WORLD’S DOINGS
OF CURRtNT WEEK
BRIIISH UNtR STRIKES MINE
IN ENGLISH CHANNEL; 147 DIE
BERLIN GIVES ORDER
TO DESTROY LINERS
CONGRESS
OPPOSING
AMERICAN NAVY THIRD ON LIST;
EQUAL TO ANY BY YEAR 1925
Washington, D. C.—The object of
Dover, Eng.— The steamship Maloja,
the building policy formulated in 1913
a 12,431-ton vessel belonging to the
, bv the Navy General Board, it was dis-
Peninsular & Oriental line, struck a
i closed Wednesday before the house na­
mine and sank within a haif hour, two
miles from Dover Sunday.
One hun­
val committee, was to keep the United
dred and forty-seven persons were
States ahead o f Germany in the race
drown«*! or killed by the accident.
for naval supremacy. The statement
The British tanker Empress of Fort
! was made by Rear Admiral Charles J.
William, going to the rescue, struck
another mine and sank near by. One
j Badger, s member of the general
man o f the crew o f the Empress of
Fort William was drowned.
Up to midnight the bodies o f victims
battleships by 1919 to accomplish its
landed included 18 men, 11 women and
I purpose.
four children, in addition to 11 Las-’
J The statement did not go into the
cars. Among the dead is Mrs. Me- j
record of the hearing and Admiral
Leod, wife of General McL«xxl.
Badger did not amplify it to show why
The Maloja left Tilbury Saturday j
the board had thought such a course
for Bombay with mails, 119 passen­
necessary.
gers o f all aboard, and a crew number­
The admiral was replying to a sug­
ing about 200, most o f them Lascars.
gestion that the object of the old pol­
Other passengers were to join the ship
icy, abandoned this year by the board
at Marseilles.
Washington, D. C.— Congress
Washington, D. C.— Germany has j J for the first time, was to keep the
The steamer had just passed Admir-
American
navy
in
second
place.
While
down
Saturday to await develo
The Portuguese navy seizes 36 in­
i intructed Count von Bernsstorff to in- j
in the submarine controversy be
terned German ships.
i
form the United States government j
GEORGE BAKHM ETEFF
the United States and Germany
that the assurances regarding the fu- j
G E N E R A L IV A N 0 F F
Ex-Senator Root, o f New York, is
an overwhelming majority of
ture continuance o f submarine war-
expected to announce his support to
houses apparently definietly g j
!
fare,
given
in
the
Lusitania
and
Ara-
j
Roosevelt for the presidency.
mined to take no action which J
bia cases, still are binding, but that
embarrass the administration ia|
Seattle
lumbermen purchase big
they apply only to merchantmen of a 1
present stage o f diplomatic
Canadian sawmill that has been idle
peaceful character.
tions a few o f the more ardent
for 18 months and will run it to full
The Government is understood to
! cates of legislation to keep An
capacity.
contend that armed merchantmen, \
H
off armed ships continued their
without
regard
to
the
nature
of
their
j
1
A crazy Montenegrin runs amuck in
ities, and ex-Secretary Bryan’s
armament, have shown themselves not j
Seattle and stabs six persons before he
port for them was shown in the :
to be peaceful, and therefore subject
is overpowered. One of his victims is
of a telegram, but even most o f :
to destruction without warning.
seriously wounded.
admitted there was no pronect of|
The instructions direct the German
A Portland school girl, aged 14, was
i mediate action.
ambassador particularly to tell Secre- j
knocked down and killed by a large
So far as the adminsitratio
tary Lansing that British merchant- j
auto truck, as she was on her way to
concerned, it was said authoriUci
ment armed ostensibly only for de­
rehearsal o f a school play.
that while any agitation of the
fense, have not assumed the character |
(just now was undesirable, there!
o f peaceful traders, but on the con- j
Admiral Winslow, testifying before
1 no disposition to oppose a vote ocj|
the naval committee, states that one
trary, they carry guns for the especial ]
pending armed-ship resolutions if if
big battleship could rout the whole Pa­
purpose o f attacking German subma-!
sponsors tried to force one.
cific fleet, o f which he is commander.
rines. To support this contention, the j
It was declared that report* I
Berlin foreign office has sent the am­
Two robbers hold up and rob a
the
capitol during the day showed ^
bassador,
for
presentation
to
the
State
|
Northern Pacific train near Seattle and
department, a list of at least 20 inci- |
clusively that the senate and theb
¿Ss*»
escape with much booty.
The safe
dents where it is asserted British mer­
would stand behind President W
:i|
was dynamited and the passengers in­
chant ships have attacked submarines.
in his refusal to permit any
timidated by pistol shots.
Confidential advices received from
ment of the rights of American
Six ministers o f White Plains, N.
Berlin say that German and Austrian
zens on the seas, as outlined in
Y., drew sealed lots from a hat which
submarine commanders already have
ter to Senator Stone.
will instruct them at which church
received their new order and that from
The President reiterated his i
they are to preach and upon what sub­
midnight Tuesday they were author-
ments in that letter to Speaker
ject. The envelopes are not to be
j ized to sink without warning all armed
Majority Leader Kitchin and
opened until Sunday morning.
merchant ships of the enemies of Ger-
sentative Flood, chairman of the I
General Ivan off is in com m and of foreign affairs committee, early in|
| many.
During a friendly sparring bout be­
It was said also that many of the ;he *outhern flroup o f R ussian arm ies day when they called at the 1
tween William llildebrandt and Au­
submarine commanders probably had and, together w ith G e n eral B ru sllo ff, House to tell o f the situation on I
gust Naisel, both 14 years of age, at
left their bases on voyages and that { is given the o re d it fo r the sevore de­ side of the capitol and hear the ei|
the Thirteenth District school, Cin­
' even should the United States
request j feats inflicted on the A u s tria n s since i tive’s views.
cinnati, llildebrandt was struck on the
the postponement of the opening of the Te u to n ic In va sio n of Russia w as
jaw. He died a few minutes later.
There was plain speaking 1
| the campaign, it would be impossible hecked
President Wilson and his callers.
John F. Gillies, deposed claim agent
to get word to many of the subma- |
Wilson said plainly that his effors|
o f the Washington State Industrial In­
rines. It was said, however, that so that was the effect it had, he said, the keep the country at peace were
surance commission, was found guilty
far neither the United States nor any real object was to keep ahead of Ger- | to be hindered by impressions
o f grand larceny in connection with
j other nation had asked for a postpone­ j many.
abroad by congress, and the congi
the looting o f the industrial insurance
ment.
men were equally frank in
fund o f several thousand dollars by
This
year
the
board
fixed
as
its
pol-
I
Count von Bernstorff and other I
notice that a strong sentiment es
means o f false accident claims.
I officials of the German embassy de- icy the creation by 1925 of a fleet at the capitol against risking the
In response to agitation by the news-
i dined to discuss the instructions from ! equal to the most powerful afloat at sibility o f war by permitting J
ucoi^c u.unmft«ll, Ru»».an ambas ' Berlin in any way Monday.
impers urging England’s ministers to
that lime, he said.
The committee cans to travel on armed belligi
act the country an example o f econ­ sa d o r to the U n ite d States, w ho was
Count von Bernstorff received his in­ did not go into the board’ s reasons for j ships, whatever might be their i
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omy, preferably by accepting reduc­
structions in reply to a request from changing its ideas beyond drawing out under international law.
tion in their salaries, it is announced sin g o v e r th e case o f the M on te neg rin j the United States for assurances re­ the explanation that the board believed j
Although wholly different
the ministers have agreed for the fu­ officers re c e n tly a rre ste d fo r vio la tio n garding the conduct of submarine a fleet 10 per cent superior to any _________
came from other „ sources during J
ture to accept one-quarter o f their sal­ o f n e u tra lity by e n lis tin g so ld ie rs In warfare in the future, occasioned by fighting force that might be brought day> Speaker Clark declared he
aries in the form of five |>or cent ex­ the U n ite d States fo r s e rv ic e in the i the memorandum announcing the in­ against it would be necessary to in -; Heved a resolution to warn citi
M o n te n e g rin a rm y .
M on te negro has tention of
chequer bonds.
Germany
to sink armed sure against the invasion of American i arme(j vessels would carry in the
no d ip lo m a tic re p re s e n ta tiv e in W a sh ­
j by two to one if it reached a vote,
When the big British steamer Tal- ington, b ut being one o f R ussia's al ships without warning, which the ad-1 soil by an enemy.
Under questioning by Representative I The house delegation
thybius, o f the Blue Funnel line, lies, the R ussian a m b a ssa d o r acts fo r ministration considered to be inconsist-
delegation went
j ent with the assurances previously Kelly, Admiral Badger said the con_ I the capitol with
«kicked at the Smith Cove terminal in it.
word that the 1
! given.
struction of three additional dread- dent stood unalterably by hi»
Seattle, every approach to the wharf
rili
flora
mi
-»
Regardless of the
form in which naughts and eight battle cruisers 1 There the situation rests and
was closely guarded by policemen and
special watchmen employed as the re­ alty pier at Dover and was opposite the matter is presented to Secretary would place the navy on a par with the there probably win be many more
sult o f an anonymous threat that the Shakos|>eHre Cliff when an explosion Lansing, the German ambassador will j capital ships o f the German fleet t<)_ ferences and possibly some sL
Germany now has
liner's
$8,600,000 cargo had been sho«ik her from end to end. She listed lay much stress on the assurances re- day.
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dread- the generally accepted opinion iij
garding the arming o f merchant ships naughts and eight battle cruisers, ne no further serious effort to bring
marktsl for destruction by alleged Ger­ immediately t«> port.
High
seas
were
ruunning
and
the
which were given to the United States said, according to the best available | action will be made unless
do
man spies.
captain, realizing that great damage by Great Britain in a memorandum
President Wilson, at the end o f two had been done to the after part o f his j signed by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the information, while the United States ments occur to make a rupture
h,a!> Rll1tol,d 19 ah‘ Pf of the dreadnaught iations with Germany imminent
«lays o f agitation in congress for action vessel, trie«l to run her aground, but j British ambassador, August 25, 1914 e class,
built or building.
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warning Americans off armed mer­ the engine room was swamped and the |
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To equal Great Britain's fleet within
chantmen, wrote a letter to Senator ship became unmanageable.
Stone, chairman o f the Senate foreign
The plight o f the vessel was ob­ Southern Oregon Couple On Way
iK & S fS S «
Pekl" Mn,its Rebels
relations committee, saying that he served and dozens o f craft went at full
lo Sunday School Shol from Ambush
oiuld iMit consent to the abridgement speed to her rescue.
It was one o f
o f the rights o f American citizens in these, the Epmress o f Fort William,
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200 submarines and 250 destroyers, i p_i-
rvn!„- , _ ,
,
any resjH*ct.
“ The honor and self- o f 2181 tons, that sank.
Grants Pass. O re.-L u th er B. Akers. He was not favoring such a program. the defeat of government troo|»|
rvspevt o f the Nation are involved, ”
Boat after lx>at and seven rafts were
he said. “ We covet peace and shall sent away, but several persons leaped and his wife, and their team of two " ut merely answering questions by tbe Yunnan rebels on the Sz
horses were all killed near Wildersvil- Representative Butler. Such a fleet border was withheld until *S»t>
preserve it at any exist but the loss of into the
• water and were picked up by 1«, 12 mile from here Sunday morning could not be built in two years, he when the gtat department i*
honor."
I surmui
ding craft.
It was at first about 10 o ’clock by a neighbor farmer, add«>d, though it might be constructed mandate denouncing Tai Ao in'
thought that all had been saved, but Marshall D. Bousman, 63 years old. in four.
j admisssion is made that the .
later bodies were w ashed ashore and J The slayer was lodged in jail here and
mayor o f Seattle.
tionists surprised the regular »nil
their number was gradually added to confessed to the shooting,
Blockade Minister Created.
A Wenatchee, Wash., couple kept during the day.
I defeated a small garrison.
; Bousman lay in ambush by the
London — The government through
their wedding a secret since October 3
Information received in Pekit3
Owing to the fact that Dover is un- roadside as the Akers couple were
last year.
the Marquis o f Lansdowne, announced 1 non-Chinese sources shows th»M
der strict military law. it was p»>ssi- driving to Sunday school.
Without
in the house o f lords that it had decid- Yunnanese, who descended on iM
The French succeed in bringing to ble to obtain only meager details from warning he fired 7 shots from a carbine,
, ed to turn over all matters connected i of Suifu and captured it, nu
those
rescued.
The
captian
said
that
The
shooting
is
the
culmination
of
«'arth a Zeppelin making a raid over
with the blockade o f Germany to one j about 10,000. The government J
that «xjuntry.
b«ith passengers and crew behaved a neighbors’ quarrel over boundary
man who would rank as a fullfledged risen at Suifu numbered about
splendidly.
fences,
hogs
at
large
and
similar
mat-
Another Portland Chinaman was shot
cabinet minister.
It is understood but these troops left for the nortM
The passengers were for the most ters, o f several years’ duration.
in the tong war Monday, and a Hop
that the new post will go to Lord Rob- J eral days before the arrival »1
|vart British officials in the Indian
Although
the
sh«x>ting
t«x>k
place
in
Sing suspect it in jail.
service, the most prominent being the mtiming, the txxiies were not dis­ ert Cecil, who, since the formation o f Yunnanese and consequently ther^
— resistance
—
Great ava.anches of snow and dirt Judge Oldfield, o f the Indian high covered until evening, as the Akers, the coalition government, has been un- no
to the entrance
in several districts in Germany have court. They were returning to serv­ an elderly couple, lived on a road that der secretary for foreign affairs. He latter. The fleeing government I
will
retain
this
post,
joining
the
cabi­
kille«l 55 persons recently.
ice in the East.
is not much traveled,
__
are reported to have started nofl
net as blockade minister.
Tze-Chow.
The house of commons votes a new
13 Oil Tankers Begun.
British Lines Extended.
credit of 2 .0 8 2 ,0 0 0 .0 0 0 pound* sterling. 1
Man and Wife Fight Duel.
New York— The Stamlard Oil com­
Women to Urge Defense-
Ottawa,
Ont.— British lines in Bel­
F«Hir hundred lumbermen of the
Louisville, Ky. — Fourteen-year-old
pany of New Jersey has begun the gium and France are being extended to
St. Louis — Miss Anne if®
Northwest are holding a meeting In
. . .. Geneve Hall was shot to death during
construction o f 13 large tank steamers, replace French soldiers who are being
Portland.
a pistol duel between her mother and daughter o f the late John Pj*
which will cost $1.000,000 each, ac- —
rushed
____ _ ,rT — , oivi^aii,
Will OC
Morgan, will
be S a delegate to
*--J to
*- the ” Verdun
'
region to take father in
A la sk a 's trade with the
outaidc cording to announcement maiie Monday
their home here Wednesday ference o f mayors on national
part in the fighting, “ which has settled
world lncreas«Hl $12, 0 0 0 ,0 0 0 last year, by John D. Arvhhold. president o f the
le father,
father. Joseph
Joseph T.
T. Hall,
Hall, | ednesa which Will begin here M
down to a terrific slaughter,” accord­ night. The
according U> figures made public by company. The other companies o f the
ing to advices received here from the 42. also was killed and the mother, according to an announcement bf
fin departm ent of C««ntmerce.
The Standard Oil group are building 36 ad­
battle front. Approximately 20 army Mrs. Della Hall. 37, is in a hospital in Philip N. Mo«ire, president of tl*^
balance o f tratle in the territory's ditional tankers, he sai«L “ The *ie-
dying condition. She received four
divisions have been thrown into the a
tional Council o f 'Women. Mrs.
favor was $ 2 7 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 .
Export* were mand for oil is tremendous.
We battle by the Germans, while the bullet wounds.
said that on March 5 a mass
value«! at $ 5 5 ,DOG,(KR) and imports at could sell all the oil we produce if
The girl was struck by a stray bul-
French troops numt>er 15 divisions,
$28. 0 0 0 . OOU.
let as she crouched under a kitchen would be held to “ clinch the sen
there were enough ships to carry it.” cable messages said.
of the women o f the country
•ink.
pare the nation to defend itae'f.
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around Lfie Earth,
Armed M r s to Be Treated
as Warships by Submarines.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELÍ
II. S. TOED: "100IA IE10 POSTPONE”
Uve News Items of Ail Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Washington Is Advised That Great
Britain Is Not Trusted— Many
Broken Pledges Cited.
Action on Submarine
Put Off by Both
WM. I. BRYAN IS AGAINST
£ £ &
Plain Talk Exchanged but Pre
Wilson Still Stands Solidly I
Full Rights of Americans.
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