The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1916, Page 2

6ST ET woe REZ sont, Ae _ danger of the United States becoming involved in the war. Because of violations of American rights he has felt that the United States had a very difficult role to fill. President Wilson is relying upon public opinion in other neutral nations to add force to his efforts to clarify the situation. While the American Government acted entirely on its own responsibility, President Wilson feels that other neutral nations, for economic reasons, are vitally interested in the outcome. He takes the position, it was said, that his note calls for replies, and that, even though unfavorable, the responses will tend to make clear the objects of the belligerents and establish some common ground. | There is every indication that President Wilson is hopeful of the outlook, and ‘he believes the way has been opened for negotiations. BERNSTORFF SILENT ON STATEMENT. German Ambassador von Bernstorff, when told of Secretary Lan- sing’s statement, was obviously and plainly disturbed. f time in months he would not offer a comment, cither for publication or privately, on war developments, He gave strong impression that he attached considerable significance to Lansing’s remarks on the purpose back of the President's note, and did not seem to relish the suggestion of the possibility of the United States becoming involved in the war. British Embassy officials made no attempt to conceal their surprise | They were not alone in this, for all official at the President's action. Washington had been led by officials to believe that the President, in transmitting the German peace proposals without comment, had taken all the action that was to be expected from the United States for some time to come unless there was some unforeseen development in world affairs. The secrecy with which the preparation of the notes and their despatch were surrounded was complete and nothing was known about them until they were well on their ways to the belligerent capitals. WILSON WANTS TO PROTECT THE UNITED STATES. Officials and diplomatists here, something deeper than an appeal for analyzing the President's note, find consideration of peace terms. They see that the President, in acting, was also considering what would have to be the course of the United States to conserve its interests as a neutral if the war is to continue. Coupled with the President’s recent declaration that the position of neutrals was becoming intolerable, they attach much significance to ‘is statement in the note that his suggestion comes from a neutral whose interests have been most seriously affected by the war, “and whose con- cern for its early conclusion arises out of a manifest necessity to determine how best to safeguard those interests if the war is to continue.” The defini States for “a league of nations to insure peace and justice throughout the world” is interpreted as a step which, if carried through, would mean the abandonment of the theory of “splendid isolation” which Wash- ington bequeathed to the country. Significance is attached to the fact that the President uses the word “insure” rather than “enforce” as in- dicating that he has not committed himself to any one programme to ac- complish that end, but that he ie open to whatever suggestions may seem best to the other world nations. U. 8 HAS STOOD ALONE UP TO THIS TIME. Repeated efforts have been made to enligt the American Government in some sort of international agree- ment involving responsibility, but al- ways the answer has been that the United States would stand alone. Several months ago President Wil- son spoke most ¢arnestly béfore the League to Enforce Peace of his hops that the United States would join in sume new international arrange- ments, but not until now is he known to have made the proposal officially to the nations of the world It is thought here that along these lines President Wilson's note will find its most ready reception abroad, for all parties have indicated their belief that the war will have been tn vain unless from It come guarantees against {ts repetition, Former Foreign Edward Grey England, Pre- m Briand for France, and Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg for Germany have all committed their nations to some sort of in- | reorganization te ee- cure the end laid down in the, President's note and the official offers of the Central powers, to- rr with = Lloyd speech in reply, have accentuated that purpose. Germany now apparently has giv- en up her earlier opposition to dis- armament which nearly split the sec- ond Hague conference. No official statement has come from either Eng- land or France on this subject In {he present circumstances, It was ingland, however at the Hague con- ference, seconded by France and the United States that insisted on stating its view in favor of disarma- ment, ALL INTEREST CENTRED ON REPLY OF THE BELLIGERENTS. Deepest interestcentered to-day in the probable time and form of the belligerents’ reply. It is assumed Minister Sir that the members of each group of ite proposal of the United Pe | allies will consult one another and agree on a uniform statement of views, but whether that statoment will be joint, tdentic or different in each case Is not known. The solidar- ity which has been eo aetrikingly shown both by the Central Powers’ identic proposals and the allies’ prac- tically simultaneous response is ex- pected to continue here, LONDON PAPER SEES DAWNING OF PEACE Daily Mail Says Premier Has Not Closed the Door Upon Settlement. LONDON, Doc, 21.—The Daily Mail, which is Close to Prérmler Lloyd George, this morning gave Prominence to the followin; “The Germanic and neutral press views on Mr, Lioyd George's retusa) of the German peace offer largely take the standpoint that he did not close the door to peace, The actual fact, however, is that he entirely de- clned peace on anything except the allies’ terms, and the door obviously remains open only if Germany ts willing to accept those terms, which are complete restitution, full repura- tion and effectual guarantees.” The Star, which, aa well as the Daily News, has pacifist tendencies, says the Premict’a statement that the British welcomed the German devel- opment as long as It on the paths of peace has not received the attention it merits. “On the whole, the prospect before humanity is not quite so black as it was last Christmas,” the Btar con tinues. “The nations have reached the © of teiking wbout peace. If they are talking at each other rather than talking to each other it is be- cause the dawn of peace Is only starting to break, There may be many weary hours before dawn blos- somes into sunrise, but a faint light already Ia seen in'the rn sky.” > RULER OF BELGIUM IS DANGEROUSLY ILL Gen. von Bissing Temporarily Re- placed After He Is Stricken With Pneumonia, AMSTERDAM, Dec, 21,—Gen, von Bissing, German Governor General of Belgium, was reported dangerously tll of pneumonia in despatches received to-day from the frontier, He has been temporarily replaced ‘at Brussels as Governor General pend- ing his recovery. Co gathered—old friends and new—con- versation lively — early courses take off the keen edge of hunger —then the dessert to crown the feast—delicate, delicious, different. The dessert is the heart of a dinner. For the first | GEORGE'S SPEECH STILL UNDER FIRE ~ OF GERMAN PRESS | All Scoff at Statement That Entente Will Not Place Head in Noose. IS SHOWN.) PESSIMISM Vossische Zeitung Says It’s a, Fortunate Thing That Ger- many Possesses Militarism. BERLIN (via London), Dec, 21.— The Berlin press devotes a great deal of attention to Lioyd George's speech, | Little surprise is shown at the Brit- | ish Premier's attitude, although | wonder is expressed why he belleves that entering into a conference would Involve the Entente as placing Its head in a noose. Lioyd George's references to resti- tution and reparation are universally | interpreted as an Entente demand | that Germany surrender all occupied territory and probably pay an In- demnity, The Tageblatt says: “Lioyd George ts not willing to ne- gotiate, or willing only in case that Germany will submit to England's demands as summarized in his ut- terances regarding restitution, repa- ration and guarantee. This makes the chasm between the English and jerman standpoint #o broad that not | even the most cheerful optimist can find a way to bridge it. Lioyd George, in stipulating the acceptance of his conditions before the opening of negotiations, shows that ho does not wish to negotia The Tageblatt concludes by asking whether all possibilities of peace | have now vanished, and answers its | own question with @ faintly hopeful | reference to various French Social- ist, English and Italian votces as showing that the peace overtures are not judged by the public exactly as by the Parliaments, In view of the Vossische Zeitung the reference to the noose Is nothing more than @ recognition by England of Germany's strength and the failure |of the Entente’s military enterprises. It adda that not a single word of Lioyd George's epeech indicates any desire to repair the torn intercom- muna] threade and asks why the Entente should stand so stubbornly for restitution and reparation when it is highly improbable that Alsace can ever be conquered by France, Con: stantinople by Russia, and that it is even improbable if Germany can be driven out of the conquered territory. The Vossteche contends that it is a fortunate thing that Germany pos- sesses militarism to withstand the “Entente’s ambition to reach its world goal.” ‘The most significant sentence in the Deutache Tages Zeltung is Count von Reventlow'a comment on Lioyd George's reference to Napoleon, He ‘Conditions were different a above all there were The Kreuz Zeitung is pessimistic. “We have learned,” it says, “that our enemies do not want peace but war to tho knife, so we must abandon all considerations and all the means of war at our disposal.” aeiegipcceaie BANKRUPT SENTENCED FOR CONCEALING ASSETS Kahn Converted Merchandize and Sought Contracts in Germany. Ferdinand Kahn, fifty-five years old, formerly in the woollen business in Canal Strect, was sentenced to the New York CoQnty Penitentiary for six months to-day by Judge Manton in the Criminal Branch of the Fed- eral Court for concealing assets from & trustee in bankruptcy. Judge Man- ton followed the jury's recommenda- tion of leniency in the matter of sen- tence, but scored Kahn severely for dishonesty. Kahn has twice been in bankruptcy in this district. He had $100,000 in Nabdilities and $800 in assets when he failed the second time. Kahn admit- ted that when the European war broke out he converted all his mer- rhandise into cash and went to Ger- the hope of getting profit- ntracta, which never mate- In explaining his financial ament He said he had been robbed of valuable Jowels on a train In Holland. Judge Manton sald the lence showed Kahn had trane- red | his pt er to & son and daughter befo nk to Europe and that he had dow nothing to help the trustee recover (he aysiis he had con- | cealed, | > \“ON CRUST OF A VOLCANO” Calttornia| Makes Dram cement, | WASHINGTO: When in formed of See! ‘s declara. tion that the United States is in an “intoloreble position,” Representat Kahn, California, sitting with the Hou Military Committee, rose and sald dra- | matically: | “Gentlemen of the Committees, make |haste, Our country is on the crust of « | voleano.'* ip Saffren Pp Saye Berlin, AMSTERDA. Dec, 21.--The French | battleship Suffren, reported as lost in a} French official statement of 8, wae |torpedoed by a German ‘submarines a Berlin statemont received he tow | aeverted. lad Was golfing and skating. THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1916. DAUGHTER OF ASQUITH, WHO IS TO MARRY AN AMBRICAN IN LONDON , BETH ASQUITH DUBLIN, Dee. 21.—It ts rumored here that Miss Elizabeth Aaquith. the younger daughter of the former Pyme | Minister, and Hugh Gibson, First Secre- tary of the Amertean Embassy in Lo don, are engaged. Both have be: staying at the Viceregal Lodge for the Inst fortnight. The Court Circular to- night announces thelr departure, Although not yet twenty-one Miss Asquith has made a name for herself as «n amateur actress of unusual ta hen eleven years old she play lending part in a children’s pi Claridge’s, During the war she has) organized @ number of charity events | and appeared in several, Sho is an| accomplished linguist. When three yeurs old she spoke English, French and Ger- | an with equal ease. She ta fond of GERMANY TAKING NEW GROUND W THE BOAT WARFARE Explains That Capt. Blaikie Life Was Spared Because Caledonia Was Armed Ship. $s LONDON, Dec, 21.—The Exchange Telegraph Company's Amsterdam correspondent quotes the following} from the Berlin Taeglische Rundschau regarding tho reference made in the; House of Commons by Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the case of Capt. Blaikie of the Brit- ish steamer Caledonia, taken pris- oner by the Germans: “The German Government has now formally taken the position that Eng- land's armed commercial and pas- senger steamers are men-of-war, be- ing armed auxiliary crusiers. The promise given to America—which has always hindered our submarine war— that these vessels before being tor- pedoed must be stopped and be ex- amined falls to the ground. They are warships and must be treated as such, even when Americans are on board, “We now have facilities for extend. ing the undersea boat war, which all sensible people have long recognized as unavoidable and indispensable, This is the best reply to Premier Lioyd George's refusal of our peace offer.” Mr. Bonar Law, in his statement in the House of Commons on Tuea- day, said Germany had given assur- afice that Capt, Blatkie would not whare the fate of Capt. Fryatt of the British steamer Brussels, who was executed after conviction on the charge that his vessel had attempted to ram a German submarine. Ger- many, the Chancellor stated, consid- ered the Caledonia an armed cruiser, and that Capt. Blaikle, in attempting to ram the undersea boat, was mere- ly performing his duty. CHILEAN DESTROYER HUNTS GERMAN SHIP Tinto Supposed to Be at Large in South Atlantic With Men and Supplies. SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 21—A Chilean destroyer has been ordered to search for the steamer Tinto, now supnosed to be at large in the South- ern Atlantic ocean with a German crew and supplies for German ves- sels aboard, The Tinto was originally detained in port, on suspicion that she was being outfitted as a supply ship for German commerce raiders, but later d. Subsequently she was re- ported to have met another vessel, taken aboard a German crew, and departed, The Chilean destroyer will attempt violation of neutral- to prevent any ity by the Tinto. t Ships Arm to Attack Sub- marinen. PARIS, Dec. 21.-—-The Bordeaux cor- respondent of the Figaro telegraphs that several ships at that port have mounted g and taken supplies of munitions on board to defend them- selves against submarines. New Austrian € Formed, COPENHAGEN, Dec, 21—Clem Mar- tinitz has ned a new Austrian Cabl- WILSON FORECAST USING NOTE RECENT SPEECH “Last Great War America Can Keep Out Of,” a Cam- paign Utterance. WARNED OF PERIL NEAR. Addresses Showed Wilson Was Determined Upon Some Stand to Bring Peace, WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.—The tone of President Wilson's note urging a get-together on the basis of peace be tween the warring nations was fore- cast in several speeches delivered by him in the last year, In February, while touring the Mid- dig West in favor of preparedness and again during the last campaign, the President touched on the subject. In|} A speech at Pittsburgh last January he said: “When you know that there are combustible materials in the life of the world and in your own national life, and that the sky Is full of float- ing sparks from a great conflagration, are you going to sit down and say it will be time when the fire begins to do something about it? I do not be- lieve the fire is going to begin, but I would be sure of it if we were ready for the fire, “I want to come as your reeponsi- ble servant and tell you this—that we do not control the fire. We are under | 4 the influences of it, but we are not at the sources of it. any time may affect us, and yet we |eannot govern its spread and prog- ress.” Again, at Cleveland, the President declared; “Two-thirds of the world are at war. It is not merely an European strug- gle. Nations in the Orient have be- come involved as well as nations in the West, and everywhere there seems to be creeping upon the nations dis- engaged the spirit and the threat of war. All the world outside of Amer- ica is on fire,” In a speech at Milwauk@e, after pointing out the development of the war and saying his object was to maintain peace, the President added: “So far I have done so, and I pledge | you my word that , God helping me, ‘1 will, tf It is possible.” He added that the people of the nation had bid. den him seo that nothing stained the honor of the United States, “Therefore, there may, at any mo- ment, come a time when I cannot preserve both the honor and peace of the United States,” he went on, In one of his campaign speeches the President declared the present was the last great war in which the United States could remain neutral, He said the interests of the world were so drawn together that it was|% difficult for any one of the nations to remain neutral when the others were at war —————— STOCKS 60 DOWN WITH RUSH EN (NSIS EXPLAKS (Continued from First Page.) ent to employees and the adoption of an employees insurance scheme, fell off 5 1-2 points. The greatest drops at the opening were in stocks directly connected with the manufacture or sale of war material to the allies. Among the big drops in the favorite speculative stocks was one of 13 points, to 93, in Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies; 6 points in Crucible Steel, 5 in Ameri- can Locomotive and ¢ in Utah Cop. per. International Paper lost #1-4 points and Lackawanna 21-2, The peace developments have wiped out myriads of paper fortunes, Hundreds of speculators who were figuring ten days ago on buying lim- ousines for Christmas presents are lucky are | if they have the price of a pair of roller skates, The fol- lowing table shows how the market climbed after the reopening of the Stock Exchange to the pinnacle prices reached week before jast and how it has dropped since the first whispers of approaching peace came out of Germany, Refore U8, Steet Bethlehem Steat jarine common faring pt, Rey Steel Ana EES SIX DAY RACE SCORE. (88th Hour,) Central Leather et, despatches hore to-day from Vienna rn) | Failure of an Au despatch: Dr. Von Spitamuller to form Cabinet were reported in from Vienna via Amsterdam, Miles, Laps. Goullet and Grenda.....,, 1635 6) Spears and McNamara... 1635 6 Ege and Dupuy. 1635 6 Root and Madden. 1635 6 Hill and Drobach 1635 6 Kaiser and Cameron 1635 6 DeBaets and Walthour.., 1635 6 Lawson and Mitten 1685 6 Maton and Ryan,. 1635, 6 Thomas and H. Ohort 1635 6 Smith and Kopsky 1635 5 E. Ohort and Bello 1635 6 Drobach leading, The record is 1744 miles and 1 lap, made by Verri ‘and Ugg in 114, We are where it at| i WHEAT AGAIN TUMBLES; WILD SCENES IN MARKET GERMANS TWICE *zsapccnsea STORMTHE PRE SALENTINVAN and July Breaks 5 3-4 Cents— Only Ten of Attacking Party | Quick Rally Later. CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—~Wheat took an- Left After First Dash To- ward British Line. other tumble at the Opening of th: | Board of Trado to-day when Presi- | dent Wilson's peace mossago was in the hands of all the brokers. May wheat dropped 6 cents a bushel to $1.66 on the firet sale, and July broke pd conts a peste from last night's lose, going to |. 30. Not since the days of the big wheat | corners has there been such a crazy | parket,” The floor ot the Board of WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN rade re @ resemblance to a com- a = | Bination of about 100 football Pe Mt tS a accel OT Massa 4200 free for all fights all over ONC® again the Ypres salient has rt the piace, earned a place on the war's score- | ‘Phe market sold down for about board. alf an hour when big houses in’ The German official wireless on and aga te buy Phere write warket | Deo. 14 gave the impression of an im- rally, but May @bout 6 portant local victory scored there by cents off. German troops, and sald they atormed Renewed weakness in wheat prices and occupied “British second line was a speely consequence of the statement by Secretury Lansing that trenches southeast of Zillebeke, the garrison of which fied.” \the situation for neutrals was be- |coming increasingly critical and that| Here's exactly what happened at Mi United ote ae was being 9.05 at night on Dec. 14: rawn near the verge of war, Selling Droadened out anew on account of the| “ Strong German attack was statement and there was @ setback of /aunched against the British south- 11-2 cents or more from the crest|ern haunch of the salient. Expecting cA the bulge, May wheat falling to! the attack, the British got the storm- 4, |ors under @ deadly fire, so that when the Germans reached the British there were only ten of the attacking party left, Theso immediately scurried back. Tho whole action Jasted just ten minutes. The enemy losses Were believed to be severe; the | Briuish casualties were very alight. All advantage remained on the Eng- lish side—and valuable information was obtained from the bodies of the dead On t again attacked, this time at Hill 60, nearby. A heavy barrage fire com- pletely wiped out this attack, not ono man reaching the British lines, Again the German losses were regarded as severe, for despite the bi it was perfectly plain that the Brit- ish fire was effective, Months ago the Ypres salient was the scene of some of the hottest fight- ing of the war attack after attack against the Brit- jfsh in an attempt to crumple their line, Of late Cambria Steet a 6 Per Cent. Bi PHILADELPHIA, o. 21.—Campria Steel Company to-day declared a quar- terly dividend of 11-2 per cent., putting its stock on @ regular 6 per cent, basis, and an extra dividend of 1 per cent. The regular dividond basis heretofore has beon 5 per cent. a year. 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