Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - January 14, 1915, Washington, District Of Columbia -i THE POSTS PEDIA FOB ITow TODAT 38 NO. 14. 1915.-FOURTEEN TWO PERSONS PERISH AS EARTHQUAKE ROCKS THE ITALIAN PENINSULA Twenty Thousand Are Injured and Great Damage Done to Senate May Vote Today on Dis- INSISTS ON BODY'S RULES of Avezzano and Aielli Laid in and Nearly All of Their Inhabitants Terror Reigns in Where Many toric Buildings Embassy Disaster at Jan. has been by an earthquake of wide according to the latest haa resulted In the death of injury to possibly more in the towns and villages The shock was the strongest Rome has felt in more than 100 The town of In the 63 miles east of has been leveled to the Here persons are reported to have been Two-thirds Vote Demanded for Eider to Appropriation Amendment to District ure Precipitates a Battle That Is Ended Only After Debate Is Carried Back to the of the Force Next Hove Hay Be to Tack Hit ure Onto Taxation PS FLEET ABBOT IS TARGET GETS OUT AH Ships Cannot Pass in Canal at Says MUST GET 0. K. Change in Panama Program Will Acquire Special Panic Occurs in In many small towns surrounding Rome buildings were partially while at Naples a panic occurred and to uses fell at a dis- tance to the east. Father director of the observatory at Valle di the noted has sent the telegram to Grave Disaster at Potenza earthquake registered by oar apparatus appears to have been most disastrous for a radius ot more than 100 Probably was the of communications with are Inter- and a grave disaster there From below Naples In the south to Ferrera in the a distance of more than 300 and across almost the width of the country the un- movement continued for a considerable There was only one beginning at o'clock in the lasted from 22 to 30 Great Damage in Jn Rome so far as there no loss of but a great deal of damage and statues Buffering For a time tlm people were stricken fear and a veritable panic In the and The on both aides of the Ports del the north entrance to threatened to and the eagle decorating the gate trashed to the The in SL Peter's square was and badly while the of St. John Lateran and the statues of the apostles surmounting the Basilica are in of The famous colonnade decorating St. square was lowered four while the adjacent once occupied the sisters of Pope Plus was cracked Owing to the wide extent of the and Its evident terrible the actual effects of the quake are not at present owing to the catting off of The fortified city of In this been cut but It is reported several villages In that region Historic Buildings Historic buildings on the Piazza in the center of also vi ere was also the famous occupied by the French Here a piece of the atone cornice had The belfry of the Church of St. An- has been surrounded by a 101 don of police to prevent the people from approaching it. So violent was the shock that the dome of thr Church of St. Charles in cracked A large piece of tlie cornice of the Jesuit Church of St Ignatius broke and fell with a added to the fright of the sons in the pilings In many of the houses of persons being Injured in U. LOAN FOR RUSSIA B ork Bank ers Arrange a manner er 11 st reel Credit of WILL BE SPEHT FOR SUPPLIES J. P. Morgan 9t Rational City and Others Which Is to Be Forerunner of Term Drafts of covite Government to Be Jan. 13.- of New car lines suspended 11 ions because of the i the earthquake Ruin Is wore on and details 10 In the capital it was parent that the disturbance In the province of and the had licen greater than at first it also bad been felt severely in region around Naples M Monterotondo three persons were billed and two at the of a church at Gallano part of the cathedral was at two persons were killed and two In- At Tivoli one person was Pereto e houses and at York Including J. P. Morgan have to loan the Russian government to an official announcement made here This amount Is subject to draft by Hussla at or three at 4 1-2 per with a half of 1 per cent additional for Other Credits Prominent Petrograd bankers say that this Is a forerunner of further credits to be extended Russia by ican The of an Important bank has left for New where he expects to confer with financiers and government with the Idea of perfecting Russian exchange Confirmed by New Jan. P. Morgan Co. confirmed today the dispatches from In respect to a loan to the Russian government by that a group of New York banks and bankers had made a ment with Russia by undertaking to accept short-term drafts of the sian the proceeds of which were to be used in payment for supplies exported from this It Is understood that the National City Bank is one of the members of the When the Senate by a vote of 41 to 34, Insisted upon the sanctity of Its rules and decided that they could be suspended only by a two-thirds the proposed amendment of Senator of to impose tion upon the people of District of Columbia was practically Many senators expressed the belief last night that this action effectually and finally disposed of all attempts to enact this legislation in shape of a rider to the District appropriation Senator has not up his and If he can dis- cover some other avenue which to travel he will renew the fight before the is May Use Taxation It was suggested last evening by some of the advocates of District that when certain provisions of the relating to taxation are reached Mr. Sheppard may endeavor to his purpose by tions upon certain sources of revenue that would deal specifically with the liquor If he approaches the subject In this those who be- lieve 88 he does say the situation will Involve merely a question of whether or not tbe amendment as then framed is The question of the ness of an amendment la determined by a majority It Is a different sition from tbe suspension of the and If a majority decided the ment to be germane that same majority if it amendment to the to sue such a remains All that the of prohibition would say last night was that they had not given up the Figures Do Hot Expose Senators displayed Intense Interest in the situation yesterday as It was generally agreed the vote would be very Neither tbe yote of 49 to 2S by which the Senate agreed to con- aider the report of the committees on rules nor the vote of 11 to 34 by which the major question determined can be considered a teat vote on the question of prohibition pure and Senator Sheppard today ably will insist upon a vote under the Senate's ruling on his motion to the The vote on the Hitchcock point of order to require a two-thirds vote to the rules Secretary of Announcing Plans for Celebrating Waterway's Declares War Has Made Proposed In- Rendezvous Only and Cuba Likely to Be Republicans in Senate Bitterly Assail Indianapolis DENOUNCE POLICY IN MEXICO Discussion Over Vera Cruz Is Signal for lively Plans for cruise of the Atlantic fleet and visiting war craft to San Francisco In celebration of the of the Panama Canal were announced last night by Secretary The proposed great International rendezvous at Hampton Roads has been abandoned and instead the program provides that the ships shall proceed directly to at the eastern entrance to the to be passed through to the Pacific side at stated Consent of Congress will have to be obtained for the as the law authorizing cruise expressly set that the United States should Invite the maritime nations of the world to send naval vessels to Hampton Roads for the Mr. Daniels pointed out that the European war had made Impossible a rendezvous of the International character contemplated by and that the Isthmus would be a more convenient gathering both for the American fleet and the few visiting vessels that would Only and Cuba eo far have their Intention of sending No Guarantee from The program haa been worked out In the confident belief that passage canal will be although Col. has given notice that he cannot guarantee it on of occasioned by earth February 39 Is fixed as the date for tWe passage of tbe vanguard of the Atlantic Other vessels will go through day by day until March 10, when President Is due to arrive on the Williams Comes to Administration's De- fense and Declares Wilson Will Be and Appealing for Extra Session in Secern Act of PROVIDES 27 WARSHIPS House Report Outlines Program of Navy TWO DREADNOUGHTS ASKED Xn a stirring debate yesterday the Senate heard sharp Republican attacks upon President Wilson's recent apolis criticism of the policy toward and of Democratic lowed by warm defence of tbe President by Democratic and a prediction of hto and Political precipitated over Senator resolution re- Information front the President as to what the government proposed to do with Mexican customs collected during the American occupation of The resolution did not get to a Williams to the In the course of the discussion Senator John Sharp of de- clared with emphasis that President son would be and re- Senator ot was referred to as a Republican President and Senator of voiced taw that President Wilson could be confined to exercise of his constitutional Senator Borah delivered a general broadside against the which reached a climax In an attack on the chief executive's speech at apolis last with particular reference to the President's warning to who should dare to break the solidarity of the Democratic team for any purpose or from any Borah Hakes 'The Idaho senator denounced comparing it sola principle upon which Resignation of Vienna Foreign Minister SUCCEEDED BY A HUNGARIAN Sensation .In Caused Change in Austrian Baron Stephan von Takes Vacated Minister Directed Foreign Years and Was for Note to Servia Which Precipitated Recognition for Hungary In FRENCH LOSING GROUND IN FERCE BA NEAR SOISSONS AND PERTHES Turks Occupy Persian City of Evacuated by Russian MA Cruiser Washington Is Ordered to Sail for Nearby NEW IS THE NORTH HISS ENDS Breaking of Her Engagement to Patrick Murphy Special to The New Jan. Ezra In of D. today an- that the engagement of her Miss Gladys to erick ot New York has been engagement was announced about six months Mr. Murphy Is a aon of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Francis one person nas of this and were injured Thus far it has been Impossible to the ancient fortified of in the owing to the interruption ot the telegraph that several lages were in that At Torre about 37 miles east of almost the entire village was while at the municipal building collapsed From numerous places in the affected LIVES ASE LOST AT THE TOWN OP Jan. thousand sona have been killed and Injured by the earthquake which completely destroyed the small town of to the east of according to a dis- patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com- also was In province of Apulia 40 persons were and Du La and Total 41. Hoi Ha. and and Town and Total 34. Stone SUnda by stand for the Integrity of the of tbe Senate as It haa endured for said Senator am opposed to I believe that the right of free and debate in this body la but this procedure tends to establish a form of cloture to which I cannot give my If can set aside the rules of the Senate In this fashion for this particular purpose and we begin this practice no senator can tell where it will you adopt this report of the com- on said Senator will set a precedent that will be invoked In the future many and not one of us Is enough to say to what limit a bare majority may Our rules were made years ago and have tbe burs on which all our legislation They have been adhered to for years and to meet a supposed to load an appropriation with an Important Item of legislation that haa not been considered in committee or with fulness or It Is proposed by this revolutionary method to set the rule Rights of Majority Senator Hitchcock asserted that it was not right for the Senate to have Also Six De- One Seagoing Sixteen Smaller One Hospital and One sels Will Cost Provision for the construction of two great six de- sixteen coast defense a a tal a and a fuel ship at an aggregate of Is made In the naval appropriation as agreed upon yesterday by the House naval All told the ries of which Kg is directly appropriated for new While the construction program falls far below the plana urged by sentative and other advocates of a larger It Includes the two battleships asked for by Secretary and provides for more auxiliaries than the Secretary had Chairman Padgett protested that the committee running with The Naval The program proposes the building Two at not more than exclusive of and Six torpedoboat Gen. Guillaume Threatens the Already Bankrupt Which is Un- able to Maintain and Secretary Bryan Consider Drastic Control at not more than exclusive of One at not more than exclusive of Sixteen at not more than half to be built on the Pacific if difference In cost doea not exceed cost of transportation from Atlantic One hospital at not more than One at not more than Says He Will Representative Hobson gave notice that he would carry to the floor of the House three battle and additional de- and The total appropriations In the exceed the of the Navy De- by but It was pointed out that this was occasioned by for a battleship built from the of the sale to of the Mississippi and New revolutionary troubles In Haiti have assumed such proportions that the cruiser now in Hampton has been ordered to take 100 in addition to her ent force of 46, and proceed at once to on the south coast of within easy reach of One hundred additional marines are at Guantanamo also available for this service if Three gunboats are In Dominican and will be ordered to Haiti if American Bank V The question of taking drastic action in Haiti for the protection of American interests at Port au has been under consideration by President Wilson and Secretary Bryan for many The Haitian by took gold from the National Bank of an American then closed the doors of the bank and threatened to throw it Into The Haitian government Is utterly and unable to maintain the A revolution in the north under leadership of Gen. Guillaume threatens to overthrow it. Bars American The United States has refused to countenance American loans to the Haitian government unless it consents to a fiscal control by the United States with the complete elimination of for- eign But the Haitian has remained How far the administration Intends to go now in using marines to force a correction of conditions In coo Id not be learned last Jan. pold von Austrian foreign has resigned and his tion has been to Vienna Count von Berchtold will be ed by Baron Burtan von minister bf the royal court In the garian The communication published In the announcing tbe ment of the Austrian foreign Formerly Minister of von for a long While desired to retire and who had asked the emperor to relieve him of his renewed the The em- recognising important sonal reasons moving the foreign ister to take this has granted his i von Berchtold be ed by the Hungarian Baron Stephan Burtan von Baron Burlan is a. of Gen. Baron former premier of Baron Burian was formerly minister of and chief of the ad- ministration In Bosnia and Sensation Among Jan. 13 announcement from published also in the Vienna that Count von the ter of foreign has and has been succeeded by Baron Stephan has caused a sensation la circles la von directed foreign relations for a number of and was responsible for note to which the on a number of both before and after the Balkan had asked Emperor Francis seph to relieve him of But the continued unsettled which followed the annexation of Bosnia and made this Impossibles Might Suggest as he was to It wes not dreamed he would do the war was In for It con- that such action might suggest that his policy had falien into More significant than his 1> the announcement that he is succeeded by a while as in regard to the principle of the haa shown dissatisfaction with the manner In which It has been White troops have been to prevent a. Russian Invasion of and even have been employed against Hungary has been loft open to Hungary Appealed to Count Hungarian several occasions gave utterance to finding that bla com- were not heard at took them to where he had an audience with the German Although it was eaid this trip the interests of Hungary were given more Count Tisza did not stop and in a on New Tear's day com- that Hungary's position had not been fully Insisting upon military and political harmony between Hungary and Austria and he that the Hungarian tion must assume place It deserved In consequence of Its material and moral its active and the fact that all Its and de- sires were in complete accord with the true Interests of Muscovites Open Attack on Austrian Forts Di- viding and Troops Claim Advance Southwest of Rawa and Renew Offensive in Mazurian Lake Re- Attacks in Poland MUSCOVITES SLAIN AT PRZEMYSL Jan. 13. An official an- today correspondents with the Austrian army headquarters mention the terrible losses sustained by the Russians around tbe Austrian fortress of losses were inflicted partly in repeated sorties of the garrison and partly during tbe storming tactics adopted by tbe Russians upon the The total number of Russians killed in the second siege of Przemysl is estimated to number far above 10r 000. late the activity of the Russians has some of the troops ing been withdrawn to fight RAID ON DOVER FOILED Two Teuton Submarines Thought ie Have Been RUSSIA BEGINS NEW EAST PRUSSIAN RAID ATTACK ATTEMPTED AT German Craft Driven Off by Guns of Shore of Hostile Airships Over English Channel Before Assault on Harbor Reported From Many Points cm British ALL OH 175 Saved From Seven From and 19 From Jan. re- at Berlin is to the effect that none of the officers or man from the German cruiser sunk off the Falkland Islands the officers and 171 men were saved from the 7 men from the and i officers and ffi anon from fba WHEAT BOUNDS Sells Repeatedly at on Chicago Board of Jan. stormed dizzy Miling at repeatedly on the board of trade and closing at only 1 cent under the most record made since the war begun Throughout the session the May op- tion perched near the top rungs of the price while new export sates were and the bulls had almost undisputed control of the pit in which speculative dealings went ABMY Special to The British Jan. Plans are under way for the of a volunteer army to sent to the a Tokyo a copy of which has just reached Prominent members of the Japanese national diet and retired army officers said interested in tae Jan. German sub- marines today fired upon and sunk by the coast batteries off to persistent rumors current port authorities deny that the submarines were but give no explanation of the firing of the guns of which occurred late last Try to Attack It is generally believed that a school at German submarines attempted to make an attack on the harbor and were driven away or the guns of the Jan. port authorities deny report current here today that two German submarines fired and sunk by the coast batteries off The presence of hostile airships over the Channel during the past night has been reported today from rious points on the These re- have as yet not been Fourth Raid on Dover has been assailed by the mans from the air on no less than two and ships in Dover harbor are believed to have been the objective of a previous raid by German The bomos from above never did much nor was the attack from under the water Three days before Christmas according to a Berlin flew over threw and the positions of British Two days later another hostile aeroplane appeared over the and dropped a which exploded lessly in a This aviator evaded a British airman and flew to Submarine Assault The submarine attack waa reported De- cember U. That morning a vessel posed to be the tender of the appeared off but retired when fired Shortly submarines were seen at The channel forts opened and kept It tip for almost half an At the same a of destroyers put to and the sub- marines were not seen German Airman Sets Fire to Several is Principal Jan. Berlin dispatch says a German airman on Sunday dropped bombs on Several In of cipal wm of Jan. 13. Battles large all having an important bearing on the are in progress at separated points in the war areas In Europe and The Turks have occupied the sian town of which is a sian sphere of are battling with the Russians In the and are reported to be making preparations for an Invasion of Russians have resumed the offensive In East while the Germans continue to attack them In and they are again trying to cross the River in southern which Is held by tae Severe at Nearest Point to The battle which Is est Is that tn the Aisne valley to the of where the French have been at- tacking the German a They succeeded In some important positions on Friday last and again on but tbe up of the this la the nearest point French capital the battle only 60 miles from Similar violent Is reported as about BO miles farther near Pert he s. where the Germans by a succeeded In Ing through and In establishing selves behind the French advanced position north of the unfavorable weather has compelled the Germans and allies to confine themselves to artillery en- Hew Hove Against East The renewed activity of the Russians In East Prussia Indicates that fng over of the Masurian for which they have been has at last for otherwise It would be impossible for troops to advance through the narrow denies defended by the The Russians claim almo to hava made a. further advance to the west of another indication that they contemplate a repetition of attempt at an invasion of East Prussia from the east and despite ihp fact that repeated German attacks south of the lower Vistula la Poland them fairly Theae attacks are being made at different ami according to the Russian official are easily Hay Enter Next There Is no recent account of the Ing In southern Poland and a Bucharest dispatch says the Russians have begun an attack on the Austrian locations In the mountains which di- vide now In their and an attack on which considered likely to bring into the war on the side of the Dispatches from Sofia indicate that plans to start her campaign through Transylvania In Turks Occupy A dispatch from Petrograd says that an advance detachment of the Turkish army has occupied the Persian or Tabriz is In northwestern after the In the It 100 miles to the east of the Turkish frontier The taking of Tabriz means that the who liad the ot some of the Turkish tribesmen of this have secured a more or less Important for the attack upon Russian positions in the province of north of the Persian border and of Russian Forces The occupation of which Is the capital of the province of was rendered comparatively easy for the Turks by the recent withdrawal of sian forces to meet the Ottoman advance farther Whether Tabriz was taken without bloodshed not yet but In the absence of Russian troops it Ii not likely that Persia waa able to offer any serious CONTINUED Lv Drawing room
