Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1916, Page 1

If You Want to Talk to The Bee or to Anyone Connected With The Bee. ‘ Call Tyler 1030__1 NO. VOL. XLV 268, OMAHA, THURSDAY EXTENT OF IRISH WILSON GIVES OUT RAIDERS CAPTURE REVOLT GREATER ARMED SHI? POLICY BRITONS WHO LET THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | & |1 MORNING, THE WEATHER SINGLE TWO CENTS. GERMAN PAPERS . TAKING SERIOUS APRIL 27, 1916-TWELVE PAGES, COPY HOW OUR WAGON TRAINS CAMP IN MEXICO—This photograph shows United States army transport wagons in triangular formation during a break in the journey from phc border to Zeneral Pershing’s troops. The wagons are arranged in formation son}ewlmt sim- ilar to t'g o d by frontiersmen with their prairie schooners to prepare for Indian attacks, R o New York Hears that Ten Thousand Rebels Are Opposing Forces of British Government in Dublin, " ROUTES T0 LONDON IN DOUBT | Birrell Tells Parliament He Doesn't | Know if He Can Reach the Troubled Isle. . ASQUITH TALKS HOPEFULLY NEW YORK, April 26,—The re- volt in Ireland far exceeds in extent the admission of the British govern- ment, according to Information re ported to have been received in Irish | cireles in this eity. A force of about 10,000 rebels {8 opposing the British government authorities in Dublin 4 and neighboring counties, it was an- serted, | The reports had it that John a Neill, leader of the Irish \’uluntcm‘l" and editor of their official organ, the Irish Volunteer, had been shot, but! whether in the fighting or after had not been learned. ) Are Routes Closed t | LONDON, April 2%.—~At the opening of | the House of Commons today Augustine | Birrell, ehlef secretary Irsland, said it was difficult to say whether any routes % Ireland were open or closed, Ile added | that he was going there If he could to! make arrangements, Drastic steps have been taken by the | British government to suppress the up- risfng in Dublin by the proclamation of | martial law in the city and county and | by proclalming the associations which | took part n the mov zations, which will enable the police to | break them up, | This was announced in the House of | , Uommona today by Premier Asquith, who, | while making a more reassuring atate- | ment with regard to the situation in the Irish capital, did not add much to previous knowledge of what has bapened there #ince Monday noon, when rebels took possession of the postoffice and certain reotions of the city. opn In Possession. prime minister was able sy , that Liberty hall, the head- quarters of the Sinn Fein party and 8t Stephens’ Green, which seemed to lLave L.oen the canter of the rising, had |emn re upled by the military Who were being reinforced by the troops from. Eoglanl and Belfast, The casualty at Dublin, according 1w Lord Lansdowne™ statement ‘wers 1" teen killed and twenty-one wounded, be #ldes two loyal volunteers and two p> lleemen killed and wix loyal \oluntecrs wornded. o P— for \ to Twenty-five Killed and Hurt During Attack On Lowestoft LONDON, inlties April dead 2, ~Twenty-five cos in and wounded resulted from the bombardment of Lowestoft by German warships and the consequent running fight with the British lght crulser squadron and destroyers, so far ] a8 can be learned. All the British ships have returned safely, two of the light crulsers bearing signs that they had been a hit by shells, but not in vital places. A few among the crews of the British war ships were wounded, but not seriously One of the British destroyers, which played a part fn a previous battle in the North Sea, was again in the thick of the fight. A shot penetrated its engine room and four of ita crew were scalded After firing into Lowestoft for twenty minutes, the Cermans retreated. The casunlties aboard the British ships oc arred in the running fight which en- sued. It ia generally belleved British gunners scored hits on the German | warships, The Weather that the Forecast til 7 p. m. Thuraday For Omaha, ¢ MWt and Partly londy » tinned cool Neg : g ‘ i : : a s Meparts fram Sntious ot 7T 0 M : ‘ : . o . ! protection fining View of United States on Question. PLANNED AS CIRCULAR NOTE | WASHINGTON April 6 \ statement defining the attitude of the United States toward armed mer chant ships was maae public today by the state department by direction of President Wilson, It originally was prepared as a clrenlar note to other powers, but it later was de- cided to {ssue it as a statement ENEMY AIRMEN DIE Crew of St, Stephen, Which Refused | to Aid Drowning Men of Wrecked Zeppelin, Taken by Teutons. ENGLISH LOSE THREE SHIPS | | Destroyer and Scout in Hands of Germans Attacking East- ern Coast " | The statement holds to the right HEAVY DAMAGE DONE, IS STORY of a merchant ship to arm for prw! tection only, but declares that “mer-| BERLIN, April 26,-(Via Lon- chant men which have used thelr don.)—The German naval forces armiaments for aggressive purposes | which’ bombarded Lowestoft yester are not entitied to the same hospi-| gay, sank the steamer IngK Stephen tality in neutral ports as peaceable | und captured ity crew, it was offi armed merchantmen Status of Avmed Ships. The atatus of an armed merchant ves ael of a belligerent ‘Is to he consdered view of a neutral when the vessel enters its ports, and from that of an enemy when the vessel fs on the high sens. The statement treats at length hese dif ayn the statement ferences In satus and sume them up as follows “Th status of an armed merchant ves #el as n warship In neutral waters ma be determined in the aBsence of docu-| mentary proof or conclusive evidence of previous aggressive conduct by presump- tlon derived from all the case, ““The status of such vessel an & warship on the high seas must be determined enly of aggressive purpose, in the absence of which It s to upon conclusive evidence be presumed that the vessel has a pri- vate and peaceful character and it should be mo treated by an enemy warship. “In brief a neutral government proceed upon the presumption that an armed merchant vessel of belligerent na tionality Is armed for aggression, while a ement fllegal organi- b [ #al organ- | belligerent should proceed on the pre for of these presumptions | sumption that the Both be overcome by vensel iy armed may evidence—the first | by wecondary or collateral evidence mince | the fact to be established is negative in | character; the second by primary and Ai- | rect evidence since the fact to be estab- lished fa positive in character.” Assumption of Neutral, Then the statement goes on ot length to take up the rights and dutles of neu trals and belligerents as affected by the state of armed merchant vessels in neu tral ports and on the high seas down the rule that while armed only for protection aga'nst th enemy are entitled to enter and leave teutral ports without hindrance fu the course of legitimate trade, they are hot %0 entitled under which are detalled an follows “Armed merchantmen of belligerent nationality under a commission or orders of their government to use, inder penalty, thelr armament for aggressive purposcs or merchantmen, which without such comminsion or orders, have used their armaments for aggressive purposcs, not entitled to-the same hospitality reutral ports as peacable armeod chantment.” It lays merchantmen e in mer Churges of German Note, The (lerman note on the question of armed meorchantmen to which the state ment s regarded as an answer, charged that British merchant ships were armed to attack submarines and that their com manders were under secret or s from the admiralty to do so and t rewards Fad ten offered to commanders who suc coeded in destroying submarines ‘The statement declares that there is alstinet difference ““between the of the right of self-protection aeot of crufaing the seas In an armed ves sel the purpose of attacking enemy naval veseels.” Asquith Demands 50,000 Recruits in Next Four Weeks LONDON exer and th April 2.—Premier Asquith At the secret session of Parliament yos terday presented on behalf of the go ernment foreshadowing wer eral military compulsion unle conn attendad “Immediate efforts to obtain from among the unattested married y The Kovernment's proposals were pul announced today In & long statement t Uie pross The government, My, Amquith sadd ting Ma 0000 n circumstances of may cortaln clrcumstances clally announced today same This s the that refused to rescue the crew of the Zeppelin 1.1 dropped into the North Sea It was also announced that a de stroyer and another scout boat aside from the King Stephen and of the tacked a bad fire was observed Extent of Ruid, In a Zeppelin rald over England night, fortified establishments at Londor Colchester, Blackwater and teamer which from the point of were sunj that on one eruisers at Ram, | were attacked, the war office announced | this afternoon. The French port and |1nrge British supply depots at Ftaples, | Pas-de-Calain, also were attacked | In a continuation yesterday of th naval skirmishing that began off th Planders const on Monday stroyer was badly naval forces, and an auxiliary | was sunk and its crew captured taken to Zecbrugge, it was officially nounced this afternoon The official statement rall I8 as follows “At daybreak, parts of our high sea forces bombarded with good success the fortifications and important military bulldings at Great Yarmouth and Lewes toft, and afterwards, opencd fire on | group of enemy airmen, small crulsers and destroyers Big Fire on Cralser, "On one cruiser a blg fire was | seryed. One destroyer and tweo enemy | scout bouts were munk, one of the Intter being the English fishing steamer King Stephen, which formerly refused to save a British de damaged by German steamer and on the naval ob the crew of the German airship 119 when in_distress, The crew of the finh- ing steamer was taken prisoner The remaining enemy naval forces withdrew. On_our slde there were no losses, and all the ships returned undamaged “Simultancously with the atiack of our naval forces a naval alr squadron at tacked, on the night of April 24-25, the enstern countles of England. Bomba were thrown with good effect on indus- trial buildings at Cambridge and Mor- wich rallway bufldings near Lincoin, | batteries near Winterton, Ipswich, Nor wich and Harwich, as well as. encmy reconnoltering ships on the English coast. Despite a violent bombardment al the airships landed untouched in horae harbors, “Acroplanes of naval alr detachment | early on Tuesday morning pelted eof | fectively with bombs harbor works fortifications and the aerodrome at Dun kirk. All returned undamaged | “The previously reported outpost (Continued on Page Two, Column Five) Iowan Suggests Federal Control 0f Cattle Prices WABHINGTON, April 2%.—Government ocontrol of Tattle prices as a solution of the raisers’ problem was advocated be fore a house committes today by J. H Allen, a stock of Pocahontas, Tows. ‘With government inspectors to grade | the cattle at the yards, the producer and raiser would get fair treatment,” he “Ninety-five por cent of the cattle producer sald sold last year were disposed of on a U'nder ralser might a In Towa down market the present conditions well send his purse to Chicago and permit the packer to take what money he wants from it The hearing was on the Horland reso lution tg instruet the federal trade \ violating the Sherman law Year Ago Today in the War \ One | Bernstorff Thinks He Has Plan That Will Set that 4 \ al Perrmi it " wign olfion, has | aanes "o e . Nireiesn & measage . saking thal ne & . " tle Sea Controversy VIEW OF ISSUES Geneva Dispatch Says Kaiser Will Return to Berlin for Final Conference Over Reply to United States, AMERICANS HAVING TROUBLE U. 8. Citizens Who Attempt to Leave Germany for Switzerland Are Detained ' ] GERMAN OPINION I8 DIVIDED P » WELLETIN, i BERLIN, April 26 (Vian Lon« ‘:l don.)—The German answer to the h American note may not he expested lefore the end of the present week, It may be presented on Saturday 8 ] LLLEPVRRRSE N A Y GENEVA, 8witzerland, April 25 4 (Vin Parls, April 28,)--Gormun & newspapers are now taking a more 1] rorfous view of the German-Ameri- » can sltuation. They way FKmeror ¢ William {8 expected to return to Ber- [, trom general headquarters, I g the meantime Americans attempting an) - s s YA fu Jeave Germany hy way of Bwitzer- TMN;F:;;I ENCASMIIRN T 1 rikXice, fooidabazeandl oL land are encountering difflcultios, s - o “ Many of them are held up at Cone d D f B d TIVE PURSUIT OF stance, the Baden frontier having Colonel Dodd Defeats Ban AC bee closed since yostords of Villistas at Tomachic VILLA ]s RESUMED BERLIN, April 26.—(Via London, A i April 26.,-~Chancellor von Beth- 2] mann-Hollweg and Admiral von Bi BT A AT AR two | siragaind, the vilistan dropping all cum. | Détachments of American Cavalry | yoitzendortf, chief of the naval gen- ! v\\nlnl:rl\l‘nlz‘yu"\::.lv‘jvk:?;v’]tl!“:y;:i‘uvhu-a.\\uilm'lt-d‘ |.-»‘,.1}yy:r cquipment i« precipiiate oight | Are Whipping Mountains North | oral staff, departed for headquarters ‘ in an engugement between cavalrymen | before Colonel Dodd's cavalrymen and West of Parral, on the evening train to consult with ‘ | under Colonel George A. Dodd and 20| Once during the flight the Villlstus e (s Sinbarbe - WINING 10" saxsvd’ia it 4 Villistas at Tomachic in the center of | cofved reinforcements and attempted | BASE 1§ NOW WELL EQUIPPED | . ply to the American note, e | Slerra Madres in Western Chihuahua on | vainly to make a stand against the Amer R, " | April 22, according to an officlal report | fcans, When nteht came the pursul - "~ | The chancellor's conference with | [ remching here today, The Villa command | beeame increasingly difficult because of | gax ANmONTO Tox,, April 26, | James W. Gerard, the American am« 3 snder four chiefs, Baca, Cervantes, Do- | the nature of the terrain, hone : minguez and Rios, was surprised ‘in the ag 1t 18 with mountain caves, gorges and | 1t was indicated at headquarters to- | bussador, this afternoon, lasted for day that the Scott-Obregon confer- | hulf an hour, nte aftermoon and routed, After the|tralls in which there are many jagged | battle the Americuns found six dead | rocks, ruinous to the feet of the horses. | ence would be held at Cludad Por-| Publie Opinfon Divided. | Mextcans and nineteen wounded, while | Colonel \Dodd pursued the Villistas o< oo pioo o0 g o Vacas, across lhc"”""":‘; :]n‘:"n“flfl'l" n::::l:::.y ';m:::hr;: o] pme, b " iis base, where he Ia now n he nerican L] | ':v:.‘(mr'::.:fir:{:.hwu"m"w" i m,:—::rr::(:lmmkw' ‘rrwnl'lux it { Iido Grande from Bagle Pass, r”’.lluo main directions, One, reprosented| teports recelved here made no mention | The nineteen Villa wo ed, tuken in|tative arrangements for a special 8 | Ly (ount Irnest von Raventlow, the| of Villa himself being with the band, al-| the engagement, and the twenty-five| 1o carry General Scott and General |naval expert of the Tages Zeltung, con- | though it had been reported previously | that he was in hiding in the mountains | in that vieinity While last reports | placed the bandit chieftain at Moncava, | horses and krms captured were taken to Minaca to awalt General Pershink's or ders as to their disposition, Colonel Dodd was given much credit here for his feat tnues to amsert it would welcome breach with America with a feeling of| rellef. The attitude of the other »ide| lin Indicated by a remark by Theodore| | Wolff iy this morning's Tageblatt that! I'unston to Eagle Pass tonight have Leen made, FIELD HEADQUARTERS, Nami- about fifty miles south of Tomachie, | and was offictally commended for the d o g $idy e which is approximately sixty-five miles' promptness shown by his wmall outnum- | auips, Chihuahua, April 26.-—(Vis ,':"::.":"'z”:::':ny’::“:'h"lfl“:‘l'l'nm"' "'b"uh s southwent of Chihuahuas City, belief was | bered forces Wireless to Columbug, N, M., April iwith & fesling of relief.” il f": firm here that Villa was not with the | 26.)--Several detachments of Amer-| ey ™ i nome of the detibarations 1 [ comiidna engaged 4 | BAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aprll %.~The (.an troops have resumed active pur- now progressing concerning the note cans o The Villlatas were encamped In & ¢wo American soldiers killed in the en " v not now be Indicated, but It can be sall jagged, rocky defile when they caught| gagement between Colonel Dodd's forces | *UIt of Villa and are "h'"’W’" the 8 : 7 s sight of the American column riding to- | and Villa bandits April 22 were Saddior ‘ yountaing north and west of PArral, | (Continued on Pago Two, Column Two.) A ward them about 4 o'clock In the after-| R, A. Raw and Private Barshee of Troop | where the bandit chieftain is re-| ; noon. Immediately the Mexican bugles [ H. This information came today to Gen- | o q o b hidin ‘P f Y sounded the call to arma, Through the |eral Funston in a delayed report poried ‘to b .. { art of Yuan's The advanced base, 300 miles| d v . - P, 4 south of the border, is now ecom Army Deserts an i : . | pletely equipped, trainload after W'n A k P k PREACHER-MAYOR [BAY STATE REJBCTS |zin..cirmees ooitas'sr . Wll Attack Peking i ore ] t ten days 5 . ringl i , @l ng and e - | | hringing PRVORN, SOCLRN 5 | rebel advance on Peking, the capital of nient China, has been ordered by the Chine it i Dodd’s Tr In Fight. | revolutioniats, according to a Shanguaf Former Mayor of Spokane to Ad- | Thirty-two of Thirty-six Delegates | .\ 1ako, Tex., April 2-A report ha | aistoteh o the Chiness Mepublic. aasod dress Business Men at Com- to National Convention Are been recelved here that w,,u...ul |n‘u|.|m,,wlml 2Bl el 3 i Fri advanced cavalry detachment had &an ¢ of several thousand troops reial Club Friday. Unpledged. Ivar 8 An army of severa mere: y pledg engagemont me ‘.u\‘ anys «x.l.; in whic vy.‘““‘h.r Tat T HESMGE. ~ e ) . both idew suffered losses, was no! de & 8hi Kal's force i i " Viilista bands or with Curranza troops. | o, “iepung fopmorly with the governs H The preacher who talked In his = BOSTON, Mass., April 26.—Thir-| mno formation resarcing the battie |10 SEAT (OIS0 HIE K bechny i pulpit about how to run the city |ty-two of the thirty-six delegates came in a private dispatch, hut ok | the mareh upon Peking soon, it was i wrtil the people called his bluff and | chosen in the presidential primaries ‘“"""""A""" y“'""“‘ y""'i"l’“"‘"“ “:‘“. ""‘ wtated, Both leaders are said to have i place, Advanced detachments of Col r M, put him at the head of the Spokane | yesterday to represent Massachusetts | 1 . wivairy recently have been opor- | 40serted Yuan Shi Kal with their forcess ing to|in the republican national conven-|ating in a limited zome just north of | JThe rebel troops are senttered over the ; Higaiciphl SOVAFIMIABY b ORHERE: | 3 e T oAy W 1o | #eceded provinces of southeastern (hiny Omaha He is to arrive ¥Friday | tion at Chicago are unpledged to any Batevo. ”n""‘l: ""’"; ',””:.‘r'.“ ‘m‘ .,:' the | @0 or 700 miles south of Peking, In Ped oo small units which couring the s morning, be the guest of K. G, Mc- | candidate for president. These in-| % :"”_" s it Sond hill province they have-the sdvantase Gilton, and speak at a public affairs clude the four delegates-at-large, | officialn of the de facto ernment | Of transportation by sea with the risk, 3 3 B 5 # . N Hef 1 however, of attack by government nayval ) luncheon at the, Commercial club | Governor Samuel W. McCall, Senn- | wore optimiatic today in the bellef that | ¥ e th eats : 1 3 n sregon. | forces, according to adyle | IMiday noon tors Henry Cabot Lodge and John W ”-" ‘”;‘- o "-f' "-' ;‘lvh-‘ “‘ . ,‘:"‘ RO, | edar's dissalunss! 16 Theroniiis: Rat ' & minister of » o » olty ol umre o Qi 4 He In Dr, W. J. Hindley of Winni | Waeks and former Senator W. Mur nfor with :Mator (leneral. Ifugh 1. | publio sssocistion here; which' has sent 'y pog, Canada, He s pastor of the |ray Crane, The remaining four dis-scott, chief-of-staff of the United States | thousands of dollars to ald in financing 4 Central Congregational church at|trict delegates are understood to | army will result In a ;;-;M’n"vv m‘\m th n“. v\m:nm “lu.'u. h v‘zxv.ul »»;nv lw: ‘ . . | ™ wheraby peaceful conditlons may be | against Yuan Shi Kal, stated also ths that place, the Jargest church in the | favor the nomination of Theodore mainiaitad alingithe hordsh. Aditres Gar- | Chon UK. Modn. & vebiat’ leaite K1 ) Ttoosevel: oln, Mexican consul here, mald that |heen welected military governor of ot Dr. Hindles is the preacher-mayor who| A revislon of the figures for the |nothing but good can come of the con- | Kwang Tung provinee « v " ¥ ommercinlized | {utire state today showed the fol-|feren t is bolleved here hy officlals of the .§ v Pending t fore Wl . hinese Republic association ihat the lo. of ' i the number | Jnwing vote for delegates-at-large probably | K, the hases army of the revolutioniats numbers abou§ . ¢ ' , agitated and | Unpledged ticket: Samuel W. MeCall | und lines of « t f the Amer- | 300,000 equipped troops ' . A 3 ty, ot the €2.776; Henry Cabot Lodxe, 6 Tobn Wi | tean simy in Menico are bellid ey i ow VANt | e o Thpeny |0 for an eventuality, IOWA MAN VOTES FOR , poo "HAS " , i g OLDFIELD FOR PRESIDENT . 4 e w0 mat STRIKE AT HASTINGS 1S French Lines Are i , hat the . e ENDED BY COMPROMISE (er DES MOINES, Is, April ¥ | ! Ayor by P & S of the. Netior and xeoutive counefl of tes - can : , a ] ) \ n oF ' " presidential referes rrima y ¢ v : . P : Hepublican \ . " | A ) ) how " " A ol Houghy | 1 . LU . " ith's Wait-and-See Policy I e Gt e . Asquith’s Wait-and-See Policy Is o e . . tield § ons n Clark y Blamed for Dublin Insurrection . Poisoner of Own Children Set Free Conscientious Workers-- Want-Asda cost ittle for the mueh they hut " s 1A do, They work for ve ' . ’ sults rathor than the pay . . . they got. They tell vour & o i story in thousands of ~ L.t J . : omes and busineas laces and work night n lny . . How " " : e NOW . o At e \re \