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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Decision
by the administration to permit the
loaning of cannon by the department
to American merchantmen desirous of
crossing the zone of the sea barred
by Germany in order to reach English
and French ports is the one outstand
ing feature of the new week in the
intense international situation. Such
decision is a distinct recession from
the administration’s earlier attitude of
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assuming that Germany did not real
ly mean to assault American ships in
the prohibited area. It was forced,
however, by the logic of events.
Germany’s declaration and the at
titude of this government has result
ed in practically a cessation of trans
atlantic trade by American ships.
While two American freighters, brav
ing the danger, have sailed for Eng
land out of Norfolk, Va., the great
liners are tied up. Their owners, in
debating with the state department,
have put up sharply this proposition:
Problem of Ship Owners.
“You will not tell us that we may
sail or that we may not sail. You
will not guarantee us protection on the
seas. And yet you hint to us that we
ought to sail. But if we do and our
ships are destroyed, you will tell us
plainly that war probably will result.
In effect, then, you invite us to com
mit an act which may plungs'the na
tion into war. You ask us to maintain,
at our own risk, American rights on
the seas, and still sefuse any protec
tion.”
It was a dinicult proposition to
meet. Hence the concession, when it
was demonstrated that the merchant
men cannot find armament in the
markets, to let the navy unofficially!
lend guns to the ships.
What the merchantmen really de-j
sire is an escort of American naval
vessels, but the president balks at
granting this, sticking to this extent
to his earleir attitude that Germany
will not attack American ships, and
also having an eye to his announced
policy of doing nothing that will ;
thrust on America the onus of commit
ting a belligerent act.
German Acts Offensive.
Had not Germany acted in such an
offensive manner in the matter of de
laying Ambassador Gerard and in pro
moting news stories that she wanted
to parley further to avoid a break it
is doubtful that the administration i
would have gone as far as it has in
helping merchantmen to arm for de
fense against the submarine peril.
Those acts on the part of Germany j
were found in Washington to be most
distasteful.
Distasteful from another angle are
activities of the pacificists and the
pro-Germans in this country, activities
which, by the publicity they gain
abroad, particularly in Germany, pro
duce embarrassment. An example is
the resolution introduced in the senate
by Senator LaFollette making it un
lawful for any merchantment, armed
for defense, to depart from these
shores.
Students of international law point
to the advanced position Brazil has
taken in the matter of the German
closed sea declaration, and to the ap
parent solidarity of Brazil as a nation
behind that declaration, as an example
of what attitude an American republic
Should assume in a crisis such as this.
Cite Law of 1798.
But while an element in congress, of
which Senator La Follette is represen
tative, seeks to hamper the rights of
American ships to sail armed and
seeks also to vitiate the already cau
tious policy of the administration, an
other element is for far more aggres
sive action. Thus Representative
Richard Waye Parker, of New Jer
sey, and others, during the past few
days, taking the debate on the naval
bill as a medium, have pointed out
what this nation might do beyond
what the president proposes. They
have cited the acts of congress of June
25 and July 9, 1798, which authorized
American merchantmen, not only to
arm for defense, but to capture French
vessels which were interfering with
American commerce, under guise oT
keeping supplies from the enemies of
France, precisely as German vessels
now are interfering with American
commerce.
Mr. Parker has shown from history'
how during a period of two and one
half years, during which we did not
break of diplomatic relations with
France, our ships, naval and private,
captured four ships of the French j
navy and eighty merchantmen, in ac
tual battle, all of which were features
of that little war, which was never
recognized as a war, but which re- j
solved itself into an upholding of
American rights.
Also it has been stated in congress
that Sweden now is using vessels of J
her navy to convoy German and Swed
ish ships across the Baltic from and
to Swedish and German ports, safe
guarding them aginst attacks by ves
sels of the allies.
Watch Seattle Plotters.
While it is no longer news that the
government, through the bureau of in
vestigation of the department of jus
tice, is keeping watch on the extraor
dinary number of Germans in this
country who have been allied with un
neutral plots, and conspiracies, their
names having been learned through
the San Francisco trials of German of
ficers, it developed today at the de
partment of justice that a considera- ]
ble and a disproportionate number of I
men under surveillance are now in the
Pacific northwest. Should war come
it is a certainty that wholesale ar
rests in Seattle, Tacoma and other Pa
cific northwestern cities* will follow '
instantly. Actual evidence sufficient |
to warrant arrest now exists in many
cases, but, rather than complicate the
international situation further, the
government is holding its hand.
BIGGEST WORK
IN THE WORM)
The digging of the Panama canal
has been generally regarded as the
biggest thing of the kind yet under- ■
taken, necessitating arf it did, .the ex
cavation of just over 250,000,000 cu
bic yards of earth and rock. But it is
estimated that not less than 1,000,
000,000 cubic yards have been exca
vated for British, Fvench and Ger
man trenches, extending 750 mites
across western France.
Each of the two main 750-mile-long
ditches, the first, second and third line
trenches on either side, together with
the “alternatives,” as they are called J
are connected one with another by a
perfect labyrinth of communication
trenches, representing many thou
sands of miles of digging and tunnel
ing.
Entire nations have toiled fo-1 long
months in order to scar the face of
Europe with the immense ditches.
Taken collectively, nothing like them
or even remotely approaching them
has ever before been accomplished by
human agency.
A similar excavation would be suf
ficient to make four twin parallel tun
nels through the center of the earth,
each 14 feet in diameter and 8,000
miles long, capable of accommodating
subway trains.
BEST INDIANS IN ALL ALASKA.
“Say in the paper that I am ac
quainted with all the different native
tribes in southeastern Alaska and
that those of Hoonah are the most
highly civilized among them."
So the Douglas Island News pre
sents the story thus:
Wiiliam Howard, a native of Sitka,
and whose claim on fame is that he
absorbed wisdom while attending a
school taught by former Governor
Brady, delivered himself of the above
while honoring the News office with a
call one day last week. Continuing,
William said:
“The natives at Hoonah govern
themselves in accordance with the re
quirements of the federal government
and they are intelligent and prosper
ous. They own numerous gas boats,
conduct a store of their own and are
otherwise thrifty. They are strong
for education and realize that only
through education can they hope to
climb the step-ladder of fame. The
natives here in Douglas should take
lessons from the Hoonahs and copy
their mode of life. Education is the
best thing for natives.
H10 JANERIO, March 6.—Former
Depty Correira de Freitas, in an in
tei-view in the newspaper A Noite,
vigorously denounces the reported
German operation in southern Brazil
carried on in connection with the
Hamburg Colonization company.
It is proposed by this company, ac
cording to reports which have caused
the protest by the deputy, to colonize
a portion of the country between the
states of Santa Catherina and Rio
Grande de Sul, only colonists of Ger
man nationality to be admitted.
Before the battle of the Marne, he
declares, the Germans in Santa Cath
erina and Rio Grande de Sul were
planning to demand the incorporation
of southern Brazil with Germany un
der the name of “Antarctic Germany.”
Medeiros de Albuquerque, Brabilian
minister, in an article in A Noite,
dwells upon the bad impression which
has been caused by the lack of re
sponse from Germany to the Brazilian
note on the submarine blockade. He
advised the Brazilian foreign office in
Berlin, so that Brazil might not be put
in a rediculous position.
Brazil in her reply to the German
blockade notification declared that
Brazil did not recognize the blockade
as effective and left with Germany the
responsibility for acts from which
Brazilians or their interests might
suffer in violation of international
law. The note has been criticized by
a section of the Brazilian press and
some of the nation’s public men as
lacking in energy and definiteness.
BERLIN TELLS OF
BRIBE BY ENTENTE
BERLIN. March 6.—The Sofia cor
respondent of the Lokalanzieger ®re
ports details of the trial of the former
Bulgarian war minister, Genadieff,
who has been convicted of high trea
son and sentenced to ten years in
state’s prison, while 12 of his con
federates, mostly members of parlia
ment and prominent merchants, got
off with eight years at hard labor.
The trial created tremendous ex-1
citement in the Bulgarian capital, and j
the palace of justice had to be guard- j
ed by troops. With five exceptions, j
the accused ex-minister and his con- j
federates maintained their pleas of in-j
nocence to the end. One of the indicted
men refused to testify, but four made
partial confessions in the vain hope
of receiving a lighter sentence.
The public prosecutor furnished
proof that the conspirators received
$5,000,000 through a French agency
by the name of Declosieres for their
efforts to overthrow Premier Rade
slawoff and to bring about the forma
tion of a new ministry favorable to
the entente.
Genadieff received $3,000,000 as his
share of the bribe, and the rest was
divided among his lieutenants. The
arrest of the ex-minister and his as
sociates took place shortly after the
entrance of Bulgaria into the war, but
the trial was delayed nearly 15
months.
GERMANY LACKING
IN TRANSPORTS TO
SEND OUT TROOPS
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LONDON, March 6.—A Times Rot
terdam dispatch says: “I learn from
a recent arrival from Berlin that
large troop movements are taking
place there. Official quarters in Ber
lin regard war with the United States
as inevitable. The informant said
there was no lack of coal in Germany.
What was lacking was transports.
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Made a Life Peer.
BERLIN, March 6.—Herr van Mar
kowitz, an honorary member of the
Reichstag, representing the Polish
party, has been appointed by King
Wiftiam of Prussia as a life member
of the Prussian house of lords.
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