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DEUTSCHE BANK BRIBES, HOW BOLO GOT THE CASH, BERNSTORFF'S PART.

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SEE THEM.

SCRAPPING IN SHELL HOLES THE GERMANS AS OTHERS

BATTLE STORIEN FROM THE WEST FRONT.

OPEN LETTER TO HERR HARDEN

Sir Isidore Spichmann has addressed an open letter to Herr Harden, editor of the Zukunft one of the few SANO the points which he puts forward may men now in Germany," in the hope that help to wash from the eyes of his coun ernment has thrown into them." trymen some of the dust which the Gov-

After stating the well known facts which disprove the fiction foisted upon the German people that the Allies are responsible for the war and forced it. upon a peaceful Germany, he continues: It is far from my intention, Herr Harden, merely to abuse your people, but have they ever considered why they are so despised? They should try to see themselves as others see them. They are bounded conceit; their unbounded deceit, generally hated because of their un and their bratal nature Their cruel tits in this war have seltlom been surpassed by the most savage tribes, and have revived for the German which the Kaiser once claimed himself- a mane that will stick to them for all: timec

YOUNG REGIMENTS FIGHT WELL [FROM W. P. BULLOCK, NEW YORK,]

1 got my blighty ap by Yyres, said The Attorney-General of New York, Mr. Merton L. Lewis, has supplied the wounded Midlander with a scrapped public with a dramatic sequel to the story up shoulder,." The Germans were hold he published concerning the activities of Bolo Pasha on belulf of Germany, (Bolo ing a line of shell-bolos, hetween some Pasha is a Frenchman who got his title big concrete inchine gun emplacements, OR a charge of treason. The becsuse of the cross-fire from two of the near Paris

quel occupied

of news-pill-boxes It looked as if we were in seven columns paper print devoted to reproducing the ex a regular hold-up. We had to take testimony of German-born bankers and cover in shell-holes, halfway acroes others who assisted the traitor in his en between the lines, and whenever we made

•" in the deavour to "sink without trace French Press the millions provided for any attempt to leave them, the machine guns had us on the grid. We gon him by Count Bernstorff. The through, though The commanders of I tell you Bolo is a sly fox, a very the platoons on either flank sized up Bly fox, is the verdict on his talents what was happening and rushed the

One of those Platoon of the bank-

emplacements given by Adolf Pavenstedt, ing house of G. Amsinck & Co. It was Commandern was very hot stuff He got Pavenstedt to whom Bolo at went when he arrived in New York. He showed the right up to a loophole in the emplace Gerinan-horn bankes a copy of his con- cut, bold a bambiin his hand till the fus was nearly burnt out, and then with M. Humbert and suggested to bim how important it was that he should to the Boches inside. That ancient name of Bus secure control of a newspaper with a

The sug. culation of two millions a day.

The Fritz in the shell-holes, came gestion was accompanied by a statement that he had heard from a friend in out to meet us. They were Bavaria s Switzerland that Germany was willing to and I will say they put up a pretty good g3 to any length to make a separate peace fight. It's not thu Prussians who are

He even outlined terms on doing

Kaiser hardest work poss. Live which he declared Germany would settle They're almost a washout now. It's with France-the cession of certain upp.ople like the Bavarians and Würtem specified French Colonies to Germany in burgers, who are shoved in to the no They have dropped high explosives, dul exchange for a part of Alsace-Lorraine corners. They steed waiting for us with civilians-men, women, and babes--in and the evacuation of the occupied parts the bayonet, holding their rifles across open towns. They have declared open of Northern France.

their chests as if they were on inspection towhe fortresses, and treated them of arms parade. As soon as you got accordingly, merely because anti-aircraft near them, though, the point jabked out guns bave been set up for their protec

One big fellowTMtion, Faverkstedt informed the Attorney Gen on you like a flash, eral that he did not suppose Bolo had any near them though, the point jahhed out authority from Germany for these term going to fight at afh and came up to him bug his scheme to organise sentiment for

quite casual like Then Bick went is peace in French newspapers on those lined bayonet and if I had not jumped so impressed the German banker that he pretty sprylyl would not be here. My hurried post haste to Washington to chum got him before he could recover salt Bernstorff." I must have the money himself. I've never seen Buches use the or I am lost man, Bolo said to Paven-

bayonet really well before. stedt

THE MOKEY 01 LOST!! :

Bernstorf found what Pavenstedt hud to tell him very interesting. The Am bassador declared that it would be of im- mense value if something effective could be lone to change the tone of the French Press He promised to think the watter

OVET.

stopped the machine guns all right, and we were able to get a move anyt

They have invented fighting with the as- sistance of poisoned gases and flanke throwing cruel and cowardly wea

They have poisoned wells, as did the sarages of old.

They have deported men, women, "and" girls from Belgium and France and en slayed them, forcing them by starvation to work for their enemies

Something About Graphs

Subtle Contrivances that Save

Time

and

WHAT IS A GRAPH? Beginning

with the first announcement of the forthcoming i-sue of this standard work on China we have referred con stantly to the graphs, but there is reason to believe that the majority of readers live but a hazy idea of what graphs really nye. What is Graphi?

In the Century Dictionary, edition 100%, we find

Graph. A diagrammatic representa tion of a system of connections by means of a number of spots, which may be all distinguished from one another, some pairs of these spats. being connected by fines nil of which are of one kind. In this way any system of relationship may be pre- Bonted

This definition of what is now a more or less common word was written 20 +years

ago at a time when the graph was in its infancy, unknown except in They have sunk non-combatant shipahemistry, geometry and algebra. As a and left their crews to drown

They have even sunk hospital ships under a variety of the meanest pretexts, and drowned defenceless wounded sold hers, Red Cross nurses, and doctors,

They have fired on crews struggling in: the water.

They have fired needlessly ruined lands in their retreats.

They have treated prisoners of war with cowardly brutality,

Your Kaiser and your Government now. frequently refer to your having a world of chemies," but have your people ever asked themselves why this is 20,7 Why, in addition to England, France, Ruesia, Belgium, and Serbia-the first to face you should you now have arrayed against you the United States of America, Italy, Japani, Montenegro Albania, Portugal, Roumania, Cuba, Panama, Greece, and Siam And why have the further coun

That was some crap. It was bayonet, butt, and boot. There were quite as many of the Germans as of our boys saw the sense then of all the bayonet practice we used to grumble so much about during our rest periods We needed it all. A prisoner told us Pavenstedt returned to New York and afterwards that his crowd rather fanced acquainted Bole with the fact that the themselves. But we got them all in spite German Ambassador was very much in of their good fighting. When they saw terested. Bolo merely remarked: "Well, that our boys were every bit sá goed us let me know what he says when he comes to themselves, and a little bit better, it A few days later Paven broke their spirit completely, and what New York." stedt was summoned to an interview with was left surrendered quite suddenly. It Bernstorff in the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, New was the funniest turn up I've ever seen. mill going on. York At the interview the Ambassador One minute a devil of told him that he had decided to provides next minute Finnee, as the French Why the money.

Messages were then exchanged with "While the fight was going on the Berlin.

The first wireless message from Germans turned their artillery on the tries China, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Sayville, sent by Hugo Schmidt, ran lot of us. They did not seem to care Honduras, Nicaragun, Liberia, Hayti, Comununicate with William Foxley (the whether they scuppered their own men, and San Domingo-severed diplomatic code name for the German Foreign office] and telegraph whether he has placed as long as they got some of us. They relations with you!

continued the shelling, when it was all money nt my disposal with you for over, and the prisoners had to go through Charles Gledhill 2

[code for Bernstorff]; their own barrage in getting across to our lines. We consolidated under con- HOLO 8 DAZZLING STORIES,

tinuous fire. I got a shell splinter in the The answer, received a week later, shoulder. Luckily it happened about read:-

night fall, and I got pretty quickly to about the dressing station." Replying to your cablogram Charlos Gledhill, Fred Hoover [code for Guarantee Trust Company) will receive money for accotat. You may dispose of it according to our letter of November 24th, 1914.-Direktion Deutsche Bank

Other message showed how the money was disposed of and how "sly" Bolo was. How animpeachable his mission seemed was made apparent in the evidence giver by officials of the Royal Bank of Canada whom the spy dazzled with stories of the immense sur he was authorised to expond for the supply of paper or French newspapers in which he was in

FOUGHT LIKE GUARDSMEN

And why does the whole world distrust you and suspect you? Why will no coun try trust your word again? Because you do not respect your solemn engagements when it suits your purpose to break them, and because you have brought your dip. lomacy to the lowest level of trickery and deceit as inculcated by Bismarck and his disciples.

Your endeavour to. Prussiarize the. world has failed because your world war bas failed, thanks to the all-wise and all. will not be merciful God, and the world will not be set back.

My regiment is not an old regiment said a wounded officer. Our tradition, do not stretch back beyond the Bouth African War. We are just a Territorial

"If your people think that all will be crowd in an English County which has not the luck to have an cld regular forgotten and forgiven as far as the régiment associated with it. Yet in the aro concerned when the war is over, attack from which I was sent home, they tell them they are grieviously mistaken, fought like Guardsmen God how Until the German people es they fought. I thought I knew them, pecially the Prussians show themselves but I didn't really know all they had to be a chastened people, understanding got in them. They were all plain Eng the difference between right and wrong lish country lads, many of them in action and living up to it; until they under for the first time; but I do not think the stand that honour and truth, mercy and seasoned troops on either side of us were justice are virtues to be practised by ashamed of their company. Our objec-Germans as well as by the other nations tive was the crest of a low ridge. It of the world, they will have to live bence. 6. Amsinck & Co., with whom he had was the main German position, but they forth as the most despised people on Amsinck and Co., with whom he had had been holding ground in front of God's earth. hitherto dealt, had German sympathies. it as well. We expected to find the first

terested.

Bolo gave a most plausible excuse for the transference of the funds at his dis posal to the Royal Bank of Canada. He said it had come to his knowledge that

He, as a patriotic Frenchman, had conectines held lightly, if at all, and that

quently decided to transfer the entire ac our biggest effort would be required to You know what it means to be able to count from them to the Canadian bank.

take the ridge.

. sayou belong to the first or second Our bombardment had been very battalions of an old line regiment. heavy, but when we went over, a perfect Everyone envies you, and wishes that hurricane of machine gun fire met us his crowd were old regulars also. Well Yet we got right up to the first German They speak of us as the "1st- shires" I was now, not merely as theshire regi- position in quite good order. awfully pleased by the steadiness of my ment, as they used to do. chang under that fire. Then the Germa barrage struck us. The whole battalion was out in the open, and we had to lie

The story of how the German Govern- ment's gold was juggled from one bank to another until all traces of its origin a fascinat were

apparently obliterated is

The transactions were sided ing one. by Belo's ingratiating smile and manners. Even the Paris house of Morgans was completely hoodwinked, for they wrote to their New York house concerning Bolo: We think it well perhaps to add, in view of the somewhat Oriental sound of this gentleman's name and title he is not a Turk and, in fact, is the brother of a well-known French Archbishop."

This was followed by a telegram say. ing Bolo Pasha says rexit to us by us they started lobbing bombs into our cable his balance. Although original shell-holes.

A SENEZ OF BUMGUL,

"That fellow there hasn't got a sense in shell holes, at first, simply unable to of humcur said a wounded Yorkshire move. Not only that. The Germans had man, chuckling gleefully to himself, in been holding their front trenches, and spits of the fact that his right leg was the garrison was out in shell-holes also amputated above the knee He pointed As if the barrage was not enough for to the retreating form of an R.A.M.C. stretcher-bearer. He came up to me Things Icoked very nasty, and says, Well, ladi. Hast brought agreement not kept, would be very pleased We could not get any messages through over any souvenirs And 1 says, "Yes I've brought over the finest if you could allow some interest, possibly to the various units of the attack. We mate. even 2 per coat., in view of the conner were simply a crowd of men, on our own, amputated leg that you ever w tions of this client, which are of great scattered about in shell holes, with And I'm blested if he saw the joke.

Well ! hell of a bombardment going in.

I got laid out in a raid." he con- importance to us.

How Bolo came to make the acquaint The simple country lads settled the tinued. "A daylight raid at that. We ance of Mr. Hearst is explained by Mr matter for themselves, and pulled the got over to the German lines all right, guns barraged off the Beches Here is a message from San Francisco regiment through while out. We Ret all that was left of in which he threatens the Attorney GenLittle groups of them, sometimes eral with proceedings for slander for his without an officer, sometimes even with them as prisoners, and the Engineer out an .C.0, left their shell hole and fellows with os knocked their dug-outs Shell and emplacements silly. It's a little way say Bolo Pasha merely as a started bombing the Germans, mnet French newspaper man and reputed rebble after shell-hole was cleared out, we have now of stirring up the old Hun

when there's nothing big doing. riflemen, rifle-grenadiers, We were getting back to car trenches presentative of the Paris Journal. He bombers,

You use more bayouetmen, working out the principles came to me and said: print than any other man in the United of attack as they had faithfully studied again before the German harrage got States Will you tell me where to get it them for months before. The whole going. I stopped one shell all to myself.

Print

is almost battalion moved forward; out of the You see what it did. I did not hurt me half And I did not lose my senses best and cheapest ?

barrage up the crest, in units of twos unobtainable in Paris.

I gave him all the information I could and threes, until we collected within either. My rifle was smashed. Perhaps

newspaper man with any it was just as well fourless would naturally, give to a visit few yards of the German positicas saw the Captain coming over, and

unwarranted

ing

paper

French Sournalist. Bolo Pasta seem

crest was ours. We did not finish

ed wholly loyal to his own land and there. We bombed down on the machine

had no reason to suppose he was not very guns which were holding up the troops polite and appreciative like all well-man-on, either side of 115, and they were able nered Franchmen, and dinner

howled out to him. He ran over to me, and when he saw what had happened,

he whipped out a handkerchief and tied it round my les. Then he phases a kuch

kerry he was carrying through the loop,

which I gave to a number of to get through to their objective also, and twieled it round and round till the

in the public din-"A good many of our lads will never ladies and gentlemen in Conversation on go back again to their English country ing mom at Sherry's the war was general and trivial, as it side. They have paid the price for the

handkerchie felt like a red hot iron, expect it stopped the bleeding, and saved

me life; but it was too much for hoepital

Fake,

is at all such social dinners. That in name which the regiment has to day. When I woke up again I was in ail I have ever known, seen, or heard of

(Continued st foog of next Columu), Bola Pasha"Daly Mail

method of conveying, direst through the eye to the brain, an impression of the relative proportion of things, the graph is in common use to-day in all hooks where statistics are a part of the text. The weather service charts are graphs; so are the nurse's temperature recorde hang on the patient's bedstend.

Figures that are Alive

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We might describe grapha as " pictorial statistics or visible records," and as they are used in the ATLAS AND GAZETTEER OF CHINA they are the embodiment of the most recent methods in the presentation of information in a pleasing form instantly comprehensible. When Lafcadio Hearn came to Japan' he wrote as his first impression of life that the characters on swinging shop-signs and buildings seated as things alive, animated writing-so with graphs, they are living statistics, picture- presentations that seem alive.

A mass of statistical figures without accompanying Graphis entails on the reader a vast amount of mental labour. spent in making his own comparisons and deductions. Statistics expressed in this modern pictorial form reduce mental efort to the minimam, the reader grasps what he sees as he would any other picture. He sees the whole story of China's trade as an attractive illustra- tion, the cyo receiving and retaining vivid pictare-a "pictorial record.”

The modern Graph, as used by the Far Eastern Geographical Establishment in the GAZETTEER, is far more than "a series of spots with connecting lines. Two decades ago when the Graph was frat need it was no more than lines and dota, since then it has developed to such an extent that modern economic geogra phers, recognize that there is nothing in the world that will give the observer & comprehensive view of any subject in commerce so rapidly and so accurately as the modern coloured Graph.

What the Graphs Tells

Suppose we single out one item of the trade of China-the tes trade, for example, or piece goods, or metals, or Any other from the list. To secure accurate knowledge in any particulat line of research one must have at bi disposal, first of all, a good up-to-date reference library. One must WOLO through many books to arrive at his con- clusiona, sed in the end he will probably find he has but a confused idea of what be has been endeavouring to assimilate This takes time. It is a tedious pro cess, and it often means time and money. wasted. If my reader doubts, let him try to gather, within a WEEK, accurato records of, say, the exports of cassia lign er silk, or any other ONE iteid,

for the past 50 JOLTS.

Mental

Energy

GRAPHS The Story they Tell

Synoptical Review of Trade for Half a Century, 8Colours Com- Detailed Record of

parative Tonnage of Flags China Engaged in the Trade, Colours China's Trade Compared- with the World's, 6 Colours. World's Exports and Imports; Home and Colonial Areas: Fopulation of ChinaWorld's Pocords of Silk, Rice," Cotton and Tes

China's Trade in Gola Me

and

Silver Values for 15 Years. -4 Colours,

Two diagrame, in Silver and Hai kuan Tacis, worked out in circular And horizantal form, with various money exchanges.

China's Imports Develop

ment since 1870-6 Colours A Cotton Goode, Metals, Minerals Leather. Timber, Sugar, Flour, Rice, Coal Matches, Kerosene, Candles, Cigarettes Electrical Materials, Con densed Milk, Soap, Dyes, etc. China's Exports and Com

parisons of Whole Trade.

Colours. Direct Trade of China.--6.

Colours.

With Australia, Indo-China, Siam, Straits Settlements, United States, Dutch Indles, Turkey, Persia, Egypt, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Nether lands, Belgium, Japan, Spain, Switerland, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Austria and Hungary, British Lodia, Mexico, South America, Russia in Europe and Asia, France, Great Britain, Korea, Germany, Philippines, Canada, Hongkung-

Duties on Chinese Produce Exported to Foreign Coun. tries. Comparison of Home and Foreign Trade of China, 6 Colours

Direct Foreign Trade of the Treaty Ports. Total Re- venue of the Treaty Ports

5 Colours

Opium Figures Reviewed. Principal importations of Foreign Goods into China.

Colours.

China's Silk Trade.

Colours. Details of Total Exports to Foreign Countries, with Comparisons. World's Supply and Aspects of Growth and Diminution. China's Shipping: Colours

Transit Trade Inwards and

Outwards Percentages

Tonnage

Percentages

Trade Percentages

Revenue

Each Nation's

Each Nations

Each

Nation's

China's Imports and Exports with Proportions borne by ench Nation of the World.

China's Tea Trade.—8 Colours.

Direct Exports to Foreign Chantries with General Comparisona, Detailed Distribution of Tea Exports and Latest Returns. China's Tea Tradu compared with India and other ton- growing Countries, with Statistics, China's Treasure and Ex-

change. Colours.

Imports and Exports of Treasure in Gold (hurs, dust, etc.), Silver (bars, sycce, coin, etc.) and Copper- Imports and Exports of all kinds of Coins to and from the Countries of the World.

Gross and Net Values of China's

Trade-0 Colours:

Comparative Native Customs Revenue of each Port.-

6. Colours.

Gross and Net Values of the Trade of Shanghai since the Revolution of 1911-

Colours,

Foreign Goods Re-Exported from China to Other Coun tries, with Statistics.

6 Colours.

Chinese Finance and Com

merce.--6 Colours

Compared with all the Principal Nations of the World..

The graphs are but one feature, and a minor one at that, of the NEW ATLAS AND COMMERCIAL GAZETTEER OF CHINA. In the very complete Commercial Section of over 100 pages are 18 pages of graphs in six colours, cach page the size of this newspaper and each carrying several graphs por traying from every angle every phase of China's trade, commerce and industrial development for 50 years.

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