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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly JOurnal
VOLUME XVIII
RUSSIANS’ COME-BACK AMAZES EUROPE
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INFORMAL MEETING
ON U-BOATS STATUS
Final Decision of State De
partment to Be Made Known
After Cabinet Meets Tomor
row
I
‘ WASHINGTON, July 13.—Reports of
customs and navy officers on the char
acter of the German submarine Deutsch
land were the subject of a long confer
ence at the state department today be
tween Acting Secretary Tolk and mem
bers of the government’s neutrality
board, called in to give informal advice.
The department’s tinal decision on the
status of the submarine probably will
be announced alter tomorrow's cabinet
meting. «
Captain Hughes, of th'ta navy, and Col
lector Kyan and Surveyor Steele, of the
Baltimore custom house, ail of whom ex
amined the vessel, have reported unani
mously that she is an unarmed freight
carrier.
German officials generally are satisfied
that no legitimate objection can be rais
ed against granting ail the privileges of
a peaceful merchant craft to the
Deutschland. Every precation is being
taken, however, to see that no room is
left for questioning the neutrality of
tne United States, particularly in view
of the representations made by the Brit
ish and French embassies claiming that
the submarine is a potential war ship.
Although the contention of the
British and French emoassies
that the German submarine Deutsch
* land at Baltimore is a potential
warship has had little weight at the
state department in view of the depart
ment's information that the "esse! is
purely a merchant ship, officials today
saw that other bothersome questions
might arise in connection with the un
dersea boat’s visit.
Already, it was said, consideration is
being given to a suggestion that the
government should withhold news of the
boat’s sailing to prevent information
from reaching the allies. The depart
ment is concerned, too. as to the boat s
treatment, if discovered by enemy cruis
ers in the Atlantic. Under a ruling that
’he vessel is a merchant craft the state
department could not countenance its
sinking in violation of International
law.
Von Bernstorff Arrives in
Baltimore to Inspect U-Boat
(By Associated Proas.)
BALTIMORE. July 13,—Count von
Bernstorff the German ambassaor. and
two attaches of the embassy, arrived
here today from New to inspect the Ger
man merchant submarine Deutschland
and personally congratulate its com
mander. Captain Paul Koenig upon com
pleting his voyage from Bremen. The
ambasador went directly to the Ger-1
mania club where he attended a lunch-1
eon given in honor of Captin Koenig. La- ■
ter he. with the representatives of the
North German Lloyd- the German and |
Austrian consuls In Baltimore, went to
the pier where the submarine, having
completed the discharge of her cargy.
The amba -sador accepted an Invlta- !
tlon to attend a dinner to be given to
night by Mayor Preston to Captain >
Koenig
oCvnt von Bernstorff said that ne an- ;
ticipated no diplomatic difficulties over:
the arrival or departure of the K ubma- i
rine. He allowed it to become known ,
that he was preparing a large quantity
of correspondence which will be in- .
strutted to Captain Koenig Just before'
the Deutschland starts on her return |
voyage.
The luncheon at the G« rmanta club
was attended by many prominen: Balti - i
. more Germans. Mayor Preston, and the
German and Austrian consuls.
Unloading of the cargo of
the German super-submarine Deutsch
land was completed early today
and the ship’s rise revealed
that the estimates of her size have been
exaggerated. Instead of being more than
3<W> feet long and 30 feet wide, her
length is not more than 250 feet and her
width is less than 25 feet Her over
all draft, figured submerged, shows that
she needs at least 32 feet for complete
submergence
Through all the feverish activity of
the last hours of the unloading, the tug
Thomas F. Timmons, played the strong
beams of a powerful searchlight all
about, sweeping the waters, the shore
lines and the Deutschland's deck. A
smaller power searchlight, which had
been set up on the motorboat Efco.
reached comers that were beyond the
Timmons’ light
Count’von Bernstorff. the German am
bassador, Is expected to come to Balti
more today to inspect the Deutschland.
Mayor James H. Preston will take
luncheon with the ambassador and Carl
A. Luderitx. the German consul herg,
and afterward will get his first view
of the interior of the submarine. This
evening the mayor will entertain at din
ner at his home. Count von Bernstorff.
Mr. Luderitx. Captain Paul Koenig, of
the Deutschland, and other distinguished
guests.
The crew of the Deutschland decided
to turn over to the Red Cross fund the
JHO.OAO gift for valor from a New
Yorker.
The last case of dyestuffs, composing
the Deutschland’s cargo, was lifted out
• about 9 a. m. The stevedores at once
set about makin r the hold ready for the
return cargo of nickel and crude rub
ber. which has been stored on the pier
for several weeks.
Relative to reports of forming a com
pany in the United States'to construct
merchant submarines, Henry G. Hllken,
of the Eastern Forwarding company, the
local agenev for the Deutschland, ad
mitted that the project is under serious
consideration.
“The line, if the plan succeeds." Mr.
Hilken said, “will consist of American
built ships, manned by American sea
men and flying the American flag."
It will ply between Baltimore and
Bremen.
The promoters of the enterprise, Mr.
Hllken said, consisted, for the present
of himself, hts son, Paul H. L. Hllken.
and Simon Lake, submarine Inventor.
The vessels will have a tonnage of
.6,000 and will b« five times m large as
thd Deutschland, Mr. Hllken added.
SAYS AMERICAN
REFUGEES WERE
STONED IN MEX.
Wiliam Kneeland and His
Family Rode With 400
Others for Two Days in
Train of Box Cars
Riding from Mexico City to Vera Cruz
with 400 other Americans in a train
of box cars that was being etoned at
every station, was the thrilling experi
ence of Mr. and Mrs. William Kneeland
with their three children and a Mexican
nurse, who arrived in Atlanta Thurs
' day morning from Tampa. Fla., en route
to El Paso, Tex.
The family, which has resided in
Mexico City for fifteen years, was not
allowed to carry anything except two
suitcases. Ail their property had to
be left behind in charge of a faithful
Mexican servant.
trip to Vera Cruz is ordinarily
made in twelve hours. But traveling
in a box car it took two days of the
utmost privations and danger before
they final!} reached the port where a
s-hip was waiting to take them to
Tampa. During the trip three Ameri
cans were severely wounded by the
stones which were rained on the box
car by mobs of Mexicans who gathered
whenever the train stopped, and that
was very frequently.
It is the Carranzistas who are mak
ing demonstration against foreigners,
according to -»rs. Kneeland, who be
lieves tnat the upper and the lower
classes of Mexico have no feeling
i against ihe "gringoes." Mrs. Kneeland
says that every one in Mexico wants
intervention except the followers of
Carranza and that the frequent demon
strations against Americans are gener
ally made by mobs.that are paid by the
government.
MUST WEAR FOREIGN FLAG.
Mrs. Knee land says that a foreigner
must wear either a German, British or
French flag when he appears in the
street. If he should wear an American
oi a Spanish flag he is practically sure
of being stoned.
Mr. Kneeland, who was a representa
tive of the American Oil company, was
not at the Union station at the time
of the interview. He was taking a
look at the city. Mrs. Kneeland spoke
English with a slight accent, whisper
ing from time to time to the children
in Spanish. The children, whose names
are Walter, Wilhelmina and Helen, were
in charge of a Mexican nurse who
knew no English.
“We are going to El Paso to be near
Mexico,” said Mrs. Kneeland. “Every
thing we have is there and as soon
as the trouble is over we will go
back.”
The family left Vera Cruz June 28,
arriving in Tampa July 7, where they
remained for three days. They were to
leave Atlanta at 3:45 p. m. en route to
El Paso.
Five People Killed, Many
Injured, by Explosion of
Market Ammonia Tank
(By Associated Press.)
I NEW YORK, July 13—Five persons
were killed, one is missing, and at least
thirty others were injured, many seri
ously today, when an ammonia tank in
a Brooklyn butcher shop exploded, com
pletely wrecking a four-story brick
building.
So terrific was the blast that scarcely
, a brick in the building was left stand
ing an another and the victims were
Tushed under tons of debris. A pass
' ing trolley car escaped the avalanche of
I bricks, but a dozen passengers aboard
were injured.
The known dead are Martin Schmidt,
owner of the butcher shop; two clerks,
the cashier, who was a woman, and a
delivery boy. A girl is believed also
to have perished.
The police fear that others, passers
by. may have been burled under the
falling walls which crashed down upon
the sidewalk and street. Fire Commis
sioner Adamson, directing the work of
rescue, said it was not possible that
any one in the building at the time
of the explosion could have escaped.
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MAY RAISE EMBARGO
ON ALL COMMODITIES
INTENDED FOR MEXICO
Treasury Department -Seeks
Authority From State De
t
partment to Permit Normal
Movement of Commerce
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 13—Authority
from the state department to permit
restoration to normal of movement into
Mexico of all commodities except muni
tions of war was asked today by the
treasury department. Shipment of
clothing and food already are being
passed frrely by the customs and mili
tary authorities, but large quantities of
freight, chiefly lumber and coal have
accumulated along the border.
Virtually a complete embargo against
exports into Mexico, was imposed, -with
out formal proclamation, when the crisis
between the United States and the Car
ranza government reached such a stage
that war seemed unavoidable.
Now that friendly diplomatic negotia
tions are in progress looking to a set
tlement of all issues, many officials
regard it is an unnecessary hardship
both upon Mexicans and upon American
interests in Mexico, to prevent shipments
other than war supplies.
FIVE COLONELS TO RETIRE.
Five regular army colonels with reg
iments on the border or in Mexico have
been ordered, upon recommendation of
. medical examiners, before retirement
boards on account of physical disabil
ity. The officers age Colonel George
H. Sands, attached to the Eleventh cav
alry; Colonel James Lockett, command
ing the Eleventh cavalry; Colonel Jacob
G. Galbraith, attached to the Third cav-.
airy; Colonel William C. Brown, com
manding the Tenth cavalry, and Colonel
Charles W. Penrose, commanding the
Twenty-fourth Infantry.
Rigors of camp life in the southern
climate and the strenuous work of chas
ing bandits are said to be responsible
for the condition of the colonels.
General Pershing reported today that
it was generally believed both by Mex
icans and foreigners along the line of
communication that a crisis had been
averted and that this wad brought about
a new friendly relationship between the
Americans and Mexicans.
MEXICANS NOW FRIENDLY.
“Mexicans in this vicinity and along
the railroad,” the dispatch said, “ar’e
reported very friendly toward Ameri
cans in the last few days. It is gen
erally believed that trouble between the
United States and Mexico has been set
tled. The rainy season is on in earnest,
heavy rains being reported from the
various stations along the line during
the last few days. Will report within
a day or two effect of rain upon roads
and general prospects regarding road
maintenance."
Customs collectors have been instruct
ed, upon request of the state depart
ment, to permit' railroad rolling stock
to enter Mexico by equitable exchange
of cars. For every car permitted to en
ter Mexico, the order stipulates, a car
from Mexico shall enter American terri
tory. The collectors also are instructed
not to interfere with further shipments
of food and clothing into Mexico. It
is understood, however, that the present
method of handling war munitions de
stined to points beyond the border shall
continue in force until further notice.
Deny Villa Captured Train
Os Carranza Military Supplies
(Bv Associated Press.)
CHIHUAHUA. Mexico, July 13.—Gen
eral Ignacio Enriquez formerly civil
governor of Chihuahua, who has been
’n Mexico City for some time in con
ference with General Carranza, has not
left that city, according to a message
received today by General Jacinto
Trevino.
Rumors had been spread in the last
few days that General Enriquez and
three other Carranza officers were taken
from a train by Villistas w’hile on their
way here from Mexico City and exe
cuted.
General Trevino denied that Villa
forces had succeeded in capturing a mil
itary train of the de facto government.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1916.
SO SOON?
JUNE
BR,DE! J tf/Wr •
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DEATHS F» PAHALYSIS
INCREASES IN NEW YORK
Slight Decrease in Number of
Cases, but 24 Children
Die in 24 Hours
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, July 13.—A slight de
crease in the number of new cases anfl
a marked increase in the number of
deaths during the last twenty-four
hours in the epidemic of infantile pa
ralysis was shown in the dally bulletin
issued bj' the department of health at
noon today.
During the twenty-four hours preced
ing 10 o’clock this morning, twenty-four
children died from the plague and there
were 117 new cases in the greater city.
Since tlie beginning of the epidemic
on June 26, 1,557 children have been
stricken with the disease and there have
been 31 deaths ot a mortality rate of
more than 20 per cent.
New York SUy health officers
said today that they were do
ing their best to prevent the spread
of infantile paralysis from this city
to other communities. Residents of in
fected districts here have been warned
that they will encounter stern quaran
tine measures if they leave the city.
Out-of-town health authorities have
been asked to report any persons ar-
(Continued on Page 6, Col 1.)
PAHT OF HUMAN BODY
FDUAID IN SIAIN SHARK
Man-Eater, Known to Have
Killed Two Persons, Killed
in New Jersey Creek
NEW YORK, July 13. —A monster
shark whose stomach contained part of
a human body was killed at Keyport,
N. J., today, according to information
received at the weather bureau here
from the observer at Long Branch N. J.
The shark, weighing 300 pounds and
eleven feet long, was killed near the
mouth of Matawan creek, N. J., and is
undoubtedly the ■same fish which yes
terday invaded the creek and killed two
persons, the weather bureaus informant
reported.
NEW YORK. July 13.—The waters of
the Atlantic seaboard are infested with
sharks. While hundreds of armed men
in motor boats were patroling the New
Jersey coast today in search of the
man-eating monsters which have now
caused the death of four bathers, the
British sloop Sir George Somers arrived
from Bermuda with a score of sharks
the crew had caught in the gulf
stream.
The last was caught off the New
j erse y coast Tuesday. The crew said
the big fish were numerous and hun
gry. They followed the ship and snap
ped viciously at bait. They said sharks
in Bermuda waters were common
enough, but that they did not expect to
see tbem so far north.
caught were pulled with hook
and line and killed as they were hoisted
aboard.
Dread of the monsters has clrtually
cleared the middle Atlantic coast
beaches of bathers, according to reports
received here today, while many sum
mer resort proprietors are enclosing
their bathing places with steel nets.
MATAWAN, N. J., July 13.—Hun
dreds of armed men in row boats and
launches were hunting today for the
man-eating shark that yesterday killed
a boy and a man and dangerously in
jured another youth m Matawan creek
and caused a reign of terror all along
the New Jersey coast.
It was reported this morning that
another man named Baldwin was at
tacked and killed by a shark at Keyport,
N J., at the mouth of the creek.
The body of Lester Stillwell, twelve
years old, has not been recovered, and
it is believed the shark devoured the
lad.
W Stanley Fisher, twenty-four years
cld, who was attacked by the shark
when he tried to rescue the Stillwell
boy, died upon reaching the shore.
Joseph Ralph Dunn, ten years old,
was in a precarious condition in a New
Brunswick hospital today, where it was
said the injuries he received from the
shark might prove fatal.
The scare that has been felt along
the New Jersey shore mainly in sum
mer resorts since the first shark raid
on bathers has virtually suspended all
beach bathing. Even at Coney Island
precautions were taken against a visit
of the shark. The tragedy yesterday
was all the more startling because it
occurred in waters sixteen miles from
the ocean.
Matawan creek is a tide wnter stream
about fifty feet wide and from eight
to fifteen deep. It empties into Raritan
bay. The mouth of the creek is at Key
pert.
The shark to get there from the At
lantic ocean had to round Sandy Hook,
cross, through the lower bay into Rari
tan bay at the southern end of Staten
Island. .
SUFFRAGE IND Til RILLS
ARE LAID ASIDE BI HOUSE
Refuses to Put Measures on
Calendar as Special and
Continuing Order
• At the session of the house Thursday
I two important matters were disposed of.
■ The house declined to place the woman
‘ suffrage bill on the calendar as a spec
ial and continuing order and refused to
I do likewise with the bill to repeal the
> equalization tax law.
1 This action on the part of the house
probably means that no further leglsla-
; tlon relative to these two measures will
oome up at the present session.
The first bill to be considered was
the woman's suffrage bill adversely re
ported on by the constitutional amend
ment committee. The rules committee
recommended that this bill be placed
upon the calendar as a special and con
tinuing order for the purpose of dis
agreeing with the adverse report of the
committee.
The recommendation of the rules com
mittee was defeated 91 to 21, which in
all probability means that the woman's
suffrage question is killed for this ses
sion of the Georgia legislature.
A committee of the house Thursday
was appointed to draft suitable resolu
tions expressing the loss and sorrow
of the members of the house over the
death of the late Judge Frank Foster,
representative from Morgan county, who
was one of the most eloquent and be
loved members of that body. Judge
Foster died since the 1915 session. On
the memorial committee were appointed
Representatives Bale, of Floyd; Dorsey,
of Cobb, and Burriss, of Morgan, Judge
Foster’s successor.
The fight to keep the bill repealing
the tax equalization law from being
placed on the calendar as a special or
der was a spirited one. There were
three or four votes lacking on the final
ballot necessary to make the three
fourths vote required to make any bill
a special order. The vote was 120 to
46.
Representative Swift, of Muscogee,
created a stir in his closing speech
against placing the bill in the calendar
as a special and continuing order.
He declared on the floor of the house
that the members most persistent in
the attempt to repeal the tax equaliza
tion law were men who had been com
pelled by the law to return and pay
taxes on real estate that they had never
returned nor paid taxes on before.
He intimated that Representative Tay
lor, of Monroe, author of the bill to re
peal the law, had been especially hard
hit by the operations of 4Jie law.
Representative Taylor made no reply
to this Intimation.
Motor Tricycles With
Machine Guns Sent to
Reinforce U. S. Cavalry
COLUMBUS, New Mexico, July 18—A
fleet of motor tricycles with machine
guns mounted on them left here today
to reinforce cavalry patrols along the
frontier because of reports that small
bandit bands In the San Simon valley
planned carrying out its threat to raid
American territory. Colonel Sickles, in
charge of the border patrol, issued
warning to cavalry line raiders patrol
ing the district near the New Mexlc-
Arizona boundary.
NUMBER 81.
SIX BIG ARMIES ARE
NOW HAMMERING AT
FOE DNEAST FRONT
Czar's Mighty Forces Seem to
Be Supplied With Inexhaust
able Quantities of Ammuni
tion and Guns
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON. July 18.—The recovery of
the Russian armies since their defeats
of lost year and the apparently inex
haustible supplies of guns and ammuni
tion with which they are provided con
tinues to be a. source of wonder to mili
tary writers. At least six great armies
are engaged against the Austrians and
Germans on Russia’s western front. All
of them are using great quantities of
ammunffion, even those not definitely
on the offensive.
The forces under Duke Nicholas
in Armenia and Persia have been fight
ing vlgoipnsly against the Turks for
months. A few weeks ago parts of
these forces, particularly those west of
Erzerum, were compelled to fall back
in the faoe of a stronger Turkish army.
Early thia week the grand duke resum
ed the offensive and recaptured Ma
makhatum, fifty miles west of Erzerum,
so that the Turks have fallen back some
twenty-five miles from the farthest
point reached in their counter offen
sive
‘Meanwhile the armies dtreotly south
of the Pinsk marshes are fighting a
pitched battle with th* Austro-German
forces of General von Llnslngen along
the line of the Stokhod river. *lt prob
ably will be some days before the deci-
Bion is reached as the Teutons have
brought up very strong reinforcements
in the hope of retaining possession of
Kovel, loss Os which would necessitate
a regrouping over a long stretch of the
front.
FIGHT WITH ARTILLERY.
North of the Pinsk marshes the fight
ing at present is largely with artillery.
In Galioia the Russian armies are re
forming for continuation of the offen
siva
In the west the renewed efforts of
the German crown prinoe at Verdun
temporarily are taking precedence in the
public mind over the battle of the
Somme. The attack just delivered by
the Germans before Verdun is the sev
enth great onslaught with great masses
of troops since the operations begun
some five months ago. The Germans
have made a alight gain but apparently
this has not lessened the confidence of
the French in their ability to hold fast.
They still have three solid lines of
defense which must bo penetrated be
fore the German objective can be gained.
The British are still engaged in clear
ing the Germans from fortified positions
which must be taken before the general
offensive can be renewed.
Fighting desperately In the face
of determined German attacks,
the forces of General Haig suc
ceeded yesterday in gaining control
of the entire Mametz wood, which had
been entered the previous night by the
Germana In the same region north
of the Bomme the British made earns
progress in the Trones wood and repuls
ed two neavy attacks against Comtal
niaison. The Germans are reported to
have lost heavily 1 ntheir attacks on
Tronee wood.
The French and German forces south
of Somme apparently are resting,
there has been almost no activity in the
region of Picardy since the first of ths
week.
Around Verdun, however, and espe
cially on the right bank of the Meuse,
bitter and heavy fighting is in progress
between the forces ot the German
crown prince and the French defenders
of the fortress. The Germans, follow
ing up their success In the region of ths
Damloup battery, have understaknn A
strong offensive toward Fort Bouvilla,
the possession of which would strength
en their position for a further advance
on Verdun.
ATTACK IN MASS.
Attacking in mass formation from the
village of Fleury and the Ohapltre and
Vaux woods, the Germans gained ground
at the intersection of the Fleury and
Vaux roads. The gain, however, Parts
asserts, was made at the cost of "enor
mous losses.” Violent bombardments
continue in the region of Souvllle,
Chenois and La Laufee. There was rel
ative calm on the left bank of the
Meuse.
Fighting continues at isolated points
on the Austro-Itallan front, and Rome
reports some successes In the Adige
valley and the recapture in part of po
sitions on Monte Corn©. There were ar
tillery bombardments by both sides at
other points on this front. Vienna
claims the repulse of a strong Italian.
Germans Claim Repulse
Os Russians in Gaiicia
»BERLIN, July 13. —(Via London.)
German troops, under command of Gen
eral Count von Bothmer, by an encir
cling counter attack have driven back
the Russian forces which had pushed
forward in the region northwest ox
Buczacz, in Galicia, says the German of
ficial statement issued today. The Ger
mans took 400 prisoners.
Infantile Paralysis
Said to Attack Fair*
Haired Children Most
BI DR. LOUIS O. AGER.
NEJW YORK, July 13.—Infantile pa-,
ralysis seems to attack fair-haired chil
dren. Dr. Haven Emerson. New York
health commissioner, has remarked on
the fact that the g eat majority of vic
tims now in the hospitals are fair haired.
"And you have heard, of course,” he
says, "that the disease is prevalent In
Scandinavia, home of a fair-hatred race.
In fact, I believe the 1907 epidemic was
traced to Scandinavians."
