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THE MORXING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY AUGUST 13, 1914. CHARTERED SHIPS RETURN TOURISTS American Government Hastens Plans to Relieve Visitors in Europe. MESSAGES GOING VIA ROME Red Cross Gets Quick Response to Appeal for Aid, Individual Con tributions of $10,000 and $500 n Reported in Day. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. The Wash ington Government's measures for the relief of Americans in Europe and plans of the Bed Cross to send an ex pedition to the war zones developed rapidly today. American embassies and legations throughout Europe were authorized by Secretary Garrison to charter ships in which to bring home citizens of the United States. Plans to send steamers from the United States were abandoned because, it was believed, the movement of the refugees could be expedited by chartering neutral vessels at European ports. Information received at the State De partment gave assurances that the British order against the entry or aliens Into England was not meant to apply to Americans on the Continent who are trying to return to the United States by way of English ports. Difficulties over the transmission of code messages between Berlin and Washington partially were removed when an understanding was reached with the British foreign office that the censor should not Impede messages be tween the American State Department and the Berlin Foreign Office or Am bassador Gerard relating to the inter ests of Germans in France or England. However, it was said, such messages were being blocked at Copenhagen, making it necessary to route them by way of Borne. ... Secretary Bryan tonight cabled Am bassador Page at London to ask the British Foreign Office to arrange for the release of Harry Aaron Menthes, of St Louis, who is reported to have been held as a German spy at Sunder Jand. England. Red Cross officials announced that there had been a country-wide response to the appeal for tunas to unanto lu relief expedition. One Individual con tribution of 110.000 and another of $5000 were reported tonight. Dr. Dum bs, Austro - Hungarian Ambassador, now at his Summer home in Massachu setts, expressed thanks to the Red Cross tonight for Its campaign of re lief, which, he said, was sure to be of "great help.'" MANY AMERICAN'S ARE SAFE 6tate Department Gives Out Di forma tion to Anxious Stay-at-Homes. WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Cable ad vices to the State Department reported today the safety of the following Americans in Europe about whom in quiries have been made: From San Antonio, Tex., Dr. Adolph Herff, San Sebaltian. Auatln: Aueene. Bramond, Rotterdam. San Aneelo: George J. Bird, San Sebas tian. Of those whose home addresses are not given the following are In Paris: Mrs. Larousslni. Marie Trehy. William and Ju lius Stewart. Williams Sims, Ruth Bridge roan I,udvlghs, Mrs. Wlnans, Maud Lin coln." strumberg. Stella Jacobson. Julia Rudge Virginia Devlne. Mrs. A. M. A. Bmlth. Mrs. E. A. Knight, William and Barbara Cobb, Estelle Cudahy. In London: Waiter Rowland. Paul Bon wit, Michael Stevens. Mrs. Charles Churan, Smith X. Fowler, Mrs. Fred Hamell, Miss C. Marshall, Marie .Nlckell, Bernlce. Van Horn. Rotterdam: Anna Smith. Mrs. Klapp roth and E. S. Madison. Mrs. Stratt, Miss Cohen Brown. Mrs. Spindler. Herdentor fctelnweg. Meserol Party. Eleanor Lestrade. Xlcc: Adams Oliver. Lawson. St. Morltz. Switzerland: Mrs. Garrett and family. Brighton. England: Clapp, Haupt. St. Gallen. Switzerland: Forsch family. En route Paris to Cologne: Mrs. Strum berg and daughters. Coucy. France: Mrs. Lee and party. Cecil: Mrs. McOonagle and daughter, Evelyn Ftshbern. Bad Nauheim, Germany: Mr. and Mrs. Wlnthrop. ' Berlin: William Tlnkln. Mrs. Paull. En route Lyons to Parts: Lesbalnes, Cralga, Thlelbaut. Carlsbad: Theresa Steindler. Rome: Lillian Sears and party, Ruth berly. Madrid: E. Foran. Coligny: Shelilnga. Vaals, Holland: Burghardt. ' Naples: Mrs. F. B. Blair. Stockholm: Mrs. Sparhawk. Edinburgh: Mrs Marlon Duncan and - - Marseilles: Grace Olmstead. POST WHEELER REACHES HULL tTokio Embassy Secretary Arrives With Refugees From Germany. LONDON, Aug. 12, 8:12 P. M. Post Wheeler, recently appointed secretary of the American embassy at Tokio. and Mrs. Wheeler, who were compelled to turn back at Berlin while on their way to Japan, arrived at Hull today from Copenhagen, accompanied by 30 strand ed Americans. Loans made by the American relief committee to refugees now average about $6000 dally. These loans are made when security is given. Herbert C. Hoover, of California, one of the relief committee, says applicants for relief who really are destitute do not now average more than 10 or 15 daily, but that he expects, when the refugees arrive from Germany, a much larger number will require assistance. REFUGEES QFIT STEAMERS Americans Returning: to Paris or Go ing On to England. PARIS. Aug. 12. 5:55 P. M. Ameri cans at Havre waiting for the French line steamers France and Chicago to call for the United States are desert ing the vessels and returning to Paris or going to England. Upward of 2000 Americans have been living aboard the steamers at the com pany's expense, expecting dally that they would sail. The company now of fers to repay the fares of the Ameri cans, less i.20 a day. Several hun dred of the passengers have accepted these terms. $50,000 19 Sent to Geneva. GENEVA, Aug. 12. via Paris. Aug. 12. 10:20 P. M. Secretary Bryan today ad vised Pleasant A. Stovall that he had deposited 150.000 gold In a New Tork bank to help Americans. Americans now will be sent to Italian ports, where ships are being chartered to take them home. Temperature High at Astoria. ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 12. (Special.) This was the warmest day In Astoria eince June, the thermometer at the Weather Bureau thla afternoon regis tering SO degree, . REFUGEES IN FLIGHT FROM SERVIA. tT? sr vLHsa4sssBsWBB BwjBHi - 1 g JrTTl' TOP, RETCGEE8 LEAVING BELGRADE CAN O .TI r. A All RUSSIA BLAMED BY El Dr. M. J. Bonn Says Germany Is Fighting on Side of Western Civilization. BIAS IS LAID TO ENGLAND Violation of Belgian Neutrality Is "Claptrap," Says Historian, and Real Issue British Fear of Rival Growing. NEW TORK. Aug. 8. Germany's version of the origin of the war has not been told, according to Dr. M. J. Bonn, professor of political economy in the University of Munich, president of the Commercial University of Munich, and author of works of history. It will be demonstrated, he says, that in spite of what has come from London, and from St. Petersburg, from Vienna and Belgrade, the crime Is Russia's. He believes the Anglo-Saxon people who now blame Germany for violation of the neutrality of the smaller states will be horrified to realize that by supporting Russia in this quarrel they have struck a remendous blow at Western civilization. Professor Bonn arrived here on the George Washington to proceed to the University of California, where he was to be the exchange professor of politi cal economy and was to .deliver lec tures on international economic rela tions. His wife is an English woman. Many of his associates have been Eng lish people and he is one of those who believed that England and Germany had at last become friends. That he received no notice to remain at home Professor Boon regarded as evidence that Germany premeditated no war.With the cables cut, it is impossible for him to receive word of any kind, and he is uncertain whether to proceed to Cali fornia or to wait for some opportun ity to make his way home in order to take up some sort of civil work In which he believes his services are needed. "German Side Not Told." 'I think that, owing perhaps to the disruption of the cable service and the lmposslblity of getting dispatches direct from Berlin, the German side, in the determination of the causes of the present conflict, has not been fair ly presented In the United States," said Professor Bonn. "1 could quite understand people like Mr. Asqulth talking of fighting for civilization if it were a question be tween Germany and France; but every one who knows the situation knows that the trouble is due to Russia. Rus sia has Instigated Servia for many years to worry Austria, and we, as al lies of Austria had only the choice either of sticking to our ally and bear ing the consequences, or of breaking our alliance and standing isolated In Europe. "It is all very well to say we ought to have restrained Austria, but would it not have been better for France to restrain Russia from instigating Ser via? The Servians are a small and quite worthy people, but the gang of men who rule Servia are the same people who murdered the late King. England, at the time of that tragedy, withdrew her embassy as a protest. Now Bhe joins the same regicides who have not changed their methods, and talks of standing for civilization! She Is the ally of the people whose atro cious crimes in warfare have just been held up to horror-stricekn mankind by the report of the Carnegie Peace In stitution. British utraU,ty Held Partiality. "The British government, it is quite plain today, is afraid of any German aggrandizement, for, indeed, it is a curious way of showing one's neutral ity to say, as tho British government does say, that it would be infamous for Germany to take the French col onies if France were defeated. Would English neutrality have gone in the other direction? Would they have guar anteed to us, too. that In case of de feat no Inch of German territory should be taken by France? Their Idea of neutrality was partiality. ..w- v. ..a aii hpnrH ft. lot of the vio lation of Belgian territory. Everybody talks as If this was a new uemuiuui. that nobody ever expected. That Is . nniitirftl clantrao. There is HUUllUB - no European war office whose plans for mobilization aid not raumir ,.-..,., nf Relerlan territory by one or two belligerents. England her self. It U well known, haa always con. MUNICH DUGATOR WITH BAGGAGE BELOW, AMERI lAI, MN( JjAST 1 11 i V. sidered the possibility of throwing 100, 000 men into Belgium to guarantee the neutrality of that country. We might have respected such neutrality had England been prepared to guarantee us Belgian neutrality against France, In the same way in which she wanted ua to make guarantees. This, apparently, was not done, because, to put it quite plainly, somo people in England are afraid of Germany and nobody Is afraid of France. I'unio-Moncers Denounced. "The small gang of panic-mongers which has always existed in England has cleverly used its opportunity to draw England Into a horrible war which the democratic masses of the English people will one day repent. But, of course, it will be too late. The fact that Lord Morley and John Burns have resigned from the Cabinet shows that is not such a unanimity In Eng land as to the morality of the war as he London mob seems to exhibit "It Is all very fine in politics to take up moral principles and to say that treaties ought not to be violated. Any power taking such a line ought to do one thing at least if its wish is to be considered quite honest It ought not to enter an alliance with Russia. It cannot be very difficult for those In the English Foreign Olfice, If virtuous indignation has not deprived them ab solutely of all pcv.er of discrimination, to find a good many documents in their pigeonholes which would show them instances of Russian duplicity and Russian treachery. "It won't do In politics merely to look at formal issues. It is quite pos sible that Russia, when she saw that we were ready and she was not, made the most elaborate declarations of her love for peace. Ought we to have be lieved them? Ought we to have de moralized. Would Kngland have guaranteed us that Russia spoke the truth and nothing but the truth? Ought we to have waited until the Russian railway system, which would facilitate cratic France had insisted upon when she financed Russia for the last time? Anybody who takes a humanitarian point of view must answer with a definite, No, it could not De aone: "We know that Russia meant to at tack us. She has been intriguing against Austria, our ally, for the last ten years, partly with the hope of hu miliating her, partly with the object of breaking that alllfjnce. we realized that war would haveo come and that civilized mankind must wish it to be a war In which Germany territory should not be violated by hordes of Russian barbarians, and in which civilization, as represented by our arms, would be victorious. "Just now public opinion, in the United States is not very favorable to us. Our case Is not known, as the cables have been cut If ours were really a bad case, I am quite sure that London and Paris would have served us over here with very copious ex tracts Indeed from the German White Books concerned. "I know that the English people have alwavs been liable to political panic. but they will recover from that shock and when the first news or nussian treachery and the horrors of Russian warfare startle the civilized world, the Anglo-Saxon conscience, not only in the United States, but In England as well, will realize with horror and con sternation what a terrible blow they have dealt to western civilization. AUSTRIANS FACE PROBE MILITARY BODY IS SAID TO BE DRILLING AT MILWAUKEE. Act la Held Violation of Neutrality Uiri Shipment of Coal to Can ada Draws Protest. CHICAGO, Aug. 12. Charges that a body of Austrlans has been organized in Milwaukee and is drilling in viola tion of the United States neutrality laws are being Investigated by James L. Bruff, chief of the bureau of in vestigation of the Department of Jus tice. r., Holnrprl that he had re ceived information that reservists of half a dozen nationalities were arming In numerous .cities, but that in all cases, when notified that they were violating a Federal statute, they had ceased. DETROIT. Aug. 12. Adolph Nleder preuen. secretary of the local German American City League, has sent a mes sage to President Wilson protesting against alleged violation of the neu trality laws by the shipments of coal from the United States to Canada by way of Port Huron. His message fol lows: "My attention having been called to .,.i,.,ifli .ViinmAntA of coal from this country to Canada over the Grand Trunk Railroad via rort iiuron, amen., I. as secretary and in behalf of the lo--i n.,mon. American Cltv League, composed of 12.600 American citizens of German descent, regara it as our duty to protest vigorously against and -.M .n..Hnn to the miDircnt vio lations of neutrality as proclaimed by our eovernjnent. w PLEA IS MADE FOR AMERICAN PATROL Slason Thompson Wants Navy to Help Marooned Tourists to Return Home. MANY TEACHERS IN NEED Hundreds on Vacation Tours Find Savings Depleted, and Progress Is Blocked Even for Those Who Possess Means. BT EDWARD P. BELi, LONDON, Aug. 12. (Special.) Be fore relating my experiences In getting away from the continent let me make a plea to Washington to take imme diate action to protect the ocean high way between Great Britain and Amer ican ports from the fear of German cruisers," said Slason Thompson, of the Chicago Railway News Bureau, to me this morning. "Today London is the mecca of bewildered Americans, thousands of whom are holding return tickets on German steamships wMich havst been driven from the seas. "Of these Americans, many hundreds are schoolteachers who have been touring Europe on their savings. Wnat ready money they possessed melted away before the necessities of flight from Europe came and they are with out surplus funds. Thousands have reached this stage of the journey to find that further progress is blocked even where they have the means with which to buy tickets. Great Numbers Pennlleaa. "Great numbers are stranded In Lon don, penniless, with a situation call ing for doubling the transportation facilities. These facilities are crippled by the British requisition of ships. From the Cunard Line alone the gov ernment has taken great carriers like the Aqultanla, Lusltania, Mauretanla, Caronia and Carmanla and has left a fleet of minnows. The company an nounced that it could make no new bookings until October. "Is it not about time for tho Amer ican Navy to take a hand in guarding the route from cruisers? This is the question asked in London today by a multitude of anxious American school teachers. Experience In France Mild. "Compared with the harrowing tales brought by Americans caught in Ger many by this war, my experience in getting out of France with my wife and three daughters was only mildly picturesque. We had scarcely landed when we were caught in the whirl of mobilization that swept over Europe last week. For two days we stood our ground and let the frenzied rush of visitors from Le Toquet literally leave us monarchs of all we surveyed at one of the most popular Anglo-French re sorts on the Continent. "After the reserves were called out all arangers were warned to leave." WILSON REACHES CAPITAL President Expects to Plunge Into Work Again Today. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. President Wilson returned to Washington at 5 o'clock today from his journey to Rome, Ga., to bury Mrs. Wilson. wnn nun r-ame- Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo, Mr. and Mrs. Frances B. oayre, Miss Mar garet Wilson, Professor btocicson Axson. Mrs. Wilson's hrotner, ana other relatives. The trlD trom Rome was uneventful. .u. nr Tlr firavROn. his Ohy- sician, the President spent most of the time on the observation pianumi . his car to get the breeze. The President plans to plunge into work tomorrow and to assume active command again of the work of helping Americans stranaea in r.urupc bringing about better business condi tions in this country. He will see the members of the Federal Reserve Board, a delegation of the representative ship ping interests and business men. British Steamer Sails. BOSTON. Aug. 12. 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