New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS HERALD “ADS” MEA BETTER BUSINESH PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAII\ CONNECTICUT FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1916. —SIXTEEN PAGES. ESTABLISHED CARRANZAREJECTS PLAN FOR OPEN DISCUSSION ON MEXICO Note Received Today Restricts Envoys to Dealing With Military ! Situation and Noth-, ing Further. Washington, Aug. 4.—General Car- ranza’s reply to the last American note accepting his suggestion for a joint commission to adjust border differences, but proposing a broader ccope for the commission’s work, was | delivered to the state department to- | day by Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican | ambassador designate. It announces the appointment of three Mexican | commissioners with instructions to | “devote their attention preferably to | the resolution of the points mentianed in the previous note.” Thus, the de facto government ap- varently refects the proposal that the commission consider questions other than the military situation, and limits its discussions to the subjects oviginally suggested by Carranza— withdrawal of American troops from Mexico; formulation of a protocol to cover future operations against ban- dits and Investigation of interests which may have promoted border raids. Whether this will be satisfactory to the United States government has nat been indicated. The note was in Spanish and when he went to today’s cabinet meeting Acting Secretary Polk declined to discuss it until an official translation could be made. If it'is accepted the next step will be nego- tiations between Mr. Polk and Mr. Arredonda to fix the time and place for meetings of the commissioners. Hope for an early solution of pend~ ing difficulties was confidently ex- pressed by Mr. Arredondo after leav- ing the department. He said he ex- pected to reach an agreement with Mr. Polk by tomorrow as to the date and place of meeting and that there- upon he would wire the Mexican com- missioners with the expectation that they would be here in at least ten days. He said Asbury Park, N. J., or Old Point Comfort, Va., probably would be selected. Text of Note. 1 The text of the note follows: Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to transmit to your excellency the fol- lowing note, which I have just re- celved from my government: “Mr. Secretary: In due reply to the | courteous note of the department of state dated July 28, 1916, I have thael honor to say to your excellency that ihe first chief of the constitutionalist army, in charge of the executive power of the Mexican Republic, con- gratulates himself upon the laudable efiorts of the American government to arrive at a solution of existing diffi- culties between the two countries, and . to that effect, considering 1t of the greatest importance that a prompt de- ciston be reached of the points which have caused the existing differences hetween the United States and Mexico referred to in the note of the Mexi- can government dated July 4 last, has geen fit to appoint at once a commit- tee of three persons constituted by Licenciate Luis Cabrera, Engineer ygnacio Bonillas and Engineer Alberto Pani, to whom Instructions have been given to devote their attention preferably to the resolution of the points mentioned in the previous note of this department. t “ ‘Licenciate Eliseo Arredondo has|myco British Vessels Torpedoed been authorized to treat with the de- partment of state the matter of de- tails relating to the place and. date in which the commissioners of the Mexi- can government should meet the com- missloners of the government of the United States in order to commence their labors. “‘I reiterate to your excellency the mssurance of my highest consideration. “‘C. AGUILAR, “‘Secretary of Foreign Relations.’ “I avail myself of this accasion to renew to your excellency the assur- Bnce of my highest consideration. “E. ARREDONDO.” Will Leave Mexico Soon. Mexico City, Aug. 4.—The departure from, Mexico City for the United Etates of Luls Cabrera and Alberto Fani, who with Ygnacio Bonillas have Leen selected to reach a settlement with the United States commissioners of the questions at issue between the two countries, will not be long de- layed, according to the general belief here. SUEZ SHIPS BOMBARDED Two Machines Drop Explosives on Vessels Forty-Five Miles From Port Said, London, Aug. 4, 3:40 p. m.—A bom- “bardment of shipping on the Suez nal by hostile aeroplanes w offi- cially announced today. The attack | was carried out by two machines over Lake Timsah, forty-five miles south of Port Said. The town of Isamilia on the lake border also was bom- parded. No damage was done in.either case according to the official statement. (Jhe statement adds: “An aviatik was brought down and in a combat with a British on Wednesday near Sal- ca- | wrecked machine mania.” lage of Fleury, ville to the approaches and the higher command time ripe to attack from the southeast, the Germans in offered resistance, but Germans managed to escape Vaux-Le-Chapitre Wood, but a m Jority were taken prisoners. ground several weeks to conquer. all the positions for & depth of about a mile from the slopes of | GERMAN ATTACKS AT VERDUN DECREASING No Longer Able to Hurl Massed Troops at Foe. Aug. 4.—Verdun again Is in the center of the war stage. The recapture by the French of the vil- which had been held a in the Paris, the Germans for more than caused great elation is the first fruit of by has It month, France. (French slow and methodical offensive begun three days ago and seems, in the opinion of French military ob- servers, to mark an epoch in the six months’ battle for the great fortress on the Meuse. The Germans appear to be less and less capable of operating on their old, overwhelming scale and the initiative, military men here think, is about to pass to the French for good. While the German artillery con- tinues to be as powerful and as well supplied as ever the Germans 1d longer are able to gather the masses of troops necessary to reap the bene- fit of artillery preparation. It is twenty days since the Ger- mans made their last big attack on the right bank of the Meuse, by which they obtained small results at a heavy cost. On the left bank of the Meuse nothing beyond local ac- tions have been attempted by the if- vaders for a week. French bomb throwers for a fort- night past, in anticipation of the present offensive, had been creeping forward by the Vignes ravine, west of Frolde Terre, with the object of getting near Thiaumont work by working around Hill No. 365. The bombers first reached the Bras- Fleury road. They then separated in- to two parties, one going to the eaSt- ward toward Thiaumont work and the second Vacherauville and Pepper Hill pushing northward toward Last week the first party stormed a redoubt west of Thtaumont and affer a tion. stiff night went beyond that posi- The second party reached the ittle wood of Vacherauville. The whole sectlon from Vacherau- of Souville hus were in the hands of the French, judged the 1l sides at once. Attacked from the northwest and Fleury French Some to the bayonets finally prevailed. To sum up, the French in thelr three days’ offensive regalned the that the Germans had taken They took Souville Fort to the approaches of Hill No. 320, as well as in the woods east of Vacherauville and in the Vignes ra- ~vine, which borders to the west Froide Terre Hill. installed of The French also themselves in positions southwest, south and southeast of the famowns Thiaumont Woods. SUBMARINES IN CHANNEL By U-Boats Not Far Distant from Port —TItalian and Jap Ships Sunk. 4. —Two British schooners were torpedoed in the English Channel on Wednesday night. The crews were rescued and brought here. Havre, Aug. London, Aug. 4, 1310 p. m.—The Italian steamship Citta Di Messina, of 2,454 tons gross, has been sunk, according to an announcement made at Lloyds today. The Citta Di Messina was bullt at Sunderland in 1894. The Japanese steamer Kohina Maru and the British schooner G. C. Grad- well have been sunk. The Kohina Maru was a vessel of 1,162 tons. She was last reported sailing from Barry for Bizerta, Tunis, on July 14. DEATH L T GROWS, Twenty-cight Known Dead in Tennes- see Storm. Ky., Aug. 4.—A list of dead reported Creek in the Barren Creek of Northern Tennessee, shows visited the Middlesboro, re- vised from Blair's region that the cloudburst which | little sparsely populated country Wed- 28 as claimed a total of others are reported night Ten nesday Tt develops that ten members in each of two families succumbed to the rush of the water that carried away thelr homes. Reports this morning says that Bush Ferguson, his wife and eight children, and Pdr- ter Walker, his wife and eight chil. dren, are all dead. The property damage, it Is esti- mated will not go higher than $150,- 000. { he WILSON CALLED IN T0 DISCUSS STRIKE ON BIG RAILROADS Goes Over All Phases With Com- missioner on Mediation Board SENATE COMMITTEE TABLES PROPOSED PROBE OF WAGES Agrees With Brotherhood on Inad- visability of Action Under Pres- ent Circumstances—-Tennessee Rail- road Men Object to Labor Trouble —Lcaders Talk Over Plans for Company. Washington, Aug. 4.—Judge Wil- L. Chambers, commissioner of the United States board of mediation and conciliation, conferred with President Wilson today over the threatened strike of 400,000 railroad employes every phase of Chambers liam They discussed but president the situation, Judge told he lieved there was nothing formal that the federal until the be- could do managers and the Tepresentatives of the employes meet again next week after count of the strike vote has been completed. Judge Chambers thinks the situation is not hopeless and that there is still a chance for the emplovers and em- ployes to reach an agreement. The board of mediation and conciliation expects to be called in should a break appear inevitable. government the railroad Favor Appeal to Congre: Nashville, Tenn., Aug A move- ment looking to an appeal to congress for action to prevent a strike on the rallroads of the count has been inaugurated by employes on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railw A petition signed by 6,000 representatives of the mnon-brother- hood men has been signed in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee. Tt sets forth that 20 per cent. of the employves, repre- genting the brotherhoods. should not allowed to throw the 80 per cent of imd call congress see trouhle averted. work that out to upon is “Big Four” Leaders Confer. New York, Aug. 4.—Conferences of the leaders of the four great brother- hoods of railroad employes represent- ing 400,000 men, the majority of whom are believed to have voted to strike on 225 rallway systems, were held here today. These meetings were to enable the leaders to decide upon their course of action if the represen- tatives of the railroads again refuse their demand for an cight hour day and other changes. It is expected that the conference committee of the railroad man- agers will again refuse the men's de- mands at the meeting next Friday, and that the managers will advocate arbitration by the interstate com- merce commission or the federal board of mediation, or that the strike | under a the Newlands Act of 1914 by a commission of six men, two to be appointed from either side and two to be neutral. Tt is not re- garded as likely that the labor leaders will consent to this. In case of a deadlock the railway managers look to President Wilson to take a hand in the controversy by calling representatives of hoth sides to Washington and notifying them they must compose their differences ir some manner in the public inter- est, be scttled enators Table Wage Probe. Washington, Aug. 4.—The senate commerce committee today voted to table Senator Newslands' resolution to direct the. interstate commerce com- mission to investigate and report to congress on wages and hours of ser- vice of each cl of railroad em- ployes, because action was deemed in- advisable pending mediation and ar- bitration of disputes between the railroads and their employes. The committee took up the resolu- tion on a written request from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States which asked for hearings. It was determined,” said Chair- man Newlands, after the committee acted, “to have no hearings upon the subject but to lay the resolution upon the ble. The committee deemed it fnadvisable while proceedings were pending under the mediation arbi tration act to take up the subject of the pay and hours of service of rail- way employes. Tt also deemed inadvisable to add the present duties of the interstate commerce commission, which as is well 15 overloaded with work. The com mittee had before it a letter from the brotherhoods as follows “'The railway manager representatives of the railr izatlons will confer in New York early in August, and we believe the committee on interstate commerce should remain neutral at least until jointly called upon by the national conference committee of railway managers and the represehtatives of was and the 1d organ (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) known, | PLANS REIGN OF TERROR IN ’FRISCO Thomas J. Mooney Wrote to I. W. W. Asking for Some “Direct Ac- tion Reds.” San Francisco, Aug. 4.—That Thomas J. Mooney, one of the men indicted for murder in connection with the preparedness parade bomb explosion on July 22, planned to in- augurate a reign of terror in San Francisco by importing ‘“‘direction ac- tion reds” from other cities, was the declaration of District Attorney C. M. Fickert in making public today some | of the correspondence discovered by | the police in Mooney’s desk. Mooney kept carbon copies of his letters. One, addressed to an execu- tive officer named Acker, of the Inter- national organization of the Indus- trial Workers of the World, Cihcago, said: “I want to get in immediate touch with fifteen or twenty direct action reds—good, vigorous reds.” A letter to Willlam Heywood, na- | tlonal secretary of the I. W. W., asked | for *“hot blooded men” to come to | San Francisco to join various unions and foment trouble, to start mutinies against the heads of the unions they joined, and “in every way possible to cause dissension. “Let me pull my kind of stuff,” this letter continued, tuff that's never been attempted in San Francisco be- fore, and I'll make labor in San Francisco recognize me as its leader.” BRITAIN DETERMINED Anniversary of Declaration of War Seized Upon by People to Renew Pledges to Continuc Fight. London, Aug. 4, 4:31 a. m.—BEvery town and village in the British Isles as well as places throughout the em- observed the second an- of Great Britain’s declara- tion of war. Meetings were held and resolutions passed declaring a ‘‘de- termination to continue to a victor- idus end the struggle in the mainten- ance of those ideals of liberty and justice which are the common and sacred causes of the allies.” Three meetings had been arranged niversary CARMEN TO MEET Walkout May Ocour Hour After? Midnight IT Radical Step [s Favored DYNAMITER AGENT OF This Afternoon—Gompe: for Peace and Says Should Share Country's Wave Prosperity. New York, Aug. 4.—Whether 1,500,000 persons who daily travel the surface cars in the boroughs Manhattan and Queens are to be convenienced by a strike of motormen and conductors of the Ni York and Queens County Company, will be known this aft noon or tonight. The time limit by the men's union within which the offic at 3 o'clock this afternoon. There is no indication of any tentjon on the part of the compan to grant the demands. Omc!als peatedly had declared that they ca not do so. Meetings of the conductors motormen are called tonight to v Ol the question of calling a strike the lines of these two companies. for London. In the afternoon Sir Francis Lloyd, general officer com- manding the London district, spoke to 4,000 wounded from the London hospitals Cecil, minister of war trade; Paul Painleve, French minister of | public instruction and inventions con- cerning national defense, and Vandervelde, a Belgian minister ot state, delivered address After- wards a local memorial of Field Mar- shal Earl Kitchener who lost his life in the sinking of the cruiser Hamp- shire, was unveiled. The big meeting was reserved for the evening when the Earl of Derb: under-secretary of war, will preside. | Premier Asquith and A. Bonar Law, | secretary for the colonies, and others will make addresse: SOMNAMBULIST FALLS FROM FOURTH STORY | William McKeough Dies At Hospital From Injuries Received While Walking in Sleep. Willlam McKeough of 505 Main street died at the New Britain Gen- eral hospital last night of injuries re- ceived when he fell from the fourta story window at his home shortly af®- | er 11 o'clock. The funeral arrange- ments have not been completed, but interment will take place in Pitts- ford, Vermont. Mr. McKeough was 28 years and six | months of age. He boarded with his | brother, Thomas McKeough, and the last seen of him before the aceldent he was sitting in a rocking chair in front of an open window in his hoom. It is thought the unfortunate young man, who was a victim of somnambu- | llsm, must have fallen asleep in his | chalr and then arisen in his sleep and | walked out of the open window. The | window casing is a low one and % would not have been difficult for him to have stumbled against it and fallen out. | When he was picked up he was un- | conscious and his chest and ribs | were crushed it. These were the in- | juries that caused his death. AUTO BANDITS GET $46,000 Adding Ma- Take Bag of Hold ¥'p Pay Clerks at chine Plant, Shoot One, Mone Detroit, and Escape. Mich., Aug. 4 tomobile bandits held up entering the plant of the Adding Machine company this afternoon nne of the clerks sald to have contained Three pay cle Burroughs | here and s u- o'clock shooting with a ba 000, 1ploves of the Tsurroughs plant witomaobile gave ¢ anl a running fight ensued down Second | Avenue. One of the robbers was re- | ported wounded The bandits w in another © re armed with rifles. Hartford, Aug. 4.—For Hartford and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. {l Emile | » | while Mr. | ana were ready | tonight was finished, ! saying that | street | ident Tt is reported that | breakers are ready | York from other | Hlaces of strikers. to hurry cities to take No demands have as yet been fur- | ATiihe! Meansion Honse Liord Roberti| 5 mulated by emploves of the elevated Prof. | OF subway lines, but it is reported that | they will follow in Conflicting Statements, Heads of the street railways and unian leaders made conflicting cla during the day, Theodore p. the New York Railways Co., assert that he had been notified by a dele ticn of motormen and conductors | 2,400 of the 2,500 emplayes or | company had signified their loya Fitzgerald, unfon, claimed that virtually employes of this company and New York and Queens County vany had been enrolled in the un to vote a strike if ultimatum expiring at 3 o'clock t a‘ternoon was not favorably answer There was no indication from due course. all TONIGHT TO TAKE VOTE ON STRIKE Time Limit for Companies to Agree | to Ultimatum Expired at 3 O’clock | Was caused by Hopes | plished.” Trolleymen the 5,000 York Railways Company and the N Railroad leaders of the street railw ials of these two companies are required to answer to demands for recognition of the union and increased pay expired and 1,000 str to New | Shonts of | BLACK TOM EXPLOSION | Head of Lighterage Co. i Fire in Car Was Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 4.—The ex- | Island ‘kincd at least four persons and did $20,000,000 damage some persons with the | object of doing just what was accom- according to Theodore B. one of the four men who today charged with manslaughter in connection with the blast. The hearing was postponed until August 18 at the request of the | prosecutor and with the agreement of counsel for the accused men. Mr. Johnson, president of the John- son Lighterage and Towing Co., said today that he would produce one of his employes who would swear that when he first saw the fire it was in a box car on Black Tom Island and did not originate in one of the Johneon eW | Company's barges as charged. The | man, Mr. Johnson said, tried to enter a shanty to telephorfe, but found it {locked. He hunted a telephone and | finally found one in a boiler room of | the National Storage Company ware- houses, later destroyed, and gave the alarm, after which he swam from Black Tom to another pier a mile dis- tant. Up to noon last Sunday morning approximately { Johnson, were arraigned of on of in- ew er- set ay the police detailed by city authorities to watch incoming trains for shipments of explosives had found none and no cars were | turned back. in- Sod re- n- an- | W L N nal AR "RAID ON ISTRIA on | | Fourteen Machines Drop Bombs on K6 | Austrian Position—One Brought the | pown After Thrilling Pursuit. Berlin, Aug. 4, (By wireless to ville).—An Italian air raid on Is by a squadron of fourteen machines on August 1, is reported today by e | Austro-Hungarian admiral One the | machine was brought down by an ims | Austrian aviator. The statement says: ing! “On 30 a. m., an comprising 14 over Istria by Banfield, in a from Triest August 1, at ga- | Italian air squadron hat | great battle planes flew the | way of Pirano. Lieut Ity, | hydroplane, ascended organizer of the | and pursued the leaders of the hostile the | of the | tr com- | Caproni machines over Fiume whole of of seven At a lown was Is- the a group through ched uadron 2 and T of 2,700 metres he shot the Capronis. The pilot his| killed and the two observers were ed, ‘L\l«(‘n prisoners. Lieut. Banfield and the | his hydroplane returned unharmed.” ian | height the | one of railway heads of any change in their aftitude of refusing ta deal with unfon. The union leaders said that when the strike vote to be tak they planned put the strike into effect, probably hour after midnight. Samuel Gompers, president of American Federation of Labor, which the Amalgamated of Street and Electric Railway Iioyes is a member, arrived here day to take a hand He went into conference with W. Mahon, president of the Amalgamate ssociatfon. Before entering the conference, Mr. while declining to say wha CGompers, action he expected to take, made clear that he was supporting union. “I hope ‘the railroad people have sufficient good sense not compel the boys to show as they are now prepared to do," ald. “There is a wave of prosper weeping over the country and it no more than right that they share in it He added that lieved that the men would The delegation of emplo called on President Shonts, ing 120, later called on the and informed him that 2,423 of th fellow workers had signed a they were mnot in of the strike, They for police protection the event the strike, which was promised. Dynamiter Mahon's Agent. That Tom Mooney, indicted in Francisco for the murder of persons killed by the explosion homb during the recent prey there, an “accredit of President Mahon, of { union, is a statement ma m signed by Charles district attorney at forwarded to Mayvor Shonts. The win. es fay in of car in a tel ickert, FFrancisco chel by President gram Is as follow “You are correctly Informed. have documentary evidence showi that Tom Mooney indicted here the murder of cight persons Ly the explosion of a bomb recent preparedness parade Is an credited agent of W. D. Mahon, of Amalgamated Assoclation Street and Electric Railway BEmploy and that he was in ronstant spondence with him in reference San Francisco conditions. T evidence that Mooney dynamited electric tower of the plying the street car S M te kill duri system of S: (Continued on Page Fifteen.) the Association Em- in the situation. the will their 10‘0\”\ | should he be- W number- | may: paper | asked the may san cight | redness for ac- pres- corre- have power line sup- the LANSING AND BRUN SIGN DANISH TREATY today ken to an 2 No Serious Objection to Purchase of o West Indies Islands in Senate tot | Anticipated. D. | Washington, Aug. 4.—Acting Secre- 1\hlr\ Polk announced today that ihe | treaty by which the United States is to purchase the Danish West Indies from Denmark for $25,000,000 was signed at New York this morning by Secretary Lansing and Minister Con- | stantin Brun. | The treaty provides for to ; to the United States of three islands St. Thomas, St. Crolx and St. John, | Which have been the subject of nego- the United States vears it | the transfer he jty | tiations between | and Denmark for many It is understood the administration will ask for ratification by the senate before the end of the present session and while there may be some objec- tion to the price, no really serious op- or | position is expected. etr | Secretary Lansing, who | spending his vacation at Watertown, N. Y. went to New York to meet Minister Brun. is ho | has been or or of BRYAN READY FOR WORK And Fairbanks is to Wage Campaign a on Ground Covered by Hughes on ed | he de | M an it- Kom Mis Toup of Country New York, Aug. 4.—Chairman Cummings of the democratic speakers bureau announced | night he had received word from Willlam Jennir | Bryan that the latter was preparcd give virtually all his time from Octo- ber until election day to the W amipaign. It is understood Mr. ¥ will devote his energies chiefly to middle west i ng ed ng | New York, Aug. 4.—The republicac natfonal campaign leaders announced | today that Charles W. Fairbanks, of | Indiana, vice presidential nominee on the republican ticket, will make a campaign tour of the country similar | to that now planned for Charles I | Hughes. Tt was said at the head- quarters that Mr. Fairbanks will fol- low Mr. Hughes over virtually the | same ground later in the campaign. of to an an CAUSED INTENTIONALLY, NEW YORK LABOR LEADER | riosion ot munitions on simei om | which | | | varatory lsom | | dislodge RATTLE RAGES AT FLEURY: BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTOR 'French Claim to Be Possession of To With Exception Small Area--Germa Reports Recapture Paris, Aug. 4—Attacking sij taneously from the northeast and fi the southeast, French troops yes stormed the village of Fie threce miles north of Verdun, captured several hundred Germ| 1n the evening, however, the Ger; launched a furious counter attack sfter several violent attempts, ceeded In getting a footing in £outhern part of the village. ¥rench today continue to hold northern section of the place heavy fighting still is in progress| The official statement issued night by the French war departn snnouncing the capture of Flew the French troops and recording of operations of the day along western front safd: “On the Somme front there wa infantry action in the course of cuy. An artillery duel continue the region of Monacu Farm. “On the right bank of the Md our infantry, continuing their offen action on the Thiaumont-Fleury i captured during the day by a sel of successive attacks all the trend comprised between those two pi as far as a point southeast of Th mont Work and In the vicinity Hill 320, ‘‘The village of Fleury was attag simultaneously on the northeast on the southeast and was entl cccupied by our troops after a B liant action. The number of prison taken in the course of this action na far counted exceeds 650, brings up to 1,750 the total nu of unwounded prisoners, taken by| on the right bank of the Meuse sl August 1. bout the same time we deliy in the region of Chenois a sharp tuck which enabled us to recover greater part of the ground lost by the day before yesterday. “On the rest of the front there intermittent cannonading. “Aviation: During the night August 2-3 our battle aeropl dropped projectiles on the stations Tlem and Nayen. This morning cnemy aeroplane dropped a bomb ancy. There were no victims no damage was done. Pont-a-Mouss clso was bombarded but to no offt Thiaumont Work and Wi draw. day TReach On the right bank of the R# Meuse, north of Verdun, the baf] continues along the front of Thid niont-Fleury, the Germans attack several times during the night Wi great fury, it was announced officla this afternaon the French war g partment At one period of the fighting f French entered Thiaumont ea works but withdrew, owing to the tensity of the German bombardme tuking eighty prisoners, Around Fleury the equally violent, the statement the Germans attacking the il several times and succeeding finally getting a footing in the south part the village. The French still are hol ing the narthern section of the pl £nd fighting is still going on. All the attempts made by the G mans to drive the French from ¥ station southcast of Fleury were fi trated. The French positions at Vacheraj were attacked during ¢ the French war departme declares, the Germ were thro Pack with severe 1 The text of the by struggle ville also night but ns official stateme given aut this afternoon hy . ti French war department, in which ie admitted that the Germans ha cceeded in recapturing a portion the village of Fleury, follows: “On the right bank of the R Meuse the battle continued along t Thiaumont-Fleury front, which i Germans attacked all last night wi§f great ferocity. Several counter a tacks in large numbers upen o positions near the Thiaumont Worl were repulsed with heavy loeses fd our adversaries. Tn the course of th hting our troops even occupied t Thiaumont waork but they were con pelled subsequently to evacuate under the powerful German bombary ment. They brought back with the cighty prisoners “There has been violent in the Germans multipli counter attacks fighting no region of Fle d the upon this ury umber villagd n intense After se pre| verg Tiach was preceded by artillery fire endeavors { Ge faoting the southerr ry, where ver q fig going All from the fruitless sl cured rite 1ting is still on southeast checked Dy | troops | i enemy attacke night our new Vacherauville. The: in suffering heavs In vicinity of Vaux-Le and Chenois the artillery has been very spirited n the Vosges vesterday the enem “The ner during the to the east succeeded positiond only Inssos the Chapitre (Continued on Page Fifteen.)