The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 333, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 3, 1917 Page: 4 of 16
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5 ff ;K )i6uST0H DAltY I OST;; .SATURDAY MOANING. MAttOii 3 1917.
1 'inntfirr
JAPAN RECEIVED
ALLIES BEG CHINA
HO GERMAN OFFER
TO ENTER THE WAR
.V f
.ivV '
Motono Ridicules Idea 0!
Abandoning Allies.
Vonim Minister Declares inat
Mexico Showed Intelligence by
Not Transmitting
Irroposal. .
I 4itocfld Prtll Refol )
marin March I Japan haa received
no nrooosltion from elthfcr Mexico or ier-
ninv. directly or Indirectly to Join In a
noaalhTe war against the I'nlted States
Viscount Motono. Japanese forelKn niln
later. informed the Associated Press r ri
viscount Motono' aald he considered
uch an Idea ridiculous. It belnf based on
he outrageous nresumDtlon that Japan
n..ii .h.nnn her allies. If Mexico re
ceived in. proposal. Viacount Motono
dried that country showed Intelligence
in not transmitting it to Japan.
Consul Reported Two
Americans'MUsing
Assontltd Prtss Refrrl .)
" WASHINGTON. March C: Detailed r
' porta of the sinking of the British bark
5' Galgorm Castle and the Donaldson line
freight stcamrr Trltonfnn. hoth with
Americans a hoard. two of whom are mlaa-
Jx? tour were received ly the state depart
''" :"" roent Vridav from Consul Frofet
"4 XI a i-iwirts follow:
at
"The British bark Ualform Caatla.
Oueenstoun from Ituenoe Alres.(MrK
analzo larlcl lV submarine St 4:.I0
"' Kehru..rv 27. 74 miles west couth
' ii'pii f Hull i:.'k Four Americans
. - Kar.i TMr r. misAhiK. bclieveO lost
-s.- William .! kson. Now York and
- : David Valk. r. ncpro. Green' county Vir
t. A mrii-H n a (ld. llnry Mnitt of
Kails fa . ami Harry Jtlchantson
or Knst.tn. hoh white. All Amricns
'ble stamen."
if The srroiM dispatch read:
. "ThA I tonnlrionn frcicht liner Triton
:-"4 in tns Halifax to Liverpool with
t'J ' Beneral caipr and horses torpedoed
without waruinK at 11:35 p. m.. fifty mile
. west of 1 'male. February 16. Two men
1 . -V mtssini? fr.m crew of 60.
"Sole American. John Murphy fourth
"? . epirineer. sAVed
. o' - Weather heavy westerly swell dense
-if-"' darkness lights out.
"Master saw torpedo apnroach ship
.. . strikinK starboard how. Ship abandoned
o ' In 50 minutes but dirt not sink. Boats
stood by unrTl admiralty patrol arrived
at 6 a. m. and tovfed her until 7:S0 a. ro.
. when s' e sank. Submarine never sichted
Mate's boat net Ifrnrd from: believed lost.
Captain's N.at tcsAfd by steamer Char-
t'roRs.
-. ' Weather h in '. . sea breakiru?. strong
' aouthwest wi ld misty rain beginning at
dusk. Boats were in imminent danger.
Subniarin s offered no aid. Phip carried
neither pirn if-r wirtlesa. No attempt
to escaie'
.';' ' QUEENSTOWN. March Nothing-has
' been beard of the missing boat from the
' Ji British steamer Galgorm Castle shelled
.f-- and sunk on Tuesday by a submarine.
- The two Americans who'left the steamer
J .. In this boat are William Jackson. 1. of
Kew York and Lavid Walker. IS. of
. ; ' Standartisville. Ya.
: : British Captain's End
Cited as a Warning
- . it. 'f i I -ee. -.
; BERLIN. .March 2 by wireless to Say.
Tine). The death cf Capla'n WiHIim
; Martin skinwr cf the Britirh trawl -r
' r King Stephen is announced by. the Lt kal
Anxeiger as foOw:
. "Captain Martin atconllig to rt-ro.t!1
lt English pipers rtied o tr.e result .-t
persecutori. They ray thtt he itceiv-1
v. theatenlng letters rjm Ensriisii pcoi.lt
--WDjo. mean well toward the "ttermans nn
that ho v. as so ilwry moved by th
that te flnal!y hetanrK: Insane.
!Cptain iiartin on J-'ebruary 1. 191(1.
ordered that the crew cf the disabled a r
- ship L-l hculd perish miserably ills
: death perhsj will be a warnlnf lo s-m.-
Captain Marlin according to dispatches
irom umaun dated February' 4. 1516. de
: . clarod he saw the wrecked German Zep
penn in the North sea and that lie
did not save the crew because he feared
the Germans would overpower the small
crew of the trawler if he look them
aboard. A German official announcement
April 26. 1!16. said the German naval
forces had sunk the King Stephen. The
crew were taken prisoners.
No prev:ous report of the death of Car
tain Martin lias been received in this
country.
Americans Sailed on
Spanish Royal Yacht
; NEW YORK. March 2. The Spanish
. iine steamer Alfonso XII. formerly the
t royal yacht pressed irujo the Transatlan
ore service because of the scarcity of
-ships left here Friday for Vigo. Spain.
i ''. carrying 178 cabin passengers. Among
.; " rBe were nugu s. i nompson
:-; secretary of the American embassy ir
'vfa?.: Maxwe" Blake diplomatic agent
"uiuriv ana mis. nenry h. Morgan
;i. bound for Madrid to meet her husband
s. ;- wno ib i iurnin from Hamourg whe're
- whs .American i-onsui general.
I . ' a S .Alfo"M ' sailed with a large
' -. ' 6 irom ner loremast.
- a
Editor Gets Fine and
g Prison Term for Libel
llttocnltO-Prtu Rtton I
Kffi XEW ORLEANS March 2. Sentence of
A" our months in lhe parish prison and a
f .i tint of o00 was Imposed Friday upon
- Hugh A. O'l"onnel! editor of the New Or-
f leans American convicted Tueday of
- criminally lil.eling Mayor Behrrnan and
' - X commissioners tn a. published edlto-
V r Intimating that the officials had been
. improperly connected w ith a df uUXor the
y purchase of a race track.
;;r Oitonnell's motion for a new trial was
- sa nonce of an appeal to
the Mate supreme court and was released
' ;n $S00 bond.
Hetty "Green Fortune
Exempt in New Jersey
TRENTON. N. J . March 2.-Although
4 ; tha late Mrs. Hetty Green spent much of
ner mo In and about llohoaen. she was
"fsal resident of this Ftate Con-
V uer ""s"" decided Friday and New
Jersey win niake.no effort to levy an in-
herlunco tax upon the millions she left
tJ" lu he believed Mrs. Green was
: resident of Bellows Falls. Vt The
. -ritabs already has collecteil (60 000 tax
upoa stock held by( Mrs. Green in New
Jaraejr corporaUono.
v'V'.f' "Many -Seek Passage.
;jf. iA'tocimUd Prea Report.)
-J1!:! -Kfiv" .XBKKKMartb 1. Numerous ap-
pllcatfcma Kavenaen .made for passage
on too ant arm steamship of the
"f "i mericsrr hr re afl from this port of-
.ficlala of the company announced Frl-t-iy.
e aalHat date has been fixed.
; ar Bread ia Hollaad.;
i i 14KM'a' ftnt Ktparl.)
!?' LONDON.' Marc ; 2.- dutpatchi from
Antrdara says that a a consequence of
tin sinking of Dutch veaael. by German
sulmiartnen brdera haw been Issued that
. bread lwU be mad In JJolland from
iwtato iUssmV- :.i w.. .k.vm.. i
' ':.''. .. - ' t :; ' ; '
' .:'':-.:-i':-'i;..Xi''
Remission of Boxer Indemnities Of-1
fered i Inducement.
More Than 100.000 C&inese I'
borers and Agriculturists Ha?e
Already Aided Entente
Powers.
LAi$ci3U.i Pi Report.)
WASHINGTON. March i. Negotiations
looklnsr to China's entrance Into the war
against the central powers now are In
progress at Pekln and in all the entente
anltal. It was loarned here Friday and
their success depends only upon the har
monising of the awards with the amount
of (n-operallon demanded It is regarded
as practically certain taat China will
seVer relations with Germany and a dec
laration of war will probably follow If the
entente will guarantee sufficient relaxa
tions of the regulations Imposed after the
Boxer trouble.
Facts learned from official and diplo-
matic circles serve to clear up the ob-
eiirtte whieh -tuts overhune recent vague I
dispatches from China and reierences in
the rechlstag.to . nina s aoanaonnirni
nf neutrality. I
chin A..cirp. tn kJ.iietf. the romnlete re-
mhwlon of the Boxer Indemnities. -hlch
total over $S0.00.eo a year and continue
until 1S40. If she entered the war the
nart which otherwise would be paid
Austrian and. Germany could be rep
llhtri
information here Indicate that the en
tente IrMdv has agreed to boat pone pay
ments In case' China begins hostllUlea but
does not corroborate Tientsin advices that
the Dowers have offered complete re
mission. The sum Involved Is such an
appreciable part of China's total expenses
that a satisfactory agreement might well
remove her unanciai dimcumes.
China also desires consent to increase
her import duties which the existing
treaty limits to & per cent ad valorem on
the average prices of M7 18S and lsS
The I'nlted States haa long urped this on
the other 16 signatory powers but so far
only japan and Great Britain have gjven
full consent.
The enttente powers on their part are
anxious to have China In the war not
only as u reservoir of men but as the big-
ffesf otwti imde market after she war. Al
ready more than 100.000 Chinese laborers
and 'agriculturists have gone to Increase
the ententes power me greai majomj
to France.
it h hen the drowning of marry on
their wav to France on such boats as the
liner At hoi. for instance that first made
rMn- protest to Germane against sub
marine warfar an actual threat of sever
ance or relations.
There are shout sno Germans in cnina
who wouffl be placed in concentration
camps if war were declared.
German Church Bells
Appropriated by Army
COPENHAGEN. March 2 (via London).
Germany now Is drawing upon church:
bells for war requirements. An order ap-
Toprlating hronxe. church bells after
.larch I is published In the German press.
ne bell in a chime may be retained in
default of other means of summoning the
congregation to worship.
A regulation covering the coanscation oi
aluminum cooking ntensus also is puo-
lished.
Newsnarjer Use of
Flag Is Forbidden
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I17S MOINES
Irte de;1 ir'.'.v l.t
le. M-reh 2 The
' justice Friday ruled
hat ;ie -. i (M-rs
rs prirt!n; the American
a I of the r editorial col-
H-jir ; t t.:e !
.rni p op ;it nny piarc in the paper are I
:;rc I 'ivrai law.
:e f-t.n:ff pmv.tlej ilia! ro flajc or
ir- ti oi oi- n f!.ip Bhll Im printed
jrvip.c.'n1' o:i ?:tr l:c:c cf mercuaxir
Women to Replace Men
A3 Mail Carriers
i ii at r--. . rr'f
PAJtis: Mai. h : Wjmen letter iar-
ri'-ra sucn will be Jell e:-'.n2 ma!lin Paris.
This method wiil b? :.n c-.ncriment and
preference will l. given to wives of sol-
aicrr. '
Recently women tiird to replace the
postmen at Neuilly a suburb of Paris
but tl.e lasted unly three days.
STJEQEONS QUIT GERMANY.
American Hospital Unit Beached
Copenhagen From Berlin.
Aiiociottd I'tett litfoil.t
COPENHAGEN. March 1 (via London.
March 2 1 The American hospital unit
from Naumbourg. Including Dr. Sauer of
El Paso arrived Thursday night from
Berlin. They will be followed Saturday!
by the Oppeln unit and the Deutsch-Ey-
lau unii. All will sail for America on the!
first safe opportunity.
The arrivals from Naumbourg report
that they receiver! the most courteous
treat met from both Naumbourg and Ber-
lin authorities An Independent unit at
Itraudenz has decided to remain in Ger
many for the present-
Planning for Circui.
IHoMton Post Stecial.)
Al'STIN. Texa3. March 2 Hubert
Ca.-wy Jones of I'etrolia chief well leader I
or the university was elected manager of
the1 1H17 varsity circus Thursday after-no-m
by a vote of 41 R to 221 over Hughes
ivnignt oi uaiias. reus. 1
The rlrciis tajtes place In May. Milton
Daniel now of faculty of Texas Christian
university. Fort Worth and former star
athlete was manager two years ago.
Dr. R. B. White Dead.
(Alsociated Prtss Report.)
TEMPLE. Texas. March 2. Dr. R. R.
White associate chief surgeon of the I
anta Fe railway In Texas is dead here I
Friday from acute indigestion after an I
illness of .IS hours. He . was known all I
over the State.
WHAT IS
LAX FOS IS AN iRVtOVEO JCASCAU
A Digestive Laxative
CATHARTIC AMD UVtl TOXIC
Laz-FoS if not a Secret or Patent Medi
cine bat is CotrJDOsed of the follmrin
cuu-iaanionea loots ana Herbs :
CASCARA BARK
BLUE FLAG ROOT
RHUBARB ROOT
J3LACK ROOT
MAY APPLE ROOT
8ENNA LEAVES
AND PEPSIN
In Lax- Fob the C ascaka is impreW
the addition of these diKestrvingTedi-
enu mating it better than ordinary Ca-
Caka and. thug the combination acts riot
bni
Syrnp Xaxatives
combines
matte
the
Lax
Indigestion
KimiuaiuiKiaxattTeandcatnar ' V 1 mm SIR -k ' 5 " U rC' i f:-!-2w
tsdsoMadieestWeandliwrto... - - a: . -V :V v f-?sjil7
r. weak but Lax-FoiI "I ":'-'' ' K': ' -r
atreneth with. oaUtable. am. I . ... - .' - . 'i v .-.
taste and does not irti or distort I . . ?iS;y.:ki:--iJt ' ..- ; .rt'y:3
ftonch. 0 bottle; will prove ; .ifif; '
orTofpidLiv. PnixSOc.
"medium weights " are in great demand and the maa of moderate means
finds himself in an embarrassing position when it comes to paying cash or
"laying out" sufficient cash with which to buy new outfits for self and
Only
You may dress well and prop-
erly in stylish good clothing
clothing that would be a credit
to any man or woman on any
occasion and our prices are right
not extremely advanced prices
but the same that you are asked
at the cash stores for like quality
of merchandise.
Our Credit Plan is simple and without
We are willing to arrange terms to suit
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And cilready the warmer days have made us feel uncom-
fortable in our winter clothing. Lighter Suits and Dresses
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at all times. May We Fit You Out
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family. War in Europe &nd
the unsettled conditions of
our own country have
caused ap advance in all
prices very perceptibly so in
that of clothing and we are
ready and willing to prove
ourselves the poorer mans
friend by extending to him
and his family a hearty and
. unconditional credit.
the usual red tape.
your convenience.
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Johnston, R. M. The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 333, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 3, 1917, newspaper, March 3, 1917; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth609340/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .