Show ' ’ ')vrVv " X :V 7 '77 7-7- - w-- : 777 ' fcV-- h - v VV-v‘- v- Z-:'-' 7 -- ’’ - V' 7‘ V v' Second News Section Second News Section MINES MARKETS CLASSIFIED ADS AUTOMOBILES REAL ESTATE SALT LAKE CUT UTAH SUNDAY JANUABY-1- BELGIUM S SUFFERING INCREASING ASSERTS CARDINAL MERCIER v a PRIVATE 1 I 1917 4 HOW V — WON A VICTORIA CROSS SKY PILOT’ ARIS Jan IS —Cardinal Mercler In ' ! a private letter printed - in La de- Croix the official' church organ" clared that if the 'truth : were known about 'Belgium neutral nations would not confine themselves to words The that Belgium Belgian cardinal declares Is now suffering as never before He adds that although the Belgians axe depressed few want peace ‘without vic- tory ‘ V-- Rumanian Capital' Seemingly Undepressed Because of Occupation by Teutons 7 Problem Confronting Belgium After Restoration of Peace and Domain V VIEWS r s Mat- Finds King Albert Respon-siv-e Attitude of Germany Artillery Ordered to Do Lit Recited by Cauwelaert tie Damage as Province of the which Germany guarantees” may seek In lt peace terms is a scheme of dual government for Belgium according1 to Dr Franz van Cauwelaert member of the Belgian chamber and one of the foremost leaders of the Flemish people of Belgluiq He has Just returned from a visit to the seat of the Belgian government at Havre and has told the Associated Press correspondent of an hour's interview he had with King Albert “King Albert” he says "follows the Flemish question with the keenest interest He feels sincere sympathy with Flemish rights end has an earnest de- sire that there shall be no language abuses and he has no prejudice against our solution of the problem Further Yi Fleming lias ever expressed or entertained tin slightest distrust of his sovereign who is held in the highest esteem and is indeed very popular with the entire nation King Albeit Is very conscientious and cherishes high idea of the great charge entrusted to him with the crown He takes a view of politics calm In general and is opposed to everything In the nature of an adventurous policy That he ever went to war was for him a pure matter of conscience and duty' He added that he found King Albert enjoying good health and in excellent spirits German atttitude Discussing the toward the Flemish movement he said: “Administrative separation is one of the pet schemes of the German occu piers of Belgium at the moment It Is indeed one of the ‘real guarantees’ which according to the Imperial chancellor Germany will demand in its jpeacp terras I am sure that tlie Germans at first fully intended to stick to Belgium they would never have thought of restoring her to Independence but for hard necessity out of the quesRegarding that as now tion however they would like to make Belgium weak by this scheme of dual government by creating an internal an lilhesis two separate and conflicting parts neutralizing forone another's instance that strength Theyg think if the half were Inclined to lean towards France that very fact would tend to make the Flemish half lean towards Germany “The Germans in Belgium are ensuch adminisdeavoring to introduce trative separation as far aa lies In their power The education department has been split into two sections to deal respectively with Walloon and Flemish Belgium with a separate set of officials Such a measure was by no means a necessary accompaniment to tbe extension of the use of Flemish in the schools but it fits In with the German plan The ministry for the Interior has not yet undergone a similar process but orders have been issued that Flemish shall be the administrative language in the regions concerned and all official correspondence there well-consider- ed - respect-fngBe!glu- m French-speakin- conducted In Flemish Of IJmlted Success “A small Flemish group Ironically dubbed the ‘Flamallemands Is with the Germans In but the slight success of the Flemish university recently established by Governor General von Pissing at Ghent shows how feeble It Is Every art of cajolery enticement and compulsion were for months brought to bear In Belgium Holland and Germany to get together the required staff of professors The net result is a body of forty-si- x professors more than half of whom have no qualifications entitling them to seriously claim sdeh a title and the rest are very mediocre men Tlio faculty of law for instance Is pitiful The Institution does not merit the name of university "Whereas it should norto 9po students I mally have nhsd 800source learn from good that far less than a hundred are studying there and every such student has been presented with a bursary enabling and enticing him to do so The Germans haVe placed the ISO bursaries of all the Belgian universities at the disposal of Ghent so that scholarships are still to be had for the asking And whereas before the war over 3000 university men signed onr petition In favor of a Flemish unionly ISO signed the versity at Ghent Issued in Belgium recent manifesto up the German schemes” bolstering Dr van Cauwelaert tried to explain Just what it Is the Flemish people really want He said: “Ws want the complete development of all the possibilities of our people economically Intellectually and In every respect and that Is not attainable without the establishment- of full language communion between the higher and the lower strata of the nation To that end our great aim Is that not only elemeneducation as' now but every eort tary of higher education shall be available of Flemish Furthrough the medium a better equipped Flemther we wantmore extensive literature ish press a Flemlshlzing the public administration In Flanders and a general Improvement f the social conditions of the people’ the various political Discussing schemes advocated by different gfoups of Flemings during the war Van pointed out that the extreme section which stood for a practically independent state really had no basis of existence and was now hardly a factor It proposed a “Flam enl and” with a parliament and government of its own Imund to the rest of Belgium only by the crown after the pattern Another group favors what ing these-scheme- - Cau-wlae- r rt- PROFFER IS ‘ ONDOX Jan 13 UCHAREST 13 —Bucharest lin Termed Balzing of Thann and the valley of the Thur the eastern line of the Vosges Is continued by the foothills of the and from any of these and from one in particular you get a nearer and more intimate view of the plain of Alsace (han from the higher summits to the north From the slopes and base of far away on the left the French and German trenches at stretch southwards across the a distance of about 800 yards plain towards Pfetterhausen and the Swiss frontier Except for those two ugly yellow ines ruled across the plain like linfs in the flat page of a notebook there is hard ly a sign or a sound of war The tall chimneys of Mulhausen on the further side of them are sending up thick straight columns of black smoke Into the still air There the Germans are busy — but only for sufferance It would be a simple matter for the French to place guns in these hills which could destroy those chimneys But that for various reasons they do not choose to do Their policy in Alsace is however influenced by a much stronger motive than the mere nstural disinclination to destroy material wealth which they are confident will one day be restored to them All of them from the government and the staff captain to the humblest pollu In’ the ranks have the feeling that Alsace and the Alsatians are properly part and parcel of France and that one of their main duties in the present war is to release them' from the( oppressive domination of the German’ That Is also the feeling of the great mass of the Alsatians themselves at ail events in the district west of Mulhausen Is LONDON Jan 13—Ralph Connor j of “The Sky Pilot" and other famous novels Is the Rev Charleq W Gordon In private life 8ince the war European began however he has been Major Gordon a chaplain with the Canadian troops in France After a year and a half of service at the front he Is now returning to Canada for two months’ recruiting duty He stopped over In London long enough to write the following open letter to the German chancellor which is published In the London Chronicle: r - e Hart-mannaweilerk- opf topsy-turveydo- Al- “My Dear Bethmann-IIolIwelow me to introduce myself A mere Canadian but a professional peaceg: m - sidewalks and showered tLe soldiers with chrysanthemums cigarettes cakes cigars and candy Different Ont In Country Ten miles north of Bucharest I have seen Rumanian' women washing themselves in the black icy puddles by the roadside but Inside the town the wine is flowing and the people are singing and dancing Look into the Grand Modern or the Trocadero at night and you are greetof sound-m- usic ed with a pandemonium and song and the hectic greet Inga of the women from Paris Sofia New York Buenos Aires Budapest Berlin Vienna Amsterdam and Petro-gra- d There comes the steady “rcuff scuff” of 2000 Russian prisoners who repre-sevGenhral Falkenhayn’s - last overhaul north of Bucharest He sends to General Mocker sen with his greetBucharest zees the tired pro ings cession and (hen "goes Into the cafe and drirks another glass of vermouth Some of the prisoners are knowing at the cabbages which they have torn L Sphere Loadoa Cspyrlxht 1s TJ 8 by 3 Y H On from the fields on the outskirts of the i The very gallant conduct for which Private Flynn of the British army was awarded the town Victoria Cross is thus described by an officer in his regiment: —“My first sight of him was 'when he Germans Systematising All OF silent" well and Turks Dignified was running across the opening under fire Bullets were as thick as bees around an overturned hive groomed and behaving with more tact oc and courtesy than any other of the He crossed and recrossed with materials to dress the wounds of the men he went to assist” Subsecupying troops are the next ffgures in this ever changing kaleidoscope of quently Private ±lynn carried in one of the wounded men and afterward returned with a comrade Only Few of Hundreds of iccupatlon "Meanwhile amid the picand brought in a second under very heavy fire from the enemy turesqueness the Germans are tending Crew Saved Official to the systematizing of matters “ Every morning at 10 ©'lock General Report Says Mackensen is marching through the streets with a few members of his and lean be Is peering Borne Jan 13 —The admiralty of- staff Tall to left and smiling from sharply ficially announces the loss of the bat- the' set smile right of the notable in reanThe tleship Regina Margherita sponse to the greetings He strides nouncement says: one newly established bureau to from “Serious military reasons which another sees with his own eyes have hitherto prevented the publica- that all and as is he ordered tion no longer existing It Is announced In fourth every shop window and on that the warship Regina Margherita every wall his proclamation relative Government struck two mines on the of De- to the preservation of public order to Mulct Owners’ of Pets Which the Proposes cember 11 and sustained night such severe war valand the money punishments Do Nothing to Earn Their Keep damage that she sunk by- the head In ues which are going up Bucharest a few minutes A majority of the reads a fresh and batch every morning crew of 945 went down with the ship reads it with equal relish Unfavorable conditions made the resOn the fourth day after the German Jan 13— There are four at five francs It Is from this class Daughters of Noble Families cue of the survivors most difficult but PARIS were absolutely that many of the war dogs' have been Turn to entry all requistlons France of 270 were saved The captain and four- forbidden Helpful' Vocations and no further Issue of re- war dogs work"dogs in watch today recruited teen officers are among the lost dogs dogs All was no is on four there for supplies the tax Naturally permitted to Help Motlierland “Beyond the losses of ships officially ceipts said must be paid for In and pet dogs: According to the sched- footed contingent which has joined the announced up to the present there Mackensen ule for the 1917 taxes the last named army These animals have been trained have been no others and news to the cash as can be learned after ques- category Is going to have a pretty hard for various purposes some of which LONDON Jan IS — Up In Thlrlstane 'So far contrary which has beeh in circula- tioning Rumanians of every rank the are finding wounded: carrying In Scotland— In the beautiful tion among the public for some time time even and behave machine exceptionally troops occupying carrying country— the Viscountess Waverley is consequently false” well There are no reports of atrocities I The proportion people in France guns and ammunition especially in the Maitland of the Earl daughterin-law- or looting That means xriuch because I owning dos 1s probably higher than mountainous sectors of the- front" has taken of Lauderdale complete As rat catchers In the- trenches no these Rumanians possess the imagina- RELIEF COMMISSION 'enormous 'estate of that thirty charge lion and the fine facility In narrative and for varibus reasons In the first animal not even the ferret' can com- miles round She acts as its factor with the terriersand spaniels that tirhich Is a sort of combination TO CONTINUE WORK of the Latins from whom they wring place the French person 'likes a dog pete taken to the front In large On this estate better than any" other animal— witness- havebeen numbers the poilus Some "months with its great dairy- - five - enormous by" — sel13 London Jan the in Paris Herbert C Hoover fact maids old that Switzerland via Paris I (jom bother themselves with cats" par "ago an army order announced that each farmplantsi an entire ' village and two Lausanne chairman of the American commission a rat catching dog to churches Lady Maitland spends her soldier fetching Gazette Bays that therota or rUbber plants They have In Belgium left England for Jan 13— ' the de-would to two mornings in the business of the estate trenches I Switzerland has of New York today to discuss with his the second place the economical extra ' days-- ' lave onberhisentitled jn next permisswar of the one as consequence creased j American colleagues relief plans for in caring for 'Its tenanta Besides French person 'likes to combine then - nearly every man and to the paper both marriages I ness with pleasure insofar as by own-an- d ion- and since this has kept up her garden and the coming year back to the front' has ‘taken a actedshe in a convalescent births are much fewer a factne a good husky hound lie can have going as head Mr Hoover told the Associated Press f some" description with him- Be- soldiers home nurse he considered the relief commission which la attributed to the increased a fair substitute for a' horse and at the dbg which tbe:castle into sides the- two days’: leave the owner of was turned-all summer same time "a companion and pet Even the was prepared to continue Its work In cost of living Is entitled to 6 centimes 'or 1 before the "war dogs as motive power sou dogOn every estate In Scotland and EngBelgium and northern France for at each rat thgt" his dog kills and land for : were And same conditions prevail and The another of ' his to least not' confined year Belgium object some Is It soldiers have made so farthe said that now since so many horses hqve been a to the United States he said as the outside world knows Journey' "thing out off ’this as a “side good was solely to discuss ways and means commandeered by the army more and line’ is going on- as usual Debutllfe i ' C more small shopkeepers are hitching antes who formerly were Invited to with his colleagues In New York to carta V their meet little delivery dogs possible husbands" now 'milk cows 'this dogmas "a" substitute for ‘OLD LADY’S’ and pick the beans dowThirdly potatoes dig WORK Is called administrative separation of or bind up legs a lock entltles lt to much consideration - vv make bandages agers ' ’ tbe Flemish and the Walloon or even in the tene- 4 V GREATLY INCREASED arid arms of wounded men Lady Maitfrom the who" people g ments'" of ‘the Belleville" districts keep parts or Belgium but and land has her husband" It has only obtained any significance to guard the halls and etairv frorit at the It’s herthe concierges only jion since the outbreak of the war ‘and its London Jan : 1 3— Thework of the same" story in every great house in ways from thieves1 A goodly propor ex: I tlon off the Bank of England sometimes called the England In October upon' the death members do not themselves know lodgings off French families r well as “Old 'arid WlioUs bachelors actly what they want” the Lady of Threadrieedle Btreet’ has of- Hon Edward of rooms" Tennant “is that Gossiping Increased "so enormously since' the" " war eldest son of LordWyndham "My view” lie concluded brother-in-Glenconner also Serves Palace Says Royalty watchdogs while no that 'several fresh premises have had law given some amount of good-wi- ll ' Mr Asquith the fifty-fift- h the to country on the French-speakiaide we can "17 farm :" is complete without a :deepr to be "engaged to carry on the work heir to a peerage had lost' his life I achieve all our objects without underILCOnomieS Practice throated'canlne to give warning of the and house the'additionalstafl which ln the war i : XUgld includes a large proportion of women : As for" giving up all social life except mining the political unity of Belgium of strarigersv approach" The matter would be still more facilitThe pay office nations- debt depart- wherelt 1 doneto: cheer the soldier of- - dogsis And 'the ated-if our Flemish provinces were T ONDON Jan IS —The official an-- 1 numerous Jtlastclass ment printing department and loan boys on leave arid" In convalescence as seems as all of others the able to exercise more initiative in their A-I nouncement i tnat Rus-- f departments have ail had to be 'sepwith: in Toy dogsvle popularity for the? drudgery where luxury' once the and -l own affairs it would even-bking desiraan wolft bounds blooded Belgian po- - arately OiousCd and !ln "addition a large prevailed' the English' lady baa ble after the "war" to increase the com- queen have for some time past observed I Hce dogs lands ven German dachshunds new- building will shortly be taken- as Her new business is not I : say' petency of our provinces as administra- two meatless days a week recalls"' a which are not regarded as aliens and a xestaurant for the ‘many additional society—nor It Is philanthropy but it tive units That would contribute to- recent assertion of a leading Windsor j Interned:'1'1 Vrorkers engaged on- governmental and is ' tlie ' business war" She -Is' Just cerwards the solution of the" language tradesman who regularly supplies j Is at the'pet dog class that’" the public 'banking work it &- soldier ) as heart" as If she at muqh I " In Switzerland" where three tain foodstuffs to the palace there" and I new law 'Is ’ aimed: Twenty ‘francs a f question r wore a ? shouldered: and khaki gun lang-jurto know much about year" Is the' new: impost levied on one have to exist side" by is in a" position equal— ' HECKSCHER RESIGNS JOB ' ' aide German French and Italian— the inner workings' of the royal J dog and Ifa person two ' pets' possesses " MONUa’lENT : fvia 'v ‘Jan London l2 Jan PLAN there Is no language conflict like ours menage ' f" or more' the 'others are IS) forat iBerlln' cer- - double rateIiv-- cities charged Dr Siegfried Heckcher is - reported thanks partly to the local autonomy To lntimate’frlends" he told'-'©of more'fthan ' JOSEF enjoyed The splitting of Belgium Into tain economies "of a striking kind which 20000 Inhabitants the 'iet?dog‘ tax' Is to have? - resigned : from the ' directorate ' ' two distinct units ' as suggested" would have been ‘put Into force plnce the "war J fixed at fifty francs "a year for one dog of $ the Hrmburgr American line" Dr V’ r"-weaken so small a country to an un- began and which'? lately bave been j and JOOlfrancsTa" year for other dogs Heckscher Is a member 'of the? foreign '" 'Budapest via Berlin' Jan' 13j— Count desirable and dangerous degree and If made more sweeping still- ’Among: his I owned byv a' slngle person'""' i relations committee: of? the relchstag Tisza' the Hungarian Premier today the same end can be achieved' by other atatementii was one that- 'he:knv for The work' dogs and the? watch dogs and is ? well known' aa a lawyer and introduced ' in a bill "promeans that" “would be much preferable a fact" that-quitoften the royal lunchr are let-of- f franc : tax and "publicist He has yislted the United viding ’for theparliament wi th ) erection of a' fitting For if divided In language economical- eon menu at the" castle consists solely the 'huntirig' dogs of which theire’- - are States several' times c and' has many monument to the late Emperor Francis ' ly Belgium 'Is one” of rold meat and pickles 'mighty f ew left in ‘clvll life” are taxed friends iri thatcbuntry' i Joseph in Budapest ' e ‘(J ’ - mill-owni- ng nt ' - GREOTMLESHIP ! - Debutantes Pampered French Fidos Must to Help Nation Dairy Mai d s - W - - as Cause dis-pltch- es : -- - ent - - for-relie- -- - f dogs-populatio- busl-Accordi- ng ‘ " - - Royal Lunch Is Cold :M eat ana' so-ci- al' - - - - - i Pickes Story French-speakin- six-nephe- - - : -- - lraaesman " - " ng - -- - -- 'as " ’ -- - noth-ing'-- to - -- - rp-'-- : - : v " - 1 " - -- : f 1 - 1 ZZZZTO':FRANZf - - - - - ! : - - : o -- Bom- bastic Bullying Bombast different from all the other "captured capitals With the exception of Cettinje I have' been in all of them And for 'ways- that are wild' and piquant Bucharest Is unequaled Brussels was stunned for hours after the Germans marched in Belgrade was desolated and Warsaw was satisfied But Bucharest is crazy —crazy with excitement and curiosity If It feels sorrow it conceals that emotion per fectly and seems mainly intent upon getting the greatest possible amount of fun out of the present situation Since the German entry it has attained the limits of Here" you find patrol ts —genuine old the Nestor of Rumania patriots like Peter Carp— rejoicing In' the fall of their capital When the first detachments of- the invading troops piaxched in the women of the German ophlle sections of the population stood on the — Immediately south Ballon-d’Alsac- Jan DESIRED Speecli of Cliancellor in Ber-- ters and Town Is Running Along on Normal Lines May Be Restored HAGUE Jan IS—One ej v t TUB Bctlimann-Hollw- Nou) Spares NATIVES ARE CURIOUS s at i arts Germans Systematizing ' LEADER GIVES From Canada Addresses Letter to Author-Chaplai- n a-tw- -- o ! ' i V'S ' - a ' ‘Z ? v c:- j jl4- v-v- “ : - " ?v " h : 4A ' - ' i 'y' v ' s t — m maker and an enthusiastic peace lover as all Canadians are You will understand therefore how my heart leaped with Joy the other day when I saw the headline in one of the London newspa- pers ‘Germany Offers Peace’ We Canadians ardently long for peace It la for peace some thousands of us are on the warpath Just now For twenty-fiv- e years our sky has been disfigured by a dark cloud bank on the horizon which we recognized as the German menace We grew tired of that cloud bank and how that it has broken into a fiery halo of war we are here to do what little we can to change the world's sky Into the of peace bright sunlit blue “Canadians we are do you know us? Ask your boys who were at Ypres once twice thrice those also who were at the Somme determined to hack through’ We are some of the chaps that took your ‘hacking’ but sou didn’t get ’through’ and— a friendly warning— you won’t “You can’t imagine how bitterly you disappointed me by your speech In ' which you introduced your ‘world historic’ peace offer You may earnestly desire peace: I firmly believe you and your people do but as a preliminary to peace negotiations your speech was hardly a success ‘Biasing Bombastic Bully lag “In short if you will pardon my blunt alliterative way of speaking your speech at this distance sounded like blazing bombastic bullying bunkum The dove of peace is supposed to coo: your dove pawed the earth Ilka a bellowing bulL “You say ‘look at the map You have been changing the color In spots and so pleased are 3ou that you summon the world to admire your handiwork ‘Look at the map you say We answer ‘Look at the men “Maps don’t win wars — men do—men my dear Bethmann men do you hearT You can roll up a map with one hand but can you roll up men? Look at the men on your every front: those hosts of Russian men of Italian men those steady stern faced enduring men of France and those cool headed cheery hearted dogged men of British breed Have you rolled them up? You thought you had rolled up the men of little Belgium gallant little Belgium and the men of Serbia but they are coming back at you again True you have rolled back those men on your every front but you haven't rolled them unupof ns and today there are millions this carebroken unbeaten and — note next fully my dear Hollweg — when come come will with at you they they the machinery of war and will meet you on something like even terms and they ask nothing more than a fair field this is true and no favor You know — You learned this at Verdun disastrous glorious Verdun —you learned this on the Somme ‘They've Got Too Beet “I cannot speak for other armies hut ! throughout that section of the British army that met your men on the Somme there is only one conviction and that is that they have ‘got you beat “They may be mistaken but I am are telling what I know that theyhave convinced that they got you beaten So my dear Ifoll when you are writing your next peace speech for a time and get your eyes off maps let them rest upon men Then youzt dove df peace will utter itself In notes more In keeping with Its own gentle ab-solu- tly natural “No my dear Herr von Bethmann-Hollwe- g because we earnestly and con- -' long and pray for peace we tlnuoisly intend" to 'press this blood red path of war for months or for years It matters not until ijpur people are ready to accept the just and honorable peace that we and our allies stand ready to offer— a peace that shall forever eliminate from the worjd the mad menace of Gets man militarism I am etc “CHARLES W GORDON (Major) - VERBAL STATEMENT IS VALID AS WILL1 In one of the London Jan courts of Justice ’ recently a verbal witnesses without statement before ' was pronounced a good any writingstatement was made by an wllL This who officer (since killed In action) brother officers that If he tQldfcJil wero killed all his property was to go YA tbl 'wife Tbe possibility of will is a priviexeoQnng feuch toa valid soldiers and sailors lege Reserved on active service by an act of 1677 which says: “Any soldier being in al military service or "any mariner or seaman being at sea may dispose of movables wages and personal ea- be j tate as he or they might have done 7 fore the making of this act - - T IS-— -- ac-tu- -- : |