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AMERICAN PORT
Range of Submarine Soon Ob
tained and With Deadly Ef
fect Shell Landed In
Magazine and Explosion
Occurred
(By Associated Press.)
An Atlantic Port, June 25 Members
of the crew of a British steamer which
arrived nere rouay reiwriea naving
sunk an attacking German submarine.
The British vessel sent a shell into
the U boat -magazine, causing an ex
plosion which parted the undersea
boat about amidships. Each en'
sank rapidly. The British steamer
was uninjured.
The submarine was five, miles dis
tant and running away after having
attacked the British nearly 400 miles
off the coast of Ireland.
According to tEe gunner of the Brit
ish steamer, the submarine was .first
seen when she sent a shell at the
steamer from a distance of about
3,000 yards- It fell short and the
earner immediately was swung
around to 'get the stern naval gun at
work. Eleven shots were fired in rap
id succession and each struck very
close to the- German.
"I knew. L hadthe raare-af ter the
second shot and 'so fid tiieerman
said the BriUsh gunner." "The Ger
mans were using their two guns, fore
and aft, while we had only one, but
the shells were falling short and he
started to run. I followed him with
shells and the twelfth, the one that
sent him down, struck just abaft the
periscope. He was then more than
9,000 yards away.
' We could all see the boat break in
half and go down. I sent four more
shots into the water at the spot where
she disappeared.
"At the same time our battle was
going on the wireless operator picked
up the call of an American vessel
(that arrived at an Atlantic port last
Friday i and also caught a message
that another American ship had been
torpedoed and was sinking. The mes
sage said that the Germans were fir
ing on the life boats. That vessel
was about 30 miles to the south of us
and I do not know how they made
out."
The steamer's captain and other of
ficers would not discuss the battle, but
confirmation of the gunner's story was
obtained from other members of the
crew.
NOTED IRISHMAN
REACHES NEW YORK
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 25 T. P. O'Con
nor, the Irish Nationalist leader, who
arrived here yesterday accompanied
by Richard Hazelton, also of the Na
tionalist party,, spent today in receiv
ing almost a continuous line of Call
ers. Mr. O'Connor, who plans to go
to Washington this week, was invited
today by personal friends there to be
guest of honor at a dinenr for the pur
pose of having him meet men of na
tional prominence.
SUFFRAGIST "PICKETS
NOT PUT ON TRIAL
(Bv Associated Press.)
Washina-tnn. Jimp 25. Mabel1 Ver
non, nf Vovndo nA Virp-inia Arnold.
f North Carolina, two suffragist
Pickets taken into custody by the
Capitol police Saturday when they at-
terunred tn icnlnv a banner on the
. visit of the Russian mission to Con-
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6'ss, were not brought to trial toaay
ds had been planned, because tne
Congressional committees who have
charge of the grounds advised the po
'ice to drop the case, at least until
those of other suffragists arrested at
th White House have been decided.
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JOURN IN AUGUST.
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(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 25. Demo- tt
cratic Leader Kitchin predicted
adjournment of Congress by Au-
gust 1 or August 15, today, in an- tt
nouncing that after next Wednes-
ny or Thursday he would ask tt
for three-day adjournments until
the Senate has passed some of tt
the House legislation now before
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UTCH WOMEN
Loaded With Potatoes for Eng
! land Delicate Position for
j Holland Officials
(By Associated Press.)
London, June 25. A dispatch to The ;
t Times from Amsterdam reports that a
crowd of women stormed a dozen
barges in the inner harbor of Rotter
dam Saturday and seized about a ton
oT potatoes deeUnftt f or .England; .The 1
barges, which were loaded with -H.obflf
tons of potatoes, were then removed to
the outer harbor, guarded by police.
The trouble, whereof the foregoing is
a mere incident, has arisen, according
to the correspondent, between Holland
and England and Germany. Germany pected to cause the Italian govern
expected last week a consignment of I ment to stretch a point by not insist-
new potatoes in return for German ex
ports of coal to Holland.
Before a consignment could be made
11,000 tons of old potatoes had to be
shipped to England under contract.
The people of Rotterdam, who are
themselves insufficiently supplied,
learning that these .potatoes were ,
awaiting shipment, raided the barge3
Meanwhile the Germans are threaten
ing to cease coal supplies unless the
potatoes are sent.
The correspondent says that if the
Dutch yield to German pressure and
send these potatoes to Germany, they
will break their agreement with Eng
land and endanger their supply of
grain from America which might prove
as serious as the loss of German coal.
YOUTHFUL PURCHASER
OF LIBERTY BOND
(Special to The Dispatch.)
Warsaw, June 25. The youngest
turehaser of a Liberty bond in thls(
section was Master Norwood Carroll,
who is 10 years old. He earned the
money himself with which he made
the purchase.
ON GERMAN CROPS
Say They Are Fine Condi
tion Private Statements
Are to Contrary
(ty Associated Press.)
Copenhagen, June .25. A report
sent out today by the German govern
ment for free distribution in the neu
tral press says that in consequence
of the long-desired rainfall, the crop
prospect in southern and western Ger
many really is brilliant. In the mid
dle and eastern provinces it is thor
ously satisfactory. The report would
deserve more credence if Germany
and not followed the same tactics
harvest during the war.
I rivate reports received by the As
sociated Press up to the end of the
second week of June describe pros
pects for 1917 as anything but bril-
iliant. They say that rams are ur
: gently needed and if they come op-
pcrtuneiy coma ao muuu lu save of
fering spring grain or improve win
ter grain prospects, but in no case
could rpoduce better than a bare mid
dle harvest.
Official reports today that fodder
cut now is far above the average are
flatly contradicted by private ad
vices and difficult to reconcile with,
past weather conditions. Danish
crops grown under similar climate
conditions were given as poor to bad
in last week's- official report
OFFrCAL
REPORTS
RETURN OF CDGCH
IS
Italy Not Expected to Insist on
Strict Observance of Her
Penal Law
(By Associated Press.)
York, June 25. Papers
New
re-
quired for the extradition application
to bring Alfredo Cocchi, self-confessed
ANTICIPATED
slayer of Rnth Cruger, from Bologna.5ae telegram Co from Am-
Italy, t where h tleQ whence,- leered
le Ws suspected, were completed to
day by Edward Swan, district attor
ney. In the opinion of Mr. Swan and
lawyers conversant with Italian law,
the present friendly relations between
Italy and the United States was ex-
ing upon observance of its penal code,
which prohibits the extradition of Ital
ians citizens, taking precedence over
its treaty privilege for recriprocal ex
tradition. Although detectives working on the
case of Ruth Cruger conducted a
search for Cocchi after the man had
fled, they sought him as a "missing
person' rather than as a criminal,
and closed the case so far as he was
concerned as soon as they ascertained
that he was in Bologna, Italy, accord
ing to records examined by Mr. Wall
stein. The principal witness called to
day was Henry D. Cruger, father of
the victim. It is expected that he
will be under examination all day.
Official records were being searched
here today to determine whether
Cocchi is a citizen of the United
States or of Italy. An inquiry on this
point by Secretary Lansing was re
ceived through Governor Whitman to
day by District Attorney Swan. It
is believed here that Cocchi took out
his first papers, but never applied for
the second and is therefore still a
subject of Italy. Cocchi once applied
fox enlistment in the Italian army
through the consulate here.
-Copy of Confession Asked For.
Washington, June 25. The State
Department has requested the Italian
government to forward a copy of the
confession of Alfredo Cocchi in which
he admitted that he had killed Ruth
Cruger.
YOUNG GIRL FLIES
Buffalo to Washington Drop
ping Red Cross Literature
Along Her Route
(3y Associated Press.)
New York, June 25. Miss Kather-
ine Stinsen, the 19-year-old girl, who
left Buffalo yesterday on an aero
plane flight to Washington, carrying
a message to the Red Cross head
quarters there, reached here today at
12:15 p. m., after stopping for the
niglit at Albany. Miss Stinson
planned to resume her journey after
a short rest. She carried a number
of small paper bombs containing ap
peals for Red Cross funds, which she
is dropping above cities and towns.
Leaves Albany on Time.
Albany, N. Y., June 25. Miss Cath
arine Stinson, who is making an air
flight from Buffalo to Washington In
the interest of the National Red
Cross, left on the second leg of her
trip shortly after 10 a: m. today. She
is expected to reach Washington late
in the1 afternoon. , . . , jtaa
RDCROSS
AIRSHIP
Large Number of Raids Car
ried Out In Every Import
ant Sector
INFANTRY LULL
COMES ALONG ALSNE
French Succeed In Driving
Back Crown Prince's For-
ces
Gerrrian Newspap
ers Protest
The British front in Northern
j Prance Is again developing signs of
j marked activity. Today's official state
ment from London details an unusual
i number of raids carried out by the
I British in virtually every important
! sector from Belgium to St. Quentin.
Operations by raiding forces on this
scale are usually the prelude to of
fensive movements of moment. Gen-
jeral Halg has not struck a hard blow
!pn any extended front since the week
of the Messines fighting, when the
famous ridge on the Belgian front was
captured and the way prepared for
further smashing operations in this
sector.
Incident to last night's raids were
local operations that gained ground
for the British. Thus some progress
by them below Lens and northwest
of Warneton in the Messines area, is
reported.
There is a momentary lull in the
infantry activities on the Aisne front.
The French have "virtually succeeded
in re-establishing in its entirety their
line in the Vauxaillon area, dented by
the Crown Prince's forces in a sudden
drive on a narrow front last week.
Further fighting is in prospect to the
east of the sector in the skirmishing
for position on the part of the two
armies, each anxious to gain dominat
ing points for either offensive of de
fensive purposes. In this connection
the artillery activity reported today
along various portions of the Chemine
desDames plateau is significant.
Berlin Papers Denounce Chancellor.
Loudon, June 25 A dispatch to the
sterdam saya :rfthatUeadiBg: German 1
newspapers .are .protesting - angmy
against Chancellor von- Bethmann
Hdllweg5's decision to allow them to
usej only 44 per cent, of their former
quantity of paper. , The Tageblatt, the
Tages Zeitung and the Rundschau, of
Berlin, charge the chancellor with at
tempting to kill the German press.
The Cologne Gazette says the blow
is a deadly one for the German news
papers which probably will soon cease
to exist.
Admiral Glennon at Anchorage.
Petrograd, Sunday, June 24. Rear
Admiral James H. Glennon, U. S. N.,
and the other naval representatives
with the Root mission have gone to
Archangel for an inspection of that
port.
ZIONISTS PREPARING
TO OCCUPY PALESTINE
(By Associated Press.)
Baltimore, Md., June 25. A total of
($473,000 was pledged here last night
j at the annual convention of the Fed
eration of American Zionists toward
a fund of $1,000,000 to equip an indus
trial army to go to Palestine and pre
pare the way for Its occupation by
Zionists.
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RED CROSS BABY AIDS NA- 4
TION'S DRIVE FOR
$100,000,000.
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ROBERTA. HAMSi
Little Roberta Hams, of Chicago,
who confesses to two years and a lit
tle over, is the youngest Red Cross
worker in the drive for the $100,000,
000 fund now being raised. Roberta
wears her Red Cross garb with the air
of a fully trained war nurse and has
attracted much attention to the Red
Cross headquarters in Chicago, where
she is aiding in the collection of
funds.
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Senate Arranges to Expedite
Work on the Measure Pass
ed By House
NO COMMITTEE
HEARING SCHEDULED
Senator Chamberlain Charge
of the Measure Half
Dozen Amendments
Offered Today
(By Associated Press.)
Washington,, June 25. Senate lead
ers today arranged to expedite the
Food Control bill passed Saturday by
the House.
The bill was referred by the Seni
ate today without discussion to thej
Agriculture committee. Senator Reed
of Missouri today continued his attack
upon it. No additional committee hear
ings are proposed.
Chief among the amendments pro
posed are some extending government '
control to iron and steel and "their i
products, oil, petroleum products, cop
per, lead, zinc and fertilizers.
Senator Chamberlain, in charge of
the bill, said there was much senti
ment for having the government con
trol basic materials as well as food.
A half dozen amendments to the
bill were introduced today. Senator
Davis, Democrat, of Illinois, offered a
substitute bill proposing to give the
President general broad authority to
issue regulations for control of food
stuffs. v r
Several measures which have been
before the Senate as part of the war
legislation also were tacked on to the
bill as amendments. Senator Walsh
put in his bill permitting the govern
ment to lease coal and oil lands. The
bill giving the President the power
to direct priority in railroad shipments
was offered as an amendment by Sen
ator Ransdell. Senator Wadsworth
tacked on the trading-with-the-enemy
bill, and Senator Cummins proposed
amendments declaring every product,
including foodstuffs, cotton, coal and
sieei, suujeci to control, auu reqmai -
tion should it become necessary.
ADVOCATES
IN LIBERTY BONDS
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 25. A wide and
normal market in the trading of Lib
erty loan bonds on the stock exchange
with prices unrestricted is advocated
by the Liberty Loan committee, it was
announced here today by Benjamin
iStrong, chairman of the committee
and governor of the Federal Reserve
Bank. '
ALLEGED MURDERERS
OF BAFF GO ON TRIAL
(By Associated Press.)
New York, June 25. Trial was
started here today of four men accus
ed of conspiring to kill Barnet Baff, a
wealthy poultry dealer who was shot
by hired gunmen on November 24,
1914.
There was delay in getting a jury
due to conscientious scruples against
capital punishment and accomplices'
testimony. The defendants are Joseph
Cohen, Jacob Cohen and David Jacobs
and Abraham Graff.
AMERICAN NAVAL CLUB
IN BRITISH PORT
(By Associated Presg.l
Base of the American Flotilla in
Iritish Waters, June 25. The opening
.f the United States Naval Men's Club
m shore in this picturesque little vil
age Saturday night 'was attended un
expectedly by Vice Admiral Sims. He
announced that the club was only the
forerunner of other recreations plan
ned for his men during their shore
leaves.
YET MORE WOODEN
SHIPS
Goethals Gives Out Contract
Also for Steel Vessels for
the Government
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, June 25. Contracts for
ten complete steel merchant ships,
4 complete wooden merchant vessels,
and two wooden ship hulls were, an
nounced today by Major General
Goethals, manager of the board's Em
ergency Fleet Corporation. Deliveries
will be made in 1918.
The steel ships will be built by the
Moore & Scott Iron Works at Oak
land, Cal.; the complete wooden ships
by the Newcomb Life Boat Co., Hamp
ton, Va.; twelve wooden hulls by the
Universal Ship Building Co., Harris
county, Texas; four hulls by the Port
land Ship Ceiling Co., Portland, Me.;
and four hulls by McBride & . Law,
of Beaumont, Texas.
In all the fleet corporation has let
contracts so far for 104 complete
ships, 38 of steel, 32 wood and steel
and 34 wood. Seventy-two wooden
hulls have been ordered.
ORDERED
GERMAN
BOMBS
STEAMSHIPS
Men Arrested at Christiania
With Many Explosives In
Their Possession
(By Associated Press.)
London, June 25. The seizure of a
quantity of explosives which had just
reached Christiania, Norway, from
Germany, and the arrest of 3 foreign
ers has been officially confirmed, ac
cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to
the .Exchange Telegraph Company.
The police are continuing the Investi
gation, and when the details are
known another official communication
will be issued.
The Tidens Tegn says that 1,000
kilograms of explosives were seized,
including a number of infernal ma
chines. One of the men arrested is
named Rautenfels, a German citizen,
born in Finland, who declared that
the bombs were intended for use in
Finland. According to the newspapen,
however, the infernal machines, en
closed in cases resembling lumps of
coal, were to have bee'n put aboard
Norwegian ships in the Coal bunkers.
It added that the discovery probably
exDlains the loss of many Norweeian
, vessels that were supposed to have
1 heen mined or torpedoed.
j Christiania dispatches received here
, Rav that t.h.l nailer of thosp arrested
UalteJvmsfilf t.Btxmz ypn.iRautenf els,
v -
ills laenuty nas not yet' Deen' estab
lished, but it is doubted whether he
is really a baron,
The disnatch savs the man's bae -
gage contained, among other things,
50 bombs loaded with explosives and
a quantity of cigarettes and tobacco
in which were concealed carborun
dum, apparently intended to be placed
in the bearings of machinery in order
to ruin it.
The Christiania dispatches say that
there have been 5 other arrests.
NO SEPARATE PEACE
TO BE MADE BY RUSSIA
(By Associated PreBS.) '
Paris, June 25. All thoughts that
Russia may conclude a separate
peace must be set aside, declared Al
bert Thomas, French Minister of Mu
nitions, on his return to' Paris Satur
day night from an extended trip to
Russia. An offensive by the Russian
arms is both a material and a moral
possibility, in his belief, but he de
clined to speculate as to when such
a movement might be expected. The
military organization problems are in
the way of solution and the situation
as regards Russia's financial and
economic difficulties is improving
every day, M. Thomas declared.
The whole of the French cabinet
member's talk was optimistic, al
though he did not minimize the dif
ficulties with which Russia is still
confronted.
MILLION TONS
OF
Tied Up in Neutral Ports
Should Be Put Into
Service
(By Associated I'ress.)
Boston, Mass., June 25. Despite
the Allies' acute need of ships arising
from the submarine menace, more
than 1,000,000 tons of neutral ship
ping is swinging idly at anchor in the
harbors of belligerent nations, accord
ing to a statement by Augusto Ciuf
felli, former member of the Italian
cabinet, and a member of the Ital
ian mission, to the Associated Press
here today.
The statement was made by Mr.
Ciuffelli in connection with the advi
sability of putting into execution
other plans besides America's titanic
shipbuilding program, in comnatting
the submarines.
That the Entente Allies are power
less to utilize this class of neutral ton
nage was characterized as deplorable
by Mr. Ciuffelli. Greed, he said, was
the moving factor with many of the I
ship-owners. The Allies should take
immediate steps to correct the situ
ation, Mr. Ciuffelli said, by Increasing
port duties to an almost confiscatory
point for prolonged ' stays or refusing
bunker coal to such ships as de
clined to accept cargoes bound through
the danger zones.
SHIPPING
Czech Troops Angered Ove
Treatment, Go Over to
Russian Arms
EX-MEMBER OF AUST.
CABINET MAKES REPORT,
Statement Made During Dis
cussion of Sentence of
Death of Herr Klofac
Great Sensation Created bj
the Declaration
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(By Associated Press.)
Amsterdam, June 25. Three Czech
regiments have deserted to the Rus
sians, according to a statement oq
Saturday to a committee of deputies
from Southern Austria by F. Voa
Georgi, minister of defense in the re
tiring Austrian cabinet, as published
in the Lokal Anzeiger and Tageblatt
of Berlin. The statement was made
during a discussion of the demand, of
the Czech deputies for the release of
Herr Klofac, sentenced to death 6a
the charge of attempting to reconcile!
Russia and Bohemia. The sentence
of Herr Klofac, a deputy and head of
the Czech Union, was cancelled by,
Emperor Charles, but he is still held
in prison.
Herr von Georgi said Czech legions
had been formed in all the armies oC
Austria's enemies and that of all the
Czechs of military age who were in
Russia when the war began only three
had returned to Austria. He also said
ttbe-.-. Bohemian ' newspaper Narodnt
Listy of Prague, had boasted publicly,
in Russia that when an ensign In the
'Austrian army, he had deserted to th
Russians after his companions had
Kiued Austrian outposts
Herr von Georgi's statements are said
to have made a great sensation.- The'
Czech deputies angered by then,
charged that they had been made .in
a vengeful spirit on account of the
fact that the ministry had been forced
to resign.
AGGRESSIVE WARFARE
ON WATER DEMANDED
(By Associated Press.)
London, June 25. Winston Spencer
Church, in an article in the Sunday
Pictorial, demands aggressive policy
for the vast fleets under the Entente
Allies, especially since America's en
try into the war. "The allied nayles,'
he declared, "have at least' two dread
naughts for every one at the disposal
or Germany and Austria, and in addi
tion more than four old battleships
to one for the enemy. But the supe
riority in weight of metal, modernity
and tonnage is far greater even than
these immense figures imply. Are
we really to be content to see this
vast mass of about 200 battleships
wait idle on the chance of the German
fleet emerging to fight until peace
perhaQs am unsatisfactory peace Is
declared?
"When three old battleships werd
sunk In the Dardanellesvlt was repre
sented as a great naval disaster, but'
what kind of disaster would it be
when, on the day peace Is signed, hun
dreds of battleships are found to hare
been virtually unused and pass into
obsolescence to be supplanted In fu
ture wars by airplanes and subma
rines?" BELGIUM AND RUSSIA
TOMB OF WASHINGTON
(By Associated Press.)
Mt. Vernon, June 25. Belgium and"
Russia united yesterday at the tomb,
of George Washington in paying ho4'
mage to the American patriot and!
to the spirit of liberty and freedom;
which his memory Incarnates. The
official diplomatic 'mission from Bel '
gium and the new Russian democracy
pledged themselves and their counv
tries to every effort for the destruc
tion of autocracy and the safety of
democracy. , ' '
The two missions, accompanied by,
members of the cabinet and other
high government officials, went down
the Potomac on the presidential yacht
Mayflower.
Secretary Daniels introduced, 'first
Baron Mancheur, head of the Belgian
mission, and then the Russian spec
ial ambassador, Boris A. BakhmetiefL
Each made a brief address of tribute,
to Washington and of reconsecratiozr
to the ideals he represented. Baron
Mancheur, aided by Lieutenant Gen
eral Leclere and Ambassador Bakhme
tiff, aided by Lieutenant General Rood,
placed floral wreaths on the tomb be ,
side similar wreaths laid there by
Mr. Balfour, of Great Britain, former
Premier Vivian! and Marshal Joffre
of France, and the Prince of Udine of.,,
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