New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1916, Page 1

L] [ HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS '/ NEW BRITAIN HERA LDF# HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916. —TWELVE E TABLISHED APPAMNO PRIZE “OF WAR, FEDERAL COURT I]EIJLARES Judge Waddill Decides in Favor of English Owners of Cap- fured Steamer VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY IN BRINGING HER T0 U. §. Memorandum Says German Captors Docked Her in American Territory ‘Without Permission—Decision Re- verses Decree of Prize Court at| Berlin Which Had No Effect on Litigation in This Countr Narfolk, Va., July —Federal Judge Waddill today decided the libel proceedings for possession of the cap- tured Bri the sh liner Appam in favor of nd against the German prize crew which brought her here. The court held that the German gov- all legal claim to the her cargo as prizes of Licutenant Berg and his | on last February 1 brought into | the neutral waters of Hampton Roads | with the intention of “laying up” the vessel indefinitely. The court held further Prussian-American treaty of 1799, re- newed in 1828, does not apply or con- trol in the case so as to guarantee the prize crew asylum in United States waters. That the action of the German prize court in declaring the Appam a prize while the case was in litigation in the TUnited States courts has no effect on the jurisdiction of the courts. That the jurisdiction of the United States courts in the case is established by a long line of precedents, Here in Violation of Neutrality. “The court’s conclusion,” the de- cision reads, “is that the manner of bringing the Appam into the waters of the United States, as well as her presence in those waters, constitutes a violatian of the meutrality of the TUnited States; that she came in with- out bidding or permission; that she is here in vialation of the laws; that she is unable to leave for lack of a crew, inglish owners ernment lost Appam and war when rew That the which she cannot provide or augment | ¥ without further violation of neutral- Ity; that in her present condition she is without a lawful right to be in and remain in these waters; that she, as between her captors and owners to all practical intents and purposes must be treated as abandoned and stranded upon our shores and that her owners are entitled ta restitution of their property, which this court should eward, irrespective of the prize court proceedings of the court of the Im- perial government of the German Em- pire and it will be so ordered.” Appeal Predicted. Attorneys were notified that court would hear any motions desired to make next Wednesday at noon. Consul Von Schilling who was In court, with Lieut. Berg, said an appeal doubtless would be taken. “I never dreamed,” he declared, “that any grounds could be found for taking the Appam from us.” w The vessel may be restored to her former owners under bond pending an appeal, or held at Newport News In the custody of a United States marshal as at present. The Appam 1is valued at $1,000,- 000. Her cargo, much of which was perishable, was disposed of for $634,- 000 and the money placed in the cus- tody of the court. Gold, said to have amounted to $750,000 was removed from the vessel at the time of cap- ture off the coast of Spain and car- ried to Germany by the raider Moewe. The money recently was declared a prize by a German prize court and turned over to the Reichstag. the the May Intern Berg and Crew. July 29.—The federal holding for the Appam case con- ates government to do with Lieu- his prize crew Washington, court’s decision British owners in the fronts the United S with declding what tenant Berg and which brought in the ship after one of the most thrilling captures in the gea history of the war. enerally speaking, Lieutenant Berg and his men are regarded as part of Germany’s naval forces, and if that wiew were carried out to its conclusion they would have to be interned for the war with the crews of the two other German cammerce raiders Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wil- helm, at the Norfolk Navy Yard. State department officials expect the court's déelsfon will be carried through to the supreme court on ap- peal and disposition of the German crew must be decided while praceed- ings are pendin Ir appeal is taken the ship would remain in custody of the federal court When the Appam came in her Ger- man captors declared that rather than surrender the prize to the British they would take her outside the three mile limit and sink her. The federal court, however, has possession of the (Continued on Third Page.) Denmark, Norway and Sweden Ob- R STRIKE SPREADS TO 3RD AVE. EMPLOYES Lnlmr Leaders Predict 1,200 Trollc men Will Join Unless Compro- mise Is Effected. New York, July 29.—The strect car strike spread to Manhattan today Two hundred conductors and motor men of the Third Avenue Railway quit this morning and labor leade: clared that unless some unforeseen compromise was effected the re- mainder of the 1,200 Third Avenue carmen, operating in Manhattan would strike within twenty-four hou With the mass mecting of labor chiefs, strikers and their sympathizers, to be held tonight, rests the question of whether or not an attempt wwill be made to extend the strike, which now affects Yonkers, the Bronx and part Maphattan, to the cntire city. Additional policemen were sent the Bronx today and there was little disorder. Officials of the Union Rail- road company said that they had 40 of to the by Bronx. The cars were operated professional strike breakers. CANNOT ENTER ENGLAND Degision of British Government to Bar Americans on Way to England Is Irrevocable, Page Reports. 9 Washington, July —American Ambassador Page at London today bled the state department that Great Britain insists upon excluding from England and Ireland, Thomas Hughes Kelly of New York, treasurer of the Irish relief fund; his assistant, Joseph Smith and Mrs. Kelly. They will leave England Monday on the American liner Philadelphia. Ambassador Page has been in- formed by the foreign office that the decision to exclude the three Ameri- cans was irrevocable. No reasons for exclusion were given by American Page who said that during their deten- tion at Livaropool British authorities had permitted them to remain ata hotel without being actually impris- oned. Despite the apparently final deci- sion state department officials today still hoped the exclusion order might be modified. T0 PROTEST T0 ENGLAND ject to England Discontinuing De- claration of London. per cent. of their cars in operations in | HOT WAVE KILLS 89, hearable Weather trict Continues During Night Witk Mercury Standing at 85 Deg Some Hope For Relicf. Chicago, July 29. attributed to the exc: Eighty hou the coroner’s office early today. Some hope was held out by the lo- cal forecaster for pc the present heat wav. ing over the cenfral portion United States, by Sunday night Monday morning, but for today a.uuh encouragement was forthcoming from any source. The mercury at eighty-six degrees early today affering in the ted districts of Chicago continued during the night, the coroner’s office and the station officials being kept busy reports of prostrations and deatt Health department officials of cong with the heavy mortality among babi The government weather 7 o'clock this morning officially or one degree warmer than it was at the same hour yesterday. Kighty-fi degrees was also the minimum for the night. Nine Deaths Detroit, July in Michigan. throughout the state—were attributed to the continued heat in Michigan yesterday. Numerous prostrations Frank Gelsel, Central league overcome while officiating in game at Muskegon. A number of cities r test day in seve tures ranging f umpire, a ball ported the hot- 1l years with tempera- om ninety to 110 de- grees, the latter at Has Ba Creek and Bay City reporte dstreet thermometers reading 109 ang 107, re- spectively. The official temperature Rapids was given ac 104 on the street the =zovernment level showed ninc 2 o'clock at Grand 100 degrees with level. In Detroit kiosk the ty-nine ¢ vgrees at Say- den Berlin, July 29, by Wireless t (ille.—Denmark, Norway and Sw have decided to protest against the British order in council of July 7, dis- continuing the’ partial enforcement of the Declaration of London, says the Overseas News Agency, these coun- tries considering the mnew British rules of sea law to be at variance With the principles of international law. The Swiss newspapers Neue Zuricher Zeltung and Journal De Geneve, the news agency says, print comments on the plan for a union of neutrals in order to defend their economic in- dependence. . The Journal De Geneve is quoted as suggesting a union of Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, Spain - and the United States. The Nieuwe Rotter- damsche Courant urges the Dutch government “to return to the prin- ciples expressed in Washington in November, 1914, with regard to the rights of neutrals.” “BRITISH HYPOCRISY” German Foreign Office Thus Summar- izes Viscount Grey's Reply to America on Appeal for Poland. Berlin, July 29, by Wireless to Say- ille—At the German foreign office today the following official statement regarding Great Britain's reply to President Wilson’s appeal for the territories was given out: “Viscount Grey (Briti secretary for foreign affairs) answered the American president’'s appeal to all the belligerent nations to establish an un- derstanding with regard to relief work in Poland, and issued a declaration which 1s no more nor less than an at- tempt to include the territories occu- pied by Germany and Austria~Hun- gary into the system for the starva- tion of Germany which has been pro- claimed by the British government contrary to all international law. “Viscount Grey tries to make the German government responsible for the consequences which this incredible plan has for the inhabitants of the occupied territaries. This i British hypoc which in this case is cspecially transparent.’” MOTHER FABIAN Sister of Mercy Was Former Teacher in This City. Hartford, July 29 M. Fabian Kane, Sisters of Merc; at the Mother mu St. Joseph’s convent. She was born March 5, 1857 at Darien. She ontered Mount St. Jo- seph's May 3, 1876 and was a teacher at New Britain, Brjfigeport and '.\In\m( St. Joseph's Academy. —The Rev. Mother superior of the died this afternoon House of the Com- feeding of the populations of occupied | Riving Washington of the excessiv ing the central part until tomorrow and north Atlantic coast cast today by the weather bureau. “Hudson Bay high” which some relief throughout the northeas ern part of the country is losing Tempe July heat Tonight. Continuation of the country its extension to west and temperature throughout the east day. will tonight and Sun- CREW HELD TO SHIP Deutschland’s Sailors Not Shore Leave and Amcrican Agents Confer. Baltimore, July 29 among officials of the warding company, for the German Deutschland and her commander, Capt. Paul Koenig, were frequently during the forenoon at the submers ble's pier today but nothing devel- astern American merchant For- sailing. Yesterday members of the crew the Deutschland were granted shore leave for a few hours but the order went around today for all the crew to “stick to the ip. FIGHTS OFF U-BOAT Italian Steamship Forces to Seck Safety Beneath Waves and Continues Voyage to United States. Rome, July 6:30 a. m. (delayed transmission.)—The Re 37 ton vessel of the Italian Lloyd Sabaudo line. was tonic submarine at mornit Tuly w voyage York The which the vessel brought into play sible was driven then proceeded on her ica BREAK OFF NEGOTIATIONS 28, in a6, 9 o'clock while the from Genoa defensive equipped nd the submer- away The to in ste: to guns New with on way Amer- key With Regard to Exchange Supplies Ended, Say Bucharest. London, July 29, 12:45 p. m.—Al Turkey, with regard to of supplies has been broken off, s a despatch from Bucharest, Rumania, to Reuter's Telegram Co. LAYS LOW HUNDREDS Middle West Still in Clutch of Un- INFANT ~ MORTALITY HIGH flering in Chicago’s Congested Dis- deaths, sive heat and nearly two hundred prostrations, have been reported in the last twenty-four 5, according to announcement at sible relief from which is sweep- the or | no stood | police Sea far have found their greatest burden to be hureau at re- ported the temperature at eighty-five .—Nine deaths—five In Detroit and four at different points also were reported, among them being tle | street | now overspread- states was fore- The brought | s its force before the torrid wave from the rise Allowed | As Yesterday—Koenig —Ccnferences agents | submarine oped indicating final preparations for of s | ubmarine D'Itallia acked By a Teu- | the mer, were liner Discussion Between Rumania and Tur- the negotiations between Rumania and the exchange EARLY AGREEMENT BY CARRANZA EXPECTED American Officials Favor Having Commission Discuss All Phases of Mexican Tangle. Washington, officials July 29.—Washington today looked for early | agreement by General Carranza to suggestions for the extension of the powers of an international joint com- missior *o settle border difficulties, which accompanied the American ac- ceptance of Mexico's proposal for that , | form of settlement. The state depart- ment notified Carranza's ambassador | here last night plan was satisfaotory. American officials do not want to stop at discussion of problems dealins solely with bandit raids and the presence in Mexico of United States troops. They want to take up the whole Mexican tangle, hoping the con- ferences may bring suggestions for the reconstruction of Mexico on a firm economical and financlal basis. This they consider a matter of first | importance. Tt will be two weeks at least, of- | ficials believe, before the commission can meet. The state department will | insist that conferences be held within ! the United States. Appointment of American members will await Car- ranza’s reply. President Wilson i understood to have under considera- tion already a score of men as com- | missioners. These include Chief Jus tice White, Major General Goetlmals, Frederick Lehman, and Justice Louis Brandeis. Luis Cabrera, minister of finance, it Is understood, will head the Mexican commissioners. FAVORS CASEMENT PLEA Foreign an Senate Overturns Report of Relations Committee and Votes to Urge England to Exercise Clemency Washington, July 29.—By a vote of forty-six to nineteen the senate to- day adopted a resolution requesting President Wilson to transmit to the British government an expression of hope that it would exercise clemency in the treatment of Irish political prisoners. By its action the the report of a majority relations committee and followed a course outlined in a minority report made by Chairman Stone and Sena- tors O'Gorman and Pittman. The vote was preceded by a debate, during which Senator Phelan led the speaking for the resolution and Sen- ator Williams opposed it “The English ministry would I madmen to exccute Sir Roger C: the latter “they would be 1u to do such a thing and show themselves not even possessed of the ordinary shrewdness of a peanut pol- itician. T believe, that left alone, England will commute Casement’s sentence to Imprisonment and that | after the war he will be pardoned.” Three democrats, Fletcher, Pom- erene and Williams, voted against the resolution. Senators Lodge, Borah, McCumber, Olive and Brandegee, all republican members of the foreign relations committee, voted against it. Chairman Stone and Senator Pittman, democratic members of the commit- tee voted for it. BOMBS FOR MENACE | Three Infernal Machines Explode and senate overturned of its foreign te 1se- ment.” said Set Fire to Office of Anti-Catholic Publication at Turora, Mo. Springfield, Mo., July 29.—Three bombs exploded beneath the fioor of the Menace Publishing plant at Auro- ra, Mo., at 4:15 o'clock this morning, | slightly damaging the publishing com- pany plant, and set fire to a mass of copies of The Menace, an anti-Catho- lic publication, just off the press. The flames were soon extinguished. This week's issue of the Mcnace dated August 5 carried several elec- tion articles. It was customary to start the presses Saturday, but in an effort to defeat a candidate for mov- ernor in the state the Missouri Pub- lication had been printed and mailed | Friday. Workmen expected to have the presses running in a few hours. The | greatest damage was done to the floor | near the back part of the building. PREFER DESERTION TO MADNESS German Soldiers Mind Unab! Retain Anglo-French Fire. to Under London, Teleg corre July aphing from The pondent of the Exchange Tele- graph compafy says he has recetved the following message from Maes- tricht, a Dutch town fifty-six miles of Brussels: IPifteen a 12:15 p. m— Hague, the | | German deserters, includ- | ing a non-commissioned officer. ar- | rived here (Muaestricht) yesterday. | They all came from the Somme re- | glon. They said 1t was Impossible to | live through the Anglo-French ‘ lery fire without going mad, and they | breferred to insanity."” artil- desertion of e~~~ WEATHER, 1 = Hartford, Hartford and vicinity crally falr tonight day; warmer, e e e S Y July 20._Fop Gez- and Sun- that the commission | Mexican | | were no casualties. | official despatch, however, | Y s P be | Of Charles Phelps, RUSSIANS TAKE 20,000 PRISONERS IN WHOLESALE DRIVE INTHE EAST, ENDING WITH FALL OF BROL ZEPPELINS RAID ENGLAND iGermans Abandon Advane BUT CAUSE LITTLE DAMAGE Positions Held Previous Three Air Leviethans Fly Over East Coast, Dropping Bombs, on First Visit in Twelve Weeks — Austrian Aeroplanes Attack Five | Adriatic Towns. 9 London, July 29, p. m.—Three Zeppelin dirigible balloons participat- ed in the raid early this morning on the east coast of England, it was offi- | cially announced this afternoon. There Details of the Zeppelin raid are still lacking. An un- says that a German airship proceeded inland for a short distance and dropped two bombs at the side of a railway. The Zeppelin then proceeded to an bombs fell in \fifljnining village, where eight were dropped. The missiles fields and roads where no | was done. The Zeppelin cruised | twenty minutes and then a northerly direction towerds coast. | Reuter's correspondent at Amster- dam reports that & Zeppelin flew over on the Dutch-Belgian border, It was about the | Sluiskil, going in a northerly direction. fired upon by Dutch guards. This is the first German airship raid on England in twelve weeks. Mis- ty weather favored the Zeppelins. 29, 6:20 a. m.—Austrian aeroplanes made attacks July 27 on | Bari, Mola Di Bari, Molfetta and | Otranto seaports on the Adriatic. Two persons were wounded at Bari and five were killed and twenty wounded at Molfetta. There was some slight dam- age to buildings at Mola Di Bari. The aeroplanes flew high but ac- cording to official reports, some of them were struék by the fire of the Itelian artillery. Rome, July JUDGE HALTS DEATH IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Grants Condemned Man Stay of Execution at Last Moment. Ossining, N. Charles F. for Y., July the electric prison this thorities recelved that L. Guy had granted a stay tion until 11 o’clock tonight. is condemned to die for the chair at the the prison au- word by morning Supreme Court Ma , in aret Wolcott, 1915 Justice Guy 1d mitted to him during the housekeepe Medina, N the ¥ stay July ing said also many papers ha been night fense of Stielow time hour set and he did to examine them before for the execution. When the condemned man received God the news he' said: hope to they do something for me this time.” The witnesss assembled ecution were told to return at o’clock tonight. Stielow's contended that mentally he was bare- ly the equal of a seven year old child. They asserted also shat an confession had been wrung from him by third degree methods. Whitman was showered with sages asking clemency. o Albany the wife and of Stielow made a final appeal. ‘It would be a travesty of , Jus- tice and everything else to go farther in the case,” said the governor, midnight in announcing his decisi “The man has had every chance.” Stielow's fellow prisoners believe him innocent and collected $40 by subscription to bring his wife children here from Medina last night for a last visit. A number of influen- tial men and women interested them- selves in Stielow's case. Six hundred citizens of Medina signed a petition asking for a commutation of sen- tence. NEW PARALYSIS RECORD Death List Jumps to Forty-four 11 1y three c \uldn n in Last Twenty-four Hours—Addition- al Cases Reported 161. 29.—The epidemic a new high forty-four New York, Jluy of infantile paral record of the the twenty-four hour 1p ck The increased was unexpected by health experts, predicted that the drop in temperature would check the plague. During the Jast twenty-four hours, 161 new ses were reported in the five boroughs of New York city. forty-Wx of this n ber in Manhattan, a high for this horough. s set mortality today, children dying disease during period ending at o this morning number of deaths who 180 record Wallingford, July Mulcom Lee, a child living fn the Muddy River dis- trict who had m paralysis, dled today. A brother the symptoms are not yet of i 11 marked been but N. Y., July Four deaths from infantile ide the city of New ported to the state department health today, making a total of cases since the outbreak of the epi- demic 29 mora out- re- of 39 Albany, paral York wer 29.—As Stielow was about to start state | execution telephone Justice Charles | of execu- murder | . In grant- that sub- | ¢ in de- not have | the for the ex- friends alleged Governor m(*n | and ! KAISER APPROVED OF FRYATT'S EXECUTION Reported to Have Agreed to Justice of Death Sentence. Berlin, Friday, July 28, 1:30 p. via London, July 29, 12:35 p. m.— at Bruges on July of | Captain Charles Fryatt, m., -The a German submarine, ! rights of merchantmen. The German government prize regu a farmer, and his | jations issued before the beginning of at | the tha 1 war adopted | merchantmen were not commit acts of war | to treat pirates do so The execution of Captain | German officials contend, is in | with that principle, which | to the German view, merely extend. to sea warfare the principles already | controlling Franc-tireur activity land. It the principle entitled as is hoped in official | chantmen | as war vessels. | Tondon, | cording to | Holland, | corres sraph tain July 29, a report forwarded sondent of the Exchange company, the question Fryatt's execution was 12:10 p. m from Maestricht, by The discussed in reply to a telesram of Wuertemberg announcing the sen- tence and asking for its confirmation This was telegraphed Immediately the war council which included Em- ! peror William and General Von ¥ kenhayn and other staff officers, all | of whom are said to have been in | agreement on the justice of the sen- tence. PAYS $35,992.93 TAX, Sy G Contributor to Treasury Today. With $430,000 of the $700,000 collected this Corbin Heaviest for afternoon, Tax hoped confident the Collector Loomis was mood that before office closed next Monday 9 o’clock, that sum would stored away in the coffers city. Today proved to be an exceptional- ly one for the collgctor and his ants. Factories helped to swell the fund when the Corbin Screw 1 orporation tendered a check for ond honors went to Works with $34,897 and Russell & Erwin Mfg $26, The Traut company paid $6,847 and Bearing company 470 in a the doors of evening at be safely of the busy ass anley third to the company with & Hine the Fafnir $1 VILLA CAMP DISCOVERED. Bandit 300 South of Reported American Border, Poree July 29.- Frede: Dougl Rosari Villa ed Ariz., Garela and Mesa followers with a e estimat at several hundred men, were re arrivals from Sono in the Bermudes Mountains in the southern part of tiw Sahuariha district, near the Chihua hua bhorder. This Is about 300 south of the border. There are said to be de facto Mexican troops in the sections whers these outlaws are operating. ported today by {to be encamped miles no | for | went off in | of the Brit- ish steamship Brussels, after trial by court-martial for attempting to ram | denotes a new Stielow | Phase in the controversy over the sea | and it threatened those attempting Fryatt, | accord , according | on l{ circles here | that this case will lead to a definitive clearing up of the questions of mer- cting at intermittent times =Act Hague Tele- of Cap- at the imperial German headquarters from the Duke bt Miles | ~ Beyond River Stokhod A | ter Continuous Resistan | BRITISH PROGRESS 5 IN SOMME SECTQ Paris Says Teuton Attacks ! Ravine Near Verdun Wel Repulsed and Some Prd ress Was Made at Thia mont—Serbs Driven Ba to Plains By Bulgars. damage | Petrograd, July Lond| 3:50 p. m.—The captures by Russ| troops in the fighting yesterday the western included 400 d cers and 20,000 men, it was offick today. Fifty-five Teu taken. The Austro-G were driven back along whole front from the Kovel-Rojpit railway to Brody. : Gen. Letchitzky, ment adds, won an important vief south of the Dniester in 29, via front announced guns were mans the Russian st to the direction of Stanislau Germans Quit Advanced Position Berlin, July 29, via London, 4:5§ m.—After repeated futile atta northwest of Lutsk, ys the Ger official statement issued today, Russians succeeded in penetrating German lines in the region of T tyn, and caused the Germans to |up thetr advanced positions Wi t | they had previously held beyond > | River Stokhod West of Lutsk the statement the Russian attack ad been brou to a standstill by a German coul | attack. British Progressing. 29, 3:40 p y made progres London, July m.—B] ish troops yester the north and northeast of Pozl and near Highwood, it was officl announced today. General Sir Do) las Haig also reported that two § perate . German counter at against Delville Wood were repu German Assaults Repulsed. July 12:30 p. m.— Germe chmerits W] attempted to reach the French 1 at a point west Vermandovill on the Somme front yesterday, repulsed, it officially announ| by the French war department tod In the region of the French f of Verdun two German att redoubt in the ravine southi were checked. The Fren atement says, made 80 fon of Thiaumd the Fumin artillery duel Pa strong of was ress on a Fleury the official in sector progress the In the Chenols Woods an tinues, Serbians Driven Back. Bulgaria, July 29, via don, 3.26 p. m.—The repulse of {acks on the Bulgarian lines ald {he Macedonian front was announ torday by the war office, which 8 fthat counter attacks reeulted in capture by Bulgarians of hol trenches. Attempts of the Serh to occupy helghts were defeated {'n Bulgarian counter attack, the bians being driven back to the pIN and suffered heavy losses. Sofia, Surprise Attack in Clouds Fafl T.ondon, 3:80 rian attempts positions T Monte Cimd Rome, July 29, via m.—Austrian-Hungs surprise the Italian feet above sea level on on the night of July 27 prom| repulsed, it 1s announced in statement today were ly Italian official Austri SHECESSeS July ns Report wireless to Austro-Hungarian of July West of nigl B and ides ans wi number, Berlin The arter's statement “Russian front techk, a repulsed 29 he Russian Violent | Russians between Radziviloff broke down both road the R slans to the rcks | Styr Oon the Leszniow repulsed. Ru 1,000 were taken prisoner. ‘Nowh of the Prislop Ridge, Austro-Hungarians began an adval crossed the ( and gained opposite heights where they repul | Russtan attacks. alian front: arny Panve| | { 8 (Continued on Third Page.)