Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1915, Page 1

The unrivalled special feat~ ure pages of The Sunday Bee are in a class by them- selves. Best of them all, OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY MULE GRAFT SUNK ACCORDING TOTHE LAWS OFNATIONS Reported Attempt of Ship to Escape and Its Being a British Transport. SUCH IS WASHINGTON VIEW If Press Dispatches Officially Con-| firmed it is Unlikely Com- plaint Made to Kaiser. LITTLE TENSION OVER INCIDENT WAEHI\GTO July 1. ()H'hiul information regarding the sinking of the British steamer Armenian with| the loss of a number of American | lives was lacking tonight, and until all details are available Secretary | Lansing stated that the position of | the American government could not; be determined. From news dispatches, closer reading of official reports of yes terday officials were inclined to the view that Inasmuch however, and Sinking of Armenian Justified hy‘ as the Armenian appar-| PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN DIES' AT HIS HOME. | ‘ | | | | | AALFRED C. KENNEDY, -~ LONG ILL, 1§ DEAD ALFRED C KENNEDY German reply to the American note 11t | William. | American ambassador, probably July GER who has ‘‘taken a job'’ in a INKAISER'S HANDS “———— | Note Probably Will Be Presented | by Foreign Oifice to Ambas- sador Gerard on Monday or Tuesday. OFFICIALS SEEK SETTLEMENT They Have to Re:mn with Publie Opinion, Which Opposes Grant- ing Demands LIKELY TO BE A COMPROMISE BERLIN (Via London), July As the result of conferences on 1 the | in the hands of Emperor The emperor's decision is expected so that the note can be pre- sented to James W. Gerard, the is now or 6, High officials are endeavoring to bring about a friendly settlement of the ques- tions with America, and there is vvery reason to believe that they are anxious | l“lo-—«T\\ ELV l, PAGES, LORD NORBURY, one of Britain’s wealthiest noblemen, n aeroplane factory to do his share and encourage by his example others to go to work THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE WEATHER Cloudy SING 'HUERTA-OR0ZCO TRIALS POSTPONED Conspiracy Cases of Mexican Lead- ers Go Over Until July 12 at Request ol‘ Prosecutor. VILLA REPORTS A BIG VICTORY | ¥ith conspiracy to violate the United | states neutrality laws was postponed oday to July 12, The defendants | were continued under the same bonds. | request of attorneys for the prosecu tion R. F. Crawford, assistant |United States district attorney, ! *tated that the government had been unable to collect and arrange all its evidence or to bring important wit- into court; that the state would proceed to trial on July 12. Counsel for the defense agtbed to the The postponement was granted on | nesses | government's request and briefly ex- plained the status to tha defendants, who auietly left the court room. This agree- ment was reached shortly before 10 o'clock, the hour set for the hearing. The spectators filed out of the quickly and the crowd that unable to wain ad- LE | EL PASO, Tex., July 1.— The | sase against Victoriano Huerta, Pas *ual Orozco and four others charged | court room | surrounded | ENTENTE ALLIES ~ ABOUT TO TAKE " THE OFFENSIVE London Experts Say French and British Troops Are About to | Make a Strong Drive North of Arras. |GREAT ACTIVITY IN GALLIPOLI Supreme Effort Being Made to Caj- | ture Hill Which Dominates Pe- ninsula Below Narrows, DRIVE AT WARSAW CONTINUES LONDON, July 1.—While Austro-German armies continue push the Russians back over the Ga'l c'an border in their own {erritor there are rumors in London of con templated offensives by the entente allies. The French are credited with the intention of making a formidable attack on account of the enormous |expenditure of artillery ammunition to the north of Arras, where a per- sistent bombardment has been kept up for the last fortnight, while the the 1o to make the proposals as acceptable possible, ently refused to submit to the warning | Omaha L] the federal bullding, command of the German submarine to| Business mittance, dispersed rapidly. Man, Widely | Anglo-French forces on the Gallipoli p . o | peninsula are said to be on the po'nt | Known for Public Service, Whé obticlils, owever Hikve to reckoli As Huerta emerged from the federal halt ttempted ‘~ escape, according | ) e officials, however, have to recke ! wutia % e ‘vz | % .ml :"fd :q.\:.,.] law, the sinking of the| Passes Awa; | with' public opinion, which undoubtedly building he was greeted with “vivas' of making a supreme effort to cap: e ’ | o Ve 1il opp ythi avoring of a com- and hand clapping by several hundred ’tura the massive hill of Achie Baba, vessel was justified, even though non- LD s el dills He . Mexicans, adherents and sympathizers, combatants were on board. plete asquiescence In the American posi- | 2 | which dominates afl Who thronged the streets. Huerta was the _country taken to the offices of his attorneys and south of the narrows of the Darda- to the home of his daughter, | nelles, HEART TROUB}:E_O-AUSES DEMISE tion. “riends of a settlement are wnrkln(i | with considerable aifficulty There was little tension over the incl- dent in official quarters here after it be- and the note | came known that the Armenlan ahd sought to evade capture. “No Cause of Complaint. It was admitted that if official reports bore out the press dispatches there was no likelthood that any new cause of com- plaint would be added to the issues pend- ing between the United States and Ger- many. One or two officials suggested that in-| asmuch as Germany had in effect given warning that enemy ships would be tor- pedoed without warning, a merchantman carrying contraband might be justified in attempting to escape, since to halt would mean certain destruction, with no | assurances of an opportunity for the crew to escape. It was pointed out that the last American note to Germany on the Lusitania and Falaba cases said: ““Nothing but actual forcible resistance or continued efforts to escape by flight when ordered to stop for purpose of visit on the part of the merchantman ever has been held to forfeit the lives of its rassengers and crew.” These officlals were inclined to argue that the German submarines might not order vessels to stop merely ‘‘for the pur- pose of visit. Others, however, de- clared that the rules of warfare do not require the commander of a warship to state his purpose when directing a mer- chantman to halt. D In Admiralty Business, The only fact of importance received officlally by the State department came in a report from Ambassador Page, Who £aid the British admiralty had informed him that the Armenian was engaged in admiralty business. Officlals at the department declared the question of whether a ship so en- gaged should be treated by hostile ves- sels as a public ship of war or.a de- fenscless merchantman was ‘‘a close question of international law,’ and an opinion could not be given until the ex- tent of the belligerent government's con- trol over the ship and crew was defi- nitely known. When it was suggested to officials that if the Armenian were a public ship of war it could not have sailed from the United States without violating neutral- ity, it was pointed out that there had been cases before the federal courts in which this point arose and it had been ruled that the chartering of a vessel by a forelgn consul for his government to transport munitions of war or supplies d1a not constitute a violation of federal " statutes. Treated as Ships of War. In the case of vessels which are loaded to supply a belligerent fleet at sea, how- | ever, the American government has ruled that such ships must be treated as ships of wan The question of charter and belligerent control was overshadowed in official quarters by the press dispatches telling of the desperate attempts of the (Continued on P The Weather Foi st till 7 p. m. Friday For ba. Council Bluffs and Vicinity —(loudy, slightly cooler. {Temperature at Omaha s T — PNt s Column On Yesterday. {land, and a member Ar- | Alfred O. Kennedy, one of the most prominent of Omaha's business men, widely known for his activity in puhllr affairs, dled at 4 o'clock yesterday at his home, 1024 South | Thirty-second street, after a llnzor-| ‘lng {llness, which cut short his life at the age of 53. More than a year ago it was learned that Mr. Kennedy was suf-| fering from a serious heart trouble. For the last two months he had been | ‘ unable to leave his bed and for eight ! months he had been confined to hlal home. The members of the family | were at the bedside when deuth; came. | Alfred Conkling Kennedy was born in | New Lebanon, Columbia county, New York, April 7, 132. He was brought to Omaha by his parents when he was a | child and grew up here, obtaining his | education in the Omaha public echools, | His fatber, Howard Kennedy, was one | of the ploneers of the city and was the first echool teacher here after the public school system was inaugurated, Novem- ber 10, 185, Alfred C. Kennedy began his business carecr golng out with a Unlon Pacitic | surveying party from April to December, {1579, He then became clerk In the coa! department of the Union Pacific, which position he held until September, 1N, | From thén until March of the following | year he was clerk to Herman Kountze, | receiver of the South Omaha Land com- | pany. He was assistant secretary of the | South Omaha Land company from March, 1887 until 1900, later becoming a member of the firm of Howard Kennedy & Son. In 195 he engaged in the real estate | business for himself, in which he con- {tinued until the time of his death, with | {offices in the First National bank build- inet | Public Services in Omaha, Mr. Kennedy was an active participant in public affairs.’ For two terms he was a member of the Omaha Board of Edu- cation and for two terms a member of {the board of directors of the public library. 1e served as vice president of the Board of Education, president of the Prospect Hill Cemetery association, di-! rector and corresponding secretary of the Omaha Masonic library, and treasurer of the Omaha City mission. Mr. Kennedy was a member of learned socleties and stocd hign in Mascnic cir- cles. He was a member of Correspon- dence circle, Quatuor Coronati lodge 207, London, England, a member of the 8t. Andrew society of Edinburgh, Scot- of the Nebraska | He belonged to ! Academy of Science. Capitol lodge No. 3, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and to Clan Gordon, {Order of Scottish Clans, and was a thir- | |ty-second degree Scottish Rite Knight Templar and a Shriner. He was a member of the Omaha club and the Happy Hollow club, and an e'der in the Mason, a First Presbyterian church Mr. Kennedy was married twice, His | first wife was Elizabeth H. Loisenring, jto whom he was married in Omaha, Feb- jruary 20, 1885, She died March &, {In September, 1597, Mr. Kennedy married :Jpnkle Cameron Godso in Omaha i The following children have been born | Hour. i SORR Deg lto him: Donald L., Margaret, Alfred am C. jr., Glibert Verner, Jean Garciner and & |George Long. Judge Howard Kennedy | Wiy of the State Board of Control is a am brother. { & m m ' p.m m _ jJ ealousy Causes m P 3 Tragedy at Oxnard p.m ¥ 3 OXNARD, Cal, July 1.—William “Stm Comparative Loca: Reoor | Wheeler, a negro, shot and killed . F. 1915. 1914. 1013, 1913, | Crexler, driver of a 5-cent fare autom ' wsn‘.:v::‘.;:m.yy + 82 82 V00 g3 (bile, her today, and fatally woundeq At ey AR 1 % B l“Happy" Adams, a negro. Ruby Miller, Precipitation A T .00 T . |a negress, was also injured by the fI Temperatura and precipitation depar- |from Wheeler's revolver, The shooting tures from the normal. tures KN 0o & .- (occurred at the rafiroad station. Crex Dot Tor Thure 7 ller was killed in his automobile, The Total deflciency since’ .\Inn,h i 157 | tragedy was due to jealousy. . precipitation y for the day % ‘“h"kh Total rainfall since ous ¢ 7 P, M. 3 ‘emp. High- - | o0 Wenther. 7.p. m Rean eyenne, partly cloudy.. 62 D.venporl clear 4 w 4’:’ nver, ciovdy & o Des Motnem, cloudy i o | Nor' | Platte, clear | o8 | / Oriaha, cloudy 72 2 T / Lapid City. cloudy . ) o sheridan, rain »4. 16 Sloux City, elear 0 Vi ll-ntlnfi clear % ® indleates trace of nrecipitation A WELSH, Local Forecaster. " ) 8ix Are Killed by | Oklahoma Tornado MUSKOH OklL, July 1—A tor nado that swept part of Ottawa county, notheastern Oklahoma last night, today was reported to have killed six persons. Three deaths have been verified. The | casualties were in the rural districts, near Miami, difficult to reacn, the telephone Uines being out of commission. Consid- erable property damage is reported |in Austria. The letter read in part | fortun {deny me the indemnity probably will represent a compromise not in accordance with their desires |Austrian Salesman Who Threatened | Wilson Under Arrest . | NEW_ YORK, July 1.—The federal | grang jury today indicted Rudolph \|nllk an Austrian salesman, arrested nere las night, charging that in a letter mnllr-ll June 23 to President Wilson he threat- ened the president with “a politic .1 crime” should the president refuse to| DAMAGE BY HAIL IS THREE MILLION ZAPATA TROOPS ARE INCITING RIO later drive List of Defendants. Victorlano Huerta, $15,00 ual Orosco, $7.500 bond; General Marcelo Caravs $5,000 bond | Jose Zosaya, Fl Paso, $7.500 bond: Alderete, El Paso, $4,0600 bond; Frank | Alderete, EI Paso, $4,000 bond. | The detention of Huerta and tho sub- | sequent arrest of five others has iven glimpse of an alleged plot to launch A military expedition from the United States by members of the old Clentifico | party and adherents of Huerta in Mexico. | For weeks, government officlals here beon cognizant of activity among | refugees on this slde of the border. Sup- | plies of machine guns, rifles and am- | General {bond; General Pasc la | | nave pay him $3%. The money, it was charged, Crops Over Large Area in Vicinity | Conditions in the Capital of MexXico [munition suspected of connection with was demanded as an Indeifaity for Malik's inability to return to his family | | of Giltner and Fairfield Prac- tically All Deltroyod “My finances are exhausted and 1 am | Ihere without @&ny help. The Austrian img DAMAGE m TECUMSEH consul will not help me. as ho is in duty | bound to do, because his government | {had called for this horrible war. The | |United States 1s also guiity of my mis- |¢'al.)-—Damage to crops estimated Through the delivery of war 'at nmwon;mfl—mtmu~ n-an materials to the allles, you are prolong- |area twentyfivé ‘nilles square be- b kg 36 i i gy oy tween Giltner and Fairfield, near “1, therefore, have the right to demand | indemnity from your government. This | here, follows a $1,000, 000 loss by amounts to & sum of $300, which you will .hall a few miles west of Hastings. send to my address within a week at | HASTINGS, Neb., July 1.—(Spe- Heavy Damage Near Tecumwseh. the latest. Should this amount, how- | pECUMEEH, Neb, July 1—(Special.)— ever, not be placed within the time, T Thoguands of dollars in damage was done will, without further ceremony, commit to growing crops trees and farm bulld- ings In Johnson county Thursday in a possible for me to- live longer In mYy ' circultous storm which prevalled in Ne- critical situation. ¢ maha, Lincoln and Maple Grove precincts. “'Observe once more that it is my firm The damage was principally from hadl, resolution to give no wit, my knowledge (hough in some places, where there was {(slc) no longer any rest. I must do pot a great deal of hail, the wind blew something for my rescue. Should You the wheat over. As nearly as can be asked for, then immediately arrested, still prevent the great- |a political crime, for it is absolutely im- pray let me be whereby you ca est misfortune.' The salutation to the letter was honor #ome fifteen miles in length, though the ‘amage was not severe the entire length. At the widest point, which is directly east of Tecumseh in Lincoln precinet, the Mr. President.” {damage extends for four or five miles, Wheat that promised to make from -Senator sues Head thirty to forty bushels to the acre was 1 | driven into the ground in places. Corn i was stripped to the ground and alfalfa Of Anti'sa;loon { was riddled. Some of the farmers think League fOr leel' that a part of the corn will make half a crop, while other flelds are past redemp- | tion. Fruit trees were stripped of their SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., July L(Special) | branches, windows were broken from —The commencemient of a damage suit| houses and barns where the storm was by State Senator W. E. Van Demark of , the most intense. A hard windstorm pre- learned the entire path of the storm was | ! Dakota, Alexandria against R. N. Holsaple, pres- ! ident of the State Antl-saloon league, will create a sensation throughout South where Dboth the defendant and plaintiff are well known. The piaintiff formerly was essistant United States vailed and fully an inch of rain fell in a comparatively short time. Some of the farmers will put in “ninety-day” corn, millet, rape and other grains in the hope of getting feed, If nothing better. A very few of tiose affected had hall insurance, tion with his official course In the statc !senate last winter. attorney for South Dakota. He has =pent his entire life in Hanson, "3 ook and wdjoining courties, and has instituted the action for the purpose of being vin- dicated ‘of charges which were made against him by Mr. Holsaple in connec One Man's Loss Two Thousand. STELLA, Neb, July 1.—(Speclal)— Farmers estimate their loss from Thurs- day’s hallstorm into the thousands. The loss to the wheat and oals on the W, B. Piitt's farm alone is nore than $2,000, and besides on this same farm a hundred acres of corn is ruined. Two nelghbors, each on eighty-acre farms, describe them- selves cleaned out.” Wheat and oats are leveled to the ground, and gorn cut off und ridled. An area nearly ten miles in length and in some places more than four miles wide is badly devas- tated The plaintiff has engaged the services of Gamble, Wagner & Danforth of Sloux Falls, who will represent hiim at the tria] of the case, which will take plac n Hanson county. The trial in Hanson county will be In accordance with the | wishes of the plaintiff, who wishes to be | vindieated among the people with whom he has resiced all his life, Ny R R P P The plaintiff doés not seek to pmm‘M 1 S l financlally from his sult, s0 he has unlclpa, a Oon placed the amount of damages at §%9—the | With Two Bars Starts 'URGIS, 8. D, July 1.—(Special Tele- ram.)—The Sturgls Municipal company, lowest amount possible under the South | Dakota statutes. Tie seeks only a vin- dlcation and will prosecute the sult vigor- | ly this object in view. suit is based on an article ' recently organized, opened its ealoon alleged to have been written by the de » this morning for business. The | ferdant and published in the April, 1916, tiree saloons which were running here Issue of the American Issue, a monthly for a number of years closed their doors | periodical publisheq at Westerville, Cotton Area is Reduced by Nearly Six Million Acres WASHINGTON npals by the farmers to reduce in v o last night and quit. Sturgis is entitled | to only two saloons, therefore the new company took out two licenses, a double fixtures being installed In set of bar place one Jwy 1—Repeated ap government to scuthern thikr ‘cotton plantings w of the stagnation in the market causdt by the war has resulted in a re duction of 5,571,000 acres from last year's acreage, which would, according to last Omaha is a well lllumn n ted city so that people can go about by night al- most as well as by day. The bright lights offer the visitor a continuous wel- come. year's yleld, reduce cotton production approximately 2,454,078 bales of 0 pounds each A total area of 31,685,000 acres of cotton |18 under cultivation in the United States, the Department of Agriculture announced today. The condition of the growing crop June 25 was $0.3 per cent of a normal | unl Are Growing More Chaotic Each Hour. FEAR IS FELT FOR AMERICANS WASH[N’GTON Jul\ 1.—Officers of the Zapata forces in Mexico City, disregarding orders of the conven- tional government, nominally in con- the masses to violence, in dispatches carried from the Mexican capital June 26 to Vera Cruz by courtier and |cabled today to the State department. The texts have not been made public, but they are known to state thaa the Insubordination of ‘‘some Zapata of- ficers” is making the situation more acute, reopened there can be no abatement of Ithe suffering. The convention officials it is stated *clalm to have repulsed”’ the Carranza forces, under General Gonzales. Apparently whatever fighting has taken | place has been in the more remote | |suburbs, so distant from the residence | |and business sections that no definite {knowledge of the result has come the forelgners in the city, who probably do not venture into the fighting zone. Battle May Be in Progress. Today’'s report wi the most recent word from Mexico City from any source, ‘What may have happened in the mean- time no one here can conjecture. There has been no report of the occupation of the city by Carranza troops, although all rolling stock at Vera Cruz has been pressed Into military service and a large shipment of rellef supplies of the Amerl- | can Red Cross for Pachuca has been held up for lack of cars. Reports from Vera Crus sald it was hoped the shipment | would go forward today, the troop movements had been finished. If this {s true, a battle for possession of the city may now be in progress. Much concern is felt for the safety of the 20,000 or more forelgners, including Americans. Advices from the Carranza govern- ment to its agency here say General Gon- zales has been instructed to every effort to Induce the Zapata troops to evacuate the capital without endangering noncombatants. The Zapata forces are sald to number 200 men. All are on the defense lines about the city, leaving the business and residence districts with- out military guards. The Carranza forces are amaller. many use Carranza Reports Looting. The Carranza agency announced that serfous looting by Zapata forces is re- ported in Mexico City. A dispateh from Vera Cruz headquar- | ters, it was announced, sald a special train of elght cars of food had been sent Hnrwnrd to General Gonzales for distribuy- tlon when he enters, Other food has been |sent to Monterey and Laredo. Corn, the agency says, is selling in Mexico for $ |& ton less than In the United States Famous Bison is Sold to Butcher NEW YORK, July 1.—Black Diamond the famous biron of the Central park | zoological garden, whose image adorns one aide of the nickel, will be slain within a few days. but his massive head will be preserved and mounted. T animal has been the model for many sculptors and painters. Despite hig fame there were no bidders when be was put up at auction, but yeste ¥ the bison was sold to a dealer in poultry and game for about #10. Black Diamond was born nineteen | years ago In the zoologieal garden trol there, are charged with inciting ! No prospect of relief for the starving | |elvil population of Mexico City is held out in the dispatches. It is declared | that until the railroad to Vera Cruz is I the new movement had been located in El Paso and kept under survelillance. i % Vietory. Although th u! interest here today centered in the- appearance of General Huerta In the “Séderal court, more in-| #erest has developed in the news of the fighting south of Aguas Callentes, Vilia reported last night that he had n Uing to the rear of his enemy at Lagos. After hard fighting, Villa officlal id, they drove General Benjamin Hill's men into a retreat towards Leon. Officlally it was announced that Villa captured many prisoners, two fleld pleces and caused Hill to abandon three trains, whith were burned, however, before the Villa forces could get to them. The vigtory and the reports that Zapata has beén able tc check the advance of Gen- eral Bablo Gonzales at the to belleve the turning point In the strug- gle with Carranza was near at hand. Miguel Diaz Lombardo, Villa minister |of forelgn affairs, expects to leave today | for Washington to place before President | Wilkon a plan to establish peace in Mexico. He is expected to suggest that a commission of men selected from the | ranks of both Carranza and Villa be | | named to chooke a provisional president. |Carranza Forces Win Successes Near The Mexican Capital| GALVESTON, Tex., Ralphael Pacheco, to | July 1.—General Gireamsa’s offensive movement Hyguts: outskirts of | Mexico City caused Villu partistans here | in command of Za- | | The recent gains etatmed by the Rrit. |18h and French on the southern end of the peninsula are considered Important because they indicate an approach to the hill on three sides Way to Warsaw Open, On the eastern front every change leaves Warsaw, the capital of Russian | Polland more open to the drive which |the Germans and An Hungarians | evidently are making towsrd that city. | Along the northern line the Austr | Germans appear to be experiencing tha cutest success, for the Russians seem |to be making e stubborn ficht along the |Gnlla Lipa, while retreating generally between the Vistula and Bug rivgrs to. ward Lublin In the west both sides have attacked in the Argonne forest and beyond the | Meuse hilla without decisive result: The fighting of the last night has been without permanent result except in the Vos where the French have con- solidated substantial gain | From Vienna the Ttaiians are reported to be showing renewed energy along the Isonzo river, they having brought up moge-gnen -and guns, but no decisive ace tion 1s reported. French Officlal Report. PARIS&, July 1.—The French war office this afternoon gave out a report which reads: “Last night passed quietly in the north In the vicinity of Arras and as far as Champagne. The German attack In the Argonne, reporteq yesterday, was par- Ueularly violent. It s estimated that {the forces engaged amounted to two divisions. This attack, however, was checked. Furthermore two fresh move- {ments ngainst our trenches at the east | of the Benarville road were repulsed. | “Another violent attack delivered by the Germans in the vicinity of Metzeral has been compleaely checked. The Ger- mans suffered Important losses." Carransza Troop Traln Wreeked. LOREDO, Tex., July 1.—Three hundred | Carranza soldiers and their wives and children were killed, and several hundred *|Injured in & wreck of a military train |near Monte Morelos, Letween Tampico and Monterey, according to an American, | Who arrived here today from the intertor, The accldent took place ten days sgo, he Ium. The American traveler's story was the first intimation here of the wreck, but this was attributed to the censorship, which has bene extraordinarily strict re- pata forces in Mexico City, was killed | cently. The train was heavily loaded and yesterday during an eight-hour engage- Ivrocnedinx at full speed when it left the ment with troops under Pablo Gonzales, | track, the American said, and tumbled according to a cable gram reaching the ;into a small canyon. |constitutionalist consulate here this | The soldiers with their wivea and |afternoon. General Gonzales reports San | children and scores of women camp fol- indicating that i {Pablo and Tacama, near Mexico City, [had been occupied by his troops. PUBBLA, Mex., June 24.—(Via Havana, |July 1.)—Fighting for po: fon of Mex- ico City by the forces of General Car- ranza and General Zapata has been progress for elght days Reports recelved in Puebla indicate that General Pablo Gonzales, at the head of the constitutionalist army men, which marched on the federal cap ital from Puebla, met with severe re sistance by General Zapata's army and armed citizens, who proaches to the city The constitutionalist forces on June 20 penetrated to Xochomlico, a suburb, hop- back with heavy losses. Suffering among the poor in the capi- tal 1s thought to be intense present is cut off entirely and the pro- |Jected Red Cross rellef has been indef- | initely interrupted. According to some advices here, the people of Mexico C: to oppose the return of t |alist forces because they say in the \previous occupation of the capltal by Carranza forces they were not treated woverly. The stubborn resistance of the ponulation is reported to have greatly surprised the constitutionalists, as they expected to march into the city without much opposition Becker is Given a Short Reprieve| ALBANY, N Whitman today granted Charles Becker, the former New York police lleutenant under sentence of death, a reprieve until | July The governor sald that he would take no further action in the case than the granting of the reprieve. This means that If the United States supreme court does not interfere Becker will have to dle. e constitution v, July of 30,000 | barricaded the ap- | ing to gain possession of the water works, | but they are reported to have been driven | traffio at | received | y are said | | 1.—Governor | {Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) The Day’s War News WASHIN OFFICIAL ing for full information reg ing the sinking of t from its representatives abroad. The situation, however, was re- garded ns clarified to a great de- dispatches telling of pts by the Arment the submarine after be ordered to stop. Such attempt, it was held, would justify king of the vessel der the rules of in- ternational law. ALLIES ARE APPARENTLY mak- FRENCH STATEMENT indleat | t the Gallie armies have ehtefly repulsing German att - | ITALIANS CLAIM & favorable out- come from actions in the Treatino distriet trian attacks along RUSSIAN LINES are swung back in | | | | | ‘HIIIAN ATTACK by wa Windau, in Courland, on the Bal | tte Just mouth of the Guif of Riga vepulsed by the Russias thelr official statement says. GERMAN SUBMARINE act 3 brought rply to the fromt by the sinking of the steamer Ar- ian, with the loss of & number Awmerican lives, shown by news the Britiah bark’ the Norweglan through torpedo of