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THE LA GRANGE JOURNAL, LA GKANGS, TEXAS
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ENGLAND’S ANSWER I
TO AMERICAN NOTE
GREAT BRITAIN’S REPLY TO THE
AMERICAN NOTE IN MANY RE-
SPECTS NOT SATISFACTORY
MUCH UNREST IN
ROUMANIA AND ITALY
ITALY RUSHES TROOPS TO HER
ISLAND HOLDINGS IN THE
ADRIATIC.
IF SUSPICIOUS, WILL SEARCH SEVERE WEATHER AT FRONT
Contentions of Stats Department Ad-
mitted to Be In Accord With Inters
national Law, But Right to
Searoh Ships Is Demanded.
In Russian Poland, the Carpathians
and in France Big Armies Are Suf-
fering From the Wintry Blasts.
Germans Make Air Raids.
Washington.—Oreat Britain's pre-
liminary reply to the American note
of protest concerning neutral com-
merce, while gratifying in the conces-
sions it makes, has, in many respects,
failed to satisfy the United States
government
Officials confidently hope that the
leoond and complete answer from En-
gland will give the specific Informa-
tion requested by the United States
and clear up the uncertainties which,
according to the Washington govern-
ment, surround the commerce of neu-
trals.
This disposition on the part of the
Washington administration was re-
vealed In high official quarters Mon-
day, although there was no formal
comment.
Washington.—Oreat Britain’s pre-
liminary reply to the note from the
United States government requesting
an improvement In the treatment of
American oversea commerce by the
British fleet was made public in
Washington and in London Sunday by
mutual agreement between the state
department and the British foreign bf-J
flee.
The British communication concurs
In the view of the United States that
commerce between neutral nations
should be interfered with only when
imperatively necessary and officials
of the Washington government con-
strued it as conceding that the prin-
ciples expressed by the American note
were just and upheld by the previous-
ly accepted usages of International
law.
The only formal comment made
was contained in a brief statement Is-
sued by Secretary Bryan, who said:
“This answer being preliminary
and not being intended as a complete
reply, we will postpone comment until
the full answer is received."
Briefly, the British note, while con-
ceding the principles of the American
government’s contentions, points out
difficulties in actual practice, refers
to alleged fraudulent practices by
shippers and cites statistics showing
an increase rather than a decrease
in certain neutral commerce, in sup-
port of Great Britain’s suspicions that
Germany and Austria have been Indi-
rectly obtaining contraband through
neutral countries.
The note promises, however, that
Great Britain will “make redress"
whenever the action of the British
fleet “may unintentionally exceed"
the limits of International law.
While they are generally reserved
In their comments, it may be stated
authoritatively that high officials of
the United States government regard
the tone of the note as entirely
friendly and believe, moreover, that
the discussion which will follow it
will be carried on In the same vein,
with a desire on the part of both coun-
tries to reach a satisfactory under-
standing.
The admission by Great Britain that
the relations between neutrals were
those of normal times of peace and
not of war, was gratifying to officials,
who believed that the controversy
would now resolve Itself Into a frank
discussion of what were the actual
necessities of the case which Impel
Interference by a belligerent when
suspecting that the ultimate destina-
tion of a neutral cargo Is belligerent
territory.
The statistics brought forth to
show that commerce between the
United States and neutral countries
contiguous to Gendany and Austria
had Increased materially since the out-
break of the war were regarded In
Washington as misleading. It was
pointed out that In view of the break-
ing down of the normal routes of com-
merce with Germany and Austria
many noncontraband products had
been shipped through neutral coun-
tries. Similarly, the neutral coun-
tries which previously had obtained
much of their supplies from bellig-
erents were now Importing from the
United States.
As to the Increase in the shipments
»f copper to Italy, It was pointed out
that the Italian ambassador at Wash
Ington already had explained that
Italy, which had previously obtained
copper from Germany and Austria
for her manufacturers, now wan
forced to Import from the United
9tates because of the embargo on ex-
portation which the belligerents
themselves had Imposed.
The American government con-
tends, moreover, that If some copper
has reached the belligerents through
neutral countries. It is the duty of the
British to make more effective ar
rangements with those neutral coun
tries.
The admission of Great Britain as
to foodstuffs and conditional contra-
band, Lord Salisbury's doctrine,
quoted In the American note, would
be followed In practice by the British,
foodstuffs being held up only when
destined to an enemy force, also was
pleasing to American officials.
Latest War Nows to Date.
Only a change in the weather or
the entrance into the war of Rou-
manla or Italy, or both, is likely to
bring about any marked change 1^
the military situation In Europe for
some time to come.
What turn the weather will take no
one can predict, but the belief is
growing in those countries allied
against Germany, Austria and Turkey
that Roumanla, with her well-trained
army of not less than 400,000 men,
will throw herself Into the conflict
at an early date. This, in effect,
would link Roumanla with the ex-
treme Russian left now forcing its
way Into Hungary through Bukowina.
Taking Into consideration the Ser-
vlans and Montenegrins, this would
form a line menacing Austria-Hun-
gary along the entire southeastern
frontier from Russia to the Adriatic.
Just as rumors persisted for days
prior to Turkey's entrance Into the
war, on the side of Germany, which
tended to discount the step when It
eventually was taken, so rumors now
center about Roumanla and Italy.
Meanwhile the armies already In
the field In the east and West remain
virtually deadlocked.
In Alsace the French, by sapping
and sporadic charges, continue at-
tempts to force their way nearer the
Rhine, but there has been snow In
the Vosges and It Is noticeable that
neither side claims any new progress.
The Germans threw heavy reinforce-
ments Into Alsace after the recent
French advance and apparently they
have been able to hold their ground,
In view of the failure of the French
to consolidate the positions they took
after much hard fighting.
With a comparative lull In this
quarter and artillery duels predomi-
nating near the Belgian coast, fight-
ing of a desperate character has
broken out In the center, notably to
the northeast of Solssons, which,
through bombardment, seems likely to
suffer the fate of Rhelms, and fur-
ther east, in the vicinity of Perthes
and Beausejour, from which points
the allies have been trying to' reach
the Important railway to the north,
the selsure of which would cut one of
the German main arteries of commun-
ication.
The allies contend that they have
advanced north of PertheB and still
hold the ground at Beausejour to the
north and east. The Germans make
no mention of fighting to the north of
Perthes, but maintain that they have
advanced east of' the village.
Neither East Prussia nor Poland
furnishes any change in the general
situation, and, strangely, the Rus-
sians have added little with reference
to the expected invasion of Hungary
by way of Bukowina, although more
than a week ago they claimed to be
at the threshhold. It Is conceded,
however, that practically the whole
of Bukowina Is now In Russian hands
and dispatches reaching London from
Bucharest say that thousands of fugi-
tives from that territory are crossing
the Roumanian frontier, some of them
proceeding to Vienna.
Reports from Boulogne assert that
confirmation has been obtained of the
rumors that the Germans have evac-
uated Lille and that the city Is now
virtually in possession of the British.
The British reply to the American
note occupies the attention of the
British press and public In the ab-
sence of any important news from
the battlefield.
The German and French official re-
ports of recent fighting in the west-
ern field are almost a repetition of
those lssuod on preceding days.
A British eyewitness, who has been
the official historian of events at the
front, lays stress on the Important
part played by artillery and high ex-
plosives in modern warfare, and
claims superiority for the allies in ar-
tillery, which is being used to its full
strength.
From the coast to the River Oise,
where the country is under water and
the rivers are flooded, the big guns
have been engaged continuously, but
the water and mud prevent the infan-
try from coming Into action. Along
the AiBne Valley, however, and
through the Champagne district as far
as Western Argonne, the French are
pushing their offensive and organis-
ing the ground which they have gain-
ed. These gains have been made at
heavy cost.
Sixteen German aeroplanes were
seen over the English channel on Sun-
day morning.
A Zeppelin airship, accompanied oy
threr tan monoplanes, passed
over < , Dunkirk and Calais Sat-
urday i light.
A dosen German aeroplanes bom-
barded Dunkirk and environs Sunday.
Thirty bombs were thrown by the air-
men, but owing to the precautions
that had been taken there were few
victims. The material damage was
unimportant. .
NEWS HAPPENINGS
WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED THIS
WEEK THE WORLD OVER.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Short Mentioning of Interesting Hap-
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
WASHINGTON.
W. Morgan Shuster, for eight years
an American official in the Philip-
pines before becoming an Internation-
al figure In the financial affairs of
Persia, told the senate Philippines
committee Friday he believed Japan
would be glad to enter Into a treaty
with the United States to neutralise
the islands. There was an unwritten
Monroe doctrine In the Far East main-
tained by Japan, he said, which would
make that nation oppose the entry of
any other power Into the Philippine
group.
An agreement of “all the armed
groups" In Mexico by which “the
problem of pacification 1b practically
solved,” has been reported to the con-
vention in the City of Mexico by Gen-
eral Gutlerres, according to state de-
partment advices Monday from Con-
sul SUllman.
Secretary Bryan Friday announced
the receipt of the note from Oreat
Britain replying to the American com-
munication of Dec. 26 respecting
American commerce.
—OO—
United States Ambassador Gerard
at Berlin has Informed the state de-
partment that good middling cotton is
being offered and accepted for Jan-
uary delivery at 18.4 cents a pound,
while the price to the producer is less
than 8 cents a pound.
Senator Owen Tuesday Introduced
a Joint resolution providing for the
assembling of a peace conference at
The Hague upon the close of the Eu-
ropean war and for the establishment
of an international army and navy.
The subcommittee of house Indian
affairs has ruled against the Harri-
son bill providing for the enrollment
of the Mississippi Choctaw Indians.
Germany does not consider that the
United States is acting outside her
rights under International law in sup-
plying belligerents with munitions of
war. Chairman Flood of the foreign
relations committee of the house of
representatives made this statement
Tuesday before the committee.
STATE AND DOME8TIC.
The Texas league, with a 1915
model schedule, self-starting rules and
by-laws, and with Shreveport, La.,
substituted for Austin on its list of
stopovers, Is ready to travel the sea-
son’s speedway when the clutch is
thrown In on April 8.
Before Attorney General Looney
filed the suits against the breweries
of Texas in the district court of Hop-
kins county Saturday the breweries
defendant in the Texas Business
Men's Association suit were dismiss-
ed therefrom at the instance of the
attorney general.
Over 8,000 girls are now members
of various canning clubs in the South-
ern states.
Judge T. 8. Reese, for eight years
associate Justice of the court of civil
appeals, first supreme judicial dis-
trict, at GalveBton, Texas, has an-
nounced that lie will retire from the
bench.
Earl Cooper won the 300-mlle Pan-
ama-Californla Exposition automobile
road race at San Dnego, Cal., Satur-
day. W. H. Carlson was second and
Tom Alley third. Cooper’s time was
4:40:10 4-6.
—oo—
The Frankfort arsenal' at Philadel-
phia, Pa., employs over 400 women,
whose duties are those of making
cartridges for the government.
The Texas Creameries’ Association
will meet in annual session Jan. 21, 22
and 23 at Waco. Texas.
This week's work of tho American
commission for relief in Belgium, with
headquarters In New York, Includes
the dispatch of four ships with 25,000
tons of food, valued at $1,100,000, and
sufficient to feed the Belgians seven
days.
—"OO—
The Arlsona anti-alien employment
law, which provides that employers
may not employ more than 20 per
cent of foreigners to the exclusion of
Americans, was held unconstitutional
and null and void by a special federal
court at San Francisco, Cal., Friday.
Justice Lamar of the UnMed States
supreme court Friday approved an
appeal bond in- the case of Leo M,
Frank, under sentence of death at At-
lanta, Ga.. on the charge of killing
Mary Phagan.
John H. Kirby of Houston, Texas,
was elected one of the vice preeldents
of the Southern Pine Association at
the election in St. Louie recently.
Ocean rates from Galveston, Texas,
to European ports are steadily In-
creasing, the latest quotation being
$1.50 on 100 pounds to Genoa, the
highest to an Italian port ever
charged.
» OO "
Governor-elect Ferguson has ap
pointed J. A. McCalmoni as assistant
state adjutant general and Dr. Ec
Fyke as etmte health officer.
Resolotlone calling on congress to
put an embargo on wheat and flour as
well as on arms and ammunition were
paaeed by the Chicago Retail Grocers
and Butchers' Association Friday.
Jack Johnson and Jess Willard will
meet In a 45-round bout for the
heavyweight -championship of the
world at Juarez, Mexico, on Saturday,
March 6, next. Final arrangementa to
this effect were made Friday In New
York, after other bide were received
from Havana, Cuba, and Tlajuana,
Mexico.
A compromise has been effected in
the Scott will contest case in Fort
Worth, Texas, In which Mrs. Georgia
Scott Townsend, daughter of Winfield
Scott, the dead millionaire, was given
$1,000,000 by her stepmother in addi-
tion to the $200,000 bequeathed her by
her father.
Fire at Port Lavaca, Texas, "Friday
caused losses aggregating $52,500.
Senator Quintus Ultimus Watson,
president pro tern of the Texas state
senate, was Installed Friday as gov-
ernor of Texas, Governor Colquitt
having gone to Louisiana.
The federal government has filed
suits at Waco, Texas, against the
Katy railroad, charging violations of
the sixteen-hour law.
Thirteen enlisted men of the United
States navy were presented with
medals by Secretary Daniels Wednes-
day at Washington In honor of distin-
guished service performed at Vera
Cruz, Mexloo.
Several years ago Peter Gross of
Gillespie, 111., traded a favorite horse
lor 200 acres of Virginia land, which
has just developed in good coal mine
property worth $400,000.
An explosion In the New York sub-
way at the rush hour Wednesday
morning caused a fire and a panic,
which resulted In the injury of 200
persons.
—OO ■ -
Approximately 3,000 head of cattle
from the hills of Mexico have arrived
at Galveston and Texas City, Texas,
this week.
The United States government has
tiled suit in the federal court at Co-
lumbus, Ohio, to recover $9,015,029.07
from the Old Capital City Dairy com-
pany, alleged to be due as taxes on
colored oleomargarine.
Ending eleven yearB of litigation
the supreme court Tuesday at Wash-
ington, D. C., held that some 200 Con-
necticut labor union members must
pay $252,130.09 damages under the
'Sherman anti-trust law, for a nation-
wide boycott of D. E. Loewe & Co.,
Danbury (Conn.) hat manufacturers,
who refused to unionize their shops.
The bank accounts and homes of
many of the men already are under
attachment to pay the judgment, and
the next step probably will be fore-
closure.
Seventy Japanese picture brides ar-
rived at San Francisco, Cal., Tuesday
on the liner Shinyo Maru to meet
husbands they have never seen. Until
the husbands claim them the brides
are being housed on Ansel Island, the
United States detention station.
—4»—
Louisiana maintains a board of
Btate engineers, who have general su-
pervision and exclusive power and au-
thority over certain roads of the state,
built wholly or In part by state funds.
The board employs a state highway
engineer at a salary of $5,000 per an-
num, who Is the head of the engineer-
ing department of the board. State
aid Is extended to cltfes, towns, vil-
lages and parishes.
FOREIGN NEWS
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland will
personally underwrite $1,000,000 of the
$11,000,000 war loan In that country.
—oo—
Women In uniform now run the ele-
vators in nearly all London (England)
stores.
Among the wounded Russian sol-
diers brought Into the Red Cross
hospital at Moscow this week was a
strongly built girl 20 years old named
Mary Izaakopf. She Is the daughter
of a prosperous Russian and before
the war was known as an expert
fencer and horsewoman. When war
began she offered her services and
was accepted with her own horse as a
volunteer in a Cossack regiment.
About 700 dead Villa soldiers were
picked up In the streets of Puebla,
Mexico, Friday, and other^lead bodies
were scattered for thirty miles from
the town after a fight with Carranza
troops.
The Russian Bwcep across Buko-
wina, Austria’s northeastern province,
and through Galicia to the Carpa-
thians, against which the Austrians
have been driven back, is admitted in
an official ^statement Saturday from
Vienna. The Austrian military au-
thorities say that the retreat of their
troops was made necesaary by the nu-
merical superiority of the Russian
forces.
The German government has sent
to the Vatican at Rome an explanation
of the Mercler Incident in which it
aays there la absolutely no truth In
the report that the cardinal was ar-
rested by the German authorities in
Belgium, or even confined to his own
palace or prevented from leaving It.
Mrs. Robert Van Looy, wife of s
Belgian reservist, with her three chll
dren, was found strangled to death li
their bed at their home In Montrea.
Canada, Friday.
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LAND VALUES
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are not diminishing. Buyers ere
looking to ns to furnish good prop-
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them the benefit of our knowledge
and please the seller as well. List
your land with us if yon desire to sell
Lenert, Smith & Lidiak
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