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——— —E ee ve | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” Copreight, 1017, by The Prove Publishing NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, ‘The New York World). Circulation Books Open to All. 19 1 7. 12 P A G E 8 ‘PRICE ONE CE} CENT. Himalaia Are Found Badly Damaged. PLANS TO SEIZE SHIPS. SAMWill Be Taken Over Instant War ts Declared—Can’t Dash to Sea. An inspector of the Neutrality Squad boarded the Austrian steamer Himalata, in Newark Bey at noon to- day, went below and found that the cylinder heads had from the engines, that ott the engines had been demol) that the crank shafts had been dis- connected, been removed r parts of and Washington uctions as to is completely disabled. has been asked for instr the right of the Germans aboard the Miners in this harbor to dismantle or cripple their engines, The collec $00 guards have been unable to act. In view of the important matters now occupying President, the Cabinet and the Congress, no reply ie expected to-day. There is very 00d reason to believe that several of the big German ships lying docks in Now York and vicinity have been practically wrécked by moval and destruction of machinery. COMMANDER OF VADERLAND SAYS BREAK !S “TOO BAD.” the at the re- Commodore Hans user of the Vaterland, when told by reporters this afternuon that diplomatic relations “That is too bad, too bad cerely there is room for some way out yet. Just to think I have been here now almost two I have made friends. I all my heart worge."” was any truth in the German ships, and especially his, had ben prepared for sinking or the ma- ebinery disabled “Ther is absolutely no truth in that story. Absolutely none. He was then asked what he thoug?! of the chances of ing to sea replied: t would be useless. eould not go anywhere w Af @ matter of fact, we took on 100 tome of coal three days can figure just 0 when you recall ti tons each day when s usual speed. “All the steam we bh enough to heat the eh electric machines f e jig j to run the fire pumps if it should un fortunately be nee ) run them All the coal we e would not g erate enough steam to turn on pellers over on Severance o between tho many doos t the German liners ed this port, Tey ary ' German corporatio bached 1 Government of Germany, and sub- (Continur ithout cc we use 1200 eaming at ou on Gecond Page.) with Germany had been severed, said: | peyea I sin-| "The Commodore was asked if thera| port that the|tomary for Dutch cattleboats, U, . SUBMARINE BO Sea Cocks on the Paul Jones Found Open—Assistant Machinist Arrested. PHILADELPHIA, 3.—The sub- | marine Paul Jones Is in a sinking con- dition, A aan on the boat, said to be © machinist's mate, is alleged to have’ opened the seacocks, being towed into her dock Mare As the boat was the vessel at Island Navy Yard the was oft When seen to list. Investigation by revealed the seacocks were he vessel was finally docked there was two feet of water in the 1 . 01 hold, The chief machinist's mate The inspector reported to Collector 8 arreste placed in trons, it MNES bork Meione that the Hkmalaia| V4e arrested and placed was sald. —_— = GERMAN INSOLENGE “= TOU. S. “INSANITY,” SAYS LLOYD GEORGE British Premier Says Amer- icans Are Treated Like Dutch Cattle Boats. CARNARVON, Wales, Feb. 3.—"Ger- many's naked savagery now stands pd—even to the most indulgent neutral,” Premier Lloyd George .de- clared to-day in a speech to his own and a half years. | constituents hope with things are not to be! ciously “Germany,” said the “gra- permits Premier, American ships to ch are ous- Such sail under the marks whl ins insanity.” lence ts only Owing to the discovery of the recent | plot against the Premier's life extra- precautions were taken to | j experienced, OVERT ACT BY GERMANY — _ MEANS WAR, SAYS WILSON GERMANS CRIPPLE LINERS HELD HERE, SAYS REPORT; 600 Gl GUARDS UNABLE TO ACT Engines se Adan Austrian Freighter! ATTEMPT 10 SCUTTLE STOCKS 60 SOARING ADRIATICSAILS, IN AAR MARKET DEFYING BOATS: AFTEREARL EARLY PANIC, ST, LOUIS HELD WP Sellers Turn ne Sic in Wildest | Din of W histles ‘Spe Whipsaw Session Street Has Seen, Speeds White Star Liner With 24 Pas- sengers On Way. In the two short hours of a Satur-| The big White Star ner Adria day Stock Exchange session finan-/ left New York for Liverpool at clers, brokers and thousands seculators degree of | o'clock this afternoon under circum- of every from | stances more dramatic than any that| jJambs to plungers, passed through | have attended the departure of a ves- What was probably the wildest whip- | sel since the day the Lusitania, aflut saw market that Wall Street has ever! ter from stem to stern with flags and From a peace market,! bunting, put out to sea on the voyage filled with fears, rumors and de-| that was cut short off Kinsale Head Pressed prices, the Stree. sudden. | by @ Genwnan submarine. somersaulted market The Adriatic carries an enormous buoyant and excited, with quotations | cargo but only twenty-four passen- of war stocks fairly leaping upward. | ers, fifteen first class and nine Kec- A panic to sell at the opening and/ Md Class, As the Iner backed out on first anouncement of the break with | into tho river with her upper decks Germany quickly developed into aj] Pilid bigh with automobile trucks mad rush to buy and the session was | @nd cases containing contraband her all too short to permit brokers to ex-|¢#@W lined the rails and gave three ecute their orders, In the final fifteen | Cheers for the United States. The minutes transactions equaled those of | R¢WS of the severance of diplomatic into a war many five-hour eéssione. |Felations between Washington and # reported aggregated 1,000,000 | Berlin bad just reached the pier. shares for the two hourg, but there| All tho way down’ the river and were many thousands more that could | through the upper and lower bays the not be noted in the whirlwind finish, | Adria 4s greeted witha deafen- Every kind of security picked up in the war fever current, even those of shipping companies whose business is Mable to suffer the most restrictions in the future, ing chorus of steam whistle salutes from other craft and waving hand- kerchiefs saluted her from the win- dows of skyscrapérs ashore, Capt. Ransom, a phlegmatio mart- Industrial and mining shares were| ner of the Royal Naval Reserve, ac- he most active acrobats in this|knowledged the salutes from river amazing market overturn, The cham- | craft, the steam from his whistle puff- pions were U. §, Industrial Alcohol,| ing out every few seconds, to be Jumping up twelve points; New York| whipped away by the fcy gale. Be- Air Brake, the same, and that. king of| fore leaving the pier Capt, Ransom highflyers, Bethlehem Steel, recently | aid fallen from high estate, suddenly| “They've been after me ever since climbing up thirty-five points, the war started, and I'm not any mor WHEAT AND COTTON MARKETS /atraid of them now than I have b ALSO BOOM. at any time in two years and a half. Even the Chicago wheat market and |CARMANIA ALSO DUE TO LEAVE the New York cotton market, which TO-DAY. would be supposed to suffer from re-| The Carmania of the stricted exports, were transformed | with a great ¢ from the slump of recent days into|only twenty p tremendous activity and rising prices. |to aail som to-day. She may U, S, Steel, as usual, was the stock |not get out of port until to-night, market leader. For the first half|Cunard and White Star Line officials hour it sagged under the fears and|express the opinion that thelr ships uncertainty of speculators, finally | will be safer in the so-called danger breaking below part oa low of 99 3-8,|zono in future than they have Within ten minutes after news of the | been in t because the British break tn international relations came | Governme! take ¢xtraordinary Steel began a steady rise until it | measures tect them: :S¢ Cunard Line, wrso of munitions put ssengers, is scheduled time will gained 51-4 points, to a high of; The American Miner St, Louls, 104 5-8 scheduled to siil at noon to-day, will Other steel company shares were|remain in port until the United even more buoyant. Republic rose 9| States Gov ent makes arrange- points to 75; Crucible 7 1-2 points to | ments to protect the citizens of this may desire 38, Among the mining companies , country whic tvel on protect him. American Smelting gained 31-2 to 97,|/the high seas. The International In the course of his speech the Pre-| Utah 4 1-2 to 107 and Anaconda 2 1-2 Marine had arranged for mier declared: Ito 73 1+ the St, Louls to leave to-morrow at We have no doubt of the ultimate] tn the rallroad group Reading rose | noon, b news of the break be- > but there are many broad |4 points, Union Pacific 3 and New | tween many and this country nd turbulent rivers we must cross to | york Central 4 points, After heavy | caused incellation of all plans that end which the nation must help lioanen Atlantic Gulf Steamship re- | as to vessels flying the American flag. bridge gained 7 1-2 points and General| The Rochambeau of the French “Bosides the rights cf small nations | Motors took an 11 point upward |!ine, scheduled to sail at noon to-day, {we are fighting for the doctrine that | eight was delayed-by lack of coal and will the Turk is incapable .of governing | yfay wheat on the Chicago Board |A%t leave until to-morrow, Of the 100 ny race justly—-even his own," of Trade had an extreme range of 13 /Passengers who had cngaged passage > enta per bushel from $1.34% to 31.67%, [only tweiVe had cancelled up to noon U, S. GERMANS BACK WILSON, ‘«! cents off from the top, Op- | to-day. i ° tiona for the other months fluctuated | HUNOREDS TAKE PASSAGE ON erica.” Declaves I within much more narr NEW YORK AT LIVERPOOL, Americnn Allin Provision prices. were The Am@ri@in Line office Keb Pork wae ihe prin mn receive cablegram to-d from Be BORNE! nea 50 cents pe and did |C4pt. Roberts of the New York, at were no} tive a recovery Liverpool saying that all the pas Weak © ierman I passed th senger ‘ " ‘ yw movement ave ay id 4 1 ren he oe ein ) stecra s 1) mans an is American citizen lam for America. (Continued on Seventh Page Page) | Act as Announced—If She Does) U.S. FORCED TO BREAK RELATIONS; ONLY COURSE OPEN WITH HONOR ‘President Greeted With Wild Cheer- | BOAT PLEDGES BROKEN, | ing in Congress as He Tells of the Dismissal of the German Ambas- sador and th the Recall of Gerard. | BERLIN KNEW IN ADVANGE Reluctant to Believe Germany Will] WH AT OUR POLY MUST BF \“We Do Not ‘aare Any Hostile Con- WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—President Wilson ina ‘flict; We Desire. to Remain at speech before Congress this afternoon officially announced Peace,” but “We Will Defend Our that diplomatic relations with Germany had been broken Rights Against Wilful Injustice . off by the recall of Ambassador Gerard and the handing of by Germany.” passports to Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassa- ver ae the Course of This Country Is| Clear. dor. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3,—Preside nt Wilson in the closing sentence speech to Congress stated explicitly the policy of this Government. aid These papers were handed to the dismissed envoy at © hi 1.57, and five minutes later the President began his ad- dress. When the President announced that relations with Germany had been severed there were cheers and hand clapping on both sides of the chamber, Republicans and| Democrats joining in the demonstration. “This Government has no alternative consistent with the dignity and honor of the United States but to take the in its note of the 18th of April, 1916, it announced that It would take in the event that the German Government did, not declare and effect an abandonment of the methods of submarine warfare which it was course which, then employing and to which it now purposes again to resort. “I have, therefore, directed the Secretary of State to announce Congress and the galleries cheered again when the : to His Excellency the German Ambassador that all diplomatic rela- President declared he could not believe that Germany Hor between the Ueitad Sliles sadithe G enna sae would not regard her obligations and intended to destroy | sai that the Arerieaee Rantaisadae by Bea TIMER HER an “American ships and take the lives of American citizens.” | withdrawn, anid, in accordance with this decision, to hand to His Senator Lodge, ranking Republican member of the xcellency his passports, Foreign Relations Committee, led in the cheering. Notwithstanding this unexpected action of the German Gov- -| ernment, this sudden and deeply deplorable renunciation of its Louder and more widespread cheering greeted the an t deeply dey nouncement that the President would come to Congress | Bhai ieee this Government at of the critic again to ask authority to “use any means that may be nec-* ,, j,0) : Hon eh he Gorn hastily a ae essary for the protection of our seamen and our people,” | {ct what they ha A yest oh likes tec tear should “American ships and American lives” urances, one most in in the relations of the iw o believe that it inte | | warned us they will feel at liberty ta do. 1 can be sacrificed) 1 bring myself { ) believe that they will indeed pay no regard to the by German naval commanders in “heedless contravention "ie! triendship between their people and our own or to the solemn of the just and reasonable understanding of international obligation which have been exchanged between them and destroy |law and the obvious dictates of humanity.” American ships and take the lives of American citizens in the wii When the President concluded Congress rose again parame heme Seg Lita g ag its have announced and cheered and remained standing while the President left) ake me believe tee now Feet ee ee ea the chamber. If this inveterate confidence on in The Senate returned immediately to its own wing of | the Capitol, Justices went to the Supreme Court and Cabi- | net officials filed out. The House resumed its routine work | part in the sobriety and prudent foresight of their purpose should unt happily prove unfound. ed; if American ships and American lives should in fact be sacriticed by their naval commanders in heedless contravention of The jusr~ —~ as though nothing unusual or disturbing had occurred. ites nnn fnew The President hurried back to the White House. Be-| ie Congress, to ask that authority be given me to use any means tfore leaving the President went to Speaker Clark’s office, that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and our peo- with the committee of Senators and Representatives who! in the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the escorted him, and each shook hands with him. eas, | can do nothing less. | take it for granted that all neu- A few minutes after Secretary Baker went into con- wil take ne mATIG FOUIAG , : ference with the President at the White House, Secretary re bert : nee ley nc ie laealbea: Daniels arrived. Precautionary measures to be taken were. ojo. rr te aah t na ce with ne ( Se veminent pads h under discussion. vn. We shall not believe that they are hostile to us un Spain will take over the diplomatic interests of the — | J until we obliged to believe it; and we purpose n United States in Berlin. ! ble defeise.of the undoubted rigt peo Ambassador Gerard's instructions are to close his em- Hanh bassy as well as all the consulates in Germany, All Em- ; ee pela, ii uh ate Ace “i be f (Cuntinued ea Second Passe iny address to the Senate only two weeks ago—seek merely to yindi- { id