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Evening star., 1915-12-22
JUAREz TRANQUIL
AF FTERFATAL RIOT
Soldiers Who Clamored for
Their Money Are Still.
Unpaid: =

Ell PASO, Tex, December 22.-Com-
plete tranquility prevailed in Juarez
early today. 1t was reported 1 900 troops
had arrived from the south, but these
were said to be part of a force sur
rendered by their officers at the Car
rapza consulate here during the night
villa soldiers in Juarez clamoring for
their wages broke from military con-
troll yesterday and enacted scenes OF
disorder, which resulted in the killing
on the American side of an American
trainman and several Mexicans in
Juarez. Early today they were still un-
paid. The money. however. is on deposit
in Ell Paso. awaiting the appointment
by the Mexican authorities of an au-
thorized paymaster
Strong representations have been
made to Mexican Consul Andreas G.
Garcia by Gen. J. J. Pershine, COM
regarding the death of the American n.
George A. Diepert
Thinks Shooting Was Deliberate.
According to his investigation. Gen.
Pershing said, Diepert was deliberately
fired upon by Mexican snipars as he
passed along the border on a moving
train. Shooting across the border would
not be tolerated. he told the consul A
heavy guard of American troops is on
duty on the border.
Gen. Villa. whose wherea bouts during
the last few days has been a mystery.
last night was reported at Rancheria
seventy miles south of Juarez, an
preaching the border.
Street car service between Ell Paso
and Juarez, which was suspended late
last night, was resumed today, but
Americans are prohibited by the mill
tary authorities on the American side
from crossing.
Representatives here of the Pearson
syndicate have been advised that Roy
Hoard, manager of their MADEIRA, Chi
huahua, properties, and twenty>nine
American employees, held prisoners by
Villa for two weeks. have been Iibe,.-
ated and are en- route to the United
States.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
CAPT. Won PAPEN
SAILS FOR HOME
Praises American Kindness
and Leaves With No Feeling
of Bitterness, He Says.

NEW YORK, December 22.-Capt.
Franz Won Papen, Germany's recalled
military attache, left New York for
Rotterdam today on the steamship
Noordam bearing a safe conduct to
Germany from the entente allies. De-
parting, he issued this final statement
to the American people:
"In leaving this country, where
have received SO many proofs of kind
ness and hospitality from Americans
all those who did not permit their
soned by the hatred created by the
war among the nations.
my thoughts turn back today ex-
pressly to those unforgettable days
when 1 had the honor and good for
peditionary> force at Vera Cruz, where
l learned to admire the splendid SOL
dierly quality and devotion to duty of
the United States Army.
Desires to Return Home.
Personally speaking. no greater Salts
faction could be given to me than the
fulfillment of my ardent desire to be
more urgently needed than here.
81 leave my post without any feeling
of bitterness. because l know too we'll
that when history is once written it
will establish our clean records despite
all the Misrepresentation and calumnies
spread broadcast at present.
II go home with the unsha ka BILE convic-
ton that no efforts, however insistent
they may be. will accomplish the fervent
desire Qf our enemy to embroil our coun-
try with this great nation. Our relations
will and must, on the contrary, inevita bly,
and gradually improve as it becomes clear
to every intelligent and clear-minded
American that Germany is engaged in a
fully justif1able and heroic fight for eX-
istence and the very life of the nation
1t is reported that Capt. Boy-Ed will
leave here for Rotterdam December % on
che steamer Rotterdam.
Deferred to Wishes of U. S.
LONDON. December %, 3:15 pm
The British and French governments
consented to give safe conducts to
Capts. Boy-Ed and Won Papen. the
German attaches recalled from the
United States. "'in difference to the ex-
pressed wish of the United States gov
ernmeht," Lord Robert Cecil, parlia-
mentary undersecretary for foreign
affairs, stated in the house Of COM
mons today.
The under secretary's statement was
in reply to a question Implying con-
demnation of the granting of safe
conduct, the questioner suggesting
that by this the attaches would be en-
abled to direct their energies toward
the injury of this country nearer
home"
To the suggestion that the release"
of the German officers might be made
the occasion of the release of Col H. d.
Napier and Capt Arthur Stanley Will
son. taken off a Greek steamer in the
Mediterranean. Lord Robert answered
that it was not a question of release of
the Germans, but of whether they
could do more harm in the United
States than in their own country.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
TURKS DECLARE BRITISH
LEFT SICK AND WOUNDED

BERLIN, December 90, by wireless to
Sayville.-Advices received here from
Constantinople reiterate the assertion
that the British forces which quit the
Dardanelles retired in great disorder.
According to Constantinople re-
ports" says the Overseas News Agency.
.'The British left their sick and wound
ed behind. Their retreat, which they
pretend was carried out systematically,
in reality was a head-over-heels flight"
Enormous quantities Of ammunition,
cannon and tents were taken by the
Turks on the withdrawal of the Brit
ish. it was officially announced in the
Turkish headquarters report. dated De-
cember 20. In the British attack on the
Seddul- -Eahr front. which preceded the
withdrawal from the other sectors, the
British suffered enormous losses. it is
declared.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
MEXICAN BANDITS EXECUTED.
Six Members of Gang Operating in
CAPITAL Put to Death.

GALVESTON, Tex, December 22-
Six members of the bandit gang re-
Gently captured in Mexico City were
publicly executed today, according to
a message received by Juan T. Burns
Mexican consul here. Four others
condemned to death were given re-
spites at the last moment. Five women
arrested with the bandits were SEN
fenced to long prison terms, the dis
patch added.
The robbers were enabled to avoid
CAPTURE for some time by means of
forged documents which led the police
IN believe they were army officers.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
GEN. MURRAY TO TAKE
DARDANELLES COMMAND

LONDON, December 22.-Lieut. Gen.
Sir Archibald Murray has been appoint
ed to succeed Sir Charles Monro as
British commander at the Dardanelles,
says an official statement issued this
afternoon.
Sir Charles Monro has been appointed
in command of the 1st British Army in
France, in succession to Sir Douglas
Haig.
Lieut.. Gen. Robertson. chief of the gen.
eral staff. has been recalled from France
to become chief of the imperial staff in
London in place of Lieut.. Gen. Murray.
These changes are accepted here as
indicating closer cooperation among
the allies in the conduct of military
operations on the western front.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
Effect of Break to Be Moral. !

Eject OF Break TO De moiai.
Referring to the possible rupture or
diplomatic intercourse between the United
States and Austria-Hungary as a result
of the Ancona affair, high authority
on international affairs today said that
the severance of diplomatic relations,
when not followed by acts Of reprisal or
hostilities, usually is more moral and
sentimental than material in its effect and
significance.
Actually the severance of diplomatic
relations would mean that intercourse
between the two governments. formerly
conducted directly, would have to be
either suspended entirely or circuftous-
ly managed through the good offices
Of a third party, much as in the case
of belligereuts. That situation, while
not necessarily leading to war, would
increase the possibility of actual hos
tilities. I~case of a repetition of the
incident. which would be the reason
for recalling the American ambassador
and sending home the representative
of Austria Hungary. nothing would be
left for the United States to do but to
accept the further outrage unless this
government were prepared to proceed
to physical acts of belligerency in pun
ishing 1t.
The Alternative of War.
snort Oh war, tncTe HiiSHl ioiio~
twelve months notice of the termina-
tion of the treaty of 1929. upon which
rest our relations of amity and reci-
procity in matters of commerce and
navigation. That is a typical treaty
defining the mutual rights of resi-
dence and trade and the mutual guar
antics of security. protection and most
favored nation privileges. The treaty
can be legally terminated at a years
notice. Whether the greater sufferer
by the termination of that contract of
amity and mutual privileges would be
the United States or Austria-Hungary
Is a mooted question. s--e
The United States has more than half
a dozen other treaties with Austria
Hungary relating respectively to the
disposal of property. to consular 3uris-
dicfion, to extradition. to naturaliza- :.
tfon. to trade mark and copyright reci-
rrocity, and to arbitration. None of
these agreements is entirely consonant
with state of affairs In which one
party has declined to continue to rec
oEnize the other.
The recall of consular representatives
would mean a cessation of trade and
commerce between the two nations.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
FINED FOR VIOLATION
OF THE SHERMAN LAW
Twenty-Six Commission Merchants
Of Washington Pay $25 Each.
Other Cases Deferred.

Twenty-six local commission mer-
chants pleaded nolo contendere today
before Chief Justice Covington in
Criminal Division to an indictment
charging a violation of the Sherman
antitrust law. United States Attorney
Laskey. consented to an imposition of
fine, and the chief justice directed
that each defendant pay $25, making
a total of $3.50. The fines were paid.
Two of the other merchants indicted
are dead. and United States ATTORNEY
Laskey deferred the arraienment of
Frank B. Guest until January T. o. o.
Spicer was reported i'll and James NJ.
Hoge out Of the city. Fines Of s2s
each will be imposed on Messrs. spicer
and Hoge.
President Directs Inquiry.
The indictment resulted from an in
qufry inaugurated in the summer OF
1914 by President Wilson into a runor
that the beginning Of the European war
was being used as a pretext for in
creasing the prices of foodstuffs. It is
charged that the merchants agreed on
a price at which they would settle with
shippers for goods sent to them for
SAFE. and also agreed as to the price at
winch they would offer the foodstufYs
to the consumer.
They were indicted September 4. 1914
and entered pleas of not guilty. These
peas We're later withdrawn and de-
murrers filed to the indictment. The
9emurrers were overruled and the de-
ienoants called on to plead again to-
DAY; They We're unwilling to plead
guilty, but offered to the government
a proposition not to contend further
against the charge.
List of The Defendants.
me defendants were: Daniel p. COL
Inns. Frank b. Guest, James W. .Beas-
ley. John w. Lynn, David w. Ballinrer.
Aionzo r. Lawrence. William BRAY
shaW. Andrew W. Kelley, Oliver O.
Spicer. James NJ. Holloway, Brevard n.
Strohecker. 7. Hamlin Strohe.kcr. Will
liam NJ. johnson. J. Edward Jesse
Louis =. krey, John f. Crovo. Harry
r. Price, Theodore F. Simons. John II
Carter, Joseph f. Falk, Thomas p
Hickman. Roy NJ. Hickman, Willis &.
Hoge. James NJ. Hoge. Willis S Hope
r.; Albert j. Simons, Frank ]. Ehlers
William G. Carter and William
Sacks. "a
Attorneys George p Hoover. C A
Douglas, Walter A. johnson, Charles
W. Darr, J. Barrett Carter and r. l..
Jenords appeared for the defendants.
In imposing fines the chief Justice
said he was satisfied that the offense
was merely technical
Evening star., 1915-12-22
Associated Charities Repeats
Plea for Contributions in
Aid of Worthy Poor.
MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
AWAITING THE RESPONSE
One Opportunity Closed by Generous
Donor. But Thirteen Others
! Are Open.
What Would You Do?

trast to the splendid good for
tune Of those all about you, and
especially mt this generally happy
ChrIstmas time, your lot was
weighted with misfortune:
There are "FOurteen OppOrtunf-
ties'' to help the families who
have this very problem right now.
They need your help to enable
them to help themselves. just 4
little from each OF those in good
fortune will lift these. few out OF
their misfortune.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
Will Not Buy German Liners.

LONDON, December 22.-Rumors which
have been current for several days to
the effect that the Swedish American
line was to buy two Hamburg -Ameri-
can liners appears to have been dis
posed of by a dispatch from Stockholm
to Reuters Telegram Company. This
message says that the newspaper
Aftonbladet has published statement
from the Swedish American company
that the report is without foundation.
and that no purchase of German liners
the war. -
Evening star., 1915-12-22
Senator's to Be Added.
CLAIMS TO HAVE PROOF
OF THE GUILT OF SERBIA

BERLIN, December %. by wireless
20 Sayvilie. y. Y.-"According to the
Sofa newspaper Dnevnik,' says the
Overseas News Agency today, 'the for
mer Bulgarian minister to Serbia. NJ
Tchaprachikoff. the Bulgarian govern
ment holds proof in writing that the
Serbian government was direct ac-
complice in the assassination of Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo.
The Bulgarian government. 1t was
stated. will shortly publish the docu-
menta." ---s
Evening star., 1915-12-22
IN LEAGUE TO DEFEND GIRLS.
Thirty Woman Lawyers in Chicago
Form Organization.

CHICAGO. December 22.-Thirty WON
an lawyers Of Chicago have formed the
Public Defenders League for Girls, IT
was announced today. for the purpose
of preventing any girls from being sent
to jail for first offense. subsequently
to become the prey of professional
bondsmen.
Members of the league will ask Chief
Justice Olson Of the municipal court
to create special girls court and ap-
point a woman as judge. The woman
attorneys have agreed to give one day
month to the proposed special court.
defending young woman offenders. free.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
Sailors Christmas Turkey Delayed.

PHILADELPHIA, December 22.-The
transport Prairie, which was to have
sailed from here yesterday with 10000
pounds of turkey for the 5000 sailors
and marines stationed in Haiti. will not
get away until Thursday or later, be-
cause of a broken topmast. and conss-
quently will not reach Haiti until after
Christmas. Presents for the naval
force from friends and relatives in this
country, as well as 500 buckets OF
cranberries and 5000 pounds of candy,
also are aboard the Prairie.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
AND BRIDE
ON 45-M|LE MOTOR TRIP
Go to White Sulphur Springs and
Take Luncheon in Public
Dining Room.

HOT SPRINGS. Va, December. %
Today the President and Mrs. Wilson
motored over to White Sulphur Springs
W. Va. for luncheon. The ride is
about forty-five miles.
The drive lay over mountains and
along tortuous roads cut by many
streams. Few of these were bridged
and the White House automobile
splashed through water that came up
to the hubs of it's wheels. As the Presi-
dent and his wife passed through Cow
ington, Va, many persons ran after
their car through the streets. At White
Sulphur Springs they were unexpected
and their arrival caused a stir. They
appeared in the public dining room of
the hotel for luncheon.
Quite a large honeymoon colony has
gathered here since the arrival of
President Wilson and his bride Sun
day. and they all are planning to stay
over for the elaborate Christmas cele-
bration in which the White House
couple are expected to participate.
Mountain Walk in Program.
A long walk in the cold Virginia
mountain air and fifty-mile automo-
bile drive to neighboring springs oscu-
pied the President and Mrs. Wilson
most of yesterday. They stopped dur
ing the drive at a famous old hotel to
see registers signed by Thomas Jeffer-
son and other notable figures in Ameri-
can history. Late In the afternoon the
President worked for more than an
hour ON correspondence, and last night
Mrs. Wilson read to him from the
store of books brought along from
Washington.
President Wilson's Statement.
HOT SPRINGS, Va. December "a
President Wilson said today that the
European trip of his friend Col E. M
House was in no way connected with
the peace movement, but was entirely
for the purposes outlined by Col. House
in his statement issued last night in
New York. The colonel said his mis-
sion was to communicate to American
ambassadors in person for the Presi-
dent certain information that the am
bassadors might more intimately COM
municate the attitude of the United
States toward certain phases of the in
ternational situation. Further than to
say that Col. House had stated the OBJ
ject of his mission exactly the Presf>
dent refused to comment.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
VILLA WILL COME TO U. s.
Agrees to Cross Border, But Will
Keen Away From Juarez

Ell. PASO, Tex, December 22.-Fran-
cisco villa has agreed to come to the
United States. but will not pass through
Juarez, according to Gen. Manuel BAN
da. This Information was contained in
statement by Banda, made at the con-
clusion of conference of former villa
ofiicers today In Juarex. t- ~F.'
Evening star., 1915-12-22
New Haven Men Ask Acquittal.

j. NEW YORK, December 22.-Pleas for
a verdict of acquittal in behalf of each
of the defendants individually were
heard by Judge Hunt today at the trial
of the eleven former directors Of the
New Haven railroad under the Cher
man law.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
PANIC IN SALON|K|::
ALLIES IN A ROW,
So BERLIN HEARS
Greeks Declared to Hate Enq-
lish Because of Their
Arrogant Behavior.
BRITISH TROOPS
SENT TO BALKAN BASE
Reported to Have Been Transferred
From Islands in Eastern
Mediterranean. /
NEWS FROM VARNA AWAITED
Occupation by Russians of Bulgarian
Port on the Black Sea Lacks
Official Confirma-
ton. {:
BRITISH TROOPS
SENT TO BALKAN BASE
NEWS FROM vARNA AWAITED

BERLIN, December D. bv
wireless to Sayville, n. Y.-The
Overseas News Agency says:
Private reports from Saloniki
indicate that a state of panic
reigns there. The Greeks are
hostile to the English. who be-
have arrogantly. The French and
British are on bad terms.
Nearly fifty members OF the
Serbian parliament are living in a
hotel there. They have formed
provisional parliament and play
cards during the night while
Serbian refugees are starving in
the streets. The people of Salo-
niki are anxiously awaiting lib
Grafton by the central powers"
Reinforcements for British.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a dis
patch from Athens stating that nearly
all the British troops have left Imbros,
Lemnos and Tenedos islands, in the
eastern Mediterranean. to he sent to
Saloniki
The troops on Imbros Island were
most discontented. Some of the troops
mutinied, and five or six officers of the
general stafr are reported to have been
killed. Finally. the troops were removed
after they had been promised that nu-
merous reinforcements would be sent
Capture of varna Reported.
LONDON. December 22.-The British
public awaited anxiously today for con-
hrmation of report published by the
Daily Chronicle of the capture of Var
na.- Bulgaria's chief Black sea port, BY
the Russians. 1t said the bombardment
of the Russians silenced the Bulgarian
guns and laid the town in ruins, the
garrison suffering heavily.
The Russians then, according to the
report, landed infantry and artillery
without loss and in sufficient force 10
hold the town against Bulgarian Al
tack
Teutons Playing Politics.
The Teutonic powers are represented
as taking full advantage of the moral
effect produced by the withdrawal of
British forces from Gallipoli peninsula
and to be attempting once more to
swing Greece and Rumania to their
side in the Balkan operations.
If the news of the bombardment of
Varna is correct. Russia is losing no
time in an attempt to forestall these
efforts.
While the Greek elections have given
a large majority to former Premier
Gounaris, powerful member of the
present cabinet, who is not over friend
ly to the entente powers, it is not be-
lieved here the change will have much
of an effect on the attitude of Greece.
which is now much more agitated by
the possibility that Bulgarians Will
cross the frontier than by the forma-
tion of a new government.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
KRUPP FACTORY REPORTED
DESTROYED BY AIR BOMBS

COPEN via London. Decem
Der 22.-The National Tidende prints a
statement of a Dane from Constanti-
nople that :he Krupps armament works
outside Constantinople have been de-
stroyed by bombs dropped by the Brit
ish airmen.'
Evening star., 1915-12-22
1900 GERMANS TAKEN,
IS CLAIMED BY PARIS
Berlin Reports Recapture of Part Of
Hartmanns- Weilerkopf
Positions.

PARIS, December %, 2:45 p.m.-An-
nouncement was made by the war Of
fee today that 1900 Germans had been
captured in the operations at Hart
ma ms -weilerkopf. which have enlarged
the French positions to an appreciable
extent.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
German Losses Heavy.

LONDON, December 22.-Along the
western line, according to British OFF,
cial reports. the Germans suffered
heavy losses while exposing their forces
in an attempt to occupy craters which
their mines had opened along the front
near Armentieres. French operations
at most places are hampered greatly
by bad weather, but a considerable
portion OF the German works on Hart
mans -weilerkopf has been carried.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
Submarine Reported Captured.

PARIS, December 22.-Accoriing to
a dispatch to the Messaggero from
Malta. forwarded by the Havas corre-
spondent at Rome an Austrian sub
marine has been captured by two tor
psdo boats. presumably Italian.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
LATEST j. S. NOTE
! HANDED TO AUSTRIA
Delivery to Foreign Minister
Announced by Neue
Freie PreSSe.
ADVANTAGE TO MONARCHY
SHOULD THERE BE BREAK
Diplomatic Authority Says America
Would Have to Take an Atfront
or Go to War.

LONDON, December 22, I:5o
p.m-A Vienna telegram, tor-
warded by Reuters correspond
ent, says that delivery to the Aus
trian foreign ministry of the sec
ond Ancona note from the United
States is announced by the Neue
Freie Presse.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
Germans Recapture Part.

BERLIN. December %. via London,
1928 p.m-A part Of the German posi-
ton on the summit of Hartmanns-
Weilerkopf. in the Vosges. that was
captured by the French yesterday. has
been recaptured by German troops. 1t
was oficially announced by German
army headquarters today.
Evening star., 1915-12-22
REPUBLICANS FORMING
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
State Delegations in Congress Desig-
mating Members to Look After
1916 Elections.

Reorganization of the republican con-
gressionai campaign committee for the
1916 campaign for Congress is pro-
crossing through the selection from
time to time by the state delegations OF
their committeeman and will be effect
ed early in January by the selection
of officers at joint meeting of House
and Senate republicans. The state dele
cations have chosen their committee
men as follows: California. Repre-
sentative Julius Kahn: Colorado. Rep
resentatiye Charles B. Timberlake:
Connecticut, Representative John Q.
Tilson: Maryland. Representative sgd
ney T. Mudd: Massachusetts,. Repre-
sentative Samuel l.. Winslow: Michi-
gan. Representative l.. c. Cramton: Ne
braska. Representative n. r. Kinkaid;
Nevada. Representative Il. T.. Roberts,
New Jersey. Representative W. J.
George W Fairchild; North Carolina.
Representative J. J. Britt: Ohio, Rep
resentative s. b. Fess; Oklahoma. Rep
resentative Dick T. Morgan: Oregon.
Representative \. J. sfnnott: South Da-
kota Representative Charles H. Dill
Ion: Tennessee. Representative x. w.
Austin. Virginia, Representative e. B.
Slemp: West Virginia, Representative
Howard Sutherland: Wisconsin. Repre-
sentative John J. Esch; Wyoming. Rep
resentative Frank w. Mondeli; Hawaii,
Delegate Kalanianaole.
Senator'S to Be Added.
Several senators will be on the commit
tee when its full complement is made up.
and also constitute part Of the executive
committee The chairmanship Of the new
committee is yet to he determined. Rep
resen,ative Frank r. Woods OF Iowa is
Chairman. but has not announced whether
he will stand for reelection or not.
u fs said that the selection Of chair
man will depend largely upon questions
of policy of the new committee. to be
decided at the joint meeting Of the House
ard Senate republicans. and also upon
the scope and methods of the campaign
for 1916. which will at that time be
outlined.