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Show Second News Section F in H? ATTJD) AUTOMOBILES REAL ESTATE Second News Section MINES, MARKETS. CLASSIFIED ADS f A. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAT 7, 191G TRADE BOYCOTT TO FOLLOW SUSSEX BEACHED, BOWSBLOWN CLEAN OFE BY TORPEDO MAKING RICHES PEACE PACT WITH GERMANY FROM SOLDIERS FRENCH MAKING FRANCE NOT TO READY FOR FOE FLOOD MARKET Widespread Demand for Drastic Action to Stop Teuton Trade in Republic. Thrifty Reason for American Manufacturers to Fear, French Financier Says. Mo GREEKS SHARE IN BONANZA British Tommies in Particular Victims of Close Dealing on Development of the Resources American Markets, He Says, Will Be Secure Against Undue Within Entente Powers Considered an Outcome of War. Competition at War's Close. ,:T7rrKJx nifM diM! mmhz9c Part of Wily Natives. -.-'r V. re-Kard- lng j - US. Nearly every French trade corporation that has felt German competition In the past is not only spreading the doctrine of preference for articles made at home or by the French allies, but Is organizing for the eventual boycott with an ardor of initiative that was rare in French business circles prior to 1914. It Involves the systematic education of consumers as to what German articles and products they bought before the war without knowing it. and what French, British, Kussian and Italian articles may replace them. the with characteristic Starting the whichi . i makes Parisian ; Industry . I it. ui ti ai is, minor anicies iuiicu uuicirs manufacturers were shown In detail how the Germans lowered the cost and competed with manufacturing them even In detail in their home mardone by a public exhibiket: this was "articles of tion of German-mad- e Paris" and by explanatory documents spread among the little manufacturers. i - . ! iHi-a- l lit so important In Paris; although the articles are of minor Importance, they are made In immense quantities by. a great number of manufacturers. Following this propaganda with the manufacturers, the movement extended to a propaganda with the families, showing them the difference between the French and the German made articles. ted. Feeling leei-e- a "The scientific and medical committee of the allied nations"' Is being organized for the purpose of exposing to scientists, and medical men the reasons why before the war 75 per cent of the products and apparatus used by them came from Germans', and how they may be replaced hereafter. Most of the French manufacturers of instruments had become sim-$.- y t'irgical commission merchants handling German-mad- e articles: for instance all of the medical thermometers came from Germany, nearly all the fine graduated glassware used in laboratories, s and of all the miscroscopes came from cither German yor Austria as well as a great proportion of eyeglasses, opera glasses and field glasses nold by French opticians. The preponderance of German chemical products, drugs and dyes oa the French market was well known even before the war. but It was not ho well known that Germany furnished nearly all of the synthetic remedies. All of the allied countries" since the war began have been oldiged to dethe manufacvelop their facilities for raw materials ture of explosives. The employed are quite the same as those that must serve in the preparation of the dyes, perfumery and medicine. It is concluded, therefore, that there Is in the way of renothing whatever German these products after placing the war tince the considerable number of works constituted for the preparation of raw material for explosives willhe obliged to turn to some other inutilized dustry and can bei v immediately . . ... , . w . ..... . . a. . . it i rj j The scientists interested In the organization of this committee have discovered In many different obscure corners of France men who are manufacturing on a small scale scientific Instruments that they declare are equal in every way to thoe made In Germany . In the past these little manufacturers have satisfied themselves with a small output without endeavoring to make the merits of their production generally known. Th? French contingent of this comformed, mittee, is already practically name. comprising many well known .lapart-e"e The English. Belgian. Italian. and Russian contingents of the international committee are being organized, and working In common with the French contingent will prosecute a thornn-- h propaganda with the general P iblh- as well as with doctors, scientist- and opticians. As far as transpires at present, this I rommittee has no official sanction. Its by work, however, is being secondedcorthe government far as concerns porations for development of chemical pnd other Industries. The minister of commerce has constituted in his department a technical service charged with the examination of questions reand lating to supplier of raw material emnot ti the operation of inIndustries the national deployed exclusively divided fence. This technical service into three sections metal, textiles and divers Industries, to which ha$ been a department of chemical and Pharmaceutic product. Thin department is charged with th-- ; distribution of phonol so important to the aniline dye Industry. It will not only fnmi-- h this Import-- t product, but will t;tke measures to industry ax well as the tiivelop that of manufacture drugs in France. It has already succeeded In reconstructing the manufacture of synthetical indigo eight-tenth- i 1 i - 1 - j jtd-le- , "The United State used by France as a dumping ground for products to be told at a sacrifice after the war," is t, the opinion of Monsieur commerce of chamber president of the of Paris and an Important man In the French cotton Industry. "French goods." Monsieur observes, "are generally so well made that they must be sold dear. If you have seen French mechanics or artisans at work you have noticed that It is as natural to them to give to their product the precision and tasty finish that characterize our productions as it is for them to go through any of the details of daily life that have become second nature to them. You may have noticed that even the clerks In shops take infinite pains in doing up the most trifling packages; they may have 'tried your patience, but to them it is only natural to hold on to the package until it responds to a critical Idea of what is presentable. It is the same with all workmen In France; articles don't leave their hands until they can take pride In them. When we find It necessary to make things cheaply, we are obliged to Import the labor to do it. Such products were never specialized in any branch and what we made with Imported labor was never, so far as t know, exported at a loss before the war. I have no reason to believe that It will be done after the war; we shall no doubt have exhausted our stocks and have to begin practically anew In such branches of manufacture. "For the moment the great manufacdistrict ef the north Is elimturing inated ; every machine that was worth moving has disappeared from the factories and must be replaced after peace Is declared. The new installations will require considerable time and in the meastlme the industries of the Interior will no more than suffice for home needs. "France will also .be exposed to dumping since our customs tariff is specific instead of ad valorem. It will require a new law as with you to raise a harrier against it. For us it will not be so Important, perhaps, because other measures will prevent commercial en croachments after the war by our ad versarles. For America, no doubt, the proposed protective legislation Is ex cellent, and it will not be material to France because, as I have alread' said, France has no trash to dump anv- where. I will qualify that statement to this extent In our special industries such as hats and other articles of fashion, styles often change suddenly and stocks of goods out of style remain on hand. These are often sold at reduced prices, but I doubt if they are ever offered at less than the cost of the man ufacture. "A certain misapprehension has prevailed as to how the Germans were able to compete with home products In foreign countries. It was not because they could produce cheaper. A number cf the German specialties are nearly twice as dear to make- In Germany as in England, yet they exported them and competed in prices. This was passible because the profit on goods sold at home was sufficient to enable the sacrifice of surplus production abroad. This custom of German manufacturers followed for years before 'the war may properly be called an established continual system of "dumping"; after the war, if they have products to throw upon foreign markets, it will be no change whatever in their system. I do not think, however, that they will have such accumulation of products of this class as Is apprehended. Their Industries are largely centered on the manufacture of munitions of war. As for the others they obtain raw materials with difficulty and must now find considerable difficulty in keeping their forces of workmen up to the point where their production can more than satisfy the home demand. "The Germans have always had the advantage of a superior Intelligence department operating, in every country in the world through Its emigrated workmen and office employees. "Wages will probably be higher after the war," AI. thinks, "and there will be a increase in the cost of consequent manufactured goods, but I don't think the advance will apply to raw materials for the reason that fixed charges and expenses apply to them in sogeneral much slighter measure than to manufactured goods." The cotton Industry, In which M. is particularly Interested, he says lias recovered very well from the effect of the first conditions of the war, excepting in the case of the few spinning mills established in the invaded regions. Commerce In luxuries has also made great gains, he says, but not so much as the commerce in of current products consumption, which in spite of the war, because of it. is about normal. partly 6. May PARIS, not fear being David-Menne- Davld-Menn- et - David-Menn- Merchants Reaping Fortunes From Presence of Allied Troops. EXPECT ALLIES TO ASSIST HAS NO 'TRASH TO DUMP Paris, May 6. The proposed boycott, after the war, of German products en-in France and other countries of the tente might, until recently, have been looked upon as the manifestation of a spirit that a reasonable peace treaty could overcome. The Idea Is now apparently so deeply rooted In the minds of individuals as to constitute a menace that may resist any sort of a peace treaty. The only official action of trade between citizens France and the central empires applies only to the period of hostilities. Private Initiative, however, has gone farIn the direction of a permanent ostracism of merchandise from countries now at war with France. If it continues to develop along- the wme lines. It may make official action wuperflu- - Saloniki et David-- Mennet ic It was this battered hulk that precipitated the latest submarine crisis between the United States and Germany. Proof that the vessel was was gathered by Ambassador Page in London and 'forwarded to Washington. The captain in command, some of his officers and a number torpedoed of passengers swore they saw the torpedo approaching about 100 yards from the ship. One passenger, describing his experience, said: "When I reached the deck after the explosion I found one boat already lowered. People were jumping into it and into the sea. I was just gathering myself for a leap when I was knocked down by a violent blow between the shoulders from a n passenger. This perhaps saved my life, for when I got up I saw that the boat was not going to sink." panic-stricke- War's Monotony Gets Italian Boy Captures FOREIGN LEGION on Nerves of Brave German Machine Gun Who'd Rather Fight and Wins Honor Cross PROVES MAGNET So There are about 600 Americans in the Foreign L.egion of the French army. So many of. whom have petitioned to Jcln the flying corps that a BQuadrilla of Americans is being formed. These Americans, however, are only a handful of the actual number of foreigners who have joined the Foreign Lregion, the first marching regiment of which is probably the most picturesque in the French army. a It la an inspiring sight to see regiment of the legion on the march; negroes and blond Swedes go side by side with swarthly Italians. Men who have dined with kings and dwelt in masrble halls sink their identity under a borrowed name and march with a Polish tailor or a cowboy rrom the wild . west. All sorts of famous men have fallen on the field of battle while fighting with the legion. Binet Valmer, from the Argentine; the Luxembourg writer, Sosthene Kurth; the son of Maxim Gorky, Camlllo Ramirez, from Vene zuela a Columbian poet, Fernandez de Bengoecha; another from Tcuador, Seminario; the novelist, Sanchez Carrero, all fell for France on the battlefields of Artols and Champagne. The poet Ismail Urdometa, was killed In the Daidanelles while rushing a Turkish trench at the point of the bayonet, and the son of the Russian ambassador at Paris, M. Isvolsky, was severely wounded while fighting beside Lieut. Alexis Comnene, the great grandson of the Emperor of Treblzond. Bob Scanlon, the negro boxer, is with the legion and Francois Faber from Luxembourg, the professional cyclist, fell in action. So also did Alex Carter, the Winnie famous steeplechase jockey. O'Connor, one of the best jockeys that ever crossed the Atlantic and widely known In the United States, joined the legion. Fifteen young students from the Beaux Arts in Paris joined In a body. Not only all classes, but all races are (blended together In the first marching regiment. When Italy went to war the Italians were transferred to their own army, but previously they fought heroically, and two grandsons of Garibaldi lost their lives in France. Horn In Cafe. The nucleus of the Second regiment was formed on the evening of July 31, 1914. In a Parisian cafe. Some young Italians Issued an appeal, and as a result about 3000 English, Belgians. Italians and Slavs attended the meeting to consider how they could best aid the country of their adoption. Liter on when British and American residents In Paris tried to form regiments of their own the authorities Informed them of their Inability to accept the offer so It was decided that the volunteers should be drafted into the foreign legion. The pay of the men of the legion is the same as that of the otner soldiers of France 5 cents a day and an allowance of tobacco and wine. The total membership of the legion Is said to be 33,400, made up as follows: ."00 Britons. &00 Luxembourg-er- s, GOO Americans, 1000 Spaniards. l'.Oo Greeks. 150Q Belgians, 1600 Czechs and Gallcians. 1700 Poles and Danes, 2000 Swiss. 3500 Russians, 5000 Italians, 10. ooo Alsatians and 6000 other Paris, May 6. N Ro-dol- fo - , - GENERALS MANY ARE BEREAVED Km-per- Taris, May 6. Generals who have exercised commands during the war have sons and had a total of thirty-si- x killed In "action. General de Castelnau, as is well known, has lost three sons, General Fauche a son and General Balllioud a son a General de Maud'huy and a a son. General D'Amade a son. General n Desslrler three sons. General de two sons. General Reynouard two sons. General de Lardemelle lost two sons. General Naytaud two sens,- General Ganeval a (General Ganeval himself was killed at the Dardanelles) General de la Nanouvelle two sons, General Ebenar a son, General de a son. General Bonnal a son. General de Mondeslr a General de Vassart . a General Falque a. son. General Chailley a son. Rear Admiral Amet a son, General de Morlaincourt a General Lcuis a son. General Corvisart a son. General de Lestrac a son. General de Lestapis a son. General Bonfalt a son. General Dieudonne a son. sons-in-la- son-in-la- Francis Joseph r Austria was to hand his personal persuaded recently ideas about the war down to posterity machine records in through and talking in Hungarian, arcording German to a report in Swiss newspapers. It is added that the records will not be made until after the emperor's . , death. public w w. son-in-la- w. Pouy-dragul- - son-in-la- w. son-in-la- or Petrograd, May 6. . How a machine gun was forced to desert the German army is recounted in the story of , the heroism of a Italian volunin teer the Russian army Constantine Zepolli whose part as the leading figure In the episode earned one of the two St. Georges crosses he has won. Overhearing his commander expresg-n- g a wish that someone "would silence or capture" a gun which was stationed at a troublesome proximity to the Russian trenches, Zapolli on his own initiative," crawled on hi stomach for a hundred yards, located the position of the gun, returned from the danger zone and conferred with his trench-fellowand crept forth once more, this time dragging. a coil of stout rope. Reaching the gun he tied one , end around it without being discovered, and again reached his own lines, with the free end of the rope in his clutch. Presently the Germans were astonished to observe the gun disappearing toward the Russian trenches. It was successfully dragged from their possession, a number of Germans being killed In an effort to prevent its des, , son-in-la- son-in-la- w. w. w, FEWER ARRESTS it 6. Petrograd, May A report from the ministry of Justice reviews the work of the Russian courts .for the five years between 1910 and 1915. The total number of persons Indicted was 35,000, The of whom 10,000 were acquitted. number of convictions grew rapidly up to 1908, but since that time It has begun to decline considerably. Convictions for political offenses are Their religious carefully analyzed. classification is as follows: Orthodox, 8 77 per cent; Catholics, per cent; Protestants, 3 per cent; Jews,' 8 per cent. It Is noted that "the percentage of Jews convicted for political crimes has noticeably declined." On the basis of educatalon, the persons convicted are divided as follows: With higher education, 2 per cent; with middle eduedcation, 8 per cent; with elementary 14 76 per cent; per ucation, illiterate, . cent. It ia remarked that the number of Industrial workers guilty of political crimes has declined , since 1905. In another section of the report it is noted that the decrease, in the number of arrests for rioting- is "particularly " . . - not-ab- le . T URK CAMEL TRAINS - parture. WILL ESTABLIS H TRADE SCHO OLS France Proposes Compulsory Professional and Commercial Education in Republic. BLOWN INTO ATOMS Animals Sacrificed to Prevent Ammunition From Falling Into British Hands.. Cairo, Egypt, May 6. Camels laden were blown to with bombs and petrol pieces by the Turks so that these livwould not ing carriers of ammunition fall Into the possession of the attacking British, during the sensational dash of the Duke- of Westminster's armored ei SUEZ TOLLS INCREASED London, May 6. The tolls for ships making use of the Suez canal have been increased by fifty centimes per ton in order to offset some of the loss that has been incurred during the last year. The new tolls are at the rate of six francs 75 centimes. During the year motor car battery through the Libyan 1915 the amount of shipping that passed desert. through the canal decreased over This British expedition, consisting of 4,000,000 tons, representing a loss in thirty-tw- o men, nine armored machines revenue of nearly 80,000,000 francs. and one open car containing a mounted QUICKEN TELEPHONE USE. machine gun, began its pursuit at Solium, in northwestern Egypt. Dashing Paris, May 1.- Since the beginning of at racing speed along the Tabruk road the war it has been Impossible for the over which the Turks had retreated, the public to telephone from Paris to any other of the departments of France. In British, after" covering twenty-thre- e miles, came unexpectedly upon the en- order to facilitate revival of business, the minister of commerce and posts emy, whose troops were on the move. The Turks opened fire with their only has agreed with the minister of war to telephone communicaartillery in position one and two machine guns. The British tions between the departments of the et Oise, and the arrondisse-men- t battery swung into line, silencing the Seine, SeineMelun and Fontainebleau of Turkish guns and then capturing them after shooting down the defenders al- from and after April 16. .. , most to a man. KEEP HOLE AS SOUVENIR. The Turks were now scattering in batdirection. every .The ..attacking Paris, May 6. As a perpetual of the last visit of the Zeppeteries dashed here and there, killing all Turks who offered resistance. Those lins to. Paris, the hole pierced through who chose the alternative of flight the vault of the Metropolitan subway to paused long enough to fire upon their on the Boulevard Menllmontant is as camels, which one by one disappeared be left open and bricked up to serve as their packs exploded with terrific a ventilator. force. MINIATURE BRINGS HIGH PRICE. ECOXOMIZIXG OX PAPER. Berlin, May 6. Josef Raabe's minia6. ture The various Berlin, May departportrait of Goethe, painted in ments of the Prussian government have 1811, has been sold at auction here for issued detailed instructions for the ut- 7610 marks. Goethe declared this most economy of the use of paper in miniature to be the best portrait of all public offices. Officials are or- him ever made. Its whereabouts had dered in all possible cases to use small been unknown for many years until sheets of paper, and also to amend the it recently came to light in a collecstyle of official communication by tion thrown into the market by the omitting all unnecessary phraseology. death xt the owner. - and May 6. Professional Paris, commercial education wlll.be free and obligatory In France under the provisions of a law .Introduced in the senate by Monsieur Astier. . senator from the department of Ardeche, with the sanction and support of the minister of commerce. The law provides for the ' establishment by chambers of commerce in the different cities and departments of "trade schools" where technical and commercial courses, will be provided for young people of both sexes, who shall be obliged to attend under certain penalties not yet fixed. For young boys and girls under; 18 years of age employed in commercial courses or, industrial establishments, will be organized by local commissions In communes designated by the minister of commerce and at the combined expense of the commune and the state. Employers are authorized by the law to organize similar courses in the inif they terior of their establishments case the that system. In that, prefer courses must be held during the legal work day, taking up four hours' time per week at least and eight hours per week maximum. The heads of all establishments will be obliged to .allow their employees coming within the category of eligible pupils the time to follow the courses out cf their work hours without deductions for loss of time. After three years' work In these schools the pupils will be admitted to competition for certificates of professional aptitude. - Long List of Scions Who Have Paid With Lives Devotion to Country. Be-no- rn tz joskp itF.rnitns vi 6.f:vs. Switzerland, May Geneva.- BRITISH FRONT, France, The mono.tony of modern warfare is spoken of frequently by officers and men returning home from the battle zone, but one can scarcely realize In full the awful dreariness of much of It without having visited the front. There Is, of course, no monotony In such a conflict as that waged at Verdun, and at any point In the lines there may be bursts of activity that will furnish a temporary thrill for the men engaged, but once these operations have achieved the desired result, or failed,, as the case may be, the fighting settles back Into its previous dreary state, so distressing to officers and men. Question soldiers at the front as to what has Impressed them most in the operations and almost Invariably cames the reply: "The monotony; the terrible sameness of It all." Nowhere in the west is war more Invisible than in Flanders. Literally there is nothing to be seen. A misty gray line of trees, a ruined farm house, a stake or two with tangled barbed wire that Js all there is to show where the enemy Is lying. Yet the haunting Impression Is always present that unseen hostile eyes are watching. It is a desolate melancholy country. To the stranger the only gay thing about it is the windmills.- Right up within the zone of fire they continue to throw up their arms with, extravagant gestures to the skies, working away steadily at their daily task.. despite the invader, with true Belgian persistence and obstinacy. Many of them have of course been mutilated by shell fire. THE ONMay ,6. . RUSSIA REPORTS Astonishing Story of Bravery Convictions, Too, Growing Told of Lad Serving in Smaller jn Number, Minister Russian Army. of Justice Reports. Petitions to Join Days and Nights Without Action Trying to Men in Front French Corps That Ad' Trenches, Officers Say. ditions Are Necessary. Many with resources of the country. The important service that this department has rendered t manufacturers Is the determination of the quantities of chemical products secured from allied countries in derogation from rules pro- nationalities. hibiting exportation. The commercial directories of foreign countries published in France now eliminate the names of all business houses and manufacturers previously given In the departments devoted to the central empires, so that there are no lists of German or Austrian manufacturers or merchants available in France since, the editions of these directories published in 1914. Saloniki, May 6. The inhabitants f Saloniki do not share the Indignation of their sovereign over the presence here of the French, British and. Serbian troops. They are making fortunes out of it. Besides huge added profits on everything bought and sold by the local tradesmen, there are numerous less usual ways of turning a penny that are evolved from the fertile brains of the Spanish and Portuguese Hebrews who constitute the greater part of the population of Greece's second city. There have been depots, docks and barracks to build, roads to construct and improvements of every kind to make to render the old Turkish city of squalor fit for the Habitation of an European army. Then, too, there hav been the extraordinary works of fortification and defense of the entire Chal-cidpeninsula. With one thing and another, the allied occupation or central Macedonia has proved a contractor's Greek has paradise and many a come all the way from wily to get a Egypt share in the exploitation of the stran-gib. The British, particularly, have been the victims of close dealing, as they have lacked that complete organization for the care of a armed force that makes French large army eo efficient. Many of the management officers enlisted in the army service corps, also, have been used to dealing with Englishmen and not with Greeks. Their lack of experience in the latter's character costs the government no little money. Greek Shows Thrift. In one Instance a local Greek took a contract to furnish several thousand feet of lumber to a certain department of the British expeditionary force at 36 cents a foot and on that he was making a round profit. Naturally, when the lumber .was delivered. 40 per cent was found not to come up to specifica tions and was promptly rejected. The Greek Was not very happy over this outcome of his little but by no means in despair. Afterdeal, about scouting a bit he found another department of the British army in need of lumber and offered the rejected timber. A brief bout at haggling over the price, and the Greek received 46 cents a foot for the lumber that had been rejected at 10 cents less. On another occasion a British officer in charge of certain road construction solved the problem of securing his labor by letting the contract to employ the men to a Greek. There were to be who something over 1000 workmen were to receive 3 drachmae (60 cents) per day. The Greek contractor was to receive In addition 10 cents a head per day for each man so furnished. As all Macedonia Is full of refugees from Thrace and Asia Minor who are In most desperate want, the contractor had no difficulty In securing all the men he wanted and collecting, himself, 10 cents a head per day from each, of the men whom he turned over to the British officer. Wanted Still Mora. Though the Greek was making: $300 per day and over out of the arrangement, with no personal effort, he waa unsatisfied with his bargain. So he engineered a strike among: the men, and then offered to act as mediator, persuading the laborers to return to work on condition or an increase of a franc (20 cents) per day in their pay Of this he himself levied on the men for an additional 5 cents per man per day and only made the arrangement on consideration of receiving from the British officer in charge of the work another 5 cents per man per day in addition to the 10 cents he was already from that source for his servdrawing ices. The work lasted over a month. With his double rakeoff of 30 cents per man per day, the Greek cleared something' over $8000 on the job. - , " - ish . sou-veni- or |