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Sstm. FIRST U. S. FLAG FOUND. Interesting hiitory of what is believed to be priceless relic carried by our army is told in next Sunday's SUN. THE WEATHER Cloudy, probably showers, to Highest temperature yes Detailed weather, mail mid m VOL. LXXXIII. NO. 6. NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1915. Copyright, 19H. by thr Run Printing and Putillihlng Asportation. PRICE TWO CENTS. Mr- 1 . mwmr tSTay; fair 3rWrin Page n. L Kipling Calls 44 Frontier of Civilization" "It's Not Local Victories We're After," Frenchman Tells Author While Belial Scatters Destruction All About; "It's the Barbarians Yonder." OFFICERS AS MOTHERS; MEN AS BROTHERS Tick Si n present betuir thr tlrst of i j articfri 'com the famous pat of Jtmlimrd Kipling, under the general title of w A ran OS (if H'nr mi the I'roii tirr "I Civilization," deserihinti the ttnpri soon " a t'lelf to the fighting line in Prance. By RUDTAJID KIPLINO. Copyright in V. H. A. by Iludyaid Kipling. HH.Y 1 faseiSl CSSfcl litrpatcti to Tun teg, LONDON, Sept. 6, "It's a pretty park." said the Krench artillery officer. "We've done a lot for it since the owner left. I hope he'll appreciate It alien he comes back.'' The car traversed n winding drive through woods between banks em bellished with little chalets of a rustic nature. At first the chalets stood their full height above ground, suggesting ten gardens In Knclund. Further on they sank into the earth till at the lop of the ascent only their solid brown roofs showed. Torn branches. gfOOping across the driveway, with here unil there a scorched patch of under growth, explained the reason of their modesty. The chateau that commanded these gtoriei of forest and park sat boldly on a terrace. There was nothing Wrong frith It except. If one looked closely, a few scratches or dints on lis White atOM walls or a neatly drilled hole under a flight of steps. One such goto ended ill an unexploded shell. "Yes." said the officer, "Ibey arrive here occasionally." Homethlng bellowed a cross the folds of the wooded hills Something grunted In reply, Bomathing passed overhead, gueruloualy, but not without dignity. Two clear, fresh barks Joined the chorus and a man moved lazily in the direction of the guns. "Well, suppose we come and look l thinga a little," said the command ing officer on observation post. There was a specimen tree, a tree Worthy of such a park, the sort of tree visitors are always taken t" ad mire. A ladder ran up it to a plat form. What little wind there was swayed the mil :np and the ladder! cranked like a ship's gangway, A , telephone bell tinkled fifty feet over kegd. Two invisible guns spoke fer vently for half a minute ami broke "IT i lie terriers choked on a leash We climbed till the topmost platform gwayed dlgglly la-neath us. Here one found a rustic shelter, always of the tea Harden pattern, a table, a map and little window wreathed With living I branches that gave one the first v.'W Of the devil and all his works. Grass fallow Krora Gas. Ii Wat a stretch of open country ' With I few sticks, like old tooth- i brushes, which had once been trees round a faini. The rest was yellow grans, iiarren to an appearances as Kg) veldt. "The graaa la yellow bnonuaa they have used gaa here.' said an officer. Th i trenches am you ian see for I youi e'.f." T aims in the woods began again, Tin seemed to have no relation to Ih( regularly spaced bursts of smoke lions II Utile smear ill the dose: i can i 2,oqo yards away, no connection t all With the strong voices overhead. Coming ml going, It was as Imper ii) sl an the drive of lbs sea glong a breakwater Thus It went a pause, gathering of sound like the race of in incoming wave, then the high 811 - heads of breakers spouting ah le up the face of a groyne. Sud- 1 "St el t h win broke nl i ipn 'i the shape of Iti foam like a blunw overtopping ul! the others. "That's one of our torpilleur. what '0u cull trench sweepers." said the observer. Among the Whispering leaves some oe cro ted the platform to consult thr map with lis ranges. A blistering Sutlneak of white smoke rose a little beyond the large illume. It was a Ibougii 1 he tide bad struck reef out lOVujer Then a new voice of tremen iOUl volume lifted itself. Out Of u Ml " ii followed somebody laughed. Kvktentl) the voloa was known. "Thai not for us." a gunner said "The t,r( being waked up from " as named a distant rrench position. ";" 11 " the in pilleur is attending to lliem tli. ir. We g,, on with our usi al tor "lmk another torpilleur. The bir- kariun : Ati.on a big pliiine rose and again lie Ibjhter shells broke nl their BP" ' ill tame l,ev on, I it Tl .. ,ml,n died . the f,, Of I I, half on that st n u ll of trench as of a swell dies in the angle Wall and broke out afresh lower down. In its an- Went laziness, in its awful dellhera wi Bin) us quick spaama of wrath a more Ilka the work of waves '"i' nt man ant our high platform's retii a iy ami glide was CXaCtl)' the of n ship drifting with us thai shore. lal work, only the uaual uffioar sxplalnsd. "gome. 1 Is lure, somel lines above or I have liei n here sini i Potion award "The en llinis atloa U "Always (he Same Work." A tittle Hiinshlna flooded the stricken mini 1,1,0 "d made its chemical vel- low ! 1 iora foul, A detaohment of " ' " I nt on a road w hich ran ,1 . tn . 11 I Pencil trenches and then ! t the foot of ttle rise. ... ;r "" ippeared moving lowurd tin VI 1 ' I . . 1 . . . - . . . . . 1 cuiiieiiiratpin or pin Mai (ring shown in both ar- innner i at band. They Firing Line L,,i Hk. . , . . . lotiked like who had been digging hard. ' The same work, always the same work," the officer auid. "and you could walk from here to the sea or to Kwitz- eriauo in mill ditch and you'll find the same work going on everywhere." "It Isn't war. it's tetter than that," said another. "It's the eating ui of a people. They come and they fill the : trenches, and ihey die and they die,! and they semi more and these le. We do the same, of course, but look!" He pointed to the large, deliberate smoke heads renewing themselves hlong the yellowed bench. "That is the frontier of civilization, Uw.sl11'!'!.,?,'!0""12';1'"" T"""" '""J" - those brute yonder. It s not the local victories of the old wars that we re after; Its the barbarians, all the barbarians. Now you've seen the whole thing In little; come und look at our children." We left that tall tree whose fruits 11 I'M , I Ii . ....... I .. 1 .1 ,... . j . . 77 vosiiouiieu ai in" unKie 01 small neiis. The observer returned to Ins mup.H and calculations. the telephone boy stiffened up beside: big exchange. As the amateurs WW) , BUI of hi. nr. ....o.. .. , , . "k. IL " c """" 1 "mi orancnes to usk who was uwmunn 10 neiiai. let us say. for 1 COUld not catch the gun's name, it seemed to belong to thit terrific new voice which had lifted Itself for the second ur third time. It uppeared from (Ita reply that If Belial talked too 'ong he would be dealt with from an other iMiint miles away. The troops we came down to ace were at rest In a chain of caves which had begun life as uuarnies and had been lltted up by the army for t own uses. There were underground corridors, antechambers, rotundas and ventilating shafts, with a ha.IM.rtna play of cross lights, so that wherever - I . , looked you saw t.oya s picture Of mm at arms. Kvery soldier has sume of thf old maid in him and re jnlceH In all the little gadget and devices of iiia own Invention. Death and Wounding COHU bjf nature, hut to lie dry. sleep soft and keep yourself clean by forethi ugiu and oontriveeco Is art. and in ail things the Krench man is gloriously an artist. Ill Welded In One Knrnnee. Moreover, the Prellch officers seem is mothers, keen on their men, as their men era brothers, fond of them, Maybs the possessive form of iidilress, ".Moo general, mon eapltaine," helps' the ule.i w hich our men clonk In other I and curler phmses. and those soldiers. i k ours, had heen weLlwl for months nc rurance. As an officer said. . ,, . . . . Half our orders now need not he liiven. Kxnerience makes us think : together." I iieiieve. too. that if a French pri- ,:ite has an I lea and they are full of Ideas it reaches his conimandiiu; of ficer quicker than it does with us. The sentinel hounds. The over- helming Impression was the brilliant health and vitality of these men and the quality of their breeding, They bore themselves with swing an I ram pant delight in life, while their voices, us they talked in the side caverns among the, stumis of arms, w ere the controlled voices of civilisation, Yet. as the light pierced the gloom, they i,,ke,i like bandits dividing the spoil. i iMe picture. ttlOUgh fur from war. sl!iyH w ith me. t A perfectly built. dark skinned young giani had peeled himself out of his blue coat and had brought it down with a swlah upon the shoulder of a half stripped com rade who was kneeling al hli feet, busy with some footgear. They stood against a background of semis luminous blue base, tfegough which ilmmered a oils of copper) it raw, half covered by a red blanket, By a djylne accident of liahi and pose II was St. Martin giving his cloak to llie heKKur. Tlnre were scores of pic tures In these Rallerles. notably a rocks hewn chapel where the red Of the cross on the rounn canvas ai.ar cioin glowed like ruby, Further it side the cavi we found a row of little rock cut kennels, each Inhabited by one wise, glienl dog. Their duties begin at nitflit with the sentinels and listening posts. "And believe me." said a proud instructor. "m fellew here knows the) dlffcr- i nee between the noise of our shells and the boohes' shells." When wo Cams OUt Into the open again thare were t- io,l opiMirtuultles for this study Voices and wings met ami pgaasd in the air and perhapi one! strong young tree had not been bend ing iulte so far acrosa the pictur esque park drive when we first went that way. "Oh, yrs," said an officer, "shells lave to fall somewhere, and," ha added with tine tolerat ion. "it is. after all. against us that the. booha directs them. Hut come, you, anil look at my dug out. It's the most superior of all pos sible dUgOUta, No. aomS and look at our mesa; It's the Ititr. of these parts," and they Joyously told how they had got or procured the various fittings and the elegances. while hanla stretched out of the gloom to shake, and men nodded welcome and greeting nil through that cheery brotherhood in the woods and In thesflelda. vMeaee -t Rallal's Week The voices and the wings were Still busy after lunch when the car slipped I ast the teahouses In the drive and came into a country where women and 1 lilldren worked among the crops. There were laige raw shell holes by the wayside or in the midst of fields anil often a collage or a villa had been mushed as a bonnet box is smashed li, mi umbrella. That must be part of Beliel'l Work, when he bellows no Continue Un Kn vnd I'nye. FINANCE DELEGATES ON WAY. Departure I mm I miaou. Is OSg-elally- tnnounred. Sptrinl Caiilr Dmpatrh to Tm Bcs l-"NDoN, Wept. &. The official Press BUrSM to-night announced that the Anglo-Ki ench mission of financiers 10 the t'nited States for the Improvement I of the foreign exchange situation has left Kngland. The Hritish representatives on the eomnivM are lxnd Chief Justice Hlr John Simon, r Edward Hopklneon Hidden, member of Parliament and chairman Kf the London City and Mid- land Bank ; 8lr Henry Rablngton Smith. . president of the National Hank of. Turkey. nd R. P, Blackett. 1 . . , , rreiuh delettatea are tX-tave ! "on11"'" and Krneat Mallet, both well known I'arls bankers, $4,000 ROBBERY AT NEWPORT. Thieve Kaler the Matleaon and llaamla 1 1 la. N'kwport, R. I.. Sept. .1. Two of New port's summer residences were entered '"',,v yesterday, and from one. 1 Bushy Hark, the residence of Or. R. I V. Mattlson of Ambler. Pa.. Jewelry val- ued at $4,000 wa taken. The other I Um"- ""a Ros. the home of Mr, , .., , " Be.levue avenue, wher, nolh""t f""d to tiava been taken, I aJthoUgrh thore was a thorough ranaack. I by the Intruders, I A sneak thief did hi work In the home of lir. Mattlson while the family ' w,.re al dinner In the evening. The robber, according to the police, entered .... TS!ZJS ?y f PiR" roof J'. "1 ' u""r nf ' s aatnei ng Included rings val- "' 'I SI 7on. j;,,in ami 140a, stlekoins bra. aletS. I steillt.v Hilv.r ,nnln..Pd set and other Jewelry which was left out In the upstairs rooms. The larger li.nt of th. lewelrv h.e,..a ,,. XI Kettison, I he nit nale: was seen b; maid as, ne was making his escape. Probably lie. ause of the arrival limit ill r rif ........ one, the thief was force,! to take to , wa from Liverpool to Montreal. Ac !,t!''.!",''lJ,r,2lr"' "nd mBM' who cording to the most accurate Informn- ... no, 111-11, saw nun. )e ilrew revolver fr.im hi pocket, warned her I '"" to scream, and then escaped through u '''" "unound the hou,, A ??. ,,ave 11 Sod description of 'h'l ...I"'" Twnlc" as also entered, la 1 UNO, euiUPM TO'S , ...1, and is In the ' are ,,f a aarrianap i,,i. i.-.,i.,. o.. - " . n.i - unlay morning when he made hi. rounds he discovered a French window open ,. Ik. . u -, . oi the north side of the nnu where the Intruders entered. ' CHILDREN BEG WILSON TO KEEP U. S. NEUTRAL "on s.iii Bernardino Toariff steps Don't wirt Daddifi to Bp Solipr. I ;XN''"I',!'- rl Stri.! .neutrality on the part of the United ' r nueo ls renuestert hy no school chil dren of Shu Bernardino in a petition f rwarded to President Wilson through Ambassador von HernstorfT by twelve, year-old Msttle Beeby, She wrote th pel tlon and circulated It among her schoolmates. The petition reads as follows: President Wood row Wilson i a re too little school children gnd w e beg KOtl pleats to save the L'uitcd gtatSS from war. We, .Mm little school children, want our country to he neu tral If It should happen that the T'nited State, goes to war with iSertnanv we have to expect Mexico and Japan t" Juiiiii oil US. We could get no help in this world BxPresldem Roosevelt passsd tinoiigii sii;, Bernardino July 4. I lieaged him not to talk iihout the war and he promised me he would not. President Wilson, we believe you are a good Christian church member, The Holy lllhle does not loach us to let the people suffer You are the only man who can av the children's fathers. I guess nil the children In I hi t'nited States air thinking Just the s.ime as us 500 little children In San Bernardino. With kind re gards, MATTII Hkebt and her ,',n0 little friends. NO FOREIGNERS IN ARMY. Nen Hrltiah War Ofllee Hnlr Make Them liiellitihlr. Srirria' Vahl P.micA to far Sis. Uiopov. gtpt, -V A ruling has been made by the W.ll 11(11, e that only Hi it i-h subjects are eligible for the Hritish army and that all enlistments of foreign national! must he reported Immediately It is understood that some exceptions will be made to the order, which will n. v rt helces be the general rule in this connection will he recalled the published stories thai Ambassador Page had had .-so man) requests from parents or American hoys under age who had run away and joined the Hritish army to secure their release that the Ambas sador had had blanks printed for the purpose it was slated on September 1 thai ti e Bmbaisy already had secured some llxty such releaees. AMBASSADOR NOT FOUND ( nunl vnn pen r Rcmalnr Fall to al I sun i Places. j COUnl von Bemetorffi the German Am bassador, could not lie found yesterday I either In New York or at the Herman summer embassy In Odarhurst, I.. I. at one of which places he usually passes the week ends. His secretary arrived at the Itlti r. niton Hotel late last night and entered the Ambassador's apartment. He as. lertSd that he did not kno'v w-hen Count von Hernst irff would come to New York. LINERS HELD BY CANAL SLIDE. K r,,o ii la ml and Finland lllneked In I'ulehra I ul. laseial fablt DuptiTti to Tn Sun. PANAMA, Sept. r. Another slide oc curred in he Panama t'anal to-day al the Culfthta cut and as a result the liners Kroonlsnd aiai Plnland with twenty-six other vessels are helns held up. The eapnl authorities say that the channel ? b uleared vlthia two ii.u, LINER TORPEDOED; 8 LIVES LOST; NO WARNING GIVEN, SA Y SURVIVORS; WASHINGTON DISMAYED BY ACT Allan Steamship Hesperian Attacked Off Fastnet but Is Not Sunk. AMERICANS ABOARD; BOTH OF THEM BATED Passengers Get Awa.v Life Boats Wireless Brings Assistance. 111 IT. S. TO ACT AT ONCE, SEEKING EXPLANATION Situation Reverts to Where It Stood Following Sink ing of Arabic. Spmai 'aft'f BvssSSfeA ' TBI Sin yi kknstown. Sept. ,ri. The Allan liner Hesperian, an 11. 000 ton vessel. lth about 300 passenger and :t.o 'jerew abonnl was struck b' torpedo at 8 : $0 o clock last night while seventy mile southeast of Fast net on her lion far obtainable there were two. American citizens amonc the passen- The liner carried a 4.7 inch gun ' .... , 'mounted and visible on the stern. Kight lives were lost, according to a careful comiiital ion made ny Consul i ' Frost but both Americans were saved : ... i oil' . . 1 1 uvravfia wsrrsl nru i ,,i ' " I less seriously injured. Three of the life honts capsized as they were being 1 launched and their occupants wrre dumiied Into the water. Not a person on the steamer, al- though there were many on deck and j a strict lookout was lielng kept, saw ! anything that resembled a periscope or a submarine either licfore or after the ship was hit. The explosion tore g large hole In the steamships hull forward, but the wound was not fatal Mm was travelling with her compart ments closed, a precaution which may have saved her Tlw.,., nn i.iMiir vrrv lillto excitement. Ir one on board rea lized the moment the explosion oc curred that either a torpedo or a mine bad struck the vessel. Lifebelts were strapped on immediately and the work of lowering the boats la?gan a few minutes later. Kong before the ship had taken a serious list all of the pas sengers were off the vessel, and only the captain. W. S. Main, and his chief officers, with a few of the crew, re mained. In the waters where the Hesperian was struck It Is still twilight at 1:10 In the evening at this period of tin yea I There was a slight haze over the ocean, although the sky was clear I'lidcr uch conditions it probably would have been Impossible for any one on the steamers deck to detect the trail of a torpedo b It npprnached and pronaMy it would have been out of the question 'o see a periscope at anything mora than 1"" yards' distance. With Hindi allowances made. It has been suggested by some of the passe i gcrs that the ihlp was not struck by a torpedo, hut collided with a rloatini: mine. The fact thai the ship was ap parently hit forward and thai the wound was not fatal seems In a sense to sun port this theory, though the officers Of the Hesperian lean to the belief that a torpedo did the work Consul's frost's Report. I'on-iil Krost cabled this report to h' state Department at Waahlngton to night The Allan liner Hesperian tor pedoed by Herman submarine seventy miles southeast of Pastnel at II" O'clock Saturday evening, line or two Americans on board None lost, lajss of lift about eight. Vessel has not sunk. Admiralty boats landed pas sengers and trOOpS at 8 .'10 this morn ing. Have returned to bring Hes perian In here. Hue about s o'clock to-morrow morning There were-forty-flve Canadian troops on hoard, unorganized and mainly Invalided Also one 4.7 Inch gun, mounted and visible on stern. Vessel was hound for Montreal. The wireless call for assistance w-a- I gent nut almost simultaneously with the I explosion and a Government steamer and a number of patrol Isiats In the nearliv ! waters Immediately put out to the rescue, j Until they reached the spot the lifeboats, filled with the Hesperian's passengers, i stood by the disabled steamship. WhllO Cant. .Main and most of his crew re mained on hoard Boats se,,t to si,,,- Mg.ee, The patrol boats with all of the pas sengers and most of the crew arrived here early this morning Already addi tional patrol boats hud been sent out to tow In the vessel and shonly after their atilval a wireles meaesgS said that the 'Hesperian probably could be safely towed to queenstown She la ex pected here early to-morrnw morning. Among the Invalided Canadian sol diers on their way home w-aa one who had lost Ins eyesight The host into which Tie was helped was one of the three which apsixed and threw pas aengers into the water This man was a good BWlmmer, He went down at first, hut OUlekly came up and struck out penNgaeg on leeead Pug. f SCOTLANO 7 Wm jf IRELAND XfSer 1 VjAP of the zone of submarine activity around the Hritish Isles, where approximately li0 larpe ships and perhaps as many more trawlers have hcen sunk. The position of the Hesperian when she was torpedoed is Indicated by the numeral 1, that DISMAY IN WASHINGTON OVER ATTACK ON LINilR Gravity of German Situation. Supposedly Ended by a a s, Von Kernstorff's Pledge garded as Renewed XV. IHINOTON, Sent .", tt ,s ihe hoi , ' in Washington to-night that the tor pedoing of th, Mian unit Hesperian bv lerman submarine has destroyed : at one blow tin beautiful structure of j peace and amity built up in Waahing Inn during the lasl two weeks through the efforts of the Herman Ambaaaador. Officials were dismayed at th.- grsl ; reports of the torpedoing or tin- Hse perfan, ami permitted themselves the hope that these were not true until an official report was received from cons sul Ki ost at QUSellStOWn this evening. It Is now regarded that matters staler egactl) winic the) did after the Arabic I was sunk bv a Herman submarine This (Jovernment win look to Berlin to ex plain how II was that, while the Her man Ambassador here has represented thai Oerman submarines were not to at tack liners without warning and with regard to ihi.s,- on hoard, liners haa been so attacked twice within less than three weeks. The state Department received only a brief despatch on th, Incident to night This does not make all details clear, hut the conclusion was drawn from It that the Hesperian was attacked without warning It Is assumed her. that, if warning had been given, no one would have been killed, and also that. having warned all on hoard lake to boats, the submarine would have tired enough torpedoes to Insure sinking the vessel. This has been the case In previ- ouh cases, where warning was given. t: plana Ho ii in lie Demanded, i 1 nllSUl I'MM s repoll shows that at i'i, least one. and possibly two, Americans ! were on huardi although no Americana were killed, so fur as is known, in view I of all the clrcumstancea, it is regarded j as the dUty of the l'nlted Slates liov- ; eminent to demand an explanation of1 I tie ail of the l.i rinao sulimii r I ne in 1,1,1.. t... I. ll... II ,a- ..f ,1... A. W cans on hoard Particular notice wa.- taken of the fait that the Hssperlsn, like the Arabic, was WSStboUnd, and therefore ll cannot be charged in defence of the attack on her that she was parrying munitions of war to the Hi it Ish fon According to the posit la not the United States Qovemmenl in this war neither can the fact that she had a four Inch gun on her stern be citey as evidence hal she was properly to le regarded as . ,i vessel of war. This i iovernment last fall decided In permit the carnage of guns of mil more than six Inch cabbie on board merchant nu n using l'nlted I States ports without regarding their, as v.-.-sels of war. Thin was particularly to be the case if the number and posi tions of BUch guns on a vessel indicated they were purel) for defensive purposes I'luler these rules one lour Inch geun mounted on the stern would have been paSSSd without question as for defence Ollly and permissible without subjecting the vessel in treatment In LTnltsd states ports as a vessel of war. That there were Invalided, unorgan ised Canadian SOldlsri on board cannot be accepted by tin- l'nlted States as proof thai the veaael was a transport, I according to its pollc) heretofore. This I J o vi' l n me 1 1 1 has held that if soldiers .went aboard steamships as Individuals. unarmed and not organised, thev did mil ii'iislilulc Hoops in tin true of making a. .?IL h rfstfgj-S mar for His Government, Re Explanation Awaited. THE STATUS OF GUNS ON MERCHANT SHIPS According In me report ..t the t'nited Sims Consul at Qusrnitown, the Hesperian carried a i men gun on h, i stern The L'nlted states Hovernmeni de- cided last f , m tlie case of foreign ves-els leaving Am, man ports that 11 irrvlng of guns of no) more than li Inch calibre, if the rtUmbel and posi tions of such guns indicated that thev were pur. lv f,,j defensive pin noses, did not cause a veaeel to lose its status as a merchant ship and become a war veasel 1'resnlrnt Wilson, In hi- nd note to Herman) regarding 'he sinking of the ituelianla, refi ned iu this distinc tion In the purpose for winch guns are can led, when replying to the Herman assertion that the Lueitsnll was "undoubted!) equipped with masked guns." in performing us lut.v as a neutral Power, the Presi dent said it v is the duty of the L'nlted Hiates "to see that the i.usi lanla Wat not armed for offensive ac tion." such a vessel a troopship Reservists and volunteers' have been permitted to I sail i null i line, i mates ports un, lei such conuitioiis ihroughoiii this . ami other wars. It was recalled tOnlghl that ill the rejoicing of last week at th settlement of the submarine controvere) has been founded on communication! with the Herman Ambaaaador Count von Bem torff, and not upon anything formal a ottici.il directly from his Qovernment. I lie nearest approach to an Hung of lliis son came last XVcdnesdav hen the Ambaaaador informed Hocretar) l.un lug that he had had Instructions stating that "liners will not he sunk 1 -"."""'- -in i ii ma tnoiu rean r.i mi tne satet v f tile liv es thai Hie offer le- i of non-combatants, provided liners do not try In , scape , letonce, georetar) laneing, while pronounos I Ing tins a recognition of the principles for Which the l ulled States has been contending, has been waiting for the Ambaaaador lopraasnl s.nne formal com- ntunlcatlon from his Qovemmenl con tinuing and supple nimg this fr.igmen- i tary Indication of .1 change of polio) re garding submit rliiee. That Hie Hesperian incident ll Intel) to cause serious e i bai rassmeut to Am baaaador von BermtorfT in his dealings 1 with this Qoverniuenl on the eulgnarlne queatton i the belief here. The Am- bassador, it is well known, would have 1 had the muter disposed of long ago if given ample uulhorlt) by his rjovern Intent, ami last week much gratification 'was felt over wlita was regarded as evidence lii.u Berlin was ci mlng around I to his view of Hie control ers.v and t ie dSllrabllll) of satisfying the position of I the United stales. The torpedoing of Hie Hesperian win undoubtadl) have the I effect f creating the impression that the Oerman Clovernmenl is nm luppert- nig b) It in ta tne wordi of ii, repre. jaentatlve here, n is fell thai onli the ion ample tgplanatlOn can remove this Impreialon. The Amlmw.nl rein Mentations PosHsurd (,n gecoad Pegs F R A M C F of the Arabic by - and that of the Lusitania by .1. The solid black circles Indicate where 111 ships were sunk by submarines between February 18, the date of the beginning of the German undersea nlockade of the British coastlj, and .June 1. SURVIVORS ASSERT . Ciiiiadlitn Offii or iiml OtllPP PNNNPiitfprK smj Attack Came Suddenly, ..,., ',,, ifiqlt A ..To gag UONOOM, gepl ' .Major Barroe of Pourteenth Canadians, who was a, 'com pahylng twelve oltlceri and thirty-eight I men who had been wounded back to I Canada toard the Hesperian, ai d the vessel had no warning. He w-as cor robprated by his wife ami by the In-1 validcd soldiers he was in charge of. He Ald RO Was sitting oil thr deck I when there was suddenly a loud de I tonatlOII. The ihlp trembled and an I enormous column of water siiol fifty! feet into the gr and dropped With a I trrrift. thud on the deck, drenching everyhpdy around. Several fragments j of iron also fell on the deck ll was a calm night, he said The stat s were just beginning to become j visit ind it was already too dark to! approach of a submarine's tor j ' ' ipt. Main, woo was on the Immediatel) ordered theb oats' see the pedo. bridge, out. W them tli men and children were put In I t. Dletreei rocicete were dred Within a few seconds and aim. si as I quickly three replies were observed on the hoi igon. Kvsry thing possible, a s Major Har roe, was don, on behalf of the pas engera, On one boat, go far as lie knew, upset other passengers win, confirm the de tails supplied b) Major Barroe mid there ! was very little panic and that the boats ' were launched smooth.) excepting one! which contained thirty persons The j ropes of this fouled in Hie blocks at I one end and all of the upantS were I shot into Hie water The rescue work was carried on as rapldlv as possible I under the circumstances. One man geld Unit he wa in the water for an hour I and fifteen minutes before be was res. ued A Miss Held swam for gfteen ' minutes without a life belt and ham pered by a big OVen oat A iwo-year-old child was picked out of the watir . Wlthoul a strip of clothing on it The Allan line officials, as well as I the passenger, believe thai there were 1 no American citizens aboard. HERMAN METZ HIS PASSPORT Newark Man Telia f Rsperlenee I mi fJermaa r'roatleri NawAgg, n .1. Sept. r, tnto 11 ' achultae, principal of the Morton elreet public school, who si 1 nis grsl Sun- 1 day at home to-dav a'tei a lour Of Her . many, relates an unusual imideni which j befell him on the frontier. In tile easterly taction of the war j zone when he was living in gel permis , shin to proceed furthei into the war Worn country Which had been di vas-1 taled hy the Russians he was cloeel) queatUuied One of the ufflcere who questioned him proved to in- a Herman I who had gone fioni New York lo rtglu for tin- Kalsdt at the beginning or the ' i war. When Mr Hchultaa said he wa ; fro, ii Newark this officer said "I know Newark 1 know a man whP on. e lived iii Newark He is Herman I Mel. I lo yog know him''" "I certainly do," responded xi I Ht'hultge, "he Wag a pupil in the ichool o w hu ll I am i .. l.uler lie moved lo New Voi I, grid be. am a Con I greesman " I The principal s., he w,,s tiealidi v r; pleasant!) gftei that i DUMBA ADMITS PLAN TO TIE UP ARMS PLANTS Austrian Envoy Sayi He Sent Despatch to Bmian ly Archibald. "ENTIRELY PROPER," AXBA88ADOR INSISTS tioes to Washington Today to Explain Sit nation to Lansing. STATE DEPARTMENT CONSIDERS ACTION Evidence of Activity of Teu ton Agents Nw Believed Sufficient. Linos, Mas, gepl I. Or, dmstan tm t. Durnba, the Austro-Hungsrian Ambassador, will leave Lenox to-morrow morning for New X'ork en route for Washington, where he evpe. is to hare an Interview with Secretary of P'at'' Lansing, when he will explain how James K. J. Archibald, the American correspondent, happened to be the bearer of secret despatches bo the Imperial Aus trian Qovernment, and also to explain what was meant bv the letter written by In- Dumbs In New fork en AugUgt .I to Foreign Minister Hurian in Vienna, suggesting that embarrassment could in caused the munition plants through the calling out of men of Aue- lroHungarlan citizenship. Dr. Dumba was not at all perturbed by the messages from London giving the content "f documents taken from Archibald To newspaper correspond .nis in admitted writing the letter and said in a Joeose way, "1 can't under stand how Archibald could have been so stupid." Lr, Dumba attaches very little im portance to the report cabled from lain don, and seeks the interview with Sec ret, irv ,.f Slate Lansing for the pur pose of preventing an) garbled i op of his letter Which Archibald carried being cabled t the state Department, The, despatches Archibald carried wen delivered to him in New York at a dinner at which Count BernatorS, Dr, Dumbs and Archibald were pree , ii w.,s looked upon b the Amhae aadoi as a go,,,! means of communi cating bulky despatches to their Uov emmeuts, and full copies of everything whi.h Archibald carried are In the hand.- of the i lerman and Austrian Am bassadors. Dwasaa "! He Will Kaplalat In Dumba received the correspond ents tins afternoon at the embasay on Field Hill He said he would give a eompleti statement "t the position of Austrla-HungsQ In connection with its own cltlasne employed in Bethlehem ami in other steel producing centres after in- had called upon gee re tary of saute Lansing and the Seinlulv of Labor next Tuesday. Dr. Dumbs said frankly ili.it the pro posal was nothing more , i less than calling oat of i uc munition making plant the citizens ,.f Austria-Hungary und. by establishing a labor i inplov ment biir.au. finding otler work I'" them. Thin would he a lostiv undertaking and one for which the sale Hon of th- im perial 'iovernment was necessar) Dr. I niiiiba denied thai there was any tbmg in the despatch Archibald carried which was ma entirely proper to com municate to ins Uovernment. There was a memorandum ol the number of Hungarians ami otheis ol Austrian it i.euship employed at varloui steel works, ami some other informatics whl.h was perfectly proper for the Am bassador to communicate to hut Hov el nmentt Warning to workers. "There was nothing In the deapatehgg win. h Archibald carried that cannot bo aatlsfsctorll) explained, said Hi. Hum- ha. "riie proposal! regarding ember rasalng steel works were nothing more than a very open ami perfectly proper method io be taken to brmg before our races ployed In the big steel worke the faci thai tin y were engaged in en terprises vvliu h are unfriend, v to then fatherland ami thai the Imperial Hov ernmenl would hold the workers In mu nition plum- where 'initial is are h, ing filled for the Allies with I ul guilty of a eerloUN crime again-' their country, som, thing that vvollll Oc putllshabls hy Imprisonment ot penal nervltuua should t hey return in t in Ir on n i uutitr) "There .uc thousands' of workliigniea m the bin st e: Induatry, native ,.f go henna. .Xbnavia. Carnlola, tlalicia, Pal matla. Croatia, Plavonia ami other peoples of the i. "is from Austria -Hungary, who at-' uneducated and who do not understand tout the) are engaged it a war agalnai theli own country. In order to bring tin before them l have subsidized many newspapers pub lished In Hie languages and dialects of Hi' divisions mentioned, attempting In this way to bring their felonious OOCU iation I" their attention Hut this hue belli difficult. "Ill some of the great Steel plants of Pennsylvania these uneduuated men id) my countrs arc nothing mot" or less than slaves tlu-in twelve Thev ale 'vn working holes a da) and herding i hem within si", kadi get at tiles.- worlteii It is difficult to except en mas,., ami a peaceful vralkuui of thess working men would be of the tieatest advan tage to mi tloveriuuenl a- well as aa Indemnity to themsclvei "it is m dui) as tne reprasentativg Austrla-Huugur) in eommunlcate agg m. ,ke kmivvii iii.se facte to the Imperial tlovernment, end lit so doing I am per forming the eervlci for which i .mi sent to this counnv tier ma a lalNtr gareaa Plai h. 'The de-pat. his or lettera caiiied ov Archibald contained nothing mori ihau a giapoaal that we tttempi to . 1 1 ,,i the workingnu t aui own couittj from these steal snd munition o.V,