New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1915, Page 1

NEW BRITAIN, CCX!NECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1915 —TWELVE PAGES. MERICAN NOTE SENT TO GERMANY TODAY-- LANSING NAMED SECRETARY ‘OF STATE AD INTERIM BY PRESIDENT an’s Resignation First in History of State Department as Direct Res ult of Clear Issue With Chief Executive on Foreign Policy; Says His Affection for Wilson is Unchanged TEARS IN HIS EYES WHILE FRIENDS e(‘,' L ies Office As Seeretary of State “Rather Than sign His Name ""l‘)‘ocument to Germany Stating, “Unmistakeable, = Determined 'Fi%phntio Terms, Demands Ty tited. States, to in and of s 2 ashington, June 9.—Just after 2 this afternoon the 'new Amer- : note to Germany which caused cabinet crisis culminating, in eretary Bryan's resignation, started its way to Berlin. It will be given ffor: publication in. morning pa-i of Friday. ‘Simultaneously, Wm ings Bryan's resignation as sec- of ‘state, took effect, and ' he out a statement of his attitude. | u note which is about 1,600 ‘in length is signed by Mr. Lan- answer is not expected from the, ' forelgn office for at least a lliam " Jennings Bryan, formally office as secretary of state and Robert Lansing; counsellor ithe state department, was appoint- President Wilson as secretary e ad dnterim. . The’change in ‘tlbluct at a critical ,mument lf ) W. J. BRYAN ——— tion's history took effect with patch of the note to Germany. ring not in the object sought— fevention of war—but in the ods0f approaching the problem, yan resigned rather than sign e to-the note which states in | able, determined and empha- ms, . the ‘demands of the United af“ | that/ his affection for flson was unchanged and ‘toward him. e can adcanse the cause of peacs: ¢ of official life and build up iment in the United States that st the president in maintain- ndly relations with all nations, n today went back to pri- ruignltmn of the secretary of of the United States over a dif- Je on a vital question of foreign }——itself unusual in the annals of ican history—was most dramati- otiched by numerous manifes- he’ of -personal regard for Mr. and his own emotional leaving fice he held so dearly. ” Mears In His Eyes. stood in his eyes while friends hended his courageous fight for liples and his determination to hate himself rather than con- in the cabinet as a possible em- ment to the president. e story of his fight to sway the §ldent’s judgment on the method ing ‘with the situation with pany is, as yet, untold. He made 6rt to align other members of jabinet with him, and when he to the parting of the ways, on ’conclllble question. of princi- ‘did not tell his colleagues gen- . hoping that his action to the ; "COMMEND HIS COURAGEOUS FIGHT i authoritatively Bryan’s resignation under considera- tion, and the secretary did not go to yesterday’s cabinet meeting until the president’s letter of acceptance reached him The president had in- vited him’to attend after letting the cabinet know of the- situation. Quiet- ly the consideration, of the note con- tinued and at the end of the meeting the president and remaining members of the cabinet expressed to Mr. Bryan their sense of personal regret. The close personal relationship of Mr. Bryan and the president will be | reflected in the former secretary’s future course, it was learned today Mr. Bryan intends to continue a staunch political sup- porter of Mr. Wilson on domestic af- fairs and believes he tan even assist him in the sentiment ne ‘hopes to build up for the principle of investi- gation of disputes before hostilities are begun. It was tnis idea which was embodied in thirty peace treaties negotiated by Mr. Bryan with the { principal nations of the world—all but Germany, Austria and Belgium and Japan, the first three of Which had accepted the principle, ‘Will Outline Position Late today after the note to Ger- many is on its way to Berlin, ' Mr. Bryan plans to issue from. his home a statement outlining his position on the' questions ‘that have arisen on the relgltion{.belyeen the United States WILL SUCCEED BRYAN ROBERT LANSING and Germany. Mr. Bryan contends it will be better to submit the entire question to an investigating commis- sion and pending its deliberations,have Americans’ refrain trom taking pas- sage on ships carryng contraband, or which venture into denger zones on the high seas. President Wilson is said to have been opposed to that idea, not only because he believed the United States, in, effect, would thereby be yielding its rights under international law, but +because there was no guaranty that lawful American commerce, would be | free free from dangers during discus- sion X To Test Thet these principles are not of suf- ficient Wtrength in American public opinion for the Washington govern- ment to commit itself to so firm a policy as might result in war, is the conviction of - .- and he hopes to test public sentiment in a way that | will assist the president as the Ameri- éan government’s policy is developed. _Dlnlcls Not to Resign. Reports that Secretary Daniels had resigned or would do so were current today but were flatly denied on all sides. out of the well known friendship and long intimacy in national politics of Mr. Bryan and Mr, Daniels. As a matter of fact, nine members of the cabinet stood solidly for the president’s position as expressed in the note. Mr. Daniels was with those who differed with the secretary of state. Some members even advised a stronger phraseology than the presi- dent had used, but on the final dis- cussion, the decision to send the note ‘was unanimous. There was a weil defined nemd of opinion in official. quarters that the - amic. senzzment. ould not produce any compll— in the cabinet. ¥ Bxpresses Perssnai Regret three days—from Saturday ‘to ondny—-the mfldent ha,d Mr. i resignation of Mr. Bryan would go far in impressing Germany with the earn- (Continued on Eleventh Page.). The report, it was said,' grew . BRYAN STATES POINTS 'IN WHICH HE DIFFERED ‘Washington, June 9.—Just as the nsw American note to Germany was started on its way over the telegraph wires, Mr. Bryan at his home gave out’ma statement of his position. 1My reason for resigning is clearly stated in my letter of regigation, ! nanfely, that I may employ as a private citizen the means which the presi- dert does not feel at liberty to employ. I hinor him for doing what he be- lieves to be right and I am sure that he desires, as I do, to find a peaceful solation of the problem which has been created by the action of the sub- marines Two Points of Difference. !“Two of the points on which we differ, each conscientious in his gon- viction, are: “First, as to the suggestion of investigation by an international com- misson, and, {'Second. as to warning Americans against traveling on belligerent ves- sels{or with cargoes of ammunition. B I believe that this nation should frankly state to Germany that we are willing to apply, in this case, the principle which we are bound by treaty to abply to disputes between the United States and thirty countries with Wwhi we have made treaties providing for investigation of all disputes of every character and nature. ' Treaties Make War Impossible. ' “These treaties, negotiated under this administration, make war practi- cally impossible between this country and these ‘thirty governments repre- senting nearly three-fourths of all the people of the world. fAmong the nations with which we have these treaties are Great Brit- ain, France and Russia. No matter what disputes may arise between us and these treaty. nations, we agree that there shall be no declaration and no cgmmencement of hostilities until the matters in dispute have been in. vestigated by an international commission, and a yvear's time is allowed for investigation and report. This plan was offered to all the nations with- out dny exceptions whatever, and Germany was one of theé ‘nations thaf accepted the principle, being the twelfth, I think, to accept. No treaty was actually entered into with Germany, but T cannet see that this should stand in the way when both nations endorsed the principle. 1 do not know whether Germany would accept the offer. but our country should, in my judgment, make the offer, : . Silence Ail Jingoes. Such an offer, if. accepted, would at once relieve the tension and silence all the jingoes who are demanding war. Germany -has always’ been a friendly nation, and a great many of our beople are of German ancestry. Why should we not deal with Ger- many according to this' plan to which the nation has pledged its support? i Sccond Point of Differerice. Arheé’ sedond point of aifference is as to the course which should he pursl!ed in Tegard to Americans traveling on belligerent ships or with cargdes of ammunition. “Why should an American citizen be permitted to involve this country in wdr by traveling upon a belligerent ship when he knows that the ship® will pass through a danger zone? The question is not whether an Ameri- can gitizen has a right, under international law to travel on a belligerent ship;, the question is whether he ought not, out of consideration for his country, if not for his own safety, avoid danger when avoidance is pos- sible. ! [ 41t is a very one-sided citizenship that dompels a government to go to war over a citizen’s rights and yetreleves :he citizen of all obligations to cohsiler his nation’s welfare. I do not know just how far the presi- deat jcan legally go in actually preventing Americans from travelling on belligerent ships, but-I believe the government should go as far as it can, and that in case of doubt it should give the benefit of the doubt to the government. {But even if the government could not legally One-Sided Citizenship. prevent citizens from [ travelling on belligerent ships it could and; in my judgment, should earn- estly advise American citizens not to risk themiselves or the peace of their country, and I have no doubt that thesc warnings would be heeded. ' Americans in Mexico Warned. “President Taft aavised Americans to lezsve Mexico when insurrection cut there. and President Wilson has repeated the advice. This ad- in iny judgment, was eminently wise, and I think the same course be followed in regard to the wanning Americans to keep off ves- ubject to attack. v brok: vice, shaoul sels Bryan Disagreed. !i think, too, that American passenger ships should be prohibited from carying ammunition. The lives of passengers ought not to be en- dangered by cargoes of ammunition whether that danger comes from pos- sible texplosions within or from possible attacks from without. assengers and ammunition should not travel together. The aflempt to prevent American citizens from incurring these risks is entirely con- sistent” with the effort which our government is making to prevent at- tacks’ from submarines £ W One 'Doeéd/ Not Exclude . Other, “The AA of one remedy ‘does not exclude the use of the of most ‘familiar illustration is t0' be found in the action taken by mu- nicipgl authorities during a riot. Itis the duty of the mayor to sup- press!the mob and to prevent violence, but ' he does not hesitate to warn 'citizens to keep off the streets during the riot. He does not question their right to use the streets, but for their own protection and in the interest of order, he warns them not to incur the risks involved in going upon the streets when men are shooting at each other. The president does not feel justified in taking the action above stated. That is, he does not feel justified, first, in suggesting the submis- sion of the controversy to investigation, or second, in warning the people not to incur the extra hazards in travelling on belligerent ships carryirg ammunition. And he may be right in the position he has taken, but as a ! private citizen, I am free to urge both of these propositions and to call public attention to these remedies in the hope of securing such an ex- | pression of public sentiment as will support the president in employing these remedies if, in the future, he finds it consistent with his sense of duty to favor .them. er. The Rescrves Other Points. Secretary ‘Bryan said, in giving out his statement, that while it men- i tioned only two points of difference, he reserved any others for presen- ‘tation in the future. No Comment From White At the White House Secretary Tumulty stated positively. that no com- ument would be made on Mr. Bryan's statement. Housc. 'LODGE ADVOCATES UNION OF NATIONS Strong Force Necessary to Main- | tain World Peace, Says Senator |GANNOT BE DONE BY WORDS In Specch at Union College Exercises | Senator Declares That for a Nation | to Disarm and Leave Itself Defence- less is Direct In\'ltadon to War. Schenectady, N. Y., June 9.—Sen- ator Henry Cabot Lodge, speaking to- day at the commencement exercises at | Union college, asserted that world peace would never be maintained | without strong force and advocated a | union of nations with international policeafloat and ashore, strong enough | to overcome the strongest individual | state. “How is peace to be established and maintained among nations?” Sepator Lodge said. “One thing is certain: It cannot be done by words. Noth- ing will be accomplished by people who are sheltered under neutrality gathering outside the edges of the | fight and from comfortable safety summoning the combatants to throw | down their arms and make peace be- cause war is filled with horrors and women are the mothers of men. The nations and the men now fighting as they believe for their lives and their freedom and their national existence know all this better than any one else {and would heed such babble, if they heard it, no more than the twitter- ing of birds.” Invitation to War. It would be as futile, Senator Lodge said, to abolish armaments as it would be to abolish fire because fire sometimes caused great conflagrations with their attendant loss of life and | property, or knives because knives in- | icted wounds. ' The reason lays deep- er than armaments; it was the de- sire to use them wrongly, for aggres- sion. A general reduction of arma- ments, he said, should be sought with | earnestness, but for one nation to dis- arm and leave itself defenseless in an armed world is a direct incentive and | invitation to war. “Nations must unite,” the senator said, “‘as men unite to preserve peace and order. The great nations must |'be so united as to be able to say to lany single country, ‘You must not go to war,’ and they can only say that | effectively when the country desiring | war knows that the force which the | united nations place behind pecae is irresistible. 1 am certain that it is in this direction alone that we can find hope for the maintenance of .the world’s peace and the avoidance of needless wars. Barren of All Hope. “It may easily be said that this | idea, which is not a new one, is im- practicable, but it is better’'than the | idea that war can be stopped by lan- guage, by speechmaking, by vain agreements which no one would carry out when the stress came, for these methods are not only impracticable but impossible and barren of all hope of real result.” The college conferred baccalaureate | degrees upon four Civil war veterans jwho stopped their studies to join the Union army more thar half a century | ago. The degrees were those they would have won had their studies not been interrupted. MORE WAR ORDER TALK 1S HEARD | | | Strange Foreigners Said to Be French Government Representatives in { term of the court of common pleas. ASSERTS PARTNERS HAVE CHEATED HIM sante Soldati Brii_. Suit Against | American Soap Company on Arch Street. Alleging fraudulent conspiracy, SantesSoldati, who claims to be an equal partner in the American Soap company located on Arch street, to- day brought suit against Theodore Faccio and Gontrado Cataldo for $400. The soap factory was closed up by Constable Fred Winkle and Lawyer F. B. Hungerford made out the writ | returnable before the September Sodati claims that on Arpil 15 he | put $200 into soap business and gave note for $150 more. the proprietors claiming that the business belonged to them, was free from debt and was profitable. Soldati was taken in as an equal pr.iner and was supposed to share in the profits. He worked six weeks without pay and values services at $12 per week In his complaint Soldati declares that the statements made to himr were false. He says the business was in debt and was not profitable and the two other partners took his $200 and appropriated it to their own use. He also declares that they collected nu- merous bills and he did not receive his share. ONE PERSON KILLED IN AERIAL RAID ON VENICE | Austrian Aeroplane Drops Bombs on Italian Town— | Many Houses Damaged Rome, June 8, via Paris, 11:05 p. m.—The Italian official version of the Austrian aerial raid upon Venice this morning is contained in the follow- ing statement issued last night at the war office: “An enemy aeroplane flew over Venice this morning and dropped a number of bombs which slightly damaged several private houses. Fragments of projectiles | bruised a woman’s arms and struck 'a young girl in the head. Several bombs also were thrown further in- land killing one person and wound- ing several others.” Venice, June 8, 10:20 p. m. via Paris June 9, 4:10 a. m.—One person was killed and several were wounded by bombs dropped this morning from the Austrian aeroplane which flew over the city. The property damage was not heavy and no historic bulldings suffered. Later it was seen that there were two aeroplanes together. Their presence was signalled promptly and they at once became the objett of a concentrated fire from the anti-air- ship guns stationed around Venice. Under this fire one of the machines gave up the attack and disappeared in an easterly direction. It is be- lieved it was damaged. The other threw down about a dozen bombs, aimed principally at the .air- ship station at Campaltone. None of them struck the hanger, but here it was there occurred one fatality, a corporal of engineers. Other bombs fell in the canal and one damaged a steamboat which plies in the grand canal. Windows of the Hotel Monaco were broken by one mis- sile, while another crashed through a roof and fell into a bed, but did not explode. In the meantime the fire directed against this aeroplane was increasing, and it finally turned in.the direction of the sea and disappeared. { This City Recently. | Within the past week two strangers | who admitted havimg left France on | March 17, 1915, to. investigate man- ufacturing conditions in this country, paid a visit to this city and during their stay they made their headquar- ters at the Hotel Beloin. To Mr.| Beloin they gave the names of Reive | R. Balleux and Aifred A. Gehret. | ! Throughout their stay they kept close |tabs on the manufacturing conditions in this city, particularly at the New | Britain Machine company and the North & Judd company. H To Mr. Beloin they confided that | they tried to place an order with one loecal concern who refused to take it on account of the large amount of business that the firm has on hand. They left this city Sunday with Tor- ! rington as their destination. They also planned to visit Waterbury and Bridgeport befort taking their depar- ture for France. Another mysterious stranger ar- rived here shortly after 5 o’clock yes- | terday afternoon in company with an interpreter. The strangers approached a local citizen and inquired the lo- !cality of the New Britain Machine company. It was rumored that the men were agents of the French gov- ernment, but the company are reti- cent regarding information concerning the matter. Hartford, June 9.—Fair to- night and Thursday. e e e e e i, § | Shepherds of Bethlehem to Celebrate | forced hereafter FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY. Tomorrow Night. Star of Good Will lodge, No 9, der of Shepherds of Methlehem, will observe its fifteenth anniversary to- morrow evening, The following bro- gram has been arranged: Address of welcome—Mrs. Juengst, commander. Song—Mr. Thompson Recitation—Miss Laurie Boftham. Recitation—Miss Eva Kingo. Piano solo—Miss Goodrich. I'ialogue — “Independence ~five girls, Quartet. Recitation—Miss Agnes Corr. Recitation—Howara Botham. Piano solo—Miss Goodrich. Solo—Miss Mary La Rochelle, Recitation—Miss Helen Chapman. Recitation—Miss May Bollman, Song—Mr. Thompson. Or- Henry Bell,” t! AUTO TIRES BY PARCEL POS Postmaster Delaney Receives Orders From P. O. Department. t t Postmaster W. F. Delaney receiv: notification from the postal authori- tles in Washington, D. C., today of the new order allowing the ship- ment of auto tires through the par- cel post. As yet no shipments hav been made or received at the loecal office under the new system. An order which will be strictly en- in parcel post mat- ters, Is to the effect that the name of the sender shall appear on the mat- ! G t | eastward sweep. don, | Austrian press headquarters eastern front army in Bukowina, strengthened by portions of th tachments alrcady dereated at } eastern Galicia, has been fully from the middle Galician forces Russians and is being driven eastward. | German forces from Kalusz are a few miles from Stanislau. gained an important Sunday. bl effect a junction with the tro v and nearer the TEUTONIG Fl TAKE STA EASTWARD Galician Town Falls tro-German A in Bukowina Eng GERMAN SUBMARINE- SUNK BY THE Premier Asquith Ann British Casualtics From of War to May 31, 009 Men—Allies Lose at Dardanelles. Another victory for German armies in Gall nounced officially ‘today The town of Stanislau has | tured by the Teutonic fo A despatch from A headquarters to Cologne Russian army in Bukowina, trian crownland, east of G been cut oft from the R in middle Galicia and is bein castward. Stanislau lies between Lemberg, the G ital still held by the R Czernowitz capital of B Russian Victory Unofficlal despatches say the Russians have won in eastern Galicia, checking trians and Germans along This is not borne out by advi Petrograd, however, and s | to the official German an of today. One of Germany's suby ers has been sunk and her and twenty-one men have prisoners by the Britigh, to announcement made by four, secretary of the ad Ttalian Dllm An TItalian dirigible whig day attacked the Austrian. | Fiume caught fire and was o to descend on the Adriatic Italian authorities stated crew probably had been the Austrians. The total of British killed, wounded and mi; beginning of the war to glven by Premier Asquith | 258,009, A communication from 8rad war office indicates German army which invaded tic provinces has won fu cesses. Having brought in ments, the Germans made a tack and compelled the Russl fall' back from the town of in the Province of Kovno, The loss of another ship by ¥ lies at the Dardanelles is ann in an official report from Co nople. It is sald a transport | struck by a shell and sét on fin later it sank. The report L state whether it was a British French transport, or whether was loss of life. The landing & troops on Gallipoli Peninsula allies is reported from Athens, The British steamer Lady ' #§ bury has been sunk by a Germ marine. Austrians Take Stanislau, Berlin, June 9, via London 3! m.—The Galician town of has been captured by the Au according to the official state sued by the German army h ters today. Stanislau Is 76 southeast of Lemberg, the G capital. 15 ¥ Russians Out Of. Cologne, Germany, June 9, :36 p. m.—A despateh 1 states that the R which had The victerious Repulse Austrian Attacks, Geneva, June 8, via Paris Ju 4:30 a. m.—A Czernowitz despaten he Tribune, dated Monday, ‘The Russians north of Stanislau repulsed all Austrian attagks. het# the Swica and Lomnitza rivers. Austrians attempted to debo! he Dniester, but the Russians ed cruel losses upon them. Gen. B in's divisions operating south Kolomea suffered enormous lot he Pruth, where the Russians success Gen. Baltin was un jen. Von Linsingen.” A Tarnow despatch Russians Near Vu “The Russians o says: hem the troops of ter as well as that of the person to whom the mail is consigned. {Continded on Eleventh Page.)