Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 1, 1916, Page 1

& 9 Aoy e Call Tyler 1000 It You Want to Talk to The Bee or to Anyone Conmected With The Bee, VOL. XLV- VOTE ON WARNING MOTION IN HOUSE President Sends Letter to Ranking OUT-OF-TOWN VISITORS ARRIVE | Be! Member Suggesting that Test of Strength Be Made. CHIEF WANTS A SHOWDO Declares Foreign Capitals Make Use of Reports of Dissension x in Congre: HE WRITES MISSIVE TO POU | WN 29.—Presi- dent Wilson has written a letter to Rerpesentative Pou, ranking member of the house comittee on rules, ask- ing that resolutions warning Amer- fean citizens off armed merchant- | men of the allies be voted upon. | Wilson's Letter. “My dear Mr. Pou “Inasmuch as 1 learn that Mr. the chialrman of the committee on rules | is absent, I take the liberty of calling | your attention, as ranking member of the committee, to & matter of grave con- | cern to the country which can, I believe, | be handled, under the rules of the house, | cnly by that committee. | “The Teport that there are divided coun- | sels In congress in regard to the forelgn policy of the government is being made | industrious use of In foreign capitals. T| belfeve that report to be false, but so | long as it is anywhere credited it cannot | fail to, do the greatest harm and expose | the country to the most serious risks. I, | therefore, feel justified in asking that | your committee will permit me to urge | an early vote upon the resolutions with regard to travel on armed merchantmen, which have recently been so much talked about, in order that there may be af- orded an immediate opportunity for full Public discussion and action upon them and that all doubts and conjectures may be swept away and our foreign relations once more cleared of damaging misunder- standings. “The matter s of so grave importance and lies so celarly within the ficld of inftiative that 1 venture hope that your committee will not think hat T am taking unwarraned libery in making this suggestion as to the busiuess of the house and I very earnestly commend it to their immediate consideration. “Cordlally and sincercly, (Signed.) WOODROW WILSON." French Auxiliary Cruises Sunk in _Mediterra_pean = Henry, | to PARIS, Féb. 2—(Via London)—The auxiliary ¥rench erviser La Provencs was sunk fn the Mediterrean last Sat- urday, it was announced officially today. At Malta 26 survivors heve been landnd The ministry of marine estimates the number of survivors at §0. Four hundred survivors were landed at Milo, La Provence sank in the middle Mediterranean. | vious cement shows held in Omaha or | | concrete from the standpoint of the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. OPENS T0 PUBLIC| Exhibit Given by Mid-West Cement | Users' Association is Biggest Held in Middle West. Not only the biggest, but also the most Interesting, Cement show ever held in the middie west opened at the | Auditorium at 7 o'clock last night for | the remainder of the week Secretary Frank Whipperman of the Midwest Cement Users' associa- tion, which organization is giving the | show, asserts that in every way the | present show easily surpasses all pre- anywhere else west of Chicago. Folks who care little about cement and ser will nevertheless find much entertainment and education in a visit to the show. The autolst and good roads booster delights in concrete garages. a miniature Lincoln highway, illuminated to show the points on that highway constructed of concrete. and also in a miniature reproduction of a machine and a gang of men turning an old mud road into a modern concrete thoroughfare. Displays for Farmers. Office men, factory workers and teach ers and students find interest in the | plication of fireproof construction to | bulldings and fire escapes as neatly illus trated by numerous models. The farmer investigates concrete silos, barns, stalls and other farm appurtenances made of concrete, for there are many practical | displays ana models of these at the show A beautiful arbor, built entirely of con | erete, is another attractive feature where the crowds gather. Fences, walks, foun | tains and many other things are also dis. | played to emphasize the varied uses of | the modern construction material, and |even burial vaults of concrete are on | exhibition | Movies on Program. “Movies" are also on the program. “A Concrete Romance” is the subject of one of the films and other recls and stereopti- con slides show concrete work, good roads |and the progress of the cement industry |in its many phases throughout the coun- | try. These picture exhibitions are free every afternoon and evening. | Not only Omahans, but erowds from other cities and towns, are attending the big show. Director Frank Leeder of Sjoux | City has sent word that 150 people from Sioux City will come to attend the show today. George Wolz of Fremont, state consul of the Lincoln highway, is coming down ‘Thursday night and Friday with a crowd of other officials of the highway to at- tend the Cement show and also hold a conference with the cement manufac- turers. This is expected to result in the use of a lot of cement this year in the construetion of more concrete stretches on the highway across Nebra#ka. Felix Diaz Commands Several Thousands v ORLEANS, Feb. 2.-Diaz adhor- ents sald today thoy had advices that Fellx Diaz landed In the state of Vera Crus last week and was joined there by several thousand troops. Diaz, tt was mid, Intended marching to his La Provence was one of the Iargest|pome gtate of Oaxaca to joln 10,000 troops and finast of the French line vessels | ¢, begin his campaign against Villa and Its gross tonnage was 13,753, It was bullt | Carransa. Bapata troops, it was said, at St. Nazaire in 1906, was 602 feet long, sixt-five feet beam, and thirty-efght feet deop. Tt was requitioned by the French government for naval service at the out- sreak of the war. At the time it was launched Ta Provence was the fastest trans-Atlantic liner ever built in France. Assailants of Miss Crane Are Held in Bonds of $20,000 EWTO! Mass., Feb. 2.-On the strength of a report from physicians that injuries of Miss Helen M. Crane and Miss Hannah M. Farrington, who were at- tacked at Miss Crance's home last night, were more serlous than at first supposed, Albert Sauders and Frank Sidney, ne- groes arrested after the assault, were held in $20,000 each in court today. Miss Crane is a sister of the actor, Willlam M. Orane, and Miss Farrington is he- companion. The police investigation showed that both had been severely heaten. Jewelry valued at §$1,00 was stolen. The Weather Foreedst till 7 p. m. Wednesda For, Omaha, Couneil Bluffs and Vicr ~Uneettled and probably snow; eolde Temperatures st Omana Yesterday. Comparative Local Record, Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Mean temperatu Precipitation 3 ‘Temperature and tures from the normal: Norma! temperature Deficlency for the day Total deficiency aince March | Normal precipitation Deficieney for the day Total rainfall since March 1 Deficiency since March 1 Deficiency for cor. period, 1911 Deficiency for cor. period, 1911 Reports trom Stations at 7 P, M Station and State Temp. High- Rain- ., of Weathe: To.om. est Cheyenne, cloudy % Davenport, cloudy x penver, clear -+ ‘es Molnes, cloudy Dodge City, 'pt. cloudy.... 76 North Platie, clear ! Omaha, cloa E: pid City, snow da snow v " loudy e of preci tatic WELSH, Local Forecaster recipitation depar- would join the Diaz army. Several mil- lon dollars was declared to have been provided to finance the movement. WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Reports today to the Department of Justice sald Gen- eral Pelix Diaz, who hopes to start a new revolution in Mexico, left the United States on February 18 on a ship bound from Tampa, Fla., to Tierra, in the state of Vera Crux, Mexico. Roads Want Federal Regulation Simply WASHINGTON, Feb, 2. —Frank Trum- bull, chalrman of the rallway executive's advisory committee, representing 84 per cent of the raliroads of the country, to- day asked the house interstate commerce committee to bring all activities of the | railroads under purely federal control. | ““We are quite willing to sit down at the table with you and help you draft a law,"” he said, “provided you emancipate us from the stat 4 . Millions of dollars, Mr. Trumbull said, “are going over the dam in waste every ' bhecause of duplications, discrimi and litigations arising out of of authority over raliroads the states and the federal dlvision tween | ernment. |General Scott at Cabinet Meetingi be Fov- i8] Hour Deg Fa. m . 181 < ¢ N fa m.. 17| WASHINGTON, Feb, 2.—Major Gen- 8 fam 16{ eral Hugh L. Scott, secretary of war ad B 4 - 18! interim, attended today's cabinet meeting, T MWam 14| and the White House historians said it T n . m was the first time since the ctvil war Tp.m that an army officer had sat at the cabi- 2p.m net table. ip.m L ipm ip.m €pm ipm WASHINGTON Feb, 2. —~Hepresenta tive Mondell of Wyoming, republican, iu a speech to the house today assalled the administrations foreign policy and urged | the passage of his bill, still in commit- tee to warn Americans from taking pas sage on armed merchantmen. | When anyone fully informed,” sald Mr. Mondell, “contends that an Ameri- can citizen has a right which should not be denied to travel on a ship armed to fight, purposed to fight, and bound into the regions of war, 1 am compelled to | believe that the one so Insisting is either playing politics with the national honor | or is disposed to embroll the natlon in war In his letter 10 Senator Stone the pre for my part 1 caunot abr sent of the rights of American c'tizens in any respect,’ elg | celved the case and advanced it on sum- Mondell Asks if Wilson Is Ajax Daring the Lightning or Falstaff?| WILSON URGES A BIG CENENT SHOW TEUTONS KEEP UP THEIR POWERFUL rlin - Repo i getss huelles, ChEipPton and Small Fort Near Douaumont After Furious Fighting. FRENCH ADMIT SOME LOSSES Germans Succeed in Occupying Several Trenches in Lorraine. ACTIVITY IN CHAMPAGNE ZONE BERLIN, Feb, ~(Via London., —Progress for the Germans in their drive towards Verdun, in the Woerve district, was announced by the war office today The German troops have passed Dieppe, ‘Abacourt and Bianchee, and also have taken Man- | huelles and Champton. The war office also announced that a small armored work northwest of Douaumont has been stormed by the Germans. The official announcement gives the total number of unwounded pris- | oners taken as 16,5675, There have been captured also 78 cannon and 86 machine guns. French Admit PARIS, Feb. 29.—The bombardment to the north of Verdun is continuing with great intensity. East of the Meuse last night there was a resumption of violent local attacks. Near the village of Doua- mount the fighting cume to a hand-to- hand encounter and the Germans were repulsed by Krench troops. After intense artillery fire German forces captured the village of Manheul- les, but a counter attack brought the French to the westsrn boundary of this location. They now held Manheulles un- der their fire In Lorraine the Germans succoeded in Some Loases. occupying small sections of French trenches, but they were very shortly iriven from these positions, There is nothing to report from the remalnder of the front, The Official Report. The official communication issued night reads: “Between Solssons and Rheims our ar- tillery bombarded important points be- hind the enemy’s front. “In Champagne our batterles shattered German organizations in the reglon of Hill 193. To the west of Malsons de Champagne the Germans exploded a mine, the crater of whieh .we occupled. “In the réglon 6t Verdun the S’?:‘um ment continued on the north front with less intensity than on the preceding days. No infantry action was reported In the course of the day. The Germans en- trenched themselves on the slopes north of Cote dw Poivre, the first ridge of which {s occupied by our advanced ele- ments. Carry Out Violent Fire, “We carried out a violent fire on Se- mogneaux, where an enemy battalion had assembled. “At various points on our front in the Woevre our artillery fire prevented at- tacks, in the course of preparation, from being carried out. “In the Vosges there has been great artillery getivity In the region of Senches and the Ban-de-Sapt. To the jeast of Seppois a counter-attack by us drove the enemy from some sections of trenches which he had penetrated during the morning." The Belglan says: reater activity has been displayed by the artillery, especially in the region of Dixmude, In the course of the after- noon two German Dballoons before our front broke from their moorings and fell, one in the sea opposite La Panne, the other near Coudekerque, The aeronauts were taken prisone: Richards Primary Law Case Must Be Tried on Its Merits HURON, 8. D,, Feb, 20.—(Special.)—The attorney for R. O, Richards has received a telegram from Washington, D. C., an- nouncing that the clerk of the superior court of the United States has declined to flle the motion of Attorney General Caldwell to dismiss the appeal iIn the Richards primary election law case for the reason that the court, when it re-| to- official communication mary docket for argument took juris- diction There is considerable satisfaction here ' that the attorney general was refused his preliminary motion to dismiss. His attempt to stop the trial of the case on its merits on mere technicalities has brought out open protests against using | the official machinery of the state to fight the people through all the courts 8 :“U:\l;\ll.\. WEDNESDAY .\HiRA\'»l.\'li, MARCH 1, 1916—-TWELVE PAGES, at Wotel oto, o TSINGL RITAIN'S EXPLANATION OF MAIL CONFISCATION-—This picture, which comes om England, is said to show packets of rubber which the British confiscated in mail lirected from neutral countries to Germany. According to the British these packets are ‘rom the 8. 8. Gelria. R.xs@\\\s»wmx%@m\\«. R R SRR CONFISCATED PIAIL PACKETS. 'MARKET WEEK NOW 'BRYA ON IN FULL SWAY Crowds of Nebraska Retailers| Swarm Into Omaha to Do Their | Spring Buying. THEATER PARTY LAST NIGHT| Merchants’ Market week activities| began in earnest yesterday. Crowds of retailers from all over Nebraska and several other neighboring states have arrived and they spent the time looking over stocks of goods at the various wholesale houses and manufacturing plants and laying in| their supplies of goods for the com-| ing season. | All were optimistic over prospects for a good year of business and are buying wholesome orders on the prospects of an excellent business. Wholesalers and manufacturers are ad- | vising the visiting retaflers to reserve | rooms at the hotels as soon as possible | in order that none of them may be caught without accomodations, New hotels built in the last two years have added greatly to the hotel facilities of the city, but the cement show s mow on and thiy brings a number of Visitors to the city. Good Firat Day Urowd. “It was a good first-day crowd,” sald one of the committee, ‘‘as Tuesday was really the opening day of the Market work and entéF(ainment. The morning and aftérnoon trains brought great numbers of merchants, who spent the day at the varlous wholesale and manufacturing houses of the city.” Several hundred of the retall merchants from Nebraska and various states in the middle west section enjoyed the Orpheum last night as the guests of the local wholesalers and manufacturers, Tonight is the “prize night” at the Commercial club rooms, where some valuable prizes are to be distributed among the visitors, and where some good music and dancing is to be given as entertainment. “Galatea,” the vnmo\u" local dancer, Is to exhibit some of “her” best steps -in interpretative dancing at | this time, i Thursday night the local committes is to give the visitors a banquet and dance at the Fontenelle hotel. Six Men Kilied by Mine Explosion and Nine_Are Missing KEMPTON, W, Va., Feb. 20.-8ix men are known to be dead, ninc are still missing and fifty-two have been brought | safely from mine No. 42 of the Davis | Coal and Coke company near here, where 1sually marked ‘‘samples of no value'’' in an attempt to smuggle them past the allied sensors, On February 24 1,265 packets were taken from the 8, 8. Hollandia and 1,390 These consignments were made to Holland. AN FOR WILSON, SAYS THOMPSON Little Giant of Nebraska Democracy Brings Message North from x Miami. | WANTS THOMPSON FOR JUDGE (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.-—(Spe- clal Telegram,)—New light was thrown on the vacant federal judge- ship in Nebraska today through an interview given to the press by Judge W. H. Thompson of Grand Island previous to his leaving for his home in Grand Island, Judge Thompson, who is the dem- ocratic state chairman of Nebraska, having just come from Miami, Fla., where he had an extended visit with Colonel W. J. Bryan, sald: “People misunderstood Mr. Bryan's position regarding his relations with the president, “They differ only on a few principles resulting from the war. These do not af- fect thelr principal relations. Mr. Bryan will most likely be one of the Nebraska delegates-at-large to the 8t. Louls con- ventlon. The entire delegation will be for the president’'s renomination, Whethor pledged or Instructed, Mr. Bryan will probably be among the Nebraska delega- tion, which will be for the president {0 » man. b \ “Nebraska 1s for Presfdant Wilkon.” One-Term Plank Disposed Of. Rogarding the one-term presidential plank, Mr. Thompson sald he belleved Bryan would not raise it against the president. Bryan belleves the plank should be again enunciated in the Bt. Louls platform, but made applieabls only to a president elected after laws are enacted putting it into effect, That no resolution will be urged by Bryan in the St. Lotis platform which would embarrass the presidont or repudi- ate any of his policies was the substance of the sentiment expressed by Mr. Thomp- son. It is Mr. Bryan's bellef the Wilson renomination is assured. Thompson for Judge. But what {s most significant Mr. Thompson presented a lotter to Attorney General Gregory yesterday when he called at the Department of Justice with Congressman Shallenberger, from Colonel Rryan, wherein the Commoner respect- fully kalled upon the attorney general to tell President Wilson that he, Mr. Bryan, wanted Mr. Thompson to be appointed to the Munger vacancy. Above all other things Mr. Bryan sald he believed Judge Thompson eminently fitted for the place by reason of long Iégal practice and faithful service. In the light of the interview which Mr. | Thompson gave out today and the Bryan an explosion occurred this morning. The missing men had penetrated far into the | workings. Rescuers expressed the opinion | that they had perished. Cummins Blocks Vote on the Shields Power Site Bill WASHINGTON, Feb, 2.—Senator Cum- mins, republican, blocked & vote on the Shields water power bill today, saying he would consent to no agreement for a| vote until pending amendments had been thoroughly discussed. Senator Shields| sald he would move for night sessions to expedite the bill of its provisions are hard fought by conservationists. | LOBECK BACK AGAIN AFTER MAKING SPEECH (From Some Sjaff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—(Special Tele gram.)~Congressman Lobeck returned to | Washington this morning from New York | where on Sunday he delivered an address in behalf of lifting the embargo on milk for the bables in the warring countries of Europe. He said that thé Cusino, in which the meoting was held, was crowded and the enthusiasm tremendous. These are fine, bold words. When, how- ver, we consider the conditions under | which they were used, I am at a loss to know whether the picture they conjure up is that of Ajax defying the lightning | or Falstaft on parade. “How unfortunate it is that the presi- dent could not have uttered and acted upon them three years ago, and In the time that has Intervened during which the administration has done little else than not only consent, but actually con- nive at and weakly and supinely submit to the abridgement of the rights of American citizens in Mexico." Mr. Mondell's speech led to no new outbreak on the subject. Less than & hundred members were In their seats while he spoke and when he concluded the house turned to other husiness with- out Interruption, An Extra Day You get this extra time to do business only once in four years, but if you can do twice as much business every day, you will gain more than 300 | extra days each year, Persistent and properly placed newspaper adver- tising will do it for you. Advertise in The Bee letter there was a percept...e change of atmosphere about the Department of Justice with reference to the judgeship matter, and a number of knowing per- sons were put to guessing just what At- torney General Gregory would do now. Up to today it looked very much like Judge J. J. Thomas of Seward for the vacancy, but with Bryan's personal ap peal, and the fact that he will place no obstacles in Wilson's pathway for nom! nation, but rather help him land the persimmon, Judge Thompson may read his_title clear to the district judgeship of Nebrasks, for monumental politics is being played these days by the Wilson forces. Judge and Mrs, W. been in Washington They have made & Bryans in Miami, Fla. for Grand Island. H. Thompson have for several days. long visit to'the They left tonight Italy Takes Over Interned Ships It was announced ons today that the had isitioned thirty-seven (lerman in Italian ports | LoONDON in the Hou, Itallan Ko thirty-four nment the interned | steamers | Germans Lfirea into M l;;led Woods ; Near Verdun Killed by Explosion| T T A R RN R THE WEATHER. Unsettled TWO CEN TS, B COPY NEW SUBMARIN CAMPAIGN IS ON WITH MIDNIGHT German Statcsmen Notify the Press that Armed Merchantmen Will Be Sent to the Bottom Without Notice. NOTICE IS CONSIDERED AMPLE Imperial Government Considers Neutral Nationals Will Avoid Ships Under the Ban. GERMAN VIEW OF U. §. POSITION BERLIN, Feb., 28 —(Via London.) Feb, 29.)-—The Associated Press fis intormed by German's leading states- | men that the new rule of submarine warfare which was announced in the | German .memo~andum regarding the | future treatment of armed merchant- - ! men, will positively be put in effect it BN QWL I SERVICE BRITONS DECLARE FOR PROTECTION Resolutions Adopted by Boards of | ade Look Toward Solidarity | of the Empire. FAVOR PREFERENTIAL TARIFF! LONDON, Feb, 29.—Great Brit- | ain’s national expenditure for the eurrent year will reach the gigantic total of £1,609,000,000, according to a statement today by Reginald Me- Kenna, chancellor of the exchequer, addressing a meeting here of the As- soclation of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom. Great Brit- ain, he said, had maintained its |eredit unimpaired throughout the war, The government, he said, was pre- pared to give assistance for the de- velopment of forelgn trade in order to insure that rivals who were Great Britain's “bitter enemies,” should not as in the past enjoy control of the forelgn trade, Sir A. Freeman Firth, president of the assoclation and chalrman, moved a reso- lution that “the strength and safety of the nation lay in its ability to produce what i required from its own soll and factories.” . Bmpive Taatend of Natton, Colonel Hughes of the nmruuqm, ber of Commerce aaid the entire of the country oould not any- thing 1ike the quantity of nec- essary to maintajn the nation. An wmend. ment was adopted subatituting the word “empire’ for nation in the chairma: resolution adopted. Mr. McKenna estimated the expendi- tures for the year on England's own en- terprises at £1,170,000. He said that of this amount one-third would be covered at midnight of tomorrow, Tuesday, February 29, At that time the period of warning for neutrals, giving them opportunity to advise their nationals not te travel on armed merchantmen will explire. For several days there has been more than a possibility that Germany at the Iast moment might make a proposal that it would discontinue practices of reprisal and sink no merchant ships—freighters or passenger liners—v ithout firat halting the vessel for examination and putting the crow In & place of safety, as in tha old style of naval warfare, It the allies would remove armament from merchant- men. 1t was thought England might ac- cept this proposal, or that the Unitel States and other neutrals would be cone vinced, if England refused, that it had no Intentlon of discontinuing the use of armament for offensive purposes. This might possibly have xiven President Wil- son proof that armament on merchant- men was not used purely for defense and thus enable the president to reconcile the two conflicting viewpoints regarding the impropriety of merchantmen carrying Armament and the impossibility of the United States altering the eatablished law of nations. Attitude of United States, Publieation of President Wilson's letter to Senator Stone, however, apparently (Continued on Page Tive, Column One) American Named b TORREON, Cabulla, Teb, W1t was roported here {oday that an American hotel keeper named IHarris has been jed by bandita at Sombrete. - The date and other detalls were not given, although It is known that Harris has lived in Bombrete forty years. Sombrete 18 In the state of Zacatecas. Bandits are reported to have looted the ranch of John Kramer, an American, at by the revenue raised in a full year on the present basls of taxation. He be- Otinopa, west of Durango City. Kramer, with his American employes, are sald lloved no other belligerent could show & similar record. The chancellor referred to the relation between trade and military vietory. “Destroy your trade,” he sald, ‘“‘and you shatter the very folindation of eur power to make these great sdvances to our allles and dominions.” The courage of the nation, Mr, Me- Kenna added, “would not fall. England was prepared to endure to the end.” Five Renol Adopt ‘The meeting adopted five resolutions almost unanimously. The only dissenting votes were cast against the resolution dealing with the tariff. The first of these motions was the one presented by the ohalrman concerning the production of Britain's necessary sup- plies within its own borders. ‘The second related to the protection of British industries. ‘The third was in favor of the creation of a ministry of commerce and Industry. The resolution In regard to the tariff declared in favor of preferential trade relations with the British empire, recip- rocal arrangements with Great Britain's allles and favorable treatment of neu- trals The last of these motions suggested a conference with the overseas dominions on various trade questions growing out of the war. BROTHER STATE TREASURER TO LOCATE IN CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE, Neb., Telegram,)—Dr, Glibert H, Hall ¥ Elk- horn, Neb., has decided to locate here and today made arrangements to move at once. Since Dr. Atken died a number of, doctors have been considering this lo- cation Feb, 2.—(Special h Dodge Recaptured, BURLINGTON, In., Feb. 2.—Smith Dodge, who escaped from the Fort Madi- son penitentiary Sunday afternoon, was | captured in Hanibal, Mo., today. Dodge | was serving @ thirty-year sentence for | murder to have saved their lives by hiding is & hog pen. General Canuto Reyes is officially re~ ported to have escaped from the Laguns dstrict and reached the Plcardias can< yon, south of Torreon. ‘The Torreon smelter will begin opera~ tions this week to relieve local unem- ployment. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb, 3.—The murder of urover C. Vatn, an Amer- loan, by Villa forces at his home last night, twenty-five miles north of Dus. rango, was reported officially today to the State department. No other detalls were given. Two More Life Boats from Maloja Are Washed to Shore ° DOVER, England, Feb. ¥—Two mors lifeboats from the British ship Maloja, sunk by a mine on Sunday were washed ashore today at St. Margaret's bay. The boats contained several bodies. The Inguest into the death of Maloja victims was opened here today., The ex- pressed opinion of the chief officer of the steamer that it had been torpedoed was not sustained, other ‘witnesses ex- pressing the bellet that the navigators of the Maloja saw a mine and tried to avold striking it, but were unable to do so. It was also brought out that only foure teen of the bodies recovered have beecn identified, Turks Evacuate Trebizond and the Neighboring Towns LONDON, Feb. 2.~A Central News Qispatch from Petrograd says the Turks are hastily evacuating Trebizond and the neighboring towns on the Black Sea coust of the Caucasus region. Five Ships Sunk " PARIS, Feb Do vou know ahout ed on the was trigk we pl wood Germans on with been Caures | | which & French In the Verdun fighting Introduced today bis account of an Incident at the front “Well, the north of Verdun,' be continued, ““a little beyond Beaumont, lies Caures wood. It was a point to which the German devoted special attention, the question soldier who had to and, therefore, everything was done to glve them as good a reception &s pos- sible While our infantry on the fringe of the wood held off the enemy, a lleuten- ant of engineers and his men made their | final preparations in the wood, which | had been carefully mined hefore hand.| When all was ready the | infantry fell back and the Germans, convinced m-!‘ our men were boltin, tore after them | In the woods, yelling exultantly, “When the last French man was safely out of the wood on the other side lonu-l one posted near Beaumont pressed n| button. There was a heavy boom and| trees, mingled with bodles shot into the air. Virtually every man of the enemy | {in the wood had been killed.” l in Mediterranean TOKIO, Feb. 2.—-The Japanese naval authorities have receiveq official advices hat three British steamers, one French and one Swedisn steamer were sunk by German submarines in the iuediters ranean on February 23 and February 2. The officials think this indicates an in¢reased number of submarines oper- ating in the Mediterranean. ‘There have been announcements re- cently of the sinking of merchang ves- sels, presumably by submarines, but the censorship restrictions have beem such that no mention has been made of the localities in which the sinkings eccurred. - 3