The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 14, 1915, Page 7

The News As Told in Paragraph and Picture L IN G AR News Snapshets In spite of all rumors -and news- paper = fakes, the half-billion dollar dollar loan for the Allies went through without a hitch. S In Chicago and other cities, appli- cants ‘for naturalization papei's are now made to declare whether in case of war -they would fight for " the United States. HA A full company of heavy field ar- tillery is being recruited among the students ¢f Yale University and the United States War department is helping it along. - John D. Rockefeller ‘Jr.:toldi the business men-of “Denver that: there must be no mere mining strikes in Colorado. . He didn’t say how strikes were to be prevented. Secretary of War Daniels will ask Congress for $6,000,000 for a govern- ment armor plate factory. If the ad- vocates of this reform had been lis- ' tened to three years ago ‘we should now have in operation and.owned by the government one of the best armor plate factories in the world: .. .. THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Washington correspondents ~ that know the inside of things do not seem to be gratified with the fact that President Wilson continues to place so much dependence ‘upon the advice of Col. House, the mysterious financier of Texas. Henry Ford, the world-famous au- tomobile manufacturer, said some un- pleasant things abgut the British Commission that came to this .ountry to negotiate the half billion dollar loan. Canadian newspapers b tterly resented his comments and now some of them want the Canadian govern- ment to vacate the Canadian patents that have been granted to Ford. Canada seems to have entered defi- nitely upon the yolicy of the govern- ment ownership of railroads. The Provine2 of New Brunswick has' late- ly acquired the St. John Valley Rail- road, 200 miles long, and will here- after operate it. are in prospect. It is predicted that with in a few years all Canadian lines will be publicly owned. { Germany’s apparent yiel_ding‘ to the A NEW AUSTRIAN ARMORED LOCOMOTIVE ER3 PAGE SEVEN | PHOTOS BY AMER|CAN jpress and to know Bulgaria's position the latter mobilized all he . . Greece calling all her men to the colors, fearing a move on Servia. Of ‘he Week' « ; England and France commenced, the Germans losing considerable gr s "+ expended than in any like period of the war. killed. The @G. A. R. gathered im Washington to repeat the grand review of said be would push welfare plan, though he stands to lose $335,000 yearly. The New York national guard, 10,000 game some of the thingsv.w}:\icn would happen in real warfare, even building and blowing up bridges. Jr,; strong, showed the Empire City in a war ° AS SO CIATION r-troops. . This was closely followed by Probably to impress-Bulgaria the long delayed “drive” of ound and thousunds of .men, while more.afmmunition was Other Mexican raids across our Lorder resulted in an American trooper. being fifty years ago. Jobn D. Rockefeller, investigating conditions in- Colorado, United States in the matter of sub- marine warfare assumes a somewhat different aspect from the revelation that the British navy has at last. found a way to put the submarire out of business. No merchant ships have been. reported unk for - two weeks and it is said that few are likely to be hereafter. The real reason why King Constan-- tine of Greece kept his country from observing her treaty of alliance: with Servia is partly because he is Ger-: man himself and partly because his wife is a sister of the Kaiser and with good reason he is afraid of his wife. She is said to be the most resolute and fearless princess in Eu- rope. This seems to be a new phase of the woman’s rights question. For-many years a law of the State of Illinois has strictly forbidden li- quor taloons to be open on Sunday. Other acquisitions|It is & law that has been calmly ig- nored in Chicago. Mayor Thompson has now undertaken to enforce it for the first time. The liquor men have produced Mr. Thompson’s pledge given before election that he would do nothing of the kind. This has not disturbed the Mayor. He is go- ing ahead with the enforcemnet and ‘lok . about -2,000,000. FRENCH WOMEN MAKING AMMUNITION some of his friends -point to the way -natieral parties disregard their platform pledges as a sufficient pre- cedent, if any be needed. THE HUMAN TOLL OF THE WAR. Up to date in this war the total losses in killed, wounded and miss- ing of the Prussians alone are 1,450,- 000. men. Al .Germany. togeihér has Austria has lost.1,200,000. The total losses of all the belligerent nations, in killed, -wounded -and: missing up to date Oct. 1 .were -about . 8,000,000, of whom about 1,800,000 had been killed out- right on the firing line. About 600,000 men h:2ve hren erip- pled . for life and 300,000 have been rendered insane. The extent of the economic disas- ter involved in ‘these figures is so colossal that no. economist hus dared to attempt to analyze it, but Europe will not recoevr in 800 years from the. blows- it _has already sustained in this war. . The .bankers’ organization has made a great many mistakes. But it was driving in the right direction—for the bankers—so they stayed by and supported it. And it paid. 'Tm'photéém shows & scene now common in France, where illaew-o , -have largely taken.the place of men in the ammunition factories. . They & ‘soen filling shells with shapnel. | -