Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 20, 1914, Page 1

Battle on Botween the Vistula and Warta Rivers 27 and on Border of Posen - FRENCH REPORT SAYS - “PARTICULARLY QUIET” Although the Ustal Artillery Ducls and Attacks by Infantry at Various Places are in Progress—Petrograd Admits ! Russia and Turkey send Contradictory Reports of Naval Battle in Black Sea—British Drive Ottoman Forces From Trenches Near Persia Gulf. Amsterdam ‘lvel the - !al.tnwxn‘ -official statement: “The battle .in Rnuhn Poland pro- gresses fayorably. Accordign to the day’s information, our troops have cap- tured 7,000 prisoners, 18 mlch.lns of | and several field guns.” :H.u-hn bn.!t.luh;ljl bfl-m p was and that the others fled toward Sebas- which place the. me occur- however, 35 men killed-in Using Boats in Belgium. Owing to the flooded country on the porthern line in Belgium, the belliger- freqs resort to the use of boats in their opera- RUSSIANS AND GERMANS HOLD PUBLIC INTEREST. i ndon, Nov. 19, 9:50 p. m—Pub- m"‘ffl.‘m.m u:fo Ru.—hm = ‘between _the DETAILS OF NAVAL BATTLE . IN' THE BLACK SEA B BANKS ASK PERMISSION. . TO LOWER THIIR RATES. Although Rediscounting Operations Have Amounu to Only: a Fow| Millions. Wuhlmm Noy. 19.—Although re- ca ung o;g‘ru.fim by Te- days b e @ few million dollars, several of the banks already have sent requests to_the federal reserve for permission to lower the rates. No ‘information was given:out xonh'm by the board, b m«finflhym ES. AND wuufl.m»vlzl.n | 'NOT A SYLLABLE GES 5 DAYS LATE cretary Lansi depufl::nton’ga%fl::fimm- firing forces on the launch of the American | cruiser Smynn. Asia The president summioned the two secretaries to learn if there had any. word from Turkey shedding light on the reasons for the firing, but found that neither the cables nod the wireless had yielded a syllable of information. Eutepean war has virtually para- “cable communication to T and such messages as e come by roundabout routes late. ‘MBy Use British Wireless. 3 1 ‘there is continued delay, it is probable. that the American govern- Prent owill ask the British admiraity for the courtesy of its wireless in Mediterran cei abo ean to reach the Amerlesn s e president and his cabinet are that the shots fired at the American _launch . were merely. & friendly warning, giving the customary notice that the port was mined and tes, | closed. Even if the shots were fired Two Turkish' Warships Put-to Flight| trang; By Russians and de iR, account for ailure to pt-in an: earlier appear- e s the| SPEAKER CLARK RECEIVING 1ssom.izpw Elscted Have| ¢ ais- - Assured . b 9. five sailors slightly wounded. ENGLAND'S WAR LOAN HAS BEEN COVERED, But Subscription List.fe to Remain| ot Open Until Next Tuesday, CANAL NOT LIABLE - - FOR DEMURRAGE CHARGES - - PL‘MQ OF .UPM i te: Representatives ork, Adamson of Weébb Nonh Carolina and = other it figures. in the house. ELLIOTT RE-ELECTED BY NEW HAVEN ROAD —_— c-unmm- of g New_ York, Nov, 18 —Howard: Billott was re-elected w-ddnt of the: New York, New Haven & Hartford road - company af a - roadts direcivhy ‘Was re-el A B, Clark tatement issucd after the mesting the Mnn of an executiv aunmx lost the | ] Ri Franci A c“mb?x'l m‘é:"?'mn::a B fissell wers. ¢ "2 committee to take. up-the Boston er. A.lang ‘were | Southeastern territory, Cfly and Pittsburg and | St Louls. - Virtnaly BRITISH CRUISER TO DOCK AT RIO JANEIRD Fur-Urgent R -immv-.sy fective o1 Brazil Rio Janeiro, Brlsll, Vov‘ 19.—The Bricish_ cruiser hich with hostile intent, the Washington government believes that the Ottoman government would render apology mptly for unauthorized acts of sub- | ordinate offis Not R-q-rdod as Serious. In no quarter here is the incident or its. es regarded as serious, ted States has no quarrel with Turkey. The American govern- ment is caring for’ Turklsh subjeots nterests in France and Great B‘rlt‘h and there has been every indl- cation Ql friendliness in the relations e ashington and Constantino- Am' to Have Incident Closed, In the absence of definite. informa~ flm;hfinmr the p:e-m ,‘!t 2000 CARRANZA TROOPS CMANGE ANDJON‘WA’SM ‘American Agents Are of the Opinion ~ Vilta Will Reach Mexico City With- _ out Difficulty—Army Well Equipped and Moving With Precision. Eastern Oregon reported smow of the season. The Los Angelos will reopen December mi lem!w e grain crops and trees. Amnnfcmtmnntmn Uxbridge, was Rahway (N. 3. an-cn--u mon- Fostor Coats sditor of the Attanta Georginan, died at his home in Atanta The Bank of Eng-ld received Om run;- n bar gold and 110,000 pounds United States coin. Macalut a tailor . 11! New Yur:"v‘vu shot‘;'! gangsters and his ican | pody hidden in a barrel. od thelr ollegingice on the arrival of batones mald, Snd guereon i alon es ns s ine as. themselves in the Vilia colnm That Villa will reach Mexico City| terfel without difficulty s the opinion of the Americah agentsc, who say hls army is wel equipped and moving with sci- entific precision. From Carrgnza sources, however, it is stated that Vil la will have tc clash in a-few days with the troops of Generals Obregon and Gonzales, south of Irapuato and near Queretaro, From Mexico —City, government has received advices of the generai uncertainty with whiche the situation is beclouded. It was not known there whether General Obregon will ‘be able to hold the city agafhst the attacks of Zapatistas on the south and conventionallst forces on the north. DEATH OF DOCTOR ROBERT J. BURDETTE. Preacher, Author and Humorist Had Been il for Two Years. Pasadena, Cal, Nov. 19.—Dr. Robert 3. Burdette, preacher, anthor and hu- morist, died at his home here at 2 o'clock this afternoon. He had been 1il for the greater part of two years and for the last week had been in a stae of coma. Robert J. Burdette began cultivating good humor obscurely in Peoria, TiL. 40 years ago, when he spent part of his days at a desk on the Peoria Tran- ript *“trying to think,” as he hims>'t “of pleasant things to teil the xolh when 1 went home at night.” the American lent is ;nxleu- ©: ey Danies §nd v, Lane | b 10 further inquiries had .dh‘:gefl to the American cruis- GOVERNMENT VESSEL TO BRING PRIESTS AND NUNS. General- Funston Telegraphed Secre- tary Garrison. ‘Washington, Nov. 19.—General Fun- ston late today telegraphed Secretary Garrison that he would arrange to bring the Biexican priésts and nuns now at Vera Cruz to the United States by a government vessel. previoualy had been informed by the prieat’ in‘charge of the retugees at ‘era Cruz that they would be taken out of Mexico under church auspices. ldent Kelley of ‘the Cathelic Extension society, Chicago, Vs Thtormed ot Genoral” Fanstans iatest message. GENERAL OBREGON HAS ISSUED A MANIFESTO Calling Upen Al Citizens to. Join the Cause Against Villa. ,Mex«so Sity, Nov. 19—General Obre- a manifesto to the nation wnu'nt ufl&ng upon all citizens to Join the cause against General Villa, Wwhom “he -denominated as “a_traitor inal, whose. whole purpose is to 'sacrifice ‘the country on the altar of personal ambition.” MATERIAL INCREASE IN > IN: PASSENGER FARE Trunk' Line to Advance Rate to 2 1-2 Cents Per Mile Washington, Nov. i creases in passenger fares, Lhromout the . country, will be caused by advances amnounced by railroads in trunk line térritory, between New York Chicago and rtualy, the basis for re- adjustment is 2 1-2' cents a mile, the present basis generally being 2 1-4 cen ‘With Ceniral Passenger association territory, the riew fares will become ef- ber 1, and in trunk line' tersitory and. betwaen the tWo territories, they will become effective on, Docember 15. 5 An-analysis by interstate commierce the | commission experts of the tariffs filed fhe| by the rilronds shows the: advances between spacific points by comparing the present with the proposed fares. tes of the standard routes in all mq ‘are’a mne ‘higher than those of the so-calied differential lines. $71,000° OOLLECT'ON WAS OBTAINED BY EXTORTION ment Officials from Holders 5 Crown Lumber Lands. -, St. John, N. B..—;t;. i9—The royal ov the holders of . mwn land lumber licenses tound that from been | the report, $71,000 this. Obtatned by extortion, according to the comutiselon’s report mhade public. fo- S T ‘flllix“ ion " that ;“t‘b uklz that the money 590,000 cigarettes from BEevypt, country over TO ATTEND MEETING OF COTTON LOAN COMMITTEE. Members of the Federal Reserve Board Will Be at Conference. Washington, Nov.. 19—W. H. G. Harding and Paul M. Warburg, of the federal reserve board, who have been the active agents in the raising of the $135,000,000 cotton loan fund, left to- night for New York to_attend the first meeting there tomorrow of the cotton loan committee which will administer the fund. Mr. Hardimg will be chairman of the committee and ~_prominent bankers. from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis will be mem. bers. Its first work will be the desi; nation of state committees in the cot- ton producing states which will pass on loans asked by cotton growers. The office of the committee will be in New York, and Mr. Harding prob- ably will spend much of his time there for the next few weeks. as “The Burlington COAL BARGE SWAMPED Orf PENFIELD REEF. Loaded With 500 Tons of Coal for Bridgeport and New Haven. Bridgeport, Conn., Noy. 19.—During a northeast gale today the barge R. C. "McNeil, loaded. with 300 tons of hard coal, was swamped and sunk off Pen- field reef. The barge was the last of a tow/of six consigned to Bridge] and New Haven from New York, in ghargs of the tug Owen J. MeWilltdms. -~ Fred Pitcher of South Y, who' was on the MecNeil, was taken aboard one of the other. The Henry McWilliams went to the assistance of the tow and pulled_the barges into the harbor. Blue hold and some of the other barges ‘were lllshuy damaged. 5,900,000 WOMEN ENROLLED FOR BELGIAN RELIEF. Organizations Aggregating That Mem- bership to Co-operate. New York, Nov. 19.—~Women's organ- izations whaose memberships aggregate 5,900,000 have enrolled in an executive co-operatirig committee to assist the American commission for relief in Bei gium, it was announced tonight by of ficers of the woman’'s Bection of (hQ commission. Fourteen national and in. ternational ‘women's socleties, inclus ing the Congress of Mothers, Interna tional Woman’s Suffrage alliance, ‘Woman's Christian Temperance unlon and Daughters of the American Revo- lution, bave joined the movement. Argentine - Dreadnought Tests. -Boston_ Nov. ~19.—Phe Argentina dteld.nought Moreno . has completed Successtully every = required test of accordis Completes pushed to | Hmit lfld could - mpllnh 23' easily if necessary. v L SOBREEAN - Progressive Committeeman -R-m u«-h.&. Ohio, Nov. 19.—J. J. The Interstate Commerce Commie- sion_approved the half cemt increase in Michigan u!lrvlfl fares. Secret twvln announced the W nl nn and . dollar coun- James M Sullivan American Mini: ter to Santo Demingo, who has been at Wasbington, \n!t for his post. The New York agency of the Bank of Cuba received from the main of- fice in Havana, 3 000 in gold coin. Miss Mary S. Man:n, a_ Broolkyn school teacher, fell dead on the street, while returning to school from lun- cheon. There are 32 cases of typhoid fever The State of Morales i Ovwned by 27 Men—Workers Will Own Farms—Nominal Freedom Accorded Peons, Buf 'l'hqml’oulyl’filnd Virtually Compelled to h mmhmdfiwwm—w mwmmm«l’m Defernds President Wilson’s Method of Meeting an Emergency — President’s Personal Rw Found Individual Mexicans to be Loyal Friends. : " Chicago,, Nov. 19—John Lind, per- sonal representative of President Wil- son in Mexico, during the Huerta ad- ministration, declared today in an ad- dress here to the Industrial ciub, that the Jand question was the cause of the revolutions in Mexico and that fighting there would never cease uatil the workers there were adle to own in Hartford and twenty-six of these their own farms. are among customers of a. Windsor milkman. Paraguay has decided that the purchase and sale of all hides produ: ed in the republic shall be a govern men_ fonopoly. An advance. fumrd o the expectsd American eyacuation of Vera Cruz ar- rived. at Galveston, consisting of 125 officers and men. The American Steel & Cos plant at Fairfield, Ala.. received orders for o large tonnage of barbed wire, from Turkey. The American Peace Society isplan- ning o peace congress to take place in San Francisco, during the Panama- Pacific_Exposition. The German steamship Karnao was declared an auxiliary crulser and .in- terned in the barbor of Antof by Chilean authorities. Four exhausted Infl half | starved Toledo men were picked up in a gaso- Erie, near Kingsyille, Ontario, Three leading Egyptian cigaretts] manufacturers are sending, “t‘ g:x(; o “the British soldiers al the front. George W. Guthrie, American Am- bassador to Japan, gave a luncheon in honor of the- Japanese Panama-Pa cific exposition commissioners. Twenty-five hundred yards of cotton bandages made by women of Albeny, tribution through the war zone. Although only two votes were cast for the Democratic nomination for al- derman in one ward in Newton, Mass., a recount has been del led.. Officials of the Savannah Clearing House Association announced that the original pla.n o subscrive $2,500,000 to the cotton pool had been abandomed. Samuel Ullman of New York denied the story that his son, Joseph Ullman, had been arersted and sentenced to death in London, as # German spy. Capital of the KNpp Co.,” of Ger- many, which manufactures blg guns for the German army, will be increas- | ed from 70,000,000 to 250,000,000 marks. W. B. Jackson, aie.of the best known grain men in the country and former president of the Chicago Boara of Trade, died at his home in Chicago. The first Jew to be elected to a. governorship of any state in the Union, is Moses Alexander, who was elected Governor of 1daho, at the recent elec- tion. y-five mills in Great Britain Thi will be shut down as a result of the mbargo on the exportation of tin plate “to Sweden, Denmark and and . The prohibition of the sale or con- sumption of absinthe and similar drinks was extended by official decree to take in the French colonies in Af- Tica. Charles Nagel, former Seoretary of Commerce and Labor, was selected as the third member of the Federal Re. serve Board of Mediation and Concili- ation. John Strouble of Chica: shot and killed John He; an lishman and wounded Peter Linskey, Swede, when Heffron called the Kai er a “mutt. Colonel Dana W. King for over 38 years registrar of deeds in Hilisbo- ro county and prominent in Grand Army circles in the state, dfed at Nashaua, N. H. Patents and trade marks nted under the Huerta regime in Mexico have been declared valid but ' mining claims must be revalidated, with pay- ment of new taxes. yron T. Herrick, Amarican ke nce received = -persoral e B Queen Mary of Englane, thanking him for what he. did for British wounded in Pari The case of captnin dokin A. Fish, charged with setting schooner yacht Senta in t_he Edgartown on October 2, Toto, waa given to the jury at Boston. g"ggm line wyacht, a few .miles out in Lake:| P! N. Y. will be sent to Europe for dis- |!f Mr. Lind pleaded for kindiy feelings toward Mexico, asserting that Mexi- can distrust of the United States was vanishing and that thereafter the Mex- icans would be our steadfast friends forever. Peace Under Past Conditions lmm sible. “T_felt_while in. Mexico and I feel now,” said Mr. Lind, “that permanent peace in Mexico on the basis of the soclal and economic conditions which have existed in the past is an impos- sibility. Mr. Lind sketched the taking of the land from the original possessors by the Spanish conquerors. “As: 2. whole -the nation was made homeless,” he said, “and has so con- tinued, to this day. This is ana wiil be- the’ cause of revolutions in Mexico uirtil the question is settled. The state of "Morelos, for example, is owned by 27 men.” Workers Kept in Subjection. Nominal. freedoms, . Ling declared, ‘was aceorded the peons, butthey were 20 ase pooriy Daid and virtually, coms d to in the service i the great Jand owners. Laws forpidding an employe to leave his service while in debt have aided .in' keeping: the " workers in subjection. the fact that the- Méxicah rail- roads’ are now in hands of the native Mexicans - from’ division superinten- dents to section men. “I asked myself and I asked some of the eritics of President Wilson's p‘o’:lcy. he. sald, 'wltiet.her it ;nxs not range of probability that a ]:nople who within s brist mkb':fldmhm uivaiont pro equivalent - gress in the ne)dofpouuumdz- ernment, if afforded a fair chance.” Oppression Cause of Hostilities, Carefal study of Mexicans, Mr. Ltnd said, has convinced him that the dif= between uem:ns and citizens |tn racial, ference of the United States are not nor psychological. The ingratitude and turbulence attributed to the Mexicans Mr. Lind attributed to the years of oppression which they have suffered. He hald that the word of a Mexican could be tsken with as much reliance JURISDICTIONAL FIGHT AT MEETING OF A, F. OF L. Between Elevator Constructors’ Union ® and Machinists Philadelphia, Nov. 19—~What was re- garded as the most impoftant juris- dictional fight in, the American Fed- eration of Labor this year was set- tled in convention today in favor of the International Union of Blevator Constructors over the International as- sociation of Machinists. Mqre than five years the machinists sought to have the elevator constructors amalga- mate with them, in order to do away with numerous jurisdictional disputes. The matter has been before several conventions of the federation which has favored the Amalgamation, dut the elevator men have always been able to fight over the merger. Todly the committee of adjustment a _resolution vreuldent and executive council of the federntion; ta, callia; contacence fof d parties in interest .within 50 days for the purpese of bringing about amalga- mation. 2 James Duncan, first vicee ‘president of the federation, offered a substitute resolution which provided that the present status of the elevator con- structors be continued, with the un- derstanding that the ‘men, with the assistance odt tgam and sllied trades ‘snd the 'ciceparmtiont ot the . executive council of tI substitut of 11,590 lfl l“l s SR A STRANGE STEAMSHIP CRUISING OFF CAPE COD.. Refused to Amswer Signals from the Marine Ob-rv-hvy. Boston, Nov. dup. beluvaa to' b a Brdies ““‘fl‘.o .,.‘?.:. s !‘C amg-r as the word of men of other natio Auuu, and spoke with pleasure xllll courtesy and kindMfe M Mexicans Wary and Susplcicus. “The bard w of the Mex+ ican has made wary and suse picious,” sald xr. Lind. “It has been difficult for the Mexican peopie to b~ lieve that our president did not have some n!turlor metive in his proffered | g00d offices. Make Loyal Friends, T v.mnk. however, that they are now about con and when once con= vinced, I think it will be true of the Mexican peoplefi as it is of individual Mexicans, that when you have theit Teal confldence, more Toyal friends are not to be found™ Mr. Lind excoriated the >Mexican Greater Interests Than Dividends.. - “I do ot belittle the losses of mén who have lost dividends from mines and plantations. Their losses hava been great and grievoms. But thers are grester interests in this world than dividends. “Property losses can be comped~ but to retard civilization, wheth~ ¢ the recognition. of a. Huerta or as is done in Burope, at this houn Would have heen & crime against two and generations unborn. The vmmem proffered his—good and the good will of our nafion to the Deable- of Mexico. . Was thin the tre American apirit or would you ‘have had “our president act in the spimh that is now devastating European ci uufiold: Wilson's Diplomacy: “Europe condemned the idealism of our president- as well as his_diplos macy. They are reaping the fruit af their diplomacy, we of ours. Which do'syou ' préfer?” Mr. Lind, advocated the estabilsh- ment of @ branch bask in Mexico and effort on the part of com~ ercial miterests 1o extend Ameriomn trade to that countrvs Plea” for Mexicans. “T will close” he sald, “with e plaa for & warmer 'end Kindller intercst i mhoxnefleo dwell in @ rich and ‘eautiful 'lt.fi«thntthsym:mw Mm They Y vicissitudes which we have believe that they are emerging the light of a new and better WAR TAX ON TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH MESSAGES, Collection to Bo Made With. Least Possible Inconvenience to Companies. . Washington, Nov. 1$—instructions were jesued tonight by the internal Tevenue bureau designed to facilitate collection of the war revemue tax om telephone and telesraph messages with as little Inconvenience as possible to the companies. The companies, the instructions say; shall make one report and one retwrn as a whole in !.ha district tn which its central office is ocn:‘l. They Messages originating in automatic telephone stations are subject to the t—one cent on a message for which a charge is made of 15 cents or more —and the companies are left to des: their own methods of collection such cases. Al telephone me-uu wher;a the mnttial rate is less than 18 cen ut where . the overchargs makes the amount due, exceed 15 cents are subject to tax. ges. over private cuits, relating exclusively to the busi< Dess for which it was-leased, are ex= emp! Movements of Steamships. Nov. 19.—Passed, aleunu leased cii~ wwuom-ahy-m‘- San N S t, New York. Suiled, 17th, Mas e Yoy Nov & 3 the flagship Botilla which left op, Conn., todsay, about a foot m ‘been sighted in Block.