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. THE GAZETTE-NEWS Has The Associated Press Berrloe, It Is In Every Respect Complete. Member Aodlt Bureau Circulation. WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR TONIGHT; SUNDAY FAIR. VOLUME XX. NO. 281. ASHEVILLE, N. C.t SATURDAY AFTERNOOON, JANUARY 8, 1916. PRICE 2 CENTS-0" "c. RTR1KFRR fllllFT COMPULSION BILL N0RH1S HAS 'EM DEIIY THE LOSS S14D.D0D FOR GYCLuiiE M IS NE LUS1TANIA II I IlllllallW IWIb I AFTER NIGHT OF OE f! rs A A n h . w - t H II Wit AMtmm a 11 ' 15. PROVIDES GIVEN CZI T M COUNTY 1 R OT A D LOOT Three Regiments of Ohio Na tional Guard Patrol East Youngstown, 0., Now Mass of Embers. THE ENTIRE BUSINESS ; SECTION LAID WASTE Thousands of People Driven From Homes; 100 Wounded; One Life Lost; Damage Placed at $1,000,000. Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. S. With three regiments of the Ohio national guard under the command of Briga dier General John C. Speaks patrol ling the smouldering ruins of the vil lage of East Youngstown or encamp ed In the steel mills, near here, au thorities today expressed the belief that for the present at least an end had been put to the wild scenes of rioting and. looting by strikers which marked lust night nad left the thriv ing little city a mass of embers. )' One life is known to have been -lost, fully ten block, including the entire business section of the city, was burned and several thousand people were driven from their homes. The loss of 4-poperty is placed at $1,000,- ' 000. : ' ; ' Physicians who were called to look after the wounded placed the num- oer ai iuu. Aimougn tne majority were Injured by shots, there are many knife wounds, bearing out the state ment that when the rioters were fi nally driven from Wilson a me. the main ousiness street, xney oogan 10 fight among themselves. The trouble was the culmination of a,jslrikewhlch began at tho plant of the Republic Iron and Steel company a Wfjek ago and spread to the plants of the tube company, the Youngstown Iron and Steel company and the Brier I llli Steel company. Early yesterday strike sympathizers and workers at the sheet and tube plant clashed, but no one was injured. Later In the afternoon a riot occurred Just outside the tube company plant and two men were Injured so badly they were taken to a hospital. The most serious trouble started last night, when the day shift at the sheet and tube mills left work. - A crowd of 6,000 gathered at the en trance to the works and stoned a squad of police employed by the Sheet and Tube company. According to a statement made by Plant Police Chief Wolts, he fired a blank shot into the air to scare the crowd and then firing became general. Nineteen in the crowd were wounded, following which the mob, frenzied, surged Into the East Youngstown bus iness district and set fire to several buildings. The torch was applied first vo a ciut-ninpE eicire ana int.n iu a jttw dry store. Both these stores and a saloon were looted and fired, and II quor from the saloon was distributed through the crowd. The Youngstown fire department went to the fires, but was driven off by the crowd. The Kast Youngstown department also attempted to check the blare, but the hose was cut and the firemen driven away. The fames quickly spread and at midnight still were beyond control. 1 Sheriff Umstead found the situation beyond Ms control and asked for state ; troops. Governor Willis ordered the Fifth regiment at Cleveland, . tho Eighth regiment and the Fourth regi ment at Columbus to this city. An unidentified man was shot while attempting to loot a store In East Youngstown. Shortly before midnight mob lead ers broke Into a freight car contain ing 500 pounds of dynamite. They took the dynamite and started toward the residential part of East Yountnt town and later it was reported several houses In that section were dyna mited. . en OEN. HUERTA UNDERGOES A FOURTH OPERATION El Paso, Jan. 8. Oen. Vlotorlana, who has been 111 for several days, yes terday underwent an operation It was learned today. The condition of the aged Mexican leader Is said to be favorable. Gen. Huerta's ailment is pronounced Jaundice and gastritis, with complications. MANY EXPECTED AT JACKSON DAY BANQUET 8 St. Louis. Jan. I. DwmocraU from III parts of Missouri are expected to . ittsnd the annual Jaokson day ban Qiift here tonight which will he held under the aunplrxia of the Twentr llihth Wrd Ijntnocratle elub. Among the speakers on the program are 8m. iter Hoke Bniith of Georgia. f)nator ted, Oevamor Major and former luvernor rolk. Punishment for False State ments to Evade Service BUI Passes First Reading. London, -Jan. 8. text of the military service bill has been made public and shows that the only pro vision of the measure not amply out lined to the house of commons in the speech of Premier Asqulth is - one providing for a penalty of !iprlson tnent of not exceeding six months for making a false statement in order to obtain an exemption certificate and a fine of $250 for failure to notify the authorities should there be a change in the circumstances under which the certificate was Issued. The political situation was calmer after the overwhelming vote obtained by the government in the house of commons Thursday night on the first reading of the compulsion bill. The reassuring sle of the government's majority offset to a considerable de gree the anti-conscrlptlonist vote of the labor congress which also was partly discounted by the attitude of such important labor leaders as Arthur Henderson' who resigned as president of the board of education and John Ward, George Nlcoll Barnes and John Hodge, members of the house of commons. The position of these mon is that the labor congress vote was too hasty and Ill-considered to be regarded as reflecting the actual feeling' of the labor men. The indications are that the con scriptions bill will bo passed through the house of commons In order that It may reach the house of lords in ample time for passage before the end of the month. In some quarters talk of a general election still persists but it is certain that a considerable part of even the opponents of compulsion do not want a resort to the abllot. Gossip Is generally agreed that Pre mier Asqulth will have little dlgiculty in. filling the vacancies iu his cabinet. To the American reader one of the most interesting suggestions heard In London was the proposal to introduce the referendum as an alternative for a general election. OF E. MUPTER'S CRIME Nor Did She Know- of Death of Son Who Killed Him self in Jail. Chicago, Jan. 8. The mother of Erich Muenter, who in June last placed a bomb In the capitol at Wash ington and then went to the home of J. P. Morgan who mhe tried to as sassinate died at her home here ig norant of the crime her son had com mitted, it was learned today. Neither did she know that her son who com mitted suicide In the Jail after the shooting of Mr. Morgan, was dead. So far as his family was concerned Muenter, also known as Frank Holt, passed out of their lives nine years ago, whe nhe disappeared while the police were searching for him In con nection with the mysterious death of his wife who was poisoned. EVIDENCE THAT ANCONA LIFE BOAT WA3 FIRED ON CARRYING REFUGEES Rome, Jan. 7. A Ashing vessel has putln at Anzlo with a life boat from the steamer Ancona which had been picked up. Examination of the boat seems to btar out the contention that it was fired upon and sunk while It contained passengers, among whom were women by the Austrian subma rlne which had torpedoed the Ancona. Many hairpins were found In the boat and there were several holes ap parently made by shells which had been stuffed with shawls and pieces torn from skirts. FORD PARTY PASSES THROUGH AMSTERDAM Amsterdam, Jan. I. The Ford peace party arrived at Amsterdam this morning, on the way to The Hague, making a brief stop here. Rev. Chas. Aked of San Francisco, Rev. Jenkln Jones ot Chicago and Judge Ben Llnd ey of Denver made arrangements for the first public meeting at Tht Hague under the auspices of the Ford party at which all neutral! will be asking to unite In a movement', for peace. Members of the party expreeeed con- I fidenoe that the peaoe sentiment Is N igrewln ALL GUESSING Both Democrats and Republi cans Confess They Cannot See Object of Solicitor's Attack r on the Wake Officials. MOVE COULD NOT BE ':5 PLEASING TO POWERS Republicans Promise to Use All That They Can Get the Democrats to Tell About Each Other. 7 (By W. T. Bost). Raleigh, Jan. 8. Solicitor H. E. Norris, who has started the biggest . , f political something In three elections , in mis county, nas me county ruoob- '1 uivtouuiKUB me latest ing. Both democrats and republicans achievement reported. The Russian? ..jln v: r possessi n f the against the county officials, nearly alliy"1"58' m the Austrian reports deny of whom have been politically thick ; ,V ralan have advancei aty with him, have worried his erst-j Ju,rtner than tne cemetery. The Aus- friends no little. In arraigning these Officials, the solocitor allows one to j escape and that officer is Arch J . j Wood, register of deeds. ' Nobody is explaining this by cita tion -of occasional relations of client and attorney. Solicitor Norris had beer. Sheriff Sears' lawyer many years and men did not get thicker than they". Republicans advert to the fact that Mr. Wood was elected register of deeds over the regular nominee two years ago, while Solicitor Norris was In the minority which voted for Mr. Wood's opponent. Mr. Wood's followers carried the election. But to do this required 'the help of Collector J. W. Bailey, Post master Bart Gatling, County Attorney Bos Beckwith, Ex-Representatl'.'e Mallle Griffin, and Ex-Police Justice Walter L. Watson. The big quintet did the work for the regulars, if the regulars were the regulars. ... JSach claimed that virtue with something of violence. In assailing the county government Mr. Norris could not please Mr. Bai ley very long, because about half that body is made up of Bailey candidates who have rarely been with the solici tor. In blistering the other half, Nor ris gains no Armlstead Jones, George Harden, Buck Jones, Bill Sawyer, Sherwood Upchurch favor. The shot which might have gone homo- seems I to have pelted everybody but Wood. The suggestion of a republican that the shrewd solicitor was tagging on to a winning cause falls when those who elected Wood are among the worst wounded. . Expect No More. It Is not supposed that Solicitor taxes have been greatly Increased re cently, that men of moderate means are paying from S40 to $50 vore that tney customarily have done, and that the large Indebtedness of the county Will TlirtnAi ItlrFABO. Vl n 1 . r r1 r. n n . th. i. vi . .11, the people. The kinship ot tax-klcker ; m.t-,l ,y T'i""1 tnA lnllV mate. The foes of Mr. Norris exDect ' w. . . t v.. i to make , '""in. n iiiikiiiw 1HUD Ul 111- creased taxes as the result of extrava gance. . Nevertheless, politicians who pro fess knowledge of many things, are saying with undoubted confidence In their prophecies that Solicitor Norris . . . ... . , , - - has shot both his first and his lait n Tk. . i V. ... . , ",,u""7 w"r j warships of the entente allies. Ruk from him. As Illustrative of the vr-8ana tnat atta(,ked Azerbri,an. Per- ol prcpareuness tney are a.reci- ng newspaper men to the fact that In every county office Is a literary! arsenal, so to speak, filled with the'fnnt the con8lllfl o( the Teutonlc pow. deadliest Instruments of warfare, all ... a ,hi, .ni. ..ti dltor Holding and Solicitor Norris, that the nrMk n.w,papeni declare who, more than any others partl,lpat-,thnt the 0r(ipk government Is sat's ed In the scrap which was little, more fM wlm Mn moment of the con- mini n tiuwi. ma Kurriua uanas win a... i. auiu hiiu uiv rcavrvtts vivu.'u out next. Norris Has More. But Solicitor Norris has more? He has not prepared It for the public but expected to do so. First of all he would have repelled the damning suggestion that he Is making a liveli hood as solicitor and cleaning up about a third as much money In that game as the average attorney who does less. Against the mysterious fig ures which showed his fees ranging around 18.000, he would have present ed the record which gives him but a slight rise of $2,000 to be exact, 2,- I0E.25. He wanted to explain himself In the prosecution of "little Eultis Austin," the Durham negro, who the solicitor says, Is the rankest of Mil offenders a long termer before he rume here and a housebreaker three times In one day. The republicans promise tof use the figures and even more If they can get the democrts to tell all that they know about' eaoh other In this cam paign. And getting " l early new year start the radicals are happy ever their prospect Eight years ago the re publicans carried the county after leaving Raleigh, by It votes, Mr. Tsft getting that number over Bryan. With more than a thousand majority dem ocratic In the city. Wake Is ever. whelmlngly democratic Republicans appreciating the shrewdness of Nor ris and his force In the party do not know what to expect of him when he comes to administer upon them. iContlnued Page Two), Russian Report Claims Capture of Village But Later German Advices Say the Posi tion Was Retaken. TOWN MAY BECOME SECOND CZERNOWTTZ Constantinople Tells of Allied Bombardment of Narrows , From Land and Sea Parliament Recess. London, Jan, 8. The Russian of fensive still occupies the most im- nortsnt ntare In fhA nowa with Prtant ?laoen tnar new8' wlth PF y "Kntm& aesPer" f.' n this region in the effort to iiuiu ine position as a screen ror as a screen Kovel and a link Isetween the Au.itro German armies in Gallcla and that further north in the neighborhood of Phisk, which Is threatened with envel opment as the result of the Russian advance. . The news regarding the capture of Czartorysk must be taken with reserve. A German report dated later than the Russian communication claims that all the lost ground has been retaken. Czartorysk may become a second Czer nowltz, which Is apparently untenable by either side. On the British front In the west the Germans are attacking near the Llllie- AVmentleres railroad, but according to omcial British advices they have, been repulsed. Both the British and French heavy artillery had a busy day yester day..,, k,. :, ,V jfc ,. . ' onstanUndple 'reports thaYlhVaT-' lies have again bombarded the nar rows from land and sea. The adjournment of parliament over th eweek end has brought a lull In tho controversy over the question of com pulsory military service. Except In leussian and East Gallcla little fighting of moment Is going on outside artillery bombardments and sapping operations. Even along the Russian front the engagements at va. rioua points seemed to have lessened greatly In intensity. Probably the most sanguinary n gagements has been at Czartorysk In the Volhynlan" sector, where the Rus sians claim to have captured the town. On the line In France French bom bardments of German positions are I P-'s to ha proved ef. fectlve In the destruction of German posts and the scatering of convoyr. Active artillery bombardments were Indulged In on the Austro-Italian lino. Vienna reports success for the Ans- trlans against the Montenegrins at va- rioll(, TnIs , contradlcte(, ,,y a Montenegrin official communication - .i - t. - (WIHI. - I1 nH nun nits AUHiriHUH wert? I -. . 1 . . 1 1 i - - n i- .r nr regulars and Greek gendarmes said to have come Into contact be tween Pavlanla and Popovoselo. The Turks report a continuation of artillery fighting and bomb throwing n V. n 1 1 J . l 1 1 nMHlH..1n , . ' i" uaiii 'uil (JriiuinuH null liu i kv.ji , ar.-t.u m v... ....... .......... ..-.,1 ... , ,,.,.,, , g! are npc1ared t0 have been dofeat. ed wlth hoavy )oseg Tt .ii a.v troVersy COM. CO. LOCKS OUT 190 MINERS 7 L Men Attempted to Organize Miners' Union Owners Objected. ' Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. (.At tempts to organise a miners' union among the miners of the Dunlap Coal company resulted In a lock-out an.l closing of the large coal mines at Dunlap, Sequatchie county, yesterday. One hundred and ninety men are af fected by the lock-out. There has been no evidence of treuble but both sides seem determined In their pur pone, one to organise and the mine owners to prevent organlieatlon. The mlnea are located In the same district In whloh state rangers were palled out last summer to suppress bands of mountain Ku Klux. who had been causing a reign of trouble for several months. The occurrence re sulted In the Indictment of 10 or II member of the band whe are new under bond, --v County Commissioners Have Agreed Upon Tentative Plans For Great Road Improve ments for County. - GRACE HIGHWAY TO BE A MODEL ROAD Forty-Five Miles of Roads Will Be Built or Repaired, Accord ing to the Present Plans of the Board. Chairman W. E. Johnson, with Commissioners Buckner, Cole, Ruth erford and Brookshire, of the board enora ana ijrooKsnire, 01 me iium'i of county commissioners of Buncombe ("' tv ko- e agreed upon a tentative plan which. If carried out, will as u.ny the repair and preser vation of all the water-bound ma- year, but will in addition, furnish tho j ni7, , him.n. I residents of Woolsey with a bitumin ous or asphalt highway forty feet in width with granite curbing. It is proposed in pursuance of the policy of the board in giving the cit izens and tax payers of the county a hundred cents in value f" every dol lar expended on roads in the coun ty, to spend as soon as practicable, approximately $15,000 in repairing and re-surfacing the Ashevllle-Hen-dersonville macadam highway With limestone; approximately $15,000 in repairing and re-surfacing the Ashe-vllle-Leicester macadam road with limestone; approximately $20,000 in cleaning the sand and mud off the Asheville-Black Mountain via Swan nanoa macadam highway and re surfacing with limestone; approxi mately $10,000 In extending and pre serving the Ashevllle to Hickory N'lt Gap via Fairvlew macadam highway; approximately $50,000 In building, re- palrin-nd surfacing tth .limestone,, the Asheville-Newfound road from West Asheville via the county home; and $15,000 in building and surfacing with limestone the Asheville-Mars Hill highway from Stocksville to Forks of Ivy, $15,000 for the Ashe-ville-Homlny road; making a total of $140,000. . Stone by County. It is the purpose, It is stated, of the commissioners to use stone quarried and crushed by the road forces of the county In the repair and building of the base of all these roads, but lime stone is to be ueed for the wearing surface on all roads. If the plans of the commissioners are carried out it will mean that not only will approximately forty-five miles of macadam road be built and repaired, thus assuring the preserva tion of a system of roadways that has cost the county several hundred thou sand dollars, but that these roads will be put In such a perfect condition by reason of the limestone wearing sur face that it will eliminate the neces slty of supplementing them with the mtummous or aspnsit macadam, a more costly type of permanent hlch. way, for from five to ten years long, er, It Is stated. In addition to the plans for the re pair and maintenance of all the ma. cadam roads already built in the county and the excellent system that nas neen devised ty the commission- ers for keeping In repair the dirt ronns or me county, tne contract will be let In the immediate future for the construction of the Ashevllle- 'irace highway for a distance of so- proximately one and one-fourth miles or to the forks of the road Immo- diately northwest of the Grace Epis copal church. I -race Highway. This highway will be built by the county commissioners under the au - tnoruy or cnapter 754 of the public laws of North Carolina, session 1915. and will be built of bituminous or as phalt macadam forty feet In width with granite curbing. It will have the necessary crossings and cross-drains. and will cost approximately $25,000; one half or which Is paid by the county and one half by the property owners, less eight feet between and on each side of the rails of the Ashe vllle Power and Light company, which Is to be paved at the cost of the company. The care line will be re-located In the center of the high way, and work will be begun by -he company to re-locate Its tracks In about 60 days, or as soon as tho oroner material can' h If I. etated. The act under whloh this pav- Ing Is to be done Is similar to th laws rnrnlng the laying of the pavements In the city of Ashevllle, and under It the county commission- ere are expressly vested with all pew- er and authority of every kind neces- sary to fully carry out the provisions of the act. The Ashevllle-Weavenille highway was declared by the government en gineers accompanying the party re cently ever the Southern highway, to be the most nearly perfect piece if highway between ' California and Washington) but the elvle' pride of the cltlsens of Woolsey In agreeing end' petitioning for the passage of this act. whloh requires them te iv nne half of the eoM, will give them highway more than double the width ef the Weavernile highway (Continues: en rage Twe), ' Texan Assails Militarism His Maiden Speech in , : the House. in Gazette-Xews Bureau, , The Rigg Euilding, Washington, Jan. 8.: With prose and poesy Congressman "Cyclone" Davis, picturesque Texan, Thursda made his maiden speech in the house, a violent assault upon pre paredness and militarism. The vet eran populist warhorse got a big ''hand." He made a unique appear ance with his bushy wiry beard black collarless shirt, and vehement gestic. ulations. In his perporatlon was the following: "Shall gun thunders never cease. And dying millions moan. While we feed the dogs of war. Or human flesh? Flesh and bone?" After vigorously denouncing all war and preparation for It, Davis said: "It Is said that when the war in Europe shall have ended most of .the world's free wealth will be in this country, Do not be deceived; that "' "luad who . a millionth part of the country s popu- lation, but control a tenth of all Its wealth, when the crucial hour strikes, will again touch knees around that famous table at Judge Garys and lay out the plans and specifications for making sure that not much of that wealth will reach the common man "It is a well conceived plan ofthe protected interests to Join in the clam or for preparedness. "A commercial conscience is war mad mad for great world power, and the millionaire 'magic of our country are holding conclaves and forming cables to force upon the country a stupendous program of military pre paredness, hoping to put in the lute House a dictator to execute it. Give them an Imperial army and navy, re instate the republican party in power, put a man at the head of the nation of the restless and ambitious spirit of Roosevelt 'and we have reached the beginning of the end of the rule of the people. These war traffickers are lin ed up for a billion dollar raid on the treasury In the sacred name of nation al defense HAVEN CASE GOES TO J Eleven Former Directors Ex pected to Know Fate in Few Hours. New York, Jan. 7. The case against William Rockefeller and 10 other former directors of tho New Haven railroad, charged with crim inal conspiracy under the Sherman anti-trust law went to the Jury today. New York, Jan. 7. The eleven for mer directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, wh ' h.va hwn cm trial for nearlv three months charged with criminal viola tion of the Sherman anti-trust law l trying to monopolize railroad traffic in New England, expected to Know their fate today. AH that remained be foro the final submission of the case to the Jurv was the delivery of th charge of Judge Hunt, which was ex nected to consume at least two hours. The defendants are William Rocke feller, and Lewis Cass Ledyard of New York, Edward P. Robblns of New Haven, Conn., Charles F. Brook ier of Ansonla, Conn., D. Newton l!nr- I ney of Hartford, Conn., Robert W Taft of rrovldence, R. I., Charles M. Pratt of Brooklyn, Henry K. Me Harg of Stamford, Conn., James H. Hemingway. A. Heaton Robertson and Frederick F. Brewster of New Haven. The maximum penalty tn case if oonvletlon Is 'one year In prison, or $5,000 fine or both. MORE SOLDIERS CALLED BY ITALIAN GOVERN 'T Rome, Jan. . Soldiers born In ' wno ueii.ug vo mo iori- n(I COHI,t "'tlllery companies nl woee corn in un ami lasn-wnn are attached to the mountain artillery I were called to the colors today. They are to report on Wednesday of next week, . t , n:tttlktkltllttll(ltlltlttKt Another Protest, t H Washington, Jan. 8. The t Tmlled States has sent to Am- t bassadnr Page rft London to p re ft sent to the British foreign efflre It a note vigorously protesting H against the British authorities' ct,,,n ,n """''ring with and " censoring mails from tne unitea I W Btatea tv neutral countries, lei 'totatatahlalklfcttoMeltlttalkleltltakl U Fi Y CLEftHJJP CASE Berlin Offers Terms Which the Germans Believe Will Set tle Controversy Satisfac torily to U. S. UNDERSTOOD FURTHER ASSURANCE IS GIVEN 'resident Presents Persia In cident to Cabinet But No Action Is Taken Pend ing More Details. ; Washington, Jan. S. The Gorman note accepting the American conten tion that the mere placing of non combatant In life boats when a prlzo to be destroyed is not under all conditions to be considered assuranca that they have been placed in safety, ' nas Deen made public by the stat.v department. The note is the latest communication over the sinking of the American sailing ship William P. Frye, and besides making this Im portant concession regarding the question of small boats, the noto takes up the question of Indemnity for the sinking of the ship and arbi tration of the disputed provisions cf tne f russian-Ameriean treaty. , Germany declines, however, tn bnvo the commission which will settle tba rrye damages meet in Washington, because it Is nolnteu out thru- ihn German experts would be exposed to me aanger or capture while maklnsr the voyage to the United States, In consequence of the conduct 'of mari time warfare by England contrary to international law. - .It Is suggested that -the" Gerrn-r-- and American experts might get l-i i touch by correspondence. For the ar bitration of the Prussian-Amertc.tn treaty dispute Germany proposes a special court of five from the pern., nent court at The Hague, at whlc-i each country shall choose twn-reprr- nrniauves ana the four choose tho fifth, and that they meet, at Tiao i-inguo on June o . Washington, Jan. 8 Prr.nn.i. which the German government be lieves will end the controversy ntr the Lusltania disaster in a manner satisfactory to the United Stales ire ynoerstooa to have been receive! from Berlin. Ambassador Bernstorff of Germany had an appointment 'or a conference with Secretary Lansing Germany Is believed to have Be,l to pay indemnities for the Americans Inst when the liner was torpedoed; at the same time to base a reservation of any wrong doing on the contention that the destruction of the liner wis an act or reprisal in retaliation of tho Rrltlsh blockade 'of Germany. t.erman government Is also tin. derstood to be ready to elve nSHiir- ances that its submarine commande-s in tne Mediterranean sea will not torpeilo without warning prtvatel't owied ships of any description in cluding liners, traders and trairr ships, r I Official Washington today consid ered that America, and Germany at last were near a final nrrcement -e-mrdlng th- conduct of submarine warfare. CHclsls msrte no attempt to conceal thrlr gratification t tin attitude Germany apparently has i.s- mimen. it Is considered to be virtu ally In harmony with the American viewpoint. Tension regarding the en tire submarine oueMlon seemed to have lessened eonslilerablv. Austrl In Its reply to the t Ancona note, bsvlng assured the United Ftntes cf Its Intentions to opernte Ktthmar'iicH with due regard for International inw and the principles of humanity: Tur key and Bulgaria. It Is understood, next will take steps to give Fiioh guar antees. It Is stated authoritatively that Germany and Austria-Hungnry will use their Influence to seeompllh this end. The Lusltania controversy, except for the wording cf the agreement to he entered Into, Is considered In Tf -tonlo circles here virtually ended. It was revested today, too, that In the replv to the lnt note regarding the William V. Frye. the Berlin for eign ofhe agreed with the American view that smntl boH can not uniei" all conditions lie considered a pines of safety f,r persons leaving a ship iibout to be attacked. The Oermsn government, apparent ly la not certain whether a 'lttrmuu suhmsrlne rank the Persia. German: promisee the United "Kates In th hint communication that should It develot that such wst the rase, the matter Will be investigated, and submitted t prlie court proceedings, and that f tho commander disobeyed Ills ordHitt he will be punished and reparation made far O.e death or Injuries l American etttsens, ' Consideration of the German assur- . snens and of the appareitl attitude t.f Austria-Hut iry aa reflected In Us- i patches from Ambassador lenlUtt at Vienna, led officials te believe that the : sinking ef the Persia might hot result ) In dimoultles as gpava aa at first wet feared.
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