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US NOE ANGER BERLIN PAPERS URGE RESON Shows Lack of Readiness to Says Vossische Zeitung, CAN’T YIELD ANY MORE. “Pro-British Agitators Have Secured Domination Over President,” Persius Finds. BPRLIN, July 26.—The latest Amer- fean note to Germany concerning submarine warfare has beon re- esived most unfavorably by most of the German newspapers. The Vos- {\,"The refusal to accept Germany's, Seta Proposal to protect Ameri- e's passengers shows an absolute lack of readiness to understand the! German standpoint. The principle| that belligerent states must protect | neutrals is untenable if applied in abdication to neutral states. “It is true that belligerents must respect neutral rights, but only pro- | vided neutrals do everything to pre: | vent their citizens getting Into situ- ations where protection {s impos- sible. “Victory over the enemy {s the su-/ @reme law for every delligerent. | Those who render more difficult this! task than does international law sup- gert the enemy. The war on land “as shown clearly that restrictions @re necessary, A person who re- mains within a beleaguered fortress or walks into a gunfire zone risks his life without the right of protec- ten from his home Government, “Those who demand that Germany should conduct the War according to rules laid down by some academic professor expect Germany either to endanger her submarines or to give up this warfare, which means the weakening of Germany in the inter- est of her enemy. is is not neu- trality, but partisanship against Ger- many: The Vossische Zeitung adds that the note further shows “that not only fe President Wilson's policy in the matter of the German submarine pol- toy influenced by an especial relation to England but also by the internal situation in the United ye only answer to the co hh of th luding the in citizens heir own power to avoid | naval expert of the “The American npte expresses a de- ¢ided will to rob us in our battle fgainst England of the weapon on which we place the biggest hopes, By | the rejection of the German proposals | tegarding special ships, the United States shows that It is not striving for the safety of its citizens, but rath- laming of our submarine Seale dlting i it juishes between the rulee ional law on fend and on! do s that the pro-British cured domina- side: Count Ernest von Reventlow, in the Tageszeitung, declares that the con- tents and wording of the note far ex- ¢eed even the most unfavorable an- tieipations, Count Reventlow writes: e note uses lauguage which will find no response with the overwhelm- ing majority of the German nation, since it means, in the last analysis, an appeal to fear, a threatening, dom- ineering demand. The note will make @ conceivably bad impression among See German Viewpoint, |Gregtest Victo sieche Zeitung in an editorial says: | the fullest sense, as it would mean) || | young Sanaa! GERMANS FIGHT 1 . ry for British Won Before the War Began—Germans Claim Year Has Shown Teutons to Be Greatest Race in History—War Has Unified All Classes in France. | This is the first of a series of articles prepared by correspondents at the front summing up the first year of the great European war. To- day's articles: give a general ideq of what has vappened and the at | Succeeding articles, to be printed | each day, will take up the different | phases of the struggle, the work of the different armies, the navies, dc. —y— ° GREATEST VICTORY FOR BRITISH BEFORE THE WAR By Ed L. Keen. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) LONDON, July 26.—England's greatest victory in this year-old war Was won before the war started. Forty or fifty years from now—the Germans willing—when the British desire to honor the heroes of the Great War, they doubtless will erect imposing statues of Sir John French, Sir Douglas Haig, Sir Ian Hamilton, Sir John Jellicoe, Sir Frederick Stur- deo and Admiral John de Robeck. They may even include Lord Kitch- ener, although if a popular vote were taken at the present time, it is hard- ly likely the verdict in Kitchener's favor would be unanimous. But it the English nation should | fall to recognize in this distribution of awards # certain blond, blue-eyed tesman of dandified mion and lisping voice, who by the for- tunes of politics happened to be the First Lord of the Admiralty in the summer of 1914, it will demonstrate that other forms of government be- sides republics are ungrateful. “Britannia rules the waves" to-day because of Winston Churchill. To his foresight, imagination and nerve is due the fact that when the War Lord threw down his gauntlet, the Briti fleet was ready. England's commans of the seas was assured before Kaiser Wilhelm began scattering war decla: tions througo the chancelleries Europe. Perhaps Churchill knew, Anyhow, most of his coli@agues in the Cabinet didn't believe him, He acted in spite of them. His resignation lay ‘on the table, to be taken up if events should prove that he was wrong. Early in July the Grand Fleet had assembled off the south coast of Eng- land for its annual play at war. The manoeuvres followed their usual course and under all the rules, tl ly the Ger in zeitung says further: utrals have rights, but so also @ great nation fighting for its life, Though maintaining submarine is willing to gover the justifi wishes of merioans, but not at any price.” The Morgen Post declares that the note ehoves the German proposals aside, and that its author “lifts his finger threateningly and con th: in or jally strong way of teblishing is point.’ TRUST COMPANY ASSETS. ‘Thetr Reso! | Incrense $125, 966,008, They Report, ALBANY, July 26.—The resources of the trust companies of the State in- creased $125,966,993. from March 19 to June 28 lust, according to reports filed With the State Banking Department, During the same period the total de- yorite, of these institutions, increased e total in June being S1Meeeria Ngo an compared with 81,666,5 264,048 In March. For Constipation EX LAX The Delicious Laxative Chocolate Ex-Lax relieves constipation, regulates the stomach and ie stimulates the liver and promotes digestion. Good for and old, 10c, @5c, and 500 ot fleet should have been scattered week before July 28, the day Austria declared war against Serbia. The next day—three days before Germany declared war against Russia, five days beforg she declared war against France and nearly a week before England officially entered the tray— Churchill converted the prolonged manoeuvres into the real thing, ‘On the night of July 29, there was flashed through newspaper offices of London the brief announcement, "The British fleet has left Portland under sealed orders.” Where it went, the writer didn’t know then, he doesn’t know now, and if he did, he wouldn't daro tell, It isn’t necessary to know, The restilts are sufficient, The main fleet kept together, with superior force ready to meet the Germans should they come qut without previously no- tifying Great Britain of their inten- tor, with scouts thrown out toward the German coast to watch for them, and patrols to’ guard the coast of England, ‘There England's fhay be some doubt about assistance to the Allies upon the land, There can be no question of her services upon the water. Her loss 9 been heavy both in ships and men, but not com- mensurate with the advantages gained for her Allies as well as her- If by remaining “mistress of the "" Beside bottling up the Ger- n grand fleet—the one outstanding hievement of the éntire war—Eng. land speedily swept the German mei cantile marine from the oceans, de- stroyed von Spee's roving squadron, put out of business the German oom- and provided safe oon- voy, not only to her own troops and their supplies across the channel, but to millions of dollars’ worth of armas and ammunition for both her Allies and herself across the Atlantic. Germany's war of attrition, con- ducted by means of submarines, can never overcome these results. (To-morrow’s article will give another phase of the war from the British sand t, It will tell what the army MAP. SHOW! (fe SHOW ING ADVANCE. il i THIS map Se Sa OS Orr) GERMANS SOWARO| i be ba t ik i) iy aN an i o, é snows vane rony te Garreh Oe Tue MARNE. HH} 1» / Uy " ist i ha im nih e Aes iat 2 cia N) Ny HWij ” oy Ti Mii) hy Bs GERMANY IS SATISFIED WITH YEAR’S PROGRESS. By Carl W. Ackerman United Press Staff Correspondent. BERLIN, July 26.—Germany looks back upon her accomplishments of the first year of the war with satis- faction, The Germans believe the events of the past twelve months have demonstrated to the world that the Teutons are the mightiest race of all history, No other country could have withstood the combination of world powers which Germany has Kept at bay since last August, declare the Germans, and no other, country has ever so deeply stirred the imag- ination of the world, Germany has won her claim to & place in the sun, The German Empire has added brilliant chapters to the his- tory or Teutonic might begun under the Hohengollerns of the Kingdom of Prussia. The Kaiser himself has earned for himself the title of William the Great, which posterity surely will bestow upon him. These are the dominant beliefs of the German people at the close of the first year of the wars Germany has shown up the world in all its Littleneases, and all | ings of false greatn Only the Ger- mans themselves have withstood the test of blood and iron for only the Germans have gained victories during twelve months, Ger- she has changed the whole future course of history. Ger- man influence upon the future of civilization for generations to come will be far beyond the influence of any other nation, Germany will not dominate the world by her armed might, but by her virtues which have gwiven'to her a greater capacity for organization and discipline than all the rest of Europe combined possesses. ‘The increasing respect paid to Ger- man Kultur is not one of the least victories the Germans declare they have won for themselves, during the Past year, Nothing came as a greater shock to the Germans last year than everywhere derided, The comments panes’, upon Germaay for her strong eliet in her own destiny, as repre- sented by her Kultur, caused more resentment than anything else that happened in the early days of thé war, The German indignation af last changed to contempt as the idea grew that the world laughed at Teutonic left 6o far behind by German progress as to be upable to understand the German point of view. The German people believe they owe their existence as a nation to the un- precedented capacity for organization and Giseipline they have developed during the past year. Another early prophecy of Ger- many’s enemies which is now being led with mirth was the one feesing to see the certainty of a man revolution before the war had rO- ’ the way in which their Kultur was) Kultur because the world had been! Germany is now a unit and has beep increasing in solidarity from the first shot. Prussia has not dominated the nation at all. The south German States have shown no joatousy of the powerful northern nucleus of the Empire. The Prussian regiments, in fact, have not been the prize ones of the war. Catholic Bavaria has been the staunchest supporter of the Protestant Hohengollern. Kaiser has won from his people the title “William the Great.) —_———>— FRANCE IS CONFIDENT, NATION IS UNIFIED. By William Philip Simms. (United Prese Staff Correspondent.) PARIS, July 26. ‘The great world war is one year old this week. What has France accomplished?’ . I put this question to M. Jean Crup- pl, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, member of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Foreign Relations Com- mission, a man physically not very unlike Theodore, Roosevelt. He re- plie ‘rance accomplished the defeat of the Germans in the Battle of the Marne; she stopped the German drive jfor Calais and the sea; she has kept Germany nailed to the spot for ten |long months, steadily reducing her by attrition; she has done many other big things, but the greatest of all was the dropping of internal differences, her unification of all ciasses with one, w#roat, fixed purpose in view: Victory. “Yes,” he continued earnestly, “our word ‘union’ meang something’ more |than the harmony of our people; there \is something of the sacred in it, This {sacred union will last. France is as |one man with one idea—tinal success, jcost,what it may! ‘The war, no doubt, willbe long, but the courage and pa: \tlence of our people will be equal to the task of seeing It through, “In short, perhaps the greatest ac- jcomplishment to France's credit in the last twelve months is that she has found herself." | To appreciate fully M. Cruppt's words one has but to glance backgat the France of the years just pred@d- ing the war—France, the antithesis of Germany; France, the nation of in- dividual workers and thinkers, where no two people could be expected to agree on any subject In the Chamber of Deputies there are @ score or more parties, instead of two or three as is the case in the United States, The Dreyfus affair and each camp into others with vary- ing opinions. The Calllaux case to | some extent did the same thing. ‘All manner of pessimistic talk was ‘heard on cafe terraces and even in drawing rooms. A sad fag was in |store for thesland, Surely ® tevolu- tion was coming. Another Restora- tion was on the way, some said, while others declared a second Commune could not be averted. Treason, it places; among political leaders, so ‘was intimated, one was as ba other, whiob as an- or worse if this were ble, was et. The theasze gave the * < =|) VALIVES ARE LOS (To-morrow’s article will tell how the} — split the nation Into two hostile campa| SUBMARINES SINK SEVEN MORE SHIPS; {One Raider | Reported De- stroyed as Torpedo At- tacks Are Resumed | LONDON, July 26.—Geérman sub- | marines mines sank two steam: | ships and eix trawlers in British waters yesterday, taking a total of fourteen lives. One submarine is re- | ported to have been destroyed by | bombs and gunfire. | The Britiah steamer Firth (406 tons) of Aberdeen, bound from France for Firth of Forth, was torpedoed by 4 submarine in the North Sea. Four | of the crew were killed by the ex- plosion, The Grimsby trawler Perseus was destroyed by a mine. Her crew of ten were killed. ‘ The Admiralty announces the loss of the Aberdeen trawler Briton, but does not state whether by a torpedo ora mine. The skipper of the trawler was killed and five of the crew are | believed to have been drowned. The French steamship Danae , bound from Liverpool for Archangel, , Which forms the northwestern ex- | tremity of Scott | The trawlers Henry Charles, Kath- loon, Activity and Prosper also were sent to the bottom in the North Sea, ‘The crews of ali these vessels were saved. The Di attacked by two submarines. The crews of the trawl- ore state that one of the underwater craft wae sunk by means of bombs and gune fired from the trawlers, The Danae was a veesel of 1,605 gross tormage, and was built at Sun- derland in 1 Bhe was 267 feet feet beam, and drew 14 feet { CAPT. THWAITES GIVEN HERO MEDAL BY KING FOR HOLDING TRENCHES. LONDON, July 12 (by matl).—Capt. Norman G. Thwaites of the Fourth Dragoon Guards, formerly of the staff the New Yorl@ World, received from © hands of King George at Bucking: hain Palace to-day the Miltary Cross for valor. Capt. (then Lieut.) Thwaites com- manded an advance trench before Ypres on Oct, 31 at the crisis of the battle, were given shortly before dawn advanced line to fall back, but As a result he and fower than sixty men were exposed in front and on both flanks to an overwhelming attack. Capt. Thwaltes held out against great odds until relief came and the trench was saved, but he and four-fifths of bis men were shot. While he was in a London hospital he was promoted and the award ,of the Military Cross an- nounced, ¢ impression that even French home life was rotten, The things one saw and heard in Paria gave one her gloomy feel- ing—tbat is, If he believed all he saw and heard. One got the idea that atriotiem was a lost emotion in ‘rance Some said the revolution- aries had the upper hand among the Socialists and that the Socialists were running things. bor, they sald, was ruling Capital, and Labor and Socialists, by their general strike doc- trine, had their hands at the tHroat of the nation. The Gustave Herves were the real masters of the land, and Gustave Herve, you remember, editor of the Social War, spent a time in prison because he advocated a general strike, or rebellion, among the soldiers in the event France should go to war with another nation, But what happened? The real France found herself, The nation's heart, s@ long hidden, waa revealed, and to the last man France became a unit, As M. Crupp! remarked, noth- ing has shaken this unity since, (To-morrow's article will tell how the “great doubt" has been Kfted from France.) wail in their own boats. Germany's armies in the east i further to the northwest, | That preparations have been made by Germany for a winter cam- | seomed, was on al! sides and in high paign is indicated by an official despatch from Berlin which says that \ the War Department already has on hand supplies of warm clothing for the troops. WAR NEWS IN BRIEF An Anferican steamer, the Leelanaw, loaded with flax, a product officially declared by Germany to be contraband of war, was sunk yes- f torday off Scotland by a German submarine. crew, who number about forty men, have been landed safely at Kirk- task allotted them of investing Warsaw the Teutonic troops, according to official Berlin reports, have crossed the Narew, River-and are advancing toward the River Bug and the rail- road running out of the city to the eastward, are twenty-five miles from the capital. South of Warsaw the Germans are directing their efforts against the Russian lines of defense near Piaseczno, a town twelve miles from the capital, and they already have taken two positions by storm. In South Poland the Germans are meeting with determined resis- | tance from the Russian troops holding the Lublin-Chelm Railroad, which is of -great strategic value in connection with the military operations | 1 LEME EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1018. TO CUT WARSAW-PETROGRAD RAILWAY RUSSIANS Czar's Army at North Driven to Second Line of Defenses on Bug River. MAKING A LAST STAND. Germans Said to Have Cap- tured 131,000 Russians and 41 Cannon Since July 14. LONDON, July Fighting for Warsaw has shifted from South Po- land, where the most desperate efforts of Field Marshal von Mackensen have been unable to win an appreciable advance, to the north of the Polish capital, where the Germans have crossed the Narew River along a wide front. Petrograd so far has not admitted this German success, It also still ls apparent that the Ostrolenka fortr from which radiate three useful strategic railroads, continues to be controlled by the Russians, although the attack of the Germans from Pul- tusk northwards has brought them to ®& point south of Ostrolenka. The latest success of the Germans brings von Hindenburg within twenty-five miles of North Warsaw, but the Pol- ish capital has a second line of d fense in this direction along the Bug River. To the southward the Germans are attacking the defense lines near Plasecano, which is twelve miles from Warsaw. That the situation in the capital is becoming more pre- carious is jndicated by the news that the Russians are withdrawing all men and material for the manufao- ture of munitions from the city. The atubborn hold of the Russians on the Lublin-Chelm Rallroad con. tinues. The Austro-German troops, Russian advices say, not only are be- ing held along this line, but they are suffe: under flerce counter attacks. FI KFORT, Germany, via Lon. don, July 26.—The Frankfurter Zel- tung’s Vienna correspondent says the Austro-German forts have captured 181,250 Russian prisoners aince July 14 besides 41 cannon, 141 machine guns and an enormous quantity of military supplies. BERLIN, July 6 (via London).— There was given out at the War Office to-day the following reports “North of the River Niemen the army under Gen, Von Buelow hes reached the district of Poswol-Ponio- wits. Wherever the enemy has of- fered resistance he has been beaten, We captured over 1,000 prisoners, “On the Narew front our troops forced @ crossing of the river, Fur- thermore, both above and below Os- trolenka, our troops are slowly push- ing the enemy back In the direction of the River Bug, The Russians are offering obstinat resistace to these advances, Here also we captured about 1,000 Russians and more than forty machine guns, “On the northwest front our troops are advancing toward the group of fortifications around Novo giovak and Warsaw. “In the southeast theatre of the war, north of Wojslawice and south of Chelm, on the River Bug, German troops in he recent fighting pushed the enemy still further back. Yeuster- day we captured here eleven officers, 1,457 men and eleven machine guna, Otherwise the situation west of the Vistula and with the allied armies under Gen. von Mackensen, shows no change.” Sen JERSEY’S RICHEST COP. ua to His Job oman. Albert Hargreaves, @ second grade patrolman in Paterson, N. J., at $1,000 a year, will soon be probably the richest pot at Nantillots, dun, war patches to-day. Franoo-Mlanders twelve hours. eaid the report; est of Ailly, and LIEUT. FILLEY, LONDON, July member of tl America in 1914, 6 Lieut. Milley, tions, and retired hie observer had the engine ripple policeman in New: Jorsey. It became known to-day that by the will, of his er, Mrs. Annetta Bowers, who on July 15, he is to receive $125,000, She was the widow of John J. Bowers, « wholesale milk deal: and her estate is valued at $250,000. Y has not resigned nor ex-| | i) y intention of doing so. All the members of her continue to make progress in the North of the Polish capital in this sector the Germans acnene renee sist alli taiieimanaenpetinta HOLD MACKENSEN: VON HINDENBURG SWEEPS ON FRENDH AR RAD >i nm 0 GERMAN DEPOT ON VERDUN FRONT Artillery Engagements ported at Soisson and Other Points on Line PARIS, July 26.—A raid by French aeroplanes on « German military de- described in official de- explosive and incendiary bombs and showered several thousand darts, ap- parently with success, This afternoon's offictal commu- nique Indicated iittle action along the “There have been reported during the past night artillery engagements between Aix Noulette and Souches as well as in the vicinity of Soissons,” “fighting with gren- ades between the trenches in the for- Hartmansweilerkopf.” — , HARVARD OARSMAN, HONORED BY BRITAIN FOR AIR BATTLE, have come to two sportemen famous in Amerioa—one an American, of a distinguished St. Louis family, Lieut, Oliver Dwight Filley, of the Flying Corps; the other, Capt. Hf. A, Tomkinson of the Royal Dragoons, British polo team that wrested the international cup from man aeroplanes charged him at once, and Lieut. Filley had ex- haueted hie last round of ammunition In battling with the enemy. Re- northwest of Ver- The French hurled front in the last @ bombardment of —Military honore Lieut. Filley has received the milt- tary oroes for conspicuous gallantry, and Capt. Tomkinson has received promotion to the rank of Major. Filley was captain of the Harvard crew of 1906, which won over Yale, ‘Tho official report tells how .om July with observer, was aloft in an aeroplane not espe- cially constructed for fighting; that he repuleed two attacks by German roplanes, continued his observ only after two Ger been killed at his of the ‘aeroplane Each morning of the They find that restful slu Comes after Wheingold Bes Rheingold | Beer | A bottle of Rheingold bed is one of th insuring restful ep S. Liebmann’s Sons Br-wing Co. —_— U.S. RED CROSS MUST QUIT WORK ON BATTLEFIELDS 4 Nurses Because of Lack of Funds. WASHINGTON, July 26.—Ameri- ean Red Crose doctors and nurses will be withdrawn from the European battlefield Oot. 1, because of lack of funde to maintain them longer at their stations. It ts possible that the two units In Belgium, where the greatest need ex- ints, will be continued, but the other fourteen detachments will return te the United States, The Serbian Sah- itary Commission and other work supported by special contributions will go on as long as thone co! tions are available, but the general fund collected in the United States, amounting to $1,560,000, will be ex- hausted on Oot. 1, Tho Red Cross has sent to the warring countries 367 persons ¢&- gaged in humanitarian enterprices bs that number fa hangs oS od were three were members "of more Dian Sanitary ee yo -or more complete Pi with oonre ae narese and supplies and equipment. —_so A AUSTRIAN-SUBMARINE “~~” AND AERO BASE WRECKED BY FRENCH DESTROYER. — ar; ber best eer. Beer before you t and surest enne 5 i