Captain Valentiner, this newspaper says, has been decorated with a number of orders, including the iron Cross of the first class and the Hohenzollern House order, with swords, a special distinction, which is the personal gift of the German Emperor.

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TOBACCO ADEN TO HOLD
Kinnh.'irgo on Shipments After
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MKAXS RIO LOSS TO GOWERS
Senators and Representatives From
States Affected by Order Will Be
Asked to Be Influence to Secure
Modification.
[Special to The Times-Dispatch.]
Washington, August cv?a conference of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee tobacco growers and exporters will
be held in this city on Monday to protest against the British embargo
against further shipments of tobacco
to Germany and Austria after August
Representatives of this industry will
confer with Senators and Representatives from their States, in the hope that
means may be devised for a modification of this embargo. to the extent, at
least, that all shipments now contracted for may proceed to their destination. Otherwise, enormous
"  The loss will be sustained by the American exporters. Several months ago, Great Britain lifted the embargo against shipments of American tobacco to the central powers on the ground that this product could in no sense be regarded as contraband. It could not be used to strengthen the military power of either country or to subsist the civilian population. 