BIG CUMARDER FLIES U. 5. FLAG “Old Glory” as Protection Te Her Passengers. HAD SEEN SUBMARINES Area Not So Large As At First Re. ported—Berlin Sends Memorandum Giving Reasons—In Retaliation For British Acts and Not Aimed At Neutral Vessels, It Declares. TEXT OF BLOCKADE ORDER. The proclamation issued by the German Government to neutral nations, as translated by the State Department in Washington, reads: The waters around Great Britain, including the whole of the English Channel, are declared hereby to be included within the zone of war and that after the 18th instant all enemy merchant vessels encountered in these waters will be destroyed, even if it may not be possible always to save their crews and passengers. Within this war zone neutral vessels are exposed to danger, since In view of the misuse of the neutral flags ordered by the Gov. ernment of Great Britain on the 81st ultimo and +f the hazards of naval warfare, neutral vessels can- not always be prevented from suf. fering from the attacks intended for enemy ships. The routes of navigation around the north of the Shetland Islands in the eastern part of the North Sea and in a strip 30 miles wide along the Dutch coast are now open to the Sanger zone, London.—The Bri tish steamer Lusi tania, of the Cunard Line, from New York January rived at Liverpool Saturday after noon, flew the American flag time she passed Queenstown entered the Mersey The Lusitania 20 and ar until she ved a wireless message from the Baltic, of the White Star Line, that two submarines had been sighied from that vessel The captain of the Lusitani in reply to a question of one of the declared that he had a right to fly the flag of a neutral country for the tection of neutral passengers mails which his ship was carrying According to a statement by Irwin, an American writer. the tania carried the regulation American fiag at her small American flag a at the forepeak. Former United States fayette Young, another while he did not personally see the flag flying, said it was accepted as by all on board. No Law Against It. Washington Officials indicated that an inquiry into the Lusitania inei dent might be made. The rules on in. ternational law are clear nation has the right to determine itself the conditions under which flag may be bestowed on a vessel Some authorities hold that the reced passengers, pro anda stern, with a Senator La- passenger, # fact as as a violation of international law, as a device both fraudulent and injurious to the honor of both the state whose flag is wrongfully used and that in the punishment of the guilty persons.” In the war with Chile in 1879. Peru inquired of the United States under what conditions the United States flag might be used. “there is no prohibition of the use of for.” No Formal Protest Yet. Washington.—Until full explanations are forthcoming from Germany as to the meaning of the Kalser's ocean war rone proclamation, Administration offi- cials have decided te withhold any formal protests. An official copy of the decree was re celved at the State Department from United States Ambassador Gerard. The Ambassador reported that the Ger. man Foreign Office had furnished him with a lengthy memorandum explana. tory of the proclamation. This Gov. ernment will not attempt an interpre tation until this memorandum is re ceived. Proposes Joint Action. That the German proclamation is cause for concern not alone for the a MILLINERY TO COST MORE. Handwork Responsible Latest Novelty Like Man's Opera Hat, Chicago.-~Hats for women gre to be more expensive this year, if styles displayed at the convention of the Na tional Asociation of Milliners here are followed. Handwork will be re. sponeible for the increase in price, it was sald. Handmade grapes and flow. ers will be the chief decorations of the late summer creations, Sailor hats are to be popular, but the newest United States was indicated wher Chevalier van Rappard, the Date Minister, called on Acting Secretary Lansing and proposed concert of action by all neutral nations, under the lea dership of the United States, NEW STRUGGLE IN EAST PRUSSIA New Army Appears To the Southeast Of Pclish Capital. A menace around War: io the aw has what Pelrograd new Russian forces veloped in the pears to be a separate Austro-German army about 90 miles south of Lemberg on the Wyzkow-Nadworna line. The purpose of this new army pears to be an effort to plerce the Rus- sian line east of Lemberg and menace the forees about Warsaw in the rear Send Reinforcements. The appearance of this force adds to the seriousness of the situation in the Carpathians. The new is to the east of the region where the recent fighting this front curred, and where the are in tremendous foree which forms the arc of vicinity Mezo Laboresz, southwest of Przemysl. The Russians awake to the danger, and recently hed toward this front On practically all the Carpathi front the Russians have checking their antagon! Austro-Germans still The Cermans, with their mobility, suddenly appear at variou points and then as suddenly disappear According to a Russian staff the ans are used “like together detached de discovery of ap army most on hae oc Austro-Germans on a line a cirele In the 5 miles of 20 are new severa rus COrps ¥ 3 Cen eg but undefeated #1 the are usual off cer 3 ¥ Urerm cement hold corps of The stubborn character of the bat tiles developing in the north of East Prussia is attracting the atten tion of the Rassian Staff, sees there indications that the withdrawn troops extreme General fron Bzara region and massed them ir vicinity of In iterburg, between SOLD HIS APPLES TO LONDON For Some Get $9.07 a Barrel, Va.--John yer f the Virgil Rappahannock ived his of m ldver Mr the iray. 0 from recs returns onogram pippin apple England Miller received. show barrel netted him F pool, for $9.0 a apples. Other cargoes $5.50, $5.05 and $4 nandling and barrel was charged against the reight, x oe i.e 50 a barrel commission of a apples AN $8,000,000 CONTRACT. THE CENTRE REPORTER. CENTRE HALL, PA. PASSED BY HOUSE Votes for Two Dreadnoughts Over Strenuous Protest. AN ANIMAL, | GUESS ad PERSONAL PLAN WINS OUT Led Curtailment Advocates, Using the Prospect Of a Big Deficit As Argument, Washington, D. C.—Over a strenu- ous protest from Majority leader Un. derwood the House in passing the Naval Appropriation bill retained pro vision for the construction of two | dreadnaughts, Representative Underwood declared the nation was facing a probable (Copyright ) Treasury deficit next year of $35,000, 800, and economy advocates led by him succeeded in striking out appropria- tions aggregating more than $6,000,000 for five submarines, a transport and a | hospital ship | The bill as it goes to the Senate car ries $144,648,902, and authorizes the following construction program: Two battleships of the largest and most powerful design, $7.800.000 ea exclusive of armor and armament. Six torpedo-boat destroyers, $925, 000 each One seagoing boat, $1,400,000, — Eleven submarines, $550,000 each One oil fuel ship, $1,140,000. ! WARNING GIVEN NEUTRALS The proposed hospital ships would | have cost $2,500,000 and the transport | $1,100,000. | Approach To French Coast From Sea Pacific Coast To Get Share. Is Now Dangerous—Concern For ENGIEGLING SEA WADE WER ZONE Enemy Ships Found in it After Feb. 18 to Be Sunk. ch, vs ” tn 1 3 submarine torpedo | Crews and Passengers Not To Halt the Work of Destruction. An thorizing the Five of t} The ' P68 was adopted au struction of t of | 8 on the Pacific coast | to be bulit that any of be yards, amendment the con hree six destrover 1 sub bill p auth Nannes are there rovides ve orized may con nent but | of the Naval Com that the New York to which & battle ready was work in govern: an Pa adigets, the peri ight be its capac All new legislation, including visions for sation of A wn: serve, for an aide for operations in the one Hip m given, al ity pro the cre aval re Neutrals Warned Of Envelopes. Washir awarded igton Poet Burleson an tract to the masts; eight milliondollar Middle West Supply of Columbus, which wi nine billion stamped envelopes con Com pany Ohio, furnish to the years, The Mercantile Corporation with a plant at Dayton, Ohio, pres ent contractor, was the unsuccessful bidder at nearly $2,000,000 more than the Columbus company’s bid the WOMEN AS BRIBETAKERS. For a Dellar, Ky.-~It women have was learned herr been indicted last tried Pikesville, that three having committed fraud at the primary It was alleged in indictments that the women cold dollar each the ORDERS 25 LOCOMOTIVES. Central's Purchase Means Work For More Than 3,000 Men. Chicago.-—Contracts for the pur motives from a Lima, Ohio, corpora The total value of the order ia more than $1,000,008, and will make. work for from 3.000 to 4.000 men. CHILD DESERTERS TO PRISON. Haefiner and Wife Sentenced In New York. New York.--Just to make the past. time of abandoning children as un popular us possible in New York, Judge Rosalsky sentenced George Haeflner and his wife Jeanette, to terms of from two and a half to five years each. The father will serve his time in Sing Sing and the mother will be sent to Auburn, via novelty, which it Is expected will be worn much, is a high hat, fashioned like a man's opera hat. POSTAL BILL CLIPPED. Senate Committee Reduces Appropria. tion By $2,000,000, Washington. Appropriations in the Postal Bill as passed by the House were cut $2,000,000 by the Senate com: tal revenues cince the outhreak of the War, “Also neutral ships in the war gone admiral, were stricken from ; are in danger, quences bill several days ago. An effort will be made to have them restored in | Senate and vice nisuse of neutral flags ord the British Governme the ele and in view of hazards I { warfare, it always be avoid that attacks meant for enemy ships o | danger neutral ships i “Shipping northward, Give This | Shetland Islands, in the eastern basin | of the Sea, and in a strip of at ‘a least 30 nautical miles in breadth alonz arst | the Dutch endangered in the same part of this week's session, give the number of effective men in the army exclusive of those serving in Indis, cannot 3,000,000 BRITISH. arourd the Total, Exclusive Of India. North London The army estimates, const is will devote the way Alleged British Order. at blished in Ger a British Ad- ships, in negtr There has been pu | many recently what | secret order issued by to British mers hant structing them to make : Sage, and German papers, the Kreuz Zeitung, the Vossische tung and the Tageblatt, ferring to this alieged order acteristic comment found Kreus Zeitung, which says “What is this command but an ad { mission by the English that { unable longer to protect our flag? ! Furthermore, purports to be & novel! change estimates, as no expenditures are under each of the 15 at the nominal figure There is this i} form of totals of estimated given. The vote headings of £1000 This gives year the the in the miralty use of includin 744 TY is set all are A char in the the House of Commons : iw the is heading. while spend whatever these various headings the war government may | necessary under | fo prosecuts THREE KILLED WITH HAMMER. sequences inevitably will be that neutral flags can no longer protect i neutral shipping for the reason that it will be impossible for German naval | officers to tell whether it is borne rightfully or not. Consequently Ger. man submarines will have to direct | their torpedoes also at neutral ships i if neutral powers do not see to it that i this misuse of their flags, | the British Admiralty. does not place.” Two Women and Girl Found With | Heads Crushed. Buffalo, N. Y.—The bodies of Mrs Lizzie Drake, 65 years old: Mrs. Irene 8pencer, 35 years old, and her daugh- | ter, Gertrude Spencer, 12 years, were found in their beds at their home at Salamanca. Their heads had been crushed in with a sledge hammer. Apparently the victims had been lain as they slept. Physiclans who examined the bodies said that the murder had been committed three or four days ago. The police have sent out an alarm for a former boarder at the Drake house. Mrs, Drake was Mrs Spencer's mother. take RAILROAD ORDERS HEAVY, Big Equipment Contracts Are Being Awarded-1. C. Buys Cars. New York.-<The railroad equipment buying eampaign is in full swing The Illinois Central has ordered 1.000 refrigerator card from the Ameri can Car and Foundry Company. In 8 week the Moss Tie Company's | plant at Mount Vernon, Ni, will be operating with a full force. A recent contract with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul for 350,000 chemically treated tier will keep the works at | capacity for six monthe, The Erie's rail requisitions have been increased to 28,000 tons and the “800” is in the market for 15,000 tone of ralis. If satisfactorily low bide are fortheoming, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincey will spend $1,000,000 for Sqdipment, Juciuding engines and cars NEAR FAMINE IN AUSTRIA. A Two.Pound Loat of Bread Now Costs Sixteen Cents. Venice (via lLondon).—An official decree issued in Trieste raises the price of a twopound loaf of bread from 14 ceats to 16 cents. The grain markets in Austria are said to be in a desperate condition. The war bread that is being sold is composed largely of substitutes for flour. The people in Vienna 2re said (0 be complaining of the constantly increasing price of meat. Hogs are reported to be almost unobtainable. A A AN SARE AOA CHARMED AWAY TEN WIVES, Head Of “New Religion” Accused Of Abduction By Husbands. Kinston, N. C.--The “Rev.” Thomas R. Miller, head of a new negro re ligion, was arraigned in the Municipal Court here accused of abducting the wives of 10 other men. The case was continued to permit the summoning of witnesses, Before the trial Miller, wearing a robe of many colors, headed #& procession of the women who have accepted his dootrines, RUSSIAN GIRL ™ 19 BATTLES. Wounded and Decorated With the Cross Of St. George. Moscow Among the wounded whe have arrived in Moscow from the front is Olga Krasilnikoff, a girl of 19 years. After taking part in 19 battles in Poland she was wounded in the foot. The girl enlisted under a man's name and this deception has just been dis covered. The Cross of St George, fourth degree, has been awarded to her GENERAL VILLA AES PRESEN Action Necessary By Extent of | Territory Under His Control. HOUSE STANDS UP FOR VETO Fails to Pass Literacy Test Over President Wilson. BILL FIVE VOTES SHORT Vote Taken On Ann To Pass Test Over Head Of President YTaft— Whole Day Of Debate. versary Of Failure Wastl son's veto of the Bill sent to th will stand 261 to 136, the ngton, D £ Burne over two-thirds voles would undertaken President” attempt to pet § ¢ 19 were pr In Jalisco in Three.Day Battle, Several Hundred Being Killed, Texas £397 if ¥ iLL, Villa Gives Excuse. ed by Vill "foreign Re el Diaz Lox ommunications enas France bardo rza Card Fomento among th f The cting Yillp Vi hi i russ Calientes temporarily men are thin repu as advisers to ia will maintain Carranza Army Defeated. dvi aed of of Vil the 5 lista agents here wer a Carranzista cuius in defeat of 00 men in the St of Jalisco. by er the command of General hundred : battle und Augustin Estrandsa wore ki d wounded in th which lasted three messages dealing with Benavides south t on prison troops 38 Seve ™ led an days Official defeat San Luis Potosi states tha three trains, several cannon other captured of General of ere, munitions were TURKS PUT YO FLIGHT. Suez Canal At Toussoum. via London-—The following communication wus Cairo, official here “During Tuesday night the enemy at- Toussoum (35 miles porth of Suez). | They were permitted to bring bridging material to the | molested, but directly they started bridging operatiops our troops attacked jand the enemy fled in disorder, leav- {ing all the material in our hands. Sev : eral of the enemy were drowned. i “The enemy also attacked on the El Kantara front (40 miles south of Port | Said) at daylight today. They were earily repulsed, losing 16 killed or '' wounded and 40 prisoners. Our casual ‘ties were three men wounded.” ritish forces had a skirmish with | Turks yesterday in the neighborhood of Ismailia, on Lake Timsah, on the 8 Bye z Canal. The Turks finally retreat. . The British had six men wounded. SO MAKES THREE STATES OF TEXAS, Joint Resolution Introduced In the Senate. Austin, Texas ~<A Joint resolution od an amendment to the State Con. stitution dividing Texas into three States was Introduced by Senator W. L. Hall, of Wharton county. The States would be North Texas, capital, Palestine; West Texas, capital, Abi lene, and South Texas, capital, Austin. POSTAGE To GERMANY up, Burleson Increases Rates On Mails During War, Washington, I. C.— Postmaster Gen. eral Burleson suspended the two-cent postage rates on mails from the United States to Germany and announced that until direct transportation service was restored letters from this country to German destinations would be charged at a rate of five cents for the first ounce and three for each additional aunee BANDIT SNEEZED; CAPTURED Locates Gothard, Jailbreaker By the Passe Noise. Va WAS BOSD Cal barr the tran The created and be He is farmhouse the Greenbot iPpRDY thet: DOsse men pling such that WAR promptly charged with f Mrs. EC tom district over ard sneezed dragged entering a Cust Goth forth the Oswald, in and fc hiding reing the oc to reveal the place of noney WEEK'S EXPORTS $63,666,133. {Imports Also Reached High Mark At January's Close. { Washington, D. C.—All weekly rec ords in the value of American exports egince the European war began were ‘smashed during the fourth week i» | January, according the weekly foreign trade bulletin issued by the { Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com { merce. The value of shipments abroad [through the 13 leading customs die {tricts aggregated $63.68%.1380 for the week ended January which is =a gain of $10,000,000 over the previoos week and a $2.000.000 gain over the ext highest week, January 9. to ah [eves oN BRITISH TRANSPORTS Navy Promises Against Them. German Action Berlin, via London. -—An official re iport issued by the German Navy De partment calls attention to the ex tensive transportation of British troops to France, and adds: “We ¢ball use every method of war st our disposal against them.” 1.279 GERMAN JURISTS KILLED. Six Professors and 275 Judges Have Fallen In War, Berne, Switzerland. According to official statements given out in Berlin, 1.279 German jurists have been killed in the present war. This total is made up of € professors, 275 judges, 240 law yers, 334 assessors and 424 barristers BOY oF NINE KILLS MOTHER, Shotgun Being Taken By Lad Te Father Suddenly Goes Off. Colfax, Wash Mrs. 0. R. Meye, of years old, war killed accidentally by her S.yearold son at their ranch home near Hay, in Western Whitman county. Meye was hauling straw and bad gent his son to the house for his shotgun The lad while leaving the house dis charged the gun, the shot striking hie mother in the breast and shoulder She lived tose than an hour !
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