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"FORCED INTO WAR"- i PRESIDENT WILSON t i1 Chief Executive Lays Blame for t Conflict Upon Germany. b 9eciares American People Had No Choice But to Take Up Arms-Du- C plicity and Intrigues of the Kaier's d Government Forced the Conflict inb Which the Nation is Engaged. A Washington, June r. - President o Wilson, In his Flag day speech, set c forth the aims of the United States in r the present war, practically as fol- t Sows: My Fellow Citizens: We meet to celebrate Flag Day becapse this flag !which we honor and tiWder which we serve is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other charactek than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours. It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices, whether in peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it speaks to us-speaks to us of the past, of the men and wom en who went before us and of the rec ,rds they wrote upon it. We celebrate the day of its birth; and from its birth until now it has witnessed a great his tory, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great people. We are about to carry it into battle, to lift it ,where it will draw the fire of our en emnies. We are about to bid thousands, shndreds of thousands, it may be mll mions of our men, the young, the strong, lthe capable men of the nation, to go forth and die beneath it on fields of Mlood far away-for whatt For some mnaccustomed thing? For something for which it has never sought the Are eore American armies were never before sent across the seas. Why are they sent now? For some new pur pose, for which this great flag has nev er been carried before, or for some old, familiar, heroic purpose for which it has seen men, its own men, Aie on ev ery battlefield upon which Americans have borne arms since the'Revolutionl These are questions which must be answered. We are Americans. We in our turn serve America, and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has always used it. We are accountable at the bar of his tory and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve. No Choioe But War's Arbitrament. It is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The extraordi nary insults and aggressions of the im perial German government left us no self-respecting choice but to take up irms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign government. The military masters of GOermany denied us the right to be neu tral. They filled our unsuspecting com snunities with vicious spies and con apirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own be half. When they found that they could not do that, their agents diligently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their 1 allegiance, and some of those agents were men connected with the official embassy of the German government it self here in our own capital. They sought by violence to destroy our in- 1 dustries and arrest our commerce. They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms against us and to draw Japan In to a hostile alliance with her--and that, not by indirection, but by direct suggestion from the foreign office in BIerlin. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeated ly executed their threat that they j would send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of Europe. And many of out t awn people were corrupted. Men be san to look upon their own neighbors r with suspicion and to wonder in their t hot resentment and surprise whether I there was any community in which hostile intrigue did not lurk. What great nation in such circumstances a would not have taken .up arms, Much v as we had desired peace it was denied a us, and not of our own choice. This t fag under which we serve would have v been dishonored had we withheld our I1 hand. C Relations With German People. a But that is only part of the story. b We know now as clearly as we knew p before we were ourselves engaged that a we are not enemies of the German peo- a ple and that they are not our enemies, I They did not originate or desire this a hideous war or wish that we should be a drawn into it; and we are vaguely con- ' eclous that we are fighting their cause, a as they will some day see it, as well as a war own. They are themselves in the f4 grip of the same sinister power that u as now at last stretched its ugly tal- a m- out and drawn blood from us. The whole world is in the grip of that pow- I. h er and is trying out the great battle g which shall determine whether it is to o be brought under its mastery or fling Itself free. I The war was began by the military tI masters of Germany, who proved to be ra also the masters of Austria-Hungary. a IN HARMONY FROM NOW ON Units of Allied Powers In the Field and on the Oceans to Be Placed Under One Control. Washington, June !..-An interna tional army staff and international navy staff for co-ordinatlon of military a4d naval operations will be created I) the allied powers. The organization of such bodles is dsuaed absolutely essential if the al ) are to win the war. The nations These men have never regarded as. tions as peoples, men, women, and children of like blood and frame as themselves, for whom governments ex isted and in whom governments had their life. They have regarded them merely as serviceable organizations which they could by force or intrigue bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They have regarded the smaller states~ In particular, and the peoples who could be overwhelmed by force, as their natural tools and instruments of domination. Their purpose has long been avowed. Military Masters Dominate Germany. Their plan was to throw a broad belt t of German military power and jolitical t control across the very center of Eu rope and beyond the Mediterranean in to the heart of Asia; and Austria-Hn gary was to be as much their tool and 0 pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey I or the ponderous states of the East. e The dream had its heart at Berlin. It r could have had a heart nowhere else l It rejected the idea of solidarity of race entirely. The choice of peoples played no part in it at all. They ar dently desired to .direct their own af e fairs, would be satisfied only by undis ' puted independence. They could be kept quiet only by the presence or the constant threat of armed men. The German military statesmen had reck oned with all that and were ready to deal with it in their own way. Deceitful Cry for Peace. Is it not easy to understand the eag erness for peace that has been mani fested from Berlin ever since the snare was set and sprang? Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of her foreign office for now a year and more; not peace upon her own initiative, but up on the initiative of the nations over which she now deems herself to hold the advantage. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me, and in all sorts of guises, but never with the terms disclosed which the German gov ernment would be willing to accept C That government still holds a valuable A part of France, though with slowly re- t laxing grasp, and practically the whole of Belgium. It cannot go further; it dare not go back. It wishes to close its bargain before It is too late The military masters under whom Germany is bleeding see very clearly to what point Fate has brought them. If they fall back or are forced back n an inch, their power both abroad and 0 at home will fall to pieces like a 13 house of cards. If they can se cure peace now with the immense ad vantages still in their hands which H they have up to this point apparently v gained, they will have justified them- 0 selves before the German people; they ti will have gained by force what they ri promised to gain by it: an immense a expansion of German power, an im- 13 mense enlargement of German Indus- 1* trial and commercial opportunities. If they fall, their people will thrust them t aside; a government accountable to ti the people themselves will be set up ri in Germany as it has been in England, ii in the United States, in France, and p in all the great countries of the mod- p ern time except Germany. If they sue- oj ceed they are safe and Germany and the world are undone; if they fail Gel' si many is saved and the world will be at gi peace. If they succeed, we and all m the rest of the world must remain ( armed, as they will remain, and must of make ready for the next step of ag gression; if they fail, the world may unite for peace, and Germany may be of the union. Practiced Campaign of Deceit . 8 The present particular aim of the masters of Germany is to deceive all those who throughout the world stand for the rights of peoples and the self government of nations; for they see B what immense strength the forces of a justice and of liberalism are gatherlit t out of this war. al The sinister intrigue is being no less K actively conducted in this country than in Russia and in every country in Eu rope to which the agents and dupes of the Imperial German government can get acetss. r ge access. Is a People's War. t The great fact that stands out above * all the rest is that this is a People's I war, a war for freedom and Justice and I self-governient amongst all the na a tions of the world, a war to make the e world safe for the peoples who live in r it and have made it their own, the German people themselves Included; and that with us rests the choice to break through all these hypocrisies and patent cheats and masks of brute force t and help set the world free, or else stand aside and let it be dominated a long age through by sheer weight of arms and the arbitrary choices of self constituted masters, by the nation which can maintain the biggest armies and the most irresistible armament- aa power to which the world has af forded no parallel and in the face of which political freedom must wither and perish. For us there Is but one choice. We have made it. Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to. stand Ih our way in this day of high resolution when every principle we hold dearest is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation of the nations. We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a new luster. flghtipg in league with Germany have practically surrendered their independ ence to Berlin. It is at the German headquarters that the moves are planned, not only for the German fronts but for the Italian battlefields, the Balkans, Asia Minor and Persia. Thia unity of com mand has resulted in movements to hold vast bodies of enemy troops while a strenuous forward campaign was be. ing conducted elsewhere. This schesos, It Is felt, must now be put im force y the allles. - - MRS. SUMMER ARRIVES oLp lt ITALIANS TAKE FORTS STORM FORTIFIED POSITIONS p THAT SURRENDER AFTER A FURIOUS RESISTANCE. Aust ians Captured By the Italians In Sudcessful Drive That Gained Im portant Trenches and Munitions For the Allies. Rome.-Italian forces have carried Corno Cavento, a strongly fortified Austrian position in the eastern Tren tino, says the official statement issued by the Italian war department The official communication reads: "East of the Adamello Missif, in the Eastern Trentino, Alpine deteach Inents of the Val Balta battalion and skiers advanced over difficult ground, notwithstanding the furious resistance of the enemy, and attacked the strong ly fortified positions of Corno Cavento at an altitude of 3,400 meters. "On the Ortigara our positions on Hill 2101 were attacked with extreme violence, the enemy, continually re enforced, redoubled his efforts, but they all failed in the face of our firm resistance. We inflicted severe losses on the enemy,.repulsing him complete ly and capturing 52 prisoners, includ ing four officers. "In the San Pellegrino Valley, a hos tile attack upon our advanced posi o tions on the Massif of Costabella was repulsed. On the southern slopes of Mount Rombon we occupied by sur I prise one of the enemy's advanced posts and maintained the same in spite of the concentrated fire of the enemy. "Our battleplanes, supported by scout machines, dropped 1,800 kilo grams of explosives on enemy hut ments and camps in the St. Lucia zone (Tolmino) and In the Bazza Valley. All our machines returned safely." KAISER MAKING PROMISES Sends Message To Former King Coa stantine That He Will Restore His Crown. Berne, Switzerland-A telegram from Berlin says the kaiser has addressed the following message to one of the Greek diplomatic representatives abroad for transmission to former King Constantine: "I have heard with wrath of the infamous outrage committed by our common enemies upon you and your dynasty. I assure you that your de privation can be only temporary. The mailed fist of Germany, with tfurther aid from Almighty God, will restore you to your throne, of which no man by right can rob you. "The armies of Germany and Ger many's allies will wreak vengeance on those who have dared so insolently to lay their criminal hands on you. We hope to welcome you in Germany at the earliest opportunity. A thousal cordial greetings from (Signed) "YOUR WILLIAM." INCOME TAX GROWS Reports for Year Show the Largest Amounts Ever Known. Washington--Income tax receipts for the fiscal year ending June 15, in cluaive, amounted to $8,56,4d28*., by dar the largest amount ever col lected from incomes, according to a statement from Secretary McAdoo. Of this amount, $170,S0,3I. M was received from corporations ~aCt $.1 528,688.21 from aindivitduals. Aged Jok" Becomes Reality. Copenhagen.-Venerable jokes Abont cabbage or hay cigars has become a sad and serious reality in Germany, owing to the scarcity and high coat of genuine tobacco. Sweden Repels Zeppelin. Copenhagen.-A Zeppelin was oi served outside the harbor of Cimbrle hamn, Sweden. A violent cannonade was directed against the dirigible, which withdrew in a damaged con dition. Pershing's Nephew Joine Army. Chicago.-Fraak E. Pershing, 23, nephew of Major General PeiChfng and capttain of. the University at]ri tfootball team for next fall, has en listed as a private in the regslar sqw. S AMERICAN TANKER SUNK S STEAMSHIP BELONGING TO THE STANDARD OIL CO. VICTIM OF GERMAN U-BOAT. n Four Members of Crew Lose Lives n- In Vessel Sent To Bottom-Crew or Consisted of Forty-one Men-Ship Was Returning to Home Port. d New York.-The oil tank steamship, 4 John D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Q. company, has been sunk by a sub 4 marine. Four members of the tank er's crew were lost. The Archbold was sent to the bottom in European e waters. .- The John D. Archbold was two days d en route to this country from France. j, The ship was armed and a gunner's b crew from an American warship was on board. o The names of the missing crew members are Jose Lorenzo, an oiler; a Gregorlo Soza, a fireman; and Domin e go Lago, a wiper; and a man whose . name is uncertain. It The John D. Archbold was an Amer n ican steamship of 8,734 tons gross s register, owned by the Standard Oil b. company, and built in 1914 at Newport . News. The ship left here May 20 for Havre and Rouen, France, with cargo u. nder the command of Capt. H. B. 1. Thompson, with a crew of 41 men, of z whom 12 were Americans. a CHINESE CRISIS SERIOUS r. Tone of Latest American Note Is Re sented By England and Japanese SOfficials. e Washington.-Japan's attitude to I ward the United States is a source of worriment here. The mikado's government has spurn ed American requests to take joint ac tion in trying to compose the Chinese situation. . She informed this government that she could not send China a note sim ilar to that sent by the United States, advising that the revolution in China n be quelled and that China stand united I According to those disposed to criti I cez American handling of the Chinese s situation, Japan and England were ex r pecting this government to notify them of America's proposed action and e have a joint note sent to China by the r three powers. Instead, Secretary Lan r sing sent the American note, notified England and Japan of his action and a asked them to send an identki note. a ATTACKED BY U-BOAT. Two Torpedoes Fired at Amerlcas Steamer Missed Mark. 1 An Atlantic Port.-An American I steamer arriving here reported an en a gagement with a German submarine t off Brest, France. The U-boat fired I two torpedoes at the steamer, but neither found its mark. The naval gunners on the steamer fired, on the undersea craft, but do not think they registered a hit. After 10 shots from the steamer the submarine dismp peared. TRIBUTE TO LAFAYETTE. General Pershing Places Wreath On Teomb Of Nero. Paris.-The Marquis de Chambrun, deseemdant of Maraqus de Lafayette. returned formal thanks to General Pershing when he laid a wreath on the i tomb of the famous revolutioary gen m eral in the Picpus cemetery. General Pershing said in part: "It is a great pleasure for all us I Americans to have had this opportun- ( ity of visiting the grave of a man who I did so much for America." Arrest Man'In Keet Case. Hutcinson, ~Kan.-Tbe police here announce the arrest of Didk Carter," of Springfield, Mo., against whom a warrant charging first degree murder has been issued in connection with the I mysterious disappearance and death Of baby Lloyd Keet. Jap etre Injured. Tokye.-While Japanese destroyers I were attaedbka a sbmarine in the .Medieteran th, -t. dert m a k was torpadeed and imaged. The I iemaged craft was towed to psort, SENATORS RETARD FOOD BILL ACTION LITTLE GROUP OF SENATORS AT. TEMPT TO EMBARRASS PRESI DENIT BY FILIBUSTERING. MAY INVOKE CLOTURE RULE Vardaman and Reed Leaders Against Bill To Regulate Food Pricee Senate May Invoke Cloture Rule-Night Sessions Washington.--Debate in both of the branches of congress on the second ad ministration- food bill-for govern. mental control of foodstuffs and other necessaries-has disclosed determined opposition, particularly by a group of senators, which threatens to prevent its enactment by July 1, as urgently re quested by President Wilson. Passage of the bill by the house late this week is confidently expected by administration leaders, but advo cates as well as opponents in the sen ate say debate will be protracted there E for several weeks, and unless the president adopts some extraordinary steps to hasten action the law hardly can be enacted in time to set up the food administration before harvesting begins. Administration supporters privately W express fear of a senate filibuster. ip They are prepared if necessary to in voke, for the first time, the senate's new anti-filibuster rules. The oposition protested that a dicta' i1 torship and interference with business b- and Individual rights were proposed, k. and questioned the constitutionality of d the legislation. a Both houses have made the measure their pending business with the pur ** pose of keeping it continuously under s. discussion until disposed of. B FRENCH FREIGHTER SUNK Steamer Mississippi Sunk By German Submarine Off Coast of Brest, France. New York.-News of the destruction of the big French freight steamship * Mississippi by a German submarine, 1 with a loss of one of the merchant t man's crew, was brought here by of r ficers of a British freight vessel that arrived from a French port. The Mississippi, of 6,677 tons groses, was torpedoed and sunk about 145 miles out from Brest, France, accord Ing to officers of the British ship, which rescued 47 officers and seamen ` from open boats. GIRL'S BODY FOUND IN CELLAR. High School Student Buried in Cellar Of Bicycle Dealer. New York.-Discovery of the body of 18-year-old Ruth Cruger, the miss ing Wadleigh high school student, who had been murdered and then buried six feet under the cellar of a shop occupied by a bicycle dealer who fled to Italy after she disappeared, l cleared a mystery which had baffled the police for months. The girl's skull 1 had been crushed. ZEPPELIN 18 SHOT DOWN. Daring Aviators Defeated In Atta 1 On British Coast. London.-Two German Zeppeliln 1 executed the second early morning I bomb raid on the English coast at 2 a. m. Sunday. One of the monsters glided out of the night across the East Anglican coast and another over Kent. The latter was sent plungingl to the earth in flames by the combined assault of aeroplanes and anti-aircraft guns as it bombed the coast town. KAISER MUST QUIT. Socialist Leader of Sweden Issues Statement On Peace. Copenhagen.-"Real peace negotia tions will have to be postponed as long t' as the present German rulers are gov erning-that is, the kaiser and the t ring about him," is the view of the P Swedish socialist, Dr. Branting, ao, cording to an interview quoted in the Politiken. "These-the Junkers mill tary party-are the ones who forcesd the war." GERMAN VESSEL IS SUNK. Few German Vessels Have Ventured Onto High Seas Since War. Amsterdam.-The German steamer Thuriagen has been torpedoed and sunk while en route from Hamburg to Rotterdam, according to word re- a ceived here. a Sinking of German steamers by sub- . marines have been exceedingly rare. y Only occasionally do German vessels 0 attempt to navigate the seas, except n raiders and warships. ft BELGIAN MISSION ARRIVES. Officials From Belgium Headed By E Baron Moncheur. An Atlantic Port.-Belgium's official mission to the United States has ar- s rived in this country. It is headed by o Baron Moncheur, former minister to a the United States, and now chief of F the political bureau of the Belgian U foreign office at Havre. ti Other members of the commission are General Le Cleroq, Hector Cuarlier, Ii Maior Osterrieth, Count D'Urse and s Sesa De Mertem 61 AUSTIIAN REVOLT I ROWINS SERIOUS VIENNA DISPATCH SAYS CABINE2 SENDS RESIGNATIONS TO THE EMPEROR. POLES HAVE ALL RESIGNED I Proionged /Cabinet Meeting Ends II* Revelt Against German Influence. Government Papers Hold Out Hope Against Crsis.l I Copenhagen.-The revolt of the Poles in the Austrian parliament i1 described by the Vienna correspond, r ent of the Vossische Zeitung as havy I ing produced a crisis in which the po+ I sition not only of Premier Clam-Mar t tinic, but also of Count Czernin, the foreign minister, is threatened. The government organs in Vienna hold ou, hopes that the crisis may be overcome I by granting a few ministerial posts to Polish and other parliamentarians. The Vossische Zeltung correspondent, how ever, points out that the defection o1 the Poles is sufficient to turn the r scales against the government, since the rest of the Slav bloc already is im a opposition. The Poles indicated the seriousness of thei. intentions by a decision to vote against the budget; being the first parliamentary group ia any belligerent country aside from a -handful of extreme socialists, in refus. I ing to vote a war credit The Polish aspirations, which re r cently have been indicated, aim at i practically an independent kingdom openly on an anti-German basis, and; have evoked marked displeasure in Germany, even the Cologne Gazette re buking the Poles sharply. SIMS LEADS ALLIED FLEET American Vice-Admiral Placed in Full Charge of Navy Fleet In Irish Waters. London.-Vice Admiral William 8f JSms, U. S. N., has been appointed to take general charge of the operations of the allied naval forces in Irish wae Admiral Sims will act in this capacs ity while the British naval command ela-chief is absent from his post for a period, the official announcement of his appointment explains. The Amer* ican adr 's flag m a while has been hoisted as the alier senior of. icr In these waters. The text of the official statement reads: "During the absence of the British naval commander-in-chief on the coast of Ireland Vice Admiral Sims of the U. S. navy has hoisted his flag as alliet senior officer in general charge of operations of the allied naval force. in Irish waters." It was for a contingency such as has now arisen that W. S. Sims was recently promoted from the rank of rear admiral to that of vice admiral. Vice Admiral Sims went to London immediately after the entrance of the United States into the war, as the head of. a naval mission to co-ordinate future stival operations between the entente navies and the forces of thq United States. He attended the allied naval cofaerence in Paris last month. Up to the time he went abroad he wag president of the naval war college ati Newport. He had devoted much of his e time to a study of naval engagements In the European war. GRAFT $50,000,000 A MONTH Herbert Hoover Tells Senators About Food Grafters, and Asks Passage Of Food Bil. Washlngton.-Food speculators have been taking $50,000,000 a month for the last five months--total of a quar-, ter of a billion dollars-from the' American people-Herbert C. Hoover told senators while explaining the pur poses of the food control bill now be fore congress. Disclaiming entirely that the bI sets up a food dictatorship, Mr. Hoover} told senators its purposes were ea tfrely to organizes the resources o the country and the people them. selves into a food administration, te lmit middlemem's commniasions prevent extortion. Boos Revenue Goes High. Washington.-High tide of whisker and beer revenue receipts-and pre sumably consumption-la the Unite* States was reached during the fiak year now closing. Cigarette smokers of the nation, figures show, also used~ more than they have ever smoked be fore. HIGH OFFICIALS IN COURT. Executives of Twenty-Five Railroadas Cited For Contempt. - Chicago.-Subpoenas have been is sued here for high executive officers of 5 railroads centering in Chicagne. calling them before Judge Charles M. Foell in superior court to answer con tempt proceedings iLstituted .l At tarney General Edward J. D ge It is alleged that the raroads are In coetempt of a ooat rder Ir . a. crasin p.assenger, res nea ut - twoce"t Mutt fned by law