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GERMANY SAID TO USE 10,000,000 fJEIJ Four Million at Fronts and AN . most Million More Train Y ing, Declares Briton. 2,000,000 MAKE MUNITIONS Half Million on Railroad and More I Arena U Swell Total Kngland Uses figures to Show Food I ehlpmcnu Are for Army. LONDON. Aug. J. At todays session ef the meat carso cases of the Brltlah pH court. Sir Frederick K. Smith, tha Solleltor-Oeneral. produced a aworn at fldavlt mada by Major Krle Dillon. I member of tha general staff, giving a Brltlah aatlmata showing that tha nam' br of parson serving In tha Herman army and under tha control of German military authority aggregates lv.OOO.- oa. Tha statement n produced In aup aort of the Crown's contention that people employed In aoma ot tha or dinartly civilian occupations are now In tha service of tha German government and no lonicer part or tha civilian popu lation. and that therefore tha food stuffs seised by the British arovern ment really waa Intended for Ger many's military forces. 4,oeaOS Mew Fraat. Malar nilion'a fla-ures follow: -A Under arm on two fronts. In garrlsona In Belgium and on lines of communications, i.wv.ww. "B In training; In Germany. TS0.0, C Casualties, Including constant l.mrorarT wuUst. S.vSS.OO. -U On railways, all of which are used and organised specially for war and are. controlled by tha military au thortltaa. .0. -E At Krupp'a arsenals and fscto- ria and other araenala and factories concerned In tha manufacture of war munition. Ti.0ot. iss.m Make War Materials. "F In coal mines and In factorlea concerned In making army boots. cloth Ins; and other artlclea necessary In tha equipment and provisioning of tha army. J.tOO.aOO, Solicitor-General Smith argued that the German government reserved the rlsrht to aubstltuta rations for money allowances to the wtvea and children of these men. Therefore, at tha mod erate figure of two dependents for each of tha )..tO. ha said, there would b 3a.eoO.eOO who mlKht be dependent an the slate for rations, so that It would be fair to assume that In all probability tha aelsad foods were In tended for government use. PARDON RECALL WANTED Mr. Evans to rrotcst Against Free dom for A. Wolf man. , District Attorney Evans declared yes terday that tha pardon granted to A. Welfman. who waa convicted of per jury, waa given without tha consent of himself or of Circuit Judge Da via. be fore whom Wolf ma a waa convicted. Mr. Evans announced Ma Intention f vtettlnc Governor Wlthycomb at Palem today and formally protesting agalaet the pardon. Wolfman waa convicted In January ea a perjury Indictment which grew out of hie trial for arson. Ha waa con victed and sentenced to from three to 1 yeare in tha penitentiary. Tha arson case waa dismissed, by Judge McGinn. several other arson Indictments ara till pending. Mr. Evaaa said. GERMANS HELP BULGARIA Groap of Bankers to Take Vp Cold Loan of $3t. 000,000. Br.RLJV. Aug. J. by wireless to Fsyvtlle. N. T. Among the news Items given oat today by '-a Oversees News Agency la tha following: "According to tha cologne Osteite, a group of German bankers, beaded by tha Dtsronto GeaelUrhaft, has made a contract with tha Bulgarian govern ment to take about ... francs Si0.le.000of tha f per cent Bulga rian gold loan of 114. Tha Dlsconto Geaellechaft has been charged to re deem i:.000.000 francs 1$ 14.000.000) of Bulgarian treasury notea due early la August at IMS marka per 100 francs." AMERICA PROBES DEATHS Ambassador Pace Investigating Ger man Submarine Attack. tVASHlXITOX. Aug. 3. Ambassador Tags, at London, today notified the State Department be la Investigating the report that three Americans were killed and three wounded when the British steamer Iberian waa torpedoed and aunk by a German submarine last week. American Conaul e'roat. at Queens town, reported only ona Amer icanMark Wiley had been killed. Later, unofficial reports Increased tba casualties. BLOCKADE IS INSISTED ON ceetiiqed yrern First Page.i tiona arose that led tha British gov eminent to amplify Its argument. Ona of theea new conditions waa 1 strong proteat by tha State Depart ment against seliure of the American ship Neches. bound from Rotterdam for New Tork with a cargo ot Belgian and German goods. British activities previously bad been confined principal lv to holding np cargoea from America, ostensibly bound for neutral countries. but alleged by tha British to be actu ally destined for Germany or Austria. Tha Neches case made necessary a de fense of the allies' right to cut oft Ger many's export trade to neutral coun triee and tha financial benefit to be derived from that business. The second nota of tha series deals with this Issue, and It Is understood that It aets np tha contention that an actual blockade of tha North Sea ports exists and that, regardless of the British orders-ln-eouncll. there la an Inherent right la tha blockading pow ers, under' International law. to aup prs traffic of this kind. While the controversy Is proceeding, unofficial efforts ara being made to release for the American market goods now awaiting export at Rotterdam by proving Belgian origin and American ownership. Ord re-la Ceaartl Defended. The last note of the aerlea la in reply to the American caveat of July IT. say ing tha United States would bo gov erned only by tha prlnclplea of Inter rsttonsl law la dealing with rasea of detentions ef American ships and goods and would not recognize th ordera-ln-counrlL Tha British Foreign Office bolds that tha ordsrs-ln-council comply with th spirit of International law. although they make a new application of these principles to suit tha new conditions developed In tha war. British prise court proceedings wherein the magistrates have asaumed that tha ordere-in-council ware In con formity with International law pro voked the American communication. The British contend that where Inter national Issues were pending before United Stataa courts that fact baa been recognised by the London government aa a reason for deferred diplomatic protects. It la bold that tha United States Government cannot assume that Its merchants have suffered permanent injury, ainca there la alwaya In reserve the right of diplomatic review of prise court decisions, and even of arbitration under the special arbitration treaty be tween the United 8tatea and Great Brit- In. recently perfected. Germany Malatalaa Fealties). The German note, continuing the dis cussion over the sinking of tha Amen can ablp William P. J" rye by a German commerce raider, deals with tha Amerl can contention that not only Interna tional law. but special provisions of the treaty of 111 between the United Stataa and Prussia bad been violated. Tbe note raakea no substantial change, It la understood. In the" original Ger man contention that while tbe treaty of lilt does confer special privileges and exemptions upon American ship ping, these can all be met and the right still reserved to sink merchant abipa If the ownera are compensated. Germany's formal declaration yof a war sons Is held to Justify special measures to keep supplies from bsr enemies. An answer to tha Brltlah notes soon will be forthcoming, aa officials here have been prepared to aoma extent for tbe presentation mada today and have gathered material In rebuttal, predic tions were'lacklng. however, aa to the course to be taken la regard to tba German note, or as to other cases In volving practically the same principles as tbe Frye incident. ITALIAN GRILLS KAISER NOTED HISTORIAX SATS WAR IS BLOT OX CEHMArTS NAME, Reeeeatrectlee After Catastrophe Held IsspssslMe Unless People Adept H salllty, Flraancea and Simplicity. MILAN, via Paris. Aug. I. Guclielmo Ferrero, the Italian historian, in speak ing of the first year of the war. aays that It la "the greatest tragedy ever experienced by ona generation." He attributed It to Inaenaata pride helped by the weakneaa of governments, by the powerlessness of parties, by the Itchiness of public opinion and by tha fatuity ot the Intellectual classes. "On tha council or generals, wnicn. presided over by Emperor William, decreeed at Potsdam a universal war on tbe evening of July It." be says. -will rest Implacable execration throughout tha centurlea and condem nation In history. -Those who within an hoar took the moat Inhuman decision recorded In his tory, were able to do so because. In the mind of the public, the sense of pro portion bad been extinguished. Signor Ferrero minus mat arter tne catastrophe It will be Impossible to reconstruct new order unless -our gen eration adopta virtuee so far neglected, namely, tboae of humility, firmness, simplicity and a reasonable Judgment of life and things. 'This la our duty. ha concluded, "to the memory of the millions of men who have fallen in thia terrible year while defending Europe and her liberty against German aggression." ROSE TRIED 8Y CENSOR rtUSO-it'.RS LETTERS ASK FOR IX. FORMATION FROM HOME. Germane Detect French Flan far Ob taining lafermatlea and Urge People to Be Canttoaa. BERLIN. July 11. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Because let ters received from German prisoners of war in Franca apparently bava been tampered with by the French censor. It Is charged the authorltlea have found It necessary to Issue a warning against Including any Information ot a military character In communications from relativea to prisoners. A recent letter from a prisoner con tained tha surprising request to his relativea to write him all they could about the war. An examination of the writing . showed, however, that tha prisoner of war had written exactly the opposite and that his handwriting had been Imitated la changing bis Injunction. Similarly ha had written that lettera to him ahould be sent unsealed. Tbla Injunction, too. bad. been altered to read that bis relatives might seal their letters, conveying the impreaslon. along with tha request for war news, that he waa In a position to receive uncensored communlca tiona. The German authorities declare they are convinced that it was tba Intention of tha French government to secure, in thla manner, military news of value, advance word of Intended operations. trooD positions and the like. They urge relativea. therefore, to limit themselves in their lettera to tbe Barest, needful in formation of a non-military character. GERMAN DESTROYER SUUSBRItlE British Diviner Boats Score Near the Kaiser's Coast, Sinking Transport, Too. TEUTONS SINK 3 STEAMERS London Admiralty Also Announces Effective Work bj Its Vndersea Craft Operating in the Sea of Marmora. COURT DISREGARDS WAR GERMAX WIRELESS FIRM MUST DE- FE.D SUIT AT O.ICE. Scot Jersey J edge Raiea That ActJea Breoght by French Corpora flea Meat (is Oa Despite Eerepeae Aitalre. TRENTON. N. J. Aug. J--Vlee-Chan- cellor Stevena In the Court of Chancery today denied the application of a Ger man corporation for tha postponement of tbe bearing and determining of a suit brought In the Court of Chancery of New Jeraey by a French corpora tion to compel the German concern to carry out an alleged contract to dis pose of Its wireless telegraph station at Tuckerton, N. J., to the French cor poration. The German company asked tnat a hearing be deferred until after tha close of the present war. Judge Stevens said that tha contro versy waa a aubject over which Maw Jersey courts had exclusive control. The decision meana the case will pro ceed In the usual order. The name of tha German company la the Hoch Frequense-Maschtnen Akien-ges-EUschsft Fur Drahtlose Tele graphic of Berlin. The French corporation Is the Cam pagaie Universalis da Telegraphla at da Telephone 8ans Fit. with offices In Parte. I'm SantlseptJc After Shaving. SMMblsg. CO"' In i. refreshing. tes soft. . vety fisisa. losisstly relieves asd prevests Irrl ts'iea. Protests lafertioa. Yoo like Its clcsala keeita eeur. ttic Ail drattisis. fAvnrttf A. V Rnth Rritlsh and German eubmarlnes have redoubled their actlvitlea In widely acsnerea waters, the vessels of each nation re porting effective work. n ....tin. 1 1 n rtnafl tortedoboat destroyer of the Q-196 clasa July 16 near the German coast prooaDiy w. of the greater Importance from a tntlt ... Tha British ad miralty announced tonight that the submarine which sank the German had returned to Kngland. -r-t . . m - f. -1 4 1 was completed In 1S11, displaced 8 tons end could meae more man n hour. Her complement in norma. times was 7J officers and men. British Scare la Marmora. TI1.K .nhmiHnM alio have SCOTCd . i . w t Marmora tor- mcnuj L " " pedoing a 3000-ton steamer, a gunboat and firing torpedoea at lighters, the result ot wnicn couia noi -termined. although the explosions were heavy. . An official dispatch from -eirograa ays a British sunmanne nas sunn, large German transport In the Baltic Sea. Tha British vessels alao fired at tne t iii. ......... mill- and evnloded fieiiuniiK ij-m.i ........ .w.-n. . ....L . n .mmnnltlAn on a trOOD train near Kara Burnu. about 106 miles east of the northern entrance to ino Dardanelles. The British steamship tuntonia oi I83S tons wss sunk yesterday, by a German aubmarlne 10 miles west of Armen. France. All or tne crew, aomo of them injured, were rescued by French smacks. Genu Beats Sink Three. A n. - n aiiKmaeltiM also sank the British steamer Fulgens, of 1601 tons. The crew were saved. Another British steamer tunx was i c-nA-ii-K .e lll .na Sixteen members of the crew have landed, but others are supposed to do arnting in man Doa is. TURKS DENY REVERSES ALLIES ARB DECLARED HELD OX EVERT FROST. Brltlah Crasors Accused ef Having Dia- terted Official Cammunleatloaa From Constantinople. WASHINGTON. Aug. I. Declaring that official communications from the Turkish government bad beeit dis torted by British censors to give an erroneous Impression of conditions in th Ottoman JCmpire. the Turkish Em bassy mada public the following state ment tonight: On tha JSth of April they (the allies) landed in two places: Arl-Bournu and Seddul Babr. The objective of the first landing corps waa Maidos. at a distance of eight kilometers and that of tha second Krlthla. Now the allies on the aide of Arl-Bournu have never been able to proceed further than one kilometer from the shore. And on the other side they are being checked at a distance -of kilometers from Krlthla. .Their failure at Seddul-Bahr Is so much tbe more striking, because this place, being situated at the ex tremity of the Galllpoll peninsula. Is, from three sides, exposed to the con verging fire of the allied warships." Kqually Incorrect statements have been Issued, the statement continues, aa to victories for the allies on the coast of Asia minor and Smyrna. "Not a single allied soldier." It adds, "has landed on tbe Asia Minor coast, and tha only military operations consist In having fired a few explosive shells without any damage." Naval opera tions In Syria, It sftys. "have been con centrated against the huts of Inoffen sive peasants, as well as fishermen's boats." In Mesapotsmia. the statement ssys, the British advance has been held and the Brltlah hope of winning over the Arab tribes frustrated and the Araba ara harassing the Invaders' communi cations. "Tha Russian advance in the Cau casus." the statement says, "has piti fully collapsed." And an uprising among Armenian peasants fomented by tha Invaders suppressed "with much celerity and with all possible modera tion." frustrating the desire of the enemy "to represent the Ottoman gov ernment as resorting to persecution against Christiana of Persia." UNCLE SAM INVOKES AID (Continued From Fint Pse. typified the so-called "clentiflco" ele ment. On the other hand the leaders have professed to be ready to embrace any plan for peace which Included as Its first object the maintenance of the territorial sovereignty of. Mexico, free elections and restoration of the govern ment to the constitutional line from which It departed with the death of President Madero and tho ascendancy of Vlctorlano Huerta to a dictatorship. Tha Thursday conference is the step President Wilson and the Cabinet had in mind when a few weeks ago a state ment wss Issued to tha American peo ple on the Mexican situation, and In tended for the Information of the Mex ican leadera themselves. This state ment declared In forceful language that the patience of the United States was becoming exhausted with three years of revolution and chaos, and that un less the Mexican leaders themselves found some way to accommodate their differences, the United States, as Mex ico's next friend snd neighbor, would be constrained to decide what means should be employed to restore peace. Recent Developmeata Important. When President Wilson went to the Summer White House at Cornish. N. H, It was expected nothing would be done until his return. The recent almost kaleidoscopic developments in Mexico City, however, are believed to have in fluenced the announcement of action at this time. The State Department was disturbed today by reports that General Villa had driven American and other foreign jnr chants from Chihuahua, confiscated thrlr property and executed alx of their Mexican colleagues. American consular agenta were called upon for Immediate reports. Protests came from diplomatic representatives of foreign powers. Col villa Barclay, In charge at the British Embassy In the absence of the Ambas sador, called at the State Department to protest against the reported eeisure by Villa of property of British subjects and their expulsion from the country. After his visit Secretary Lansing con ferred with Assistant Secretary Breck enridgn. of tho War Department: and Leon C. Canova. chief of tha division of Mexican affairs. Dispatches - to American consular officials were the direct result. VILLA EXECUTES MERCHANTS Six Put to Death for Refusing to Give Funds to Rebel Leader. EL PASO. Tex., Aug. 2. The confis cation of the property of merchanta do ing business in Villa territory and the execution of six of 42 Mexican mer chants, imprisoned by the northern leader after a conference at which un successful efforts were made to raise a forced loan, was reported today by persons arriving here from Chihuahua City, ""where the conference was held. Durlnsr the conference , it was said General Villa said: "The American Government can go to hell If It does not like my actions." Foreign mer chants, it was said further, were then ordered to leave the country and are expected to reach Juares tonight under escort of General Villa. Villa Is quoted aa having charged the merchants with exacting exorbitant prices for their goods, and is said to have given thia as his reason for the confiscation order. The Villa garrison at Guzman. 78 miles southwest of here, revolted to day, according to Carranxa reports. which are verified by railway officials. The officials of the garrison were Im prisoned. It was said. According to the Carranza officials, the soldiers have de clared their allegiance to the "first chief." Railroad service to Guzman has not been Interrupted. Representatives of foreign mining concerns operating In the State of Chi huahua today received word rrom t-ni-huahua City that a conference of min ing company representatives, called for today, at which Villa had announced his intention to levy a forced loan of 1300.000. adjourned until August 9 when only a few mining men appeared at tho meeting. TEUTONS WIN TRENCHES FRENCH REGAIX FART OF LOST GROUND BY COUNTER ATTACKS. PRESS -FARES BADLY Foreign-Owned Newspapers in Turkey Are Suppressed. GERMAN ALONE ESCAPES Flamlag. Liquid la Hurled Over Fee by Germans, Who Show Unusual Activ ity la Argonao Region. PARIS, August 2. The following of ficial communication was Issued to night: "The activity of the artillery has been less marked In Artots and the val ley of tho Alsne. A number of shells have been throwu into Arras and Eolssons. "In the Arsonne spirited infantry engagements occurred on the night of August 1-2. In tha region of HiU 213 the Germans occupied one of our trenches, which a counter attack by our troops recovered in part. "During the course of the day, after having made use of flaming liquid, the enemy launched a violent attack against our trenches In the region of Marie-Therese and succeeded tn gain ing a foothold in one of them. We im mediately counter attacked and re gained the greater part of the ground lost. "On the heights of the Meuse and in the Woevre there was the usual can nonade, more Intenee around Champion. "In the Vosges a succession of en gagements has been going on since the evening of August 1 before the posi tions which we - conquered on the heights of the Llnge, of Schratzmannele and of Barrekopf. We have carried aeveral German trenches, inflicting on the enemy heavy lossea and taking 60 prisoners belonging to two different regiments." French Language Better Known, bnt New Alliance Increases Number of German - Students Allies Now Have No Voice. CONSTANTINOPLE. July . (Cor respondence of the Associated Press.) No business has been hit much hard er In Constantinople than the news paper business, and every monthly. weekly and daily paper owned by foreign Interests, with one' exception, has gone under. Five still are pub lished in some language other than Turkish, hut four of the five are Turkish-owned. The single exception to the disas trous rule is the German Oesman Ischer Lloyd, whicn flourishes despite the fact that German as a language Is much less known in Tancey than French. The new alliance brought about by the war is, of course, in creasing the number of students of German, and consequently the circula tion of the Lloyd. The first paper to succumb was the Levant Herald, published in English by a citizen of Malta. It was the last English paper to "hang on." The Monlteur Oriental. Turkish owned but French in language, formerly had an English section, but this has long been given up. With Turkey's entrance into the war the French "Stambul" went by the boards, and in April it was followed by the Zionist Jeune Turc. a paper friendly to the entente ( allies, . which Incurred the wrath of trfo authorities. The latest to .- disappear is the Turquie. -originally, k published in Italian, and then in French. It had existed-on sufferance for some time, and had been permitted to publish only the official reports of Germany and Aus tris. but no reports from other cap itals. The papers that have withstood the rigors of war or censoring authorities are the Cesmanischer Lloyd, in Ger man; the Monlteur Oriental, in French: La Defence, in French; Die Verteidigung, a monthly in German, and Hilal. in French. The British steamship Clintonia, -of 3858 tons, was shelled and sunk Sunday near Ar-Men by a German, submarine. Eleven men were killed on the vessel and 15 were injured. The Clintonia, according to survivors, was attacked without warning. One of the lifeboats containing ten persons was engulfed. In all 4 sur vivors reached here. BIG BALTIC PORT IS LOST (Continued From F1rt Pge. STEAMER FRIEDA AGROUND Crew Saved and Vessel Believed Loss Off Maine Coast. BATH. Me, Aug. 2. The .sulphur laden steamer Frieda from Sabine, Texas, for Searsport, Me., wont ashore In a dense fog today on Seguln Island, off the mouth of the Kenneboc River. The vessel was so firmly grounded that the chancea of floating her without assistance were considered slight. The crew of about 30 men were re ported aafe on Thursday. The Frieda wss many mires of her course. the removal of factories, government institutions and hospitals created in tense excitement among all classes of the population of the Polish capital. It was feared that the military au thorities might deem the evacuation of the city by the inhabitants a military necessity and would destroy a great part of the city to prevent its use ny the Germans as a base. - . Many wealthy residents left for the interior and many of those who have remained sent their families out during the past fortnight The streets, wnicn generally are thronged, became deserted. The period having passed with a realization that tbe city is to be spared, those remain ing have taken up their normal trend of living.. The French and Belgian consuls left the capital in the early days of Ger man proximity, turning over their affairs to the American consul, Her nando de Solo. The city police and Administrative authorities have continued their func tions, thus operating to restore tbe confidence of tho people. In the meantime, arrangements have been completed to substitute for the existing police and city authorities the Polish civic military and government, should the former llnd it necessary to cease Its activities. The clvio military has received full instrustlcns and will take over tho policing of both the city and the nearby suburbs. The civic administration embraces the criminal courts and already has entered on that function to the extent i'J'V f . ' rrnr if TWO D AY S MORE POSITIVELY NO LONGER fflarperife Clark Who Is, Without an Exception, the Daintiest and Most Fas cinating; Motion-Picture Star in Her Greatest Triumph Severn Sisters Adapted From the. New York Comedy Success NOTICE TOMORROW AFTERNOON FROM 2 TO 6 P. M. WILL BE A SPECIAL CHILDREN'S MATINEE ALL CHILDREN UP TO 15 YEARS ADMITTED FOR 5 CENTS COME EARLY IT'S WORTH YOUR WHILE PEOPLES W. 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