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THE TIMES. TEXHOMA. OKLAHOMA.
UNITED STATES FORWARDS
MAKES DEM/ \ii THAT SUBMA-
RINE WARFARE ON MER-
CHANTMEN MUST STOP.
10
RITE CABBIES VEILED WARRH6 oS from ti! conmercr. to adopt me'-h
odi of retaJ'-a'ioc which go z-ict be-
rocd ti* ordinary meifcods of *ir
United States Government. It I* Pos - «4re M M t- tie procUmatioa of a
tively Stated is Wmika)ton. Ha* «ir lone from wblci they have warn-
_ _ - ed neutral ships to keep away Th's
Not Const/ ted WItfi Foreign Cap ,
government Las aiready taaea occa
Uls Relat.ve ti Course in Event ltoo to tafor* the Imperial German
Germany Declines to Comply With Government that It can cot admit the
perta! Germaa &i<i! a:".i3ri'J«L Tt
takes it for granted that, a: Itut
within the practical possibilities of er
err Kich case, the coamleri evea
tabmansti were «;«Md to do
'ot'r.tng that wocll U« : e the lives
A bog (OEbsUB'j or the safety of
-estral ships, even at the cost of faS-
3 tales has bees apprised the I*- :t* o! their object of capture or de-
periai GoTeraatez*. considered the*.- structioa It ecafideity expect*,
selves to he obliged by the extraor -hereto*. that tie imperial German
dtnary ctrramstaaces of the presest Govern3M*t wHl disavow the acU of
war aid the measures adopted fcy their *;:ch the government of the l.a:ted
adrersar.es ia seekiag to cat Germany States comp.ai^*. that they will make
reparation so far as reparation Is pos-
GERMANY KNOWS
OF OUR DEMANDS
AMBASSADOR GERARD CABLES
THAT PRESIDENTS NOTE HAS
BEEN DELIVERED.
INTERVIEW" WITH THE HERO
Psychology of Practice
The question of short versus long
.. _ periods of practice in training the hu-
H.ppsn.ng When Man From the Front man m||s<.!>>| {or any p,rtlcuUr kintf
Explains Things to
Fair Charmer.
Hit
i so far as repar
inicnea *h.ch
■UB TO Ttlll JiKI. FttStllWSltR
Var Demands.
adoption of such measures or such a
waning of danger to operate as in
any degree an abbreviation of the
measure aad that they will take :mme-
iate steps to prevent the recurrence
of asy thing ao obv.ousiy sab'ers'.ve of
the prtncfpie* of warfare for which
the Imperial German Government,
hare ia the past ao wisely and io
firmly contended.
The government and people of the
j Uaited States look to the imperial
German Government for just prompt
Prompt Consideration I* Assured—
Austrian and German Ambassa-
dors at Washington Are No-
ticeably Active.
Washington, D. C—The United
Slates government has cabled Ambas-
rights of American shipmasters or of and enlightened action ia this vital
matter with the greater confidence be-
cause the United States and Germany
are bound together cot only by spe-
cial ties of friendship, bat also by the
of the treaty of
lii« between the United States and
the kingdom of Prussia.
"Expressions of regret and offers
oi reparation in case of the destruc
:k>n of neutral ships sank by mistake,
while they may satisfy international
obligations if no loss of life result*
cannot justify or excuse a practice,
the natural and necessary effect of
which is to subject neutral nation*
and neutral persons to new and im-
measurable risks.
"The Ifnperial German Government
will not expect the government of the
..ailed States to omit any word or
' any act necessary to the performance
of its sacred duty of maintaining the
I rights of the I'nited States and it*
citizens and of safeguarding their free ^ endeavoring
"BRYAN."
ol the United tSates or the Emperor of the American note, and it is under-
American cilixens bound on lawful
errands as passengers on merchant
aador Gerard for presentat.on to the ^,p| of b^mgereat satioeality and
German government a cote calling at u mQ4t hoW imperial German
tention to tie grave ;'nation which Government to a strict accountability explicit stipulations
has resulted" from violation of Amer- /or infringement of rh-.se rights.
Jean right* on the high sea*, calmlnat- international or incidental It does
Jng in the sinking of the Lusitanla L-,. understand the Imperial German
with a loss of more than IN Amen Government to question those rights.
can lives. jt assumes, to the contrary that
The communication expresses the the imper.al Government accept.
confident expectation of the United as of course, the rule that the lives
States that the imperial German 0( n:n^omDatants whether they be
Government will diaavow the acts of 0 neutral citizenship or citizens of
•which the governmenx of the United 0£e 0f tte nations at war. cannot law-
Sutes complain*, that they will make fully or rightfully be put in jeopardy
reparation so far as reparation i* pos by the capture or destruction of an
•ible for injuries which are without unarmed merchantmen, ar# recog-
measure, and that they will take ;m nize also, as all other nation* do. the
mediate steps to prevent the recur obligation to take the usual precaution
recce of anything so obviously sob- of visit and search to
versive of the principle* of warfare whether a suspected merchantman
for which the Imperial German gov- is in fact of belligerent nationality or
eminent hi the past so wisely and so is in fact carrying contraband of war
linn ly contesdei under a neutral flag. ..... I exercise and enjoyment
la as cosciEKioa the cote stares The government of the Ln.ei
that "the Inperm German Govern- States, therefore, desires to call the.
in est w3l iitt erjmR ti* 4: remanent attention of the Imperial German gov-J
« ! the Ui.iei StaiM H latu aay word eminent with the utmost earnestness German Americans Uphold Wilson.
or any jk- imoouii?? -t the ;^rform- to the fact that the objection of their j The following appeared in the Eng
ance of its tut'.rwC cvr.} -aiitaln- present method of attack against thejiish column of the Staats-Zeitungi
Ing the i%tts iif t4 i -rtt ''rates trade of their enemies lies in the prac-; ' What attitude do Gennaa-An
and its c.iwtut txt uf Ktf«riardiii{ tical impossibility for the officers of
their free txertane aifi ri_.ii a submarine to visit a merchantman
at sea and examine her papers and
Th frl! ten of ihr l.nte mat by cargo. It is practically impossible for
Prewid'iit Wfisoo to Gtrmuj re- them to make a prize of her, and. if
cent Making of the Laeteaaoa u made they cannot put a prize crew on board
public by the siate itpanai i u as of her. they cannot sink her without
follows: leaving her crew and all on board of
Department of State, her to the mercy of the sea in her
Washington. D. C. small boats. These facts, it is un-
The 3ecretary of State to the Amer- derstood, the Imperial government ad-
ican Ambassador at Berlin: mits frankly. We are Informed that
"Please call on the minister of for- in the instances of which we have
eign affairs and. after reading to him spoken time enough for even that
this communication, leave with him a poor measure of safety was not glv-
copy. en and in at least two of the cases
"In view of recent acts of the Ger- cited, not so much as a warning was
znan authorities in violation of Amer- received. Manifestly fubmarines can
lean rights on the high seas, which not be used against merchantmen, as
culminated In the torpedoing and sink- the last few weeks have shown, with-
Ing of the British steamship Lusitanla out an Inevitable violation of many
■on May 7, 1915, by which over 100 sacred principles 'of justice and ku
American citizens lost their lives, it 1b manity
■clearly wise and desirable that the "American citizens act within their
povemment of the United States and indisputable rights in taking their
«he Imperial Oerman Government ships and in traveling wherever their
should come to a clear and full un- legitimate business calls them upon
-derstanding as to the grave situation the high seas and exercise those
whl-h has resulted. rights in what should be the well-jus-
The sinking of the British passenger tified confidence that their lives will
•'earner Pal aba by a German subma- not endangered by acts done in
rlne on March 28. through which Leon clear vio]ation of universally acknowl
<•. Thresher, an American citizen, was P(1)!Pd international obligation and
drowned; the attack on April 23 on certainty j0 the confidence that their
the American vessel Cushing by a Ger- own g0V(,rnment will sustain them in
(nan aeroplane; the torpedoing on May the exerclSe of their rights
1 of the American vessel Gulflight There was recently published in
by a German submarine as a result the neW8papers of the United States.
of uliich two or more American clti- , KKret t0 jnforfn the Imperial Gov-
tens met their death, and. finally, the ernnlent a formal warning, purporting
torpedoing and sinking of the steam tQ CQme from the ImperjaI <;erman
ship Lusitanla, constitutes a series of embassy al Washington addressed to
events which the government of the; the Qf the UnUed Sta,es an),
Vnlted States has observed with grow- eU,ng lQ #ffect ,hat an>. ciUlpn of the
Ing concern, distress and amazement rQlud Stat„s who exercised his right
•recalling the humane and enllght- Qf free tr>ve, upon the #(,M woul(J io
e-H attitude hitherto assumed by the j ^ hu , ,f h|l ]ourne>)
lmoerlal German Government in 1 uk# hlm wlthin th#
zone of waters
within which the Imperial German I BUT 4 NATIONS ARE AT PEACE
Washington, May 1 % —Germany is
expected to answer the American note
:f last Friday before the end of the
«eek. Ambassador Gerard cabled the
state department today that he had
read the document to Herr von Jagow.
the foreign minister. Saturday morn-
ing and that an early reply would
be forthcoming.
The ambassador was given no Inti-
mation of the feeling of the Germaa
gjvercmenL Ha was assured merely
that the subject would receive con-
sideration by the higher officials and
that a reply would be ready soon.
Inasmuch as the press had cot been
permitted to publish the text of the
note, the ambassador also was unable
to report on the state of public opin-
ion totrard it.
In the meantime the diplomatic j
atclvjty of Count von Bernstorff. the
German ambassador and Dr. Constan-
ts T Dumba. the Austrian ambassa-
dor. both of whom are understood to
j "Oh, Mr Hero, I'm so glad to see
you safely back from the war. Sit
right down and tell me all about it
1 I'm awfully interested. Wasn't it sim-
| ply terrible over there? And did you
j really live in the trenches for weeks
at a time with shot and shell scream-
ing all around you? I don't see how
you could stand it Were you ever hit
by one of those forty-two centimeter
guns? I mean by the >ullet of course;
not by the gun. But Chen, of course,
you weren t. or you'd have your arm
in a sling or something Who do you
think is going to win? I suppose I
shouldn t ask you that, though You
soldiers are not allowed to tell mili-
tary secrets, are you? Did you ever
really kfT! a man yourself, or don't you
know* My uncle, who was in the
Spanish war. says you never can tell
•ahether it's your bullet or somebody
else's that bits the enemy. I should
think that would be awfully annoying
Not that you want to know that you'd
1 killed a man. but still you'd like to
' know whether you're wasting your atn-
of work is obviously one having far-
reaching application. Some interest-
ing experiments on this subject hav«
been carried out by Dr. K. 8 Lash ley
of Johns Hopkins university. Acquisi-
tion of skill in archery '*8 selected
as the subject of observation Twenty
untrained persons were divided Into
three groups One group shot five
arrows with the English longbow per
day; another, twenty shots per day;
and the third, forty shots. The re-
sults showed conclusively that the
group shooting only five times a day
improved in accuracy with less ex-
penditure of time in practice than was
required by either of the other groups
for the same amount of improvement.
A report on the experiments says:
"The relatively greater efficiency of
short periods of practice continuing
for many days is in accordance with
the results of the study of animals
and of speech habits in man, and in-
dicates that in training to muscular
feats tn both animals and man, the
. length of practice periods retired ia
usually too great for maximum ef-
. ficiency.'"—Scientific American.
munition or not Oh, must you go so A Quibble
soon' 1 wish you would stay longer John B StanchfieW. the lawyer, was
rve been so interested in hearing your dlscussing in an interview in New
adventures Call again soon, won't YoVk lhe
case of bis client, Harry
yoa? Good-by." 7Saw
"But objections Ifke that." said Mr.
Stanchfield. "are mere quibbles. They
The Heroines of Novefa.
If I were his satanic majesty, and a jjaTe no reai bearing on the case Like
novelist came to me for judgment. I the farmer s wife, they only confuse
j shopld beetle my brow s in a horrible and embroil matters.
i manner and quiz him thus: ; -a sickly farmer said to his husky
"Did • you ever make your heroine ' wjf% one spring morning:
! eighteen years eld? Did you ever en j see by the papers that a woman
dow a maiden with the repartee of down Paint Rock way goes out every
Pinero. the intuition of Blavatskr. the morning and hoes with her husband'
carriage of Cart n, the hauteiif of " Well, what of It?" the wife an-
the Medici, the -raaty of Aphrodite
j prevent a rupture of j aa(j tj,e *jsd0m of Athene—all at the
I friendly relations between Germany
age of eighteen years?"
If the novelist answered me "Cer-
j tainly not!" I should ay: "To heaven
t and the United Slates, is attracting
much attention.
Neither of the diplomatists would i wlth you;- But if he ^wered: "Sure
discuss the subject today. Doctor | j didl. j ,oa]d bIast him where he
swered. 'She could do it easily enough
if he's as thin as you are. I've .often
thought of using you to peel potatoes
with.'"
Dumba had a long conference with gtood
Comparisons.
"My income." said the boastful the-
, „ _ , , atrical star, "is much larger than that
Ameri- secretary Bryan and later with other j por an the iniquitous, fallacious. 0f the president of the United States."
cans take toward the German subma- i-icia.s at the state department It' unfair aE^ dangerous doctrines, this "Yes," replied the. conservative per-
rine policy as evidenced by the fate i- known that he discussed informally : taites the icing of the cake—that the - But you can't judge by incomes,
of their fellow citizens on the Losi- the discussion produced by the sink- femaie species reaches her apogee at jacfc j0{mson's income used to be
tania? Are they with the president lag of the Lusltania and the sending the immature age of eighteen.—From ]arger than yours."
of Germany?"—The Evening Mail.
I speak for myself and, I be-
lieve, for the great majority of
German-Americans whea I say
that we are with the president of
the United States to the finish
in all matters affecting national
honor or national prestige.
I subscribe unqualifiedly to the
statement of Carl Schurx. "My j
country, right or wrong; if right, j
to be kept right; if wrong to be ]
•et right"
HERMAN RIDDER. (
Com. of Lusltania Destroyer Reports.
Berlin, via Amsterdam, to London.
— From the report of the submarine
that sunk the Cunard liner I^usitania
last Friday, the following official ver-
sion of the incident is published by
the admiralty staff under the signa-
ture of Admiral Behncke:
"The submarine sighted the steamer,
which showed no flag. May 7, at 2:2®
o'clock central European time, after-
noon, on the southeast coast «ff Ire-
land in fine, clear weather.
"At 3:10 o'clock one torpedo was
fired at the Lusltania, which hit star
board below the captain's bridge The
detonation of the torpedo was follow-
ed immediately by s further explosion
of extremely strong effect. The ship
quickly listed to starboard and began
to sink.
"The second explosion must be
traced back to the ignition of quaatU
ties of ammunition Inside the ship
. stood also that Secretary Bryan ap-
j prised President Wtlson in New York
of the substance of the conversation.
| Later Doctor Dumba conferred with
Count von Bernstorff.
Both the Austrian and German am-
; b&ssadors are understood to have tele-
graphed to their government, urging
"Balm for Lovers," by George Westoa j
in the Saturday Evening Post
Too Much for Them.
Corpulent Individual—But you can't
give me any reason why I should not
enlist
Spouse—Well, I should miss you.
. Stitch! Stitchi
"I have just read aa Interesting
i article abcat the sewers of Paris,"
•aid hubby, closing the book on his j dear, but the Germans couldn't—Lon-
thumb. j don Mail.
"Yes." replied wlfie, "they're busy
; suspension of submarine attacks on t Bighl making afcirts for sol-! B*t Not 0«>« of Them.
passenger ships while the diplomatic ] ^ers." ' "Does he belong to the moneyed
j discussions are in progress because of - ' class?"
i the serious situation that has resulted I only a thirty-third degree artist can Heart and soul. There's nothing he
ters of International right and tn par
tu ularly with regard to the freedom wu u aubmarine* against
of the having learned to recog- tfae commerce of Grea, Brlu,a and
France, notwithstanding the respect
ful. but very earenst protest of his
government, the government of the
United State* I do not refer to this
German I 'or the PurP°,e °' cal"n8 the atten
l>!ze the German views and the Ger
r>an Influence In the field of Inter-
rat'ena! obligation as always engaged
woon the side of Justice and human-1
1 v and having understood the In
r ructions of the Imperial
la the Tnited States from the sinking ! make a soft drink of hard water
of the Lusitania. They have cautioned j
extreme care lest the sinkin of an- j
other ship with American lives abroad |
may lead to ao immediate break In the
relations of the United States with
Germany.
Austria is watchiag with much in-
terest the situation with which her
ally is confronted in the United States
and her influence is being used In the
direction of assisting in a peaceful set-
tlement
Various ingestions have been dis-
cussed by the German and Austrian
ambassadors, and it Is understood that
many of rhem have been cabled to
their home governments.
The genera! exportation here is ttwt
Germany will reiterate her willingness
to abandon her present submarine
warfare on merchant ships and follow
tte maritime prise laws if neutrals
will influence the allies to permit the
shipment of foodstuffs to civilians in
belligerent territory. In this conaec
tion there has been sorae considera-
tion given in official quarters here to
the advisability to sending a nete of
protest to Great Britain against the
actual operations of its fleet in en
forcing the blockade of commerce with
Germany.
J wouldn't do for them."
Covernment to It* naval commanders
be upon the same plane of humane
tion of the Imperial German Govern-
ment at this time to the surprising
to be upon the same plane ot numane - _
action prescribed bv the naval code. (lrr*^my of a communication from
of other nations, lhe government of ^ , "Th ' u
the I'n'.ted State, was loath to ; «ashlngton addressed to the people
lleve—It cannot now bring lUelf to of the I nlted S .tes through the news
believe that these acts, so tteolutely «>ut 0°l> tor ,he P™ of
contrarv to the rule., the practise. Pointing out that no warn.ng that an
and tha .plrit of modern warfare. «ul wful *nd humane act wouhl be
could have the countenance or «nc committed can possibly be acepted as
tion of that great government. It
feels it to be Its duty, therefore, to
adrire«« the Imperial German Govern-
ment concerning them with the ut-
most frankness and In the earnest
hope that it is not mistaken In ex-
pecting action on the part of the Im-
perial German Government which will
an excuse or palliating 'or that act
or as an abatement of the responsi-
bility for it. commission
"Long acquainted a* tnts govern-
ment has been with the character of
the Imperial German Government and
with the high principles of equity by
which they have in the past been act
correct the unfortunate impressions i "ated and guided, the government of
which have been created and vlndl-' the United States cannot believe that
<ate once more the position of that
government with regard to the sacred
freedom of the seas.
"The government
sf the United
the commanders of the veMels which
committed these act* of lawles.ne..
did .o except under a misapprehen-
sion of the orders ls.ued by the Im-
London. M.y 16.—With the outbreak
of a revolution in Portugal, which, ac-
cording to dispatche. from Madrid i.
supported by the navy. Spain, Switzer-
land. Holland and the Scandinavian
countries, are the only states In
Europe which are not either engaged
In war or have domestic trouble, to
ocupy their attention.
Very little newa has yet come
through from Lisbon, but it is reported
that the navy ha. bombarded the capi-
tal held by the army which remains
loyal to the president. Manual De Ar
rlaga. It Is not knomn whether the
Insurrection was started by the royal-
ist., but member, of that party resi-
dent in London, disclaim all knowl-
edge of It
Trinidad, Colo.—The trial of Rob
ert I'hlich a local official of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America began
here today He U charged with the
murder of Mack Powell, a cowboy, Oc-
tober 9. 1913, during one of the nu
merou. clashes between .triklng mln
ers and mine guards during the Colo
rado coal strike.
<o Spite Work Say. McAdoo.
Washi!
charges
against
this city
Adoo an<
tr^a-'i TV
1U filed
the Di.ti
the inJi:'
the hanV
tr-ssury
• reck t
n. D. 0.—8
conspiracy
Kigg« Natl
■ made by :
■eclflc denial
and malice
inal bank of
ecretarv Mc
Comptroller Williams of the
department Io long affidai-
in the supreme court of
let of Columbia In repl> to
ctlon proceedings brought by
In xblch It was alleged the
officials had conspired to
Decision Ha. Va.t Bea
Washington—In one of
far reaching decision* of rec
the interstate commerce c<i
decided that the railroad. o«
operating steamship lines on
lake, must give them up
cember 1. The princip.1
trunk line, which carry the
uine of freight traffic betw<
tic .eaboard and the we.t ar
and the decision may parti
the trade route, over which t
I millions of tons of freight
rings ; Omaha Neb.—A shipment of SIS
the mo*t I lambs, averaging 78 pounds, from
ent years.) ScotU Bluff. Neb . sold here for $1!.$C
immUsioo a hundred, the highe.t price ever paid
n ng and for wooled lamb, on a Missouri rivet
NEW PRESIDENT OF POR-
TUGUESE CABINET KILLED
Senator SSoots Fowr Times. All Bui
lets Taking Effect—Assassin Is
Wounded by Train Pawenger.
Madrid, via Paris. May IS—Fighting
in Lisbon ha* begun again, aoordlng
to the latest news reaching Badajos
The warships are bombarding the
city. Over one hundred persons have
been killed, including several Span
lards. The Spanish warships Sspana
and Rio De La Plata and a Spanish
torpedo boat have arrived at Lisbon.
Gendarmes Kill Assassin.
Paris. May 18—Telegraphing from
Lisbon at 3 o'clock this afternoon, the
correspondent of the Tavas agency
says. "Trouble ha. broken out afresh
Senator Freitas. who .hot and wound-
ed Joao Chagss, the bead of the new
ministry, wa. .hot dead by gend
arme*."
the great
eastern
jreat vol-1
et Allan-
r. moved
r.e'
noBDcement
vard obaer
Mas*—Profe.cor Bar
s Yerke. observatory, al
ay. Wis. ha. discovered
lion bodies near Melllshs
ordlng to an official aa
just received at the Har
atory
ONE RAIN COST HALF MILLION
Fruit in Northern California i. Seri
ously Damaged.
8acramen'o, Cal, May 18.—One rain
too many has cost half a million dol-
lars in known lo.se. to fruit in North-
ern California broker, here Mid to*
day Strawberries and cherries, they
Mid, .uffered to this amount and fun-
gus growths are threat'-ned. I n season-
able rain, for several wek. are report,
ed to have Increased crop value, la
lhe state by aiU.ioas of dollars.
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