"ffOm to Fair. To- k L TOf IVeM f/ofW cont^u^T^fomght. ^ and f/^ .. A. . W U morrow increasing f ^ ^ ff 17 Tl Within the Hoar hours for Illij^k SiTfl ill il^ ^^StTTMK* ^4 HMtf^>^BkB P-m- V > B WW I H I Hill r / ^ | 1 I 22. at 7 a.m. today. ,. . today: lowest. # I J^ky ^ / , . B .VM^L.B.^^^7y^JB B^^Bron ^^Wr ^W w^#' ^^WW^Wr ^pr^Wr ^ T I1Mf r / " ' ^ iwm Ret rimuttea. Meats « yTl ,,1*> D,IIt " * ' tXOSI.YU SEW YORK STOCKS FACE 15. ^ ^ ATm«* h»*0' M4IK '«» Xo '20.242. WASHINGTON,. D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1916.-EIGHTEEN PAGES. ONE CENT. * WILL NOT PijSTPONE {ORGANIZED LABOR GERMANSTAKEAIfflLE i ! WILL NOTSUBMIT J^§l SUBMARINIE POLICY, TOBORLANDPLAN OF FRENCH[TRENCHES GERMAN]HELLS U.S. Is Now Leading Fight to Prevent INCHAMPjAGNEREGION Increase of Work I Can Conceive of No Reason for of U. S. Clerks. Latest Break in Line Brings Danqrimanf ITS LEGISLATIVE AGENTS SmashWithin 1C UllGUlChangtn Offensive to Hundred ing Plans, Sta 1/Gfiai ARE SENT TO CAPITOL ing Is Infcirmed. Parliamentary Tacticians May Use Miles of Paris. Question of Mileage to Defeat Longer Hours' Scheme. Ambassai[lor BernstorfF to Secretary terrific Drive Against Vetrdun Continues, but French Note Presented By FRANK WALSH IN THE FIGHT l ancino Rpilprafps Pledges Given in the Resistance Appears to Be Stiffening.Hard Fighting Kansas City Editor Aroused as Well at Other Points in West Lusitanici Case. as Unions There and Here.Mr. Gompers Positive Against the Proposal. DAY'S DEVELOPS1ENTS IN GREAT A note presented to Secretar;y Lansing today by Count von German ambassador, says can conceive of BATTLE ON THE: WESTERN FRONT Bernstorff, the Germany t labor ha? the new instructions to her Irganized practically no reason for changing or postpoiling taken charge of the light to defeat GERMAN REPORT. submarine commanders to treat as warships enemy merchant ships in the House of Representatives Germans canture 1.600 meters of trenches and take more armed "defensively," and that speirial precautions have been taken Nhe Borland rider to the legisla| 1 from attacked, the. executive and than 1,000 prisoners and nine machine guns at the Navarin to prevent ships that are not armec being judicial farm in the the United £itates that it has no intention of priation bill which seeks to Champagne. Germany assures appro; French Reserves exhausteii in fruitless attacks on Fort crease the hours of work of the pledges given in the Lusitania's case. gov]in! Douaumont at Verdun. revoking ernment employes from seven to The note at the outset reiterates the previous pledges, which were Germans advance lines further toward Bras and Vach- t for of eight hours without additional , gi"en September i and October 5, last year, the safety erauville, and make fresh gain:i in the Woevre. on the German does compensation. listing liners, and then goes to governmentunresay It became known todav that the All French troops driven from the Meuse peninsula, f ha've been modified the new not bplieve these assurances by * T- i , r t memorandum. \mencan i eaeratiou 01 Lauor has sent its legislative ^ FRENCH KLfUK 1. Cited. Tradition Rather Than Law." Previous Assurances to Congress to callrepresentativeson Germans, by a surprise iittack, enter certain advanced the The German government takes the During1 the negotiations over near arin was made position that the arming of merchant of the House and Senate,memberspoll French trenches the Navi farm, in the Champagne, it says, no mention Lusitania. of armed merchantmen, and that the ships for defense is a tradition rather them, ascertain their views, and Violent bombardment coritinues in the region north of the United States in one of its notes on iman a ruie 01 international law. the to PRACTICING THE MAKE-t'p. Verdun. Lusitania mentioned unarmed nier- | officials contend they find nowhereuernanprotest against attempt chantmen. Attention then is called to j n the international code any specific the hours of work of theincrease German forces make several efforts to capture the village in the assurances previously given, ;authority for arming ships and that at Newcastle in 1908. She was 250 fee of Douaumont, but are repulised. Fort Douaumont closely which it is stated that liners will not ^the practice is from custom rather than government employes. Aiuirninm Aiuiruin long. 43 feet beam and 22 feet deep. Th vessel was owned the Empress Trans; ] of by encircled French be sunk without warning, provided rule. Samuel Gompcrs, president portation Company of Midland, Ltd. by troops. they do not offer resistance. Attention Germany is represented as taking: the the federation, announced HIVOIUHI1 HlllUNu SPEAK INPRAISE Germans increase in the Woevre district. The that there are on the today activity also is called to the statement of the 1position ships Tried to Ground His Ship. to seas which, in theory, are armed only to at after hands several American in its notice por defensive but "'We will not tamely submit ^ The left railroad station Eix, changing times, government of purposes, that for all j Maloja Tilbury only yester port authorities, that the presence }practical purposes such armament is the Borland \ day for Bombay, with mails, 119 pas : remains in of the F"rench. All efforts of the < attempt." nr idmv Manheulles t is the impetuous drive Qn that equipment and representatives Congress aft of his vessel, tried to run he importance. only up the contention jiver having been issued by any con- of the House and Senate the part intention to resist a warning given by «*ul. and added that if one had been showmembers aground, but the engine room wa Verdun being pressed vigorously, although with less rapid progress the ssued. it was to of the union to the plan. swamped and the ship became unman a submarine does not come within contrary instructions.! opposition LONDON SAYS GERMAN TEXT OF MEMORANDUM In the submarine controversy be- ageable. ,jy the crown prince's armies, but aggressive action on a large scale definition of defensive armament. 5 ween the United States and Germany, May Affect Mileage Question. j i The plight of the vessel was observe* that a similar view- hose i and dozens of craft ilas in the Champagne district, where the Germans, Germany contends favoring having the United States', the MINES SANK STEAMEI went at full spee*l\ LEFT WITH PRESIDENT developed the United States and ivarn its citizens off armed ships of the Friends of government clerks to her rescue. One of them, the Brit point was taken by work in the House to Berlin, have stormed an captured nearly a mile of Frenchafcd it secured assurances from the Ital- thatbelligerents have referred to such an were at today ish tanker Empress of Port William -ording iaii government that its armed merchant ;action having been taken by Great ning a'surprise for the Borland of 2.181 tons, struck another mine an*i 1 renches. ports would not 1Britain. ' plan| Declares sank nearby. ships leaving American siori, and it may be the center- of a Neutral Shipping Was Used | Many Applicants for Diplomatic on submarines which warned them. provij Aboard the Maloja everything pos fire warmer battle titan w as NEW OFFENSIVE: NEARER PARIS. The note then sets forth that the Leaders of much originalj in Laying Explosives and SuggestiI si hie was done to get the passengers Post in Chile.Names Presented government did not issue its newGerman Neither Party ly expected, due to the labors over land crew off. All the boats had al to submarine commanders uri- been out before sir? on a nearer instructionsof Sunday of several of the smartest, Stricter Admiralty Supervision. ready swung at White House. The new movement in the Ch;inipagne is front much ill after it had come into possession j Disposed to Stir Issue strategists in the House, struck, as a nrecain ioii asrainsr. aci-i confidential instructions by the British j Up parliamentary dent, and all those aboard had suffi commanders of Brit- jlf their hopes are realized the Senate Paris than the scene of the openitions against Verdun, the former government to the ! Over Submarine Warfare 'will receive the legislative, executive rient time to put on lifebelts, instrue i.sh merchantmen. judicial appropriation bill without LONDON, j8..C tion in the use of which had been givcin Dr. J. M. T. Finney and Dr. Joseph C. jVniit heincr annrnximatelv one htlndred miles from Paris, while the It is denied that armed British In the Senate [and Borland February the previous evening. of & .r-I J ships of any description are quiet prevailed today, the obnoxious provision. Bloodgood Baltimore, members of the and it is declaredmerchantso far as discussion Vva.'tlv what means are beinar taken tlie total of 411 passengers an d .Society of Clinical and 1 area is ] miles distant from the French peaceful traders, any of the sub- rider not Bodies Are Washed Surgery represent- Verdun fighting roughly [40 on board ail of them to kill the Borland have been Ashore. and that the armament marine issue with Germany was con- made for the very pood reason, crew aboard the Peninsular and ing leading hospitals medical schools is to he used especially for purposes public, Boat after boat and a number o f of the called on the * cerned, except lor the reading of a its enemies say, it would be an unwise country, President to- rapital. of attack. to into Oriental liner Maloja, 151 are notN rafts were sent away, but several per to say that have letter, submitted by Senator Tillman move play Bcprcsentative [day they recently visited North of Verdun the Germar1 lines have been extended as of land's hand. to sons leaped into the water and were I the Army Medical School in this and Cites U. S. Note Precedent. North Carolina, in which U. V. Den- wak made Bor| believed have perished whe n city nirigton of New York expressed the The suggestion today, picked up by the surrounding craft. 1 t to leave with the President, the The was made that Austrian that the cry of economy in behalf the struck a following ^,vhat to the west, the loop of the around ChampneuvillesomeMeuse charge opinion that persons who traveled on howlever. steamship mine an was at first thought that all had beei11 memorandum, the work of the submarines also have been attacked jof the Borland provision may cause praising beblligorent-owncd vessels were "fools," the members to redouble their but later bodies were school and that it be 1 of the th Berlin statement while and "in nine cases out of some of went down in half an hour twO saved, washeid urging provided with ng been cleared French, declares, have by armed British merchantmen. winch. } ten ought to forceful attacks tfie be killed for being fools." annual upon ashore, and their number was gradu better quarters and facilities: the note declared, are not conforming. The j 'mileage of congressmen, as that deli* miles off Dover beforC ^ has been a advance ssouthward in the of reading of the letter in the the same bill shortly ally added to during the day. "We are so impressed by the character here slight neighborhood and hu\e no intention of to caused no cate item is included in ronformins, discussion of the matterSenate to make the clerks 'o the fact that and importance of the scientific work by senators, and the 'with the provision [410011 yesterday. owing Dover is uti ^t and near the river. thi assurances given to the I'nited States subject matter a more more acjierauville Bras, raised a work an hour tiz y without der strict law it was e which is being done there tliat we feel a memo- laugh rather than any serious Of the 1 ^ military possibl b\ the British government in consideration. pay. i ly passengers, th the need of to the attention of rrcman nurve was no definite 011 to obtain only meager details fronn bringing CHECK TO THE raudun. of August "J-3. lf»I t. by Sir Cecil Leaders on both sides While there plan names of and the seemed content foot, it was suggested that a fight, on sixty-four have been re those rescued. The captain said tha t yourself country the utterly Spring-Bice. the British ambassador. lodav to lot matters drift so far aa tpe ' will be forced so as to the boat's passengers and crew be adequate facilities provided not forin. stc the in the Fort it can- submarine question was mileage again, as p only The French, however, have >pped German drive The German government says ooru-erned. To it from 'JO tents a mile each ported rescued. Among thos fhaved juestions as to reduce splendidly. purposes of investigation but for those of t rot see how the American government. what Congress and the were for t fort < would do way between the congressional was soU The passengers the mos * instruction as well. The Douaumont sector. Apparently he Germans still hold the in consideration of these facts, can regard country if the Germans to [saved Ralph Foster, the officials in the quarters are in ra rrvinf r»n» t.persisted and the Capitol actual part British Indiai un* J VUI districts armed British merchantmen as peaceful'1 1. I'irii ID suited for < sink JIMII In case it comes to an issue a of the Rev. Festus r>f service, the most prominent beinj existing conditions and they elf, but their furious attacks upor the village of Douaumont nearbyit1 trading ships. The note makes it clear h armed merchantmen without expenses. Foster will prove still more «o in case of believes its warning after Manh compromise may be effected between Judge Oldfield of the Indian high court" any that the Berlin government 1, they replied, the measure and the expansion 9r the service. > vere to the F:rench war office. to submarine com- "Wait until the vessels are Borland coming Topeka, Kan. "We failures, according new instructions sunk." amendment to reduce mileage, in which Rescue Is Sunk Also. furthermore, from our experience as n.anders are in accord with the Ship teachers, believe that the Medical The German official account of the in this in case It is felt in the House that the hosier is a Rhodes scholar a ^ j Army fighting region expressed by the I'nited StatesviewpointAcquiesce in President's Demand. Borland will be The steamship Empress of Fort Wil School should be in the vicinity of and its memorandum proposing a modus provision dropped closely affiliated with, the newly estab- i lares that the French are exhai themselves in fruitless atierman ailies. the "While acquiescing; in the from the bill. Oxford, but had been given a liam of 2.1 SI tons gross, while attempt Walter dalsting Vivendi to the entente for demand of lished Reed Hospital for the the to rescue the survivors of the fit of bene- disarmament of merchant ships. President be allowed to carry Frank P. Walsh in year's leave of absence to ente r ing to Ma 1 both institutions." t acks. It declares that German submarine com- ,3ii diplomatic negotiations and to Fight. loja. struck another mine and sank ii1 ma riders have been so instructed that they for there have been C of some the situation Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the army Y. M. C. A. work. Me wa S than half an hour. The crew of th< Applicants Ambassadorship. Apparently gains importance v ill not destroy a meridiant ship on a through the StatehanJlc less on industrial relations, which is President Wilson a eastern line of the Verdun salient to «4U''3tion of armament unless it is known senators who have goneDepartment,on committeeen route for Egypt to joi 11 Empress was saved by other boats ii is finding large 2ilong the leading St. Mihiel, }v -itiv'tj ihat such armament cists. The record as being opposed to the the outgrowth of the oltj federal Indus-1 the vicinit> ! assortment of candidates for United ie.-laiai:on that previous pledges will net having Y. M. C. A. workers in the arm y ^vheVe the Teutons pushing westv,rard are pounding the defenses I'nited States involved in war over the trial relations commission, and who is i lie scene ui ine uinasicr whs iwi5 States ambassador to Chile to fill the If revoked also is formally given. issue caused the The efforts of the l.'iiitecl States to have present with Germany today now the editor of a Kansas City daily there. miles off the port of Dover, and the ex vacancy by transfer of Am- IVlanheulles, ten miles southeast of Verdun. They have not beep concern as to what was bassador Fletcher to and the the belligerents agree to a modus vivendi goingexpressed today got into the was so violent that house:s Mexico, to to happen if newspaper, fight, »_ plosion number is increasing Sen- < to advance this but have reached v. hi* !i would cause all merchant ships Germany did persist in The bodies of forty-seven vie along the water front were shaken. j every day. ible beyond point, however, are carrying out the or and has sent Air. Borland a telegram ators Walsh and Myers of t t|jt l>e disarmed, it is dec lared, welcomed orders the A boats put out from 2 Montana Relief quickly th< on * at Cot e Lorraine at several by Germany. Then follows a declaration Senator Gore, whose admiralty.saying that the treatment which has: have been recovered, an harbor of Dover and succeeded in called the President today with Dr. oot of the French position points, BerBATTLE will to warn to off tyns pick K. B. Creighead of Missoula that the German government no Americans keepresolutionbeen accorded employes by the govern- ing up a mfmber of the Maloja's pas and urged i allow its submarines to be made armed belligerent-owned merchantmen many relatives have arrived aij. when the liner went down. that Dr. Craighead be nominated to the * in announced. lofgei I still merit is a and that he is sengers the of attacks in violation of the is pending before the Senate, said reproach pre- The carried in the flrst-clas:a place. \ objects that he did riot to furnish definite Dover to the dead. Maloja principles of internatirial law. and that. expect to make any pared information identify cabin twenty-six men. twenty-threbattle of Verdun, now entering its me strongnoia. the President waited until after German the subject in earnest, advanced is that a certai n j the diplomatic service, and that Judge 8 have I»* « n at- There are labor frequently Austrian Mibmarines submarines had seventy-eight unions i- Shea possessed all the qualifications he second week, is continuing with sunk armed class of neutral shipping has been eir Steamer Turns * French in Counter Offensive. merchantmen arn:' England sti the vessel turned pardon case. at the French defenses the communication "UK- suggested f<>r Americans safe government employes without turtle, and for a few d riving hard g» -ted that Anu'iiran citizens b« warm d keeping more supervision of neutrj places are taking: on the nature of a stringent seconds the keel was visible 1 . Uno-tbaninir lino U'hieh nnw ami avoiding further He pay. above tins School Students Visit a . t>> < main off arrn'd merchant ship-, complications. additional been exercised White House, a IUII& out than has a ii.i the of what pointed that at suc4i a time, when shipping yet surface. According to eye-witnesse:3 counter as in the question constitutes; Join Labor The r far the salient in which offensive, attacks pfi defensive ainianient is not brought up.. American li\cs had been sacrificed, it Clerks Union. by the admiralty. there was a second explosion, and annual spring pilgrimage to beyond -uns won I < 1 ><- hur»l for oof /> ' in various of school alf not one of them left sized of students from embassy, called upon Secretary employes Washington torpedoed saved, the ship iii parties Spring- h as been checked, but Berlin claims a French, when they had fallen back te Austrian joining the American Federation of Crete December 30 last, with the loss <>f the boats; they were all picked out o f and Mass. after Count von Held Fitchburg. The believed could tensing Bernstorff had GOING Labor, through the union of which Mr. The was last !(j the water. is always at its continuation of the forward march on positions they they hold TO MESOPOTAMIA is the head. Aroused to a 336 lives. Maloja reporte height dur-pilgrimage left and informed him that Germany's Giles high Januar The captain from the bridge directe<1 ing the.Easter season, and is indefinitely, would drive back over the the government as having arrived at Marseille - of 11 beginning tihe French stronghold. views as set forth in the note from pitch, employes are the lowering the boats, called 01t a little early this year. F'KKINCi, China. February j8. writing to the federation, thanking the 31, bound for London from Sydney, Ne w everybody to keep calm, and everybodyr Craanston and a the Meuse, to the north of ground that had been yielded In the Count von BcrnstorfT were identical officials for taking up the Bishop committee Along j labor South Wales. kept calm wonderfully, for the sceni Reciting what they say are their one sufficiently to cause ;i and and infantry attacks. everything She wa 8 terrifying son this morning invited him to ..0 make as rapid progress as in the contained in the 'ifiiiMii Manchuria, wrongs, the letter contains such feet beam and 34 feet deep. panic. Several children were blown t«9 conlennial reports thatHarbin.a i. attend the celebration of According to a statement Aristide ion. comrriunicat phrases as "Send ine six application built at Beifast in 191 pieces and the deck was covered witlt death, to of the t>attle, and even by 1915 it was d Bishop Asbury's be held in itlitial stages Secretary Lansing is understood to division of Russian is on blanks": "many people in my office In February of reporte wreckage and wounded, but there wai9 Foundry Churc, this city, the Briand, the French premier, this have advised neither troops want to join"; "I wonder how that the Maloja, on entering the Engllg no of a panic. °n the Woevre front, where the French of the Teutonic long with on boariJ1 sign of March 31. If the President can diplomats what the views of the they think we are going to stand the channel 400 passengers Only a few boats could be lowereci the time he will be present. evening after the fourth day of ths happened l.'nited the to tlie an unknow find t first fell back, they now appear to States would be way Manchi/rian port treatment that has been accorded us was ordered to stop by .n and the sea made the ' toward the armed merchantman. The mail boat heavy rescut H. W. Ford of Detroit, not related to battle. It wa« for etc. !s work difficult. The of under tood communication.tliat the years," to have the order and mad majority thosi5 Henry Ford of that city, today invited be offering effective resistance. note would be of to embark there 011 The names and addresses of those said ignored saved were 011 of which the 1 brought t., the at ten ion Dalny. for Plymouth, whereupon the inercham[e rafts, shij President Wilson to attend the world's of President Wilson before who are joining the union are being II carried a large number. Most of th<5 congress, to be held Pressure here is particularly Strong: French Reinforcements. night and secret the man fired five shells at her, but all fe salesmanship in that nothing definite it would steanisltips for kept by federation. In a' women and children lost their lives' Detroit July 9-13. at which 6,000 at th« Im Frsnsh be regarding Japanese out short. to the fact one to th« fortress, eruthtnfrmenaclg The ut> silent ***' decided until after it had been Mesopotamia.statement given today by Mi. The Empress of Fort William was fot owing that boat alreads men will be present, The PresidentsalesI to the cabinet tomorrow. submitted (Continued on Seventh Page.) raeriy the Mount atephsn and was butu (Continu.a on fwiBffiTSSEJ took the invitation under advisement. o1 UUc uitait Uh* of qui Vor4uo nl» w

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