, mobilize. The' description of Rowland E. Prothero,' president of the board of agriculture of Britain as a beleaguered city and his dictum, "the war may be won or lost on our cornfields and potato lands," and featured as furnishing the keynote to a situation which. calls for the utmost national effort. -

VIENNA,' Dec. 21 Cheap tours through Europe are considered over forever by men qualified to speak on the subject. The days in .which a dollar doubled and trebled in value by crossing a border are considered gone. The increase in the cost of labor, taxation, due to the war, the wear and tear on all means of travel, augmented by the neglect which the war brought about, and the great and general economic loss and waste incident to the present times have removed Central Europe from the list of places where one could spend a few weeks in great comfort and still save the price of a first clas3 steamer ticket. Travel after the war will be as expensive In Europe as in the United States, if not more so, some believe. Hotels Alter Their Plan ... At the present time such a thing as an empty room in a Vienna hotel has ceased to be. Nowadays a room worth having in a Vienna hotel can be obtained only by getting one's name on the waiting list, and even this la impossible if the would-be patron is unknown to the management. Visitors still under the impression that Vienna hotels are run on the old basis usually spend hours after their arrival trying to find a room and then end up by sleeping in some hotel corridor on a cot at a price which formerly would give them a good room. Those unlucky' enough' to reach Vienna with a night, train may spend their first night In the station. At one of the best Vienna hotels the price for a suite of two rooms and bath went up by 28 crowns a few days ago, this Increase being incident to a general rise which added from two to five crowns to even the plainest rooms. In Budapest conditions are possibly a trifle worse. Even Sofia is seeing a rise in prices in hotel accommodation which is unprecedented in the Balkans, and Constantinople, boasting of but two first-class and three second-class hotels, has become altogether Impossible for the ordinary traveler. Cause Same Everywhere The cause for this is the same every where. The war prevents people from going to the watering places in the South, and amusement is therefore sought In the large cities. Refugees from districts in the war zones, and the many officers on leave of absence or convalescense, not to mention innumerable government agents and purchasers, also make heavy demands on transient living quarters. Vienna has opened two large hotels since the outbreak of the war, and is

about to open a still larger one." In Budapest a high class hotel was on the vsrge of going into bankruptcy owing to lack of business, when the war started. It is now running full blast and making money. Taxicab sins may also be mentioned.' Though most of them run on "mechanical" tires of little or no ehock-absorbing qualities and have not been renovated internally since August, 1914, their drivers want just four times what they charged before the war. Higher cost of fuel and living is the answer. The same factors caused a slight Increase in Vienna street car fares recently.

AMERICAN TWINE BOUGHT TO BIND BRITISH HARVEST

AERO CLUB THREATENS EXPOSURE OF FACTS

NEW YORK, Dec. 21. The Aero Club of America through its board of governors has decided to place before the council of national defense, the facts involved in the decision of two of the leading airplane companies to demand royalties from all concerns engaged in the manufacture of airplanes, it was announced here today. The royalty demand has caused considerable confusion in the industry, and, accordig to aeronautical experts, seriously thieatens the advancement of aviation in this country.

LONDON, Dec. 21. (Correspondence of The Associated Press) American twine will be used almost exclu

sively to bind next year's British harv

est. Agents for the United- States

mills now on the spot have already placed enough orders for this purpose,

despite earnest appeals to the farmers

to give their business to the home manufacturers on patriotic grounds.

English farmers were told that if they would buy their twine from the

English manufacturers they would af feet a saving to the nation of $1,250,

000 and 10,000 tons of cargo space for food shipping. Binder twine, it was pointed out, is bulky, occupying more

than two and a quarter times the space required for deadweight. The English farmers were also informed by the local trade that the manufacturers In this country were never in a better position to supply all their needs. Stocks were said to

be higher than, usual because the ex

pert of twine is prohibited. Eighty per cent of the people employed in the local mills are women so that there was no question of requiring mole labor that might be needed on government work. As to prices it was claimed that the British manufacturer could compete favorably with the one across the Atlantic. But for some unexplained reason the orders went to the Americans. The English farmers seemingly ignored all these appeals. The position was somewhat complicated in the case of dealers who handle American agricultural implements, as it is usually understood that these agents shall make a point of stocking American binder twine.

EXAMINE FRANZ BOPP

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 21. E. H. VonSchack, German vice consul, co-defendant with Franz Bopp, German consul general and five others on trial here for alleged conspiracy to violata neutrality by interfering with shipments of munitions to the Entente allies was to be cross examined today.

WAR HELPS MANY TOBACCO GROWERS IN PELOPONNESUS

VOLO, Thessaly, Dec. 21. Theoccupation of Cavalla by the Bulgarians and the consequent turning of the richest tobacco land in the world into a field of battle has been the making of the growers of the tobaccos of inferior grade in Thessaly and the Peloponnesus. American tobacco firms have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tobacco stored in Serree and Cavalla. But the whole coast of Eastern Macedonia is under the blockade of the French fleet, and there Is no way to get the tobacco put. As a result the previously despised product of old Greece has mounted in price beyond the wildest dreams of the Thessalians. , Volo is the port of Thessaly and the tobacco buyers from Egypt, England, Holland and the United States have flocked here to purchase the year's crops. The market is so upset that old differences of a few cents no longer obtain. It is impossible to predict the prices to be paid all depends on how short certain cigarette manufacturers are of the kind of tobacco they have always purchased in Greece for their blends. Argos leaf that used to sell at 4.3 cents a pound now commands a price of 42.14 cents. The tobacco from Karditsa used to bring only 7.14 cents per pound; now it sells as high as 70 cents. Policastro was formerly quoted at 25 cent! it now brings 60 cents. Almiras that a year ago was worth 28.6 cents now brings 53.6. Even In Greece, where the consumers are not very particular about their tobacco, the prices of all cigarettes have been raised, a packet of 28 cigarettes which previously sold at 14 cents now costing 15 cents, and others in proportion. The operations in tobacco, particuuarly by American firms, whose telegrams and letters to their agents in Greece are delayed by censors of one sort and another, are often more in the nature of gambling on account of these delays. An American firm recently cabled its agent at Volo, in reply to an inquiry about the purchase of a certain tobacco stock: "Buy it if it can be secured at 64 cents." The message arrived: "Buy it," quite simply. The agent bought at the then price, 12 cents, causing his firm a loss in the tens of thousands of dollars, due to the censoring of the message. Tobacco agents here state that incidents of this nature are frequent.

ODDITIES.

Turkey has put bakeries under government rule.

China will teach paper making in a government school. ' The United States in 1915 produced 550,055 tons of lead. 4 Argentine is spending $60,000,000 on an irrigation system. 4 Canada has 528 waterworks systems, costing $123,000,000. Akron, O.. is rasing $400,000 to pay

off debts on hospitals.

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GREEDY WEALTH SEEKERS GRAB FOR SHARE OF MB MILLIONS

LONDON, Dec. 21. Correspondence "of The Associated Press) Legal wrangling which has been going on for eighty years over "John Mobb's millions'' will be ended next spring with the 6ale at auction here of the immense properties which have caused so many heart-burnings. The auctioneer knows these properties as the "London estates of Lord Alington," and their 'value is somewhere in the neighborhood of seven million dollars. They include factories and docks covering scores of acres on the Regent's canal in London, together with more than 2,500 houses, rented for various terms of years to workingclass tenants. Prove Glittering Bubble. Mobb's millions have for, nearly a century been a glittering bubble to hundreds of "rightful heirs" who have either turned up in quest of them or been turned up by lawyers in quest of the large fees. John Mobbs was a Northampton coachman. In 1757 he married the daughter of his old master, a rich London distiller, and thus became the owner of a large agricultural estate ia the then outskirts of London. But Mobbs' use of the land was restricted by certain ancient "rights" which the citizens of London possessed to practice "free archery" over them, and there were stone "archer's marks" dotted over the fields when Mobbs became their owner. - Mortgages Whole' Estate. Mobbs, however, granted leases improvldently over the greater part of the estate, and then mortgaged the whole thing to a merchant named Sturt. The greater part of the Mobbs meadows thus fell into the hands of the Sturts, the head of whom is now Lord Alington. Building began on the Mobbs meadows in 1823 and twenty years later they were all covered with houses and factories, wharves and coal yards, canal basins and timber sheds. The golden acres have ever since been so occupied. Hideous slums grew up there too, which the taxpayers had to buy up at high prices in order to replace them with parks and healthier dwellings. As London increased in value the value of the property went up, and various descendants of John Mobbs went Into the court, carried on lawsuits, seized empty houses, and otherwise endeavored to assert their alleged claims. 'Original Leases Expire. . Many of the original leases did not expire until 1870, and there was then a great reopening of the legal hostil

ities. The attempts to regain the property for the descendants of Mobbs always failed, however, although there seemed to be plenty of legal technicalities to , Justify their pleas. At one time professional pugilists were employed to garrison the empty houses, but the Sturts won in the end and the Mobbs meadows are now to be dispersed by the auctioneer's hammer.,,

COKE PRICES ADVANCE PITTSBURGH, Pa.. Dec. 21. Coke prices made a general advance during the week while both production and shipments showed a marked decrease. The week opened with spot coke quoted at $9 and $9.25, later selling at $9.50 and $9.75. Predictions are being made freely that the market will reach $10 before the end of the week.

NOOSE STATEMENT BY LLOYD GEORGE PUZZLES GERMANS BERLIN, Dec. 20. Via London. Dec. 21. The Berlin press which commented only fragmenterily on Premier Lloyd George's speech this morning because only excerpts were available, now has the entire text and devotes its full attention to the subject.. The papers on a whole express little surprise at the British premier's attitude although most wonder why he believes that entering into a conference into a conference would involve the entente as placing its head in a noose. Lloyd George's references to restitution and reparation are universally interpreted as an entente demand that Germany surrender all occupied territory and probably pay an indemnity. Australia boasts of the tallest trees grown on British soil.

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