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Middletown transcript., 1915-08-07
JOINT ACTION IS
NOW PROBABLE.
U. S. Asks Cooperation Of Latin
America In Mexico.
PRESIDENT TO SHOW HAND
Presidents Plan For Settlement OF
Troubles Expected To Be cOnsid-
cred At Meeting OF Dlplo-
matte Representatives.

Washington.-The Mexican problem
took an entirely new and most signifi-
cant turn when 1t was announced here
that the entire situation will be dis
cussed at conference to be held this
week between officials Of tile State
Department and diplomatic represen-
tatives of Central and South American
republics.
The following official statement was
given out at the State Department this
evening:
There will be a conference at the
State Department to consider the
Mexican situation. Those taking part
in the conference will be ambassadors
from Brazil, Argentine and Chile, and
the three ranking ministers of the
South American republics, namely
those Of Bolivia, Uruguay and Guate-
mala.
"As to the details, which will be
considered, nothing can be said at the
present time, as the conference will be
entirely confidential"
Wilson's Warning Recalled.
The conference is the step Presi-
dent Wilson and the Cabinet had in
mind when a few weeks ago a state
ment was issued to the American peo-
pie on the Mexican situation, and in
tended for the information of the
Mexican leaders themselves. This
statement declared in forceful Ian
guage that the patience Of the United
States was becoming exhausted with
three years of revolution and chaos,
and that unless the Mexican leaders
themselves found some way to accom-
modate their differences the United
States, as Mexico's next friend and
neighbor, would be constrained to de-
eide what means should be employed
to restore peace.
Joint Action Expected.
1t is believed here the conference
has been called for one of four pur-
poses:
First-In order that the United
States may lay before the Central and
South American governments the pos
sible necessity of this government
sending a column to the relief Of Mex
leo City, primarily to keep the lines
of communication open.
Second-To submit to the Latin
American republics the suggestion
that a joint and final appeal be. made
to the Mexican factions to get to
gether, to obviate the necessity of in
tervention.
Third-To consider the advisability
Of recognizing the Carranza factor
and extending to it the moral support
Of North, Central and South America
Fourth-To consider a plan for fu
ture action, looking to the settlement
Of Mexico's affairs, devised by Presi
dent Wilson. but not yet made public
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ENGLAND STANDS
BY ACTS At SEA
Will Keep On Holding Up Our
Ships.
AMERICAN WAR PRECEDENTs
Various Notes In Reply To American
Protests Maintain That British
Orders In Council Are In Ac-
cord With international Law.

Washington. Brftain's re-
plies to the latest American represen-
tations against interferences with
neutral commerce reject entirely the
contention that the orders in council
are illegal and justify the British
course as being wholly within interna-
ttonal law.
"Unsustainable either in point Of
law or upon principles of international
equity" is the British reply to the
American protest against the block
ade Of neutral ports, with an invita-
ton to submit to international arbitra-
ton any cases in which the United
States is dissatisfied with the action
Of British prize courts.
Publication by the State Department
of the notes exchanged between the
United States and Great Britain
relative to these matters discloses the
bald fact that, for any immediate re-
lief, the Washington Government is up
against stone wall.
Points To German Aets.
Great Britain stands firmly by the
orders in council. Every measure
taken by her naval commanders under
these orders in holding up American
commerce to and from the neutral
countries contiguous to Germany she
seeks to justify. And just as Germany
has sought justification for her sub
marine warfare against merchant
ships in the illegal practices of Great
Britain, so Great Britain seeks justin
cation for procedure in the illegal acts
of Germany. Stripped of their diplo-
matte verbiage, the communications
Of Sir Edward Grey to United States
Ambassador Page amount to fiat re-
fusal to agree to the demands of the
United States Government, except in
so far as they hold out the prospect
of the questions at issue being at some
time in the future submitted to an in
ternational commission Of arbitration.
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JUDGE lands
SEXES EASTLAND
Action Puts Vessel in Charge
Of U. S. Government.
MORE BODIES DISCOVERED
Secretary RsdHeld Continues Tech
nieaI Inqulry-company Officials
Not Allowed To Obtain
Immunity.

Chicago. = Federal Judge Landis,
exercising the power of his off1ce.
issued an order seizing in the name Of
the United States Government the
overturned steamer Eastland,. on
which more than 1000 lives we're lost,
The action of Judge Lands was the
most drastic taken by any official since
the disaster. 1t was as unexpected as
it was drastic.
The order placed the Eastland
wholly in the hands of the Federal au-
thorities and lifted the matter of In
vestigation and rescue of bodies from
the sunken hull of the vessel out of
the hands of the police and the State
authorities, except in so far as Judge
Lands may direct their activities.
Bodies In Engine Room.
More bodies of victims of the catas-
trophe, probably not more than 10 and
maybe as many as so, we're discov-
cred in the hull of the Eastland.
Far down in the engine room of the
boat divers came upon the forms of
men, women and children, wedged so
tightly together it was impossible to
count them. The bodies had been
pushed down between the machinery
of the vessel and the boilers.
RedfIeId Conducts Probe.
With a Congressional investigation
of the disaster threatened, the Federal
grand jury began taking evidence and
Secretary of Commerce William c.
Redfield went ahead with his tech
nicap investigation. The first wit
nesses called before the Federal grand
jury were Jack Clark, lookout, and
Joe Conrad, an oiler, of the Eastland's
crew.
Congressman A. ]. SABBATH an
nounced before Secretary Redfeld's
inquiry board began its session that
unless the Secretary's probe went as
deep as possible into the facts bear
ing on the Eastland disaster he would
demand Congressional investigation.
William H. Hull, vice-president anG
general manager of the st. Joseph
Chicago Steamship Company, owner of
the Eastland, and Walter G. Steele,
secretary-treasurer Of the company,
will not be allowed to testify before
the special Federal Grand Jury.
Their testimony before the Federal
inQuisitors, in case they were per-
mitted to give it, would automatically
render them immune from indictment
by this grand jury.
Body No. 1896, the little feller." as
the tiny form was spoken Of by police.
men who stood guard over it at the
Second Regiment Armory and later at
Sheldon's morgue, was Identified as
that of Willie Novotny g years old,
whose father and mother also went
down with the Eastland. The identi-
fication was made by two playmates of
the lad, and later confirmed by Willie's
grandmother, Mrs. Agnes Martenek.
Willie's body will be buried with
military honors and every troop of Boy
Scouts in the city will be represented
in the line that will follow No. 396 to
his grave.
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FIFTY MILLIONS
A DAY FOR WAR
Startling Review From Finan-
CiaI Standpoint
EFFECT ON WARRING NATIONS
The National City Bank, Which Issues
the Review, Sees In the War
the Need OF Greater
Economy Here.

New York.-How the world stands
from financial viewpoint after year
of war is ably set forth in a review
issued by the National City Bank:
1.-The war expenditures have equalled
the most extravagant predictions"
says the review, the fighting has been
continuous and the casualties appall-
ing, but the results signify practically
nothing as to when the conflict will
end. There are no signs that either
side is running out of men or money,
or that the people of any Of the war
ring countries are weakening in reso-
luton or confidence"
The review continues:
THE developments of the war it.
self have shown the futility Of annex
ing hostile populations; they cannot
be dispossessed of the territory or
compelled to be loyal citizens, and
while they swell the volume of do
mestic trade and pay taxes, they cost
at least as much as they contribute.
known as much year ago as they
know now it is safe to say that the
peace would not have broken, and if
they could know now as much as they
will year hence it is probable that a
peace conference would not be long
deferred. 1t is safe to say that the
national debts, which must be earned
by taxation, have more than doubled.
Accepting as a fact that Great
Britain's cash expenditures, recently
stated to be $15,000,000 a day, are
larger than those of any other country.
the review says:
THE expenditures of the German
government are probable next to those
of Great Britain. The government
has realized $S,49O, 100000 by means
of two loans, which it is understood
will carry the war into the coming
fall, but as its expenditures have been
growing it is probable that they are
now as much as $10,OOO,OoO per day.
Altogether the estimate of $5O.000,00O
per day for the outlays of all the gov
ernments is seen not to be improbable.
1.-THE London Economist gives the
rate of daily pay for private soldier
as one shilling two pence for Great
Britain, one-half pence for France and
two and one-half pence for Germany.
Summing up the wars effect upon
the worlds commerce the review esti
mates the total efficiency at about 75
per cent. of normal. About 100000
tons of shipping have been destroyed
Although this is only 2 per cent. oi
the total, the entire loss 20 CONNER
cial service, including ships internet
and commandeered for wal service, IL
approximately Is per cent.
Great Britain, under the circum
stances, has maintained her foreign
trade very WELL Her exports of do
mestic production in the month o
June amounted to $166, 100000 which
compares with $199, 100000 in June
1914, or falling of Of about 16h pc
cent
The war is teaching the people o
] Europe economy. The most import
ant lesson for this country which tn
National City Bank sees III the war i
the need of greater economy here.
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RUSSIA TO FIGHT.

Petrograd. = The following state
'ment concerning the conclusion of the
Grst year of the war was prepared by
n. Polivanoff, Russian Minister Of
War:
my opinion, in a few words, after
one years duration of this war, un-
precedented in the worlds annals, is
as follows:
'The enemy is strong and cruel, and
that is the very reason why Russia
and her heroic allies must continue
the war-should 1t last for several
years-until the enemy is completely
crushed"
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To Hunt "cranky" Ships.

ashington.-Reports having reached
the Department of Commerce that
other cranky passenger ships, besides
the Eastland, are operating on the
Great Lakes, department officials
stated that special inspection of all
such craft in these waters will begin
shortly.
The need of naval architect in the
inspection service to inspect all designs
for new ships will be brought to the
attention Of Congress. it was added.
The so-called hull experts" have
none Of them, 1t was stated, any ex-
perience in naval architecture, the
training of most of them having been
confined to navigation solely.
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JAP CABINET RESIGNS.
Minister OF Interior and Others Ac-
cused OF Bribery.

Toxic. = The Japanese Cabinet,
headed by Count Okuma as Premier,
has rendered it's resignation to EN-
peror Yoshihito. This action, follow
ing the resignation of Viscount Kan
stake Oura, Minister of the Interior,
grew out of an investigation by the
Ministry of Justice into bribery
charges resulting from the Parlia-
mentary elections last March. Wis
count Oura's resignation was sanction
ed by the Emperor after report on
the situation had been made to him
by Count Okuma.
Premier Okuma, believing he should
hold himself responsible for the acts
Of the members Of his Cabinet, was
the first to tender his resignation. The
other Ministers Immediately decided
to follow the example of their chief
After receiving Count Okuma the En-.
peror summoned the Elder Statesmen
for a conference.
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to $1,164 900, yielded on account of the
depressed condition of the lumber in.
dustry about $4,000 less than in the
previous year, but the gain was made
possible by large revenues from other
sources.
The grazing receipts, which totaled
5000, increased $4,000 over last
year and the water-power receipts,
which amounted to not quite $4,000
showed an increase Of nearly $42, 900.
Bubonic plague follows the estab-
lished routes of travel.
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MUST NOT TAMPER WITH FLAG.
Peace Societies May Not Sew White
Borders On Old Glory.

Des Moines, Iowa.-Reoent display
of an American flag with a white bor-
der around it by a society at Fort
Dodge, Iowa, interested in world
peace caused Attorney-General Cosson
to instruct Fort Dodge authorities to
take action if the display 10 repeated.
Complaints were made by Grand Army
of the Republic veterans of Fort
Dodge, who declared the act as much
a desecration of the flag as if border
of red had been sewed around it,
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NO PEACE TALK
FROM ANY NATION
Military Critics in Each Land
Give War Reviews
NO WEAKENING ANYWHERE
England VIII Go On, Declares Grey.
Russia Takes Same View, While
Germany Expresses Salts
faction.

Reviews OF the year of the war OBJ
tained from representative authorities
Of the different belligerent nations in
dicate no weakening anywhere in the
determination to fight on until victory
IL won. Germany, Of course, and
France are the most sanguine of the
outcome. Sir Edward Grey, speaking
for Britain, and M. Polivanoff, for Rus
Sia. are more guarded in their state
ments, but no less determined in their
resolve that the war must go on.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-07
TURK MASSACRE TOLD OF.

5000 Armenian Women and Children
Shot and Thrown In River.
Paris.-B. Varazdate, a member of
the committee Of the Armenian Social
Democratic party, writing to rHu-
mantle, says the committee has re-
ceived word that Turks, after massa-
creing all the males of the population
in the region of Bitlis, Turkish Ar
menia, assembled $4,000 women and
children and drove them to the banks
of the Tigris, where they shot them
and threw the bodies into the river.
These advices have not been substan-
tiated from any other source. a.,
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NEW PLANT FOR Du POINTS.
Three Now At carneys Point Unable
To Fill Powder Orders.

PENIS Grove, N. J.-It was stated
that the Du Point Powder Company
will begin shortly the construction Of
a fourth plant at CaTneys Point, on
the Delaware river. Ten thousand
men are now employed at the three
other plants which are making smoke
less powder for the United States and
the Allies. 1t is said the present
plants are unable to fill the large num-
ber of orders on hand.
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POWDER MAKERS GET RAISE.

Hercules Company cIVss Old EN-
pIoyes 20 Per Cent. Increase.
Wilmington, Del. - The Hercules
Powder Company announced an in
crease of 20 per cent. in the wages Of
all employees who have heen in the
service of the company Is days. The
Hercules Company was one of those
separated from the Du Pont Company
as a result of the Governments anti
trust suit against the Du Point cor
poration. 1t has several plants and
a large number Of men are employed.
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KATE MAsTERsoN TO ASYLUM.
Writer and Playwright Said To Have
Delusions.

New York.-Kate Masterson, news
paper and magazine writer and play
wright and a sister Of Supreme Court
Justice Kelly, of Brooklyn, was COM
mitted to Bloomingdale for treatment.
She was sent to Bellevue Hospital two
days ago on application of her brother,
who stated that she was suffering from
delusions that she was being perse
cuted.
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poINcAIRE DEcoRArEs ALBERT.
Says 5eloium's Cause Is lndlssoIubIy
Linked With Frances.

Paris.-President Poincaire during
q visit to the King and Queen OF Bel
gium at the village of Loo. the occa-
sion being the FIRST anniversary of the
German ultimatum to Belgium, con-
ferred upon King Albert the decora-
ton Of the Cross Of War. At the same
time M. Poincaire said that France
considered Belgium's cause to be In
dissolubly linked with hers.
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AlRMEN RAID sTRAsssuRo.
Drop IS Bombs, But Damage Is Not
AScertained.

Paris.-A fiotilla Of Anglo-French
aeroplanes fed over the German city
Of Strassburg and dropped 25, bombs,
according to a dispatch from Geneva
to the Havas News Agency. The ex-
tent of the damage caused by the ex-
plosion of the missiles has not yet
been ascertained. Strassburg is the
capital of Alsace-Lorraine and lies 80
miles southeast of the German fortress
of Metz.
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SIX LOST ON lBERlAri.
Three Americans Among Victims OF
German Submarine.

Queenstown.-The official list of the
dead on the. British steamer Iberian,
shelled by a German submarine, ac-
counts for six men-three Americans
and three Englishmen. The Americans
were Mark Wiley's, of Boston; John
Carroll and -- Sheridan; English
men. Proudfoot, Appleby and O'Keefe
The wounded Americans are Henry
Welsh, Charles Hansbury and John
Brawell. The British wounded are:
James McGuigan, ]. Berry and L. Boil.
ton.
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LIVES LOST IN cLouDBuRsr.
Flood Follows, Causing a Property
Lost OF Millions OF Dollars.

Erie, Pa.-Twenty lives lost, as esti-
mated by the police, millions of dol
lars in property damage and the city
in total darkness was the result Of a
cloudburst shortly after 6 o'clock that
eliminated In a food that inundated
a large section Of the city.
Many houses were washed from
their foundations, while the water
reached the second story of others.
The heavy precipitation caused
dams south of the city to burst, letting
out food Of water that filled the
main business streets to a depth of
five feet, and in some sections reach
ing to the second story windows OF
dwellings.
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PRISONERS AS SHIELDS.
French Accuse Germans Of Using
saw.Toothed sayonets Also.


saw-Toothed 5ayonets Also.
Paris.-The official Commission on
violation of the laws of war" sub
mitted report holding German troops
guilty of barbarities against French
soldiers, members of the French medi-
cal corps and non-combatants. On
numerous occasions, 1t says, "the Ger
mans used military and civilian pris-
oners as a shield from the FIRE of
French troops"
This method was followed, the re-
port adds, at Courtacon, Cenlis, Merry
and Combres.
The report accuses the Germans of
using bullets made to inflict severe
wounds and also of employing saw
toothed" bayonets.
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AUSTRALIAN LOSSES 1882.

2,e1o Killed and 1o222 Wounded Up
To Date, Says Sydney.
Sydney, Australia-The Australian
casualties in the war up to date are
2,610 killed and 1O,222 wounded, it
was officially announced.
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s2,sOo,OOO FROM U. S. FORESTS.

Despite Lower Lumber Prices the Re-
ceipts Increased.
Washington.-The national forests
turned into the United States Treas
ury during the fiscal year ended July
30, 1915, nearly $2,5O0OOO, an increase
of more than $4,000 over the receipts
Of the previous year, according to a
statement just issued by the Forest
Service.
The timber sales, which amounted
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-07
RIDE 2.ses MILES TO ENLIST.
Two Travel From Saskatoon Te
Gotham BY Motorcycle.

New York--On their way to Liver
pool to enlist in the British Army,
Robert Frank and George Morley ar
rived here after 2,963-mile ride by
motorcycle from Saskatoon, Canada
Their motorcycle was equipped with
a side cradle and carried a tent and
stove besides the clothing of the
riders.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-07
ARMENIANs APPEAL AGAIN.

Ask American Nations Protection
Against Massacre
Tifiis, Transcaucasia, via Petrograd
to London.-The newspapers print a
second telegram which the Katolikos,
head of the Armenian Church. has sent
to President Wilson, appealing to the
American nation to protest against
Armenian massacres and the violent
removal of Armenians from CONSTANT
nople and Cilica asia Minor to
Konieh and Mesopotamia, where they
are doomed to perish"
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100000 MORE IN GERMAN ARMY.
New Recruits To Be Boys II To 10
Years old.

Copenhagen.-Aecor to a mes
sage from Berlin the German Army
has been increased by about 1000, 900
men, mostly II to 1s years old, dur
ing the last three weeks.
The recruits have been called from
Saxony that they may be trained
quickly A majority has been sent to
the eastern front.
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PAGE SAYS FOUR KILLED.
Ambassador Is Investigating Torpedo
ing OF Iberian.

ing OI TDGTTdH.
Observation-Disclosures Page in
formed the State Department that re-
ports had been received in London
that four Americans were killed on
board the Iberian torpedoed by Ger
man submarine. Page said he was
communicating with Manchester, the
Iberian's port of departure, to learn
the exact number. His figures dis
agreed with unofficial accounts, which
mentioned three killed and three
wounded.
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SAYS AusTRIANs LOST 10000.
Geneva Dispatch Tells OF Defeat OF
Corr Defenders.

Geneva, Switzerland (via Paris).-
A telegraphic dispatch to the Tribune
from LAibach. in Carniola, says:
THE Austrians attacked the Italians
at Gorilla with 10000 men, including
10000 Bavarians, on the night of July
2S with disastrous results. The Aus
trian losses numbered 12000.
"The Italians hold all the positions
they have captured in the last Is days
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ADvENrlsTs DENY REPORT.

Do Not Expect End OF World When
constantinople Falls.
Fort Worth, Texas.-Seventh Day
Adventists denied reports circulated
recently saying that the Adventists en-
camped at Dalworth, Texas, expect the
second coming of Christ when the
Allies capture Constantinople Ad-
ventists said the report grew out of
an Adventist belief that Christ's sec
ond coming will take place when the
Turks make their final stand as a
nation at Jerusalem.
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GERMAN JOURNALIST DEAD.
John Rittinser Published Paper In
Canada 2s Years.

Berlin, Ont-John Rittinger, one of
the best-known German journalists in
Canada, died here. He was 81 years
old and a native of this city. Mr..
Rittinger worked several years in
Guelph, Toronto, Buffalo and Chicago.
In 1875 he acquired the Ontario
Gloeke, published at Walkerton, Ont,
which he conducted for 20 years.
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PROFITS BY EUROPEAN WAR.
Plans For Six Cruiser Destroyers For
U. s. Navy Drawn.

Washington. - Plans for six big
cruiser destroyers authorized by the
last Congress have been approved.
They will be the first vessels the de-
sign Of which win have been Influenced
BY the war in Europe, and the depart
nent's statement says that naval in
formation from abroad was closely
0orutinszed by the constructors before
eho plane were drawn.
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AMERICAN HOSPITAL HIT.

German Bomb Goes Through Dining
Room; One Man Killed.
Pont-a-Mousson, France.-A German
shell fell into the messroom Of the
field hospital of the American am.
bulance Of Paris while the star was
at dinner. The missile penetrated the
floor and burst in the cellar. "A
French orderly was killed and one
American was slightly scratched by q
fragment Of the shell.