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MG NOTE OF WARNINi IS
SENT GREAT BRITAIN
COUNCIL ORDERS
RigfaU of Americans to be' Based
Upon Recognized Rules of Inter-
' ' ' '' • . , < ■ /' . . “
ational Law—British Changes .and
Their Legality Comes up for Jus-
tiflcation. ... » ■
The . state department Saturday
gave out a summary of a note it has
sent to England, informing that gov
ent that it will uphold the right
American trade.
The note is a firm, flat denial of
England’s assumed right to Interfere
with American commerce to an ex
tent not countenanced by the recog
nized rules of international law. It
is a vigorous statement that this gov
ernment can not permit its commerce
to be treated according to the auto
cratic regulations of British order in
council and various municipal de-
The effect of the note is to shift
the shadow o{ a real international
crisis from td^ aAirs of the United
Ogri
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Blnal Seen
mebV Bern
y of 'Uj'pr
ir re- tab«
tween the United States and Great
Britain. It is evident that Germany
has won the first ground of her de
mand that as ‘‘the freedom of the
seas” underlies the questions at issue
between the United States and Ger
many, this government must take up
that subject with Great Britain.
Furthermore, it is indirect media-
,ion between Germany and England,
d, finally, it demonstrates the real
ion by the administration that it
o longer maintain an attitude
ressive diplomacy against Ger-
and continue to let the case
st England slumber.
The summary of the ote is as fol
lows:
“In view of differences which are
understood to exist between the two
governments as to the principle of
law applicable in prize court pro
ceedings in cases involving Ameri
can shipping, to avoid any misunder
standing as .to the attitude of the
United States in regard to such pro
cess the government of the United
States informs the British govern
ment that insofar as the interests of
American citizens are concerned, it
will insist upon their rights under the
K ‘ triples and rules of international
as hlfheyto established, govern
ing neutral trade In time of wgr with
out limitation or impairment or
ders in council or other muntc
legislation by the British governme)
and will not recognize validity
prise court passages taken under re
straints imposed by British municipal
law in derogation of the rights of
American citizens under International
law.’* * *. _
The note means:
First, that I xml Crewe stated an
indefensible iNMdtion when he told
the United Ktitew tha£ the British
’ government would not consider
cases of seizures and detentions In
prize courts as “diplomatic ques
tions."
Second, that the United States
asserts that Great Britain had no
international right “to Interfere
with the approach of American
merchantmen to neutral ports sit
uated upon the line 6? <x>SsU af
fected by the order in council,
when such ships do not carry con J
traband or goods destined to or
proceeding from ports within the
belligerent territory."
Third, that the manner of seiz
ures an ddetentiou is laid down by
international law, and that law can
no more be changed by the exigen
cies of Great Britain's blockade
than by the present impossibility
of Germany using any other craft
than a submarine to exercise the
v right of visit and search.
Fourth, the United States does
not challenge the effectiveness of
the British blockade of actual ports
of Germany, but it does challenge
the extension of that blockade to
cover th? ports of Denmark, Swed
en, Holland and Norway.
Fifth, that Interference with
American and neutral vessels en
route from American ports to other
neutral ports Is a contradiction of
the principle of free seas for free
ships.
Sixth, that the asseration by
Great Britain of the principle of
holding up all vtssels and rejecting
xliplomatic intervention is as illegal
as the establishment by Germany
of a submarine blockade.
Seventh, that the principle and
practice of retaliation between
tiermany and Great Britain can
not defeat any of the rights of neu
tral commerce as defined.and en
joyed before the commencement of
the present war.
Officials are now concerned In spec-
ncation as to what the reply of Great
Britain will be and what the United
States must do In certain emergen
cies to be created by that reply
If Great Britain stands firm, the
United States has two remedies. One
Is to take up particular cases and as-
aert that there has been denial^of
Justice.” That Is oife of the forms
of pursuing a case further when a
country thinks an injustice has been
done by foreign courts. The asser
tion that there has been a denial of
justice is a diplomatic action which
can result In the gravfest kind of a
situation.
Thu> other recourse of the United
■States Is to treat Great Britain, if she
concedes nothing, as a nation which
will not be bound by International
law. It has been frequently stated,
•under color of local diplomatic sanc
tion, that if Germany would not yield
to the United State* this country
might break, off diplomatic negotia
tions.
It in known that Sir
Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambas
sador, has reported to his govern
ment the state of public sentiment la
the United States, and has suggested
that It moderate Its policy regarding
the treatment of American trade. The
aihbassador left the method and ex
tent of the moderation to his home
government.
In all quarters It Is admitted that
the note will relieve the tension be
tween this government and Germany,
for the parrent reason that it com
piles very closely withj-Germany’s
main contention.
Germany held that the Issues be
tween this government and Germany
were so Interwoven with those be
tween the United States and Great
Britain that they must be taken up
together. The Unlsted States has not
conceded this, but, accepting as true
the German ambassador’s frequent
arguments that Germany will make
no further concessions to this coun-
s try unless Great Britain relaxes the
-rfseverlty of its blockade, It has derid
ed to take up the subject with Great
Britain Independently.
The effect, however, will be the
same in the end. If the United States
succeeds In forcing Great Britain to
conduct Its blockade according to In
ternational law. It has the assurances
of Germany that it, too, will observe
the rules of international law in its
submarine warfare.
There is no division among Ameri
can diplomats as to the unassallabili-
ty of the propositions of the note to
Great Britain. Mr. Lansing roes not
Inveigh against the right of visit and
search, should Great |]ritain choose
to exercise it legally.
The position of the state depart
ment isAhsrt vessels should be visited
and searched ‘‘if necessary,” but ex
peditiously, and released, or that the
cause of detention must be taken up
and adjusted with equal expedition
"by diplomacy.”
This position of the state depart
ment Is flatly contradicted by Lord
< Yewe, and presumably will be by Sir
Edward Grey in the answer to the
note to Great Britain.
RAISES NEW POINT
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NOTE TO ENRLANI YEMfUES-
TIONRER ‘
UNFAIR/Disc!
Great Britain Has no Right to Inter
fere With Our Trad* to Neutrals—
is Not Effec-
are Open—
Germans Trade With Norway and
Blockade of
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British government formally
the United States that cotton ponl^
would bo allowed to have ‘‘freedom
of the sene/’ and It la contended by
officials that to declare cotton etra-
band now would bo .might Inconsist
ent and contradictory of the former
assurancee. _
Strictly interpreted, the British or
der in council of March 15 would
have barred all'cotton, from going-to
Germany. In th* enforcement of the
order, England sought to stop cotton
Mr. Lansing has told Great Britain
that her order in council, as it affect*
and has affected American commerce,
is wrong in principle and In feet, and
can not be sustained under interna
tional law. The department, there
fore. substantially demands that
Great Britain return to the approved
customs of visit and search as the
United States understands the law,
and as it existed before the promul
gation of the order In council.
No one expects thin government to
recede from its origin*! position on
the destruction of the Lustteni* as
an act wholly without warrant in law
or Jnstiflcation from the humane
point of view. The manner in which
the United States' position will be
restated, however, in view of the rep
resentations and conversations on the
subject at the department between
Secretary Lansing and Ambassador
Bernstorff is sUll problematic. The
preeslon is that the president must
into favorable consideration the
oral ateurances made by the ambassa
dor, which are understood to have
materially changed the situation.
In
is soilk to go foriyard, the United
Statesrwill not onlyXreiterate its con
tention that Great Britain has no
right to blockade the Scandinavian
coasts, but will emphasize the view
that the blockade as it is being car
ried ’out under the qrder In council,
Is discriminatory.
In setting Up this contention the
United States will pomt oat that wslle
the North Sea coasts %f Germany and
Scandinavia are) blockaded, and
American trade with Norway, Swed
en, Denmark, ajh. Holland Is cut off,
the Baltic coaanof Germany Is free
for trade with^Dris of Norway and
Sweden.
The American government will
point out that' England has sent no
warships into the Baltic to prevent
this traffic, and that as a result a
large trade has been In progress be
tween Sweden and Germany.
The United States will insist that
this is discriminatory and ttiat it has
a full right under international law
to trade with these neutral coiintries
without restraint.
While the recent short communica
tion to the British government, which
is given in another column headed
‘States Its Claim," came as a result
of representations made by the Chi
cago packers, the warning was not
limited in its scope or application to
the packers' cases, but was Intended
to be broad enough to cover every
American interest or right under in
ternational law as affevted by the
nta ttner of the enforcement of the
British order in council as a result of
which American commerce of a legit
imate character has been harassed,
burdened and stifled by the action of
the BrfltiSta government in seising
detaining, requisitioning, and confis
cating American cargoes.
High official! of the state depart
ment explained that it was not neces
sary. In order to maintain American
rights, to notify tfteat Britain of this
term
March 2 and destined for Germany.
This would have upset exlstlag|
contracts made on t»te baste of _ ,
land’s previous assurances that cot
ton would have the freedom of the|
England then, by Informal ar
rangement, which the United States!
government never officially recogniz-1
ad, agreed to permit cotton that had
sold before March 1 to go forward
until April 1, with the .understanding
RUSSIANS SINK SUBMARINE
Report From Ixmdon Hays Famous
U-Bt Was Destroyed.'
London Friday ^reported that the
German submarine U;51 has been
sunk in the Black Sea by Russian
warships, according to information
received from Varna, a Bulgarian
port on the Black Sea by the Athens
correspondent of the Exchange Tele
graph company.
The U-61 gained f .me by eluding
the British blockade and passing
through Gibraltar on Us way from
Wilhelmshaven. the great German
base, to operate against the allied
fleet in the Dardanelles. It has been
xredited with sinking several vessels
belonging to the allies, including the
British battleship Majestic.
Later the submersible passed
through the Sea of Marmora and re
ported to the German commander at
Constantinople. If the report of ijer
destruction in the Black Sea is true
she evidently was returning from the
Turkish cape through the Bosporus,
probably to operate against the Rus
sian Black Sea fleet.
-AmerK
zsA^or-
t>n pbo-
WILL OFFER AMNESTY
government's determinatlun to insist
upon neutral commerriHrlghts under
the principles of International law
but that. In view of diffetencee that
have arisen between the two- govern
ments over the application of
law, it was deemed wt!e to servA^aq
other warning on Great Britain^tw
avoid misunderstandings
It was said that the warning also
carried the purpose of notifying the
British government that theMJnited
States was “not asleep at the swftqb,'
to quote the phrase of a high offjc
in its determination to ptotetf
ran commercial rights, but wlu
oughly awake to the situation
duced in cumulative effect by tbe dis
regard of American rights in British*
treatment of cotton, meats, tobacco
and other export products as well as
by the refusal of the British govern
ment to permit between fifty million
doltars and one hundred million dol
lars worth of American-owned goods
that were contracted for and manu
factured In Germany to be shipped
through the neutral port of Rotter
dam to the United States
The attitude of the Unites! States
toward British interferences with
commerce has been absolutely con
sistent since the beginning of the war
and is Identical with Its position to
ward the German policy of submarine
warfare. In the controversy with
Germany and Great Britain, the Unit
ed plates has discarded the Declare
lion of London and municipal legisla
tion by both belligerent governments
and has planted itself upon principles
of international law.
In the controversy with Germany
it has been insisted that Germany has
no right to destroy life by indiscrimi
merchantmen - and
sovereignty suffers no dlmlsnation la
time of war, except Insofar as the
practice and consent of civilised nn-
tions has limited It by the recount-} not be treated as contraband,
tion of certain clearly deteymlnod
rights, which It. Is conceded may be
exercised by nations at war. This
concession of universally recognized
rights is what constitutes Interna
tional law. '
What the United Staes hat conced
ed to be within the rights of the
British government, as a bolligerent,
are:
First—That belligerents have
the right of visit and start*.
Second—That belligerent* have -
the right of capture and condemna
tion if, upon examination, n neu
tral vessel is found to be engaged
in unneutral service or to be carry
ing contraband of war intended for
the enemy’s government or armed
forces.
Third—The right to establish
and maintain a blockade of an
enemy’s ports and coasts.
Fourth—That belligerents have
a right to capture and condemn
any vessel taken In trying to tweak
the blockade.
Fifth—It even concedes that a
belligerent has the right to detain
and take into his own ports for
judicial examination all vessels
which he suspects, for “substan
tial” reasons, to be engaged In un
neutral or contraband service and
to condemn them if the suspicion
is sustained.
These rights, long clearly defined
by doctrine and practice, are hold by
the American government to be the
only permissible excepticns to the
principle of universal equality of sov
ereignty on the high seas as between
belligerents and nations not engaged
in war. This is all that the Ameri
can government has conceded either
to England or Germany.
The United States concedes the
right of Great Britain to maintain
blockade of the ports and roasts of
(iermany, bat holds that it must be
effective to be binding. The British
order in council policy has gone far
beyond this right, the United States
continues. In effect the British gov
ernment, it la pointed out. is seeking
\o blockade, not only the ports and
coasts of Germany, but aloo the ports
and coasts of Holland, Denmark,
Norway and Sweden.
The United States is challenging
the right of England to interpose any
blockade between this country and
Holland, Horway, Denmark and Hwed-
en, because there is nothing Interna
tional law that perilllts the blockad
ing of the coast of a neutral. The
attempt of a belligerent to Institute a
blockade of a neutral coast, it is ad
mitted, w ould be regarded as a caaus
belli.
Not only does this government
challenge Great Britain’s claim to the
right to virtually blockade neutral
roasts, but It will also insist in the
forthcoming general note to Greet
Britain that the so-called blockade
of the German coast has not
iw&w.
CUTS FRANTS
AS HE SLEETS in mseN
Convict's
Pfcusm’i Harder. ~‘*
Leo M. Frank, doing » life tom
for the murder of Mary Phagan, van
attacked in the Georgia State prison
at Milledgevllle, nt eleven-ten o’clock
Carranza Will Forgive His Enemies
Who Turn to Peace. '
Gen. Carranza will Issue an am
nesty decree to Mexicans who will
return “to the true path.” His agency
at Washington Wednesday received
this dispatch from Vera Cruz: “With
reference to tho occupation of Mexico
City, Gen. Pablo Gonzales will af
ford all kinds of guarantees to na
tives and foreigners. He has instruc
tions from me severely to punish all
crimes against property.
“Within a few days I will, In my
capacit** as first chief, Issue an am
nesty lav in an endeavor to have
those In error return to the true
patch and to restore peace and order
In the republic."
AMERICAN PACKERS INVOLVED
British Court Proceedings Has Testi
mony of Their Guilt.
In London Friday the English gov
ernment produced correspondence be
tween the ArchA Company, of Ham
burg, and tbe Cudahy Packing Com
pany, of America, in the prize court
proceedings to show that American
packers connived with the Germans
to ship goods to Germany by appar
ently consigning them to neutral
countries. The letters also mention
ed the Swjft and Armour companies.
Daniels Goes to See Edison.
Because -Thomas A. Edison was too
busy la his laboratory to go to Wash-
lagtia. Seeratary of the Navy Dan
iels has announced his intention to
visit the inventor at Went Orange,
H. }.. to Aieenee naval amirs.
nate attack upon
it has been demanded that the rule of
visit and search be applied. In the
controversy with England equally
definite rules and principles of inter
national law are being inslsten upon
Bat just as the Germans, through
the promulgation of the order insti
tuting submarine attacks on unarmed
merchantmen, which brought on the
Lusitania issue, so the British gov
eminent has sought by orders In
council, prize court proceedings, and
other municipal legislation, to restrict
recognized international law rights to
which American commerie is entitled.
The German war zone decree and
the British order in council and the
manner of their enforcement are re
garded by the United States as
practical “assertion of unlimited bel
ligerent rights over neutral commerce
within the whole European war area
and an almost unqualified denial of
the sovereign rights of the nations
now at peast. The United States
denies emphatically any of the groups
of belligerents possesses any “un
limited” righto over neutral com
merce or citizens at sea.
On the contrary it Is the contention
of the American government that
these belligerents possess only limit
ed rights over the trade or citizens of
neutrals on the high seas, and that
these rights are limited only to the
prevention, if possible, of contraband
trade with either enemy, and the
prevention of hostile acts. Even then
the United States insists, the agents
of the belligerents mult observe rules
that are in accordance with well-rec-
ognized principles of law so as to
Ifffld derogation of neutral rights.
' A nation’s sovereignty over its own
ships and citUens under Us own flag
on th* high seas In time of peace
unlimited President WILoe and his
advisors contend that this national
shipments leaving tftte country after Saturday night’by n fellow
His head wee ent half off with a
prison-made batcher knife that con
victs had used daring the day In kilt
ing hogs. Frank was still on the op
erating table an hour after the at
tack, conscious, but bleeding from the
wounds.
Frank was quartered in a dormi
tory with about one hundred other
prisoners and occupied a bunk about
forty feet from one of the two doors
^ at n t u,\ COtt0n ’ lf r ?» ul8l “ 0 ° ed ^ to the large room. Green’s bunk was
the British government would be paid fourth from hl , No
for. , i 1
This permitted some cotton to go
fbrward with the understanding that
the British government would pay
for It. Bat since April 1 cotton has
not been permitted to go to Germany,
efen if shipped through neutral ports.
One shipment of cotton involved in a
bona fide sale to Roast*, was stopped
at Kirkwall and detained nearly a
month before it was allowed to pro
ceed, although ample assurances w
given that it was going to Russia and
would not be transshiped to Germany.
While such temporary arrange
ments have been made by shippers,
the American government has never
officially recognized them because It
could not do so without recognizing
the order in council, and the state
department has so shaped Its course
as not to commit such a mistake In
derogation of American rights.
The meat situation and that of
American goods contracted for .in
Germany are Just as serious as the
cotton problem, and in each of these
situations the United States govern
ment insisting upon the supremacy
of (to legal righto over mere munici
pal regulations of a retaliatory char
acter as between the allies and the
Germans. ,
evt
been niahitaineil with equal regard to
all neutrals: that it lias been dis
criminatory In effect, if not in pur
apd that It has not been an ef
fective blockade for the reason that
only the North He* coast of Germany
lias been affected, while Uie Baltic
Sea coast of liermany has been un-
hlockaded and free for commerce
with Norwegian and Hwedlsh ports.
The British government has sent
o warships into tho Baltic to block-
that part of the German coast,
and has not taken into its prize
coiiris « Single hound from
FIERCE GERMAN ATTACK
CAPTURES 2,581 FRENCH
Teuton’s Struggle Through Argonne I te ]f
fourth from his. No prisoner la al
lowed to leave his place without per
mission from one of the two guards
stationed at, the dormitory at night.
Shortly after elevent o'clock Friday
night Green called out for pemlsalon
to get up, and It was granted.
He started down the line of bunks
toward one occupied by Frank.
As he reached it he quickly grabbed
Frank by the huir and delivered one
blow with the knife he had conceal
ed. The attacked was witnessed by
the guard, who raahed to the bunk
and prevented Green from striking
again. Green was overpowered and
among prisoner* who rushed to
Frank’s aid were two phyaicians, one
of whom also was serving a life term
for murder.
The two conrict-physldana gave
first aid and treated tbe wound until
Dr. Guy Compton, the prison physi
cian, was summoned from his home
half a mile away. The three men
took twenty-five stitches in Frank's .
neck. i
Frank asked the prison doctors
again if they thought he would live.
‘ You have a good chance to re
cover,” he was told Sunday.
Frank smiled. ‘‘Don’t punish the
man who attacked me,” he said. “I
have nothing to fear. There ia noth
ing between me and God. I will be
able to prove to the world that I am
Innocent of the crime of which they
accuse me If they give me a chance."
Doctor," be said, late Sunday af
ternoon. "I am going to live. I
must live. I must vindicate my-
in Effort to Reach
Verdun.
The German thrust at Verdun ^haa
resulted in an Important gain.
In the Argonne the German report
| William Green, the life term con
vict, who admits that he ent Frank’s
throat l( was questioned again Sunday
by prison authoritlea to ascertain U
there was a conspiracy fo kill Frank.
Green asserted th t there wee no
plot He said that he had Inspiration
on Wednesday the capture of French that he should kill Frank, and plot-
positions along a front of a mile and ted alone to klU him. He told ot
four-fifths, the gain extending to a aiding In the butchering of hoga en
depth of three-fifths of a mile. The|Beturday morning, how he had kid-
hill known as No. 285 also was taken.
The official statement Issued Wed
nesday says
“Western theatre: Fresh hsnd gre
nade attacks near the Souches Sugar
Refinery were repulsed during the
night.
“The French blew up without re
sult a few mines in the neighborhood
of Troxoc. west of Craonne, and at
Certea In the Champagne, our bom
bardment with hand •renades pre
venting them from settling them
selves Into the mined positions.
“In the Argonnes a German attack
den a butcher knife, that had
made out of a btg tie, in his cloth
ing. carried It to bed with him. how
he attacked Frank aa the latter slept.
AUSTIU DEFERS CDNCESSNNS
FDR ROUMANIAN SUPfORT
Teutonic
resulted in complete success north-1
German port*. This has Tfillll W“~WteBBw4teriNteDeew»“" , “ | ®s
Sweden to^O
resulted In'building up an enormous
trade between Sweden and Germany,
and while foodstuffs and other pro
ducts have been barr.d from the Ger
man North Sea front door, they have
entered Germany througji the Baltic
Sea back door.
Thus the attempt to starve the civil
population of Germany has borne
down unequally on neutrals, since
Hwedis hand some Norwegian ship
ments. as well as Danish shipments,
have been able to proceed to Ger
many, white .American goods destin
ed for delivery, inside the entrance to
the Baltic Hee have been barred from
going to Norway, Sweden and Den
mark. As a result, it is impossible
for American shipporo of cotton
meats, and other'product! tor wend
them Goteborg, Chrlstiansand, Cop
enhagen and Stockholm, while goods
from these ports have boon able to
proceed to Germany, despite the so-
dalled blockade under, tho British
order'in council.
Besides pointing out in the next
note to Great Britain this Inequality
of the British blockade, so far as
shipments by neutrals to German
tic Sea ports are concerned, the
American government will insist that
American shippers have an undoubt
ed right to ship goods from this coun
try to Holland, NUorway, Sweden,
and Denmark, and to receive goods
in return.
The British policy has resulted In
paralysis for the American cotton and
meat trades with those countries, and
Americans have not been able to ship
cotton to Germany or Austria or
bring goods out of Germany since
March 1, except to the limited extent
permitted by the informr.l arrange
ments made between American ship
pers and the British government.
There is a legal way under inter
national law by which Great Britain
might bar American cotton from go
ing to Germany. That would be by
declaring cotton to be absolute con
traband. But the British govern
ment has been endeavoring to accom
plish the result without resorting to
that measure.
„ The British government fully real
izes that if It establishes the prece
dent of treating cotton as absolute
contraband It would not only be of
fending the great cotton Interests of
the South and displeasing tho United
States government, but the precedent
thus established might become a
booinerong during a subsequent war,
wen conditions might be changed and
some other belligerent might turn the
tebles on the British by treating cot
ton ns contraband and preventing Its
shipment te Hnglanffi - —
Should Great Britain now put cot
ton on Its contraband list it would be
poestble for Germany tn some futon
war to ysnpond la like manner, and
teas keep cotton out of British pdrtM.
troops took by storm tea enemy po-|
■ttlons In the bills extending over a
width of three kilometres and a depth
of one kilometre. Hill No. 285, Lai
FUle Morte, Is In our possession. Two
thousand five hundred and eighty-
one uninjured prisoners, including 51
officers, fell into our hands. In nddl-1
tion 300 injured were taken Into our
care. Field cannon, two revolver
cannon, six machine guns md a large
quantity of tools were raptured. Our]
troops advanced as far as the posi
tion of the French artillery and i
dered eight cannon useless. There]
are now standing between the French ]
and German lines.
ENGLISH COAL MINERS
STRIKE IN HOUR OF NEED
As
Coal Supply is Threatened Ad
miralty Requisitions
Available Coal.
All
Except for two small collieries,
mploying about eight hundred men,
ark-South Wales coal mines, from
which comes coal for the English
""'Berlin sends out a dispatch Wed
nesday saying that In reply to the de- •
mends made upon Roumaal* by A un
til a the Rumanian go srnment has
demanded the cessation of certain
territory now forming a part of tho
Austro-Hungarian empire. Accord
ing to th* indications in Germany,
the negotiations are expected to bo
of some length, bat nn effective com
promise will probably be renched.
An earlier dispatch from tho Ger
man capital said that the trouble
with America Is temporarily over
shadowed and all Isterert la centering
on the diplomatic battle in the Bal
kans. There Is general aariefaction
that Germany and Anatri* le railing
for n show-down Irons tbs Walk aw
powers, for which itls~E^Heved tbe
time is particularly ripe. What will
Rumania do is # the question of the
hour.
Bucharest, the capital of Rumania,
reports that the Austro-Hungarian
misister on Wednesday last, present
ed to the prime minister proposals of
fering Rumania certain concessions In
exchange for definite noptralUy. and
facilities for supplying Turkey with
munitions of war.
Austria offers to cede to Rumania
* port of Bukowinn ns far south as
Hereto, and at the same time ameli
orate the treatment of Rumanians in
navy, were Idle Thursday, and min
ers, although the English govern-!^ mo ^hy, glinting’a university
ment has brought the industry under | to Brashow, large admission if Ruma-
the munitions of war act, decided not
to accept recommendations to con
tinue work day by day until an ar
rangement could be continued. This
action was taken despite entreaties
of labor leaders.
Delegates voting for the strike rep
resented 88,950 men, and those
against the strike 41,500. General
business on the Cardiff Goal exchange
has ceased, owing te the government
requisition for the admiralty of all
available coal supplies, while ship
ping and the railways, which depend
on the mines, also had little to do.
nlsns In Hungary into the public ser
vice, and greater liberty of adminis
tration to the Rumarian churches.
An alternative proposal affects the
entry of Rumania Into the Held of
action on the side of the Fermanie
powers. In this event the ceded ter
ritory would be extended to Caerno-
wltz and the Use of the Prnth, and
the frontier on the Danube would be
extended beyond the Iron Gate* and
include MehadJa. The undertaking
mentioned above with regard to the
situation of Rumantanc is Hungary
There Is a general impression, how- *****
ever, that the strike will not last]
long, but that the men, after a short
"holiday, perhaps over the week-end,
will return to work.
The strike has been forced by the ]
men of the Aberdare Valley, who are |
strong syndicatists md have declar
ed that the present was a good, time]
to force the government to take over]
the mines
Thaw Obtains Freedom.
Supreme' Court Justice Hendrick
upheld Friday the decision of the
Jury which declared Harry K. Thaw
sane. Thaw was then gtveu his free
dom on thirty-five thousand dollars
’sar "* i • —
plete autonomy to Transylvania.
There Is also an undertaking tea! tho
Austro-German armies will occupy
Bessarabia, and hand It over imme
diately to Romania. Germany guar
antees the executlos of these pro
posals.
A significant point is that there Is
fixed tbe term of one month within
which either alternative <
most be agreed to. fflda la the
the Germans hope tha Tarks wOl
able to hold out la the n*rd*»«l«**_ ’
“Rip Gizzard," a new N. C. liquor
concoction, is said to have the far-
famed “Ueker" which makes a Jack
^Uahhtt »" * knii
Harry Thaw sad party- arrived In 1 llke * dose of sofbthlag syrup. A
AUffntle City. N. J.. Friday aight j* tea pounds of
They plan to stay over until Saturday | wit
morning. ■
withoet three pound* ef dried
[with water makes tee doom
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