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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1917
Page
8
Paris reports United States breaks with Germany as Ambassador Sharp advises Americans to defer sailing. Embassy handles civilian prisoners and French food aid, while Navy builds up to 128000 personnel with new battleships and submarines under the 1916 act.
In Fonnaeola Florida on February 4 a warrant charges Capt Ivanich and nine Austrian crewmen with conspiracy to destroy a vessel in American waters and violating immigration laws. The Lucia, a 4386 ton ship, had engine room damage including valves and lines. four crewmen were brought ashore due to high seas. A preliminary hearing before a United States commissioner is set for Monday.
Honolulu reports the interned German gunboat Geier was set ablaze by her crew today. The 1604 ton vessel, interned after the war began, was built at Wilhelmshaven in 1894.
In Toledo on February 4 a mass meeting of German Americans passed a resolution calling for a nationwide referendum on war or peace with Germany. The measure warns the crisis could drag the nation into war and cost thousands of lives and family losses. The resolution requests the President and Ohio's senators and congressmen receive a copy. More than 1,200 attended.
London notes Washington urged American embassy to continue representing German interests as British authorities cut diplomatic ties with Germany. The State Department said no neutral would be trusted with German interests in England and would notify the embassy of any decision.
Clergymen across the city urge unwavering support for President Wilson amid the threat of severed diplomacy with Germany. They invoke providence and national honor, denouncing German aggression and calling for readiness, peace without victory, and shared duty to defend democracy.
Officials stated that German ships in American ports would not be seized though authorities will guard navigation. Immigration officers will detention deserting German sailors. Customs collectors told to act with care during the emergency. In Cristobal a plan to block the Panama Canal prompted heightened security. The War Department noted no intention to sink ships. precautions urged at canal entrances.
Federal inspectors report the North German Lloyd liner Kronprinzessin at Ce celia had its engine room tampered with after formal inspection. Nine valves and brass plates on the manifold were removed, replaced by unclear chalk figures, risking misoperation during a surge of water.
The Army and Navy Departments move to war footing as dispatches report shipyard precautions, German vessels in U S ports, and calls for volunteers. Officials note crewmembers aboard Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prince Wilhelm ships, divers inspect Liebenfels sinking, and Manila and Guam warn of tampering. Contingent mobilizations and censorship plans loom as President eyes Congress for war powers.
British report from Petrograd via London states German assaults north of Riga failed after fierce artillery preparation. The defense repelled initial incursions east of the Kalnzem road, German attacks broke into trenches but were countered, and German forces fled as Russian troops counterattacked northeast of Kainzem.
Paris reports a successful surprise attack between the Oise and Aisne over Tracy-Le-Val soldiers and 22 prisoners. Verdun front sees intermittent artillery while aviators bomb Aprily Tergnier Thionville barracks and railways as Navy manpower questions reform looms.
Excerpts from a Frankfurter Zeitung article reprinted in Everybody’s Magazine analyze German naval officers views on breaking with the United States. They argue Britain’s blockade tactics could be matched, American ships would be destroyed as blockade runners, and Germany could demand heavy war reparations and expanded naval power after England falls.
A Feb 4 report outlines how a successful submarine blockade against entente allies could paralyze New York port commerce. It cites six months of US exports averaging over 500 million dollars annually in value, detailing key industries and leading export items such as wheat, copper, cotton, iron and steel, meat and dairy, oils, sugar, tobacco, and wool along with their fiscal year values.
Fresh from six months on the Mexican border the Alexandria Light Infantry now in Company 7 First Virginia Regiment remains ready for call. Capt Conrad Johnson ordered weekly drills each Monday night and noted new recruits since returning from Brownsville, with expectation of more enlistees if activated again.
Special to The Washington Post from Charleston West Virginia reports Gov elect John J Cornwell will bring his 84 year old mother Mrs Mary E Cornwell to Charleston for the March 6 inauguration ceremonies to fulfill a lifelong wish The elder Cornwell lives in Romney and cannot travel by normal means due to frailty In other brief dispatch from Hagerstown Maryland a tragedy unfolds as Mrs Charles Baines 18 month old daughter died after clothes caught fire at a stove and the mother left briefly to fetch coal
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