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GALVESTON TRIBUNE
Q
Depositary of the State of Texas
No. 225
GALVESTON, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1915.—TWELVE PAGES.
VOLUME XXXV.
POUND HARD
U. S. PATROL
REPORT ON
OPERATIONS
NEW NAVAL CREDIT.
FIRED UPON
FLEEING FOE
OIL STRIKE
DEVELOPING
United States Commission
German Advance Cen-
Completes Labors.
tered on Dvina River.
PROFITS ENORMOUS
VON MACKENSEN IN
PROGRESO SCENE OF
BALKAN CRISIS IS
POSSESSION OF CIOLE
CRASH IN DARKNESS
WAGES PAID TOO LOW
DRAWING TO HEAD
CANNONADING NEAR SOUCHEZ.
CLEARS WAY
de-
FOR APPEAL
BANDITS TRY TO REORGANIZE.
RESERVISTS CAUSE
DISTURBANCE IS
DIMINUTIVE RIOT
SAFE CONDUCT OF
STILL IN GULF
BEARERS PROMISED
By
RUSSIANS OPTIMISTIC.
NONSENSICAL.
SERVICES FOR SAILOR.
at
His
of
Hernandez
NO NEED OF STATE TROOPS.
RESIGNS AS POSTMISTRESS.
HOW THEY DID IT.
ATTACKS ARE FEARED.
THOUSAND NEGRO DELEGATES.
GENERAL CALLES REPLIES.
WATER FOR LONGVIEW.
POPE’S APPEAL.
DEFER MILITIA ENCAMPMENT.
MEXICAN WAIVES HEARING.
THE WEATHER
GO TO NOGALES.
re-
pany
less than those
These increases were
MINISTERS TO LEARN.
REQUISITION ISSUED.
of
CANCER IMMUNITY.
-\
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any
free will and accord.”
its own
1
Cavalrymen Silence Fir-
ing Across Rio Grande.
Italians En Route Home Make
Demonstration Against In-
terned German Vessels.
forces under Rosalio
Raoul Madero had
Villa
and
Three Pursuing Armies
Report Victories.
By Associated Press.
Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 16.
Carranza Will Not Op-
pose Peace Plea.
like an encyclical, and no direct reply
is expected by the pope from the vari-
ous governments or the sovereigns.
By Associated Press.
Rome, via Paris, Aug. 16.—5:25
a. m.—The official gazette pub-'
lishes a decree authorizing a spe-
cial new naval credit of $16,236,-
675.
Austro-German Preparation to
Deal With Situation Is As*
suming Shape.
Indications Are That it Will
Reach Coast Some Time
This Evening.
Other Industrial Conditions at
Bayonne Condemned By
Board of Inquiry.
Message Will Not Be Held on
Way to Zapata and
Others.
Also Takes Slawatyeze, While
Prince Leopold Captures
Other Places.
2 MIDSHIPMEN
DISMISSED; 12
DISCIPLINED
2,000 AMERICAN
MEN FIGHTING
WITH ALLIES
BULLETIN.
Associated Press.
ENGLISH POUND
AT LOW MARK
IN NEW YORK
Villa Consul at Laredo Held on Charge
of Recruiting.
By Associated Press.
Laredo, Tex., Aug. 16.—Manuel Icaca,
Villa consul here, today waived exami-
nation on a charge of recruiting Mex-
icans for foreign service and was held
by the United States commissioner to
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF GALVESION
Southeast Cor. Strand and 22d Sts.
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
concession to the men except of
LABORER DIGS UP BOMB.
announced increases in wages.
Mortgaged Property.
By Associated Press.
■ Austin, Tex., Aug. 16.—The governor
today issued a requisition on the gov-
ernor of Kansas for the rendition of
Al Chapple, wanted in Lee county to
answer to an indictment returned in
the district court there charging him
with disposing of mortgaged property.
ITSALLTHESTYL
To co W’MoUT
AAT
the federal grand jury. He was
leased on a bond of $2,500.
advanced within
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & GO.
Established BANKERS Established
(Unincorporated)
For
Banks,Individuals, Corporations
American Bankers Association Trav-
elers’ Cheques for Sale.
Al Chapple Accused of Disposing
Austrian Submarine Sunk by Italian
and French Boats.
By Associated Press
Paris, Aug’. 16.—The French official
version of the sinking of the Austrian
submarine U-3 in the Adriatic August
13, was given out by the ministry of
marine here last night as follows:
“The Austrian submarine U-3, after
attacking in the Adriatic without suc-
cess an Italian auxiliary cruiser was
pursued during the whole of the after-
noon of August 12 Italian and French
torpedo boat destroyers. The U-3 was
discovered and sunk by gun fire on the
morning of August 13 by the French
torpedo boat destroyer Bisso i, which
made prisoners of one officer and
eleven sailors.”
By Associated Press.
New York, Aug. 16.—The English
pound sterling fell today to the
lowest American value within the
memory of man. Normally quoted
at 4.85 in foreign exchange, it fell
today in the first hour, dropping to
4.66. Greater demoralization was
shown by the foreign exchange
market at todap’s opening than ever
recorded here before.
Paris( checks were quoted at
6.00, a weakening of ten cents over
the Sunday holiday.
William Gompers, the young sailor
killed in Haiti July 30, will be buried
today in the national burying ground
at the Cypress Hills cemetery. At fu-
neral services yesterday in the Brook-
lyn navy yards, Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of La-
bor, the young man’s uncle, read the
letter written by President Wilson to
the sailor's mother expressing appre-
ciation of his services to his country.
President’s Appreciation Expressed
Funeral of Young Gompers.
By Associated Press.
New York, Aug. 16.—The body
Washington, Aug. 16.—A state de-
partment dispatch from Torreon says
the Villa garrison at Durango has re-
volted and that the city has been taken
by Carranza forces.
Denial Made That It Was Received Of-
ficially by Belligerent Sovereigns.
By Associated Press.
Rome, , via Paris, Aug. 16.—Vatican
organs deny that Pope Benedict’s ap-
peal .for Peace, issued July 2, was re-
ceived officially by the sovereigns of
belligerent nations. No document bear-
ing the autograph of the pontiff, they
say, was addressed to the rulers per-
sonally. The appeal to the heads of
the warring states was a general one,
tachment of the United States cavalry
patrol was fired on last night from the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande near
Mercedes, about thirty miles up the
Rio Grande from here. The firing oc-
curred; at Progreso. The cavalrymen
returned the fire and the shooting from
the Mexican side stopped. There were
/no casualties among the American
troopers.
has been stricken by the heat,
illness is not serious.
Advices from Monterey said
Ranger Captain Reports Ban-
dits Are Attempting to
Reorganize.
Large Attendance at B. Y. P. U. Conven-
tion in Austin Forecast.
Special to The Tribune.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 16.—About 1,000
negro delegates will attend the B. Y. P.
U. convention which is to be held here
in connection with the negro Baptist
Chautauqua, according to Rev. J. B.
Pius, pastor in charge of the entertain-
ment of the delegates. The convention
opens next Monday and will continue
to Monday, Aug. 23. These delegates
will be here from all portions of the
state.
New Orleans, Aug. 16.—The tropical
disturbance early today covered a large
part of the Gulf of Mexico and its ef-
fects were felt in greater or less de-
gree from Western Florida to Eastern
Texas, and for a distance of about
fifty miles inland, according to advices
received by the local weather bureau.
Heavy rains, accompanied by wind
blowing from 25 to 48 miles an hour,
were reported from the southern sec-
tion of the gulf states, but no serious
damage to inland property or shipping
has been recorded thus far.
According to the weather bureau,
present conditions indicated the trop-
ical disturbance would move inland
some time today between New Orleans
and Brownsville, Texas. High tides
were noted along the west gulf coast
today; these probably will continue to-
night.
nine leagues of the city.
No replies to the Pan-American ap-
peal had been received today. State
department officials are undecided
whether to make them public after
they are received or wait until after
another conference with the Latin-
American diplomats has been held.
Under the language of the appeal
the Mexican leaders may invite some
of the Latin-Americans to arrange the
proposed peace conference and ignore
the offer of the United States.
Word that both Gens. Carranza and
Villa had received copies of the Pan-
American appeal reached the state de-
partment today. From several sources
it has been learned that Gen. Villa’s
suggestion of a truce has been favor-
ably received by some subordinate of-
ficers and soldiers of the Carranza
armies. There has been practically no
fighting in Mexico for several days.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 16.—Dismissal
of two midshipmen and the disci-
plining of twelve others for al-
leged “cribbing” at the United
States naval academy was revealed
today as a 'result of the findings
of the court of inquiry which in-
vestigated irregularities in exami-
nations and recitations at the
academy.
The midshipmen dismissed with
the approval of President Wilson
were Ralph M. Nelson Jr. of Peek-
skill, N. Y., and Charles M. Reagle
of Wellsville, Ohio.
Drastic changes in the conduct of
examinations are recommended by
the court in a unanimous report of
its inquiry begun in June. Aboli-
tion of the practice if giving out
“dope,” or advance information,
unless heads of departments issue
it by memoranda, and less rigor-
ous examinations, are the principal
recommendations.
Indians May Make Raids in States of
Sinaloa.
By Associated Press.
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 16.—An attack
on foreign property in the state of
Sinaloa, Mex., by Maytorena Indians
is feared when the Mexican property
on which the Indians are now forag-
ing is exhausted, according to word re-
ceived today by the United States
steamship Colorado. from Los Mochis.
The commanding officer of the United
States cruiser Cleveland held a consul-
tation with a number of prominent
Americans at the headquarters of the
United Sugar company at Los Mochis.
There are 146 Americans, women and
children, at present in the Los Mochis
district, the commander of the Cleve-
land was told, and they all refuse to
leave their homes.
Two Hundred Troops Leave Guaymas,
Says Report.
By Associated Press.
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 16.—Two hun-
dred Mexican troops, according to word
received here today by the United
States steamship Colorado, left Guay-
mas Saturday for Nogales, where, it is
reported, all Villa troops along the
Mexican division of the Southern Pa-
cific railroad are being sent.
Tonight rain; Tuesday partly cloudy.
For Oklahoma: Tonight and
Tuesday rain.
Winds on Texas coast: Strong
northeast to north winds with gales.
Miss Thompson Quits Office at Uni-
versity Station.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Aug. 16.—Miss Willis May
Thompson has resigned as postmaster
at the University station. The resig-
nation was handed in to the postoffice
authorities several weeks ago, effective
Aug. 15. L. F. Miller will have charge
of the University station until Miss
Thompson’s successor has been named.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Aug. 16.—Instruction
in the operation of a moving pic-
ture machine, it was announced
today, will be given ministers at-
tending the Methodist camp
meeting which opens at New
Lenox, Ill., next Thursday. The
instructor will be the Rev. James
O’May of Aurora, Ill.
demanded by the strikers and the
rates now being paid are still below
those paid by one of the other com-
panies adjoining the Standard Oil
company’s plant, if the common labor
rate can be taken as a basis of com-
parison.
“The outcome of the strike consti-
tutes a complete victory for the Stan-
dard Oil company as to its vital poli-
cies, that is, its refusal to recognize
or permit collective action or to make
Border Situation Well Cared for, Gov-
ernor Declares.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 16.—With the pres-
ence of 2,500 federal troops at Browns-
ville and vicinity, the governor, who
has just returned from a vacation spent
at Rockport, declared that the border
situation is being well taken care of;
besides there are now a total force of
50 rangers along the border. Adjt.
Gen. Hutchings did not return to Aus-
tin, as expected, but has decided, to
maintain headquarters at Brownsville,
where he will direct the movement of
the rangers. There is no necessity for
calling out the state troops.
Mobile, Ala., Aug. 16.—Mobile felt the
effects of the hurricane now prevailing
in the gulf early today when the wind
reached a velocity, according to official
reports, of 40 miles an hour. The
barometer at 9:30 o’clock was 29.94.
The Mallory liner Sabine, in-bound
from New York and Tampa, went
ashore Saturday night on a sandbar
during a high wind and was not
floated until late Sunday.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 16.—Assurances
that General Carranza will not obstruct
delivery of the Pan-American appeal to
Mexico reached the state department
today in a message from C. B. Parker
of the American embassy staff in
Mexico City, saying General Pablo Gon-
zales, Carranza’s commander there, had
“promised safe conduct to the messen-
gers who are to carry the appeal to
General Zapata and others.”
Parker also reported destitution
among Americans in the capital and
said 120, being aided by American em-
bassy attaches had asked to be sent
to the United States.
A message from Consul Silliman at
Vera Cruz reported that the bishop of
Vera Cruz who had been imprisoned,
by Carranza authorities for some time,
had been released. Consul Silliman
German Newspaper Ridicules Idea of
Alleged Peace Offer.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Aug. 16.-—By wireless to Say-
ville.—Among the news, items prepared
by the Overseas News agency is the fol-
lowing:
“The North German Gazette official-
ly denies the nonsensical stories circu-
lated from London that Emperor Wil-
liam, through the king of Denmark, has
offered peace to Russia, which the lat-
ter country rejected.
“The German government,” the news-
paper says, “naturally would not reject
reasonable peace offers, but peace can
come only when the hostile govern-
ments show readiness to acknowledge
the failure of their military under tak-
ings against Germany.”
The Lokal Anzeiger adds that it is
one of the many British mistakes in
this war to insinuate that Germany is
longing for peace just at the moment
when her armies are victorious along
the whole line.
Tampa, Fla., Aug. 16.—Abnormal
tides today, but not high enough to do
damage, marked the passage of the
gulf storm from this section. The
highest wind velocity, 32 miles, was re-
corded yesterday. No serious damage
resulted.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Aug. 16.—A dispatch
from Lisbon to the Fourniers
agency says that a laborer work-
ing in a field at Cube Ruive, a
Lisbon suburb, dug up a bomb
which exploded and seriously
wounded him. The police found
a large number of bombs buried
in all parts of ~he field.
gators whereby immunity from cancer,
it is hoped, may be obtained. The in-
vestigation was conducted by doctors
James B. Murphy and John J. Morton,
over a period of two years.
They discovered that" in the white
lymph cells of the blood there are
the necessary factors in making ani-
mals immune from cancer. A decided
increase of the white lymph cells gives
absolute immunity, the physicains de-
clared they ascertained.
The investigators treated several
mice with a serum of lymphoid tissue.
They say the number of white lymph
cells in the onimals almost doubled
within a few days. The increase of the
cells can either be natural or through
the injection of lymph tissue.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Aug 16.— Via London.— Fleld
Marshal von Mackensen, continuing his
pursuit of the retreating Russians from
the south toward Grest-Litovsk, has oc-
cupied Ciale and Slawatyeze, according
to official announcement made by Ger-
man army headquarters today. Th*
army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria,
pressing the Russians from the west,
has occupied Losyce and Miedzyrzec,
the statement adds.
The statement follows:
“Western theater: North of Ammerz-
weiler, northeast of Dammerkirche
(upper Alsace), a French attack broke
down under our fire.
“Eastern theater: Army group of
Field Marshal von Hindenburg: Dur-
ing successful attacks on advanced
position at Kovno, 1,730 Russians, in-
cluding seven officers, were taken
prisoners. A projected attempt to
break through the Russian lines from
the Narew to the Bug, after a crossing
of the Norzew ricer, succeeded. • Our
pursuing troops reached the hill at
Bransk. More than 5,000 prisoners fell
into our hands. At Norogeorgievsk the
defenders were driven back still further
from their groups of fortifications.
“Army group of Prince Leopold of
Bavaria: During the night the left
wing fought its way across the Bug
river east of Drohiczyn (east of Soko-
lo w). After the center and right
wings had captured Losyce and Mie-
dryrzec yesterday afternoon our oppo-
nents offered new resistanee only in
the sections of Toczmaw and Klukow-
ka, between Miedzyrzec and Beulla, but
his resistance was broken down east
of Losye at daybreak by an attack of
the Silesian landwehr. The enemy 18
being pursued.
“Army group of Field Marshal von
Maskensen: Pursuit of the enemy con-
tinues. Ciale and Slawatyeze have been
occupied. East of Mlodowa our troops
are advancing on the eastern bank of
the Bug.”
By Associated Press.
London, Aug. 16.—“There are no
fewer than 2,000 Americans in the
ranks of the Canadian military
contingent,” said Major General
Sam Hughes, Canadian minister of
militia, 49 a meeting of Americans
held here last night.
“I have already written letters
of gratitude and sympathy,” he
added, “to mothers of more than
100 American boys who have fall-
en while fighting in Flanders
alongside of Canadian comrades.
More than 2,000 enlisted and we
could have had many more if we
wished. A number of West Point-
ers offered' their services as of-
ficers and some are now with us.”
FORECAST.
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
ity: Toni g h t
and Tuesday
rain; high
north to north-
east winds and
gales.
For Texas,
east of 10 0th
meridian: To-
night rain;
Tuesday clou-
dy, rain in east
portion.
For Texas,
west of 1 0 0 t h
meridian:
Feel They Will Be Able to Make Ger-
man Progress Costly.
By Associated Press.
Petrograd, Aug. 16.—(Via London,
2:45 p. m.—The military situation is
viewed by Russian army officers with
a degree of optimism, owing to tha
maner in wihe the Germans have been
checked at the crossings of the rivers
Liwiec and Krzna, east of the Siedlce-
Lukow front, where the invaders lost
800 prisoners in addition to heavy toll
of dead and wounded. Confidence is felt
here that the Russians will be able
to make any further eastward progress
of the invaders very costly to them.
Fierce battles are looked for between
the Nurec and Narew rivers and at the
crossings of the Bug. The immediate
German objective is believed to be the
double track railroad which roughly
parallels the present fighting line, run-
ning from Ossowetz to Bialystok, Brest-
Litovsk and Kovel. This road is pro-
tected by dense forests and marshes.
The apparent weakness of the Ger-
man flanks has removed fear that the
Russian army could be bottled up. Evi-
dence of this seeming lack of offensive
power is found in the reported removal
of a portion of the German troops
from the Siedlce-Lukow front to the
Baltic region. These troops are said
to be replaced by Austrians. Russian
military critics finds it difficult to recon-
cile this evidence of weakness with
Germany's claims to undiminished
strength. The Russian theory is that
these claims are advanced from effect
on the Balkan states.
Renewal of the German offensive
against the Dvina at Jacobstadt is fo-
cusing attention on the Baltic region.
Refers Peace Appeal to Carranza, Con-
sulate States.
By Associated Press.
El Paso, Tex., Aug. 16.—The Car-
ranza consulate here today announced
the receipt of a copy of the reply of
General P. E. Calles, Carranza com-
mande in Sonora, to the Pan-American
apeal for a peace conference for Mex-
ica nleaders. In effect it refers the
state department and the Latin-Amer-
icans to Carranza.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Aug. 16.—The report of
George P. West and C. P. Cheney, who
investigated the July, 1915, strike of
the Standard Oil company employes at
Bayonne, N. J., for the U. S. commis-
sion on industrial relations, was made
public tonight by Frank P. Walsh,
chairman of the commission. The re-
port said in part, after stating that the
strike was against the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey:
“‘The company is the most impor-
tant of the Standard Oil group, and
this group is the principal contributor
to the wealth, prestige and power of
the largest estate in the country, if
not in the world, that of Mr. John D.
Rockefeller, Sr., and that of his im-
mediate family. The facts regarding
the company’s labor policies must
therefore be regarded as of special
significance of the tremendous power
wielded by the group of men who con-
trol this industry and because of their
announced intention to enter the field
of industrial relations with a view to
widening their influence and actively
propagating what they deem to be the
proper theories and principles that
should govern the relations between
employer and employe. The following
findings of fact are to be considered
in the light of the foregoing:
“The Standard Oil company of New
Jersey, although conducting an enor-
mously profitable enterprise, pays
wages too low to maintain a family on
a comfortable, healthful basis.
“It fixes wages not with relation to
the earnings of the company, but by
taking into consideration wages paid
by other companies in the same local-
ity and then fixing the wage as low
as or lower than the prevailing wage
in that locality. In Bayonne it paid
common laborers less than those of
two companies whose plants adjoin its
refineries. This is in direct contra-
diction to the claims of the company
in a statement issued at 26 Broadway
that it has always paid the prevailing
wage or better.
The company maintains a settled
policy of refusing to deal with any
labor organization or ‘professional la-
bor men,’ and even refuses to permit
those employes who cannot speak Eng-
lish intelligently to engage an attor-
ney as their spokesman and represen-
tative.”
Developing this last point further in
the report it was stated that Paul Su-
pinsky, a Jersey City attorney, visited
General Superintendent Hennessy of
the company as spokesman for a com-
mittee of six employes who had hired
him to negotiate for them. It was
further stated that Mr. Hennessy, “act-
ing in conjunction with Mr. Gifford,
general manager of the company, re-
fused point blank to consider the de-
mands and expressed indignation that
the men should have engaged a non-
employe of the company to aid them
in presenting their grievances.
“General Manager Gifford is not a
believer in child labor legislation, and
on the other hand thinks children
should be allowed to go to work ear-
lier. He and Mr. Hennessy apparently
have little respect for the foreign
born men whose labor produces the
company’s earnings and are propo-
nents of the extremely individualistic
and reactionary industrial theories dis-
carded by enlightened employers and
by economists many years ago.”
The report then recited that the com-
pany employed a detective agency of
New York city to furnish guards and
strikebreakers. It quoted the attorney
for the agency as referring to these
men as “a lot of thugs.” The inves-
tigators added: "Their appearance
amply justified his use of the term.”
The strike was broken by Sheriff
Eugene Kinkead, the report stated,
“‘who first overawed and disorganized
the strikers by assaulting and arrest-
ing one of their leaders and then
strengthened his control over them by
promising to use his influence to ob-
tain n increase in wages and by ar-
resting thirty of the armed guards.”
In another section of the report it
was stated the sheriff’s alleged as-
sault was upon a young Elizabeth City
socialist by the name of Jeremiah Bai-
ly.”
The report added that the sheriff
had suggested Baily as a member of
the strike committee and when the
men went to the plant to draw back
pay insisted that Baily should go with
them. It was further stated in the re-
port that Baily, not being an employe
of the company, refused to go to the
pay window and that the sheriff first
“beat him viciously” and then arrest-
ed him.
"Sheriff Kinkead’s course had th*
cordial approval of the Standard Oil
company officials, who were thus able
to maintain their refusal to make any
concessions to the men until the men
returned to work and had in effect
thrown themselves on the bounty of
the company,” continued the report.
“Two days after the men had re-
turned to work, the Standard Oil com-
The following Associated Press dis-
patches regarding the disturbance
were received by the Tribune today:
Beaumont, Tex., Aug. 16.—A general
exodus of residents of Sabine and Sa-
bine Pass took place this morning, not
a person remaining in either town. Un-
confirmed reports from Sabine Pass
told of the lumber schooner King Ed-
ward being in distress. The Santa Fe
reported between 300 and 400 summer
residents along the Gulf and Interstate
railroad had been brought to Beaumont
Sunday night. A steady rain has been
falling here since 10 o’clock this morn-
ing.
6NK3
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 16.—Military opera-
tions in the eastern field are develop-
ing slowly. Both sides show the ef-
fects of the intensity of the Warsaw
struggle. The 'German advance now
centered on the efforts of Field Mar-
shal von Hindenberg to force troops
across the Dvina and eastward in the
general direction of Petrograd and the
near approach of the army of Prince
Leopold of Bavaria to the new Brest-
Litovsk defenses. Notwithstanding the
steady pressure of the Germans, the
Russians have succeeded thus far in
holding them west of the Dvina.
The Balkan crisis is drawing to a
climax. The national assemblies of
Serbia and Greece meet today, with
probability of a definite decision as
regards Bulgaria’s territorial demands,
upon which hinge the question of united
action of the Balkan states with the
allies.
In the best posted quarters here the
outlook is regarded with a degree of
pessimism. It is expected Serbia will
seek a compromise and Greece will re-
ject the Bulgarian contentions. Re-
ports from Athens indicate that King)
Constantine is insisting that the new
cabinet must maintain strict neutrality,
the effect of which would be to with-
hold Greece from participating in a
plan of united Balkan cooperation with
the allies.
In the meantime there are many evi-
dences of Austro-German preparations
to deal with the Balkan situation. Ac-
cording to information from Bucharest,
German army corps have been concen-
trated near the junction of Hungary, '
Rumania and Serbia. This,, with the
bombardment of Belgrade and the ac-
tivity of Austrian artillery at many
points along the Danube, lends support
to reports of a great Austro-German
offensive in the Balkans.
The outcome of the crisis is awaited
most anxiously, as determining whether
the allies will receive new support from
the Balkans and whether Germany’s
supplies of ammunition for Turkey will
continue to be shut off by the Balkan
barrier.
Bulgarian officials do not expect an
agreement will be reached, but the
Serbian minister at London, M. Boshko-
vitch, told the Associated Press he be-
lieved a middle ground would be found
on which it will be possible to unite
the Balkan states.
Valuable Discovery Announced Through
Washington Academy of Science.
By Associated Press.
New York, Aug. 16.—The Rockefeller
Institute announced yesterday through
the Academy of Science at Washing-
ton a discovery by two of its investi-
Dealth Penalty of Ranger Embargo on
Munitions.
By Associated Press.
Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 16.'—Reports
of renewed attempts by Mexican ban-
dits to reorganize their bands in the
lower Rio Grande valley were brought
here today by Captain of Texas Rang-
ers J. J. Sanders.
He said he had received reports that
Mexicans are crossing in ones and twos
into Texas and that they are attempt-
ing to gather again in Hidalgo county,
west of Brownsville. Sunday, he said,
a band estimated at ten or a dozen
approached a ranch house near San
Benito, sending two of its members to
the house. The rancher’s wife was at
home alone. The Mexicans told her
they did not wish to hurt her. They
asked where her husband was and
where his horses were. After satisfy-
ing themselves that both the man of
the house and his horses were away,
the Mexicans left. Rangers were
searching for these Mexicans today.
The Twenty-sixth Infantry from
Texas City went on duty here today.
About 75 men of the Twenty-sixth
were left at Kingsville, 115 miles north
of Brownsville, and more than two
companies went on patrol at Harlin-
gen, between here and Kingsville.
Rangers and peace officers are dis-
arming all Mexicans outside of the
larger towns throughout the Browns-
ville section. Firearms discovered in
the possession of Mexicans in the rural
community of this section are virtually
equivalent to a death warrant unless
the Mexican is well known to the
Americans as being peaceful. Even
with such a record the firearms are
confiscated and a warning given not
to obtain any more. There is a state
law against pistol toting, but Mexicans
in the country about here have avoided
the penalties of this law by carrying
rifles, claiming that the law did not
apply to such large and perfectly un-
concealed weapons, and furthermore
that they were game hunting with the
rifles.
The embargo on arms and ammuni-
tion which the rangers have put on
Mexicans on the American side is the
most effective munitions embargo on
record in this valley. The penalty for
smuggling through this ranger em-
bargo is death.
To Divert One Million Gallons Daily
From Sabine.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Aug. 16.—A permit was
granted today by the state board of
water engineers to the city of Long-
view for the diversion of 1,000,000 gal-
lons of water daily from the Sabine
river, the water to be used for supply-
ing the people of Longview.
Texas National Guard to Have Field
Service Later in Year.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 16.—While no offi-
cial anonuncement has been made on
the subject, it is learned today that
the encampment of the Texas national
guard, which was to have been held
this month, has been deferred until
some time during the latter part of
September or the first part of October.
By Associated Press.
Boston, Aug. 16.—The assembling yes-
terday of 1300 Italian reservists who
were to sail on the steamer Canopic
tonight and their friends was marked
I by demonstrations against the interned
merchant steamships Amerika and Cin-
cinnati, as a result of' which several
policemen were severely injured. Sail-
ors on the German vessels were struck
by stones and sticks. Revolver shots
were exchanged between the crowd and
the police but could not be learned
that any took effect.
In an earlier disturbance which de-
veloped about the formation of a pa-
rade of the reservists in North Square,
three police officers were injured, one
stabbed. The arrests were made in
the outbreaks.
The body of reservists, said to be
the largest to leave this country on
one ship since the war began, was
made up of Italians from this city and
from other parts of New England. They
had paraded to the pier in the south
Boston district, where one side of which
lay the Canopic which was to give
them passage to Italy, while on the
other side were moored the steamers
Amerika and Cincinnati of the Ham-
burg-American line which have been at
port since the war began.
At 2:30 o’clock this afternoon it was
apparent that the center of the tropi-
cal disturbance which came into the
Gulf of Mexico on Sunday was east,
southeast of Galveston and was ap-
proaching the Texas-Louisiana coast.
At the same hour the wind in Galves-
ton was from north-northeast and was
blowing at from 48 to 50 miles per
hour.
The barometer, which at 7 a. m. had
stood at 29.63 was at 29.43. The wind
at 6 o’clock this morning was 36 miles
an hour. At no time during the day
was there evidence of severe danger
to property from tides. The tide was,
of course, higher than usual, but the
seawall was on the job and was turn-
ing the waves back in regular style,
that is when there was one big
enough to get as far as the seawall.
The weather bureau had sent warning
to people down the island and to those
living in exposed places advising them
to take precautions that they deemed
necessary.
There were a great many people in
town today and all buildings were
opened to those who desired to use
them. Some of the more timid went to
Houston last night and today. The
warning of the weather bureau for all
persons to take precautions was re-
peated this afternoon. The opinion
was expressed, but not officially, that
probably the greatest wind velocity had
already been reached. News from Tex-
as City by telephone this afternoon
was to the effect that only a very few
houses, and those small ones, had been
damaged there.
Numerous wild reports were circu-
lated over the country today, but these
were quickly put out of commission or
invalidated by the facts from this city.
French War Office Also Reports Bomb
Engagement.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Aug. 16.—The French war of-
fice today gave out this statement:
“There was intermittent cannonading
last night near Souchez and on the
plateau of Nouvron, north of the Aisne.
There were also engagements with
bombs and hand grenades in the sector
of Quennevieres and in the western
part of the Argonne.
“In the Vosges the explosion of a
mine against an enemy trench between
Burnhaupt-le-Bas and Ammertzwiller
made it possible for us to take some
prisoners and to capture two bomb
throwers and a machine gun.”
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