The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1914, Page 2

bombar |!" Meuse, 9 © text of the communication follows In Beigium we have won @ Iittle territory In the region of Nieuport, opposite Rolders, and to the north of Lombaertzyde. The enemy subjected St. Georges to a violent bombardment. This ts the position we are putting fn a state of defense. “We lave captured @ German point of support located to the foutheast of Zonnebeke, on the road between Beceinore and Paschen- daeie. From the Lys to the Olse there ts nothing to report. “in the valley of the Alsne and in Champagne the enemy has manifested another buret of activity which haa taken the form par- theularly of a violent artillery fire, to which our heavy artillery hae replied effectively, 1 "In the Argonne we have made alight progress in the region of } Four de Paris | “Hetween the Argonne and the Moselle there has been can: ; nonading all along the front, but particularly @evere along the heights of the Meuse “In the Vonges the enemy delivered an attack against our pon! tions at La Tete de Faux, this waa repulaed, “In Upper Alsace wo are consolidating our positions Our heavy artillery reduced to eilence the German howlteers which were bombarding Upper Aspach.” Austria Admits Check in Galicia, ‘s it lenued to-day. ‘withdrew, but this action, the statement says, was due to the throwing o! Southern Galicta in company with the Hungarian army which crossed th Carpathians. fo far as the Hungarian army {s concerned, the official reporta nay, 1 * pagel The losses have been heavy, but not out of proportion to t! aged. The chief cause for regrot, it is stated, ts that the mov ieee to relieve Preemysl has been abandoned , fee declares. There h straighten out the battle line, but at no point has there been any general , Somnik-Horlice-Jablinka front. In the Balkans, the oficial statements say, there han been renewed ac. * tivity, empecially on the part of the Montenegrins. Krievontje but with little real result. Czar’s Big Army in Poland Are reported here to-day. + The lighting in the Caucasus has resulted in the Russian occupancy o} {Merdenek, near Sarykamysh, whe @ series of bayonet charges in which the defending fores lost very heavily. The Turks are declared to be committing outragen aguinat the nati tured all young girls. Which were operating in Southern Galicia have been completely rou Quantities of camp equipment, suppl To the west the Russian forward movement te again tn full swing de- epite the fact that the roads and fields are further unsucceasful sorties of the Preemys! garrison ate reported. In the territory to the west of Warsaw, where the Germans hi Operating, the fighting t# chiefly in the nature of artillery du range. The Germans have retired to the left bank of the Brure whe they aro reentrenching Berlin Now Admits thé Loss of se BERLIN, by wireless to London, Dee. 30 (Associated Press) = Bicial communication atven out today by the German War Office aaya: “In the western theatre of war we attll are fighting for t let of St rées, to the woutheast of Nieuport, which we were pelled to evacuate owing to the surprine attack “Storm and cold have oaused dam to the positions of both sides in Flanders and in Northern France,” “Constantinople reports another Turkish success on the River Kura tn the Caucasus, The Turks took many prisoners, several guns and &ther war material The ham- com PEACE INDEPENDENT {FORGERY CHARGE STOPS. OF ALLIED POWERS. WAKHIN@TON, Dec. 30-—Mr meteff, the Russian Ambassador, denied the statement that Hussia pro Hoses NeKethal for peace with many tnd of France and Eng land ansador also cabled Kn OMce at Petrograd and the followings mossage from Hinister of Poreign Affalra: Nakh- Engineer Drew Gun and Threatene Detectives Who Made the Arrest. * at St. Georges, In the Alsne region, and on the heights of the But Denies Russian Story of Rout VIENNA Dec, 80 (United Press).—Emphatie dental that the Austrian armies have been completely routed featured the official War Office state It is admitted that the armies have been forced to enormous reinforcements into the main army which has been contesting has been withdrawn tn good order, bringing tack the entiro artillery and In the northern section the Austrian lines are intect, the War Of: been @ withdrawal at a number of points to ‘ petreat. Tho Austrians continue to hold the main line of trenches on the It fe denied hero that the Russians have resumed thelr movement They havo repeatedly | fattacked Trebinje but in every instance have been repulsed with heavy Josses. The Montonegrins are #till bombarding the Austrian positions at ° Starts New Drive, Say Russians: FETROGRAD, Dec, 30 (United Press),—Renewed succtenses in the Cau- @aeus in the Oltintk region and important movements in Warsaw, which presage tho driving back of the Austro-Germaf forces beyond the frontier, the Turkish trenches were corried after population of the villages in the territory through which they have moved, | | vu. to have maneecred thousands of men and women and outraged and tor- | ‘Their Bight was od previpitate, the report says, that they abandoned large and some cannon, The Russians give fuil evidence In ofder te throw have cut off a large number of troops, and their capture is holloved cer- in almoat impassable owing | 8chool in Cairo, to thi idden thaw. The movement against Cracow ts being resumed and | had been employed THEIR HONEYMOON TAIP | Arrested for forgery at the outset) of @ honeymoon trip to South Amer- THE EVENIN GERMANS REFUTE. STORY OF ATROCITY RELATED BY GIRLS Deny On Local Verein Heaped | Dresden Indignitic American Women. Vieng zen ronpene sy puvan RL fie aC 1% lot ton of Th New York Rreatng World, LOR aA i tats A clipping from ret tanue of Oct. % nin heavy print under the head- Naked by Mob," a series of alleged mitrages committed In this town, | Mins Mueller and Miss Ericson In Jan Interview atate they themeet | were “twice mobbed as Russian nples;" that they “sew with their own eyes “two American, women atripped naked by the mob, marched | through our at | bayonets” You tell your readera that | these two ormed you that | “Dresden was overrun with Russian and that they were present and whed in the River d hit mate shot later on, Theve girls further state that "Ger- man officals” told them that "180 | Russians wore shot In thia town dur ing the firat two weekn of this war,’ Not content, they go on telling your readers that in making thelr escape from here they were over and over ted" snd were “oye wit- re murder and atrocious treatmont of travellers, Thousands must have read your statements and reed” our town and its inhabitants, Your own Consul General suggested that we should make a careful inquiry in this matter. We have done so and now give you th) result: The local police c-rtify that Lillian Mueller and Alma Ericnon, both sald | Nov. 26, 1914 | Saw American Women Stripped) the point of] NG WORLD, WOUNDED FRENCH NEAR BATTLE FRONT AAA 411 ecb a etn dai hte fence ec OOO 49400664400000146 $00000eseee i ‘ Mi 060000 0009006806855 855055 50% WEDNESDAY, GERMANS 1 DIG N. NEW TRENCHES TO HOLD BACK CZAR IN POLAND BAFF INQUIRY COLLAPSES AS rd WITNESSES FLEE —< | (Continued from First Page) to find evidence that this knowledge 008 go far an to give a presumption of the complicity of the recalcitrant | witnesses in the murder plot, a legal to be about twenty-five yours of arrived here ap voluntary travellers and sightacers on Aug. 6 and stayed @ tho boarding establishinent of Miss Blancke, Lucttichaustaase No. 8%, un- til Aug. 14, when they left by railroad | for Italy, equipped witb proper pase- ports issued und granted by the local f. A. Consulate, No complaints were ever made by | the police against the two persons; The reports from the Austrian front declare the Austrian armies | "e'ther Ware SBY, eompinletn lodgee by them against .ny one vere. The volice authorities have now asked the Droyiistrens of the boarding bouse w | more ght upon the subject. Minx Blancke informed the authur- | Ittes: Both young ladies camo from a cwypt, whore they teachers, Thoy haved well aud were very friendly and con§ding. Misa Blancke emphatl. cally states that both girls spoke with #reat fervor about the Germans, laud- Ing up the nuiitary and officials in many matances #44 never made a single complaint of any kind. They were never mobbed or molested taken or © xplon by either the public or way can be found to bring them into the furladiction of the court and this step will be taken. ‘The three witn under surveillance and cannot move far without the New York District Attorney being advised of it. In his talk with reporters Whitman intimated that legal steps might be taken against the legal advisers who were responsible for the absenve of the three witnesses, As in the case of the accused police inspectors, when one of them was indicted for causing the disap- pearance of George Sipp, (he Har- lem hotel keeper, who was wanted os 4 witness, It in pospible that thone | now reaponstble for keeping the | wanted witnesses under cover may feel legal pressure, Just who the three stubborn wit- nesses are could not be learned from Whitman or his aides. It was gener- ally understood at the Criminal Courta Wuilding, however, that two of them at least were live poultry dealers in West Washington Market, who anee upon the Harlem nference held th nights before Miss Wlancke herself went Town of St. Georges in Belgium vi" ivem cs tw raiway siaten cos| naw them off ‘Thera Was not the slightest sign of “mobbing.” and they parted with heartiest wishes on both sides, The authorities furthe’ state and wiah ‘t | to be known that got a single apy hax deen xbot or any Russian drowned in Dresden since this war began, Mias Blanc! has volunteered [write to the two young ladies and ask for an explanation, but we think itis only fair te inform you tiret and your leet You have done great harm to us ur country by your pyblica- Our Authorities emphatically lare that there is not one fota of |truth in any of the statements mado about Dreaden. We and all mem of our society do the same, No wonan has ever been or insulted, leave alone ‘stripped naked” in the streets, Even the subjects of those nations who are /at War how witb us cannot bring such foul charges against Germany, as all have acknow: od the good | | and fair treatment slved, a far | different treatment to that meted out per tho “officlut evidence” col- ‘Certainly p hy absolutely joa, George Stone, # Boston mining | t * poor countrymen in the @ the ebsurd state nt eugineer, was held in the West Side | tm! hands 5 SACONOFF a ye y ° tave you to ¢ Court to-day in $4,000 bail, which also ‘ mid to be teas ne 50,000 PRISONERS NEED HELP IN SIBERIA, IS REPORT TO RED CROSS, WASIUNGTON Heports that more than 60,000 German and Austrian prisoners of war in Siberia ure in dire noed reached the Red Cross to-day The American Minister at Peking China, was cabled $3,000 for purchase of necessities of tmediate rel t volver. His wife of three days, whon he met and a. explained (o her, money she bad, dim, The prisoner, Marry Stone, about $200, to introduced himself covered a charge for carrying a re ried on a recent trip | 80 from England and married Christmas Eve, fainted in the court room when | allowed ( the charge against her husband was! Your paper on Oct. 3 She said she would #tick by him until she was convinced receive a copy of the he was a real thief. and spend what | paper contain eloar under the name of) to “inform you, but we must ask you m to tT this xed, of your next issu 4 rominnt @ place and ¢) | wame you ventions’ 1g? Appear in ‘Trusting you will ant tn of our request, we shall be fairness) iged to | NVERKEHKS ANNY, Chairman. ni Claridger'ee a rauttal friend ot = THEY BRING)5..\ocsisecs aeecise editor or BULWARK DESTROYED 1 ms| BY AN ACCIDENT, 1s THINGS BACK! vrcanh Though | VERDICT AT INQUEST, the sitnature Bauer gave him and telephoned to He that Melxaacs had given + small check, but that, several blan checks were mi from his offic check book FAR-REACHING, , RESULT-BRIi {GING Bore “LOST & POuND’.ADS. CALL dou BEEKMAN a forgery in 1907, The police he served a sentence here for | LONDON, Dee, The destruction of the Hritiehy battle jo ship Bulwark was to-day iticially en accident t into the death of practi; oo certain thet am In one of the mag- explosion. offer to show to any representative of | letter, fully an: un-| Hittaburgh, Chicago Cineinnatt and of oUF) xy jeclared a dividend of 2ty pei ® tn and re. + payable Jan, yours very tr No action Eh k PoeRuNG nd on com ‘8 UND DES nd was passed (Assovtated Press) murder, details of which were told exclusively in The ing World last night. ‘The} jthirdt ia believed to be the chauffeur jot the “murder car.” The only witnesses to go before the {Grand Jury to-day were Cart Rettich, | [the West Hoboken saloon-keeper, an¢| his father, 4. Both of th been before the Grand Jury Curl ou sey m have before— al oceasions: Whether to-day's impasse will mean the temporary discontinuance | of the Haff investigation or whether | Asnistant District Attorneys Dele- hanty, Douel and My tinue the taking of t the Grand Jury to-n be determined It in certain that any delay will re- sult in a vigorous attempt on the part of the witnesses now held in the foune of Detention or in the Tombs hy will con- timony before orraw could not Rachange han received from “entral Ratlroad Ci Pnpany the Hating of ‘This is the the Ne | ry forme r York Central nd the Lake Shore, November gros de. | net decreased $106,118; xe declined $783,066; Erie Ratlroad cided $362,898 five months’ ar jinereused § June: | Missouri, Kansas an Yember grows earnings i91; net increased, $1 mon Bross declined, Inereamed, $208,014 Five net $49,022 \ International quarterly di on preferred sty Delaware & Hudson regular annual ‘dividend 0 pasable for 1-4 each, ae f ord | for endar year 1014, approximated 11 us Ln e Rergentase va ae HA Heist iis a eset ota wen aire being kept | *: late editions of [3 consolidation of the New | KN ; [cotton prices in. Inat ho WAL STR STREET. Market Closing—There was no relief from the dullness in the early afternoon, In the Inst hour there was a little ine crease of activity enough to rescue th market from utter stagnation, the bh Ing demand was be' showed an Improvement, Western Hand ine that the pa eat on the ni pended THE CLOSING QUOTATIONS. Net Mine te Masha Goll Pagar fel . s es 5 H 8] s q u iy —E—E CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN MARKET. WHEAT. Ture! Net i) cy i cats nM. Low. Clow. elt . th re wax some buying b that Argen- tine whe 8 Was not over 119,000,- O00 bushels and cost at Liverpool’ was nts over cost of American wheat x showed a de- May off 1 Keing off wlth inquiry for corn doy te from Tuesday's finals ——— N.Y, COTTON MARKET, | Wheat op Ay pre-holiday than hun be mission houses, fab A little for ports to-day were 42,604 bal for season to date regate bales, against 6,542.097 for sane last year. period Mar Ma rth . Mark William M woven, an engineer Farland Donalson, twenty Wing at No. 141 Wy Forty-foarth Street, wax found dend night the steam room the Building at No. Street ns Fifty-siath Street said there were superficial signa of polson or viol Patrolman Girvin reporte ey Supt. at | sited is gm ‘that st iho Sane | pottom of the boat. BR 380, 1914. FERRO OC ESE S REO EL Heeeerteieee 1 aoococeegees | WHISPERS REPLY TAL ORPOT Diner waws ssevue CL AND MILITARY COURTS START INQUIRY ON CANADIAN SHOOTING Statement of Wounded Ameri- can Ready for Coroner— Array, of Witnesses. BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 30.—The in- quest into the fatal shooting of Wal- ter G, Smith, Buffalo duck hunter, on Niagara River by Canadian soldiers, was begun before Coroner J. R. Mencke at Fort Erie town hall this afternoon. A score of witnesses were on hand at the opening, including Provincial Police Officer Thomas W. Delaney, who called the guard; Capt. Norman G. Fite, Fourty-fourth Regi- ment, and eye witnesses to the shoot- ing, The Coroner announced his de- termination to ascertain every detall of the tragedy. While the inquest was being con- ducted on the first floor of the hall a military court of inquiry was un- der way on the floor above, presided over by Col, Hugh A. Rose, who was appointed Jast night under orders from divisional headquarters at To- ronto, Crown Attorney T. D, Cow- por examined witnesses for the Crown, and Adjutant C. J. Ingles of the orty-fourth, represented tho rights of the three soldiers ‘who par- ticipated in the shooting. J. B, Curtiss, American Vice Con- sul Fort Erie, returned from Buffalo to that place to-day, hav- ing spent an hour interviewing Charles Dorsch, the other victim of the shooting. Dorsch was too weak from loss of blood and shock to make a formal statement, but gave the Vice Consul his version of the affair. | Curtiss will take the stand before Coroner Mencke and repeat just what Dorsch told him. “Lam not prepared to divulge at this time what Dorsch told me of the shooting, but it was of a sensational characte: the Vice Consul said. * Dorsch is reported to have told friends that neither Smith, who was killed, snor himself understood what the soldiers wanted when they called to them, In the confusion the hunters decided to pull for home. The fatal shots followed immediately. Dorsch said he counted fifteen shots and then lost track, Several shots, he said, were fired after the men had been hit and were lying in the A toast: In this good cup of tea We drink to your prosperity! MARY F, Edgar J. M sy morning, I services at her ke Ave. Brooklyn, iat 2 PM “Funeral wervices at The @ av: Broouisn. on Pridey, Jen. 2, actA, A “Los FOUND | AND REWARDS, 1 ies |document purporting to pe an affi- |davit by her which \Schallender, one of Jerome's stenog- |i: was some time before ehe wap in condition to proceed. Then she asked Justice Davis jad to answer the question. | Wh | Peplie in the firmative reply EDITH ST. CLAIR she to the Court. read to the jury by | Whispered the Aflerward it w the stenographer, It was: ‘The affi- avit told of the relations between Mr. and myself. Mr. Jerome asked m to sign the statement that mornt but fT asked him not to require that TOCOURT QUERY: Siibsequentt Mina St. Clair was ywn a paper signed by ber in which [she stated that she had not hee: if ctilm of Erlanger while in | ploy nor had had any intimate rele ie ons with bim. She was asked whether the affl- |davit she made was a denial or an dmission of the charge against rlanger and she replied that it was a denial Overcome Wie ia Statement on Her Relations With Em- ployer Is Brought Up. | Ran From Fire in Night Clothes. on trial! While fire was burning in Joseph We alleged | by"# candy store on the ground floor of No. 1946 Be street, Brooklyn, iS Erlang: | ¢oraay, members of slg families dren er, the theatrical manager, testified i, tho tower hallway. The blage to-day that Willlam Travers Jerome, | discovered by Policeman Burns of the counsel“for Erlanger, requested her Brownsville Station, who went through to wien an affidavit setting forth the|tho three upper floors and aroused the : 0 ta body grabbed clothing Intimacy of her relations with the | tenants corey bean, prabteg, clathins Fdith St. Clair, the actress for perjury following an agreement with Abraham LL. manager, Sha also said any such | were confined @ the store and did $1,000 | charges against Erlanger were un- | damage. true, but admitted that she had} signed a statement i The actress was in somewhat better condition to-day when she went to the Supreme Court to resume the stand in her own behalf. But she| broke down several times and had to have dhe ministrations of her phy- sician, Several times also she wept. Her voice was at all times so faint that the stenographer had to repeat the answers to the jury. | Miss St. Clair was asked to read a STOCKINGS New Year’s Remembrances Gossamer Weight JEEN VICTORIA Miss Esther | raphers, testified to having written | from his dictation May 3, 1913, Misa} Schallender had also testified that) | Jerome told her not to use the docu- ment, another being given to her in- STOCKINGS stead. The finest Silk Stocking The defendant looked over the f at the price. Pure, paper and then said that she had! sheer silk, so fine that it ean never made any of the assertions in the affidavit, nor had Jerome read | it to her. Miss St. Clair tried her! best, but could not remember having | told Jerome anything like it. The! only section of the affidavit she re- | membered was one about the offer | made to her by the Shuberts, and this, she sald, had been incorrectly tra scribed, “Did you sign any other paper or affidavit that day?” Miss St. Clair; fl was asked by Benjamin Slade, her! h attorney, “Yes, I believe I did.” “Did Mr. Jerome read afterward?” $3.00 Clocked. f $1.35 3 pair for $4.00 : & Peck Sp. No. 1700 Pure Silk, clear and beautiful. Any color. English Silk Scarfs with silk socks to match. Special Messenger Service. New Illustrated Catalogue on Request, PECK & PECK. EXCL Ve HOSIERY $5 Lh foe 2 Se rue YORK CITY it to you “What were affidavit?” “It was a one-page :'atement,” Miss St. Clair replied evasively, “will you please tell what it con-| tained?" “I don't care to say.” Here Miss the contents of this Bt. Clair broke down complete! nh jespite ti conditions of th Bs have met with unps ‘and sincerely h will be one ue New Year Extra Special! POUNDS . 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