Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 28, 1916, Page 1

OPPOSING LINES AT ERDUN HOLD FIRM Cabled Paragraphs Dutch Tug Sunk. London, Wednesday, April 26, 9.40 p. m—The Dutch tug Noordzee has been sunk. Lioyds announced to- night. Lieut. Fikentscher Captive in Toulon. ' Toulon, France, Wednesday, April 26, 4.30 p. m.—Lieutenant Fikentscher of the G-rman raider Emden, who es- ently from the British at was taken to Syracuse, Sic- “r being captured at sea, has Sectors to the Northwest of Verdun Are Still U:;‘m“?.. brought to Toulon: ¢ Heavy Bomardment 3 GERMAN INFANTRY ATTACK IS IMMINENT == On the Front of Haudremont, German Attacks, Following Violent Bombardments, Were Halted by French Curtain Fires—French Aero- planes Have Bombarded Numerous German Positions— On the Eastern Front Teuton Infantry Charges Near Baranovichi Were Repulsed by the Russians—In Asia Mnior, South of Bitlis, the Russians Have Dislodged the Turks From All Their Positions in the Mountains. P The sectors of Avocourt, Esnes and Cumieres, northwest of Verdun, are still under the same heavy bombard- ment that has been in progres for sev- era! days. No infantry attacks by the Germans have yet been attempted here, according to the Paris official com- munication, but an attempt at an ad- vance probably is imminent, as these artillery preparations usually presage an attack. Northeast of Verdun, on the front of Haudremont and the Thiaumont farm and between Douaumont and Vaux, the Germans essayed attacks following violent bombardments, but the French curtain fires held them to their trenches. Artillery engagements have featured the fighting on the other parts of the line in France and Belgium. although the French aeroplanes have carried out bombing operations against numerous German positions. The German guns Londonderry Is Orderly. Londonderry, April 27, 10.35 p. m.— During the past three days ‘he be- havior of all classes of the communi- ty In Londonderry has been absolute- orderly. Business is proceeding LULL YESTERDAY IN MEXICAN SITUATION Troops There Are Fully Supplied and Are Forming New Lines. ‘Washington, Aprfl 27.—Outside of the possible activities of General Per- shing’s cavalry patrols, there was another Jull today in the Mexican sit- uation. General Obregon and the aCr- ranza officers accompanying him were approaching the border from the south while Generals Scott and Funston were preparing to meet the Mexican officials in Juarez or El Paso in the conference upon which much may de- pend. Time of Conference Undecided. Neither in Washington nor on the border was there definite Informa- tion as to when the conference would begin. General Obregon should reach Juarez tomorrow night at the latest, it is thought, and the American officer also will be at the meeting place by that time. Affairs at a Standsall. Pending the result of this attempt to the Northeast of Verdun, are keeping up their heavy bombard- ment of the Russian position at the lkskull bridgehead. Farther south the Teutons launched an infantry attack near Baranovichi, but were repulsed by the Russians. Still farther south|to securt the cooperation of the Car- the Russians have captured the vil-|ranza forces in the campaign against lage of Chromiakoua along the ROVNO-| brizandage bevond the horder, the Kovel railway and put down a coun-| Washington government will take no ter-attack which sought to regain the|further important steps, either mili- village. tary or diplomatic. With the return of good weather| Re.disposition of Forces in Mexico. heavy artillery actions and infantry General Scott has received the in- structions for his guidance prepared by Sccretary Baker. The re-disposi- tion of the forces in Mexico is pr ceeding under General Funston's di- rection. No steps are being taken at the state department toward prepar- ing a reply to General Carranza’s note suggesting a withdrawal of the Amer- jcan troops and none will §- taken un- til_the co.ference concludes. 'y and state department advices rarts of Mexico repo attacks at various positions are again in progress along the Austro-Italian line but no important changes in po- sitions have taken place. A massed Austrian attack in the Carso-Sela zone was put_down with heavy losses, according to Rome. In Asia Minor, south of Bitlis, the Russians have di the Turks from all their po: tains, says the Petrograd communica- tion. GERMAN RESERVE OFFICER ARRESTED IN NEW YORK On Suspicion That He Had Been Spy- ing on Panama Canal Fortifications April Conrad Wil- er, @ reserve officer of- ficer of a German pioneer regiment, wag arrested by United States secret service officers on his arrival today aboard the steamship Colon from Cris- tobal on suspicion that he had been spying upon the Panama Canal forti- fications. According to Chief Fiynn of the secret service, who examined him in the offices of the neutrality divis- jon of the custom house, the suspic- ions proved unfounded. Nevertheless, Aufmasser was sent to Bllis Island and certain photographs and docu- ments found in his possession were confiscated. Aufmaasser had been emploved in the canal zone since May, 1814, as as- sistant superintendent for an en<gineer- ing firm of this city, which built the two huge cranes emploved in digging the canal. The photographs proved to be, it was said, ordinary views of the canal and the documents written in German had to do with technical mat- ters written for the use of his em- ployers. He was under examination for more than four hours. It was learned that before his de- parture from Panama, Aufmaasser’s person and bagzage were searched by New York, helm Aufma: Unfited States authorities, but that nothing of a suspiclous nature was found. Later information reached them that just prior to the search he had passed a package to a fellow pas- senger for temporary keeping. This information was communicated to ‘Washington and it was decided to take Aufmaasser into custody on his arri- val here. Auffmaasser was released by the im- migration officers late today. COL. CHARLES JOHN COVENTRY IS A PRISONER IN EGYPT. English Nobleman Who Married Lily Whitehouse of Newport in 1900. London, April 27, 10.42 p. mi—Col- onel The Honorable Charles John Coventry, second son of the Farl of Coventry, who was in command of the Worcestershire Yeomanry in Egypt, has been made a prisoner, ac- cording to a cable despatch received by his father today. Colonel Coven- try married Lily Whitehouse, of New- port, R. I, in 1900. Colonel Coventry served in the Bechuanaland police force and took part in the famous Jameson Raid in Africa, prior to the Boer war. He has also seen service in Matabeleland. LOCKOUT OF CLOAK AND SUIT MAKERS IN NEW YORK Involves About 60,000 Operatives in 408 Shops. York, April 27.—Formal no- New tice of a lockout in the cloak and suit was given tonight by the uit and Shirt Manufac- 80,000 operato: L ?&“mi Ab:;‘: ol ) ‘WWY n mflln Greater New York will be tomorrow morning not to re- for work until further notice, ) oy~ that because of fraction the union thoy felt it “unsafe unwise to begin the new season this condition comes to an end.” —— HOUSE DEMOCRATS APPROVE SENATE PHILIPPINE BILL 28 Members Announced Thoy are Not Bound Aoctlon of Caucus, m:w . ek 5 T e t&m the measure, NOTHING FROM BERLIN ABOUT SUBMARINE ISSUE : E = war Cepariment. Intimated That Empan_:r MayASend New ‘Aepiplanss: Inadequs Fersonai “Nots o Enesident ;Wilsou. A\ cemplaint that the four new aero- planes sent to the border were in- adequate came from General Funston. e said the ninety horse power en- gines were too light for the work re- quired. Secretary Baker replied that the four had been sent only because fhey were the only type available for immediate delivery. Four additional 150 horse power machines are on their way to the border and eight others are to follow. These are the most powerful aeroplane engines vet de- veloped in the Unitea States. Troops Fully Supplied. de- 15 of the last actions between the cavalry and the bandits reached the Washington, April 2 Lansing said late today that he had no further advices from Berlin re- garding the submarine issue and that the situation remains unchanged. The German embassy also was said to be without information. Announcement in press despatches from Rerlin tha: Ambassador Gerard would confer with Emperor William at the army headquarters was re- garded by officials as significant. Of- ficial information on the subject was lacking, but the opinion was freely ex- pressed that it was not at all unlike- y that the emperor might have in mind supplementine Germany’'s re- ply to the American note demanding the immediate abandonment of pres- ent methods of submarine warfare with a personal communication to President Wilson. Ambassador Gerard in visiting the emperor i snot acting under instruc- tions received from Washington. Con- sequently officials assumed that the emperor is not acting under instruc- with him. —Secretary. the troops in Mexico to be fully pro- visoned and eguipped now for a month at least. Lines of communi- catfon as so well established that of- ficers here feel no uneasiness on the supply question. SENSATIONAL CONSPIRACY CASE AT NEW HAVEN Hampton Triplett, a New York Law- yer, the Defendant—His Wife Com- plainant. LEGAL TANGLE OVER JANANESE BOY IMMIGRANT New Haven, Conn., April 27.-- John Bdwin Triplett, the complains was the chief witness today in the case brought against Hampton Tripiett, a lawyer of New York, on the charge of Who Came to California to Join His Father, a Laundry Employe. conspiracy, and assault and battery, San Francisco, April 27.—BEdward |and which is receiving attention of a White, United States commission og |Jury in Judge Gager's court. The mo- immigration here, in a complaint on record today in the United States dis- trict charges that Matsutaro Nakao, a 17 year old Japanese boy ordered de- ported, attempted to gain admission to this country in violation of the Root- Takahira laborer exclusion agreement. The boy’s father, Suketaro Nakao, ac- cording to Commissioner White, is a laundry employe at Stockton, Calif., and on the basis that Matsutaro was likely to become a public charge he was denied admission. Attorneys for the Japanese sued out a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Dooling of the United States district court and it was in answer to this that Commissioner White sald: “Gen- tlemen’s agreement” between Japan and the United States had been vi- olated. Representatives of the United States district attorney’s office said that the boy could not be barred legally under this agreement. tive for a conspiracy was brought out for the first time when State's Attor- ney Alling produced a certifled copy of an action for a separation brought by ‘Mrs. Triplett against her hnuband, Rev. John Edwin Triplett, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Woodbury, N. J., on the grounds of brutal, cruel and inhuman treatment. Over the protest of Attorney Triplett's counsel the copy was read, an objection belng overruled. The state’s course is sald to endeavor to prove that the Rev, Mr, Triplett, his brother, Hampton, and a real estate dealer, John L. Wilson of New York city, were in the conspi- racy to find Mrs. Triplett in a room in a hotel with a man not her husband, and upon this ground bring a charze cf misconduct. The state throush Mrs. Triplett’s proceeded to show that the complainant came here by automobile ostensibly to meet a Mrs. Allen con- cerning the sale of an island at the Thousand Islands. Upon beingz takan to a hotel and conducted to a reom Mrs. Triplett says she found no Mrs. Allen _there but while there with Wil~ son Hampton Triplett rushed in with two other men. Wilson _exclaimed: “Now T've got her,” and Triplett re- plied “T know well you've get her,” OBITUARY. Solomen Close. Stamford, Conn., April 27.—Solomon Close, 8 _retired locomotive engineer, known .throughout the country for his collection during fifteen years of more of earth from places of historical in. terost al over the wnrld’, died at his home here today, aged 71 years, Tt was his custom to mix the earth GILT EDGE EXPRESS IN ACCIDENT AT WATERFORD. Engine Derailed by Broken No One Hurt. Rode— New London, Conn., April 27.—The e Eg‘;g Express bound from Bos- ton to New oYrk and which figured in the wreck at Bradford, R. I, on April 17th, met with an accident at Water- ford to:!lfht ‘when a defect happened er was rushed to the scene from this city and an extra ne was used | varlous places and use it in corneo~ to " continue the run New York | tion w!tg the planting of medical 3 3 t !!{ e R P rees in olties and towns about the ~ | country., ers hore that the accident was slight| One of the trees s planted in the ’nuto capital end another at Wash. and that no passengers were injured. WOULD RAISE $500,000 TO ENDOW NATIONAL THEATRE A Memorial to Shakespsare Urged by Willlam Faversham. o Fund 52 3500500 5 andow & maty theatre—a memorial to ‘e served in the Civil war with a Rhode Island regi- ment and s entered the reg- Talu army for a time. Electriolan Suloldes In Waterbury, Shakespeace— =—Conn,, April 37, urged by ‘William lectrictan, notor, 1h nwmfi. the Efi:m committed maictds In "is * pearding m‘cfioflu and at :’hmn 33 g Tott " " nderso: % smbecrstons. Fwo To hia sister, n Mre: Q'hefnm Conduit Jersoy ,, Cor avenu oy, M. 7. o o T |ers Peports to the department showed | Wilson’s Mexican Policy Assailed BY PHILANDER C. KNOX AT BAN- QUET IN PITTSBURGH. DEMOCRATIC BLUNDER Refutes the Assertion That President Wilson Inherited the Mexican Situation from President Taft. Troublesome Pittsburgh, April 27.—Philander C. Knox, secretary of state in President Taft's cabinet, explained at a repub- lican banquet here tonight why Mr. Taft did not recognize General Huerta as president of Mexico; replied to the assertion that President Wilson in- herited the troublesome Mexican sit- uation from his predecessor and denied that President Wilson's course may be likened to President’s Lincoln's dur- ing the period preceding the Maximil- lian empire. Intervention in Mexico, the former secretary declared, seemed “‘danger- ously near, if not inevitable.” Democratic Blundering in Mexico. “It has been asserted time and again by the apologists for the democratic blundering in Mexico that President Wilson inherited the Mexican situation from President Taft” said Mr. Knox. “Nothing could be further from the truth than this statement, as a review of the situation will conclusively dis- close, “When President Taft assumed of- fice on March 4, 1909, Mexico was at peace. Her credit was good, her cof- fers filled, her industries thriving and Porfirio Diaz, who had been constitu- tional president of the republic since Lerdo de Tejada seemed fair for the remainder of his life to preside over the destinies of the land he had done so much to free from the Emplire of Maximillian, set up by a coalition of European powers. Recounts Events. “The Madero revolution broke out s later and resulted in 2 from power. Although the Madero regime was recognized by the United States and the other pow- ers, it was not accepted by powerful factions in Mexico. Rebellion against its authority was almost coincident with its birth and finally, in February, 1913, General Felix Diaz carried the war against Madero to the streets of the capital city itself. Downfall of Madero. “When it was apparent that Ma- dero’s downfall was imminent it was made certain by Huerta and a portion of the army Zoing over to Diaz, who then seized the palace and on Feb, 19, 1813, Frencisco I. Madero and Jose Pinero Suarez resigned as president and vice president, respectively. Thelr resignations were in writing. The cop- ies were transmitted to foreign pow- ning diplomatic relations epublic and also to the Mex- fcan congress then In session. This ngress elected at the same that Madero was elected presi- dent, the election having taken place subsequent to the success of the Ma- dero revolution. Revolution Led by Felix Diaz. “Of course Francisco Madero resizn- ed under the compulsion of the revolu- tion led by Felix Diaz, just as Porfirio Diaz had abdicated shortly before un- der the compulsion of the revolution led by Francisco Madero. But thers as nothing startling, unusual or un- n in that fact. s n to the presidency there had been some thirty odd governments n Mexico presided over by some seventy- 0dd individuals. Sensible people have no illusion about the stlhlrlty of gov- ernment in Mexico. Huerta Minister of Wa When Madero resigned on Feb, 19, 1913, the minister of forelgn effairs under the Mexican constitution became president. This was Pedro Lascurain, He appointed General Huerta minister of war. The minister of foreign affairs then resigned and the office devolved on Huerta and this was on February 19. 1913. It is important to mark thess dates. How Huerta Became President. “It has been attempted, with a great (Continued on Page Nine) ANNUAL CONVENTION NEW ENGLAND W, B. P, M, Vots to Ralse $60,000 For Mlsslon Work—T> Meet Next Year In New Haven, Brattlebcro, Vt, April 27.—A vete to ralse $60,000 for missien werk dur- Ing the coming year was passed at the annual New Fngland distriot cen- vention of the Woman’s Baptist For- elgn Misslons soclety here today, The amount i3 $8,000 more than last ysar's budget, Mrs, T, B, Orawford, Newton Cen. ter, Mass,, was elected president, The soelety mccepted an invitation frem the Calvary Baptist church, of New Haven, Conn., to meet next year m that city, MAN FOUND DEAD IN CELL IN WATERBURY ALMSHOUSE Had Been Suffering With Alcohelism and Bronchitls, Waterbury, Conn., pril £7,—Willlam F, Gorman, an employe of the Sgoville Menufacturing company, wag found dend In a cell &t Prookside, the alma- house here, early this morning, The man was to the home ;Wll ELd suffering with elcohollam a chitis, Pelirlum eng de and resulted in hig death, He leaves a widow and seven children, FRENCH BIPLANE PICKED UP BY LUGGER AT SEA, Manned By a British Officon—Float- ed Helplessiy Hours, Achevenl: Hollan: 7, R D;:nu’h t tha m«m oula:- but ng & Britlsh Crowded Car Made Wild Ride DOWN A STEEP HILL IN CINCIN- NATI YESTERDAY. 1 WOMAN WAS KILLED Of 38 Persons Injured 20 Are in a Se- rious Condition—Car Got Beyond Control of Motorman and Dashed Into a Telegraph Pole. Cincinnati, April 27. — A doubdle truck street car, crowded with men, women and children, became unman- ageable as it was approaching McMil- lan street here today, ran wild on a downgrade for six biocks, jumped the track, and crashed into a telegrapn pole and caused the death of one wo- man and injury to 38 other persons. A Prospective Bridesmaid Behcaded. Miss Carrie Stilger, aged 31, an at- tendant at the City General hospitax was beheaded. She was to have been a_ bridesmald tonight at the wedding of Miss Carrie Geisler, who was with her on the car. Miss Geisler was se- riously. although not fatally injured. Twenty in a Serious Condition. Physicians at the hospitals to which the injureq were taken, announced that probably twenty were n a seri- ous condition and that some might die. Brakes Did Not Work. Motorman Thomas Devanney, in a statement to the police, said the brakes did not respond and he could not help alowing the car to run past the switch and down the grade. WAGE INCREASE FOR 50,000 COTTON MILL OPERATIVES. In New Bedford and Fall River—Ef- fective May 1. April 27—Fif- ty thousand cotton mill operatives will benefit by wage advances announced by the Manufacturers’ assoclation in this city and Fall River today. The increase in each case will be effective May 1 and will amount to 10 per cent, bringing the scale of wanges to the highest point in the history of the in- dustry in this section, according to mill authorities, Demands for the increase, accom. panied by threats of a general strike, have been made recently by the tex- tile councils representing vahlous classes of organized employes in the mills in the two cities, Under the operation of the new schedules, the textlie workers will re- celve 15 per cent. more wages than they were paid up to January 1, as a five per cent. advance was granted early In the year. The new advance will increase the annual payment to operatives here by 31,500,000, it is said RUMORS OF REVOLT ON WEST COAST OF MEXICO Juan Carrasco, Former Carranza Fol- lower, the Leador, San TFrancisco, Calif., Aprll 27— According to an unconfirmed report received today from the Mexican west coast by officlals at e Mare Island navy vard, Juan Carrasco, heretofore a Carranza follower, has started a rev- olution In southern Sinaloa against the de facto government of Mexico, The report is borno out by adyiees from Guaymas to the effect that the Mexi- t Korrigan Il had &, presumably for Mazatlan, earrying de facto troops and fifteen flold gun “Villa-Carrasco,” is the inseription on the flags carrled as standards by Carrasco's large peon following, ne- cording o the repore, Carrasco nt present ia sald to be in the vieinity of Cullacancita, n town in mouthern Sinaloa, Antl-American fesling i Intense in Sinalon, according to the reports ye- celved at the navy yard, HAITIEN SENATE REFUBES TO BE DISSOLVED Met In Hired Premises and Conetltuted Themselves a Natlonal Body, Port au Prinee, Haltl, April 27,—Des. pite the opposition of the executive, who has diseolved the senats by a decree, the deputies and senators met teday in hired premises and consti. tuted themselves a national assembly, News adyices from Hait] peeently told of the dissolution of the senate by President Dartiguenave and the cre- ation by him of a national council charged with the framing of A new constitution in conformity with the American treaty, Digaffection among defeated candidates for the presi- dency pnd objection ta the govern- ment's ceurse hy the oppesition party 1: the menate also have been repert- ed. BRITIEH ADMIRALYTY'S ORDER TO MERCHANT CAPTAINS Delivered te Btate Department Washington Yesterday, Washingten, April 37 —Coples of the ritish admiraity’s orders to mer- chant eaptains, whieh the @erman government centends provides for at- tacks en submarines, were delivered ta the siate department taday the gr"llh embassadop, Bjr Ciejl Spring- {08, They are sald te nd With these announead m:‘?t‘r n - den and will published later wi a -t:um-nt rom the state depart. men at OBREGON MAY ASK WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS To Submit Assurances That Carranza Troops Are Able to Cope With Ban. dits, N Condensed Telegrams The German-Swiss frontier has been closed since Monday. Chinese revolutionists have ordered ah&belun&mmmnna The Pure Oil Co. declared a dividend of 6 per cent. and an extra dividend of 30 per cent. Four Swedish officers, commanding the police in Persia, have been arrest- ed by the Russians. One thousand South Sea islanders are on their way to Burope to join the entente forces. Currency amounting to $2.000,000 was transferred to San Francisco by the New York Sub-Treasury. According to a report of the State Mining Bureau, Californla produced 88,240,620 barrels of oil in 1815. The second men’s national mission- ary congress convened at Washington, with President Wilson in attendance. John A. Patten, whose suit against | the American Medical Association is on in Chicago, died there unexpected- The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad raised its embargo on corn all points except points east of Pitts- burgh. Prince Albert of Monaco sent a ca- ble to President Wilson congratulat- ing him on his firm attitude toward Germany. Prospectors are reported to havo made a rich gold strike at Boob and Tolstoi creeks, in the Inno district of Alaska. Corporal Emit Troiso, of New York city, a member of the Sixth Infantry, died at the San Antonio, Mexico, hos- pital camp. Police Superintendent Matthews of Pittsburgh has forbidden Pittsburgh cops to interfere with “spooners” in the city parks. A number of employes at a promi- nent hotel In Geneva, Switzerland, bave been arrested on the charge of being German sples. A Villa oaptain who wore seven pounds of silver lece decorating his uniform, was killed by American troops near Namiquipa. As a result of the recent escape of two convicts, Gov, Whitman has or- dered a rigld investigation of condi- tons at Sing Sing p A new cerperation, to be known as the Sun Shi, {iding Corporation, wi'l establish another ipyard om the Delaware river at Philadelphia. _ The SBenate judiclary eommittee egain considered but took no action ypon the nomination of Louis D. Bran- g'u for the supreme court of the U. The Nem’l-n steamship Stroms- | naes, bound for Lubeck, with a cargo of herring from Norway, has been hiown up and sunk off Cjedser, Den- | marik, President John D, Cooper filed 2 potition In the superfor court asking that the Cooper Alrcraft Co.of Bridge- port be thrown into the hands of a re- celver, New York state will bottle and dis- tribute waters from the ntate reserva- tion at Saratoga Springs, the Conser- vatlon Commizsion at Albany an- nounced, President Wilsen sheok hands with 1,600 tourists from New York and other sections of the country, the jarg- Iopl number he has ever handled In one day, OMicial denial was made of the re- port that water had been found In one of the Penn-Mex Fuel Co's wells In Mexieo, by the management of the company, Mre, Mary A, Ragan of New Britaln, an aged woman who was partly blind, dled of burne she recelved when she walked blindly Into & bonfire in her back yard, ve bean stationed at New York, following an attempt made hy sup- posed rman agents to steal Impor- tant papers. A report from Mexleo City sava that many German officers are dirscting the new Guatemslan revolt, while Ja- panese agents are furnishing the arms { and ammunition, Fire destroyed the cotten compress of the Gulf Compress Co., at Decatur, Ala. Between 10,000 and 13,000 bales of cotton were burned, at an estimated loss of §1,000,000, Fine granulated sugar touched the | highest price in the industry { nthis country when the Warner Sugar Re- fining Co, advanosd its price 10 points to 7,60 cents a peund, British coal mine ewners have heen netified hy the war office that 10000 miners rkilledq in tunneiing and lum- bering werk are neceded for the Drit- ish forces in Flanders, Private H. Harrls, of the Cana- dlan army, statien at Brantford, Ont., was notified by British Jawyers that because of deaths in the war, he Is heir to an English earidom, Bocause of antl-suffraga activities, State Senatoer Elen R, Brown of Wa- tertown, N, Y, has been elscted an honorary member of the Jefferson County Anti-Suffrage Association. The changes In rates on millk ana eream shipments sought by the Beston & Maine pallread were further sus- pended until August 19 hy the Massa- chusetts Publie Service Commiassion, for the relief Burope and Asts, Thirty Oh-uund".w- of valuable d t Wi Minn., o S weie e wissippi river, The Misalasi) 18 high- or lr’mnm than it has for 20 — Revelt In Ireland Is Spreading MARTIAL LAW DECLARED ALL THROUGH THE ISLAND. ANXIETY IN ENGLAND Rebels Are Still in Possession of Some Parts of Dublin and Street Fighting is Still in Progress—England Anx- ious Over Insurrection. London, April 27, 10:17 p. m—Mar. tial Jaw has been declarcd through-« out Ireland and Major General Si John Maxwell, who unt!l recently com- manded the troops in Ezypt, has gone over to take charge, the irish eXeou. tive officials ing pianced themselves under his instructlons. He has beer given full disciplinary powers for the extension of the operations and the suppression of the rebellion. Revolt Has Spread. The revoit, which broke out in Dub. lin, Monday, has spread to other parts of Ireland, chiefly to the west and south. This information, together with the fact that the rebels are still iz possession of parts of the city of Dub- lin, was given to the nation by the ministers in parliament today, Premier Asquith, who yesterday had given reassuring news respecting the situation in Ireland, caused something of a flutter of anxiety by his statemen today in the house of commons wher he announced a spread of the move- ment to other parts of Ireland, the retention by the revolutionary forces of certain parts of Dublin and the fact that fighting was still going on ir the streets. The government, the prime ministey further announced, was convined thaf the forces now in Ireland and thos: now proceeding there were adequate to deal with the situation. Condemned by Redmond and Carson J~hn Redmond, leader of the Irisk Nationalist party, and Sir Edward Carson, the Unionist leader, strong opponents on the home rule question expressed their detestation of the ris- ing and, as a consequence, Premier Asquith sald he did not think it nec- essary to hold a session of the house JMonday, as had been suggested by one of the members ‘to make clear to the world that true amount of support was behind the movement.” News Through Official Channels, Dublin is farther from London today than Peking is from New York, so far as communication for the general pub- lc is concerned. N have reached England Extremely Anxious. England naturally i extremely anx- lous about the Irish situation, but me fcars are expressed that the govern- ment will not be adle to suppress the rising. The casualties thus far do not oxceed what might have occurred in civil riots. but more severe fighting is likely to follow before quiet is restored in Dublin. Extent of Seditious Movement Secret. The extent of the seditious move- ment is for the present a governmen- tal secret, except that it has epread to the west and south. It was on_ the west coast of Ireland that Sir Roger Casement’s expedition, consisting of a submarine and a steamer, was Intend- ing to Jand munitions when the steam- er was captured by a patrol boat. No Disturbance in North of Ireland. In the north of Ireland, so far as ia known, there has been no disturbance, @ direct despatch from Londonderry reporting complete order. From Syd- ney, Melbourne, Adelalde and other parts of the empire came a flood of cablegrams to Mr. Redmond today, repudiating the action of the rebellious elements In Dublin and expressing scorn at what they have done “while brave Irish soldiers are dying at the fronnv. that their country may pros- Incldentally, the messages _express the fulless confidence in JMr. Redmond and the Irish parliamentary party. STATEMENT BY SECRETARY OF FRIENDS OF IRISH FREEDOM Declares Rebellion was the Act of Brave and Patriotic Men. New York, April 27—No one famii- lar wiih the course of Irish affairs since the outbreak of the war was sur- prised at news of the insurrection now in progress, according to a statement issued today by John D. Moore, na- tlonal secreiary of the Friends of Irish Freedom, “The Irish rebelllon was the act of brave and patriotic men who are ds nor hotheads,” said Moore. Now that Mr. Asquith has acknowledged that it has spread all oyer Ireland, it is clear that the uprising has only one meaning and that is that Ireland is, as always, re- solved to be free and independent, “Convinced that England’'s necessi- tles, ever more pressing, would soon drag them Into the war, thousands of gailant Irishmen have revolted be- cause they prefer to die fighting againet England for Ireiand rather than fighiing for England in the trenches In Flanders, “If the rebellion succeeds its lead- ers will rank with the world's great men, If it falls the Irish will love them s they love Robert Emmet. The reyolt does not Jook like a faflure now. “Spdden and dramatic as the upris- ing has been, It could surprise nobody who has followed the course of Irish affairs_since the outbreak of the war. Moreover, it completely shatters the carefully oon-n;ueled myth that the mere passage of a mock home rule bill had transformed Jreland into an in- tegral part of the British empire” U. 8, GAVE NO EVIDENCE FOR CAPTURE OF CASEMENT Sec’y Lansing Makes an Unqualified Denial of .ll'!l Reports. ‘Washington, April 27. " y made an