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WEATHER. Cloudy, showery today and probably tomorrow; little change in tempera ture. Temperature for twenty-two hours ending at 10 o'clock last night: High est. 82, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 71, at 2 a.m. yesterday. 1 -? 1 PK No. 747-No. 27,479. WASHINGTON, D. C? SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1919 ? FIVE CENT?. COMPROMISE SURE r ON LEAGUE PACT, I EVENTS INDICATE Leaven Works Strongly To ward "Interpretations" of Knots in Covenant. PRESIDENT HEARS MUCH IN CALLS OF SENATORS \ ! Xearns Objections at First Hand; Opponents Hay Seek Early Vote on Changes. r BY n. O. MESSENGER Developments of the past few days have consistently tended to indicate the steady drift of events toward the reaching of a compromise on the league of natio'ns covenant. hether it be termed "understanding, or -reservation," or the latest descr.p tive, "interpretation," the compro mise modification which is being worked on, as told in last Sunday s Star, bids fair to be effected. only a few senators continue to. in ?1st that the treaty can be ratlfl* without changing the dotting; of an T* or the crowing of a some of them are thought to ^ main taining that attitude ^rtunctor^y to support the President In holding out awhile and for the sake of the record The majority opinion is that it will not only be possible, but necessary, to establish th* terpretatlons." With the exception of the small group of "last ditch" senators those who are Irrevocably opposed to any league, it is the Judgment of the great body of the Senate that a league of nations will be indorsed andthat it will be th. league with the covenant inter preted" bT the Senate to the satis faction at more than one-third of the senators. a number sufflc ent other wise to prevent ratification of the treaty. "Interpretations" From Pr?dd?at. It was aoggestefrgmin president, once to becomi* that there must be qualifications to appease sentiment in the Senate, may himself suggest "Interpretations ^ -which would satisfy the senatorial objector. ?hd yet not subject the treaty to rereference to theh peace council- ... _ _ The alternative to reaching a com nroMise. it was said by senators yes terday, will be an appeal to the coun try by the President, a long and fa tiguing tour and a turbulent stirring up of the people at a time when re turn to normal is the consuming de al re of the whole world. The feeling ia still strong In sena torial circle?, -that the President may not find t} necessary to fall back upon this last resort. ^ President Wilson Is reported to feel that his conferences with senators opposed to the covenant In its pres ent term have been helpful to himself gnd, he ventures to hope, of value to them. He was able, as a participant in tfie negotiation of the peace treaty, to give them first-hand Information fepon many phases of the negotia tions which necessarily had a bear ing upon the covenant. President, Also, Learned. . The President for his part, was en abled to get first-hand reports of the feate of mind of some senators, such as perhaps he had not obtained from Ills own supporters in the Senate, who might hare been disinclined to be the fcesrers of bad news. He will hear more of the same nature ?e the con ferences with senators are extended. If some of his own advisers and friends In the Senate feel Inclined to be frank at the risk of being unpopu lar with him they can substantiate the reports of the others. Some of the proponents of "inter pretations." or "reservations," or whatever they are to be called, are in favor of proceeding at once to their consideration with a view to testing out their merits and their accept ability to a majority of the Senate for adoption. The votes to adopt them ; are claimed to be at hand at this Mage of the proceeding. Once added to the covenant and the Information conveyed to the President that as thus interpreted the treaty could be ratified, these senators say that then responsibility for further delay would rest with the President. Want Public Backing. They also contend that it will be advisable to have the nature of the reservations thus found to be accept able to a majority understood by the public, so that If the President should by any chance decide to go to the country and appeal for a demand for unreserved acceptance of the league, the people would know what was pro posed and be able to Judge whether they are reasonable or not. For the present, while the leaven of proposed compromise Is working un der the surface, the policy of the ad ministration supporters In the Senate is to resist stoutly all suggestions of Interpretation of the covenant, and to maintain that any alteration or addi-" tion would necessitate reference to the peace council and endanger the league of nations. Speeches will be made by adminis tration senators this week thus con tending No one ventures to approxi mate a date for the hoped-for "get ! tin* together," as It is realised that (Continued on Third Page.) | SHANTUNG TO REJECT RULE OF JAPANESE, ENVOYS SAY Chinese Delegates to Paris From Province, in New York, Assert Boycott Is Prelude to Possible "Uprising By tbe JMP*eiated Press. NEW YORK. July 19.?Predicting that "the 36,000,000 people of Shan tung will never surrender to the Jap anese aggression," Dr. H. F. Kung and T. H. Hsu, Chinese delegates from Shantung province to the peace con ference. in a statement here today declared that the boycott on Japanese j ' goods throughout the province was the prelude to a possible "uprising." "Shantung has sent tens of thou sands of its citizens to Europe to help win the war," said the statement. "Many lives were sacrificed. Now the reward for this service is to turn . Shantung's economic and political rights over to Japan. What will those soldiers find when they go back to their native land? Japanese police, Japanese miners, Japanese enterprisers of their own properties. Can we expect A. F. L AND STEEL GIANT MAY CLINCH; Labor Strategists Meet at Pittsburgh to Decide Course of Action. UNION RECOGNITION HOPE Special Dispatch to The Sunday Star. PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 19. To decide upon a course of action to be followed in behalf of the American Federation of Labor against the United States Steel Corporation, which, throughout the country, has refused to enter into negotiations with unions of its employes, the na tional committee to organise the iron and steel workers, an A. F. of L. ad junct, held a special meeting begin ning at 10 o'clock this morning in Labor Temple. Represent 24 Unions. ( Members of the committee came Fftoofl^feAifferent parts of the country and represent twenty -four established J international unionB banded together to organise workers in the. iron and steel and allied industries, throughout the-United States. Samuel Oompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is chairman ex-officio of the national committee, the active chairman of which is John J. Fltzpatrick of Chica go, president of the Chicago Federa tion of Labor. At a recent meeting in Washington, D. C., the committee discussed the calling of a strike in the Iron and steel Industry, but de ferred aotion until the meeting' here. The committee, which met in ex ecutive session tonight, does not ex pect. to reach a decision on the ques tion of striking before tomorrow even ing. The committee expects to be continuously in session tomorrow, during which reports will be received on the organization campaign which has been under way here for several weeks. j Conflicting Reports. j This work, in which a committee of Pittsburgh unionists co-operated, is in the charge of William Z. Foster, secretary of the national committee. On the report of this committee will depend the action taken against the United States Steel Corporation. Whether it will be necessary to order a strike cannot be foretold at this moment, because of conflicting re ports on the attitude of the corpora tion toward organized labor. Secre tary Foster, in an interview several days ago, sta'.ed that he had receive^ information from a source that could not be questioned to the effect that the United States Steel Corporation would recognize labor organizations among its employes and deal with them on all questions affecting their employment and wages, in the near future. AUSTRIAN TREATY READY TO DELIVER TOMORROW PARIS, July 18 (by the Associated Press).?The missing clauses of the Austrian peace treaty will almost certainly be handed to the Austrian delegation Monday. Ten days will be allowed the Aus trians for consideration of the terms and for representations they may de sire to make. The council will prob i able require ten days more in which to reply. Consequently, the treaty can i scarcely be signed before August 10. (Havas).?Premier Venizelos of j Greece and Foreign Minister Tittoni ' of Italy discussed today before the ] supreme Interallied council the ques tion of what zone in Asia Minor should be occupied by Greek troops and what jone by Italian troops. t ram jjgltAY RULE SPAIN. Maura tirarole to Form Cabinet of Conservative Elements. MADRID. July 19.?Antonio Maura, premier In the ministry, recently re signed, who has been endeavoring to form a new cabinet combining: the conservative elements, has not suc ceded in effecting such a combina tion. It was announced today, therefore, that the liberals and the democrats now would be consulted with regard I to tbe formation of In is try. these men wlio have experienced the terror of war on European battlefields to rest satisfied? "The Shantung settlement has raised a new issue in the far east. Japan is satt^fled with the clause and will attempt to carry it out, but the Chinese people will never acquiesce. Our people have experienced the cruel ty of the Japanese bushido during the capture of Kiaochow. They will not be responsible for any action they may take when their territory is in vaded or their property robbed." The envoys said that not only was Shantung regarded as "sacred terri tory" because of the birth of Chinese civilization there, but that its people would not allow it to be dominated by a foreign power because of their sense of justice and desire for self-determi nation. 4 STRIKE URGED AS FORESTFIRES GROW Agitators Cause 24 to Quit. Flames Spread Rapidly in Three States. APPEALS FOR AID MADE By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., July 19.?Rapidly spreading forest fires in northern Idaho, western Montana and eastern Washington, covering many thousand acres of cut-over and virgin timber, and new fires reported almost hourly cause much concern today to the federal forest service officials. Ap peals for men to fight the forest fires have been made and every man who could qualify for the arduous work of fighting the fires in the moun tainous regions of three states was employed. They were sent imme diately to the end of the railroads and then by trails to the scenes <>f the fires. I ? ,? .. , - y Agitators Handicap Service. The forest service was handicapped in fighting the fire on' Rattlesnake creek northeast of Missoula, Moqt., by agitators urging the fire fighters to strike for fourteen hours' pay for twelve hours' work. Twenty-four men quit in response to the agitators' ap peals. The town of Newport, Wash., was fighting tonight a fire that had cov ered eighty acres and was a mile from the town's limits. The wind, how ever, was blowing away from the town and little fear was felt that the fire would reach there. Other towns threatened by the flames are Heron, St. Regis and Aiberton, Mont. Many New Fires Reported. New fires were reported to the forest service almost hourly. One of the fires reported near Naples, Idaho, had burned over forty acres of pri vate timber before a report of it had been received by ?Jhe federal forest service officials. Near Heron, Mont., a fire covering 3,000 acres was ? controlled by ninety-five men. Forest fires also were reported in the Wenatchee River valley. In cen tral Washington, and in the Herman Creek forest, fn Oregon, forty miles l east of Portland, where 1,400 acres had been burned over. Blames Federal Government. In a statement issued today Gov. D. W. Davis of Idaho blamed the federal government for the fires be cause of its failure to patrol timber I on the public domain,, and requested additional funds for fire-fighting pur poses in Idaho. The governor will go to Washing ton tomorrow to confer with the Secretary of the Interior on the sit [ uation. SEND PRESIDENT MEDAL. French Gift Depicts Monument to Be Erected in Yanks' Honor. NANCY, July 19 (by the Associated Press).?Medals of a monument to be erected in the region of Flierey to commemorate the liberation of many villages of Lorraine by the American offensive September 12, 1918, against the St. Mihiel salient, have been sent to President Wilson and Gen. Persh ing by the committee having charge of the erection of the memorial. The committee is headed by the former prefect of Nancy, M. Merman, who is now the French commissioner of Metz. 50 TO 100 PUT TO DEATH DAILY IN PETR0GRAD HELSINGFORS, July 18.?Twenty thousand hostages are reported to have been arrested in Petrograd in the last three weeks, and Petrograd newspapers publish almost daily lists of from fifty to one hundred persons who have been put to death for vari ous reasons. The names of all those in charge of the diplomatic archives of foreign legations in Petrograd ap pear on the lists. A Russian general, seventy years old, is reported to have been shot for having tn his room weapons which be was keeping as trophies, ON THE REPEAL SPINNING JENNY. MEN IN UNIFORM MMGROES Reported Assault on Sailor's , Wife Sends Enlisted Men on Raid in D. C. THREE HURT; SHOTS FIRED As a climax to the assaults on white women in this city and vicin ity recently and a report that an other, the wife of a sailor, had been attacked, a band of more than a hun dred soldiers, sailors and marines last night invaded the southwest aiMi beat several colored persons before "they were Anally dispersed by a pro^ vost guard, a detachment ^of marines and reserves frofn three police sta tion 8. Of those who were attacked, George Montgomery, colored, who says he lives on C street between 12th and 13th streets southwest, was the most seriously injured. It was necessary to take him to Emergency Hospital. Charles Lieton Ralls and his wife, Mary, of 1209 Carlin court southwest, were attacked. The husband's mouth was cut by a blow from a fist. The wife also was struck. They ran to their home. Shots also were fired by several of the men in uniform, it was reported, but none of them took effect. Police Bushed tor Scene. Following the first attack, calls for help were sent to the fourth precinct police station. Information was given that several persons had been shot and killed. The reserves of that pre cinct, together with those of the first and sixth precincts, were rushed to the seen*. Police headquarters was called and Night Inspector Burlin game sent word to the 63d Infantry camp at Potomac Park. The provost guard was turned out from that camp and a squad of marines also was sent from marine barracks. By the time the police, marines and provost guard arrived practically all of the soldiers, sailors and marines had left the neighborhood of the at tacks and no arrest was made. Sailor's Wife Reported Attacked. According to information obtained by the police the trouble started when the report was circulated that a. sailor's wife had been attacked. Two sailors are said to have had a fight with a colored man on street southwest. Then they proceeded up town, and, as they met a soldier, sailor or marine, passed the word along to go back into Southwest Washington and "clean it up." How Band Gathered. Word was flashed to soldiers, sailors and marines in the downtown section that they were to meet at 8th street and Pennsylvania avenue ' northwest and proceed from there to South Washington. Some of them made their,way down 6th street; others on 7th street, and still others via the! Mall. They met on D street near ,12th street southwest, and it was there Ralls and his wife were attacked. The uniformed men then moved along to 12th street near Maryland avenue. Montgomery, who had been to a store to purchase cantaloupes, was stopped by the me?. 4NI Asked what he was doing out late at night, he started to tell tlu^. he had been to a store, but beOririift. could do so he was struck on the ii?ad with a stick and also in the face. y. Crowd Soon Dispersed. v \ . The soldiers, sailors and marines continued down 12th street. They ap parently separated about this time, as when the military police and local offi cers arrived but few were to be seen. Following the trouble the military police and the reserves from the police stations patrolled the streets in South Washington. It was staled at the hospital that Montgomery was not. dangacQuafar hut- . J 'V :-T^ 4 COLLAPSE OF WORLD CREDIT NEAR, SAYS BRITISH EXPERT Sir George Paish Suggests U. 5. and England Wipe Out a Thousand Million of Debts Owed Them. BY ARTHUR S. DRAPER. Special Cable to The Snnday Star and New York Tribune. Copyright l?l?. LONDON, July 19.?Sir George Paish, the famous English financial expert, says that British credit can not recover until conditions permit ting the embargo on the export o gold and Britain will be able to offer to pay for everything in gold. The difference between the present and the pre-war situation W that prior to u-^areat Britain was Sflfljtantly g Jarge sums to foreign na !UonBi whereas todiy she hak * ^&t foreign debt. Because of the sity of fcivtng additional credit to the continent and also buying large quan tities of food and cotton. Sir George thinks that exchange may continue to fall, reaching $4 within a few days. He said today: | Treaty Does Not Help. "It Is of the greatest importance, not only that the British should ap preciate. but that the world should understand, that the peace treaty has done nothing whatever to strengthen the financial position. France and Italy has been induced to base their entire calculations and hopes upon the payment of a large sum by the enemy countries, and no provision whatever has bt*n made to deal with the situation that now exists and will SWEtPS AWW HOME Many Children Among Reported Victim* ia High Waters Near Wheeling, W. Va. Br the Associated Pre*? I WHEELING, .w. Va., July 19.?Be I tween nine and thirteen persons are reported to have been drowned to night when a residence was swept away by the waters during a heavy rainstorm at Wegee Creek, on the Ohio side, ten miles south of here. The home of Steve Moxle, according to reports, was washed from its foundation and demolished against a bridge. All Telephone Wires Down. Reports from Wegee Creek are fragmentary, due to the' fact that all telephone wires are down. Three bodies, recovered from the wrecked house, were brought to Bellaire Ohio, at 10 o'clock tonight. A half hour later a report was received here that ten additional bodies had been re covered. Most of the dead are children. NEW YORK TP FIGHT TWO-CENT TRANSFERS NEW -XQKK. July 19.?Mayor Hylan announced today that, he had in structed: ? the tbrporation counsel of the city*to start proceedings in .the Sat* courts to nullify the order of Aiblic Service Commissioner Nixon grating the New York Railway Com t>a?*.,*nd the surface lines, ot ttys Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ;the right to charge two cents for trans fers. The case will be carried to the United States Supreme Court, if necessary, he said. | The mayor declared that the renta paid by the Eighth avenue railroad 1 elves a return of 26.5.per cent on a j capitalization ot ?i;000.000; the Twenty-third* street railroad 23.13 per cent on its capital stock; the Forty-second and Grand 22.4 per cent, and,, rntes <a*e component pirts of tie New York ~ continue to exist in France, Italy and other continental nations until those sums are received." Sir George considers a collapse of world credit is not only possible, but imminent. "I see only one way out," he declared, "and that is by capital levies, both national and international. I have made the suggestion that America and England each agree to wipe out say a thousand million of the debts bweti them by continental countries and pooling an /interna tional ftr?yt.of nations. My suggestion i? l>jM(e4l ?*h the prin ciple that It is better to forego part dif the debt owing you, thereby mak ing the" rest good, than to iforce bank ruptcy and the^^by receive say only 50 cents on the dollar." Says W&r Strengthened XT. S. England's post-war poeition is that she neither made nor lost anything by the war. Her wealth now is ap proximately what it was in 1914. What she borrowed abroad she did in order to relend this money on the continent. Apart from England It ma.y be said that the European allies lost over the war, while America, on the other hand, emerges in a stronger position than the one she held before the war. Therefore there is all the greater reason why America should' be willing to help European credit. MEXICAN MIS Kill HHMEML Outlaws Also Attack Garrison at Potam, Killing Sixteen and Losing Eleven Silled. LAREDO, Tex., July 19.?Private telegrams received here today stated that Theodore .Patterson, mine super intendent ob4he Mazapil Copper Com pany at Concepicion del Oro, state of Zacatecas, Mexico, was killed by ban dits at his camp yesterday. Patter son was a British subject. No details were given. i Yaquis Kill With IT: S. Bullets. NOGALES, Ari*., July 19.?Bandits who attacked the federal garrison at Potam, Sonera. 285 miles south ? of here, Thursday morning, killed six teen men of the government troops j according to American and British | passengers who arrived here today from Mexico. The bandits are re ported to have lost eleven killed. The attacking band is said to hav& been composed of Ya<f'ul-Indtans. ' The American said they visited the scene\of the Vptam fight and fpcind empty cartrtgqesL^rf, American man> ufacture. ? Rep$M^?ave been in cir culation here that 'Yaqul Tndiai5j| were smuggling ammi^tffiinX into Mexico near Nogales. .j . -t HUNS WILLING TD PA* -.1 FOR MANNHEIM MURBER ? ..???-O ..... ? - . 2 *?+ BERLIN, July 19 (by the Associated Press).?The German government, re-' plying to the French note demanding reparation for the murder of Sergt. Maj. Mannheim at Berlin on July 13, and an additional sum for Mann heim's family, says that in the apol opy made before receipt of the French <?>mmunlcation Germany agreed' to recompense the family of the mur dered soldier. Germany refuses, however, tp my, the 1,000,000 franyh^AwNmtmy^je^ wantol J?n<?*?i?^ground that there is foundation for the demand in In ternational law. If France dogs not agree to this, Germatny Is to leave -4he matter to a mfated arbitra Jim 1 - i* . L COLD WAVE HITS ROME, RECALLING ANCIENT LEGEND ROME, July 10.?A severe cold wave in sweeping tfce en tire province, with n heavy snowfall reported In the high land* Nurronndlnff Rome. The Inhabitants have been forced to pnt oa their winter clothing, and fires have been started la their homes. The cold weather In a senwoa which Is usually hotter thaa , the tropics recalls a legend dat I Inf back to the fourth centnry, 1 when. It Is said, the Virgin np ; appeared to Johannes nnd Pope | Uberlus. They were com manded to build a chnrch on a spot where snow would fall ; the next morning, August A. Accordingly the Basilica Santa : Maria Magglore, then the larg j est church in Rome. was erected and dedicated to the J Virgin. Resist All Attempts to Soften Enforcement; Night Ses sion Late. HOMEWINE,CIDER BANNED Defeating attacks against drastic ? provisions of the enforcement bill. | the prohibition forces in the House , last night romped through ihe mean- , ure paragraph by paragraph, putting the lid on debate at the nod of Chair- j man Volstead. The House adjourned , at 10:35 o'clock without completing j the bill. | ! The prohibitionists took command ! at once when the House met at noon, j : even refusing five minutes for Chafr- j man Good of the appropriations com- ; j mlttee to bring up an important I money measure. \ ' While the House was knocking down amendment after amendment ' designed to liberalize the measure. Representative Igoe. dempcrat, of Missouri, announced he would offer a substitute that eouW be enforced "without the expenditure of 150,000, 000 and without a standing army." There Is no provision In the Igoe bill for enforcement of war-time pro hibition. nor does it define intoxicat ing liquors, anjl persons manufactur ing, selling, hnporttn* <nr exporting liquors would "be subject to a J500 fine and one year's imprisonment for the first offense. Confusion Frequent. v j There was the utjnost confusion at i times during the day, and often half 1 a dozen were asking recognition with | so much clatter some-^iembers com plained they did not know what the House was doing. Severat amend ments offered by Chairman Volstead , of the judiciary committee, in charge of the bill, went through. The House ; also accepted one by Representative j Miller, republican, of Washington, re i quiring doctors Issuing whisky pre ? scrlptlons at drug store ofllces to have ; maintained such offices for a period of ? one year prior to passage of the bill, i The search and seizure section, de i scribed as the bill's most drastic ! I provision, was approved -with added | restrictions. Strictness Alarms "Drys." By a vote of 73 to 70 an amend ment designed ^o protect from inva sion a home in the same buildlag ; with a store in which liquor was sold was defeated over the protest of a j few ardent prohibitlonlsts./who de clared there was danger ?it Congress going too far. On theVfieels of this the House adopted, 71 to 51, an amendment whlclj/ would permit j search of a private dwelling used for , the sale of lirtoxicants. ^ Chairman Volstead declared the^ search and seizure section had been the "bugaboo" of the whole enforce- 1 ment discussion, and that the: only j things that could' be taken awa>; . after "search were liquor and imple'- 1 | ments for its manufacture.. " j A fightSo amend the provision which j would require physicians prescribing^ whisky to write "on the prescription the patient's ailment was led by Rep resentative Treadway, republican. Massachusetts. He said It was appar ent the .'House was bent on passing the bill, drastic provisions and all, but warned that the House was going too far in requiring that? a person's ail ment be placed on record. The amend ment was defeated, 62 to 39.^ Denies Medicinal Value. * Thejittltude of the "dry" forces. Was 1 indicated by (Jha.irffian -Volstead dur ing consideration of the section relat ing t1? liquor-drinking -on trains, and boats. Representative Gard. demo era^ of'Ohlo/Thslsted that the word "publicly"* shotftd be added because as thi'section stood it would be a.crime fofla sick or dying person to be given a drink on a train. "Ho occasion ever arisen when liquor is really needed as a medicine," said jjr. Volstead. The House defeated the amendment, but later, upon Mr. Volstead's motion, it amended the section to make it "un lawful for any person to drink liquor as a beverage or to iotoxicarted" on a public conveyance. No Domestic Manufacture. ?"Xffer the chair had ruled out an amendment by .Representative Fitz gerald, denmjerat, of Massachusetts, which worfld have permitted a man to make wine and cider In his own home. Chairman Volstead tried to (Continued on Third Page.) ?: C v' C - -41 iy ? U. S. TARS ROBBED IN OFFICIAL BOAT Hold-Up by Armed Men Re sembles Attacks Preceding Vera Cruz Occupation. OFFICIALS SEE TROUBLE LOOMING IN ASSAULT Dispatch Urgent Word to Carranza Government; New U. S. Policy Thought in Effect. A boat from the U. S. S. Cheyenne occupied by enlisted men of the American Navy was held up by armed men in the Tamesi river, nine miles off Tampico, Mexico, .in July 6. and the sailors were robbed. The American flag was flying from the boat at the time. Closely resembling the attacks on American sailors which led to the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914, the State Department did not hesitate to regard it as a most grave affair and immediately dispatched urgent rep resentations to the Carranza govern ment and the local authorities at Tampico. Although the sailors were Ashing, they were on official duty bringing In food for their ship, and the American flag flying from the boat denoted that it was official business. Beport Delayed 12 Days. Preliminary reports of the attack, reaching the Navy Department on July ", did not go to the State De partmerfl until yesterday, when it promptly was given out. No expla nation was made for the delay. The incident is regarded as most serious and charged with possibilities because the Carranza forces are in full control of the Tampico district, especially the city and the water? about it, although the official report does not identify the Mexicans who 1 attacked the boat, and because it comes as the climax to a long series of recent attacks on Americans, all of , which have been made the subject of 'increasingly urgent representations to the Carranza government. Bandit Dominance Not Known. Army officials said no reports rtf 1 garding the activities, of bandits in , J the Tampico district bad been re ceived heretofore and thai official in formation in' the War !*epartmerit tile* J showed that the Tampico district had 1 been under complete Cpntrol iij the Mexican government-for several years. J The State Department issued this statement concerning the incident: ?The Department of State has Just been advisee}, that on July # a bo?t J from the U. S. S. Cheyenne, occupied * by enlisted men of that vessel who were on a fishing trip, was held Up on the Tamesi river, near Tampico, by armed men. The sailors ? were I robbed of personal effects.. "Urgent representations have been made by the Department of State to j both the local Mexican authorities at Tampico and to the federal govern ment at Mexico City, and the authori ties there have promised to investi- I gate at once." Fuller Beport Ordered. Secretary Daniels sent the fbllowHig telegram to Commander Finney ot the Topeka: "Wire fuller report and rertilts of ^ investigation of robbery of motor ^ sailing launch of U. S. S. Cheyenne. < Jiave parties been identified or ap prehended?" .J Since President Wilson returned from the peace conference he has turned his attention a great deal to the Mexican situation. Various r ports have been circulating in source* in touch with Mexican affairs that the American .government s policy had undergone a change., but there has been no official indication or an nouncement. * ; u. s. Beady for Developments, j It is known, however, that the. American troops along the border have a-new set of orders, which was "evidenced by the prompt manner ia which they crossed into Juares and clearted-up the* fighting there when lt^n,enaced El Paso. ,The extent to which, the military establishment has been prepared to meet a situation in Mexico has not fully been disclosed, "6ut there'are evidences that the gov ernment is taking measures to be ?rftpared> for any eventualities into which" it tnay be forced.. j. i It was an Incident at Tampico in i 1914 '-wfhich. brought on the occupa *titfn of Vera Cruz. A boat from owe of Admiral Mayos ships was de talned, a paymaster was arrested . and Jailed, and at other .times mes sengers from the ships were rnencaeed^ ashp.te- ,Gen , Huerta refused to a??l-* . a'nd, salute* the American fla^ and the occupation of Vera Cruz fol*^jj iow.ed. . - ? Officials here see In the incident at July 6 the makings of a more serious situation. " _ , jf HELD AS MAIL BOBBER. y ?. ?-??-' J.K ? G. H,. KcDevitt, Transfer deri? '* is Arrested by Inspectors. Charged with rifling the malls it Union station, where he was ployed aB transfer clerk and had charge of loadlpg mail on trainsi Suy Harrison McD?fvltt, thirty years old, ; of Mount Rainier. Md.. was* arrest** by Post Office Inspectors Ho'dgln 'nn'i, j Yarborough last night. He probably - will be given a hearing before at United State* oommlsBlorwr torn ; . ? \ ??? *.? >?"> V '