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VOL. xxvin
AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, LO^^AND_GENERALJN^
NAZARETH, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 26, 1918
GLASS EX!!ORTS NATIONJO THRIFT
Secretary   of   Treasury   Issues
Statement, Pointing to Great
Financial Needs.
WANTS    ALL    BONDS    KEPT.
MISS MARGARET WILSON.
Doing    Her    Bit   by   Singing For     Men     at     the     Front.
pifth   Liberty   Loan   Heralded  to   Meet He.ivy   Expenses   of   Army   Demo¬ bilization—Workers    Should Maintain  Organizations.
Wnshlngton. — Serrctury of the ¦I'rcii-^iir.v tiiuss in a statciiifnt expliiln- Inj: Ilil' lioccs.slty for a now Liberty l,,aii iit'.'it sprint; nnd iinnonncint; tlmt tln> i.-i.sue would 'll' in short term honds ur.t'-il tlie iiodpli! of llic I'lillcd States iidt to relax their p,-itri(itle elTorts in Mippurt of the Kovernment.
.s.'.retiiry Glass dei'lared that tliere i.s ihrotiKiioiit tiK* eonntry u feeling ol rel:i\nllon and that niaiiy persons liohl il,,.- bonds of the lirst four Issues un ili.«|iiislng of Ihem. He warned afiains' siiili a course, stating; that so lonj; iis i; Is neces.sary for the Kiiveriiinent to sill bonds it l.s essential that tlie pur- (¦lul^er retain tliem.
'i'he statement of Mr. Glass follows:
in assumlnt; the ofllce of secreiary of llie treasury I desire to say a few Wl ids to tlie AnKTlcnn [people, and piirlicularly to the splendid orKanlza- tliiiis of men and women whose un- seltish 'labors, under the leadership of m.v Rrrat predecessor, liave made Iho ginr.T of our war finance one of tlie mo'^t glorious chapters in the history of Vmerlca'g part In the war.
MllUond of Americans hare contrib- Bteil In the most vital tangible and nfcesssry way to the winning of the WHf. They have loaned their dollara to th^lr country with no small sacrt- flee of personal comfort and enjoy¬ ment and hare given largely of per- sonnl effort and service. I'^or all time we have disproved Ihe slander that Ainerlrana are a money loving people, Ininpable of rising above materialistic things. In the eighteen short raontha of the war the American people sub¬ scribed for ,?18,()00,(HH),000 of Liberty boi.ils and war savings cortlticates. The banking Institutions and the peo¬ ple of the Ponntry financed the re¬ quirements of tlie war in anticipation of tbe Llbei^y loans i:nd of the taxes for the tlscal year ended ,Iune 30, 1U18, by the purcha.so of a total of .^IX.'iiMJ,- OOO.IHK) of treasury certificates of in¬ debtedness, all of whicii bail heen re¬ tired or provided .or out of ta.xes or tioiid l.'iHiie ut Ibe time the armistice was signed.
Tbe expendlturos of the government, excluding transactions In the principal of tbe public debt, during the current flscal year, beginning .luly 1, 1918, to and Including December 10, 1918, ex¬ ceeded $9,t3t)0,0O0,(X)O. Expenditures In tbe month of November nearly enuale.l ,$L',()(K),0(K),(KK), and in the cur- nnl mnnlh of Dei'enibcr, to pn<l in- chiilliic December 10, exceeded $1,- 0(Ki.iMHi,(H»0. The proceeds of the fmirtb Liberty loan so far re¬ ceived have all been spent, and the re¬ maining Installments payable on sub- srrlpilons to that loan wlli be needed to iiiict maturing treasury certitii'ates of Indebtedness isstied in aiitlclpution cif thai loau and as yet unpaid.
s:ii'P the armistice was signed Sec- reinrv McAdoo has estimated that the CH'-ti outgo from the treasury during the cunent flscal yenr ending June HU, 1910, will amount to $18,(»(I(1,ihm»,(X)u, an! much more than half of that nmount has already been expended in the five and one-half months which hnve elapsed. The treaty of peace has i:iii yet been signed, nor iiiiy Importanl part of our army demobilized, i'roduc- tliiii of war miiterlals and supplies bud reached the pealt at the time ibe armls¬ tire wns signed, nnd the bill Incurreil dnrlng ibat period of maximum pro- diuiioM must be paid.
The treasury must Issue another large loan before the end of the tlscal year, and I am entirely In accord wiili the policy already oulllno<l that this loan should take the form of bonds of .'il oi-t maliirliies.
NO. 4
I'aii.-.. Mi.-^.i .Margaret Wilson, ihe daughter of the I'resident, bus left Paris for n concert tour of thirty days among American troops near (.'liuu- moiit, wliere the American headquar¬ ters is located.
SEES GERMANY RUINED
Defeat Greatest Calamity That Has Happened in 2,000 Years.
WORLD'S   NEWS   IN CONDENSED   FORM
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PARIS.—Ambassador Sharp, speal<- 'I'g al Iho cornerstone laying of a fnonunient to Wilbur Wright at Le mans, iVance, expre8Se<l belief lhat | Government till- nalions wouhl put a bun upon air I'liiiic bombing operations.
LONDON.—T.  P.  O'Connor declares
Rathenau,   tHead   of   Great   Electrical
Industry,   Predicts   the   "Ball<anl-
zatlon   of   Europe."
London.—H. T. (Jreeiiwall, the Dally Express correspondent, has Interview¬ ed In Berlin Dr. Ilatheiiau, head ot the German (ieneral illectrical Company, one of the largest employers of labor In Germany,    lie said :
"Oermany is rulneil for generations to come. It is the greatest calamity that has happened in any country for 2,000 years. We are ruined politically, Industrially and economically.
"All our people here do not yet Icnow the truth. I told the German people that they would lose the war, but ev¬ erybody scoffed at tne.
"We have a population of nearly 70,- 000,000. Half of them can live on what frows on our soil or la found below it. The other half live on the Industries for whieh all materials have to be bought and paid for by what they seil.
"Now our colonies are going, and Al- sace-I>orralne, too, wlih all the ores and the greater part o' the potash production. There Is danger of losing other parta of our '¦ountry, the Dan¬ ish and so called Polish dlstrleta, which in realty are German.
"Then comes llie question of Indem¬ nities. If the Indemnities are high, the Interest and repayments will talie our savings, and we shall have notli- Ing with which to exjiand our Indua- trles. lUack ruin will face us, and there will be a great tide of emigra¬ tion probably to Soiiih America and the far east and certainly to Russia. It wlli be most dreadful, and the re¬ sult will be the liaikanlzutlon of Eu¬ rope.
"The disappearance of Germany from a position of Importance will be the most dangerous fact In history. Sooner or later the eastern [xiwers will press on the western civilization. '
Turning to llie food question. Dr. Uallienau said :
"Germany has been hungry for three years, but Is not yet Ftarvlng. Every¬ body who sees Germnny will say that she Is not starving now, and that Is perfectly true. Hut If you talk of provisions to be found In (iermany you must say truthfully that they will be exhausted In two inonths, and If you wait until tlii>n to send food It will be too late, because Tt),(HN),(»0() people cannot be fed ps easily as, say, 7,tXX).- (XK)  IJelglans.     Ships  are .the  greatest
il food map of H^urope today shows nat a single country In which the fu¬ ture does not bold threat of serious dlfllcultU's nnd only i small part which Ib not rapidly apiiroachlng the famine point. With the exception of the Ukraine only those countries which have maintained marine commerce have sufficient food supplies to meet actual needs until next harvest, and even in the Ukraine, with .stores accu¬ mulated on the farms, there Is famine in the large centers of population.
Belgium nnd norttiern France, as well as .Serbia, appear on the hunger map distinct from the rest of Europe because they stand in a different rela¬ tion from tiie other iialifms to the peo¬ ple of Ihe United ,States. America has for four years maintained the small war rations of .Jelgium and northern France und Is already malting special efforts to care for their increased aftei»the-war needs, whicli, with those of Serbia, must be included In this plan, are urgent tn the extreme and must have inunediate relief.
The gratitude of the Belgian nation for tlie help America has extended to her during the war constitutes the strongest appeal for us to continue our work there, 'i'he moment the (Jerman armies withdrew from her soil and she was established once more In her own
seat of government the little nation's first thought was to express her grati¬ tude to the Commission for Relief In Belgium for preserving the lives of millions of her citizens.
fJermany, on the other hand, need not figure In such a map for Ameri¬ cans because there Is no present Indi¬ cation that we shall he called on at all to take thought for the food needs of Germany, (iermany probably can care for her own food problem if she is given access to shipping and Is enabled to distribute food to the cities with dense populations, which are the trou¬ ble centers.
England, France, the Netherlands and E'ortugal, ull of which have been maintained frr)m American supplies, have suflicient food to meet Immediate needs, but their future t'resents seri¬ ous dlfticulties. The same Is true of Spain and the northern neutral coun¬ tries—Norway, Sweden and Denmark —whose ports have been open and who have been able to draw to some degree \ upon foreign supplies.
Most of Russia is alren<ly In the throes of famine, and 40.0r»().(100 people I there are beyond the possibility of j help. Before another spring thou- j sands of them Inevitably must die. This applies as well to Poland and I practically   throughout   the   Baltic   re¬
gions, with conditions most serious lo Finland.
Boiiemla, Serbia, Roumania and Montenegro have already readied the famine point and. are suffering a heavy toll of death. 'I^he Armenian popola- tlon Is falling each week as hunger takes Its toll, and In Greece, Albania and Roumania f^o serious are ihe food shortages that famine is near Al¬ though starvation is not yet imminent, Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur¬ key are In the throes of serious Ftrln- gencies.
In order fo fulfill .Americas pledge In world relief we will have to export every ton of food which can be han¬ dled through our ports. This means at the very least a minimum of 20.0(X),0()0 tons compared with CiXlO.fHX) tons pre¬ war exports and 11,820,()(X» tons ex¬ ported last year, when we were bound 1 by the ties of war to the European allies.
If we fail fo lighten the black spo s on the hunger map or if we allow any portions to become darker the very peace for which we fought and bled will be threatened. Revolt and anarchy Inevitably follow famine. Should this happen we will see In other parta of Europe a repetition of fhe Russian de¬ bacle and our tight for world pcAce will have been In vain.
FOR GERMAN REPUBLIC
Official    Suggests    Coblenz    as Capital of a Rhineland State.
Would   Have   Pollah   Provinces   of   P^ merania,  Posen  and  Silesia  Incor¬ porated With Prussia.
REV. GEORGE RHO.^D
SPE.XKE AT BATH.
ILiLEGAl. TO SEIZE RUM.
factor in feeding (Jennanf.'
GERMANS   PLAN   BIG   ARMY.
'"iisrripi|(,n   Issue   Is   silll   a   live
Accepts       IHIndenburg's
Scheme for  People's  Guard.
London. -The    German    goveriinient
has  accepted   Field   Marsh;;!   von   llin-
denhurg's    plan    to    form    a    p<M)ple's
The ReT- Georgo Rhoad, wlio started
away from Bath, this county, fifteen vears ago, on his way for Ihe .Mission I'ii'ld in .Mhoni, British Bast Africa, logethir  with  Mra.  Rhoad and  fami-
I ly, returned last Sunday to occupy the pulpit of St. John's Lutheran Church. Bath, Rev. Dr. Ochsenford, paslor, in fhe morning and in the • ¦vening gave an illui«ra.ted lecture in the Christ Reformed Church, Rev. William   U.   Helffrich,   pastor.
The people of Bath enjoyed both gatherings and were deeply impreissed with what Rev. Rhoads had spoken to
; them.
.Mr. Rhoad, who is working into nof only a national reputation as a man engagod in a big mission work, but is gaining an intematonal repir- fafon along lines that is awakening greater interest in missionary work in Ihe Africas.
Mr. Rhoad Is a type of missionary that works out his future along set lini"«- With the cooperation of his wife he has translated the >few Testa¬ ment into the native tongue 6i the pe<iple among whom he works, and this Testament, with another work, is being printed by the British Bible So<-ety.
Mr. Rhoad combini'.t; scholarship and speaking ability, and Bath peo¬ ple did not l(>.t th&se two services pix.'Js without learning moro ahout the work he is doing and thi> greatness of
j tho part of the world It is being done
! in.
I      Mr.  Rhoad also spont a shf»rt time
' with his friends at Bath about eight yi-ars ago Mathltes aro very much intereated In the work of Bir. Rhoad and always arrange for a vory inter¬ esting program.
Confiscation of infoxitant bever¬ ages from men arrested for being drunk on the streets of Coatesville, is illegal, ruled Judge J Frank K. Hause, West Chester, in a lengthy opinion handed down Monday in the case of Lee Soule, colored, vs. .Mayor Swing, of Coatesville. Soule had been arrested, fined and the .Mayor confiscattxl whisky valued at $S. Judgment was entered for the value of the li(iiror and the costa will also be placed on the defendant.
.Mayor   Swing,   aftor   receiving   the decision, decided to <arry fhe case to Ihe Supreme Court, and has the tiack inf^  of  the  N'o  License League
The Court in its opinion says that liciuor is personal property and a re¬ cognized article of commerce, and further: "That the defendant miglu have indulged in its use to such an extent as to have impaired his neajth or made himself temporarily a nuis¬ ance to the community, .lid not justi¬ fy defendant nowever commendable his motives in ilonfi.sc^iting tho prop¬ erty. In fhe eyes of the law, from the viewpoint of property, it was hi> and his ownership of it is entitietl to the same protection as any other liroperty he may see fit to pirrchase   "
Coate;=ville has ben "dry" for two .vears and the decision handed down it has be<>n point<»<i out. gives those asi)iring for hotel lii'enses next Mar<-h renewed life
STATE  sr>\(;  WRITTEN
BY   \.\Z-\RETI1   .VI.\.\'.
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NURSE Sl'PPOSEl* T(» UE
Il.l. I'OUND  l)E.\I).
'""'" ''¦¦"'"'   Britain  and   lhat  In  the    guard or national army, according to a 'iiiildlcd    p.dltical    silualion    tliere    It    Copenhag.'n dispatch.
"liiy make  trouble  for  the  new   l.loyd '¦i'ori;i'  iiiliiisiry.
WASHINGTON.— The   federal   em- l'l"ymeiit   service   will   iiM   women   for ^*"ik on  farms by a scheme of co op •¦¦¦iitlon approve.l by W,n. B.  Wilson.
PARIS._a Bolshevist army of four "ivlsioiis is nuinhinn on .Mliua. and S'K'tlier force U advanring on Riga In ••i«' steady Invasion Lithuania.
It Is said that llie German army un I der this plan will tie stronger than I ever. All ofllcers have rec(.|ved In- I atructlons to keep the details secret. j Women wlli be employed for auxiliary I services.
POPULAR NA/.ARETH
TEA("HER   WEDH.
of   Kslhonla   ami
WASHINGTON.-Demobllization   of
"le   l„„„e   mllliary   forces   at   the   rate
of rio.iKK, u „uy.  Ihe goal set   1
¦  'iioriih  ago by  th
^«s   been   reached.   If   not   exceeded.
*lthln the past few days.
n,.i    I     ''ORK.— Flight over the north    appropriations and authorizations vot-
P"'o t'y  "'apt.   Robert   A.   Bartlett  will
¦>« mail
eaa than war  depariment,
$16,000,000,000  NOT  EXPENDED,
Sherley Tells of Covering Back of Appropriations. Washington. - .More than $lt5,(K)(),- 0OO,0CK) of cash appropriations voted by Congress for war pun>oses will be unexpended, Ri-presentatlve Sherley (Ky ), chalmian of ibe Ilouse Appro¬ priations Committee. announce<l.  Total
IbT  4        .T*^'*  summer and  Is  backed ^^-W.OOO to flnnnce explorations.
ed during the war amounfed fo abont |B7,(XX),000.000, Including $10,000,000;- 000 of authorisation for wartime loana to foreign governmen ta.
.\ quiet home wedding was solemn¬ ized Sunday rnorsing. when Miss Hel¬ en C. Oswald, well-known and popu¬ lar N'azareth school teacher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs John Oswald, of .Vaz¬ areth, and Jamt<8 I.,. Grubb, of Naza¬ roth, formerly of Millerstown, were united in marriage
Tho ring ceremony was performed by Rev. Jamee B Oswald, of Slating- ton, in the proeonce of the imme>diate familie« of the coin>|e
A sumptuous dinner wa« served, and Mr and Mrs. Grubb subsequantly left on a winldlng trip to Mlllertown and other [loiats. Mr Orubb waa for¬ merly treasurer of the Slate Bolt Tel- phon Company. He is now employed a« secretary for John A. Miller, of .Vaeareth. The couple wtll make f-heir home in Nazareth.
To go fo file home of a sister In Hellertown fo take Mis« Mao Strouse, of Stroudshurg, ill wilh pneur.ionia. to her home, only to Iind that she had died, was the sad experience oi ii Stroudshurg ambulance driver on Friday The young woman, a train¬ ed nurse, had gone fo Hellertown fo take care of Mrs. Joseph Parker, and then contracfixi the diswias*' herself. The body was romove<l to the home of her parents, .Mr and Mrs. Elmer Strouse. of Strtiudsburg. R. R. Kel¬ ler, a Stroudaburg undertaker, took iharg«> of the remains.
Tho young woman was 2 9 years of age and   had  8tu<lied  nursing  at  the Monroe County  MospiLal      Mrs.   Par¬ ker,  the sister,   Ls  ill  wilh  influeaza The parenta  were     terribly     shocKed when the ambulance ilrove up to their home late l'''riday afternoon and they , were   informed   that   their   daughter^ was dead      Betiidefl the parents there survive    one     brother.     Hobert,     of Cherokee,   la ,   the sister mentioned, and a  half-brother George Brink, of j Stroudshurg ;
i The Governor of Pennsylvania re- ! cently issired an appeal for a State Song. .Amongst the responses is one written hy our townsman fhe Hon. O. A. Schneebeii entitled 'Penneyl- vania."
He   has   de<licate<l   it   to   the  N'aza- I reth  Y.  M. C   A. and  it  will be sung 'for the first time in their auditorium The song   is  given   herewith: fEX.VSYLVA.N'IA "
(Tune  .America Hail   ['ennsylvania! Banner of States thou art. Thy name is gre.at. Thy glory is renowned. Thy equal  is not Wound; Thou art the N'ictor crowned Hail   Keystone Siate
When   William   P«>nii  .ipiieme.i
He on  thy domain rearwl
Eternal   fame.
Fair dealt  he  with the free
Re<l man of destiny.
His precepts wou for thee
.\  glorious name "
When galltNl the British yoke When    Independence   woke. Thy sonn piOved  true They fo the rescue came. .\nd won undying fame. .•\nd glorifle<l thy name Eor Freedom's cause.
Hail   Pennsylvania' Fairest of States thoir art. Thee we adore. To thefi w«''l| faithful prove We (dodge our sacivd love To the<> and  God above. For evermore.
',     \    Schneebeli,   Mazareth.   Pa
\1lH-       S,     1 0 1  S
Dresden. .K    Rhenish   oth( ;al    ad¬
vances the suggestion for a future Geriiinny compowd of .seven republica Construi-ted along the lines of the Unit¬ ed Stales a.-- follow s :
First—I pper Sa.xoiiy, composed of the former kingdom of Sa.xony, wifh Thurlngi.a, Erfurl, .Magdeburg,_,\nhalt and 'ierman Bohemia. Capital, I'res- den.
Second- Lower ,Saxony, wiih Han¬ over, l.lppe. Brunswick, Oldenburg, Hrenien. Hamburg, Lubeck and S<lile«- wigllolsieln.    Capital, Hanover.
Third - Rliinelaiid, wifh Baden, .\1- aace, Pfalz. Rhenish Hesse, the Rhine province, Hesse-N'asaau and Wempha- lla.    Capital, Coblenz.
Fourth- Swablu.   with   Wurttemberg and  Ilohenzollern.    Capital,  Stuttgart. j      Fifth    Bavaria.
I      Sixth—German   .\ustrla,  with  Veler- I mark. Kaenntus and the Tyrol.
Severtfli Briindeiihurg and Prussia, with Mecklenherg. Pomeruiiia. Posen and Silesia.    Capital, Berlin
Professors Want  14 or  15  Republics.
Amsterdam.— The I)us.seldorf .\arh- rlchten say.s that the conference held at Berlin to discuss rhe new constitu¬ tion of (ierniaii.v agreed ujitin ilie fol¬ lowing fiindamenials :
An elected president, to be lu'ad of the government with powers midway between those of ibe President of the United States ami the king of Eng¬ land: parliameniiiry principles fo gov¬ ern the president in forming a cabinet, which will he assisie<l by delegates of the federal republics to the so <'alled Btateiihau.s, wtiicti corresponds fo the American Senate Tbe sfateiiliaus, how¬ ever, musf not uiii-rfere with the In¬ dependence of the Individual federal reputdli's, which will number 14 or l.">.
The [lartIcliiatiis in the conference Included Hugo Preiiss. state se<-refary of the interior : Profes.sor Peters, Pro¬ fessor .Max Wetier of the Uni\ersity of Heidelberg, and the .\u8triaii .Mln- j ister Harti.ian, all well known authori¬ ties on cnnstlluMonal law
Hun Minister Expelled. Lii'v. luburg - K \oii Buch, German minister to Luxemburg sim'e March, 1914, has. fogeiher with hi* advisers, been 4'Xpelled from the country by the grand ducal gov ernmeiif. Ihree I.ux- emtturg minl.sters of state tiave left fhe capllHl for I'aria.
m\m% LOSE
2,000,000 IN WAR
6.066J69   Total   Casuafties There Were 4.750,000 Prussians.
NAVAc     LOSSES      IN;.ljUED.
Number of Officers  Killed  Up to Octa-
ber  24   Was  44.700—French   Dead
Total    1.400,000 — Gernnan
Casualties b.06()./'69
Paris.- French soldiers to the num¬ ber of 1,4()().(X»<) were killed durlii« tbe wnr, according to a slaiement by tka Socialist depiily, I.iiden Vollin, In fh« chanilier of deputies during an Inter- pellaiioii of tbe government  on  (Jetno-
; bili/.iiiioii.
Deputy \iiilin a.sked lhat tbe Sol¬ diers be relurned to the soil and the factories witlioul delay and continued: "I lielray no secret when I saj^ lhat the problein of demobilization pre«enta itself thus: We have iiiobillzed 9,900,- fXK» men, we have atiout 1,400,000 kllleil. whil.- S(K) (JOG recovered from wounds. We are going to ileinotilllze 1,'2(K),(»<»0 reserves, territorials and h«ads of families."
i When llie total German casualties are published ihe number of dead will t>€   about   i;,(J(»U,(J(KJ.   according   fo   tiie
' ("ologiie Gazette of November 2S. a copy of whicli bati been received her*. Up to Octoiier 2.5 the total caBualtlea reptj.ted were (?,(mfl,769. of whonn more than 4,7.">0,()00 were Pruaatana. The total Includes the naval casuairtea, which were 70,0(XJ. <omprlBed of more than 25,l»(XJ dead, more than LI.OOO missing and nenrly 29 (XM. woonded.
(.'asualty list No. 1,284, pubtlKlied on October 24,  according   lo  the  Cologne
'Gazette, placed the nuniber of dead at
¦1,611.104, tbe number of woundeil at 3,6a^.l43   and   the   missing   at   772,522.
j The Hun newspaper says that of thp number reported missing 180,001} may be considered dead.
The Hun Journal used the word "ap- pa^lng" in describing fhe casualties among tbe offlcers. The total on (Vro- ber 24   Included   44.700  ofticerB   killed,
' 82,460 officers wounded an<l IH.800 missing, a total of 140.700. The Iob« In officers alone, fhe new«i|)aper .ssiya, exceeds the total cas'naltics of (}«r- niany In the Franco Prussian war of 1^70.  when  the total  losses  were   129,-
Q9a
The total on October 24, which did not Include casualty Iibts from the flghting on the western front after that date, nor fhe German looses la Palestine, was apportioned by the newspaper as follows among the vari¬ ous army contingents:
Prussia — 1.2(T2.0(X) deail 2.882,781 wounded, 616,i:<H missing: total. 4,760.- 870.
Bavaria — ir.0.r,.-A dead, 383,823 wounded.   72,11"   nii.saing;   total,   ^80,-
Saxony — 108.017 dead, 252.027 wounded,   51,787   missing,   total,   411,-
Wuritemburg 04..">07 dead. l.V5,«r»4 wounded,   16,S(r_'   missing:   total,  236,-
Navy-2ri,8C2 dead. '28.1W8 woundefl, 15.679"missing; tdal, 70,,V)9
Wlih ttie exception of the npval losaes. which slio%\ nearly 00 per flt-nt of ."Germany's ria-.al personnel In ISJ17, the li>tal number of (ierman <'hsiiuI 'ties, t»,0(i6,7t39, reiiorieii In tbe Oilojtne tiazette of No\enili«'r 25 as liavim; been registered up to (Vtobcr '25, Hln<* the war began, ipproxlmately agree*) wifh tl.'e estmiates made abroad, both official anil uiioilirial. Ttie naval ••hmi allies, however, go far beyond all for eign estimates and are almost dotibi*' ibe British naval Ions. The (Jerman naval loss is disiribut»>d as fol/own: 2.">,Si^ dead. 2S.'.*<ni wounded, 1,\8TM missing : total, ~^\,:*fd.
The Briilsti loss at »«'«. according to a statemenr of the udmlralty on Nineniber 26, had been np lo Vovem¬ ber 11, ,'iU.7lMi, dislrih Jtv'd as follows: iH-ad, ,H,'i„'t(;i : woiiiHie.! - ISM miNKing, 47 :  prison, rs,  1,1 7'.
Hov  UtVKI) T<) SKK KIKK.S.
Th* "It«iu" mppll«a th* b«at n*w* lo the   oouDty.     '4ub«arlb«   far    IU
Montgotr.ery County Cotrrts. .Mon day after hisiring teefiraony relative to the sc-tting fire fo Misa Wood' Sihool for delinquents at Roslyn, I: the Old York road section, perniiffe!! the boy's father, who is a lawyer in Pontica. Mich . to take him home.
Ahington police testified that Stan ley Till.son admitte<l to them that h' hail .set flre to a bed on tho secon floor, and made a flre in a closet un der a stairway on fhe first floor, o December 17. He said De liked to se fhe blaze and the flre engines. H aid too. that he had flred the barn O' the premistea. October .11. which bur ned with losa to the owner, Willian John«on, of 18000.
Miss Wood and other teachers o the school testified that young Till- on, while 13 year* of age, had fh meotal development of a shld ot 7.
EX AMBASSADOR    P*AGE    DIES.
Diplomat  Had  Been   in   F,iillnu   Health
i for a Year.
I Plnehursi. N. C. ^ Walter Hines Page, former anibas.sador to i ireat Britiiiii, died here. Mr Page had been In failing health for more than a y.Mir. His resignation of the amiiasajidorship was due to this 'act. He came here several weeks ago in fhe hoi.e that the dry. jdney air of the Carolina moun¬ tains might have a beneficial effect. rVath was dlre<-tly due •,¦ pulnn'iiHry trouble.
WOULD    HURRY    SOLDIERS'    PAY,
Baker Asks Law to End Delays for Wounded Veterans. Washington - Immediate legislatloo to permit the war deiiartment to paj In full -soldiers returning from over¬ seas for hoapifal treatment was asked of Congress hy Secrefar- Raker in let¬ ters to Vice President Marshall and Speaker Clark. He .-"aid i»7 p.*r cent of the soldier patients arrive in tha United States without service records or other papers showing the date to which   .ley were last paid
President Vv ,son visits Red Cross boat pital at Neuilly, France, and shakea hands and talks individually with 1,200 wounded American soldtera, most of them heroes of Chateag Thierry. He spent four hours in the hospital and e«pres8ed admiration for the care bestowed on the men and pleasure for the spirit they showed.
Russia's fate is under serious consid eratlen in London, but no plan haa yet been adopted by the allies, who believe that the size of the Bolshe¬ vist army has been greatly tn^x^tMr. ated. *
A Rhenish official cornea forward with a plan for a German federation oa American lines, composed of sevan •tates, Includino Al.ace in Mm Rhineland and incorporatlna tlM Polish provinces of Pomerania. I»». aen and Silesia  with Prusma
American flyer, .hot down 8M Ger¬ man airplanes in the war, while thay lost only 271 machlnea i
Count    Romanonea.    8pan„h    preml.i, •aya that  Spain  la now pro-airy   *»