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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE fir- AS50CIATED PRESS NEWS COMPLETE STOCK MARKET Complete rcpurl page I FOl O'CLOCK. NEW YORK CITY. THURSDAY. JUNE 14, 1917. PAGES.

THREE CENTS WHICH? T'S MOST HANDS OFF German Militarism, in Amazing Coup For Expansion, Now Conducts Sinister Intrigues for Peace, Says President lents existed with Indications That Two Billion Bonds Will Be Oversubscribed. Mil -Hi. Ill to corrupt the opinion or our people in llielr own hebair. When they found that they could not do Uiat, their agenta diligently spread acdiiiou among us and sought to draw our own from then omo or the-se wr ii" I' with the oilh ial he Unrcrnineiit itf-olf here in our own Capital. They -mm lit by iolenoe to destroy our Industrie and Hrret our eomniere-e.

They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms against Japan into a hostile her and that, not by Indirection, but by direct suggestion from the Foreign Office in Berlin. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeated) executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our ix-onle who tund to approach the coasts of Uiiroitc. hl plewere corrupted. Will you buy a Liberty WOOED, WON, WED IN 105 BUSY MINUTES-GROOM UNDER COLORS'' Miss Nancy Dashiel, Brooklyn Navy Recruiter, Clips Record in Romance. NOW WIFE OF LIEUT.

CATCH Behold Mr Nancy Weems Dashtel daughter of a naval officer, of naval officer and holder of he speed record In the Brooklyn Navy ard Matrimonial Sweepstakea! Yesterday morning she waa a rorker In the friendly House Settle- 1 yesterday afternoon Borough Hall recruiting meeting. At 2 o'clock, with Lieutenant Thomas Leigh Gatch of Oregon, she was taking out a mnrrlage license at the Borough Hall Bureau. At 2:30 o'clock she wns Informing her sister workers In the Woman's Auxiliary for Navy Krecrulting in Brooklyn that considerable speed would be necessary If her frlenda wished to attend her wedding. Twenty minutes Inter she entered a fashionable chop and bought a trous- At 8:45 o'clock one hour and forty-five minutes after the marriage license was obtained -the Hev. Joseph P.

Mr-Comas, senior canon of Trinity Church, Manhattan, pronounced the whirlwind couple man and wife In Trinity Chapel. If you have managed to keep up with what follows. In 1912 Thomas Leigh Oaten, appointed from Oregon, was graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis. At that time Nancy Weems Dashiel, whose father wua Naval Constructor Robert B. Dashiel.

lived In Annapolis. belles of the naval set. Her mother sun me. Anns. is.

hut fortunately was In town on a visit, else daughter would have been married without her 1 presence. Hatch and Dashiel were frlenda during the Annapolis Continued on Page 9. RUSSIAN CABINET WANTS CONFERENCE WITH ALLIES TO EXAMINE TREATIES Petrograd, June 14 (via London) The Cabinet has decided to suggest a conference with the Allies to examine the various treaties among the several TO CONFER ON SHIPS 901 Colorado Building. Washington, June 14 The great ship building program of the emer- put into operation. A conference of the leading shlpbuiders will be held It will signalize the mobilization of the steel industry and the shipbuilding yards on the emergency work that General Goethals is supervising.

HOW CENTRALIZING SAVES 'KM. A typewritten statement was given out by the Health Department today, which declares that 42,211 lives have been saved In Brooklyn as a result of centralized health administration during the past three years. BY BRITISH OVER NORTH SEA NO SURVIVORS FOUND London, June 14 Zeppelin L-43 has been destroyed over the North Sea by naval forces, Chancellor Bonar Law announced today In the House of Com- Bond or dc I I I Washington. June 14 Folloi the text of President Wilson' Day address at the Washington ment grounds today: I "My fellow citizens Wo rr celebrate Flag Day because ti which we honor and under wh the i of 0 thought and purpose I that which we give it from gen- erati. The are ours.

It floats in majestic choices, whether In peace And yet, though silent. It speaka tt us speaks to us of the rast, of and of the records they wrote upor It. We celebrate the day of its birth witnessed a great a-on high the symbol of great of a great plan of life workcl a great people. We are ah it will draw the fire of our enemies. We are about to bid thousands, hun- i housands, i of the strong, the capable men of the tion, to go forth and (tie bene urn it fields of blood far away for what something for which it has nevi sought the fire before? America armies were never before sent aero; the seas.

Why are they sent now For some new purpose, for which th Id, fam hlch buttlellf Id Americans have borne le Revolution? Forced to War. purpose- liable at I Into the The en' Imperial Hit no self-respecting choice but to ta up arms in defense of our rights at free people and of our honor as a se ereign government. Tho nillit or i.eriiinny nenicn us i he neutral. They filled SUGAR PLANT MAY BE 1 DEAD.SCOREHURT Fire and Explosion Big Kent Avenue Factory. SCOUT PLOT THEORY A fireman employed by the American Sugar Beflnlng Company at Kent avenue and South Third street, George Kassai by name, rounded the corner of South Fourth street a few minutes before 11:30 o'clock last night onhls s'tory plant.

As he reached a point Immediately in front of the building there was a blinding flare of light which seemed to envelop the entire building and the walls parted. The Tolish fireman took one look. as his feet could carry him. As he event the earth was roceed by Iflc of debris showering down Into Kent avenue and South Third street. The plant had suddenly become a volcano belching forth thousands of bricks, pieces of timber, plaster and metal.

Had Kassai waited long enough he might have seen the entire face of the building reel off from the fourth floor clear the top and come crashing down into the street. He might have seen the galvanized Iron passageway which spanned Kent avenue and ing buildings. 1 Ing, running flg doorways 0 leklng, srop- fall across iught to flee and get I health ounded men and an a score. They the upper floors there were had been of the sugar twins nen ine explosion ripped off the top and sides and blew some of their comrades Into the tteet rltH Um bricks. In fact, one man.

blown from the fourth story, picked himself up on Kent avenue. but i feels fu Boon ambulanees were moving from the Eastern IMstrlrt, St. Catherine's, the Cumberland Street and the (Ireen-polnt hospitals to the scene of the Are and South Fourth and Third streets were filled with the clangor of their gongs- They removed twenty-three men, one of whom died In the hospital. The casualties, so far as the police were able to ascertain them at noon, were as follows: The Casual lira. Dead: William Miller.

45 years old. of 71 North First street. Ilurned and r.therwlse Injured: Allien Bean. 11 years old. Ill Al- Louis Plermann, 39 xt itoerum street Barrett, 5T, old, 144 Monroe I I I i MILITANT SPEECH WARNS OF BERLIN Lays Bare Scheme of Domination in Europe and Peace Intrigue.

FLAG DAY ADDRESS rigue for peat ress delivered Mdent. in the arid efforts to make a Gerr (Mentally, ho baptised i peace. In- new name the People's War. His Peeeil carried a solid "punch." and It re-echoed the optimism as to the ultimate result which he expressed in his note to Kuseia, maele public last Saturday. The Bussian note and the Flag Day speech Indicate a purpose on the part of Mr.

Wilson to assume aggrosslve war leadership and to Inspire the people of tho United States not only with confidence, but with grim resolution to seo the war through until Germany lias ceased to be 1 world menace. The President, without any quibble clear Germany's precise objects in tho war the plan to "throw a broad belt of Herman military power and political control across the very center of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia." He spoke of the complete! subserviency of Austrla-Hnnean- allies of the Cen-trnl Towers, to tho Berlin oligarchy, declaring the military masters of Germany to be the masters of Austria, "The so-called Central Powers are 'Y'1 atsinB'Q declared that Austria, Servia, Bulgaria and oilier oantral nations are completely at Germany's mercy. The President that was blunt and fon-cful. 1 to the are talk from Germany, Mr. Wilson dec easy to understand.

The President alluded to the German purpose to intrigue for a German 1-a as an attempt at "the deceit of nations." and declared that "this iln-iMtr intrigue is no less active ly conducted in this country than In md in urope to which the the Imperial Ger Intrlguo Futile In C. S. "But they will make no headway," dded tho President, after speaking of the pro. German propaganda In the hemselves always In every accent." Mr. Wilson, In concluding his ad-Iress, made clear that the United Mates has entered the war agressivo- r.f Insuring free-tlce and self-government to including be waged until such ends are ac-pllshcd.

or us there is but one choice. We In 1 1 States world In simple language il In auy of his previous ti the subject of the war. iched his leadership, not American people, but of the world over. BRAINERD. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Juno 14 Before a eat audience assembled here today a Flag Day celebration.

President purposes of 3 Unit! Standing in ih shadow of the great monument erected to the everlasting iiiemorv of Ge rge Washington, the President trdd thousands gathered on i lie grassy slope about him that the States had entered the war i ol alone to keep the world safe for and aggressions Imperial Gentian Government i no hoice but to take up arms i Bescnt Insults. the President. "We have mad Woe be to the man or group of i that seeks to stand In our way his day of high resolution, when are trying a I black- wish in turn with a might and triumph if sentiment which will tenfh these once and for all that loyalty this flag Is the first test e.f tolerance; ii the t'nlted States." The United States Marine Bmi3 fe. They have hey could by regar rerely garded the m.i!l.-r States, in pane ular. and the peoples who could be overwhelmed bv force, as their natu ral tools, and instruments of domination.

Hieit purpose has beei tions, to whom that purpose arai In credible, paid little attention, regard ed what German professors expound writers M-t forth the world as tin goal of German policy as rather the dream of minds ached from preconceptions of German destiny, thar sots and the writers were saving, and were glad to go forward unmolested lillinK tho thrones of Balkan States with Gorman princes, putting German offie-ers at the service of Turkey to drill her armies and make Intfreal with her Government, developing plans of sedition mill rebellion In India and Egypt, setting their fhvs In Persia The demands made hi Au-trin upon Serbia were mere single -tep The Kaiser's Ambition. Their plan xvas to throw broad belt of German militury power and political control aereiss the very center of Europe and lieyenid the Mediterranean Into the heart of Asia; and Austria-Hungary xvas to Ik as much their tool anel pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria er Turkey or tho ponderous Slates of the East. Austria-Hungary, Indeed, xvas to become part eif tlie Central German Empire, absorloei and dominated by Uio same forces and Influ-e-neea that had originally cemented the German States themselves. The dream had Its heart at Berlin. It could have had a heart noxvhere else I It rejected the Idea of solidarity of race entirely.

The choice of peoples played no part in It at all. It contemplated binding together racial and political units which could be kept together only by force Czechs. Mag- Continued Page 3. GENERAL PERSHING Paris Crowds Hail American General and His Troops. GUEST OF POINCARE rls, June 14 The first day spent aris by Major General Pershing a continuous succession of enthu-ic popular demonstrations given commander Ireat throngs of Hundreds rench soldiers leave from tho front mingled In th throngs and gave hearty greetings the troopers of the Second Cavalr who accompanied General Pershln) general's hotel and everywhere th Ambassador Sharp and was then es- I'alace of the Elysee to be presented to President Poincare.

Polnearc's State Breakfast. Madame Folncare gave a state breakfast in honor of the American commander. Other guests were Premier Kibot, General Pel nl eve. Marshal Joffro, Minister Vlvlanl, Ambassador prominent ligures French mission's visit to the States, and it was expected Amhassu dor Sharp and probably Genera gallery. Tonight Minister of War I'ein Pershing pari pita! Th larked xvith i Paris Opens Arms to Pershing Paris opened Its arms to (I I Pershing and his staff yesterdav af noon, and welcomed them with outburst of spontaneous gnthusll Continued on Page 2, Government Intimates Action by U.

S. Will Be Sharply Resented. "NO INTERFERENCE" Toklo. Tuesday. June that country anqullity and 'undamentnl policy, the goal of whlc to procure recognition by the Power if a special and paramount posltlo: The impression prevails In Toki outbr special privileges Japan and the i United States present Issue appears to i question whether the Cnl 1 the prerogative ol 1 pendent action In China, and he forth consult Japan.

The folio' statement of Japan's position is well-informed quarters: "When Japan and the Allies about to urge Yuan Shi Kai (the President of China), to postpone toratlon of the monarchy, the L'r consulted beforehand participate. The Ur States renllod that It favored a public, but could not Interfei In "The recent American notified i ivited I participate. Wo are making efforts to assure hat the United States had of slighting the Japanese, but they are extremely sensitive ro anything touching China, which they deem a supremely vital question of The Foreign Office declines to discuss what action will be adopted to- panese Foreign Office, nrrespondent Indicated ment expressed by the more pretended than The Eagh Japanese was did not believe tl would go so fai bring with him Important exclusive Information which he has gathered from the leading personalities In Pet-(rograd, Peking and Toklo during the Japan to Send Mission Here. Washington. June 14 Japan will lend a mission to the United States, rhe mission will have broad powers, In diplomatic consultation.

ipecie.i to nave japan curing the firs of .1 Ishll will head tl Japanese Mission. He formerly wi Minister of foreign Affairs. Vice Ac mlral Takeshiln. who Is well known In the United States, heads the nav section of the mission The army se aches will mpany ralleled opportunity for a United States i through a eradication be necessary full discussion of the The change through of German Influence at curtailing of British, slan power, creating a of Interest between th the Kast Km aat. through aa seldom ailed before, ami the i im merits about to take place occasion only leas interest here than those In Europe.

Japan has recently announced a desire 'for the closest co-operation with the United States In this field, and the Emperor has called a non-partisan conference of all Japan great states- policy for the empire In what Is' called V. S. Note to China Garbled. Japanese presentment over the American note to China la ascribed by officials here wholly to the publication of a garbled version In Japan. Continued on Page 2.

Germans The report Issued laat night atated that since the beginning of the battle I of Messlnea Ridge, a week ago tomor-row. the British have captured 7.412 Germans and 47 run. -i- machlne guns and 60 trench mortars" Included In the prisoners are 146 offl- Thc French Paris. June 14 No important en- mg ine directed against sm.xll posts fl ent sectors, were repulsed compl "We raided a German trench of Navarln Farm and look ten onara," BROOKLYN IN FRONT Washington, June 1 Secretory of the Trcaiury McAdon announced this afternoon Unit the Liberty Loan ioud be a mom Af a'ctock toilfi'i subscription re ported to the Treasury Department totaled UJWfiNM9 Tkm the lait figures given out until offer the books close tomorrow noon. It note lufe to say the loan of V.

000,000,000 Witt be oversubscribed There remains onl 5i7, 000,000 to be raited and reported in the final drive throughout the Nation. Subscriptions close tomorrow noon. Twenty-five Brooklyn banking In- stitutlons reported today that they had subscribed, for themselves and their depositors, to a total of of the Liberty Loan. Many af Hank of Coney Island, the Brooklyn Savings Bank and the Flat bush Branch of the Broadway Trust Company, announced that they Intended to remain open until 9 clock tonight to accept subscriptions to the loan. The Brooklyn Savings Bank today Increased its own subscription to tht loan from $500,000 to J75O.00O.

The 1'latbush Branch of the Broadway Trust Company stated that It had received subscriptions for $259,000 of the loan from its clients, largely In $50 nnd $100 Individual subscriptions. The City Savings Hank stated It hud received 450 individual subscriptions. The figures for these banks Indicate that Brooklyn will probably exceed I ta allotment of $54,1 fi8, 000 of the loan, if It has not done so already. The $32,221,600 subscriptions reported by the banks do not Include large subscriptions to the loans made lny business houses and corporations LAST DAY TO BUY A BOND! 1 there ranging from $25,0.00 to $500,000 still to be heard from. Brooklyn la apparently doing its full rhare in subscribing to the Liberty Loan, notwithstanding an announcement from the Liberty Loan Commute indicating that "the Borough of Kings" as It was called, was falling behind the rest of New York City in the loan drive.

The statement was: of Ft he' Uberty 'Loan' Com fit ee "I to Eagle Shows Discrepancy. When The Eagle called the Liberty-Loan Committee to point out the discrepancy between the figures it was giving out as Brooklyn's subscription that reported to The Eagle by the Brooklyn banks, one of the office staff stated: "That's all right. We are several days behind in our work here and those figures are not final. They are the last we had available. The subscriptions are pouring in here so rapidly that we cannot hope to keep them up to date." when asked Brooklyn" that the committee's statement contained, became exceedingly-incensed, denied that there was any lihel and took the position that, while the banks here miaht have subscrip- "Nobody with any authority said that we were behind in our work," he said, when told of the statement made by one of the office staff.

"We are as rear up to date as it is possible to be In such work. It is entirely possible that the Brooklyn banks may have subscriptions for $32,000,000 and not have reported them as yet to the committee. Our figures are based on the subscriptions actually reported to the committee by the banks up to noon yesterday." There was a long line of Brooklyn people at the Dime Savings Bank today, waiting to subscribe to the loan, and the tollers of the bank were kept crlptions. Bankers throughout the lorough reported that there was an jnusual rush toriav bv smrill investors take part of the Liberty Loan. Last Day of Loan.

This Is the last day for the Libert oan subscriptions. All subscriptions icriod, sties the vessels in the harbor were blown and bells on pnbli buildings and churches throughout the city were rung. The Liberty Loan Committee announced that the subscriptions in the New York FcdcpU Reserve district at 10 a.m. today totalled some Hankers in Manhattan estimated that hy night the $1,000. noo.oon reached and that by the time the suspicion and to wonder In theli uprise whether eld War Started by MlllUiry Masters of Germany.

BUI that only part of the story. clearly i engaged they They world Is In the grip of that power jnd Is trying out the great battle which shall determine whether It Is to be brought under Its mastery or (line itself free. "Tile war xvas begun by the military masters of Germany, who proved to he also the masters of Austria-Ilimcnrv. These men have never regarded nations as peoples, men, women and children of like blood and frame as themselves, for whom gov- AMERICAN WOMEN IN GERMANY URGED TO LEAVE; NO PASSPORTS FOR MEN Copenhagen (via London), June 14 Michael J. Stark of Chicago, an employee of the International Harvester Company at Neuss, Prussia, arrived here from Germany last night.

He had been trying since February 6 to obtain a passport and was Just now siven permission to leave Germany. He says that a number of Americans of his acquaintance have been abso lutely refused passports until the war Herman au- hi appeared for compulsory reglstra- 'o-i rnan officer in charge asked it Justification she had for re- hed iraen had bet ter leave Germany. Another recent American arrival Is Miss SJozilius of Duluth. an American singer, who was engaged by the Mann-helm opera. Miss SJozilius was released from a long-term contract ow- ALEX.

C. CAMPBELL DIES OF PNEUMONIA Head of Milk Company Was III Only Short Time. Alexander Carlyle Campbell, vice ander Campbell Milk Company, died yesterday at his liome, 365 Parkslde ago, and the son was in charge of the business since that time. Mr. Campbell Is survived by his wife, Lillian T.

Zimmermann; two daughters. Marjorie Elizabeth and Elaine Katherine, a sister, Mrs. William B. Fischer, and a brother, Dr. William Francis Campbell of Clinton avenue, xvho is head of Trinity Hospital, East New York, which is a memorial to his mother, Catherine Bennett Campbell.

The funeral services will be conducted at the late home of the deceased, by tho Hev. Dr. Nehemlah Boynton, pastor of the Clinton avenue Congregational Church, which Mr. Campbell attended. PHIL DWYER ESTATE MAY BE $1,500,000 lends estimate It to be upward of 1.500,000.

It is known that Mr. wycr acquired considerable real es-ate during hlfl lifetime and ttat mrh of this property is located in ctions of Brooklyn where values ave increased largely within the past I KIF. THIHST Ql EM HER xrld rhoaphatr Germans in Retreat on 2-Mile Front in Belgium London, June 14 Inportant sections of the German front between the Lys River and St. Yves have been abandoned by the Germans, It I nounced officially. British troops followed the ret Ing Germans closely and made considerable progress east of Ploegsteert Wood.

The statement follows: "Our further advance east of Mes-slnes, combined with the pressure of our troops south of the front of our attack, has compelled the enemy to abandon Important sections of hla first line defensive system in the area between the River Lys and St. Yves. Our troops have followed up the enemy closely and have made considerable progress east of Ploegsteert Wood. Wo also gained ground during the night In tho neighborhood of Gas- "Wo raided enemy trenches last night north of Bullecourt and south of Hodge and captured a few prisoners In each case," rank Mlehellrk. 21.

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