Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 1

WEATHER. Unsettled and somewhat night and tomorrow, Temperature for the pa: four hours: Full report on page 19. probably rain; gentle to moderate northerly winds. Highest, 69, at 12:30 p.m. today: lowest, 59, at midnight. colder to- st twenty- CLOSING NEW YORK STOCKS PAGE 19. — He vening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” Sworn Net Circulation, Month ef December, 1915, Daily Average, 74401: Sunday, 56,032 No. 20,211. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY/ JANUARY 28, 1916-TWENTY-TWO PAGES. ONE CENT. LOUIS 0. BRANDES NAMED FOR PLACE ON SUPREME BENCH Nomination Sent to Senate To- day Is Surprise to Everybody. HAD HAD NO MENTION FOR LAMAR VACANCY Is Member of Massachusetts Bar and Has Long Been Prominent in Rate Cases. EXPERT IN RAILROAD LAW After President Wilson’s Election Was Thought of for Attorney General or Some Other Cab- inet Position. LOUIS D. BRANDEIS. President Wilson today selected Louis D. Brandeis of Boston to be associate justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States, tu succeed the late Justice Lamar. Mr. Brandeis’ nomination went to the Senate today. It was a surprise everywhere in official circles. Mr. Brandeis kad not even been mentioned for the va- ancy. Mentioned for Attorney General. After the election of Mr. Wilson as President it was expected in some quarters that Mr. Brandeis would be made Attorney General or given some other position in the President's cab- inet fhe appointment of Louis D. Bran-| deis came to the Senate as an absolute | surprise. Democratic members s; H they were dumfounded. The opinion | Was freely expressed that the confirma- tion of Mr. Brandeis would be sharply contested. Democrats expressed their uislike of the appointment in feeling terms. One prominent democratic member of the judiciary committee to which the nomination has been referred said “there will be the biggest kind of a fight in the Senate over this nomina- tion.” Democratic senators said they never rd of Brandeis being a democrat, id expressed their surprise that the President should have selected him after | the frequent assertions from the White House that only a democrat would be} E It is expected that serious | to the confirmation — ot “tll be found on the republi-| also. | Was Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born at Louisville, Ky., November 13, 1856, and will therefore be sixty years old this fail, his birth date bringing him just within the age limit of fifty-nine years which it was understood that Wilson had set upon those whom he had been cinsidering for the appointment Mr. Brandeis has been chiefly noted for his arguments before the interstate commerce commission in opposition to| the requests of the railroads that they | poe Born in Louisville. be allowed to increase their freight | rates, appearing as counsel for pers fizhting the increased rates, thouzh he also opposed the New Haven monopoly of transportation in New England ved as counsel for in- ividuals in proceedings involving the constitutionality of women's ten-hour labor laws in Oregon and Mlinois and & nine-hour law in Ohio. He took part in the fight in the cit of Boston to retain the municipal sub- way system, in establishing a sliding scale gas system in Boston, and was chairman of the arbitration board in the New York garment workers’ strike in 1910. He also played a celebrated art as counsel for Glavis in the Bal- inger-Pinchot investigation and has been the author of numerous articles on public franchises in Massachusetts, life insurance, wage earners’ problems, the scientific managerment of labor problems and the trusts Leader in Zionist Movement. He has been at the forefront of the; Zionist movement in the United States, | and has recently served as counsel for the government in the defense of Sec- retary McAdoo, Controller Williams and Treasurer Burke in the suit filed inst these Treasury officials by the Riggs National Band of Washington, fn which the bank charged that the officials were trying to wreck the bank. Mr. Brandeis was educated in the Public and high schools of Loutsville and is the son of Adolph and Fred- ericka (Dembitz) Brandeis. He stud- ied in Dresden, 1873 to 1875, and later graduate@ from Harvard University He arried Miss Alice Goldmark of New Yo: in 1591 and was admitted to th bar in 1878. He is a resident of Boston, where he has practiced his Profession since 1879. It was in 1910 that Mr. Brandeis came | probably be the first under attack from |a foreign foe, men might reduce expenses by adopt- ing what he called more efficient meth- ods of management “Showed” Western Railroads. “Show us!” cried several railroad presidents immediately. A number of them got together and sent a telegram to Mr. Brandeis, in which they hinted that if he could point out a way by which could be saved a substantial portion of the waste of $1,000,000 which he had declared the roads were losing daily through inefficient management “several western railways would be pleased to tender you employment, al- lowing you to name your own salary Mr. Brandeis proceeded to “show them” by presenting the testimony of a number of men who had evolved and demonstrated a scientific plan through which could be broken up by more effi- cient methods the cycle of raising the cost of living by higher prices and then raising wages to meet the higher prices, thus beginning a new cycle of the same kind. He declined the salary offer. Attacked New Haven Merger. Mr. Brandeis learned of the proposed merger of the New York, New Haven) and Hartford with the Boston and| Maine railroad. He thought there ought to be no railroad monopoly in England and jhe hired halls and stirred up the people. He obtained legislation which prevented a merging of the two properties and requiring that the two systems be operated inde- pendently. For this fight many pe! sons thought Mr. Brandies was receiv ing a fat fee from some source. They were surprised to learn that he was doing his work for nothing. He became interested in the working hours of women and offered to serve permanently without fee as the general counsel of the National Consumers’ League. In this cause he won his case for the establishment of a ten-hour d: fo- women in Oregon and in Iilinois. For these cases a new form of brief cwas prepared under his direction, that for the Oregon test covering 160 pages and that for the Illinois case 610 pages. In Oregon the decision of the court quoted largely from his brief. He in- terrupted the hot-Ballinger hear- ing for four days in order to go to Springfield, Il. to argue, without charge, the case in that state. In this instance his task was that of inducing the supreme court of Illinois to reverse itself. He succeeded. DEMOGRATS RAE DEFENSE SPEEHES Congressional Visitors to the; White House Applaud Presi- dent’s New York Talks. New RECEPTION BY PUBLIC IS MOST ENTHUSIASTIC Hoped on Western Trip Mr. Wilson Will Answer Criticisms of Col. Roosevelt and Others. Democratic congressional visi- tors to the White House today applauded the vigor and ag- gressgveness of President Wil- son’s speeches in New York yes- terday. They declared that this attitude on the part of the Presi-| dent was necessary to win his fight for preparedness in lining up Congress and the country ; neces- sary to offset the charges of his; adversaries that his foreign poli- cies have been weak and without the firmness that would get re- sults; necessary to stiffen his po- litical supporters, many of whom have quietly criticised his course in Mexico and in Europe. Newspaper men who accompanied the President to New York and who have been with him on numerous former trips to that city ang elsewhere are unanimous in agreeing that hii tion in New York yesterday more cordial and enthusiastic any other trip. This was apparent, they said today, not only among the| audiences addi sed by him but on the streets, where there could be no stimu- jation of enthusiasm such as that at a banquet of many persons, with the at- mosphere and surroundings conducive to arousing the sentimentalities. New York Especially Interested. In an analysis of the reasons for the increased enthusiasm for the President, it was pointed out, of course, that New York is more vitally interested in pre-| paredness than any other city in the} country. as, in case of war, it would with its millions lure to the enemy, and went to New York to talk s. It was declared, pepper” shown by the President prob- ably had something to do with the en- thusiasm awakened at all places visit- ed by him. It stirred his audiences, which received an impression of him different from former views. it is understood to be likely that the President's speeches on his western trip, which begins tonight, his first speech being in Pittsburgh early to- morrow afternoon, will be fully as ag- gressive as those in New York yester- day. His political friends hope so, any way, they said today. They want to see him wake up the people and arouse them to the dangers of unpreparedness. They want to see him follow this course, too, as an antidote to the se- vere criticisms of Col. Roovevelt and others that he is “too proud to fight.” That expression of his, explained aft- erward as having no bearing upon his foreign policies, has been rung from one end of the country to the other by Col. Roosevelt and republican oppo- nents. Politicians are going to watch care- fully the outcome of the trip in the west, where the people are not as di- rectly interested in preparedness as in ‘ew York, but where aggressiveness has brought political reward to distin- guished statesmen with whom the country has familiar acquaintance. Louisiana “Drys’ as a the President prepared- | though, that the ” Defeated. lative prohibition leaders met defeat | throughout the state, according to a! most complete returns on the vote for members of both branches of the next NEW ORLEANS, January 28. —Leris- | AMERICA MAY BAR LINERS WITH GUNS Belligerents Asked to Square U-Boat Warfare With In- ternational Law. POWERS ARE NOTIFIED BY STATE DEPARTMENT U. S. Declares That Merchant Ships Entering Its Ports Must Haye Jvo' _smament Whatever. The United States, in asking all the European belligerents to make a general agreement to square their submarine warfare with the principles of humanity and international law, has taken the position that under changed conditions of naval warfare, mer- chant ships should carry no arma- ment whatever. All the powers have been noti- fied that unless they subscribe to such principles armed merchant- men will be denied entry to American ports except under the conditions which apply to war- ships. Summary of the Note. Such a proposal now in the hands of the belligerent governments has been transmitted in a note which, while not in actual language, is substantially as follow: It is assumed that all of the govern- ments addressed are equally desirous of protecting their own subjects and citizens who are non-combatants from the hazards of submarine warfare. Realizing the appalling loss of life of non-combatants which results from the destruction of a merchant vessel with- out removing passengers and crews to places of safety, which is held to be violative of the principles of humanity and of international law, which should govern maritime warfare, the United States, at the same time, does not feel that a belligerent should be deprived of the right to use submarines in view of the usefulness which they have d veloped since the outbreak of the pres- ent war. Proposals of United States. That a formula may be found com- pletely within the rules of internation- al law and of humanity which will re- quire in its adoption only a trifling change in the practices which have ob- tained in the past and before the war, which formula would be just and fair to all belligerents, it Is proposed that: First—A non-combatant has the right to traverse the high seas in a merchant ship entitled to fly a belligerent flag, and rely upon the rules of interna_ tional law, and the principles of hu- manity if the vessel is approached by a belligerent war vessel. Second—A merchant vessel of any nationality should not be subject to attack until the belligerent warship has warned her to stony Should Halt When Ordered. Third—Any belligerent-owned mer- chant vessel should promptly obey any order from a* belligerent warship to stop. Fourth—No such merchant vessel should be fired upon unless she tries to flee or to resist by force, and even in guch case any attack upon her by. the Warship must stop as soon as the flight or resistance ceases. Fifth—Only in case it should be im- possible for military reasons for the warship to supply a prize crew or to convoy the merchant ship into port will she be justified in sinking such merchantman, and in that case pas- sengers and crew must be removed to a place of safety. Difficulties Are Appreciated. The State Department is fully appre- ciative of the obstacles which the adoption of these rules would place in the way of the operations of the sub- marines because of their structural weakness. Before the present war| maritime warfare on the high seas al-| ways has been conducted by battleships or cruisers carrying heavy guns. It is true that merchantmen were permitted to carry defensive armament, but these were light compared with the warships and did not change their na- ture as merchant vessels. This was based on the superior defensive strength of the warships and the limi- tation upon their armaments was for the purpose of limiting thelr power of resistance to ‘contact with pirates and privateers The introduction of the submarine| into naval warfart has changed all of this. This craft 1s almost without powers of defense beyond the ability to submerge to tscape an enemy. Light Gun Effective. A gun even of light caliber on a mer- chant ship successfully could defend her against a submarine. There are now no more pirates, and the practice of privateering has been abandoned by civilized nations by general agree- ment. Therefore, there can now ve no rea- son for the maintenance of even small caliber guns on merchant ships unless it is designed to make them superior to submarines, and thereby deprive that class of warships of their undoubted right with safety to warn and search guch merchantmen. In reality, there- fore, any such armament of a merchant vessel now might be regarded as of- fensive, armament. If submarines should be required to stop and search merchant vessels be- fore attacking them and to remove the passengers and crews to places of safety, it Is not fair that the subma- rines should be compelled to expose themselves to destruction at the hands of merchantment. General Agreement Necessary. Therefore, by a general agreement among the belligerents submarines should be required to adhere strictly to the present provision of interna- legislature in Tuesday's democratic #0 prominently to the front in comnec- tion with the railroads, when he sug- gested by trying. to. meet increased pepenses by ing rates the railroad primary. The vote for lteutenant gov- ernor js still incomplete, but returns indicate that Fernand Mouton of La- fayette vail be nominated. tional law to stop and search merchant ships; to ascertain their belligerent character and remove the passengers (atfiwee cn v PRESIDENT'S TOUR TO BEGIN TONIGHT Cabinet Meeting Is Canceled and Program of Speechmak- ing Itinerary Completed. President Wilson returned from New York at 7:15 o'clock this morning. He went immediately to the White House. The President saw several senators and representatives on legislative mat- ters, but the usual Friday cabinet meet- ing was canceled. He expected to see Secretary Lansing, however, to discuss foreign questions. During the Presi- dent's trip Mr. Lansing will keep him informed constantly of all important developments in the international sit- uation. Before departure tonight the President and Mrs. Wilson will attend a dinner given in their honor by Sec- retary and Mrs. McAdoo. His Speechmaking Program. | The President will deliver the first address of his western trip in Pitts- burgh tomorrow. He will speak in Cleveland tomorrow night; in Milwau- kee Monday, in Chicago Monday night, in Deg Moines Tuesday, in Topeka Wed- nesday, in Kansas City Wednesday night, im St. Louis Thursday morning and will return home Friday afternoon. He will also speak from the platform of his car in many towns through which he will pass. | On the trip west he will be accompa- nied by Mrs. Wilson, Secretary Tum- ulty, Dr. C. T. Grayson, the White House physician; two stenographers, a telegrapher, and an unusually large corps of secret service men. He will attend no banquets or social affairs, ; but will aevote practically the entire trip to speaking and traveling. Dr. Grayson sald today the President is in good physical condition for the tour. Plans Brief Addresses From Train. Plans were made today for the Presi- dent to deliver brief speeches from his train at Davenport and Newton, Iowa, in addition to others already announc- | ed. It also was arranged that after his| address at the principal meeting in Topeka the President will speak briefly at an overflow meeting in the high school auditorium. MILITARY SERVICE BILL GETS THE ROYAL ASSENT LONDON, January 28.—The royal as- sent and other formalities giving stat- utory force to the military service bill, the trading with the enemy bill and the bill prolonging the life of parliament, were concluded in the house of lords yesterday ana parliament was pro-! rogued until February 15. ‘At the reassembling next month after an unusually short recess the house of commons, owing to the necessity for financing the war, will be engaged al- most exclusively for some weeks ' in financial business. A new war credit vote will be necessary as the sums al- ready voted will be exhausted before the end of February. Secretary McAdoo Goes South Feb. 5 Secretary McAdoo will leave Wash- ington Saturday, February 5, to visit Birmingham, Dallas, Fort Worth, Mem- phis and Louisville, returning to Wash- ington Monday, February 14. The Sec- retary will be accompanied by Mrs. Mc- Adoo and George R. Cooksey, his sec- retary. W. P. G. Harding of the fed- eral reserve board will accompany the Secretary to Dallas, where the Secre- tary and Mr. Harding will. meet the officers and directors of the federal r serve bank of Dallas. The Secretary in addition, has a number of depart mental, matters, including public build- ing questions, to settle jn the cities to ov visited. MUCHO THELOOT SON RECIVERED Robbery of Chicago Bank Fol- lowed Quickly by Arrest of Criminals. CHICAGO, January ‘Much of the $15,000 stolen from the Washington Park National Bank in the raid yester- day was recovered today by the police, and thirteen persons were taken into custody. Identification of Eddie Mack and four of the arrested men was made today by J. Garland Stahl, vice president of the bank. Through a woman who was arrested with one of the suspected men word came to the police today of rooms which recently had been rented in a West Side apartment building. tectives went to the place and forced their way into a room occupied by five men and three women. Newsboy Makes Discovery. While they were breaking down the door a newsboy in the street outside saw a pasteboard box fall at his feet. He kicked it, and ten-dollar dnd twen. ty-dollar bills fell out. The boy called a policeman nearby, and they replaced the money in the box. Then the squad of detectives appeared with their pris- oners and took charge of the box. At detective headquarters the money was counted and spread out on the captain's desk. It totaled $7,800, and many of the bills were identified by the cashier of the bank. The prisoners were taken to the office of the state's attorney to be questioned. Search is being made for the rest of the stolen money. Those held by the police are “Eddie” Mack, “Eddie” Burns, alias Byrnes; Har- ry Fein, alias “Pinkie”; Harry Brandt, Carl Hoffman, Aleck Brodie, Mrs. Mar- garet Hogan, Mrs. Beckie Fein and Julia Sostello. Joseph Friedman and his wife were held as witnesses, but no charges were placed against them and they were not believed to have had any connection with the robbery. Police Captain Has “Hunch.” Capt. Hunt said that the arrests were due to a “hunch” which he had “that pickpockets had turned ‘stick-up’ men.” “[ sent my men out to arrest Eddie Mack, who was known to them as a pickpocket, and to take also every man who worked with him. We sus- pected the house in Southwestern ave- nue, and the detail that went there got results.” eee Committee to Visit Central America Appointment of a committee to return the visit of Central Americans who at- tended the recent pan-American finan- cial conference is announced by Secre- tary McAdoo. The committee will sail from New Orleans tomorrow, and will be away two months. Its members are Lamar C. Quintero, New Orleans; Ernest Ling, New_York; John Clausen, San Franci co; J. P. Ripley, New York; Thomas J. Walker, San Fernando, Cal.; Roger W. Babson, Boston; Arthur L. Rice, Chi- cago; John 5. Lawrence, Boston, and F. Ggier, Cincinnati. De-| 040,467 MEN LOST BY BRITISH IN W ‘Premier Asquith Reveals Cas- ualties in All Fields of Operation. LONDON, January Premier As- quith, in a written reply to a request for information, says that the toal British casualties in all figlds of operations up to January 9 were 549,467, of which were, officers and 525,345 of other The casualties were distributed as fol- lows: Flanders and France. Kittea Pe Officers. ae Vounded . (248,990 Missing : 16m 32344 Total officers and men, 400,510. Dardanelles. Other ranks. {Kintea . | Wounded Hae Missing Total officers and men, 117,549. Other Fronts. Officers. } Killed ‘18 ‘Wounded B16 Missing 0000222021 101 Total officers and men, 31,408, Grand total, 549,467. Reveal Winter Inactivity. The winter's inactivi on the fight- jing lines is reflected-in the compara- |tively light losses of iheeBritish during the last few weeks. The previous offi- jcial British report, made by Premier Asquith December 24, gave casualties up to December 9 at 528,227, showing a loss in the intervening month of 21,240, or 685 daily. During the heav- lest fighting British casualties have run far in excess of this average. They amounted to 60,000 in the battle of Loos alone, in a period of two weeks last jfall. The monthly average from the beginning of the war is about 32,000. The British losses in the month pre- [ceding the period covered in today’s report were still smaller. The total from November 9 to December 9 was 7,997. | \ = | Dies After Executing Criminals. RALEIGH, N. C., January 28.—Thomas P. Sale, fifty-five, warden of the North Carolina penitentiary here, died of apo- plexy today a half hour after he had superintended the electrocution of two negroes. Physicians who witnessed the executions declared the warden ap- peared agitated as he unstrapped the bodies of the negroes from the electric chair after death had occurred. Mr.. Sale retired to his office and shortly afterward became unconscious. He had expired when physicians reached nim. Rev. Hind, Marrying Parson, Dies. DETROIT, Mich., January 28.—Rev. Duncan H. Hind, rector of St. John’s P. E. Church of Sandwich, Ont., widely known throughout that part of Canada, died at his home today. He had been in. charge of the parish twenty-nine years, and it was said that he had mar- ried more eloping couples from De- troit than all the other ministers in both Windsor, Ont., and Sandwich com- bined. He is survived by a widow and five children. Frank G. Carpenter Visits Gateway of Alaska. Prince Rupert, an Aladdin-built Port, has Streets” Carved from Solid Rock, Roadway, Municipal _ Courts in the Skies and t Interesting Article in The Base Ball Grounds, Miles of Plank Tennis Read this Twenty he Single Tax. Sunday Star. TRUTH ABOUT NAVY THEME OF ADDRESS Senator Tillman Speaks in Praise of the Work of Sec- retary Daniels. CALLS HIM RED-BLOODED, UPSTANDING AMERICAN South Carolinian Also Attacks State- ment Attributed to Former Sec- retary Meyer. “The Truth About the Navy" was the subject of an address by Senator Till- man in the Senate today. The chair- man of the naval affairs committee, in characteristic vein, singled out and at- tacked George von L. Meyer, former Secretary of the Navy. He predicted that Secretary Daniels will go down in history as “one of the greatest secre- taries the navy has ever known.” Senator Tillman declared untrue the charges made by former Secretary Meyer before the National Security Con- gress to the effect that the navy is “brainless.” There still remains “Ad- miral George Dewey, Senator Tillman declared, and then he lauded the heads of the various bureaus of the Navy Department today. “The head of the navy himself is not a pampered and petted darling of in- herited wealth,” said Senator Tillman, “but a red-blooded, upstanding, for- ward-looking American, who is a grad- ate in the hard school of experienc and a practical man with wholesome ideas. I predict that Josephus Daniels will go down in history as one of the greatest secretaries the navy has ever had.” Senator Tillman’s Address. Senator Tillman continued: “Imagine my astonishment when I read in the New York Sun of January 22, the following: “The fundamental defect of the Navy | Department is that it has no brain, | no competent military organization | charged with the preparation of the | fleets for war and with their con- duct in war, and in consequence the} Navy ig being built and administered | on a police basis, and is not being ef-1 ficiently prepared for war service.’ “Can any of you guess who made this woeful utterance, and where’ George von L. Meyer, former Secretary of the navy. @The speech was made at the New Willard Hotel, in this city recently before the National Security League, where many of those patriots who are zealously endeavoring to turn the demoirats out of office and get back in themselves had assembled for conference. "I flatter myself—whether it is true or not—that a large majority of my fellow-countrymen have absolute reli- anee uponmy integrity. They believe | I will tell the truth, if I know it. 1, therefore, feel it to be my duty to make the speech I am now making {n order to let the world know what I believe to be the exact conditions and that | feel warranted in saying what I do in regard to the navy and the Navy De- partment. Discusses Increase of Navy. “It behooves us all to be on the alert in regard to increasing our navy and its adjuncts along all reasonable lines. The United States ought to have a navy second only to Greot Britain. But we need not lose our heads and run wild in pursuing that object, and above all no one should be unjust and untruth- ful in criticisms of existing conditions “Looking further, I found this para- graph in Mr. Meyer's speech: { “‘Nothing demonstrates unprepared-| ness in the navy more than shortage, of personne To go on a war basis we | are short about 2,000 officers, after em-| ploying all that are on the retired list | and about 45,000 men.p “Mr. Meyer forgets, if he ever knew, that at the time he left the Navy De- partment the service was nearly 6,000 short of the authorized enlisted com- plement; that 46 per cent of the men discharged in good standing were then leaving the navy, while 85 per cent are now re-enlisting; that during his in- cumbency there were 10,360 desertions. “Mr. Meyer needed men, and did the | somewhat clouded, but it appez GENERALS GIVE UP MONTENEGRO FIEHT, AUSTRIANS ASSERT Vukotitch, Leader of Resist- ance to Invaders, and Other Officers Surrender. ALBANIA OPERATIONS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE Bulgars Join in Apparent Effort to Overrun the Coun- try. SERBIANS MAY BE CUT OFF March on Durazzo Under Way. Greeks Show Uneasiness and Send Reinforcements to Border. LONDON es » January 28—Ad- from Vienna say that Gen. Vukotitch, who, according to en- tente reports, to lead the Montenegrin resistance against the Austro-Hungarian troops, has surrendered at Dan- ilovorad, together with several other Montenegrin generals. Operations which may have an important bearing on the Balkan situation are now taking place in Albania. The situation there is has continued that the Austrians and Bulgarians jointly are making the most of what appears to be their present opportunity to overrun the coun- try, in which little effective oppo- sition to their action is apparent. ~ Rely on Essad Pasha. ‘The entente powers seem to be place ing reliance on Essad Pasha, who far vors their cause, to hold the forces of the Teutonic allies in check temporas - rily, but what measures, if any, are being taken to assist him ate not yet apparent. British correspondents believe Lssad Pasha can be trusted to hold out for some time, especially as the condition of the roads is such that the Austrians can hanily bring artillery against him. It is feared that the Serbians and Montenegrins who remain in the Scutari district have been cut off from safety. There is a large Serbian force at Durazzo, but it is not in condition to make any resistance. * Marching on Durazzo. A dispatch from 3 that several sections of the arm en. Koevess, having met no resistance at San Givanni di Medua and Alessio, are now marching on Durazzo, according to the Athens respondent of the Secolo. ‘Their advance guards were reported Wednesday near Kroia, and it is said that Gen. Koevess tries to enlist Albanian volunteers and, when they refuse to join, offers to buy their arms, thus hoping ‘to disarm the population ‘and protect himself against attack. Few, however, consent to part with their weapons. Greece Is Interested. The movements of the Bulgarians in southern Albania are followed with great interest in Greece, the dispatch continues. y . = T saria id to be marching best he knew how to get them; and yet| The Bulgarian: be i he left the navy nearly 6,000 short. {ftom Berat te ans plumiis from Lake Yet he has the cheek to hold his suc-|Uchrida. ‘The Greeks, it is a ave sent reinforcements to Kari cessor responsible for conditions which | are due wholly to his own shortcom-| ings as Secretary. How can he speak} with authority on the needs? Who is responsible for shortage in officers, pray? “Every one knows officers cannot be enlisted like sailors. It takes four years (Continued on Second Page,) navy's present | the} DAY IN CONGRESS. | regarding th ernment’s poli s re: ure distrust ‘u pverents unea 3 stro, ane in military it is said als Britain Denies Reports Forces at Aden, Arabia, Are in Critical Position LONDON, January 28.—The official Met at noon. Senator Tillman of South Caro- lina addressed the Senate on “The Truth About the Navy.” Military affairs committee con- tinued hearings on army reor- ganization. enator Sherman introduced a resolution of protest against re- newed demands by Japan on China. House: Met at noon. Military and naval affairs com- mittees continued national de- fense hearings. Social workers and labor ex perts pleaded for revision of fed- eral workmen's compensation law. press bureau last evening gave out a statement denying the truth of the re- ports contained in the Kolnische Volks- | Zeitung’s dispatch from Cairo concern- jing the situation at Aden. | BERLIN, Januar: ding to ithe Kolnische Volkszeitung’s Cairo cor- respondent, the situation of the Brit- ish forces at Aden in December was re- | ported to be dangerous. Aden was sur- r rounded from the land side by r S | lous strong, well armed Arab tribes and a few Turkish regulars. The British garrison, consisting of 20,000 men, was said to be defending itself stubbornly, and only the fire from the warships had saved them from capture Turk Forces Evacuate Trenches Near Kut and Retire About One Mile DISTRICT IN CONGRESS. Senater The Senate District committee today reported without recom- mendation, but with three minor amendments, the Sheppard bill for prohibition in the District. The bill went to the calendar. Senator Sheppard gave notice he would call it up as soon as the Philippine and waterpower bills have been disposed of. ‘A bill_was favorably reported by the District committee direct- ing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a title to a lot on 3d street north of Pennsylvania avenue to Otto L. Wolfsteiner and Libby M. Thomson. An item of $9,500 for an addi- tion to. the Powell School was included. in the urgency de. ficiency bill reported by the a propriations committee today. The committee also inserted an item of $25,000 for the Arlington Memorial bridge commission. Senator Oliver of Pennsylvani offered an amendment to the Dis. trict appropriations bill for the macadamizing of Portland street. LONDON, January -Gen. Town- shend, commanding the British for invested at Kut-el-Amara, in Meson tamia, eported that the Turks have evacuated their trenches on the land side of tne defenses at Kut and have retired, generally speaking, to about a mile from the British intrench- ments, it is officially announced No change in the situation was re- portci by Gen. Aylmer, commanding the Sritish column that has been marching to the relief of the Kut-el- Amara garrison. Seeks Right to Call Witnesses. The House judiciary committee has de- cided to ask for the right to subpoena and examine such witnesses as Represent- ative Buchanan of Illinois desires to call in the investigation impeachment charges made by him United of against States Attorney Marshall of New York city. The action was decided upon at an executive session of the committee yes- terday. Representative Buchanan told the committee that he would not be able to prove his charges unless the commit- tee gave Gee Ss pe —— produce witnesses,