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Show BUSINESS MEN RETURNJAFELY Report Uneventful Voyage From Europe to United States Mission to Berne Important. AN ATLANTIC PORT. June 5. J Among the pa.ssengers on a trans-At- i lantic liner which docked here tonight after an uneventful voyage were Henry Hen-ry Bruere and Julian B. Beatty. directors direc-tors of the American Metals company of New York, who have been in Berne, Switzerland, under sanction of the state department, endeavoring to purchase pur-chase the stock of important German holders in the corporation. This stock, about 40 per cent of the company's total to-tal capitalization of $25,000,000. was! sufficient, with the German holdings in this country, to give them control of the property, which Includes valu- able mines in Mexico Mr. Bruere and Mr. Beatty said they would have nothing noth-ing to say concerning their mission until they reached Washington Mrs. Emmcline Pankhurst. who was n m rv r p 1 V r mosonforc caiH chn harl come to America "suddenly" because she felt it would be a cood thing to bring the American suffragists a greeting from the patriotic women of England. "The great thing now for women is to have a country to vote in," said Mrs. Pankhurst. "We now have our responsibilities re-sponsibilities and duties to perform. I shall tell America of what is going on at the Alsatian front in France where I spent considerable time. The patriotic patri-otic women of the English women's party sent me to America. I have forgotten for-gotten about hunger strikes. I have thought only about our country " Among the other passengers was Miss Mabel T Boardman of the American Red Cross, who has just completed a survey of the situation in Italy. France and England. The American labor commission finds the labor movement in Europe so different from the home article that it doesn't look like the same thing and maybe it isn't. oo Wonder If the Prussians spilled a basin full of those six -cylinder pro-ranlties pro-ranlties when they found out the last big boat they shot up was one of their own'' |