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SUNBAY CITIZEN H THE WEATHER . CLOUDY. ASIIEYILLE, N 0, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS CMnnnnrjs rffusf RUSSIANS ARE PRESSING OFFENSIVE IN FORCE WITH Flirting EVERY EFFORT TO I '''' 9 Wl s P P P . w w f - Tfl FfiVF H FX M: w 1 t 1 GREATEST DETERMINATION This Action and Battles in Montenegro ' M A S H A M- ...... , ;-,:v-:--:; . i'.i'V " -. V Various Colonies Will Con i v solidate Under Protec- Formal Reply From Car ranza to Demand of U. S. Not Received. Form Chief Activities of the European WarMlies at Saloniki Are Well Pre tlon of Carranza BE MADE AGAINST MEXICAN BANDITS ft) 4 k OTHER AMERICANS 1 DESIRE TO REMAIN Plans Will Be Made to Ex- . ! terminate Villa and . His Band. BI PASO, Texas, Jan. 15. Mor mona In Chihuahua state do not ln tyi n Mm. 10 tha United States, despite the advice and counsel of the 'imi4iin nwrnmHi according to Mexican official who received advice 1 tonight lUtuni xntu .. " vumum nhiii. ahnnt soo. were to con centrate under protection of Carrania garrisons stationed at Casaa Grandee, and other points, until the country Ja cleared of bandits. Other Americana In the eame dis trict were described as bein reluc tant to leave Mexico, where many till v. niiHT ficTtml were reoorted to have returned to the Interior of Chihuahua state on tne train wnron 1 Jeft Juare Jate today and only a comparatively small number of for. eignera In the neighborhood of parral are expected to come out on the special due here tomorrow night. . Uncertainty as to Number. . There is uncertainty here regarding the number of Mexicans operating al leged orders of Francisco Villa and hie lieutenants, although General Ja cinto Trevino, the Carrania com mander, was quoted last night In dis patches from Chihuahua City to the effect that only 800 Villa men remain ed uncaptured. Mexican offloiala at Juarea estimate, however, that there re at least 1,800 men on the war path in western Chihuahua. a MnfnnM of Carrania officials ' will toe held at Juare early next jweek to perfect plans for the exter mination, of Villa and his ban, said ft statement hy Roberto V. Pesqulera, , 'personal representative of General Carransa, according to dispatches from Dougla. , Arl , . . .. I L'n.. nrrt!nr to these dispatcher i I -..,v. fn thn statement that MJWM', - , - - - . .. jjamee Lord; manager of a mine south J cf Moctesuma,; tsonora, lor wu feafety there has been apprehension, to safe-and that; quiet prevails In that district ' ''' :" ' , According to Mr. ' Iielevler, cavalry under Colonei Franclsoo Anchetta has been ordered from HermosIUo to the Sahuarlpa district of Sonora. m miles south of Douglas, to exterminate an Independent band operating under the leadership of Colonel "Alberto Garcia. Sending Bodies to Border. . General ' Gabriel Gavira, Carransa commandant at Jueraa. opposite here, announced tonight that the bodies of General Rodriguex and General Rivas, Villa commanders shot after their forces had been defeated at Pearson recently, would reach the border shortly so that Americans could verify reports of their exefeftlon. Bpeaklng of the Carransa govern ment's plans to round up bandits and Villa adherents. General Gavira said: "The American people should be patient. We soon shall have entire control of the situation. Argumedo, the bandit In southern Bonora, has (Continued on Page Two.) TAX DYE-STUFF IMPORTS IS Prominent Men Advocate Enforcement of the Hill : " Measure. PROTECTION NEEDED ' - WASHINGTON, Jan. 1U. Charles K. Herty, Chapel Hill, N. C, presi dent ef the American Chemical so ciety; and others advocated before the boose way and 3neans committee to day the enactment ef the Hill bill designed to tax imports of dyestuffs , sufficiently to encourage the building Bp of an American dye industry. -- Mr. Herty declared that without legislation the European nations-win try to wipe out the present small In dustry, t He said he has tiled with the federal trade commission a letter set ting forth that in Ills a British manu facturer, party, to a convention of British manufacturers of aniline oil, called on the Bensol Products com pany, an. American Institution, and toid the company that If It would quit roanufactvriniLjthe oiLtheconYenUon manufacturers would sell the com pany aniline oil at a price that would enable the company to make a profit eut of its existing contracts. If the company declined the proposition, the letter said, manufacturers would re duce the price so low as to destroy any Americas enterprise. The letter pointed out that in 118 the German Chemical manufacturers exported coal tar dyes alone amounting to fS.OOt, eot. of which one-fourth came to the 3BUe4 0tatesL pared for a Raid. ; LONDON, Jan. 15. Only on the Bessarbian and East GaHcian front and in Montenegro have there been recent military developments of prime importance. The rapid sequence of events in the Montenegrin campaign, involv ing thoj crumbling of the little kingdom's resistance, pre sents perhaps the more dramatic aspect, but-on far larger scale and of greater interest the conflict being waged between the Austnans ana tne Russians. The Russian offensive, halt apparently, is being pressed with more determina tion than before.- Reports of nnlv from Vienna, but these against the Austrian lines were of a desperate character, the Russians repeatedly charging in serried lines a dozen deep, only to be repulsed each time with fngntrul losses, nnrdincr o the Austrian port adds that the attacks have not netted the Russian an inch of territory. Pursuing Montenegrins. In Montenegro, the Austrians, following up their cap ture of Cettmje are pursuing Nicholas and have made additional captures. The Mon tenegrins, according to unofficial advices, after transfer ring their capital to Niksic, Kieka to the southeast of continue their retreat southward and concentrate their defence at Scutari, Albania. the eastern front of the fighting in this field of war the Austrians have advanced heights of Gradina to the' south ' ." The fighting along the IVancp-BelgIan.Jinfes has not beep of moment since the operations in the Champagne, started by the German offensive movement there, came to a halt Artillery engagements and trench warfare, with occasional aerial encounters are the only happenings that have re cently been chronicled in the official statements. Around Saloniki, where (CONTINUED ON II F MUST FROM U. S. 1 Noted Suffragette Later Is Allowed to Land, Pend- ing Appeal. HERE FOR SERBIANS NEW TORK, Jan. is. Mrs. Emme- line Pankhurst, British suffrage lead er, arrived here today and was or dered excluded from this country by the special board of Inquiry at the El lis Island Immigration station.' On order of Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post, she was allowed to en ter the country pending her appeal to the authorities In Washington. Mrs. Pankhurst and her secretary, Miss Joan Wickham,- were walking down the St. Paul's gangplank when an immigration officer Informed the suffrage leader that she would have to go to Eins Island. Bhe protested vigorously, but the official explained that, although she had been ailowe to enter in IMS, she was still sub ject to the Federal statutes barring aliens convicted of "crimes Involving moral turpitude." Mrs. Pankhurst then declared that she bad not come here tn connection with suffrage; that she would not. un der any circumstances, discuss poli tics or suffrage while here and that she would not even attend a suffrage meeting. She added that she came here expressly at the request of Ched domil Mlyatovlch, former Serbian minister of state and foreign affairs, who is now head .of the Serbian re lief commission, "I am sot here to talk mllKaney or even votes for women." said Mrs. Pankhurst. . I am here In an effort to aid the poor Serbians and t am sure that I see no reason why I should not be welcome. Tour president al lowed me to enter the country two years ago and I see no reason for a change of attitude now." . Before . Mrs. Pankhurst departed for EUU Island. M. Mlyatovlch sent a telegram to the Serbian minister at Washington, asking him to use his In fluence in securing admission to this country for Mrs. PankharsU M. Mlyatovlch also offered to guarantee that Mrs. Pankhurst would not par ticipate In any political or suffrage hare, , for the moment at least is resumed in force after a brief the nghting so tar nave come indicate that the attacks official statement. This re the depleted forces of .King determined to make a starid at Cettinje ' and if necessary to In interior Montenegro, on from Berane and taken the the entente forces have been PAGE TWO.) ALL FORM GERMANY Enforcement of Such a Blockade Would Settle Many Questions. STOPS EVERYTHING LONDON, Jan. II. That Great Britain will soon announce the estab lishment of an actual blockade of Ger many and her allies thereby supersed ing the condition Which has been es tablished fcy the orders In eounotl was the statement made today by Ameri cans who bare heen in eloae eontaot with the machinery of the BrRish orders in council in eoaseqneaoe of their acting here as reprreeentatlvee of American shippers whose business had been affected by the execution of the orders. vpowd settle: question. WASHINGTON, Jan. II. Enforce ment by Great Britain of an actual blockade of the Tevtonio powers would, in the opinion of officials here, remove from the field of controversy several international factors which had led to much diplomatic corre spondence and much misunderstand tog on the part of the public One of these la the question that now remains unanswered as to the right of a neutral state to ship to Germany or her allies any goods not contraband of war. Once a blockade was declared there could be no legal question of the light of the blockad ing fleet to keep everything out ot the enemy's ports. ; All doubts as to the application of the doctrine ef ultimate destination also might be removed so far as It concerns goods destined for Germany through a neutral state. "On ttt other hand, declaration of a blockade would not warrant officials believe. Interference with America's trade with neutral Xhtropeaa states, provided Che goode were not consign ed nKbnatety to Gernujiy or Austria. Under the orders in ; council such goods are now being detained and commandeered. xr . The forthcoming American note to Great Britain on contraband la ex pected to take ap this question at length. - . . . - NEWS NOTE Art unconfirmed will resign his position on March 1 FOUR MEN KILLED AND TEN MORE ARE INJURED IN EXPLOSION 0CCURING ON U. S. SUBMARINE E-2 IN DRYDOCK Cause ot Explosion Aboard tbt Generation ot Much Hydrogen Gas, Believed to Have Been Cause lnured Men An Badly Burned Investigation Will Be Made, NEW TOTtiK, Jan. ' J 5. Four men were' killed and ten others Injured, fivw ot them dangerously, in an, ex plosion which occurred' this afternoon on the submarine B-S while the eraft waa undergoing repairs M dryflock at tha New York navy yard. One of the mas build u as enlisted eledtrioiaa and the othaJJiree, flUlan wrkert, At jeasi inree h uie n ww w pjtala axe not expected tt live. -x t ; B. eeabert, electrician, second- class.,' James- (ft. Peek, -civilian, general helper, Brooklyn. ' ' J. P. schults, civilian, machinist, Brooklyn. Joseph Logan, civilian, general nerp er, (Brooklyn. Tha Injuredi I C. Miles, chief electrician, Brook lyn. Ramon Otto, electrician, ana a lo bars, Md. Guy h. Clark, Jr.. Frankfort, N. T. John Holsey, Baltimore, Md. James Lyons, civilian. Henry Zoll, civilian. Otto H assert, civilian. Richard Heyne. civilian. Michael Peyser, civilian. August Kaplin, civilian.' Shows No Effects, Althnnoti the detonation was ter rific, the submarine Itself from the outside, shows none of the effects of the explosion, the second fatal acci dent of its kind In the history of the E Will Mean 740,000,000 Acres of Public Land Thrown Open for Lease. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The sec ond of the administration conservation measures, a Mil under which more than seven hundred million acres ot pnbllo lands would be thrown open for lease by private Interests, oessed the house today without a roll call. Immediately afterward the 40-acre homestead bill was taken up with a prospect that It would be passed early next week. Opposition to the land lease bill was confined principally to far weat-m representatives, as In the case or tne waterower leasing bill passed last week. Led by Representative Mon dell, of Wyoming, a group of mem bers from the western states opposed particularly In the debate today the provision under wnlcn tne vast on re sources on public lands In California and Wyoming would be developed un der federal leases. They contended that each state should be permitted to Yegulate development of such resources within Its borders. Representatives Raker and Church, of California, objected to a section giv ing relief to California oU promoters affected by the land withdrawals un der the Taft Administration as not be ing liberal enough. In the form pass ed, however, it was a partial victory for olalmantai . In Its report the lands committee declared that the landa opened which Include approximately four hundred and fifty billion tons of coal and I0. eo.000.e0 worth of phosphatea and unknown quantities ef oil. gas and mineral fertiliser should bo developed immediately. The Alaskan coal fields and oil lands In naval reserves are report from an authoritative source stat t o ran for United States senator from E-2 Has Not Been Definitely Decided, as New Batteries Preclude United States navy. The Interior ap paratus waa badly shattered . but'sp tight waa the vessel's shell that there waa no means ot escape for gaa which accumulated and It was more than an hour after the blast before the work of recovering the bodies could be accomplished.- A ladder we- blown up through the conning tower and, fell 110 feet awy-v'eii''w - The injured men aiia- h tody was removed soon after the accident, hut three bodies far down In the craft could not.be reached until the gas had been blown, out by compressed air. Soon after the explosion several naval officers led a rescue party into the dry dock, but were partly 'over come by gas fumes when they at tempted to descend Into the vessel. It was i then that compressed air' pipes were run Into tha shell and the gas forced eut : !-' The number of men Inside the sub marine at the time of the explosion Is not definitely known. ' About twenty were working on the craft, but all of them were not on the underwater boat at the same time. ' It Is not thought possible than any one Who waa Inside could have escaped injury. Cause Not Podded. What caused the explosion has not been definitely decided. Rear Ad miral Nathaniel R. USher, comman dant of the navy yard, after an ex amination of the craft and question ing workmen who had been nearby, declined to express an opinion. He said: "The men were at work In the 'bat Paul Koenig and Hans Adam von Wedell Also Received Checks. LONDON, Jan. it. Payments by Captain won Papen, the recalled mili tary attache of the German embassy at Washington, to two persona charged with playing Important parts In the activities of German agents in ths United States, are disclosed by a further examination of the documents in ths British government's possesion. A bank book shows that checks were given to Paul Koenig. head of the police service of the Hamburg American line, who is under arreet In New York, and Hans Adam von We dell, who has been indicted at New York for conspiracy. Koenig is cred ited with having received several checks for large sums. ', The books show ths receipt by Cap tain von Papen of large sums from "Bernatorff." The payments began In August It 14, a few days after the commencement of the war and con tinued until the middle of October last Some of the payments are cred ited to "Bernatorff" and others 'To Embassy." The entries shortly before Captain von Pa pen's departure from the United States show receipts from In dividuals in payment of personal debts, one being from the purchaser of von Papon's automobile. MAIL CONFISCATED. - NEW YORK, Jan. 15. The steam ship Kleuw Amsterdam of the Holland-American line from Rotterdam, docked atVoboken tonight -The ahlp waa bold at Falmouth five days ry the British authorities who confiscated one hundred and sixty .begs of Ger- man mall. es that Postmaster General Burleson Texas. tery compartment of the B-l discharg ing the new Edison batteries through a rheostat to measure the voltage and the explosion occurred tn that com partment while they were working there. . . The battery will generate no kind of gas and thsre was no gaso line on board.. The engine was of the 9tl-burnlng Irtesel type." ,t,f Pending the appointment.! an- of ffolal bo-.cf inqury tiytho-uary department,. ' Rear Admiral Usher named a temporary investigating oom mlttee as follows: a.V' ;. lieutenant . Commander Pope, Washington. - commander ' of the ' re eeiving ship Maine: Lieutenant It. M. Stewart, ot the torpedo boat destroyer McCall, and Lieutenant Rush H. Fay, commander of the submarine division to which the E-l was attached. This committee immediately began to take the testimony of men. working around the E-l when the explosion occurred. The opinion was expressed that the process of withdrawing the charge from the batteries might have caused tha formation of hydrogen gas. Ex plosions of that nature have been fre quent on submarines of all navies, it wa explained, and several have oc curred on American boats within the last few years. .None ef the others waa serious however. The E-3 was ths only vessel In the world equipped with the Edison niokel batteries and ahs mads her first trip successfully with thsm on December 7 last It was reported that the new (Continued on Tags Two.) EXPEDITION AT HAGUE All Save Those on Regular Board Sail for the United States. THE HAGUE, (Via London, Jan, 1S.J The American members of the Ford peace mission, except those as sociated with the . permanent peace hoard, sailed from Rotterdam today aboard the steamer Rotterdam, for New York. A great crowd assembled on the wharves and cheered as the steamer departed. Among those bid ding farewell to the visitors were dtlsens of . Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, through which countries the Americans had traveled on their peace mission during tbje past six weeks. ' ' About one hundred and fifty per sons sailed, while thirty remained at The Hague for the purpose of pro moting the peace plana as originally devised. The members of the perma nent board will hold dally sessions. Germany's blockading of the re cent attempts of the Scandinavians to return to their homes through Ger many la regarded as making certain the selection of Stockholm -for future sittings of the peace - board. That would obviate the necessity of crossing the war tone. Dr. Aked said that Stockholm would likely be selected but the -matter would be referred to Mr. Ford. THE WEATHER. WASHINGTON, Jan. IS. Forecast for North Carolina: Cloudy and warmer Sunday; Monday probably fair, colder vest portion. NO INCLINATION TO . DOUBT GOOD FAITH Washington Officials Cer tain That All Possible la Being Done. WASHINGTON. Jan. IS. General ' Carrania's formal reply' to ' the de ,-, mana or tne united atatea ror punun- . ment of the bandits who killed sigh- teen American mining men near San ta Yeftbol, Mexico, had not yet reached Washington tonight but officials were not inclined to doubt the good faith, ot assurances given by the general's ambassador designate here, Ellseo -Arredondo, that every effort would be made to run down the murderers. Being Hunted Down. - These asaurancee were renewed by . Mr. Arredondo tonight in making publio tha report of General Trevino, in charge ot the forces detailed to capture the bandits and Insure pro teotion to persons In the district la which they have been operating. Gen eral Trevino,, whose dispatch, trans-" mitted by the Mexican consul at El Paso, also described the massacre, said those responsible would he "hunt ed down without rest" The day passed without any repeti tion In congress of the outbursts of Indignation that have marked almost every aeeston since word of the Santa Tsabel incident was received. Chair- ' man Stone, 'of the senate foreign re- latlAtta nmm4tt.L liAaVM ftalleA An Secretary Laming and requested that the committee be ' kept advised promptly of receipt of any further lrw : formation. The secretary promised that would be done. The report of General Trevino a r made publio by Mr. Arredondo fol- "on Gimtu, p. olal traln.WoJJ.WtftjEuhuii te Cuftlchurtachtc, arriving at Santa. Tsa bel -at l.'K P. nw and started, front . there, and upon arriving at "Kilometer II' west of Santa. Tsabel, it found an other train, of the National railway hauled, by angina No, 107, derailed, Unon persons , alighting . from thels train to see what had occurred, thoy saw armed men on both sides of the (Continued on Page Two.) . NO OFFICIAL NOTICE IS TAKEN OF ACTIVITIES OF ; VON PAPEN AND BOY-ED Disclosures Have Arousec, Intense Interest But No Action. GENERALLY KNOWN WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. Dies closures of alleged activities of Gere man agents In the United States cons talned In the papers seised by the) British from Captain von Papen, the) former German military attache here While they have commanded Intense) interest have brought no Indication of official notice. The general view! Is that the United States government practically olosed the incident when It called for the withdrawal of Csp tain von Papen and hia colleague) Captain Boy-Ed, the naval attache. ' Much of the correspondence cabled to this country is looked upon by most officials as being little more than interesting. . That . which pur ports between Von Papen and Werner Horn is eagerly awaited; however, as poseibly being a link in the chain ot evidence government agents collected regarding the attempted destruction) of the railway bridge at St Croix. Me. In the files of the state department Is all the data collected by the agents of the department of justice, secret service operatives and others touching almost every alleged war plot In this country In the last eighteen mont. On the surface, officials express sur prise at suggestions .that Von Papen or Boy-Ed were under surveillance la this country after the outbreak of tha war because such actions would hard ly be in keeping with diplomatic usage. State department records, however are said to reveal that the ao tivitiee of . both were known to tha government In detail. Apparently about the only case of eonsequenoe in which federal detective agencies hav not made definite discovert ee Is that of Robert Fay and the others reoesmy indicted With him In New York for conspiracy to interfere with American trade In munitions of war by at taching bombs to shlpa ' Ths attitude of American ertKiaia has been that while all tha Informa tion they had was Interesting It wea not aufflolent, even If it could- be presented to a court whlcn was out of the question in the case ef-1!plo- oaUo officers tn bring; conviction svot affected by the bin. . V
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