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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, MAT 14, 1915. BRITISH BATTLESHIP IS SOI BY TURKS BRITISH WARSHIP DESTROYED AT DARDANELLES, AND FORTS BEING BOMBARDED. AT THE The Movies Five Hundred Lives Lost When Goliath Is Destroyed in Dardanelles. Broadway at Stark SULTAN LOSES 3 VESSELS Daniel Frohman Presents Submarine Penetrates Straits to Sea of Marmora and Sends Two (unboats and Large Trans i "I: port to Bottom. I)XDOX, May 13. Anothe. British battleship, the Oollath, has been sunk by Turkish destroyers in the Darda nelles, probably 600 men losingr their lives, the Admiralty announced In the House of Commons today. Winston Spencer Churchill added that two Turkish gunboats and a large transport have been sunk in the Sea of Marmora by a British submarine, which succeeded in penetrating the Dardanelles. The Admiralty report says: "The Goliath was torpedoed last night in a torpedo attack by destroy ers, while protecting the French flank Just inside the straits. "Twenty officers and 160 .men were saved, which, I fear, means that more than 500 were lost. "The Admiral commanding at the Dardanelles also telegraphs that tlie vubmarine E-14. which with bo much daring penetrated through the Darda nelles to the Sea of Marmora, has re ported that she sa.nl. V. Turkish gun boats and a large Turkish transport." The Goliath, completed in 1900, was one of the older British battleships of the pre-dreadnought type, and of 12, 960 tons. She was armed with four 12-Inch rifles and 13 six-inch, and, besides her secondary battery, had four torpedo tubes. She had a speed of 18.25 knots, was 400 feet long on the water line and of 74 feet beam. The Oollath cost $3,364,054 to build. Her ordinary complement of men was 760. FLEET IvXTEUS DAR D.VSELLES i Turks Threaten to Send Subjects of ; Allies Into Battle Zone. t I'ARIS. May 13. A Havas dispatch from Athens says: I "An allied fleet re-entered the Dar- 5 danelles last night and bombarded the 5 forts at Kilid Bahr. Chanak Kalessi and t Kagara, The bombardment was inter- ; rupted at 8 o'clock, but was resumed i three hours later and is being contin- t ued. I "Although the Turks have been 5 strongly reinforced, the bombardment 5 from allied warships is causing them j heavy losses, and they are steadily los- y lng ground. Turkish trenches are filled ; with bodies." LONDON, May 13. According to ad J vices reaching here from Constantino ; pie, file Turkish authorities are threat- mlng to send Into the war zone on the I. ;allipoli Peninsula ail the British and French subjects In Turkey. i GERMANS ASKING FOR AID - (Continued From First Page.) males of this class should, for their own safety and that of the country, be segregated and interned. If over the military age they should be re patriated "The government realizes there may be cases railing for exceptional treat ment. Women and children in suita ble cases should be repatriated, but there no doubt will be many cases In which justice and humanity will re quire that they be allowed to remain. Judicial Body Provided For. "An official body, judicial In char acter, will be set up to deal with claims for exemption, and as soon as the military and naval authorities have provided the necessary accommoda tions, those who have not secured ex emption will be interned. "In the case of naturalized aliens, who In law are British subjects, num bering about 8000, the prima facie pre sumption should be the other way, but exceptional cases established to the satisfaction of the advising body will be specially dealt with. There must be powers of internment In cases . of proved necessity or danger." In answering points raised during debate. Premier -Asquith said that the case of naturalized aliens would be met under the government scheme by the provision that where there was sus picion against a man. a judicial body would have the same power of Intern ment as in the case of an unnaturalized alien. Premier Deplores Outbursts. What was going on over the country, the Premier said, was not the method of a sane and sober people. The peo ple hayi great provocation, he said, but he deplored the outbursts of vlndictive ness which he told his hearers were a dishonor to the name of the country. Commoner Thome interposing that some newspapers had incited the peo ple. Mr. Asquith replied: "More shame to those papers." s j lUchniond Circle Meeting Postponed. J The regular monthly meeting of the TUchmond Parent-Teacher Circle will ; be postponed one week to May 21 on I account of the national convention of ; the Mothers' Congress and Parent t Teacher Association, now being held In I the city. The election of officers will ' tie held at the May 21 meeting. i Aberdeen Strawberries Nearly Ripe. I ABERDEEN, Wash.. May 13. (gpe ; clal.) Ripe strawberries grown In 1 Chehali County are expected to be on t the market by early next week. Some ! ranchers have picked quantities . of J these for their own use already. WHO'S GEO. H. M'CARTHYt Adv. COUPONS TO BE VOTED FOR QUEEN OF THE ROSE FESTIVAL. Not Good After May 16, 1915 THE ROSE FESTIVAL QUEEN CAMPAIGN This Coupon will I For Mien Candidate of. Good for 10 votes when filled oat and sent to the Campaign Depart ment by mail or otherwise, on or before the above date. Mo coupon will be altered in any way or transferred after being received at the Rose Festival Headquarters, 336 Northwestern Bank building. SSS-A &ir O FORTS TOP BATTLESHIP GOLIATH. BELOW (I) KALID BAHR, S) CHANAK K ALESI, S) NOGARA, ALL OP WHICH SU FFERED IN YESTERDAY'S SHELLING. FIRM STAND TAKEN BY WILSON IN DEMANDS MADE ON GERMANY (Continued From First Page ) i lieve it cannot now bring itself to believe that these acts, so absolutely contrary to the' rules; the practices and the spirit of modern warfare, could have the countenance or sanc tion of that great government. Frank Purpose Avowed. "It feels it to be its duty, therefore, to address the imperial German gov ernment concerning them with the utmost frankness and in the earnest hope that it is not mistaken in ex pecting action on the part of the im perial German government which will correct the unfortunate impressions which have been created and vindicate once more the position of that govern ment with regard to the sacred free dom of the seas. "The Government of the United States has been apprised that the im perial German government considered themselves to be obliged by the ex traordinary circumstances of the pres ent war, and the measures adopted by their adversaries in seeking to cut Germany off from all commerce, to adopt methods of retaliation which go much beyond the ordinary methods of warfare at sea, in the proclamation of a war zone from which they have warned neutral ships to keep away. This Government has already taken occasion to inform the imperial gov ernment that it cannot admit the adoption of such measures or such a warning of danger to operate as in any degree an abbreviation of the rights of American shipmasters or of American citizens bound on lawful errands as passengers on merchant ships of belligerent nationality, and that it must hold the imperial German government to a strict accountability for any infringement of those rights, intentional or incidental. Right Believed Unquestioned. "It does not understand the imperial German government to question those rights. It assumes, on the contrary, that the imperial German government accept, as of course, the rule that the lives of non-combatants, whether they be of neutral citizenship or citizens of any of the nations at war, cannot law fully or rightfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of an unarmed, merchantman, and recognizes also, as all other nations do, the obli gation to take the usual precautions of visit and search to ascertain whether a suspected merchantman is in fact of belligerent nationality or is in fact count for 10 Votes carrying contraband of war under a neutral flag. "The Government of the United States, therefore, desires to' call the attention of the imperial German gov ernment with the utmost earnestness to the fact that the objection to their present method of attack against the trade of their enemies lies in the prac tical impossibility of employing sub marines in the destruction of com merce without disregarding these rules of fairness, reason, justice and humanity, which all modern opinion regards as imperative. It is prac tically impossible for the officers of a submarine to visit a merchantman at sea and examine her papers and cargo. It is practically impossible for them to make a prize of her, and, if they cannot put a prize crew on board of her, they cannot sink her without leaving her crew and all on board of her to the mercy of the sea in her small boats.' Time for Minimum Safety Refused. "These facts, it is understood, the imperial German government frankly admit. We are informed that in the instances of which we have spoken time enough for even that poor meas ure of safety was not given, and in at least two of the cases cited not so much as a warning was received. Manifestly submarines cannot be used against merchantmen, as the last few weeks have shown, without an in evitable violation of many sacred principles of justice and humanity. "American citizens act within their indisputable rights in taking their ships and in traveling wherever their legitimate business calls them upon the high seas, and exercise those rights in what should be the well-jus tif ied confidence that their lives will not be endangered by acts done in clear violation of universally acknowl edged international obligation, and certainly in the confidence that their own Government will sustain them in the exercise of their rights. "There was recently published in the newspapers of the United States, I regret to. inform the imperial gov- eminent, a formal warning purport ing to come from the imperial German Embassy at Washington, addressed to the people of the United States, and stating in effect that any citizen of the United States who exercised his right of free travel upon the seas would do so at his peril if his journey should take him within the zone of waters within which the imperial German navy was using submarines against the commerce of Great Britain and France, notwithstanding the re spectful but very earnest protest of his Government, the Government of the United States. "I do not refer to this for the pur pose of calling the attention of the imperial German government at this time to the surprising irregularity of a communication from the Imperial German Embassy at Washington ad dressed to the people of the United States through the newspapers, but only for the purpose of pointing out that no warning that an unlawful and inhumane act would be committed can possibly be accepted as an excuse or palliation for that act or as an abate ment of the responsibility for its com mission. "Long acquainted as this Govern ment Las been, with the character of, the imperial German government and with the high principles of equity by which they have in the past been actuated and guided, the Government of the United States cannot believe that the commanders of the vessels which committed these acts of law lessness did so except under a mis apprehension of the orders issued by the German naval authorities. It takes it for granted that, at least within the practical possibilities of every such case, the commanders even of submarines were expected to do nothing that would involve the lives of non-combatants or the safety of neutral ships, even at the cost of failing of their object of capture or destruction. It confidently expects, therefore, that the imperial German government will disavow the acts of which the Government of the United States complains, that they will make reparation so far as reparation is possible for injuries which are with out measure and that they will take immediate steps to prevent the recur rence of anything so obviously sub versive of the principles of warfare for which the imperial German gov ernment has in the past so wisely and so firmly contended. Prompt, Enlightened Action Expected. "The Government and people of the United States look to the imperial German government for just and prompt and enlightened action in this vital matter with the greater confl dence because the United States and Germany are bound together not only by special ties of friendship .but also by the explicit stipulations of the treaty of 1828 between the United States and the Kingdom of Prussia. "Expressions of regret and offers of reparation in ca6e of the destruc tion of neutral ships sunk by mistake, while they may satisfy international obligations, if no loss of life results, cannot justify or excuse a practice the natural and necessary" effect of which is to subject neutral nations and neutral persons to new and inv measurable risks. "The imperial German government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the perform ance of its sacred duty of maintain ing the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. "BRYAN." PARIS, May 13. The Temps, dis cussing a cabled forecast of the Amer ican note to Germany, says that it is firm in tone and leaves no doubt of the position of the United States. "The President, without mental res ervation, has responded to the appeal of ills conscience and the voice of his people," the Temps continues. "The President of the American Republic is an eminent jurist, with firm views as to Justice i and humanity. The United States has at heart the Justification of its position as a great country and also wishes to count among the great con temporary naval powers. These are sentiments which inspired the Presi dent, who at the same time proclaims that the United States should give an example of peace for a sublime influ ence in the world. Condolences and explanations have not influenced the President's high Idea of Justice." Cowlitz Road Day Is Set. vtti cn Wu Vi Mnv IS. (Snecial.1 Residents of Kelso and vicinity plan to WOrK on me iroai t..reen roaa. wphi of Kelso, Saturday, good roads y. rfp T7T7TT1 Hi H ii iiilUU! P A TF TTTYnn1 THTTh THTTKTHTTfo TT OFT" Entire Week, Beginning May 16 "The Eternal City" Stands as One of the Most Powerful Dramas Ever Filmed. It Carries a Story of Political, Pas sionate and Ecclesiastical Interest, and Was Filmed Among the Sacred Precincts of the Vatican, the First Film of Its. Kind Ever Shown. 11 A. M. 8 This is one of the most Important high ways In this section, and there is con siderable grravel work to be done on it before it Is in the best condition for Summer travel. Workers from other districts will put roads in their Imme diate vicinity in shape on that day. Aberdeen Militia to Go on Crnlse. ABERDEEN. Wash., May 13. fSpe- 25c Sjj Park, West Park, Scar Washington. 7 jJ Open Daily Noon to 11 P. M. Sunday 10:30 A. M. to 11 P. M. Coming Sunday The Most Gigantic Spectacle ever presented in Moving Pictures. Required over One Year to produce 5000 people involved; cost over $100,000.00 Features Mrs. Leslie Carter, original who played part of Maryland Calvert over 5000 times under David Belasco. M rs. Leslie Carter IN The Heart of M arylamd. Five acts great battle scenes love and sentiment. Thrills and excitement. Wonderful photography. Living Soldiers Featuring one of the greatest scenes from play. Hundreds taking part. A sensation. Spectacular Ballyhoo on Top of Theater, Park Street Every day beginning Sunday. Reproduction of Belfry Scene on Top of National Hours 2:00, 3:30, 7:00, 8:30, 9:30. Other features and -wonderful music of soul-inspiring kind to ac company drama Carney and Dimond. gy I 11 n WILL BE ADMITTED p Grand Army Men ibSf rree g.T0D A Y JOVIAN Helen Gardner in "The Breath of Araby" Great 3-Act Drama "Boobley's Baby Sidney Drew Comedy Introduction of Rose Festival Queen Candidates "The Night Given Over to Revelry" Geo. Ade Fable OTHER FEATURES NEW ETEMAL By Hal) Came. With In the Role of Donna Roma and a Special Orchestration Every Day 11 P. M. Reels, Continuous Performance ANY SEAT cial.) A cruise to Raymond and re turn will be made Saturday and Sun day by the torpedo-boat Fox. training ship for the Fourth Division, Naval Militia, of this city. About SO men and three officers are expected to make the trip. The Fox will leave here at noon Saturday and will arrive the same nitcht in Raymond. The cruise is the first of several planned for the Summer, one of which probably will BENEFIT TODAY PROGRAMME SATURDAY CITY 25c be to Portland during Rose Festival week. Another lnvlon which iw causlnu trouble In France U that of horde of wild hnr which have appeared alone (he eastern fron tier from th litrman foreM. I WAS IN THIS CLASS For lome time 1 paid rent, avernin? about 134 a month. At the end of four years I bad a nice bundle of receipt, and the landlords bad my 4 X U X 14 I 1832.00 BUT October T, 1(10, 1 bought a house in beautiful Itoaa City Park, on monthly payments, and besides the Joy of living; In my own home. I have already a net equity In th houit of 1844.00 NOW THEN if you are In the wrong; clua, let me how you our Host City Parle bouties: $100 down, balance like rent. Call up the Realty Department of Hartman A Thompson, Main SOS or A. 2050. but do It now. Smokers of Turkish Trophies Cigarettes fifteen years ago -are mo ken of Turkish Trophies Cigarette today 1 taidBgi-ptianOganaaiditWJ 'IK .i,.'Ti. r... 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