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IlilciTT':tiTAHSIJJfPAYyMARCH25 - - - u i1 f - S MAGAZINE SECTION 1917 ' i s NATION WAR of “frightfulness” in scores of American cities the moment trouble was started with Germany It Is understood that the president now reels that he can act more boldly since Flynn and his men have rounded up the spies It may be stated on the best authority that the situation is now so well under control that any one who attempts to carry out the criminal in structlons of “the master spy” win to leave the permitted country with and traitors In all parts of the country meet with short shrift at the hands of von Bemstorff and Fay escaped to were In readiness to start a campaign the United States government who plotted the destruction of ships Mexico where he is now believed to part 'in a big plot against carrying American munitions to the be taking States which would inUnited the allies and who was sentenced to a volve this country and Mexico in term of years in theAtlanta peniten- trouble! 7 There has been much criticism ditiary v' Of the men above mentioned Boy-Ed- 1 rected against President Wilson beand ' von Papen were sent home cause of his slowness in breaking with Germany It now demore than a year ago von Igel was relationsthat his caution was born of velops indicted by a federal grand jury but his knowledge that thousands of spies v- - Suspects Under Espionage in Every Large American City and Guards Are Employed to Prevent Destruction of Property by Men Who Would Cripple Nation in Event of Conflict - - ZEPPELIN INVENTOR OF THE AERIAL BATTLESHIP WON FAME AS FIGHTER WITH FEDERAL FORCES IN U S IN EARLY SIXTIES TXT ASHINGTON March 24 — (Special) —While the country has been stirred to the depths during: the past two years by the activities In this country of German spies the name of William J Flynn chief of the United States secret service who has driven (Continued from Preceding: Page) “After waiting outside a long ters one day that General Lee was fol- inarching time” says Count Zeppelin by his left flank in a northlowed him into the tent It was empty west direction the army of the PotoWith my barometer in liia hand he had mac received orders to follow this crawled under the canvas and disap- movement along the inner line so that it might always keep - between the peared” and Washington —which meant Zeppelin met many “pleasant and enemy' efficient officers” Among them lit- also between the enemy and Philadeltle was said about the army’s oper- phia and New York On one of the marches that folations but all had personal experiences to tell and witty little stories lowed those who had been stationed “I the worst of these men out of the country or put them behind prison bars has rarely been mentioned Yet so remarkable has been Flynn’s success that today he might well be called the world’s master sleuth The American public does not know how honeycombed with spies and traitors this country has been during: the past two years Said a higrh public official whose name is withheld for obvious reasons: ‘The infamous treachery of the imperial German government which was seeking to betray the United States at a time when the two nations were supposed to be bound to each other by long ties of friendship has accentuated the enormity of the plots undertaken here The vileness of the methods adopted by Germany was brought with full force to the public recently when the United States government exposed the Zlmmermann note to Mexico But this same sort of treachery and plotting has been going on in the United States two years and more And the most astounding part of it all is that Gernian-America- n citizens and even Americans without a drop of German blood in their veins have aided the Germans in Germany in efforts to betray and ruin America” During the past two years the German government has not only employed hundreds of spies to work secretly as private citizens to undermine the country” it has used men connected with the German embassy at Washington —guests of the United States If inyou please — to plot the jury against the country Among men of this sort who have been dose to the German ambassador and whose spy activities have been run to earth far-reachi- ng and anecdotes quickly made the round of the camp One of these he puts down as follows: Two spies had been captured on the banks of the Rappahannock One was a Yankee the other a German They were condemned to be hanged to the branch of a tree protruding out over the river since such a death would save their executioners the trouble of burying them it being merely necessary to saw away the branch and let the two bodies drop into the water The Yankee’s turn came first In his pocket he still had a $5 bill and he pressed this into the hangman’s hand with the whispered words : 1 For God’s sake take a bad rope!” The hangman did so As soon as the Yankee was strung up the rotten rope broke the condemned man fell into the water and as he was a good swimmer he managed to reach the opposite bank which was occupied by his comrades the enemy But the German when he saw what had happened turned to the hangman and begged him to use a strong rope “I can’t swim” he explainedto FairOne day Zeppelin rode over fax courthouse where the Eleventh commanded division by General stationed Schurz struck was William J Flynn (center) and official German spies lie has driven from country At left Capt Franz von Papen Schurz as in man theatrical apthe young (above) and Robert Fay Right Capt Earl Boy-E- d (above) and Wolf von Igel pearance He says that the general by Flynn and his associates are Capt to destroy American munitions fac- with Ambassador von Bernstorif and liked to drape himself in his cloak naval at- upon whom papers Were found show- and was quite obviously concerned in Franz von Papen military attache to tories Capt Karl Boy-E- d the German embassy who referred to tache to the German embassy who ing he was deeply mixed up in many trying to give himself a “very soldier-llook” Americans as “those idiotic Yankees” was also caught in munitions plots: blots against the peace of America: official von was in Wolf associated and When German Robert the news reached headquar- who various spy and Igel very closely Fay caught plots 1 y Work Under Way On Mississippi Centennial Expo ' Rapid progress is being made on the work of constructing most of the permanent buildings of the Mississippi Centennial Exposition to open in Gulfport Miss Dec 10 and close June 10 1018 Small armies of men are now actively at work on the following Coliseum structures: Mississippi building Woman’s Boys’ and Girls’ building Efficiency building Arts and Crafts building and Manufactures building The Administration building already is completed and occupied by the busy officials of the exposition These five buildings will face on an enormous court to be called the Itamvn Garden and which will be beautified by palm trees grass plots flower beds and shell driveways and An electrical fountain 85 paths feet high with an 80 foot basin will ts were pelled to ride right through comthe wa- ter which was so deep that the horses ed - had to swim part of the distance He writes : After a stiff march we arrived next afternoon at Fairfax courthouse where we learned that the enemy was already at Manassas Gap to the northwest and that instructions were to be given to General Pleasanton of the cavalry who was about twenty miles away at Aldie to undertake a reeonnoissance in force in order to obtain more exact information conThe ofcerning the confederates ficer to whom the transmission of this command to Pleasanton was intrusted received as escort a squad of cavalry under another officer I asked permission to accompany them and it was granted We did not leave until toward evening Darkness soon overtook us As we threaded our way through the dense forest along a scarcely perceptible trail we could not even see our hands before our eyes We were obliged to leave our horses to pick a way through the blackness and it was not long before we realized that they were perfectly well able to do it After riding a short distance we came to a very difficult place Twigs slapped us in the face we went stumbling along over trunks torn up by the roots and it was only with the greatest difficulty that our horses could keep going When we returned the same way two days later we found out wliat had been the matter In the darkness we had come upon a barricade thrown squarely across the road by the enemy So elaborate was it that had we run against it in the daytime we should never have deemed it possible to scramble through it on horseback In fact when we came upon it on our return we rode around it At about 3 o’clock in the morning we reached Aldie which was strongly occupied by the forces of General Pleasanton The officer who was bringing over the order to that general could not find an adjutant for I several hours At last he found one lying asleep hooted and spurred on a bed with another officer Both then went to the general and I threw AT RATE! myself down on the bed where the adlain had and slept until about jutant 4 o’clock when Pleasanton’s troops which had been aroused immediately London March 24 — For the first after the receipt of the order started time the mortality from cancer in off Ensland has overtaken that from tulie informed me that he was in berculosis At the present time about touch witli the enemy’s cavalry under 40000 deaths annually are ascribed to the command of General Stuart for- cancer The cancer society in its annual remerly in the service of Austria who port expresses the belief rhat a larz had become famous for his long and increase in cancer must be xpectel perilous raids Stuart I learned was as a result of the war “It is a matoccupying Ashby’s Gap and Pleas- ter of common knowledge" says the anton added that he meant to attack report “that cancer develthe southern leader in order to ob- ops at the site of afrequently former scar or tain if possible a glimpse into the wound Whatever the underlying: cause Shenandoah valley which lay in of the malady may be the lamentable Stuart’s rear and in which Pleas- fact remains that as a result of the anton surmised the confederate present unparalleled warfare we shall have to face in the near future a most troops were marching toward the serious increase In malignant growths north men who have served their counin the Wo came up with the enemy very in the field" soon and the cavalry of both oppo- try nents deployed under the protection of the fire from their batteries of ar- tillery And now the fighting broke loose! Regiments from each side advancing at thetrot amid deafening veils suddenly broke into a gallop when within only a short distance of each other by : the-esiiibi- whom Zeppelin was one re-form- TERR be in the center of the court The main basin will have four fountains in 'it each having seven sprays 'ascending with varying lights showing through them In the center of the fountain is a base or pedestal 23 feet high with four faces On each face will be human figures four seaprobably representing thewill be a this On sons pedestal diameter in 8 shaft or column feet end 54 feet high This will be topped glass electric globe by an immense 4V& feflt in diameter supported by four eaiytids The shaft will be doric in design fountains With the twenty-eig- ht which will be colored spraying water lights and the by changing electric shaft with the immense electric globe upon it this will be at once the most spectacular feature on the grounds These buildings are to be comconpleted by the middle of June and are if they tractors will be penalized not finished by that time The Coliseum will be at the north end of the court The steel spans in this building are the longest of any structure in tbe south and there are buildings in only two or three other the spans where the United States will :be enare longer The building foundations structirely of concrete contural steel and hollow tile withbuild-crete floor and tile roof The ing will be fireproof Ninety-fiv- e usedtons in of structural steel are being 412 the structure and approximately cubic yards of concrete It will seat 5000 people and the six' steel truss spans supporting the roof are 133 feet The Missississippi building will be of aonerete foundation and hollow tile wells The structure will be 300 feet fcwny and 90 feet wide In it will be from all of the houeed i at headquarters had to ford a river about 200 paces wide For the infan-ti- y and artillery a bridge was made of felled trees but tbe horsemen of digging their horses with the spurs which they wore on the left boot and charged literally into each other's midst The' laid about them with their sabres for a while and then falling back in squads and finding themselves not pursued they and charged again The many sabr wounds received by the men especially across their heads were proof of the bravery with which they fought and the close quarters to which they came I took part in the attacks on the extreme right In one of them I rode too far into the enemy’s lines and was pursued by a whole squad of hostile horsemen before whom I naturally turned tail Fortunately my horse was quicker than any of theirs so that not even the revolver bullets which the’ sent whizzing after me caught up with me For this 1 was duly thankful since in spite of my desire to sojourn a while with tbe southerners and make my observations among them also I thought it probable that my pursuers if they captured me would shoot me on the spot or string me up to a tree in epite of the fact that I had not drawn my sabre against them and carried secretly in my pocket a cordial letter qf introduction to General Lee from his charming niece whom I had met in Philadelphia The lively attacking game was played over again and again until the confederates made a general retreat to an intrenched position across a small river Artillery and infantry occupied this in large numbers and opened fire on us from it General Pleasonton with his staff rode out to a depression parallel to the position in question in order to reconnoitre and pick out a good place for fording the river He had sent away some of his officers with various messages and now when he wished to send another down the river in or--j der to find a ford those remaining' by his side were keeping themselves j somewhat in the background Notie- - j his ing predicament I took it npon myself to carry out his wish This was another instance of my unfortu- nate lack of control over my lust for ! adventure and the military ardor which had been awakened in me by my experiences while with the federal army Of course I had no right as a mere spectator to serve either side But (reneral Pleasanton was so pleaded with my active help that he urged me directly and indirectly through various persons to enter the service of the union and become his adjutant The Woman’s Boys ’ and 7Girls ’ counties in Mississippi ! This build- ing as well as the Coliseum has been building' near the "Coliseum will be - of similar'- construction ’and this will deeded to 'the state "7 7' r The Manufacturers building is of be the headquarters for various gathconcrete land ciement stucco on inetal erings ' and - exhibits of organizations lath and wiUbe used for commercial composed of :womeh boys and girls!) ' The Arts and Crafts buildings will exhibits 7' - ‘ - ‘ of ! the same construction- as the This i scheme" will harmonize' beauti- Manufactures buildihgVas wilt' also fully with thei blue of the waters of V7 theiEfficiency building beach of the Gulf of Mexico The type 'of architecture is modem which the exposition will ben staged Spanish 'Mission and the color scheme aiid the gteen foliage-- of the trees on' the buildings will be cream wa!lls red tile roofs with brown trimmings and shrubbery palms and general be- - - on-th- : 7 ! V e' flora on the grounds There will bs 1600 botanical specimens on the grounds more than any in the history of large or small expositions in this country Many foreign exhibits are now en route to Gulfport ih bond “Dixie Reef’! is the name of the amusement street and the largest and best attractions will be installed on that 'thoroughfare of light and laughter The monster U S government exhibit will he a big feature of Mississippi’s “Birtliday Party” Work scon is to begin on the Automobile' Negro ' Southern Food Products Nursery Agricultural and' other structures also on the athletic field and stadium TO LEAVE FOR PEKING Toklo March 4 —Lieutenant General Xobusuml Aokl will soon leave for as chief Peking to take np his duties advisor to President LI Yuan-hun- g This marks an important step In the relations between Japan and China which the Terauchi government ha announced as now based on a firm desire to establish mutual friendliness and ion General Aokl will be accompanied hr Capt Keljlro Okamura an able officer ce-ch staff of ti Tspp been selected as his adjutant General Aokl himself is recognised as one -- of the most able and officers in the imperial army and is especially well Informed on Chinese affairs It is understood here that he will advise the president on general' administrative ' questions as well as on military J xnattera r-i far-signt- ed |