Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 26, 1915, Page 1

Great Russian Fortress Which Was to Form Strongest Link in Muscovites’ New Defence MOVEMENT IS DESIGNED TO ENCIRCLE IT Russian Forces Have Been Forced Back Upon the Girdle of Forts—Activities On Western Front and in the Italian War Theatres Are Confined Chiefly to Artillery En- gagements—Turks Admit No Serious Reverses On the Dardanelles Front—Reports From Swiss Sources State ‘That Rumanians Are Leaving Germany and Austria. Both Berlin and Vienna report steady progress in the Investment of Brest-Litovsk, the great Russian fort- ress which was to form the strong- est link in the Muscovites' new Line of defence’! Official statements issued in both capitals assert that the Russian ~sOperations. Petrograd has dmxnhnlumonu-hm able to hold their own in an infantry at hoi.na pollh. The Aus! thelr own in the m ‘which conatitutes the Austro-Italian frontier. Dardanelles Campaign. be established that, the steamer wis torpedoed without "warning, an as- the puhuc to hAv. awakened is fgrthest from its de- ARTILLERY_ ACTIONS ON WHOLE FRENCH FRONT Especially Violent in the Section North of Arras. -25, 10.20‘p. ‘m.—The fol Paris, Augi i sued tonight: SAtllery action’ took place ou the whole front_today. Were_espe- clally violent in the north o e a child were slightly. 'ound'd. Tho damage done was unimportan TURKISH REPORT OF DARDANELLES ACTIONS Destroyed Greater Part of Enemy's Forces Near Ari Burnu, Constantinople, Aug. 25, via London. —The following official statement was issued by the Turkish government dedlng _With operations in Dar- I ar art Burnu on Sustay evening | &3 grenade after heavy e, rifle machine &un firing, the enemy attacked Kan- lisiat. Our counter-attacks destroved = | the greater part of the enemy’s fnh:s. and ed there a half hour, but he declined fo ' reveal ‘the subjects dicussed. paring to cast its lot on the side of the quadruple entente. Sweden flled a German foreign office against Seizure of the steamer Gothland, ‘which was fired upon , being. taken into Cuxhaven. GERMANY WILL GIVE SATISFACTION FOR ARABIC If Commander of Submarine Exceeded His lnnruolionl. “On Monday . forencon the made a similar attempt near Yeonell Tepeh and Sunsu Blair, but was com- pelled to retreat with severe losses. “Near Seddul-Bahr op the right wing our artillery shot down an en- @uy captive balioon.” GERARD CALLS ON GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER Attended a Luncheon Party in Re. sponse to an Invitation. Berlin, Aug. 25, via London, 8:4§ P. m.—Ambassador Gerard at 2 o'clock this afternoon received a request from Forelgn Minister Von Jagow to call upon him and left a luncheon, party to respond to the vitation. 'he am- bassador conferred a half hour with the foreign minister. Ambassador Garard afterwards would say nothing regarding the conversation. British Extend Lines on Gallipoli. London, Aug. 25, 8.3¢ p. m.—Recent q)-lflon- on the Gallipoli peninsula have enabled - the British troops to extend- materially the area in their lon and to connect their lines along a front of more than twelve miles, according to an official state- ment issued here tonight. . | THREE' WOMEN INJURED OPTIMISTIC FEELING IN BERLIN ABOUT ARABIC CASE Believed a Way Will be Found Out of the Entanglement, Berlin, A via 8:42 R i Stoation Jeser: IN JITNEY ACCIDENT Cars Collided Near the Darien-Nor- walk Boundary Line. en, Conn., Aug. 25—As the re- -\ut of & collision between an. automo bile ariv It is_said frey at. tempted to avold hitting another ma- chine he sids the jitney, caus- London, Aug. 25, 6:44 p. m.—Accord- ing to Reut m, moularn!l’onrh)(.r- w-fi-"\u hflm British Aviator - Killed. AI!( 25, 6.03 p. m—Sub- coast. The ma. chine wmn.munpmcueuny tell out, dropping 2.000 Russians EMII\. Bialystok - London, All‘ 26, 3:13 a. m—Ac- Times' Petrograd cor- ve ed_thelr appointed positions to the east of Vilna. GOVERNORS WITNESS MANOEUVRES OF FLEET Were Immenssiy Interested in Sham Torpedo Attack. Boston, Aug. 35.—A navy steadily Increased in size and efficiency so that it will be ready to defend the country against attack from any quarter. This is the aim of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels as declared be- conference tndny guests for the mmv Daniels’ Speech. “The navy must abide in the hearts ot the Whele country if it is to - be and made “It is for the tary people, not the president or myselt, to to|eay how great it shall be. As vou'go your homes you will speak the word that Will help 30 determine this ques- ton. “The greatest things that the navy ta doing afe not hersided. Since the war there is not an officer in any dep‘n.mam of the navy has taught by Drosesting day and nlght audtatay In per- fors in size and numbers and it is for us to continue to strengthen our navy. “T believe we ought to ingrease our that in time of stress emergency the real first strong arm of our country will be ready to deferd our country if it is attacked from any quarter. Wyoming Picks Up Governors. The Wyoming picked up the gov- ernors at the Charlestown navy yard ¢ | and taking a position a few miles east of Boston Light. became the target of attack by 25 torpedo boat. destroyers after they had passed in review with ten battleships Several Surprises. _Aamiral '!1etuher had rprisés for his isap] “were followed in double column by the bat- tleships, headed by the Arkansas and the Utah. After the review appeared to have been ended the destroyers sud- denly reappeared in the east. Alarm Against Torpedo Boat Attack On the fiagship o general alarm against lo boat attack was sounded lnd scon the big guns of the Wyoming the onrushing destroyers circled the fagship, pouring forth dence volumes of smoke cessive use of oil. Soon l.b were hidden behind cloud that isolated the fllflll» ‘While interest was abso: in man- oeuvre the smoke screen suddenly was broken by the destroyer Ammen, which .was observed dashing head-on for the Wyoming. The guns of the latter were immediately trained on the at- tacking ship and thundered away. The destroyer, however, came on and when lhe had approached within 3,000 yards ischarged a torpedo. The missile was seen to strike the water and then, submerged. made her way towards the flagship. The lat- ter, however, on the instant had been put slightly to starboard under a full head of steam with the.result that the speeding torpedo passed a few feet aste Governors Immensely Interested. The governors aboard appeared im- mensely interested in the sham attack and with close attention followed the orders from the bridge which were in- terpreted by a bluejacket through a |13 megaphone into understandable lang- uvage. o LET TEDDY AND KAISER FIGHT IT OUT Criticises Administration and Tell: How World Should be Run. Plattsburg, N. Y., Aug. 25.—"Don’t applaud unless you feel a burning sense of shame because the United States has not stood up for Belgium.” Theodore Roosevelt, - former _presi- dent of the United States, snapped out these words tonight at tho military instruction camp here during a speech in which he sensured the administra- tion for its attitude in the European situation, and strongly urged prepared- ness for war. ‘As he paused after uttering the sen- tence his audience, consisting of about twelve hundred members- of the camp and more than two thousand other per- sons, burst into wild and prolonged ap- uso. “The sureset way for a nation to invite disaster sive and unarm dent said at another time, in speaking of preparedness. In a statement made at the railway. station shortly before, leaving for New York, Colonel Roosevelt a criticism of the in the present situation. “I wish to make one comment on Haitiens Prumst U.S. Prmecmrate PARLIAMENT GIVEN UNTIL TO- - ~NIGHT TO.DECIDE. TO SAVE THE REPUBLIC Is the Only Object of the United States—Republic Being Ruined by Never-Ending Activities of So- Called Revolutionists. Jashington, Aus. 25.—Word came from Au Prince today that Cuu-:e Davis of the American lega- tion he dextended until _tomorrow night the time for action by the Haiten parliament on the proposed treaty to establish for ten years an American protectorate over the island republic. - Natives Vigorously Protest. Noon today had been fixed by the | tn, Charge as the time by which he would pect approval of the treaty Submitted by the United Btates. “The Haitiens protested _vigorously, how- ever. l‘tlnlt -\ll:h a limit on debAu in parliament the extension granted, omcius here did not com- ment on press regorts that the parlia- ment and ministef threatened to resign if the American government insisted upon iate -action. : Do Rnwlnti-n'-h Running, Country. tary Lansing made a statement .i‘exphlnlu the purpose of the Daitia Shates 1n proposing and press- ln‘ the treaty with Haiti at this time. He sald the Washington government was acting from wholly disinterested motives to save the little republic from ruin through never-ending activities of so-called revolutionists from whom the country’s revenues offered spoils. The secretary declared there was no foundation for reports that the pro- posed convretion would give Paitea States ole Bt. Nicholas as naval base. Congress Threatened to Resign. Port Au Prince, Aug. 25.—The gov- ernthent and congress baving threat- ened to resign if the American gove R o permic & discussion of the treaty which would Sllow the United States ten years con- trol of the island government finances, Washington has agreed to a discus- sion of the convention. The population, which has been agi- tated, is more tranquil ho ACTIVITIES OF THE = METAL TRADE UNIONS Supervising Work. the | “s; Glgannc Brafl Case i m Mannoba DURING ERECTION OF NEW PAR- =" LIAMENT BUILDINGS. TO PAY CAMPAIGN FUND | Burtale. Royal Commission Sustains Charges | A’ That Contractors Were Paid $1,664,- 6242 for Wdrk Valued at $963,249— Accounts Were Mutilated. ‘Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 25. that enormous over-payments were made to the contractors who erected the new parliament buildings of the recent Roblin government and (hll some members of that government ‘were cognizant of what was going on. were sustained today in the report of o yal commission, commoniy known as the Mathers commission, which inquired into the charges. Unanimous in Findings. The three members of the commis- sion, Chief Justice Mathers, Justice nald and Sir Hugh John Mac- Donald, Winnipeg city police magis- trate, are unanimous in their findings, which were published today. Thomas Kelly & Sons are the con- tractors named in the report as hav- ing received the enormous over-pay- ments. The commissioners rehearse the evi- dence covering the events of the last four years, since the competition for the new buildings was won by C. F. Simon, the English architect. They state that they were much hampered by absence of material wit- nesses and reluctance of others to tes- tify, ihese including four ex-cabinet ministers, Premier Roblin and Messrs. Howden, Coldwell and Armstrong. ir Redmond Roblin,” they say, “made common cause with the contractors to resist discovery and took an active part in secyring *for the contractors able counsel for that purpose.” Records Mutilated. Howden “made many false state- ments,” in his evidence, says the re- port. ~The commissioners were fur- ther handicapped by the destruction and mutilation of records, the refusal contractors to produce their books and their withdrawal to a foreign country to prevent their being com- pelled to do so. The commission feels itself justified from this in drawing unfavorable, inferences so far as the very Au. 25.—Conferences | try and with ‘financiers who are su) purchases of war munitions in the Onited States for the allies will be sought by officials of the metal trade unions {n their efforts to obtain shorter hours anq improved conditions for ma~ chinists and other metals workers em- ployed in munition plants. This step was determined upon today by execu- tive officials of the metal trades di- vision of the American Féderation of Labor in session here. An effort will be made to arrange for the conferences In New York next “We want the eight hour day and better conditions”, said James O'Con- nell, president of the metal trades di- vision tonight, “and we believe they can be secured without strikes. We do not want any strikes unless we are forced into them.” A committee of the division laid complaints of workers at the Norfolk navy yard against the so-called scen- tific shop management system before Assistant Secretary Roosevelt today and was promised that an official in- quiry would be mad DAMAGE IN JAMICA BY THE HURRICANE. New “York, Aug. 25.—Detailed ed- vices received here today from Kings- ton, Jamaica, show that the damage caused to the rorthern side of the is- land of Jamaica by the hurricane which. rager ‘there on August 12 and Was greater in numerous instances than indicated by earlier despatches. The terrific winds felled acres of banana trees, destroying fully 90 per cent. of the Lanana crdp, according to the information. < The railway between Port Antonio and Buff bay was practically wiped out and wagon roads along the coast were destroyed by the heavy rains. From Ocho Rios, Mulgrace, Hope Bay, Port Morant, and Montego bay general damage to <repe. o bulldings, wharves have been 1 GRAY £ Vodah S ol o Movements of Steam: Plymouth, Aug. 25.—Arrived: Steam- er Minnehaha, New York for London. St. Michaels Aug. Steamer Roma, New York. Johnson-Willard Films Barred. Portland, Me, Aug. 25.—Admission to' this country of the moving picture films of the Johnson-Willard fight at Havana last April is forbidden a decree issued by Federal Judge Clar- ence Hale today. The complaint of the Kalisthenic Exhibition Company of New York, fgainst Willis T. Em- mons, collector of the port of Port- land who hold up'the films upon their dismig: :;_rl\ll from Montereal, was Held For Wife Murder. Boston Aus. 25—Oscar P. Russ, painter living in the vabllry ds(rlcx‘ ‘was h‘l& ‘without Mmlodl&' on ‘murdering ‘wife, Emu Was on . which Russ ldmlu.ad ‘The total amount paid the contract-. ors was $1664,242. On_behalf of the commission, Engineer Woodman esti- mates total value of work done by the contractors at $812,536 and_value of material on the ground at $50,613, or total value ‘of $963,148, which makes excess payments of $501,093, without including fifteen per cent. which it ‘was found should have been held back, or $121,870 more, IRONWORKERS QUARREL IN UNION MEETING Three of Them Complained to the Hartford Police. Hartford. Conn.. Aug. 25—President Thomas Coxe of the ironworkers’ union complained to the police late tonight that following a disturbance at a meeting of the union, others had been knocked Gown and assaulted. Four policemen were hur- ried to Central Labor union hall, but when they arrived the hall was empty. Coxe declared someone “ti the meeting off of the coming of the po- lice. The trouble started, according .to Coxe, at an adjourned election of ‘offi- cers. About fifteen members of the union, who came here from New York, started the trouble. One of the out- side men is said to be a pugilist. A free for all fight started, in which fists were freely swung. Coxe says he intends to swear out warrants against the men who started the fracas. TROOPS RECALLED HURRIEDLY TO FORT BLISS/| j; Because of Rumor Mexicans Wers Preparing to Cross Border. El Paso, Texas, Aug. 25.—Fvllowing the rumor that a large body of Mex- icans were prepraing to cross the border, troops of the sixth and six- teenth’infantry were recalled hurried- ly from temporary leaves of absence in the city tonight and ordered to re- port immediately at Fort Bliss. A _special was stationed at the city police station. General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff, General John Pershing. Briga- dier Commander here and Geor ference at a local hotel a few minutes after the order w: ued and refus- ed to make statements. SHELL EXPLODED AT BETHLEHEM PLANT. Two Men Were Killed and *Several Probably Fatally Injured. at Indi (me of the men killed Stout, ezed forty-six, of arsistant engineer of ordnance. Mr. Stout was in_charge of a new test. The accident was due to & premature explosion. British Separation - Allowances. London, Aug. 25. 6.12 p. m.—In sen~ he and three|N cmmrww 11,000 HORSES ON A WILD STAMF undersea fleet at pres- mmm—dm-—dn-. (iThe Assay in American s 'mL-n.mn m".m American registry. The New York State Federation of Ranch ;fi“mm&_SMoimfitym Vlm Town , R PR B S | o By 100 WERE. DROWNED IN THE BAY. K otmetoiia 8 betweon Austria and Switzerland was stopped by the ustriens. < Burglars entered the Plaza theatre, at Springfield, Mass., opened the safe and escaped with $100. mayor of Cin- cine of Customs, is dead. He was 74 years old. Col. John V. White, U. 8. A. com- manding Forts Hamiiton and Wads- worth, died at Fort Hamilton. The plant of the Kokomo c.nmn. Co., at Kokomo, Ind. was destroyed by fire. The loss is $110,000. William Grinnell aged 35, of Fall River, was found dead from gas as- phyxiation in Mis room at Bridgeport. Three 12 in. naval guns will be con- verted into field howiiers for the army at the Philadelphia Navy yard Two_persons were burned to death i e fire which damaged the Ameri- can hotel, a Jersey City lodging house. Ninety per cent. of the banana trees on the north of the Island of Jamaica were destroyed by the recent hurri- cane. Charles M. Schwab declared that the big boom in the steel trade will continue for at least another year and a half The Scoville Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury has granted Saturday half holidays to its employes with no loss vipment in pay. agg) 7- 000 ‘tone for Hasers 1s bons Yoadcs on lemd the British steamer St. Leonards at Philedclphia. The American bark Daisy Read, from Mobile, arrived at Paloma, Ar- gentina. in a leaking condition and short of supplies. American soldiers pursued two bands of armed Mexicans who crossed the border near Fort Ringgold, into the interfor of Texas. Munmm 'lehflo. of Russia are ex- 2t Holmes, States Bureau o( Hhu Natives gathered in the north of Hayti have refused to recognize Pres- ident - Dartiguenave, &ad are ready to support Gen. Rosario H- C. Slack o' Boston, contract for 100.000 high explosive shells and placed the order with two New England manufacturers. Coal miners at_Charle are on strike for higher wages. employer ref an offer of German troops to compel the strikers to work. Major General Leonard Woed in- vited state heads attending the con- ferenco of Governors at Boston to \'!lll‘_lhe military camp at Plattsburg, The American Line steamer St. Paul, ‘which sailed for New ank from Liv- erpool yesterday, had oard Tumber of gurvivors of the steamer Arabic. Conflicting vu of fighting be- tween llh n.nd Carranza forces near Monterey continued to reach Wash- ington, but the state department had no advices. Coal miners in South Wales have threatened another strike. They are dissatisfled with the award handed down on the recént dispute with the operators. Three men were driven insane in Philadelphia, and a third is seriously Il in a hospital there as a result of taking a new drus a rerivative of morphine. Many Mexican families left the neighborhood of Laredo, Texas and crossed into ‘Mexico, following. the is- syance of an amnesty proclemation by Carranza. From Ambassador Page at London the state department received the text of the preclamation putting cotton and cotton products on the list of ab- solute contraband. A bill to authorizé a vote in the next general election on & woman |of suffrage afendment to the state con- stitution was defeated in the Alabama house of delegates. Former Gov. Cole L. Blease wt!outhl woul Carolina announced he be ol cunmm for governor -c-.m The snuouncement eonelnaoq. Zeaon with the dance: let joy be um- confined.” L S et e orsew] ul tor of the Lyndl = .' (Pfl age in the Canton regi: extensive that it is impossible to give Police Reserves, Mounted, on Foot and on High Powered Motorcycles Succeeded in Rounding Up 600 of the Stragglers, Many of Them so Badly Injured That it Was Necessary to Shoot Them—Crews of Railroad Trains JaleyCityandNewuk—HousWaefi'flq‘v tto. the Allies and Stampede Was Caused by a Violent Electrical Storm. New York, Aug. 25—One thousand horses, awaiting shipment to the al- lies, broke from their stockade in the Central Union Stock Yards, at the foot of Communipaw avenue, Jersey City, during the thupder storm that swept over the city at 2 o'clock this morn- ml and for the next few hours the resembled a =r a stampede. Police Round Up Horses. Police reserves, mounted, on foot, and on high-powered motorcycles, dashed h the city rounding up the frightened animals, while the har- bor police of New York scoured the Manhattan water front and upper bay for scores of horses supposed to have taken the water route in their dash for freedom. Sbortly before noon the Jer- sey City police reported that between 500 and 600 horses had been rounded up in the yards and at various sta- tions about the city. Many of these, it wag said, had broken legs or other | Bt injuries that would put them out of commission. Some were found in such condition that it was necessary to shoot them. Grazing in Vacant Lots. Of the missing, it was believed that made ersey incoming Jersey railroad trains report- \ o amaauqonm'h- The pler from which shipped. Searching Harbor. The Central Unson Stock Yards ars almost directly opposite Bedloe's Is- land, and the torch in Miss horse u.ugnlvhuellflklnxontlnm“ eral direction of the well known god- s gt ed ghat groups of stray horses had |amined been sighted grazing peacefully in cant lots and fields between Jersey City and Newark. It was not thought likely that many of these would ever see_figh in_ Europe. > any Drown in Bay. tion was still . prepared to return. them to THREE MORE STRIKES TO START AT BRIDGEPORT Employes of Three Factories to be Called Out at Noon Today. Bridgeport( Conn., Aug. 25—Three more strikes for the eight hour day and better working conditions will be called . here tomorrow, according to Jflnnll tonight by labor leaders. names of the factories to be af- fected were not disclosed. Conferences were held until late to- night in an endeavor to adjust the differences between a number of fac- tories and employes, but without re- sult. Labor leaders assert their be- lief in ultimate victory. They say twenty-one plants, empioying approx- imately 25,000, hlve granted the shorter working day since the agita- tion began five weeks ago. There were a few minor disturbances today. About 100 girls at the Star Shirt Company followed General Manager Mohan - to station, hoot- in posted l Mflc. -Yll.l‘ the plant would be_closed - down. There were two arrests of empioyes st the Salts Textile Company who became engaged in a brawl. There was also a slight disturbance between workers at the Cosmecticut Electric Light company. A few strikebreakers were brought here by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Raiiroad to take the place of freight handlers who walked out today, but there was Rev. Edmund Kayser, ‘of - Tolicsteos Ind., the Vietim, Gary, Ind, Aug. 2.—Federal and state authorities tonight were endesv. oring to establish a motive for the murder of Rev. BAmund Kayser, toro of St James' Evangelical eran church, at Tolleston, Ind., a sub- urb of Gary, who was shot and killed in. his home late last night sev- eral persons, who bound his cord and left it in a nearby lot. - One theory. advanced by . 5. Say. der, postmaster of Tolleston, was the pastor's death was the culmina- tion of a series of I.nvnym l‘ifl' which he had receive To conse his' sitestions 10 & seeried woman in “Several months ago Mr. turned over to me a batch of threat- ening letters,” said Postmaster “He that the federal au- nm.lnl. q who denied having 2ny relations with the pastor. As a result of the postmasters statement, Chief of Police Heinz has ordered that the Gary woman be ques- tioned by the authorities. The police tonight also were looking for another woman and a man living near Kayser's home. v apparent Less credence ly was given bofldfllmlheb«h“l Kayser , | was killed because of his the factories he'"declared. there had been no lmuhh until these men had been hir- n was announced wu;n that Bec organizers organizers already in the city. Relief Work Organized by the Amer- ican Consul General Wi Aug. 25—Flgod dam- jon, China, is so gunboats Callao still were en- in alding the rellef work org- the American consul gen- kept at pro-Ger- manism and his private and publle ut- terances favoring Germanic pretensions in the war. FOOD AND HEALTH SITUATION IN MEXICO Carranza Agents to Make a Detailed Report of Conditionsin Capital City. City. ‘Washington, Aug. agents in Washington have asked 1 Gonzales, , military )(exlco City, for a and healt 25 —Carranza Gen- Pan-American appeal for Rove at any tiine by Carranss ’2 at any time by 's Wi & ington representatives.