The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1917, Page 1

NAL EDITION ee |“ Circulation Books Open to All.” | — __ PRICE ONE CENT. GERMAN EMBASSY GAVE THE ORDERS Copyright, 1017, by The ar Pablishing Co. (The New York World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, ‘+; LANSIN UK TU “Circulation Books Open to All. 1917. 12 PAGES Weather—PROB LY RAIN TO-NIGHT, LANE EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. TO DISABLE KRONPRINZESSIN CECILIE U. S. GROWING IMPATIENT OVER BLOCKADE BY U BOATS: QUICK ACTION 1S ENPECTED Negotiations With Austria Fail, and Break in Relations Seems Un- avoidable—Wilson Keeps Plans Secret Until He Goes to Congress. WASHINGTON, wtih Germany, igly Feb, 17.—After two weeks of broken relations Wilson to-d: vith Austria seems impending in view Austria fr President fiinds the international situation increas! tiations tending to dissuade uirse of Germany have failed. ed the economic situation in the United States, virtual blockade of American ports by the ¢ some action designed to open the way for m Offic as a re ult of hoat decree, make hipping imperative. But In s American ot igerent step NEW DEVELOPMENTS ETN saoet a prooiem is {IN GRITICAL RELATIONS caste atoae sew | OF, §, AND GERMANY ial ? 1. Capt. Polack of the Kronprin 4 ¢ rm w zessin C.ilie testified that the Furthermore, as an additional German steamship was disabled thorn in the side of this Govern on the night of Jan. 31 on or- ment, Germany, according to ders from the German Govern Berlin despatches, boldly an ment nounces she will sink any Amer 2. Washington made public the can merchantman that is armed text of the treaty proposed by without the usual formalities of Germany which Gerard refused warning, inspection or any other to sign and which later was pre- ourtesy. sented through the Swiss Min- The Presid ourse toward Aus iste: tria is still velied 3. Secretary Lansing was assured ie? ole t \ to-day by the Swiss Minister that arrangements for sending pearing axa eighty-six United States Consuls ne other ha migh and their families out of Ger- vantage tif many had been made. No alarm Congress the tot as to their safety is now felt. pare for further eventualities and ask | 4, Amsterdam reports say the sev- the means me enty-two Yarrowdale prisoners lives and have been turned over to the Owing Dutch authorities, but there is soon adjour no official confirmation, exsary powe be used later) 15. A break with Austria seems to 4f necessary, thereby precluding the be inevitable, but both sides necessity of ning the new Con want to postpone it as long gress late in the spring or next sum possible, A break with Austria mer for any action he deemed neces: would be followed by a break ary short of war with Bulgaria and Turkey. If Prosident Wilson should decide to |] 6, Relations with Austria might be tart hostilities with Germany r broken without the appearance rman U |" SHP SETS OUT. FOR WAR ZONE City of Puebla Sails for Havre, With Crew Made Up of U. S. Citizens. TWO CUNARDERS OFF, Iwenty-Nine Freighters Arrive Day After Running German Blockade. in Anot American ship commanded by an American Captain and manned by an American crew sailed from New York to-day for the danger zone es- tablished by the German Government | The vessel is the steamship City of) Puebla, under char‘er to the Harvey Steamship ¢ ‘ompany. go of cotton, copper and other contra. | | band, and Capt. John E. Willett, h as confident that he will! She has a coal | skipper, is !land his cargo at Havre as if there were no German sudmarines loose in | the seas about France. City of Pue is tho third| erican ship on the Atlantic head-| r the danger zone in defiance srman regulations, None car- ries f but all have Ameri- can crews ot two are the Orleans and the Rochester, The Al- quin, a freighter, 1s loading and start for Ha She is re or Bordeaux to- | | rrow »mmanded by Capt urg, a naturalized American, and ee-fourths of her crew are native born Americans. | Two Cunard liners, the Laconia and | ania, each carrying a few British! ers and great cargoes of con- sailed to-day for Liverpool. | Thr her big Cunarders in port are | being feverishly loaded, It is reported | in shipping circles that these five ves-| A passen, traband, sel, and perhaps others, will as-| semble at Halifax next week and pro- | |ceed to Liverpool under convoy, | ‘the Holland-America Line an nounced to-day that the liner Noor- dam will leave port at 8 o'clock to- night for Halifax, en route, over al ourse outside the proscribed zone, to} Kotterdam with & cargo of wheat and | flour. The Noordam w although there are scores of subjects in Hoboken who aro| anxious to get to Holland. © Ryndam, which turned back to York when almost to Irela sengers, | Duteh peratel, New and on March 4, the country would } |] of President Wilson before Con- J) n.caint of a wireless warning of | walt fifteen or twenty da arn Gress, but it is believed in some P| out danger, will probably get away | eth gress ruld si port him d . 4 Whether Congress would support him. | quarters he would take advan- Yio norrow for Rotterdam, without The President at this time could go |] tage of the opportunity to notify es before Congress at any nd ask |] Congress the time had come tof] Pann. a venican Line vessels are be for its approval of a deelar n of prepare for full protection of Id waiting guns. There ar, as Dp le e Ci | in rights on thi ne . eis ae war, as provid ny h hy ; | rights on the ing new the situation af- But yaa hetcabenr) | hese liners to-day, When t clared they think he wou t , rm y which left Live » last to ask an expiring Congr | BIG STORM ON WAY EAST. gets to New Kk the clare a war that must be carrie | American Line fleet will be at in the next ¢ re. Canstesi oka Sate. ; Sixty-fourth Con ends at! Storm w 1 at | at a ng line of rusty freight steam- | noon, Sunday, March 4, Tho House,| Weather Bureau ton Del A Mee win in ae ets eet M 1 6, would have to « aware Breakwater to Eastpor laine, as yg gee . to meet would have t [aware Breakwater to Kastport, Main ed up Ambrose Channel from the ganize before tt could do any work, | wn Washington, 7 daybreak to-day The Senate 18 a continuing body and|MUce sald that a storm of arked Oty Seater ee an enn Oe AEN i anals than ntral over Lake! joined a great fleet of vessels in the pbs ; be Aire “Cadi. | Superior: Was moving Bust rapidly, The | lower bay. No less than twenty confirm members of the now Cabl-| storm ix attended by Me southwest | freighters have reached this port net. Should President Wilson decide | winds, shifting to northw which are | gr¢ points tn Europe within the on March 4 to ask Congress to d xpected to inere to a gale by th - ray ani * clare war he would have to t i bad weather reaches the AL! P twenty-four hours, Fi f lar t. Kain is predicted fo fly the American flag, are Senate in session and give members | nig followed by ‘heavy snowfal cceill tah of the next Congress in the House | to-morrow un ill take on car enough time to @ to Washington > ere for points In the danger and organize before they voted on the| BETHLEHEM PLAN UPHELD. fee ies question of declaring war. Many tay'a arrivals tn ludeq the Al members, thou w in Wash-| # pany's In-| phard from Rotterdam, Camilia from ington for jnaugurat and moro] Iveu. Lis Mumbro from Palomas, Lan Rant guchia) wold ue Bere ae elt” ation trian trom London, John Knudson Knees | y from Fowey, Normania from Barce aoe - | va from Brest and Gerar en He Will Leave , » 4 ext Week | ! dy in and PARIS, M Jerard | tt a "| gual Saturday morning arrivals @rnounced to-day, Fr ladrid > t narbs qe Nie Sore ewill embark for the United States For Racing Entries See Page 4.) | busy day OLFREO coccH!. pater Woman Telephones Clue Mother of Missing Sunday School Teacher, Mrs. Henry D. Cruger, mother of the eighteen-year-old Wadlelgh High School graduate and Sunday school |teacher who disappeared from her home No, 120 Claremont Avenue Tuesday afternoon ved an anon ymous telephone mossage to-day | wht eased her certainty that her daughter had been taken away ainst will and was 1 ner, A woman who refused to sure I saw your daughter attan and One Hu d and o'clock Tuesday afternoon, She wa a slender girl, wearing a long brow: coat such as the newspapers say your daughter wore. The collar wa turned up about her face, but I co ing. A man about forty years « not a foreign looking, had h the nd was urging her along and arguing with her alm They passed out of my sight nort on Broadway. I did n nk ar thing of the incident until I read of the disappearance of Miss Cruger In e newspapers.” DESCRIPTION FITS MAN TOLD OF BY CHAUFFEUR. ne fixed by Mrs, Cruger's ir hour aft The ti formant is half an ring the ab at hired One Hund and Le a tax th Str ue, d Pwenty Stree Avenue 4 took to @ stateme by Miss Cruge feur fou the poll sembling er 4g.) ROTH CRO GER SWISS MINISTER ASSURES LANSING THRD AMERICAN Saw Weeping Girl Urged —NITCHEL WAITING Along by Man on the Day Ruth Cruger Vanis CHIE ENGINEER OF BG LNER OR RESEMION rv DEREDHERUSELESSTOULS scpes oy NCASEOEWAR WITH ERNANY Made Good Offer to Quit. strict OBEY# ».|Her Engines Put that of Business on | Jan. 31, the Day That Germany Issued Its Order to Pursue Ruth- less Submarine Warfare. hed ORDERS NOT | Alban) Killed provement, S Action Probably Has Jamaica Bay Im- | ays Mayor, | Mayor Mitchel is waitin Sin Shae! ORDER WAS FIRST ISSUED city administration, to hand in ‘ial AS FAR BACK AS APRIL, 1916 resignation, Up to noon to-day Mr. es ne fe Se iit = an BOSTON, Feb, 17.—Orders direct from the German Embassy at day to resign Washington were given to Capt. Caarles A, Polack of the Kronprinzessin The Mayor Mr. Smith's | | and his advisors con action In at tempting to put through the Leglw | 1¢ ie, known as the “Gold Ship" in the early days of the war, to have th e big liner disabled while she oi interned in Bosten-inesder to render iseléss to the United States in ca The nder was conveyed by an “official” of the Embassy and delivered by bim | elder tha lature the diser ited Walker bill, her ¢ of trouble with Germany, thorizing the sale of city owned lands under water, which The Evening/ 1, the captain waile the Superintendent of the North German Lloyd’s World exposed, has tended to cast fi \ ql feat pr ties in this countr as present Hoboken, N. J., sometime in reflections upon the Administration ; that cansotee tolerated pril, 1916, which would seem to indicate that the German Government No demand has been made on C | wanted to be prepared for any emergency that might strain relations with missioner Smith to resig the United State Boned ree ri eraG lhe order to disable the liner was carried out on Jan. 31, the day that th ew of hix conduct in language | Germany issued its drastic proclamation on U boat warfare. plainly intimating that his retirement | All was testified to at a Federal Court hearing here to-day on a would rellove an embarrassing sit f geal iy ‘alist petition for the sale of the vessel. Whar tha Mayon Waa end Judge Morton, who presided at the hearing, stated that if the point to untangle the confusion pressed he would find that the owners of the ship had acquiesced in by the bills transferring la ‘ Hosaraled sity ntaue the damage to the vessel and he would hold them in contempt. @ When asked by counsel for the pe- | titioners to give the name of the person from whom the order was re celved, Capt. Polack said Your Honor, I am an officer of the German Navy and if I should have to disclose Point for fortification pur iiasioner Smith offered t the Legislature nentative MAYOR DID NOTHING TO PRE VENT RESIGNATION BILL GIVES U, S, POWER TO TAKE OVER ALL SHIPS Mayor Mitchel declined to send him | War Measure Agre id on at Con- the naine of this gentlem: or permit him to have anything fu erence of , here. (a0 this hearing, I might be tried for if a ain fetes Peed ference of Senators and Members | treason when I Want kaw Ga Theredpon the Commias se: of Shipping Board, many, I wish you would not oblige elatined that he would r | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—At a con-|™8 '9 nawer that question.” The question was not pressed and Judge Morton decided that it would Mayor di y J ference to-day between Senators of him from doing #0, but no as cea eed eomhoainlt |tho Commerce Committeo and mem-| not be necessary for the Captain to What aggravated the | bers of the Ship dia te’ answer it at this time. Arrangements Are Being Made} the tact that the Doe tive draft of th | sought by the SUPERINTENDENT OF COMPANY failed twice t i PRESENT AT CONFERENCE, to Send. Them and Fami- lies Out of Germany Administration authorizing the tak May tlons from th Capt By offic man ack said he met the Em- als in January at the North Lioyd offices in Hoboken. rders to disable the ship were n at that time in the presence of Moller, superintendent of the by |C@™pany's Hnes in this country, he Peay da i Springs, Va,, at the time but changed bis plans and returned take to this city an ¢ ing of ships in time of war or national. », ara.ion J upon and will! G | ‘The the wily Rockaway transs emergency was ag vere ty, the Federa and bought ay 1 mpa As this nt f rty of t and by aken up for disposition Monday t differs in original p the departure of former mmittea side B mpany, the G ar suls in Germany was de a large f nt fr el for fortificat plot ¢ Continuing his testimony, the Cap- tain declared that the embassy offle |claly said to him: ‘The relations be- twe two countries are being ad Of the proporty cut off ed whether the machinery was to LAND WAS APPRAISED AT $500 Re ¢ led immediately and that he AN ACRE re an affirmative answer, Capt, mobile | Mfc said, did not take @ ehare Guard | in Chis part of the conversation. in detail his actions, 1 the point bey ft thereupon agreed to sell to t was cut land company jand on 1 and inder shallow water, wh nd vide an approa tome time ago, about the time n Me “ , 1 when the Sussex case was up ang When difficulties had arisen betwe and America, I was asked New York was an lavie ; : Fesyeg’ 4.|tation from the company's offen, § was told that I was to meet a gentles who wanted to speak to me SECRET CODE, CHARTS AND M. Law Start om) PLANS TO BE DESTROYED, ae knew the gent He told me iitoulties had arisen here t was about time that I secret code of the and plans and that in case tw te a ES Germany : 1 1] to go to eman, books, secret in order G IS ASSURED —