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f‘lsll'lCt Attorney Swann Asks Aid of State. Attorney
Homer S. Cummings tor Co-Operation in Search
Office as Second Class Matter.
POLICE to BE stun
mu IN SEARCH f0R COPPOlAS
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Pratt Is Still Under $5,000 Bonds—May Be Tried
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'1 ins? «"aPllillL‘, :tske-d the assist-
n‘.‘ llullli‘t‘ S, ('ummings of Stain"
Sun» Attorney in" Fairiicld coun-
fl the st :trt'ii tor tlzt- mis<inu
Wurlis (‘upp-2lzt, the niuI-tet-n year old
‘t:- y tiriyi-i' of lllln city who has been
,, in; two Weeks ago today
.i. ii for u-hosv alleged ctillili-t'tiun with
- tiiyslvrious ill<hllll":ll':lllf'l‘, Arthur
l’ruir, liarien, is being held by
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‘xlmiy lilimtlsruina [llt‘l‘l()ll>l_\' hiddt 11‘
in mt View, \\-‘l'i- (lirCUKt‘I' d )‘I‘r‘t'l‘duy‘
the automobile bo't‘infuin'; to ('t’ipU
,m-ta and lead to Mr. Swann's request”
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-.~.!. lil"‘$lllll.’lhl)' in this state. As a
mi Mr Swannl action a detail
w "oiliiwctitult state police may be
--.l to ihu case.
island of lmricn, which is
-i it} the mother of l‘i'utt. (main
.‘itlLlel to the attention of the in.-
- v-ttors yesterday by a series of
'A-velopments which po‘inted‘to
‘1 -- probable scene of the alleged
; ~ Mr. Swami is 'anxious that
\tiunrv 'yar'd "oi lhc summer (‘01-
'I'k‘ he gumat‘njt-r in :in attcnipt
.. quvi' (‘oppolu‘s body, and he is
m. d Isimus lllfi? the bottom of
. t-‘and sound cln~r in tln- island
HE:
iiillEEllliN RE
'l‘omorrow Everyone Will
Have an Opportunity to
(‘ontribute for Entertain-
:nent of Fighting Men
"oniori'ow will mark the grand open-
H.’ m‘ the campaign for the collection.
funds for the reception to the re-
main; soldiers. sailors and marines of
\urWalk and \l’ilton and it Will pre-
<ent to every person in the city an ex-
"ellent opportunity to express in the
most fitting manner their sincere ap-
preciation for the work of our heroic
boys overseas and in this country also.
l‘eam captains and their workers
itn'e. all materials in readiness to start.
early tomorrow morning on their thor-
ough house to house canvas of the two
5")“71: to secure the contributions to
We fund. The entire city has been
taid out in districts; a capable xnnn
u in charge of every district and has
an ier his supervision a corps of work-
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.., \llTF‘ORD, Feb. 234:1; s‘chooi
”rill-as of the country were urged
. in in the government campaign to
‘Zzt‘ift a happy national habit in
sent today by Secretary
‘ e Treasury Department to
’ Education Association in
..-.t. Chicago. Secretary
’.at the teaching of thrift
4:1, or the school curricu-
3919. The telegram read
In
unanibors of the National
Association assunbled at
' '. to extend the sincere
the Treasury Depart
:w -~-i>tance rendered *by the
r be teaching profession in
"3‘ .I’mn and “‘ar Savings
-1... car-in; the past year. Be-
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lair :iie mi»;
:.~' Mr. Swami szlttt-d that in
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i Pratt's Lawyer Fails Again.
The force at the disposal of the his»;
trict Attorney's office. even aided by,
the police of this city and the other1
local officials. is insufficient for
l£l>k and this was the main reason for}
Judge Swnnn‘s appeal. It is adinitlmli
that any attempt to maintain a charge.
of homicide would be, futile unless lllt‘i
corpus delicti can be produced. ;
'1‘le New York authorities and thu‘
‘ local police are preparing to drag llll“
watt-rs of Long Island Sound. adjacvnt :
it) Pratt Island in an attempt to rot-m;-
wr the body (if Coppola. (‘hici‘ of Pd
hcc William ll. Pennington this llzul’Zl
. int: secured one of the hind»! launrht' .
available around here, belonging to R,
ti. llt'lltll‘it'ks nl‘ (‘m‘t- lthilllt'. in which
the local and New York policy :t li‘lt'tl
out early this aitzrnoon to drug thr-
wate-rs near the. island xvi“; gzi'niiplm:
it is probubln that they will be
joined later in the day by a detail of
state policemen.
Pratt's ‘uttorncy, John Hinton, made
an unsuccessful effort yesterday to oh-
the;
min Pratt's freedom on habeaacorpus;.
“'35 Obmma“ on the subject since the Constitution?
SHDI‘PUI" became public. the Massachusetts Sen-l
Court and Pratt was surrendered at “top vigorously opposed flu. phu and:
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A writ
l’.ijur of the
proceedings.
from Justice
the Yorkvill» prison by his aunt. Miss”
.lneuphint: Campbell of 2th; “his! ll‘or-v
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‘ instigation
Von Pa en’s Papers, Discov-g
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LONDON. Feb. :38. (British Wire-l
less Service).~—Study of the official-
statement. containing a translation of,
the report from Count von Bernstorfl'.:
(human Ambassador to the United;
States, to Chancellor von Bethmanui
llollweg on August 26, 1916, discloses
interesting details of the part that the
Count and the Foreign Oifice played in !
writ-man intrigues in the, United
States. The report gives further evi-
dence. regarding the use of Wolf von
lgel, George von Skal and Dr. Heinrich
Albert by the German government.
Proof that the money used in their in-
trigues Was paid with the acquies-
cence of the German Chancellor, it
,not at his order. is contained in this:
report. '
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tournament
Hill albumin,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.~—Republi-3
can representatives in the Sixty-sixth
Congress today had completed their
preparations [or organization of the
next House with Representative Fred-
erick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, as
Speaker; After one of the most spirit-
ed Speakership nomination contests in
recent years, Mr. Gillett was selected
by the Republican conference last
night as its nominee. and, barring an
improbable split in the party ranks,
Will succeed to the oflice now held by
Champ Clark, of Missouri, Democrat.
The Massachusetts’ Representative
received 139 votes; James R. Mann,
of Illinois, the present.- Republican.
floor, leader. .69: Representative Phil—
ip Campbell, or Kansas. 13; and 5
«Representative Mann; vacuum
tiouoterlllattsz‘
$100,600 STflLEN
.FllflM HFFIBES [if
[Jill/Ell ESTATE
Robbers Rifle Safe of Liberty
Bonds, Cash and Other Se-
curities
l’l’l‘TSBl'RG. Pa” Feb. 28.—'l‘heft
of $100,000 in Liberty Bonds. cash and
other securities from the oilice of the
James B. Oliver estate, the. Oliver
Building. was reported to the. police
yesterday afternoon. The robbery oc-
curred Wednesday night. Burglars
forced the office door, broke open a
safe and escaped without being detect-
cd by watchmen.
A score of detectives
were put on the case.
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Senator Lodge Warns the
American People to Insist
on" Fundamental Revision
immediately
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of League Of Nations CON-l chapter has been active in winning re— prove the solution a! the pram,“
stitution
\\'A.\‘.lll.\'t1’l‘().\'. Feb. Stir-Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts, solemnly
warned the American people today to
\‘H‘lgll carefully the Constitution z-i the
L'caguc of Nations as presented to the
Peace Conference at I’m-is, and to tr.-
h’lh'l upon its fundamental revlaion.
Speaking in the Senate. the Republi-
cun floor leader declai ed his:
planned would engender misunder-i f"
sun]. _ 1 3mm [I (Continued on Pate Mr)
‘Delivering his fimt public utterance-
recommendations tor
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PAY menu TAX
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Not only by :making his income tax
return promptly and paying the tax,
made specific
specified treasury certificates of
cash, will the needs
incut. be best met.
Collector James J. I‘Valsh is in re-
ceipt of. instructions from the trea-
sury department to urgently request,
taxpayers to use these
sible case. The only certificates of
indebtedness that will be accepted in
tax payment are: Tax Series "'1‘”
1919, dated Aug. 20, 1918, maturing
July 15, 1919 and Series "T 1," dated
figs. 7, 1918, and maturing March 15,
Certificates of the two series men-
‘tioned will be accepted by collectors
of internal revenue at par, without In-
terest, when tendered in amounts not.
in excess of the aumunt of such taxes
due March 15. They will be so ac-
cepted at any time on or before March
15. 1919. No other certificates of in-
debtedness will be accepted in pay-
ment of taxes due on said date. '
Details as to coupons and interest
will be fully explained upon presenta—
tion of the certificates at the collect-
or's office.
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ll] BE DISPLAYED
In 50,000 school rooms of New.Eng-
land the “Carry on" poster of the
War Savings Committee of New Eng-
land is soon to be displayed. It is,
just off the presses and is being dis.
tributed as rapidly as the committee
and the mails working togetherm
reach all the schools of the several
coinmonmmis that make up the
First Federal Reserve District.
The poster is such a. jolly‘aluir you
would km wjust to look at Itfhatwho-
ever designed it was run at mnrYu
Brenotatallsurprlaedtolcaru. mat
the smiles arm chasing each other av.
erberfacemnstot ale Mamba
Dorothy Clogstonjsjho artist. and
she gmfiuated from the my: “de00!
ot W AruotBoobnlutJm
8 ma my” ni- '
. (‘un\ ic» ,
llOIl that, instead of safeguarding thei 1,“pr
peace of the world, the League as now}
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but by paying it, whenever possible in l
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ldehtedness, instead of by check or?
of the govern-’
. treasury oer-i,
til‘lcates of indebtedness in every pas—t
of
full autumn
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iForeigners surround the
Police StationlAfter Nine
Leaders Had Been Seized
by the Ofiicers’»
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jacks Found in Houses in!
Caroline Street
izni noncom‘. Feb. gar-flown“
i fll’ty policemen and ab may Scorer
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j night in a spectacular mdupon grow
of houses in Caroline street. in the
least side of Bridgeport. where fort
lmore than three months an I. WIVWJ
cruits among the ignorant workmen of
the city. Nine men were arrested to
be held for deportation. and the au—
ithoritios placed a cordon around the;
lentire thickly populated section an
tthey continual the Search for knownl
Eugitators. All of the men arrested;
1 were armed. ;
.Within an hour at’rer the arrest 01“
,the ringleaders of the ‘movement a!
throng of more than five thousand per-l
sons had gathered mound the Second:
station. in l-‘ai‘rfleld strum!
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Course \Vould Be Inex-
cusably Wasteful—Would
Sell Them as J unkull‘rench.f
However, Oppose This
Plan and Want to Keep
Their Share to Use
WASHINGTON. Feb. 28~Authorlta-,
the opinion of American naval orb-’-
cials apparently In definitely crystal-
lized against any proposal to sink the:
surrendered German fleet. An outline!
obtained of the views held here polnbl
ed out that such a. course would rep-,
resent sheer economic waste (or;
which there could be no excuse.
A! the same time, however, Ameri-g
can naval opinion is equally positive;
it is said, that the vessels should'not‘
be retained, but be stripped at all
valuable fittings (ind sold for junk to
the highest bidders. Suggestions that,
they be kept for service and distrlb E
uted among the powers associated:
aganist Germany met with the state:
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JERSEY STRIKERS;
Workers Throw Stones at
Those Who Stick to Jobs
Rioting among striking Glnnlnyvg of;
the textile, rubber and clear industries
in Passalc, Garfield and Clilt n, N. J,
increased in violence vesterdey. clare-
gardlng the pleas of their leaders. ea—
thered at the various o‘nnts. stonmg
every one who trl-xl H: outer and “ausfi
ing the police a great deal of trouble-J
Several riots in mosaic were curl-ed
only when'the police were iusherl to
the scene with riot suns. Which. how.
ever, they did not use.
1110 day‘s rioting surfed vii-an mnre
.than two thousand strikers conga-gm-
ediln hunt of the Gem Mills and
threw stones at firemen and 0mm ('II‘F
131ml m tfled to enter. Several
grate hit. Mon: themtfiiief;
Police .; Gustave Schmidc The}
crowd held mytfol more tum three}
horn-s, but was holy alarmed E
theépoliee. Thirty upsets] concerning“
, duty 1mm: in
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Survicfl operatives WWG‘ last Short Calm 56.83!!! in Bfldwn
lJAIL GUARDED
~PRESIDENT PLANS
Pacific, "
BARK THEllEll Bill
Westport Avenue Young
Man Who Run Away With
His Father’s Car and
Pretty May Brady to Jer-
sey City Is Locked Up in
Local Cell
Twenty-yearold Nick Bell. son of
Samuel Bell, of Quincy street, who
stole his father‘s cur last Saturday .
and run away to Jersey City with pret-
ty May Brady, was brought back to
this city last evening by Detective
Sergeant. Thomas Hunt, with his com4
plum, and both of them are now oc-
cupylng adjoining cells in the uptown
police station in default of ball.
Bell to chatted with seducuon under
momma Suve wt. and is held in
$2,500 ball, 'which. his father refuses
to banish. He claims to be twenty
years of age. but his father says he
is but. nineteen.
, The Brady girl is held in $800 ball
on a less serious charge and says she
is twenty years old.
Owing to the absence of Judge Ne-
hemiah Candee, who is attending the
olutionary Propaganda“
mun liliVERNli
mitts ill MEN A
Representatives of Alba
[lithium Bun
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Musical First Part and Dra-"
matic Finale Provides a
Spicy Variety of Enter-
tainment for Large Aud-
ience Last Evening
todaythc case which was Icheduled
for nine o'clock. this morning will
come up this afternoon.
. That. a. ceremony may
into which the young people have soc
ten themselves is predicted by those
close to the cue.
The couple, who were living as man
and wire at 181 1-2 York street, Jet--
Sey‘City. when arrested by the police
there, and the Nor-walk chief was im~
medlately notified.
.‘fi 5 I
ln its efforts to provide some means
or bringing the teachers and pupils or
the public schools 0! Norwalk _ in
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‘J ' f F . t - l ,l tartan: Mai-night. mum one. xiv»;
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tare by Prof. Whitney with a prelude
or chorus singing under the direction
or Miss McCarthy. , ,
The prom-m last night was a much
more ambitious one and even a larger
audience than the one at the first.
meeting was present and attested by
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—-—Director-
General Hines announced today. with
the approval of l-‘r--.s.’.l¢v;t Wilson, that
the railroads Would not be relinquish-
ed from the governmmt control until
there has been an opportunity to see
whether a conch-active permanent pro- .
gram of legislation was likely to be!
adopted within a “reasonable time."
The Administration’s attitude was
stated in a letter sent by Mr. Hines
to Senators Smith and Martin. chair-
men, respectively of the Senate Com-
mittee: on Interstate Commerce andt
Appropriations. and to Representa-
tives Sims and Sher-icy. chairmen of;
the House committees on Interstate;
elation of every number.
(Wane: on no Nine.)
FRANKLIN tutu
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Yesterday being Hem-y Wadsvvorth
longtellow‘s birthday, the famous
American poet. rooms 21 and 28 of
the Franklin Junior High School, unit.-
ed to give a program in honor of him.
ANNAPOLIS. Md, Feb. 28.—~Jolin The pmgrun was as follows:
Snowden. colored, was hanged at the} Room 28 8th Grade
county! jail today for the murder of ‘A Talk on Longfellow~llarie Cort
home In: Brandon. in August. 1917.
She was the wife of Valentine Bran-
don. tam-1y unploycd at the Naval
Expeflmnt’suflpu here. We, Bernice Austin, Hyman
The jail was heavily guarded by Green, Leo Chlnsky, Chas. Nash
soldiers with‘manhlne guns and police Reading. Father Fellcan'a. Speech——
from Baltimore, to pro-van any demon-l Martina Ogden
six-anon or attempts to interfere with Radius. The (Hindi-en‘s Hour-Viola
the execution. Considerable feeling India
had been nun-ed up among the neg-mes Reading, 1119 King's Ordem—Hmld
owing to failure to obtain a. commuta-. Hill '
tion of Snnuiden’s sentence or a re» Reading, The “'reck of the Hesperus~
prieve. Governor Harrington held that' Edith Dunn ‘
while the evidence against Snowden
gmsmntlal, it was absolutelygBavaria Refuses Bail .
ms. Brandon was white, about} For Pnatee Joachim ld
An Prince Leopo
twenty years old, and was an expec‘
GENEVA, Feb. 28. (by the Associat-
um. miner. Her body was found int
ed Fraser—«Swiss troops on the Ba-
her home on August 8, 1917. The 10—:
lice investigation showed that she had,
varian and Baden frontiers of Ger-
many have been reinforced owing to
been choked and killed. by a blow on
the head; also that she had been out.
raged. S ' wden was convicted main— .
no unrest across the boundary. All the
aristocratic officers of the cavalry rez-
iments in Munich have been arrested
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DURING HANGING
11th
Song, Stars of Summer Night—Mll-
dnd Gum, alarmist Hoyt. Eleanor
I)" on the evidence of two negro wo—
men, who testified that they saw
Snowden leave the Brandon residence , -
at about the hour Mrs. Brandon was ‘ggllnhfiem mfgsegonm 5:33: is:
supposedwtn have been killed ltime'miieror William. and to Pn’ncc
lLeopold, of Bavaria, who are under.
‘arrest as alleged leaders. of‘the mom
RETURN TO FRANCFIIchm movement.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.——Prepara— BRITAIN ’S WAR DEAD
tions for President Wilson's return to ’ 700,000 IN 4 YEARS
France were completed today at the ‘
l LONDON, Feb. :8. (British Wireless
“mite House: He will sail on the
transport George Washington Wednes—Pse ).—,—ln the four y 790’
000 at the pick at the British race
day morning. after speaking Tuesday
niaht on the League of Nations with . , ‘
r .. . . . .werelootonthemefield. uncured
former President Taft at New York. Dr. Bl I l . g o!
the local 507mm ,M, I! .m. -.
Thepresldent will leave Washington
unaspecialtrain'l‘uesdayatternoommmmfi 6'33,“ gm»
e 7, - to
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after the adjournment of Congress, W the l , II' o!
and .will stop for an hour and a hair, .
ratgrhiiaaemm to‘see his daughter.,m“m fl, “1*”
. 1 ' mam "“1!“
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is until!) If till worm is
to HAVE [liltilttltil m i w
Seventeen Persons, Including Prbminent
cials, Under Arrest at Budapest, Char
Eu Illuminati ;
’ Committee to Reconsider Greek Territorial Claims nun
closer touch with the School Board»
good bulletin soared: his!
frequent applause its thorough appre- .
’ugrce
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.Shcnni and dismissed the military
governor of Sheiisi for attnvkmg‘,’ 1”,
lsouthern forces.
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PARIS, Thursday, £132; 27rd» .
Total disarmament. o mam
as a guarantee new Intuit
German aggression, is urged by t
Deputy Renaudcl in a Me: 131% \
has sent to the heads of the Pairw-
liamentnry groups of the Chain
of Deputies. 110m:
“We wish an assured pew,
not an armed peace. Do you not
think it would be useful, as am 5, ,.
as possible, to consider a protein;
to the Allies that the French Put-~—
liament will refuse to ratify my
peace treaty which limits arm-g
merits and does not include disarm!»
amen“ ’ ’ ‘ = ‘ , “'7
nudity, Felti- QT:
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SHANGHAI, Th
(Associated Patina-The .
ence'between 63W 7‘
nofihcrn1nd ‘ W .. _, _
governments, in semanhelje 73W:
came deadlocked may. ”
Shao-Yi, former Paulie anion
chief of the southern delegates, to»;
fused to proceed until the Pckmgjf-‘h
Government had
terms of the armistice recently -.
(1 upon as to the province of
BASLE. Fell. 28.——rb'cvcnteen.
Minister of National Defense is:
Joseph Szycrenyi, former Mints»
tor of Commerce, and Herr Moth»
' bers of theIHungarian Oahinrt, aw ‘
under arrest at Budapest, charged. * 1
with counter-revolutionary prop-
aganda, according to advices to:
ccivcd from the Hungarian cap»
tal. It is added that Dr. Alexand-
er Welterle, former Premier nd.
Minister and Finance of Hungary...
owes his liberty to his advanced;
age. ,
Rtioting broke out anew inhibition
on Thursday, according to the.
correspondent there of the Politi»
ken. Three thousand Spartacus;
soldiers marched to the Paths—t
merit Buildings in an effort to
force the Diet to proclaim a gov-—
lict. Republic in annrli _
: BASLE, Feb. 28.-—-Basihess and
; professionel men in levers] Gel-7
man towing have been urged to
meet the strike of all working
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selves, according to dispatches.
‘received here from Berlin.
l At Merseburg, southeast of flag—
:delmrg, the bourgeoije have gone
'on strike. The bout-goose commit-
ltee at Leipzig, Saxony, has hood
! and appeal to businou men, om—
ials, doctors, drugguitl' and profes—
sors to call a general strike a o _
protest aginst the guild of that “‘5
proletariat.
At Brunswick the former Pre-
mier of the Brunswick Governvv'
ment has publicly announced} his:
adhesion to com . -
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-—Pm—
mier Orlando todlly cabled a per— 9
mm! message to President Wit-s
non'doclaring “ , charm fluifi
Italian people comprehend midr-
elain with joyrthe high value
vermin: significance” of .
enforced tho?“ , ‘
v93,”
persons, including Major Gene!!!- ' u“
Alexander von Szurmay, fol-more. ;.
Eclasscs by going on strike that» ,1 ’
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