Will NOT DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY A M B A S S AD O R IS D ET A IN E D 13 A R E D EA D IN H O T E L FIR E Gerard Will Be Held in Berlin Until Minneapolis Wooden Structure Burns With Temperature 10 Below. Bernstorff's Safety is Assured. Minneapolis— A t least 13 person* Copenhagen — It i* officially stated are m issing and are believed to have th a t Jam es W. Gerard, the American lost th e ir live* in the fire which de­ Wilson Desires Only Measures am bassador to Germany, will not be stroyed the Kenwood hotel, Tw elfth allowed to leave Berlin until the Ger­ stree t and Hennepin avenue, shortly man governm ent I* satisfied as to the a fte r m idnight Monday, according to to “ Protect Americans." treatm en t of Count von Bernstorff, the police estim ates. retirin g German Ambassador a t Wash­ In addition to the known missing, ington, by the American government. there are 11 others unaccounted for According to the Berlin Tageblatt, who may be in the ruins, according to the American embassy officials in Ber­ E. D. S talker, proprietor of the hotel. lin have ascertained th a t there are One person is known to be dead. Mrs. 2000 American citizens in Germany. Lucille Squire suffered a fractured T here are only about 860 Americans skull when she leaped from a third- C o n ild rr Armin* und Convoying Mer­ In Berlin. story window. She died shortly a fte r­ chant Vraw-1*—D eterm ination la W ashington, I). C .—The Hcandi- 1 wards a t the city hospital. Officials believe th a t many persons to Uphold Freedom of Mea. navian-Am erican liner Frederick VIII, precipitated into th e basement by on which Count von Bernstorff and the whole corps of ex-German diplom atic crum bling floors and were buried in and consular officials sail next week the debris. W ashington, I). C.—The cour*e to from New York for C hristiania, will ' Seventy-six persons are thought to be taken by the United State* If Ger­ put in at H alifax, N. 8., for inspec-1 have been in the hotel when the fire broke out. many r<>m|M-U the uae of force to ssfe- tion by B ritish naval authorities. guard American Uvea and right* ha* G reat B ritain gave passports for the been determ ined. It wan learned au- party on condition th at they proceed Ministers of Germany’s th o ritaitvely a fte r Friday'* cabinet home by the most d irect available Allies May Be Sent Home m eeting th at in the event i'reaident route, and the Frederick VIII will Wilson goes before congrea* again it proceed to Norway by the northerly will not be to aak for a declaration of route w ithout entering the w ar zone. war, but to follow literally the word* It was learned Wednesday, however, of tho addreaa in which he announced th a t the stop a t H alifax had been ar- ■ the break of diplom atic relation* and ranged for so th a t the ship may be requeat authority to u*e mean* deemed subjected to the usual restrictions of neceaaary to protect American aeamen the B ritish blockade. and |>eople. The I’reaident, it i* aaid, i* a* strongly desirous aa ever to avoid war : Concerted Action to Disable w ith Germany, but also ia aa deter­ Interned German Ships Apparent mined as ever th a t Am erican citizen* W ashington, I). C.— Every one of 17 and ships shall be free to travel the war-bound German m erchant shirts ex­ high sea* unmolested. amined by Am erican officials at Philip­ IIis next step, if taken, will be to 1 pine ports since the break with Ger- ( enforce th at rig h t and even then the many, has been so badly damaged by issue of war or peace will be with Ger­ her crew th a t six months or more j many. Any hostile action will have to would be required to make any of them come in the form of an interference | seaworthy. This was given out in an w ith an American right. official report Wednesday. D etails of the governm ent's plans The report added th a t of the 23 ves- ] are not discussed. It is known, how- i sets tied up in the islands all but six ever, th a t convoying and arm ing of had been inspected and none had been m erchant ships are being considered. found which could be put into condi­ No new development came Saturday tion w ithout a large expenditure of to indicate th a t the overt act by Ger­ tim e and money. many regarded as inevitable was near­ So widespread and thorough has e r a t hand. Few er reports of ships been the concerted disabling of G er­ sunk came fh and none told officially of man ships in American ports th at the loss of an Am erican life. some officials think it could be ex­ plained only by a blanket order from Berlin. It is suggested such instruc­ Light Guns Best to War tions m ight have gone forw ard early Against German Submarines in the war, or m ight even have been New York — Although figures to issued as a starsling order before the show the num ber of subm arines de­ war, to cover such exigencies as now stroyed by the en ten te allies and the have arisen. There have been no indi­ means used in th eir destruction are un­ cations, however, th at the American available, owing to the rigid censor­ governm ent has authentic inform ation ship on war activities, it was learned on the subject. here Saturday from an au thoritative j source th at d irect gunfire from the German War With America decks of w arships and auxiliary ves- Not Desired by Allied Powers a d s had been the most effective meth- i od employed thus far. W ashington, D. C.— E ntente diplo­ To combat the subm arine m enace; m ats here frankly express th eir hope the B ritish governm ent and her allies th a t the U nited S tates will not actu­ have adopted various plans to catch ally enter the war. the undersea boats, although some of Several of the allies’ representatives them have been abandoned as ineffec­ let it be known th a t they entertained tive. a growing fear th a t Germany deliber­ A m arine authority of unquestioned ately precipitated a break with this standing, who is close to B ritish ship­ country to hold American m unitions ping interests, said when asked as to and supplies here, thus cutting off im ­ the effectiveness of arm ing ships: ports to the entente. " W e have found th a t lig h t guns, The diplom ats here have been sur­ discharging projectiles of four to six ] prised at the energy which the Amer­ pounds, in the hands of trained gun­ ican governm ent has shown in laying ners, have been by fa r the m ost effec­ out its plans for eventualities, and do tive weapon. 1 know personally th at not conceal th eir fear th a t m ilitary as many as two and three subm arines precaution may force the United have been bagged in one day in this S tates to keep at home at least a con­ w ay.” _______________ siderable p art of supplies now going abroad. Such an outcome, they said, Noted Bandit Dies. would more than compensate for a Portland—C hris Evans, famed Cali­ m ere break in relations from the Ger­ These m inisters of G erm any's allies fornia highwayman, died Saturday at man viewpoint. may be given th eir passports: Count a local hospital, and ending a checker­ Tarnowski represents A ustria-H un­ ed career which carried him from the Eighteen Merchant Ships Sunk by gary, Stephen Panaretoff represents leadership of a bandit gang to the Submarines; American Fired On Bulgaria, and Hussein Bey is the doors of the county poor farm . He Turkish charge. was 70 years old. London— Eighteen m erchant vessels, j Evans began his career as a bandit of which a Belgian relief ship, nine by declaring war against the Southern B ritish and one Russian, were Wednes- I W hile several of the injured w ere Pacific railroad when the company no­ day listed as sunk by German sub­ in a serious condition, it was is re ­ ported a t the city hospital th at m ost of tified him th at his g ran t of land in the m arines. San Joaquin valley had reverted to the One of the B ritish vessels was the ' them would recover. One woman who corporation. His home was on the passenger steam er Port Adelaide, of ’ became hysterical a fte r being rescued place, and he had been raisin g wheat 8181 tons. N inety-six passengers and raced down the stree t scream ing and and stock. members of the crew have been picked froze her fe et before overtaken. Others, garbed in night attire, suf­ up at sea. The captain was taken Baltic Arrives in P o rt. prisoner aboard the German subm a­ fered te rrib le exposure in the 10 below zero tem perature. New York—The steam ship Baltic o f rine. An attack on the American steam er tho W hite S tar line has arrived Hafely 1300 A cres to Be O pened. a t Liverpool, according to a cable m es­ W estwego by the German subm arine W ashington, D. C. — T hirteen hun­ sage received here Saturday by officers U-45 was officially reported by the ad­ of the company. The message besides m iralty. The attack took place Jan u ­ dred acres In the second un it of the announcing th a t the Baltic had reached ary 31, when five shells were fired at W est U m atilla irrig atio n project will The German com-i be opened to homestead entry March 6. her pier s a i d ‘‘all w ell.” The arrival the American. Under regulations prom ulgated Mon­ of the Baltic removes from the danger mnn