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Fol Tonight and Wednesday. High Temperstum 7 \ ARie Tew development would go far toward lessening the increased ten- game PRICE ONE CENT. (opr rte to (The Che { Books Open to All.””| FOB, ter The Meese Pubitieting Rew Verb Werte). NEW yYorK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1915. ROFRANO INDICTED AS PLOT IS BARED , FINA] I “Clreulation Books Open to rT | 16 PAGES EDITION — PRICE ONE CENT. TO SLAY TOM FOLEY AND CONGRESSMAN PLEDGE TO GIVE WARNING BEFORE U-BOAT ATTACKS Washington Hears Gerard Was In- formed That von Bernstorff Had Full Power to Act in Situation. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The German Foreign Office has as- sured Anttassador Gerard it stands back of Ambassador von Bernstorff’s | agsurance’s to the State Department that passenger liners will not be tor- pedoed if they do not resist or attempt to attack submarines, according | to an unofficial report on trustworthy authority current in official circles this afternoon. It had been feared lately that Bernstorff had lost influence with his Government, and if official news bears out to-day's reports it was admitted | sion of the past two days. The State Department had not received this assurance from Mr. Ger- ard officially, but it was known that he saw Foreign Minister von Jagow on Monday night, and it was supposed it was conveyed to him by the lat- ter at this meeting. By Samuel M. Wiliams. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—"Disavowal first, arbitration after- ward,” is the policy of President Wilson in settling with Germany: the sinking of the Arabic. It was officially stated at the White House to- day that the question of arbitration is-not in issue and was not dis- cussed in Secretary Lansing’s conference with Count von Bernstorff yesterday. The United States Government asked the German Government to make disavowal of its submarine commander's act in torpedoing the Arabic. The Berlin Foreign Office in its last note asked that the dispute be referred to The Hague Tribunal for arbitration and fixing of in- demnity. President Wilson replied in effect: “Disavow first your unwar- ranted act. Then we will see about discussing arbitration, We can't arbitrate the murder of American citizens.” It will be’ four or five days before any reply is expected from Berlin. Juat how muc> difference there 1 -——___________| between diplomacy and deception, ac cording to Germs’ practice, i» to be|BRITIOH CABINET 1S developed. The status to date is as follows: DEBATING CONSCRIPTION No direct or definite answer has —_—— been received to President Wilson's last note about tho Lusitania, dated July 21, wherein he said that repetl- tion of such acts we be regarded as “deliberately unfriendly.” | Von Bernstoff had just smoothed that episode over by pointing to the fact that German submarines were being good when the Arabic was tor- pc teed and sunk. ‘That new crisis he glossed over by & written promise to the Washington Government that Germany apologized and had changed its method of war- fare eo that no more passenger Mners | Giving Subject Deliberation Its Gravity Demands, Says Asquith. LONDON, ept. 14.—OMcial admis- sion that the Cabinet is debating the | subject of conscription was made | publicly for the first time in the House of Commons this afterngon. The subject was brought up by both the oponents and the advocates of conscription, Premier Asquith final- ly arose and announced: “his is not a matter which has w! st warning. eee a Wane COPY OF THE |cscaped the attention of the Gov- ORDER TO SUBMARINES. = |¢rnment. When the Government, Then some one in the Berlin For-| without undue delay and with due deliberation which the gravity of the subject demands, have arrived at their conclusions they will be pre- sented to the House and will then become the subject of parliamentary discugsion.” —_—_——— FRENCH VESSEL SUNK BY GERMAN U-BOAT; HER CAEW IS SAVED, LONDON, Sept, 14—The French eign Office riddied his promise with & massage saying ‘nt Germany could not make reparation for the lost American lives because the subma- rine commander thought the Arabic ‘was trying to run him down, and the Mner was torpedoed in the stern, But Von Bornstorff again sought reeott agile diplomacy, to secure eer aaist from President Wilsop and Becretary Lansing for the pur- pose of advising his home govern- ment that the Americans have facts BRITISH LOSSES 1500 MEN ADA AL THE SUMMER Total Casualties Since War Began Reach 381,983 Officers and Men. ——— BOOSCSOSE-9-5-64-4699-566556-04559005-9008 | FIVE AIR RAIDS IN WEEK, Casualties From This Source Reached 166 in the Last Seven Days. LONDON, Sept. 14.—Offctal an- nouncement was made to-day in the House of Commons that the total of British war casualties up to Aug. 21 was 381,983 officors and men. Of this number 75,957 were killed; 251,068 wounded and 64,957 are missing | } and supposed to be dead or prisoners of war. These casualty figures were divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds—Officers, 4,965; men, 70,992 Wounded — Omtcers, 241,096. Missing—Smcors, 1,501; men, 68,45 Losses during the summer were somewhat smaller than in April and | May. This {8 accounted for by com- | parative inaction along the Franco- | Belgian front. The heaviest propor- tion of losses was at the Dardanelles. The last previous statement of the) total of British casualties was made by Premier Asquith on June 9 It gave a total of 258,069 up to May 31, The losses from that time up to Aug. 21 are therefore 123,914, a daily aver- age of about 1,500, In the two monthe before the end of May, the period covered in the pro- ceding announcement, the losses averaged roughly about 2,000 a day. The Star says that the total cas- ualties from airship raids during the last seven days amount to 166, Dur- ing this pertod there have been no fewer than five atr raids on England, ————— LONDON IS AGAIN RAIDED BY ZEPPELIN Airship Drops Bombs on East Coast, but Does No Damage, Says Report, LONDON, Sept. 14.—Another Ger- man air raid was made over the east 9,972; men coast of England last night, but as far as appears there were no casual- tes and no damage was done. A single Zeppelin was the raiding aircraft, according to the official an- nouncement, which read: "A Zeppelin visited the east coast last night. Bombs were dropped Anti-aircraft guns, fixed and mobile, were in action. “So far as can be ascertained there were no casualties and no damage was done.” This is the sixth Zeppelin raid in Spy—Another St WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. 2 mon, traveling representative of & Hutchinson, Boston 1 detained by Russian military author- ities at Moscow, has been released, but State Department advices to-day say Keen, his associate, has been detained for further Investigation. Anto Roads Help Ho CLEVELAND, Sept. 14,—Delegates to the convention of the Master Hors- al Protective Association, , to-day declared that the Rice nufacturers, to prove that Berlin is mistaken, The vn | CATRO boat Oued Sehou of 1,540 tons ying to run down Arabic was not trying has been sunk by a German submari Her crew was rescued, (Continued on Second Page.) nts used on automobile ing their business. They aay ah shoe now wears only one- fourth es long ae formerly, Pretty Young Chorus Girl Killed In Early Morning Auto Smash eer ee; Coe eee PEE EEEEEEEEEEEE TE EEE EE ' seen f 60600-0664 FOR HIS RECALL SALS SEP. 22 Discredited Ambassador Wants to Explain Actions to His Foreign Office. LENOX, Mass., Austro-Hungarian Constantin T, Dumba, Sept. Ambasador, 14.—The Dr. | to-day an- nounced that he had requested his | Foreign Office to recall him on leave of absence, he might | make a personal report on the situation | in the United States which resulted in @ request by the United States Govern in order that bos ellie RUMBA ASKS 3 MLES OF FORTS eeeee IN DARDANELLES ioakeiaaersats Cruisers Shell Both Sides of the Straits—Land Attacks Renewed. LONDON, Sept. 14,—Resumption of the fighting at the Dardanelles, both on land and sea, was reported in de- spatches from Athens to-day. ‘There are Indications that the allies are pre- paring for concerted attacks in both the Sedd-ul-Bahr and Suvia Bay re- gions of Gallipoli Turkish batteries, which have been shelling the Anglo-French trenches at the southern tip of the peninsula by throwing projectiles across the strait, have been demolished, Two British ment for his recall, rulsers cntered the strait and ked shore guns on the Asiatic | side for a distance of three miles, The cruisers then steamed tn close to the European side of the Dardanelles and shelled the Turkish left on Gallipolt In authorizing the Associated Press | wre to make the above announcement, Dr Dumba expressed indignation that the text of his message to the Austro Hungarian Minister of At- Foreign peninsula fairs, Baron von Hurlan, already had} Despatches from two sources to-day become public without his consent or| reported the sinking of a German knowledac submarine off the Dardanelles en- | trance by French torpedo boats. The | 7h view (Of the altuation, be 909)| cit repost weaireosived by the Pavia ho probably would no¢ make public! Journal from its Athens correspon- lent, A agency despatch to Tandon trom Athens carted the s: the statement of his position which he had in mind to give to the Amer news loan press, report, which has not been officially Dr. Dumba will probably go to New | cgnfirmed. York to-morrow, Mrs. Dumba will ———- leave Lenox at the same time Wanhingtom, where she plans to stuy| THUMBNAIL SUICIDE WEAPON about a week, Then she will rejoin line Ambassador at New York ana| Chto macif Hadly— j sail with him. | COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. |) gpprnc Ly, Maen, Beck ttm According to the litiken, Dr. Bow Yeung, self-confessed murderer {Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian Am a Chinese fellow niryman, at- bassador to the United States, will tempted suleide in his cell early ¢ sail on the stear Frederick VII raxor-like thumb from New York on & for Copen- in mutilating his t an operation bis life, GIRL AND MAN DIE INAUTO COLLISION; ~ SEVEN MORE HURT ili | Two Speeding Cars Crash in Dense Fog on Pelham Parkway. DRIVERS ARE ARR PED, Four Girls and Five Men in Was Winter Garden Chorus. Parties — Victim in Ida Brown, twenty years old and pretty, a Winter Garden chorus girl and Walter Delmar, a clerk, of No. 660 West One Hundred and Fifty third Street, instantly killed when two automobiles, each crowded were with a merry party of men and wom on, came together head-on in a fog on Petham Parkway at 3.80 o'clock thi morning. All the other riders in the two cars were cut and bruised, but escaped serious injury. They were Miss Dorothy Hunt, a Winter Garden chorus girl, who lives with Miss Brown's mother at No, 243 West Ninety-elghth Street; Rowe Smith, twenty, and Minnie Byrne, twenty-six, roommates of No, 221 East Eolghtecnth Street; James G Rao, @ broker, of No. 587 Sixth Street, Brooklyn, with offices at No, 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, and Tony Nuzai of No. 54 James Street, Manhattan, Delmar and the two Winter Garden girls were in Marshall's car, Delma: and Miss Hunt on either aide of th little machine, crouched on the run ning board. ‘The others were all in Greenfield's car. It was several hours before the first statement of the accident from one of those involved was made, Then James G, Rao, a broker, said that the car in which he was riding was going twenty-five miles an hour and the auto in which Miss Brown and Delmar were passengers was travel- ling forty miles an hour, DRIVERS ARE HELD ON THE CHARGE OF HOMICIDE. After a brief investigation Coroner Healy held the drivers of the auto- mobiles in $2,000 bail on technical chargeg of homicide and the others in $100 bail as witnesses, Security was furnished for all. The Coroner said many previous accidents on the Parkway were caused by the narrow- ness of the roadway, which also was probably responsible for this one. He said he would urge @ change in the thoroughfare, Miss Hunt told several friends who came to her at the Coroner's office that just before the accident she had been talking with Miss Brown about flowers, The young woman who wa: 20 soon to die made a remark impres- sive in view of what followed #o soon after, “She told me that she wanted red roses if anything happened to her,” Miss Hunt said, “and a few moments later that something happened," Both cars were driven by owners, One, the larger and powerful, was that of William Heid, @ real emlate broker, thei mor eon ». G50 Intervale Avenue, the Bronx, At the wheel of the other car was Chester A Marshall of the Hotel St Georg Brooklyn. STORY OF THE COLLISION AS TOLD TO CORONER, None of the survivors would talk tc inquirers at the tl but Coroner Healy gave out the substance of what they told him. Greenfield, Rao and Nuzal, accord ling to the Coroner, were at an Italia (Continued on Fourth Page.) POLITICAL LEADER INDICTED ON CHARGE OF HIRING KILLERS IN ELECTION DISTRICT ROW Children Playing on Roof Prevented Shooting of Tammany Leader in Second District. : CONGRESSMAN RIORDAN WAS MARKED FOR DEATH The April Grand Jury, speciatly reconvened to-day, to hear the evi- dence of Frank Fennimore, who confessed yesterday that he was in a conspiracy which resulted in the assassination of Mike Gaimari, one of exe Sheriff Thomas F. Foley's Tammany lieutenants in the Second Assembly District, found an indictment this afternoon charging Michael A. Ro- frano, lawyer and former Deputy Street Cleaning Commissioner, with murder in the first degree. Rofrano is charged with having employed men to kill Gaimari, who was shot to death last March at Oak and Chest- nut Streets by Gaetano Montimagno, a bootblack. Late this afternoon District Attorney Perkins obtained stratling evi- dence relative to a plot to assassinate ex-Sheriff Foley and Congress- man Daniel J. Riordan three years ago. The information was communi- cated to Judge Malone, who ordered the April Grand Jury to reconvene at 10.30 o'clock to-morrow morning for further investigation, The District Attorney's latest evidence brings close to a man une der suspicion responsibility for an attempt to kill Foley and Riordan with arifle, The district leader and the Congressman were to be shot in the clubhouse of the Down Town Tammany Club by a man armed with a rifle concealed on the roof of a building across the street. ‘The man with the rifle was accompanied by another, The lives of Foley and Riordan were saved by inquisitive children on another roof, who saw the assassins, In attempting to drive the children away, the two men attracted attention and fled, ® Mr. Perkins’s new evidence deals TAMMANY LEADER AND CONGRESSMAN WHO ESCAPED THE KILLERS has come into his possession, The Grand Jury will be told how the rifle Was found in certain flat in the Second Assembly Digtrict and two or three indictments are expect- ed As @ result of close investigation along this line. | The indictment of Rofrano ts the political sensation of years. It will bring to Hght hidden things in ety politics and drag into public atten- tlon men of prominence who would like to remain under cover. A bench warrant was issued for Rofrano's arrest and @ general alarm calling for his arré%t was put on the wires within half an hour after the finding of the indictment. Detectives who have been looking for him since Frank Fennimore, a self-confessed conspirator in procuring the murder ot Gaimari, made a confession yester- day afternoon report that they have been unable to find him, Rofrano ts said to have been on Park Kkow Sunday afternoon. He returned | with bi family on Saturday from bis ” mer home at Keansburg, NW7., ace cording to Information gathered by the detectives, Only the outlines of the great masses of evidence in the possession at Alioruey have been made public, It is reported that As- sistant District Attorneys Murphy, Delehanty and Brothers have uncov- ered the most sensational case of murder for pay since the conspiracy to assassinate Henman Rosenthal wae exposed, It has long been known in the Sec- |ond District that Mike Rofrano was | suspected of having hired men to kill Gaimari. But Rofrano is a power among his own people and has a lot of influence in high political cireles because of bis anti-Tammany activi- é | with the ownership of the rifle, which ¥