The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1915, Page 1

—— PRICE ONE CENT. Coprriane, a AR by 16 TOWNS ARE DESTROYED, 23 DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKE oa eran ‘New York _[E ‘Circulation Books Open to_ All.” l The Prees m= iishing World). NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY _14, “1915, 18 P AGES PRICE ONE CENT. TRENCHES TAKEN BY STORM, reade: oo a MEN AND CANNON CAPTURED, SAYS GERMAN WAR OFFICE Paris Report Admits That the French Lost Some Ground, but Held the Lines Elsewhere— Russia Also Admits a Reverse. BERLIN (By Wireless to London), Jan. 14. (Associated Press).— Emperor William was present during the spirited battle on the Vregny jain, to the northeast of Sojssons, which resulted yesterday in that ele- vated ground being cleared of the French and which is described in the Germen official statement given out this afternoon as a “briliiant feat for our troops.” Im this engagement the Germans claimed to have captured fourteén French officers and 1,150 men. The text of the eommunication “In ‘the wentern theatre of the war, in the dunes near Nieu- port, and southwest of Ypres, artillery combats are going on. The enemy directed an extremely strong fire on Westende, which they will soon have entirely destroyed. Their torpedo boats disappeared quickly as soon as they received our fire. [One report from Berlin to-day said Westende had been “wiped of the mop” by the combined fire of the allied land forces and their warships.) “Ig continuation of their activities on Jan. 8 northeast of @olssons, our troops again made an attack on the heights of Vregny and cleared this elevated plain of the enemy. In a pour- fng rain and deeply sodden clay, trench after trench was taken by storm until after dark, and the enemy was driven back to the bor- der of the elevated plain. Fourteen French officers and 1,130 men were taken prisoners and four cannon, four machine guns and @ searchlight were captured—a brilliant feat for our troops under the very eyes of their uppermost War Lords, {The above statement might indicate that other high person- ages than the Kaiser saw the battle. A despatch from London says Gen, von Kluck is in command of the Germans. This would show the engagement to be of unusual importance. In some quar- tere it ie believed that the Germans have begun another drive toward Calais. The official report from Paris concerning the fight ing near Boissons declares the French held their positions around the village of Crouy, but were forced to give ground in front of Vregny, at which point the Germans report a success.) “Northeast of the camp of Chalons the French attacked again yesterday, in the morning and afternoon, with strong forces, to the east of Perthes. They penetrated, at certain places, our trenches, but were repulsed by energetic counter-attacks and driven back with heavy losses into their own positions, leaving 160 prisoners in our hands. Floods Drive the French Troops To South Side of Aisne River PARIS, Jan. 14 (Associated Press).—The French official statement on the progress of the war given out this afternoon shows the fighting yes- terday north of Soissons was determined. The French could make no ma- terial progress on the left of their Solssons line, They held their positions on the entre, but were compelled to yield on their right. The French troops are deacribed also as taking up positions on the south bank of the River Aisne, ‘The text of the official bulletin follows: “In Belgium the firing of our artillery was interfered with by the fog. Nevertheless the cannonading yesterday was very spirited in the vicinity of Nieuport and around Ypres. Certain detachmenta of Belgian troops blew up at a polnt to the southeast of Stuyvenkeskerke, the buildings on a farm which Were serving the enemy es a depot for his ammunition. “Between the Lys and the Oise, in the region of Lens, our artil- lery was successful in dispersing a group of German pioneers on the outskirts of the hamlet of Angres, and it bombarded effectively the German trenches to the southeast of the chapel of Notre Dame de Lorette, “To the north of Soissons there was determined fighting all day: yesterday. The engagement localized to a section of ground situated to the north of Crouy. We hold only the first slopes on these hills. On our left In this field our counter attack maée slight progress but without succeeding in recording a ma- terial advance. On the centre we retained our positions around the village of Crouy in spite of the repeated efforts of the enemy to dislodge us, but on the east, in frat of Vregny, we were obliged to yield, «The continued flood stage of the River Aisne has carried away 9999000509 09F-0060096O06-0000000O00 00808 0000000000 F-8O-2-5-2-93-909682-2 600 EMBEZZLER TELLS 6-5-5 85566 966 SOREOE EERE EEDEOOESRED 455-04 GE TH: SAAPMCTORAM SERRE ASSECETONT ooo OO099900OO900$09000Od HOO9SECIOOSESOOSOOOESOS DIDO OOD OSSOEDOOSOSO DOOD IOON GOREEBAE HI O4- ter STREET SCENE IN AVEZZANO, CENTRE OF EARTHQUAKE ah PROSOTIEDSI SS ©905-96-4-0, * wees BOY'S WIRELESS PLANT SHOOK UP BUILDING Women Showered With Broken Glass When Mys- terious Flash Comes. HOW VAMPIRE LED HIM TO THE TOMBS Lure of Woman and Broadway Night Life Made Him Steal. Two A wireless telegraph apparatus in tilled in the apartment house a West One Hundred and Eleventh Street by the sixteon-year-old son of Mrs. Ernestine Lewis, wh) lives in a flat on the ground floor, is believed to have been responsible for an explo- sion which shattered several windows in the building to-day, At any rate tho existence of the wireless plant is the only explanation of the happen- ag. In his cell in the Tombs to-day Willard B. Thompson, formerly con-| Rirs, “George Goldman i cl for Wil .| mother, Mrs, Seling Gold, were seat. Raantint mmoretary . Mitaa Berk led in the kitchen of t apartmen ness, capitalist and yachtsman, told an | on the sixth floor at 1 o'cluck whe Evening World reporter how he em- and ber rby and outside shat- tehen, hezzled at least $20,000 from his em-|a window in eac rooms " nA lovee [opening on the Nght shaft and two Ployer in a period covering four years.) Windows In the front of the apart- and admitted that “another woman"| ment. A the same ime a window in a bedroom of the Lewis flat on the had figured in his married life. Pesone Ties whe broeen This mysterious woman, whom Detectives investigated and said Thompson refused to name, has been | that there was some sort of a blow- reterred to by detectives who arreated | Cut. At the junction of the copper the man as a “vampire who took from him his money and moral strength.” Thompson, however, declares the glitter of Broadway and the blare of | wire and the roof wires used by tho | wireless plant. Owen an, the ex- Coney Island had absorbed most of the $20,000. | pert of the Bureau of Combustibles, was summoned to make an Inyesti- gatino, Young Lewis at the time of the exp wireless plant was ni “I don't want to drag that woman into the case,” he declared to-day. “My wife never knew of her. It is} true 1 loved the woman. But I do not love her now. I am through with AMERICAN GIRL WEDS GERMAN ARMY OFFICER her, Is it true that she telephoned to the office of Mr. Harkness and said Ceremony Took Place To-Day at 1 was appropriating his money to my own use?" the United States Embassy Told that some one had #0 tele. | in Berlin, phoned to the capitalist, Thompson sald: BERLIN, (via The Hague and “Weill, she had made her threats,|London), Jan. 14.—A war wedding and now I suppose carried them | took place at the American Embassy at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon, Mii Cecilla Jacqueline May, daughter of out, That woman did everything in her power to break up my married life. My wife was ignorant of her| Col. and Mrs, Henry May of Was)- existence. Sho wanted me to run|ington, was married to Iieut, Wi away. Then she said to me once that | Helm von Rath Jr. Ambassador Ger- ard gave away the bride Jif 1 did not go with her she ‘telephone to some one,’ would 1 suppose -_—_ she has done so. NEW ORLEANS RESULTS. | | | HE IS EAGER TO TAKE Hie) FIRST RACE. MEDICINE. |} Stick Pin, 107 (Warrington), 5 te "Lg dit has reached thin} 1, 8 to S and 4 tod, first point,” npson continued, ax tears | 12 (Pickens), 2 1 ei0 a - hives “ 4 (Burns) streamed down his Checks. “If this) ¥ third June Wo | that sounded Ike the hi ‘Tobin | a mussle, 1» to MUZZLE YOUR PEKINGESE DOG? IT CAN'T BE DONE Magistrate Throws Case Out of Court When He Takes Look at Nose. Here's Joy to all snub-nosed dogs. They need not wear muzzles, no mat- ter what the Sanitary Code may say. Magistrate Marsh has just made that decision in the Yorkville Police Court in People, ex rel Lalor, vs. Nellie Winkfleld. Lalor is the policeman who saw H. N, Wertheimer of No, 118 East Thirty-eighth Street taking a walk in Fifth Avenue late yesterday after- noon, leading his prize English Pekingese spaniel, Nellie Winktleid, on @ leash and handed him a sum- mons, Mr. Werthetmer brought Nel- to court this morning. “John D. Rockefeller has four of these dogs, Your Honor," he sald, “and a woman exericses them every duy at least four times in Fiftieth Street and the police never say a word ‘The Magistrate declared that that had nothing to do with this case, and Mr. Wertheimer put Nelli up on & table to show His Honor how short her nose is. She is a tiny creature, with @ tan coat, big soulful brown eyes and @ little nose that begins no- where and goes backward, She looked at the Court supplicatingly and grinned a silent grin of propitiation, “How can any one put a muzzle on that face?” asked Mr. Wertheimer, “Lt simply cannot be done. I've bad musaios.” "I do not see,” the magistrate ruled, “how you can fasten a muzzle on that dog. “Moreover, you bad ber on a \eash. 1 dismiss the cas Nellie uttered a grateful ‘ttle bark ) notes of a doll and marched out of court wag- ging her tall in happiness at having | established # precedent in doe law ‘The case of Mys. Charles EB, Knob- lauch of the Wyoming at Fifty-sev- enth Street and Seventh Avenue, who snub-nosed Bi | record of having pardon oners than any GOV. BLEASE RESIGNS AHEAD OF HIS TIME Pardons Forty More His Last Act Oftice. Convicts in M--With a more pris ecutive in COLUMBIA, 8. ©, Jan. State jo... Blease surprised history, Gov. ( friends and foes to-day by resigning five days before his four would have at noon, years’ term in office ended, Rumors of threatened Impeachment proceedings against Blease had been rife In the State Legislature for the lust few days as a result of his action in pardoning prisoners. fore resigning this pardoned forty n putting the total to more than Lieut.-Gov, Charles A. Smith of ‘Timmonsville was sworn in at 1 o'clock as Governor until Governor elect Manning {8 in auguarated Tues- day. CRUISER CARRYING LOAD OF MINES HIT BY LINER Manitou Collides With Cleopatra, British Warship, but Explosives . Fail to Go Off. All vessels reaching port from Bu- rope to-day report terrific and con- tinuous storms on the Atlantic Among the ships that have felt the full force of the storms were the Atlantic Transport freightor Manl- tou from London, Capt, ‘Tribe, and the Strathcona, from Cardiff, Capt Davis, The Manitou camo from London in ballast to take on @ cargo of horses. On Dee, 2, in the English Channel, steaming ut half speed through # dense she ran head on into the Britis cruiser Cleopatra, ‘The cruiser seemed to leap Mght up out of the sea at me," suid Capt, Tribe to-day, "We struck her an awful blow and my bowsprit was car- ried away and 4 lot of my plates for- ward were nt done to the Cleopatra Looking down on her from the for- ward deck W Id see that her deck was cover amines. It's a lusky | thing we ship. maged | had to put “into Plymouts FOpaLa” al © P29S46 0990000608806" :| Pagliotra and Sorbo sustained serious damage. re ee ie BIGGER THAN MESSINA, LATEST ESTIMATE OF ITALIAN DISASTER King of Italy Leads Rescue Force t Scene of Stricken Zone, Where Thousands Are Buried — Under Ruined Homes. AVEZZANO, A CITY OF DEAD, IS CENTRE OF DISASTER LONDON, Jan. 14.—A news despatch received here Rome says that the member of the Chamber of Deputies | Lipari has telegraphed to the capital that the disaster yesterday surpasses the Messina catastrophe. The ruin more widespread and the injury to life and limb will greater. ROME, Jan. 14.—With every hour, as additional more accurate details are received, the horror of yesterd earthquake increases, threatening to place it second in list of similar catastrophes in Europe only to the disaster of 1908. The list of dead, dying and injured has increased rap from a relatively small figure last night to more than 5 according to an official announcement to-day, and it is pected that this number may be added to before the is over. The towns of Avezzano, Capelle, Magliano, Marse, sadalo, Collarmele, Cerchio, Celano, Lelli, Paterno, Felino, Giosamarsi, Scurcola, Capistrello, Antrosano Castromovme have been practically destroyed. Pescina, Ortonamarsi, San Benedetto, Ortucchio, Co Bisegna, Balsorano, Canistro, Civitelladantino, Taglicozzo, Ovuedoli, Cappadoccia, Santi Marie, ~ Filippo, San Donato, San Stefano, Rocacerro, Carsoli, P luco and Trasacco were all more or less damaged. Every one of these towns shows a casualty list. The full extent of the property loss has not yet been des | termined. Here in Rome priceless statues, century-old || buildings and structures that for years have been the mece@ of all visitors have been destroyed or injured. i EARTHQUAKE BELT 300 MILES LONG. Although the loss of life, and possibly the amount ot damage, may be smaller than it was in 1908, the area of the disturbance greatly exceeds the Messina earthquake, and |) covers the whole central portion of Italy, extending from: Naples on the south to Ferrara on the north, ‘ The most disastrous disturbances, from all reportalall seems to have centred in the vicinity of the town of Avezzana, | where 15,000 persons have been killed or injured, according to the latest official reports. Reports of damage in degrees of severity have come from Latium, Abruzzi Umbela, the Marches, Tuscany, Aezlia, Campania and Apulia. The destruction of the town of Avezzano, a commun of some 12,000 people in Aquila province, is virtually come plete. There is good authority for the statement that not more than 10 per cent. of the population survived the) disaster. The earthquake belt is estimated to be about 300 n long, and extends practically from one side of Italy to other. In Abruzzi, Latium and Campania the quake \its highest degree, described by scientists as ‘‘c: ts and in other places it varied between the seventh + tenth degrees. The Director of the Observatory at Rome declared to: