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New-York tribune., 1915-03-31

is a snob. But the gentleman-by all
the sacred laws of his code, the gentle
man is TO be respected and obeyed in
stinctively. A few generations Of
changed conditions after the war may
change this. But il cannot be changed
i'm the brief winter which fate has Civ
en- England to raise n mighty army.
In the early days of the war the
upper class men without military train
ing enlisted in great numbers in the
ranks. Dukes son died with 4 musket
in his hands beside Cooks son on the
retreat from Mons. Put the new
kitchener army" or "King's army"
brought great demand for officers.
Almost any able bodied and fairly in
telligent gentleman of good athletic
experience could get a chance to be
educated for commission. Around
such men England is building the new
army.
Officers Must Die First.
Now, here is another subtlety of the
class system in Great Britain: Your
Tommy of the lower orders expects
from the aristocracy living-up to the
tradition of noblesse obige. The un-
der officer must take chances with the
men-must, III fact, take greater
chances than the men-or the Tommy
follows him but grudgingly. And this
example Lay drive the principle home /:
| heard yesterday news concerning
the death of certain second lieuten-
ant. He was working in a city office
when the war broke out, and he enlist
ed with a commission.
His regiment went to the front in
October. He had been twelve days on
the line when he was sent forward
with a platoon. The. came to wood
! He halted, uncertain whether to turn
to right or TO left. 81 will go forward
and take look" he said. He did 90
I forward; suddenly out of the wood
came volley; he fell dead. Now, he
/ could not have cone otherwise AND
! kept the respect of his men.
But the case illustrates the prea,
mortality among sub-oificers, and il
shows. moreover, why this war is Sc
reducing the Norman strain.
We are living just now in the dark
I In the first week of the submarine
/ blockade the Admiralty permitted the
newspapers TO publish instances. One
| ship a day was the score-not ar
/ alarming loss, considering the number
| OF British oceangoing steamers. Their
the powers screwed down the lid; We
have heard nothing about the subma
rine blockade for week
Meantime rumors concerning the
British campaign against submarines
! fy about everywhere. One man tells
/ YOU that the British fleet has sunk oil
/ captured nine; another that Germany
| now has only six submarines ahoat
/ II half Of this be true the Admiralty
/ is keeping the facts very quiet. To.
/ day they norted the capture Of 8
submarine oil Dover. That is the only
| authentic news we have. We are won.
dering II America is not better in.
formed concerning both the results OF
the paper blockade and of the British
counter campaign. There will be q
rush for New York newspapers wher
/ the next American mail arrives or
! Monday,
/ The American colony here feels it.
self just now people cut off in @
world OF mystery. And it seems long
long way home!
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
NAVY MEN CONFER
ON EITEL'S CASE
RumOrS That Merchant
Ships Have Carried Coal
to Allies Fleet.

Newport News, Va, March 8o.-En-
forcement of American neutrality in
Hampton Roads was discussed at a
protracted conference at the Norfolk
Navy Yard late to-day, after the arrival
of the battlc ship Alabama. which took
commanding position IN the channel
to the sea. Rear Admiral Beatty, com
mandant Of the yard; Rear Admiral
Helm, commander of the reserve At
lantic feet, who arrived on the Ala
bama, and Norman X. Hamilton, Col
lector of Customs, attended the confer
ence.
Meanwhile Commander Max THE
richens of the German converted cruis-
er Prinz Eitel Friedrich was closeted
with customs officials in the Newport
News Office. The time allowed the
cruiser TO stay in port is believed to be
almost up.
The Alabama came 10 Hampton
Roads primarily to guard against any
breach of neutrality in the event of a
clash between the German raider and
the feet of allied warships off the Vir-
ginia Capes.
Reports that allied warships had
ventured within the three-mile limit
and that merchant ships had furnished
them with supplies have been circu-
lated here for several days.
Henry B. Holmes, agent OF British
shipping interests here, declared he
had absolute knowledge that no mer-
chant ship had taken fuel or supplies
from the United States to the war
ships.
Commander Thierichens would not
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31

with perfect success, Notwithstanding
4 o enemy's stubborn resistance"
The nature of the fighting is indi-
Gated by the same official commute
fi,,n. which, telling of desperate eoun-
Ter attacks. says that the Russians
ea,,tured on Sunday and Monday last
76 officers, 1884 men and a great num-
ber of guns. .rN
he budapest correspondent of THE
Morn,nO Post" saws the newspapers OF
Tho Hungarian capital are occupying
themselves laily more and more with
peace talk, as this is the only subject
people are interested in. In hungary
e. asserts, there is no allusion 70
n ace which does not find eager read
ers, and there is no peace however
humiliating, which would not be wei
come. The correspondent continues:
"The tone Of these peace offerings Is y
always the same, consoling people WIN
statements TO the effect tnat hungary
will receive a reward for the immense
.arrifces she has made, that this time
Austria will be willing to acknowledge
the superiority of Hungary and tha'
.our national independence Will be the
reward.
Hatred Of Austria Grows.
AT the same time, the hatred against
Austria is growing day by day >, Au-
miration for Germany, too, is wen Oh
tho wane. General Won HlndenouIg
alone has admirers. but Austrla -
hated and despised even more IhHn u
fore the war. Moreover 10 l.eH
things worse, everybody Is PrePSi inns
"a high ministerial official said yes
..rdav that no one thinks It possloIe
tbat The Russian offensive IN the Gar
notb;ons which began q few days ago
cer now he checked He pointed out
thst the Russian advance, although II
BE slow even in the west ana cehIre'
will in a few weeks time reach Eper!es
"a nrohablv Kassa, and. If during the
rev. few days the battle no" Plo-
ceedinr does not give the huhgSlla"'
victory nothing can.
People Incredulous
~The Russian forces are now lnVS1- e0
INC the plans. 1t is estimated tha1 oo'
oO6 70 100000 Russians nave Deen
leased from before PrzemySI, pu' ~, ~
bodv gives credit 70 these hgureS. iUm
misied the people have beeh is s'V .bo
bv the attitude they adopVeS ~ coli
time the news reached mere OF ,od tne 20
nf pFZpTNSl. HtN NAiHf's
Ia,;ors II They would not even believe
tSs Gs5'SSs oflcal S communiQut. The epSwds GfTrds
s.orSinS before the newspaper omces
cried: 1t is lie 1t is ,a,bs LAKE. obout t"t il
when there was no more douo' "O0"' -
'nSy % Rom Rome dispatch in The The Daily lily
No,ys" saws the citizens of vienna are
officially warned through the .,, NtSe tSs
IeI WleheI b;iIs that surround the city.
TSousG reese are fayorite resorts in the spring
anS ansSS summer. mn but fortifcations are now
being erected there and The the h'i!S those ose
practically closed to the PuGSc tSn military IfOry
wrI sutborities will run grave risk OF OF
80 nolice. who are ordered TO use 'heLl
arms, especially at night. Il e sfter Sqo
nrbs were fortified last autumn aItei
11O' ,bo Russian occupation of Lemberg'
and the new precautions are the result
of the fall of Przemysl.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
GIVE US GUNS SAY
BRITISH SHIPPERS
Liverpool Shipmasters Are
Eager to Avenge the Death
of Falaba'S Captain.
tBy Cable 10 Tho Tribune ]

Liverpool, March 3O.-The Falaba
outrage has aroused mercantile mas
tiers here TO a determination to avenge
the death of Captain Davis, a man of
quiet, reserved disposition, who had a
host of friends in the service and
among west coast passengers and a
reputation for reliable seamanship. It
is declared in Liverpool that the gal
liant manner in which he died was typ
ical of his character.
"Give US gunsl This is the reply Of
British shipmasters to German pi-
rates. said Thomas Scott, secretary
Of the Mercantile Marine Service As
sociation, in discussing the outrages
to-day. Continuing. he said:
"Germany's submarines have now
given sufficient evidence that they have
not the slightest scruple in numbering
defenceless crews and passengers.
There is no longer anything in the ar
gument that arming merchant ships
would rr0yoke the submarines. They
need e, provocation. Our only defence
is guns"
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
MINES WILL END
SEA DOMINATION
Maximiliar Harden Thinks Sub
marines Destined to Deal
Britain Mortal Wound.
lBy Cable 10 The Thbunel

Rotterdam, March 80. - Macmillan
Harden, in his latest lecture in Ber-
lin on the course of the war, said:
"The chief enemy is England. She
has. il is true, not yet received any
mortal wound. but the greatest danger
is threatening her from our subma-
rines. As soon as we have succeeded in
extending the radius Of action Of our
bigger submarine types they will be
able 10 be used for the lavish laying OF
mines. Then on that morning the ISL
and kingdom will find itself surrounded
by new circle of mines and its mas
tership of the sea will be at an end.
From all points of view Germany
can have confidence. After eight
months of a tremendous struggle IT is
true that il is not standing as con-
queror, but its power is untouched"
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
EASTERN FRONT.

PETROCRApon Sunday approached Nbsu ION the
proecs killing civilian and wounng
No sold
On Memn River the fghting continues On sun
miles northwest LozdEele
whlch oeen aaeAed
viht the bayone
On Of the Naew between the Skws and Oruw g
Of isolated woods heights We
the region around the village OF
leading Bd and zok Pass
perfect Notwithstanding the enys
Sunday ohoay
advancing
take meet this incurson
which OF Hu
according
report from Prussia especially distinguished ITSELF tax
ing prisoners -.
Near Krasnop suffered Some 1000 were
fighting until 5000 prison
and ammunition
failed captured two
the
70 the
RZura fall
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
CLAIMS in ADRIATN
RESTATED BY ITALY
Austrian ReservIsts In Trentino
Permitted to Return
TO Farms.

Rome (via Paris, March 3O-Tho
"Giornale dTtalia," replying TO com
mepts in the Russian newspapers op-
posing Italy's acquisition Of the terri
tory Of tho Adriatic now IN the hands
Of Austria because of tho large SiaV
population OF those districts says that
while Italy acknowledged the right OF
the Slavs TO have an outlet on the
Adrintic, It was not to be supposed that
r,oIv would acquiesce merely IN tho
substitution OF Savs for Austrians on
the eastern coast. the Slavs having the
powerful support Of Russia behind
them. az.
The "Giornale dItalia" adds: II II
hest clearly TO state now that whether
Austria continues to exist as an Adri-
attic power, or whether a great serbia
be formed. Italy's position on the Adrl-
attic must be absolutely or largely
ameliorated
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
SAYS U. S. WON'T BE LIKED
May Have to Protect Women
and Children, Cram Fears.

"When the European war is over thls
country will be so unpopular that we
will have TO have our army ana navy
in shape for the protection OF our won
en- and children" declared Commis-
sioner J. Sergeant Cram yesterday IN
asking the Public Service Commission
to grant permission 10 the LIST Battalion
Naval Militia TO paste recruiting eircu-
lars on subway shafts Throughout the
city. The resolution was adopted.
The naval militia is secondary de-
fence along naval lines. and recruits
enlist for service for three years. Inc
Navy Department has loaned to the
1st Battalion for practice purposes the
ships Granite State and Wasp.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
HUNGARY SOLVES
PROBLEM OF FOOD
Soldiers with Land Get Leave
to Sow Crop, and Many
Women Lend Their Aid.
rnv Cable 10 The 7ribune.l

Budapest, March 80 Via Venice ano
s.ondon)-scarehead reports TO 'he
.o,t,arv. there have been no bread
rIot. IN Budapest Vlma Gluckiich'
ha.d Of the Feminist Society OF Buoa-
nest and chairman Of the administr"-
.,on Of the Women's Relief and En-
plovment Bureau, said to-day;
"I and twenty girls IN our socle'!
have been working among the poor oil
prdsnest since the beginning OF the
u,ar and I have neither seen nor been
told, except in letters from New HorA'
Of anything even remotely like DreSo
riot in the city. 1t Is dlthcuit' OF
course. TO fit so many unframed women
TO earn wages, particularly at this tune
when so many industries are stopped
but have not seen one actually nun
Dozens of persons have told the cor
respondent the same thing, and all are
more or less amused at American let
ters Offering food that poured into this
country following stories published IN
America. Food has gone up IN price
certainly, but trip to the centrai
municipal market revealed the foilow-
inc facts: Beef has risen 20 per cent,
bnt beef tongnes, which are not used
in canned meat rauons prepared 1or
tbe troops. are at half price. Before
the war onions. which are used for
army rations, trebled, but potatoes
despite the fact that so many are used
for -four. remained stationary. Pork
and veal have risen, but poultry shows
no change. Oranges arc stationary, but
the fruitwomen complained that they
sold less than ordinarily. condition
which they explained by the people
iack of money. Fresh vegetables are
up about 10 per cent.
"Most of our truck gardeners are
Rulgarians." said a buyer for one oi
the hotels, $50 they are not at war, al
in month or two | expect normal
prices for vegetables"
AS MANY as ten persons day are
elected from the city by the police foi
petty deals TO buy and hold produce
and a detective system extending even
10 the coffee houses had TO be intro
duced to get the evidence against theSe
enterprising merchants.
War flour and war bread are ex-
tremely unpopular. The general com
nlaint. however, is against the way the
t;str. .bution is managed, and not that
the country is likely TO suffer from
lack of food All across the plains,
VI Hungary wheat is already up, and
no sowing of the new crop has been
done we'll From one % three weeks
leave has been granted when asked for
by soldiers with land, and large per
centare of peasants have done their
own sowing. Many of the wives of
large landowners have established day
nurseries in the villages, where chill
dren are cared for on condition that
their mothers work in the fields.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
[Rn cahle % Tho Tribun..l J


Rome, March 30.-Advices from
Trieste state that Austrian reservlsts
who happen TO own or farm land in
the Trentino have been granted Tort
nights leave Of absence in order 10
attend TO their agricultural work. This
measure is said to be based on the fact
tbat assurances have been received IN
Vienna that Italy will maintain her
neutrality and that the majority Of the
nation IS opposed TO war.
n ia a fact that the troops hitherto
concentrated on the western frontier
have been partially withdrawn, but
hustrians are still convinced that ltal-
ian intervention is inevitable, and are
continuing their defensive prepara-
lions. though not in the Alpine region.
The svmposium on Anglo-ltalian re-
lations which still continues in the
"Giornale dTtalia" presents new feat
ure in a letter from DR.. Rouse, who
savs he would like to see Italy take
+ este but restore to Greece the thir-
teen Egean islands occupied by Italy.
The "Corriere d'Italia" publishes a
letter remarking upon the enthusiasm
of Irish Roman Catholics for the Brit
ish cause, and adds that Sir Roger
Easement and his friends are anti
Clcricals.
Despite the denial .,rinted by the
Vatican organs that any negotiations
are pending between the government
an the Holy See respecting the posi-
tion of the diplomatists accredited to
the Holy See if war breaks out, the
question continues TO interest (. lta
ian press. Professor Scaduto, an emf
nent authority, expresses the opinion
that the only solution would be to is-
sue decree temporarily suspending
the immunity granted to those dip
lomatists by the law of guarantees.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
Official War Bulletins
WESTERN FRONT.

m)During the night Of March 1880 the
the
seat 0 the Aisne
Of Pc ths Besuour and VesurTours
which obtained the
In tenacl
apprecabe results either side
On Monday north Of Verdun by
metre shells artillery Immediately enced the German batteries The
not
trenches 100 Despite violent counter ATTACK
maintained greater Of the trenches
To the west Of carried German and repued
On the battlefield the bodies Of
dred Germans have counted
+. NJ Champagne aVot
Rheims wounded
One nroiectle on he Of the cathedral
battery forced
retire in disorder village Of Jeudcou the northeast OF S.
Mhel.
engagements took place.
BERLNA telegram headquarters dated March 80 state;
artillery comas and
sapping operations
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
Keep Up Light BOmbard-
ment from Entrance
of DardanelleS.
ALLIES VESSELS
ARE DRIVEN BACK
Porte Masses Troops at Smyrna
to Prevent Landing-German
Commander Confident.

Dardanelles, March % via Berlin,
March 30).--After having remained al
most totally inactive since March Is
vessels OF the allied feet to-day devel-
oped slight activity near the entrance
to the Dardanelles, bombarding lightly
what appears to have becJ an unten-
anted infantry position.
Since March l8 the Allies have not
made an attack OF any sort on the
town Of Dardanelles. Every allied
vessel which has penetrated the
Straits at night has been met by firing
from the Turkish troops, and the re-
suit invariably has been quick with
drawal. Apparently no serious attempt
to sweep the mines from the Darda-
nelles waters has been made by the
Allies since March Is.
Fleet Believed Crippled.
Meanwhile the weather conditions
for a bombardment have been Of the
best. The belief is expressed here that
the resumption of the bombardment
has been delayed because, in addition
to tho ships sunk March 1S. most of
the other vessels engaged were very
badly used by the Dardanelles bat
teries. Turkish officers say that the
Allies are not likely to resume their
operations as long as they are unable
to avail themselves Of a fire superior
to that of March Is, which they declare
was tremendous, but totally incapable
of coping with the situation.
The Associated Press correspondent
in the last few days has visited every
Dardanelles fort bombarded by the
Allies on the 18th. He discovered that,
notwithstanding the heavy shelliire
from the warships, the damage sus-
tanned by the Turkish positions was
exceedingly slight.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
691O6O Aid German Loan.

Amsterdam, March 3O.-A message
from Berlin says that 2,69l,o6O sub
scriptions to the second German war
loan were received. Nearly two-thirds
Of the subscribers contributed 1000
marks (s25Gl or less.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31

talk about his visit to the customs Of
Gcials. In official quanters the opinion
still prevnils that the German raider es
viii intern. but there are many mere
who have associated with officer, ana an,
men of tho ship who say she will put
10 sea and take chance OF escaping
the niles.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
Indorses a Dry Britain.

Bradford. England, March 5O.-The
Chamber o. Commerce adopted tonight
a resolution in favor Of total prohlbl-
tion. with compensation to the holders
Of liquor licenses.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
xXylIY is Tammany Hall
w chuckling these days'

Is the Republican
party overlooking its big
chance in New York State
or is it merely another in
competentP
What Albany does affects
you-and your pocketbook
every day of your life.
The first six months Of an
administration are just as
important as the six months
Immediately before election.
To do something about
i" means to know a lot
about it, and the first move
is to get clear. shrewd
view of New York politics
as The Tribunes editorial
page under Frank II.
Sim o n d s is presenting it.
Ghe Trtbunf
First to Last the Truth
Iews - Editorials - Advertisement
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
British AriStOCrQtS Die
as Price of Leadership
Continued from page l

England agang to have the child
agricultural aborers
enthusiasm for less than the classes
small shOpeeper class is keeping away
classwhat call ommuters-tee 1t least
Of ALL said an English journalist
New-York tribune., 1915-03-31
Turks Repair Damage
to Forts of Strait

London. March 3O.-According to dis
patches from Athens the operations IN
the Dardanelles on Sunday and Non
dav were confined to an intermittent
bombardment of several Turkish posi-
tions. in which seaplanes co-operated.
The Turkish reply was feeble. The
Turks are actively engaged in repair
ing damage done the tortltlcatlons.
Large bodies of Turkish troops, 1t ls
said, are being concentrated at Smyrna
to oppose landing by allied forces.
An official statement issued to-day by
the Ottoman War Office says that one
of the Turkish seaplanes has dropped
bombs on a British HarshIp cruising
outside the Dardanelles.
A dispatch from Constantinop!e by
way of Berlin says the first lombard
ment of the Turkish fortihcations on
the Bosporus by the Russian Black Sea
fleet consisted of the firing OF lZo
shots at the forts from a distance or
seventeen kilometres eleven miles,
and that the forts did not reply TO this
fire.
Russians Report Contradictory.
Petrograd official reports of the bonn
bardment of the Bosporus forts last
Sunday say that the Russian fire was
accurate and that the vessels of the
Black Sea fleet drove back some Turk
ish torpedo boats which attempted a
sortie. and sent one Turkish ship to the
bottom.
A dispatch from Bucharest, where
Field Marshal Won der Goltz evidently
stopped on his way rom Sofia to ber-
lin, saws the German commandant OF
Constantinople declared that the de-
fences of the Dardanelles had proved
more effective than had been expected
and that he now would affirm that the
allied fleet would not force a passage.
"W, await new attack without
fear" the field marshal is reported to
have averred. "The more ships there
are the better satisfied We shall be.
We do not lack ammunition, for Turk
ism factories supply Us all we want.
Turkish industry has been sufficiently
developed 70 equip q fresh army OF
500 900, which it will be easy to mobil-
ize."
Petrograd. March 80. -A An official
communication issued tonight tells OF
the operations of the Russian feet
against the Bosporus. 1t says:
"On Monday morning our fleet ap-
preached the outer fortifcations of the
Bosporus, but was unable 10 continue
the bombardment, as a fog shrouded
the coasts. One of our smaller ships
exchanged shots with a Turkish de-
stroyer, which made off at full speed
for the Bosporus after the first shots"