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DYNAMITED (Affll
AILANT THEN SHOOTS MOD
(UN IN HIS HOME
NED TERRIBLE THING
'Would Hold Wife and Children of
Financier Hostages Until Husband
Stopped Munitions of War—Capi
tol Building Severely Damaged—
Confession of Hold
Mrs. J. P. Morgan and the Morgan
■children were* to be held as hostages
in their own home and killed with
dynamite if J. P. Morgan refused to
use his influence to stop the exporta
tion of~war munitions, Frank Holt,
who Saturday attempted to assassi
nate Mr. Morgan at his home near
Glencove, N. J., told the police com
missioner, Arthur Woods, in his cell
at Mineola Sunday.
“My plan,” said Holt, “was to get
hold of Mrs. Morgan and the children
and take them into an upstairs room
and then send Mr. Morgan out to see
his influential friends to stop the ex
portation of ammunitions from this
country. »—' . -
“I planned to take the dynamite in
the room with me and cut a hole in
the door and have the food shoved in
through it. I planned to keep them
there until Mr. Morgan returned ^nd
gave me his promise that the expor
tation of war munitions would stop.
Unless he stopped it, I would tell him
of my intentions to kill Mrs. Morgan
and the children and myself by er
oding the dynamite."
Holt then tried to -tell Commis-
jfv Woods about the terrible
lighter resulting from the war. He
fid tlwkt he knew Mr. Morgan could
Hp the war and that is the reason
went to him. He insisted he did
not Intend to harm him, but just
wanted him to "see his influential
friends and manufacturers and get
them to put an embargo on arms
» from this country.”
————Air authorltattre statement obtain-
• ed after many conflicting reports had
been circulated, says:
"Hojt called at the Morgan home
at nine o'clock, while Mr. and Mrs.
Morgan were at breakfast. Fiske,
the butler, answered Holt’s ring at
the door. Holt handed the butler his
card, telling him to inform Mr. Mor
gan it was from a friend. As the
butler started back through the hall
way Holt slipped a pistol from his
pocket and pressed it against the but
ler's stomach.
"See this gun?” he demanded. “I
have another one.”
The butler, pressed by the muzzle
of the weapon, backed into the hall
way. Holt following. As the front
door closed behind them the butler
realized the determination of the as
sastdn and spoke in a loud voice, so
that Mr Morgan might hear, "Mr.
Morgan is in the library."
Holt was not diverted by this, but
continued to press the butler back
ward down the hallway toward the
dining room. As they neared the din
ing room door the butler spoke
again:
“Upstairs. Mr. Morgan, upstairs."
Alarmed by the shout, Mr. Morgan
and his wife left the dining room by
another door, entered the rear hall
way and went upstairs. They found
nothing amiss there and started back,
using the front stairway. Unwitting
ly they walked almost into the assas-
sin s arms. Mrs. Morgan saw him
first, screamed and drew back.
Holt turned and fired twice before
Mr. Morgan could seize him. Fiske,
the butler, no longer menaced by the
pistol, grabbed the assassin's right
hand. Mr. Morgan, with two bullet
wounds in his body, threw himself on
his assailant and the three went
down in a struggling heap on the
hallway door.
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British am
^Poassador to the United States, an
overnight guest at the Morgan home,
was with Mr. and Mrs. Morgan at the
breakfast table when Holt entered
the house.
The struggle on the floor was
short. The pistol was tom from
Holt’s fingers and he was beaten by
the butler and other servants, who
came running at the sound of the
shots, until he offered no further re
sistance. Then the Glencove police
and a physician were summoned and
Holt was placed in one of the Morgan
automobiles and hurried at forty
miles an hour to the jail.
Mr. Morgan walked calmly and col
lectedly, feeling, he said, that he had
been shot, but experiencing no sensa-
•tion of weakness, up the stairs and
went to the telephone. He called up
the doctor and afterwards his office
in New York city and told the story
of the shooting, asserting that he
did not regard his wounds as serious.
Then he went to his bed and lay
down, awaiting the doctor.
Belief prevailed that Holt had been
connected with Other bomb outrages
which have baffled the police, notably
the finding recently of a bomb on the
grounds of Andrew Carnegie’s Fifth
avenue residence, in New York city.
Detectives prepared to ply Holt with
questions-all night if necessary.
Thomas Tunney, captain of the
bomb and arfarchist’s squad of New
York detectives, and William E. Luy-
ster, the justice of the peace before
whom Holt was arraigned late Satur
day. obtained the confession. To do
so, they intimated, they had to em
ploy so-called third degree methods.
Three sticks of dynamite bound to
gether, some match heads placed in
a hollow of one of the sticks, a bot-
^&le of sulphuric acid, in the neck
^where there was inserted a cork,
^^arefully measured, and of a kind
previously tested—such' was the
bomb which Holt placed ta the sen
ate wing of the capltol at four o’clock
Friday afternoon. ~
Holt bad ascertained by tests that
the acid would eat its way through
the cork in about'eight hours. There
fore. he estimated that the bomb
. -would kxplode about midnight . He
»t Urn
blocks from the capltol, he said, until
he heard v the explosion.
Then hobo&rdcd a train for New
York. Jrmving there he lost no
time in taking another train for Glen
cove. Several sticks of the dynamite,
left Over from the making of the
Washington bomb, were in. his suit
case, and these he took with him.
Ohe of the sticks he placed in his
pocket with two loaded revolvers, for
use, if necessary, in hla mission at
the Morgan home^. It was not used
and was found 1 when he was locked
up, . . 1
At first the police thought the
dynamite played a minor role in his
plan to assassinate Mr. Morgan.
When* they listened in undisguised
amazement to the story he told of the
Washington bomb's construction,
they concluded that he possessed a
knowledge of explosives far beyond
that of the ordinary bomb maker.
Under the third degree Holt talked
freely of his bomb designing. Ear
lier in the day he openly admitted he
had gone to the Morgan home with
the intention of remaining there until
Mr. Morgan did something to end the
European war. He wanted Mr. Mor
gan to prevent the further export of
war munitions.
The man who unfolded this un
usual story of bomb placing and at
tempted assassination talked coolly
and with dramatic frankness. He is
an American citizen, native born,
about thirty-five years old and edu
cated far above the average. He had
been a student at Cornell, he said,
and later an instructor there in,
French. Records show he taught Ger
man instead. Next autumn he had
expected to be the head of the de
partment of French at the South
western Methodist University at Dal
las, Texas.
His wife, a daughter of O. F N Sen-
sabaugh, presiding elder of the Dal
las district of the Methodist Episco
pal church, South, is with her father
in Dallas. To her he addressed a
telegram after his arrest telling her
that man proposed, but God disposed,
and bidding her to be brave.
Hold told his story in a cell of the
Glencove jail. He had bound across
his forehead a white cloth through
which blood showed from a cut on
his forehead. His grayish eyes
sparkled as he spoke and he talked
at first with great animation.
As the day wore on he weakened.
The amountsof blood lie had lost
from a terrific blow on the head, a
blow that knocked him unconscious
as he grappled with Mr. Morgan and
his butler in the Morgan home, was
great and the strain told on him.
When night came and with it his
confession of the Wastrington out
rage, Holt was h wreck. He huddled
back in a corner in his cell, breath
ing hard add apparently comatose
However, detectives refused to let
htm rest. They dragged him out to
the corridor and walked him up and
down until his stumbling feet drag
ged listlessly.
Then they would let foim sit down
and surround him. They hurled
questions at him so rapidly that at
time his half audible replies were in
terrupted by succeeding Inquiries.
Still he refused to answer those ques
tions that he did not want to
They let him rest a few minutes
and when he refused to answer, pull
ed him up and began once more the
tedious promenade, talking to him
all the time.
After two hours of such treatment
Holt trld his story. He said he left
Jersey City Friday morning, arrived
in Washington at noon and went to a
house on Delaware avenue and C.
street, where he rented a room. Be
fore taking the ferry from New York
to Jersey City he purchased a supply
of so-called trick matches.
These matches, Holt explained,
were of the kind 'that exploded or
"popped” after they were lighted.
The popping of the matches, he ex
plained, furnished the concussion
concussion which exploded the dyna
mite.
Holt said thnt he left the house
where he rented a room, taking the
dynamite with him and walked
around the capltol grounds. He then
walked up the steps to the main en
trance of the capital and strolled
through the corridors. He spent
about half an hour in the building,
he added, looking for a spot to place
his bomb where Its explosion would
not injure any one or cause great
damage to the building.
After placing the bomb Holt walk
ed away. He went back to his room,
he said, and to the union station. He
walked about the streets for a while,
then decided to write to the news
papers and the president explaining
w;hy he had set the bomb.
He did this, he said, before the
bomb exploded and mailed the let
ters during the early evening. At
this point he refused to tell more.
“Didn’t you have an accomplice?"
he was asked.
“No." he muttered weakly, "none
whatever. I did the whole thing my
self. I planned it, I executed it, no
body knowing about it but myself.”
Didn’t you have an accomplice in
the setting of the bomb at Washing
ton?" the detective persisted.
"I tell you,” he replied, ‘‘l didn’t.
Neither at Washington nor Glen
cove.”
Capt. tfunney and Justice Luyster
listened with amazemenfto the re
cital. They had remarked that no
percussion caps were found with the
dynamite Holt brought w4h him, and
they considered that the dynamite
- played bnly a minor role in his plans.
While Holt’s assertion that he was
familiar wfth one of the rarest meth
ods of exploding dynamite, a method
which Capt. Tunney said was used so
seldom as to be almost unknown, the
impression was strengthened that the
prisoner was gifted with knowledge
far beyond what he had seen fit to
display in earlier questioning. So
they went through his pockets again
to determine If they had overlooked
anything, and found a scrap of paper
on which were written the names of
Jchius Spencer (Mr. Morgan’s eldest
son Is named Junius Spencer Mor
gan), Jane Norton Drew, Francis
Tracy snd Henry St urge*. "“1
Immediately below the name of
Jualus Spencer was written “Camp
Uncers, Hamilton county,/ New
York.”
‘There is not msch doubt la nr
mind,” said Jiistice Luyster, “that!
the writing on this paper fitted In
with Holt’s plans to end the Euro
pean war. Whether, he determined
to try his pistol and dynamite meth
ods on the persons whose names are
on the paper is something which we
have not determined.” '
-r Investigation by the Washington
authorities of the explosion late Fri
day night, which wrecked the Senate
reception rood! of the national capl
tol, was interrupted by the'confession
in New York of Frank Holt, the man
who shot J. P: Morgan at his home
in Glencove, L. 1., that he also had
been Responsible for thb Washington
■crime.,
\ Earlier in '’thb day/ Washington
newspapers had received a letter
signed “R. Pearce,” In which the
wHter stated he had planned the cap-
itol explosion “as the exclamation
point to my appeal for peace.”
While experts were at work satis
fying themselves that an infernal
machine had wrecked the Senate
room, the police were searching for
clues. They could find no trace of
the mysterious “R. Pearce,” but they
sought to trace the movements of
Holt.
Hours before Holt’s confession,
however, suspicion was aroused that
the assailant of Morgan and the man
who sought to wreck the Capitol were
Identical. Holt had given utterance
in New York following his arrest, tq
statements strikingly similar to ex
pressions in ,tbe “Pearce" letter.
"If Germany should be able to buy
munitions here we would, of course,
positively refuse to sell to her,” Holt
said after his arrest.
"We would, of course, not sell to
the Germans if they could buy here,”
is a statement in the “Pearce” letter.
Other portions of Holt’s interview
and the Washington writer’s letter
also were similar. An investigation
to establish a possible connection be
tween the two crimes was started. -
The havoc wrought by the bomb
was terrific. In the reception room
telephone booths which lined thfe wall
near the window, where the bomb
was placed behind a telephone
switchboard, were blown into splin
ters. The iron framework around
this window was shattered by the
concussion.
Directly in front of the switch
board, no vestige of which could be
found save a few pieces of the metal,
-BA& a. manile on which stop da large
gilt-framed mirror, admired by rapi-
tol visitors for years. It was shatter
ed in thousands of pieces, and souve
nir hunters seeking ^ese fragments
had to be restrained by the police
while the inquiry progressed.
An onyx clock was ground almost
into powder. Experts declare that
the explosion would have been more
complete had the reception room
been entirely closed. Notwithstand
ing an open window and an arch
leading to the Senate hallway, how
ever, the explosion wrecked a portion
of the arched ceiling.
The doors leading to the office of
the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate
wpre wrecked and doors to the office
of the vice-president, which haa not
been opened for years, were sprung
from their hinges. The floor of the
room was springied with bits of glass
from the great chandeliers. The
damage to these will be. difficult to
repair. '« „
Early in the day Elliott Woods,
superintendent of the capitol, was
convinced that the wreck was the re
sult of a bomb explosion. He sum
moned Prof. Charles Monroe, an
authority on explosives, who is con
nected with the bureau of mines and
geological survey. Prof. Monroe soon
satisfied himself that the room had
bee n wrecked ^y a dynamite bomb.
FACE GREAT PERIL
HERMANS MAY CAPTURE WAR
SAW UNLESS SUVSEMUIT ,
1ANMJES
TO BUY WAR MUNITIONS
forcing Armies apart
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IJnsengen Mid Mwckenaed Strive to
Separate Czar's Forces Russian
Fortresses Will Fall Before End
of Meek if Germans Maintain
Their Hate of Advance.
The Russian retreat In Galicia con-,
tinues. The Austro-Gefman forces
are advancing toward the Zelota Lipa
river in full pursuit. The latest Ger
man official statement says that un
der pressure of the Germans the Rus
sians are vacuating their positions
from Narajow to Miasto, and farther
north from Kamionka, twenty-three
miles northeast of Lemberg, to Kry-
low, just over the border in southern
Russian Poland.
On the Bug river the situation is
unchanged, but Field Marshal von
Mackensen's armies are advancing
with the object, military experts be
lieve, of driving a wedge into the
Russian centre and dislodging the
Russians from the Vistula, forcing
them back over the Bug. This would
split the Russian armies.
Berlin: Gen. von Linsengen’s army
is In full pursuit of the Russian
forces who are retiring toward the
Zlota Lipa river in Galicia and has
forced them to evacuate their posi
tions in the regions of Miasto and
Krylow.
London: At a rate>estimated at five
miles a day Gen. von Mackensen's
Moat of the A mm uni lion. b RMng
Made and Payments aa Yet
Have Been bmatL
In explanation of the’ part J. P.
Morgan and company had taken In
the furnishing of war monitions and
supplies for the European nationa at
war. It has been stated authoritative
ly at New York that the Arm had
handled mdre than five hundred mil
lion dollars worth of contracts for the
account of foreign governments since
the war began.
Of this amount about four hundred
million dollars worth has been pur
chased for the British since the Mor-
"gan firm was appointed agents for
Great Britain in this country and
fifty thousand dollars worth for the
French contracted for within the last
month, the Morgan firm having been
appointed by the French government
to act in the same capacity as it does
for the British government.
About one-half of the total amount
contracted for in this country repre
sents contracts for ammunition,
shells, powder and the like, but of
the whole amount of. ammunition
contracted for only a small part, it
was stated, had been forwarded to
the purchasers. The remainder is
being i manufactured
The Morgan firm’s commission for
placing the contracts was said to be
on a sliding scale which began at two
per cent, and decreased in proportion
ot the magnitude of the contracts
It was explained that of the total
of four hundred and fifty million
dollars worth worth of war supplies
contracted for by the Morgan firm
only a small proportion had been
paid, although advances have been
made to some firms.
This explanation was given to cor
rect the impression that the large
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BILLION MLLUtS STAN* TB
COUNTRY’S CREHT
(.erman are 8ti11 swinging purchases of war supplies had been
northward in Galicia and Poland in a
colassal and daring endeavor to drive
a wedge into the Russian centre and
14 BLUEJACKETS SEIZE
GERMAN OWNED WIRELESS
Government Takes Complete Posses
sion of Truckerton Station
Owned by Germans.
Fourteen United States bluejackets
under the command of Lieutenant
I^chtenstein took complete posses
sion of the high-powered wireless
station near Truckerton, N. J. This
plant was owned by Germans and was
under the suspicion of violating the
neutrality proclamation of the presi
dent. The owners of the plant pro
tested vigorously, but the men under
the orders of their lieutenant closed
the gates to the public, and refused
to allow any person to approach the
station.
Indications have been for several
days that the government would take
this action because of alleged viola
tions of neutrality. It is one of two
stations which are powerful enough
to send messages into Germany and
It has been alleged that Information
concerning ships and shipping have
been conveyed to German subtparine
commanders through its towers. The
plant, which is known as the Sayville
plant, is under government censor
ship, but officials have believed for
some time that it should be under
complete government supervision as
is the great station at Truckerton
N. J.
OINNERS TAKE STEPS TO
HANDLE COTTON RISKS
Thousand Glnners From Southern
States to Establish Insurance
Bureau for Themselves.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark.,
Wednesday say* that the Glnners as
sociation now meeting at Memphis,
composed of over a thousand mem
bers, proposes to establish^ an insur
ance bureau which will handle all the
riaka of the members, according to
advices received from President
Cockrum, In which he announced that
Little Rock would be the place of the
meeting next year.
Capital Cat Off.
In tha Absence of direct reports,
much anxiety la fait for Mexico Qlty.
from which there ha been no direct
for ton days.
dislodge the Russians from the Vis
tula.river and force them hark over
the Bug, thus splitting the grand
duke’s forces into two sections with
thousands of acres of swamp and
marsh lands between them.
If the Austro-Germant can con-
tinue their progress another week,
even the British press admits the
Russians will have to give up War
saw, and with it the whole line.
Meanwhile the Germans are massing
more troops in the Baltic provinces
and the recent encounter in the Bal
tic seems to suggest that they con
template co-ordinate naval action,
but it is possible that the sea opera
tions were only a feint.
In southeast Galicia the Russians
are fighting tenaciously and have the
advantage of a remarkable series of
parallel rivers beyond the Gnllg Lipa
and the Austro-German advance is
likely to be costly.
Thus on their two extreme wings
the Russians appear to firm, and
where they are retreating. It still is
claimed, their retirement is orderly
and accompanied by vigorous rear
guard operations. The Auatro-Ger-
mans advancing in the centre, more
over, are getting deeper into a coun
try covered with forests and streams
and barren of railways between the
middle Vistula and the Bug—natural
advantages to the Russians, military
writers here emphasize. They point
out, too, the dally lengthening chain
of Austro-German communications
which brings an added burden to the
Teu^pnlc allies.
■Some of the British public think
the time has come for Great Britain
and France to begin a general offen
sive and force a transfer of German
troops from the East, but the more
conservative military writers think
the time is not at hand and that the
best aid England can lend her East
ern ally is to pour into Russia every
ounce of ammunition that can be
spared without curtailing the neces
sary supply at the western front.
One of the main aims of the Ger
mans in the east is a vast move be
hind Warsaw, embracing Brest, Lit-
ovsk, one of the strongest Russian
bases. Civilian residents of Warsaw
say Petrograd dispatches already are
leaving the city because of the possi
bility of German occupation. Ctrcu
lars dropped from German aircraft
on the Polish capital predict War
saw’s fall by the end of July.
Petrograd: The present aligment
of the tremendous forces engaged in
Galicia and southern Russia is rough
ly divisible into two seventy-five-mile
fronts, one running north from Ha-
llcz and the Gnila Lipa river, the
other east from the junction of the
San and Vistula rivers.
Although the Germans recently
gained, new positions to the north of
Haliez, a preponderance of the forces
and the chief energy of the Austro-
Germans were employed at the north,
end to advance into the provinces of
Lublin and Kholm along a front ex
tending from the Vistula to the Bug.
In this region, the Germnns are
making steady progress. The encoun
ters here consist chiefly of rearguard
actions followed by Russian counter
attacks and orderly retirement.
The Galician campaign is regarded
by Russian officers to have come to
an end. The new aligment of forces
is intended as ft defense of Russian
territory against Ivan.
London: Although-the Yetreating
Russian armies must he Considered
as yet to be practically intact, the
growing impetus of the Austro-Ger
man advance is such that a decisive
fluxsian defeat seems Inevitable, ac
cording to military experts, unless
the entente powers Initiate a power
ful diversion on the Italian or the
western front. Some of the most con-
servatice British newspapers assert
this alone can compel Germany to
withdraw men fr.qm the east, barring
perhaps a sudden shortage in high
explosives.
Neither north of Lemberg, nor
southeast, do the Russians appear to
responsible for the fall In foreign ex
change The low quotations were
due. it was stated, to enormous pur
chases in this country of grain and
foodstuffs.
AIMING AT WARSAW;
GERMANS. ARE ADVANCING
Mackensen Pushes Ahead Between
Vistula and the Bug Rivers
Germans Gain In West.
Ixindon Reports Friday: Evidently
bent on a decisive victory against the
Russians, the Germans assisted hy
their Austrian allies, now are mak
ing every effort to capture Warsaw,
the capital of Russian Poland. Ber
lin claims further advances in Gali
cia. while Field Marshal von Mack-
ensen is pushing steadily ahead be
tween the Vistula and Bug rivers.
Artillery activity continued un
abated in the Arras region of France
There rre no signs of an Infantry of-
fnesive but it is regarded ae scarcely
possible that m many thousands of
shells are being fired without some
such objective. In the Argonne re
gion the Germans have gained some
ground at the expense of bekvy
losses.
A further report regarding the
Dardanelles operations clntms that
the coLnlal troops have not been
checked but that they have been used
merely to keep the Turks on their
front too busy to send reserves to
that portion of the line where the
Anglo-Frenc^ troops made an ad-
vnne^of one ^ftousand yards.
ENGLAND - ft GREAT PERIL
DECLARES LORD CURp
T”
y Gainq]
JWj;
by
he trying to offer serious resistance,
buf unless the approeebee to War
saw are to be left unprotected, mili
tary observers say, the forces of
Grand Duke Nicholas, the Buaaiaa
commander-la-chief, mast Wooa do
rtabhors Ightlafi over the
Enemy Gainful His Advantage
Long Preparation, Efficiency
and Invention.
Lord uurzon, speaking in the
House of Lords Friday declared that
"it is not unfair to say that Great
Britain is In great pe:1L” The state
ment of the speaker occasioned wide
comment. 'There is no use fjlylng to
conceal the fact,” the speaker said,
“that our situation is one of grave
anxiety." He stated, that the ene
mies of the empire had gained a tre-
menodus advantage through their
long preparation, their efficiency and
their factulty of invention.
NO REPORT FROM HAITI
Washington Uninformed as to Condi-
tlons in Island.
^Messages to the navy department
from Rear Admiral Caperton, now at
Cape Haitien with the cruiser Wash
ington, give no account of the situa
tion ashore, where revolutionary dis
turbances recently caused the land
ing of French marines, now with
drawn. Because of the shallow har
bor, the survey boat Eagle has been
ordered to Join the Washington,
which Is compelled to' lie far off
shore, the Eagle will call at Port au
Prince to . observe conditions. Ad
miral Caperton’s force was sent to re
lieve the French marines.
GIVES OFFICIAL FIGURES
Despite World War Trade Yew Has
Bern* Bert to History
Treasury Unable to ]
Big a Deficit Results From eg
Import Duties.
A billion-dollar trade balance—-the
grea^st in American history-*-in a
year which has seen commerce • de
pressed by eleven months of world
war is the commercial'record of the
United States.
Official announcement was made at
the department of commerce that
with the closing of the fiscal year at
midnight Wednesday night It was cer
tain that the bllllon-doilar mark had
been passed.
"The figures for eleven months
ending May 31," it was announced,
“show a favorable balance of $»83,-
117,47>. As thirteen ports, which
ordinarily handle 90 per cent, of the
country's foreign trade, show for
June an export balance of approxi
mately 160,000,000. it Is now known
that the excess of exports over 1m-
porth has at this date exceeded $1.-
000,000.000. surpassing by nearly
3400,000,000 the highest record here**^*-
tofore made."
Figures indicating that the new
high record would be made have been
placed before President Wilson and
the cabinet from time to time by Sec
retary Redfleld. •Generally the allow
ing was considered all the more grati
fying because It was made despite the
paralysis of ocean shipping and the
stagnation In the cotton market
which 'depressed American’s second
most valuable crop.
Department of commerce saperta
point out that the immeuae trade bal
ance is not due to orders for muni
tion* of war. In fact, manufactures
generally other than of foodstuffs
have been less than in the
period before the war. The official
statement on that point saysi
"It Is found that tha net Increase
in our total export' hM beerf wholly
In foodstutfi,’'
Yhe movement of gold between the
United States and the outside world,
which at the beginning of the war
was a subject of great concern, haa
been reversed in overwhelming rmtie,
and represents payments for Ameri
can exports.
“The Inward flow of gold." says
the department'! announcement,
“continued In May at an accelerated
rate. Imports amounting to MLlSd.-
311. against 91.B72.411 In May. 1314.
In the eleven montha ending May 31,
1916, gold Imports totalled 9119-
227.016, an Increase of $6*,606,4«l,
while good exports aggregated 3143,-
402.160. an Increase of !?M70,C»6
over a like period a year ago.
The nearest approach to the bil
lion dollar net balance which govern
ment officials have predicted would
be reached by the United States dur
ing the present calendar year. To ar
rive at a net balance there most bo
subtracted from the gross balance In
terest on the United Statee debt held
in Europe. tourlsU’ expenses, ocean
freights, money transmitted home by
alien residents and numerous other
items. ” -
The prediction is made that the
exports of explosives will be at tenet
quadrupled and that of firearms dou
bled In the present calendar year.
This, 1 wever, would credit the total
value of explosives and firearms with
but little more than 1 per cent, of
the total value of exports.
SUBMARINE SINKS SHIP; % ?
TEN AMERICANS LOST
Liner Loaded With Horses for Brit
ish Army Goes Down, Carrying
U. 8. Negroes to Bottom.
Consul Armstrong at Bristol, Eng
land, cabled the state department
Wednesday Informing the department
of the torpedoing of the Dominion
liner Armenian by the German sub
marine U-38 on Monday at eight-
eight p. m., twenty miles northwest
of Trevose Head, Cornwall.
Twenty-five persons were drowned
and ten others were Injured. Many
of those missing or Injured are
Americans. Consul Armstrong says
ten Amerioans are missing, the ma
jority of whom are negro horse at
tendants.
The Armenian left Newport News,
Va., June the seventeenth with a car
go of horses for the British army and
the negroes on board were some of
the attendants to the animals.
Whether all of the lost Americans
are negroes or not Is not known. The
ship was attacked by the submarine
while proceeding with Its cargo. Sev
eral of the survivors were picked up.
Some ot them are Injured but are
doing well.
HERMAN NOTE JULY 4?
r:
southern Poland frontier, while his
extreme left in Galicia must ’match
this in rapid retirement if it Is to
avoid a critical predicament.
The Teutonic trops, according to
the German statement, have gained
possesion of the lowlands of Labon-
kafl despite stubborn resistance, and
also have advanced In pursuit of tbs
fleeing Russians In the Zlota Lipa
section of Galicia.
Petrograd admits the retirement of
the Russians across the Gnila Lipa
and explain* that the retrograde
movement farther to the north was
caused by strong flanking operations
making the Russian positions in the
Tanew region untenable. Russian
military experts profeea to believe
that the Galician campaign new to
Tensing Doesn'
Secretary Lansing
day that he does not <_,
many’s reply to the latest -
note regarding the Luaitanfa
will be transmitted until Jnly 4, at
least.
rices, the answer la netr heterml
peror William 1.3 army ha
A delay until next week will
the new German note to W
after Preaid sat Wilson's rotara
Cornish
A dispatch from
day says that Greek