The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-04-13

at Wateryille, Me. He said he found
two sticks Of dynamite with a burning
fuse attached and hurled them las far
as he could.
William Jennings Bryan has offered
his services to the president, asking
that he be enrolled as a private in the
army for defense Of the nation.
The eastern and western passages of
Narragansett bay are to be protected
by nets. AS soon as the nets are
placed, the western passage will be
permanently closed and the eastern
passage closed between sunrise and
sunset.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has ig-
sued a statement in which he denied
that "unwise precedent" would be
created, as has been suggested, in per-
hitting him to raise a division for ac-
tive service on the French front.
WASHINGTON.
President Wilson on Friday, April 6,
signed the resolution of congress de
claring the existence of a state of war
and authorizing and directing the chief
executive to employ al: the
of the nation to prosecute hostilities
against the German government to a
! successful termination.
When President Wilson signed the
war resolution Lieut.. Byron McCand-
less, aid to Secretary Daniels, wig
wagged a message from a White
House window to the navy department
and te~legraphers there passed it on
to the great wireless tower at Airing
ton for instant b~roadcasting to all ma
val vessels and stations.
Persistent, but hitherto unconfrmed
reports of German submarines waiting
in the Gulf of Mexico for the opening
of hostilities with the United States
are further supported by advices to
the government from Europe.
The arrest of sixty alleged ringlead-
ers in German plots, conspiracies and
Vaccinations in the United States
was ordered by Attorney General
Gregory Immediately after President
Wilson had signed the war resolution.
Methods Of financing the war with
Germany and of extending huge loans
to the allies constituted one of the
chief subjects considered at Fridays
cabinet meeting.
By a vote of 373 to 80, the house Of
representatives IN April 6 adopted the
war resolution and the United States
is now at war with Germany.
Congress has been asked to pro-
vide Immediately $3,502. SIT, 900 to
finance the war for one year.
FOREIGN.
Pro-American sentiment is spread
ing in Mexico and General Carranza is
reported to be considering routing all
Germans out of the Mexican army, ac-
cording to information sent to Wash
ington by United States Consul John
son at Matamoros just across the river.
The demand that Germany follow
the example of Austria-Hungary and
declare itself in favor of a peace with
out annexations is heard from moder-
ate liberal as well as from socialist
quarters, avs a Copenhagen dispatch.
British efforts to reach the Cambrai-
st. Quentin road and to drive a sal
lent into the German lines
these two important points, outfiank-
ing both. continue successfully.
Towns on the coast Of Kent were
bombarded again April 6 by a German
airplane. There were no casualties, it
is announced officially.
Americans to the number of 1900
met on April ) in Queenstown hall,
London, and voted their approval of
President Wilson's address to CON
gress.
A Stockholm newspaper says that
Count Won Bernstorff, former German
ambassador at Washington, will be
made minister to Sweden. The pres
ent German minister, the newspaper
says, will be recalled.
De facto troops in the states of Nue.
vo Leon. Coahuila and Chihuahua
have begun a general movement to-
ward the American border, according
to highly reliable information.
President Wilson's address to con-
gress, translated into German, is be-
ing distributed literally over the Ger
man lines by British ~aviators. 1t is
understood the same thing is being
done by French aviators.
1t appears certain that Austria
Hungary will sever diplomatic rela-
tons with the United States if con-
gress declares that a state of war ex-
lists between America and Germany.
British merchant vessels of 1900
tons or over sunk by mines or submaE
rines in the week ending April /, and
including two not reported for the pre-
vious week, numbered eighteen.
Internal politics used as a lever in
an effort to regulate Mexico's course
in international affairs have brought
about a situation of the utmost gray
ity in that republic, according to trav-
elers just arrived at Laredo, Texas,
from the Mexican capital.