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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-01
kDERS PREDICT ACTION
WITHIN ANOTHER "a HOURS
Rcf Reason for Any Uncertain
! ty Lies in Attitude of Sera-
tor La Toilette.
FRo, CONSTITUENTS
Not Support Efforts of
Pacifist Group.
lRv Arccia,.d rrc.. !


WASHINGTON. February "s.--Oppo-
tion in ConEr' ss to granting Prcsi-
int Wilson authority 10 protect
merican right. and lives on sea be-
IN melting u day. Administration
tders confdc',iy predicted action
thin another twcn,y-four hours.
There were Indications that many or
't Republicans OF the Senate who.
tuEh favorinr tho steps proposed.
Fist that Congress should hc called
4 extra session. would vote for tho
nasurc requested by tho President
hen tho roll vas called
The chief reason for uncertainty vas
fpnd in tho attitudc Of Senator La
lHcttc. who has given Indications Of
parinE for = single handed Gl-
Istcr in the CLOSING hours ~ tho
Iision
"Details Of tho destruction .. tn"
nard liner I.aconia published in the
l,rnirg papers and telling ~ the suf-
wing and death ot three Americans.
sudinE mother and daughter who
/ IRE among til" passengers had its
&C. during tho day. Members OF tn.
! iusc and senate whose commute
ms had come largely from pacinsts
gan receiving tcl"grams from their
lrstituerts calling for yigorous &c
lin by ,he roycrumcu,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-01
kEQuEST IMMEDIATE
RELEASE OF AMERICANS

= Another aSGravating incident was
added to the situation today hv tho
fcetpt OF word from Germany that
fur American conSuls were heing held
ere because a German consul on
way from tho United States 10
fador had been delayed in Cuba. 4
tement of the facts. with n request
imm ediate release OF Americans.
ls cabled tonight.
The Senate Foreign Affairs Commit
20 to-day agreed upon a bill 10 give
ne President authority to supply mer-
hant ships with arms and Gunncrs,
ana TO use other means necessary 10
handle developments in the submarine
situation. A motion to direct" the
President to arm the ships was voted
down.
The bill. as framed by tho committee.
Follows the precedent of 1919. empower
nS commanders OF merchant vessels
arm for their own defense. and au.
h orizes tho President to supply the
FnnS for arminE vessels fore and aft
or defense purposes
Jhe Senate bill empowers the Prcsi-
Fent to use .'othcr instrumcntalities,"
IS he asked.
flood BILL REPORTED
ny HOUSE COMMITTEE
The House Foreign Affairs Commit
&c to-day reported the Flood bill. de-
igned to give the President powcr to
rotcct the lives of United States citi-
ems and American ships. after strik-
hg out the words "other instrument
alities." and amending the measure to
rohibit government war insurance for
hips carrying munitions of war.
AS reported by the House committee,
he bill would read
The President of the United States
Pe, and Is hereby. authorized to supply
ierchant ships. the property OF the
itizcns of the United States and bear
ng registry Of the United States. with
efensive arms, and also with the
ecessary ammunition and means OF
1akinE use OF them in defense against
nlawful attack: and that he be, and is
hereby, empowered to protect such
hips and the citizens Of the United
Btates against unlawful attack while
their lawful and peaceful pursuits
n the high seas"
This eliminates tho provision which
you'd have empowered the President
employ such other instrumcntalities
nd methods as may in his judgment
Continued on Second Pagc.)-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-01
COPY or INSTRUCTIONS
HANDS OF IJSI'rEsN

HANDS OF USlTEN
y copy of ZimmermanrJl ms
to Won Eckhardt. sent ,lhroug
Won Bernstorfr, is in p9ssessio
United States. 1t is aslfollow.
Berlin. January 10
''On the 1st of February xs
to begin submarine warfare
strictod. In spite of this. it
intention to enedavor to keen
tral the United States of .AmericI
II this attempt is not SUI
we propose an alliance on
lowing basis With Mexico:
shall make war togethlA ap
make peace. We sb g.
financial support. and
that Mexico is to rec
territory In New MexN
Arizona. The details a.
for settlement.
You are instructed to
President OF Mexico OF IN
the greatest confidence as
is certain that there will be
break of war with the United StV
and suggest that the PresidentN
Mexico. on his own initiative. shi
communicate with Japan. sugsessl
adherence at once to this plan; att
same time, offer to mediate betw,
Germany and Japan. 81,
Please call to the attention ofli
President Of Mexico that the emp
ment of ruthless submarine MA,
now promises TO compel E2
make peace in q few monty
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,continued on Second I'agc. }
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
Navy to Tell When
Ports Will Be Closed

Washington, June 2.-As precau-
tion against misapprehension of the
meaning Of orders to close any Ameri-
can ports, the Navy Department ar
ranged to-day for announcement
through the Committee on Public In
formation here and through newspa-
pers local TO the various ports when
such steps are in contemplation. Com
manders of naval districts have been
instructed to notify the Navy Depart
ment whenever it is necessary to close
a port for any cause and also when 1t
is TO be reopened. ,
The new arrangement was prompted
by the fact that the closing Of the Port
Of New York yesterday for several
hours for purely routine purposes con-
nected with the harbOr defences ere
ated considerable excitement in the
stock market and elsewhere. The COM
mittee, in announcing its plan, says:
"The reason for closures cannot
often be given, but in a general way
the newspapers and the public are
aware that ports are closed chiefly for
such reasons as the laying Of new mine
fields or the shifting of existing mine
fields. the sweeping Of channels for
possible mines laid by the enemy, or
for the direction Of the flow Of ship
ping to other ports"
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03

touching, and on those beds the chill
dren slept without mattresses or pol
lows, or coverings, since the month of
December last, in their clothes; and
they were not allowed to 20 out or
wash. and the condition they are now
in can scarcely be imagined, such was
the vermin.
"The French wounded still in hos
pital had not been cared for and have
been slowly evacuated into the hospital
at Compiegnc. and the twenty-three
kilometres took them nearly twelve
hours, as the roads are all ploughed up
from the old front to Noyon.
"The men brought in at midnight
had not received any sort Of care, and
were reduced TO the last gasp almost,
only skin and bones, and their open,
infected wounds were filed with YER
min.
Their condition was such that the
nurses could not stand the stencil. and
they had to do the cleaning them
selves"
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
McAdoo to Push Liberty Loan
At Meetings Here Tomorrow
VIII Open His New York Campaign at Carnegie Hall and
Cooper Union-Nlayor Mitchell and
Others 70 Help

thirty automobiles. each carrying four
Boy Scouts. will start from the Offices
Of the Columbia Trust Company 70
canvass the district bounded by Wash
ington Square and Thirty-ninth Street.
along Third and Seventh avenues for
subscriptions to Liberty bonds. The
drive will be under the direction of
the women's committee of the Liberty
Loan Committee.
As result of the interest shown in
the loan by the student officers at
Madison Barracks the committee has
arranged TO give the men of every
training camp in the country an oppor-
;unity to subscribe.
Friday, the first day Of the loan cam
paign of the National League for Wom-
ems Service, netted $1,000, it was an
nounced yesterday. The campaign,
which is being conducted in conjunc-
tion with the Columbia Trust Company,
is being directed by Miss Juliana Cut
ting. Mrs. James Mumford and Mrs.
l.. 5. Garrison from the headquarters,
257 Madison Avenue.
Not satisfied with subscribing $780,
coo 20 the loan, the members Of Chubb
& Son, marine underwriters, have de-
cded to pay their employees per
cent salary bonus in bonds.
Important subscriptions 20 the loan
yesterday included one for Sl0,000,OOO
from the New York Trust Company and
its customers. Others were 100000
from Sears, Roebuck & Coz. S1,OO0,0OO
from the United States Rubber Com
pany; Halle & Stieglitz, $l,000,000;
Interborough Rapid Transit Company,
Sl,O00,000; Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance Company, 100000;
Brown Brothers e. Co.. 100000; Public
Bank Of New York, 100000; Memorial
Fund Association, S350000; Carnegie
Institute of Washington, S250,00O;
Susan F. Colgate, S2jO,OOO; Nathan
Manufacturing Company. S450,000;
Cushman's Sons, Inc. 100000; Paul G..
Mcintyre, 100000, and Oscar Alexan-
der &c Co, curb brokers, $4,000.
approximately 100000 has been sub
scrbed by the 2,2O0 employees Of the
New York Life Insurance Company.
Darwin p. Kingsley, president, stated
that this amount had been subscribed
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
Socialists VIII
Stay in Session
Until End Of War
Prediction Made at Stock
holm That Peace Is Sure
Within the Year

Stockholm, June 2.-Camille Huys-
mans. Secretary Of the International
ist Socialist Bureau and leader OF the
world proletariat's peace movement, IS
reported to have declared to the Sven
ska Dagbladet" that the Socialists con-
ference here would remain in session
till peace was concluded.
81 believe this years crops will be
harvested by the returned soldiers de-
clared VI. Stauning, the Danish Social
ist Minister and prominent in the orig
nation and conyocation Of the confer
ence. Both the Danish Socialist and the
Belcian-for Camille Huysmans IS
Belgian-are inclined to favor the de-
mands Of the pro-Ally Socialists rather
than those Of the pro-Germans.
The real power behind the Socialist
peace drive is VI. Huysmans. If the
Stockholm conference brings peace to
the world it will be due to him more
than TO any other person. Huysmans
is professor Of languages ana IlIera-
ture by profession, and was a member
of the Belgian Chamber Of Deputies
in 1910. Perhaps no other man in the
world is as well acquainted with the
aims of the worlds various Socialist
parties and factions.
Ills appeal to the Russian Socialist
70 come 10 Stockholm about the middle
of June instead of the middle OF July
is likely to have effect. Ii is under
stood that the first demand that the
Socialists will formulate upon meeting
Will be that Germany, the united
States and France allow their various
Socialist parties TO send delegates 70
II is confidently expected
here that under Russian pressure the
United States and France would re-
scind their refusals 10 grant passports
TO their Socialist delegations.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
All German Labor
Urged to Strike
In nHunger Protest
Success of Russian Revolt
Cited in Call Issued in
Industrial Centres

The follo7cing is an indication Of
ho7c at least one class Of zcorkerS in
Germany feels tO7cdrd continued pros
ecution Of the car. II is a copy Of a
strike call. circulated just before May
Day, in German Industrial centres.
Ludzciq lore. member Of the Ger
man Federation Of the Socialist party,
made q public here yesterday;
PROTEST AGAINST THE STARVA-
TION OF THE PEOPLE!
Workers! Comrades! The bread
ration for the starving people shall be
reduced more than one-fourth. While
our sons and brothers in the trenches
and on the battlefields are murdered
and crippled, the working people must
suffer hunger. until they have lost all
their strength to labor, and die IN
misery.
And so the capitalistic and Junker
interests and the ruling cliques, who
started the war, have spread rum
among the German people.
Workers. Our brothers, the Russian
proletariat, were in the same condition
for four weeks. We know what hap
pened in Russia; the working class has
risen and has not only iorced super
vision of food distribution, 1t has at
the same time achieved freedom, about
which the Germans do not as yet dare
to dream.
The Russian workers have destroyed
Czarism, have achieved q democratic
republic ard have inaugurated gov
ernment of the people.
And We? Shall we still suffer the
old misery, famine, starvation ana
mass murder. the cause of our tortures
and suffering. Shall we bear all this
patiently?
No! A thousand times no! Leave
all factories and shops; stop work.
Man Of labor arise!
And know your might!
All wheels stand still
When you il will.
Down with the war! Down with the
government!
Freedom, work, bread!
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03

under the company's plan for handling
subscriptions for its employees.
The class Of '0s of Harvard has been
the first group of college men to sub.
scribe. The amounts taken range all
the way from single $50 bond TO
$4,000.
The Erie Railroad management has
perfected an arrangement 10 sell the
bonds 20 its 10000 employees on a
monthly instalment basis.
Following a meeting Of the Public
Service Commission employees, at which
Chairman Oscar $. Straus was the prln-
cipal speaker. more than one hundred
applications for from $50 20 $500 bonds
were received The Public Service En-
ployes' Credit Union. which will handle
the subscription, has arranged to sell
the bonds on weekly instalmcnts.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
German Peace Agitdtors
Fire Munition Plants

Copenhagen, June "A semi-ofiicial
Communication 20 the German press ex-
presses the fear that recent numerous
fires .1 mun.tion factories and estab-
l.shments engaged in war work may be
attributed in part 20 peace at any price
advocate. who have taken this means
Of fastening an end 70 the war. The
cestrgct.0n Of farm buildings and
graraIies is also referred 70 indirectly
and patriotic German workmen are
urged % Jet no considerations Of com
rsdestlp stand in the way Of detecting
and >deaounciag such enemies Of the
Fathefand.
Another example Of the spirit pre-
yslling in certain classes in Germany
= ar order providing severe penalties
ior stealing from crops-a crime OF
growing frequency.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
Germans Took All
Women of Noyon
In Their Retreat
Letter to Red Cross Tells
Horrors of French Town
After Teutons Went
(G|Lz&z3S%a0SGZ g
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Washington, June "A letter from a
well known American woman, who is
now in France, to the Red Cross was
made public to-day. In an automobile
loaded with supplies for starving and
helpless women and children she en-
tered Noyon twenty-four hours after
the Germans had evacuated the town.
following the French artillery. This is
her description of conditions:
"There is a small canal in Noyon, and
that canal had been damned by the
Boches till it overflowed and the out
let stopped, so that when certain parts
were blown up the whole town was
inundated, which was the only reason
that it is not heap Of ruins, as water
reached the mines that were placed
everywhere before they were blown up.
"Most Of the houses are destroyed, or
partly so, and every stick of furniture
has been taken out, and that which
could not be moved has been destroyed
or made useless.
"A city of some seven or eight thou
sand inhabitants. they found over
twelve thousand there. as all the in
habitants Of the neighboring villages
had crowded in.
Those who were in the cellars came
out gradually, and a tale of horror was
unfolded that bars none that we have
heard since the beginning.
"All Girls Carried Away"
every girl between the ages Of four
teen and thirty was carried away By
the boches nine days before the retreat
began, and many Of the younger women
left are about to become mothers Of
boche babies. One case after the other
was more pitiablc than the last. Ore
woman was asked Il the two little chill
dren who were clinging to her skirts
we're her grandchildren, and she an
swered: The mother has been taken
by the bochcs and their father is at our
front, and, being my nelghbors, ! wish
TO be able to show him his children on
his return, but do not know where
he is
Chose who were crowded in cellars
have hideous tales 10 tell. In the first
place. none Of the French civil popula-
tion have had any meat of any kind for
seventeen months. All they have lived
on has been bread-black bread-and
rice. In the cellars many have died
and the mortality among the children
has been terrific. Those who died were
kept for five days among the living be-
fore they were allowed to be buried
Wounded Not Cared For
an the orphan asylum, in a small
room. the beds were crowded together,
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
Plan Closer Union
Of Central Empires

Amsterdam, June 2.-According to
the Berlin "Tageblatt,' an important
step toward a still closer union of the
Central Empires has been taken in the
organization of "the Federation Of Cen
tral European States" the organizers
of which held an inaugural meeting at
Frankfort on Thursday, under the pres
idency Of the Reichstag Deputy, Herr
Alpers.
The main feature of the organiza-
tion's platform is: THE federation Of
the Central Powers must now be put
into practice by the participation Of
Parliament"
Two hundred members Of the Reichs-
tag are included in the ! 800 members
of the new federation. Telcgrams of
greeting were sent to the German and
Austrian Emperors and their cabinets.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
Peace Overtures
Of Catholics in
Germany Spurned
French and Italian Bishops
Reject Advances of Teu-
ton Co-Religionists

Paris. June 2.-An effort by German
Catholics to get into communication
with the French Catholics on the sub
ject of peace is revealed in LA Croix"
by Monsignor Baudrillart. rector of the
Catholic Institute in Paris.
"On May Is last" he writes, "there
was held at often a meeting of Swiss
Catholics. summoned by the famous
Matthias Erzberger. leader of the Cleri-
cal Centre in the Reichstag. The lat
ter obtained the assistance of Swiss
Catholics. with view 10 taking action
with the Entente bishops in favor of an
early peace. A professor of interna-
tion law of Lausanne, whose name |
could give, was charged with the task
of sounding the French Catholics, even
sore of our bishops. Others declared
themselves sure of obtaining the sup
port of certain Italian bishops.
"Erzberger's hidden motive, his true
one, which he permitted expression be-
fore his most trusted friends, was
this: Germany is at the end Of her
resources, and must have peace as soon
as possible"
Monsignor Baudrllart says he re-
lcctc0 tne advances lnuS Wdue, anu
gives his reasons for so doing.
at is not for Catholics of any nation.
any more than for Socialists or mem
bcrs Of any other party" he declares,
"to enter into direct or indirect rela-
tions with the enemy, still less to sub
stitute themselves for the lawful gov
ernment and the lawful representatives
of their country for the purpose of dis
cussing in international meetings the
cessation of hostilities and conditions
of peace"
Lugano, Switzerland, June 2.-The
Ticino Gazette" announces that Prince
Won Buelow, who has been spending a
few days at Lucerne, has arrived at
Lggano.
Prince Won Buelow was German Am
bassador 10 Rome up to the time that
Italy entered the war. Since then he
has been in Switzerland, and persistent
reports have asserted that he was en-
gagged in various peace moves. Ac-
cording 10 the last such report. he was
lending his activities to the further
ance of the German Socialist plan OF
peace without annexations or indemni-
ties. No authoritative reason, now
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
Revolt Near in Norway
Food Prices Will Force Revo.
luton, Say Socialists

Christiania, June 2.-Parliament has
decided to increase the tax on war
profits to 30 per cent. Socialist Depu-
ties declared that unless more effec-
tive measures are taken to counteract
the rise in prices revolution would
occur.
The government has been authorized
10 raise a loan Of SO,O00000 kronen at
home or abroad.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-12
RED CROSS AT IOWA FALLS.
New Chapter to Solicit Membership
From Franklin and Hardin Counties.

SpeclaI to mes-Itepupiican.
Iowa Falls, May IA chapter OF
the Red Cross has been organized in
this city. The organization fol-
lowed a big meeting at the opera house.
addressed by Hon. J. Il. Weaver, of Des
Moines. who is organizing the state for
the Red Cross society. AT this meeting
a committee of thirty five was chosen
to perfect the organization. The COM
mittee selected the following officers:
Chairman, Hon. l. A. Nichols; vice
chairman, Mrs. l. D. Carpenter; secre-
tary, Mrs, Estella +. Plopper; treas
urer, f. D. Peet.
The new society will be known as
the Iowa Falls Chapter and will in
Clude the following territory: Grant
and Lee townships in Franklin county;
Hardin, Alden Ellis. Jackson, Buckeye,
Sherman and Concord townships, in
Hardin county. The chairman
appointed the following committee to
select board of directors: G.. G. Pyle,
DIR. B. f.. Purcell DR. W. G.. Morton
S. 5. Stonerook and John Hensing. A
committee on bylaws was named as
follows: l.. Hollister Jones, II. B. Hall
and Rev. G. William Bast Another
meeting was held last evening to per-
feet the organization of the chapter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-12
WOULD STOP ROAD WREckiNe
Ananosa Man Seeks to Preserve Chi
caao, Anamosa & Northern.

Anarnosa, May IA suit has been
fled in the district court OF Jones
county by Horace Soper. as assignee
Of the claims Of several taxpayers, vs..
Herman Soenkeu for taxes on the. chi
cago. Anamosa & Northern Railroad
Company. collected in 1904 and 1905.
X is expected that this suit VIII result
in the discontinuance OF work in tear
ing up the road.
The claim is made by Mr.. Soper
that by tearing up the track for junk
Mr.. Soenken becomes liable under Sec
ton 20s4 of the code. which requires
the returning Of all aid received be-
fore a line can change its location.
It will Involve novel point as to
whether a road can be junked except
by first making good any donations.
Mr.. Soenken claimed the location OF
the road was to be changed TO Europe
and used by the allies. Later 1t was
claimed the road was being removed to
be rebuilt in Kansas to make short
line in that state. The plaintiff has
shown a determination to prevent the
re location OF the line in any other
state or nation, unless the tax Is re-
funded. A delegation OF six men sent
by the Kansas City Wreckfng Com
pany arrived in Anamosa Tuesday
evening They have charge Of wreck
ing the c. A. n. road. The work
started wednesday morning at Quas-
uueton. where the round house is be-
ing torn down. Mr.. Soenken had hoped
TO begin work on the tearing up Of the
main line within two or three days
The rails will be shipped to Chicago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-12
TO MEET IN PERRY.
Hornets Nest Brigade Accepts Invita-
ton TO Meet Here Next Year.

Perry, May 1.-THE Iowa regiments
in the civil war which came to be
known az the Hornets Nest" brigade
viii hold their annual reunion in Perry
next year The matter was decided
az the meeting in Maxwell yesterday
after the veterans had been given an
invitation by J. z. Kent and r. NJ
Dun bar, both members Of the brigade
and ny r. Z. Zerwekh and X. 3. insis
representing the bureau OF commerce
There we're about eighty veterans
and thirty lady visitors at the reunion
yesterday, and the Perry men in at
tendance say that the entertainment
afforded them by the Maxwell people
could hardly be improved upon. They
were shown every possible attention
and courtesy. The brigade now con.
sists Of about two hundred men, and
the crowd here next year promises to
embrace almost the entire membership