New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1915, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL I.LOCAL NEWSPAPERS A A A PRICE ' THREE CENTS. Adies Now on gflefensive Along Greater Part of Line in France and Belgium + 'Series of German Night Attacks Easily ; Repulsed-- Russians Capture 3,000 Austrian Prisoners in Galicia ENGAGEMENTTOLD AT DINNER PARTY X Betrothal of Miss Laura M. Bigelow and to Roland H. Ripple Announced at Home of Misses Schmidt. American Tank Steamer Intercepted by Freach Warshp REPORTED TAKEN INTO BREST State Department Makes Representa- initiated in reply to the Arguments on Other Immunity Pleas to such a point along the greater of The German attack in France and Belgium, | offensive movement of the allies, has developed that allies now are on the defensive the line. The extent of the German movement is shown by today’s French statement, whichspeaks of a series of night at- tacks against' the allies along the front. These . onslaughts were not in great force, however, and the assumption is that they all were re- pulsed with ease. As to the results of recent fighting in Alsace and the Argonne, along the eastern portion of the front, there is a sharp conflict in the statements from Berlin and Paris. The German communications says further ground ¢ has been gained in the Argonne, and specifically denies that the claims of the French war office that half of the Alsatia village of Steinbach has been tions to British Government—TUn- | Robbins, | T. Presented by Edward D. official Assurances Received, Vessel | George F. Baker and DeWitt Will Be Promptly Released. Cuyler Remain to Be Heard. N8, TR B s ; i | New York, Jan. 2-—The federal | i | district court overruled today the ! pleas of immunity interposed by John | J.. Billard, James S. Elton and Wil- | lam W. Skinner to indictments | charging them with criminal viola. tion of the Sherman law in connec- tion with their acts as directors of Halifax, | received here today that the Ameri- can tank steamer Brindilla, whose ar- rest by a British cruiser and detention | | at Halifax last October, was the cause of diplomatic correspondence between Ex-Chie Filipin NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1915 —-TWELVE PAGES. ! ——_ BRINDILLA SEIZED OFF |y srrmare atonmsy | PLEAS OF IMMUNITY PR( 7 NEW BRITAIN MONDAY ’ . COAST-OF SCOTLAND .. o - OVERRULED BY COURT il |0pcn Campaign in This City Next Others to Take Part. The suffragists are in New | At a delightful dinner party given | Britain. Every other city of any - | last evening by the Misses Ruth and size in Connecticut has had a cam- P]Gafl (o I'dlflmfims | Lillian Schmidt at their home on chosen as promising soil for suffrage — an even dozen young ladies prepaganda, Armed with various | most of whom are Sunday DETAILS OF DECISION WITHHELD | scroor ‘cachers s “the staniey Miss Laura M. Bigelow to Roland H Ripple was announced. All. of -the young ladies present were personal ly identified with her in church work Pink ana vellow formed the color scheme of the interior decorations the form of artistic folders, each con- | tained a verse hinting at some be- | trothal secret. The one read by Miss | may as well admit, I've gone and answered yes.” Word was then given to open the folders and inside ap- | i -~ Week—State Organizer | Bilard, Eton and Skivner Must - H paign, and now New Britain has been Church street, which was attended by | « | Memorial church, the engagement of iriends of Mirs Bigelow and are close- and at the dinner table place cards, in Bigelow was the last and said, “I peared a miniature photograph of | pubtor captured and that the French are making a further advance there. Paris announcement asserts that some of the territory lost to the Germans in the Argonne has been regained and that three new lines of houses have been occupied in Steinbach. The German military authorities say there have been no changes in the eastern campaign, except that the German attacks on the line ‘Warsaw have made further progress. The Russian war office announced that another flicted upon the Aubtrian forces in Galicia, whose advance from the Car- pathians recently ws checked with serious consequences to them. asserted that, fortified Austrian positiour near Gorlice were destroved and that 3§000 prisoners were captured. The Russian statement says, however, that the victory was won early after a hard battle and that fighting still continues, indicating that the Austrians are still capable of offering de- termined resistance- In Poland the German attack apparently has shifted to the southward. The Russian statement mentions fighting of particular intensity at which is thirty miles south of Sochaczew, the recent center of German ac- German attacks there, as wellas in East Prussia and in the region of Mlawa, in Poland near the East Prussian border, are said to have been tivity. repulsed. Austrian warships have bombardded Belgrade, from which the Austrians were driven shortly after they had occupied it. Some damage to property was caused by the bombardment, but so far as known, no lives were lost. According to a report current in Paris, the British battleship Fotmid- England’s chief naval base. of the Formidable is believed to have been the wcrk of a German able was sunk off Portmouth. marine. Geermans Advance in Argonne and Flanders London, Jan. 2, 12:30 p. m.—The latest news available from the west- ern battle front shows that little prog ressiis being made by the allied forc- es, and rather indicates a sporadic renewal of the German offensive, with resultant slight gains .in the Ar- gonne and Trench Flanders.: These operations can hardly be classed as a general German, offensive movemsnt | in the west such as is still being con- ducted in Poland, but the stren which the 'Germans are showing seems to make it plain that they have not weakened appreciably their west- ern army by transfers of troops to the east, nor has the pressure of the allies broken their grip on Belgiun and France, from the North Sea to Metz. Gen. Joffre apparently is still avoid- ing a general attack. Ixcept Ffor their tactics of feeling out the Ger- man line by attacks here and there, ; the allies are playing a waiting game, pending the time when, with the as- | they da- at soie sistance of reinforcements, liver a concentrated blow strategic point. The Germans are still attempting 1o press forward in Poland, but to the south of the Russians have driven the Austrians further back-—more thun sixty miles in all. II is again reported that the Russians are pouring across the Carpathian mountains into Hung- ary, causing the inhabitants to flee. Driven out of Servia, the Aus nevertheless are again laying s Belgrade. According to despatche from that city, four monitors hav bombarded it. It is still exceedingly difficult to « tain any clear idea of the Turkis operations, but according to an Ath- ens despatch the sultan and his court I preparaing to leave. Constantino- fearing the early fall of that ci attack on Lgypt eris to have been abandoned indefinitely. Various reports concerning the con- dition of Emperor William's throat are again in circulation. According to one version, the emperor must soon return to Berlin to undergo an oper- ation. With the full knowledge numbers of men are = trained in England, Germany. it is recognized here, must he preparing fully to meet their entry into the war. Tt is agreed that much depends upon the quality of the mew formations on both sides. The English vast that now bheing view is that Britain's new troops will be the cream of tho rountry, while Germany, having sent n her finest forces at the outset, must lepend for reinforcements upon those | physically less fit. There are again reports of ‘he movement of German troops from the west to the east Advices from Am- sterdam state that 200,000 Germans sassed through K Cologne on the way rast, and it is suggested that they arve | Hinden- | ., deing a1t to General Von ourg preparatory to another gr lort to batter through the Ines to Warsaw. Germans Suffer Heavy Losses at Steinbach Paris, Jan French rress of crnoon, lers along 10 p statemen given seri battic The the pro- this af- encotn- of = m the w recites a the on out of line com- January { Lys was | installed ourselves on i counter attacks | effoct. ! the 'Fierce French Attacks The west of defeat has been in- Tt is Rawa, the Servian capital, The destruction sub- paratively minor importance. Ger- man attacks and counter attacks have Leen repulsed: French gains have been-retained; the artillery exchanges have been spirited, and in Steinbach, where street fighting has been going on .for several days, the French say they have occupied three new lines of : houses. The text of the communica- tion follows: | “During the night of December 31- | 1, the enemy delivered at | numerouws points along the front a | series of attacks which were repulsed with ease. The region to the mnorth of during the day of January 1, scene of a very spirited artillery sment which took place on the dunes of Nieuport and at Zonne- Leke. 2 g ‘At St. Georges“the enemy did not centinue his counter attacks, and all our gains have been retained. “In the regions of Arras, of Albert and of Roye, there have been artil- lery du The enemy blew up two | of our caissons between Beaumetz and Achicourt. Tn revenge we demolished the enem trenches at Parvillers and at LaBoisselle, and we stopped the cperations of the mine thrower set up in front of Fricourt. “Our artillery also cbtained happy results in the region of the Aisne, where it silenced the artillery of the enemy and dispersed several concen- trations of Gemman troops. We have the Plateau of Nouvron, in certain excavations caused by the explosion of mines. The Germans were not able to eithe advance or drive us out; all their were driven back “In the region of Rheims there was a fairly violent bombardment by the cnemy. “In the region of Perthes we occu- ried and rvetained a forest two kilo- 1uetres to the northeast of Mesnil-Les- Hurlus: the enemy did not deliver a counter attack. “In the Argonne, T.a. Grurie the local retirement re- ported vesterday has not had any | We have re-occupied a part of ground lost, and we are holding our positions strongly. “On the Heights of the Meuse there has been an artillery engagement, but without great severity “In the Woevre we have retained | the positions gained by us December | 20 without experiencing a counter attack from the enemy. and in the | forest of LaPretre we have made a slight advance “In the Vosges we have driven back a (ierman attack on our positions at liremenil, three kilometres northeast of Badonviller, inflicting heavy losses on the Germans. The enemy has sustained also heavy losses at Stein- 1 whe our infantry yesterday Lach, cecupied three new lines of house. | i | { the | the in the Forest of Repulsed By Germans by Wireless to London, 5 French attacks in the in- ity of Nieuport, Belgium. were re- pulsed by the Germans yesterday, ac- cording to the official statement given out today the German general headguarters st rman Argonne in and to the southwest burg, while violent attacks directed the French to the north of {he Fortress of Verdun are said to have Berlin by Successes Claimed the of are in Forest the Brules Bois Saar- by Eleventh Tage) (Continued on | gram from Captain Petersen, | mander of the Brindilla, | ondon. | nesdav the United States and Great Britain, | | resulting in the | again had been | coast of Scotland steamer’s release, intercepted off the and taken into Aberdeen. Intercepted By French. New York, Jan. —Confirmation of the Brindilla’s seizure was given to- day at the offices of the Standard Oil company here, but it was said that the ship had been intercepted by a French warship and taken to Brest, France. This information reached the company, it was stated, in a cable- com- by way of The message was transmitted from the Brindilla to London by wireless, the company said and was received two days ago. Since it mentioned seizure of the vessel by the Irench naval authorities, and Brest, as her enforced destination, the Standard Oil officials were at a loss to explain the Halifax report that the Brindilla had been taken to Aberdeen. They had today received no further information as to the fate of.the vessel they said. Protests to England. Washington, Jan. 2.—The state de- partment learned today that the steamship Brindilla after her seizure off the coast of Scotland was taken to Brest and made representations to the British government. Unofficiul assurances have been received that the vessel Will be promptly released. Tt developed today that another Standard Oil vessel, the Cushing, also was_seized by the Brifish cruisers with a cargo of oil but already has been released {TWO LOSE LIVES IN PARISH HOUSE FIRE of Greek Catholic Fastor Ghurch a Cleveland and Housekeeper Trapped by Flames. Cleveland, O Stephen Makara, St. John's Greek Catholic church, oville avenue and East 22nd street, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Fedor, were burned to death ecarly today when fire destroyed the parish house di- rectlyv at the rear of the church. Police believe the fire was of in- cerdiary origin. Mr. . Makara was found dead in his bed when firemen fihally fought their way through the flames, which had gained much ' headway ' before an alarm was turned in. The house- keeper was lying in the hallway near Mr. Makara's room, where she is be- ieved to have been overcome while hastening to arouse the priest. Mr. Makara came here from Phila- delphia two years ago. Mrs. Fedor had been his housekeeper only since Tuesday. Police today learned than on No- vember 19. Mr. Makara was assault- ed by two men and he was released from a hospital only a few days ago. These two men, according to the po- lica, beat the priest with clubs and robbed him of $147 and his citizen- ship papers. The attack took place in front of the parish honse. That the men who attacked the priest robbed him to conceal the real motive of the attack is the belief of the po- lice. After an examination of the body Coroner Byrne declared the Rev. Mr Makra died of suffacation. The police and the coroner are con- vinced, as a result of their Inves- tigation that the fire was incendi- ary. Jan. aged 42, 2.—Rev. pastor of INVITED TO GOVERNOR'S BALL. As o compliment to himself ant the veterans at the head of whom he stands, Department Comimander Fred- V. Streeter h received a vitation to attend the ! hall with his 4 rg. Metta E n Wed- cvening. reception is given by the first comrany of the Gov- Foot Guards THIRTY-FIV sullaio, curs lision between an ki train Nickel 1reig at a dell tod: The with bagged flour and estimated at $100,000 land of Conneaut, Ohio, the Nickel Plate train injured. spe- Govern- ughter- R®S BURN Thirty-five loaded by fire in a col- railroad freight Plate railroad Cross at RBlas loaded 3D, Jun were destroyed wmd a ht (rain o) cars were the as Henry Mid- conductor of was fatally MISS EMILY PTIERSON, startling exhibits, maps and banners | the | the three state organizers for Connecticut Woman Suffrage asso- ciation will, with their helpers, open headquarters next Monday at 276 Malin street. There will speaking every afternoon and evening and probably open air rallies. The meetings are all free. Miss Emily Pierson, the first state organizer, is a Vassar graduate and has also taken a degree at Columbia. She has taught for two years at the Bristol High school and has travelled extensively. She is well qualified to present the question of woman suf- frage as she has devoted the last few years to a thorough study of the sub- ject. She is a forceful speaker and has won many converts to the cause. Miss S. Isabella Sanders, who has lately come to Connecticut from Il- linois, is a real live voter, and can disprove in person the argument that voting would make women less attrac- tive, for she is unusually pretty and has 4 most pleasing presence. Miss Alyse Gregory of Norwalk is an ex- perienced spegker and presents her subject logicaly and interestingly. She is well known in the Italian quar- ters of the state, as she has addressed many audiences in Ttalidh. The suffragists are planning to spend a week in New Britain. Among those who will speak at the headquarters are Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, Miss Mary Bulk- ley and Mrs. Edward Porritt of Hart- ford. CONSULS EXEQUATURS BARRED BY GERMANY In Any Territory Occupied By Kaiser’s Forces During War. Amsterdam, Via. London, Jan. 20:5 p. m.—According to a statement cf the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a summary of which was given out today by the official press bureau in Berlin, Germany no longer considers binding the exequaturs of consuls in any territory which has Leen occupied by Germany during the war. The text of the statement follows: “The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zei- tung, explaining the status of consuls ir Belgium, concerning whose exequa- turs it intimates, there has been con- siderable misunderstanding, says that Germany has notified not only Americ but all neutrals, as well as those countries allied with that she no longer considers binding, in any hostile territory occupied by CGermany, exequaturs issued to the war. “At the same time, it is made plain that Germany is glad to meet 1egarding the admission of anywhere except where are being requests prior consuls militar) carried however, operations “Crermany only tral leanings be appointed, but Las made no request for the recall any particular consuls. “It cannot be expected.” the news- paper adds, ‘“that Germany accept hostile Belgian subjects as consuls for other countries in occupied territory This point is id to be espe Iy im- portant, 300 Belgians heretofore held posts as for allied neutral state out that she of as have or consuls SPECIAT COUNCIL MEETING. After conferring with Marwick and Councilman Dolan, May- or Quigley today decided to call a special meeting of the common coun- cil for next Wednesda thorize the transfer of $1,100 from the incidental fund to the water depart- ment for use In harvesting of tee nt Shuttle Meadow 1 crop reservolir, e = WEATHER. Hartford, ing tonight.. colder. S U A Jan. Sunday —Clear- fair and ! merce morning | be | | Judge Germany, | wishes | | equipped persons of Germanophile of neu- | | ary | ferth that | signed Alderman | | " st because the president of the | republic, night to au- | [the New York, New Haven and Hart- | ford Railroad company. Must Answer Indictments. Messrs. Elton, Skinner and Billard claimed that they were entitled to immunity because of testimony given by them before the interstate com- commission prior to the re- turn of the indictments. The court’s decision means that they will be called upon to plead to the in- dictments which include 18 ‘other well known men, all directors or for- mer directors of the road Details of the decision were not announced by the clerk of the court, William ILeary. Mr. Grubb, who denied the pleas, was at present at his home in At- lanta. The decision, Mr. Leary said, had been mailed by Judge Grubb to be entered in the court recards here. Meantime, Judge Grubb had inform- ed him that the pleas were denled. Remain to Be Heard. Arguments on other immunity pleas presented by Edward D. Robbins, a director and general counsel of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, George F. Baker and T. DeWitt Cuyler, remain to be heard. Mr. Robbins claims he is immune because he was examined by the federal grand jury which indicted Charles S. Mellen, then president of the New Haven, and Edson J. Cham- berlain and A, H. Smithers, president and chairman, respectively, of the Grand Trunk Railway company, and because he was a witness before the interstate commerce commission. Mr. aker claims immunity because he testified before the Pujo inquiry. Mr. Cuyler asserts that he is immune because he furnished the federal grand jury with the copy of the traffic agreement between the New ‘Haven and Grand Trunk companies. GERMANS BLOW UP FACTORIES IN POLAND All Available Building Materials Es- pecially Bricks, Used in Construc- tion of New Fortifications. Petrograd, via London, Jan, 2, 7:15 | a. m.—The inactivity of the Germans in neighborhood of Warsaw, for some days past, is explained, according to reports reaching here, by the claim that they have employed this time in fortifying the territory already taken up to the Bzura river and along the left bank of the lower and middle Vistula river. According to reliable reaching here, Lodz, Lowicz, Skier- niewice and Piotrkow are now as strongly fortified as Kalisz and Czen- tochowa. The Germans have attempt- ed to make this territory as difficult to invade as is German soil. Residents of West Poland who now reaching Petrograd state hundreds of factories have blown up by the Germans and all available buildings material bricks and metal, have used in the construction of the fortifications. Recent German tacks between Skierniewice and War- have their base at Lowicz and which are said to be with rallroads, telegraphs the necessary accessories of information are that been that espe- been new at- cially AW Piotrkow, and all war TN PARAGUAY. Steamer UPRISING Yassengers Aboard Mexico Confirm Tmprisonment Report. Aires, Argentina, Jan. 2. despatches received here where a revolution- movement has broken out, set the leader of the uprising Colonel Escobar, who recently re- the position of minister of var in the Paraguavan cabinet. The colonel has explained he relinquished Ruenos Further from Paraguay, Dr. Eduardo Scherer, in- cisted on the practice of economy in the army because of the warfare in Yurope Pussengers who have - arrived Formosa, Argentina, on beard the gleamner Mexico from Asunction, con- fiim the reported Imprisonment of the Jresldent. 1ie was arrested hy tains P’ereyra and Mendoza and fired in an artillery barracks, An ar tillery rogiment has taken the feld Seve encounters have occurred be tween th police and the rebels. All the regular ways of communication with Paraguay are interrupted. at Cap- | molitaire, Miss Bigelow and Mr. Ripple with Dan Cupid perched between them The announcement came as a pleasant surprise. The center of the table was adorned with a large cake in the cen- ter of which glistened Miss Bigelow's | The favors were attractive boxes of candied sweets, Later in the evening whist was enjoyed, Miss Edith now | | wholesale candy business, and is well Leary said that | Rhodes winning first prize and Miss | Rose Lyon getting the consolation. Both Mr. Ripple and his flancee are | well known among a large circie of | friends. The former is identified with | his father, Elmer W. Ripple, in the | known as the musician playing the South church chimes. le is promi- nent in the workings of Washington 1.. Morgan lodge, Knights of Phythias. | Miss Bigelow is employed as a clerk | at North & Judd's and lives with her | mother at No. 63 Dwight street, | While no definite date has been sel | it is expected that the young couple will wed in the fall. NEXCAN CONSUL GENERAL APPEALS TO AMERICAS Hanna Asks Aid for Relief of 2,000 Starving Families in Republic. Washington, Jan. 3.-—The Ameri- can Red Cross was today appealed to by Consul General Hanna at Mon- terey, Mex., for aid in relieving up- wards of 2,000 families who are suf- fering from hunger and cold in that section of the revolution-torn re- public. Consul General Hanna's message was sent to the Red Cross through the state department. In it he says the food situation is worse than in Furope, and in addition to those now needing help several thousand prob- ably will be suffering before the end of the month. “I now have five hundred families on my list in Monterey which are being furnished corn, beans and rice twice a week,” says Mr. Hanna. “There are a thousand more families who want tickets to the relief station. There probably are more than 2,000 families in Monterey who need help now, and the prospects are that sev- eral thousand will be very hungry be- fore January i past. “The Mexican authorities are inter- ested in doing what they can, but af- ter four years of war, during which the flelds have been neglected, the crops are very short and the local supply is almost exhaused “I need for Monterey and nearby towns two cars of corn each week. We need a carload of beans and rice ecach week. We wish every town in the cotton states would buy & bale of | cotton blankets and send them io Mexico, for these people have very | 1ittle clothing. It is awfully cold. The food gituation is evidently worse here | than in Europe, where big harvests | were gathered last fall.” ‘ et | ' BURNSIDE BOY IS SENATOR’S CHOICE | New Britain, Berlin and East Berlin Boyse Rank Well in Fxaminations. United Etates Senator George P Mclean has made his appointment to West Point, the lucky young man being Francis J. Achatz, of Burnside. Mr. Achatz ranked highest of the twenty-seven who took the examina- tions, having a mark of $1.51 out of a possible 100 per cent. Dwight T, Francis, of Hartford, as named as the first alternate, and Willlam H Dunham, of New TLondon is the recond alternate These young men were second and third in rank re- spectively, their averages being 87.09 end 86.87 per cent. Two New Britain boys took the examinations. They were Sidney A. Montague, who ranked thirteenth, with an average of 74,46, and Edwin R. Curran, who was fourteenth with an average of 78.06 Jesse R. Penfleld fifteenth, with = Arthur R. Benson youth, was eighteenth, his average being 61.96 | 1t, tor any reason, @6 appointes| Adnes not accept the appointment of Berlin of ranked 1.7, and Kast Berlin mark an We D Desire lates I Washi terms Yol told the the Filip capable posed in for grea ment fo Vo me calculate Philippin “The stand re the se: former g look on pines a weakn } Mr. ion J Philipp ‘T ferred very p my op Formo that di Neiths velt or ing ovel to the cated u sald. that course, confidi positio Wh promi ixlands, time wi “The without country course Mr. tailed of the ward tl as govi later dent, to the | told hi not to . me t and t jdea t just a8 purpose. “Thik presiden on Whi ment, from 1t States."” Q Here Presidep either the first or second alternate in turn will get the apportunity. { (Co