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RMER ORDERt Y UNARMED MERCIHAN' !HIPS OF PEACEFUL CHAR ACTER FREE. WILL GIVE NO WARNING Bernstorff Delivers instructions to Lansing.-Score of incidents Are Cited.--New Orders Issued. Washington.-Germnany lias instruct ed Count von Bernstorff to inform the United States Government that the assurances regarding the futiire coi duct of submarine farfare, given in the Iusitania and Arabic cases, still are binding, but that they- apply only to merchantment of a peaceful character. The German governmncit is. understood to contend that armed nerchantmen have without regard to tlhe nature of their armament shown themselves not to be peaceful and therefore are sub ject to destruction without. warning. The instructions (irect the German Ambassador particularly to tell Secre tary Lansing that l3ritish merchant men armed ostensibly only for de fense have not assumed the character of peaceful traders, but that on the contrary they carry guns- for the spe cial purpose of attacking German submarines. To support,. this claini the Berlin Foreign Office has sent the Ambassador for presentation to the state department a list of at least 20 Incidents where it is claimed British merchant ships have attacked sub marines. Confldential advices received from Berlin state that German and Ails. trian submarine commanders already have been given their new, orders and that from midnight Tuesday, Febru ary 29th, they are authorized to sink without warning: all armed mer chant ships of the eneuies of..der many. It was said also tliat many of the nibma rine commanders probably had left their bases of vo-yages and then even should the 11ited States request the postponing of the openfng of the campaign, it woull- be impos sible to get word to man of the sub marines. It was stated, however, that so far neither the United States nor any other nation had asked a post Ponement. AGREE ON ARMY BILL. Regular Army With Peace Strength of 143,000.-Federalized Guard. Washington.-A growing tendency to provide for a Federal army reserve In addition to the regular army and federalized national guard was mani best in both 'the house and senate mil. Itary committees. Members of both committees said they favored a prac. tical test of the possibility of forming a federal volunteer army in peace times on lines somewhat similar to the continental army plan. The appa rent intenstion to abandon the conti nental project wholly was one of the causes leading upl to the resignation of Secretary Garrison. The house committee agresed' upon the general terms of a bill it expects to get before the house inl ten days 'providing for a regular army with an authorized strength of 143,000 men; a Federalized National Guard which reach a fixed minimum strength of 424,000 in five years: adequate reserve systems for both of these'forces; and organization of civilian training camips with wide discretion reposed in thc war department as to the terms of en listmen~t, training and government. WNilson Addresses Gridi'-on Club. Washington.-President' Wilson told members and guests at, a-iGridiron Club dinner that Amdrica -oug~ht tc keep out of the IEuropean :war "at the sacrifice of everything except this sin gle thing upon which her .character and her history are founded, her sense of humanity and justice" The address was confidential, sinice * the speeches at the dinners of the Gridiron Club, composed of newspa. .per correspondents, are not reported * It was made public, however, with the consent of the president and the club because many of those who heard ii urged that it should go to the country, Dover Mines Sink Ships. *Dover-The steamship Maloja, a 12,48i ton vessel, struck a mine and Wank within a ha-lf hour two miles of Dover. More than 40 persons were ddowned or killed as. a result of the accident. The Maloja left Tilbury pnly the day before for Bombay with all5is, 110 passengers of all classes, - nd'a crew numbering about 200, most of them lascars. Other passengers were to join the ship at -Marseilles, Another ship aiding in the rescue work 'is also sunk. Plood Refugees Suffering. -Natchez, Miss.-Cold .weather, rain audc sheet aided to the suffering .f tlfltod refugees in Teneas and Con f~ord~aparishes and those in the back ui well. Tehnporary shelters, e nstructed from driftwood '~r east off by levee workers, builtu by retfigees along the 4ve',' %uly. negroes. Mbre appeale ~ indy material for build, ~ 1ft~*oa'6ppcteds byg~e Natches ltie4rV' lttlet relief fe Mrs. Brandeis Is the wife of the emi. nont lawyer whom President Wilson has selected to fill the vacancy on the Supreme court bench. WILSON DEMANDS RIGHTS CONGRESS FAVRS WARNING AMERICANS-TO STAY OFF BELLIGERENT SHIPS. Leaders Hope to Continue to Give Executive Free Hand In Dealing With Grave Problems. Washington.-Agitation in Congress for action warning Americans oft arm ed ships of the E~uropean belligerents suddenly grew to . such proportions that the Democrats of the foreign re l1ations committee voted. to canvass the sentiment of the house on sey eral pending resolutions of that nature. Sentiment in the senate in favor of some such action, also was openly ex pressed, but at the end of a day of surprises, tension and agitation such ats had not been seen iri Congress In some time, the word came that Presi dent Wilson still was unalterably op posed to any such action by congress and believed that hie would only be embarrassed thereby in the negotia tions with Germany.. To widely circulated suggestions that the situation had reached a point where the president would lay It be fore congress, that Secretary Lansing might In some ' way denine the attitude of the government In a communica tion to Senator Stone and that a time had been fixed within which the United States would expect Germany to signify her Intention to abandon the announced Intention to sink armed merchant ships without warn Ing, the uniform statement was made officially that nothing had been de terind uon an htteiuto hensioBndeiisthe ifraton theader. hitlaenronted wridth Wosiility hafect fofil thedmncyatn polic Supreeocrit embrrssethf.h tLeaders Hope toConiue to wouvd ecutive rhofe goverinmDealngre Withh Gaveerrblems for acin warninuAerint Roght arm edsmaslo Nten Aurea ellirent huddeunecdly grwfa.sce proortcein ththe ouemot of nawth foein re mafrthe gmetovernent'svew onen e pedin reuion coea that tre Setimgoenentheseterminfatvor to crryd th wato the end ofithout com proprises tednot aatd ajitatrotittle somce time, ey wd camte taresi-e he iony tillrms fnpalerblyiop Apouethtoffereduto thtiney cores emrssee coted in the negti anoncitemnyhc. ws'heot tatdn thetatureo hd seach at poin wheredth pridentl woul layvember, 1914, wcres hat re etarn "Wet i same waye dheine the attitde ofwhce hveno't inhl drawnmun reovoenafuor mStne aand tatme adgesen; fi wthn wihicho the toasignfyihersitentionop aebasd upon anouncedaintbefndtion snk intg, the uimilstaedmnnc was Prud ofia lly anoting ad esoende temne ponand erson thed siutond thoug geron, mstlya negraesin one thatdno fintrac positiortn ousbean 'rnned ofti Berlisneacrdingom The negren deeopmentduct theow Whil e nroted wth te sibilthe otl congesioartrfeyefew whitel piantersae apet ragin fo ahi e presidentandthe andcetaryn of steel the, leaider weyre Jcobyfoen the woeld phont, rol the unionnle thGerex ective anh of the govenmnth fee SYSTEM. AT. FULT APMIRAL WINSLOW CITICIZES WORKING OF OYSTEM BE. FOR COMMITTEE. WOULD TAKE FIFTY YEARS Without RadIoal' Changes Would Take long Time to Produce Efficient FightIng Force. Washington. - The United States navy's whole system' of government and operation, from education of offi cers to questions of ship and gun con struction, was sharply criticised before the house naval committee by Rear. Admiral Cameron McR. Winslow, com mander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet. Without radical changes, the admiral derjared, a fully efficient fighting force comparable to the British navy could not be produced in 50 years. The witness said the system of education at Annapolis Naval Acad emy was wrong and urged restora tion of the old grade of midshipmen in the fleet. Boys should enter the ser vice at from 14 to 16 years of ae, he said, spend two years in preliminary schooling ashore, then go to sea to ac quire the 'sea habit" from actual con tact with things of the sea before com pleting their educations ashore. The polytechnic education now given midshipmen at the Academy is utterly unsuited, the admiral declared, to the training of men to handle ships and combinations of ships at sea. He could see no value to be gained from making all navy officers experts in higher mathematics, and thought con structors, engineers, and ordnance ex perts, should be trained as specialists and never be called upon to command ships. From the days boys entered the academy, he said, a system of selec tion should be applied to govern pro motions, eliminating men unfitted for the daring, nerve-racking tasks that would be theirs in 'war. He added that fellow officers should determine these qualifleations and that a plan of this sort was being worked out by the navy department.. With two opposing fleets sweeping toward each other over the sea for an action to be carried out at a speed of 20 knots or niore, the admrial in sisted, there would be no time for hesitation by any ship commander. He told of how he trained a squadron of four dreadnaughts he commanded two years ago until his orders were carried out within six seconds of the time he gave them, 60 manuevers being carried out in a single forenoon. GERMAN ATTACKS CONTINUE. Object of Great Onslaught li Great French Fortress of Verdun. London.-Along the front in the re gion of 'Verdun the Germans and the French continue the great struggle which began several days ago with the Germans on the offensive and their aim evidently the great French fort ress of Verdun. Notwithstanding a heavy fall of snow the Germans to the north of Ver dun have attacked with what Paris terms unprecedented violence and with large forces, French positions at sev eral points but according to the French official communication the at tacks were without success. Especial ly has this been true at La Cote du Poivre, -about four and a half miles north of- the fortress, the attainment of which wvould give the Germans a good vantage point from which to operate against Verdun. The artillery on both sides along the entire battle front is keeping up an incessant bofnbardment of oppo sing positions. 'So intense are the detonations of the big guns that the sound of them has penetrated east ward to the left bank of the Rhine in Rhenish Prussia. Heavy casualities are being inflicted by both sides 'and the Germans claim that they have taken many prisoners -the aggregate at last reports total ing more than 10,000. JustIce Kelly Defends BrandeIs. Washington.-Louis D. Brandeis* part in the New York and New Eng land Railroad litigation in 1892 was defended before the senate sub-com mittee investigating Mr. Brandeis' fit ness to be' a supreme court justice by Judge Kelly of the New York supreme court, who employed hinm. Those op posing Mr. Brandeis charged that he had been employed to wreck the road. "Mr. Brandeis was not employed to wreck the road," Justice Kelly told the commitee. "it was already wrecked." Oppose Compulsory TraInIng. Detroit, Mich-The department of superintendence of the National Edui cational Association at its closing ses sion here went on record as opposed to compulsory military training in the public schools. The educators, how ever, favored a plan whereby the "American youth" who wishes to re ceive military instruction can find ape cial schools available. 'the action of the department was generally regard ed as a compromise between advo cates of a strong military systein ot Vuedness and opuoorente ogduch, W. W. Venable, who fills the chair In the house of representatives left va. cant by the death of Congressman Witherspoon of Mississippi, was elect ed on a "preparedness" platform and already has made a speech warmly ad. vocating adequate natinnal defense. Mr. Venable was born at Clinton, Miss., September 25, 1880. He was circuit judge for the Tenth judicial district of his state before he went to Washing. ton. He did not take his seat until the middle of January. NEW BRITISH MINISTER WILL HAVE IN CHARGE THE BLOCKADE AND ORDERS-IN COUNCIL. Will Administer Order-in-Council and Handle Trade Passing In and Out From Neutral Countries. London.-The government through the Marquis of Landsowne, announc ed In the House of Lords that it had decided to turn over all matters con nected with the blockade of Germany to one man who wuold rank as a full fledged cabinet minister. It is under stood that the new post will go to Lord Roberts Cecil, who since the forma tion of the coalition government has been under-secretary for foreign af fairs. le will retain this post joining the cabinet as blockade minister. The new minister will be charged with the administration of the order in-council regulating the blockade, as well as responsibility for the general policy and practice of the government with respect to trade passing into or from neutral countries. Lord Robert Cecil is a lawyer of wide experience and a young muan, as members of the British cabinet go. In the foreign office he has been inti mately concerned with the blockade operations, particularly in their rela tion to the complicated matters touch ing belligerent and neutral rights. His elevation to the cabinet will give the Unionists another representative in the coalition counsels. The whole question of the blockade was threshed out at considerable length in the house of lords this even ing. Baron Sydenham and Baron Beresford making the principal ap peals for a stricter blockade, while the Marquis of Landsowne and Baron Bluckmaster- defended the government. It was Baron Beresford's maiden speech in the house of lords and huis plea was spirited and epigrammatic.. FLEET THIRD IN POWER. Admiral Badger Thinks United States Fleet Occupies Third Place. Washington.-The object of -the building policy formulated in 1903 by the navy general board, it was dis. closed before the house naval commit tee, was to keep the United States ahead of Germany in the race for na val supremacy. The statement was made by Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger. a member of 'the general board, who explained that the policy had contemplated a fleet of 48 first line battle by' ' 6 9>o accomplish its purpos. The sta a t .1.cgo into the record of u -and Admiral Badger di ..p'it to show why the 1.' .1 iught such .a cause nect - imiral was re plying to . ~ that the ob ject of the ',. andoned this year- by tI *.] e1 first time, was to kee a navy in sec ond place. ias the effect it had, lh e object was to keep alhea Franci l ; ussion Post Washin ~ k Francis,4iec rotary of V iir Cleveland's cabInet, a ,.a rnoi' of Miss ouri told - n t W Gon he would accept thr n, - 9 sador to Rus sia to sut~ - ,.' T. Marye, who has resig: 'noa'nination will be sent to th - aon as inquiry can be in e f assian govern ment as I he Is acceptable. Mr. Lanse ed o the president during ,th. '. vih Nuiator Rtel of Missouri. r i he will corter *ith Secretary ng Abont sle "a~.a GERMANS AND FRENCH ENGAGE IN ONE 'OF THE GREATEST BATTLES OF WAR. FRENCH LINES NOT BROKEN Germans Force Back French Wings. Ferocious Onslaughts Continuous. -Heavy Tolls Both Sides. London.-Inspired by the presence of their Emperor and led by Crown Prince Frederick William, the Ger man troops are engaged in one of the. greatest battles of the war on the Western front centering around the fortress of Verdun. Attack has fol lowed attack -against the French lina after bombardments, incessant and terrific, continting for several daya. While the Germans nave been un able, despite the rain of shells and ferocious onslaughts by the infantry, tO break the French line, neverthe. less the French on their right and left wings have been compelled to withdraw their lines, respectively to) the south of Ornes and behind tha town of Samogneux, six miles north of the fortress. Only between Malancourt and tLe left bank of the Meuse has there been and diminution in the intensity. of the artillery fire. With Brabant, Haumont and Samogneuv and the .wooded sections north and northeast of Beaumont, in their possession the Germans from the Meuse eastward to Fromezey are forcing the fighting, seemingly regardless of cost of life. The French guns have answered the German guns shell for shell and the casualties on both sides are very great. The French official report de. scribes the battlefield between the Meuse and Ornes as' piled with Ger man dead. In Champagne at several points, and in the Argonne Forest German works have been pounded by the concentrated fire of the French guns, while in Lorraine, the French repuls ed a German reconnoitering party that attempted to capture a French post north of St. Martin. On their' end of the line near Hul luch, the British exploded a mine and occupied the crater and also bom barded German trenches near Freling hien and Boesinghe. PACIFIC FLEET EASY VICTIM. Admiral Winslow Says One Battleship Could Capture All. Washington.-While the House Mili tary Committee was taking steps to ward getting its bill for increasing the regular army and federalizing the National Guard before the house withy in ten days, the Naval Committee was being informed by Rear Admiral Cam eron McR. Winslow that the entire Pacific fleet might be an easy victim for one good enemy battleship. Admiral Winslow said the force un der his command was wholly inad equate, even with all its reserves cal e-l out, to meet any probable enemy in the Pacific. Navy department plans for meeting an emergency there or in the Atlantic, however, he said were confidential matters of strategy. Testimony of Brig. Gen. William Cr-ozier, chief of army ordinance, be fore the fortifications committee, re vealed that the war department plans for coast defense contemplate placing the heaviest new fortifications at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, which he described as one of the several places where "facilities for land operations are so good that it is worth while to especially fortify them to prevent that operationl." At other points, such as Rockaway Beach, New York and San Francisco, he said 16-inch guns mount ed in turrets would be added to the batteries. Bank of -Essen Fails. London.--A dispatch to the Ex change Telegraph Company from Zur ich says: "The failure of an important bank at Esen Germany, is announc ed, It is believed many Krupp work men lost their savings." Munitions Train Attacked. Seattle, Wash-Attacking a Great Northern freight, train loaded with automobiles and war supplies for ship ment to Russia from Seattle, in the Northern Pacific freight yards here six or eight men cut the air hose be tween cars in five places, and cut 'the train in four sections. The train crew fought them aff and captured two who gave the names of Sam Rusky and John Ross, and their nationality as Austrain. Officials said it was known that 'the train carried supplies for Russia. Emperor WIlliam With Army. London.--Emperor William has es tablished his headquarters at the Ger-. man positions facing Verdun, accord ing to information received from Ber lini by The Evening News by way of Copenhagen, The dispatch which is dated Feb ruary 23 says:- "It is reported that the Emperor is more energetic than oven, making daily speeches to the troops and encouraging the soldiera not to yield. 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