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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
Captured Captain Says
Raider Was Fitted Out
For Trip in German Port

New York. Feb. 2S.-The German
raider which sank so many entente
vessels in the South Atlantic in Janu-
airy was so skillfully armed and so
well manned as to indicate she was
prepared in a German port, especially
for her mission of destroying mer-
chantmen, according to Captain T.
Fakeshima, of the Japanese steam
ship Hudson Maru, which arrived to-
day from Pernambuco, Brazil, The
Hudson Maru was one of the vessels
captured.
Made prisoner January on n voy-
age from Bombay to New York, Cap
tain Fakeshima saw four ships sunk
after their crews had been removed.
On January l2 nearly 240 officers and
men were placed on the Hudson Maru,
which was ordered into Pernambuco,
where she arrived January 16. The
men were from the St. Theodore, Nan
tes, Oramatist, Radnorshire, Ausieres,
Minieth and Netherby Hall, all entente
craft.
Captain Fakeshma, summoned on
board the raider before being released,
said the guard was so strict that not
one of the prisoners learned the raid
er's identity.
The Japanese skipper observed that
the two big guns and the two torpedo
tubes had been put in place with an
efficiency which convinced him that
the ship, while a converted cargo ves-
sci. must have been equipped in a
port where German guns, material and
marines were plentiful. The raider
was a 5,000-ton boat, he said, with a
speed Of S knots
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
Paris Papers Commend
Wilson But See War Step
BY .lssocidfed Press

Paris, Feb. 2S.-The morning pa
pers, while without exception COM
mending President Wilson's prudence
and his determination to have the
whole body of American citizens be-
hind him, agree in recognizing his
message to Congress as distinctly a
further step in the direction of war.
Georges Clemenceau, in his paper,
L'Homme Enchaine, reflects the SEN
timent generally expressed when he
says:
"A pacifist out and out, President
Wilson does not stand for peace at
any price. On the day when the dig
nifty and sovereignty of the United
States are menaced or attacked he
will enter on another course. His first
step was to exercise moral pressure on
Germany. Such was the meaning of
the rupture of diplomatic relations. AS
that failed he has proclaimed armed
ercise material pressure. This pres
sure will be transformed into material
action and that means war"
The Figaro thinks that President
Wilson knows we'll that war is inevi-
table but that he will not have it said
that it was let loose by the United
States.
The Petit Journal, referring to the
torpedoing of the Laconia, believes
that events are likely to force the
Presidents hand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
Flood Bill, Satisfactory
to President, Is Curbed
ByForeign Affairs Body


Washington, Feb. 2S.-The House
Foreign Affairs Committee to-day re-
ported the Flood bill designed to give
the president power to protect the lives
of United states citizens and American
ships, after striking out the words 9th
er instrumentalities" and amending the
measure to prohibit government war
insurance for ships carrying munitions
of war.
AS reported by the House Commit
tee, the bill would read:
THE President of :he United States
be, and is hereby authorized and en-
powered to supply merchant ships, the
property of citizens of the United States
and bearing registry of the United
States with defensive arms. and also
with the necessary ammunition and
means of making use of them in de-
fense against unlawful attack: and that
he be, and is hereby authorized and
empowered to protect such ships and
citizens of the United States against
unlawful attack while in their lawful
and peaceful pursuits on the high seas"
This eliminates the provision which
would have empowered the President
to employ such other instrumentali-
ties and methods as may in his judg-
ment and discretion seem necessary and
adequate"
The bill would provide the S1OO. 900. :
600 bond issue and authorize the Presi-
dent to transfer some of the funds to
the war risk insurance bureau but con-
tains this phrase prohibiting insurance
of munition ships: said bureau of
war risk insurance shall not insure
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
Washington Expresses
Indignation OUer Speech
of German Chancellor

Washington. Feb. 2S.-Surprise bor-
dering on indignation was voiced here
officially to-day over Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg's speech to the
Reichstag
,, State Department officials are amazed
that the chancellor should seek further
to confuse German-American relations
with series of statements which the-
say are palpably opposed to the most
obvious events of recent history.
The chancellor's statement that the
United States severed relations
! "brusquely" is viewed as too absurd
for discussion. 1t isSponted out that
the American correspondence had plain
ly threatened such action; that Count
Won Bernstorff had said for several
days before hand that he expected to
be dismissed and that the German Gov
ernment had shown it's realization of
the coming break by sending out or
ders to disable its merchant ships in
this country.
1t also was pointed out that while
the United States delayed three days
in taking the action 1t had clearly fore
shadowed in several notes, Germany
put into effect its campaign of ruth
lessness on eight hours notice, after
months of assurances that she had no
intention of taking such a step.
The statement condemning President
| Wilson for announcing an embargo on
arms to Mexico and not to Europe was
dismissed as both absurd and incorrect
The cases are hehld to be in no way
parallel as Mexico was in civil war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
EAT Rice" Campaign in
N. Y. Meets Opposition

New York, Feb. 2S.-The citizens
food supply committee learned to-day
that its 'eat rice" campaign was meet
ing opposition. especially among the
poor of the East Side. Speakers at
some of the impromptu mass meetings
asserted that rice was not a satisfac-
tory substitute for some of the staple
foods and that Americans could not
live on it.
Reports received by the committee,
however, show that there has been q
growing demand for rice at retail
stores throughout the city.
Stale bread as a means of defeat
ing high food prices Is advocated by
the latest bulletin Of the Health De-
partment The bulletin says that good
white bread two days old may be
bought for four or five cents twelve
ounce loaf. and gives a number of
suggestions for preparing it in palata-
BILE ways.
Commissioner Hartigan, of the Bu-
reau of Weights and Measures, an
nounced that food commissioners in
2s states had informed him that there
were large quantities of potatoes and
onions for sale at reasonable prices in
all these states except one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
37,5OO,O 900 Added to
Army Appropriation Bill

The principal increase ordered is
S13,60O,00 for clothing and camp and
garrison equipment, making the total
for this purpose $2S, 900. The COM
mittee was actuated in recommending
the increase as result of the Mexi-
can mobilization, which demonstrated
that clothing supplies and camp equip
ment were, as Senator Chamberlin ex-
pressed it, ''woefully lacking"
Other large increases ordered are
$780, 600 for automatic machine
rifles; S1,000.000 for civilian military
training: S1,350,000 for government
manufacture of arms; S2,000,000 for
army subsistence; s2,S00,0OO for the
signal service: S2,453,995 for supplies
to the quartermaster's corps; $1,373,-
$50 for transportation. and $500, 900
for military roads in Alaska.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28

tue of an act passed on or before De-
cember 81, 1918.
In order TO pay the necessary ex-
penses connected with the said issue
of bonds or any conversions thereof,
sum not exceeding one-fifth of one
per centum of the amount of bonds
herein authorized TO be issued, or
which may be converted, is hereby
appropriated out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to be expended as the Secretary of
the Treasury may direct.
The President is authorized to
transfer so much of the amount here
in appropriated as he may deem nec-
essary not exceeding S25 100000 To the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Great
cd by act of Congress, approved Sep
tcmber =, 1914, for the purpose of in-
suring vessels, their freight, passage
moneys and cargoes against loss or
damage by the present risk of war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
Bill Drafted by Foreign
Relations Committee

Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled:
That the commanders and crews
of all merchant vessels of the United
States and bearing the registry of
the United States are hereby author
lied to arm and defend such vessels
against unlawful attacks, and the
President of the United States is
hereby authorized and empowered to
supply such vessels with defensive
arms, fore and aft, and also with
the necessary ammunition and means
of making use of them; and that he
be and is hereby authorized and em-
powerd to employ such other in
strumentalities and methods as may
in his Judgment and discretion seem
necessary and adequate to protect
such vessels and the citizens OF the
United States in their lawful and
peaceful pursuits on the high seas.
The sum of 100000, 900 is hereby
authorized to be expended by the
President of the United States for the
purpose of carrying into effect the
foregoing provisions, the said sum to
be available until the first day of
January, 1918.
For the purpose of meeting the ex-
penditures herein authorized the Sec
retary of the Treasury, under the di-
rection of the President, is hereby
TO borrow on the credit of
the United States and to issue there
for bonds of the United States not
900, said bonds to be i'm such form
and subject to such terms and con-
ditions as the Secretary of the Treas
ury may prescribe and 10 bear interest
at rate not exceeding three per
ccntum per annum; Provided that
such bonds shall be sold at not less
than par, shall not carry any circula-
ton privileges and that all citizens of
the United States shall be given an
equal opportunity to subscribe there
for, but no commission shall be allow
ed or paid thereon; that both princi-
pal and interest shall be payable in
United States gold coin of the present
standard of value and be exempt from
all taxation and duties of the United
States as well as from taxation in
any form of all State, municipal or
local authorities; that any bonds Is
sued hereunder may. under such con-
ditions as the Secretary of the Treas
ury may prescribe, be convertible In
to bonds bearing a higher rate of in
tcreSt than three per centum per an
mum IL any bonds shall be issued by
the United States at n higher rate than
three per centum per annum by vir-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
James W. Gerard Sails
on Infanta Isabel for Cuba

Corunna, Spain, Feb. 81. (via
Paris, Feb. 2S.)-James w. Gerard,
former American ambassador at Ber-
lin. sailed to-day on the steamship
Infanta Isabel for Havana. The
steamer is expected to reach that
port March s or Q.
Mr.. Gerard was escorted to his
boat by the mayor of Corunna, in place
of the governor, who is i'll; the Brit
ish vice consul, and the Cuban con-
sui. The Infanta Isabel was filled
to capacity carrying $50 in her
steerage.
William H. Gahl, formerly Ameri-
can consul general at Munich. ar
rived here to-day and with difficulty
got passage on the Infanta Isabel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
s"s-s''s
HOW TO REMOVE
WRINKLES
A simple. safe and Reliable Way

Those who have become prematurely
wrinkled, whether from trouble, worry
or i'll health, know full well the price
less treasure they have lost. There is
no need, however of any woman injur-
ing her chances of social or financial
success by carrying around these
marks of time. Neither is it necessary
to be treated by an expensive beauty
specialist. Right in your own home
ana without tiresome massage or face
steaming YOU can remove your
wrinkles and bring back to your checks
the rosy bloom of girlhood.
Simply get little am-o-niZed cocoa
from your druggist and after washing
your face with warm water apply this
as you would an ordinary cold cream;
leave on for a few minutes and then
wipe off with soft dry cloth. You will
be delighted to see how it brightens
up the skin, clears the complexion and
erases the wrinkles, lines and crows
feet. 1t seems to contain just the nour-
ishment the skin requires to keep it
pink and healthy. Besides it gives to
the complexion that fresh and charm
ing appearance which always makes
woman look young and attractive
Advertisement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
MEASURES TO
DETERMINE COURSE
[Continucd From First PageI

President to protect American rights
bue with changes which are unwslcome
to the administration,
IL declined to make provision for the
President to use "other instrumental
ties which he desires, and prohibited
giving government war insurance to
munition ships.
The bill reported Yesterday by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee is
practically agreeable to the President.
The two measures may be reconclled
In some way, although the President
mas given notice that he expect no
material changes
Prospects of FIIibuster
Prospects OF Republican filibuster
loomed up again In che Senate. Sena-
tors who to-day began to Insist upon
free and FUR discussion OF all meas
ures, openly assert that the reason for
their course is to fo@ee Ru extra ses-
sion of Congress,
The major part of the Republican
opposition apparently does not lie
against the revenue bill. said to-day
that many Republicans would not OPP
pose granting the President merely the
power to arm merchant ships and pro-
vide funds for that purpose, but were
use other instrumentalities." These
senator's feel Congress should be in ses-
sion IT such powers are granted.
No doubt now remains in the minds
OF State Department officials that the
sudden night attack on the Laconia
embodied an open defiance of the
principles for which the United States
Government has contended, but it was
stated no additional step would be
taken pending action by Congress to
grant President Wilson the authority
he asks.
Break With Austria Close
Reports that the German govern
ment is now OBTAINING the Yarrowdale
prisoners on the excuse that an infec-
tous disease has, been discovered at
the place where they are living, were
received here with u feeling approach
ing evaporation. In addition to this
Irritating incident, it was disclosed
that the State Department feels a
break in relations with Austria Hun
gary is SO inevitable that Ambassador
Penfield at Vienna has been in
structed TO make arrangements for
withdrawal of American diplomats and
consuls from the country.
me House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee to-day resumed consideration of
the bill TO authorize the President to
enter state of armed neutrality but
decided oposition was apparent to
granting him as broad powers as he
wishes. Administration forces in the
Senate tried 60 get the bill reported
Yesterday by the Foreign Relations
Committee. but Senator LaFollette
stood in the way with a refusal to
give unanimous consent. Many differ
ences OF opinion on details of the bill
had developed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
Thaw is Pronounced
Physical and Mental Wreck
BY .tstoeiatcG Press

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 2S 49, Harry
X. Thaw is a physical and mental
wreck. according to a report made to-
day to Cantain of Detectives Tate by
John Wanamaker, 3rd., a police sur
seon who was present yesterday when
New York alienists examined Thaw
at n hospital here. DR.. Wanamaker
said that it. would be impossible to
remove him from the institution at
present. Thaw was taken to the hos
pital seven weeks ago when he cut
his throat while police were search
ing for him on a warrant charging
him with beating a Kansas City high
school boy in a New York hotel.
The Thaw family to-day is COM
pleting its plans for the lunacy pro-
ceedings instituted by Thaw's mother
last Monday. The first hearing before
the sheriff's jury of six men will be
held March l2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
"Tiz" GLADDENS
SORE, TIRED FEET
No pufed-up, burning, tender,
aching feet-no corns
or callouses.

"Tiz' makes sore, burning, tired
feet fairly dance with delight. Away
go the aches and pains, the corns, call
louses, blisters, bunions and chilblains.
"Tiz' draws out the acids and poi
sons that puff up your feet. No matter
how hard you work. how long you
dance, how far you walk, or how long
you remain on your feet, "Tiz" brings
restful foot comfort. "Tiz" is magical,
grand wonderful for tired, aching,
swollen, smarting feet All! how COM
Portable. how happy you feel. Your
feet just tingle for joy; shoes never
hurt or seem tight.
Get % cent box of "Tiz" now from
any druggist or department store. End
foot torture forever--wear smaller
shoes, keep your feet fresh. sweet and
happy. Just think, a whole years
foot comfort for only 25 cents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
Hurrah! HoW'S This
Cincinnati authority says corns
dry up and lift out
with fingers.

Hospital records show that every
time you cut a corn you invite lock-
jaw or blood poison, which is need
less, says a Cincinnati authority, who
tells you that quarter ounce of a
drug called freeZone can be obtained
at little cost from the drug store but
is sufficient to rid ones feet of every
hard or soft corn or callus.
You simply apply a few drops of
freezone on a tender, aching corn and
soreness is instantly relieved. Short
1y the entire corn can be lifted out,
root and all, without pain.
This drug is sticky but dries at once
and is claimed to just shrivel up any
corn without inflaming or even irri-
tating the surrounding tissue or skin.
II your wife wears high heels she
will be glad to know of this.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
SON OF MRS. HOY DEMANDS
REVENGE IN CABLE TO WILSON
By Assoeiated Press

Washington. Feb. 2S-President Wilson has received the
following cabegram from Austin Y. Hoy whose mother and
sister lost when the Lacona opedoed without
ing by German submarine:
Il am an American citizen representing the Sullivan
Machinery Company of Chicago living abroad not
patriate but for the promotion of American trade love the
flag believing in its significance My beloved mother and
sister passengers the cona have been fouy murdered
the high
'As American citizen outraged and, such, fully with
III rights and American and brother bereaved
call upon preserve its citizens self
respect and others of my counymen from such deep
grief as now feel of military age, able fight If
country against these brutal assassins
call
If stufes my manhood and my nations by remaining
passive under outrage shall seek mans chance
another flag"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
WHERE IS The MOTHER

with child who is rundown, has pale
cheeks or thin blood, who will hesitate
togive that child the verythingitneeds
to start it growing and keep it going1
For overfortyyears the concentrated
liquid-food in Scott's Emulsion has
been changing thinness to plumpness
changing poor blood to rich blood.
There is nothing better for growing
children-whether they are weak or
well-than SCOTS Emulsion, but see
that you get the genuine Scott's.
Scott & Bs sns. Bloomnsd. N. ]. 1870
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
APPLAUD CHANCELLoR's SPEECH
By AsSociGtfi Press

Berlin, Feb. 81. - (By Wireless to
Sayville, Feb, 2S.) - Chancellor Won
Hollweg's speech to the
Reichstag, in which he discussed re-
iations between Germany and the
United States in detail, was received
with great applause by a crowded
house. Almost every sentence he
uttered, the Overseas News Agency
says, brought forth expressions OF ap-
proval and at the conclusion of his
address there was a demonstration on
the part of the members Of the Reich
stag and the spectators in the gall
leries. Almost all the diplomatic rep
resentatives still in Berlin were pres
ent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
HOW THIS MOTHER
Got Strength To Do Her Work

Fair Haven, VT was so nervous
and run down that / could not do my
housework for my little family of
three. l had doctored for nearly two
years without help. One day / read
about Vinol, and thanks to 1t, my
health has been restored so am doing
all my housework once more. I am
telling all my friends what Vinol has
done for me."-Mrs. James H. Eddy.
Vinol contains beef and cod liver
peptones. iron and manganese pep
tonates and glycerophosphs+es which
create healthy appetite, aid digestion
and make pure blood.
George A. Gorgas. druggist; Kenne-
dy's Medicine store. S21 Market street I;
G. F. Kramer, Third and Broad
streets; Kitzmiller's Pharmacy, 1925
Derry street. Harrisburg. Also at the
leading drug store In all Pennsylvania
fowns
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
CHURCH NOTES
TO TELL LIFE STORY

John Fulton, superintendent of
Bethesda Mission, will tell the story of
his life tomorrow evening, at 7.45
o'clock, in the Technical High School
1t will be Harrisburg's 8
first opportunity to hear this story of
a conversation that has been told in
many cities in America during the last
ten years.
Ten years ago Mr.. Fulton was the
proprietor of hotel in New York City
that represented an investment of over
$50 900. He was converted, walked out
OF his office, taking not one cent of
his wealth and began missionary work
in the metropolis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
Austrian Reply to
u. S. on U-Boat Stand
Will Back Germany
BY Associated Press

London, Feb. 2S.-The Austrian re-
ply to the American note in regard to
the submarine issue will be handed
shortly to the United States ambassa-
dor in Vienna and will probably en-
dorse the position of Germany, ac-
cording to Reuters Amsterdam dis
patch quoting a Berlin telegram to the
Weser Zeitung of Bremen.
The telegram says that the Vienna
government will clearly express the
view that there is no turning back for
the central powers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28

any arms or ammunition or any vessel
carrying arms and ammunition con-
signed to belligerent countries or any
citizen thereof"
MIR. Flood said this provision would
permit the arming and protection of
munitions ships but would not permit
their insurance by the government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
ADDRESS ON U-BoATs

manuel Presbyterian Bible Glass, on
Friday evening, II. T. Echlernach will
tell of his experiences with submarines
and of trip around the world with
the United States Navy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
TO GIVE CONCERT

Plans are being made by St. Angus
tines Episcopal Church to bring sew
eral noted colored musicians to this
city to render a concert in Chestnut
street Hall, on April 10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-28
TO SPEAK on BUSINESS

Charles +. Zimmerman, of Lebanon,
viii address the Mems League of the
First PRESBYTERIAN Church, tonight, at
o'clock, on Government and Busi-
ness"