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MOUNTAIN VIEW TRIBUNE-PROGRESS
SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
War News.
ProHHlnK In \ij«>n Southern Moldavia
from three sides, apparently with all
their vigor, the forces of the Central
Powers are making progress against
stiff resistance. On the Transylvania-
Moldavian frontier, In the region north
of Himnlk-Harut, and In the Uobrudja
opposite Bralla, Ilerlln reports, the
Austro (ierman and Hulgarian troops
are advancing.
♦ + +
Except for some engagements be-
tween patrols around llrody, In Gali-
cia, no activity Is reported from the
eastern, Macedonian and Austro Italian
fronts. British and French troops have
carried out successful raids on the
west front at various points.
+ ♦ +
Considerable fighting has again
taken place on the Verdun sector
uround Le Mort Homme and on the
eastern slopes of lllll 304, where the
Germans made an attack, but were re-
pulsed, and where, later, the French
began a bombardment of the German
positions. Elsewhere along the French
front there have been reciprocal bom-
bardments and attacks by small pa-
trol purtles.
+ + +
In the Austro-ltallan theater the
weather has cleared and the artillery
duels have been renewed with vigor.
In Macedonia, except for British at-
tacks agHinst the Bulgarians north-
east of Lake Dolran, which Berlin re
ports were unsuccessful, comparative
quiet still prevails.
+ + +
The 6-day battle that has been tn
progress In Eastern Wallachla has re-
sulted in the piercing of the Russian
lines at several points. The Russians
were definitely defeated on a front of
seventeen kilometers southwest of
Rlmnlk-Sarat.
+ + +
Nine airplanes were lost by the
Entente In aerial engagements nlong
the western front in one day recently,
the Berlin war office announced.
There has been violent artillery activ-
ity in the Ypres salient and in the
region north of the River Somme.
+ + +
The British victory over the Turks
at Maghdaba, ninety miles east of the
Suez canal, was of considerable pro-
portions. In addition to making pris-
oners of 1,350 men of the Turkish
force, about 2,700 guns, a largo num-
ber of rifles, much ammunition and
lurge quantities of other war stores
were captured.
+ + +
Rumania continues to be the thea-
ter of the greatest war activities. In
northern Walluchia, along the south-
ern Moldavian border and in Dobrud-
ja, the Teutonic Allies continue to
make gains over the Russians and Ru-
manians.
♦ + ♦
Washington.
If Thomas W. Lawson can prove
"there is always a leak on important
government moves \ln Washington,
especially In connection with Euro-
pean international matters,” he will
be given an opportunity to deliver
such proof to Congress in person.
uawBon may even be called to give
such testimony as he claims to have,
whether he wants to or not.
t + +
A policy of absolute silence regard-
ing the peace negotiations has been
adopted by President Wilson and Sec-
retary Lansing. It was stated official-
ly that all steps henceforth will be re-
garded as confidential, that no com-
ment will bo made on any develop-
ment and that rumors will not be dis-
cussed in any way.
+ + , +
Continuation of the conferences of
the Mexican-American joint commis-
sion, without regard to the question
of withdrawing American troops from
Mexico, is proposed by General Car-
ranza in his message refusing lo ratify
the Atlantic City protocol.
+ + +
The resources of national banks of
the United States. Comptroller Wil-
liams announced, have increased more
than $4,000,000,000 during the last
two years, and now aggregate $15,-
520,000,000, exceeding by about $1,-
000,000,000 the total resources of the
Bank of England, the Bank of France,
the Bank of Russia, (he German
Reichsbank, the Bank of Italy, the
Bank of Spain, the Bank of the Neth-
erlands. the Bank of Denmark, the
Swiss National Bank and the Imperial
Bank of Japan combined.
+ + +
(Domestic.
Announcement of the members of
the tar'ff commission will be made
by President Wilson as soon as word
is received from Prof. W. Taussig of
Harvard, whether he will accept one
of the places.
+ + +
Adoption of the metric system of
weights and measures for commercial
use in the United States and also of
the "daylight saving” plan was advo-
cated by speakers in different sec-
tions of the convention of the Amer-
ican Association for the Advancement
of Science.
+ + +
St. Louis, Wichita and Omaha are
to be the land bank cities for the
Middle West. The federal farm loan
board recently announced the boun-
daries of the twelve districts and Jhe
bank cities. . .. •
The four hundred thousand railroad
employees affiliated with the four
trainmen's brotherhoods will decide
the next step which will be taken
by their authorization committee,
which has been handling their side or
tlie controversy over the operation of
the Adamson Act, it was announced
In New York by the brotherhood
chiefs.
+ + +
Lawrence Whiteside, reported from
St. Louis to have been murdered on
an Isolated ranch In California, met ac-
cidental death while handling a revol-
ver, according lo the verdict of a cor-
oner’s Jury, which was received at Eu-
reka recently.
+ + +
Creation of a federal commission to
decide disputes between railroads and
their employes, regardless of whether
the United States Supreme Court may
hold the Adamson Act constitutional,
was the suggestion tfhich the chiefs
of the four railway brotherhoods indi-
cated they might 'place before the con-
ference committee of railroad man-
agers.
+ + +
An acetylene plant in the cellar of
the Madison hotel at Mount Holly,
N. J., exploded and the building was
destroyed. Of Ihe twenty-eight per-
sons in the Hotel al the time, twenty-
three have been rescued. It is feured
the other five have been killed.
+ + t
Foodstuffs continue to leave Ameri-
can ports for Europe in vast quanti-
ties. Figures published by the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce
show that in the first eleven months
of this year they reached a value of
about $670,000,000 or at the rate of
more than $60,000,000 a month.
+ + +
Nino persons are known to have
been killed and fourteen are known
to have been injured in a tornado that
swept a 4-mile path over South Cen-
tral Arkansas recently. Unconfirmed
reports tell of many more deaths, and
it seems certian that the casualty list
will lie much increased when com-
munication is restored.
+ + +
Southwest.
Five hundred gallons of whiskey,
wine and beer were poured into a uit.v
water wagon at Phoenix, Ariz., and
(lie streets of the business section
sprinkled with the liquor. Two hun-
dred motor cars and several floats
formed a parade that followed the
water wagon.
+ + +
Hot Springs attorneys have received
notice from Little Rock that the sec-
retary of state had issued an order
canceling the charter of the Western
Union Telegraph Company and pro-
hibiting it from doing business in the
state of Arkansas.
+ + +
The Prairie Oil Company has raised
the price of crude oil ten cents a bar-
rel in Oklahoma to $1.40 a barrel. The
total daily production of the Oklahoma
oil fields at present is 258,000 barrels.
This makes the fifth time sinde Octo-
ber the price of crude oil has been
raised.
+ + +
The Champlain test well in the un-
developed oil field at Covington, near
Enid, Ok., blew in the other night with
a gusher which threw oil thirty feet
above the standard derrick.
♦ + +
Maj. Powell Clayton, formerly at-
tached to the general staff and re-
cently assigned to the Sixteenth Cav-
alry on the Mexican border, died re-
cently at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.,
from injuries received two weeks ago.
+ + +
Although General Carranza has not
replied to the demand of the United
Stales that he either ratify or repudi-
ate the protocol drawn by the Mexi-
can American joint commission, the
expiration of the time limit was not
made the occasion for formally declar-
ing the negotiations at an end.
•* + *
Foreign.
The Finnish steamer Oihonna, of
1.070 tons, with a regiment of Rus-
sian coast artillery from the Aland
islands, struck a mine and sank in a
few minutes, according to a dispatch
to the Frankfurter Zeitung, from
Copenhagen. All on board, with the
exception of fifty persons, are said to
have been drowned.
4- t +
Thomas Chase Casgrain. postmaster
general of Canada, died of pneumonia
at Ottawa recently. He ws born in
Detroit in 1852. For many years he
was one of the Dominion's leading law-
yers.
t + +
The announcement is made in Ber-
lin newspapers that the order of merit
: has been conferred upon Captain Val-
ent iner, commander of a German sub-
■ marine, for sinking 12S ships of a to
I tal tonnage of 282,000.
+ + +
Six passengers were killed and sev-
eral others were injured when the
eastbound Toronto-Montreal Canadian
Pacific Railroad Express crashed into
the westbound Cornwall local near St.
Polvcarpe Junction, according to re-
i ports at divisional headquarters.
+ + +
Recent reports received from Swit-
zerland have represented the internal
conditions in Austria-Hungary as so
serious that those governments are
prepared to negotiate direct with Great
Britain and France, preferring a hu-
miliating peace to inevitable bank-
ruptcy.
+ + +
The monastery and chapel of the
Trappist Monks at Oka. Quebec, have
been destroyed by fire. The monas-
tery is famous for the cheese pro-
duced on a farm cultivated by the
(monks. * . •
NEWS OF THE
STATE CAPITAL
STATE BOARD TO RECOM-
MEND $3,148,542 SCHOOL
APPROPRIATION.
NEWS FROMJTATE OFFICES
What the 8tate Officials and Depart-
ments Are Doing—Item* of In-
terest About the State
Government.
Oklanoma City—
Appropriations aggregating $3,149,-
542.66 for general maintenance ex-
penses, new buildings and the pur-
chase of additional lands for educa-
tional institutions under tho supervi-
sion of the state board of education
during the next two fiscal years be- [
ginning July 1. 1917. will be recom-
mended by the bourd to the coming
legislature.
Of this amount an appropriation of
$200,000 Is recommended for the med-
ical school now operated in connection
with Hie University hospital in Okla-
homa City, the appropriation to be
conditioned on the city of Oklahoma
City donating to the state the Emer-
gency hospital.
The board also recommends an ap-
propriation of $25,000 for permanently
locating and building a home for in-
corrigible white girls. At present the
old country club house near Oklahoma
City Is used by the state for this pur-
pose and the need of more room has
been felt in the institution for some
time.
Other new buildings recommended
by the board include an auditorium,
with a seating capacity of 3.000 at the
State university and to cost $150,000;
$36,230 for the rebuilding of Wilkin
hall at the Tonkawa preparatory
fcchool; one new cottage each of the
two fiscal yeafs at the Institute for
the Feeble Minded at Enid, to cost
$2,000 each, and $100,000 for dormi-
tory and other additional buildings at
the Oklahoma College for Women at
Chickasha.
The board also recommends that the
work of the preparatory schools at
Tonkawa and Claremore, and the
School of Mines and Metallurgy at
Wilburton be extended to include
technical and vocational training.
Appropriations recommended for
each of the schools for each of the
fiscal years are as fallows:
State university, $400,000 first year,
$305,000 second year; $150,000 for dormi-
tory and equipment and $75,000 for li-
brary equipment.
College for WomCn at Chickasha,
$150,000 first year, of which $100,000 is for
dormitory, additional buildings and equip-
ment; $50,01)0 general expenses second
year.
School of Mines at Wilburton, $38,980
first year, of which $2,500 is to bo spent
In work in the coal extension field and
$3,500 in the lead and zinc extension
field, and $23,980 for general expenses in
tho second year; an appropriation of
$50,000 made for dormitory and equipment.
East Central Normal school at Ada,
$46,593 first year and $43,655.36 .for the
second year.
Northwestern normal at Alva, $50,200
first year and $47,100 second year.
Southeast normal, Durant, $46,593 first
year; $43,655 second year.
Central State normal, Edmond, $SO,000
each year.
Northeast normal, Tahlequah, $57,000
first year, including $20,000 for audito-
rium and equipment, and $37,000 general
expenses second year.
Southwestern normal, Weatherford,
$54,093 first year, $46,593 second year.
Preparatory school at Tonkawa, $50,750
for general expenses for each year and
additional appropriations of $36,280 for re-
building Wilkin Ha'I and $7,720.90 for re-
pairing central building.
Preparatory school at Tonkawa, $30,000
for each year.
School for the blind, $39,142.24 first
year of which $2,500 is for new laundry
and equipment and $1,000 for general re-
pairs.
Dormitory at Sulphur.
School for the deaf at Sulphur, $61,S50
first year, which includes $9,700 for hos-
pital buildings and equipment, enlarging
and extending the heating plant and the
purchase of new beds, and $76,650 for the
second year which includes $25,000 for a
new dormitory.
Orphans' home at Pryor, $75,208 for the
first year, of which $9,450 is for the pur-
chase of additional land and $52.56S for
the second year.
Boys' training school at Pauls Valley,
$65.tno for the first year, of which $1.1,400
is for the purchase of additional land and
$3,000 for teams and farm equipment, and
$42,700 for general expenses the second
year.
Institute for feeble-minded at Enid,
$113,000 for the first, including $25,000 for
new cottages nnd equipment and $25,000
for water system amt laundry equipment,
nnd $S8,000 for general expenses the sec-
ond year.
Home for colored deaf and blind or-
phans at Taft. $36,656 first year and
$25,656 second year.
Colored A: and N. college at Langston,
$50,497 first year and $41,497 second year.
Workmen Paid $108,000.
A total of $108,713.71 in compensa-
tion for injuries to workmen was paid
by employers of Oklahoma, subject to
the provisions of the workmen’s com-
pensation law, duringthe first ya^tr of
its operation, according to figures pre-
sented in the first annual report of the
commission. In addition there was
paid by self-insured employers who
pay benefits more than required by
law. the sum of $15,311.05. The total
compensation paid is in excess of
what would have been received had
the*r claims been made subject to liti-
gation.
Court Upholds 3-Cent Charge.
An opinion which may prove a ■•-
rlous obstacle in the efforts of the cor*
poratlos commission to give passen-
gers traveling Interstate in Oklahoma
the benefits of the 2-cent passenger
rate was given by the supreme court,
upholding the right of carriers to
charge 3 cents a mile from Interstate
passengers.
The decision reverses the Judgment
of the district court of Atoka county
which gave Frank C. Ashinger Judg-
ment for $500 against the M., K. & T.
Railroad Company for his ejectment
from a passenger train when he would
not pay 3 cents a mile from Atoka to
Denison, Texas.
Ashinger boarded a train at Okla-
homa City for Atoka and later de-
cided to go to Denison, Texas. He
offered the conductor the unused por-
tion of his ticket with the difference
in cash for his trip to Denison. The
conductor refused to accept it and he
was ejected from the trnln.
The court holds he was an inter-
state passenger, subject to interstate
regulations, and should have been re-
quired to pay at the rate of 3 cents
a mile.
Freeling Plans New Legislation.
Attorney General Freeling has bo'
gun preparing a bill for introduction
in the legislature, which is designed
to enlarge the Jurisdiction and in-
crease the usefulness of the office of
the attorney general.
The purpose of the proposed new
law is to enable the attornei^general
to go Into any county of tho Wale and
take steps toward bringing about the
enforcement of law without having to
wait until directed to do so by the
governor.
When the draft of the law Is fin-
ished he will submit it to Governor'
Williams for consideration.
The law will provide that when a
condition of lax law enforcement ex-
ists in any county or city of the state
the attorney general may go into such
places and take evidence to be sub-
mitted by the attorney general to tho
supreme court.
If, in the opinion of the court, the
officials are delinquent the court will
have the power to remove the officials
who fall to perform their duty.
One New Face at Statehouse.
Only change took place in state
offices on January 9, that being the
outgoing of George A. Henshaw as a
member of the corporation commis-
sion, and the incoming of Campbell
Russell, his successor. In all other
instances where officers were elected
in the recent elections the officers are
now ‘serving in the places to which
they were elected.
W. D. Humphrey, who w’as elected
commissioner for the short term, has
been serving for two years by virtue
of appointment by Governor Williams.
Judge Thomas H. Doyle succeeds
himself as presiding judge of the
criminal court of appeals, as does
Judge M. J. Kane, chief justice of the
supreme court. Judge J. C. M.
Thacker, at present an associate jus-
tice, succeeds himself on the bench
of the supreme court.
Two corporation commissioners,
two members of the supreme court
and one member of the criminal court
of appeals, were all the state officers
elected in the November election.
7 State Fair Grounds Sold.
The Oklahoma State Fair and Expo-
sition Association has purchased from
the state the quarter section of state
school land east of the city, on which
is located the state fair grounds, for
$35,000, the appraised value of the
land. The purchase was consummated
at the office of the state school land
department, there being only one bid-
der.
The ground was to have been sold
in September, but the sale had to be
delayed when a question was raised as
to the legality of the sale advertise-
ment. v
Originally the land was appraised at
$48,000, but when this value was ob-
jected to by the fair association the
commissioners of the land office re-
duced the figure to $36,000. The in-
itial payment by the fair association
was $1,800.
Socialists Plan Chain Stores.
Operation of a chain of co operative
stores over the state and co-operative
buying to obtain lowest prices was the
subject of discussion atthe socialist
staate convention in Oklahoma City
last week. A committee will be ap-
pointed upon recommendation of the
convention to prepare definite plans
for the co-operative scheme. The co-
operative plan was not indorsed as a
party measure hut by the-convention
alone, leading socialists explained.
Members of political parties will he
Invited to participate.
Echo of "Fair Election Law.”
J. L. Lyon, secretary of state, was
formally notified that on January 4
Judge E. D. Oldfield of the district
court, will be asked to grant a writ
of mandamus compelling the appoint-
ment of R. L. Robertson, republican,
of Lawton, as member of the state
election board.
The action is based on the provis-
ions of the constitutional amendment
known as the "fair election law,”
which was decided defeated at the
. general election November 7. In the
application it is set forth that the
measure received 149,016 votes, ac-
cording to returns to the state election
board, enough to carry it, it is
claimed. The state election board de-
clared the vote to be 147,067.
Arthur H. Geissler, chairman of the
republican state committee, submitted
Robertson’s name in accordance with
the fair election law provisions, on
November 15. asking Secretary Lyon
to commission him as member of the
board. Secretary Lyon refused to do
this, the petition recites.
The attorneys who prepared the ap-
plication and who will argue it before
Judge Oldfield are Parser and Simons,
of Enid: E. E. Blake. Oklahoma City,
and EL E. Sams, Nowata, who is secre-
tary of the republican state commit-
tee. ’ • . * .
“FIGHT ONf—ALLIES.
Parts.—The text of (he note of the entente government# replying to
Germany's proposal for a peace conference, made pub.lc here, follows:
"The allied governments of Be glum. France, Great Britain, Italy, Japaw
Montenegro, Portugal. Koumanta. Russia ami Serbia, unUvA tor ‘I1*, ,
of tiu« liberty of their people* and faithful to th* «*nKUK*roent not to lay
down their arms separately, have resolved to reply collectively to Hie pre-
tended propositions of peace which were addressed to them on behalf Of tM
enemy governments through the intermeniary 01 the Unl ed States, Bpatn,
Switzerland ami Holland. Before making any reply the allied powtra desire
particularly to plot, at against the essential assertions of the note of tns
enemy powers that pretends to throw upon the allies responsibility for U»e
war and proclaim the victory of the central powers. inexact
"The allied governments cannot admit an affirmation doubly ln®*®
and which sutures to render sterile ull tentative ''WTOJtsjior* ™s alltea
nations have sustained lor thirty months a war tin* did vvery hidig to
avoid They have shown by their acts their attachment to pea t . that
attachment Is as strong today as it was n 1914 But it B not upon Rm
word of Germany, after the violation of Its engagements, that the P»“ «
broken by her may be based. ,
Founded on Calculated Misinterpretation of War.
"A mere suggestion without a statement of terms .hat MKOUaitons
should be opened Is not an goffer of peace. The puttlnf; forward ) _
Imperial government of a sham proposal lacking a I substance and 1, ruc
would appear to be less an offer of peace than a wui "u‘r**u^*ru l j„
founded on calculated misinterpretation of the character of tho stiugge
the past, the present nnd future. . . dates
"As for the pust the German note takes no account of the fatt. .
and figures which establish that the war was desired, provoked and dcclu
b>' * "A t' ¥he ' H ague* *co nVelret Ice * t was a German delegate whorefusedaU
proposals for disarmament. In July, 1914, it was Ausiria-lU1 **r>
after having addressed to Serbia an unprecedented ultimatum, uecuue
war upon her in spite of the satisfaction which hud ut once been Entente to
"The central powers then rejected all attempts made by the entente to
bring about a pacific so utlon of a purely local conflict. international
"Great Britain suggested a conference; trance proposed an >nte™°*'°n?J
commission, the emperor of Russia asked the German ,‘n
arbitration and Russia and Austria-Hungary came to an understanumg on
the eve of the conflict, but to ull these efforts Germany gave neither unawer
nor effect.
No Mention of Penalties, Repara/on and Guarantees.
an.,’»t^
advantage of the aggressors who after imagining that lllf;-v _
their goal In two months discovered ufter two years that tiny tould never
“ttft“Asl’for the future disaster* caused by the German declaration
and the Innumerable outrage* committed by Germany and her “OSlna
both belligerents and neut.als demand penalties, reparation and guarantee*.
Germany avoids mentioning any of these. ... _
"In Itulv tiles# overtures made by the central powers are nothing more
than a calculated attempt to influence the future course of war and to
end It by imposing German peace. The object of these ovenurta b o
create dissension in public opinion in the allied countries But that public
opinion lias in spite of all the sacrifices endured by the allies alr,ea(^y flyen
Its answer with admirable firmness and lias denounced the empty pretense
of the declaration of the enemy powers. , , , _
"Thev have the further object of stiffening public opinion in Germany
and in the countries allied to her—one and all severely tried by their losses,
worn out by economic pressure and crushed by the supreme effort wmen nan
been imposed upon their inhabitants.
People Refute Proposal Empty and Insincere
"They endeavor to deceive and intimidate public opinion m neutral
countries whose inhabitants have long since made up their mind where
the Initial responsibility lies and are far too enlightened to favor the designs
of Germany by abandoning the defense of human freedom.
"Finally these overtures fall to Justify In advance In the eyes of tne
world, a new series of crimes—submarine warfare, deportations, forced
labor and forced enlistment of the inhabitants against their own countries
and violations of neutrality.
"Fully conscious of the gravity of this moment but equally conscious
of Its requirement the allied governments closely united to one another
and in perfect sympathy with their people refuse to consider a proposal
which is empty and insincere.
“Once again the allies ^declare tnat no peace is possible so long as they
have not secured reparation for violated rights and liberties, the recognition
of the principle of nationalities and of the free existence of small states;
so long as they have not brought about a settlement calculated to end once
and for all forces which have constituted a perpetual menace to the nations
and afford the only effective guarantee for the future security of the world.
"In conclusion the allied lowers think it necessary to put forward the
following considerations which show the special situation of Belgium after
two and a half years of war. In virtue of the international treaties signed
by five great European powers of whom Germany was one, Belgium enjoyed
before the war a special status rendering her territory inviolable and plac-
ing her under the guarantee of the powers outside all European conflicts.
She was, however, in spite of these treaties the first to suffer the aggression
of Germany. For this reason the Belgian government thinks it necessary to
define the aims which Belgium has never ceased to pursue while fighting
side by side with the entente powers for right and justice.
Belgium Aska Peace and Justice, With Reparation.
"Belgium has always scrupulously fulfl'led the duties which her neu-
trality imposed upon her. She has taken up arms to defend her independence
and her neutrality violated by Germany and to show that she remains
faithful to her international obligations.
"On the fourth of August, 1914, in the reiehstag the German chancellor
admitted that this aggression constituted an injustice contrary to the laws
of nations and pledged himself in the name of Germany to repair It. During
two and a half years this injustice has been cruelly aggravated by the pro-
ceedings of the occupying forces which have exhausted the resources of the
couagry, ruined its Industries, devastated its towns and villages and have
be^fresponsihle for innumerable massacres; executions and imprisonments.
"At this very moment while Germany is proclaiming peace nnd humanity
to the world she is deporting Belgian citizens by thousands and forcing them
to slavery.
"Belgium before the war asked for nothing but to live In harmony with
her neighbors. Her king and her government have but one aim—the re-
establishment of peace and Justice. But they only desire peace which
would assure to their country legitimate reparation, guarantees and safe-
guards for the future.”
THE SITUATION AT WASHINGTON.
Washington.—Opinion as to the effect of the entente reply to the
peace proposals of the central powers varies widely here, but in all
quarters interest now centers upon the allies’ answer to President
Wilson’s note in which peace advocates ardently hope to find an open-
ing for advancement of the negotiations.
Official comment from officials of the administration was lacking
entirely again. Secretary Lansing formally announced that the entente
reply had not been cabled for delivery to Germany and her allies and
that the state department had received the official text of the Spanish
note refusing to join in a peace movement at this time.
Publication of the Spanish note gave the American public its first
intimation that copies of the president’s note to the belligerents pro-
posing a discussion of peace terms had been accompanied when de-
livered to neutrals with a suggestion that the action of the United
States be supported. Whether such a suggestion went with the copies
to all neutrals is not known, as officials do not even admit that it was
done in the case of Spain.
Teuton Reply Unlikely.
While some officials think Germany will not fail to respond to the
entente reply, if not to answer the charges contained in it, others be-
lieve the reply leaves little if any room for further Teutonic advances.
The German embassy takes the latter view and holds that hope for
restoration of peace at this time depends almost entirely upon how
the entente replies to President Wilson’s suggestions.
MINISTERS PROTEST PEACE
Washington.—In a signed document
addressed to the natiqp, more than
fifty prelates and laymen of various
denominations representing many sec-
tions of the country have united in a
warning against what they declare
may be premature peace in Europe
which "may bring a curse instead of a
blessing.”
Among the signers to the document,
made public here, are Lyman Abbott,
President John Grier Hibben of Prince-
ton; former Attorney General Bona-
part, Winston Churchill, the author;
President Henry C. King of Oberlin
college; Gifford Pinchot; George
Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia; Rev.
William A. (Billy) Sunday; James M.
Speer, chairman of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary movement; Rev. C. K. Nelson,
Episcopal bishop of Atlanta; Rev. Jo-
seph F. Berry, Methodist Episcopal
bishop of Philadelphia; Rev. Philip M.
Rhinelander. Episcopal bishop of Penn-
sylvania; Rev. William Lawrence.
Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts
Rev. Harry E. Fosdick of Union The*
logical seminary; Rev. Charles P. Ai
derson, Episcopal bishop of Chicago
and Rev. William T. Manning, rectc
of the Trinity church, New York.
The address declares the Christiar
of America should consider the rigt
or wrong of the occupation of Belgiun
Poland and Serbia, tha Armenian ma
sacreS, the destruction of merchai
ships, the hardships of Jews and Syr
ans, the “attempt to array Muslei
against Christian in holy war” an
should be reminded that “peace is tb
triumph of righteousness and not tb
mere sheathing of the sword.” N
It further declares that the signet
view with some concern the orgai
ized and deliberate efforts now bein
made so to stampede Christian sent
ment as to create a public opinio
blindly favorable to stopping hosti
ities without adequate consideration t
the issue which the war involves ”
Montreal.—Firty-six women were
burned to death in a fire that destroy-
ed St. Ferdinand De Halifax asylum
at St. Ferdinand De Halifax, Megantic
county, Quebec.
Patients of the asylum, of whom
there were 180. were all women.
Meagre reports obtained from avail-
able sources give no intimation of the
cause of the fire, which started while
the inmates were asleep and apparent-
'y spread rapidly.
The asylum, which cared- for 180 fe-
male idiots, virtually was without fl
protection.
Reports received here described t
scenes attending the fire as horrifyir
1 he inmates of the asylum were t
controllable, and many of them we
said to have leaped from high w;
clows. Others in bewiidermen crouc
ed in terror near the windows until t
flames caught them.
One of the sisters met death in
effort to rescue several of the unft
tunate girls who were trapped
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