The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-05-14

man embassy here today and will
be formally communicated to
Secretary Byran by Count Bern.
strof.
The official text has not yet
reached the embassy because OF
difficulties with wireless commu.
nieation, but Count 6ernstorff.
taking the news dispatches as OF.
ficiai, presented his governments
regrets. Neither Count Bern.
storH nor Secretary Bryan would
discuss the conference.
Body OF Albert Thompson Found.
Queenstown, May 1.-THE body OF
Albert Thompson of Toronto was
brought in by an admiralty trawler.
IL was found drifting with wreckage
near the coast not far from the scene
of the I.usitania disaster and led To
the hope that additional bodies may
be found In the vicinity. Ten bodies
most Of them unids ntiiied, were also
landed at Baltimore, forty-seven
miles southwest of Cork. The wealth
er Is bad and the finding OF others
Is doubtful.
Queenstown. May isl teen
bodies were brought here this after
noon by a tug chartered by the Gun
ard line. None have been identified.
-, > Carried No Ammunition.
New York, May l1.-Hermann Win
ter, head of the passenger depart
ment Of the Cunard Steamship COM
pany. declared yesterday that the
Lusitania carried no guns. mounted
or unmonnted, and no ammunition Of
any kind.
- The Liisitania had l.250 shrapnel
cases. but they were empty" he said.
There was no explosive Of any sort
aboard. = AS tn sthe. srepont that the
I.usitania had guns aboard. ] cannot
assert too strongly that II was posi-
lively untrue"
..... Calls II Murder.
p, James Gray. Washington CORES
pendent of The Minneapolis Journal,
wired his paper as follows:
"A member Of the United States
senate of the minority side. man
who Is forceful and American in his
manner and methods, said:
? "a Germany has gone far beyond
anything that was ever dreamed OF
by those who have considered the
question of how nations should act In
case of war. The Hague convention
shows clearly that none OF those
who participated in framing 1t con-
templated the destruction of vessels
belonging TO a belligerent country un-
I'll after the neutrals aboard had
been removed.
'.''That convention provides for
the capture of vessels flying the flag
of belligerent nations, but ID does not
contemplate the destruction or the
taking of human life. II phovides for
one thing. that the mail of neutrals
shall be protected and delivered. II
shall be inviolable. The convention
also provides that the lives OF neu-
trails shall be inviOlable. They are not
subject to capture even though they
are on a vessel flying the flag of a
belligerent nation. Yet, what has been
done? Neutrals have been killed. II
Is simply murder"
Statement BY Roosevelt.
Syracuse. N. Y. May ll.-Theodore
Roosevelt last night gave out the fol-
lowing statement:
"0n the night of the day that the
disaster occurred | called the atten-
ton of our people to the fact that the
sinking OF the Lusitania was not only
an act OF piracy. but that II represent =
ed piracy accompanied by murder on
a vaster scale than any old-time pi
rate had ever practiced before being
hanged for his misdeeds.
Il called attention TO the fact that
this was merely the application on
the high seas. and at our expense. of
the principles which. when applied on
land. had produced the innumerable
hideous tragedies that have occurred
In Belgium and In Northern France.
II said that not only our duty TO
humanity at large. but our duty TO
preserve our own national repute de-
mand action! on our part and forbade
all delay. can do little more than
reiterate what then said. When the
German decree established the war
zone and. OF course. plainly threaten
ed exactly the type of tragedy which
has occurred, our government notified
Germany that In the event or such
wrong doing at the expense OF our
citizens We would hold the German
government to strict accountable
ity.
The use of this phrase. strict ac-
countability. OF course. must mean
and can only mean that action will
be taken by us without an hours un-
necessary delay. II was eminently
proper to use the exact phrase that
was used; and having used IT, our
own self-resDect demands that we
forthwith abide by IT,"
From Tuesdays Daily.
Grand and petit Jurors for the June
term OF the district court were drawn