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I WEATHER FORECAST; Rain tonight. (Full Report on Page Two.) Ute WWnaf on ffime HOME EDITION NUMBER 8632. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY EVENING, ' AUGUST 20, 1915. PRICE ONE CENT. SUBMARINE GAVE ARABIC NO CHANCE, ALL AMERICAN SURVIVORS DECLARE GERMANS TAKE CITY OF NOVO GE0RG1EVSK IN Brazil's Mexican Envoy Calls at White House DRIVE NORTH Kaiser Hastens to Congratulate General Von Beseler, Who Took Six Generals and 85, 000 Men Prisoners. Fortress Surrendered After a Week of Steady Bombard , merrt by Howitzers Was Warsaw Defense. LONDON. Aug. 20. The Petrograd correspondent of the Morning Post reported today that the Russians are seriously considering moving the capital from Petrograd to Moscow. This Is not because of fear of a Ger man advance on Petrograd, he reported, but because it is gen erally rrtizd.iiat Moscow.--! more ideally situated for the governmental seat. LONtfoN, Aug. 20. News agency dispatches today announce the capture of Novo Georgievsk, the Russian fortress northwest of j Warsaw, by the Germans. Six Russian generals and 85,000 men were captured by General , von Beseler's troops. German howitzers have been battering at the fortress of Novo Georgievsk since the fall of War-1 aw, a fortnight ago. Instead of evacuating Novo Georgievsk, the j Russian grand duke decided to leave within the fortress a garri son of about 50,000 to 75,000 men to block the German advance. ON HIGH PLATEAU. Standing at the Junction of the Vis tula and the Bug, upon a hlBh plateau that enabled Its Runs to sweep the sur rounding: plain, '."ovo Gf-orE evsk was considered ono of the strongest for tresses of Russia. Napoleon first discov ered Its possibilities In 1S07 and erected defenses. In late years the Russians Improved the natural advantages of the position and designed a fortress to pro tect Y7arsav from assault from the north. A sorles of outer forts, two strong citadels, e'ght bridgehead positions, and a number of armed redoubts were counted upon to repel all enemy as saults. The Germans first Invested the city when the Warsaw garrison retired, drew the ring tighter, and then began sstematlcally battering in the Novo Georgievsk forts. Four of the strongest (Continued on Page Twelve.) i I MEXICO CHIEFS DEFY WILSON, STANDING BY GEN.CARRANZA Message Received at State' De partment From Four Gener als, Saying They Will Stand or Fall With First Chief. Secretary Lansing Thanks Min ister Cardoso, Brazilian En voy to Mexico, for Services to Nation. M Photo by Buck. SENOR 'JOSE CARDOSA DE OLIYIERA. POUCE ON GUARD AS H BID Only Family and Few' of Closest Friends Attend Funeral of Mob Victim. kurds mm UN WI Thousand Mothers and Children Locked Up in Burning Build ing, Says Petrograd. PETROGRAD. Aug. 20. One thou sand Armenian women and children were locked in a wooden building by Kurdish tribesmen near Van and the building then set on fire, according to dispatches received here today report ing the renewal of atrocities against the Armenians. A few of the women broke out, but the major'ty pcilshed. In one village all the Armenians but thlrty-s'x were massacred by the Kurds, the dispatches said. In another, a scre of women, after being mis treated, were bound, together with some children and thrown Into Lake Van. NEW YORK. Aug. 20 The final chap ter was written In the Frank case today when the body of the young victim of Georgia lvnch law was burled in Cy press Hll's Cemetery. The funeral vm strictly private, at tended only bv members of the fnmlly, and n very few dose friends. A siuad of twenty-five policemen kept the streets approaehlnc the Krnnlt home clear for half a block. There wns no demonstration. Frank's widow nlmoit collapsed at the door of the family residence. It BOARDWALK Formal notices were serveu to day on Secretary of State Lan sing and the Latin-American diplo mats who took part in the recent Pan - American - Mexican confer ence, by four of Carranza's gen erals that they will stand or, fH by Carrania's"response to rife" Pin American appeal. The communications received at the .State Department today were from Gen. Candido Aguilar, gov ernor and military commander of the State of Vera Cruz; Gen. Al fredo Elizondo, governor and mil itary commander of the State of Michoacan; Gen. A. Ricaut, mili tary commander of the garrison at Nuevo Laredo, and Gen. Francisco Murguia, one of Obregon's di vision commanders. THANKS CARDOSO. Fecretary Lansing availed himself to day of the opportunity to express In the warmest terms the appreciation which this Government fcela for the admirable wcrk of Benor Cardoso, the Brazilian minister to Mexico, who hoa for some time represented the United States at the Mexican capital. Scnor Cardoso, accompanied by mem bers of Ills f&mily and suite, arrived. In Wellington this morning. They aio circrtcred nt the Wlllard. Ambassador (Continued on Pago Twelve.) FOURlTEAMERSARE AT ATLANTIC CITY ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Aug. 20. A fire, which has al ready gutted half a dozen Bmall shops on the boardwalk and threatens the $500,000 Strand Hotel and Haddon Hnll, is rag ing along the entire square here between Pennsylvania and North Carolina avenues. HEAVffflSllO HOMES IN ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS. Aug. 20.-A heavy rain, starting lute Thursday, Is still continu ing this morning and has flooded resi dence sections In southwest St. Louis. Police hnve been unsuccessful In at tempts to aid neveral families maroon ed In the upper stories of their dwell ings. Telephone appeals for aid said portions of the South Side are under six feet of water. Car tracks on many lines are covered, and many washed out. A tunnel connecting the Clark street postofflce with the Union Station Is hnlf filled with water. Several tugs and dredgeboats are still missing. The destruction of the life-saving station at Surf Side, fifty miles below Galveston, has bean confirmed. UBMAmNI EVI TM In Twelve Hours German U Boats Sink Three British and One Neutral Vessel. i, LONDON, Aug. 20. Four more steam ers, including one neutral ship, have been torpedoed and sunk by German submarines within twelve hours. Dispatches to shipping circles Indicate some lives were lost when the Spanish steamer I'ena Castille was sent to the bottom. Only three of her crew have been accounted for. Crews of the New York city, Baron Ersklne and Reformel, all British steamers torpedoed today, were rescued. It is also reported that the White Star Liner Bovic, a freight liner In the Aus tralian service, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. The re port Is not confirmed by the admiralty. In addition to the Leyland liner Nicor slan was attacked and damaged bv a torpedo today. She was able to reach port. Two members of the crew of the Dun sloy. torpedoed near tho same spot where the Arabic went down esterday, were drowned. Thirty-five other mem bers of the crew were landed todav. Thirteen P.rltlsh merchant vessels of a gross tonn&pe of 2:,970 fell v.ctlms to the German war zone decree during the week ended August 18. it Is announced. Ten small fishing vessels also were sunk. The Bovlc Is a 6, 583-ton steel twin screw steamer, built at Belfast in 1882. She Is 470 feet In length with a flfty-three-foot beam. She was registered at the port of Liverpool. AMERICANS WHO SAILED ON ILL-FATED ARABIC Following are tho Americans known to be missing: Brugulere, Mrs. Josephine L. Woods. Dr. Edmund, .Tanevllle, Wis. Following is a list of known American survivors, as given out today by the White Star offices in New York: Brugulere, Lnuis, Now York. Burgess, Fred. Burgess, Mrs. Fred. A., Cham- Calmon, .Turn cm. Culmon, Mrs. .Tames. Collier. Philip W. A.. Buffalo. N. Y. Collier. Mrs. Philip V. A.. Buf falo. Covington, ZoMah, New York. Covington, Mrs. Zcllah, New York. Day, John F. A. McAllister, Itev. E. bcrsburg, Pa. MuTammey, Christopher, Tren ton. N. J. Moore, Leopold P. Nebdter, A. H.. Logan, Utah. Nolan, John, Trenton, N. J. Rood, Claude, Schenectady, N.Y. Rowley, James M Chicago. narr.sdell, W. E. Slirlmpton, Miss Sidle Syra cuse. N. V. State Department advices add the following American sur vivors to the above list: OullUan, James H Philadelphia. ElFmore, Thomas, New York. Olson. John, San Francisco. Olscliewskl. John, Trenton, N.J. Press dispatches from Queenstown carry the following names of additional American survivors: Highes. William. ICellett. J. Martin, FiederlcK. Wlnston-Sa- lcm. N. C. Day. Miss L. G. Liner's Sinking Seen As Germany's Answer To American Protest Gravity of Diplomatic Situation ihcreasedr-rPresIdent Takes Long Motor Trip to Consider Crisis Alone. Index of German Submarine Policy in Arabic Attack, Officials Fear. DEATH TOLL NOW 48; TWO U. S. CITIZENS ARE AMONG MISSING Tales of Bravery Unfolded by Passengers. Prima Donna Sang "Tipperary" in Life Boat Captain Dove From Bridge to Save Women. Sinking of the White Star liner Arabic by a German submarine, without warning, and without giving the Americans on board a chance to escape with their lives, has greatly added to the gravity of the com plications between the United States and Germany. Sripped of nil side issues and technicalities, this one fact looms up today: Germany has apparently given her answer to the note of July 21, in which the United States with solemn emphasis said it would regard as "deliberately unfriendly" further violations of the rights of Ameri can life a tsea. Germany has apparently elected to proceed to destroy passenger ships without warning. ' INDICATES POLICY OF GERMANY. Under the circumstances, even more Importance It attached to sinking of tho Arabic as on Index to German pol icy rather than to the loss of the essel itself. It Is apprehended that the destruc tion of the Arabic will be followed by tho destruction of other passenscr llr.ers and that no attention will be paid to the principle of visit and search and warning to those on board. If this proves true, then almost noth ing can head off rupture of relations with Germany. i It Is not yet clear that such a rupture will occur. Some technical questions are being raised about the Arabic, chiefly the question of whether the fact she had SOCIETY WOMAN D ED ON BOARD THE ARABIC Mrs. Josephine Sather Brugu lere Known in New York, Newport, and Paris. NEW YORK, Aug, 20. Mrs. Joseph ine Sather Brugulere, of New York, one of the Americana on tho Arabic believed to have been lost, was a prominont figure in New York, New port, and Paris society. Her father was a Frenchman and her mother a Spanish countess. Be fore her marriage sho was Miss Joseph Ino Hather, or Ban Francisco. Her stepmother, who was wealthy, left J7OU.0O3 to the University of Cali fornia. Her father, who was for many years connected with Drexel & Co.. Philadelphia bankers, founded the nrst bank In Ban Francisco, now known as the Han Francisco National Bank. Mrs. Brugulere was returning on the Ariblc trom Paris with her son, Louis, "," was graduated from Harvard in 1Mb. . ne son cabled relatives here today that his mother waa last. been under convoy, as stated In press dlspatchea, changed her status. President Wilson departed from Washington by automobile this morn ing bound for Philadelphia. He will re turn tonight. He went to consult an oculist, but It is generally felt that In addition to this he desired to get away by himself and think over the remark Hble situation which has arisen. Un doubtedly h realised that he could take no definite step until all tho of ficial facts had reached him and pend ing receipt of such Information, he de sired not to be harassed. Awaiting Full Reports. Secretary of State Lansing said this morning that the Government was waiting full information. He would not discuss the situation. z z Ambassador Page, Consul General Skinner, and Vice Consul Thompson ut Queenstown are expected to aend full reports as to the facts. It did not escape notice today that the sinking of the Arabic occurred Just at the time when the American Govern ment had Its hand more or less occupied with Moxlco. The time for Mexican re plies to the peace appeal will soon ex pire, ad then a nice problem will be pre sented for this Government. Has Ger many relzed on this as a good time to strike at the Arabic, thinking American attention more or lesa diverted? Question of Convoy. The question whether the Arabic was under convoy, when her convov ceased, and other technical questions became of prominence toJay In con nection with the sinking of the Ara bic. Dispatches say the Arabic had been under convoy by British destroyers up to the point where it waa believed danger of the German submarines had passed. Then the warships turned back. The State Department Indicated to day that a merchant vessel under con voy waived her rights as a merchant ship. However, It seems the Arabic was not under convoy at the time. Indications ore that the German government may raise the contention that the Arabic was under convoy or under convoy when last seen by the submarine commander. This would raise a question of fact which would probably take time to clear up and perhaps tend to obscure the Issue. If the convoy was still In sight or In close proximity It might with force be argued that the Arabic was still under convoy. Officials here, conse quently, will await with Interest In formation on this point. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 20. Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, of the German navy, has been decorated with the order Pour le Merite by the Kaiser, as the result of what the Kaiser called "Germany's increasing subma rine successes," according to Berlin advices today. i LONDON, Aug. 20 (10a.m.). Consul Frost, at Queenstown, reported to the American embassy here today that all American survivors are unanimous in their declaration that the Arabic was torpedoed with out warning. Unofficial .figures received here today show that forty-eight lives..yerelo$t in the sinking of the Arabic, and that thirty of the. 396 survivors were injured. One of the missing passengers for whom all hope has been' given up, is Mrs. Josephine Sather Bruguiere, an American society woman, prominent in New York, Newport, and Paris. Only six of those lost were passengers. The others were officers and members of the crew, most of them being men in the fire and engine rooms who were killed in the explosion of the torpedo. According to a later bulletin given out by the White Star line office here, twenty passengers still are missing. The foregoing bulletin from London does not agree with figures given out by White Star officials in New York, who assert that only 423 persons were aboard the Arabic, and that only thirty-two were lost. The London estimate accounts for 444 persons on the liner. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 20. No survivor of the Arm. bic disaster who was interviewed here today saw the sub marine that sent the big liner to the bottom, although sev eral said they saw the U-boat that a few minutes before torpedoed the British steamer Dunsley, and believed it was the same submarine. They agreed that the Arabic was sunk without warning. From the moment the heavy blow struck by the tor pedo rocked the steamer with a violent explosion, until she sank beneath the waves there was little confusion among either passengers or crew. Men who had passed through other sea disasters said today that nothing impressed them as much as the calm, orderly manner in which the passengers got over the sides within eleven minutes after the vessel was struck. BOAT CAUGHT BY LINER. The drowned were in two boats which capsized almost immediately after they struck the water. One of them was caught by the liner as she rolled over in her death plunge. Some of the occupants struggled to rafts and clung fast until they were picked up by other boats. Those that could not swim went down beneath the waves rolled up by the sinking Arabic. Several of the crew, it is believed cer tain, were blown to pieces when, the torpedo plunged into the vessel's side. Three things, the passengers agreed, prevented a larger loss of life; First, that the sea .was calm; second, that lifeboats had previously been swung out to meet such an emergency, and, third, that there was no panic and the crew displayed good discipline in getting over the boats. Many of the survivors landed here last night were suf-