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a x ■ Tid CAMPAIGNS OF JACKSON. SAYS LEE IS FOIEMOST Sir Jolm French Talks About Allies’ Oonfldence and the Retreat From , > ( i Mona, Incidentally- Giving Sooth Red and Bine Ribbons for Military Leaders^ of America. Frederick Palmer, who is at the front in France for the Associated Press, sends the following dispatch: “British headquarters in France, March 25, via London, 12:31 p. m.— It was in the drawing room of the bouse in which he makes his office that Field Marshal Sir John French received the correspondents to-day and discussed the military situation. Before the conversation was over, the British commander, answering a question concerning the result of the war, said: i- “ 'Indeed, there is no doubt of the outcome. I was never so confident of victory as I am to-day.’ “On a long table before the British commander were a number of maps and reports. Otherwise, the man ap peared completely dissociated from the details from the different armies situated in the other offices about the town. It was to be observed, how ever, that the heads of these depart ments report to Field Marshal French immediately upon a telephone re- ^ .quest “Looking younger than his photo- sphs make him appear, ready and Sir John showed no. signs of strain of the last eight months as stood before his open grate fire Rod talked of his campaign. ’’ "‘What were the most important contributing factors making your re- ■ uesi s'Z. ?L< Rr.-, Ae st *^mod t SAVtO »Y IU, FUG AMERICAN FLAG HALTS TURKS .... . # ■ > IN CHRISTIAN MASSACRE. ALLIED TROOPS LANDED itpmiu iaih PRZEMT8L LASTED 1S4 DATS ON FOOD SENT FOB 80. Austrian Account Says Russians Plae- m «»■« um A report issued from the general I headquarters of the Austrian army on Tuesday, March 23, and transmitted vai Berlin and London with delay's, states that the Austrian garrison of Przemysl subsisted for 134 days on provisions - designed to last tor 80 days. Przemysl originally was provision ed for six months—the extreme^ limit which it was thought a modern for tress technically was capable of with standing a modern besieging army. Even this stock, however, was used sparingly, so that barely one month’s supplies had bean consumed when the heavy fighting between the Austrian relief army and the Russians began about Przemysl. The Austrian forces, whose supply trains failed to reach them, drew on the fortress for rations, and besides, the great numbers of wounded in these battles and the soldiers strick en with cholera and other diseases could be sent nowhere else. When railroad communication at last was restored, in mid-October, the stores of the fortress had been large ly depleted. The railroad first was used to forward urgently needed am munition, so when tin Russian steam roller unexpectedly set in motion again, driving von Hindenberg from Warsaw and the Austrians from Przemysl, provisions had been com ing in for the Galician fortress for only ten days. That gave the de fenders rations for eighty days. These supplies migut have sufficed had the Russians resumed their bat tering tactics, but they placed their reliance on hunger rather than solid shot. The final sortie of the garrison was a last act of defiance rather than a FLEET PLACES SOLDIERS ON GALLIPOLI PENINSULA. RARELY ENOUGH SERBIANS LEFT TO BURT THE DEAD. CHINA AND JAPAN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT STILL CONTINUE. r treat from Mona secure against over- serious attempt to break through the whelming odds?' Sir John was asked.' Russian line, which virtually was 1m- *The dogged tenacity of our little possible for the hunger-weakened regular army which contested every foot of the ground as we fell back,', was the answer. ‘Not once did bur •oldlers lose heart. They understood that we were not defeated, but mak ing a strategic retreat before heavy force. When the end came the last crumb had been scraped from the store houses and horaea as well aa other animals had been slaughtered for food. Austrian strategists knew from the MK8. JACKSON DIES. odds, ajid that all the punishment outset how long the provisions would which they could inflict on the enemy last, and th-i campaign in the Carpa- by cool and stubborn resistance from thlans bad aa one of the ita aim the point to point was no ieoa valuable to relief of Przemyal. But the mildest the ultimate object than if they were December known in years in these advancing. Their confidence that mountains was followed by bitter their turn to take the offensive would weather in January and February, come remained unshaken. Next in which snowed up the Austrian offen- Importance was the wqrk of our cav- sive and left Przemyal to ita doom, airy ia ita aggressiveness and alert-1 Austrian leaders believe the Rus- aess in preventing the cavalry of the stan army which captured Przemysl, enemy from getting around ns. Our and which will now be released for eavalry established a decided super- service elsewhere, is comparatively ferity over that of the enamy, which small. With tbs gradual strengtben- was of vital assistance. i ing of the lines into regular for- “ ‘And what, to you. was tbs most tresses and the enfeeblement of the critical moment of all your campaign garrisons of these fortresses by la France?' waa the next question. I wounds, sickneos and lack of provl- “One would not have been surprls- slons. the strength of the besiegers is ed if be had said when his reserves believed to have been reduced until practically were exhausted in the bat- at the end they were little stronger tlo of Ypros and Armentieres to savo numerically than the defendrs of the channel ports. His answer had Przemysl. characteristic promptness and decis iveness: ‘On the retreat from Mons, at LeCateau. We were in the open country in a very dangerous position, and the German ambition for the an nihilation of our little army might have been realized if our cavalry had not been equal to Its task of covering Mrs. Mary Anna Jackson, widow of the flanks of our steady, disciplined Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall ’) regulars.’ j Jackson, the famous Confederate gen- "Few Americans probably are as e rsl. died st her home st Charlotte, familiar with the campaigns of the N. C„ early Wednesday. She had American Civil War ak Is Sir John, been ill for many months. An attack He has made a thorough study of of pneumonia three days ago hasten- them and from them he has drawn ed her death. Her granddaughter, lessons which h e has found helpful in Mrs. Randolph Preston and other rel- France. He mentioned “Stonewall” ' atives were at Mrs. Jackson's bedside Jackson. when she died. Public buildings, “ 'To me Gen. Jackson was more schools and business houses will be like Cromwell than any other leader cloked on the day of the funeral. The at history,’ said the British comraan- body will be burled at Lexington. Va., ^er. ’A heroic, martial figure whose beside that of “Stonewall’’ Jackson. ronderful career came to the happy 'close a soldier desires in the hour of b entl , J t victory. I have followed all his *• •voo ■ - marches and battles with unflagging 1 )H ' admiration. He had the religious ex °h». h« P n hL Jarv h.h J , . n . conduct has been bad, very bad; I altation oi Cromwell, nis dasn and i.___ av»«f i n _ is ow/l Yi «a that it 1^8 06611. But it ^88 tar!«mIh trnnna Var * ed - lt has Seemed to depend On ^nrinmitahw* aniHt nf the commanders. If a commander J”;* 18 own indomitable spirit Of ove3 of outrageSi they occur . "•Rut of all vour commanders “ ' And the French arm y; you have u k ♦ t *7 h«. If’ i been fighting as its ally for eight Robert E. Lee. In hfs patience, his re- months; how doe3 u compare w ^ th Wife of Famous Confederate Leader Passed Away Wednesday. source, his poise, Lis soundness of judgment and his possession of the qualities of high command In all em ergencies, Is foremost, In my opinion.’ the German?’ “ ‘The French at the start were laboring under the shadow^ of their disastrous defeat in 1 1870, which “ ‘A good deal has been said about might well have led both the French' the novel conditions which trench 1 ■warfare In this war has developed,’ was the next thing said by the cor respondent, ‘has it changed the quali ties required of a soldier?’ “ ‘No,’ he replied. - ‘Human nature remains the s*me and it is the man who gives and takes the blows, what ever the nature of his weapons. Cour age, discipline and tenacity are still the dominant elements of success.’ “ ‘And the guns—it has beeii re peatedly stated that this has become a war of artillery.’ v " ‘I think there has been an incli- i nation to exaggerate the importance of artillery,’ Sir John answered. ‘No doubt, of the three arms, artillery has increased in relative importance. It may take a dozen shells to get one maq and one bullet will get one man. The weapons which decide the day are the rifle and the machine gun, and the infantry still is the queen of battles.' 7. “Sir john.,,was far from depreciat ing, the fighting qualities of the Ger mans. ‘But they xffh no greater than other soldiers,' he said. *1 attribute eir valor and their well disciplined iheslon to the fa'ct that from the die they are taught discipline and fatherland, and that it Is their duty foT^of *tiiFt«herUa<r^«rnre!r emperof commands.’ “-‘Xi to The conduct of the Oer- mans, is It as bed aa represented? Have they consistently broken the rales of dviltged warfare?’ , . Tcfr the flret time the British com- and the world in general to think that the German military machine was heaven born and irresistible. The French already have learned tjie con trary and the world soon must if it has not. I need not speak of their splendid generalship or their courage in driving the Germans back from the Marne. They have the elan of Napol eon’s time, thanks to the spur of re newed confidence. Man for man, they are better than the Germans to-day and their army has continually im proved since the war began, while the German army has deteriorated. “ ‘We have abundant evidence of German deterioration on our own front. Their attacks lacked the for mer vigor and spirit. Neuve Chap- pelle was an important victory. It proved that with a strong tfueTi we coi)ld“t>ut the enemy out of a well fortified position and then hold whgt we gained. . ’ “ ’One of the gratlfvlng things to us,’ the British commander-in-chief! said in conclusion, Ms how well our. Dr. Packard, mi American Doctor ia the Service of the Presbyterian Mission, Waves Stars and Stripes Before Advancing Hosts Bent on Letting Blood. Telegrams and letters received at Tiflls from Urumiah, in Northwestern Persia and transmitted via Petrograd and London, describe the situation of the American Presbyterian mission there as desperate. Turkish regular troops and Kurds are persecuting and massacreing Assyrian Christians. Harry P. Packard, the doctor of : the Presbyterian missionary station at Urumiah, risked his life in a suc- i cessful effort to prevent a frightful massacre at Goegtaps, where three thousand Assyrians made their last stand. They had Tought for three days and all their ammunition was gone when Dr. Packard raised an American flag and advanced between the lines. His act resulted in the saving of all but two hundred of^he Assyrians, who had been burned in a church. Fifteen thousand Assyrian Christians have taken refuge at the American mission. I A dispatch from Urumiah said twenty Turkish regular troops had , entered one of the missions, hanged , the Orthodox Bishop, Marelia, and four Orthodox clergymen and beat and assaulted a missionary named Allen. Shortly before sixty refugees had been dragged from the French and executed in spite of the tearf il pelas of the nuns. At Guipashan the Kurds were par ticularly cruel. This was the last of a total of one hundred and three As syrian tillages to hold out, and it was occupied a month ago. The Kurds ordered all the Assyrian males into the streets, tied them In groups of five, marched them to the grave yard and killed them barbarously to the last boy. Girl babies and older women then were executed with great atrocity, while the younger women were carried away as slaves. As a result of the war 12,000 As syrians were taking refuge in the Caucasus, some 17,000 are described as in Imminent danger at the Uru miah missions and 20,000 ars dead or missing. Much property has been destroyed. The Assyrians fought their ascailants bravely, and os long aa they had ammunition they were victorious. The missionaries are untiring in their efforts to help the people and are spending money to this end froe- 1 ly. In Urumiah they are disbursing the equivalent of «400 daily. Disease Is prevalent among the refugees. Such continued reports of menace to lives of American missionaries and refugees at Urumiah, Persia, have aroused the activity of the state de partment. Secretary Bryan states that diplomatic and consular officers in Persia. Turkey and Russia have been apprised of the reported circum stances and appealed to for any avail able Information. Nothing came to the department on the subject from Ambassador Mor- genthau at Constantinople, who has been directed by the department to urge the Turkish governmont to af ford protection to Americans at Uru miah, where an uprising against an American mission was reported to have occurred. The missionary named Allen, men tioned in dispatches from Tiflls, is the Rev. E. T. Allen, a brother of Mrs. E. V. Lunn of North Yakim., Wash. He was once pr.stor of a Portland, Ore., church. Mr. Allen is a naturalized Ameri can. His wife and three children are with him at Urumiah A letter from him in December said in bart? “The very people that we visited some months ago to help are now howling outside the city gates, wait ing to shed our Stood if they can force their way in. There are thou sands and «ve d not have much food.’’ The American missionary station at Urumiah is maintained by the board of foreign missions of the Pres byterian church in the United States of America. It was established in 1835. The force normally at Urumiah consists of five clergymen ;.nd one physician with their wives and four single women. * TO CHOOSE PRESIDENT. territorials have ddne, once their period of preparation was over, and they had an opportunity. I believe they occupy much thb same relation to our force* as your national guard to "worship Afceir- emperor and the does to yours. They have surpassed our expectations. As for the Cana- fflans. I ran net pay-1 bute to them.* r Man Meets Strange Death. Richard Randolph of 8t. Lohii was found dead in his office Tuesday. He recently sued bis wife for divorce. Rbe.and a male friend have beea ar- \ Mexican National Convention Con venes to Try Again. The Mexican national convention has resumed Its sessions in the na tional palace at Mexico City, with Col. Roque Gonzalez Grrza presiding. The delegates have appropriated five million pesos for the relief of the poor of the city. The money Is to be distributed under the direction of a committee of citizens. Considerable progress already has been made to ward relieving distress caused by lack of employment. The proceedings of the convention this far have been harmonious though there Is a well defined divi sion between the delegates of the north and of the south. The convention has reached an un derstanding that a new president will be chosen on April -1 to succeeds the present presiding officer, whose term expires next month. ■ ■ ♦ ♦ ♦ . —a Solid Stiver Broom. Inhabitants of Cape Colony, South Africa, have sent to .‘ir John Jellleoe, the British admiral, a solid silver broom, nearly a yard long, and in scribed “prweented to Admiral Jelli- eoe for hie ability to North Sea. lilt.** Austrians Reported Erecting Numbed of Defensive Works on Italian Frontier. London reports f Wednesday: “A force of allied troops was landed on the peninsula of Gallipoli Tuesday from the transports In the Gulf of Saros, according to a dispatch from Athena to the Dally Express. A general attack upon the fortifica tions of the Dardanelles is to be urn- dertaken Immediately on the arrival of further French and British wan ships now on their way to join the attacking squadron. The last concerted effort agalnst- the Dardanelles positions occurred six days ago on March 18. This day’s action resulted in the loss of three battleships. Reviewing the sit uation, military experts in London and elsewhere have expressed freely their belief that to penetrate the straits the marine forces must be well supported on land. It has been said lately that a strong detachment of French troops was on its way to the Dardanelles. ' _ The Gallipoli peninsufa is the northern or European side of the Dardanelles. At its head it is not more than three or four miles wide If this neck of land were effectively held by the allies, Turkish communi cation with the strong positions on the peninsula would be impossible. Paris reports Wednesday that the bombardment of the Turkish fortifi cations in the Dardanelles was re sumed at 10 O’clock Tuesday morning by .the allied fleet, according to an Athens dispatch to the Havas agency. The warships were accompanied into the straits by a number of mine sweepers. The effect of the operations around the Dardanelles upon neutrals in the Mediterranean is plainly shown in the following dispatches: Geneva reports via Parts Wednes day: "The Austrian government now considers war with Italy more than probable, according to dispatches re ceived here from Vienna. A large number of troops have arrived in the Tyrol and Trieste, where defensive works are being constructed. “The Geneva Tribune professes to hare received advices from Austria to the effect that the dual monarchy might consider the signing of a sep arate peace with Russia without con sulting Germany, offering as a con cession to cede to Russia large por tions of Galicia.’’ Ix>ndon reports Wednesday that ac cording to the newspapers of Athens, Greece will not Indepenently range herself on the side of the triple en tente, says the correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company. She will take an active part in the war only conjointly with Bulgaria. Iso lated Intervention on the part of eith er Greece or Bulgaria, the correspon- dnet continues, would be regarded in Athens as ineffective. VOTIIB LIE IN I0ADS China Agrees to i Articles m§ B in Original AIR RAID ON GERMAN RASE. British Aviators Drop Bombs on Ger man Submarine Near Antwerp. The British admiralty issued a statement saying a British air raid was carried out successfully on Ger man submarines at Hoboken, three miles outside of Antwerp. The text of the admiralty statement waa as follows: "The folowing has been received from Wing Commander Longmore: I have a report that a succesaful air attack was carried out by five ma chines of the Dunkirk squadron on the German submarines being con structed at Hoboken, near Antyerp. "Two of the pilots had to return owing to thick weather, but Squad ron Commander Ivor T. Courtney and Flight Lletuenant H. Rother reached their objective and after planning down to 1,000 feet dropped four bombs on the submarines. “It is believed that considerable damage has been done to both the worth and two submarines. "The works were observed to be on fire. In all, five submarines-were ob served on the slip. ■ "Flight Lieutenant B. Crossley Meates was obliged by engine trouble to descend In Holland. Owing to the mist the two pilots experienced con siderable difficulty In finding their way and they were subjected to a heavy gun fire whilst delivering their attacks.” CHINA MAKES INQUIRY. Ask Japanese to Explain Entrance of Troops Into China. At a conference held Thursday at Peking, China, of Japanese diplo matic representatives with Chinese statesmen concerning Tokio’s de mands upon the Chinese republic, the Chinese formally inquired as to the meaning of the recent entrance of Japanese troops into China. Minister Hioki replied that these soldiers were for the relief of the present Japanese garrisons in China, but that these garrlsdns would remain where they are until the conclusion of the pres ent negotiations. According to reliable Information the Japanese have eight divisions In China and Korea. The war strength of a Japanese division is 18,7m, offi cers and men, 4,800 horses and 36 pieces of artillery. DOESN’T WANT CONGRESS. Wilson Says He Has no Intention of Calling Extra Session. Formal announcement has been made at the White House that, at present, President Wilson has no in tention of calling an extra session of the Senate orxef congress before the beglnning’of the regular session next December. 7 v It was said that tka president sees no prospect* of any contingency aria- tag which would muaa him to altar kla “ Sir Thomas Upton Returns From a Trip to Servla With the Horrifying Story of Appalling Disease Ver- min Everywhere Carry Infection— American Nurses Win Admiration. “Just as it took fire to stop the great plague in London, so fires are needed to clear Serbia of typhus. In fected houses and the clothing of the people must be burned, as the disease is carried by vermin which are omni present,” said Sir Thomas Ltpton of London in a statement in which he recounted the appalling conditions in Serbia, where he spent a considerable time in personal investigations. "I met on the country rouls,” he safd, “many victims too weak to crawl to a hospital, ilhillock carte were gatherln them up. Often a wo man and her children were leading the bullocks, where in the case the husband and father were raving with fever. Scarcely enough people remain unstricken to dig the graves for the dead, whose bodies lie exposed in the cemeteries. "The situation is entirely beyond the control of the present force, which imperatively needs all the help it can get—tents, hospitals, doctors nursos, modern appliances, and cloth ing, to replace the garmens full of typhus-bearing vermin.” . ( , Describing the hospital at Ghevg- hell, where occurred the death of Dr James F. Donnelly of the American Red Cross, whom Sir Thomas call* one of the greatest heroes of th« war, h e said: "The place is a village in a barren, uncultivated country, the hospital an old tobacco factory, formerly Delong- Ing to Abdul Hamid. In It wer* crowded 1400 persona, without blan kets or mattresses, or even straw— men lying in the clothes in which they had lived in the trenches for months, clothes swarming with ver min, vletlme of different dtseesee* typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and small pox—were herded together. In such a state Dr. Donnerly found the hoe- pltal, where he had a force of all American doctors, twelve American nursee, and three Serbian doctors When I visited the hospital three of the American doctors, the three Ser bian doctors, and nine of the nurse* were themeelvee ill. “The patients were waited on by Austrian prisoners. The fames of Illness were unbearable. The patients objected to the windows being open ed, and Dr. Donnelly waa forced to break the panes. "The flret thing Dr. Donnelly did on his arrival was to test the water, which he found Infected. He then Improvised boilers of oil drams. In which to boll water for use. The boilers saved 600 lives, said Dr. Don nelly. He also built ovens in which to bake the clothee of the patients but he was not pttnlded with proper sterilizing apparatus “No braver people exist than the Serbians. They have never a word of complaint. In one ward I taw a fever patient, his magnificent voice booming songs to cheer his comrades Some were in a delirium, calling for ’mother.’ "One source of Infection Is the army black bread, which is the only ration of the troops. The patients In the bospitsl receive only n loaf each, which they put in their bed or under tholr pillow. Later the unused loaves sre bought by peddlers and are re sold, spreading disease among the people, who are mediaeval Insofar a* sanitation is concerned. A Serbian soldier receives a rifle( some hand grenades, and perhaps part of a uni form, but otherwise looks after him self. His rations are coarse bread. "The street cleaning and hospital waiting are done by Austrians, who are rapidly thinning from typhus and other diseases. , “The best hospital in the Balkan* is at Belgrade, under Dr. Edward W Ryan of the American contingent, where there are 2,000 patients. Dr. Ryan kept the hospital neutral dur ing the Austrian occupation, and ac complished wonders diplomatically at that time. He is worshipped by the people. “Dr. Ryan says that the greatest task is to keep the hospital free from vermin. The typhus affects men the most severely. Women come next, and children for the most recover The symptoms in the present epi demic begin like those of grip. The disease lasts fifteen days, with fever and delirium.”, » c ♦ U. S. SUBMARINE SINKS. Five articles bearing on the Japa nese demands upon China were con cluded by the Chineee minister. La Cheng-Hsiang, and Eki Hlogl, the Japanese minister, at a conference nt the Japanese legation Tuesday. The Japanese minister recently wan In jured by n fall from a horse, and for this reason the meeting was trans ferred to the legation. All the articles concern Mancharia. China agreed to the following stipu lations: • First. The Japanese governmsnt’s consent shall be obtained before a loan is mode with a third power In volving the pledging of local toxea in South Manchuria. Secon The Japanese govern ment's consent shall be obtained whenever permission is granted to a subject of a third power to build a railway, or when a loan is made with a third power for the building of a railway in South Manchuria. Third. If the Chinese government in South Manchuria employs advisers or Instructors for political, financial or military purposes, the Japanese government shall first be consulted. Fourth. The transfer of the Klr- in-Changehun Railway to Japanese control for nlnoty-nine years. The fifth article was proposed by China, and provides for the continu ance of such treaties as are not af fected by the present treaty. The Japanese have conceded the point of a separate discussion regard ing East Mongolia and South Man churia, which were combined In their list of demands. In the Manchnrian group the Immi gration and land ownership c la usee have not been settled, bat definite progress has been made. This Is the case also with respect to the mining da ass. The Japanese government hoe defi nitely withdrawn whnt Is known na Artiela 3 of ths fifth group, namely, the demand for n joint police admin istration of “Important places’* thor- oughout Chins, and also has indicat ed ita willingness. It is announced, to withdraw one or two other articles from this so-called general group. The Chineee government has re ceived advices confirming the report that six hundred additional Japanese troops have arrived at Tsinan, mak ing n total of about 3.000, Boycotts on Japanesa goods are re ported from several places is the south, whore U Is considered that the Chinese are most likely to get beyood the government's control. A Shang hai dispatch says there woe rioting within the foreign settlements there Monday night. Japanese theatres and •hope were stoned The foreign ga- llce were called oat and mods some arrests. At several recent sessions. It is re ported. the representatives of Japan have argued that Japanese Immigra tion into Mongolia and Maachnrts should not be subjected to Chineee laws. This proposal is sold to have been persistently opposed. Some fear in expressed by both foreigners end Chinese that the ar rival of additional Japanese troops in Manchuria and Shan Tung province may cause frlcUoa, but the Chinese have been warned by the central gov ernment to conduct them selvas dis creetly. Six thousand more Japanese sol diers are said to have reached Man churia, three thousand going to Muk den and three thousand to Dalney. ASKS FOR REPARATION. After Being Lost for Twelve Honrs Is Located Under 120 Fathoms. The American submarine F-4, which wan submerged at 9rl5 a. m. Thursday two miles off Honolulu har bor, had not reappeared at nightfall and grave fears were expressed for Its safety. The F-4 carries a crew of twenty-five men and is commanded by Lieut Alfred L. Ede. Three other submarines of the “F” group, the naval tug Navnjo and launches were scouring the ocean for miles about the harbor entrance of Honolulu Thursday night in search of the missing vessel. Naval offlcials'said they were hope ful that no serious mishap had be fallen the F-4, but they admitted that circumstances of the craft’s prolong ed disappearance gave rise to much apprehension. Later It was reported that the F-4 bad .been located, lying at a depth of 120 fathoms. No signal Dells had been heard from the submerged craft and this fact led to fears that the submarine's tanks had bnrst, suffo cating the crew with snlpharie arid fumes. Attempts to bring tka vaaast to surface with grappling honks Zapata Authorities. How the American flag over tka home of John B. McManus, an Ameri can citizen In Mexico City, was ‘*toni and dragged half-way down the pole” by Zapata soldiers when they mur dered McManus and looted his home two weeks ago is told In dlspatsfces from the Brazilian minister, made public Thursday by Secretary Bryan. Secretary Bryan said that repara tion for the insult to the ling had been asked from the Zapata authori ties, but that no reply had come. He said there had been no demand for n salute to the flag, as in the Tampico affair. An expression of regret for the killing of McManus already has been received from Gen. Palafox, the Zap ata commander, with a promise of indemnity for the family and punish ment for the slayers if -appreher ded. Mr. Bryan explained that the Bra zilian minister, in reporting Mc Manus' death March 11, mentioned only the fact that the American flag was flying over the house. The aOXt day he sent a further report referring to “the desecration of the flag.” An inquiry from the department brought an explanation on Match 16 that the American committee. which investigated the occurrence reported to him that, “following a fusilading which preceded^ the general entry of the Zapatistas into the hourfe, the flag was bhdly torn by the Zapatistas and dragged half way down the pole.” The same committee, the minister reported, had submitted to him a pho tograph of the house and flag. In this connection it became known that several foreign flags hod been violat ed recently at Manzanillo, among them the American flag over the house of an American ranchman. ; When toe matter was called.to the attention of Gen. Carranza he denied the truth of the reports of American and British consuls. . Be 2.500,000 In Bread UMl Before the next harvest 3,600,66# Belgians probably will bo la bread Una, la tha opinion of Franqui. president of the Ref committee of •f to* v.,, .x;