AMERICAN WAR BUDGET.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 152, 28 June 1915, Page 9

AMERICAN WAR BUDGET.

AMERICA AND THE WAR. ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE. SUGGESTS BOYCOTT ON" UKUMA.W. SAX FRANCISCO. May 20. Ex-Pre-iileiit is the most Vigor..ii~ - !|.;..»rtcr in America of Hngland and her c.iu.-e in the war. 110 lurnishc 1 another striking instance of his whole-hearted favour for the Allies when he further expressed himself iii the tram of everts following ih e sinking of the Lusitania. Asserting emphatically that a policy nf milk and water could not effectively combat a policy of blood and iron, and grimly suggesting that there were some things worse tlv.n W ar, Colonel K'.'.M-velt commented on President Wil-on's Philadelphia speech. He anBounced his belief that as a reprisal for the smkimrof the Lusitania all commerce with '.Vrinanv should lie suspend, d. ami commerce of every kind encouraged w.th tii.' rc-l of the civilised world. Colonel KiMiseve't based his statement on the follow ing paragraph from Wilson's Speech: — "There i- such a thin- a- heing too pr.nul !o fight. There i> sucil a thing as a nil ion being so right it does not need t>. convince others by force that it i-- right." lie mulled over ihe~e sentenif- all the afternoon in ;i libel case in rthieh he figured. Calling the reporters together ai the close of the trial he said: "I thi:ik that Ohina is entitled to drawall the comfort sin can from this statement, an,! it would lie well for the I nil ml States to ponder seriously what th- elTect upon China has been of "innnagiii,' her own nlTairs during the last fifteen yea:- on the theory tliu- enunciated. FUTURE i'.s. POSITION. "If thr United States is satisfied witli oc<u;v:p;_r. some tiiiß. in the future, the precise international position 'hat China now occupies, tlien the United States can afford to act on this theory. Hut it canno; act upon this theory if it desires t" regain the position won for :t by the men who fought under Washington and the men who in the days of Abraham Lincoln, wore the blue under (Iraut and th»: erav under Lee.

"1 very earnestly hope that we will art promtply. The proper lime for deliberation \. as prior to sending the message that our Government would hold Germany to a strict aceounta.bilily if it did the things which it has now actually done. The 130 babies drowned on the Lusitania, the hundreds of women drowned with them, fmrf- of those women be in;: Americans, and the American ship Gulflight which was torpedoed, offer an eloquent commentary of the actual working of the theory that force is not necessary to as-crt rights, and that a policy of blood and irrm can, with efficiency, lie met by a policy of milk am! water. "I see it stated in the press dispatches from Washing:, n that Germany now o(ler= to stop tlie practice of murder on the lush-sens, committed in violation oi neutral rights she is pledged to exert, if we ivill now abandon further neutral rights whiih by her treaty *he has solemnly pledged herself to see that we exercise without molestation. Such a proposal is not even entitled to an anSUIT. "The manufacturing and shipment ot arms and ammunition to any belligerent is moral or immoral, according to the u>e to which the arms and ammunition i-- nut. "If they arc usod to prevent thp re-dre-8 of the hideous wrongs inllicted on Belgium, then it i= immoral to ship them. If they are to !«? used for the redre-p of those wronz- and the restoration to Belgium of her deeply wronged and unoffending peoplf, then it i< eminently moral to send them. QUICK ACTION URGED. •-Without twenty-four hours' delay, this country eculd and *hould take effective nc-tion 'by declaring that in view ot Germany's murderous offences against the riirh'ts of neutrals, all commerce vutli Germany shall be forthwith forbidden and all commerce of every kind permitted end in with Kram-e. England and the""rest of the civilised world. •■This would not be a declaration oi var. It would merely prevent munitions 01 war W.-iii- sent to a power which. by its conduct, has shown willingness to use munition* for the slaughter of unoffending women and children. ■I :..,rt believe that thr- firm assertion of our rights is a declaration of war. but we will do well to remember that there are things worse than war. AMERICANS ENLIST AFTER LUSITANIA SINKING. Thn einkinti of 'the LußJtania has stirred \meiricana and lanadiane to the b,ttere,t depth,, a,,l an extraordinary in:; .. t; ,. hll , 1,,-en given to recruiting. Evi-rv htouiner leaving New York for EiiL'land n>«- carries larue numbers ot \,.r.'ri.an sympathisers, who .have en--1 ~. i ii. EnjjlandV cnu.se, and are now t i/,;,,. for Uie AHkM. A d«iw to avc-ngii the death of Elbert Hubnard. the noted \:ne.:icau writer, at the hand* of i; in under-sea destroyers of the Luwt»t! ,i ha- canned Dr. V.. L. Alexis Hamilton .t Kan, i.- City, to give up his hicra- , ~.,: -,-1,-uce in the Kansae capitil. and go to the aid of England in ■*« Kγ,,,. in war. Dr. Hamilton amd Hubbard'were -lose friend... Another ren ar ' Ll.ie incitanee of American sympathy »a- liirnishi-d by Danied Lam-ote, a miner of Kuilvn. Washington. Resolved t<.

wreak what venjreance was in ihia power u,H,n lii-rroany for the dra.Ui of his wife an.] tuo small daufrhUTs on the Liisitunia. L-jm-ble had an enthueiaetie sendo;f »t Seattle for Sew York, wltencehe sailed lor Knsland to enlist in the Bnt.i, v-my. Rev. John A. Beattle, chaplain .-■■ a'l anadian repiment, whose wife :,„,] „,,„ were lost on <ti\e Uisitama, declare I that he would disrard bis minieWi4l .-hith and po into the trenches against the fJermans. "I wan a cowboy in Canada for tw«nty-flve yeans," ea.d tie tliTjn-man. "and can shoot the butt.n, off a •-u.it art, inn yards. 1 now consider it mv duty to kill as many Hernam a- uhere won- women and men and little rliildren murdered when the Lucitann «:nl down." The chaplain was as good i- his word, and was soon ofl on Isir- *-ai in the trenohw ~f the Allies. 1 eurkiUH sequel to the Lusitania torperl,,:iiL' was reported from Riverside, in S.nitbnrn California, where a wel ■ known rnnunnreial tiravcllo.r named Lawrenr,. \v I-vine with hfadcruarti'iv at Rivemule. aril wlm *a* »"W (;(,rm «" hardware l>,r t.i.e t yean-. :.,,titj-<{ liir. K«w York htmse that fee wV.ul.l n.vw spll Ucrman goods apain, and Una: the German samples earned by

Mm were held subject io the houses orders. Irvine declared that all Americans .should inaugurate a comraeroial boycott against (Jerman poods, as a protest against UprmanyVs lnetohods of conducting the nar. I Two largo department stores in San Francisco, the largest establishments of their character west.of Chicago, have refused point-Wank to handle any German poods, bo strong arr the eynipatllucs of the owners of the big stores for England and her cause. These two department stores employ 1500 men and women eavli. and sold only the Walieet-clase goods. Americans have endeavoured to the utmost to lteton to President Wilson's behest to observe neutrality, hut the sinking of the Lu.sitania has fomented fi-elin-jr to boiling point, and almost to a man America is on Mie e>idc of the Allies. SAN FRANCISCO GIRL'S PLUCK. j Details that have readied San Francisco show Unit Miss Daisy Polk, sister of Willis Polk, the eminent. Cillifornian architect and clubman, hoe performed one of the most interesting exploits achieved by a woman in the European war, by effecting, single-hiinued. the cx(■haiige of forty war-bound uerman pirld in London for' forty war-hound English ;:irls in Berlin. Mwa Polk, who had l>oen etudying music abroad, was in London when she learned about tn-e aietrese <vf forty German jirl students, who were anxious to return to Berlin. A canvass of the pirls undertaken by Miss Polk hroupht replies from all .If them that they would be willing to undertake any risk to see their beloved Unter den Liiiden again. Mist- Polk communicated with the Red Cross, but that organisation was toa engrossed with other problems to olVer any assistance in transporting the girls home. On her own initiative Mies Polk went scurrying nround the embassies, until she finally obtained the eervleee of a courier to aecoropany her t" Berlin with the forty war-frightened Gretchens. The journey to Berlin was made wit.li prne-tic-ally' no difficulty, and Miss Polk had the satisfaction of seeing all the refusees safely home. She then began the task of gathering up forty English girk to take bark to London." The German Foreign Office furnished a courier to accompany her and her wards, hut the return journey to Piccadilly ami Charing Cross was beset with the greatest difficulties and inconveniences. In a letter to Willis Polk Mis* Polk recites that she and all the English girls were warned that they would be in danger of constant attack and indignities by (ierman mobs if they were heard conversing in their native tongue. AH. of them that could tried to struggle along with broken (l<r- ,- man. but their nationality was soon discovered, ainl they were constantly accused of being British spies. Before leavin_' a railway station, on approaching the Holland border. Miss Polk states that one of the English girls was stripped almost nude and searched for despatches, even her hose being removed. The luggage of the party was repeatedly opened and ransacked, ami at some places It wa-i confiscated piecemeal. The forty British maids fiiiuily saw the subdued

"lights o' London town," however, and when they did they surrounded Mies Polk in a "circle and lausr'nea amT cried by turn. Miss Polk i- now in London, and has intended lev return to San Francisco shortly to visit her relatives in California! The alarm attending the sinking of the Lusitania. however, has led her to postpone her return for several month.-..

DOCTOR CHARGED AS HAREM FLIRT. •\rresled on a charge of having violated the privuy of the Turkish iwgh pnicst'a harem and of having attempted to flirt with hit- daughter. l>r. .lacob H. Porsegan is ku-k at hie home in San Francisco recountiiu: his escape from <l<-uth at the hands of the Moslems only "uy his sturdy defiance and insistence of hie rights as an American citizen, and by reason of the fact that the girl's 'inal testimony proved to the officiate they had captured "I was in Samsoun. a Turkish port on the Black Sea. when war broke, out." paid L>r. Parseg&n. 'and I w-as immediately arrested as a Greek spy. I showed my p import proving that 1 was an American citizen, so 1 was released. But two nr three days later 1 wae taken again hy oflieers. who told mc tliat the local mutasa-rif, the governor, wanted to see mc. Instead 1 va-s t;Lke.n to the commissioner of police, and there encountered a typical TurkL-vli nmze of persecution. '•••You are accused of ihaving forced your way to the Mufti's harem and of attempting to flirt with the Mufti's dauffhter,' the commissioner of police said" I told him the eharjre was false, .in 1 that 1 was a citizen of the United ■states visiting my old home. The Mufti is a high Moslem priest. •■■l know that, but a citi7.cn of the. I'nited States cannot come to Turkey and mmrniit offences.' replied the police nfficrr. 'We have witnesses who saw you." Then two Turks were brought in. and they .swore that they hud seen mc enter the Mufti's house. Then two little, girls came and testified that they had seen mc annoy the Mufti's daughter. Finally th-ey took mc to the high priests house" and'his daughter came out veiled and looked at mc and shook her brad. No I wae not the man that had annoyed her. I have no idea why ehe *m>ile<l tihe programme. Either she refusod to be a party to the fraudulent persecution or the Turks merely wanted to frighten mc. 1 grew bold ami threatened "to send the whole United States after Turkey if 1 was molested further, and 1 wan permitted to go."' ])r Parsegan believes the end of Turkey as an empire has come. He said oniv the. iron discipline maintained by the German officer* kept the country from surrendering to the Allies now.

WAX CAPTIVE CAUGHT IN AMERICA.

After dodging a fusillade from a British rapid-lire pun. hiding for two dave in a suffocating mattress while Australian soldiers poked all around in aueot of him. and then burrowing under a mountainous heap of bananas in a sruffv ships I" , '' l ' aero « llu " ' :u;lfic : Knif-t Mieelund. erstwhile prisoner of war in Newcastle. New South Wales, arrived in .San Francisco a stowaway on the Cteeanir liner Sierxa. only to be seized l,v the inunigration offi.-iafe and held at Sm-1 Wand, in the flay of San Fran'i <"o for deporta-tion. The only ray of hone that pleamed for Misslund yaw in the fact that the Government wasi extremely uncertain about where the fupnshould be deported. Misslund arJ in \ii»trulin as an officer on a GernZ merXnt-nun three weeks after the of the war. With the res of

soldiers on g-uard.. tir.icß men escaped, but most of thtm were recaptured, and returned after they had reached the coast. One day two <;ermans who had been taken from the Norwegian barque Hendrick Ibsen when it entered Newcastle Harbour were put in the camp. They said the vessel was bound for America, ami twenty-five of us planned an escape. The next night we crept to the wire maze on one side of the camp. The guard on the poet w-a-s talking to one several yards away, and one of our men finally worked his way through the wire, lie feUed one of the guards with a big stone and fought hand-to-hand with the other, while ihe rest of Us clam.bered to his aid. lie overpowered the puurd and took his rifle. Afterwards we ran for two hours until we reached the dock at Newcastle. Our entire party 'boarded Uie Jlcndriek Itwn. We 'had "been seen, 'however, and an .hour (later a company of soldiery camf aboard and scarchtrd the ship for two 'hours. I had crawled beneath a bunk in the forecastle and piled old clothes and bedding in front of mc. The soldiers took all the Germans off except mc. '■I stayed under the I>unk three days, and ca.me out of hiding when the tharque was two day* out nt sea."' Misslund, had removed the springs from one of the mattresses and ihaj. secreted himself within it. Several times the soldiers in their search poked the roaitress, but failed to discover him. Tie was aj-most Starved and on the verge of sniTrx-ation ■when he emerged from his hiding place. When the Ibsen reached Honolulu he was put ashore. He stowed away ,-*gain on the Sierra 'beneath hundreds of bunches of bananas, and made the voyagj to San Prancisoo. His case presented a thorny prnWem to the San Francisco immigration officials. MMund could not be sent to Germany, or America would violate neutrality, and he could not be returned f> Australia, as he had sailed from an American port! DOCTOR'S GREAT HEROISM.

Sir Thomas Lipton, who was in San Francisco shortly prior to the .outbreak af the war, ami who personally bended a party of doctors and nurses and conveyed them for relief work in Servia, has just penned a touching letter on the miseries of Servia. Referring to the noble sacrifice of an American doctor, Sir Thomas says:—"l visited the American hospital at Ghevghi-liya, and was shown the unhappy sight of war and typhus victims, many of whom were dying. Among them was lying v dead man. There he would remain until someone could be found, to remove him. A label pinned tin his blanket bore his name. Dr. Donnelly, a Bile, tliick-set man. who was formerly the doctor lor the Port of Now Veark. conducted mc round the hospital. H<" remained cheer-1 ful amid his heart-breaking work,' although ho eoniessed to mc, '1 am very tired at after a .hard day's work, but 1 feel happy to know that 1 am doing pood in helping the sick and Buffering.' He introduced to mc the three of the six American doctors who had escaped typhus—the three Servian doctors bad, all succumbed —and 1 saw the nine nurses who remained of t'.ie twelve tlqlt formed the staff to attend to 1400----patients. All Dr. Donnelly wanted for himself was some English tobacro and! cigarettes. This 1 was able to give him,] ami 1 was fortunately able to leave some] hospital comforts lor his heroic nurses. As the train steamed out of the station he and two nurses stood on the platform α-aviog their hands and smiling. Dr. Donnelly was smoking a cigarette. Four days hiU-r he was taken ill with typhus; now he is dead. 1 consider that man a hero of the highest rank. He knew full well while talking to mc that he w-as in the midst of death—that lie himself might be laid low at any moment. He had not long to wait. Five of the nine nurses I saw lx»fore. inchidin.: the two who were at the station, are eii-k with typhus. There are now only three doctors and four nurses m that great house of suffering and death." Sir Thomas is now in England endeavouring to obtain more doctors, nurses and medical comforts. SOCIETY WOMAN RUSHES BACK TO WAR.

Heeding ?. rail to return to Europe to serve as ft nurse in Franco, Mrs. ,T. C Parrish, a well-known New York and l'aris society woman, reached San Francisco from Honolulu, whore she had hern passing a fortnight's vacation. Mrs. Parrish has won her laurels as a heroine and angel of merry, for. at the outbreak of the European 'war. she handed over her magnificent home at Drnnvillo, France, to the. C wounded French soldiers, who wero coming in from the first battlefields of the war. " Forty-five injured soldiers w.-v plarcd in the' home of Mrs. Varrish. Not satisfied with doiiiji that, she entered upon the hard task of miming the men, doing the most menial tasks in the interests of the war-torn country. "Some of the poor fellows w-ere in terrible condition when they were brought in." said Mrs. Parrish. "Most of the men had been marching and lighting steadily for three weeks without even having their clothes off. and it was my humble task to remove the shoes and stockings from their feet and to bathe their wounds. It was most difficult for mc at first, but after witnessing the terrible sufferings of the poor chaps 1 steeled myself to the task and gave every assistance I could to relieve their suffering and .pain.

"Many American women are doing nurainpl We had. to scrub lloors and then to assist the doctors for several hours each duy. 1 "have tuken this trip only as ;i brief vacation," and.'shall return U> France in a few weeks to go back to hospital work. There is much there that American women can ilo to assist and to relievo the suffering of the. soldiers."

Mrs. Parrish on her nrrival in California was wearing a magnificent rope of , jH'arls, winch slit! valued at over i)(),000 , dollars. Another sriciety matron from , the battlefields of France to reach San Francisco was Mrs. William F. Worden, , who said: "The saddest sight ill Paris today is the great number of poor, brave fellows, blinded while serving at the front. There are so many of them, and, of course, Paris is full of those- that have been maimed and recovered sufficiently U> lie about. Hardly any able-bodied men, except foreigners, are to be seen in Paris." INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. laliforniaii school teachers must not permit nor take part in arguments in the schoolroom about the European war, according t<, an edict issued at Sacramento by Mr. E. ,1. Carragher, Commissioner 'of Education. Complaint ■had been made to the Commissioner that a high school teacher had not only permitted such a discussion ii: neutral America, but had taken a partisan part in it. The National City Hank of New York llmus negotiated a loan u> the Bolivian Government of 1.000.00u dollars. Half of the loan is payable at the end of one year, and the remainder in two years. The loan will help Bolivia over the difficulties ii has experienced in connection with the European war. Irrespective of the immense orders England has placed in Australia and New Zealand, supplies of meat from America have now been requisitioned by the British Government. Two million pounds of canned meats have just been bought by England from Chicago packers for the use of soldiers at th* front. Armour and Co. had the bulk of the order, and shipments have l>ejrun immediately. The British Governmtnt was also a large buyer of hams and other meats. A plot to blow up an ammunition ship at Tacoma. the Washington seaport, has lieen discovered, and Canadian secret service men were hurriedly dispatched across the American border to puard the Japanese steamer Kaifltku Mam. chartered by the Kol>ert Dollar Company of .Sun Francisco. It was stated tiiat the plot had been unearthed by the Canadian secret service attaches ami the Tacoma British vice-consul, the scheme being- U> blow up the vessel before she left l*uj;ct Sound. A trainload of war supplies to be delivered at Vladivostok for the Russian Government, formed a part of the vessel's carjjo. Kor a couple of weeks before the I charge was made, an attempt had been 1 made to plnee a secret bomb in the ship. "and this suspicion was further i foundation when a stranger attempted to secure passage on the steamship. He disappeared before any of the secret service agvnts arrived. .lust before the Uritish steamer C-12 sailed from San Francisco for Melbourne I with a cargo nf American timber great I excitement reigned owinjr to the rumour J that a bomb had been discovered Hthnard-. and that an attempt had been ; made by I'.erman sympathisers to blow Up the" vmwl. No explosives were I actually discovered, but the closest jwrntinv was concentrated on anyone J boarding the vessel, which was formerly the German freighter Woten. captured by the Australasians. !