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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10
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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10
LITTLE PRINCESS DEAD,
LOVER BLACkMAlR
Ex.couv;ct Threatened Sweetheart's
Father with Exposure Of Her
Letters.
FoILs POLICE, THEN IS FoiLED

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Milan. May IA daring attempt 10
bl.chmail Prince Emanuela Gonzasa by
threatening to publish . batch OF love
letters written by his daughter, VINO died
IN her teens about two years ago. was
exposed here today.
The prince recently received telephone
message from some unknown person. who
demanded sufacient funds to enable him
to emiGrate to the United States and start
q fresh career.
A threat was made that unless the
prince complied, the unknown would
publish a quantity of compromising love
letters from the pen Of Princess Eliza
beth.
An appointment was made. and pune
tualIy q mysterious individuai, smaruy
dressed. drove up to the princes palace
in a motorcar. Apparently seeming
danger. however. he merely delivered into
Prince Gonzaga's hands packet OF
twenty-eight letters. saying the prince
could peruse them In his leisure.
The stranger then politely took leave.
and the police, who were hidden In an
adjacent apartment, were unable to act
since no attempt at blackmail had been
made.
The same evening. however. the strang-
er rang up the prince on the telephone.
requesting . prompt decision. and stat
ing that the epistles handed to him were
only the most innocent and least fmpor-
tant of a vast collection which were
actually in the press
The police thereupon arrested the
blackmailer. q man named Gaetano
Freni, from Palermo, Sicily. at whose
house were seized $50 original letters in
the princess handwriting. The whole
stock Of printed copies were ready for
issue.
The hero Of the romance Is an ex-
convict who has done several terms OF
penal servitude for forgery and embez-
element.
His handsome physique and fascinat-
ing ways had enchanted the young Prin-
cess Her illness and her lovers de-
tention In prison. however. frustrated an
elopement and a secret marriage abroad
which Freni had plotted As an induce
ment to the family to come to terms and
make liberal provision for the ill-sorted
pair.
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|" White Cross Elem Oper Shippers
Firing From Church and Hospital
Teachery Told Mail Dispatch The
erads CORRESPONDENTS Lie Costs Lives of Several
Jackes-Mosquhoes and Sand Flies Now Most
Serious Menace to American Sailors
and Marines.

Was closed UP in the Capital. published
its firpt Vera Cruz edition. giving the
Americans here an English newspaper
for the first time In the history OF
Vera Cruz And never was . Newspaper
more greedily sought, for IL carried the
first news any Of US had had from the
States since the landing on TUESDAY.
There was little enough. but all were
grateful for that little.
II was determined today that American
forces would establish martial law here
because of the unwilIingness Of city and
State onicials to resume their pubic
functions Tomorrow Admiral Fletcher
will issue q proclamation announcing
this determination.
Despite a conscientious effort on the
part Of patrols to clear arms and am
munition from all houses, It u quite
evident that thousands of rifles and large
quantities Of ammunition remain In and
about the city. hidden In preparation Tor
sudden action. AS a warning of drastic
action to follow, a proclamation tonight
instructa all natives to bring TO the
provost marshal before noon tomorrow an
arms and ammunition in their possession.
Treaeherous Attack.
Most Of the sniping has stopped. but
II still Is unsafe to stand in front OF
window. We have had no men injured
since Thursday. but many have been
shot at and several Mexicans have paid
with their lives for their treacherous at
tacks After tonight Mexicans found
with arms In their possession VIII be
dealt with summarily. The military
forces are Just beginning to realize how
carefully Mas planted the city with
arms and men before Withdrawing. and
how little the rules of civilized warfare
and the Geneva convention count with
those we have to deal with here In
one instance faith in the word Of the
priests of the big cathedral cost the lives
of several men, Assured by these priests
that there were no "snipers" In the
tower which commands the central por-
ton of the city, officers from the Utah
refrained from Smelling the tower until
having reached an open space, they met
a deadly fire from this point, fire
which cost several lives before It could
be silenced
Another instance OF the same brand Of
treachery brought about an exchange OF
shots last night when a patrol OF Michi-
gan bluejackets was fired upon for the
second time from the contagious ward
Of the Spanish hospital. An investiga-
ton today ELECTED the information that
snipers had been using this shelter for
several nights.
The White Cross. which corresponds
to our Red Cross, has been worked to
conceal treachery regularly. One Mex
lean with a wooden leg concealed
twenty soldiers under a white cross
flag until an unexpected search reveal
ed some thirty rifles and $4,000 rounds
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Of ammunition. "Peg-les" ayen had
several hundred rounds Of Mauser ann
munitfon concealed in his hollow leg.
He was buried in a trench today. This
afternoon a Utah patrol stopped q
White Cross party carrying a sup
posed corpse under a sheet on a
stretcher. They were bound for the
outskirts An examination of the
corpse" disclosed a much alive hom-
bre with rife. side arms and ammuni-
ton.
With marine and bluejacket regi-
mental organizations In smooth work.
ing order. supplies going out to the
men at their various posts, and much
of the confusion which marked the first
two days and nights Strengthened out.
the men are beginning to enjoy their
camp and barracks life. With the ex-
ception of small details at the southern
end of the hills which command tho
city, all the bluejackets are quartered
In buildings in or near the city. Some
Of these quarters are excellently adapt
ed to the use being made of them.
Others are not so comfortable.
Two Automobiles Commandments.
Perhaps the heaviest sufferers from
the American occupation are the own
ers of horses and vehicles which were
Communicated during the first three
days before the quartermaster's de-
partment got busy and authorized the
issuance OF !. o. us to owners whose
property was taken Nearly every
available riding horse has been taken
for stan officers, orderlies and mes
senGers. In addition the only two
automobiles in sight have been taken
over, one for the use OF Admiral
Fletcher and the other for the Arkan-
sas headquarters
Although there is a good deal OF small
pox in and about the city, little fear is
entertained for our men on this score.
On the way down men on all ships were
examined and those who had not been
treated previously were vaccinated and
inoculated- So far as can be learned
from health authorities here, there has
been no considerable spread of smallpox
recently. Physicians are advising vacci-
nation for all who have not been treated
recently. however
The most serious menace to the health
and comfort of the men is from insects.
Mosquitoes are thick and effective
and those men encamped in the hills and
outskirts of the city have in addition 10
contend with the Mexican sand tick.
whose sting is quite as dangerous as
that Of the mosquito. and quite as IN
pleasant. The mosquito is dangerous as
a typhoid and maleria carrier. the tick
as a carrier of typhus fever, a form OF
spotted fever not quite as dangerous as
the Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
The bluejackets are given every op-
portunity to battle frequently and change
their linen, being run out to their ships
in small attachments when bathing
facilities are not available. AS rapidly
as possible the men are being furnished
with regulation size MOSQUITO NETTING.
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Say Duty Exemption at Vera Cruz
Would Eliminate Military Problem
Business Make Commercial Advantage
Occupation That Goods Made in the United States Be
Free of Duty As in Cuba-WouM Give
Our Predomnance Over European

to let him get his troops out Of town.
Mas himself has no stomach Tor
fight under ordinary conditions. Now.
with overwhelming American forces In
front of him and no support from Huerta,
he is expected either to ask for amnesty
or to leave the state for service In the
North against the constitutionalists.
Mas Is reputed here to be q great per-
sonal coward. On trial for murder In
his younger days, he made the plea that
he had killed his man because he was
"crazed by fear" Huerta has announced
comfortably that the taking Of Vera
Cruz Is a state matter, one for Gen.
Mas to handle. and not one about which
Huerta should concern himself.
The Deposed Governor.
Introducing the newest and latest in
civil governors. Mr.. Robert ]. Kerr, of
Chicago and elsewhere. civil governor
under the military occupation Of Vera
Cruz and vicinity, by American naval
and military forces. appointed just yes
terday afternoon. taking the oath with
a promptness that would have done
credit to a Democratic appointee.
Beyond his title, we know little of
Mr.. Kerr's duties. Perhaps he knows
more. Mr.. Kerr Is a man who gives the
impression of knowing something,
without feeling that he knows every
thing. He Is big. but not fat: bald. but
not old; smooth faced, clear eyed, thor
oughly reassuring in appearance.
Also, Mr.. Governor Kerr Is uncommuni-
oative without being unpleasant about
It. He doesn't talk unless he has some
thing to say. At present. having been
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10
RUSSIAN PRIEST ATTACKS
U. S. IMMIGRANT SYSTEM
Father Chotowitzky. a Former New
Yorker. Says His Orthodox Coun-
trymen Are Denied Privileges.

Special Gable 10 Ths Washington Herald.
st. Petersburg. May 9.-Father Alexan-
der Chotowitsky. former pastor OF the
Russian orthodox church in New York.
who returned here recently from the
United States. in speaking before q large
audience on his Impressions Of America,
startled his hearers with his views re-
garding the treatment Of Russians in the
United States.
Abiding to the fact that there are 200
orthodox churches and parishes In the
United States. owning property amount
ing to q. 900 00o he attacked the system
whereby Russian immigrants are deprived
of the privileges belonging to American
subjects from the time Of their arrival
in the United States Father Choto-
whisky attributed this to the persistence
of the Russian government In creating
difficulties for American Jews returning
to Russia He praised the American
government for the tolerance shown Rus
slams concerning the free exercise OF
their religious faith and also advocated
the establishment in New York Of q
home for Russian immigrants.
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civil governor for something over four
hours, he has little to say.
Gov. Kerr IL widely known in Mexico.
He is lawyer Of accomplishment and
has handled great many important
American claims and legal cases. He
undertook and carried through q task
which the Mexican legal lights have
shirked for years-the codification of the
laws Of Mexico. Kerr il a tremendous
worker, heat or no heat He can work
with or without his coat and look Just
as cool with as without He still MAIN
tains q central law ONCE in Chicago, but
II has been for years a feeder to his
Mexican practice. Incidentally. Mr.. Kerr
was appointed to his new job by Admiral
Fletcher. His political affiliations, II he
has any, have not been generally dis
covered here as yet.
Kerr stood at the elbow of Admiral
Fletcher throughout the trying first days
Of the occupation. He has an intimate
knowledge and fine sympathetic under
standing Of the characteristic and meth
DDS Of thought Of these people here. and
the wise course taken by the American
forces to restore public confidence was
no doubt to a considerable extent due
to his advice.
1t was by Mr.. Kerr's advice that every
effort was made to restore old civil gov
eminent before martial law was pro-
claimed. When this was found imprac-
ticable because the state officials would
not come back to their Jobs. Mr.. Kerr
suggested the course which, II Is hoped.
will bring about somewhat the same re-
suits by indirection.
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To Cut Mexico in THO
Only Way to End Strife
People of Norh Progressive Hate the Reactonay South
and Only Solution Of Problem Is Formation of Northern
Republic and Southern Oigarchy

Vera Cruz, May S-The consensus OF
opinions here is that the only solution OF
Mexico's internal problem. irrespective of
the countrys relations with other ma
tons. is the division OF Mexico into q
Northern republic and Southern oil
garchy. Since long before Porfirio Diaz
there has been constant conflict between
the Northern and Southern halves OF
Mexico. Diaz, the strong man. quelled
II with his iron fist, but he has gone.
and the old, Iong-smoldering fire has
again burst into fame.
With . new leaven of freedom alb
sorbed from its sons who have been In
the United States and have returned
with tales Of the liberty and fruitful
labor they have enjoyed, the North has
been constantly Strengthening itself and
steadily growing away from the South
in both customs and ideas The result
Is that the people of the North hate the
South. and their hatred is returned. The
population of the North is mainly half
breed Indians, with Caucasian blood pre-
dominating. And they have not been held
under the despot's heel as the poems Of
the South, who have been crushed into
tempermental subserviency by the strong
oligarchy Of wealth which holds all the
power. the land, the money, the stock
In short everything at all worth hold
ing.
North Restlessy South Apathetic.
The North is restless and rugged: the
South, spineless and apathetic: the North
is progressive, as witness the efforts of
Villa and other revolutionists: the South
reactionary. The North is independent;
the South, inclined toward foreign or
European financial domination. 1t was the
Southern reactionaries who supported
Maximillian, while the Northerners were
Diaz's mainstay in overthrowing the at
tempted French empire. II was the same
element in the South which recently
sought joint European Intervention, hav-
ing planted concessions in advance for
that purpose.
The same people now turn in hope to
American Intervention: would be glad
dened by a division of the country. with
the United States to keep the North in
order, leaving them to set up another
iron-heeled oligarchy. The feeling even
extends to Huerta's army officers. whose
greatest fear IL that American interven-
ton will strengthen Carranza, Villa, and
the Northern constitutionalists and de-
prive them of their jobs. II not their
lives.
Talk Of united Mexican opposition to
the United States Is not regarded serf-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10
ANCIENT CITY giving
WONDERS To SCIENCE
Baths of Ostia. Near Rome. Disclose
Beautiful Mosaics-Customs Of
Dead Ages Shown.
PROPOSE GREAT SEAPORT TOWN

Rome. May 3-while agitation is going
on for the construction of a great seaport
at ostia. interesting discoveries are be-
ing made on this site. which is at the
mouth of the Tiber, few miles from
Rome.
Like other classic remains. in the Mid
die Ages Ostia became stone quarry
and limekiln for the builders of the time,
some of its fragments being found as far
away as the magnificent thirteenth
century Cathedral of Orvieto and at
Pisa. Unlike Pompeii. place OF luxury
and amusement few villa residences have
up TO the present been discovered at
Ostia, but most of the houses were such
as would have been inhabited by business
people The lines of the city are Ameri-
can in their straightness and regularity.
There are traces of five or six bathing
establishments in Ostia. The chief baths
take up a whole block. and there are to
be found splendid mosaics OF the second
century. while even the room which is
supposed to have been the porter's lodge
has a mosaic pavement.
Near the baths to the north are the
barracks of the vigiles, under the site OF
which there were evidently formerly other
baths. The vigiles, or firemen, were a
branch of those in Rome. and were spe-
cially needed at Ostia- where so much
grain was brought for the supply of the
capital.
One of the most beautiful parts of old
Ostis is the theater. This was evidently
the commercial center of the town, and
near by are the small rooms which were
the offices of the various corporations.
The tanners. the boatmen. the weighers
Of graln and many others had their place
for conducting business there. and the
figures represented in the mosaics Of the
floors prove with what places. such as
Spain. Egypt, and Tripoli. Ostia traded.
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that Carranza has stood of. hoping to
better his status through Huerta's weak
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OF Dionysius," which will make Its de-
but in Sicily.
For the "Agamemnon" Just produced
the mise-en-scene was rebuilt in wood
and stucco in the most perfect taste
and in keeping with traditions. II rep
resents the agora OF ancient Argos, with
the wall of Agamemnon surrounding II
and the chief characters made their
entree through an opening modelled after
the lions gate Mycene.
The chorus, which stood in the center
Of the hemicycle. exactly represented
the ancients of Argos surrounding an
altar to Dionysus. Any one who has
heard q Greek chorus In the land of its
origin can imagine how superb was the
singing in such surroundings.
Liverpool now imports fresh asparagus
from the United States.
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BONIFACES FEAR
pinch OF Dull SUMMER
Mexican Imbrogio Keeps Americans
Home and Hotel Bookings Are
Below Usual.
HosTESsES, HOWEVER, BUSY

Paris, NAV s.-with the travel barom-
eter again down this week. SO far as the
arrival of Americans Is concerned. Faris
hotel men are beginning to take a gloomy
view Of summer prospects. Bookings are
away below the average and the general
PREDICTION now is that the Mexican i'm
brogIio will keep at home thousands OF
Americans who usually spend their Vaca-
ton on this side.
On the other hand. American hostesses
are having the busiest time Of the year.
The United States Ambassadors wife,
Mrs Myron T. Herrick. resumed her
weekly receptions on Thursday.
Mrs Whitney Hoff gave a brilliant
musical matinee this week. whereat
Fritz Kreisler was engaged at a high Zee
to play the violin before about 100 guests.
including Mrs. Herrick. the Duke and
Duchess de Talleyrand (nee Could. Mrs.
John w. Mackay. and her daughter, the
Princess Stigliano Colonna: Mrs. L. II.
Hartman, the Countess Coetlogen NEE
Blake. of New York;. and Mrs. Ruthven
Pratt.
Senator Leicester Peck Of New York
had a dozen friends at breakfast party
at the Ritz. and Bernard J. Shoninger
entertained at his Avenue Hoche resi-
dence the members of the committee Of
the international congress OF chambers
Of commerce. Other guests included Am
bassador Herrick. Consul General Thack-
ara, Charles II. Sheriff.. and Julien
Stevens UIman. of New York.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. John Ridley,
L. s. n, and their three sons have left
Maurice on a motor trip TO South Ger
many
Mrs. w. B. Leeds has left the Ritz,
London. with her son.
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By JOSEPH P. ANNIN.
Staff Correspondent Of The Wash
ingtou Herald.

Vera Cruz, May lit In hard to realize
that this is the same city into which our
troops poured Tuesday and Wednesday
in the face of q scattered fire from sew
eral hundred advantageous points. Ex-
cept for the presence of our bluejackets
and officers on the streets during the
day, Vera Cruz bears every resemblance
to the average Latin-American seaboard
city.
The naval authorities have taken hold
and are planning to construct an entirely
new civil structure. Debris Is being
cleared away, carts manned BY blue
Jackets are cleaning up the streets. street
car crews have been treasured and start
ed back to work. and the streets are al
most as crowded during the early morn
ing and late afternoon as under normal
conditions.
The confidence of the public rapidly is
being restored through the conduct of
the men as well as the assurances Of
fered by Admiral Fletcher. The attitude
OF the enlisted men has been above re-
proach. As far as I have been able to
ascertain, there has been but one case Of
drunkenness among the more than 5000
men chartered In and about the city.
The storekeepers, having opened up for
business. apparently feel safer in leaving
their stores wide open during the night.
to be guarded by bluejackets. than in
locking them up. Nothing which could
be characterized fairly as looting has oc-
CURED. while the picketing of the city at
night has thrown the fear Of the law into
the hearts Of the lswless element. who
wish nothing better than to profit by the
misfortunes OF their compatriots.
Streets Kept Clear.
Since Wednesday, citizens have been
required to stay of the streets after
: 30 in the evening. OF course. this rule
is not ironclad. but applied to Mexicans
of the lower class and who can have no
business around after shutdown. 1t makes
the task much more simple. The plaza
in front OF the city hall and police station
is always crowded until later. and the
cafes under the portales facing on two
sides OF the plaza are crowded through
out the day. doing a rushing business in
food and drinks.
Never, perhaps. has Vera Cruz borne
SO cosmopolitan an aspect as now. Amert-
cans, English. French, German and Span
,sh. most of them refugees from Mexico
City, are to be seen everywhere. The
plaza is the common rendezvous. par
ticularly during the daily band concert.
in the furnishing Of which the ships take
turns. Yesterday the first Mexican
through the streets and eagerly bought
through the treets and eagerly bought
up. and today the Mexican Herald. which