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PAY NO MORE
SEVENTEEN SLAIN RELIED ON PROMISE OF PROTECTION
Gefi;anymSenMJs Smeqr;ne Re;or‘:isavz Th;ec_zt to Great Britain
TEUTONS SENDING ARMY TO CRUSH ALBANIA
[-BOAT MEN
EEGUTED,
1S CHARGE
(By International News Service.) |
BERLIN (by wireless via Sayville),
Jan. 16— Measures of reprisal will be
adopted at once by the Imperial Ger
man Government for the killing of
German submarine sailors by the crew
of the British patrol boat Baralong,
it was officialiy announced to-day.’
The announcement was contained ™
& German note on the Baralong mn.l
submitted to the British Government,
through the American Embassy. |
Germany's conduct of her subma
rine warfare is vigorously defended,
and charges are made that English
sallors have violated the laws of war
and the laws o™humanity,
In its note the German Oovermneatl
says: .
Answer of Britain.
“The British Government answered
the German memorandum in the Bara-
Jong case (1) by expressing doubt as to |
the correctiess of {nc,s submitted by i
the German Government, and (2) b,\'ll
making accusations that the German |
navai and military forces deubvmtelyl
commiited countless crimes against
international law and humanity, |
wherein the perpetrators were not |
punished, and against which the of-‘
sense of Lhe captain of the Baraleng
fades into insignificance. I
“The British Government advanced
no proofs of its accusations, content
fng itself with mentioning, without
evidence, three incidents wherein Ger
man naval officers were alleged to
have committed atrocities. The Brit
ish Government proposes to investi
gate these cases by a court of Ameri
can naval officers.”
The note contends that the German
army and navy throughout the war
have observed the principles of hu
manity and international law, and that
in every case where there has been
any offense committed the higher au
thorities have insisted upon the most
rigid investigation and the sternest
possible punishment for any persons
found guilty.
Three Cases Mentioned.
“The three cases mentioned by the
British Government were investigated
thoroughly at the time by competent
German naval authorities,” says the
note. &
The three incidents mentioned by
the British note were the sinking oti
the Arabic, the attack by a German
destroyer upon a British submarlnel
(claimed by England to have taken
place in Danish territorial waters) and'
the destruction of the British steam-'
ship Ruel. i
The note continues:
“It was shown by investigation that
the commander of the German subma
rine which sank the Arabac, believing
that the liner was trying to ram and
sink his craft, acted, as he thought, in
self-defense,
“The British note mentioned the at
tack of a German destroyer upon a‘
British submarine. The fact is that a
fight developed between two warships
in these waters, wherein the subma
rine which sank the Arabic, believlnx:
British Government can have little
ground for advancing the charge that
Danich neutrality was violated by the;
German attack after British naval]
forces, in a series of cases, have at-|
tacked German ships in neutral wn-*‘
ters. |
Regarding Reul Sigking. J
“Finally, in the case of the destruc-.
tion of the British steamer Reul, the
German submarine merely applied
measures of reprisal announced by
Germany in Februaty, 1915. These
measures correspond with interna
tional law because England was en
deavoring, through an illegal tie-up of
legitimate marit'me commerce be
tween neutrals and Germany, to cut
the latter off from all imports, and
Continued on Page 3, Column 6.
(B Internationa! News Service
AMETERDAM, Jan, 16-~Floods n
the prov ¢ of North Holland, resuit
ing from broken dykes, are growing
Ihousands of persons are homeless
and milllons of dollars’ worth of dam
age has been done 1o property
An enormous amount of stock has
been drowned., Rallroads and bridges
have been washed away
Public subscriptions are being laken
for the relie? of the homeliess |
Mrs. Pankhurst
Kept Out of U. 8.
(By International News Service)
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Mrs. Em
miline Pankhurst, the militant guf
fragette leader of England, was held
up by the immigration authorities
when she arrived Saturday on the
liner St, Paul on the ground that she
had once served a prison term.
Mrs. Pankhurst took her detention
calmly and when ordered to Ellis
Island sald she believed she would
finally be admiited inse the United
States.
Mrs. Pankhurst is here to ralse
funds for the relief of Serbia.
Policeman Kills Own
.
2 Children and Self
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Police Ser
geant Harry Baird shot and killed
his two children, Charles, aged 8, and
Rodin, aged 10, and then turned his
revoiver upon himself and ended his
own life. g
The cause of the shooting is not
known.
Father and children were dead by
the time Mrs. Baird, who was inan
other part of the Baird home, reached
them. Temporary insanity caused by
illness or insanity caused by family
troubles is believed to have led to the
double murder and suicide.
Week's Sentences by
.
Hill Total 230 Years
Figures compiled Saturday by
Deputy Sheriff Plennie Miner showed
last week's grind in Judge Ben Hill's
division of the Criminal Court to
have been the greatest in the history.
of the Criminal Court in the amount
of penitentiary sentences imposed.
' The time of service represented by
the sentences totaled 230 years and
three months.
Judge Hill actively put into opera
tion his announced policy to deal
severely with criminals, in an effort
to put a stop to crime in Atlanta and
Fulton County.
A Plea Cor
Sunshine in Rooms
No matter if you are a busy man—or a busy woman—and
you have no time to “bask in the sunlight.”
’
Whether yours be a room with northern, eastern or wesiern
exposure, be sure that the sun can, and DOES, get in. It
BELONGS there. It brings health with it.
There are scores of sunlit rooms offered each day among
the “Rooms For Rent” ads in the Want Ad pages of The
Daily Georgian and Sunday American.
. They'll settle the matter for you, unless there's something
special you want. In that case put in an ad of your own.
When it is written leave it with or
Telephone It to The
Georgian-American -
Main 100 or Atlanta 8000
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VOL. XIV. NO, 4L
TURK WHIF
53 lAN:
IN PERSIA
(By International News Service |
CONSTANTINOPLE (by wireless
via Berlin), Jan. 16 - -Successes Yor
the Turks who are fighting the Rus
slans In northwestern Persia are re
ported in the following official state
ment from the War Office to-day:
“On the Persian frontier, Turkish
cavalry, advancing against Miandoab,
encountered and defeated Russian
cavalry that fled In the direction of
Melikguend!, Another detachment of
Russian cavalry advancing towardl
Seldos was put to flight, and fled ln!
the direction of Urmi, pursued by the
Turks."
Teutons Aim Drive
. !
To Crush Albanians
8, CHARLES F. BERTELLI
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service. }
PARIS, Jan. 16-—-With all of Ser
bia and more than three-fourths o!!
Montenegro under the domination of |
the German allies, Albania is to be |
conquered before the Teutonic forces
begin their big drive against Saloniki,
according to the Saloniki correspon
dent of The Echo de Paris. ‘
A dispatch from Salon!ki says: !
“Bulgarian troops are quittmg]
)lonuflr, being replaced by Germans
of whom 650,000 have arrived already.
German officers declare that these
troops will co-operate with the Aus
trians in cleaning up Albania, af
ter which they will join the army
which is to advance against Saloniki.” |
Germans have been hard at work
in Southern Serbia during the past
few weeks building railway lines for
the transportation of big guns, am
munition and provisions.
The Petit Parisienne’'s Saloniki cor
respondent reports that German uni
forms are being distributed samong
the Bulgarian soldlers, as well as
modern war appliances which the
Bulgars lacked.
Great numbers of shells containing
asphyxiating gases are being stored
on the Greek border by the Germans.
“The Germans are speeding up their
concentrations of men and ammuni
tions,” wires the Saloniki cerrespon
dent of The Petit Journal. “An en
tire German division has just arrived
at Xanthi., Aerodromes are being
built ana aeroplanes are arriving.”
.
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5,100 Russians Are
* Taken by Teutons
VIENNA (via Berlin wireless), Jan.
16.—The Austrian War Office to-day
announced that 5,100 Russian pris
oners had been taken by Teuton
(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.)
T — —————E T T A
ATLANTA, GA, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1916
Suing the Cit
i Rich Quick
Filing claims for damages against
he city of Atlanta lsn't the surest
way in the world of buillding up a
fortune. to judge from the records of
the lega! department It's about as
lucrative an employment as peddling
tracts at a prize fight ‘
i The claims filed with the Mayor and
Council in 1815 amounted to 3508.6’0.‘
The amount collected theréon was
$6.520, & bit over 1 per cent ‘
| Suits against the city filed in the
;:m.rlu amounted to $101,152, jand it
cost 35,156 to settie them, J ;
The report, by City Attornéy May
son, praises the work of W. D. mm,‘
Assistant City Attorney, and W, C.
Puckett and W. T. Buchanan, the in
vestigators,
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‘Revolt in Turkey
. Foiled by Germans(
| PARIS, Jan. 16—A dispatch from
| Saloniki to The Temph says a great
| revolutionary plot in Constantinople
| was folled by German detectives.
b The objeci of the plot, itis-satd; wan
Jto kill Enver Pasha, overthrow the
| Government and expel all the Ger
| mans
{ A number of high Turkish officers
{are said to have been involved in the
iyv".-!. and numerous arrests of
:p!ullers have been made. The po
{lice guard has been doubled
I In some quarters it is believed the
| story of the plot was invented by the
| Germans in an effort to increase po-
S
i lice efliciency, so as to prevent a Mus
‘su‘n-"n uprising, which the Germans
lare said to fear as a result of the pov
erty-stricken conditions in Constanti
{nople.
.
Bank Clearings .
. Week $19,508,666
Atlanta bank clearings continue to‘
reflect mm.'lmd expansion in local
business operations. The week's to
tal, while considerably less than last
week's aggregate, amounted to 819,-‘
508.666.16, against $15,264,838.46 the
| corresponding week in 1915, a zalni
of $4,243,827.70. |
Clearings for Saturday amounted
to $3,117,967.73, against 8:3,420.564.733
the same day last year—a gain of‘
$697,403. |
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Wife Slayer Guilty;
Pushed Her Off Cliff
| (By International News Service.) ‘
l MINNEAPOLIS, MINN,, Jan. 16—
Frederick T. Price has been fouad|
guilty of the murder of his wife, .\lal'fl
11-‘ridlr*y Price, on the night of .\'o-i
vember 28, 1914, by a jury which had
been out since Friday afternoon. |
Price, it was charged, took his wif2
lon an automobile ride along the M!s-1
sissippi River, the principal pleasure
drive of the city, and inviting her
from the car, pushed her over a 100-
foot cliff.
.
Governor Whitman
.
Is Backing Hughes
(By International News Service.) |
NEW YORK, Jan. 16, —Governcr!
Charles H., Whitinan announced to
day that he would support Charles
Fivans Hughes, Associate Justice of
the United States Supreme Court, for
the Republican presidential_nomina
tion, which will be igade at Chicago
in June.
“Justice Hughes is undoubtedly the
choice of the majority of the Repub
licans of the State and nation,” said
the Governor.
.
Five Women Street
.
Cleaning Inspectors
\ (By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Five women
have just been appointed street
cleaning inspectors by Commissioner
~ Keatherstone.
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(By International News Service.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan 16.—What
promises 1o be one of the most inter
esting meetings of the United Mine
Workers ever held will be opened here
Tuesday. It will continue in session |
about two weeks Two propositions
give Mhis convention exira rdinary
importance. One is the fact that new ‘
wage scales are 1o be established rn.xT
vear for both the bituminous and the
anthracite coal miners of the coun
iry
Another principal proposition is the
fact that an effort is being made to
re-establish the old-time four-Siate
wage scale agreement, which has been
out of existence for several years 1t
}anluurr proposition is carried into
ic!lo--l. it will mean that a wage scale
agreement may be negotiated for
what is known as the central compet]-
tive fleld, consisting of Western Penn
svivania, Ohlo, Indiana and Illinois
This agreement then would be the ba
sis for the negotiation of wage con
tragts between the bituminous min
ers and operators all over the coun
try ‘\‘,)‘”-].\v 1.600,000 persons con
nected with the mining industry are
‘[:erm'h»l by the results of this move
:mom_
Agreement Not Certain,
It is not at all certain that the fours-
State joint agreement can be revived,
because the operators of Western
Pensylvania are standing out against
it. They insist that the tharkets have
so changed and the general conditions
in the mining industry are so differ
ent now that the Western Pennsylva
nia bituminous district is not a com
petitor with Ohio, Indiana and Hlli
nois, and it is useless for the Western
Pennsylvania interests to join in the
joint wage plans. They say they pre
fer to mak etheir own wage agree
ment, independently of the other
HAtates.
Ohio, Indiana and Allinois operators
are ready to enter a four-State agree
ment, but if the Western Pennsylva
nia operators persist in their refusal
to come in, it will place the whole
joint movement in jeopardy. In that
case the miners would formulate a
set of demands and make separate
wage agreements with the operators,
but the miners would insist upon
agreements based on demands formu
lated at the convention. The officers
of the Mine Workers express the he
lief that the four-States agreement
will be established.
Anthracite Demands Submitted.
The wage agreements expire in
March in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illlinois, Missouri, Kansas,
lowa, Montana, Washington, Michi
gan, Central Pennsylvania and Ken
tucky and District 17 of West Vir
ginia. The agreement in the New
River district of West Virginia ex
tends over until a later date.
Demands of the anthracite miners
of Pennsylvania were formulated last
October,, and they have been submit
ted to the operators. The wage con
ference son the anthracite miners and
operators are separate from the con
ference of the bituminous coal indus
try. The anthracite miners demand,
among other thingsd, a general 20 per
cent increase in wages. The talk is
that the bituminou sminers will de
‘mand a 10 per cent increase.
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Burns to Death as
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Her Dress Ignites
COLUMBIA, 8. C, Jen. 16 —Bn
veloped in flames, Miss Agnes McCon
nell, 35, ran out of her home here this
morning, screaming for help.
Before the fire could be extin
guished by neighbors, the young wom
‘an was fatally burned. Her dress had
ignited at an open fireplace.
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High School
The Atlanta Board of EcCucation, .n
session Saturday, placed Professor
W. F. Dykes, acting principal of the
Boys' High School, in executive
charge of the new University High
School, The order making the change
readg as follows
“Reaffirming our action in estab
lishing a University High School, em
bracing all the high school depart
ments, and believing that the work of
organizing same has progressed to the
point where the entire time and effort
of a responsible head is now required.
It is, therefore, ordered
“That Professor W. F. Dykes, su
pervising principal, shall be relieved
of the duties of acting principal of the
Boys’ High School and shall devo'e
his time to discharging the duties of
the executive head of the University
High School
“It is further ordered that assistant
principals now in charge of each de
partment of the high school be des
ignated as principal in charge, under
the authorigy and supervision of the
supervising principal.” |
old Grudge Settled ‘
By Fatal Gun Duel
(By International News Service.)
GOODWATER, ALA., Jan. 16.—An
ancient quarrel came to a fatal end
Saturday when G. W, Jones was killed
by H. B. Dunn. According to the
Tallapoosa County authorities the
men met in an open field, each armed
and determined to settle the matter
for good.
Each fired six shots and Jones
dropped with slx wounds, dying soon
afterward, Dunn was uninjured.
FIRST
EDITION
Serge De Diaghileff, the famous
creator of the Ballet Russe, has ar
rived at New York on the French
liner Fafayvette. With him came over
50 principals and other dancers of the
ballet. They are fresh from remark
able triumphs in London and Paris.
Seen on the pier, De Diaghileft
showed himself to be a Slav of Slavs.
He is about 40 years old, and wore
a big fur coat and light gloves.
It has been said that the whole
ballet revolves around him, but he
showed a retiring disposition on the
pier. When asked to pose for pho
tographs he sald, “What, take a pic
ture of me! Ah, no! It can not be.
Take pictures of the dancers, yes.
But of me, ah, no!"”
His company will have their ini
tial appearance in this country at
the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York. They will stay there for
four weeks, followed by two weeks at
the Century Opera House. After
That they will tour the country, in~
cluding all the langer cities of the
Bast and Middle West,
One of the most striking members
of the company was Enrico Cecchetd,
the 72-yvear-old dancing master who
taught Pavlowa, Mordkin and other
famous dancers.
Other principals in the company
are Lubov Tchernichowa, Lydia
Sokolova, Leonide Massin, Nicholas
Kremneff, Alexander Gavrilov, Alex
andra Wassilevska, Sophie Phlanz,
Adolph Bolm, Nicholas Zverewand
and Mlle. Maklezowa.
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Asks City to Stop
.
Draft in Her Flat
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Julia Marks
has written to District Attorney
Swann, asking him to stop a cold
draft in her flat.
She charged that the vacant apart
ment betow her is forcing cold stor
age air into her home
DEGENED BY
CARRANZA
PLEDGES
(By International News Service.)
‘L PASO, Jan. 16.—Luis Fuen
tes, son-in-law of the late Gen
eral Huerta, and Aristade Car
rascoss, who were indicted at
San Antonio in connaction with
the Huerta conspiracy te start a
revolution in Mexico, were taken
inte custod M\nrfie Fuentes
gave $2,500 ‘o«“‘w! arrascosa,
unable te furnish bail, was sent
te jail.
(By International News Service.)
CHIMUAMHUA CITY, MEXICO,
Jan. 16.—Lisutenant Colonel Ne
varres, a Villa officer charged
with implication in the massacre
of Amaericans at Santa Ysabel last
Monday, was brought here to-day
b{ General Trevine, commander
of the Carranzista garrison, and
will be placed on trial to-morrow.
Early next week General Trevine
will leave with a heavy force of
Carranzista troons to pursue the
remantn of Villa's followers.
i By JOMN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — Dis
patches were recelved from along
the Texas-Mexican border which in
dicate strongly that General Carran
za's representatives not only pledged
’pr’o(ecllon to the seventeen Americans
who were massacred pear Chihuahua,
jbu' also urged them to return to their
‘ mines.
| Genera! Obregon, Carranza’s chief
military repre<entative, is declared to
'hn\n given personal assurances that
|tho Americans would not be molested
if they would return to their proper
ty in Chihuahua.
OfMcials plainly were worried by
'(MI latest development. They admit
ted that it would place the State De
!partmem in a bad light, inasmuch as
it would practically make it impossi
’ ble to rely upon Carranza's pledges of
| protection In the future,
Hunt for Guard Order.
It also was learned on reliable au
| thority at the State Department to
day that it is possible the State De
partment requested Carranza's men to
guard the train carrying the seven
teen Americans.
Secretary Lansing denied two days
ago that this had been done. It de
veloped to-day, however, that set&.
orders were issued without nis kn€wi
edge.
Consul Thomas D. Edwnrdifin Jua
rez, has been guoted In press reports
as saying he was ordered from Wash
{ ington to ask Carranza to protect the
Americans who later were slain. Of
ficials to-day would not repeat tha
denial of this statement, which they
made two days ago.
To Prevent Invasion.
Every effort will be made by the Ad
ministration to prevent any private
armed invasion of Northern Mexico.
Orders have been issued to the
army border patrol to watch for any
such movement, to disperse any force
that tries to cross the border and to
arrest under the neutrality laws the
leaders of any such movement.
President Wilson and Secretary of
State Lansing unite in believing that
the only thing which could force a
change in policy at this time would
be another wholesale massacre of
American citizens, or a clash between
Americans and Carranzista forces im
which the latter would lose heavily.
Oppose “Watchful Waiting.”
With the Senate in recess there
was a slackening of the flood of ora
tory and critism of the Administra
tion Mexican policy to-day. But it
was made very plain by Republican
leaders that they will not quit the
fight. The announced intention dfi:
the Administration to “continue the
watchful waiting policy to give Car-.
ranza a chance to show that he afi
clean up Mexico,” has enraged man. F
of the Senators who heretofore have
not taken any part in discussiom o
the Mexican situation.
They-are adding their strength to
the ranks of the interyentionists and
the latter are claiming that on a
straight “count of noses,” they would
nave the majority of the Senate.
Senator Lewis, of Ilinals, to-day