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Cable News, Auto and Classified Section PASO HERALD EL PASO TEXAS, JUNE 11-12, THE SUNDAY PAPER. Cable News, Auto and Classified Section COAL 1 1 ll mm Hpi A RECOGNITION OF REDSBYFRENCH IS IMPROBABLE Representative Would Discuss Payment Of Russian War Debt To France. COUNTER BILL TO BE GIVEN FRANCE in Seek Settlement For Aid Given Anti-Bolsheviki Agents By Officials. ARIS, France, June by France of the Soviet government or even resumption of commercial relations with Bolshevik Russia has been shoved far into the distant future by a sensational declaration made at Vienna by Dr. M.

Bronski, close friend and intimate collaborator of Lenin. Rronskl, who is in Vienna look- inig after the repatriation of Rusminn war prisoners, said that the Moscow government is ready at any time to discuss the Russian war debt to France, the most serious obstacle in the way of recognition. we will have an enormous counter-bill to present to he added. will ask France to pay the expenses we incurred in fighting against admiral Koltchak, Denekin, Wrangel and all other anti-Bolshevik leaders who were supported by the French Is First Statement. This is the first time such a declaration has come from the lips of any responsible Bolshevik leader.

In the past Moscow has disavowed the Russian debt to France on the ground that it was incurred by the government of the Russian people. Ilronski, who said that he spoke for Lenin, would not estimate the total of the hill Russia intends to present. However, he intimated that it would not only be large enoujrh to wipe out entirely claim, but would Moscow a claim for an additional amount against France. French officials regard the proposal as preposterous. There is no likelihood of France entering inot financial conversations with the Bolsheviks on such a basis.

U. S. Actress Is Named In London Divorce Charges ONDON, June the climax of the most sensational stage divorce case in many years London, involving members of Brit ish society, Miss Edith Day, American actress and star in was named as the alleged to have come between Margaret a nerman, the fain Canadian actress, and her husband, Pat Somerset. The announcement astonished all London theater-goers, with whom Edith Day and Margaret Bannerman are favorites. Maid Is Witness.

Miss name was dragged into the case by a maid witness who testified that she was formerly connected with Miss household in the home at Torquay. The witness said she was discharged by Miss Day when the latter learned she had been called to London to testify. Miss Bannerman won her decree of divorce, although the charges placed against Somerset were denied but not contested. name in private life is Holme-Sumner, and he is a son of a captain in the royal navy. Surprise was manifested among the London social elite when it was learned that the popular young American actress is a married woman, her husband being an American theatrical producer.

Miss professional and personal success here was little short of phenomenal. Arrest German Countess For Attempt To Murder Her Family ERLIN, Germany, June attempt by a countess to murder her cousins, father and son, by dynamiting the castle where they lived, and thus become heiress to estates worth $15,000.000, was revealed when countess Ella Schlieffen and her two young sons were arrested on the accusation of oount Martin Ernst Schlieffen and his 25-year old heir, count Georg Wilhelm. The Schlieffens are near relatives of the former chief of the German general staff who made plans for the war. They own vast estates in Mecklenburg and large properties near Cassel. The countess and her sons, with a woman companion, hired three assassins to whom they promised $50,000 blood money if they would blow up the castle in Mecklenburg and kill all those who stood in the way of the title according to the charges.

One of the countess's sons introduced the assassins into the castle at night in order to plant the dynamite, but at the last moment the plot was betrayed to the intended victims. JAPANESE FEAR PERIL LURKS IN MISSION PONS COMET TO LOSE WEIGHT IN BUMPING EARTH Military Attitude Of Tons Of Gas Will Be America Held Shown Dissipated Into Terres- By Appointment. trial Atmosphere. PRESS INVITATION TO VISIT EMPIRE JUPITER CONTROLS VISITOR'S CONDUCT Claim Advanced That Only Date Of Arrival Uncertain FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE OF CATTLE CURED BY SERUM Paris, France, June method by which Prof. Vallee and Prof.

Carre hope to effect a permanent immunization of cattle against the foot and mouth family disease was described to the Academy of Sciences here. The method consists of simultaneous or alternative interjections of serums obtained from affected cattle which have recovered and of virus from diseased animals. Previously the serum protected cattle only for a fortnight, it. was declared, but the addition of the virus caused cattle to generate a resisting element against the diseases. Violent infection, however, was prevented by the milder serum, it was said.

SPANISH ARMY PLAN ROUSES IRE OF PRESS Madrid, Spain, June reform of the system of recruiting the Spanish army, which is henceforth in principle is to be formed of the entire youth of the nation, thus doing away with the drawing of lots, is greeted with general enthusiasm. One clause, however, of the bill drafted by viscount Eza has brought forth sharp criticism in the press. This refers to the selection of reserve officers, who are to be chosen from among the troops not according to their ability or skill, but because their parents are able to pay a premium, which will be calculated on their wealth, those possessing most money being called upon to pay more. System Denounced. The newspaper El Sol protesting, asks: it the intention to make all citizens go into barracks and to impose on them the leadership of a caste based on money power? This appears to us abominable.

"What is being done thereby is to lexy a tax on the vanity of those innnumerable youths without a profession who aspire to find in the wearing of the uniform a kind of reason for their existence. It is dangerous to speculate with things referring to the army, despising the really intellectual class and forming a caste of wealthy illiterates who are no more than an embarrassment and who actually create irreparable injury to the moral homogeneity of the Thus Can True Situation Be Discerned. Because Of Intricacies Of Calculation. Parisian Will Face Trial For Alleged Murder ARIS, France. June Girard, Paris insurance agent, who was known as will face trial shortly here, according to reports from official circles.

Girard is alleged to be one of the I most ingenious! criminals known! to the Paris police. After three years investigation by the French! authorities i rard is charged with two mur- ders, several tempted murders tt an(1 forgeries. Henxy Cultures of deadly rJcrobesj and concoctions of poisonous mush-I rooms, it is alleged, were used by Gi- rard in the murders charged against him by the Paris police. originated within the of the solar system. propound the fascinating theory that comets, such as Pons- Winnecke, come from a distance in space so great that it is impossible to think or speak of it in terms of Prof.

Fowler added that Jupiter, to whose family Pons-Winnecke belongs, may cause a disturbance and so alter the path of the comet that it will reach its nearest point to the earth about June 27, the date on which it is expected. the public interest in comet became acute I wrorked out the exact date of the continued Prof. Fowler, "but I should be involved in laborious calculations for days on end if I were I to ascertain the day on which Pons will drop his visiting card in the shape of a shower of 7 AMERICANS IN HUGO STINNES IS RED PRISONS BROADENING HOLD FACINGJ)EATH UPON INDUSTRIES El Paso A-Viator Tells Of Pamous War Profiteer, Owner of Teuton Newspapers. Horrors In Bolshevik Jails; Movements Secret, but Tightens Grip Upon Business of Food Is Unsufficient. I Central Europe; Began Career at Pit Boy in Coal Mines of His Father; Was a Bitter Fighter of Allies.

By DOROTHY THOMPSON. VIENNA, Austria, June Hugo Stinnes, the German coal king, has turned up in central Europe. He has acquired a controling interest in the Alpinen and Montan iron works in Styria, and it is rumored that this is the beginning of an attempt to corner the whole iron industry of this part of the world, and that even this is not the limit of his ambitions, for MERRIAM COOPER ESCAPED ON FOOT BETTING ON COCKROACH RACE IS LATEST SPORT IN TURKEY; ALLIES HELP TO ENTERTAIN ONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, June II. Betting on cockroach races is one of the newest sports here. It was introduced by a Russian who has just opened a hall where a man who wants some real excitement for his money can get results.

The hall is darkened at the moment the race is to begin. Then a single electric light at the end of a runway is turned on, and the cockroaches. each in a separate track, are let loose from their cages to race for the light. Is Sportiest City. More real, old-fashioned, non-professional sport may be had here than in any other city of Europe.

This is due in part to the allied troops of occupation, to the American officers and sailors on station here, and the large number of American and British civilians who have come out for business since the armistice. What the Russian refugees have done in the way of enlivening the city with concerts, dancing places and queer restaurants, the other allies have done in sporting lines. In winter there is wild boar, duck and fox hunting. There also is, in and out of season, plenty of horseback riding over the dirt roads and unfenced stretches of upland country on both sides of the Bosphorus. Horse races are often held.

Both the British and the Americans have laid out golf courses. There are also a few tennis courts. Football and Raseball. The troops and sailors within the city have taken charge of a large field near Taxim, in the center of Pera, and there play football and baseball matches. Yachting and swimming are commonplace sports open to all.

The Russians from the Black sea, who are accustomed to bathe naked, have increased the popularity of the beaches, especially a fine strip of sand on the Marmora north shore known as Floria. There, without let or hindrance, men, women and children undress on the open beach and bathe in costumes that seem quite conventional here. The Turks have contributed chick- in fights to the international sports. Political Intrigue Absorbs Attention Of All Germany While Vital Problems Wait ERLIN, Germany, June Erzberger tax-dodging ca3e, like the celebrated Dreyfus case of France, shows signs of developing Into a factional feud threatening to extend over years. Although it is faced with the difficult problems of reparation, of disarming the Ing Bavarians and of running a bankrupt nation, the reichstag prefers to spend much of its time in the lobbies discussing whether or not Matthias Erzberger is a tax-dodger.

Responsible for Treaty. Matthias Erzberger is the one man, more than any other, who is responsible for the Germans signing the Versailles treaty. As a result he is hated by the group of pan-Germans which had had expectations of signing a far different treaty, with clauses making Belgium a commercial colony of Germany. A former secretary of the treasury junder the emperor, Karl Helfferich, 'was the leader in the movement to disgrace Erzberger and drive him from political life. In January, 1920, while Erzberger was minister of finance, his tax return certificates were stolen from the finance ministry; the material in them soon began to appear in the royalistic press.

Erzberger immediately ordered an investigation of his tax payments and withdrew from the post as minister of finance. He left office with No3ke at the rime of the Kapp revolution. His Return May Help Allies. For the past year Erzberger has been one of the powers behind the although he lived in the strictest retirement, he has been taken into counsel on many of the important crises through which the government has passed. Ilis Socialist and Centrum wish him to return to aetive political life and are ing to reinstate him in the cabinet.

They accuse the Monarchist group of having made Erzberger the sacrifice of a political intrigue, and by means of interpellations in the tag and discussions in the lobbies are attempting to make the Erzberger case a boomerang against the Royalists. The Centrum party claims that its ehlef not only is not a tax- dodger, hut that he overpaid his taxes, and cite the court decision in evidence. Erzberger was neither fined nor ordered to pay up back taxes. The political fight over Erzberger is of the greatest importance to the allies for the reason that if Erzberger is finally politically cleared he will probably return to the cabinet and the entente will have the assistance in the fulfillment of the treaty of orre of the political group through whose influence the treaty was signed. By DUKE N.

PARRY. OKIO. Japan, June Leonard Wood, Cameron Forbes, former governor general of the Philippines, and their mission sent by president Harding were bo cordially received by the 100 percent Americans of Tokio and Yokohama during their one day and one night in Yokohama that there was little time for Japanese reception folk to get their word in. A greeting by Arnold Cady, president of the American Legion post; by Robert F. Moss, president of the American association of Tokios F.

L. Kaufman, president of the American association of Yokohama, and a banquet, the largest in the history of American affairs in Yokohama, took up about all the time the general and Mr, Forbes had. They motored across country to Nagasaki, where they sailed for the Philippines. But, despite the absence of any formal Japanese function, due not to a lack of desire by the Japanese, the press and some of the leaders found ample time to express themselves. The opinions of the Wood mission, which, by the way, will be in Japan in two or three months, range from the criticism that Wood comes as the envoy of a militaristic race, to messages of advice and welcome to the Wood party.

Harvard Jap Welcomes Wood. Viscount Kentaro Kaneko, president of the American-Japan society, who received the honorary degree of LL. B. at Harvard in 1899 on the same platform with Gen. Wood, is warm in his praise of Gen.

Wood. He says that he feels sure Gen. Wood comes to Japan open-minded and ready to take back a fair impression of orient. feel that if the Philippines are ready for independence, they will get a fair judgment from Gen. said viscount Kaneko.

regret that some of our professors and our press have stated that he comes the envoy of a militaristic race, his mind already made up about what answer he will take back to president Viscount Kaneko referred to a criticism made just a few days ago by Dr. Ninichiro Matsunami, imperial university professor and Japanese authority on international law. Prof. Matsunami said: Sees Danger to Japan. fact that America has sent.

Gen. Wood to the far east Is the strongest argument for the militaristic tendencies of the Americans. As a colonial statesman, Gen. Wood is enjoying high reputation. But in appointing him to a mission upon the basis of whose results the United States expects to shape its far eastern policy, the American government was actuated by a motive the realization of which would be detrimental not only to Japan but to the rest of the oriental i The majority of the Japanese newspapers call upon the United States to carry out its promises in the Philippines.

The Yomiuri calls attention to the fact that policy In the islands has an ipiportant bearing on all the neighboring countries in the orient: and strategic considerations will undoubtedly enter into Gen. report on the Philippines, as well as the American promises of years ago, assuring Filipinos that independence would be granted them. The present Japanese relations with America occupy the most important place in these diplomatic and strategic considerations. suspicions seem to be growing about the alleged ambitions of Japan in this direction. For this reason it seems that some special steps should be taken whereby a special agreement may be made between Japan and America regarding Philippine independence.

earnestly hope that Gen. Wood and his party, upon the completion of their work in the Philippines, will spend as much time as is possible in Japan, so that they may come in contact with and know the Japanese people, finally understanding the conditions in this country. Thus they will go home with the knowledge that will give the Harding administration a real chance to handle the Philippines case as it should be ONDON, June necke, the short period comet, which is hurtling through space at a speed of many thousand miles an hour towards the earth, will not I have the best of the accord- i ing to Prof. A. Fowler, chief lecturer in astronomy at the Imperial Science college, South Kensington.

is generally said the professor, we shall come in contact with its tail, if at all. In this event it is possible Pons-Winnecke may become so disintegrated that other self-respecting comets will disown Cyclonic Traveler. One can picture some scientist in a few time picking up a small meteor, the mortal remains of this cyclonic traveller in our space. i poor Pons, we knew him will! doubtless be the comment of the astronomical world. Prof.

Fowler was the first scientist to prove that the tails of comets have carbonic oxide gas instead of the deadly cyanogen gas, as was previously supposed. the tail of Pons comes in contact with this continued Prof. Fowler, quantities of carbonic oxide, which is an odorless gas, will be absorbed in the atmosphere of this planet. is no cause for alarm, since the proportion of carbonic oxide is so small in relation to the immense volume of atmosphere round the earth that the effect will be imperceptible. People do not realize how many million tons the atmosphere we breathe weighs.

At ground level the weight is fourteen pounds to the square inch. addition to gas the tail will contain meteoric is. particles of iron and nickel. This dust is not likely to reach us. Fascinating Theory.

to how a comet is formed I cannot tell you, any more than I can tell you, from a scientific point of, view, how the earth wras formed. Perhaps they come from gases thrown off from the sun, which are gradually cooled. the other hand, leading authorities on astronomy say that it is clear that comets cannot have Her Poems Win Praise From Imperial Family JEWELERS NOT AFRAID OF NEW PEARL MAKERS Paris, France, June fash-i ionable jewelers of the Rue de la Paix are smiling over a report from London that a Japanese pearl expert, had discovered a cultivating process to produce pearls which could not be distinguished from genuine Oriental pearls and which consequently had the same value. the whole history of the i said Jacques Cartier, a prominent jewel merchant, one has ever succeeded in artificially producing precious stones. Man has never been able to imitate the processes of Not Practical.

The pearl, said M. Cartier, is particularly difficult to imitate and anyone could distinguish an Oriental pearl from the imitation. The real pearl is composed of many concentric skins, as an onion. Held up in natural light the center shows darkest, with the transparency increasing in perfect gradation toward the exterior. The Imitation, or is said to be produced by introducing into the living oyster a small stick of mother of pearl or a small ball of meerschaum, which after several years becomes covered with several skins of the same substance as the real pearl.

would probably require 50 years to produce a solid pearl by this said M. Cartier, with a smile, who wants to feed an oyster for 50 Find Fortune In Opium Lawyer Protests Innocence Havana, Cuba, June thousand worth of opium was discovered in the baggage of a passenger aboard the Spanish steamer Alfonso XII on her last arrival at Havana. The contraband was secreted in four trunks and weighed over 1000 pounds. Jose Hervas Aldecoa, a lawyer, in trunks the drug was found, is out on bond, after a hearing in which, he asserted he did not know that the tins he brought in his baggage as a favor to another contained opium. Foresee Impending Change In Irish Administration Dublin, Ireland, June state- ment is made in the Independent that viscount Fitzalan (formerly lord i Edmund Talbot), new viceroy for Ire- land, obtained from the cabinet, as a I condition of his acceptance of the viceroyalty, an undertaking that the inception of his regime would be marked by the withdrawal of the auxiliary police, called in Ireland the and In official quarters in Dublic this statement is not confirmed, but it is generally taken to point to some change in the control of the auxiliary force.

Nominally the force is composed of who are supposed to be cadets for the royal Irish constabulary, awaiting appointment as district inspectors. and is, therefore, technically part of the police. But it is not controlled by the heads of the royal Irish constabulary, and has its own com- manderinchief in Gen. Tudor. It is composed exclusively of officers who served in the war, and numbers about 1500 men.

It is not believed here that, in present conditions, it is likely to be disbanded. Heavy Loss To Worders Through Many Walkouts Rome, Italy, June lost 55.000.000 days of wTork last year because of strikes, according to figures published by the ministry of labor. This includes labor disorders of every disputes, loss occasioned by the occupation of the factories by workmen from last July to September, and disorders in the farming districts. Wage disputes caused the major part of the loss, with 16.500.000 days. Communist agitations of last year, when the factories were occupied, are calculated to have resulted in 10.000.000 lost days.

Political strikes and other suspensions, not included in the other classes, are said to have lost 15.500,000 days. Textile workers engaged in 212 strikes, the largest number in any trade, throwing out of work nearly 150,000 workmen. The most costly dispute was that of the transportation w'orkers. who had 137 strikes, affecting 241,359 workmen and losing 2,523,057 days of work. RS.

CHARLES BURNETT, wife of the United States military attache in Tokio. whose poprr written in Japanese. have received imperial praise. Mrs. Burnett wras among the party of Americans who recently welcomed Gen.

Wood on his visit to Japan. Predicts End of Printing By Methods Now In Use London, England, June that printing from type is likely to be superseded was made by William Gamble at the recent congress of printers, held here in connection with the international printing and allied trades exhibition. Mr. Gamble said that at least three inventors were trying to develop a photographic process to take the place of printing from type. He predicted that the machines for printing by photographic process Many U.S.

Subjects, One A Woman, Held Without Trial on Flimsy Charges. ARSAW, Poland, June the Associated Press.) The plight of seven Americans, one of them a woman, held by the Bol- sheviki in prisons on various charges, is worse today than at any time since they were taken into custody, in the opinion of Capt. Merriam C. Cooper, of El Paso, Texas, escaped recently from one of the camps near Moscow. Capt.

Cooper at the time of his capture was commander of the Koscuiszko air squadron of the Polish army. Life in a Bolshevik prison camp is a matter of physical endurance, as to the length of time one is able to hold out if compelled to live upon the food furnished by the Soviets, Capt. Cooper said. All of the Americans would have died long ago, Cooper believes, if it been for outside aid from to time. Poor Food.

Capt. Cooper said he was on the verge of starvation several times, members of a British railway mission, who also were prisoners, coming to his rescue with food in one instance and on other occasions, eatables having been sent him by foreign welfare organizations. The food ration of the average camp follows: coffee, half pound black bread, spoonful sugar, spoonfuls cooked mush made of cereal resembling bird seed. of hot soup. A small amount of potatoes and a piece of meat usually not larger than an egg, were served on an average of about twice a month.

The black bread, according to Cooper, who, as an aviator with the first American army, was captured by the Germans during the Saint Mihiel drive, is far worse than the bread served by the Germans even during the last few weeks of the war. Woman a Prisoner. Mrs. Marguerite E. Harrison, of Baltimore, a writer, arrested nearly two years ago, is in the prison where foreigners under investigation by the extraordinary commission are held.

Conditions in this place are said by the prisoners to be the worst of any prison in all Russia. Estey (unidentified) and William Flick, moving picture operators, were in the same prison near Moscow where Mrs. Harrison is confined. Thomas Hazelwood, of San Francisco, a United States soldier captured in Siberia, was in a prison hospital. Hazelwood has never been sentenced as he has been under medical treatment most of the time for frequent attacks of illness.

X. P. Kalemantiano. a graduate of the University of Chicago, accused of being a spy, has been held nearly three years, most of this time having been in solitary confinement. Originally, Kale- mantiano was sentenced to be shot, Cooper heard, but later this was eommuted to 20 imprisonment and at last accounts the sentence had been reduced to five years.

Kalemantiano claims that he went to Russia strictly in connection with business. Another American held by the Bol- sheviki is Royal C. Keely, a civil engineer, arrested early last year after he had completed an Industrial survey, of Russia for the Soviet government. According to various persons who have come from Russia during the last year, Keely was imprisoned because he aroused the wrath of the Soviets by writing the in his reports, although they were submitted to no one excepting Soviet authorities. Recent reports said Keely had been sentenced to two years imprisonment.

Held Withont Trial. The last American to be arrested was Emmett Kilpatrick, of Uniontown, taken last fall in the Crimea where he had gone as an American Red Cross worker. Kilpatrick is accused of being a military observer for the United States government. Kilpatrick and Cooper were prisoners together three months Kilpatrick contends he has never had a trial and that he has been denied the privilege of outside assistance. told me that he was engaged in humanitarian work in the Crimea as an official of the American Red Cross and that he carried an American passport giving him the right to travel in the capacity of a welfare Capt.

Cooper said. said he felt that death would come within the next few months if compelled to exist upon the ration issued by the Soviet authorities. So far as I know none of the Americans was receiving outside aid at the time I last heard of them and the condition of each, judging from what I heard from time to time, was most pitiful. was in poor condition when I saw him last though still keeping up his nerve, and he felt thoroughly confident that the American government and the American Red Cross would do all possible in his behalf. was in the same hospital with Hazelwood for a time and he told me several times that he had been forced to sign many papers, all written in Russian, which had not even been traslated to Cooper was charged with being a counter revolutionist and was a prisoner nine months.

He escaped from Moscow to Riga traveling most of the distance on foot. would hardly occupy more space than a typewriter, nor be any more complicated. He expressed the opinion that eventually the great printing presses in newspaper offices would give place to smaller, swift-running and comparatively noiseless machines which would turn out printed matter with almost the same facility as the moving picture operator reels off his film he is seeking also to acquire an interest In Influential newspapers In Vienna and Budapest. Nevertheless, he is keeping his movements very quiet: he is represented by discreet agents, and his actions have attracted very little attention. Ever since the first conference between Germany and the allies at Spa, Stinnes has been considered the Mephistopheles of the German situation.

It is a role for which nature has fittingly cast him, giving him a bent nose, a fiercely black moustache and sharp, insolent little eyes. He is indeed the personification of insolence. Was Coal Pit Boy. He knows coal and iron from the ground up. When he inherited his estates and mines, at the age of 19.

he was work-ng as a pitboy; and, although he was a mere youngster when he became the German coal king. with his Hugo Stinnes, the Elizabeth Stinnes and the whole Stinnes the far- 1 thest ports of the world, he has, from the beginning, displayed courage and initiative, daring and sagacity. With these combined with hard work, and with ruthless profiteering during the war, he has increased his fortune many-fold. As a politician his rise has been very recent. He purchased a number of newspapers during the war, but his chief gains were made at the last elections, when the Deutsche Volks- partel, of which he is the chief spirit, made great strides.

Many people think him the most dangerous politician in Germany; but, as a matter of fact, he is one of the few' realists in the German situation, because he, more than anyone else, realizes that there is no hope in political panaceas; that problem is purely and simply an economic one. Bitter Fighter. The alliejs know him as the bitterest fighter in Germany. Nevertheless, unlike some Germans, he knows wrhen he is beaten in one field and when is the moment forts elsewhere. He stance, that his iron works in the Ruhr district are threatened by French occupation and that, what is Hull England, June short- far more important Germany has lost age of coal has been so serious here its chief sources of iron ore.

during the strike of miners that the people were Industry was upon France, tried to seek a basis for cooperation. Ore from Spain and Sweden cannot be imported because of the reduction in the German merchant marine. Therefore only one field is left for Stinnes to the resources of the continent. Rich Ore Found. Now, the continental hi iron are by no means negligible.

The Styrian concern, in which Stinnes now' shares with Castiglione, that Vienna millionaire, son of a Trieste rabbi, who before the war was practically not only yields extensive coal resources and a huge iron works, but furnishes quantities of raw ore. It Is of a very high per cent iron, as compared with the average yield of 32 or 33 per cent in the best Minette ore from Lorraine. Stinnes is also negotiating for an interest in the fields In Slovakia and In Comor and Szepes (Slovakia) and In Borsod (Hungary) there are large areas which are not exploited. The ore here is of an Inferior quality, bnt It compares very favorably with that of the much- coveted Lorraine fields. The factories at Witkowits and Tes- chen.

in spite of their proximity to these mines, cannot use Slovakian ore, because their furnaces were built for the hlghev grade Swedish product, whfeb they were able to import very cheaply before the war because they were the sole European agents and made their chief profits by buying and selling from Sweden. The ore from these fields used to be sent to Prussian Silesia in the days when the Polish fields were In the hands of the Russians. Now, however, the Silesian factories can obtain raw material from Polish sources. factories, built for Lorraine ore, can use the product of the Slovakian fields very satisfactorily. i one nem ana i i knows? for and Ice Lacking Because of Coal Strife Eighty per cent of boaie production of iron ore was lost when Germany lost Alsace- i orraine.

Rut this Is not all. In er palmiest days Germany was importing 51 per cent of her iron ore. partly from French Lorraine, partly from Spain, Sweden, Algiers and Morocco. the French ore is not Stinnes at first, realizing how dependent the German Iron unable to obtain not water. To meet this situation, the National Kitchen, which happened to have a supply of coal, sold hot water to the working people at one-half penny a bucket.

The shortage of coal also produced a shortage of ice as it handicaped the artificial ice plants. To obviate this, trawlers were sent to Holland to bring coal which they exchanged here for Ice. PERUVIAN NEWSPAPER SEIZED, OPERATED BY GOVERNMENT COURT BATTLE FOR RECOVERY IMA, Peru, June Peruvian government is now engaged in the publication of a daily newspaper, i an unusual venture, in South America, i This is the result of seizure by the government of the newspaper, La Prensa, in March. The council of ministers issued a decree authorizing expropriation of the newspaper on the ground that it was center of a and that for the last years it had been deliberate inciter of rebellion and Obnoxious to Press. The attempt of the governrhent to control the conduct of La Prensa has been the cause of much comment among Peruvian newspapers and newspaper men.

El Comercio has charged in an editorial that the government has committed a grave attack against liberty of thought and against private There is a legal battle on to compel the government to surrender the newspaper to its former director, Luis F. Cisneros. Augusto Durand, owner of La Prensa, has been a political exile i for more than 18 months and Is now said to be in Bolivia. Senor Cisneros is conducting the legal fight to recover possession ci the paper which is now administered by an editorial force and business management installed by government agents. Legal Rattle Ragea.

Cisneros has obtained a writ from the correctional court ordering the prefect of police to restore the property to him, but the prefect has avoided doing so by notifying the court that the paper is in the hands of the government. Cisneros then brought suit for a writ in the supreme court of Peru demanding a return of the property, but this was denied. The court held that it could not yet interfere under the expropriations law enacted about ten years ago. Meantime, the government has deposited the equivalent of about $55,000 to the credit of the former owner of the paper, this amount representing its value fixed by an inventory. The public is watching the contest and awaiting the next step with much interest.

Rent Yourself An Aunt In London; Women Prepared To Aid Families For a Price ONDON, June an aunt. Universal aunts rented at reasonable prices. Special probably boosted American customers. Send a chart of your taste in aunts. Seventy in stock.

no contest. no about it. It can be done. You can step out and hire an aunt, on reasonable terms, for a and growing variety of uses, and suit your taste in the picking of them, for the first firm to enter the business has 70 in stock. Plenty On Hand.

It's the Aunts, Which is to say, that if 70 enough the earnest band of aunts will expand itself and take in new members. The chief aunt Is Miss S. Fort. to be found at No. 4 Sioane street.

She thought up the idea of providing gentlewomen to do, for a price, the various tasks which the average family or the average person of family sidles onto the maiden aunt. The idea being that though everybody a maiden aunt who is free and can be imposed upon, everybody has theMe old tasks that and folks will pay for the service. The band of the faithful women of education and expert linguists, expert dressmakers, perts at house decoration, experts of all sorts. They take schoolboys to and from school. They act as buyers for helpless men who want to do the wife proud while on a visit to London and distrust their own taste.

They read to Invalids and act as companions of travelers. They supervise spring cleaning. They study entertainments and are ready to advise or guide visitors about, giving them entertainment according to their tastes. It is in this latter field that they hope to cater to the American visitors. are prepared, for a consideration, to take American visitors in town and see that they get what they want, see what they want to see, and enjoy their trips abroad.

Annual Auction of Furs Is Held In Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11. The annual fur sale of the Royal Greenland trade has just taken place here. The pelts of 2103 blue foxes, 1661 white foxes and 25S polar were sold at auction. The pelts of the blue foxes averaged about 30 percent higher prices than last year, while the white foxes were 20 percent lower and the bears' skins were 50 percent lower. A number of skins were purchased for America through Danish and German middlemen..