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i7TTK mrf JWWtJ rVSTi JVJjlii5u A iJ 5 Wif rvTsVt fli rSavura 1 vei 5ri vw7 Limn ji jpii wwm itj tr rp JLT ails i isT jjrrJt LUDENDORFF SAYS GERMANY OFFERED HIDEOUS AND CONTEMPTIBLE SPECTACLE IN HER tiEFEAT Describes Smash of Hun Empire Which Collapsed Like House of Cards Under the Incompetent Leadership of Prince Max Declares Proud Army Which Had Stood Firm for Four Years Disappeared in a Moment When Revolution Swept Away Weak Government at Berlin Soviets Formed as Troops Rushed Homeward Looting as They Marched Commander Tells Huns They Must Learn Again to Cultivate Character and Selfless Patriotism Still Believes inkHuntlfarce Lrttdendorjf remains the junker and militarist All the upheaval of democracy and idealism in Germany and the world have left him untouched He still believes in force and welcomes the demonstration that the German revolution could not mainiain itself excepts by use ofthe weapons he wielded so long Retiring to Sweden to write Ms took after the fitter reproaches and open enmity of the German people had driven him to atteyipt to justify himself in their eyes he drew conclusions that the revolution must fail and that the German people must return to the oldJways and old order before they can hope to drag themselves out of the abyss into which they have been led by the dreams of empire and militarism It is characteristic that he addresses to the German people not mere advice but three commandments has stood astonished it could not believe its eyes when It saw the col laspe of this proud and mighty Germany the terror of ner foes The entente feared us even in our destruction and could not do enough in using the opportunity to weaken still further Internally by propaganda and to force a helots peace upon us What Germany Loses Germany by her own fault has been brought low She is no longer a great power she is not even an independent state Her very existence is in danger Out of this world struggle she comes weakened and diminished in every respect and robbed of districts and peoples which have been hers for generations She loses her colonies army Germanys merchant fleet disappears from the high seas Her industrial strength is broken and the fragments that remain are placed I under enemy supervision The livelihood of 70 000 00 Germans stands on At noon on November 9r Prince Max of his own initiative announced the abdication of the emperor The old government gave orders to the tropps which amounted to a prohibition of the use of weapons and immediately afterwards it disappeared The emperor was confronted with a fait accompli On By GEN ERICH LUDENDORFF From the end of October events followed on one another at an increasing pace In the West on November 4 the German army was withdrawn in good order to the Antwerp Meuse line under the pressure of the enemy from Verdun upwards The Alsace Lorraine front well organized awaited an enemy attack The Austro Hungarian army was completely dissolved as a result of the fighting in upper Italy of October 24 November 4 Hostile troops were moving on Innsbruck took comprehensive measures for the protection of the southern frontier of Bavaria In the Balkan theater we held the Danube We stood alone in the world Sends Kaiser to Holland insecure soil They cannot live at At the beginning of November the revolution brought home and what is to become of the 4 Uii Tj jlo 1 li i i xj surplus population no man knows aOOUt DV the Independent bOCiallStS broke OUt Starting in the The indemnities we have to pay are navy The government of Prince Max had not the strength to beheddebt whTciTthe revolution has nip inthe bud the outbreaks which at first on the Russian laid itself f8 not en meiiy with this terrible peace It makes pattern were only local It was incapable of leadership and the heavy yoke under which it has i sent the German people into bondage let things run their COUrse nto an absolutely crushing one She places a premium en idleness and destroys the feeling that work is greater than money reward She hinders the employment of creative energy and obliterates personality replacing it by mob rule and medi ocrity All motive for reconstruction in government and political economy in rpnnnstrurHon is lost for vears to the advice given to him in at Spa he went to Holland jeome or at any rate incalculably The crown prince followed him after Berlin had refused his ea ete unconditional offer ofi further service The princes of the states In Germany there is civil war Ger abdicated Iman property is being destroyed The All Authority Vanishes On November 9 Germany lacking any firm hand bereft of all will robbed of her princes collapsed like a house of cards All that he had lived for all that we had bled four long years to maintain was gone We no longer had a native land of which we might be proud Order in state and society vanished All authority disappeared Chaos bolshevism terror unGerman in name and nature made their entry into the German fatherland Soldiers and workmens councils pre pared in long svstematic underground work were now established Men at the graveside of the millions who had worked at this who might by service at the front have secured a sue Jave dJf gjf IVom cessful issue of the war but who classified as fit for garrison duty only our eyes rest ranked as indispensable or who had deserted Germany offers a hideous and con temptible spectacle filling every true Garman heart with indescribable i grief but awakening among our enemies and neutrals notning Dut contempt German men come forward and accuse their country of crimes to the enemv to Dlsase the foe and achieve occupied territories both in East and West among whom also preparations leniency for themselves Germans had no doubt been made for the revolution lost all discipline and order and streamed home in wild confusion plundering as they went The troops in Iloumania and on the Danube front marched off into Hungary there to be detained On the fighting front in the West soldiers councils with approval from high quarters could not be formed fast enough The new rulers and their camp followers abandoned all resistance and without any authority signed our unconditional capitulation to a merciless enemy win ourselves a country atnd to fill ourselvesrwlth the old selfish patriotism which gives us strength to liver and if fate demands to die as the heroes of this great struggle have died for our Ideals for all that is Germany for the prosperity and security of our German home and for her restoration to strength In the tour war years our people did mighty deeds an eloquent testimony to their indwellings strength that today has been destroyed by the revoluypn A people of such achievements has the right to live May it now have the strength to throw off the fetters that it hajs laid upon itself may it now find men rejoicing in their responsibility like the generals at the front to lead it firm of will and tenacious of their aim and to restore the sunken national life and inspire it with fresh and powerful enthusiasm men who followed by all that is best in tne nation win unite all our crea 19000000 AT STAKE Attorneys Seek Heirs Thomas Quinn Irish Soldier EEJTItoSSTJlTE IN INDIA Firm qf American Solicitors Gaye First Intimation of Vast Fortune Nun in Chicago Is a Grandniece of Soldier Who Died 30 Years Ago LYNCH LAW WHICH WDEfcOTWMNAMES JS NOW RAMPANT IN EUROPE ISVRmAL mMETHOBS LONGINQPEMflON THERE 5 Mr sT i1 I site Her right to defend herself is tak tive forces in great creative action en away The German has lost the After our great fall let us in mem right to serve his country in the ory of the heroes who have fallen in their trust in Germanys greatness the heroes whorn the country jioW so needs learn once again to btf Ger mans and to be proud that we are Germain God grant it Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate Copyrights reserved Copyrighted in Great Britain by Hntchinson Co and the London Times in Spain by Messrs Seix Bariel In Italy by Fratelli Treves in Canada and Australia All rights reserved for France Belgium Holland Russia and the Scandinavian countries The next instalment from Luden dorffs book deals with the beginning of the Rreat war and throws light on his attitude before the straggle and the Influence he had in shaping German military policy He was so strong a militarist and made such demands for increase qf the armys strength that the government had to remove him as chief or operations of the general staff and pat him in retirement He was still finder the clond when the war began BRAZIL FORGES AHEAD Worlds Big Meat Sources I VAST RESOURCES IN LAND Streams Home Plundering The bulk of the troops in depots in whom the idea of revolt had long been gaining ground went over to the side of the revolutionaries The line of communications troops including those stationed in the selfish uses the finances of the em i CoUntrV MaV DeCOITie One 01 1 i eifntAc nir1 Vi rwxrri hcpftm i I rottener day by day The fallen morale of the population rushes un I restrained into the freedom of the revolution the lowest instincts of i mankind develop unrestrained and I regardless of consequences Everywhere are disorders shirk ings deceit and overreaching ac companies i HWlrm TVH rnnuiHemhlv In i iiw rt ahuw wuu gusilllg lieuitra ul juvui anu who creased During Years of War David Harrell Commissioner Has Begun Giving Points on Boosting Cattle Industry Men Abandon Army In thp West the army crossed the frontier in an orderly manner and passed beyond the Rhine there in its turn to dissolve through too hurried demobilization and through contact with the revolutionary hordes at home Mtn who had fought magnificently against the enemy lost their nerve and abandoned the army and the country thinking of nothing but themselves Officers even were among them forgetting the duties of their class and their historical mission We passed through scenes that no Prussian had thought possible since 1806 All the more highly must we value the loyalty of the officers Os and men who even in the new cir jluding in part among these themselves and their nearest friends They and the soldiers councils worked with zeal determination and i purpose to destroy everything military This was the gratitude of the newly formed homeland to the German soldiers who had bled and died for it in millions The destruction of the German power achieved by these Germans was the most tragic crime the world has witnessed A tidal wave had broken over Germany not by the force of nature but through the weakness of the government repre sented by the chancellor and the crippling of a leaderless people Compelled to Use Force Those who for decades had confused the people and made them false promises who have all the time agitated against authority in state and army cumstances held themselves at the and have now destroyed it soon found service of their country in accord themselves forced to abandon the ance with their old sentiments principles they had hitherto propa Army property was wasted in all sated A new authority had now to directions and the defensive power be created a new arly formed in uiuci 31 Aiume 10 oppose rorce to of the country completely undermined Goods of incalculable value were lost Destroy German Power The proud German army after resisting victoriously their superior enemies for four years achieving feats of unpredecented greatness and keeping our enemies clear away from our frontiers disappeared in a moment Our victorious fleet was handed over to the enemy The authorities at home who had not fought against the enemy could not hurry fast enough to pardon deserters and other military criminals ink force in a manner never theretofore necessary It is not the troops formed by the revolution but the voluntary formations with the spirit and discipline of the army of 1914 that are rescuing Germany an enlightening glimpse into tills fateful time mankind was after all not ready for the alleged blessings of the revolution a What the revolution thinks that it has achieved might have been won on constitutional lines without self destructiondestruction It was a terribly criminal game that they played with Germany in her hardest hour and Germany is paying for It with her life and her ideals Before all these events the world who fought loyally for their country are delivered up by their government to the enemy to serve for his triumph That is the depth of our humiliation which fills one with shame and disgust at the German people tsy tne revolution tne viermans have made themselves outcasts among the peoples incapable of making allies helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital and deprived of all self respect In twenty years time the German people will curse the parties who boast of having made the revolution A true word and terribly grave spoken by a social democrat to his fellows The present fate of the German people is concluded by the peace The future lies dark before us the only bright spot being the acts of the men of Scapa Flow His Three Commandments All delusions have vanished mob suggestion begins to fall We look Jihto nothingness Self deception mrtv a itt1h irin frrm ftf Jiprs nr hope in phantoms lip courage bringing vain promises for the future and weakness in the present all these will never help us as they have never helped us in the past Something different is needed Fearless thinking and manly actions from each one of us and at the same time unselfish submission and the sinking of the eao in national discipline are what we require That alone can restore our national dignity whose recovery is a condition precedent of the renaissance of Germany That is the first commandment Love of home love of the daily task devotion to work and tireless energy in creation industrious labor fre 3 activity for our economic life coupled with consideration for ones neighbor the cooperation in full confidence of rich and poor of hand and head in the same duty to work and freedom for honorable work are the basis of German wealth and the condition of our svival That is our second commandment Devoted to duty honest and sincere and in full courage must the German work once more and moral earnest must be his guide that is the third commandment The saying of Fichte that to a a German and to have character are synonyms beyond controversy must again become the truth Only so can we recover our self respect which alone can win us that of others Learn Again to Be Germans In national character and education in German work in hard labor and in human dignity IboKlngclearly into the hard reality of dur bare and disconsolate future so and so alone will the Germans find themselves again Such action will help us once again to Rio de Janeiro Aug 15 Correspondence of the Associated Press Brazils foreign trade during the first half of 1919 is regarded as encouraging An increased exportation of some of Brazils staple commodities such as coffee rubber cacao chiliad beef hides oil bearing fruits as well as the high prices which these articles have commanded leaves a respectable trade balance That Brazil has rapidly forged ahead commer cially during the years of war is generally conceded The countrys agricultural possibilities are as yet practically unexploited and the war acted as a stimulus toward ascertaining the wide range of her productivity Making Strides in Cattle Brazil has been able to export to Europe foodstuffs which a few years ago she was not able to supply to herself In the same way animal husbandry is making strides which point to making meat products one of the cquntrys chief exports While Brazil has always been a cattle prouuc ing country it is only during the last three or four years that she has been looked upon aa a world supplier and even more recently several large modern packing houses have Deen constructed or projected These are financed principally by American packing interests Urging Pure Blooded Stock In the past year the federal government through the agricultural department has devoted considerable attention to the importation ana purchase of animals of pure blood It is proposed to carry on an extensive educational campaign among live stock breeders of Brazil to improve the standard of cattle For this purpose the government intends to make liberal money appropriations David Harrell commissioner of the United States Department of Agriculture accompanied by an assistant has just arrived in Brazils to make an investigation of the cattle industry and give information to Brazilian cattle raisers regarding the importation of North American cattle SpeclrCable from tie London Times to The Washington Poat Copyright 1819 oy tie Public Ledger Oo Athlone Ireland Octr 4 Legal activity in Ireland and America is now being employed to establish title toa huge fortune estimated at more than 19000000 the intestate estate of an Irish soldier who served through the mutiny of British India Intelligence of the vast sum available for distribution only reached this country a few weeks ago The facts so far established are that many years ago Thomas Quinn ai native or ttie little village of Kil mehil county Clare joined the army and it is believed was appointed to the 28tb regiment the old Braers how the gloster regiment He spent a consjaeraDie number of years in India where he seema to have acquired some small wealth Shortly before the outbreak of the mutiny he bought some parcels of land offered for sale and this investment is Said to have formed the nucleus of the great fortune now at stake Died SO Years Ago Quinn remained in India after the mutiny and is believed tohave been promoted to the staff corps This is one of the difficulties of tracing a dead man through his army career for there is uncertainty as to the precise regiments in which he served or to which he was first definitely ap pointed though there is little difficulty about his identity and connection with the claimants and with his native place county Clare it is sur mised he resided for some time in England on his discharge but finally settled at Miltown Malbav rountv Clare where he built the substantial house in which he lived with his wife reputed to be the widow of an Indian officer and who survived him only six months They were childless Quinn died about 30 years ago The first intimation that heirs were wanted came from a firm of solicitors in Chicago and from a nun In one of the religious communities of that city a grandniece of the deceased soldier The families of two brothers are settled in Chicago Other claimants are a sisters children named King at Kil mehil county Clare and a nephew Patrick Quinn a retired business man andfrmer member of the Athlon town council i Remembers His Uncle In an interview Quinn who is an extraordinarily active and well preservedpreserved man of quick intelligence though he wants only a few months of 80 years of age stated he remembered his uncle Thomas Quinn before the latter joined the army He remembered him while he was a boy at home in Clare His uncle was about 14 years oiaer tnan ne was when he joined the army irishmen did not then join Irish regiments Quinn explained for on enlistment under the old system men were sent to battalions where they were most wanted Hence the difficulty at this period of time about the exact regiment in which Thomas Quinn entered I afterwards for instance said Quinn the nephew joined the army and served my full term with the colors and was appointed to the Lancashire fusiliers about which I knew nothing at the time of joining up Thomas Quinn kept up a rather infrequent correspondence with me and I had some letters from him in India while I was serving in South Africa and he wrote to our people in Clare and sent them money from time to time He gave money to my father after he settled down in Miltown Mal bay where I visited him He died tnere 4r art Breaking Down pfnarylxiwand Justice in AU Countries on fAe mS JmS 17 EII vuituiciu xAtcf1 urcctc i utouing nw i ears or War Has Caused private Organizations to Inflict Their Own Punish mentThe ehmgericht9 Especially Active in Hungary and Germanyiat Present Similar Tribunals in England and France in Normal Times cwl By EX ATTACHE YNCH law of which we have had such an edifying manifestation at Omaha during the past ten days is described in dictionaries and encyclopedias as justice or what is thought to be justice for the punishment of offenders by a summary procedure ignoring or even oontrary to the strict forms of law Its application is by no means con fined to the suppression of members of the colored race in America charged with attacks upon their white feF low citizens as some would have us believe It was freely employed by the pioneer settlers of the Western States and Territories in dealing with the desperadoes Vho had been attracted thither by the belief that they would be beyond the reach of the restraining hand of Uncle Sam and free to lead a life that can best be described as bolshevist a word which now embraces every crime and flend ishness In fact it was by means of lynch law that the Vigilantes put an end to the reign of terror which prevailed for a time in San Francisco and elsewhere in the far Western States after the opening up of the gold fields there in 1849 Attended by Mob Savagery Lynch law has been on so many occasions attended by circumstances of mob savagery and shocking cruelty that the very name has become synonymous with that of outrage There is no denying the fact that it has become a term of reproach But the reproach weighs less heavily upon its instruments than upon the legally I constituted officials of the government those nobles who have In any way lent themselves to the policies of the bolshevist leaders and are determined to exact retribution from them no matter to what country they may flee Under the circumstances it does not seem as if Count Michael if goodwill of the pro German king andqueen The plenipotentiaries of Leninet Trotzky and of the ignoble Belst Kur also of Enver and of Talatt Pasha nave literally swarmed at Stockholm mi 1W IS ISI Karolyi who was one of the heads ol18lievst pm has Sowed like wifip of the first two revolutionary gov ernments at Budapest and who endeavored to propitiate the bolsheviks by offering to divide up his hereditary territorial possessions among them is likely to find much more safety in the United States for which he is said to be bound than in Switzerland where he was when last heard of Also Active in Germany But it is not only in the former dual empire that the Vehmgerichts are busy They are likewise active in Germany and it is well known that Mathias Erzberger Karl HeWerich and other statesmen of the present regime who are held by the German aristoracy to have been responsible for the final collapse of the defense of the central powers against the entente and for the overthrow of the monarchy are literally walking in the valley of the shadow of death and are generally understood to be doomed by the Vehmgericht for alleged irea son to the vaterland That Erzberger through his Intentional or unintentional betrayal of the contents of certain extremely confidential letters that passed between Count Czernin the Austrian chancellor former Emperor Charles and the kaiser indicating the critical nature of the situation of the central powers precipitated their defeat by the entente and the armistice of the and of the courts of justice since the llti of November last has been pub existence of lynch law implies a fail I ucly established His impeachment ure on their part to fulfill their sworn i nas been demanded by popular senti duty I ment in Germany As it has not been What with the four years of the forthcoming the Vehmgericht has re great world war and with the revolu solved to assume charge of the mat tions and popular disturbances that ter have followed in Germany in the Find Bodies of Victims former Hapsburg empire in Russia i in Finland and indeed throughout The Vehmgerichts of Germany are composed fci the main of members of the territorial aristocracy and of officers of the army and of the navy who haveblue blood in their veins Their activifips aro raatiMn Mni complete break down of the ordinary tive reien of trrnr am procedure of justice Life and I prop I caled Sparticides Not a day passes erty are no longer safe The authority without bodies by the score beintr of state and municipal government is taken from th watH and of the various lakes and canals the whole of the eastern Europe save Greece where Premier Venizelos has maintained a marvelous degree of law and order there has been an almost derided and no longer carries the slightest weight Dame Justice has disappeared from her pedestal Quite naturally all the criminal classes and also those whose evil instincts under normal conditions are held in check by fear of punishment and of social obloquy are taking advantage of the situation aided and abetted by the birds of prey of the felon scum of every race and cliirie who have flocked from the uttermost parts of the earth to central and eastern Europe in order to join in the saturnalia of lust and plunder Lynch Law Replacing Courts NEW TRIAL FOE QUIEN Court Sets Aside Conviction of Edith Cavells Betrayer Paris Oct 4 An appeal by Georges Gaston Quien against the verdict of a court martial which recently sentenced him to death for having had treasonable dealings with the Germans and for betraying Edith Cavell the Bng lish nurse executed by the Germans has been upheld by the court Quien maintained that tne ote of the court niartial wasfpur tolthree whereas it should have been flyVto two The decision sets aside the verdict of the codrt martial and Quien will be tried again Never Mentioned Land He left after providing for his wife all the remainder of his possessions not by any means a substantial fortune to his brother Michael believed to be in Australia but never found and on the presumption of his death to the present claimants who were named in his will He never at any time mentioned anything about land in India It may have escaped his memory Because of the outbreak of the mutinv Immorti ately after the purchase he may have forgotten about the entire transaction or he may have considered that the purchase was not likely to have turned out profitably Valuable minerals may have been found on the land since then Quinn submitted American correspondence which was specific as to the existence of the fortune put at over 19000000 The substance of the American letters was that the money could be distributed immediately upon the establishment of the identity of the deceased and the relationships to the deceased of those who were to benefit from the estate Quinn said he was going to Hiltown Malbay to make local inquiries and that it was poBsiuie some records might be found among the papers of the magistrates who were in the habit of signing his Pension warrants If the regiment his uncle served in could be definitely ascertained Quinn believes that further legal particulars could be obtained by searching in the war office records The war office as a matter of fact has already been communicated with Since ordinary law and justice are today non existent in the countries above mentioned it is quite natural that lynch law should have made its appearance upon the scene From Russia come appalling stories of punishments inflicted by village Mirs or communes upon thieves and incendiaries while in Germany and in the countries formerly embraced in the federation known as the dual empire the Vehmgericht which played so important a role there in the Middle Ages and also in the decades immediately following the terrible thirty years war has been revived Perhaps the word revived does not quite fit the case for in certain respects it has never entirely ceased to function at any rate among the higher classes especially among the aristocracy where it has beea employed to punish those who either beyond the reach of tne law or else those whose family escutcheon it was desired to protect from the indelible and lasting stigma of a judicial conviction foV felony EXTRA OF SCHOLARSHIPS Committee to Give Favors to All Soldiers Getting High Percentage New York Oct 4 The several hundred soldiers sailors and marines who participated in entry examinations conducted by colleges and universities selected by the Knights of Columbus in their award of 100 free scholarships have made a good showing The committee finds such a large number of men successful that it has decided to give to each and every man who has received a high percentage a scholarship although the orfginal plan was confined to the 100 most successful candidates According to William McGinley supreme secretary who has been In charge of the scholarship awards of thevJnights It Was planned to place 50 men who atiallf led at universities where thpy could pursue ah academic course The other 60 were to be sent to colleges to take up scientific agrt Hungarians Organize Bodies In Hungary and also in certain parts of Austria the scions of the historic house of the great territorial nobility such as the Counts Ester hazy the Counts Batthyany the Counts Palffy the Counts Kalnoky the Counts Erdosdy have organized themselves into a number of Vehmgerichts for the summary punishment not only of those revolutionary leaders who have been most active in the massacre of the aristocracy of the clergy of the great merchants and bankers and in the plundering of palaces sacred edifices and religious institutions but also of the members of their own caste who in the early stages of the revolt associated themselves with its leaders in the selfish hope of preserving their own property and in order to save their own lives These Magyar magnates magnates is the name given from time immemorial to the members of Hungarys house of lords are scouring all over the country like the ku klux riders in the Southern States following the war of secession In America If they put in a public appearance anywhere it is unheralded and their justice is of the most sumjhary order And then they vanish Hanging and shooting constitute the usual forms of punishment which they employ Bolshevists Given No Mercy Those convicted of bolshevism receive no mercy while In the case of those revolutionists wjio have been guilty of massacre the death is preceded by terrible floggings When it is borne in mind that in one convent alone not far from Budapest the remains of no less than 300 nuns were found who had been murdered after being subjected to the most terrible atrocities by the bolshevlsts one can readily understand why such justice as that of these Vehmgerichts should ha ve become hot only salutary but useful in the absence of the operation qf the ordinary courts of law It may be added that the Venm around Berlin from the waters of the Elbe at Dresden and at Hamburg and from those of the Weser at Bremen They usually have a rope around the neck to show that thpir death was due to strangulation rather than drowning and a card to show that they have paid the penalty of a judgment by some Vehmgericht The Sparticides on the other hand are endeavoring to retaliate by means of Vehmgerichts of their own and thus it happens that the officers of noble birth who in deference to the orders of heir own Vehmgerichts were responsible for the killing of Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg have themselves been overtaken by a similar fate No One Is Spared The Vehmgerichts spare no one It is no secret any longer in Germany that the sovereign Grand Duke Adolf Frederick VI of Mecklenburg StVelitz who was found a couple of years ago in a canal near Neu Strelit2 48 hours after his mysterious disappearance with a bullet hole at the back of his head that could not possibly have been self inflicted was the victim of a Vehmgericht composed of German army officers of the highest nobiliary and military rank who were enraged by his intensely pro English proclivities and by his personal pronounnpi prejudice against the kaiser and against everything Prussian He had been brought up to a great extent by his English grandmother the old Grand Duchess Augusta Caroline of Mecklenburg Strelitz born as a princess of the reigning house of Great Britain as a sister of the last Duke of Cambridge and as a grandchild of King George III She was the favorite aunt of Queen Mary Moreover the young grand duke had spent the greater portion of his adult life in England where he was among the most popular and most familiar figures in society and persona gratisfllma at the court of St James Prussian Guard Officer Victim Only the other day a former officer of the First regiment of Prussian guards bearing one of the greatest names In Germany was found strangled In his apartmentsat Potsdani Investigation proved that he could not have killed himself but had been slain by others His ciMntinn ers not content with taking hS life sought to blast his fair name until then above reproach for they fastened a corset around his waist and had drawn a pair of exceptionally ing DiacK ieminme gloves over his hands and elbows almostto the shoulders Unfortunately the activities of the Vehmgerichts are not restricted to the central powers to eastern Europe and to Russia west and east of the Urals or to Finland They are now extending to certain neutral countries Thus at Stockholm there have been during the last few months a large number of so called executions of men and women whose death had been decreed by Vehmgerichts composed of foreigners who during the last flye years have for one reason or another settled down in Sweden To such an extent have Stockholnv and the other leading cities of Sweden become infested with more or leSs avowed agents of foreign powers of Kioreign revolutionary Tactions iot bolshevist leaders that Iawless nessj has supplanted the authority of the courts and of the government the kingdom Afraid to Make Arrests The Swedish nolice were always being entirely in the dark as towheth 4 er or not lue ODjeqi or their attention mainly in the direction of th dimf I monde and so far as an imnnrtliit observer could gather the variousiSe cret agents have been all engagedjjn betraying their various employers and in squandering the latters moneyV At least a couple of dozen murders have taken place inland around Stockholm during the last four weeks the victims in a number of instances being bolshevist agents who had been put to death either by bolshevist Vehmgerichts ori the ground of fraud and treachery or by Vehmgerichts composed of Muscovite German and Lithuanian monarchists mainly men of noble birth Yielding to pressureof the entente legations the Swedish government has at length moved with a view to bringing to justice the reputed perpetrators of some of these murders among them a cossack colonel known as Mahommed Beck Hadje Lache who was intrusted with the execution of the decrees of death against thbse who had betrayed thex bolshevist cause his victims including Col Ar daschef Capt Kalye and a Swedish lieutenant of the name of Ehgstrom while others arrestedare the members of a so called International League for the Reestablishment of the Rusv sian Monarchy who are charged with inflicting Vehmgericht justiceon several bolshevik agents in Sweden the victims including an American citizen of the name of Legros while among their alleged executioners now behind the bars is another American a newspaper man of the name Ot Reginald Lehrs Operate Also in Peace Times But these Vehmgerichts whose hands are now apparent in so many parts of the Old World are not wholly incidental to great wars and to the troubled and disordered condition suiting therefrom As Vi have Jindft cated above they operate sometlfe in the piping days of peace and thaj not only in central ahd eastern Eurppj but also in France Great Britain aria even in the United States in instances where the offence does not come within the scope of criminal laWjor if it is imperative to avoid publicity The late King Edward who wali always averse to the publicity of Social scandals whenever it could be avoided on the ground that it served to contaminate the popular mind to furnish a bad example to the masses and to excite their indignation against the classes was a great advocate of referring everything possible to courts of honor which are nothing more nor less than Vehnfge richts or lynch justice since their decrees are beyond and outside the jurisdiction of the ordinary law of the land Collins Case Recalled A notable instance of this kind was that of Dr William Collins who before becoming the most fashionable ladies physician in London had been surgeon major of the Royal Horse Guards and had retained his commission on the reserve of that celebrated regiment One day it was discovered that he had forged the name of a fellow officer Capt Charles Selwyn member of parliament for Cambridge to a promissory note tot 10000 Instead of calling in the police Capt Selwyn consulted a couple taJC his fellow officers and also the ebte onel in chief of the regiment the late King Edward then Prince of Wales At the heir apparents suggestion his equerry Col Sir Niget Kingscote a man renowned for his cnivairy and lofty sense of horiojri Lord Walsingliam high steward the University of Cambridge afid MaJ Atherfy of the Royal HorMa Guards were drawn into council gCni formed a court qf honor from which the prince himself held aloof the Idea being to save the regiment front the stigma of having one of the officersron Its reserve list prosecuted for felony by a comrade of the sahie corps Dr Collins appeared before the trlB unal thus composed and was inforifiml that for the sake of the regiment there would be no criminal prosecution ppol5 vided he severed his connection wtfe the army resigned from his chlftsa paid the aniountbf the note which had been taken up by Capt Selwyn anj3P quit Europe Moreover he wslsl Te quired to sign a documentconfessine his guilt Tears afterward whence had returned to England in defiance Pi his ptedgresy he becameinyolveafj criminal proceedings inJ oonnectlpnl with the death of a patient jthat led to the revelation of hl fbrgeryW Capt Selwyns name a Jockey Club TrfbjiniiL The best known of these Ehgltthjf ehmgerichtsor 3ynch Aotrf A existence Is sanctioned by no Jawoff 3ft th land VH 1W Wii rjT ejmainiameaj nevertheless by society for lis nrp tection is the tribunal formed byXthe triumvirate of the stewards oirhe Jockey Club of England iTodaythey consist of Lord Lonsdale the Earl ot Durham and Lord Pehrhym te ereat mistake to Imagine that their justice is restricted to occuri rences on the turf It also ideals With violations jjfigthe unwritten laws ot nonprahdpmpyearsrhefore the wafe a wellrkiiown sportsman Vho liad marriedjintoime of the oldest hntmMiV ofjXheyarlstracy and with the uhW isjpijwnose horses no fault could be foand was warned off Ne wmarketJr Heath by thesstewards of theJbckejr VvCorrtaindishon6rablecbhduet uncohnected with racing but which also 3ed tbthtf announcement in thep Ofnctal Gaiette by the lord chamberA lainVlnvthe shame of the soverele4i that hisipresentation at Courfehad beenTf canceled and that he was harrdis hwefroin teiv here5isfhb more drastic punlsh St menBthanthat contained taaideereSp 1 MX MM S81 353 VMS fill ill 4 2S5fl FMM sari ssnl Ml SSil afraid to make arrestsowingto theiirftJrfie4 Pmax gjl Wpt1yeJBiewpjthJolii wuocirmeanssiractsnx5oritnimosti mmm hr prtsr 3Tt jfy rcr ts mA is not some mnnenrini nr iviuciiurm doih ai nomBftndhmafl i icmrarwanamimnsatuatea igerlcbtyAre particularly bitter against foreign government enipyingAh S3iaga8ffig Wm dJrSatjy.