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IRISH
DUBLIN. Auff., .’U.— American’s
participation in the war is the tiump
caul u>cd by lush Uecruiting Uouneil
formed to put into effect the govern
ment’s offer to accept .>0,000 volun
tary recruits fn>m Ireland in place
of four times that number uf con
scripts.
They an* publishing widely the de
clarations of American Cardin..’.'.
Archchbi.-'hop.' and l»shop> and evid
% «. « « ■ « «M%*9 | * li« • 4* « •• !•• it It " »t I
by Irish Catholic Amc»ua:n. 'I *«»j
point out that the war is as much
American’s and France’s as it is Kur
land's and uiue Irishmen to take a
fair alia re in it.
So far. they seen to have made only
a slight impression Nationalists de
clare that if Ireland is to take an ac
tive part in the was it must first have
home rule.
The Ulster party* is willing to ac
cept consct iption.
According to the latest announce
ment of the Government policy the
result may he three months hence,
the forcible application of conscrip
tion everywhere in Ireland outside
Northeast Ulster, it has been decid
ed to divide Ireland into ten areas and
to apportion to each the share of the
lifty thousand recur its it ought to
furnish. Any area which furnishes its
quota will be held to have satisfied
her claim upon it. and will be thence
forth free from tin* application of con
•scription. It is regarded as certain
that Belfast and the Northeast area
will readily provide its share of the
voluntary recruits, and doubted whe
ther any other port of Ireland will do
so.
The result would be that the only
part of Ireland which now declares
would he the only pait free from
its willingness to ae< n
The re^t of Ireland would »>e ch.io^
% f violent opposition and resistance.
U.S. HAS MANY
IN DIPLOMATIC
SERVICE NOW
PARIS. Aug., J»l.—So great have
lxs»n the war demands upon the dip
lomatic and consular services of the
United States in France since Arne*
ica entered the conflict that the em
bassy has had nearly to multiply
eight times its former strength in
Paris and the consulates ail over
I* ranee have d< led their foices. In
addition the»e have been established
in Paris, cithei in the Embassy or in
close liaison with it branches of the
War Trade Hoard, the Hoover Food
Bureau and the Committee on Public
Information.
The working force at the Embassy
| before the war began was about 10,
exclusive of secretaiies and attaches.
Today it is SO. Alx>ut TO clerks have
had to be brought over from Wash
ington to take care of the growing
4
influx ot work.
At the embassy in pre-war times
there were two attaches -naval ami
military. Today the naval attache has
four sides ami a clercial force ol about
t.*» persons, while the militaiy attache
i is surrounded by five sides and from
l.'i o IS clercial employes. In addi
tion a new attache’s post has been
i rated, that of scientific attache, a
post tilled by Dr. Fredrick Durand.
H ‘ represents the Hoard of Inventions
in France, ami investigates all in
ventions in France that may be list'd
in prosecuting the war successfully.
The establishedment in Paris of a
hiAnch of the Bureau of Public In
iVrmution is another event of recent
occunenoc. j'louded by James Kernoy
t! e hoard cifiploy* a stall* of Amm-i
c. ii and 1 iviich newspapermen who
a e both gathering and disseminating
i formation about events in France,
a id are making it daily cluearer to the
1 reach public just what America is
doing in the war. This bureau works
ii liaison with, and not directly under
the embassy.
The War Trade Board, Paris Bran
ch, is another new feature. Headed
by William Mcradden with Clarence
S et>on as assistant, the board her*
i incessantly active carrying out Iht
d root ions of Vance Thompson, hea«'
0 the parent board in Washington
, and in general looking after Ameri
can trade interess in Europe.
Dr. E. Dana Durand, one-time chio
of the census, is at the head of th<
hoover Food Bureau that has recent
ly been established here. This bureau
f 'Hows ship movements, the food .rit
1 ition, gathers food statistics, and is
r sponsible for the division of the
f 'od supplied to the allies. By keep
i g an intensive watch on the various
I .od decrees promulgated by the
I rench authorities it is able to advise
accurately concerning the apportion
ment of food and the amounts to be
s mt each month.
A passport bureau or ofTice after
the British model has been installed
at 68 Rue Pien-e Charronm and to ,it
were transferred the staffs of the
e nbassy and the Consulate that had
formerl> done passport work. There
ae over twenty clerks here today,
under the direction of I,eo Meriweath
er, assistant to Ambassador Sharp,
Second Secretary Ben Thaw and Vice
Consul Henry P. Flliot.
The expansion of the diplomatic
activities is reflected in the physical
extension of the Embassy quarters.
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MKXI( \\ PE I IS M AIN
THING AT A BANQUET.
NOGAI.ES, Ariz., Aug., i*l.— Gar
bunos, a species of pea widely grown
in northern Mexico, were served in
twelve different forms at a friendship
banquet attended recently by repri
sentatives of the chamber of commer
ce of Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, So
» nora. Mexico, which was served on
the international boundry liue which
seperates the two cities.
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HONOLULU. T. H. Aug.. 31.—Ger
rit P. Wilder, who has long been in
terested in the work of preserving the
wild bird of Hawaii, has been appoint
ed warden for the territory under tho
bureau of .biological survey of the de
partment of agriculture.
KAISER’S KULTUR VS. LINCOLIN’S NOBILITY.
! KAISER WILHELM’S LETTER TO
* (1RIKF-STRICKEN MOTHER
1‘AK'IS, July ol.—A letter written
by the Kaiser to a women who lost
nine sons for Cermany is now going
the rounds of the European press. It
is particularly interesting to Amfcri
cans because of a sharp contrast to
the famous lettu-of 1’resident. Lincoln
to Mrs. Rixby, of Ho don, dining the
American Civil \ ar.
The Kaiser is rati fed and scats
his photogiuph Lincoln was grio ed
• rri it did.no! octtir to bin* that his
picture would relieve the desolation
of Mrs. Rixby. The Kaiser’s letter is
as follows:
“His Majesty the Kaiser hea»s you
, have sacrificed nine sons in defense
of the fatherland in the present war.
Hih majestiy is immensely gratified
at the fact and in recognition is pleas
ed to send you his photograph with
frame ami an autograph signature.”
Fiau Meter, who received the letter
has now joined the street beggars in
Dolmenhorst, to get a living.
I‘RESIDENT LINCOLN’S LETTER
TO GRIEF-STRICKEN MOTHER
Here is President Lincoln’s letter
to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston, dated Nov
ember 21, 1SG4. #
“I)eam Madam: I have been shown
in the tiles of the war dcpaitment, a
statement, of the adjutant general of
Massachusetts, hat you are the moth
er of five sons who have died glor
iously on theficld of battle. I-feel how
weak and fruitless must be any
words of mine which should attempt
to beguile you from a loss so over
helming. But 1 cannot refrain from
tendering to you the consolation that
may bo found in the thanks of the
Republic they died to save. 1 pray
that our Heavenly Father may assu
age the anguish of your bereavement,
and leave you only the cherished me
mory of the loved and lost, and tin
solemn pride that must he yours to
have laid s-o costly a sacrifice upon
the altar of freedom.
“Youi*s veiy sincerely and respect
fully, “ABRAHAM LINCOLN.”
LONDON, Aug., .‘U.—Nine sailors i
i four of whom were (lying of wounds,
. >ft by a Herman submarine comman
der to perish on a ramshackle raft in
the North Sea where eight of them j
died is thcstory of Hun barbarity told j
by Haakon Ohlson, the sole survivor i
,of the Norwegian bark Kglinton, now |
>rcovoring in a British naval hospital 1
i
When near death, Ohlson was rescued 1
by a British motor U>ut patroling in
Helgoland blight.
The Kglinton was carrying coal to
Norway \ hen attar d by the sub-!
marine firing shrapnel, The captain’s!
i ight arm was shattered, the steward
was badly wounded in the leg, a sea- i
man was shot through the body and
the second mate’s arm was torn by j
splinters.
the ship filled rapidly hut the new I
L>ut out a rafl »mide of five plunks ;
.••nd supporter! by barrels. A barrel of |
water ami a case of biscuits were I
•laced on the raft. The submarine
came up, fired into the sinking bark
..nd passed within twenty feet of the
unfortunates as it circled about the
raft.
“Not a word did the Huns say to
us,” sail! Ohlson, “ajthough they
could see our wounded and the plight
were in. There was a stiff breeze
dowing and I expected the raft to
break up. The submarine steamed
away.
The wounded seaman died soon after
ward and we threw his body over
board. The next morning, after a
.deepless night for all, the steward
<’icd and then the second mate. We
shoved their bodies int othe water
; Iso. On the third day the captain
uied. Then 1 must have lost count of
time, for on the afternoon of the four
th day 1 found myself alone with the
chief mate.
“I did may best to cheer him up,
hut he only said. ‘I am going down
into the cabin to get my pipe,’ and 1
knew his mind was going. He diedthat
afternoon, and I managed to go*
the body clear of the rafta.”
One of the barrel buoys hal leaked
and that end of the raft settled low
in the water. Brine pot into the bis
cuits and into the barrel of fresh wat
er.
“I was alone on the raft for five
flays/* Ohlson went on. “I didn’t see
a single ship all that time, I must
have been a little delirious, because
I d lose count of the hours. I was
wet through. At night I’d hear the
water swashing round me and then I
would sleep.”
On the ninth day he hear distant
firing. He managed to get to his knees
to look about him. Then* was the
British patrol boat. When Ohlson
was- taken aboard he collapsed.
GERMANS ADMIT
SUPERIORITY OF
ALLIED AIRMEN
QUARTERS IN FRANCE, Aug. 31 —
BRITISH AIR FORCE HEAD—
There have been many signs recent
ly of extreme uneasiness by the Ger
man High Command regarding the
increasing aeeendaucy of tjie Allied
airmen on the Western front This
has been especially evident since
the American airmen have begun u>
appear in force and have proved
themselves of the same mettle as
liie French and British flyers.
It lias become a common-place
among British airmen that their op
ponents will not face combat in th?
air unless in strength of three oj
four to one, and German airmen being
punished by their flight commanders
for returning to theii\ airdomes still
laden with bombs and ammunition t
which they had been ordered to drop
over the British lines. It is becom
ing inccasingly hard to find a Ger
man airman over the Allied side of
the lines in the daytime, as is prov-'
ed by the Germans’ own admission
that when they do manage to bring
dov n an Allied machine it is almost
always over their own territory.
t v. i iitij.a me most mi living evident*
.ii ViCimun oiliciui anxiety legaruing
bin* riiiicu superiority in me an* lo
10 be louim'iii me olncai Vienna.,
wireiess news. Hus , while always
imaginaiive aim rareiy accurate, i.u
ui uiie been singuiany wild aim 1 u*i
oi uctiou legaiumg me siiuauon in
me air. in an cnort to counteract
me depressing eticct of the real
iacts oi tlie situation, the German
wneiess editors make the widest
statements, bordering almost on hu- ;
mor.
inns a recent copy ot the German
wnciess report says: "Superior
methods ol ilying and greater sKiti
nave secured lor the German A*i
I’OITP SIK'VOt.t'OCK OH a MU ic such M.
were never known before.” The same
statement refers in glowing terms
to the “reckless spirit ’ of the pilots
of the German chasing planes— a
phrase which provoked much merri
ment among British. French and
American airmen, who of late have
found that even one of the recoil
nuisance machines can rely on put
ting to flight any German machine
w ich is not accompanied by three
or four of its own kind.
“If Germany is really pleased with
her air record for the past few
months,” remarked a British Squad
ron leader to the correspondent,
“there is no reason for us to com
plain. We ask nothing better than
that Germany should go on having
the same kind of success in the fu
ture months.”
He took as an example the report
for May, which lay open on his desk.
“This report,” he explained, “deals
with the British aid fighting alone,
and has no reference to the fine air
work ot tne French. Italians and
Americans. During the month the
British brought down 208 German ma
chines in aerial combat, and 20 by
fire from the ground, while 100 more
wore driven down out of control
and probably destroyed. During the
same period, 128 British machines
failed to return to their airdomes.”
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PERU GETTING NERVOUS OVER j
INTENTIONS OF CH1L1EAXS
WASHINGTON, Aug., M— Perc ,’s
nei-vousness regarding Chile and J.ier
intentions caused a scene in the na
tional congress of Peru recently, ac
cording to information received in
Washington through official chain icis
when Don Jua Maria Zalfes, f^c mor
Scn&U r and former diplomatic re
piesentlive at lima, was tiled
as an 4 agent of Chile*’.
Senoi Za.lles, who has. niVuys been
considered a great friend oil'Peril was
accused of attempting the “peaceful
conquest of Peru for. the benefit of
Chile," in trying to purchase as an in
dividual extensive territory? in the
Peruvian department of Moquehua j
and Tacna Iibre, His real object, it j
was charged, was to turn the proper- [
ty over to Chile. Ho denied the charge
asserting that he was endeavoring to |
purchase the property for himself.'
Tlie charges against him, however,
effectually prevented the wle of the
lands.
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