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U.S.WILLNOT ENTER INTO OIBCUSSIOII it? * t» SO LONQ *AS QKRMANY CON TINUES HER RUTHLESS Ü BOAT WARFARE. BLUNT REPLY TO PROPOSAL le Made by Laneing at President's Direction. —■ Renewal of German Pledge Prerequisite to Any Diplo matic Discussion. Washington The United States has flatly rejected Germany's offer to diacuas differences between the two nations while the ruthless submarine campaign is In progress In a note today to tht> Swiss mm ister. who on Saturday presented oral lv the German proposal. Secretary Pausing said the Pnlted States "dor not feel that it can enter Into any discussion with the German govern ment concerning the policy of subma rine warfare against neutrals which it Is now pursuing unless and until the German government renews its a>- suranees of the 4th of May Mho Sus sex notel and acts upon the assnr ■noes" . . The state departments •'announce ment follows "In view of the appearance In the newspapers of February 11 of a report that Germany was initiating negotla tions with the Pnlted States in regard to submarine warfare, the Department of Stale makes the following state ment "A suggestion was made orally- to the Department of State late Saturday afternoon by the Minister of Switzer land that lhe German Gxlviu uiuelii .in.- willing t• negotiate wllh Ihe I States, provided that the coniiiierchil -bfrrrkaTtc-rtirrmrst- -H-ttghttrd-wmtM- not He interfered with At '.he remie-i of tho Secretary of State, this suggestion was made In writing and presented to him I■> the Swiss minister Sunday night "The communication is as follows: " The Swiss governnienl lias been requested by the German government to say that the latter is now as before, willing to negotiate, formally or in formally, with the Pnlted States, pro* vided that the commercial blockade against Kngland will not be broken thereby • ( Signed i "'l'll ITTKII Lansing's Reply. This memorandum lm mediate consideration and the follow ing reply was dispatched: "My dear Mr Minister: "I am requested by the president 1 to say to you. In acknowledging the memorandum which you were .kind enough to send to mo on the lltli In atant. that the Government of the United States would gladly discuss with the German Government any questions It might propose for discus sion -were it to withdraw its proclama tion of the :!,1 st of January, in which, suddenly and without' prev.lous intl inatlon of any kind, it cancelled the assurances which it had given ,this government on the 4th of May last: but that it does not feel that it can enter Into any discussion with the Gorman Government concerning the policy of submarine warfare against - neutrals whit li It is now pursuing un less and until the German government renews Its a*surances__of the 4ili of May and acts upoiPtho assurances.' MEXICAN FIRST CHIEF WOULD BE DOVE OF PEACE Washington Revolution swept Mexico's do facto government has en tered the lists of international peace makers With an identic note to all neutrals, it proposed a Joint effort to end •the Kuropean war, to be follow ed. in the event of failure, by the cut ting off of all exports of munitions and supplies to belligerents The communication was handed -to the slate department liv R P de Negri, charge of the Carranza embus- I sy here It was received with expres sions of mingled amusement and grav ity in official quarters.- CHINESE DON'T WANT TO RETURN TO JUAREZ Columbus. N. M Kve hundred C ( h nese refugees from Mexco protested aganat the contemplated plan of de porting them to Juarez Loaders said i Villa was expected to attack Juarez and that all Chinese would be executed s If he captured the town. The protest j has been forwarded, to Chinese min later at Washington Immigration of-- 1 ficials eaid arrangements have been j made at K1 Paso to give asylum to Chi- i nese if the Mexican town Is attacked. GERMAN SAILOPS AT HONOLULU RELEASED Honolulu —Sailors from various Ger man ships, which took refuge jn | Hawaiian waters, were released from detention by immigration offlc.als. act- 1 ing. they said, under orders from Sec i retary of Wilson. Simultane ously charts against officers and men for alleged destruction of- machinery and otherwise were dismissed at th« request of the United States district Attorney. ' * - r HAS UITLE HOPE OF AVOIDING WAR i BERLIN HAS NO EXPECTATION THAT HOSTILITIES WITH U. •S. CAN BE PREVENTED. RATHER DEFER THAN AVOID Ultimate Hostilities Inevitable if President Adheres to Position That Loss of American Life is Hostile Act. Copenhagen, via London^ — Littlj hope or expectation prevail* In Berlin lliat war with the Pulled State* In avoidable, or that a modus vlvendl re • onclllng the policies of the two (Jo.'- eminent* can be/found. There now 1 -hr a desire on the pail of the authorities and a vast bulk of the people to a-vobP actual hostttltfeir In any way eotistSfcrTl with the general linen of the present submarine policy, but only in such a way. Acordingly. instructions were given, HO the Asso elated Press has been reliably Inform ed, to submarine commAnders befoiv they started on their February nil s• slon, to take the safe side when n«m Hal vessels, particularly American, wer ein question, whenever possible, Knemv merchantmen!, when recognl'- ed as such, were ordered to he sunk at sight, but neutral merchantmen were to be warned when such action, in their judgment, was conslste-it wl'h the objeit of the campaign and the Safely of their own ships It Is realized, however, that after the prompt and resolute stand taken by President Wilson, these orders could only lie palliative and only i|e i fir not avoid, an ultimate liVenk AT"j tfpros I d eirt Wll mitv Ktnorl hv j his aniionncemeiit that the rtestruc ! Hon of American lives or ships would j lie regarded as an act of hostility, n | casus belli must come sooner or In ( ler probably sootier on account of the number of Americans on eneinv ships Moreover, there was the d!> reel binary nature of the Inst ruction.'! to submarine commanders, who we/o informed that while the careful course toward neutrals was rocomineyiloil ami desired, they would no longer be sub jected to punishment for departing from their former procedure of w.irn i k, if they found this advisable It Is considered that the only pos slbillty of the avoidance of hostilities would tenult from a modification of Its standpoint by one or the othiv side, and before the Associated I'ress correspondent's departure from Her lln, there seemed no probability thai Germany would give way this time or the ruthless campaign now started. FOUR MILLION DOLLAR FIRE LOSS IN PITTSBURG SUBURB Machine Shop of Union Switch and Signal Company Destroyed! Pittsburgh. The niaciiuic shop) building of the I'nion Switch and H'r I mil Company. the largest plant for the manufacture nf switch signals in the Pnlted States, and until recently en* I gaged In tilling munition orders for the Kuropean (lovernmenls. located n! Swlssiiale. a suburb, was destroyed hv I tire with a loss estimated at $4,000,00(1. The cause of the tire has not been de« termlned. altliougb officials of til" company believe it resulted from spon j taneous combustion The blaze started in the packing j department of the building and. fan j lied by a high wind, gained such head i way that it was necessary to call out j the tire departments from the adjoin j ing boroughs of Itraddock. Wltklns- ! burg. North itraddock and Itnnkin. and a part of the Pittsburgh depar;- ment. DEMOCRATIC SENATORS HOLD CAUCUS AND APPROVE MEASURES ! Washington The diplomatic breach with Germany having been indorsed ' by the Senate. Congress is devoting itself to Important general business, together with emergency measures necessitated by the strained interna tlonal situation. Kinergencv "leasures awniting ao- I tinn in the Senate include espionage and conspiracy bills recommended bv the Attorney General, and amend j ments to the shipping laws The Sen ateexpects to pass the Poito Rloan citizenship bill during the early part of the present week, after which a : tight again will be instituted for legls- > latlon in the ponding postoffice appro-' priation increasing the rate on new- I papers and periodicals and providing* for one-cent drop letter postage. Rev-' enue legislation also will be pressed In the Senate within a few days Revenue Bill Approved. Democratic Senators, at their third revenue caucus, finally approved. with amendments and pledged their support trr the bill passed by the House to provide approximately $50,000,000 ad 1 ditional reenue to meet the anticipated ' treasury deficit. The House provis ions to raise $248,000,000 through addi tional taxes on inheritances and "ex cess profits," and for a bond issue of to pay for th*» Daniah West- Indies, Alaska Railroad and other expenses were modified only •lightly. THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA PROUD MEN I HAVE MET — [you*, M*\ A*. MU4TAtHfc- WU ] /J ; ' \ NOTKC «R? *»* I ' (Copyright.; LINER SUNK WITI CU; WARNING WOMEN AND CHILDREN ABOARD BRITISH LINER CALI FORNIA. One Death and Thirty Hospital Cases— One Woman From Wyoming Whole Husband Had Taken Out Naturallz ation Papers. Washington Consul Frost, at tjueeiistkwii, cabled Hid State Depart ifient lli.'it tin 1 British passenger linn California had )»»•• 11 torpedoed without warning off the Irish Coast, and that one known In Imvn been . uJi htiiml a:; hav cd Sutua of ihe pa:, sengers iiihl errw still were missing, tucludlng i wo woniT-Tt and several cbll ilrcn. Front's dispatch was an follows "Anchor Mni'i' allfornla has been sunk; bound Glasgow, presumably from Ni'u York Two hundred per sons on hoard, our death; HO hospital cast's; survivors roach here late to nighl The captain of the ship Is quoted sul saying the submarine did not hnil or give any warning before firing two torpedoes from a dlManct: of i! 00 yard* and sending the California down. The American survivor was John A Lee, of Montgomery, Ala . who In sup posed to have been a member of the crew. Wyoming Woman on Board. I'at per, Wyoming Mrs. Alexander CuthlJl. a passenger on board the liner California, sailed two weeks ago to visit her parents in Scotland * Mr. Cutliill has taken out his first papers of naturalization and has tiled oti a homestead here. No Americans Aboard. New York. -No American citizen* were among the Ml passengers on the California, according to officials of the .viu lior Line In the city, -Records tiled when applications were made for pas sage showed that while many of the persons who sailed on the liner lived In the I'nited States, they were sub jects of (irent Britain. The crew num bered IS4. The cable message receiv ed at the Anchor Line offices in thin city announcing sinking of the Cali fornia said that D»0 survivors out of the total of 215 persons aboard the vessel had been landed. Nothing was sn'ld of the fate of the remaining !>5. LEFT TO PRESIDENT TO MAKE THE DECISION. Washington.—The steady stream of reports telling of the destruction of merchant ships by German submarines was brought to a climax by a cable gram to the State Department from Consul Frost, at Queenstown, an nouncing that the Brltls'h passenger liner California had been torpedoed without Warning, ami that an Ameri can .citizen was anu>ng the survivors, Whether this will prove to be the overt net to drive the United State* Into war no one would attempt to say. President Wilson, who must male* the decision, had retired when the news came, and officials did not wake him. He had been informed of a me.i sage from Consul Frost telling of the sinking of the California, but giving no details as to warning or the pres ence of Americans. The President undoubtedly will wait for complete reports on the sub ject before determining whether to_go before Congress, ynd ask authority t,> "use any meails that may be neces sary for the protection of our seamen and our people." ,~iH FLETCHER PLANNING TO LEAVE FOR MEXICO. Washington —Ambassador Fletcher expects to leave at once for his post in Mexico, Official reports to the State Department have shown traffic conditions between Vera Cruz and Mexico City so uncertain that the Am bassador lias decided to go by rail by the wav of Laredo. Rebels between coast and Capital have cut the railway and attacked trains repeatedly 1n 'the last two weeks, practically isolating Mexico City froru Vera Cruz. SPEED UP WORK ON DIG SHIPS ALL WORKING FORCES DOUBLED AND CONSTRUCTION WILL BE RUSHED TO LIMIT. All Possible Steps to Prepare For Any Orders in Event That Country Enters Into War.—Just Waiting For I Word to Go. Washington Construction work' on warships building at the plants of the Newport News Shipbuilding ft Dry dock Co., the Fore River Shipbuilding Company and the Klectrlc Boat Com pany will be speeded up to the limit _uL llie.se plants. Work on the two su per'dreadnalights building at the New port Ncwn yard Is proceeding under doubled crews Ht the suggestion of Secretary Daniels, and the Secretary .accepted the proposal of the other two plants to similarly hasten work on the war vessels 'ley are building At the Newport News plant It Is es'tlmated that the battleship Missis sippi. recently launched, can lie coin pieted by midsummer instead of Jan ; nary 1. 191S, as called for In the con tra t The keel of one of the four new battleships recently contracted for will be laid on the slip vacated by the I Mississippi instead! of a merchant ves I sel. as had been Intended. Representatives of the Fore River ' and Fleetrlc Boat Company called on Mr Daniels, offering to rush work on destroyers and submarines, for which they would set aside private wor'i They were told to go ahead at full speed The plan Is to get the vessels lauii bed as soon as possible, freeing stocks for then new set of destroyers and submarines to be authorized In the pending navy bill SAFE CONDUCT FOR COUNT BERNSTORFF. Will Be Given by Great Britain, the Foreign Office Informs Ambassa dor. London.---Count von Rernstorff. for mer German Ambassador to the Unit ed State, will be given safe conduct so far as it is within the power of the British Government to bestow. This announcement was made bv the For eign Office. It followed a conference between A J Balfour, Secretary for Foreign Affairs. and Ambassador I'age The two were closeted for nearly an* hbur. Both were non-committal on their deliberations, but at the con clusion of the conference, the For eign Office authorized announcement of Great Britain's decision to accede to Washington's request, mad-i two days ago At the same time, the For eign Office cabled its decision to the S.i.te Department at Washington. It is sai dthat Great Britain Is ready »o grant Count von Bernstorff safe con duct. but that it could not guarantee the former Ambassador's safety I against the acts of his own country ; men. The British Government has ex- I pressed itself as anxious to meet the i State Department's wishes. GERARD S COURSE IS GIVEN APPROVAL. Washington.—Ambassador Gerard's refusal to enter into any sort of nego tiations with the German Foreign Of flee is approved by the State Depart ment as the only possible course for him to pursue in view of his status of a private citizen. Any communi cation from the German Government regarding a treaty or any other sub ject would have to be carried out through the Spanish or Swiss diplo matic representatives in Berlin. FIRST AMERICAN VICTIM OF SUBMARINE WAS NEGRO London.—The British steamer Tur lno has been sunk by a submarine. \ resulting in the death of an American | negro fireman named George Wash ! ington, according to a report to the American Embassy from Queenstowi. [Calvin Bay, another American from FUlmore. Utah, is among ; The Turino. of 02 tons net. was last reported as sailing from Norfolk Jan utrylfr to Liverpool,—— WILSON DECIDES COURSE TO PURSUE - DETERMINES MOVE IN EVENT GERMANY MAKES USE OF FORCE NECESBARY. PROTECT AMERICAN RIGHTS If President Goea Before Congress it Will Not Be to Declare War, But to Protect American Rights. Washington.—'The course to be tak len by the United States if Germany |. compels the use of force to naff-guard i American right*, lias been determined. It wan learned authoritatively after the Cabinet meeting that in the event President Wilson goes before Con- Kress again, it will not be to ask for | a declaration of war, but to follow I literally the words of tha address in | which lie announced the break of dip- I lomatir relations, and request author ity to use means deemed necessary to protect American *eamen and people. The President. It was said, is a* anxious as ever to avoid war with Germany, but also Is as determined as ever that American citizens and ships shall he free to travel the higil seas unmolested. His next step. If taken, will be to enforce that right, j and even then the Issue of war or \ peace will he with Germany. Any j hostile action VMII have to come in I the form of an interference with an I American right. j Details of the Government's plans arc not discussed it is kno\«i how j ever, that convoying and arming of I merchant ships are being considered ! No new development came to ludi I i ate that the overt act by Germany j regarded as inevitable WHS nearer at hand. Fewer repirt ij T>7 ifHTpS STfRTT came tn. and tioae told officially of (hit loss of American life. Further infor mation received about Geprge Wash Ington the negro fireman lost on th.'s Turino .indicated that he probably was a Hrltlsh subject. Practically every member took to the Cabinet information about the ac j tivitJes of his departfhent in coniieo | tfon with the general precautions be j ing taken. Questions discussed in cluded proposed emergency legisla tion, steps for protecting property, mall problems precipitated by the failure of ships to sail from American | ports for Europe, economic Issues and the Army and Navy preparation. After the meeting, it was authori tatively stated that nothing had v•! happened to change the course pu* sued by the Government since the break in relations with Germany. The effect, of jhe tying tip of sliii* in American harbors because of fenr that they will be sunk if they pass through the war zone, is one of the questions being given careful cousid eration The enforced idleness of tha merchant fleet is a subject of grow ing exasperation. : RED CROSS PREPARED TO CARE FOR ARMY OF MILION ' | According to Reports to W«shinpto i Headquarters Chapters Are Ready For Field Service. Washington. An expert hospital I force sufficient to care for an armv | of a million men, could be mobilized by the Ked Cross within a few days | after an outbreak of hostilities. In the belief of officials, at headquarters of the society here. Since this call was issued February 3 instructing Red Cross chapters j throughout the country to place them selves on a footing for field work, j many encouraging reports have been | returned to headquarters, together j with a great flood of personal offers jof service. Eliot Wadsworth, acting chairman, estimated that the forea j vhich could he nohilized immediately I *n case of war would include: Twenty-six completely equipped I army and navy base hospital units, with a total personnel of 1,250 nurses j aids. A hospital base reserve of 415 nurses | and 525 nurses' aids. A corps of expert Instructors In sur gical dressings, totalling about 120. Thirty* wo partially complete navy detachments of 20 nurses each One hundred and fifteen local | emergency detachments. "With the customary assignment of ! 10 patients to each nurse," he added. "we could thus take care of 50,000 I sick and wounded at once. In the • earlier stages of war, the proportion | of sick and wounded is about five pjr cent. In other words, we are prepared today to give expert nursing service tc an army of 1.000,000 men. "No National emergsn"y has eve. found the Red Cross better preparei thau it is today." INGREASED RATE ON SECOND CLASS MAIL. "Washington. An lmu>»diate i.i crease from one to one and a half cents a pound In the postage 'ale on newspapers and periodicals for this year, is provided in the postofTice ap propriation bill ordered repqrted to the Senate by the postoffice commit tee. The Senate committee also recommended an amendment rescind ing after July 1. 1917. the rate on drop letters to one cent an ounce in cities and on a ural routes^__ NAVAL MMJTIA IS ftEORBANIZED GENERAL ORDERS WERE ISSUED ■V THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL REGARDING IT. LIEUT. WILSON IN COMMAND , } Commluioned Officers Take Drop I* Rank Under the New Rules Gov erning Them. Raleigh. Reorganization of the na val militia of the state to conform t > Federal regulations has just completed, and general orders wc" Issued by the Adjutant-General regard in* It. The militia in organized iii*.» a battalion, comprising the second division of New Bern, fifth division from KHzabeth Pity and the sixMi division from Washington. In the reorganization scheme all the officers are reduced one peg In rank, and Lieut. J. Ken yon Wilson, of Eliza beth City, is made Commanding offi cer Other officers n. - e: J. C. B Ehr- Inghaus. lieutenant, executive and navigation, E E Williams, lieutenant, engineering officer; R. Duval Joru«. passed assistant surgeon. with rank of lieutenant, medical officer; Claud H Williams, assistant surgeon, with rank of lieutenant, junior grade as sistant medl;s»l officer; Everard 11 Maker" passed assistant paymaster, with rank of lieutenant, paymaster; n F Husk?. chaplain, rank of lieuten ant, The warrant officers are L W. Nelson. boatswain; J L Rell, machin ist. and J K Hollowell, pharmacist. Funeral of Soldier at Newton. Newton The funeral of Patrick Thornhur«. of Compan> A. Hickory, who was knocked from a car at Knox vllle and killed. when the troop train bearing the National Guard companies passed under a bridge, was held from the resilience of his father, George Tliornburg Interment was made in Eastview Ceihetery with military hon ors. a detail of 16 men, ills comrades, being Company A. Rev V L Fulmer. of the Lutheran church. conducted the services; "taps'" was sounded over the Hag-draped, wreath covered grave, and three vol leys tired, The young soldier is sur vived by his wife and an infant #hi h he had not seen; his parents and sev eral brothers and sisters. - Fifty-Five Pass Law Examination. Raleigh. Fifty-five applicants for license to practice law in North Caro lina were successful in the examina tion prepared hv Justice Walker for the court, according to annoum itnent of the court. Two out of th» five negroes who took the cxumUiatlon passed. Mr. J. R (iolter and Mr. O. F John son. were the two Raleigh applicants for license who were successful, Th°v were prepared ft>r the examination by Judge George Tell and were the only ones applying for license with his cer tificate. Twenty six of those who applied for license failed before the court, or a percentage of 2. Negro Falls Eight Stone . Asheville Walter Griffith, a young negro, is ill th» Mission Hospital, sin fering from a fractured skull and other injuiies lecelved in a plunge of eight stories down an elevator shaft at the Langren Hotel here In arid* lion to volplaning down this number of stories, to the hard floor of an ele vator. Walter was accompanied on the aerial Journay by a trunk, .and despite this combination of circum stances, he has a good chance of re covery. The negro as wheeling the trunk on a truck and did not that the gate guarding the freight elevator was open. State Normal Has Big Fire, Greensboro.—One of the dormitory buildings of the North Carolina Stat-* Normal College, located here, was de stroyed by fire Thirty young lady students in the structure escaped un injured. The students lost all their personal effects. The property loss i* placed at SIO,OOO. Bonds For Bridges. Shelby—The county commission ers decided on a bond issue of 150,00,1 to bear four and a half per cent in terest. The question of the issue will not be submitted to a vote of the peo ple because the money Is needed to re place a public necessity, namely the washed away bridges of the Juh floodg. The commissioners have gono ahead with the bridge work, however, and erected and contracted for some thing like $60,000 worth of new steel bridges Three new steel bridges wer contracted for Many Bankers at Gastonia. Gastonia.--The bankers of North Carolina enjoyed a great meeting it Gastonia There were some 100 bank ers in Gastonia from all parts of the state as well as from South Carolina and Virginia. The address of welcome was made by Mayor C. B. Armstrong, and the response was made by Mr. W. S. Blakeney, of Monroe, president of the North Carolina Bankers' Associa tion Mr. J. H. Separk. president of the Gastonia Chamber of Commerce read the address of Mr. W. P. G. Hard ing, who was unable to be present.
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