Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 16, 1915, Page 1

50 DECLARES GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIK IN TURN REFUSES TO “ACCEPT GERMANY'S PRO- POSAL AND WILL PROHIBIT FOODSTUFFS ENTERING THAT COUNTRY (By Assoclated Press.) Rotterdam, Feb. 16.—The Ger- man chancellor has advised the lo- cal chamber of commerce that Ger— man submarines generally will be unable to distinguish between neu- tral and British merchantmen found in the naval war zone. All there. fore risk destruction, he says, and it is necessary that all neutral ships avoid the war zone and thus avoid loss. The chancellor says that Ger - many does not regard the British merchant fleet as unarmed and en- titled to warning before attack. He says they are equipped with guns, and that large rewards are offered for the first merchantman sinking & German submarine. — Britain to Prohibit Food Going to Germ 2 any (By Associated Press.) London, Feb. 16.—Prohibition against foodstuffe destined for Ger- many will be proclaimed by Great Britain tonight or tomorrow, ac. -cording to present expectations. The government’s retaliatory measure against the threatened German sub- marine blockade will go into imme- diate effect. Wi on Greatly Interested (By Associated Press.) Whashington, Feb. 16.—Adminis. tration officials today awaited with %een Interest indications of Eng- 1atid’s attitude toward -the- German propodal to abandon her plan for destroying the eénémy's merchant= men In British waters if England would allow cargoes of food for Ger- man civillans to pass unmolested. The German ambassador communi- cated the proposal to the state We- partment yesterday, and it was im . mediately forwarded to London. — Along the Battle Line {By Assoclation Press.) London, Feb. 16.—The Teutonic allies’ general offensive along the extended eastern front is continuing successfully on both sides, according to repccts reaching London, but without a visible forward movement on the’front toward Warsaw or the Carpathians. Reports that the Austrians had reoccupied the capital of Bukowina come from Bucharest alone. Petrograd admits officially that the Austrians are advancing in considerable force on Bukowina and {that Gesperate fighting marks the -operations in the Carpathians, where ‘the Russians claim mjnor successes. The ‘Russians have mnot regained thelr fortified Tnes in east Prussia. The German advance, While un- checked, seems, according to British observers, to be proceeding with less speed. Paris reports that the sole activity on the western front consists of ar- tillery engagements. Italy ‘Wants Donmania Protected (By Associated Press.: Milan, Feb. 16.—Italy has asked Germany and Austria for assurances that they will not invade Roumania, declares a local mnewspaper. The paper says the request resulted from reports that Austria was threaten— ing the Roumanian border. I May Mobilize Within Two .- Weeks (By Associated Press.) London, Feb. 16.—Ricciotti Ga~ ribaldi, the Italian patriot, declared ze her He as- serted that unless the Italian gov= ernment‘ decided to participate in the war there would be a revolu~ today that Ttaly would mobill army within a fortnight. tion. Polish Town Captured (By Associated Press.) Berlin, Feb, 16.—The Wi have captured Plock, an lmportan Polish town. SRV Madria, Feb. adopted an serve regarding = Germany’s war sone proclamation an avoid anything - that.is 3 neutral breach, it is sald. join the United, States if tbe lat possibl LAKELAND E _WILL RISK' DESTRUCTION ar office announced today that German forces 16.—Spain has ttitude of extreme re- - naval a wilt It was ter Droposed. Jolnt measures by all nev LAKELANT, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, ¥XB. 16, 1916. STATE COMPTROLLER'S REPORT MAKES GOOD SHOWING Tallahassee, Feb. 16.—The an. nual report of Hon. W.. V. Knott state comptroller, for the year o; 1914 is just out of the press. In it is given a history of the financial transactions of the State in the usual concise and intelligent forms. The State of Florida is probably in @ more satisfactory condition, finan- cially, than any State in the Union. The entire bonded debt of the State fund of the State, and the intrstc$i is only $601,567, all of which is ‘held and owned by the educational is paid ower to this fund and dis. tributed to the counties for the use of the schools. The actual cash In the treasury on the 31st day of December, 1914, was $1,501,114.42, with not a single dollar of unfunded or floating debt. The report for this year contains, in addition to the matter embraced in reports of form- er years, a set of interesting tables relating to the finances of all the counties of the State. These tables Were prépared, ag stated in the re- port, from the reports of the county officers made in accordance with the| 1 (BY Assoclated Press.) b Thentoan Mo . Beh: A6 - 200 requirements of an act of the legis- New York, Feb. 16.—A speclal|Senate today passed the woman suf- lature of 1913, known as chapter Panel of talesmeén for the selection | frage amendment to the State con. 6428. These tables show the stand-"Of & jury to try Harry Thaw, |gtjtution, which had already passed Ing of each of the county funds by “charged with conspiracy in comnec-|tho House. The question will be counties and the expenditures per tion with his Matteawan escape, Was gubmitted to the voters in Septem - capita on each account. ordered drawn todsy. The trial 18 ber. : set for March 1. DISEASE desolation and death is this picture taken immediately after a hot encounter between some Ger- mans and French in one of the principal streets of Lille. A company of uhlans tried to force its way through _city. As they were passing through one of the main streets they were unexpectedly confronted by a detachment of French infantry. A hot fight ensued, and after a few minutes the German uhlans were driven back with heavy NEW JERSEY READY {THOUSANDS FLEE TO R TS TRAL 5 SE FORNARCH 1 T0 OTENSURFRAG NSH FRO eI Nish, Servia, jnormally a town o A scene of ruin, (By Assoclation Press.) thousand souls. The stranger with. in the city gates wonders where all the people seen on the streets sleep at night. The small public park, as well as the two principal shop- ping streets, are as crowded during the daylight hours a9 Broadway and Fifth avenue on a late afternoon. {The problem of caring for the thou= |sands who fled here from Belgrade | and the northern communities of the country when war was declared has been & difficult one. Every house with vacant IN WARRING NATIONS TAKES MANY TR (By Association Press.) . (By Amociated Press.) e b oyl 3 . o British tLondon, Feb. 16—Notwithstand -\ pmer Whv'c.:ot from l:em:col.l ing modern medical sclence, 80 DeT | ypich was beached yesterday after- cent of the deaths in the present !'.trlkln. a mine in the English Wes. pre dus to disease as against 20-. channel, was floated today. Inspec= @ue to gun Nre,. These are the fig |uon showed damage to be extensive. BELGIUM MAY GET _ CLE. CITIES (By. Associated Press.) London, Feb. 16.—Out of the ashes and debris of devastated Bel. glum, idealists hope there will spring cleaner and more hgautitul cities, whether the Belgiang gp the Germang build them, 'The Inter- [national Garden Cities and Town TO STEAMER EXTENSIVE DAMAGE - wres compiled by Dr. F. N. San rooms | Dlanning Assoclation, e TR deered by th B , co-operating | with, writing {n tiia guerent lssue of . : was commandeer y the govern. withr Belglan officiais Béld & confer-|“The Hospital."” This saity vromr-'mm mflu,fi%‘m ;menl but even this action tailed to ence in London this week to g0 6ver | tion obtained during thé Russow. AND FULL! NFESSRS j provide ehelter for hundreds of fug- y | tties from the battle districts. In 8 | the dilemng i1 which Servian peo- ple found thems?ivgs the American Red Cross missfon came as & verit. and A. G. Gardner near Welaks, |able God send. Everywhore the As. Fla., arrived in the city about 9 soclated’ Press correspondent has o'clock yesterday morning from traveled he has encountered évi= Blizabethton, "Tenn., In charge of |dences of good work done by Amer. Chiet A. D. Ausbrooks, of Eliza- ican citizens and has everywhere bethton, and Lieut. Detective W. B. found grateful appreciation on the Cahoon, and was turned over to part of the Servian people. This ap- Sheriff R. L. Kennerly, of Putnam |Preclation was officlally expressed county. Stover made a complete by M. Milosh Petronievitch, one of confession after his arrival and the administrators of the diplomatie states that he Killed both men ater |Press bureau, who speaks English he had béen severely beaten by the | Perfectiy. men and badly treated while in their | “Our constitution,” sald M. Pat< employ as a guide. ronievitch, “and all of our institu- tions are really modeled from those of the United States of America, and some day we nope to be really an Amsrican state here st the end of Jacksonville, Feb, 16.==Usrefiil ironed with heavy chaing, Clyd Stover, the negro who has complété . ly confessed to the killing of H. C. Turkish war of 1877-78. Duting the American Civil War there weté three deaths to disease to every one from wounds, that ig to say, a mor- tality due to disease of sixty-six and two.thirds per cent. During the Fremch expedition in Madagascar in 1895, according to the writer, only twenty-nine deaths occured {n action as against seven thousand who died by disease. In the United States army during the war with Spain fourteen dfed of dis- ease to every one killed in action, although the war lasted a little more than eix weeks. In the Boar war the losses from disease were enormous, notwithstanding the im- provements in military hyglene {hen in force. The Japanese, however, during the war with Russis, were able by exer- the situation. It is pointed out that the wide- spread destruction of propérty in Belgium affords a remarkable oppor— tunity throughout the country for adopting on a large scale the prin- ciples of modern towns and villages urged by the association. London, Feb. 15.—In responee to the demand for mouth organs for the use of the British soldiers and sailors, one of the larger {nstru- ment firms liere has ordered 10,000 from Switzerland. All of them are for a sinzle customer, who intends to distribute them among the vari- ous ships of the fleet in home wa- ters.. Another firm has soid 4,000 mouth organs since the Dbeginning of the war, and has placed an order for 4,000 more. The cnly sources OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORTS 16.— For Tampa of supply now are Switzerland and | cising the most scrupulous care, to T"""'| .F -, Gurope and the beginning of Asia. the United States. reverse the ratlo. Tn the case of |04 Viel irdP gy bl e | That, as well as the sympatny and their troops only one man died of . 2 Bl i M ald for our wounded sent us by the tonight. Wednesday fair and cooler. For Florida: Fair in northwest; showerg and cooler {n peninsula to~ night. Wednesday fair; cooler in central portion. ' of American Red Cross during all three of our recent wars, actounts for the very warm welcome we shall always give to any American who cares to come out and study us at closer range. *‘We are not so hospitable to all foreigners. Servis ' is more accus~ tomed to having enemies than friends. From the time the Serbian empire came under the Turks in the disease to every four who died wounds. SUNDAY'S SUCCESS IN paterson, N. J., Feb. 16.—Bish~ op Berry will speak here tonight telling of the good RBilly Sunday’s campaign did in Philadelphia. NEVER FORGET CLUB ORGANIZED IN LONDON Paris Feels Need of Fuel (By Assoclated Press.) Paris, Feb. 16.—Paris Is still feeling the lack of fuel. There is said to be plenty of English coal but (By Associated Press.) London, Feb. 16.—London has organized the Never Forget League. PARIS SHOPS OPEN Paris, Feb 16.—The Parisian shops are open today for foreign Itg purpose is to aid soldlers and |1t comes in great blocks and there | go;rteenth century, until its libera~ buvers, and will continue thetr sailors who find themselves out of |is not enough help to break it up at|¢i,n in the early part of the nine. posuy Rouen, the coal port of Paris, so as teenth century Serbia as cut off as a state from all the rest of the worla. Her "urkish tyrants had but ape idea, to destroy the soul of the race, the memory of its gloricus and martial past, of its aristocratic tra=~ ditions and of its racial unity with employment when the war 18 over. Thirty. thousand leaflets of the or- ganization have been distributed, and fifteen thousand persons have already promised to wear the purple ribbon of the league, binding them— selves to support the men who re- spring opening until the twentieth. Advertisements to the effect have been sent out in all of the trade journals throughout the city and cent to England, and the Americas. Many buyers have arrived, but the to make it available for the retail trade. To remedy the situation the minister of commerce proposes to recruit miners to increase the out- put of French mines that are not in the hands of the Germans. OF FRANK L. MAYES Pensacola, Feb. 1.—I. W. Sea. man of Chicago, who recently closed for 150,000 acres of land in Georgia and who came to Pensacola yester- at the A CAR TURNED TURTLE AND KILLED HIM sured all American buyers th: boats will make regular trips, and that they will not be held up, and that shipments of goods will g0 for- ward promptly. about 100 mileg southwest of Nish, who purchased | s jife on the road between this city | that he intends to place there the and West Florida, 5 Jeaving bome had taken some of his | knowing that he had recently died. young friends home. After leaving them, he, started for pqugo, where he had been runzing & {fvery car for geveral months. It is supposed he fell half asleep and in some way pressed the clutch of his car in such a way as to cause it to turn over on top of him. The body was not found rtment, as it is|until Sunday morning, but the sup- gy “:t::dofd e::, organizers to | position is that he was Kkilled ::: ::.::m. pond feature of the stantly as he was pinned under heavy car. business. possession today, when which had held up er were gettled. it is understood, ceiver, took all of the matters the formal transf! new Oowners, ?l.lel organize 3 banking and trust company and launch it here about the middle of the year. A meuufln: floor will be built in the bank s: this department will be used for the off famo(ls’ guard of MARINE BAND AT MARKET the Janissaries. Washington, Feb. 16.—The Ma- rine band will lend its tone and, tuneful music to the pure food ex-| hibition which will be held here to. day. The carnival will last a week. This market is reported to be the fargest in the wdrld, there being 80,000 square feet. . e Montenegro. From these and sub (Continued on Page 4.) VENING TELEGR B00ST-REMEMSER THAT SATAN STAYED [N REAYEN UNTIL NE BEGAN T0 KNOCK HIS HONE TOWN | - PURCHASE BIL MILITARY TRAINING the |under any any officer not born a Feb. 16.—Nish, | tional training destroys t some twenty |citizen soldier is & man whose every thousand, has been transformed into |interest is bound up with the main- a city of more than one hundred |tenance of peace,” 1 be itively nothing :Z:;:r:‘lnto the p:mnl of former |turn from the front just as loyally the other Slav peoples. Its chivalry years. The Cunard line has as-|as they are supporting them now. MAUSOLEUM FOR BODY perished In the great battle of Kos- sova in 1389. Kossova is a vast plain where the battle of Turkish con. quest between the forces of the Sul- tan Murad 1. and the Serblan Em- peror Lazar was fought in the four. — el Orlando, Feb. 16.—Edward A. it ports for the past year from Warsaw h century. This great battle . . oldest son of W. G. Spah~ day, announced that within a few show that the number of sulcides| .. : PENSACOLA TO HAVE f::h;:ninenl o inwns man of Taft, | months he will have erected In Pen- ended with the complete overthrow | = o 0", pandie ot They ought to put up a a sign pensacola, Feb. 16.—1. W Sea! | was illed Saturdar nieht “heh D0ICCE, L s e ::::-ds'yr::n i vo| withstanding the thousands of ot i, T Bt e d t t | lenm for the reception of bodies and me. Dowwing and associates of Brewton | .,r turned turtle and crushed ou whole of southwest iurope by the starving refugees who have crowded “You'd better see Gallieni Turks. This domination i.cluded . Bank building |and Taft. He had spent the even- body of the late Frank L. Mayes, the First National 52 - all the peoples now comprising the { - d after ame here to see, not geveral months ago from the re-[ing at his home in Taft an whom he ¢ Balkan States. All the sons of the noble Serbian families were carried to Constantinople to form the Th‘e‘y’ ‘were reared in complete ignor— ance of their parentage, and with but one ideal, the sultan. A certain number of the great Serbian families escaped into Russia, Austria and sequent emigrations have sprung the MAY REACH VOTE TONIGHT 4 |SPECIAL RULE LIMITS DEBATE :IN SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND| T0 §IX HOURS; BELIEVED (By Associated Press.) NEW MEASURE MAY BE London, Feb.1 6.—The question of military training in the schools is| Apyp TO PROGRESSIVE RE. PUBLICANS now a live one over all Britain, and the chief agitators are not army men but teachers. Lack of proper ma- terial for officers to take the place of those killed and injured at the front and to supply Kitchener's huge new army and the inadequate- 1y officered territoria]l force, is one of the most serious problems of the war. /11 of the higher schools have been called on for subalterns, as the British “Tommy" objects to serving (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 16.—President Wilson’s fight for the ship purchase bill was launched in the House to< day with a special rule which lim- ited debate to six hours. Democratic leaderg are sure that by holding the lange majority firm they will have a new measure bearing the adminis- tration’s approval and probably ate tractive to some Republicans, ready for the Senate before the end of the day’s session. The president sent 'word to the leaders to press the fight . The House later adopted the spe= cial rule limiting the ship bill de< bate and six hours of speech-making' followed, with indication that the vote would be taken at 8 o'clock to= night. gentleman. The teachers feel that they were in a sense to blame for not having given their students some elementa] preliminary training furthep than that of the small stu- dent officers’ corps. At a meeting of the Incoporated Association of Headmasters in the London Guildhall, F. H., Templar sald In regard to the New Zealand system of universal military train- ing in the schools: “While con~ Beription produces militarism, na. it. The (By Assoclated Press.) ‘Washington, Feb. 16.—President Wilson said today that he favored a reasonable. general cloture rule in the Senate which wolld stop ob- structive tactics without halting fair debate. He sald he helleved evi. dencé of need of shipping bil} wag ‘accumulating and it would pass, + ‘Another speaker pointed out that military. drill and rifle ¢ shooting were' compulsory in the 8w schools, yet he asked who weuld ac= cuse the Swies of militarism, ‘A resolution declaring that mili~ tary training {n the Schools would save thé country from having to im- provise an army in war time by pro- viding w reservoir of partly trained men, was passed with only a few dissenting votes. bl HOSPITAL SAME AS PERSON IN ANTLNARCOTIC LAW Jacksonville, Feb, 16.-Internal Revenue Collector Hayes has been notified by the United treasury de- partment at Washington that for purpose of enforcing the Anti.Nar- cotic law, & hospital will be consid« ered as & person and the same regu- lationg governing & physician, as to the keeping of records of drugs dis.. pensed or distributed, will apply to sald jnstitutions. A physiclan is not required to keep & ‘vecord ol drugs dispensed When making a per- 8onal visit on a patient, Unusual Story from Paris (By Associated Press.)’ Paris, Feb, .16.—S8o0 far as the public knows, the military courts have thus far had few sensational ‘“”" In yiew oi the frequenoy of 3y storles, many people are aston- ished not to Rear every day or so of a traitor or a forelgtl spy being con= demned to death. As & fule these cases are handled by drur-head coutt martial, and the culprit has already been shot before the story (By Assoclated Press.) of his exploits reaches the publre] Berlin, Feb. 16.—“Roland von 1f the story is true. It is more the | Berlin” brings the following anec~ routine busfness with which the|dote concerning the emperor and & regular sittings of the court martial | general designated u"'a\.“ have to do. 'Desertions, disrespect| During his recent trip to the east. to superiors, aggressions of all sorts | ern theater of war, the emperor paid and misdemeanors make up the cal-|a visit to the' general in question, endar. and showed the keenest interest im, A class of cases that is common 18 .and most intimate knowledge of, like that of Abdallah Ben Sald Ya-{what the army corps commanded hion, Algerian rifieman, who fell a|by “B" had done. The corps in victim to the warm hospitality of | question was one of the very best Paris. Recovering from a wound |gaid the emperor to the general in he was ordered to rejoin his regi-|the presence of the staff officers, and ment near Marseilles. He had never | he hoped that it would continue its seen Parlg and so many people show- | fine work. ered things upon him he thought it The con {was & pity to leave. He lived like |, t:: bmr;mrl:tl;:: :h‘;lchu::: :.l:: a prince six weeks, without spending | quarters of the general were locate a sou, when finally caught he had|eq, Atter shaking hands with th no defence excepting th weakness | ,moorg the emperor left, ac i of human nature and simply de-|panied by General “B” and s clared: “I brave man—want fght.” | 0 apgeq ye * JAbdallah was formally sentenced . to two years' hard labor but the sen~ it v:::n;;::dp:;x ::"::ld ‘:' door tence was suspended as it has been Russian prisoners . thousand in many other cases, and he Will be | pyroyoq toge o ":::-“:”::: sent to the front. Resistance of civilians to military :;Trr“h:';m the proceesion, regulations brings many cases like lllrn.ed % G lm.l.lo"on his face, that of Jacques Dellone into court. | = . eneral “B” with the Dellone is a hard~working man af- P 4 " fiicted with a peppery temper. He| will ny,’Generfl. that this is pulled @ hand cart with an eight. cleverly done.” hundred pound load up to the Bil- The smiles of the Emperor grew lancourt gate, where he was stopped wider yet when the embarrassed by a sentinel. “You can’t pass General “B” tried to explain that it here!" all was an accldent. “What!" cried Bellone, “after pulling this load a mile and a half, you want me to turn about with it? Not on your lite.” “Yon can't pass,” ANECTDOTE CONCERNING THE EMPEROR ' Suicides Have Decreased (By Assoclated Press.) Petrograd, Feb. 16.—Police re- Insistec the sentinel, barring the way with his the city since the beginning of the |y, » replied the sentinel war. e i ‘Gallieni! Who's Gallieni? I The number of suicides last year|g,n't know Gallieni and don’t care was 671, as against 1,003 for the|, giraw about him. I k previous year. but Joffre.” ; ity Dellone's ex was tha American breadco nsumers have | talked about Gm‘i':nd h: ::; ::: been mulcted $125,000,000 tod ate |know what authority he bad to his as toll to the European war, says an | credit. Omaha baker. ‘He was given five days in prison. Chicago South Park System is to| The Terminal Milk Corporation erect a modern laundry costing $22,- Now York was fined $500 for “l.lli-‘ 000, to wash free swimming suits iug” Croton reservoir wholesale into and towels. 3 its cans. : ~ 2 PN