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termed German liners have been sei2eo
which will show the exact damage done IN
every instance where 1t is possible TINS ualn-
age will be repaired at once ana tht NesselS
will be taken over for the use OF Tic boN
ernment II has been decided that III tnc
case of n number of the vessels their ma
chinery will be replaced entirely so that
they can be put into comm ssion without
any long delay
Financing plans are well under way
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo touaE
continued his conference with the Leading
members of the Ways and Means Cofnmit-
tee OF the House and of the Senate Finance
Committee Senator Simmons, chairman Oh
the latter committee, said that ne nau ue-
cided to suggest that in planning the new
system OF taxation which Will permit the
nation to pay as it goes a great deal OF
tho war expense the committee consider
the methods of taxation now in effect on the
other side of the ocean In addition num-
ber of committees of experts affiliated with
the National Council OF Defense are WORK.
ing to solve the financial problem III mas
been agreed that the Federal Reserve Board
will float all bond issues, while "A commute"
named bv the Chamber Of Commerce of the
I.nited states. and working in connection
with the Council of National Defense. VIII
suggest a method whereby the new financial
burden will be distributed cquitabN MI
Iuxuries are TO be taxed 20 the limit to raise
noney. excess profits will "dO their bit,
while the income tax will he increased to Il
very considerable extent
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Inquiries regarding the status OF these per
sons have been addressed through the
Swiss Minister here
many OF the Latin-American countries "a
being exerted TO, the limit against Germany
Cuba will stand by the United states to the
extent of declaring war, while Brazil very
probably will do the same. Sinking with
out warning of the Brazilian steamship
Parana has infiamed Brazilian circles gem
orally and latest dispatches show that the
Government Is being urged TO accept that
action as an act of war. The state De-
partment is keeping the closest watch on
these developments. There has been much
pro-tierman sentiment in Argentine ofhcipl
circles and 1t Is believed the best check
possible on that nation would be for Brazil
formally to follow the course OF the United
States. Mexico also Is being watched closely
and the nation Is in readiness to hahdie
any hostile move from that country.
The general dragnet against plotters is
showing good results At the Department
of Justice IL Is admitted that the Govern
ment has knowledge of many plotters VINO
rave not yet been arrested but who are
being closely watched. only those against
whom the evidence is complete are being
arrested at this time. In the case OF
many others IT is expected that the Govern
ment will await action by Congress on the
espionage bills before going after them.
The Treasury Department today was
awaiting reports Of 'hc boards Of survey
appointed at the various ports where IN
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MADOO PLANS COUNCIL OF FINANCE
TO HANDLE BILLIONS IN WAR ISSUES

ana currency Committees and the Senate
FINANCE and Banking and Currency Com
mittees and representative group of bank
erS
The day of marketing Government bonds
through banking syndcates has passed.
ana the big new issues Of war bonds are
TO be handled by the twelve Federal re-
serve banks as fiscal agents of the Govern
ment, according to present plans Of the Ad-
ministration.
While the bankers of the country have
taken a patriotic position and have agreed
to assist the Government in every way Dos
sible' offcials here are not going to market
the war loan through private hands Also
arrangements for the sale of the bonds will
DE elaborate and specific, fully protecting
the Government. Liberal deposits must be
made by bidders on bonds before the securi-
ties will be turned over.
speculation in these securities will be dis
couraged and every issue will be placed be-
fore the public with an appeal that every
cltlZen participate in financing the Govern
meht' In pursuance of this policy it is un-
derstood that bonds of low denomina tions
will be authorized,
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SO BATTLES WITH SUBMARINES,
BRITISH REPORT, UP TO MARCH II

greatness of that state and impose its will
on the rest of the world.
1T is that spirit we are fighting it is
that doctrine which we must destroy if we
wish durable peace
AS to the results of the submarine block
ade ! cannot deny that grave losses have
been caused shipping, but l do not think |
am eXaggerating in saying that the losses
have fallen very far short of those the Ger
mans hoped to infiict
Like all bullies, the Germans are fondest
OF attacking those who cant defend them
selves. Cnarmed neutral merchantmen are
Just the sort of targets that a German
submarine hero really likes
Il am sure you will realize that for
naval reasons it is impossible for me to
speak very definitely on this subject
II am authorized to state by the Ad-
miralty, however, that between February
II and March II there were twenty-nina
combats between British ships and subma-
rines.
Remember that from February | to Eeh-
ruary II, Sir Edward Carson announcod
not loss than forty combats had taken nIace
Thus to date, there have been over sfxtv-
nine" N'
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AMERICA MAY LEAD WAY TOWARD
WORLD PEACE, BRITISH DECLARE

day follow the same lead as the Morning
say at this time to what American inter-
Nention will lead. 1t is accepted as a GER
tainty, however that il will stimulate the
reform movement in Germany and inspire
to greater efforts the German Socialists and
Liberals who are working for political free
dom.
The Times says that the intervention
of the United States is so pregnant with
possibilities that lit battles understanding
on both sides of the Atlantic"
The Daily Telegraph says that the i'm
mensity of the meaning of Americas entry
in the war and its bearing upon the future
Of civilization cannot be foreseen.
All OF this comment emphasizes the atti-
tude of Premier Lloyd George that the
United States is no longer isolated. but is
companion Power of the nations of Eu-
rope. European politics of the future win
have their bearing upon the United States,
as well as upon the countries on this side
of the Atlantic.
Leading British statesmen continue TO
give expression to optimistic predictions.
Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade.
and Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the
EXchequer. both believe that the end of the
war has been brought closer by the entry of
the United States.
May the peace that comes then be hon
orable and lasting" said the Blockade Min
lister
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WASHINGTON, April

\ plan for the creation of a war council
of finance is under consideration by the
Administration.
The task Of furnishing the money not
only for American partic' patton in the
world conflict, but also in aiding TIE Allies
is so gigantic that ii is believed it could
better be cared for by a specially consti-
tutcd body. If formed it will take tie same
status in regard to the finances of the
nation that the Council of National De-
feLse does to the nations industries.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo is
being assured of the hearty support of the
bankers Of the country in his undertaking
He has been told that the bankers do not
desre to make any profit from war bonds
speculation but will use the institutions
and facilities for marketing bonds with a
view to raising the most money for the
national war chest
The finance council probably would be
composed of the Secretary of the Treasury
as cha a'rnan. members of the Federal Re-
serve Board, the chairmen of the House
Ways and Means Committee and Banking
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PRESIDENT TO URGE
BIG LOAN TO ALLIES
WASHINGTON. April


The extension of credit to the Allies
of more than one billion dollars and prob
ably as much as five billion will he the
first step of actual participation in the
war under the plan to be suggested to
Congress by the President it was learned
today.
The fact became known following con-
ference at the Capitol between Senator
Simmons Of the Finance Committee and
Treasury Secretary McAdoo. The confer
ence was brief. This was taken to mean
there is complete agreement between Ad-
ministration and congressional finance
heads in the matter of money to be raised
and to be loaned the Entente Allies.
How the Government will raise the
$500. 100000 1t needs as "a starter to
finance aggressive war against Germany
is being mapped out today behind closed
doors in the Office of Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo.
At the department it was said no an
nOuncement would be made right away
regarding todaN's conference of the Ad-
ministration's. Cabinet and congressional
finance managers.
Warning that the haphazard placing of
billions of dollars of bonds to finance the
war would seriously affect the market and
country, Senator John w. Weeks today ad.
vocated calling into conference financial
experts of the nation before any financial
operations are undertaken.
IF the bonds are placed in "A hapha zard
way the market will be seriously affected
and the Government be the sufferer" said
Weeks.
Immediately following his visit to the
Capitol McAdoo returned to his offices in the
Treasury Department to confer with lead
ers of the Ways and Means Committee of
the House. in which body al appropriation
measures originate. II is now settled that
large part. of the $1,000 900 900 already
asked for by the Administration will be
raised by a bond issue. The rema inder will
he raised by taxes. Suggestions of new
sources of income through taxation are in.
cluded in the plan.
on other sources already taxed the in
come will be increased by systematically
boosting the tax Liquor and tobacco will
suffer most
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BRICK COMPANY PAYROLL
DEPLETED BY ROBBERS

Two robbers today held up the paymaster
and bookkeeper of the Early Brick Manu-
featuring Company Nicetown lane and L,
street, and escaped with $685. Detectives
are searching the city for the men.
Richard Dodger, bookkeeper and Will
nam murphy paymaster. We're making out
the saturday payroll when two young men
about twenty-five years old, entered IN.
once OF the company and approached the
cashiers cage. Dodger and Murphy We're
engaged In placing money into pay en-
Velopes' Suddenly the young men whipped
OUT revolVers and covered Dodger and Mir.
pny, one OF the robbers grabbed pile of
oiis' anu men both ran out OF the office
anu across vacant lots to Wyoming avenue
where they boarded car going east M
po'ice Oh the- Front and Westmoreland
streets station were notified
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MAY ADD PORTFOLIO
OF AERONAUTICS


Representative Hubert has proposed a
bill creating a department of aeronautics
giving its secretary portfolio i'm the Presi-
dents Cabinet.
The bill was referred to the House Mill
tary Committee Chairman Dent promised
to appoint subcommittee at once to con-
slider the measure.
All funds now available for army and
navy aeronautics, plus an additional 81 ,Q0O,-
0OO are TO be turned over at once for es-
tabishment of the proposed new executive
department which will take over all army
and navy property and personnel pertaining
to aeronautcs.
Seven bureaus would operate under the
Secretary of Aeronautics". as follows
Land operations, naval operations radio
communications construction, aeronautic
research motor power and personnel and
accounts.
Each bureau chief would receive $4,000
year and the assistant secretary $4,000.
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u. S. CAN BUILD MERCHANT CRAFT
FASTER THAN U-BOATS CAN SINK EN-

Wooden vessels can be built virtually any
place whore there Is a good supply of fir
and n good beach that permits launching
easily. It is the plan of the shipping Board
to build vessels of this type from 1000 to
$500 tons. and under 800 feet in length
chairman Alexander said that construc-
tion of merchant ships along the elaborate
lines planned would necessitato an apprO-
pration Of many million dollars mole than
the 100000 900 placed in the hands of the
Shipping Board for the purchase or lease
Of ships To be operated by it, He said that
while the 500. 900 in additional tonnage OBJ
tanned through the seizure of German in
termed ships would be of material assist
ance to the United States, it would be neceS-
sary to augment that equipment with
wooden vessels as fast as they can he built.
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'hat great damage was caused to Entente
ana neutral shipping until mine-sweeping
ioree could be organized from the North
oea trawlers, The United States antici-
pa'es duplication Of this action against
u, ooth through mine-laying submarines
and vessels which likely have eyaded the
Nor'h Sea patrol Of the British fleet.
Meanwhile. the first twenty -four hours of
actual war conditions have passed without
any serious developments. Because of great
precautions taken by the Government there
mas been no rioting and German subjects
generaliy have been given the maximum oS
protection This. too, In the face OF reports
coming from the beat possible sources that
more than 100 American citixens, are q,
|stn11 I; gDopY Ief then W<.itIk
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SENATE PLANS TO
INCREASE ARMY FUND

WASHINGTON. April THE Senate
Military Affairs Committee this afternoon
decided to recommend on Hon-ay the I'M
mediate passage Of the $21S.OOO.OOO army
appropriation bill The measure Is identl-
caly the same as the one introduced last
session except that IT does not include UNI
versal military training.
The S27S OO0, 600 is S3S,0O0000 more than
the amount carried in the bill as passed by
the House. II viii be used to take care of
the immediate need of the regular army ana
National Guard and has no connection with
increases made necessary by the declara-
ton Of war.
Universal military training viii be rcCom-
mcndcd to the senate by the committee in
separate measure along the lines OF the
Chamberlain bill introduced Tuesday
The War Departments bill for the raising
Of troops for war with Germany was not
ready for submission to the committee to-
day it was explained 1t will be taken up
Tuesday when Secretary of War Baker or
General Scott. chief of staff. will he present
to explain it in detail to the committee.
Secretary of war Baker today asked the
House Military Affairs Committee to insert
in the General staff army bill new pro-
vision for consCripting technical or tcchni-
cally trained men for the army. such as
engineers and signal men.
The new provision asks as follows;
thuri2ed to raise and maintain by vol
uutCer enlistment or draft as herein
provided special and technical troops
as he may deem necessary and to en-
body them into organizations and to
officer them as provided by this act
Secretary Baker insisted that drafting or
conscriptiuu was necessary to raise the
army of 500. 600 men asked for in the bill
The volunteer system, he said, would not
hat In "a mo
system all classes of people would be liable
to service and there would be no discriin'
nation
The Secretary explained that the plan
of the department was to raise the regular
army and the National Guard to a strength
of 6l3OOO through voluntary enlistment
The draft of soldiers in patches of 100000
will then begin.
II is not planned to draft any particular
age from nineteen to twenty-five. but frsm
each of those ages. Exemptions will be
in the discretion of the War Department,
the Secretary explained. and principally
will he. where elgibles have absolute de-
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LONDON. April Z

LONDON. April Z.
More than sixty-nine combats against
German submarines have taken place since
February land twenty-nine of these in
the period from February 81 to March IL
Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade,
stated today.
His statement was evoked by a question
suggesting that he outline for Americans
what he thought the problems of the day
were in the submarine menace.
Several points stand out strikingly in
the German submarine blockade" he said.
''It is a confession Of weakness and a
sign that the Germans have really aban-
doned hope Of obtaining a successful issue
III land war. 1t also appears to be due
to a realization that they cannot hope to
contest the mastery of the seas which the
Allies have possessed.
81 will not speak of the aspect of the
campaign of brutality in this warfare. 1t
Is not new from Germans. Indeed it would
rather surprise the Alies-and / think /
may say neutrals--if the Germans hesi-
tated to employ any means because II was
inhuman or contrary to international law.
Their Government is a government of force.
Any means are justfable to maintain the
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w&s a new. speedy ship, built at the
German works of SchiChau. She was
taken to Using Tao and was oNcrhaulcd
and could do better than seventeen knots
She was equipped with guns, manned by
German crew.
The old German Euubuat tormofani
was being dismantled ~ 'rsing Tao and
the captain and most of her crew, were
transferred to the newly converted aux
Hilary cruiser. She was taken the first
night of the war and was the first prize
Of the Emdcn. The Russians claim she
had been taken inside the territorial
borders of Japan, which was prior to
Japan entering hostlites.
rhc oflcia, report on the blowing up of
the cruiser came to the department from
Captain II. c. Smith, present Governor Of
Guam
The cormorant figured in dispatches some
months ago. when Navy Department scan
dal grew out of the treatment of the German
crew by Governor General Maxwell at
Guam Commander Cronin, in charge of
the naval forces there. caused charges to
be filed against Maxwell. alleging that he
allowed the Germans unlimited privileges.
cronn caused MaXwclls arrest and had
him sent back to the United States in GUS
tody a court Of inquiry was appointed to
investigate MaXwells conduct No report
on that has ever been made
That Germany may stage something
spectacular against America within the
next few days--such as IA repetition of the
C-53 vsit--was the confident belief Of some
officials today.
The navy, however. can be said to be on
the full lookout for just such moves. And
everything is being done to check up on
Germany's moves
For instances lighthouses and lghtships
have been mobiized with the navy, and
ordered to report any suspicious incidents
along the coasts.
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GERMAN CREW TAKEN PRISONERS
AS THEY SINK INTERNED WARSHIP

time having left Cormorant for the
purpose Of sending n cable TO San
Francisco for supplies. The date of
the cipher was dated October - and
the location Of the Cormorant was not
disclosed.
Permission was not granted to send
inc cablegram and the officers ana men
were interned
ON December II, 1914. the German
auxiliary cruiser tormorant appeared
OFT the harbor of Apra and sent a
radio asking permission to enter for
coal and provisions. She was allowed
to enter and the commanding officer
permitted to visit the Governor.
commanding officer JuCkschwerdt
stated that he had just come from the
south Seas and was short of coal had
only about fifty tons ON board and re-
quested 1900 tons Of coal and provisions
TO reach his home port in German East
Africa.
The Governor replied that he could
only furnish 200 tons OF coal and
thirty days provisions only could he
spared and the commanding officer was
given the alternative OF departing with
in twenty-four hours or being interned
on December Is. 1914. the command
ing officer decided to remain IN port and
the ship and it's personnel were in-
termed.
The following were on board:
Twenty-one officers, one midshipman,
eleven deck officers. 307 petty officers
and men. four Chinese and twenty-nne
South Sea natives
The tOrmorant was formerly n
steamship in the Russian volunteer fleet
and was captured early in the morning
of August g. by S. NJ S. Emden and
was formally put in service as Ger
man auxiliary cruiser. Her name be
fore capture was the Rjaesan. During
peace she was in the passenger trade
between Shanghai and Vladivostok. She
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GEE WHIZ! AMERICA HAS DECLARED
WAR;" ALLIED ARMIES JURII AMT
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES AFIELD,
Apri. 7.-"Amcrica has declared war;" This
was the flash that went jublanty forward
over all field telephone and telegraph lines
to the Fighting line today.
Gee whiz Man. | feel like hugging
you" voiced an ordinarily quiet staff cap
tain Of the Canadian forces whose mother
was Philade' 'phan as we approached a
group of Canadian officers at an advanced
position.
''rhe Canadians are proud of the United
States-just as proud as any American
could be-" he continued. This will mean
much in our future of neighborly relations
Dye see that?" he inquired pointing at
a hurricane of shells bursting over the
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GERMAN RAIDER OFF NANTUCKET
SENDS SHIPS SCURRYING INTO PORT

Continued from PAGE One
INTO port all along the Massachusetts and
Rhode Island COATS.
The spot where the raider was seen was
more than 100 miles from Newport and
On tne scene OF the destruction of a num-
Der OF merchant ships by the German sub
marine U.53 last October
collector Walcott said the report he re-
oeived was that the raider passed the light
snip headed west In the direction Of New
YORK. IL Is understood the vessel was not
near enough to be clearly distinguished
coast guard cutters have endeavored to
pick UP further information regarding bor
but up to noon all efforts had failed.
BOSTON. Mass, April 7,
The maritime department of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce received TODAY
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warning from the Navy Department that
a vessel supposed TO be German raider
had been sighted OF Nantucket Lightship
and also received n report that another
supposed raider had been seen OF the Vir-
gnia coast.
All shipping agencies In Boston were
warned and no vessels have left this port
since early this morning. Boston ship own
ers having vessels in other ports along the
coast have ordered them to remain In port
WASItINGTON, April L.
A suspicious looking vessel was sighted
steaming toward these shores this morning
by the men on duty at Nantucket Light,
according to q report received by the Navy
Department No description of the stranger
was given out, but 1t was throught the
craft might be a German raider
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WILSON SOWS IN EUROPE AMERICAN
KIND OF DEMOCRACY-HANOT

democracy" After saying that President
Wilson had entered the war to end inn
peralism. mitarism and the pan-German
cult NJ HanotauX added
II am looking. forward to sec Americans
at the peace conference table. Their
phlegm to that of Br!tains will make short
shrft of German clumsiness.'
Rene Niviani former Premier and now
Minister of Justice. said
"pr sdcnt Wilson's message by its virlle
simplicity attanS grandeur with which few
historic documents can compare
George Leygues, chairman of the Con1
mite" on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber OF
Deputies. said
I'VE salute America. The entrance of TINS
great country will shorten the war The
voice which proclaimed the right is more
precious than peace Viii echo down the cen
turtles, because it sounds like the awakening
of national conscience"