Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COLONIES DIVIDED —^ ♦ i ALLIES PALCEL MIT GERMAN COLONIAL EMPIRE EXTENDS BLOCKADE $ JAPAN BOLDS ISLANDS V MAKE IT DONE DRY s Minfetm of the Nations Concerned Announce Tlieir Wish to Hold livery thing—No Part of German Coloniee Would. Be Returned to / - 1 ■ » Kmpire After Conclusion of Pres ent War. j The death knell to Germany’s col onial possessions has been sounded, so far as the Entente Allies can ef fect that result, by the almost simul taneous announcement of the Brit ish minister of colonies, Mr. Long; the Japanese minister of foreign af fairs, Mr. Motono, and the prime minister of New Zealand, Mr. Massey, who voiced .the view of Australia as well as New Zealand. Together these statements declare there will be no - return to Germany of her colonies in Africa, Asia or the Pacific. This attitude is not only held by Japan and the British colonies chief ly concerned, but it has the backing . of the British and French govern ments, which have the largest inter est in colonial Africa and Asia. It develops the fact that the late As quith government was opposed to any extension of British colonial p6s- session in Africa, whereas the new Lloyd George government approves this extension as In line with the as pirations of the British colonies in Africa. This in turn has established that there will be a general shifting of African colonies, so that the pos sessions of England, .France. Portu gal and Belgium will be made more ficmogenous instead of being, as at present, scattered and irregular in outline. Japan s attitude towards holding the German colony of Kiao-Chau in China and the Pacific Islands occu pied by thr Japanese fleet, came up when the French draft of the reply to President Wilson was being cabled to the various Entente governments for approval. Japan approved the terms as far as stated, on Serbia. Belgium and in other rdbpects. but pointed out that the terms omitted •ny reference to the German colonies of Kiao-Chau and the Pacific islands la which Japan had established an laterast Prance and England thereupon re plied to Japen that It had been deemed desirable. In answering Mr Wilson's request for terms, not to make these terms embrace every thing which might come up later but to confioo them for tho present to the readjustment of territory In Europe. Later on It was pointed out tho future of German territorial poe asset one outside of Europe would be considered so that Japan's fights would be properly secured for future determination. This waa satisfactory to Japan, which then gave Its approval to the joint reply to Mr. Wilson, stating the Allies' main terms. The Japanese embassy has given Jspao's understanding of the ar rangements as stated by Foreign Minister Monoto. He said: •‘The absence of Greet Britain Puts Now Restrictions on Commerce. The British official gazette Wed nesday contains an order in council, dated February 16," for tightening the blockade of the countries with which Great Britain is at war, as a result of the German blockade mem orandum of January 31 and similar enactments of other hostile countries. "Whereas, these enemy orders are in flagrant contradition," the order reads, "of the rules of international law,, the dictates of humanity and treaty obligations of the enemy, and render It necessary for further meas ures to be taken, and in order to maintain the efficiency of those pre viously taken to prevent commodities reaching or leaving enemy countries. "His majesty has ordered that the following directions shall be observed respecting all vessels which sail from their port of departure after the date o? the order. "First. A vessel which is encoun tered at sea on the way to orJ*/rom a port in any neutral country affording a means of access to enemy territory without calling at a port in British or Allied territory shall, until the con trary be established, be deemed to be carrying goods with enemy desti nation or of enemy origin and shall be brought in for examination and if necessary for adjudication before a prize court. "Second. Any vessel carrying goods with enemy destination or ene my origin shall be liable to capture and condemnation in respect of the carriage of such goods, provided that In the case of any vessel which calls at an appointed British or Allied port for examination of her cargo no sentence of condemnation shall be pronounced except on carriage of goods of enemy origin or destination and no such presumption as laid down in article one shall arise. "Third,* Goods which are found on examination of any vessel to be goods of enemy origin or destination shall be liable to condemnation." CONGRESS P NEARING MANNING SCORES LOBBY VETOING GAME UW BILL wn JTKI iml-JSSKSU AMENDMENT In Most Emphatic lAnguAge Chief OHIBITION" • Executive Itisapproves Rich ardson's Activity, n TBiS STATE AFFECTED STARVING AMAZONS RUN PED-i l>ntrh DLERS OFF TflE STREET Government Three Hundred and Nineteen Repre sentatives Pass Item Importations of Liquor Into State* Which Have Forbidden FOUND DEAD UNDER CAR Andereon Auto Driver Victim of Fatal Acted eat. Homer Gillam. colored driver of a public service automobile at Ander son. was found dead Sunday morn ing pinned beneath his car. Gillam was making a trip late Saturday night on a street near the outskirts of the city which is scarcely used. There were marks in the street Sun day morning to show that the ma chine skidded, tornlng over Into a dltek. Tbs back of tke car fell acroee Gil lam s body and he must have died five mlnutee later. He dug down In the mud to get loose. It seems, hot was unable to do so. ▲ pint of whis key. which had not been opened, was lying on ths street near the automo bile. The negro was about twenty- two years of sge and had been dead eight hours before his body wse dis covered beneath ths machtn# Gov. Manning has vetoed the bill to place the nomination of game war den in the primary election two years hence. The upper House adjourned debate on the message until next ses sion. The net effect is to sustain the Prohibiting'chief executive since the term of A. ‘A. Richardson, the present chief game warden, expires March 7. He was appointed to a four-year term February 25, 1913. This appoint- Three Southern States Unaffected. ment ' wa8 confirmed March 6 and a Into only three states in the commission was issued March 7. South—Florfda, Louisiana and Texas disapproval of —may liquor in any quantity be im- bill, the chief executive filed the ported legally for personal use after emphatic message *hlch has June 30 next. They alone have re-, from his office. The “ir- Uined local option. ' | regular" nomination made recently Congress by its action in adopting hy the Audubon society is assigned the Reed amendment makes absolute; as one , reasons therefor. Sup- the state-wide prohibition legislation' lM em€nt i n f thl 8 ' th e governor of Virginia, North Carolina and charges 'illegal collections of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama mone y 8 the assistants of Mr. and Mississippi. Thus they join the Richardson, which were made “with “bone dry” states—Arkansas and his approval. They ha^ve held up Tennessee—which already had en-j violators of the law, in the acted statutes forbidding the impor- held, and demanded cash payment of tation of liquor. I fines, without process provided by Absolute prohibition legislation l aw -" The expense fund, Gov. Man- took its longest forward stride in the ning says, last year also went far be- nation’s history Wednesday when TOfid legal restrictions. . the house, after two hours of up-1 Another angle of peculiar interest roarous debate, approved by a four the message was the trailinfl by to one majority a Senate measure the governor directly to the Senate which would raise an iron clad bar-' ^ U( ^fr^ ar y committee rooms of a “per rier against importation of liquor nicious lobby;" conducted by the Into prohibition states. It is expect- K amG w'anden faction, when the bil •d to receive the approval of Presi- was being pressed. The governor dent Wilson within a week, adding mentions the name of C. H. Glaze immediately to the "bone dry" ter- 1 , *he committee and active ritory about one-third of continental | P artl8an Richardson faction. United States. Iconnection therewith and also that The provision is regarded as the V. F. Funderburk, one of the game most far reaching that could be en- warden's assistants, acted by the federal government and Gov. Manning reminded the Sen as sweeping as would be possible un- a te of the resolution adopted by the der any method short of a national N u< ^ ic J a fy committee to ' Bhu )- /V 11 ’ prohibition amendment. i lobby, which had established * It would cut off entirely* liquor headquarters in the committee importations, amounting now to mil-; room8 * Senator Sinkler, chairman lions of dollars annually, into the committee, has admitted on large number of states wb|£h have• P rev l° U8 occasions that the reeolu- forbidden manufacture or sale but!*! 011 wa8 adoP***!. but again refused have permitted impor tali on lor por-f to release it for publication. It wa* sonal uae J better to leave It aa it waa. he Protest But Does Not Intend Diplomatic Break. * T O ennn riDTO nVCDTIIDUCnl W!de8 P r ® ad indignation la report* lUUU lAKIS UVlKIUKNlUH 10 ha * e b ®«* HolUnd by —- l | the torpedoing on Saturday of seven Dutch steamers In the western ap- Women Attack Hucksters, Ihimp I proaches to the English channel. ^ . . , .. „ ..Three of the vessels with a total of Oood* Into the Htreeto and Bun. , 4 976 t0 ng , unk and the oth « r Wauona—nty Hall Surroniided by fou , r - ^though badly damagnd to- ^ mained afloat. The crews of all ars Women Shouting "We are Starv- believed yto have betn saved. Ths . Amsterdam bourse was weak after Garta and I the announcement. Ing"—Peddlers Lock Up Suspend Business. Food riots in which a boot three thousand women participat ed occurred Monday and" Tuesday In Brooldyn. Peddlers' carts were overturned ^J»d set on fire auditor hours the police reserves fought to restore order. Ute cause of the trouble was a sudden Jump In prices. Many of the families in the poorer neighborhoods asserted that it was impossible for them to got enough to eat. The Dutch foreign office stated that the seven steamers had availed themselves of a German offer to sail together from a British port, believed to be Falmouth, on February 22. Total tonnage, sinking of which waa announced Saturday, included the three T)utch and four British steam ers, was 24,139. Despite the belief that the sever ance of diplomatic relations between Germany and Jfolland has been brought a step nearer by recent wholesale destruction of Dutch ship ping, it is considered virtually cer tain that for the present at least, the The dl»order» .Urtcd at 10 o'clock go»ernment will go no Monday morning, when the women th f K n , t0 m ‘ k * * T, f“ rou * of that thickly populated dl.trict P 0 ” 1 ^ . w y? ln * th * turned out Co do their shopping. Informing It that it Slgne over the carta quoted onion, * 111 b « held re.pon.Ible or the mon- al from fifteen to eighteen cent, a e “ r 7 lo “ » 0 ' 1 *“ d te re P: pound, an increaae of from three to “ feeling that the recent five cents, and potatoea at from five l08 * e# ' whUe b * ln « ttoni«°<ton.. can to aeven cent, a pound. h ot ““P* r8 wltb th * da “**T ‘ h,t (toe of the women who had not * ou,d b « wrought ahould relation, enough money to make her purchaae. be .evered or hoaUlltlee commenced. MUUtSd the rioting by up-tUng »I ^ cart. As the peddler protested and f' u, J b • bl P* rb *5! er * d to carry grain gave chase to the woman who had to Holland. Five vessels carrying attacked him another cart wa. over- « r * ln the . government ara. or turned, and soon hundreds of wo-1 * oon will be. In Hallfai for ln»pe<- men were collected about the epot. IH® 0 - These vessele will go for In- The reserves were called from the I vesaela will go froi Brownsville and Liberty Avenuo sta- ,1 * 11, “ 10 * Norwegian port, whore .tons and reetored order by noon thelr commander, wtll awalt ln.tn.c- The police estimated that there were ">»* The Netherlands government at least one thousand women In tha I *" endeavoring to arranga with the crowd. German and British authoiittoa for a CARTRIDGES FOR MEXICO Bet Machinery From Japan Ha* Up at Manzanillo. Th* cartridge-making machinery The riots In Wllllamsborg were an «»“« the ship, may with safety take outgrowth of the earlier demon.tra » ro,n th * Norw ** 1 * n P 0 ” 10 H ** taBd -a- Advocates of prohibition divided thought, because it was so per sonal. UP TO MANNING among themselves over the expedi ency of the step, some friends of the cause declaring so drastic a law mould have a reactionary effect. In the same way those who have oppos ed prohibition were not unanimous T1l j nk t-Ilonl* are to Force Kagftaad in opposition when the vote was GERMANS CONFIDENT taken. The roll call brought cries of "bone dry” from all parts of the hones, however, and the result waa greeted with a noisy demonstration. to Her Dianes. Close scrutiny of the German pi since unrestricted U-boat warfare iThe vote aa officially announced went into effect divulges three main wee 321 to 72, but a recheck of tke points which are again and again roll call changed it to 319 to 72., •mpbaslxed: Party lines were completely broken] I. Absolute certainty that the down sad numerous representative* U-boat# will force England from prohibition states were record- knees.within a few months. Cons. They began at about four o'clock in the tenement district, and when the first wagon was overturned there were from three to four hun dred women in tha. streets |Gov< I A woman who spparently was ths ringleader of the trouble makers re- fused to pay th. iLirtoUtod pHto. and. (1 , M M utl- MlW tho POddlsrs would not soli hor „ to whether or BOA ho will food, put her shoulder to om of »]>• approve tho DuKaat MU. which has largeot earts. I« a momont a»d be- blB afUr gSU by bett fore tke police could be su Has to Make New IJqeor Law. te k< '.£3.1 ed In the negative. Bo large a vote seldom Is recorded on any measure. A provision barring liquor adver- 2. Warning to neutrals, particu larly to the United 8 La tee. that ships vesturing Into the "barred sons" are tlsemsnta from the metis in states "challenging fate." As the seml-of- that prohibit such sdvertlsing is In- fidal Overseas News Agency puts it. eluded la th* measure, which came must be repeated again and again before the House as a rider to the that whoever dares penetrate th * annual post office appropriation, in- barred ions perishes In It.'' •erted by the Senate last week on 1 2. Increasing glee over the re- motion of Senator Reed by a vote of fusai of Dutch and Scandinavian 55 to II. I shippers to risk their vessels In the Although the appropriation blB ’ forbldd ® n « ra !• ,flcallo,l ^ mill go to conference because the every line of antiBritish comment In House disagreed to other Senate , lbose eountri»‘s. houses. The quart a mouth the amount of Equer a cltlaen may order from without the State during u calendar month and provides that before doing thin he must make affidavit before n pro bate Judge that tha iiuear la for medicinal purpose* Thera art a number of ether rentrtetIona It In likely that the governor In sot Ing on the matter wit! etudy attentively the effect oa Sooth Carolina of tha ent which live sixty days after !U CUTS OFF GREECE ggiTf L r ““ "r"/ . b< n“ amendrnemi there I. little possibility . i l"*?, M : n “"'L'° ‘"j w . m "2 that the prohibition amendment, ron-1 any allusion to be put in operation. Two hundred rr ^ ln w , t houf chance will be al- the future dlspoul of the firman ^l»n^ e,^rt.c^e to «M up the. Members of con,res. are tak- <•olon.es ha. justly attraoted th» at-| mart inery .nd otK-rate lh The «<>*-|| nf „ for granted that President la t onnorUoa With the Irish 1> tenlion of the public In Japan That!* rI * m ®nt hopes the machinery will 1 m ni Hnumve it I point has, however, never escaped; *“ a k® Mexico Independent of other; ^ „ 1 the attention of the Imperial govern- countries for ammunition • Although some members have ST* - 1 It Is understood the m , c hlnery * 1,,en “ *» thelr 0 P ln, ° n ‘ hBt tb » •««- SINN FEINERS ARRESTED rl»ing laAftt Year. J ment. The reply to the American note does not contain all the'Condi tions of peace to be demanded by the Allied powers. They reserve the right to prseetnetaolnshrdlucmfwyp right to present these conditions mhen the terms of peace are dis cussed Referenpe is made to this point in the note to the United States. "In order to avoid all misunder- atanding we took steps to safeguard oar rights, when we addresed our adhesion to the draft by the French government and I am happy to say that a satisfactory understanding ex ist* among all tha Allies on this point." The attitude of the new British administration was announced about the same time in these statements of th# new minister of colonies in the Lloyd-George cabinet, who In saying he spoke with "knowledge and full responsibility with regard to the Ger man colonies of which he had ac quired possession since the war be gan t and as the representative of the vast overseas dominions,” said as to the British policy toward.those col onies: "Let no man think that their struggles for these colonies have been in vain. Let no man think that these colonies will ever return to German rule. It is impossible. Our •overseas empire will not tolerate any suggestion of the kind. It now rests with the people of this country to help to an early and satisfactory peace and to take care that they pre pare before the war ends to face that other bitter and ruthless contest in trade and commerce which will fol- hoiw hereafter." About the same time, the view of Australia and New Zealand as to German island colonies in the Pacific was expressed by Sir Joseph Ward; finance minister of New Zealand, and W. P. Massey, prime minister of New Zealand, both of whom will be in the coming imperial conference. Sir Jos eph Ward said: "Unless the peace conditions pro vide for the reversion to Great Bri tain of those German territories, par ticularly New Guinea and Samoa, which had been won by the blood and treasure of Australia and New Zealand, the people of those domln- ons would never rest content." Prime Minister Ms easy said at the seme time: "New Zealand holds Samoa and means to retain it I am eoffe the Australian people feel the aunt as to the enemy Islands which they have occupied When the wai began there was no qoe*tlou of tab lag territory. Bit after what w< _ ^ A number of Sinn Fein cm recent- wan purchased through efforts 0 f! ,M * atiTe * ea * ur ®* added to the postal jy returned from internment in Eng- Major Carpio, of Gen. Obregon'si bl ^ would not be effective until July | an d. were arrested Thursday in staff, who went to Japan some: 1, tbe 8f fr c t ive date of the appro-. ^ mer | c | [( Galway and Sklbboreen, months ago. It is believed that the prisHons it carries, senator and rep- M we jj a8 } D Dublin. The arrests government shortly will purchase machinery for the manufacture of artillery ammunition. SBELLS FROM U. S. A. resentatives who are considered; were made under the Defense of the authorities said that all the legists-• |{ ea i m Act. tive riders, including the Reed pro- Altogether about fifty members of hibition amendment, undoubtedly j the S i nn Feln and the Gaelic would ^econie ^operative^ as^ soon a *, league have been arrested and ar rests are continuing. Thirty-five men were taken Into custody in Dub- Contract, Formerly HadSeld*, i Given to American Company. Contracts for navy projectiles which had been let to HadfVsras, Ltd., an English concern, weA given to the Midvale Steel compahj^' the Washington Steel and Ordnancg^fefafc-' pany, and the Crucible Steel’ com pany. Hadflelds was prevented by the British government from accepting the contract for forty-four hundred projectiles, awarded by the navy de partment at a much smaller price per shell and with quicker delivery than. Americans offered. ♦ w w ' End Blockade When Satisfied. Definite announcement was made at Paris Sunday that the blockade of Greece will be lifted when King Con stantine gives cqmplete satisfaction to the demands of the Entente Allies. have seen in Poland, we In the Paci fic would not feel secure if German bases were to be permitted in the Southern hemisphere with German warships within a day or two’s steam ing from our settlements. No, we n»UBt hold what we’ve taken and this attitude toward the German coloniefe will be the one taken by Australia and New Zealand in the imperial con ference." These views are so uniform, from all British, Japanese and dominlcn authorities having an interest in the German colonies, that retention of these colonies, and readjustment of their boundaries has become pretty thoroughly understood. The change ef the map will be made chiefly In Africa, where the west coast, now Is a patch work of little coloniea, alter nating between France, Portugal, England and Belgium, and which are expected to be merged eventually Into large, connected areas, capable of development in railway, telegraph and trade communication aad each of an Imperial domain la Africa— France fta the weet Eagland la the east aad south aad Belgium aad Por tugal sharing la this eomsaalty of the president has signed the mess ure. Dry advocates were Jubilant. Rep resentative Webb of North Carolina, father of the resolution for a na tional prohibition amendment, de clared the overwhelming affirmative vote has killed the state rights argu ment and that the national amend ment, already reported favorably, certainly would pass the Housst at this session. The national legisla tive committee of the Anti-Saloon League issued a statement saying the action had "cleared the decks" for a national amendment. Many of the wet advocates in con gress, particularly those with brew ers among their constituents, also declared themselves much pleased with the outcome. The brewers are understood to have been in favor of the provision both because it would curtail the so-called mail business carried by houses dealing in spiritu ous liquors and because it might pre vent states now wet from going dry and indefinitely postpone nation wide prohibition. Distillers and whiskey dealers, on the other hand, were vigorously op posed to the proposal. There are at this time. Representative Sherley of Kentucky declared during debate, more than 228,000,000 gallons of li quor in bond, in the United States and 40 per cent, of such liquor here tofore has been sold in partially dry territory. Under the amendment concurred In, an of this must be sold In absolutely wet territory, probably, he argued, at a great loss. Mr. Sherley made a futile attempt Un alone. In 'Galway Thursday night a prominent member of the Oughterard district council and prominent Athenry merchant were arrested. ♦ - the time when It would go into force for one year. This motion like all othera looking to amendment of the measure waa overwhelmingly defeat ed. * ~ Pees use of the defection among prohibition advocates, the National Board of Temperance of the Method- let Ep ^opaL Church gave out a for mal su tenant saying It had been • absolutely, unequivocally” In fnvor of the anti •hlpp.nf In several states t t monad st least one thou Joined the crowd. at then lot and with > of the < clothing and Lieut. Gillen led the reeervos from the Bedford Avenue police station and for forty minutes ths poUc< fought wKh ths excited mob After the peddlers had saved as much of thslr stocks as they «>ttld. I JT they met at New Plaia Hall. at ,T * # DuH * nt bin ^ 10 Grand and Havemeyer Streets, and decided to call a mast meeting of the residents of the district to pit their side of the controvercy before them The time was fixed for •ifht, n o'clock Monday night, but long be-1 "°*ta| fore then the hall was filled to over flowing and a crowd of fifteen hun dred had collected In the stroets Abraham Zerring. who ha* several carts in the district, said that tho peddlers were not to blame for the increased prices. Onions were sell ing as high as fifteen dollars a bag and potatoes st ten dollars a barrel at Bushwick Terminal of tho Long Island Railroad, he said, and many of the smaller peddlers found that they had to "chip in" to buy the supplies to furnish their regular cus tomers. While the excitement wta r.t lie height a woman appeared In the meeung room^ followed by five little children, and forced her way to tho speakers' platform. She crlod out that her husband earned but eight dollars a week as a tailor's helper and that she was unable to buy enough food for her babios. Then she exhibited the children to the crowd aa proof of her assertion that they did not get enough to eat. At this point the women became so excited that Dr. A. H. Friedman was called. He gave her a sedative and friends took her home. Several peddlers told of thslr small earnings, one of them, Henry Elser, aserting that his profits for a week had been but seventy-five cents, police and women food rioters at the city hall and in congested tenement districts has occurred again Tues day, Joseph Hartigan, commissioner of weights and measures, announced that he was doing everything in his power to stimulate the (low of food stuffs Into New York from all parts of the country- ~ . * Reports received by the commis sioner indicate that the situation has ♦•eached an acute slSJe which he as serts calls for the establishment by Congress of "some sort of food con- - WORKS ON DOCUMENT Officials Believe Isuislwg is "Fixing Document on Submarine*. _ • • • Pending the return of Secretary Lansing from his three-day stay at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the generally accepted belief is that no new move will' be made by the gov ernment in the German crisis.. In diplomatic quarters the opinion is al most universal that the secretary is devoting what has been officially de scribed as a short vacation to impor tant work. Some think he is fram ing a document to be used by Presi dent Wilson in connection with an address to Congress; others that he is preparing for what is regarded as the inevitable break with Austria- trol commission to meet the per cap Hungary. fige and Washington all have "bone dry" laws already in operation or to become effective shortly. Utah has enacted such a law effective August, a month after the operative date of the amendment, the legislatures of Kansas and South Dakota have sent 'bone dry" bills to the governors for signature. "Bone dry" measures are nalroUoa With A Reuter dispatch from Saloaikl •ays that the Entente Alllee su weed ed in cutting poetal communications between Athens and tke Central powers when they established eon- tact Wednesday between the French and Italian troops and cleared tho enemy forces from the road between Gorltsa. In Southern Albania, and I^etwovie. The Central powers now are restricted to wireless and air plane communications. ___ pending, with some prospect of pas- to'amend th# pro'poMl' Vf"eito'ndTng f “*V n Co l?™ d °U Iowa ' lll “ 1 1 “iP P v!' Oklahoma, North Carolina and Mich igan, and a •"bone dry" measure for Alaeka has been favorably reported in congress; Georgia’s governor haslutkl, that haadrede of food peddler* announced that In the event of-fail ure of the Read proposal ha would call the legislature la evtrordlaary session to lay a elate prohibition against liquor shipments. Florida. Louisiana. Texas aad Keataeky, with about a score of oth er local option states, will la mo way It 1a ita consumption of food In the Unit ed States." While retail shop^ keepers and push cart peddlers have been offered to bear the brunt of the ascaults of the angry housewives,, the Bureau of Weights and Measures announced that "the abnormal exportation of foodstuffs and the Subnormal pro duction are the underlying causes of the advance In prices." It was said, however, that there is "abundant evidence of speculation In canned goods." So desperate have the women la some pari* of the city become. It la have locked their pash carta •table* and map sad id 9 baaftnsaa# A number of these dealers who ven tured oat oa tha upper east side worn set upon by a mob of hoaae- wlvaa when It waa foaad they were eelhag onions a^ fifteen coats par at alas aad i a time the push carts were demolished and their contents strewn about tho streets. After several hundred women had stormed the City Hall la aa effort to see the mayor, Mrs. Ida Harris, pme ld ent •of the Mothers* Vigilance League, issued a statement la which •he declared it had been decided to keep children away from school until the prices of food were This step, Mrs. Harris Justified on the ground that poorly fed children are in no condition to profit by schooling. The cry of housewives unable to meet the advancing coat of food waa heard in the city's seat of govern ment, when several hundred women from the tenement districts stormed the city hall screaming: "We want bread." They came to place their plight before Mayor John P. Mltcholl. Many steps and tried ta push their way into the building. Policemen on guard shut the gates, and from the basement, where there is a police station, reserves rushed up and re stored order. The women were in formed that Mayor Mitchell had not yet arrived. . The leader waa Mri, Ida Harris, president of the Mothers* Vigilant League. She and three other women were allowed to enter and await the mayor's coming. "We are starving," Mrs. Harris told the mayor's body guard. "We demand help from the mayor. We will not be responsible for what happens if we don't get it." The leaders were told that tha mayor would not be at his office Tuesday, but would arranga a meet ing later. / . "Sweet Marie" Gans, one of Mrs. Harris' companions, addressed the women from the city hall ctepe, and was arrested, charged with disorder ly conduct. When the police took her from the city hall station for arraignment la court a group of womeu attempted to reecue her, but were fought off and a guard was thrown around tha dty hall. Tha 1 womsa spot continued to starving." until