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I IV IV I. 1./.V Ti V rj?*t A KI-tKHBKBK TWO CENTN.
Germany Denies Intent to Kill Americans;
Asks Time to Explain Sinking of Arabic;
Washington Sees Desire to Avoid Break
WOMEN'S VOTES
URGED AS CURE
IN WALSH REPORT
Would Aid in Remedying
Industrial Evils, Says
Federal Commission.
WORKERS' SHARE
OF WEALTH UNFAIR
Telegraph, Telephone and Pull
nun Companies Assailed?Anti
Tipping Law Favored.
ISO Tf>r**.rh Is Th? Tri??un-?,1
?ico, .\ug. 24.- -Votes for women
it r.an erl in the second section of the
Indus-trial Relations Commission's
main report, made public here to-day.
?s one of the great remedies for the
?nrwhelesome industrial conditions
found in the commission's investiga
nf the cause of social unrest.
The leading feature of the report is
a ketch of livini and working condi
prevailins* in American industry,
particularly as affecting women and
en, and it is this evil aspect of
n for which woman suffragr
i as one means to bring
abo it improvements.
of the whole matter is, the
?. hat the workers have
d their fair share of the
enormous increase in the wealth of the
try 'luring the last quarter cen
Fiirures are given showing that
>ac has heen from 65 to m
??-.?? |M per cent, whereas the
-n't, intome of wage earners has
r cent.
one-third, and possibly one
. of the wage earners in manu?
facturing and mining, the report states,
are il The income of almost
th? 15,728 families in
? ?.,-< <\ wst less
than |7M a yeat, and Um than WOO tot
v lca.?t tha' would
? the average familv was
. to be ?TriO a year. Sever.ty
of 'he fathers earned
Uss than ?700, the rest coming from
the labor of the women and children
in the family.
Pauper Burial for Many.
Pespue the "repugnance of all
classes of wast* earners of all races to
pauper b*.;- .? so great that
? verything will he sacrificed ar.r* heavy
debts incurred to avoid it. it was
found, nevertheless, that in .New York
City one out of everv tivelve bodies ii
buried at public expense or turned over
to physicians for dissection.
As to the etTect of low wages on the
children, the report savs it has been
proved that "there is a direct relation
between poverty and the death ra?e
rf bsbies," it being shown in Johns?
town. Penn.. that "the babies whose
?V.hcrs earned less than $10 a week
d ed at the appalling rate of 2M per
1,000 during the first year. On the
hand, those whose fathers
earned more than $25 a week died at
the rate of only 84 per 1,000."
Other figures given are that in six
?? largest cities 12 to 20 per cent
of Ce children are noticeably under?
fed; that in four indu.-tnal towns
d 75 per cent quit school before
th? seventh grade, and that in the
families of the workers .'17 per rent
ti *re mothers sre at work and there
fon- in.able to give their children more
than leant attention.
? picture of American industry."
*?sys the report, "this i.resentation is
widen: ? My gloomy and depressing, but
?s diagnosis of what is wrong with
American labor conditions it is true
und exact.*'
Ir. rease in Tenant Farmers.
| rom manufacturing to farm
lat, an equally unhappy picture is
drawn, having to do chiefly with ten?
ancy, the rapid growth of which is
ul as "the most alarming fact
in American agriculture." In 1910,
th? report .says, there were thirty
,*?ve" ? rated farms per 100,
d with only 28 m 1890, an
?? of .'f.* per cent in twenty
A? to the oppressive methods of
?rers in squeezing the last
ll of their tenants, it is declared
thtir condition is pitiable, every
the familv being forceJ to
to sks OQt a bare e\i-tence, pro
la' the children from going to
i regulation of deH!ing
' ? n tenant and owner is era
Feeed
rung of the organization of
?tions by which the great prc
t>on<ierance o? wage earners are em
'? it is nointed out that the stock?
holders re-ally have nothing to do with
?dministratiori; the board of directors
IS out of touch and sympathy with
'he situation, while the real adminis?
trative work, e.ntrolling the wages
?nd .ive.s of the worker?, falls upon
*.**i'i man.-igers.ewho ar" driven bv the
?eir.aiid from above for dividen.I? t.,
own the price of labor and all
. ????h it.
Organization by labor is the only
?"???ni, to meet this, the report states
?1
e minimum income of everv worker,
toutuiued ua ???_* t. loliu?B S
MRS TYSON FIGHTS HOLD-UP.
Knocks Pistol from Lad's Hand and
Calls Police? Boys Captur?r-d.
Mrs. Mary Tyson, the wealthy widow
of H. H. Tyson, was held up yesterday
by Ernest Ambernia. fifteen, at the
point of a pistol, at Greenwich, l'onn.
Three other boys attempted to enter
the house.
Mrs. Tyson knocked the revolver out
of his hand, ran into the house, locked
the door and notitied Constable Jones.
The boys were captured.
MOSQUITO A PEST. NOT PERIL
Goldwater Says City Is Too Busy Sav?
ing Babies to Kill Insects.
"There is absolutely no serious dan
! per of an epidemic of disease from
j mosquitoes," said Dr. S. S. Goldwater,
i Health Commissioner, yesterday. "We
? are too busy savin?; the lives of the
i city's babies to be able to devote much
' effort to the elimination of a condition
1 which at worst only affects our com
, fort."
Dr. Goldwater said that in any ex
1 tensive campaign to eliminate the in
I sects from the city nine-tenths of the
i work would have to be done by the
citizens themselves.
DON'T TAKE A PIG
FOR SUBWAY RIDE
P. S. C. Bars Underground Me?
nagerie?Trunks and Bass
Viols on Black List. Too.
Here are some of the things you
can't carry with you in the subway:
A dog, cat, rabbit, guinea pig, hen
or other livestock, in a basket or not.
A bass drum.
A bass viol.
A wast basket.
A trunk.
A fats of gasoleno or any inflamma?
ble material.
? Also barred are bulky bundles or
I baskets which might incorvenience
passengers. Only ordinary hand bag?
gage and parcels, such as can be cur?
ried on laps or put under scat3, are
allowed.
Newspaper bundles are allowed with
restrictions. The papers cannot be
sorted on the cars or thrown from the
windows.
These regulations were established
yesterday by a report of the Public
Service Commission, which- also or?
dered similar rulings for the New
York Consolidated Railroad Company.
the Nassau Electric Railroad Company
and the South Brooklyn Railway Com
I pany.
In the case Of the latirr companies
large bundles which are not too bulky
within the discretion of the guard
may be kept on the platform in the
custody of the owner. Newspaper bun?
dles aie not allowed in the cars ex?
cept between the hours of 2 and 6
a. m.
The proceeding closed by the issu?
ance of this order was instituted last
May, following the receipt of com?
plaints from persons who had been do?
I nied access to the subway on account
, of bundles.
MITCHEL SUDDENLY
TAKES DAY IN CITY
Wants to See McAneny, He Says.
Then Go Back to Camp.
[By Tel-gnph to The Tribune.)
Plattsburg. N. Y.. Aug. 28. MayoY
Mitchel suddenly left camp to-night and
took the 10:41 train for New York. He
said that he was leaving on account of
pressing city matters and that there
I were some, personal matters he wished
to clean up.
"I want to see George -McAneny, act?
ing Mayor, before he goes away on his
vacation. I expect to return to camp
to-morrow night. I don't believe that
1 would get the real benefit of the
course if 1 stopped now."
The Mayor said he felt in splendid
condition.
MURPHY MIXES
MURPHY MELANGE
Arrested by Murphy. To-dav
He'll Face Magistrate Murphy
It started with a Murphy and it will
end with a Murphy, and there was
nothing to it but Murphy in between.
Thomas Murphy started in to demol?
ish Patrolman Rosenberg at the corner
of Grand and Mangin streets last night.
Rosenberg blew his whistle, and Pa?
trolman Murphy responded.
?aid Murphy to Murphy: "You'r- un
! der arrest."
Said Murphy to Murphy: "The h I
] am."
So Murphy took Murphy before Lieu?
tenant Murphy. Lieutenant Murphy
itold John Murphy, telephone operator,
?to call up Gouverneur Hospital. Dr.
Murphy responded. He patched up
: Pr;soner Murphy, ?ho was then locked
up, charged with felonious assault.
And who will try Mr. Murphy when
, he comes 1 .? for arraignment in the
Eaaes Market court?
Magistrate Murphy!
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j CONEY HEARS FIRING AT SEA
Mysterious Guns Boom Several Times
May Be British Cruiser.
Reports of heavy guns echoed -long
the beaches in the vicinity of Coney
j Island vesterday 11101111111*. and attain in.
the afternoon. At Fort Hancock, on
the tip of Sandy Hook, it was said
that no target practice was held.
The theory for the origin of the
tir.ii-- was that it came from a British
cruiser, possibly the Berwick, in the
vicinity o? the Fire Island Lightship.
WOMAN FIGHTS
THIEF IN HOME;
DUEL ENDS CHASE
Fleeing Burglar in Re?
volver Battle with
Policeman.
RIVERSIDE DRIVE
ECHOES WITH SHOTS
Mrs. Pearce Feigns Unconscious?
ness After Attack?$3,000 in
Jewels Untouched.
In the pitch darkness of her apart
| ment. on the fifth floor at 243 Wast
: Ninety-eighth Street, between Broad?
way and West End Avenue, last night
Mrs. Joseph Pearce fought for her life
with a burglar, drove him* down the
i tire escape and then used her remain?
ing strength in screaming for help.
A hallboy in the apartment house
called Patrolman William J. Seigar, of
the We-t llOrh Street station, who
picked up the trail from the burglar's
shadow playing across a window on the
first floor. After engaging in a duel
down Riverside Drive, during which
three shots were exchanged, Setgar
captured his man at Ninety-sevettfth
Street. He gave his name as Joseph
Allen, aged nineteen, and said he livej
at 112.1 Adams Street. The Bronx.
Neither the patrolman nor the burg?
lar was wounded in the duel, which
caused grc.r ? xcitement in all the tall
apartment Bouses mat line the Drive
in this neighborhood.
Mrs. Pearce's husband, an employe
in the paymaster'- department oi the
".?ei'rs ofhee, worked iix'.e last.
I night fixing up the monthly salary
1 schedule. She returned home about
I 9:30 o'clock, having spent the afternoon
and taken dinner with friends.
As she unlatched the door of her
apartment she was startled, momen?
tarily, by a lighted electric light in one
of the bedrooms. .She was positive that
she had not left the light burning when
j she went out at 2:30 p. m. While she
i raused on the threshold, nerving her
! self for the slam of the closing door,
the light went out.
Without a moment's hesitation. Mrs.
Pearce tiptoed to the mantle in th* liv?
ing room, took a match and struck it.
In that brief flicker ?-he shw a blur
| of something jumping toward her. The
match went out as Allen grabbed her
' around the neck and threw her to the
I floor.
Allen is a tall, stocky young fellow,
? with a powerful neck the type that
I the police often rind engaged in burglar
i ?sing. Mrs. Pearce is BBOrt and weighs
' only 120 pounds. Her screams for help
I ceased as Allen's hand closed around
her throat, but she still had strength
to scratch with her hands and kick ?? ith
her feet. They rolled over and over
around the room until Mrs. Tearce de?
cided to use a little strategy. She won?
dered if her assailant would be fooled
by the old trick of "playing possum."
He was fooled.
When she relaxed her muscles and
?feigned insensibility, he let go of her
'throat and dashed to the window leBd
i ing to the fire escape. In that brief
; interval Mrs. Pearce had had time to
lay her plans. As the burglar was half
way through the window .--he ran over,
?grabbed hi*? disappearing legs and re?
doubled her screams for help. Being
close to the open window she was eon?
, rident some one would hear her cries.
Unce again the man and his plucky
! opponent wrestled on the floor. Allen
was getting desperate. He could take
?no mare chances with this woman. 1|>
struck her in the face and knocked her
i senseless. There was no one to grab
him as he slipped through the window.
But Joseph Shaw, the colored hallboy
j who had brought Mrs. Pearce up to the
fifth floor in the ebvator, heard her
j cries. Shaw ran into the street, found
Patrolman Seegar and told him that
loud screams for help were coming
i from the Pearce apartment. As Seegar
: ran down the hallway toward the ele?
vator, he happened to look through an
' open door ami saw the burglar's shadow
! against a window.
Allen had climbed down the fire
escape to the first floor, where he, found
; an extension leading to the nex. a;?art
! ment, No. 24,">. By crossing this ex?
tension he reached a fence, and was
1 about to vault over when Patrolman
Seegar took up the chase. Seegar fired
one shot in the air and yelled to .-vllen
to stop.
Down Ninety-eighth Street to the
wall bounding Riverside Park the
burglar ran, with the patrolman right
after him. Just before he reached the
I wall Seegar tired again to drop his
i man. To his surprise Allen whirled
? around and returned the shot. Seegar
ducked behind a tree and sent another
j shot after Allen as he dropped from
I the wall to the park.
That was the last shot. After run
i ning a few steps farther to a place
'. near Ninety-seventh Street, Allen
dropped to the ground, threw away the
fiiatol, and surrendered. He was
ocked up in the West 100th Street
station house after Mrs. Pearce had
identified him.
In his pockets a gold bracelet, gold
j vanity bag and other articles"*of )?*?***.
! elry were found. Bureau drawers in
I the Pearce apartment had been ran?
sacked but $3,000 in jewelry had not
been discovered when Mrs. Fcarce
j came in.
Berlin Denies Naval Loss.
Amsterdam, via London. Aug. 24
Russian claims if gre.it German losses
in the ninai battle in the Gi.lf of Riga
are repudiated in a semiofficial tele?
gram receive.! from Berlin, which says
that no dreadnought or cruisers were
sunk or damaged.
BULGARS MOVE
AGAINST CABWI
TO HELP ALLE
Pro-German Ministry I
popular?Negotiation
with Turkey Ended.
RUMANIA APPROVES
ENTENTE PROPOSA
Berlin Considers Ruchare
Policy a Greater Rctraya
than That of Italy.
London, Aug. 25. A dispatch f
Rome to "The Daily Telegraph" ?
the Balkan League is to be re?
structed with a provision for putt ir
?combined army of 1,000,000 men in
field.
[Hi ? ?! !? to Th? Tribune.]
London, Aug. 24. Major ?level
j ments in the Balkan situation are
j pectcd almost hourly.
A Sotia dispatch to the "Vossil
Zeitung," i clayed here via Zur
states that ihe Russophile oppoeit
; in Bulgaria is demamiing a special s
sion of the Sobranje in order to o\
throw the P.-jdoslavoff fabinet. 1
1 Premier, whose sympathies are n
, German and who enjoys the contidei
of King Ferdinand, his refused
summon Parliament.
Greece has asked Rumania wl
| measures are in contemplation to p
vent a revision of the treatv of Bud
? rest, and Rvmania ha.*, replied tl
, ,he approve-! l?? piopvsels rf t
', Quadruple Alliance.
Rumania's policy, remarks the "V?
| sische Zeitiiig," represents an ev
greater betrayal of the central powr
1 than w-is tha O? Italy. In Berlin 1
tie or t-.o hoof remains that the form
tion of a Balkan league ajrainsl t
tci'tral empires ran he prevented.
The Bulgarian Minirter in Berl
has receivcil word from Sotia that Bi
g-tria's negotiations with Turkey ha
come to an ind. The "Vossische '/.<
, tung" infer.s from this that an agre
, ment has actually been reached.
To Satisfy Hulear?a.
The Serbian Cabinet will meet undi
i the presidency of King Peter to-mo
I low to discuss the proposal? of tl
I Quadruple A'liance for ?satisfying tl
SSpiratiODS of Bulgaria. In tiiis coi
; t.ection a Reuter dispatch from Nis
, van ;
I "It is not expected that the Serbia
reply to the proposals of the Knten!
allhs will he delivered for two or thrc
days. The government has encout
i tered considerable opposition, but it
I understood will be able to overcom
1 -.he objection-' offered, and agree, wit
I certain rese.'utions, to the proposal
of the Entente, powers."
The prevailing belief here is that Sei
! bia's reply will prove satisfactory an
! that Bulgaria's co-operation will bean
: sured. This would open the way als
I for an active policy on the part of Ru
? mania, which wants assurances tha
Bulgaria wil lnot attack her before sh
I begins to move hir troops. It is state.
that the railways of Rumania have re
, ceived ordeis to place all rolling stocl
;it the disposal of the government oi
I September 14.
Optimistic reports concerning opera
i tions on the Gallipoli Peninsula hav?
i been in circulation for the last few
I days, and 't is now being predictec
i that a few weeks will see the close ol
the Allies' most difficult task in thai
region. The Turks, too, expect the
Anglo-French forces to be successful
If news reaching Sotia from Constants
imple is reliable.
Negotiations with the N'ear Eastein
capitals are being watched with inter
< est,' because the aid of the Balkan
States or any one of them could not
'? but shorten Turkish resistance if the
| straits are opened.
In the mean time Austro-German
: armies arc aiming more heavy blows
I ut Russia, in the hope of putting her
, on the defensive indefinitely and Der
j mitting the removal of some of their
i own troops to other fronts, particu
| larly Serbia and Italy.
Amsterdam (via London i, Aug. 24.
! An official statiment issued by the
Turkish govennunt at Constantinople!
, and received here to-day reads as fol
' 'own:
"On August 22 the enemy attacked
on his new front near Anafurta ?on
the GalHpoli Peninsula i, but was re
! pulsed with I eavy losses.
"<>n the Irak front our troops at
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TEXT OF GERMANY'S PLEA TO U. S.
TO DELAY ACTION IN ARABIC CASE
Ambassador von Bernstorff gave out yesterday the follow?
ing note from his government relative to the sinking of the
Arabic:
"So far no official information is available concerning the
sinking of the Arabic. The German government trusts that the
American government will not take a definite stand after hear?
ing only the reports of one side, which, in the opinion of the
imperial government, cannot correspond with the facts, but that
a chance will be given to Germany to be heard equally.
"Although the imperial government does not doubt the
good faith of the Witnesses whose statements are reported by
the newspapers in Europe, it should be borne in mind that these
statements are naturally made under excitement which might
easily produce wrong impressions.
"If Americans should actually have lost their lives this
would naturally be contrary to our intentions. The German
government would deeply regret the fact and begs to tender
its sincerest sympathies to the American government "
TOKIO SPEEDS ARMS WORK
Okuma Confers with Mikado on Supply
for Allies.
Tokio, Aug. 24. Premier Okuma and
Minister of War Oka have visited
i N'ikko to report to the Emperor their
| plans for increasing the supply of mu
j nitions, in accordance with the recent
I decision to employ all available : *
i sources, governmental and private, to
ai?l Japan s allies in the war. After?
ward the Premier and War Minister
| conferred at length with the ambas, -i
i dors of the allied powers.
Orders have been dispatched to the
j foundries ami munition factories of
I the empire to rush their work.
JERSEY LASHED
BY CLOUDBURST
Storm Causes Big Damage?
Fires Started as Lightning
Adds to Wreckage.
I Hi Tlllimti 11 Tli? Tr|!,.lri? )
Sew Brunswick, N. J., Aug. 24. A
cloudburst which struck here early to?
day did heavy damage. It laste?! only
? short time, but was the worst in
years.
It is reported that two big tires oc?
curred, one in South River and one in
? Bound Brook. It is also ?-aid that the
1 New Jersey Agricultural Farm was
, struck by lightning.
Streets here were flooded and the
1 telephones were out of order fo- a
??hile. There was also some trouole
with (he electric lights. The greatest
ilaniag?' eras ?auscd in the suburbs.
LIGHTNING ROUTS
TENANTS IN PANIC
i Hits West Side Apartment House
?Hurls Man from Bed.
While the electrical storm was at
its height at l.M o'clock this morn
! ing a bolt of lightning hit the side of
' the six story apartment house at 74
! West Ninety-sixth Street and trav
I elled to the cellar, where it burst in
' a ball of flame, setting tire to three
woodsheds.
John yakley, the janitor, was
thrown out of bed by the shock, and
came to his senses with smoke and
tire on all sides. He ran out and sent
in an alarm.
Before the engines arrived tenants
of the house and neighboring houses
started to leave their beds for the :
aafety of the street. When the en- i
gines arrived the streets were crowd?
ed with men in pajamas and raincoats ;
and women in night gowns and bath
? robes.
3.000 BRIDGEPORT MEN OUT
Employes in .Nine Companies Strike
for Kiel-it-Hour Day.
Bridgeport. Conn., Aug. 24. More
strikes were instituted here to-day in
I an erTort to gain the eight-hour work
| day. The walkout occurred at the fol
j lowing plants:
The American Chain Company, th?
Henckle Company, the Columbia Nut
and Bolt Company, the Crane Com?'
? pany, the Bridgeport Metal Goods,
i Company, the Bias Narrow Fabric!
I Company, the La Resista Corset Com-,
pany, the American Tube and Stamp- ?
inj* Company and the Polack Tire and i
Rubber Company. In all, 3,000 men
I went out.
KAISER'S GUNS
NOW THREATEN
BREST-LITOVSK
Heavy Artillery in Place
as Germans Storm
Nearby Hill.
[Bt Tib?? fn Tfi? Tribune.]
Luf-ano, Aug. 24. Dispatches from
Lodz, vin Buchs, report that large
. forces of Austrians have driven back
:he Russians at Wysoko and I.itovsk.
The Germans have already placed
' heavy guns within range of the ad?
vanced work? of Brest-Litovsk.
Large detachments of troops from
the armies of Generals von Gallwitz
and von Kichhorn have already arrived
north of the fortress.
London, Aug. 24. While the Teuton
armies are moving closer to Brest
Litovsk, the flanking movement to the
south continues. A hill at Kopytow,
southwest of the Ku*?.?ran fortress, has
been stormed by the German forces.
And to the southeast the Austrians re?
port that their cavalry has entered
Kovel, an important railway junction
on the lines to Kiev and Kovno.
While the Russians are falling back
east and south of Kovno, it is ex?
plained by Petrograd that this was
necessary to prevent them from being
outflanked. They still hold both banks
of the Niemen River from Preny, just
south of Kovno, southward to Grodno,
. cne of the few fortresses still held by
them.
Further details of the fighting in the
I Giilf of Riga, says "The Daily Chroni?
cle," show that the German squadron
? had two main objects in view first, to
clear the gulf of Russian warships, and,
, second, to protect the landing of
! troops. As for the efTect of the naval
defeat on the land operations, no par?
ticular change in the position of the
(airman forces in ?L'ourland is to be ob?
served, except that the tendency of
their advance is not so much in the
direction of Riva now as toward Duna
burg.
German Groups Inited.
The enumy's group of forces around
Kovno has now united with the Cour
land group, and the front of their com?
bined offensive is on the Dunaburg
Kovarsk line. On this front the Rus?
sians are holding firm, except at the
southern end, where the Germans are
making an effort to reach Landverovo,
the junction of the trunk line, and the
East Kovno-Koenigsburg branch, just
west of Vilna. At this southern end
the Russians have retired to the right
bank of the Niemen.
To the north Dunaburg and Vilna
are, of course, valuable objectives, be?
cause their capture means the im?
mobilization for the Russians of m con?
siderable section of the Petrograd
railway, although, in view of the other
railways on the rear, it is not disas?
trous. The German occupation of
Dunaburg would, however, give trouble
on the Dvina and might mean the capt?
ure of Riga from the rear. These, how?
ever, are comparatively remote possi?
bilities, and the Russian resistance is
pretty firm in the northeasterly direc?
tion.
Seek to Trap Ciar's Army.
Of more immediate importance is the
position of the Russian army on the
middle Niemen, where the Germans are
trying to turn the defending line. One
step of the Russians in parrying this
movement is the retirement to the
right bank of the Niemen at the point
nearest the danger zone. Simultaneous?
ly with the Niemen operation, the Ger?
mans are aiming at Brest-Litovsk, the
two operations being connected by the
common object of joining hands east of
the Kovno-Brest line in such a way as
to trap a considerable Russian force.
But the Russian irmy has airead"
demonstrated its power A resisting to
the utmost and then stepping out of
reach the moment it is i.. danger of be
1 ing surrounded. The main question,
then, is as to the possibilities of the
enveloping movement against ?Brest
Litovsk. Here the engineering capacity
of the Germans will be strained to the
utmost. They have just entered at
B.elik and Vlodav? that immense
swampy and heavily wooded region
known as Polesia, which includes near
1 Bielik the famous Bielovteh forest, used
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KAISER'S NOTE OFFERS
REGRETANDSYMPATHY
IF REPORTS ARE TRUE
Taken as First Tangible Evidence
of Berlin's Desire to Maintain
Peaceful Relations
r
GOES FURTHER THAN
IN THE LUSITANIA CASE
State Department Expected to Comply with
the Request and Crisis Is Thought
To Have Been Postponed.
[From The Tribune Bur?*a u]
Washington, Aug. 24.?Germany does not watt a broak with the
United ?States. This, officials say, is the first conclusion to be lirawn
from the memorandum telegraphed to the State Department to-day by
.\mbassador von Bernstorif at the reque.??t of his government Just how
far Germany will go to avoid a rupture is not clear, but many State
Department officials believe she will go to far greater lengths than here?
tofore.
Burleson Highly ('ratified.
Secretary Lansing refused to make any comment on the .\mbassa
dor's telegram. The only Cabinet official who would talk was Postmaster
General Burleson, and it is regarded as significant that after hi.-, con?
ference with the President late this afternoon, Mr. Burle?on, a known
i advocate of peace, expressed himself as "highly gratified*' ovo.- the turn
i events ,.ad taken.
It is expected here that the German Awib-M-dof trill follow his
communication by calling at the State Department to-morrow and
assuring Secretary Lansing of the good will of his government and its
sincere desire to preserve friendly relations with the United States. No
appointment has yet been arranged.
BERLIN PRESS
SAYS TUMULTY
"THREATENS'
Secretary Quoted as Stat?
ing All Americans Will
Offer Lives if Needed.
Berlin, Aug. 21. No further details
concerning the sinking of the Arabic
have been published here, and the Ber?
lin papers refrain from comment upon
the situation resulting from that event.
The newspapers publish what pur
puorts to be a brief ?iispatch to "The
London Telegraph," quoting Joseph P.
Tumulty. President Wilson's secretary,
as saying that Americans are unitedly
with the President, and will if neces?
sary offer their lives to maintain the
inalienable rights of Americans on
land and sea.
The "Kreuz Zeitung" says: "These
inalienable rights, as is known, consist
of using British passenger steamers."
Several papers publish the Arabic's
manifest on a trip from New York to
London, beginning July 29. as con?
tained in a report of the German
American Chamber of Commerce of
New York. This report says that the
Arabic, "which was painted like a bat?
tleship, had twelve American guardian
angels aboard." The "Lokal Anzeiger"
says that this report shows that the
Arabic was equipped for battle, and
therefore not to be considered a harm?
less merchantman.
Says Tumulty Threatens.
The "Tages Zeitung" heads "The
London Telegraph" dispatch with the
line, "Wilson's Secretary Threatens."
The Ovor.-eas News Agency savs:
"In naval circles it is stated that no
official report has yet arrived concern?
ing the sinking of the steamship
Arabic, and that judgment will be re?
served until that tim . In any event,
the Arabic was a British ship, within
the war zone, and was on the way to
obtain another cargo of war material.
She carried s large amount of gold in
payment of war supplies.
"The fact that most of the pas?
sengers and crew were saved and that
there was ample time to lower the
boats and put all on board shows that
there was no catastrophe. If it is true
that some of tBe passengers were
Jrowned it is very regrettable, but this
likely was due to leaking boats, as in
previous cases, and to no fault on the
part of a German submarine, if a sub?
marine and not a mine sunk the Arabic.
"The German press has received the
news of the sinking of the Arabic very
quietly, and refrains from comment,
merely pointing out that press reports
from British sources are not clear and
that it is questionable whether a tor?
pedo or a mine sunk the steamship.
These dispatches do not mention the
exact time jT place of the incident."
Hopes It Was a Torpedo.
The Hamburg "Nachrichten," in an
editorial' to-day, says Reuter's dispatch
from Amsterdam hopei the report that
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? A narked ilaekening ef the tension
'that hu.- prevailed since the sinking of
the White Star liaer follewed 'he r>
eeipt of the anibasBsd i ? intca
: t?on to-day. It , - ? . that the
?crisis, if not avoided, has been indefi
I nitely postponed. The State De|
. ment, while it made no reply except
to grant permission to publish the tele
frran, anttuestronatlj* ?ill comply with
the German government's request,
i'he United States alnio-t certainly
?von rl h.iv,- n.v.ut -d an explanation
from Berlin before taking any drastic
action, ?>'J! the appeal of the Foreign
CHiee is regarded as a clear intimation
?of its earnest desire to avoid a break,
and was therefore heartily welcomed
as the first tangible evidence of the
German government's d ire for peace
'ful relations with the United States.
The communication which the Ger?
man Ambassador received from Berlin
ami which he sent to the Department of
( State follows:
'"So far no "official information is
available concerning the sinking of the
: Arabic. The German government
i trusts that the American government
i will not take a definite stand after
. hearing ->nly the report of one side,
which, in the opinion of the Imperial
government, cannot correspond with
the facts, but that a iharce will be
, given to Germa ?y to be heard equally.
"Although the Imperial government
j does not doubt the good faith of the
'witnesses whose statements are report
, ed by the newspapers in Europe, it
should be botne in mind that these
| statements are naturally mane under
j exci emer.t which night easily produce
1 wrong impressions.
"If Americans nhould actually hare
? lost their lives, th* would naturally
I be contrary to our intentions.
"The German government would
deeply regret the fact snd bes; to ten
i der sincercst sympathies to the Ameri?
can government."
May Be Taken as Dissvowsl.
Some officials go so far as to say that
j this constitutes a disavowal of the set,
though it is not specifically stated that
i orders had been issued to submarine
commanders not to attack passenger
, steamers transporting Americans.
This view is not widespresd, however,
! although attention is called to the fact
' that the German government has gone
further in announcing its solicitude for
' the safety of American lives on the
| seas than in any of its notes on the
; Lusitama. The explicit statement in
? the memorsndum thst the Germsn gov
? ernment belteves the testimony thus
! far published "does not correspond
with the facts" indicates thst Germany
! will offer some justification for the at
! tack, aim many officials believe it shows
conclusively thst attacks on passenger
i vessels without warning have been ter
bidilen by the Admiralty.
In any csse it is certain that the
(iermsn government vfill either deny
I responsibility or. attempt to justify the
I sinking of the Arabic. In the face of
the practical certainty that the Arabt<-,|