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GALVHSTON TRIBUNE
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VOLUME XXXVI.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1915. —TWELVE PAGES
No. 14
SQUARELY UP
PEACE PARTY
SUGGESTION
$
OUST ALLIES
TO AUSTRIANS
ROW OCCURS
CONSIDERED
FROM SERBIA
SUNDAY WAS QUIET.
Berlin, Dec. 13.
•by wireless to Say-
ville.
FORD SENDS RADIO
SINKING OF ANCONA
GREEK ATTITUDE
TO EUROPE’S HEADS
IS OBJECTED TO
BITTERLY SCORED
STILL IN DOUBT
ENGLAND TO BUY
AMERICAN BONDS
SOLUTION IS NEAR.
ORGANIZING SENATE.
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bridges in order to prevent the
enemy
following too closely.
The Greek gov-
the world from anarchy and ruin.
Is it not proven
PRICES IN HUNGARY.
OFFICIALS SENTENCED.
OFFICIALS HERE.
BRITISH AFTER BOTTLES.
PINEGROVE SUNK.
Order for 140,000 Gross Is Placed
in
COMING TO GALVESTON.
Galveston today
9)
FERGUSON’S RETURN.
(4
FRENCH WAR REPORT.
THE WEATHER
CRUDE OIL HIGHER.
a
cases are called.
fair,
Light
not war been tried
months of fighting?
were
on
The Commercial Congress
May Alter Name.
Wilson’s Preparedness
Policy Is Cause.
Has
16
Lansing Uses Plain Lan-
guage in Note.
Fully Expect to See Yuan Shi
Kai Assassinated, Declares
Lee Kong at Portland.
Berlin Says None Remain
in Macedonia.
RELATE HOLDUP
OF S. S. CAROLINA
CHINESE REGISTER
VIGOROUS PROTEST
Senator Fletcher Outlines Work
of Organization in
Address.
Entente Capitals Are Specula-
ting asto Meaning of Athens’
Neutrality.
Exchequer Bonds Will be Ex-
changed For U. S. Securities
in Britain. ,
Act Called Inhuman, Barbarous,
and Wanton Slaughter of
Helpless People.
Appealsto Each Individual Mon-
arch to Use Influence For
Conference.
REGULATIONS
HIT TRADE TO
PHILIPPINES
USING MANY
ANIMALS IN
CANCER WORK
Passengers of American Steam-
er Tell of Detention by
French Cruiser.
GREAT DESOLATION
PREVAILS IN SERBIA;
MISERY IS TERRIBLE.
ICE SKATING NOW
UNUSUALLY POPULAR
IN EASTERN STATES.
GERMANS MAKING
ARTIFICIAL RUBBER
AUTOMOBILE TIRES.
“SOUTHERN” PART
FORECAST.
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
ity: Tonight
fair, Tuesday
fair, warmer;
light northerly
to easterly
winds.
-Aside from a few small engage-
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF BALVESION
Southeast Cor. Strand and 22d Sts.
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Depositary of the State of Texas
vene to discuss cotton, commerce, and
rural credits.
“The Changed Outlook,” will be the
subject of an address before the gov-
ernors by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia university.
10
More Shopping
Days Before
\ Christmas
Buy Now
transferred to
change of venue.
The accused are John
Ryan and George
By Associated Press.
London, Dec. 13.—The British gov-
ernment has decided to purchase Amer-
ican securities, paying for them in
five-year 5 per cent exchequer bonds.
The chancellor of the exchequer, Regi-
nald McKenna, made this announce-
ment in the house of commons today.
He said the government was willing to
buy such American dollar securities as
were suitable at the middle American
price of the day without brokerage or
commission.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
Established BANKERS Estahlashed
(Unincorporated)
For
Banks,Individuals,Corporations
American Bankers Association Trav-
elers’ Cheques for Sale.
“It is our opinion,” said Lee Hong,
president of the chamber, “that the
Chinese people never will permit the
reactionary program to be carried out.
We full expect to see Yuan Shi Kai
assassinated.”
Copeland, George
ernment is considering seriously the
risks the Greek army may run as the
result of interruption of communication
by rail with western Macedonia.”
United States.
By Associated Press.
Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 13.— An order
for 10,000 gross of glass bottles has
been given by the British government
to a local company and another at Wil-
liamstown, N.J., delivery to be made
as quickly as possible. The bottles are
p ^ST HApN
LO “ETONE)
Germans Only Took Few Hundred
More Serbians.
By Associated Press.
For Oklahoma: Tonight
Tuesday fair, warmer.
Winds on Texas Coast:
northerly to easterly.
For Texas,
east of 100th
meridian: To-
night fair,
warmer in west
portion; Tues-
day fair, warm-
er.
For Texas,
west of 100th
meridian: Not received.
Governor Is Due at Austin Next Sun-
day.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Dec. 13.—Goxernor James E.
Ferguson will reach Austin next Sun-
day from his Northern and Eastern
trip, according to a telegram received
today from the governor by Mrs. Fer-
guson. The message was dated at New
York. Upon his return the governor
will have been three weeks out of the
state, during which time Lieutenant
Governor W. P. Hobby has been pre-
siding.
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 13.—The indus-
trial bureau of the Merchants’ as-
sociation announced today that it
has called the attention of Secre-
tary Lansing, of the state depart-
ment, to the regulations imposed
by steamship lines carrying freight
between New York and the Philip-,
pine Islands, which the bureau re-
gards as a hindrance to the free
movement of trade.
The bureau informed the secre-
tary that shippers are required to
furnish an affidavit tnat American
goods sent to the Philippines are
intended for local distribution there
and not for reshipment. It is re-
quired that this affidavit shall be
confirmed by the British consul
general here.
Inasmuch as the two steamship
lines carrying freight between New
York and the Philippines are un-
derstood to be controlled by pe:-
sons not citizens of the United
States, merchants consider it im-
probable that relief can be ob-
tained by the department of state.
The purpose of the merchants in
calling Mr. Lansing’s attention to
the regulations is understood to be
to show the restraint upon devel-
opment of neutral trade resulting
from present shipping conditions.
Tier. Their trial was to have begun
tomorrow. Today Judge H. T. Lyttleton
of the Seventy-first district court or-
dered a change of venue on his own
motion, saying the defendants could not
get fair and impartial trial in this sec-
tion. •
cordance with the law of nations and
the principles of humanity. The gov-
ernment of ..the United States is un-
willing to believe the latter alterna-
tive and to credit the Austro-Hungar-
ian government with an intention to
permit its submarines to destroy the
lives of helpless men, women and chil-
dren. It prefers to believe that the
commander of the submarine commit-
ted this outrage without authority and
contrary to the general or special in-
structions which he had received.
“As the good relations of the two
countries must rest upon a common re-
gard for law and humanity, the gov-
ernment of the United States can not
be expected to do otherwise than to
demand that the imperial and royal
government denounce 'the sinking of
the Ancona as an illegal and indefen-
sible act; that the officer, who per-
petrated the deed, be punished and
that reparation by the payment of an
idemnity be made for the citizens of
the United States, who were killed or
injured by the attack on the vessel.
The government'of ire United States
expects that- the Austro-Hungarian
government, Appreciating the gravity of
the case, will accede to its demand
promptly; and it rests this expectation
on the belief that the Austro-Hungar-
ian government will not sanction or
defend an act which is condemned by
the world as inhuman and barbarous,
which is abhorrent to all civilized na-
tions, and which has caused the death
of innocent American citizens ”
ceeding slowly, but normally and in se-
curity. The French and British are
taking time to destroy tunnels and
By Associated Press. ,
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 13.—A sugges-
tion made by Dr. Charles W. Eliot that
the Southern Commercial congress
drop the word “Southern” from its
title to broaden its scope was present-
ed to the opening session of the sev-
enth annual convention of the congress
here today in the annual address of its
president, Senator Fletcher, of Florida.
“Our name ‘Southern’ has not limited
us in any manner to narrow our field
By Associated Press.
Paris, Dec. 13.—'The Havas cor-
respondent at Athens sends the
following under Sunday’s date:
“Members of the diplomatic
corps here describe the situation,
in Serbia, as learned from relia-
ble sources. There is the great-
est desolation over the entire
territory occupied by the Ger-
mans and Bulgarians. The Bul-
garian, Austrian and German
soldiers and merchants refuse to
take Serbian money except at a
discount of fifty per cent or
more, in spite of posters official-
ly declaring that Serbian paper
money and coins retain their
face value. Austrian, Bulgarian
and German -merchants already
are overrunning the country and
boasting that Serbia never again
will be a free nation. Their pro-
cedure is increasing the misery
of the Serbians left in the coun-
try, which is. becoming inde-
scribable.”
against the Catholic church,
Powers, Father and Son, Charged With
Murder.
By Associated Press.
Waxahachie, Tex., Dec. 13.—The
cases of J. R. A. Powers and his son,
Stacy Powers, charged with murder in
connection with the killing last June
of J. M. McCarty and his son, Travis
McCarty, near Waxahachie, was called
in district court here today. Motion
for a continuance was being argued
this afternoon.
ments and the catpure of several hun-
dred more Serbians, Sunday passed
quietly on the various German fronts.
The report from the war office today
says that at Ipek, Montenegro, twelve
cannot which had been buried by the
Serbians were discovered. The army
of Gen. Koevess took 500 prisoners.
During the last few days more than one
thousand Serbians whose retreat was
cut off were taken.
On the Eastern front, the Russians
took an unimportant position. There
were skirmishes among advanced posts
at several places. A Russian attack
near Vulka, south of Vygonovskoye
lake failed. The attackers lost about
100 men.
TWO CONCLUSIONS.
“The government of the United States
is forced, therefore to conclude either
that the commander of the submalne
acted in violation of his instructions
or that the imperial and royal govern-
ment failed to issue instructions to the
commanders of its submarines in ac-
enough in
Marshall Murder Trial Transferred to
This City.
By Associated Press.
MMarshali; Tex., Dec. 13.—The cases
against three Marshall men charged
with the murder of William Black,
killed here last winter while lecturing
Fined $100 Each and Given an Hour in
Jail.
By Associated Press.
San Diego, Tex., Dec. 13.—State Sen-
ator Archie Parr and Sheriff A. W. To-
bin of Duval county were sentenced to
one hour in county jail and to pay a
fine of $100 each here today for con-
tempt of district court. The charges
grew out of the report of Milton Du-
bose, foreman of the Duval grand jury,
which is investigating the books of the
county, that Parr and Tobin, without
being summoned, entered the grand
jury room last Friday and removed
certain records after the grand jury
had refused to dismiss an auditor em-
ployed by private citizens to audit the
county books.
to be used in sending liquid food, such
as soups, milk, etc., to the soldiers in
the trenches. Demand for American
bottles has been so pronounced that
trade authorities predict an export of
fully one million gross during the
coming year. There is a scarcity of
workmen and glass factories never
have been so busy as they are at pres-
ent.
People Complain of Charges Prevailing
in That Country.
By Associated Press.
London, Dec. 13.—The Morning Post
today prints a letter from Budapest
which states that more than half a
million people have signed a memor-
andum which will be presented to the
Hungarian premier in parliament by
a deputation representing all classes
of the population, complaining of the
high prices of food. The memorandum
claims that prices are much higher in
Hungary than in Germany. It asserts
that the comirg winter threatens to
overwhelm the population by starva-
tion and urges the impossibility of go-
ing on under present conditions much
longer.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Dec. 13. — (By wireless
to Sayville).—Automobile tires of
artificial rubber are being made
in Germany, the Overseas News
agency says. In his address to
the reichstag last week. Chan-
cellor von Bethmann-Hollweg
said German inventors had dis-
covered a method of producing
synthetic rubber.
“The Frankfurter Zeitung now
announces that at almost the
same hour that the chancellor’s
statement was made,” the news
agency says, “a factory succeed-
ed in working this rubber into
tires which will wear for a
year.”
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 13.—The popu-
larity of ie skating, as shown
by the demand for skates, skat-
ing shoes and costumes, prom-
ises to be greater this winter
than for years past. New outdoor
and indoor rinks are opening
daily all over the city. It is es-
timated that the number of skat-
ers in this city will be increased
from forty thosand last year to
200,000 this year. Last year the
skaters spent about $320,000 for
,their outfits, but the desire of
women skaters for special cos-
tumes, it is estimated, has in-
creased the expense this year to
$2,600,000.
Independence, Kan., Dec. 13.—An in-
crease of ten cents a barrel in the
price of crude oil, making the price
$1.10, was announced today by the
Prairie Oil and Gas company. Contin-
ued increase of the demand over the
supply was given as the cause of the
advance.
By Associated Press.
On board ss. Oscar II, by wireless via
steamship Noordam, Dec. 13.—A reso-
lution condemning President Wilson’s
preparedness policy brought a protest
from some of the prominent members
of Henry Ford’s peace party last night
when it was presented for adoption.
The resolution was drawn by the
Rev. Lloyd Jones and the Rev. Charles
F. Aked and others, who asked that it
be signed by all the members of the
party as their platform.
More than a dozen members, includ-
ing S. S. McClure of New York, and
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, re-
fused to sign on the ground that the
resolution was unpatriotic. Some of
them even threatened to leave the
party after it reached Europe if the
proposed platform was put through.
Its supporters said the opponents of
the resolution failed to understand the
spirit of Mr. Ford’s invitation.
FORD’S APPEAL.
An appeal to the rulers of Europe
was sent out by wireless today ad-
By Associated Press.
Portland, Ore., Dec. 13.—Announce-
ment was made today that the Chi-
nese Chamber of Commerce of Port-
land had cabled its vigorous protest to
the Chinese assembly against the pro-
posed change from a republican to a
monarchical form of government.
British Steamer of 2,800 Tons is Sent
to Bottom.
By Associated Press.
London, Dec. 13.—The British steam-
er Pinegrove has been sunk. Her
crew was saved.
The Pinegrove, 2,847 tons gross, was
built in 1896 and owned in Glasgow.
Railway Men Spend Day in City on
Business.
Geo. J. Charlton, passenger . traffic
manager of the Chicago & Alton rail-
road, with headquarters in Chicago,
was a prominent visitor in local rail-
way circles this morning. Accompanied
by L. B. Shepherd of Dallas, south-
western passenger agent of the Chicago
and Alton, Mr. Charlton arrived in
Galveston yesterday on a trip of gen-
eral inspection and observation. He
was much pleased with the business
outlook in the southwest and was es-
pecially impressed With conditions in
Galveston despite the storm of last
August.
Mr. Charlton is a close personal friend
of W. S. Keenan, general passenger
agent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe, the two having worked together
some thirty or more years ago in the
general passenger department of the
Chicago and Alton at Chicago under the
former’s father.
of work,” said Senator Fletcher. “As
our slogan reads, so has our effort
been to help create ‘A Greater Nation
Through a Greater South.’. Dr. Charles
W. Eliot, in expressing his regret that
he could not be with us today, makes
this suggestion which delegates may
consider:
“ ‘Since the commercial and financial
interests of the Southern, Northern,
Western and Eastern sections of our
country are now well-nigh identical,
would it be possible for your meeting
this year to take steps toward drop-
ping the word “Southern” in the title
of the congress? Would not that be a
step toward greater efficiency and in-
fluence?’ ”
Senator Fletcher, in recounting the
deeds of the congress, declared that its
greatest work, perhaps, had been for
agriculture. At the same time, a defi-
nite service had been rendered for edu-
cation, for public health, for improve-
ment of rivers and harbors, for devel-
opment of water power, establishment
of new industries and directing settle-
ment in rural districts.
“We have stood for the fullest de-
velopment of all the various resources
of the South,” said the president. “We
have not merely talked, written and
published articles about them—we
have done things that count mightily
in a practical definite way.” .
WORK OF BODY.
“The Southern Commercial congress
has nothing to sell or trade,” explained
the speaker. “It makes no profit, it
has no earnings, no income. The im-
portance of its work increases as it
proceeds with doing the things in a
broad way which build and promote
real growth, catches a vision of what
lies ahead, realizing that failure in life
comes not so much from undertaking
too much as from being satisfied with
too little; interpreting as it sees them,
the ideals of the South and the hopes
of the nation.”
OPENS SESSION.
The seventh annual convention of
the congress opened here today. Ses-
sions of the congress will continue
through Friday, during which speakers
will discuss the methods for develop-
ing. and applying the various resources
of the South.
Welcoming addresses and responses
were made by Mayor J. P. Grace, Gov-
ernor Richard Manning and Thomas
Southgate, of Norfolk, Va., first vice
president of the congress.
Chief interest in the morning pro-
gram centered in addresses by Secre-
tary McAdoo, Senator Fletcher and
others dealing with subjects of inter-
est to the congress and the nation.
“Today’s National Affairs,” was the
subject chosen by Secretary McAdoo,
while John Barrett, director-general of
the Pan-American Union, was to de-
liver a speech on the Pan-American
situation.
Later in the day there will be lunch-
eons for officers of the fleet lying at
anchor in the harbor, an excursion to
the navy yard for delegates to the
congress, and in the afternoon the
opening session of the woman’s aux-
iliary to the congress. Tonight the
house of Southern governors will con-
, Tlie difficult effort of Greece to
j maintain neutrality in the face of the
, allied retreat on Saloniki and the pur-
suit of Bulgarians and Germans con-
tinues to be the chief matter of in-
' terest at, the entente capitals. The la-
test decision of Greece, according to
1 Athens dispatches, is to withdraw all
considerable bodies of her troops im-
partially from danger of contact with
entente troops in Saloniki and the Ger-
manic allies on the northern front,
. leaving only small groups of soldiers
’ for police purposes.
Whatever the future holds for Greece,
her effort to clear her position toward
the belligerents seemingly disposes of
any idea that the allied forces on Greek
territory are to occupy a privileged po-
sition with anything in the nature of
open Greek support. The Greek army
at Saloniki is to be reduced immediate-
ly in numbers to assure liberty of ac-
tion to the entente troops there. At the
same time Greek soldiers along the
railway will be withdrawn to avoid
complications whenever Germans. Aus-
trians, or Bulgarians enter Greek ter-
ritory.
So far as is known, the hard fought
attacks on the British in Macedonia
thus far have been delivered entirely
by Bulgarians without German assist-
ance. A dispatch to the London Times
says the Bulgarians left more than
8000 dead or wounded on the field aft-
er two assalts on the British line.
BULGARS ROUTED.
“On the second attack,” the dispatch
continues, “our combined fire of artil-
lery, rifles and rapid firers was opened
on the advancing- masses at a range of
about 500 yards. The Bulgarians faced
the murderous hail at a run for five
hundred yards, then broke into flight
which quickly became a helter-skelter
rout.”
The possibility of various flanking
movements through Greek territory is
opened by the Greek decision to permit
the country to become a field for the
belligerents. It is rumored, for ex-
ample, that British troops already are
landing at Kavala and that the first
detachments of Serbians have been
brought around from Durazzo, Albania,
to Saloniki.
Russian troops have defeated Persian
rebels at Aveh and are now nearing
Hamadan. Allied troops are still carry-
ing on successful operations against
Turkish troops in the Sea of Marmora.
On the Western front minor suc-
cesses are reported for British artillery
and air squadrons. .
The Italian government has received
a vote of confidence by a large ma-
jority. In the German parliament dis-
cussion of food problems is being con-
tinued.
Oklahoma Product Goes Up 10 Cents
Per Barrel.
By Associated Press.
Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 13.—Oklahoma
crude oil advanced 10 cents a barrel
here this morning. The price is now
$1.10.
Democrats and Republicans Ready to
Submit Slates.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 13.—Organization
of the senate today awaited approval
by that body of committee assign-
ments. Democrats and Republicans,
alike Were ready When the senate met
today to submit their slates. Senate
Republicans met earlier in the day to
go over finally committee designations
recommended by the steering commit-
tee.
Representative Mann, the house mi-
nority leader, is completing today his
committee assignments. He expects to
have his slate ready when the house
meets tomorrow. This will complete
the organization of congress.
It is expected that litle actual busi-
ness will be achieved in either house
before Saturday when congress plans
to adjourn until Jan. 3 for the holi-
days.
House Democrats caucus tonight on
the extension of the emergency war
tax law, which expires by limitation
on Dec. 31. The plan is to extend
the law with assurances that a substi-
tute will be offered when congress
assembles after the Christmas holi-
days.
dressed individually to each reigning
monarch, reading:
“Sir: We come in this time of trou-
ble not to add to your burdens, but to
help lift them; not to consider which
nations are most to blame for the dis-
aster that has befallen Europe, but to
end the strife; not to intrude ourselves
upon your national life and national
, ideas, but rather with an earnest de-
sire to understand them and a heart-
felt wish to aid in realizing them.
“The love of country for which every
day tens of thousands of lives are sac-
rificed is the same in every land. Your
nation, like the people, of all the other
belligerent countries, is fighting for
its national existence and its best na-
tional traditions, and so there can be
no irreconcilable differences. Such
common ideals surely must afford a
basis upon which to establish a mag-
nanimous and honorable peace.
“The time has come to stop- the
bloodshed; to save the people from fur-
ther slaughter, and the civilization of
Germans Explode Mine and French Oc-
cupy Crater.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Dec. 13.—The announcement
from the war office this afternoon fol-
lows:
“In the Champagne, south of the
knoll at Le Mensell, the Germans ex-
ploded a mine before one of our trench-
es. We occupied the crater.
“There were no important develop-
ments on the rest of the front.”
New York, Dec. 13.—Officers an/d
passengers of the American steamship
Carolina, which arrived here today
from Porto Rico, brought first hand
details of the stopping of that ship,
and the removal of her chief steward,
Karl Schaade, by the French cruiser
Descartes on Dec. 5.
The Carolina, according to Capt. J.
O. Foss, was stopped by the Descartes
just after she had passed out of the
three-mile limit, with a blank shot. A
boat with six men and a lieutenant
from the cruiser came alongside and
the Carolina was detained two hours.
Several passengers, among them C. T.
Pfaltz, an importer of this city, were
questioned by the officer, but only
Schaade was taken.
Mr. Pfaltz says he believes, judging
by the actions of the French officer,
that he was the man sought, although
he has been a naturalized American
citizen for twenty years.
“I was asked for as soon as the
lieutenant came on the Carolina,"Mr.
Pfaltz said. “I showed him my pass-
port and he told me that as it did not
show the date of my naturalization,
he would have to go back to the
cruiser for further instructions from
the commander. He was gone for
about twenty minutes, then I was told
that it was all right, but that only my
age, fifty years, saved me from being
taken off.
“Why they were after me, I don’t
know. With my wife, I went to Porto
Rico two weeks ago on business. I
did call on the German oonsul at
Ponce, an old friend of mine, but I also
visited the French consul at San Juan.”
Other passengers on the Carolina
said that on the morning of the day
the Carolina sailed, a tug said to have
French officials on board put out to
sea from San Juan and was seen re-
turning- after the ship had been stopped
by the cruiser.
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 13.—The George
Crocker cancer research fund lab-
oratory at Columbia university
made use of 64,500 animals last
year in the course of its cancer
investigation, it was shown today
in its annual report. The animals
included 52,000 mice, 10,009 rats,
300 rabbits, 1000 guinea pigs and
1200 chickens and other fowls. For
tests with radium alone 12,000 mice
and 2500 rats Were used. In addi-
tion, a special strain of mice is
being used in which spontaneous
tumors frequently develop.
Upon these animals, with tumors
spontaneously or artifically produc-
ed, and upon human beings, whose
cancer growths were hopelessly
inoperable, the laboratory staff
tested the effect! zeness of half a
dozen so-called cures for cancer.
The report states that none of the
agencies tested was shown to ex-
ert the slightest influence on the
tumors treated.
The Investigations with ra-
dium are said in the report to have
led to important qualitative results
and to have shown that only three
factors are concerned in the action
of that element on cancer cells—•
the amount of radium, length of
exposure and the distance between
the radium and the tumor tissue.
Allies’ Negotiations With Greece Pro-
ceeding Satisfactorily.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Dec. 13.—A Havas dispatch
from Athens, dated Sunday, says:
“According to semiofficial sources, a
definite solution of the questions pend-
ing between Greece and the entente
powers has been nearly reached. Col.
Phallis (of the Greek army), after an
interview with Gen. Sarrail (com-
mander-in-chief of the French army in
the Orient), declared that, negotiations
were proceeding satisfactorily.
“The entente allies’ retreat is pro-
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 13.—Further action
by the United States government on its
demands of Austria-Hungary, as set
forth in a communication regarding the
sinking of the Italian liner Ancona,
the text of which was published today,
now depends on the Austrian govern-
ment.
Formal demand is made in the com-
munication for a prompt disavowal of
the sinking of the Ancona by an Aus-
trian submarine, punishment of the
submarine commander, and reparation
for the American citizens killed or in-
jured.
The note closely indicates that a
break in the diplomatic relations be-
tween the two countries will follow
failure of the Austro-Hungarian gov-
ernment to be illegal and indefensible.
A week at most probably will be given
Austria-Hungary to accede to the
American demands. ,
Meantime administration officials are
awaiting with keen interest some word
from Vienna indicating how the com-
munication was received by the Aus-
trian government, and the effect it may
have had upon public opinion in that
country. The text of the note was pre-
sented to the Austria foreign office
Thursday by Ambassador Penfield.
The note in full follows:
The Secretary of State to Ambas-
sador Penfield: Department of State,
Washington, Dec. 6, 1915—Please deliv-
er a note to the minister of foreign
affairs textually as follows:
“Reliable information obtained from
American and other survivors, who
were passengers on the steamship An-
cona, shows that on Nov. 7, a subma-
rine flying the Austro-Hungarian flag
fried a solid shot toward the steamship;
that thereupon the Ancona attempted to
escape, but being overhauled; that aft-
er a brief period and before the crew
and passengers were all able to take to
th boats the submarine fired a number
of shells at the vessel and finally tor-
pedoed and sank her while there were
yet many persons on board and that by
gunfire and foundering of the vessel a
large number o'f the persons lost their
lives or were seriously injured, among
whom were citzens of the United
States.
“The public statement of the Austro-
Hungarian admiralty has been brought
to the atention of the government1 of
the United States and received careful
consideration. This statement substan-
tially confirms the principal declara-
tion of the survivors, as it admits that
the Ancona after being shelled was tor-
pedoed and sunk while persons were
still on board.
AUSTRIA ADVISED.
“The Austro-Hungarian government
has been advised through the corres-
pondence which has passed between the
United States and Germany of the atti-
tude of the government of the United
States as to the use of submarines in
attacking vessels of commerce and the
acquiescence of Germany in that atti-
tude, yet with full knowledge on the
part of the Austro-Hungarian govern-
ment of the views of the government of
the United States as expressed in no
uncertain terms of the ally of Austria-
Hungary the commander of the sub-
.marine, which attacked the Ancona,
failed to put in a place of safety the
crew and passengers of the vessel,
which they purposed to destroy, be-
cause, it is presumed, of the . impossi-
bility of taking it inter port as a prize
of war.
“The government of the United States
considers that the commander violated
the principles of international law and
of humanity by shelling and torpedoing
the Ancona before the persons on
board had been put in a place of safety
or even given sufficient time to leave
the vessel. The conduct of the com-
mander can only be characterized as
wanton slaughter of defenseless non-
combatants, since, at the time when
the vessel was shelled and torpedoed,
she was not, it appearh, resisting or at-
tempting to escape; and no other rea-
son is sufficient to excuse such an at-
tack, not even the possibility of res-
cue.
By Associated Press.
Tlie French and British have been
entirely expelled from Macedonian ter-
ritory, it is officially announced today
by the German army headquarters at
Berlin.. The. advancing army under
General Todorof occupling Doiran
and Gievgel. It is declared that
two British divisions were nearly
wiped out during the advance.
There are slightly more than 19,000
men in a full British division.
The capture of 500 additional prison-
ers and 12 guns, and the rounding up
of about 1,0000 straggling Serbians be-
hind the Teuton lines in Serbia is also
announced.
In the eastern theater of war, in the
Rigo region, Berlin admits the de-
struction of an advanced post by the
Russians.
BULGARS NEAR BORDER,
Bulgarian troops are now within five)
miles of the Greek border in Serbia, a
Saloniki dispatch says. Both Doiran and
Gievgeli, elose to the border, have been
evacuated by the Anglo-French forces,
according to the message.
An Athens newspaper declares that
Greek troops are moving toward ile
Serbian border at a point where Bul-
garian troops are preparing to cross
the boundary line and that the Greeks
apparently intend to dispute the
crossing.
Sinking of the British steamer Pine-
grove, of 2847 tons, is announced in
London.
Submarines of the Teutonic powers to
date have sunk 508 ships with a total
tonnage of 917,819, a news dispatch
from Berlin declares.
GREEKS NEUTRALITY.
that war cannot solve the problem, but
that it leads only to loss and misery?
Must lives be crushed and wives and
mothers bereaved before we recognize
that Europe is bleeding to death, and
that the grievous wound must be
staunched?
NEUTRAL CONFERENCE.
“We neutrals are about to join in a'
conference which shall, without delay,
frame, and submit simultaneously to
you and all the other belligerent na-
tions proposals as a basis for discus-
sion leading to the final settlement.
Therefore, we do earnestly entreat you
and the rulers of all the other warring
nations to declare an immediate truce.
Let the armies stand where they are.
Then let the negotiations proceed so
that the soldiers may be delivered from
another bitter winter in the trenches;
and sent back to their labors, and
their firesides. As there is no other
way to end the war, except by media-
tion and discussion, why waste one
more precious human life? For the
sake of humanity * * *
“(Signature)
“HENRY FORD.”
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