AMERICA DAY BY DAY

Evening Star, Issue 16196, 18 August 1916, Page 5

AMERICA DAY BY DAY

[From Oyn San Francisco CorbesrONUENT.] A MILLION DOLLARS FOR ALLIES' RELIEF. '' The Allies' bazaar, winch took place in PmJinn f cent! >'- ™». attended by over 650,000 people ami cons-dcrably more than one million dollars (£250,000) " was cleared after the few incidental expenses had been met. The leading actresses of the United .Mates freely gave their services, <md hundreds or promiMit, society women were daily m attendance. France rent, over a shipload of war relics, including captured German gun s and aeroplanes. AMERICAN GENERAL DISCUSS"?. WAR. TVfeh from Paris, where he has had an exceptional opportunity to note the nro-ress o. the war and the steps leading up to" tho «"ic«bio.i of hostilities and the establishment of peace, in Europe, General Edward KJrlcpatnek. an American Civil War veteran and long a resident, of San Francisco; has returned to Cahfornia. on a business trip Ho » a arp agricultural property holder in California but for the last 20 years he and hi? wifa have made their home in Pari* O-OMiitt tho Atlantic on one of the vessels of -be French Line, he said that h- felt, no uneasiness about a diver attack, blouse of the excess of precautions rsercis?d. Questioned about ih?. duration of the war. General Kirkpatrick said: "The w*r will doubtless end tin* year from want of men on the part of the Central Empires. , Germany has an abundance of munitions and food to continue the war But in the middle of last March, according ™ *&£**' she lwd on] y °» e million" men Austria-Hungary - 750.000, that could be drawn upon to supply the losses in the held. At \erdun. since the 21st of last February, the Kaiser has lost three to one of the French. The duration of the. war has been prolonged by a lack of unity between tho A lies and the want of sufficient munitions to assume the offensive. The battle of the Marne. consolidated by the battle of the Tser, settled the ultimate fate of the Overman army. As evidence, you have seen the repeated efforts of the Kaiser, since' the defeat of the Russians in the Carpathians to initiate peace negotiations. After this and the three disastrous attacks on Verdun the Kaiser addressed his troops, and saidThe war of 1870 ended at Pan* The present war will end at Verdun.!. 1 was at the and witnessed the ridicule made ot .bo Kaisers speech by officers of the Frencn General Staff. The answer came from all along the French lines: 'The war or 1870 ended at Versailles! The present w-\r will end at Berlin.' Evidently since the Iser the German Emperor.*has not fcl't disV °? , ~ ° walt for a military decision to e&tabush terms of peace. But President Pomcara has virtually put to rest, tho question of peace negotiations until after the German armies are crushed or surrendered by his official declaration thai, the- enemy may ask for peace, but his terms will not be considered. The conditions, he* said will be imposed by the Allies." Asked if'these •conditions had already been discussed in Paris, the general replied: ."The Censor does not permit any discussion of the term* of peace, but I hava heard it. talked amon* diplomats and the' General Staff of the army that the conditions will be-determined by a, general peace congress of all the principal Powers, belligerent and neutral, and that, the first, preliminarv will be—and this appears to bo in accord with the great'body of the Gorman people, represented by the Social Democrats—the abdication of the Hohenzollerns and a dislocation of the German Empire. And with this, a return to the territorial State as it existed before the war of 1370, or .beforo that of 1866 with Austria or perhaps before that with Denmark or tven before tho partition of Poland, With a return of the territory and indemnity taken from France in the war of 1870 •" and further still, for tho future protection of France and Belgium, their frontiers to ba extended to the Rhine, with the customary war indemnities. It is the belief of several prominent Socialists with whom I Imve converged jn Paris that the storm notv bein°raised throughout, the Central Empires against a continuance of the war may lead to great and unexpected events before the end of tho year; that a revolution, sweeping away tottering thrones, as compared with tho revolution of 1848, may be. as the present war is to the small affairs of former times." HOW THE BRITISH BLOCKADE WORKS. Some of the artifices employed by the Germane to beat tho British blockade have just been exposed by Rear-admiral Sir Dudley De Chair-in the course of an interview granted to Mr Henry Huvdan, the London correspondent of the Brooklyn ' Daily EaWe,' on 'How the British Blockade ' Works!' Here is aai interesting extract: With-regard to the license adopted bv blockade runners to elude the vigilance o"f cur examination, I may mention some of the chief ruses: Double bottoms, decks and bulkheads, concealing guns', rifles' and other, firearms or ammunition; copper keels, and copper plates on saiiiii" ships--hollow masts; rubber onions (these were, discovered when one of our officers dropped ono on the deck. The onion bounced 10ft m the nir!); rubber concealed in coffee sacks; Cotton concealed m barrels of flour) rubber honey, made in the form of honeycomb filled with a curious liquid mixture; false manifest: (this is the met frequent form of faking. In yevefal cases where the captain of the uautnil realised that tho " game was up" he produced both the genuine and the false manifests for on? boarding officers to compare—a form of frankness quite amusing). ANOTHER GERMAN BOMB PLOT IN THE UNITED STATES. After- a lohg period of nlence, German plotters have a'gairl resorted to the bomb as K' " uinant to hinder the despatch of sup--6m America to the Allies, the recru--3 of Teutonic devilry being recorded timore. Four men' were killed, 50 injured, a grain elevator destroyed. 6 British steamers almost destroyed which in the immense eleva--3 at Lower Canton wharf. In addi-

tion to the known dead and injured, several persons' wero rwiesed, and havo not been accounted for yet. Tbo loss was estimated at 3,000,000d01. The moet persistent report was that the fir© was of incendiary origin, and that the explosion was that of a bomb. Germans havo been especially active recently in Baltimore. The grain-r-nearly 2,000,000 .bushels—was destined for Great Britain. Forty men who were trapped in the burning elevator saved their lives by jumping into the river.