Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 13, 1916, Page 1

Toutons Preceded Their Movements With the Ustal Heavy Bombardments A CAPTURED FIRST LINE TRENCHES FOR 500 YARDS % P BmflChlmPMoftbel’ouhomeRMenmlCount er-Attack—Around Verdun the French Have Recaptur- ed Points of Vantage Soutlvwat of H-nmrt—Bom- bardments Are Again Taking Place in the Vicinity of |& Dead Man Hill—On the Russian Front There Has Been Considerable Infantry Fighting Without Result—Petro- grad Reports Progress of Russians Fighting Against Turks in the Persian Front, With Bagdad as Their Ob- jective. Switching their attack from the Verdun region against the French, the Germans. have begun again a sharp iftensive against the British line around Hulluch. Pre their movements with the usual heavy bombardments the Germans loosened an infantry attack against the British lines in the region of Vermelles and were successful in capturing first line trenches over a front of about 500'yards. The Brit- ish admit the loss of the positions, but say that part of them were retaken in_a¢ counter-al Berlin declares that in their defence of the trenches, an despecially later in the counter-attack, the British suf- fered heavy casualties and in add tion lost men made prisoners and sev- eral machine guns captured. Around Verdun the French on the left bank of the Meuse have recap- tured points of vantage previously taken from them southeast of Hau- court by the Germans. Bombardments are again taking place in the vicinity of Lemort Homme and Cumieres and against the French first and-second line trenches on the right bank of the Mguse between the Haudromont Wood and Vaux. = A German attack southeast of Fort, Dausumoxt was re- pulse Comldemble infantry fighting, Whlch as' yet has been without result, is progress on the Dyinsk. and Jacob- stadt sectors of the Russian front. Pe- trograd reports that German attacks at several points here and” farther south have been repulsed. In the Amustro-Italian theater in- tense artillery actions are ensuing in the Col di Lana zone, and the Italians have put down two Austrian attempts to attack against captured positions at_Mount Cukla. Petrograd reports - further progress for the Russians fighting inst- the Turks near the Persian frontier. with Bagdad as their objective. Here the Turks attempted to take the offensive, but Petrograd says the movement was miles west of Erzerum, the Russians claim to have made further progress westward. This, however, is at variance with the claims of Constantinople, which says the Russians driven out of their positions at Mout Kope, west of Er- zerum, are maintain the lves in new S —— OWNERS MOVE TO RECOVER PRIZE SHIP MAM. Court at Norfolk, Va, Norfolk, Va., May 12.—British own- ers of the German prize ship Appam began their effort to recover possession of the vessel in federal court here to- day with the submission of a letter from Lansing to the German ambassador xpressing the opinion that the Appam did not fall under the protecting clauses of the Pruesian-American treaty. The secretary’s letier holding ‘to a vlew opposite to that which it had been understood was en‘ertained by the state department was admitted by Judge Waddill' over the protest of at- torneys for German _government and Licutenant' Hans Berg, the prize Commander, joint. defendants i the owners' libel smit. Preliminary briefs have indicated that the German case would be built largely on the treaty provision referred to in the letter. Three officers of the Appam's British crew, her master, first officer and chief engineer, testified at today's hearing as to he' shiv'e posi- tion when captured Moewe, the placing of Sy Aioht oo ship the prize crew to prevent mu- tiny the removal of bullion from her cargp. GERMAN MINISTER OF INTERIOR MUST RESIGN. Emperor William and Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg So Decide. IAmsterdam, via London. May 12, William _and Bethmann-Hollweg have decided -that Clemens Delbrueck, German minister of the interior and vice chancellor, must resign, says a ‘to the Frankfurter but the real trouble, the despatch says, is diseatisfaction with Germany's food supplies. Count George Von Hertling, the Baravrian prime minister, is re- flarded as the probable successor to Minister Delbrueck. A Berlin official statement on May 9 said that Minister Delbrueck had not yet completely recovered an at- ‘u:)( of sickness and had been obliged to discontinue work for the present. CONCEALED AND SOLD MORTGAGED PROPERTY Nicola Caruso of Bridgeport Fined $400 in Police Court. New Haven, Conn., May 12.—Nicola Caruso of Brid, Tt BRITISH ESTIMATE OF = GERMAN PEACE OVERTURES Lord Cecil Robort. 8- s T Offer a B for N-uot London, May ‘12, 635 p. m.—'The last peace overtures said to be of Ger- man origin, while not as insolent and impossible ‘as - previous statements on the same subject, certainly do not yet offer a basis for negotiations,” said Lord Robert Cecil, minister of- war trade, in a discussion with the Asso- dll.d Press of the last gnd reputed German peace terms. Lord Robert continued: “We have never received, either of- ficlally or unnfldnlll!. any direct peace suggestions from Germany and the only indirect overtures we are aware of appear in the speech of Chancel- lor Von. Bethmann-Hollweg and the recent German note to America. We Wwould not think of discussing or even considering any overture without con- sulting our allles. No formal or in- formal conference for this purpose ‘®ver has taken place. “In_diplomatic procedure a:neutral is hardly likely to make any sugges- tion of peace terms unless certain they are acceptable to the recipient. “If Germany should decide to ap- proach us through the medium of the United States, the latter would have to use its own judgment as to whether or_not to deliver the request. ‘While disclaiming any )mvwled;e of the internal condition _ Lord Robert declared that the increas. ing reports of peace overtures indicate there is some truth to the stories that the central powers are in- desperate straits. Do Not ns. SUFFICIENT EXECUTIONS OF IRISH INSURECTIONISTS To Show Gevernment’s Determination to Stamp Out Treason. Dublin,' May 12, via London, May 13, 12.35 a. m—The opinion that sufclent executions have been carried out: in connection with the recent revolt to show the government's determination to stamp out treason is _gathering strength in all circles in Dpblin. leaders of the uprising have shot and many their followers have been S ridlics with A men The correspondent of The Associat- ¢d Press has made u-nhins inquiry among the various classes of socter including civil officials, business men and workmen of all grades, and found 2 striking unanimity in the view that the Fovernment will DR. STOCKWELL'S BUNGALOW nmnmo BY PIRE At m Tuhmlod- Sanitarium $5,000. umiiet| 16 SHIPS IN FIRST LINE| try, pi repo: now ascertained, is a prisoner at Da- mdséus with_twenty. and 230 men of the Worcestershire Yeoman- They were captured by the Turks at Katia Baster Sunday. HEARINGS RESUMED ON " BRANDEIS APPOINTMENT | Testimony Regarding His Connection With Merger of Drug Companies. Washington, May earings hefore the senate judiclary sub-committee investigating _the - fit- ness of Louis D. Brandeis for the su- preme behch began and ended today with the introduction of testimony regarding. Mr. Brandels’ connection as counsel with ‘the merger last January of the United Drug company and. the Riker-Hegeman Drugstores Company and a statement. by Commisstoner Harlan that Mr. Brandeis’ services to the Interstate Commerce Commission in the five per cent. advance rate case were eminently satisfactory. The sub-committee, which already has recommended by a vote of 3 to 2 confirmation of the Brandeis nomina- tion, will t a supplementary re- port when today's evidence has been printed. There was no indication to- night as to wheh a vote in the full committee might be expected. Louis K. Liggett, of Boston, a direc- tor of the United Drug Company: erick K. Snow, his_attorney, and George W. Anderson, United States district attorney at Boston, told to- day of Mr. Brandeis' meing emploved to give an opinion to Mr. Liggett as to the validity of the drug merger and of his efforts to cortvince Mr. An- derson-that the consolidation was not in violation of the Sherman Anti-trust law. Mr. Anderson said he made a. final report to the department of jus- tice adverse to the merger on 12 and he had mot been informed as yet whether he should begin proceed- ings against the parties to it. Commissioner Harlan stafed that Mr, Brandels was employed by the commission not to represent the ship- pers, but the public, in seeing that all the facts in the rate case were pre- sented. He said- he would have re- garded him as failing in his duty if ho had withheld any important con- clusions he reached in regard to the 12.—Re-opened om GIVEN DURING BATTLE 9!’ VMDU Sutfect of Deliberations of Comm tee of Chamber of Dipvllt'- Paris, May 12, , 450 p. m.—General Pedoya, president of the army com- mittee in the chamber of deputies, at the request of the socialist deputy, Plerre Renaudel, called a special meeting of the committee today to dis- cuss the recent official communica- tions and press comments relating to orders given during the battle of Ver- dun. Deputy Renaudel suggested that es lish responsibility the' pre- mler and the minister of war should be heard by the committee. General Pedoya asked both t.he premier and the minister of war if they could be present at the meeting. Premier Briand notified General Pe- doya that in the absence of the min- ister of war from Paris he could not reply to the committee’s inquiry until tomorrow. An official statement given out in Paris on May 11, which replied to re- ports-that a general of the French staff at a certain stage of the battle of Verdun contemplated the retreat of the forces from the. right bank of the Meuse said that at no time during the battle had the chief in command siven orders for a retreat of the French troops from the right bank of the Meuse. On the contrary, the state- M. E. CHURCH REVISES BOOK OF DISCIPLINE Members May Now Play Cards, Dance and Attand Theatre, Saratoga Sbrinss N. Y., May 12.— Members of the Methodist Episcopal church who play cards, dance and at- tend the theatre will not longer be Uable to expulsion, if recommenda- tions made by a sub-committee of the general conference, which has been considering the question of amuse- ments, are adopted by the commit- tee on the state of the church and lat- or by the conference. The report was offered to the main committee afternoon and after an _ acrimonious discussion action was deferred until Monday. By a vote of 10 to 8 the sub-com- mittee recommended the elimination from the book of discipline of clause prohibiting these amusements d offered as a substitute an addi- tionul paragraph in which warning is made against the diversions. The ef- fect of the proposed change is to re- move the absolute prohibition, but to place the church on record as still strongly opposed to these forms of the paragraph as it now stands, REVOLUTION HAS BROKEN 8IX OF THE OLDER BATTLESHIPS |: PLACED IN RESERVE. About 4200 Men Will Be Made Avall- able for Service on Six Destroyers and the New Dreadnoughts—Re- serve Ships for Use of Naval Militia. ‘Washington, May ' 12.—Reorganiza- tiom of o cfirat Tae of ;hesAfi'“‘“c Daniels 5o as to place six of the older battleships in reserve and release a large part of their crews to. man a destroyer division and the new dread- noughts’ Oklahoma and Nevada. Connecticut Placed in Reserve. The New. Jersey, Island and the N were ordered to reserve at the Boston navy yard; ms Connacticut at Phfla- delphia lnfl Louisiana at Nor- pun have been com- pleted, they will be maintained wlfl: their ‘crews reduced sixty per but in shape for active service 'lul!n 48 hours. The vessels will SECURED THEIR MONEY ON MAR- RIAGE PROMISES. ; THEN MURDERED THEM A Modern Bluebird in the Village of Cinita, Hungary—Lived With Eigh- teen Women, Eight of Whom Are Dead and Ten Missing. st A‘.....u?i"‘ i ""’p'.'fi,'.l'.“.‘:'.’.‘,'.' all saved. Serbia has purchased a second do- strover as well Ax % toameptrt. 't ‘| the new Serbjan fie Budapisc, May 12, via London, 4 p. m—Further official investigation into the case of the modern Bluebeard in the village of Cinkota, ):hu, it devel- , according to_ the. police, of. de- ‘women by marriage advertise- ments, securing thelr money on mar- rhaa promises and- then murdering them. Letters From All Parts of the World. ‘Theé police have a record 6f 18 wom- en with whom Kiss was at various times associated, eight of whom have long been regarded as missing, while the ten others have not yet heen found. In the house he had occupied ‘were discovered packages of love let- The Early Bird and the Merchant The origifiator of that old adage about the early bird catching the worm may not have known anything about mercrandising and the, morning n significance fi aper, but he exthing about merchandising and the m the modern advertising standpoint. With the rising of the sun man awakens from a peaceful slum- ber, mentally and physically rejuvenated. His mind is clear and his mental “negative” is ready to receive its daily impressions. Cofnei- dent with the awakening of humanity the morning newspaper comes from out the dawn, bringing its stories of life and dally messages from the marts of trade. In the morning, men, women mood. The morning newspaper is “the early bird,” who tells his story through its columns and children are in a receptive and the merchant “catches the worm.” Tell your business story through the columns. of The Bulletin. During the past week the following matter has appeared'in the col- May 8. May 9. May 10. May 11. May 12. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Fotals’ s ouis i 2 ciuded in the nine battleships to be used this summer for naval mlmla and citizen volunteer training A0 six of the ships are of the oid super-posed turret type. About 4,200 men, made available by the change, will be divided between six destroyers and the ' new dread- noughts. 16 Battleships in Four Divisions. Sixteen big battleships in four di- visions will constitute the new first line of the beet, including the Penn- sylvania, to be delivered by the con- tractors on June 1. The others are the Minnesota, Vermont, Michigan, South Carolina, Delaware, Okl New York, Texas, Florida, Utah, Ar- kansas, New Hampshire, Nevada, Kansas and Wyoming. Working Out Plan for Mili With addition of 15,000 men in the nayy, proposed in the pending bill before con 5, navy officlals said to- night it would be possible to take sev- eral ships from the reserve and re- turn them to active service, The de- partment is also. endeavoring to work out a plan by which naval militia can be instantly assigned in case of war. for duty in manning ships in reserve. Repairs to the Connecticut. ‘While at their home yards the Con- necticut and Louisiana will have their boflers and shaft bearings repaired. New boilers will be installed in the Georgia and Virginia. MONTHLY REPORT OF EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS Norwich Placed 259 of 335 Applicants —273 Applications for Help. Hartford, ‘Conn., 12.—During the month ‘ending Aprfl 30 2073 situa- tions were secured through the five free public employment bureaus in the state, according to a report made public today. There were 3,186 ap- plications for employment and 2,613 applications for help. In New Haven there were 665 ap- plications for employment; 566 appli- cations for help and 436 situations this | OUT IN LISBON | Sations % | Troops Have Mutinied and Arsenals | 2! Local General Total 140 1092 1488 116 215 481 145 147 418 165 205 541 170, 210 551 160 170 506 896 ~2039 3985 ters from all parts of the world, in- cluding the United States. Bodies of Strangled Wome Four of seven sealed leaden cases found in the dwelling were opened. Three contained the bodies of stran- gled women, while in the fourth were seven women’s dresses. One was identified as ‘belonging to a young woman who has been missing for ten vears, Spent Money Freely. There appears to be no doubt that Kiss died at Valjevo, Serbia, as pre- viously reported. Although he rarely worked, he spent money so generously tha the was known generally as “the American uncle.” EXPLOSION OF TWO BARRELS OF OIL ON STEAMSHIP Caused Death of One Man—Booth Liner Was at Pier in Brookiyn. New York, May 12.—The exploslon of two barrels of oil in the bunker room of the Booth Line steamship Stephen at her pler in Brooklyn late today caused the death of one man and injuries to three others. The Stepben was taking on a cargo of sugar for Brazilian ports. A long- shoreman went down into the bunker room carrying a lighted candle. stumbled and fell and the dropped into a barrel of oil. He was blown to bits in the explosion which followed. There were twelve men in the bunk- er room at the time of the explosion end a panic ensued in which were badly hurt. spread all over the ship, were extin- guished in an hour by fireboats. SITUATION IN SANTO DOMINGO CONTINUES CRITICAL U: 8. Gunboat Dolphin and a Torpedo Boat Hlv. Ar ived There. Santo Domingo. Dominican Repub- lic, May 12—The situation growing out of the differences between Domin- factions here continues critical. COLLAPSE OF 8TAG|NG CAUSED TWO DBATH. ‘Men Dropped Forty Feet at Somw- ville, Mass. R"::‘:i‘:nm spnul:gn “the- mm o( British Miners' Fodmtkm_ Three Qh.uulld babies paraded in New York city, as part of_the cele- bration of ‘“Better Babies Week.” Within six_months all, horse cars in use in New York city will ha replaced by storage China has added her protest to that of Japan remdlng exclusion clauses in the proposed ni hlmlxrlflon law. Gold coin’ to th. amount of $200,- 000 was withdrawn from ‘the New g::l(':- Sub-Treasury for shipment to About . 5,000 employes of rado Iron & Fuel Co. u Pueblo, Col, have been granted' increase i wages. T!u!oc ntl-lopzinor Volke-Zeitung been for a week for a llbolml! t-t\u:k on the German gov- ernment Germany reported to have or- dered reindeer, goats, storks, crows, starlings and sparrows to be killed for food. % Mrs. Charles J. C. Ackert, 85 years old, died at her home at New Paltz, N. Y. She was owner and editor of the New Paltz Times. Mrs. Theodére Roosevelt, Sr., is go- ing to march in ihe preparedness pa- rade in the division headed by Mrs. ‘Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. An embargo on to Baltimore Loc\m. has been Baltimore & omo Railroad. Lansing branded as “ut- " reports: that the adminis- ‘The weekly statement of .the Bank of France shows a decrease of 95,972,- 000 francs in gold holdings, and a de- crease in silver of 2,568,000 francs. Saci; convictea of hav- ing advised munition workers at Glas two for a year each, and one for 18 months. The Merchants and Miners’ steamer Berkshire, Newport News for Balti- more, was grounded to prevent her sinking, after she had col.l]ded with a barge in Hampton Roads. Judge John W, E. Westcott, of Cam- den, N. J, who nominated Woodrow Wilson at the Baltimore conyvention, is expected to do the same thing at the St. Louis convention. A double guard was the Agricultural hufl\‘lln‘ ington following the receipt of a sec- ond letter by Washington newspapers saying that the building was to be blown up. The Rev. lrwin B, Ritter, president of the Allentown, Pa., Conference of the Lutheran church, died at Allen- town from a stroke of paralysis suf- fered last Sunday while cranking his automobile. Luke anhl, of Philadelphia, ther of §-year-old Rich Meekln!. whose hod)'lxl found in a West Phil- adelphia meadow, was cleared of sus- picion of the murder on his son and released from jail. Three German officers and 22 sol— diers all Soclalists, are reported have been executed for dlstributing in the trenches a pamphlet concern- ing the second peace con- Nicholas Papp was th and killed by his young wife at factory at Bridgeport, Conn., after he had re- fused to give up gambling assoclates with whom he lost $1,500 of his sav- ings within a short time. The German Reichstag passed at i first reading the bill providing !or the reconstruction of villages in Lieut. N.v-rn. Fr-nefl 21-year-ald air hero/ has dropped a second mes- sage behind the German lines chal- lenging Lieut. Immelman, “super- hawk” of Germany, to an air dn.l Tor the championship of the world. D BTS—. w"lllm A. Gardner, pr‘fldem of the Chicago & Northwester Ra.nmy, dhd n.t his summer home at Wi hu'lbd Rl:hoof r- e laying out of r&t hesitate to pursue thm into Mex- Opposition to Withdrawal of Troops. quent. An indication of the attitude of some rain_shipments | grain shipments | towar, operation by the ;7 range. Cause of Redistribution of Troops. General it was stated, kept going as long as he had a hot_trail to follow. there . & It was this situation, it was indicated, as well as the increasing er of clash- man ASQUITH'S VISIT TO DUBLIN Hailed by His Supporters as a Stroke of Genius. London, May 12, 11.22 p. m.—Pre- mier Asquith's sudden resolve to go to Dublin, which was hailed by his supporters as a stroke of genius, has had the effect of assuagh ns. The only new fact concerning the situation in Ireland is that two other tion was delayed by quitk's undertaking that there would be no further executions until after parliament had debated John Dillon's motion, have been put to death. They were James Connolly, one of the signers of the proclamation of the Irllh republic, and John MeDermott. seems extremely probable th;‘re B nv:‘:ye no more executions. uch regret is expressed by influen- tial Liberal ne that the gov- ernment failed to Coyert the execution of Messrs. Connol rmott. The Manchester Guardian and the Nation contend that a commutation of these sentences would have been not only clemency but policy. PR A A Y B FOREST FIRE BURNING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Believed to Have Caused Death of a Volunteer Fire Fighter. Middletown, N. H., May 12—A for- est fire which burned 1000 acres of death’ of Jobn Drew, ome of unteer fire fighters. ~Drew attemptea to make his way through a section of burning brush to reach a telephone to call for help and had not been heard from today. The town hall at Middle Corners and a pumber of dwelling houses were saved late last night by the efforts of the volunteer brigaude and a shift in the wind, after several lumber camps Bag, Been [destroyed. . The were fanned afresh by a Dresse. however, and when the wing le a call was sent which embers A PARTIAL MORATORIUM. . DECLARED BY CHINA. btk Great Dm-n‘!wm‘_l’hmu m FAILURE OF MILITARY CONFERENCE AT Has Brought About No C Policy of Washington iniste f_hou(h minister, more_-definite form ATTEMPT TO WREVK | AN EL Boulders Placed on Track £+ Mlddmawn Branch Berlin, Conn., May 12— lieved td have been an atte wreck an electric train on the Middletown branch was 3 by placing three large tracks * near here, A car, travefing at crashed dato one of the came to a stop. Shalen up and considerably ed, but no one was injured; Traffic was delayed half an H1 the boulders could be. s ‘The authorities have vestigation. FOURTH DAY OF FILIB ON RIVERS AND yoYashinston, May 12 speaking again Toniaht ended " the fourth 4 filibuster he and Senator Tllinofs _are conducting. $43.000,000 rivers and priation bill. The lm continue tomorrow in substitution of a w tion of $20,000,000 lo der the direction of the ment. Senator Sherman, foor” yegtarday; ‘epoke_fos today, consuming most with ~ charges against the democratic TROOPS FAILED TO CAT! FLEEING MEXI Reports Said Th: Killed .nd Two € sville, Toul. Ma; can bandifs who last nigl Hlldmm Earl;