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Former Secretary of War Un der Taft Says Scheme Is Next Best to Univer sal Service. OPPOSES NATIONAL GUARD Militia Valuable Chiefly to States, He Says, and Sug gests They Are Valuable as Secondary Line. Washington, Jan. 24.—A letter on ‘Military Conditions," by Elihu Root, 'ormer secretary of state, and an ad iress, indorsing the administration's 'ontinental army plan, by Henry L. Stimson, former secretary of war, were .’eatures of the program of the final tesslon today of the national Security eague’s congress. A number of other iddresses were also delivered. The congress will close tonight with . banquet, at which Senator Lodge and ormer Attorney General Wicltersham /ere to be the principal speakers. Senator Root’s letter indorsed Sec ■etary Garrison’s contention that the lational guard could not be depended ipon for the army increase. Can’t Depend on Guards. "It is idle,” wrote Mr. Root, “to talk of developing the national guard itself nto an adequate army for national de Tensc and any such attempt would In evitably result in the failure of the whole movement and the waste of all the energy and effort devoted to it. The national guard is for state purposes. “There are good things in Secretary Garrison’s plan. The doing of them would he progress in the right direc tion. Rut, in the meantime, let us take I the first steps on any sort of a program A that is directed toward a trained na 1 tional citizen soldiery, under the in f 1 struction and administration and form ative leadership of an adequate, though small, regular army.” Declaring himself in favor of com pulsory -universal military service as the true solution of the defense prob lem, Mr. Stimson said he regarded the program now advanced by Secretary Garrison as the sound initial step. "If congress is not ready to sanction universal training,” he said, “the meas ures which are enacted should be those who, so far as they go, are in accord with this great fundamental duty and which, as time passes and experience ripens, will lead most naturally to the establishment of such a system. * * * One of the propositions be ing seriously urged before congress is that we should pay our state militia from the national treasury and should attempt to develop them into our fed eral citizen army while they still re tain their legal character as a stats force. • » * “Under the federal constitution, the national guard or organized militia is primarily a state force instead of a national reserve and I do not believe that any effective national citizen army can he created out of a force dominated by 48 separate sovereignties. For near ly 15 years strenuous efforts have been made by the federal government as well as by the state authorities to in crease th» number of the guard, yet it has remained nearly stationary. i/Djecnons i o uuara, “It seems to me that these defects can be traced directly to the fact that the national guard is in fact a state mili tary force which we are also requiring to do duty for the national government. Bo long as such forces exist the states are tempted to slur their police duties and to rely wholly upon citizen sol diery for that purpose. “What is even worse, there has grad ually grown up among our laboring classes the feeling that the only sol diers with whom they are practically acquainted represent a different class of the community and are maintained for the purpose of being used against them. "Instead of regarding the militiaman as a citizen training to perform hts duty of defending the country in case of real war, the laboring man has come to regard him as a representa tive of capital, being trained as a po liceman against labor. “Finally, this liability to state police duty has tended to shape the term of enlistment and the training of our mili tia to the disadvantage of their func tion as national troops. Instead of be ing trained through brief, but continu ous periods of intensive w'ork with the colors and thereafter being left com paratively free as reservists, the mili tia men are held to comparatively long periods with the colors under a system of weekly army drills; a system which Is not only the least effective way of teaching a man to be a soldier, but also tends, from the length of time dur ing which It imposes a continual though slight obligation upon him, to discour age enlistment. “The national goerd is, other than l he regular army, our only present force of even partially trained soldiery. Noth ing should be done to discourage its work, but, on the contrary, everything to stimulate and encourage it. “But such encouragement should be in the direction of transferring it whol ly into the sendee of the federal gov ernment and not of perpetuating it In its present status. “Particularly, to grant federal pay to the individual militia man for his weekly service rendered to the state, seems to blur the great lesson which - is emerging from the European war. It is to yield again to the theory that we can induce men to serve their coun try, not as a duty of patriotism, but for pay.” Mr. Stimson indorsed, as “sound and intelligent,” Secretary Garrison's plan to bring the regular army to its proper basis, but added that, personally, he thought the regular army now should he made larger still. Referring to the recent Mexican bor der troubles and the demands of many few a punitive expedition. Mr. Stimson said; “It is conceivable that at almost any time the hands of our government may be forced by some such emergen cy. yet at the present time, with the great hulk of our army massed along the Mexican border, we have only 20. aOrt troops there available for such an expedition. and, under sober calculation, the Mexicans have far more armed men ; nd trained troors available for a puni tive expedition into our territory than we into theirs" uf German invention is a new thief 'bum, smalt enough to he carried in a ve = t locket, which explodes a noisy • an if any oblect under which It i* o(j be moved PREPARING PLAN FOR TROOP MOBILIZATION Secretary Garrison and Fair fax Harrison Working Out Railway Scheme. Washington, D. C„ Jan. 24.—Com prehensive plans for use of the rail roads in mobilizing the army are be ing drawn up by Secretary Garrison in cooperation with a committee of railroad officials headed by Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern railroad. Secretary Garrison an nounced today that the committee has been authorized by all railroads to give him full information to supplement that already is in possession of the army war college The work is in line with President Wilson's suggestion that full informa tion is necessary for mobilization of the nation's resources. The president has discussed the question of industrial preparedness with all the members of his cabinet POLITICAL EXilES U. S. Secret Agents Believe Ignatius T. T. Lincoln Is Being Harbored By Refugee Band. New York. Jan. 24. — Federal Secret service agents received in formation today which convinced them at Ignatius T. T. Lin coln, seif confessed German spy and former member of the British house of commons, was aided in escape from a United States deputy marshal last Sat urday by "Group B,” a powerful or ganization of European political refu gees. The government agents also are satisfied that Lincoln has never left New York city and his boast that ha walked the streets of Manhattan since his escape, is not an empty one. Group B, the organization which the federal agents believed arranged Lin coln's escape and is now harboring him, is a body that was formed in this country in 1872. It is said to include in its membership several well known European political exiles. Group B came prominently into pub lic notice some years ago when it went to the aid of Jan Pouren, a Russian political exile, whose extradition was demanded by the Russian government on the ground that he was a murderer Bouren had attempted to start a revo lution in the Baltic provinces of Rus sia. Theodore Roosevelt was then president and Group B succeeded in obtaining an order from him for Pour en's release. Secret service men said today that they had learned that sev eral members of Group B had visted Lincoln when he was held in Raymond street jail in Brooklyn. It also recalled that the fugitive was in the company of some of the group at the time of his arrest. POLICE HAVE NO CLEW TO CHICAGO HOLDUPS Chicago, Jan. 22.—The police early today had no clue as to the where abouts of the man who late yesterday shot and killed B. A. Johnson, a traffic policeman, and wounded Ernest Walsh, cashier of the Thomas Cook & Son’s company, tourist agency, and escaped with between $900 and $1,000 belonging to the Cook company. The robbery was committed in the heart of the downtown section during the late aft ernoon rush hours and was one of the most sensational in recent years in Chicago. A woman accomplice escaped with the robber and is thought to have boarded a train for the east. Search of trains at Toledo, Ohio, however, failed to give any trace of her. AMERICAN SUBMARINE RUNS INTO MUD BANK San Diego, Cal., Jan. 22.—The crew of the United States monitor Cheyenne was preparing early today to pull into deeper water the stranded United States submarine H-3, which grounded late yesterday on a mud bank, while rising to the surface from a cruise in San Diego bay. The underwater craft was resting high and dry on the bank and was not damaged. Part of her crew was sent to the Cheyenne and others were left aboard to keep things ship shape during the night. Alleged failure of the lighthouse service to replace a buoy lost two years ago. was attributed by shipping men as one of the principal reasons for the accident. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HAS RAISED BIG FUND Philadelphia, Jan. 22.-—The relief and sustention board of the Presbyterian church announced here today that more than $4,000,000 of the $10,000,000 fund the general assembly several years ago indorsed for Its use has al ready been realized. The relief fund Is to be used toward the maintenance of aged preachers and missionaries and to furnish relief to their families in case of their death. The fur.d is to be invested so that it will produce $500,000 a year. M. S. 0DLE ASPIRES TO SUCCEED HARDING Des Moines. Ia.. Jan. 22.—M. S. Orlie. recent crusader, today announced him self as a candidate for lieutenant gov ernor on the republican ticket. Mr. Odle says he will run on a platform favoring strict law enforcement in all sections of the state and the passage of the constitutional prohibitory amendment. FIGHTING REMOVAL. Washington, D. C., Jan. 22.—Former Representative IT. Robert Fowler, of Illinois. Henry B. Martin and Herman Schulteis, of labor’s national peace council, under indictment in New York for alleged conspiracy to violate the Sherman antitrust act by restraining the shipment of munitions of war to foreign countries, appeared here today before a United States commissioner fight removal to New York. Argu ments were made for the three men. but the hearing was not concluded and will be res- no d Monday LOOK OUT FOR SUBMARINES! HU IN FUGHT HAS TIME TO WED Bandit General Takes Third Wife—Pursuit Grows Hot— Outlaws In Plot to Force Intervention. Juarez. Mex., Jan. 24.—Although sup posed to be the object of a determined search by three Carranza columns sent out to bring him in dead or alive, Fran cisco Villa, the proscribed Mexican chieftain, has found time to be mar ried again and his forsaken his cavalry saddle to ride in a coach with his bride, according to Ignacio Enriquez, civil governor of the state of Chihua hua, who arrived here today. At least two women, one now in Cuba, and the other in Los Angeles, are said to claim Villa as husband, but Enriquez said he had authentic infor mation that Villa had tarried at Bach iniva in the mountains of western Chi huahua long enough to be married. PART OF MEXICAN BANDIT GANG RUN DOWN AND SLAIN Chihuahua City. Mex., Jan. 24.—Re ports of the capture of General Villa, or of persons known to have taken part in the Santa Ysabel massacre, in which 18 foreigners were killed on January 10, are untrue, according to a state ment by General Luis Herrera, who dictated the following signed state ment today: "The bandits who assaulted the train carrying some Americans were at tacked by forces of the Santa Ysabel garrison at a point called La Joya, and were completely dispersed and four of them killed. "With regard to the direct pursuit of Villa, General Cavazos, was charged with this task and as he is at present at Guerrero, no report so far has been received from him in this office re garding his campaign. "We have three competent guerrilla companies engaged exclusively in pur suing bandits who assaulted the train in which the Americans rode. (Signed) "Gen. Luis Herrera." Rumors were current here all day yesterday concerning the capture of General Villa. Many people who know the country about San Geronimo gen erally scout the idea of Villa’s capture, although admitting a bare possibility that he might be caught. Villa, with 200 men was reported in the vicinity of San Geronimo Tuesday night. Con ditions here are approaching normal. Many foreigners are returning to Chi huahua City. RUMOR OF JAPANESE TROOPS IS SCOUTED California Excited Over Report Armed Japs Are In Camp at Calexico. Los Angeles. Cal.. Jan. 24.—Govern ment officials here said today they placed no credence in reports from Calexico, on the Mexican border, that several hundred armed Japanese had been seen in the Sierra Debdna moun tains of lower California. Many gangs of Mexicans are working in that dis trict on construction work, John B. Elliott, collector of customs said. “They are housed in camps and pos sibly had the appearance of an army. In fact most of the Mexican camps are armed for protection against bandits. They may have been mistaken for Jap anese.” The reports of the New York police department show that 1.S31 persons outside the city and 4,035 living in the city were reported rmseing last year. Nearly all of them were found by the police or returned home of their own accord REBELLIOUS CHINESE ARMY GAINS VICTORY Rebels Defeat Chuifu Garri son and Move on Capital of Province. Peking. Jan. 24.—The rebels in the province of Yunnan have defeated a body of government troops and are moving northward. The engagement between Yuannan revolutionists and the government forces took place at Suifu, Sze-Chuen province, the rebels having crossed the northern border of Yunnan. The force opposing them at Suifu was the gar rison at that place, and, after defeating it, the rebels marched northward to ward the Tzelul Thing, apparently with the intention of moving on to Tching Tu, the capital of Sze-Chuen province. STEAMER ON FI RETURNS TO PORT Mystery Surrounds Blaze In Hold of Vessel Carrying Cargo to Archangel, Russia. New York, Jan. 24.—Mystery sur rounds the Are which forced the Nor wegian freight steamer Sygna to put back to this port today after having sailed yesterday for Archangel with a large cargo consigned to the Rus sian government. The Are boat Will iam J. Gaynor met the freighter at quarantine and after quantities of steam had been turned into the Syg na’s forehold, from which clouds of smoke were pouring when she reached port, it was believed the Are was vir tually under control. OfAcers and members of the freight er’s crew said so far as they knew no explosion preceded the Are, but they were unable to offer an explanation of how the blaze originated in a hold which they say contained only struc tural steel and railway material. When asked if there was evidence indicat ing that the Are had been of incen diary origin, the ofAcers said ’’that it was too soon to make an investiga tion.” Members of the Sygna’s crew who covered the hatch of the forehold yes terday said there was no indication of Are when the freighter sailed and that it was early yesterday evening before one of the watch saw smoke seeping from around the hatch. The cover was hurriedly taken off and while no Aames could be seen, a great quantity of smoke rose from the hold. The captain and ofAcers were mys tiAed concerning the origin of the blaze and it was decided to put back at once. Owing to the tightly packed mass of steel beneath decks, the crew of the Are boat found much difAculty in Aght ing the blaze and in attempting to enter the hold. It was impossible to locate the cen ter of the fire to learn the nature of the material that was burning, and for this reason the fire boat continued to pour steam into the hold for several hours. The Sygna will be docked part ly unloaded and thoroughly examined to determine the cause of the blaze. Steel rails and various form of struc tural steel were said to be in the bot tom of the fore hold, while on top of this material was a large amount of railway supplies, chiefly steel car parts for assembling in Russia. The fire on the Sygna is the latest of a long series of fires and explo sions which have occurred on vessels shortly after they sailed from this port and other American ports with ammu nition or supplies for the allies. In numerous cases it has been found I that the fires were caused by incen | diary bombs or fuses, but several cases i have gone unexplained so far ns the ! public is concer””'1 ■ FLOODED REGIONS 1 ■ ; : : - '■ '" - Thousands of People Rendered Homeless and Many Thous ands of Dollars Dam age Sustained. Chicago, Tan. 24.—A cold wave, Buid by the weather bureau to be sweeping eastward from the Rocky mountain re gion, today was held out as bringing hope for relief from flood conditions which prevailed in Illinois and neigh boring states yesterday, as the result of torrential rains following a rapid rise in temperatures. With thousands of persons tempo rarily made homeless, property loss running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, railroad traffic interrupted and several cities facing a possibility of epidemic as the result of pollution of their drinking water by the flood, the receding waters were watched with considerable anxiety. Belated reports reaching Chicago early today told of extensive havoc wrought in city and country side with in a radius of 50 miles of Chicago. Hundreds of farms in the Fox, Des plaines, Rock and other river valleys ara inundated. Dynamite Ice Jam*. Joliet. Aurora and Klgrln, 111., suf fered most from the floods. Streets and basements were flooded, much low land inundated and residents thereon driven from their homes, while in a few cases the houses were floated off their foundations and carried away by the waters. At all three points dynamite was used to break ice Jams which held the water in check, and with these broken and the waters subsiding many persons were able to return to their homes today. In Chicago water in the sewers backed up and hundreds of basements were flooded, telephone service suf fered when the conduit tunnels were filled with water and subways under railroad viaducts were flooded to the extent that traffic through them was impossible. Firemen were kept busy all day pumping out flooded territory. Street car service in some districts also was hampered by the high water. Advices from outside the state re ported flooded condition at Kansas City Oklahoma City and other points. FIVE DEATHS REPORTED IN FLOODS OF OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City. Okla., Jan. 22.—Five persons were drowned, numerous oth ers endangered, much property de stroyed and train service demoralized in Oklahoma by rain swollen streams. The damage centered in Murray county and in the Healdton oil fields. James Shenner, of Sulphur, Okla., a wealthy bachelor, was drowned In the flood that passed down Rock creek, following a cloudburst. Mrs. Edward O. Cleveland and three of her children lost their lives in the destruction of their home and store, north of Sulphur. FEAR OF FLOOD DAMAGE IN KANSAS HAS PASSED Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 22.—Fear of further damage to bridges in this vi cinity diminished today with the an nouncement of the weather bureau that there would be no great rise in the Kansas river here. The floes that yes terday pushed away a portion of a viaduct over the Kansas river, passed down stream. The bridge was be lieved safe. In Kansas heavy rains had ceased and conditions were reported much improved. _ _ BRITISH SUBMARINE SUNK BY AEROPLANE London, Jan. 22.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Rome says a Hritish submarine has been sunk in the upper Adriatic by an Austrian hydroaeroplane, also an Aus trian torpedo boat which went to th» rescue taking the crews prisoners. ADVOCATES PEACE BETWEEN BELGIUM AND THE TEUTONS German Press Reported to Be Printing Inspired Articles Suggesting Separate Pact. WAY BEING POINTED OUT Not Bound By Entente Agree ment—Lull In Fighting on All Fronts Is Re ported. London, Jan. 24.—An Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company states that the Frankfurter Zeltung discussing the possibility of ft separate peace between Germany and Belgium, says that as long as Belgium has not signed the London agreement regarding the making of a separate peace, she is free to do as her interests command. The newspaper is quoted ns adding that Belgium until now has been considered by the German chan cellor as an object of exchange, and (hat sensible Belgians ought to be told not to wait too long or Belgium will be considered as a good prize. The Amsterdam dispatch says that this article has caused a sensation In Germany, and that it is believed to have been inspired from official sources. ANOTHER LULL IN FIGHTING ON BESSARABIAN FRONTIER London. Jan. 24.—Another lull in the fighting on the Bessarabian front Is reported from German and Austrian sources. It is reported that the Rus sians were prompted to refrain from the attack by reason of the heavy losses suffered in assaults against the Aus tro-Hungarian positions. The Russian campaign against the Turks in the Caucasus appears to be making headway. The Russians re port the capture of the town of Sul tanabas, in Persia. TEUTONIC CONSULS FREED AT REQUEST OF UNCLE SAM Washington, Jan. 24.—The Washing ton government has been informed that the entente powers will release the consular representative of the Teutonic powers arrested recently at Salonikl. The action of the allied governments is being taken at the request of the Uni ted States, this country having pointed out that their arrest was In violation of the rules of warfare, inasmuch as the Teutonic consuls were delegated to Greece and not to any entente coun try. Vigorous protests had been (edged with the entente powers by Greece. Germany, Austria and their allies. The Anglo-French caused the consuls to be arrested because they said they were conveying military information to the enemy. ALLIED FLEET BOMBARDS BULGAR COAST POSITIONS Paris, Jan. 22.—A dispatch from Milan to the Temps says that the squadron of 16 warships of the allies which on Wednesday last bombarded Porto Lagoa, the Bulgarian seaport on the Aegean near the Greek border, also shelled the military barracks and railway station at Dedeagatch and de stroyed a military train. The dispatch adds that among the attacking ves sels was the Italian cruiser Piemonte. ADMITTED MONTENEGRINS HAVE NOT SIGNED PEACE London, Jan. 22.—Further reports re garding the resumption of hostilities between Montenegro and Austria fol lowing a rejection of peace terms by the former, are lacking. A Berlin dis patch early today, however, quoted a Cologne newspaper as conceeding that obstacles had arisen during the nego tiations and that there had been a re fusal of a part of the Montenegri army to lay down its arms. 301 r COPPER FOR F UARY PREDICTED Unprecedented Foreign and Domestic Demand Sends Prices Soaring. New York. Jan. 24.—An unprecedent ed demand for copper metal from for eign and domestic sources resulted yesterday In an advance in the quota tion from 24% @25 %c for delivery in the second quarter of the year. A price of 27c a pound was reported to have been offered for March delivery and rumors were current that 30c was bid for delivery in February, which, however, could not be confirmed. Not since March, 1907. when the metal stood at 25%c a pound for a short period has copped been so high. NORWEGIAN COAST TOWN OF MOLDE BURNS DOWN Copenhagen, (via London). Jan. 22.— The Norwegian town of Molde was still burning at midnight. The greater part of it has already been reduced to ashes and it is threatened with entire destruction. Nearly 2,000 people are homeless. No casualties have been re ported. An earlier dispatch announced that the fire, which started at Molde on January 21, has consumed the central part of the town and that the flames were being fanned by a high gale. Molde is a small seaport on the bay of Molde to the southwest of Ohristian sand. It has many historic associa tions and conducts a trade in timber, tar and fish. _ _ HENRY JAMES REPORTED TO BE SERIOUSLY ILL London. Jan. 22.—Henry James, the American author, who took the oath of allegiance as a British subject last year bus been seriously ill for several months and his physicians state that his condition is not improving. The chronic disease from which he suffers has been complicated by two ligh* strokes of apoplexy.