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t OUTLOOK IS GOOD fiERMAN NOTE REGARDED AS 9 -favorabie By officials • ENDING LUSITANIA CASE j , ■ | . American Authoritiea lioolc With More Favor I’pon Phrase Substl- *. toted by Germany for the Word “Illegal"—JRerlin Says it Can Not » IMsavow Act Wliich it Ordered. y D rom high diplomatic quarters comes the statement that Germany has, with the exception of making an out and out disavowal Jot^the Lusi tania sinking, which sne considers impossible, conceded evMy desire of the United States and tnat the tenta tive proposal materially strengthens _ the assurances already given in the negotiations over the sinking of the steamer Arabic. It also Is claimed that the tentative proposal covers all , .j.dhe. fundamental issues involved in the conduct of’submarine warfare.. , It is explained that a direct dis avowal was given for the sinking of the Arabic, because that act was in violation of the instructions given the commanders of submarines. In the case of the Lusitania, however, the commander acted in accordance with orders. The general instructions not to sink liners without warning were given, it was disclosed, by high authority on the day after the Lusi tania went down. It was said that Germany withheld announcement of the fact for strategical naval reasons, The position of Berlin officials is •aid to be that the act of the com mander of a submarine can be dis avowed should he violate, disregard or have failed to receive instructions. »but that a government can not dis avow an act which it was committed in accordance with its instructions and for w hich it is responsible For the word "illegal." which Ger many was unwilling to incorporate in the tentative draft of the Lusi tania agreement, the Berlin foreign office has Substituted a phrase which certain high authorities consider covers all the principles involved in the question of submarine warfare. The language substituted for the objectionable word "illegal" In a ten tative communication now being con sidered avers that the death of Amer icans in the Lusitania disaster was without Intedt, because the destruc tion of the Cunard liner was an act of reprisal, and the German govern ment agrees that reprisals should not be applied to neutrals. From various diplomatic and offi cial quarters came the information that the outlook was promising for an early settlement. It was indi cated that the tentative form of set tlement which, should it prove ac ceptable to the United States, will be embodied in a formal communication from Germany, approaches nearer the desires of the United States thaw any yet submitted The cardinal points of the tenta tive form of settlement have become known The agrement is prefaced with the statement that submarine warfare in the North Sea was inau gurated by Germany in retaliation for what she regarded as the "illegal" blockade under the orders in council. It then states that the method of conducting submarine warfare in the North Sea has been modified on ac count of the friendship for the Unit ed States and because of the fact that American lives have been lost. Ger many says that the killing of Ameri cans was not intended, and in addi tion to expressing regret for the loss of American lives assumes liability and offers reparation in the form of indemnity. The last portion of the document expresses the readiness of Germany to co-operate with the United States in any effort looking toward the freedom’Of the seas. "In view of the admission of lilegality made by the imperial gov ernment when it pleaded the right of retaliation in, defence, of its acts and in view of the manifest'possi bility of conforming to" tho.eslpMish- ed rules of international warfare, the government of the United States can not believe that the imperial, govern ment will longer refrain from -dis avowing to the -wanton act of its naval commander in sinking the Lusitania." It was. asserted that the state de partment had shown a completp readiness t<$ fall in line with Ger many's ideas so far as it could with out sacrificing the main issues-ln- volved. Official-s . are described as having been moved to some evtpnt hy BERLIN SBOWS NO SIGN OF FURTflER CONCESSIONS Claims to Admit Illegality of Act Would Put Submarine Out . of Business. There are no 'hew ‘Berlin develop ments in the Lusitania crisis. Since the crucial factor apparently con^ cerns less the question of reparation and a formal regret for the sinking of the Lusitania than an admission of illegality of the act, which would Jnake a later resumption of the sub marine campaign out of the question, Germany abandoned attacks on liners out of deference to American wishes, but without admitting ady illegality under international law. * President Wilson and Secretary Lansing, according to the views held in the German capital, are trying to force Germany to place herself on /ecord regarding the principle of such an admission. In the form de manded by Secretary Lansing, it is contended, an expression of guilt for the sinking of the Lusitania would not only be involved, but it would take entirely from Germany’s hands the use of the submarine weapon against Entente allied commerce. This, and not any haggling over the terms regarding the torpedoed liner. Is the real reason, it is.ppinted out, for the insistence of the German government on the present stand point. The situation still is regarded in Berlin as grave. The public is in creasingly anxious and the Bourse, the best mirror of public sentiment, continues weak and uneasy in conse quences of the situation. LOO OOKFOR OUTRAGES IN HEART OF NEW YORK Subway Entrance* Guarded by Cop* and Itridgew Watched to Pro test 1*. S. (Vuiser. A general police order, issued Saturday night, assigning patrolmen to all stations of the subway system and to the Hudson Terminal build ing. led to repor|a that threats had been made to dynamlte-XfclG York's underground railroads, but no con firmation w att obtainable of an asser tion that a plot had been uncovered. Extra police guard* were station ed on the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges Sunday at the request of Bear Admiral Pther. commandant of the New York navy yard, it was an nounced at Brooklyn police head quarters. to safeguard the passage under the structures of the United States cruiser Washington which ar rived at noon from Haiti. The police said Rear '•Admiral Usher stated he desired the guards as a precautionary measure against the possible dropping of bombs on the cruiser. GERMAN TROOPS INTERNED Colonial Force la Africa Crow** Into Spanish Guinea. Madrid. Spain, reports: Nine hun dred Germans snd fourteen thou sand of their Colonial troops from the Gnrmap colony of Kamerun have crossed into Spanish Guinea, it was officially announced Sunday. The troops have been disarmed and In terned. This is taken to indicate that the Franco-British campaign in the Kamerun is nearing conclusion. The , Franco-British campaign against the Kamerun,,a German pro tectorate in Western Equatorial Africa, was begun in the spring of 1915. The Kamerun protectorate has an area of 191,130 square miles and has a population of 2.540.000. includtng about two thousand whites. The only other possession of the Ger mans in Africa not conquered by the Allies is the protectorate of German East Africa, which has an area of 384,000 square miles and a popula tion of fifty-five hundred thousand. HOLDS APPAM AS PRIZE a consideration fop the internal polit ical situation in Germany. German officials in America are in accord with the official opinion expressed in Berlin that ,the German govern ment believes it has gone as far as it possibly can to bring its viewpoint in line with that of the United States. Ih theMatest propO'sAT'there is no attempt to deny responsibility for the sinking of the Lusitania but Ger many assumes liability for American lives lost, offers reparation by the payment’ of indemnity and assures the Unite# States that the killing of Americans was without intent. The destruction of the liner was an act of reprisal for the British blockade under the orders in coyneil, according to the German view, and reprisal^ should not be applied to neutrals. The tentative communica tion also states that the method of conducting submarine warfare in the North Sea has been modified because of friendship for the United States and because American lives fiad been lost. * ' • , In this last connection, it was said it was possible that some reference might be made In the preface of the communication, should it be trans mitted formally to the United States, to the correspondence in the Arabic caae. In a note to Secretary I-anslng on September 2, Count von Berpstorff. the £erman ambassador, wrote that hla "instruction* concerning our an swer to yoar last Lusitania not* con- Froaident’n Attitude Accords With View of State Depart in cut. President Wilson is understood to Jiold the opinion thet the British steamship Apparp. brought into. Hampton Roads by a German crew, must be cfftibidered as a prize*of Ger- .niany undeftthe Prussian-Aiuerican treaty of 1828. It was stated Sun day night that his attitude accords •with the view of the state depart ment. The president--has not had an •op portunity to discuss with Secretary Lansing the details of the case and, therefore no final decision has been reached as to the length of time the Appam will,be allowed to'^emain in an American port. Some officials agree 'with the German contention that under' the Prussian treaty the prize crew-can keep the liner at New port News until the end of the war. NO POLISH RELIEF V. • HERBERT HOOVER AND SIR ED WARD GREY CANT AGREE FIND NO MIDDLE GROUND Correspondence Given Out by British Giv e Ej Foreign Office Explains Refusal to Permit Food Shipments to Poles— German Offer to I*rotect Food for Use of Population. The British foreign office has given out a letter from Sir Edward Grey, foreign secretary, to’ Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the Ameri can Commission for Relief in Bel gium, and the cablegrams exchanged between the Polish relief societies of Chicago and Premier Asquith, which indicate that no agreement lias yet been reached between the belliger ents for the relief of Poland's civil ian population.. Supplementing this correspondence the Associated Press has been gi\en a letter from Sir. Hoover which re sulted in the reply published by the foreign office. pThe correspondence on the subject leaves the problem of feeding Poland unsettled and eon- firms the opinion that any agreement which would enable relief to be car ried is so remote as to make.,it ex tremely improbable. Discussing Sir Edward Grey's let ter Mr Hoover said: "Sir Edward Grey’s letter lias been referred to Ambassador Gerard at Berlin with the hope that it wiU-*#urnIsh a basis for negotiations. Americans interest ed in Polish relief work must, how ever, bear in mind that all allied shipping is so preoccupied in allied transport that without tt)e benevo lent assistance of some neutral gov ernment In providing a regular ship ping service for this purpose, it would be impracticable to do any thing in a systematic order, even if all the multitude of other difficulties were overcome.” ' - Mr. Hoover's letter iiv part to Sir Edward Grey, dated December 22. follows: "Sir: Knowing your keen desire lo mitigate in every possible way hu man suffering arising out of the war. I feerjustlfled in bringing before you a suggestion in behalf of the civil population of Poland I attach here to a petition which the commission hat received from the large and rep resentative relief committee in War saw and also a report made as a re suit of persons! Investigation at our instance by Dr. Vernon Kellogg until lately director In Belgium, of our work there “No ad'teil vronls of mine ran darken the picture of miser) and <ie- *l«air which the statements depict. /\. . • I had some informal conver ssiion with the German authorities who have assured me that there are cereal and. potatoes available in Po land and elsewhere from which by mobilization and organized distribu tion some sort of minimum ration can be provided. "Other Items of a dietary do not exist in Poland and they are criti cally necessary to preserve health to the strong and life to the weak, and to forefend from the whole popula tion already incipient famine and disease The shortage of these par ticular commodities In Germany leaves no hope of help for Poland from that quarter. “I am assured by the German authorities that protection will he afforded to local and ini|M>rted sup plies for the exclusive use of the civil imputation and also that every facil ity will l>e afforded this commission in its task of organization and distii- hut ion under pro|«er guarantees. "It appears to us that deficient breadstuffs. etc., together with con densed milk for children can only be obtained by imports from over seas . . . We would not -undertake such a task without the approval and co operation of the allied government "In making provision'for food sup plies for these people, we should need not only to rely on charity, but to as semble all the economic resources of Poland and its institutions in mTicli the same manner as lias been done in Belgjum and we should need the per mission of liik majesty's government tfi facilitate ^fXfiUnnge and Ranking operations. ...” Sir Edward Grey’s letter to Mr. HodVer. given out by the foreign of fice for publication, follows:,- “Dear Mr. Hoover: 1 have care fully considered your letter of December 22 regarding the proposed scheme for the relief of Poland. In the face of accumulating evidence of To- Reserve Naval Station. By a vote of fifty-eight to fourteen the prst.‘ to be taken in' connection with the 'Ph'lippine bill, the Senate Tuesday refusedlto eliminate a pro vision that the United States might retain coaling stations and naval bases in the, islands after granting independence. For OhJcago Naval Academy. Senator Lewis has introduced a bill for establishment of a one-milllon- dollar naval academy at Chicago. tain the following passage; ‘Liners will no.! be sunk by our submarines without warning and without safety of the lives of non-combatants, pro vided that the liners do not try to escape or offer resistance." These instructions havo^oCySl been made formal fn connection with the Lusitania cose directly. At the time of the receipt of the communi cation Secretary Lansing said that it appeared to be a "recognition of the fundamental principle* for which we have contended '* German and Austrian requisitions in Poland, some" mention of which you will find in the inclosed telegraphic correspondence with Polish organiza tions in the United States, I fear it would be impossible to enter into any arrangements with you in regard to any scheme of relief until the Ger man and Austrian governments have prohibited the export of all food stuffs from Russian Poland and have guaranteed that the stock of food stuffs ’ shall not be drawn upon to maintain the occupying -armies,. , “If, ^nd when this were done, it might be possible to come to an ar rangement, with you allowing the importation of certain articles into Poland in return for undeVtakingfi on tjie part of the-German and Austrian government to supply an adequate ration and 'other necessary articles, and to give you a free hand in the distribution, of all stock*, of food stuffs thus made available. .“But prohibition of export and the guarantees mentioned above must be regarded as conditions' precedent to -any further discussion since these measures are demanded by the situa tion now existing quite independent ly of the question of imports, and the fact that they hare not yet been put In force constitutes evidence that the German and Austrian governments will never co-operate In any work undertaken in the Interests of the population of Poland." [ .J ■■ Tour smile la charming—keep it »* ' — ZEPPELIN RAIDWAS NOT RETALIATORY, SAYS BERLIN • ,f1 ' > Zeppelins Aimed to Destroy Munition Factoriee in Uie Midland Coun- -ties of Great Britain. Rumors have circulated in Berlin, says a dispatch from there on Wed nesday; that the Zeppelin raid on England on Monday night was a re prisal for the Baralong affair, but Associated Press correspondent is as sured in authoritative quarters that the attack did not come under that head. It is stated that midland section of England was selected for the raid be cause it is the center of the munitions industry and because Liverpool is the center of England's commerccT and that there was a purpose to bring home to the people of Great Britain the fact that the boasted defenses of London do not avail against Ger- mapy’s aircraft and it was intended also to interfere with the prepara tions beinfe made in England for the carrying on of the British operations in France and Flanders. The admir alty reiterates the statement that not a single one of the raiding Zeppelins was injured. LAYMEN OF STATE MEET -' r~ Over Twelve Hundred I>elegates A,t- - 1 ■ * r tending ('«>n\-ention. With 1,228 delegates registered, the initial session of the South Caro lina Convention of the National lay men’s Missionary Movement took place in the auditorium of the Jef ferson Hotel at Columbia Sunday afternoon. Dr. W. S. Currell, presi dent .of the University of South Caro lina. presided and delivered the ad dress of welcome. Addresses were alse made by President E M Poteat, of Furman University, on "Spiritual Objectives for Men of Business." and hy Dr. Worts M Tippy, of New York, on "The Task of the Modern Church." There were union services }n sev eral of the churches Sunday * night. Dr. Poteat preaching to a great audi ence at the First Baptist church, and Dr. Tippy to a large crowd at the Washington Street Methodist church. The Rer. R. W Patton of Atlanta, addressed • meeting for women Sun day afternoon at the First Baptist church, and preached at Trinity Episcopal church at night. LEFT OUTSPEECH WILSON’S NEW YORK TALK KEPT FROM NEWSPAPER REPORTERS CANADIAN CAPITOL BURNED; EXPLOSION CAUSED FIRE PICKING UP BARRELS OF OIL Said to Come From Slijp Which Struck Mine, Reuter's Copenhagen correspond ent sends an explanation of his dis patch of last week In which he said that nearly the entire Kabjerg fish ing fleet had abandoned its regular work 'tp hunt barrels of oil drifting up from the south, three thousand barrels having been picked up thus far Advices'reaching Copenhagen from Eshjerg say the oil barrels are from the Swedish steamship Nereus. which was sunk by a mine in the North Sea In December She had on board aix thousand barrels of oil from Eng land. Part of thla consignment was brought from America by the Danish steamer Absalom, which was stopped by the British and taken into Kirk wall. VAN DYKE SEES LANSING Conference Refers to British Inter ference With Mails.. Henry van Dyke. American ambas sador to Ttre Netherlands, home on • leave of absence, conferred briefly with Secretary Lartsing and Counsel lor 'Polk Tit the state department Saturday on interfered*^* with neu tral mails and also the Restrictions on neutral shipping The minister will see Wilson Monday and it is unde give some information to be used'J the note to be sent to Great Mritanv on contraband, particularly about re- shipment of American goods by Euro pean neutrals. ^ Dr Van Dyke also will take before .Secretary Lansing a formal report on the seizure of mail bags by the Brit ish from the steamer Rotterdam, on which Ik* came to the United States. \. I’hesident indersjood )e used in DID NOT SINK PERSIA Austrian Subs Return and Govern ment Denies Act. i , Secretary Lansing Tuesday an nounced the receipt of a dispatch from Ambassador Penfield at Vienna saying that he had bqen informed by the foreign office that all Austrian submarines operating in the Medi terranean had reported and that none of them was concerned in the sink ing of the Persia. The secretary also announced that he was addressing to Ambassador Morganthau for presentation to the Turkish government an inquiry as to whether a Turkish submarine wag re sponsible. The state department con siders that the statement from Aus tria-Hungary closes the (juestion of whether a submarine of that nation ality sunk the Persia. MUST PANAMA ... —v-— Five Gend-al* Appear Before House Committee. ~ The Panama canal fortifleations must be strengthened to meet .any emergency, five army generals told the House appropriation* eommlitee Saturday. The Upited States must maintain fortifications at the canal zone, the military experts said, ade quate to repel any possible attack by hostile naval forces, if the American Meft la. to he mad# efficient as. work ing force. The generals' endorsed *etimatq| coll for $I.S24.Mh for Panama cnhal fortification* aext rear Metropolitan ; Newspapers Almost Miss Talk on Preparedness Wliich . Fails to Reach Western Paper* on Time — Railroad Stenographer Were to Blame. One of the mofit important speeches eggr delivered by a presi dent of the United States, Mr. Wil son's address before the Railway Business association at the Waldorf- Astoria on Thursday night, January 27, narrowly missed being left out of the newspapers of New York and the newspapers of the east generally, and actually did not reach many western papers until too-date for publication. This will be a surprise probably to any newspaper reacher and no doubt to the president himself, of all Averi- cans the most concerned because of the issues Involved in having his opiniopszeent rapidly broadcast over the country. But it was a narrow thing, one of the narrowest squeezes in newspaper history—a matter of minutes, seconds even. It had been the president's inten tion to deliver a preparedness ad dress which he had written in Wash ington two days before he left for New York. Advance copies of this speech were^sent^to the New York' papers by their Washington bureaus. These were handled in the usual way and were set up in type ready for the signal from the reporters covering Mr. Wilson's appearance at the Waldorf that the speech , had been delivered as written. Suddenly, at the last minute, the reporters s^ the Waldorf were In formed tHat the president had decid ed to throw away his prepared speech and to launch out in a new one—. one which would be more significant of his stiffened attitude on prepared ness and international relations. This was at eight p m Simultaneously the newspaper men were told that a firm of stenographers had been re tained hy the publicity bureau of the Railway lluainess association to take the stenographic notes of the eztem- poreaneous address and to transcribe these notes and furnish copies of the speech as rapidly as possible to the waiting reporter*. This change of plan meant delay, naturally. In the business of ruahlng the president's speech from the Wal dorf to the newspaper offices, but It was. not looked upon at the momen as a serious delay It meant that the editorial forces and composing rooms would have to speed up a little more than they had ezpected. The hour was reassuring, since the president arose to speak at 9.35 p. m • He fin ished his address at 10.10. The firm of stenographers had kept transcrib ing the speech in short "take*." They should have had the transcrip tion ready to distribute within three- quarters of an hour at the moat. But when the newspaper men went to roqjp 129 at the Waldorf, where the stenographers were working, and asked for copies in a hurry they were told that initructlona had been re ceived hy the Railway Business press agent and by the stehographers that not a line of the president's speech much he given out until the whole speech had been gone over, word for word, by the president's own sten ographer' and revised and approved by him. It occurred to one reporter that Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the president, never In the world could have been a party to any arrange ment by which his chief’s speech would 'he kepi from publication be cause of sheer routine and red tape The reporter, after some difficulty, got Mr. Tumulty on the phone at the Hotel Blltniore. Mr. Tumulty was apalled. That's the only word that describes his state of mind “For heaven's sake," he shouted ivver Jhe phone, "get somebody, here thkt those “people up in roonj 129 will pay attention to! Not get the presi- ileftt's‘speech in the morning papers! Great ixird!" -*-i-t The bestHnan who could Jiav4 been wished for fn meet the emcngency, George C. Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf, happened at that moment to walk past the telephone booth. The situation was ijreathlessly put to him. He didn't stop to a$k ques tions. Probably that's why he has the Waldorf. He jumped into the booth, caught three words fritip Mr. Tumulty, jumped out again an Ottew* Parllameatary House Sjrept by Flames—Coet Over 84x " Mlilioa Dollars. Canada's magnificent parliament building at Ottawa, Ont, which eoet more than six ipiUlon dollars, lay in ruins Friday swept by a fire attri buted by some to a bomb or infernal machine. At least six lives were lost snd many persons were Injured. The known dead are: Mme. Bray, wife of H. A. Bray, of Quebec, and daughter of the 1st* George Tanquay of ths legislative council. Mme. Morin, wife of Louie Morin, . of St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec. Alph Des Jardlns, a Dominion policeman. A plumbdr and a waiter. , Another Dominion policeman is be lieved to have been killed when the roof fell. The financial loss is difficult to estimate but the contents of the building were of great value. At an early hour Friday it was betieved that the parliamentary library In a rear wing had been saved. While' the fire was burning soldiers carried out many of its two hundred thou sand volumes. • The parliament building wo* rated as one of the finest Gothic struqtnres on this continent, it covered four acres on Parliament Hill. The fire started in the reading room of the House of Commons. Col onel George Bradhury, a member of the House from Manitoba, Mayor Medrlc Martin, of Montreal, and Con stable' Helmer, who was standing at the entrance of the library, agree that it was preceded by an explosion. They say they believe the explosion was causd by a bomb or infernal machine. In the library were thousands of loose papers. Smoke rolled in dens* volumes out through the doors and Into the chamber of the Houae of Commons where that body was sit ting. With the spreading of the alarm members of the House of Commons, spectators In the gallery and attend ants fled in panic for windows, doors or fire escapee So swift was tb* rush of the flames that assay nar rowly escaped. DISPOSAL OF APPAM IS A PERPLEXING QUESTION Novel situaUoti Arises With Arrival of the Germ mi Ship at Hemp- the way up to room 129 with all ^he reporters in the world trailing him. Guests of the Waldorf looked on in astonishment. Flinging open the door, Mr. Boldt said succinctly: ‘ “You will give these gqntlenien of the press the speech they arfe watting" ior." -The result was that the morning papers jjist managed to get a consid erable part of the president's speech in its first edition:* Th«f complete speech apeared in the second and later editions. The worst sufferer^ were the western papers, whiclf'be- cause of difference in time were de-. prived of a big news story ty blind routine. Perplexing questions of tntarna- tlonai law may ariae from th* arrival of the Appam In Hampton Hoads. First ths United States must deter mine the' ship simply as a prise of war or whether aho has been sap- plied with 'any armament which would give her* the character of an auxiliary crutsor. So far as naval authorities know, no case exactly Ilka It bos arisen to concern the United State* sine* tb* beginning of the war. Tha German •hips Kronprlns Wilhelm and th* Print Eltel Friedrich, which look refuge In Hampton Roads early In the »nr, worn auxiliary cruisers and are Interned as such. • The Hague convention provides: "A prise may only be brought into a neutral port on account of unaou- worthineas. stress of weather or wont of fuel or provisions. “It must leave as soon as tha cir cumstances which Justify Its entry are at an end. If it doe* net the neu tral power must employ the means at Its disposal to release it with It* offi cers and crew to Intern th* prize crew.” In case the Appam can be consid ered as an auxiliary cruiser, she is entitled under international law to a certain length of time to make any necessary repairs and load enough coal and provisions to carry her to the nearest home port. Until it Is decided whether the German commander aboard the Ap pam brought the ship to an American {Jort as a prize of war or os a con-, verted auxiliary cruiser of the G«r- mann navy there will be no determi nation of the American course re specting the. ebip ; When certain formalities have been complied with, the ship’s pas sengers, including several British colonial officials, will be released and their disposition passed on by immi gration authorities. Any prisoners of war will be released because in ternational law permits no holding of war prisoners in a neutral country. The United States then,—finally. NEW TYPE OF VESSEL Appam’s Captor Hftld to he Specially Built German Ship. Daniel Bacon, New York agent of the Elder-Dempster company. British owners of the Appam. says that ves sel was captured by "a new type of light draft, heavily armed with d^Tth man cruiser built on the lines of a merchantman and easily disguised. n ** rx ■ u "She was not on old warship, hat a brand new veesel." sold Mr. Bacon '‘I can not give ner name, t&oagh I have been officially told It The cruiser which captured the Appam was escorted hy several veaeela. at least one ef which was a cel Her that aleo acted as a will have to deal with the German crew under Lieut. Bergp, and If they 'are accounted in the Hftyal service of Germany, as were the crelrS* of the Prihz Eltel Friedrich and the Kron Prinz JVHhelm, already interned at fhe Norfolk navy yard, they, too, will be interned unless their ship goes to sea to run the cordon of British cruisers outsu As to the disposition of the Appam herself, if she is hqld to be^an aux iliary cruiser, her commander will have the option of putting to sea after a certain time to make repairs and take on provisions. If she Is de clared a prize the situation becomes more complex and in that event, it is admitted, that the United States will have to deal with probably the most novel question concerning Up neutral ity that has arisen during the war. Died While Making Call. ^ While visiting at the home of a neighbor, Mrs. McGowan Simpkins of Edgefield Tuesday afternoon. Him Mamie Lake, who was sitting In a chair enggged In conversation, sud denly fell lo th* floor and ex pi rad being due to A dlepatch Man "The