New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1915, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS Ey | NEW BRITAIN HERALDN PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, _]ANUARY 8, 1915 HSIXTEEN PAGEDb>. “Allies Capture Another Town in Alsace; Fighting Resumed on Servian Front Vtenna Admits Russian Sweep Across| (s by bitish Press Burcal. Bukowina-- Germans Claim Advance in Poland is Still in Progress. Capture of another town in ported by the French war office in its statement of today. communication neither affirms nor denies the report, in progress for possession . fighting is still Alsace, to the south of Sennheim, is re- The German saying merely that It is stated, of the town. ‘however, that repeated French attacks in Alsace broke down under the German artillery fire. In a few other sharp fighting is in progress, munication mentions an engagement Wwhere it is said that the advance is still 1 clashes of great masses of troops during the earlier part of the war have no parallels now along the Warsaw {ront. mans and Russians have dug themselves into the ground and are aking up the tedious operations of warfare in the trenches. report to the American note concerning Great Britain’s .preliminary British interferences with American bassador Page, Constantinople, of the war, 1Sofia, Bulgaria, gives well as attacks from without, It is asserted that preparations Jeity the archives who forwarded it to Washington. regarded by the allies as one of the greatest prizes should they win and Tur key abandoned soon as the seat of the Turkish government. in circumstantial . conditions at Constantinople, where it is said that internal disorders, as apparently are feared. ‘have been made to remove from the of state and treasury, localities between the North sea and Switzerland in which each side has scored’ its min.r wvictories, but over most of the line there is little activity. The armies in the east are similarly inactive. The German com- east of the Rawka river, in Poland, in progress, but the spectacular There, as in the west, the Ger- shipping was delivered today to Am- be forced to give it up, may be A despatch from detail an account of unsettled should the necessity arise, and “that at Adrianople arrangements are under way to receive the government afficials. if . passed, would give easy access to An Anglo-French fleet is hammering at the Dardanelles, which, Constantinople. East of the city on the Russo-Turkish frontier, Russian forces, which are said to have defeat- ed the Turks, are seeking to peneirate Asiatic Turkey in the direction of Constantinople, The Russian sweep across Bukowina, Austria's northeastern province, .and through Galicia to the Carpathians, have been driven back, is admitted Vienna. “troops was made necessary by the numerical " forces. Fighting has been resumed on the Servian front. Belgrade was attacked by island near ial which occupied an cording to an offic comparatively small scale, and there is no templates another attack in force on Russians Continue to Pursue Turkish Forces London, Jan. 8, 12.40 p. m.—Aside from the continued Russian pursuit of the Turkish forces defeated in the Caucusus and the continuation of the Russian advance through the passes ' of the Carpathian mountains, siege warfare with integmittent artillery duels seems for the moment to pre- vail almost everywhere in arena of hostilities, in the eastern arema as well as in the western. The reports reaching London show that General Von Hindenburg, the S,(_4ermsm commander in Poland, for some time past has made no apprec jable progress toward Warsaw, the 3gnud of Poland evidently having done _for him what the broken dikes and “the resultant inundations did for the Germans in West Flanders. A de- —~_spatch coming to London from Copen- hagen declares that Von Hindenburg Is expecting heavy reinforcements and that with an army of one million men he purposes to make one more su- preme effort to break through to the Polish capital. The Russians would appear to have had ample time to reinforce themselves and to strengthen their positions around Warsaw, and it is the opinion of Brit- ish observers that the trench warfare for which the western theater of the war has become famous will be waged in the region of the Polish rivers. Austria-Hungary again admits the retirement of her forces in Bukowina, and it is from this Russian movement before which the Austrians are giving way that most spectacular development of the next fortnight may be expected to spring according to the opinion held today by some British observers of the war. . The ar- o gument is made that once Russia gets | a good foothold beyond the Mountain passes, something that may be ac complished in a fortnight if the Rus- sians meanwhile are not checked, a big stride toward the overrunning of Hungary would have been made. If this is accomplished it will he the first considerable invasion of any ter- Titory of the Teutonic allies. Both British and French new papers continue today to agitate the alleged arrest by the German author- ities in Belgium of Cardinal Mercier. The Germans have been quick to deny that the cardinal has in any way been detained. The TLondon * papers, nevertheless, still give great prominence to the incident and pub- lish the pastoral letter of the cardi- nal which was said to have given of- fense to the Germans, appending it to comments gathered far and wide from prominent clergymen and others. They also cast doubt on the German #. denial, and declare that it wlll require ¥ a statement from the cardinal him- self to clear up the matter. Some Infantry Advances Claimed By French Paris, Jan. 8, 2:40 p. m.—The ex- i tended French official report given out in Paris this afternoon shows the weustomary artillery activity all along the line from the sea to Alsace and s8ys that the French guns are gaining - The Austrian military auth orities say statement from Nish, forward | against which the Austrians in an official statement today from that the retreat of their superiority of the Russian An Austrian force Servians, ac- The hostilities were on indication that Austria con- Servia at this time. the advantage. The French claim some infantry advances. Near Rheims they moved forward 200 yards, and elsewhere fifty yards. At another point they retired fifty yards. Re- ferring to the situation in Alsace, the report claims favorable devolopments. The text of the communication fol- lows: “‘The artillery of the enemy showed, during all the day of Jan. 7, great ac- tivity in Belgium and in the vicinity of Arras. The French artillery re- sponded spiritedly and officaciously. “Our infantry made some progress near Lombaertzyde. We occupied at a point fifty yards in advance of our trenches a hillock which had been held by the enemy. To the east of St. Georges we gained ground, and we inflicted serious damage on the trenches of the enemy in the vicinity of Steenstraate. “In the sector of Arras, at the For- est of Rerthonval, without being at- tacked we were compelled to evacuate certain trenches where our men were up to their shouldersin sand and wat er. To the left of Boisselle our line of trenches has been moved forward, and ye occupied the road from Bois- selle to Aveluy. “In the valley of the Aisne the ar- tillery exchanges yesterday were quite spirited. Our heavy artillery secured good results near Blanc Sab- lon. At this point the mine throwers of the enemy inflicted losses on us, but in the afternoon we checked this fire from the Germans. “In the sector of Rheims, to the west of the Forest Des Zouaves, we blew up a block house and occupied a new trench 200 yeards in advance of our lines. “The artillery engagement between .Betheny and Prunay was conducted vesterday with great fierceness. ‘“The Germans left many dead on the field; our losses were not heavy. Between Jonchery_Sur-Suippe and Souain, we time and again reduced to silence the artillery of the enemy, demolished his trenches and destroy- ed his breastworks. “In the Argonne, Haute Chevauchee, the means of a mine, blew our first line trenches which were completely demolished. A violent at- tack undertaken at once by the enemy on our position, was repulsed with the bayonet. We took some prison- ers and we maintained our front ex- cept for a distance of 80 yvards. Here the demolition of the trenches obliged us to establish our line 20 vards fur- ther back, “On the Heights of the Meuse and between the Meuse and the Moselle there is nothing to report. Here the wind blew a tempest all day long Jan- | nary 7. “Our offensive continued yesterday in the region of Thann and near Alt- kirch and brought important results. We recccupied the trenches on the eastern flank of ‘Hill 425, a position where the enemy two days ago suc- ceeded in re-establishing himself.- We then gained some ground to the east of these trenches. Further to the south we occupied Burnhaupt-Le. Haut, and at the same time we made progress in the direction of Pont- D’Ashach and the Khalberg, “The artillery of the enemy, had endeavored without reach our batteries, gave over ing at our artillery in favor exclusive bombardment of the to the west of enemy by up some of which success to shoot- of the hospi- (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) (GERMANS MALTREATED PRIESTS IN BELGIUM Detailed Alicgations of Outrages CLERGY EITHER SHOT OR HANGED Churches and Religious Houses De- stroyed or Profaned in Almost Every Village and in Many Towns Where Kaiser’s Troops Passed. London, Jan. 8, 11:26 A. M.—At the request of the Belgian legation in London the British press bureau today issued detailed allegations.of the mal- treatment of Catholic clergy in Bel- gium and the destruction of their in- stitutions by German troops. This statement says that churches and religious houses were destroyed or profaned in almost every village and in many towns where the Ger- man troops passed. In most cases the edifices were utilized as stables and prisons, and when not placed in safe hiding the sacred vessels were stolen. The statement makes the declara- tion that members of the clergy have been exposed to special indignities at the hands of German soldiers. Shot or Hanged. In the dioceses of Liege, Namur, Malines and Ghent many priests and others connected with the churches were either shot or hanged. Many other priests were carried off to Ger- many, -where they appear to have been “subjected to abominable usage.” The following specific instances are given in the statement of the press bureau: ‘“August 21—The priest of Duechen, Spanish priest, among a group of seventy civilians, were dragged about from place to place all day and mo- lested, insulted and threatened with military execution. They were taken to the church at Campenhout and shut up for the night. Tortured and Shot. “August 21—The priest of Duechen, an invalid eighty-seven years old, suf- fered from disease, was accused by the Germans of having fired on them. He was arrested, hoisted on a cannon, tossed into a ditch, tortured and shot. ‘“A witness deposes that he saw the priest Gelrode brought into Aershot August 24 with three wounded meh. The Germans said he was an English spy and took him to the town hall The following day they beat him with rifle butts, and then on the Demer bridge they shot him .and cast his body into the river, Maltreated in Every Way. ““A priest makes the following de- position: ““‘August 15, German soldiers swarmed into the village of Schaffen | and began to burn and pillage on the pretense that shots had been fired on them. One hundred and seventy houses were burned and twenty-seven civilians were murdered. The Ger- mans maltreated me in every way. They erected a gallows, on which they said they propgsed to hang me. They thrust me into a house which was on fire, but dragged me out again. They sent me off and at a distance of 200 vards they began shooting at me. I fell and pretended to be dead, and so I escaped.” Continuing, the statement says the commission of inquiry collected evi- dence that in the diocese of Malines alone twenty-six priests were killed without cause. Similar atrocities oc- curred in other dioceses. In the | Liege diocese ten priests were shot and in the Namur diocese twenty priests were killed. The priest of Spontin was first hung up by the feet and then by the hands and pierced with bayonets. In the x:;'ese of Tournai, a bishop, seventy: r years old, was seized as a hostage and struck by a soldier. Three ecclesi- astics were shot in this diocese. At Head of List, The statement concludes with these word “Nothing can demonstrate more clearly the tendencies of the Germans in dealing with members of the clerical body than the words of proclamation posted by the German authorities at Grivegnee, September 6, which says: ‘When hostages are taken the priests, burgomasters and members of the communal adminis- tration are to be put at the head of the list.” ™ ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIMSELF. East Hartford, Can. S.—Francis Kennedy, aged 16, accidentally shot and killed himself at his home here today with a riffle. He sad been clean- ing the gun and had loaded it pre- paratory to going out shooting. In rassing through the kitchen of his | home the weapon brushed against the table and was discharged. The bullet entered the body just below the heart and he died in a few moments. EDELSON LOSES SUIT. In the court of common pleas to- day, Judge Smith presiding, the Lenox Realty company was given the decision to foreclose against Louis Eéelson for $5 Klett & Alling ap- peared for the plaintiff GOOD MIDDLING OFFERKED, Washington, Jan. S.—Latest quo tions of cotton prices in Germany, ceived by cable from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, indicate good mid- dling was being offered and accepted for January delivery at about 18.4 .Cents a pound at Bremen SITUATIONJIN TURKISH CAPITAL ALARMING | | that hour the pupils will a | Report That Judd-Gates Nuptials Wil | speculator 1 Apprehend Not Only Attacks From Outside But Internal Disorders, Sofla, Bulgaria, Jan. 8, Via. London. 12 p. reaching here from Constantinople describe the situation In the Turkish increasingly alarming. The local authorities appear to ap- prehend not only attacks from the outside, but internal disorders as well. The archives of the ‘state have been packed up ready for removal from the city, and many of them already have been sent away. Preparations have been completed for the removal of the treasury, and locomotives are m.—Despatches capital as PAGE RECEIVES RePLY ; | Preliminary Angwer to U. S. Protest Issuicd by Great Britain. FORWARDED 10 WASHING] 0N, More Definite Supplementary Reply to Shipping Protest of United States Probably Will Be Made Within Two | kept constantly under steam in the railroad vards of Stamboul to meet the possible necessity of conveying the officials of the government to a place of safety at short notice. Preparations have been made at Adrianople for the quartering of the | state officials should eventualities | cnuse the Porte to decide to quit the | present capital. | | i | | ZIEGLER GETS DIVORCE. Adam Ziegler was granted a divorce from Paullne Ziegler in superior | court today by Judge Shumway on the | grounds of desertion. Both live in this city but have been separated for | four years. Klett & Alling appeared | | for the plaintiff. KILLED DURING ATTACK ON GERMAR TRENCHES Constantino Garibaldi Struck in Neck By Bullet on French Battlefield 8, 4:45 a. m.—Constan- tino Garibaldi, the second of the grandsons of the Italian patriot to die in the fighting in France, was killed during an attack on a series of | three German trenches. The story of how‘he met his death is told by his brother, Captain Ricclott{ Gari- baldi. After mines had been laid and ex ploded, according to Captain Gar baldi’s story, the regiment of Italian volunteers rushed forward shouting “Viva Trieste.” They captured the first two trenches without difficulty, Lut the third was a more difficult proposition, being separated from the others by about 100 yards of open ground and commanded by a hill, Notwithstanding. this the Garibal- | dians stormed the trench but the Germans delivered a flerce counter attack and the position of the Ttalian volunteers became difficult. Colonel Peppino Garibaldi, mander, ordered the regiment back, and Constantino, who com- manded the reserves in the second trench, went forward to aid his com- | rades. Almost immediately he was struck in the neck by a bullet which severed the carotid and he fell within a few vards of where his brother, Pcppino was standing. Paris, Jan. the com- to fall | | | BOARD MEETING. Monthly Session Held This Afternoon —$60,000 Left for Work. The monthly meeting of the board of education was held this afternoon, The finance committee reported a bai- ance in the appropriation of $60,305.- 38. Teachers employed ber were as follo Substitutes—Mrs. W. Grammar school; Mrs. Young, Grammar school well school; Miss Emily street school; Mi Kast street school; Iiast street school; East street school: chell, Smalley school; Miss May H. Ryan, Smalley school; Miss Helen Bromley, Rockwell school. Members of the board inspected for the first time the report on schools for the school year ending in June, 1914, A public inspection of the Pre- vocational school will take place next Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. SCHOOL during Decem- L. Hagen, Anna M. and Rock- Cone, East Annie Pouzzner, Mrs. Ida Taplin, Miss Anna Riley, Mrs. Mildred Mit- At | emble to | give the public a demonstration of | the courses. WEDDING SKET FOR JAN, 30. Take is understood of Harold L. Judd, Square, and Mrs, of Minneapolis, and race will take place in Saturday, January 30. Invitations to the wedding have not yet been sent out but friends of Mr. Judd in this | city have received word that this Place Then. that the wedding of 45 Franklin Charles W. Gates, | widow of the late track operator, Minneapolis on It is | the date and are making preparations With this date in view. Mr. Judd has been out of the city for more than a month and it is sup- posed that he has been spending the time in Minneapolis. The entire for- tfune of the millionaire sporting man was left to Mrs. Gates and is said to amount {o sev millions. Hartford, colder tonight. Jan. 8. —Fair, Saturday fair. e e e e s T | reply to the American note protesting | Bryan and /other officials today | the United | protest and | prevent | ever, | | were izens Weeks. 2:06 P. M.—Ambas- | received from the the preliminary | I.ondon, Jan. 8 Page today British government interference with | He forwarded it | ington. against British American shipping. | immediately to W The time of delivery of the definite supplementary reply the British government is to make i | uncertain. It probably will be within | two weeks. | Furthe more which s between specific ves- | of negotiations | two governments concerning cases of detention of American sels will precede the preparation the fiual British answer. Reply. 8.—Secretary await- Await Receipt of Washington, Jan | | ed receipt of the British government's | preliminary reply to the recent Amer- | ican note on the subject of interfer- ence with shipping. At noon it had not been received, but officials expected that with prompt | transmission it would be uncoded and before them by night. Not Completely Responsive. between Sir Cecil British ambassador, Counsellor TLan- Conversation Spring-Rice, the Secretary Bryan and sing have led the latter to believe the British government would recognize the emergency which existed, as indi- | cated in the American note. It has been understood here that the reply l would not be completely responsive: in the first place, because the legal propositions advanced by the United | States, though not new, and in fact once partially accepted, have since been made subjects of controversy, and are not generaly accepted as binding by all maritime powers. That applies particularly to the assertion of the right of cargoes of food and other contrabands of a conditional character, as well as to such absolute contraband as copper, where shipped to neutral countries, through which 1t might | reach a belligerent. Therefore, officials expect a separ- | ation of these legal questions from the general representations for treat- ment in the subsequent note which is to come in a fortnight. Against Needless Detention. The state department believes, how- | ever, that the preliminary British | note delivered to Ambassador Page today deals with the American pro- | test against needless detention and selvure of American cargoes, which | have complied with all the British requirements so far laid down. When States, without abandon- | ing its contention in regard to the exemption of certain classes of com- | merce from interference, gave its official sanction to the inspection of outgoing cargoes by British consular officers and by treasury agents, it felt it had a right to expect that ships thus laden would be permitted to pro- ceed without interfercnce It is believed that in the prelimin- ary note Great Britain has recognized the reasonableness of the Amerlear has promised to reduce | the annoyance to the smallest degree, particularly because it has virtually completed arrangements with the neutral states of INurope which will | American supplies from get to Germany and Aus- ting through [ t tria. European Countries Lax. ! Although Great Britain could not | in terms charge any of the neutral | nations with failing to execute their embargoes, it is understood lere | that the British government was sure that some of the smaller European states, for obvious reasons, had been T lax and that quantities of American copper and food supplies actually had | been going into Germany. Now, how- it is believed that the British government has succeeded in malking | satisfactory arrangements with those | countries, and consequently, it is un- derstood the note will clearly indicate a disposition to be more tolerant in | the treatment of American cargoes | ] though no pledge of absolute surrend- | Britain er of the right of search i made. i TWO LIVES LOST IN R. I, Jan. 8 lost in a fire which three small frame buildings ing stores and tenements on avenue and Deblois street day. The bddies of Walter negro, and 'his wife, who rooms in one the buildings, found in the ruins. The exceed $10,000 FIRE. J Two lives 't destroyed Newport, contain- Bellevue early Banks, a al of were | o loss will not 1 1 GONE TO DANBURY. president of the of Commerce Frank H. Johnston, Connecticut Chamber went to Danbury today to confer with | i committee from the Danbury | Men's association and of concerning the organization chamber of in a joint Busin cit- | 4 of |, that | | a new commerce | city. " | Vatican | their | dear | measures on | Berlin | viou | the desired drug elsewhere than | tions with the ed the pe perfected the was | thrown | rather than the Members of Woman's Club Listen te club morning McKinnie, Lillian Mass., e & to- |'p 2 | piano virtuosos occupied | p E GERMANY EXPLAINS MERCIER INCIDENT | Denics Report That Cardinal Was | Ever Arrested by German Au- thoritles in Belgium, Rome, German Jan, 8, 2 government an explanation of the Mer cier incident, in which it says that there is absolutely no truth in the re that the cardinal was ever ar- rested the Geyman authorities in | Jelgium or cven confined to his own | palace or prevented from leaving it Continuing, this explanation says “The German authorities entrusted | with the most delicate and difficult task of maintaining order in Belgium and convincing the hostile populua tion of that couniry of their sincere | desire for their good, simply ad dressed to Cardinal Mercier a most | deferential that abstain from any which might make difficult accomplishment of | duty, ultimately cntail risk | Belgian people.” In following this mans ,the explanation in mind the fulfillment of the ian duty, “which must be minister of the avoiding the “Any from n.—The | to the | 45 p. has sent port by prayer he attitude the or to the course goes the Ger on, had Christ particular] church, of shedding of blood agitation or tumult even an indirect German communication says clusion, “will render necessary the part of the the restoration of order COLE WITHDRAWS APPEAL 10 THE SUPREME COLRT .. to a arising cause,” the in con severe troops for | East Berlinite Now Ready to ! Pay Bill of Local Drug Firm. which Attorney A, W. from From a Upson received today Charles W. is letter Lawyer it the suit of of East Cramer of that Middletown, the end of of the Dickinson Drug company this city against George Cole which, although over only & small bill of $37.76, gained fame in two trials and a contemplated appeal to the supreme court, is near at hand. Not only has Mr. Cole, counsel, Lawyer Cramer. failed to per- fect his appeal to the highest court, in the required time, but he has of- fered to settle up upon the receipt of a bill, Attorney Cramer having writ- ten end me a bill, including inter- est, in the rug company case and I will have Mr. Cole send you a check The now famous case originated last spring when Mr. Cole refused to pay a bill of the drug concern for | anti-toxin which Dr, T. €. Hodgson of East Berlin ordered a short time pre- s for one of the Cole children who was suffering with diphtheria. He contended that the attending physi- cian erred. inasmuch as he procured apparent from the Berlin health officer The sult was first tr Judge Willard 1. Alling in court April 2 of t ment for the recovery of the hill given the plaintiff. Mr, Cele took appeal to the court comomn pleas and, after a hearing on Decoambey last, the jury returned with a verdiet in favor of the drug company, recom- mending the pavment of the , plug the accrued Intcrest principal and intersst, wilhout amounted to $40.01 at ted ihe and before Berlin judg an vear entire the costs that time Attorney then supreme c Cramer fled int judge end n of taking an appeal. Le L iod in which he should have and, as nothing rd from him. the ecase from the docket was principal in the it involved 1o, apneal hes It the case that ared to amc arties he contracting | straighten out MRS, TRYON TALKS ON IDEALS ) Interesting Address A music meeting of the f the 10:30 well attended department o held at Woman's | o’'cloek of Mrs. v this A street, when Mrs of Cambridge this city, gave “Ideals in Musical Art Tryon 1is the daughter of Hart and she was former- teacher in literature in the New High school. Her talk was nteresting and instructive and was nthusiastically reccived by the women resent. She talked on the work and he ideals of Jean De Deszke, the for- tenor of the Metropolitan Opera and ‘his striving for the | cme of perfection. The ideals o aderewski and Harold Bauer, the were algo considered Harold Bauer, the | were also considered at the home 167 Lake Hart Tryon formerly of . talk on Mrs harles E ¥ ner ompany, aderewski and iano virtuosos )y the speaker The the the held | department meeting was music second y ALLING SIGNS PAY ROLI of th The | yoliceme B. Alling board of public ature was rec H. L. Curti checks the ned new payroll supernumerar vesterday by chairman of safety. 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