The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1914, Page 2

pie 3 has been cut to pieces during the fighting of the last pee days. ‘The strength of some companies has been reduced from to 100 men. Virtually all the original officersof the d have been killed or wounded, and two battalions have annihilated. PARIS, Sept. 28 [Associated Press]—The following communication was given out in Paris this afternoon: “Between the River Aisne and the Argonne district the has delivered further violent attacks, which have repulsed.” PARIS, Sept. 28 (United Press).—The 3 o'clock resume B, of the progress of the fighting was utterly noncommittal. ) 1¢ merely emphasized the fact that there had been no change ‘in the situation. This disposed of the report that, by a =gudden raid, the allies had driven the Germans from Mons +, which, this particular rumor said, was burning. 44. Military authorities privately admit that the great “pattie of the Aisne is in its closing stages and that every @ffort is being made to hold the general lines intact while _ the allies crumble up the German right wing which now, more than ever, resembles a fishhook. Great masses of fresh troops are being pushed into action. But they have encountered the German reserves + also in great strength. Both sides are sacrificing men to carry their point. The French authorities believe the final result must be the complete outflanking of Gens. von Kluck and von Boehm and the withdrawal of the entire "German army from north France. / 3 is rumored that the Gefmans have made gains along the Meuse line = + ané that they are now in strong force on the west bank of the river sear GR Mibiel. Military headquarters, im contradiction, says that St. Mibiel ts SP" ait held dy the French. ‘ Bvery effort of the allies to gain a foothold either in St. Quentin or in “the territory immediately to the north between the armies of Gens. von Kleck and von Boehm has failed. Additional reinforcements are being stat. and the battle continues without interruption day and night. ‘The enemy is not only strongly entrenched, it is stated, but he has “constructed almost impregnable barricades of barbed wire, saplings and |, fron bars intertwined with the trees growing in the roads and at the sides ‘of the fields. These are all commanded not only by field artillery, but by rapid fire guns end can only be attacked under caver of darkness. GERMAN REPORT OF WAR IN FRANCE. Berlin War Office Claims Gains on the German Centre BERLIN (via The Hague) [United Press).—While still maintaining Ytke position that there have been no really decisive changes at any part of fe 180-mile battlefield, the report of the German General Staff to-day is optimistic. 3t stated that there have been distinct gains by the German centre, Whtteh bas driven the enemy back with heavy losses, The armies operating hreugh Varennes have succeeded in forcing the French back on Clermont Aire and on St. Mennehould and new hold the main highways and the lines in that vicinity. the Meuse the Germans continue to maintain their etrength on the west bank of the river. The bom- of the Meuse forts south of Verdun continues with perceptible ° s Blow Up Bridges 2. on Lines to the German Base LONDON, Sept. 38.—While the marvellous test of enuurance continues fifteenth day along the entire battle line in France, news reaches of @ sudden renewal of activity by the Belgian army. activity spreads over @ wide area in Northern Belgtum. Reports King Adbert's army of 200,000 is especially active in destroying of communications, having dlown up many railroad iets on lines leading to Germany's base. the Exchange Telegraph Company from Blankenburgh, date, says that the Belgians have blown up the es, thas cutting railway communication retweon Mone despatch sayg: of communication in Belgium are so thinly guarded have succeeded in destroying the railway lines hm " ive i e it { E i | } | i il ? | i tt i (United Prees)—The Germans are shell! werp with heavy guns. Aseady tats ate ence Gamage to Forte Vaelhem and Wavre und te the chain of hich connect them, ‘The forts are responding vigorously to 2 E yt 4) a > i € en. French Complains Against mlZen ¢ d’Amade, Report in London French and the French General! whiie : and it was névessar: mente to retake the euthority will discu ra, but they are ieonse about in circles that mmented on the fact brunt of the fighting to be borne by the 190 GERMAN VESSELS CAPTURED BY BRITISH SINCE THE WAR BEGAN LONDON, Sept. f M—(United Pres, pgm the Sour losses to pe ramerce resi from feo nee the war ts the list. Gould & Wilkie, attorneys RRRIFIC GERMAN A hop eu ie BVENING WORLD, TTACKS ON ENTIRE BATTLE LINE REPULSED TURCOS DIVIDING GERMAN EQUIPMENT TURCSOS BXKAMINING Pe Se WAR SUMMARY Violent attacks are being delivered by tho Germans against the lines |ho! of the allies between the districts of the Aisne and the Argonne, says the} A nN ee EWS official French statement issued at Paris this afternoon. Germany is prepared to finance a long war. This assertion is made in @ despatch from Berlin, which passed through the hands of the British ceneor at London. The war is costing Germany $5,000,000 a day. The war loan has proven a success and with the various resources from which the govern- Ment can derive the war revenue, it will ‘be possible for Germaiiy to con- tinue the struggle-for a year with the money now in sight. A despatch from Rome says that 300,000 troops ‘have’ been assembled at Pola, the great naval port of Austria, and that thorough preparations) have been made against an attack from the sea. The hour for the battle which will determine whether the Ruastans. will make their proposed invasion of Germany with Berlin as the final objective, appears to be drawing near. German reports eay that theif forces fell back to their first lne of defenses around Tsingtau, Amsterdam reports a sharp encounter between the Germans and. Belgians four miles east of Antwerp and other Slashes sixteen miles east ‘ com) of Ghent. Belgians are reported to have blown up bridges on railroads running to the German base. It was officially announced to-day that the total reserve of the Reichst Bank increased $4,000,000 last week. There was a total of $65,000,000 paid | relented. in and a total of $61,000,000 withdrawn, MILLIONS VANISH AS CLAFLIN STOCK IS ALL WIPED OUT) (Continued from Fivst Page.), common, aggregating $9,000,000 par value in all. It paid regularly 5 per cent. dividends on first preferred, 6 per cent. on second preferred and from 6 to 9 per cent. on common. The last dividend declaration was in April of this year, two months before the crash. The Associated Merchants’ Com- pany, one of the holding companies in the pyramid bullt up on this dry- goods combination, owns $4,500,100 par value of this stock, or just one share more than one-half. The remainder {s distributed among the 1,800 small stockholders, who had put their savings into what was con- sidered @ strong, dividend paying the parent company of Salem Seamen Orphan aid Childr Friend Society, 50 shares; ¢)) Hospital, Salem, Maas, 100 Association for the Relief of A, and Destitute, Salem, Mass., 20 shares; Bertram Home for Aged Men, Salem, Mass., 80 shares; Essex Insti- tute, Salem, 26 shares; Mack Indus- trial School, Salem, 50 shares; Sec- ond Congregational Church, Cornwall, Conn, 10 shares; Aharon East Side Cemetery, Cornwall, Conn., 8 shares; Yarmouth, Mass., Library Association, 10 shares; Rockefeller Foundation, Mre. Mary A. Rudd, res, Banks and financiers, too, were | Roldera of stock, Among them were: J. P. Morg hares; Kidder, Peabody & C for the Claflin panies, were listed an holding 200 and the emi- of different issu But J outside three si of shoi i nent corporation lawyer of New Jer- R. V. Lindabury, was down for hares, Very large holders of Claflin stock were Blake Brothers, ‘all street bankers, who participated in. selling lin owned persona! this collapse was t which were stamped ment of the H. and sold to 3,000 banks throughout the country., ‘This method of financing by means} ohn Claflin himself was a rela- tively small stockholder in the com- pany bearing his father’s name and of which he was the active head. On the stock Mat he is credited with only 870 shares of common, 207 4] first prei res of ed and 111 shares of ‘erred, a total of 679 af- Slatlin Company, wholesale dry goods, the | parent concern, is in the hands of | receivers, toy pether with twenty-three stores which John f- The reason for retal! tores iasued $31,661,829 of notes ith the indorse- Claflin Company rt term financial paper had been going on for a long time and) banks eagerly bought t long a8 money was easy paper as it SAVING: LIVES Medicine Builds You Up. Best for Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, all throat and alcohol 3 he troubles. No AP TORED | at the twenty. | NDAY, SEPTEMBE ~ R @8, 1914. EQU tel ee IPMENT Juno. caused banks to decline to re- new expiring notes and the Claflin pyramid collapsed. ‘The announced reorganization plan | Was prepared by a committee of note- Iding banks, of which James 8. Alex- ander of the National Bank of Com. merce fs Chairman, The receivers, ( Messrs, Martindale and Juillard, have no hand in the preparations. The committee has invited the creditors to, give their aasent to the plan, but noth. | ing has been said to the owners of $9,009,000 of stock whose interest 1s, entirely wiped out. | CARONIA'S MEN ARREST ' The. Norwegian-Amorican Line! steamship Kristianiafjord, in to-day from Bergen, Norway, with 1,117 passengers, was stoppe and boarded by officers «f the British converted cruiser Caronia off Scotland light- ship as she was making port to-day. -The. British officers, who were ac- anied by two launches full of akin a saildra, were about to arrest ‘and: take off the ship a German im- | migrant in: the steerage named Retz when, upon learning that’ | was over forty-six years old and hence not available for military service, they The boarding party gave no reason for their action in going aboard the neutral Norwegian ship after she had been halted by wireless, except that they desired to look over the passeg- gers. Retz was the only German on the ship. Capt. 8. O, Hiortdahl of the Kristianiafjord interceded for Retz ‘The vessel was held up an hour and ai half. GERMAN, THEN FREE HIM| present many ifficulties and prob- lems. There are an average of thirty- SAY GERMAN COMMANDER ENDED HIS LIFE BECAUSE TWO KILLED IN TRAIN, C| \ five candidates to be voted for In) six Others Injured When Care HIS MISSION WAS FAILURE. | each district and the voter must make Planged Through Priade. { —_——— & crons before each one. No more will WAVERLY, Ia., Sept. 28.—Roy @ single mark at the head of the col- umn suffice to register a straight ticket, Neither can the machine picked favorites have favorite places on tho ballot. Contesting candidates for the same office are grouped together and draw for the order in which their 4 names wre placed. PS thas, inthe Democratt LONDON, Sept. 28 (Associated Press).—A Bordeaux despatch to the Muethause on, yx. 0 DABS 0: telegraphed the Gs come and see fc baflot, tes for Constitutfonal Convention, the namos! of thirty men are scrambled tog: her, | Tammany and ti-Tammany being mixed irreguiariy. Because the Democrats won the election, they will have voting places exclusively to themselves to-day, But | icans, Progressivi ‘O- | hibitionists apd Soctalists must all: join company in.voting booths. This will result in the Democratic result: being known first, while the other parti 6 liable to @ long all-night counting session. : — ARMY OF POLICE TO WATCH VOTERS AT PRIMARIES, A stranger in New York would be Justified in imagining that prepara- tions for putting down city-wide riots and warfare were under way at Police Headquarters to-day. The entire Police Department was mobilized for special | service. The streets about Headquar- ters were jammed with the automobile: of the Commissioner, the Deputy Com. missioners and Inspectors. Chief In- spector Schmittberger hurried hither and yon, shooting out orders like a Germgn siege gun. However, impending bloodshed and Pillage had no part in these activities, They represented the police of the erty of New York getting ready to cope with the emergency presented by 600 - 000 enrolled voters going to the polls and voting in a primary elctlon. ————____. CANADIAN UNIVERSITY | ra RAISING A REGIMENT | TO FIGHT GERMANY. | == MONTREAL, Sept. 28.—Two hundred graduates and undergraduates of McG. 1 University and a number of professors |have Joined the regiment that the Milit Department has authorized the uni- yersity to raise elther as a single unit or a part of a Canadian university regi- ment for home or foreign service. UGHT PRIMARY VTE PLE ARMY GUARDS POLLS WHEN OPENED (Continued from First Page.) fo the result. All three candidates are making claims of success. | In the contest for United States) Senator there is another three-cor- | nered contest between James W./| Wardsworth jr. Congressman Wiil- | jam M. Calder and David Jayne Hill. The Republican organization mi-| chine ts backing District-Attorney | Whitman for Governor and Mr. Wads- worth for Senator, Robert Emmett, thirty-five, a stone- cuttert, of No, 33 Fifth street, was arrested to-day in front of No. 161 Bowery, the headquarters of Hatry Perry, who is contesting the leadership of the Third Assembly District with Patrick H. Sullivan. He is charged with conspiracy and was arersted on| @ warrant secured from Magistrate Campbell by Percival O. Howarth of the Good Government Society. Howarth alleges that he heard Em-; mett boast that he would lead a band of men to polling places in the dis-| trict, steal and then stuff the ballot boxes. Counting the ballots to-night will T 75c Women’s N Guimpes. i 95c Children’s Size 81 by ' | Bon Stern Brothers 42nd and 43rd Streets, West of FAA Avenue. Maillard Luncheon and Tea Room on Fifth Floor. E following items have been selected from our regular stock and_ will offered To-morrow, on the Main Floor Tables, at decisive price reductions. Moire and Taffeta Ribbon, at 15c a yard; Value 24c In black, white and colors; five inches wide. Pique and Organdie Collar and Cuff Sets, Vestees and Women’s and Misses’ Blouses at $2.95; Value $5.00 Made of Chiffon or Messaline, in black or suit shades, also French Organdgie and Batiste. 75c Children’s Rompers at 39c Of gingham, seersucker and chambray; sizes 1}4 to 5 yrs. Made of lawn, trimmed with embroidery; sizes 1.to 5 yrs. Muslin Sheets at 59c each $3.00 Women’s Hand Bags, $1.75 Of Pin Seal or Moire, fitted with purse and mirror. Bon Baskets at 55c and 75c Values 85c and $1.10 Quadruple plated, decorated with china roses. be once. eckwear at 45c man of Waterloo, I Fielder of Dupre, 8. and six other passenge's werp injured, 226 Fifth Ave., N, Y- “Storm Hero” mevsete | Umbrella tr a of other stor ‘and throughout jer Bros. 4 Co., HEN you “‘shop’’ you do it with one of these two objects: Tosee what is new andwhat may happen to appeal to you. Or to make a business-like comparison of styles and fab- tics—and prices. Very well; you will always find at Best’s the new things, and the first principle of the Best store service is to make the seeking as agreeable to.. you as the finding. Or if your shopping day is to be strictly business your comparisons are sure to show you (maybe much to your sur- prise) that no other prices are shaded under Best’s prices. And you can shop all day every day for a week, uptown, downtown, or crosstown, and never better Best’s prices FAA Avenue, Weet Side, Corner of ath Stred 4d Ni were killed | when the Spiesge. Geget ear here. to-day, $1 $10 eiti he ket ‘Great unt ‘ork,. Mfre. ois Dresses: at 65c 90 inches, i a ures MENTHR leety “with i$ Ol of FOUN ai 4 ia, "i Inet ‘and ae