St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 28, 1916

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ON TRADE WAR 2 ts z After European Con- Het Will Be Outlined To- »w by Baron Sakatani. ee TINGTON, Sept. 23.—Japan & to renew after the European » contention for the right of he- le to emigrate to and own land in sd States. suggested in a New we paper by Baron Yoshiro Sa*a- ) “Hi, former Finance Minister in the | ~ Bieeio Cabinet. is frankly admitted «t 5 Bie Japanese mr these questions, which came to a embassy. Negotiatione two years 2go0, are not re- wied by Japan as concluded, it was but merely postponed, while sr issues of the war are being pm a Sr ; alt with. at 4 e | it, 1916, by H. C. er, “& The rk Reg. U. 8. Pat. Otfes Bac __ hem “tay is ¢? eI f ti : es ee T +3 : ae >.> 4 : - ~> ‘ a ¢ ee Pn ‘ a _ . Fe &: . wit af “BA AND WIFE BRING GOLD .°* WU ee) ’ 3 2 Lat ergs 9 ‘Nn the He by California. Mat had pointed out that under its mee affected by it had recourse to the ries SSATTLE, Wash., _enip Victoria arrived “wm Nothe with more than $1,000,000 of =y sold. F. Smith and wife of the "he deadlock followed a long serie: 4 nferences between former Secre i ry Bryan and Baron Chinda, then the Ambassador, and an exchange between the two Governments See the alien land legislation enacteu After the State Depast- jon the United States Govern want could do no more than seek ‘vo such legislation and that p»r- courts, Japan closed the -:x- with a note saying her com- int had not been answered and re ; “for the present further discs. brof the issue.”’ > Viret Statement on Plan. (has been generally assumed that would remain in abeyance p whi'e Japan was occupied with the until now no one in a position ak with authority has said so, fewill be no formal discussion of the ft by the embassy at least until l of the new Ambassador, Dr. ro Sato, who was appointed when ei Chinda was transferred to London Pwho is expected honths. Epesition of the Japanese Govern- in Washington in a ling to informal statements mbsesy officials, stilt 4e-that restric. |} immigration and land holding injust und ternational law ‘they are discriminatory against favor of other nations. Removal eee réstrictions, it is explained, are as Japan's third and final step ber rise to statehood. the first two | the abolition of extra-territoriality bn of commercial equal. The embassy believes the renewed ne- mations will be most friendly in char- mer, officials declaring good relations mi this country are looked upon as with Japan's vital interests in Mit and the alliance with England to three cardinal points of Japa- policy. Japan’s present ined relations with China regarding Chiatun clash, the embassy # to be settled shortly in a way y to both sides. WORTH $250,000 HOME Wolf Heunds for French ike | Army Also Arrive in Seattle From Alaska, Sept. 28.—The yesterda,’ district, near the mouth of me ‘Yukon, brought more than $250,90C peed dust. B. B. Lanker and wife, 59 the new district at Marshall, on Yukon, brought $42,000 in dust. Victoria were 24 Siberian wolf og und. malamutes, each traveling on "i 4 oy ‘ wee a aS ad Ses ; ar > *; ger ticket. to France for service with the marmies, - Some of the dogs ‘MAID TO BE DEPORTED m@h Prison Term for Theft of Jew- , From Mrs. A. B, Lambert. ty Keay, 24 years old, who when a e in the home of Mrs. Albert Bond . » 2 Hortense place, stole jew- Val 7 + pale. Sy OR So ae Me i at $6800 from her employer, ‘Me taken to New York by an immi- or tonight for deporta- mgiand, her native country. = Was sentenced to the penitentia 1915, for two years, but thi ened by good behavior. She a Sept. 12 and was brought by immigration inspectors in jail here. When in the she was given a hearing officials and the Secre- bor ordered her deported. MOPAL PRAYERS FOR U. 5, to Americanize the book of mee \ prayer of the Protestant Epis- a 5 Pr mee ’ a Ate» > +. : A al a ee Wiil be made at the tri- here next month by evision Committee on that volume. | ~mittee has prepared a separate ‘Tor the President of the United SuGthe Governor of the State. Wl be presented for adoption a ‘er Congress, a petition for the “a ° “=n a ~—urth of July t, ee OW SESS, ov “The Ci 4 2 at Sp for the navy, inter- Courts of Justice,”” a country” and for the ure. The committee also Special prayer to be said supplies for the received here are much higher than those of last year. FROST PREDICTED TOMORROW “IN LOWLANDS OF STATE THE TEMPERATURES, i. ™m. m .* 7 a. m. Ofticial fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and to- morrow, probably with frost in low- landa. Now THE WAR COLLEGE HASA GREEK L FRATE BAIT Missouri — Fair tonight and to- morrow, cooler tu- night; probably frost; somewhat warmer in north- west portion § to- morrow. Illinois — Partly cloudy and cooler tonight, probably frost in north aud west portions; to- morrow fair and cooler; moderate to fresh northwert Stage of the river: 4.2 feet; a rise of .» of a foot. CARRIED 100 YARDS ON PILOT AFTER ENGINE HITS HIS AUTO Greenville, Ill., Resident Escapes With Two Fractured Ribs and Scalp and Arm Wounds, Charles Wahrenhahle, 56 years old, of Greenville, Ill, was carried 100 yards, with the wreckage of his automobile, on the pilot of a Louisville & Nashville engine which struck the machine shortly before 6 o’clock last night at French Village, lll. Hg’escaped without serious injuries. Wahrenhahle tried to cross in front of an eastbound passenger train. His automobile was struck with such force that it was demolished. Wahrenhahle was thrown into the air and alighted on the pilot, to which he clung until the train was stopped. He was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Belleville, where it was found that two of his ribs probably were fractured and that he had a scalp wound and cuts on his right arm. WANTS NEW CLASSIFICATION FOR OWNER OF LIQUOR BREATH City Hospital Official Says Such Per- son Should Not Be Registered as an “Alcoholic.” A complaint that any person on whose breath the odor of Hquor its detected at the city hospital is regietered as an al- \coholic and placed in the same categor-:7 as inebriates, resulted in an investiga- tion by Acting Superintendent Klippel, who will recommend a new system of registration. Dr. Klippel learned that where law- suits followed accident cases, lawyers often made capital of the fact that prin- cipals treated at the city hospital were registered as ‘“‘alcoholics.”’ He said onlv inebriates should be so classirned, and that a new designation should be adopt- ed for others with liquor breaths. EDISON GREETING HY HORN He Sends Welcome by Auto Device When Telegraphers Visit Him. NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Members of the United States Military Telegraph Corps and of the Old Time Telegraphers and Historical Association were sur- prised when they visited Thomas A. Edison at his laboratories at Orange, JN. J., yesterday to receive a telegraphic greeting in the Morse code from an electric automobile horn. The apparatus had been set up by Dr. Miller Rese Hutchinson, Edison’s chief engineer, ani as the party of 340 telegraphers nied through the entrance to the laboratory the horn sounded the Morse ‘“73’’ or signal of greeting and the following message from Edison in dots and dashes: ‘‘You know, boys, I am a little deaf; I cannot hear what you say, but I can read every word of it in your cheerful faces.’’ Navy Food Bids Much Higher. NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Bids for food United States Navy Some of the items celled for, such as beans and corn, are so scarce that many firms which usual- ly bid for these contracts did not com- pete. Only two firms bid on the string bean contract and offered to fill only TRUSTS WIFE SHOT WIT MAN IN HOTEL Mrs. F. C. Leduc of Chicago Re- covering in Philadelphia Hospi- tal—Wounded by Woman. . COMPANION WAS _ KILLED Assailant Then Ended Life— - Chicagoan Says Fifteen-Year Marriage Was Happy. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28.—Hurryin:z to the bedside of his wife, the one sur- vivor in the triple shooting in the Hotel Walton here early yesterday, J. C. Le- duc of Chicago, well known amatetir today said that he had every confidence in her loyalty to him and that he would stick to her through all her trouble. Mrs. Leduc is in Jefferson Hospital. She was improved today and physicians Said she would recover unless complica- tions set in. She was shot by Mrs, Harry Belzer of New York, who found her and J. C. Graveur, also of New York, in a hotel room. Mrs. Belzer iilied Graveur, who had discarded her after a friendship of two years, and ails» erded her own life. Says Married Life Was Happy. Leduc told of a happy married life of 15 years and his implicit trust in his wife. He said he had known Graveur 19 years. He had never heard his wife Speak of him. Mrs..Leduc, he said, left Chicago for New York about two weeks ago to visit her nephew and his wife He had letters from her every day. Leduc asked how Graveur and his wife had registered at the hotel and when told ‘‘as man and wife” his face grew grave. “That was the work of Graveur and I am sure Lillian did not know it,’’ he exclaimed. ' At the hospital Leduc told his wife to cheer up, that he would forgive her and take her back to Chicago. Mrs. Leduc told the story of the shooting and events leading up to it to her husband in the presence of de- tectives. She said she came to Phila- delphia by train and not by automobile, as reported, to see her nephew and his baby, recently born. She denied that she had traveled’to various. cities with Graveur and suggested that her iden- tity had been confused with that of Mrs. Belzer. The wounded woman said Graveur told her he had come to Philadelphia with Mrs. Belzer and then persuaded her to go back to New York. Accord- ing to Mrs. Leduc, Graveur called up Mrs. Leduc’s New York address by tel- ephone and learned that she had gone to Philadelphia to see her nephew. He was given the address and later he met her. Went to Room for Handbag. The same evening, Mrs. Leduc said, they went to a theater, then supper and a dance on the roo. garden of the ho- tel was suggested. Mrs. Leduc said she did not want to be encumbered with her handbag and at Graveur's suggestion she said she left it in his room on the floor below. Mrs. Leduc further said she intended returning to New York that night, and after the dance she went with Graveur to his room for the sole purpose of getting the handbag. As they returned, Mrs. Leduc said, Mrs. Belzer, who, Graveur thought he had induced to return to New York, jumped from a closet and began shooting. Mrs Mann, sister of Mrs. Leduc, corroborat- ed Mrs. Leduc’s story that she came to Philadelphia to visit relatives. Miss McAndrew, sister of Mrs. Belzer who came here today to claim the body of Mrs. Belzer, said Mrs. Leduc’s state- ment that Mrs. Belzer had come here with Graveur was not true. Mrs. Leduc, the husband said, has been studying operatic singing for .v years. Before her marriage she was Lillian Kappes of Cincinnati, where her mother now lives. Graveur, according to investigations made by the police, left New York on an automobile tour Sept. 12, while on Sept. 19 a ‘“‘Mrs. Le Duc, Chicago,” registered at the Hotel Theresa in that city. Receipted bills found in Graveur’s possession show that he and his com- panion had spent Friday and Saturday golfer, part of the order of 500,000 pounds. ‘in Atlantic City. a ing medium. carried less spenders. They | get the largest returns. ‘St. Louis’ ONE Sunday only. . .362,758 | : ne tan eee ASAE OA LGN OE \ — a eeeenneienmmmanattl ae ee —_ A “National”? Event --Yesterday’s totals show strikingly how the big national advertisers regard the POST-DISPATCH as a result-produc- Wednesday (yesterday) the POST-DISPATCH alone 23 Columns of National Advertising, While the Globe-Democrat, Republic, Star and Times—all Four other St. Louis papers combined—carried only 22 Columns These big advertisers who spend fortunes in advertising their goods in wig te all se or seman are be rns BIG Newspaper.’’ CIRCULATION Average for ths First 8 Months, 1916: {They know from experience that the POST-DISPATCH is Daily Average .209,311 _ “First in Everything” aN HUSBAND SAYS HE 10 UNIONIZE ALL ST. LOUIS SHOPS —_ Strike at Curtis Plant Discloses Movement Aimed to Win 8-Hour Day. RAILROADS NOT INCLUDED International Union Official Here—Factories Engaged in Munition Contracts Chiefly Affected. The strike of machinists in the plant of the Curtis & Co. Manufac- turing Co., at Wellston, and the threat of a strike in the four plants of the Wagner Electric Co., are manifesta- tions of an effort of union organi- zers to unionize the machinists of St. Louis while their services con- tinue in great demand for the mapr- ufacture of munitions of war. William Hannon, a member of the general executive board of the Inter- national Machinists’ Association, has come here from San Francisco to aid local officers of the union in the effort to get as many machinists as possible into the union, and then to obtain concessions from employers by strikes if necessary, and establish the union shop here. The union headquar- ters is at 810 Chestnut street. Hannon would not talk about his plans to a Post-Dispatch reporter who saw him this morning, but another union official, Secretary Parmeter of the local branch, made it clear that the pres ent effort had no relation to the many machinists employed in railroad repair shops here. These railroad machinists. he said, are in a separate 4Gistrict of the international organization. From other sources it was learned that the movement is practically limited to em- ployes of firms manufacturing munitions of war. Strikes in Uther Cities. Signs posted in the union head- quarters state that machinists’ strikes are in progress in Buffalo, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Akron, O., as well as in St. Louis. Cards which are being distributed among machinists bear a picture showing the figure of “Opportunity,” knoeking at the door. of the sleeping machinist. The opportunity as the accompanying reading matter shows, consists of the demand for machin- ists’ services in the making of mu- nitions. “Now, while there are more jobs than machinists,’’ the card reads, ‘‘is the time to organize and get what belongs tu you—the eight-hour day and a mechan- ic’s pay. The International Association of Machinists has secured this for thousands; we will get -—. Oe thousands more. Do you want to be one of them? If so, join the eight-hou.: boosters.”’ The fee for initiation or re- instatement of a machinist is $3, for a specialist, $2. A union machinist, who would no: permit the use of his name, said the strike at the Curtis plant was called for the ‘“‘moral effect” it might have on the Wagner company, which employs a to- tal of 3650 men, and which is largely en- gaged in the munitions business. He ex. plained that the Curtis factory makes castings, which are sent to the Wagner company to be polished and finished, and that if the Curtis castings should § - branded as a nonunion product, the Wagner union machinists might refuse to handle them, thus causing a strike there, No Estimate on Strength, B. F. Lamb, business agent, and Sec- retary Parmeter are in local charge of the movement. They have refused to make any statement as to the number o: union machinists, saying they desire, for the present, to let the employers exercise their talents for guessing as tu how many of their men would walk ou? i2 event of a strike. The officials of the Wagner and Curtis companies have refused to say anything for publication, but the Curtis company and the Fay- ette R. Plumb Co., in letters to Sheriff Bede of St. Louis County, have asked protection for their establishments. The Plumb firm employs a compara- tively small number of machinists, ani it could not be learned, by inquiry in the neighborhood yesterday, that any of the Plumb machinists had quit work. Estimates of the number out at the Curtis plant vary from 4 to 70. VILLA WAS NEAR NAMIQUIPA ON SEPT, 22 WITH 600 MEN Ee Planned to Capture Trains and Then Invade Texas, American Field Force Reports. FIELD HEADQUARTERS, AMERI- CAN EXPEDITION IN MEXICO, Sept. 27.—By Radio to Columbus, N. M., Sept. 2.—Francisco Villa, with 600 men was at Santa Clara ranch, 30 miles east of Namiquipa, on Sept. 22, for immediate purpose of capturing trains near Laguna and with the ulterior motive of striking north and invading Texas in the vicinity of Fabens, according to the latest and most detailed report of the bandit lead- er’s movements received at field head- quarters. The following leading adherents are said to be with Villa: Jose Lnez Salzar, Martin Lopez, three Murga brothers. Nikolas Fernandez. Villa himself is said to be unable to walk without a crutch or to put his right foot to the ground. The report makes no mention of a pursuing force, but the fact that Car- ranza troops are moving toward that part of Chihuahua is known at head- MACHINISTS PLAN | Gy ANTI-GERMAN ALLIES ae, NEUTRALS ‘ Fe ¢ o*e hs Ls . > 5° A or ,er* : * poy nie cebs, e*. * Wann XY , . m sl ay =. ‘\—" " “ x ~s a P ie i g arate 7 * 1 a 0+ oe - ee. nS » he sv se “— . aes A | T HERE will be but six neutrals left—Spain, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. The neu- trals are indicated in white while the Central Powers and the allies are designated by different shadings. Photo- ers, graphs of King Constantine of Greece and his former Premier, Elentherious Venizelos, whose political maneuv- including revolutions about to sweep Greece into the vortex of war, are shown. in Saloniki and Crete, are i DETROIT REGISTRATION 45,000 UNDERST, LOU Seat Cleveland Expected to. Show |. 425,000. Names—Compara- . tive School Enrollment Made. While Detroit is preening itself on the optimistic estimate of its popula- tion made by a directory publisher and is claiming nearly as many inhabitants for the fall election are interesting. For good measure, Cleveland may be in- cluded. The number of names of St. Louis voters enrolled in four registration days last week was 172,264. Of these names, 170,000 or more are expected to remain on the books after the revision of the lists Oct. 13. Dispatches to the Post- Dispatch say the Detroit fegistration is approximately 126,700, and that Cleve- land’s registration, which will be mere- ly a revision of last year’s registration, is expected to show about 125,000 names The present figures for Cleveland is 119,328. ° Detroit, however, makes a better com- parative showing in enrollment of pub- lic school children, It is stated that the enrollment this year is approximately §3,000. The-enrollment in the St. Louis public schools, up to Sept. 18, was 86,869. The Celveland school figures sent in re- sponse to the Post-Dispatch’s request, are of no value for comparison, as they include private and parochial schools. The new Detroit directory, out Sept. 9, contained an estimate of the pop- ulation of Detroit as 820,778. The population estimate made, in the us- ual directory manner, from the num- ber of names in the latest St. Louis directory, is 874,856. In census years directory estimates are much larger than the official figures. DRY CANDIDATE SAYS BRYAN _ MAY AGAIN RUN FOR PRESINENT Mr. Landrith Declares He Is Likely to Head the Prohibition Ticket. PRICE, Utah, Sept. 28.—Breweries and Bryan, condemnation for one and com- mendation for the other, were subjects discussed to Utah folks today by Dr. Ira Landrith, Prohibition vice prevtidenti:i candidate on the “dry’’ specisi. which entered the State for a one-day cam- paign. Utah is wet. ‘I welcome William J. Bryan to our ranks as a new cunvert,” Dr. Landritn continued. “He has declared that ‘he one great issue is liquor. He and others are going in for prohibition to be In at the death of liquor. Then they can point to their aid in the great victory.” Dr. Landrith said he would not be at all surprised if Bryan should run again for President on the dry ticket. MOB LYNCHES TWO NEGROES Murder Suspects Taken From Jail at Hohenweld, Tenn, NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 23.—Two negroes arrested in connection with the murder of. Bud Burns at Gardonsburg Saturday night were taken from the Hohenwald jail by a mob early today and shot to death against trees on a nearby hill. The Post-Dispatch is the only evening news- paper in St. Louls that reeeives or publishcs quartare \news gathered by the Associated Press, as St. Louis has, the registration hwtres| RESCUED BY s “TANK” RUNS OUT OF GAS IN GERMAN LINES, BUT IS INFANTRYMEN Germans Swarm Over Stalled “Land Ship” Trying in Vain to Get Into It— Another Monster Finishes a Cellar. By FREDERICK PALMER. The Only American Correspondent at British Headquarters in France. BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE, Sept 27, midnight.—In the lull which has oc- curred after the great two days’ battle, in which five villages and 5000 prisoners were taken by the allies, the correspond- ent of the Associated Press has had an opportunity to glean many stories from the participants in the struggle. These stories were not only of courage and heroism, but of a humor and paradox possible only in such complicated and remorseless warfare. The most wonderful of all the tales tela was perhaps that of one of the “tanks,” or new armored motor Cars, which started for Berlin on its own ac- count. This monstrous land ship, after ambling and rumbling along, did not wait on the infantry after the taking of Gueudecourt, but plodded over shell holes and across lots looking for its prey like some prehistoric lizard. In course of time it found a German trench, but us it engaged the occupants with its machine gun it ran out of gasoline. When the Germans found this strange creature with its steel hide impene- trable to bullets stalled, their curiosity and anxiety for revenge was fiflip to their courage. They went after it with the avidity of prehistoric mien stalking a wounded mammoth whose bulk was fast in one of the alleys of the cave dwellers. No guch game was ever seen on this Western front, marked as it has been by all kinds of bizarre fighting. Germans Swarm Over It, According to the accounts given by the British officers with veracious solemnity, .while the tank’s machine gun blazed right and left, some of the Germans managed to creep along the trenches un- der the forelegs and hindlegs of the crouching beast. Then they swarmed over it looking for an opening through which to strike at its vitals. They fired their rifles into joints and bombed it all over, but to no more avail than burglars trying to reach the inside of a battleship turret with a jimmy. AH the while the tank’s machine guns kept busy at the human targets in reach while its crew, chosen daredevils, concluded to stick un- til they starved or the Germans found the proper can opener to get them out. Finally, the British infantry _in the rear, seeing the tank in distress, re- fused to wait on any General's orders that they should remain at the objective which they had gained. They were out to save that impounded tank and with a cheer they rushed the Germans and overwhelmed them. When the crew heard the laughing and shouting in En- glish they opened the door and called out: “We are all right if you will only get us some more juice so that the old girl can have a guzzie of her proper drink, and we can take the road again.” | left behind 20 dead Germans, accord- ing to its commander. Tank Finishes a Cellar. Another tank which did well in this fight assisted in the taking of Thiep- val. There was once a chateau in Thievpal. The cellar is still there, roofed by the remains of the dwelling bricks, stone and mortar in a thick shell of pounded debris which protected it from penetration by even nine and 12- inch high explosives. Here the Germans waited, smoking their mild cigars and drinking soda water which was ‘brought up through shell-proof underground tunnels, while the ruins over their heads were belabored vainly by the British artillery. They had the sense of security of an early Kansas settler when he went below and closed his cellar door during a cyclone. Of course they had a machine gun ready to welcome the Brit- ish infantry instantly ‘that the British bombardment, stopped. When that gun began rattling, Mr.-Thomas Atkins took cover and discovered ways and means of silencing it. His meditations were interrupted by the appearance of a tank, which, with elephantine delibera- tion, lumbered across the trenches and, dipping its vertebrated ponderosity in and out of the shell holes, made a quick finish of the cellar and ite occupants. The tanking of Thiepval and the Zol- lern redoubt, which lies between it and Courcelette, was a wonderful business. Thiepval was held by the 180th German regiment, which had been there for a long time. According to prisoners the defenders had fortified the commanding! ridge with an amazing series of ramified ! tunnels and dugouts. They had dug into ' the chalky earth with beaver-like indus- try until they were safe under a shell fire, which would have turned a fort like Maubeuge or Liebe, or any other of the pre-war type, into the jumbled grave of its garrison. The men of the 180th asked permission to remain in Thiepval, giving | their word that it would never be taken from them, and the German army com- mander consented. Last Word in Defense. Not only at this village but along the ridge upon which hangs the whole An- glo-French movement was the same maze of warrens where the Germans lived with all the comforts of home. | The 180th had cudgelled its brain to'| make Thiepval the very last word in this kind of defense. It was this sort of preparation which stopped the British on July lL. Then, as the British infantry charged after the artillery bombardment the Germans popped out of their hiding places with machine guns and swept the lines of khaki with their deadly spray. it bBy bit since July 1 the British have worked their way forward. Yesterday, when they went after Thiepval and the Zollern redoubt the British soldiers, as one of the captured Germans said, were Map Sho wing How Entente's Steel R: ng Will Be Almost KING : (}f GREECE Comp' eted Around Central Powers if Greece Enters War | READY TO DECLARE == | WAR ON BULGARA ‘Constantine Decides to Act Following Report From Chief of Staff That Many Hellenic Officers Have Joined the Anglo-French Forces. Monarch Discusses Mobiliza- tion — Populace Seems Pleased at Prospect of Fighting Invaders. Ruler in Communication With Venizelos, Who Re- ceives Ovation in Be- flagged Streets of Crete. By Associated Press. ATHENS, Wednesday, Sept. via London, Sept. 28.—The Associated | Press is in a position to state posi- tively that King Constantine decided this morning in favor of an immediate declaration of war on Bulgaria. Reports that a general, mobilization has: been ordered are premature. After the session of the Council of Ministers at the palace this morning Premier Kalogeéropoulos hastily called a Cabinet meeting. The Premier de- clared the Government was giving the fullest consideration to the situation and said there might be addressed to Bulgaria a note of such character that mobilization would logically fol- ° w. ; r King Discusses Mobilization, | Later in the day it developed that the King had decided on a declaration of war against Bulgaria. The decision has not yet been announced publicly, as numerous detalis remain to be worked out. They include an ultimatum to Bul- garia demanding instant pd ort of all Gteek Macedonia, as ¥ as plans for mobilization under the difficult con- ditions presented by the occupation of Greece territory by the entente forces. The ‘King ‘this morning discussed tho mobilization program ‘minutely with Gen. Moschopoulos, chief of staff, and Gen. Yanakitsas, formér Minister of War. He probably will preside person- ally over a meeting of the crown coun- cil at noon Thursday. ¥ Even the departure of former Premier Venizelos from Athens created nothing like the suppressed excitement evident everywhere this afternoon. The people feel that their long period uf expectancy is about to end and the prospect of war with the Bulgarians apparently is wel- come. King Constantine received this morn- ing an exhaustive report from Gen. Mos- chopoulos, detailing the chaos in . the military organization of the country caused by the departure of so many officers to join the Anglo-French allies and advising the immediate declaration of war by Greece without awaiting either the assistance or the insistence of the entente Powers, as the only way to save the situation. 3 Premier Ready te Co-Operate. Premier Kalogeropolous, on departing from a conference with the King this morning, made this declaration to the Associated Press: “The Cabinet can only await the re- ceipt ofthe entente’s demand. it would be futile to rearrange the Con- stitution of the ministry without know- ing that such alteration would prove satisfactory. We are prepared, as we have always been, to meet any desires _ '-« of the entente in the most cordial spisi. © of co-operation, but we can scarcely be expected to abide by the ententr's wishes.”’ The Venizelist morning papers pul- lish declarations which the former Pra- mier left prior to his departure, in which he says the movement he head? is not revolutionary but purely of ne- tional character and that he has no ds sign upon the integrity of the actua' government of the country. M. Venize- los declares that his course is the only way by which national unity may be preserved and that he will struggle for the salvation of Greece without the aid | of the constituted Government, if the Government will not act. But if the King decides to defend Hellenic soli against the invaders he will be glad te turn over the forces he has gathered to co-operate in a common effort to save try. It is learned that communication. *e- tween the King and M. Venizelos has already been established through the former Minister of War, Gen. Ya ,; : : - e v4 ne eS a] 4 eae hae aS 3 ear a cz it