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New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Minotto Internn1er1f
Ordered by Gregory
After Long Inquiir,

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Attorney
General Gregory has authorized the is
suance of Presidential warrant for
the internment of Count James Mi
MOTTO under the Presidents procla-
nation relating to German alien ene-
mics.
Action was taken by the Attorney
General after long consideration of the
case, which was referred to him after
the Department of Labor had refused
to order the deportation of the count.
In the meantime The count has been at
liberty on bail.
Count Minotto, son-in-law of Louis
F. Swift, the Chicago packer, is a man
of such tangled nationalities that he
comes near to being a man without a
country. His father was an Italian of
avowed pro-German sympathies and
his mother was noted German ac-
tress. He was born in Berlin and edu-
Gated in the banking business in Ger
many.
When the European war started he
was employed in German bank in
London. He came to the United States
and took out first naturalization papers
here, but never completed the natural
ization process. At first he was openly
pro- German, but when Italy entered the
war he offered to return to his fathers
land as an Italian reservist, and was
refused for physical reasons. Later he
offered an ambulance service to the
Italian government, but this gift also
wasrefused.
Then he sought commission in the
United States Army, but his German
citizenship prevented. He offered his
services to the Bureau of Naval In
telligence to become a United States
secret agent, but officials suspected him
of bad faith and did not accept.
He has associated with society people
in England, the United States and
argentina. He was a visitor at the
German embassies in London and
Washington, was friend of Count Lux
man charge at Buenos Ayres, and also
of M. Caillaux, former French Premier,
recently arrested on a charge of trea-
son, and Nine. Caillaux, when thew were
in South America.
Secretary McAdoo was entertained
by Count Minotto when the Secretary
visited Buenos Ayres two years ago.
The count at that time represented a
New York bank in Argentina, but pre-
vlously while acting as agent for an
other New York bank had been re-
called because it was feared his pro-
German sympathies would commit the
bank to improper policies.
The Bureau of Naval Intelligence.
whose request that Minotto be de-
ported, was refused by the Department
of Labor on the ground that Minotto
had neither broken any United States
laws nor threatened to do so. Cited
as facts supporting its suspicion that
the count was German agent, that
he maintained mysterious private
Office at his Long Island home, and
employed a private secretary, although
his. salary as representative of the
New York bank was comparatively
small
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
U. S. Troops Good
AS Best, Declare
British Expert:

LONDON, May 13.-The American
invasion of London" is featured by the
morning newspapers to-day as it was
on Sunday. The most critical military
experts are loud in their praise of the
fine bearing of the American troops
who paraded through the British capj-
tai Saturday. One writer sums up the
general opinion in this way:
"Tbey have the cut Of an Internally
adequate lot of fighters. l would
rather lead them than tackle them"
Newspaper articles are illustrated
with photographs of different stages of
the march, an important place being
given to the scene outside Buckingham
Palace with King George standing be-
side Colonel Whitman and saluting the
American flag.
hood" "The Daily telegraph" says
"the American troops made the same
impression. In physique and morale they
are equal to the finest troops raised by
any country at the time when the
standard Of the European manpower
stood at its highest point"
The carrying through of the Ameri-
can effort, "The Morning Post" thinks
means the turning of the scale against
the enemy. Germany, it says, never
made more profound or more fatal
miscalculation than when She held the
power of America to be cheap.
"The Kaiser and his advisers" saws
THE Times" "have brought together
the English-speaking peoples more
closely and more rapidly than the fond
est dreamers after more intimate rela-
tions between them had dared to hope.
That is an immense even- in the his
tory of the Old World and the New. It
is the greatest that has happened. ex-
cert the war itself, since the French
Revolution.
"The lesson for England and Ameri-
ca is plain, and there is abundant proof
that both understand it. We have to
stick it ont and the Americans have to
hurry up, and they are hurrying up
splendidly.
"Not one peace note has been heard
in Congress. The only criticisms
breathed against the government con-
slst OF occasional complaints that it
does not get on fast enough with the
war. That is the right temper for both
sides of the Atlantic"
"The Manchester Guardian" says:
eve greet the men of the American
regiment which marched through Lon
don on Saturday with intimate SYM
path, for they are not only soldiers of
an ally but citizen soldiers like our own
'improvised' army. called to meet an
unparalleled ordeal. We know we'll the
spirit in which they will meet it, and
that in all those moral and intellectual
qualities on which final victory de-
ponds they will be as formidable an
army as any in the field.
eve see endless cause for thanks in
the full cooperation of America in the
war,sfcr America can exert enormous
influence for good in the making both
of war and of peace"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Mt. Vernon Aldermen
Vote to Bar Hearst
Papers From the Cif3

MOUNT VERNON, May 13,-The
Board of Aldermen met tonight at a
committee of the whole and favored
by vote of to to bar from sale
on newsstands in Mount Vernon, Will
lam Randolph nearst's American"
and Journal" together with all Ger
man language papers.
1t is believed that this measure will
pass at the regular monthly meeting
of the board tomorrow night. 1t has
the Endorsement of Mayor Bush. AL
derman William Dawson was RESPONSE
BILE for the insertion of the clause ap-
plying to the Hearst papers in the
measure against German papers.
Gall of the Hearst papers," he said,
"sow discomfort and doubt They
have no place in the homes of patriotic
American citizens"
Mount Vernon will be the first town
to take action of this sort against the
Hearst publications..
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
q. A. r. Veterans
Make Bonfire of
Hearst Papers
Poughkeepsie Crowds See
New York American"
Given 10 Flames
Demand Suppression
Old Soldiers Angered by De-
ietion of "Victory Prayer"
From Proclamation

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Nav 13.-
9rand Army veterans, headed by Major
Lewis c. Dietz, organizer of the local
Loyal Service League: Captain Lewis
y. bevler and Judge John G. Harris, of
NE" Hamburg, this morning made the
sounos OF all news stands, bought up
every available copy of "The New York
A.merlcan," carted them to the corner
OF OF Main and Market streets, in front of
ehe courthouse, and there before a
crowd OF nearly 1000 tore them to bits
and burned them,
MAJOR Dietz explained the action by
producing copy Of this mornings New
3can" &c, had so edited President Wilson'S
memorial Day proclamation that refer
ence TO peace was left in, but all allu-
SlonS TO prayers for victory were de-
leted. The police took no action to
curo the veterans or to disperse the
tnrong assembled at the most promi-
nent corner in the city
l, "hlle they were tearing the papers
the veterans interspersed their worb
with fiery remarks
~ Is dastardly, cowardly act"
SAID Major Dietz, "and one that should
receive the condemnation Of eyery trne
american. ~ 1t is plain exposure of
the ti man who is attempting to fool the
!he people of this country by publish
ing articles that the perfect agreeable
10 the Kalser's government and traitor
Gus pro-Germans that are in this COM
try: ' ~''"
it is just such articles as this that
VIII arouse the veterans of '61 to get
out and fight for the principles For
tha;, Mmich ;ey ;tney were willing to sacrifice
.ne1r lives, and stand just as strong
oo-aay as they did when they fought
on tne battletields of the South"
Judge Harris, of Newhamburgh. in
tenseiy patriotic, was not with the
group when they first started out on
their mission, but soon heard of it and
hastened to join them, going to up-
town newsstands, each contributino
tne necessary amount to purchase
every "New York American" offered
for sale. ~
Il haven't much money!" shouted
Judge Harris, "but what / lack 7 can
borrow, and we will see that there is not
one of the scurrillous papers allowed
TO be sold in this city. Further than
that we will start a movement to bar
the paper from the streets of any city
or village in Dutchess County,"
The veterans stated that they had
no1 peen able to call a meeting of the
G. A. R.; but they would endeavor to
do so, and have it take official action
in an effort to have the government
interfere and have the paper barred
from the mails.
Colonel Horatio E. Murray, head of
Hamilton Sleight Post, No. 20, G. A.
r., and chairman of the war com
mitee of this section, stated this after
noon that his committee would meet
tomorrow and that immediate action
would be taken as a result of the ac-
tion of the Hearst newspaper.
"The real purpose of the meeting. y
said Colonel Murray, presumably is
to forbid the circulation of any Hearst
publication in Dutchess County,"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Socialists Demand
Disauo1ual at Once
OF Anti-Wur STAND

lmpatience is being manifested by
large groups Of Socialists over the de-
lay of party leaders in carrying out
their implied promise to modify the
anti-war resolutions adopted at st.
Louis last summer and demands are
coming from organized Scialst groups
demanding that the party at once an
nounce its hearty support of Presi-
dent Wilson's war programme.
Fifty Socialists, who favor Amer
ica's prosecution of the war until Ger
man autocracy is completely crushed,
held secret meeting yesterday at
the Union Square Hotel and roundly
applauded speeches made in defence
Of the government's war policies.
Algernon Lee and other Socialist
leaders who are holding out against an
immediate disavowal of the St. Louis
anti-war resolutions were denounced
as threatening to disrupt the party's
chances of making a good showing at
the Congressional elections next fall
Mr.. Hillquit and other members of
the Socialist national executive COM
mittee have called conference of
state secretaries for August 10, to
consider the practicability of modi-
flying the anti-war attitude in which
the party now officially stands"
Those at the meeting yeste rtlay
declared that this plan was too vague
and the conference too far distant to
meet the present situation.
A. w. Kicker, publisher of "Pear-
sons Magazine" was outspoken in
declaring, immediate action was i'm
perative. "What have been the con-
sequences Of our action at St. Louis 2"
he asked. owe did not succeed at
all in stopping the war. The Amer
lean government, being fully deter
mined to prosecute the war. decided
to prevent the kind of opposition
which the St. Louis declaration author
ICES, and enacted laws which have re-
suited in suppressing the Socialist
press. Again our hostile attitude
toward the government almost inn
mediately linked us up with the an
archists, the l. W. w. and pro-Ger-
maniSm,
'In my judgment these results were
inevitable. l foresaw what has hap
pened at the time and wrote in Pear
sons Magazine that in my judgment
the party had blundered in language
at least and would sooner o. later
pay high price for the immediate
political benefits that would come to
us from our opposition to the war
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

portion which referred to peace, was
characterized as a deliberate twisting
Of the intent of the President.
"The garbled report of the Presi
dents proclamation by The New York
American is typical of the numerous
other things that paper has done, and
it goes without saying that the prac
tice is worthy of the most vigorous
condemnation" said George Hewitt
of the United States, and member
of the executive committee Of that
organiza tion. PERSONALLY, have long
regarded The New York Americans
misuse Of Raemaeker's cartoons as
reprehensibie and this mutilating Of
the Presidents proclamation is in line
with that"
William Matthew Lewis, executive
secretary of the National Committee of
Patriotic Societies, was equally vehe-
ment in his condemnation of "The
Americans" treatment of the Presi-
dents proclamation. He said:
president Wilson's appeal to the
American people to make May 80 day
of prayer is to me one Of the noblest
notes he has struck, and must be read
in its entirety to be appreciated. Far
from the blaspherous me und Gott'
idea of the Kaisee, Mr.. Wilson reaf-
firms the thought of Lincoln that The
question is not, Is God on our side :?
but, Are we on Gods side?' Having
searched our hearts and put ourselves
in a position where there can be no
question as to our sincerity in support
ing Americas great ideal in the war.
the President asks US to pray for the
victory of American arms. To omit
this part of the Presidents message is
to emasculate it. To take single line
from the message changes its thought.
1t is a thoughtful and inspiring mes
sage, which every reverent and patri-
otto American will approve to the last
word"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
to do is to either prove their authenti-

to do is to either prove their authenti-
city or set them at rest for all time.
The stories which have been reported
to the Army Intelligence Bureau from
time to time tell of a million Mauser
rifles and one billion rounds of am
munition, said to have been purchased
here by agents of Germany and to be
safely stored away somewhere at the
present time. A typical story tells of
millions of rounds of cartridges now
concealed in a loft in this city.
One specific matter on which the
Attorney General hopes to throw more
light is the activity of Captain Hans
Tauscher, the husband of Nine. Gadski,
who was given safe conduct to Ger
many While here he was supposed to
have purchased large stores of war sup
plies, and, in fact, did seek the arrest
of a broker who, he charged, had taken
part payment for the delivery Of yev-
eral thousand cartridges and then
failed to go through with his part of
the contract.
1t is the intention of Deputy Attor-
ney General Becker to trace, as far as
be can, the source of every story re-
cited by the various witnesses sum-
moned to appear at the investigation.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Son-in-Law of Louis Swift
Is Ordered Interned bv
Presidential Warrant
Nobleman Released
On Bond of $4,000
Brings Habeas Corpus Ac.
tion, and Insists He Is
Loyal to America

CHICAGO, May 13.-Count James
Mlnotto, son-in-law of Louis F. Swift
inc packer, was taken into custody here
late this afternoon by Deputy United
States Marshals on a Presidential war
rant ordering his internment.
A habeas corpus action was immedi-
ately instituted in benalf of the count
and he was taken before Federal Judge
carpenter and released on $4,000 bond.
hearing OF arguments on the habeas
corpus proceedings was set for Nav 90.
According to Department of Justice
officials. the order for the counts ar
rest was telegraphed from Washington
to Los Angeles, CAL, on April 80, but
Minotto already had left his winter
residence there en- route to Chicago,
To-day it was learned he had arrived
at the Lake Forest estate of his father
ln-law, and agents sent to Lake Forest
arrested him as he was about to go for
a ride. He was taken to the Federal
Building, where counsel met him and
filed the habeas corpus petition as the
first move in the counts fight against
internment.
In statement made public tonight,
Count Minotto said:
II was born in Berlin, but 1 am
true lover of the United States. The
Minottos are an old Italian family, and
the name appears in the official list of
Italian nobility"
The statement told of Count Minot-
to's unsuccessful attempt to become a
government secret agent, and asserted
that, in July, 1917, he filed his dec
laration to become a citizen of the
United States.
The section of the act under which
the count was arrested provides for
lnternment for the duration of the
war Of "all enemy aliens. or persons
who prove public menace, or who are
IN any way opposed to the govern
mont'S war DroCro,0,,oov
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Sixty Summoned
To Tell of Stores
OF Germans Here


Merton e. Lewis, Attorney General
OF New York State, has subpenaed
sixty witnesses to appear before him
and tell what they know of stores of
munitions that it is rumored are being
held in this country for Germany. The
investigation. which starts this morn
ing. has been undertaken at the request
of the Army Intelligence Bureau, in an
effort to run down the almost count
less rumors which have been abroad
recently regarding these same alleged
stores of war materials.
Deputy Attorney General Becker, who
will conduct the Investigation, said
yesterday that so far as his Office was
concerned absolutely no opinion had
been formed as to the truth or un-
truth Of the tales. All that it hopes
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Patriots Angered
By En1asc.1lation
OF Proclamation
Especial Dispatch to The Trihunel

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON. May 13.-While
comment at the White House was lack
ing on the emasculation by "The New
York American" of the Presidents
proclamation, published complete by
all other New York papers SUNDAY. The
Trlbune's exposure to-day brought
forth indignant statements from mem
bers, of national patriotic societies with
headquarters here. W
The elimination from the proclama-
tlon of all reference to victory for
American arms, while retaining the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Turks Flee 20 Miles.
Pursued by British

LONDON, May 13.-British mounted
troops, after capturing Kirkut, in
Mesopotamia, pursued the Turks twenty
miles to the northward, says an official
statement issued to-day by the War
Office On May II the Turks were
driven across the lesser Zab River, at
Allyn Kupri. The latter place is sixty
miles southeast of Mosul.
Mosul is an important Turkish base,
the site of the ancient city of Nineveh
and the crossing of numerous caravan
routes.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
L. l. Boy Wins War Cross
Letter Tells of Raid and Rec
ommendation for Medal

Mrs. William Ryan. of 162 Mott Ave
nue., Long Island City, received a let
ter yesterday from her son William,
eighteen years old, member of the
165th (69th) Infantry, saying he had
been recommended for the Croix de
Guerre.
eve have done one trick in the
trenches" he wrote, "and are out on a
rest. We will go in again in few
days. The night after we came out
the captain called for volunteers for a
raid. Twelve of us were picked ont
There were fifty of US, all told, IN the
raid. l am recommended for the Croix
de Guerre. The raid was success"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Famous Bavarian Aviator
Killed on Western From

AMSTERDAM, May 13.-Lieutenant
Geigel, a star Bavarian airman, has
been killed on the Western front, ac-
cording to the "Cologne Gazette"
Lieutenant Geigel was credited with
fifteen aerial victories.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14

M. Leygues said that in February
March and April 3,723 French steamers
and 1888 French sailing vessels passed
through the danger zone, where few
months ago losses by torpedoing had
been very heavy. Not a single ship
was sunk.
On the other hand, he said, the num-
ber of submarines destroyed has in
creased progressively since January in
such proportion that the effectiveness
of enemy squadrons cannot be main
tanned at the minimum required by
the regulations. The number of enemy
U-boats destroyed in January, Febru-
ary and March was far greater in each
month than the number constructed in
the same month. In February and
April the number of submarines de-
stroyed was three less than the total
destroyed in the preceding three
months.
+ 'Situation Most Favorable
These results, the Minister declared,
were due to the methodical character
of the war against submarines; to the
close coordination of the Allied navies;
to the intrepidity and spirit animating
the officers and crews of naval and
aerial squadrons and to the intensifl-
cation of the use of old methods and
the employment of new ones.
"The situation is most favorable"
the Minister continued, "but it does not
authorize the slackening of effort.
Rather, it is necessary to redouble it,
as the enemy has put new submersibles
into service and is trying q fresh Of
fensive. in which he plays for his last
stake.
"The sea front has no communiqu&
The country does not know the terrible
life there when great events occur
Yet it is there that there is being
played one of the parts which has the
greatest influence on the duration and
issue of the war. The country knows
that mastery Of the sea is the certain
gauge Of victory. 1t should know also
that the mastery belongs to the Allies,
who have won it and who keep it;
thanks TO the heroism of the sailors
who are worthy of their soldier
brothers"
The Minister then gave details of the
successful British operations against
the German submarine bases at Zee
brugge and Ostend.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-14
Kaiser, Beaten
At Sea, Plans
Superb -U-Boat
Continued from page 1

Marine, before the naval committee of
the Chamber Of Deputies to-day, but
has made the greatest efforts to con-
ceal it. He said the situation was most
favorable; that the sinkings of subma-
rines in the first three months of 1918
through Allied measures was greater
than the number built by the enemy.
Minister Leygues referred to the
statement made in the Reichstag on
April II by Vice-Admiral Won Capelle,
German Minister of Marine, in which
he said 100000 tons OF Allied shipping
We're sunk monthly. This figure, the
Minister said, was incorrect.
1t was reached and passed in April,
May and June OF 1917. In July it de-
clined and in November it fell below
100000 and since has diminished con-
tinuously.
Prepares Comparative Table
The Minister gave the following COM
parative table Of the tonnage claimed
to have been destroyed by Germany and
the tonnage actually lost in the last
five months:
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