Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 2, 1915, Page 1

2 mnunx But They Have Been Successful in Repulsing the|. uze German Counter-Attacks RUSSIANS APPEAR TO BE HOLDING POSITIONS Except in Front of Dvinsk and Volhynia, Where the Ger- mans Claim to Have Made Progress, All- the Attacking is Being Done by the Russians—Italy Has Commenced an Offensive Along the lent That Bulgaria Will Take Sides With the Germanic ! Allies. London, O¢t. 1, 945 p m—The belief that Bulgaria has taken sides with the powers and Turkey and that Anglo.French and Russlan troops ih ‘Sakiet the riends of tne-entent allies while it momentarily has di- verted the attention of the diplomats, has not dampened the Interest of the public in the situation in the eastern snd western theatres of war. The of- fonstoe of the allies in the west snd Yhe determination with which the Rus- sians are apwdn: S48 Anatro ciorman gtswgee do hpgneiece the absorbing w‘m. 8 from the two fronts mn‘lfluad Bes 5a ‘the bust for el AN Bt Yuroes oy parently have made mo further pro- frass except In the region of Neutille, in Artols, but on the other hand they have been successful in repulsing the German counter-attacks and so far as is. known have virtually held all the ground gained. In the east the Russians appear by SaShuch wmuch beiter eftace to d their ms, except just in bt pm and in Volhynia the m- claim to have made no pro- greas, while between those two points i aticlay lmyuu‘flth.-hmmun- LR ticularly against the important’ Aus- trian_position of ‘Tolmino. Nothirg has been heard of the much tafked-of -German _ offensive against Serbia or of the operations on He Gaitioort poninenia: HOPE FOR PEACE IN BALKANS H'AS BEEN ABANDONED Rumors That AMM-GQMIH Officers Have Arrived in-Bulgaria. London, Oct. 1, 9.20 p. m—Ths hope Epressed yestaraay that war in the Balkans might be averted virtually has been abandoned, according to the be- Hef expressed in official quarters. statement made by Sir Bdward Grey, the British foreign secretary, in the of commons this afternoon, g rumors that Austro-Ger- man officers had arrived in Bulgaria, lust as they did before Turkey threw £ her lot with the Germanic allles, is aken by officials to mean that Bul- taria, too, has definitely decided’ to joln_them. Such a move by Bulgaria would result in the entente allies be- called upon to keep their promise lo support with all the means in their wer those Balkan states who remain to them and who are men- iced by the threatened Bulgarian ag- fression. mm- never had much confidence Bulgarian assurances that Bul- I'H'h' ‘mobilization was quite inno- tent, it was asserted here today, and e others capitals have now been lorced to the same conclusion. There s nothing to indicate the attitude of umania, but it has always been taken granted that her friendship for and France assured her con- inued support of the cause of the intente allies. The question arises as to what as- istance the entente allies could give Sreece Serbia. It is suggested that h Greecs jrotect Greek territory to the south ind, when the time came, to march It is probable that Thon againgt Baipari shoul per o 2. should her at- ftude continué Diovoeative, which of- icials now consider it to be, despite he fact that a large majority of the in that country are believed © be stil]l friendly to the entente al- particularly Russia and England. SHAMPAGNE BATTLE ¥ MAY LAST FORTNIGHT. tremch. Military Critic Says Supply of A—-mmun s Abundant. 1, 650 p. m—The mili- Temps tes is likely to inei- t “but the Mby n.ru to] are employing thirty- thousand labor- ers working day and night to strength- en the Tchataldja (European Turkey) fortifications.. Elaborate workings have been constructed so that, If nec- essary, the n south of Tchataldja can be flooded with water from Lake Dercos. All the forts have been armed with heavy long range guns. Germans Selling Booty. Paris, Oct. 1, 4.40 p. m—On receiv- ing information that booty taken by the Germans at Lille, France, is being sold at a department store in Berlin, the French government has entered a protest with neutrals against such sales. The protest is based on a let- ter from an officer of the German mil- itary at Lichterfelde to —a -German prisoner interned in the French camp of Fougeres announcing the sale. ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF GRAND ARMY Monfort of Cincinnati New Commander-in-Chisf Washington, Oct. 1.—Elias R. Mon- fort f Cincinnati was today elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Three candi- dates were nominated. -~ They - were Frank O. Cole of Jersey City, N. J.; wmng J. Patterson of Pittsburgh M’mfl!fll Sois. wmzfi-w and M elec w..x!x tcrmmy postmastet of = Cincin- F. Clarkson of :suumnu. elected ghaplnl ,mlN ‘Reaben T Adams Rochester, Y., surgeon general. The elections concluded the new commander-in-chiet appointed ~ John Adams of Cincinnati adjutant-gene- |zl “ana "re-appointea_Colonel D. R. Stowitz of Buffalo, N. Y. quarter- mastergeneral. There was a number of committee meetings and reunions tonight. Thousands of veterans left Washing- ton for their homes dyring the day and night. Virtuslly all of thee who remained over will leave town tomorro: DESPERATE ATTE_MPIT TO ROB JEWELRY STORE. Two Armed Men Smashed Windows in Full View of Hundreds. Philadelphia, Oct. 1.—A desperate attempt to steal jewelry valued at $16,- 000 from a show window atione of the busiest corners in the shopping dis- trict was made today by two armed men in full view of hundreds of per- sons. Afier smashing the window with e padded hammer they seized two trays containing the jewels and made a dash to escape at the same time firing their revolvers as a warn- ing to pursuers. ‘Women shoppers were panic-strick- en and several fainted. One of the men was seized by an iceman whe fell- ed him with a blow on the jaw and snatched his revolver. ~The - other man escaped through an office build- ing a block and a half away after one trry of jewels had been knocked from | *7%: his haid end recovered by a mes- cenger boy. The other tray = was found intact where it had been drop- ped in front of the store. The captured man was held in $2,- 500 bail. He gave his name as Na- than Heller, 28 years old, of New York and insists that he had noth-) ing to do with the robbery. VILLA OFFICIALS REPORTED TO HAVE RESIGNED General Jose Leyva and Fifi Other Army and Civilian Officials. Nogales, Ari, Oct."1—General Jose Leyva, former Vilia commandant at Guaymas, and 15 other army and civ- ilian officials of Nogales, Sonora, were reported to have resigned today, leav- ing the border post, which Governor Jose Maytorena quit last night, vir- tually without authority, either civil or_military. Urbalejo, the Yaqui chief, who was named commander of the Villa forces in Sonora, is somewhere south of the border, but has not reached Cananes, he mining town which has been occu- pudbymmu The Yaquis, accord- ing to reports here tonight, have kill- ed two Chinese. e UNITED STATES SUBMARINES TO SAIL FOR HONOLULU. K Type Will Rej nflothoFflmp!'w There. San Francisco, Oct. 1.—The United States submarines ‘K-3, K-A, K-7 and K-8 were ordered submarines will re] at the Homolulu ::_'?h. station group. one Honolulu - harbor last oft | in wu! ana-lul- Frontier Reopened. Paris, Oct. 1, 6.25 p. m.—The Fran- co-Swiss frontier, whlch was dopfll ‘been reopened to STATE'S RECEIPTS FROM & © AUTOMOBILES $636,97009 For the Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30— All Goss to Highway Department. amounted to $536,970.09. - For !h pre- vious fiscal year of 1914 the receipts amounted to $406.623.34. This shows an increase of 24.2 per cent. for the year. There was an increase in the number of pleasure and commercial automobiles ram«nd the past year . There are now 2,467 livery vehicics regiaterod, an increase of 1,178, The number of li- censed operators at the end of the year Just closed is given as 50,179,.an in- crease of 13,807 over that of last year. The motorcyclists have increased 455, the present number being 2,803. The amount received from fines for viola- tion of the automobile law. was $8,998. All the money taken in by the auto- ‘mobile department was turned over to h. mghwny department, to be used e repair of state highways. Under '.ho law not a dollar of it can be used for any other purpose, not even to pay the expenses of the department. Nor can any of it be used in tne construc- tion of new highways. It is believed that the receipts for the coming fiscal year will exceed the amount received during the year 1915 50 per cent. STRIKING CHICAGO GARMENT WORKERS TO ARBITRATE, A Number of Women Were Hurt Dur- ing Small RMA. Chicago, Oct. 1.—An peTeement for arbitration whereby 500 loyes of one of the largest lmsps fected by the strike of garment workers return- ed to work was rej o Rissman, president of the e same announ arbitrators were to union and two by pany, the fifth to be Prof. J. E. Willlams of Streator, IIL, recen| ppointed by Governor Dunne a4 chairman of the commission on employment. While this move gave a touch ‘of optimism to the situation, labor lead- ers apparently were concerned over the Increased number of disturbances and arrests. A delegation of representatives of the strikers callea to see - Mayor Thompson, who refused to.grant them an audience. A number of women were hurt dur- ing small riots today. On one occasion a group of alleged strikers and their sympathizers threw a brick at. a police- '%Dmmfilfll @ riat in which the mamm = ON OUTBKIRTS-OF CAPITAL, Capture Electric Power Plant and Kill 100 of Zapata Soldiers. ‘Washington, Oct. 1.—Capture of the electric power plagt on the outskirts of Merico City by Carranza troops, who killed one hundred of the Zapata soldiers holding the plant, was an- nounced in delayed despatches receiv- ed today at the state department. The capture followed a sharp fight Thurs- day and it was said that the plant was damaged so slightly that it would be possible to resume service in a few ou Raiding bands of Zapata troops have intermittently occupied the power house 6 rsome time and in the last fow days had been in complete con- rol Lack of fuel in the cit; the service of the plant long ago and emergency stations have been relied upon by’ the city for its light and power. Reports #rom Vera Cruz dated Sep- tember 30 announced that the Car- ranza government had promulgated a decree giving banks of issue 45 davs to comply with the banking law. FORMER VILLA OFFICERS ARRANGING TO SURRENDER. Three Aro Said to Bs En Route to Vera Cruz to Join Carranza, interrupted Washington, Oct. 1.—Three former Villa officers. according to announce- ment from the Carranza agency here tonight are en route to Vera Cruz, commissioned to arrange for the sur- l'ender of many of the chiefs of Villa's “I3 is_stated,” Buye the announce- ment, “that they are travelling incog- nito because Villa is ignorant of their intention and of this regent action of his subordinates and secrecy must be preserved in order to avold assassin- ation of such of them as still rematn within his reach.” The Carranza agency gave out alsa what purported to be an intercepted telegram from a Villa consul at Tia- juana, Lower California, to Enrique C. Liorente, Villa’s Washington repre- sentative, saying that conditions in the territory being abandoned by Villa were “growing worse every day” ana that General Villa intended “o pro- cede westward into districts hitherto untouched by the fighting a',\d where | The there are crops in abu STRIKE AT UNITED GTATES CARTRIDGE PLANT SETTLED Employes Vote to Return to Wdrk Pending Arbitration.’ Lowell, Mass, Oct. 1—The three weeks' strike of cartridge workers at the plant of the United States Car- tridge company ended, tonight, when the strikers votedsto feturn to work | either union or non-union. ‘The strikers sought abolition of Sunday night work, shorter hours and an advance in wages. The plant, em- ploying about 5,000 persons, has been shut down, with the exception ow one or two departments, since the strike went into effect. OBITUARY. ‘Rev. George Curtis, D. D. S his Segaiter uxfi.mfifnc?ibfl of .unn-m and neid state, \Vfl Exceed lsu 106 ARE REPORTED ,gua AND 106 MISSING ——— Hundvreds of Persons Along the Miss- issippi and Interior Points Are Ma- Ihs ubmannas INGLAND SOLVES PROBLEM HOW TO COMBAT THEM ENTANGLED IN NETS Nets Suspended Between Floats Have Been Scattered Broadcast—Between 80 and 70 German Boats Caught. Wi z Brit has aiscovered and put into effecti: the | operation means of combatting _ the to official submarine, which, reports to the United States gov- dead per- | ernment, already has resulted in a loss estimated at between ffty Constant, Positive and Profitable The cost of doiiig business increases rapldly with development. by speeding the turnovers. ing. sure, and it pays. past week: = Bulletin Saturday, Monday, Sept. Tuesday, Sept. Wednesday, Sept. 29.. 25. 27. 28.. Sept. Thursday, Sept. 30.. i Oct. Loy ‘That of one average drygoods store has about doubled thirty years. Though this may be looked upon as making a hole of good size in the met profits, the rising cost is met, not by increasing the price of the goods or cutting down on the quality or quantity but in the past The more goods that can be disposed of the better the business and the larger the met profit and there is nothing which alds in the hastening of turnovers:or the speeding up of business like advertis- It is the necessary force to such an end and its cost does not come out of the buyer but like other overhead charges is much more than made up by the increased volute of business. Advertising means brushing aside the idea that business wili come without encourngement as every advertiser has learned, and when it comes to getting the best results there is no medium in this end of Connecticut that can equal The Bnl.lefln Its service is constant and The following imatter whs published in its columns during the Telegraph Local General Total 150 155 109 121 139 158 1421 596 477 470 142 202 483 150 208 516 940 2191 - 3963 168 192 155 133 1103 249 213 216 or points are marooned sections. in Known Dead. The property damage will run into the million: The kn dead in Louisiana in- cluded: New Orleans and environs, 24; Rigolets 21, Lake Catherine 22, near Frenier 25, eight drowned in sinking packet Hazel, near Grand Isle. Reported dead Loutsiana: Shell Beach, St. Bernard Parish, 16. Island De La Croix 22, Yolosky 1§ (negroes.) Property Loss Tremendous. Courlers by boat and train as well as mail advices brought in reports of tremendous property loss and rumors of many dorwned along both sides of the Mississippi river south of here. The town of Dunbar, La., near the Mississippl state line, virtually was swept away, it is reported. Only m eports have been re- celved om the delta sections south and souPhwest of New Orleans. A wireless fessage received from a staft correspondent of a New Orleans paper said: Life Toll Heavy. “Whole country between Poydras and Buras inundated. Lev. property loss appalling. probably heavy. Condmom than ever before. fef needed. Reports from Chet” Menuer, directly south of this city, indicated that a tidal wave from nine to twelve feet high struck that section. From be- low Houma and Terrebonne section no reports have been recelved. The country there is low and there is hardly any protection from wind and Little Damage at Mouth. The Honduran steamer Yoro arriv- mg here last night reported little e at Pllottm, at the mouth of !he iver. C. E. Bowers, wireless op- erator on_the Yoro. sald property loss all the way up the river to a point within fifteen miles of New Of- leans was enormous. Plantations were flooded and houses demolished. As far as he could see, on either side of the river was flooded, Bowers said. to the levees was the greatest a few miles below Magnolia. VILLAGES ON NARROW STRIP OF LAND WIPED OUT Between Lake Borgne and Lake Pon- charthrain in Louisian: Mobile, Ala., Dunbar, La., villages on a narrow stri; of land between Lake Lake Ponchartrain north Orleans, have been- wiped large loss of life by the troplal hurri- cane, according to a statement given out here today by of the Loutsville and Nashville The announcement said train ser- vice over the road into New Orleans Jrould Be. impoasible for weeks, the tracks Christian Bay St. Lonu hnvtn' been d-trwy.fl. A. G. Spalding’s Estate Over $1,000,000 ;Los Angeles, Calif, Oct. 1—John W. Siats nhetitance ney, announced and missing in seventy German submarines. The re- ports declare that the British ad- miraity confidently believes it has crushed the German under-sea cam- The British censorship has presented the disclosure of detalls concerning the developments. Within the last three weeks, however, confi- dential reports to varlous government departments, from representatives in European cavitals of neutral as wak as belligerent countries, have been ceived and are now being closely scrutinized on account of the bearing they may have upon the naval policy of the United States. They strength- on the conviction of naval officers that the dreadnought still is the mainstay in warfare on sea. Capture 50 Submarines. According to e reports, destruction or capture of fifty submarines actual- ly had been reported several weeks ago, and it was regarded as possible that the number might have reached . A dinner was given recent- ly in London whick, while not a formal state affair, was attended by high gov- ernment officials, in celebration of the deatruction of the fiftieth under-wa- ter enemy. Reports of the dinner ap. parently were suppressed by the cen- sor in accordance with Great Britain policy of keeping Germany In doubt as to how many of $he boats have been destroyed. A Submarine Telephone. The Unijed States government has learned that in order to combat the German war zone campaign, a subma- rine telephone has been developed by which it is possible to detect the ap- proach of a submarine by sound from observation boats or stations planted off shore connected with points in the mainland. -For the capturing of craft whose pressure has not been detected, huge nets have been stretched across the channels through. which the subma. Hml may be expected to attempt to and in open waters, near steam- Enip lanes Ot n the VICInity Of wat- ships, nets suspended between floats have been spread broadcast. Armed patro! boats watch, and when the Qis- appearance of the floats beneath the water shows that a submarine has (Continued on Page Twoe) NEW BRITISH CONSUL GENERAL AT NEW YORK Charlés Clive yley to Succeed Sir Courtenay Walter Bennett. London, Oct. 1, 8:03 p. m.—The ap- pointment of Charles Clive Bayley as British consul-general at New York was announced today. Charles Clive Bayley, who has been Yo that 'city from 1899 to 1908, after- wards going to Warsaw and holding the post of consul there until ap ap- pointed -to the higher post at Mos- cow. He_ succeeds as consul-general in New York Sir Courtenay Walter Bennett, who has been consul-general since 1907, Pratt & Whitney Strikers Parade. Md&h&-mu reported. wages of 6,000 em- wanna Steel Co., advanced Trem 8 1o 10 per today, e e o, will be cent. All untrained Germans in Holland belonging to_the 1916_draft were ord- ered to return to Germany immedi- ately. The Farrell, PI. fin mill of the American Sheet n“ Co, is being worked at uuc y on rush orders. An aviation section_ of the signal corps of the New York National Guard - was authorizéd by Governor Whitman. More than 5,000 miners in the South Wales district went on strike in pro- test the employment of non- All metals in the Kaiser's palace at Berlin that are not in actual neces- Il be taken over by the Four thousand prisoners among whom were 67 officers, arrived at Marsellles on their way to French prison camps. A daughter has been born to Edwin W. Friend of Farmi whose husband lost his life Lusitania disaster. Mrs. ngto; in the British prisoners taken in the region of Arras were increased by 24 officers and 2,194 men, the German War Of- fice announced. President Wilson appointed Amer- ican Ambassador Guthrie at Tokio as his personal representative at the cor- onation of the Mikado. A 1500 ton metal it 1t ¥ind, will be H, plant of Steel Co., at a cn-( of Fire that broke out on Wednesday on the American steamer F. J. Lin: man, at Rio de Janeiro, damaged the cargo of kerosene and turpentine. the Gn.rneli. $300,000. President Wilson ~ will Daughts tion at greet the of ‘the American Revolu- their _seventy-fifth _annual To prevent further violence by striking garment workers additional police were ordered to patrol the clothing manufacturing district of Chicago. Employes of the Per Pennsylvania Rail- road machine shops at Altoona, Pa., were ordered to work ull time, be- ginning Oct. 1. About 2,000 men are affected. ander 8. Porter, one of the leading real estate operators in Bos- ton, and prominent in the develop- ment of the Back Bay section, died at the age of 76 Chicago packers will not be given a hearing by the State Department un- til the official text of the British Prize Court’ product decision their is received. confiscating Allen H. Seaman of Yonkers was killed and his wife and mother fatal- Iy injured when their auto turned over several times and was wrecked near Middletown, N. Y. J. J. Mendenhall, prominent orange grower and mill operator of Clear- water, convicted last wegk of the murder of Miss Susie Ellot, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Police Commissioner Woods sum- moned representatives of the patrol- men’'s and leutenants’ benevolent as- sociations to headquarters and warn- ed them they had violated the ;lv in formally indorsing woman suf- rage. Judge Sumner L. of United States court in China, called on President Wilson, expressed the opinion that the form of government of China would not be changed at this time from a republic to a mon- archy. £ , the Forty-three American du'ar- and ‘of their services in stop- ping opldcuuu there. national within aoo-- according to the Ghent, Belgivm correspondent. Al.ifl"‘:-fwwkd-y‘;lmt:i same wages they now receive for nine hours was announced was viuntary on the part of the com- the men having made no de- for shorter hours. Riggs Bank Cashier Has Resigned. Middle Western and Western Banks Are Yet to be From—Total Promised Includes Pledges of the Chi “Large Banks and Those of Wealthy Indivi Will be Open for Subscription to the c—ul&& Before Oct. 15—Bonds Were Bought and Sold on the Curb Yesterday to the Extent of $75,000, 0.-& ss,r-m...:o..r—.nn% New York, Oct. 1. — Seircipticen lmmmun( to ap) $366,000,- to be in sht Thursday Sight owasds the 3500, president of one of the largest nation- al_danks in_the city. This would leave $115,000,000 to ba |} taken and it was his opinion that to- day and tomorrow would see the en- tire amount placed. The $365,000,000 1t is assumed, rep- 1esents the total pledges tabulated up o Thursday. night and includes the chief large bank subscriptions and those of wealthy individuals entering the list of underwriters. It was al- #0 thought that this total covered sub- scripticns from every section of the country, aithough this was not stat- ed. Sooks Open For Several Days. The books will be left open, in all n, | probability. for severa] days. Middle been afforded all to come in. Bonds Sold eon Curb. In the pouring rain ‘on the curb, out- - e the bonds meeting in Washington on October 11. || was sald, paying at the rate of 98 and INSTRUCTED TO RELEASE GOV. JOSE MAYTORENA Chief of Vi ‘orces in Somera, Who Crossed the Thursday Night. Washington, Oct. 1.—Governor Jose Maytorena, chief of the Villa forces In Sonora, who crossed the interna- tional line last night at Nogales, Ariz. will be released from custody of Unit- ed States soldires at les accord- ing to a decision by depart- ment officials after a conference with Acting Secretary Polk of the State Department. The State Department has no objection to the admission of Maytorena to the United States. Colonels De Lavega and so cagried what purported to be dis- charges from the Villa army, were ar- rested at the line an hour later and released on parole. Maytorena said he was en route to Washington to at- tend the Pan-American conference, while the two colonels said they wish- ‘ed to remain in the United States on the same footing as other Mexican cit- izens and to be permitted to cross to and from Mexico as they saw fit. It is probable the colonels will be leased by the war department and civ. il authorities at the border are satis- fied they have no connection with any new revolutionary movement in Mexi- co or with recent bandit raids on American territory. General Funston reported Carlos Randall, former state er of Sonora, and Gemeral Urvalejo, had been announced &8 acting gOV- ernor and commafder-lin-chief, re- spectively, of Villa forces in Sonora. TO DISCUSS NAVAL PLANS FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE President Wilson, Secretary Daniels and Representative Padgett, Meet Monday. ‘Washington, Oct. 1.—President WII- son will discuss with Secretary Dan. iels and Representative. Padgett, chalr-. man of the house naval affairs com- mittee, next Monday naval plans in connection with the national also that treasur- and Mr. Padgett and Senator Tillman, of the senate naval commit- tee. discussed pians with President Wiison some weeks ago. A TRANSCONTINENTAL TELEPHONE RECEPTION ELEVEN MEXICANS DEAD = Bodies Found on Both Sides of MMMY-. Brownsville, Texas, finding of the bodies was Edward-Anderson of the 13th of " fve an hour and a half. JOINED METHODIST - FORWARD novlnm: e