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ÖF 10 BOATS Liner Crispin Attacked Without Warning Off Hook Head, According to Report of Consul Frost. SIXTY-EIGHT CITIZENS OF U. S. ABOARD SHIP Four Americans Imperilled and Others Believed Lost When Snowden Range is Sunk by Torpedo. IntTnntloml New Service: WASHINGTON. Marth TA -The probable loss of additional Americans by the sinking of British shijs by German submarines was reported officially to the state department today. Dispatches stated that four Americans were imperilled and others were Lelieved lost by the linking of the British strainer Snowden Bange. A number of Americans were imperilled and others believed lost by the sinking of the British freighter Crispin. The reports were from the American consuls at Liverpool and tjuecnsto A n. Consul Frost at Quccnstown reported as" fellows: "British Booth freighter liner Crispin, 2, IS:: tons, New port News to Liverpool. horses, torpedoed without warning 14 miles off Hook Head. 7:15 p. m.. -fth. 2?ixty-eight out of ship's complement of 11were American. Two boats missing, not improbably lost. Torpedo struck engine room starboard, killing live men. of whom two believed Americans. Submarine not seen but wake of torpedo seen by American. Vessel carried guns and wireless. .1 fitter was wrecked hy explosion. Weather, moderate wind, overcast skies, very heavy swells. Vessel sank slowly, but return on board not feasible owing to heavy seas. One boatload 11' sur ivors landed Queens-, town including captain, chief steward, veterinary and the following Americans: Americans Fjinded. B. II. Blser. Newport News; Carl Lcrkinson. "12 Pine St., Augusta, Ca.: James Smith. Baltimore; Bland Tinsley, Philadel phia ; B. L. Hays, Covington; James Franklin. New; York city: George Killey. Baltimore; George Anr.end. Worcester; Harry IavK Baltimore: John Williams, Newport News. Va. "Other boats believed landing Milford Haven and elsewhere." where." Consul Moorehead at Swansea, "Wales, reported the sinking of the Crispin as follow?: Collector of customs reports C American citizens, members of crewBritish cattle steamer Crispin have been landed Milford Haven. Steamer sunk submarine; details not yet uvailable. (sig.) "Moorehead." Consul "Washington at Liverpool reported the sinking of the British steamer Snowden Banse as follows: Tour .Men Killed. "British steamship Snowden Bange. Philadelphia to Liverpool, general cargo and rvvder. one gun nft. torpedoed without warning. ; i ö a. m., March r miles from Holly Head. No vessel in sight, sea alm. weather hazy. No resistance. Submarine was submerged at time .f attack. Four men killed by explon,m. Remainder f crew, among them four Americans. James Carroll. Philadelphia; C.eorge Alexan,;..r, colored. Wilmington. N. C.: B.irt Thebault. Bhiladelphia. native American citizen, and Patty McCabe. naturalized, no permanent-address, took to boats. Submarine s lbmerged. showing German Mac. shelled .now don Bange, then boarded her, removed provisions and detachable brass. Placed bombs. esse! sunk, crew picked up at p. m.. taken to Holly Head." PUTS TAXI ON BLINK JIVANSToN. III.. March ::i Policeman Io J-arkin. 2 1" pounds has 3 1 1 1 1 Bvanston's owl tat on the blink. He used to have it meet him at the "box where he last rang in and take ,iTii hm.-. The taxi owner lias dis-der-l the cab i- siccinc baih on the side where Lirkm sat and reJuics to haul him.

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Food Riots Said to Be Extensive International New? Sorvlo: XKW VrniK, March 31. An extension of food riots in Germany is reported in the follow, ing cablegram to the Time? today from its correspondent at The Hague: . "The Hague, March .10. The Times correspondent has received the report of a neutral traveler, who left Berlin during rioting there a week ago. He says he was eompeleld to take a closed cab, with blinds down, from his hotel to the station, and an armed sentry escorted him. He was practically placed under oath not to divulge the nature of the disturbances then occurring in the city. His statement is reported by other direct and independent evidence. "During the reichstag debate yesterday a socialist member mentioned the fact that the food scarcity had occasioned 'rgretable events' at Hamburg, Magdeburg and elsewhere." ATTLE Dil IST German Forces Are Now Pro tected by Street and Concrete Trenches. In t rn.ition.il News Sendee: L.ONDON, March 31. With the British and French forces at grips with the German all along the S3mile "von Hindenburg line." fightinj.- between Arras and the Aisne resumed its old-time violence today. A'd along the battle front big guns are pounding the positions of the allies and the Teutons. Despite storms, fog and mud. the British troops that occupied Sorel, Fins and Kuvalcourt yesterday, pressed eastward towards Heudicourt. engaging the protecting troops of the Germans in a furious rear guard action between the Ba-paume-Cambral road and Cologne brook. Between the Somme and the Aisne rivers the French army is nowstanding in front of the steel and concrete fortifications of the Germans a series of powerful works built by the foremost military engineers in the world. Now that the main armies are apparently in contact, it is estimated that more than 1.000.00 men are engaged In the gigantic struggle on this field of action. These include the reserves as well as the men in the first line trench sections. Thousands of guns are massed behind the lines, pouring their steel into the adversary's trenches night and day. (The Arras-Aisno battle front is S." miles long, or 1 l?.fin0 yards. Military men estimate that th closest formations of troops known is one to each yard. That would put only about 300.000 in the advanced or front line trenches.) Fighting in Champagne, in the region south of Bipont, and big gun duels on the' Arras-Ivens line continues. BBBBIN. A new flour '.s being made by the Germans. The ingredients nre linden and beech buds. Two Ships Pass British Patrol lnttrnation.il News Sorvi.e: . BBBLIN. (Via Sayville wireless).' March r.l. Two German steamships, one an auxiliary cruiser, have run the British blockade of German Bast Africa with cargoes of war supplies, it was slated today by the ortiei.tl Overseas News agency. The article concludes by saying: "Newspapers conclude that, thanks to these splendid achievements, the German troops in Bast Africa are now well proided with all that is necessary to continue their heroic struggle and defend German positions and civilization against a numerically superior enemy." one of the blockade runners, the auxiliary trui.er Marie. a detected by British warships after sh had reached Suda bay and shelled, bring struck more than 1'".' times. The crew repaired the damage and the ship was able to siip out pat the British patrol reaching the Indian occar-

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APPOINTED Tu Dlflfll Resolution Naming Body to Examine Constitutional Questions Passed by German Reichstag. PAPERS INSISTING ON CHANGES AT ONCE Post of Munich Says World Has Become Another Place With the Revolution in Russia. Internntlon.il News Service: AMSTERDAM, .March T.l. TTnler socialist leadership the reform movement 1' Germany has made further progress. Berlin advices today stated that the reichstag, by an overwhelming vote, has adopted a resolution for the appointment of a committee of 3S to examine constitutional questions. This movement for the inquiry into domestic reforms has the support of the lib erals as well as the socialists. The committee will begin its work at once, it was aid in the dispatches. Aii reports from Germany show that the success of the Ilussian revolution is making its influence felt more and more in the kaiser's domains. The Junkers (the Prussian military caste), are vigorously opposing the agitation for extension of German civic rights, hut far-seeing leaders among them are counselling responsive action to this "cry of the people." The socialist newspaper Vorwaerts declares that no compromise is possible on the great questions of national reform. The Post of Munich goes even further, saying: Germany Stands Alone. "In the past few weeks, the world has become another place through Russia's becoming a democracy and Bie probable entry of the Fntted States into the war. Germany now stands against ar. alliance of world democracy and the people of the world are persuaded and are daily becoming more and more convinced that the triumph of freedom in the world is impossible so long as Germany remains what she is." The papers point out that Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg the chancellor, left a loophole in saying that the time is not appropriate for dealing with reforms. Dispatches from Germany on the reform agitation during the past few duys show a great relaxation of German censorship. Correspondents are allowed to send details of attacks against the German system of government, a circumstance which is regarded as most significant. The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, commenting upon the chancellor's announcement that the electoral reform would be postponed, says: "If tie government leaves us in the lurch, we will have to help ourselves. Parliament must take reform into its own hands." The Tageblatt comments in a similar vein. ii:n.Ti: Pi:i:im:n. InbTmtien 1! NVw Service: BON DON. March " 1 . The Time does not take seriously the attack of the German socialists against the government in the reichstag. This paper said today: "The revolt, signalized by the socialists' voting against the budget is a sham. The whole debate was prepared and artificial." HOLD RUSS SOCIALISTS Wert' Tr.ving to Smuggle Sedition l.iteraturv Into Austria. Intern.iti 'n.d New Servi.-e: GBNBVA. March "1. Bmissaries of Ilussian socialists have been arreted while trving to smuggle seditious literature into Austria-Hungary and Germany, says a dispatch from Vienna today. The concealed literature on the prisoners collected appeals to the socialists of AustriaHungary and Germany to rise and overthrow the Hohenzollern and llapsbr.rg governments, it was said. The appeals call for a "univcrs.il t'x&iht-rluüuJ ol ccace".

British Ships Are Torpedoed,

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SOUTH ATLANTIC NBW YOUK. March Sl.-Two steamships that have arrived here within the past 2 4 hours reported sighting mysterious vessels at sea which were taken for German raiders. These reports, collided with cablegrams from Bio Janeiro announcing the presence of another German commerce destroyer in the South Atlantic, greatly disturbed shipping circles. Two hundred French, British and Italian sailors landed at Bio Janeiro from the French bark Cambronne reported that the German is a sailing ship w ith a gasoline motor and is heavily armed. The sa"'.ors are from vessels sunk by the raider. The steamship Knight of the Garter, which arrived in New York harbor today, reported being followed by two small craft on the night of March 10. One of the pursuers carried sails. The Knight of the Garter outdistanced her pursuers. The American freighter Mongolia, which put into port last night, reported that a strange vessel in gray war paint encircled the freighter. 1.000 miles east of Sandy Hook, but finally made off. ("apt. Bmery Bice of the Mongolia, thought that the shy might be the St. Theodore, a sieamer captured by the German raider Moewe and converted into a commerce destroyer. Another report in circulation here was that the unknown vessel was a British patrol ship from the Halifax naval station. There are 72 Americans in the Mongolia's crew. LATEST IN THE c.i:i:.ui IS ILL. International News ServUe: NKW YOUK, March James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, is ill at his apartment at the Bitz-Carlton hotel today with an infected sinus of the face. He was obliged to cancel his engagement to speak this afternoon at the patriotic mass meeting at Independence hall in Philadelphia. MAY NOT KIIG. Intrnatinal News Servbe: Bi.KHABT, Ind., March CI. Maj. G. C. Groll said today that he was undecided as to whether he would resign from the national guard. He said he would not know before Monday, and indicated that he likely would po before the efficiency board. now r. s. pkopj:i:ty. International New Srrvbe: WASHINGTON. March HI. The iMr.i rh Weit iaiitJ rc-chxLtcz;eJ

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SO NOW HE'S A PACIFIST. MANY PARADES STAGED WBconin . Cities IlcTuto Charge of llyphenism.'' IntTii.itioml News Senb-e: MADISON, Wis., March .11. A dozen Wisconsin cities today refuted the charge that this state's patriotism is fatigued or weakened by "hyphenism." Madison led with a big parade of university students and townspeople. Fond Du Iac, Green Bay, Superior, Oshkosh, Ta Crosse, Bacine, Appleton. Beloit, Janesville, Kenosha. Marinette and Wav.sau all either marched or held big patriotic mass meetings. Many of the demonstrations were led by naturalized citizens of foreign birth. DYING MAN IS WITNESS Sas Shooting- Was Avidonta! and Hxonorato His lYiend. Intoniitlon.il News Service: CHICAGO, March 111. Court was held over the cot of Joseph Moleski. dying in the county hospital here. He was shot last New Year's eve and Peter Garas. his companion, was arrested. Fearing Garas would be prosecuted the dying man had the court convened and exonerated Cans. The shooting, he said, was accidental. NBWABK. N. J. Farly rising is an aid to wedded hlis. For mor tlian 30 years J. H. Force has arisen at a. m.f to deliver milk. His wife was also up at that hour to get breakfast. They celebrated their f,rth wedding anniversary. And. they're happy. NEWS WORLD Virgin islands, at 11 o'clock today were formally turned over by Denmark to the I'nited States government. Danish Minister Brun received from S'ec'y of State Binsing, at the state department, a draft for $25,")0, o0.', the purchase price of the inlands, drawn upon the I'nited St3tes treasury and signed by Pres't Wilson. Sec'y Irnsing and Sec'y of the Treasure MoAdoo. TAKKS OVi:iS IOTATOI. AMSTEBDAM. March HI. The German government is to confiscate all potatoes held by private concerns and distribute them through the department of food, says a message from Berlin today. NBW YORK. If you want to fiirt with a girl in the subway, don't try oriental methods on her. An esteemed citizen from Bombay. India, tried this method. He is reiuuii; in the workhouse.

USS DIFFER Oil ITIOiL AIMS

International Newa Service: PKTBOGBAD. March .Tl. Although Bussia is united in the determination to carry the war to a victorious end, wide differences of opinion are growing up over the national aims in the conflict. Bfore the downfall of the Unmanoff dynasty, it had been formally announced that the occupation of Constantinople was one of Bussia's main objects in the war, but now a strong movement against "imperialist aggression" is growing up. Members of the new republic dedared today that they felt no fears over the; dissension and divergences of opinion. Prof. Milukoff, the foreign minister, Dr. Bodsianko, president of the duma. which brought about the revolution, called it a "healthy condition in the affairs of the nation". The Babochaya Gazata, the organ of the social democrats, opposes the annexation of Constantinople. While occupation of the Turkish capital has been concurred in by Bussia's allies and would give Bussia the warm water outlet that the newest of republics needs r her commerce, nevertheless the Babochaya Gazata argues that the extension of Bussia to Constantinople would be against the principles of those who from th? new republic. As to Poland, leaders of the arious political factions believe that parts of Germany and Austria are bound to Poland by racial ties and should be added to that country after the war. Autonomy for Poland is favored. Steps are being taken for the confiscation of the lands and monasteries of the imperial family. For the first time it is learned that more than $ 2)0 O.o was annually diverted from the treasury to the imperial family for "living expenses" before the downfall of the czar. WHITLOCK LEAVES SOON Party Will Depart For Germany in a Few Days. 1 1 t e rna ti'j nal New Srrvi'-e: THi: HAG UK, March ::1. The German military authorities have notified Brand Whitloek. American minister to Belgium, that a special train will be put at the disposal of himself t.nd the staff of the American reli?f commission into Germany. A dispatch from Berlin today said that the Americans probably wnuld leave Brussels "within a few di a '.

GERMANY'S ACTS MIKE 10 OTHER COURSE POSSIBLE

President, It is Said, Will Deal Only With the Main Source of Difficulty With Germany. ADDRESS TO CONGRESS TO BE MADE TUESDAY Closer Co-ordination of Military and Naval Resources is Expected to be Brought About. Intrrn:itifnrl Nrws Service: WASHINGTON. Marcli r.l. Pres't Wilson today completed a tentative draft of his war addressto congress. Minor changes probably will be made in the phraseology, but the main provisions will remain as written. While the president has not even told Iiis cabinet members everything that he will ask of congress, members of his otlicial family today agreed that "there will be no easion on the principal points." The president, it was said, will deal with only the main source of difficulty with Germany, making no attempt to draw up a general indi tment of German methods. That the president will ask. for a declaration by congress that a state of war exists between the United States and Germany, brought on by Germany's acts of aggression against American ships and American citiens is no loncer doubted. He was reported to have held up until the last a desire not to ask formally that congress make such a declaration, but his latest review of the situation is said to have convinced him that he should l'atly ask the declaration in a,s few words as possible. lrrarc For Warfare. With the course of the administration having been positively outlined officials of the navy and war departments and the council of national defense t"day resumed general preparations for actual warfa re. Important new preparations were studied by the council of national defense. These additional steps were agreed upon at yesterday's cabinet meeting and will be executed immediately. Certain changes will be brought about which are expected to result in a closer co-ordina-toin of all military and naval resources and result in greater efficiency. Pres't Wilson lias about made up his mind that his war address can be delivered to congress on Tuesday. Beports to the white house state that there will be little possibility of an extended lisht over control of the hoiicr of representatives and that permanent organization can be effected in time for the president to appear before the joint session of th senate and house Tuesday. Kvpelx Opivo-iition. The president looks for only minor opposition to passage of the measurer asked for the safety of the nation. While it is admitted that, there has been a strong sentiment among members of both houses to do nothing of a warlike nature except when it i absolutely necessary, democratic leader have reported that practieally all member" -f congress are willing to trust to the Ministers Will Back President Internst! nnl New s 5-rvb-e : H I ' NTI N G TO N. Ind.. Much 31. The lT0 ministers attending a huii-ner-s session f the Northern Indiana Kpiscop'il conference here vested unanimously to endorse the stand of Brest Woejdrow Wilson in international affairs. The re-o!utien was til' culmination of many expressions in open sessions backing the president, and lauding him as th" one to whom America rould look for safety. Warsaw was chosen as th- meeting place of the conference jn bb over pen which made a strong b: 1 for it. M"st of the st'Mor.ts candidate at exa minat iens were pas.-erj n this morning, a few of whom rere rejected and will remain in the e as-es in which they were examined. Today will wind up the minor detail of busine-s Vfore the conference ready for the a t. r.o i ncenu-nt e,f ,mpeiintmt nts of ministers M"nd. morning.

Republicans to Caucus Today

Intcrnation.nl n Service: WASHINGTON. M.ir. h The 2li republican members of the house today faced the problem of ironing out their oifl'erenccs in caucus so as to present a united frort in the tight for the organization .f the lower branch of congre-s next Monday. They planned to meet this afternoon to receive the report of a committee of 17 which his brn at work for the pa:-t two months. Thin committee was barged with th. creation of a definite program for the organisation of the house and to formulate a constructive legislativ policy. BepuMican leaders today wern somewhat awed by the unanimity with which the democrats 2'Ut their slate up. Sp;Lker "lark and all of the officers of the house were renominated by acclamation without a dissenting vote. The'r caucus was described today as a party to bfcast. president for a decision as to when war becomes necessaryJt was admitted that there would be considerable opposition to this government granting loans in large amounts to the entente government at present, (is well ar the plan of sending a large army to tho battle front in Franco, but It wa.s believed that such opposition would quickly disappear If such steps hero mo ojM'iiiiti i' oesi interests oi ui nation. War and n ivy officials h ive receied further unoificial reports of German submarines operating in waters close to the United Mate ports. No oiJirial confirmation ,f these reports has been received and officials view them with disbelief. Bach report is investigated, however. All officials declined to discuss the. arrest in New Orleans of I)r. Julian Irias. former candidate for president in Nicaragua, who is reported to be held in connection with a German plot to overthrow the government of all Batln-American nations simultaneously. fjald Many Plots. It is knoun that the state department has received a large amount of official information showing that Germany has laid plots among tho.-vO countries, but ofjjrials here decline to state whether Br. Iri;s had any connection with them. Just h-iw far these plots extend in their s ope jUs never been revealed by the state partm ent. A strong sentiment exists among officials of the department and among members of the pres.dept's cabinet to reveal all th!- information in official form shortly after th president's forthcoming addr---; to congre ss. This ijijesijori u .11 1 !-cide-d upon by the president h;mKlf. LEASES BUILDING TO EXTEND OPERATIONS One of tho Singer Group NurunI by tho Ioo Moroliantik' Omijirtny. One of the building in the -ir.rr group was base.1 thi5 morning bv the H. I. Is-' .Mf r canti!" f to provide me re spae e f r the rr.anuf -future of Bee Cnie-n-A'.N. More thin 400. girls will be em; !ov 1 f.,r th r.evv ejtiarters. T: !.'.. ',. established a factory h r- th'in two months r.go on W. In. :-on Tint Tant now frnpb.ys u r- thin i''"t girl and will be : t:r.ue,j in dition te the r.ew i; ;art'-rs in th Singer cr" up.. George V. o ' den ' K.iTi-.t i'ity. gene nil n.ar.a ger of the ..mpar.v. has been :n the c.ty three da v.-. inspecting uitabl he-vitior.5. He wj'.l leave thi evening for .New York city w here ar.other factory ill b etabM"sfe 1 irnm-li itely. The niiri I bint of th" company U at pre---":! located ir. Kar1- i" t f it tb growth of the hu ir.es h i-1 'e-en so ren'.a r V.u nt th. suth Be-i f.vct ry thrit Mr. 'i-.vden reij--.? that uP.imate lv this may be his 'irgplart. Either facto--- of t.e -rvr;-fa' y n-o at Karras :f. IC".-, ar.d falir.a. Kas. J. V.". B:ct. gen-rC sales manager of the com pa vy. wf, has ehirge ff the f it'ry h . sa ' -tb'it A ithin th'ee HiV)t. , 1 ofga e . ization iri So'.rh '. v. v-;l' b. p-o-d'jcirg ' ',fi dren s ilt-" f f I'nion-A'.'i