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CIRCULATION
YESTERDAY
20338
FOUNDED 1881—VOL. XXXV—NO. 353
GERMANY SEEKS TO END LUSITANIA CASE
COMPULSION
IS UPHELD Bl
THE COMMONS
Government Wins Decisive
Victory in Preliminary
Vote on Asquith Bill.
MAY LEAD TO ELECTION
Situation Becomes So Critical
That Call to Country May
Be the Outcome.
LONDON. Jan. 7.—The question
or* every tongue at the political ren-
dezvous clubs last night was wheth-
er the momentous events of the day
had brought a general election in
sight. An appeal to the country and
a breaking up of both the coalition
government and the Labor party are
contingencies of the near future and
while the government has secured
what in ordinary circumstances
would be regarded as a large sec-
tion of the Labor party the loss of
four members of the government ad-
mittedly places the government in a
critical position and many doubts are
expressed that it will succeed in
weathering the storm.
Amid scenes of wild enthusiasm
the House of Commons passed the
first reading of the government bill
for compulsory military service by
the decisive vote of 403 to 105.
Vote Came Near Midnight.
The vote came shortly before mid-
night with the galleries again pack-
ed every seat on the floor of the
House occupied. the ministerial
benches filled and an air of eager
expectancy prevailing. The events
of the day had increased the ten-
sion to a high pitch notably the ac-
tion of the Labor Congress and the
quick sequel of the retirement of
three Labor men of the ministry.
Throughout these developments
outside of Parliament the debate in
the House had forged steadily ahead
hut had been left largely tn lesse*
figures. It was reserved for A. J.
Balfour first lord of the admiralty
to close the debate in behalf of the
government and he did it in a per-
suasive appeal of half an hour which
roused the lagging spirits of the ad-
vocates of the bill and turned the
tide of adversity which had been
running steadily against the meas-
ure
Pleads for Unity.
“Let this vote tonight show’ that
we are a united people” was his
closing appeal. "Do not let us give
a false impression to the world that
In the moment of the country’s
greatest emergency we are divided
one against another. Abandon your
abstract theories and remember we
are dealing with stern realities which
call for groat sacrifices.
“If this House refuses this bill to
the government it refuses what the
government considers an absolute
military necessity. This is not a
precedent for universal conscription.
In truth this bill is a tribute to vol-
untarism. for we have raised six mil-
lion volunteers and now this bill
merely brings in those few* shirkers
who have failed to respond to the
volunteer system.”
Then came the vote which was
received with a tremendous outburst
of cheering echoed to the waiting
crowds outside.
Scores of members in khaki waved
their handkerchiefs and the air was
rent with white papers flung in tri-
umph -t the government’s success.
Applause for Asquith.
Amid the demonstration. Premier
Asquith his face usually pale now
gi<. wing with satisfaction walked
down the floor of the House to pre-
sent the bill formally to the cham-
ber. His appearance was the signal
for a rapturous ovation.
An analysis of the vote showed
that the government had held the
great bulk of the Liberal and Con-
servathe vote. The Irish National-
ists had voted against the bill but
the Irish Unionists supported the
measure and the O’Brienitcfc took
no part in the division.
The minority showed a sprinkling
of Liberal members the most no-
table being John Burns the former
cabinet member.
The Manchester Guardian express-
es regret that the first result of the
project of compulsory military ser-
vice is » breaking up of the union
of parties which has helped to keep
the nation united on a single object
from the outbreak of the war to the
present day. It says:
Break-up May Be Serious.
•This break-up is announced by a
massive majority against the gov-
ernment bill at the great labor con-
ference yesterday and is signalized
by the prompt resignation of three
Labor ministers.
"The government has. at a stroke
become again a party government
ami a definite and regular opposi-
tion emerges at the same moment.
Such are conconsequences. deeply
regrettable of which many of us
have consistently warred since the
conscriptionists’ agitation began."
The Guardian demands positive
evidence that compulsion is neces-
sary saying the figures of the
Derby recruiting campaign are not
convincing. These figures tho
Guardian contends have made out a
case for character examination rath-
er for action without examination.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
FREEZING WEATHER
IS THE PREDICIION
Indications Are That Tem-
perature May Fall to
32 Degrees.
There may be freezing weather
Friday night at least. Major Allen
Buell of the local weather bureau
says the temperature may fall be-
low’ 32. Friday morning the freez-
ing line extended into North Texas
and the temperatures were falling
lower in all the region to the gulf.
Below zero weather still persisted in
the extreme northwest and the
whole country from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Great Lakes was ex-
periencing cold winter weather.
The only thing that will tend to
break the cold is a storm area w hich
was pushing inland Friday morn-
ing from the northwestern coast.
This storm was -.mall in extent but
may modify conditions somewhat.
The area of high barometer whi< h
lay over the central portion of the
country Thursday and which prom-
ised to lie there undisturbed was
reinforced Thursday night by an-
other "high" moving southward from
Manitoba and the re-energized
"high’’ spread over the entire coun-
try carrying cold winter weather in
Its wake.
A thick heavy mist continued to
fall in San Antonio Friday morning
but it was thought that ’he weather
would be fair Friday night.
TEXAS SPECIAL IS
WRECKED IN OKLAHOMA
Fast Katy Train Into Ditch.
But Passengers Only
Badly Shaken Up.
MUSKOGEE. Okla.. Jan. 7. — Four
Pullmans and two combination
coaches of the Texas Special of the
Missouri. Kansas * Texas railway
left the rails and turned completely
over between Oktaha and Renties-
vllle early this morning but not a
passenger or member of the crew’
was seriously injured. This is the
fast train between St. Louis and San
Antonio recently put into service. It
was all steel equipment. The train
was late and running 6 5 miles an
hour. The front coach left the rails
and five others followed. Rails wore
ripped from the road bed and ties
scattered for 50 yards.
A ditch four feet deep was plowed
in the road bed and the six coaches
with their trucks ripped off turned
oxer and are lying in a ditch beside
the track.
There were approximately 250 peo-
ple on the train. - most of them
| asleep in their berths. Aside from
j being badly shaken up and bruised
by the rolling coaches none was in-
jured. Thirty-eight steel rails were
ripped off the road bed twisted and
broken and 3000 ties displaced. Traf-
fic cannot be resumed for 24 hours.
SIX INCH^SNOW fall
Kansas Reports Weather Moderating
After Recent Storm.
KANSAS CITY. Jan. 7.-—
Moderating temperatures prevailed
today over this section of the south-
west. following yesterday s snow-
storm.
At several points in Kansas and
Western Missouri from one to six
inches of snow covered the ground.
Kansas City got a precipitation of;
five inches. According to the local
observer fair weather is general this
morning in the storm-swept region.
Little delay to traffic has been re-
ported.
THE WEATHER
TEMPERATURES.
JAN. 6. 2 a. m *1
3 p. m 75 * a. m 61
4 p. m 79 4 a. m 62
5 p. m 3° 5 a. m 62
6 p. m SO 6 a. m 56
7 p. m 75 7 a. m 54
8 p. m 69 8 a. m 50
9 p. in 67 9 a. m 4 8
10p. m 65 10a. m 48
11 p. m 64 11 a. m 47
12 midnight 63 1 2 noon 48
JAN. 7. 1 p. bi <9
1 a. m 62 2 p. m 50
LOCAL FORECAST.
For San Antonio and vicinity: Tonight
and Saturday fair; colder tonight.
HOME WEATHER FOR TOI RISTS.
ST. LOUIS: Temperature. 20. cloudy;
R-milc wind from the north Saturday
fair: lowest temperature in last 24 hours
20; highest. 24.
CHICAGO: Temperature 18; clear 10-
mile wind from the northwest: Saturday
fair; lowest temperature in last 24 hours. I
16: highest. 18.
MILWAUKEE; Temperature. 12: clear. *
6-mile wind from the northwest. Satur-j
day fair: lowest temperature in last 24
hours. 12; highest. 18.
KANSAS CTTT: Temperature. 18;
snowing; 12-mile wind from the north-
east. Saturday fair; lowest temperature
In iaet 24 hours. 18: highest. 18.
NEW YORK: Temperature. 24. cloudy.
22-mile wind from the north; continued
cold lowest temperature in last 24 hours.
22. highest. 42.
WASHINGTON: Temperature. 26
snowing 6-mile wind from the north
rant continued cold; low»*s* temperature
In last 24 hours 2i hl' .. 44.
CASE OF NEW
UM IS HN
TH THE JURY
Judge Completes Charge and
Long Trial Comes to
an End.
MAY MEAN PRISON TERM
Eleven Directors. If Convict-
ed Could Also Be Fined
$5OOO on Each Count.
!
NEW YORK. Jan. 7.—The case
• against William Rockefeller and ten
other former directors of the New
। York New Haven Hartford rail-
road charged with criminal con-
spiracy under the Sherman law was
submitted to the jury today.
! All that remained to complete the
trial today was the charge to the
' jury by Judge Hunt. which con-
( sumed about two hours’ time and
was comprehensive. The trial was
j then brought to a close.
। The eleven defendants are Wil-
; Ham Rockefeller and Lewis Cass
1 Ix’dyard. New York; Edward D.
• Robbins New Haven. Conn.; Charles
j F. Brooker Ansonia Conn.: D. New-
i lon Barney. Hartford Conn.: Robert
1 Taft Prdx idence R. 1.; Charles M.
| Pratt Brooklyn; 11. nry K. McHarg
Stamford Conn.; James S. Hemlng-
j way; A. Heaton Robertson and
1 Frederick F. Brewster. New Haven.
Charged With Conspiracy.
They were specifically charged
( with conspiring t> monopolize the
entire transportation traffic of New
England were indicted in I'ebruary.
1915 <ifter an investigration by the
••Department of Justice begun more
। than a year previous and their trial
began on October 13.
Ten other former directors nf the
n »ad were indicted with them of
whom three made successful plea?
of immunity six obtained a separate
trial and one George MucCulloch
Miller was not brought tn -trial on
account of his age. On the verdict
j of the jury In this case would large-
ly depend the attitude .of the govern-
ment counsel said today toward the
six who gained separate trials.
These are George F. Raker. Theo-
• dore N. Vail Francis T. Maxwell.
T. Dewitt Cuvier. Edward Milligan ।
and Alexander Cochrane. In the]
event of an acquittal by this jury it j
is not thought that the case will be
pressed against the six. The maxi - ■
mum penalty in event of conviction
is one year imprisonment or 15000
fine or both.
Dates Back to 1890.
The alleged conspiracy dated hack
to July 2. IS9O. the date of the en-
actment of the Sherman law. since
which time the New Haven brought
under its control every railroad in
New England .xcept those owned
by the Grand Trunk many steam-
ship lines and some sixty trolley
lines. In this way it was alleged it
stamped out competition of the
Grand Trunk through a traffic
agreement when the government in
November. 1912. stepped in and in- .
dieted Mellen and two Grand Trunk
executives. The case against them I
was subsequently dropped but it Is
largely upon this agreement the’
principal alleged illegal act within
the period covered by the statute of
limitations that the prosecution In
this case based its expectation of a
conviction.
The trial has been a remarkable ;
one in many respects. It has been t
distinguished by the wealth and |
prominence of the defendant? and (
for the fact that for the first time
have the directors of a railroad been !
brought to trial under the criminal!
clause of the Sherman law.
Noted l awyers Employed.
The defendant? have been repre- |
sented by nearly a score of noted
lawyers acainst whom the govern- ■
ment marshalled four headed bv R ■
L. Butts former law partner in Tex- '
as of Attorney General Gregory. It
has been estimated that in counsel
fees and expenses of investigation
stenographers’ fees. etc. the cost of
the trial has reached well over half
a million dollars.
While not a record in length the
trial was remarkable lw the fact tha’
one witness. Charles S. Mellen for-
mer president of the New Haven
was on the stand for thirtv-five court
days and that each side virtually
built up its case on hi? testimony.
Four days were spent in select ing
the jury two by the government in
outlining their testimony fixe days
in arguing motion? to dismiss thej
indictment and four days in sum-
ming up. ’
Frank M. Swacker of St. Louis of
federal counsel who has been credit- ■
ed by defense with knowing more -
about New Haven affairs than any
one else spent two years in investi-
gating and preparing ihe case.
Rockefeller Not Present.
William Rockefeller was the only |
defendant not in court when Judge ।
Hunt began his charge to the jury •
The charge again?! the defendants*
being a misdemeanor his presence
was not legally required.
The court after describing the in- ‘
dietment. first instructed the jury
that the case should be considered
without regard to any testimony that
would indicate “any attempts to in-
fluence legislation by bribery or cor- ’
rupt means." The indictment con- -
talned no such charge he said.
Discussing the Sherman act. he J
said that it did not prescribe ? limit <
to acquisitions and that large enter- I
prises may in a certain sense be per- ’
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SAX ANTONIO. TEXAS. FRIDAY. JANUARY 7. 1916.
YOUNGSTOWN STRIKERS
ENGAGE IN RIOTING
Steel Plant Scene of Clashes
in Which One Man Is
Injured.
YOUNGSTOWN. 0.. Jan. 7.—Riot-
ing occurred here early today in con-
nection with the strike at the plant
of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube
. Company in East Youngstoxx n. One
’ man xvas injured. Workmen who at-
tempted to enter the plant xxere as-
saulted and street cars were stoned.
It xxas reported today that a con-
siderable quuntltx of fuse had been
stolen from a stone quarry near the
steel plant and officials fear d>na-
miting max be attempted.
The strike forces have grown
3000.
Sheriff J. C. I'mstead telegraphed
to Governor Willis early today ask-
ing y troops xvere available if need-
ed to pi esei ■ order At noon
‘ ever he said he believed neither
• militia nor deputies xx.iuld be need-
i cd.
। Official announcement was made
this afternoon by the Youngstown
(Sheet A- Tube Company and the
j Brier Hill Steel Company of a raise
• In the wages for common labor from.
• 19Hc to 22c per hour. The Republic
Iron & Steel Company has made no
announcement The raise is made
effective January 1. It is not known
whether this advance xxiil be accept-
I able tn the strikers who are asking
j 28 cents an hour.
Girl Striker- Break Windows.
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y. Jan. 7.
( More than 100 girls striking for
higher xxages. gathered before a
cigar factory here today and bom-
barded the xvindoxvs with icicles.
। Three xx ere arrested and fined $5
each.
INTERNAL REVENUE
i OFFICE IS ROBBED
Large Sum in Cash and Prob-
ably Million in .Stamps
Taken at St. Paul.
ST. PAUL Minn.. Jan. 7.—From .
i $6OO to $5OOO in cash and internal ]
i revenue stamps xx hich may total j
$1000000 in xaiue were stolen from |
the ofhee /if the collector of internal ;
revenue in the old postoffice build- ;
Ing last night when the vault door
xvaa t»lown. The robbery was dis- .
* ovcred today by D. <’. Ryan a janl- ।
tor.
Immediately upon discovering the
robbery E. J. Lynch rex enue collec-
tor and the police departments of St.
Paul and Minneapolis joined xvith J
federal agents in the hunt for the 1
robbers.
Lynch stated that the robbers had I
taken only negotiable stamps and
I had left unnegotiable stamps in a
। large amount.
ON VISIT TO HAGUE
Ford Peace Party Boards Special i
Train in War Zone.
COPENHAGEN. Jan. 7.— (Via
London.)- The Ford party left Cop- !
enhagen today for The Hague on a ’
special train for the passage of;
xx hich through part of the war zone '
permission had been granted by Ger- .
many.
The peace advocates will be in j
Germany for eleven hours and each j
of |he 150 is pledged t.o abide by
military rules.
Holland is the last country in Ku- |
rope which the party will visit. Il is I
expected that delegates from neutral
countries will gather at The Hague
for a protracted peace conference.
— -♦ ♦
NEW CHINESE REVOLT
Atfned Revolutionaries Loot Cu-toni
House In Kowloon.
CANTON. China. Jan. 7.—One
hundred armed men nt midday loot-
ed the Chinese custom house on :
the boundary of Kowloon. The 1
marauder.' posted proclamations de-I
scribing thomsclvc’ as revolutionar-’I
les. Further trouble is expected as'
it is believed that ihe rebels have ! 1
corrupted the government troops.
The town of Kowloon is situated. 1
on the peninsula of the same name p
opposite tbe island f Hong Kong i I
The boundary referred to evidently ||
is that which divides Chinese terri- i
torj’ fr<»m the British colony. f
t
PORTO RICAN EXECUTED j
Xewpa|»pr Men Barrrd hy Now
Warden of Sing Sing.
<
OSSINING. N. Y.. Jan. 7. — An-'t
tonio Ponton a Torto Rican stu-:I
dent xx as put tn death in the electric F
chair today for the murder of Miss't
Bessie Kromer a Schenectady. N. Y. F
school teacher with whom he was r
infatuated. r
Warden Kirchwey. who is opposed
to the death penalty was not pres- a
ent. He excluded newspaper men f
from the chamber taking the posi- I
tion that he was opposed to capital
punishment and did not wish to ad- -
vertise iL
GREAT BATTLE
IS RAGING ON
RUSSIAN FRONT
Fighting Ferocious. Report
Says. With Czar’s Troops
Continually Gaining.
CAMPAIGN ON GALLIPOLI
Official Report Tells of Brave
But Futile Attacks of Al-
lied Troops.
PARIS Jan. 7. —Fighting on the
Russian frontier is fast growing in
intensity and assuming great fero-
city says the Petrograd correspond-
ent of the Havas Agency in a dis-
patch filed Wednesday.
Dispatches from Kiev declare that
the noise of cannon can be beard
along a distance of 36 miles and that
windows in all the villages in this
region haxe been broken by the
concussions.
The battle is raging xvith par-
ticular fury on the Tarnopol-Trem-
bowla front where more than 800-
000 men with 3500 cannon are in-
cessantly engaged. Long Austro-Ger-
nian lied Gross trains are leaving this
front dally for more remote and
thinlx populated towns where hospit-
als have been organized.
Wounded Russian officers report
that consequences of this battle al-
ready are being shown in certain
sectors by the blowing in of first
line German trenches and the slow
but irresistible progress of Russian I
forces.
The same officers tell nf enormous
difficulties the Russians have had to
surmount on this front where en-
tanglements of barbed wirr are often
laid 24 deep and charged with power
ful electric currents supplied from
stations especially erected.
As immediate approach to these
entanglement? is impossible the Rus-
sian soldiers have invented the fol-
lowing method of surmounting the
difficulty: Good marksmen fling
ropes with hooks at the ends oxer
ihe barbed wire then pull until the
whole entanglement is removed.
REPORT ON GALLII’ODI.
General Hamilton. Commander. De-
tails Landing at Sin la Bay.
LONDON. Jan. 7. -General lan
Hamilton’s report on the British
operations on the Gallipoli peninsu-
la was published in the official gn-
tette last night. It tells the story of I
the fighting on the peninsula from
the beginni’ of May to the middle
of October.
Probably no more infportant con-
tribution to the history of the pres-
ent war has yet been made. The re-
[oort throxxs light on the great land-
ng at Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay
August 7. which has been the sub-
ject of strong attacks upon the mili-
ary administration of the govern-
nent. The xvhole operations required
he combined action of the army and
lax y.
The most stirring passages of the '
loeument describe the ill fated land-
ng at Suvla Bay and Anzac. early in
kugust for securing command of the
icights on the middle of the penin-
tula and cutting off from their base
he Turkish forces at the lower ex-
remity where the entente allied
irmies made their first landing.
This operation began on August 6. •
rhe climax was reached at daybreak;
>n the tenth when the Turks made
i grand attack from the summit of i
’hunnuk Bair Hill upon a short front '
leld by txvo battalions of the Sixth |
x’orth Lancashire and the Fifth I
Viltphire regiments which General j
lamilton describes as weakened in j
lumbers though not in spirit.
Overwhelmed in Trenches.
"First our men xvere shelled by |
very enemy gun." he says “then as- i
aulted by a huge column consist- .
ng of a full division plus three* bat -
allons. The North Lancashire men I
rere simply overwhelmed in the’rl
hallow trenches by sheer weight of
umbers while the Wiltshire? who
.ere caught out in the open were
terally almost annihilated.
"The ponderous mass of the enemy
wept over the crest and swarmed
ound the Hampshires and General I
Baldwin's brigade xvhich had to give *
round and were only extricated ;
ith great difficulty and very heavy
isses.
"Now it wbs our turn. The war
hips and the New Zealand and Aus- ;
r alian artillery an Indian mountain
rtillery brigade and the Sixty-ninth
rigade royal field artillery were
etting the chance of a lifetime. As
uccessive solid lines of Turks topped
le crest of the ridge gaps were
>rn through their formation and an
•on rain fell on them as they tried *
> reform in the gullies.
Turks Made tn Pay Dearly.
"Not here only di< the Turks pay
o^rly foY their reca/ture of the vital 1
rest. Etwmy reinforcements once '
ley wereVver the crest became ex- *
osed not Inly to the full blast of the ’
uns. naval and military but a bat- J
•rx of tet\ New Zealand machine t
uns. which I'layed upon their serried ’
inks af cloA' range until their bar-
ds were red-hot.
"Enormous Mosse** xvere inflicted
id of the swarms which had once t
ilrlx crossed the crest line only a i
nndful ever struts led hack.
"At the same time strong forces •
1
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CARNEGIE TO SPEND
WINTER IN FLORIDA
CO?YX'.CXT i BY Tw?
INIXUNATJOHA.* tOW< SXXVICt
ANDREW < \R\FX.II..
Houseboat Cruise Is Recom-
mended for Him by His
Physicians.
NEW YORK. Jan. 7. — Andrew
<’arnegie i« on his way today tn Mi-
ami Fla- to spend the winter cruis-
ing in a houseboat on the waterways
of Florida. While Mr. Uarnegie’s
health has recently shown consider-
able improvement his condition at
times during the past year has been
such that his physicians hate recom-
mended the present trip.
About a year ago Mr. Carnegie
suffered a severe attack of the
grippe. After spending the sum-
mer at Bar Harbor Me. he return-
ed to New York in October saying
fhat he "felt splendid.” but it was
noticed that he kept in strict retir< -
; ment. Mr. (’arnegie xvas 80 years old
last ’Thanksgiving Day.
BRITISH SUBMARINE
SUNK OFF HOLLAND
Crew Is Rescued by Dutch
Liner and Taken Into
Port of Helder.
LONDON. Jan. 7. The sinking of
a British submarine off the coast of
I Holland was officially announced
I this morning. The crew was saved.
The admiralty statement sax*s that I
| the submarine the name of which is
i rv»t gixen. was sunk yesterday off the
I island of Texel. the most southwest-
erly of the Frisian group. The entire
I crexv. numbering 33 xvas rescued by
I t he Dut< h cruiser Noord Brabant
land brought into ihe Dutch port of
I Felder.
WOMEN DEMOCRATS MEET
League Alembic** in Washington to
Discus* < ain|>uigii Mans.
'WASHINGTON. D. C. Jan. 7.— I
Tne Woman’s National Democratic j
League began it? fourth annual!
convention here today with dele-
gates from throughout the country |
present. <’hief events on the day’s j
I rogram include the reading of !
greetings from President Wilson and j
an address by Speaker Clark on "De- .
mocracy Today."
The leigue will formulate plans
for aiding the Democratic national !
committee in the coming presidential j
campaign.
INJUNCTION IS DENIED
Seattle Brewing Concern looses Ap-
plication to Stop "Dry” Law.
TACOMA Wash. Jan. 7.—Peti- !
tion for an injunction against the ।
enforcement of the new state pro- |
hibitt m laxv was denied in the Unit- i
ed States district court here yester- ■
day by three judges sitting en banc. ’
The application was made by the |
Seattle Brewing A- Malting Company. ■
Severe Fire In Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI. <».. Jan. 7. —- Thej
three-story depot and office build-
ing of the Adams Express Company
xvas destroyed by fire. The lo®s Is |
estimated at S2UU.OOO Crossed elec-(
trie wires arc said to have caused I
the fire. |
FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY—PRIC E FIVE CENTS
SUBMITS MH
TH 11S MIMI
An Indemnity for Americans Killed Offered;
It Is Contended Liner’s Destruction
Was Act of Reprisal
PLAN TO MODIFY SUBMARINE WARFARE
Some Contentions of United States Are
! Accepted With a View of Ending Con-
troversy Without Further Delay
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
XX ASH IX( rTON D. C.. Jan. 7. —Proposals which the Ger-
■ man government believes will encl the controversy over the
Lusitania disaster in a manner satisfactory to the United States
were understood to have been received here from Berlin. Count
I von Bernstorff had an appointment to confer with Secretary
Lansing this afternoon.
Germany is believed to have agreed to pay an indemnity
for the Americans lost when the liner was torpedoed.
Calls It Act of Reprisal.
At the same time she bases a reservation of any wrong
jdoing upon the contention that the destruction of the vessel
was an act of reprisal in retaliation for the British blockade
jof Germany.
Germany also is understood to be ready to give assurances
■ that her submarine commanders operating in the Mediterranean
will not torpedo without warning privately-owned vessels of
any description including liners freighters and tramp steamers.
German assurances in regard to submarine warfare in the North
Sea include only liners in passenger service.
Small Boats Not “Safety."
It was also stated with authority today that Germany
I virtual!} had agreed with the position of the L’nited States in
regard to small boats not being under all conditions a place
of safety for passengers aboard a ship about to be destroyed.
These last concessions are understood to have been con-
Itaincd in the last note from Germany regarding the sinking
[of the ship William P. Frye.
The communication reached the State Department several
weeks ago but has been withheld from publication on the
ground that it had a certain bearing upon the Lusitania nego-
tiations. Germany is understood to have fully agreed with the
American point of view.
CABINET HOLDS IMPORTANT SESSION.
President and His Advisers Discuss Foreign Policy. But No
Action Is Taken in Case of the Persia.
I _
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. 7.— .
Tho Persia incident was taken up f
only briefix at the cabinet meeting j
today because Secretary Lansing had s
no definite recommendations to
make in the absence of specific facts
regarding the sinking of the ship a
One cabinet member said the men- 1
[ tion of the foreign situation at the x
I meeting xvas "only superficial." : c
The status of the preparedness I r
program revenue plans conserva-
tion and Mexican affairs as well as . (
the submarine crisis furnished the|;
topics of discussion. The Senate reso- f
lution calling upon the president for; 1
information about Mexico xvas gone a
over thonoughly.
The administration is willing to
furnish the facts called for and many . r
of them have already been assembled i v
at the State Department. 0
No Action by Committee.
The Senate foreign relations com-| r
mittee also met to consider th' i
situation. But as Chairman Stone w: s t
detained at the White House by i ;
conference xvith the president it ad- I
journed without action. I o
Although more than a week has s
passed since the steamship Persia j b
xvas sunk in the Mediterranean with f
the loss of American life offi -ialsic
xvere today still uninformed as to;
whether the vessel xvas torpedoed 1 s.
and if so the nationality of the sub. .4
marine and other details xxbHh.S
would determine the nature of the
action the White House has an- ;
nounced it will take.
To Sflll Delay Action.
Developm<Tis continued toda - to I €
indicate that ’he American goxern-!
ment xvould p ithhold action pending !
officjal advil s determining these;
points.
Overnight levclopmonts ineduied ■ h
the receipt f dispat h. s r »m Ym
bassador P-nfh Id at Vienna assert- ic
Ing that the Xustrian cox rnment
was without information concerning
the inciden up to the night <»f Jan :- | r
ary 4. ano from Consul Garrets al T
CITY
EDITION
4 P. M.
Alexandria stating he had obtained
affidavits from twenty-one survivor®!
and that all confirmed previous^
statements that "no warning was
gixen and no vessel was seen."
Ambassador Penfields dispatch
added that Baron Burian. the Aus-
trian foreign minister has asked
what information concerning the in-
cident was in possession of the Unit-
ed States.
Officers and crew of the Persia.
Consul Garrels reported have left
Alexandria for England. Their af-
fidavits. State Department officials
believe will be obtained on their
arrival there.
N<» Immediate Xction.
As the cabinet assembled It teas
made nlain that the members agreed
with the president that in the case
of the Persia nothing can be don®
until all the facts re at hand. Some
members expressed the opinion that
it might nexcr bo learned whether
the Persia was sunk by a submarine.
Regardless of the outcome of the
Persie case however the majority
of ihe cabinet members were repre-
sented as believing that *he tim*
has come for making certain that no
further attacks »n merchant ships
carrying American? will be made.
The administration leaders ar*
said feel that *-nntinurd loss of
American lives w»i| lead the United
States into hostilities.
QUITTING THE MISSIONS
(’bin *c Xiithcritlr^ Hear xti^ionar*
lc< \rc Quitting Interior.
SHANGHAI Jan. 7.- -The author
iiie.? of the province of Szc-Chus®
have been adv^ed of th* withdraw*]
if Christian missionaries from inter*
ior stations.
Sze-Chuen is one of the wester®
provinces of ch|ra bordering o®
ribet.
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