Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 5, 1917, Page 1

HAIG HAS HIS BIG RENEWED OFFENSIVE Al the Objectives of the First Day Are Reported to " Have Been Won and Held e At the Given Signal at Daylight the British Forces HE ATTACK WAS TIMED TO THE MINUTE Swarmed " . From Their Trenches Over Ground That Had Been ' Cleared by Artillery Along a Front of More Than Eight Miles—Large Numbers of Germans Gladly Surrendered in Order to Reach a Haven of Safety—In Northern Rus- sia a Big Battle is Being Prepared for Midway Between Riga and Dvinsk—In the Austro-Italian Zone the Aus- trians Are Continuing Their Heavy Counter-Attacks. .. -" The anticipated renewal of Fileld | Marshal Haig’s big offensive in Flan- | ders has begun, and all the objectives Jof the first day have been won and [ nela. { Like the preceding attacks, the latest one was timed to the minute. The i British forces at the given signal at | daylight swarmed from their trenches jover ground that had been harrowed { by myriads of shells from the great array of artillery and all along the . front of more than eight miles, from | south of Tower hamlets to the north i of Langemarck, they made notable ! new gains of terrain, inflicted heavy : casualties on the Germans while them- seives suffering slight losses, and took many prisoners, large numbets of whom gladiy surrendered in oxpJer to reach a haven of safety. The attack was delivered with all the wonted dash of previous offensives and swiftly and surely the British, not- . withstanding heavy counter-attacks at wvarious points, took positions that had i been marked out for them, some of them to a depth of more than a mile. The main ridge of the heights running north and south to the east of Ypres, which affords a dominating point for the launching of future attacks, is mnearly all in the hands of the British, and at séveral points the Ostend-Lille railway now is virtually within the range of Haig's guns. More than 3,000 German prisoners had been passed behind the lines | when the latest official communication concerning the day's fighting was sent end large numbers of others were be- ' ing gathered in. ‘Especially bitter fighting occurred to | the east of Zonnebzke, the nearest | point of approach to the desired rail- way lilne which connects Ostend, Zee- ‘brugge and other northern points of supply with the German Hne to the south. The efforts of the Germans to stay the British here were fruitless, however, as likewise were their efforts further north in the region of Poel- capelle, where the British gained . s ground to a depth of about two-thirds of a mile. There has been no cessation in the extremely violent artillery duel be- tween the French and the Germans orl the west bank of the Meuse river in the Verdun sector. The Germans have made another infantry attack against the French north of Hill 344 in this region, but again were repulsed with heavy casualties. : Near Jacobstadt, which lies midway between Riga and Dvinsk, on the northern Russian front, a big battle apparently is being prepared for. Here Petrograd reports an intense artillery Quel in progress which probably indi- cates that the Germans are seeking to pave the way for an attempt to cross the Dvina river. To the south the Germans again are endeavoring to fraternize with the Russlans, begging them to come out of their trenches. The Russians, how- ever, are answering the enemy by firing upon them. In the Austro-Ttalian theatre Gen- eral Cadorna’s forces have been | forced to sustain further heavy coun- ter-attacks by the Austrians from the slopes of Monte San _Gabriele, near Gorizia. The attacks, like similar ones during the past week, came to naught under the fire of the Italian artillery and rifle fire. French_airmen are continuing to carry out reprisals—-en-German citi and towns for the aerial bombardment of Bar le Duc by German aircraft. . Frankfort-on-the-Main and_ Baden, southwest of Karlsrhue, have been ef- fectively shelled from the air. In ad- dition the British and French aviators are keeping up their raids over Ger- man points of military advantage be- hind the fighting lines, again having loosed large quantities of explosives upon them. The British cruiser Drake has been torpedoed by a German submarine with the loss of one officer and 18 men killed. The vessel was able to make an Irish port after the explosion, where it sank in shallow water. — = “TESTIMONY .IN THE - PHMLADELPHIA FEUD CASE Police Lieutenant Bennett Using an Assumed Name. Philadelphia, Oct. * — Presiding Julge Charles L, Brown of the muni- cipal court, where Mayor Thomas B. Smith and eight other men are be- ing given a hearing on the charge of consplracy to murder in connection with the killing of a policeman by al- leged New York gangsters in the Fifth ward political feud, today pub- liciy announced from thé bench that Lieutenant David B. Bennetf, in com- mand of the police In that ward, is parading under an assumed name. Tntil the polite commander proved trat he had legally changed his name, the court declared. the _lieutenant weuld be held in_$10,000 -bail, pend- ing the outcome of the hearing, undéer the name of “Steinberg alias Bennett.” Sixteen policemen and three fire- men testified today that they had been transferred to other districts because they were supporters of James A. Ca- Tey, the sitting member of councils. Detectives sent into the ward by Mayor Smith to investigate condi- tions admitted on the stand that they reported they found things bad: that people were clubbed and that police- jmen were taking an active part in Deutsch’s favor. Mayor Smith was subpoaened to bring these reports in- to court and argument will be had on their admission as evidence when they are produced. ARABS ARE EFFECTING A JUNCTION WITH BRITISH Interesting Military Developments in Palestine May Result Therefrom. New York, Oct. 4—Interesting mili- tary possibilities in - Palestine are fore- cast In advices from Mecca, as report- ed In Arabic newspapers reaching New York, to the effect that the Arabs in Arabia, in revolt against the Turks, have effected a junction with the British army In southern Palestine. The Arab revolt was making in- creased headway when the latest Brit- ish official statement regarding it, is- sued on August 22, reported its prog- ress. The king of .the Hedjaz. as the new head of the Arablan revolution is styled, was then declared to be con- ducting military operations on a com- prehensive and well-thought-out scale and to have deflnitely attached his cause to that of the allles. Already & considerable section of the Hedjaz reilway running parallel with the Red Sea coast northward from Medina, had fallen under Arab control. Senator La Follette Hung in Effigy. Sheboyan, Wis.,, Oct. 4.-—Senator | L2 Follette was hung in efigy on a ! bridze just outside the city limits early | today ° The dummy which was | piacarded with the senator's name, {was discovered by an automobilist who ynotified the sheriff. The figure was re- {moved. HOUSE INVESTIGATORS ARE IN A QUANDARY. They Were Appointed to'Probe Repre- sentative Heflin’s Insinuations. Washington, Oct. 4—Five represent- atives were appointed by the house to- day to investigate statements that some members had been acting “sus- piclously,” made by Representative Heflin of Alabama, in connection with reports of the use of German money to influence congress. Now the investi- Zators do not know what they are go- ing to do about. it. After four of the members of the criginal committee named by Speaker Clark had been excus>d from serving on pleas of urgent business, and others had failed in egorts to get excused, the committee held a meeting. It was found that the resolution _provided that it should report its findings be- fore Saturday, that ‘Mr. Heflin desires many witnesses called from far states and that the resolution gives no power for calling witnesses or employing as- sistance to conduct a hearing. Then they adjourned to “think the situation over.” Representative Barnhart of Indiana is chairman, and the other members are Venable of Mississipi, Dewalt of Pennsylvania, Longworth of Ohio and Walsh of Massachusetts. MRS. H. C. HAVEMEYER SAYS SHE WAS ‘MISQUOTED Did Not Say She Would Not Lift a Finger to Aid _the Liberty Loan. New York, Oct. 4—Mrs, Henry O. Havemeyer of New York, who was quoted s having said in an address at Baltithore Tuesday night before a meeting of suffragists that she would not Ift a finger to aid the Liberty loan because women who demanded true democracy at home were thrown into jail for so doing, declared today that she had been incorrectly quoted. She declared she never had .advised anyone not to buy Liberty bonds and that she not only worked for the sale of the securities in the first loan, but had subscribed for some of the sec- ond issue of the bonds. “I am a suffragist who favors ac- tion by constitutional amendment,” she said, “and T feel very keenly about my party. T said that, feeling as I do, I could not speak for the loan as heartily as I might wish. I also ex- pressed a wish that American wom~-n might be given democracy so that we, like the women of England, would be better able to reveal the true splendor of American womanhood.” Death of George Guynemer Confirmed. Paris, Oct. 4—The death of Captain George Guynemer, the famous French aviator, has now been definitely con- vrmed. Inform~+'-~ roreived by the Red Cross says Guynemer was s through the head uurtn of Poelcapelle. on the Ypres front. He was identified by a photograph on hie pilot’s license | found 'in his pocket. The aviator was buried with military honors in the Poelcapelle cemetery. British Cruiser Drake Torpedoed. e Oct. 4—The British cruis- er been torpedoed and sunk, according to an admiralty announce- ment topight. doed Tuesday coast of Ireland. She reached a har- bor but then sank in shallow water. One officer and eighteen men were kill- ed by the explosion. The remainder of the ship’s company were saved. TWO DEAF MUTES 8 HANGED AT WETHERSFIELD For Murder of Mrs. Annie Castelli, Wife of One of the Executed Men. Hartford, Conn., Ooct. B5.—Joseph Castelli, 24, and Francesco Vetere, 25, dea# mutes, were hanged in the Weth. ersfleld state prison shortly after mid- night this morning for the murder in New Haven of Mrs. Annie Castelll, wife of one of the executed men. She was also a deaf mute. Both of the men hailed from New York. The executions were devoid of un- usual features except that they were carried out in record time and that the men made their last religious of- fices by the sign language, the Rev. Father ‘Willlam Cavanaugh admmister- ing to them by the same method. Each man went to his death repentant an without any sign of nervousness. £ Castelll was first hanged. He enter- ed the death room 2 minutes and 85 seconds past 12. The trap was sprung at 12.03.12 and he was pronounced dead at 12.18.15. His execution took 10 min- utes and 20 seconds. Vetere was taken in at 12.28.06, the trap was sprung 18 seconds later and he was pronounced dead at 12.32.10, a matter of 9 minutes and 4 seconds, the most rapid execution recorded at ‘Wethersfield. Relatives of Vetere claimed the body, ‘which will be taken to New York. Cas- telli will be buried in St. Benedict's cemetery in Hartford. The condemned men were taken from the death cells in the afternoon and their places were at once taken by two other men who are soon té be hanged. % The crime for which Castelli and Vetere were hanged was committed in New Haven April 23, 1916. They were both New York residents, where Cas_ telli had a home with his wife, the victim of the elaying. She had made complaints of wrongdoing by her hus- band and he conspired with Vetere to make way with her. Vetere induced the woman to elope to New Haven with him and took her to a Crown street boarding house there. The pair went out of the house and the hue- band, who had followed them to New Haven, entered and hid in a closet. When Vetere and Mrs. Castelli re- turned the woman was seated so that her back was toward the closet and Castelli killed her by striking her head with an iron bar. The men left the house after dragging the dead woman into a bathroom. A clue to the men was obtained through the ticket agent who sold them their tickets to New York and they were arrested soon af- ter. They were convicted in the su- perior court in New Haven and sen- ~to die-March 15 of “thig year, but an appeal to the supreme court acted as a stax and last month they were re-sentenced t die Oct. 5. All the parties in the tragedy were deaf mutes and in the caseés of Castelli and Vetere infantile paralysis caused loss of hearing and speech. Mrs. Cas- ‘telli wassa widow, a Mrs. Fossi, when Castelli married her. GREAT RED CROSS PARADE IN NEW YORK CITY 20,000 Women, Young and Middle Aged, Were Greeted With Tempests of Cheers. New York, Oct. 4—Fifth avenue, which has echoed the tread of many marching feet through tempests of cheers since America shouldered arms, paid homage today to the nation’s her- oines—the nurses of the Red Cross. It was the first great parade of the American Red Cross and although the 20,000 women, young and middle-aged, did not present a martial appearance, they marched amazingly well. They appeared as representatives of the first, second and third lines of relief back of the battle line enlisted to serve and to succor the nation’s fight- ing men. The hundreds of thousands who had gathered to do them honor, paid a tribute of respect all the more impressive because it was less bois- terous than that accorded the regi- ments which have swung down the avenue on their way to training camps. Heading the lne in thelr travel uni- forms of dark blue, were the nurses who have been mobilized here under orders to sail for France, back of them came another division in gray crepe uniforms, made up of those awaiting orders. Another detachment wore rubber slickers for service in rough weather. Others wore dark blue ulsters and still others blue serge dresses with military capes thrown back to show the red flannel lining. Several base hospital units were in line with stretcher bearers and am- bulances—grim reminders of the work that is’ to come. .Many of the am- bulances were driven by women as were motor -emergency kitchens. One of the motor service units represented the District of Columbia. At the head of this division marched Mrs. Joseph- us Daniels, wife of the secretary of the navy. Many of the marchers carried ser- vice flags denoting that sons or hus- bands are in the service of their coun- try. As these flags passed the review- ing stand they were saluted by Sec- retary Daniels, Surgeon General Gor- gas, Governor Bdge of New Jersey and Major General Eli D. Hoyle, com- mander of the department of the east, almost as punctiliously as were the Stars and Stripes when they went by at_the head of each division. Marching at_the head of the pro- cession was Henry P. Davison, the chairman of th~ T~A@ “ro~= war coun- and several .of his aides. MILITANT SUFFRAGISTS ARE CHARGED WITH MUTINY, Result of Their Rough and Tumble Fight With Guards and Negro Women Prisoners. ‘Washington, Oct. 4—Militant suf- frage woman’s party members serving time in the District of Columbia work- house for demonstrations before the ‘White House were charged todey with mutiny as a result of their rough and tumble fight yesterday with guards and negro women prisoners. Taking Inventory of Liquors. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 4—1Internal revenue agents today hegan taking in- ventory, of liquors in_saloons here, under the new revenue bill 20,000 Airplanes Are Being Built FOR AMERICA’S FIGHTING FORCES IN FRANCE “THE EYES OF THE ARMY” The Types of Planes Include High Speed Fighting Machines, Powerful Battle and Bombing Planes and Great Battle Craft. Washington, Oct. 4—Twenty thou- sand airplanes for America’s fighting -forces in France, authorized in the $640,000,000 aviation bill pasned by congress last July, actually are under construction. The necessary motors also are being manufactured, Secretary Baker an- nounced today, and the whole aircraft program has been so co-ordinated that when the planes and motors are com- pleted trained aviators, as well as ma- chine guns and all other equipment, will be waiting for them. “When this nation’s army moves up to participate in the fighting,” said the secretary, “the eyes of her army will be ready. Types Cover a Wide Range. The types of planes cover the entire range of training machines, light high :’reed fighting machines, powerful bat- le and bombing planes of the heaviest design, and embrace as well giant bat- tle craft capable of the work of the Italian Caproni, the British Handley- Page and similar types. / “Within a reasonable time, consid- ering the period for preparation,” Mr. Baker's statement sald, “this country will send its first airpiane to Europe. This airplane, from the tip of its pro- peller to the machine gun and camera, will have been made in the United States. Plenty of Aviators. “There has been a remarkably grati- fying response to the call for aviators. This country has an unlimited supply of young men possessing courage, self- reliance, good judsment and decision— the things required in the air service. This service today is fitting thousands of Americans for flying.” 24 Flying Schools Authorized. Twenty-four flying schools have been authorized, the statement reveals, and besides the thousands training here, students from the United States are training in all the allied countries, while many of them are undergoing | intensive schooling behind several of the battle fronts. The men now in Europe will be turned over as finished aviators to the American troops in France. American machines are being built abroad and Mr. Baker said that ap- proximately one-fourth of the number soon_to be nesded will be made-in the allied countries. In that connection stress was laid upon the necessity for greatly developing and expanding the aircraft industry in_the United States, all the summer and part of the early fall having been devoted to this essen- tial work. ENGLAND’S RETALIATION FOR GERMAN ANR RAIDS Is the Main Feature of the Papers—No Opposition. London, Oct. 4—Fngland’s impend- ing retaliation for the German air raids is the main feature of the Lon- don papers, made conspicuous with big headlines. No opposition is ex- pected, even in quarters where the re- prisals have been deprecated in the past, while clsewhere the decision is welcomed with enthusiasm, though qualified with questions as to why it has been so long delayed and with fears lest it be further delayed and carried out without sufficient energy. It is asserted that the government’s decision does not indicate any sudden change in policy, the matter having long been under consideration, and that acquiescence to the popular de- mand is in no wise implied. The ap- parent delay In adopting the policy of retaliaticn was due, it is sald. to con- siderations of construction and the ne- cessity of keeping the requirements of the army on the western front sup- plied. ‘War planes of every type can now be produced by the allies In far great- er numbers than by the enemy, and it is asserted that the allies are fully equipped to carry on agsressive air warfare on a great scale. London YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED BY AN UNKNOWN ASSAILANT Miss Bessie White’s Body Found Business Section of Masena, N. Y. ‘Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 4—Miss Bes- sie White, aged 23, of Masena, was murdered by an unknown assailant last night in that village. The body was found today by a workman under a temporary walk in the heart of the business section of the village. The authorities are investigating. Miss White was on her way to the business section from the home of E. F. McDonald, schodl commissioner. Her route led past a new school building, the yard of which was lt- tered with material, and traversed by a temporary wooden walk. She ap- parently was attacked while passing the school grounds. GERMANS ATTEMPTING TO FRATERNIZE WITH RUSSIANS Throwing Boxes of Tobacco and Ci- garettes Into Russian Trenches. Petrograd, Wednesday, Oct. 3.—(De- layed). The Germans on the south- western front again are attempting to fraternize with the Russians by throwing boxes of tobacco and cigar- ettes into the Russian trenches and calling to the soldiers to “come out of the trenches.” The Russkaia Volya savs in connec- tion with the German attempts that Vour soldiers are answering them with gunfire. GERALD F. DUPONT, 22, SUICIDED AT OGDEN, UTAH Son of Powder Manufacturer Had Suffered From Nervous Breakdown Ogden, Utah, Oct. 4—Gerald F. Du- pont, aged 22, son of the powder man- ufacturer of Wilmington, Del, and ‘New York city, committed suicide here today after leaving the hospital where he had been for severa] days suffer- ing from a nervous breakdown. To Refuse Coal to Neutral Ships CARRVING SUPPLIES FROM SOUTH AMERICA TO EUROPE ACT OF EXPORTS BOARD This Action is Taken to Prevent Sup- plies From Reaching Germany From th Outside World—Must Submit to Inspection. Washington, Oct. 4—A final move to prevent supplies from reaching Germany from the outside world was taken today by the American gov- ernment in declding to refuse coal to neutral ships carrying supplies from South America to the northern Eu- ropean neutral countries-unless their cargoes are inspected in American ports. In making known the decision to- day the exports administrative board announced that it would apply pro- visions of the exports control act, which gives the gowernment the same provision under bunkers it has over the exportation of goods generally. Has Approval of the Alli The step was taken with the ap- proval of all the allies, who will co- operate by enforcing similar regula- tions. It follows closely Great Brit- ain’s declaration of a complete em- bargo against the northern European neutrals, which was designed to ‘| strengthen the embargo, already put into force by the United States. In a statement accompanying the announcement, fthe exports boards make it clear that the present abso- lute embargo against the European neutrals is not necessarily permanent, and that a final decision as to a pol- icy will not be made until informa- tion as to the neutrals’ actual re- quirements is obtained. The general understanding has been that the neu- trals will be fed, but that they will recelve no more supplies than actual- ly are necessary and that none will go forward until proper assurances are received as to neutral exports to Ger- many. To Cut Off Bunker Coal. Some Latin-American countries are exporting freely to the European neu- trals. In deciding to cut off bunker coal to ships engaged in this trade, the United States is within its rights under international law as it can do what it will with its own commodities. For some time there has been a tightening up on the export of coal to South American countries In an effort to cut off supplies to German- owned public utilities concerns, which it has been charged have supplied funds for German propaganda in this ountry. i = South American™&5tntries are ‘the only nations in the world left in which Germany has a chance to obtain food- stuffs and other necessaries through the border countries. With this source cut off allied statesmen feel that the ring around Germany Is drawn so tightly the economic pressure, rein- forcing the allies’ ever-growing mili- tary superiority, will make the Ger- man people see’ their cauge is hope- ess, HARROWING EXPERIENCE OF SURVIVORS OF THE ITASCA. They Had Been Tossed About in an Open Boat Nine Days. An Atlantic Port, Oct. 4—Twenty- four members of the crew of the American steamer Itasca, picked up after being tossed about in an open boat nine days from the time _the Ttasca foundered, were brought here today by a_ steamer from southern ports. The Itasca, bound from Bermu- da to New York, sank in a tropical hurricane 250 miles off Bermuda. Cap- tain W. Harold Bond of Rockland, Me., went down with his ship. His wife was among those saved. The survivors, who were rescued about 250 miles off Nantucket, had suffered intensely from privation and expogure. Chief Engineer Elwell of Rockland, Me., died from exhaustion and T. Smith of Bermuda, a fineman, who went insane and drank sea water when the fresh water supply In their boat ran out, died on the rescuing ship soon after he had been taken aboard. INSURANCE BILL HAS PASSED THE SENATE. Rank of General is Conferred on Major Generals Pershing and Bliss. Washington, Oct. 4.—With the $10,- 000 maximum insurance plan restored, as urged by the administration, and with an additional provision raising Major General Pershing, commanding the American forces in France, and Major General Eliss, chlef of staff, to the rank of general, the soldiers’ and sailors’ insurance bill, carrying an ap- propriatioa of $176,000,000 was passed tonight by the senate by a vote of 71 to 0. The senate reduced the house pro- vision for compensation paid for death o rdisability of soldiers and sailors or members of the army and navy nurse corps. Under the bill as it now stands a widow would receive $256 a month compared to $35 fixed by the house. CATHOLIC CLERGY WH.L AID LIBERTY BOND SALE. Bishop Nilan Directs That the Bonds Be Mentioned in Sermons Sunday. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 4. — Bishop Nilan of the Connecticut Roman Cath- olic diocese today made public an open letter he has sent to the Catholic cler- gy of the stats “’flflf their co-opera- tion in the sale of the second output of Liberty bonds. The bishop has set next Sund as a day for the clergy to mention the sale in sermons, the buy of which he holds as a step toward the insurance of democracy. BRITISH AIRCRAFT BOMBED ZEEBRUGGE LOCK GATES Also the Bruges Docks and the Thour- out Railway Station. London, Oct. 4—*Naval aircraft bombed St, Denis Westrem, the Zee- brugge lock gates, the Bruges docks and other targets and the Throurout railway junction,” says teday’s official report of the British aerial operations over Belgium. ' “All the machines re- . turned safely.” 2 Condensed Telegrams Canada’s 1918 grain acreage will be increased by 25 per cent. Money circulation per capita in’ the United States last month was $46.10. American exchange at Copenhagen dropped to 14 per cent. below normal. William J. Bryan paid a personal V{Ilslt to President Wilson at the White ouse. The International Bank of St. Louis increased its annual dividend from 8 to 12 per cent. Erection of a $2,000,000 packing plant in New Orleans is being planned by ‘Wilson & Co., of Chicago. Under direction of the newly oreated Counoil of Defense a system of “war farms” will be established in Cuba. A contract for the construction of 40 destroyers was received by the Union Tron Work of San Francisco. Much property damage was done and many lives were lost as a result of the typhoon which swept over Japan. Food Controller Hoover has been granted the co-operation of the Secret Service in curbing the food price ma- nipulators. 3 The Treasury Department announc- ed a further loan of $2,000 000 to Bel- ium. making a total of $55,400,000 to that country. A whaleboat, containing 14 members of the crew of the French bark Briar- ritz burned at sea, was picked up off the Brazilian coast. Official announcement was made in Petrograd that the recent revolt at Tambov, 300 miles southeast of Mos- cow, has been suppressed. The name of the National Army cantonnrent, at Louisville, Ky. was formally changed from “Camp Taylor” to “Camp Zachary Taylor.” A bill providing for progressive duties on sugar, beginning with an 11 shilling rate was passed by the Pe- ruvian Chamber of Deputies. Charles J. Vopicka, U. S. Ambassa- dor to Rumania, and the special Red Cross mission to Rumania, arrived at Jassy, the temporary capital. A four-year course in military soi- ence will be opened at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. Al- ready 300 students have enrolled. Japan has offered to the United States use of 100,000 tons of shipping in return for a modification of the American export embargo on steel. Members of the New York cotton exchange voted to close the exchange on October 13, the Saturday following Columbus Day, which is a holiday. Organization of additional units of the Quartermaster Corp of the Na- tional Army by enlistment or draft, was ordered by President Wilson. Sir Wilfrid Laurier soon will retire from leadership of the opposition and the Liberal party in Canada. He has led the Canadian Liberals since 1887. Secretary Lansing has asked Gov. Gardner of Missouri. for a copy of the Missouri absent voting law to be sent to Russia in formulating Russia’s pol- icy. An appropri n of $300,000 has been made by the Chinese Government for flood relief work at Tien Tsin. Ald has been asked of the American Red Cross. The Labor Adjustment Board left Washington for = Seattle to take up strikes which are holding up shipbuild- ing. Portland and San Francisco will be visited. * President Irogoyen of Argentina will resign on Oct. 12 on the ground of ill health. He is reported near a ment- al breakdown as a result of the gen- eral strike. A third series of officers’ training camps, primarily for instruction of en- listed men of the army for commis- sfons will be opened Jan. 5, running until April 5. The soldiers’ and ilors’ civil rights bill was uuanimously passed yesterday by the house. It probably will not be taken up in the senate until the De- cember session. The Rev. Dr. Anson P. Stokes, sec- retary of Yale University, has been chésen principal of the Hampton, Va., Normal Institute ,succeeding the late Dr. H. B. Frissell. . William J. Wood, .a member of the Indiana Public Utilities Commission, and former Interstate Commerce Com- mission examiner. died at his home in Indianapolis, aged 67. Samuel Sutherland, mate of tht | American schooner Kremlin, was stab- bed to death by a member of his crew in a French port. after he had ejected the sailor from a cafe. An alarm was sent to coastal wire- less stations in an effort to locate the schooner Baslon, which left Brooklyn on Sunday for an afternoon’s cruise, with seven men aboard. A battery of French 75 millimeter guns. with caissons and equipment, presented to the Yale artillery com- panies by the French Government, prers placed in the baseball cage at ale. A western military terminal at Chi- cago will be opened by the postoffice department for handling mail collect- ed west of the Mississippi and ad- dressed to members of expeditionary forces. Regulations ued by the War De- partment make enlisted men of the various branches of the service eligible for temporary appointment as non- commissioned officers in the Quarter- master Corps. One man was killed and four seri- ously injured when ja West Shore Ralilroad express crashed into & bus load of workmen at Teaneck, N. J. The men were on their way to Camp Merritt. Dumond. T. A. D. Jones, football coach at Yale, announced that no man physic- ally fit. who has not identified him- self with some branch of the military service, will be permitted to play foot- ball at Yale this year. William Randolph Hearst Wrathy. AT ATTORNEY GENERAL LEWIS OF NEW YORK THREATENS TO SUE Substantiate His Imputations Concerning the Relations Challenges Him to Between Hearst®ind Bolo Pasha, the German Spy. Los_Angeles, Calif., Oct. 4—Wil- liam Randolph Hearst, the publigher, commenting on information made pu Hc today in New York by Merton E. T.ewis, attorney-general of New York, concerning Mr. Hearst’s social rela- tions with Boio Pasha, alleged Ger- man spy, defled Mr. Lewis to sub- stantiate any of his own unwarrant- ed imputations, under threat of pro- ceedings for siander, “The statements and Innuendoes of the attorney-general of New York in regard to myself and Bolo Pasha are not true,” Mr. Hearst said, In a writ- ten statement, “and I challenge him to substantiate his utterances, which are distinctly discreditable to him as a political partisan. Met Bolo as a Newspaper Man. “I met Bolo Pasha merely as a French . newspaper man, the reputed representative of the Parls Journal. “He came to me and said: ‘You use more print paper than any other man in the United States. 111 you tell me where to get it best and cheapest? Print paper is almost unobtainable in Paris.’ “I told him where we gnt our print paper and what we pald for it, and gave him all the information about the paper market that I could and that any newspaper man with any courtesyf would naturally give to a visiting French journalist. Supposed Bolo Was Loyal. “Bolo Pasha seemed wholly loyal to his own_land and I had no reason to suppose that he was not. “He was very polite and apprecia- tive, ilke all well-mannered French- men and invited me to a dinner which he gave to a number of ladies and gentlemen, in the public dining room at_Sherry’s. “The conversation was general and trivial, as it is at all such special dinners. “That is all that I have ever'known or seen or heard of Bolo Pasha. “I have never met Von Papen or Captain Boy-ed in my life ana At- torney Lewis' implications to that ef- fect are unfounded in fact, Defles the Attorney General. “I defy the attorney-general to dis- prove any word in this statement of mine, or to substantiate any one of his own unwarranted implications, ex- cept his one truthful statement, that my acquaintance with Bolo Pasha w: ‘ourely soclal.” “Shotld he fail to do so T shall pro- ceed against the small attorney gen- eral of the great state of New York for petty and premeditated slander made in conspiracy with rival news- papers in the interest of his already defeated candidate for mayor.” TESTIMONY REGARDING BOLO PASHA'S ACTIVITIES Given by Adolph Pavenstedt, a Social Intimate of Von Bernstorff. New York, Oct. 4.—Testimony that Bolo Pasha, now under arrest in Paris as a spy and peace propagandist on behalf of Germany, came to America early in 1916 with represetnations that Germany was ready for a sepa- rate peace with France which would be favorable to France, was given be. fore Merton E. Lewis, attorney gen- eral of New York state, here today in* the investigation into the Levan- tine’s financial activities In this coun- try. Adolph Pavenstedt, for many years a soclal intimate of Count Von Bern- storff, former German ambassador, testified that Bolo Pasha told him he understood Germany was prepared to make peace on these grounds: First—Germany to cede France a part of Alsace and Lorraine; second— Trance to give Germany some of the French ‘colonies; third—German troops to_evacuate northern France. Using this purported willingness of Germany to take place, Bolo Pasha induced Pavenstedt, thén a partnds in the exporting firm of G. Amsinck and Company in New York, at that time a German company, to believe that he had come to America as a French patriot % influence French public opinion in favor of peace through the purchase by French paci- fists of various French newspapers. Testimony adduced through Paven- stedt and Hugo Schmidt, then an American representative of the Deutschebank in Berlin, disclosed, however, that Bolo Pasha's real pur- pose was to obtain the French jour- nals on behalf of Germany. This was to de accomplished through the.trans- fer of German gold from Berlin to Parls. This money could not go di- rect and to send it by way of Switz- erland was considered dangerous. Bolo Pasha, therefore, came to New York, got in touch with Count Von Bern- storff, and then approximately $1,700,- 000 was sent from Berlin to New York and then through devious channels to Paris, there to be used by Bolo Pasha in promoting a peace propoganda for Germany. 3 According to testimony Bolo was so elated with his success in the trans- fer of German money to Paris that he decided to celebrate. He arranged a dinner at a Fifth avenue restaurant here and among his guests, witnesses before Mr. Lewls said, were Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mrs. Owen Johnston, wife of the novellst, Jules Bols, Pavenstedt and Brnest Charles Pignatel, who was in charge of the commercial credit department of the Royal Bank of Canada, and who was a witness before- Mr. Lewis. The attorney sald no testimony had been given = which associated Mr. Hearst with Bolo Pasha except In a soclal way and that no witnesses would be examined {n this connection. Bombs Dropped on‘Frankfort-on-Main Amsterdam, Odt. 4—A statement issued at Frankfort-on-Main says that enemy airmen appearsd over the city at 10.30 o'clock esday night and dropped 113 bombs during a fve-min- ute attack. Five persons are reported injpred; material damage was small, The enemy was subjected to lively gunfire.