The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1917, Page 1

PANE EDITION PRICE “ONE phen dt Che l* Circulation Boo Books Open to All.” | ‘New Copyright, apt by The Press Publishing Th York World), NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1 "GERMAN SEAMEN SINK THEIR OWN CRUISER TO-DAY'S WEATHER—Fair; cool, AI EDITION “Circulation Books | 3 Open to All.” 12 raqst 917. ‘PRICE ONE CENT. ‘SEA RAIDERS SOUGHT BY NAVY. OFF CAPES AND NEW YORK'S ’ One Ri iachunent fe Boards Ship, Others March to “Unknown Point of Destination.” 800 QUICKLY MOBILIZ Groups of Men Arriving From| Out of Town Report to | ) Lieut. Commander Wait. Phe first Naval Battalion of the Naval Militia of New York went into NAVAL MILITIA BEGINS ACTUAL WAR SERVICE; + FIRST BATTALION ON DUTY | Minister of actual service to-day, the first New York organization to be called to the| colors since the forma! declaration ot war. While a detachment of 100 of ‘| the battalion went tmimediately on Saipboard, the remainder, 650 men and 45 officers, marched down Fifth| Avenue on their way to a “point of| destination” which unknown pave to themselves and the Navy} Department | When the parade passed the Union League Club, Mayor Mitchel stood} upon one of the balconies ar it saluting the flag. With him were| 4 Capt. Herbert L. Satterlee, Commander | Forshew, Lieut. nmanders Mentone | De Kay, Warner L. Sawyer and Her- bert L. Yorke and Capt. Alfred B.| Frye, U. 8. N,, retired The order calling out the First Bat- talion the training ship Granite State, in the No.th River at Ninety-seventh Street, at 7 o'clock last night. An hour later young men were trooping across the space in front of the pier, answering chal- lenges of sentries ssing aboard the ancient frigat urd was an uste as mes- | about and a squad of was 1 reviewed reached Ab: impression of ordered 1 sengers darted yeomen bustied with typewriters, penci and blanks. A Out- »wn divisions of the bat- alion veran to arrive early this morning. The Kighth, from Ossining with twenty-five officers and men reached the Granite State at 5.30 J yelock, and the Tenth, from Yonkers, ame sho afterward As the detachments arrived peported to Lieut. Commander W Bell Wait, the executive officer, and received their assignments for duty. With such care was the enclosure about the Granite State patrolled | gsentries that no one could enter un- .Jess he had legitimate business aboard, The wd, which included the relatives and friends of the mill tiamen, was kept back at least a| er hundred feet from the gateway. ‘S| Orders to mobilize were received | ty the Second Battalion, Naval} Militia, yesterday afternoon, and by nightfall many men had arrived at the armory, foot of Fifty-second Street, Brooklyn. Medical examina- . tions began immediately and prepa rations were made to move, but up to @ late hour no orders had been . received, At the headquarters of the Naval Training Association, No. 26 Cort landt Street, it was said membe of the Naval Defense Reserve would probably be called according to need, All the enrolments are on file at the Navy Yard. One member of the militia who went into service with his division was Cor- oner Tim Healy of Manhattan, who is 4 as chief machinist’s mate. His Joseph, seventeen years old, went Coast Both wlants and WAS | Preliminary | President to Suggest It to Congress | Fifty-six “RUSSIAN PEACE OFFER IF KAISER IS DETHRONED" at Petrograd Suggests Possibility of Negotia- | tions With Germans. PETROGRAD, April 7 don).—Minister of Justice (via Lon-| Justice Kerensky said in an interview to-day that if the German people the and de offer the possibility of would follow Russian example throne their Emperor we negotiations.” “I was always of the opinion that the United States would fake part the war on the Paul N side of .he Allie | said Prof Miluko‘l, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to-day “The definition by President Wil- son of the purposes of the war,” con- | tinued Professor Milukoff, orre: sponds entirely with the dec of the statesmen of the Allied Powers. | The democracy of Free Ru to associate itself completely with these declarations.” —_>— $5,000,000,000 CREDIT =| TO ALLIES, PLAN OF U. S. Washington | as First Step, | Reports. & credit to the Allies of er one billion dollars and probably | WASHINGTON, April 7-—The ex- | tension of | | muoh as five billion will be the| first stop of actual participation in the war under the plan to be sug gested to Congress by the President. | for co-operation between the U | States and the Allies were d assed by Counsellor Polk, the Br h Ambassador and the Attache to- | day | Afterward Polk went to the Navy | Department, presumably to convey | some of the naval ideas given him lined to m "GOVERNMENT SEIZES SEIZES ALL WIRELESS PLANTS | He ae ke a make a statement Commercial Stations Are} Taken Over by Navy Department —Destroying Amateur Outfits WASHINGSON, April 7 | after noon to-day the ment completed over all commerc hortly | Navy Depart- | the task of United States taking | in and its p ons In fifty-six wireless stations eretofore used for commercial pu f the United States Navy The Navy Department is also en- | waged in closing and dismantiing all | private amateur stations through: uel the country, Seana Field Ambulance Company at Border Burned, EL PASO, Tex,, April 7.—The camp of the United States Field Ambulance Company A at Fort Bliss was destroyed by fire, believed of incendiary origi this morning, Military authorities are Anvestigating camp| BELMONT PARK LAD IN RUIN BY FIREBUG; LSS $100 000 Grandstand, Betting Ring, Jockey House and Terminal Are Destroyed. OFFER $2,500 REWARD. August Belmont Hopes Struc- tures May Be Repaired for Coming Meeting. Fire of incendiary origin early to- day did $1,000,000 worth of damage at the Belmont Park Race Track. 7 GERMANS REPORTED DEAD BLOWING UP OWN GRUISER Refusing to Surre rn to U. Authorities, They aes? the Cormoran, 3 PRIS ONERS,| ~ONTRAN BOUND FOR ThE BORDE 353 ARE lVessel Was ( “haed Into i by the Japs and Had Nar- | row Escape. (Continued on Second Page.) ABOUT TO BE SHAD AT GUAM. (For Racing Results See Page 2.) MASTER SPY TAKEN HERE IN ROUNDUP. ULS.AGENTSASSERT ; alia Catied| Germany's Chief Source of Information. 79, \IN COUNTRY 31 YEARS. “Very Dangerous” Associate Escaped—Crusade on Plotters Revealing Hidden Activities. R In the arrest this afternoon of Arthur E. Bielkowsky, years old, a former Heutenant in the seventy-nine Among the structures completely de- —_——— First Batch of 500 TroOps} cerman army, Federal agents say they. stroyed are tho main grand stand,| WASHINGTON, April t.—The Ger-/ Ariive Juare: N , ae 3 the stand of the United Hunts As-|man interned cruiser Cormoran has tives at Juarez at Noon veaee Rr OURGY oe: Bae, ane Jockey Club House |harbor at Guam, the Navy Depart a information in this country The Belmont Park Club House,/ment announced to-day, The ship! JUAREZ, Mexico, April Bight! During all these years Bielkowsky, while badly damaged by smoke and|was destroyed by the Germans us Carranza troop trains are en route] still a man of fine soldierly bearing water, None of the stables| United States marines were going to)from Chihuahua City to Juarez to-|espite his advaaced age, has been a partare se Vane cae weet proximately 4,900 de| UY!M& here on @ pension provided by wae d | seize the vessel Vine ADDED the German Government. Local at- According to Supt. Herman Pels, Two German warrant officers | fcto troops ording to an offtelall taches of the Department of Justice who was one of the first to reach the! and five German enlisted men | aancuncem de at military} regard his arrest as the most important scene, the fire was set in eight! are believed to have been killed, | headquarter that has been made since the work of *| places, and quickly gained such head-| Twenty German officers, twelve | The first train, with 500 men on] rounding up “dangerous aliens" began way that {t was found impossible for] warrant officers and 321 enlisted | 08rd, arrived in the railroad yards] following President Wilson's war the local fire forces to handle it. | men were taken prisoners. ut hoon proclamation falf a dozen circumstances worked! ‘phe Cormoran refused to gur-| General Frane Murguia, Com-| Blelkowsky was taken to the Fed eo the loss. The watohman| ranger to the American forces which | Mander of the De Facto troops, in the|eral Building by 8. A. Jentzen of the who discovered the blaze had to run! went to take possession of her North, is on the last of these trains | Vepartment of Justice and later to the Queens end of the Park to turn! ‘pe Navy Department tssucd this|®Ccording to unoffclal information, [locked up in the ‘Tombs, Beyond in the alarm, and the first firemen to] statement | The reason given here for the move- | stating Blelkowsky had been arrested arrive, volunteers from Elmont, under! «phe German auxilary cruiser ¢ ment was that an effort would be|in this city, the authorities would Chief Philip H. Hoffner, found the] moran was blown up tn the ha of | Made to prevent Villa from ach-|Kive no inform@tion as to where he water pressure so low as to be prac-| apra, Island of Guam, to-day by her|!nm the be vest of It] lived or the « against him | tically valueless. crew, sinking immediately. One war- | Ws said ps would Stories in circulation about August Belmont, owner » Parks! rant officer and one enlisted man ar aG huahua, take| Foderal Building were | then appealed to the New Yorke Cire] dead, one warrant officer and four ¢ Held against Villa that Blelkowsky has under Department, and Chief Kenton sent] iisted mon are miasing, twenty ¢ > spionage for some time, ‘Th three engine compantes from Jamatea| twelve warrant offi 82 | REDORTS OF GARRANZA'S It that he has frequently been and ther from Elmhurst listed men have been ma¢ isoners. | jseen in the company of a younger the Belmont and Carroll] “on Oct, 28, 1914, the etter! QVERTHROW NOT CONFIRMED |Sicr™ns (2° latter bone were threatened until Chief} called the Ocean Comber red the | the Federal agents as “very danger from Brooklyn, took charge} harbor of Apra, Island of Guam, in neue jous.”* und directed the fire fighters to turn | charge of Lieut. von Elpons of the Im-| Re-establishment of Communication| A Seon as Attorney General Gr thelr lines from the grand stand to! nerial German navy. The boat and With Mes ‘ gory ordered Un ‘ ne le A numb of horses | arty of tir ane aan? atives | th Mexico City Reveal arrest the f he noved ag @ precautionary | of New Guinea had been at sea for a No Fighting There German su The tire Was ouneiiaoes ts ]iong time, having left 8. Mt 8 ae WASHINGTON, April 7—Commu-| the country BER As Pre moran for the purpose of sending @] nication re-cstat 1 tay “hee | Seneeraue anim to San Franeiseo for sux [tween Mex Washington | “YS [pn Whi date katers ; air a Cree | he data’ot was Oct. 12] revealed © Mexican | W?Mt after Hielkowsl The y Me, d the location of the Cormoran wa und didn firm the re, | 40 wot away and t Ls , ' t disclosed. Permission was not! port Gen, ( za had boen| et ers and’men were int : inf was st ‘On Dee, 14, 1914, the ( nau ny Accord ng. Th ) that it can, and ask ng “pernataaton to enter f ml s damage there hav ing been|enter and the commanding « " i hecked. 1 United | y the Governo: RS Twos i aun x ait Commanding OMiver Juckschwerdt | | . f |« : lent to} stated that he had just come from ths vers and Maps F y re South Seas and wag short of coai,| Suspe Are S 4 Racing Assoc had only about fifty tons on board! * t ae 1 of! and requested 1,500 tons of coal and} ‘ shake Vin ar Feaponaibie | provisions to reach his nearest home| # u show |port in German Kast Africa, The ¥ aw nish only 200 tons of coal and thirty) Headaua v vf MAY BE FIXED BY U, S, 3°" ys vrei The Commar Officer was t rn ave & inon 1 4,at 10 A. Mat \ i Command om H . ‘ > main in 4 1 site et WASHINGTON, April 7.—The pos- | personnel wert ¢ ' elative ‘ t sibility that the Federal Trade Com-| "The following w ’ , A ’ prisonera ta ok pers Bn te nission will be designated to f Twenty-one officers, one midshipma " ters oda met ¢ son foodstuffs and a t n deck officers, t teers wtru bpd es ¢ and men, four Chinese and twenty | a et. One n had : \steamer in the Russian ear| jetns . ‘ H apy } ie fleet, was captured early int net aes tial : TRAINING (ing of Aug. 3 by 8. 3. M belug ‘ Head a ordered 1 here ie a pure food arses — report line of travel, which is just off the Nantucket shoals, NANTUCKET ————- po ———__—_— SHIPS AT SEA ARE WARNED OF COMMERCE DESTROYERS; OTHERS ARE HELD IN PORTS. Boston Naval Officials Say Craft Sighted Near Scene of Sinking of Six Vessels by U-53 Is of 10,000 Tons and Painted Slate Color. BELIEVED TO BE GERMAN WARSHIP IN DISGUISE NEWPORT, R. I., April 7.—A German sea raider was officially re- ported off Nantucket at 7.40 o'clock this morning. The Deputy Col- lector of Customs warned all shipping not to leave port until further notice, The raider, according to information received by Deputy Collector of Customs Wolcott, was bound west. The name of the ship or station which sent the report was not revealed. A number of destroyers are on patrol off the coast. The raider was directly in the lane for west-bound shipping and not more than 200 miles by the usual course from New York. She appeared to be of about 10,000 tons and some shipping men who heard this description expressed the opinion that she was an armored cruiser dis- guised as a merchantman, | OUTPOST FOR WEST-BOUND SHIPPING. Nantucket Lightship, the outpost for west-bound shipping, is an- his |chored 45 miles east by south of Nantucket Island and 90 miles east eftect }ef Newport. It is 193 miles east of Ambrose Channel Lightship, at the entrance to New York Harbor, It is stationed between the west-bounJ and the lane for east-bound vessels, The Lightship twenty miles south of the sho: ea by|marks the turning point for west-bound craft heading in for Newport and New York, The raider was holding the regulation course and would have been ya} within easy striking distance of outward-bound shipping. It was almost within hailing distance of the Nantucket Shoal Light- hip that the German submarine U-53 sank six ships on Oct. 8. The U-53 operated in the steamship lane travelled by vessels from New York ind Boston to European ports Word that the raider was approaching the | great activity in naval circles, although New England coast caused plans for dealing with the enemy vere not made public. The Collector of Customs made every effort to get in touch at once with shipping agents at other ports to warn them of he danger. | VESSEL OF ABOUT 10,000 TON. BOSTON, April 7.—The following message was received to-day at the Boston Navy Yard from the Nantucket Lightship: “Commerce raider passed Nantucket Shoals Lightship, bound west, al 7.40," Naval officials here reported that the as painted slate color. Her si. raider had two masts, a large tack and w was reported as about 10,000 There is no confirmation of a report that two fishing trawlers from ms port were sunk by the raider, NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 7.—The presence of a German ralder ff the Virginia ¢ tticlally reported here to-day. A seage ing tug ea to warn all coming vessels and ipes was nas been de hed to muitgoing to turn back. The t ) itgoing g is equipped with wire- n e to reach all ships in danger zone Capt. Schotield of the American steamer Matoa, now ding here, h uted that the master of the tug called on 40 A. M. and ordered him to remain in the r until fu NAVAL PATROLS SEARCH FOR RAIDERS. WASHINGTON, April 7.—Reports of German commerce raiders Atlantic flashed along the seaboard to-day and all shipping while naval patrols went out to establish the iden. rey he lanes me from Nantucket Li; Vessel, which saw a est and promptly feported it to the Boston Navy im a Was passing out about her notice. ports were near t |