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DRINKS POISON BY ERROR
Dr. Brunelle Takes Bichloride
but Will Live.
By error Dr G< ?rge C. Brunelle, a
chemist, living in the Westminster, 61
Kant F.ighty-sixth Street, drank a
solution of hichloririe of mercury yes
*crday. He was reported as out of
danger at the Ficwer Hospital laut
' right.
Dr. Brunelle took up what he
thought was a glass of water ird
drank It at a pulp. The strange ti-te
told him it was bichloride of merccy.
He told his wife calmly of what he
had done and had her telephone for
an ambulance. In the meui: ?
with the help of ncighi'Ors, he admin?
istered first aid tr-'ntment to himself,
SHOT SKIMS NOSE
WHILE SHE CHATS
Woman Says Admirer Fired at
Her, Then 'Phoned to Say
He Did It.
Miss Ethel Levers, who lives in the
Fail-view ( ourl Apartments, nt 17".
mont Avenue, told the polic?
night that a bullet hud been fired at her
through an open window of her suite
by a man standing in n vacant lot next
door. Miss Levere said she knew the
man, and that the attack was due to
jealousy. ?No bullet holes could be
found in the npartment.
A few minutes after the police ar?
rived four telephone calls were put
into Miss Lerere'a npartment from
various booths in Weat 125th Street.
They were from the same man, and
Miss Levere laier said he told her over
the wire that he was her assailant, and
that he had shot because he had seen
her walking with another man Friday
evening. Patrolmen O'Neil and Singer,
locating the booths from the apartment
.rd, hurried to
12">t*h Street, but reached each one too
late to catch their man.
Miss Levere said she was sitting talk?
ing with a woman and a man who asid
I e whs William II. Whitter, an account?
ant and auditor, from Ch
the shot came throrugh the open win?
dow. Both women screamed, alarming
ing apartments.
Miss Levere Rave the name of her
inl to the police, with
I'ormation that he had paid her
many attentions in the past. It wa
at the West 125th Street station that he
had a police record.
GERMANS SEIZED
ON NORWEGIAN SHIP
British Cruiser Halts Vessel Off
This Port and Takes Two
of Her Crew. ?
British cruiser Berwii
! stranger *o these waters since t)
man protected cruisers Prim F.itel
Friedrich and Kronprinz. Wilhelm, in?
terned at Newport News some four
months aj-o, made a visit to her old
patrol station yesterday off the Scot?
land Lightship and overhauled the Nor?
wegian sfeamahip Stsrkad.
Picking up the ve-sel about ten miles,
southeast of the light-hip the ei
. .?'?I lier i" atop, and after
mg a boarding party on the Starkad
took away her third officer ar.d a sea?
man.
The lieutenant from the Berwick
; Captain Olsen for his manifest
and the lirt of his crew, and finding
?V. Tl.ee!, the third officer, and H.
Schiefflein, a seamen, were Germana,
red them ir, get ready and return
with him to the Berwick. The Starkad,
which hailed from Bordeaux, was then
;t*ed to proceed to port.
FAMOUS NIHILIST
SENT TO FAR NORTH
"Grandmother of Russian Rev
olution" Banished to Bleak
Siberian Outpost.
mark, Mass., Aug. 22. Not Ya
k, reckoned the least desirable
?if Siberian exile settlements, bjt
I'ulune, 2,000 kilometres further north,
the last outpost on the icy frontier of
the north pole, is to be the abodn of
Mine. Catherine Mr. ? hkov-kava. knrwn
he Grandmother of the R
Revolution," says a letter *u
I by Miss Alice Stone Blackwcll
fiom one of Mme. Hrcshkovskaya's
friends. A previous letter, received on
August 14 from Mine. Breshkovskaya,
that ahl was to be sent to Ya
houtsk.
It now develops that the not?
ile'a stay in Yakoutsk is to be t?*m
porary, and she will be taken later 1"
I'ulune. She was banished f??i I
.-oui a prison in Sib?
which she had been senl foi
Bulune is s hamlet of fifteen Ind an
icks and a Rus
churcH. ?inly two political ex
i ren sent there, n ii said, in
... Both were
tuen. Mme. Breshkovakaya is seventy
feari old HJ\d is losing her aight.
For scveti months of the year I'u?
lune is cut off by arctic snow
communication, even by post, with he
outside world.
MISS KARIN WHITE
WILL BE A NURSE
Youngest Daughter of Ex-Am?
bassador to Germany Comes
Here for Training.
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Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 22. Miss Kann
White, youngeat daughter of the for?
mer Ambassador *o Germany and Mrs.
' Andrew D. Wnite, has gone to New
York Citv to train in a hospital to be
M ?si White
ated from " assar College la-t ?lune. A
friend, an ?thei Vsaaar girl, has
up nursing and is
New Volk
Miss White has never cared for the
? ? societ-f girl. ?Sh?
. -, ,, ted in other thing-. Her
friends sav that her parent: are thor?
oughly ?n accord with her desire to
?? a nurse
Although it is rumored tha
and her friend intend t.. become
Red Croaa nurs? s and csnng
for the wounded on the othei -
j the ocean, this could not bt confirmed
' bar? to-day.
STEAMER FOUGHT
WAVES TWO DAYS
IN 85-MILE GALE
Liner Arapahoe's Saloon
Turned Into Mill Race by
Indian Hurricane.
WATER WAIST DEEP
FILLED STATEROOMS
After House Picked Off and
Sailor's Leg Broken?Oil
Kept Ship Afloat.
After weathering a hurricane in the
Gulf thai almost sent her to the bot
the Clyde Line steamship Ara
pahoe, temporarily switched to the ser?
vice of the Mallory Lin?', came to port
eston with much
evidence of the drubbing she had re?
ceived en the journey north.
She had sixty passengers, and when
they came ashore many declared that
they I ? \pected to set foot on
land again.
According to these weary coastwise
travellers it was nothing short of
Providential protection and the good
seamanship of Captain William T.
Davidaon that tl msnsged to
work her way through a storm that
I her entire after house away
arul flooded her stnterooms and dining
saloon waiat deep. Furniture was
overturned. bedding and baggage |
soaked and the frightened passengers
had to seek the highest part of the
? to avoid the terrific
coml.
Some of the passengers declared that
the Arapal >1 at times be?
such huge mountains of water
'hey thought she would never
up. but the vessel was handled j
Icilfully that she always arose:
ll mishap.
?. women were panicstricken and
nun would have been in I
the same plight had it no? been f'ir the
Captain Davidson and his
Bred to take the
?i- :. matter of course and as
? i ones that thcr
was no dai
?.real Wave Strikes.
Bj Um - ?<"'* th.- officers were able
to calm the timid ones anil make them
feel that the storm was an ord'nary
one. The ship's officer? declined to
. - their encounter with the hurri?
cane, though admitting that it was
ow.M
The wreckage fore and nft on the
. mute witneaa of the
? 100k on the second day out
el left the Texas
port a1 9 p. m. on Saturday, August 14.
She had good weather until noon Sun?
day, when the glasi began to drop.
Capta : . who hsa had experi
;th West Indian hurricanes, gave
orders to make everything fasl and ra?
ngera to keep within j
There was nothing to suggest
ly mind, and the
d not understand the re
They knew later, when an B6
mile-an-hour gale came up from the1
? isl and began to toss the Arsps
hoe about like a cork in a millrace.
Captain Davidson made an effort to
rut. away from the hurricane when his i
began io fall, but found it impos- ,
and kept hia little craft head on '<
to the blow.
On Monday the northeaster swung!
around the compass, kicking up a ter
? a. in.?! at 12:30 a. m. on Monday
a cumulative wave struck the
ani.d-.hips on the port side, broke into'
the companionway and drove a flood
through the me -room. Timber? crashed
as if they had been made of paper,
and ste?'! nuis and bolts that held up
the companion ladder were twisted into
, curled scraps.
Sailor Has Close Call.
Hat, in, a Norwegian sailor,
attempting to go forward, was caught
by one of tho combers and
half the length of the ship. The port
railing saved him from the sea. When
he waa found his left leg was broken
? . was badly bruised.
The oil that was played out forward
fi. i.i the v? ped much, and it
was the opinion of the officers, the
engen asid, that had it not been
for this Strategen) the vessel would
ha\c foundered,
l'p to 2 p. m. on Monday no exterior
part of the vessel had bien damaged,
but at 2:10 p. m. three huge waves
rushed at her with terrific force and
hit her hard aft The firal piled up
af. without ?lainage, merely III
her as the others had been doing; the
d mashed every pune of glass on
the promenade ?leek aft and along the
lide, and the thud, curling high
, l;,r. crashed with its enormous
weight upon the deckhouse aft, smash?
ing it into splinters. About 900 ICjUsrS
rers 1 PI ed from their
supports and fell in a jagged mass upon
the a the emergency hand
\g geai. I: was the boxing that
saved the mechaniam, for a ?luv later
when the debris ssas cleared away it
was found that the timber- had pro
. the gear.
Every stateroom and public room
wa> .'?lied with swirling water. The
that ha,I - ,me of
the flood lay powdered on the
room floors, and despite th?
thl si to patch up the
(lainage the Wavei made their way Hi?
ll.l Tuesday morning the gale mod
...-rs attempted to
dr. their clothing and the crew patched
up the damaged parts. The Arapahoe
put into Key West, where her broken
windows were replaced and minor re
made
RAT POISON KILLS CHILD
Mary Byrne Victim of Sample
Left by Agent.
K.it poison, - ". the floor
? ,i the ?I? : '
ll her hone,
280 Weal 130th SI
An ago left a
?ample package of th? which
Mrs Byrne placed about the ho.
ninate mice Shortly aftersvsrd
the child was taken ill- A physician .
? i h? r, and she aeeaaed to be ?ut
of danger, but yesterday the sulferidj
a reUi I
Wilson Still Awaits Arabic Proof;
German Fleet Beaten Off Riga;
British Submarine Sinks Moltke
RUSSIANS SINK
TEN WARSHIPS
IN RIGA FIGHT
German Fleet Driven from
Gulf, Petrograd
Reports.
ATTEMPT TO LAND
TROOPS DISASTROUS
Losses of Czar's Forces Small ?
No Word from Berlin
on Fight.
Petrograd, Aug. 22. An official com?
munication issued to-day says:
"The German fleet has left the Gulf
of Riga.
"Our destr7?>ers in the Black Sea
have sunk over 100 Turkish boats."
London, Aug 22. A dispatch to the
l'entrai News from Petrograd says:
"The President of the Douma has an
nTiunced that tnc Germans lost the bat?
tleship Moltke, three cruisers and
seven torpedo boats in the Riga battle."
The announcement of the Preaident
of the Douma, as sent by the corre?
spondent, follows:
"In the Riga battle the Germans lost
one super-dreadnought, the Moltke,
three cruisers and seven torpedo
"The German fleet has withdrawn
from Riga Hay.
"The Germans tried to make a ?le
rear Pernpvin ? Pernigel, on the
hore of the Gulf of Riga, some
thirty-five miles north of Riga?. Four
I crammed with soldiers took part
in the descent. They were repulsed by
tho Russian' troop: without the co?
operation of artillery, the Germans
being exterminated and the barges
captured."
A dispatch to "The Times" from Pe?
trograd confirms the announcement of
M. Rodr.ianko.
_"The losses of the gallant Raltic
fleet were extremely amsll," says the
"Times" dispatch, "in no way impair?
ing its efficiency, and so long as this is
preserved no serious danger can im?
mediately threaten Petrograd."
No report on the fight has eoir.a
from German sources since the state?
ment two days ago that one German
destroyer had been sunk, one beached
and one helped to port, after an "out?
post affair" in the Gulf of Riga, in
which three Russian destroyers had
been sunk.
The German naval attack, which was
undertaken as a measure of co-oper?
ation with the Teutonic land oper?
ation . in ?ourland and especially
against the important port of Higa,
ha- been going on for several day.
The significance of the German svith
drawal la not brought out in th? Pet?
rograd dispatch and no mention is
made in it of any Russian losses.
The Moltke was a battle cruiser, a
? ,f ship not included in the United
States navy, and one which has borne
the brunt of much of the hardest naval
tik'hting of the war. At the outbreak
of hostilities Germany had four such
reasels, combining the offensive p
of the battleship with the speed of the
cruiser. Three more were building.
The most famous of the original
quartet is the Goeben, now in the
Turkish navy. She was ?
? on tantinople at the outbreak of the
war and promptly sold to Turkey. Her
G?i man crew, remaining on board, did
much toward drawing Turkey into the
var by attacks on Russian port
?hipping in the Hlack Sea. She has
been in fr?quent encounters, has been
damaged, and at last reports had
been dismantled.
The Moltke, next of the four, was
heard from in the raid on the
British seaports of Scarborough, Whit
I v and Hartlepool. She was in the
squadron which, when attempting to
repeat the feat, was caught hv Hear
Admiral Beatty's squadron of British
battle cruisers on the Dogger Hank
and cha>ed back to cover of the Kiel
The Hlurher was sunk in this
ement, and the Seydllts, the third
?,'i-nan battle cruisers, wa- bad
?v damaged. She has not been heard
from finco. The Moltke, so far a? is
ki own, escaped wi'hout serious injury.
The fourth German battle cruder,
the Von der Tann, has not arneared
(iiinnir the war, to far as official ?lis
I ?itches show. She may have taken
part in the Dogger Hank affair. She
? ..nllnned on |.a-- t, rolnmn I
GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER SINK IX RIGA BATTLE.
The reported loss of the great German battle cruiser .Moltke is of peculiar interest to New Vorkers, thousands
of whom visited her in 1'M 2, when, as Germany's trreatest and newest sea lichter, she visited this city with the
squadron sent b? repay the visit made by the United States battle fleet to Kiel. Her beautiful lines and powerful
guns nude her a conspicuous ligure duriiif* the davs she \-.*?s anchored in the North River.
KAISER ENTERS
NOVO GEORGIEVS*
Reviews His Men at Capturo
Fortress, Which Is Still
Hurnin<i.
Novo ("eor^tivsk, Ruaqla*, Pol-m?
Aug. 22. fh'- German Emperor, wit
?al von Falkenbayer, chief o
staff of the German army; Field .Mar
? shal von Hindenburg, General voi
1er and a brilliant suite to-day en
tered the buriiing town of Novo Geor
gievsk.
Fmperor William, prior to his en
trance, reviewed in parade part of th?
troops which took the fortress in ai
, PO-day siege. The Fmperor witnese,
I the parade from the crest of the Nov,
) Georgievsk torts, amid cannon am
, barbed wire entanglements. He ex
pressed gratitude to God, who, he said
i had helped the troop.- and would fur
i ther help th" r,, and thanked the mer
for their aoo ?mplishment. Th
i pcror, who stood near the Associate?
corn "-pot.?lent, appeared to b?
fresh and strong, despite his arduous
duties.
After the pirado the corresponden!
entered Novo Georgievsk, where stores
ami supplies iverywhere were burning
ins apparently intended tc
take everythi.l' away, but the railroa?
? bridge broke down under the weight ol
the heavy mortars, thus cutting the
connections aid necessitating a de
fence of the fortr
Gorman officers stated that the vic?
tory was eonaidered more notible be
! cause the besieging force was smaller
than the garrison, and consisted in
great part of reserves, riot I'.rst line
troops. It was said that General von
Beseler, as at Antwerp, had compara?
tively little infantry covering his
heavy artillery.
The reference in this ?iispatch to
General von I'oseler as be. g in com?
mand during the sieg?, of Antwerp, re
eslli a report published in a London
newspaper ei that the con
queror ?>f Antwerp had shot and rilled
himself nt Bruges. There \s i
confirmation- of tu-. However, there
had been no mention in news d.s
patches of the activities of General
von Beseler in any of the campaigns,
up to the time of the fall of Novo
Georgievsk. The Novo Georgievsk dis?
patch apparently clears up one of the
smaller m ? the war.
CHOLERA PERIL
MENACES BERLIN
Amsterdam. Aug. 23 (vis London!.
The Berlin "Vo- 'ung" states
that the bathing places on the river
near Berlin have been closed by the
police, owing to several cases of chol
era among ship workers in Branden?
burg province.
The newspaper states that the lake'
around Berlin have been contaminated
and that energetic measure? are being
taken to pieveii" the >pread of the
, ra.
Francis W. Hirst
Editor of the London "Economist"
cables to The Tribune ?aice each week an authoritative digest
Ol hue-land's financial situation.
Vou will find his articles on the Financial Pace well worth
reading?thev Rive the ideas of a man whose i irnes
weight wherever the EnflUh language is spoken. Une ap?
pears this morning on Page 11.
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RUMANIA LIKELY
TO JOIN ITALY
AGAINST TURK
Rumored Ultimatum froi
Germany May Hasten
Plunge Into War.
London, Auf*. 22. Italy's deelarati
of war against Turkey is expected
' have'an almost immediate effect on t
Balkan states. The relations betwc
. Italy and Rumania for years have be.
tetj intimate, and the opinion is e
pressed hero that it is probable, e
peeially in view of the threatening n
titude of the Germanic powers tows
Rumania, because of her refusal
allow ammunition to pass through h
territory, that now Italy has broki
relations with Turkey, Rumania wi
join the Quadruple Entente.
Bulgaria la ?'till waiting for the r
ply of Serbia to the suggestion of ti
Entente ministers that Serbia cef
Macedonia to Bulgaria, while Greece
likely to declare her future polic
when the Chamber meets this wee'
The opinion is t'xpr.-s^eil in diplomat
circles here that i* is .significant thf
M. Venizelos, who always has bee
friendly to the Entente, has decided t
take charge, in addition to the Grecia
Premiership, of the office of .Ministe
of Foreign Affairs.
With the inclusion of Italy smon
Turkey's opponents in the war, and th
former's well known desire for expari
.11 the Near East, the Balkan state
may consider that the time is ripe fo
them to enter the field and secure fo
themselves, a share >l what falls t
the victorious group.
The continued retirement of the Rus
sian armies seems to have little if an;
influence on the situation, the opinioi
being expressed by military critic
that victory of the Entente Allies ii
the Dardanelles would more han offse
this so far a? the Near East is con
cerned, and the Franco-British force
are increasing their efforts to force th?
Straits.
German Ultimatum
to Rumania Reported
'i CaMrt 1?i 1
London, Aui; '-'-'. The situation be
tween Germany and Rumania has ap
rarentlv reached a crisis. From Bu
charest comes the report that Berlin
has ser.t an ultimatum to Rumania, af?
firming the right to transport muni
tions of war for Turkey through Ru
manian territory, which the Rumanian
Cabinet hrs refused to allow ? an
laden with munitions are reported held
un on the border, where Rumanian
troops are concentrating.
The Tribune correspondent at Milan
reports that the government ores? in
Germany is violently attacking Ru?
mania for her stand, and that the fact
that both the Kine of Rumania and the
? /-.r of Bulgaria have interrupted
their vacations and returned to their
respective capitals is regarded as fore?
casting momentous decisions in regard
to the stand of these nations in the
war. The King of Rumania held a con?
ference with representatives of all the
Balkan S'ates in Bucharest to-dav. the
outcome of which is eagerly awaited.
The following Reuter dispatch has
been received from Sofia. Bulgaria:
"Private a?dv io<?s from Bucharest
state it is feared there that Germany
has sent an ultimatum to Rumania re?
garding the right to transport muni?
tions of war for Turkey through Ru?
manian territory. The Rumanian < ab
inet is firmly resolved not to grant
this permission.
"A lar_e number of cars lad?-n with
Continued oa paga ?, column I
LAPLAND AT PIER,
SAW NO U-BOATS
Passengers Get Arabic News on
Landing Word Spread on
St. Paul.
fBr ?sabla <w'-~*w -***~-*it? 1
? ion, Aug. 22. Tie ?teamshlp
t.npland srfely reached Liverpool, its I
snoring passengers arriving in London
to-night. J. R. Holman. a Canadian,
said:
"Wo knew nothing of the torpedoing
of the Arabic until we reached Liver?
pool,"
The St. i'aul's passengers arriving
to-night stateil that the boat made the
last eight hours of the journey side bv
ride With the Lapland. Not a ripple
of excitement disturbed their trip, ex
i cept that the news concerning the
Arabic leaked out on Friday, although
i not officially posted.
SUBMARINE, SUNK
3 DAYS, ESCAPES
Crew Repairs Italian Vessel
After Attack by
Austrians.
By GORDON GORDON-SMITH.
Milan, Aug. 22. A crippled Italian
submarine burst t'r.?ough the surface
of the Adriatic ti-aay, after a sev?
enty-two-hour submersion. In the
foul air pent up inside of her lay her
captain, dead, with three of his crew.
Two rrtore men died as, her weakened
engin?s scarcely turning, she lurch ?1
toward the rendezvous of the Italian
fleet.
Men of the warsmps looked at the
craft in bewildernuMit as she slipp'-d
alongside. It looked ;:ke the Nereid,
reported sunk thieo days before by
the Austrians. Then, .vhen they real?
ized that it was really that vessel, a
great roar of cheering went up from
their decks. The vessil given up for
lost had returned.
To-night all Italy is thrilling with
the terror that the crew of a damaged
submarine, unable to rise from the
bottom of the Adr.atic, might have felt
and did not feel. For three whole
days thirty men groped about ?n the
foul air of their submarine prison,
without 'ight, without food, without
even sufficient oxygen to breathe. Then
when hope seemed lost, when the cap?
tain and three seamen had died, the
blindly searching lingers cf the engi?
neer touched the break in the connec?
tions which had crippled the engines,
and the Nereid shot to the surface.
In part, the Austrian report o* the
submarine's sinking was true. A tor?
pedo was launched at her and she did
go to the bottom. The tjrpedo did not
find its mark, ho-vever. The Italian
commander ..aw the trail of bubbles
rushing toward him. He jerked fran
I tieally at the diving lever, and the
'Vessel plunged, deep and swift. Over
her back the death bolt passed, but the
Nereid did not rise from her dive. With
her lights snuffed out, with her en?
gines dead, -lie slowly sank to the bot?
tom of th? ocean, and lay there with
thirty men inside her.
There was only the thinnest shred of
hope, but the entombed men grasped
this coolly. If the break in the engine
could be found they might rise to the
surface again. And in the blackest
darkr- -???. out to find it. The
air grew foul, but they still crawled
about, feeling desperately. Men began
to drop, but the few who could move
groped on. Then after three days' sub?
mersion the Nerenl began to rise. The
hatches were flung open, and "'"an
sea air rushed into ,ier foul interior.
"The Nereid, ?ur.k. is risen a.
is the message that telegraph and
.wireless are flashing to ever]? Italian
I to-night. i
Little HopeThat Facts
Will Temper the
Situation.
BELIEVE U-BOAT
H.AD NO EXCUSE
Officials Think Evidence
Will Show Attack Was
Unjustified.
AWAIT FULL REPORTS
President Moving with Caution
Until All Details Are Fully
Established.
[Frrrm T..e TrtSuiie Biar-su 1
Washington, Aug. 122.?Affidavit4*
of American survivors of the
steamer Arabic, which are belisvsd
to have been given to .Ambassador
Page in London yesterday, are ex?
peeted to reach the State Depart?
ment to-morrow. In view of the
unofficial sta- -ments already re?
ceived, there is little hope that they
will temper the situation. Officials.
are convinced that the attack of
the German submarine on the
Arabic irsa without j ist ?.?cation,
and that this will be establish?.?! by
th?* affi?lavits.
Unless the testimony show,
clearly that the Arabic was v.
by the submarine, or was pro
ing under convoy, or had oth'
forfeited the tight to I
.ambassador Gerard will ask the
1 German government for itg
! planation of the affair. The Stat?
! Department is only awaiting the
affidavits to take this action.
The speech of Joseph P. Tumulty,
[ secretary to the President, at
Spring Lake, N. J., yesterday, wa*
much discussed in official quarters to?
day. As the first public official utter?
ance on the .Arabic case, it is taken
as an indication of the attitude of
I the administration. Secretary
Thmulty is one of the advisers on
whom the President places much re?
liance, and because of his confidential
relations with the Pr?sidant his
utterances are regarded among offi?
cials as representing the \i<.??*
the Executive.
Tumulty's Speech Significant.
Mr. Tumulty's statement that the tor?
pedoing of tne Arabic had brought
about a "great international crisis,"
! and that the "lives and sacred honor"
of Americans will, if necessary, bu
pledged to support the Pr?sident 11 up
; holding American rights, are thought
? sismtieant of the gravity of the situa
tioi. as it appears to the administration.
While it is known that President Wil
! son will proceed in this, as In all previ.
ous critical situations, with the ut?
most caution and deliberation, officials
are convinced that action will be
prompt and decisive when once the
facts are in possession of the govern?
ment. Every available source of in?
formation will be canvassed before any
drastic action is taken, but there is a
?decided feeling that the President will
; meet the issue squarely and 'irmly when
1 it is fin ?Ily presented.
Mr. Wilson dit. not see Secretary Lan?
sing to-day. The only additional . i
formatio*? receive by the government
was in a dispatch from Ambassador
Page, which vas not made public. Th??
' re usai of the St;.te Department to give
out the message caused speculation as
to its content., and the reasons for
wit*hhol?jir.? them.
It was learned on good authority
that the mesiajre contained a ?ur .
statement that the Arabic was not
warned by the submarin?, before being
torpedoed. This survivor is said to be
I.uum Bruguiere, whose mother was
drowned as he was trying to save her.
The dispatch was short, containing not
over one hundred words, and was prob?
ably considered bv State Department
officials too fragmentary foi publia
tion until something of a supplemen
. tary nature was received.
.-.?ailing Official Reports.
Failure to receive more complete re?
ports of the disaster from Ambassador
Pane is not thought a serious matter.
Official dispatches are no* lobjl
cenvorship. and are ordinarily expedit
. ed in transmission by the cable com?
panies. It is assumed that the Ameri?
can Kmbas?y in London is experiencing
' difficulty in obtaining complete state
men's from passengers, as many of
'hem had only limited opportu
for knowing the real facts of the dis
. aster.
In the absence of authent.c informa
| tion ! ?*> ilsM?ta and Secretary
1 Lansing are keeping an ..per. ni.nd.
' They are particularly ftroi <
influenced by dispatches from unelB?
cial sources
The only direct testimony thus far
received through American official .be?
sides the dispatch withheld from pub?
lication to-day, i.? that ??ao American
lives were lost, thai thj*? Arabic wat