Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-27

" IN Nnlcn IL was admitted tnat the yes
}: sci was torpedoed after her engines
4 had been stopped and when the pas
; sengers were still on board. This
admission alone is, in the view OF
c the government of the United States
f sufficient to fix upon the commander
I Of the submarine which fired the tor
! pedo, the responsibility for having
wilfully violated the recognized law
Of nations and entirely disregarded
those humane principles which every
belligerent should observe in the CON
duct of war at sea. In view of these
admitted circumstances the govern
ment of the United States feels JUS
titled in holding that the details of
the sinking of the Ancona, the weight
and character of the additional tes-
timony corroborating the admiralty's
report and the number of Americans
killed or injured are in no way essen
tial matters of discussion. The cul-
pability of the commander is in any
case established, and the undisputed
fact is that citizens of the United
States were killed, injured, or put in
jeopardy by his lawless act.
The rules of international law and
the principles of humanity which
were thus wilfully violated by the
commander of the submarine have
been so long and so universally recog-
nized and are so manifest from the
standpoint of right and justice that
the government of the United States
does not feel called upon to debate
them and does not understand that the
imperial and royal government ques-
lions or disputes them.
The government of the United
States, therefore. finds no other
course open to it but to hold the i'm
perial and royal government respon-
sible for the act of its naval com
mander and to renew the definite but
respectful demands made in its com
munication of the sixth of December,
1915. 1t sincerely hopes that the fore
going statement of its position will
enable the imperial and royal govern
ment to perceive the justice of those
demands and to comply with them In
The same spirit of frankness aud
with. the same concern for the good
relations now existing between the
United States and Austria Hungary
which prompted the government OF
the United States to make them.
LANSING.
| NEW YORK, Dec 23.-Paul Koe-
mig has been indicted on two counts,
each of which charges him with at
tempting military expedition against
friendly powers.
One of the indictments is in con-
nection with the attempt to destroy
the Welland Canal, and the other is
for sending Edmund Justice and Fred
erick Metzler to Quebec to spy on the
movements of Canadian troops and to
destroy property if possible.
Richard Lyendecker has also been
indicted in connection with the We'll
land affair and Justice for the at
tempt at Quebec.
Metzler has not been indicted as he
made a confession of his part in the
plots.
Parsley NALL Weeping
shells used by the Germans to blind
the enemy with its own tears, pre-
cipitated in at least one instance what
l h.a In
incident Of the war. During recent
weeping shell bombordment by the
Germans, regiment of French cav
lalry dismounted back of the line of
fire. A gust of wind caught the
sorrowful fumes and waited them
gently to where the horses and caval-
!, rymen were at their ease. Suddenly,
without apparent reason, every caval-
ryman behind his horse burst into
tears as tho the price of oats had sud
denly risen to a figure beyond equine
, financial possibilities. Then, as If in
sudden sympathy, the horses also
burst into tears. The situation is de
clared by the officers to have been
/ lLdicrous. The cavalrymen were i'm
t PEELED to such gales of laughter at
sight of the crying horses that if the
Germans had attacked at that moment
the entire regiment could easily have
, ben wiped out. So far as could be
D ascertained, horses and men suffer
ed no serious consequence from hav'
r ing awaited themselves of woman''
t privilege.
r The distance the fumes had beer
: carried by the wind had reduced theil
f strength.
: Ell PASo, Dec. PA troubled
: peace now seems assured for Mexico
: General Trevinos of the Carranzi
l. | coraos hoe tpon a sveenink victory ont