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Medford Mail Tribune i i. iiiiuimnxininmHiiiuiimnmV 4ummmtm t WEATHER Tonight mid Wednesday Kciln: Southerly Wind. SECOND EDITION Forty fifth Tar. Dixlly T"n Hi Ttia r ACIUN AWAITS ! Cabinet Discusses Submarine Crisis 0 With President, But No Decision Arrived At President to Insist Upon.Strict Interpretation of Rules of International Law. WA8lir.NT.TON, lb. 20. Ocr mnny'n latust formul noto declaring Hint assurances regarding submiirlno warfare given In the I.usltanln caBo hnve not been modlflod tiy her an nounced ' Intention to tront nrmoil merchants hips at auxiliary cruisers after mUlnlRht tonight was hoforo President Wilson nml his cabinet to tiny for consideration. Tho Rtato dopartmont was under Blood to fool that possibility of dlf ffcultloH nrlslng In tho near future ns a roBiilt of tho now Gorman and Aus trlan policy li moro or lee romote. Secretary Lansing took with him to the White. House a pouch under stood to contain tho Gorman memo landum and othor paper relating to the enso. It wan Indicated In well Informed circle that tho protddont would In Hint on n Htrlct Interpretation of tho ruloB of Intornntlonal law nH apply ing to Germany' now submarine warfare lii of Xt Kecelvccl. Information roi-wnrdcd from Her lln purporting to contnln proof thnt tho Ilrltlsh admiralty had Instructed captains of armed merchant ships to attack submarine ships had not ar rived, .Mr. Lansing wild. The de lay was believed to bo duo to condi tions resulting from the war. Secretary Lansing today Issued tho following formal (atemunt: In view of tho publication this morning of what purport to bo tho view of tho state department on the communication received yoetorday from tho German ambassador. I wish to wiy that the contents or the com munication havo not been made pub lic by me, and that any statement as to tho views of the state depart ment on the communication aro ab solutely unauthorised. "I have made no comment and ox pressed no opinion In regard to tho matter." Discussed by Cabinet. Gormauy's latost communication on submarine warfare wa discussed in detail at today's cabinet meeting and at a separata conforence belwcon President Wilson and Secretary lou sing, but no conclusion was roacnod. It was clodded to await data on the way from Ilorlln regarding Instruc tions, alleged to have been Issued by tho Urltish admiralty to merchant captains for attacks on submarine. Cabinet mombers care-fully nvold- od question of whether Germany' position a outllnod by Count von llernstorf f In n note to Secretary Lan sing esterday was acceptable to the American govornmenr it was said that memorly the facts were laid be foro the rablnd without any effort bolng made to arrive at a decision. POST OFFICE BILL E WASHINGTON:, Feb. 20. The an nual' po-toffiee appropriation lull oarr.uiiK approximately $321,onn,nno, went to the senate toduy, following it pusnge by the house last night oer bitter and persistant opposition. A it left the house the bill con- tauts provision for substituting n puoc own lor Hie present weigui ti-in of juiying railroads for enr ryintr mud and prohibitum any iu-erci-e in the existing limit of titty V'uiuK mi por-l po-t packages. Ml LINERS PERMITTED 10 CLEAR WASIIINUTi.N'. JYb. 20.- The1 Italian liner (Jiucp- Yrdi und San ! Oiiudieuno, at Xew York with mount- j ed kuii- aboanL were ordered clear- ; ed IimIhv on fcstu-niK'c of the Ilal-1 urn '" 'iiiiiunt lb.it thi'ir aniiomt-tit Was icr di'teu-irt p.upu-is vu) DATA ON WAY H GERMANY PASSES HOUS KAISER TO SI ARMED SHIPS AT MIDNIGHT HOUR New Rule of Submarine Warfare Goes Into Effect Tonltjht Spec- - tacular Opening Is Planned Hope Abandoned of Assistance From Washington. IH'.HUN, I'd). 20. The Associ uted Press is informed by Germany's leading statesman that the new rulo nf submnrino wnrfnre which "was an nounced in the derman memorandum regarding the ftituru treatment of tinned merchantmen will positively be put in effect at midnight tonight. At that time the period of warn ing for neutrals, giving them oppor tunity to advise their nations not to travel on aimed merchantmen, will expire. For several days there has been more than n possibility thnt Oennany at the Inst moment might mnko n pro posal that she would discontinue practice of. reprisal and sink no merchant shiiis freighters or pas- senger liners without first halting tho vessel for examination and put ling the crew in n place of safety a in the old style of navtil wnrfnre, if the tillics would remove armament from mercliuntmcu. HoiM's Prove in Vain. It wn thought Hngland might ac cept this propoMi! or that the United Sluto and other neutrals would be convinced if Hnglnnil refused thnt sho had no intention of discontinuing tho tiso of muniment for offensive pur poses. This might possibly have given President Wilson proof that liriiimni'iit on merchantmen wn not stsed purely for defense nml thus en able the president to reconcile tho two Koutlii'ling viewpoints regarding the impropiiety of merchantmen carrying nunament nnd tho impnssi. Iiilily of the I'nilcd State altering the established law of nation.1 Publication of President Wilson letter to Senator Stone, however, npiHinnlly conduced Oornmny'ii lending htutewnvn that no assistance was to be o.eted from Washington in ending the piesent nnomolotis Hit nation regarding rules of submarine wnrfiuo mid that it wn usele to make proMsuls, the only result of which would be to givo I-.nglnud more time to icpleuihii her store while a ilihciiMsion was in progress at Wash ington mid London. At least two of the highest official directly con cerned appear to lie now conviuced thnt Washington has no desire to emharrasM Great Ilrilniu in tho con duct of tin- war or to do any tiling which might jM-nnit Germany to use the submarine in warfare against commerce SjKicNicuInr Ojmnlng. Xcwsjinpor and tho German pub lie generally are primed for a jmw tacitlnr opening of the new submarinu campaign. Leading Gernian statesmen hnvo little expeuttitiou that President Wil son will change hit attitude, even alter the recoipt of the justificatory twdenec attached to the Gennan memorandum in the form of appen dices, which apparently were not contained in the American einbassN cablegram giving the text of the memorandum itself, and is being for warded by mail. It is not believed tbut Americans will bo warned from tr.ivc-lin on tinned merchantmen or thnt udcipi.iti- measures will be t.iki n to -1 c that nnnament is incd onlj for 1I1 ten -He purpo-c-.. TO I MILAN. la Paris, Feb 2s -( De la) ed ) -An Athens dispatch to the Corriere Delia Cera says that Meld Marshal von Maeknsn will visit King CoiuiUntla In the Greek cap ital. An effort mill be made by the Herman military leader, the dispatch sas, to counteract the impression made by General Sarrall. the French commander of the allied camp at Sa lonika on at meat call on the kiuK and to reaia far the central em pire, the ground loM In Greek opin ion situt the lull of Euirum. MACKENSEN V SIT GONSTAN MEDFORD DEAD IN GROUPS UPIHTINFIELD ABOUT VERDUN Shambles Exceed Anything in History of Warfare Air Pressure From Continuous Discharge So Terrific That Blood Rushes From Ears and Ltinns Cease Working. PAWS, Fth. 20. Military critics express the opinion thai the Genimn forces, which at the beginning of tho Wtlo around Verdun numbered probably half n million, now exceed 7f)0,000. "Tiie Hituntiou is now decidedly better,'' ia the phraso commonly used this morning in tho Pari pros re garding the slrugglo for tho great French stronghold. Tho French tiro beginning to react vigorously against the Gennan "bludgeon strokes," which are having les and loss effect mid tire being delivered with dimin ished energy. It is expected, how ever, that they will be renewed again iodny, hut tit new point. The fact that the battle is now shifting is tnken ns a sign thnt tho Ucnunn gen eral staff hit begun to despair of making it rail impression on the French defense. "I fought since the beginning of the wnr," says n soldier who has return ed to Paris mid who was present nt tho fighting nt Ornra. Worst Slinmbles Kxev Known. "I saw tho shambles nt Suippes and Souain. They were nothing to what I saw Inst week. Tho enemy advanced and wo retiied under or der, but we killed them hv the do7cus. It was so terrililo that I, who havo wn tolled my comrade fnll around 1 ho almost with indifference, shudder ns my memory recalls those seeiiee. "A their battalion advanced up on us tlioy were in serried 111110, by file of twenty. The shrapnel from our TA-millimctcr gun nnd the pro joetile from our heavy artillery fell among Ihein and you could see great gap n if n mower had passed with a scythe. The high explosive shells which burst on contact fell mid limbs shot into tho air. We ueto'so close that pieces of their torn flesh fell among us. Kvcntunlly we reached Moncoiirt and took shelter for a timo in a wood. Although it wus II o'clock in the morning, the bursting shells made it clear a day, giving the lint tlcfield the aspect of a fairy scene IH'iul Stand in Groups. "From behind u the French artil lery fired into the German mnsscw, the German shells f!ing over our bends Icfwurd the Doiiuuiout suction. Then our machine gun, placed in batteries every five yards, began to play and we saw the deud in groii) upright where there was not room to .full. From Moncourt I followed tho supply road to Fleury, where I took the light railway toward Verdun. The "heavy guns near Douamont and Dsinloup were firing as fast a they uould bo loaded. When wo ia.d between the two oints the air pres sure, produced hv the continuous discharges, j, so terrific thut blood nished from our curs and our lung nhno-t ceased working." IS HELD ILLEGAL SALBM, Or., Feb. 20. The Orc jon snpretue court today pronounced the classification of uu ordinance, passed by the city of Astoria, requir ing certtin mercantile establishment to close at 0 p. m. on week dns, ar bitrary and unfair, and it reversed the action of the state circuit court of Clatsop eottuty, which dismissed a suit to restrain enforcement of the ordinance. The urdinance excluded front it ojHtrtitioaM, drug, cigar, millinery, fruit, eonfeciiouery. furniture aud Iwok (taUblwuideiitk. "It is the constitutional right cow inoH to all eitiiMf)," said the court, "that no law shall fie passed granting auy aititeu or class of iritiseu privi leges or immunities wlin-b shall ut ciju.ill btloin tu all (.itiius."' CLOSNG AW ONKUON. TH-slUY. KMUIM'AltY 20. HHii POLICE NET STRETCHED .lean Crones. Police In all parts of tho country have boon furnished descriptions of Jean Crones, chef, said to bu nn anarchist and loading flguro In n gi gantic plot to blow up churched and churchmen In tho United Statu. Crones was employed as chef when a banquet was given In Chicago In honor of Archbishop Mundolclii and was sought In connection with nn attempt to poison 300 persons who attended the banquet. I'olnson wn found In tho soup served. II IN REPORTED KILLED WASIIINT.TON', l'eb. 20. The murder of drover C Vtirn, an Amer ican, by Villa forces at his homo last night, twonty-flvo miles north of DuraiiBo, was reported officially to - day to tho state department other details worn given. No KIj I'ASO, Texti. J-Vb. 29. Wash- maton dlsputcho. leportliiK the Itll - , . ' ,, , , InK of (Iroor O. Vnrn eauscHl In - tenso intorost bore, where Vrn wa well known. Vr loft Kl 1.M two , . .... ,. ,...,.. , , nnba n um In Inln IiIm 1i l lias Ifl 1 Vnrn. at their ranch near Santa I.ucla, twonty-flvo miles norlli of DurniiRO. TOHUi'O.N. Coahulln, Mo.Mco. Fob. 29. It was ropnrted here today that an American hotolkeeper nanus! Ilnr- ris has beon banged by bandits at ouiiiij(ii iiir. hid MMIU Ulltt uiitni uir tails wero not given, nlthoiigl known that Harris ha lived a lircifiklA fnetw wnnoe CninliPOPiilit 111 BY V LLA BAND TS in Zacntncni state. ' Ilandlts arc. TQ.i"m', '; w,v,p"l IJ"J nnr.,..l t l,.. ln.,l lh rannl, of " "Ml.. Dm, it Wll hl, intended ,i... v . 1 i.... -. .i.iinanhiiig into his homo slate of uu.... ............ .. .........., .1 w- nepa, west of Durango City. ICram - or, with his American employes, are said to have saved their lives by hid ing in a hog pen. KI, I'ASO, Texas, l'eb. J9. The American hotolkeeper of Kombroreto reported In Torreon dispatches today as bolng hanged by bandits was Identified bore today as ICdwnrd Har ris, well known among American" mill ing men. The newa of his death eausos Inquiry as to the possible fute of Honry Caruaghan, mauaRor of tho Dos liombre mine 111 tho Sombrerete district. Oanms'iau lived at C'luil clilultes OE ABANDON PE COLUMBIAN TREATY WASHINGTON. r-h. 20.- Admin- of whom were dead and two so badly istraliou hcnutor- admitted today hurt thut it wa feared they eould not tlwty bud praitKiilU no hope of rat-. sitriu. ification for the (oloinbimi treaty) Volunteer were working under the proiM-sing pu.Mocnt !' $1.1,000,001) to direction of trained rescue crews in Colombia fr the nrtJUou of I'au- an utteupl to reeh the other, ama and making mutual explosion I The working force loilay had juat of regret. reached iWr place when tho edo- A thorough canvas of the senate ( wn, which seemed to have affected ha conviuced adiniuistratioH leader. only a iurt of the workings, oe that nearly all rejHibliuuns aud v-, curred. I oral democrats would reeiat ralifl - eation to the last. A vote on the measure, owe seu- UOi believe, should b avoided be - cause) huwlion would he bettor than h Hut rejection m its elfcr? upon Lvlolnbiu. 10 IP SOUP POISONER z 10 L WASIIIN'dTO.V, Feb. Ln.- Keporli , loilnv to the department of justice said Ociicral I-Vliv Diuz, who hopcH to i., M nii ,.,'. .' (i ship bound from Tnuipn, I'la., to Tierrn, in the state of Ver t'nir, .Mxiei. 'J'hi advice eiune from an nueul of ' . " ' ''"""" ""' " "' ii he bureau of inve iitation nnd nf- .C . . !,,! -. . , fu'u "n' ,l,e,",';, ,0 4,v.". 'J ,,rm ' J"""'- p)' 'rr"rl l.e.ng mtido l eonliini it. No delml n lo Iho ihl'!'' V" ,l,,,h ,,,MS W ' nvV0 ,V' ccived AgeuU of the bureau tfcro Iflmy to day watching the Hi read of tho re Hiited Di. lot in otlivj' . sections, with a iew to cdietkin any effort to send him arms or ammunition. VIMl, o,,,,... , ... LAND VE EG M R V N her do- ''.! vini.i...'r, im,, reo, so. eh II Ih1"'"1 N'H',r''11 d Iodny they had t Roni-lu,'',m' ,'"'1 ''''',x "'Hz '""''l '" ,hp .mi- im I ,'M''' f 'vr I' 'nt weuk and was . , ., i . , .1 . ,, , . ,. ' J".n ihiv iMiujm 111 nr- gtn iiis ciiiiipniuii tiKHiiiMi urn ami t'iirraiiu. Zupulu trtMips, it wu said, would .join the Din, army. Scw-rul million dolluiN was tie clan d to hnvc Itfcu proMtlcd to fin ami' tin- niiiveineiit. 71 KKMI'TON, W. Va., Fib. 20. -Sni-iitj-mie uieti were trapped by an icxploMiou in the iijiiiu of the Us vis jCiml & Coke Co. neur Iieru toduy xoon after they went to work. Two Miccreded in making their way to the surtate and loseuor within au hour hud liioiighl out ihirty-seven, four ' Keseue crew were nuk-kjr re- eruitrd frcun nourhv mine, They brought out the men who had not , been injured and recoveml lb dead uol fur frum the uiaiu entry. The trap'd men were aid to be ninth l4rthr tiulu the opeliiuj,'. MINERSTRAPPED BT COAL EXPLOSION GERMAN DRIVE 10. S. POLICIES OPON VERDUN MOSTIRRITATING LOSING FORCE SAYS ADMIRAL Berlin Claims Progress, But Little Gain Made Bombardment Contin ues With Great Intensity Man Hcullcs Taken, But LostCaptur ed Trenches Retaken hy French. nKItMN. Feb. 20, via London.--rVnicio-i'ww-. .w orr-i, Progros for the donnaus In thel.laill COloi'8, nt 25 to J5 drive toward Verdun In the Wocvnjq-Q. WOOLENS district was nnnouncod by tho war ofmQ o KfJ YD flee today. Tho Herman troops hnv . 7 ,' .. . . passed Dieppe, Almucotirt and ninn'S'POS and Slliall brokdl mid havo also tnkon Mnnlieullos nn.B, go to lllilkc up tllO SllOWlllpf, champion. ik nnd light liiixturcs, suitablo Tlio wnr office alio announced thntjjQp gji'tg or dl'CSSCS, a small armored fort wost of Dona mont has been stormed by tho Tho official nnnouncoment rIvo-VE THEM. tho total itumhor of unwoiindod prls. oners taken as lfi,R7i. There havdTT?,r,lltl , ,,,,, ,..,; beon captured also "S cannon mid SO inacliluo khiim. l'AHIS, Fob. 20.-The bombard ment to tho north of Verdun Is con tinuing with groat Intensity. Hnst of the Mouso last nlKht thoro was n rosumptlciMi of violent local nt tucks. Near (ho vIIIuko of Doitau mont the fighting ennio to a hand-to-hand encounter, nnd tho Germnns wero repulsed by French troops. After IntciiKo artillery flro Ger man force captured tho vlllaRO of Mnnheulles, but 11 counter nttnek broiiRbt tho IVcncli to tho western boundary of this location. They aro now holding .Mnnlieullos under their flro. In I.orrnlnn tho nermann succeed ed In occupying small section of French troiieho. but they wero very shortly driven from those positions. There Is nothliiK to report from tho remainder of the front. T m 16 STILL GOING UP CHICAGO, Feb :'t A Jump of ten cents In the price of Iiok today sent the uiurket to Sx.00 a hundred pounds, the highest In sixteen month. According to veterans at tho local stockyards, tho "whole country I going Into hog raising and more pork and baeou Is being oaten toduy than ovnr before." Fropi the first of the year until yesterday, 2,ir.r.,000 hog were re ceived at tho Chicago yards, accord ing to figure compiled today. This is an Increase of more than half a million head over the similar period of 1UI5. For the eleven principal market of the country the totul Iiok shipments from January 1, l'Jlti to duto I more than 7, 1 uu, DUO as ugulnst &.?oa,utiU for the same pe riod in ma. This, It Is pointed out, Is In spite of the fact that the German lard market is closed. The extra demand for pork creat ed by the war, the spreading of the knowledge of the profits of hog rais ing and the failure of last year' corn crop ure the causes to which the unusuall) boay hog shipment ure attributed. OF WHEAT RALLIES AND FALLS . .CHICAGO. Feb 29 -Assertions that then ew German note opened a way to avert a break with the United Itato today helped to rally the price or wheat. The market, howover, continued nervous aud to undergo wide fluetuatlaus. Talk of a probable serious decrease in the number at skips available for the esport trade acted as a decided check on the bulls. The opening, which ranged from I Vi off to a like adrance, with May Sl.0 to l-0tt and July $1.05 to tl.OTtt, -is followed by a general upturn to 2 above yesterday's fin- jbu mm men u i.imciiiii hiuk, HO IHES MONTHS NO. 2fl1 President of Navy War C&lleuelSiiys No Time Should Be Lost in Build ing Strongest Navy in World to Preserve Nation Says Menace Exists, But Declines to Tell How. Other world ovnntH, tho ndmlrnl declared, made It scorn probnblo that nt the close of tho Kuropean war, various foreign powers, bollovinR that thoso Amorlcnn pollolca conflict with thnlr inturost.i might declare they would not longer ncccpt them. Hu)s Nation Is Menaced. Admlrnl Knlght'H stntoments wero drawn out by Hoprosentatlvo Callo way, who Insisted ho could sco no dattKcr to Justify a rnco for naval siipromncy. "Aro wo In any way menaced?" ho demanded, "in my opinion wo aro," an Id Ad miral KiiIrIU. "How?" ;,. . 1 "I wish to bo oxcurtodfrom miBwer Iiir this cpiUKtlon." "I would llko to find somebody who would nnswor it," said Ilopro sentntlvo Calloway. "Is tho dato lPlifi, not for tho com pletion of this Rrcnt flout, tho duto when this thing will break " "I don't bollovo It wilt break at all. If we prepare now," said tho ad miral. TreiuemloiK Kcndltui-CN. To equal the Urltish Moot by 1026. Admiral Knight sold, SO dread naught. 15 battle erulsors, SO scout cruiser, 75 submarine and 78 de stroyer would have to bo added to tho present fleet. Ho thought Great Ilrilniu would not rogard nn Ameri can building program as directed against her. The prosout unvy, ho said, should bo ellmluntod In considering tho pos sibilities of any attack on tho Now Knglnud const because it lacked scoul and might easily bu drawn far southward by a feint, whllo tho real attack wa made. For that rea son, ho suld, ho wished to see at leant nine battle cruisers and eight scout' laid down this enr. E TO I'AItlrf. Feb. 29. "Do you know about the trick we played on tho German in Can re wood!" was tho ctuestluii with which a French soldier who had been in the Vordun fight ing Introduced today li nocount ot au incident at the front. "Well, to tho north of Vordun," he continued, "a little beyond lloau HQiit, lie Can re wood. It was n point to which tho Ucrmana devoted peclul attention and therefore ever) thing wus dono to glvdlthom as good a reception ns possible. While our infantry on ,tho frlngo of tho wood hold off tho onomy, n lieutenant of engineers and his men made their final propagations in tho wood, which hiyl beau onrottilly mined berorohatld. Whon all was ready the Infantry fell backhand the German, routfheed that our men were bolting, tor MUr them la tho woods, oiling tUailtft'itly. "When tho last Frenchman- waB safely out of tj) wood the othor side someone posted gear lieutimout pressed a button. There wag n heavy boom aud trees, ntlufJM Itll bodies shiP Into the air. Virtually o,vary man of the enemy In the wood hud been killed." MANS LURED OVERMIN DID BLOWN ATOMS 1 "1? ' M "