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THE WEATHER 1 ]' Fair aud somewhat colder Sun¬ day; Monday fair. | SUNDAY INDEPENDENT LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT TO 3 A. M. SUNDAY - MOST COMPLETE SPORT SECTION IN THE CITY PRICE FIVE CENTS The Only Sunday Newspaper Published in L>iizerne County WILKES-BARKE, PA., SUNDAY, I ERUl ARV 7, l*)i:*. Entered at Wilkes-Barre, P*. «.<) Second Class Mail Matter PRICE FIVE CENTS MYSTERIOUS WAR MESSAGE BROUGHT HERE RY Carrier Drops with Broken Wing From Roof of Hazle Street Hotel and Message Pur¬ porting to Have Been Written in Belgium by German Warrior Is Found—Message Is Written in English EXCITED DEBATE OVER PROBABILITY ON GENUINENESS HINGES ON THE DATE-UNE \ That portion of Wilkes-Barre city which has been known for years as "The Bowery" was thrown into a state of wildest excitemen: last night when a carrier pigeon with a brok- 2n wing dropped from the roof to the sidewalit fronting the hotel of Fred Jacobs at 59 Hazle street, fluttering from its neck a message wrapped in the heading of a German newspaper and bearing evidences of having been scrawled by a German soldier fighting in the trenches of Belgium. "Dear wife, the message read, "I am alive and weH in the trenches of Belgium but your brother has been killed." That was all. There was not even a signature to denote the identity of the man who wrote this little tragedy of war. The pigeon, of the homing vari¬ ety, showed evidences of long flight and the injury to the wing seemed to have been received immediately before the bird was picked up from the sidewalk. The president of the Lime Kiln Club was the first to read the message. It was 'written in English and he began to wonder why a German soldier should express himself in the hated language of the men from the "tight little isle." He was going to disciss the pigeon and message as a joke sent upon the community by an illiterate trickster v/heh his eye sud¬ denly fell upon the date mark of the paper. It was Saxony, December —; the day of the month was missing. "It looks real," said the Lime Kiln president; "no German would stoop to such a trick." NEWSBOY'S DISCOVERY A newsboy found the pigeon. He kept it, too, running off home with it as soon as the message had been detached from the bird's neck and put in the hands of the anxious loiterers about the hotel. Jacobs telephoned for all his friends to come and have a glance at the words contained in the scrap of paper and then sent word to the newspaper offices. He j was sure the thing was genuine, almost as sure asMhe president of the Lime Kiln Club, i The bit of gold ribbon that held the note in place was identifiec^ ,as part of the wrappings of the Christmas packages distributed among the Kaiser's soldiers. The two points that held cut doubt regarded the use of the English script and the finding of the pigeon so far from its natural bourne. (Contiiined on Page 2.) m. wm mmm 30,000 sii ehm session Attorney Refuses to AcceptjBlood-Soaked Earth on Seven- Their Appointment to Act Mile Warsaw Front Carpet- on Deciding Board .\fier many attemirts to apxee upon a third memiher of the board sched¬ uled to decide whether or not the motormen and condiiC irs nf the Wilkos-Uarre Rail'Way Company are to be uriven a raise In wa.ge.s .S.a.miiel 1'. Warriner and .Attorne- Thomas t>. She.a ye.<Jtcrday offered .\ttorney Evan ('. .lones of this oity, an .aii- pointment a.«i arbitrator and nietMr. Jones' refusal to accept. The at- loi-ney's action came as a surprise, for It wa.s believed the ahrdest part of the neffotl.itlons would he In reaching a decision on the man who ooiild aet with Mr. \\-airiner as the comp.Tny's represeTnrKlvfi nnd Mr. .'^hea as the spoke.°men of the trolley men. -Mr. ,Iones received the apiwint- nient at noon and after meeting the two arbitrators afiroed to inal;e hi.s decision later. ,\t three o'clock he f irwarded his refii.spl, ErivinK Jio rea¬ sons for declining the place. The s;eneral opiinion i.s that tie third man must bear the br^int of the arbitra¬ tion and those w-ho wrre v.lllins to discuss the matter declared the probaWIJty of beins blamed for pos¬ sible failure tj please lhe demands of the men had some influence on Mr. Jone.s' action. Mr. \A'arrlner loft la.Mt eveninc; for Philadelphia and it is likely the next meetinjf with .Mr. .•-^hea will bo held in that cliy; that if. if anv further mc.^ing's are to he held. mmmMAY BE CALLED FOR SHIP BU Senator Simmons, Personal Representative of the Presi¬ dent, Hints That This May Come to Pass if the Repub¬ licans Should Prevent a Vote on His Measure by Fili¬ bustering Until the End of the Present Session SENATOR CUMMINS HAS NEW MEASURE TO PRESENT ed with Corpses STATE DEPARTMENT GIVES OUT THE TEXT OF GERMAN DECREE GEN. CARRJtNZA WUL REFUSE TO TAKE PART Will Not Convene Any Con¬ vention or Congress Until This Government Will Make No Representations to Ger-1 |i,g Country Is Pacified many Until the Receipt of the Explanatory Memoran-1 dum Promised by Berlin- Beheved in Washington!ra::rhtn?i„TSuo'n-o?t:rtic.p:[: That the Neutral Countries WiU Unite in a Protestie7ntL"en^,ar:fSTor".frL:%T.er I a compromise of any kind -with his __^ ¦ j enemies. He made this clear in a GERMAN AMBASSADOR GIVES AN EXPLANATION-!'.'S'he.;" .'n'^a,?",;;,"-'.""""; . I will contimie to ignore any group ,.• , . ,. 1 ,. I c. rA ., calling itself a convention or congress Washington, l-eb. (,.-he htato D^ - the act of Great Britain in minina or as-e.rtble that will attemnt to partmont gay out tonight th official the North sea wa-s not well received, meddle with, the government of I'lis te.xt of the Uerman proclamation de- it was pointed out that the two sit-i countrv whether civilian or n!m daring the water.s around Great Brit-, uuti.ms are not alike. . I tary ^^ "^'mP' cnllian or mili- ain a war zone in whleh the merchant j r«-a( Britaiii I)mie« Ttirra.!! i --i » ... vessels and crovs of neutral nations According to offi^Ks, Grf^ Brit-j action .n' tT'"'" °/ ^^e unity of will be in danger. It differs from j ain made no threat against shipping i^b 1 , ? •'' ^^'^'^i^'^t'"" "^ the statement containe din new.spa-; and took several Important steps to I country. I have deciik^l not to r dispatohe* from Berlin. Itap- avoid endangering neutral «hip<.j L.^ ' Sathering of militar> ars that Germany leaves open the ; she establi.shed trade routes through T "°'" *"^' •^°"^''*-'^^' convention lling routes around the north otithe mine fields and providd pilots' ""^ ^•''¦''''™''"'-^' =^^ '""S as the var .:on- per dispatohe* from Berlin, pea .<>a tho Shetland Islands and al.so a strip ' to take neutral vessels through". ' Thei yo miles wide alung the Dutch ct'ast. j information which the State Depart-i The State Department i.«sued _the j mont has recelvd is that .AnTTican following statement: -The War Dp-| shipping in general has suffered no partmcnt has received from the | inconvenienoe except slight delavsj American amba.v.-^ador al Berlin the I Compard with the threat to neutral DKATH FKO.'H .•iSTll.MA. rharles Fiihasis of l.uzerne Bor¬ ough died in Oity Uoppitnl at noon yesterday after a long illn ss of asth¬ ma. The bodv wa.s removed to the family home *n I..uzeme_ f Petrograd. Feb. 6.—Thirty thou¬ sand picked troops of ("Jeneral Mack- enscn's army of 100,000 have fallen already In his desperate assiiuUs upon War.saw, and the slaughter continues as the Oerman*: today olTor stubborn resistance along the seven- mile, front to n \'Hgoroiis , Rii.ssian counter-offensive. Having bro'uon the or*elaug!).t "if soyen divisions of Von Mackensen's infantry in the fighting of Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, the Kiis- ^•ians crossed the Bzura, at lt« junc¬ tion with the Vistula, today, and dis¬ lodged the Germans from a bridge¬ head at Dakowo. It .seenis appar'-nt that the severe reverse suffered by the Germans im the fieven-mile front of Goumine-BorJImow on February 2. 3 and 4, has enabled the Russians to take the ir.itiative. More than a quarter of a million picked troops and more than lOiio ilifavy guns now are ensrat;ed in ilie 1 terrific battle in the region of the Bzura and Rawka HIvers in Boland, [and upon the outcome of this con¬ flict hangs the fate of the present campaign for the mastery of West¬ ern I'oiand. - General von Mackeneen continues hi.^^fforts to smash the Hu.ssian cen¬ tre and open up the v.-ay for th« drive the Gemian.s are trying to m.'ike a.gainst Warsaw. He has lock¬ ed with the Husslans in a death grip, the ferocity of which "nas not previ¬ ously been known in the present war. However, the Kussian success In crossing to the West bank of the Bzura indlcat^-s that fhe r^ar is turn¬ ing the GeriTian left win?. tinues. When .peace is restore^ I shall call a congress properly elect¬ ed by all the citizens which shall have the character of thi{ constitu¬ tional congress with the end that 't shall enact ail the reforms dictated text of a proclamation is.>'ued by the | vessels and their crews oontained In, Muring the struggle and giVg them German Admiralty, on Feb. 4, re-j the German proclamation there w-aq'the validity of constitutional pj,.^:. ading as follows: "The waters around Great Britain including the Knglish channel, are deolarod included in the zone of war und that after the ISth Inst, all en- viny merchant vesseUs encountered in these waters will be dstro>ed even If it ma\ rr»t always be po.*>sible to save their orews and passengers. "Within thi.s war zone, neutral ves- nofhing in the condition developed h.v the British, according to State. Department officials whioh req^ilredi a protest by the I'nited State.o. The minister from the Netherlands. Chevalier f'an Rappard, conferred with -Mr. Ijjinsing informally r^ard ing the effect of the German procla saons. The Star.e Department received dis¬ patches .saying that conditions are In a turmoil. Employes of the gov¬ ernment and tramways had been paid their wages in worthless money Is- Bued by Gen. Villa, the day ha issued 'I his decree. On Feib. 4 ther,> were mation on neutral nations. This l.s , popular demonstrations against the nullification of tho currency system, say.-j the State Department advices. Aguaprieta. Feb. 6.—GeneB-ai Calle.^ commanding the ("arranzista forces here received advices this afferjuon from Nogales stating that the Gun¬ boat Guerro had arrivtid off Guaya- regarded as a preliminary step in a Rels are exposed to danger since In | movement among the neutral coun- view of the mlsu." eof the neutral ! tris to unite in a protest «ith tha flags ordred by the government of j United States taking the lead. <;rcat Britain on the .'^Isfultimo. and; i (jcinian .\niI>a.ssador Savi "Xhsnrd." ot the hazards of warfare, neutral | The German .\mba'*sa|Dr Liaed a, vessels cannot always be prevented | statement declaring it absurd to re-. from .suffering from attacks intended gard the action of Germany a.« a "pai' for enemy .ships. '(per blockad.e. He explai|ed that tha!'"^^ ^''*'' several hundred Carranza "rne routes of navigation around|had received no Ipstructlons from-M.i i *'"°°P-''- ^®"- ^'""'^e with 4,300 Car- the north of the Shetland i.«lands in I govrn.ment concerning the proclama-. I'"'*""'''*'"' ^^'' arrived r.t OOmpalme.s the northern part of the North sea • tijn .so his statement contained slm-.'""'^ ventually these will co-operate and in a strip 30 miles w-ide along jpiy his own views. ' Germany daes ^'"^ *'^* forces brought by tht) gnn- the iDajiish coast are not in thri> j not profess to close even the Englishi' ^o"* against Guayamas. danger zone. channel to neutral commefoe," said I Reports from Sonora stat-^ that •The German foreign otfice sent tO|th statement, "and she doe.s not in-. M.OOO Yauquls of the the Maytorena the ambassador a long memorandum; | ieij.d to molest or scire .American' I'orces are now In ihg foot TiiRs of explanatory of thi.s program." ¦ vessel? laden with food ntuffs fon; San .lose mountains near N:*). XVashlneton Will AVall. :«'¦- olvi'Ian nnpiilation of^enpmv (toun.j Rumor has it tha'. Governor May- Secretary of State Lansing in the tries; It is to be hoped thii)t England . torena has chosen .\aco for his last absence of .Mr. Bryan, indicated will not make neces.sary a re-consid-,! stand. that this government will make nOjcration of this attitude by seir.ingj representations t oGermans until thej American ships like the Willie\niniu-'i receipt of the explanatory memor-| « » andum. This was after he had con- j MISSING BKOTHKR SOl'GHT _ ferred with President Wilson. i Officials of the Department indi- Any one having inform,<»i;on of Al- cate that this government has a . bert B. Hague should communicate strong right to protest against _any | with Mavor .John V. Kosek. Mr. action on the pan of Germany wTiich , Hague's brother. William B. Hague endanger American shopping. iof 12 Temple street, Pat:rson, New The suggestion in German, Quarters ijersey, has written the mayor re- that the United States c^ould not^quesllng a search for bis relative protest li^.inst Germany's declaration; j here. It being his belief Albert haa iMcause it had not protested against', taken up residence In this section. GERMAN CHARGE AGAINST SHIPS OF JOHN BULL The Cunard Liner Lusitania Crossed the Irish Sea Fly¬ ing American Flag \ I>oit*on, Feb. 6.—The oontroversy, precipitated by Germany's charge that Great Britain sevretly advised masters of British ships to fly neutral flags w-hen necessary for their pro¬ tection ag»inst shops of the en~riiy» took a seriafi.s turn tonight when it. was repcrted from Liverpool that the Cunard liner Dusitania. from New York, cros.sed the Irish sea flying tha American flag. Th epassengers o£ the liner were landecj at Liverpool early this morning. The American emblem was still displayed when sh«( made the port. The report tbat the British liner was flying an American flag was brought to Ixmdon by au American pessenger who .«ttated ttiat ihe captain claimed the right of'pro¬ tection finder the neutral colors, be-t calltie he w-a.s '-arrying neutral mail;^ and neutral passengers. While the British foreign office is without confirmation the incident i.s looked upon as extremely unforfa-v (Contlniifd on I'iuifc 2.) BRITISH MADE BIG CAPTURES IN SUEZ FIGHT Gains Reported Tend Toward Belief That Turk Opera¬ tions Are Not Serious Washington, Feb. 6.—Senator Simmons, personal representative of the President in the Senate on the ship purchase bill fight, today told the President he believed an extra session of the 64th (Jsngress ought to be called if the Republicans prevent a vote on his measure by filibustering until the close of the present session. Senator Stone, chairman of foreign relations and another of the leaders is of the same opinion. There was no material change in the situation at the capitol today. Senator Newlands is on his way to Washington and ^ expected tomorrow. The pending motion of Senator C?lark to commit the bill may come to a vote Monday. That it will prevail is admitted. Admin¬ istration leaders, however, know that with the aid of Progressives Keiiyon, La Follette and Norris they can discharge the committee from further consideration of the Gore bill and present the proposi¬ tion anew to the Senate in such shape as to command a maioritv vote If that vote can be taken. ^ ' The revelation of the day was the agreement of the Republicans to a straight out government ownership and operation scheme undei- control of the Navy department as a substitute for the Democratic measm-e. This substitute, perfected by Senator Cummins of Iowa provides simply that the Nevy department shaU use $30,000,000 worth ot Panama canal bonds to purchase and construct vessels for t naval auxiharj, and that in time of peace these vessels shall be oJ^rat-d by the department n the ocean carrying trade of the UiuteS States The previous substitute offered by Senator Cummins provided that operltS? °' '"' °'"'' ^""^^^ ^^*" ^« ^^^^«d out' tr private (Continued on Paso 2.) The Me.ssagero's Cairo correspon¬ dent has had a talk with a fornif-r officir of the Egyptian army, who has had an opportunity of surveying the Turkl.^h e-xpedition against Egypt and th^ Suez canal and says the Tur¬ kish expedition consists of 90,000 Turks and 20,000 Beduana. The officer ascertained that the expedi¬ tion had been forced to afbandon all of Its 30 centimetre cannon, because of transport difficulties. Its bigge.>«t guns conse<|iii!<ntly are 15 and 18 centimetre cannon. .¦\ r?pres?ntative of the Giornale di Italy interviewed officers of the I'm- iiria which arrived today at Naples. They say the battle near the canal 'las.ed three da,''.« and that the Brit- |ish beat the enem.v with hca\->- losises. jThey confirmed the report that the British made big captures. Including a number of (ierman ofTicers. The residents of Cairo and Alexandria ara now forbidden to leave the cities. SERMANY EXPLAINS REASON FOR ACTION AGAINSTCOMMERCE Kaiser Believes He Is Justified in His Decision to Place AD Ihe Water Around Great Britain in War Zone by the Action of England in Violating All the Principles of International law in Its War Move Against Germany CLAIMS ENGUND FIRST SEIZED NEUTRAL SHIPS SUV AND TEUTON ARE JOINED IN DEADLY COIBAT IN POLAND JEALOUS YORK CITIZEN - KILLS WIFE AND SELF York Pa.. Vey. 6.—George :\llllei, 40. shot and Icill his wife and then killed himself tonight. The .Millera Were separaledd and .Mrs. Milleir had •"*en keeping liou.se for Benjamin llillinger her brother in Jaw. This diispleased MiUer. Petrograd, Feb. 6.—The battlp has beon t'uied ot la.st by the .Slav and Teuton both in Poland and in the Carpathians. The latter Ijattle, how¬ ever, as yet is only in its prelim¬ inary stages for climatic, among oth(.r reason. It is not exugtted that a dcctision will be arrived ait for some time. In the meantime tterri'ble pic- ture^qiie e\enls are happening on tho narrow section of the PoHsh front, alumt Eorsiniow where tiie Germans hoped lo pierce the Kussian, def'-nse. Kightting is still i.n progre.sj* there, day and night without cessation. Kor the pres(.nl there aro na signs of the (Germans succeeding In eeoiiiig an.vthing more than sacrificing more thousands of lives, i )n o front half a dozen m"iles. the Germans got- un army of mor^i than liiO.OOU Infantry and ijOO guns. Tlv target offered to tho Uiisslan artillery must be ideal frjuu the Ru.s«ian point ot view. On Wednesday. Thursday and Fri¬ dav, day and night, a desperate struggle was In progress, posilion.i nhanging hands, men fighting w-ith the bayonet and butt. artilleryl thundering ceaselessly and still no de. clsion reached. If the German attacfc fails it cannot be repeated; if It snc- ceec>^ the military gain is glory, only, "''ruel folly" i.o the verdict passed upon the German commander of this phenoiu^al attack by the i^ussiana without awaiting the result of the frantic attempt. More than 100,000 men .supported by 600 guns in a gigantic rush is a fearsome thing to contemplate. But the Rusfians stopped It and made counter attacks, capturing German tienches and annihilating the forces -whioh held them. .Vow to stand; ready to kill continually is the titak; which is laid upon the Russian line in Poland. i-'rom te.h outset the Russians have : heen fulfilling orders and the Ger- ' mans have been digging their own ' s;ra\e.'. I Oil the ICa.stern Prussian frnot. tha i Rn,ssians are steadily on the move, l.etweei. that point and the lower I Ai.<iila fighting on a eotisiderablo I rcale is .«lill in progress with the le- •sult- In favr oof the Russians. On J Ine left bank ot the bower N'i.atula- j the Russians have adv.anced west of jthe Bzura near its confluence with j Itab Vistula. 1 While the Germans are using their i railways t givoe them the appearance jof being In two places at once, tha Tti'sslans actually are there. .\t polnt-^i j a'.l along the front they are ready la I tepel the enemy. j The German." have sent the flower I of their armies to the Carpathians and I are filling up the gaps on their other tContiitued un Page 2.) Berhn. Fe,i. G.-Mireles., via .'?ay-I "A. the.,e measures have the ob- viiie-i-A^iiowing Is the full official! viou.s pnrpo.se through the Illegal text ot the memorandum is^sued by | paral.vzing legitimate neutral ,hlo- the Imperial German government | nients, and finally through starvation c.mcerning proposed retaliation j <'f do.iming the enlirt> population of against the measures taken by Kng-| (lermany to destruction, land in violation of the international j Neutral I'owi'rs Did Sot ObjPot law to stop neutral sea commeroe i "The neutral pc.wer.K, generally with Germany: -'.Since the beginning j have aCQiiiesced in the^ sTeps taken of the war, England has carried onjhy the British government. Espec- a commercial warfare against Ger-| ially they have not succeeded In In- m^ny In a way thaf de{fies all the|ducing the British government to principles of warfare. It Is true 1 rt>store the German -.ndividuals and that the British government has an- noiince.d in a number of decrees that the Liondon declaration concerning naval forces, but in rehlity it has re¬ nounced thp declaration in its nmst Important particulars, although Its own declaration In Its most import¬ ant particulars, although its orwn delegates at the London conference naval warfare had recognized its conclusions to be, \alled as interna¬ tional law •Thp Briti.sh governmon* has put a numiber of articles in the list of contraband whi< h are not so. or at most are only indirectly useful for military purposes and therefore ac¬ cording to the London d^laration a.s well as according to the iinivers- ally deolared rules of warfare may now be assigned as contraband. "It has so far actually a.bolished the distinction between contraband and non-contralband shipments. "Great Britain does not even hesi¬ tate to violate the Paris declaration as her naval forc^.=! have seized on neutral ships German property that was not contraband, in violation of her own decrees concerning the Ijon¬ don declaration. Kngliind Seized >'»'»itral Ships '•Furlher, sho| has, through her naval forces taken from neutral ships numerous Germans liable to miltary services and has made of them pris¬ oners of war. "Finally shp has declared the en¬ tire North .'^ea to lie an area of war property slezed in violation of inter¬ national law. In certain direction.'- they also have aided the BriUsh measures whioh are Irreconcilable with the, freedom of the sea In that they have obviously i/.ider th,, press¬ ure of Kngland, hindered hy' e.xport and transit emihargoes, t^e tranglt of wares for peaceful purpose^ to Germany "Thp, German government. In vain ha.s called the attention of netitral powers to the fact that It must face 'he| quesion of whether it can longer per.^ei-v-erc In Its hitherto .st.-ict ob¬ servance of the rules of the London dool.iratlon If Great Britain is to continue her (Jnurse and the) neutral powers are to continue to asqnlesca. i in these violations of neutrality to the detriment of Ger-many. For her violations of International law. Great Brictaln pleads thft vital in¬ tents whioh the British empirq has at stake and the neutral powers seem to satisfy themselves -with theoretical protest. "Thairefore, In fact they accftpt the vital Interests of belligerents aa suf¬ ficient excuse for every method of warfare. <;«'rniany Mu.st Proiert Herself K'onlhmed on Paee 2.) SPEC?IAL MENTION WAN'TED—Traveling .sales'voman for roliaible Xew York firm: also local work. Exc«(llent oppot«tunity. VVri'f» .\. .M. B. IKli-i South I.Iain St., nd if she has not made impossible jthe passage of neutral sl>iPl'lu-7 |^vi],7es.Barre, care of Cocke 1 through the sea bdcween Scotland « oc^e land Norway shp has made It so diffi¬ cult and'^so flangerous that .«he has to a certain extent, effected a block¬ ade of neutral coasts and neutral ports in violation of all Intt^national law. WANTED—Housekeeper, matrimoni¬ ally inclined. Age about 30, Ger¬ man woman preferred with no means. Good ho.me. Ciiy Farmer. Wllkes¬ Barre, Pa. Write In rare of Sunday .' Jlade.()eiideati
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
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Date | 1915-02-07 |
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Month | 02 |
Day | 07 |
Year | 1915 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
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Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1915-02-07 |
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THE WEATHER
1
]' Fair aud somewhat colder Sun¬ day; Monday fair. |
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT TO 3 A. M. SUNDAY -
MOST COMPLETE
SPORT SECTION
IN THE CITY
PRICE FIVE CENTS
The Only Sunday Newspaper Published in L>iizerne County
WILKES-BARKE, PA., SUNDAY, I ERUl ARV 7, l*)i:*.
Entered at Wilkes-Barre, P*. «.<) Second Class Mail Matter
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MYSTERIOUS WAR MESSAGE BROUGHT HERE RY
Carrier Drops with Broken Wing From Roof of Hazle Street Hotel and Message Pur¬ porting to Have Been Written in Belgium by German Warrior Is Found—Message Is Written in English
EXCITED DEBATE OVER PROBABILITY ON GENUINENESS HINGES ON THE DATE-UNE
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That portion of Wilkes-Barre city which has been known for years as "The Bowery" was thrown into a state of wildest excitemen: last night when a carrier pigeon with a brok- 2n wing dropped from the roof to the sidewalit fronting the hotel of Fred Jacobs at 59 Hazle street, fluttering from its neck a message wrapped in the heading of a German newspaper and bearing evidences of having been scrawled by a German soldier fighting in the trenches of Belgium.
"Dear wife, the message read, "I am alive and weH in the trenches of Belgium but your brother has been killed." That was all. There was not even a signature to denote the identity of the man who wrote this little tragedy of war. The pigeon, of the homing vari¬ ety, showed evidences of long flight and the injury to the wing seemed to have been received immediately before the bird was picked up from the sidewalk.
The president of the Lime Kiln Club was the first to read the message. It was 'written in English and he began to wonder why a German soldier should express himself in the hated language of the men from the "tight little isle." He was going to disciss the pigeon and message as a joke sent upon the community by an illiterate trickster v/heh his eye sud¬ denly fell upon the date mark of the paper. It was Saxony, December —; the day of the month was missing. "It looks real," said the Lime Kiln president; "no German would stoop to such a trick."
NEWSBOY'S DISCOVERY
A newsboy found the pigeon. He kept it, too, running off home with it as soon as the message had been detached from the bird's neck and put in the hands of the anxious loiterers about the hotel. Jacobs telephoned for all his friends to come and have a glance at the words contained in the scrap of paper and then sent word to the newspaper offices. He j was sure the thing was genuine, almost as sure asMhe president of the Lime Kiln Club, i The bit of gold ribbon that held the note in place was identifiec^ ,as part of the wrappings of the Christmas packages distributed among the Kaiser's soldiers. The two points that held cut doubt regarded the use of the English script and the finding of the pigeon so far from its natural bourne.
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Attorney Refuses to AcceptjBlood-Soaked Earth on Seven- Their Appointment to Act Mile Warsaw Front Carpet-
on Deciding Board
.\fier many attemirts to apxee upon a third memiher of the board sched¬ uled to decide whether or not the motormen and condiiC irs nf the Wilkos-Uarre Rail'Way Company are to be uriven a raise In wa.ge.s .S.a.miiel 1'. Warriner and .Attorne- Thomas t>. She.a ye. |
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FileName | 19150207_001.tif |
Month | 02 |
Day | 07 |
Year | 1915 |
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