New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1917, Page 6

LD PUBLISHING COMPANT. Preprietors. Gally (Runday excepted) o 4:1 p. ™., ‘Bullding, §7 Church St. at the Post Ofce at New Britats 88 8sc0na Clase Mail Matter. By carrier to anv part of the city 16 cents & week, 65c a month. ! for paper to be sent by mafl, in advance. €0 csnts & moath. 8790 & yoar. i ealy profitable advertemg medium n efty: Circulation bosks and rress . ""wm!n- foung on saie News Stand, 42n New York City; Board Walk, At- f#tic Cit/, and Hariford Depo:. God grants liberty only .to e who love it, and are al- ready to guard and defends ‘" —DANIEL WEBSTER. THE GREEKS IN AMERICA. . ‘Venizelos, nmldqfit of the pro- 1 government of, Salonica has jed the following message to } Greeks of the United States: ' have expressed the unanimous jment of all liberal Greeks in re- ting the king, with avhom since ® tragic events of December. the klon has once and for: ‘all “severed ey te. B " congratulate you on your.resolve gevote all your strength “to the tagk undertaken by the United your distinguished president’s ' and’inspiring’ declarstion, de- Ameica’s aims in the war, the Spangled Banner has become the Bbol of humanity's ‘purest ideal. jvotion to such a cause is hence- h the duty and privilege of every ‘man, am convinced that the Greeks of United States, imbued ‘with this , will - succeed 'in winning and highly valued sympathy great American nation. ‘Wilson has been the most this the. ident criticised for ing, to Wht: he is now criticised ¥ going to war. No matter what he or what he, does, there is alwa; ined 1f_he does, and damned if he 5 the Philadelphia North Ameri- & Roosevelt paper, that voices the ndictive criticlsm of -~ Wilson. johkly tells the President that he poor- excuse for a war president, e is a failure, that “he has not fer. to inspire his countrymen, Teason that he 1s tempera- y incapable of entering into p aspirations an demotions.” There of course, many who agree ) foolish propositiéen. There I8} who would not waste their ng such a futile contention. e of this criticism President bas been forced to anewer of his criticse who assail his jon the ‘war. He'ls at a loss 10w any frank or honest per can doubt that he is working for. interests of this country, that can doubt or question his posi- ¥ e with ' to the .war and its 3 . He recalls the long and over- ning list of wrongs perpetrated Imperial German Government the rights, the commerce and Bicitisens of the United States, and 48 that “No nation that respected it or the rights of humanity could e borne these wrongs any longer.” her, the President says:: . Dur objects in going into the war been stated with equsl clearness. whole of the conception which I e to be the conception:of our fel- countrymen with regdrd to the me of the war and the terms of ttlement,-I set forth with the ut- explicitness 'in’ an ld.’s to the o of' the ‘Ufiited States?, on 'the -second of January laft.” Again 8y message to Congress on the Rd of April‘last those objeets were j in unmistakable terms. n conceive no purpose invseek- becloud this matter except the of weakening the hands of rnment and making the part the United States is to play in s great struggle for human liberty “fnefficient and hesitating part. sentation to overcome the pretensions of the autocratic Government which acts upon purppses to which the Ger- man people have never consented.” That is a frank statement of the President’s position, and the reasons and objects of the American people in this war. It ia to be expected that the Roosevelt press will criticise the President. To that crowd nothing ‘Wilson has ever done was right. Itlis characteristic o; the Rooseveit outfit to think that no omne is 'right but Theodore the First. The newspapers who are with Roosevelt and the blind followers of the man eat, sleep and drink in the same house. They are one big family. Since Roosevelt is not President these people almost be- Heve that the United States is on the verge ofyruin. The biggest sin Wilson ever committed was to run the second time, and get elected. Anything and everything seems to 80 in American ,,polmcu. President Wilson and his critics are nothing new. We had, d‘xflng the four years of Civil War, President Lincoln and his critics. The New York World re- calls that Lincoln, the war-worn Pres- ideni, had to turn on his assailanty, and did so in his letter of Nov. 24, 1862, the letter addressed to Carl Schurz. In the fall of that year, 1862, Ldn- coln had been exposed, according to his secgetary, John Hay, “to the bit- terest assaults and criticlsms of every faction in the country.” . Carl Schurs was among those who wrote to him and complained of the manner. in which the war was conducted. IAn- coln replied in this way: . “I certainly know that if the wer fails, the Administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be ‘blamed if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore, you blame me already. I think I could not do better; theretore, I blame you for blaming me. “I understand you now to be willing* to accept the help of men who are not Republicans, provided ' they have ‘heart in it’ Agreed. I want no others. But who is to be the judge of hearts or of ‘heart in it?" “If ‘I must discard my own judg- ment and take yours, I must also take that of others; and by the time I should reject all I should be advised to reject, I should have none left. Republicans or others—not even your- self. For be assured, my dear sir. there are men who have ‘heart in it’ and think you are performing your %5 peorly ‘as you think I am per- Just as it di@ more than half a cen- tury ago. It applies to the: critics of ‘Wilson just as it did to the critics of It contains a thought well : . ovef. It asks a on ‘thet each man who assails the administration should ask him- self: “I think he is performing his duty poorly; how am I performing mine?” Woodrow Wilson is the President of the United States. The United States is at war with an autocratic Government. It is the duty of each and every citizen of this country ‘to stop nagsing, to stop oriticising, to stop bedeveling the President.- There 1s no place here now for Copperheads. There is room only for patriots. THE IRISH OCONVENTION. This much can be said for the forthcoming Irish convention. As it will include delegates. from local bodles, trade unions, educational, commercial and other inctitutions, it will be representative of all the in- terests of Ireland, All attempts at effecting a settlement of the Irish question have failed up to this. The British Govcrnment has failed. The Irish politiciane have failed. The Unionists have failed, the Nationalists have fafled. There can be no sucqdls until these two parties get together on the one great question of interest to Ireland and all those who laok for the day when the Emerald Islé shall be free. ' If this convention cannot pro- duce the goods, the freedom of Ire- jand will have to be brought about in some other way. Labor, agriculture, industry and finance will assemble there with political leaders and hehind closed doors the whole question will be thrashed out. It should be pro- ductive of some good. . No. such gathering of Irishmen of all classes, creeds, and interests has ever before been assenibled to talk over such a vital question. If these men fail then Ireland is doomed to another -spell under British rule, unless some out- side force steps in and does what Ireland cannot do for herself. Germany may be:short on men, as they claim; but there is no gainsay- ing the fdct Germany is Jong on en- f “We have entered the war for our | durance. " n reasons and with our own objects y stated, and shall forget neither reasons nor the objects. There is eople, but there is a resolve which be shaken even by wmilsrepre- A special navy recruiting train was run over the. elevated rajiways of Ino hate in our hearts for the German | Chicago yesterdas. Many recruits for submarines might be found in. the subways of New York, Last week marked the first step taken by the United States to curtail the operations of German submarines. Six weeks after the keels had been laid two submarine chasers Wwere launched for the United States Navy. Of course, the launching of these ships does not signify .they are .completed; but it will not take long now to put them in commission. Others will come along as rapidly as the shipbuilders can turn them out. The American submarine chasers are one hundred and ten feet long, thirty feet longer than those used by the British Navy, They will be, when completed, the speediest boats of their kind in existence. That the British Gavernment was able to have con- structed in this country five hundred or more of these boats, all bullt and delivered 535 days from the time the contract was signed, augurs well for the building of an American fleet. Our manufacturers will not fall down ‘when the safety of their own country is at stakc. The ships to follow the two submarine chasers already Iaunched will be used in coast patrol to guard ports along the Atlantie. FACTS AND FANCIES. The first thing you know the Allles will be pinning roses on that Hinden- }mrt line—New Haven Journal-Cour- ler. Talk about preparedness! We can't even learn how to display the flag or sing “The Star Spangled Banner.”— Berkshire Eagle. What's the matter with American nerve? Where are all the straw hats? Come on, boys, take the leap.—Pat- erson Press-Guardian. Once more Germany will have to get down the atlas and look up Hon- duras, which hae followed Guatemala in the cut direct.—Springfield Re- publican. —_—_ A Kaiserite politician grabbing at’ monkey wrenches to throw into the war machine makes a drowning man srasping at a straw look like a lazy loafer.—Boston ' Transcript. You've got to hand it to LaFollette for consistency, anyhow. He never makes the mistake of ranging himself ‘with any measure of patriotism, com- mon sense or decent citizenship.— New Haven Union. T The little girls whom Joffre is kiss- ing should get their osculatory cre- dentials verified. Seventy years hence there will be hundreds to claim that they enjoyed the privilege and hon- or, and the really kissed will want their proofs handy.—Norwich Record. Germony has just expressed to Sweden her ‘“‘sincere regrets” for hav- ing sunk three of that nation's best ships. Let Sweden look out. From long experience with the sincerity of German regrets the United States can warn her that this is the time to take care of the rest of her ships afloat.— New York Sun. Unmanifest Destiny. To what new fates, my country, far And unforeseen of ror or friend, Beneath what unexpected star, Compelled to what unchosen end: Across the sea that knows no beach The Admiral o Nations guides They blind obedient keels to reach The harbor where thy future rides! The guns that spoke at Lexington Knew not that God was planning then < The trumpet word of Jefferson To bugle forth the rights of men. To them that wept and cursed Bull Run, What was it but despair and shame? ‘Who saw behind the cloud the sun? Who knew that God was in the flame? Had not defeat upon defeat, Disaster on diraster come, The slave’s emancipated feet Had never marched behind the dome. There 1s a hand that bends out deeds To mightier issues than we pl Tach son that triumphs, each that bleeds, My country, serves its dark com- mand. I do not know beneath what sky Nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only &xmw it shall be high, 1 only know it shall be great. RICHARD HOVEY. RUSSIA GREETS BELGIUM Will Continue War Not for Conquest But for Rights of Nations, Foreign Minister Declares. vre, May 28, 2:20 p. m.—Baron BeI;:nu, the Belglan foreign minister, today received a telegram from Michael Tereschtenko, the Russian forelgn minister, in which he grepted Belgium and declared: . “Russia, will continue to pursue this war not for the purpose of conquest or envy but to assure all nations,the right ta shape their own affairs and to secure a peace guaranteeing against new atacks, DAZEN H. S. PUPILS HURT Some Scriously Injured When Ceiling Falls in Bridgeport High School During Mid-day Recess. Bridgeport, May 23.—About a dozen pupils were injured, some of them se- riously, when the ceiling of the lunch- room in the High school fell during the mid-day recess today. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1017, OLD SHELLS BURST |TEXAS BEGINS T0 ON AMERICAN SHIPS Daniels Admits Accidents on St. " Louis and $t. Paul Washington, May 23.—Old shells manufactured in 1898 for ‘use in the Spanish war were responsible for the premature explosians on the Ameri- can Line steamships St. Louis and St, Paul. An officlal statement issued last night by Secretary Daniels not only confirmed what was said in regard to the premature explosions of shells on the St. Louls and the St. Paul but ad- mitted that there had been a pre- mature explosion of a shell in a naval gun on the liner Mongolia, Wwhich necessitated the relining of the gun. Secretary Danfels said also that the 8un in which a shell had burst pre- maturely on the St, Paul had to be relired, The Mhngolia was the vessel which returned to New York Monday bring- ing the bodies of two Red Cross nurses who had been killed by the boomeranging of a brass cap attached to a shell that had been fired in target practice when the Mongalia about fifty miles east of the Nantucket light- ship on a trlp to Burope. Nothing said in the statement issued by Secre- tary Daniels threw any light on the mystery of the killing of the Red Cross nurses, but it contained a frank acknowledgment of the allegations that United States naval ammunition on the St. Louis and the St. Paul had burst prematurely and had damaged guns on both vessels. Thése guns, the statement indicates, were all of the newest type. The statement of the navy depart- ment was embodied in the form of a report made to Secretary Daniels by Rear Admiral Ralph Earles, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, who had been instructed by Mr. Daniels to fur- nish an account of what had occurred on the St, Louis, the 8t. Paul, and the Mongolia. Admiral Earle said that “the conclusion reached is that all 6- inch shells and fuses manufactured since the year 1900 are satisfactory and that the premature bursts, so un- fortunately occurring on our armed liners, may be attributed to shells made prior to 1900, and made possibly with slightly thiner walls than the latest type of shells.” PROMOTION FOR MITCHELL Graduate of Naval Academy From This City ¥s Expected to Be Appoint- ed Captain in Marine Corps. Letters received from the island of Guam, from Lieutenant Ralph J. Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Mitchell of this city, forecast the ap- pointment of the former local man as captain in the marine forces stationed there. When the letter was written Mr. Mitchell had the rank of lieuten- ant but inasmuch as mail from the island is a long time in getting to its destination there is a possibility that he is now a captain, having received his commission in the meantime. Lieutenant Mitchell was graduated from Annapolis two years ago and signified his preference for the Ma- rine Corps. His rise has been rapid since He was in Guam when German merchantmen interned there were or- dered seized. One was sunk by the crew before a langing party could get aboard. He states that the boat dis- appeared in less than five minutes after the explosion- H. 8. BOYS WORK. Volunteers Go to Municipal Farm This Morning to Cut Seed Potatoes. BEdward Christ, William Cullen, Wil- lam Gooley, Bennett Hibbard, Harry Kallgren, Joseph Kehoe, Howard Loomis, David Magnusonh, Henry Maler, Howard Mitchell, Reuben Mos- kowits, J. Lindsey Muir, Donald Par- ker, Cornellus Prior, Dunlap Slater, Otto Steege and Arsold Wallen, all High school boys, went to the Munici- pal farm thie morning and spent the day cutting seed potatoes for immed- fate planting. The boys did excellent work and those in charge are loud in their praise for these volunteers. The municipal farm committee will meet in the mayor’s office at 8 o'clock tonight. SWEDISH STEAMERS SEIZED. | Three Taken by Submarines to Ger- man Ports. Stockholm, May 23.—Several light- house stations report that German submarines have captured three Bwedish steamers loaded. with freight for Finland. Numerous submarines apparently are patrolling the Both- nian Gulf, working in conjunction with Zeppelins, which frequently are seen at different points off the east coast of Sweden. Traffic to Sweden by water routes recently wds temporarily stopped. 23. — Three the May the Lizzie, Copenhagen, Swedish steamers, Goeta and the Kaell, which it is as- | sumed were captured by the Germans off the Oerikder Lighthouse, have been taken to a German port, accord- ing to advices received by the Politi- ken.from Stockholm. VOTES FOR ALL IN RUMANIA. Jassy, Rumania, via London, May 28, 8:40 a. m.—Premier Bratiano has announced that the government re- quests parliament to insert in the Ru- manian constitution the principles of universal suffrage and expropriation in favor of the peasants. The govern- ment is also considering the Jewish question. CUT WHEAT CROP Harvest May Have Bearing on Strategy of War Chicago, May z'l.——'l‘fle cutting of wheat has been started in Texas, near Fort Worth. This information reached the great grain market here today in a laconic telegram from the Texas city. Work, it said, began yesterday when sbinders started on a farm of one hundred acres, which was expect- ed to yield from six to eight bushels to the acre. “The Texas harvest has started.” flaghed over the wires of the brokers, and crop students sald that never in history did such a message carry more hope and meaning to the world, for this crop, according to leading statesmen, enters info the grand strat- egy of the war and into the very pol- itics of the nations. Y From now on the harvest will spread northward over the granarios of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska; thefice on through the spring wheat valleys of the Dakotas, until about the first of September, the last North F American crop has beéen cut in the far Hydson bay country. The word from Texas was taken as a good omen, for it showed that the harvest had been started three days earlier than normal, and even three days 1s important, it is sald, when the ‘whole world is crying for wheat. An- other cheering note was added to the symphony by Bernard Snow, crop statistician, who said that Texas was expected to yleld fifteen million bushels, or ten per cent. more than last year. The harvest will bring re- lief to the bins of the southwest. By June 5, Mr. Snow said, the invasion of the reaper will have extended to the Oklahoma line. By August 1, ke sald, indications were that the spring wheat of the Dakotas should begin to fall, “The movement of the grain market should begin by June 15.” t0 GOREMYKIN GOES INSANE. - Former Premier of Russia Loses | Mipd in Prison. Londen, May 23.—Ex-Premier Ivan L. Goremykin, arrested during the revolution and imprisoned in the fortress of Peter and Paul, has gone insane. 4 Goremykin, who is nearly eighty yers old was one of the staunchest bureaucrats in the empire. He was responsible: for- the dissolution of the first Duma in 1906. 'That was during his first premfeérship. He resigned soon afterward, but réturried to the post of premier on-the eve of the war. AMERICANS STILL HELD' Secretary, Lansing Sends Stift Note to Germany Demanding Freedom for United States Oitizens, Washington, May 23.—Secretary Lansing has sent a communication through the Spanish government, which represents American interests in Germany, protesting against the action of the Berlin government in de- taining Americans. Some of these are being held in Belgium, and others in Germany. Among the latter, in ad- dition to those who wanted to leave when a state of war was declared, are seamen who were captured by the raider Moewe on her second com- merce destroying voyage. The state department announced {ts action in the following words: “'ll‘hed department of state, received positive Informati detention by the German gg:er;tm:x: of Americans in Belgium and Ger- many, has, through the Spanish gov- ernment, asked for a full and deflnite statement of the German govern- ment’s attitude concerning the depar- ture of American citizens. It is polnt.ed out that this government has always acted promptly on applications of German subjects to leave the United States.” The exact number of A being detained is not knovvn.m“’“ml —_— WILL FIGHT FOR U. S. Frank T. Edwards Escapes With Life and Enlists in Navy Again. !-jLavlng once almost lost his life While in the service of Uncle Sam, Frank T. Edwards of 211 Maple Street 1s still undaunted by tl'» perils of the sea, having enlisted ag-in as a first class fireman in the Unite:l States navy. Edwards was ordered yesterday to report for service at once at the Charlestown navy yards. Last August Edwards figured in the wreck of the Memphis in the San Domingo harbor when he barely es- caped with: his life. He has since been spending his time with his uncle and | aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Edwards of 211 Maple street. Edwards is well known in this city, having until last week been employed in the cost department of Landers, Frary & Clark. He was very popular at the factory and was presented with | a costly brier pipe and tobacco upon | his leave. SENT TO PRISON FOR LIFE. { Columbus, Ohio, May 23.—Weldon H. Wells, Kansas City broker’s clerk who last January murdered Mona Simon, a girl of the streets, in a lead- ing hotel in this city, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Ohio pen- itentiary. Wells’ mother, whose home is In Huntington, Ind., was in the court room when sentenced was pro- ! nounced. The you man was con: victed of second degree musder having ¥ SELF HELPS FOR NEW SOLDIERS SOON TO BE CALLED INTO FIELD Advice By United States Army Ofiéer Which Is Valuable to Those Eligible For Service in America's New Legiona. THE COMPANY AND “SQUADS % RIGHT.” AS SOON AS THE COMPANY I8 formed and starts to march in Close Ordgr, drill, the new Soldier will find himeelf putting into application more and more of what he has learned in Squad Drill application, too, for he will now able to see what it is all about, Pre- viously, it was necessary for him to learn certain movements in the Squad as a unit, ‘for it would be impossible to explain to the Company as & whole the detalls of a Company movement which is based upon a collective Squad movement, unless the Squad = move- ment itself were first comprehended. The parts cf the machine must be perfected separately, and then, as we have before, observed, be fitted to- gether, If the Company is marching in line and hence forward on a Company front, probably the first command which the Captain would give 1s, “Squads Right (Left) MARCH!” The purpose of this command would be twofold. In the first place, it would change the direction of the march by diverting it squarely off to the right. In the second place, it would form the company into a column of Squads— that is, four new abreast, in place of the Company line. flexible front, and one more easily handled in marching The movement itself is executed precisely as in “Squad Right (Deft)” as already described in the School of the Squad. The new Soldier would do well to return and refresh his rec- ollections of the detalls. As a practical illustration of what has taken place following the com- mand “ Right,” imagine that the Company i§ marching on an ar- mory drill flagr. It is in line—that is Company front—and is advancing up the left side of the hall. As it approaches the wall at the.end of the APPOINTMENTS TOMORROW Mayor Quigley Will Make Known Per- sonnel of Fire and Police Boards Tomorrow—Much Speculation. Mayor George A. Quigley stated emphatically this, morning that he has not yét made public any of his ap- pointments on the recently created fira and police commissions, but will prob- ably do so tomorrow. Governor Hol- comb signed the charter amendments’ bill last week. It 1s common knowledge, however, that the mayor has already made his selectiong for these boards and “the men have already been approached. It is generally believed that H. S. Tal- lard, former chsirman of the. health board, will be one of the police com- missioners, and with him, it ia'be- leved, will serve Howard M. Steele and Frank Moran, present . safety board members, and George T. Kim- ball. The pergonnel of the fire board, it is thought by many well versed in city affairs, will include Alfred E. Magnell as chairman. Mr, Magnell has for many years been the clerk of the safe- ty board. Herbert V. Camp and George Trask are also mentioned as probable appointees to the fire board. | Mayor Quigley would neither affirm nor deny the possible appointment of any of the above mentioned men. LIGHTNING SHOCKS SOLDIE National Guardsman on Patrol. Duty at Dam Near Ansonia Rendered ‘Unconscions by Bolt. Ansonia, Conn., May 28.—Rudolph Bachmann, a National- Guardsman of Bristol, was shocked by a bolt of lightning early this morning while on duty at a dam in this vicinity. He was unconscious for several hours but has regained consciousness and is now expected to recover. It is thought the lightning was transmitted to his body through his gun just as he put his hand on the switch of a searchlight. GERMANY APPEASES SPAIN Recognizes Rights in Ferritorial Wa-~ ter and Will Punish Commanders ‘Who Attack Spanish Ships. Madrid, via Paris, May 23, 12:20 a. m.—Premier Prieto has announced that a satisfactory reply has been re- This 11 be 114 t y the command, i [ntellige® ! the line immediately swings into a This is a far more | drill floor, it is necessary for the Cap- tain to change the direction of the Company—otherwise, the men would be compelled to march head on into the wall. He wishes to send them along the end of the room, and in this he now has but one choice of direction—to the right. So he gives “Squads ” and- column of Squads, moving straight oft to the right B jume that, while in column of Squads and half way across end of the drill hall, the Captain desires return to the Company front - 2 either for the purposs of halting or in order to, acroes the A4riil floor in the direction o; ite to that originally deseribed. would give the command, “Squadd Right” once more, and this would executs the ent as required. 3 Bring in line, at a Halt, if the Cap« tain wishes to throw the Company into column of Squads, he gives the command, “Squads MARCH, y, HAI/T!”. This movement I} executed in the same wiy as with an individual Squad in line. By this time—if not before—thd new Soldier will have observed that Squads in the Company are as a row of stateroom doors on a steam boat. The aiffe ce is that they swing as if moved a single lever. At one tigne they nd open at right angles, thereby forming a column of Squads, and at another time they are closed and form the line, or Company Front.,~ And the importance of the Fixed Pl vot (on which “Squads Right (Left)” is alway executed) is to insure that the Squads will fit as exactly when they swing in and out as the hypo- thetical row of doors. : Tomorrow’s article will tell of other* movements by which a company changes direction and front. (Copyright, 1917, by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) - RAILROAD FINANCES | Conterence of Transportation Men ta,- Decide on L Q. C. Hearing. Regard- ing Investments by Publlc. Baltimore, May 28.—Owners of more; than one billion dollars of rail- securities' were represented atia conferencé.‘which opened 'here today for the purpose of considering im- portant questions of raiiroad finasc-~ ing. Tlhie call for:the meeting . .wad?" sent out by 8. Davies Warfield of this city, chairman of the board of direc-~ tors of the Seaboard Airline rallway. ;. Mr, Warfield said the. conferendsi ‘would‘décide : wiiether ‘it is . desirable for investors in railroad bonds and stocks to ask the Interstate Commerce . Commission’ to' be heard on the tion of railroad credits, its bearing on securities and future railroad financ; ing. i FOUGHT - WITH ¥ SUBMARINE . U-Boat Which Fires Sixty-three) Shells and Torpedo Off Africs. Philadelphia, May 23.—Tales of an: encounter with a German submarine off the north coast of :Africa were told by sailors of a British freight steamer . which arrived yesterday. The battle ' with the undersea boat took place shortly before daybreak on the second day out. A In the darkness the two boats maneuvered, the British steamer’s’ sunners locating the hostile craft, Oftl~ cers of the steamer declared:iffis U-boat fired ‘at least sixty-three shelle' ™ and then a torpedo through the water but missed by a narrow margin. The ° battle continued @ntil daybreak. Thég, U-boat fled toward the African coaat . and submerged. The freighter es- caped damage. 3 # ADMIT PAINTING IS FALSE- Art Dealers Bring Suit for $100,000 to Sensational Conclusion by Conced<(t ing Canvas- Is Notlm’_. : London, May 28, 11:50 a. m.—The"~ action brought by Henry E. Hunting- ' ton, of New York against a London fifm of art dealers for the return of 20,000 pounds sterling pald for an al- leged Romney came to a sensational end this morning when the defendants } admitted the canvas was not by Rom- A cetved from Berlin In answer to the |ney and agreed to return the 20,000 Spanish note regarding the sinking of the Spanish steamer Patriclo. The premier says “the German re- ply is satisfactory.” It recognizes Spain’s rights In territorial waters and pounds sterling with interest and all costs. . Bince court adjourned yesterday the original sketch by Humphrey had been discovered, and the defendants the Gérman government shows itself [ agreed that the picture was by that &' disposed to respect our waters and even to punish the commanders of submarines who violate our zone. KING RECEIVES AMERICANS, Medical Unit Pays Visit to B ham Palace. London, May 23, 12:40 p. m.—The American Medical unit under com- mand of Major Harry L. Gilchrist, which reached England last week, was received by King George today at Buckingham palace. Ambassador Page Americans. ‘Those present included 25 surgeons and 60 nurses of the fourth base hos- pital. Queen Mary, Princess Mary and the Prince of Wales accompariied the king; who received the Americans on the terrace, presented _ the painter. —_——— KILLS TWO; DEFFIES POLICE. Baltimore Woman Slays Husband and Mother-in-law. : Baltimore, Md., May 238.—After killing her husband and his mother at his home here tonight, Mrs. Anna M. Smith, 50 years old, sat on the front steps and kept a throng at bay until finally overpowered by police and locked up. Mrs. Smith, Jr., from her husband. Last night she came to his ho; and after a short argument shot dead. His mother, Mrs. Lena Smi 72 years old, ran to his side and W also shot dead. The younger woman then sat on the steps of the captured, had been npmteq’ =