The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1914, Page 1

GERMAN TRENCHES DESTROYED BY 600 GUNS FIRED AT ONC I fone The SS _PRIOE “ONE CENT. a ser _ Renae Books Open to All.’ ). ‘The Press ata York World) NEW “YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1914, WEATHER—Rain or new to-night; Friday cloudy. } “FINAL PRICE ONE OENT. WEALTHY BUSINESS RIVAL OF BAFF SECRETLY HELD IN MURDER INQUIRY GERMANS WIPED OUT. AT JOFFRE'S ORDER IN All Trained on One Position at Same) Time— Russians Fall Back at! ' Cracow —Germans and French Both Claim Gains. PARIS, Dec. 24 (Associated Press).—Gen. Joffre, the French Com- mander-in-Chief, said to Cols. Ignatieff and Yarde-Bullock, the Russian and Raglish military attaches at the field headquarters of the French army, three or four days ago: “Come with me and you will see something never seen before in war.” The military attaches accompanied the General to a place near the not far from Arras. There 600 pieces of heavy artillery were placed; so as to bear upon a comparatively short pers of German | Mn " in eatronchm ‘The ranges -already had been found. Upon . vera from Gen. Joffre, repeated by his aides telephonically,’ ‘whe 600 pieces opened a sustained fire upon the German works and the ppaces Just behind them. After a quarter of an hour the French infantry charged. Not a hostile @not met them. Not’a bayonet gleamed over the edge of the works. The trenches actually were torn to pieces as though by gigantic ploughshares. Dead and wounded men, half buried, littered the line where formerly | had been the trenches. A few alive were struggling to free themselves from heaps of earth. Those who had tried to run were caught by the horrible| pray of bursting shells in the rear of the German trenches. Probably not ® man defending that part of the line escaped. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 24.—Austrian coast batteries have succeeded in ‘sinking @ submarine of the allied fleet, according to claims made in Ger- HAPPY NEW YEAR? TOWNTOBE OPEN! Mayor Issues 200 Extra Night > 3 Licenses—First Time in Six Years. For the first time in half a dozen years New York will be “wide open’ |New Year's Live. Mayor Mitchel announced to-day! that he will issue 200 all-night u-! censes to restaurants, hotels for the night of Dee. 31. | With so many licenses out it La as-| t keeper will “take a chance,” inasmuch as the police wil be unable to keep track of all un Neensed places. | The all night iicenses will justify their holders in keeping side doors| &, open until 6 o'clock in the morning. |? WILSON GIVES CONVICT |: A CHRISTMAS PARDON 3 $ President Releases Fo Former Bank 3 Clerk So He May Reach Wife, Who Is Sick, and His Dying Boy. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24,.—So tha‘ |a convict in Leavenworth Peniten- | tiary, Charles E, McMonnies, for- merly of Lyons, Neb., can reach a dying son and his family on Christ- mas Day, President Wilson to-day pardoned the prisoner. McMonnies's story, as told by Representative Stephens of Nebraska, touched the $e oes man newspapers to-day. LONDON, Dec. 24.—An official statement given out in Paris to-day gaye that an Austrian submarine torpedoed a French battleship in the Gulf of Otranto. The battleship was damaged slightly. No one was injured. ROME, Dec. 24.—It is reported that Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus- trie ia dying. It is said that the Pope hac been urgently requested to send deathbed blessing and that the Kaiser has been summoned to the bedside of his ally. The Vatican denies that a deathbed blessing has been sent, and at the ‘Austrian Embassy here it is stated that nothing has been heard of the @mperor’s ilinces. Recapture of French Trenches Reported by Berlin War Office BERLIN (by wireless to London), Dec. 24 (Associated Press).—The oficial eemmunication issued to-day by the German General Headquarters “The enemy did not renew his attacks in the neighborhood of Mieuport yesterday. At Bixschoote we took 230 prisoners on Dec. 32. “The enemy was again active yesterday in the neighborhood of Chalons. Infantry attacks followed an artillery attack made by the enemy in the regions of Souain and Perthes. These were repulsed. “A trench kept under continuous artillery fire by the enemy was lost by us, but was recaptured in the evening, The position was abandoned after this successful counter attack because parts of the trenches had been almost levelled by the enemy's fire. More than 100 prisoners were left in our hand ttacks Repulsed, Ground Gained, Says the War Office in Paris PARIS, Dec. 24 (Associated Press).—The French War Office this after- gave out this official communication: “From the sea to the Lys we made progress by sapping opera- tions in the dunes, and we repulsed an attack in front of Lom- baertsyde, At Zwartelen, to the southeast of Ypres, we occupied @ group of houses and we drove back as far as the southern part of this village a counter-attack of the enemy; this was done in apite of a very spirited fire from the German artillery. The Belgian army pushed forward certain detachments along the right bank of the Yser, to the south of Dixmude, and organized a defensive work protecting the head of a bridge. “In the region of Arras the fog still made all operations impos- sible, . .4§ STo the east and to the southeast of Amiens, especially in the subgiebs of Lassigny, there have been artillery exchanges, “Im the region of the Aisne the Zouaves during all day yester- day held back brilliantly a number of attacks, They remained inas. (Continued op Second Page.) President deeply. The pardon as a Christmas present was the result. McMonnies’s wife, who has been supporting two boys, nine and seven years old, by teaching music since his imprisonment Jan. 2 last for mak- ing a false entry in the books of the First National Bank of Lyons, is ill with pneumonia. The youngest child, an invalid since birth, is dying. The Department of Justice did not favor Executive clemency for the convict, stating he would be eligible for parole Jan. 2—only a week away— but the President's heart was touched by the plight of the family and he or- | dered his release to-day. (thn os PARLIAMENT VOTES AGAINST INCREASING |to enable the Government to maintain th {a larger army. It im expected that the expressed by BATTLEIN THE SKY AT PARIS SUBURB; NEW RAID ON DOVER G xerman Aviator Is Brought Down in France; Escapes From England. PARIS, Dec, 24,—A an aero. plane trying to reach Paris, says Ute THE ARMY IN JAPAN. | Journal, was pursued and brought down by the French air patrol TOKIO, Dec. 24 (United Press.—Par-| Pontoise, nineteen miles northwest of Hament to-day rejected the request of | paris. the Cabinet for increased appropriations! LONDON, Dec. 4—It was announced the OMeial Press his afternoon b: Cabinet will dissolve Parliament to-mo:- | Bureau that an aeveplane drypped a Tow and trust to a popular election to| im) Nt! DM | gain the support of the country. ih * . ‘i The opposition to the Cabin _| “The mieyile,” says the Press Bu gramme {s duo to the opinion reau, “fell in a garden and expk but no damage was done, The 4 that the country cannot bear the addi-| Plane was seen for a few seconds |tlonal financial burden asked. ” only. It left Immediately, passing Many also express a fear that the {over the sea, A British aircraft went |Government, if it obtains an authoriza-|up, but did not see the enemy again, tion for an enlargement of the army,|The weather was cloudy and foggy." Intends to send troops to Europe to ald| Great holes were torn in the ground She elites. | by the bomb, which landed in a ta sceniniinsaiiniiais SNOW FOR CHRISTMAS. | #&atere Mave a Merry ‘ime on | ark Lakes. | The first artes Of Christmas snow [began to swirl down upon New York at 1 velock this afternoon, The fakes were fine and « they flew on the ‘wings of u at wind that prom {sed to bring rain later Interfere for a anoment of the thousands of sli Cortlandt, Crotona and Pri This not tun on Van poet Park ball was raloed toorning. Hunger the id then not thiek and qT with the 4 Jakes, for whom the move d jat 9 ‘o'clock A for to-mor- |shoula® come night, with ‘au trong west and northwest winds. sarden, Ar ad, in time saves pingh len. A few windows were y the explosion of only 400 smas bomb and the ds from the yi castle, was ploughed up, Make Merry ! v rrow is a day of rejoic amt home rg jusiness cares problems should be set aside he positions, workers, bargains, homes, investments, (Gc. that are deeded Should be found to-day acilitate such efforts about 1,500 Separate, want-filling advertisements wil be found printed in the Morning World, s Saturday, falling between Christmas and Sunday, will be a sort of semi- holiday, your ads. tor the Saturday, Sunday and Monday World 5 filed before you go home to-night, at!” Blaze “Mushrooms” House, Burning Fo Mother Whil Five lives were lost in a fire that spread from cellar to roof at the five », 416 West Forty-ninth Street, in the darkness at 5 A. M, to-day story apartment house, The interme ) floors were not burnéd, but the smoke poured upward through the dumbwaiter shaft, struck the roof and “mushroomed,” spread ing through all the top floor, and suf focating Mra, Mavy Corso and four others of her family in their sleep. There wers signs of life in Mrs Corso when she was carried to the street, ‘The doctors worked with a pulmotor but could not revive her Tho dead are: Charles, nty-oue; Frank, nine- jteen, and Harsy Corso, seven, ehil- dren of Mra. Corso, and her four-year- old niece, Grace Amandola, who lived in Brooklyn and who had gone te spend the night with her aunt and get her Christmas presents. | Another son of Mrs, Corso, Arthur, ! twenty-four years old, in night tele- ator at the was he who took the fri ambuld after the hone pital for nd police learned that the ta men ily were trapped in their he thur did not know at the th ever, that it was his own mother, brothers and co cerned. SON GOES HOME TO FIND FAM- ILY DEAD. He becaine worried when the am- bulances despatehed from the pital Gid not seturn, Obtaining re- lief at his awitehbourd, he hurried bome and found bis family wiped usin who wero con- hos- | ‘YEAR? [Fair Skaters Enj Enjoying Winter-Tin Time Sport First Time This Year at Van Cortlandt WEII! l] WILL BE! Peer cee a oeeeenernee ‘Gee D949 DDDHDHDF 6 9:399F9996 69600 8-79O4600964-6-0-0-0-0-6--19069500O 04900000000000000 FIVE DIE IN FIRE. AS FLAMES TRAP ONE FAMILY, IMPERIL 20 in West Side Apartment} ur and Suffocating le She Sleeps. out, medical attention, Mrs, Annie Taylor. she passed, clinic Hospital after inuking ber way out unassisted. In the crowd of tenants that poured down the stairs early eman Enright 4 riddle: In 4 to death, sister, Mrs. Annie Harrison. The recovery of the four bodies| was accom. plished at the risk of their lives by and the dying mother (Continued on Second Page.) —The— Evening World WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED TO-MORROW (Christmas Day) eas He collapsed and had to recetve ® resident of tho building, was burned about the |face, hands and chest 1/ flames that shot out of the dumbwaiter shaft a» She was taken to Poly- the fire, ued Miss Kitty wed blind woman, | conspl n and was In danger of {and Miss Ban- non lives on the ground floor with a In her excitement and belng unable to see she tried to go in the wrong direction | in tho hall, and #0 was knocked | NEW WINESS SEED AFTER DEATH FUND OF $5,000 I UNCOVERED William Simon’s Detention First Learned When Attorney Demands Whitman Tell Where Prisoner Is Held—Detectives Find Chauffeur i of Murder Car Was Paid $30, | BEFORE THE GRAND JURY RETTICH QUIZZED AGAIN \ William Simon, a wealthy wholesale poultry dealer, leith tarkets at No. 179 Lewis Street and in Harlem and a residence at No. 706 East Sixth Street, was arrested by Head~ quarters detectives last night and sent to the House of Detention as a material witness in the Baff case upon come mitment by Judge Malone in General Séssions. Simon was released from the House of Detention at 3 jo'clock this afternoon on $10,000 bail set by Judge Malone. Not a word of this tatest sudden move ip the Baff mystery was allowed to become public, and the first intimation of | Simon's apprehension came to-day when Edward W. Drucker, of the legal firm of Hirschman and Drucker, No. 299 Broad- way, appeared at the Criminal Courts Building and wanted ‘a chance to demand of the District Attorney what had jbecome of his client. Then the lawyer, with a show of indignation, told how Central Of- fice men had swooped down upon the poultry dealer late last night and spirited him away to the House of Detention, Drucker said that he was Simon's permanent counsel and not hired on the necessities of the occa- | sion, “Neither Mr. Simon nor I has the least idea why this high handed proceeding has been permitted,” said Drucker. “My client has no knowledge whatever of any detail of the Baff case.” News of the apprehension af Simon spread on the wings of rumor to | West Washington Market and raised a hurricane of excitement there, |Simon is known as one of the influential men in the chicken business and an associate of some of the most prominent men in the Live Poultry Deal- ers’ Protective Association. Emil Rettich, owner of the saloon in West Hoboken which was the rea dezvous of the “chicken pullers” and father of Carl Rettich, who testified before the Grand Jury today, visited Police Headquarters late this after- noon and was closeted with Faurot. He sald before he went in that he was. ready to answer any questions Faurot might ask. The impression about Headquarters was that Emil Rettich could tell, if he wished, much of value concerning the preliminaries to the murder of Baff. A big step forward in uncovering new intricacies in the Baff murder cy has just been made by Headquarters detectives. It confirms aborates the facts now in the possession of District Attorney Whit- Here are the salient features of those startling dis- man and his aides. coveries: It cost the enemies of Barnet Baff $5,000 to remove him from competiti y assassination, Of this sum bat $280 went to the actual slayers, and they had to give up $80 of their blood money to secure the services of the “murder ear” in which they made their escape. 'The remaining $4,720 was set aside for a “defense fund,” to be ased for paying counsel fees Im the case of arrest of any one in the der ring or of a party to the conspiracy Itself; as ‘pe lor possibly dangerous witnesses whose absence from the Jurisdiction of the New York courts might be advantageous ip critical momenta; as “protection” to the families of the gunmen in the event of thelr apprehension, conviction and execution, | # Tho evidences of the operation of | STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. this “defense fund" began to be dis- Marta, Colon. bu covered by Headquarters before the .] existence of the fund Itself could be '| proved. Now, in the light of recent *| kn ledge, explanation of certain: | puzzling features in the case is clear, A good many chicken handlers em- pi.yed around West Washington Market before the death of Baff who | might know something have disap- 12M, | peared. Detectives have hunted for .12M, | thom in vain since Nov. %, the dey . 3P,M,| of the assassination, PM Thege ara man whe live gust’ | Panaman, Massapequa, Rotterdam ——>— SAILING TO-DAY. | Antilla, Progre * Ei Mundo, Galveston. Advance, Colon S» af, Columioum Spvannaha,