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Vol. LXXVII No. 25,82,5
[CopTTltht 1917?
The Tribune Ati'n]
TUESDAY. JULY 31. 1917
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ONE CEXT ?'S
York City
2 City Boards
Begin Test of
Drafted Men
Eleven Pass Physically and
Nine Fail; Ten Claim
Exemption
200 Added to Quota
Here; 39,000 in All
Recruiting Officers Blamed
for Change in the
Figures
Big forward steps were taken yester?
day In the business of picking the
(probably ? 39.000 men whom New
Tork City, its quota subjected to an i
eleventh-hour upward revision, la now i
ailed uPon *? Put ?n?? ???? ranks of
the Nstional Army.
With physical examinations actually
??nder way in two districts, the city's
??lection machinery at last had done
trlth the tedious preliminariea and j
?rts ready to deal with the life-or- j
'nth question of who goes and who '
?Uys.
At the sam*? time it was announced .
that every arm and agency of the
Tedera! government was sweeping
Into action on the trail of the slacker;
that finally the men who didn't regis?
ter and the others who have been
teheming and conspiring to "beat the
draft" will have a chance to feel the
power behind the law at which they
"?ought to laugh.
Of twenty-one men examined in one
?hit-net eleven paaaai the physical
tests. Ten of these say they will claim
uemption, and the other may do so.
Exemptors Now Judges
Thanks to a special ruling by Provost
Msrthsl General Crowder which per?
mitted the two racing exemption
beards to go ahead with the examina?
tion!, the ?elective service law in Us
??forcement may now be said to have ;
Batsed beyond the middle ground. For ?
tkt selecting men, except in the few ,
eues where the call lists are yet to be ;
fetted and the notices of call mailed to
Bgistrants, the weeks of exact and |
"ibor'.ous clerical work are over. From j
low on they will sit b's Judges.
The local boards which solicited the \
special ruling from the Provost Mar-,
thai General were the 145th, which has
Charles H. Tuttle for chairman, with
teadquarters in the College of the City
ef New York, and .No. 71, of Brooklyn.
TBa headquarters ol No. 71 are at Mad?
ison Street and BushwicK Avenue, ? nd '
Mi chairman is Jonn R. Lindsay.
Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Tuttle had asked
Gtr.tral Crowder if they must neces-1
larlly mark time for five days after.
tae notices to registrant's were mailed
tad the call lists posted. The general
?Udn't see any reas-on why they should,
M long as the registrants were given
to ur.der?7a: ?I tbtty were voluntarily
?tiring the notice to which the regu?
lation? entitle them, and so were to
?Ignify for purposes of record.
6o when the exemptors of Local
Besrdt 145 and 71 sent forth their no
***** they inclosed slips announcing the
?Btr.ce to "come early and avoid the
rah." Plenty of registrantt in the two
"fctriets took the hint, and the physi- j
etas members of the boards and their
tatiitantj were kept busy.
T**o More Boarde Start To-day
The fact that New York City's quota
Mi been reflgured will not upset the
?*ork which these two boards have ac
??mpliihed, nor will it delay the pro- ;
?tsdingt of other boards, two of which |
Wart to-day with th?-1r examinations.
Aceordm-? to Deputy Attorney Gen
*Ttl P.oscoe S. Conkling, whose news
of the revision of state quotas did not
wmt uti] late in the afternoon, the :
ttttp men whon the city is asked to ;
wpply probably aril) not number more
tfcaa SOO?an av.-ra>re scarcely exceed
Ugone to each exemption district. I'p
?ttte counties, from some of which
??tre has been considerable complaint, ;
?ill b? most affected. Not a single
?Mtropolitar. district, by the way, has t
tern pi ?.?.H of its quotas.
LUeroiting officer? both of the Ne- '
?-?al Guard and regular services are i
?lamed for the failure of the quota to [
?taad. Many of *.rer??, ?s Mr. Conkling '?
Mari It explained over the Albany ?
?"?*?, ?d not realize the importance of
*? ttate's request for information.
?Blr.kir.j* the figures wanted only for
tt-.ttictl purposes, they went mostly
?7 goeitwork in tupplying them.
War on Slackera SUrta
?"se cr.'ade on the elacker?,
?lahiit whom to date there haa been
M organized movement made by the
?jtkori*.;??, was tet under way at
??tklngton by Attorney General Greg
?lud States District Attorney Caf
**f Pteelved from Mr. Gregory a tele
***** In which it wa? called to hla at
*****-lon that ?houtanda of men had
*****wi any chtr.ee of military tervice
*T ?.reply rot registering. He wat In?
******?l, ?, Mr, I-edcral attorneys'
country, to begin a
2*_d-up of (-'.ackers and start criminal ?
? has been in receipt of
****** ' ?ations, some sigi
7*** a- which have warned
m at the plans of ?ertam tnen to :
****** content tion. The??? he ha*? I
"J*?td over to l'nited Staus Marihal !
7*-*r>r-y. e.t :.e?v York, and Ui
,"?*?"*? Msr>hs: I'ftw-r, of Brooklyn. !
J****-'-*' manhsls, as th? first step in ;
??SBti-?;*?K?r campaign, are eh?cking
*r\ *?** ,l,tarnsa\
_,.**** ?""?dartl Attorney hat at tpecial
*yt*-ao't twenty-five lawyer Tolun
"?_? ?opniied to him by trie Wsr ' MB?
S***?** of the \:?r at the City of New
?**. Th*?.?? m*n will ?JlfWCt ir.vntiga
?Tj ?' of slacker eases.
\\\%*f'' < snd |
3** pared ???"
l**?'tat r?-,
*,.'" "'< ?>???
** ?Ml '-?
J*** at drafl age .. ? ., ?(?liberately
Wil J ** r*X'*1*' w,ll be punished
^??ri???f,T..M. i,,, ,,?> rrior- -.*,_? g
_, __r-tj ?* th* ?*"? *>t the year ?mo
uT^Ht^i *r'"** th,''n *??
ft__,>**?11nf had tome good news
????***T**' '*' m-*n of military age who
?MBa ?ai^/L*0 %"? **i*linfly enough, i
?* ?*? MMi?B?I Arm,, ont wBa nan
VACATION TIME?
find themselves feeling, with the re- ?
ceipt of their notices of call, that |
they would prefer to enlist in regular j
or National Guard regiments, where
they are sure to find old friends.
By a previous ruling it had been
determined that after he had received !
the exemption- board's call no man '
would be eligible to voluntary enlist- ?
ment. Washington now rules that,
notice regardless, the registrant may
enlist where he will until the moment
that he actually is certified to the dis?
trict board by his local board. This
means that registrants who think
they'd rather be volunteers have not !
one day, but no less than a couple of j
weeks to get around to a recruiting '
station.
So far as official notification from
Washington to Alhany goes, the Dis- j
trict Board for New York City, whose
thirty members will pass upon all ap- t
peals and industrial exemption claims !
coming up from the 189 local boards, I
does not even exist.
It has been, perhaps because of a
well considered policy, the habit of the
provost marshal general's office to ]
give out information as to procedure in '.
driblets.
Little Anti-Draft Trouble
Even Mr. Conkling does not know
Ml when the district board is to ?,r-,
ganize Awkward though the system is j
in some ways, when all concerned are I
so anxious to understand clearly the I
whole draft machinery from the point I
w-here it takes in the civilian to that
where it turns out the soldier, it has
been suggested that the very red tape,
of the whole thing and the uncer?
tainty veiling each successive stt-p
until the time comes to take it may be
responsible for the dearth of anti-draft
disturbances.
At this moment every man of mili?
tary age is well within the grip of the
machine and feeling the grip, yet there
has not been a hint of organized re- .
.??stance. That, says one guesser, who '
is one of the machine's engineers, may |
be because every move that has been
made up to now has been made singly,
and between moves there has been a
lull, a period of days, during which
the registrant might have time to be?
come used to that particular phase of
his gradually shifting status.
For instance, there is no one now
short of Washington who can tell what
will be the method tf mobilization pur?
sued by Uncle Sam when he calls his |
fi*->7,000 conscripts into training.
Aliens Offer Bribes
To Board Surgeons
To Escape Draft
Frank offers of bribes have been
made, it is believed, in many districts
by aliens who wish to escape the draft
and believe that to be the common
sense way of doing it A member of
i,ne of the local board? in whose dis-,
tricts many foreigners live said that a
Urge percentage of the men notified to
appear for examination had tried that
method.
They have exhibited not the slight??-.
embarrassment in offering cash to a
doctor who is on the board. As soon
as it we* learr.ed that tho physician
was to examine those who called men
began to call at his office, it is said, to
a -emption. One man whose offer !
was refused could not understand that
his efforts were bound to be unsuccess?
ful, and blandly brought his parents
on his next visit, who offered to add to
the sum their ron had bid.
Ma.iy of the would-be bribers are
said to have b?*eri swindled by men
??ho made methodical ttMtl through
certain foreign Ml4t*ll4M announcing
that they wer?- fixers an ?I, for a price,
Arr,,t,gi- to hnev their fries? th?**
x?-inpt any -1 islg?Otoi man.
As much a? |10*l has been tak<n by the
fixer? la lomi rases, it is said.
?______________
Table ihovnng men calUd and
other inftrrm*%tion on the draft
will he found on Pafft 8.
Transport, Hit by
Coaster, Beached;
All Hand- Saved
Passenger Ship Holds Bow
in Gaping Hole of Gov*
ernment Vessel
An Atlantic Port, July 30.?A United
States army transport lying at anchor
in the harbor here this afternoon was
rammed by an Inbound coaster. All
those on board the transport escaped
injury.
The coaster crashed into the trans?
port on the port quarter aft. Instead
of backing away, she c.owded her bow
into the long, gaping hole just above
the transport's water line, and in that
position stayed by the transport for a
mile and a half, until the latter was
beached on neighboring mud flats. '
The coast liner carried 180 passen- ,
gers, including many women and chil?
dren, who screamed when the accident
occurred, but they were quickly quieted.
Transport Lists Heavily
Immediately after the collision the
transport listed heavily, and was
thought to be in a sinking condition.
Large numbers of small boats and tugs
in the immediate vicinity rushed to
the assistance of the transport and as?
sisted in taking off those on board. A
number leaped across the narrow In?
tervening space and boarded the coaster.
Excellent discipline prevailed at all
times. No lives were lost, and the only
injuries were a few bruises and
strained muscles.
As soon as the transport was beached
and those on board had ueen trans?
ferred the passenger vessel gacked
away and proceeded to ner pier under
her own steam. She suffered only slight
damages to her bow, insufficient to ne?
cessitate drydocking her for repairs.
Although the commander of the pas?
senger vessel refused to make any
statement to the newspaper?, it was
learne from officials of thhe company
owning the coaster that the accident
was due to misunderstanding of signals
in the engine room.
Officers and passengers alike were
unanimous in the opinion that the ;
blame should be placed on the incom?
ing vessel. In bright Bunlight, with- .
out traces of fog, the liner was pass- [
ing in, full speed ahead, to land her ?
passengers.
Signalled Half Speed
Despite the maze of small traffic, in- '
eluding several tugs with tows of
barges and excursion boats, the liner
threaded her way successfully until '
within one hundred yards of the troop- '?
ship. Here her captain, who was on !
the bridge with the pilot, signalled half I
speed, and then full speed astern.
Instead of stopping or slackening!
her ?peed, the steamer continued di-1
rectly on her course and rammed the |
transport. The chief engineer testified ?
at an informal inquiry held Immedi- ;
ately on the arrival of the liner ?t her?
dock that the bridge telegraph had not
recorded in the enifine room, and that
?It had received no ????nal whatever
from the biidi:''
It uns stnt"al thn* :?n official inquiry
??i.ilil be held imnvaliately by gov
nt ?affinals to determine lh"
exact cans? of the acrid? tit.
(The new? iif ths ?TsWve im ident wat
hai.dle?! I?y aon*??? of the a(t?-rn?xiri papers of '
Nrv V'ark ita a? manner ??? ?liarlos? Important
military Information to lh? enemy. Amone
them tha?y gave every detail at interest, one
supplying what another had omitted. There?
fore, all th* facts are out. Ho?v?yst, th* ;
failure of som? papers to o'jacrv? th? censor- j
ship rule? doss not releas? others from 'he
??lf-lmpoae-1 .?Migstion In kaatp them. Th? I
Tribune rei?*r?*4 th? matter U Um Coau?.t- ?
tee on Public Information at Washington.
Th? answer wns that the n?rr.? of both the
transport and th? liner might be publish-.!,
but a? the n?me of the Hr.ar would be a
clew to the port ?nd that of ?h?? transport
might supplement or amend in'ormation al?
ready in the hand? of the en??-.y, The Trib?
une think? the committees ruling incon?
sistent. Resides the n*m*?, The Tribune
omit? to print detail? wMefc were given in
big headlines by the evening papers. One
?aid it had heM it? account of the CotUsiofl
until permission to publish was obtained from
the authorities at Washington.)
-.
British Cruiser Sunk
By U-Boat; 38 Lost
- j
Ariadne, of 11,000 Tons, Sent
Down; Had Complement
of 677 Men
London, July 30. The British cruiser
Ariadne, of 11,000 tons, has been tor?
pedoed and sunk, according to an of?
ficial statement issued to-day by the
British Admiralty.
Thirty-eight members of the Ariadne's ?
crew were killed by the explosion. All ,
the other sailors were saved.
The Ariadne was built In 1898. She '
was 450 feet lontr, 68 feet beam and
had a maximum draft of 9lm feet. Her
complement consisted of 677 officers ,
and men.
The Ariadne carried sixteen nx-inch ;
gun?, twelve twelve-pounders and a '.
number of smaller guns. She also was
equipped sv-ih two i-ubmerged eighteen
inch torpedo tubes.^_
Student Officers Drill
With Mercury at 105
Candidatea Drawn in Draft Will
Take Tests in Platts?
burg
(By Telapaph to Tl.? Tribun?]
Plattsburg, July 30.?-Candidates in
training for officers' positions who
have been drawn in the draft may be
examined here. Not in camp, how?
ever, but before local boards in Platts?
burg, according to a notice from the
War Department to-day. All the ad?
jutant generals of the New England
States have agreed Vo the plan and it
is presumed here that Adjutant Gen?
eral Stotesbury of New York will also
agree. The notice from the War De?
partment adds:
"If candidates are accepted for mili?
tary service no doubt arrangements ?
can be made with the adjutant gen-;
eral concerned to have their training
unditturbed. and let them be commis- !
sior.ed if they qualify, and if they do
not qualify for commissions to let
them enter the service as drafted
????."
With the thermometer nt lOii, sev?
eral of the new companies this after?
noon W( at through bayonet exercises
for two hours and not a man dropped
In the ranks. The heat was so intense
at retreat that (rolonel Wolf called
off the first regimental parade which
was scheduled for to-day.
Brigadier General Clarence Edwards,'
commander of the Northesstern De- ;
partment. visited camp to-day and in-,
spected tne New England contingent.
In the post hospital William Jones,
of 381 East 138th Street. New York, Is I
dying from paratyphoid, complicated
with Bright'? disease. He is a mem-i
her of the 3d Battery, ?d Refriment.
Ria parertt are here and insist the
paratyphoid ir. the result of inocula
iion*- givp-i the young man ;tt the camp
hospital. This the surgeons, throuph
i oli.nl Wolf, deny.
Poisoned Plaster in Illinois
Freepor?, 111, July r?o Tet-anus
germ? have been found in court plan?
ter sold here by a crippled itinerant
pedler. Chemical analysis wa? com
p'tted to-day, and the announcement
Amendment in
Senate Opens
Door to Spies
Committee Votes Against
Restricting German Fire
Insurance Firms
Would Have Access
To All War Plants
Fight Will Be Made on
Floor to Block Proposal
of Frelinghuysen
[From *n?? Trtl-un? Buraanl
Washington, July 30.?The Senate'
Commerce Committee, in considering
the trrading-with-the-enemy bill, has
yielded to the argument? of Senator
Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, and has
adopted an amendment which virtually
permits unrestricted operation by Ger?
man owned and controlled fire insur?
ance companies.
As the bill now stands in committe?.
these insurance companies can send
their inspectors at will to munition?
plants, aeroplane factories, ship yards,'
or any other plant on which they hap-:
pen to have either direct insurance or I
reinsurance. Thus the German owners
or officers connected with these com-!
pantes have absolute access to informa?
tion which might be of tremendous
value to incendiary German agents.
Opponents Plan Fight
Against this amendment, which seem?
to have been adopted without discus?
sion of this phase of the situation by
the committee, there is promised a bit- j
ter fight on the floor of the Senate, by'
Senators who believe that the principle
underlying the President's proclama
j tion closing the door to marine insur
I anee of the many German owned or
j controlled marine insurance companies,
should be applied also to the Are In?
surance companies.
Mr. Frelinghuysen's plea to the com?
mittee, in which he was ba-ked by As?
sistant Attorney General Warren of
the Department of Justice, was that
to forbid American insurance com?
panies, for instance, to carry their rein?
surance with German owned or con?
trolled companies would he seriously to
involve the -".merican companies. It
would be a severe strain on the Ameri?
can companies, Mr. Frelinghuysen and
Mr. Warren told the committee, to have
this great bulk of reinsurance suddenly
wiped out, so to speak, leaving the
American companies carrying the en-;
tire risk.
Falls to See Danger
Mr. Frelinghuysen is heavily inter?
ested himself in insurance companies,
and Senators who attacked the pro?
posal saial to-day they had no doubt
that hi* had not thought of the possi?
bility of German incendiary agents ob?
taining information on American war
plans through the simple expedient of
German agents visiting as insurance
inspectors the plants where vital sup?
plies for the American army and navy
are manufactured.
They expressed considerable sur?
prise, however, that Mr. Warren should
have approved the Frelinghuysen pro?
posal, inasmuch as he has had charge
of all prosecutions of neutrality viola?
tions during the war. It was undei
Mr. Warren'-i direction that the bureau
of investigation, as the Department of
Justice sicret service is called, at?
tempted to sunpress the wave of bomb
plot? Men who had a personal part
in that fight are scornful of occa?
sional crank?. They frankly dread th?
organized movement such as they rec
Ogniz? was run by Boy-Ed and von
rapta.
Secret Service Men Worried
These men were delighted when the
The Tribune began its tight to have the
German marine insurance companies
fieprived of the valuable information
thev were so easily obtaining. They
are aghast now at the twi?ting of the
wading-with-the-enemy act in the Sen
j.te c.immittee which would permit in?
formation as to plants manufacturing
war materials to go into German hands.
The onlv thing the Senators on the
committee' seemed worried about was
that the premium money for this rein
Miranee?or straight insurance as the
cr.se might he -might reach Germany.
So they carefully provided that the busi
must be conducted under strict
?.upervision, and that no monies must
be sent home to Germany.
P.eports of the conduct of the busi
ress, however, may be mailed to Ger?
many at will. Senators outside the
committee who are opposed to this let?
ting down the bars, pointed out that in
such technical reports it would be al- ,
most impossible for censors to check a
code which might reveal almost any
information which this government de?
sired to conceal.
Frelinghuysen Director
Of Insurance Firm Doing
Business With Germans
.*'. nator J. S. Frelinghuysen, of New
Jersey, who is seeking to amend the
trading with the enemy act so as to
permit German insurance companies to
continue in business in this country, is
a stockholder and director of the In?
surance Company of the State of Penn?
sylvania. That company, it wa? ?tated
la his offices yesterday, is largely In- !
terested in German companies through
contracts for reinsurance.
It was a representative of the Penn?
sylvania company who secured the per- '
mit under which Carl Schreiner, head
of the German Insurance Interests in
this country, came to New York a week
ago. Schreiner came here to arrange
? aimpaign to allow enemy com
, a- ? ? . ' b I * her?-, which is
'an.
The *??MB inven whv enemy eom
*" continue
business in the I'mted State?, is the
need of protection to property. The ;
risk of conflagration is such in the
I'mted States, it is stated, that it is
highly desirable to have large prop?
erties insured in a large number of
companies, in order to reduce the lia?
bility ot each and mak?. more certain '
the pay-t-ntat o? lessee.
Wilson Wins
Fight for Single
Food Dictator
Congress Conferrees Aban
don Three-Man Board at
President's Demand
Senate Is Expected
To Affirm Change
Knotty Problem of V. ar Ex?
penditures Committee
.Still To Be Settled
Washington, July 80.?Yielding to
the urgent request of President Wilson,
Senate and House conferrees on the
food control bill'to-day eliminated the
provision for a food board of three
members instead of a single sdminis
trator and consented to mnke one more
effort to agree regarding the section
creating a war expenditures committee
of Congress.
The conferrees had reached a dead?
lock on the two proposals when the
President intervened, and there had
been indications that a final disagree?
ment might be reported. To-night the
war committee section, written into
the bill by the Senate and strenuously
cpposed by the President, was the
only remaining problem.
The committee will meet to-morrow
with the prospects strong that the
Senate members will yield to fjje
President on this point also.
President Calls Leaders
Before to-day's meeting the Presi?
dent conferred at the White House
with Representative Lever, heading
? the House members, and Senator
? Chamberlain, the Administration's P?n?
ate spoketman, and earnestly insisted
| upon one-man food control and elimi
; nation of the clause creating the Fx
\ penditures Committee. Within an
| hour sfter reconvening the Senate
conferrees yielded on the food admin?
istration section, adopting the original
'House provision for appointment by
the President of an individual admin?
istrator. no*t subject to Senate confi
mation.
The agreement was reached by ab?re
majority of one. Four Senators?
' hamberlain and Smith, of South Caro?
lina, Democrats, and Warren and Ken
yon, Republicans?voted to recede from
the Senate provision for a three-mem?
ber board. Senators Gore and Smith,
of Georgia, Democrats, and Page, Re?
publican, voted against receding. The
House conferrees, Republicans and
Democrats alike, stood solidly for cie?
rnan control, and also are united on
striking out the Congressional War
Supervising Committee.
The President's personal interven?
tion, the conferrees declared, was
largely instrumental in breaking their
deadlock on the food administration
dispute. His ourse was riticited bv
some members and some sharp tilts in
the conference were reported. Senator
Gore said to-night that the conferrees
had been "denied a full #nd free con?
ference."
Might Veto Bill
Success of the food administration,
President Wilson told the conferrees'
leaders, largely depends upon its man?
agement by one man. He said a larger
board would "seriously interfere" with
the successful conduct of the war. Thar?
\??re persistent but uneonhrme'l reports
that the President teit ? retention of
either the three-member board or tile
Congressional committee would he suffi?
cient cause for a veto. Senator Cham?
berlain declared positively that the
President gave no intimation to that
effect during the conference.
Reception by the Senate of the pro?
vision for an individual food adminis?
tration is uncertain, although Demo?
cratic leaders expect the conference re?
port to be accepted. The Senate voted
twice?63 to 10 and 60 to 23?against
accepting an amenment for one-man
control. Further spirited debate, with
criticism of Herbert Hoover, the Food
Administrator, is expected when the
report is presented.
Some of the Senate conferrees be?
lieve, however, that the Senate is M
overwhelmingly for the war expen?
ditures committee that a report elim?
inating it might be rejected. They told
the House conferees to-day that a pri?
vate Senate poll indicated insistence
upon the provision.
In yielding on the food administra?
tion section the Senate conferrees se?
cured adoption of a new section pro?
viding for a board of three members,
one of whom would be the president of
an agricultursl college, to fix wheat
prices, based upon the stand prescribed
by Congress for next year's crop of
not less than $2 a bushel for No. 4
spring Northern.
The conferrees also formally voted
to-day to abolish the rule establishing
secrecy in their discussions.
Pope Spurned Austrian Plea
Berne Hears Emperor Asked
Vatican to Intervene
[Trees Th? Trtbiaa Bureau ]
Washington, July 30.-?A cable from
Berne, Switzerland, to-day states that
the Austrian Chancellor, under the di?
rection of Emperor Charles, recently
attempted to nersuade the Vatican to
intervene in favor of a general peace
on the basis of the integrity of the
monarchy.
This, ;i?-cnrding to the dispatch, the
Tope refused ?<> do.
Sues for $47,356 for Glass
Broken by Black Tom Blast
Trenton. July 30. ?Precisely a year
after the munitions fire at Black Tom.
the Fidelity Plate Glast Inturtnce
Company aUrted tult to-day in th? Su?
preme Court agaimt the Lehigh ** alley
Railroad to recover $47,366. ?4, the
valu? of glass brok?n by th? ?xploslons.
Balfour Declares
This Is No Time to
State Peace Terms
Berlin Disavows
Peace Efforts
Of Erzberger
Officials Do Not Share Belief
That Talk With Lloyd
George Would End War
Berlin. July 29, via London, July 30.
-The German official world is appar?
ently not inclined to share the opti?
mism which Mathias Frzberger exhibit?
ed in the recent interview he gave in
Zurich and which burst *n upon Ber?
lin to-day.
As against the statements alleged to
have been made by the Centrist lender
to a Swiss editor, official circles here
to-day pointed to Chancellor Mi?
chaelis'? recent speech. When the
Associated Press correspondent in?
quired whether Herr Frzberger's pr?s?
ence in Switzerland and his announced
ambition to sit at table opposite Pre?
mier Lloyd George for the purpose of
arranging a peace conference reflected
the sentiments or the authority of the
German government, the Foreign Of?
fice replied that Herr Erzberger was
travelling and talking in a private ca?
pacity.
"The German Chancellor," it was
stated, "has demonstrated that he is a
peace Chancellor by his indorsement
of the Reichstag's peace resolution,
and since then in the course of his
address to the German journalists."
?.To this a Foreign Office official added
in talking with the correspondent:
"The recent speeches of Messrs. Lloyd
George and Bonar Law and Sir Edward
Carson, however, would not seem to
indicate that the foundation for a
peace of reconciliation and compro?
mise really exists. Other English and
I French utterances are equally incom?
patible with such an assumption."
Regarding the Erzberger interview,
the "Cologne Gazette" observes:
"After this interview- Herr Erzberg?
er cannot longer be taken seriously.
However, for the sake of the public
interest, we would urgently request
him to discontinue playing the role of
Providence to the German people."
The 'Tageszeitung" says: "Herr
Erzberger talks much, but in the long
run everything cannot be overlooked."
The "Germania" continue? to defend
the Centrist leader against attacks
from within the ranks of his own
party, asserting that while his peace
agitation is wholly in accord with the
Pope's recent communication, he was
not influenced by the Vatican's atti?
tude.
Erzberger*s Statement
Has Backing of Austria
London, July 30. -Matthias Erzberger,
the Clerical leader of the Reichstag, is
not Germany's, but Austria's peace
. -nissary. His statement in Zurich
that "If I could talk with Lloyd George
or Mr. Hal four sT? could in a few hours
reach an understanding which would
enable official peace negotiations to
commence," is ?aid to have been made
with the backirg of Austria-Hungary.
It is recalled here that Erzberger'?
recent sensational attack on Bethmann
Holiweg, which resulted in the latter's
downfall, was the result of ?a journey
he had made early in July to Vienna.
In the .*iustrian capital Erzberger and
several of his Cathoiic Reichstrg col?
leagues were in consultation with Aus
trian leaders. Upon their return to Ber?
lin they lent the'r support to the Left
parties, causing the greatest political
il Germany since the beginning
of the war.
Pogroms Sweeping
Cities of Russia;
Graves Desecrated
So t-trong is the wave of reaction
r.o'.v sweeping Russia that pogroms
have occurred in various cities, accord?
ing to the Petrograd correspondent of
the J.ewish "Daily Forward." The mes?
sage ?ay- :
"Pogroms agpinst Jews took p'ace in
a few cities in South Russia. At Alex
androvsk, in the province of Ekater
inoslav, the local Council of Workmen'.!
Delegates had to ask for help from the
Cossacks to put the pogrom down.
"At Tamonol the pogrom was of such
serious nature that the commander had
to put several leaders to death before
it was stopped.
"At Elizabethgrad a great crowd dug
up tli3 Jewish cemetery looking for
concealed provisions. ?
"At Moscow proclamations inciting a
po-avrom were confiscated, together with
un illicit printing establishment where
a newspaper of the Black Hundred was
issued."
French Firm as Ever,
Lloyd George Says
London. July 30.?Addressing the
press representatives in the House of
Commons to-day, Premier Lloyd George
referred to the buoyancy of the French
nation after three years of war and
said:
"I fcund during my visit to faris
that the spirit of the French people
was better than I had ever known it.
There WM a sense of discouragement
at th? collapse of the Russian armies,
but in spite of all the French were as
rc?"!ute as ever.
"It itfoaet very largely on th?
French whether *.ve shall get ihrough
to the end. If the Fr?neh and our
hang together we shall get
through to the end, deipite our Russian
trouble?. The Russians are an incal?
culable quantity; they fought when we
Wst expected them to and they hung
back at time? when it seemed they
ought to go on My latest informa?
tion is that Russia will recover and be
l(M ?? formidable a? ?he ?rer ha?
been." ?}
Europe Cannot Be Mad?
Secure Till Germany Is
Powerles?, He Say?
U. S. Distrusts
Michaelis Speech
Berlin and Vienna Pro?
nouncement Believed De?
signed to Split Allies
London, July 80.?Arthur James Bal
four, the Foreign Secretary, declared
in the House of Commona to-day that
Britain could not state her peace terms
at this time.
This wa? his reply to the demand for
a definition of the Allied aims, made
last week by speakers* in the House,
among them ex-Premier Asquith, who
declared that "the best hope of peace
is a frank and open statement, both
by way of avowal and disavowal of the
objects for which we are fighting."
John Annan Bryre, Liberal, tnd oth?
ers, including Noel Buxton, had taid
that an unfortunate impression had
got abroad that Great Britain favored
a policy of annexation, but would not
define her aims. The> commented on
the pl?*as in the Commons last week
fer a statement of terms.
Mr. Balfour answered that he was
not sure it would be wise for the gov?
ernment to declare its policy. When
every ministerial statement was treated
as a pledge, he explained, it we?
dangerous to accede to requests for
definite announcements.
Nationalists Should Be Free
With respect to the Jugoslav and
Austrian question, said the secretary,
it was impossible to foretell the posi?
tion in which the world would find it?
self when these problems came to be
decided, and he would be doing a very
ill service to the country were he to
attempt to define the position now. The
government believed that the Nation?
alists composing that heterogeneous
state should be allowed to develop
along their own line? and to carry on
their civilization in their own way.
"As everybody know.?," continued Mr.
Balfour, "we first entered the war to
defend Belgium and prevent Frarxa
from being crushed I before our evtt.
Nobody with the smallest knowledge
of the facts supposed that Sir E'lward
Grey ("formerly Foreign Secretary) and
the government of which he was a
member when he made the fateful dec?
laration on August 3, 1914, made it
with the smallest thought of the great
problems which the course of the war
has opened un. We ?lid not enter the
war for any selfish purposes, certainly
not for imperialist aims or to get in?
demnities. Our purposes were com?
pletely unselfish; therefore we ttoodin
a different position from any of our
allies. We hoped to s?>e Europe freer
and more stable."
Restoration of French Lands
If France asked it, he failed to ?te
how Great Britain could refrain from
going on to assist her until ?he got
back to the position which existed be?
fore the attack engineered agalnet her
by Bismarck in Itfl, namely, that "the
obtain restoration of that of which
she was violently robbed more than
forty years ago."
Mr. Balfour expressed an opinion
which was simply his own when he
said that if France asked for Alsaee
I.orr.iine Great Britain should support
her, but lie declared that France was
not fighting for Alsace-Lorraine alone:
she was fighting for her very exitt
ence. The questions the House had
discussed were occupying the atten?
tion of the whole civilized world al?
most to the exclusion of every other
subject.
Aa to the democratization of Ger?
many, said the Secretary, it had been
hoped that autocracy would give place
to parliamentary institutions as they
are understood, but nobody was foolith
enough to suppose that it would be
possible to impose on Germany a con?
stitution made outside of Germany.
Until Germany wat either made power
lett or free he did^ot think the peac?
of Europe could be secured.
The fight must go on, he declarad,
for if this war ended with a German
peace, that would only be a prelude to
a new European war. If the peace waa
to be one that England and America,
which had no interests on the Conti?
nent, could approve, then it would lead
to a permanent settlement, which
would in turn conduce to tnat great
understanding of the nations which
would give Europe a security It hsd
never known before.
Germany Must Save Herself
"Germany must work out her salva
Hon," continued Mr. Balfour. "You do
BOt mend matters by imposing a con?
s': tn1 ion, even if you have the power.
Nations must malte their scheme of
l.berty for them.eh?????, according to
their own ideas and based on their
his*ory, character ar.d hopes.
"But if it is true that the great
power of German imper.alism is still
depending upon the belief, the belief
driven into the German nation by th?
wars of 1866 and 1X70, that only undor
the imperial system can Germany be
great, powerful and rich, then, if* ?x
perienceeeshows that the imperialistic
system can produce not merely a tri?
umph one time, but inevitably lead to
corresponding dieatter at another, it
may well be that those views, which
found all German teachers for more
than a generation before the Bis
marchian domination, will revive with
new luttre and new ttrength. and that
(i-rmany with all her powera of or?
ganization and all her inherited culti?
vate, will be add?d to tho-e nation?
which. b'*fore the war, could be de?
liberately nrovokt-d in order to further
th.? commercial or political interetts of
any -iiiglt community.
'When Germany hat come to th?
level of the United Statet and Great
Britain in that reapect we may hoce
that one of the great ditturbert of the
peac? will forever be eliminated. I do
not know who will ventur? to ?ay for
? moment that, looking at??h? InUrnal