urjpipipBHw wi"iiitw "FTf "W" """l '"J " """' TIWWWWBWJH s f EVENING LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1917 qBwm?f&mnt inW II FRANCE IN DIRE NEED OFU.S. AID Parisians Indulge in Wild Hope of Great Army to r Come Soon 1 STRANGE IDEAS PREVAIL Belief That Americans Will Quickly Replace Worn-Out Troops Is General By HENRI BAZIN mall Corretpandfnt of the Cienia Ltiner "' " in France PATHS. Juno 20 The arrival of the first American dlvl lon will he history by the time this story Is In print s'nR'e eent In the annals ef the war was ever awaited with more In tensity and ardor, with mora earned well wishing with so much desire, with fo much pent-up enthusiasm that Is straining nt the ltash eager to malte dents of Joy In the tlmosphere of Paris AH ovei Paris thero Is talk and rumor ind hearsaj and exaggeration about the army of the United States The trim' cavalrvmcn who stand at attention about (he door of General Pershing s headn,U"ir- ters are surrounded by admiring throngs from dawn to darkness. The members of the staff as they ride about Paris cr walk upon Its streets are pointed out and fol lowed They are looked upon as the vnn ruard of cl ligation's final crusade agalnt lll They aro referred to m "straight tall men and the trim cut c their un'forms is favorably commented upon as tor ucn erl Pershing himself, he Is looked upon as t salor His approximate hours of work are known, and nVvavn about the Crlllon. Sfcere he resides, a crowd collects at 8 J 5 a m to see him enter his car for the Rue Constaritlne The same stor can be told at to his return In the evening And all this. In large measure. Is because General Pershing and his stnff ond the cavalrvmen are something seen, something tangible that could be touched with trt hand HOPE AND rxrncTANcv With this seeing and sensing, there is a treat hope and expectancy. In a certain measure unreasonable to be sure, and also In a certain sense lamentable because of Illogical Ideas pre oiling among the masses, that for instance the territorials at the front will verv presently bo relleed .by American troops No one has circulated the stor It has lust come from nowhere It Is, of course, known in Trench omclal circles, as It Is reneralh known in America, that the United States Is hut a lust Infant In the military sense that muclt patient, hard dlsclp'lnlng preparation Is necessary ero America can go up against the Borhc In a fight But the people here cannot see it, cr. If thev do refuse to believe it possible There Is therefore something to be feared In a certain disillusionment among the millions who. In personal looses, know how much of France's army Is under the sod, and who hae not or will not learn to rea son that before a child or a nation learns to run, it must learn to walk Muc'i has been written In French news pap rs on this subject and much has been Mid too upon the transportation problem But the masses read and forget figures and In an eent. do not take Into calcula tion thel1- meaning nor the problems In volved nor the ships essential, nor do thc reason out the why They only know of their own desolated hearthstones, of their wounded and mutilated, of the death of their vouth of the fact that In the man sense Prince Is bled almost to the bone ; and thej have staked their nil on the United States as the one land in the wor d whence men and guns and equipment can come coon. ' bientot," in untold quantity hi:lp n'kedkd now Tbev want these living and Inanimate things now , and. nore's the pity. thc need them now Thev need them to an ex tent bejond compare, bave Germany's needs toward her vicious ends And as human nature Is but human nature, and, after all, men and women are but children who want a thing when they want it, the masses In France are going to become, In some sense, disappointed through relative future face-to-face realization of the fact that all Amer ica a good will and resources, all Ameilcas Intense earnestness cannot be manufac ture d In a few months, Into disciplined flglit ln? men who will fight to the last under orders Tor there you are Thats the real reason the United States fannot place a big army in the Meld quickly You can teach a man to salute and how to handle a gun and all the rest of It In a few weeks but ou cannot take a bunch of men fresh from desks, and factories, and farms, and even Plattsburg training camps and have them stand all unflinchingly the test of Are even to the death It is not a question of their courage or their willingness They require a year's dis ciplining ns to what soldiers really are, as to what war really means Thero Is the renson Hngland's splendid army took eighteen months or more In the making. And In the reverse sense there Is tno renson through rervlco In compulsion "V"!"-" '" vionnany arm I ranee stood mid died for their cause It's tho reason, too, why the pollu Is so wonderful Ills fel low countrjmen with him ore the most democratic in tho world, nnd let his sub mission to military servke was an instltii Hon with him and his fathers before him Hence he took to its dl'clpllne ns a duck to water, tho very moment he was mobilized, thlrtj-four months ago DOOMIJU TO DISAPPOINTMENT Summed up, a I this means to one who has lived long c'os to tho Trench people, who knows them so well ns to be ablo al most to aav wlnt they will think, eat and say at a g.ven moment, that there Is on ad ditional understanding ns to how eagerly they are waiting for something Immediate, that perforce cannot he Ms, th.in rAintiioit distant, nnd tint thev nra colmr in he .iiu. appointed ere American hosts, fresh, strong, jouthful, disciplined, carry tho bulk of the burden, carry tho war Into Belgium, nnd If God is good, Into German) And It Is because of this knowledge of French p'cple nnd temperament that I de plore most carncstlv the decision of mainly trnlnlng at home, where, despite. Installa tions based upon modem warfare, pvcho logically it will not onlv bo Impossible to bring about as rapid a transformation ot civilians Into soldiers as vvric the men In Trance, but prevent also the great moral solutar) effect of their presence ns a thing the blood-weary French people could sense and see and touch: produce a great moral effect upon the nation while more qulckl fitting the men. under a French sky. nmld the atmosphere of Trance within the smell of war itself We should hive lOrtono of them here ns quickly as it Is possible to have ships carry them over They would mean more towarl quick action and the upholding of French morale than five times the quantity six months hence France is like n man battling with a still strong devil The devil Is tired, but France Is tired ton even If. thanks to Eng land less so And because willing, svnipn thetlc hands are not rcadv to gird them selves In war giuntlets, France must wearilv hantj on She will of course, be. cause France Is wonderful And she has the wonderful youth of England beside her But she Is nevertheless In sore need of help now That's the iltuation In a word Nothing will be gained of course. In this writing Far be It from the writer's mind to presume better or even equal Judgment with those trained In the American sense mllltorv There Is seen onlv ihe Immediate need and also the deplorable short-sighted political po'lcles that through congressional lassitude permitted the greatest nation In the world to live over a vo'cano n'l the jears It was smoldering all the cars, too after It had broken out into evil and engulfing flame had crossed the Atlantic Ocean and struck us In the face ere wc unsheathed swords and began training men to stand be hind them It's a far orv from a widowed Frenc'i or English or American woman whoe widow hood might hive been nrfvented nnd the alms, of politicians of all parties in Amer ica durieg the last twentv years But thero Is a connecting link nevertheless In this story VERDICT ON BOOZE EXPECTED, TODAY T Senate Likely to Find Whisky Guilty, but to Ac quit Beer and Wine JURY HEARS SUMMING UP Ten-Minute Speeches to Bring Case to End in Upper House DRAFT BOARD THREATENED SAN FRANCISCO. Jul) C Death threats are being sent to members of draft exemption boards In Sin Tranclsco John J Duddv, member of one district board tndav advised registrar Zeinnskv that he sent his resignation to Major Holph because one man bad told him tint bis ( Duddv "s) life would be taken If ho failed to vote for exemption of the mm who made the threat Mavor Holp'a announced that he lnd nt. autliorltv to accept resignations, as the mil ler of selection was out of his hands other boatd members declare the have alto re ceived threats but thev lefuse to take them seriously WASHINGTON, July 6 The famous trial of booze, beer and wine in the United States Senate is nearlng an nut Afti- ftifaa weeks of vvordv battle, the Vise Is expected to go to the Jury late today A verdict may come ncrorc sun down There Is no question ns to the fate of spirits They will be given the death peniltv Deer and wine arc expected to get a not gulltv verdict The Semite rhamber was crowded carlv to hear the final plea of counsel, neglnnlng at 2 p m Last hours of tho trial were, expected to be fieri", Under a decision handed down late yes- terdav debate today Is limited to ten min utes bv ench Senator on the section under which all of the fnmous beverages are now subject to com Ictlon On the dlffeient questions ns they will be voted upon by the Jurj, the following predictions were made todav To convict spirits and leave the f.ato of hcer and wine to the President, wets nnd drvs will constitute a small ma jority against such a verdict To find guilty all tnrec spirits bers and wines about hlrty radical dr votes will be cart favoring such a verdict, with a majority agnjnst It To convict spirits and find beers and wines not guilt, an overwhelming verdict Is expected With tl.e rase oft the docket the Senate expects to dispose of the whole food measure by next Wednesday or Thursday Whlkv men it Is felt here pee the handwrltlrg on the wall" Their business Is doomed and they have decided to gt thlrs" while thev can statements of this kind were made frcel In the capital todav by whlsk men to ex plain the recent big boost In "red liquor" prices Ever since Congress put whisky on the blacklist the whisky ring has been advanc ing all prices to barrooms The cheapc-t whiskv uruaity reltlng for twentv. Ive rents, now eois thlrtv and the whlk men say it will go to forlv and fertv-flve in a short time Case goods have advanced nnvwhere from 12 50 to $5 In price Wholcale men know the booze busi ness Is a gonei nnd are calmh making preparations for redistilling their liquor stock to make munitions What thev loso on the redistillation they plan to make up on the booze buvers dur ing the next few weeks Thev are at a loss to kno'v whv tho whisk ring let the booze business go to the slaughter Thev say the so-called whisky lobbv made no effort to mvo the whisky buslners China Rebels and Royalists Clash Continued from Pace One tlon of the monarchy, nnd their predictions of nn uprising nnd vast Internal dissension nppear likely to be borne out There has been a ccrtnln amount of oppo sition manifested In the north of China, but mainly by mllllurj ihlefs nngcrcd be cause they were not consulted on the coup bv which the republic was overturned Japan will flrmlv maintain her neutrality In the presort situation and officials be lieve other nations will do llkewlEe SAN TIIANCISCO. July Hong Kal Yrr and San Tuen Sing. admirals of tiro Chinese navv. have refused to lower the flag of the republic on their sli ps nnd have declared ngalnst the monarchy, nceordlng to a cahle dispatch received today bv the Chlneso Itepublic Journal of San Francisco Chi Say Chung, a prominent Chlnere statesman, on whom the cables s.a the boy Emperor depended largely for political support, has announced his lovnlt to the republic Editors of Chinese newspapers In San Frunelrea's Chinatown declared toda that the attitude of Chinese generally Is ngalnst restoration of the monarch Thev pre dicted that tho boj Emperors ielgn will be short Sen Kuo Chnng has been named presi dent pro tempore at Nanking AMERICANS IN PEKIN SAFE, CAPITAL CERTAIN FORMER CZAR TAKES HIS IMPRISONMENT CALMLY "Hardly Less Free Thnn For merly," He Tells Count BenckendorfT IS IN EXCELLENT HEALTH Watch on Romanoff Family Kept by 150 Men in Palace and Gardens lly by 160 men distributed In the palace and gardens They form a triple circular cjr don around the palncc In tho Interior only Ihree soldiers mount gunrd, but Colonel Coblllnsky commandant of tho palace, lias the right nt any hour of tho day or night to enter tho spacious room without the for mnlltv pf announcing his visit in advance, l. lille the officers on duty enn at any time remind the captives of the regulations they have undertaken to respect Their task, however. Is rendered easy bv tha cold nnd flgnlfled demeanor of the prisoners. At meals Nicholas Is nlwa)s In n. good humor nnd never refers to his downfall He rats simple fare without complaint if in WOULD BAR SALE OF MM ; Butter and Egg Men to Urge Cot tlon of Young Poultry CHICAGO, July 6 rteprescntMlvM'tf the JJhlcago Butter and pgp Board V,! , en route for Washington today, where Br will confer with Secretary Houston ton row concerning stimulation of product toQ nnd control of prices They will recommend to the cecreUrjr that the Department of Agriculture etert a campaign to stop the sale of yotmtf poultry, until the farms depleted by recent heavy sales have been replenished y - - - . f'8 Lock Rives Way: Plocds On BOni:TOWV N J, JuK one- of ho cites at No 2 lock on the Ie'aware and ftarltin Canal Ins given vvav caii' 'ng the water to reach Uordentown on n rush, flooding the tow path and the rall ioad of the Trenton division of the Pennsl vania Railroad I WASHINC.TON. July f, Aholuto confidence In the rnfety of the hundred or more Americans in Pekln even If tho monarchists and republican forces come to grips In the cltv wa expressed nt the Stale Department tcdav The legation quarter, where nil foreign ers live Is heavily walled and guarded and could withstand siege for an Indefinite time If the Chinese lighters turned their atten tion to it Tho American guard consists of "(10 ma rines equipped with field pieces ns well ns machine guns, n powirful wireless and nn Improvised troop of e.avnlrv mounted on Chinese ponies Similar forces (ire stntioned nt the other legations, while the guard nt the Japanese legation Is probablv muc'i larger At Tientsin, sevmty-tlve miles awnv Is n full regiment of American oldlcrn that ould march to the relief of the legations on n moment's notice The wall nhnnt the quartet Is sixty feet thick at the base foilv feet hlph nnd ever) en trance Is secured liv a lie.avv tteel gate It was pointed out todav that because of this protection no American was killed dur ing the inutlnv of rhe garrison In 1113 Among the Americans in Pekln besides tho legation ofllcers are several business men and tourists and the tenihers In three big missions and the China Una college Window -Breakers Steal Tools Two men smashed the window of the Pusey Hardware Comp.m.v northeast corner Eighth and Cherrv rtreets early todav and stole tools valued nt $00 A watchman pursued tho men and fired several shots A short time after the fieft William Donohoe who gave his address as Cecil rtreet and Snvder nventie, was arrested nt Eighth nnd Vine streets He was suffering from a bullet wound In bis left leg He was taken to the Hahnemann Hospital Donohoe de nied 1 now ledge of the rniihcr II" Is under surveillance bv the police PLAYER-PIANO $350 skzMM chest! 2fev"Maho$ativ' . 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June 28. by Mall to N'i:w VnrtK July 6 The Journnl prints the follow InR grnphlr ilcscrlptlorr of the Cznr's Imprlnonmrnt irotu its rorosrnd correspondent. Paul Krlr "A prl-oner Yea. I suppose to Hut I am hirtlly le free now tlinn formerlv for have I not been a prisoner nil mv life"' Th.ls Is the onlv reflection Xlrhnli 11 pccins to have uncle upon Ills oaptlvltv within the precincts of TiarsKoe Selo cntle Ho was trlkltiK to fount netickenilorff former Krantl nmri-lnl or the Itiisslnn court who shires the former ('znrs ciptlvltv Tbo former ruler spoke ver oadlv. his eves filled with tiara nt the iccollcttlon of his cloistered, Kuarded life, nnd to hide his emotion he hiutllv turned his head aside and lighted a clqiiette Tcerlns through the lion ralllnRS tint surround the palace Grounds people inn from time to time get n Bllmpso of ths former I'm through the foliage It was thus I taw him Cfterdi He emerged from his suite of rooms to the pilico steps wheio ho Joined Count BoticUondorff Nicholas was wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Fourth Tleralleurs regiment He seemed to me to ho In excellent health and In no wle cist down bv his dethrone ment His clnt with the Count vns np parentlv on ,i pleaant subject for he never ceased to rmlle I saw tho coupe stroll slonlv through the grounds Their talk evldentlv wan about horticulture for from time to time thev halted before v at ions flower beds and the former Crar pointed with his cane at certain hloorrrt. 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