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WEATHER FORECASTS Fair and much colder tonight With rr,d wave. Saturday -fair and-con tinued cold. I""" I V. Y,JULJyjUL, -VUT -JLvSkl?- ;iiJl!JrrJLJ.i: sinew. p '- : r" , LARGEST iCIRCiaATIONj-iN'- WILMINGTON 'I r?'-;. A ; , -' C VOL. XXII. NO. 335. , - , , WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLjNA;g,)D AY AFTERNOON, DECEMBERS, -'l 91 6. . . , V PRICE FfVE CENTs'H ' OIIIUHBHf ' FINDINGS AS TO ; WHEAT PRlfes ; m IW DANGERD SinPPWll nwoiiyiliyiilffli dreadeddisease weht cRAsiise j ofn flmcitl loll IMIirMy MI:Ii UEa H VI lyl lj Lnl JL New-vnrir"71T .,,,' Peace Talk Causes Slump In 1 Ai,y Ttime. B 'I I I B 1 kll IT I W - il I Cature of Rumanian Town of:, Buzue By Teutons Presents New Menace. MAY HAVE BROKEN NEW LINE DEFENSE. Russo-Rumanian Armie May, Be In Danger of a Flanking ' Movement Peace Devel- opments Now Await Con sultation By Allies. Fi urtner developments regarding the- peace invyusai vzeiiuauy anu ner allies await consultation and decision. of the entente governments before lie nil action will be taken. Probably nothing definite can be! expected before next week when Prem- deliberately murdered. his wife for the im Lloyd-George will take the occa- primary purpose of collecting insur sio!) of his appearance in th House auce on her life. The" 'Carroll county oi" Commons next Tuesday to f-tke a grand jury has indicted him on five statement. The Premier, who has counts, strangulation which caused been ill, is improving and, according death, shooting with the right hand, to today's indications, will be able to shooting with the left hand, strangula make his postponed statement regard- irv" and shooting and murderous as ins: the new government at that timv. --"Jit. 'The accused man, in his cell Possible serious consequences not in the Ossipee jail, clings to his story only ter the Rumanians but for the that he was in Boston when his wife Russian army is implied today in the was murdered in New Hampshire and benm uiBpaicnes leuing or tne cap- t i T . . 1 - 1 n . - tnre C the Rumanian town of Buzue. Jiiiitary writers had largely assumed - - it to be the Russo-Rumanian mtention tt make a defensive stand along the 1!uzue river in an easterly direction and not far from the southern border of Moldavia, Rumania's northern prov- "ice. ln trkine the town of Buzue it " & would aDDear that this would break the important defense of the whole Russo-Rumanian line along the west- em Moldavian mountains and the Russo-Rumanians would seemingly be siresstad been laid by military corn dfn twice ot the neck and secur- ents ol persons who died of cancer, montators on the importance of this ed in a sluare ot was Preserved, that disease 1s not iiered-tary. iine to the Russians as it had been The sku11 had been crusned by a blow . "The possibility of heredity in can pointed to as one necessary to be or blows and the body had been par-jeer as generally been studied by 4- held if the Russian front in the south- em Carpathians and even in Galicia 1 was to bo preserved. Moreover it 1:; - been indicated that a falling back of the Russian front north from Mol- da via beyond Galata, would open Bessarabia to possible invasion by the Teutonic armies. ' Berlin reports an abortive offensive by the French in the Verdun region. An attack made in an attempt to re- take positions lost by the French on) Hill Xo. 304, west of the Meuse, was repulsed, it is declared, as were as- saulis on the German positions on Topper Ridge near Fort Hardaumont, east of the river. The situation in Greece is still in- Vr.llt.,1 in Mnntn Ofnnc Q T-o to ho vi w laken by the entente to prevent the Greek government sending large forces where they may be in a posi lion (o constitute a threat to the Ma "(Ionian forces of the allies, accord to advices through Paris., Petrograd's official statement ad mits retirement of the Russo-Rumanian forces in the vicinity of Buzue, but does not concede the capture Of the town by the Austro-German troops. T .... .. . . . ( cuabequence ot this retirement tne , usMj-Kumamans turtner soutneast in Wallachia, along the Jalomitza, ultimatum, according to news agency dispatches from Athens, of this-latest entente The terms : demand on Greece have not been given out SilRIE IS ill INTSCT But Danger to The H-3 Is NoC?Tt8 of e cottage, which Attempts to Rescue The Boat. VKun-ka, Cal., Dec. 15, The subma- r!il(' il-3, in which twenty-five enlist- quantity of kerosene at the cottage on men and two officers of the Small's order. The theory of the Iros rniieci states navy were imprisoned ecution is that ' Small strangled and for seven hours yesterday, while shot his wife to deathand then devis pounded disabled in a heavy surf ed an ingenius scheme, by a lighted n the beach near Eureka harbor en- candle or other method, to set the cot lIance, was still intact early today' tage on -fire hours after his departure. fts far as could be seen from the The investigators claim to have dis- lore. The sea was smoother during the nisht and hope was expressed that J stranded diver would be hauled Catk into deep water. uvlTl&EEgGft&Rnr& use mmpRTHSW i&mvmmmN& -)aribd : are- twaniuG TO TRY BROKER FOR WIFE MURDER r Famed Trial to Open In New 1 nampsrure lowninlNext Ten Days. Ossipee, N. H., Dec. 15. If Freder- ic "Ii. Small, .former Boston brokpr ia found guilty of wife murder when he & Dlaced on trial herfi ten davs the will be recorded 'as one of the of--most cunningly planned crimes ever ! chronicled in New England. The State accuses Small of having XI : J. 1 1 2 mev crime must uave ueeu cum- mitted by tramps. ! The scene of the Small murder was . - --. the summer home occupied by the couple m a sparsely settled locality on the shore of Lake Ossipee. The first intimation of the murder was when the cottage was found to have been idestroyed by fire. Whil it was ap- Paent that the fire was set to cover the -T-irriQ tVi a otfomnf failml ntilv Ki.- " ' T T " ,": " ?ere woman dropped, with the 'burn- mg noor into tne basement, ana tne loa f .' uauy ournea wuue on a ueu. j Mr- Small hatt left his cottage at 4 p- m" six nours before the fire was discovered. He went to Boston on a business trip, leaving his wife alone in the cottage. x He was reached by telephone at his home in Boston and immediately returned to the scene of his wife's murder to assist the au- thorities in clearing the mystery. The same day he was taken into custody Dy the sheriff on a charge of murder, Before his arrest Small said he WOuld give $1,000 to the one who dis- covered who killed his wife. He said he Knew no one wno nan any rea- son for wishing ill to his wife or him- .... . . . self. Previous to the recovery of her body he had suggested the possibility 111 i t t !! 1 tli lirt nr. nrh lUHl 1YIIS. OlllCtll S 1lUlUllig XiaU U6UU . -lQ ,1 i front of a fireplace, as was her custom. i rr, ' , , , i " two mile fron l iZe vmage of Mount- ainview. It was the only occupied place in the vicinity. Mr. Small, who retired from active business several years ago, bought the cottage and with his wife had lived there for most of the 3-ear. The fire which destroyed the house gained . considerable head- mov hofnro it was fJisroVftrfid bv the villagers arriving from a distance, J - were "unable to extinguish it. Several hours elapsed before the ruins cooled j missing woman. Ever since Small's arrest the au- thorities have "been at work gathering made "against him. One of the -first facts brought to light was that a joint policy on the lives of Mr. and Mrs. j Small for $20,000 had been issued, by j a Boston insurance company last-Jan-juary. It is also aid that in Small's bag, left in the- hotel room in Boston, occupied by vthe accused man the night of the murder, were found the insurance papers, together with an itemized memorandum ; showing the also At the preliminary hsaring one of the village storekeepers of Mountain view testified that on the day before the fire he had deliverd a considrable covered' evidence that the interior of the 'cottage had been saturated with Oil, so that it was only by the merest chance that all of the evidences or tne murder were not destroyed by the study of original insurance statistics indicate cancer is neither hereditary; nor contagious, according to. a paper I presented to the Association of Life' Insurance Presidents here today by; President Arthur Hunter of the Ac-i tuarial Society of America. Atter referring to the annual toll nf it ..u cer in the United States. Mr. Hun ter said: "No sooner do we become interest ed in the wide prevalence of a dis ease like cancer than we begin to wonder whether it is contagious or hereditary. Such questions must be tin the minds of hundreds of thou- sands of relatives of persons who ave- died from this disease and of others who are suffering from it. 'There seems little to support the view that cancer is the-result of eon-i Prices varied as much as 5 cents in tagion. Twenty thousand applica- the same instances in' different- parts tions for insurance were -reviewed of the pit. The opening range for and it was found that in 488 cases May, the chief trading option, spread one only of the parents of the appli- all the way to $1.58 to $1.63. Waves cant was stated to have died from of selling -accompanied the exciting cancer and in four cases both par- break in " values. ents were stated to have died of What chiefly sent the price down that disease There were 122 times ward was the .' statement authorized as many cases in wliicn one paient had died of cancer as of tfcose in which both narents had died of that winch both parents had died of that disease. There could hardly be a stronger test than the case of hus- band and wife." As tn hprPi.iv Mr Rnntor sid: w , - . "My first investigation- consisted of cases of nersons insured in six com- panies, both parents having died of ranwr nrW to rtntP of anniifntion for . r - - insurance. Of 472 grandparents of the insured, the cause of death was given in 234 cases, of which two were from cancer; the cause of death was stated in 184 of these as 'old age,' the average age at death of which was 2. In 72 of the grandparents tVio naiico nf Jootf was Tinf known hilt , 7-- CT iKK ' V W "I; 62; m 155 cases neither the age nor tne cause, oj aeam v , j, JX' .Tin- experiments on animais. in tne case of human beings there has been no previous attempt, so far as I am aware, to investigate the problem in families where there has evidently been a cancer strain, if such a thing exists. In the present investigation one of the groups consisted of cases in which both of the parents had died . from cancer; and in another of the groups, a parent, and a brother or a sister of the policyholder had died from that disease. It might be ex-( pected, therefore, that if cancer werej hereditary it would be shown very; 1 1 :n V. 1 4" m J 1 ini4a t- F Vi r-i c -1 tsivmiy m iuc wmuj xciuo i .x persons but this has not appeared, "Men and women who are in anxj iety of mind on account of the ap-1 TPWATH Tl fR III I VM, 1 1 1 I III I I I tli CLLILCO H .T I . or immediate lamiiy, may aismiss such anxieties as there is no statis- tical evidence at the present time xat the disease of cancer is trans- mitted by inheritance in mankind. GREECE ACCEPTS TOE of Decree Not Made Public. T1T1 London Dec. 15. The Greek gov- ton and the surrounding territory, injior tne most suDScnptions win get tne ernment has accepted the ultimatum this time a question of very great im- most subscripions and win. "Asking presented by the entente allies, says portance to those women who are con- i the most people" is really an effica a dispatch! from Athens to the Central testing in the Dispatch's Great Prize Jcious prescription for success. - Of News Agency. ' i Contest will be settled. This is the course, getting as many friends as pos- The ultimatum to Greece was pre-' question "of who will win the $60 dia- ible to help in soliciting subscriptions, sent ted yesterday aitd expired at 3 There are indications o'clock today. that the terms were agreed to, but but so far the British foreign office has received no news of the acceptance, fire. The coming trial promises to be one.Ple. The First period of the contest of the most sensational ever held in ro.t tmpw TTamnshire. No nllonM f vpmiP. has been asked bvUt the end of the first period the extra Small's counsel, and he will be tried; .u- r.t imneo thrPA in tiie udoiijcc v.iit. 1 miles - from the scene of the murder. "'' '-ibe 'h FLOUR DROPS IN PRICE. letting, dui tney wm wso oe wunuug w Minneapolis Minn., Dec. 15.- i secure the high first period extra ; votes .world .of work in similar length of promised to cease depredations , brlng about consideration of thepro Minneapoi , , 9- . ,QT1, iT1Kre tTlpir R11oSS in th race time. There' are few ways-in which; upon American property and dis-;DOBaI President WUsoa.will be left to 'The best grade, flour dropped 25 4!and insure their success in the race cents a barrel today, first patents H being quoted at $9. or $1.50 a bar-, rp.i rbelow the high mark touched a month ago. .' Prices on The Chicago Exchange. . J BREAK WAS AN EXCITING ONE.V nr'o T;,iw C M- tions' Disarmament Was The Direct Cause of Break. - Chicago, II I 111 1 ' . ed down in values today on account of peace talk. First sales showed a fall in some places of 8 5-8 cents a bushel, May wheat touching $1,58 cents, as against $1.66 1-4 to $1.66 5 8 at yesterday's finish. by the German embassy that one of the most important subjects for dis im , S.,"' L II cussion at a peace parley would be universal disarmament? Within an hour losses had been wid- Caed to 10 5-8 cents a bushel. . M 'ay m.M , ,J iv utai. iiuiuuivu .J j.--o wii tut; uiualHK out of accounts. 4 which marcins hart v.Q -s, ; - - compared with prices a; month ago the 1 2 ii ir -x As iuai nci was uuwu iuuio man o ceillS a bushel in December deliveries. - '' " , FINAL ESTIMATES OF $ CROPS. Washington," D. C, Dec. 10. . i.. . . . . ... . s . mai estimates oitms year s pro- auction ot tne farra Qrops an the department Corn-2,583,241,000 bushels. Wheat 639,886,000 bushels. Oats 1,251,992,000 bushels. Tobacco 1,150,622,000 pounds. Cotton 11,511,000 bales. . EVERY DAY p. . , D . rrr j c . diamond King Uttet ; and h irst n . V T T w-iiVV reriod Ot Contest Will Liose UNTIL i In 5lX Days Work at lhlSend- Tne one wno works the hardest Time Will Have TWp DU- tne next few days to win the diamona tinct Advantages. -X- . THE PRIZES. -X- $685 Overland Automobile. i - Ford Automobile. 1 -" Carolina Beach Lot. -Y? $100 in Gold. . $75 Victrola. $50 O. K. Mystic Range. -Sfj $40 Sellers Kitchen Cabinet. 1 I $25 Wrist Watch. I Two $60 Diamond Rings. j ' 4f , ing to be important and eventful to!rule that always can be depended up- ja number of the residents of Warning- i mond ring which the Dispatch has offered to the candidate who turns in the most money oh NEW subscriptions me most money on in a, w subscriptions between Saturday, Dec. 9th, and Fri- .day, December 22nd, at 9 p. m. - I In still another sense, these few 1 -will come to a. close at the same time as the Diamond Ring Offer Dec. 22 days will be important to same peo-fing votes on each $15 club.will be reduc-icient reward for the time and effort PiU and contpstants who nitr.h in and! spent. It would justify a contestant in ittii w th oil V10 i hoort nnH ctronirth from now until Dec. 22 will not only nui a vvitu nu buvii i. muu Diiiubi.u working to win the $60 Diamond .for one of the big prizes. T . Efforts put forth during the jnext ;few days will have three distinct ad vantages it may win the diamond ring, it will secure the highest Vote Rome, Dec. 15. Notwithstanding jthe presence of the Pope, respect for ;cr fear .of whom is supposed bo far to have saved Rome - from aerial :it 1 ; tacks, it is now taken for erranterl that 1 the Eternal City with her countless! monuments and works of art may soon ! oettacKe by Austrian aviators The Ita -."C-Uitary authorities have been activelA4ged for several months preparirjfcyjrrotect the city from a raid, with i&orate signal system arranged by WS JVTarconi . it'i nil . ii . x-i - the approach of enemy" aei5planes. 'The Roman newspaDers recently 'nub- lished notices that the alarm would i consist of five cannon shots, with the j usual ringing of church bells as signal that the danger was over. While so far ?t Has proven impos sible to prevent sporadic attacks on .London, Paris, Venice, and other cit- les, arrangements have been madp. that may at least prevent the escape ! etteville and Wilmington, to see Secre- of the raider who attacks Rome. -fPhei.tary Daniels tomorrow morning and city is favored by two low mountain urge the advantages of Fayetteville ranges between her and the Adriatic for the location of the armor plate sea, a. distance of 125 miles. But Plant. Mr. Godwin and the Fayette- i , , - ould the aeroplanes escape the coast guns and the anti-aenal guns planted on these mountain tops, the advanc- jing aeronauts vill still find in their path numerous sauadrons of Italian mo sill 4 ii sin rpU I :i is ' . ""V?. city itbu JS armea ,,.,m, ,. i , with numerous high power search- ivhtc anrt .q nr ,o nrin i mm r, ' I ' u ci1 ia-1 6uuo. iuc idui- US Seen Hills of Rome including the Capitoline above, the Forum, have each i-. , - . , armed: i The postoffice department has had The Janiculum Hill, which domi- considerable trouble with Ligon and xnates St. Peter's church and the Vat- over six months ago demanded he re- iCan, the Pope's residence, has several sign- -Thef- matter was patched up guns planted on' its brow. The Vatic- then, but has come up again and Ugon ian is protected by another set of'nas resigned. , 1 guns near the Castle Sant 'Angelo, the Congressman Britt returned I hereto-: .1 . , , ... flav frnm RallS'h wbprA ho hflJ hPTI &u"" ttUU maruie iomD Duut.ior. " A.fZ' . ;r',; , , - fWhilethelM"1 the people of Rome for their own safe- ty, it is-(certain, however, that a bomb dropped anywhere inside its limits: could . hardly miss destroying some work of artin the world's richest mon-i 1 umental city. lEIT FBI values and u may insure tne victory in the case of the Grand Prizes at the COB P R CI IV I . f iiu&, win xiut;ist.tiiii ' uave given ner- n"cs i x w o jwiuvo xuau 'splf a onnsirlpmhlo artvantneo in tho'earlv in the afternoon, but the market . -'""o" I raco fnri nno nf t)io flronH "Wine. TV.. 1 ....w. preserve the lead to be the winner. at Six days is not a whole lot of time. In fact it is so short a time that not a minute can be let go by unprofitable, without inviting de'feat for the con testant's cherished hones. Success m Luc juni.caL i&, yuieiy iiuu siuupiy, matter of work. Some may think that luck may have something to do with 1 it, but it hasn't. It is work not hard work, but constant, which' wins every ' time and all the time. There's one safe : on it is, that the contestant that asks ana getting suuscripuuns ior me umg- er periods of-time, -are also, important, but that is comprehended m the ask -u, xo - 'advantage gained, the prize should eas-j The selling came from all quarters. .,ly be wcn for it is only necessary t0the out-of-town element being a con- ing the most people" prescription. p- . The woman who wins the 1 diamc mdland West Indies Central father nng in tne nezi sia uays wm ue paid for the work at the rate of r,.;,i rnr. wnrir ot v,o ,ot0 r,t I $10 a day. - The one who keeps up the pace and win 3 one of the Grand Prizes will be paid many times greater than this amount. This is surely a magnifi - ... . . , . i jj fiiiTT.infir in rnn Riinrfi ome. ii necessdrv. 'to gain either of these exceptional re- jc c i - ' warns, it is many times ereater tnaui the salaries paid in the industrial a person's efforts for the next eight . davs could be more profitably spent than in the campaign for the Dispatch prizes. , . j (Continued on Page Eighty I II - H B Vt H U m U ll II II lli.ir llimJF II . Imb lmmm W m II II imn flfimriTniii rni irv ARB TO APPEAR . L Will Help Fayetteville Land The Armor . Plate Plant If Possible. (By George H. Manning.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 15. It has been arranged by Congressman God- ( win for Senators Simmons and Over- , man and all the North Carolina con-1 gressmen and a delegation from Fay- , ,TT., . . . .. yille and Wilmington people believe the North Carolina location has won- derful advantages and will insist the navy department officials fully investi- gate North Carolina's proposition be- Ji,Uinn n r.in ".umg a one. Congressman Godwin today recom- menaea acpomimeni ot -i i . rnquay i i . n 1 1 -n postmaster at Islington to succeed ing today either at the : V J. E. Ligon. "or Statn DenartmenL ; . ' . . STOCK MARKET " Further Slump Takes Place on TU CU B"'u belling. New York, Dec. 15. The stock market experienced another feverish session of violent liquidation, being attributed to continued apprehension over the effect of possible peace on Ithe earnings of" munition, steel and I kindred concerns. Losses ranged from 3 to 12 points under yesterday low- st quotations, with 32 1-2 ror Beth- lehem bteei. it was the third severe downward movement since Tuesday. ' nnntirmeri pvtrpmplv spnsittvp. siderable facto British aggression again contributed to the enormous of- ferings, which taxed the machinery of the exchange. In the opinion of some observers the peace developments served as an PTfonsp pathpr than n rpason for nart u'"-- ""f wi , It is pointed out that the market be- came top-heavy as the result of large and unwieldy bull . accounts, which made it easily susceptible or voluner- able to untoward events. Another important-factor is the at- cause Germany has repeatedly, refus titude of local banking interests, ed such suggestion even to the point which expressed disapproval of furth- it was aid, of threatening to withdraw: er market excesses 'and was shown from the second Hague conference if by sharp scrutiny of peculative stocks the subject was pressed. : - S. ; and loan. ' More of the neutral European dlplo- United States Steel was again the.' mats have asked their governments to outstandfng feature, almost 400,000 authorize them' to assure President, shares changing hands before noon Wilson of support in any move deslgn at an extreme loss of 4 1-2: There ed to bring about consideration not tho xoaa oToatpr wpaVnpus in Tndus- " ZYl, a,.. selu-;"" - 7". . .7. . international raper. saies totaiiea International Paper. 1,300,000 shares. f 1 'Js VILLA READY TO QUIT. . I El Paso, Texas, Dec. 15. Francisco Villa, through . repre- - - t, - , tares to the United States and hasf continue killing Americans " in Mexico, it was announced today by government. agents here. ., ' - HMRiEy. a:W';3iLro ; v; No Action Until Lloyd-George j i ''. Has Had His Say In House I : of Commons GERMANY'S STATEMENT CAUSES SURPRISE. Had Always Fought DisarmaL-c ment Notes; Ready ; to Go Forward Lansing Confers . With The President-Neii-v - ... - . . .1 "'. ' . ', I".'',." trajs Busy. . v.l v' ;'; Washington, D. C., .Dec! lS.-rPres- ident WHson vrill probably not Anally , determine on any formal stip In con- nection with the T peace proposal of ,the central powers until after David Lloyd : George, the British prime minister, : has spoken in the House or commons . Tuesday. ' 'v ';V -''- '.'j';". In the meantime through then Amer- lean diplomatic representatives in the capitals of the entente powers the AnJV 1 A 111 i' 1n ericau Buveruuieui w " , , . . . . . . , touch with the situation. , ino iormai comment was iorincom - . . . . . White House i . . , . It is known to be the view of most v cab'net members that the American ' government 8h0ttld move cautiously ' go as tQ do nothing that will Imperil ' its influence for peace. President ' Wilson is known to- attach great im-, ' portanc0 to . the possibility, of estab-. .... . .. . '.- . 1 . " ' ' .' rshlng an association to maintain BftJasrlMay :Wfore.i foe Leagued id In the same speech , the - President I said the American people believed " firmly in every people having right to choose the Bovereignty under which :c they shall live and that the small states of the world shall have the . same respect for their sovereignty and for their territorial integrity that the . great and powerful nations expect and insist on. - j secretary Lansing early today held . hiS flrst personal conference with " President Wilson since the peace pre of the central powers was made , pubiic. He said the formal note from Germany and Austria-Hungary might 5 gQ forward befpre night and that as Drobablv the President would take no . lndependent action until after Premier D vW TJovd-George had spo"ken.v the note probably would be accompanied ,: onl b a formal note of transmission., After nJg conference with President . 'Wilson Secretary Lansing said the ; pOSition of the American government ' 1 - j naa not ueeu uuuujr ueic4.iuwu uu , , ..... . . ." j . r. ' .' ce Tnere were tnar rnn note irom 1 urnev uau not indications that while . th prPRident would still await for. ex nroaainn nt thp ottltnde of the en-J t . ... f t kI ftny formai' 11 '. ' !$tep ne had up his mind sufQ.'t clently on hls general policy tb-d!vf-' lt withthe cabinet ' ' " . .. . . - ' n. . . . . . ... m t ' man embassy tnat at least partial ais- armament would be one of the thinss taken up at the peace confernece at- tracted the widest attention , among government officials and diplomats. It was accounted doubly interesting be- offer directed to peace For diplomatic rpasons thev decline to permit' dis- closure of their Identity. If is tinder-' . mpt,t thp nnrp nf artlonwill . be developed by the respective - cabi nets and rules. Among the neutrals the view lsttav fleeted that thesupport of President W 1I8UU 1U iXLlf aVLlUll UJACU Will UV mil 1 - V. fold. The neutral diplomats are t cer tain that the weight of the ; collective opinion and wishes of the , neutrals. neaded by the United. States, will - ner.essariiv aemana tne greatest con- 8ideration and should Joint action hot left act on his own initiative later. J The German, embassy, is without ad ditional advices of any kind - today.. Count von Bernstorff made( no appoint-1 ment to see Secretary Lansing.; . 1; OX