The evening world. Newspaper, March 3, 1917, Page 1

oo i is —. STONE MAKES FIGHT ON ARMED NEUTRALITY — “AL he EDITION “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ ty 1917, by The Press Peblishing © (The New York World). To-Day's Weather—SNOW OR RAIN, LANE EDITION | [“Cirentation Books Open to All.” NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917. | 10 PAGES ENT. PRICE ONE C Sp Copyrigh ¢ PRICE ONE CENT. NTICIPATED WAR, SAYS BERLIN, ADMITTING THE MEXICAN PLOT ACTA DRIES A BGSAEFGHT APANVLLREWN PLANNED TO REACH CARRANZA -RETALPRIGESOF FOODFAIL TOKEEP PAE WTHSLUMP. ‘os ag sis wsiteauuny, BEFORE U. S. BROKE RELATIONS IN THE WHOLESALE MARKET , Polatoes Especially Have Not! GREEK GOVERNMENT SHIP Shown Corresponding De- IS SUNK BY U BOAT Cline to the Consumer. | | | \ Stone Offers Amendments|Kaiser’s Plot Against U. S. Is\“I Fail to See How Such a ‘Plot’ Is Revelation of Plot Takes Berlin by Known to Be Disliked by | Described as “Too Ridicu- | : : : ” . i harged That the President. | lous for Words.” | Inspired by Unfriendliness, De Surprise and It Is Cc utd ° | ee | clares Zimmermann, Secretary for |TWO CHANGES AREMADE|HAS NO PROPOSAL. Foreign Affairs. It Came to Light Through Treach- ery on “American Territory.” “Can't We| feel Chater y Grain| Senators Interested in F Imagine Wh | | : ; i RECEIPTS LIGHT " BM el Chartered to Carry Grain} enat iS In cd German} ft y Sand? | BERLIN (via Sayville wireless), March 3.—Foreign Secretary Zim-| suggested to other American republics common action S LIGHT TO-DAY.| From America for Benefit of Admissions — Have De- | Should War Against America” | ; h | task Ge Ste alitee, ‘The Bloe aumarentiy wes Royalists Is Destroyed. spatches Read Twice. | Says Minister Shidehara, | ™érmann to-day justified Germany’s action in seeking to ally Mexico} pects udeeaiiig me faa . nes. ts ‘plot’ app: y Meat and Eggs Are Still Lower| roxpon, March 8—The steamshtp| ? - : | and Japan against the United States. | pg “The news as published by La Prensa (Buenos Ayres) —Buying Still Far Short | Proconnissus, requisitioned by the| WASHINGTON, March 8.—The| TOKIO, March 2.—Tho declaration Such a course, he said, was merely a defensive measure—not to} > Greek Government t to bring grain of Normal. & Meat has dropped one and two| (stores throyghout Manhattan and America for tho benefit of the ist populace, has been sunk by @ submarine. (The Proconnissus was a steel screw steamship vf 2,769 tons. She wes owned by Ne J-Hustativa- Armed Neutrality bill was running a neck and neck race with time in Congress to-day. Democrat leaders were aiming to get it through some- how efpre the session dies at noon } cents in a large number of retail } ‘ t * tee. the Associated Press, the absoi Nability of is vouched fo Stores were found too where there ge Her submarines, the figures was nothing in tho price-list to {M-! gary guc 1 in sending to th Jicate that there had t any COM-| tom dur month of Febru siderable slump ® ule prices| round numbers, 490,000 tor ne This figure exceec y , at all, and y speaking, the fete deat the Bronx, tsi 4 cents on the| div and was registered at An- | t0-morrow, but were hot entirely sure dozen, potatoes 2 cents @ pound,| dros, Greece.) | of the position of its opposition. onions 7 cents a pound. These are Germany failed by more: than 50| In the Senate, where the bill was some of the ‘breaks’ in prices which ea) apes thee rvpar ve saytaareer ides being debated, there were some long @ reporter for The Evening World ghipping during the first month of|PPosition speeches ahead, Although found early to-day in a tour of Min- unrestricted submarine warfare, ac-|a great majority of the Republicans hattan retail stores in diverse sec- Jing to figures in possession Of! urged sts Passage, the leaders were the last moment would find Senator La Follette, and ute re not r here, show, 1e bot. ary, in! sure where train was drawn out by Senator Stone offering of amend ents 140,000. Which are disagreeable to the Presi British retail drop in potatoes falls sh of expected would be sunk 4 F sting the extraordinary slump of had been continued. It the situation had forced oth 7 oan to $2 on the bag. A two cent| comp $46,656 tons sunk dur- y.tyon Rare pe ee ee "\-drop a pound {s considered far less ing December and 322,067 tons during Where wien fii ib eas ane b Meticee chika tn ene mare ——_—_— Senator Stone told the Senate than vice the normal supply, con R | he had heard that navy experts gumere feel that the retail reduction | WINTER GOWNS IN SUMME | had devised a plan for protection \. should be proportionate. | IS ORDER IN GERMANY ef American merchant ships J For that reason buying ts stin far| whereby they would be equipped short of norma! and probably will not a | with small submarine-chasing be normal unt atoes get down to] C One Style for Each Year for boats to be lowered in the danger of the Japanese Government thorugh Foreign Minister Motono that Japan has receivcl no proposi- tion from Mexico or Germany to join in @ possible war against the United Viscount jstatement made to the Associated | Press on behalf of the Government |by Kijuro Shidehara, Vice Foreign Minister, “We were greatly surprised to hear the German pro, "he Ve cannot imagti is thinking about to conceive that she jcould possibly invol. us In war with sal said. the United ates merely by as) ¢ Mexico. This is 00 ridiculous for words. Needless to say, Japan r maina faithful to h all In re nse to a qu-*tion regarding Japan’ altitude toward the antl |Japanese measures which w_re | brought forward in Idaho and Ore | gon, M, Bhidehara sald he had espe- frain from inflammatory comment advising that the matter be left for treatment through diplomatic chan- “It was noticeable that the agi- did not approach that of the the matter was brought up in in 1918 and it 1 nels tation time California whethe the masses of the pe were even cognizant of the Oregon States was supplemented to-day fn a} what Germany | clally requested newspapers to re-| be carried out except in case the United States declared war on Germany When a member of the staff of the Overseas Agency asked Herr Zim- mermann about the English report of a plot he answered: “You understand that it is impossible for me to discuss the facts of this ‘revealed plot’ just at this moment and under these circumstances. I therefore may be allowed to limit my answer to what is said in the English reports, which certeinly | are not inspired by sympathy with Germany. “The English report expressly states that Germany ex- pected and wished to remain on terms of friendship with the | United States, but that we had prepared measures of defense | in case the United States declared war against Germany. 1 | fail to see how such a ‘plot’ is inspired by unfriendliness on | our part. It would mean nothing but that we would use | means universally admitted in war in case the United States declared war. “The most important part of the alleged plot is its condi- tions and form. The whole ‘plot’ falls flat to the ground in case the United States does not declare war against us. And if we really, as the report alleges, considered the possibility of hositle acts of the United States against us, then we really had reasons to do so. “An Argentine newspaper a short while ago really ‘re- | egy ea Speeeen senate sacutifen haste arate and vealed a plot’ when it told that the United States last year a buyabie standard ba o 10 SUD- on Under Pat stic F | sacha acaieepreciianmeeineniiaias — Mis at hand. Ton days ago they wor Women ( : er Pain of Drastic | attack them, and Idaho bills. j= eee day’e price is 6 cents a pound, C LONDON, March 3.—The German| “raft. with two slight MEXICO DENIES GETTING IM RMA N HOW GERMANY PLOTTED Brees tice the drop at noon eerie Cathie Giceralltea hon ce: | MMDACLRUMAGLAtter the aca iris ! | BERNSTORFF MUST QUIT AGAINST U.S. AS SHE ,{ terday. Onions that were 1 dad a WaIhing ihatatyien inswomen'al t oi the House text. One amendment GERMAN PLOT PROPOSAL | LAR PLEADED FRIENDSHIP sents a pound ure now sa $ cannot be allowed to change|¢!minates the provision for arming | BELIEF IN HOLLAND a ; pound. e six months, according to an “fore and afi,” thus ar enneaest ee | AN, 19—Foreign Secretary Zim- <7? NOTEWORTHY CHANGES IN|, rdam despatch to the Exchange pecific direction as to arm-| “Received No Proposition of Alli- —--- mermann’s Plot Note to Mex q Lae ad aveg epee Amisht: The’ other prevents: Waites ance,” Declares Foreign M Their Mexican War Plot Is Called |} io, "Wg shall give financial eup- p to the closing uf the Produce Ex States protection for forelgn ships fi ! 1 ore te ebay harige, the Butter and Eyga and the NEWS OF BERLIN'S ADM Phas ister Aguilar | “a Crowning Blunder of New Mexico, Texas and Arizona c ; 4 1 ISSION § | J President of Mexico should com Mercantile Exchangges, there had READ TO SENATE Mexico received no proposition of Teutonic Diplomacy.” municate with Japan suggesting been no noveworthy wnges the and that drasti eausur Senator Brandeg tepublican, offan alliance from Germany, Forelgr scherence to this plan Senn) foodstutt - s AD. " ‘ FEB. 27--MORE THAN A MONTH wholesale f re y t agalr BA nge i the discussion by r Aguilar informed the Unit AMSTERDAM M F LATER—Chancellor Bethmann \or of potate l off both by r fon and the consequent waste Ir inital: aona ‘o-day, He t the following|nation of G an fag Holived te. the Reishe nd wa wways the case on | materials « laid telegram from Guadalajara President Is bru e on| ils wermany laid in zi nn and brupt termina broke off relations. TI Saturda i ry « »uny one who| “United Press, i J Hy th rs Ve © be 5,615 ba ree bushels to Tac RAera te “The Government of Mexico preren ea FRIENOLY RELATIONS BE yarrel, in a 1 The} TEN PERSONS BURNED A ene te{ has not received any proposition | Count ann Be r ¢ TWEEN US AND AMERICA Molaanie Dr $y “ar OF MAY SouD try of alliance from the Imperial | Gorman Ambassador to t TEP HAD BEEN CAREFULLY PRO wh ae ¥ ne ve — - presented news|] German Government.” |pere 4 te ? MOTED. WE HONORED \ttle buying ; ; ‘: dicen sak alin taeda 7 jal : ae ; = THEM AS AN HEIRLOOM O German Airship Blows Up While mF Inging For-| This ts the first official word from}S regarded by Dutch officta ; thirty dozen pi 1 Speed Trial at Ghent, fon of the attempted intrigue with| that the German proposition falled tol mavikia ta dhliaw plot outlined on Jan. 19. making @ total o! s gb Amsterdam Hears. Japan and Mexico. reach I Chiet Carransa or hie] one & certaie to fono! i 2 oes ae aches AMSTERDAM, Md 3.—A new, Senators manifested auch keen tn-| ministers. |tlon of the Zimmermann letter f grade brought 44% cents « dozen, ex-|o# Mons 7% exploded, burning ten af Were F natore who bad | WILLARD SUCCEEDS GODFREY} <, b ho latter price guld ke a plot showed particular| National Defense Advisory ' ann letter, Bf Pi und will probably maintain yp | Committee SEY; word from t WASH M t > ; < aiden ee passage of th Senate resolution] \. ° phon s Main "0 y Jay chosen chairman of the Advisory! Dutch of ised ‘ Hy? nts below ail y 1 Imited declaration of war Defense. a 4 plot for pu i This, they aay, ¥ « ROMP, M King ¥ na “It would public calamity," ne! frey, who leaves place b P . gies ' 4 reanc profit ni x 4, "fi NgTosS to bo in wes. |the pressure p t t Becuu ¢ » stri } an ant tin eRe GRin at cen Ww aif nd of Ainertean T ’ : ; ote is y Rotini y | Austria to, STONE OFFERS AMENDMENT, eee nn eee tk ' ba — ’ t heir orders have } ult and 1 DISLIKED BY MEXICO, Grosver BK Clarkson York, |Price for Great Amertean Nog im some cases their supply js so short, King 1 1 was fifty-six years “The President has kept us out | was chosen Secretar Keeps a-Booming that they have broken Domino pack- ©! on Feb He as ed the Gov of war with Mexico; he has kept Admiral Pear ath ineth t EAST ST. LO 1 ar > ages and are s It loose. nent in 1887, after @ ition of us out of war in Europe,” said day seaplane absolutely essential |, ward trend of how market Reen Nominat Another drop of 1 or 2 cents tn ex- | Pr A T above '8 the Senator Stone, when he took the to modern we both in guarding . ; ; he Ketehstag pected in meats, A. BH, MoMulkin of first word of his tliness. He was floor, “I would rather trust him este and io supplying Inform reves rege sty \ohad| AMSTERDAM, § Queensboro Market saya such a drop Teported in attendance at the ¢ than the horde of woaklings about 9 the fleet 60 ‘ y : nee at the Germa iner's —_—>—— Das hand, This te due largely to ence At the German Kaiser's him who dally fly their kites to Many Children fa ICAGO. man Ambassador te ate {ted submarine wartare was eons 4 Weg cante high bas | (Coptinued on Sixth Page) 1pon (Continued on Second Page) town. adr . aching . 7 . ‘ ‘ agrees well with the interpretation given, for instance, by an American newspaperman, Edward Price, in Berlin and Lon- don, who said the United States was waiting only for the Proper moment in order opportunely to assist the Entente. The aame American stated that Americans from the begin- ning of the war really participated in it by putting the im- | mense resources of the United States at the Entente’s dis- | posal, and that Americans had not declared war only be- cause they felt sure that assistance by friendly neutrality | would be during that ie much more efficient for the En- tente than direct participation in the war. [There {s no record of an American newspaper correspondent named Edward Price. Edward Price Bell is London correspondent of the Chicago Daily News.) “Whether this American newspaperman reported the facts exactly we were at a loss to judge in satisfactory f: ion, since we were more or less completely cut off from com- munication with the United States. “But there were other facts which seemed to confirm this and similar assurances, Everybody knows these facts, and I need not repeat them. The Entente propaganda ser- vices have sufficiently heralded all these pro-Entente demon- strations in the United States. And if you link these dem- onstrations with the actual attitude of the United States, then it is obvious that it was not frivolous on our part to consider what defensive measures we should take in case we were at- | tacked by the United States.” 1 taking Berlin press to-day supports the Government in its action of “precautionary measures” against attack by the United States. | The Lokal Anzeiger, in commenting upon the admission of the |Government that steps were taken through the Minister to Mexico, says “With beneficial frankness, the Government sets its essential ex- planation against the tendency toward sensation of the American report Jof the precaution to which the Government not only proves it was fiplomatically itled, but was its duty to meet, in view of possible attack.” SS SOUGHT MEXICO AS AN ALLY ONLY IF U.S. DECLARED WAR Strong Effort to Justify Berlin’s Move Against a Friendly Power Is Now Made on This Ground. LONDON, March 3.—Foreign Secretary Zimmermann’s Instruce tions to the German Minister to Mexico, as published in United States, are admitted in Berlin to have been correctiy quoted, acc 1 to Reuter’s from the German capital by way of Amst I atch q the fol y telegram, receiv Friday and , “The American press contains reports about instruc tions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the German Minister in Mexico City in the event that Germany, after the proclamation of unrestricted submarine warfare, failed to keep the United States neutral. These reports are based on the following facts: “After the decision had been taken to begin unrestricted submarine warfare on Feb. 1 we had to reckon, in view of the previous attitude of the American Government, with the possibility of conflict with the United States. That this cal-