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a t... / f ) UAirSJfAR WORK GENERAL STAFF DETAILS EIGHT MONTHS’ FIGHTING OFFENSIVE UNCHANGED lift Of Mrlal SUtie-meat-ot the Minis- •, 1 ' ter of War Shows Progress—-Tol- mino at Artillej-y’s Mercy and Gorizlal'nhihabit^ble—IToundarics Muasural>ly Expanded. The Italian minister of war issued ' on January 2y the first cumulative statement of •Italian military'opera- lions since tlie nation declared war .on Austria May 23,' l'jl5. Siiice then Italy hjia denlaced war on Turkey, August 20, and on Ifulgaria October 10, and has subscribed to the engage ment of Great Britain, Franco; Japan and Russia, not to make a sepal ate peace with either of the central em pires or tlreir allies, November 30. The statement of tlie minister of war ivi Uvf TO TRAIN NAVAL MILITIA iRF WARNFR ON ACTUAL BAHLt CRUISE 0llir,J rtllL ”^ lvnLU is as follows: “The general staff herewith pre- SeniNr-a-review of the operations on our front from the beginning of the war and'tlie results of our offensive: “In the Trentirio we have comjuer- ed the line from the Valle Davna to the Valle di Ledro, Whe Loppio de pression and the Valle Terraguolo, thereby redeeming a 'rich and popu lous region, securing the two south ern and most threatening extremities of this salient, which extends from the west to the east of the Lugo di Garda to within a score of miles of. the Brescia-Verona highway. I cover th “On the* eastern side of this sail-1 mditiam ent several roads passing between tlie! t ‘ ie s *' a 1 i^illge and the llrenta lead from the'*' on - frontier ami seek the level ground iH-tween Verona and Vicenza. Ilfre iiad been placed the most formidable Austrian defenses forming tbo most threatening zone for an invasion of tire level land of Venvta. " ■* Daniels Plans to Mobilize Fleet for Service S<» as to Train Those » ' - -f——r* - | ~ : .. - ia Ileeerve. Plans for training of the naval militia of the country on a far broad-> er scheme than ever before attempt ed have been worked out by Secre tary Daniels. The naval militia In tlie South Atlantic and (Pulf coasts will have practice cruises “on de stroyers with Key West, Fla., As a baSSe, while a fleet of reserve battle ships, carrying the reserve and mili tia from all parts of the country, will participate in the summer manoeuv- ers jot the Atlantic and Pacific fleets if congress approves the necessary expenditures. : ■ k , . ThP navy department soon will turn over five of the older destroyers u> the-naval militia in the South for permanent practice sh ips. One will be stationed at Jacksonville, one at Key west, one at Charleston, one at New Orleans and. one at Galveston. The regular mobilization pmfft v of these craft for practice cruises.will be at Key West. The battleships Oregon, Kearsage. and Kentucky •tore to be turned'over next month to the militia forces “or the Atlantic and Pacific, for perma nent practice shtps r -\The Oregon will be stationed at San~ Francisco, the Kcarsagb .at IlosFop, and the Ken tucky at New York. These three ships and the resen o' superdreadnoughts whfch carry the Annapolis midship men on their summer cruisb will make up the fleet manned forty per cent, by regular officers and men and sixty percept, by the reserve and naval militia. •* * 1 ' An appropriation of‘seventy-seven thousand dollars will.be asked to traveling expenses of the of the interior sections to i"t to join in the mobiliza- TEUTONS SAY THEY WILL SINK ARMED VESSELS GARRISON SAYS HE IS OUT OF POLITICS FOREVER i WASHINGTON SATISFIED In all th three hur:! 1 sand dot In j militia tin ! together IlkOrt dred reservist e .department is asking f< red and eighty-seven thou,- rs for the reserve and ; j»-.ir. and’expects to get than fort'-live buu-< for' of both clan “Fut tin occupied liorgo and all of the vast mountain ous zorte extendiug to tjie fitul of the AlA^-A«tcludiug the •'alleys of Cala- mento ami Campello with the hollow ttf Jitrigno, the \’alle <U Gn/no with, the hollow of Tesino, the Valle d. to the northeast we have I *T ,, ‘ su, " ,ll, “f tiic N'al .Sug.ina as (ar a-' ,l ’ u ' tmudr Vanct, • w it! i the hollow of 1 I ho Canale Sambov o, and the VaU< a dt Cormona with tie e hollow of. Fieri i di Drimiero. “In t ho i (. adore *e h: ive con quered the h(‘i ght * of Cordevi ulo aa fur as Cliere, the - ridge of c ort ina d \rn- pc/zo. and - the slopes of V ofa na and (’ristall o, a nd hto'e cuf the lfll| liortaiil lino of Co» Uin'unication lea «tin K from Austria to the Dolouiii te J ^ipa i along our fn mil er, which h ad hot* u <-in- structn 1 u t order to h U i ItO d,»- Jaiico i el* een Taoinc a Tri nt. We b ivt* a occupied sc HT| ll a i Ivunce spurs » h extended i t ht • upper valleys of th«* Rietizo a 2id SeX! ell at a »l tort distance Ir OtU I hi s. gn at Austria mo of com nr. utii in wall i to* Ya della Drava. “in i ni«U»o have M P 0 ’*** ! ‘' slot of tit - fronti<*r Ltu slant a i'ka from t ho * A ii dlrociw I ^ illl idea of ilfl m ^uud nirnai B •ur flank. ••Her o « >ur artillery 9 a, jid the f(*arb - - -mils of our Him > h ive l ! » enemy’FTo nation's along t ♦ 'alleys of th* * Hi ill « md thw A Itofcll lest roved th* • fo rt c >f Hen- S'-l ni 1 H.i imaged that of I’V dil. * “On tlie Isonzo we Ip uve CO!] iquered the'holl low of the Plezzo as far as the iMzation. 'There are 1 Tni n In th* 1 ri u lar reserve and eight thousand in lltc naval militia. * • _. ■yie fir^t line craft «New Hampshire and North Daknta also may he among these commissioned fon the mohilizathfn. The other vessels are all Considered valuable fighting ships by the navy experts, despite their age and they are the craft the reserxlsts, particularly the militia, will be ex- rted to man in time of war. fii ,1 ■ of the |1 peace lin the tempted by made public that the Orei ships Of tie noeiivre will Ian which involves itdliz.ilion ever at- the navy have not been It is known, however. on lb Uu ami -other ifle III.- 1 w ictlvu ships I r game pr« service ill ma- n Uiom* ■vionsly rists of American I’rinciiiles are Adopted Ac cording to Official View—Passen gers ar-e to lie Warned to Stay off .Enemy Merchant Strips if They are .Armed. ■ Germany and Austria have for- iiiariy -notified the I'nited States Jhatfbeginning March 1, command ers of their sulimarincs will con sider armed merchant ships'of the Entente allies to lie warships and will treat them arsonlingly, •1'nilcr such instructions command ers would he at liberty to sink with out 'Corning any armed. vp\ : c1. whether passengeiy or freight-curry ing. ■ ' • The notifications were presented orally to Secretary (rinsing by Count vitTf Hernstorff and Harorf* Krich Zwicdinek. charge of th« Austro- Hungarian embassy at Washington. Notes from the governments-are to follpw. The intention of the Teutonic allies is considered in official and j diplo matic fTrcles to he a development .of the memorandum proposing the dis arming of merchant ships which Sec retary* Lansing recently w'nt to tlie Kntente powers. * High officials of (he state do-' pacthicnt seemed dis|xocd to con sider tlie development broad enough to "iti rant tlie claim that > tlie fundamental question* involv ed in tlie conduct of suhtnaiine - warfare lia.xf Im-ci» sot I list jn »<- eortlance witFi the couteiiiIouh of tlie t uittsl Mules. This is ha««si on the belief that with Germany an.I Austrig giving no tice that they will sink without warn ing all Brined ships, the two govgrn- menta dtn.uot legally claim the riihf to slnV unarmed vhasels. That l« tlie principle for which tlie I'nited Stales has so vigorously contended since the beg’nning. of the negotiations over the conduct of «ubt.:arlne war- ■ fit re. In view of this situation Ameri cans. .it Is stated by high Authority, may be warned that they will take passage aboard armed merchant ships at their own risk and l»e entitled to no more protection from Ihe I'nited States than if they had emha/ked upon a belligerent warship. officlaL seemed nut t«i tie able to eniicelvi flint .an) issue enuld arise In the fu ture. from u siilminrine warfare con- dtirtfsl under these rules. Interviewed in New York Friday He Says He Does Not Intend to Fight Wilson. ... - , i * • Former Secretary Garrison an nounced in New York Friday that he Intended to rVtiro “absolutely-'' from politics and public life. He said he would not discuss hfs. resjgiiatl''n from any political angief. Mr. Garrlstfii intiujate.d. however., that he might “do Something’ 1 in tlie matter of giving support to the move ment in favor of a continental army, the issue upon which his resignation hinged. This intimation came in- sponse tb a. uuestion put by news paper.men as-* to^wheth.er ho would ’’gix'e bis moraf support to those Lvho continue urging the policy of a con tinental army. , “I can not 'answer that question,” said* the former secretary of war. "because it would infringe upon poli tics. 1 say this to yoii now so ihaf later if I do decide to do something you will not say that I tried to de ceive you.” Mr. Garrison received interviewers at the home, of George Leary 'jith whom he spent -the night after hts arrival from Washington. “I will not discuss my i-ospgnatlon from tin* cabinet,” in* said, “from any political angle whatever, ciTber as regards the present situation* -or the situation to tlie produced or as sumed to lie pisidiiced. The fact* will lie disclosed to any one who kill carefully rend the correspondence be tween myself and the president That correspondence ran not be misinter preted by any one. “I intend to retire absolutely from pnlitFos anil public life. 1 do not rare for any political consideration what ever. Get it out of your head that there was auytb'-uif poITU^l 3 D' action.” ’ * r _ Mr Garrison -w-as a^kdd if he in tended to •’follow the example of Mr Itfyan and come out-publiely against Mr. Wifsoa’s poli es.’’ “Y-oe-! vnu ; ■. ept the nomination f«>r governor of New Jersey,” he was asked. “I .Would not accept the i onilnation ir governor of New Jersey' if the •rtiflention of election was handed to me on a silver platter.” he-said. SPECI1L MESSAGE MANNING ASKS LEGISLATURE FOR SPECIFIC ACTION SEND BRICE TO AMERICA TO ADJUST THE BLOCKADE WANTS SOME LAWS MADE Governor Sends Special Communica tion the GenoYal Assembly '' When it Opened Tuesday—Calls Attention to Previously Requested Action. 600,000 GERMANS MASS ON BELGIAN FRONTIER it onie dljdr Ive date poned in tf tl Older lerge Numliers of German Troops Said to Have Item Transferred to Northern France. » * • Reiterating the report that, large numbers of German t/pops hajra^been transferred recently fo* nerthern France, the Amsterdam correspond ent of the Central News telegraphs Wednesday that It Is reported from the Reiglan frontier that six hinrdred thousand men have been sent to that front. • i' tb GERMANY’S PEACE OFFER TO BELGILM WAS* REflSFD r ird b' th th m do Italian Taper Says Alln'it’s Turned, Deaf thir to Tri>|tosaD. The Gi Kin: All doin .1. am I In :ar I urn d r rchunt . rotvfali vtion to which I An* w.t- slopi's of Mounls dtiwiibon and Javor- . cek and yycj^nied.a gheat part of the The Olournab* dTtalia states Wed- slopes ofMonte Nero, which extend! nesday that Monsignor Tacii, the in a solhl mass along the left banks I I*apal nuncio to Belgium, presented of the stream’opposite our positions I Belgium tlcrniany s propy^ilij VtiHII anil Alfilll. wldle.'~h~tiie ! ft Sahara I o-pea e. Whether or not h< .of Santa Maria and Santa Luoin, i was authorized to do so by the \iiti trr hifTs we hi' e maintained a constantly aug menting offensive. “The fortified town oP Tolmino is absolutely at the mercy of our artil lery fire. • •‘In tlie - Middle Isonzo we hpve instructed a strong bridgehead to e east oT Tlava and, with Abe oc- — -cunatton of the hdTSTTts west of Gbri- zia, we. have rendered useless th’e enemy’s formidable bridgehead, made the town uninhabitable, and dominat ed the vast and populous plain on the right bank. - ' "Further south we have passed * ovfrr the’river and pierced the heavy lines constructed by the enemy along the edge of the Sarso. and have firm ly established ourselves ou this pla teau. ‘‘The enemy, not being able to depT'^Tiur successes,- limits him-c.lf to tin* constant declaration .that tin* strugRttf-flevelops around' our defenses, but he d**eiHs it prudent - to abstain from acknowledging to what extent our-attacks are vvear- ' ing away his own.: ‘‘Along the entire front-the enemy is at the mercy of our initiative, forced to limit himself to a passive resistarrnp, desperately clinging to the land end (o the hope^that, through his uiperior positions^ h^ may be atile to.sustain himself. The fact is, however, that while thus occupying favorable, defensive positions, he. has lost thirty thousand prisoners, five heavy guns, Mxty-fivfesiiaacfdne guns, several thousand rifles and grenades.- niunitions. and other war material of every kind. ’ "Ayaiinst him. our array, facing the can, says the- newsaper, Tias not been 'ascertained. It is sahl that Gewnanv .through T’rince von Buelow and-othet promi nent personages, has indicated tlhit the terms she is ready to pffer to Belgium for. the concluding of a sep arate peace comprise the restoratinon of Be'gtuin to the government of King Albert and the payment of a large indemnity for damages caused by the invasion and the occupation and that she asks in return economi cal and commercial privileges which would practically transform the port of Antwerp into a German center of traffic. To these proposals Belgium is said to have replied with a-prompt refusal and a declaration of intention to adhere to the Allies and not con clude a separate peace. REPUBLICANS BACK PLANS Tell Wilson hey Will Support New Measure for Army. Republicans of the House military committee assured President Wilson Thursday'that a strong army Increase hill, drafted in a non-partisan spirit and accomplishing all life mjiin ob jects sought by the war department plan, would be on the House calendar within three weeks at most. They told him, however, that the commit tee was practically unanimously op- posedjLo ihe department's continental army scheme. The Republicans called at -t-he White House at the president’s invi tation. following Chairmafi-Hay and several o.f the Democratic colleagues. I ... V.. .I* , — . . 1. seriou^■ ilifficulldm? of conducting an whp cat'ricif tli'h same message to the ■ jolfensivb wliich moder n yar’tiaa do-. chh4-ex*u :n i.v»- Wednesday. . into operation at 'the end of this month. Attached to the memorandum are several appendices. The first Is the declaration in the House of Commons March 2fi, 1!>13, of Winston Spencer Churchill, thert first lord of the Brit ish admiralty. The second refers to tlie communication of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambassador to Washington, to William .1. Bryan, then Secretaryf+rf State, on August Dll’I, as-ttfTT^rlng in the dlplo- ma'tie .correspondence of the state de partment. ; ' . • •. The third appendix is tlie German declaration of October 13, 1914, re garding the treatment of armed mer chantmen. The femrth gives details in iiine-t>-e-n cases, dating from April 11, 1015, to January 17, lOITi, in which merchant vessels,’ mostly un- iilentilieil, opene-el fire* on German submarines, spoe-ilic eletails Ix'ing given in each instance. Among the identified ’ship'-, are: De marara, British, fired on a itTB- marine while on her way from Lis bon for Liverpool last June. Admiral Hamelin. French, sunk by a submarine In Oe-lofier of kill a, sv-ilh a_ loss of seventy-one Tiv’eaf WoodfleM, British, sunk by a sub marine in November after an engage ment in the Mediterranean. ing nineteen instances wherein-It is Lumina.' British tanker, »a d to charged German submarines Ciave j have attacked a German submarine been fired upon by merchantmen l>efore being sunk. . [The memorandum concluded:. City of Marseilles. British, report- “Cnder. tlie enumerated circum-led to have attacked a submarine.* s'angea «. fit,/-)' u.crvi:anuirtrfi itimt-Tlifrom which it escaped. . ’ ' wifTi.guns BoTonger have the riglitj Melanie. DritisR. said to have al to be regarded, as pescefnl ne-rchant-1 tacked a submarine while flying, the men. The Ct-rman sea lories, there- Dutch Tag and to have been suiflt. fore, will he iwlernl to treat sueb | The fifrh^appendlx l* a photo- vessels as warsbi|H> after a *l»ort ia-' graphic reproduction of “tastroetions tcrxal granted ia the iaieresis of aea- for guidaace ia th# rare and maiate- MtJ -- - trala. ThaOernaa goxernai-nt make»rpance of armaaient on dirfsaeiiaH - "In spite of the haughty Austrian »ii« rmo«u of itr 'aior-iev- ’".-reasod* neutral powers'Aware-of this uttua armed aierrhaat shipa.” sptd to have bulletins of the Brs| days of the war the defeases of the aatlea for the | Hot, that they may vara their etti he#a signed hy the British admiralty and the humble ones oT more recent f un'e ' measurably expaadad i reas' aaalasi ferfher aatraMiag thetr dated May 7. 1) IS. aad marhed eaa- dala. -the Italian army, after arda- Its - I — • —*-■ - I it was i should nn tntt- regard ami- -ristnn* into| irshtps. It Tines hnd a Hght to operate la accord with int«T- nutiunal law. but that their com manders could not be expected to cn- danger* their vessels and crews in dealing with armed ships. ’■i.itc iii'part tin iiT' «>ri irhiir ib*cliiie<l to iITm'iiss the notifications nx elved, it waV mlinJUtsI in various qriaiteis that llte prn|Mis{tion pr b- ably vvoiilil receive liltli* op|Kisiti<in from the state department, it wa.- considered that the immediate effect of the notification would be to cause the department -to announce more quick'y than had been deem«-*y;.d visable its intention to ahandoj the old ruling, which permitted meirhant ships to carry arms for defensiya pur poses. • /) Berlin rejiorts by wireless lo Say- ville: The German government is a!>out to issue a memorandum to neutral governments announcing that hereafter arnied merchantmen be longing lo countries at war with Ger many will he sondired and treated as warships after March 1. The government contends this measure is justified by explicit in- stnuctions issued by the Biitisli ad miralty to merchantmen, a copy of which is said to have lieen obtained by the (.erinan authorities. These instructions,-it is understood in Ber lin, were that merchantfnen"should carry guns ami attack submariiies on siglit. • > -•’ • it is,also.stated these orders have a cnnnterp.'Lri. in InstnieTfons issued Jjy the governments of other enemy countries. Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, under secretary of fort iVn affairs, in giv ing out the meimiramluni, said: ‘‘We Ix-Iiexe we can meet Secre tary Lansing’s ideas concerning submarine war.” Ile-klatul that the action would be taken as soon as neutrals could ad just their .rommeiree. . It was.explained in the memoran dum that Germany take* her present step tn view oT what' she cites aV secret Instructions of the Bfitrsh ad- SENATE HELPS NAVY ■ - - ♦ itiiiuitlee Re|Mirts Favorably ( pon Two llt'iuse Bills; “The McCuUodgh bill, which pro elos at the mevai academy no»t Jul#--rttfmr—rnv-viw; raisltoK of the child After brief considewtion the Sen ate naval cominittnr" Wndneaday agreed to report in favor of the bills authorlginb exi>enditure of y.TdO.Oonl to equip Mare Island navy yard for battleship construction and one hundred thousaud dollars to enlarge the facilities of the New York navy yard uud the bill to add three hun dred midshipmen to the entrance Gov Manning Tuesday night sent a meisage to the general assembly urg ing them to pass the Torrens system of land registration, the rural credits bill, the bill providing for tire teach ing of agriculture in the common scliools, the bill r.Vising the child labor age limit to_H yepr^-the-work men’s compensation hill ai^Ltlij' bill providing for the cerUheinion of tec.^hers. The niessggi- follows: “Permit rite to'v^espoctTullv-*-'call yOur attention to the importance of pressing the conside-rntion of eerta ri measures otf your (iulendar.', which 1 deeiu of,Impiortunc 1 ? to the great body of otir eitizehs w hom-you-and I rep- ’Tw*nt. “My reason for this mesrege is that we are approaching the closing'days of the session, and I earnestly desire that these'mutters should not be overlooked Tlie Torrens System. “There have been meetings of citi zens in many localities throughout the state.• calling on’the legislature to adopt the Torrens system (ft hind registration and enact the same into law. This is a necessary . prerequi site to a system of rural credits. It will rgduce expenses tn borrowing money on land; tt gives the itate warrant to title aiid puts an end to litigation on land titles. Such an act would bo a boo it to tlie state, and 1 earnestly urge Its adoption. Rural (’reslIts. “Forty-three per cent, of our white farmers are tenants. The dream of the South Carolina, patriot is to see those tenants become the owners Of their homes and farms. If we are to •progress we must help these tenant* to help themselves in their ambition to become huine owners.. ami we must make tills possible bv adopting measures bit bet to untried, even If th(fi may seem radical. The result Is important. I deem it of the 'utmotfl importance to .take the steps neces sary to bring It about. Kbt us not adjourn Ibis session unrtT tnepe two measures are made Into laws. Then our vision for - future deve’opment will be turned‘into reality, and our rural population will find full scope lor their soaring and elevating ambi tions to find realization tn a people happy In the proapert of future com fort, rontentedneas and happiness. Agriculture in Krliool*. “J earnestly urfctTupon you the de MrabHity of enacting Into law thi Toole and LaGrone bill, providing for 'the teaching of agriculture fn tb common schools. Agriculture is th basis of our material prosperity. Th common School is the keystone of our educational system. Provide for the teaching of agriculture In tTie com moo school so that agricultural edu cation will reach those who.can not get In an agricultural college, and an enlightened prosperity Is the result among this large body of our citizens. Oiiltl l<ahog. Leading Biitisli PajK-r Wants Trade (Questions With This Conn- . • - ■ / ■ -i - - , . try' Settled. The Manchester Guardian of Sing- land. In an editorial, suggests that Viscount Brice or Arthur J. Balfour he sent to the I'nited States will full troversy. ~ I It publishes a statement from ■ i- London^ correspondent to the ef. ' ” that people In close touch- wu.i Anglo-American affairs express the opinibn that some , such step should J) be taken. The blockade question is being pressed throughout the I'nited States, the Guardian say . as persistently as - the Lusitania ques tion. Exclusive air tentlon will t given!the blockade question when the Lusitania case is settled. * Th* Gunftnftn <’ ells uf>on the faet that Br.lisu people .are puzzled that PUjety trad • -ub;< cts should creato asrtntuth ex ibetnentyjn the question of hutn'an .life. Thi- Guardian says German diplomacy ha-' tw-o advan tage' over the British. wMch Jiav«*. been overlooked. The first is: “That critical and even hostile attitude of American navy toward the British sea power as well as* theories on which it is Th. day. bills passed the House Mon- ihantmen l)e!onging to p iwytr's at war with the German empire.” The government's action, it is stat ed, follows the finding of. the British instructions adduct'd on board the British ship Woddfleld: Dr. Zimmerman sahl be lielicvctl the meisittrunduni was in hunnnny with tlie ideas put forth in the Ameri can government's proposals to bellig erent nations in regard to thck suit- marine warfare, which, he thought, were calculated to pjacp this form of warfare on a proper basis. The under- ° r labor age limit to H years, is of great importance arid should be speedily enacted. Ttio very wording of this'bill Is the greatest argument jn favor of its passage. The longer th-o child Is kept tn school the greater hts efficiency when he begins work Workmen’s. Compensation. “The hills introduced hy Senator Buck and "Representatives Mills and Johnstone have been carefully work ed out, and, in my judgment, will meet conditions existing in South Carolina. There is nothing in the act that can injure the honest employer it In a protection to linked Is almost as old as the Ameri can nation‘i>self. Our last war with the I,'-nlted*Statcs T arose out of what was regarded by. America as abuse of otir power at sito. We have forgot ten the dcfaMs. but the I'nited States havQ.'t, and both than and now the I’nited Statej! -regards itself as the natural champion of neutral rights. If is impossible to exaggerate,th© In fluence of these historic faets on the American piflicy.” Second, says The Guardian, tt-must be remembered that at the Confer* nee of Haris.' fifty year* r go which itKdishod privateering, * the rolled StaJcs refused to agree. “If gave ns its ground that al- though abolition might aid humgoBy t favored the great -naval powers at tlie expense of powers with a lafge mercantile marine but small navy. •**n*i* may have something to do with the I'nited States' attitude to ward submarine warfare The Amer ican* are not very constructive, hut In no other country Is the force of tradition in the conduct of foreign relations so strong. The outcome may effeet the future of th* whole Cog- llsh speaking people." ASKS FOR FACTS ; Write* Austria ( Vm rralag Itlaek I’pon IVImMle. Secretary Lansing announced Thursday he had sent to the Austro- Hungurlan government, through Am- ba-r-aiKvJkm.Held. a dispatch asking for an Investigation and explanation of the attack by the Austrian sub marine on the Aiuericao tanker Petrdllte The secretary said published state ments that demands had been made upon the Yium* government were “not true,” hut that it was within the rang© of- possibilities that de mands of some sort might ter made in the future should the Investigation and explanation asked warrant them. The secretary’s dispatch called at tention to affidavits from members of the crew of the f*etroltte and to information fron: other sources to the efe< t that the ship was stopped in tl.e Mediterranean near Alexaudfla hy an Austrian submarine which Ir- ed upon her and. wounded one man in her engine room. The submarine'commander asked for food which ('apt. Thompson of the Fetrolite refused. He thereupon sent a boarding party on the American ship and removed one American member of her crew who was held .an a hostage while the Austrians took the food they required ’ from the F’etrollte’s stores. KEE'S ARMY INTACT ») i at x vzu xjpx-i uaaio. a'iim; uuutri “ i , . ' . ' . *• secretary said tlie orders would po 0 , ls ^ a,r an< ^ Jus ^ Parties velopeil. is obliged to figjht always!—The ' president was told that the ... fropi Ipwor posil^ons in order to militia could be welded-irito a strong i' IU,r ,- t0 nie f'nnips to op* n nre dominate 'th^ enemy’s, wliich had—Instrument for the hatiopal defense.I on 8U ,n, ®- r - ’ s * Germany furtiier cit- been prepared for Mhls eventualBa, and brought up to the strength of the and in eight months of hard strutgle proposed continental army, has maintained an unaltered offm- T | 1P preSid.-nt told the comfnlftee- sijp with sojrlt and tenacity in the ni , - 1 that he* w. luld not urce anv -• c- t diff*c4tlt;of all’Uie present thea-Tqp,. ,,| :tn ,„ r tt*e’ re 'ruanjzed ,rm. of the war, supporting with conr- ^ ■-> ■ »— ilid nut tgiaAthgr rh©- J*J»*1 T -ewanv j, j'it : a could hri orrarrtved into-as ef- gaintng just fame for valor and even fl r ip n t a bodytiu* nationgl defence a - the respect, of- the ^nemy—as has co.uld the cpntlnental arm©, distbat It been. pfoved _by the unanimous I'd- could be made as readily available bute of praise given by the foreign f or a n Kerri res press. v. . - md the sooner it becomes a law the sooner "ill our court dockets be cleared,, and kept cleared, of personal (InEiiage suits, and justjee will be done- to all parties. I urge .the enactment, of this law'. J * 1 Cert if leal Lud of Teachers-,: , “I earnestly Arge upon you the importance of the passage of the, Nicholson bill, providing for the cer tification of teachersJjy a state board. “These measures iUo. in my' judg ment. of state-wide Importance, and I. fed that the interest of the people demands tlie enactment of these bills into law. “Your desire and ability to serve your state Is unquest roped. T, there- -fpre.j urge again, with earnestness amr sincerity, that active efforts he made to enact these laws. Tlie peo ple are pleading for these, laws, and should have them. -“Let me again urge upon Von the necessity for definite action on,these most important state-wide measures.’’ \Vork For Farmers, They Say.* I’aelfists, who said they represent ed- the farmers, working- people and voting women of the country,- Tues day warning Senate and House mili- ' r ' committees aga g statu- - led Into what they termed qa ranted appropriations for military preparedness. Greek Premier Says Soldiers Mus< ' ’ i ' - Remain Alert. * “F’remier Skouloudis declared In the Greek chamber Thursday that the government’s program was above all to keep the forces of . the nation In tact and use them exclusively in the interests of the country,” sa/s a Havas dispatch from Athene dated, February D. , “The premier said the/cours£*-©4 events- had shown that/thrs policy, whose object was to avoid trouble for Greece, had -obtained approval of-a majority of the population. This policy, he asserted, would he con tinued, notwithstanding pressure which jhe people were enduring Oorir- ageously, in the hope that right and justice would soon recover - their 'authority'.' •' > “In the discussion which followed Mr. G-ounaris, former premier, sup ported the government The cham ber unanimously approved the decla ration of M. Skouloudis.” FIGHTING IN WEST Run <»#mian Consul. Off. i German Gonial ShomtTrtr -ave Germans and French Make Violent Attacks and Claims. 17 There has been do dlmtnntlon fn the severe fighting between the French and the Germans in the Artois region of Rrance Northwest of Vimy, Berlin says; a large section &t a French trench has been capYSxnd.. while qeai; Neurill® craters, previoua- ly lost, to the French, were recap* lured a few prisoner* and twentf- twrt machine run* also wer© Paris au#rH that near Lo Folia, south*©*! of Vimy. the Germans wera forced out of com man teat tax traneh- a* ango City Las been ordered to the Mexican slat© of Coahuila p r irt> * ea they had ograpled aad alae that Tbrrcon Friday Ovar iimm tm Use hew A Poxrocrad dmnatxk tn. Friday aaya Bmparoc Mrhotaa apy kaft lae Lha treat. against the French between NeavUla aad La Falla were repalead, Uva Ger mans Mac abla ta held aaly oaa u‘— cratar.