THE WEATHER FAIR AND COLDER TODAY 41w i ait~ UNITED PRESS DAY AND MIIT WIRE SERVICE~ PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. XXVIL No. 81. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1917 . . ._ ........ .. __._ -- I r . . RADER'S ACITIY MAYBHING FORTH - - WILL TAKE GERMANS T TASK IF AMERICAN LIVES ARE LOST PEACE NOTE WILL NOT STOP ACTION] Underwriters Raise War Risk Rates on Vessels; Two Ships Sail With Guns on Stern By Carl 1). Groat (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 18.-International complications with Germany will en- sue if American lives were sacrificed contrary to international law in the German raider's activity according to an official hint to the United Press this afternoon. The official indicated peace move- ments would prevent this government from taking action if its rights were invaded. It was suggested that the threats of trouble between the two governments might be a club that would force Germany into line in the peace moves. Indications show that the authorities are far from hopeful about the peace situation at this mo- ment. Several state department officials said this afternoon that no word had come through official channels con- cerning the German raid and their only information concerning Ameri- cans came from press dispatches. New 1Yrk, Jan. 18.--Marine under- writers in New York continued today to boost rates on ships for South Am- erican waters where a German com- merce raider is operating. War risk rates have leaped from two to three per cent to six to ten per cent. With the German raider still at large, and now reports of ships sunk coming in today rates were expected to go even higher. The ships already destroyed by the raider are valued with their cargoes at about $10,000,000. Insurance is carried for the most part by local underwriters. The French liner Chicago sailed from New York today for Bordeaux regardless of the raider's presence. She carried 120 passengers. Other large liners now on the Atlantic and not yet reported as reaching their destinations are: Alphonse XII of Spain; the Saga, bound for Rio de Janiero; the Brazos, enroute to Porto Rico: the Sao Paulo, for Buenos Aires, and the Valdivia. Pensacola, Fla,, Jan. 18.-Two Brit- ish vessels, the steamer Indian and the British schooner Edna V. Pickles, sail- ed today with three inch rapid fire guns mounted on their sterns for de- fense against the new German raider. The Indian carried grain and a mis- cellaneous cargo and was bound for Liverpool. TODAY LAST OPPORTUNITY TO FILE LIT ELECTION BLANKS Today is the last day for the filing of election blanks for courses to be elected next semester by students in the College of Literature, Science, and the-Arts. A fee of $1.00 will be charged for all elections made after 5 o'clock today, at which hour the registrar's office will close. Freshmen will not be allowed to change the courses elected by them the first semester, nor the hours at which these courses are taken, without special permission by the committee of freshmen advisors. This committee meets in the registrar's office from 2:30 to 4 o'clock today. y % Tom C eid1'7, TomnC ,i I.