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University if Or?Gin Hilary ford Mail I FORECAST Toiiitilil and Tomorrow FAllt. WEATHER Maximum Yesterday 4!S;V Minimum Today '22. T'urtv-flixtti Year. 1'iilly Kl.-viiiih IVar. MKDFORD. OIM-X.'OX. WKDXKSDA V. NO. L'flO PRIEST RELATES TRAGIC TALE OF RIBUNE V Nil KKIMM AK'V '2S. If) 17 LIMIT POWER CHANCELLOR'S BRITAIN STOPS NATIONAL WAR COMMITTEE TO FOUR AMERICAN OF PRESIDENT SPEECH CAUSES I ALL PASSENGER m m NATION'S INDUSTRIES; CONSOLS HELD INitlVIERGtNCYi HOT INDIGNATION SHIP TRAFFIC! m 41 . T . I BY GERlNYi LACONIA VICTIMS Senate Not to Act Upon President's Bequest to Arm Ships Until Housel Votes Flood Bill Recommended Strikes Out Words "Other Instru mentalities" and Amends Insurance WASHINGTON, Feb. &. The house foreign nf fairs committee to day reported the Flood bill, designed to Rive the president power to pro tect the lives of United States citi zens and American ships, after strik ing out the words "other instrumen talities," and amending the measure to prohibit Kovernment war insurance for ships carrying munitions of war. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. That the senate will take no action on the arm ed neutrality bill until the house has passed the measure practically was assured today after n conference be tween Senator Stone, chairman of the foreign relations committee, and lfcp rcscntntivc Mann, house republican leader. Mr. Jlann declared the senate could not net on a bill providing for an issue of bonds until it hud been passed by the house. WASHINGTON, Feb. 'J8. Sena tors and representatives today con sidered bills which will determine liirjrcly the future course of tile Cnitcd States in its relations toward Germany, daily becoming more seri ous. No doubt remains in the minds of state department officials that the sudden night attack on the I.aconia embodies un open defiance of the principles for which the United Slates tfovernment has contended, but it was said no additional step would be taken pending action by congress to rant President Wilson the authority he asks. 1-Ycsh KvMspci'ullon. . Ilcports that the German govern ment is now detaining the Yarrowdale prisoners on the excuse that an in fectious disease has been discovered at the place where they are living were received here with a feeling ap proaching exasperation. In addition to this irritating incident, it was dis closed that the state department feels a break in relations with Austria Hungarv is so inevitable that Ambas sador I'enfield at Vienna has been in structed to make all arrangements for withdrawal of American diplo mats and consuls from the country. The house foreign affairs commit tee today resumed consideration of the bill to authorize the president to enter a state of nmicd neutrality, hut decided opposition was apparent to granting him ns broad powers as he wishes. llouso Measure. As reported by the house commit tee, the bill would read: "Tho president of the I'nited States he and is hereby authorized and em powered to supply merchant ships, the property of citizens of the Cnitcd States and bearing registry of the I'nited States, with defensive arms and also with the necessary ammuni tim and means of making use of them in defense against unlawful attack. and thnt he be and is hereby author ized and empowered to protect such ships and the citizens of the I'nited States niramst unlawful attack while at their lawful respectful pursuits on the high seas." This eliminates the provision which would have empowered the president to use such "other instrumentalities and methods as mav in his judgment and discretion seem necessary u tul adequate." The bill would provide the M0. 110(1,000 bond issue nnd authorize the president to transfer some of the funds to the war risk insurance bu (Continued on Page Two.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S Over the protests of Chairman Fitzgerald of the appropriations committee, who declared the federal trade commix ston's Investigation into the high cost of living was chasing a "will of the wlsn." the house today voted the necessary appropriation of $4'i0,0''i In ihe civil sundry hill on s roll call CONGRESS PROVIDES FOR FOOD INQUIRY tote. Washington Views Von Bethmann Hollweg's Address to Reichstag With Amazement and Indignation Trying to Befuddle the German People by Continued Falsehood. WASHINGTON, JS. Siir- prise bordering on indignation voiced today over Chancellor lietlunann-llollwcg's speech to was Voil the rcichstag. Stale department officials are amazed that the chancellor should seek further to confuse German Anicrienn relations with a scries of statements which they say are palp ably opposed to the most obvious events of recent historv. The chancellor's statement that the I'nited States severed relations "brus(Uely" is viewed as loo absurd for discussion. It is pointed out that the American correspondence had plainly threatened such action; that' Count Von Henistorff hail said for several days beforehand that he ex pected to be dismissed and that the German government had shown its realization of ihe coming break bv sending out orders to disable its mer chant ships in this country. Chancellor rontrnilictcil. It also was pointed out that while the I'nited States delayed three days in taking the action it had clearly foreshadowed in several notes, Ger many put into effect its campaign of ruthlessness .on eight hours' notice after months of assuianees that she had no intention of taking such it step. The statement that Germany in her Sussex note reserved a new course of action is declared wholly unjustified. The Cnitcd States specifically rcfus ed to accept that condition, and in default of any reply from Germany, was justified in believing that Ger many adhered to her point of view. In diplomacy the last note between the two nations is the binding note and stands in all particulars utitil de nied by one or the other participants. Is (iiven the Lie. The chaiK-ellor's complaint that he received only Renter's dispatches and a verbal statement to the foreign min ister as to the causes of the break, recalls that a note setting out the reasons for the action of the Cnitcd States was handed to Count on Henistorff with his passports. The statement condemning Presi dent Wilson for announcing an em bargo on arms to Mexico and lint to Kurnpe was dismissed as nbsurd and incorrect. The eases arc held to be in no way parallel as .Mexico was in c ivil war. I WASHINGTON. Ceb. 2s. It is of ficially established that the Ameri can sailing schooner Lyman .M. i.i:w was not sunk by un Austro-Hungarhiii submarine. It had been presumed that the Law was destroyed by an Austrian sub marine because she was halted on her way to Palermo. Italy, In a re gion where It was thought there were no German C-boats. The submatine showed no marks of identity, and It now is assumed that she must h-ive been Gernuin or possibly Turkish. Ambassador I'enfield, at Vienna, cabled a report today in response to Inquiries from Secretary Lansing. The Law was sunk, according to official dispatches, by a bomb after Its crew had been under shell fire. President Wilson in his address to congress characterized the destruc tion of the Law as expressing a ruthlessness .which deserves grave condemnation." Hut was what might have been expected. FIRE DESTROYS MINING PLANT, M0YIE, B. C. XL'I.SON. I!. ('.. Feb. JS Kite hist night destroyed the entire i"on- tlntillg plant and building- at the St. L'imciic mine. Movie, II. C. operated bv the Ciilt-nliilatcd company. The old mill i. I :;tli.iiinl. but was heim: remodeled lor expel imeiilal pun'scs. and its ai tual tiliie was mio-li less, Liner Finland Reports That All Ves- l flp i els, Liners as Well as Freighters it J jfJUt" l Used Solely for Supplies and rk'' ff&wtJ "f&$ $t Troops Lloyd George Anxious to JtLlfJ& 'SmOt Xw J'- v " V See America Get Into the War. : MOW YORK, Feb. L'S. Reports that passenger traffic on all British vessels leaving ISnglaml for America and France lias been susoended. were brought here today hy passengers, who arrived on tho steamship Fin land, tho last Amerilan lir.'i boat to leave Liverpool and the third .tnit of this fleet to sail from thai port after tlorinany's proclamation of nuroslriei cd Hubmiirit.e wart'ure. .lames F. F:an of Philndc'phu and Hobcrt Wilson of New York, European representatives of lurso American business interests said tuat before leaving Knglnud they had hern informed on what they .roiisidiTiii re liable authority that the HiltHh ad miralty had decided to employ all vessels, passenger carriers as well as freighters, solely for transporting supplies or moving troops. Passengers Itai-rcd. Scandinavian and Dutch passenger ships to America no longer sotp at Mritish ports, but avoid the subma rine zone by making Halifax their port of call. Consequently, if the re port of the Finland's passengers is correct, no passengers can now reach the United States from 'lOngiand un less American liners sail from this country to -fetch them. It was one a. in. on February IS when the Finland left Liverpool with 170 passengers. Sim sailed with all lights burning, illuminating the American flag painted on either side. No submarine was sighted. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Amer ican minister to Holland, who was reported to be on the Finland, did not sail. I'nited Slates Senator Kim Frederick Hale of Maine said lie understood Dr.. .Van Dyke was still in London. Mr. Hale, during three weeks spent in England and France met many of the leading men handling the affairs of the entente allies. Lloyd d'corge'.s Hopes. I talked with Lloyd George In London nnd he told me lie hoped America would get into the war," Mr. Hale said, "lie added that he want ed to see America take a prominent part in the peace negotiations at the end of the conflict. "I also saw Premier Ilrland in Paris nnd ho said tlie entry of Ameri ca into the fight against tho central powers would have a great moral and practical erfect toward bringing about peace. "The prevailing sentiment among leading officials In both countries was expressed that were the I'nited States to send over even a small fighting force under the American flag, It would have a great moral ef fect." PRESIDENT TALKS TO PEACE ADVOCATES . "WASHINGTON. I-VI). 2S. Presi dent Wilson told pearo advocates who called on him today to protest against the Ktep8 lie proposen In dealing with Germany that the country was faced by a momentous problem in the pres ent situation, that he had always been for peace and would do everything within his power to maintuia H. The president received their sus Kestlons sympathetically, memheni of the delegation said, hut, told them the country must realize the magnitude of the question. irno. mm ional SAN KlfANCrsro. Kdi. ''h. -i w Wiir department order received here tndav hv Mff.jnr (iwriA .1. Frunklin rtetl. run.nmnder of the wi-trrn dr- iiii'tment "t the I niti-d t;t!- iinny, find -uin'I Ity SeerHiiry NVwtmi I), linker, di-iuiinte Ihe "Sliir-Spunijled innin'i" n- the n;iti'uiiil anthem nnd prohibit military hand iin'lndin it r ni'Sioiwii niithem fit I'-ifin niin l rir in im-dh-v-. ULILHUL uurmu I i s ASKS CONSIDERATION! FORALITOIDENTSlgiJ WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S. The council of national defense today is sued an appeal to t lie people of the I'nited States to show every consider ation in the present . international situation to aliens resident In tills country. "The presence here at this time of perhaps 8,000,000 aliens Is deeply and soberly to be weighed, not only in our Interests, but in their own," says the statement. "ICinphasizing anew our national doctrines of tolerance and personal liberty, of holding all persons within in the land to be loyal unless by their own nets they shall prove the con trary, we call upon all citizens, If un toward events should come upon us, to present to these aliens tho attitude of neither suspicion nor aggressive ness. "Any other course is unworthy of our traditions aVd against public pol icy ami the free flow of governmental affairs." ' ALL ALONG LINE E FROM STAFF COKIIKKPONDKXT OF THK ASSOCIATKU PHKSS. BRITISH lIFADQl'AHTFItS IX FRAN CIO, Feb. 27. There was shar per resistance along the lino of the German retreat tonight than nt any time, since the movement began. There is no indication as yet of the fixed purpose by the GcnminH to make a definite stand hut they arc doing everything possible to hold up and interfere with the British ad vance. To the rear, outposts were im mensely strengthened nd this led to stiff fighting with the British patrols. The Germans prepared carefully for their retreat, apart from choosing the movement when spring was just be ginning, bringing with H new depths of clinging mud. Belt after belt of barbed wire marks the German trail. Always great believers in this method of defense, the Germans appear to have outdone all previous efforts in the way of wire barriers in the Somme and Anere arc?.. The British, however, pushed for ward today all along the eleven mile line stretrh from south of Gomme court to west of Lo Transloy. They pushed further into l'uisieux Aiimont southeast of Gommcrourt, in which more fires were visible last night. Searchlights also were plaing anx iously about. HOUSE FILIBUSTER AGAINST CAPITAL PROHIBITION LAW WASIll.VdTliN. Teh. JH.-I'niliilii-tion mid iinti-priiliibitiiin forces in the house lined up this n I'terniioii tor n t'iiiiil determined licht over the senitte bill tii m.ikc the liistrlct of (.'oluiuhiu dry. f Ipponcnts of the inuilsine be;in n filibuster bv denimidiiitr roll culls on 11 do.cll Itttieltdnli-ltts, one of which would pro ide ti referendum ol' the fptestion by the residents of the dis tricl. The di vs. in u ilelenniiicd effort lo brctik the lilibit-ter. then oll'civil u j resolution to snbt it utc the bill ul rcadv ie-cd hv the scmitc for thej oii-c bill mid niiil.c It in order without I debute. The et- i icdiiitciy litum-h- ed jiiioihcr titiliit-lcr, loit it s,M.niiil lllllt I III- te-ollltloll would be !liloited Hllil e lilrill lull- tilkfli bcloie lilld- iiijjhl. Top, loft lo light: Samuel Gotup cvs, president American l-'cilcratit it of Litbnr; Julius linscnwa'J, presi dent ol Sears, lioeliuck & Co.; Ilr Frederick II. Martin id' Chicago Daniel Wiihnd, president II. & O. rail road, llelow, left to t ight : llolli: Godfrey of Drexel Institute, Philadel phia : Howard K. Coffin id' lie! roil. E WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.- An In crease of $ ;; 7 .Ti 0 0,00 0 to the army appropriation hill was ordered ttoduy by the senate military committee In completing revision of tho measure t which passed the house. As it will ihe reported to the senate, the hill will carry $2 7 7,4sii,70S, ten million J in excess of the amount carried In ex listing laws. I The principal increase ordered Is j$in. 000,000 for clothing and camp .and garrison equipment, making the I total for thiH purpose $2S,r,oo,OiH. The committee was actuated in recom J mending the increase as a result of the Mexican mobilization which demonstrated that clothing supplies and camp equipment were, as Sen ator Chamberlain expressed it, "woe fully lacking." Oilier large increases ordered are $ I,.'! 5 0,0 no for automatic machine rifles; $ 1,000,01)0 for civilian mili tary training; $ 1 ,;;r.O,Oon for govern ment manufacture of arms; $2,000. ooo for army suhstinence; $2,S00, 000 for the signal service; $2(-l.",:!,-for supplies to the quartermas ter's corps; $1,;!7;:,7nO for tianspor tation and $-'.oo,otio for military roads in Alaska. The committee attached to the measure Ihe Chamberlain universal military service bill, but it is not ex pected to carry at this session. FEDERAL FARM LOAN WASHINGTON, Feh. 'JH. - Federal rutin loan hoard nlt'ic-inls un- under- -t I to liii vc arm ii-ed for pliieing hall' ol the entire t'irl i-ue ni" ioitli comirig tarm Man bond-, itinoiint un determined, will) a -yndiejilc id' bank er's jit New York and elsewhere tit a rate of -1 1 j per eenl. , The rate lo be charged the fanner- mi hiiiiis will raie.:e between and ."' per e-nt. From the number of applications from farmers wanting Iojum officials estimate that as high as $:.MMMi,iiqo in bonds may lie issued within the first ear. Although official of only five of the banks have b en an nounced so lar. virtually all the banks will be dofnn business, it Is expected, within three wet-ks. Secretary McAdoo is expected soon to sign certificates for the linvern ment's fubM-riptlon to stock not taken by the public. The tiovernment will place approximately 70,"m jat the disposal of the banks in this j manner. Thefe funds will be drawn I upon bh fast as needed and although ' each hunk u ill j. km; Mm o n bonds, jtlie board will uiidrtak the market ing of thpin. Suspicion of Imperial Government Is Voiced by Detention of United States Envoys Based Upon Cir cumstances Which, Through No Fault of America, Detained Mueller WASHINGTON, Fel. 2S. Four American consuls are being detained in Germany while the Berlin govern ment awaits official advices that all German consuls in this country, or dered to Central and South America, have bet ti permitted to proceed. Tho German government's action is based on circumstances which, through no fault of the I'nited States, detained Consul Mueller at Havana Cuba, while he was on his way from Atlanta, to Quito, Kcuador. The American consuls detained In Germany are Consul Henry C. K. Darnm, transferred from Aachen to llarput, Turkey: Consul John Q Wood, transferred from Chemnitz lo Messina; Vice Consul YV. Bruce Wal lace, transferred from Magdeburg to Constantinople, and Vice Consul C I nnes Bown, transferred from Man helm to Constantinople. Two X o t es I lr eel ved . Two notes have been received from the German government on the sub icct. the first a week ago. charging (hat the Fnited States had detained Mueller at Havana and a second ask ing for u reply to the first and also containing a statement on charges thnt American consuls and their wives departing from Germany hart- been subjected to indignities. It added that as soon as .Mueller had been al lowed lo proceed the American con suls could go on. That the German government has been mitdnformed regarding Consul! Mueller and other German consuls formerly stationed In the I'nited States is certain. The departure of none has been hindered by this gov ernment. Mueller was forced to re main In Havana longer than he at first thought would be necessary and he cabled Berlin that he was detain ed there. The German government Ih believed lo havo taken this to menu that tho Fnited States was re sponsible for the detention.' As a matter of fact, Mueller was forced to remain in Havana because of tem porary lack of transportation and fail ure to receive passports from the Kcuadoreati government. Ieny Bad Treatment. In the note received today, Ger many complains against published reports recently cabled to the Fnit ed States rrom The Hague, in which it was stated that American consular officers leaving Germany had been mistreated. It is stated that every thing possible was done to provide for the comfortable and safe depar ture or the American officials and blame for Ihe alleged nilsrepi-esenta-tlon Is placed upon Vice Consul Har old M. Quarton, formerly al Berlin, who Germany believes to have been the only consular officer from Ger many In The Hague at tin; time the newspaper articles were cabled. As for treatment said in news paper dispatches from Kurupe to have been acorded American consuls and members of the families, Germany de clares that instructions were given that they should receive every per sonal consideration. However, It Is made rlear that on the grounds ol miiiiary necessity there were many condition Incident to tin erosslnt: of the frontiers to which mcrlcans, the same as citizens of oilier nation alities, hail to siibjuit. It was Impos sible, Germany asserts, that all tho military regulations could be done away with at the time the American consular and diplomatic officials were crossing the border. GIVEN UP AS LOSE I.OXIIOX, Ti b. I'x. - Ai Hip lint, h I'Katiiin II mh.i B.iiil ml;iv Hutu wuk no ronririnaiion ,,t tin- ri'inirt puli-llslii-d curlier in the wwk Hint Hip Hutch uti nmslilix namtoiMm. Ki'in liuul mill iiunilljk with mill mloiit. On I lie miiirarv, tin- later Inrnrinii tln received by the Dutch oflliliils lcil to the tidier Hint the vw'l Iwiil Iiccii lost. A KPiin h for Ihe stcani nhis proved imHvalllim. Mrs. Hoy Died In Arms of Daughter, Who Succumbed a Few Minutes Later Ivatt Passed Away In the Arms of His Fiancee, Who Tried in Vain to Keep Him Warm with Hair. UYKuTOOL, Feh. 'J8 The lie v. F. Dun-tan Sargent id' Grenada, Brit ish We-t Imlio, a passenger on tho Laeonia. who administered the Inst rites of the Unman Catholic church to seven persons who peri-bed, gave ti the Associated I'resS today the fol lowing account id' Ihe death of Mrs. .Mary Hoy and Miss Klinbeth Hoy of Chicago, nnd Ccdelie F. Ivntt of London: "Mrs. Hoy died in the arms of her danghler. Her body slipped off into the sen out of her daughter's weak ened arms. The heartbroken daugh ter succumbed a few minutes after wards and her body fell over Ihe side of the boat as we were tossed by tho huge waves, Exposure Cn u him 1 Death. "In icy water up to her knees for two hours, the daughter till the time, bravely supported her aged mother, uttering words of encouragement. From ihe start both were violently seasick, which, coupled with the cold and exposure, gradually wore -down, their courage. They werehravo wo men." Aller a pause, Falher Sargent coir- tinned: "The first to die in our boat- was W. Irvine Itohiuson of Toronto. After Ins body had been consigned to ihe sea, we tossed about for an hour, gelling more and more water until tlie gunwales were uhnosl level with the sea. I lien .Mr. ivntt, who wan nor. physically, strong succumbed iu .the nnhs of his fiancee, who was elos beside him, trying in vnin to keep him warm by throwing her wealth of hah about his neck. Kveu after he died, she refused to give him up, and al though the additional weigh! made tho situation more dangerous for us nil, we yielded to her pitiful pleading an, I allowed her to keep the body. It wan taken aboard the rescuing patrol, from which it was buried. Tile burial aboard (be pttlrol al which I offici ated, was a solemn and memorable, ceremony. In Boat Ten Hours. ''The Hoys were the next to pn-i away. Then a fireman died and la ier two others of the crew who were too thinly (dad tit resist exposure,, Al together, we were in the boat, ten hours. We were rescued in the mid dle of I he morning. Father Sargent said his boat was badly damaged on being launched and immediately began lo leak. Owing tj the heavy wave- they were unable to ' attract ihe attention of the other boats or to transfer the passengers. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. A report today from Con-til Frost says that the l.aeoiiia's lifeboat, which contain ed Father lun-lan Sargent and Mrs. and Mi-s Hoy was racked while being lowered and sprung a leak, it float ed away, -upporled by its tanks. Mr. Fm.-t reported having taken affidav iN from survivors. His dispatch fid lows : "lliMlli of lloy ladies anil negro Colter, covered by nffidavils Father I Inn-tan Sa rent and Jacob Fottier ingham, shows boat No. 8 racked nnd -piling in lowering against port side and filled with water at oncf, bur. floated away by its tiink-, became -epa rated from oilier boat-, picked up by second patrol 'Jlith, 7 a. m., eight of il- lwenty-!vo necuiMints having succumbed during the night. Survivor in Hospital. "Add to American sm vivorn (wo iternc-. Mar-hall llyhiml. New York, and Cleveland Teak, New Albany, Ind. AH -univors (ecpl lour ho-pitut (Continued on Page Two.) ilno M " SEVEN DUTCH SHIPS THK IIACti:. Xethcilnlid.i, I!v Thn Ccrinan Koveijiment hap of fered in replum the seven Hutch mer chantmen which were torpedoed off the Kimllah const lust week with (ler nian rrelKhtnrn until the end of thn war. on condition thai Holland pur chase tliein afterward.