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No Reply to Germany.
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ashington.—Aggressive “steps to
put the navy of the United States in
readiness to fight submarines under |.
any conditions taken,” as an answer
to the German defiance conveyed
through the destruction of the Amer-
jcan ships Vigilancia, City of Memphis
and Illinois, and the loss of Americans
among the 16 seamen of the Vigilancia
who went down with their ship.
Under the personal direction of
President Wilson, Secretary of the
Navy Daniels instituted drastic meas-
urg¢s to put the navy in shape to meet
war conditions, which Washington is
convinced are.imminent;
There was a growing feeling in
Washington that a “state of war” al-
ready existed” between the United
States and Germany. State depart-
ment officials declined to comment on
this phase of the situation, declaring
that “the matter is too serious for dis-
cussion.” It was stated that any com-
ment will have to come from the Presi-
dent himself. It was known, however,
that some of the President’s advisers.
favor an official declaration that Ger-
many’s acts in the submarine zone
have amounted to a “state of war.”
Others in the President’s cabinet be-
lieve that Congress should be called
together at once, rather than'on April
16, and that immediate and vigorous
steps to combat the submarine menace
should be taken. Meanwhile the
President’ withheld all comment and
dealt with the increased gravity of the
sitnation only by augmenting the mil-
itary and naval preparations for a pos-
sible state of war. ve
Use Emergency Fund.
An emergency appropriation of
$115,000,000 made by Congress to en-
able the President to hasten naval con-
struction in the event of a crisis was
made available by the President for
jmmediate use. This is part of an au-
thorized bond issue of $150,000,000, a
part of which is to be used for increas-
ed submarine construction,
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40 CITIES CAPTURED;
GERMANS IN RETREAT
Teutons Fall Back Over Long
Frontage, Leaving Devas-
tated Territory
London. —British and French forces
fn France are still pressing behind
the retreating Germans all along the
front from the region of Arras to the
northeast of Soissons.
Forty more villages have been taken
by the British, who gained ground at
various points, extending from two to
eight miles in depth, while 20 addi-
tional villages and small towns, in ad-
dition to 100 occupied during the last
three days, have been recaptured by
the French. :
So rapid has been the advance of
the French that they have penetrated
beyond the village of Ham, 12 miles
southwest of St. Quentin, and beyond
Chaulnes, which lies some 15 miles
north of the line from which the of-
fensive was started.
Leave Country a Wilderness.
The Germans in their retreat are
devastating the country, burning vil-
liages and destroying orchards, and
even blowing up farm lands, in which
great craters have been left by explo-
sions. In addition, Qridges have been
destroyed and roads of communica-
tion cut.
The inhabitants of the places evacu-
ated are said to have been left des-
titute.
No Americans Injured.
Washington—The first official news
from Petrograd since the overthrow
of the autocracy and the elimination
of the Romanoffs from participation
in the government of Russia, was re.
ceived at the state department from
Ambassador David R. Francis. The
first dispatch announced that in all
the fighting and disorder incident to
the intimation of the revolutionary
movement, not a single American cit-
jzen was killed or injured.
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French Cabinet Resigns.
Paris.—The French cabinet, headed
by Premier Briand, has resigned. The
Briand ministry had been attacked in
the French parliament repeatedly dur-
ing the last few weeks on account of
its economic policy.
—
Counsel Gives Support.
New York.—Directors of the Na.
tional Safety Council, representing 2,
800 firms and corporations throughout
the country, pledged their support to
the President, in the present interna
tional crisis.
ADAMSON ACT LEGAL |
Three Justices Dissent — Opin-
“jon Shows One Radical
Ruling on Strikes
Washington.—Upholding the right of
) Congress: to-legislate.along ‘any ine
desigped. to. meet, a public emergency
the supreme court, by a vote of 6 {0 3
upheld the Adamson eight-hour ila
for railway employes. i
In its decision, however, the court
made the most radical advance 1 its |
history when it .ruled- that ithe right
of employes of public service orgpuy
zations have not the right to strike
in concert. 3
Comparable to Soldiers.
“That right”, declared” Chief Jus-
tice «White: in .enunciating what yet
may be ¢hdracterizéd as revolutionary
law and lead directly to public own-
ership of public utilities, “is “neces-
sarily surrendered when the men are
engaged in public service. They are
comparable to soldiers in the ranks,
who, in the. presence of enemies of
their country, may not desert.”
The decision was not necessary, in-
asmuch as the railway strike situation
had been adjusted.
Justices Pitney, Day and Vandeven-
ter dissented from the majority and
held that the law was a wage increase
law and no proper regulation of com-
merce under the constitution.
Justice McKenna, concurring with
the majority, held that it involved sim-
ply the fixing of hours of labor.
The decision’ was in the case of the
Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad,
which was agreed upon by both sides
as'the test case. { Sa
PREPARES FOR WA
China Makes Requests of Powers in
Order to Begin Hostilities.
Peking.—After announcing the sev-
srance of diplomatic relations between
China and Germany, foreign minister
Wu Ting-Eang called a meeting of the
ministers of the entente nations and
later a meeting of the ministers of neu-
tral countries. He presented a memo-
randum at both meetings requesting
suspensions of payments of indemnity
for the Boxer uprising, consent to an
increase of import duties, and modi-
fication of China’s undertakings that
will permit her to station troops at
Tien-Tsin, along the Tien-Tsin-Feking
railway and in the legation quarter as
a protection against Germaus.
cis
May Bar Tobacco.
London.—A proposal to prohibit im-
portation of tobacco is being consider-
ed by the committee on restriction of
imports, the house of commons was in-
formed by. the parliamentary secre:
tary of the board of trade.
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Bay State Prepares.
Boston —An® emergency appropria-
tnon of $1,000,000 for the defense of
the commonwealth in the event of war
was passed by the Legislature.
LATEST MARKETS
Pittsburgh
Cattle — Good to choice, $11.60@
12.00; medium to good, $10.40@11.00;
tidy, $10.40@11.00; common to good
fat bulls, $6.25@9.50; common to-
good fat cows, $5.00@8.75; fresh
cows and springers, $25.00@85.00;
veals, $9.50@13.50. :
Hogs — Prime heavy, $15.70@15.75;
medium, $15.70@15.75;; heavy York-
ers, $15.70@15.75; light Yorkers,
$14.50 @14.75; pigs, $13.00@13.75;
roughs, $13.50@14.50; stags, $11.00@
12.25. .
Sheep — Prime wethers, $12.00@
12.50; good mixed, $11.00@11.75; fair
mixed, $9.50@10.50; culls and com-
mon, $5.50@7.50.
‘Wheat—May, $1.84.
Corn—May, $1.09. .
Oats—May, b673%c.
Butter—Prints, 43@44c; tubs, 42@
43c.
Eggs—Fresh, 30@32c.
Chicago.
Cattle — Native beef,
stockers and feeders,
cows, $5.75@10.85.
Hogs — Bulk, $14.656@15.05; light,
$14.20@14.90; mixed, $14.50@15.05;
heavy, $14.45@15.05; roughs, $14.45@
$9.15@12.65;
$6.70@9.80;
14.60. Pigs, $10.50@13.25.
Sheep — Wethers, $11.10@12.65;
ewes, $8.90@12.25; mixed, $9.20@
10.10; lambs, $12.50@15.10.
Buffalo.
Cattle — Shipping steers, $9.00@
12.75; butcher grades, $8.00@11.50;
cows, $5.00@10.00. Calves—Culls to
choice, $5.00@15.50.
Hogs—Yorkers, $15.50@15.75; pigs,
$13.75@14.25; roughs, $14.00@14.35;
stags, $11.50@12.50.
Sheep — Yearlings, $11.00@14.25;
wethers, $12.00@12.50; ewes, $6.00@
11.75.
Farm Loan Rate Fixed.
Washington—The farm loan board
announced that the interest rate on all
loans made to farmers throughout the
country by Federal land banks would
be 5 per cent. A rate of 415 per cent
on bonds to be issued by the land
banks also was announced.
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Mr. Romanoff Goes Home.
Peatrograd.—Nicholas Romanoff, as
ithe former emperor now is designated,
loft with his staff for his personal es-
leases on the south coast of the Crimes.
SUPREME COURT HOLDS |i
GRAND DUKE MICHAE
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CZAR AND SON ABDICATE
pPro-German Party Removed by Rus-
san Uprising Following Food Riots
Petrograd, Russia.—The Emperor of
Russia has abdicated. Grand Duke
Michael Alexandrovitch, his younger
brother, was named as Regent,
after a revolution headed by the
Duma, was successful in three days’
street fighting in Petrograd. Graad
Duke Michael also abdicated after a
day's reign. a
The Russian Ministry, charged with
corruption and incompetence, has.
been swept out of office. One Min-
ister, Alexander Protopopoff, head of
the Interior Department, has been
killed, and the other Ministers, as
well as the President of the Imperial
Council, are under arrest.
A new national Cabinet 1s announc-
ed, with Prince Lvoff as President of
the Council and Premier, and the
other offices” held by men who are
close to the Russian people. ;
For several days Petrograd had
been the scene of ome of the most
remarkable risings in history. . Be-
ginning with minor food riots and
{ labor strikes, the cry for food reached
the hearts of the soldiers and one
by one regiments rebelled, until fin- |
ally those troops which had for a
time stood loyal to the Government
gathered up their arms and marched
into ‘the ranks of the revolutionists.
Duma Opposes Czar.
The President of the Duma, Michael
V. Rodzianko, was the leading figure
among the Deputies, who unanimous-
ly decided to oppose the imperial
order for a dissolution of the House.
They continued their sessions, ané
M. Rodzianko informed the Emperor,
then at the front, that the hour had
struck when the will of the people
must prevail. :
Even the Imperial Council realized
the gravity of the situation and add-
od its appeal to that of the Duma that
the Emperor should take steps to give |
the people a policy and Government
in accordance with their desires and
in order that there should be no inter-
ference wtih carrying the war to a
victorious “ending. :
The Emperor hastened back from
the front only to find that the revolu-
tion had been successful and that a
new Government was in control. Al-
though considerable fighting took
place the casualties were not large.
Looked Like Stage Revolt.
The. early period of the uprising
bore the character rather of a mock
revolution staged for an immense au-
dience. Cossacks charging down the
street did so in a half hearted fashion,
plainly without malice or intent to
harm the crowds which they playfully
dispersed. The troops exchanged
good natured raillery with the work-
ing men and women, and as they rode
were cheered by the populace.
Long lines of soldiers stationed in
dramatic attitudes across Nevsky
Prospect, with their guns pointed at
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FOOD PRICES UP 19 P. C.
Government Statistics Show Ad-
vances for the Past Year.
Washington—Retail food prices in
the United States advanced 19 per
cent. in the year ended with January
15, as shown in statistics prepared by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The
increase was greater than for the
three years previous combined. The
four years gain was 30 per cent. Every
food staple except coffee and tea ad-
vanced. Onions and potatoes led with
increases of more than 50 per cent.
RUSSIA'S HOPES RISE
Brussiloff Predicts Victory
Against All Germans.
London.—The complete success of
the recent mission headed by Lord
Milner, which went to Russia to ar-
range complete co-operation between
Russia and the Allies in military en-
terprises this year, is indicated by thw
freedom with which optimistic Russian
news is given out. Gen. Brussiloff says
Russia is strong enough to win victory,
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U-BOATS SINK
THREE U. 8. SHIPS
German Undersea Craft Destroy
City of Memphis, Vigilancia
: And Mlinois
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ATTACKED WITHOUT WARNING
Créws Forced to Take Small Boats—
Torpedoed Without the Submarine
Being Sighted—Many Rescued
by a British Patrol.
London.—Three American steams
ships, the City of Memphis, the Illi-
nois and the Vigilancia, have been
sunk by German U-boats. All but four-
teen men from the Vigilancia and
eight of the men from the City of
Memphis were landed in a brief time.
The crew of the Illinois was landed
safely. The gross tonnage of the
vessels sunk was 14,587.
The Vigilancia was torpedoed with-
out warning. The captain, first and
second mates, first, second and third
engineers and twenty-three men of the
crew landed at the Scilly Islands.
The City of Memphis when she left
port had the Stars and Stripes painted
on- both sides. She encountered a
submarine about b o'clock in the eve-
ning. The German commander order
ed the captain of the steamship to
leave his ship within fifteen minutes.
The entire crew entered five boats
and the submarine then fired a torpedo
which struck the vessel on the star-
board side, tearing a great hole
through which the sea poured. The
steamship settled quickly and foun-
dered within a few minutes.
During the night the boats became
separated, and at 4 o’clock in the
morning three boat crews were picked
up by a patrol vessel and landed.
These boats contained thirty-three
men, mostly Americans. All of the
officers were Americans. The men
in one of the other boats were landed
at Schull. They numbered fifteen, in-
| cluding seven Americans. .
The Illinois is reported. merely as
having been “sunk.” The ®rew of
the Illinois was saved.
The City of Memphis and the Ilki<
néls were bound respectively from
Cardiff and London for the United
States in ballast. The Vigilancia was
bound for Havre. :
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a GERMAN RETREAT UNBROKEN
Miles of French
to a depth at many places of ten miles
or twelve miles.\« - -
The more important towns occupied
by the Alles were Peronne, on. the
Somme, and Chaulnes, taken by the
British; Noyon, on the Oise, taken by
the French, and Nesle, on the upper
Somme, which troops of both armies
entered, it being now their junction
point. The British alone have taken
more than sixty villages. The area of
the German retirement stretches from
Arras to Soissons, from the Scarpe to
the Aisne. ;
It is now certain that the Germans
are evacuating the whole Noyon. sal-
tent and drawing back to the “Hinden-
burg line,” twenty-five miles to the
rear of the front they have held for
two years. On this «Hindenburg line,”
fortified with tremendous strength, it
is believed they propose to make a
stand. :
The German withdrawal has again
brought cavalry into the warfare on
the western front. With wonderment
London hears that British and French
mounted troops are actually in open
country, riding &fter the retreating
German rear guard, in such fighting as
has not ben known for two years.
The total area so far regained ap-
pears. to total close to a thousand
squarg miles of French territory.
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WORLD'S NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM
WASHINGTON.—Dr. Cary T. Gray-
son, the President’s physician, is now
a rear-admiral. The hard fought nomi-
nation was confirmed by the Senate
in executive session.
AMSTERDAM.—Deportations from
Belgium have been discontinued on
direct orders of the Kaiser. He order-
ed an investigation ef the method em-
ployed in the deportations.
GLASGOW.—Two thousand women
marched to the municipal building in
a demonstration against the city’s ac
tion in withholding potatoes. The city
corporation, then meeting, declined to
receive a deputation of the marchers.
EL PASO, Tex.—Sergeant Alexane
der Frutcher, of the Seventeenth
United States cavalry regiment, of
German birth, has been arrested as
a spy in connection with German ace
tivities on the Mexican border.
LONDON.—The failure of Germany's
renewed submarine war was shown
by a review, which indicated that only
seventy-eight out of England’s 3,731
ships had been sunk since Feb. 1.
EREEPORT, Hl—Judge K. M. Lan-
dis sentenced a convicted violater of
the Mann act to sit five minutes in a
chair, commuting the sentence after
even if every German soldier were
hurled against her.
thirty seconds.
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AAAS ASIII
$100,000,000 NAVAL CO NTRACTS
Ten Big Vessels Let Under Orders
to Rush Construction.
Washington.—The greatest single
award of ship construction contracts
ever made by the United States was
arranged as American merchant ves-
sels were prepared to defy the Ger-
man submarine war zone.
Secretary Daniels awarded contracts
for the building of more than $100,-
000,000 of great warships, to be rushed
to completion as fast as American
workmanship can hurry them through.
Four big battle cruisers and ¢8ix scout
cruisers will be added to the Ameri-
can grand fleet under the contracts.
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CUNARDER FOLIA TORPEDOED
Belgian Relief Steamer Lars Fastenaes
Is Lost.
Washington—Seven lives were lost
when the Cunard freighter Folia was
sunk by a submariae without warning
in the German war gone, Consul Frost,
at Queenstown, reported. The re
mainder of the crew of 78, including
the only American aboard, W. J. Core,
of Nashville, Tenn. ship’s surgeon,
were saved, the Consuls report adds.
. The Norwegian steamship Lars
Fastenaes bound from America for
Rotterdam with grain for the Ameri-
can Relief Commission, has been sunk
without warning outside the blockade
gone, according to the Norwegian
Mercantile Shipping Gazette.
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LABOR’S WAR PROGRAMME
Wants to Be Consulted Concerning
Conduct and Operation.
Washington.—Organized labor rep-
resenting approximately 3,000,000
workers in the United States an-
nounced to the country its war plat-
form, embodying the conditions under
which labor would co-operate “to de-
fend, safeguard and preserve the Re-
public of the United States of America
against its enemies, whomsoever they
may be.”
in the most remarkable document
of its kind ever issued in this country
147 representatives of national and
international trades unions in confer-
ence announced in advance:
Second, that organized labor should
be consulted as te the conduct and
methods of operation involved in war.
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TO BARE KAISER'S PLOTS
Will Publish Unparalleled Record of
Insidious Conspiracies.
Washington—The State Department
is preparing for publication a record
of the crimes which the German Gov-
ernment has committed against the
government and people of the United
States.
The decision to lift the veil which
has hidden from the public eye many
of Germany's most insidious ¢onspir-
acies recently was reached at a meet-
ing between President Wilson and
Secretary Lansing.
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U-BOATS HAVE SUNK 7 U. S. SHIPS
Since War Began 20 American Ves-
sels Were Attacked.
Washington.—Since the war began
20 American vesels have been attack-
ed by German and Austrian subma-
rines and other raiders of the Teu-
tonic nations,’ data compiled by the
State Department show. Of the 20
seven were sunk by submarines and
one, the William P. Frye, by the Ger-
man raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich. One
American ship, the Cushing, was at-
tacked by a German airship.
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SEES ALL-SUMMER SESSION
“Good to Have Congress Around in
Case of War.”
Washington.—Speaker Champ Clark
expressed the opinion that if the extra
gession of Congress cannot be con-
cluded in six weeks, it will extend
through the summer. If the field of
general legislation is entered, there
will be no hope of cutting the
session short. “It would oot be a
bad thing anyway to have Congress
around, in case of war,” acded the
Speaker.
STRIKE IS OFF;
ROADS GIVE IN
President's Committee Made
New Appeal Based on Crisis
Due to Sinking of Ships
EIGHT-HOUR DAY THE BASIS
Secretary Lane, One of President Wil-
son's Mediators, Makes the An-
nouncement After Series of
Conferences With Managers.
New York.—The order for a nation.
wide strike was rescinded when the
railroads of the country granted the
most important «lemands of the four
brotherhoods of railway employes.
Patriotism caused the railroads to
‘| give in, according to a letter the Na-
tional Conference Committee of Rail-
road Managers sent to the mediators,
composing a special committee of the
Council of National Defence.
Frank K. Lane, Secretary of the
Interior, announced, as soon as the
railroads had yielded, that the set-
tlement had been reached by granting
to the brotherhoods a basic eight hour
day.
The letter to the mediators author-
ized them to make “whatever adjust-
ment your committee deems neces-
sary to guarantee the uninterrupted
and efficient operation of the railways
as an indispensable arm of the na-
tional defence.”
Secretary Lane and the other mem-
bers of the committée shook hands
with the managers, who left fifteen
minutes after the letter had been
given out. Immediately Secretary
Lane sent for the four brotherhood
leaders, who, after half an hour’s con-
ference, agreed to accept the railroad
peace offer, and began at once send-
ing word to Chicago, St. Louis, Pitts-
burgh; and Baltimore, and local Chair-
men that a satisfactory settlement had
been reached.
The decision reached by the man-
agers means that the brotherhoods
have won an important victory, al-
though it does not bring them all their
original demands. By the agreement,
it is assumed, they will receive pro
rata time for overtime on the basic
eight hour day which has been as-
cfibed to them. Their original de-
mands call for time and a half for
overtime on the same basic day.
The men will get their present pay
for ten hours for. eight hours’ work
under the agreement. Those conces-
sions on the part of the managers are
virtually what the employes contended
they would gain under the Adamson
law if it were declared constitutional.
It marks the end of the fight for
the eight-hour day, which resulted
twice in the United States being plac-
ed within two hours of a nation-wide
tieup of transportation.
The railroads estimate that the set-
tlement will cost them $50,000,000 a
year. It is also agreed that the eight-
hour day goes into effect as of Jan.
a, and the 400,000 brotherhood mem-
bers will thereby get $13,000,000, which
stands to their credit as what they
would have received had the law been
in operation since Jan. 1.
AMERICAN SHIP SUNK UNARMED
Algonquin Hit Four Times by German
U-Boat Shells.
Plymouth, England.—With the Am-
erican flag flying above her, the
American steamer Algonquin, bound
from New York to London with a
cargo of foodstuffs, was fired upon
without warning by a German subma-
rine sixty-five miles off the Cornish
coast, and after the crew had aban-
doned the ship the ship was sunk by
bombs. T
Capt. A. Nordberg of the Algon-
quin, with his e%.ire crew, landed
safely at Penzance. Capt. Nordberg
says the submarine continued fir-
ing after she had stopped, three shells
hitting her forward while the crew
was taking to the boats.
PAPAS AAAS SAS INI INI NSNI NSIS INS SAIS
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS
Reports have been circulated that the
dethronement of King Constantine
of Greece is likely to occur soon,
the Allies have been deterred from
the step only by the opposition of
the Czar.
British on the Somme have occupied
almost all of the St. Pierre Vaast
Wood and three thousand yards of
Prussian trenches north and south
of it.
The, German submarine campaign was
denounced as inhuman and the Ger-
man peace offer of last December
characterized as ridiculous in a
stormy speech by Deputy Hoffman.
Brigadier General Maurice said the
Germans were retiring on the Somme
front even faster than had been ex-
pected. !
Three Americans were on board the
British steamship Memnon, sunk
without warning by a German sub-
marine. The Americans were saved,
but six other men of the crew per-
ished. ;
The official statement indicates a vig-
orous Russian offensive on a wider
front in Persia than had been pre-
viously. reported. The capture of
Kermanshah, 80 miles southwest of
Mamadan, was reported unofficially.