Show RUM CHASER CAUGHT IN NIAGARA RAPIDS i r J V J f 1 1 z rt y 1 H 1 tJ-J tJ A u 1 H f die C jf Gi vY y k w yO I i NO r 0 e i g k s' s Rry J jl tf A m N Y 1 n xz e- e i. i w YN 3 H Hv k v r Nry Q nd ipe y fin t v a T j i f. f Vv I w c Yi M w. w off h i q w y w AR Y i. i 10 y vr 4 0 S p i v vJ V i r u Mi A i kS yX J J 5 A w n The Tho officers and men on this United States coast guard Juard rum chaser stationed at Buffalo N. N Y V. nar nar- narrowly narrowly escaped death in Niagara Falls The boat was patrolling the Niagara river above o the falls Calls when engino en en- Kino gino trouble developed and the crew barely barcly got ashore before beCore It was caught In the rapids It is shown here grounded a few Cew hundred feet Ceet above the falls armies have published a secret re report re- re report port of or General commander com com- mander in chief of the Rhine forces setting forth Corth Germanys Germany's effort to create in the Rhineland a clandes clandes- clandestine clandestine tine army capable of ot offering re re- resistance resistance to the occupation forces Such maneuvers ers do not help For For- Foreign Foreign eign Ministers Briand and much in working toward a reconciliation Fortunately manifestations mani mani- manifestations of quite another sort sorl are coming Two great parliamentary conferences are scheduled for the next few Cew weeks the first in Paris August 25 to 30 and the second in Rio Janeiro September 5 to S. S TO TACKLE PROBLEMS The parliamentary inter-parliamentary union which meets in Paris dates from 1888 1588 It In President Cleveland's ill fated effort to negotiate negotiate an arbitration treaty between Great Britain and tho the United States It subsequently promoted The Hague Vague peace conference At Atthe Atthe Atthe the conference held in St. St Louis Louisin in 1904 Senator Burton Durton proposed inviting President Roosevelt to take the initiative for the second Hague conference which convened three years later and resulted in iii a long series of or arbitration and Judicial settlement treaties including the treaties of or 1908 and 1914 between the tho United States and amI France The same parliamentary inter Inter union doubtless will attack today's outstanding problems such as dis dis- disarmament disarmament armament pacification of Europe perpetual peace pacts etc and an will draft resolutions for customs agree agree- agreements agreements agreements ments in Europe and simplification of at customs formalities The conference will be bo held in inthe Inthe inthe the French senate chamber The Tho reichstag will send 48 members notably former Chancellor WIrth President Loebe and Professor This hearty opra co-opra- lion tion is here as a sign of friendship and good will MEETS IN AMERICA The international parliamentary commercial conference which was founded at the Brussels institute meets on the American continent for Cor the first time Forty parlia parlia- ments will he be represented with the object of coordinating the work of oC commerce committees of parlia parlia- parliaments parliaments ments everywhere These assemblies of or popular rep rep- s of various nations who can speak freely Creely without diplomatic dip dip- diplomatic reservations can assist assis' greatly in reaching International understandings They prepare the for tor later government action help insure subsequent parlia parlia- ratification They place a 11 I on tho the pulse of democracy's i throughout the tho world and one more hop that the world may find other means moans than war for or settling international difference |