Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1914, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and much colder Tuesday. cold wave fall to about 15 degre hours: High, 38 at 10 p.m. yesterc tonight and temperature will ‘Temperature for the past’ twenty-four 7 a.m. today For full report see Page 17. ow, 33 Che Yenin About every one in Washing- ton who reads at all reads The Star. CLOSING NEW YORK STOCK QUOTATIONS PAGE 17 ——a No. 19,801. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1914.-TWENTY PAGES. ** =] LEGISLATIVE BILL, WITH DEEP CUTS, REPORTED TODAY Measure Reaches House Car- | rying Total Appropriation of $38,744.733.50. CLERICAL FORCES ARE REDUCED TO MINIMUM | Estimates in All Directions Are Slashed, Carrying Economy in Every Department. PROVISION MADE FOR CENSUS| Thousand Extra Temporary Positions Created for Taking of Agricultural Statistics—Congressional Mileage Reduced. ——$—$—$—_—__—_———_ |POINTS IN LEGISLATIVE BILL; executive and ju- | reported scistative, | dicta! appropri | today carries $35, | lixhes a net total of IST spe- ° aniaries. Provides 1,000 temporary posi- tions in the new agricultural cen- Carries no salary increases of | | any sort. essional mileage down to the ed need: ying the into every nook and/ vernment’s administra- the legisiative, ex- al fo’ . slashing out estim direction, and corner of the tive establishment, ecutive and judicial appropriation bil for the fiseal year ending June 20, 1916, was reported to the House ‘today from HE CONSPIRACY AND CRIME OF 1902 The Johnson-Prouty Discovery of a Plot to Swindle Uncle Sam. TAX-REDUCTION PLOT i SWELLS TAX-BURVENS Peculiar and Paradoxical Tax-Dodg- ing Which Increases Assessment on Realty $32,000,000 and on Personaity 50 Per Cent. | about Dis-} Misstatements the trict are so common in the course of the discussion of local af in the House of Represeniativ that it is idle to attempt to cor- tect all. Yet some of them re- quire direct re bear importantly upon the issues at stake, which affect the weliare of the District vitall For ex- ample, in opening the debate on the District. appropriation bill st Thursday. before Representa- | tive Johnson had introduced his} amendment abrogating the half- and-half principle of the organic act. Representative Prouty said, in connection with his assertion that the District is under-taxed: ct wan enacted ilinr with that When the organic 2 all of you who are f: will remember a committee spent nearly four years in inve: ting the question of relations between the fed- eral ernment and the District of Columbia, They considered very care- fully the question as to what wax a fair rate of taxation to be put upon these people. The distinguished sena- tor from lowa, Mr. Allison, was chair- man of that committee, and after mak- ing an examination of the tax rate In cities of the United States they found » 15-mill tax, or $1.50 a hundred, was a rensonable and average tax, and, there- reanic act it was fixed at or $1.50 on the actual value. That continu twenty-two years, but in 1902, the appropriatiot mittee, with «| whem they found that they were zet Catabae eee This ts less than| tim more revenues than were neces- ar A ener ec en aco, and |"@y for the District's half, some fan— the ‘current act by #1 43-30, and} ¢, got hold of members of Con- less than the estimates for the field T have never been able to covered in the bill by $1,982,784.77, but the total of the bill carries in it an item of $2,286,100 the census of agriculture which never has been car- ried before and which cannot be used in a comparison of this year’s bill against the existing governmental es- tablishment. So the bill is in reality $3,415,043.80 smaller for the legislative, executive and judicial machinery than 4g the current act. The appropriation for the agricultural gensus is in itself $817,400 less than estimated by Secretary Re@fleld of the Department of ¢ ree, but carries 1,000 extra tempor rical positio’ which will run for two years and off- set the net reduction of 187 specifi salaries in government positions. The for 3,000 positions, however, are not placed under the classified list of the civil service. The chief clerical reductions occur in the Post Office Department, where the net reduction is eighty-one employes; in the pension office, where the reduction is eighty-eight, und in the treasurer's office, where the reduction is twenty- six employes. In the hearings on tie 1, Postmaster General Burleson ex- plained that transfers and reorganiza- tions had been made and others would | ortly follow. Many of the places} pot provided for have already become | Vv t and will not be filled. Would Reduce Mileage Allowance. Th ew legislation in the bill is in- consid ab compared to some of the! ations proposed in ous meas- but foremost in interest is the! ttempt to make a change in| lleage for members of Congre: The bill new seeks to reduce the « 4 mile perquisite to 5 cents a mile. Current law is still 20 cents 4 © the earnest endeavor on| committ actual expe aph authori aber to lease modern tire proof building in Wash r five] ars at $20,000 a yeur. The office of| uperintendent of the building of the congressional librarian following the death of cumbent, and the libra after perforin those duti function of disbursing officer. A dis- bursing clerk, who shall be assistant! superintendent of the building, is au- thorized for the lfbrary, with a salary of $2,500 a year. ‘The bill is the result of the work by abolished, former in will here except the a subcommittee composed of Repre: sentative Johnson of S Carolina, chairman, and Repres ves Byrns,} Bor-| Tennessee: Kinkead. N Ider, land, Missouri; Good, Iowa, x New York. It covers 1 of the government force i from the White House ¢ change in salary and pos in the comprehensive report bill, prepared und: i on is noted on the ction of James C. Courts, cle Marcellus Shield, assistant clerk to the appropri tions committee of the House. The report follow Bill Carries $38,744,733.50. “The estimates on which the bill 1 518 census of all to o0 for 3 the mount in for! made the! 5 for | ccompany- | , which | in defi- nets for £ the public ac a ed for in surn includes $216,960 ¢ other appr vried 5 for va u the , and is the to th estim: uct for 1 erewith appro- provides for 6,100 and & census ure: federal for ndry civil Of agriculture. “Census of Agricults tion 31 of the act of Ju for the thirteenth Under 1909, pro- it is r nd once every Sus of agri- M be taken; estimates. reg | the Depart- viding: by ment of cree, t is recom mended in the accompanying bill the | sum of $ 100, including provision for the pi ut" specifically of 1,600 temporary employments. AS this ‘ex- penditure is net an annual one, and |The Star last which they reduce the ¢ District rather than reduce the part that was contributed by the United States, and they said, rather than be ansexxed at its full value, it should be axsessed at only one-third value. So that real estate in the city of Washington and the Dis- trict of Columbia ix now only paying 10 milis on the actual value, while in your city, and your city it is 20 mills and more.” Th is in substance a repeti- tion of a charge brought last spring by Representative Johnson when the half-and-half issue was again before the House. The in- timation was then made that the islation of 1902 was the re- f a corrupt conspiracy be- tween the tax-dodgers of Wash- ington and a Congress of criminal proclivities to reduce the local tax revenues in order to swindle Uncle Sam into unnecessarily continuing the half-and-half ar- rangement. Mr. Prouty states it in different language and repeats in this connection his amazing | declaration that the real property in the District is now assessed at only one-third of its actual value. That none of these charges true is well established by the records. That they were all un- true was specifically set forth in spring when the District was fighting what it was ‘hoped was a decisive battle for its financial lif It becomes neces- sary to meet them again, and to this end is reprinted herewith, in part, an article published March 21 in The Star dealing with the tax legislation of 1g02 and the s and tax- ubject of tax-dodging boosting : Discovering a Mare’s Nest. The legislation of 190: down rates und did not nues. There was no the tx Ss in that ¥ the people of the inuance of contribution. mum rate of 3 intended to lower the not lower it; wa se the local t decrease it mination of s prior to J luation ¥ did not cut; educe rev. conspiracy to} nd reduce local n order to swin- United States into The of a mini- sment was x rate and not intended to tax tevenue and Ity ass: . When the nom 1s Moditi Sessor t be less t with full v: tation on t hould ne figures since 1902 Assessments of Land and In ye= Is7 to 191 tion two-thire € this as- 1 3 2 2 6 4 s 426, 1s 5.495 4 774 771 AST The tax-dodging malefactors who (as [vote of 187 to 100, rence, for they} jeuddy, “Me A | Moon. sary one-half |S assessment | ; should not p: 4! manner as followed by VOTES TO SET ASIDE -ORGANIG ACT OF 78 | House Adopts the Johnson, | Amendment to District Ap- | propriation Bill. | HALF-AND-HALF SYSTEM ANNULLED BY MAJORITY | |Measure as Amended Then Passed | Without Roll Call—Now Gees to Senate. The i trict jhait tion of i nt to Ui annulling the propria organic act by the House of | by 2 roll eall | with four members The appropriation bill itself passed a moment Inter without } a roll call. The amendment dues away with the compact entered into by the Johnso: nendin appropriation bill anid ? principle us established by of the epre utives: voting present United States and the District of © whereby the United half the cost of €oi National Capital. amendment provides that the United States 1 shall contribute to the District's support only such amounts as may be determined upon from year to year by ¢ but in no se shall the ‘Treasury contribute as much as one-half of the total expen! The passage of the Johnson amend- ment was without any particular excite- ment on the floor of the House today Only a few pages of the District bill re- mained to be read when the House as- sembled at noon. The reading clerk read these items at | top speed, and the only interruption | was the offering of a tectnical amend ment by Representative Page of North | Carolina, in charge of the bill. The} membership of the House was scanty and little interest was taken in tue reading. Brief Time for Consideration. | So far the bill had been in committee of the whole and was perfected under that parliamentary form In less than twenty-five minutes. When the committe yse and Speak- er Clark took the gavel, Representative Jounson of Kentucky, author of the menament, and Minority Leader Mann kea for parate rol call on the propesed provision to t down the principle under which the nation’s cap- ital has grown in beauty and impo: tance in the last third of a century. While the roll call did not disclose a strict party division, the bulk of the 187 votes in faver of the umendment came from the democratic side. A few democrats voted against it, and a re- publican voted for it. Several of the strongest friends of the District did not vote, as they are members of the funerii escort which took the body of the ikte Represen tive Payre to Auburn, Y. Among these is Representative Cooper of Wi: consin, author of a resolution estab- lishing a commission to inquire into the fiseal relations between the District and tne United States before any ruth- less action should be taken. Representative Underwood, who had expressed himself in favor ‘of a com- mission of this kind, did not vote. The bill now goes to the Senate, car- rying a total appropriation of $11,310,- 048. The only change made in’ the amount under the various items was the addition of $10,000 to the lump sum for the public utilities commission. Voting for the Amendment. Those voting for the Johnson amend- ment were: Representatives Aber- crombie, Adair, Adamson, Aiken, Allen, Anderson, shbrook, Aswell, Builey, Barkley, Barnhardt, Bartlet* Bathrick, Bell of California, Bell of Georgia, Booher, Borchers, Borland, Brockson, Braumbaugh, Buchanan, — Bulkle: Burke of — Wisconsin, Burnett, Byrnes of South Carolina, Byrn of Tennessee, € Candler, Tan- | trill, Carawa rter, Case: Church, Clark of Collies, ‘Conueu Cox, Crampton, Crisp, Crosser, Cullo} Decker, Dickinson, Dies, Jitenaesies Donov Doolittle, Douxt ton, > , Kergu- z Flood, Garne: odwin, joulden, Green of ding, Harris, Harrison, Haug den,” Heflin; Helin, Helvering, . Hensley, Hol. land, Housto ard, 1foxworth, Hughes of G Hulings, Hull, Igoe, Jacoway, Johnson’ of Kentuck son of South Carolina, Keati of Pennsylvan: Kennedy of Connecti- cut, Kettner, Kindel, Kirkpatrick, Kitchin, La’ Follette, Lazare. 1 nroot, Lesher, ' Lever, Lieb, Linbergh, Linthicum; Lobeck, Lonergan, McAndrews, McGiili- ellar, MeDoni Macguire o! ‘ebraska, Manahan, M Mitche &. Morgan of la.; Mcrgan of Okla.; Page of North Caro Palmer, Park, | Peterson, Phelan, Quin, Rauch, Raybur1 Rouse, Rubey, Rucker, Ri Saunders, Sinnott ed, bath, sherwood, , Stan of California, ppl, Stephe Stout, Sum. ‘or of Ar- Thomas, Townsend, inson, Vol Wha Tutt Waike Wingo, ot North White, | Young | Texas, Dakotu, Young of To Tax C. & O. Canal. Kaiser’s Field Mars merc better. nents,” he said. lish fight with utter contempt for death, but we are gradually winning ground and are convinced that some day the enemy's resistance will be broken. war for yea satel aii Mi H i Hi FIND THE Sq FURNACE \\ FIRE ALL Dy { aE, MOVE BY THE ALLIES AGAINST GERMAN LINES IS BELIEVED AT HAND Battles in Poland Continue, But West- ern Theater of War Claims Attention of Experts. LONDON, December 14, 1:30 p.m.—Little or no change has been reported on the western battle front, and in the east Russia and Germany continue to fight a seemingly endless battle for the control of western Poland. English and French newspapers unite in declaring that the time is drawing near for the much-discussed general advance of the allies through France and Belgium, and some unofficial reports say this move is about to be undertaken, if it has not actually begun. Prog- ress necessarily would be inch by inch, and even the most optimistic of the British observers, assuming that a general forward movement of the allies is to be essayed, concede that it would be spring before any appreciable eastern progress could be made. Big Guns Alone Active. Russian troops on the right of the Vis- WAITING FOR DAD. GERMANY CAN FIGHT FOR YEARS, DECLARES BARON VON DER GOLTZ hal, Who Was Reported to Have At- = Reverses for Turkey at the hands of* Russia on land and of England on the sea were chroni- WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. | jpulsed two counterattacks. jroads. |French soldiers working in the mud to ___ |tula river would be. fr 0 se The French official statement, given | crossing and endanger the aie out in Paris this afternoon, reports |the left wing ‘of the Gerinah uray the region of Lodz. comparative quiet in Flanders, and ar- tillery exchanges of relatively minor mportance elsewhere. In the Meuse German batterles are said to be moving to the north. In the Woevre district the French captured a trench and re- The ad- vance of the French line into Alsace has brought it to a point north of Alt- kirch, and about ten miles to the east of the frontier. A dispatch to the Times from Bou- logne says that one of the greatest ob- stacles to the advance of the allied forces in Belgium and northern France is the extremely bad condition of the The efforts of an army of It is said bere that the Russia: . i ns wil eee able to straighten their entire ront, running to the Mazurian lakes REPORTS THE SAFETY OF CRUISER DRESDEN VALPARISO, Chile, December 14.—Dispatches received here from Punta Arenas declare that the German cruiser Dresden has come into that port uninjured. BUENOS AIRES, December 14.—The Argentine government has received word that the German cruiser Dresden has arrived at Punta Arenas, on the their knees to repair them during the past week having proved futile, it has been decided to remake the roads. Orders have been sent to England for 1,000 tons of spades, picks and wheel- barrows. The surface of the roads will be formed of timbers, similar te railroad ties. tempted Suicide, Praises Belgians for Their Heroic Defense of Fatherland. BERLIN, via The Hague and London, December 14, | spondent of the Tageblatt at Sofia, Bul- &: with Field Marshal Baron von der Goltz while the stantinople. Regarding Belgium, Baron von der Goltz said: 10:20 a.m..—The ew hi ria, telegraphs un inter ter was on his way to corre- had €on- “The situation is normal, the popula- tion having convinced themselves that the Germans are not barbarians. continues as if in peace time, and com- and transportation are getting Life “The Belgians fought bravely for their fatherland. Such opponents should be esteemed.” Answering questions regarding the war situation in the west, the field mar- shal pointed out that an army of mil- lions of German soldiers was in the French provinces were occupied. enemy's country, and that the richest “We don’t underestimate our oppo- “The French and Question of Endurance. Eng- “Germany is prepared to wage the rs, and the side which is able to stand the most and has the best The en- German ar- ulti- discipline 1s bound to win. thusiasm and morale of the soldier, fostered by good supply rangements, we are sure, will mately make us victorious. situation i von der Goltz the Russian offensive lure, but that hard fight- was still in prospect. ‘But the German rmy,” he added, ‘which was victorious ewrlicr against superior numbers is bound to be so in the future.” Fleld Marshal von der Goltz said in conclusion that he was convinced that the Turkish army had greatly profited by its hard work during the last few years and would make a good record. Von der Goltz in Constantinople. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 14, via London.—Field Marshal Baron von der Goltz, until recently governor of the territory in Belgium occupied by the Germans, arrived in Constantinople Saturday night. He was accompanied by the German military attaches sta- tioned at Bucharest, Roumania, and Sofla, Bulgaria. The Turkish heir apparent was at the railway station to receive the field marshal, who some years azo reorgan- ized the Turkish army, and, in a of welcome, presented to him : ration which the sultan had conferred on the baron. th TURKISH BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED BY DARING BRITISH SUBMARINE LONDON, December 14, 11:25 a.m.— A communication issued by the official bureau today announces that the Turk- ish battleship Messudieh has been tor- pedoed by @ British submarine. ‘The official bureau's statement is as follows: “Yesterday submarine B-11, in charge of Lieut. Commander Norman B. Hol- breck, of the royal navy, entered the Dardanelles and in spite of the diffi- cult current dived under five rows of fields. Although mines and torpedoed the Turkish Mes- sudieh, which was guarding the mine pursued by gunfire and torpedo boats the B-11 returned on, for nine hours. ce: atter being submerged, on one “When last seen the Messudieh was sinking by the stern.” The Messudich was a very old boat, having been built at Blackwall, Eng- iand, in 1874, Genoa in 1903. and reconstructed at She was 332 feet long, fifty-nine feet beam and of about 10,vv0 Representative Johnson of Kentucky succeeded on Saturday in getting into the bill his amendment to tax the prop- jerty of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal within the District of Columbia. ~ He told the House the canal had not been taxed in ninety-one years, inasmuch a [it had succeeded in getting. from Con- gress a ch by which the property taxes. The amendment to nullity gression rely returns a this con- 1 charter was simple, stating t the property should make pay taxes in the same others. Mr. Jol said the company ow: exl estate in the District worth $150 060, and he ulso said the Baltimore 2 Ohio Railroad Company, owns 5 cent of the stock. Against the Amendment. | Those who voted against the amend- ment were us follows: Alexander, Anthony, Austin, Barehfeld, Bartholdt, Beakes, Blackman, Broussard, Brown- |ing, Bryan, Butler, Campbell, Carlin, Clancy, Copley, Curry, Danforth, Davis, Deitrick, Dent, Dillon, th per monds. Asch, Falcon Continued on Thirteenth Page) (Continued on Second Page.) ra nt THE DAY IN CONGRESS. Senate: Met at noon. Independent coal operators con- tinued their complaint of rate discrimination in southern terri- tory before a subcommittee. Hearings were continued on the land-leasing water-power site bill. The Philippine committee began hearings on the bill for ultimate independence of the islands. Houses Met at noon. Secretary Daniels resumed his testimony before the neval com- mittee. The legislative, executive and judicial and postal appropriation bills Were brought in. The District appropriation bill with the Johnson the was passed, mendment knocking out and-half” principle ‘tons burden. She had a speed of 17% knots and her main battery consisted of two 9.2 inch guns in turrets and twelve 6-inch guns in battery. In the var with Greece in 1912 the Messudieh ‘as reported badly damaged in a naval battle in the Dardanelles. She car- ried a crew of 600 men. BRUSSELS IS TO PAY HUGE WAR INDEMNITY AMSTERDAM, via London, December 14.—A Berlin dispatch says that Brus- sels and suburbs have decided to pay the war levy of 45,000,000 marks ($11,- 250,000) imposed by Germany, by means of special taxes payable up to June 15, 1 ‘or the payment of the remaining 000,000 marks ($6,250,000) of the first war contribution, arrangements 1 been reached with a group of banks whereby this obligation met in ten installments. Belgian vill be Would Commemorate Address. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts to- day introduced a joint resolution in the Senate providing that the committees on rules of the Senate and House be authorized and instructed to arrang for a suitable commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the second in- augural address of Abraham Lincoln at Washington, March 4, 1915. Pictorial War Extra Many persons were un- able to obtain The Star's last Midweek War Pictorial on account of the bad weather. Copies may be had at The Star office by those who were disappointed. If your newsdealer sold out he can obtain a copy for you. ; {man column which was attempt- cled in today’s official war dis- patches. Russian army head- quarters in the Caucasus reports that the Turks have now been re- pulsed everywhere, and are being pursued beyond the Euphrates river, suffering heavy losses. The British adrhiralty announces that the old Turkish battleship Mes- sudieh, which carried 600 men, has been destroyed by a British submarine. To accomplish the feat the submarine penetrated the supposedly impregnable Darda- nelles. ? Vigorous thrusts at the German line in France were made again yesterday by the allies, but the reports of successess in today’s official statement from Paris are not borne out by the Berlin com- munication. The French war of- fice states that German positions along the Aisne were demolished, |that in the Woevre district a line lof trenches 500 yards long was |captured and that further prog- [ress was. made in the Argonne ‘and in Alsace. The German an- |nouncement says that nothing of jimportance has occurred in the | west, with the exception of a few French attacks along the Meuse and in the Vosges, which were repulsed easily. There have been no important. ;changes in the east, according to the German statement. Dis- | patches from Petrograd, however, assert that the Russians have \definitely thrown back the Ger- ing to strike at Warsaw from the north and that as a result the position of the Russians all along their front has been improved. The French war office an- |nounces that in Servia further | successes have been won against the Austrians, and that in the Montenegrin campaign, which has been almost lost sight of re- cently, the Austrians have suf- fered a reverse. The German cruiser Dresden, sole survivor of the sea fight in the south Atlantic December 8 in which four German vessels were sunk, is reported to have reached Punta Arenas, on the Straits of Magellan, without in- Civilians Fire on Germans. Correspondents in northern France, who anticipate a general advance by the al- lies shortly, point out that the situation is fraught with the greatest danger to the civilian population of the towns oc- cupied by the Germaus. The sympathies the correspondents think, ud them to attempt to as- thereby compelling the Germans to take severe measures for their self-protection. Such a situation, in fact, arose around Roulers last week, according to the cor- respondent of the Daily Express, who says: “When the allies attacked Koulers the Germans learned that civilians were aiding the allies by messages and signals, whereupon they warned the inhabitants that the town would be destroyed and every inhabitant killed unless neutrality was maintained. Houlers was evacuated too hastily to enable the Germans to carry out their threats, although the populace, openly hostile, began shooting at the retreating Germans from cellars and killed straggling “ermans with pitch- forks and other weapons.” No Let-Up in Battles. The battles in Poland continue al- most without intermission, and while both Russians and Germans announce successes, and the capture of prisoners and guns, apparently no decisive result has been reached in any series of con- tests. The Germans are still deliver- ing heavy blows at the Russian center, where, they assert, they took 11,000 prisoners and forty machine guns; while to the south of Cracow, where the Russians are on the offens Grand Duke Nicholas records the ture of 4,000 prisoners, four guns and seven machine guns. ‘Another Russian force is holding the passes of the Carpathians and is thus preventing the Austrians from sending relief to their army in Galicia. There is no news of the German troops who are advancing south of Mlawa, with the object of attempting to turn the Russian right, since Petrograd report- ed a partial success over them. Bulgaria, according to a Paris report, has expressed to the powers of the triple entente her desire to remain neutral. This means that Roumania, if she so wished, would be able to join the allies without fear of being at- tacked by Bulgaria. Thrilled by Naval Feat. The feat of Lieutenant Commander Holbrook in diving under five rows of mines in the Dardanelles and torpedo- ing the Turkish battleship Messudieh is described here as perhaps the bold- est marine exploit of the war. The sub- marine presumably was not scratched. She escaped gunfire and the pursuit of torpedo boats in a manner truly re- markable, and it was necessary for her crew to endure the ordeal of remaining under water for nine hours on a stretch. Russian guns have from time to time inflicted some damage on Turkish war- ships bombarding Russian ports, but the disaster reported today robs the porte of its frst big ship. The loss of life is not estimated in the brief an- nouncement of the episode given out by the British admiralty, but if the Messudieh was manned as other Turk- ish ships have been, then there were a number of German officers on board. Decisive Victory Claimed. PETROGRAD, December 14, via Lon- don, 2:20 p.m—Reports reaching here today from the front state that the operations of Russian forces north of Warsaw, partial success of which was announced last week, have now re- sulted in a decisive victory. after hav- ing pierced the German front beyond Ciechanow and Przasnysz. The Rus- sian success on this front, according to these advice;, has been clinched by a wide swinging movement of the ad- vancing Russian left on the main high- way from Plock to Mlawa, concludine in heavy cavairy engagement at Ju- rominetna, seven miles southeast of Russian successes of this nature would! nave three important vesulte—the im- medi-te pressure north of Warsaw relieved and the German be threat 1 ! jury. mst t 4 lines leading the city would be answered; east from > Strait of Magellan. A dispatch from Puerto Gallegos says that a vessel has been sighted near there surrounded by English ships. The dispatch indicated that this ves- sel probably was a German, and said that in appearance she resembled the Nurnberg. The Nurnberg however, was reported by Vice Admiral Sturdee to Lave been sunk by the British squadron. A later dispatch received from Puer- to Gallegos sald the vessel had tisap- peared and that it was believed she had sunk. The location of the German cruiser Dresden at Punta Arenas, on the Strait of Magellan, clears up all doubt as to the whereabouts of the last of the Ger- man warships that encountered the British squadron December 8 off the Falsland Islands. The Gneisenau, the Scharnhorst, the Leipzig and the Nurnberg were sunk; the Dresden escaped, and has been prr- sued by British warships. Her pres- ence at Punta Arenas means that she was either endeavoring to reach the Pacitic again or that she contemplates interning for the remainder of the war. Punta Arenas is a Chilean port. The Strait of Magellan is narrow. British warships doubtless are at its Atlantic entrance, and Japanese cruisers are said to be either watching or not far from the approach on the Pacific side. RUSSIANS CAPTURE SON OF GERMAN CHANCELLOR PARIS, December 14.—Reports reach- ing here today from Bern state that @ son of the German chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, has been injured seriously at Piotrkow, Russian Poland, and that he has been captured by the Russians. ITALY CALLS ON PORTE TO MAKE AN APOLOGY ROME, December 14.—Italy has reit- erated her urgent demand for satisfac- tion to the sublime porte for the forci ble removal of G. A. Richardson, the British consul at Hodeida, from the Italtan consulate, where he had taken refuge, and for his immediate Mbera- tion. It is understood that Germany has advised the Constantinople government to satisfy Italy's demand and thus avold complications. Richardson is place@ aboard a vessel bound for ai unknown port. WANTS EUROPEAN WAR TO BRING DISARMAMENT ROME, December 14.—Senator Mo- randi has presented in the senate a resolution in which he says that peace would probably be even more disas- trous than the present awful conflict if it obliged Europe to provide new ‘and excessive armaments, as this would mean ruin to the economic forces and thus would be a grave danger to social order and civil progress. The senator says that armaments lead to the cataclysm which they are intended to avert. His resolution urges the government to use all its influences to avoid future armaments. TRAVELOGUE COUPON THIS COUPON AND 10 CENTS WILL ADMIT YOU TO THE Star-Roberson Travelogue, “BEAUTIFUL AMERICA.” Tonight—8:15.