South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 191, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 10 July 1915 — Page 1

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FOUR MASKED MEN HOLD UP LIMITED; CONDUCTOR DEAD

Posses in Pursuit of Robbers Cut Express and Baggage Cars From Train and Run Engine Away. MYSTERY IN DEATH OF TRAINMAN; NO WOUNDS Found Sitting Dead on Platform of One of Cars But No Signs of Violence. Are on His Body No Loot Found. . j . BULLETIN. MONTGOMKiiY. Ala.. July 10. That the robbers who held up the Louisvilb- :i iid Nashville New Orleans and New York limited .secured a bit; f onsignment of money billed for Houston, Texas, is stated by oiticials of the railroad at Greenville. Ala., today. The nanus of the consignor or consignees are not gien. The robbers entered an automobile at Georgian;, and are still at large. The nearest city of any size from. Georgians is .Montgomery. MONTGOMERY. Ala., July 10. Four masked men held up the Louisville & Nashville's New York to NewOrleans Limited train near Greenille, Ala., at 2 a. m. today. Conductor Phil Mc Ilea of Montgomery was shot to death when he resisted the robbers. The men cut the engine, express and baggage cars from the remainder of the train and ran it down the track, where the express and mail cars were robbed. The bandits then started the engine down the track under full steam ami leaped oil'. Posses from Greenville have gone In puisuit of the robbers. The value of the loot obtained was not learned. The passengers were not molested by the robbers. There were conilicts in the reports of the killing of Conductor Mcltea. Posses of special deputle.s scouring the country for miles around Greenille ai rested live men, suspected of having soma coi nection with the holdup. No loot was found and the otllers eontinued their search for more possible suspects. The lirst reports .stated that Condm tor McKea had been shot and killed by one of the bandits. loiter it was declared that he was found dead sitting on the platform of one of the tars, but that there were no wounds on his body. The story of the holdup as related by passengers was that the four men boarded tho train, at Greenville. Ala. After the train was a short distance out of that city, the robbers crawled over the tender, and threw up reolvcrs in the engineer's face, forcing him to bring the train to a stop. The engineer and firemen were ordered to jump down and the robbers cut loose the three front cars. After running them down the track i a short distance, the cars were uncoupled from the engine and it wa.s sent hurling along the track under full steam, with no one aboard. The engine went about 4 0 miles and came to a stop near Garland, Abu, when its steam wa-s exhausted. Chief Maclauey Weathers, who remained in the mail car, was held up at tho point of a revolver, bound arid gagged, while the men went about tho work of looting tho express and mail cars. PROBE SOURCE OF FIRE DOING $25,000 DAMAGE laves of (liicago 1 iremen Kmlangcrvd When Drugs i:plexlo Chief lan is Seriously llumed. CHICAGO. July 10. An investigation was- started today to learn the cause of a fire which did :..0o0 damage to a building at State and .Madison sts.. In the center of tho loop retail district, at dawn today. Patta'.ion Chief Patrick .). I'gan of the lire department was painfully burned about th fare anil hand" by an oxplosam i-i the basement of the building occupied bv tho Public Drug Co. The drug firm and a millinery establishment on the upper lloors of the building were the heaviest sufferers. i:plosions of drugs in the basement endangered the live of firemen throughout the tight against the blaze. A squad f !:rci;fi was showered with broken glass whnt a large front window was broken. The heat of the bre melted pipe in the drug store basement, and there was one terrific explosion of gas. Ciicij of the Palmer House, a short distance from the lire, tied to the street in their night clot nine, when dense cloud of smoke were blown Into their rooms. Guests in the Saratoga botel. across the alley from the burning building, also r!ed to the st re.-r. A rousing rheer -vent up from the crowd watching the blaze when a lir?man carried a dress form out of the millinery story. The crowd thought the fireman had resc ued a live woman. LID ON BASEBALL POOLS T,.poi:TE. ind.. Julv '. Chief of T U . Ar.stiss clamped th" lid down tight or. h-:s, hill pool gambling here, asserting that :;11 violators will bo 1 : o.ii;ted. It is reported here that federal authorities bie been worknig uaiMlv throughout the state with . view .f itidb t merits against a niinier -.f alb-d violators. The crusade against the ee in Lap-rte was started by J. II. Guy. i 1 pre.-hbuit f the f tu m" 1 y o wh d la red that any of the Kumelv employ s found partirii.itir.g in the baseball pocU would be

Big Sunday Edition TITTZ KUNTAY XI-VS-TIMES is tlx? only Sunday n- .papcr published in northern Indiana and tlwi only newspaper available for local news between tho Saturday aftcrnoon papers and The NewsTime Monday morning edition. To fill this cap, reader of evening papers need tho Sunday morning edition. It Ih a long time from Saturday afternoon until Monday afternoon and many things happen every Saturday ntgnt. TIIK SUNDAY IIPITTOX covers the fields Saturday and Saturday night, in a local, state, national r.nd international way, up to 2:30 o'elock Sumlny morning. It telogTapliio Horvict? Is even more complete than tluvt of the Chicago Sunday papers, which, as to cdltions reaching South Bond and vicinity, go to prcsvs before midnight; t-omo of tliom even being pun-haa-nh In South Ilcntl lx'fun Tho NcH.H-TiincN morning edition goes to press. Of necessity, therefore, they cannot contain the latest telegraphic news, coTcrcd in a period of nearly two hours, while they carry virtually no local or Indiana news at alL AST I K HtOM THIS LATK NTAVS.the Sunday Kdltion carries a section of feature articles, mexst of them local, by members of The Xnvs-Timcfi staff, and several by writers of national reputation, Madison C. IVtcrs, Kdwnnl K. TltiiM, Ada Patterson, la-die Craine, Laura IUngston, Madge Artliur, Sidney Kpsey, and others. IxllLorlal, Woman's and SjKirt pages are; especially attractive features. Large- ntte-ntlon is given to religion, education 1, political, financial, agricultural, automobile, and otlier special new s of the week. Till: SUNDAY SPORT VMill is always an important feature. Saturday generally is a big day for fports, the games being finished too late for tho evening paiHTs to report. You cannot get the results of local or Southern Michigan league jqwrt in any other morning newapaier circulating in South I lend and vicinity. Special attention is riven to Fiort8 in the Sunday edition.

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New Offensive in Poland Goos on Steadily Despite Efforts of Teutons to Stop it H?ndenburg Begins Move. PKTROGRAP. July 10. Pushing forward in their pursuit of the retreating enemy in the Lublin district of Poland, the Russians have taken more than 13,000 prisoners, the war oihco announced today. Though off cling strong resistance, the Teutonic troops have thus far been unable to stop the Itus-sian offensive. Field Marshal von Hindenburg's German troops have again taken the offensive on the front to the northeast of Warsaw. They are attempting to cross the Hobr river below Ossowiec.' hut a bridge which they constructed has been destroyed by the Hessian artillery. The latest report of Grand Duke Nicholas, which was received shortly after midnight, follows: "The situation in the Shavli region, west of the Narcw, on the Xarew front and on the left bank of the Vistula, is unchanged. Uridgo Destroyed. "The enemy attempted yesterday to throw a bridge across the Hobr liver below Ossowiee, near Brjostovo, bat the lire of our artillery destroyed it. Our patrols demolished what romaif eel after our artillery fire ceased. "In the Pissu valley we captured a hostile aeroplane. "In the sectors of Jedwadno and Przsasnysz, there w;us a lively artillery duel and isolated engagements of a iocal nature. In the direction of Holimow, near Goumine. (southwest of Warsaw) the enemy attacked our positions. He used asphyxiating gas, but at no point was able to make progress. We occupy the whole of our original front. "In the direction of Lublin, our offensive has extended along the entire region from the mouth of the Podlipe as far as the si ream south of Hykhawa. The enemy continues his retre.it. but has offered particularly obstinate resistance at height US, south of Wilkolez and Gorny. The number of our Gem n prisoners has been inert ased by more than 15.000. Germans HepuNed. "1'rom Hykhawa to the western bank of ir.r I'ug river, no action occurred except an attack by a German regiment at : ' aslomentche". which was repulsed. On the Hug. ZIo;i. Lipa and Dneister rivers the situation is unchanged. Our patrols, making a cconnoissanee on this entire front during a spi.ee of 2 hours, captured several hundred prisoners. "In a fruitless attack on the village of Kouptehe on the Hug the enemy left about ,"00 killed and bounded oil the ground." CHICAGO BUILDING STRIKE CALLED OFFi in.noo Carpenters Will Go Hack to Work at TO Cents an Hour Wltat They Demanded. CHICAGO. July ,0. The strike of lt..0t)n carpenters which has thd up millions of dollars worth of building operations in "hieauo since last April, was called off todav. A committee of carpenters, after an all night meeting with representatives of the contractors association signed a three year agreement calling for 70 cents an hour scale the wage for which the men want on strike. MILK MEN CHOSE MtO. SAN FKANCISCO. Calif.. July 1 Samuel . Inican of Indianapolis was elected secretary. treasurer of tho International Milk Dealers' association, which closed its Hccenvi Annual convention here last nistt-

European Soldiers Wont Charge Unless Drunk Asserts Jane Addams

XEW YORK, July 10. Soldiers in the European war must be made drunk before they will obey their officers' commands for bayonet charges, was the amazing statement made by Jane Addams during a discussion of her experiences in the warrin, European countries Friday night in Carnegie hall. Germans, French and English were specifically mentioned by her in this connection. "Young men in these countries say, 'Ah. the bayonet charge that is what wo dread.' "You know they make their men drunk before they can get them to charge," she continued. "They give thom beer in ("lermany, rum in the English army and absinthe in the French. They have to give them the dope, so to speak, before a bayonet charge is possible." The occasion was a reception to Miss Addams and to the other delegates to the International Congress of Women to Promote peace held 'at The Hague during the last days of April. Three thousand persons representing religious, peace, suffrage and numerous distinctive womens' organizations occupied every seat in the place and on the platform were men and women of prominence. Many llefti to Kill. As interesting as her reference to the conditions under which she declared the bayonet charges take place was Miss Addams assertion that many of the soldiers on both sides of the conflict are deliberately refraining from taking the lives of their opponents. "We met .a young German in Switzerland who had been in the trenches three months and a half," she said, "and who had been wounded in the lungs. He was recuperating and fully expected to go back to the trenches and die there. "Here he was at 28 facing death and this is what he. said, speaking his mind before he went back to the trenches: "That never for those three months and a half had he shot his gun in a wav that it could possibly hit another man that nothing in the world would make him kill another man. Anil he said 'I know hundreds of young men who are the same.' Kill Scies Hathor Than light. "At one hospital that we visited in Germany I learned of live young Germans who had been cured and were ready to be sent back to the trenches who had committed suicide rather than be put into a position where they would have to kill someone else. "We also heard similar stories in France where wo talked with the Nicaraguan Minister Visits the Plants of Stuclebaker and Oliver Plow Works. Senor Don Emilio Chamorri, the Nicaraguan minister to tho United States, who is now in this city, is making an effort to have manufacturers of South Bend establish branch houses in his country. Senor Chamorri spent Friday afternoon with 11. G. Spaulding. secretary' of the Chamber of Commerce, inspecting the plants of the Xtudebaker corporation and the Oliver Chilled Plow Co. After going through these two factories, he spent some time with the managers of both plants, discussing tho outh American trade. Senor Chamorri pointed out the possibilities of the trade with his country, as well as all of the outh Ameriean republics. He said that farming was the principal industry of Nicaragua, which covers an area of 1,000 square miles, and that the people are beginning to raise corn, sugar cane and other products, along with the main product, coffee. VI nits Tool Factory. Hefore his trip through the factories Friday afternoon. Senor Chamorri had already gone through the plants of the South Hend Tool Co. and a number of other shops. At all of the places he inspected the machinery and output with a Mew toward modernizing the industries now carried on in his country. He has also spent considerable time at the higv. school and at Notre Dame and St. Mary's. Educational institutions in Nicaragua are not of the best, he says, and systems in use in this country will be installed there. In discussing South American prospects, Senor Chamorri said conditions there have been better since the Fnited States practically established a protectorate over the country. This country took over the customs collections for Nicaragua several years ago and suppressed the revolution that wa.s constantly going on. Although the Nicaraguan minister made no reference to the work of the'Fnited .States he gave the impression that the action wa.s favored by the Nicaraguan?. (lose to ShUely. Senor Chamorri regretted Sen. H. F. Shively illness, when told of his condition. Sen. Shively Jind Senor Chamorri have come into close relationship at Washington through tho former's efforts in bringing about a treaty between this country and Nicaragua, which probably will be put throught at the next session of the senate. Senor Chamorri and hi wife will leave Sunday morning to continue the trip to the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco. sti : m si 1 1 p mov i :m i :nts. NEW YOIiK, July 10. Steamers sailing todjy: Verona. Naples-Genoa-. (Italian): Stampalia. Naples-Genoa. (American); St. Louis. Liverpool: Ecpigne. Hordeaux. (Trench. Due to arrive today: Prince Di Fdine. from Gibraltar: Haltie. from Liverpool;' I'hila from Iyondon; Frbino from Hull; Trinidad from Cardiff; f'.utabria. from Nanlcs.

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nurses in hospitals and to convalescent soldiers'." Miss Addams read the letter of a young Englishman criticizing the older men for sending out young men to do the killing of other men. She declared that one of the leading men in Europe had declared that if the vor could have been postponed fr 10 years it would h..4ve been impossible becaus" of the tremendous revolt against war in the schools and universities. "When you go aboiu and hear the same story in each country visited, see the tremendous loss of life, you are convinced that it cannot last forever: that the crest of the wave cannot be held indetinitely, that human nature will reassert itself; that it must come to the fore. Do Not Want War. "When we spoke to the people we were told that the people did not want the war, that the government was making it. The government declares 'We do not want this war and we s-hould be grateful to anybody who would stop it.' we did not reach the military, but we heard from persons who said some of tho military were sick of this war. "In practically all of the foreign offices the men said again in very similar phrases, that a nation at war cannot make negotiations- that a nation at war could not even express a willingness to receive expressions, because the enemy construes them as an acknowledgment of weakness. Hut it was agreed if some other neutral power presents propositions there is not one of the warring nations that would not be glad to receive such service." Miss Addams declared that she and her companions who were delegated as a committee by The Hague congress of women to sound the nations as to the prospect for peace, never talked peace. Peace Through People. "The word is intolerable to them," she said. "We simply asked what could be done to substitute some form of civil negotiation in place of continuing to light out the issue on a military basis." "When peace comes." concluded Miss Addams. "it must come through the people within the warring countries having with the same type of mind getting into touch with each other, which they cannot now do under the strict military censorship of the press persons who represent the other view of life than the military and in the midst of their patriotic fervor long for some other approach to this terribly confused situation."

WHOLESALE ROBBERIES Shriners and School Teachers Said to be Big LosersTwo Suspects Held. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 10. Two men were held by the United States cavalry at Yellowstone park, as suspects in the wholesale hold-ups that occurred in the park yesterday. Dispatches early today told conflicting reports of the robberies. One message said that 12' persons were robbed, many of them Shriners and school teachers from New York state. The latest olllcial news of the robberies came from the Oregon Short Line Railroad Co., saying that live coaches were held up by two men, one mile and a half beyond the junction of the Gibbon and Firehole rivers, 15 miles from the west entrance to the park where the road makes many sharp turns. Forty-eight coaches were known to have passed the point where the robbers worUi'd. One Man Jumps. The coaches were far enough apart to give the bandits time to search the passengers of one chicle and before the next appeared. A Mr. JUce of New York, wan tired on by the robbers, when he jumped from a coach and ran back to warn other tourists. He was said to hae ecapd unhurt. The activities of the robbers was reported to Col. Hrett. commandant of the park cavalry, by Sen. James A. Hrady of Idaho, and F. J. Ilaynes. an official ef a stage coach company. A troop of cavalry was dispatched to search the neighborhood of the holdup.". Among those known to have been robbed were several New Yorkers, in a party headed by Urrnard M. Harouch. Frederick It. Smith of Rochester. N. Y.. imperial potentate of the imperial divan, nobles of the Mystic Shrine arid other members of the order were reported victims of the bandits. These scene of the robberies xras near the spot where one bandit robbed It'..', passengers in 2o coaches and obtained between Si', 000 and $3,00 on July 2'J, H'14. FALL OF MEXICO CITY BELIEVED TO BE NEAR Carrana Troops Capture Villa CJuadulotipe. Only Thre Miles lYom Mexican Capital. WASHINGTON. July 10. Villa Gurululope, n town of 40.000 people only thr-e miles northe. ; of Mexico I'ity. has boon captured by the Carranza troops, the constitutionalist agency h-re today announced. in' ian oi .Mexico ( itv was be lieved at the agency to be Imminent The agency dispatch which came during the night from Gn. Carranza at Vera Cruz merely stated that the advanced forces of the constitutionalists, under Gen. Pablo Gonzales, had occupied Villa Guadaloupe n its march on the Mexican capital. No further detail? of the operations of his army at .Mexico eit by the first chief. were given

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REPLY KEENLY BUT IS SILENT Will Await Arrival of Official Text of Note Before Comenting May Not Return to Washington Until Wednesday WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS ALSO DECLINE TO TALK State Department Circles Say' Offer to Guard Four Belliger-j ent Ships For Americans j Would Embarass. ! CORNISH. N. II.. July 10 Pros' t Wilson read the press translation of the German reply with keen interest today, but in the absence of the official text declined to make any comment. In view of the arrival of the note before it was expected, the president may return to Washington on Monday but it is more likely that he will wait until tha middle of next week, cabinet meets on Tuesday, but president wishes to analyze the carefully before he discusses it The the note with his otllcial family. The impression here is that the German note Is evasive arid an attempt, at quibbling that in no way meets the demands of the United States. This impression has been gained from the press version and the official translation is awaited with the highest interest at Harlandken House. wiUTi; iiorsii mi:n quiitt. WASHINGTON. July 10. White House ollicial3 declined to comment on the German reply on submarine warfare until the official text has been studied and discussed publicly by the president. Sec'y Tumulty has sent inquiries to the summer white house at Cornish to learn when Pres't Wilson would return to Washington. In state department circles it was stated that the offer by Germany set forth in the text cabled from Herlin, to guarantee the safety of tour belligerent ships to carry Americans in the war zone under the American Hag would seriously embarrass the administration in its anticipated further demands on Germany for safety for Americans at sea. It was believed by officials that this offer, if borne out by the official text, would lessen materially Interest of the public in any further demand on Germany on this subject. Altogther. the German note, as now available, was stated to have been much more carefully constructed and to be' a far more friendly statement than tho previous one. While it holds to the position that Germany must continue he-- submarine warfare as long as England continues her blockade against the shipment of food to Germany, officials declared that the German position was stated so persuasively that public sentiment in the United States would be less determined in its opposition to the German view than before this reply was received. Britain Holds Reply Worthless. LONDON, July lu. British expectation is that the United .States will find the German repb' to its appeal for humanity in submarine warfare completely unsatisfactory. The text of the note arrived here too late for the morning papers, but tho evening editions display it prominently. They declare that Germany has pointedly ignored the demand of the American govermcnt that merchant vessels bo stopped and searched instead of being sunk without warning. "This one pcint alone," 5aid an official today, "is enough to make the reply worthless. it is a point that Germany is seeking to bargain with the United States. From the previous actions of the American government we know how successful the Herlin foreign office will be. "That part of the note relating to the IiUsitania requires no comment. The liner was sunk by torpedoes and not by the explosion of ammunition on board. She wa-s unarmed. "Germany seems to have overlooked the fact that American government is acting so humanely and not for the Amencans alone. The suggestion that the American government report the coming and going of hex ships to Germany is preposterous. It will meet the scorn it deserves." FIND NINE BOMBS ON STEAMER KIRKOSWALD Uiicsicctal Infernal Machine is Pisco ercd When Cargo is Unloaded at Marseilles. NEW YOKK, July 10. Nine bombs any one of which would have sent the freighter to the bottom, were concealed in the cargo of the Hritish steamer Kirkoswald when she left New York on May 2 laden with sugar fur Marseilles. The unexploded infernal machines were found while citschurprincr cargo, according to officers who returned today on the Kirkoswald. . There is a possibility that the bomb were placed upon the ship by Frank Holt, the assailant of J. P. Morgan, or an accomplice. Six bombs lilted with time explosion c ?cs were discovered when a bag ? "osed to contain only sugar burst U n the Marseilles dock. The other three were found when the cargo was carefully examined. The officers declare that a heating device ayparentV wa.s attached to the bombs so that they would explode when the vessel was in mid-ocean. Th.cv were unable to discover why all the bombs had failed to explode. tv,,. u'irkoswnld. which beloncs to the Fabre line, sailed from New York live days before the Lus'.tania was sunk.

AMERICA'S DEMAND. May 1." "It points out that the United States covernment. confidently expects, therefore, that the imperial Corman government will disavow the acts of which the government of the Unit-d States complains, that they will make reparation, so far as reparation is po.-ssible, for the destruction of American travelers on the Lusitania." June 10. "The government of tho United States therefore very earnestly and solemnly renew the representations of its note transmitted to the imperial German government on the IT.th dav of May. The government of the United states deems it reasonable to expect that the imperial German government will adopt the measures necessary to put these principles into practice in respect of the safeguarding of American lives and American ships, and ask's for assurances that this will bo done." GERMANY'S REPLY. 1. The American demand that Germany observe the rule of "visit and search" before torpedoing merchant ships, whether belligerent or neutral, is unanswered. Hlamo for the destruction of the Husitania Is placed on Circa t Hritain because of her policy of arming merchant ships, o.i the owners of the ship for carrying high explosives. 3. Protection for Americans traveling to Europe is promised in a restricted way. it offers safe conduct for a certain number of certified American ships, provided those ships do not carry contraband and Germany is notified in advance of their sailing. Germany also offers to allow the United States to fly the American Hag on ships of other neutral countries and, if needed on four belligerent merchant ships for passenger traffic only. In a previous official statement Germany has imied any intention of attacking without warning ships flying the American Hag, whether carrying contraband or not. BERLII BELIEVES CRISIS PASSED German Officialdom Regards Reply as Fully Meeting Plea of Pres't Wilson For Humanity Principles. HKRHIX (via Amsterdam), July 10. General sentiment in official German circles today is that the reply to the second American note will remove all danger of a crisis in the relations between Germany and the United Estates. " utficiahiom rtgards the reply as a document that meets fully the plea of Pres't Wilson for the observance of the principles of humanity in the war. While the details of the note differ in some respects from the forecasts secured before the final draft was prepared the main features remain unchanged. It promis to prcent the imperilling of American lives upon neutral ships and to prevent interference with American ships used in lawful commerce. The reply upholds the sinking of the liner Husitania without warning on the ground the submarine which destroyed the liner would have courted destruction otherwi.-'. Full responsibility for submarine attacks upon merchant shipping is placed upon England in this paragraph: Distinction ilx-d ( hit. "In the most direc t e.ntradi tin of international law. all distinction between merchantman and war :- seLs have been obliterated by the order to Hritish merchantmen to arm themselves and to ram submarines and t hepromise of rewards therefore, mid neutrals who us" merchantmen as travelers thereby have been exposed In an increasing degree to all the dangers of war." Without directly making the assertion that an explosion of ammunition in its cargo was responsible for th Ivasitania's sinking so rapidly, t hereply nevertheless makes this intimation, saying: "After the experience of sinking much smaller and less seaworthy vessels, it was to be expected that a mighty ship like the Husitania would remain above water long enough. een after the torpedoing, to permit passengers to enter the ship's boats, circumstances f a very p-eul;ar kind. especially the presence on board of large quantities ..f high explosive materials deceived this expectation." HAMILTON IS REMOVED O'Neill anil Indiana Panama immi siniirr Hae Trouble. SAN FltANUISUO, Calif.. July 1". Sam I. Hamilton, commissioner to the Panama-Paeihc xposition from Indiana, has been removed from office by IJeut.-Gov. O'Neill. The trouble is said to be ever a monster : chest instaled in the Indiana building. The ice e host, according to repot t. was well stocked and tlier was ( ill of $4'-,r for iroods presented by th-Acme-Wine A: Liquor o. A b-i a! newspaper published a story on th Indiana building ice chest, the ury was reprinted in Indiana papers and Hamilton is ne longer a commissioner from that state.

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KEEP OFF SHIPS F BELLIGERENTS IS RUTER'S REPLY German Answer on Amreican Submarine Note Holds Out No Assurances of Safety For U. S. Citizens. EXPECT WILSON NOW TO ASK DIRECT ANSWER Situation is Disappointing But Not Alarming Says Washington England Again Held Responsible by Teutons. German Kcply May He Page L Pound on WASHINGTON". July in. "Disappointing but not alarming." This was the yb-w cxpr s.-ed privately today in administration circles of the attitude of the Gt i man government relative to 1. 'res' I Wilson's demand for freedom d the seas for Americans, as shown in the text of the derm. m note received from press s rvici s. !iicial comment on the probablo attitude of this gornm nt was withheld pending an opportunity to study the oflicial text of the note. This was expected to be available late today. Answer Not Direct. U.ut the unofficial translation of the German reply was regarded as indicating clearly that Germany ha. nt come forward with the direct answer expected, and there must be further diplomatic correspond nee. It wtv believed not unlikely in oftbial qiu ters that the United States folIowiTOf two evasive replirs from the kaiser"! government, will now demand a cotu cise response to former communications. The r ntire subject it is expected will be considered by the president and his cabinet next Tuesday if the president's plans to return to Washington by that date are not changed. Stripped of its argumentative phrases, the German r ply holds out no assurances lor the safety of Americans ii" they travel on passenger ships of a belligerent such as thf Lusi.ania was. Americans on American ships, or "marked" neutral ships need not fear molestation. proiding this go eminent as-ur s lermany that tho neutral vessel carries no contraband". Slay ofT Uncm's ship. The note in effect says there is no need for Americans to use vessels belonging to enemies of Ucrmany. ( Mbcials read w ith especial interest that clause in the noje saimr that tho mere pr sence of Americans aboard an enemy ship annot protect it. Tiiis was connued as another method of saying that if Americans persist, hi using Hritish passenger ships, believ d by Germany to be carrying contraband. Grrmany will not guarantee their safetv. Nor does Germanv indi cate that lie xv ill stop to sear ch or seize such ships. In fact, it is pointed out that Hritish merchantmen endeavor to ram submarines and that the litWr car.not run such risk. It is upon this point that the gravity of the situation was believed t' re--t. It is not believed that tins government will agree to a s ytem under which German; mu-t be advised oj the sailing of r.eatml vessels wit! Amerb ms aboard, such information earr;. u:g v ith it r; guarantee that thrre : ? neutral a -ontra ha mi el. aboard the 1 . i k w : - . i sibb- that t incept, a d oft i in rcgarde 1 a.impo - nit d Slates can aothan an American en a non-fighting .-ss-! su'ee.-t. to destruction without warning anywhe.ro or; the high se-is. Illume rnglariil Aahi. Germany in alt:i-t very paragraph ef the reply th-j United States puts on Great for the si ernruen: bloc! .' e j i 'r ;ta .n uat i"ru t ; e The ll.rit r espo risibility ka:s r's govthe HriMsh German ernipa r-J 7. s t tie pir beeaast it w starve her people, graph the kais r Prc.s't Wilson em to modify the b standing f t v. . . n : as inaugurated to In the f.nal para-sug'-.v-ts that if :.-e his good offa-c-H kad an underI or man. and tho United States easily would be. r ached. As a whole, therefore the German replv is regard d in crtai:i quarters as an argum n rather than an ar.- ) s a . r. It do s m it I in?- rchar.ge v. -n shut out further th" .err.ment-. UI it makes Ioe.--arv mere delaV :r: th ( outri adjustment the I.uritania not h dd out x a rsv .and o premise (i ro eptan- e o i the unclT1.'. it:g principle enunciate-! bv thi 'iv rr.mcr.t .n its two previous communications. oid lui-itani.i Incident. A matter of .-peei;. I :r:n'T.t to oTl- ;:.! Y;-hir.gtori is the a p pa rent avoidanc.- ,f th I.usitan; incident. The German not- t-an'.y !:'. i to the tra-. dy and there : t!. t.'ti.r luck of .!. uiaption of re-ponsii-htv for it. ilegr-1 is nL' iuri xpre-s. d md:r-ctlv that the I.u-;lania had to -a doAn bat there j - ..upb d with, it the suggestion 'thai Git at :r is really to blame re ( uuse or the J.riiish M'-ckuuc ami i order t l'r'.lisa :u- rch mtnaen t ram s'.ib-r.arir.e s. A e or no answer on. the question of responsibility is expected to be demanded when the president and his cabinet draft a third note to Germany.