Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 1, 1915, Page 1

Eerman Defense Collapse tho Greater Part of Teutons’ Posrtmn Would bo flmcad ‘ FRENCH HAVE GAINED FOOTING ON SECOND LINE Germans Admit the Loss of Hill 191, Which' Commands a Réilway Which Has Been Used for Supplying the Ger- ali-: Argonne Army — Large Reinforcements for the GmuAreBemg Rushed to Stem the French Ad- _ vance—Field Marshal Von Hindenburg is Still Battling for Dvinsk—South of Vilna the Teutons Have Broken “Through the Russian Line, Capturing a Thousand Prison- ers. London, Sept, 30, 10 p. m.—While mdll[la -Fgench troops in Artois ap- are now simply engaged in cfinnlldn.!lns the ground won and op- counter-attacks, e buttle for the German second line of defence in Champagne—the collapse of which would .acutely menace the iter part of the German position the west—is proceeding with . the t stubbornness. s French Gain Foothold. (At seve; points the French troops hiive gainkd a footing in the second linia and séme of them even went right through but, encountering German réserves, were undble to maintain their progress. According to the German :munw thesc latter froops were ureqd or cxterminated. \ Germans Lose Hill 191. The Germans, however, admit the loss. of Hill 191, north of Massiges. ere the French are not far from e rallway triapgle, the pessession which has of the greatest ad- vantage to the Germans, as one of the Ifnes ‘has been used for supnly the Argorine army. Tt is believed here that, besides the of ground both -in Artois ipagne “and ‘the - improved Teési- o the dlleo :enqrnlly. the r-oem A on seme mur sccmm of this ln fact, the correspondent ot oelnische Zeitung, at = German u& announces that an at- tack wu made east of _Auberville which he says was repulsed. Germans Break Russian Line. Field Marshel Von Hindenburg, while hé claims to have made some progress in his operations against Dyinsk, is still a long way from that cuy His troops southeast of Vil- nd, However, have had better success. They have broken through the Rus- sian; position and captured e thousand pi ers. It is believed that this is the first stroke in his latest blow nst the Russian right and that e intends to advancé southeastward in’the direction of Minsk and en- deavor to_cut off the Russians retir- from ovichi. 4 in Pripet Marshes. in Marshal Von Mackénson are stuck, the Rus- been driven back across iver, but along the Galician are still heavily hammer- Austro-German armies. _Continues Mobilization. don it' is ldt that Bulgaria abandoned an; ive ac- might have mtanded against but an Athens despatch says| the slm‘non is still considered se- rious and that Greece is going on with her preparations for eventualities. The crisis. at Sofla, which might have re- sulted in the formation of a Russop- phile eabinet, is said to haye been grerted, the king having: refused to accept the resignation of M. Toncheff, the ‘minister of finance, who has pro- German tendencies. NG FIGURES OF GERMAN : SUBMARINE LOSSES. B.’f‘ur Says It e Impossible to Give Auurm Statistics. Il.rndon. Sept. 36. 3.52 p. m.—A do— sire for absolute precision was ad- vaficed by Arthur J. Balfour, first lord of the ndm.nlty. in house of com- mons this afternoon as the reason for llg nfiing pufinc figures on German s B:uour expressed great pa- {2 cith: the Me for such a:o d!flcultyan! satisfy- subject ‘arises nhbla margin of -doubt to any attempt to esti- 'ber of enemy submarines: d the eonsequent impossi- e st::‘lt:uo hé add. Ve every n,” - Lbhvlnu certainty, through .,do'n' to faint pos- are not fitted ’ offensive of the enemy is of the great- est importance. The enemy obviously is making repeated efforts to gain at last a, decisive success. How long he will be able to maintain his efforts is uncertain, but we must expect that the heavy fighting will continue.” The Vossische Zeitung says: “The severe fighting has reached the sixth day without slackening. This confirms the opinion aiready express- ed that this time we have to do with extraordinary efforts. “In view of the bitterness and in- defatigable severity of the daily re- peated attacks, we must come to the conclusion that this offensive surpass- es all previous operations of the kind. It shows methodical and carefu] prep- aration, which can only be explainad by a firm determination’to force a de- cision. DEFECTIVE METHODS IN 3 THE SHIPMENT OF OLEUM Said to Have Caused Heavy Losses to English Shippers. Londoh. Sept. 30, 6.50 p. m.—Reply- 5 house ot g in the case of &rn-r ipment - certain amount of loss was- dng to the kind of drums_ used. These drums Were similar to those usually ‘emploved, he said, and had been passed by an American state commission. The defects had long ago been remedied, he.dedlared, and the remedy was in no way prejudi to the supplies of munitions, as tlie stocks on hand at the time were adequate. Nothing was paid to the owner of the ships for damage to the vessels ca.rrvlng the oleum, but the govern- ment had purchased two damagcd ships. The oleum, he added, was sup- plied by Baring Brothers and the C. T.. Bowring company. Attention was. first called to the cir- cumstances alleged to have attended the oleum shipments by publication in the MndPn Globe on September 27 of charges’that- sulphuric acid had been shipped from the United States iln defective iron drums, which re- leased noxious gases, damaging the health of ships’ crews and, it was said, badly damaging vesseis carry- ing the’acid. FIVE MEXICAN-AMERICANS CHASED ACROSS RIO GRANDE Were Arrested on the Mexican Side by a Carranza Commander. Brownsville, Texas, Sept. 30.—An- , one of ‘them wounded and all of them chased across the Rio Grande river by American tfoops. have been arrested on the Mexican side of the river, was made tonight by Brig- adier General E. P. Nafarette, Car- ranza commander at Matamoros. At :a:\ingm time he .dlnld he was inves- the reported gathering of 500 Mexicans near Progreso crossing with the apparent intention of invading American territory. On the American side of the river United States troops continued to maintain large patrols on the alert for an attack. ' A mountain gun bat- tery was reported to have arrived at Harlingen tonight from El Paso. General - Ni when asked whether he wor take any action :f the American mountain guns fired shells into Mexican territory to ex- terminate raiding parties on the river bank, said that was a matter for Gen- eral Obregon to pass on. COMMITTEE OF ARMENIANS ' APPEALED TO PRESIDENT o b o 'r_- Take Action for the Relief of Thel Countrymen. Washington, Sept. 30.—Appeal was made to Presléent toda; ould | bed in his olbmn«lto 7 I countries. Foreign T-l-um Delayed. 30, 8.30 p. Tope, for Russia by way of the Great Northern limes and for Serbia will be bmto 48 hours' delay. REPRIEVE GRANTED AT ,, ' REQUEST OF PRESIDENT. Governor Spry of Utah Stays Execus tion of Joseph Hillstrom. Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 30.—On request of President’ Wilson, tele- hed today from Washington, Gov. Spry granted a reprieve until Oet. 16 to Joseph Hillstrom, sentenced o De shot tomorrow after having been cunv!ctod of murdering J. G. Morrison, & grocer,-.and Morrison’s young son here in January, 1914. In his answer to the president’'s mes- sage, Governor Spry says the reprieve As sranted only because the president requested it and he insists that the Swedish miaister come here and make personal investigations before Oct. 16, as the Swedish vice-consul here has gone thorofighly into the case and ad- vises that he éan find no reason why the bou-d ‘of pardons should change its Govemor Spry's telegram_also says the undisputed records of Millstrom's case show he was convicted of a most revolting murder; that the evidence shows his guilt; that he had a fair trial. and that his case has beem more thoroughly investigated by the board of pardons than any similar case in the history of the state without finding any. reason whateyer for clemency. The state cemstitution prohibits a reprieve beyond Oet. 13, the date: of the next nu:t'tu f the board of par- dons. The 'ov“‘:x*l action today makes it n ring Hillstrom before '-ha district court again, even should the hoard refuse to commute his sen- tence after hearing from the Swedish minister, as he will Have to be re- sentenced by the. court. YESTERDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS IN ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN, Public Purchasing Bonds to Amount of $1,000 May Do So at 96 1-4. New York, Sept.. 30.—Although the designated price of the Anglo-French five year credit bonds has been fixed at 98 to the public, it developed~today that virtually anyone who wished to purchase them in amounts of 31,000 sad upward-wauld be sbis bo'ds 4o at 96 1-4. the net price to t was reported that the Anglo-Frenc rommission bad insisted. that this price be maintained until the entire issue should have been underwrittén, HEBREW A MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF RUSSIA. M. Weinsteirl is the First Jew to Sit Petrograd, Sept. 30, p. m»Repre!anlnflvaa of commerce and industry have elected M. Weln- stein a member of the council of the empire. He is the first Jew to sit in the council and his election is regard- ed as am endorsement of recent de- mands for equality of treatment of races and ‘religions. The coun¢il of the empire comprises an equal number of elected members and members nominated by the em- peror. It has equal legislative powers with the duma. Twelve of its 48 elective members are chosen by the representatives of the bourses of com- merce and of industry in the empire. VA'I.E-UNIV'ERSITY FUNDS TOTAL $16,152,835.51 Gifts Amounting to $96579151 Were Received the Past Year. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 30.—Gifts and bequests to Yale university during the fiscal year ending on Jjune 30, amounted to $965,791.51, according to the annual report of the treasarer, George Parmly Day, made public to- day. The total funds of the univer- sity are $16,152,835.40, which repre- sents an increase of 119 per cent. in the last ten years. B ST SRR S DR. DUMBA TO SAIL ON THE NIEUW AMSTERDAM Hungarian Ambassador and Family Now in New York. New York, Sept. 30.—Dr. Constan- tin Theodor Dumba, the recalléd Aus- tro-Hyngarian ambassador to the United States, arrived here tonight from his summer home at Len Mass. He was accompanied by Mrs. Dumba, o friend and two servants. Dr. Dumba and his party went im- mediately .to a hotel. His bagzgage bore the tags of the Holland-American fine and Dr. Dumba admitted he would sail on the steamer Nieuw Amsterdam of that line next Tuesd: CLOTHING MANUFACTURER * BEATEN TO DEATH In His Bed in His Home in New York —Assailants’ Escaped. York, Sept . 30.—Salvadore Gaglio, proprieor of a large clothing manufacturing . establishments Sixth Avenu New in ‘was beaten to death in a on the upper East Side u ht by two men who es- police said the crime ap- to have hun done by men ‘who Galio in business and sought revenge. The victim was confined te Nl home. from lllness whe nnmh‘ | I RESULT ‘OF HURRICANE . THERE WEDNESDAY. At Least 150 Persons Were Injured by Collapse of Buildings, Falling gns or Flying Glass—Wind Blew 120 Miles an Hour. New Orleans, Sept. 30, via Baton Ro“n——flnomdn estimates today placed the property . in New Orleans from yesterday's storm at nearly $2,000,000 and the loss of Hfe at 7. It was estimated that at least 150 persons were injured by the col- lapse of bulldings, falling signs or flying glass. Hundreds of Structures Unroofed. Scarcely a large plate glass win- dow remains intact in the downtown section and many stocks of goods were damaged by wind and rain. Signs, telegraph, telephone, electric Nght poles, wires and debris from damaged buildings Iittered streets today and hundreds of structures were unroof- ed or demolished. In the Cumberland Telephone com- pany’s exchange, 15 persons, mostly girls, were injured when all the win- dows in the east front on the' floor where they were working crashed in. Wind 120 Miles an Hour. The maximum velocity of the wind was reported by the weather bureau as between 120 and 130 miles an hour. The wind blew at this rate for one minute, between 5.30 and 6 o'clock last night. was 3 miles, about 540 p. m. Barometer Fell to 28.11. than seven hours the hur- t over the clity at a rate of moN than 60 miles an hour. The lowest .mark registered by the bar- ometer was 28.11 at 5.30 p. m, which, according to local weather bureau of- ficials, is the lowest mark ever reg- istered in the United States. Police and Fire Departments Busy. Police and fire department forces were kept busy respo: to calls for assistance. Two hundred voung women were removed by the police in automobiles and police vehicles from a cigar factory threatened with destrue- tion just before, nightfall. Kept rendered mservice was suspended aft- Yyesterday afternoon. Lake Rose 12 Feet. ‘Lake Pontchartrain rose 12 feet Guring the storm, sending water over the sea wall and flooding the streets in Myneburg. Communication with Louisiana points on the gulf coast was cut off early yesterday, but last reports were that the inhabitants had fled to high ground further inland before the storm broke. Wireless the Only Communis n. Officials of raliroad and telegraph companies said today it would be sev- eral days before normaj service be- tween New Orleans and the outside world could be restored. With the ex- e 3 o'cl ception of the wireless plant aboard the Southern Pacific steamship Excel- sior, in port here, all the radio sta- tions also went out of commission. Land Marks Demolished. New Orleans, via Baton Rouge, Sept. 30.—From every part. of the city came reports of damage and a number of widely known land- marks showed the effects of the wind. The Felicity Methodist church, & brick structure at Felicity and Chest. nut streets, was almost demolishe The Masonic Temple at St. Charles and Union Streets sustained damages estimated at $20,000 hrough the col- lapse of ornamental chimneys and mphln Asylum also were badly dam aged. $80,000 Fire. Fire shortly after midnight stroyed part of the plant of the Sterns-Orleans ‘Acid company at Elv- sian Fields and Florida Avenue, with a ‘loss estimated at $80,000. The fire is believed to have been caused by lightning. Small Vessels Swamped. On the river front many small ves- sels were swamped and the municipal warehouses in many insances strip- ped of the corfugated iron sheathing, which was bolted to the steel fram r’url and formed walls of the struc- ure. OBITUARY. William Watson. Boston, Sept. 30.—Willlam Watson, secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, died today at the are of 81. Mr. Watson was connected with Harvard universitv and the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology and served as one of the American com- missioners at the Vienna exposition in 1873. He had written various books relating to civil engineering and archi- tecture and was a member of many learneq societles. Rev. Richard W. Williams. New York, Sept. 30.—Rev. Richard ‘W. Williams, widely known in the iron and ha: trade as editor of The Tron Age. 1883. died late today in his he Gl lone illness. en Ridge, N. I., after a He was born in Water- ford. Jreland. in 1842 and came with bie fdther, John Willlams, founder of melv;:flmllw to the United States from 1870 to “I’ He is widow, .fin‘hqmt‘.“ The highest sustained velocity | THE mlrr e B Labor Leaders Protest to Mayor Against Alleged Brutality of the Police—Union Leaders Say Garment Workers Exceeding 25,000 Are Out. Chicago, of the strike of in one death, a score of urn-h e Ehromer i Tencs ol killed by the colla) hll.'. _- der which he took nf during - & shooting -~ aftray llcrlh-l to trouble wfl.h strike sympathizers. Riot Call Turned In. ‘The most serious dist the day occurred in a b in_the heart of the business distrjct. Five hundred persons invaded the building, | vard crying to those at work to join In the walkout. A riot call was turned iIn, and they were driven across the river after hand-to-hand struggles with a large guard of policemen. Protest Brutality of Police. A delegation of labor leaders called upon Mayor Thompson today and pro- tested against what they mem had been brutality on the part of licemen assigned to quelling disturbances. ‘The majority of thise arrested today demanded jury u»m., which, in most instances, were granted. 25,000 Quit Waork. ‘Tonight union 1 claimed that rapid strides were bel: jmude in the strike and that the nu who had quit work exceeded over 25,000. Rep- resentatives of the however, ridiculed these claims and | sald that but 2,000 still remained om strike. WIRELESS TELEPHONE FROM ATLANTIC COAST TO HAWAIL A Distance of 4,600 Miles—Roceiving | Done on Wireless Antennae. New York, Sept. 30.—That telephone communlwlon from the of London. Paris, Berlin or Rome. voice had to travel the whole of the United States, a distance of miles, simple wireless conditions which exist over large bodies of water. For the purpose of this test it was stated that the receiving was done on small wire- nnae erected by engineers of Lhe telephone company by permission of the naval authorities in the Pearl Harbor station. The experiments, it was explained at the offices of the company, are the successful culmination of a’'serles of sts begun last spring with an ex- perimental tower erected as Montauk Point and another at Wilmington, Del., uo miles apart. A representative of the company said that waile wireless telephony would form an important adjunct to the pres- ent telephone system, in that it could be ished between points where it would be Impracticable to extend wires, it would not replace the present system.. The wireless, he explained, is subject to interference from atmo- spheric conditions and anyone with paratus could listen in on a conversa- tion, lantic seaboard to Hawall, a distance | @ of 4,600 miles, is now an accomplished fact was announced todn.v A( t.hc of~ fices of the Anurlun T D‘k in su Ar _‘3 useless | &cComplished last Y that val Harbor, “The communication was held is ter the distance from New York to ALLEGED CRIMINAL LIBEL BY EX. GOVERNOR FOS8S Two Judges Refused to Hear Case Because They Are Neighbors. Boston, Sept. 30.—In continuing thg hearing on the complaint against for- mer Governor Bugene N. Foss for an alleged criminal libel uttered during the primary campaign, it developed to- day that a number of the judges in the municipal court had declined to sit on the case because they either had been appointed by Governor Foss or had failed of appointment dudring As there are fourteen judges on the municipal bench it was expected that one would be found to hear the case. * SILVER WORKERS CONSIDER REFUSAL OF DEMANDS. A Committee of Confersnce Has Been Appointed to See President Wilcox. the po- strike i hymns flod-lmfl.m“y-nold. The first da; istration at Har- untnnig"':'- 4529, or’ 206 mmunnmunmdumnu- The Cnnfl.'hn 'h.for !Ar‘mm put l.lllt..l‘ mperlnu-d-nt of car service of woxldnc mfienuw“homn week. A report received at Stockhoim says that 242 men were killed in an ex- glodm: of a powder mill at Witten- Prussia. } H. Haley has been .p'dng‘. Missouri Pacific Rallroad with head- quarters at St. Louls. K. W.!lln'fiu Koo, Chinese manufacturers, | sinister to Mexico and former Colume by former classmates. |bIA student was tendered a the ral r on erville, Mass., a a fire sug: 1 Police Commissioner Woods ordered the establishment of & school for re- yolver practice for the members of the New York police force. r.ur of the Kentucky ‘:&"..u, at Lexington were w! ha r-l.llod m.lr -nnmp'.l at hazing =E:¥or Grifith of lgb'n. N. J. The | cinnati before it emcountéred the more |y, m thl loyalty of 11500. Poles in For shooting his brother’s wife although not fatally, Joseph Croci New Haven was sent to state r for not less tham four nor more ten years. British authorities at Kirkwa Scotland, held up the Swedish steam er Heisinborg, Port Arthur, Tex., for Aarhus, Denmark with a cargo of cottonseed. Peter Peone was killed uzd Pol‘t Mercodlaino of Newark, is dy- ing in a hospital as a mlllt of a knife and revolver battle at Peone's home in In the Yale md.mh department Dean Jones estimated the man class 400, while Director Chitten- M"& Sclentific School placed his ne at 375. While w-tehin. tests cawkdv- Satory camp in France, Gene- Cremer of the French army was seriously Injured when a mine ex- ploded accidentally. at In the ruins of a summer lumr‘-ln on Oak avenue, Tewksbury, January 4 of Napoleon Rmry a m at m.tord_ ! ?5551 frel L i -1 >ficials see fit. JUNDRED NEW YORK SALOONS TO CLOSE . of the, Increase of $300 in Cost of Retail Liquor License. New York. Sept. 30.—The increase of s Becau ns. Owing to the increased taxation, the liquor dealers’ association announced today that the price of a pint of beer FINANCIAL EXPANSION OF SEABOARD AIR LINE.