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.. 4Tr 5 I- "f . :---- " f M -ft 7 - J THE WEATHER. 76 Pages Today OiV SECTION fjTin and warmer Sunday; Monday partly cloudy, colder west portion. Iff E lliBfeiTAl YOL. XCYn-KO. 128 tfLSOV DECLARES NATION MUSK PREPARE TO DEFEND IIS UWNOR AGAINST THREATENINQ0ANGERS America is Not Afraid of Any body, He Says, But Inade quacy is Dangerous. SPEAKS OF THE NAVY Quality of Our Coast Defenses Admirable, But the Quan tity Insufficient. Draws Tremendous Applause in Speech at Cleveland. Cleveland, 0., Jan. 29, Presi dent Wilson, speaking, as he said, ''solemnly," warned the Nation tonight that the time may come when he cannot both keep the United States out of war and main tain its honor. He declared that the country must be prepared to defend itself, and prepare atonce, "America is not afraid of any body, ' ' he said. I know I reflect your feeling and the feeling of all of our citizens, when I say the only thing I am afraid of is not being ready to perform my duty. I am afraid of the danger of inadequa cy: I am afraid of the danger of not being able to express the chief character of this country with treU mendous mi ght and.jeJEficlirencss, whenever we are called upon, to ad in the field of the world's af fairs." .f : . . Speaks With More Gravity.. The Tresident spoke in Cleveland to night with more gravity and. force than he has shown during any of his previous addresses on preparedness. He was applauded frequently and when he spoke of defending the nation's honor the cheering was tremendous. , "Let me tell youxvery solemnly you cannot postpone this thing," he declar ed. "I do not know what a single day may bring forth. I do not wish to leave you with the impression that I am thinking of some particular dan ger. I merely wish to tell you that we are daily treading amidst intricate dangers. The dangers that we are treading amongst are not of our own making and not under our control. I think no man in the United States knows what a single week, a single day may bring forth." Again and again the President spoke of the nation's honor. He declared the real man believes his honor is dearer than his life and a nation's honor is dearer than its peace and comfort. He said it had been difficult to . keep the Cnited States out of the war and He felt he had proved he was a man of peace when possible. Regret that the question has come P in a campaign year was expressed by Mr. Wilson. "jLet us forget," he aid, "that this is a year of national elections." The preparedness issue, he aaaect, should have nothing to do with Politics. Refers to the Navy. For the first time in his speeches on preparedness the President spoke of the navy and of the coast defenses. The latter, he said, are good in quality but not in quantity. Some people say that the navy ranks second, he declared, but 'he experts agree it ranks fourth. He added it should be increased. Among the possible sources of dan ger mentioned by the President were the difficulties growing out of the pro jection of Americans abroad and the obligation of the United States to maintain the liberties of the people of the Western Hemisphere. . . . . . ; "I suppose that this country has never found itself before in so singu !r a Position," the President : said. Tfcp present situation of the world would, only 12 months ago, even after the European war had started, have seemed incredible, and yet now the things that no man anticipated have happened. The titanic struggle con tinues. "What are the elements of the case? jn the first place and most obviously, wo-thirds of the world are at war. It is not merely an European struggle; nations in the Orient have become in olved as well as nations in the west and everywhere there seems to be peeping in upon the nations disengag ed tna spirit and the threat of war. All .he world outside of America is on fire. Difficult to be Neutral. And, in the meantime, we, the peo P'e of the United States, are the one ereat disengaged power, the one neu tral power, finding it a little difficult be neutral because, like men every where else, we are human; we have the eep passions of mankind in us; we nave sympathies that are as .easily ,rrcd as the sympathies of any other Pcple. We have interests which we p- being drawn slowly into the mael--trom of this tremendous upheaval. it is very difficult for" us to . hold 11 and look with cool judgment upon fn tremendous matters. And yet, we "ve held off. it had not been easy r the government at Washington to void the entanglements which seem to eset it on every side. It has needed Lfrr'?at leal of watchfulness and an ""remitting patience to do so, but all "e whne no American could fail to be (Continued on Page Three.) 7 IN MIDST OF HIS CAMPAIG N FOR PREPAREDNESS President Wilson doing; to Make a Speech. PRESIDENT HAS FAITH THAT COUNTRY'S YOUNG MEN WILL ANSWER CALL TO VOLUNTEER With Them and Their Employers, and Not With Congress, He Declares, Lies the Test of National Preparedness He Urges Need of Defense Programme in Two Addresses Delivered at Pittsburgh. Pittsburg, Jan. 29. President Wil son today opened his six-day speaking tour of the Middle West by address ing an audience of more than 4,000 that oacked Memorial hall here, later appearing , before an overflow meeting where his hearers were mostly women. In both addresses he set forth the need for ' a programme of national defense, and at the larger meeting said that the test of national preparedness lay not with Congress but with the young men of the country in their answer to the call of volunteer and their em ployers who should offer no obstacle to free response.. He believed, he added, that both the young men and the employers will do their duty, and that he was not afraid America will not do enough. The President, in his opening para graph, said that he believed ' in the obvious duty of every public man to hold frank . counsel with the people themselves and led up to National de fense by saying that there is a multi tude of voices upon the question and that he was not inclined to criticise any of the views that have been put forth upon this important subject. Continuing he said; "I believe in peace; I love peace; I would not be a true American if I did not love peace. Win Respect, Then Peace. "But I ; know that ' peace costs some thing, and that the only way in which you can maintain peace is by thorough ly enjoying the. respect of everybody with whom you deal and while there fore I can subscribe to every desire which those fine people have who are counselling us against assuming arms in this country, I must ask them to think a second time about the circum stances under whch they are living. Thew are other counsellors, the source of whose counsel is Vn them I cannot agree. It Is not se, it is not possible to guide national policy under the impulse of passion I would be ashamed of the passion of fear and I would try to put the pas sion of agression entirely aside in ad vising by fellow citizens that- they Jhould do at my great crisis of thr national life. America does not desire SSSffrit any other, nation can - , - " i J ' ' "" - - - " - " ' ' " . ' - .J. - . , . i ...... 1 WILMrNTGTCXISr, 2. . President Wilson's start of his cam paign for preparedness was made in New. Tork city Thursday night, where he was called on for several speeches. He was met by unusual crowds in the course of the first day he spent in the city. give it except friendship and justice and right conduct. . "I know it is not easy when the world is running red with blood, it is hard to keep the judgment cool. When men are suffering and offering up he roic sacrifices, it is hard not to let the passion of sympathy take precedence over the coolness of judgment, but while I can understand the excitement of the mind which these circumstances have generated, I would not like them to guide the decisions of the govern ment. I am glad that the soldiers and sailors of the United States have pro fessional enthusiasm, but I could not like them to run away with me any more than I would like the passipns and sentiment of my fellow country men to run away with me. While we admire their duties, we must square their judgment with,' other standards than the professional standards. Defend Against Any Interference. "What is it that we want to defend? I do not think I have to answer that question for, you. It . is your own -thought. We want to defend the fife of this nation against any sort of in terference. We want to maintain the equal right of this nation as against the actions of all other nations and we wish to maintain the peace and unity of the Western Hemisphere. Those are things to defend and in their defense sometimes our thought; must take a great sweep beyond our own borders." These are very great things to de fend, said the President, and when ever they are attacked America has at least the duty of example. He said that it seemed the greatest thing we are in love with is - efficiency, not merely business efficiency, but effi ciency of character. "We want American character to dis play itself in what I, may efficiency allowed to call spiritual efficiency clear disinterested thinking and 'fear less action along the right lines of thought." he said. "America is not anything if it consists of each of Us. It is something only if it consists of all of us; and tt can consist of all of us only as our spirits are banded together in a common enterprise. That common enterprise is the enterprise of liberty and justice and right. And therefore ,1, for my part, have a' great enthusiasm for rendering America spiritually -efficient; and that concep tion lies at the basis of what seems CContinued on -Page Two.) i. C, SUNDAY MORNIKG, CLAIMS RIGHT TO GEKSOBJJ. S. MAIL On Vessels Entering British Territorial Waters. MAKE IT MORE RIGID British Censor Sy There Is No Atti tude to Allow American Mails More Latitude Than Those of Other Countries. London, Jan. 29, All the first-class mail passing between the United States and foreign countries on vessels that enter British territorial waters, even though such vessels do not touch at a British port, are liable to search by the British censor, it was stated by the chief postal censor, in an interview with an Associated " Press representa tive today. The argument that ships passing through the English channel are forced into the British territorial waters by mine fields is met by the statement that such vessels pass through the channel by choice, since they can take the northern route if they wish, and thus it must be held that they voluntarily enter territorial waters. It is held that all mails entering ter ritorial waters pass under the juris diction of the British government, as if they were passing through ; the United Kingdom. Great Britain has long maintained the right to examine, mails passing " through the United Kingdom in transit, and the present examination is explained as simply an extension of that right. The censor stated that thus far no first-class mails passing between the United States to Europe on vessels taking the northern route outside of the territorial waters of Great Britain have been molested. In. the case of the Swedish steamer Stockholm, which was forcibly detain ed, the first class, mails were sent on immediately without . examination. Whenever a ship has -been detained on the high seas for theexamination of her cargoJhe erfltmeftt 'kintaimng that, parcels "mail does not tJome, under TThe Hague con vention relating tcj ;the inviolability of first class mails rthere has been no, examination' of Ihe letter mail. The censor declared that there was no attU tude on the paTt of the postal censor to allow mails passing to and from the United States more latitude' than those from other countries. The reason these mainls that have been taken from ships in the channel have not been censored more thorough ly, said the censor, was because of the inadequate staff and an indisposition to delay letter malls. He added, how ever, that because it was known that quantities of contraband .were passing between Germany and America, a more rigid censorship would be inaugurated. That Germany is exporting diamonds and other articles to America in first class mails as letters, assumed by the censor, as it is also that many articles are likewise coming from the United States to Germany, by way of Denmark, (Cor.tinued on Page Two.) STEAMER RYNDAM 1! HAVE STRUCK A MINE Three of the Crew Killed by External Explosion. Liner Rotterdam With 67 Members of Kord Party Reach IVe-w York Dis cuss Reasons for Failure of the Expedition. New York, Jan, 29. An external ex plosion, probably caused by an ex ploding .mine disabled the Holland American liner Ryndam, on the English coast somewhere between Deal' and Falmouth on her way from New York to Rotterdam, according to officers; of the Rotterdam, a sister ship, which arrived here tonight. The Rotterdam was at Falmouth at the time the Ryndam met with her accident, and the officers of the for mer vessel said they were informed that a mine undoubtedly caused the explosion. Three members of the Ryn dam engine room force were killed and several injured but none of the pas sengers was hurt. The Ryndam was able to make her way to Gravesend. Sixty -seven members of the Ford Peace Expedition came home on the Rotterdam. "Autocratic , leadership" was blamed by most' of the voyagers for the lack of success that attended their enterprise. State Senator Helen Robinson, of Denver, asserted that, "certain ideas A-e(i 'i,y leaders of the ' party and Which they attempted to impose on the o.ju created discord." Although the mission did not measure up to its ideal, she said it "helped to mobilize thevidea of peace In four European neu tral nations, and showed those people that the United States is not, as they, have been led to believe, a buzzard na tion." Mrs. Inez Milholland Bossevain, who left the expedition at Stockholm, de clarea that while the motive and in tention of the mission iwas sincere, it - " failure because it was an "a.u tocratic rather than a democratic or ganization." Herman Bernstein, the author, who also left the' party at Stockholm, said an important blunder was made when members of the party "were virtually forced in a humiliating. manner to. sign (Continued on Page Sixteen.) . JAOTARY 30, 1916 100 DEAD TOLL DF CALIFORNIA FLOOD Charming Valleys Rendered Desolate in Its Wake. 17 BODIES RECOVERED Otay Valley is Swept, Probably Through Collapse of One of Large Irrigation Dams All Com munication Cut Off. San Diego, Cal., Jan. 29, (by Wire less to San Francisco). One hundred lives have been lost, as nearly as any estimate can show, and charming lit tle valleys for 50 miles north of the Mexican. Tine lie "-desolate tonight with floods and cloudbursts. With the death toll in the Otay valley seemingly es tablished at 50 and all relief agencies workjng in that direction, reports reached here late today of floods sweeping the San Luis Key and San Pasqual valleys, doubling the loss of life. With communication almost alto gether cut off, it was impossible to list accurately the number of dead; con jectures and meagre reports alone were available. Seventeen bodies were taken out of San Diego bay before nightfall. These had been swept down the Otay river when the lower dam went out late Thursday and the current of the flood was thought to have carried many others out to sea. ne town of San Diego is virtually undamaged and supplementary re sources are available to re-place its regular watar supply, cut off by the breaking of the' dam. Town Wiped Out. Many injuries were reported from Tikuana Hot Springs, where a hotel collapsed. A cloudburst, reports had it, caused the flooding of the Sah Luis Rey and San Pasqual valleys. The town of San Pasqual, an ancient vil lage, cuddled in the mountains in a fer tile valley, was said to have been wiped out altogether. Nothing was known as to the fate of the towns of San Luis Rey and, Ocean- bIiIa in fhA Tof V A? Sot. T it!o ,vaf magnnucje, 11 leemea lmposeioie inai the former could have escaped" annihil atlon. Oceanside 'is a summer resort with two good sized hotels and a. pop ulation of about 1,000. Railroads, highways, telephone, tel egraph all ordinary means of commu nication and relief were gone with no prospect of early recovery. Only the sea remained, and from it aid be gan to come. An expedition from the United States warships in San Diego bay was started in launches and barges for the Otay valley. Reports were that the first landing party had been unable to penetrate the valley, for rea sons not given. The destroyer Law rence moved down from her station here and anchored off the mouth of the Otay river, which stream ran bank full after being dry for years. An overland expedition also was started from San Diego, with pontoons and engineering equipment by which it was hoped swollen streams might be crossed and mired roads made posst (Continued on Page Two.) PRESIDENT MAY VISIT T Either That City of Raleigh Will be Included in Trip. That Much Said to Be Certain, If He Makes Tonr of South Following "Hta Western Speech-Making Trip. (Special Star Telegram.) Washington, Jan. 29. If President Wilson makes a trip to the South on his return from his Western tour of speech-making he will visit North Car Una. He will make at least one stop in the Fourth . congressional district, which is represented by Congressman Pou. The ttops in Mr. Pou's district will be either at Raleigh or Rocky Mount, depending largely upon which route Mr. Wilson takes. These assurances have been given Representative Pou, who last night conferred with Secretary Tumulty with reference to the President's visiting North Carolina. Mr. Pou, who is In sympathy with the administration's preparedness policy and who is giving the President his support in every manner possible, has urged Mr. Wilson to visit his State. He thinks the President should not pass through the South without paying a visit - to the State where he spent much of his boyW hood days. Mr. Tumulty assured Mr. PoaVthat should the President make this trip that he would certainly stop in North Car olina and at least one of the stops would be made in his district. Raleigh or Rocky Mount, he said, .-tfr.ould be selected as the place to be honored, by the Chief Executive. It is also certain that Greensboro Durham and Wilmington have se rious consideration. It is believed that Greensboro probably will be the only town where the President would stop long enough to make a set speech. According to the present plans, Greens boro would undoubtedly be on the di rect line of his tour of the South and Mr. Wilson would very likely, stop at the Gate City long enough to see the city and visit the places of in terest. ' His stop at Raleigh or Rocky Mount, therefore, would probably be nothing; more, than a. speech from the rear platform of bis train. P. R. A. ROCKY MOlIN ON TOUR OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED BY THE GERMANS ON THE WESTERN FRONT CONTINENTAL ARMY STRONGLY OPPOSED Faced by Serious Opposition in Both Houses. LITTLE PROGRESS MADE Preparedness Programme Has Not Been Far Advanced by Various Com mit teed Daniels' Navy Plans Likely to Pass. Washington, Jan. 29. While Presi dent Wilson is carrying to the coun try his appeal for adequate national defence, one of the vital elements of the programme he has recommended to Congress the continental army is confronted by serious opposition in both the Senate and House Military committees. Present indications are that the con tinental proposal will be written into the army increase bill being prepared by the Senate Military committe, al though that measure will be devoted mainly to a complete reorganization of the regular army on a basis of approx imately 235,090 men with the colors, increasing Secretary Garrison's pro posals in that respect by nearly 100, 000 men. After three weeks of continuous hearings before various committees the adminstration preparedness pro gramme is not very far advanced. The Senate Military, committee has heard most of the War Department officials and many officers outside the Depart ment and, expects to conclude its hear- injgs next w euneaayr - 1 ne - .ouse partmefrt.bMii-':an expects to continue hearings f or - two weeKS at' team. . . . . The Senate Na'vaL committee has dis cussed only the ., proposal to build a government armor plant and has not touched the administration building programme for the navy. The House Naval committee has heard three bu reau chiefs of the TNavy Department on details of proposed navy legislation touching only indirectly the building programme and has examined Secre tary Daniels on the proposal to in crease the capacity of the Naval Acad emy. The House Finance committee vir tually has completed hearings on the proposed increase in the coast defense and also on the ordnance feature of the material plans. Only one witness, Miss Jane Addams, representing the Woman's Peace Par ty of America, thus far has appeared before any committee in opposition to any increase whatever in the army or navy. So far as the navy is concerned, the prevailing opinion" seems to be that Secretary Daniels' five-year programme finally will go through and possibly be augmented in some places. Before the Senate Military committee only one hearing was held today on preparedness plans, William Barclay Parsons, of New York, representing American Engineering Societies and in all lines advocated enactment of the War Department scheme for reserve officers' corps. The plan calls for five year, renewable enlistments requiring two weeks work with troops each year. The number has not been lim ited." DANIELS APPROVES PLAN For Co-Operative Radio Service Em bracing Western Hemisphere. Washington, Jan. 29. A definite plan fr AstahUshment of a government- owned co-operative radio service em krupiiKr all tiiA republics of the West ern Hemisphere and assuring satisfac tory communication among mem i en tirnoc nran formally anDroved today by Se'cretary Daniels of the Navy De partment and will be transmmea uy the State Department for the approval of the various governments concerned. wiiminrnn Tftl' Jan. 29. Two of the seven men burned in the explosion and powder flare at the Carneys Point Works of the Dupont Powder Company last night, died today at the hospital, while three others are in a serious condition and death Is expectea. ine dead are Lawrence Holt, Camden, N. J., and Frederick Fitz, Reading, Pa. THE DAY IN CONGRESS SENATE " Met. at noon. Senator Newlands introduced reso lution for a co-ordination committee on National defense measures. Military com'mittee continued hear ings on army bills. - Debate continued on Philippines bill. -Passed Urgent Deficiency bill carry ing $13,533,247. Acting Chairman Overman, of Judi ciary committee, announced he expect ed to appoint sub-committee of five to consider nomination of Louis D. Bran dels for Supreme Court. Adjourned at 3:21 p. m., to noon Mon dya. HOUSE Met at noon. Representative Foss, of Illinois, eu logized Former President McKinley in observance of his birthday. - - Representative Henry made a speech favoring an embargo -- on war muni tions. . - Representative Flood introduced bill to tax manufacture of arms for the European, belligerents. Adjourned at 4:47 p. m. to noon Mon WHOLE KUMBEB 39,459 Berlin Claims Sweeping Gains Over French in Sommc and Artois Regions. TAKE 1,100 PRISONERS French, However, Concede Only Small Losses Say Attack Was Checked. Vienna Declares Calm Now Prevails in Montenegro. TEN KILLED; 30 HURT IN ZEPPELIN RAID ON PARIS. Paris, Jan. 20. Paris has Just been completely darkened in antici pation of a Zeppelin raid. Fire en gines and squads of trumpeters are going through the city sounding the alarm. Searchlights also are in op eration and the noise of aeroplanes are heard In several directions. A Zeppelin was heard over Paris at 920 o'clock and shortly after bombs were dropped. It was learned that about a dozen bombs were dropped in all, killing ten persons and wounding thirty. The western war front has been the scene of really heavy fighting, . the Germans having launched a de termined offensive there. After making, in recent days, several dents" in the Entente Allies' lines, which hajdeen' sraiteejifro,ut again in whole or in part by coun ter attacks, the Teutons yesterday, after . heavy bombardments, as saulted the Allied positions along a front of several kilometers south of the river Somme, and to the northeast of Neuville, in the Artois region. Berlin Claims Sweeping Gains. The attacks resulted, according to Berlin, in sweeping gains in both cases, the village of Frize and 1,000 yards of trenches south of it being taken in the more southerly sector, while in the Neuville region 1,500 yards of trench es were stormed, the gains amounting to nearly a mile and a half of front. Incidentally, more than 1,100 prisoners and 22 machine guns were taken. The French account of the fighting south of the Somme differs materially from that given by Berlin. It is de clared that the Germans failed in their attack except on the bank of the Somme, where they were able to drive a detachment of French troops out of the village of Frize. Paris asserts that the attack has been checked and that some Of the trenches lost were re covered in the first of the French counter attacks. In its account of the fighting in the Artois, the Paris war office apparently refers to the operation mentioned by Berlin as taking place near Neuville. it being asserted that a portion of the trenches occupied yesterday by Ger mans were re-taken. Elsewhere than on the Franco-Belgian front there have been no impor tant engagements recently, so far as the official reports show, .except that in the Caucasus the Russians claim to have scored material successes against the Turks. Stay Help British In Mesopotamia.. Petrograd again points to the possi bility of the operations of the Russian Caucasus - army being markedly help ful to the British in Mesopotamia, re ferring to the advance of the Russian column south of Hamadan, where a comparatively short distance separated the Russian and British forces in the two theatres of war. Although the country between is broken and moun tainous, Russian military observers take the" view that the Turks fear a junction of the two armies and are taking measures to protect their lines against such an eventuality. In the Balkans, the Austrians con tinus to make progress in Albania, re porting the occupation of Alessce and San Govannl Di Medu, on the Adriatic coast. In Montenegro, calm now pre vails, Vienna declares. The capture of a total of 314 cannon, more than 60,000. rifles and 50 machine guns in the Mon tenegrin operations is reported. On the Eastern front there have been only isolated engagements between the Austrians and the Russians. MRS. MOHR FINISHES LONG ORDEAL ON WITNESS STAND Attorneys for the State Draw From Her Every Detail of Her Life. Providence, R. L. Jan. 29. Mrs. Eliz abeth F. Mohr, today ended a long or deal on the witness stand during which she made a personal defense of the charge that she had hired, three ne groes to murder her husband. Dr. C. Franklin Mohr, widely known as a physician in this city and Newport. The examination extended through the greater part of three court" days. -Attorneys drew fro naher every de tail of her life with Dr. Mohr and, though many were given reluctantly, she never wavered . in her declaration that she had nothing vto do with the murder, although she objected, stren uously to ,her .husband's .attentions t other women. ... r t 1 5 1 it f V V. f - is 1 .
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