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kOAMAGE AT NEW YORK TOTALS
>' MORE THAN S25.000.000
WRECKS SHIPS AND CARS
—♦
String of Railway Care and Several
Barges Blown up In Terrific Explo
sions—Detonations Shake Cities in
Radius of Twenty-five Miles—Loss
of Life Problematical and Uncer-
tain. - ‘
Property -loss estimated, at $25,-
000,000 was caused early Sunday by
a series of terrific explosions of am
munition awaiting shipment to the
Entejite Allies and stored on Black
Tom Island, a small strip of land Jut
ting into Now York bay off Jersey
City.
The loss of life still was proble
matical Sunday night. It will not be
determined definitely until there has
has been opportuity to check up the
workmen employed on the island and
on boats nearby. Three are known
to be dead and at least five more are
missing. Scores of persons were in
jured, some of them probably mor
tally.
The detonation, which were felt
in five states, began with a continu
ous rapid fire of small shells, then
the blowing up of great quantities of
dynamite, trinitol tunine and other
high explosives, followed by the
bursting of thousands of shrapnel
shells which showered the surround
ing country and-waters for miles
arfillnd.
Fire that started soon after the
rst great crash destroyed 13 of the
luge wa'rehouses of the National
forage company on Black Tom is
land. in which were stored merchan-
diso valued between $12,00(1,000 and
$15,000,000. The fianteH, shooting
plosion. Panic-stricken women
ed baby carriage! about, nonte of
them praying and others screaming.
The fire on Black Tom Island still
raged Sunday night The large rail
road yarda of the Lehigh Vallfcy and
the reclaimed meadow land for miles
around virtually were covered with
great piles of wreckage and count
less shrapnel sheila, many of which
had not exploded.
Many of the spectators carried
away shrapnel sheila as souvenirs. In
some instances they had dug them
from the earth two or three miles
away from the scene of the explo
sions.
C. W. Leydon, chief of the Lehigh
Valley railroad police, was killed
while aiding an engine crew in at
tempting to save a number of freight
cars from -the fire. A quantity of
dynamite exploded near where he
was standing, it was said.
The Lehigh Valley railroad sent a
telegram to the bureau of safety of
the interstate commerce copfinission,
inviting co-operation in the investi
gation as to the cause of the explo
sions and fire.
Warrants charging manslaughter
were issued late Sunday night for
the arrest of Albert M. Dickman,
agent at the Black Tom Island dock
for the Lehigh Valley Railroad com
pany; Theodore B. Johnson, head of
TEUTONS LOSE OFFENSIVE IN
SECOND YEAR OF VAR
ADVANTAGE WITH ALLIES
For First Time Forces of Central
Empires are on Defensive on All
Fronts in War Theatre—Greatest
Avalanche of Shells and Men
Known to History Being Hurled
Upon Teutonic Lines
The second year of- the world war
closes with the ‘ Battle of Europe,”
a concerted effort of the Allies on
three fronts to crush the central
powers, which has developed into a
titanic strut gle before which super
latives, already exhausted, are com
pletely beggr.red.
. _ . ... . „ France and Great Britain in the
I Russia in the east, Italy in the
south, are hurling wave a^ter wave
frtfttt extend from th
to Rumania.
The Teuton line* held firm in the
north but to the eouth Oen. Bnitl-
loff pwept with Irresistible force
through the Austrian defenses, tear
ing a great gap about 100 mllee in
extent. Through this the Russians
poured, capturing Cxernowltz, the
capital of Bukowina and overrunning
the crownland.
The Austrian losses are declar
ed to have been enormous, a
month after the offensive began
the Russians making an official
announcement that over 200,000
prisoners has been taken and at
least an equal number killed or
wounded.
to make their way to Buglish ports
unmolested by German warships.
The German official account of the
fight says that the British
were 117,150 tone as against $0 720
tons sunk by the British. The Brit
ish admiralty makes no attempt to
estimate the loss in tbnnage but un
official British estimates place the
German lose at 109,220 tons against
112*350 for the British.
Officially the Germana have ad
mitted the loss of only one capital
■hip, the Lutzow, 26.600 tons, a ves
sel surpassing In tonnage and arma
ment many battleships. The Britlfn
claim to have sunk In addition two
dreadnoughts and probably a third.
The principal losses admitted By
them for their side are the three bat
IN TWO YEAIS*
W»- ■ ■ ca% flns— ■ - M
KlVvIJll PW«p©flOrlljr 0» ,
meats by Figures CO Per
of Wounded Go Back to Fight.
company, and Alexander Davidson,
superintendent of the National Stor
age company. They are accused of
having illegally permitted explosives
to be stored where human life was
endangered.
A statement issued by the Lehigh
Valley Railroad company said:
‘Thirteen brick storage ware
houses out of the 24 owned and oper
ated by the National Storage com
pany and six piers owned' by the stor
age company and leased to the Le
high Valley road were destroyed.
Several others of the brick ware
houses were badly damaged and
some minor damage was done to the
Lehigh Valley grain elevators. In
addition, as far as is known, 85
loaded cars were destroyed.
“According to the evidence ob
tained by officials of the railroad,
the fire started at 1.05 this morn
ing in a barge belonging to an in-
against orders.
Info f hr clouds, were reflected.
uraina \»w VwrVw "shjtfnp" of t<Fw-| road company's
crlng office building*, which for a
few momenta were aliaken to their
foundationa aa If by an earthquake.
Miles of streets in Manhattan were
strewn with broken glass and shat
tered signs
Early rep«*rta of heavy loas of life
were impoaalhle «*f verification and
the authorlt'ea ■Svaaerted the number
of deatha probably would he small.
It was said that owing to the extent
of the wrecknge It might be several
days before the exact figures could be
obtained.
Hie cause of the disaster had not
keen determine.! Sunday night. Of-
flria’s of the Nat'onal Storage com
pany and the i.ehlgh Valley railway,
which also suffered heavily through
loas of property, declared that re
ports to them showed a fire started
shortly after 1 o'clock on a barge
h.'longlng to an Independent towing
company that had been moored
alongside a dock used by the rail
road to transfer ammunition ship
ments from trains to vessels in the
harbor. *
The barge. It was said, was there
without authority either of the rail
road nr the storage company. The
officials refused to discuss the name
of the Independent towing company,
saying they were Investigating “to
rertain whether the barge purpose-
dock expressly
of armed men on the Teutonic lines,
together with an aralancheW shells
and bombs such as the world has not
known up to the present time. For
the first time the Teutops are, tem
porarily at least. On the defensive on
the thousands of miles’ of the exist
ing battle fronts.
The change In the situation which
the year has brought is striking, al
though the results so far have been
more potential and spectacular than
radical. A year ago the Germans,
continuing their great drive against
the Russians, hurled the Slavs back
along the entire eastern front, cap
tured Warsaw, the great fortresses
of Kovno, Novo Georgievsk and
Brest-Lltovsk r.nd established* tinea
far inside Russian territory un
broken until within the last three
months. They seised all Poland, a
great slice of Russia to the south of
dependent towing fompany which ..
h » d *>—- p SSfiOA aiuntaidii «tl 1U tM JM* 1 ™ ^ ,BV “f
As the offensive developed the
Russians won new successes further
north and at the close of the war
year are engaged in a mighty strug
gle for Lemberg, the capital of Gali
cia. The fighting has also extended
tp the extreme north, in the Riga-
Dvinsk region, but here the Germans
have hold their own and no decisive
result has as yet been gained by
either side.
In another theater of the war the
year was marked by other and im
portant Russian successes. Follow
ing the-disasters oa the eastern front
In the closing months of 1916 the
Grand Duke Nicholas was removed
as commander-in-chief of the Rus
sian armies and sent to take charge
of the operations against the Turks
in the Caucasus.
After months of preparation he
began a great drive across Armenia
in January, 1916, which reaulted in
the capture of Erzerum and the port
of Treblzond and expelled the Turks
from the greater part of Armenia
After a comparatively lull of somo
months the grand duke resumed bis
advame simultaneous with a serious
uprising against the Turks by the
Arabs In Are-bi-i.
The Arabs took the sacred city of
Mecca, Jldduh and Taif, and besleg
ed Medlno, the city where Moham
med was bu. led aud one of the holt
eat spots of the Mohammedan world
In the meantime the Rusriana took
Mamakhatmn and Balburt. but these
operations have not yet reached
definite conduaioj
era from Galicia and Bukowtna.
Field Marshals von Hindenburg and
"M. T. Heniy, night general yard- ) r ° n the heroes of
master of the New York division of
these great succevaes.
the I>ehigh Valley railroad, was on I ‘h* wtwtera front the changwe
the pier when the fire started. He I *" !»'»"•• R** during the yesu-were rotn-
said the explosion, which occurred at' paeaflveiy small but the twelve
The German government baa issu
ed officially the figures relating to
the conquests at the end of the seor
ond year of tho war in a statement
which reads:
"The central powers occupied
431,000 square kilometrea against
180,000 a year ago. Thn enemy oc
cupied In Europe 22,00V'square kUo-
tle cruisers, the Invincible, the Inde-| metres against 41,000 a year ago.
fatlgable and the Queen Ma<y7 I ‘‘The central powers, Bulgaria and
One other event on the sea arous Turkey captured 2,658,000 enemy
ed ' Intense interest On June 6,1 Moldiers against 1,695,000. Of those
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, Great taken prttoneru by the Germane
Britain’s famous minister of war. officers and 384,000 men were
was drowned with his staff off the French; 9,019 officers and 1,202,000
Orkneys when the cruiser Hampshire men were Russian and 947 officers
went down. It was at first thought 1 and 30,000 men were British,
the cruiser had bee i the victim of a “The war booty brought to Qer-
submarine but this theory was glen- many in addition to that utilized Un-
erally discarded when it was learned mediately at the front comprised li,-
that the warship hid struck a mine I 03 6 cannon, 4,700,000 shells, 3,450
and gone down in the midst of a ter-1 machine guns and 1,556,000 rifles,
rifle storm. ‘‘According to the list of statistics
The second year of the war was a I ^® u “ de , d ?? ldl , er, ‘
memorable one as far as the United ^. t - r « t . ur “ ed to , th « fron ^ ) A
States was concerned. It marked ^ re “ nflt ? I r
the apparent final passing of the ^ . . ?L d- , T* 1 ® mil1 '
crisis between this country and °* ^® * K,w ® r ®‘
many over the su .marine warfare L" K vacc “ atl o“-„™«
which threatened more than onee a | neTer d ‘»t“rbed by epidemics. “
rupture of relations and even war. I ♦♦♦ i
The sinking by a submarine with-1 DEFEAT OF SOUTH WAS “BEST
out warning of the White 8U»r liner
Arable, with the loss of two Ameri
can lines, created a profound Impres
sion in the.Untted States. Germany I
sent a note ter Washington if Sep-|
FOR ALL” SAYS TILLMAN
tember pleading self-defense and of- 8 ® n a tor Admit* a Change Ha* Come
fering to refer the question of com
pensation to The Ha«ue but tils wai
regarded with disappointment by tht
Washington government and the sit
uation became very tense. In Octo-1
her Germany disavowed and regret
ted the sinking of the ArabM.
Five months later the^ French I
steamship Sussex was torpedoed |
Over His Outlook of the War
of Hecesaion.
"I never believed It poeaible that
I couyi do it, but slowly and by de
grees. 1 have come to think that it
was boat for all concerned that the
South was defeated,” cald Senator
2.08. was In the barge where the fire
started*.
“Mr. Henly'a first thought was to
remove the loaded cars on the pier
from the danger zone He said that
when he reached the end of the pier
the.barge wa* burning fiercely all
over and,the fire was beginning to
communicate Itself to some of the
cars near, east of the barge.
“Two long strings <>t cars wrrs
months were marked by three events
of Interest. The battles of Cham-
Vagne and Verdun and the opening
of the great Franco-British offensive
on the Somme took place In this
period.
The battle of Champagne opened
on September 25, after a week's ter
rific bomhardmant of the German
lines by the French, British sad Bel
gians Jn a week of the bloodiest
ly had been set on fire as the result
of a plot."
The body of an unidentified man
was recovered from the water near
the Lehigh Valley pier. A child In
Jersey City, according to the police,
died from shock after the first ex
plosion. Many men told stories of
havilng been bloen hundreds of feet
over land and water.
Most of the f.o or more injured
taken to Jersey City hospitals were
strprk by shrapnel, falling glass or
fiabria Nearly .i’ll were in the rail
road yards or o*l rraft moored near
the island. Included among them
jre a few women and children whose
liomes wire on barges.
Every window in the pedestal of
the Statue of Liberty, on Bedloe’s
Island, opposite Black Tom, was
broken and the main door, made of
iron and weighing almost a ton, was
clocked off its hinges. The statue
Iti-elf. Itowever, was not (lamaKcd, ex
cept from the rain of shrapnel which
t>Cs|igttercd it. ^ Although the plant
which furnished power for Bedloe’s
island was shaken and partly put out
of commission, the famous ‘‘Light of
Liberty" burned steadily throughout
the hours of confusion.
Most of the damage at the immi
gration station was wrecked walks
and buildings and shattered windows
and doorways. Two barges, ablaze
ami laden with shrapnel shells drift
ed to the island. An explosion on
.one of thit.barges damaged the struc
ture housing- the power plant.
Two other fire-swept craft ground
ed 6n the southwest corner of the
island which contains the contagious
diseasp hospital. The medical staff
removed the 650 immigrants on the
island to the battery.
Many small craft as well as sev
eral good sized steamers and sailing
vessels were badly damaged. Crews
on the big ocean Hners anchored in
the harbor (r docked along the New
Jersey and Ne\Y York water fronts,
declared tlwt when the first two
great explosions occurred, It appear-
«>d as if their vessels were literally
picked up out of the water and then
hurled hack.
All New York f|nd cities within a
radius of 25 miles were awakened
by the explosion. Within an hour
4I IIOO telephone calls went over th*
indire wire from excited inquirers.
Hundreds of thousamLs of persons,
many of them scantily clad, ran ex-
^fc.1,,11) through the streets wliil*
^■utomohile*. containing poUcevnem,
^fcremcn and others, da»l»ed alon*.
re * h ed to Maiden.
TH"
successfully removed from th* daa- fighting that had been known up to
that time the Allies announced that
they had taken 20 miles of trenches,
six towns and 23,000 prisoners But
there they halted. They could not
break through the mighty German
wall and. tho grim deadlock which
marked tho western front for so
many months waa resumed.
The battle of Champagne marked
the removal of Sir John French, the
British commandec-in-chlef from the
beginning of the war up to that time.
In December. 1915, it waa announced
that he had resigned to taka a horn*
command and Sir Douglas Haig was
appointed hit successor.
In sheer human Interest the battle
of Verdun crobably surpassed all
other individual events of the war.
On February 23 the German crown
prince began htx matrtr of the hls-
In connection with the Turkish
campaign the year saw a serious re
verse for tie Franco-Brltlsh arms
and a less in portant, but highly dra
matic. dlsast ip for the British. The
dicastroua attempt of the Frerch and
British to force the Dardanelles and
seise Constantinople waa definitely
abandoned in November. 1915, and
the Allied troops withdrawn from
the Gallipoli Peninsula
About 150,900 troop* had been
used In this venture, supported by
mighty fleet Mix haulrwhlpo, fixe
British, one French, were neat to the
I**tons, aa well aa aome minor crnfl
and the casual tie* were nnofflctnllv
reported to he almoat equal to the
without warning while carrying Tillman of South Carolina Saturday
more than 3 00 passengers. Including 1 urging prstage of § bill dealing with
s -rrnmtirr nf XTiTPTiran« ai'rnss fTie| AfUngton national cemetery.
English channel! About flf.y per- "filrvery," he continued, “waa a
sons were killed and this Incident I curse which had to be destroyed era
brought the submarine situation to the South and the world couM ad-
an acute stage. Germany at first dls- vance. It was a cares for which th*
claimed responsibility for the attack South waa no more responsible than
on the Sussex but the evidence accu I the {forth. Both sections wore re-
mulated by the I’nlt *d States tppear-1 sponsible, and both paid four long,
ed ao overwhelming that Preelder t bloody years .of penance- (or-their
Wilson on April 19 dispatched to joint tin. It had to go, and while it
Germany a note which was virtually went In the worst i*)**ihia way and
an ultimatum, and on th* following | its going gave birth to aa apparent
ly unsolvable problem, still 1. who
waa born In and of th* old Soeth, am
glad it la gone never to ret era. 1
am glad ‘.bet th* idea of nationality
day persoif lly appeared before con
gress and laid tbs entire problem be
fore that body On May 10 Germany
ger xone before the rapidly sptwad
Ing fire engulfed the halaaee.
"It has not as yet been definitely
determined just what th* money
loss will be. Some 40.000 tons of
raw sugar valued at about- $3,400,-
000 Is kno* n to be lost. It Is be
lieved that the other contents of the
warehouses destroyed will greatly 1
increase thla amount. There were
no explosioves stored In the ware
houses. Two of the care destroyed
were loaded with shrapnel, which
would not have been a source of dan
ger but for outside Ire The other
care destroyed wer^ loaded
pally with aalt and pork.
"The scene of the explosion and
fire is in no way adjacenut to the
main passenger and.freight terminals
of the Lethigh Valley rallrogd either
admitted the submarine attach on I
the Sussex and promised that no has supplanted that of eonfe
more finers or merchantmen woul) 4 Ron. despite th* danger is
be sunk without tmple opportunity I And so, 1 can Bad It la my heart to
original ■ umb**r of the expeditionary for the escape of crews and passes | want to make the ampitheatre at
princl-
1*,*?®" '® r 1 k ° r , !^® |torlc French fortress, known through-
mishap will not interfere With the, out mtnr / enturie , M th(( gateway
operation of buslnrea. , to France. For five months the de-
Edmund L. Mackenzie, president fenders withstood a
of the National Storage company,
declared that the plant of his con
cern was values at $7,000,000, while
the contents of the warehouses prob
ably were worth $J0,000,000. One
of the warehouses chlch remainb in
tact, he said, is filled with chemicals.
Beside great quantity of raw sugar
burned, there were 14,000 bales of
tobacco, much matting from China
and “Japan and other merchandise.
The loss to his company and the
railroad, Mr. Mackenzie said, was
partly covered by insurance.
‘‘As far us I have been able to
ascertain," said Mr. Mackenzie,
"there apparently has not been a
great loss of life. This undoubtedly
w®s dgie to the fact that few persons
live in the immediate vicinity of our
plant. There were, of course, a num
ber of private watchmen and fire
men on the ground at the time, but
all of these except two have been
accounted for.”
SHOOT AT BANDITS
—^ _
Ilinois Cavalry Stop Attempt to Raid
Picket Lines.
Several shots were exchanged Sat
urday night between outposts and
guards at the camp of the First Illi
nois cavalry and supposed Mexican
bandits who apparently were at
tempting to raid picket lines of cav
alry horses. So far as is known
there were no casualties on either
side. ■ The shooting took place two
and one-half miles north of Browns
ville.
I
storm at the
fury of which the world stood aghast.
F«k>I hy foot, almost Inch by
Incli, the (icmijinx forged forward,
with- a reckless (H»r»‘gar<f*of their
lives, a tenacity and cool courage
which Is okIv equalled hy the
hcr,.lc determination of fhe
French,
AIR RAID SATURDAY
British Say Haiders Drop Bombs—
No News of Damage.
German airships raided the east
coast of England early Saturday
morning, according to an official
statement just Issued. "The number
of raiders," says the statement, "ha*
not yet been established. The re
ports as to the raiders crossing the
const came from Yorkshire and Lin-
Detectives were
dustry. to guard against thlevas.
In th# ddwntown section countless
windows were broke*. * Scarcely an
effle* beildisg from the battery of
nftieeb street •****.
4s si jars—e ta Jersey City
te the parks a£tr the (ret ex
On June 3 an unofficial estimate
of the German losses at Verdun
placed the total at the appalling fig
ure of 150,000. The assailants
fought their way to within about
three and a half miles of the fort
ress but for several weeks have re
ported no farther progress and the
force of their attacks appears to
have lessened.
The Franeo-British offensive on
the Somme onened on July 1, 1916.
It was preceded by a bombardment
of unparalleled duration and Inten
sity, featured by the appearance of
new and gigantic British howitzers.
Under this awful hurricane of big
gun fire the German first line de
fenses crumbled.
•When the British and wFrench
troops advanced they reported that
they found trenches in'which there
was not a single survivor,' only the
dead guarded the silent rifles and
machine *guns. German first line*
were carried over an extent of 135
miles and the second positions pierc
ed a4 certain points but up to the
present the fl.tht has been indecisive
insofar as the forcing the Germans
to withdraw, their main lines is con
cerned.
Jhe fighting has been of the bit
terest possible description and the
reports of press corespondents at the
front teem w ! th accounts of the most*
amazing heroism and devotion on
both sides! 'Instances have been re
corded of the sole survivor of a com
pany, wounded and without hope,
who manned a machine gun fcnd
fought to th# last amid the bodies it
his comrades; of isolated detach
ments who stood off their foes for
days untir succor reached Uiem or
death; of captured surgeons who
bound up the wounds of their cap-
tore; .of. herolf rescues of wounded
comrades under fire and of cojntleas
simitar deeds that Thrilled fhe watch- HM Victory
-4-
Rassises Claim SM.tt
A semi-official estimate of th*
■■■h nr of Bilaeaan lake* by th*
4 eriag .Ue tret half af tha
TsSum?
force. This was the result of tlx
months of soma of tha most san
guinary fighting of the war.
The aeeond disaster of th* British
was th* surrender of 19.C00 troopa
under Gen. Townshrnd to the Turks
at Kut-el-Amara ou the Tigris This
expedition had made a xenaatlonal
dash more than 300 miles up the
river In sa attempt to sets* Bagdad.
It was withla ten miles of the city
when It was decisively defeated by
the Turks and forced to fall back
100 miles. Here it was surrounded
and forced to surrender after a re
lief force had made several vain ef
forts at rescue.
Two new nations antered the
ranks of the belligerents during the
year. Otober 13, 1915, Bulgaria
thrdw In her lot with the central
powers and on March 1, 1915, Ger
many declared war on Portugal
after the republic had seised all Ger
man ships Interned In hei' ports
The entrance of
arena was -ignaiiotl by a nunbinetl
aNMiult oil Serbia hy Aa-tria, Ger
many and Bulgaria which resulted
In the complete overwhelming of the
h<>|tclesNly outnumbered Serbians am*
the subjugation of their country.
The reipnanls of the Serbian arm/
were driven across the frontier Into
the wilderness of Albania whence
they were rescued by the British
French and Italians. They were
chipped to Corfu, where they were
reorganized and re-equipped and
later, to the number of about 100,-
000, joined the Franeo-British
forces at Saloniki.
The survivors of tho Gallipoli
campaign were also gathered at the
Grecian seaport as well as a large
British army from Egypt. This com
bined force is estimated at 600,000
men and is presumably being held
for an attempt to wrest Serbia from
the Bulgarians. ,
The principal suqcess won by Aus
trian arms di.ring the year was a
great offensive undertaken a^rinut
Italy In May. The Austrian forces
swept the Italian Invaders back over
a wide stretch of country In the
Southern Tyrol, reconquered about
270 square miles of Austrian terrl
tory and carried the battle into
Italy.
The Itallanr rallied, however^and
at tho close of the twelve months had
regained a large portion of groynd
and were vigorously pressing a cou'n
ter offensive in accordance w'th the
plans of the Entente for concerted
action.
On the sea the year witnessed an
event of'- surpassing Interest The
German grand • fleet steaming ou
from its mine fields, at d Impregnable
herbors at K el a .d Wi’helshaven.
engaged the British fleet In the
mightiest naval battle of history.
The battle was fought off the
coast of Jutland on May 31. Its re
sults ere so obscured by the con
fllctlng claims of the combatants
that they wJU .probably-not h* defi
nitely known until the war K over,
if then. The Qermans assert that
the British losses were far heavier
|C IT*
These promise* were considered
satisfactory by tha president «nd th*
war cloud lifted Since that time n
Urge nember of ships have been
tunk by German and Austrian sub
marines but th* rules of interna
tional Uw have been generntly ob
served.
Another cans* of frictloa between
th* United Bute* end the Central
Arlington national la ita
FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS
i
South
to 0*6 fU
Appropriations totaling eight
dred thousand dollars for*t{n
powers waa also removed der.ng the of storm sad flood ■afferere la North
year. Since th* outbreak of lb* war Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia,
certain propagandists have been A U bam a and Mississippi are provtd-
bnsy instigating jtnkw in munition ed In Joint resolutions introdneed
factories which had contract* with Tuesday la th# Hons* aad referred
the Allies aad in endeavor.ag in to th* commute* on military affair*,
other ways to latsrfer* with this Tbs resolutions also authorise the
lrad * secretary of war to leans qaartnreton-
For hU aetlvlt) in this respect th* ten’ aad medical supplies to th*
recall cf Dr. ConsUnlln Dumbs, Au»- needy.
trUn ambassador, was request**' by ■ t*. spproDriaUoni are divided
failnvfnff twU^hlr 8 ? pt ®“ b ? , ‘ Tbe among tha states as follows: North
rolloW . < ." g V?****- for ®f ln . U ®. r . r ®»-l Ohrpllaa, three hundred thousand
in ner ports. .i* 4 ^ dollars; South Carolina, one hundred
Bulgaria Into the paoe^ navLl thousand dollars; Georgia, two hua-
■ • - ^ „ .he thousand dollars; Alabama and
respectively to the German enbarfsy. uisalaalppl. two hundred thousand
A number of conuctlons were obtain- ,i 0 ii >r .
ed In the criminal courts In ot.ier ......
cases and the propaganda cessed Th ® «»• hundred thousand dollars
Apart from events m the actus Proposed for South Carolina by Rsp-
war theaters the most striking evbnt resentatlve Whaley would be spent
of tho year In connectioa w th'the • ,on * th « rtTer » nd iu Jr 1 *®-
confllct was an uprising in Ire ana lu| forles, which went out of their banks
April. The outbreak waa organized > week at the same time western
by a society k'jown as the Sinn Fun,
committed to the principle of an In-
depen lent Ireland.
Rloody fight'ng took place >n I*ub
Hu. In which hundreds of lives were
lost and the heart of the busine*
section destroyed, at a cost oi many
millions of dollars. The fight ng was
sporadic elsewhere In the isla ds an>.
of minor importanee. The revolt
was finally, crushed and the ring
leaders executed. It led, how ver, to
an agitation wh ch resulted In the
4hp great Allied
niad* by tbe
Ing world.
The flAt Jnotk in
offensive was uotf
Fraaco-British, however, bat by the
Russians On Jan* 4 tbe troop* of
tbe Emperor Mcbota# open ad a tre-
*»t oa tbe
i a
North Carolina was flooded.
APPAN PRIZE LOST
>
Court Awards Ship to British Own
ers—Oew to be Interned.
Possession of the British liner
Appam, brought Into Hampton Roads
last Februe.ry by a Gorman prise
crew > was awarded Saturday to her
government pretaring a temporary I owner *‘ the African
home rule bill which it exnecte to I ^7 , * at ‘° n ? , * d *® t Wad -
lass through par-lament this 'alK dill of tho federal district court.
Just befare the outbreak of the Internment of the German prize
rebellion Sir Roger Casement, for- crew of the liner Appam until the
merly in the British consular service, end of the European war, state de-
was arrested on the west ccast o f partment officials said informally,
Ireland where he had atcem' ted to probably will follow the federal
land a cargo.of arms sent from Ger- court’s decision at Norfolk awarding
many. He was ‘ried later for high the captured ship to her British
treason an 1 sentenced to lea'h. I owners.
No uefin i.e figures can bo 0 iven
the cost of the great war in blood
and gold bat the most re.iabie esti
mates preient figures so vai t that
they bfcomo practic: lly mean ngless
In Maich, 1916, tbe 1 ! United States
general army staff estimated that the
total losses In men to |pGl the hellig
• rents since the wa> began w re 13.
033,000.
As all the belligerents have ‘Teas
MUST PAY THEIR WAY HOME
Aid From
Government
Guardsmen Discharged.
for
Guardsmen at the border discharg
ed because of the necessity of sup
porting dependent relatives will hare
ed Issuing casualty lists foi public I to pay their own expenses home. This
consu.nptloi the exact figures fo was announced Thursday at tbe
any country are unavailable. headquarters of tbe department of
As to tha n oney question figures the East where It is said many let-
are more •feliab e but still vague [ ters had been received from soldiers
applying for discharge, indicating
expectation that their fares home
would ‘be paid by the government.
They rresent sums which are so.
yond anyth ng previously known to
internrtionnl (Inane , so- (friposslbU
of any human conrarison that they
become little more than c. Juinble P r I stated fat the Hoes* of Common* t
figures. . 1
In Mar'h Dr. Karl Helferricb, sec
retary of the imperial treasury of
than th®lr» and oa^kat ground claim ars-any, w^tioatod that tbe war was
costing all the combatants $375,00$.-
000 s week or eleven and a half bll-
lloa dollar: a year William Michae
ls, another German A nan dal expert,
t the yearly co*t at tbe vaster sun
Tbe British, denVing greater
loeef*. point-to the fact that they
still control toe sea.’ as Ue basis of
their right to tbe title of victors
Loadea alee claims that siaca tha
0 British ships, which had
Oh Inly H
the expenditures for Grset Fr
alone were $3.0,000,000 daily,
did not say. however, how mod
th'.o incredible sum represented
ftX WRhla the last felr *
talk of