Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 12, 1915, Page 1

fUfiited States Must Decline ‘to Surrender Neutral Rights to Secure Immunity for American Ships “SECRETARY LANSING STUDYING THE NOTE ‘Germany’s Failure to Disavow Lusitania Catastrophe Brings On New Crisis—Difficult to Foresee Outcome—Ameri- - many for any Rupture in Friendly Relations—German : Officials in Washington Profess to Believe an Amicable Understanding Will be Reached. - ‘Washington, July 11.—Formal study {of the official text of Germany's reply 0 the American note on submarine [warfare as it affects neutral rights |strengthens the comviction of high of- ificials. that a most critical point in the relations between the two countries /has been reached. Not only do they |feel that the United States must refuse |to accept the German proposals for the |future conduct of American citizegs on [the high seas, but. the failure of Ger- /many to disavow the sinking of the Lusitania, wit hthe loss of more than {100 Americans, in their view has ‘brought on a crisis the outcome of \which it is difficult at present clearly to foresee. No Action for a Week Yet. |__That there will be no ection by the {United States for at least another |week was indicated today. Several ‘days will be required to measure fully the consequences and responsibilities yWhich will be incurred by the Ameri- fcan government in framing a policy ta ‘meet the situation firmly. 1 Lansing Going to Carnish. l Becretary Lansing will ‘'go to Cor- nish, N. H., within a daey or two to |confer with President Wilson. He |said tonight he would study the note |carefully and then communicate with ‘the president. | Count Von Bernstorff, the German jambassador, intends to call on Secre- ‘tary Lansing this week to learn infor- mally whether he can he of any service in the situation. No engagement has been made for a conference, but it will bably take place Tuesday .or Wed- nesday. % Official Text Arrives. Today the official text of the German reply arrived and was made publie. It idiffered in only a few unimportant words from The Associated Press copy !which came from Berlin Friday night. {The official version was delayed in transmission because of the time re- quired for enciphering and decoding. “Comparison of the two texts reveal ;that they were cabled from the same translation and that The Associated Press copy in transmission had omit- ted a few scattering words which did not alter the sense or meaning. No Surrender of Rights. In all quarters here the reply was the single topic of concern. What the &ction of the American government will ‘be is doubtful largely in the se: that the means of expressing the ideéas and purposes of the United States have not yet been decided. It was authori- tatively indicated that obviously there ‘would be no surrender of rights and no acceptance of the German proposal to guerantee immunity ‘to American ships under arrangements to be agreed ‘upon by the naval authorities of the { /BARBAROUS DISREGARD OF { ; CIVILIZED USAGES |Field Marshal French So Styles Em- ployment of Asphyxiating Gases. i |_ London, July 11, 555 p. m.—Field |Marshal Sir John French, in a review of the operations of the British ex- peditionary forces In April and May, |the story of which has been told in 'the accounts by the British official ‘eyewitress” and by special corre- pondents, makes caustic reference to “T much regret,” s Field Marshal French, “that during the period under report the fighting has been charac- iterized on the enemy’s side by cynical and barbarous disregard. 4f the well "cnown usages of civilized war, and by flagrant disregard of The Hague convention.” “All the scientific resources of Ger- jmany apparently have-been brought iinto play to produce a gas of so vir- ulent and poisonous a nature that any human being brought in contact with it is first paralyzed and then meets with a lingering and agonizing death. L “As a ‘soldier I cannot help ex- pressing the deepest regret, and some |surprise, that an army which has ‘hitherto claimed to be the chief ex- t of the chivalry of war should ,have. stooped to en\x:y such devices jegalnst brave and gdllant foes. WEALFHY CUBAN KILLED. — jAutorHit Telegaph Pole On - Curve Near. Utica, szilea Utica, U. Y, July 11.—Ramon Serou of Santiago, a wealthy planter ‘was killed, his fie seriously -hurt, and of his*two sons injured when his obile overturned at. Sassville to- The car was'rounding a sharp Jjourve at high speed when it hit a tel- .ephone pole and turned over, pinning most of the party beneath. Mrs. Se- ¥ou's hip and shoulder are broken and fthe son injured internally. Steam: als. New York, July TL—Arrived, ste St. Paul, Liverpool; Rotterdam, 3 leo, Barcelona; Duca two_countries concerning the marking of the neutral ships. There is no intention, from indica- tions in official quarters, to force a situation, but in whatever policy" is followed the American endeavor will be to place full responsibility on Ger- many for any subsequent rupture in friendly relations. Since the Lusitania was sunk on May 7 there has been no violation of the principles for which the United States has contended, un- less the mishap to the Nebraskan can be included, and In that case the ‘Washington government has not final- ly reached a conclusion as to whether a mine or torpedo caused the explo- sion. In the view of many officials, should German submarine commanders continue in practice to respect Ameri- can rights, discussion could continue. There were intimations, however, that in the next communication the United States most likely would impress upon the German government the serious conseyuences which will ensue from any further violation of American rights as proclaimed in the notes al- ready sent. Evasion on Lusitania Case. The chief obstacle, it appears, how- ever, to permitting virtually a status quo ot continue while further notes exchanged, is the treatment which Germany has given to the Lusitania case. 'The United States has asked for disavowal of intent to kill Ameri- cans and for reparation, although the matter has been subordinated to the greater consideration of whether Ger- many legally justified the action of the submarine commander or would admit lability. No direct answer on the questions of law involved was given in the last note and the quick sinking of the vessel was attributed to “peculiar circumstances,” such as the presence of high explosives. High officials re- gard this as an evasion, pointing out that even if there were explosives on the ship, which is not admitted, they never would have been ignited but for the German torpedo. . Basis for Negotiation. Opinion in German quarters here is much the same as that which has been reflected in press comment from Ber- lin. Count Von Berustorff, the German ambassador, is satisfied with the Ger- man reply and thinks it offers a basis for negotiation. He does not believe a break between Germany and the United States is now probable, and is satisfied that the suggestions carried by Dr. Meyer-Gerhard to urge the German foreign office to adopt a friemdly tone in its reply were follow- ed. With the United States an active champion for the cause of neutral rights, German officials here say they foresee an amicable understanding eventually on the question of the free- dom of the seas. CARRANZA PROPOSES TO SET UP GOVERNMENT. Sending Officers on Special Train to Mexico City. ‘Washington, July 11.—Despatches to the Carranzs agency from Vera Cruz tonight announced that General Car- ranza was sending officers of the vari- ous departments of his government on a special train to Mexico City to set up a civil administration. General Lopez de Lara, newly ap- pointed governor of the federal dis- trict, started from Vera Cruz with his staff several days ago and is believed to have taken charge in the capital last night when, according to state depart- ment reports, the Zapata forces evac- uated after making a last stand against the . victorious attacking army under General Pablo Gonzales. *No detail of the situation in Mexico City came to- day, either to the state department or to the Mexican agencies. YOUNG MAN DROWNED IN POND IN GOSHEN Canoe ’ Upset—Four-Year-Old Child With Him Saved, 'Torringten, July 11. on Tyler pond ‘His four-year-old nephew was with him at the time. The canoe, fortu- nately did not upset, and persons on the shore were attracted to the scene by the child’s crying. The body was quickly brought to shore, but efforts to revive him proved unavailing. It is thought O’Brien was seized with a fainting spell, which caused him to fall from the croft. ~ MINNEHAHA SAILS, On Her Way to England Again—Evi- dences of Bomb Aboard - Halifax, N. July 11.—The Atlantic Transport liner Minnehaha, which put in here after the explosion on board last W » sailed for London to- lflm ‘Though officers = declined to m!h&t 2 part ot“t‘l:e FRENGH NOW HOLD ALL “EMI-| NENCES AT FLANDERS. forest. ~ 4 r FIGHTING 120 . DAYS| in to nn..%ed t.hrfir:tng,up u-n::p as. PRESIDENT STUDIES GERMANY'S REPLY. Gives No Inkling of What U. 8. Policy Should Be. Cornish, N. H, July 11.—In the quiet of Cornish hills, President Wilson sinice yesterday has been giving care- ful consideration to Germany’s latest note on submarine warfare. He is be- lieved to have mapped out in a general way the next step to be taken by the Uniteq States, though there will be no final decision until the situation has been fully discussed with the cabi- net. 1t now seems probable that the pres- ident will be back in Washington in time for the cabinet meeting next Fri- day. The note was despatched from ‘Washington as soon as it was decoded today, and the president will get inta communication tomorrow with Secre- tary Lensing and Secretary Tumulty regarding the advisability of the for- has been given of what Mr. ‘Wilson thinks should be the policy of the United States in view of what officials generally consider the unre- sponsive and unsatisfactory nature of the German note. He has been study- ing and thinking over the text as ca- bled from Berlin to The Associated Press. Instead of going to church today, he spent the entire morning and afternoon in seclusion at enden house or strolling about the. grounds. In the evening he read to family. e hams. Tt oot e ARRAS, DESOLATED. Under Shell Fire 250 Days—Streets Grass-Grown—Population Now 1,000. Arras, France, Friday, July 9, via Paris, July 11, noon—Shells have been dropping into Arras at intervals today as they have been for 250 days, Each 24 hours & few more buildings crum- pled or burned’ although the fire de- partment -still ‘is efficient in extin- suishing flames, One thousand’ civilians of a former population of 35,000 are still here. The streets, which formerly were filled with _traffic, noy _ are. grass-grown. Several shops, located underground, are open for business. —About half the outer walls of the. beautiful city hall still are standing, but thens remains only one jagged cormer of the im- posing belfry “which” once adorned the great square of Arras. The salaries of cabinet ministers, which are now being pooled by private arrangement, were settled at their present official figures for the most part by an arrangement made as long ago_as 1831, though there have been increases in some of the salaries since then -where & post has risen in im- portance. Before the Wellington de- bacle of 1830 salaries were on a com- plicated scale. made up of fees, allow- ances, sinecures and reversions, so that a good deal depended on the greed or moderation of the individual minister. Some founded great fortunes, like the Danby who became Duke of Leeds and the “Black Funereal Finches.” Some left office poorer than when they en- tered the ministry, and it is a curious fact that among these must be reck- oned that Duke of Newcastle who is always cited as combining in himself every one of the vices of a corrupt period. But when the Grey ministry was formed ministers put their salaries at the disposal of the Commons, and the £5000 a year limit for the greater, purely political offices was arranged. In 1850.the situation was reviewed. and it was agreed that the salaries ‘were not by any means too large. Peel quoted Burke's statement that a min- ister who looked after the state rarely had time to look after his own affairs. “If the minister sees that the state takes no detriment. the state must see that his affairs take as little"—a fine sentiment to which the only possible objection is_that, the logical converse of it might be awkward for some peo- ple. “As far back as 1850 the authori- ties agreed that a salary of £1500 or £2000 a year was no incentive to men of the highest intellectual quality to devote “themselves to politics, and it i in the interests of these lesser stars (from a salary point of view) that the “pool” has been arranged.—Manchester e < Quarter Mile of German. Trenches Taken in Desperate Night ‘Attack—, Men on Firing Line Expect Another Winter Campaign. ute rocket lights, burnlr‘l:- hluhl:zl ‘white and g: g greenish white, covering scen the desperate conflict with a ghastly low. 2 3 The-most desperate fighting has been along the ten mile front from Arras |, to Aix Noulette, beginning March 9, With ihe faking' of & few hundred yards of trenches on the watershed of Notre Dame de Lorette. ~Every day since then some section of the Ger- man trenches has been taken, lost or vetaken. Losses Tremendous. A correspondent of The Associated Press today went through five or six miles of the trenches formerly held by the Germans and Teconstructed by the French, who now: have abandoned them to move forward. Upwards of 100,000 Germans hawe fallen or been captured in these tremches . according to the French official count, since the second week of March. The French losses, the correspondent was confl- dentially informed, while serious, have been much smaller than those of.the Germans. There are thickets of little crosses made of twigs tied together, the graves between the trenches. Some of these graves have been torn up by the shell fire. The visiting party in the trenches was invited by the soldiers into their shelters which are dry caves ' with narrow -entrances and with clay floors covered with matting of. . . They are faintly illuminated by the light which filtters in from the entrance or by bits of candle or the inside. Men who had been on duty night were sleping in these caves, Confidence On Firing line. The men on the firing line express the utmost confidence that what was done yesterday or this morning, they can keep on doing until the war has been won. They talk as a matter -of course of another winter campaign be- cause, they say it will take another year to break the German power. ‘While the members of .the party were waiting at the rendezvous, four automobiles came within German range at dust-raising speed. German six inch shells began dropping in .the roadway so accurately that five holes were torn in the concrefe after the machines had passed. The shelling .of the road continued for some time. One of the French officers remarked that if it were not a cloudy day it would be impossible for the party to move safe- ly, even a considerable distance be- hind the line, bacuase in a brilliant light individuals can be ‘' seen . miles away and are practised upon by the gunners. It is estimated. that if one man is hit for every ton of metal thrown the average is good. 20,000 PRISONERS NEED NURSING AT ONCE Pope’s Envoy to Negotiate for Their Care in Switzerland. Paris, July 11.—The Rome corre- spondent of the Havas agency says the Corriere De Italia publishes the lowing: “Monsignor Marchetti, a prelate of the Pope's household, has been séent Berne (Switzerland) officially charged with the negotiatins necessary under the latest pontifical proposal for the sojourn in Switzerland of 20,000 prisoners, of both belligerent parties, having immediate need of nursing. He is als charged with forwarding correspondence for the Holy See.” Letter to New Orleans Paper Says: Writer Will Complete Muenter’s Work—intends to Kill J, P. Morgan and British Ambassador. ‘Washington, July 15—Ws to' look out for bombs concealed in their holds was flashed tonight from the naval wireless towers at Arlington to two ships at sea which sailed from ‘arning fast via Norfolk and the latter direct for 'Avonmouth. Confederate of Muenter. New Orleans, July 11—A letter Te- hi onight signed writer intended to kill J. P. Morgan and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, - the British am- ‘bassador, and finish the work of Erich Muenter, who committed suicide sev- eral days ago, after wounding Mr. organ. After announcing his intention .to kill Mr. Morgan to avenge the death of Holt,” the letter writer says: “Holt ' (Muenter) was my partn and I glory in the thought of his com- radeship. We worked together ever since this cursed war began, Holit is gone, but I am still here and I am going to carry on the work the two of us I am going to carry on the work with redoubled fury. “Just as Muenter appealed to Froh- man, Vanderbilt and the others not to sail on the Lusitania, so I now ap- peal to worthy Americans in this country not to sail on the British mule ships leaving this port. oL member I am Muenter's pupil and very, very seldom has Muenter fail- ed. Muenter’s methods are my meth- ods. I am working with enough ex- plosives to wreck this whole town. I have a program to follow: British ships, Morgan, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and. then oblivion. I have- Muenter’ backing and—I have dynamite. * * If you will look up the records you will discover the names of two port—perhap: o !:urn.“ ‘6‘: s never to :One of them is called Howth Head, the throughout the | (Signed) 1 Effect of the Gas. From yesterday afternoon through the 'night, all avallable ambulances, sanl wagons and tramcars, the latter specially rigged into ambu- lances, have been carrying victims of the German gas attacks from the south to the many hospitals in War- saw. -The Associated Press corre- spondent visited several hospitals to view at first hand the results of in- baling the asphyxiating gases used by the Germans. In one hospital three hundred beds were occupied by men with liver-colored faces, blood-shot eyes, nearly lifeless, but with open mouths gasping for breath. Six vie- tims died in the ambulance en route from - th ‘Warsaw-Vienna railway station. AIl night the doctors and nurses worked untiringly applying remedies for the relief of the fearful sufferings of the patients. Injection of a camphdr solution under the ekin appears to be the most effective treatmen* so far discovered. The gas appears to have the effect of turning the blood of the victim inky-black. The patients lie motionless, seeming- ly in a stupor, the heavy breathing interrupted from time to time by a racking cough. Gov.” Whitman is expected to grant lon to Patsey Pegnelli, a con- who is suffering a vict at Sing Sing, from cancer. Former Governor George M. Hodges of Kansas stated that more than half a million persons in Kansas “never saw a saloon.” He was addressing the Anti Saloon league convention at Atlantic City. The United States government has vindicated the lightning rod by rigid tests. Re- | ol that insulted streets of Vienna because they speak English in public college athletio year at a financial stand the greatest the college ever had. The year's receipts were $134,033. ..alu‘-'fi;—__‘ of ba ot Gen. H. E. J. Gouraud, leader of the expeditionary force at the Dardanelles, who was wounded recent- 1y, had his arm amputated. - Strikers in a) e bs at their e Michas! Truhart, 60 the Bronx, Gied. Stter & Governor Spalding of New H: shire plans to call on President WWTD-M at Cornish on next Thursday, hav'ng been invited by the chief executive. Four Italians were brought to Nassau - hospital, at Mineola, L. “i: after eating toadstools mistaken for mushrooms. Two will probably de, Austrian military authorities are reported to be confiscating type and printing presses and using the metal for the manufacture of war munitions. A complete blockade of the Hoosac Tunnel, the main line of the Boston & Maine Rallroad between Boston and the West was caused by a landslide. Count Ferdinand von in ob- served his 78th birthday by working hard on Zeppelins building for the government t - oy ; at TLake Con A new loan of $20,000,000 at 3 cent., payable in two years, was O“p:: tracted by the government of Ru- :‘nh t;hrou‘h the Rumanian Nation- Formal apology to the United ‘was made by Austro-Hungary :"r.: article abusing President Wilson Which appeared in the N Tagblatt n the Neues-Wiener A report from a French hygiene - committee that France is in no danger of an epidemic because of the deca; ‘bod the Tiring Moo ying/ les along government Capt. H. O. Dunn of the battl Wyoming and Capt. Albert Gluv:hlg the Utah, were ordered detachtd from their commands to await assignment as rear-admirals. : Fourteen men on two dredging bo: barely escaped drowning in Penn. . Py S T 00l were lattr rescued. b ey Diaz will be kept undtr by the Department of reports fitting out Mexican expeditions in Sar timore and Miami, Fla. Gen. Felix ol 2 AT BELIEVES AMERICANS WILL BACK PRESIDENT. the Joplin, Mo., zino field: i point was | t0 dinary presumption leading belaye that the United States would be satisfled wi the output of beer to 40 per cent. | Paper e normal production. imperial government for the principle of humanity.” Offers America Derisive Guarantees. . Petit President Wilsn’s notec:says: “To this the reply of the Berlin cab= inet seems to be in disdainful . It brushes aside the doctrinal view- president. It enumerates intended that “Germany, seeks ‘a means of exploiting the 1lib- erty of navigation desired by the Americans.” LONDON'S COMMENT, German Reply a Complete Negation: of All President Wilson Stands For. London, July 12, 12.45 a, m.—The London morning newspapers, in their comment on thesGerman reply to the United States, concerning Germany’s’ submarine warfare declare that it is a complete negation of everything President * Wilson contended for and conveyed in impudent and insulting terms. The -Mrning Post finds “something, almost comic in this presentation of. a humane power anxious for the lib- erty of the seasiand for the lives of descendants of John Adams and Be: jamin Franklin, holding the stop- watch over its submarine atrocities in order to discover the margin of safety.’ The Daily Chronicle says.the Ger- carry 'Americans negates position which President Wilson took, up and declared himself ready t& maintain by any necessary in that sense, because it is nite and final, the new note is even more unsatisfactory than its prede-' cessor.” Main lssue Remains As Before. The Times says: “The note is a compound of evasion, misstatement| and affrontery, such as only Teutonic diplomacy could have brewed, and is not likely to ease the tension be- tween the two countries. The solemn representations of government are license of disdain. The i remains as it was. The Germans have not attempted to meet it, nor are they likely to. « “The time is clearly. coming when diplomatic negotiations and remon- strations must give way to some more