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New Britain herald., 1915-11-19
MRS. ADAMS BROTHER
 IS DEAD IN URUMIAH
Wife of Local Persian-Assy1ian Mis- sionary Receives Sad News
 From Old Home.

Mrs Elisha Adams, wife of the Persian-Assyrian missionary connect ed with tine South Congregational church, has just received word of the death of her only brother in the Uru miah section of Persia which has been devastated by the Kurds and Turks. He fell victim to typhoid fever, which with cholera, is causing the death of thousands in this stricken land. The dead man was very prominent in edu- cational and religious matters He was a graduate of Urumiah college and the Presbyterian Theological sem- mary and for many years was profes- sor of Oriental languages. He was also engaged in missionary work and teaching among the different tribes, but for the past six years was en- gagged in book publishing and news paper work. Two of his sons make their home with his sister, Mrs. Adams, in this city.
 A native missionary in Tabriz writes to MT. Adams telling of condi- tiOns in that section of Persia, which he describes as growing constantly worse. Christians who have survived the massacres have been told to go back to the ruined cities and towns and to rebuild their homes This is impossible as they have no funds and face bitter winter. Many are starv- ing and cholera, that dread scourge of the Orient, stalks the land, counting it's victims by the thousand. The only country which has offered any aid or assistance to the afflicted Per- sians is the United States and the peo- pie are very grateful for the help given.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-19
HAMES WAS FIRED"
 BY SAFETY BOARD
At Secret Session Monday Night for
 Writing Letters to Married
Woman.

Information is now given out by the board of public safety for the edif- cation of the curious public that for mer Patrol Driver William flames, who resigned" Monday to accept more lucrative position, as was first thought, was in reality dismissed by the board at a secret session held Monday night.
 According to the statement issued by the safety board, the officials late ly received information that Driver Flames was mixed up with a married woman. A secret meeting was ar ranged Monday night and both MT. Flames and Chief Rawlings were in vited.
 The driver was accused of writing 2 amorous letters to the woman and Chairman filling showed him aIlegcr copies of the letters. He is said | have stoutly denied the allegations until MT. filling it is alleged, flashed the originals on him. The letters were written on police department stationery. Then flames confessed it is claimed, and the board asked for his resignation, declaring it could countenance no such conduct.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-19
ANNUAL ZION FLAG
 DAY ON DECEMBER 5
Local Jews to Join Others in Observ- ing Occasion and to Help Their
 Stricken Brethren.

On December the local Zionists and Jews in general will celebrate the second annual Zion flag day in appro- priate fashion. Tn the forenoon small Zionist flags will be sold in the home of every Jewish family of this city and in the evening Rabbi Mayer Ber~ lin, one of the foremost Jewish ora. tors of the day, will address a mass meeting in the Talmud Torah hall.
 Zion flag day means much to the Jews of today, the rebirth and the reJuvenatiOn of a new Jewish nation. For almost 1900 years the Jews have been wandering over the face of the earth, mistreated and persecuted first in one country and then in another, In this exile they have lost their na- tional bearing and respect and have therefore suffered, perhaps, more than any other people. Notwithstanding this, it was not until the latter half of the nineteenth century that the Jews finally realized their position as a nation among nations. They realized that Israels liberation must come through the esta bIishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Israels for mer home; that IsraeFs respect can return only by this redemption of the nation upon its former soil. This movement, although started earlier, 1 was brought to perfect organization 1 by Theodore Herzl in 1896. For years and even today the movement met with opposition from the many l classes of Jews but today, in view of l the horrors which the war has l brought on, Jews are united in the 1 effort to establish a father1and.
 The Jewish national fund has been buying land in Palestine for coloni- zation purposes and today the Jews have in Palestine 8 firmly established d l cultural center. The war however
 has proved a terrible blow to the
 Palestinian colonies and as a result
 the national fund is in great need
 of money. not to build new colonies
 but to relieve and feed those already
 established. The proceeds of Zion
 Day will go to this fund.
 In spite of the fact that New Brit
 ain Jewry has been heavily taxed by
 the European relief work, 1t is
 hoped by the committees in charge
 that last years result will be doubled
New Britain herald., 1915-11-19
DIR. REEKS ON TRIP.

Dr. T. E. Reeks, superintendent of health, has gone to Haverhill, Rrockton and Lynn, Mass. to study the methods of ashes and rubbish dis posal employed in those municipal ities.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-19
HIRA TEMPLE MEETS.

Hira temple, D. o. K. K, cele- brated it's anniversary in Vega hall last evening with ceremonial ses- sion at which several candidates were led across the burning sands to the
 cooling zem Zem spring. A ban- quet followed at which many officers and members spoke.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-19

The water department payroll for the past week amounted to $472.55.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
BRITISH AMBASSADOR URGE
GRANT OF CONCESSIONS
Spring-Rice Advises His Government
to Accelerate Decisions
as to Ships,

For the first time since the meth
DDS Of German submarine warfare
wrung a protest from, the United
States, supplemented with a demand
for apology and adequate reparation,
the British government, heretofore
ignoring similar remonStrances
against It's own violation of inter
national laws, has been put upon
the defensive.
1t is known that Sir Cecil Spring
Rice, the British ambassador, within
the last day or two has communicate
ed to his government his belief that
some concessions should be made by
1t to the protests of the United States
against the continuance of the seiz-
ure of American ships and cTrgoes
and the blOckading Of neutral ports.
The British representative is said
to have indicated to his government
| in plain language the determination
of President Wilson to couch the de-
mands that he will shortly make in a
! note to England in terms no less posi-
tive than those he has repeatedly en-
ployed III his protests to Germany.
The chief recommendation of the
British ambassador Is believed to
have taken the form Of pointing out
the expediency of greater accelera-
tion on theSpart Of his government in
adjusting Some Of the issues that lie
between ~ and the United States as
resultf Of the seizure of American
ships and cargoes and the closing to
them Of neutral ports in Holland and
the Scandinavian countries, whose at
titude toward the belligerents is
identically the same as that of the
United States.
The act of the British ambassa-
dor has inspired a much easier feel
ing in official circles at the American
capital. 1t instances the first relaxa-
tion of the policy of Great Britain in
obstructing American commerce and
in persistently ignoring protests sent
by this government in more than one
hundred such cases.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
TILLMAN SEES CANAL
Senator Says Japan and England
know All About 1t.

Senator b. r. Tillman of South
Carolina. who is on his way to Alas
ka, reached Portland, Ore, SATURDAY.
to rest for few days at the houo d
his daughter, Mrs. Henry w. HughesS
He said that Turing his recent trip to-
the Panama canal he studied it's de-
fenAes carefully and found that the
princ.pa concern manifested there
was to guard against observation by
ships.
"All the information has been
guarded very carefully" he said,
but there is no doubt the British
and the Japanese ere in possession of
full information about the canal"
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
GRAND DUKE TO WITHDRAW
HIS ARMY FROM POLAND
London Thinks Russians Will Retreat
Rather Than Wage a War
for Warsaw's Defense.

London, Monday: Attention now is
centered on the gigantic operations in
the ecst where fighting Is in full
swing in nearly every section of the
Russian line from the Baltic to the
Dniester.
General Won Buelow is pushing the
German advance toward Riga on the
northern end of this line. The move
ment is being conducted by cavalry
on a scale exceeding anything here
tofore during the war. Berlin claims
steady advance and Petrograd con-
cedes that the Russians have fallen
back after a stubborn contest.
On Won Buelow's right is General
Won Eichhorn, who is being held UP
by the great Russian fortress Osso-
wetz. On Won Eichhorn's right is
General Won Gallwitz, who captured
PrZanysz and now Is pressing an at
tack on the Maj CIV and it's tributaries.
On the famous Rawka and Bzura
lines there is comparative quiet
which also is reflected on the south
west side Of Warsaw, but to the
southeast the movement again Lub-
lin, which was temporarily check ed
again is in full shwing.
The Russians must fight q defense
abandon all of Poland, military
observers believe Gran . Mich
oias very likely to adopt q latter
course and withdraw his armies in
tact.
These tremendous German activi-
ties in the east suggest that the Tu-
tons have little reserve to devote to
their western campaign, offering the
entente allies respite either for the
completion Of munitions supplies or
concerted attempt to recapture
Lille.
Another view holds that the best
service her allies could give Russia
at this time would be the forcing of
the Dardanelles. 1t is possible the
allies may combine both suggested
attempts. but it is certain that for
the time the wars center of gravity
has shifted to eastern Europe.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
U.S.. WILL WARN GERMANY
STRONGLY in NEW NOTE
1t VIII be Made Plain That Another
''Lusitania" Will Bring
Action.

President Wilson and Secretary
Lansing Monday discussed in detail
draft of the note to be sent to Ger
many this week informing the i'm
perial government what the United
States will do if there is further vio-
lation of American rights on the high
seas.
The return of President Wilson
from Cornish, N. H., gave Secretary
Lansing his first opportunity to con-
fer on the policy to be followed as
the result of Germany's failure tC
satisfy the demands made in the
American note of June 8.
1t was understood the president
and MIR. Lansing found they had
reached about the same conclusion
that the next communication to Ger.
many must be of definite character,
making it Enthusiastically clear thai
the United States can not be expected
to remain passive the event of an.
other attack on an unarmed and un.
resisting ship with n loss Of Ameri.
cans. The note probably will contain
contain little or no discussion or
the principle already treated al
length in previous communications
Although 1T is not certain whether
reference will be made to the attack
on the Cunard liner Orduna, it Is
known that the incident has swept
aside previous suggestions that the
next communication would take into
consideration that German submarine
commanders in actual practice were
conforming to the rules Of interna-
tional law.
Secretary Lansing was at the White
House for more than an hour. 1t is
understood he obtained the presi.
dents final decision of the extent to
which the purposes of the United
States should be stated in the next
route.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
CUTS FRANKS THROAT
AS HE SLEEPS in PRISON
Convict's Determined Effort to Kill
Man Con victed of Mary
Phagan's Murder.

Leo M. Frank, doing life term
for the murder Of Mary Phagan, was
attacked in the Georgia State prison
at Milledgeville, at eleven-ten o'clock
Saturday night by fellow prisoner.
His head was cut half off with a
prison-made butcher knife that con-
victs had used during the day in kill
ing hogs. Frank was still on the op-
Grating table an hour after the at
tack, conscious, but bleeding from the
wounds.
Frank was Quartered in a dormi-
tory with about one hundred other
prisoners and occupied bunk about
forty feet from one Of the two doors
to the large room. Green's bunk was
fourth from his. No prisoner is al
lowed to leave his place without per-
mission from one of the two guards
stationed at the dormitory at night.
Shortly after elevent o'clock Friday
night Green called out for permission
to get up, and it was granted.
He started down the line OF hunks
toward the one occ pied by Frank.
AS he reached it he quickly grabbed
Frank by the hair and delivered one
blow with the knife he had conceal
ed. The attack was witnessed by
the guard, who rushed to the bunk
and prevented Green from striking
| again. Green was overpowered and
among prisoners who rushed to
Franks aid were two physicians, one
| of whom also was serving a life term
for murder.
The two convict-physicians gave
first aid and treated the wound until
DR.. Guy Compton, the prison physi-
| clan, was summoned from his home
half mile away. The three men
took twenty-five stitches in Frank s
neck.
Frank asked the prison doctors
again If they thought he would live
You have a good chance to re-
cover" he was told Sunday.
Frank smiled. Don't punish the
man who attacked me-" he said. "I
have nothing to fear There is moth
ing between me and God. l will be
able to prove to the world that I am
innocent of the crime Of which they
accuse me If they give me a chance"
Doctor" he said, late Sunday af-
ternoon. 81 am going to live.
must live. I must vindicate my
self"
William Green, the life term con-
vict, who admits that he cut Franks
throat. was questioned Ggain Sunday
by prison authorities to ascertain If
there was conspiracy to kill Frank
Green asserted tn there was no
plot. He said that he had inspiration
that he should kill Frank, and plot
ted alone to kill him. He told of
aiding in the butchering OF hogs on
Saturday morning, how he had hid
den butcher knife, that had been
made out Of big file, in his cloth
ing, carried it to bed with him, how
he attacked Frank as the latter slept.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22

that 1t moderate its policy regarding
the treatment of American trade. The
ambassador left the method and ex-
tent Of the moderation to his home
government.
In all quarters it is admitted that
the note will relieve the tension be-
tween this government and Germany,
for the apparent reason that 1t COM
plies very closely with Germany's
main contention.
Germany held that the issues be-
| tween this government and Germany
were so interwoven with those be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain that they must be taken up
together. The United States has not
| conceded this, but, accepting as true
the German ambassadors frequent
arguments that Germany will make
no further concessions to this coun-
try unless Great Britain relaxes the
severity of its blockade. it has decid-
ed to take up the subject with Great
Britain Independently.
The effect, however, will be the
same in the end. If the United States
succeeds In forcing Great Britain to
conduct It's blockade according to in
ternational law, 1t has the assurances
OF Germany that IL, too, will observe
the rules of international law In its
submarine warfare.
There Is no division among Ameri-
can diplomats as to the unassailabili-
ty of the propositions OF the note to
Great Britain. Mr.. Lansing does not
inveigh against the right of visit and
search, should Great Britain choose
to exercise it legally.
The position or the state DEPART
| ment is that vessels should be visited
and searched IF necessary" but ex-
peditiously, and released, or that the
cause OF detention must be taken up
and adjusted with equal expedition
"by diplomacy"
This position OF the state depart
ment is flatly contradicted by Lord
Crewe, and presumably will be by Sir
Edward Grey I'm the answer to the
note to Great britain.
Mr.. Lansing has told Great Britain
that her order in council, as IL affects
and has affected American commerce
is wrong in principle and in fact, and
can not be sustained under interna-
tional law. The department, there.
fore, substantially demands that
Great Britain return to the approved
customs of visit and search as the
United States understands the law
and as it existed before the promul.
CATION of the order in council.
No one expects this government to
recede from its original position OF
the destruction of the Lusitania as
an act wholly without warrant I'm law
Or justification from the humane
point of view. The manner In which
the United States position will bt
restated. however, in view Of the rep
resentations and conversations on the
subject at the department between
Secretary Lansing and Ambassador
Bernstorff Is still problematic. The
impression Is ~ PRESIDENT must
take into favoI tnstderation the
oral assuraqca by the ambassa
dor, which stood to have
materially situation.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
LLOYD=GE0RGE TAKES HAND
in COAL MINERS STRIKE
Goes to the Miners and is Expected
to Lead Them Into Work.
ing Agreement.

David Lloyd-George, minister OF
munitions, at last has taken a hand in
the South Wales coal strike. He
went to Cardiff Monday night to have
a talk with the men.
Mr.. Lloyd-George is very popular
with the miners and it is thought a
direct appeal from him will have a
greater effect than any other in
fluence.
A conference between the executive
committee of the miners and Walter
Runciman, president Of the board of
trade, has been arranged for, but it
was made unnecessary by the action
OF Mr.. Lioyd-George. The meeting
has been cancelled.
The adjustment proposals, 1t was
defined later. originated with the
miners. They were sent to London
by the executive committee with the
sanction of the miners leaders, who
believe they will prove acceptable.
1t Is understood the plan contem-
plated temporary concession of the
miners demands, which, however,
would not be embodied in any new
agreement until the government had
ample time to consider the whole
matter.
The questions in dispute then
would be referred to the munitions
court for decision regarding marginal
differences between Mr.. Runciman' 4
proposal and the full demands 1t is
possible Mr.. Runciman himself in
stead of the munitions court may con-
duct the arbitration. The proposed
terms entail some concessions on both
sides.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22

rights. which it is conceded may be
exercised by nations at war. This
concession OF universally recognized
rights is what constitutes interna-
tional law
What the United Staes has conced-
ed to be within the rights of the
British government, rs a bclligerent,
are:
First-That belligerents have
the right OF visit and search.
SecOnd-That belligerents have
the right of capture and cOndemna-
ton IL, upon examination, neu-
trail vessel is found to be engaged
in unneutral service or to be carry
ing cOntraDand OF war intended for
the enemy's government or armed
forces.
Third--The right to establish
and maintain n blockade of an
enemy's ports and coasts.
FOurth-That belligerents have
a right to capture and condemn
any vessel taken i'm trying to break
the blockade.
Fifth-It even comedies that a
belligercnt has the right to detain
and take into his own ports for
judicial examination all vessels
which he suspects, for "substan-
tial' reasons, to be engaged in un-
neutral or cOntraband service and
to condemn them IL the suspicion
Is sustained.
These rights, long clearly defined
by doctrine and practice, ere held by
the American government to be the
only permissible exceptions to the
principle OF universal equality OF SOW
ereignty on the high seas 'as between
belligerents and nations not engaged
In war. This Is all that the Ameri-
can government has conceded either
to England or Germany.
The United States comedies the
right Of Great Britain to maintain a
blockade of the ports and coasts OF
Germany, but holds that IL must be
effective to be binding. The British
order in council policy has gone far
beyond this right, the United States
continues. In effect tho British gov.
ernment, IL is pointed out, "a seekinf
to blockade, not only the ports and
coasts of Germany, but also the port:
and coasts of Holland, Denmark
Norway and Sweden.
The United States IL challenging
the right OF England to interpose AM
blockade between this country anf
Holland, s,Orway, Denmark and Swef
en-, because there is nothing In inter
national law that permits the block,
aiding OF the cosst Of neutral. Til
Continued on last pcge.)
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
ITALIAN CRUISER SUNK BY
AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE
Giuseppe Garibaldi Carried Crew of
$50 Men-FOunders in Fifteen
Miautes After the Blow.

The following official announce
ment was received in Berlin Monday
from Vienna, under date of July 1S:
IAN Austrian submarine Sunday
morning torpedocd and sank south OF
Ragusa. the Ita lian cruiser Giuseppe
Garibaldi. Tho cruiser foundered in
fifteen minutes"
The Giuseppe Garibaldi was an
armored cruiser of seventy-three hun
dred and twenty-four tons, three hun
dred and forty-four feet long. She
was laid down in 1898 Her compile
ment was five hundred and fifty men,
and she carried one ten-inch, two six
inch, fourteen six-inch and ten three
inch guns. Ragusa is a fortified Aus
trai seaport in Dalmatia, on a penin-
sula Of the Adriatic Sea, thirty-eight
miles northwest OF CCttaro.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
Franks Condition is Serious.

Physicians who examined Leo NJ.
Frank in the Georgia state prison at
eight o'clock Monday morning said
soon after that his condition was
much worse. The Jagged cut in his
throat was swollen and his tempera-
ture was 102. 2-5
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
Swiss Chemists to Come Over.

The government Is trying to create
agreements with Swiss chemists to
cove over to the United States and
operate works to aid In the develop
ments OF the dye industry here.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
BAttleships Use Canal.

Three big battleshjps of the U. s.
navy passed through the Panama
canal Friday. This Is the first time
big ships have used the ditch.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
Bibles for Russian soldiers.

(, The Czarina Of Russia has agreed |
~ distribute Uillton bibles sent to
her soldiers american Sunday
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
Wisconsin Assembly Quarantined.

The members OF the state assembly
of Wisconsin have been vaccinated,
and their meeting hall Is quaranteey
because member developed an at
tack of smallpox Sunday.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
British Casualties.

Since the wars beginning Great
Britain has lost 1855 officers killed,
1862 woupded and Ills missing.
The Socialist press., 1915-01-23

dsnger of it's falling by it's own might. The exploitation of the many by the few has existed for ages under different forms. and will continue to exist as long as the exploiter can adapt his tools to. meet conditions, or until the workers consciously move to stop exploitation. :,
 There is' every prospect of a worldwide industrial stagnation after the war is s,over and of Am erican capitalism receiving a bad set back in it's development; but whether socialism wilF"progress is another matter entirely. :;
 Germany has a life and death struggle on now, with the pros poets of good bye to the German empire. The allies are determinl ed that there shall be no peace until democracy dictates the peace term. 4l
 All indications are that Britain,