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Bulletin VOL. LIX.—NO. 365 POPULATION 29,919 NCRWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1917 TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS TEUTONS CONTINUE T0 PENETRATE ITALY They Héve Crossed the Tagliamento River at Pinzano " and Are Proceeding Westward | BERLIN RECORDS CAPTURE OF 6,000 ITALIANS i ; {The Objective of the Teutonic Allies Appears to be the Cut- ting Off of the Entire Right Wing of General Cadorna’s Army—Both Rome and Berlin Are Silent About Events in the Trentino Region—In Flanders the British and French Continue to Carry Out Raiding Operations— Two Additional Defeats ported by the British. The Austro-German forces operating against the Italians along the Taglia- mento River from the region of the Carnic Alps southward to the Adriatic Sea are proving a serious menace. The invaders of Venetia have driv- en their way across the river at Pin- zane and are proceeding _westward, while to the north of the Italian left wing. intensive operations are being i carried out by the Teutonic allies, the two. manoeuvers probably having as their objective the cutting off of the . entire right wing of General Cadorna’s army. The Berlin war office in its an nouncement of the fording of the riv er says six thousand Italians were ,made prisoner and that an additional number of guns also were taken. The Itallan official communication makes ‘only brief mention of the operation, merely asserting that the enemy suc. ceeded in bringing some of his forces to_the right bank of the stream There is no indication as yet wheth- er General Cadorna will endeavor to maintain the Tagliamento lire but it is not improbable that he stand here is temporary while positions of greater strength are being prepared in the rear. Never since the retreat from the lsonzo front began has there becn any official statement concerning the spot chosen by Cadorna for turning about against the enemy, but some military observers have considered that with his large losses in men and zuns dur- ing the retrograde movement. he would merely elect to stand ajong the to and retard the enemy un til better arrangements including re: FIVE MEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION AND FIRE At Plant of the United States Alum- inum Co., New Kensington, Pa. New Kensington, Pa., Nov -snen are known to have been a search is being made ior the bodiss of two other men believed to have met. death; anoher is repcrted dying and 47 workmen were burned, 17 se- riously, in the explosion and fire which destroyed the bronze powder plant of the United States Aluminum Com- pany, & subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America, here toda statement issued tonight, R. general superintendent of the States Aluminum Company, “Fhere is a possibility th: agents are responsible for the It was stated that an investigp of the origin of the fire woculd started at once. The plant destroyed. employing 300 foen, -is said to have Leen engaged in the making of materials for liquid fire for ‘@n ailied government. For this reason it was impossible to fight the flames with water and the only re- course was with sand. Firc was dis- covered in the plant shortly before eight o’elock this morning. e ex- plosions followed in rapid succession wrecking the powder plant and a: aging the plant of the merjcan Sheet and Tin Plate Compam nearby. Some damage was done to residences in the town of Parnassus, one mile distant. Fearing other explosions, ali employes of the company numbering 2bout 3.500. were ordered out of the piant and the 500 employes of‘the tin te company were dismissed for the The loss is unofficially estimated at $300 000. APPLICATICN FILED BY NEW ENGLAND RAILROADS For Advance of 1-4 Cent a Mile on One Way Tickets and Mileage—30 to 40 Per Cent. Increase In Freight Rates. ‘Washington, Nov. 5.—Increases of a quarter of a cent a mile In one way tickets and in mileage rates and in- in class freight rates ranging fromi ten to thirty per cent. were ask- o in application filed with the Inter- state Commerce Gommission today by the railroads entering Boston. Rail- in other New England territory have also. filed, or will shortly file ap- P ns for authority for similar in- > Ellfott of the New Haven told the commission that the increased New England rates would total: Pas- Senger rates $3.700,000; increase in coal rates $300,000; class rates $1,250,- 690, and the total fifteen per cent. in- g;g-_ authorized and unau- ing. as Involved in this proceed- ,750,000. Mr. Elliott said this wonld leave only a small fixed return o the road. * HERTLING UNFAVORABLE y TO PARLIAMENTARISM. 5 —Five illed and [ hagen, Noy. 5—¥irst dougts r all _would be as rosy with tarismn under the Von Hert- g era as was generally assumed are ing to be expressed in parlia- circles in Germany. The re- in circulation that Chancellor in conversation with n of the bundssrat, declared t-at his personal views on parliamen- are unchanged and that he had cted tions with the party '~ for information and to ‘minds. w —t of the Turkish Forces Are Re- inforcements in men and guns, could be provided further westward. Both the Rome and Berlin war of- fices are silent as to the movement begun by the enemy in the Trentino region las Saturday which it was be- lieved at the time indicated that the Germans and Austro-Hungarians would attempt to push southward alopg the banks of Lake Garda through Brescia and out upon the plains be- tween Milan and Verona. In the. ini- tial attempt to break the Italian. front in this region the Teutonic allies met with repulse and even lost men made prisoner. The British and French troops in Flanders continue to carry out raid- ing operations successfully against the Germans and to bombard heavily the enemy positions at various points, wih the Germans replying actively in the sector between the Houtholst ‘Wood and the Comines-Ypres Canal. Bombardments also predominate on the southern part of the front in France. . Two additional defeats of the Turk- ish forces are recorded by the British In southern Palestine and oy he Rus- sians in_the region of th& Black Sea coast. North of Beersheba the Brit- ish are pressing on with the definite object of the capture of the coast city of Gaza. In their operations they { ine Cable;d Paragraphs Disagr German Socialist: Copenhagen, Nov. 5.—The German radical socialist party rejected party peace overtures made by the majority socialists at the Wurzburg convention because the basis of the proposed re- union involved complete surrender on the part of the radicals Charges Against Leon Daudet Dis- Paris, Nov. 5.—The charges brought against Leon Daudet, - of L’Action Francaise, and Charles Maurras, of the same newspaper, were dismissed gating the alleged royalist plot. He found no evidence to substantiate the charges. ¥ TWO PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH IN AUTO ACCIDENT And Three Others Probably Fatally Burned at Berlin, Conn. Berlin, Conn, Nov. 5—Two persons were burned to death and three prob- ably fatally burned in an automobile accident here late tonizht when tie car turned turtle at a railroad cross- ing. The automobile was on its way to Hartford from New Haven and was driven by Eugene J. Sullivan of New Haven and was occupied by James Campane, a West Haven horseman, Mr, and Mrs. Nann and another wom- ar whose name is not known. Mrs. Nann, a cabaret singer, is better known under her stage name of May Wilson. Mr. Nann and the unidenti- fied woman are dead and the others are in the New Britain General hospi- tal in a critical condition. The car was coming down a grafe rear the American Brick company vard, a_mile from the center of Bek- lin, and it was hit by another auto- mobile. The car went into a ditch, landing on its top, and caught fire, the occupants, uncorscious from the spill, lying in the hlazing machine when recidents near by arrived. The injures lersons were dragsed from the ma- chine and given first aid and then rashed to the hospital. The car belonged to the Palmer Tuxicab comvany of New Haven. Mr. Campane is well known around the state as owner and driver of trot- ting horses. Ars. Nann is also well known to New liaven people as a singer. DETAILS OF KILLING AND CAFTURE OF AMERICANS They Were Cut Off From Relief and Overwhelmed by Numbers. With the American Army in France, Nov. 5—(By the Associated Press). A small detachment of American in- fantrymen was attacked in the front irenches early Saturday morning by a much superior force of German shock troops. The Americans were ~lut off from relief by the heavy bar- have taken 207 officers and 2,429 men prisoners. The Russians have driven | the Turks from first line trenches in the Black Sea region and have ad- vanced at some line. Large captured. places to the third | quantities of booty were TO MINIMIZE FRAUD AT NEW YORK ELEGTIO Challenge Lists Containing 31,150 Names Have Been Proposed. 7 5—Frederick L. Marshall, New York state superintend- | ent f elections, announced tonight, that his office has arranged to handie | 7490 orders of arrest in connection with possible frauds during the election in this city tomorrow. ° Tt.is aa entirely new departmental | procedure and is certain to reduce to | {2 minimum the possibility of 1d.” Mr. Marshall stated. “It has been |the custom when a person has regis- tered falsely to place him name on the challenge list, to. preclude the pos- sibility of other persons voting under that name. Under the orders of a est as soon as an afidavit is filed with | this office, the person chailenged wi be arrested and arraigned.” | Challeng~ lists containing _ 31,150 | names hayve been prepared in the city, Mr. Marshall added. These figures do not include the lists prepared in' Brooklyn. New York, Nov. THIRD SERIOUS FIRE AT CAMP DEVENS ' Two Barracks Buildings on the Drill s Ficld Were Destroyed. Ayer, Mass., Nov. 5.—The third se- jrious fire within a few weeks at the rational .army cantonment at Camp Devens tonight swept twé barracks | buildings on the drill fleld occupied - workmen. The carpenters, steam- fitters and other members of the c struction force lost all their tools and | clothing. Twenty-seven nearby | huildings were saved by the camp's fire department. The cause of the fire is not known. Cross country running will becoma ah important part of the training cf the members of the depot brigade, it | was announced tonighf, The best [ harriers will be picked as despatch hearers to be used when other means are not available. WORK RESUMED AT FORE RIVER PLANT. Labor Organizations Respond to an Appeal to Patriotism. | Quincy, Mass., Nov. 5—Work at the great plant of the Fore River Ship- building company, which has been badly crippled by a strike since last Wednesday, will be resumed tomorrow. The three labor organizations con- cerned responded today to an appeal to their patriotism by Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and voted amid demonstra- ticns to retarn at once to work and leave the matters in_dispute to b arbitrated by Henry B. Endicptt, ex- ecutive manager of the Massachuset: committee on prblic safay. The com- pany also accepted Mr. Endicott as arbitrator. HUGE CAPRONI AIRPLANE : HAD ENGINE TROUBLE During Attempted Fight from Minealo to Hampton, Va. Mineola, L. I, Nov. 5.—The Caproni airplane, piloted by Captain A. S. Resnati, of the Royal Italian Flying corps,” which left here at noon today for a flight to Hampton, Va., returned &n hour after, descending on t of engine trouble, it was ann > tonight. The fight will be attempt zgain tomorrow, it was eaid. The huge airplane attained an alti- rage in their rea They fought gal- lantly until overwhelmed, sclely by numbers. The fighting in the trenches was hand-to-hand. It was brief and fierce in the extreme. 2 ‘of “Thé ‘encounter thrce Americans Yvere killed . and four wounded. A sergeant and corporal and ten men were taken prisoner. Two French . soldiers. who were in the trenches also were killed. The cnemy lost some men, but the num- ber is unknown, as their dead and wounded were carried off by the re- tiring Germans. From the beginning of the ment until ihe end the Americans liv- «d up to all the %traditions of he American army, the records showing the bravery of the detachment and of individual ‘member: ¢ engagze- GUARDS ABOUT RESIDENCE OF ARCHBISHOP IRELAND Follewing Explosion at Parish House at St. Agnes’ Church, St. Paul. St. Pg Minn., Nev. 5. — Guards were placéd abeut the residence of Archbishop Ireland and other Cath- olic leaders today while police investi. gated the explosion which wrecked he parish house at St. Agnes church vesterday. The police theory is that a pro-German was responsible for the losion in revenge for the reading letters in benalf of war activities. It was said that threaten- ing letters have been received in Lhe last eight months by Father Anthony Ogalin, the pastor of St. Agnes, whose parishioners are largely of German iineage. NICARAGUA CLAIMS TWO COLOMBIAN ISLANDS Lying Off the Mosquito Coast—Useful in Protecting Canal. San Juan D2l Sur, Nicaragua, Nov. It is reported here that Nicaragua ‘olombian lvinz off the Mosquita coast. at abs latitude 12 north and west. It is pointel cut that thees islands wculd be useful in the protection of the Panama corai, as Brovidence Isl- 2nd would make a good coaling station and San Andres provide a suitable wireless site. - ITALIAN CARABINEERS t longitude 80 KILLED GERMAN GENERAL! His Aid Was Desperately and Ma Rome, Nov. 5. bineers fired into th2 automobile of the general commanding the third srmy corps of Brandenburg while it was in the suburbs of Udine October 28. The general was killed and his aide wai desperately wounded and made pris oner. COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE IN CUBA Recommended by President Menocal in Message to Cuban Congress. Wounded Prisoner. Havana, Nov: 5. — In his message to the eighth Cuban congress, the second period of which opened this afternoon, President Menocal recom- mended the passage of a law at an early date making military service compulsory throughout the republic. WEDDING. Laflame—Mesich. Greenwich, Conn, Nov. 5.—Edward J.. Labame of Putnim, a member of the United States Aviotion cofps at Fort Slccum, N. Y., and Mrs. Eliza- beth M. Mesich, of bhis place, wers marri here today by Justice ¢ the Peace Rol S. Meade. Tod~, Was [ for the wedding, it is said. the bridegroom is to start for for final training tomor- “which he expecta to be sen |Points at Issue in Today’s E'ections CHIEF INTEREST CENTERS NEW YORK MAYORALTY IN 4 CORNERED CONTEST today by the judge who was investi- | In Massachusetts Amendment Giving State Aid to Private Institutions is Contest Fourth Conn. Congressional District is Predicted. Paramount Issue—Clo: in New York. Nov. 5.—One of the bit- ¢ Dolitical campaigns in _this s history czme to a close tonight with the eves of the nation looking tcward New York because two of the four candidates for mayor have in- Jjected war issues which make the out- come of tomorrcw's election transcend ‘1. interest the usual local controver- sies. Mitchel Strong for Americanism. John Purroy Mitchel, fusion candi- date for re-election,’nas to a large ex- tent subordinated his fight against Tammany Hall by declaring pro-Ger, (Continued on Page Three, Sixth Col.) W. W. HEADQUARTERS AT TULSA, OKLA., RAIDED. Nine Members Were Arrested Earl in the Day After a Pistol Fight. Tulsa, Okla, Nov. 5.—Nine arrests were made and a mass of papers and other evidence were scized in a raid on the state headquarters of the L. W. W. here tonight Three members of the I. W. W. wern crested earlier in the day affer a istol fight with officers. Three others had been arrested after the blowing up of the residence of J. Edgar Pews ce president of the Carter Oil com- pany. All of the nine arrested tonight ad- mitted being I. W. W.'s and produced 1ed cards when taken to police head- cuarters. _A man giving the name Herbert Vowell was amcng those arrested to- day after he had hurled a small bottle o fnitro-glycerine and fired at an of- ficer. The bottle failed to explode and the bullet missed. Vowell was shot in the leg and surrendered. DRASTIC MEASURES TO CONTROL ENEMY ALIENS Discussed by Representatives of the Department of Justice. New York, Nov. 5.—Enforeement of more drastic_measures to_coutrol en emy -aliens Wwas planned at & co ce here today of representatives of the department of justice, the Unit. ed States secret service and the po- lice, called as a result of suspicious fires on the -water front and recent damage' to government property and ships. Suggestions were made that enemy aliens be moved from seaport towns to the interior. The police will be re- quired to watch alien enemlies in their precincts and to report on their move- ments. It is planned thot enemy aliens not only will be barred from the wa- ter front but an order will be is- sued restricting them to use particu- lar routes on designated ferries. STATE BANKS ENTERING FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM To Centralize the Nation’s. Financial Washington, Nov. 5.—State banks and trust companies in increasing numbers are entering the federal re- serve system as a result of the gov- ernment’s effort to centralize the na- tion’s financial resources. Twenty- eight state instftutions were admit- ted in October, the federal reserve board announced today, adding $1,- 856,000,000 to the total resources of the 117.state banks now members of the system. making the total resourc- €s $3,084.000,000, represented by state institutions. Ninety-three other state banks took steps in October to enter the system. BRIDE OF TEN DAYS -MURDERED IN VIRGINIA Her Cousin Under Arrest on Sus. picion of Being Murderer. Richmond. Va., Nov. 5.—Although her dyirg statement to her brother was that a negro had attacked her in her home and s'as'i°d her across the body with a razor, the death of Mrs. Thomas L. Walker, u bride of ten days, was followed vesterday by the arrest of her cousin, J. B. Smelley, 25 years old, her formsér suitor, on sus- picion of having murdered = her in Mecklenburg countv. Smalley claims he can prove an alibi. : CTSUALTIES IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST YAQUI INDIANS 150 Mexicans and About Fifty Indians Have Been Killed. . Nov. 5.—One hundred and fifty Mexicans and _ about . fifty | Yaquis bave been killed during the Jast few davs in the campaign against the Indiars being waged in the moun- tains south of Sauqui Grande, accord- ing to word reachinz Nogalee today. Hosnitals in Hermosillo, Guaymas and Alamos were said to be receiving many Wounded Mexican soldiers. FINE OF-“’,MM FRANCS ON PROVINCE OF EAST FLANDERS Because They Failed to Put - 40,000 _Laborers at Disposal of Germans. London, Nov. 5—A despatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam says that. according to a frontier cor- respondent, the German authorities in Belgium have imposed a fine of ten mm‘llion france cn the province of East Flanders because it failed to place forty thousand laborers at the dis- posal of the Germans by Nov. 1. - First Jewish Chaplain of .Navy, 5 :Vn!unmu on. thév.A;—'rfl& first. ‘":’; chaplain e e 101 navy was' named today by Secretary Dunldy He vid ‘Goldberg of Corsi- commils- pericd Nogales. Ari; | i i i 1 | Violent Upheaval in Stock Market STANDARD STOCKS LOST THREE TO SEVEN POINTS INVESTORS ARE TIMID Some of the R Lowest Quota Held by Stock Exchange Iroad Stocks Were at ns for Many Years— Officials of Prominent Conference and Bankers. New York, Nov. Stocks tumbled again in Wall Street today. Standard railroad shares and representative in- dustrials suffered extreme losses of 3 to 7 points, with irregular and for the most part, slight recoveries. Many factors of varying degrees of import- ance entered into the selling, chief among them being the emphasis placed by Wall Street on the financial posi- tion of the railroads. It seems to be the unanimous opinion of the substan- tial moneyed interests that speedy ac- tion to relieve the strain on the trans portation companies would most ef- fectually offset the timidity now pre- valent among holders ot securities. Conference of Financiers. This phase of the general situation was earnestly considered at a con- ference today between officiais of the stock exchanze and prominent banking interests, including J. P. Morgan. Hope in the financial distri favorable reply by :he Interstate Commission to the plea of the eastern roads, as entered today, was heighten- ed by the statement of the comptroller of the treasury, urging that the rail- roads be given “much-needed relief.” Toreign developments aiso figured actively in the day’s depression. The further offensive of the Teutonic armies in Italy and the American loss- es in the western theatres of the war provoked further liquidation from new as_well as old sources. Some of the issues involved In to- morrow’s election were also taken into account by investors who are appre- hensive of the growth of radicalism in its relation to corporate properties, notably public utilitles. Stocks of that especial class have experienced gen- eral and severe shrinkage recently but suffered only slightly in today’s de- clining market. Demoralization of Rail Demoralization of the rails was the most discouraging feature, stocks of the highest grade yielding more easily than volatile issues in the special di- visions. Former barometers of the country’s financial and agricultural conditions such as grangers and Pa- cifics, supplemented steady losses of the past two months by additional de- preciation. 3 > Lowest Quotations in Many Years. Many of these stocks were at lowest quotations of five to twenty vears, and St. Paul common and preferred at 38 and 751-2, respectively, touched low- est lovels since they entered the di- vision of dividend payers many years a; SPhe various sources of selling were puzzling, but the activity of many commission houses indicated an ac- cesplon of offerings from interior points. Wall Street has long been of the opinion that new conditions aris- ing from the war, mainly the heavy charges against incomes ‘and excess profits, will be keenly felt by the rail- roads and inevitably cause a down- ward revision of dividends. This same prospect applies with greater force to the many industrial companies which have built up enor- mous profits from war contracts. U. S. Steel is . striking_illustration. to- dav’s low price of 90 7-8, representing a loss of almost 12 points from its fi- nal quitation of last Tuesday;, when the third gnarterly report showed ‘an- other enormons appropriation—about 48 per cont, of earnings—charged off to government tax requiregients. PRESIDENT APPROVES FIXING OF STEEL PRICES Subject to Revision January 1 on Cer- tain Steel Articles. - Washington, Nov. 5.—President Wil- son today approved an agreement made bv the war industries board with the pdincipal steel manufacturers of fix- ing guaximum prices, subject to revi- sion ‘January 1. on certain steel arti- cles including sheets. pipes, cold rolled steel. scrap iron and wire and tin plate. The prices for sheets range from 425 to $6.25 per hundred pounds. f. o. b. Pittsburgh, according to grades. On three-quarter inch pipe to three-inch black steel pipe a discount of 52 and 5 and 2 1-2 per cent. f. 0. b. Pitts- burgh, was fixed. The agreement on cold rolled steel was 17 per cent. di count from the Marech 15, 1915 list, f. o. b. Pittsburgh. The prices for scrap fron f. 0. b. con- suming point were No. 1 heavy melt- ing $30 per gross ton; cast iron bor- ings nd machine shop turnings $20 per zross ton; No. 1 railroad wrought iron 335 per gross ton. The plain wire price was fixed at $3.25 per hundred pounds f. o. b. Pittsburgh. For tin plate the price fixed for coke base ‘Bessemer and open hearth products was $7.75 per hundred pounds for f. o. b. Pittsburgh. The board announced that he iron and steel manufacturers have agreed to adjust the maximum prices of all their prpducts for which prices have not been agreed upon to the same general standard as the prices an- nounced. In detail the prices for sheets are: .No. 28 black sheets $5 per hundred pounds f. 0. b. Pittsburgh; No. 10 blue annealed sheets. $4.25 per hundred pounds f. o. b., Pittsburgh and for No. 28 galvanized sheets $6.25.per hundred unds f. 0. b. Pittsburgh. These prices are to apply to both Bessemer and Open hearth grades. * ¢ JAPAN'S SPECIAL INTERESTS IN CHINA RECOGNIZED By an Agreement Signed in Washing- y ton Nov. 2. e Peking, Nov. 5.—Baron Gonstke Hayashi, Japanege minister-to Chind, toddy informad the Chinese ~foreign | office * that ' Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, end of the Jupenese mission “in_ the e;“lnnd Secretary 'qr“:‘;-g; -nfiua States récognizes 1 Condensed Telegrams The Kaiser thanked ex-Chancellor Michaelis for his “useful services. The Uruguayan Government decreed an embargo on gold shipments to Ar- gentina. The Kreigstag of Telton has bought the British gas works in Berlin for 85,000,000 marks. The parish house of 8t. Agnes Ger- man Catholic church in St. Paul was wrecked by a bomb. The movement of grain from the in- terior from farms and elevators was only moderate last week. Harriet A. Anderson, nine years old, will be “expressed” to her grandmother in Beoufort, S. C., from Boston. The shipments of meat from Chicago totaled 33,401,000 pounds, compared with 40,923.000 pounds last week. Alexander D. Proptopoff, ex-minister of the interior of Russia, was declared insane by the commission of inquiry. The American Red Cross sent to Italy a message that a permanent Red Cross mission was going over there. All Russian subjects living in Eng- land between the ages of . 18 and 41 must return to Russia or enlist in the British army. Professor Pares, who has been on war service with the Russian armies. declares that Russia has lost 3,800,000 men in one year. Popular manifestations against Ger- man business houses in Rio Janeiro assumed a violent character. The damage was heavy. The strike of 11 tugboat firemen re- sulted in serious congestion in Buffalo, as thousands of bushels of wheat are arriving there daily. The United States army recruiting stations in Connecticut yesterday had their busiest period since the war and 76 volunteers were accepted. An electrically controlled speed boat of the Germans was sunk while mak- ing an attack on British vessels pa- trolling the coast of Belgium. from Mineola to Langley Field near Newport News, 336 miles, flew at an average of 135 miles an hour. An arrangement has been made be- tween the Russian and Rumanian governments for the division of the Bessarablan wheat crop to Rumania. Germany and Austria are making preparations to further a pacifist con- ference to be held at Berne Nov. 12 to discuss the basis for an honorable peace. K General Gurko of the Russian army déclared that Premier Kerensky show- ed lack of sense when he blamed the British for the defeat of the Russians in the Baltic. Men reéommended for commissions at the close of the second se: of officers’ training camps whl be called into active’ service only as- there is actual need for them. Attorney-General Merton P. Le: gave an opinion to the effect that the suffrage and anti-suffrage parties are entitled to one watcher at every poll- ing place in New York. Mile, Eva Lavallisre, for years a favorite actress at the Theatre des Varfeties and a familiar figure in Pa- risian life, will enter the nunnery of the Order of Carmeltes. Fritz Keisler, violinist, an officer in an Austrian army who is charged with sending funds collected at receptions to Austria; will be' barred from con- certs in Pennsylvania towns. A plan to blow up a United States transport failed when a man carrying a powerful bomb was = arrested in Brooklyn while going up 'the gang plank of a seized German ship Before the President and his secre- tary return to Washington after cast- | ing their ballots in New Jersey they will visit New York. No patriotic or political speeches will be made. Joseph Calliaux, the former Premier of France, was called before Captain Bouchardon to testify in connection with one of the charges of having given intelligence to the enemy. Two regiments of miners will be or- ganized by the War Department to serve abroad and will be classed as engineers. ‘Each regiment will con- sist of 250 men and six companie: Captain Talboa M. Papineau, of the Princess Pat's Regiment.-was killed in action. He was a grandson of Louis Jodeph Papineau: who took a leading part in the rebeilion of 1837, in Que- bec. Since China's declaration of war on Germany the Ministry of the Interior of Russia arranged bureaus where Chinese laborers will be recruited for service in Russia Siberia and Meso- potamia. Zh Overwork in continuous knitting for American soldlers and sailors so un- dermined the health of Mrs. Catherine Pelz of Brooklyn, . that she became despondent. and yesterday committed suicide by gas. President Wilson created the New York Port War Board, which will co- ordinate all harbor and terminal facili- ties “so New York and 'New Jersey may contribute every ounce of strength to help win: the war.” Railroads rating . eastward from Chicago.and St. Louis are greatly han- dicapped by an inadequate supply of cars. ' Southern ‘railroads say that tonnage is 10 to 12 per cent. ahead of the tonnage a year ago. y k of the Ku Klux Klar members of the border countles in Kentucky. and Ohio s feared. accord- {' 1 to-advices from Newport, Ky. SeVeral pacifists and alleged. pro-Ger- mans were arrested, 1t is reported. The motion for “a mew ~ trial for €laude J. Plé sentenced = to 3% Fineror Baby Tidva Keet of Spring- ping of i of i) e eld Mo.. was ‘overruled .in’ the circuit court ‘at Marshfield. Mo.. yesterday. ident of the Pana Trust: Co. ‘and form¢ Sta Shocking Tales by German §oldiers WHO APPEALED TO AMBASSADOR GERARD TO PROTEST ATROCIOUS BRUTALITY One Was an Eye-Witness of Massacre of Masses of Russian Prisoners in the Masurian Lakes and Swamps— Another Tells of the of Surrender Englishmen. Shooting Washington, Nov. 5—The fact that German soldiers, themselves appealed to Ambassador Gerard as “the repre- sentative of a Christian state” to pro- |test against atrocities and ,butcheries {in which their commanders forced them to participate, will be disclosed in a forthcoming issue of a pamphlet by the committee on public_informa tion, entitled “German War Pract! One German soldier, conscience str_‘icken at the massacre of Russian priconers, implored the American am- bassador to protest and signed his let- ter “J German Soldier and Chris- tian.” Another who, through the ambas- sador, addressed his uppeal to the American government against the butchery of prisoners, signed his let- ter “A Soidier and man who is no ba: barian. This was the protest of a German soldier, an eve witness of the slaughter of Russizn_soldiers In the Masurian kes and Swamp: “It was frightful, heart rending, as these masses of human beings were driven to destruction. Above the ter- jrible thunder of the cannon could be heard the heart rending cries of the Russians, ‘Oh, Prussians. Oh, Prus- Prussians'—but there was no mercy Men Went Mad. “Our captain had orders ‘The whole lot must die; so rapid tire’” As I have heard, five men and one officer on our side went mad from those heart rend- ing cries. But most of my comrades and officers joked as the unarmed and helpless Russians shrieked for mercy while they were being suffocated in the swamps and shot down The order was ‘Close up and at it harder.’ For days afterwards those heart rending vells followed me and I dare not think of them or I shall go mad. There is no God, there is no mortality and no ethics any more. There are no hu- man beings any more, but only beasts. Down with militarism. “This was the experience of a Prus- sian soldfer. At present wounded: Berlin, October 22, 1914. “If you are a truth-loving man, please receive these lines from a com- mon Prussian soldler.” Tale_of Another ‘German Soldier. This was the testimony of another German soldier on the east front: “Russian Poland, December 19, 1914. “In the name of Christianity I send you these words: “My conscience forces me as a Chris- tian German soldier to inform you of these lines. “Wounded Russfans are killedq with the bayonet. according to orders “And Russians who have surrende; ed are often shot down in masses ac- cording to order: in spite of their heart rending prayers. “In the hope that gon, as the repre- sentative of a Christian state, will protest against this, T gn myself “A German Soldler and Christian. “I would give my name and regi- ment but these words could get me courtmartialed for divulging military secrets.” This letter was from a soldier on the western front: Englishmen Shot in Small Groups. “To the American Government, ‘Washingtan, U. S. A, “Englishmen who have surrendered are shot down In small groups. With the French one is mor2 considerate. I a<k whether men let themselves to be i{\'zen prisoner in order to be disarm- jed and shot down afterwards? Is that chivalry in battle? It is no longer a secret among the people: one INvars everywhere that few prisoners ' are take: they are shot down in small groups. They say naively ‘We don’t want any unnecessary mouths to feed. When there is no one to enter com- plaint, there is no judge.’ Is there then no power in the world which can put an endl.to these murders and rescue the victims? Where is Christianity? ‘Where i right? Might is right. “A Soldier and Man Who i is no Barbarian.” R CHILE AND ARGENTINA ARE FORMING AN ALLIANCE To Forestall German Efforts to Dis- turb Political Balance. { Washington, Nov. 5.—Echoes of Ger- {man efforts to disturb the political {bulance in South America were seen by state department officials in un- cflicial reports received here today from Buenos Aires that an alliance Letween Chile and Argentina was be- ing negotiate All informatior. reaching the depart- ment indicates the improbability of ny such radical realignment,-but it was regarded as possible that Coant Von Luxburg, the expelled German ciplomat, had taken advantage of a recent diplomatic controversy between Chile on the one hand and Bolivia and Peru on the other.to set at work forces which might weaken the soli- darity of ‘Latin-America. The - Argentine foreign office is given credit in South America for averting by mediation a conflict ovag disputes arising from the retention by Chile of the provinces of Tacna and ‘Arica, taken from Peru in 1878, and the insistence of Bolivia upon.an out- let_to the Pacific , However, the inci- dent is not regarded here as having been of sufficient importance to war- rant an assumption of an alllance be- tween Chile and Argentiia, tradition- ally separated and allied respectively with Brazil and Peru. CRQWN COUNGCIL IN BERLIN WITH KAISER PRESIDING. iy it Field Marshal Von Hindenburg and General Von Ludendorfi Attended. Amsterdam, ‘Nov. 5.—Advices from Berlin say that a crown council was eld today with Emperor William' pre- siding. The council was attended, in addition to tho Prussian ministers, the m«m secretaries of state and other minent personages, by Fieid "~ shal Von Hindenburg, General lendorff, first quartermaster and others. M