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A A THE GAZETTE-NEWS Has the Associated Press Service. It ts In Every Respect Complete. Member Audit Bureau Circulation, THE HOME PAPEH Of Asnevine and Western 2T. C. "A paper In tbe bom Is worth a thousand la tlie highway." - , Marshall Field, XfX t ASHEVILLE N. 0., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 12, 1915. PRICE 2 CENTS No More. Bm-M 70LTJME XX, NO." 129. ' ASHEVILLE H. U., MUHDAY ATTEKHOON, JULY 12, 1915. . .- . .,- .. . 1 : : - ... , . ... Secretary Lansing Preparing Draft of CRISIS M AIZES ESSENTIAL CAREFUL WEIGHING OF PHRASEOLOGY OF NOTE resident Will Decide What Policy to Pursue After Con sultation With Secre tary Lansing. . LtJSITANlA QUESTION MOST SERIOUS MATTER "ote Outlining Attitude of U. S. Toward Submarine War fare Will Reassert U. S. Contentions. Washington, July 12 The : 'tuation between the United ji- tates and Germany has taken tea such a critical character that e policy of the United States overnment will . require a ngthly deliberation so that it lay have the firmness which ie circumstances require. This : atement was made today in 'gh official quarters. Secretary Lansing after tak g several days to examine the ennan reply, may not go to Ornish to confer with the jres lent, after all. The original 'an, it was explained, was for resident Wilson and Secre xy Lansing to confer at Lan ng and then have the secre ry to draft a note . which ould be submitted to the cab et on the president's retrun Washington." Now it is be ived the president and secre- ry of state will work indo ndently and prepare memo ada and have a conference terward. Ambassador Von Bernstorff Germany asked Secretary jisipg today if the latter wish , to see him and Mr. Lansing understood to have replied at he does after he has care ;ly examined the situation.. Washington, July 12. Work : ;an today by Secretary o ; ite Lansing on the draft of 3 note to be sent to the Ger q government expressing i attitude the United States to take toward Germany's I) marine warfare as it affects o rights of neutral. 4 When the draft is completed ere will be a consultation be- cen Secretary Lansing and osident Wilson who will dd le what'poilcy is' to bo pur d. No indication has been tained as yet as to what irse the American govern nt will follow, but there is ry indication in ' official irters that the relatons be en the United States and rmany are so stranied as to ke necessary tbe weighing ofully of the phraseology of next communicaiton and isurinjf fully of tho respon- lity;'and consequences that y be incurred by tho COn 'a Jhat thcro" is to be no sur- Situation at,G.r-dv e render Of American rights in the new note was practically certain, according to the views of officials thus far, and there is also assurance that the Ger man proposals for the immuni ty of American passengers on ships not carrying contraband will be rejected. Just what seps will be taken by the United tSates as the re sult of Germany a failure to disavow the sinking of the Lus itania is uncertain. This ssue the loss of 100 Amercan lives for which Germany has dis claimed responsibility, has brouarht the situaiton to a grave and critical stage. u It has been arranged that Secretary Lansing should go to Cornish, N. II., for a conference with the president as soon as the German note is carefully examined here .and, Secretary Lansing has prepared the draft of the reply.' It may be, how ever, that President Wilson will decide to return to Wash ington instead. The German Ambassador Is seeking: information cc.icernlng the attitude of the American government toward the German reply. After the secretary has conferred with President Wilson It Is not unlikely that some Intima tion wlU be (riven the ambassador of the seriousness with which the United States regards the crisis. Secretary I-analng began working today on the draft of the reply to Ger many, but not the slightest Inkling1 was given as to his views. Such inti mations, however, as were received at the white house as well as at the state department pointed to the framing of a policy which would express even more emphatically the views of the United States government and the be lief Is growing that the next note may Include some Mdea of the Intentions of the Amerldan government of the demands are not met. That there will be no action by the United States for at least another week was Indicated today. Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador. Intends to call on Secre tary Lansing during the week to learn Informally whether he can be of any service In the situation. In all Quarters here th ereply was the single toplo of concern. What the action of the American government will be is doubtful, largely In the sense that the means of expressing the Ideas and purposes of the United States have not been decided. There la no Intention, from indica tions from official quarters, to force a situation, but In whatever policy Is followed the American endeavor wtlU be to place full respcnslblllty on Ger many for any possible rupture In friendly relations. Since the Lusita nla was sunk May 7. there has been no violation of the principles for which th United States has contend ed, unless the mishap to the NebraS' kan can be Included, and In that case the Woshlngton government has not . finally reached a conclusion, as to whether a mine or torpedo caused th explosion. In the view of many offi cials, should German submarine com manders continue In practice to re spect American fights. ' discussion could continue. There were Intima tions, however, that In the next com munication the United States likely would Impress on Germany the sert ous consequences that would ensue from any further violation of Amerl can rights at proclaimed In notes al ready sent The chief obstacle, It appears, to permitting virtually a status quo to continue while further notes are ex changed Is the treatment which Ger many hns given to the LunHirnla esse. The I'nlied Stales has asked for dis avowal of Intent to kill Americans and fur reparation, althnurh the latter has been subordinated to the greater con sideration of whether Germany le gally Justifies the action of the subma rine commander or Will admit liabil ity. No direct answer on the questions of law Involved was given In the last note, and the quick sinking of' the vessel was attributed to "peculiar cln- , mstances" such' as the presence of re- gard thl sag an evasion. ' Opinion in German quarters here is much the-same as that which has been reflected in press comment from Berlin. Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, is satisfied with the reply and thinks it offers a basis for negotiations. With the United States as .active champion for the cause of neutral ngnts, uerman officials say they fore see an amicable understanding even tually on the question of freedom of the seas. . , . . London Comment. London, ? July 12. The London morning newspapers declare that the German reply to the United States' note concerning submarine warfare is a complete negation of everyching President Wilson contends for and that it is conveyed In Impudent and insulting terms. The Morning Post finds "something almost comic In this presentation of a humane power anxious for the lib erty of the seas and for the lives of descendants of John Adams and Ben jamin Franklin holding the stop watch its submarine atrocities In or der to discover th emargin of safety. The Morning Post says that the German proposal Is. that- ."America should ally herself with Ccrmany to put an end to the war by blockade." The-Dally Chronicle says the Ger man proposal to license tstoamors to carry Americans negates tho wnole position President Wilson took up and In that sense, because It Is more defi nite and final, the new note is even more unsatisfactory than its prede cessor. The Dolly Telegraph characterizes the note as the most ostonishtnti ut terances of the mind of Berlin made in the lost twelve months. "As for as Insult and insolence can be carried without resort to actual language of contempt and defiance," the Dally Telegraph adds, "they are carried on In this .document" The Dally Telegraph finds the Ger man offer to license ships insolent and preposterous. "Berlin," it adds, "pro. claims its Intention to drown, when ever possible, American citizens who have not submitted to the most de grading surrender of rights ever de manded of a neutral nation." The note, the Daily Telgeraph says Jn conclusion, is the climax of a se ries of challenges to the United States which prove that the German mind in regard to the war is plainly In a more chaotlo state than ever. PLACED IN DUNGEON Judge Glenn Ordered Douglas ' King to Dungeon Last ' ' . Saturday. (During the session of Police court Saturday morning Judge J. Frazler Glenn ordered Douglas King, a small boy, who was confined In the city Jail On several charges, placed in the dun geon In the basement of the City Hall, owing to the noise the boy wei mak ing during the progress of the court Janitor Blackwetl, at the court's orders, placed the boy In the dungeon, but soon after released him and plat ed him back in the city Jail. King was In a Cell in the city Jail and was making a great amount of noise. The keepers were unable .to make him slop and the attention of the court was attracted. He ordered the boy placed in the dungeon. At this In stance Attorney W. O. Fortune ad dressed the court and explained that the boy was very small, only about ten years of age and ought not to be placed in the dungeon. The court slated that King was a very bad boy and It had been found ImposHible to do anything with htm. It was a little later, without waiting to receive the orders of the court, it Is said, that Janitor Blackwell released the boy. King Is being held at the city Jail pending his removal to the Buncombe County Industrial school. War Auto Has dtn-l Bosk. SMALL 1 one, Demg lurn.Mi oui oy me iuin- TTTTt XXTTS A kTTT'W It Automobile compuny, has a sieeli" lnlS WJ!jAAnii.K beak two feot long mounted on the X GICNLHALLY FA lit. st hood snd has been chrlstenvd thejst c "Flying- Rhinoceros." mummmiummmiiimn Rejecting Proposals; MAKE EFFORTS STRONG CHARGE TO WARN SHIPS BY JUDGE LONG Navy Department Still Trying to Inform British Vessels of Possibility . of Bombs Aboard. WIRELESS MESSAGES SENT BROADCAST Action Taken on Story of Man Who Claimed to Have Placed Bombs on Two Freighters. wasmngion, jury iz. The navy department continued today its efforts to warn the British steamers Howth Head and Baron Napier of the possi bility that bombs had been placed in their holda ": ' The warnings were flashed broad cast over the seas from the Arling ton wireless station, after Secretary Daniels had 'received .,, teiecram from a New Orleans newspaper con cerning a communication which had been addressed to that paper by person wno . signea nis name "Pearce." . The Howth Head ought to reach Norfolk tomorrow at the latest, when It was thought likely she might make response. t u-ven if the radio message is not directly picked up by the Huron Na pier some other vessel might relay it 10 ner. it is Deiievea ner response might be caught today by some of the Atlantio coast wireless stations. New Orleans, July 12. A written threat to assassinate J. Pierpont Morgan, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, Brit ish ambassador to the United States, and to destroy by bombs British vea sets clearing from American ports was received yesterday by ai local newspaper from a person who signed himself as "Pearco." . Pearce declared that he had come to New Orleans to complete plans for the destruction of the British mule transports sailing from, this port and said the steamers Howth Head and Baron Napier, which cleared from here July 8 and. soiled from Port Kads the following day, probably never would be heard from again. Local government officials, on be ing notified of Peorce's threats imme diately attempted to get In touch with the Baron Napier by wlrefres. The vessel had not been heard from at a late hour last nigTit The! Howth Head Is not equipped for radio communi cation. Both vessels should now be somewhere off the Florida or Georgia coast, it was sold, the Howth Head near the coast and the Baron Na pier well out to sea on her way to ward British watem. .. - Frank Holt, or Muehter, who sev eral days ago shot and 'wounded J. P. Morgan and who later killed him self, had been working with Pearce In an effort to prevent V the United States from taking any part In the European conflict eer since the war began, Pearce wrote. Muenter. the wrtler declared, was the person who warned passengers who had booked passage on the Lunltanta not to make' the voyage on the vessel. He .per. snnally csl'ted on Charles Frohman, who lost his life In the catastrophe, and endeavored to persuade him not to make the trip, Pearce said." City to Revive Curfew. Aurora. 111.. July U. At 9 o'olock n,f. law in Anrnn tn h - vlved. Just as soon ua repairs can made to the city hall belfi-y the big bell will be sounded on tlife stroke of 9 every night booming a warning to children under It years to scurry from the street to homes. Relief Letters arc luricd. Chicago, July li. Charged with the theft of 11.600 from letters In tended for sufferers of the war In Belgium, Frank Chovat, an employe of the Chlc-ago postoffloe for 14 yearn, was held to the federal grsnt Jury In bonds of ll.OftO. and Critical Surprised at Number of Retail ing and Disorderly Cases on the Superior Court Docket. 155 CASES ON THE V CRIMINAL DOCKET States That He Will Personally Investigate Chain Gangs and Other County Institutions Members of Grand Jury. '- Declaring that he stood for the full enforcement of the law at all times and that he proposed not only to try the cases that were brought before him. but to personally Inspect the county Institutions, Including the vari ous chaingangs, Judge Benjamin F. Long convened a three weeks' term of Superior court for criminal and civil coses here this morning at 10 o'clock. - His . charge, :while'not -half so' lo'iig as these delivered by the majority bf the Judges on the Superior court bench, was one of the most forcible and the strongest heard here In many months. He stated that when he came here nearly three and . one-half years ago to hold court the criminal docket eontalnued about 238 cases and the civil docket 1100 caaes but during the four and one-half months that he pre sided over the courts of this county that practically all of the criminal cases of any Importance had been dis posed of and all but the "live" cases on the civil docket had been tried. 155 Cases Now, , Told that there were about 155 cases' on the present crimnal docket, -60 of which were old and 95 new ones 'he stated that it would be possible to 'clean all of these coses from the docket that were ready for trial. Stating that he noticed from glanc ing over the docket that a majority of the cases were against defendants charged with running or 'engaging in disorderly houses and retailing, he said that he was very much surprised to see such a number of alleged retail ers, as the people of this state had, by popular will, declared It unlawful to sell liquor here. He stated that the reason Judges and Juries had to try such a large number of liquor cases, was because some fellow had been able to get on the Juries, at different times, men who would wink at his perforcanmes and hold up a Jury in his favor. Referring to the large number of roses that were appealed from the Police court during the past few weeks. Judge Ixmg stated that he could not believe that all of these peo pie were Justified In appealing their cases, for If they were then the court below must be the most corrupt In the country and no one believed that 40 or HO Bill a Day. In telling the members of the grand Jury of the work before them he stat ed (hot If they work as they should and were as anxious to get back home as they stated, that they would pass 40 to 50 bills of indictment each doy and he told them that he did not want them to "tnke all day to pass a bill.' He stated Ln pin In words that if wttnow) was not present when called that his name should be sent to the court at once and he would personally attend to the matter., The Jail cases, that Is cases In which the defendants are confined In the county Jail, will have the right-of-way securing trials, sold the court uigni nc-re u is interesting 10 note bs'tniit, of the largo number of women who huve been sent to the county Jul whhln the past few weeks on vagran oy 1. arges only four were In Jail when court convened this morning. The others h je made bonds for their ap pearances before the court, one of the women making a bond of $1,700 Sat urday night and another mode bond ln the mini of $3,100. In taking up the cases wherein thi defendants are charged with runnlnp disorderly houses. Judge 1ong mnd It plain that he wanted the grand Jur ta find out If the defendants uwneu the houses In .which they lived; if hoi then to find out Who does own them slid If the owners are guilty oC know Ing what is untie 11 1 the houses; It m then he told the grand Ju' y to returt true bills ttnuinsc the owners. (rnnil Jury. The following were sworn In ai (Continued on Page Two). ITALIANS MAKE GOOD ADVANCE m,a''mm.'m-v'mmmmmmm,mm'w TAKING E Sending Officials to Mexico City, Zapata Troops Hav ing Evacuated. Washington, July 12. Dispatches to the Carranza agency from Vera Cruz last night announced that Gen-j eral Carranza was sending officers' of the various departments of his gov ernment on a special train to Mexico City to set up a civil administration. General Lopez de Lara, newly ap pointed governor of the federal dis trict, started from Vera Cruz with his staff several days ago and is believed to have token charge in the capital Saturday night when, according to state department reports, thB Zapata frre? evacuated after making a last stand against ihe victorious attacking army under General Pablo Gonzales. No detail of the situation in Mexico Cfty came either to'the state Uepart ment or to the Mexican agencies. The Carranza representatives had a dis patch from General Gonzales, dated at the field headquarters 5 p. m. Sat urday and delayed in transmission telling of the evacuation and savins a detachment had been sent southward to cut off the retre"at of Zapata's army. I "PEftGE I" Commemorates the Signing of 30 Peace Treaties by Mr. Bryan Mayor J. E. Rankin has Just receiv ed, from Ben W. Davis, chief clerk In the department of state at Washing ton, one of William Jennings Bryan's peace paperwoights." The paper weight is in the form of a plowshare and has tbe following Inscriptions on It:. "Nothing Is Final Between Friends,". "They Shall Beat Their Swords into Plowshares," Isaiah 2:4 "Diplomacy Is the Art of Keeping j Cool" and "From William Jennings Bryan, to the mayor's office, city of Ashevllle, N. C, August 13, 1914." The letter accompanying the "Peace Paperweight." is as follows: 'Prior to leaving the department, former Secretary Bryan requested mo to have engraved and sent to you for use upon the desk of the ma or one of his "peace paperweights," and I take pleasure in transmitting it to you under separate cover. "Thee paperwoights were designed by Mr. Bryan to commemorate the signing of soie thirty peace treaties which were ratified during his Incum bency as secretary of state. Tho pa perweights are made of melted swords which were purchased by Mr. Bryan from the war department "Mr. Bryan also had paperweights made out of scabbards of the swords and has asked me to transmit one of those as a memento for your personal use. "With the souvenir he asked me to convey his compliments and good wishes to you personally." ( U.S. SUBMARINES TO . BE MOST EFFECTIVE Washlngton, July U.Plnns to make American submarines more ef fective than those of any other na tions are being worked out by the na val general board. It Iwcame known today, In connection wllh Information lven out concerning the next building 'irogram for the navy, which proposes' io increase the numlier of underwa ter craft o nearly double tlia num. rr appropriated for by the lost con-;rem. GARRANZA GAPTAL Stage Have Made Substantial Prog ress Toward Triest, Is Claim. J Comparative Calm on . Other Fronts. PETROGRAD ELATED OVER NEW SUCCESS Austrian Attack on Warsaw Railroad Checked if Not Thwarted Austrians Ex-' plain Defeat. London, July 12. -Compara tive calm prevails in the va rious lighting areas of Europe, except on the Austro-Italiin front, where the Italians claim to have made substantial ad vances toward Triest. . 1 Pttrograd is elated'over the'"?' Russian success in South. Po land. The Austrians are said to have lost one of three army ' corps with which they began their advance against Lublin. The entente allies are remind ed, however, that this is only a local success on a 40 miles stretch of a 1000 miles front. The Austrian operation against the Warsaw railroad has been checked if not thwart ed, which means that tho threatened advance of the Teu tons is a little less dangerous than when it began. Austrian headquarters in Qa licia explain the apparent lull in the Austrian attack by the assertion that the Teutonic al lies had fixed Lemberg as their objective in the present cam paign with the idea of estab lishing strong defensive posi tions to the northward n order that they might use some of the troops engaged elsewhtw. It is claimed that his has been accomplished. It is further explained that the Austrians proceeded be yond Krasnik but encountered unexpected opposition and re tired to the positions originally selected where they are resist ing all further Russian attacks. Attack on Turks Futile. Constantinople, July 11., via Berlin and London, July 12. ; Tho bombardment of Turkish positions on the Oallipoli pen insula by warships again prov ed futile, according to a state ment issued tonight by tho Turkish war ogice. nritlxh Repulse Attack, The British, according to the French report have repulsed a German at tack. The Oerman reports, however, allude to this as a British attack, and Berlin rays it was repulsed with rnn- sldersMe loss. In fact, tho French and Oerman reports are - generally contradictory In respect to what flgnt Ing has taken place, but from their trend It tn evident neither aide ha at tempted nnythlng of a dlclslve nature, and It la believed that. It may t weeks yet before they do. 00 far as the Oerman are eoneern d, military observer ansert Ihey m i bound to carry out their onVn..'- against the Rusnlana until tW some decisive engagement, r.h. the enpture of the I-Aibln-tUmlm wsy, fchlch. It Is AwrA. wu: . btn I nthelr hands before now ir (Continued oa !' T . mSSmm.
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