New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1917, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS i NEW BRITAIN HERAL HERALD “ADS” ME ]BETTER BUSINE PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, 'THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1917. —.TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED ULF BETWEEN GERMANY AND U. S. WIDENS; GERARD IS VIRTUALLY PRISONER IN BERLIN; OFFICIALS HOURLY EXPECT CAUSE FOR WA . ' Washington Fears for Worst Reports Showing Kaiser to Be Blindly Bent on Breaking Promise Mdde to America in Suss Case---Attack on California of Anchor Line Not Considered Overt Act Sufficient to Open Hostilities---Hope for Contin tion of Peace Almost Swept Away by Developments Since Submarine Campaign Opened. GERARD HOSTAGE |MANY CITIZENS T0 ~ OF GERMAN GOVT. GO WITH NEUTRALS - All Other Consuls and | HOLLAND DECLINES 5 : 3, s@erard and American Sailors De- tained Until Bern- storff Leaves U. S. WILD RUMORS GAIN GROUND IN BERLIN _German Ships and Crews in America ‘Reported Seized—Officials Expect to Set Kaiser Right by Explanation Showing Courtesies Extended to His Representatives and No Intent to " ake Over Vessels, ‘Washington, Feb, 8.-—Ambassador consuls. and sallors brought in on the prize ship Yarrow- dale are being held In Germany until assurances have beem received from here as to the safe departure of Count von Bernstorff and the German con- suls and the safety of German war- bound ships in this cauntry. It was sald at the state department today that sensational reports have become current in Germany that the German ships here have become cur- rent in Germany that the German ships here have been confiscated and their crews seized. Pending confirma- tion Germany has detained the Ameri- cans. Officials here are inclined to mini- mize the the importance of the deten- tion, .because they believe it largely has arisen from a misunderstanding and soon will be straightened out It has been announced that there is no intention of taking the German ships. Moreover, despatches have been conveyed to Germany through the Spanish embassy as to the courtesies granted to former German officials in this country and their receipt is ex- pected to clarify greatly any miscon- ception in Germany as to America’s attitude. The whole policy of the state de- partment is to proceed with regu- larity in order to afford absolutely no ground for offense. The United States will be extremely punctillious and place the whole responsibility of a ‘more serious development on Ger- many. Probably 150 Americans are affected in the American embassy in Berlin and 22 consulates in Germany. That Ambassador Gerard is still in Berlin and not at Bernme, as was thought possible vesterday, is shown in a de- spatch received today from Ambas sador Willara at Madrid. Mr. Wil- Jard said the impression Ambassador Gerard was at Berne was due to a telegraphic mistake. The message should have been dated Berlin via Berne, instead of Berne. All Americans Reported. London, Feb. 8, 1:18 a. m. The German government will require guar antees that Count Von Bernsto mer German ambassador at W ton, and the men on German ships in American ports will be permitted to leave the United States before allow- ing Ambasador Gerard and other Americans in Germany to depart from that country, according to the Copen- hagen Politiken as quoted in a Reu- ter despatch from that city. This information, the Politiken says is collected in a telegram sent by Am- bassador Gerard to the American le- gation at Copenhagen. Al Americans in Germany, including those captured by the German raider in the south At- lantic and taken to Germany on the Yarrowdale, re snid to have been de- tained An E ph dospateh from Copenhagen gives the same re- port regarding the detention of Amer- 5 lcans in Germany and adds that Am- (Continued on Eleventh Page.) T0 SUPPORT AMERICA |LiTCHFIELD PEOPLE COMING | Spain Also Undeerstood to Have Decided Against Joining. League. Washington, Feb. 8.—The Nether- lands government, through the Amer- ican legation at The Hague, has for- mally declined to accept President ‘Wilson’s suggestion that it follow the course of the United States and break off diplomatic relations with Germany. Information to this effect was re- ceived here today from Holland. It was also said in the despatches that the Netherlands government has made a protest against unrestricted submarine warfare and at the same time megotiations had been opened with Great Britain for the reductions of its mine field. The Dutch govern- ment plans to have the British field and the German danger zone, which now overlap each other, so contracted as to make a ¢loser path through which its ships may pass. ‘Washington, Feb, 8.—Spain’s note, which it is understood, formally de- clines to accept President Wilson's suggestion that she break off diplo- matic relations with Germany, was re- ceived today at the state department, but not made public. 8, 12:26 p. of foreign T.ondon, Feb. Bolivian minist decided to support the attitude of the United States in the crisis with Ger- many. Montevideo, Feb. 8.—President Viera and his cabinet held a confer- ence today to consider the position to be taken by the government re- garding the new phase of the Euro- epan conflict. The newspapers of Uruguay approve the stand of the United States, Lima, Peru, Feb. 8.—The Peruvian government today instructed its min- ister at Berlin to make a written claim on the German government for the sinking of the Peruvian sailing vessel, Lorton, which, according to the official British account of her sink- ing, was torpedoed inside Spanish ter- ritorial waters on Monday while on a a voyage from Callao, Peru. 10 RUSH TORPEDOES Output at Newport, R. L. Plant to Be Asks Doubled—Daniels Tmmediate Appropriation of $700,000. Washington, Feb. 8.—Orders were given today to double the output of torpedoes at the Newport, R. I. plant. To make possible additional equip- ment for the station, Secretary Dan- iels asked congress to immediate ap- propriate 00,000. Secretary Daniels estimates that the first order at the government plant will save $200,000, the differ- ence in cost hetween the government and private production. 100 PLANES PER WEEK New York, Feb. 8.—Airship manu- factures of of the United States can turn out 100 machines a week and, if urged, from 200 to 300 a week, it was announced today. Nineteen of the twenty-one aircraft manufacturers of the country met here vesterday and formed the Airplane Manufactur Association and an offer of i vices will be made to President Wilson, FOUND. ECRET WIREL Rio Janeiro, Feb. S.-—At the su- burban town of Nictheroy, on the ba five miles east of Rio Janeiro, there was discovered today a wireless tel- egraph station which was established to communicate with German ships which are being detained in the har- bor. Others Ask Ior Passports Ensur- ing Safe Conduct to U. S. Mr, and M . Willlam Peck Decide to Come Back Home—Large Number Declare Intentions of Remaining in Germany for the Present, Berlin, Feb. 7, Via London, Feb. 8.— The breach of diplomatic relations be- tween the United States and Germany has discovered the fact that there are some 400 native of naturalized Ameri- cans in Berlin, large majority of whom have applied to the United States embassy for passports or per- mission to leave Germany for Switzer- land or Scandinavia. About fourth of the total temporarily in Germany or tourists. Three-fourths are either naturalized citizens or the children of such who rushed to the embassy at the eleventh hour to secure passports, The list of native Americans applied for permission to many on the ear st cludes Edward Chicago: Mrs, a one- are on who leave Ger- in- of opportunit 1 Fred Lawrence Olga Mans San I cisco; Alfred Delfamn, Miss Margo Winnewisser, M Blanche Illinois: Arthur Henry Venewey Milwaukee: and Mrs. Fred Chicaga: Dr. Marisicon, Mrs, din A, Beck and son, Tiflin, Ohio; von Wilzledgen Natt Mock and M Faltzenhauser, Indiana; Mrs. Harrie Pope, Chicago: John Fallows, New York; Arthur W. Babtes and family, Mrs. Ella Lehman and three children, Cleveland; Dr.- Jacques Brokwitz, Philadelphia; Dr. J. Henry Phillips wife and children, San Francisco; Mr. ana Mrs. Jacques Mayer and three children, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Warren, Houston, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. William Peck, Litchfield, Conn.; Mr. and Mrs, Hartwig Davisen, Indiana; Joseph Turn,.Scranton, P Mrs, Henry Eusthis and mother; Mrs. Sawyer and sister; Mermaux Linden, Philadelphia; Louis Luntz, New York; Oscar Pflug, Alabama; Carl Elliott, Philadelphia; Fremont Higgins, New York. Will Stay With Those who plan to stay Blan- Carl S Neutrals. in neutral countries are Mr. and Mrs, \V.\lllnE’." ford Rigger, Alabama, in Denmu Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marcus of ew York; Mrs, Amelia Decourcey and M Gerarldine Decourc of Secattle in Berne; Charles M. Dyar of Cambridge, Mass., in Stockholm; Dr. Lewis H. Marks of New Orleans, Switzerland. The list of those who have —an- nounced their intention to remain in Germany for the time heing includes Miss Agnes Schneider, Shamokin, Pa., Mi die Walker and Miss Sarah McKeen, Cleveland: Miss Walker, Miss Irances Mcintosh, Wis- cons Mrs. Peer, Tennessee; Miss Margery Murphy and mother, Ohio Miss Marion Meeker, Indiana; Miss Eda Gapdale, Yonkers, N. Y.; Vivian Butler Burke, New York, Miss Anna Ingold, Chicago; Miss Vivia Dillon, San Franci Dr. and Mrs. Davis, Dr, and Mrs. O. Decker, Now York; Mr. and Mrs. Witzleton and daugh- ter, Philadelphia;» Mary Halliday, los Angele: Hernbuster, New ara Willonbucher and five s! , Washington; Mrs. Mary Schneid- er and Miss Clara Schneider, Albany: John Dudley, Washington; Geor; wood and family, Massachusetts; Irene, er, Ala- Biden, St. and Mrs. William Mrs., daughter W. Ma vdney Mr, David Welsh and Providence; Dr. L. bama; Mr. and Mr: | Louis; Conrad Hoffman, Sarah Fischer Steinw. Paul Weil, ——— Durant, St Loy Helen Meta Kesler, and Mrs. John . Raymond Gloetzner, ton: Charles Archibald, and daughter, and York: Mr. - Oscar . Louis Philadelphia: I. Dut- wob J. He Corane, Newark: san Franci Osborne, Washing jockey, Mr, iline: who Mr, and York: ippi: L Mrs. Miss ander may go to Switzerland | Charles Feingea, New Mamie Roberts, Tenth (Continued Tage) Rrook- Americans | : | business | Marion | { i 1uropean | AUSTRIAN BREAK EXPECTED SOON Washmgton Feb. 8.— Austria had not as yet withdrawn or modified her note adhering to the Ger- man submarine campaign it was stated officially to- day at the state depart- ment. The possibility that a break with Austria also can be avoided virtually has been given up. AMERICAN LINERS ARE HELD IN PORT St. Louis and St. Paul May Be Sent to Sea Defensively Armed NINE VESSELS ON OCEAN Six Arc in Dangen of Being Sunk By Mines or Torpedocs—British Consul Advises Women and Children to Stay Ashore. New, American Oflicers of the whether send passenger sea without protection or arm them with guns after the man- York, Feb tody S line debated their they should steamships to ner of the British and I'rench liners. The decision of the federal govern- ment nol to offer advice to private persons as to whether their merchant vessels should r the German block- ade and not to provide any convoy has left the steamship line still in doubt as to its future course of action. Pending a decision the company has announced that the sailing dates of the steamer St. Louis and St. Panl, now at New York, have been indefin- itely postponed. The St. Louis has on 'board 5,000 sacks of mail, which will remain there for the present unless the postmaster general decides to send them by one of the British liners. No ‘mail has left New York for Liverpool since the de- parture of the liner Philadelphia. on January In addition to the sacks on board the St. Louis, 2,000 more for Liverpool are awaiting at the New York post office. Much of the mail now awaiting transportation is regis- tered and very valuable. Advice to Women and Children. While the British government has made no move to restrain ships that carry the British flag from braving the dangerous submarine war zone, the British consulate here has advised all women and children to refrain from going aboard British trans-Atlantic ships unless through dire necessity. The steamship Ryndam of the Hol- land-American line, which left here on { January 29, the day the California ! sailed, has turned and is on her way | back to New York. bound {for Rotterdam and at i Falmouth. She | gers, of whom 22 are Americans. lis believed that the Ryndam | warned by the Dutch admiralty {she reached the edge of the w Tt is expected that she { February 16, Nine At Sea. Nine passenger liners flying flags of the Entente and also of the American ! line and Halland-Amer their voyaze between New York and ports today. All but three of these ships are within the possible ger of submarines or min In addition three British passenger =hips from New York arc due to have red but have nat been reported. possible word of their 1 has been withheld on account of the recent of the British authorities. all have Americans on board. due carries when r zone. Vesscls orders Nearly N e S e WEATHER. Partford eb, ford and vicinity: nset- nd colder tonight and Friday. (e CTU SRS | was| will arrive by | an line are on | | BUTCHERY ON SEAS ENDS LIVES OF 41 Women and Children Heartlessly Slain in Bloody U-Boat Attack | KAISER'S VICTIMS INCREASE Steamship California of Anchor Line Blasted Out of Water by Two Tor- pedocs of 300 Yards. Fired at Distance Washington, 8.—The latest re- port on the destruction of the Cali- fornia, received this morning at the state department from Consul Frost at Queenstown, puts the number of survivors at 162 and the missing at 41. It says the ship apparently was torpedoed ‘about 10 o'clock *Wednes- day morning. Feb. Torpedoed Without Warning. New York, Feb. S.—Official cable | advices that the British steamship (alifornia was torpedoed without warning were received here today by the Anchor line. The names of 13 s listed as missing as received follow Second cabin, Mrs. E. Smith, Edna Smith and Mrs, Kidd, Calgary, Al- J. W. Alderson and son, Van- couver, B. , (Mrs. Alderson was saved); Mrs, W. O’Donnell and chil- dren, of Philadelphia, (three O’Don- | nell children appear on the ship's! passenger list); Nwil Gullkes, New York city; Miss Madge Roberts, To- | ronto. Steerage, Mrs. Margaret Little and one child, N. Y., (three other little children apparently saved); Miss An- nie Forbes, Toronto. Some of the passengers, according to Consul Frost, are missing, includ- ing two women and several children. The survivors were landed at Queenstown last night. John A. Lee, of Montgomery, Ala., sald to be the only American on board, is supposed to have been a member of the crew. Mr. Frost's message said that Cap- tain John L. Henderson of the Cali- fornia was quoted as saying that his ship was sunk by a submarine, gave no hail and no warning before firing two torpedoes from a distance of 300 yards. A message received by the Anchor line says: ‘“Advices indicate 160 sur- vivors. The ents were also in- | formed jthat a cable despatch from Queenstown said that one life had been lost and forty persons had been injured. Left New York Jan. 29. California sailed from York for Glasgow on Jan. 29 with crew of 196 and 316 passengers. though many of the passengers were listed as coming from cities in the | United States officers of the line ex- plained that all them were either British or Canadians. The ship carried a large cargo for the British government including war The a supplies. When she left here'she was armed with a gun at her stern. The California is the first large steamer to fail vietim to the new German unrestricted submarine war- fare. She was steel twin screw steamship of 8662 tons gross, 470 feet long, built in Glasgow in 1907. Her sister ship, the edonia, was sunk off the Irish by a sub- marine on Dec. 12, Entire Family Slain. It took the silent grief of John M. Little, Englishman, to bring keenly home to the officers and clerks of the Anchor the line offices today the loss of California. Modestly, almost diffidently, Little, a spare, slight man, asked for news of his wife and four children, steerage | bassengers. The latest cable, he was ! told, reported his wife and one child missing —the others had been saved. 3ut the wife and baby,” he plead- ed, “eam’'t you give me a word of hope 2 No one dured reply. Tears welled from Little's eves and rolled unr nedly down his cheeks, The hus- activity stopped and heads were bowed. | Straightening himself with an ef- fort, Little squared his shoulders and (Continucd on Eleventh Pagce) which | Al- Despatch From Capital Point of Severing Told, in Effect, T shington, KFeb. 8.—The between the United States and Ger- many is growing wider hourly and hope be avoided has almost been swept away. { Germany’s submarine campaign of ruthlessness Is developing with a fury which many officials here believe soon must confirm the worst fears that hag been held for it and produce the overt act which President Wilson has said would be the signal for war. The president himself, holding from the first the hope that after all the German threat of unrestricted war- fare on the seas would be tempered in executign, awoke today to find that { a continuance of the onslaught of sub- marine attacks had reached a climax in the destruction without warning of a big 'British transatlantic liner. Consul Frost's report that the An- chor line steamer California with one American aboard and rescued, had { been sunk in violation of international law, did not reach the capitol last | night until the president had retired | and it was the first thing to come to | his attention today. | Until all the facts are established, | the president is not expected to in- {dicate whether he considers that the | California case presents an issue in ! the submarine action. In his address | to_congress, he said he would come Breach that hostilities can again before that body to ask for au- I(hor‘.t.\' to take further steps, v American ships and lives should in 1 fact be sacrificed.” Tt was pointed out that so far as is known, no American was lost on the | Galitornia and no American ships | have been sunk without warning sinco | Germany announced her new cam- paign, Every effort was made today clear up the details of the liner’ ruction while preparations | steadily forward in every branch of | the government to make the country ‘;'?ad_\' for whatever the decision .may e. i The senate's endorsement of the break with Germany was given yester- day by adoption of the Stone resolu- | tion by a vote of 78 to 5. i Might Arm Merchant Ships. | American ship owners to de- today has of- - ficial notice from the state depart- | ment that it could not advise them Hw hether their vessels should 1 | through the war zone, but that in gen- | | eral they still had the same right to go : anywhere on the seas they had before issuance of the new German subma- rine notice. In effect, thep were told | that they might arm their ships for defensive purposes. Secretary McAdoo announced in- creases ranging from 125 to 900 per cent. on war risk insurance for ship- ping issued by a federal bureau came simultancously with Llo i port that ships of 56,600 tons & ‘_.Jto were sunk by submarines in the | previous two days, a rate nearlv equal | to that which German naval authori- | ties have declared neccesary to cut off England’s supplics eventually. Bill to Commandeer Ships. To give the president authority to commandeer American merchant ves- sels and other broad powers relating to shipping in time of war or threat- ened war, a new bill was pending in | the house Sccretary Lansing has asked | congress to appropriate $500,000 to help get Americans out of Germany. The United States felt assured today of the moral support of niost neutr in the protest against German) course, although it appeared improb- able that any would follow the lead of ! the United States and break relation Preliminary reports of the neutral's replics to Germany indicated they would denounce the new sea war plan as illegal. Hope of maintaining diplomatic re- | lations with Austria has about fled. Attack Not Overt Act. On the basis of reports received on the destruction of the California and other ships so far, it is stated author- itatively that none of the cases con- stitutes the overt act which will lead | { to war with Germany. Officials open- | Iy express the belicf, however, that ! the overt act is merely a question of ! time. While regarding the destruetion of the California as plain evidence that Germany has fully abandoned her pledges to United States, it was stated that the government will not be hur- went { nounces that Says Country Is. Diplomatic Relati With Austria---American Ship Ow hey May Arm Ves ried into war until their is no violation of can rights by destruction of Amy ships or losses of American liv law., hope that Germany would modi: campaign of ruthlessness has ished and there is no doubt herd it will be only a matter of hou days before an American /is sul American lives are sacrificed. only effects of the destruction ¢ Calfornia has been to quicken| preparations the government is ing for the expected eventuality. Other reports today from O Frosten the sinking of the B ship Eavestone says that the shl sunk without warning. SPY ARRESTED ON PIE Former Fireman on Hamburg-4 puted evidence of violation of international can Liner Is Found Prowling / American Line’s Vessels. New York, Feb. 8.—Found N around in the shadows of the A can line pier, where the steam Louis, St. Paul and Lapland berthed, a man was arrested | who. said he was Joseph Lellel | vears old, a German marine dir| formerly employed in the Haml American liner Pennsylvania, int at Hoboken. Arraigned in court on a cha unlawful entry, Leller claimed to native of Warsaw. He said he not remember how he came to Y the pier. He was held without pending inquir; GUN FIRED IN DIET Three Shots While Count Batth 1Is speaking to Hungarian v —Alcohol Is Blamed. Amsterdam, via London, Feb, 9:30 a. m.—A" Reuter 'despatch Budapest says that during a speed Count Theodore Batthyanyi in Hungarian diet three revolver were fired from the gallery. Nobody was hurt and alter somy citement a man was arrested made a confused statement and apparently intoxicated. The continued his speech with a renf that he must not be disturbed by fians. PASSAGE FOR BERNSTOR France and Great Britain Agree to Molest Formor Ambassado Return Trip to Berlin. Washington. Feb. —France formally granted safe pas through the allied blockade Count Von Bernstorff{ and his s Notice that Great Britain also granted safe passage for Count his staff was recel e department. Bernstorff and later at the s FIRST REGIMENT SHORTY Hartford, Feb. 8.—The first r ment Connecticut National Guard short 471 of war strength and cruiting will be nece: v in case regiment were called to service result of the breaking of diplom: relations with Germany. The war strength of the regiment is 1, officers and men. At present it thirty officers and 857 men. q BOMB ON STOCK EXCI{ANG‘ eb. 8, 11:56 a, m.— Handclsbladt today a powerful bomb, loa and broken glass, exph of the stock excha No damage was d the ne! London, Amsterdam with nails on the step tifore last night. and no casualties resulted, paper reports Yeb, 8, negro fireman rino, George Washingte according to a report by the American cmba Londan, American p. m. on the was kil received t: '