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TES CENTS
ElMwher?
Suffragists
Sure to Win
In Tennessee
leaders Now Count On 62
' Votes in House, 12 More
Than Enough to Insure
Victory for Ratification
Senate Resolution
Closely Guarded
Precautions Taken to Pre?
vent Trickery* Speaker
Resents Wilson Note
-? .'? ? ?? : '? to T'lc Tribune
NASHVILLE, Tenm, Aug. 1-i.?-Sixty
two members o'~ the House of Repre?
sentatives, il was declarad to-night by
suffrage leaders, can be counted upon
to vote for ratification of the Susan B.
Anthony amendment when the resolu
t:on comes before that body next werk.
This is twelve more than the majority
required.
The Senate yesterday passed the
resolution by a vot?. of 55 to 4. a much
larger majority than had been cx
pected by the most sanguine supporters
of the nt Adopti >n of th<- reso?
lution by the House wot Id complete
ral - .-ti ';i;t.en*.
"?'- ilso telegram to
Speaker Setii Walker of the House
?rgittg thi passage af the resolution
had not converted Walker from opposi?
tion. He telegraphed
the Pr? lay ref ing to agree
?
profou id honor to s
I n iw] ' ugu t 13," ??? .
. ' I do not
stte pr? view of other
' lower hou:. '? n
ness ?e, n ; .: for n yself a
i .... amend? tit nie
. You were too great
to asl it, i i 1 do n? t believ that men
: ?'? i hont'si
. . i-i iency or
- tote Resolution Guarded
1872, it requires that
uHon to '.>? % a!.1.! must
I by hand o parchment
past errors 'if s often b? en pur
i de by engrossing clerk.; to
. r? snd on certa ;n oc
? ' 'i lost
Th< :- nate resolution of
? . . rosse I, corn
errors, i ' ' ect, and 1 -
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'?" . - time ??' where it csnnot
i ' 2 o'clock, whei
t will b
pr?s ? i 1 clerl by p. Si
be brought to
thai h' will
he obit - ? *o put ? ? i? : the calend; r.
ist "i tquently
?is, bu'
icti? loked for in this
?
A Sena I ' n under Hou: e
all House
ora up as regUiar
b firsl item.
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- ' pecti ? " -'-. -.i Walker v.ill
? to the same com
d tl House
? ber fi om Thursd?.; .
frage me.ii
11 ?? t ? '-,..? it away from
case the Speaker
? ike a two-fnirds
a appeal from the
aken. A major?
ity < a ? he ?'?ti' ir, so tro
s ertaii be bi iught up.
te 1- Assured
Tl ? vill in? ure the taking
r;' s i W len the anti
gist? c irds are stack? 1
expected to
band wagon on the
- ? - ? o us in g House
' ? ' ? tation.
case in the S ;na. .
ne vot es 'or ra' i
fication b fore th? - bate began. Whin
. ?": a move to table
re; ' si ratification,
the vote .'?' i ? owed t he
I .- : s of 1 heir case.
I . at decision
. more v? ted for suffrage
? ' asl s?vi ntj -' ve
?re exj ? ? in on the
'? . : ?
.?i- 'i ' suffrage mem?
bers ' ? ,.;..-., ,.-.. . (he re olu
1 ?:?., signed an agre?
them t : stay in
tend ry a? -sion of
? ? until ratil cation is an
? ?" the adjournment Fri?
day thi i . . . nn ? was put in circula?
tion. Frida; ; ov? i forty signa
torea were ?cured to it, and to-day
''r'p''.- are more than a majority of the
member
Unite? Senator Kenneth D.
iding ti g ?i 1 deal of
time there, so is Governor Roberts,
jwpresentatii ? 1. Will Taylor is on
nand to look after Republi :an?.
I. C C. Bars Flat 8-Cent
Fare on Hinlr on Tubes
Proposed Tariff ?cltl No! Justi
toed and Compair; is Order?ed
to Cancel h 1>\ Aug. .'?1
V A HING ?TON, \iig. i '. Th ? Inttr
5-atc: Commerce Commission to-day
??,'r--a the Hudson & Manhattan Rail?
road Oompanv to suspend its schedules
?Wiring a flat eight-cent fare on both
"Ptow- and dowjjtown trafTic.
Deciding the application of the Hud
??? & Manhattan Railroad for the flat
***."*? commission said that the pres
*?? interstate local passenger fare, cf
?'* cents between Jersey City and Ho
7"en and the Hudson Terminal Sta
??ti. New York, and of 10 cents b< -
?ten Jerse\ City and Hoboken and
fiions on the line in New York, from
vnristophet- Street to Thirty-third
?^rtet, was found justified, and the
Pfopused fare of eight cents waa found
TK? h:,V? been -"?l's*;'';(''
lr" road is required to cancel the
Wjposed tariff on or before August 81,
I <??<! further proceedings are ordered
!? "'?cont.i.ued.
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Wov? yi< '*pres?ed by employers lo im
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Japanese Fear Social
Revolution in China
HONOLULU, Aug. 14.?Japan
is expected soon to call national
mass meetings of its citizens to
obtain their views on foreign af?
fairs, because of the increasing
gravity of the international situa?
tion, says a Tokio cablegram to
the "Nippu Jiji," Japanese lan?
guage newspaper here.
The dispatch, giving press opin?
ion on Chinese political changes,
declares the new Chinese Cabinet
is "decidedly pro-American and
anti-Japanese in sentiment," and
declares some Japanese expect a
social revolution in China.
Cox Accuses
Senate of Plot
To Mule U. S.
Republicans in Upper House
Charged Wilh Attempt
to Annex the Presi?
dency to Domination
Makes 5 Speoeb.es in Day
Declares That He Could Not
Pc Kept 3Iuzzled on His
Front Porch by Any Rinj:
WHEELING, W. Va., Aug. 14.?Gov
1 ernor Cox to-day threw his force into
' che Presidential campaign with five
speeches hove and through Ohio, all
'flaying what he termed the Republican
; "reactionary candidat: and leaders"
and supporting the League oi* Nations
' tl ? premier Democratic cause.
Democratic candidate stormed
?the Rep?blica:] position, attacked the j
''Senatorial oligarchy," which, he said,
was trying to add the Presidency to
its domination, denounced 'proposals
for n separate peace with Germany as
"perfidy" and charged that "m few
men ware banded together trying to
buy the Presidency."
Million; up< i millions of dollars,
Governor Cox added, are being taken
into t '.e Republican campaign fund.
That Senator Harding, the Rcpubli
cai nominee is surrounded by a Sen
; ; irial 'ring" was asserted by Gov?
ernor Cox. The ? Democratic nominee
? dd d, in a fli g at the Harding front
porch campaign, that h could not be
"kept muzzled" on his front porch by
any ring.
'.t was the first big day of campaign?
ing undertaken by the Democratic can
'. di "' oring from Columbus early
this morning, he made three brief ad?
dresses en route, ai Zanesville, Cam
and St. Clairsville, ^'li?. ad
1 th? West Virginia Democra c
convention late to-day and \ big pub?
lic meeting to-ni^ht on the river front.
All through Ohio ne -vas given infor?
mal receptions, waving at groups gath?
ered at almost e\ery village, many gay
with fla^s, and shaking hands with
! hundreds.
league Chief Topic
The league was foremost in all oi
the Governor's addresses. The Re?
publican leaders, he charol i are h
hind a "smoke screen oi hypocrisy?
for one thing pure and simple, Admim -
tration spoils." He also stressed what
.... leclared was the fight between "re?
actionary Republicanism" and "prog?
ressive Democracy" and predicted his
election.
All of the Governor's references ??
?', league were vigorously applauded.
"The one oustanding question of the
campaign," he said to the state con
.: tion, "i whothei we are oi' are not
? . ne vi keep ' .i:h with the boys who
died in France."
Declaring that the league is a p?edfeo
to those who died, Governor Cox told
of his recent visi? with President Wil?
son
"I wish every Am.', ?can could have
hern v. ?th me." he .said. "The Prcsi
dent's whole thought is that he gave a
?promise to the mothers of the rat.on
when he ask< d them for their hoys and
he warts to live long enough to sec the
faith kept and that pledge fulfilled."
The Governor declared that the
league also was a pledge ivhich "will
I make war impossible, or practical'-.
.-!'." The Republican leadership he
1 said, vas acting in partisan "bad
.liti" in opposing it. Governor Cox
add' d that he hud the "highest pers ?n
(Contlnuod en page, til
V/ilson Gives Ride
To Three Urchins
I -
President Stops Car* Says
"'Hop in" to Kids Com?
ing From Swimming
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (By The As?
sociated Press). Three kids, just out.
| of a swimming hole in Rock Creek
Park, we re picked up to-day by Presi
| dent Wilson, treated to a forty-five
minutc motor ride and dr oped out at
their home in town so proud the folks
; there could not he'd them with a rope.
The trio had just come from a dip in
: one of the park's streams and wore
? hiking along the roadway, when they
! saw the White House car and recog?
nized the President. 0;f came their
caps, and as Mr. Wilson ordered the
ear stopped they timidly approached
and asked how he was getting along.
"Hop in," said the President, and
they hopped.
All along the ride they kept their
' eyes on ihc President and Mrs. Wil
i son, and answered more questions than
i thev asked.
Water from tousled heads trickled
over three sunburned faces and
dropped on the President's shoe?. One
? youngster ducked to Dave the Presi?
dent's shine, and apologized, but was
[ told not to worry.
Corning down Connecticut Avenue the
1 youngest of the trio, a thin, frail lad.
| "barely eight years old, spied a kid he
: knew and called to him by name. The
! youngster in the street dropped a loaf
cf bread and gasped.
When the kids got out all three shook
hands with the President and his wife.
"So long, bo!" one shouted to the
Secret Service man on the front seat.
j The President smiled *broadiy, lifted
' his hat and started home.
Pope's Gifts
In $100,000
Gem Robbery
Summer Residence of
Martin Maloney, Papal
Marquis, at Spring Lake
Beach Looted at Night
Cardinal Gibbons
Guest of Victim
Philadelphia's Losses in?
clude Prized Gifts From
Pontiff ; No Arr?stsMade
SPRING LAKE BEACH, N. J., Aug.
1-!..Burglars got jewelry, silverware
and other articles, valued in ail at
$100,000, from the summer home of l
Martin Maloney, of Philadelphia, a
papal marquis, last night. Fifty thou?
sand dollars worth of valuables were
stolen earlier in the night, by the
same, gang, it is thought, from the
home of Samuel Metzger in Allen
hurst.
It is believed that the burglars rob?
bed Ballingarry, the Maloney estate,
between 11 p. m. and midnight.
Cardinal Gibbons and other cuests !
were in the house at the time and ;
some of the household had not yet
gone to bed when the thieves set to
work. Private detectives have been j
engaged by Mr.. Maloney.
Thej be-iieve 'hat unless the burglars
had confederates in the house, per?
haps among the servants, they would
not have dared to rob the place while
lights still glowed in many of the
windows. It was an hour, however, ',
when it would have been comparatively
easy to fgain entrance to the house,
the risk heing that of discovery when;
once inside.
Detective* Question Servants
The estate is surrounded by a hii h
iron fence in which are several gates.
The smaller gates^arr locked at night?
fall, but the main entrance has- re?
mained unlocked all night for several
years, owing i> the immunity from
burgh.lies which Spring Lai;.' Be ich
has enjoyed of late. Once inside the
gate the movements of intruders would
l>o concealed by the tree- and shrub?
bery until they got within range of
the lights of the house.
Until the housrhold has re'?red many
of the g:ound floor windows arc left
(pen, and entrance could be gained
easily by a thief who was confident
that his movements inside would b?
protected by s confederate.
?ill of the servants v. ere questioned
to-day by the detectives callrd to take
charge of the case, '.hough most of
them have been with the Maloneys for
years and are above suspicion. All of
them d elared that they had seen no
si ranger about the place last, night.
Gifts ?'rom Pope in Loot
Y t the burglars tot in without
forcing ;. window or a door or leaving
any other evidence of their entrance.
Moreover, they wen* through the house
or ead it searched by a confederate
whose movements wou'd arouse no ; us
? pic'on. Jewelry and silver of consider?
able bulk were taken, as well as several
j articles which were gifts to Mr.
Maloney from the Pope and were re?
garded by their owner as priceless.
It. was not until this morning that
the thefts were discover d. Mr. end
| Mrs. Maloney who attended a reception
yesterday afternoon with Cardinal
Gibbons at Seawood, the summer ho...;'
of Samuel H< ilner, were confident that
-all was as it should be at their homo
\ when they returned.
ASBURY PARK, X. J . Aug. 14,
; Thieves who learned the lock combi
nation of a safe in ?lie Sunset Avenue
horn-' of Samuel Metzer, an official of
the G u ;rge n heim C o r p o ra t i o n, la s t n i gh t.
obtained jewelry valued at more than
$90,000. A diamond necklace, valued at
$7.500, was overlooked.
The robbery occurred while Mr. and
Mrs. Metzer were away. Servants said
they heard no disturbance.
The ste'en jewels, all the property
of Mrs. ?Metzer, included many rare
pieces. There were a. platinum dinner
ring, set with three large white dia?
monds; a ?old mesh bag, a diamond
and platinum bracelet wateh; opera
glasses, set with jewels, and many
min 'V anieles.
Stocks and bonds in the safe weve
left untouched by the robbers.
? (J. S* Soccer Team
Barred by Brazil
President of Republic
Suddenly Cancels the
Passage Given Athletes
V -, the Lamport & Holt liner Ves
| tris moved out into the stream from
her dock in lloboken yesterday bound
I for the Argentine she left behind on
the pier a quantity of baggage bel mg
ing to ?.he soccer team of the Bethle?
hem Steel Corporation. likewise she
failed to carry the team itself. its
passage, it was said, was canceled late
Friday night by orders of the President
of Brazil.
The team, which recently returned
to America from Stockholm, Sweden,
was invited by the Brazilian govern
? ment to participate in the soccer
mat :hes at Rio de Janeiro, the ex
p ?Uses to and from Brazil to be de
? fr.-.yed by the Brazilian government.
Through a local steamship agent
? their passage was booked on the steam?
ship V'estris and their passports were
i vised by the Brazilian Consul.
Late on Friday the agent went to the
: Lamport & Holt office and informed
the line that the passage of the team
! would have to be canceled. He said a
: message had come from the President
j of Brazil himself saying that no for
! eign teams were to compete in the soc?
cer games at Rio do Janeiro.
-???
Bubonic Pla'iiie in Paris
PARIS, Aug. 14. ?? our cases of
bubonic plague are said by the "In
; transigeant" to exist in Paris. One
death, it reports, has been caused oy
the disease in a suburb.
The* Pasteur Institute announces
that if ordinary precautions are taken
the outbreak should not spread, and
points out the danger from the plague
is much lessened by the efficiency of
the serum with which it is now
treated. Deaths under this method, it
says, are reduced to 7 per cent.
Two Winners in Ponzi
Venture Return Money
BOSTON, Aug. 14.?Two men
who collected 50 per cent profit
on deposits made with Ponzi be?
fore his business was suspended
returned their winnings to the
Attorney General to-day. One
man turned over $500 and the
other $250, saying they wished the
money used to help relieve suffer?
ing among persons who lost all
their savings in the financial
crash.
Mind Blank on
S?avii? Injury,
McGraw Says
Basebull Manager Does Not ?
Remember What Hap?
pened After He Was Beat?
en Up at the Lambs
Hit Over Head With Bottle
Charges He Was Held While;
Actor Struck Him; Says:
He Bought Whisky in Club
John J. McGraw consented yesterday
to seo authorities investigating the
manner in which John C. Slavin, an
actor, received the fracture of the skull
from which he was suffering when
picked up outside the home of McGraw,
last Sunday morning. The baseball
manager said he couldn't remember j
anything that happened after he left
the Lambs with Slavin and Winfield
Liggett, a short time before the former
fell .senseless at the curb.
The Giants manager, who still ex?
hibits the blacX eyes and other in?
juries he suffered in a fight with W, II.
Boyd at the Lamb;;, remembered the
occurrences of the evening vividly, he
aaid, lie denied that he 'tad tried to
play the ?ion ai the Lambs and as?
serted that one Lamb had held his
arms while Mr. B .yd pounded his head
wit h a water hoi ; !e,
Up to that rini'\ he said, water bot
tio3 had not played a prominent par'.
in the evening's adventuras. His party
had consumed sever;'! quarts * of
whisky at the Lara!?'-, he said, be! ire
th- trouble wi ii Boyd .started, and he
had bought two quarts of whisky there
himself.
This assertion aroused the Lambs,
i whose officers have asserted stead
! fastly that no liquor was sold at
I t.hei.- club.
"I he Official caller.- whom Mr. Ivlc
! Graw consented to see aftor the nu?
merous rebuffs in the la?t few days
j were Albeit Unger, Assistant District
j Attorney; Dr. F. A. McGuire, prison
: physician at the Tombs, and Detectives
Lowe and Fitzgerald.
McGraw is caid to have explained
that the fight with Boyd grew out. of
an argument that the Giants' manager
had with an insurance agent. The
. insurance agent, wanted to talk busi?
ness, McGraw said. McGraw preferred
not to talk business. Boyd. he says, in?
sisted that McGraw should consider a
: business proposal made by the ?nsur
unce man,
l?e was disputing the issue with
Boyd, according to Unger's narration
of tiie statement, ?vhen the actor is
alleged to have hit the Giants' manager
.???th a water bottle. McGraw asserted,
Unger says, that a member of the
Lambs held i is lianas while Boyd dealt
blows upon hi? face and body. 4
Mystery Not Cleared Up
Unger said at the close of the visit
to the McG aw home that while the
?';;'. - lT.ti; m" the Giants' manager
?..?owed that there had been a drunken
brawl in Toe Lambs and much whisk,\
had been drunk, it did not ciear up
the mystery as lo how Slavin received
his injuries, which have confined him
to St. Luke's Hospital (or a week, un?
able to make any statement.
Slavin had accompanied McGraw to
the. latter'.; home after the quarrel,
lie is supposed to have fallen after he
had alighted from the taxicab in front
. of McGraw's house, but McGraw as?
sorts thai he didn't see Slavin fall, nor
did he know that Slavin was wounded.
Slavin's chief injury consists of a hori?
zontal fracture near the base of the
: skull. Two of Slavin'.; front teeth
were knocked out, also. But McGraw's
mind is a blank as to how these things
? happened, and Slavin can't tell his own
: story.
The District Attorney's office, it was
| announced yesterday, would continue
, its investigations. The case probably
will '.?c presented to the grand jury on
next Tuesday.
Dr. McGuire inquired after the
health of the baseball magnate, an 1
was informed by McGraw himself
, that he was feeling fairly well and not
in any pain. He got up out of bed and
i exhibited a star-shaped scar on his
| scalp at the back of his head. It was
' half healed, and t?tere was no sign of
? infection, according to Dr. McGuire,
who looked into McGraw's blackened
eve and examined sundry contusions
of his face. He next examined heart
i and lungs and reported them as normal.
Repeated efforts to solve the mys?
tery of Slavin's injuries were fruit?
less. .McGraw said he had known tho
actor for twenty years and that they
- were the best of friends. ''Why, I
; would be the last person in the world
to hurt him," he declared.
Boyd had previously told Detective
Fitzgerald that the altercation at the
Lambs began when McGraw resented a
request to omit certain words from his
(UonticucG cn Page 3)
IL S. to Scan
Ponzf s Gifts
To His Wife
Furious Mob, Demanding
Life of the "Wizard,"
Crowds Office Asking
for Return of Losses
Note Holders Form
Protective Society
Will Take Steps to Sue In-1
vestors Who Won Out;
Another Bank Is Closed
Special Dispatch to The Tribuno
BOSTON, Aug. 14. -Large sums of
money have been transferred by
Charles Ponzi to his wife, according to
the. belief of Edwin L. Pride, the
auditor who has been going over
Ponzi's accounts for United States Dis?
trict Attorney Gallagher. Mr. Pride
also believes that a good part of tbe
millions collected by Ponzi and his
agent3 has been deposited in the names
of others. Mr. Pride takes the view
that the money he thinks has been
transferred to Mrs. Ponzi can be re?
covered, and he proposes to take the
necessary procedure to obtain the
money if she has any of it.
"It can be taken from her and it will
be," said Mr. Pride, "it does not; be?
long to her. It is money that was ob?
tained under fraudulent pretenses, to
be used for fraudulent purposes. In
going after what may be called Ponzi's
concealed assets, we shall reach the
huge amount transferred to or de?
posited in the naive of Mrs. Ponzi.
It will be easy for us to show that the
amounts placed in her name came
from the investments ' of Ponzi's
creditors.
"1 <\o not think she had anything
before Ponzi started on his get-rich
quick activities, and I believe it will
he easy to she".- that."
Mrs, Ponzi has. contended all along
that her husband is honest ami her
friends say if she has accepted any of
the "get-rich-quick" funds of her hus
band it wad in the belief they were
legitimately earned. Mrs. Ponzi visited
her husband to-nig?it in jail for more
than an hour. She was weeping when
she came out.
B ink Commissioner Joseph C. Allen
to-day took charge of the affairs of
the Polish Industrial Association,
which conducts a private bank in this"
city. Henry H. Chmielinski, president,
of the Hanover Trust Company, wh'ch
?Aas the chief depositary of Charles
Pon'd, and which was closed last
Wednesday by the Commissioner, is
president of the industrial Association.
The Ban-k Commissioner said the
loans of the association were bad cr
of uncertain value, and that the con?
cern had little cash left. Its capital
is $13,775 and its deposits were $350,
000.
Xo further bank closings are likely
as the result of Ponzi's operations,
Bank Commissioner Allen announced
to-night. He made this statement:
"In response to repeated inquiries, I
apain state that the Hanover Trust
Company and the Polish Industrial As?
sociation are the only banking institu?
tions in New England known to he in
any way affected by the Ponzi failure."
None of the money thought to
have been transferred by Ponzi to
his wife has been deposited in the
Hanover Trust Company. accord
ing to Mr. Pride, who made this
assertion with such emphasis as to
indicate that lie was fully aware where
the donations to Mrs. Pon?,i had been
lodged and that they could easily be
reached.
Amount of Assets in Doubt
Mr. Pride also purposes to see that
Ce Ponzi money deposited under other
names is uncovered, secured and made
available for assets. Just at present
he admits he is entirely in the dark
as to the amount of Ponzi's assets,
having devoted practically all his time,
to date in arriving at some conclusion
as to the size of the liabilities. This
task has been particularly difficult
owing to the state of Pohzi's accounts
and the practical impossibility of
finding out how many notes had been
sold.
On this latter point the i t?te Attor?
ney General is rendering aid through
the medium of his advertising in the
newspapers calling on all note holders
to come to the State House with their
notes and have them recorded. The
early respei.se was very unsatisfactory,
but as the clouds grew thicker about
Ponzi the number of notes, submitted,
in p irnon and by mail, steadily in?
creased until to-day the office is fairly
swamped. And although each day sees
hundn ds submitted, it is believed that
hundreds are still holding off, in the
blind belief that somehow or other
Ponzi will find a way out of his diffi?
culties and make good.
From an early indifference as to
whether they had their notes recorded
or not the feeling has grown, as
Ponzi's real character has been re?
vealed, I ' a frantic desire not only to
: have the notes recorded, but for
vengeance on Ponzi.
This feeling ran so high at the State
House to-day that the crowd was
: warned that "a repetition of the disor
; der would mean the closing of the of?
fice.
"t?ve me my money!" shouted the
; antrrv note holders, largely Italians,
to-day. ""Kill Ponzi!" "Tear lu.a to
pieces!" "Give me mine or pay no
(Continue: on pao.- 5)
Mob Storms Dublin Castle
Gates Pursuing Soldiers
DUBLIN, Aug. 14 (By The Associated
? Tress. Dublin was aroused at 9 o'clock
! to-night by heavy firing in the viciaitv
i of Dublin Castle, the result of a crowd
attempting to rush the castle gates.
Soldiers tired over the people's heads
and there were a few revolver shots
from the crowd. No one was injured. '
The trouble started when a crowd
saw a number of soldiers of the Lan
i cashire Fusiliers, who they believe
I shot a boy named Farrell during the
i recent riots?in the city. The soldiers
i were pursued to the castle gates. The
? firing lasted ten minutes.
i Later wild rumors were circulated in
the city greatly exaggerating the af
' fair.
A short time after the firing at the
castle an armored car with a lorry of
troops toured the principal streets.
The crowds pulled some o' the soldiers
from the lorry. Other lorries were
then sent out to pick up straggling
soldiers.
The troops tired a volley over a
crowd at the O'Connell Bridge. Many
persons took refuge in buildings.
Irish volunteers finally ad\ised the
people to leave the streets.
Another daring seizure of mails from
England was carried out in a street of
| tho city early this morning by armed
t men. Shortly aTer the mails left the
railway station for the postoffice raid?
ers intercepted the vans and removed
all government correspondence. Civil
i ian letters were left untouched.
-?~ ? . 'i a>--?-?
Soviet Tightens Grip on
Warsaw; Poles in Stand
11 Miles From Capital
British Lahor Seeks Aid of French
Workers in Ban on War With Reds
From The Tribune's European Bureau
(CopyrigJ?r, 1920, Now York Tribune Inc.)
LONDON, Aug. 14.?The Council of Action, created yesterday by
organized labor of Great Britain to enforce its ultimatum to the gov?
ernment against war with Russia, has sent William C. Adamson, chair?
man of the Labor party in the House of Commons^ to France to consult
with the French General Confederation of Labor with a view to the
formation of a similar council in France. ?
France apparently is undisturbed by the serious action of British
labor in demanding guaranties against war with Russia.
Trade unionists throughout Great Britain are being asked to for?
ward reports to the Council of Action as to orders for munitions or
other war materials on which they may now be working. This is with a
view to ordering the closing down of all such works in case war ap?
pears likely.
Steps similar to those taken here will be asked of French labor.
Labor in Europe unquestionably holds the upper hand to-day, and the
government which ignores its strength is likely to encounter most
seriaus trouble.
America Will
Inquire into
Wr?nge! Policy
Investigation May Ultimate?
ly Lead ?o Permitting
Reacceptance of Rns
sia Among the Nations
Allied Replies Awaited
?French Rejoinder Satisfac-,
tory and l* Expecied to
Result in Common Stand
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (By The As-:
j sociated Press).?An informal inquiry j
; into the character and policies of the |
? anti-Bolshevist leader i;i Southern Eus- j
sia. General Wrangel, has been begun
, by government officials.
No immediate anticipation of recog?
nition by the United States is involved,
officials said, but should the inqui.v
develop satisfactorily it. is thought
possible that the elements flustered i
| about the Russian leader may afford a
road to the creation of conditions in
; Russia permitting? her re-acceptance
among the nations.
Replies from both Great Britain and
| Italy to the American note on the Rus
1 sian-Polish situation are expected scon
by State Department officials. A sum?
mary of the French rejoinder was re
1 ceived hero to-day and the full text
will follow soon.
In the opinion of Administration of?
ficials, as expressed to-day, the answer
of the Allies will spring from a desire
. to reach a common policy on a ques
: tion regarded as the gravest with
! which the world has to deal.
French Reply Sotisfactory
It also was suggested officially that i
I the replies of Great B .tain and France
: would offer an opportunity for those
: governments to smooth out whatever
differences have developed between
them since the dispatch of tha Ameri?
can note and the recognition by France
of General Wrangel as the head of the !
South Russian government.
The French reply, as outlined in the
official summary received to-day, was i
understood to be highly satisfactory to ]
Administration officers. It was said that
France, in recognizing General Wrangel, ?
! had accepted the principal contention
of the United States that Russia should
notibe dismembered.
It was disclosed to-day that the
American note on the Russian-Polish j
situation was directed to the wide-:
i spread "loose thtnking" of the world in ?
general concerning the Bolsheviki. This
? "loose thinking," it was said, had given j
rise to a grave feeling of lethargy !
' toward the menace of Soviet principles, j
Appeal to I. W. W. Cited
In this connection attention was !
! called to the appeal from the executive |
committee of the Third Internationale ?
. at Moscow to the I. \V. W. in the United j
States which was found in Communist]
literature seized from the Soviet cou?
rier, Neils Jacobsen, at New York
July 23.
it was said in this pamphlet that
; unless the workers of other countries
\ rose against their own capitalists the
! Russian revolution could not last. To
recognize a government espousing such j
(Continuo? on next page)
Greek Ex-Minister
Killed in Athens
Shooting Is Incident to
Disorder Over Attempt
on Life of Venizelos
ATHENS, Aug. 14.?News of the at
1 tempted assassination of Premier Ven
?zel is in Paris has caused popular in?
dignation, ?companied by disorders,
here. Plants of opposition newspapers
and the residence of former Premier
Sk'ouloudis have been wrecked by
crowds in spite of all precautions taken
' \/f the government. Many of the op?
position leaders were arrested.
M. [ragoumis, foimer Greek Minister
to Petrograd, was shot dead while try?
ing to escape from a military escort.
Excited crowds also wrecked a thea?
ter and two large caf?s before the po?
lie ? c ?uld restore order.
Thanksgiving services were held at a
principal cathedral this afternoon to
celebrate the Premier's escape. R p
resentatives of the diplomatic corps
were in attendance.
Opposition leaders were arrested, it
is said, because there are indications
suggesting that they were in c illusion
with the assailants of M. Venizelos. It
is thought that the cause of former
King Constantine of Greece has been
comniitely crushed as a result of the
' attack on the Premier.
French Predict!
Polish Refusal'
Of Soviet Terms :
_,
Paris Believes Stand of
America, as Revealed in
Note, Will Have Impor?
tant Bearing at Minsk
Weygand's Plans Puzzle
Failure of , General to ;
Command Poles Creates
Doubt Over Warsaw's Fate
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to The. Tribun"
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribun? Im.
PARIS, Aug. 14.?The great battle
now being waged for the possession
of Warsaw is expected in French
official circles to last for some days
unless cut short by an armistice
agreement at Minsk, where the Rus so
Polish delegates are in session. The
Bolsheviki appear to be more disposed
toward serious negotiations than on
previous occasions.
The doubtful point about the situa- i
tion in Warsaw, in French eyes, is that'
General Weygand has not taken com- I
mand in the field. The French assume
either that the disposition and morale
of the Polish armies are not such as '
to permit General Weygand to take re- !
sponsibility for the fate of the Polish ;
capital, or that Weygand's military ;
advice has been repudiated by the
Polish staff. In either case this news !
does not tend to reassure the French
public.
General Weygand is understood to
have proposed that the Poles entirely
evacuate Galicia if necessary and bring
all their forces north for the battle
along the Vistula. Ii is believed the
Poles have not done this to the extent
advocated by their French advis- is.
Eyes Centered on Minsk
French anxiety to-day centered on
Minsk, where the real struggle is go?
ing on, not only between the Bolshe?
viki and the Poles, but between the
French and British European policies.
The fight is on a clear issue and Poland
must now take a decision deeply affect?
ing the fate of the world. She has
been advised by England to accept
reasonably Bolshevik terms, while
France is using all her influence to
obtain a Polish refusal.
It is doubtful what Poland would do
ordinarily in such a dilemma, but the
intervention of America at a critical
moment makes a refusal the more prob?
able choice. Faith in American influ?
ence and wealth and in her promises
is strong in all countries of Eastern
Europe, and if it is represented to the
Poles that they will have America's
support their choice will be greatly in?
fluenced thereby. ?
U. S. Note Helps Frame
America's sudden intervention in
Europe, in. the shape of the govern?
ment's note to Italy about Russia, not
only helped France in the dispute be?
tween her and England about the pol?
icy to be pursued, but if Poland has
been led to count on America in the
present struggle the United States
government must bear a large parr of
the responsibility for a Polish refusal.
The European powers would like
nothing better than that America's
share in moral responsibility for war
in Eastern Europe should force her
eventually to assume an active part
therein.
$360,000 Whisky Fraud
Disclosed at St. Louis
Raid Reveals Illegal Transfer
of Liquor From Kentucky;
$50,000 Worth Recovered
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14.?A conspiracy
through which licuor worth $3GO,G0C
was fraaduler.rly taken from a United
f-'tutes boadtij warehouse at 0 ?? i
boro, Ky , \v*:< disclosed by a mid nere
' this afternoon in which a de? r. ' con
gt?ble and ten others were a rested af
? cer the police, with the aid Df govern?
ment agent?, had recovered m >ro than
! 550,000 wort! of whisky.
CHICAGO, Aug. 14?A carload of
liquor, valued at $175,000 and shipped
': here from Kentucky, was seized to-day
' by Federal officials, who said the liquor
i was consigned to a "dummy" address,
j and that it had keen shipped on a
forged permit. :
Roar of Bolshevik Guns
Heard in City; Red Cav?
alrymen Make Rapid
Advance Toward Vistula
Counter Move Hope
Of Polish Soldiers
Armistice Delegates De*
part at Daybreak for
Conference at Minsk
WARSAW, Aug. 14 (By The As?
sociated Press).?The front is being
gradually brought nearer Warsaw.
Before Saturday's dawn, artillery
flashes were visible against the
clouds to the north and northeast,
and at times the bark of cannon
could be heard. People on the roofs
of the highest buildings watched the
gun flashes until the early hour?.
The cannon which have been brought
up are not heavy enough to reach
the city with their fire.
Peace Envoys Off
The Polish peace delegates who are
to meet Bolshevik representatives
to discuss an armistice and peace
left at dawn this morning for Minsk,
where the conference is to take place.
To-day's communiqu? concedes
that the poie.s withdrew further in
the center of the Warsaw front, as?
serting it was for the purpose of re?
grouping soldiers who have fallen
back upon the defense line less than
nineteen kilometers (about eleven
limes) out from the capita!.
But even more serious than the ap
: proach in that direction, according to
observers, is the situation northwest
of Warsaw, where some 2,000 Red cav
I alrymen are making rapid progress
! toward the Vistula. The cavalry's right
flank, which follows the wing of tha
I Prussian frontier, has been rein?
? forced by Red infantry Goldiers, who
have requisitioned the peasants' horses
and are following closely .upon the
heels of the cavalry division.
Plan Defense at Vistula
The Poles say that there is no chance
of the Bolsheviki crossing the Vistula,
either be.ow or above Warsaw, as tha
Russians have been doing habitually
for 200 years in taking Warsaw from
the west, and that all precautions in
these sections have been taken.
Tue string of automobiles carrying
the armistice delegates streamed out
of the capital just as day was break
ing. They are scheduled to pass the
frontier east of Sicdlce before 7 o'clock,
.'.?here they will meet Bolshevik of?
ficers who will conduct them to Minsk.
Some of the delegates have not been
to bed for two nights. \ night's prep?
aration, with conf?rences held up to
tho last moment at various bureaus,
preceded the start.
?onsi?eratn* baggage was taken by
the delega'..-,, in addition to the records
and reference books. Packages of food,
enough for an extended slay if neces?
sary, were a i so carried.
i enera! Listowski heads the military
experts, while among the Diet members
: of the party is Stanislas Grabski, the
national democratic leader, and Nor
? bert Barlicki, Socialist leader.
M. Dombski, who heads the delega?
linn, is one of the peasant lenders.
?The party left Warsaw led by three
Polish officers in an army automobile
which saw service itt France. Three
new staffs around which were wrapped
! white flags could be 6een beside the
? chauffeur of this car.
On the hood of the automobile was
; perched a Teddy bear.
A correspondent oi The Associated
Press and another correspondent ac
| panied the party.
Accompanied by Thirty Experts
Prince Eugene Sapieha, Polish For?
, eign Minister, last night sent a wire?
less n isage lo M. Tchitcherin, tha
! Bolshevik Foreign Minis;?'.-, announc
? ing the delegation's intention to cross
I the front Saturday at the time and
place which had been arranged. He
said the party would bo composed of
some thirty technical expert- and sug?
gested that a special party cf journal
ists, representing both the Old and
! New worlds, should accompany it.
M. Tchitcherin s?'nt a wireless re?
ply early this morning, as follows:
"Your delegation will be met at ths
? time and place indicated. Every f?cil*
ity for communicating by wireless and
courier will be grante I."
It ia estimated it will require several
days before the Reds from the north?
west reach the river. Meantime tho
newspapers continue confident that a
counter stroke will bring the results
desired to free Warsaw from immc?
diate danger. The Beds, hewever, are
making a little progress daily at
various points, particularly directly in
front of the city and through the
cavalry thrust ot. the northwest.
The Russians have worked well
toward the rear of Warsaw's defenses
rand are attacking Plor.sk, within a
dozen miles of the Vistula, northwest!
of the Polish capital, according to Fri?
day night's official Polish comma*
nique, available early to-day.
Rods' Preliminary Attack Repulsed
1 he statement says the enemy is ad?
vancing toward the Novo G?orievsk?
Zegrje sector, north of Warsaw, and
that masses of Bolsheviki are attacking
Nasielsk, twenty-two miles northwest
'of Warsaw, and Plonsk, sixteen m'ies
west of Nasielsk and about thirty
two miles northwest of Warsaw. The
communiqu? announces that t ?e pre?
liminary ??.tacks upon these places were
reaulsed by the Poles.
The Russians are now facing at va?
: rious places the Warsaw defensive l.n?
, a.ong which the Polish newspapers for
days past have been insisting the etictny
"< would be checked in his drive up?~u
: the capital, which has been carrying
i him from six to ten miles daily in hi?
j sweep from the nertheast and east.
On this line the Poles are expected to
?make their final stand, and many, but
not all, of the military observers ar?