The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1916, Page 1

— i i q | | 4 } ) U ' ZEPPELIN PRICE ONE CENT. Coprright, 1916, by The Press Oo. (The New York World)» KILLED 54 INN NEW YORK, “TUESDAY, FEBRUARY —_ eens Bet Se Be BRITISH S. S. APPAM SEIZED BY RAIDER: _ GERMAN CREW BRINGS IT ACROSS OCEAN 5A KILLED, 6] INJURED IN MOST DISASTROUS RAID BY ZEPPELINS ON ENGLAND F ‘Big Dirigibles Make Greatest Sweep Over English Territory—Squad- ron of 20 Zeppelins Reported Ready for Another Invasion. LONDON, Feb. 1.—Fifty-four persons were killed and sixty-seven in- |) Jured in last night's Zeppelin raid. The figures giving the casualties were contained in an official statement issued here this afternoon. The official statement says bombs were dropped at several towns and 4m rural districts in Dervyshire, Lelcestershire, Lincolnshire and Stafford-| Some damage to property was caused. ¢ ) shire. The number of dead and wounded may be increased by later reports, it Was indicated. The official statement sald that reports from towns and cities bombarded are atill incomplete. ‘The raiders wore hampered in their operations by a mist, which made it impossible to huri down bombs ac- curately or to gauge thelr surround- ings. ‘The four counties raided by the Zeppelins le about one hundred miles north and northeast of London and contain some of the greatest manufacturing cities of England. Manchester and Sheffield jie only a few miles north of the tler of coun- ties officially reported to have beon raided. Total casualties, as ofMcially report- ed, in eighteen Zeppelin and aero- plane raids on England since the be- ginning of the war, is: Killed, wounded, 462. Hxcepting the raid on London on Oct. 13, 1915, when 65 persons were killed and 115 injured, the Monday night invasion by Zeppelins was the most disastrous air attack In his- tory. At least six or seven Zeppelins, the War Office says, took part in the raid. No more than three Zeppelins at any one time have ever before been re- ported in @ raiding squadron. The fact that the airships raided fhe interior counties also indicates @hat they penctrated many miles further than ever before into the | eountry. Previous raids have been the coast counties, except for those London. A squadron of twenty Zeppelina, 6 of them equipped with the new ent motors, has been manoeuvring wer Belgium for several days, pre- paring for a great “air drive” on Lon- { don, according to Amsterdam de- spatches to-day. The raid last night ‘was only preliminary to a grest at- tack from the sky, it is believed here, ‘A dozen German aviators have been observed in the manoeuvres with the Zeppelin squadron over Belgium, Am- pterdam reported, The type of aero: ‘plane was not made out by traveller Arriving in Holland, They reported \ ‘that all Belgian civilians were being excluded from the country near where | the manoeuvres are going on. London experts believe the acroplanes were |{ Wokkers, assigned to accompany the pelin raiders and give buttle to nglish aeroplanes which may climb fnto the heavens to attack the dirigi- { | bles. Last night's raid was not entirely unexpected, All the newspapers pre. dicted another alr invasion rollowing the visits to English east coast towns rman seroplanes last week, Lt dd that these flights were eof “ft land'@ new r defenses, {By direction of the naval and mili- ary authorities, the police to-day \ Nered discontinuance of chime \ A striking of hours by public clocks as a pre- ng out” "tween sunset and sunrise, \ \udonat measure \'he Times to-day, commenting on ¥ phaso of the recent developmenta, | ‘{ooutinua on Fourth Page.) | Eng- BIG AIRSHIP ATTACKS ALLIES AT SALONICA Bombards Ships and Supply Depots With Great Success, Ber- lin Reports. BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, L. 1), Feb, 1.—A German airship at- tacked ships and supply depots of the Allies in Salonica harbor with ex lent success, was officially nounced to-da o Tho fact that the term was used in ,the siatoment makes it “airship” German official appear possible the first time against the a in the Balkans, The arrival of a Zep- pelin at Sofla was recently reported DU PONT POWDER CRASH SHATTERS BUILDINGS Heavy Damage Done at Plant Near Ferndale, Pa.—Not Known Wether Any Lives Were Lost POTTSVILLE, Pa., Feb. 1.—An ex- Dupont Powder Company mills near Ferndale, was reported late this afte noon, Several buildings were demolished. Tinether any lives were lost is not yet oe WHITMAN'S EXPENSE BILL ACCEPTED BY TRAVIS Itemized Voucher Called For by Comptroller Shows How $20,760 Was Spent on Panama Fair T rip. ALBANY. vouch Feb. 1.—The r of $20,760.14, the ex Whitman's party to the F Pacific Exposition, was received and accepted by Comptorller 7 itemized Gov day. §When originally pres cently it was sent back for itemiz: tion. The itemized bill shows the follow ing payments: Railroad fy 927.50; Pullman hire 8.87 ing car at Salt Lake City ear servi 79.20; | magazines, $9.77, ———__ Preneh | | Brttian hau, Amer r to Turkey, left | Constantinople on @ vacation to-day, ace cording to despatches recelved here, nd pbably will visit the United States fefore his return. Morgenthau. is axe pected to reach Berlin late this week. ———— marcas Waleed Mth.” Kia" sabato Me that a 4eppelin has been engaged for| Plosion in the mixer building of the} Ratding |, crowds WILSON: AWAKENS PATRIOTIC. WAVE ALL ALONG ROUTE Men, Women and Children Cheer and Hold Flags at Every Station. ON WAY TO DES MOINES. President Saves Voice While Travelling Through Strong- hold of Progressives. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) OTTAWA, IIL, Feb, 1.—President Wil- son's trip to-day from Chicago to Des | Moines was one continuous ovation of cheering and flag waving through two States, Illinois and Iowa. He has suddenly been transformed into a popular hero and is being poureg out on Nim she enthusiastic adulation of uncounted throngs of Plain people {m the small cities, the towns, the villages and the farms. At every station, even though the train did not stop, there there were crowds as- sembled in zero weather to give him acheer, In many places the schools were dismissed and the children, un- der leadership of their teachers, were massed at the station to get their first object lesson in patriotism and to cheer for the man who is now win- ning the Middle West in a most amazing manner. President Wilson seems to have touched @ responsive chord in the | heart of the mass which knows little about polities. It is as though he typifies to them true Americanism and that they must salute him with the stars and stripes. A tidal wave of emotional love of country has been jet loose on these Western prairies, The women and children have sud- denly become demonstrative with it, | even more so than the men, They | form a large part of every assem- | blage, doubly inspired by the newly Jacquited fervor for patriotiam and the truly feminine curiosity to gee Mrs, Wilson, In return President Wilson is get- ting Into closer tough with the people, He has begun to make his appeal di- rect to them, telling his audiences that he has come out to report to them the facts of what is going on in the Government and to take counsel with them, It is the policy adopted by Charles E. Hughes when Governor of New York, and the political effect of such a course 1s alarming to par- tisan bosses. TRAVELS TO-DAY THROUGH PROGRESSIVE TERRITORY. The President had sounded the |note of non-partisanship in both pre- paredness and tariff. He travelled to- day through the heart of Progressive territory, and the thousands that were once enrolled members of the Bull Moose herd gave attentive ear to the President. Particularly did they like his assertion that the Govern- ment would establish it's own muni- tion and armor plants to make ready for national defense. The first large town out of Chicago through which the Presidential spe- West Af ran was Joliet. Five thousand | LONDON, Feb. 1.—Hritish troops op-| People were packed around the sta- erating West Africa have captured | tion, most of them waving flags and on Nian, it}eheoring, ‘The crawled slowly 1{through=the town. The President and Mrs. Wilson stood on the rear plat-| form answering the salutations, The ran down the track in pur- gui, erying for the train to stop and begsing for him to speak to them, At Ottawa, where this despatch is drdpped off, tie same scenes were re- peated, ‘There are few Democrats in this section of the country, but the masses apparently have forgotten (Continued on Second Page) HEARD HEALIS SAY HE KILLED MOKR, WITNESS SHEARS Fellow Prisoner of Chauffeur Brings in Another “Con- fession” at Trial. WIDOW RESTS HER CASE. | Tell of Husband’s Death in Hospital. \4 iF Special from a Staff Correspondent of | The Evening Wortd. PROVIDENCE, R. L, Feb Healis, the negro who chauffeur for Dr. C, Franklin Mohr, was directly charged this afternoon at the trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Tiffany Mohr and the two negroes with being the sole and unaided murderer of the physician. The charge casge in tie testimiony of David Pine, called Victor tim George was who was in the defense of the nogro| Brown, after Mrs, Mohr's at-| torneys had rested their case. Pine testified that when he was al convict in the Providence County jail, last September, Healix made a practically complete confession to him. Attorney-General Rice made every effort to have the testimony of Pine | excluded, 1 did succeed in having some of the questions and answers stricken from the record, but all that Pine had to tell reached the jurymen Pine was called by William H Lewis, counsel for Brown, Q. Did you see Healis with a paper in his hand while you and he were in the, jail and hear him say that the Attorney-General would give him $50 04644404064 rendered to Preserve Safety of the} 166 Passengers on Board. a IRFOLK, V of the most remarkable st ries in naval history, British steamer Appam, supposed to have been sunk off the African coast, arrived here to-day flying the German . Feb. 1.—Bringing with her one LEME DODD ONIAD IDEAL IDNA EOD ADEDPADDEDE OOO DOLE EE OEE DE ae BRITISH SS. APPAM SEIZED BY GERMAN RAIDER AND BROUGHT HERE A PRIZE _ 16 PAGES Weather—Fair to-night and Wednesday; much colder, RAIDING SHIP THE MOEWE; BEGAN WORK AT KIEL CANAL } i pesereerescesrewrerire fre rrr oo } i Saleou LAE nee eteed the if he'd answer “yes” to the questions written on it, and also that he'd serve two years while Brown and Spellman would get life? Pine answered “Yes, | did,” bofore Mr. Rice could Jump up with his ob jection, Then Justice Stearns sus tained him and ordered the question struck from the record. Q. Did not Healis say to you that day, “Well, Pine, I done this, They questioned me so close that I had to| bring others into it to save hyself.| I was going to run to the nearest house and say that there had been a holdup, but after I dragged Miss Bur- ger to the side of the road I didn’t have time? A. Yes, he said that. Miss Amy N, Nye, the trained nurse who accompanted Mrs, Mohr to the Rhode Island Hospital the night Dr, Mohr was shot, was the first wit- ness called to-day. Sho lived on the second floor of the house in which Mrs, Mohr itved, No. 1 Reservoir Avenue, “L came downstairs w' the house was aroused that night,” Miss Nye testified, “and after learning what had happened I went in to quiet the Mohr children, Mrs, Mohr was cryin On the way to the hospital Mrs, 4 Mohr continued to cry, according to|>&5*: the witness Rev, William McNamara of Bethlehem Home, Providence, who has had pastorates at Full River, Providence and Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, and sald he took great in- terest In Healis ar one of his parish. foners, testified that he had vislte the chauffeur in Cransion Jatt after his arrest. Mr, Fitagerald asked Father Mo- Namara what Healis had said to him, “I asked him, ‘Did Mrs. Mohr have anything to do with bringing about the murder of her husband?” said the priest, “He replied, ‘I don't know; she never said anything to me about it!” Cross - examination ship the by Attorney General Rice: Q. You wont to see Healis to get a confession, didn't you? A. No, the whole State of Rhode Island couldn't (Continued on Second Page.) German Commander’s Story Of How the Appam_ Was Taken Says They Lay in Wait for Her for Several Days, but Refuses to Describe the Raider. NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 1—Lieut. Oscar Berge’s account of the capture of the Appam and his voyage in command of her from the Canary Islands to this port, was told while he emiled and amoked a cigarette. “We knew we accomplished a great feat in bringing this vessel safely through the Mnes of the enemy,” he said. a good prize. We waited for her several days, and had given up hope of getting ber. We thought she had heard of us and gone to another port. “We treated the passengers as best we could. comfort and had the doctors care for the injured men taken from another ‘We had intended going to New enemy's ships were cruising near that point, and we changed our course to Norfolk. We expected to arrive here Sunday, but we had to be cautious, and went in @ roundabout way to reach the Virginia Capes no British cruisers but met several merchant ships. them, but that would have endangered our arrival here, so we “Did a submarine accompany the ship that captured the Appam?” was asked “That 1s war business,” he replied “How many men were there on the ehip that captured the Appam?" “That also is a secret that we don’t care to discuss,” “We had expected the Appam and we were waiting for her. hear from our Ambassador perhaps then I will tell you more “Woe expect to take this steamer to Norfolk unti! such time as we can get ready to return to sea, The passengers have begged to go ashore anl{ quantity of beet the little children are so tired of the water. There are five children and twenty women among the Appam’s original] head, the Appam then passengers, “Everybody is well, and we had a good time, “The poor men, they will get better in a hospital and want to rest a while. five months of hard work, When we captured the Appam, we had seen We slept ttle and our nerves were tired. We were only a few miles from a port, but we dared not go in and waited and when the Appam came we took her. “We took another after that, with us, 80 we sank her end took off her cargo. were hurt and none seriously. None of our men on the other ship was killed.” “The ship is not hurt and she is We gave them every York, but were advised that the We sighted We might have taken let them he “We don’t tell how we do things.” j When wo} | continued the captain We are tired ourselves | We stood off but she was not good enough to take Only four of our men I had @ wound in my arm, but it healed crew as prisoners. raider somewhere off the Canary Islands on Jan. 15, ac cording to the best information from passengers. Appam, of how the finer was overhauled, how stout Ger- man sailors came clambering upon her decks and clashed 4 with the Britons. i tlying a British flag. flag and pulled up the German color f= LEY ; ERs o - ho as } . . . . . { crew of twenty-two, commanded by Lieut. Oscar Berge. a | in history, which ended here when she put into port. eluded British maval vessels, avoided the regular passenger lanes on which she would have encountered British merchant ships, without num- ber, and slipped into this neutral port safe and sound. |British Liner Which Had Been Given|/German Vessel Sunk Seven Ships Be- Up as Lost Overhauled Off the Canary Islands and Captain Sur- fore She Overtook the Appam— British Governor of Sierra Leone and Wife Among the Passengers Captured by Raider. flag, a Teutonic war prize, and with her passengers and She was in charge of a German prize The Appam was captured by a German commerce There was a fight on her decks, during which two men were killed and several injured. has never equalled that told by men and women on the | The most thrilling fiction sto-y of the days of pirates | A message thrown from a port hole of the British steamer Appam to a United Press reporter this afternoon revealed the name of the Ger- man raider whose prize crew had brought the liner into port as the Moewe, gave the names of seven British steamers sunk by the Moewe and told that she had started the remarkable career of raiding from the Kleb Canal, passing entirely through the British naval lines, She captured the Appam sixty miles north of the Madeira Islands, | She is described as a tramp steamer. She approached the Appam As she halted the Appam she ran down the British 4 lhe following seven British steamers were sunk by the German raider that captured the liner Appam, according to passengers, Corbridge, with 6,000 tons of coal, Jan, 11, Farringford, with 4,000 tons, of copper ore, Jan. 11, Drummondy, 5,000 tons of coal, Jan. 13. Authur, 8,000 tons of general cargo, Jan. 13. Traitor, cargo of sugar, Jan, 13 Ariadne, with 5,000 tons of wheat, Clan MeTavish, with 10,000 tons of general cargo, including a large Jan, 15, With the Britin flag Jan, 13 lowered and the double eagle at her’ mast- set out on one of the most remarkable véyages to the Germans, The entire Atlantic is hostile water But the Appant a It was first believed the Appam had been captured by a submarine, | but passengers and members of the crew declared the Appam had been Re: taken by a raider large on the seas. It was not even known that a German ship was at Once in the hands of the Teutons, the Appam was d }