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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Hostages Spurn Rescue
Based on Compromise

On the day that Mr.. Wilson'S allo-
cution was published in France a
French woman who had escaped
f?Om the districts occupied by the
Germans was acquitted for killing
the child which was the result Of
German outrage. On the same day
a French legislator, also coming
from the districts where men and
women and children are suffering the
German yoke, rose in his place and
told his colleagues that those from
whom he mad come sent the message
that they had no desire TO see peace,
no wish that their misery should be
used as a reason for peace-making
on German terms.
1t is not too much to say that for
every thoughtful Frenchman the is
sue Of the war is the life or death of
France. cannot say how many
Frenchmen have said to me that it
was their conviction that the fate of
France turned on the victorious end
cf the war Anything else. Mr.. Will
sons peace without victory" for
them this spelled the end Of French
Independence, the fall Of France TO
the level Of German vassal and the
termination OF all that France has
meant to herself and to the world in
other centuries and in recent times.
The mood of France to-day is
tragic in its stern determination and
in its perception Of the terrible posi-
bilites Of the conflict. For forty
four years France has lived under
the shadow Of the German menace.
The hope, the light. the spirit of the
French people has been weighted by
the perpetual menace. And after
this long period there came at last
the German invasion; half Northern
France is in ashes; cities. churches,
all that was beautiful and noble,
these things have been beaten upon
by German shell fire; French women
have been outraged, murdered; the
children and the old men have been
assassinated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
1919 law Does Not
Apply, Criggs Says

The forgotten piracy statute o.
1919. which now is thought 70 inhiol'
the arming Of American merchantmen
for defence against German C-boats'
reads:
The commander and crew Of any mer--
chant vessel OF the United States Owned
wholly or in part by a citizen thereof may
opno,e and defend against any aggres-
sion. search restraint. depreciation or seH-
ure which shall he attempted upon sucn
vessel. or upon any other vessel 80 owned.
bv the commander or crew OF any arHe',
yessel whatsoever. not being public armed
Vessel of some nation in anity with the
limited States and NAV subdue and capture
the same: and may also retahe any Nesse,
30 owned which may have been eaptured
by the commander or crew o. any sue'
armed vessel. and send the same INTO an'
port Of the United states.
Il was first mentioned IN its modern
relation durin0 the Senate debate on
Mr. Wilson's request 10 be invested
with power 70 arm ships and TO use
such "other instrumentalities" as might
be necessary to protect American rights
AZ sea. After that it was mentioned
several times, so that nobody IN Wash
incton was really surprised by the
Preslqents reference to 1t IN his re-
markable statement 70 the public IS
sued Sunday night. .-..
As "a whether IL docs really irhiolt
the arminC Of American merchantmen
i'm the present crisis there is the 10! %
lowing negative opinion from John W.
Grigcs. Attorney General o. the United
states. in President McKinley's Cabl-
net:
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
do not think that Section 429J
OF the United STATES Revised stat
utes the statute in question was
intended 70 apply or can be applied
to anything except piraucal yes
sells. as piracy was understood m
the wear 1919. The language OF
tho statute so indicates. especially
b.. tho use Of the word search
search is lawful right, which
belligerent warships may exercise
with respect to merchant ships OF
a neutral. but there could not be
any lawful search by a piraucal
craft The obvious import Of the
clause. except public armed
vessels of nations IN amlty WIN
the United States" was that our
merchant ships were not TO be al
lowed TO resist lawful search which
could be made by armed vessels.
and of course. only by vessels OF
a nation in ami,y with the United
States.
do no. think a German subma-
rine in the forbidden zone is "a
nublic armed vessel Of a nation in
smity with the United States
The avowed purpose Of Germany
% sink without search and without
warning American merchant yes
soils gives the corresponding right
NJ defence and self-protection, and
.he statute passed for the sup
preston Of piracy" cannot be con
sidcred 20 apply IN any way TO the
present situation.
Furthermore. the statute IN lues
ton is not international law. but
a statute of the United States with
which Germany has no concern
either to claim its benefit or to
enforce II. JOHN W. GRlGGS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Arkansas Legislature
Snubs Senator Kirby

Little Rock, Ara, March '.-At'er
bearing q long message from Governor
c. II. Brough indorsing President VIII
son both branches Of the Legislature
nassed resolutions strongly commend
inc the Presidents course.
The Senate adopted a resolution IN
dorsing the stand OF United states
senator Joe T. Robinson es being true
to the people Of Arkansas" This reso, o,
luton is intended 10 reflect on me
stand taken by Senator KIRBY; though
his name was not mentioned. hiroy
supported La Follette's tlibuster ana
Robinson opposed II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Provinces and Principles
French Aim, Says BRAND

"Alsace-Lorraine is not all" he re-
piled quickly. France will not make
peace until those principles for which
she is fighting are established in the
world. but France will not make
reace, certainly, without her lost
provinces and no minister or minis
try that favored such peace could
live. We did not make this war to
regain our lost sons; we endured the
old wrong through long years, but
rcw that the war has been forced
upon us no Frenchman thinks Of
peace until the question Of Alsace-
Lorraine is settled.
There is a single phrase that one
hears again and again in France
"Peace. such peace as the Kaiser
proposes-to accept that would be 10
betray our dead. A million Of our
sons have perished-they would have
died in vain if we made peace now,
the peace that Germany offers, the
pcace without victory which Mr..
Wilson suggests
II was Clemenceau, as usual. who
summed up for Paris the Wilsonian
proposal. Writing Of the speech Of
the President to Congress explaining
the peace proposal. the French
statesman said; at * perhaps the
finest statement tie world has ever
heard of what human beings could
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
France Prefers to Die
If Prussianism Is to Live
No Peace Without Alsace and Guarantees tor
Future Of Humanity-Blood Loss, Ruin
and Privation Lesser Considerations
By FRANK II. SIMONDS
.comsb.. 1919 %, The >ea Yors raolHa

do if only they were not human be-
ings." And a little later he added
TIE bitter words: when murderer
assails people in the street men 90
to the rescue; they do not talk. We
ere being assassinated, Mr.. Presi-
dent; it is no time for words"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Attack on Norris Made
In Nebraska Senate

Lincoln. Neb.. March "a resolution
offered in the Nebraska Senate tonight
SAYS that United States Senator Norris
m his opposition to the armed neu-
trality bill. did not voice the senti-
ment Of Nebraska. nor reflect the pstri-
otic Judgment Of its citizens.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Drawn Into Maelstrom
By Outside Influences

Although we have centred counsel
Snd action with such unusual con-
centration and success upon the
great problems Of domestic legisls-
ton to which we addressed ourselves
four years ago, other matters have
more and more forced themselves
upon our attention, matters lying
outside our own life as a nation and
over which we had no control, but
which, despite our wish 10 keep free
Of them, have drawn US more and
more irresistibly into their own cur
rent and influence.
1t has been impossible to avoid
them. They have affected the life OF
the whole world. They have shaken
men everywhere with a passion and
an apprehension they never knew
before. II has been hard to preserve
calm counsel while the thought OF our
own people swayed this way and
that under their influence.
We are a composite and cosmopoli-
tan people. We are of the blood Of
all the nations that are at war. The
currents Of our thoughts as well as
the currents of our trade run quick
a, all seasons back and forth be-
tween US and them. The war in
evitably set its mark from the first
alike upon our minds, our industries,
our commerce, our politics and our
social action. To be Indifferent TO
it or independent of it was out Of
the question.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
North Dakota, indignant
AtCronna, Backs Wilson

Bismarck. n. D., March o. North
Dakota is indignant at the attitude OF
senator Gronna. In some Of the lead
ING cities petitions protesting against
his action are being circulated. North
Dakota is backing President Wilson to
the limit IN this crisis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Destruction and Death,
a Tcuton Ideal Fulfilled

For the French these things are
not the incidents Of war. For years
before this war Germany threatened
Just these things; she proclaimed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06

a politician who advocated peace
without Alsace-Lorraine would be
driven out of public life; the repub-
lie itself would fall if the govern
ment accepted peace without the
Iost provinces These words Of
Custave Herve are illustrative of the
sentiment of France as | felt 1t in
the days while Mr.. Wilson was still
talking peace. think Herve's
words are most interesting, because
Herve is the most famous of all
French pacifsts of the ante-bellum
time. 1t was Herve who wanted to
plant the French flag in the dung
hill; it was Herve who spent eight
years in prison because Of his oppo-
stion to the French army and to the
policy of national defence.
And like most other pacifsts of
France and Britain, Herve is to-day
wholly disillusionized, and not alone
disillusionized but conscious of the
fashion, in which Germany duped
the rest of the world, and deter
mined. so far as he can, to undo the
injury he has done to his own coun-
try.
asked of NJ. BRAND, the French
Premier, the question asked Of all
French public men with whom |
talked: "Wnl France make peace
is peace thinkable now without the
return Of Alsace-L Lorraine"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Deeply Wronged on Sea,
May Be Drawn Into War

And yet. all the while we have
been conscious that we were not part
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Swedish Cabinet, Denied
Neutrality Fund, Resigns
At Kings Request Will Stay
IN Office to Tide Over Crisis

London. March 3. The Swedish Min
i,trv resigned to-day, according to
Reuters Stockholm correspondent. AZ
the request Of King Gustaye, ho"eyer'
the ministers consented 70 remain IN
oHce in the hope OF arranging the
crisis. ... O.,
,o,dsv In a Joint ballot Of the two
Cbarober.. on its request for the ap-
,ronyiation Of 81 800, 900 for preserving
g,yeden's neutrality There was ma
iori,y Of fifteen against the govern
rucnf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
Continued on Page S, Col. 3

DR. BRIsHs kUMyss II \ GREAT
friend tO the stomach. .--AdXt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
CARDINAL GIBBoNs, NEW BOON

"a Retrospect of Ffiy Years
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06
W f. 4 T II F. r

r.;, ard Continued cold to-day, with
diminishing west and northwest
winds. Tomorrow fair and
slightly warmer.
Pull Report on Page
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06

Tur GREESBHiEn - whil' sulphur
g,,,nFs Wes, We idesl time ior no
ear. Only oss nlEht from New i'fA
--Adyt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-06

mediate future
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
WOULD GIVE
CANADA TRADE
BILL INTRODUCED TO
TURN COAST TRADE OVER
Chairman Alexander of Fish.Bill Fame
Introduces Bill Taking American
Ships Off Run and Delivering AL.
ka Into Hands of Canadians.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. s.
The bill recently introduced by Chair
man Alexander, of the merchant ma
rine and fisheries commission, with
the approval of the shipping board,
would make is possible for Canadian
and other foreign vessels to engage
in coastwise trade. Chairman Alex
ander and the supporters of the bill
believe it would be wise to withdraw
the American vessels and turn the AL
.aska trade to foreign bottoms and
bring the American vessels now en-
gagged in the business around to the
Atlantic or use them in the trans-Pa-
cific trade.
Chairman Alexander is the father
of the Alaska Fisheries bill recently
defeated in Congress, and which
raised such a storm of protests thru
out Alaska.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
DECLARE WHALE MEAT
IS BETTER THAN BEEF

SACRAMENTO. Aug s. The
chief difference between whale meat
and beefsteak is that whale meat is
better, according to Barton w. Ev-
ermann, chairman of the committee
on geological investigation at the
University Agricultural College, in
response to a request from the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce for
information on the subject. The
State Council of Defense is in re-
ceipt of Evermann's reply
The whale is not a fish, but a
mammal, like sheep, cattle and hogs,
according to the university investi-
gator, and there is no fshy taste
whatsoever to whale meat, which re-
sembles beef in appearance but is q
darker red. There is no bone, gristle
or fat in the meat and it can be sold
at 10 cents pound and still net the
whaling company profit. Much meat
from the whale is now used for
chicken feed and fertilizer, but its
use as human food is apt to become
more general, Mr.. Evermann believes
One trial, he says, is all that is need
ed to convince the average person
1t is as good as beefsteak or better
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
MUST EMIGRATE
OR DIE FROM LACK OF FOOD

TOXIC, Aug. 3.-Starvation or
emigration are the alternatives be-
fore the japanese masses in view of
their increasing numbers and the re-
stricted area of arabic land in Japan,
according to Tetsu Maxi. sugar
manufacturer, who recently contri-
buted five articles to the Jill. Japan's
foreign trade is by no means capable,
he thinks of sustaining the nation,
and emigration is therefore neces-
sary.
He visited the Japanese in Hawaii,
Peru aud Brazil and was depressed
at the sight of their miserable condi-
ton. He enumerates three causes that
handicap the Japanese emigrant. The
first is lack Of the pioneer spirit on
the part of the emigrants; the second
is the unwisdom of emigration COM
panies and the third is the lack of
guidance and support by the govern
ment. japanese emigrants, in fact,
are simply thrown abroad. He re-
CARDS South America as the best field
for japanese emigration.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
AMERICAN Filler
FALLS To DEATH
CHIEF INSTRUCTOR SIGNAL
CORPS KILLED YESTERDAY
While Giving Flying Lessons to Pu-
pill Loses Control of Machine and
Plunges Eight Hundred Feet to
Earth-Companion Will Recover.

MINNEOLA, L. l., Aug. Cap
tain Ralph I. Taylor, chief instructor
for the Army Signal Corps at the avi-
alton camp here, plunged 500 feet to
his death yesterday, while giving a
lesson to one of his pupils.
Captain Taylor lost control of his
machine, a Curtiss biplane, and be-
fore he could recover his equilibri-
UNI shot downward to the earth, be-
ing Instantly killed. Sergeant Thorn
as p. Bell, his companion, miracu-
lousy escaped with broken jaw and
serious internal injuries.
The machine had gone up from the
government training field for a short
fight around the course, following
several minutes lecture on flying to
a class of students. While demon
strating the turn at the end of the
field, and flying comparatively low,
the machine was seen to dip danger
ously in an air pocket, and after a
desperate effort to recover, it capsiz-
ed and plunged head downward to
the earth, with crash heard for half
mile. When the spectators reached
the wreckage il was found that Tay-
lor was dead and Bell badly injured.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
ANTI-DRAFT RIOTING
WOMEN's BATTALION
FOUGHT AFTER MEN FLED

PETROGRAD. Aug. 80 wound
ed heroines of the women's battalion
known as the Command of Death, +"
have arrived in Petrograd, leaving
Commander Vera Butchkareff and
Marya Shrydloff in the hospital at
Vitebsk.
The ten who returned state that
only fifty of the three hundred wo-
men who went to the front are still
on duty. OF the remainder. twenty
were killed. eight taken prisoners,
and the others wounded.
In the attack in which the women
were nearly annihilated, the fire be-
came so hot that all the men COM
rades in the neighboring trenches fed
but the handful Of women stuck to
their guns and fought the enemy
along.
During the battle near Smorgen
the Russian women captured a num-
Der of women who were fighting with
the German army and brought them
in as prisoners on the morning of
July Is.
Russian women have offered to
train themselves to serve as crews
for the Russian battleships and Ker-
ensky has accepted the offer
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
WAIF ARRIVES WITH
CARGO OF FUEL OIL

The launch Wait. of Katalla. ar
rived in port yesterday afternoon
with a cargo of fuel oil for the Gran
by mine. The Wait brings the report
that the shortage of gasoline which
has been prevalent through out this
section was on account of the refin-
cry at Katalla being unable to meet
the demand. Recently the Wait made
a trip to Juneau for load of gasoline
for the Carlyle Packing Company at
Cordova, returning last week.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
DEPORTED MEN DECIDE TO
REMAIN IN FEDERAL CAMP

COLUMBUS, N. NJ, Aug. 3.-The
1,16s men deported from Bisbee.
Ariz., who have been detained in the
military camp here, voted unanimous
" to night to remain in the camp
pending further action by the feder-
al government.
The men were drawn up in mill
tary formation and the announce
ment that they were at liberty was
read to each of the eight companies
into which they have been divided.
They were informed that instructions
had been received from Washington
that they were at liberty to go where
they pleased, but that any desiring
to remain in the camp would be sup
piled with food by the government
and permitted to use the tents and
other army equipment.
William B. Cleary. the Bisbee at
torney who was deported with the al
legged Industrial Workers of the
World members and sympathizers,
addressed the men and advised them
against leaving the camp pending
further developments. After Mr..
Cleary's address the men adopted
unanimously a resolution declaring
they would "stay in the camp as a
solid body until the federal govern
ment sees fit to return us to our
homes with adequate protection
against lawless acts"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
OF ZAPATA
FAILS; PAYS WITH LIFE

MEXICO CITY. Aug. 3.-News of
the execution of Enrique Bonilla, by
order of Gen. Emiliano Zapata. the
bandit chief operating in the state of
Morelos, for whom he was an unsuc-
cessful emissary to the federal gov
eminent, has been received here.
Bonilla, a we'll known newspaper
man who espoused Zapata's cause at
the time of the Aguas Calietnes con-
vention, and who has been with the
bandit since that time. recently pres
ented himself to the government mill
tary commander at Puebla and de-
clared he came with instructions to
treat for the surrender of the Ia
pata forces. He was given safe con-
duct to Mexico City, where he had a
brief interview with General Pablo
Gonzalez, who had been in charge of
the government campaign in Morel-
oS.
Bonilla asked audience with Presi-
dent Carranza, but it was discovered
that he bore no credentials which
would enable him to act for the reb-
ell chieftain in the matter of sur
render. He did not see Gen. Carranza
but was told the only terms which
could be granted Zapata were uncon-
ditional surrender. He was under
close surveillance for number of
days and finally returned to Nor
clos and given safe conduct through
the government lines.
Reports which have just arrived
here declare that Zapata, convinced
that Bonilla had not been faithful on
his mission. had ordered his execu-
ton. Many chiefs of the Zapata
forces. it is said, interceded for Bon
lila, but without convincing Zapata
that he had not been betrayed. Bon
lila, according to the dispatches. was
stood before a wall near Cuautla and
shot within q few days after his re-
turn.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
MANY WOMEN ENLISTING
IN RUSSIAN BATTALIONS

PETROGRAD, Aug. 3.-As a re-
suit of the heroic conduct at the front
of Vera Butchkareff's woman's bat
talon, a movement for the creation
of a great army of women is pro-
crossing throughout Russia like wild
fie Thousands of women are beseig-
ing the officials for chance to enlist
and it is possible that an army of a
million women will be raised to op-
crate against Germany on the eastern
front.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
RUSSIAN DEFEAT
BLOW TO ALLIES

LONDON, Aug. 3.-The recent
Russian defeat on the Galician front
was an appalling blow to the allies
Russia had reorganized her armies
and put an enormous body of men in
the field.
British and French guns and gun
ners, British armored cars and Brit
lsh and French aviators had been
added to the great strength of that
-sector to make it equal to any hinge
on the French front. The advance
commenced under we'll planned
moves by British strategists, and the
rout of the army and the capture of
the immense amount of supplies by
the German troops we'll nigh took the
heart out ofthe British and French
officials.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
FOOD PRICES IN
ENGLAND ARE HIGHER

LONDON, Aug. 3.-Retail food
prices have now risen since July,
1914, 102 per cent, according to the
Board of Trade and Labor Gazette.
The greatest increase for the month
of May was for English mutton,
which rose about II per cent above
the April price. -four, tea. sugar and
eggs rising from 2 to 4 per cent.
Compared with June, 1916. potatoes
are 54 per cent dearer, cheese, eggs
and margarine 40 to so. and bacon,
fish. bread, -four, milk and butter
from 20 to 33 per cent higher.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
CONSPIRACY
BY TECTONS DISCLOSED

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. g.
Chemical analysis by the govern
ment showed tetanus germs on court
plaster. which it is reported was dis
tributed through certain channels by
German sympathizers.
Attorney General Gregory has is
sued a warning to the public to use
only courtplaster secured from reli-
able sources.
Courtplaster is an article handled
by peddlers who travel from house
to house and it Is considered that 1t
was through this channel the perpe-
traitors of the outrage expected to Sc
cure results. /
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
MAY TAKE OVER
ALL STEAMSHIPS
WILL REQUISITION
AND OPERATE BOATS
Plans Entertained for Commandeer-
ing ALI Vessels by Government
Agreement Made With England to
Control Trade Of the World.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. s.
The Shipping Board is making plans
to take over and operate all Ameri-
can ocean-going steamships soon, 1t
was announced today. The charters
will also be requisitioned. The pro-
gram is preliminary to putting into
operation an agreement between the
American and British governments
for the joint control of the world s
shipping after the war.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-08-03
CzERNOW|Tz FALLS
HANDS AUSTR|ANS
CAPITAL OF BUkOWINA
ENTERED By ENEMY
Dispatch From Holland Today States
That Galician City Has Been Re-
taken From NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
March Into City.

THE HAGUE, Aug. 3-Czernowitz,
the capital of Bukowina, just across
the border from Russia and near the
northern part of Rumania, was cap
tured by the Austrians today, who
marched into the town a few hours
behind the retreating Russians. A
vast amount of supplies was taken
by the Austrians.