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in Beigium. Several German trenches ‘and a num- ber of prisoners were captured, and substantial was made." {Wytecheete is five miles south of Ypres, Beigium, while Hollebeke ce about three miles northeast of Wytscharte, Conec- quently the line referred to in the foregoing de apatch ts about Arce miica long. Panis, Dec. 16 se Press).—Tho French War Office gave out yas official announcement in Paris this afternoon as follows “Between tho sea and the Lys the English have occupied o * forest west of Wytschame, Tho ground gained yesterday by a ow woage tees the Ypres Cana! and to the west of Hollebeke alt bas bees retained in spite of @ vigorous counter-attack ou the part bs 3 of the enemy.” og “Prom the Belgian frontier to the Bomme there is nothing to ne report. From Somme to the’ A ne there has been intermit- teat valasoating, Bxoeptiag in tne resin of Crouy this artillery fighting bas not deen epirited. Ia the Argonne we have made some progress and retained the advances made by u preceding days. “In the Vosges the raliroad station of 8t. Ivonard, to the south ‘of Bt. Die, bas been violently bombarded by the Germans from « considerable distance. “ip Alsace there hes been much activity on the part of the enemy's artillery, with the exception of before Btolndach, where an ettack by German infantrymen, coming from Uffholts, was suc- eeesful tm gaining @ foothold. We have everywhere :otalned the pesitions wen previously by us.” Submarine B-11 Passed Ten Forts In Her Dive Under Turkish Mines ATHENS, Dec. 16 (United Preea).—A semiofficial message from Asie Minor, confirms the report of the sinking of the ‘Turkish battleship Messudiyeh by the British submarine B-11 and de- tack took place opposite the Nagara-Houron defenses on the My the Messudiyeh at this point moans that, tn addition to dive under five rows of mines, the B-11 passed ten rabip. ite encape the submarine was under fire from those forts ae the fire from destroyers which went in pursuit IN TRENCHES [BERLIN ADMITS TOGONGERTS) GERMAN RETREAT | eal MILES AWAY} NORTHOF WARSAW of the War Shown by Col. Swinton in Latest Eye-Witness Story. Petrograd, Victory, tacks in Reporting the Night At- Were Repulsed. Says " LONDON, Dec. 15.—Britioh soldiers Mow giving a great deal of time making their trenches com- for the winter, and by the /014 of field telephones the men in the trenches are able to listen to GFamepbone concerts. __& repert from Col. Swinton, the gt eye-witness as the front, Dee, 10 and issued by the War BERLIN (via Landon) Dec, 16 [Ansoclated Preas].—A retreat of the! German forces which attempted to! atrike at Waraaw from the north wan acknowledged In an official communt- cation given out to-day at army headquarters, ‘The wtatement follows: “The German column which had advanced from Soldau, Kast Prus- | sla, by way of Miawa, in tho di- rection of Clechanow has had to reoceupy ite old positions owing to the numerical superiority of omy lwowhere in Poland nothing of material importance has hap- pened. Unfavorable weather ts Influencing our operationa. PETROGRAD, via London, Deo. 15 (Ansociated Pron) “Much time has been spent recently ‘draining, heating and generally im- Proving conditions tn the trenches in Preparation for the winter campaign,’ Gwinton states. “An instance of ‘Up-to-dateness of the men is ‘Dy the fact that in some of the trenches soldiers listen by te | World, ALLU.S.ARMY CAN SIT IN YALE BOWL, | ASSER Former W. 36-Hour haust WOOD U Military Experts and Mayor Mitchel Talk at Merchants’ Peace Major Gen will Members’ Speaking anid ive leasonn « should bece nens-Hke way our Gi of de ne Secretary Si | adoption of th | tary training combined with the pub- chook; as is alto taining continued Our 4 bent, hy tied the House of showing that hands of the houses, every’ wary to equip and that the artillery amm , “dince that appropriatio: have now 860 half days! would tuke o Secretary of War Honry L. Hreed, Chairman of the that the business men of this coun- try, having be vernment in meeting problems and with strength of our defenses, sident Wilson's Id army of citizens trained in arms. He “Our new Springfield te the best small arm In the hands of any army. but In the winter of 1912-1918, 1 laid before the Military Committee of number of field guns in our possession in the hands of the regulars, in the about one-half of the number neceas- sexned would serve those guns, at th rato with which field guns used up Ammunition in the battle af Mukden, Just one-half of one day. been somewhat improved by increaned to serve them about one and one- “It sooms to me It would require Very disordered imagination to spell ‘militarism’ out of the modest sug- gestions of our military advisers. It TS STIMSON ar Secretary Says 3attle Would Ex- U. S. Shells, RG RESERVE Luncheon, Leonard Wood, former Stimson and Mayor John Purroy Mitchel wore the prin peakers at the Mor- ation Pere) Tnwurance ra 1,500 members and at the Hotel Astor. nell, it in was ening th ly proper fore them the imprea- of the Kuropean Was, acquainted in a busl- with the policies of u actual timson advocated the i Swiss system of mill- urged by The Evening prding & means for at- | of an! 4 gun ie as good as the time to discuss portune, Representatives facts At that time the total militia, in our atore- where— was but 700, was w glaring fau how my of 600,000 men, total amount of field junition which we pos- date the situation bas I am Informed we guns aod ammunition fever dream to a intitarism, a thoroughly manned and! nit. we had faile to ren «and he implo together to push through ch Dill this year ponserecen alle dash STOCKS DROP FOUR POINTS; BEARS BEAT DOWN MANY PRICES (Continued from First Page.) @'NT NEWS SERVICE HOBSON NAMES JAPAN AS NATION WITH WHICH U. §. WAS NEAR WAR Conflict Averted Because We Were Ready to Give Up Philippines. ' but the} 11," he said. d attention WASHINGTON, — Dex War with Japan May last ear was avoided only because Japan beleved the United States was prepared soon to give up the Philippine Islands, Representative Jlobson declared to- 15 in y ‘German frontal | ; (ir ssion In Mr, Gare day. Explaining his statement of ue concerts el6Bt} attacks on tho Russian line to thal care ems catitne drigme ces Sa yesterday before the Naval Com- } Continuing, Col. Swinton said the| Vet Of Warsaw under cover of night to our regulars, a number but twice| Without artificial support, atthough| mittee that the United States was ‘esee vite te mak-| YCT* Succeasfully repulsed by ‘the | ze of New York's police force, | Cen! ny down from the top. preparing for a two year slege of poh argp tg yee Deo. % Russlans, according to trustworthy! ven when #o increased the wbole| With all stocks thrown on the floor | Corr Kidor Island in the Philippines \avgped Information reaching — Petroarad| mobile army of the forty-eight United | f the Stock Exchange this morning| in May, 1918, Hobson to-day said: from the front to-day. At many] states could be seated in the Yale| 4nd trading restricted only by a fixed} “it is true that our eunners, ex- points alo the front the Russians! Bowl at New D and still leave| Minimum price, there ensued a day of} pecting a Japanese attack, slept by Despite | *Uoceedod In capturing Inolated Ger-| nearly a third of the seate vacant! exciting buying and selling. At theltheir guns when the California Land man positions, “German attacks wore answered by Russian counterattacks, in which It {s said that several hundred prison- era and one fleld battery were cap- tured by the Russinns, During the laat three days of Aghting eight ma- chine guns, two batterioa of fielt| guna and 4,000 prisoners Lave beon taken Except for the night attackn of the Germans, thore has beon little hoavy fighting tn Poland during the last twenty-four hours. According to the Army Measenger, the German attacks along the Kast Prussian front, which were conducted simultaneously with their offensive in Poland, fated on account of for- midable fortifications which the Rus- ADIAN SHIP ON WAR SERVICE IS BLOWN UP BY MINE Carrying a Crew of Thirty Men, Lost in the Atlantic. Paralleling the German lit The correspondent of the Bourao Gazette in Tif_ls states that Gen, San- dere Pasha, the German military of- ficer in command of Turkish troops, on arriving at Erzerum ordered the German engineers to blow up all roads and mountain passes leading from Hassan Kala to Erserum. Hassan Kala lies on the direct line of the Russian movement against Erzerum. It te eighteen miles cast of that city and twelve miles west of the main Russian position at Kepri Kel. The Army Messenger states that the Aus army in Galicia MONTREAL, Deo, 15.—Admission yao made by Government officials to- that the Canadian Government Sharon has been lost some in the Atlantic, probably with {i on board. It ts delieved she struck mine off the north cosst of Ireland. ‘The Sharon had been used up to the of the war as a supply ship, pocts that | CYCLE CHAMPIONS KILLED IN BATTLES FIGHTING FOR ALLIES, DUNKIRK, France, Dec. 15.—Gabriol Poulain, who won the world's profs sional bicycle sprint championship in 1905, and O. Lapise, an Olympic games from her since « brief wireless ‘wae sent trom off Newfound. “Remember eoldier who hi danger of ‘mn! ed to the oly own.” followed Mr “In war, on of ali games, t oum which is not 4 the facta. ‘Th this count their people of us or near past the ninety or army more so than penineula in around him, hani efficient from army, sufficie of the 4 sons fo Hawaiian Pacific, an holding the troopa for from time to t It in a fine nen cham} and widely know rot Stonal rider have been ki Ktiled ie, ‘sotion, | those reported tured by th: Germans are Svounalor, 6 famous ron. “Gen. Wood two weeks sauiltionen Oy in ven our Anglo-Saxon race it is not the the contrary it is tho merchant, the capitalist, the politician who have! made the war, and the soldier who has made the peace. where by law and by Wadition the soldier in kept so rigidly subordinat- Major Goner Stimson, said In part @ constant state of pr Who recommend we turn the youth pared are (he unconseio hank God, far aa l go, han in view no immedia an people and say fre Just as intelligent « jron under his feet Here in my fleet.’ ¢ vou Kave him twenty have # thoroughly By_ tha’ Islands, use in the Unit opening the football field. that in the history of as made the wars; on There is no Hitarlam’ io a country dred b. Mowuthority ae in our, back and forth ‘at Leonard Wood, who © of the most difficult he American people aa- cific im any ay fake humanitarians of to battlefields unpr "T tie exereines, were teariug al arc ‘shies was jcent iamp o we nee y no war in front And this talk, the experience These gentlemen who turn one hundred million ‘Here tiny 1 no 4 man, standing on a the Great Lakes, and timber al! who would turn ix over land and forest during the day the line. ton: It would | gcores. nd yes be) Tement y stand tittars m1 & millti nt for th re work T mean garri- Philippines and the f the Union Central, | European 1, und Bie States time ould have | We nelal Al (vantage, un- t lag, for man to join | made a plea that the nye to etic ee \ tee, Ase my Exchange resembled a Mass plays were made Around the posts of leading specu- lative stocks and crowds of brokers tore at cach other in furlous struggle to make their trades, United States Steel common was the centre of greatest activity. ‘ers swarmed around post No. 1, where Steel is located, tho first five miautes they swayed clawing at bulls, sellers struggling to reach buyers and ail shouting at the limit of thelr lung capacity. | Nearby were the posts of Union Pa- and Canadian justitied by jemaller groups of brokers were in- dulging tn frantic voval and gymna: All wround the floor the layers of (opposing factlona of bulis aud bears! Agriculture i blander arket for the inno- | tae titel professionals were in (ue saddi swung back and forwa! At the buying bulls, elated with thoir suo- cease of yesterday, nade another dasn and pushed quotations up all along They did not stop at trac but added full points to m The stocks that were the favorites , ke Reading and Coppoi neglected for the new issuss Paint! that were thrown open for trading Melent | to-day, such as United Btates Steel, Pacific, Canadian Great Northern Preferred, New York a. financiers and securely are supposed to own large blocks these stocks and there was question bow great might be the rush to sell. ‘But Europe did not out myoh of a behind that a well organised reserve, | igure in the session, complete possesion of t! and fought out the contest thal: Consequently we have, way and with their own money. | ad of the menace of forelan dum: wae between the buile a New! York. the longe and Law troubles were at thelr height, in further true that we had 110,000 there.” He added that preparations were made to move the Philippine capital to the island in case of trouble, “L believe that war with Japan was avoided,” he sald, “only because of! Japan's hope that we were soon gu ing to give up the Islands and the fold mass, bears | would obtain poasession of thom in Two hun. id for some way, Seaaeiecieeiiakeriems YEAR'S FARM CROPS | WORTH $4,945,852,000. fie, where | Department Reports 300,782,000 Acres Cultivated— Decrease in Value, \VASHINGTON, i.—Farmers of the United States produced crops | worth $4,945,852,000 this year, from 200,782,000 acres cultivated, as com- pared with $4,966,497,000 last year and 767,458,000 In 1912, ‘This “prosperity” statement wan iesued to-day by the Department of Agricultura with the final crop estimates of 1914, The value of each crop follow: eb oluer uke via biker, ‘he Dec. wheat, 680,000; oate, $409, - 481,000; barley, $195,908,000; rye, $37,- § 000; flax. . $21,880,000; po- aweet Pacific, and Anaconda, | § investors atly Parishes 100k Loakewits, left Mee! atone by her mother In Mat on the and floor of the tenement at No. 804 Hiedford Avenue, Willian ot too near the kite fier clothing on re, apeq- Fr tons of provisions quickly assembled | ¢ |KAISERIN GIVING OUT IRON CROSSES. MINES THAT FLOATED TO DUTCH COAST NOT GERMAN, SAYS BERLIN. | HERLIN via THE HAGUE, Dee rose) It ix stated in offictal ye straneta ye besinn the war ha German rain AM were I ne it te stated, ¢ eight Duteh and. four French mine LECTURE FUND CUT VETOED BY MAYOR: URGES AN INQUIRY Arbitrarily to Reduce Appropri- ation by Half Menaces Edu- cational Work, He Says. Mayor Mitchel this afternoon vetoed the action of the Board of Aldermen in cutting the annual appropriation {for free public school lectures, es- tablished through The Evening World, from $148,000 to $74,000, “Arbitrarily to cut in half the pro- vision for this education—a work now of twenty-five years’ standing,” writes the Mayor, “will be hostile to the building up of a wider use of our great educational plant and a closer relation between the people of the city and their schools, which are es- sential In a sound educational sys- tem." The Mayor's message on the free Hlecture reduction follows: | “I return disapproved the reduc- tions relating to the public lectures siven by the Board of Kducation for the benefit of the people of the city, When the Chairman of your Finance iCommittee, prior to action by your | Board, discussed with me a reduc- jtion in this appropriation, I was of the opinion it might be made with- out injury to tho educational work of the city, Since then further con- sideration of the matter and the ar- suments presented have led me to change my opinion. “You Lave practically cut in half the allowance of $148,040 for this pur- although this allowance is $6,600 less than the appropriation for the present y Without more co! | | i] | It; eratic to this question, and with ul investigation of just to w nt, If at all, these lectures insufficient value to Jastify the um ublic funds and should, therefore, | dispensed with, [ regard it justifiable to make so radical a re- | duction as you have v 1 would welcome a thorough review of the public lecture system and a careful analysis of its benetits, suggest for tts it vision he found nec The Jon th It would require a two-thrida vote ide his action, It is understor idermen will not attempt to do = —--— - — - |PROTEST AT SOCIETY | WOMEN AS NURSES IN | ENGLISH WAR HOSPITALS. LONDON, Dee. protest from the National Council of Trained Nurses that incompeten: women are serving at the front and | in hospitals, Lord Kitchner, the War Asn result of a for a detailed report. The press some time ago directed attention to the fact that m: either we "hy clamoring | been sald that meagre training hardly been beneficial to the woun —————>_—_—_ SOLDIERS REPORTED SLAIN FOR REFUSING TO FIGHT RUSSIANS, Deo, SARGANS = Switaerland, 18.— | Frequent revolte and the execution of | Bohemian and Moravian aoldiers refus- ling to fight nenivet the Russtans and Servians are repovted here, ent Instance 14 reperted In whien lion of the Twenty-Lighth Bo- an Keglinont waa ordeted to pre: t alos wh 1 | Secretary, has called on the Couneil | ZERO WEATHER | NEAR; THOUSANDS | of City Lodging House. Poor—Storm |SHIPPING IN DANGER.| |Weather Forecaster Sees No Relief in Sight—Recreation Pier Crowded. A sudden and penetrating cold | Wave, the worst of the season, gripped New York to-day and threatened to jincrease fn fntensity before uight | In twenty-four hours the temperature fell thirty-five degrees, end weather man was unwilling to pre- dict how much lower than 12 degrees the mark at 7 A, M.—tho mercury would go, Zero weather may come within the next forty. it will be perfectly s: e to get out the official forecast ts to-day and to-morrow.” The effect of the cold was Imme- diately felt by the Munleipal Lodstug Houre and the charitabie org: tions, The lodging house was to capacity and the overflow sent to the recreation pier at Twenty-fourth Street. Before morn- ing more than 1,500 had applied, among them thirty-seven women and twelve childrev. One thousand wore accommodated In the lodging house and 500 on the pier, where several big stoves were kept going and heavy blankets were furnished the appli- cants. The Bowery Mission, at Ne. 2%, ac- commodated 1,200 who were in the bread Ine, and the Fleischmann tine contained 400; there were 75 at the Holy Name Mission, at No, $19 How. ery; 480 at the Salvation Army fotel, at the Salvation Army Women's Shelter, at No, 243 Bowery, and 150 at the Salvation Army Dry Dock Ho- tel, No, 118 Avenue D, In the Salvation Army refuges both food and lodging wero furnished the unfortunates. William A, Whit nizn= tiled was East Ing, Superinten sant NE OF oun MANY BRI Ges of the Talif‘or "a, toothe up in Special Feature IN BREAD LINE | Litter Winds Add to Suffering ’ the| ight hours, and| your skates and have them ready, for} “fair and cold] It Is Indeed difficult holh : Yo ‘the millions. o AN BeRory FILCED "CONFECTION . of the Muntelpal Lidging ee House, aalé one reason there was such a rush was | the suddenness of the cold, Sunday hight the temperature wes $3 degrees, and at the corresponding hour lest night dt was below 20, and stiil falling, ‘The average for previous winters at the lodging house has been abont 06 Many ships were reported battling or life wud harbor off the Atlantie coast, and veasela were reported points. Hundreds the Atlantic City saw the fishing emaok Mea- bela Ly with a crew of five, go ayround, The men refused to leave when coast guards offered them help, and this morning they were still Bep- ing to get the boat off, At Tuckerneck Shoal, near Vineyard ate n, Mass, the six-masted echoomer M. Lawrence, aground for sine s, 1s being pounded to pieces, but her crew {s still sticking to her. The 12 degrees of early morning was four degrees colder than the previous coldest day of the season, Nov, 24, There was an additional bite in a stiff westerly wind. Up-State a white Christmas seems to be assured, even should there be a big thaw, From one to two feet ef snow is reported !n many places, ‘Three families, roused by potice- men, took their clothes in their hands and fled from the upper floors of No, 954 Manhattan Avenue, Hrooklya, ‘early to-day, while Meyer Fox's taller shop, on the ground floor of the four- story building, was burning. The fire was discovered by Poltce- man Albert Bruder of the Greenpoint station. Other policemen aided him in waking the tenants, The famity of Patrick Faulkner was gotten from the second floor, that of James Gurley from the third floor and that of Mra. J. Lynch from the fourth. It was then discovered that six-year-old Anna Faulkner had been left behind. Pe- liceman Cosgrove found the child te her bed and carried her out. ashore at several | Zero Weather tu Pennsylvania, PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16.-—The first real cold weather of the winter brought zero temperature to-day in the moun- tain districts of Pennsylvania. At Hi risburg the official record was four'de- zero and ip the mountain regions the temperature fell to four be- low, In Philadelphia the Weather Tureau reported a mintmum of 13 ée- grees above zero and about the same temperature was reported in New Jer- sey und Delaware. FRENCH AVIATORS MAKE FOURTH RAID TO CITY OF FREIBURG. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 36 (United Press). —French aviators again flew over Freiburg, Baden, dropping bombs upon the city yeateroer advices received nerhin it the fourth time Freiburg has been attacked by aeroplanes. LLIANT HOLIDAY GIFT 8U! single @ collection ton. cand, Ni ractly andsomely lacquered con BOUND. aa Ts opecial tor TUTH-FRUTTH ¢ for the Holidays CHRISTMAS CANDY Special Offer to Sunday ‘emmitices Gladiy Walted On, Evee Though Fourdsof METROPOLITAN MIXTURE, Absolutely Pure, Shtaserne Gandy 8 30 3 60 Half-Pound Box jaistin, Other of Chocolat: eitied weight inci A—On Deo. 14 wite of Penanvo’s fuvers FoR on T thence to Our Lady BL, near Downline WN Hlewe wt in A at ary Chureh Bi Interment Calvary, Lost, FOUND AND. REWARDS, octavian Pounds of thet OLD-FASHION CLEAR, CANDY, and 60 Half-Pound Boxes, bo BO; of MANHATTAN? MIXED: © SPECIALS ARE ON SALE AT ALL 0} Kare Oat | Snr Sweets. iit Beenie OOC Schools, Churches, Etc Etc. $2.70 “ones inds,and60 HacPound! 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