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4 " WASHINGTON, April 19.—~The presl-, without the slightest color of justifica- @ent In his mddress to congress on the | tion. No limit of any kind has in fact faue with Germany said: been met to the indiscriminate pursuit “Oentlerwen of the Congress: A sil-| and destruction of merchantmen of all Mation has arlen in the foreign rela- | kinds and nationalities within the waters, | tlons of the country of which it is my | constantly extending In area, where the plain duty to inform you very frankly operations have been carried on; und th “Ut. will be recalled that in February, | roll of Americans who have lost th 2915, the imperial Cerman government lives on ships thus attacked and destroyed Rnnobnced its intention (o treat the has grown month by month until the| waters surrounding Great Britain and | ominous toll has movnted into the hun- Ireland as embraced within the seat of | dreds war, end to destroy all merchant ships Case of the Suswes. OWned by its enemies that might be| .o, o (he Jatest and mast shockink | m":,;;”'::'.:"i"'::':":" ':'l'"“':;::";" n"|: jnstances of this method of warfare was 1 that of the destruction of the French | wessels of neutral as well as of bellig- lerent ownership to keep out of the waters Bt hall thus proseribed, or elné enter them their peril, The government of the inited States earnestly protested I 100k the position that such a policy could cross-channel steamer Sussex. It must stand forth, as the sinking of the steamer | Lusitania did, as so singularly tragical | and unjustified as to constitute a truly terrible example of the Inhumanity of submarine warfare, as the commanders npt be pursued without the practical rfir;‘“' Oortial vesasls havé for the last talnty of ross and palpable vielation of | ' TN v een conducting it if the law of natlons, particularly if sub- Marine craft were 1o be employed as ity 1 uments, inasmuch as the rules pre- | couernment, evidence bed by that law, rules founded upon | ,.istake or wilful disobedience on ples of humanity and established | part of the commander of the vessel that the protection of the lives of non-| fiyed the torpedo might he sought or en- Batants at ses, could not in the na- | teptained, but unhappily it does not stand of the case be observed by much|mlone. Mecent events make the conchi Banis of Protest, slon inevitable that it s only one in ¢ stance, even though jt be one of the most 3¢ based ita protest on ..e ground that |extreme and distressing Instances of n.-‘i ong of neutral nationality and ves- | spirit and method of warfare which the| s of neutral ownership would be ex- |imperial German government has mistak | ed to extreme and intolerable risks, that no right to close any part of enly adopted, and which from the first| exposed that government to the reprowch | high sean sgainst thelr use or to ex Ipose them to much risks could lawfully |Durwult of jtr immediate objects ] some explana- | the German of criminul the | #tood alone disavowal by this instance tlon, wome wome |of thrusting all neutral rights astde in | aaserted by any belligerent govern United Stn s Patient, ment. The law of nationa In these mat- | orhs government of the United States , upon which tho government of the | yuy bean very patient. At every stage b United Btates based its protest, 18 not | of (his Als | eaning experienc of tragedy recent origin or founded upon merely | rior (ragedy fn which its own cltizens @rbitrary principles set up by conven: | were involved, It has sought to be re< fRipn. 1t is hased, on the contrary, Upon | trained from any extreme course of ne- | ifest and imperative principles of hu- | tion or of protest by a thoughtful con-| ity and has long been established | sideration of the extraordinary circum-| stances of this unprecedanted war, dnd| actunted in all that it safd or did by | | the mentiments, of gemulne friénduhip | which the people of the United | h the approvel and express assent of Bl cvilized nations, “Notwithatanding the earnest protest { o government, the Jmperial German jgrernment. at once proceeded to carry | UL the policy 1t had announced. 1t ex- msed the hope that the dangers in ved, at any rate the dangers to neu- States have always entertained and continie to entertain towards the German nation, Tt has of course mccepted ' the successive | explanations and assurances of the fn-| vesnels, would be reduced to & minl- | perial German government as glven In | Wy the instruetions which It had Is- | entire sincerity and good falth, and lm»‘ Mo its submarine commanders, and | hoped, even against hope, that it would | red the government of the United | prove to be possible for the German gov-| taten that It would take every pomsible | grnment to so control the mcts of Ity mutien hoth to respect the rights of | naval commanders s to sauare its policy | trals and to safegiard the lives of | with the principles of humanity as em- | hoombatants. bodled In the law of nations. It has been | Assurances Not Fal A willing to walt until the signiticance of | “What has actually happened in the | the facts became mhsolutely unmistakable which has since elapsed, has shown | and susceptible of but one interpretation | those hopes were not justified, 3 assurances insuaceptible Bf being Woldoy FURAE gy "Oon waey - | “That point now has unhappily been | ifilled. In pursuance of the policy of | rine warfare against the commerce | Feached. The facts are susceptible of but | ) fta adversaries, ‘thus announced and | 0ne interpretation. The imperial Ger tered upon by the imperial government, | Man government has not been able to| commanders of German under-ses | PUt &ny limits or restraints upon ita| I8 have attacked morchant ships | warfare against either frelght or - | senger ships, It has, therefore, become painfully evident that the position which t Britain and Ireland, but wherever | this government took at the very mnmi : could encounter them In a way |18 Inevithbles namely, that the uks of has grown more and more ruthless, | submarines for the destruétion of pni greater and grealer activity, not ily upon the high seas surrounding and “mare indisoriminate, a8 the |enemy's commerce {n of Adcemsity, Be- thy have nmp' by, Tefs and Jems ob- | cause of the veryschuracter of the vew | rwnnt of réstruints of anykind, apd | sels employed And the very methods of | ve delivered thelr attacks without [ attucks which thélr employment, - of npunction against vessels of every |course, involves. incompatible with the Honality and bound upon every sort of | principles of humanity, the long mlbw lished and incontrovertible rights of neu. | trals and the sacd impunities of non-| combatants. ‘v “I have deemed It my duty, therefore, | to say to the imperial ‘German govern- | ment that If it s still Mg purpose to | prosecuts relentless and indiscriminate | warfare against’ vessels of commerce by | the use of submarines, notwithstanding | the now demonstrated Impossibility of eonducting that warfare In accordance with what the government of the United Btates muat consider the sacred and In | ddsputable rules of international law Al " " | and the universally recognized dictates of | - .l‘l.ll, o 'n?"' aven 1o the l‘h“‘l | humanity, the government of the United s, allowed to thoss on board. WRal gy,ie, iy ot jast forced to the conclusion | governmont: foresaw must MADDEN |y ¢ e 1y but one course it can gr- | happened. Tragedy han followed | ... 0yg (hat unless .the imperiul & ody on the seas In such fashlon, With | 0 poverment should now. lmmediately h attendant circumatances ax to e |yl e g effect an abandonment of """‘; “':""' "“‘;“""“"l ';”' ‘:f“" its present methods of warfare againal ":;‘ wl|::ul“:|a 'mm"t :,..1;:ma vhfi" passenger and freight carrying vessels % Tha dldtates allke af right and |18 Novérnment can have no gnoico but Neutral Veasels Destroyed *“Vesrels of neutral ownership, even of neutral ownership bound from utral port to neutral port, have been royed along with vessels of belllg- nt ownership ‘in constantly fhereasing bers. Sometimes merchantmen at- ked have been warned and summoned surrender befors belng fired on or oed, sometifmes passengers or crews ® been vouchsafed the poor security being allowed to take to the ship's before It was sent to the bottom. t again and again no warning has | to-sever diplomatio relations altogether i ‘l::‘r;ll)‘ Whatever n\r lA1I’u'|vumnn and | ity dectsion 1 have atrived at with | § jon of the Imperial wrmlv'l Kov | the keenest regret: the possibility of the jpriment, it has manifestly proved '""\u-nnn contemplated 1 am sure all posaiblo for it to keep such methods oOf | o, niu1 Amerioans will look forward | "';: ‘.','.’:".,',';'.'.',.":":'.f:";'.;'.»."'f..‘.'.»" e | 1o with. unaffected reluctance. But we i gl mnl;hhld cannot forget that we are in some sort 4 and by the force of ' clreumstances the § New Claim of Germany. reaponsible spokesmen of the rights of In Fobruary of the present year the im- | hymanity, an. that we ecannot remain [perial Gorman government informed thIF | yiou whiie these Hghts seem in process [iovarnment and the other neutral ov-| f baing swept utterly away in the mael { pments aof the world that it had res«| yo0m of this terrible war. We ous it to believe' that the government of | (o a due regard for our own rights as w [iroat Britain had armed all merchant | nation, to our sense of duty as a rep i 1a of British ownership and o | sentative of the rights of neutrals the [liven them secret orders to attack any world over, and to & Just conception of marine of the enemy they might en | the rights of mankind to take this stan ter upon the seas and that the impe German government felt lustified in olroumsiances n (reating all mimen of belligerent ownership as Iillary vessels of war j¥e the right (o desiroy The law of nationy has long recog d the righi of tmen tn carry tor protect a use them 1 ) Witaek, thoush e mer Woman Needs All Her Strength Keoping hard enough W which 1t would without warn ror ane them in sueh | well The woman wk R ————— [ mstances &l their own risks, but has & bad back, b Tmperial Ciarman government elaimed nervous spalls, (i N8 taht te set these understandings adaches and Kidne whigh 11| & \hle hag & hard ot for tawily ander chrg \ndder tr 4 extraordinary Slvan the torms (n which W announeed | Purpese (hus still further 19 relas .|..I wever et up PAIRLE 1t had pogt invaly professed Wa Prona by smetan nres il ERinaness and dealbe 16 Pt upon (he | TR oF Ridney (rs 3 W aubmarihen carvied the | B0 and not the wm [} Heathn That st least wia | fomesd W nonn H B were we) Ardsed would sii be en | Weakie Mrengh § A from desirantion witheut sareing | he Widneys wit 4 Ahat persanal safely would be w 1“'*--- Kidney Pilla 4 VNeir puasengers and crewn Wit § AN recomment i Ahat Memitation. 1 W wad sver poe By welneh (hé otk o warll pees . - 10 abasrve I has n i e cheek ot sl | ! | of shign of every it !n-' nildesn w | | pon (e deat N they & A A weak kiduays, ioe Meprated Assnrancers Yielated FAuain And agnin the (niperial eeman | Omaha Proof . 0w has given (M gevernment Howard Wiends W Selatns abautaness (hat Al teast pan | MR - ach hodhared PR 0 SRIBS Sl hot Be thun dealt | Seal and T hed o constant dul) patn acie T T R L Mnars were "W e under ste commanders (o e and slugete | el » bens L Thoan Remureness Wi eatice n \ tahse 3 B Gesal lnees Mhe the Law | oan's Kitney Fils & tow T baeh tappud NidAere Bl A U Arabie. and mere BRUA Ue e Hunann have bann atiashed (S0000 marm regulariy and I sy way . B Bamant's warning, semetimeg || f10 fae IS had svea Seoeme aware that Wore I \he prosenes of sn areed | oF the enemy, and the lives ..4’ o P g T CLE s LU L Y hecn waerifend @ holosale, in o een | Mo (e g9 ernment of the | nited SOBAEL WUt el a8 wanten and | resident Wilson’s Address to Congress On | " Relations Between United States and Germany | Bteel | over the roads from Ashland to Boston. THE - BEE: now with the tmost solemnity and firm ness I have taken it, and taken it in the confidence that it will meet with your approval and support. All sober minded men_ must unite in hoping that the perial government, which in other cireumstances stood as the champion of all that we are now contending for in the Interest of humanity, recognize the justies of our demands and them in the spirit in which they are made.’ Stock Market Opens Lower on Account of the Gerjman Crisis NuW YORK, April 19.~Wall street ac- cepted latest developments in the German controvewy with misgiving, judging from the weak tone of the stock market at the opening today. War shares and all the better known specialties broke from one 1o almost three points, the entire list reflecting hurrled liquidation, Bethlehem broke points to 421 The rallroads and other representative stocks were under better control, but the decline was broader and accompanied by greater activity than thus far this Th fm- has may meet ninateen any wession year dectston to submit the president’s [ 0 situation to congress came as a 1 Aistrict, wire finunc with almost overwhelmed with grent and commission surprise to the houses con nections were liquidating orders Greatest exchange and man wore abruptly closed out increased when |t known that the note to Berlin was already on the way. This fecling was helgntened when extracts of what purported to be an ultimatum to Herlin were publighed Dec¢lines were extended in nearly all directions, the munitions receding 4 to 6 polnts Anglo F'rench bonds were unloaded in blocks of vailed speculative on the holdings Apprehension excltement pre became from yesterday's cloe $100,000 and $200,000 les of the first hour approximated 50,000 shares, the largest output for that period in many weeks, Heavy selling of the general list | was another impresaive feature, Roth Wins American Marathon at Boston BOSTON, April 19.~Arthur B, Roth of the Dorchester club today won the Amer Jean Marathon run of twenty-five miles 1t was the twentleth held by the Boston Athletic association. Roth's time was 221184, The record s - 3:2118%, made by Ryan of New York in 1912 PIMPLES ON FACE BURN AND ITCH Worse and Worse, Face ~ Disfigured, In Blotches.. Were ed and Scaled Over, HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT “‘I'had pimples on my face which gradually hecame worse and worse all the time. They burned and Itched and | would wake up often At night and my face would burn dreadfully and it was disfigured for the time being. At first the pimples were In blotches but gradually scat- tered, and they were red and festerad and also scaled over. ““Then | got some Cuticura ( Soap and Olntment. At fiest { put the Cuticura Olnt- race ment on and then I bathed my face with | warm water and Cuticura Soap, and [ had oot used them more than two weeks tl I | noticed a change and now my face Is entirely healed,” (Signed) Miss Marie Ohristiansen, Route 3, Neola, lowa, July 25, 1915, Sample Each Free by Mall With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad- dross post-card “*Cutiewrs, Dopt. T, Bose 8old throughout the world the border base in order to shorten his as not thus far approved the suggestion, Robbing the Bottle what you do when you take the craam off the top of the milk bottle, There's but livtle food value left (a the blue milk L T — i ek and ereamy to You ean we pant for eroam and o ovoking purposs the prapet food value Cotgan Moy " N - whng 2R o SN e boed vales of bettle iy T i Coitage Mih I made b ous spnitacs Ao o bt e b e ‘b ay g otk B ity Got @ spnly Sodir and we how S b e e b e Mk Without the Conhed Tante In Two Sizes B and 10¢ At ol Good Dealers AMERICAN WLk (0 (ALY the last e, il eeagy § BRI d always have OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1916 was. before the cab- although the requ inet yesterday SENT TO BORDER . tated to authorize Chief of General Staff Will Make ''° Report on Conditions to War Department, FUNSTON IS STILL IN CHARGE hesi- apparently has ny radical change in tus of the expedition, In the face jests from wseneral Carranza that the troops be recalled, belleving it might increase antl-American feeling among Carranza garrisons. Until the German situation understood it is impossible to departmer tend to is clearly forecast oAl ; y the administration’s decisfon as to WASHINGTON, April 19.—Major | prining's expedition. Military observers General Hugh L. Scott, chief of | appear to agree that some radical move staff of the army, will go to San | must be made soon, either to back up the 00 Mexico or to Antonio, Tex., tonight by order of "l‘m e lex} ” withdraw fecretary Baker in order to get ac- | j¢ iy believed that General Funston's curate information as to the situa- | decision to place nadditlonal troops at General Pershing's disposal aroused tne tion on the border and in Mexico department to determine upon the course this statement San Antonio request, He Secretary Baker issued leaves for this evening at 6:15 at my will spend dnys Funston and return, I polely for the purpose information as . to pursue with as little delay as possible “General Ecott " fl General Scott is acquainted with Villa and. with many Carranza officlals and with his knowledge of the border and ine onfidentlal information General Funston able to advise sec- with General {a trip s made of getting possible for the use of the department. 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