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FANSL Che [“Ctroutation Books Open to All | Copyri —————— PRICE “ONE 1P15, by The Press Pablishing (The New York World), CENT. € AUSTRIAN NOTE YIELDING TO U. S. CABLED TO LANSIN NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1915. BRITISH WARSHIP IS BLOWN UP; 325 OF CREW DEAD; SPY IS SUSPECTED » OSBORNE AVERTS SING SING RIOT AS KIRGHWEY GOES IN _ Ex-Warden Tells Che | Convicts He Will Come Back When Trial NUSTRIN'S PLEDGE 10 STOP U-BOAT ATROCITIES MAKES | | | | VERY IMPROBABLE SWAN PICKS NEW “STAFF: DELEHANTY irden Takes Oath and GLTS IUDGESHIP. © Promises to Continue Mu- tual Welfare League. A BA Poesy Unofficial Text of Latest Note Says Submarine Command- er Has Been Punished. ering Is Over, OVATION. TO PAY AN Von Bernstorff D INDEMNITY Susses Lusi- British Cruiser Natal Destroyed With a Loss of 325 of Her Crew} | J“Cirentation Books Open to All’ | WEATHER—Fair to-night. Saturday, eloudy. - FANAL 14 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. EXPLOSION FROM INSIDE | _ SUNK NATAL IN HOME PORT, SAYS ADMIRALTY REPORT Warship Carried a Crew of 725 and the Only Members Who Es- caped Death Are Believed to Have Been Ashore. NAVY’S BIGGEST LOSS SINCE ae i —_—— eae: EXPLOIT AT DARDANELLES tania Case With Lansing . . Governor Names — Assistant Swcial to The Evening World.) | AR With View to Settlement. S . 4 os om BING: MINBON XG et Sas “SHE NATAL. LONDON, Lec. 31.—The British cruiser Natal was blown to pieces OSeCUIC Oe a > ACY | outbreak of Sing Sing convicts was Prosecutor to Swann’s Place in ils harbor yesterds bout lives. =a yes averted this morning only through y its harbor yesterday afternoon with a probable loss of al 325 Ii BERLIN, Dec. 31 (via Londony—| ON General Sessions Banc || sc 4cc, on che atubere and dete 919 Pliece Licensed ‘EXPLOSION KILLS EIGHT The official statement from the Admiralty said the ship was wrecked Whe text of Austria's note to the a= feats of the Mutual Welfare League, who \ AT CHICAGO PLANT “by an internal explosion.” The Admiralty statement reported that 400 QFalted States was received in Berlin! istrict Attorney-Elect Edwara| went among them, . “ring assurances | to Sell Drinks to 3 A. M. of the Natal’s crew of about 725 were saved. It is believed many, if not 1 ur —_—--—- — . . early this morning, at such an HOU Swann this afternooy announced the! that Warden ‘Thomas Mott Osborne all of these, were ashore when the cruiser was sunk. that the morning newspapers were appointment of the following an | was not to give up the management ‘Lives of Firemen in Danger as! 5 t Bera, ceed ee eee oe tie soiowiny oa robin | blpiver ue ties pianagsioed as New ear mes In : rs An immediate investigation has been ordered, but the results have v pine i ; Ka obi hie_ prntemianalewales of the privon, but was merely ” Naphtha Tanks Blow Up, Spread- | not been made public. News of the disaster was withheld from publica- weiger gives an cation 6¢ It8] aesigthnt District attorneye=<ea Dr. Georgo W. Kirehwey — eo ‘ eee cxiiize, “oonciliatory-A 1" t ing Flames Over Buildings. — | tion for nearly twenty-four hours, mtd the Admiralty had received accu- view } My Won Py Leslie Tomp, is tri aatise Tinea thao: inhi BROKER’ $ MESSENGER fate Statements as to the number of s a of Vienna Government kins, John 't. jing, William Mar \dexces of trouble uppearea when | Besides These the 28 All Night t CHICAGO, Dec, 31. -Hxplosion of a eon a ae, psinengibeser 9 ASHINGTON, Dec The of © “Bleck Abrahani’ (G: Mey | i tad sone: the) . n * naphtha tank at the plant of the ie ides in wonerally attributed to 4 man Black, Abraham G. Meyer, among the! Resorts Will Be Doing | FOILS BOLD HOLDUP | fout 3 He | . American Linseed Company in ath | lay. In support of this theery Meld) text of Austria's Ancona not: N. Broth } oN the Warden was not to | tt trowhe ames O'Malley | day by de di attention ts ci . - received early to-day at the 8 , am ey, pilaon, ‘The oMoldls of | Business yo hicago to-day brought death and in Ssiacn aie called to the similar dite. was at th : 8. Johnstone, Royal 1. Weller, Me ptsmvaluen Wire| Sines. | jury to a number of omploye asters which overtook the British bat- Dabartment. The work of translating| y ay Shemn Bewhase and Hobere C:l.aen Gokercs there wonld be wecoute . iis Cries Save Cash and Lead to Caps] Jeopard the lives of firemen and lee ae Bulwark, which was blown up iy diplomatic fanirenuwen| Nasi? di | caused a blaze which threaten Sheerness in November of set from pl 1 break, immediately went to certain of} ytayor Mitchel to-day granted 219 lure of Two in Skyscraper | year with the to: 8 nd several hours | Messrs Tompkins, Dooling, Mack] the men who appeared to be ready to ‘ - destructioniof the entire plant. Tw [hs pepe nace ( i ind Me are new appointees, the | le disorderly ones and’ told them | /Senses permitting tho sale of liquo Elevator Chuse. {hours after the explosion the Coroner | Veale OT eka @ecretary Lansins retu a thers are “holdovers from the Per-[ the Warden was to return and that; !2 amusement renc in this , waa told by the pollce at May Wik the lee ne eee Deh ee euse the contents of the note « Kine adiiniateakin, 8. eee " epian epPdie ay @aie wenna (oe bef ee ein Edward Krings, cighteen years Old. that eight men had boen ki ha pMay with the tonn of 300 lives, ty psy » th 5 ioe Be lite: \ t 4 "lot No, 212 B sigh ci Street, | as ny “ rn ie © io may how fully it corresp lot Deputy Assistant District Attorney This serv to stop the} during New celebrations. No, 312 Kast Kighty-sixth Str " is ay - i ioe i 2 alae The Natal's sinking is the goyeee } T exande! © tye Jemons! ’ e “ ese nage 1 les oc yon placec he dead a ‘om ee cabled wnoficial text. ‘The message} Alexander I. Rorke, Moses R, Ryt-| demonstra ra of the} qaged to this number are twenty- (2 ” eer for Hess & Hous, stock | P bed ‘ yom A pe which the British navy hae c@mes through very slowly, he said. rg and James KE, Smith, salaries | League believe y with the tnittal] coy year round liquor Heenses, | UKE Wan returning from the Ger ue 7 emnainarae | tained in several montha, No Briueh , Hedcdetary said the note would not| 1% " Year: George A. Levelle, & crisis, aeae Me an a doe nme which permit their holders to pei] M@*2-American Bank, Exchange Place | MAval vessel of importance has been ay following d te handle when they lea ile wert r olde « elt 3 , be made public before Mc year: rin Be ; Me hy I Hine Wandan ta feallioto leave }tiquor until 6 A. M and Broadway, Just before noon to ROBBERS NN MOTOR BOAT. Repprt Revived That McKenna pa 1s een Oe ‘ Kilre \ » leu or until 6 A. : ump! dM pedoe eee al iaticens | Murnby, gona Ge Maa “Kucaven’ eunvicta, (ai ch einen the apeciat New {Ul With the office pay roll aoney | BALKED BLOODHOUN § Runciman and Simon Are fat the Danae Wore :s04p4 Ke i i ewil " . a n “ of the prison starte " pmountin, o ti) a leather pouch | | k 2 resentative in the United States, Markew! h, Henry Stantey main a ball ae pall iB ¥ ne Year's licenses permitted owners of |“MOUtIng to $300 in a leather pouch | 4 D A . | though @ powerful man-of-war, was believes the Austrian note wi fdward $. Brogan, Aaron C a riot when Warden pmas M on, | cabarets, restaurants and other pieas- under his arm when was attacked | nike to Resign Office. |lid down eleven years ago and her satisfy the demands of the United | and Ison Olec borne addressed them at 1 o’eloc . qe by two men who had folle n.} F . . | displacement waa only about half that States. These deputy aasixtants were na this non and told them that at] Ure resorts to remain open and dts-/i4 a jatway on fifteenty floor | long Island Post Office Yielded —— of the largest British sea fighters. « #1 sincerely hope that our reply | With the stipulation that their sat. | the close of his trial on the chargou | pense Nanor and other drinks until 6 Jot the Manhattan 1 Iusurance $550 to Gang of Safe-Blow- LONDON, Dec, 31—Rumors that} The Natal's normal complement will convince the United States [aries are to be fixed later: John g,| @#tinst him he would return to them] a, M., about 225 special Neenses of | Muilding, No Broadway where the three members of the Cabinet will re- {Was 704 men, Her displacement was f h - |O'Conner, Newma ’ t as Warden 1 “ . employers | ors Thi 01 4 that we wish to abide me wprin EiConae wyman Levy, Batrick [8 Wem athe ene | thin china were cd by the Mayor, | off ploy 1 ers This Morning slun because of thetr opposition to] 1660 tons, She was 480 feet long elpies of humanity and to do the | rath, John M Minturn jr. Fred The ve \ t Of the 219 special licenses upted He shouted so loudly that ie _ ‘ ‘ fon [il 78 feet of beam, Her largest utmost to be fair in our dealing [erick J. Sullivan, James A, MoDon.| mies of prison reform had failed in ay 16? avo # ’ retreat, James A EU EINGRON: Ny Yeu Tews 9 anscription gained wide ciroulatlon | ware 9.8-tnoh, Of these alie.anes with the United States,” he said. [nell Mdward Weil, ander Leh.| heir effort to oust them; that he is on for Brook’ tendon) (ha Brane aah eae = post aftice of Huntington Harbor, | When the Ministers met to day £0} ied Chewa Povarara and there af ee 1 lp f about a mile north of this village, draft the Government's conseriptio dt . It de thought likely at the embassy ee Joxeph Forrester, John F, Joyce, | SUll Warden, and will be . arden and)and five for Queens, The Horough PY. Caskani, ticket clerk, join i | ts north of t lilage, w as au ati aReN es nseription | vas arned also with four 7.5-inoh that Austria will very soon send an|Francis Xavier Manusco, John Car. ,in active charge when his pre f Richmond—Staten Island—scorns | Hess, one of the tir responding | robbed eshly Une:n OE Whey fae i ‘ Re kuns, twenty-four 3-pounders and ‘Ambastador to the United States so|done and Ferdinand @, Morton {trouble is over. He urged them to}, l-night license application to the lad's eries for help. ‘The pur- | *# s blown open, ‘The thieves got | ae ty ae t sine ya spr three torpedo tubes. ducted ma he State Boay sup) Kire e new act . peas aint : catere < ~ | awa h $160 honey and |nald McKenna ewide < .) y that any negotiations con Auoted_m ay The State Board of Excise took cars| upport Dr. Kirchwey, the new 5 The approved licenses were sent to] suing party entered 4 descending |mway with $150 in money and about ipoard of Trade, Walter Runctman,| The Natal brought to New Terk @e CGrried out on Austria's part by|to-day of one of the young men{ ing Warden, and assured them Dr.| thy State Excise Department at Al-| elevator und at (ie tenth floor found | $200 In ata and Sir J 8 Secret ¢|from Portamouth the body of Whi Ube highest diplomatic oMfolal who| shooed out of a job in District Attor, | Kirchwey is in sympathy with his| any for sanction there—a mere mat-| the two men waiting for the clevator| Postmaster Harry Rossile, in whose {and Sip John Simon, Becrilary 98) AT oy SiS oO eae OS Me could be sent to this country. ney Perkins's office by the advent of| Prison methods and will continue the| ter of form—and will be back in this|to come down, They turned th father's store the post office is lo- F sa ip 1 i *! London, after hie death | ri Ie the offcial text conforms to press| District Attorney Swann, ‘Thomas| Plans he instituted city to-night in time to entitle their] over to Detectives O'Nelll and Chrys. | cated, telephoned the Huntington pa- |™onbOrs men the: thvem Dbeatons MAAIRIAG gf tow Sask the pola Gespatches saying the communication | Channon Press, an Assistant District | He wd by wishing the convicts] holders to do bu othe At Headquarters the men gave | ice of the burglary and they sent for f eh as m0) : feaApgecsa ce ide Rie Wiahiile ws Meee Bipe - @mnounced that the submarine com-| Attorney in the Whitman and Per-|« Happy New, Year and the demon-| hours after midn| r nates ax Leo Mayer, twenty [the Tans nd Hailey Woods y ce teins ted that Premter|#hip blown up, premimaniy be Gaander who torpedoed tho stoamer|kins regime, was appointed counee!| station started. ‘The men were en-| Mayor Mitchel says he does not | one, of No. 663 Dawson Street, a tox | hounds, ‘The hounde took the scot at eet nnn sas marty had muc-| al explosion, while in coer ae bed boon punished, virtually only one] to the Excise Board and assigned to| Urely free of vestraint, and many | belleve owners of restauranty and | bacco salesin 1 Samuel. Poble, | Ae Y ADE Fae Soe Ra vled aad that none of the theeo| ‘be baciieshipdulwark al blown of the incident remains to be|the Bronx ldaneed in ft of the tat as they} other resorts will abuse the $ A. M.| nineteen, of No, 419 Pores! Avenue, a Nage 4" pi itd ci Atinlate The pa sbaphaca Harbc ; H fe AD BAO ne 4 beat He dR aca Al ie Sal nouns uld leave nistry no re. in Sheerness bor on Noy, 26 ed up. That would be the 5 District Attorney Perkins, when | ¥#lled and sang Wilege, Ie they:do they will max r wer {a tor nina The th ports suddenly wed to-day | 1914, with a loss of about 800 Ives. ment of indemnity for American 1! ves asked this afternoon what he intends A still more narkabie situation! unnecessary trout t themselves, | tion. 1 beyond this point and caused a n ern- |The converted cruiser Princess Iren: Jost, for which Austria has oxpressel | doing after retiring from public of-] developed before the addrwss in the a | = mon ire wtronig i he olin and cane Ths converted aruiser Brinewes trata o make reparation. | fice, replic veas hall, when the warden a8 said in Cit all to-da t nat F hoat carried the thinvd 7 ‘4 oad t meray ome eee | hy, first of all, Cam going on «| the ti AVIGLALO DH MAM STA AE Toa pay tdamorsow midtoine en T 18, about $00 lives, her destruction being feign tho question of submarino| it iy underatood that when hw re-[den's oillce the men gathered about |deavoring to Ret evidence ay SUNK BY AUSTRIANS NEO WEYBURN N OWES $59,800, Vivure among those aboard @iipy for warn- . d cheered, while they shook | Places witch ain ‘Open afte | sis ' hantme \his present chief assistant, Arthur} is hand and some of tho ex-convicta We: Gise cGiadne: re % 4 learned, (hough Jt was rumored It fe believed here that in punish-|-prain, and that they will huve offices| he has been aiding clapped him upon Ree a gad : ee 4 Fy ") Vienna Makes Announcement in) Owtew ™ | = German spies Were responsible. submarine commander for|at No, 69 Broadway e back. He sleeful and led the y ignod’ & “aenticn ; ankrup hedules of y date é r ing gl Bibenesine comnader, (oF 9 No, 69 Broadway. the | ache He. i dber na st arcmemant? nebite vinlane (he Admitting Loss of Two | askruptey teh dilan of Wi we }Or These, Officially Reported} eal > 6 shaee vessels blown faitui a | men into his rooms and, seating him- | Srecmet catered burn, producer own Topica,” the | up in thelr harbors, the British prevailing aboard the Ancona before | Whitman Namen De » to unes| self at his piano, he playod ‘“Pom| “isons of hie privilege, Destroyers feat ahow that closed ite doors at] in Casualty List, 1001 Were battleship Formidable was destroyed terpedoing the vessel, the Austrian ed Swe Brown's March," a piece he composed ———— "3 the Century wire early Inet. No Office on Jan, 1, 1915, by an explosion in the Z Government, in effect, disavowed the| ALBANY, Dee, %,—Supreme Court] pimself and dedicated to the prison | VIENNA (via Berlin wireless). Deg, | vember, give Habilittes mx $59,500 in | Heers Nngli#h Channel, It was nover de- i] ‘pel oad pave assurances that there| Justice John Proctor Clarke was des- | inmates }a1—An Austrian aquadron sank the | Midition to nusneroue laine TM) LONDON, Dee, at.—-Hi wiual-| termined definitely whether a mine [ ‘Would. be no repetition of such an|ignated by Gov. Whitman to-day as| ALBANY, Dec, 31.—George W.} | Fronch aubmarine SMonen ih tie bure | eee ee oe ea aiinen ace ties recorded in lixts published during | o¢ internal explosion sent her to the ee | pr ing Justice of the Appellate DI-| Kirchwey of New York, former dean EVENING |bor of Durazzo Thursday morning a 200 cash tne ‘atout ¢ Decomber umount to | oottems ; Am) dor Bernstorff conferred] vision, First Department, to fill the|of the Columbia Law School, was ap- ew hours before the naval battle in sone 1001 officers and 17,548 + —<>—_ —. ES torah cor (ments |vacauey oauess Uy tne waslenation ttl otra ater Gee nent tae [ enich two. Austrian deatroyers were F See ean enacts. frown ait! STEAMER WRECKED AT SEA. minutés to-day regarding the Lusi- Justice G L Ingraham, Justice | Sing Prison to-day by John B, Riley, WORLD Jeunk, it wag officially announ, guard and Frank D. Ehomes heving | once tania case. Appella neh. To fill the| State Superintendent of Prisons, to The second officer fifteen of amounts, which are belng contasted Secretary Lansing, while admitting | vacancy caused by Justice Ingraham's| succeed ‘Thomas Mott Osborne. No Will Not Be crew of the ach mubmarine | HY he RAnKrUpts) (CAIRe Beret | eee eae er ee ee rindsren tik @he ‘Lusitania case had been dis- retirement from, th paren, antl conditions were attached to the | were imprisoned the Austrian flo- | Vriganza, $300 rt Lemio. $175) |rewgnation to the State Industrial Com eussed, would not say what Progress ee ee elie Ah iaced titt|pointment, which contained no limi Published | lla, whica was componed of five de- | Lew Hear $1 Reed, $300 taiaaion as Chief Factory Inspector of! stiguel Heulliture hes broken up ead oti i Arranger ppointment of James A, Delehanty,| tations as to the length of its dura- |wtroyers and the cruiser Helgoland 1 Appointecs. t Diotrict and will enter @ Con- Jrotally wrecked {1 @ severe storm off ¢ i (Contin joond Fa Assistant District Attorney of New] tion, T M The French submarine Monge was| Richard H a lawyer, of | BAH 0h OT ae y Islands. It is believed lives have / it Forks as dude af the New York) pr, Kirchwey was handed his com- O-NMLOTTOW Gullé In 1608, Bhe Glapinond 408 tone to-day ap hin with a sultabhy xift und | been lost. CRUISES TO WARMER CLIMES | ced Edward Swann, who haa been|Mission shortly after noon, He im- ’ , ct a | i NONI ORE SAIGON e Lea A despatch recetved here thie efter fal rates, all lines, ag, ai ho has been N Y D while on the surface and carried « The pr id t , eh lead Wena Te treat elected District. Attorney of New ew Years AY | orew ot was equipped |c \ ly, ron Rook er Mie talectone Beeuuses sou -aare, Y° (Continued on Second Page.) with aix ¢ oie o"