Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ^b ' M / ^b ^B?^B .^B^B. ^B|B ^B^B*. ^B?B ^B ^BB ^B ^B fl v.^,. ^^B ^B~ m# I' ^B !? ^v-: r RAISES NEW POINT NOTE TO ENGLAND WILL QUESTION HER BLOCKADE UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION Great Britain Has no Bight to Interrfere With Our Trade to Neutrals? ^giockade of Germany is Not KflTectire, as Baltic Ports are Open? Germans Tra<le With Norway and Sweden. In Its note to Great Britain, which is soon to go forward, the United States, according to the New York Times, will not only reiterate its con 1i fiiiiuii inai ureal, iiruain nas no right to blockade the Scandinavian coasts, but will emphasize the view that the blockade as it Is being car-1 ried out under the order in council, is discriminatory. In setting up this contention the United States will point out that, while North Sea coasts of Germany and Scandinavia are blockaded, and American trade with Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Holland is cut off, the Hal tic coast of Germany is free for trade with ports of Norway and Sweden. The American government will point, out that Kngland has sent no warships Into the Baltic to prevent this traffic, and that as a result a large trade has been in progress between Sweden and Germany. The United States will insist that tills is discriminator}' and that it has a full right under international law to trade witli these neutral countries without restraint. While the recent short communication to the nritiah government, which is given in another column headed "States Its Claim," came as a result of representations made by the Chicago packers, the warning was not I? Ujplted in its scope cfr application to ' the 'iJPkers', crises. \/it was intended IU uo ui unu " imi u m i iu tu*ci i:?ci j American interest or right under international law as affected by the manner of the enforcement of the British order in council as a result of which American commerce of a legitimate charactor has been harassed, burdened and stifled by the action of the Brfitisli government in seizing, detaining, requisitioning, and confiscating American cargoes. High officials of the state department explained that it was not necessary, in order to maintain American rights, to notify Great Britain of this government's determination to insist, upon neutral commercial rights under the principles of international law. but that, in view of differences that have arisen between the two governments over the application of the law, it was deemed wise to serve anV other warning on Great Britain to avoid misunderstandings. It was said that the warning also carried the purpose of notifying the British government that the United States was "not asleep at the switch," Br to quote the phrase of a high official. H in its determination to protect AmeriV can commercial rights, but was thorB oughly awake to the situation pro duced in cumulative effect by the disR regard of American rights in British I treatment of cotton, meats, tobacco, and other export products as well as by the refusal of the British government to permit between fifty million dollars and one hundred million dollars worth of American-owned goods that were contracted for and manufactured in Germany to be shipped through the neutral port of Rotterdam to the United States. The attitude of the United States toward British interferences with commerce has l>een absolutely consistent. sini'i' the Itoi'lnnliiir of the unr and In Identical with Itx position toward the German policy of Huhinarine warfare. In the controversy with Germany and Groat Britain, the United States has discarded the Declaration of London and municipal leglslation l>y both belligerent governments, Wf* and has planted itself upon principles A of international law. H In the controversy with Germany it has been insisted that Germany has no right to destroy life by iodiscrlminate attack upon merchantmen and ^B it has been demanded that the rule of visit and search be applied. In the controversy with England equally ^B definite rules nnd principles of international law are being insisted upon Hut just as the Germans, through the promulgation of the order instiMB tilting submarine attacks on unarmed Bh^_ merchantmen, wliicii brought on tlie "hUH^tanla issue, so the British governmeiit has sought by orders in council, prl/.e court proceedings, mid other municipal legislation, to restrict recognized international law rights to which American commerce is entitled. The German war zone decree and ^^tho British order In council and the B^manner of their enforcement are re^Cftnrded by the United States as a practical "assertion of unlimited belligerent rights over neutral commerce within the whole European war area and an almost unqualified denial of the rovereign rights of the nations now ai pi'HHl. I IIO I imni r?iiiics ilentet emphatically any of tlio groups of belligerent* possesses any "unlimited" right* over neutral commerce or citizen* at sen. On th? contrary It la the contention of the American government that these belligerents possess only limited rights over the trade or citizens of neutrals on the high seas, and that these rights are limited only to the prevention, if possible, of contraband trade with either enemy, and the prevention of hostile acts. Even then, the United States insists, the agents of the belligerents must observe rules that are in accordance with well-recognized principles of law so as to avoid derogation of neutral rights. w. A nation's sovereignty over its own ^^.ahip* and citizens under its own flaR Ml on the high seas in time of peace is unlimited. President WILon and his j^B advisors contend that this national sovereignty sufTors no dimlnuatlon in "me of war, except insofar as the Bfi consent of civilized na? 14^2^ U. S.WltL WARN GERMANY STRONGLY IN NEW NOTE It Will he Made Plain That Another S "Iitiaitania" Will Bring Action. President Wilson and Secretary Lansing Monday discussed in detail a draft of the note to be sent to Germany this week informing. the imperial government what the United States will do if there is further vio- fl lation of American rights on the high seas. Tho return of President Wilson from Cornish, N. H., gave Secretary Lansing his first opportunity to confer on the Dolicv to be followed as tho result of Germany's failure to satisfy the demands made in the American note of June 9. It was understood the president & and Mr. fjAnsing found they had S( reached alnxit the same conclusion? e that the next communication to Ger- ? many must l>o of a definite character, making it unmistakably clear that the United suites can not be expected M to remain passive the event of an- 44 other attack on an unarmed and un- 11 resisting ship with a loss of Americans. Tho note probably will contain 01 contain little or no discussion on 44 the principle already treated at C1 length in previous communications. c< Although it is not certain whether Cl reference will be made to the attack on the Cunard liner Orduna, it is 44 known that tho incident has swept c' aside previous suggestions that the ? next communication would take into 41 consideration that German submarine commanders in actual practice were 41 conforming to tho rules of interna- n tional law. 8< Secretary T.ansing was at the White 4,1 Houso for more than an hour. It is 11 understood he obtained the presl- 44 dent's final decision of the extent to which the purposes of the United 44 States should be stated in the next A route. 4? ? ? > ci LLOYMEORGE TAKES HAND ?n IN COAL MINERS STRIKE a . lc (iocs to the Miners ami is Rxpected u g to li?a<l Tlieni Into Work- It c< inn Agreement. C1 David Lloyd-George, minister of munitions, at last has taken a hand in tho South Wales coal strike. He went to Cardiff Monday night to have a talk with the men. Mr. Lloyd-George is very popular with the miners and it is thought a direct appeal from him will have a J1 grenter effect than any other in- !l fluence. A conference between the executive " committee of the miners and Walter ' Runciman, president of the board of trade, has been arranged for, but it a was made unnecessary b? the action ^ of Mr. Lloyd-George. The meeting a has been cancelled. ' The adjustment proposals, it was defined later, originated with the miners. They were sent to London by the executive committee with the sanction of the miners' leaders, who believe they will prove acceptable. It is understood the plan contemplated temporary concession of the miners' demands, which, however, would not be embodied in any new agreement until the government had ample time to consider the whole mat tor The questions In dispute then would be referred to the munitions court for decision regarding marginal differences between Mr. Runciman'd proposal and the full demands. It is possible Mr. Runciman himself instead of the munitions court may conduet the arbitration. The proposed terms entail some conceasions on both sides. rights, which it is conceded may be exercised by nations at war. This concession of universally recognized rights is what constitutes international law. What the United ftaes has conceded to be within the rights of the British government, as a belligerent, are: First?That lielligerents have the right, of visit, and search. Second?That belligerent* have the right of capture and condemnation if, examination, a neutral vessel is found to l>e engaged in unneutral service or to he carrying contruoand of war Intended for the enemy's government or armed forces. Third?The right to establish and maintain a blockade of an enemy's ports and coasts. Fourth?That lwlligerent* have a right to capture and condemn any vessel taken in trying to break the blockade. Fifth?It even concedes that a l>elllgercnt lias the right to detain and take into Ids own |M>rts for judicial examination all vessels which he suspects, for "substantial" reasons, to lie engaged In unneutral or contraband service and to condemn tliem If the suspicion , Is sustained. I These rights, long clearly defined " by dortrino and practice, e.ro hold by c the American government to be the only permissible exceptions to the ' principle of universal equality of sov- ' ereignty on the high sean-as between 8 belligerents and nations not engaged J in war. Thin is all that the Amerl- 1 can government has conceded either ( to England or Germany. < The t'nited States ronmlet the 1 right of Great llritnln to maintain a J blockade of the porta and coast* of Germany, but holds that It must be 1 i effective to he binding. The British order in council policy has gone far i i beyond this right, the Unlied States t l continues. In efTect. tho British gov- 1 ernment, it is pointed out, i3 seeking 1 i to blockade, not only the ports and i coasts of Germany, but also the ports ( and coasts of Holland, Denmark, l Norway and Swedon. i i The I'nlted States Is challenging I i the right of Kngland to Interpose any blockade between this country and ( Holland, ,'lorway, Denmark and Swe<% ? i en, because there la nothing In inter* 4 , national law that permit* the MockW i adlng ?>r the cogat of ? neutral. riAl i (Continued on last pr.ge.J & jf STATES ITS CLAIM 81 TRONG NOTE OF WARNING IS SENT GREAT BRITAIN DENY COUNCIL ORDERS ? BW Ri lights of Americans to be Rased Dr Upon Recognized Rules of Inter- Qe T IKJil-L DO IIKUUUHI l?n?lirillBIl * llttllgeS and Their Legality Comes up for on tol Justification. a i CG( The state department Saturday ba ave out a summary of l. note It has snt to England, informing that gov- vo rnment that it will uphold the right by f American trade. we The note is a Arm, flat denial of Ingland's assumed right to interfere pr ith American commerce to an ex- ta< snt not countenanced by the recogi/.ed rules of international law. It ||n i a vigorous statement that this gov- w| rnment can not permit its commerce Wf > be treated according to the auto- FO, ratlc regulations of British order in jjn Duncil and various municipal de- ag rees. The effect of the note is to shift j,a :ie shadow of a real international n|, risls from the affairs of the United ub tates and Germany to the issues be- 0jt ivecn the United Stales and Greai col ritain. It is evident that Germany as won the first ground of her dernnd that as "the freedom of the ne ?as" underlies the questions at issue tOI etween the United States and Ger- ^ iany, this government must take up en lat subject with Great Britain. col Furthermore, it is indirect media- a on between Germany and England. |^j] nd, finally, it demonstrates the real.ation by the administration that it 8ei in no longer maintain an attitude at f aggressive diplomacy against Ger- tjv iany and continue to let the cas^ au gainst England slumber. at( The summary of the note Is as fol- tin >ws: l,u "In view of differences which are nderstood to exist between the two itt overnments as to the principle of iw applicable in prizo court proeedings in cases involving Anieriin shipping, to avoid any misundertanding as to the attitude of the nited States in regard to such proess the government of the United tates informs the British governlent that insofar as the interests of inerican citizens are concerned, it ill insist upon their rights under the rinclples and rules of international iw as hitherto established, govern- f ig neutral trade in time of war with- ( ut limitation or impairment by orers in council or other municipal >gisiation by tlie British government nd will not recognize validity of .j" rize court passages taken under retralnts imposed by British municipal iw in derogation of the rights of ,l. .merican citizens under international '.r iw.'' The note means: W8 ? m< First, that Ixird Urewe stated an ,an indefensible |?<>sition when lie told 'n< the United States that the Uritish ln< government would net consider If cases of seizures and detentions in su prize courts as "diplomatic ques- mi tions." ? Second, that tlie I nited States thi asserts that (>reat Britain hail no th international right "to interfere wltli the approach of American tei merchantmen to neutral ports sit- 6? uated iipon the line of coast affected by the order in council, th when such ships do not carry contrahand or goods destined to or foi proceeding from ports within the Pli belligerent territory." nn Tlilrd, that the manner of seizures and detention is laid down by tw International law, and that law can w< no more lie changed by thy exigen- tw cies or ureal Britain s blockade "? than by the present impossibility to of Germany using any other craft (,o than a submarine to exercise the th right of visit and search. ar Fourth, the 1'nited States does no not challenge the e?fectlveness of tr; the British blockade of actual porta ae of Germany, hut it does challenge ed the extension of that blockade to B> cover the porta of IKsnmark, Sweden, Holland and Norway. sa Fifth, that interference with Mu American and neutral vessels en ro route from American ports to other tei neutral ports is a contradiction of the principle of free seas for free 1,1 ships. HU Sixth, that the assertion by Great Britain of the principle of / holding up all vessels and rejecting diplomatic intervention is ns illegal as the establishment by Germany ae of a submarine blockade. Seventh, that tlie principle and practice of retaliation between Germany and Great Britain can n not defeat any of the rights of neutral commerce as defined and en- J, Joyed l>efore the commencement of the present war. 1 Officials are now concerned in specitation aa to what the reply of Great m Britain will be and what the United Ti Hates must do in certain emergen- K< :ies to be created by that reply. nc If Great Rrltain stands flrm, the Tnited States has two remedies. One th s to take up particular cases and as- ar lert that there has been "i. denial of is lustice." That is one of the forms oa >f pursuing a case further when a th ountry thinks an injustice has been fo lone by foreign courts. The nsser- Gi Ion that there has been a denial of cu lustice is a diplomatic action which Ui an result in the gravest kind of a ar iltuatlon. gt The other recourse of the United Hates is to treat Great Rrltain, if she re :oncedes nothing, as a nation which th tvill not be bound by international ai law. It has been frequently stated, <?? under color of locdl diplomatic sane- p< tlon, that If Oermany would not yield th to the United States this country rf might break off diplomatic negotla- re Lions. si There Is some reason to assume S< that Great Rrltain will make certain B< concessions. It ki known that Sir in [Tecll 8prlng-Rice, the British ambas- ta tador, has reported to his govern- or ment the state of public sentiment in d< IfcfcUnilcd States, arid has soaeeei*dLin 7 (AND DUKE TO WITHDRAW I HIS ARMY FROM POLAND B ndon Thinks Russians Will Retreat R Rattier Tlian Wage a War for Warsaw's Defense. London, Monday: Attention now is p itered on the gigantic operations in f e er.st where fighting is in full ing in nearly every section of the issian line from the Baltic to the liester. T General von Buelow is pushing the rman advance toward Riga on the rtliern end of this line. The move?nt Is being conducted by cavalry a scale exceeding anything liere'ore during the war. Berlin claims steady advance and Petrograd conies that the Russians have fallen ck after a stubborn contest. On Von Buelow's right is General v n Elchhorn, who is being held up C( the great Russian fortress Obso- o1 >tz. On Von Eichhorn's right is a( neral von Gallwitz, who captured P' zanysz and now is pressing an at- ftl :k on the Na?ow and its tributaries. On the famous Rawka and Bzura ti les there is comparative quiet a( a lar* la rAflnnfo/l ih/v m ?.ww ?o i v>i iv/vwu WU tlio DU U III" " ist side of Warsaw, but to the ^ atheast the movement again Lub, which was temporarily checked, ain Is In full shwlng. The Russians must fl|(ht a defense n ttle for |w>ssession of v vsaw or 81 nndon all of Poland, military v servers l>elieve (Iran e Nicli- P' is very likely to adopt . e latter urse and withdraw his armies in- tl *t. These tremendous German activi- pi 8 in the east suggest that the Tuis have little reservo to devote to K1 Jir western campaign, offering the ? tente allies a respite either for the mpletion of munitions supplies or I> concerted attempt to recapture pi lie. Another view holds that the best ti rviee her allies could give Russia cj this time would be the forcing of r< li Dardanelles. It is possible the 1 les may combine both suggested o lempts, but it is certain that for ti a time the war's center of gravity 8 shifted to eastern Burope. f? ALIAN CRUISER SINK BY I AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE Z ? ' o a tisseppe Garibaldi Carried Crew of ^ 350 Men?Pounders in Fifteen ti Mliutes After the lllow. (?c The followine officii 1 n nnnn nno. ;nt was received in Merlin Monday J"' >m Vienna, under date of July 18: ' "An Austrian subm.-.rlne Sunday ' irnihg torpedoed nnd rank south of igusa. tlie Italian cruiser Guisseppe iribaldi. Tho cruiser foundered in ? teen minutes." The Glusscppc Garibaldi was an inored cruiser of seventy-three hun- p ed and twenty-four tons, three huned and forty-four feet long. She j* is laid down in 1898. Her eomple- ' snt was five hundred and fifty men, ' d she carried one ten-inch, two sixih, fourteen six-incli and ten threeih guns, ltagusa is a fortified Aus- * il seaport in Dalmatia, on a penin- , la of the Adriatic Sea, thirty-eight ( lea northwest of C'rttaro. , i\ at it moderate its policy regarding e treatment of American trade. The lhassador left the method and ex- ? at of the moderation to his home a vernment. * In all quarters it is admitted that e note will relieve the tension beeen this government and Germany, o r the apparent reason that it com- '< les very closely with Germany's ? ain contention. a Germany held that the issues be- d een this government and Germany ^ ire so interwoven with those be- f een the United States and Great tl itain that they must be taken up gether. The United States has not \ needed this, but. accepting as true d 0 German ambassador's frequent C guments that Germany will make a 1 further concessions to this coun- d Y unless Great Britain relaxes the verity of its blockade, it has decid- , to take up the subject with Great \ dtain independently. I The effect, however mill he the _ a me In the end. If the United States h creeds in forcing Great Britain to nduet its blockade according to inniatlonal law, it has the assurance* * (ierinany that it, too, will observe e rules of international law in its 8 bniarine warfare. There is no division among Amerl- ? n diplomats as to the unassailablllof the propositions of the note to J eat Britain. Mr. Lansing does not veigh against the right of visit and arrh, should Great Britain choose I exercise it legally. ? The position oT the state depart- J ent is that vesbds should be visited j id searched "if necessary," but ex- t ditiously, and released, or that the ' use of detention must be taken up 1 id adjusted with equal expedition >y diplomacy." f This position of the state depart- J1 ent is flatly contradicted by Lord ' ewe, and presumably will be by Sir f I ward Grey In the answer to the ' ite to Great Britain. " Mr. Lansing has told Great Britain ^ at her order in council, as it affects id has affected American commerce, ^ wrong in principle and in fact, and f n not be sustained under Interna- ( >nal law. The department, therere, substantially demands that j reat Britain return to the approved istoms of visit and search as the uited States understands the law, . id as it existed before tlie promul- , ition of the order in council. No one experts this government to f cede li-otn its original position on ^ ie destruction of the Lunitanla as ? i art wholly without warrant In law , Just Ideation from the humane >lnt of view. The manner in which ia United States' position will be istated, however, in view of the replantations and converseticns on the 1 ibjeot at the department between j icretary Lansing and Ambassador ' ernstorff Is still problematic. The ipresnion is t?president must ,ke into favo^^^^ftnsideration the ' a! Bby the amb&sta>r, whiohW B.dood to have I atorialiyB ^situation. IEXICANSSTARVING ?D CROSS TURNS 60,000 AWAY WITHOUT FOOD IGHT OVER DEAD HORSE 'wenty People Struggle Over Carc?H8?Two Thousand People liesiege Slaughter House to Get lllood of Slain Animals?Rioting and Looting Around Puehlo. Department dispatches arrived in Washington Monday from Nogales mflrm earlier reports of the victory T Carranza troops over Villa forces t Anavacachi, Sonora. The trium iihiii lorces iook possession 01 cannea. American Consul Sllliraan reported le arrival of large quantities of food t Vera Cruz and that wireless comlunlcation between Vera Cruz and lexico City probably would bo esibllshed. Famine conditions in the capital re described by a Red Cross report sceived Monday dated July 1. It ?ys more than one hundred thouunl women on the previous day njvlie<l to the international rommittee >r food. Knough for only forty iousand was available. "Where formerly two hundred |?eole a day went to the slaughter house > get the blood that is saved and Iven away there are now two tliouind daily besieging the gates. "Near there the other day twenty bo pie were seen struggling to get ieees of a dead liorse. "Infants in arms are given food enrely unsuited to them and that is lusing disease among adults. The isultant infant mortality conseuently is very high. Adulteration f food is causing much stomach ouble, according to physicians. "Most of the misery already mani?st, not to mention that which is to e heaped upon this land in the eeks to come, makes the task of reef almost hopeless. From interviews itli those who have been working t the problem for weqks past, all r the relief that they can give is but touch of what needs to be given. "One man vouched for as reputale and trustworthy, who has just reirned from the United States by way i r.i raso, iorreon nnci oiner points > the north, reports a marked change >r the worse has taken place In the sgion through which he passed in le last three weeks. He mentioned guascalientes as being in great dis*ess. "The acreage planted to corn and ther grains this year in the great rain producing states is limited. Ksmates of this vary from ten to fifty er cent, of the normal.' Arnold Shanklin, American consul eneral in Mexico City, is on his way > Washington under orders from the tate department to report on condions. This was stated officially. Monay and incidentally it was admitted hat Mr. Shanklin has been wlthrawn temporarily from duty in Mex:o City to avoid continuation of friclon with Senor Cardoza, the Bralilian minister there. Hast week Mr. Shanklin went to tie Mexican capital to carry on Red ross relief work. Some differences s to methods developed between the onsul general and the Brazilian miniter. They were not serious, hut as Senr Cardoza has been for many months >oking after American interests in a lanner so thorough and satisfactory s to win the gratitudo of the state epartment officials they regarded it s only proper to remove the cause of riction regardless of the merits of he question. A delayed dispatch from Pueblo, fexico, dated ten days ago, says eonitions in the region between Vera !ruz and Pueblo are greatly unsettled nd there has been much looting and estruction of property. "On the Interoceanlc railroad all tations have been destroyed between rera Cruz and Jale.pa, sixty miles inand. In one instance the statior >gent and telegraph operator wen illled. Tin thn llrUinh /xn.nA.l -1 x/M IIIU Iiiiiinll-wmiru IM UUl uage railroad the Zaputa forces art ecoming bolder. There has beet looting in the outskirts of Orizaba ind Cordoba. Trains are delayer nd frequently passengers, including imericans, are compelled to lie or he floors of cars while bandits shoo! hrough the windows. "In reeponse to the protest of Join I. Silliman against continued de t ruction of foreign owned property 'arranza stationed a guard at tin urge American owned sugar plan ation at Trotero. Zapata troopi vent to the plantation and hanger lie Cararnza men to a tree. "Although Mexico City has heei ut off from diroct communicatloi vith Pueblo for three weeks, cour ers with newspaper dispatches ar< irrlving Intermittently. Sometime! ho messages are seized by soldier! md destroyed, as both sides seem un villlng that news of conditions ii tfexico City become public. "Every city along the railroad hai leen isolated from the territory bad rom the line. Interruption of th< ood supply, with the added bftrdei >f supporting - the invading troop* ias caused Increased suffering. "Report* front the state of Oaxara rhich early in June declared Its in lependence of the rest of Mexico tin il general peace is restore, says tlx >eople there are enjoying compare Ive prosperity. The state has coinei ts own money and notice lias hoei erred that the |ieople will resist In raalon hy any faction." Battleships Use ('anal. Three big battleships of the U. fl navy passed through the Panam anal Friday. This is the first ttnv ilg ships have used the ditch. Bibles for Russian Soldiers. The Czarina of Russia had agree to distribute n^mon bibles sent t her soldtere^^Hvmerican Sunda CUTS FRANKS THROAT AS HE SLEEPS IN PRISON Convict's Determined Effort to Kill Man Convicted of Mary Ph&gnn's Murder. Leo M. Frank, doing a life term for tlie murder of Mary Phagan, was attacked in the Georgia State prison at Milledgeville, at eleven-ten o'clock Saturday night by a fellow prisoner. His head was cut half off with a prison-made butcher knife that convicts had used during the day in killing hogs. Frank was still on the operating table an hour after the attack, conscious, but bleeding from the wounds. Frank was quartered in a dormitory with about one hundred other prisoners and occupied a bunk about forty feet from one of the two doors to the large room. Creen's bunk was fourth from his. No prisoner is allowed to leave his place without permission from one of the two guards stationed at the dormitory at night. Shortly after elevent o'clock Friday night Creen called out for permission to get up, and it was granted. He started down the line of bunks toward the one occ pied by Frank. As he reached it he quickly grabbed Frank by the hair and delivered one blow with the knife he had concealed. The attack was witnessed by the guard, who rushed to the bunk and prevented Creen from striking again. Creen was overpowered and among prisoners who rushed to Frank's aid were two physicians, one of whom also was serving a life term for murder. ? The two convict-physicians gave first aid and treated the wound until Dr. Guy Compton, the prison physician, was summoned from his home half a mile away. The three men took twenty-five stitches in Frank's neck. Frank asked the prison doctors again if they thought he would live. "You have a good chance to recover," he was told Sunday. Frank smiled. "Don't punish the man who attacked me," he said. "I have nothing to fear. There is nothintr lipt vt'onn mo or*/l Hn/1 T will able to prove to the world that I am innocent of the crime of which they accuse me if they give me a chance." "Doctor," he said, late Sunday afternoon. "I am going to live. I must live. I must vindicate myself." William Oreen, the life term convict, who admits that he cut Frank's throat, was questioned again Sunday by prison authorities to ascertain if there was a conspiracy to kill Frank. Creen asserted th t there was no plot. He said that he had inspiration that ho should kill Frank, and plotted alone to kill him. He told of aiding in tlie butchering of hogs on Saturday morning, how he had hidden a butcher knife, that had been made out of a big file, in his clothing, carried it to bed with him, how he attacked Frank as the latter slept. Frank's Condition is Serious. Physicians who examined Leo \1. Frank in the Georgia state prison at eight o'clock Monday morning said . soon after that his condition was much worse. The jagged cut in his throat was swollen and his tempera. ture was 102*2-5. BRITISH AMBASSADOR URGE GRANT OF CONCESSIONS Spring-lUce Advises His Government to Accelerate Decisions as to Hliips. For the first time since the methA/lu t\t Cln* on r wrung a protest from, tho United States, supplemented with a demand for apology and adequate reparation, ' tho British government, heretofore t ignoring similar remonstrances I against its own violation of interI national laws, has been put upon the defensive. L It is known that Sir Cecil Spring( Rice, the British ambassador, within . the last day or two has communicat, ed to his government his belief that 5 some concessions should bo made by it to the protests of the United States . against the continuance of the seiz' ure of American ships and cargoes ! and the blockading of neutral ports. i .Tho British representative is said I to have indicated to his government r in plain language the determination [ of President Wilson to couch the do. mands that he will shortly make in a note to England in terms no less positive than those he has repeatedly em1 ployed hi hisjprotests to Germany. The chief recommendation of the j British amMssador is believed to have taken fhe form of pointing out ^ the expediency of greater acceleraI tion on the/part of his government in adjustingjpome of tho issues that lie between jj ant) the United States as 1 a resultfot tile seizure of American 1 ships aim cargoes and the closing to " them of neutral ports in Holland and 8 the Scandina/lnn countries, whose at9 titude toward tho belligerents is s identically the same as that of the " United States. 1 The act of tho British ambassas dor has inspired a much easier feol( ing in official circles at the American capital. It instances the first relaxation of tho policy of Great Britain in obstructing American commerce and ' I ? m ?I -I * - * - Ill (loininivuii; iftuui 111ft pruit'HlB neni by this government in more than one I hundred such cases. ^ Wisconsin Assembly Quarantined. The members of the state assembly 1 of Wisconsin have been vacclnatetL n and their meeting hall is quaranteeV . because a member developed an av tack of smallpox Sunday. Swiss Chemist* to Come Over. [. The government is trying to create a agreements with Swiss chemists to a cove over to the United States and operate works to aid In the developments of the dye industry here. ^ British Casualties. o Since the war's beginning Oreat y Britain ha* lost 3,866 officers killed, 7,662 woufded and 1,115 misslns. FIRED AT ORDUNA NEWEST CUNARDfcR NARROWLY MISSES DESTRUCTION _ i' 55 TORPEDO GOMES CLOSE Story In Told In New York?Submarine Appeared llcfore SliJp on Jul^ O and After Missing It With Torpedo Undersea boat Shelled It With Guns. Into the grave situation that has developed between .the United States and Germany over the sinking of the Lusitania was thrust another ituum Saturday when it was revealed that J the British steamer Orduna, carrying > a score of Americans, had been at- j tacked by a German submarine. I Lacking information as to the cir- I cumstances of the attack, officials C were unable to predict to what extent % the Orduna incident would aggravate . the situation, but they thought the question would certainly compel serious consideration by President Wilson and his cabinet. Although the Orduua escaped unhurt, this, In the view of officials, does not relieve the case of grave possibilities. The fact that a belligerent merchant ship, bound for the United States with Americans on board and without arms and ammunition or contraband cargo, was assailed while her passengers slept convinced many officials that the theory they had entertained of an actual change in the practice of German submarine/tom- ' ?_ manders apparently had beejy' dissipated. One point on which the entire case so far as the United States is concerned, may hinge is whether any attempt was made to halt the Orduna by the customary warning signals. As yet the case is not officially before the state department, but as soon as some of the American passengers file their statements of what took place, the question undoubtedly will bo brought immediately to the attention of German government for a report from its submarine commander on the circumstances of the attack. The case is believed to be different from that of the Anglo-Californian and the Armenian, which were ordered to halt but repeatedly attempted to escape. According to the rules of international law, even though neutrals are on board, the use of force is , y ' iiciu to oo jusuuea to compel submission. The captain and officers of the Orduna have stated that no warning or signal had been given when the torpedo was seen streaking through the water. Officials thought therefore that any attempt made by the Orduna to escape was probably justified. Irrespective of whether or not signal was given to the Orduna to halt, or whether the shots fired by the . Germans came without warning, the view which impressed officials was that German submarines had not abandoned their attempts to destroy * enemy passenger vessels, whether carrying contraband or not, and that American citizens seemed still to be subject to hazards from which under previously accepted rules of international law they should bo immune. In official quarters news of the attack came as a shock, for it had been confidently believed, as a result of the informal expressions of Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, and press dispatches from Berlin that Americans on board passenger vessels at least would be safe from at- tack. When the Cunarder reached New York Saturday the story of the attack came to light. On July 9, when the Orduna was out twenty miles from the graveyard of the Lusitanla off Old Head of Kinsale, the Orduna escaped the Lusitania's fate by one-half of a second of time or ten feet of space, the German torpedo churning the war that distance behind the liner's rudder. Then the Orduna sped away. She was followed by the submarine, which rose to the surface, (Continued on last j?ge.) TILLMAN SEES CANAL Senator Says Japan and England Know All About It. x 7 Senator II. R. Tillman of Carolina, who is on his way to ka, reached Portland, Ore., Saturdaj^HHj^^B to rest for a few days at the homo H his daughter, Mrs. Henry W. IfughesSHHjHH lie said that luring his recent trip the Panama canal he studied, its H fenses carefully and found that print, pal concern manifested therq^^^^JHj was to guard against observation ships. "All the information has been 'J guarded very carefully," ho said, * "but there is no doubt the British and the Japanese are in possession of full information nbout the canal." Women Volunteer to Work. "Fifty thousand women tried to Impress upon Lloyd-George, English m m the H