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ANGLO-AMERICAN WAR
ALARM IN SHIP QUESTION
Anonymous American Author of Daily Mall Article
Emphasizes the Peril and Lays 1t
to German Intrigue.

which are not agreeable TO contemplate.
The issue will be clean cut and straight
forward. II will be: Is England 20 be
permitted to insult our flag again as she
did in 1872"
The Daily MAJ editorially expresses
the opinion that the apprehenslons OF the
writer are probably justified and adds:
III his forecasts are verified every
Brlton will deeply and sincerely regret it.
This country, however. is lighting for its
existence as an Independent nation ana
the centre of a worldwide empire. 1t can
not afford to throw away any weapon
which it is Justly entitled to use.
at has so far employed its naval power
II anything far too lenently and with too
attentive regard for neutral commerce.
II has certainly abstained from pushing
its contraband policy anything like as far
AS the Americans pushed theirs during
the civil war.
A Reminder for Americans.
1--WE may fairly remind the Americans
to remember this and to bear in mind
that the issue of this struggle is only less
important to them than to us,
"A German victory would react on
American interests and American well
fare with "A force that would reduce all
questions of cotton or copper on this ship
or that to utter insignhcance.
we must rely on the patience and good
sense of the Americans, or their under
standing of the prodigious questions now
on tho anvil of war and on their appre-
citation OF British necessities to prevent
any minor and relatively trivial issue
from taking on fictitious importance
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Haenner's story fixed the date closely
enough so that the society was able to
trace the abandoned babies through the
police and hospital reports Haeffner
said he disposed Of both children the same
nIFht-it turned out to have been No
vembcr 15-but though the two-months-
old child without a name was found that
same night Earl wasn't picked mn until
the next day Both babies found their
way TO Bellevue and from there the
younger one was sent TO the New York
Founding Hospital and his brother TO the
Nursing and Children's Hospital. one. fol-
lowing the custom In such matters. being
set down as a Protestant. the other as a
Catholic, for no one knew they were
brothers.
When Mrs Haeffner was told that her
children had been found she said duly.
whats the use I can't take care Of
four But ! want Richard and Jimmie"
she added, 1T would be hard TO lose
them all"
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The savage precision of the attack
and its terrible and pathetic results arg.
pretty thoroughly known at this houa
What is not yet clear, however, Is the
tactics employed by the Germans. Ap-
parently several Zeppelins participated
in the raid, but whether they followed
each other over a given and charted
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Policeman Downing OF the Roosevelt
''f'' VINO was standing AZ Railway ave-
nue AZ me train came In, said he saw the
snoring start, He was sure from his OBJ
'ervatlons that not single striker had ,
gun of amy kind. He said he saw one OF
mo deputies point his gun heavenward and
maze away and the others Immediately
acted II seemed to him, he said, that the
'N3' M the air was a signal for action.
bowling said that after one striker
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the knowledge that action favorH bic to
the Dacia would result in the immediate
release in all probability OF other Ger
man and Austrian ships here by their
transfer to American registry.
difference of Views.
Though it is held at the White House
that the Daca case can have no connec-
tiun with the Administrations plans for
Government line this view is not shared
by those who have studied the case in
Its relation to precedents In interna-
tional law and the attitude shown by
the British Government
A decision by a British prize court
that the sale OF the Dacia was invalid
would commit Great Britain to n policy
of objectng to the operation OF other
German and Austrian ships in trade with
Europe under the United States flag,
whether they should be owned by the
United states Government or private in
terests.
The controversy. II is believed. would
be far more serious and dangerous than
any Of the issues which have vet arisen
between the United States and England
as a result of the war.
In some quarters the opinion is held
that the United States has prejudlced
Its own case by refusing TO grant war
risk insurance to the Dacia and also by
asking the British to permit her to go 10
Rotterdam with single cargo without
molestation.
II Is argued that these actions implied
that the American Government itself was
not satisfied that the transaction was en-
tirely above suspicion.
should the Dacia case be brought 10
trial the United states Government will
have no part to play In IT, The burden
NJ proof will he on the owners Of the
vessel and there will he no appeal To the
state Department unless the owner Of
the ship in case OF an adverse decision
may allege a denial Of Justice and seek
redress automatically.
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The strikers themselves at meeting
Tonight formulated letter to Gov.
lanes r. Fielder in which they appealed
70 him 20 prevent repetition Of the days
bloody doings.
The police have been relieved of the
responsibility of investigating the real
reason for the attack and that matter -
row in the hands OF Prosecutor of the
Pleas W. Edwin Florance Of Middlesex
who, with County Detective John r. Fer
guson, spent the greater part Of the day
here questioning strikers and strike
guards.
Prosecutor A. A. Stein of Union county.
where the wounded strikers were taken.
also assisted in getting at the bottom OF
the tragedy.
One fact looms up large in the inves-
ugaton and that Is the statement OF
Sheriff Houghton that If he had been at
the Williams Il Clark plant the shoot
ing would never have taken place" IL
IS understood that while the detectives
we're shooting down the strikers the
sheriff was at the plant of Liebig & Co.
at Chrome.
The guards who made the attack vera
furnished by the O'Brien agency of New
ark 10 the Williams & Clark Fertilizer
Works and the Lieblg & Co. plant. both
controlled by the American Agricultural
Chemical Company, and Armour & Co.'S
fertIlizing plant
Many OF them are said to be New York,
ers and none Of them lives in this Sec
"on. They came here day or two ago
with the arrival of strike breakers and
engaged in their first shooting ycster-
day but apparently used nothing then
out blank cartridges.
Hnnt for strike Breakers.
When the s:o6 A. NJ. train stopped at
tho Williams & Clark station in Carteret
the strikers were clustered about an omen
shed which serves az a station, waiting to
see n any strike breakers were on boa nj
Several OF tho piekets went aboard tho
Train with the permission of the train
crew 10 look over the passengers, and APP
pdrenty they saw none they suspected of
being strike breakers.
The detectives. who had remained in the
Williams Clark plant until Just before
irain time, charged down from the plant
with a man in front who seemed to be the
leader They lined up on the opposite side
ot the train, and just as the train started
IN its way TO Chrome there was a chorus
of shouts, in which the major part of the
noise was made by strikers.
Then the leader discharged his revolver
IN the air and the next moment practically
al the detectives were shooting at the
strikers as fast as they could pull their
triggers
The men grouped about the station shed
seemed TO be the principal target as the
many bullets imbedded in the woodwork
~ the shed gave mute testimony when the
iusillade was over
The strikers started 10 run at the first
nop OF revolvers and the blast of riot guns
loaded with buckshot, Several dropped on
me railroad track and at the sides of the
station. Others, wounded in the legs. hob
Med hundreds of feet away before they
i'ppled over. The detectives, with re-
'oNers aimed low, ran after the terrified
ones as they scattered in all directions.
ana some 1t is said, were even pursued
into nearby swamps.
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Explosives Are Dropped on
Crowds of Men and
Women.
NAVAL GUNS BRING
DOWN ONE AIRSH1P
Royal Family Had Just Left
Sandringham, Target
of Bombs.
INVADERS FLEE AFTER
TEN MINUTE ATTACK
Yarmouth Badly Damaged,
Death List Being at
Least Four.
Special Cabie Despatch to TuE Sun.

Special cable Despatch TO THE Sun.
LONDON, Jan. 19.-The Ger
mans delivered their first but
long feared Zeppelin attack
against England tonight. A fleet
of fast air cruisers swooped
across the North Sea to the Nor
folk coast, bombarded Var
mouth, sailed into the interior
and dropped bombs on Sand
bingham, Sheringham, Kings
Lynn. Cromer and Beeston.
At least five persons were
killed, four at Yarmouth and
one, boy, at Kings Lynn. Many
are believed to have been in
jured by the devastating mis-
siles, which exploded with horri-
BILE force. The first flashes from
the Zeppelins' searchlights were
seen at $50 P. NJ, and ten
minutes later the cigar shaped
destroyers were seen speeding
toward the coast, the whirring
and buzzing of their engines
clearly audible.
warship Conquers Airship.
Not all Of them escaped. At least
one was brought to earth and captured,
with its officers and crew, at Hunstan-
ton, n few miles from Sandringham.
1t was forced to the ground by the
fire of warship lying Off shore.
The others apparently rcgained safe
To the base whence they had come
Just how many Zeppelns the Germans
used in their first aerial raid Is not
yet known, hut from various reports
It Is believed that six air craft which
struck the coast Mt Sheringham sepa-
rated there. some speeding north, some
south.
The royal family had left Sandring-
ham Hall, now used as the Queen
Mother AleNandra's country palace only
few hours before bombs rained down
near the palace. It is reported from
Sandringham tonight that none
OF the bombs struck the palace
hut that several exploded with ter
rife violence near by. There is every
reason to suppose that the Germans
were informed of the presence at
Sandringham to-day of the King and
the royal family, and that the attack
upon this small and insignificant town
was for the sole purpose of striking
a blow that would stun all England
The buzz of an aircraft was heard
over Gravesend, on the Thames, twenty
mites southeast VI lOuuouB Ut ~
o'clock tonight.
II is also reported that an air craft
flew over Ipswich, sixty-six miles
northeast Of London during the night.
The night and the weather were
favorable to the plans Of the raiders.
The night was starless. The air was
still. 1t was slightly cloudy. as mlSts
from the sea hung low and were UNI
stirred by air currents. From aloft
the location Of Yarmouth must have
been clearly visible to the attackers
since the lights, although reduced In
number and volume. were plentiful.
several AIrships Used.
The savage precision of the attack
and its terrible and pathetic results ar2z<
pretty thoroughly known at this houWm
What is not yet clear. however, Is the
tactics employed by the Germans. Ap-
parently several zeppelins participated
I'm the raid, but whether they followed
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II is understood that some officials OF
the State Department are OF the personal
opinion that those interested in the Dacia
should stat mel GA a voyage 10 Eo;:oT
dam and bring about a test case OF the
issue involved
There Is reason to believe that this
course may be adopted. Contracts have
been made for the DaCia to deliver her
cotton cargo at Bremen and the ship
was to have sailed from Galveston not
later than Friday last She was detained,
however. pending receipt Of the British
answer TO the state Departments request
that she be permitted to make the one
voyage to Rotterdam without prejudice
to the case OF either country should her
status ever be contested.
II is said that the freight charges on
the Dacia's present cargo amount to
nearly as much as was paid for the
vessel when she was purchased from the
Hamburg American Line. The cotton on
board of her would not be treated AS
contraband II the British should seize
her. as is expected. Thus neith1r the
owner Of the vessel nor the cotton shippers
apparently stand to lose any more by
venturing the trip than by defaulting on
existing contracts.
Should II he decided to send the Dacia
10 sea the case will be watched here with
the keenest interest and a decision in tho
case will probably be OF great significance
with regard to the proposal OF the Ad-
mlnstration to buy German and Austrian
ships now confined to American ports
and operate them as a Government owned
steamship line.
II is known here that the British view
OF the Dacia case was partly based on
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INFANTS DESERTED TOO.
Parents Appear to Claim down to
Last Cent" Babes.

When Richard and Jimmie. the two
little boys left last Friday in front Of
Sixth avenue department store with a
note pinned to the babys clothes-Jimme
isn't yet-saylng that his father and
mother were down to their last cent"
ran with whoops OF joy into the arms OF
that same father and mother yesterday
everybody at the Chlldren's society patted
everybody else on the back The happl-
ness OF Richard--he is 4-and Jimmie
was a pretty thing to sec, II stood out
all the more when the events OF n few
hours showed that the happiness OF the
children was the only certainly genuine
thing about the emotions Incident to the
reunion.
For after Richard had said to his
father, who is George Frederick Haeffner,
ITS lonesome here daddy, and want
to go home" and had been told that he
should go home Just as soon as the so
clety could get work for his daddy and
help him to reestablsh real home II
came out that Richard and Jimmie have
two younger brothers who were ADAM
doned to the chance charity OF the passcr-
by even as they were.
The littlest Haeffner boys. Earl. IS
months old, and months baby lack
ing even name, were left in the street
on November 10 last with not even "A
note such as Richard and Jimmie had
10 explain why they were abandoned and
10 ask that their Whereabouts be made
known through the newspapers so their
parents might claim them in better days.
A paragraph telling Of a founding taken
to Bellevue Hospital had Informed Mrs.
Haeffner Of the fate of the elder Of these
two waits. She had never heard Of the
2 months old baby since that night.
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Reminder for Americans.

SEABOARD FLORIDA LIMITED, 2iO8 y. VI.
Best equipped train to Florida, Savannah,
Columbia, Camden @. c. Inc. iist BwAy.-
ADJ, =
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Mother In Home for Night.

After learning these things the society
agents placed Mrs Haeffner in a home
for the night and extracted promise
from her husband to come back to-day,
when they will try to unravel the tangle
OF motives
Mr.. and Mrs Haeffner went to the
Childrens society rooms In Fourth avenue
late Monday night. The children were
asleep and Il was not until Yesterday
morning that the reunion took place.
Haeffner II a painter. lie ana his wife
have been living recently In a room at 329
Lcnox avenue Before that they lived,
among other places, at GO West Tooth
street. He told Of being often out OF
work and OF his attempts to care for his
children. but he didn't speak of the two
youngest ones, and with his wife stoutly
denied for a long time that there had been
any children besides Richard and Jimmie
Two former employers said that lIaeff-
ner in the short time they were able 10
give him work was sober and Industrious.
Ernest X. Coulter, superintendent OF the
society, was sure he had a good job in
sight for Haefrner and he had only To
choose among kind people known to him
who wanted to give Richard and Jimmie
"A home until their father got on his feet
But just then there came an unsigned note
which said that II the society was inter
ested in the Haeffners II might inquire of
Mrs, Haeffner what had become Of her
two other children.
The note came from 90 West Tooth
street. Tho agents who went there
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the knowledge that action favorable to
the Dacia would result In the immediate
release in all probability OF other Ger
man and Austrian ships here by their
transfer to American registry.
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BRITAIN VETOES
A FREE VOYAGE
FOR THE DACIA
Reply Says Request Would
Constitute a Dangerous
Precedent.
COTTON SHIP PREPARES
TO SAIL DESPITE VETO

WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.--Notice Of Great
Britain's refusal to grant a request Of
the United States Government that the
former German steamship Dacia be per-
mitted to carry n cargo OF cotton for
Germany 10 Rotterdam without molesta-
ton was received at the State Depart
ment to-day.
AT the same time dispatches from
Galveston said that the Dacia had nearly
finished taking on her cargo of cotton
and was preparing to sail for Rotter-
dam tomorrow night.
Announcement of the British refusal
was received from Ambassador Page.
The British Government declared it
could not consent to waive any Of its
rights in the case OF the Dacis and
assigned as one OF the reasons for It's
position the fact that such action might
constitute a precedent which would De
invoked to the prejudice of the British
position in regard to enemy ships trans
ferred to neutral registry during the
war
While the officials of the State De-
partment are greatly disappointed at
the British refusal II was not wholly
unexpected. 1t is not the intention Of
the state Department to take any fur
Their action in the case unless those in
terested in the Dacia should come for
ward with new request entitled to con-
sideration. Notice of Ambassador
Pages report was sent by the Depart
ment to-day to Edward n. Breitung,
the purchaser Of the Dacia, who is in
New York
All representatives Of the owner OF the
Dacia ana Of the shippers of the cotton
with which she is laden have left Wash
ington and no statements could he OBJ
tanned here tonight as to what they
Intend to do In the matter
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Continued on Third Page.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-09
1S5a5 FINANCIAL AND MARKET NEWS Local
Local

pitai. nys days. spinal menlngitis;
Albert NJ. Kramer. ass Concord.ave.
81 years. pulmonary tuberculosis'
Prudent Miner. ts1 Seventsanth-s ST..
IS years. chronic parenchymatous
re- D'itis; Leokadia Ancsak. 1903
Jfstion-ave.. one year. gastritis;
years. pulmonary tuberlosis;, stanley
sss Piauette-ave,
months. summer diarrhoea: John
Koss. 7<5 81. Aubin-ave.. Is years.
pulmonary Tuberculosis: Celia Has
sett. 42s Cardoni-st.. IS years, add.
sons disease; Edw. wrobiewski, SO
ritis: Robert e. sachrison. Chiidren's
Free hospttal. Z months. pneumonia:
Helena Dolyna. 81 HArbaugh-st.. one
year. pneumonia: Willis Miller. 80
0raham-st, 3 months. mainutrition;
stanley Bo.ek. Grace hospital IS
Binder. col stanford-st.. So years.
acute pericarditis; Claude ODsii.
Harper hospital, - years. embolism:
Erina Pniatowski. 37s L.aSaiis- ave, !.
six months. cholera infantum: Rob-
ert. Turner. SIS Kipiins- st. So years.
endocarditis; John Bodo. 1875 Rade.
macher-st.. 3 months. ileo coiitis: AL
bert Kopera. go Orleans-st.s ~ years,
cancer. liver. Helen Marchant, col
Magnolia ave. one year, diarrhosa;
Ida Reed. ssl IaMay ave. ~ years.
acute dilntation % the heart
The Detroit times., 1915-08-09
Marriage Licenses.

Frank r. vubitt, 80. Detroit: Mar
garet Curtin. rs. Cheboygan. Mich.
Ralph b. Tinnell. IS, Annamay Z.
Albert schreder. 20. Hattie wedier.
John stevens. q: Jennie poan. q
Frank Hack. IL: Helen Faunehai.
o; Se,, ,':; " y, ko',m.rek. a. Bertha
Paul T. Kannowsk,. -. Detroit;
Emma Z. schwarts. %, Saginaw;
Max Singer. ~; Esther Indianer.
August Duyek. 70; Mary Delmot,e.
Nathan Bnfeid. ~; Moiiie versch-
o- frank Il, J. wol'ehon' a. Agnes D.
ch.rles W. Farmer. as; Minnie j.
Adam siliman. %; Pearl Campbell.
william =. McKeiyeen. &c. Cieve-
Walter wurst. %. wysndotte:
Cecilia Robert. ~. same.
clyde w stambsugh. IS: Viola
Ernest o. Engei. -: Ida Rutkow-
Henry oeisler. a.. Cora Gei.ler. -.
Pooio s H Hs Al. North Ds,ioit:
vita Pedona. as, same.
Louis Reiss, az Mary Bailint. rs.
Peter p. Karn. &c: Flora a. Ludwig.
Angelo Nosotti. ~; Virginia Bcr-
TAM. ~.
-Maios MusuIin. -; stoja Resanovic.
So
Joseph r. Karie, "a: Caroline J.
Treppa, %
Alex Michaichuk. IL: EVA Pukaio.
Peter sikaya, IS. Detroit: Anna
Zukovska. ~. Hamtramck.
Paul X. Buck. IL: Hester stiles, -.
Jonas G. Newhauser. 30; Esther A.
Kinkleman, rs.
Frank Boiduck. IL: Maria Van
Gansbeke, 81
John subj. IL: Mary Bucur. az.
Edward 3. Heimlich. ~. Detroit.
Sarah y Fruit 80. Jerseytown, Pa
Hitch.
Louis A. Mueller. 30: Elsie I.
Schultz. al
Stanley Blazevich. a. Hermina
Poduska. 81.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-09
YOUTH ACCUSED
OF KILLING GIRL
GIVES SELF UP

Jacob Melinski. IL years old. who
was sought by the police on the
charge Of shooting ard killing his
ll-year-old cousin. Mollie Wolfson.
while fooling with a revolver in the
kitchen of his home, July Is. walked
into police court. Saturday morning.
with Attorney Anthony Maiullo. and
declared that he war ready to be
arraigned on the charge Of man.
slaughter. sworn out by Detective
Bandemer
Attorney Maiullo had first arrang-
ed tor bail for Melinski. and the
bond was hxei at $4,000 with one
surety which was promptly fur.
nished.
Melinski made no comment on the
charge against him. but his attorney
asked for a pilice court examination
which was set for Aug. Is.
Before the report Of the revolver
had died away. Melinski had fed
from the house. a neighbor seeing
him as he dashed out the back way.
Other children who were playing
in the kitchen. said Jake" had
pointed the revolver at Mollie. and
that he ran away when the weapon
was discharged.
Melinski told his attorney. the
The Detroit times., 1915-08-09
MILWAUKEE ISN'T
READY TO PROBE
TELEPHONE TRUST

The invitation extended 10 Detroit
by the Milwaukee legal department
to join with the latter In an action
before the interstate commerce COM
mission TO attack the rates OF the
American Telephone q Telegraph
Co. and the Western Electric Co.
was a bit premature. according TO a
communication that Corporation
Counsel Dingeman received from
Cornelius Corcoran. president OF the
Milwaukee city council. Saturday
morning. President Corcoran insists
that the city council has not author
ICED any such procedure.
Might with as good grace assume
burden ~ revising all the railroad
rate schedules OF the United States
he writes.
The invitation, which was sent 70
the city controller In answer to q
query regarding the schedule OF tele'
phone rates in Milwaukee. bears the
signature Of Max Schoetz, jr., assist
ant city attorney.
Corporation Counsel Dingeman
thinks well of Attorney Schoets's
suggestion for federal investiga
ton. Detroit may 20 h alone II the
Milwaukee council refuses to extend
Ia hand.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-09
WHEAT NOT
DAMAGED
Indications Are State
Yield Will Be
Normal

LANSING. Mich. Aug. 7.-(Spe-
cial Michigan wheat has not been
damaged materially. according to
the monthly crop report issued to-
day by the secretary of state. who
explains. however. that the informa.
ton on which the report was based
probably does not include damage
from recent rains.
The state yield Is placed at IL.
100000 bushels anu tue average
yield per acre is 1881 bushels. Con-
dition OF other crops on percent
age basis follows: Corn. "A; sugar
beets. 80: beans. SO; potatoes. 90.
Secretary Vaughan states that
this year is poor one for apples
and he predicts that the yield will
be below last years.