The Yale expositor., 1917-04-12

Ut OuCe ICT dulilOTlIdtlOu lOI iuuhShih6
the great $3,50O,0O00O0 military plans
of the administration and $2,000,0OO,-
600 or $4,000, 100000 to the entente.
Cuba is at war with Germany. At
7:16 Saturday night President Memo
cal affixed his signature to the joint
war resolution passed unanimously by
both the senate and house at Havana
without dissenting voice being raised.
The German cruiser Cormorant, in
termed in the harbOr of Guam, has been
blown up by its crew, the navy depart
ment announced at Washington.
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More than 500 German spies and
! sympathizers are ensnared in the great
dragnet the department of justice hour
| ly is drawing closer. More than 300
arrests have been made. From every
section of the United States there
came reports of additional arrests and
raids on offices and residences in which
more evidence of plots against Ameri-
can lives and property were found.
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There will be no labor troubles,
such as have harassed the belligerent
nations Of Europe, in the United
! States during the war. At the joint
meeting of the council of national de-
Tense and it's advisory commission at
Washington, Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, and member of the commits
sion, made the pledge in behalf of or
zanized labor.
A united western hemisphere against
Germany. That is the aspiration and
aim of President Wilson. Every ma
ton of Latin-America will be required
| to show its colors. Either ii must de-
clare war against Germany or observe
| policy of friendly neutrality toward
| the allied powers. Otherwise 1t will
be under grave suspicion of harboring
designs inimical to the cause to which
this and Europen nations are commit
ted.
Chicago naval militia, 450 men, left
''for the East" A special train on the
Pennsylvania railroad carried them
away. Lieut.. ]. d. Davidson is senior
officer in charge of the six divisions
that left.
Orders have been issued at Wash
ington mobilizing the navy, including
| tho .or,,Ior acta hIicbn,ontS tho naval
reserve, the naval militia and the new
ly organized power boat coast patrol.
The entire Illinois naval battalion
was called out by Governor Lowden
on orders from Secretary of the Navy
the federal service approximately GU
officers and 800 men.
Official announcement was made
Mt Washington that foreigners In the
United States who conduct themselves
properly will suffer no loss of property
or liberty as result Of declaration
of state of var.
Reuters Amsterdam correspondent
says President Wilson's address to con-
gress has been answered in the Ger
man press by storm of abuse. He
quotes the Rhenische Westfallische
Zeitung as saying: Beyond striving
for gold, the Americans have no ideal.
They think everything can be achieved
by gold. Their megalomania makes a
grotesque impression on us Germans"
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A three-hour speech by Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin and a reply by
Senator Williams of Mississippi In
which he said Senator La Follette's
address would better have become
Herr Won Bethmann-Hollweg than an
American senator" featured bitter
debate in the senate at Washington on
the resolution declaring a state OF war
with Germany.
Detailed plans of the war depart
ment at Washington for raising an
army, numbering millions II that is
necessary ito bring the government of
the German empire TO terms" were
placed in President Wilson's hands in
the form Of bin prepared by the gen
eraI staff and reviewed and revised in
part by Secretary Baker and the gen.
eral officers who are his military ad-
visers.
Sinking without warning OF the I'M
armed American steamer Missourian.
which left Genoa April 1, with 30
Americans among It's crew of SO, was
reported to the state department at
Washington by Consul General Will
bur at Genoa. The crew was saved.
The Missourian was owned by the
Americana Hawaiian Steamship line.
The White Star line steamship Ced-
ric, which sailed from New York with
several thousand tons OF cargo, has ar
rived safely at n British port, officials
of the line announced.