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mm* BOTHERED YANKEES ' i V< • '>T- ' --;T Of-.i :y~ •• > Enemy Learned Valuable Secrets Ife Matter How CarefuHy^ ~ Guarded. # AMERICANS 4feermans Sent Smoothest Secret 8errt' ^ vice Men to Camp on Trail ef tAmericana aa Soon ae;'H^W'.. , . . ' " Landed. ^ - Parts.--American newspaper eorre- "#i>on dents abroad are now permitted .vp* relate some of the troubles the a {Americans experienced with the treat •Qerman spy system. < No army in the world war bad a Harder flght against the smooth-worktag, far-reaching Teuton espionage system than did General Pershing's warriors. The Germans concentrated a (large number of spies against the 'Americans Immediately after the first {Yankee contingents landed in France {and kept augmenting their numbers. |The American army was made the object of the spy offensive because the Germans recognized that, if the war ^continued until the summer of 1918 and then lapped over-into 1919 it was the American army that would figure [largely in allied operations. They wanted to find out what kind of an larmy Pershing had. what the morale of the individual soldiers was, what the Ataffs were planning and what disposition was being made of American t;;WN>Ps behind the western battle front v" Hard to Keep Secrets. "In spite of all precautions and In apite of contre-esplonage forces, Ger- -fflan ngents undoubtedly collected a large amount of valuable Information behind the American lines to supplement other odds and ends they had {ticked up from American prisoners, from the reports of their land and air observers and from other sources. Officers tried hard to keep the Boche from learning that one American unit toad been removed from the line and supplemented by another. That was Information that the German intelligence officers wanted for their "order of battle" maps, by which they kept track of the exact disposition of all •enemy troops In the line and reserve. One night elements of the Seventy- •eventh division, from New York city, slipped quietly Into line In the Baccarat sector, relieving other units of the Forty-second division, which entrained for the west to help repel Hlndenburg*8 last great offensive. There was every need for secrecy. But when men of the Seventy-seventh peered across "no man's land" at daybreak they saw hoisted from the German trenches this sign, printed in English: "Good-by, Forty-second division! Welcome, Seventy-seventh!" There were other Instances of the same kind; but the thing was not all one-sided. Often the Americans knew that Heinle was slipping In a new outfit, the number of the outfit and just what kind of stuff its men were made of, and they made important use fft that information. j'*# Much Trouble in Alanee. % American troops that saw servtefc !h the mountainous Alsace country had the greatest difficulties with the spy evil. Behind the Franco-American lines were a large number of people who were German-born and who retained their sympathies for the kaiser. The country offered unusually good opportunities for spies because of Its hilly, wooded nature. On several .Elsie J ante Adopts Boy Who Fought in War New Yorit--Elsie Janis signed papers which make her the foster mother of Michael Cardl, fourteen, an Italian orphan veteran of the war. who landed here as a stowaway on the transport t Madonna from Marseilles six weeks ago. Miss Jants put up a bond of $5,000 to Insure that Michael will not be a public charge and the lad is now at her home In Tarrytowri.' nights, when American troops were entering the trenches to relieve other units, rockets and colored lights shot up from hills behind the American front. The German artillery promptly responded to this tip by pounding the American communication trenches, knowing that they would be crowded with men passing forward. The hills and woods afforded such excellent hiding places that it was next to Impossible to attempt to trap the men wh<? had touched off the lights. The situa* tlon in Alsace was all the more difficult because the French government desired to avoid offending the Alsatian villagers by making arrests. ^ v.';' • NAVAL BOATS DO DANGEROUS WORK Yanks Are Clearing Mine Field 200 Miles Long and 45 Miles Wide* - MAKE NORTH SEA SAFE AGAIN Task Almost as Dangerous and, Viewpoint of Shipping, as Impl^ tant as Hunting 8ubma- . rlnes. " London.--Eighty United States navy mine sweepers are busy in the North sea at a job almost as dangerous and, from the viewpoint of shipping, quite as Important, as hunting submarines. They are clearing away the largest mine barrage in the world. This barrage, nearly 80 per cent Americanmade and American-laid mines, is about 200 miles long and 45 miles wide. - It closes the North sea from Scotland to Norway. The task has already resulted In FINNISH LEGION FIGHTING B0LSHEVIKI ' I - . 1 jjii ""'fljlWH of the Finnlfcii • •-•ston operating Uiv biusiicviltt In North Jifcua* <a are here shown at a halt during a march across a frozen laka ••'» •" ' 1 • vlrtijii. a casualty toll of four vessels damaged, one officer killed and othera wounded. The U. S. S. Bobolink,'the first victim, had her stern blown In by an exploding mine. Lieutenant Bruce was killed. Several other officers and men, knocked overboard, were rescued. The U. S. S. Patuxent was badly damaged about the stern and the U. S. S. Rail slightly damaged. All were of about 1,000 tons. The fourth was a smaller boat. Thus far the fleet has covered aa area containing 4,000 mines. Of these 45 per cent have been accounted for. Where the remaining 65 per cent are nobody knows. Captain Sexton estimated the mlrie hunt would keep the sweepers busy until October or November. It Involves a personnel of about 2,500. When the word was first mouthed around through the ranks that American gobs were going to pick up the mines they helped to lay a short time before, the general opinion was that It would be one of the most thrilling jobs yet. And no one has been disappointed. Equipped with maps showing approximately where every mine was dropped, the flotilla started out in twos, each pair dragging a cable between them. ^ Mines Sown in Strings. The mines, the map said, were sewn In strings. All the sweepers had to do was to straddle the line, pass from one end to the other, and the cabled between them, would do the rest. Of course, the particular mine in question wouldn't be the only one to go off. The concussion would always set off others Immediately adjoining, and probably still others adjoining these. These two, exigencies were provided for on the map under the titles "zone of extreme danger," "zone of possible dnnger," and beyond that "zone of safety." In addition, there would be a few other mines free-lancing around in all three zones. The first few days were rather disastrous. Captain Sexton and his staff in London began to dread opening the morning's dispatches. Gradually, with Yankee resourcefulness, the Americans seemed to be getting on top of the job. until now Captain Sexton is confident they are going to clean up the assignment with minimum losses. mchewky, nx. OPENING Of THE PERSHING STADIUM IN FRANCE W.vY" Left to right: Col Waite C, Johnson, athletic director of the American expeditionary forces arnl chairman or the Interallied gumes committee; General Pershing, President Poincare of France, and French Minister of Marine Ley- Inspecting the allied soldiers taking part In the opening day's ceremonies at Pershing stadium, Joioville, France, near Paris. Every allied nation was represented at the opening of the great athletic field, which Is Intended to be a permanent monument to the American army in France. Into Army Base Dutch City Looks Like New York Since Americans Entered Area. AMERICAN GOODS ON IS A MUSICAL PRODIGY Bey Leads Orchestra *t Age of 13 the Cfeiid Who Astonishes Europe Born in Maine of Italian Parents. . Rome.--Willy Ferrero, aged thirteen, who leads 100-piece orchestras In selections from Wagner, Beethoven, ito8sini, Grelg and others, is an American and was born in Portland, Maine. The child has attracted the attention of Europe since he was four years old, but it was only recently that his American birth was revealed by his pirents, who are Italian. The father told the Associated Press correspondent that Willy carried an American passport, but that his name thereon was William Ferrero. a name lie had chosen for him while he had worked in Maine when the child was born. The father said that at the age of two the lad was brought to Italy, whither his parents were returning to take up their residence in their old home In the Folies Bergere, in Paris. A year later he appeared in the Costanza theater, Rome, where for the first time he led an orchestra of 100 pieces. The program was composed of Wagnerian, Beethoven and other heavy selections. The child took his orchestra before Emperor Nicholas in 1913 and conducted two concerts for the monarch. In the same year his orchestra was tilling an engagement in London, and he was commanded to appear before Queen Alexandria of England at Marlborough house. He appeared before Pope Benedict XV. In 1816. In April, 1915, just before Italy's declaration of war. Willy was presented with the gold medal by the Italian minister of education after he had made a successful appearance In the Augusteum, where he had conducted an orchestra and chorus aggregating 500. All the players In the orchestra are men of long experience. Is Now 8upply Depot for United States Army of Occupation in Germany--Turned Into Bu* ~ tllng New World Port. * ' By CORP. DAVID RAMZEUft. (In the Chicago Poat.) Rotterdam, Holland.-- Rotterdam, supply depot for the American army of occupation In Germany, la "the New York of the A. E. F." At Maashaveen, the left mouth of the Rhine, on the outskirts of Hotter* dam, American soldiers erected their barracks and at a wharf near by American soldiers and sailors unload the supplies for the American army of occupation in Germany. Squat tugboats, with their little Dutch household aboard, puff up and down the Rhine towing the long, narrow barges built for the canals of this little country, with their loads of supplies for the Yanks who are keeping the watch on the Rhine. And down the Rhine come some of the lucky doughboys whose time has expired and who are starting for "God's country/' Rotterdam Now Bustling Port. In every direction in Rotterdam are signs of a busy, bustling new world port. Huge derricks and traveling cranes, big grain elevators, long strings of concrete and cast-Iron docks and wharves, networks of tracks and here and there a shipyard resounding with the clatter of machinery and the "rat-tat-tat" of riveters The shops are a wonder and a delight. They are marvels of cleanliness and trim, neat, attractive tidiness. The grocery stores are as scrupulously clean and orderly as a big operating room In an American hospital and one has to look twice to discover whether a grocery store Is indeed a grocery or a first-class drug store. But the thing above all that makes us call Rotterdam the New York of the •. EL F. Is the fact that wherever one walks in the uptown districts one sees American articles for sale and American apparatus and machinery In use. For Instance, walk down Hoog- ,straat (which, by the way Is not Hog street, but High street). It Is the 'Broadway of the New York of the A. E. F. On It are tobacco and cigar shops that would put to shame the big jewelry stores of many American cities; confectionery stores that are a little bit of fairyland; bakeries and •^groceries that fairly glisten with jnickel. brass and glass. Walking along past those stores one sees popular brands of American tobacco and cigarettes; American phonographs, American sewing machines, American chewing gum; one stops In fmnt of a big music store and sees displayed In the windows all the more or less late American songs and "jaxz" and "rag" music. There are dozens of American automobiles on the pretty drives and American motorcycles "put-put" by with their muffler cot out, just as they do In America. In a little cafe or restaurant the J soldier orders the great American favorite---ham and eggs--from a waiter who speaks good English and who will probably tell of the cities in America where he has worked, and the "guldeens" will be rung up on an American cash register and in half the places an American typewriter will be found near the register. Rotterdam has its "Great White Way" Just like old New York. In the cabarets are mighty clever entertainers and^girls who can "rag" Just aa well as some of the girls back home. The Dutch wax merry In a mu^h more repressed and dignified way than do the French and in a Rotterdam cafe one does not have to run a gantlet of alluring sirens as one doea In Paris. A Rotterdam cafe or saloon Is a clean, orderly, always neat and trim room that Is generally quiet. Back of the bar the rosy-cheeked frau or fraulein works and pays no heed to the men who come In. And the men who serve the customers look like church-going bank tellers. The target saloons in Rotterdam are restaurants, cafes, saloons, billiard rooms and clubrooms combined. To it come the men with their wives and children. The little ones eat the tasty pastry and sip sirup; the wives drink beer or tea and eat cake and gossip, and the men play billiards or cards, write letters or gather round the huge tiled stoves to talk politics. MOTHERS TO Should Read Mn.Mony!i*aV letter Fubfidhed by Her Permission. Mitchell, Ind.--" Lydia EL PlnkhaaM Vegetable Compound helped me so mnrl during the time I was looking forward to the coming of my little one that I aas recommending it to other expectant mothers. Be for* taking it, some days I suffered with neuralgia so badly that I thought I could not live, bat after taking tnree bottles of Lydia E. P i n kham's V ege table Compound! was tirely relieved of r.euraljfia, ! had' gained in strength and was able to go around and do all my housework. My baby when aeve&i months old weighed 19 pounds and I feel | better than I nave for a Ions: Umo. i; never had auj medicine do mr. sen moch pod. "--Mrs. Pea*l Monykail Mitchell, Ind. ' Good health during maternity Is At ost. imi and child most important factor to both mother child, and many received by the Lydia E. Pinkhaa and letters hare been ^ Pinkhaat Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., telling of health restored during this trying period by the use of Lydia £» Pinkhams table Compound. Bet ter Than Pills For Liver Ills. Nik Tablets ton* and strengthen organs of digestion and •limination, improve appetite, stop sick haadachaa, relieve biliousness correct constipation. Thejr act promptly, pleasantly, mildly, yet thoroughly. 3ms HI Tou(ht,T< Seek Colombia Mart American Business Men Invading Southern Republic. Hope to Open Up Country That Been Long Closed to Our .Tradeb • Washington.--Advices from Bogota say American business men are Invading Colombia for a commercial campaign and are confident the pending Colombian treaty will be ratified by the United States. By the proposed treaty Colombia Is to be recompensed for the loss of Panama. The Colombian people felt hoetlllty toward the United States for the part It played, and for a long period the Colombian field was particularly closed to American business. With the end of the European war, European business men swarmed to Colombia. American business men were not far lean engineers. behind them. The Call chamber of commerce, on the west coast, has received notice from the United States food administration of a projected vis- It by a commission of business men from here. The Americans are prepared to negotiate a new system of business credits to meet the needs of Colombian men. This will be the beginning of a new era In trade with South American countries. It is said, for the chief complaints of the Latin-Americans against the methods of the United States concerns has been on credits and packing. The ministry of agriculture and com merce has Issued orders to give every assistance to the Americans in the handllng of their samples by remitting custom duties, and special trains will be put at their disposal to visit varl ous sections of the interior. The party will stop at the port of Buena Ventura, where extensive improvements are being made on plans submitted by Amer- •M Why Lose YonrHair IWCMMb AHdranM> Culkura WTImee 3>ro^ert.rtslial*»«liilfrgBfc Half the Cost -MoConovS - ^CMMSnzLFmcnOL Become a Physio Tkerapbt! Learn the only method of "Draftees Tiesl- - mem" recognized anil uae<t by the leTerament in the Reconstruction Hospitals. An ethical and prontable profession open i lb men and women of fair education. Complete course, eight months. Catalog Fwurlnnlt Ortkepaedle Hospital Ml" School of Mochase Therapr. Inc. twa-im Green 8C Philadelphia, Sfc Kill All Flies find awvkn, DAISY fLY I SHOOTS PIGEON. PAYS $47.50 8t. Louis Man Loses in Court Aftar A*Vument With Bird's Owner. •: St. Louis.--Shooting a single pigeon has cost Philip Hommsl of Belleville a total of $47.50. The pigeon ate some of Hommel's garden seed and vegetables. Hommel kllfed it. Then Hommel got iuto nn argument with Anton Sehlinger, owner of the bird. He brought a charge of threatening to kill against Sehlinger. Justice Lautz ruled against Hommel In each of the four cases and the plaintiff was compelled to pay the rosts, $36.20. Then Sehlinger sued Hommel for disturbing the peace and Judge Lautt ftasessed a fine of $5 and costs. East Adopts English Elementary Schools of Near East Make Study Compulsory Will Displace French aa the Language of Diplomacy > " and Business. i Wand of Crete.--The fingtMh language promises soon to displace French aa the language of business and diplomacy. All through the Near East the Anglo- American influence has'resulted in thousands of elementary schools Instituting English as a compulsory language. Even In the Mediterranean Isle, the home of Premier Venlzelos, Instruction in the English language has been arranged for. ' American scientific agriculturalists are now completing a survey of the soil possibilities of Crete in the same thorough fashion In which they surveyed the Greek mainland. Cretan •oil Is somewhat exhausted by centuries of cultivation without replacement of soil food, but with an abundant source of water supply In the mountains and availible fertiliser It is believed much of it will respond to proper treatment. American farming machinery and up-to-date methods are needed, and arrangements have been made to systematically educate the farmers of Greece and its largest island so that they can Increase their yield of crops. MaJ. C. G. Hopkins of the Illinois agricultural department, and Lieut. C. J. Bouyoucos, a native Greek educated In America and a former Instructor at Michigan Agricultural College, are In charge of the agricultural survey of Greece and Crete. About five thousand refugees from Asia Minor are sheltered and fed on the Island of Crete. These are distributed |ptbe large towns of Candla. Retlinno and Canea, and In the small towns of the Interior. American Red Cross representatives have visited these refugees as well as the civilian and military hospitals on the Island of Crete, In addition to Investigating the conditions of the Greek soldiery returned from German prison camps and the townspeople of the island. The greatest needs of the Inhabitants of the Island are an Institution for the treatment of tuberculosis, medicines and medical supplies, blankets and-Maple foods. ' MAI* BALSAM AWMmmHS B«t>s »o «r»<t«aU nrRatahiC hit# Chicken Hawks. Lancaster, Pa.--A white chicken hawk--that's a new one. But It's a reality, for Ira E. Mel linger Is exhibiting six little fuzzy ones that are as white as snow. Melllnger found his specimens In the lower end of the county and secured them after fighting and killing a big rattlesnake which was trying to find the nest. The hawks are at Mellinger's home living on raw liver. Teacher Was Outclassed. On the last day of school I gave our neighbor's small boy a bouquet of flowers to take to his teacher. On returning home from school I said to him, "Well, Tommy, did you give yoBC teacher the flowers?" He replied: "No ma'am. I met JUS •nd she looked better to me than tho teacher, so I gave them to her."--Chicago Tribune. Anger punlahea Itself. FIRST GERMAN LEVY ON $1,200 I park, while with Noll's sister, Helen. Noll Is said to have threatened Drey •Uyinntng at That Point Oraduate Taxaa Affect All Property ^ in Qountry. ' '^Copenhagen. -- Mathlas Erzberger, German minister of finance, has issued a statement, according to a Berlin dispatch to the Tidende. that the proposed levy on property In Germany will begin at 5,000 marks (normally about $1,200) and will be grad- ** nated up to 10 per cent for property valued at 50.000 marks ($12,500). The rate will become higher with property the valuation of which is above this figure until It reaches 65 Her cent on property above 3.00(1,000 marks ($750,000). • The levy will be payable by Installments extending over thirty yean, boffatnlng with January, 1320. > -/ «*• In Jail, Escapes ArMat * Reading, Pa.--Fred Noll • considers Wmself lucky in having been In jail. The police have been looking for him In connection with the mysterious •hooting of Harry Drey In Hampden because the latter was a married man. The police discovered recently that Noll has been In jail for a week on a trespassing charge. "Gee, I'm glad I'm In jail,"-was Noll's comment when he learned the officers had suspected him. The police now believe a woman may have been the assailant. Postmistress Wants Pay. Pittsburgh, Pa.--Miss Hilda Bloomberg, postmistress at Wilson, Is wondering if she will he able to recover from the United States government for feeding 20 chicks received through the mail a few days ago. Seeing that the chicks were In need of feed, Miss Bloomberg took upon herself the task of providing for them until such time as their owner should claim them. Aa yet no owner has - On the Job. Fort Dodge, la.--"Do it now," always was Lawyer Albert Behren's motto, so when another car bumped into his he at once served notice of snit for $1,275 damages. ITALY DEMOBILIZES 2,200,000 MOST PERFECT RECRUIT. All Men of Classes Between 30 an# 48 Included In Number Diamlased From Service. Rome.---Nearly 2,200.000 soldiera of the Italian army have been demobilised since the signing of the armistice, according to a statement Just issued by the government through the Stefan' agency. Of this number- there were 22.' general officers, 75,000 officers of the staff and line and 1,700,000 enlisted men. The latter comprised all the men of the classes between 30 and 45 years of age and men of the remaining classes who were released for special reasons. The remaining effectives of the Italian army In service 2,000,000, " The Weaker 84*. St. Louis.--The weaker sex was not iWdeputy sheriff, seven hastily sworn assistants and a commandeered truck were required to take Mrs. J. Camp* bell to jaiL Martin C. Osberg of Harmony, Mo., who has just enlisted in the army. Is the most perfect physical specimen out Of 10,000 persona who have presented themselves for array service IS HIT AS SNAKE CHARMER during the past few years at the Boston recruiting station. Osberg is a Swede, but came to this country early id, life and lived on a farm, which he claims Is the secret of his physical perfection. He is twenty years old, weighs 152 pounds, stands Inches and has a chest measure of 24 to 38 Inches. MAY DOUBLE POTASH PRICES Abyssinian Flings Big Anaconda Around Cage to Wake It for Visitors. German Syndicate Asks Permit Meet Deficit and High Costs. Weimar, Germany.--The potash syndicate has asked the government to grant permission to raise the price of potash 100 per cent owing to the Increased cost of production. The syndicate says it has a deficit of 4C.- 000,000 marks ($11,500,000) for the first three months of this jear and I Washington. -- Dutce Dodjazmatci Nado, a member of the imperla Abyssinian delegation now visiting this country, picked up the huge anaconda In the Washington zoo and calmly shook the sleeping reptile Into ! consciousness. Onlookers gasped. The delegation was visiting the zoo, where specimens of the wild beasts which were sent to former President Roosevelt from Abyssinia by Emperor Menelik II are quartered. They had paused by the cage of the anaconda. It was asleep. One of the party expressed a desire to see the snake move and the guide prodded it with a stick, but It dozed on. When further proddings failed to disturb It Duke Nado thrust his hand into the declares it will be forced to shut down cage ami, taking the reptile by the unless it can Increase its selling th/oat. shook It until it quivered ind price. What la good is difficult. Squirmed into wakefulness. 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