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GRAVE PROBLEMS

ARISE IN MEXICO

Residents Of Southern Republics Capl

tal Fear Starvation And

Pillage

PRESIDENT ISSUES PROTEST-

Wilson Abandons Frisco Trip To StayOn Job In Washington During

Grave Times

Washington President Wilsonfaces one of the most serious and

perplexing developments that has aris-

en in the Mexican situation MexicoCity Is on the verge of starvationGeneral Obregon the Carranza com-

mander refuses to permit an interna-tional relief committee composed olwealthy members of the foreign col-

ony to succor the needyMexico needs no foreign aid the

general Is reported to have saidAll merchants vjjio closed their

stores have been ordered to reopen un-

der threat of punishment Three hun-

dred of them Mexicans have been im-

prisoned The is living interror of another evacuation sinceObregon has announced lie will notprevent looting or pillaging for foodor money

The Brazilian British Spanish andItalian ambassadors gay the

pessimistic reports of the sit-

uation which correspond to reportsalready received The foreign diplo-

mats suggested no solutionProtest Sent Carranza

Secretary Bryan announced that hehad telegraphed American Consul SII

llman to lay the situation earnestlybefore General Carranza so that Gen-

eral Obregon might be directed toaccept aid proffered by foreign resi-

dents Freight service is suspendedbetween Mexico City and Vera Cruzand transportation facilities toe reliefpurposes are being withheld by

Obregon on the ground of mili-

tary necessityPresident Wilson was advised of all

the facts lIe has studied the variousphases of the question closely ShouldGeneral Obregon continue to refuseoutside aid drastic measures may benecessary in the view of foreign diplo-

mats who describe the situation OB

since the revolutionary began

MARSHALL REPRESENTS WILSON

Vice President Will Act As PresidentsPersonal Representation At

San Francisco

Washington Vice Presidentwill go to San Francisco to

President Wilson at the formaldedication PanamaPacific

March 20 The president stillhopes to visit the exposition later

The vice president left for Cleveland and later will go to Indianapolisbefore leaving for the coast He badplanned a trip to Arizona but this

Abandoned this part of his journeySecretary Philipps of the

state department chairman of theexposition board also left for

San Francisco to take part in the ex-

ercises in honor of representatives offoreign governments

President Wilson gave up his plansfor going to the coast this month withreluctance but decided he WAS needed In Washington to direct the nego-

tiations for the protection of Ameri-

can interests during the war He hadreceived many invitations to speak in

a number of states on the trip to andfrom San Francisco and may accept

them laterThe vice president conferred with

Secretary Bryan and Mr Philippswho discussed the trip with the pres-

ident The invitation to the vice pres-

ident to represent the president atthe exposition followed and he ac-

ceptedSecretary Daniels stated that he In

tended to carry out his original planto visit the expositionnext July making the trip on a warship via the Panama canal about July1 There probably will be a numberof distinguished guests In the secretarys party as it has been found thatthere Is an available appropriation fortheir entertainment contained In one

of thq acts of the last congress

Oklahoma Officials ImpeachedOklahoma City The house

ed 88 to6 the of the investi-

gating committee recommending theImpeachment of A P Watson statecorporation It is thesecond time within a week that thehouse has voted for the impeachment-of a state official the other being In

Welch In theInvestigation witnesses testified thatWatson borrowed money from num-

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JOHN D ROCKEFELLERRemarkable photograph of John D

Rockefeller as he appeared on thestand while testifying before the fed-

eral commission on Industrial rela-tions

ENGLAND HITS AT GERMANY

ASQUITH IN PARLIAMENT

OF GERMANY

England And France Will Attempt ToBar All Commerce Between En

emy And Rest Of World

London If the combined fleets of

Great Britain and France can preventIt no commodities Qf any kind except

those now on the seas henceforth un-

til the conclusion of the war shall

reachor leave the shores of

nyssubmarine it Is tobe effective forthwith

Premier from a prepared statement made this announce-ment In the house of commons at asession which will le Studi-ously avoiding the terms blockadeand contraband for these words occur nowhere in the prepared statement-

the that the alliesconsidered justified In attempting and would attempt to de-

tain and take Into port ships carryinggoods of presumed enemy destinationownership or origin

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The premier emphasized howeverthat vessels and cargoes BO seizedwore not necessarily liable to confis-cation and beggdd the patience of neutral countries 4n the face of a steplikely to Injure them

He added that in making such a stepthe allies had done so In selfdefenseWe are quite prepared he went onto submit to the arbitrament of neu-

tral opinion and still more to the ver-

dict of Impartial history that in thecircumstances in which we have beenplaced we have been moderate wehave been restrained we have abstained from things that we were pro-

voked und tempted to do and we haveadopted a policy which commends it-

self to reason to common sense andto justice

Every member of the house not atthe front in khaki or unavoidably de-

tained was in his Beat

Lighted Bomb In ChurchNew discovery of an an-

archistic plot aiming at the asasslnation of Andrew Carnegie CorneliusVanderbilt John D Rockefeller andhis son and other wealthy men andthe Inauguration of a reign of terrorand looting in New York City wasannounced by the police after they hadarrested a man as he placed two bombsin St Patricks cathedral where

hundred were worship-

Ing The sensational development-was the culmination of months of

work by detectives

Many Entombed In MineHinton W parties

brought out alive ten men andthe bodies of nine victims of the

explosion which entombed 182 miners-In the Layland mines of the New Riv-

er and Pocahontas Consolidated Coalcompany seven miles from Qulndlmont From all available sources itwas estimated that nearly 165 menstill were in the mines A crowd ofanxious relatives of the entombedmen stood aroundthe entrance all

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Important Council Meeting Held In The

Royal Palace In Athens To Discuss

War Measures

DARDANELLES WAY

Sultan And Turkish Government ReadyTo Flee Capital Of European

Branch Of Empire

Paris A Temps dispatch from Ath

ens says that immediately after n

cabinet meeting the crown prince was

summoned to the palace and held asession under the presidency of KingConstantine The session deliberatedon the question whether Greeceshould act the present crisis

has been summoned to meetafter the council has finished Its

Bombarding DardanellesLondoij The allied fleet bombard-

ed abd reduced to silence the forts ofDardanus Hamldleh and Tchemerllkon the Asiatic side of the Inside Dardanelles The telegraph station at Be

zlkla also was demolishedThe bombardment was carried out

by nine ships which advanced twomiles up the straits

The operations in the Dardanelles-were resumed the TriumphOcean and Ailbon entered the straitsand attacked fort No 8 and the bat-

teries nt White Cliff The wasreturned by the forts and also by fieldguns and howitzers

An air reconnaissance made bynaval seaplanes In the evening broughtthe report that several new gun posi-

tions had been prepared by the enemybut that no guns were erected in themThe seaplanes also located surfacemines

Four of the French battleships operated off Bulalr and bombarded the

and communicationsFour of the French battleships op-

erated off Bulalr and bombarded thebatteries and communications-

The operations at the entrance ofthe straits already reported have rsuited In theguns ranging from Ufo H Incheseleven gjms 0 inches four Nor

have been demolishedA further report received states

that on Tuesday the CanopUs Swiftand engaged fort No

8 A heavy fire was opened on themby fort No 9 together with field bat-

teries and howitzers Fort No 9 wasdamaged and ceased going at 530oclock in the afternoon and al-

though ships were hit the casu-

alty was one slightly woundedSeaplane reconnaissance was Impos-

sible owing to the weather the minesweeping operations wore continuedthroughout the day The attack

rvThe Russian cruiser Askold has

joined the allied fleet off the Dardanells

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WILL IGNORE NEUTRALS

England Has Decided To Ignore RightsOf Neutral Powers Qn The

High Seas

London The putting the Hhgllsh declaration againstGerman commerce into effect it Is

stated authoritatively will explainof the admiraltys retaliatory

planThe exact date of the order has not

been decided on but it probably willbe published In a few days

England has not prepared an an-

swer to the American proposals re-

garding the withdrawal of the subma-rine blockade and the continuance offood movements to the German civilpopulation The publication of thetext of American note and Ger

reply in the London papershas wide attention

The English view which undoubted-ly will be embodied in the note tq theAmerican government Is that the sug-

gestion propose that England shall virtually forego the strength of her posi-

tion due to her superior navyfeels that Germany is trying to

have the neutral states perform du-

ties for her which she could possiblycarry out had she a superior navy

Congress Giver President PowerWasJilngtbn By unanimous vote

the senate adopted with amendmentsa substitute for the joint resolutionpassed earlier in the house enlarging-the power of the president to pre-vent Infringements of American neu-trality by vessels leaving ports of theUnited States with men or suppliesfor belligerent Under pres-ent conditions In case the neutrality-of the United States is betng or la

likely to be violated The only remedywhIch the president has Is the preven-

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SPRINGS SENSATION

MRS RICHARD P STEGLER

The wife of the re-

servist who had taken out his firstcitizenship papers In the UnitedStates and was arrested as a spy

to England Mrs Stegler Is claim-

ed by an Atlanta policeman as hisdaughter and denied as the wife of

a former Atlanta bar tender Herappeal to President Wilson has caus-

ed an Investigation after which shewas arrested In New York for analleged attack on a chauffeur

WILSON STANDS FOR RIGHTS

PRESIDENT AND CABINET HELDIMPORTANT CONFERENCE

ANENT ATTITUDE

Government Declares Britain HasOpenly Defied American Rights

On The High Seas

Washington While President WH

indicated that the United Stateswould inquire of Great Britain and

France as to how they propose totheir determination

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stated probably would be de-

ferred until replies were received from

Great Britain and to theAmerican proposals looking to a ces-

sation of submarine warfare on mer-

chant ships and unrestricted passage

of foodstuffs to civilian populations-The president made clear his belief

that while the conditions of war mighthave changed no nation had a rightto change the rules of war From thisit was inferred that the Americangovernment would insist on a positionfrequently expressed by Its officialsthat whatever might be tho violationsof the Customs of war as between bel-

ligerents this could nut affect thestatus of Interactional law as betweenthe United States and countries withwhich she is at peace

RUSSIANS ARE GAINING

Muscovite Successes Are Reported AllAlong The Russian

Border

in the central Beskid pass of the Carpathians wherefierce Austrian attacks have moderat-

ed somewhat the are on theoffensive along the whole length oftheir extremely long line from theBaltic to the Roumanian border Apparently they have definitely disposerof the German and Austrian attempts-to outflank their two extreme wingsand are moving slowly westward

After retiring to the Dniester riverthe Russians again have crossed IntoBukowlna and unofficially are reportedto be back in Czernowlta

WIRE FLASHES

Memorial To Mrs Wilson-

A bill Incorporating the EllenjWllson Memorial Home in the District ofColumbia the association for con-structing model homes on a plan urged by the late Mrs Wilson wife otthe president passed the senate

Portuguese President AssailedRepresentatives of the Democratic

party of Portugal at a meeting In LIs-

bon under the presidency of ManceMonteiro former foreign ministeradopted a motion characterizing thepresident of the republic and othergovernment officials as outlawsheated discussion of the political situatlon preceded adoption of the moLion

Candlan Troops In EnglandFour thousand Canadian

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