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FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1915. RIGHT TO DESTROY FRYE IS MAINTAINED BERLIN TENSE AS NOTE IS RECEIVED WE'VE PUT UP WITH THIS PERSON ABOUT LONG ENOUGH. Two Points Made by United . States Rejected by Ger- many in Detailed Reply, Conciliatbry Effect of Resig nation of Secretary Bryan Manifest. THEATER Today, Saturday PRESENTS wo DAYS ONLY TWO DAYS ONLY The Popular Broadway Star PRIZE COURT INSISTED ON ONE QUESTION UPPERMOST O H Ecrlin Contends for. Legality of Z Destruction of Any Vessel Car- 'What Will United States Do?" Is Asked in All Quarters; Lokal Anzeiger Hints at Possibil ity of Understanding. rjing Contraband, but Is AVUllne to Pay Cost. Supported by THE '3IORMN.G OREGOXIAN. vfl WAEHISGTOS, Juno 10. Germany In reply to the latest note of the '. United States concerning the sinking: of .' the ship William P. Fry, by the Prinz !Kitel Kriedericli defends her right to , i destroy any vessel carrying contra band. At the same time willingness .1 to Day da'niaires is asserted. Reference : of the case to a prize court is insist - cd on. Germany reflects two points made by the United States. One is tne conten . tion that the prize court means un necessary delay. The other-is that the " destruction of the frye was "unques- - tionably a. violation of the obligations imposed upon the imperial government - under existing treaty stipulations be tween the United States and Prussia. The effect of Germany's answer to day, if its assertions are accepted by the United States, would be to throw - into the prize courts for decision all cases as to whether destruction of an American vessel constituted an ex treme case of military necessity. Violation of Treaty Is Denied. The German reply says: "Foreign Office, Berlin. June 7, 1915. The undersigrned has the honor to make ' the following? reply to the note of his - excellency, James V. Gerard, Ambassa dor of the United States of America, dated April 30, 1915, Foreign Oflice No. 3291, on the subject of the sinking: of the American sailing vessel William P. Frye by the German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich. "The German government cannot ad mit that, as the American Government assumed, the destruction of the sailing vessel mentioned constitutes a violation of the treaties concluded between Prus sia and the United States at an earlier date and now applicable to the rela . tions between the German empire and the United States, or of the American ' rights derived therefrom. For these treaties did not have the intention of depriving one of the contracting parties engaged in war of the right of stopping -the supply of contraband to his enemy when he recognizes the supply of such as detrimental to his military interests. "On the contrary, article 13 of the Prussian-American treaty of July 11. 1799, expressly reserves to the party -at war the right to stop the carrying of contraband and to detain the contra band. It follows, then, that if it cannot be accomplished in any other way, the : stopping of the supply may in the ex treme case be effected by the destruc tion of the contraband and of the chip carrying it. As a matter of course the obligation of the party at war to pay compensation to the parties interested -of the neutral contracting party remains . in force, whatever be the manner of stopping the supply. j. International Itt Is Cited. "According to general principles of (.International law any exercise of the f right of control over the trade in contraband is subject to the decision of the prize courts, even though such , right may be restricted by special treaties. "At the beginning of the present war. Germany. pursuant to these principles, established by law Jurisdic tion for cases of the kind under con sideration. The case of the William P. Frye is likewise Bubject to the German prize Jurisdiction. for the Prussian-American treaties men tioned contain no stipulation as to how the amount of the compensation provided by artfcle 13 of the treaties cited Is to be fixed. xne uerman government, there fore, complies with its treaty obliga tions to a full extent when the prize courts instituted by It in accordance with international law proceed in pur suance to the treaty stipulation and thus award the Americans Interested an equitable indemnity. There would therefore, be no foundation for a claim of the American Government unless the prize court should not grant In demnity in accordance with the treaty; In such event, however, the German government would not hes itate to arrange for equitable in demnity, notwithstanding. Other Claim to Be Considered. "For the rest, prize proceedings in the case of the Frye are indispen sable, apart from the American claims, for the reason that other claims of the neutral and enemy interested par ties are to be considered in the mat ter. "As was stated in the note of April 4 last, the prize court should have to decide the question whether the de struction of the ship and cargo was legal, whether and under what con ditions the property sunk was liable to confiscation, and to whom and in what amount indemnity is to be paid provided application therefor is re ceived. "Since the decision of the prize court must first be awaited before any position is taken by the German government, the simplest way for the American interested parties to settle their claims would be to enter them in the competent records In accord ance with the provision of the German code of prize proceeding. "The undersigned begs to suggest that the Ambassador bring the above to the knowledge of his government and avail himself, etc. "VON JAGOW, "Minister for Foreign Affairs." OLD CHAMBER ENDS WORK Bare Quorum Meets to Adopt Rules ; of New Organization. Obsequies over the old Chamber of Commerce were held at noon yesterday in the green room of the new Chamber. . when 20 members, a bare quorum. gathered and adopted the by-laws of the new organization, as well as a reso lution to put through the new Chamber of Commerce orgamzaticn. ! Directors of the old Chamber will meet soon and resign, as well as take ' into the directorate those elected to manage the affairs of the new Chamber. ' Yesterday's was the last meeting of members of tiie old organization. Gasoline Drops One Cent. KANSAS CITY. Mo., June 10. The Standard Oil Company today announced a reduction of 1 cent in the price of gasoline. The new price is 8.8 cents a gallon. The reduction is effective throughout the United States. Last June, gasoline sold for 13 cents a gal lon. Since then the company has made several reductions. ; N SEA WAR TO GROW German Says Submarines Will Enter Mediterranean Next. BRITISH SAILOR SCORNED Vice - Admiral Klrchoff Declares Chief Peril Is Lack of Discipline on Part of Unseamanlilte . English Crews. AMSTERDAM, May 20. (Corre spondence of the Associated Press.) The next Important field for German submarine operations will be in the Mediterranean, declares Vice-Admiral Kirchoff of the German Navy In an in terview with the correspondent of the Dresden Anzleger. "Coming events be fore the Dardanelles." adds the Vice- Admiral. "will be of a nature never before witnessed In warfare and will have a potent influence on the whole course of the war. Discussing: the Lusitania disaster, Kirchoff remarks that the chief lesson to be drawn is as to the unseamanlike character of the British seaman, who is unable to rise to an emergency like the German sailor. "The last ten days of the third month of the submarine blockade," says the Vice-Admiral. "have produced positively brilliant results, in one week alone our submarines sank 32 enemy ships, including many of great ton nage, around the coast of Great Brit ain, and the total of ships torpedoed now exceeds 200. "But the greatest influence on the reduction of exports to England and on the shipping of all nationalities to British harbors was exerted by the destruction of the Lusitania on May 7. "The peril is not so much from sub marines as from the lack of discipline on the part of the English crews and the imperfect nature of the life saving apparatus. About half the crew of the Lusitania was saved, or we should say, saved themselves, while scarcely one-fifth of the pas sengers escaped. That says much. Whoever travels by English ships can count himself lost in the event of a mishap. That was the case before, and Is still the case now," ERYAN HAS NEW DIPLOMACY Continued From First Page.) Secretary says he will be ready to rest his case. The statement tonight, entitled by the ex-Secretary "The Real Issue." is as follows: "To the American people: You now have before you the text of the note to Germany the note which it would have been my official duty to sign had I remained Secretary of State. I ask you to sit in Judgment upon my decision to resign rather than to share responsibility for it. I am sure you will credit me with honorable motives, but that Is not enough. Good Inten tions could not atone for a mistake at such a time, on such a subject and under such circumstances. If your ver dict is against me, I ask no mercy; I desire none if I have acted unwisely. "A man In public life must act ac cording to his conscience, but, how ever conscientiously he acts, he must be prepared to accept without com plaint any condemnation which his own errors may bring upon him; he must be willing to bear any deserved punishment from ostracism to execu tion. But hear me before you pass sentence. "The President and I agree In pur pose: we desire a peaceful solution of the dispute which has arisen between the United States and Germany. We not only desire it, but with equal fer vor we pray for it, but we differ ir reconciliably as to the means of secur ing it. If it were merely a personal difference it would be a matter of little moment, for all the presumptions are on his side the presumptions that go with power aud authority. He Is your President, I am a private citizen with out office or title but one of the hun dred million of inhabitants. "But the real issue is not between persons: it is between systems, and I rely for vindication wholly upon strength of the position taken. "Among the influences which gov ernments employ in dealing with each ether there are two which are pre eminent and antagonistic force and persuasion. J'orce speaks with firm ness and acts through the ultimatum; persuasion employs argument, courts investigation and depends upon nego tiation. Force represents the old sys tem the system that must pass away; the persuasion represents the new sys temthe system that has been grow ing, all too slowly, it is true, but grow ing for 1900 years. In the old system war is the chief cornerstone war, which at its best is little better than war at its worst; the new system con templates an universal jrotherhood es tablished through the uplifting power of example. "If I correctly Interpret the note to Germany, it conforms to the standards of the old system rather than to the rules of the new, and I cheerfully ad mit that it is abundantly supported by precedents precedents written in characters of blooa upon almost every page of human history. Austria fur nishes the most precedent; it was Aus tria's firmness that dictated the ulti matum against Serbia, which set the world at war." . All Declare Desire tor Peace, j "Every ruler now participating in this unparalleled conflict has pro claimed his desire for peace and de nied responsibility for the war and it is only charitable that we should credit all of them with good faith. They de sired peace, but they sought it accord ing to the rules of the old system. They believed that firmness would give the best assurance of the maintenance of peace and, faithfully following prece dent, they went so near the lire that they were, one after another, sucked into the contest. Never before have the frightful follies of this fatal system been so clearly revealed as now. "The most civilized and enlightened aye, the most Christian, of the na tions of Europe, are grappling with each other as if in a death struggle. They are sacrificing the best and brav est of their sons on the battlefield; they are converting their gardens into cemeteries and their homes into houses of mourning; they are taxing the wealth of today and laying a burden of debt on the toil of the future; they have filled the air with thunderbolts more deadly than those of Jove and they have multiplied the perils of the deep. Adding fresh fuel to the flame of hate, they have daily devised new horrors, until one side is. endeavoring to drown non-combatant men and women and children at sea; while the other side seeks to starve non-combatant men, women and children on land. Tree Knoira by Its Fruit. "And they are so absorbed in alter nate retaliations and in competitive cruelties that they seem, for the time being, blind to the right of neutrals and deaf to the appeals of humanity. A tree 1b known by its fruit. The war in Europe is the ripened fruit of the old system. "This is what firmness, supported by force, he a done in the old world. Shall we invite it to cross the Atlan tic? Already the jingoes of our own country have caught the rabies from the "dogs of war; shall the opponents of organized slaughter be silent while the disease spreads? "As an humble follower of the Prince of Peace; as a devoted believer in the prophecy that 'they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.' I beg to be counted among those who earnestly urge the adoption of a course in this matter which will leave no doubt of our Government's willingness to con tinue negotiations with Germany until an amicable understanding is reached, or at least until the stress of war is over, we can appeal from Philip drunk with carnage to Philip sobered by the memories of an historic friendship and by a recollection of the innumerable ties of kinship that bind the fatherland to the United States." Trust Placed In Love. "Some nation must lead the world out of the black night of war into the light of that day when 'swords shall be beaten into plowshares.' Why not make that honor ours? Some day why not now? the nations will learn that enduring peace cannot be built upon fear that good will does not grow upon the stalk of violence. Some day the nations will place their trust in love, the weapon for which there is no shield: in love, that suffereth long and is kind; in love, that is not easily pro voked, that beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things; in love which, though de spised, as weakness by worshippers of Mars, abideth when a'l else fails. "W. J. BRYAN." When Mr. Bryan met newspaper men at his home to give out his statement he was clad In a military-looking khaki riding suit, having just returned from a horseback ride in the country. "I rode out in the woods today." he said, "and chopped down a tree. Chop ping is my chief exercise lately." Asked how big the tree was, he said it was 18 inches thick and that he thought woodchoppiug the finest exer cise in the world. 2 WAR VESSELS SUNK German Submarines Send Tor pedo Boats Down. STEAMER IS DESTROYED Six Trawlers AVrecUed Also Many of Two Naval Crews and All ' Hands on One Fishing Craft Lose Lives at Sea. LONDON. June 10 Two torpedo boats, a steamship and six trawlers, all British, have been sunk by German sub marines. Parts of the crews of the destroyed war vessels and all members of one trawler crew lost their lives when their craft went down. The sunken torpedo-boats were the Nos. 10 and 12. The steamer was the Erna Boldt, a former German vessel which had been captured by the British and put into their own service. Forty-one members of the torpedo boats' crews were rescued. The two vessels' full complement of men num bered 35 each. These craft were tor pedoed early today off tbe east coast of England. The trawler Letty was blown un to day off Dogger Bank, in the North Sea. The members of the crew were drowned. ine crew of the trawler Velocity, which has been sunk at sea by a Ger man submarine, were landed at Hartle pool today after being 52 hours at sea in a. small boat without food or water. The men were In a terrible state of exhaustion when picked up by the ves sel which brought them to port. The trawler Tunisian's crew, which was allowed five minutes In which to leave the boat, arrived at Grimsby to day. The trawler Castor was also sunk near Grimsby. Bombs were used against both vessels. The Castor's crew was picked up at sea. A news dispatch received here from Maas Luis says the crews of the traw lers Qui Vive and Edward were rescued by & Dutch steamer and brought into Maas Luis. OREGON MEDALS PILE UP SEVERAL HIGHEST AWARDS WOJ AT SAN FRAJTCISCSO FAIR. Exhibitors of Evaporated F"ratt From Several Parts of State, and Jelly Display, Tnlre High Honors. , EXPOSITION GROUNDS, SAN FRAN CISCO. June 10. (Special.) In addiUon to the gold medal for the best horticul tural exhibits Oregon has received the following: Rogue River Valley, gold medal for collective exhibit of proc essed fruits, H. O. Frohbach processor; Douglas and Wasco counties, silver medals for collective exhibits of proc essed fruits; Willamette Valley Coun ties Association, gold medal for evap orated Italian prunes; Willamette Val ley Association, silver medal for evap orated loganberries and blackberries; W. Prlckett, of Lebanon, silver medal for loganberries: Mrs. Robert Warner, bronze medal for collective exhibit of jellies. There are 150.000 people on the grounds today and the Oregon building and all the special award booths were packed with Interested people. Six Million See Exposition. SAN FRANCISCO. June 10. The at tendance at the Panama-Pacific Expo sition has passed the 6,000,000 mark, the bureau of admissions announced to day. This' is an average dally attend ance of 55.000 since the opening, Feb ruary 20. CASTOR I A i For Infants and Children. Th$ Kind Yea Have Always Bccgfct BERLIN, via London. June 11. The first sections of the American note to Germany arrived in Berlin late today and the other sections began coming in early in the evening. The note will be deciphered and presented to Herr von Jagow. the German Foreign Secretary, tomorrow. James W. Gerard, the American Am bassador, called on Herr von Jagow and was closeted with him more than half an hour in the cqurse of the after noon. The American newspapers announced that the communication had been dis patched yesterday and there was an atmosphere of tense expectation in press circles regarding the contents of the note, concerning which such con tradictory statements have been tele graphed from London. Bryan's Action Regarded Seriously. The resignation of William J. Bryan had made apparent the earnestness with which the American Administra tion was considering the question of submarine warfare and guarantees for the safety of Americans in this con nection. The feeling which had ex isted in certain quarters that the nego tiations could not pass beyond the stage of exchanging notes and expressing views began to fade rapidly when it was seen the situation was serious enough to lead to the retirement of the head of the Cabinet. The one question heard today in all quarters, naval, military, diplomatic and civil, was. "What will the United States do, and what is the significance of Mr. Bryan's retirement?" That the resignation of the Secretary of State had not been without effect was shown by a conciliatory article captioned "America." prominently displayed in double-leaded type by the Lokal An zeiger. This article, which appears In the position reserved for communications of the utmost importance, says: "President Wilson allowed his first adviser, who had made known his pacif icist theories, to depart in this critical hour. No compromise between their at titudes was possible, therefore. At tempts to reach a peaceful solution, nevertheless, should not be abandoned. This is not the counsel of faint-heart-edness. but of an earnest will not to make worse our political relations.' Con siderations of humanity may naturally be taken into consideration, so far as the military situation and the policy of the empire will permit. "It easily may be believed that hon orable and unprejudiced negotiations between the parties concerned may lead to an understanding. Neither party should sacrifice anything; neither needs to do so. It is necessary to wait and see whether President Wilsons note leaves the door open for advan tageous negotiations. KxchanKC of Views Promised. "We believe a basis does exist for such- negotiations and that this basis can be built upon with the good will of the parties concerned. Our military interests and our Judicial standpoint, to which we must and shall adhere, do not stand in the way of an honest inter change of views which contains a prom ise of success." It is not known definitely whether this article was inspired, but there is good reason to believe it largely repre sents the attitude of at least some of those personally responsible for the re lations between Germany and the United States. The outcome of the Ger. man-American relations depends on the extent to which this attitude i shared In other quarters of co-ordinate and higher scope. ARGENTINA APPLAUDS WILSON Press Criticises What it Terms "Ex cessive Pacificism" of Bryan. BUENOS AIRES, June 10. The Ar gentine press applauds the attitude of President Wilson with respect to the American note to Germany. The Diario criticises what it terms the "excessive pacificism" of Mr. Bryan, and says "one must recognize that President Wilson is right and has act ed according to the dictates of the National and universal conscience in the matter of right and justice." POSLAM SAFE; POWER TO HEAL IS WONDERFUL If you have work for Poslam to do in the way of eradicating Pimples, Ec zema or any surface disorder, do not hesitate to use it for it cannot possibly harm. It Is antiseptic, kills germ life, soothes, cools and comforts, stopping all Itching as soon as applied. Itching troubles of the most stub born sort are so quickly mastered by Poslam that every one so affected should have its immediate benefit. Your druggist sells Poslam. For free sample write to Emergency Labora tories, 32 west 25th St.. rew York. 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The classes are the largest that have been graduated here. The exercises for the grammar school pupils were held today in the Shively Opera-House. and the higrh school students will receive their diplomas tomorrow nfght. Reserved Windows and Seats for All the Parades. 291 Morrison, Cor. 5th St. I Highest ef f i c i e n c y comes of relaxation and recreation which brings you to your work with a rested mind, clear eyes, heightened interest and with inspiration of all relaxations, music is the most pleasant making music to you will be an outlet for that side of your personality which busy working hours sup press. Mind you, we said