Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 20, 1914, Page 1

e Bulletin’s Girculation in Norwich is. Double Prussian Right Wing Has Succeeded in Gaining Ground on Both Sides of the Meuse :HAVE TAKEN A NUMBER OF BELGIAN POSITIONS ‘On the South the Allied Belgian and French Armies Have Been Able to Repulse Them, But on the North They Have Had a Free Field—Fighting is Proceeding on the Whole Front From Basle, Switzerland, to Diest Belgium. - London, Aug. 20, 1.20 a. m.—A Havas despatch from ‘Brussels gives an offi- cial communication concerping the present state of the field operations in . Belgium. i wAfter having lost much time anl a great number of men and, besides, im- portant war material,” the communica- fion says, “the Prussian right wing has succeeded in, gaining on both banks of the Meuse the ground to bring them into contact with the ai- lies’ armies. - “The German troops on the -norih bank of the Meuse comprise seconds of different army corps whose efforts have been directed toward the capture of Lieeg and who are now disengaged. There also are bodies of cavalry, thanks to which the Germans have been able to make considerable dis- turbance and extend themselves nosca ‘and south. A on the south the allied Belgian and French armies have been able to Te- pulse them, but on the north, on the contrary, they have had a free field and could penetrate -in small bodies far into the country. Germans Capture Positions. “In a word, the Germans havé taken a number of our positions, but have wasted 15 days in arriving at this re- sult, which is greatly to the honor of our arma. It is not a question of sia- gle . battle evolutions of captures of Certain parts of the country or towns. These matters are secondary in re- gard to the object assigned our troops in the general dispositions. This alia ! cannot be reveaied; and the most pene- trating minds Wwill” be unable to dis- cover it, owing to the necessarily vague particulars furnished concerning the operations. Fighting on- Whole Front. “Fighting is proceeding on the whoie front extending from Basle, Switzer- land, to Diest, Belgium, and in these numerous contacts the ‘more the -op- posing armies approach each other and the nearer become the deciding battles the more one must-expect to hear of an advantage to this side and of vield- ing on that. Have Made Invaders Cautious. “In operations so vast and with those engaged using modern arms too great attention must ngt be paid to the op- erations in our immediate vicinity. Evolutions ordered in a particular pre- viously determined aim is not neces- earily a retreat. _The engagements of the last few days have had the result of rendering our adversaries very cic- cumspect. The delay of the enemy’s advance Bad the greatest advantage for our general plan of operation. Belgians Plan Resistance. “There is no need for us to play into the hands of the Germans. That is the motive of the movement now being carried out. Far from being beaten, We are making arrangements for beat- ing the enemy under the best possivle conditions. “The public should in this matter place full confidence in the commander of the army and remain calm and trustful of the outcome of the strugz- gle, not doubtful. Meanwhile, the newspapers should abstain from fhen- tioning - the movements of troops. Secrecy is essential to the success of our operations.” NO CONCENTRATION FOR DEFENSE OF BRUSSELS. h, French and Russian Ministors Have Left for Antwerp. . London, - Aug. 20, patches from Brussels to the London pers announce that the British, ench and Russian ministers with their staffs have left for Antwerp. The Brussels correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company says: “It is becoming practically impossi- ble to' get news away from Brussels, as the censor forbids any information concerning the movements of tae troops being published. However, it is certain that a tremendous battle is in progress within th earea stretching from Diest and Tirlemont as far as Givet. * “The general impression here is that no effort will be made to concentrate for the defense of Brussels, as the at- tacking German force would not be of sufficlent strength to warrant such concentration.” RESIDENTS OF BRUSSELS FILLED WITH SUSPENSE. Have for Days Been Expecting En- trance of German Army. 250 a. m.—Des- London, Aug. 19.—An American mili- lary expert, reviewing the situation in Belgium, said tonight: I left Brussels today. There was a deal of agitation there, as the ple thought the Germans near and here had been fighting at Tirlemont. A good many refugees had come in trom Tirlemont and Louvain. The people kept very quiet. though they were filled with suspense, owing lo the numerous rumors. The impres- dMon was that Germans after making recon: s in force and séouring the country to the north of Brussels with cavalry were about to advance in lorce on Brussels. The population of Brussels had been told by the burgo- naster that i’ the Germans came they ld remain indoors and go on as as possible with their usual voca- town has been barricaded. Trenches have been cug in the outskirts and barbed wire entanglements have been placed in front of them. These fencas, however, are intended only for pro- tection against a cavalry raid. They would be futile against any attack :n force. Any battle for the ‘actual possession of Brussels will be fought outside, in the direction of Wavre and Louvain. 1f the Germans take Brussels, it doss not mean in any sense a military set- back for the allies, beyond its senti- mental effect, and the opinion in Brus- sels was that owing to the French successes in Alsace and the check the German right wing has suffered in Belgium, something must be dore which would have at least the form of success. Brussels apparently is not unduly scared. The shops are open, the strzet cars and taxicabs are running, and the newspapers are appearing regularly. FRENCH ARMY HAS REACHED MORHANGE. There is Little Change in the Situation in Upper Alsace. Paris, Aug. 19, 10.55 p. m.—The fol- lowing official statement was given out tonight: “Latest advices are to the effect that the French army has reached Mor- hange (Morchingen), in Alsace-Lor- raine, 19 miles southeast of Metz. Our advance was very rapid in the after- noon beyond the River Seille, especial- ly the central part of our line. At the end of the day we reached Delme, on one-side, and Mor] a - “There is little change in the situa- tion in uwpper Alsace. We continue to advance in Vosges. The Germans have retaken the village of Ville, where we had an outpost. Our troops, debouch- ing og the Seille, have occupied Cha- teau Salins and Dieuze, but face well fortified and strongly held positions. Our progress at first was necessarily slow. “Our cavalry has had a successful encourter with the Germans at Floren- ville, Belgium. Very large German forces, it is announced, are crossing the Meuse between Liege and Namur. “One of the French brigadiers has | asked the commander in chief to make public the fcllowing fact: A French hussar, mad> prisoner, was dragzed by (German_soldiers into an Alsatian vil- lage and his throat was cut before the villagers, who testify to the deed.” AUSTRIA MOBILIZING ON ITALIAN FRONTIER. Families of Austrian Officers Advised to Leave Riva. Rome, Aug. 19, via Paris, Aug. 19, 10.30 p. m.—A message received from Trent states that Austria, which hith- erto has mobilized its troops with pru- dence, is now openly mobilizing at the Italian frontier. All tradesmen are obliged to declare their stock taken by the military authorities. A thousand workmen are engaged in construéting entrenchments. Families of Austrian officers at Riva have been advised to leave within 24 hours. State money, archives, etc., have been transported to the interior. The number of arrests is being augmented daily. Electric power for lighting is not provided at night, as the lights might indicate the towns to aero- planes. The newspaper Corriere D’Italia says that the province of Trent has been requisitioned so thoroughly that the Dopulation fears starvation. It ‘s hoped there that food may be obtained from Italy. JAPANESE AMBASSADOR REDY TO LEAVE BERLIN Japanese Club is Empty and Students Have Departed. Sre Copenhagen, Aug. 19, via London, Aug. 20, 2 a. m. —A despatch received here from Berlin says: “The Japanese ambassadors de- parture from Berlin is approachinsg. The police are guarding the embassy. The .Tn.pm:qse club is empty. Even Japanese students in German univer- Sities have left. The Vossische Zei- tung, commenting on Japan's ultima- tum to Germany, says: “One more declaration of war can- not frighten Germany and Japan’s ac- tion Jis without any importance.” GERMAN ARMY CORPS DEFEATS RUSSIAN FORCE. Captured 1,000 P Six ners Machine Guns, and London, Aug. 19, 8.40 p. m.—A des- patch received today by the Marconi Wireless Bureau from Berlin says that in an encounter near Stallupohnen, east of Prussia August 17, a division of the German first army corps de- feated a Russian force captured 1,000 prisoners and six g’luchiue guns. Many Russian guns which could not be r.;ken by the Germans were destroy- ed. German Girls Arrested as Spies. Brussels, Aug. 19, via Paris, 6.36 p, m.—Four German girls were arrested here today on the charge of spying. Three spies, one woman, apprehended 5. ssels is an undefended city, but 2’1(\1 tho last three or four days ev- important stréet leading out of the at Louvain, have been skot. Three persons excited by war news have gone insane. Cabled Paragragphs Jamaica am;- Exportation of ‘Sugar. lamai Kingston, Jamaica, -~ Aug. 1! governor has issued; a, proclomation farbidding the lon of sugar from J: ca. t!u'_u_mhmdtmns product is required for imperial pur- poses, Cruiser North Carclina at Cherbourg. Paris, Aug. 19, 5:15 p. m—The Uni- ted States cruiser North Carolina . with the gold for thi ief patriots on the continent. The French government has placed a special train at their service. Aniericans Flocking to Rotterdam Rotterdam, Aug. 19, via London, Aug, 20 1:20 a. m.—One hundred and eighty Americans from German arrived here tonight. None of them was in sertous need. Solon Spirm, a preminent mine owner of Salt Leke City, is authority for the statement that the best possi- ble treatment is being given Ameri- cans in Germany. There are now five special trains on the way to Rotter- dam, bringing about 1200 Americans. Soren Listoe, American consul-general here, stated tbday that there are few Americans in need in Germany. - He is onoring all American drafts and paper known value. NOTHING BUT PRAISE FOR CONDUCT OF GERMANS. Former Consul Says Departing Ameri- can Were Aided and Cheered, London, Aug. 19 1146 p. m—E. Howard Martin of New York, former- ly of the United States diplomatic service, arrived here tonight with his wifec and niece from Hamburg. Mr. Martin has been assisting Henry H. Morgan, the American consul-general at thaat city. The party left Hamburg on & special train provided by the German govern- ment, and a large crowd of gathered®at the station and ‘eheered the departing Americans, Similar scenes occurred at all stations at which the train stopped. “I have nothing but praise for the conduct of the Germans towards us,” said Mr. Martin tonight. He added that consulate at Hamburg was be- sieged by Americans short of money and the Germans. raised a benevolent fund for the purpose of aiding all foreigners. The special train carried virtually all the Americans who were stranded in Hamburg. Mr. Martin had an in- teresting experience in trying to get away from the city when war was declared. 'He had booked passage of the Imperator and when the trip was cancelled, he and -two hundred others boarded the steamer Burg, which has accommodations only for fifty at Cox: haven ,intending “to proceed to Eng- land. The rauthorities ~ordered . the %viu:g to turn back, as. mines-had been. id. fering from a shortage of ana water. . They &lept on the déck. Fi- nally the Burg was ordered to -enter the basin near Hamburg, where 60 British ships- seized by the Germans were lying. i NEW YORK REPUBLICANS ENDORSE CHANGE In Basis of Representation to National Convention. Saratoga, N. Y. Aug. 19.—The re- publican state conventlon. at . two o'clock today concluded its work, The delegates left town and the only. re- minder of the convention tonight was the woman suffragists. They had de- cided to remain until next Week. The democratic state conference rmeets here in a few days, and they are wait- ing for the democrats. £ The convention approved the reso- lution adoped last year by the re- publican national committee to e the basis of representation to repub- lican national conventions, redueing the number of delegates from southern states. Edward Schoneck, former mayor of Syracuse, today announced his candi- dacy for lieutenant governor. BALDWIN ADDRESSED 12th DISTRICT DEMOCRATS Called for Election of Democratic Senators from that District. New Haven, Conn., August 19.—A political speech was made by Gov. Baldwin tonight when he was the guest of the democrats of the Twelfth district, at a shore dinner served at Momauguin. Touching first upon the historical &onnection the shore towns of the district have to the state's his- tory he passed to the sctory of recent elections in which he led the wi to victory in the state. Then he told of what his party had accomplished in legislation, and in conclusion called for the election of a democratic sen- ator from the Twelfth district. et el g ELECTRICAL STORM PUT WATERBURY IN DARKNESS Lights in All Business Places Put Out by Storm, Waterbury, Conn., Aug. 19—For three quarters of an hour this evening Waterbury’s business section was in darkness. The street lights were in working order, but electri’ lighting in practically all businegs places was put out of commllillon by the storm. The prices of candlés soared and boys selling them canvassed the buesiness section. —_— Boy Accidentally Shaots Cousin, Bristol, Conn., Aug, Hanks, aged was accidentally shot in the jaw with a rifle today by his cousin Perry Bean, The Hanks boy had been on a visit here. The two youths went out in the woods to hunt for woodchucks. In some way not fully explained, the rfle was discl and the bullet struck Hanks squarely in the jaw. The boy’s parents were notified Hanks ‘was later taken to his home in West- field. Barn, Struck by. Lightning, Burped. South Britain, Conn., Aug. 19.—Dur- the electrical shower tonight, light- ning struck a barn owned by Miss Alice Stiles in the George's Hill dis- trict, burning tlse structure to the ground. The loss is estimated at $1,000. 2 SN ———— it Engagement Reported Limbourg, Brussels, Aug. 19, via m.—An engagement is. xmfusl* “?'o have taken place in northern - Lim- bourg. An important Franco-German battle is expected. 17 of Westfleld, Mass, | e . S8 ~in Washin s —_— OFFICIALS HEAR NO MORE THAN THE GENERAL PUBLIC ; dirset | DIPLOMATS ARE SILENT ———— Not a Message Concerning Military Developments Has Been Recédived in Five Days—American M No Need of Leaving Brussel: ter Sees ‘Washington,! Aug. 19.—Officials of the United States government are as ignorant of what is happening on the battlefields of Europe as the general public. Not a single message and American diplomats are in hourly communication from all European cap- itals, has come in the last five days giving the slightest hint of the devel- opment of military opearations. In only one despatch was there any ref- erence- to pending hostilities. Min- ister Whitlock at Belgium reported that although the seat of government had been moved to Antwerp, he saw no need of leaving Brussels for the present. From this it was inferred that the German forces were not yet close to the Belgian capital. Busy Caring for Stranded Americans. ‘The absence of information ab. the movement of the big armies is ac counted for by officlals as due to the fact that American diplomatic offi- cers are so thoroughly absorbed in caring for stranded Americans that they are unable to make any calls at the different embassies or legation where news might be obtained. Am bassador Herrick, in one of his mes- sages, however, spoke of the fact that even diplomats were unable to learn of what was happening in the war zone beyond what was given out by the official bureaus, so strict was the censorship everywhere. From the Far East the American government had no dispatches today and though there were messages from Ambassa- dor Gerard telling of the welfare of Americans, these messages sald noth- ing regarding the proable attitude of Germany toward the Japanese ultima- tum commanding her to withdraw from Kiao-Chow. Chinda Again Confers with Bryan. Bargn Chinda, the Japanese ambas- sador, had a brief conference today with Secretary Brvan, but he said he brought nothing of importance. Kiai- Fu-Shah, the Chinese minister, later talked at-length with Mr Bryan but declined -to discuss the object of his ¥isit, beyond ,saying, that he bad no from-'his government. te Foster Peabody, .Hamilton - M ort, George E. Robefts and Dr. est Richard, rep- resénting wirtually all the peace so- cleties in the United States, formally exp their appreciation to Sec- retary Bryan of, the tender offices made by Preésident Wilson to the Eu- ropean powers. HUERTA AND FAMILY MAROONED IN LONDON Are Occupying Apartments in an Ob- scure Hotel, London, Aug. 19, 9:30 p. m.—Ma- rooned in London because of war and the consequent interruption to travel, Victoriano - Huerta, former president of Mexico and his family made a brief sight-seeing tour about Liondon to- Loading his party into two automo- biles, General Huerta instructed the driver to go to Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace. Suggestlons that he might also care to see West- minster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathe- dral were dismissed by General Hu- erta with an impatient “Only Trafal- gar Square and Buckingham Palace.” General Huerta and family slipped into Londoh unannounced and secured apartments in an obscure hotel where they have rested quietly for two days, worn out by ghe trip from Jamaica. To inquiries as to his health General Huerta said he was well but tired out. He will remain in England untfl Au- gust 24, when he will proceed to San- tander, Spain. Safety of Americans Reported. ‘Washington, Aug. 19.—Today’s dis- patches to the state department re- ported the safety of the following Americans In Europe, about whom in- quiry “has been made: Boston—Ed- ward Tolfredk, Copenhagen; Burdick, Wernigerode; New Haven—Hubbell, Athens. That of Any Other Paper, andlts Total Circulation 1s the l.flo:t n ’ War News |Planning for : ton| Merchant Marine PRESIDENT WILSON CONSULTS LEADERS IN CONGRESS. CALLS FOR $25,000,000 For the Purchase of Ocean Going Ves- séls to be Operated Under Direction of a Government Shipping Board in Foreign Trade. ‘Washington, Aug. 19.—Comprehen- sive plans were mapped out by the administration today for building,up the American merchant marine with government money for the immedia‘e purpuse of transporting the products of the United States to the warTing pow- ers of Europe from South and Central America. President Wilson in coa- sultation with democratic leaders of the_senate and house approved a plan conliemplating the expenditure of ap- proximately $25,000,000 for the pur- chase of ocean-going vessels to be op- erated under the direction of a gov- ernment shipping board in carrying un the foreign trade of tRe United States. Government Insurance. Government insurance of American ships and cargoes agains tthe risks of war would be provided for in a bill submitted to congress after it had been approved by the président. The bill, another of the emergency measures de- signed to aid in moving exports, was introduced in the senate by Senator lark of Arkansas, in the house by Representative Alexander. It wou'd create a temporary bureau of war risk insurance in the treasury department and would appropriate $5,000,000 for the payment of losses and $100,000 for the operation of the bureau. Purchase of Ships. The plans agreed on for the pur- chase by the government of ships in- clude the creation of a shipping board to be composed of the president, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of commerce and the postmaster gen- eral, to have charge of securing tne needed ships and fitting them out. AWAITING GERMANY'S REPLY TO JAPAN’S ULTIMATUM Possible It May Be Transmitted Through American Channels. Washington, Aug. 19.—Germany's re- ply to Japan's ultimatum is being awaited with anxiety in diplomatic quarters to open hostilities in the Far East, It is possible the reply may pass through ican - channels of communication that was one of the means of forwarding Japan's note, owing- to- the difficulties of cable com- murication. - - The suggestion. was made in diplo- matei éircles today that if Germany withdrew from Kiao-Chou, abandon- fng it for the time heing. while her en- ergies were centered in Europe, it would present a new. and interesting situation. With Germany withdrawing Kiao-Chou ‘woul .naturally revert to China. However, no . information of Germany’s purpose has yet come through, although such- intimations as officials received indicate that Ger- many will ‘reject ‘the- demand and re- sist the siege to the utmost. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS APPEAL TO WILSON To Use His Influence for Resumption of Catolic Schools in Mexico. ‘Washington, Aug. 19—President Wilson was appealed to today by rep- resentatives of the Christian Brothers; a Catholic organization which main- tains 18 educational institutions in Mexico, to use his good offices to per- suade the new government of Mexico to allow the order to resume its reg- ular school work this fall. The ac- tivities of the Christian Brothers bave been interupted by the revolution and several of the teachers are alleged to have ben killed or imprisoned. The president will take the question up immediately. Seventeen Automobilists Fined $277.91 Marble Dale, Conn., Aug. 19.—Fines aggregating to $277.91 were imposed on seventeen automobilists for various violations of the automobile law by Justice of the Peace V. H. Hade, here today. The arrests were made by the state policemen Saturday night and during Sunday. Two of those fined to- day took appeals to the Superior Court. FROM A BAINTING er_a. ey Condensed Telegrams James B. Haggin, the millionaire horseman, is seriously ill at Newport. The Argentine House of Deputies has approved a bill creating an embas- sy at Washington. William Gonzales, American Minis- ter to Cuba, arrived in New York on his way to Washintgon. Jewelry valued at $5,000 was stolen from Mrs. iel A. Donohue, of Sa- lem, Mass., at Narragansett Pier. The Connecticut Cavalry asociation held its 47th annual reunion at Hart- ford with about forty present. The_ordinance , prohibiting doks in New York City streets unmuzzeld will 8o into effect on September 15. - A Swedish-Norweg peace monu- ment, erected on the Norwegian fron- tier near Charlottenburg, was unveiled. Governor Baldwin has declined to exercise the right accord>d him by law to appoint a major of the F®st in- fantry. Thousands of people were forced to walk Brooklyn Bridge when a feed wire broke causing a delay of 45 minutes. The Peruvian destroyer Teniente Rodriquez sailed through the Panama Canal befng the first warship to make. the trip. The first class of cadets of the West Point Military Academy left for a week's practice with the big guns at Fort Wright. Charles Bhuler, 35 years old, of Riverhead, L. I, committed suiclde because he couldn't get back to Ger- many to fight. More than 400 ministers and church workers are at Wi ona. Lake, Ind., for the annual Bible Conference which opens August 21 Three large barns on the farm of Martin G. Wright at Litchfield, Conn., were destroyed by fire caused by light- ning. The loss is $10,000. Michael McCarthy, from the third floor of his boarding house at Naugatuck, Conn., to a ce- ment alley and was killed. A receiver was appointed for the Cramer, Rogers Grocery Co., of Tren- ton, N. J. Assets have been placed at $45,000 and liabilities $53,000. aged 50, fell Gussie Katzman, aged twenty of Brooklyn, committed suicide by jump- ing from the roof of her home, a ten- ement at No. 61 Clinton Street. The 47th annual reunion of the Sixth Connecticut Volunteers was held at Bridgeport with about fifty members and thei rfamilies in attendance. While resisting arrest on & charge of asault and robbery, Moses Bullock, a New York negro, was shot in the back by Patrolman James H. Kelly, Exports of 'merchandise from the port of New York for the week ended August 15 amounted to $10,732,082 against $14,884.851 the period last year. Frederick Thorpe, a former bellboy, was arrested in New York charged with the theft of $450 from the room of Charles Berndes in the Hotel Astor. The Rev. Alfred W. Tween of New York, had a narro wescape from death in a vain attempt to save Miss Ethel Pushard from drowning at Dresden Mills, Me. Otto Tarazzo was probably fatally injured and two other laborers seri- ously injured as the result of a cave- in while digging a trench for a gos main in Brooklynd Marcus M. Marks, president of the Borough of Manhattan, delivered a welcoming address to the tighty-fifth annual meeting of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. George A. Webb, the negro accused of holding 13-year-old Catherine Lar- kin a prisoner in a New York public school for four days, was indicted on a charge of kidnapping. R. Beecher Howell, candidate for Republican nomination for Governor of Nebraska, was pelted with eggs when he attempted to speak at a street corner in Omaha. = Hart’s Island has been declared under quarantine by the Department of Health and no more prisoners will be received there because of an ep- idemic of typhoid fever. Deputy Chief Sloan of The Bronx fire department, and Louis Biederman, his chauffeur, were injured when their automobile upset while turning. a corner in going to a fire. Representative Keating of Colorado introduced a resolution to amend the constitution so as to allow an export tax as a posible solution of the pres- ent problem of food prices. Representative Vare of Pennsylva- nia introduced a bill to prevent the exportation of - foodstuffs whenever the .President should deemi it advis- able to check advancing prices. Foreign opera singers and artists who come to the United States and earn their living, and later return to their native land, must pay the income tax the same as America citizens, chief of the United States Immigration Service at Brownsy Tex., and J. G. Schoenbaum, a sta- tion agent, are dead as the result of a shooting affray in a hotel in that place. v James Brooks, a farmer of Manhat- tan, Kas., was swimming in the Blue River when he was attacked by a catfish, which grabbed his hand and tried to swallow it. Some neighbors said it was a bullfish, The freight steamer Westiands of the Munson Line was in collision with the Manna Hata, of the New York & Baltimore Transportation Co. off Northeast End Lightship. The Old Dominion liner Jamestown is stand- ing by. Hottest Day of Year at New York. New York, Aug. 19.—This was the hottest day of the year thus far in New York. The mercury rose to $5 official- 1y at 4 o'clock this afternoon and then dropped 12 degrees in two hours. Showers were promised for tomorrow and Friday. A man and a child died from the effects of the heat, and there were many prostrations. Gonk iout in Propiviss. %3 S Gity's Papalition . - Pope Pius X Died- This Morning LAST ILLNESS BROUGHT ON BY EUROPEAN WAR SITUATION GRIEVED HIM A Believed Peads or War in Society & State Depended More on the Multi. tude Than on the Rulers—Gouds. Catarrh Cause of Death: Rome, Aug. 20, 220 a. m.—Pope Pius X died at 120 o'clock this morning- - The pope's last illness began almost coincidentally with the great war Burope. Those close to him believe that grief over the situation brought on the final crisis and so overwhelmed hins that he was unable in his 80th vear to withstand still another atiack «f his old enemy, gouty catarrh. In 1l Health for Many Years. Il health had been the pontiff's lot for many years, and intermittently the attacks have been so serious that the world was prepared several times to hear of his passing. During the sum- mer there had been numerous details from the va n that his indisposition was serious. As late as Aug. 10 laat, upon the occasion of the eleventh an- niversary of his coronation, Pope Pius, granted numerous audiences. Two days later it became known that he had cancelled virtually all engage- ments. His attendants reported that he was unable to work, and that he sat’ listless and silent for hours, evidencv brooding over the great clash of arms in_Europe. His physician, Dr. Marchiafava, of- dered his holiness to ped on Aug. 16, when it was announced that the war and the intense heat in Rome had combined to depress him. In bed, he continued to dream of the conflict ¥ night and to discuss it by day. Deplored War. “T shall not cease to implore God el put a stop to this inhuman butchery;’ he decla: . His physicians had to deal with this mental condition as well as physical suffering. Arrangements by which Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state, would render his holiness a daily report on the war situation ‘were made. The pope de- sired to see some way in which he might exert his influence to check the bloodshed, and he was the more af- fected because any action seemed use- less. ¢ : Shocked by Break Between _filfl'fi and Servia. At the commencementof -the Euroe pean crisis he had addressed an ex- hortation to all the: Catholics' of' the world,, asking them to Mft their souls toward Christ, who alone was able te aid, and he called upon the clergy to offer public prayer. The break between Austria and Ser= via from the first became a source of great grief to him, as_the vatican was most friendly toward both nations. He was inexpressibly shocked, he said, at the assassination’of - Archduke Fran- cis Ferdinand, the heir to the. Austri- an throne, who, like all the Hapi was an ardent Catholic, and was sym- pathetic toward little -Servia, —with which the vatican had but recently concluded a friendly concordat. Views on Peace. The pope’s views on peace, embodied in an allocution del:lveradu:.td m sistory at which he_ cr new cardinals last May, constituted such a remarkable document that the Carnegie Peace union, founded in February by Andrew Carnegie with an endowment of $2,000,000, decided to begin its educational activities in pe- half of disarmament and arbitration among the clergy of the Roman Cat! olic church by sending to each of the 23,000 priests of the United States and Canada a copy of this allecution. In it the pope referred to “men of tinction and force planning schemes for preventing the calamities of revo- lutions and the slaughter of war, aid for insuring the blessing of peace’ which, coupled with the fact that he spoke at length with the three Ameri- can cardinals—Gibbons, Farley aud O'Connell—was interpreted as refer- ring to the efforts of President Wilsoff and Secretary of State Bryan in behalf of universal peace. - - “Today,” he said, “peace or war in society and the state does not depend so much on the rulers as on the multi tudes. Deprived of the light of truth revealed by God, unused to the disci~ pline of Christ, what wonder if the multitudes, the prey of blind passions, rush to the common ruin, instigated by the clever agitators who seek noths: ing but their own advantage.” REQUIEM JPASSES IN ALL > CATHOLIC CHURCHES TODAV: Statement by Rev. John G. Murray, Chancellor of Diocese of Hartford. Hartford, Conn., Aug. 20.—The Right Rev. Bishop John J. Nilan of the Ro» man Catholic diocese of Hartford was sleeping when the news of the death of Pope Pius X was received early to=" day, and officials of the church decided not to inform him-until he awoke. - Rev. John G. Murray, chancellor and secretary, gave out this statement: “The death of Pope Pius X wifll cause ‘universal grief throughout Christendom. As sovereign pontiff he chose as his motto: things in Christ’ His purpose was to be in all things the chief shepherd of souls. All his public acts @nd ecclesi- astical legislation were the direct out come of this purpose. His reign marked an epoch in ‘the development of canon law. He will be remembered as an amiable holy father, who had at" heart the interest of all his childrem: and of all nations.” Rev. Father Murray stated that re- quiem masses will be held today (Thursday) in all Roman Catholic- churches in Connecticut. W T g 2 Movements of Steamships. Cadiz, Aug. Buenos Ayres, New York. 3 19 — Arrived, uthampton. Liverpool, Aug. 15—Arrived, steamer Olympic, New York. Plymouth, Aug. 18—Arrived, steame er Alaunia, Montreal. : 3 e =%