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W. W. W. THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1916 3 LACK Of Driving PowerSerious To British Navy, Churchill Asserts. Return of Fisher To Power Is Urged By Former First Lord in Parliament Speech.

Balfour Says Tonnage of Fleet Has Been Increased By 1,000,000 Since War Began. SPACIAL CABLE TO THE ENQUIRER. London, March Spencer Churchill. former First Lord of the Admiralty, now a Colonel and fresh from the trenches, sprang back into the Parlamentary arena, to-day in a daring speech, answering First Lord of the Admiralty Balfour, who had just presented the naval estimates. and declaring that the Admiralty lacked driving force and must be revitalized before it was too late by bringing back Lord Fisher, former First Sea Lord, to head the Admiralty administration.

Great interest attached to Colonel Churchill's' reappearance after a period of silence while serving with the army, and while the naval policy he had inaugurated at the opening of the war was undergoing considerable change. Balfour had just concluded an optimstic statement of the naval outlook which strongly appealed to the patriotic sentiments of the House of Commons; that Colonel' Churchill's criticisms. rere at first coldly, received. But he' gradually gathered attention and apblause until he closed amid a scene of much enthusiasm. Begins With Warning.

Churchill began his speech with darning. "I am sorry I must strike a jarring note." he said, "not of reproach, censure panic, but of warning. While Jellicoe commands the grand, fleet it will be matiuvered in the presence of the enemy ith the utmost professional skill. We bust not belleve that Germany will be content to allow her fleet to lie impotent nd derided in Kiel Canal. We must A8- ume that something has happened in the German naval yards and that Germany has completed her program.

"If ours, too, has not been completed, olid reasons must be given to justify tie postponement delay. There must be unconscious relaxation of efforts at the Admiralty, for if a shortage of naval material takes place it will give no chance of future recovery." Colonel Churchill created a stir by asking whether the Admiralty was keeping the shipbuilding program to the time to which he and the previous board had been working. He declared that there hould be no limit of labor in connection with the British fleet, the vital units of Pittsburgh William Penn Hotel opens March 9 Fort Pitt Hotel after March 9, will be less crowded and better able to serve its patrons. C. A.

BLANCHARD Managing Director which must be the first charge on British labor resources. "Lord Fisher," said Churchill, "must be brought back to the Admiralty, where there exists serious lack of driving power. and energy which cannot be allowed to continue. The Admiralty would be vitalized and animated, by the recalling of Lord Fisher." Balfour stated this afternoon that the tonnage of the British 'navy had been Increased by 1,000,000 since the outbreak of the war, while the strength the air division of the navy had grown tenfold. At the outbreak of the war the number of warships in the British navy of or more tons and of torpedo craft of more than 50 tons totalled 545 vessels, with tonnage of 2,714,106.

Balfour told the House that never before in Great rBitain's history had there been so much naval construction as in the last 19 months. He asserted the fleet was far stronger than at the outbreak of the war, except in regard to armored cruisers. Many of the cruisere which had been lost had not been replaced. Balfour emphasized the magnitude of the, task Great Britain has taken upon herself since the operations in the Mediterranean began, in transporting, feeding and supplying the forces there. Moreover, the appearance of German submarines not only in home waters, but in the Mediterranean, had added to the responsibilities already undertaken.

He said about 4,000,000 combatants, 1,000,040 horses, 2,500,000 tons of stores and 27,000,000 gallons of oil for the British and their allies had been transported This task, in the presence of hostile: submarines, had thrown an enormous amount of work upon the Admiralty which could not have been foreseen the outbreak of the war. dangers experienced, he said, were new dangers, and he felt the nation could look with satisfaction upon the manner in which Admiralty had carried out its vast work. Balfour added that the work of the navy during the war had been spleny did. He remarked incidentally that his predecessor. Winston Spencer Churchil1, was completely justified when, reviewing circumstances at the outbreak of the war, he claimed that the fleet he had prepared was adequate for! the great task of maintaining command of the seas.

Impossible To Give Details. After explaining that it was impossible to give details, and that he could only deal in a general manner with the way the Admiralty is discharging its responsibilities, Balfour said the British fleet had become an international fleet, carrying on international work and serving many nations. There was no truth, he continued, in the suggestion that the present Admiralty Board had halted the shipbuilding activities of its predecessors, whose policy, he said, in a general way was still being pursued. Balfour said the Admiralty had secured a large and especially suitable tract of land for the purpose of training aerial pilots for the navy. This work is under command of Payne, who had rendered invaluable service.

He said the navy always must have an aerial service of its own. he heavier Dealing and with lighter the than relative air values machines, 'of Mr. Balfour said it was extremely desirable from a naval paint of view to have lighter than air machines to supplement the efforts of the fleet in scouting. The greatest difficulty had beenhe was speaking not of Zeppelins, but of nonrigid airships to erect suitable accommodations. The royal naval division, he said, had covered itself with glory at Gallipoli.

The wastage had been great, and the Admiralty. proposed to keep it up to its full strength of six battalions. He paid warm tribute to the work of the fleet and said that the health and discipline of the men left nothing to be desired. He especially praised deeds of individual courage, initiative in submarine and mine sweeping and other activities in circumstances of real peril as of the greatest magnitude. "'No peril appalled them, and the country's debt to them was almost he said.

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in Hard To Stand By Nation's Chief Because of Changes, Says Burton SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Trenton, N. March wonder it is hard to stand by the President," said former Senator Theodore E. Burton; of Ohio, here to-night in a speech before the Republican Club, held under the auspices of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. "In Mexico we marched up the hill, and then marched down again; this recent controversy over the armin ing of merchantmen we marched down the hill and then marched up again.

"No matter how willing any man may aside partisan consideration, it be to put his ability to follow such rapid and taxes changes in the conduct of intereccentric national affairs. You may steer a ship by North Star, but you cannot steer it the by a comet." Mr. Burton, whose whole speech vigor of attack seldom evinced in hibited a scholarly and tolerant speeches in the his Senate, declared that the present predicaof the United States respecting ment "arose from the exercise of armed ships those two conspicuous talents of the presAdministration--the passion for interent in the affairs of other nations and ference inability to keep away from both the sides of the question." The speech of the Ohioan, who is an avowed candidate for the Republican nomination for President, is the first aggressive address of his campaign and DISCUSS CONVENTION. Members Prepare For Metal Contractors' Gathering Next July. Twenty members of the Cincinnati Association of Sheet Metal Contractors met at the store of the John Weigle Company, East McMillan street, last night to make preliminary plans for the state convention of the organization.

which will be held in this city on July 25, 26 and 1 27. Charles Kobmann was appointed Chairof a committee to raise funds for man the entertainment, of the delegates, while of. the association the will assist in the arrangements. Another meeting will be called soon. POLICEMAN STOPS RUNAWAY.

In view of hundreds of pedestrians, Mounted Patrolman J. Grannan yesterday captured at Seventh and Elm streets runaway horse, owned by John Heisel, 524 Elm street. The horse was at Sev-1 enth and Walnut streets when it became frightened. It dashed westward on Seventh street. Grannin's horse was injured.

FIREMAN'S WIFE DIES. Alma McFarland, 23 years old, 25 Glen866-place, wife of Thomas J. yesterday Mofarland, morncity freman, died early ing at the home of her mother, Mrs. Diena Mara, 302 Milton street. She leaves a year-old daughter.

COUNCILMAN TO SPEAK. Councilman Martin will address the members of the Mohawk Brighton Improvement Association on "Street Improvements." at a meeting to be held tonight in the new Lafayette Bloom School, Dayton and Baymiller streets. Sutherland Says He Favors War To Having Nation Play Poltroon Washington, March the armed ship issue in the Senate to-day Senator Sutherland, of Utah, a Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, stood squarely behind President Wilson in his policy in dealing with Germany in the submarine negotiations. do not want war at any time," said Senator Sutherland, "and I pray God that it may not come now, but I would rather have war with all its sacrifices and suffering than that this nation, with its long history of heroism and glory, should play the poltroon when confronted by a supreme national duty, because it places greater value upon its ease. than upon its honor." am one of those who desire peace," the Senator continued, "but 8 nation, when all other means fails, that will not resent a flagrant and illegal attack upon the lives of its own citizens is only less detestable than a man who will not fight for his wife and children.

And, believing as I do about that, if the life of an American citizen is again taken by the Illegal and deliberate sinking without warning of a merchant ship, unarmed or armed only for defense, that this Government should hold the offending nation to a stern reckoning. I shall never give consent to the issuance of a formal my and official notice such as has been prowhich, if not heeded, would, withposed, out minimizing our duty in the least, have the effect of embarrassinfl and- weakening moral standing if we our would once more be under the sad necessity of seeking reparation for the destruction of the lives of our people." Senator Sutherland diseussed the legal of armed merchant ships under instatus ternational law and the relation thereto of the newly developed submarine. "The proposition now insisted upon, baldly stated." he declared, "1s simply this, that when a new engine of destruction is Invented that cannot be made entirely effective without violating the law, the law 18 ipso facto automatically modifled. Under these circumstances my own view of the matter is that the new must yield to the law and not weapon that the law must yield to the new weapon. "If we concede that the rule no longer to ships armed for alone we must be prepared to face a probable condition much more serious than involved in the destruction of an armed in safety will be to invite the sinking right of a submarine to sink a vessel 80 since is well nigh impossible for officer of a submarine to determine in adarmed without giving warning and opporvance whether a given vessel is armed or tunity for crew a and passengers to escape vessel without warning.

To concede the of unarmed vessels without warning as well, the not. "If therefore, the commander of a submarine claims to act upon appearances we shall never be able to determine whether these appearances justified his conclusion until after the vessel and her crew and" passengers have gone to the bottom of the sea, and in some cases not even then. The result will be that armed vessels, while possessing immunity in theory, will have none in fact. "The question next arises- indeed. it is really the crucial question shall our citizens be officially advised to forbear from traveling upon merchant vessels armed for defense only; or indeed, shall we go further, and forbid their doing so under penalty for disobedience? If I am correct in what I have already said, Sherwood Lines Up For Wilson, Then Says He'll Not Run Again regarded by Republicans, because of its Incisive attack and broad range of subjects, as the keynote of Burton's campaign.

He asserted that the vacillation and timidity betrayed in American dealings with Mexico was at the bottom of varlous controversies with in. that the European Foreign Offices felt that the United States would not act with vigor and certainty. "What has produced the present situation in our foreign affairs?" he said. "The proverbial blundering and incapacity of the Democratic party. "The one fact more obvious than any other that stands out to-day in all the conflicting currents of events during the last three years is that the present status of the United States in relation to other countries has been brought about by the halting, the hesitancy and the vacillation of the present Administration.

Except for this murder and anarchy in Mexico would have long since ceased. "The controversy with Germany over submarine warfare and the dispute with Great Britain respecting the rights of American commerce could have been prevented if we had attended strictly to our own business and adhered firm and consistent course. "It is our earnest desire to stand by the President, but this is only possible if the President stands by himself; to stand by presupposes a fixed purpose, but if such purpose is constantly changing, it may be possible to change with it, but it is not possible to stand by It. Mr. Wilson and the Democrats came into power just three years ago and on almost every great question, foreign or domestic, they have taken both sides." UMBRELLA Broken on Flirt's Head Not Enough, and Woman Is Entitled To Damages, Court Holds.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO TRE ENQUIRER. Little Rock, March woman is justified in inflicting corporal punishment upon a male flirt who annoys her, the State Supreme Court has ruled in affirming the $250 damages which a lower Court had awarded Mrs. Nettie Trussell, Hot Springs, a school teacher, against the Memphis and Dallas and Gulf Railroad. According to the testimony a male passenger on a train of the defendant railroad stood in the center of the car in which Mrs. Trussell WAS riding and winked and threw kisses at her.

When he approached her Mrs. Trussell broke her umbrella on his head. The Supreme Court, in its opinion, rules that not only was Mrs. Trussell justified in her action, but was entitled to recover damages for the annoyance and humiliation to which she was subjected. JUDGE HIT BY SIGN.

-APECIAL DISPATCH TO THE March 7. rific windstorm prevailed here this afternoon. A heavy sign was blown from store, which struck City Judge McGarvey, resulting in a deep gash in the back of his head, rendering him unconscious. It was at first thought he was fatally injured, but, later information from his bedside is that he will recover. Many trees throughout the county were uprooted and barns and residences damaged.

namely, that these merchant ships have the right to carry defensive armament, it follows that such a ship the same status as though unarmed, that the hand right of a neutral citizen to transport his goods or travel upon either is the same and not different right, and that, in fact, is the decision of our own Supreme Court in a great case decided many years ago and never since overruled or modified. "If, therefore, a citizen take passage upon a ship so armed and lose his by the sinking of the ship without warning. what must be the contention and claim of this Government? To my mind, clearly this: That the citizen in the exercise of a clear right has been deprived of his life by the deliberately illegal act of the belligerent Government which sent the submarine on its mission of death I can conceive of no other position for this Government to assume and unless it is willing to forfeit the respect of mankind by becoming a craven thing. it must he prepared to sustain that position at what ever cost or consequence." Senator Sutherland also opposed any change in the rule with respect to the sale of munitions of war, or arming merchant ships for defense, asserting that any such changes now would be an neutral act. "Nothing in the long run can be more certain to bring trouble upon us than a policy of timidity and said Senator Sutherland.

"Such a 18 not in keeping. with American traditions or spirit. If we shall ever have a war with another country, it is more likely to result from some deprivation of right suffered by our citizens than from any other cause. "In Mexico they have been unspeakably outraged--insulted, robbed, murdered-and this series of Mexican outrages has been interspersed with maritime horrors involved in the sinking of the Lusitania, the Ancona and the others, with their loss of American life, and we have borne It and are bearing it all with a patience which begins to have a suspicious look of pusillanimity. "We have demanded reparation, and have kept on making such demands, with decreased rather than increased insistency.

The offenders have not been held to accountability, strict or otherwise, and we are now confronted with the proposal not that we shall insist upon reparation for wrongs already suffered, but that we shall restrain our citizens from the further exercise of their rights for fear we may be put, to the trouble and perhaps the danger of vindicating them. for one am becoming sick and tired of the spineless polley of retreat and scuttle--the policy that, among other things, has ordered our people to abandon their rights in Mexico and that has made us flee our own plain duty in the Philippines. Instead of forever telling our citizens to run, I should like for once to hear somebody bid them stand, with the assurance that their Government will stand with hem. Instead of warning our own people to exercise their rights at their peril, I would like to issue A warning to other people to interfere with these rights on their peril. The danger of it all is that by this policy of always backing down instead of backing up we shall encourage an increased encroachment upon our rights until we shall finally be driven into a crisis and from which nothing but war can extricate." Senator Sutherland adherred closely to his written text and was heard by al-.

most the entire membership of the ate. No effort was made to continue discussion of foreign affairs after. he had concluded, and the Senate took up the Shields water power bill. WILSON FELICITATES CLARK. Washir gion, March Wilson wrote a warm letter of congratulation to Speaker Champ Clark, of the House, on the occasion of his sixty-sixth birthday anniversary.

SPECIAL. DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Washington, March Isaac R. Sherwood, of Toledo, today voted to table the McLemore resolution warning Americans to stay off armed belligerent ships, and then announced that he would not stand for I re-election. Coupled with the announcement of Representative Robert IN.

Page that he would decline to run again because he could not agree. with the President on this issue, and the report that Representative W. Bailey, of Pennsylvania, might take the same course, General Sherwood'8 announcement serves best to show the intensity of feeling prevailing in Congress over the armed ship issue and the disorganizing and demoralizing effeet it has had upon the Democratic organization. "I voted to table this resolution because it was made a party question," said General Sherwood. "I was not given a chance to vote my convictions.

When it was made a party question would not 1 bolt, but I will not seek Fen election." General Sherwood was the first Democrat to attack the President's preparedness program on the floor of the The dean of the House, breHouse, veted Brigadier General by President Lincoln for gallantry in action, independent and frank of speech, General Sherwood's speech then held the attention of the House, quite as his announcement to-day was regarded 18 of the most striking high lights of one situation in Congress. WARRANT CHARGES ASSAULT. Edna Webb, 21 years old, 333 West Mrs. Court street, swore to an offidavit yescharging Charles Jones, negro. 725 terday Horn alley, with assault and batVan Jones was arrested after the womtery.

Chief Detective Nimmo that the an told had followed, insulted and bumped man her when she was on 'her way down town. WARRANT FOR FATHER OF 11. Mrs. Margaret Tritschler, 274 Renner mother of 11 children, swore to 8 street. warrant yesterday morning charging her husband, Valentine Tritschler, 1113 Dayton street, with having failed to provide three of their children who are unfor der 16 years of age.

GIRL REPORTED MISSING. Daisy Glasier, 16 years old, mont street, was reported by her to police last night as missing o'clock Monday morning. The stated that at that time her left for school, but failed to arrive TWO BOYS MISSING. 4110 Dumother since 8 mother daughter there. were.

asked yesterday to look. Albert G. Gregg, 10 years old. East Front street, and Carl Brett, 15 years old, 1104 East Front street. Both lads disappeared from home Monday morning.

SAYS PURSE WAS STOLEN. Ernest G. Schwartz, 2033 Dennis street, reported to the police last night that he was robbed of a purse containing 821 and a check for $15, when on a Crosstown car, between Peebles Corner and Vine street. "My reason for not standing for reelection again," he said to-night, "is that I am opposed to increasing armaments 1 in time of peace and building the strongest navy in the world. I owe It to the President and the Democratic party to retire and thus enable the Democrats of my district! to select a man in harmony with the President's military propaganda.

"I have held my convictions on milltarism ever since the Civil War, have made a speech against militarism in every session of Congress in which I have served. "I prefer to retire to private life rather than accept office at the sacrifice for my convictions on a question I conwider the most vital of any before the American people. "I have been very much depressed over the situation caused by precipitating the submarine controversy in the House of Representatives. "There never has been any international law touching submarines, and the President and Secretary of State in their official notes to' Berlin on January 16 recognized submarines as legitimate Instruments of modern warfare, They also conceded the fact that the former principles of international law allowing merchantmen to carry a gun aft against pirates does not apply now. because 8 onepounder or a two-pounder can send submarine to the bottom of the ocean.

Hence, when you talk about internationaL law in the presence of submarines you talk about law that does not exist, and every lawyer who understands international law knows that it does not exist. International law 19 international custom, or a mutual holding of nations established by mutual agreement." Representative Joseph H. Eagle, of Texas, Democrat, also announced to-day that he would not be a candidate for renomination because he "finds he cannot support the Democratic Administration 11E the course it la now pursuing." TO WED COURT STREET GIRL. Abraham Gardner. 30 years old, Greenville, secured a license yesterday to wed Miss Francis Berlin, 911 West Court street.

They will be married at the home of the bride Thursday afternoon. and will leave for Florida the same evening for a short honeymoon. SUSTAIN CARRIER'S PLEA. The statement of Riley Carrier, 114 McGregor street, Elmwood Place, that he shot his brother-in-law, Logan T. Erwin, Lombardy and Highland avenues, Elmwood Place, in self-defense, WaS sustained in a Coroner's verdict yesterday.

The shooting occurred several weeks ago. MRS. M. E. MARKS DIES.

Funeral services will be held to-morrow morning for Mrs. Maria E. Marks, widow of William A. Marks, well-known sculptor and decorator. Mrs.

Marks died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Oscar Small, Montgomery and Clarion avenues. The survived by two. daughe ters. Mrs.

Small and Mrs. William J. Raab, Evanston, and two sons, William Marks and Mary C. Marks, Baltimore. MOORMAN PAYS FINE.

Joseph Moorman pleaded not guilty to the charge that he had race horse slips in his possession and was fined $25 and costs by Police Court Judge Spiegel yesterday morning..