Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 28, 1914, Page 1

At Guxhaven Netted Small Results-- Orumrs, Iles- troyers and Aoroplanes Tuuk Part FOUR OF SEVEN - PLANES USED wme*msr " One of the British Flight Officers is Thought to Have Been|: Flanders—Attacks and Counter Attacks in Alsace With No Material Progress—Russians Report That Fighting' Being Confiend to Artillery Fire—Petrograd Announces Repulse of Austrians in the Carpathians. ‘Comparatively quiet prevails in the ‘western theatre of the war. In Fianc- ers, the cannonading has been inter- mittent, but in the Argonne region ané Alsace there were attacks and counter- attacks, with no material progress on ‘dt'hcdde. Prench aviators, in the way of a re- to the aerial bombarding of \alwv Germans, E: stations of Metz, bombs_in their flight. Nommmang the fact that a re- statement announced that. had ceased their attacks the Bzura river, in Russian Po- m ‘Jatest advices ‘from Berlln mdi- that they are still sdvancias Potrograd asserts, how- Gt e slome. the Beire aed Faa vers the . unung of lato has been . A scrians. In. Silicta, the Tus- staff assterts have been Mnn back in the neighborhood of dropping ;#ea-planes apparondly smal] results. Four of the seven were lost and one of the - fight . officers is thought to sea- part. Wi e Fotusts ic Paris, Januncy of the ministry of war from Bordea x e ‘d the French government have e ek departed wh b Were closely pressing on ihe L2’y Bas ordered the cruiser - at Béfrut, a, to render there demonstrations against the d: of Burdpeans from 7T given official denial lovdz)‘ the nvort that she has ceded haif of the fsland of Sakhalin to Japan. Emperor Nicholas is again witn the -army at the front. A’ regiment of Itallan sharpshnoters aze,on their way to Avlona, Albania, to relieve the sailors landed there las: week againstldo-dOmmeeredttfur -lotr Week to put down the disorder. Nune Of the powers has protested agaminst Ttaly’s occupation of Aviona. “Turkey is said to be reinforcing mop- defending the Dardanelles ana h® Bosphorus with soldiers and art: fery from the Adrianople garrison, BERLIN HAS NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE TO REPORT No. Great Change in Situation Either West or East, Perlin. Des. 27 (Bv wireless tele- London, 3.20 p. m.)—The ofld.ll communication was lfilfl today by the general o!un' of importance happe: in Flanders. . English of shlpu o« the coast this morning. enemy made an unsuccessful 4 iovement yesterday at Albert direction of Boiselle, which was &"" o made ap unsuccessful & successful counter-at- no-y .d'm ‘moveraent gdterdl.y at Albert in our troops early this morn- in the diraction of Boiselle, which was by a successful counter-at- ;by ‘our troops early this morn- 5 attacks in Meurissefs, n mm“e; and ;omhn;:or Ve!. n under our fire. In & Albace the Freach Sttacked our Bk i, ot i e g pummes ese sssauits were repulued. “Durlsiy the first hotirs, of the night ‘yosterday the ' an and - the Temained tn our postession to- Mlbunm..hn-qa!nthe _eithar in east or west Prus- our offensive continued “attacks on wawlodz from etion repulsed m ‘RAID GERMAN NAVAL BASE AT CUXHAVEN, -doulol.o-\- DDed ‘bomb , | Rochestor, whish isionly 28 mfln c-lt lost, as his machine was found wrecked off Helgoland.: 'W’?n‘ was done Dby thé bombs. thrown by the aftacking party could not be ascertained, but the Ger- man report of the affair says-that the raidw. as fruitless: The enterprise of the British-navy in| thus attempting to “dig out” the Ger- man flect brought abaut a battle be- tween the most modern of war ma- chines. The British squadron, incla tno|Ing the light cruisers Argthusa and Un- daunted, which heve béen engaged in previous expioits on the German coast, was attacked by Zeppelis, seaplanes and submarines. By rapid manoeuvering were able to avold the while the Zeppelins found the cruisers too dangerous lessly into the sea. however, claim to have nu two. de- gtroyers' and tietr. convoy, the latter being set afire. The British ships -remairied_ inthe vicinity for three hours swithout. being attacked by zny surface warships and pilots and “| picked up ihree of uu seven | thel planag: up by eubmarines, but gfl Mm es, r -ma- chlnu wmfi:mcmuugmuq- lete, it in £ Anocilier fiuvfl. eve hed at 15, but'it r;;llm(fl;‘:’w amase It was learned todAy. that-fhe Gere man airman who visited: Enxiand Christmas day_aro; e “outheast of St. Paul's, Londen, "afd seven miles from Gravesend. Fid no demage, as-it-fell in'the road- Waz. NTERMITTENT CANNONADING - BETWEEN THE SEA AND LYS. Parie, Dec. 27, 2 p. m-~The. follow in# . official armeme-t wes. issued this afternoon: etween the sea and the Lys.th was calm and cennonading inter- mittent. “Between: the Lys and the Olse-thete is nothing to report.* ‘In_the valley of the Aisne. and in Champagne- artillery duels.continued. In the region of Perthes the enemy, af- ter a violent bombardment upon. the ‘renches which he had lost. attempted a violent counter-attack, which . was repulsed the fire of our -artillery and infantry. n the Arzonne was_ slight nrogTess to the seuth ot St. Hubert One company gained between i 200 metres. W BOmbAracd . ravine forcing the enemy to evacuate several trenches. Between the Meuse - and Moselie to the east of St. Miniel tw German nflflckl &t the fortifica. ds - were re- A dirigible dropped a_dozen bombs on Nancyin the center of the city and without military reason. Our aviators in contrast bombarded the lv(nflon has of , one of the rail gars 2 stations of ‘Mdm where mvmu of treins were of Saint Privat at Mets. In. upper Alsace our - troops realized further l'vl';)trre‘s:l ‘upon '.hs g:l.hh which dom.. nate Cernay ani ‘e repulsed some attncks thers, “In Russia the Germans, who re- and the sumed their march upon Miaws, have reaceutied that ¢ity. The situation in Poland remains ~_without - - notable chanes. The . violence -of s the ‘Dattles diminished. In the central wlon the battle on the mh-r!;l contin- Bes very keeu except.u Nida. Gn the whole Galleta: “"m""&?: strugele is developing under condi favorable-to the :fmni" s RUSSIA HAS CEDED No P « TERRITORY TO JAPAN Statement Given Out at Japanese Erm- bassy in. Washington Dec4 27—At. the (Jap- anese embassy today it was said that a statement Saturday by @ secretary. to the effpot that the embassy hafl re- geived officlal confirmation of morn. ing press despatches the Japanese dlet, v “for. a Statement | thet iho’ embassy. had Dres getv 4 hcmnnntm’; ot eep- ches. .,g ltl“!n. which it m porthern half of Sakhslin !w:‘x’mu and this’ snnouncement wli made: “The statement _was. nuak;m. report. whatever ane , Dec, 97, 1005 p, m—Assist- duvuvy s :mxnmmtfighmm - _'asfin 1TS_FomcE At:Northfield, V&, Yesterday, the Mer- - cury Went Down to 26 Below Zero. M on on,Dec. "14-—-‘wlfltlfl M- gho ships | *F “fire of for them to e COUPI-E ASPHVXIAT!D AT QOUTH Ww By Empmi he—Trres of Seven |52 Children Made 'Hi, oot g 0 and | death. unmol ly ]{Ilfl.b!aqrpoflian af his, troops. - Gen- eral vho - has withdrawn ocaxpv Naco, Svnbl"i. thien therefore 'becomic fumes m% hom i tinved: —_— BRITISH TORPEDO-BOAT: Mmmd%%ww‘& nsiderable Difficulty. Andrews. | gales’ Baznrn and the Fayka has | heavy was,; un- | po! o efend against attack. From ;nea@mangm pmn: of ‘view, the ored ‘becanse Aghting at either g e iy mtg not. hf elo&mo ‘h to the American towns.to_ produce the same sit had, existed. for syvera m"‘fif’u‘éfi; Stray puanices could, no:p hlvc ‘l'etulted Rebvs wADE ron ARSON ‘AT s-ums'om: b g o i i e f to ng ‘and’queen of I 3| day cwill: e named an 27.- | Third foor w-‘ Taken - Down - Ladders—Many wfly ‘Burned. LY | The demominations ranged muu the rutins for, ditional bodies. The five which were l‘culda( ‘were so burned that dims(a.nnn was. impossible until the 1-of. inmates cguld be checked. Up. Anpzrenuy two of’the thoseof women. ;.5 Many Rescues. Soores-of men, womien-and chfldren were- taken down. s, Many wore so . seriously - burned -or affected Ly smoke that they ‘were taken to hospi- tals, , There was'much._Suffering from he intense cold until nearby’ resi- g nts_opened their “houses to the v unate- victims, e cause of the fire has not been determiried. ~ It started in a meat stor- age-room on the first floor and ths ‘flames rushéd up a‘dumb waiter shaft to’the sleeping quarters. ‘ Narrow Escape of Policeman. ~Sergeant -John ‘J., Cannéy and Pa- trolman ' James Russell of the Cam- wzf police who were among the first e scene, raised a ladder and Rus sell.and another man rushed up to They had assisted soveral persons to the windows when Russell Was seen to collapse and fall haci- ‘ward: . Canney a bystander hurried up the Jadder and found Russell lying on the " floor ‘close to- the flamies. They carried him down the ladder and after a few minutes he revived. Canmey was. burned. bodies, : were PRES!DENT WILSON 5 58 YEARS OLD TODAY. Wasningt . -~ President ‘Wilison, who cqlohnte his 55th birth- day tomorrow, -today began receiving rom all parts Hhited sme:x::a from foreign countries. . . The . president_ will spend the day ulstly with his family and no 1al, observarice of the anniversary is {hnncd i ~Except for. a co erence on_ the ad- mmmms legislative. with Majority Leader Underwood and thie reception of a delegation of Sun- 1 purils from New Jersey, the s u(!xtar born Satur- Dirth will be granted to a mumber of prisoners, including those for- participation in the Brilml, Conn., Dec. 27. E Wnodb R %r at N of cotton hnnlhl m.z"w .m..%‘p'.‘.‘ -cnh-n: i arrived in .T'h. Mufipuw ive to thel: —_— ~Five - Goflnun who were trying to |4 themselves . into Germany | nsm.h Italy have been Iocked up atf- Co., distributed s 500 elnpllflfll. from $2.50 The American Mr‘tfi gold coins to @ach of to $20. The Washington Beard of Education put itself on record for approving thi nti-marrisge. rule for women school teachers. More than 16,000,000 animals for human consumption -were sold for $409,134,000 cash in Chicago = during this year. The Collins-Day expedition of Nat- uralists, which goes ip search for specimens of animals will sail today from New York. American copper expor®s to Europe reached-a total of 30,724,367 pounds, valued at $8825.474 in the first three waaks of December Ten new cases of diphtheria were reported in Hoboken, bringing the total number of cases reported since December 1, to 115. H. Clayton Hoff, er of the First ational Bank of Tslip, L. L who da- appeared December 12, returned to his home last Wednesday. Employes at the Tarrytown railroad station and telephone girls received ten dollar gold pieces as Xmas gifts from John D. Rockefeller. The Lamport and Holt liner Vasari carried 38,5628 quarters of Argentine beef, the largest consignment of chill- ed beef ever brought here. Bequests to religious orga u(v ns aggregating $14,300 were mad S o Mise, Mary o Wyekor whe died &t her home at Newark, N. J. Henry J. Rogers of Riverhead has sued as taxpaver for the return’of $8,605 excess ¢ by Samuel F. Robinson for copying the tax roil, After nine months of idiness the Riverside Mill of the Tinited Stell Cor- wilk resumeBet-an.u - Saduet Doration at Benwood, Pa., will resume. Equal suffragists of Wilmington, Del., put a wreath on the grave of Jarne! ‘Ashton,” Bayard, one of the signers of the Treaty of Ghent, who ls buried ere. William M..Barrett, president of the Adams Express Co., in response to rumors, declared: that the company was not considering retiring from bus- iness, Colls graduates become involved in more accidents than uneducated iabor- ers_go, according to W. W. McDorald, a General Electric Company’s official at Lyup. The law abolishing agencies, adopt- ed by the voters of Washington last month, was declared valid in a deel- sicn of the United States Court of Arpeals. George Peterson, of Leng Isiand City, confessed to' the police that in the pas: six months he had broken upen 200 trunks in thé United States ap- praisers’ Stores. William E. Heffron and George W. Loop of Syracuse, were fined 31,006 each and sentenced to serve 18 months in_ Atlanta penitentiary for violating the postal laws. A large guantity of packages con- taining Christmas gifts and other mis- cellaneous articles, was burned in a fire which partly (lefl:nyed the post- office at' Merrick, L. L. School books which classify the Indian as a Mongolian or refer to him in’any other way than as.a memebr of @ distinct race will be barred hereafter tnn 4q D9JONPUCD SI00YIS UEIPUl WOL Governiaent. Frank A. Tierney, sscretary to Gov- ernor Glynn, has been appointed a deputy commissioner under the work- men's compensation act, and will be in charge of the Alhny office of the Commissioner. German dye and chemioal facturers are running their plants day and night, .and 60 per cent of the force engaged work are devoting their eneme- mmd making dyestufts for this country. Details of native uprisil in the Bhilippines beglnning Christmas Eve were given in a cablegram received from Governor General Harrison at the ‘war department and made pubiic by Assistant Secretary Breckerridge. The Russian Government has a of news agency to It is ed that the. is absolute- asserts 1y unfounded. HARTFORD BARTENDER CHARGED MANSLAUGHTER. Pushed Man Out, Who. Was Llhf' Feund Dead.. g Conn, Dec. #—John 7, arrested to-. in exchange for heavy -rflllury report Hartford, mmw Violation of Electlon un : Held in $10,000 Bonds ed.NoMmWfllboTuhnlnhCu.bdynh_v Time—Terre Haute’s Superintendent of Police is ing & Jail Sentence for Contempt of Court. Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 27.—Mayor Donn “M. Roberts of Terre Haute, in- dicted for alleged" violation of election laws and brought here last night and placed in jail in default of $10,000 hond, demanded by the government, may make an effort to procure his re- lease tomlorrow. Mayor Roberts’ wife came to Indi: lis today to see if bond. could not be procured at once, out she was told that this could net be | to done on Sunday. s, Roberts procured a blank bond n-vm nu-k Storen, United States mar- was expected to return to- nlgnt W 'rsrrw Haute, where, it is said, she will attempt to procure satisfac- tory securities o gain her husband's The indicted men will be arraigned about Jan. 25, according to the United States district attorney, Frank C. Dailey. Their trials will be set at that timte, he said. Although 92 of the 126 men who are said to have been indicted have been arrested, no more will be taken into custody at the present time, Marshal orne- said today. Some of those, vanted have left the county, he sai sthers are ill, and one, Edward Holler, Terre Haute's superintendent of police, is in jail serving a sentence for con- tempt of court. GRAND JURY TO PROSE ELECTION RETURNS When It Reconvenes at Indianapolis on e January 4th. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 27.—Wheh the FIRE DESTROYS HOSPITAL ANNEX AT NEW HAVEN Seven Patisnts Were Removed from Building in_Safoty.. New Haven, Cum Den 27.—Fire early today destroyed the Grace hos- pital anmex in Orchard street, caus- ing a loss of $15000. There were seven patients in the building and these were all removed in safety to the main hospital, several hundred feet away. One of ‘the: patients, Miss Caharine Stanley, 90 years old, died iater, but the hospital authorities say that the fire or excitement had noth- ing to do with her death, which had been momentarily expected for some 5. m‘{‘xu fire, started in the celiar from an overheated furnace, it is thought. The blaze had made considerable headway before it was discovered. The nurses in the building and in the dor- mitories across the street at once wrapped the patients in blankets and carried them to the hospital proper on_cots. ‘Two alarms were turned in. The firemen suffered severely because of the intense cold, the thermometer be- ing below zero. The main hospitil was in mo serious dange: BRAZILIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Organized in Rio De Janeiro a Few Days Ago. ‘Washington, Dec. 27.—Ambassador Da Gama of Prazil today wrote Sen- ator. Root, president of the American Society of International Law, that a branch of the soclety to be known as the Brasilian Society of Interna- tional Law had been organized in Rio De _Janeiro a few days ago. ‘The organization was formed as a result of the trip of Robert Bacon, former “secretary of state, lo- South America, as the representative of the gic_Foundation for International eace. The vice president of Brasil, t.he cabinet officers and the members of the supreme court took a prominent part in the formation of the society. OBITUARY. Most Rev. Patrick Wi San_Francisco, Calif., Dec. 27.—Most qu Patrick William Riordan, arch- bishop of the dlocese of San Fran- cisco_of the Cathollc church, died at m Riordan. federal grand jury reconvenes Jan. ‘4 election conditions in. Haite, it is said, will again_be ke up. The grand jury recessed last Wel nesday after reiurning a. r in which more than 125 men, Mayor Donn M. Roberts and t.l. Jority of the miembers of his family, were indicted. The 'story of the alieged oo corrupt the election is mérely h at in the indictment, it is federal autherities indicating will not expose their hand trial 15 calied Frank C. Dalley, U States district attorney for who is in personal charge of the: jury investigation, states that iz ty has been offered to none. Mayor Roberts is candidate democratic nomination for gov 1916 ana has been ihe g7 in Terre Haute only a short aving risen rapidly inpoll declares that nolitical enciies have tackegshun. in 10 he was inted cit noen of Terre Haute and secantiel city courcil againet. the mayor discharged Roberts. eventually became tho democratic ¢ didate for mayor and won the During that election. men wers alu at the polls, election nfid-l- from ‘polling places -and appeal made o Governor Samuel ! to take a hand. (e Srand ury investigated n and returned in emu Foberts nd o mumber -:-"u's! ers. After a censati which all male spectat ed for fircarms, he was acquitted. GRAND MASTER MARTHUR K. OF Apoplexy at N-Ho—nfis,r N. Y. Aged 64, 2 Dev. .-u‘a mmm—mur grand master of grand encampment. of the United Stotes, di apoplexy today at his home city, at the age of 64 yeams. foud dead on a couch in his woom by, his daughter upon her return from chureh. . Colonel MacArthur lh- Broprictor of m?‘q To s Siocted somed Denver, Colo., in ufl. He had 2 Mason since 187! The survivors are a som, Caplain Charles A. MacArthur, an offieer i the national guard of this state associate editor of the BRESets a daughter, Miss Susan C. ——, WHITMAN TAKES OATH AS ”VERN“ Pauses For Short Time in Work Baff Case to Give Pledge. New York, Dec. 2 man_ took the mh—u% ernor ata noon yesterday. AS an iméi- cation that he did not comsider this relieved Him of any of the bilities that still rest on him as dis~ trict_attorney he spent in the criminal courts n 4 sultation on the Baff masder. not 38t ting away until after 7 o'elock. The cath of office was adminisiered. to the governor-elect by Chiet was withessed by asveral of Justices. ATTACK OF INSOMNIA NEW HAVEN COLORED MAN SHOT IN THE