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NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1915.—TWELVE PAGES. f AUSTRIANS MAKE LAND AND SEA . ATTACK ON ADRIATIC COAST OF ITALY; REPELLED AFTER BRIEF CANNONADE i . = 1 ‘Destroyers and Torpedo Boats Fire on Several Points Simultaneously "L | With Assault by Aeroplanes---Slight Damage Done at Ancona; $o Reported Germany Has Declared War on Italy gt ] 4d Allies Leave 2,000 Dead on Battleficld “L‘ When Attack on Southern End of Gallipoli Is Repulsed By Turks— _An Old Turkish Gunboat Sunk "By Allied Submarine—German Of- fensive in East Checked. ostilities -between Italy and Aus- opened early this morning with an _Austrian land and sea attack on jthe: Adriatic coast of Italy. An offi- il statement from Rome says that Austrian destroyers and ‘torpedo boats red on several points along the k , ‘simultaneously with an attack Dby aeroplanes. It is aserted that the ‘attack was repelled after a brief can- ) nofade. o %' Attacks were made at Venice, Por- Corsini, Barletta and Gesi, showing at the raid extended over the peater part of the eastern shore. The ,.’ damage inflicted, so far as the falian comunication shows, was it Ancon, where an attempt of avia- to blow up the railroad caused all injury. ' Russian Battleship Sunk. A'n unofficial report from Berlin tes that the Russian battleship Panteleimon has been sunk in the lack sea, with the loss of 1,400 men. e Turkish war office announces that an attack undertaken by the al- lies on the southern end of Gallipoli Ffalled and that the attackers left 000 dead on the field. message coming trém Germany roundabout way states that - the fseml-official Wolff Agency has an nounced that Germany has declared ar,on Italy. 8 # ! Armies Along Frontler. h Austria afd Italy have large . along the frontier, and it is, ed the campaign mountainous region. . Italy also 5. 4 to’ have assembled an army on the southeastern coast of the coun- aeross the Adriatic from Albania. Official announcement is made at Austro-German trograd that the Jforces. after ' sweeping across tp; stern half of Galicia, have beel [ohecked. They are now said to have jumed the defensive, their efforts compel a general retreat of the sgians from the San having falled. Allies Land 30,000 Troops. ' Constantinople advices 'say the Prench and British haye landed 30,- P00 more men at the Dardanelles, in ddition to. 60,000 debarked original- The Turkish government announces [he 10ss of an old gunboat, sunk by hostile submarine. ¢ THe official communications today tom Berlin and Paris state that en- fagements occurred yesterday at jgveral points in Belgium and thern France, as well as betwéen flile Meuse and the Moselle rivers. Ap- parently no changes of consequence “ the relative positions of the op- posing - forces resulted. w Attacks Italian Arsenals. Rdme, May 24. via Paris—Officlal nouncement was made here today lat Austrian aeroplanes have at- acked the governmental arsenal at nlpq. The aeroplanes were driven Porto Corsini, Ancona, Barletta and ‘also were attacked. . . Sweep KEastern: Coast, [It is apparent from the foregoing Bspatch that Austrian aeroplanes ‘e swept virtually ' the ' en- fe eastern coast of Italy.” * From enice, at the head of the Adriatic, have made their way as far it as Barletta, a distance of 350 s, committing acts of hostility hting their 'progress. Barletta is miles north of the Strait of franto, the southern entrance to the i riatic. [Granted that the aeroplanes started pm Trieste or Pala, they did not ve more than eigthy or ninety miles trdvel to reach Venice. Driven ay from here, they would appear have’ turned south. Porto Cor- is the seaport of Ravenna and pout sixty-eight miles south of Ven- Ancona is anothér geaport on Adriatic, 185 miles nartheast of pme and about 140 miles south of e in an air line. Al by Austrian Warships. Paris, May 24, 2:30 p. m.—An at- bk by Austrian warships on the east- coast of Italy, along the Adriatic, innounced in an officfal communi- jon from the Italian war office, nsmitted to Paris by the corres- ndént of the Havas Agency. It is the Austrian warships were to withdraw after a short can- 2 ) 1 aternent tollows:. vas foreseen that on the de- tien of war several actions would (Continued on Eleventh Page) .. RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP SUNK IN BLACK SEA WITH LOSS OF 1,400 MEN MISS ROGERS 1S SAFE: RUSSIANS RELIEYE VAN Czar’s Forces Drive Turks Away from Mission Center. Tiflis, Transcaucasia, Sunday, May 23, Via. Petrograd, May 24, 10:80 a. m, and London, 12:18 p. m.—A de- tachment of Russian soldiers has oc- cupied the town of Van in Asiatic Turkey, thus bringing reitef to the Armenians who were being besieged there by the Turks. Upon the advent of the Russians the Turks retreated in the direction of Bitlis. Van in Turkish Armenia and Uru- miah in Persia have been the scenes of persecution of and attacks upon Ar- menians by Turks and Kurds for sev- eral months. The situation became so serious that the powers or Burope protested to Turkey, saying that Tur- kish officials would be held personally responsible. The above dispatch was read to a member of the family of D. O. Rogers of Camp street today ana was the best news received since the Turxs began to attack Van. Miss Gertrude Rogers, a missionary located in Van, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. The last news received from her was through a letter, which reached this city' last week. It dated March 29 ‘and stated that conditions in Van ‘were -becoming \lfxcertuln. SHERIFF FINED FOR DELIVERING BOOZE “Will” Hart Didn't Know He Was Violating Law by Not Having “Orders. (Special to the Herald.) Plainville, May 24.—Deputy Sheriff W. C. Hart of this place, and James Lee, one of his teamsters, were each fined $10 and costs, amounting to $42.20, in the police court in Bristol this morning, Judge W. J. Malone ruling that charges of violation of the liquor laws, brought against them by the authorities, had been sustained. An appeal to the superior court was {aken, , They were accused of having brought into a no-license town for de- livery, kegs of beer for which they did not have the orders of the owner to his agent, which the law requires. Their appearance' in court resulted from the arrest Saturday night of Lee, Ruben Bates, Cliffora May and Addison Ives, a quartet of local young men, who were on one of Hart's livery teams when it went througn Forest- ville. The outfit was held up by an officer, who locked up the young men when they were wnable to show orders for the liquors in the wagon. According to Sheriff Hart, the beer was brought here Saturday by two Polish residents of Forestville. They subsequently turned it over to him, paying him to deliver it: to their homes. As a common carrier he as- sumed he had the right to make a delivery without complying with the formalities which the law has woven around beer peddlers. }e nad no Lknowledge that he left nimself or his teamsters amenable to punishment. Judge Malone ruled differently, however, and the accused were let off with the minimum penaity, the court realizing that there was no intention of breaking the law. WATERWAYS CONFERENCE, Convention to Be Held In Hartford Sometime During Month of June. There will be a meeting of the epecial committee of ‘the Hartford Chamber of Commerce at 4 o'clock this afternoon ‘to meet with the officers of the Connecticut Deeper Waterways association in regard to the holding of the annual convention of this asgociation in Hartford next menth, % According to the plans to be out- lired, the guests at the convention will iake a boat at Saybrook and after stopping at various potnts vl interest along the Connecticut river will stop at Hartford for the convention, Several eminent waterway enthus- iasts from Washington and Philadel- phia wiil be present and speak. ’10 PREACH FAREWELL SERMO! MAY TAKE ICE CROP AWAY FROM RHOADES Mayor. Corpedation Counsel and Wa- ter Commissioners Will Decide at Meeting Tomorrow. Edgar Rhoades will probably deprived cf the privilege of selling New Britiin's municipal ice crop at a meeting tomorrow of Mayor Quig- ley, Corporation Cc.nsel J. E. Coop- er and the board of water commis- sioners. Jt wa: originally decided to hold the meeting this morning, but Corporation Counsel Cooper was un- able to attend It is suid that Rhoades agreed to secure $500 by last Saturday night to make nis s:cond payment on the crop. ' He has already made a pay- ment of. $500 but another was due May 1 wnd he has been unable to meet this obliration. According to rumor, Edward Green- stein is willing and desirous of tak- ing ov:r Rhoades contract. stein would have bought the crop when it was sjld but did not know that the city wee seeking a purchaser. He is sail to have purchasea 2,000 tons of ice on the day before the city crop wes rold and says he would have bid for the local' harvest if he had known that it was to be sold. Green- stein recei.tly hcught part of the city crop of Rhoades The wai.r fommissioners feel that they have been very lenient with Rhoade ' urd ‘.ave given him all the leeway he could expect. be _Rev. P. S, Levonian to Serve Congre. “gation at Mill River, Maes. Rev. Puzant S. Levonian, Armfeniay pastor of the First Congregational church, will preach his farewell se mon at the Armenian sérvice at o’clock next Sunday afternoon. Rev. Levonian hag: been serving the church regularly while pursuing his studies at the Hartford Theological seminary ‘the past few years and it is expected that a large number will attend the last service he will conduct here. Rev. Levonian is going to Mill River, Mass., to preach to the Armenian con- gregation there during the summer months. He hopes that by fall he will be able to return to Armenia s a missionary. His ordination took blace about a week ago at Southing- ton, GINSBERG-MARCUS, New York Couple Wedded at Home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Wiener. Max Cinsberg and Miss Bertha ried by Rabbi Rosenberg yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Wiener of 116 West street. The couple were attended by Israel, lamuel, Miss Rose and Miss Sarah Wiener. A supper was ser ed after the wed- ding after which the couple left for Boston for a short stay. On their re- turn they will reside at 116 West street. M. Girsberg will enter the employ of his «ousin at 8§ Myrtle street. —t GERMANS WITHDREW CAPITAL . Invested in Italy to Avold Sequestra- 4 tion of Property, Geneva, May 24, via Paris, 11 a. m.—German financial interests in an- | ticipation of the war with Italy, be-'| gan as early as May 1 to withdraw capital fr Italy, so that sequestra- tion of German property might be | { avoided. It is estimated that German invest- ments in Italian industries amounted {to fully $300,000,000. Some estimates run as high as $2,000,000,000. NO CALL TO ITALIAN AMERIC AN Washington, May 24.—At the Ital- | ian embassy today all official status was disclaimed for such a call to American citizens of Italian birth, as was published today in New York and elsewhere, Embassy officials declared the Itallan government could not and would not call on naturalized Ameri- cans to return to their native land and take up arms, Such citizens, however, are frec to go to Italy of their own choice, unarmed and individually and in such a way as not to violate the neutrality of the United States. ANOTHER ERUPTION TODAY, Reding, Cal; May 24.—Another eruption of Lassen peak began today | at 11 o'clock, All fences in the lLas- | j fen national forest are reported to | e been destroyed. Logs swept | down the sidp of Lassen peak have been piled in a dam which has caused Green- | Marcus, both of New York, were mar- | | post, G. | Manzanila creek to change its course. Ao s ESTAB MRS. ABBE GIVES HOSPITAL $3,000 Will Be Used to Furnish and Room in Memory of Mother, Almira Beckiey Booth, Mrs. Albert N. Abbe of 109 Vine street, has given to the New Britain General hospital the sum or 33,000, to be used for furnishing and equipping a private room at the hospital, ‘to ne known as the Almira Beckley Booth room, as a memorial to Mrs. Abbe’s mother. It is planned to rearrange one of the wards so as to make two or three ad- ditional private rooms, ang one of them will be selected by Mrs . Abbe for the above namad purpose. STANLEY WORKS HAS A NEW BUSINESS SCHOOL Wednesday Night Club Al- ready Has Membership of Twenty-Seven. * Put down another star for the Stan- ley Works. This concern, which is admittedly one of the most progres- sive in the city, has shown more indi- cations of its live-wire metnods by the ovpening of a new schooi of business instruction. Already this school has a membership of twenty-seven and when others who are not. enrolled realize the advantages to be gained the membership is bound to increase. The school is to, be known as the Wednesday Night club ana the class will meet every two weeks. It s bLeing conducted in conjunction with the Alexander Hamilton Institute of New *York, which specializes on busi- ness instruction. The two years course consists of instruction in modern business methoas. it may be taken individually but the group plan bas been found to work successfully in other manufacturing concerns and has been adopted by tne Stanley Works. Notable success has been shown by this group pian In the big plant of the General Electric company in New York state ana wmne Hendee Manufacturing company in Springfield, of which Ciarence A. Earle, formerly manager of the Corbin Screw corpora- A thiseity] fy O oagy e “stidents enrolled in the course re- ceive a set of text books and on each meeting night receive e printed lec- ture for perusal during the following | two weeks, Accompanying tnis lec- ture is a business problem, the answer to which must.be written and sent to the Institute. Each problem will be discussed in full by the Stanley Works class and thus the memveis will re- ceive the benefit of the knowledge held by specialists in otner depart- ments. Stanley Sheldon is chairman of the executive committee of the club and is the prime mover in its organization. Other members of the committee are Jf. H. Fellows, G. H. Hick, E. W. Irving and G. D, Rawlin®s. President Ernest W. Christ of the Chamber of Commerce, purchasing agent of the Stanley Works, is a member of the class. J. 0. DEMING IS 74 YEARS YOUNG TODAY Althoungh in Ill Health, Veteran of Civil War Has Good Spirits—Has Long- Record as Soldier, Julius O. Deming, of 93 Camp street, one of New Britain's best known citizens , is observing his seventy-fourth birthday' today and is receiving the congratulations and besi, wishes of 2 host of friends. Mr, Deming was born in Granby on May 24, 1841, but has lived the greater part of his life in New Bri- tain. He took an active part in the civil war and served throughout the great rebellion on thé union side. Mr. Deming first enlisted on Company T, | First Connecticyt.aegiment, for three months. Later he re-enlisted for the remainder of the war in Company G, th Connecticut regiraent, and was mustered out as. color sergeant on April 30, 1865. He joined Stanley A. R., in August, 1867, and went through its various offices. He was commander of the post in 1908 and retired a year ago as quarter- master. i Mr, Deming spent many years of his life in business, conducting a fruit and periodical store on Main street. For a time his stores were located a short distance south of the railroad tracks and he was also lo- cated at one time at the corner of Main and Chestnut streete. Mr. Deming has been in ill health for a long while. KING CONSTANTINE IMPROVED. ‘Washington, May 24.—King Con- stantine of Greece is improved, ac- | cording to a despatch received today at the legation here, has abated, the mes The king’s fever ge says, WE e THER. Hartford. May 24.—Showers tonight. Tuesday fair, ' Equip I LABORER KILLED AT CARBO'S BRICK YARD Brains Dashed Out by Col.isien Wiih Wagon as Back Gves Way. DEATH 1S INSTANTANEQUS Dead ‘Man Leaves Widow aml Thece Children in Italy—James Buckic Brakeman, Squeezed Between Cars and Leg is Broken. Louis Martinelli, aged was instantly killed this morning at Carbo’s Brick yard, Keasington, when a clay bank upon which he wus standing caved in pitching hin against the rear of a cart close by int) which he was loading clay, .'he dead wman leaves a wife and ‘hrec children in Italy. Martinelli was standing alone on the clay bank loading the clay into a cart when the bank, which had been undermined about three feet, sud- denly gave way. Laborers learned of the accident by hearing a scrsam pierce the air, and upon running to the scené were shocked at the sight. There lay Martinelli with his head in a pool of blood, The workers were panic stricken at the gashly sight. One however, more level headed than the rest, rushed to the office where he informed Mr, Carbo of the acci- dent. Mr. Carbo went to the scene and at once had a hurry call sent to Drs. R. M. and M. H. Griswold, of Kensington. Death Was Instantaneous. ‘When the doctors arrived the man was dead. Dr. M. H. Griswold, who is thé medical examiner, when inter- viewed this afternoon said that Mar- | tinelli had probably died instantly. The man's head was split open = as if it had been done with an axe, Since the man leaves a wife and three children in the old country ihe Jtalian counsul at New Haven has been informed and will at once look | after the case. A nephew, employed | at the same brickyard, is the only rel- | ative in this country. The body has been turned over to T. W. Mitchell and company of this | city for burial. i Brakeman Buckley Injured. James Buckley, a brakenian at tho tocal freight vards ral his right 1& {-bioken justymiowe thenknoe at ahou 2:3070'clock this afternoon caught heiween two cars at Coal & Wood company's siding Elm street. Buckley was standing at the brake- wheel of one car when the other can caught between the two. The police ambulance was summoned and after considerable difficulty the injured man was taken down from the top of the car and conveyed to the depot whers | Yardmaster Halliday had a speciul train ready to take him to Hartfora where he was removed to St. Francis | hospital. Thomas Buckley, a brother of the injured man, was working near hira at the time and with his other com- panions did all possible to relieve his pain. Buckley is one of the soldest best known of the New Britain rail- road men. He has been employed as a brakeman on the local division for a good many years. PHELPS-BARTLETT ENGAGEMENT Mrs. John P. Bartlett and Daughter, Miss Eleanor, Visiting in City. Mr. and Mrs. J. Bartlett of New York city, formerly of New Britain, are announcing the engagement f their daughter, Miss Eleanor, to Ca ter Phelps, sqn of George B. Phelps, of New York city, Mr. Phelps was graduated from Yale in 1914, Mrs. Bartlett and her daughter, Eleanor, are visiting at the home of Mrs. M. L. Fitch, 25 Emmons place. They were residents of the city eigh- teen years ago and made their home at the Hines' house on Hillside place, where Miss Eleanor Bartlett was born. Hungerford firm of Mitchell, and Dartlett. vet been fixed. CONFAB ON DETENTION OF MEAT CARGOES ¢ State Department 1o nt Britain to Hurry Payment for Products, Washington, May 24.—Representa- tives of four of the great American meat packing concerns gathered here today for conferences with state de- partment officials over the detention of meat cargoes in British ports, The packers are prepared to ask the state department to urge Great Brit- ain to hurry payment for cargoes val- tained while on their way to neutra adjacent to Germany, and to ask mora liberal treatment of such comme; All the representatives of the pack- ers here say there is no thought of stopping meat shipments to England as one way of forcing compliance with thelr request. The packers will be re- ceived hy state department officials to- morrow, 1 thirty-five | | LITTLE EXCITEMENT j IN ITALIAN COLONY Local Italians Evince But Litte Sur- | prise When They Learn of Italy’s Declaration, he long expected announcement that Italy has joined the war on the side of the Allies which came todoy | has occasioned but little excitement in | ; he local Itallan colony, While all | of the Italians in this city evince | great interest in the situation, there ! has been no publc demonstration,’ nor | does there seem to be any planned. { | John DiNonno, a local steamship | | agent who does considerable business { in securing passage to and from Italy | for his countrymen, states that thers | has been no appreciable increase in | the number engaging passage sincs the war between Italy and Austriu | seemed about to become a reality. | When the war talk first siarted, | however, Mr. DiNonno states, qui‘e ! a large number of the younger Ital- | ian men in this city, those who rad | | been here but a comparatively short | time, became infused wiih patriotism | and at once returned to their native | | land for the purpose of enlisting in | the army. | Should the war with Tialy prove a | | long drawn out and deadly affuir, | however, it will pull heavily on lo: Italians as there are a large number | | of those eligible for the reserve arufy | hre who would certainly be recalled. | "HOPES AMERICH SHOW PATH € Wison loudl} Appié American Financial C: PRAISES “JANDSOME President Declarey lcas Are Not Trying w One Another, But Be of Use to One Al Washington, May 24, Wilson, speaking at tHe' tne Pan-American finanei here today, expressed the Americans might sho the path to peace. Th loudly applauded by thy he entered the hall of th the Pan-American build meetings are being held, the audlence included mi ernment officials, in representatives of South American countries, The president declal of the Americas were | make use of one anotl “DOWN WITH TRAITORS; Cries of Austrians During 7:41 a. reached a climax in Vienna last night, according to a telegram received here from Italy’s declaration of manifesto of Emperor Francis Joseph, | calling upon the army, navy and all | his people for patriotic deévotion, had been published about 9 o'clock, spontaneously in all parts of the city. | The DOWN WITH ITALY” Patriotic Demonstration Held in Vienna, that 80. via London, May 24, manifestations Amsterdam, m.—Patriotic capital, and the Austrian, After i war . the editions gathered special crowds in Thousands of residents paraded the i this sort, we are lack if private capital vide means of such the government must |y form were members of the & L trying to be of use to O | He spoke of the “Handse) | which, he sald, was good | of the physicall communication between ti he said, stood somewhat in the development of comm | friendship. In advocating. r | in Pan-American trade ing of new routes, the pi Respond to We when he the bumped into it, his right leg being and | The date for the wedding has not | i fused to accept German streets singing patriotic songs and | cheering tie emperor,“the-monarchy, the allied army and navy. | war ministry patriotic specches were | delivered, Officers and soldiers were | greeted with tremendous applause. | | ingignation against Italy found ex- | pression in cries of “Down with | | traitors. Down with Itdly!” No at- tacks upon Italians were made, how- | | ever. % . The town council of Triest has been dissolved by the emperor as that city is subjéct only to the imperial gov- ernment, The governor of Triest in | turn ‘nas dissolved the town ecouncil of Goritz, The Prague newspaper Narodni| Poiitaka, discussing editorially the en- | trance of Ttaly into the war, says: “The monarchy has no fear of the war which it will undergo victoriously and gloriously with all the more certitude | because of the local assistance of Ger- | many.” The Hlas Naroda of Prague doeclares the people of Austria and Hungary prefer a passage of arms with Italy to | an untrustworthy and untenable | { friendship purchased with very heavy | sacrifices. ! AUSTRIAN FOREIGN i MINISTER RESIGNS | i | | | Count Tisza, the Hungarian Premicr Is Report, i | Paris, May 24, §:45 A, M.—A Havas | despatch from Rome says the | rlere Della Sera announces the resig- Cor- foreign minister, and says taat he will | be succeeded by Count Tisza, the Hun- i garian premier, t Rome* May 23, v Paris, May 24, | 5:80 A. M.—Reports which have been received herc that Baron Burian, tie Austrian forcign minister, has re- and have caused wide comment. His reported fall is attributed to the fail- ure of the Austro-Italian negotiations .and the declaration of war by Italy. The newspapers point that Count Von Berchtold his predecessor, re- suggestions regarding the necessity of granting concessions to Italy, Kajetan Morey | Von Kapos-Mere, who retired as Aus- trian ambassador to.Italy soon after war began was sald to have been | obliged to give up his post becuse he firmly maintained that Italy never would take up arms against the cen- . tral empires. A similar stand w | taken by Baron Burlan in direct op- CORYF BU Allen Moore of Works today transferred. to Cerbin a parcel of land at Ledge, where Mr. Corbin intends to LAND, Fe Stanley | Philip | ¢ Sunny | the | i« said the price paid | 812,000 ana $13,000. crect a home in the neur future, It was between Beforp the | ! when the jealously | | competition Mr. Bartlett was & partner in the law | D3tlon of Baron Burlan, the Austriun | orfoctly certain that this i signed, are generally accepted as true | venture of establ means of commu ment must undertake to cannot indefinitely stand s need eich other for the ued at several millions dollars, de- | position to the advice of Prince Von | | Buelow, the German ambassador. | strumentelii other, “UL e very sup even a source of morts a conference like been so long delayed, th rever have occurred bef «hould have requived & world to show the truly they were nel other. If there is circumstance, gen: of the present., di ances of the world, it is revealed us to one shown us what it means bors. And I cannot the hope, the By U 4 path to peace, tinetion which they already manent peace, us, the kind of rivairy whigh involve aggression. It i edge that man can be of service to one another, the greatest service merely a jealousy of exe when the basis of their ing friendship. There is in which we wish to take by so Basis ‘of Personal ¥ “I am wo keenly aware basis of personal in excellence t hasis for the friendship of this here is no dislike; of & common clevation In “ommon. “There is one thing that tal cannot soon an easily be supplied cannot # nother must be found upply s We cannot sther unless we see annot denl with each othe ommunicate with each i (Continued on Tenth Fa At the conclusion of the address he was applauded @ remained in the hall | tatives of the different sponded to his weltome, President W i(lsg) “There can he no sort interest if there ix & purp ploitation on the part of connected with a great confs We are not, t! ing to make use of each trying to be of use o ery high ; by this commerce of mi another, as well as commeros wel may show ‘the world in v “It would be a very great th the Americans could add to I of showing the way to peaces The way (o Pt at any rate, is manifesth 7 e, { Baron Burian Will Be Succeeded by |of you, and that is by making | soods, if we can, than you do jand so spurring you on, If we handsome a jealousy o8 | to excel ug. 4 by~ riendship, | bandsome rivalry, this rivalry : i i which there is nothing but terprises which we can und, r way among others-for more convevednt with the stances thag 4'amg The thi chiefly tn mind is of means of communication, of vehicles, the lack of ships, | of established routes of trade, ti of those things which are necessary if we are to have t mercial and intimate rela one another; and I am perfec in my judgment that if pri upon ng these tion, the at paymio soon as we communicate and a familiar footing of Intercowrse