South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 210, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 29 July 1917 — Page 8

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Peace of World up to People Says Socialist

Wolfgang Heine Holds Germany Muri Break From Influence of Annexationists or Keep World's Everlasting Enmity.

IiifrcntHnal New Service: BERLIN, July 2v Wolfgang Heine, a member of th- Gnmnn relchstag and a representative of the majority faction of the f;-rman social democracy, at th- recent Stockholm "ptarr mnfcrfnr'," says in the Vorwafrtj: The Knplish and French press ha . pictured the Stockholm conference aa a sneaking German attempt to prevent the near and complete victory' of the entente powers,. At th fame time the r;n-'Irman organs howl about a so iali.-tlo plot to prevent a nar and Till German xict.-ry. Kvcn sincere advocates of an early peace express fear rhat the deliberations In the Swedish capital may prolong the war. Large circles of opponents of the war are of th" opinion that the western allies xxill use the Stockholm conference to hitch the Russian socialist to the chariot of Imperialism. There is no doubt that the entente governments and certain delegates of neutral countries arc working in this direction, but our Jingoes. hy shouting for a "German peace." also are trying to block nil efforts, to -nd the wholesale murder that has now been going on for three ' years. Majority Anti-German. The German socialists will surely be In a difficult position when the International conference (ailed by the Russian council of soldiers and uorklncmen s delegates meets in I August because fhev ill Wo tn ! - i .i ' . comnoscd of the crfuntc riblacofna ' - - -

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or Ws openly vith the war aims of the allies. It Is not Impossible that the conference may re turned Into a demonstration against Germany, as It will undoubtedly be manipulated by very astute politicians. Kven under the most favorable circumstances the Stockholm conference will not bring an immediate peace, although the international organization of the socialists may be resurrec'.e.J. Hut the conference wils not be in vain, as ir will give the proletariat of all nations a chance to raise its voice against the continuation oi the bloodshed and in favor of a sensible peace. Under the constitutions of the different countries peace has to be concluded by the governments, but It will be made, by the people. s far the governments have shown themseKes incapable of finding a way out of the labyrinth of general insanity. All of them urge the people on to new sacrifices by promising them th complete destruction of the enemy and a "dictated' peace. No statesman who has talked of a sure xictory and created hopes that have not b'en fulfilled dares to speak of p-ac because that would be equivalent to a confesion of defeat. (crnuny Mnt Sue, The German government cm anil must take :i de-ci-ie step in the direction of an early peace because it s in a -more favorable position than the governments of the mtente powers. 1 y pointing to th solemn declaration which Dr. von Reth-mar.n-Holl weg made in the relehstag on Aug. t. KM 4. when he assured the world that Germany was not animated by lust of conquest and only took up arms to defend the integrity and economic independence of the empire, our government can come out squarely for a peace without annexations and indemnities, and that must be done. t'nfortnn.-tely, the occupation of large foreign territories has led to an agitation Tor annexations xx hb'h has placed the empire in a wrong light and given our enemies a chance to Influence the neutra against us and scare them with the spectre of a German world hegemony. This agitation a!o has made our relations xxith our allis difficult. No greater mi-take could have been made than to create the impression in Aust ria-M "ngary. llulgaria and Turkey that the German government Is in the hands of the annexationists, nur aliies will finally resent the idea -if making endless sacrifices to realize ph artistic German war aims. Many of our present ditficu'tics would have been avoided if our gox -err.men h id uad the courage to turn against he powerful elements which shouted for annexations and indemnities and undermine. 1 the confidence in the conduct of the xvar. the c -.u rage necessary for the leforse of the empire and. the hope in a better future. Mut state War Alms. The rovernment still hesitates to free itself from the sini-ter influences of the annexationists, and the people must now act by statir.c their xx ar aires The mas of all belligerent nati. ns xvant peace. The advantages one group ,,f powers or the other miht still gain by the prolongation of the war wdd he . more than nullified by the enormous damage to the world and c.viiization. The aim of all nation? must e to J.nd a way out of the unbearable tituaticn and create new political conditions which will make a repetition of such a catastrophe im j ""- rible. It is necessary that we face the ronilt'or?. frankly. What has hap-

i if ned cannot I p undone, and no in- ' demnity wil; e!ore the Inst millions of lives, 'he wasted strength and the dstroye? wealth. litimanity must concentrate its thoughts on reconstruction. Peace though the destruction of one or the ; other of the two groups of powers is out of tap question and nothing can '! gained by more bloodshed. The war can niy be ended by sensible negotiations. To continue the struggle in the hope that some military measure night yet bring a decisixe victory .vould be an unspeakable crime. ur annexationists who dream of the subjugation of England, the sxxallowing uj if Belgium and other things are of the same stamp as the ; braggarts of the entente countries, with their dreams of the destruction anil division of Germany. We Germans must oppos any annexation policy, even if It were possible for ; us to carry it out, because the grab- ' bing of foreign territories would only make the world alliance against us permanent and lead to a new xxorld i war. which micht not find us as

strong as we are at this time. A u,r'u' PParP ,n oni" ne ,,,,iainpa by understanding and by all I ti t t si t-i Lhfit'ln.r o tri H'ill t ff fll. tine friendlj- relations. lUwv l-'nitli in Arms. ry advocating an early peace the German social democracy does not mean that we shall throw away our arms and meekly axvait what our enemies intend to do. That would mean capitulation and a shameful peace. Our faith in the strength of armies is :nsnaien. x e kiiu ' that we are able to continue the war for year if we are forced to do so and will not lay down our arms until an understanding is reached, because if we should give up our resistance our enemies would Mood over our frontiers and that would mean the end of our political, economic and national independence. We are going to remain an Independent and strong nation. The peace we wants must be based on rthe rights of nations and not on xne humiliation of any one country or race. For such a peace we are going to work until it Is obtained, because we know that we have the German nation behind ns. LONDON WOULD STAMP OUT DRUGGING AND ROBBING OF SOLDIERS International News Service! LONDON, July 2s Considerable anxiety is felt here because of the practice of drugging and robbing Australian soldiers on leave. Australian military police are making gre.it efforts to stamp out the evil. Within the last three months, it is estimated that no less than SO cases have occurred in the Charing Cross district. Women who do the drilling are believed to buy cocaine at cents a small box from men who go about hotels and public houses. The cocaine is in powder form and has an exhilarating effect. Subsequently, in many cases, a sleeping draught is administered and the soldier finds himself in the streets in the early morning. dazed and penniless. Hardly a night passes at the headquarters of the Australian military police in Warwick square without some oxer-sea soldier being brought in, haxing been found wandering about semi-conscious. A few days ago an Australian soldier, raxinc mad. was brought to Warwick square by the military police. The medical officer was sums I moned and could diseox er no trace OI OrlTlK. 1 lie ill. ; i iinu t-n drugced xxith cocaine, robbed of the i: pounds t7ri be had brought xxith him to London and turned adrift. luftieulty is experienced by the Australian authorities in getting coherent accounts from the drugged nun. They meet a woman in a crowded bar and have little or no idea xx here they are driven to. Not long ago. a non-commissioner officer of the military police came across a man suspected of being associated xxith these women and beat him badlv. The Australian military police ate trxing their utmost to get a clear case auainst some of the person xx bo are suspected. Putting them out of public houses is not approved, because the women and their confederates would simply scatter to other places. BERLIN CHILDREN TO BE KEPT ON FARMS 1p. Nu iciti icil Nexx Serr!e: BUBI-IN. July Four hundred Berlin school children have lust left for Kronstadt in Transylvania on a special train furnished by the cox -ernment. The boys and girls will be the guest of C, e mi a n - H u nga ria n farmers and ether well-to-do Transvlxaniars until the xxar ends. Three hundred other children have recentv hen sent to Budapest and will be pin ! xvith wealthy Hungarian families by a society of aristocratic rsomen.

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t A.v.x. . . , . - . . . , '.w'. .V.V..V ,v.'. 1. iv.vcvi LONDON, July 2 8. Th kinpr recently spent a week with the Rritish navy, much to the delight of the officers and the me-n. His majesty arrived at an important base during a thunderstorm and his entire visit ;vas attended throughout by the sort of weather that, has mado a long vigil in the North sea an example of endurance without parallel. The king held an investltue, witnessed three or four marches and a whole day of gun practice, meanwhile making an exhaustive study of the latest type of submarines and visiting the mine-sweeping sloops and trawlers. The investiture, being at sea and in the midst of naval rather than military uniforms, was unusually picturesque, and it was remarkable also as the first there has been on a ship for many years, some say even a hunnred. In other respeets It was similar to the Investitures at Buckingham palace. Commander Sir Chr.rles Cust. Naval A. D. C. read out the honors and the names of the recipients; Maj. Lord Cromer, Equerry, handed the king the decorations on a velvet cushion, and his majesty affixed them either over the neck or to the breasts of those whom he had chosen to distinguish. When ftear-Admlral Hugh Evan Thomas, of the Fifth battle squadron, came forward to he knighted. BIG EVENTS ON Belgian Minister of State Says Anarchy and Terror Not as Common as Expected. International News Service: LONDON. July :'S. M. Vanderveide. Belgian minister of state and head of the socialist international organization, returned from a trip to Russia. He writes his impressions for a London newspaper as follows: "At the moment of my departure from Russia I should like to sum up my impressions. Renan used to say apropos of the French revolution: I,et us be careful not to apply our little. reasonable. bourgeois programs to events of such amplitude!' The same must be said now of the Russian revolution. "In a single day the gox ernment of an empire of ISO million souls, xvhich had jealously destroyed all local autonomies, jias crashed down, dragging with it in its fall the duma, which was but a body of priileged men. a mere shadow of a national representation. "What was. is no longer, xx hat is to be. is not yet. wretched state of the finances, disorder in the food supply, chaotic condition of transport, systematic disorganization of armv: which were causes of and The the the the the the revolution: all these now appear in the lisht of day. The grip of steel that hitherto gaxe a semblance of cohesion to the Russian state has been broken apart, and individuals and groups are acting on their own impulses. Workliiff Men In Control. "The non-Russian people are proclaiming their independence: the industrial workers are claiming control over the factories, the soldiers are proTessir.j? submission to no other discipline than that of their committees. granting themselves holidays without leave to go and see what is going on in their xillages. imprisoning officers with whom they are discontented, and. not content with having their delegates in the provisional gox ernment. exercising on the latter, through the intermediary of their councils of workmen and soldiers' delegates, a control over every step. "Finally. the peasants, too. in their turn, are stirring, and in cer

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Prince Albert very gracefully placed the hassock for him to kneel upon, and Admiral Beattv's sword, at his own particular request, was used by i the king to confer the accolade. Among those w ho had not been prepared for this striking compliment from the commander-in-chief to the man who gave him such invaluable help at the battle of Jutland there was something of a thrill when Admiral Beatty, standing by the king's side, drew his sword and held it In readiness. His majesty shook hands with all the recipients of honors. and to those who came from the lower deck he addressed a few words a? well. The ntine-s.weeping crews, more especially the Dogger bank fishermen, xx ho when they took to their Industrial sea-life little imagined into what strange adventures nnn nansrers it wouio ieao uirm. were greatly delighted by the king's; long xisit to their vessels. ' I His hour in the latest of th : British submarines was the most ' interesting in the whole visit, nut t Ua svnA r f Vn I - V-i tVio lenct max' Ir I II" iur "l n luv Ii . iit.'w ....... i be said. No harm, however, and ; perhaps some good, can be done by ; stating the fact that in the latest type more proxision is made for the comfort of the submarine crew than ever before, and in the officers quarters there is even the luxury of a hath room. tain districts are showing a disinclination to await the reunion of the constituent assembly before exercising their rights to recover the land. "In short, full anarchy is upon Russia, and it is not surprising that it should be so on the morrow of a revolution which is the most thoroughgoing that has exer happened. Not Much Anarchy. "But xxhat does astonish us westerners is that the anarchy, this eclipse of authority, has not at all the consequences that it xvould inevitably have in France or England or Belgium. "Up to the last few days, for example. Petrograd has no longer any police or gendarmery or public force of any kind; nothing but a militia of volunteers. thinly distributed and powerless. Were such a state of affairs to exist in London or Taris or Brussels jn the midst of a period frightful happen. "Here of revolutionary tension, things would be certain to there is no such conse quence save for a few 'expropriations and a few individual misdeeds. Lenine and his friends make themselves at home in the palace of a ballet dancer: anarchists try to lay hands upon the typographical material of a conservative Journal. But amidst a general calm which is perfect, absolute, almost disconcerting, social life goes on: innumerable meetings are held xxithout ever the conflict of opinions giving rise to interruptions by violence or troubles or disorders. "From the point of view of tolerence and courtesy we would have much to learn from Russian gatherings. The most absolute freedom of the platform exists at them, not merely as a right but in fact. "Similarly in the factories every man works as his own head directs him. The foremen have no voice. The discipline of authority is absolutely non-existent. and it is true that all this dos not work out well. Production has gone down considerably. The leaders of industry find it impossible to face the formidable demands for increases of wages, though on the other hand these are to be explained by the depreciation of paper money and the fantastic increase in the cost of living. "Yet if all this does not work well, nevertheless it does work, and there is good reason to believe that once the first intoxication of the revolution is over it will work better." A new shavinr mug ha? a lamp in its base fcr the purpose of heating the w a tor. Argentina after? a good field for the sale of chewing gum-

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TO TELL AMERICA Newspapers Issue Warnings Against American Spies in Much Garbled Fashion. LONDON. July The Amerl;.n committee of engineers in London, recently foimed to help as it :vi-at in the prosecution of the war, has appointed a sub-comittee whose c.def function it is to bring together accounts of such acts and words of the enemy r.s they think should be prtsentcd to the American peop'.e lest vx e forget whet a determined and ruthless enemy we are lighting.'" This sub-committee is made up of men who hive had exceptional opportunity's to study the events of the war. many of them at first hand

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In a statement further explainin g the reasons for appointing t:ie sub - ommittee. the engineers comm't-'has

tee as a whole says: 'Great care xx il be taken in assembling only reliable information I chiellv the words of the themselves, in order that Germans miiV' bo condemned out of th.T; own' moutns. ine committee believes that there are still many good pcopie in America as in Imgland wh' say to themselves, if not aloud. .'Are the Germans as bad as painted?' We hope that a weekly recoiu of German doings and savin es will I help answer that question and be a reminder that such a spirit, manner of reasoning and acting as the enemy manifest, now no less than at the beginning of the war mu-t be made and overcome, if this uorld is to be a tafe and 'fit place to live in." I.uc rirt statement. The first statement of the sub. committee, under the caption, "'Germanism Week bv Week." tollows: "The policy of the Germans xxith! regard to the deported Belgians! seems to be to send home such aj are too weak to work. Thus of 5S7 ! aoie-ohoied men, siate-quarners in I the Belgian town of Ecaussines, dc-

Sported to Germany. 6:' died there. la(l junsoicuon. .ex enneiess. 'and of the 210 repatriated, all in at Möns had to pay 10.000 marks and ; lamentable condition 70 have since before sundown. Could anything 'died. We are not in a position to!l,e easier as a way of making 1 ..x...i, ii,...n tknimh I Mionex Could anx thing bo more

though . . ... i with figures luxupaie :ri.iuii(HMi from other places. But we do not ; know and this is the true Germanlie touch the Germans imposed a fine of $1.000 on this town, because ithev refused to hold their usual SOMEONE

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bachelor's tea party on Whit Monday, because they refused in other words n celebrate their fellow-citizens' deportation into slavery and starvation. Events like these are to the kaiser's taste, and are daily occurring. "We have the a! solute evidence

of a neutral xx he was present of tbej l'olloxxing circumstances in southern "eitia. A Serbian farmer shot an Austrian officer in the leg (not meaning to kill r.im because the ( i Ntr refused to pax- for f-odctun'-he had requisitioned from the farm, as he w as hr und to do. The ball sirucK an artery died. Thereupon itnrv authorities and. the officer the Austrian milshot every l;th three surrounding Serbian male in villages." Fined F"r 'The town of the retreat, was News Story. Mens, famous for lined $100,000 the other day because a ISelgian newspaper, published in Holland, stated that the Duke of Bavaria was at Möns during a recent allied air raid. Mind you. there was no evidence that anyone from Möns had conveyed the information, but one of the duke's generals was killed . and the Germans were furious. But this is not the first time that Möns been fined. It xx as fined MOO marks in the first days of the xvar as a 'contribution.' But this was waived because, as the official poster xx hich says 'the people preserved such good behavior.' 'This good behavior did not prevent the Germans from burning ortions of Mons ije everv other town they entered. This general I burning they afterwards apologized for by saying that 'they had been fired at by civilians.' This was not the case at Möns. according to their own statement .of the- good behavior of the people. "Möns was later fined 10,000 marks 'because of a derailment.' This was all the explanation. The town council asked for further details, only to receive a written reply, stating that the derailment had occurred months before at such a spot, xvhich proved to lie a hundred yards over the Möns line in the town of Jemappes. Jemappes was lined an even amount. Möns protested that the derailment occurred outside of the township and on the j railroad, over which the German 'authorities, and not the commune. . A. . 1 contemptible in the justice of things? Bombs Placed in Coal. "Tell America to watch its coal, particularly coal that is destined for steamers. Among the swag SAVES THE

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found on the kaiser's courier, recently caught at Christiani.i. were highly explosive bombs that looked precisely like pieces of coal. One pound of amminoi. the explosive used at Messines, would blow up the New York city hall. It may be seen what a few lumps of explosixe coal could do when once thrown into the fires of a steamer. "One of the accomplices at Christiania said that these bombs. 95 large and 12 small ones, were especially destined for American steamers leaxing Norway and we have independent exidence that for a year past lhere has been a highly organized system to defeat inspection oa these steamers. Te stewardesses hide things in the mattresses and transfer articles from one stateroom to another, as the inspection ; To-.-ecds. But the dancer is not alone there. These coal bombs can be tossed onto any coal car standing on a siding in America, or even as the train passes. Bang, she goes, out in mid-ocean. Think of the good ships that have already gon-r down 'for causes unknown.' America, seal your coal cars."

FOUR SIAMESE PRINCES TRAINING FOR BIG WAR ZURICH. July -2o. Among the recruits now in training at the infantry school at Thun are four Siamese princes of the highest rank. Two of them have already been promoted to the rank of non-commissioned officers and the promotion of the two others will take place soon. All four of them will be transferred to the war college as soon as they pass the necessary examinations and are sure to become officers before they return to their native land. The princes were in Germany when the present war broke out. but left Munich, where they had been pursuing their studies, txxo years ago to come to Switzerland. They entered the University of Zurich and last spring petitioned the Swiss government for permission to enter a military training school as plain recruits. All of them speak French and German fluently, and tfrry are very popular xxith their Swiss comrades. lir.IUJX 1 1 KARS OF "RIOTS." STOCKHOLM. July 29. The proGerman portion of the Stockholm press republished with evident satisfaction a telegraphic dispatch to the Berlin Tageblatt, reporting anticonscription riots in the United States. The police. the dispatch said, were compelled to restore order in Clexeland nnd rhiraeo. Resistance to conscription is declared also to be especially vigorous in Montreal.

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ITALIAN SOCIALISTS IN PLEA FOR EARLY PEACE WITH NO ANNEXATIONS

International Nei Srri'e: LUGANO, Italy, July :S. Th Milan Avanti reports that the tocialistic members of the Italian parliament recently held a conference and decided to request the government to adopt the Russian program for a. peace without annexations ami indemnities. The government is also to be asked to give cfficial recognition to tht delegates who will attend the international peace conference called by the executive committee of the Russian Council of Soldiers' and Sailors' Delegates. The ministry has already promised that the deifgates xvjll receive passports for their journey to Stockholm. COAL COST PROMPTS TRY TO RAISE A SHIPMENT SUNK 34 YEARS AGO STOCKHOLM. July 23. Impelled by the present high price of coal. . wrecking company has started werk in an effort to recover a cargo of 1.200 tons of coal th.it has lain at the bottom of the Great Belt, a mile north of Nyborg. for 34 years. The cargo was that of the steamer "Porka." xvhich sank in It is believed that nearly a thousand tons can be recovered. Samples recovered show the coal to he undamaged by its long -immersion. 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL FIGHTS WITH AUSTRIAN FORCES Iufernatirui.il Sendee; LONDON. July I'V A dispatch from Amsterdam tells of the wounding of an lS-year-oJd girl who has been fighting for two vears with the Austrian forces in the Tyrol trenches. She has been operated on and her life probably will be saved, but the amputation of both legs ill put an end to her military career. She was decorated with the medal for bravery. POPULATION IS REDUCED Fifty Percent of People of HrlgTado Die In War. BUDATLST, July 2. The population of Belgrade, the Serbian capita!, has been reduced SO per cent by the war. At a census just taken hy the Austrian military authorities 16.000 male and 30.O00 female inhabitants were counted. In 1 !M the citv had over 93,000 inhabitants. 4ft On Savings

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