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ESTABLISHED 1870, 54113;;3:.iggcfg:‘g'as:raaattel_.°‘ SOUTH NORWALK, CONN., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1917. Fair Tonight and .Probably Sunday TWO CENTS!
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Nantucket Shoals lightship Reperts
- ilnlinoyin Vessel in that Vicinity
Early Today Bound West
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GERMAN nu“
BlilWS UP SHIP
'IN ‘ GUAM P. I.
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Two Warrant Officers and Five Eil-
listed Men on-tile lnte'rned lies-
sel Repoited Killed
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Pill inn ARRESI
LiShiiiping lied lip 'm Both Ports for
on Will “inn '
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i ‘ “NEWPORT, R. 1., April 7.—
" The first alarm ofthe GWman-
American war was sounded off
the New England coast today.
Just before 8‘ o’clock in the
- morning, the, Nantucket Shoals
lightship flashed to the naval
radio station here that a: German
commerce raider had passed the
lightship bound West. Instantly
the plans of the navy for meet-
ing just such a situation became
operative and while {they were
not disclosed there. was assurance
\btitf course sh
warm 'recepti‘oti. . .
Meantime shipping in .the .vr-
(ljolltlnucd on Sixth Page).
You illiillln- - .
iii lanolin ill
‘-
~: .LBoat club-m. .. «
t6 the
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thaifsonicbody - would have to"
. busy. “ . .. , ,
Gonnnodoio Unison ' said that h
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5i.‘oniiiiued ‘on isliaiiijh 'I’agc.)
stables and grandstands
11m. t,
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estimated at $175,000. :
Fear of Attack on Boats ‘
that if the au‘daciouswarsliip held-
e would be given a'
-‘ Whitest debited Humanis-
.4:. mfieflltermllahelction: . .
-, . .' r ._..._.. ‘ . ~ mediate formation of a National ,
Guard {01.11” Phlippincs.‘author-i Word has gone forth trout Washing-
ized at the last. legislative sea?
sibn. The proclamation announ-.
ces that the government has no keyed up to the highest expectancy-J
lAu ini‘ormal to cling on‘ prepared‘
,moas tor the Firs District was held .
- .‘ldriday, April 6th, 1917 at the Norwnlk
. _.-Meeling called to order ill. 3:30 p.
tilt, by Commodore A. J. Dolson.‘ Clar /. ,. , ‘ _ .
' mg penemy aliens and prescribes
«nee Buttery waii~calied~on 'to give ‘
to. protect
- «brief outline of [the reasons for the .new harbor
-:,‘call of. themedtmg andhe stated that.»Ameticanvinferests_
a machine 'gu‘n waste be presented '
p it y of Norn’alk by a patriotic
citizen. to bedrircliiirgo of the Police
Department and located in the Second
(District: that he had talked with scv- i
deraivpeople about the needs rot-.9. imp,
chine gun forthegFirst District, and ‘-
it deemed to be thi‘itfioplnlon that the.
matter was important-enough for set-i l
3 oils consideration as it» met with. the '7
. ‘ripptioval of the mayor ,and the police
department that omodern up-todaic
ilinchinc gun would cost $750.0“ and
obtain order; to get one irittnediately
get
“REESESPQWW malft‘vrow-“h‘ Mt- to President Menoca lto
, i public oicuba‘newsbnrea‘u 'ere.i patrol bouts, civil engineers, structur-
iiiiiiiiilii CAPES] 353 0W0" BOARD
'ilalionai Guard lobe Formed in the
Philippines
.3 ‘l
"ii
:The interned German boat Cor-3
moran at Guam has been blown
up.
an took place at 8 o’clock
night. Washington time.
The Cormoran refused to sur-
render to the American forces ”m ”m
which went to take possession of . inililia is the Naval 'l‘rainln ‘intlon ‘ . ..
her, and was destroyed by hen; Uoslml, Muss; Herc the “le1 bdrm hdithe disposal 0f the American em-
crew. Two German warrant of—l 1"“
fleets and live enlisted men of l
the crew were killed in the ex-
plosion.
Twenty officers, 12 warrant of-[
fleets and 32x enlisted men were.
taken prisoners;
nouncement- said: *
‘rant' officersand five
.men. Twenty officers,
ID
i men were taken' prisoners.
The message was received at‘
gthe Navv Department at g a. .m
‘today, from Captain Roy Smith
governora of t’iliamL and com-f
station “" Week
mandant of the naval
.there.
rules
on without " ~'
e E‘.‘ S‘.'Azpiazu, private .
i) LONDON, April
[iii m”
l0 urinals ’ '
council Select Model Deemed
Beat'
Edward B. Gallaher, ii well‘known
Fire Bell and Whistles Summoned
Members of Fifth Division to the '
Armory last Night
Not-walk citizen, 71138 shown his pn-
triotlsm by ofiering to present to the
Norwalk police department a rapid
tiring gun for use in case of trouble.
‘l‘lic‘couimunicution received from Mr.
Gallaher by Mayor Curl Axel His;-
siroin was turned over to the council,
Tuesday night, for action. The letter
follows:
Norwalk, Conn.
My Dear Mr. Mayor: .
There seems to‘ be it need for ii. ma-
chine gun in our city. and l ii‘ni go-
ing to suggest the following:
i will present ii Lewis machine gun
to-the city for the exclusive use at
i the police department, and to be und-
‘ heir control at all titties, and upon
WASHINGTON, April 7.——‘, 4'
fiilio‘oilizcd at tho :lrnlory nwniiinr; ord-i
.crs to untruili for ll destination on]
_ iknown. -’l‘llc company will not leave
The destruction of the Cormor- town today, but will probably be ord-i
last cred oul sometime tonight or tumor";
, row.
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The Navy Department’s Ian--
“The interned cruiser Cormor-
an at Guam refused to surrender,
blew herself up, killed two war-
enlisted
twelve.
lwarrant officersand 321 enlisted
, , ‘ . ‘ 1 this branch of the service and
" ' WAR 'WIIH‘: GERMANY: cruilng officers were jnn’ablé to
, , . ' , l the iaige number of men who. wished
1. , _‘ .~ ito join.
NEW" YORK, April 7.—The'wem taken into the
Cuban Congress tonight is , ex-i
peCted to detlare that a state of, which the locnlymen belong, with Ad-
wa; cxstg between {Cuba and the mil-iii Usher as commandant, extends
Imperial Germangovernment, ac-
cordingto a cable message from
rotary
e Re-
, 4:35 9. ma
non infill
fl coulslrllslllln
‘ w.ronic..Aprii r.—~ciublihuses’..
‘ .at the. Bel;
Park race tracks on the out?
of: Brooklyn me almost ‘des-
ed,,early today. by fire. The (lain-v
‘ . u: said .vthatfi‘the
,9“ burst out in‘ live places; at .
Th police are limiting tor air .
Pffllé Jockey Club and:
Mudsmndmi‘ the-Uni?
lotion. were burned? .
rl-tlle’vjh‘elmont' “
stand caught
--The_Central New says it is
, semigofficialiy informed that a
. declaration .of: war by Brazil
a‘gainst. Germany may be expect-
ed'bijonday.
llilg-nniliwlltl
New ”roux. « April
‘r.—.~capfidlti
Expected that the Command Wi‘ibe: Tip: further condition that the cill’l
‘~. l Sent to Boston on Sunday '
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(Continued on Eielith Patio.)
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unknown. ll. was learned, however,! I N A I'll 6: a. m-
llrobilble destination of ihci LONDO ' p 7' ‘5
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'l‘lie Nnval Militia ll‘lfl’ll Division, is":
-—-Passports have been placed at.
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' iili it Will
Despite the bad weather on _
fact that. it was Good Friday. fully
fifty residents crowded the Wilton
Town hall Inst night to agree upon
some method to increase and sustailll
local interest in the Wilton Troop of!
1on Scouts of America. The sllc-l
res-:3 oi' the meeting was due in lungs?
lllNlSlll‘O to the Splendid work of a‘
squad of Scouts from Norwulk and»I
addresses by members of the Norwalk i ,
One Hundred Germ
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Local Council. The visitors wore mail. .
by the Wilton boys at llH‘ station and "
escorted to the hull with drum boat-i
inn and banners living. 9
The iticeiinn was opened by ll. 11:
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. . WASHINGTON. April 7.—i
Fitch 0f the. Wilton AdVl-“Ol'b' Ginninit~ - l f w 1' found
too who spoke ii few words of WPLiThe second day 0 a .
come. Scouinmstcr F. C. Ogden then? every government agencY in ac-
»Came forward “'ilil lilo-nag. wlilch,tion along lore-determined lines.
through 'll short system oribassy in Vienna: accm'dmg £0 a
, and whipped into the bcstidispatch to the Exchange 'lele-
ipossiblv shape. . They will not bt‘igraph Company. from The Hague,
:ht‘rld at ‘lhtI‘ training station over “vo'quoting telegrams received mere
thus, nitoi Willt‘il they him" be puti»f , ~ - l. The
on board ship, mm the Austrian capital.
.tlorcn blasts of the lll‘(‘ whistle in dispatCh 53)"; that Bulgaria and
“him Districts Turkey also have decided to break
.oil. relations withletbg tilted
\iStates and that. Holland proba-
bly will look after Austrianrinter-
iests in Washington and Ameri-
”lljll‘ilul s"
i””‘ First, Second and f
i -_....
; (Continuee.,.on Sixthrazze)” *
“.w—w—
Word that the Austral-Hungarian
Foreign Office had placed pass-
ports at the disposal. of the
llilEiiSE . in ii cliln
iForty Nomalii Men Etpecied to he
‘ Smmoned to Mann Boats Next
not reached the Austrian embassy
lhere early ~ today, according to
one of the embassy attaches.
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. MANIPA! ‘APl'il‘ 7>.--Govemor'/ The Naval Coast Defense RGSBWP,; l . . ~
Harrison issued a war proclama~,i‘ourih i)ivialon..ln»which ill least “A ‘ , ‘
mm in which he calls forvthe imz “forty Norwalk men nre’.‘ member's, willi _ m ‘
be ordered out within it day or two.i
lton, l). C.,. to mobilize the Naval Ro- ‘9
serve at once. i
Local members or the division orc‘
“nation of the force will be. unknown! "’31“ fmm Danbury stop in Norwnlk
but it is probable ihat it will be New
f Haven or New London. i
‘jrocruiting ofllcers for the reserve
; force were in town. Great enthusiasm
was shown throughout the city over-
9 re.
andle this—Will be easily- overcome.~
Semeiiiin over (on ni‘enmll be. a great convenience to com
‘ g Naval -.R:Bewelinuiers between NorWulk.. and Dan
l
and Edward .l.
thinners. ..
*_ ,; .. inn silt-Sills
Fosteries. carrying$35¢ooo worth
of grain to Rotterdam, has been
- from New London, Conn” to Barnegat,‘
lN. J. The commandant has authority"
i under class four to enroll anybody
i who would be useful on the war slate
in this naval district. It embraces
al engineers, mechanical engineers.
eic., anybody, in fact. whose services
Qtlic commandant might need-in the
various parts oi‘. the dlstrlct: ‘ The
.main object of this class is to help
‘to secure a sullicient number of pa:
trod] boats properly marined'nnd equip:
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[limits Biliiiii lilil P ,
vessei'carriedgno Ainefiesss.
“ U-VPARIS;Aprii 7, Noon.—Vio«
lillil innit colsl w ....=
American embassy at Vienna had
Prince Hohenlohe~$chillingehdrot,
SIOP ; IN'. Hill ' Dillilliii
‘rhe l‘iibllc ~Utiiilids' Commission!
' ' , - - _ - .1Word is c acted um. minute to reAllan gmntedaiho petition of Norwalki
Intention 0f mtemmg law abld ;both to a gaining l-ltili.ion._ The des-iClllzenB asking. that the. 4:33 oclocky »
i'l‘ho decision was’ received this morn-g
King, by Corporation Coulis? ’Ed\lelrd3_
' . . . 7M. Lockwood. [The New ork, cw;
i It was only last Monday that the‘Haven and Hartford Railroad Coma ‘ ~ ‘ .
puny-llasbeen ordered .to stop-this“ 3le Red Ci‘oss Association in Nor.
train in the First District tend this walk wish to call the attention of the
will: be done. it .will .noldoubt, cause llilbllc to the Homo Work Department.
n all ht chair 9 in the schedule. but .Now. that will; has become a fact cv~ . - - . . .
g g This= err one must-do his [,1th for'those devrsed means of raising funds,
subjectt'to Congressional author.- .
ization: and the Department of American borders has b‘Ae‘en
Corporation Counsel Edwardi to the rooms In. Wall street. more Agriculture set firth .3 “‘9”? ed war vested
r. within one day. ‘ bury. ' , .
=The Fourth Naval District, to M.‘Loekivood‘ap .nred' forthe cityis plenty 0f
ulnlan for the pe.i‘homc.
_ 5i mango into camp there is bound to
‘ I fore
was given llll‘cc hearty cheers, 1gp, . _ . .
orybody joined in 51,, mg my Combtwnh Congressional committees
.‘ hr "“5 of Tilt-e" and t 0 meeting was at work on the new army bill Ann.
'umm] m um MM” "f ”w "15mm" finance measures.
tspouts. iril O. iii‘cnoiv. secretary of' .
llho Norwnlk council, gun- ii vigorousi The navy and its new”, organ-
imk u“ ”‘0 110mm or ““““”“g- 300“" ized power- boat coast patrol
thpisquadron was being mobilized;
i
wore ol’thanks to the visitors the
meeting was dismissed. LRlPl' in tho
evening a meeting of the Wilton boys
was held when it. was voted to con-
solidate the two troops into one body
flldld the following oihcers were elect.
e ‘ .
Scoitt'niiister. F. C. Ogden: Assist
nnt.Sco,utmnster, 'l‘. T. Merwin: Pai-
llllflSll‘l‘. Edwin! D. linndnll. of
While at inosrdut training-1n pm, “My naval militia and naval reserves
, cited. on his punlls, and may Corn.
join the colors. 0
mm 9mm“ smut“ ““9 3“ ”hi1“: From'nnany .cities came word
lion of ivlni: knots. llrsl id. setting
vinced everyone present mm Wilton had carried out orders of the De;
needs Boy Scouts. and, 9 public partment of Justice for arrest 0
low at large. . .
4.0ificials ,‘had about determined
ships, ' over ‘one hundred of‘ which
have been seized, forpgovemrnent
ment was made" whether. they
would he confiscated or paid for
Amy alld Navy Division
3 Responding to Orders
To Defend the
an Ships in American Ports
Taken Over for Use in the United Staff:
_ Service—Ail Radio Stations to Be Seized
—-Enorm0us Quantities of Supplies Order-7r
ed—j—Free Admissibn t6 Americ’an Harbors
of All War Vessels of the Allies—Finances
9§_Being Raised and Resources Conserved. ‘
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7...?
e clot
~. _., «in: fig:
merit to increase and conserve“
the nation’s supply of foodstufi'
and to simplify distributl
Many other similar, activities
were started after the Cabinet’s:
council of warhlast night. ‘
The House Military committee ,
met today to hear Secretary Bale
er’s explanations of .the Ar.
General Staff bill to draft {and
train one million young 'rnen
within a year... and ‘the . Inc 9
partying three billion dol . '
get, all of which had Pres:
Wilson’s announced apptbval.
The Senate Military Commit . y
also had the Army bill undet-
consideration today, . ‘ _ _
Without Congres’si a1 nets '
the only thing the “BM
ment can do to increased-refine
‘tiori’s authorized armed 10:00::
to order the regular army. ‘
panded to full 'war strength.
It seemed likely today‘th
large part of the river's ‘ .
which for the first- year... all,
may run for aboveth‘e‘ $3,500,
Eli‘ranklin School allowed the nrlvnn.
were complying with orders to
missioner Douglass Nash win, his
, ‘ marshals
up exercises and simaumg that. am that the United States
"mm“- m “"3” Wm ’13 s o fol-,sixty Germans whom the govern-
1°“" A ““m in 0- uudlencc lade‘ merit believes it dangerous to al-
Shorl uddre s and alter len'dcflllfi/fl '
to use the, German merchant
service; though no announce-
at the close of the war.
rol loader, George Eaklurid: Assist.
lint Patrol Lender. Orson Stannard:
(Treasurer, ' Georc'e Plena‘anis; Scorc-
m'y' 8am M" mm cept those needed {or naval con.‘
iiiiiiiiilis unlit
.nliiliilinlllllnnl
President. Wilson. .
‘ 1' contractors to.
peoplewhos‘e home or business du-
ties nre. such that they cannot come
work they can do at
1 As; every one/must realize it 'our
‘bo certuizi nm'ountpf sickness be:
i any. real lighting takes place.
gTheretore, hospital supplies. such its
i pajamas. . bell socks. .hoi . water bag
, covers,.shonlder capes, surgical shirts,
1 etc. are very much" needed»
,' Government seizure of all radio
stations and the closing of all ex-
munication was authorized byi
Both the War and May De—ithe $574.ooo.ool>"bond-
partments were . arranging with
fum'sii, enormous
quantities “of supplies; steel man—
ufacturers agreed to’furnish the
Navy their product at last year‘s
prices, el‘fecting , a saving oi $r8,-
mm .in the nav'y’sI 1917 steel
bill;' the Treasury ‘ Department
There is but onethingtotlo‘ynovv and,.that is: the d}
s‘unkb'y a German raider. The,
making. , - :
' Box 0. six.
and ‘ many, indi
ak . .
‘ These the. blome Work Departmentl
can supply,“ with lull instruction for
The R. if: G. laciory has been good
enough to do all the cutting and the!
garments are at the Red '
awaiting finishing. .
, The Henderson‘rdzjrwin‘clip made
stwrr‘dbzen pajamas 7as‘ alst‘art on. ~
. ll
lent';,.cii'nh9nading"was0n duringl ‘Oihei:to‘rgmiiziitions such as. the
last. night? on the French trout Last Norwallc ImproVeinent
. .. . ~ don,“ the ‘Gii‘ls’. Friendly .
. .6th are: working on -,val‘_lous articles
dual- , hav 4
Cross rooms'
Societies;
fl.
Associn- . . . p ,
' ‘ int a; centralized controlof
’morsrev‘erfsiwn.‘°‘ the-.1”.
' Americans to stand? together for national . _ .,
the nation's rights” are. infringed. Ther ‘ ould be but on
'V .- flag and one] people. within the United .
7 partisanship should adios pear. . '
‘ ; ‘v-W'e' have» ‘a man's .10 to do
maintain . an army and navy, ' wi
now,.and defend Our country -. n. . ‘ ‘ ,
F any source...for attack provoked, is sme_to.come.--._ . ~ .
‘ ; r-Theyote for war changed our menu of sovereign.
a
000 already ,asked‘ of Con
oven to $5,900,000.90. Will
raised by higher taxes on
comes, . inheritances and ; exp,
profits. An announcement
lSecretary McAdoo on detail
heady authorized but ‘ ,.
i was“ expected new
fences~ on'; financed-jg, '7 . .
'. begun today beteveen 'Secre
'McAdoo and members“ of
senate finance conirnitte
the House ways andmean‘
Announcement will be made
soon. that free admissio
gran
spof‘ lies
defense where .3
est'oday, ”and‘a‘l
, insecure-and and
th, which. totdo . our“
Pa .
future].against attack from
hundred minion‘re‘ooh
idenuthan fan‘y'ni _
Norwalk Chronicler