St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 11, 1915

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Only Evening Paper in St. Lous With Associated Press News Service. the ss ——— ———— ALY EXPECTED — TO ENTER WAR IN FEW DAYS Associated Press Correspond- ent, After Tour of Border, Says Belief Is General Conflict Cannot Be Much _ Longer Delayed. Italians Ordered to Join Reg- iments Immediately—Aus- tro-German Troops Con- centrated in Tyrol. Allied Offensive Near Arras Brings Further Gains, Menacing the German Communications. _—— By Associated Press. ON THE ITALIAN FRONTIER, May 11.—( Via Paris, 11:40 a. m.) The opinion prevails in Rome that Italy's participa- tion in the war is onlv a question of days. Along the Austrian front, where the correspondent of the Associated Press has been from one end of the line to the other, it is universally felt that war is a question only of hours. GENEVA, Switzerland, May 1i11—All Italian officers and men in Switzerland up to the age of 34 were ordered yes- terday to rejoin their regiments im- mediately. Austrian and Bavarian forces are con- centrating in the Tyrol. ' Automobiles belonging to the Italian royal family which had been assembled at Nonha, near Milan, were sent to Verona yestervuay for the use of the army. Shipments of freight from Italy to Germany through Switzerland virtually have ceased. Italian passenger train service to pvints on the Swiss frontier is Giminishing daily. : PARIS, May 11.—It is being persist- _. ently rumored in Paris that Germany 3 Austria-Hungary have already de- “are about to dectare war “6 Italy in anticipstition df such action on her part directed against themselves. This report, however, has received no confirmation of any kind. Another rumor current on the bourse today was that the Italian Government had signed an agreement with the allies Great Britain, France and Russia—to take part in the war not later than May 2%. This rumor also is without confirmation. French observers of the political situa- tion in Italy infer from the audience yesterday between king Victor Emman- tel and former Prime Minister Gio- Jitti that the nonintervention party In Italy has determined to withdraw al! |CUNARD COMPANY CANCELS SAILING OF MAURETANIA Sister Ship of the Lusitania Was to Have Left London on May 29. LONDON, May 11.—The sailing of the Cunard Line steamer Mauretania, sis- ter ship of the Lusitania, advertised for May 2 from this city, has been can- celled. The steamship Mauretania recently had been doing duty as an auxiliary cruiser in the British navy, and it also has been reported that she has been used as a transport for troops. It had been the intention of the Cunard Line to have the vessel resume her regular passenger service between New York and Liverpool at the end of the pres- ent month, when she was to begin a fortnightly service across the Atlantic, alternating with the Lusitania. Cunard Line Cancels Saflings From New York Saturday. NEW YORK, May I11.—It was an- nounced today there w'll be no sailing of Cunard steamships for the United States on Saturday. Announcement was also made today at the Cunard offices that the Anchor liner Tuscania, with 341 passengers, sailed from Glasgow Saturday and from Liverpoo] Sunday for New York. This is the first large passenger steamer io sail from the British iIsliee for the United States since the s‘uking o% the Lusitania. The Tuscanias passenger is wes made up of 36 in the first class capir, 130 in the second, and 175 in the steer- age. POPE SAID TO HAVE DEPLORED KAISER’S ‘INHUMAN METHODS’ Emperor Warned by Vatican to Be- ware of God’s Vengeance, Dis- patch From Kome Declares. CHICAGO, May 11.—The Daily News publishes the following dispatch from Rome: “The sinking of the Lusitania has ceused a feeling of violent indignation and anti-German hatred through Italy— a feeling which is increased by che fact that owing to the forthcoming war Ital- ian transatlantic liners probably will be exposed to similur lawless attack. The prevailirg convicticn here is that Amer- ica will punish Germany for the useless sacrifice of innocent lives and that all the neutral nations of the world and wthose now. fighting against Ger- many and Austria will be prepared tc aid America if necessary. “Pope Benedict has telegraphed to Kaiser Wilhelm deploring the inhuman methods employed by Germany as un- justified even by the necessities of war. and warning him to beware of God's vengeance. The Pope's appeal to the Kaiser’s humanity, it is hoped at the Vatican, will cause Germany to sbhan- Jon the practice of sinking passenger ships” BROTHER LOST, MANUFACTURERS WILL MAKE WAR MUNITIONS VOL. 67. NO. 264. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1915—22 PAGES. PRICE MAN KILLED WHEN | AUTO OVERTURNS IN 10-FO0T DITCH Three Others Are Pinned Under Car in Accident Near Edwards- ville, but Escape. GASOLINE INJURES' EYES It Trickles Onto Autoist Until ~ He Is Released From Under Machine. Sam Renner, 42 years old, a contractor of Livingston, Ill., northeast of Ed- wardsville, was killed at 3 o’clock this morning, when an autohomile owned and driven by George Skamenta, a coal miner, in which Renner and two others were passengers, was overturned in a ditch three miles north of Livingston. All four men were caught under the riachine, and Andrew Evans cyes were seriously affected by gasoline, which ‘rickled into them. Eyans, Skamenta and Andy Havanec were bruised and cut. When themselves, the three others extricated it was found that Ren- ner’s neck had apparently been broken. He was caught in such a way that the side of the car rested on his neck. His body was taken to the town hall in Williamston, a small settlement near the scene of the ac- cident. He had a wife and (four children. Skamenta, who sometimes uses his automobile in a business way, took a passenger to Benld yesterday after- noon, and took his three friends with him for company. They started back about midnight. The road is being repaired with cinders at the scene of the accident, and Skamenta, to avoid the cinders; ran too far to the side of the roadway, causing the car to be precipitated over a 10-foot embank- ment. rn ctl. KANSAS CITY DISTILLERS HELD ON CHARGE OF $70,000 FRAUD 25,000 Gallons of Moonshine Whisky Said to Have Been Consigned io Them From Fort Smith, Ark, KANSAS CITY, Mo., May i1.— Charges of a conspiracy to defraud the United States Government out of about $70,000 in revenues on distilled spirits were made by Federal officials here today in connection with the arrest yes. terday of Guy L. Hartman, George Hartman and John IF. Ferabee. The men are connected with a dis- tilling company here to which was con- signed, it is alleged, about 25,000 gal- lons of whisky said to have been manufactured illicitly in Fort Smith, Ark, where recent arrests were made on the charge of operating a moonshine still in the heart of that city. The three men arrested here pleaded President Wilson’s Address “A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular nalional group in America has not yet hecome an American. ’’ a — -- “My advice is not only always to think first of America, but always also to think first of humanity. ’’ a eee “* There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to fight to convince others by force that it is right.’’ To Naturalized Americans dent Wilson’s Philadelphia address: ‘It warms my heart that you should give me such a reception, but it is not of myself that I wish to think tonight, but of those who have just become citizens of the United States.. This is the only coun try in the world which experiences this constant and repeated birth. Other countries depend upon the mul tiplication of their own native people. This country is constantly drinking strength out of new sources by the voluntary association wit it of great bodies of strong men and forward-locking women. And so by the gift of the free will of independent people it is constantly being renewed from generation to gen- eration by the same process by which it was origin- ally created. It is as if humanity had determined to see to it that this great nation, founded for the bene fit of humanity, should not lack for the allegiance of the people of the world. ‘* You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of alle- gianee to those who te™porarily represent this great, government. You h ve taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race. You have said, ‘We are going to America, not only to earn a living, not only to seek the things which it was more diffi- Fr ent wis is the stenographic copy of Presi- cult, toobtain where you were bern, but to help for- ward the great enterprises of the human spirit ’—to let men know that everywhere in the world there are men who will cross strange oceans and go where a speech is spoken which is alien to them, knowing whatever the speech there is but one longing and ut- terance of the human heart, and that is for liberty and justice. And while you bring all countries with you, you come for the purpose of leaving al] other countries behind you—bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulder and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave in them. I certainly would not be one even to suggest that a man cease to love the home of his birth and the nation of his origin—these things are very sacred and ought not to be put out of our hearts—but it is one thing. a i i dt tll i _—_ —_ = ial PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON. welcome. If I have in any degree forgotten what America is intended for, I will thank God if you will remind me. I was born in America. You dreamed dreams of what America was to be, and I hope you brought the dreams with you. No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or under- take any high enterprise. Just because you brought ONE CENT oo a ten NIGHT FINANCIAL MARKETS © SPORTS tt eee engetenennens GERMANY'S DEFENSE HOLDS THAT VISIT AND SFARCH IS IMPOSSIBLE Says British Merchant Ships’ Practice of Trying to Ram Submarines Prevents It. CABINET IN A THREE-HOUR SESSION ON LUSITANIA CASE Bernstorff Presents to State Department Ger- many’s Formal Expression—President Says Philadelphia Speech Was Not an Expression of His Policy. at Washington: contraband. | Text of Germany’s Defense T following dispatch has been sent to the German Embassy Please communicate the following to the State Department: The German Government desires to express its deepest sym- pathy at the loss of lives on board the Lusitania. bility rests, however, with the British Government, which, through its plan of starving the civilian population of Germany, has forced Germany to resort to retaliatory measures. In spite of the German offer to stop the submarine war in case the starvation plan was given up, British merchant vessels are being generally armed with guns and have repeatedly tried to ram sub- marines so that a previous search was impossible. eee eae | They cannot, therefore, be treated as ordinary merchant vessels. A recent declaration made to the British Parliament by the Parlia- mentary Secretary, in answer to a question by Lord Charies Beresford, said that at the present practically all British merchant vessels were armed and provided with hand grenades. Besides, it has been cpenly admitted by the English press that the Lusitania on previous voyages repeatedly carried large quantities of war material. On the present voyage the Lusitania carried 5400 cases of ammunition, while the rest of the cargo consisted chiefly of If England, after repeated official and unofficial warnings, con- sidered herself able to declare that this boat ran no risk and thus lightheartedly assumed responsibility for human life on board a steamer which, owing to its armament and cargo, was liable to de- struction, the German Government, in spite of its heartfelt sympathy The responsi- 7 mg mw FRM nfs eager Me Rt AE os for the loss of American lives, cannot but regret that Americans felt inclined to: trust English promises rather than to pay attention to the warnings from the German side. Opposition to the war. Parties Would Be United, Consequently the Italian parties would to love the place where you were born and it is an- other thing to dedicate yourself to the place to which You cannot dedicate yourself to America un- -—_ aaralieedt not guilty. Their preliminary hearing was set for May 21. Connecticut Electric Company to De- rate Its Plant to Furnish Sup- plies to the Alltes. dreams with you, America is more likely to realize the dreams such as you brought. You are enriching us, be united in support of a war policy, fn the judgment of French observers, based on two fundamental considera- tions, namely, that wrongs have been Gone to Servia and Beigium and that the facial aspirations of the Italians on the eastern shore of the Adriatic and in the Mediterranean now can be satisfied. Military writers are presenting the ar- gument that war for Germany and Aus- tria on a third frontier widoubtedly will make the resistance of the Centra! Rmpires on their other fronts more feeble—so much so that, with the ada- vent of Italy, victory over Germany is Set for the middle of the summer. Confliet Seems Unavolidable, Though Negotiations Continue, ROME, May 11.—Although negotia- tions with the Central emptres still @re pending and there is a bare pos- sibility the influence of former Prem- fer Giolitti may avert war, military preparations pointing to Austria as an inevitable antagonist are so thorough and vigorous that a con- flict seems unavoidable. Discussions among the irreconcil- able Socialists, whose deputies met in ‘the chamber today, still oppose Italy's participation in the war, but their at- titude is believed to be guided more by a desire for consistency than be- cause of opposition to a war. Andreas Hermes, head of the se- tion of plant diseases in the Interna- tional Institute of Agriculture. who had returned to resume his post after a leave of absence, was sent home on the next train by the police, who are said to have learned that he is con- nected with thea, German Genera! staff. The Agency Naticaal says Emperor William has written to Dowager Queen Margherita, mother of King Emanuel. Pointing out advantages he be- Meves would accrue to Italy should it ' femain neutral, and urging her to in- tervene to avoid conflict with Austria. The widow of King Hubert is quoted as having replied to the German ruler: “In the house of Savoy we reign one at a time.” PARIS STIRRED BY ITALIAN RUMOR PARIS slay 11—ontinued gains re- eying from the allie. off nsive in prog- reese arvund Arras, which is sid in Terlin to dave heen undertaken with four new army corps, are annyuned jr. NEW BRITAIN, Conn., May 11.—De- termined to avenge the death on the Lusitania of Isaac B. Trumbull of Bridgeport, the Trumbull Electric Co. is planning to devote its large plant in Plainville to the manufacture of war munitions for the allies. Isaac Trum- bull was treasurer of the American Cycle Car Co. and a brother of Presi- dent Trumbull and other officials of the electric company. “We are now figuring on the neces- sary machinery for the manufacture of war munitions which we will sell to the allies,’ said President Trumbull to- day. ‘‘We have received offers to man- ufacture rifle parts and shrapnel at fancy prices. The ruthless killing of our brother has determined us as to the future.”’ “TOO PROUD TO FIGHT” IN HUGE LETTERS PLACARDED IN LONDON “Germany Does Not Understand This Kind of Righteousness,” the Even- ing Standard Says. LONDON, May 11.—The words .‘‘Too Proud to Fight’’ cover in huge letters most of the placards displayed on the streets of London today to advertise the evening papers of the city. The text of President Wilson’s speech at Philadelphia last night, printed here teday, reached London too late for gen- eral comment as yet. The Evening Standard in an editorial remarks: “President Wilson is a high-minded man and we can understand what he meant by this rather unpolitica! remark. Unfortunately Germany does not under- stand this kind of righteousness. I/ America could only, as the President says, convince Germany of her injustice to mankind, how dignified and useful would be her position as a neutral.”’ BANQUET TO INTERNED GERMAN OFFICERS ABANDONED Promoters Cal Washington Affair Off Because of the Lusitania Disaster. WASHINGTON, May 11.—A banquet and reception for the officers of the in- terned German commerce raiders Kron- pring Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Fried- rich, which was to have been held here within the next few days, has been abandoned by its promoters. Word has been sent to the officers at the Norfolk navy yard that because of the Lusitania disaster it was thought Continued on Page 2, Column 4 Aes not to carry out the pian. FROG CAUSES PANIC ON TRAIN It Was One of Piasa Creek Variety and Looked Ferocious. A Piasa Creek bullfrog, which hopped a crowded Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis passenger train at lLock Haven, threw the women and chil- dren into a panic. The Piasa Creek bullfrogs are about as big ag bullfrogs ever get to be and when this one invaded a coach filled with St. Louis passengers Sun- day evening, many of them did not know what the varmint was and sought safety on the backs of the seats. The frog was as badly fright- ened as they, put they did not know it and as it hopped about the car looking for a place to get off they supposed it was prompted by a fero- cious disposition and would bite them if they didn’t look out. A brave man chased the frog out to the platform and it leaped back into the creek. {FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW WITH MILD TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES, “612 (noon...) Yesterday's Temperatures. High. .74 at 4 p. m. Low. .51 at 5 a. m. Official fore- cast for St. UP BALL Louls ang vicin- EAMS ARE ity: Fair tonight INON-COMBATANTS tomorrow?; mild tempera- ture; fresh southerly winds. Missouri — Fair tonight and tomor- row; mild temper- ature. Hilinois—Fair to- night and tomor- row; not ature. Stage of the riv- er: 13.4 feet: fall of .2 of a foot. The Associated Preag News Service Is received and printed exclusively by the Post-Dispatch ip the St Louis even- ing field. rae 1.” A alapialiten: Vio Wii you go. less you become in every respect and with every pur- pose of your will thorough Americans. You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not cousist >f groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a par- ticular national group in Americc has not yet becoms an American; and the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is n« worthy son to live under the stars and stripes. ‘*My urgent advice to you would be not only al- ways to think first of America, but always also to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love. by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellow men. He has lost the touch and ideal of America, for America was created to unite mankind by those passions which lift and not by the passions which separate and de- base. We came to America, either ourselves or in persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of thimgs that divide and to make sure of the things that unite. It was but an histori- cal accident no doubt that this great country was called ‘the United States,’ and yet I am very thank- ful that it has the word ‘ United’ in its title: and the man who seeks to divide man from man, group from group, interest from interest, in the United States is striking at its very heart. ‘‘Tt is a very interesting circumstance to me in thinking of those of you who have just sworn al- legiance to this great Government that you were drawn across the ocean by some beckoning finger of hope, by some belief, by some vision of a new kind of justice, by some expectation of a better kind of life.’’ ‘*You, no doubt, have been disappointed in some of us. Some of us are very disappointing. No doubt vou have found that justice in the United States goes only with a pure heart and a right purpose, as it does everywhere else in the world. No doubt, what you found here did not seem touched for you, after all, with the complete beauty of the ideal which you had conceived beforehand. But remember this, if you had grown at all poor in the ideal, you brought some of it with you. A man does not go to seek the thing that is not im him. A man does not hope for the ong that he does not believe in. and if some ofus have forgotten what America believed in, vou, at any rate, imported in your own heart a renewal of the belief. That is the reason that I, for one, make you ‘must be a special example. if you come expecting us to be better than we are. ‘*See, my friends, what it means; it means that Americans must have a consciousness different from the consciousness of ‘every nation in the world. I am not saying this with even the slightest thought of criticism of other nations. You know how it is with a family. A family gets centered on itself if it is not careful and is less interested in the neighbors than it is in its own members. So a nation that is not constantly renewed out of new sources is apt to have narrowness and prejudice of a family, whereas America must have this consciousness, that on all sides it touches elbows and touches hearts: with all the nations of mankind. The axample of America The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace, because peace is the heal- ing and elevating influence of the world and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being 80 right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. “64 Bo if you come into this great nation as vou have come, voluntarily seeking something that we have to yive, all that we have to give is this. We cannot exempt you from work. No man is exempt from work anywhere in the world. I sometimes think he is fortunate if he has to work only with his hands, and not with his head. It is very easy to do what other people give you to do, but it is very difficult to give other people things to do. We cannot exempt you from the strife and the heart-breaking burden of the struggle of the day—that is common to mankind everywhere; we cannot exempt you from the loads that you must carry; we can only make them light by the spirit in which they are carried. That is the spirit of hope, it is the spirit of liberty, it is the spirit of justice. ‘*When I was asked, therefore, by the mayor and the committee that accompanied him to come up from Washington to meet this great company of newly admitted citizens, I could not decline the invitation. 1 ought not to be away from Washington and yet I feel it has renewed my spirit as an American. In Washington men tell you so many things that are not so, and I like to come and stand in the presence of a great body of fellow-citizens whether they have been a long time or a short time and drink, as it were, out of the common fountain with them and go back feeling that you hate so generously given me the sense of your support and of the living vitality in your hearts, of its great ideals, which make America the hope of the world.’’ (Signed) FOREIGN OFFICE. of war. vone on vessels flying the flags heeded. Speech Not Expression of Pelicy. President Wilson returned here at 3:55 a..m. today from Philadelphia, where he addressed an assemblage of natural- ized Americans last night and received a ous ovation. vee ae White House, later, he said his speech in Philadelphia last night was not a « \laration of policy in ref- erence to the Lusitania disaster; that he was not thinking of any special mat- ter, but of the newly naturalized Amer- icans in his audience. The President used the expression that he was thinking of the “Cain’’ some people were trying to raise. The President said he would make a decision on the policy to be followed in the Lusitania case as soon as he had all the elements in mind. For the pres- ent he had nothing to add, he said, to his statement last Saturday night, which was that he ‘was considering very earn- estly but very calmly the right course of action to pursue,” and that he knew the country expected him to “act with deliberation as well as with firm. sion in the Lusitania case apeaking his personal feelings ideal the United States this situation, as well as 2 Re A OL OIC: AE Ma. ea ee, arms of the world-wide war. WASHINGTON, May 11.—The President and the Cabinet, which met together today for the first time since the sinking of the Lusitania, had before them Germany’s official defense of the torpedoing of the liner.’ Count von Bernstorff, the German Am- bassador, accepting as authentic the text of Germany’s formal ex- pression received in news dispatches from Berlin, formally pre- sented the statement to the State Department. In a word the German defense is: 1. The practice of British merchant vessels in trying to ram submarines makes impossible the old custom of visit and search. 2. At present practically all British merchant vessels are armed at least with hand grenades and the Lusitania carried contraband 3. Germany’s warnings to Americans not to travel in the war of Germany’s enemies were not broadly that the United States should seek to serve the cause of humanity by using its influence to secure an adher- ence to the rules and principles of in- ternational law wherever they have been contravened. . Although the general trend of com- ment was one of surprise at the limita- tion which the President placed today on the interpretation of his speech, those who have followed his speeches closely pointed out that Whison fre- quently has spoken implicitly rather than explicitly. While his Philadelphia audience was impressed with the belief that the Pree- E rgcties : 5 es aaa ie So Ak... ‘ at 0 Ri er é Cpa ins: i, ae ee : : ee ee eee