The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1915, Page 1

18. NO PAY ONLY ONE CENT FOR THE STAR IGHT EDITION Weather Forecast—Probably fair T1Dhs AL High SEATILY on aan PINING WS SEAN | AMERICANS ARE WARNED TO QUIT. GERMANY, IS REPORT; U. S. FACES DANGER OF A BREAK WITH BERLIN — ' Capital Rous- edbyRumor; Diplomats on Anxious) Seat. WASHINGTON, 12.—Greater activity in evidence at the state de- partment today any time in months. eign diplomats were mak- ing numerous visits inquir- ing as to the developments in the situation between the United States and Ger- many, representatives of other neutral governments being most in evidence Another German ambassador !s ex- pected. It was general that the state ried Rernard Dernberg, who is declared | to be the kaiser’s unofficial spokes man in this country May Oust Doctor it was rumored that attempts were being made to bring about his departure The ousting of Dernberg, how ever, it was pointed out, would be interpreted as an affront to Ger- many and seriously strain relations between Berlin and Washington If action should be taken the state department would request Von Bernstorff or Berlin that Dern- | berg leave. The case would not be handled by the immigration boreau as that of an ordinary undesirable ali The extent of the navy ment’s interest in the present sit uation ts hard to say Abandon Canal Trip The trip of the Atlantic fleet thru the canal has virtually been abandoned, but this decision is not mentioned in connection with the foreign situation. Officials at the war department |} sald today they did not know of a report that a guard of coast artil lerymen had been sent to Dover! to protect the government powder | mills. It was stated that it was custom ary to maintain guards at all gov ernment warehouses Berlin Declares England Ought to | < Apologize to U.S. BERLIN, May 12.—A semi- VOLUME 66. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1915 ONE CENT ¢s ANI WASHINGTON, May 12 (Bulletin).—President Wilson is delaying the transmis- sion of his note to Berlin to give Ambassador Gerard time to advise all Americans to quit Germany, according to a report in circulation here this afternoon. It was said Bryan cabled Gerard suggesting Americans now in Germany go to Switzerland. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Actual danger of a sever- ance of diplomatic relations between the United States ‘and Germany is seen in the reported utterances in Presi- dent Wilson’s note to Berlin, discussed and agreed upon by the cabinet yesterday. It is not improbable, in the event of Germany’s refusal to accede to the reported de- mands of the president, that Ambassador Gerard will be withdrawn from Berlin and the German ambassador to this country handed his passport. ~ KIDNAPED IN Asserts Rosseve:t || ] | AUTO; GIRLS TELL STORY May was than at For- visit from the The note to Germany protesting against the methods of, the kaiser’s submarine warfare has been completed, it was announced at the White House this afternoon The note has been sent to the state department transmission to Ambassador Gerard, who will deliver the German foreign office It is reported the note would be dispatched to Germany| tonight and perhaps be given to the public Thursday morn- ing needed toda Utterances Are an Insult to Germany BERLIN, May 12.—Baron Mumm Von Schwartzen: 5 one of the highest author! tles in the diplomatic coun cila of the German empire, today denounced ex-Pre dent Roosevelt's comments on the Lusitania affair as an insult to Germany. He waid: “if Mr. Roosevelt used these words then he hurled an insult at the whole Ger man people which we bitter ly resent, even ata time when we have to submit to the hatred and falsity of en emies and former friends sulted, without excuse, wee it e jepartment is over recent utterances of Dr. | from official sources was] believed to be: @ To ask Germany for a more accurate definition of the attitude toward American shipping, cargoes and lives | in the war zone; @ To point out that in all three respects, the United States has lost heavily, and so far as evidence has in- dicated through German operations; © To refer to the sinking of the Falaba, resulting in the loss of the life of Leon C. Thresher, an American, the loss of the Gulflight and the sinking of the Lusitania; @ To admit the evidence docs not conclusively prove that Germany was responsible for the aeroplane attack upon the S. S. Cushing and the torpedoing of the Gul- iflight, but inquire whether the kaiser’s government ac-. ‘cepts responsibility for these two incidents; @ To call attention to the fact that Germany has al-| ready accepted responsibility for the attacks upon the Falaba and Lusitania; @ To ask that assurances be given that such attacks will not occur again in the future. There is good authority for the;the suggestion, but desired time to Statement that no alternative will| consider it { be mentioned in the event Germany| Garrison feared such a step would should refuse to comply with the /lead to war. requests, especially that asking as Wilson Thinks it Safe surances that no further attacks| It wax reported today that Prest- such ag were directed against the/dent Wilson pointed out to his ad- Lusitania will be made. tvisers that in a majority of in U, 8. Will Make No Threat = [stances in which ambassadors have | There will be nothing in the na-|been recalled, thie act alone was not ‘ ture of a threat or ultimatum. The/sufficient to bring about declara-| note will be a remonstrance | tions of war | against Germany's methods of con-| Those less hopeful of Germany| “oretta Kreuger, One of the Girls ducting her submarine warfare. taking a conciliatory position pre-| In the Taxi Kidnaping Thru re further statement { the president are VAL RAT IA, What Roosevelt Says Many of these (German submarine) attacks have piracy. @ The pirates of the Barbary coast behaved at times in similar fashion until the civilized nations joined to suppress them. @ The action of the German submarines in the cases cited can be justified only by a plea which would likewise justify the wholesale poisoning of wells in the path of a hostile army, or the shipping of infected rags into the cities of a hostile country; a plea which would justify the torture of prisoners and the reduction of captured women to the slavery of concu- binage. @ For many months our government has persevered between right and wrong a “neutrality” which would have excited the emulous admiration of Pontius Pilate, the arch-typical neutral of all time. represented pure discharged their fatherland in the need, without booty.” ‘CEDAR FALLS INUNDATED; PEOPLE FLEE If the water continues to rise a }} toot and a half a day, as it ts do ing now, in less than a week the entire town of Cedar Falls will be submerged, with the possible ex-| ception of the schoolhe Already a seore of forced to flee before the rising wa ters of Rattlesnake lake, have ‘found shelter in tents, cabins =) box cars Under the direction of Supt. Ide of the constructic ng at the Ce dar river dam ary frame building, 60x22 g put up to house the stocks of the baker, the grocer, the buteber The wa ter is at an 887-foot level Wednes day If it should rise to 905 feet, It will flow into Cedar river water shed and submerge the town | The water seeps thru the hill from the dam and flows into the lake, causing the flood The fl at present coy ers tw e direction and one block In another fee ON MITCHELL little something rior Judge Mitchell Gitliam ancing at the clock 11, Wed: nesday morning, the judge mistook Ithe time for 11 and dismissed court until 1:30 p.m hour of hope of ted by Metfopoitta ew York tite Macating. jas ehe bas treated other scraps of) miration gf Pontius Pilate, the arch- | paper | typical neutral of all time But the offense goes far deeper) “We have urged as a juatification than this for failing to do our duty in Mexico *The action of the German that to do so would benefit ‘Amert-| marines in the cases cited can be/can dollars.’ Are we now to change justified only by a plea which would faces and adva the likewise justify the wholesale terest of ‘American dollars poisoning of wells in the path of a justification for continuane hostile army or the shipping of in- refusal to do the duty tmp fected rags into the cities of a hos us in conuection with the tile country, a plea which would war Justify the torture of prisoners and, “Unless we act with immediate the reduction of captured women| decision and vigor we shall have | to the slavery of concubinage. failed in the duty demanded by hu Those who advance such a plea manity at large and demanded even | win accept but one counter plea [more clearly by the self-respect of the strength and courage! the American republic NEW YORK, May 12.—Theo- dore Roosevelt has written an article for publication in the June Metropolitan, of which magazine's contributing staff he is a member, dealing with the crisis growing out of the torpedoing of the liner Lusi- tania It is to be published under the heading, “Murder on the High § Recalis Barbary Pirates Centuries have passed since any | war vessel of a civilized power has) strength, ‘shown such ruthless brutality of the § man armed. * ° (Signed) ward noncomb and especial-| “Neutral” Like Pontius Pilate “THEODORE ly toward women and children ‘In the teeth of these things, we “The pirates of the Barbary coast earn as a nation measurelesas scorn behaved at times in similar fashion, and contempt If we follow the lead R until the civilized nations joined in of those suppressing them; and the pirates righteousness, if we heed the voices who were outcasts from among of those feeble folk who Sisat’ to WASHINGTON, May 12.— these civilized nations also at one high heaven that there is At the state department and time perpetrated similar deeds, un- when there Is no peace the Italian, Austrian and Ger. man embassies no news had been received at 11 a. m. on a report that Italy had declared war. families, is the need for making an apology for the loss of American lives in the sinking of the Lusitania such as Germany has already made should be plain to England. The German position that England is responsible for the toss of life incident to the sinking of the liner isre- J) peated in the statement, which points to the assur- ance of safety on the seas given by the British while supreme in as a in the sed on world The Germen assertion that her jdict either a refusal to comply with! methods are justified by the policy |the requests of this government cr| x, of the allies in endeavoring to/an evasive reply starve Germany will not be ac Some authorities believe the final cepted result will be the recall of Ambassa: The note will refuse to indorse |dor Gerard and the handing of pass Germany's view that her warnings |ports to German Ambassador Von excused her for the damage done|Bernstorff on the ground. that diplo American property and the destruc-| matic relations cannot be continued | titying in a criminal case against tion of American lives |with the German government sanc-| countryman Discusses Serious Move tioning such methods of attack in-| Blanche Dunham and Loretta The president is hopeful the mes-|sofar as the safety of neutrals is! Kreuger told the story of their wild sage may be so expressed, and pre- | concerned. ride to Everett and Snohomish on sent so strong a case, that Germany| In the general 18) the night of January » Practical- herself will admit she is in the|widely admitted that the Lusitania |}y in the same words they used at wrong case is not a strong one f the former trial # The suggestion that the United|American standpoint. Th They had been plied with lquor, States diplomatic relations'was British; Its tate was they said, drugged and whisked with Germany ff the Berlin govern. | Britain's affair away in a taxi. Most of the night/ ment should refuse to heed Amer-| The Cushing and Gulflieht, how-! they testified, they lay unconscious ica’s protest was considered by the |ever, are regarded as presenting ex-|in the cab cabinet, it is said tremely strong and it is be As a result of their being kept Secretary Bryan, Secretary Garri-| lieved the president's note will em-| away on the day of the trial, Peter son and Secretary Burleson, it is|phasize the attr these} Padmos was discharged by Justice ‘aid, not exactit sed to vessels | Reah Whitehead the testimony of Loretta | ger and Blanche Dunham, two young American girls, a jury in su- verior court today found three pels Demosthenes Vallianos, |Nick Tulys and Tom Baranos—= guilty, a second time, of kidnaping the girls to prevent them from tes- ants KOOSEVELT discussion it marine blockade of the Brit- ish isles. ROOSEVELT GETS Canes SARCASTIC who exalt peace above sever peace on til they were sunk or hanged, | “For many months our govern cases. “But none of these old-time pi-. ment has preserved between right committed murder on as vast/and wrong a ‘neutrality’ which scale as in the case of the Lusi: would have excited the emulous ad ks upon were SUSE, Wils speech in Philadelphia, in which he nade use of ihe phrase ihat “there {x such a thing as a man being too proud to fight,” and “a nation being © right it does not need to con vince unother by force,” Theodore Roosevelt, former president of che United States, sarcnetically says “China is entitled to draw all the comfort she can from th ate: ment. If the United States htis fied with occupying, some time in the future, the precise internation @! position that China now occupies then the United States can afford to act on this theor But it can not act on this theory to retain or regain the position won for it under Washington and the men who in the days of Abraham LAncoln wore the blue under Grant and the gray under Lee. I ver dent will act prompt! 1 do not believe that the firm assertion of our rights means war, But it well to remember that| , there are things worse than war, I're earnestly hope the pres! tania “The day after newspapers reported in one column that in Queenstown there lay py the score the bodies of women and children, some of the dead women still clasping the @ little children they held tn arms death overwhelmed them Glee in Germany In another column they repo: ed the glee expressed by the Berlin journals at this ‘great t the man naval poliey It was “a victory the fenseless and the unoffending, and its signs and trop were the bodies of the murdered women and children Our >, 1799 and in this regard of th contracting be at w with an the free of the subjects or citizens of the party remaining neutral with th belligerent powers shall not be In terrupted “Germany the tragedy the lies of their when vietory 0! 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