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HOUSTON DAILY POSTi SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST y' i. rL ''s- LOOK TO SPAIN TO MEDIATE AT iviaroonea rasse Ui Summer wear ables at JT- CLOSE OF EUROPEAN WAR you many attractive patterns in We 'ofer Men's Suits in two- and three-piece mel Coast Train Reached Houston About 8 '4 O'Clpck Saturday Night From Brownsville. Was Held With Passengers at Kingsville Sev $1 5.00 Wool Suits now Wool Suits now $14.50 $25.00 Wool -Suits now $19.50 $30.00 Wool Suits now $23.50 $35.00 Wool Suits now $27.50 All Men's Summer Suits at Reduced Prices I Men's Mohair Suits Any $10 Mohair Suit. Any $15 Mohair Suit.

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There are other historical ties that unite Spall) to Germany, and particularly to Austria. And Spain's traditional hostility to England la still alive. But there is also a liberal Spain, which is pro-English, or at least pro-French a paln which is antl-cleiical, anti-aristocratic and antj-German. This branch of Spanish public opinion was far from pleased by the visit of the U-35. It has protected against a repetition of such visits.

Through ope of Its organs. El Liberal, It has Insisted that a submarine Is not a warship within 'the meaning of tho provision that entitles a warship to enter a neutral port provided that It departs within 24 hours. El Liberal demands that the Spanish government take up the question and make clear its decision. But the Inability of this party to secure control of the foreign policy of Spain during the war has been admitted by one of its most distinguished sympathizers the American philosopher Santayana. "In Spanish towns," he says, "the laboring classes and the talking and bustling public that sits In cafes and reads the newspapers are revolutionary in tendency, so that If we have counted heads, excluding the passive and illiterate peasantry, the liberal and, therefore, the pro-Frerith camp, would probably hold the large majority.

The conaervative wing, however, has compensating elements of strength In the support of the cleigy, the passionate allegiance of most of the women, and that high principled, auatore, believing minority of the upper classes which feels itself to be the healthy part of the nation, and certainly is alono In maintaining the traditional Castilian virtues. If we take Spain not as tne collections of individuals now alive in the peninsula, but as a historical power and personality, there Is no doubt "that her heart must be with Germany in this war." If Spain has" kept her heart fairly well hidden during this war, it is no doubt, as King Alfonso intimates in his Hungarian Interview, in the hope that at the end of the war she may counterbalance the influence of the neutral nations that arc less friendly to Germany. ELEMENTS VIED WITH BIG GUNS IN FLASHES OF FIRE Lurid Streams of Lightning1 Added to Picture on Somme Front in France. (Associated Press Report.) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES ON THE SOMME FRONT, August 19, via London. The thunders of the heaviest rainstorm of the season joined those of the artillery, and flashes of lightning from the heavens vied with the flashes from the mouths of many guns in a most lurid battle picture In the darkness of the early hours Saturday morning as a finale to Friday's Anglo-French attack from Pozleres to the Somme.

The chilly, heavy downpour continues, making artillery observation difficult. The British main advance was toward Gulllemont, where they gained an important position on either side of the town, besides ground on the right of High Wood. Austrlans Bombarded Venice. Associated Press Report.) August 19 (by wireless to Sayville). Another bombardment of Ven- Any $3.00 and $4.00 Straw in the House now $1.00.

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Some of the passengers had come from points In the lower valley, and had passed through the storm swept district. They told graphic stories of the, hurricanes and the havoc it wrought. None waas of the opinion that the storm was so severe that which visited this section a year ago. Dr. W.

M. Smotherman of MaKlnney. eld: "The storm did not scare me at all. for I have been through 'worse ones than that of Friday night. We were detained at Kingsville all that night.

The rain started in about 9:30 o'clock Friday morning and continued without Interruption until o'clock Saturday morning. Luckily no lives were lost as far as we could learn. "Buildings, especially frame structures, were damaged or blown down on all sides from Brownsville clear up to Corpus Christl. At Brownsville the soldiers were allowed to sleep in schoolhouses and other public buildings. Notwithstanding all the precautions taken by the troops to protect their camp equipment, the tents were in many instances blown into smithereens." "We saw no traces of the storm as far north as Slnton," said Charles Spadle of League "City, another of the passengers from the storm swept section.

"Frame buildings were blown down everywhere or otherwise considerably damaged. Even some brick buildings were not spared. GREAT DEAL OF DAMAGE AT KINGSVILLE. "A great deal of damage was done at Kingsville. although I should say that the wind did not assume a greater velocity than fifty br sixty miles an hour there.

-This storm will be a hard blow for all that section of the state, coming as It does on top of the recent period of droilth," said Mr. Spadle. "The heavy rainfall was not needed down that way, a there had been ample rainfall recently. The rain fell in sheets, literally beating the crops Into the ground. I am very dubious over the condition of cotton all over the storm section, although young cotton may not be damaged very much," he declared.

"There was much damage at Klnw-ytlle, houses and buildings unroofed and railroad property there was badly damaged." NOT AS SEVERE AS STORM A YEAR AGO. Mr. Spadle, who was in the August hurricane of a year ago, said the storm of Friday was fully 60 per cent less severe than that of a year H. V. Williams, anoh er of the passengers, who did not have time to Ftate where he was from, as he strode rapidly-down the station platform, said: "there were lots of houses blown down at Kingsville and other points along the line.

The wires were all down from Woodsboro south to Brownsville. The railroad shops at Kingsville seem to have suffered considerably, with roofs blown off and other damage was noticeable." Captain Verbeojt of the First New York field artillery, who boarded the train at McAUen, said It had Just begun to rain as the train left "I noticed many frame houses and other buildings badly damaged along the line, and some brick buildings as well. Kverything seemed In bad shspe, although 1 am thankful to say that the New York division of troops were not hard hit, the principal damage being done to their tents." TOLD OF CONDITIONS AT SOLDIERS' CAMPS. H. Stoddard, quartermaster sergeant with Governor Dunne's party, gave a vivid account of the conditions in the camps at Brownsville late Friday afternoon.

"The wind," said Mr. Stoddard, "which GENERAL OFFENSIVE ON SALONIKI FRONT HAS BEGUN AT LAST In Our Boys' Department Boys' Wool Suits Sampeck and Other Good 'Make In Sizes 6 to 18 $15.00 Suits at $9.95 $10.00 Suits at $6.95 $7.50 Suits at $4.95 $5.00 Suits at $3.45 $1.00 values at 79 $1.50 values at 95o $2.00 values at $1.45 $2.50 values at $135 $3.00 values at $Z25 Ice by Austrian aerial craft on the night of August 16 Is announced In an Austrian admiralty statement Saturday. Notable damage of a military nature was caused, according to the statement. BERLIN, August 19 (by wireless to Sayville). Naval aeropalnes, mostly neersKrom ection had strong and gusty all morning, toward noon Increased steadily In veloc ity, sweeping straight In from the gulf at a hurricane rata.

Rain began to fall In torrents from lowering black clouds, Aid In a few minutes the streets In the. camp were nooaea. uroinaruy water' proof, and made of the very best of ma terial, the army tents leaked like, stoves when the heavy tfusts of wind lashed the rain against the walls and roof. "Storm warnings had prepared the of' fleers for a big blow, and all possible preparations were maae tor tne emergency. Guns were carefully covered, and the ammunition supplies were sent to the city for safe keeping.

Tbe men stayed In camp to withstand the storm as best they could." OFFICERS TENTS FIRST TO GO. "The officers' tents were the first to go. Beginning with the big headquarters tent, which stood at the head of the avenue, and as a consequence caught the brunt of the gale first, and extending down to the subaltren quarters, the tents went down almost in rotation. As It would have been folly to have tried to put them up in the teeth of the wind, the officers gave orders that the canvas be staked down so as to protect, as far as possible, the Interior furnishings and their- personal property. "For awhile the tents of thlirlvates Escaped, as they were smaller and closer to tne ground.

But not for long. By 3:30 in the afternoon there was not a tent standing In the camp. In some places the men were standing In water up almost to their knees, striving as best they could to protect their belongings." According to Sergeant Stoddard the men were cheerful In spite of their drenched condition, and a good deal of friendly talk was exchanged between the various regiments quartered close together whenever a lull In the wind permitted of shouted conversation. When ihe party left the men had not received orders to move to town. BROWNSVILLE STREETS STREWN WITH DEBRIS.

Mr. Stoddard said that the streets of Brownsville were strewn with wreckage and debris of all descriptions. The small frame houses, of which there was a large number In the city, were almost all leveled. At 4 o'clock there was hardly a pane of plate glass the business district. W.

A. Gelght of Dallas, who was a passenger on the train, said that their progress from Brownsville to Kingsville was almost a snail's pace because of the fallen telegraph poles. Hardly a pole was left standing between the two towns. Countless stops nad to be made to clear the track. "At times," said Mr.

Geight, "when the engine swung into the teeth of the gale. It was with the utmost difficulty that the train made the very slowest progress. The engineer said that he used enough steam In making the 15 miles to propel the locomotive at the rate of 70 miles an hour without the terrific wind." Mr. Geight said that the town of Kingsville was in darkness when the train A part of the town, notably the negro and Mexican sections, were almost leveled. Several stores had been blown down, and the bank partially wrecked.

He said no lives were reported lost, however. LITTLE DAMAGE DONE. Loss to Camps at Brownsville Is Not Large. Houston Post SptciaV) AN ANTONIO, Texas, August 19. A wireless to Fort Sam Houston Saturday night from General James Parker at Brownsville, said that the total damage to national guard camps in that district will not exceed from 35000 to 310,000.

General Parker said the spirit of the men was good and that practically all the tents were In position again. miles, capturing a ridge overlooking Thlepval. high ground north of Pozieres and a half mile of trenches west of High Wood, according to the official statement Issued by the war office at midnight. They captured 796 prisoners in these operations. RUSSIAN SITUATION REPORTED UNCHANGED.

(Associated Press Report.) PETROGRAD. August 19 (via London) The official statement issued by the war office Saturday night says: "The situation is unchanged on the western (Russian) and Caucasian fronts." SOCIALIST CLUBS RAIDED. Berlin Police' Took Literature and Ar. rested Many. (Associate Press Report.) LONDON, August 19.

The premises of all Berlin socla ist clubs were raided by the police on Wednesday last, according to an Exchange Telegraph company dispatch from Geneva. Many persons were arrested, the advices state, and It is reported that large quantities of peace manifestos and pamphlets were seized. RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON STOKHOD. Broke Through Austro-German Lines 40 Miles from Kovel. (Associated Press Report.t TETROGRAD.

August 19, via London. 'The Russians have feroken through the Austro-German lines on the Stokhod river In Volhynla, and have made a considerable advance, it was anounced Saturday. The break in the Austro-German front was made In the region of the village of Czerwisscxe, 40 miles northeast of Kovel. RUSSIANS THROWN BACK. Bertln Said Reverses Caused Cessation of Activities In East.

(Associated Press Report.) BERLIN, August 19. (Via Wireless to Sayvllle.) Such reverses have been suffered by the Russian recently In their attacks on the Austro-German army of General Boehm-Ermolll that they have desisted from their efforts, the official Austrian report on Friday says. On the Italian front the repulse of attacks In the Isonxo region is reported. LLOYD GEORGE SATISFIED. Made 6peech to Pellew Townsmen Expressing Hope, (Amctmted Press Report.) CRICCIETH.

Wales, August 20. 1:49 a. In a speech Saturday night to his fellow townsmen here. David Lloyd George, minister of war, said "I am aattafled with the way things are going. I feel for the first time In two years that the nippers are grlpnlna and before long we will hear the -crack.

Then we will be able to extract the kernel." Denied Crown Prince Wounded. (Associated Pjrett Report.) PARIS, August 19. The report that the German crown prince, Frederick William. Is wounded and In a hospital at Verdun Is authoritatively denied. Extra Portuguese Session.

(Associmted Prist Report.) LISBON, August (via London, August 1. a. deeree has been ton of parliament a August a. I Arrive from Page One.) nated by tbe United States, since we are the strongest neutral nation to which Holland, Swltseruuid, Norway and Denmark have constantly looked; for guidance and support. Spain, however.

Is not under our Influence. If she has'not too much power, at least she has the tradition and the pride of She has, moreover, no reason -to love the Uplted States. Our recent attempts to acquire commercial and diplomatic ascendency over Latin America, and our present difficulties with Mexico, have not made her feel any more kindly toward us. If Spain becomes an Important figure in the peace negotiations Wis will be regarded In Germany as a diplomatic victory over the United States. DrSTRUST OF UNITED 8TATE8 DATES Tff PORTSMOUTH.

Germany's distrust of the United States In the role of peacemaker Is not based merely on our attitude In the present European war. it dates at least aa far back as the treaty of Portsmouth, by which we ended the, Russian-Japanese war 11 years ago. Tbe Berlin foreign office has recently sent out to representatives of neutral newspapers a pamphlet in which It is declared that the United States was the mere catspaw of England In those negotiations. The treaty Is denounced as "a great wrong to Japan" done by "the two Anglo-Saxon colleagues." The author's theory Is that England had urged Japan Into the war In order to weaken Russia and to render her a less formidable naval rival to England. But the danger that Japan, if she received the fruits of her victory, might become an even greater rival, made England suddenly throw her weight on the other- side.

It was, according to this Samphlet. at England's suggestion that apan was not granted a war Indemnity. Inthe treaty, which we drew up. jThe pamphlet is an abridged translation of "The Vampire of the Continent," Count Ednst zu Ke'ventlow's bitter attack on England. The fact that the section Just referred to was not among the passages expurgated when the book was translated for foreign consumption Is highly significant.

LIGHT ON GERMANY'S ATTITUDE. There are many Germans who believe that the point of view of the author of the book, a reactionary but level headed Journalist, who has been one of the leaders of the kaiser's "most loyal opposition," gives a better Indication of Germany's real and permanent attitude than the editorials In those liberal newspapers which always agree with their government, even when the government contradicts Itself. This applies particularly to Germany's attitude toward the United States. Reventlow was one of the first to see the futillty-of German propaganda in the United SMUes. As early as November, 1914, he told Bernstorff and Dernburg that nothing would come of their efforts to "shed light" upon America.

And last March, when nearly all Germany was predicting a break between President Wilson and congress which would prove that the president did not have the nation behind him in his policy toward Germany, Reventlow alone retained his caustic calm. "No one who does not wilfully blind himself." he declared, "can doubt that congress will support the president." EDITORIAL SHOWS GERMAN ATTITUDE. His editorial on the subject of the United States as peacemaker after this war is therefore important; more Important than the, sudden enthusiasm over the prospect of our Intervention, which burst from the German liberal press the day after Germany's last note to us. The fact that, the German censor, who -has suppressed so many of Reventlow's editorials about America, permitted this one to be printed. Is regarded by Germans as signl(lcant.

"If there is one power uhsuited to the role of mediator," he declared In the Deutsche Tageszeltung, "It is the United States. For nonpartisanship or at least a very considerable degree of it is the prerequisite of all mediation. The German people. want peace only on a basis of victory. We do not want an 'honorable peace' In which we Bhall be 'mediated' into a deal by the transatlantic Anglo-Saxon power which has no interest in Germany's filture." Reventlow says further: "Foreign press comment shows that our enemies, as we'l as some neutrals, are convinced that the German empire desires nothing but peace, and that It would, under sufficient pressure from all sides, accept whatever peace our enemies and the United States might wish to force on the German empire and its people.

It is not in our interest to allow such an assumption to go uncontradicted." ANTI-GERMAN SENTIMENT. He traces nuich of our present feeling against Germany to the time of pur war with Spain. And he declares that our real enemy among the neutral European powers at that time was England, but that England, by a trick, turned our wrath against Germany. "Groat Britain followed with-fin envious eye the success of the Americans," he writes In "The Vampire of the Continent." "Nevertheless, she dared not openly take sides. She limited herself to nn effort to prevent the armed intervention of the United States In Cuba by a collective action of the powers.

Germany refused her co-operation, whereupon English diplomacy pretended that the initiative had not come from England, but from Germany." Be that as It may, German opinion In 1S98 was overwhelmingly in favor of Spain. In Berlin today one still hears of the German Indignation which arose against us then. It was said at the time of the Spanish war by a New York newspaper that we had but one friend left In Germany the late Dr. Theotlor ttarth. rek'hstag leader and editor of the liberal weekly, the Nation.

His widow, whom I met recently In Berlin, suggested to me that, to promote International good feeling, the United States should be reminded of the few acts of courtesy which the German government was said to have performed toward us at that time. RIGHT TO SHIP WAS UNQUESTIONED. She referred In all good faith to the much discussed shipload of German arms and munitions bound for Spain, said to have been stopped at the mouth of the Elbe by the German government, at the request of our ambassador In Berlin. But It has turned out that even this alleged act of German friendliness toward us at that time has been much exaggerated. For when at my suggestion she asked the Wilhelmstrasse for the official account of the affair she was Informed, much to her embarrassment, that the Germangovernment "thought It better not to take up the matter at the present time." And I was later told unofficially that at no tlrrte during the Spanish-American war did Germany allow the right of her private citizens to ship munitions to Spain to be questioned.

Spain was grateful for Germany's friendship at that time. She la still grateful, and Oermany has done everything possible i uring the present war to make her even more i ratefuL Inept as the German governmen; sometimes Is In dealing with liberal and democratic nations. It has on occasion shown great tact in handling the of decaying monarchies. The removal of the statue of Ferrer la a conspicuous example. A statue of this famous Spanish anarchist, anti-clerical, educator, end rebel had been erected In Brussels.

The Belgian government, mindful no doubt of the ancient feud between Spain and the low countries, had not prevented this. But when the German troops Invaded Brussels the kaiser ordered the statue removed. This Was not merely the instinctive reaction of an emperor "by divine right," toward a memorlar erected In honor of an anarchist It was a gentle hint to the powerful Spanish clergy that a Protestant nation can be less anticlerical than a Cathollo one. It was a delicate reminder to the Spanish king that Germany In Belgium Is merely following Jn the footstsna of -the Hn.nl. Duke oTAlra wh was alto aocused nil I An Appeal to Housewives Who Would Economize Here's a store conveniently located which for 43 years has borne the reputation for "square dealing." Not only this, but displaying in greater variety than elsewhere final-low-cost groceries and provisions.

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