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RUSSIANS CROWD
FOES TO EDGE OF
HUNGARIAN PLAIN
Czar's Troops Meet Attack
Half Way and Roll
Back Bavarians.
TRY DESPERATELY
TO TAKE UZSOK PASS
Austrians Still Declare They Arc
Winnini* and Deny Loss of
I ntrances to North.
Iaondon. April 11. A diipatch from
Petrograd *?>?? that General Litsinger's
army delivered a tremendous counter?
attack againat t*"e Russisn left wing In
the Carpathian! i A large
fores of picked Bavarian infantry at
tempted to storm the Russian hill posi
tion? south ?of Koziowka dominating
'unkaos ro:?i'. The Russians ad
i! from t ?s and met
half way. A : < ree bayonet
battle continued untrl after dark on
the slippery hills. 1 he Germans Wer?
dr. ven southeast with terrible losses
and the Russians moved forward their
general position here. A similar st?
ump! mad? by the Austrian* on the
re es?* u?? immediately crushed.
tlnuou?, heavy battle? are now
.- from Usaok westward, and the
Russian columns are beating their
enemies back from the southern
of the Carpathians to the pli
I? begin.
Although now faced by very much
an they were at the
beginning ?if the battle, three mon.h
ago. the Ruasiana, having successfully
taken the western pssaes, are bending
? an attempt to espl
ure the 1 ?ok Pa?? and the heights to
the northeast of that break in the
,1 statement from Pctro
? the Ruasiana aremak
? ? >ady progresa, despite the effort?
ans to outflank
them, bul tl ans insist that
.i? hern in their
? iey have captured an
- important height northwest of
Following i? the text of the official
communication from Vienna:
"In West Galicia, near Oiezkowiee,
on the Biais, a Russian attack made
carlv on the morning of the 14th
I
"On the height? on both ?ide? of
trong Russian ,
I attacked our positions, but were
repulsed after severe fighting. In a
counter attack we captured an im
I ortanl height, tal ing three officer? and
? 61 men prisoner?.
"In most of the remainder of the
Carpathians there were only artillery
? ta.
"In Southeast Galicia and Bukowina
no actions are reported."
The Berlin War Office to-day gave
out the following report, on the situa?
tion rpsthlsns, dated Mon?
da v, Apr ! 12:
\ritin|it Called Failure.
"The Russian attempt with the army
that was before Cr/emysl to forci
on "f Hungary, has resnl-'
failure. The endeavors to get, through
and East Dtikia passe?
wertj not successful, and the Russian
I ['ko and Pel?or?>ebru!2
have del nitely come to an end. The
Russians, consequently, are attacking
further to the cast, but here also they
were repulsed near Kozitrwa, with
heavy Ii
"The attacking strength of the Rus?
sians 1 ? tied."
BRITISH ADMIT FIRE
IN BIG DOCKYARDS
* Th? As? v lmr-rl Pr?ss )
London, April 7. A carefully worded
? d to-day by the authorities
of ti.? ? inment dockyards at
ring 1500 reward "for
ry of the incendiaries re
? i the lire at the building
the night of January 'W,"
?? rumor current that night
? : re had broken out in
the yards. The government, however,
.: time smothered all incuries
with a prompt denial, and the i ?
ill menl on of the matter ?
from pre.?* dispatches.
It now appear? that the flames came
t oar wiping out the docke and other
bit properties. The real extent,
of the damage is ?till carefully con
It is the common belief in
official circles that the tire was the
of incendiaria?, presumably Ger
!'!??S.
DRESDEN SINKING
BRINGS TO CHILI
BRITISH APOLOGY
l
i
| Too Much Time Would Be
Required to Clear Up
Facts, Says London.
GLASGOW FIRED ON
TRUCE FLAG, CHARGE
?
South American Nation Makes
Protest Against Attack in
Territorial Waters.
London. April II. The Britisl. gov
emmeiit ha? offered '"a full and ample
apology" to the Chilian government for
the sinking on March 14 in Chilian
territorial vatcrs of the German
cruiser Dresden, the internment of
which had already been ordered by the
mar?timo governor of Cumberland Baj
when the British squadron attacked and
sank her.
This fact wa? made public to-night
in a White 1'aper, giving the texts of
the Chilian note protesting against the
sinking of the Dresden and tne British
government's repiy.
The note delivered bv the Chilisn
1er to Great Britain says that the
Dresden anchored in Cumberland Bay
Juan Fernande? Island? March 19, and
permission to remain eight day?
for the purpose of repairing her engines,
which were said to be out of order.
Th: governor refused the request, as
he considered it unfounded, and Ol
dered the captain to leave the bay
within twenty-four hour?.
Flag of Truce Hoisted.
As the order was not complied with.
the captain of th.- Dresden was in?
formed that ' ia ship Mas interned.
When the British squadron appeared
i ti March 1 I, the Governor \.as proceed
?- to inform
the Bi leps he ).- d
taken, but he had to tuir. back, as the
ihip? opened fire on the Dres?
den, en which a flag ?if truce had nl
hecn hoisted, and called on her
captain to surrender. 'II.e captain then
g e oi drrs to blow up the lii?i
of the Dresden.
"Th!s act of hostility committed in
Chilian territorial waters hi* a British
naval squadron," says the Chilian min
"has painfully surprised my gov
ernm'
r'ini.ing, ?he minister rays that,
1 ad the omcei in cot niand of th
British squadron received the Governor
and been informel that the Dread i
nterncd, he was convinced,
i commander would not have ',
opened fire on her and brought about
n situation which cor trains the ? nil
ian government in defence of its sover?
eign rights to formulate a most ener
I li'tCSt."
Surpris? lo Chill.
After referring to the hospitality
- hipa in Chilian waters '
? ong friendship between the
144., peoples, the minister says:
tl ng could be a more painful
surprise to us than *o see our ex?
tremely cordial attitude repaid by an
.ch bears, unfortunately, all the
evidences of contempt for our sovereign
although it is probable tha*
nothing was further from the minds of
fho?e by whom it was unthinkingly
committed."
The British government in its reply
express.-- regret that a misunderstand?
ing Hro? >, and adds: "On the facts
ted in the communication of the
'i Minister, the British govern
? is prepared to offer a full and
apology to the Chilian govern?
ment." It is, however, pointed out
that according to the British 'nforma
tion, the Dresden "had not accepted
internment, and still had her colors fly?
ing ar.d her guns trained." The British
reply continues:
Captain's Act Explained.
"If this is ?o, and if there were no '
means available for enforcing the d"
ci-ion of the Chilian authorities to in?
tern the Dresden, she might obviously,
had not the British ships taken action,
have escaped again to attack British
commerce.
"The captain of the Glasgow prob?
ably assumed, especiall] in view of the
?last action of the Dresden, that she
was defying the Chilian authorities
ami ubu?ing Chilian neutrality and was
..iily wailing for a favorable oppor- i
tunity to sally out and attack British
commerce again.
"In view of the time it would take
to clear up the circumstances and be?
taust? of the Chilian communication
the British government do not wish to
qualify the apology that they now pre
, -('.' to the Chilian government."
There is still time to
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occupancy May 1st, if
your loaves are closed at
once.
liul if you want to move
promptly on the First into
spic and span new quarters
in this finest of uptown
office buildings, with all
the muss and fuss of alter?
ations and partitioning out
of the way, you must act
quickly, A 'phone call
will bring a representative
with complete information
so an immediate decision
("an be reached.
e-'W
'Aeolian 11 l? ths
hesi office location
in (ht itnd Strrrt
district.
ELLEN &JEFFERY
Agents for AEOLIAN HALL
Telephone, BRYANT 807
Safety and Comfort Both
in New German Trenches
i "
Porcelain Si oves and Lamp! Make Bombproof .<t Cheery
Along Mlawa Iront??Motor Boats Ready
i. for Use in Sorini/ Moods.
? Hv JAMES ODONM.I I. HFNSF.
tcmmjOsM l?U hr Tha fMeaae T*itt?jtoa?
This is the third of a new serie:
, or I ids? hy Vr. Rennet t drsenh
the activities Of German troops
A'it.'.tto.
Mlawa. Rn"?iB. March B. Germ
| is now doing the intrenching of
frontier on Russian territory a? wel
I on its ov.n. From ?outh t?> north
I great key cities of the eastern bord
of the empire Hre?lau. I'osen, Thi
Grauden? and Koeaigaberg ara r
teeted and connected hv a marvel
system of field fort meat ions \vh
make, the whole region practically
pregnable.
And far to the east and to the soi
of the ciirvinir boundary the fields
RuBsia are being cut up with trend
by Cern?an troop? occupying such
portant towns as Mlawa. which 1
four miles over the border
The plains to the south and enst
Mlawa have been cleared of Ruaali
for a Rood ten miles. The distance
being increased by a few kilometi
ever] few day?, arid the boom of t
guns grow? fainter and fainter.
Uerman Drive on Prasnvarh.
So 'ar as I can gather the sltuatii
?he Germana nre driving the Roaaia
hack on the fortified town of I'n
njrsch, some twenty miles to the e;
rule'south of us. The more
atod) thi northern scene of operatic
in connection with the aetivitiea -<
only miles to the south, when,'?' I ha
just come, the more I begin to wood
whether the Germans are no) plrnnii
to take Praanyach, clear the ??row
well to the east of that point and th,
drop southeaat and come in on the ba
>,;' \\ araaw.
Thai would relieve the troops in 11
Bolimow-Rawka region the "triana
of death", of carry mi' the whole of tl
terrible burden of the drive again
W in ?aw a drive that, if it ia direct?
solely from the west, must invol?
?acriflces of men.
fifty miles north i
Warsaw, If the troops now clearii
the ground to the ea - of Mlawa ci
gel well beyond I'rasnysch and tin
make a grand circle to the south, ai
be joined by detachments <
Silesians and Austrians tinder Gener
Woyrach which, I suppose, are n<>
lying well to the east of Petrokos? ai
I he Hier Pilica, the stupendous thll
would be done and an ingathering fi
th? Tannenberg harvc
v. on..I be effect! d,
1.links for "Some!hing Tremendous.'
in any case a chapter of wonderf,
war-making seems bound to he recorde
for the various drives eastward rii
hardly fail to culminate in somethin
tremendous at one point or another.
Meanwhile, in the Russian territot
it hr-s already occupied, (iermany :
looking to it that there shall be n
Russian drives across the l.emian fror
tier. That is the meaning of the heav
intrenching now going on in the ?no?
covered but soggy field? two miles t
the south and ?-ast of Mlawa.
precautionary work is hem
carried forward simultaneously wit
the fighting in progress seven or eijih
miles furtl er casi and south, and th
grunts of the shovellers keep prett
good timi with the distant rolleys.
For its significance and for the ama'
ing rapidity with which It is done th
work is worth a closer view. So I rod
out this morning to the new trenche
with von Rieben, of Berlin, who di
not a' all care for hi-' job and wishe,
hit commanding general would not b
bo thundering solicitons that corn
spondents sh?.u!.| "see everything."
Mr. von Rieben'? wife is an Englisl
? he now i- m Ei gland, und pai
ol nil day's work is to write her cheer
ful letters tellinr- her how aaf
well lie is. He speaks admirable Eng
lish, and SO was able to conlide to m
his opinion of Americans who like t,
go floundering over bad roads am
through an icy rain to see earthworks
Meet f.eneral von Womit/.
II was in truth villanous weather
with worse road- alternate freezini
and thawing of both but on the iv?;
are met ? ruddy, smiling old gentlcmai
who did noi seem to mind either.
He was riding at the head of a grea
retinue, hut he was wearing a weather
beaten overcoat of gray, differing in ri,
detail, except thai it seemed oliler
fi ,ui those the private soldiers wear
So 1 could net make him out at all
Rut when our car drew near his horsi
and the old man had waved a cheert
salute in our direction, von Rieber
half rose in his seat and said: "(iutei
morgen, excellent."
"Excellent!" said I. "Then why th?
private soldier's overcoat so much th?
wors,? for wear?"'
"line of his whims," Captain von
R eben replied; "always wears it. It'j
old (?eneral von Wem its, and I don't
suppose there is a mun in the army
lo.es his soldiers as much as he does,
Maybe the overcoat is one of his ways
of ?-howing it. Anyway, he always
\v?.;irs it."
Other riders we paased. "Spanish
riders," the soldiers call them gigan?
tic sawbucks, made of logs and spars
lashed together and interlaced with
strands of barbed wire. They are
thrown across roatls along which an
enemy might advance, ?nd a nasty ob
?;, le they rr.ak;. I opies, I ip|.
from the name, of the light defences
All a u?ed ir, the N'elhei
Reaehing intrenched fields that ?lope
briskly to the south, we walked dry
shod and warm through hundreds of
rods of winding and connecting
trenche', which had been dug and
sheathed with wood in just three
weeks a remarkable record when you
t< all nto account the numerous stormy
days and the frequent caving of the
sandy soil.
Trenches Dug Very Deep.
A man can walk almost upright in
them without being aeen from the
fields.
About e: cry t'.vt-ty-five feet of each
trench had been scooped out near the
top to admit a neat bit of carpen-iv
in the form of a box, into which the
men could reach for hand grenades in
?ase an enemy should become too
familiar with them. (Hher boies were
provided for ammunition.
Dag in the side of the trench a foot
r.hove the level of its floor are numer?
ous lecc-ses where the men can sit be?
tween whiles of tiring. Th? wooden floor
of the recess is provided with cleats at
its outer ? at the men
not have to sit with tl 'rcknig
.?ia ou', a most ' . 'ion
an brace themselves with their
Lacks against the
These Germans think of everything,
bombproof retreats are in deep,
heavily stocUaded galleriee, and the
major in charge of the work pointed
with pride to their furni things? win?
dow? which look out on encircling
trenches, white porco'ain stoves, lamps,
I and racks and sh,',ves for equipme' I
The white porcelain stove brought
oat from Mlawa apocare I to be the
touch of glory, and the major
I go up and pa*, it and talk to
'
? ' ?? Ifiawa are
suplemented by an el. ?
barb wire defences. Fifteen mea
| inrr eiirht hours a day from 7 to 3
loi \. becau-e it _ets d_rl_ h0 k0on
I can do SV.? feet a day of the stak?
l
I driving ami wire stringing that m<i?<
be inined from ten to bottom of th?
?lope? in front of the trench???.
411 the b?rb ?Tiro "f the origin?!
German defence? of Mlawa nrsa rsrnsS
off by the Ruai isna one nigbl Is ?*???*
December, when four Bu??ian corps,
I bet 'i sent again?? one of the
invader, the Gotrassns withdrew in ?
hurry to Sold?n, ?even and one hal'
miles on tha other ?ids of the frontier
When the Germans got back ?e\?*ral
day? la?er thev retslisted by ?tnpp'ng
all' the boards off the unbaked bucks
in the M law a brick vard and oaing them
to lin? trenches. The irindew? ->f the
brickyard's office ihey took to th? hos?
pital to repises the ones the P.ussians
had knocked out when they ?lepart?*?!.
There is a frightful wflste in war, but
there is a good deal of salvage, too.
Have Motor Boats Hidden.
The hollows below the position
have been connected with impounded
waters so that the land CSS be flooded
in case of a general attack. Nor i?
lb. all. A hidden fleet of motor
boat? can instantly be brought into
action for the navigation of this in
undated area.
All this mean? hitter, hard work,
and it is done, naturally, under very
trying condition? conditions involving
?rtainty, apprehension, exposure-,
delsya and makeshift?. But in the
(hick of tho heavy toll I met the
happieal man I ha\e encountered in
Kngl-inil, France, Belgium, Germany or
Russia since the war began a rS
young lieutenant who spoke English
with a pretty hesitancy, but with a
nice precision. He looked like a well
trained American high school boy
and would have been hsndaome bul
for the cruel cold sore? with which the
damp days "f trench building had tem
porarily marred his features.
Hui his smile and his enthusiasm
and hi? gentle manners were just ir
r.le, and he and I exchanged
cigarettea and went into one of the
rosey bombproof? to have a talk. He
wa? so glad to be a soldier that his
voie? hook when he tried to tell how
happy he was. and he talked about his
work like a lover speaking of bis
mistoeaa.
When in the sentences I am going to
quote from ins talk he used the word
"humor" I i h ink he meant enthusiasm
or sympathy, for sometimes his F.ngli*;h
sounded SI if he had learned it out of
eighteenth century classics, asp "Rut
solas" or "The \ n ar of Waketield."
The work was hird, yes. "Ah, hut if
one has humor nil is well, for then one
has- thr feeling for the task. That is
everything, is it not? So aometime?
whin it storms we rest the men. "no
playa on his harmonica. Tha si
sing, and ?4?? all are very happy. Then
clear again and we go gladly back
to the work.
"Ah, yes, th? humor is everything,
and if one has that nothing is too
hard!"
Me sprang up to go hack to his men.
When two hundred weight of earth
I m on him he only Bhook the dirt
out of his collar, lit a fresh cigarette
and beamed on the sodden landscape.
Along the highways leading out of
Hlawa to the south and east the tree?
h ?? been cut down so that the gunner?
may readily get the range. The con?
sequence il a new complication in
travel by auto, fur after a heavy
fall of snow the highway is quite lost,
there being no trees left to distinguish
it from the white fields. Hence floun?
dering and loss of time.
I ider tha be | renditions the road?
around Mlawa are dire. "Ruin an auto
m two months," t-aid Mr. von Rieben.
Even in peace times they are so bad
that nobody'in these parts keeps a car,
with ihe result that the horses in Rus
aisn I'oland snort with tetror when n
m military autu comes within
fifty feet of them.
With much clueking an?! whistling
from the ofl I put their heads
the cur pas ? -. the panic stricken
brutes are a huit soothed and one
manag? - to gel by without having them
plant their forelegs in his lap.
As for the German column horses,
they behave about a? a German human
does, going methodically about their
work and asking no odds. The stabling
of them give3 a hint of the endless
problems of campaigning problema
that never occur to a civilian until he
-ees soldiers wrestling with them.
Vet tho problem is rudimentary
enough. A man can look for his own
quarters, A hoi se csnnot, A man can
climb a flight of rickety stairs to an
attic if all the lower floors are crowded.
A horse cannot Nevertheless they are
learning to climb stairs.
"i?i" course," said von Rieben, "we
must play fair by the horses. So when
ground floor stabling is no more to be
Ru - an town? we are i
occupying we say frankly to the horses,
'Now, will you climb those stairs or
would you rather sleep out of doors?'
After ihey have had a little time to
think ahou?. it they climb the stain.
i-h' "
A ter we had spent half the morning
muddling through the sleet and over
the oozing fields and had got as far
south a? the hamlet of WyaSUHg, four
mile? from Mlava, without seeing any?
thing more exciting than forlorn faces
I" ?ring from huts by the wayside, von ?
Rieben asked, "Now, haven't you had '
enough of this ?"
"I suppose so." ?aid I, "though the
whole mournful panorama always
te? me. It means so much."
"Very well," he sighed, "let us go
to the other approaches of tho
town and do our mourning."
Then he brok? a squale from a h.g
slab of chocolate that had mocha in it
'?i take sway '.he ?ickish tasie, and
gave the men their oidcrs to turn
back
"W'e mu-* do the other side of the I
Mlawa," saij he, "because if the gen?
eral found out I haven't taken you
there he wojld scold."
The panorama unrolled again th?
sad, flat, battered country with the
white church towers of Mlawa looming1
against the gray horizon on the north,
the swarthy children who squawked
with excitement when the car hove
BW, and the oid, old peasant, men
ivho uncovered and seemed almost to
bend double, so low did they bow when
they beheld the gray uniform and it?
flash of gold on the back ?eat.
Peasant? Abject in Salute.
Th?t crouching pos?ure was very i
pitiful to me. It seemed to ?land for
?0 many ages of ?luvishness. Nor was '
it the Gem?ais alone who thuri were
? i Th? correspondents were, too,
and 1 have seldom felt more foolish
than I ?!id one bitter morning in Le?
ren! out to the pump to
and an old man with a long white i
beard stood uncovered by the pump
throughout the operation. Fortu- ?
nately, it was brief.
I'ast the patient peasants, who have
no part in this war'? making and are |
paying so heavily for it, we fared, and
back Into the blackened outskirts, !
where the bombardment was heaviest
hid where the blistered sides of a
chimney alone remain to mark many a
?ne that once was "home."
In the open field? on the edge of
r:?e the flying stations, the ma
e? and their irew? of opera?.ir?
ai I Mechanician? quartered under
great brown tent?, belhing softly in
the wind, and teaching you again that
there i? nothing so lovely in architec*
ure as the long, sweeping drape of a
i tent.
I Through fre.ght yard? then, wher?
TI IE Progressive-? voiced
a protest against the
Krpul'lii an machine
just as the Republnan s?-v
rnty year? ago voiced a
protest againat the old
Whig party.
Millions of voter? shared in
this newest protest, hut for
one reason or nnothrr hesi?
tated to desert the rank? of
thr old partie?.
These eager, hopeful pro?
testant? have a spokesman
in I rank H. Simonrls, who
.?hare? iheir restivenes* un
der the machine rule. He
think? thr Rcpuhli? an. or
some other party, will see a
great light ?ind raise a ban?
ner that these millions can
follow. Are you one of
them? He's helping.
Zhe -Xribune
Firat to Laat?the Truth
Newa ? Editorial? ? Advertiaementa
traialoadl of cannon and tons of equip?
ment etand ?raiting orders, the sentries
pacing up and do? n beside them, and
their majeatie bulk covered by brown
tarpaulins, on which the whirling snow
makes fantastic patterns.
l'a? open plaeea where the provient
wagons are parked in hollow squares,
the driers grouped around fires built
in ?he i entro of ?he squares.
The cheery light -wounded, who will
not wail for the ambulance? to bring
them in from the trenches, are hob- ;
bung by. One man lias hi? foot
swathed in ?traw, one of the few genu?
inely oldtime touche? [ have seen in
tin? modern war making.
It it as if the men were hobbling
toward you out of an ancient picture.
Otto am' Herman and Hans and Wil- .
helm are e\chanvring hails as they
overtake one another on the highway, .
and through ti le wintry air anil across
the solemn thunder Of the guns comes
the pleasant music of the farriers' and
the mechanicians' hammers on the
anvil ?. and it mak"s nie think of the
l.nes in l?uke Henry's prayer on the
night before Boaworth battle thi le
glorious lines where you hear the
tinkle of "the armorers' hammers" am I
get in half a hundred WOrdfl the whole
sense and feel of n camp. Shakeapeare
knew. I wonder what armies, he had
followed.
'"Haven't you had enough of this?";
the bored von Rieben, who was long?
ing to get bark to his maps, had eaked
Nay, von Rieben, nor ever shall, I
think. It is too wonderful in the I
clamor ami the sorrow and the splen- ?
dor of it all.
WOOD SAYS NATION
UNREADY IS SLAYER
United States Has Not Profited
by Lessons of War, He Tells
Princeton Men.
'Rv T,.!?arar''. la Tir- Trir - |
Prineeton, S. .'.. April 1"?. The new
\ oluntary sj I i ry training
in-ti?u*"d ai Prim
the co-operation of the War Depart?
ment opened to-night with a lectui
the military history of the United
States by Major General Leonard
Wood. This is the tlrt of a series of
lectures by army oincert on the theory
of military instruction. Field work
and drill will be included for those who
desire to join it.
In his analy?i? of oir military his- |
tory Major General Wood pointed to :
the mistakes made in warfare since
the foundation of the nation, but add- ,
ed: "Our Wars Of the past have shown
us mai bul thus Tar we have
1? arned reta; ; rely little. As soi c
baa ?aid, il la literally true that we
have copied only one nation in cur
military policy and that natii.n
China. '
"I'ndeveloped military resources in
a national crisi are about as valuable
a? an undeveloped gold mine in Alaska
would be in a financial crisis in W II
Mree?. We have never had war with
a t'rrst clast power that hits been pre?
pared, so our mistake? h ive not been
diaaatroua. Singularly fortunate as we
have been In ?ur choiCS of eneinie;.
ear wai have taught us that the vol?
untary systi m ? no) sound
"G?n?ral militar** instruction would
be again?! war. The entire lesson which
we should draw ?rom our past wars is
that of preparedness, not of mili?
tarism. It is a good investment in in?
surance for peace. When war does
come, nothing can be truer than that,
ration is the murderer of its people
which sends them out unprepared."
SEMIN?LE A TOTAL
LOSS, SAYS REPORT
Clyde Liner. Aground Off Hayti,
Believed to Have Carried
No Passengers.
Santo Domingo, April 15. The Clyde
Line Agency here reports that the
steamer Semin?le, which went aground
near Saona Island, off the southeast
extremity of Hayti, i? a total loss.
Previo.is reports concerning the
Semin?le .?aid she had run on a sand
bank near Sa?ne., bu* was in no d-ugcr.
?min?la left New York on April
?I for West India porta. It is said she
carried no i
Swedish Lawyer in Frye Case.
Merlin, April l"?. The Overseas News
Agencv announced to-dav that Martin
Waldenstroem, a Swedish lawyer of
Malmoe. will repre ent the German
government in ?he case of the Amer
lean ship William F. Frye, lunk by1
merco raider Pm./. Eitel.
TURTLE BAY RUMORS
FIND SCANT BELIEF
Reports That Japanese
Will Establish Base
There Scoffed At.
fFr-m T?i? Trllmri? Bu-??'l 1
Washington, April II. Officials of
both th? . tBtS and 'he Nnvy depart?
ment? r"f'ise to treat ?erionsly the re
ports from Los Angeles that the Jap
aries? navy Is establishing a permanent
b?s? at Turtle Bay, Lower California
1 ha Inpsne?? EmbsSSf uttered to-day a
disclaimer of any such plans.
At the Navy Department Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt ?Bid:
"The remarkable feature of the nc
count is that the ves.els of the Pacific
fleet have been passing the scene of the
wreck of the Japanese cruiser Asama
two or three tin.'-i a week.
"Within the last three or four day? I
th? collier Jason, inbound for San
Diego, and San Francisco from Europe]
via the Panama ?'anal, pa?sed Turtle I
Hay. No report of any unuaual actjv
itie-i or of any militant lan'ling parties,
was made by 'hal vessel's commander." :
T'n? Statement given out at the ?lap-i
nnese Embassy declare? that the activ- j
?th ? of th?- Japsneaa cruisers in Turtle '
Bs) re aolely for the purpose of sal- j
? I lie cruder Asama.
When 'he Navy Department an- '
noutiied the foundering of the Asama'
several months ago, it was sharply re- ,
minded that it wa? giving information |
to Japan's enemies. The ?ilence order
then issued hai not been lifted.
The maintenance of ? Japanese guard '
over the disabled crui?er is not. out lid?
belligerent rights. Americsn wrecking|
compsniea which have been asked to
t in the work of salvage hsva been
informed by the -??ate Department tha'.
they would have to look to the Mexican
government for an expression o*" judg?
ment as to whether the work might be
undertaken. The humor of this BU|
tion is said to have appealed even to
the serious-minded Jap?.
Report* of the establishment of a
Japanese naval base in Lower Cali?
fornia wir? ridiculed yesterday by
prominent Japanese of this city.
Dr. Jokichi, Takamine, director of the
Esal and W'e-t No.? s Bureau, said:
"Japan has h?>r hands full. Now thn?
?he Germana have been driven from
their Eastern stronghold, the first in-I
of Japan is to establish proper
? n? with ?luna.
"The policy of Japan in the Fast is a
second edition of the Monroe Doctrine.
Japan does not want foreign powers to
maintain fortified establishments there.
By the asms token, she would refrain
from violating tho Monroo Doctrine by
takmg any such step as has been re
ported from Lower California.
"Furthermore, Japan is perfectly well
aware tha?, Fngland would re'" ,
eountenanca th? proceedings. Besides
antagonizing the United Stat. -.
would load to complication? among
i ther nations that might desire a naval
base in Mexico. In short, Japan could
not afford it."
ALLIES BREAK WAR
RULE. VIENNA SAYS
Austria Hungary Issues Another
Red Book. Telling of Al
leged Atrocities.
Budapest, April lii. The Austro-Hun
garian Foreign Office has published a ',
second Red Rook, compiled of docu- '
ir.cnts, statements and a great number
of photographs relating to atrocities
and breaches of international law* al?
leged to hsva been committed by Ser
via, Ruaaia, France and England.
Some diplomatic representative? and
Consuls in Russia and Servia, it as- t
serts, wi i- ?rrelted and expelled even
before a irate of war existed. Accord
ihg to the Red Hook innumerable street
1res have been committed by the mili
tal force? and civil population of Ser?
via and Montenegro. Thousands of Aus?
trian and Hungarian subjects, it say?,
are still interned and detained in bos-!
tile countries, and countless illegal ?el i
have been committed against Austrian
citizen, in Austrian territories under
the enemy's occupation.
The Red Book aceuaea Russia. France ;
ami Great Britain of being responrible
tor atroi tie committed by bsrbaricl
troops brought to Europ?en battleti. Ida,
and says these countries do not liold
the troops under discipline. Great Brit
niii is blamed for her "attempt to sub?
ject to starvation the population of
great and cultured states."
DEATH TWICE HITS
OLD GUARD IN DAY
Captain 0. E. Conley Was 65
and Frederick W. Bent
Was ,57.
Two members of the Old Guard, Cap?
tain George E. Conley and Frederick
W. Rent, died yesterday. Captain Con?
ley had been in St. Luke's Hospital
for six weeks suffering from a compli?
cation of disorders, and Mr. Bent died
from heart disease after an illness of
severs] mont
Cantain Conley was sixty-five vears
old, and head of the George E. Conley
Company, one of the largest fish con?
cern? hi the Esst He was an Kik and
i' Mason, and commodore of the Hudson
i'v. Yacht Club. He leaves a Wife and
two sons.
Mr. Bent was fifty-seven years old,
and a native of Fngland. He was for?
merly bandmaster of the 9th Regiment,
of which Captain Conley also was a,'
member, but left in 1901 to become
leuder of the Old Guard Band, a posi?
tion he held for six years. He leaves
a wife.
The presence of a bottle containing a
mixture of bromide and chloral in Mr.
bedroom in his homo at 2666
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Canadian Dies in 108th Year.
Chatham, X. R.. April 1".. Patrick'
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184)8, " '
Ambulances for Germans.
Frankfort 'via London), April 15 -
Three hospital automobile?, each *.t>
two trailers, have beer, given the mili?
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(?ermany in the United Stater," Th?*
were obtained through the actitity of
Mrs. Tavlor. an American her*. Oral
will be attached ?o the army of Crown
Prince Frederick W illiam, anothar t?
that of (ieneral von Hinder.burj anl
the third to the 18th Army t orpa.
S. Alimatt Se ota.
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