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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

LONDON, June 21 (By The Asso-
ciated Press).- The principal ships
of the German High Seas Fleet, in
termed at Scapa Flow under the
terms of the armistice, were scuttled
to-day by their German crews, who
opened the seacocks. The ships now
are on the bottom in deep water,
and the chances are that they can
not be raised.
The execution of the plot to sink
the vessels came so suddenly that
comparatively few of them could be
saved. Boats containing some Of
the crews who were leaving the
sinking ships were fired on when
the Germans refused to stop, and a
number of Germans were killed.
The wholesale sinking of the Ger
man ships was carefully arranged
by officers and crew. All explosives
had been removed, and therefore
the only means of destroying the
feet was by opening the seacocks.
The ships went down with the Ger
man flag, which the crews had
hoisted, showing at the mastheads.
No British Guards Aboard
The crews, composed entirely Of
Germans, under the terms of the
armistice, which did not permit Of
British guards aboard, took to the
boats when the vessels began to set.
tie. While making for the shore
the boats were challenged and called
upon to surrender Some of them
ignored the summons, and it was
then that they were fired upon.
This stroke apparently was an en-
tire surprise, and the first news
reached London through a corre-
spondent, who was informed by
farmers in the neighborhood that
they had seen the German ships
sinking, with their flags aloft.
The Admiralty at first denied the
report, but later confirmed it and
issued an official statement. The
German officers and crews have
been made prisoner. None of the
officials tonight would offer an opin-
ion as to how they are to be dealt
with.
Just how many ships have been
sunk could not be learned. An.
Admiralty statement said all the
battleships except the Baden and
all the battle-cruisers which were
interned were sunk. This would in
dicate that nine battleships and
seven battle-cruisers, among the
most powerful ships of the feet,
were scuttled.
Of the eight light cruisers in
termed, five were sunk and three
were saved.
Twenty-eight Destroyers Sunk
The statement said that eighteen
destroyers we're beached by local
tugs and four others were still
afioat. There were fifty destroyers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Republicans Save u. S.
Billion, Says Mondell
NeW York Tribune
WGshiu0tOu Bureau

WASHINGTON, June 21.-The House
completed its programme Of appropria-
tion bills to-day-one month after the
convcning Of the special session-when
1t passed the sundry civil bill, with it's
appropriation Of $1,400,000 to be used
by the Department Of Justice in stamp
ing out terrorism.
The saving to the American people
as "a result Of the Republican policy of
economy and retrenchmcnt has been
great, Representative Mondcl, majority
leader Of the House, pointed out. If the
cuts in appropriations made by the
House are approved by the Senate the
saving will be we'll over 81 ,O0O, ,0O0, 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
New German Ministry
Formed; Bauer Is Premier
No Time Extension for
Foe, Says Paris Press

DARlS, June 21.-In circles close to
the peace conference, the news
papers say, it is declared that under
no pretext of holding plebiscite, or
Of ministerial crisis, would the
Allied and associated powers give
Germany further time in which to
make known her decision.
The newspapers, commenting on
the resignation Of the Scheidemann
ministry, are unanimous in believing
that, unless something unforeseen
happens, Germany will sign the
treaty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Sim Fein President, Who
Arrived i'm U. S. IMAM
nounced, Will Be in
New York Tomorrow
Secretary Comes
Over as Stoker
Says De Valera Visited
Mother, but She De.
nies Having Seen Him

Edward de Valera, president Of the
Irish republic, is in the United
States, in seclusion. When, where and
how he arrived are questions this ad-
venturous Irishman will answer in
person tomorrow at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, where a suite has been
reserved for him by his secretary.
This secretary is Harry j. Boland,
a checked, athletic person, who
preceded his chief to the United
States, arriving here about four weeks
ago. Calloused hands and rough fin
gers attest the truth of the statement
of this Member Of Parliament for
South Roscommon that he worked his
passage in the stoke hole of slow
freighter.
Next to. his skin during that muscle
racking passage Boland bore tissue
paper, typewriter plea, the fruit of
months Of effort by de Valera. It was
"1reland's Case for Independence"
later presented to the peace confer
ence. When Boland passed the imni-
grafton inspector who boarded his
ship here he hurried to the Offices of
the Friends Of Irish Freedom, pre-
sented credentials from de Valera and
arranged for printing Of his manu-
script. 1t was set up in New York
printing establishment and the printed
copies sent to Versailles, where their
appearance created something of a
sensation.
Method of Escape Concealed
Boland made the announcement YES
terday that de Valera was in the
United States, and, at the same time,
revealed the purpose of his own un-
advertised entry. He smilingly re-
fused to explain how Professor de Va
lera managed to elude the British au-
thorities and leave Ireland.
Landing in the United States with
out passports need not have bothered
de Valera, for he was born in New
York City and never has renounced his
American citizenship. Mr.. Boland said
yesterday that since de Valera's arrival
he has visited his mother, Mrs.
Charles Wheelwright, of Rochester, N.
Y, but he would not say where they
saw each other, although he denied
that de Valera had gone to Rochester.
Mrs. Wheelwright denied last night
that she had seen her son or heard
from him since his Imprisonment in
England.
Mr.. Boland said Professor de Va
lera was not in New York City nor in
the state. He also denied that he was
in Philadelphia, but he refused to say
where he was.
To Issue Statement Tomorrow
"Hc is in the United States," he
said, "and on Monday he will be glad
to meet representatives Of the press at
the Waldorf-Astoria, where we have
reserved rooms for him. Just now he
is preparing statement covering his
purpose in coming to America. He
will issue that statement on Monday.
Naturally, his chief purpose in coming
to America is to seek to obtain recog-
milton for the Irish republic from the
United States. 1t is not possible to say
yet how long he will stay in the
United States, or when he will go to
Washington
According to dispatches from Eng
land de Valera has been missing" for
twenty days, from which. it is pre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
25 Picknickers Hurt

NEWARK, N. j., June 21.--Twenty-
five men, women and children return
ing from Sunday school picnic were
injured here tonight when an auto
truck in which they were riding dashed
down hill and overturned. According
TO physicians at the hospital where tho
injured wcre taken several will die.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

Vl-GRAPHIC Pogo
Among Us Mortals. 2
Garment Buyers Supplement.
VII-MAGAZINE
Raymond Robins on Trotzky.. I
A Day ut the Hobo College,. 8
VIII-INSTITUTE
John Bull Does the Cooking. 3
The Children's Tribune
IX-REVIEW
"Dcr Tag Comes to Germany
The Winnipeg Soviet Loses. 8
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Several Boats Beached
and Saved, but sudden
ness of Coup Prevents
Effective Rescue Work
Seacocks Opened
BY Teutoza Crews
Sunken Craft Lie in Deem
Water and the Prospect
of Salvage Is Dubious
Pl0tters Raise Red Flag

THURSO, Scotland, June 21
(By The Associated Press).-
The hoisting of a red flag at
noon was the signal for the crews
to scuttle the German warships
in Scapa Flow. The crews took
to the boats and rowed coward
the shore. The guardships fired
at the. Germans, who jumped
overheard and swan ashore,
where they were rounded up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
The Tribune To-day
Nine Sections

I-NEWS pn0a
U-SPORT.S
Grantland Rice's Sportlight. :. I
Briggs's Days of Real Sport.
UI-EDITORIAL
Frank II. Simonds's Article. 3
Suburban Home Contest. ..12
IV-~DRAMATIC
Haywood Broun's Review. 4
The Newest Fashions. ...... 2
V-COLOR
A Portrait Of Paderewskl. 80, I
Mother Goose illustrated. -. &
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

inability to form Cabinet which would
authorize the signing of the treaty.
This basis is now removed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
WEATHER E 4

Fair to-day and tomorrow: moderas6
winds, becoming east and south
tomorrow.
Fun Report ON Page 70
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Continued on page three
The sun., 1919-04-13
A Professor on Poetry

so there will be many who will never at
tempt it and an equal number whose at
tempt will die in infancy.
In the first place he wishes to stress
the fact that our Vers Libre, Imagism and
the like is nothing more or less than the
breaking out in this generation of what
must break out in all "The way to per-
lection, as Pater declares, is through a
series of disgusts. And it is the inveter-
ate habit of English poetry once in SO
often 10 be stricken with conviction Of
sin, and-in the words of the catechism-
to turn from it with full purpose of, and
endeavor after, new obedience. The his
tory of English poetry is an Illuminating
record of periodical farewells to folly"
The papers from which these chapters
have been selected were delivered at the
Lowell Institute. They concern, among
allied features of the revolt for which
Prof. Loves confesses mfeigned delight,
the art of unrhyming rhymed verse, of
hunting down the Vers Libre in prose
and of Distinguishing poetry from
chopped up prose. Prose has preempted
a lions share of the territory once held by
poetry. In the meantime poetry has be-
come Unsuitable. What wonder that they
need watching: Poetry wants even
Chicago" says our referee, "and Carl
Sandburg, in a poem that is like the blow
of fist in the face, gives it to u.s. | do
not like poems that black your eye any
more than Prof. Firkins likes poems that
put up their mouth to be kissed But
Chicago is not an unObtrusive town, and
Mr., Sandburg has at least tried to grasp
it ard hurl complete impression at us.
And that is something"
We can say of this book as the Yankee
tourist did Of the Parthenon, that we have
inspected it thoroughly and found it sat-
isflctory.
CONVENTION AND REVOLT IN
POETRY. Ply JOHN LIVINGSTON LOVES.
Boston: Houghtoa Aiflin Company.
t1.7a.
The sun., 1919-04-13
BY CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE
GGTT happens to be my business to

BY SONS ANCE M URRAr GKEENE
GGTT happens to be my business to
L teach English literature writes
John Livingston Loves of Harvard Uni
versity in Convention and Revolt in
Poetry. "That carries with it for any
frail mortal lurking peril. There de-
velops, insidiously and unawares, the
academic bent Of mind-an excellent thing
in its place, but devastating out of it.
But in spite of the shades of the prison
house some of us still read poetry as hui
man beings, and it is as a human being, so
far as possible, that / am speaking now
In other words Prof. Loves asserts his
humanity. And he justifes the claim, al
though he has not been able 10 avoid the
academic. The apt quotation lies in wait
q trihe too faithfully to admit of that.
However he may masquerade as an ordi-
nary person, he cannot disguise the fact
that his book is an extremely learned doc
ument. But it happens that a learned
document on the conventions of poetry as
they relate to our present day revolt is
precisely what the majority of us need.
AT no time perhaps, in the history Of
this country at least, has there been so
keen and widespread an interest in poetry.
We may carp at the form that it takes,
we may poke fun at its vagarics, we may
leave it, if we please, unread. The fact
remains that more people are reading
poetry to-day than for a period of many
years"
And naturally it follows that there have
never been so many people talking about
poetry, essaying to criticise it and trying
to write it, without the first idea of its
traditions. The fund of information which
Prof. Loves is able to draw upon cannot
he obtained from the hand to mouth
studying that most Of us indulge in to-
day. It viii be difficult to digest Prof
Lowes's treatise IN any such manner, and
The sun., 1919-04-13

whether any one can imagine, after read
ing Sir Oliver Lodges Raymond that the
Fiend had anything to do with it?
DIR. Liljencrants in subtitle calls his
work "a study of the most remarkable
cases of spirit control" These he has
divided into physical phenomena" such
as cabinet performances, deviation and
naturalization, and "psyehieal phenom-
ena," in which automatic writing and
speaking play the most important parts.
Patiently each notable case is described
as it was recorded by "eye witnesses Of
repute, chiefly in the publications of men
and societies devoted to investigation Of
spiritism." The details belong to the
book and not to a review Of it. Some
reader Of these lines, recalling the most
dramatic figure of the history Of spirit
ualism may ask: How about Daniel Dun
glas Home, the medium-does Baron Lii
jencrants consider him a fraudf The
Baron writes Home down as the one me-
dunn, of all those who came under his
scrutiny, who has not at one time or
another exposed. Does the Baron believe
that Home was levitated out of one win
dow and into another seven feet away at
a height of seventy feet above the groundf
He says the evidence is faulty; that Lord
Lindsay was sitting with his back to the
window and judged the phenomenon only
by the shadow he saw, and that Lord
Adare, who heard the windows raised, did
no. see Home appear outside the window.
The third witness, Capt. Wynne, says he
saw Home appear outside the window,
''but there is no statement to show that
either Of the three gentlemen had seen
Home floating outside the windows"
Does DR.. Liljencrants believe that
Home took from the fire lump of burn
ing coal almost as large as an orange and,
holding it in his hands, blew into the fur
mace of unframed flesh until the coal was
almost white hot7 And that other persons
with Home performed the same featf
DR.. Liljencrants, who has scrutinized the
evidence Of Sir William Crookes, Lord
Lindsay and other witnesses, says that it
is difficult to contradict the testimony
unless upon the ground of collective hal
lucination. But this feat, he says, was
not spiritualism. 1t was no more re-
marbable than the performance of Col.
Gudgeon, three other Europeans and two
hundred Maoris who walked barefoot
across the hot stones Of an oven twelve
feet wide in Polynesia; no more remark
able than the fire ceremonies in the FIJI
The sun., 1919-04-13

Islands, as described by DR.. L. M.
Hocken, or in Toxic, in India and IN
Straits Settlements, as written down by
men of repute. Like Andrew Lang, who
studied these eases, DR.. Lljenerants gives
it up, but not without q challenge: "lf
spiritism is the solution, let the mediums
try It'll In the meantime Homes case
remains unexplained"
~.
OF Eusapia Palladmo DR.. Liljencrants
says that 'twenty years Of labor ex-
pended upon a study Of her phenomena
has failed to bring positive evidence for
their ever being genuine. On the other
hand, while fraud and fraudulent
methods have been found in abundance
we cannot positively say that all the
phenomena are spurious. Nevertheless,
while granting so much, We think that
there is q very strong argument for the
probability that not a single phenomenon
exhibited by the medium was genuine"
The cabinet, says the author, will always
remain q source Of suspicion, and Eusa-
pia was primarily cabinet medium.
While the author declares that his sur
vey Of physical phenomena shows that it
"could not be proven not to have been
mechanically produced by the medium"
there is at least one case where at is
very difficult to assume deliberate fraud"
This is the case Of w. Stainton-Moses.
DR.. Liliencrants suggests that this case
might be explained by automatism in the
trance state-the development in trance
of second personality which considered
itself to be the communicating spirit
On the psychological side Of phenom-
ena, DR.. Hljencrants frankly admits that
"the spontaneous phenomena of appan-
tions and voices of the living cannot rea-
sonably be denied in the face of the mass
Of evidence which has been gathered"
He sees only two possible explanations:
"Either We must admit some extra sense
communications between mind and mind,
mconsciously produced by the transmit
ter. or we must accept the phenomena
as indicating the objective presence of
his exte1nalized double" He is inclined
toward the first of these explanations
and he will not agree with those seien-
fists who have denied the actuality Of
thought transference chiefly on the
ground that their own experiments have
failed. Failures in this research depend,
he thinks, upon our lack of knowledge
of the laws and conditions which govern
the phenomena. DR.. Liljencrants does
The sun., 1919-04-13
A Roman Catholic on Spiritualism

not accept any single theory for telep-
athy, "for while we grant that an idea
has been conveyed from one mind to an
other we do not know how it was con-
veyed. whether from brain to brain By
means Of ether vibrations or from soul to
soul without physical intermediary or
whether by liberalization Of psychic
force"
DR.. Liljencrants attache consider
able value to research in telepathy in that
it has furnished negative demonstrations
explaining away previously alleged causes
Of certain phenomena. A medium pre-
tending or enormously believing that he
or she is in communication with a spirit
may obtain her revelation entirely by
thought transfer, from the mind of the
person who has come to inquire about the
dead. The future, he says, may make
clear some of the riddles which scien-
tife research is endeavoring to solve, "but
in the meantime we can form no other
Judgment regarding the psyehical phe-
nomena of spiritism than that they have
not been proven to be preternatural."
V.
Spiritism as a religion is rejected en-
tirely by DIR. Lljencrants, but his objee-
tons to the New Revelation of Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle are theological matters
better left to the Judgment of the reader
of the book.
In considering the moral aspects OF
spiritualism Dr. Lijencrants does not
agree with another Catholic writer, Mr.
Godfrey Raupert, who found proof for
diabolicsl agency in the moral deprava-
ton Of mediums. "In our survey" says
DIR. Liljencrants, I'VE have been unable
to find evidence for the support of this
claim. All Catholic theologians, how
ever; who treat of the subject, uphold the
view that where a preternatural element
is found in spiritism it is to be referred
to the agency of evil spirits rather than
to that Of souls of the departed.
No definite conclusion will be reached on
tuiS pOult uultSo positive pun Aoi piN-
ternatural causation should be fOrthcom-
ing"
While DR.. LiljencrantS's study has led
him to the conclusion that the observed
phenomena Of spiritualism do not exceed
the powers of nature, he does not deny
the possibility that discarnate soul, Sin
a purely spiritual manner" may be able
to communicate with the souls of living
human beings. Telepathy "may be just
the means by which discarnate sorD can
communicate directly with one still in the
flesh. but it does not follow from
the fact of telepathic communication be-
tween the living, for we cannot show that
the nature of such communication is
purely psychological"
The volume ends with an explanation
Of the Catholic Church's restriction upon
its members in the matter of personal in
vestigation of spiritualism.
SPIRITISM AND RELIGION: CAN YOU
TALK TO THE DEADf BY JoHAS
LILJENcRANTs. The Devin Adair Com
The sun., 1919-04-13

We have quoted this passage verbatim
because it constitutes not only challenge
but declaration which may well interest
theologians and laymen. As DR.. Egan says
In his introduction: Hitherto the strictly
orthodox Christian has said of all spirit
istie manifestations that were not on the
surface fraudulent, 1T is the devil, of
course" As DIR. Egan adds, if the spn-
itistie phenomena are all diabolical the
devil and his satellites have lost much of
fkar advertised clevGiness, and he asks
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-03

TO June, 1918, October 5-15th. 1918. and
the other dates mentioned above
Predicted Germany's Defeat.
I announced last year that by June
80. 1918. there would be witnessed a
great reverse to the German arms. and
that on or before October 5th to the
18th we should witness in the central
powers either famine. or irreparable
defeat OF German arms. or evolution.
or a yearning for an armistices or all
four working together in such way
as would lead ultimately TO the &C
ceptance OF the allied terms
Need I comment2 Is II not a subtle
species OF blasphemy TO suggest that
could have guessed series OF exact
dates Indicating the greatest events
in the worlds history The German
chancellor in his speech on October s,
1918, uttered these words "Ou the
night Of October As I signed the ap-
peal for an armistice-" I stand back
with bowed head as I study biblical
prophecy, for the place on which ]
stand Is holy ground.
June. 1918. BY this date the proph-
(COntinued on page 81
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-03
HUNS To DEFEND
RIGHT To P0SEN
Concentrate Forces On
Border Between Posen
and Prussia. Report.

Basel. Switzerland. Jan. 3.-Seversl
German army corps have been con-
csntrated on the border between Po-
sen and Prussia, according to the Ma
chrichten, OF Frankfort Germany, It
Is added. having decided TO defend
her rights 10 the province OF Posen-
Protest aAbJect Surrender
Berlin. Germany. Jan S--tAssoci-
atsd Presz)-A protest against the
-abject surrender to the Poles" which
IS advocated By Herr Ernst, OF the
Prussizn ministry. IS printed by the
ZeirunE Am Mittag. The minister
Who has Just returned from the Dor
der. declares that while the invasion
Ev The Poles could have been prevent
Cd a fortuiEht ago. the situation Is
row hopeless and that Germany could
rot reEaiu the territory occupied BY
tbs Poles, even with the division or
dered 10 the district-a division he
declared, which it now was impossible
70 assemble.
Calls IL sChlnese Apafhy.7
TIE zeItung An 1Iittag declares
that these statements cannot be true.
and e asks why the government has
done nothing in the matter. 1t char
actsrizes the attitude Of the govern
rueuE as Chinese apathy
The Zeitung An Nittag also ex-
presses disqulet over the evacuation
q Riga BIZ the Germans and the dan
ger OF a BolsheTik invasion OF Ger
many
me government members are in
session today and are reported TO be
considering what action to take for
the protection OF German cities from
the Poles
FararH International Port.
warsaw. Russian Poland. Jan s.
Andres o1lraczeWEki. the Polish pre-
miEr. said today that he was IN favor
ef the creation Of an international
pcrt at DauZiE. IN outlining his pro-
gram, he said.
4 desire TO see Poland Inhabited
only BY Poles 7 90 not favor giving
special autonomy and schools 10 the
Jews. but do belieTs in giving them
civic riEhtss II they performed their
civic duties
Robbed By Hans, Russ
we have been robbed by both the
departing Russians and Germans, the
latter trying 10 destroy our indus
tries and our markets The allies
should consider these difficulties Ter
literally, we want what Is ours eth
uorraphicaIiy. We do not want what
ls German OF Ukraine but think that
Luthania Is in this sense