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THK.
WEATHER FORECAST :
North Carolina Showers In East;
fajr in west; somewhat cooler,'.
couh Carolina Probably1'. 0ca'
jhowers,
cooler in the interior.?.
FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE
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VOL. XXIH. NO. 321
PEIiCI'illilili'
WH (P nl rfil IR1 If :
The Attitude of the American
Government Authorita--lively
Announced.
NO TERMS TO BE MADE
WITH HOHENZOELLERN
There Must be Restoration of
All Territory . Heretofore
Acquired Through War
All Such Peoples Allowed
to Decide Fbr Themselves.
(Copyright by the United, Press) J 000,000 consumption taxes on tea, cof
Washinston, Sept. 8. Full . suffrage fee, sugar and cocoa almost certain to
for a Ormany rid of HohenzollernismV(be eliminated, 'the $2,512,000,000 war
right of disputed territories to speak. revenue ; bill will come to a vote in
for their own futures, and res:: ntionthe Senate Monday-afternoon.'
and restoration for those count:'C3 ' ; The Borah-Johnson group, which
trodden under foot during the war, J f0Ughtk vainly for high taxes on big
means peace, wotnmg snort of tms
can terminate the war. Iap"r the consumption taxes" and
To clear up the, confusion created them will stand Southern Sen-
by the State Department's recent an-'ators who sympathize with the plea
nouncenient in apparent conflict with Senators Broussard and Randsell voic
Presid nt Wilson's reply to the Pope, ed today, that the tax on sugar would
the United Press sought and obtained j be unfair discrimination against a
today a semi-official interpretation of, product of their State, Louisiana. ;
the administration's actual attitude,! Many other Senators are opposed to
an interpretation vouched for by the 'the consumption taxes on the ground
highest authorities. that they are irritating "to a people
The allies cannot talk peace with Already burdened, and do not produce
the Ilohenzollerns is the opinion of enough revenue to make them worth
administration officials.
The Ameri-
i
can people Lould act promptly to! . The taxes sought to be imposed are:
eliminate entirfyrtM& dynasty 4and Coffee, 2 cehtsf .ppundtea.Centa
-. tnrpTiarpd cor.oaf S' cpnts! rudft cocoa.
abandon all militarism if the. war ' is
not to go on indefinitely.
Bluff reform such as merely making:fast table?" is the argument most of
the Chancellor subject to the will of
the Reichstag is not sufficient. Thereitaes made- - - o .
-I Senator Ransdell pointed out that
must be a clear knowledge among the thft combined tax would represent a
allies of full responsibility of the
manic-powors to their people..
Acceptability of Germany's internal
reforms will not depend on the de-
cision of the United States or Eng
land, or France, but must be such as
"the other peoples of the world would
be justified in accepting."
This point, it is said, is one of the
most important in the President's re
ply to the Pope. It means, in; fact,
that the United States believes all the
allies and the rest of the world shall
sit as a court of judgment on Ger
many's internal reforms.
The United States will be guided in
its peaev opinions largely by nations
which have had the most exDerience
I
with Germany France, for example.
France believes it would be madness
to enter peace negotiations with the;
Kaiser. So does the United States.
hen President Wilson said peace
must rest upon the rights of peoples
sreat ami small not upon govern-
nents-hp meant it literally, and ' that
Point applies ftirectlv tn his utter
a"ce against dismemberment of em
;P'res. It is declared that Alsace-Lorraine,
TVjsnia-Herzogovina, even Schle-swig-Holstein,
wrested by Germany
irom Donmnrk
-tan j x ...i:
nfirr fin in ii imiiikm- iv
ot (I'rmanv and Austria. Bos
.1 Anotrio Tina-tXKJ
and Flerzosovina were assumed -by
Austria by executive order in 1908.
Alsace-Lorraine was part of the Teu
tonic Sl)ois nf -nroT nf 1 C7rt Thn oi.
Ministration holds these should be givl
en the ri
Shn'!Uf slion of whether or not they
sjaH remain nnder the military heel
1 Germanic powers, return to their
JHtthfr countries, France, Denmark
and ScHun '
rnment and rule themselves or attach
memsHves 10 other nations. ;
UUhma and Herzogovina,
for " in-
bertl
fire understood to desire a
1 in tlf nronospd .Tnn-Slnv-RtntA
the
nucleus of which are Serbia, and
lunn ....
""'"eilciMT)
Trio' . -nc oamc uuic Jjar
kia. upon X YJiJyl
80 (leir... :i" nZ V- :1- America's first casualty list: 'y shot herself. Coroner wormian ana
and ti. erffiHn, S I Ti!S !l ' First Lieutenant " William T. : Villiam C. Burmeister, coroner's phy
Rtatos ah 2 If, here that these .:ef( FitZ9immonSf u. S, -Medical Corps s:cian who conducted; the ; autopsy
their reilt l a"owed to ' determine , PriTate Tslie G. ' Woods. . ' hdre, are positive it would have been
rp, ' ...tv ia tea
for Pol.,, ; " ;f1 0rsbe aunol-; Private OsSr C.'Tugo.
tution and restoration and resti-l - v Amfirl1ans ,first sacrificed :
i in'r,
the n-.,-. gmm naturalization of ,
l)irk,.v s and some rein ; on i0 wounded, one probably fatally;" Uhson. of Muskogeec'Okla., ; together
'Tho ;v,.,,ln. . VM both legs blown off. . .with P. C 'McDilfR'e. -Atlanta 'attorney.
laco rn, , Ie,t tIre door toLjj. s Two deliberate night attacks representing Mrs.; King's motherMrs.
zm tho' t( '.well guarded ji : b y .. airplanes on a sleeping hos- Anna5 L. Robinson,- of - Asbeville, N.:'C.,
8uns in nui ms,cant come In-with . pit'al camp. ' ' ' conferred with'; Hoffman and Sullivan
Freo rrn.,t V??" ' - ' -X- . Bombs and aerial torpedo drop- i today. Afterward rther : stated they
111311 poo.io mi- power to the Ger"l'ped byi German airmen.. ' ' ' jwere satisfied that Mrs.. King was1 mnr-:
WriioHn WlJ1,npess.to let disput-1x. , -pfenning coins dropped by Ger dered.-;- ' "- ,T
Ure- an, Jr ? f1 for their own fu-!-K- man pilot as souveniers that the ' . Declaring -t'X intention of demand
"tio m ot restoration and. res- Americans1 might ndt Xorgct the' ing an ir:rG-utltins of hcre3-
ies. nirn ovor-ridden small c couri-Up raid. ' 4 ' ' ' tate'var?ously. estimated: from $500,000
of this mi peace-' Anything, shorty - - ' , ; V vta $2 000.-000, State's Attorney, Hearn,
war to tne end..-
M OPPOSITION IS
UNUSUALLY STRONG
Consumption Taxes on Tea,
Coffee and Sugar May be
Eliminated.
(By United Press.)
Washington, Sept. 8. With the $&6,-
incomes and war profits, will . vote
while."
I prepared cocoa j 5 cents J crude cocoa,
is cenis; sugar, one-nait cenu vv
1 ft ' l 1 A 1.
j wny mvaae me American DreaK'
t -
tne opponents or tne
. . In I
pnTimiTnniiriTi i
Ger-'charee of J3.60 a year on each family
in the country, v
"That's not, much," he said, "but its
serious enough in these days of high
prices
Senator Simmons, finance commlfcf;"7V
tee chairman, put off the vote on cou- it11 vi mdA lktA
. coatAraNwhere Mrs. King died was made late
may be heard.
Senator Stone obtained -adoption of
an amendment eliminating a tax of 5
cents on each free pass to a theater,
movie, or amusement park.
As the bill mow stands it will pro
duce $2,512,450,000 divided thus: Prof
its tax $1,060,000,000; war income tax
$840,000,000; drinks $218,000,000; to-'
baccos and cigars $56,600,000; tea, cof
fee, sugar, cocoa, playing cards, sport
ing goods, cosmetics, etc. $337,850,
000. -
PROMINENT MAN
HELD FOR MURDER
Savannah "Ga Senr 8 J P Low 1 Gaston Bullock Means, of Concord, sit
, Savannah, iia., bept. . j. i . .oy , . fay.,a rtfRr.0.satnrdav af-
th a prominent resident of this city,
was held for i Superior court tonight
on a charge of murder in connection
th the death of Mrs. W. J. Baldwin,
also of Savannah. Dr. W. H. Metts,
who committed suicide here this week,
,it is said by the authorities to have
had.knowieage ot tne cnarge against
Lowther. ' . - -;' '
h -
4 -f A IXrtW X-VVw
BROKEN BY DE PALMA
r (By United Press.) . . "
Colorado Springs, Colo.. Sept. 8 j
The second annual hill climbing clas
sic for stocw motor cars to the summit
of: Pike's Peak will be stagged today.
Dozens of the best known American
motors will compete for honors in the
"Race above the clouds." Improve-
thA nAak is exnected to result in lower-
ment.of the highway to the summit of .
ing of the time for the climb.
-55- 4f -3f -X- 4fTWhileTwltn; a motor yai ly . ueai .-uu-
-
ROLL OF HONOR. .
t,,' TTnitnri TTnac, ' ..
: Washington.; D. ' C. Sept. 8.-
.
I JUL. ' TjnrntA' TJ n1 Am . Wll hi A . Tl
K-1
nArmnn frie-htfninpas: nn TrillAfl:
-
;' ; WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA
MYSTERY SHROUDS
..-.! : -..'--.. v! ... .- ...
THE-KILLING OF
Captain Bingham Attempts to
, Explain Second Shot That ?.
. ' Was Heard
URGED TO BRING i
LITTLE BLACK BAG
lApthorities Seem Disposed to
Postpone Further Investi
gation of The Case, It Is
Said.
. (By United Press.)
. Concord, N. C, Sept. 8. Flat con
tradictory evidence loomed tonight to
further complicate the mystery of the
death of Mrs. Maude A. King, Chicago
New York society woman, who died
of a' bullet Wound while near here. 1
, Explaining the strange : "second
shot" which residents near the scene
of the tragedy swear they., saw flash
through the dusk as the King . auto
mobile whirled away' when the woman
was killed, Captain Bingham, fourth
'member of the party which was with
gMrs.; King,' declared late today ; it
tiame from the accidental discharge of
a remaining cartridge in a rifle iie
was testing.
!; Gaston Means, f ormer confidential
secretary of Mrs. King, asserted this
f afternoon that this rifle was empty.
; North' Carolina authorities seemed
disposed to pqstpone further investiga
ion of the case. '
Coroner C. L. Spears, whose jury
following the. tragedy finding a ver-
Idict" of accidental suicide, late today
had failed to act; Concord residents in
the meantime ' grew . impatient. An
anonymous telegram was sent to. Chi
cago representing that the people of
the section were anxious for a
quick and thprough investigation.
' The family of Gaston Means has
maintained silence. ' ;
. Means declares- that he has been
followed by detectives many months
und believes that Mrs. King was also
pursuei'. He believes she had enemies
but said they were hardly wealthy
enough to-employ ' detectives. Means
denied much knowledge of Mrs. King's
financial affairs: -.
He did not see, he declared, how
Charles. Dry,-thenew? witness, could
"4KB piawu lucauiuuiumic oo w j -t
SCriDeq us movements ine i&iai mgiii.
He said Mrs. King was not afraid of
. .. ' l.ii. ! - .Al A .. 1 ' 1 1 A f
i in jx A J
"re arms ana ,-iiKea-io us.e uyiu wuig
fnlt rovnltor" chp litPfl tn STann Ttfiap
wvt..vf wi w ' - -
I'.a tree ana nre rast. i woum nave
A A 1 tY 1 J 1
gone out any mgnt at mianignt ii sne
had requested,' to let her ' indulge in
this.' fancy. 1
Means said his middle name, Bul
lock, was given him because of rela
tionship to the Roosevelt family and
his rfather gave a history tracing the
on the same night was learned today.
AJotiner the absence of her. revolver
; . A, i-i. r
from tne automoune urasiuu ivicau&
father suggested that the car return
and- the pistol and the missing slipper
jwere -found near the spring, said the
father.
Mrs! Kine is described as peculiarly
j handsome and striking and, said one
official, she would have been taken for
in woman of 32 instead of 48 years. All
! Concord Js discussing the new sensa
tion and the people are speculating as
to the chance of re-opening or uie in
vestigation soon.
Invites Investigation.
Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 8. "A ' court
investigation. That is why ; I came
horn and T will be elad of it." declared
tihg in his father's officeSaturday af
noon, -talking to a group ot reporters.
; "I will also tell you why Mrs. King
'was' here. She , had ' recently under
gone a minor operation and she came
here because' we thought it' best for
her 'to get tut of the hotel and down
where she; could have more open air."
.-; Gaston : Mean3 arrived in Concord
ivith Mrs. Melvin by rail from Ashe-
. j'ville and by automobile from .faaiis-
bury. Mrs: Melvm is again tne guest
of sisters ; of Gaston' Means, whose
name has been prominent for several
days in connection with Mrs.' King's
death. - " '. . ;' ' "' ' '
"I cannot Jtell you if Mrs. King left
a will," said he, you will have to ask
her lawyer in Chicago, he can tell you
if the matter is to be prosecuted. ;
, v Searching For - Motive.
' r.h.caeo. Sent. 8. Relatives of Mrs.
James C. King, a -widow of a , Chicago
millionaire, began; a: search for a mo-
v.o TTiiirht hav lprl tn her mvs-
.terious death trom ; a revolver uunei
cord," N.C., last week. Tney were: aia-
ed by Coroner Peter Hoffman and Mi-
MRS
i KIN
f hael Sullivan, State's attorney.
nicrm "R AfA3ns. husiness adviser
for Mrs. King, believes she accidental-
practically impossible for her to have
fire l'the fatal shot
. King's' brothers, Wm.
G.
Rob-
itisri- ' of Morrison - 111., and Paul Rob
" (Continued from Page . six. j
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER
1M
ONv HOSPITALS
lAn American v Surgeon Killed
I and Several Attendants .
. Wounded.
GREAT COOLNESS 1 -
OF THE AMERICANS
Aimcftw
:,.-, i.,- f 1 '.' -.
The Nurses Rush" to Tre Aid Young Woman Who Acciden--of
The Wounded ; I tally Shot Negress With Old
Germans Drop
Coins. . .
-X-' -X- X -X- X -Jf -X-
FIRST OFFICIAL CASUALTY
REPORT.
-X-
x:
,r, tt n. j t. ' v v
(By United Press). v
-X-
Washineton. SeDt. 8. Th Wnr
Department's first official state- 4
-X- ment of : American -casualties at
X- the front in the present war was
issued ght. It confirmed the
X- death of Lieut. Wm. 1. Fitzsim- - X -
mens, of the U. S. medical corps,
as a result of a German air bom-
-X" bardmerit Of the Red Cross hnnni.
;.T--v..v-i...r-.r
i iy .,w ixiii u w.ta. aw.uicueu anu ,
2 S"m wQT. ;:vnl ' ::::-:v'"?
t 6 Department . an- .
that it has received ;the x-
following - report from the mili- -X-
;tary attache at London: .
X- " 'British war office -: reports -X-
X- death of ' First Lieutenant Wm.
X- M. Fitzsimmons,: medical officers.'
X- reserve corps, as a result or air -X-
-X- raids. He was on duty with base -X-
-X- hospital number 5, attached to w
the British forces.", f . .r ' v "
4 " . '. " .
" , ;'. - C
X- -X- -X- -X- 45- "X- -X- -X- -X-' -X- -Xy-X- -X-
(United Press Staff Correspondent);
Scene of the Bombardment of Am-
erican Hospitals in France; . Sept. 8. ;
German "frfghtfulness" and barbarity
reached a new heights' when iBosche
aviators dropped bombs on the Ameri
can hospital camps killing one officer,
three privates . and a patient, and
wounding ten others. ?. . ; -;: .
The raids upon' the.'hospital were
rtpiihArsitA Tim tho AmAi-inoTia mht 1
not forget, the Bosches dropped Gen
yT.r u rrxo? j - i t i
man Pniftif nver tha. Y!itnna.ati. amivATi
1TS. J. mAEA BOI1VPI1 P.TS . WftTP nfpnfif
' . . "
pieces:
The officer in command of the hos
pital unit which suffered most showed
me one of the coins. The survivors of
the raids, indignant and bitter at the
display of barbarity in the attack on
the defenseless hospitals, all declared
they believed the German pilots delib
erately dropped the coins as "souven
iers" of the visit. -
'r The officers men and nurses,- dis
played rear American spirit and hero
ism . under the enemy bombardment
from the skies. . ;
With bombs ; bursting "about them,
and men already wounded being torn 1
by pieces ofs the exploding missiles,
nurses hastened to their, aid. ' Offi
cers stood at their . posts : men re-
sponded to every call upon th'em, and
(Continued on Page Two).
AR FOR
APPE
Other Norriinaticns Will Be Published as Contest Progresses. )
; - If Name of One For Whom
Not Appear Send in Her Nomination Today. ,
4. & 4 4 4 -;4 4 4 4 -1
THE PRIZES.
$775 Briscoe Automobile.
Ford Touring Car.
$200 in gold.
$100 . in gold.
$93 furniture suite.'
$75 Columbia Grafonola.
$50 merchandise order . at J;
W.
H. Fuchs' Department Store.
- ' $25 wrist' 'watch. .
Two $60 diamond rings.
4 j
Ten per cent. x corrftnission to
4 all non-winners. - wTio remain
im m-.nnr ....v. I
. ii r. iiii iiiuiir: v ai. i . iirr n rim ii" i
i 4 4 4 4 4 4 ! 4 i
Who the contestants' are in The Dis
patch contest is told for the first timer
n today's issue of the paper, r .
- The list of contestants presented be
low is within itself a story of the most
interesting ; nature. Although ' it has
been but a few days since the contest
wOC 'QT.TiminAri an eytra larA- list nf I
scriptions. - - fc1by friends and did not . know 4 of . their
nominations has already been receiv-fcthe
ed,- -.iU , :"vcs
i Dthcr nominations will no doubt
.?ri In as the contest oroeresses tor
there are some who have been : walt
ing until the list was published before
sendmgVih either their Own names or
those of friends. There is every -rea-J
nn rtn . hnl Java tha t, before inariv davsH
hnri thV eontpsf will havw de-';
yelopea into tne; most nouy contesteu
struggle of a friendly, nature ever wit:,
nessed in this 'part df the State. :;
The nomination 'period is: still open
TiESiiUSilpliliM
siililillliiilyli
TS LEAVTyiRGIRlfA Ml iif,TQrpi.ffif-
Former Wilmington Girl Was
HUSBAND AND WIFE
TO RETURN HERE
Army Pistol Said to Have
Been Threatened
(Special The Dlspatcn.) ; -Richmond,
Va., Sept. . 8. Threats
made against - the life of- Mrs. Vina
Clark Sear. 1$ vears old. f ofmerlv of
Wilmington, N. C, who accidentally
sno1 ana KUiea Louise arown, a coior
ed servant-girl, in her home August 16
last, .will result in her husband, Mr.
John A. Sear,: leading the State with
and returning ; to . Wilmington,
i . ' , , ,
lw?lere Mr- Se was fW&oy&bye
Bpney-Harper. Milling Co., before com-
itiot hfrn nnrlv in .Tulv . A atafoirinTit
v"
ta this ; effect wasmade today in police
court after Mrs sar Kad been acquit-
ted. It was said she had been'threat-
ened by negroes on the streets and al-
kn in SLnonvirniia lttem sinoA th k!ii:
insr -
Both the police and special counsel i
rmplpyed by a' negro society to; in
.vestigate were satisfied the shooting
was accidental. It, was done -with an
arj'ay pistol usfed y Sear in the- Spanish-American
tyar. The weapon, was
supposed to beunloaded. .
; The negro, girl ; was employed i by
Mrs. Susan B. ? Frederick, . Mrs. ; Sear's
next door neighbor, formerly of Pike
ville, N.. C. :- ' ..'S '. ": :;' ;v" "
OVER HALF HUNDRED :
INDICTED YESTERDAY
-V ' (By United Press.) , - '
- Abilene, Texas, Sept, 8. Fifty-six
members of the" farmers and laborers
. Acqmtted.in Richmond Ill UC ; GI.ICa V: U U ISalJ U;l EaUllTjlJ
Police Court Yesterday. - "' . - , v':'('cX?fe
protective association;; were ;, indicted u.. "'.mu .5u
Z tit-wt,; . oiifer two explanations of ; the defects
;!i,f t ;0 i1i,i.
-t - H. i tt i.j .-tii
conspiracy .Rgam'xxie vUvu.5La.eiiii Uiri---- i- f s. , v .
government:
.. , ...a 1-a-".t .'..j 1 '.
conspiracy to defeat the operations of
the selective draft law.
WILSON'S REPLY
SUITS ENGLAND
6Tr alorhl?iieiaicon '
.starts Monday. They: are charged with &
v ("By United Prss.) ; imed- by officials. ; All ,was manufac-
Washington,- Sept. 8. rEigland's re-; tured, they, said, at the Frankford gov
ply to the Vatican psace note will bss'ernment arsenal. 1 ' , - V
in a similar vein to that of President p "The investigation committee," said
Wilson. :-. " C V i Chairman Dent tonight, "has the wid-
When Lord Cecil recently said that est possible powers, and It means to
President Wilson's views would stand use them. Secretary -Baker V desires
as those of all of the allies, he spoke j
with knowledge of what i England
'would do
While full details of England's are t
not known here, it is known that, m h
general way she will insist upon deal-!"qiiy
i
and on a rights of small nations
FIRST
You Want to Vote Does :
and will be open until the last
.Re-I
T in
I U 111 I I
iniy iu j
- - . 4 $
Tinnp
VIL
member, that it , is . neveis too late to i ; :.;: (By United PreV) 1 : - '
enter, but those who ; wish 'to .securej Washington, Sept. - 8.-Demon - rum
the greatest number, of votes, should . guffered a 'stroke of paralysis at his
send in their nomination;at :once; WihnmA-fn thA-TTnitArt statAs at 11 d. m.
the votes will be-'much-easie
cure now than they wiU be later on.
The list of contestants in today's
paper is; composed of. three;, different
classes.- There are those who! sent in
their own nominations, "and: have no
dpubt already f begun an active: cam-
paign for votes. Then .there are those!,.
WIlt ai suit uuucuucu ;ua jruai, tucj
rwill: do about it, and have been wait
ing -until the list appeared 4to decide
fully what they would do, and there
yiro thnsp who have i been " nominated ! .
- - . - i
in the paper,
iii ,iuo-..i..-ijr f.
Quaintances and friends. The candt-,
till Li, J.. ID . Wii yf- viavo . w v -xr 4
a successful ' and ; highly interesting
contest: the winners' of which will be
awarded the $775 Briscoe Automobile,
Ford -Touring Car,": the$ 200 ; in
gold,' the iuu in goiu, tue ; f iui ui
turd suite, the $75 Columbia Grafon
nla. the $50 - merchandise order? at J,
W, H. Fuchs' Department ; Store, tho
$25 wrist watch, and the . two $60 dia
mond rings.i P ' - , -
Contestants who have been nommat-
d should hot hesitate ,; about .-begin
nihs their campaign. The sooner you
v,, hitTDvThA." nnnortnnities
MLiil L 3 W v HV mf gr - - : j
wearVioffering you for ymjr efforts!
are certainly; well worth anyone's time
, :, (Continued on Page Two.) - H j
- . . . .. . '...., aBsaaas, w ,, , i . , j t ,
-' -; .. ' ' PRICE FIVE CENTD.
i v a h mm w- m m m m ) -r mm m.m .
irinimnrnn -rn n n if r- "immB
1 INVEST EATON
Into Responsibility For Worth
7 less Cartridges Sent General
: ' Pershing's Troops. f: :
- r. : (By. United Press.V
Washington, Sept, 8. An inquiry to
fix responsibility for -the : worthless
cartridge primers sent General Per-
Ling - st expSmonl foHbeKis
tJ.!;"pS
.r v, u .i.1
v,ri11 extend to the 'quality and. condi
tion of every kind ; of army munitions
; Speaker Clark appointed the special
probe; committee-today;1 after?. Secre
tary ' of War Baker announced . that
"for the good of the War Department
and public confidence," he desired a
Congressional investigation.
On the ; committee are five Demo
crats and four Republicans, all mem
bers, of the regular - House Military
committee. They -" are:"; Democrats
Dent, of Alabama; - Fields, , of Ken
tucky ; Quinn, of -Mississippi; .Gordon,
of Ohio ; r .nd Morin, of Virginia. Re
publicans Schallenberger,.6t Nebras
ka; Anthony, tif Kansas; , McKenzie,
of Illinois; and Green, . oA Vermont. ,
JbTiends of the ordnance . bureau of-
irst, au otner Deiiigerents nave un
laererone the same i exoeRencet second.
i.iiK.i'.iiHiiiiH rv in -1DM.K i ii?: iiri nil it ? . minr
muntion .might have sbe.enT. perfect
when inspected and rapidly deteriorat
ed afterward. . , ... ,; ,. v',
; A charge that -munitions manufac
turers . had palmed , the defective am
munition off on the government, after
fhpiTtsr TAiACtAd " hv thA .allip.s was " rifi-
that the blame for the situation be
definitely fixed. We must prevent ren-
I etition of this disaster at a time when
it might, be vitally important :' ; ;
AI I ' NIPITTR A I
UP AGAINST IT
" ' (By TTnited PresB.I -Washington,
Sept 8. The plight of
I Holland, short rationed and pressed
! for coal,, ground petween Germany's
demands and the American embargo,
will be pictured to the American gov
ernment officially- next week. ;
The, dutch mission, now hare seek
ing relaxation of the embargo, declai-
l ed today; that the , very existence of
small neutrals' is threatened by the
j hardships of the, war1 and offered to
'prove that Holland is not aiding Ger-
many v with re-exported goods, r ; ;
Secretary IT. E. Vander Weilen de
clared, "our position and that of the)
neutrals in general has been misr?p
resented:-
THE DEMON JOHN
! SUFFERED STROKE
.
that A he
cannot recover. - He 'ceased ' cerebral
fermentation as the1 clock struck elev
en and " is expected to linger on . for
about two years and die. : His' distil
leries throughout the land i have either
closed; their doors or gone Into other
4JM'..'Jv4'"'4""-l'7'-'
DEMAND LUXBU RG'S -p E
(By. United' Press).; : : -
4. Buenos ' Aires, Sept, 8. De- 4
:4 of Count Xuxburg, German min-
.gter tQ Argentine, as a result of 4
' sages he transmitted through the 4
4 Swedish ' foreign - office -was con-t 4
4 sidered inevitable' here tonight:; 4
4 It is also considered possible 4
4 that ; Sweden will be - asked to re 4
4 call her 'minister.1 - ' " y
4 Publication of the' United Press 4
4 dispatches caitying the'onicial an-'
4 nouncement of - the ! messages 4
4 transmitted by ;Luxburg,?, in which 4
4 he referred to the acting foreign 4
4 minister" of Argentina; as a. "no- 4
torious ass,': and; advised Ignor- 4
!4' ins: Argentina's; demands in the
- - , .. , . . . a
;U-b
4 tense excitement Jere. 'J-U'yg
; - 4 4 .
Use of Swedish Minis-
; ter to Argentina to Sencl In-
formation Hurtful Latter
DEUCAT E POSITION P;
OF BOTH COUNTRIES
State Department at Washing;
, ton Lays the Matter Before
" ! the Representatives of Swe-,
den and Argentina- May
' ; Affect Sending V Food to -
Sweden. , r- .''
By tJnlted Press.) r .
Washington, Sept. 8. How German
diplomacy, ; with' it's i fangs on Argeh-:
tina, used Sweden to pass its insolent,"
intriguing messages ; between South"
Ainerica and Germany, ,was j revealed
today: by. the s State Department v
In van unvarnished, amazing ; tal
the ; Department revealed a set of mes
sages wherein the ; German . minister
at Buenos Afres, Count Luxburg, coun
seled his "government to V spurn--1 Ar
gentine's submarine demands,- called
the acting Argentine . foreign minister
"a notorious ass,' VfendV event went to
tho extent of suggesting that Germany
sing Argentine shipping "without fa
trape being left." i t jr , . v f C'
Op the faqe of hingSj Sweden grossr
ly violated ; neutrality wnen she per
mitted the German : trickster to use
leg)tion -ledde : and ' send - it to xlhe
Stockholm foreign office for transmis
sion to Berlin in the guise of Swed
ish official business: , i As. for Argent
tineithrrv elation shows - that; IjwhUgi
ueriuany nap .no w ; aqceuea - to; ner. ,ae
reiect Areentlne demands, and if nec
essary call upon Spain as a mediator:
The story ranks with the Zimmer
mann plot and the ' Kaiser-Czar in 1 ,
trigue against France," both In Its In- ;
$gtit into. ; .the djepths of German
treachery andveff rohtery, and its hd.wu,
of .rough-shod bungling diplomacy
which failed, to cber its own tracks.
. - The messages date back "to May. 19. f
At that time, the. Argentine govern-
merit had released German ; and , Aus-
triani ships, and . in' the German's Ian-)
guage "there has been a great change
in public, feeling," because of Settle-
ment of the Monte . Protegido sinkingf
case. . In the same breath, the Ger I
man, thinking ' himself safe ) from" i-thtf (
prying British ; censors' eyes becaus .
of a neutral's code, gave his govenfc; t. .
ment this astonishing counsel:; - ' '
"I beg that the small steamers Or&n '
an'd Guazo now nearing Bordeaux with
a view to change the flag may be sp
ed if possible or else sunk without "
trace begin left ('Spurlos Versenkt, 1
Luxburg."; . -;, -w :
Luxburg had his 3pies out They . f
reported to him later that things -again
. Went worse in the submarine
situation. Soon, July 3, still using.
Swedish Miniser Lowen and. the Stocki
holm foreign office as transfer I me
diums, he notified his home office that
Argentine was '.- threatening - a ' breach
of relations.-' '-iJ y ..'.'M-.-, t -
.Little dreaming his -words would- be
published, ta" the; world, he indited:, "
"I learn w from a reliable; source ;that
the acting : minister fbr? forelgu ' af-
fairs, who ; is a notorious ass 'and v
anglophile, declared in a secret ; ses :
sion of '.. the Senate that, Argentine
would demand from Berlin a promise"
not to sink more Argentine ships. If :
not. agreed to, relations would be Wok- . .
en off. ,1 recommend' refusal and if
necessary,; calling in the mediation of
Spaiji. Luxburg." . 7; ' ';
Six days' later, Luxburg was again
"busy with his dntrigue, suggesting to.
the foreign office that they appear un
concerned about the situation and hot
yield till they heard more from him.' k
il"A change in' ministry . Is probable, -v
he ' cabled. As " regards i Argentine
steamers, I recommend either compel- .
ling them to turn back, sinking themt
without, cleaving any traces r letting'
them through ; They are quite small;
Luxburg." t'nXi-'K'' ", i.
y The State Department has transmit;
ted the correspondence to the Argen-'
tine; and Swedish envoys here, and'
they, have forwarded , them to their r
home govAmments. j -. A - -..
In making his announcement' Sec-'
retary. of State Lansing said "-briefly.-.. .
that "X regret to say" these messages
were, sent "by the Swedish legation as
their own official messages, addressed V
to " the Stockholm foreign office.". ..
; , The situation , la 4elicate for both1.
Sweden - and Argentine. Sweden's v
plight is -more ior less tragic, Argeni
tine's that of a nation long considered
pro-German refusing to join the allied
cause .and now finding, that, Germany's- ,K
envoy was plotting .against ' her : and
laughing .at her acting foreign -minis-.
ter.;:' ? ; 'i,
Sweden appears guilty of . furnishing
the enemy - with - information an act -which
' department- authorities .said1
could, but probably won't be construed'
as so unfriendly ad to warrant, a break
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