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U. S. ASSURED

OF REPARATION

FOR MURDER

OF M'MANUS

Convention Foreign Office Chief

Tells Brazilian Envoy That

Zapatistas Will Be Pun

ished .

Suitable indemnity for Ameri

can's Family Also Promised.

Note Accepted as Satisfac

tory. The State Department was ad

vised today by the Brazilian miik-

:e- o Mv:n nit,. f. tt.. ,.,.

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visional government of Mexico will

take immediate steps to punish

the Zapatistas who murdered John

D. McManus, and will pay an in

demnity tp the American's family

The telegram reached Secretary

Bryan today. It said:

"Ismael Palafox, who was in

command of the convention foreign

office, has resumed charge again.

I placed before him full facts in

the McManus case end he promised

everything would Jbe done immedi

ately to"cause punishment' of the

guilty parties and to arrange to pay

a suitable indemnity to the family."

NOTE SATISFACTORY.

TUo assurances given by Palafox are

taken to bo a satisfactory answer to

I he representations sent by Bryan to

(ion. Zapata and repeated last night to

Gen. Villa, through George C. Caro

thers. American consular agent with

the revolutionary chief.

That Palafox has resumed charge of

tho foreign office for tho Vllla-Zapata

government Is taken as an Indication

that the convention government under

Provisional president Roque Gonzales

Garza has returned to Mexico City and

again assumed ontrol. Previous dis

patches, whllo reporting the arrival of

Zapata's forces, did not make mention

of tho return of Garza's cabinet, which

fled from Mexico City when the Obre-gon-Carranzalsta

forces occupied the

i apltal.

Spain Protests Again.

The Spanish nmbossador again has

put the question of tho protection of

his country'? citizens In Mexico up to

the State Department. Ho told Bryan

that four Spanlaids met death while

Obregon occupied the city, and that his

countrymen were In even greater dancer

now bccaviHO of the admitted fact that

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up uno shot dead

Two Desperadoes Flee Past Two

Policemen After Takin g$30

From Cash Drawer.

NEW YORK. March 14.-One of the

most daring hold-ups In a long time

took place early today when two rob

bers hot nnd killed Charles Miller,

forty-thtee., night clerk In the Hotel

Atlan, and stole $30 from the cash

drav er.

A few minutes before the crime

MlHer asked a maid to make him coffee

and Charles Wilson, the elevator boy,

took l.or to tho basement. 8hots made

them both hurry back and they found

Miller staggering. Ho cried "I'm shot

I'm dying." Meanuhtle the two des

peradoes were lw king out of the en

trance, their h-' mlled over their ees

and pistols leveled.

As soon as i'i. Ii -i none Vm 'ever

Wilson rushed out nnd paw two patrol

men u few feet ft cm the hotul. The

robbers hud inf'.:ii then, without ex

citing susplcljii

An ninbula'i e w i cil'rd and Dr.

Munay found Ml"; h d tion shot

near the heart ,-i d tin o tl its in the

nbdorren. He i d ti iiv ques

tions, but lan."i int-i unc nwlot'sness

nnd d d n tlma after rcioi'ns New

York Hospital.

Seeial bullets 'vote fquid in tho

walls, liullcntint; tint U'TP lied been a

Mnifigle Millfi evidently Irid rofused

to ant inder tho hotoi reli "nd had

paid for his braom with lis life.

Florida, the Carolina, Georgia.

Seaboard Air Line Hy. Best trains,

best cervlce, shortest wav. Atlanta, Bir

mingham. Inq. 1416 N. Y. ave. Advt

U.S. Hopelessly Behind

m iviuuury &irvnin,

Even Americans Admit

Belief That Nation Could "L.ck

Creation" No Longer Ex

pressed Here.

MANY BEGINNING TO WONDER

Even Small. Nations . in . Old

World Better Prepared,

Oscar King Davis Says.' "

By OSCAR KING .DAVIS. .

When tho averagf, American citizen

pauses long enough in the busy routine

of hla regular occupation or hln amuso

ment, as tho cnse may be, to give even

a passing thought of the 'problem of

what hln country would encounter ir,

unfortunately, It should be forced Into

war. It Is most likely that on of the

great military , powers , of the world

comes Into his mind as the possible

antagonist of the United States,

We have been t so accustomed, as a

people, and for so many yearn to think

ing of our own military status .with the

supreme self-satisfaction of almost

tota, ,

total Ignoranco. that tho suggestion of

"war" btingB forward at onco, the name

of one of tho nations capable U really

making war, such as Germany, or

Japan, or Russia, or Great" Britain.

It Is true that In the last two or three

years of extreme disturbance In Mexico

there has been no little talk In tho

United States about the possibility of

war with that country. But most If not

all of It has been of a condescending

or contemptuous air, as If It were giv

ing a title of dignity to what would In

reality be merely a policing exercise.

It Is not worth while to spend time

or space hero to adduco evidence re

garding American self-complacency

over our military prowess. Wo have

been admitting to ourselves and all the

world for so many years that we could

undoubtedly "Hck creation'' If It should

become necessary that we are all fairly

famtliawlthHn"a"tttmaWfdurblP

Ity which we have 'ptfuponX ourselves.

It Is oply since the marvelous doings

of Japan Ih her war with Russia ten

years ago, and especially slnco tho out

break of the present war in Europe,

that there seems to have grown up

among a great many Americans a sus

picion that kicking creation" Is not as

easy a proposition as we had been ac

customed to think It Some, even

EITEL SKIPPER MUM

ON DIPLOMATIC NOTE

Has Not Yet Informed U. S. Haw

Long German Raider Wants

to Stayv

NEWPORT NEWS, Va,, March 14.

Although the "diplomatic request" sent

to the commander of the Prlnz Eltel

Frledrlch on Friday asked for a specific

statement as to the time he desires to

remain In this port to repair, no answer

has been received yet by Collector Ham

ilton, who kept the customhouse open

for the purpose of receiving It.

If the German commander, Captain

Thlerlchens, makes his reply before

nlBht, It is believed here that the Fed

eral Government will decide tomorrow

how much time the uerman raiaer win

be allowed to remain In these waters chief witness before the coroner's

without Interning. The final examlna- Jury. No other person saw the trag

tlon of the naval survey board, con- edy In the Allen home except little

Rlatine of Naval Constructor William O,

Dubose, Lieutenant Commander Norrls,

and Lieutenant Allen, from the Norfolk

Navy Yard, will be made aboard the

Eltel tomorrow.

When this decision Is made the ques

tion of leaving American waters In the

teeth of the cordon of British warships

which has been drawn ncross the Capes

beyond the three-mile limit with the al

ternative of Internment at Newport

News until the close of the war will

be squarely up to the German com

mander. Berlin Not to Protest

Effort to Get Redress

For Loss of the Frye

Following a conference at which Count

von Bernstorff, the German ambassador,

Uated that Germany will not protest

offorts by ths United States to obtain

redress for the sinking of the American

schooner William P. Frye by the Ger

man cruiser Prlnz Ettel Frledrlch, Coun

selor Lansing, of the State Department,

today took up the problem of shaping

this Government's policy In the Prlnz

Kltel Frledrlch's case.

Mr. Lansing was in conference for

more than an hour today with Joseph

P Tumulty, Secretary t the President.

At the close of tho conference Mr. Lan

sing said he was not ready to discuss

the State Department policy In the sit

uation arising from the sinking of the

Frye.

Mr. Lansing declared, however, that

there was no foundation for the report

that two members of the Frye's crew

were Imprisoned against their will on

the German cruiser. Department ad-

Ices, ho said, showed that the two

members of the crew wore Germans

who had acted voluntarily In remaining

on the Eltel Frledrlch.

No serious conflict with Germany

over the situation Is expected.

If U. S. Had Been in

-Belgium's Place.

What would have happened

last August, for instance, if

we had been in Belgium's

place? Is there any sober

minded man in the United

' States at all familiar with our

' military situation who fancies

that we should have been able

tostop the Germans in their

first rush upon Liege? Does

' any American believe that wc

could have checked the on

rush of the Kaiser's men at

any subsequent stage of their

dash through Belgium?

Why after all these months of

desperate fighting, and after

all her terrible losses, Bel

gium today has a larger army

of trained men in the field

than we can, muster if we

have to go to war.

The Germans would have run

over us even more easily

than they did over the Bel

gians, and we should have

been left to eat our rage and

protest that we enjoyed tie

meal. From an article by

O. K. Davis.

among our most flamboyant patriots,

are considerably less cocksure than

thev wcie only a short time ago.

This doubt began to show Itself when

we saw the Japanese Inflict defeat upon

the Russians, who, up to then, had

been rewarded generally as well nigh

Inv'nclbl. It has grown very matorl-

any aswe nave wuigiicu un bh -.natywMtfmanpcalioithe

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three ordfue natlona-'.upon the batUo-'

'fields of Europe. " -" I ., ,

There are plenty of good, .substantial

American citizens ..now who nro ready

to admit that maybe we had better

take stock of outselvcs and see If we

can't do something to strengthen our

lines a bit agalrst possible emergencies.

Well, what emergencies might arise

which It would give us trouble to meetT

What nations are there which take

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SHOT ACCIDENTALLY,

K ALLEN IS OEAO

Unconscious Since Tragedy a

Week Ago, Woman Expires

as Doctors Watch Husband.

Mrs. Carrie E. Allen, who was ac

cidentally shot through the head by

'her husband In the Allen home, 1223

Pleasant blreot. Anacostla, last Sun

day morning, died In Casualty Hospi

tal shortly after 9 o'clock today.

ClauJe D. Allen, the husband, was

with Mrs. Allen when the end came.

Allen, his nerves shattered by the

tragedy, has been watched by physi

cians at the hospital for fear his mind

would break under tho strain and he

might harm himself.

An Inquest over the body of Mrs.

Allen will be held at the morgue to

morrow morning. Allen win be the

Claudia Allen, three years old. Mrs

Allen had been unconscious since she

was taken to Casualty a week ago.

The AllenB' children, two. girls and

a boy, are In the caie of their grand

mother, Mrs. Martha E. Allen, of 1306

Monroe street northwest,

Mrs. Allen was in the kitchen of

her home, preparing Sunday dinner,

when the shooting occurred. Allen

went to the cupboard to take out an

old revolver to clean It. Just as his

wife turned her head to speak to

him, the weapon went off. A bullet

had entered the right eye, and, pass

ing through tho head, wont out be

hind the left ear.

Allen was arrested by police of the

Anacostla precinct, but was released

uncr an investigation.

Boys Lost in Old Mine,

One Starves to Death

PITTSBURGH, Pa.. March 14. Wil

liam Hale, aged E, and Albert Tomlln

son, aged 10, wandered awav from their

homes Ih Bankvt'.le, near here, March

C. nnd searching parties were unable to

find them until a number of men en

tered an abandoned coal mine

There they came upon the dead body

of JJale. and neaiby was Torrrtlnson al

most aeaa trom starvation. The boys

had lost their wav.

THE BLACK BOX

First installment of the great mystery story, by E. Phillips Oppenheim, which

has proven the moving picture sensation of the season, will be found in The Times

Today on Page 9

ACQUITTAL OF

THAI GALLED

PROSECUTOR

Deputy Attorney General De

clares Verdict Sets Danger

ous Precedent Sanity Test

to Be Sought.

Prisoner's Lawyers Will Apply

for Habeas Corpus Writ.

Fugitive From Matteawan

Nearer Freedom Than Ever.

NEW YORK, March 14. Harry

K. Thaw is nearer liberty today

than he has been in all the years

since he murdered Stanford White

His acquittal on the charge of

conspiracy in escaping from Mat

teawan and the unofficial verdict

of the jury that he is now sane ia

regarded as a long step toward his

final release.

In order to gain time, one of his

lawyers, Abel Smith, made a mo

tion that he be returned to New

Hampshire, from which State he

was extradited in obedience to the

niandateQfjUt5eJ,UnitedStates. Su

prqmc'Court.f 'Thatmoflon will be

argued tomorrow. , ,

CALLS IT "OUTRAGEOUS."

Frank K. Cook, deputy attorney gen

eral, denounced the verdict as outrage

ous. He said It represented a worse

miscarriage of Justice than tho Cleary

verdict In Rockland county, und said

If its acceptance of the law wero fol

lowed. Sing Sing would bo emptied of

Its murderers. '

"It Is outrageous," said Cook. "It

beats the Cleary verdict a mile. The

attorney general does not believe that

Thaw's rambling utterances on th

stand could convince a Jury of his san

ity. The verdict. 1 believe, sets a

dangerous precedent. The forty murder

ers now In Sing Sing can escape as soon

as they can nmuss $6,000 apiece."

The acquital of Thaw marks the be

ginning of a new fight to establish

Thaw's sanity according to tho proc

esses of the law.

Sanity Was Not nn Issue.

The question of Thaw's sanity was not

made an issue in the trial JUBt passed,

the Judge ruling It out absolutely, even

forbidding the Jury to mention It In

their verdict, so that Thaw's lawyers

will apply for a habeas corpus writ

and then endeavor to. have him tried to

determine whether ho Is Insane.

They feel confident that since he

has convinced twelve men nf hs annliv

ho can oonvlnco twelve more, and they'

will do at upertv to can as lay witness

es the twelve men of the Jury who ac

quitted him on the conspiracy charge.

Thaw passed tho day quietly In his

cell In the Tombs. His mother. Mrs.

Mary Copley Thaw, and his sister. Mrs.

Lauder Carnegie, called on him. con

gratulated him on his success and talk

ed over the steps to bo taken In future.

Thaw Talks Little.

TJiaw talked little. He had been

"warned not to say anything for publi

cation, and he rorcrred all questions to

his lawyers. He ate a good breaktast

nnd seemed In lively spirits, having re

covered from tho rheumatism In his

neck, which has affected him recently.

It Is sold John B. Stanchllcld, chief

counsel for Thaw, has concluded to let

him decide tho course to be followed

now. He has been told there Is an ex

cellent chance of getting him back to

New Hampshire. Thaw Is Inclined,

however, not to press that motion, but

to remain In New York and light

through habaes corpus proceedings to

settle for all time the question of his

mental condition In this State.

His Twenty-Year Sentence

Cut Down to 50 Minutes

PEORIA, III., March 14. Newton C.

Dougherty, former superintendent of

the public Bchool system here, served

fifty minutes of a second term of one

to twenty years for embezzlement In

the State penitentiary lant night.

He entered Jollet at 9.05 and, ac

cording to a prearranged plan, was

released on a pardon signed by Gov

ernor Dunne at 9-6B.

Dougherty made full restitution of

the $500,000 he Is said to have stolen

while school superintendent several

months ago.

IN COMMAND OF OPERATION

AGAINST DARDANELLES

VICE ADMIRAL 3ACKVILLE .HAMILTON CARDEN,

"ho is in Command of the Anglo-French Fleet of More Than Eij;hty

Warships Operating in the Dardanelles.

ITALY' IS. EXPECTED

0 H

TO

Indications Point to Failure of

Germany to Insure Neutral

ity of Rome.

ROMp, March 14. Any hour now

may see the entrance of Italy Into

the European struggle against her

ccnturles-old foe, Austria. Soldier

are drilling dally near the Austro

Itallan frontier.

All the regiments of artillery are

testing the new cannon, declared to be

the best In existence.

At the end of this month 10,000 re

serve officers will bo at their posts.

Twenty thousand non-commissioned

officers will be recalled to the colors.

The entire fleet Is In readiness, ana

Its sailors look to the Duke of the

Ahruzzl. on his flasrshln. the new

dreadnaught Count Cavour, to make

the glories of Italy again live on the

sea. The duke has five dreadnaughts

of 22,000 tons each in his fleet.

There Is every Indication that Ger

many has failed to Insure the neutral

ity of Italy.

Italy was asked to be satisfied with

the Trentlno. and nothing was said of

Trlest, which Germany, according to

far-seeing Italian opinion, conceives

will ultimately become a port of Ger

many. FEARING BAD NEWS,

WOMAN KILLS SELF

Takes Poison in Pullman Rather

Than Open Letter from

Daughter.

PUEBLO. Colo., March 14. Dread of

the. contents of a note Is believed to

have led Mrs. Edith Powers, W, of

Kansas City, to take her life while on

a Missouri Pacltlo train bound for Den

ver. Mrs. Powers was found In the wom

an's compartment of a Pullman. She

had taken poison. An envelope

clutched In her hand bore the Inscrip

tion "not to be opened until ncarlng

Denver''

It was evidently from Mrs. Powers'

daughter and stated: "Do not worry.

everything Is all .rjgni. i am icenng

nne. Mtoney affairs will como out In

our favor after all."

Police Find No Tace Of

Police Find No Trace Of

Though the police of every precinct

have been on the looknut, for little

Charles It. Wood, the twelve-year-old

boy who has been mlsslnc from home

since Frldav evening, no trace of the

youngster has been found.

The boy was last seen at the home of

his sister, Mrs. Anna Stewart, 1609

Thirteenth street northwest, where ho

resides, early on Friday .evening. It

was thought he was with playmates

and would return. But when he (lid not

show up during the night, Mrs. Stewart

asked the police to locate him.

Efyrai

ALLIES ARE LANDING

AIY IN ASIAINOR

Will Aid in Reducing Constanti

nople's Defenses Dardan

elles Resisting Stoutly.

LONDON. March 14.-Allled troops

have been landed upon the shores of

Asia Minor to aid In reducing the de

fenses of Constantinople, according to

unofficial reports from Paris and

Athens.

"The first detachment of the allied ex

peditionary forco has disembarked on

the coast of Asiatic Turkey." says a

Paris dispatch. "The location of the

landing Is . a secret."

Athens dispatches bring a partial con

firmation of this report The British

admiralty refuses either to confirm or

deny it. Athens cables that captains of

several vessels putting into Greek ports

report sighting a fleet of transports,

convoyed by cruisers, steaming through

the Acgan sea toward the 'Dardanelles

entrance.

No official statement was forthcoming

from tho admiralty today regarding the

operations at rhc Dardanelles or at

Smyrna. The lateBt dispatches from

Athens rep6rt that an allied squadron

of at least eleven battleships and cruis

ers la steadily reducing the Turkish

tons at Smyrna.

nJHewrl.tLshnbattl5shlp TJ,umph,' dam-land. and It Is hinted in military circles

foKs .hoacrvSrmith "cfre t,,e k ls ovcr conCCr'-

the Dardanelles, has resumed her posi

tion in tnc ngnting line.

Admiralty officials again throw a

damper on glowing reports from the

French capital of the progress of the

allied fleet. They reiterate previous

statements that the fighting Inside the

strait has scarcely begun, and that the

allied warships will face the most tre

mendous obstacles when they silence

the batteries at the. entrance to the

Narrows and enter the Narrows Itself.

M'AN GUARDEDFROM

POLICE BY PARROT

Reserves Called Out To

Resolute Bird Off His

Master's Chest.

Prv

NEW YORK.. March 14. There's a

hard task awaiting tho magistrate In

Jefferson Market police court, and there

are ten -policemen who are certain to

be In court to seo tho final act In tire

coined) that got under way when a

brightly hued parrot defied them to do

their worst as ho clung to the breast of

his owner, who 6ccupied a horizontal

position on the sidewalk.

Heat It !" the parrot was screeching

to the crowd. ,

"NIco birdie," ventured a policeman.

'Aw, go on .iway!" bawled the bird,

settling himself more firmly upon the

heaving chest of his master.

The officer took the pariofs advice

and called up the station to ask for aid.

First two policemen were sent, but

they couldn't coax the bird away.t Fin

ally the reservcu were called out, and

bird and master lodged In a cMl.

No British Troops Sent

To France for a Month

BF.rtLIN (via wlicless to Sayvllle.

Long Island). March U. Dcrausn of.

the fear of submarine attacks, no Eng-

Iiinu ntltin iu c LI illicpui Ifu iruups lO

the continent since February 18. the

date tho German "war zone" decree

went Into effect, according to advices

received here.

KAISER MUSI

SHIFT TROOPS

English Successes in Ncuve

Chapelle Region May Compel

Germans to Abandon Offen

sive Against Russians.

Concerted Advance By Allies

Along Entire Franco-Belgian

Battle Front Is Predicted

For This Week.

LONDON,' March 14. Once

again Germany is Forced to make a

lightning shift of troops and mili

tary experts believe her new offen

sive against the Russians must be

abandoned.

The victory of the British troops

about Neuve Chapelle, in north

ern France, is considered the most

important success in the western

area since the crown prince and

Von Kluck were rolled back from

the Marne in defeat last fall.

Press dispatches today indicate

a renewal of the forward move,

ment of the British" forces which in

the last few days netted, a gajjlrof:r

four miles, driving the Germans

back from their trenches.

While the war office gives no

new details of the great battle that

marked the beginning of the long

promised general advance, it is ad

mitted in military circles that at the

point chosen for the attempt to

break the German lines and force

a general retirement, the British

supported by the French artillery

are in overwhelming strength.

Only the immediate support of

tremendous re-en forccments, it is

believed, can prevent General

French from driving his wedge

through the lines of the enemy and

forcing a complete readjustment of

the Kaiser's forces.

FOR CONCERTED ADVANCE.

It Is generally known that the new

drive was timed to force the abandon-

j ment of the German offensive In Po-

ed advance against the German trench

es will begin all along the great bat

tle line In France and Flanders

While the war office and the admiral

ty maintain the strictest silence regard

ing the number of men landed In

France since the troop movement be

gan, there Is every indication from

press dispatches that the fresh forces

of Kitchener have passed the million

mark and that all Is in readiness for

the overwhelming assault that Eng

land's mllltaiy leader promised for Xb

early spring.

Berlin Admits Gains

By English; Russian

Retreat Is Claimed

BERLIN (via Amsterdam), March 14.

The war office frankly admits the

British nro making slight gains In the

fighting near Neuve Chapelle and be

tween Armentleres and Arras.

These gains, the war office says, are

comparable to those by the French in

their fortnight of savage attacks upon

Hip German positions In tho Cham

pogne. The war office Insists that the Brit

ish are now violently on tho offensive

for the same reason that the French

attacked In the Champagne. Their pur

pose Is to relieve the pressure on War

saw by compelling Germany to with

draw troops from the East to the

French battle line.

Several British warships shelled Ger

man positions near Nleuport yesterday,

according to the official statomrnt from

the war office today Th attack was

without result, nas the war office. t

French Infnntry hullets which produce!

(lame when they strike, aro being used!

again in the Argonuc, according to tna

war office.

On Offensive in West.

In military circles this is taken as an

admission hy France and England that

Russia will soon be driven out of Po

land unless von Hlndenburg's army of

Invaders Is greatly depleted

As In the Champagne fighting, the

Germans are Urgely on the defensive

around Neuve Chapelle. They have

FROM EAST TO

CHECK BRITISH