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A k V WEATHER FORECAST. J North Carol ina-r-Cloudy-Sunday. A farmer in east portion; rain at night. Monday colder and-proba-. uV fair. ' - - '.: South Carolina Increasing. cpud- :;s ouiiubi ...... -..j. '"piewhat colder anc frfoaably fair. J z OL. XXIII. W.ed Neutrality Brings War, Crisis to Its Very Last Stage, Thinks Washington GERMANY'S ORDER ' j TO BE RIGIDLY MET. American Merchantships to Arm at Once and Given , Direction to Fight Senate Will Take Recess This Week Until Extra Session! Convenes. (By United Press.) Washington March 10. Armed merican vessels can shoot at Ger-i ; pan submarines, on sight withm the terman death area. One flash df Teuton periscope Will suffice to ! es- Bblifh the American gunner's right to re in defense. ese principles today, in the course! decision of the rights of armed hip.-, now that this government has stabliehed armed neutrality and pro- osed to guard - its commerce from German rmhlessness. The department based ' the Ameri- ;in right upon the fact that Germany as publicly renounced the doctrine of i-:it tnd search. It assumes that German submarines ill torpedo all vessels without warn .U', in keeping with the German bar f d zone statement to the world and or subsequent statement that it was he '-last word." Moreover, the right 11 Americans to fire first is based icon reiteration of a previously is- ued pronunciamento by this govern ed covering the matter of ship ar mament and submarine attack. Secretary of Navy Daniels an nounced tonight that he expects to pake a statement snniu nn the eov- inrnent's position, now that arma- icnt of American shps has been or ih1. This announcement, it is as pd, will tell just what orders p?-ve been issued to gunners as to Procedure upon the the approach of a jomaruie or in case of actual attack. Meantime, the work of arming mer nanimen proceeds. There will be little delay in putting guns aboard sending American ships forth in (fiance of Germany's avowed unlim- tfu warfare and in pursuance of long Dnsned neutral rights. Guns placed ahnarrl tho vpsspIs 'id be sufficient tn rnno with anv marine afloat at a distance of 10, 'J to 18,000 yar4s. A shot landing 'luarely from a three-inch or a six- ur- such as the navy furnishes, "1U sink the comparativelv frail un- rrsea Craft i annn aa an armor! pSSel fires Ulinn a Riihmnrinp thfi Fmed ship loses its immunities. Ger- "" commanders can and undouDt- n.iv ' will return the fire or torpedo1 vessel he Such a situation presents but little fKT, in the view of authorities, sooner or later an American ship not fall victim or that German "wersea boats-will be destroyed. Peace societies are again on the te to check vvar, as a result of the nent situation. But Congress I'TODably appronri-; money to y the expenses of arme3 neutrality insts' propaganda. Daily the gov osiv - Ls shaPing its navy for war ;S!nmes and preparing: for provid- ar; j 1. 1 1 ci. ucUiucD ucca The i(! ext sixty-fifth Congress will start rl 12 rc c I a i 1 n Jit. lf-in 1 'slvu un April id wim a i '".Congress at. the time of its rtU1 laSt llTrlr.,r 1 ' i W ntrr,,; ""ucijr will iia,V LU JJ 1 C" Senate now sitting in-special ,VJ1 1'ians .to adionm Tiifisdav or 'nesdav Qft . Pmina afew , . . y .jjf.i ; i c Tftk TT'TTTTfiTP nTI (TiTfnTTTT'TT' GE1RAL ST$1$E m TmL WWmvml hest of imiiEs rA k I D I 1 Ol I III 1DI I Dev. 1 t' II CIV 12 Ki II V - I ml a. k a. m a a i r . v.- ...! : it j - -- . i - - ' ' ' I S TE A M ER $ U1STK WTTHO Ul ' WARNING; ' (By LJnited Press.) j . London, March 1 0. Thirty personsaboard the Norwegian i steamer Storstadt, a Belgian relief ship, are missing tonight, j The Storstadt was sunk! without .warning by a German j submarine. Thirteen survivors have been landed. Two life boats are unaccounted for; ' At least one American, John Koy Chriatian, of Washing- j ' P VU -.ATr -m-nr, oiivrTAvn J V. too rC.. in ton, D. C, who was among the a lifeboat for 36 hours in a storrh Capt. Anderson, commander of the Storstadt, said the German subimdrih, whicK sank w: M on her Sides, : showing-she was a The Storstadt was laden with ri ne otQrsiagj:, was laen witn iooa ana . was enrou i ruin uenos ; Aires to Kotterdam. ohe - Bore lainjy printed signs I"l4 sank the tLmpress or Ireland, in the Ot. Lawrence, With) great loss of life aboard that vessel. BUSINESSMEN jQujcnrn fore United States Chamber Com merce Has Committees Named for Government (By United Press.) Washington, March 10 Response to Secretary of War Baker's request for committees of business men to assist the quartermaster's department of the army in selecting all supplies was so strong that the personnel of these committees is virtually completed to night, the UnitejLL States Chamber of Commerce announced. ' The comitteemen were selected byi the Chambers of Commerce in the cities having quartermaster depots. They will virtually control the busi- ness ena 01 war. Part of the committee selections ' follow : New York Edward D. Page, Lu cius R. Eastman, Jr Daniel B.- Morse, A. L. Salt and Henry K. Towne. St, Louis W. jA. Layman, Thomas R. Aiken, George M. Brown, John A. Bush and Warren Goddard. New Orleans .-Leon C. Simon, Ben C. Casanas, R. H. Dowflman, A; M. Lockett and Albert Mackie. San Antonio Luther B. Clegg, Ern est M. Groos, Clinton B. Kearney, Al bert Kronkosky and W. B. Tuttle. The first man mentioned is chair man of each committee. Philadelphia People Would Have Smuggled Goods to Interned Ships. , (By United Press.) Philadelphia, March 10. Five ar; rests were made here tonightfollow ing revelation of a plan to smuggle food aboard the Estel Friedrieh and TTronz Prinz WelhelM.in exchange for valuable articlt to be taken from the ,1 two interned Gef man ; ships. The five are charged'with violating United States cus'tpfias -aws; Their arrests followed shortly after a move ment to force removal, of the two shins , froml this port,'' started, . when Henry Keuterdahi, naya? writer, de- clared it wOuia De an ea?y uiaci the vessles 'toswing A their machine guns ,upon 'th ; guards. - at tleir pier and slip away to sea. ' ( FIVF flRRFSTFR I mm w m mm mw IN A MEW PL01 1 . . FULL WILMINGTON; NORTH SHELL BOATS, survivors, said he was afloat in j beforre picked up. his vessel, shelled the lifeboats. M - M M M ' &J rJeigian : Teller; steamer. " J food and was enroute from FLOCK OF AIRSHIPS OVER THE NEUSE Farmers' of Wayne Startled and Mystified by Five Aero planes Flying Their Way (Special to The Dispatch.) Goldsboro, N. C, March 10. Ac cording to a statement made by J. L. Roberts, a prominent farmer of the lower section of Wayne county, five aeroplanes were seen flying over Neuse river yesterday. Mr. Roberts was in this city today and stated that he and several other farmers of that section for over one hour watched the aeroplanes, as they descended along river and then would "se again going in a nortneny said that it caused quite a sensation for miles around, and pebple were in clined to believe that the aeroplanes were commanded by German spies. Roberts was accompanied 1)y two other gentlemen, and both reiterated his statement. DECLARED GUILTY OF TRYING KILL PREMIER (By United Press.) London, March 10. It took a British jury this afternoon just 32 minutes to declare the truth of the amazing story of poison plotting. They accepted practically all of the Crown's evidence against three of the quartet accused of planning the murder of PremierT4oyd: George and Ministery Arthur Hender son. : Mrs. Alice Wheeldon, adjudged the moving spirit in the . plot, 'was sen tenced to ten years penal servitude; her daughter, Mrs. Winifred Mason, received five years; while her hus band Alfred Mason, chemist and mix er of the , poisons, was given seven years. Miss Hetty Wheeldon, a sec ond daughter, was found not guilty. 45- ''' - -'"! -. GERARD REACHES CUBA TODAY. 7" & -' : t Havana, Cuba, March 10t - James W. Gerard, former am- f bassador to Berlin, will arrive at Havana at daybreak, according H- to a Wireless received tonight. -X-4f He wjll remain until Monday. Cuba will extend especial cour- -X- tesies toNhim. ',?: LEASED SWIRE7;ER VICE CAROLINA, SUNDAV MORNING, JVI ARCH 1 11.917.; CO UN TR Y MA i SOON -ONCm-MOREFACE Charged That Big German ated in United States. Uerman Discovered, With Wireless and Code Book German Govt. Connect ed. With Schemes. (By United. Press.) New York, March 10. The United States Secret Service is slowly gath- ering in pa;ts of an alleged German ..... '.i machine that was put togeernf Wilhelmstrasse to violate American! neutrality, or -work against ests in case of war. j . Arrests in New Yortl CMcae&r The District Attorney announced to- W revelation, oayrerman agent es., l wuiiau uidL we.aat9ci uaS r ing a war tax on his subjects- in this i country. Accredited representatives Ul VJI X AAA ail J j 1L lO UCI -I 1 f UU H V I VI , S3 J V tematically assessed Germans in America, and have collected millions of dollars ThP diano.nain of this of dollars. The dispensing, of this Federal operations. vt. ; ,,,-;- a meeting of 400 general chairmen df f N money will bq one ,Qf tha.objects of,ter' declaring the men are loyal. Lee the grand jury ' probe already begun. ! announced the brotherhoods have hit to Berlin. Indications that a huge PO a plan by which they declare the German fund was in existence during , s'h6T day must become effective re recent elections to insure, be- election gardless 0f whether the Supreme of Federal -and State officials favor-1 Court declares the Adamson law un nhi to aprmnn pntfirnrisfis. arp hfiin? Constitutional. This new plan was not probed. - Intimations that bazaars for Ger- man Ked cross benefit may De- sud - jec tto scrutiny by federal officials who it is said, do not te-IAines vvesi. it, was unaeiBiooa w oe lieve most of this mdrtev has been' an executive council meeting called to sent to Germany. Neafly $5,000,000 ! reinforce the four brotherhood presi has been collected by this method, i dents with the assurance that in the and it may haVe been used for Ger-' series of conferences next, week in many wa3 the opinion expressed. (Washington and New York they speak The statement here today of a wire-ifor an undivided body of union railway be establish between Germans in: this country was followed by the ar rest here of 'tVlax Hans Ludwig Wax. He was found to have' enclosed in a box a complete and complicated wire-1 day. If the eight-hour day does not less, capable, according to" the police, 1 resultffrom that conference, there of sending messages a distance of 100 i will be National railroad strike, bro miles and of receiving them from therhood leaders positively asserted Nauen, the site of the huge German t tonight. w.ireless station. i Tne brotherhood heads will confer Wax had code letters and other doc-( with Samuel Gompers in Washington uments in his pocket which showed j Monday. They will meet with delega that he had received large sums of . tions of railway systems who were not money from Germany v through the ' represented here, in Washington Tues Deutschesse bank, here, and that hisfday, Wednesday, in New York, ttiey mail had come to him addressed in'wiu meet still others, and on Thurs- care of the German consul general, in this city. Wax refused to discuss himself. He. declared, however, he Often had re- ceived money from his "pebple in Germany. j neers ; L. E. Shepard,' acting president Dr. Chanda Chakiaberthy, Hindoo; Order of Railroad Conductors; W. S. physician, whose "arrest revealed an, Carter, president Brotherhood of Lo alleged plot to start a revolt in India, ' comotive Firemen and Enginemen, was surrendered to the police a sec-, this evening was issued: ond time" tonight I "A meeting was held in Cleveland by While the grand jury investigated j representatives of the four trainmen "I! Crr -nfcavrow.'-and enginemen organizations in re- th? anl Tito acSK.P;;.tP,; S issued by the chief! Jr T"r ttI,! ia executives for the purpose of conferr-i under $25,000 bail.. One banding com- mg as to .the situation regarding a piny surrendered' the Hindoo on lement of the f grounds of patriotism, declaring a option It was cecided to renew et L.l . tw. not ravU to forts to obtain a settlement and a continue the bail after' becoming fa- meeting hue been arrange with i the miliar with charges against bim. To- National eouferenco comtt nights the United States .Guaranty railways to be held Thursday, March Company took the Hindoo to police A . , headquarters and announced they had' "The nearly 400 chairmen of the been unable to reach an agreement four railway transportation lines at with him regarding bond. He was tending the meeting, reported the con 1,5 . i jdftions existing on their various sys- . ' ,- , terns as even worse than on Sept. 2, TnamTn nnnnoppn i 1916, when the Adamson eight-hour SUSPENDS , PROPOSED; jiaw was enacted. . They complained RATE INCREASE, bitterly because the men they Yepre . "'v'Sent are working for the same rates .(By United Press.) ' . - wasnmgton, xviarcu. i-u. rruppseu cuuumuuo uiou - ouaiimoonj increases of from $1 to "$20. per car for of sueh law and called attention,. to the hogs, sheep and other live stock from fact that nearly all other classes .of Nashville' to Louisvmdj ana at. IjOuis lapor. nave joeeia given auusuuiuax m and other points along the Ohio and creases during the past year, whicli, Mississippi rivers ; wer etoday sus-in a measure, offset the increased cost UcIlUeU - UUUL . d UiV ' . J.J., JUJ' uio.iiurei-..ui state Commerce Commissions Railroad Men Grow Restless. and Demand The Eight Hour Day At Once. . -" 1 BROTHERHOODS TAKE ACTION IN SECRET. r Announcement Made That I Eight-Hour Day Must Be Had Regardless of Adamson i Case - Important Confer-j ence. (By United Press.) Cleveland, Ohio, March 10. Four hundred representatives of the great railway brotherhood, in secret meeting here today, prepared to fight lor a set tlement peaceful, if possible, but by day controversy. 1 . f sAs the formal statement was issued .tonight, telling of the meeting, W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of T Jl , m 3 - - ii - . 3 maiiway i rainmen, announced a let iter had been 'sent to President Wilson assuring hinT tbe trainmen will co-op- erate to the fullest extent in moving troops, equipment and supplies in case Mrike should be coincident with a irwar with .Germany. ff ei:many- Presenting a "solid front' stlie broth hoods are going . to press immediate- lts-ter-hrAi.A..wX IdiT,---' ily. fpr the: eight-Aour da.y regardlesSi pf f the lactidiif. plsthe Supreme ; Cour, on t&e brotherhoods here. Tne f al statement deciaring con ditions of railway labor are -much : worse than when the Adamson law PTmftAri riiri Tint mpntinn tho it. i ter to President Wilson. , m 7' V , . of Railway Trainmen, told of the let- explained. . The unannounced meeting of 400 .1 - "'1"11 aj icmcui, naj " of the Eastern railrowis and several .a .-l I 1 "J i The conference of brotherhood rpp- resentatives and railway heads in New York Thursday will be a final shcw- down on the question of the eight-hqur jay they will meet the railway man-:. lagers. " The following statement, signed py W. S. Stone, Grand Chief Engineer, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engl 'of pay and longer hours and worse iimu (Continued On Page. Eight) .... " . . . 01 ' , : - e. -. GERMANS ACTIVE Big Radio Station Established and Germans are Flocking to That Country. i n r THE VITAL NEWS. emon- ?vennan! ote to Carranza Given Germans Said to Be Plot ting His Death. ( (By United Press.) XJalveston. Tex.. March 10. Full in formation of reports that Germans are erecting a powerful wireless sta tion for trans-Atlantic messages was brought here today, by American pas sengers arriving on the Norwegian steamer" Harold" from Vera Cruz. F. L. Kroutil, of Youkon, Okla., and Harry S. Whitney, of Sherborn, Mass., stated a tower had been erected on a high hill near Mexico City, and the wireless plant was nearly ready for operation, under the direction of Ger- man engineers, in aaaition, tour or jfive other powerful stations are near completion in various portions of the republic which are expected to fur nish means of communication, with German sea raiders or other German vessels. " Hundreds of Germans are arriving in Vera Cruz every week from Hay ana and American ports, the -passengers said. Whitney said the chief engineer and his assistant from the interned German steamer Vaterland, at New York, are in Mexico City operating the big wireless station. . A Mexican newspaper published a report before they left the country that British marines landed at Port Barrios, Guatemala. Says Carranza Got the Note. El Paso, Tex., March 10. A new ex planation of the revelation , of the German-Japan-Mexico' alliance' note of Germany's foreign secretary, Dr. Zim merman, was contained in advices reaching here from Mexico tonight. This was that First Chief Carranza was actually, given tne Zimmerman ( letter by German Envoy Von Esk hardt, at Mexico City, '&4 dturned it over to a messenger, who took it di rectly to Washington. (Continued on Page Eight) . t IN MEM COME Widely Circulated In Columbus County March 9, 1917. ; The Wilmington Dispatch, ' Wilmington,' N. C. , My Dear Sir : . ;v r; I am sending herewith an announcement of , our Coun ty Commencement, which we expect to Jhold at. White ville Friday,. April 6th, I will thank you very much rto give this announcement a place in the columns of your valuable paper, which is so widely read in our county." i Yours sincerely, i - " , vx'T.bdTE;lK''' , V ; v I ' I - r - t 1 24 y 1 1 FOUR SECTIONS, ' PRICE FIVE CENTS- Reports That Nation Ts Stag , gering Under. Financial Bur wen and Growing Weak. - ' GERMANY UNABLE TO REACH CREDITORS. Food Situation is Described a3 Distressing Forced Peace Thought to Be Just Beyond The Horizon Situation for Fatherland Daily-Growing Worse. .. (By United EVess.) ' -Washington, March 10. Germany's financialsystem J3 staggering to the breaking point, jfy " - j- - ; This, c6upled" w(tb"a; anfut' tfget tf " fobdlnaf mdre. vis gradually, squeezing out the, endurance v of , the German;- nation, an4 bringing- the end of. the- war. nearer. C Theses facts are revealed by Inform ation in possession of the government tonight. This information tending to verify !tne meager news of approaching star- vation coming out of Germany stresses however, the financial side more than the food situation, and to the latter there are conflicting evidences, though all show that starvation may . come as only a matter of-months, provided the war continues. On financial side there is evidence that Germany is practically "kiting" her checks. She is draining thegold of the whole nation, and having no access to her ordinary outside credit agencies she must virtually "rob Peter to pay Paul" make one. loan stand as payment for another. Information to the United Press to night indicates ihat a state approach ing national bankruptcy will result if the war goeq on much longer. Hence, while the American armament of mer chantmen presages War or a state of war, peace probably is really just be yond the horizolf. The food situation is pictured as ex tremely depressing. Short rations are the portion everywhere. One of - the striking evidences ,of how short 0t food Germany really is lies in the com plaint of American Yarrowdale pris oners that their fare was scanty and poor. ; ' The real story is that they were kept on rations that stripped the "flesh from their bones. Germany cannot adequately feed her own folks much less give prisoners ample supplies. .'Official information 'shows the situ ation to be distressing and increasing ly growing worse, though not yet quite to the point of actual starvation. It is, however, to the- stage wljere many Germans are ill nourished and where her fighting men, though still well supplied, are not getting the full (Continued on Page Eight) ' .- .County. SupeririterdeniUM, rn ? ,': '" a .(-" '--. .-- K i'' ' '. ; ." ' v r -1 , t h 1 i -. ".TV . . . . - - - -i "5. !