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VOLUME XXXVI.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY JULY 29, 1916.-TWELVE PAGES
NO. 211.
TEUTONS ARE
ALLIES DROP
LOSE CLAIM
HEAT WAVE
OKUMA TO RETIRE.
SERBIA’S ATTITUDE.
U. S. MAY PROTEST.
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NEARING END
THEIR MASKS
UPON APPAM
GRIPS WEST
War’s Second Year Re-
veals Entente Aim.
STOPS EXECUTION.
FRENCH VIEWS OF
TEUTONS ALLEGE
PRUSSIAN TREATY
HUDSON BAY HIGH
SLAVS SMASH
GENERAL SITUATION
SELFISH MOTIVES
DOES NOT CONTROL
IS LOSING FORCE
WHAT TO DO WITH BERG.
4
TEUTON LINE
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AUSTRIANS BEATEN OFF.
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OPENS UP ROAD
TOWARD LEMBERG
at
y
SUBMISSION LEAD
IS AT 2,784 TODAY
by
Russia’s aggressive policy.
supported
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Hundreds have been pros-
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4
SEND 150 DELEGATES.
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The department was
un-
the
SIAMESE RECLAMATION.
50
4
KAISER CONFIRMED SENTENCE.
the
4
REACH TENNIS FINALS.
AUSTRIAN DERBY.
RATES 5 CENTS OFF.
A
GERMANS TAKE STEAMER.
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
I
THE WEATHER
CANADA PUTS UP BARS.
FERGUSON’S EXPENSES.
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Children Under 16 From Vicinity
of
PEOPLE WANT PEACE.
TEUTONS DESERTING.
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TOOK 1,000 RUSSIANS.
SUSPEND PROPOSAL.
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Advent Into Neutral Waters
Removes German Crew’s In-
terest, Judge Contends.
BOYCOTT NOT TO GO
BEYOND PRINCIPALS
creasing as time
their unrestricted
or
in
tributed
reported,
trated.
Take Over 20,000 Pris-
oners During Drive.
Weather Bureau Holds
Out No Relief.
Fast Approaching Crisis
of Exhaustion.
English Owners of Liner
Win in Court.
rich and the Kron Prinz Wilhelm
the Norfolk navy yard.
Detroit, Mich., July 29.—Nine deaths
—five in Detroit and four at different
points throughout the state—were at-
tributed to the continued heat through-
out Michigan yesterday.
at-
been
I
ll
No Idea of Blacklisting Neutral
Firms For Trading With
Tabooed Concerns,
SENATE REQUESTS
ACTION BY WILSON
End of Second Year Finds
Anxiety Shifting to En-
tente Foes.
Wise County Comes in With
500 For and Starr County
100 Against.
Project Calls for Expenditure of
Millions in 25 Years.
Lust For Territory, Revenge
and Economic Domination
Inspire Foes.
Suggests Plea to Great Britain
in Interest of Irish
Prisoners.
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New York Are Barred.
By Associated Press.
Ottawa, Ont., July 29.—The Canadian
government today placed a quarantine
on children under 16 years of age com-
ing from New York city and vicinity
as a bar against the introduction of in-
fantile paralysis into the dominion.
East Scheduled to Get a Swel-
tering Sunday Tomor-
row.
Governor Spent $3,443 in Campaign for
Renomination.
By Associated Press.
' Belton, Tex., July 29.—Governor Fer-
guson spent $3,443.08 in his campaign
for renomination in the recent primary,
according to his statement filed here
today, in the office of the clerk of Bell
county. Temple is Governor Ferguson’s
home.
The First National Bank
OF GALVESTON
Directors: J. P. Alvey, J. H. Hill, R.
Waverley Smith, C. H. Moore, Chas.
Fowler, B. D. Moore, Fred W. Cat-
terall.
tinuity of their line being everywhere
maintained, as well as the integrity of
% the Russian armies.
goes on because of
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The following representative citizens
of Galveston direct the affairs of
Repulsed in Endeavor to Surprise the
Italians.
By Associated Press.
Rome, July 29.—Via London.—Aus-
tro-Hungarian attempts to surprise the
Italian positions 7,000 feet above sea
level on Monte Cimone, on the night
of July 27 were promptly repulsed, it
is announced in the Italian official
statement issued today.
not broached, but a majority of
delegates are against submission.
to excessive heat had
resources and
House Sends Army Appropriation Bill
to Congress.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29.— Senate: Reso-
lution adopted urging upon Great Britain
clemency for Irish political prisoners.
House:
Army appropriation bill as amended
by the senate was sent to conference.
Representative Gardner declared it in-
adequate.
Speeches were made by North Caro-
lina members in memory of the late
Senator Vance, whose- statue was re-
cently unveiled at the capital.
Austrians Report Repulse of Russians
North of Brody.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, July 29, by wireless to Say-
ville.— The capture of 1,000 Russians
during the fighting north of Brody is
reported in the Austro-Hungarian head-
quarters statement of July 27, which
also records Russian repulses in this
district.
payment would be passed on to,
New York Justice Grants Convicted
Man Short Reprieve.
By Associated Press.
Ossining, N. Y., July 29.—As Charles
F. Stielow, convicted of murdering a
farmer, was about to start for the elec-
tric chair at the state prison this morn-
ing the prison authorities received word
by telephone that Supreme Court Jus-
tice Charles L. Guy had granted a stay
of execution until 11 o’clock tonight.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
ed BANKERS Estagszbed
(Unincorporated)
For
Banks, Individuals, Corporations
American Bankers Association Trav-
elers‘ Cheques for Sale.
U. S. Now Confronted With Problem
Since Court’s Decision.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July. 29—The federal
court’s decision holding"for the British
owners in the Appam case confronts
the United States government with de-
ciding what to do with Lieutenant Berg
and his prize brew which brought in
the ship after ^ne of the most thrilling
chapters in the sea history of the war.
Generally speaking, Lieutenant Berg
and his men are regarded as a part of
Germany’s naval forces, and if this
view were carried out to its conclusion
they would have to be interned for the
war with the crews of the two. other
German raiders, the Prinz Eitel Fried-
Ferguson Steam Roller Operates With-
out Hitch in Travis County.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, July 29.—At the Democratic
county convention held here today the
Ferguson steam roller operated without
a hitch. One hundred and fifty dele-
gates were selected to the state con-
vention at Houston, and while there are
a few pros among the delegates, they
are Ferguson men, consequently Travis
ccunty sends to the convention a -solid
Ferguson delegation. A resolution was
adopted warmly endorsing the Fergu-
son administration and also endorsing
the national administration.
Not only will Travis county send a
solid Ferguson delegation, but a reso-
lution was adopted placing friends of
the governor in Bell county as .mem-
bers of the Travis county delegation. A
resolution was adopted endorsing Geo.
W. Mendell for speaker of the house.
There was nothing said relative to en-
dorsement of the Robertson insurance
law, and the submission question was
create credit i
enemy territory.
By Associated Press.
London, July 29.—The Socialist
newspaper Volksmacht of Bres-
lau, says a dispatch from Zurich
to the Central News agency, de-
clares that the reichstag no long-
er reflects the true opinion of
the German people and it de-
mands a referendum to discover
whether the people really desire
peace. The Volksmacht is quoted
as saying:
"The people ought to be given
an opportunity to affirm whether
they wish an early peace with-
out conquests, or wish to con-
tinue the war till these are as-
sured.”
Health department officials so fat
have found their greatest burden to be
the heavy baby mortality. Many in-
stances were reported where infants had
been found in unsanitary surroundings
which, under the excessive heat wave,
have been rendered worse.
The government bureau at 7 o’clock
reponted the temperature at 85, or one
degree lower than it was at the same
hour yesterday morning. Eighty-five
degrees also was the minimum for the
night.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, July 29.—Reviewing the po-
litical events of the second year of the
war, the German foreign office has
given to the Associated Press the fol-
lowing statement:
“Unlike the military situation, it is
not easy to review briefly the develop-
ments in the confused paths of political
events, but an attempt will be made
in the following statement to trace the
leading ideas connected with the po-
litical problems of the second year of
FORECAST
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
ity: Tonight
unsettled;
Sunday show-
ers; light east-
erly winds.
For East
Texas: Tonight
and Sunday un-
‘settled; show-
ers in south-
the Appam at the time of her capture.
The cargo was owned by several per-
sons. Owners of both the vessel and
cargo joined in libeling her.
British Make Advances on
Somme Front—Germans Are
Beaten Off.
Rothschild Horse Wins Prize—Will Be
Spent for Charity.
By Associated Press.
Vienna, July 29.—The rich Austrian
derby prize of 122,000 kronen (nearly
$25,000), which was captured on June
11 by Sanskrit, Baron Alfons Roths-
child’s horse, is to be spent for char-
itable purposes, according to an an-
nouncement of the Baroness Roths-
child.
In the absence of her husband in the
field, the baroness represented him at
Freudenau on Derby day, and soon
after their horse had won she made it
known that the richest prize of the
entire racing year in Austria should be
divided equally between the Red Cross,
the "Conrad von Hoetzendorf fund,” the
“fund for the blind established by the
ministry of the interior,” and the “Day
Home for War Orphans and Children.”
By Associated Press.
Tokio, July 29—Japanese news-
papers insistently forecast the re-
tirement of Marquis Okuma from
the premiership and the organi-
zation of a new Japanese min-
istry, probably presided over by
Lieut.-General Count Terauchi,
the governor-general of Korea.
General Terauchi is at present in
Tokio.
for enemy firms
NED
5. east portion
( Sunday.
/ For West
By Associated Press.
Hong Kong, July 29.—The Siamese
government has appropriated $555,000
for the preliminary expenses in con-
nection with the Prasak irrigation
project, which will ultimately cost $4,-
250,000. This scheme provides for a
great canal for Prasak and fuller de-
velopment of the existing canal System I
of Klons Rangsit. The project is de-
signed to reclaim much waste land in
lower Siam for rice cultivation. Only
the first unit of the scheme will be de-
veloped at present. It is estimated by
the British experts who have been em-
ployed to make a survey of the situa-
tion that a total expenditure of $50,-
000,000 within twenty-five years will
make it possible to reclaim 2,400,000
acres of land in lower Siam.
Kansas City, July 29.—Two persons
died of heat here today. One death
occurred at Topeka. The mercury here
at 11 o’clock stood at 86 degrees, four
less than yesterday.
By Associated Press.
Paris, July 29.—Crown Prince
Alexander of Serbia, asked for his
sentiments as to the future on
the occasion of the second anni-
versary of the war, has tele-
graphed the following message to
the Matin:
"We want to fight—that is the
sentiment which inspires me and
all my soldiers. To win back
freedom for all our brothers, that
is my view of the future.”
the war.
“The world war was caused
Duluth, Minn., July 29.—The heat
wave continued here today. At 7
o’clock the government thermometer
showed 90 degrees and steadily rising.
Fifteen workmen were prostrated by
heat at the Minnesota steel plant.
Ashland, Wis., reported today that
lumber mills there have been forced to
close because of the heat.
o’clock this morning 70 deaths
By Associated Press.
Petrograd, July 29.—Via London.—
The captures by Russian troops in the
fighting yesterday on the western front
included 400 officers and 20,000 men,
it was officially announced today.
Fifty-five Teuton guns were taken.
The Austro-Germans were driven back
along the whole front from the Kovel-
Rojitehe railway to Brody.
General Letchitzky, the present state-
ment adds, won an important victory to
the south of the Dniester in the direc-
tion of Stanislau.
Berlin today admits penetration of
the Teutonic lines by the Russians
northwest of Lutsk, in the Tristyn re-
gion, but declares to the west of Lutsk
the Germans by a counterattack have
stopped the Russian advance. On the
southern end of the territory included
in the scope of the Russian drive the
Russians have just taken Brody, open-
ing up the road toward Lemberg.
Another important success for the
Russians further to the south also is
announced, General Letchitsky having
pushed forward toward Stanislau, south
of the Dneister.
On the Somme front in France the
British have advanced in the vicinity of
Pozieres and Highwood and have re-
pulsed German efforts to recapture
Delville wood. The French have beaten
informed that many licenses already
have been granted to British firms to
receive from and pay to Knauth,
Nachod and Kuhne and Zimmerman
and Forshay, and that there is no ob-
jection to the Goodyear Tire company
filling outstanding contracts.
1. C. C. Turns Down Rate .Raise Sought
by Santa Fe.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29.—Proposed in-
crease of 10 to 35 cents a ton in coal
and coke rates from New Mexico over
the Santa Fe to Texas and Louisiana
were suspended today by the Interstate
Commerce commission until November
29.
With 168 counties complete and with
partial returns from 64 counties many
of which are practically complete, the
vote for submission, as compiled by
the Texas election bureau, showed Sat-
urday morning a lead of 2,784 for sub-
mission. Figures were: For submission
162,950, against submission 160,166.
El Paso had failed to report further.
Bandera, Culberson and Presidio, anti-
submission counties, were still out.
Only three boxes from Liberty had re-
ported. Eastland county was the big
submission county out.
Wise county, heretofore reported
complete, came in with an additional
1 vote of 500 for submission and Starr
County added more than 100 against it
on a revised report.
• By Associated Press.
, London, July 2 9.—Telegraphing
from The Hague, the correspon-
dent of the Exchange Telegraph
company says he has received the
following message from Mae-
stricht, a Dutch town 56 miles
east of Brussels:
“Fifteen German deserters, in-
cluding a noncommissioned of-
ficer, arrived here (Maestricht)
yesterday. They all came from
the Somme region. They said it
was impossible to live through
the Anglo-French artillery fire
without going mad, and they pre-
ferred desertion to insanity."
By Associated Press.
Norfolk, Va., July 29.—Federal Judge
Waddill today decided the libel pro-
ceedings for possession of the captured
British liner Appam in favor of the
English owners, and against the Ger-
man prize crew which brought* her
here.
The court held that the German gov-
ernment lost all claim to the Appam
and her cargo as prizes of war when
Lieut. Berg and his prize crew on last
Feb. 1 brought them into the neutral
waters of Hampton roads, with -the in-
tention of “laying up” the vessel in-
definitely.
Other salient features of the decision
follow:
That the Prussian-American treaty
of 1799, renewed in 1828, does not ap-
ply or contol in the case so as to
guarantee the prize crew asylum in
United States waters.
That the action of the German prize
court in declaring the Appam a prize
while the case was in litigation in the
United States courts has no effect on
the jurisdiction of the United States
courts.
That the jurisdiction of the United
States courts in the case is established
by a long line of precedents, including
Several by the United States supreme
court.
“The court’s conclusion,” the decision
reads, “is that the manner of bringing
the Appam into the waters of the
United States, as well as her presence
in those waters, constitutes a violation
of the neutrality of the United States;
that she came in without bidding or
permission; that she is here in viola-
tion of the law; that she is unable to
leave for lack of a crew, which she
can not provide or augment without
further violation of neutrality; that in
her present condition she is without a
lawful right to be and remain in these
waters; that she, as between her cap-
tors and owners, to all practical in-
tents and purposes, must be treated as
abandoned and stranded upon our
shores; and that her owners are en-
titled to restitution of their property,
Which this court should award, irre-
spective of the prize court proceedings
of the court of the imperial govern-
ment of the German empire; and it will
be so ordered.”
MUST HAVE CONVOY.
The court also held that a prize ves-
sel cannot legally be brought into neu-
German Staff Officers Also in Agree-
ment Upon Matter.
By Associated Press.
London, July 29.—According to a re-
port from Maestricht, Holland, for-
warded by the Hague correspondent of
the Exchange Telegraph company, the
question of Captain Fryatt’s execution,
was discussed at the imperial German
headquarters in reply to a telegram
from the Duke of Wuerttemberg an-
nouncing the sentence and asking for
its confirmation. This was telegraphed
immediately by the war council, which
included Emperor William and General
von Falkenhayn and other staff of-
ficers, eleven of whom are said to have
been in agreement on the justice of
the sentence.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29.—By a vote of
46 to 19- the senate today adopted a
resolution requesting President Wilson
to transmit the British government an
expression of hope that it would exer-
cise clemency in the treatment of Irish
political prisoners.
By its action the senate overturned
the report of a majority of its foreign
relations committee and followed a
course outlined in a minority report
made by Chairman Stone and Senators
O’Gorman and Pittman.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, July 29.—Suffering from
heat in the congested districts of Chi-
cago continued unabated during the
night, the coroner’s office and the po-
lice station officials being busy with
reports of prostrations and deaths.
During the thirty hours preceding 7
shaken confidence in victory.”
. MILITARY SITUATION.
From various critics and experts on
military affairs expressions1 have been
obtained from which the military
situation, according to the French
view, may be summarized as follows:
The extent of the difficulties of the
central empires does not even now ap-
pear from the state of the war as
viewed from a geographical standpoint,
but has shown itself in the changed
tactics in evidence and is becoming
obvious in the altered map. The op-
erations of the Franco-British armies,
outnumbered in men and guns during
the first six months, saved France by
sheer heroism, but could not end the
war; could Only prolong it and gain
time. The Russians pushed into East
Prussia, conquered Bukowina. invaded
Galicia, crossed the Carpathians and
even threatened Silesia, but exhausted
their armament in April, 1915, and
lacked even the essentials for defense.
The Germans knew it would be impos-
sible for Great Britain and France to
have caught up in nine months with
the Germans’ 45 years’ preparations
and felt themselves free, dealing first
with France, to turn upon the Rus- ’
sian armies. Nine divisions transport-
ed from the Franco-British front rein-
forced the Austrians, and the offensive
against the Austrians began in May.
By the end of July Przemysl and Lem-
berg had been retaken and the Rus-
sians were considering the abandon-
ment of Warsaw and the line of the
Vistula. Short even of rifles, many
Of Emperor Nicholas’ troops defended
themselves with clubs during the long
retreat in which was accomplished the
second miracle of the war, the con-
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29.—Infor-
mation that Turkish atrocities
upon Armenians are more severe
than ever has led the state de-
partment to consider making
new representations to the Porte.
No reply has been received to
representations for the same pur-
pose made by the United States
more than a month ago.
Texas: Tonight
and Sunday partly cloudy.
For Oklahoma: Tonight and Sun-
day generally fair.
Winds on Texas Coast: Light east-
erly.
Shipper’s Forecast: Protect ship-
ments during the next 24 to 36 hours
as follows: to interior points 100
degrees or over.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
Pell and Williams Meet Church and
Davis at Boston.
By Associated Press.
Boston, July 29.—The finals in the
Eastern doubles lawn tennis cham-
pionship at the Longwood Cricket club
were reached today with T. R. Pell and
R. N. Williams II, former national
champion, pitted against G. M. Church
and W. E. Davis. In the singles,
matches included one between J. J.
Armstrong of Philadelphia, and Irving
V. Wright of Boston.
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&y Associated Press.
Paris, July 29.—“The second year of
the war ends with anxiety shifting
from the group of the entente powers
to that of our adversaries, who are now
obliged to meet a general combined
offensive on every front,” said Marquis
de Chambrun, a member of the foreign
affairs committee of the chamber of
deputies in summarizing the military
situation for the Associated Press at
the close of the war’s second year.
“While French, British and Russian
preparations become more complete, a
crisis of exhaustion is fast arising for
the Austrians and Germans. Our ad-
versaries thought it would be impos-
sible for us to prepare, and certainly
during the first year of the war there
were difficulties that had to be over-
come. We are proud to say that this
was accomplished even while our
valiant soldiers were resisting the Ger-
man invasion. Thanks to the patriot-
ism of the country and the abnegation
shown by all classes in France and
England; thanks also to the campaign
in both countries for more cannon and
more ammunition, industrial action
was everywhere multiplied and Gen.
Joffre was able to say in an order of
the day to the army at Verdun, ‘We
have munitions in abundance.’
“The Austrians and Germans resort-
ed to submarine warfare which I will
not attempt to qualify. It may con-
tinue to work harm in a piratical form,
but it will not open ports nor further
the commercial aims and needs of the
central empires, now effectively block-
aded, nor will it restore to Germany
her lost colonies.
“The Russians are continuing their
work successfully on the eastern front.
They have again invaded Bukowina
and pushing forward in the region of
Lutsh and into the Carpathians, while
Grand Duke Nicholas is advancing vic-
toriously in the Caucausus.
“The closer one examines the situa-
tion the more manifest becomes the
anticipated ascendency of the allies, in-
Held to Be Unreasonable by the I. C. C.
to This Extent.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29.—Carload com-
modity freight rates from St. Louis to
Dallas, Fort Worth, Paris and Denison,
Texas, were pronounced unreasonable
to-day by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to the extent of 5 cents per
hundred pouncis. Rates from Kansas
City to the same points were found
unreasonable to the extent that they
are not 5 cents per 100 pounds less
than the St. Louis rates.
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a war of destruction, a war to the
knife, which, according to the plans of
our enemies, shall continue even after
the cannon is silenced; for their talk
about the permanent peace that they
wished to establish has been drowned
under the shout that Germany’s ene-
mies are raising over the Paris eco-
nomic conference.
“It is not enough that the world must
be shaken by a protracted bloody war.
The war. must not even thereafter en-
joy a settled peace if the will of the
entente powers prevails, for the deci-
sions of the economic conference do
not signify an economic peace, but a,
permanent economic warfare, which
never will permit the worl to come to
rest upon the basis of peaceful com-
petition.
“This shows at the same time that
the great words of the entente powers
about fighting for the rights of the
smaller nations and international or-
der are empty sounds, for when Ger-
many’s enemies seek to control neutral
trade they simply ignore the rights of
other ‘countries, and base not on the
principle of right, but on pure might,
precisely what they allegedly want to
abolish.
“The second year of the war, there-
fore, shows that our enemies are pre-
cisely what they all along wrongly re-
proached Germany with being—namely,
disturbers of the peace—Russia through
her unbridled passion for extending
her borders; England through being
uncontrollable for dominating alone
the economic world, and France
through her passion for revenge.
MIGHT BEFORE RIGHT.
“The second year of the war further
proved that it is our enemies who fol-
low the principles of might before
right. They show this in the more and
more reckless violations of the gener-
ally recognized principles of interna-
tional law by the entente powers, not
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tral waters without a convoy. The
Appam was brought in under her own
steam after capture by the German
raider ’ Moewe last Jan. 17.
Extended reference was made in the
decision to diplomatic exchanges be-
tween Count von Bernstorff and Secre-
tary Lansing, the libeling of the Ap-
pam in which the secretary declared
that neither the Prussian treaty of 1799
nor the Hague treaty of 1907 applied
in the case so as to give the prize
crew the right to retain' possession of
the vessel' in neutral waters indefi-
nitely.
The court disposed of the Hague
treaty briefly, holding that it was not
applicable, inasmuch as Great Britain'
never accepted it, but pointed out that
the attitude of the American delegates
to the convention was shown by their
rejection of Article 23, which would
have guaranteed a prize vessel asylum
in neutral waters. The Prussian treaty,
however, was given much attention by
the court.
"The history of the adoption of this
treaty with Prussia,” the decision
I read, “the conditions that brought
about the same, and the contempora-
neous opinions of the statesmen of that
day who participated in its procure-
ment and acceptance by the two coun-
tries has been gone into fully in the
effort to show that it was meant to
give asylum to prizes in neutral wa-
ters, and that its particular purpose
Was to afford the United States an
asylum for their prizes in Prussian
waters.
"Whatever may have been the view
of those representing this country at
that time, it seems clear to the court
that no such enlarged and far-reaching
view of the treaty as is now claimed
for it can for a moment be entertained
at this day, in the light of the present
methods of warfare, and the laws, rules
and regulations affecting the neutrality
of nations in existence now for nearly
a hundred years.”
TO HEAR MOTIONS.
Attorneys were notified that the
court would hear any motions they de-
sired to make next Wednesday at noon.
Consul von Schilling, who was in court
with Lieut. Berg, said an appeal doubt-
less would be taken.
“I never dreamed,” he declared, “that
any grounds could be found for taking
the Appam from us.”
The vessel may be restored to her
former owners under bond pending an
appeal, or held at Newport News in the
custody of a United States marshal as
at present.
The Appam is valued at $1,000,000.
Her cargo, much of which was perish- '
able, was disposed of for $634,000 and
the money placed in the custody of the
court. Gold said to have amounted to
$750,00'0 was removed from the vessel
at the time of her capture off the coast
of Spain ahd carried to Germany by
the raider Moew. The money recently
was declared a prize by a German
prize court and turned over to the
reichstag.
The Elder Dempster company, Lim-
ited, of London, were the owners of
The battle of Arras in June, 191",
was considered to have proved the
allies, man for man, able' to beat the
Germans in the offensive, other things
being equal, but the, munitions and ar-
tillery of the opposing forces were not
yet equal. The transformation of field
tactics as the war progressed multi-
plied the need for heavy guns and
powerful projectiles to b'reak concrete-
armored lines. This transformation
Continued on Eighth Page.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29.—The British
blacklist is not intended to go beyond
the principals named in the list and
there can be no direct inquiry to
American firms as explained to the
state department today by Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice, the British ambassador.
It was represented that there is no
idea of blacklisting a neutral firm
merely because it continued to do
business with a firm that is blacklist-
ed, but if a neutral firm habitually and
sytematically acted as cover for the
blacklisted firm and so caused direct
trading between British firms black-
listed, the cases would be different.
Regarding payments to blacklisted
firms, the British action was declared
not to affect payment by neutrals as
the British government habitually
granted licenses to British firms to pay
current debts to blacklisted firms un-
less it is clear beyond doubt that such
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29.—Continuation
of the excessive heat now overspreads
ing the central part of the country un-
til tomorrow by its extension to the
north Atlantic coast states was fore-
cast today by the weather bureau. The
“Hudson bay high,” which brought
some relief through the northeastern
part of the country, is losing its force
before the torrid wave from the west
and temperatures will rise throughout
the east tonight and Sunday.
From the plains states eastward the
heat wave today held sway. Its inten-
sity sent temperatures up ranging from
96 to 102 degrees at various points in
those states and in the Missouri and
Mississippi valleys and upper lake re-
gion’. The “Hudson bay high” brought
temperatures slightly below normal in
the northeastern states, but the heat
in these states is expected to return
during the next 24 hours.
by France’s policy of revenge. But it
was rendered possible solely by the
fact that England subordinated to her
economic antagonism to Germany all
he other interests.
“Whereas, Germany’s enemies re-
garded it quite in order that they de-
mand territorial aggrandizements at
the cost of others—like Russia, who
wants Constantinople and Galicia; like
France, who desires Alsace-Lorraine
and the left bank of the Rhine, and
like Italy, who seeks Austrian territory
—they grudge Germany even that she
shall try to develop herself economi-
cally in peaceable competition, and
they pronounce this an unpardonable
sin against the world’s order of things.
“They are unwilling that Germany
should become great and strong be-
cause the other powers want to be the
economic masters of the world. Terri-
torial and economic aggrandizement
has united Germany’s foes in a war of
destruction against us.
AIMS REVEALED.
“The second year, whose end is now
approaching, has brought the aims of
our opponents into clearer view. In
Russia this is openly admitted; they
have an understanding with England
and want Constantinople as their war
goal. In France there is a war-mad
cry for Alsace-Lorraine.
“In England, too, the mask has been
dropped. It is openly admitted that
Belgium was only a pretext to justify
England’s participation in the war,
which was undertaken only from self-
interest.
“Germany must be destroyed, Ger-
many shall never more raise her head
economically nor militarily. In this
way is the goal of our enemies more
clearly enunciated during the second
year of the war.
“It is equally clear that the talk of
a struggle of democracy against mili-
tarism is only a catchword used by our
enemies to create sentiment and to
cloak outwardly their real purpose of
destruction. Assuredly there can be
no talk of a struggle for the mainten-
ance of democratic principles when one
side sets out to destroy the enemy com-
pletely. including the civilian popula-
tion.
“And is England really the land of
democracy she pretends to be? ' Has
not the entire development of England
during the war shown that England is
drawing further than ever away from
democracy?
“Moreover, if England had really re-
sorted to war in defense of the rights
of the smaller nations, ais she fondly
announces to the world, she could with-
out damage to her position have an-
swered otherwise than with the threat
of destroying Germany.
A WAR TO KNIFE.
"Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg’s
remarks made in the course of the year
outlined German aims with (sufficient
clearness. England, therefore, wants
off German attacks south of
Somme at Vermandovillers.
Eskimo, British Vessel, Taken Into Port
After Clash.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, July 29 (by Wireless to Say-
ville3.—-A German auxiliary''cruiser on
July 27, after an engagement with the
armed British steamship Eskimo, 3,326
tons, captured the vessel and brought
her into port, according to a statement
today by the German admiralty. The
encounter took place at apoint fif-
1 teen miles southeast of Arendal, a Nor-
wegian seaport on the Skaggerak.
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