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BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Kernels Culled From Events of Mo
ment In All Parts of the World
Of Interest to All the
People Everywhere.
U. STeutonic Break
It was lejiriipd at Washington that
American merchant ships are to be
armed by the United States govern
ment and sent on tbeir voyage regard
less of submarines. President Wilson
definitely decided on this step.
The German government is urged to
adopt all means to obtain an honorable
peace guaranteeing Germany a polit
ical and economic future comparable
with the seerifiees her armies have
made, in a resolution introduced in
the Prusslnu herrenhaus (house of
lords) by Count Hoenseroech, accord
ing to Berlin dispatches to The
Hague.
Dr. C. Hnnaldor Cliakiaberty, a Hin
du physician, and Dr. Ernest Sckun
ner, described as a German, were ar
rested at New York on charges of con
spiracy to set up a military expedition
against a foreign country. The police
say the men confessed that they had
plotted to invade India by way of
China.
The expected criticism ,of the gov
ernment's ill-starred German-Mexican
project failed to materialize in the
session of the reichstag budget com
mittee at Berlin. The committee un
equivocally indorsed the action of the
foreign office by unanimous vote.
A dispatch to Amsterdam from Ber
lin says that practically all the Ger
man submarines that left ports when
the ruthless warfare was decided upon
have now returned to their bases to
be overhauled and supplied with more
torpedoes.
Austria's reply to the American re
questor a clearer definition of her at
titude in the submarine situation was
stated officially at Washington to leave
the door open for further negotiation.
