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

~y Attacks in the region of lower Threniava whore a battalion of the Thirty-First Honveds was captured. ay ok tar occupied @ ily fortified tion on the left bank of the Raba. ' wrorrbe Ranriose seaveersiy defended Bochnia, but {t wae taken at the bayonet point, 2,000 prisoners and guns being captured. “The enemy in retreating in great disorder toward Oracow, ‘Vigorously pursued.” Russian and French Attacks Repulsed, the Berlin Report BERLIN, (Via London,) Nov. 28. (Associated Press).—The German + War Office gave out an announcement this afternoon as follows: “Im the western arena of the war the situation to-day fe unchenged French attacks in the Argonne Forest have been repulsed, Im the forest Rerthwest of Apremont, and in the Voages we ocoupied some French . trenches after an obstinate resistance . “Only unimportant engagements are reported from Bast Prussia. At *Lewics our troops have recommenced their attacks and the aghting cvatinues. “Heavy Russian attacks in the @lstrict to the ‘west of Mowe asd Re dom wete repelled. “In Gouthern Poland there has been no change.” 7 BERLIN (via wireless to London), Nov. 28 (United Press).—OMelel . Yeports from Vienna to-day state that fighting on the Polish front during ‘ Yesterday was comparatively quiet. “Ip Western Galicia and the Carpathians there has been no decisive ‘Vistory,” the statement asserts. AMBTERDAM, Nov. 28 [United Press].—“All ta going well. Have no enatety,” 1s the message received from the besieged fortress of Preemyel, feports from Vienna state to-day. .A German Taube carried post cards Searing the message from Preemyel to the nearest field Post Offies in Galt- ‘ga, Crom which they were mailed. A a German Artillery Less Active, ; Says the War Office in Paris PARI, Nov. 28 (Associated Press).—The French War Office gave out _ ,0& CMictal communication this afternoon as follows: BY, “Im Belgium the artillery exchanges were continued during the éay of © Mev. 27 without any particular incident. The heavy German artillery | Ghpwed less activity. There was but one attack of infantry, to the south of ‘Ypres, which'was repulsed by our troops. “Teward the evening our artillery brought down a German bipl eaprying three aviators. One of the men was killed and the other two were wade prisoners. “In the region of Arras and further to the south there bas been no change. The day passed very quietly in the region of the Al In Cham- our heavy artillery infilcted serious losses on the ry of the ' ay ci “From the Argonne to the Vosges there is nothing to report.” British War Fleet Shells ; Germans on the Coast Again AMSTERDAM (via London) Nov. 28 (Associated Press).—A telegram te the Niewe Rotterdameche Courant from Oostburg, Holland, states that geenés of o violent cannon fire were again audible Friday in a southerly ‘The sound, the telegram cays, indicates that the British feet was again -Qembarding the coast. r LONDON, Nov. 98 (United Press).—The Germans are withdrawing from the Belgian coast and concentrating at Antwerp, according jo a Rot- terdam despatch to the Daily Mall to-day. "Weary gun fire was heard at Zeebrugge Friday afternoon, the despatch ‘The allied warahipe were apparently again bombarding the German base | Wrench and British aeroplanes are now encircling Flanders with {m- |“ penity. The German guns especially designed for attacks upon afroraft been unabe to hit the allied’fters. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 38 (United ).—Numerous houses in Dunkirs jRave been damaged by bombs dro} from German aeroplanes, it is re- “ported here to-day. One man has been struck by @ bomb. Several Taubes ‘are reported to have fown over the city within the past few days. WILSON HOLDS STAND (NEW YORK BANKS SHOW = . OW WOMAN SUFFRAGE) INCREASES DURING WEEK © "President Repeats That State, Not Loans Go Up $8,000,000 and Demand Deposits Are $15,000,000 More. New York banks in their weekly statement to-day showed further in- jorease of nearly $8,000,000 in loans and ‘an increase of $16,000,000 in demand deposits. Their resources continue to ts GERMAN EMPRESS ; VISITS AMERICAN D SOLDIER SPIES RELIEF KITCHEN. ARE UNCOVERED IN KITCHENER’S ARMY. } expected to change his ee again in to-day’s letter, BERLIN (via London), Nov. 38.—Em- of letters rela’ to the move- movements of the were possession. im their ANY OFFICIALLY “DENIES THAT DIXMUDE "WAS BEEN RECAPTURED, ‘The Em; Protha, "ahe wes by vou Ameri ines fac dent of the lean Coramerce. TURKEY TELLS U. S, CONSULATES WILL hurl itesif tpon the automobiles and B EVE ", NQ@ WORLD, bar, Nov: GERMAN PLANES FRENCH TROOPS IN TRENCHES DURING LULL IN FIGHTING HOLY WAR STARTS, MRS. SIEGEL WINS: RUKED BY DARING | FEAT OF FRENG Dragoons Attack Teutons Within Enemy’s Lines-One Platoon Annihilated. SURPRISE BUT PARTIAL. Destroy Flying Machines and Motor Convoy With Axes. PARIM, Nov. 38 (Associated Press). | —The French War Office supple- Mented ite oMecial statement to-day! “The leutenant decided upon an im- mediate attack. It was then 2.90 A. M. It was proposed that two platoons on foot should approach as near as pos- sible to the convoy and fire three shots. A mounted platoon, profiting by the consequent disorder, would “The two platoons on foot succeeded in approaching to within forty metres of the automobiles, and the challenge nal for opening fire. Goarcely had the Gre ceased than the lieutenant ia charged at @ gallop at the head of was ellent, the willed at their i z darled them- TREE hi aa RUSSIA REPORTS SINKING OF TWO GERMAN WARSHIPS Battleship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Said tol? Have Been Torpedoed; Cruiser Hertha Hits Mine. E CHRISTIANS ARE SUIT FOR DIVORCE -SUANATERZEROM| SECRET REPORT I turned to answer him and he must have seen the look in my face, be- cause he became confused and etarted away. An hour later my father lay dead in the street. GON WAS MARKED FOR AS6A8- SINATION, TOO. “It was intended that I should be killed, too, and it was just fate that spared me. If I had been shot down with him it would have been all that our opponents could have desired. spared and 1 shall keep up the busi- ness and the fight too until I have won or been done a' with, I feel that my father would want the fight PARIS, Nov. 28 (United Press)—A Petrograd despatch to the Matin|to go on just the same as If he were of the German seatinel was the aig-| to-day declares a German cruiser, believed to be the Hertha, has been sunk! here, and It \s up to me now to con- by @ mine near Libau, i The despatch also carries an unconfirmed report that the battleship command of the mounted platoon | raiser Wilhelm der Grosse has been torpedoed and eunk in the Daltic. Tho Hertha is a protected cruiser with « displacement of 5,569 tons. She wag used as @ training ship, having been reconstructed ia 1907, The Hertha carried two eightinch guns, az five-lach, oigt three-inch, ten one-pounders and four machine guns. She has three torpedo tubes. ‘The battleship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse fs also an old vee She was built in 1901 and reconstructedyin 1907. The arma ment of the Kaiser Wilhelm consisted of four ninedach guns, four five-inch in casemates, making @ total of eight; twelve three- inoh and five torpedo tubes. “HUDSON DUSTER” GANGSTERS BLAMED FOR BAFF'S DEATH (Continued from First Page.) ‘This violence bas been maintained to the present. “Th ‘Hudson Dusters,’ a gang whi ves in Hoboken or its neigh- borhood, and ‘works’ in this city, were employed by oné"Yction in the mar- ket, and the ‘Gophers,’ a New York ,|gang, were employed by the other. Only about two months ago the two gangs clashed ta West Fourteenth treet, when one came out to ‘get’ some one, and the other came to pro- tect him. Three members of the ‘Dusters,’ including @ fellow named Moore, who led them, were sent to jentiary by Judge Rosalsky. 1D “GOPHER” MAN IN THE TOMBS. “Before the men were sentenced they stabbed a ‘Gopher’ man in the Tombs. The ‘Hudson Dusters’ and STAI . | the ‘Gophers’ should have been wiped y hid three days lived within t! lines. ir deliverance ame when a division of French in- victorious over the enemy, jed Into the town.” i FRENCH GENERAL’S WIFE TAKEN AS SPY; en, this nt ina village, 6 out by the police long ago.” Assistant District Attorney De Ford, who prosecuted the members of the poultry combination and obtained their conviction before Judge Rosal- sky, said to-day: “It Is not my belief that the com- bination against which Baff fought had anything to do with the murder. All that Raff could have done to the members of the combination had been dor His murder would not have benefited them and might have stim- ulated public sentiment strongly against them, especially as the final argument in their case is now before the Court of Appeals.” ‘The representative of a livestock trade paper, who was in the Criminal Courts Building to-day, sald that Al- bert T. Pearson, agent of Western chicken growers, who threw his lot with Baff, had received warning day or two before the murder that fhe, too, was marked for death, “I saw Pearson yesterday,” sald this representative, “and we walked to- gether from his office. He, by the way, walked in the middle of the street, because he doesn't know when an at- tack is going to be made upon him, warn you in time that they are gun- ning for you. I advise you to look out.’ “The man didn't say who ‘they’ were, but I guess Pearson knew what he meant.” POLICE SEEK CLUE TO Assas- SAGINS' CAR. At Police Headquarters Inspector Faurat said to-day that promising results were expected to Milow the receipt of @ good clue as to the auto- mobile in which the two murderers of Baff made their escape, and as to the chauffeur who piloted them away from the acene of the crime. Beyond saying that he hed detectives work- ing on this new end of the mystery, the Inspector gave no hint as to its character. 4 number of merchants from the West Washington Market voluntarily visited Faurot to-day. Some of the helpera in the chicken stalis there came to headquarters under the escort of detectives, None was uniter arrest; all were simply brought to hegdquarters to tell what they knew about the alleged reign of terror en- forced by the “ring” at the market. It was known that from both classes of witnesses Faurot gleaned some val- uable contributory evidence. On information which appeared re- Nable the inspector sent detectives to Brownsville to-day to look up eome of the union chicken handlers known to live there, Others were working with the co-operation of Chief of Police Hayes of Hoboken in the ratlroad yards across the river. Harry Baff ts positive of the identity of at least two of the men responsible for the murder of his father. He sold this to an Evening World reporter last night: “I don't pretend to know the two deeply concerned in it.” Gince the assassination of Tuesday evening Baff has gone to live with his mother in his father’s late residence, No. 76 West One Hunéred tinue it.” When young Baff came out Into the areaway of his father’s house last night in answer to the reporter's ring, he came with four of his friends, his bodyguard, close about him, One of them kept a watchful eye up and Gown the etreet. “You will understand,” he eald later with a smile, “that I cannot Delp being suspicious of everyone, I realize my position and I must be on my guard. There have been eo many threats against me and my father ‘and eo many acts of violence that I must be careful #o that the work can be kept up. GANG OF RETAILERS, NOT “TRUST,” BLAMED. “A great deal has been sald about the ‘poultry trust’ in connection with the death of my father, but I don’t believe the ‘trust’ bad anything to do with it. The crime was instigated by a gang of reta!l buyers, and they'll get me if they can when the present trouble quiets down a little, If it ever does. I was to bave been put away with my father; there were two gun- men on the job that evening, one for each of us, I think. And whether they get me or not, I am eure that others have been picked out. Albert T. Pearson, who came East as repre- sentative of a lot of Western chicken raisers and went in! my father, is one of tsy to get. They m get bim and they'll make another, AFRAID TO 60 HOME, ASKS FOR JAIL TERM Bronx Man, Locked Up at Own Request, Has Roll but Doesn't Pay $2 Fine. Herman W. Wabretein of No. 1908 Brook Avenue, the Bronx, was brought before Magistrate Campbell in the Morrisania Court to-day after he had been locked up last night at his own insistence in the Morrisania jon. ‘Please send me to jail,” he asked Magistrate Campbell. “What is the matter?” asked the Magistrate, looking over his prosper- ous air and good clothes. “You don’t look like a man out of @ job and in “Tm not,” seid Wabretein. “I'm making $60 a week as « designer. But Outbreaks Follow Posting of Proclamation Against Ameri- can Churches and Clubs. PETROGRAD (via London), Nov. 28 [Associated Press).—A despatch re- celved here from Odessa describes an outbreak of fanatical rioting in erze- rum. Following the posting of a proclam- ation In that Turkish city calling the Mohammedans to a holy war, all the Armenian clubs, churches dnd schools were demolished by a mob. Four Ar- menians, including one woman, were killed on the street. AMSTERDAM (via London), Nov. 28 =(Associated = Press).—Actording | to a Berlin message to the Telegraaf, Cairo reporte that 76,000 Turkish troops, under Izset Pasba, are marching against the Sues Canal. ‘This army includes 10, Bedouins with 600 camels, The reports also etate that the Turks have bullt a field ratlway to the kel oasis. ‘The road to the Sues Canal, accord- ing to the despatch, ts barricaded by the British with a Jong line: of Referee Quietly Files Recom- mendation Favoring Com victed Banker’s Wife. Following three brief and sesret hearings, Supreme Court Referee Maurice Detohes, late yesterday Roon, secretly filed his report ia the | County Clerk's office, recommending that a decred of absolute divorce be eranted Mre. Marte Vaughn Siegel from Henry Siegel, the convieted de- partment store head and banker. ‘While Siegel was in court up-State, his counsel, Lemuel BE. Quigg, was present at the referee's hearing here and contested every step of the di- voree proceedings. Mrs. Siegel named three cores- pondents—a Mrs. Smith, a Mre. Bady and an unidentified woman, but it could not be learned to-day which one of the three figured in the hearings. Late yesterday afternoon Referee his recommendations and sent them by an attorney, connected with Roek- wood & Haldane, Mrs. Siegel's coun- sel, to the County Clerk's office. There all the other papers in the case were collected and, with the referee's re- \ce-| port and the stenographer’s minutes, eadquarters of the the Caucasus as “An important engagement occurred Nov. 27 with a Turkish column to the ir sections been engage- ments of only minor importance. BOSS MURPHY BACK; SAYS BETTER TIMES ARE COMING SOON Also Brings Home Fine Coat of : Tan, Acquired Playing Golf. Charles F. Murphy arrived with his wife and daughter at 1 o'clock this afternoon from Hot Springs, Va, where be bas been spending a va- cation since a few days after the election. He gained twelve pounds in weight during his stay at the resort and has a fine coat of tan on his ruddy features. Tom Smith, Secre- tary of Tammany Hall, met bim at the Pennsylvania station. “T hada fine Ing,” sald Mr. Mur- Phy, “devoting most of my time to playing golf, although I motored con- siderably. Senator-elect Oscar Un- Gerwood of Alabama was my golfing opponent in @ majority of my rounds | "° of the links, and we play abeut ea even up game.” “You have been quoted,” a roeree of Dusl- ” gala Mr. Murphy. informed bim, “as a prophet rity.” “T bave kept track of affairs through the newspapers and by conversations from all the coun- SHOWER BATH IN NEW PRENDERGAST OFFICES Circassian Walnut and Mahogany Adorn Sumptuous Sulte of Comptroller. A shower bath for his exclusive use, a soundproof.marble-fiocored re- ception room, done in white, end other room wainscoted with Circas- sion walnut and solid mahogany, are ome of the special features’ of Comptroller William A. Prendergast’s new suite @f offices in the Municipal Building, which wit! cost between §5,- 000 and $10,000 more thas any other departmental suite in the building, bapkers. MMynen Herman A. Mets was Comp- troller, it was explained in Comptrotice Sreadertes ot tnconventechiy: cenaleg his clothes in his room will hang his evening oye d wi int which he wit! ip after a refreshing were placed under sea! in a safe in County Clerk Schi 8 private of- fice. The attorney even wanted to put red sealing wax on the papers. In Part LI. of the Supreme Court, on Monday, Mrs. Siegel will ast Fte- tice Guy to confirm the referee's re port and award her a decree. Just why absolute secrecy was Ge wired is not known, but the lawyer re- quested the calendar office attaches to keep all mention that the case would be on Monday's calendar out of the Law Journal, the official publica- tiqn of the Supreme Court. He was told this could not be done. her daughter, the Countess Dentice éi Frasso of Italy, to file the diverce suit. She had been separated for eev- eral years from Siegel, but did net begin her action until after bis enterprises had gone to the wall. also filed two s.::s against her m0. . Following the commencement e@ suit, Mrs, Siegel issued a trom her apartment in the @t. in which she charged her with having squandered a great of money on other women. oe ‘Wileen Back in Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. ‘Wilson returned here earty to-day ta HELP WANTED—MALE, Hee sue Goodby to Deiches reached his decision, drafted © 7 ; the Pessimist #