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1 Possible Peace Terms Declared by Chancellor Michaelis. AMERICA IS SNUBBED England Blamed for Causing War and for Making Uie of Submarine Necessary Food li Scarce. Copenhagen With the statement that Germany's wish is to conclude peace as combatants who have success fully accomplished their purpose, yet admitting the severity of the food sit uation, Dr. Georg Michaelis, the new imperial chancellor of Germany, Fri day made his first address before the reichstag. Dr. Michaelis declared adherence to the submarine campaign as a means of hastening the end of the war, and looked lightly upon the entry of the United States into the war, asserting the German fleet and the submarines would master that situation. Meager reports of Dr. Michaelis' address, received Saturday, were sup lemented Sunday with more complete versions. "Although," said Chancellor Mi chaelis to the reichstag, "English statesmen knew, as shown by their bluebook, that Russian mobilization must lead to war with Germany, they addressed not a word of warning to Russia against military measures, while my predcessor, in instructions July 29, 1914, to the Ambassador at Vienna, directed him to say that we would willingly fulfill our duty as an ally, but must refuse to permit our selves to be involved In a world war through Austria-Hungary disregarding our counsels. The man who wishes to kindle a world war does not write like this, but a man who is laboring and has labored for peace to the utmost. "The concentration of the Russian army compelled Germany to seize the sword. "There was no choice left to us, and what is true of the war itself is true also of our weapons, particularly the submarine. We deny the accusation that the submarine warfare is contrary to International law and violates the rights of humanity. "England forced this weapon in our hands through a neutral blockade. England prevented neutral trade with Germany and proclaimed a war of starvation. Our faint hope that Amer ica, at the head of the neutrals, would check English illegality was vain and the final attempt we made by an hon orably intended peace offer to avoid the last extremity, failed. "Then Germany had to choose this last measure as a counter measure of self-defense. Now also it must carry it through for the purpose of shorten ing the war. The submarine war is accomplishing all and more than all it Is expected to. It impairs England's economic life and the conduct of the war month to month in a growing de gree, so that it will not be possible to oppose the necessity for peace much longer. We can look forward to the further labors of the brave submarine with complete confidence. "We look without serious concern upon the optimistic sentiment in the entente countries caused by America's intervention. It is easy to reckon how much tonnage is necessary to trans port an army from America to Europe, how much tonnage is required to feed such an army. France and England are scarcely able to feed and supply their own armies without influencing the economic situation still further. After our previous success we shall be able to master this situation also through our fleet, particularly the sub marines. That is our firm conviction and assurance. We and our allies, therefore, can look forward to any fur ther development of military events with calm security. "The burning question in our hearts, however, ie how much longer the war is to last. With this, I come to a matter which stands in the center of all our interest and all our proceedings today. Germany did not desire the war in order to make violent con- Seek Life of Kaiser. Amsterdam An attempt on Emper or William's life by two Americans was reported Saturday by a person who states that he knows the circumstances. "According to his story, two men man aged to get near the kaiser at great headquarters on July 3 before the em peror went to Vienna. The men were seized by detectives, the tale goes, and were found to possess revolvers. It is aid these men, both Americans, had been promised a large reward by an American millioniare for killing the emperor and that they were shot. Camp Getf First Animals. Tacoma, Wash The first carload of 15,000 animals to be used at the army cantonment when the 46,000 men are in training arrived Saturday from Fort Keogh, not far from Miles City, Mont The shipment had been on the road 12 day. - The animals will be brought to the camp from many places in the Uni ted States, but the major share of them will be gathered at concentration points in the west, such as Miles City, Mont, and Twin Falls, Idaho. SPOILS OF VIC Rl DEMAND OF KAISER quests, and therefore will not continue the war a day longer merely for the sake of such conquests if it could ob tain an honorable peace. "The Germans," he said, "wish to conclude peace as combatants who have successfully accomplished their purpose and proved themselves invinci ble. A condition of peace is the in violability of Germany's territory. No parley is possible with the enemy demanding the cession of German soil. " We must by means of understand ing and in a spirit of give and take guarantee conditions of the existence of German empire upon the continent and oveseas," continued the chancellor. Dr. Michaelis' words on this point required a careful reading the are cap able of various interpretations other than the surface one. His German in dicates a willingness to make peace only as victors. "It must," he continued, "prevent nations from being plunged into fur ther enmity through economic block ades and provide a safeguard that the league in the arms of our opponents does not develop into an economic offensive alliance against us. "We cannot again offer peace. We have loyally stretched out our hands once. It met no response, but with the entire nation and with Germany, the army and its leaders, in accord with this declaration, the government feels that if our enemies abandon their lust for conquest and their aims at subjugation and wish to enter into ne gotiations we shall listen honestly and readily for peace to what they have to say to us. Until then we must hold out calmy and patiently. "The present time in regard to food conditions is the most severe we have experienced and in the month of July has been the worst. Drought has de layed and want exists in many cases, but I can declare with glad confidence that relief will shortly set in and the population can then be supplied more adequately." Washington, D. C Selective con scription was put into effect Friday, when a national lottery fixed the order of military liability for the 10,000,000 young Americans registered for serv ice. To accomplish .the result, 10,600 numbers had to be drawn, one at a time a task which began in the morn ing and lasted far into the night. The lottery was held in the public hearing room of the senate office build ing, with War department officials in charge of the actual drawing and with members of the senate and house mili tary committees as witnesses. Through the day there was a small crowd of spectators, but altogether probably less than 1000 people saw any part of the process. As a result of drawnig, every regis tered man receives a definite place in the liability-for-service list. Already 687,000 have been ordered to the colors to fill to war strength the regular army and national guard and to consti tute the first increment of the national army. To obtain that total 1,374,000 men will be called for examination within a few weeks, officials estimating that two registrants must be called for every soldier accepted. These 1,374, 000 will be taken from the head of the liability list, every local district fur nishing a fixed quota. The drawing . was conducted with ceremonies as democratic as the ideal citizenship it embodied. It was shortly before 10 o'clock when Secretary Baker, entrusted by the President with the carrying out of the draft law, rapped for order. The congressional committees were in their seats, and on a small table stood the lottery jar, sealed with brown paper and showing through its transparent walls the heap of number-filled cap sules that must be taken out, one, by one. Secretary Baker briefly explained the purpose of the drawing, then stepped forward to be blindfolded and draw the first number. It was No. 258. Then, in quick suc cession, other numbers were drawn, while cameras and motion picture ma chines recorded the scene. Siam Declares State of War. London Si am has declared that a state of war exists with Germany and Austria, according to a Reuter dis patch from Bangkok. Nine steamers, aggregating 19,000 tons, have been seized. The object of Siam's declaration is "to uphold the sanctity of internation al rights against nations showing con tempt for the principles of humanity and respect for small states. All Germans and Austrians, the dis patch adds, have been placed under ar rest and their businesses closed. England Sends Thanks. London On behalf of the govern ment, Lord Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, asked the Associated Press to express to the American government and people the gratification and appre ciation of the British government for the reception and assistance given to the British recruiting campaign in the United States. The results of the re cruiting campaign in the United States have been a source of satisfac tion to the British government Mrs. Roosevelt Greeted. Paris Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., arrived from New York Saturday, and was greeted by the prefect of the French government 687. CALLED COLORS LOTTERY GOETHALS RESIGNS; DENMAN IS OUSTED President Acts to End Shipping Board Controversy. NEW MEN ARE CHOSEN Rear Admiral Cappa Takes Charge of Fleet Company E. N. Hurley to Head Trade Commission. Washington, D. C President Wil son Tuesday asked Chairman Denman, of the shipping board, to resign, and accepted the resignation of Major Gen eral Goethals as general manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation. Official announcement of the accept ance of the resignations of Goethals and Captain John B. White was made with publication of a letter from Pres ident Wilson to Chairman Denman, asking for his resignation and giving the President's opinion that the only way to end the row which has delayed the shipbuilding program was for both Goethals and Denman to be removed. In asking for Mr. Denman's resigna tion, President Wilson suggested that he would be glad to "take the same disinterested and self-forgetting course that General Goethals has taken." "When you have done as he has done," the President wrote Mr. Den man, "I am sure that you may count with the utmost confidence upon the ultimate verdict of the people of the country with regard to your magnani mous and unselfish view of public duty and upon winning in the retrospect the same admiration and confidence that I have learned to feel for you." President Wilson's action came as a surprise. Officials generally had thought he would make a further effort to patch up differences and di vide specifically between Chairman Denman and General Goethal's power conferred on him by the shipping act. Chairman Denman received the President's request for his resignation at noon and tendered it immediately. "I want to help the President in every way possible," he said, "and never have questioned the wisdom of his decisions." Edward N. Hurley, a Chicago busi ness man and former chairman of the Federal Trade commission, will be come chairman of the shipping board. Washington L. Capps, chief construc tor of the navy, will succeed General Goethals as general manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation. Bain bridge Colby, of New York, will be come a member of the shipping board in place of Captain John B. White. SECOND ARMY PLANS MADE Five Billions Added to War Expenses Allies Will Need More. Washington, D. C. Plans worked out in congress for raising war reve nue were overturned Wednesday by by announcement of forthcoming addi tional estimates for war expenditures aggregating more than $5,000,000,000, principally in anticipation of assem bling a second army of 500,000 men under the selective draft. Secretary McAdoo, at a special meeting of the senate finance commit tee, revealed that the War department alone is preparing estimates to cover additional expenditures of nearly $5, 000,000,000, and asked the committee of hold up the $16,70,000,000 war tax bill until the detailed estimates of all departments are submitted. The com mittee agreed to the request and pigeon-holed a report on the measure which it had planned to submit during the day. The new estimates, including $500, 000,000 additional for the Shipping board and $100,000,000 for the Navy department, are to be submitted to the committee late this week. Besides the additional sums needed for the American war program, Secre tary McAdoo told the senate commit tee that the $3,000,000,000 authorized for loan to the allies probably would last only until October and that about $2,000,000,000 for their further assis tance would be needed. Highlanders in Chicago. Chicago Kilts and tartans captured the heart of Chicago Wednesday when 200 of the Forty-eighth Canadian Highlanders, headed by pipers and the regimental brass band, paraded through the downtown streets as a pre liminary to a week of intensive re cruiting for the British army, as well as for the United States army. The Canadians, the first detachment of English military in actual service to march under arms on American terri tory since the evacuation of New Or leans in 1815, were greeted with cheers. Sinn Feiners Asking Aid. Washington, D. C. Two communi cations addressed to congress contain ing pleas by the Sinn Feiners in Ireland for American aid in their demand for absolute Independence from England were left at the White House Wednes day by Irish representatives. One is signed by Patrick McCarten in behalf of the Irish repubic The other is an appeal signed by 26 officers "of forces formed independently in Ireland to se cure liberation of the Irish nation," MARVELS WORKED Remaking of the Eye Region One of the Wonders Performed. OPERATE WHILE GUNS ROAR Handle Patients With Coolness and Rapidity Under Constant Menace of Death Wounded Loud In Praises of Surgeons. By C. F.bTrTELLT. Paris. The remaking of the eye region through the transplantation of part of the mucous membrane and the grafting of eyelids and lashes are among the marvels of plastic surgery accomplished In France during the war by Dr. Louts Borsch, the famous American oculist, who, since August, 1014, has been chief ophthulnilc sur geon at the huge Grand Pululs Mili tary hospital In Paris. Doctor Borsch lias Just returned from a trip to the trenches and field hospitals, which he made at the re quest of the department of health for the purpose of advising as to the pos sibility of Improving existing methods of treating wounds of the eye and saving the vision of the thousands of soldiers who In this latter phuse of the war are suffering from such Injur ies. "Three years of constant dully ex perience in the treatment of eye wounds nt the Grand Palais," said Doctor Borsch on his return, "has en abled me to witness a very consider able Improvement in the methods em ployed, and very gratifying results are now being obtained. If we could huve taken up our task In 1914 with the benefit of the experience we have since acquired, our results would cer tainly have been more than 100 per cent better. Under Menace of Death. "The one great lesson we Wve learned Is that our chances of oper ating successfully In cases of eye wounds are enormously Increased when patients are brought to us Im mediately after they have received their wounds. The same remark, of course, applies to all wounds. "How well the heads of the French medical service realize this will be understood when I say that during my Champagne trip I. found many cases In which the wounded had been brought from the trenches to the field hospitals, washed and operated upon, with all dressings completed, within four hours of their receiving their Injuries. The surgeons and nurses work under the constant men ace of death. I myself saw them working In first-aid dugouts and In the hospitals just behind the lines amidst never-ending Bhowers of big shells, yet they handle their patients with a coolness, rapidity and skill which cannot be surpassed in the operating theater of a Paris hospital. "The wounded are unanimous In their praise of the treatment they receive, and so thorough and efficient is It that I do not think It possible to Improve upon the work of the field hospitals that we Inspected. We saw many wounded with severe frac tures of the thighs and legs who were walking about the wards In a special apparatus four days after their being wounded; theso men as sured me they had never suffered a moment's pain. "We also saw many German wound ed, and there was not one of them who did not seem pleased to be a prisoner In French hands. They are treated with precisely the same care and de votion as the French wounded, whose wards they share, and no distinction whatever Is made. "Dangerous eye wounds, that In their treatment call for nerves of steel In the surgeon and a hand that never deviates a hair's breadth, are tended amid the most hellish uproar Imaginable ; the quick and efficient use of the eye magnet, for Instance, for drawing out shell splinters from the region of the eye socket has saved sight In thousands of cases. "Unfortunately beneath the cease less cataract of exploding shells the FIRST U.S. COMBATANT CONTINGENT w 1 l vi f .civ kfSf in i$yL v , - t au. ,.JafaL&.wvmMaar The first American contingent has been on the French front since May 24. It Is commanded by Capt E. T. Tinkham and Lieut. Princeton Scully who won the Cross of War before Verdun. The photograph shows the Ameri can soldiers saluting toe Start and Stripes. BY EYE SURGEONS face wounds In many cases are so bad tliut no ophthalmic skill could possibly save the sight. But here plastic surgery, one of the wonders of the war, comes In to make the victim's face again presentable. Plas tic work goes further than the re making of shattered jaws and noses; the upper part of the face, Including the eye region, can be patched up so as to make the poor wounded pre sentable and not objects of horror to their fellow men." The records of the Grand Palnls hospital show that Doctor Borsch, who was one of the first American sur geons to graft the cornea, has suc cessfully transplanted skin, bone, car tilage and mucous membrane to the orbit. In several cases he hag pro vided soldiers with new eyelids by taking cartllnge from the ribs, graft ing It over the socket and afterwards making an Incision In the new skin. To the upper and lower edges of the silt thus made he has grafted flesh bearlng hairs, which Is taken from the eyebrows, in this manner furnish ing new lashes, and has afterwards patched up the eye socket by trans plantations from the mucuous mem brane taken from the mouth. Aged Woman Teaches Knitting. Canton, O. Mrs. Amelia Brush, seventy, who knitted socks for soldiers In the Civil war, Is (liug her bit for the boys who are going to France. She Is teaching a Sunday school class at the First Methodist church how to make socks. CAT AS "SNIFFER" No Doubt About Poison Gas When Tabby Comes Hur rying Back. REAL WAR DOG WEARS MASK Norman Lee, American Ambulance ' Hero, Writes Interesting Letters of Life at the Front Luck of Section Seven. New York. Eliot Norton of New York city has received a letter from an American volunteer In France, Nor man Lee, eighteen years old, son of a newspaper man, who has been driving an American Red Cross ambulance for the last nine months, and who has re ceived the Croix de Guerre. The let ter follows: "It's 2 a. m. I have just returned from a trip and It's a good time to write. While I attempt this two men are busily engaged In piling up trench torpedoes Just outside of the 'dugout.' I call It a dugout In reality it's only a cellar but It serves Its purpose keeps the 'eclats' from hitting you of course, a direct hit would be a differ ent thing. The Boches dropped a few gas shells oyer about midnight. Have you ever heard a rattlesnake? Well, a gas shell has the same effect. No one has to tell you what It Is, you know. It just goes 'put' and lets out a greenish vapor. That's enough down In the dugout put on your masks and wait until the Boches are finished. But It's a ghastly scene, one candle burning, and every one sitting around with masks on the cat hugs the fire while James, the medicine dog, has his mask on, too It's a spe cial one and he knows enough not to paw It oft. He's a real war dog. Official "Sniffer" Appointed. "During these sessions there Is al ways an official 'sniffer' appointed, who has to '.ake off his mask, every once in a while, go to the door and see If the stuff Is still around. The other day we were In doubt, o we threw the cat out. She -.ame back so quickly that no one had any doubt that It still was there. Oh ! It bothers me, the gas more than the shells. It's a pretty rotten way to make war. "A Boche avion came over the town RUSSIAN SUFFRAGIST w Pa y yY Jf r Dr. .Pollkseim Schnlschklna Yaveln, president of the "Defenders of Worn nil's Rights," the Itusslun branch of the International Woman Suffrage ul llance. When the war broke out Doc tor Yaveln and her coworkers threw the whole strength of this powerful suffrage unit Into war service. HELPS SOLDIERS si- we stay In the other night and dropped four bombs. One hit on the house next the one the 'chief was sleeping In, the rest a few hundred feet from our tents. No one was hurt. We called it the luck of Section Seven, Strange to say, the name of the street nil the bombs fell on Is 'rue de la Bombe.' "I had an interesting experience a few days ago, In fact, at the time, it was too Interesting. If I remember rightly I closed by last tetter up In order to get a little sleep while I had the chance. Well, I hadn't been asleep more than nn hour when I was awak ened by the noise of 'arrlvees' not shells, but shrnpnel. There was a battery not far from us and the Bodies were trying to silence It by making the gunners take to cover; hence, the shrapnel. I might remark that the en trance to our dugout having once been German now faced the wrong way said . entrance being covered by a blanket. Each shot kept coming near er, and you can't Imagine a weirder sound than the whine of bursting shrapnel. Burst at the Door. "Pretty soon It came so near that you could hear pieces hitting the top of the dugout. The last one burst the nearest right In front of the door. Zowlel Ingl patter, hit, bang! They ripped through that blanket like a clown going through a paper ring at a circus. I held my breath and lay still. Fortunately, none of us got hit, but In the morning we picked pieces out of all the walls. The blanket resembled a huge piece of Swiss cheese. The gunners came down in the morning to look us over, and told us the Boches hadn't succeeded in driving them from their guns for a moment. We all agreed with the brancardler, who re marked, 'Sale Boche.' "The same weather continues. Bain, hall, snow and mud Inches deep. Think of the poor wounded In It all. But we do help them. With love to all. "Near Solssons. NORMAN." "KAISER" OUSTS COON X AS POPULAR TARGET Columbus, 0 "Hit the kfciser three throws for a jltuey." This Is the cry one now hears at street carnivals and will soon hear at county fairs, for a local carnival worker has replaced the "baby rack" with a human target dressed to resemble the Germnn war lord. One gets three cigars for cracking the "kniser" on the head. JAP WOMEN TAKE MEN'S JOBS Wages Range From Ten to Twenty Five Cents a Day Actresses Best Paid. Tokyo. Thot Japanese women con stantly are taking a larger part in the activities of the empire is shown by recent investigations. As in Europe, so In Japan, women are filling posi tions formerly exclusively held by men. There are 4,000 women working un der the railway bureau, most of them ticket sellers, cashiers and account ants, and 6,000 women find employ ment In the cigar and cigarette fac tories of the government tobacco mo nopoly. Their wages range from 10 to 25 cents a day. Male clerks In banks and mercantile houses constantly are being replaced by women, who receive $5 to $15 a month. Actresses receive the highest wages paid to women in Japan, but their clothes are expensive, and so they are financially in no beter position than the more humble workers.