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TEUTON ALLIES TO BEGIN WAR AGAINST ITALY

Rumor in Paris Says Declaration Already Has Either Been Made iy or Agreed Upon.

ITALIAN NON-INTERVENTION PARTY TO DROP OPPOSITION

Military Writers Set Mid-Summer as Date for Final Victory Over Germany if Italy Enters

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BULLETIN.

LONDON, May 11.—The Russians continue to fall back in western Galicia before the Austro-German thrust and the Germanic allies now have crossed the upper reaches of the Wisloka river and are within fifty miles of the fortress of Przemysl.

This much is admitted in the official communication given out by the staff of Grand Duke Nicholas but it is spoken of in a matter of fact way which does not show much perturbation and couples with the reverse the claims of having recommenced a successful offensive against the .Austro-Germans at various points.

Confirmation of yesterday's statement that heavy reinforcemnnts had rcached the allied front is found in the Berlin official communication which estimates the number to "be at least four fresh army corps/'

The recruiting fever aroused in the Great Britain over the sinking of the Lusitania continues.

BULLETIN.

ON THE ITALIAN FRONTIER, May 11.— (via Paris) May 11.—The opinion prevails in Rome that Italy's participation in the war is only a question of days. Along the Austrian frontier where the correspondent of the Associated Press has been from one end of the line to the other it is universally felt that war is only a question of hours.

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GENEVA, (via Paris), May 11.—A dispatch to the Tribune says the Russians have begun a strong offensive movement at Tarnow as well as in Courlan and on the Stry, driving back Austrian and German forces with heavy losses.

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LONDON, May 11.—9 a. m.—A Reuters' Petrograd dispatch says a jiquadron of cruisers of the Russian Baltic whole cruising in the southern Baltic in the region of Windau (a seaport in Courland) exchanged long distance fire with a hostile cruiser and torpedo boats which took advantage of their superior speed to nscape southward and avoid an engagement.

PARIS, May 11.—It is being persistently rumored in Paris that Germany and Austria have already declared or are about to declare war on Italy, in anticipation of such action on her part directed against themselves. This report, however, has received no confirmation of any kind.

Another rumor current on the Bourse today was that the Italian government has signed an agreement with the allies', Great Britain, France and Russia, to take part in the war not later than May 26. "fhis rumor also is without confirmation.

French observers of the political situation in Italy infer from the audience yesterday beLween King Victor Emmanuel and former Prime Minister (iiolitti that the non-intervention party In Italy has determined to withdraw all opposition to the war.

Consequently the Italian parties would be united in support of a war policy, in the judgment of French observers, based upon two fundamental considerations, namely, that wrong's have been done in Serbia and Belgium, and that the racial aspirations of the Italians on the eastern shore of the Adriatic and in the Mediterranean now can be satisfied.

Military writers are presenting the argument that war for Germany and Austria on a third frontier undoubtedly will majte the resistance of the central empires on their other fronts more feeble, so much so that with the advent of Italy victory over Germany is set for the middle of the summer.

RUSSIANS CLAIM GAINS.

Say Germans Have Been Driven From Their Positions. PETROGRAD (via London). May 11. —An official statement issued last night by genetal headquarters said: "In the region of Uzsok pass the enemy made a fruitless attack on Saturday. Serried enemy columns attacked impetuously a position held bytwo of our "companies in a sector of the Jarvorina mountain chain on the slopes above Lomnitza. The enemy's losses were so heavy heaps of bodies Interfered with the fire from our trenches. Our troops, in spite of the enemy's machine gun fre. left their trenches and swept the. enomy from the whole region.

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IT. S. WEATHER REPORT.

TKWPERATIRE RKCORD, MAY 1.1. 6 a. 52 Noon 71 9 a. ni 66 3 p. 73

Relative humidity at 2 p. m., 46 per cent.

LOCAL COXDITIOXS AT 7 A. M„ MAY 11. 1015. Station pressure, 29.60: temperature, 56 highest temperature yesterday, 69 lowest temperature last night. 50 precipation. 0 direction of wind, east velocity of wind, three miles per hour: state ol at n,r part cloudy relative humidity, 69 Der cent.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE—Fair tonight and Wednesday INDIANA—Generally fair tonight and Wednesday except possit'lv showers Wednesday In north portion: warmer tonight in east and south portions.

OTHER LOCAL REPORTS. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer: 7 a. m., 55 2 p.

LONDON, May 11.—1:50 p. m.—The British -official press bureau today issued this announcement: "The following: statement dated Berlin has been officially circulated through the German wireless stations and received by the Marconi company: 'The main headquarters reported some weeks ago that large numbers of reports were current which originated in Norway to the effect that near Bergen on the Norwegian coast, during the night from the 7th to the 8th of April heavy sea fighting between English and German ships had taken place. Ships coming from that direction also reported that they had seen squadrons of warships. On the night in question gun fire by the aid of illuminating rockets had been noticed. 'With regard to these reports some light now has been thrown on the matter by the commander of the submarine AE-2, which was destroyed in the Dardanelles. In the letter which camo into our possession regarding the North sea fight which is said to have taken place, the British battleship Superb is said to have been sunk and the cruiser Warrior is said to have been sinking without the German navy having suffered any loss. On Friday, the 9th of April, a number of cruisers are said to have arrived in a badiy damaged condition. The Lion was very badly damaged. Official reports say nothing of all this.

Battle Costly Mistake."

"Similar reports have come to hand from reliable neutral sources to tho effect that a number of badly damaged and slightly damaged ships had reached English ports for repairs. The manner in which they had been damaged has been left unexplained. "An especially large number of damaged ships ran into the Tyne. A damaged cruiser was towed into the Tyne. A ship of the Lion class with a star-

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WASHINGTON. D. C., May 11 While Senators Stone and Hoke Smith are endeavoring to deflect attention from the Lusitania affair to the Gulflight case, which at the most will ~~'e a question of reparation, republican senators are loudly ^manding vigorous measures seeking satisfaction for what they term the barbarous and piratical murder of more than 100 innocent Americans on tlie ill-fated British liner.

This was the view of the tragedy expressed today by one of the most distinguished republican members of the senate who is an authority on international law. "Germany has gone far beyond anything that was ever dreamed of by those who have considered the question of how nations should act in case of war. "The Hague convention shows clearly that none of those who participat *7 in framing it contemplated the destruction of a vessel belonging to a

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TWO WARSHIPS DESTROYED AND MANY OTHERS DAMAGED

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of British Admiralty Wireless Dispatch as Fabrication on Part of Germany.

BULLETIN.

QUEENSTOWN, May 11.—Sixteen bodies were brought into Queenstown this afternoon by a tug chartered by the Cunard line. None of the bodies have been identified.

Mayor Entertains Party at Lunch at Hotel Deming Then Seeks Warrant for Manager.

ORDERED DRINKS FOR HIS GUESTS TO TEST NEW RULE

Newspaper Man Falls Into Trap But Refuses to Drink When He Learns He is Expected to be Witness.

Mayor James M. Gossom said Tuesday morning that W. A. Cochran, manager of the Deming hotel, will be under arrest before nightfall, charged with selling and serving drinks In the hotel in rooms not specified in the license of the buffet. The whole transaction is the outcome of a dinner party given in the grill room of the hotel

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Republican Leaders Demanding German Government be Punished

belligerent country7 until after the neutrals aboard had been removed. That convention provides for the capture of merchant vessels flying the flag of belligerent nations but it does not contemplate the destruction or the taking of human life. It provides for one thing that the mail of neutrals shall be protected and delivered. It shall be inviolable.

Neutrals' Safety Guaranteed. "The convention also provides that the lives of neutrals shall be inviolable. They are not even subject to capture even though they are on a vessel flying the flag of a belligerent nation. Yet that has been done. Neutrals have been killed. It is simply murder. "The destruction- of the Lusitania will go further than any other act of Germany toward influencing public opinion against that nation. It was clearly intended to intimidate the owners of ships of all nations and it may accomplish ita purpose in part."

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Philadelphia Woman and Children Lost on Lusitania

MRS. PAUL CO MPT OX. OF PHILADELPHIA. AND HEIR SIX OHlUJRESf WHO SAILED AS KIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS ON THE LUSITANIA ARB REPORTED AMONG THE LOST. MR. COMFTON ACCOMPANIED HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN AND DIED WITH THEM.

COKE & GAS COMPANY TO BID BIG PLANT

Increases Capital Stook From $10,000 to $2,500,000 and Will Erect $750,000 Structure.

A certificate from Homer L. Cook, secretary of state, of the increase in the capital stock of the Indiana Gas and Coke company, from $10,000 to $2,500,000 was filed with County Recorder Hoermann Tuesday morning. The meeting of the directors of the company was held at the Rose Dispensary building on May 6, the directors consisting of Samuel D. Royse, Paul N. Bogart, who is president of the company, Ora D. Davis, M. E. Bradley, secretary W. J. Gillespie, Leon Stern and Don Duncan. A copy of the minutes of that meeting, of the meeting to ratify such proceedings and the oertifflcate of the president and secretary of the increase was made a part of the papers filed in the recorder's office.

The common stock of the company was increased from $4,000 to $1,000,000, the first preferred stock from $4,000 to $1,000,000, and the second preferred stock from $2,000 to $500,000. One of the provisions of the resolution increasing the stock is that the directors shall not be required to offer for subscription and sale 5,000 shares of the first preferred capital stock until such time as they can see fit, and then it shall be sold at such prices and on such terms as the directors deem for the best interests of the company.

Eastern Capital Interested. A part of the proceedings of the special meeting is made a matter of record, in which the company accepts all the conditions of the legislative, act of 1907 entitled "An act concerning corporations other than municipal and common carrier corporations," under which it was organized.

The special meeting authorized the officers to pay the necessary fees of the increase in the capital stock, which amounted to $2,500. The county recorder's fee was $10.00.

Paul N. Bogart, president of the company, spent several weeks in New York during the winter, interesting eastern capital in the enterprise, and the success of his stay there is said to be accountable for the increase in the capital stock. "At first we just organised the company temporarily so we could take steps to perfect a better organization

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TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1915.Italy,

Deciares on Paris Report

Evidence That Kaiser's Navy Intends Trying to Obliterate British Shipping.

WILL PROTECT AMERICAN SHIPS OTHERS BEWARE

Kaiser's Commanders Expect Enough Submarines in Few Weeks to Completely Blockade

England.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11.— Startling information that the Lusitania tragedy is only the inauguration of a new campaign of German submarine warfare on a scale hitherto unparalleled will have a direct bearing upon the adoption of measures by the administration to enforce protection of Americans and American property in the war zone.

The administration learned today that Germany not only intends to continue the destruction of enemy merchant vessels regardless of the presence thereon of Americans or other neutrals but expects to be able to work complete devastation of British commerce in European waters.

More German Submarines. Germany, according to its official representatives h|ere, has (completed and is now engaged in putting into service a large number of the most powerful seagoing submarines the world ever has seen.

It is stated that the remarkable activity in the submarine campaign in the last two weeks is due to the increased strength of the fleet of submersibles.

Within a, few months, if not weeks, say the German officials, the submarine forces will be strong enough to envelop completely the coast of the British Isles and to make an effective blockade which no incoming or outgoing vessel will be able to pass with impunity.

The German government gives assurances that no American passenger liner will be attacked, but reiterates Its warning that Americana aboard a British merchant vessel will court the fate of those who sailed upon the Lusian a *,'- "-4

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Chairman Stone of the senate foreign relations committee discussed the Lusitania disaster with the president before the cabinet meeting began and later said he had .10 expectation that an extra session of congress would be called. "I am for peeace with honor," said Senator Stone. "I do not know what the president plans to do about the Lusitania. It Is his problem and It is useless for others to attempt to advise him."

Senator Stone declared he favored passage of the government ship pur chase bill which failed in the last congress., Such a step he said would provide American ships to carry American passengers and goods.

He added that he took it for granted that the United States would find means to protect its own ships.

Humanity Uppermost.

Senator Lafollette, another white house caller, today opposed the suggestion that diplomatic relations with Germany be broken off. "I am for peace," said Senator La follette. "I want the United States to take a firm stand, but I am opposed to war."

The Philadelphia speech was iriterpreted by official Washington nevertheless as meaning that whatever course is pursued the United States

PRESIDENT PLEADS FOR SANITY AND U. S. UNITY

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as being so right that it does not need to conby is

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Loss of American Lives in Sinking of Liner Subject of Three Hour Qts-i cussion by U. S. Officials

FLEET REVIEW MAY BE

WASHINGTON, May 11.—President Wilson said today that his speech in Philadelphia last night was not a declaration of policy In reference to the Lusitania disaster that he was not thinking of any special matted, but of the newly naturalized Americans In his audience.

The president used the expression that he was thinking of the "cain" some people were trying to raise.

The president said he would make a decision on the policy to be followed in the Lusitania case as soon as he had all the elements in mind. For the present he had nothing to add, he said, to his statement of last Saturday night which was that he was considering "very earnestly but very calmly the right course of action to pursue," and that he knew the country expected him "to act with deliberation."

Although the general trend of comment was one of surprise at the limitation whioh the president placed today on the Interpretation of his speech, those who have followed his speeches closely pointed out that Mr. Wilson has frequently spoken implicitly rather than explicitly.

While his Philadelphia audience was Impressed with the belief that the president was referring specifically to the Lusitania tragedy the president indicated by his remarks today that he meant his speech to be broader than a Bingle incident and to cover the entire subject of foreign relations as well as the subject of domestic solidarity with reference to the aliens who have become naturalized in Amer

ica- !j'i Cabinet Begins Session.-. At the usual hour, the cabinet began arriving for the first conference with the president since last Friday. Whether the first conference with the president would take up the Lusitania tragedy or wait until he had gafch ered further facts was something which none of the secretaries themselves seemed to know.

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You cannot be an American if you think of yourself in groups. A man who considers himas belonging to a national group is not yet an American.

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you is to to think first of humanity, and you do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity in jealous camps.-

I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal

capital out of the passions of his fellow men. He has lost the touch and ideal of America. The man who seeks .to divide man from man, group from group, interest from Interest In the United States is striking at its very heart.—From the president's Phlladelspeech.

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probably would endeavor to'seni^1* cause of humanity by appealin 9 Germany to end her submarine fare against unarmed merchant carrying non combatants.

In some quarters the suggestion made that the president might

WASHINGTON, May 11.—The sinking of the steamer Lusitania and the situation resulting from that act continued today to hold the undivided attention of official Washington. Chief interest naturally centered in the^| white house where it was expecttd President Wilson would give some Indication to his advisers what course the United States will pursue In th« present emergency.

Today's cabinet meeting is the first to be held since the Lusitania disaster.

President Wilson returned early today from Philadelphia where he addressed a gathering of naturalized cltIzens last night. His speech was being widely discussed here today. While the president did not refer speciflcally to the situation brought about by the sinking of the Lusitania some thought he Intimated that while the United States would remain at peace an endeavor would be made to show Germany from the American viewpoint that the action was wrong. "America," said the president, "must have the consciousness that on all sides it touches elbows and touches hearts with all the nations of mankind. The i? example of America must be a special example. And it must be an'example not merely of peace, because it will not fight, but because peace is a healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. "There is such a thing as a man b«*r ing too proud to fight. There is sucl? a thing as being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that It is right."

These remarks created a tumult of applause and patriotic enthusiasm, attended by a waving of thousands of small American flags.

The president made no dirfet reference to the Lusitania tragedy, but the audience did not hesitate to read the application of his statement.^.

Urges Single Allegiance.

Introduced by Mayor Blankenburg, who spoke in distinctly German accent, a welcome and an appeal for a single allegiance to the United States, the president carried forward the idea of the welding of foreign blood in the make-up of America by pointing out the true goal of right American citizenship to be a loyalty not to the country of one's birth, but the land o* one's adoption. "While you bring," he said, "all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you—bringing what is best to their spirit but not looking over your shoulder or seeking to perpetuate what you leave them. I would not certainly be one who would suggest that a man cease to love the place of his origin. It is one thing to love a place where you were born, and another thing to dedicate yourself ,to the place where you go. You can't be an Amer^s lean if you think of yourself in groups America does not consist of groups^ A man who considers himself as be-

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the usual means of diplomatic correspondence and address a message in person to Emperor William. It wu pointed out by persons hitherto in the president's confidence that he mifht first try to prevent a recurrence of such an attack as was made on the Lusitania, taking up subsequently tho. question of reparation for the loss of American lives.

Germany's disavowal of any intention to destroy American lives was looked upon by many officials as significant of Germany's desire to maintain friendly relations with the United States, and that her main purpose, was to terrorize Great Britain and paralyze trans-Atlantic travel.

Officials Silent.

The cabinet was in session nearly three hours, the longest meeting held in several months. None of the members would deny that the Lusitania Incident had been discussed, but all refused to comment. The demeanor generally of the cabinet members was grave and reserved.

Secretary Daniels, asked whether the Atlantic fleet would pass through the Panama canal In July in accordance with previously announced plan, replied: "I cannot discuss tha\ or any pother question now."

Mr. Daniels was asked whether the review of the Atlantic fleet planned for next week in New York would be held. Yesterday in Philadelphia he denied that plans for the review would be changed. Today he answered the question by replying: ,, 3P "I cannot discuss that."