New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1919, Page 7

NAVAL TERMS OF ARMISTICE FORCED ON GERMANS Battleship Hercules Has Ad tonic Ports, Enco BY BRITISH VESSEL venturous Voyage to Teu- untering Filth and License Everywhere, the trip to The the mem- The the account commission foliowing of Allied Naval German ports ¥ London Times by bers of the party There have been number of events in connection with the ring- ing down of the final curtain in the drama of the late war which have been fittingly characterized as unique and unprecedented, but none of them higs been more entitled to be so de- than the voyage of H. M. S. with the Allied Naval com- mission to German waters of the North Sea and the Baltic, to arrange for the carrying out of the terms im posed under the armistice. At the time Admiral Meurer across in the Konigsberg to arrange preliminaries of the surrender ol warships demanded from Germany it was thought that the only pr: ticable way to reach and inspect CGigrman sea fort afd air and naval €0 to them overland ern front. This plan number of ob: cles, of vietn which unsurmeuntable of the country allowed the free and e of trains and motors. and Vice Admiral Browning. immediately his ampointment az head of the mission was anneunced. decided to cut the GOOD NEWS Many New Britain Readers Have Heard It and Profited Thereby. fast,” and the d back sufferers in New Brit- n are glad to learn where relief may found. Many a lame, weak and aching back is bad no more, thanks 10 Doan’'s Kidney Pil Our citizens a telling the good news of their e perience with this tested remedy. Her is an example worth reading Mrs. A. J. Leonard, 103 New Britain, Ridney Pills are not remedy to me, for T have tested their value and know -hey are just as represented. 1 suffared from attacks of kidney trouble and felt tired out and down. My back ached almost stantly and my kidneys acted I used Doan’s Kidney Pills for nd they heninz my bac I know Doan's are anyone havir written for one of s¥ibed Hercules the stations was from the presented Qa (notably on the nd communica- \ight well have proved even had the state been such as to have peditions pa W 1ling he Columbia Streot, ays: “Doan's new con- clkk and kid- worthy of B0 at all dealers. Foster-Milburn came | shipbuilding plants, | to | run | ways helped | kidney trou- | Gordian knot by the principal points his own flagship. To one not conversant chastened Hun, this delibe ing into tiger's den might have looked like asking for inevitable trouble: in fact, however. almost the only risk cas the by no means negligible one channels through fields and along quenched lights and are still far from be- restored. This risk worry to the proceeding direct to to be visited in with the te walk- of navigating in wept mine ts where wa king completely remained a constant the ncws of the loss of H. M Cas- <andra by striking a mine in the Bal- et by or two collisions \tl]liy] anti- P \rine nets on the part of the es ,:::.hvl;:;.:”Jmm.\m and by the Her | cules herself striking some submerged | gbject solid enough to knock off part of a propelier blade. The completion of the really Jossal task of the commission in three -it might hav d out interminably had an en- heen made to go about by the best vindication of Ad- Browning’s decision to tackle confronting him in the simple. direct way that the navy al- ways chooses when it is unhampered in 1he making of its plans. Members of the Commission. The members and staff of the com- mission throughout consisted of the best men available for the work in band in the five allied countries rep- resented. Vice Admiral Sir Montague Browni KON BERME VO was admitted throughout the navy being possessed of outstanding quali- fications for handling negotiations which, in their unique complexities, { were in a class by themselves among the peacc preliminaries. The rare combination of firmness and tact with which he met the interminable ob- jections, obstructions, and evasions of | the ¢ delegates—men picked especially their ability in that cter of negotiation—was re- gponsible for the fact that the com- mission was ultimately able to induce the Germans to find ways and mear for completely fulfilling many poin of the armistice which they had at first flatly declared themselves power- less carry out. Rear Admiral ma buoys {ing one co- well under weeks | deavor land— miral the problem rerman for chara Grassot represented France at the conferences, Rear Ad- | miral Robinson the United States, Captain Nakamura Japan, and Lieu- tenant Commander Gulli Italy. The fechnical exper were entirely Brit- ish and American, numbering among i them several of the most notable | authorities of both countries in their respect lines. Brig. Gen. Master- DRUGGISTS! VICK'S VAPORUB SHORTAGE OVERCCM: AT LAST The Deal Scheduled For Last November, Which Was Postponed on Account of the Influenza Epidemic, is Now Re-instated — Good During the Month of 12 OVER ONE JARS OF VAPORUB PRODUCED EACH WEEK Sy It is with pride that we announce ' to the drug trade that thc shortage of Vick’s VapoRub, which has lasted since last October, is now overcome. Fince January 1st, we have been run- ning our laboratory twenty-three and 2 half hours out of every twenty-four. Last week we shipped the last of our | back orders. and retail druggists, therefore, are no longer requested to order in small quantities only NOVEMBER DEAII RE-INSTATED. This deal, which we had expected to put on last November and which had to be postponed on account of the shortage of VapoRub, is re-instated for the month of March. This allows # discount of 10 per cent. on ship- ments from jobbers' stock of quanti- “ties of from 1 to 4 gross. Five cent. of this discount is allowed by the jobber and 5 per cent. by us. We adv the retail druggists tc place their orders immediately, that the jobbers will be able to prompt shipments to them THANKS OF ' THE PUBLIC DUE THE DRUG TRADE DURING THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC The thanks of the American public certainly due the entire drug trade——retail, wholesale and manu- facturing—for what they accom- plished during the recent influenza epldemic. The war caused a shortage r clans—nurses were almost the influenza epidemic, n external application in treatm ent, and thousa to obtair doctor, relied on Vic Literally mfltions of families from are n 11 remedy for croup and cold trouble - VIcKsVaP MILLION | s0 | Vick's VapoRub impossible to obtain—the demand on | the druz trade was unexpected and | overwhelming, and to this demand | they responded nobly. Retail drug- | ists kept open day and night and slept where they dropped behind the prescription counter. Wholesale drug- gists called their salesmen off the i road to help fill orders—hundreds wired us to ship Vick’'s VapoRub by the quickest route, regardless of ex- pense. A TREMENDOUS JOB TO T CREASE OUR PRODUCTION. In this eme gency we have tried to do our part. We scoured the country | for raw materials—our Traffic Mana- ger spent his days riding freight car in—we shipped raw materials in car- load lots by express and pleaded wit manufacturers to inc their de- liveries to u But it was a slow process. Some of our raw materials are produced on In Japan—supplies In this countr | were low and shipments required three months to come from the Far East. Then we had to recruit and train skilled labor. We brought our salesmen into the factory and trained | them as foremen. We invented new machinery, and managed to install it on Christmas Day, so as not to inter- fere with our daily production. 143 JARS OF VAPORUB EVERY MINUTE DAY AND NIGHT. By January ready to put on our night shift, and since then our laboratory has been running day and night. To feed our automatic machines, which drop out { one hundred and forty-three jars of VapoRub a minute or one million and eighty thousand weekly, has required | a force of 500 people. Our Cafe De- partment, created for the benefit of these workers, served 7,000 meals during the month of January alone. 13 MILLION JARS OF VAPORUB DISTRIBUTED SINCE OCTOBER. An idea of the work we have ac- complished this Fall may be given by our production figures—13,028,976 jars of VapoRul ianufactured and distributed since t October—one jar for every two families in the en- tire United States. was connection with the ds of people. unable almost exclusivel, over the country, California to Maine, and from the Great Lakes to the Guylf, have found Vick's VapoRub the ideal home 8. ORUB BODYGUARD"™ 1st we had everything | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERAL of con- the R. A. F., British airship been a pilot of e, © = 5, was one the piopeers of struction, having ill-fated Mayfly. Commander W. G. Childs, U. N., has been cqually in the forefront of lighter-than-air fiy- ing machine work in America, Col- ! onel Clark-Hall, D. 8. O, R. A 12, who has been active in the develop- ment of the tlying branch of the Brit- R it the scnior officer of the sub-commission which had the linspection of seaplane stations in | hand. Flag Commander Tottenham, K. i of Admiral DBrowning’s taftf, headed the sub-commission inspec- ting forts and warships, Commander LT e, R R one of t} foremost Ameri experts on naval gunnery, co-operating With him Lieutenant-Commander John G. Bow- done notable work lin E-voats and K-boats during the 5 war, was the submarine officer. The shipping board, which had hand the restoration of the RBrit merchant ships interned in Germ i ports, was headed by Commodore ! George P. Bevan, C. M. G, R naval adviser $o the ministry of ship- ! ping, who has recently en 1in getting British | home from Russian Baltic | Commander Leighton, D &) R., who has also greatly « himself in freeing British in the Baltic, had personal the inspection of ships in ports. Mr. Percy Turner, to the minister of shipping ber of a well-known { firm, was the third shipping board I'rom the Forth to Heligoland. The Tercules, fying the of one vice admiral and two 1 mirals at her fore, and accompanied by four “V" class destrovers—the rdun, Vi Vidette and Venetia got under way at 10 o'clock in the morning of Dec. &, steaming down the Firth of Ferth in a fog so thick thas it was barely possible to discern the anchored lines of warships below the bridge. &isibility cleared some- what outside, and by the morning of the 4th a zood view obtained of somewhat mixed of German hips on their way to pa to make up a deficiency in the delivery agreed upon. The motley assortment con- sisted of the battleship Konig, the light cruiser Dresden. a destroyer, and two transports, easily recogniz. able of the Norddeutscher-Lloyd type. Five or six floating mines passed that morning bore ominous evidence of the approach fo the lines of anchored cxplosives that have giv Germany's coast such complete tection from sea attack during war. Delaved by the fog, the cruiser genshurg, which was to have been at a prearranged rendezvous at 9 o'clock, was four hours late in bringing a Ger- man pilot to navigate the Hercules through the minefield channe there was no untoward consequence of pushing on by chart almost to within sight of the cliffs of Heligoland. No time sained, however, for by nightfall the fog had become so dense that the Hercules had to anchor not far from the Outer Jade Lightship. The pilot party, which was made up of a commander of the German navy, 4 warrant officer and a merchant pilot, appeared a good deal divided against itself, but between them they man- aged to bring her to anchorage a mile or so off Wilhclmshaven dockyard just after middav. Several merchantmen passed on their way and dipped their flags as they passed. A return dip from ithe ifercules and destroyers completed what was probably the first exchange of thatl courtesy since August, 1914 Captain von Muller of the Emden. A picket-boat, flying the imperial naval ensign of Germany, came along- side a half-hour affer the Hercules had anchored, and the short, heav set officer who was first up the gang- way turned out to be Rear-Admiral Goette, who headed the German com- mission which met that of the Allies at both Wilhelmshaven and Kiel. Ad- miral Goette appears to have been the senior German naval offic ing at his duties, von Schee Hipper having disappeared into the same obscurity which hides Luden- dorff and the other ex-leaders, who have sought safety in flight or ‘“re- tirement.” A notable member of the German commission was Captain von Muller, of the first Emden, whom the Germans doubtless appointed on the strength of the tributes in British press to his at the time his ship was the Sydney. Tnfortunately tity of Captain von Muller definitely known to the mission until after the ence was over at Kiel There were a number the armistice which or his advisers, when seated at the long t Browning's cabin, declared they absolutely incapable of fulfilling, one by one these were reduced inflexible purpose of the allied | mission brought home to them utter futility of tactics even | bordering on bluff did things move then that the sub-commission for the inspecti warships landed and went to work { the dockyards that afternoon. filth and lack of discipline, which were later found to be characteristic of every German warship remaining, were very much in evidence in the first one visited. Here some scores of was been i chant he shippin charge of German Secretary and mem- lipbuilding member of the fags rear was line as n pro- the Re- was remain- and von paid bheaten the was not allied com- final confer- by of terms Admiral Goette they first were e in Admiral of were but the com- in The decks (in contr terms of armistice, which held that all ships and air statlons inspect- ed should be cleared of men), threat- ened to impede materially the work of search. Drastic British Action. The drastic action taken by the offi- cer in charge of the party on this oc- | casion not only put an end to the d ficulty on thie particular ship, but also effectually prevented its recurrence on any otker. Turning to the captain of the ship, the British officer informed him that unless all the sailors were out of the way at once he Wwould turn to the Hercules and report that } e had been obstructed in his work dire ention to the the ! “‘sportsmanship | iden- | sailors, slouching indolently about the | Although the Ge: apparent authority latier were fhemselves possible consequences® position. Five minutesi of them had shoved of knots of his sullenly sce on the dock. It s in one of the sub-commissi having seen the German caj ing a white-banded petty: with his overcoat 3 The search of warships the following day, and pai also dispatched for the ins] airship and seaplane stations latter involved journeys af ocom able distance, and, although 8 provided. the conditi@ stock and engines . progress very slow. These weonsH . of some scores af journe which various of the sub-commissig ultimately covered some thousandsi { miles in northern Germany, gaind intimate and first-hand information'@ the condition af the people, crops, supply, that should prove of calculable value to the allied autha: ties who will have to decide what res rolling ete., sponse is man empire These f pre. in i\ passiLg commission any evide: such have place but no no it m ticle 5 members of that 1 < of underfeedingdn even industrial centers as HalRPUrE and Bremen, and that through BME of the country traversed the people appeared to be as well fed and dressed as in England and France. Such stock as was seen was a in good condi- tion: land, generally was carefuliy cultivated and highly fertilized, and those winter crops already in werg making fine growth as a consequence of the unusually mild weather. Cer- tainly the North sea and Baltic littoral of Germany is not anywhere nearly so badly off for food as they try ta make the Allies believe North Sea Air Stations. War and merchant ship inspec- tions over at Wilhelmshaven in a couple of days, but the visits to air stations on the North sea side took some time longer. Borkum, Heligo- land and Sylt reached by de: strover: most the others by land Discipline and order were found much better in both airship and sea- planc stations in the warship and in most of tuese it was very evi. dent that every avor had beer made to live up he letter of the armistice agreement The Norderney seaplane station—on the island made famous in “The Riddle of the Sands,’ —was reported as comparing most favarably with any other of the kind in France or England, while great Nordholz Zeppelin station is, beyond comparison, the finest in the world. It was from here that practi cally all of the England-bound raiders started, and not the least iteresting sight observed there by the sub-com- s the famous “L 14, with England to its credit. It the only survivor the first raiders, all of the rest hav- ing perished in one way or another “L 14 W being used as a school ship during the last months of the war, and the latest airships, such as mighty “L 71,” outeclass it pletely for power, speed, and { bility. Another inter the sub-commi the Zeppelin 50 are were Wore than end to 24 vists to was actically the o sta- sting visit of one of ons was the wreck of sheds at Tondern. Tt w this station which was so suc- cessfully bombed aeroplanes launched from the Furious last sum- mer, when two sheds and two Zeppe- lins were completely demolished In the Kicl Canal. The Kiel canal was an occasion as memor- able as historic. British light cruiss ers had made the passage in 1914, just before the v the first British battleship its brown-black waters, the Verdun and Vicerc stroyer to ruffle just as wero the first de- . The people along the canal banks were or the most part indif- ferently curious, but hand-waving and smiles from women and children were by no means infrequent. An ating titude as evident points, and the least sign ness from one of the ships would un- doubtedly able acclaim the banks. Needless to saj was forthcomin Not a wa lifted in response to the hun. dreds that were waved by many a simpering grin stiffen and die out as behind it passed the steady stare of the imperturbable bluejackets lining the steadlly steaming warships all at from crowds on tho no such sign British hand a scen t the maon-face the banks, mostly behind one barbed wire barrier came lan unmistakable hail of “How's old Bligh At another point a lons train of what must have been return- ing British priseners fairly rocked with chee t the unexpected sight of | the white ensizns passing under the viaduct beneath them Prisoners begun ter Kiel was R ian, but from arriving rapidly hed nearly every destroyer returning to anchorage bringing a substantial ‘‘haul. Vidette, returning from headed the list with 693, these being transferred to the mail destroyer for the passage back to England. Most of these had gruesome stories to tell of the treatment they had received during the months or years the Hun thought he was winning, but all re- ported that things had gone fairly well with them since the armistice. re Hamburg, At Warnemunde. infusion of several Prussian stiffened the hacks of the German commission, which came {to the first conference at Kiel, but this attitude disappeared, as before, and from then on things proceeded quite as smoothly as at Wilhelmsha- i v The remaining warships were ected, a large number of interned British merchantmen were gone over Ly the shipping board and started on the way hame, and the remalning forts and air stations were visited by the sub-commissions detailed for that work. The most interesting of these latter was the great experiment- al station at Warnemunde, where all af the new types which the Germans have had in process of development were seen and inspected. Permission The advisers rt _having observed thae | { ot | com- | passage by the Hercules of tha | , but the Hercules was | A number of prisoners were seen on The | aff | to be made to the appeal tof divert food and shipping to feed tho alleged starving millions of the Gers | ams pomin Qarti Cane Sugar| Cane Sugar . Fine ranulated ta visit this re granted only revelation of of the bitter: swallow The submarine commission, Lieutenant Command Bower, ed its investigations assiduously Hamt Bremen and at t some markable station under protest, and what must pills the scores ingrati- | of friendli-| have evoked not inconsider- | the Huns. was | under | sides of the n | i it | ""‘}”liil[ e ¥ ] G DUR] l‘é?&um TE TABACLDR vas the been one Huns had to under push- at | points, | I of the work of the Allied completely finished, the cules got under way at noon on cember 18, passed thrqugh the canal that afternoon and eveni U-boats ~hitherto undeclared by mans, were found and reported. 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