The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1917, Page 1

, * @emwing men from the aetive serv EDITION L_PRICE, ONE CENT. ERS” Copyright, 10 Co. New by The Vrew Che “Circulation Rooks Open to All.’’ NEW YORK, ‘coded York W tg LIKELY TO CARRY GUNS OF U.S. NAVY | MONDAY ‘FEBRUARY ‘12 1917. “PLL SIT HERE TILL KINGDOM COM _ GERARD’S ANSWER T0 GERMAN “Circulation Books Open to All.’ | to All.’” orld. To-Day’s Weather—FAIR AND COLDER EDITION _PRICE ; ONE ‘CENT. ————— a F HREAT 12 PAGES MAW PLA PLANS TO SUPPLY GUNS 20.MAY HAVE DIED YARROWDALE NEN “TOUS. LINERS FOR DEFENSE: HAS 3 AND pplication Made Made for Arming] of American Line Ships, | Including the St. Louis. | HITCH ABOUT GUNNERS. | "Department Considers Efe of Trained Ritle Crews on Status of Craft. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—P. 8.1 Franklin, President of the Interna-| final Mercantile Murine Company, | teeday made formal application to the] Department for guns to arm) passenger liners of the American St. Louis and St. Paul have tained in New York pending tude of the Government re- the arming of American Sin Franklin's request states that the 2, has been unable to find guns ere, It is indicated that the Navy. Dopariment, while opposed to apy project of convoying merehant- men through the prohibited submarine fones, favors furnishing such ships with guns for their own defense. In- @emuch as the Government has rovwg- fiized that naval stores aro the only gapply of naval guns, It has been held that obtaining guns from that source Gea not alter the private or commer- character of a ship. was stated officially that the, ivy Department has « considerable ber of old model three-inch to wiz-inoh rifles available for arming Metchant ships, but not enough for ~.the conversion of all ships it would ire in war and also to furnish | ive armament for all merchant- | | to descend to the coal bunkers be Whe question of supplying trained! en crews for merchantmen is more difficult. There is objection to with- cal the navy at this time and there ts, some question as to what effects | @ step would have on tho status & whip. French shipowners fur- guns by their navy were re- to make oath that they were be handled by civilian crews, Possibility that the navy might sup- | ply guns indirectly through loan or} swale to ship owners has received sume eonsideration, but a preforence for di- ect action by tho dopartment in a Placing the guns aboard is indicated | i744 by the ships’ owners, i Senator La Follette, Republican, | offered a joint resolution to-day to tates is not at war, He asked that, @ resolution lay on the table to be called up later, jake unlawful the arming of Amer- ' ie Merchant ships while the United | Wavy Reported Ready to Arm Sea- Gotng Tugs, ‘GALVESTON, Tex., Fob, 12 United States Navy has completed ar- rangements for arming all sea-going at Galveston and other Gulf and! Atlantic ports, according to a nayail oMicial hero to-day said that an le quantity of six an three Faple firers and ammunition n Was avail- ms MONTREAL, Feb. ton Gault, who ee ght in “Princess famous pnt known Pats," returned ay a hero with only ting that his fighting da He ‘announced that as fy ered from motamed in tles he would join the flying corps: Pwo Austrian Seaplanes Brought Down ROME (via Paris), Feb. 12, 12.20 4 , M.—It ts officially announced that two \ Austrian seaplanes which were scouting off the Albanian coast were shot down near Saneo. One was captured and t other sunk, Two of their crews we waptured, ‘The | pound | 6 ING AFLES FIRE ON NOORDAN ATPIER TRAPS SIX MIEN, KILLING ONE letveeree, Warkiee Gas Masks, Rescue Five Overcome in Coal Bunkers. Fire in the coal bunkers of the Hol- jand-America liner Noondam at the pier of the line in Hoboken (his after- noon generated gases which killed one “nam and overcame fe others, dne of whom is in danger of deatb at St. Mary's Hospital, The dead man is Jon Kurpurshoek, a coal passer, of Rotterdam. Franciscus Siminos, 4 fireman, is the man in the hospital, It is reported in Hoboken that the fire was preceded by an explosion, but this, report lacks confirmation, Noordam been practically terned, awaiting order# from the home office in Holland, but coal has been taken on, covering what coal was left in the bunkers from the last voyage to this port, From the best appears that six bunkers trimming ove them. The has in anoounte avaiable it the gus men we: wh n afterward veloped and smoke poured up coal Soon me a blaze from below. A still alarm was turned in from the pier and Hoboken firemen responded, ‘The sailors aboard had been unable} cause of the smoke, gas and heat, but fremen wearing gas masks went be low and brought out the six who had been trapped. Kurpurshoek wax dead when brought on deck. The Holland-Amertcan Une pier just north of the pliers of the North German Lloyd, and the fire drew a groat crowd of members of the crews of the German ships. All sorts of |rumors soon gained currency, but the | Hoboken fire authorities are of tho opinion that the fire was started by spontaneous combustion | Since the great fire of June, 1900, py sort of a blaze in the Weinity of Hoboken plera isan event of great importance Along Jorsey water front. ‘The Noordam blaze was drowned out after several hours. CEDRIC OFF TO WAR ZONE; the |RIGH PRIZE FOR AU BOAT: White Star Liner Carries 12,000 Tons of Contraband, 5,000 Bs Mail, but No Passengers, Carrying 12,000 tons of contraband, | |but no passengers, the steamship |Cedric, of the White Star line, sailed for Liverpool this afternoon. She also takes with her 6,000 bags of United | States mail that were to have |the American liners St Paul, celled. Tho fact that the Cedric is heading straight for the danger zone and t the gone on Louts and st. | igs have whose been can- at German Government is undoubt edly keeping track of her movements, | dida't appear to disturb those about e White Star line dock at Four teenth Street The work of the vessel continued in a busine way until a short time before she was ready to start Her contraband includes munittons, automobiles, barbed wire and pro- visions. | able | dow into a snowdrifi, | tators, ng p TN HOTEL FIRE AS. MANY LEAP FOR LIFE Sudden Blaze iis Hasink Min- | neapolis Structure and Escape Is Cut Off. WOME \MONG VICTIMS. Temperature of 10 Below Adds to Suffering at Min- neapolis Blaze. MINNEA mated that twenty persons lost thei: lives in a fire which destroyed the Kenwood Hotel, residential 4 semi-fashionabie, four-story building Hennepin Avenue and Twelfth Street, at early to-day. More than # score! more wero injured, by leaping from the top floors, of the structure when the one fire| which was in| escape on the bullding, tho reat, becan » heated. One woman, Ars. Lucile Squire, fuinped te her death from tho third tloor. Polica and fire department offi- clals believe that nearly a score of POLIS, Feb, 12.—It ts astl- | | Sayville). | ‘ELD AS HOSTAGES, ~ GERMANY. ADMITS | Release Delayed Us Until Status | of Crews of Interned Ships | Is Officially Known, {RELEASE WAS PLEDGED. | | Washington plains | Merchant Ships and Crews Are Not Interfered With RB LI ‘oreign Secretary Zimmer- | mann to-day informed the Associated | Prens that he had requested the Swiss | [Government to make inquiry in ;| Washington regarding the status of | some serlousiy, | ti crews of interned German ships | in American ports. Pending an answer the seventy-two Americans taken by the German raid-| ler and brought in by the Yarrowdale, | whose relétise had been agreed to, are being held in Germany, the Foreign Secretary stated. “We could not consent to the re- persons were precipitated into the! jease of the Yarrowdale prisoners, basement by crumbling floors and which was taken to be agreed to al buried in the debria, over which thick Week ago," said the I nl eacees layore of lon had formed: tary, ‘These men had been taken Many of the seventy-six guests were of armed merchantmen and theft hot traced at 10 o'clock to-day, 474 status had been established, ‘Th the -actiial Coath probably Will 1) be iberated just ax soon as we never be known. 5 learn the fate of the German crews in ‘The fire, which apparently started 27" (6 © ice in tho basement, spread rapidly and soon the building was enveloped in flames. ‘The stairways were impass- and people rushed to the win- dows. While figures hung from many windows, others shot through the air into neta and snowdrifts. One woman, her night clothing & », Pushed from mt A group of hysterical guests on tho | top floor and dropped out of the win- She may live, A number of children were dropped from windows Into the arms of spec- None was seriously hurt Harry Jensen and his wife crawled to a window ledge on the top foi For a moment they paused, then Jen- sen embraced his wife and together they leaped to the street while spec- tators cheere Mrs, Jensen was badly injured, but her husband was not seriously hurt. “We are at sea as to the number of deaths,” said Ernest D, Stalker, propristor of the hotel, “Until the survivors are chicked up the death list will be unknown,” Chief Ringer declared recovery of bodics was unlikely, adding that fdentification would bs impossible even if the bodies were dug from the ruins, While several of tho injured were & serious condition, it of them would recover, One woman |who became hysterical after bein, ran down the street scream- and he she was night ten belo A DAY FOR IRELAND IN BRITISH COMMONS Move ing foc n before Redmond to That It Is Es- sential to Grant Free Institutions Promised to Erin LONDON 12.—The Govern ‘ day to set aside a day n the House of Com as John the Natlonallst 1 te Government last week to arrange for an early diacus- n of & motion to the effegt that it essential without furtMer delay to confer on Ireland the free institu. | tions long promised her, — For Racing Entries See Page 4, was re-|) | ported at the City Hospital that most Amertean ports." Herr Zimmermann reaffirmed his previous statement that the Amert- cans now in nany will be pe mitted to move about unmolested and | be perfectlly free to leave the country | whenever they desire, even if the break threatens to reach the ultimate This Intention iN based on tho| impression prevailing “here that the| United States is not contemplating} any steps with respect to German civilians that might compel Germany stage. to onsider the position she has| now definitely taken WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.There are two cle American ports vessels au wes of German ships in| Thoso interned are | 8 the commerce | ralders Pring Hite! Friedrich, Kron- pring Wilhelm and such naval vea- |selg as the gunboats Cormorant fuam and Goier Honolulu, ‘The ws of these vessels, as WAll as the ships, being p of the German | naval forces which havo taken refuge war That} Feb, 12 (by wireless, via | at] reporting his interview with chief German Foreign Office. | | AMBASSADOR JAMES W. GERARD. _e UNDERWOOD & UNDERWooD' Ambassador Who Defied Berlin, Demanding Exit for Americans “I told Montgelas I would sit there in Berlin un- til kingdom come and not leave until all Americans were permitted free exit from Germany.’ | Gerard's statement to-day to newspaper correspondents in Berlin, of the American AMBASSADOR'S FIRM STAND FORCED BERLIN TOLET U. 8. ORRESPONDENTS LEAVE rs Departure of Many Americans Is | Being Delayed for Possible Re- | taliatory Measures in Case U.S. Declares War or Interns Ger- man Citizens. ; 'IGERARD CABLES WILSON | DETAILS OF THREATS [This 1s the first despatch received direct from Ackerman since he passed beyond control of the German censorship, He is a member cf the immediate party with Ambassador Gerard.) By Carl W. Ackerman. | (United Press staff correspondent With Ambasandor Gerard's party at Berne.) | BERNE, via Paris, #eb, 42.—The German Government intends to delay departure of Americans still in Berlin in order to have such citizens in hand for retaliatory measures in case America declares war and interns | German citizens in the United States. Permission for Americans eventual- | ly to depart was only obtained by tie strong stand of American Ambas- sador Gerard, . From neutral soil to-day it is possible to reveal the pressure which the German Government brought powerfully to bear on the American | Ambassador to force from him signing of a treaty. | DEMAND MADE ON AMBASSADOR. ” Ambassador division of the | | ! | FOUR SHIPS SUNK, ONE OF 4227 TNS, Total of hwo in the esa bure Brit All iets Brita British, the Largest Being the Netherlee From Philadelphia, ment say Jan, LONDON, Feb, 12.—The sinking of atat EAVESTONE’S LIFEBOATS NOT SHELLED, SAYS BERLI 40,000 Tonnage Is Reported Sunk on Feb, 9, | ‘BOAT TOLLTOOAY ever fired at Life of the steamer Eavestone says nts of eye- Practically a demand was made upon Ambassador Gerard by Count | Montgelas, Chief of the American Division of the German Foreign Office, to sign a treaty in effect guaranteeing permission for German ships to leave American harbors in case of war, this “ultimatum” being sels of backed up with the threat to hold American correspondents a6 hostages jit such action were not taken. Gerard, it is reliably reported, told the German Twenty-three Ve wget gave wielsos)-| official who brought this threat that if Americans were at lifeboats, nor will one do fggeed to remain in Germany America would regard \u statement to-day '-| such action as a cause for war. He refused to sign. versions of Tho states | Then the American newspaper correspondents ascertained that they | were likely to be held as hostages in Germany for America’s guaranteeing vn of the German ships’ safety. SAID HE'D STAY TILL KINGDOM COME. I ‘Telegraph ‘According to sworn witnesses, a Ger- lin neutral harbors, interned ag|th® British steamship Netherlee, of man euinarine. Heed at the Hfebouts When the American correspondents in Berlin went to Gerard | prisoners for the duration of the war | 4227 ross fons I¥ reported py vf ANIA Ail your the Brite | 1m a body and told him of what they bad hoard, Gerard replied: under provisions of international law | Lloyd ‘8. 1 leaanan itaventanes TA: on Aa “+1 told Montgelas that I would sit here in Berlin until and The Hague conventions, The Netherlee sailed from Phitadet. |i" steamer Favestone, Ax soon as a Rect tip Winkie Ger-| Eb Nother) sailed from Philadel- | tn, submarine reports all details Kingdom Come and uot leave until all Americans were permitted an an Ln) differant, and [Pree oe coe Yar e Pra nee, about this question will be given, free exit!” thelr crews, vrho| Another British steamer, the a PThia BN t is a now, bub After this the Berlin officials granted passports to those desiring to ira not internod in| ing ef which was reported to-day, | Useless attempt to stifle memory ci the disgraceful deeds of the Brit- leave 7 ined theirs only four hours ot the Word, but are roe. was the Lycia, a stecl screw vessel of f d ful deeds of Br leave with Gerard. The correspondents obtai! y inh barbarians maining in harbor of refuge, ‘They | 2,715 tons, registered at Liverp phi a reports the Norwegian before the time (or departure. Ne ee ike rere tS We owned by the Cunard Company steamur Sortland was fired at by A large number of Americans stil! remain in Berlin and are anxious and t weir chances with the ray . snemy warahips. ‘Phelr crews are in{ Hova’s thia afternoon also an-|two British torpedo boats while tg Jeave, but the indications when the Gerard party left were that they the same status t aliens| nounced that the British steamship Within Ribas irtyheripn dn 1\* would be delayed days and even weeks. The Berlin Government, fearing ming to the Unit | Voltaire, of 499 tons gross, and Olivia, prang! bureau. report torday $200,000 10 BE ASKED of 242 tons gross, had been sunk Chief Engineer Sallagh of the Olivia, was killed and two other member seven agen steamers it America may declare war, apparently desires to have a few American citizens within Germany on which retaiiatory measures might be exacted *n case Germans in America are interned, Gerard's code messages to-day carried details of Germany’s threat to i hold American newspaper correspondeuts in Germany as hostages unless wines on Fe y, two another provisions, Of 9 steamers declares ar | That Amouni Will Be Necessary C Ri "ANZA WRITES \ NOTE an n “ahipa, with ale tf e American Ambassador would sign a treaty practically guaranteeing in | for a Thorough Investigation as 10 NEUTRAL POWERS {rawies me and several <4 of war that German ships now in American harbors would be per- i to the High Cost of Living, — | —— mitted to leave, ; oe \ Wilson will b priation for the food tigat th be conducted by t Federal ‘Trade Commission and the at his direct That amo it was sald to-day, will be necessary to carry on an in-! quiry thorough enough to develop whether anti-trust laws have been violated, thereby causing a national protest against the bigh cost of living. Department of Agriculture, r unt, | munitions of war Munitions to War- ring European Power I Stuffs or LONDON WASHINGTON, Carranza has sent a u United States, Argent vz! and Chile, as well as to all r neutral nations, asking them to join in an agreement to prohibit the export from their countries to the warring European nations of foodstuffs and ARE BROKEN BY CHINA clals say Germany had no right to make such demands follow- ng the formal break.) Feb. 12/--¢ ina hes It was on Monday that he first breached the subject of a treaty to be ; rnayrinn ‘ ned by the American Ambassador. Gerard promptly refused. ‘ 1 hen Montgelas warned him it Germany's proposal was not ac- i BeREAU cepted it would be difficult for Americans to leave Berlin, Gerard cone } “City tinued firm in his refusal | ie a On the Wednesday succeeding this Monday conference the pass- i wouey 2 Beekinas 4000, adit, ports of American correspondents were taken up by the Foreign Office,