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Argonne forest @ (lerman attack considerable advance, Twelve prisoners, We also captured ‘The losses of the enemy eon left on the field of ae OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. its Heavy Artillery Battles | ; At Many Points, Says Paris| +, PARIS, Jan. 30 (Associated Press) —Fotlowing i# the text of the , given out today by the French War Office: “In Belgium on Jan. 29 there were artillery engagements, In front of Cuinchy, near La Bassee, the British army drove beck an attack delivered by three German battalions (3,000 men), The Germans in this case suffered heavy losses. “To the north of Arras, near Nouville-3t. Vaset, our heavy @etiliery brought a German battery under its fire and caused the @ilesens of the enemy to explode. “In the sectors of Albert, Roye, Soissons, Craonne, Rheims and Perthes there were yesterday artillery ongagements, at times Father severe, Our batterics acquitted themselves officiently | “In the Woevre district, near Flirey, the Germans exploded a mine, the odject of which was to blow up our trenches. As a mat ter of fact, ali they did wan to destroy their a & LAWSON RENEWS UMON'S ATTACK ON ROCKEFELLER Tells How Company Treats Men Injured in Its Stock- aded Camps. ADMITS HE’S INDICTED. Says Visit to Oil Magnate Was Made in Non-Official Capacity. John BR. Lawaon, of Denver, Preni- dent of District No. 15, United Mine Workers of America and member of the executive board of the union, re- feller jr., the Colorado Fuel and Iron Germans and British in Battle With Bayonets at La Basseé ‘| PARIB, Jan. 30 (United Press).—Furioun fighting is again in progress La Basso. The Germann renewed their defperate infantry annaults Bnglish in ah attempt to drive thom westward toward Bethune, held by the British, and the scene of bloody fighting earlier in fe again the centre of German attack. from La Bassee westward over the Bethune bank of the canal. Absence of rain and | had dried up the fields in front of the Inglish pread out in loose formation in charging upon Nght aftiliery shattered the foremost ranks, but the Germans Rs Penetrating the wire entanglements ane Teaching the first line of English trenches. These were either an- ‘Bibilated by bayonets or taken prisoners. Fighting is still in progress, but as from Bethune expressed confidence that the Germ A oe 5 an aerauite i A German blunder caused frightful casualties in the enemy's ranks in Woevre region. The Germans accidentally exploded ty f exp! @ mine intended up, killing and wounding an entire company, to their second line of earthworks, French artillery got the range of an artillery camp near Arras. Shells the French guns wrecked several ammunition carts, the explosion kill- @ Bumber of German gunners. The results of the shelli st 4 Ing were observed Prussian Town Captured an + After Bombardment for a Day LONDON, Jan. 30.—Another success for the Russians in their slow but Progress toward Konizsberg, the East Prussian capital and fortress, iy of invesion, marching toward Konigsberg on tho Gumtinnen-Pillkalien hae been captured after a day's bombardment. ‘The German garrteon's fae Taran, but it ihanaged to retire with its supplies. The population _Wrom the north the Russian invaders are meeting with equal success. have — the rota aypeired the neighborhoid of Titeit, sixty northeast of Koenigsberg, we destroyed their Pos three miles north of Tilsit. er ae.’ enim t from Petrograd, dealing with the battle in Kast 7 “The Russians cocupled Pillkallen after a day's shelling. Th - suffered heavily before retiring. Of the population of 000, cals 400 and children and aged persons remained. defenses northward of the Masurian Lakes Angerapp River, b i weak further northward to Tilsit.” sy Hy are Somber DSTON STILL THE HUB. Bie” Move Taaght Than to Any Other Large City, SEIZED A LIGHTED BOMB. Temant Extingutshes Puce and Saves a Small Bey Teo. A bomb with sputtering fuse was found late yesterday afternoon on Ground Moor hallway of the five Gat heuse at No. ley Usherwood, a tenant. y ‘The emell of smoke attracted Usher- wood to the rear of the hall, where, under the stairway, ho saw a fuse £ 5 Steer. Pacter’s Deer, John Plesca, a contractor, of No, m4 East One Hundred and Seventh treet, reported to the detectives of the Third Branch Detective Bureau last night of the placing of @ bomb outsid that address. Detectives who wont’ tg : "a home found the bomb which a td Spaustarrager eee Wened™ bul ta einen J. ¥, Mieke Did Net Sebere Perjery. ‘The Grand Jury on Wednesday dis- missed the charge of subornation of perjury made against John F. Hicks, a lawyer, of No, 607 Lockwood Street, feng Bins City, The charge was made cr Manhat Krentte ‘Gourt Witiumbire on} , nec Brooklyn ‘Kat it Gonpany. e Jury ‘decided that the evi: id not warrant a belief that the man was guilty. it ‘Trai THE FINAL PRECAUTION, (Prom the Philadelphia Letger,) “You treated the accusations silent te course?’ wih a ‘And then with haughty indiffer- ence?” announced in Petrograd today. Pillkallen, one of the objectives of the | shed Company, and the other coal opera- tore of Colorado at to-day's session of tho United States Industrial Com- mission in the City Hall., Lawaon began the attack yesterday afternoon after visiting John D. Rockefeller jr. at No, 26 Broadway. Laweon finished reading a list of men killed in the mines and then be- wan a description of the fate of a men injured in @ Colorado Fuel Tron Company mine, Such a mai muat be attended by @ company, phys- leian (paid out of the injured man’s Pay envelope by the “check-off" nya- tem); he is kept in a closed camp— a fortrena; he does not improve, he isa went to the company hospital at Pueb- loa good hospital but a company hospital paid for by assessments out sumed bis attack on John D. Rocke- | WORLD, BAT iy URD n A on Nona McAdoo Sails to Nurse 0 unded Soldiers in South France | of the pay envelopes; he dies and & company coroner site in judgment on hia death; it is usually set down as due to “suicide” or ‘flagrant neg- if he has ho union card in hie pocket he is described as “without family or friends,” of as one coroner put it “no family and damn few friends” and his body goes to a company cometery, There were no amusements or s0- clal gatherings except a few dances, an occasional church meeting and the saloon inside the stockade. Men in closed camps are not allowed, the Witness said, to discuss labor matters or the advisability of organising. ‘Those who break this rule are ban- Lawaon sald his own home at New- castle, Utah, was dynamited in 1903, after the Governor of the State had threatened to drive all union officials out. He went on to say that he hoped that the proclamation by John D. Rockefeller jr. last spring had no connection with the Ludlow massacre which followed, UNDER INDICTMENT HIMSELF, LAWSON GAYS. Lawson was asked by Chairman Walsh to deaogibe his visit with Mr. Rockefeller yesterday. “Mr. Doyle and I met Mr. Rocke- foller and Mackensie King by ap- pointment. We went over things in- formally and spoke of the Colorado situation, I was obliged to tell him 1 didn’t think much of the labor plan he had evolved and I thought he would make an arrangement to mect some of our national officers, Mr. Hayes and others, that a way to bring the company and the miners together could be found. I told him it waa the only way. “E desire to say that I went to nee Mr, Rockefeller aa one citizen going to see another, I did not go as a ropreaentative of labor, but as an in- dividual, Our talk was pleasant from beginning to end.” Commissioner Welfistock asked whether the witness thought unions ought to elect or re-elect officers con- victed of crime, Capital, retorted the witness could convict any man or woman ofanything it pleased, There- fore the untons could not draw a line against those unjustly convicted, Lawaon said, Real criminals ought always, to be punished and to be repudiated by their fellows whether laborers or millionaires, He then launched Into a lst of alleged vio- lations of the mining laws of Col- orado by the Fuel Company manage- ment Q. You know that as proof that the United Mine Workers of America were lawbreakers an unlawful call to arms issued, signed by your ame and other officers of the U. M. W. At A. When they state that the circular is a violation of law thoy falsify, I ask you to show me where that is a violation of law, Do you mean that if you and I were neigh- bors on a farm and called to me to brit gun as you and your family were in dangtr of injury and death from outlaws, would vou be breaking jany law? | Q It ts a diffenent thing to cireu- lariae. the State and arm men by thou- lwands, le it not? A, T can't see it. Thousands in danger called for help | from thousands, Mra, Harriman broug! two days. after Ludlow, out that the h Laees, were armed be- pemehenen are answer from | for the new subway: toad ment—that I must decline to go! sary Chairman Thompson remarked, | “IT was wondering how | tock said he had many | #lx men could handle $12,000,000 worth | which were barred by this] Of property when nine men aro ro- sarcastically: 5 9BGB4 OED EEG 1990999008004 9OOd14 1006O00O 0009 rotest and devoted himself to asking} Quired to get out the minutes of the waon about broken agreements of | the Un Mine Workers. . Lawaeon denied that hundreds of i atrikes had been called in violation of contracts. There were isolated instances where! Jocal unions had hroken contrats and the national orgafization had either’ sent the men back or revoked char- tera. The witness promixed to submit the union records on the subject. Commissioner O'Connell brought out commission,” ‘The witness then testified that the ten employees engaged and proofreading were paid $9,840, but these did not get out the annual re- port; that was attended to by the State printer. Another interesting penditure b: the m of that the union had never charged all|the recerds ef the commission. operators were guilty as a body when|books purchased for it cost about an individual operator violaes a con- ract. PS. BOARD PAYS $5,300 SALARIES FOR CARE OF 0 BUKS (Continued from First Page.) James A. Foley of Now York City and R. R, Lawson of Brooklyn; Assembly- men Meler of Seneca Falls, Knight of Wyoming County, Kincald of Syri cuse, Donohue and Burr ‘of New York, and McQuiition of Brooklyn, ADJOURNED TO ACCEPT INVITA- TION TO LUNCH. Hefore the formal opening of the sessfon Chairman Thompson an- nounced that the committee would adjourn from 12.45 to 2.30 to attend the luncheon given at India House, Hanover Square, by Dock Commis- sioner R. A. C, Bmith to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, George V, 8. Williams was the only Commissioner present at the inquiry. He nat in a front seat, Secretary Whitney, after being sworn, gave names and the terms of ‘the various Public Bervice Commta- sloners since inauguration of the commiasion system under = Gov, Hughes, “What are the salaries of commis- sioners?” asked Col, Hayward, “Fifteen thousand dollars each for commissioners, $6,000 for secretary and $10,000 for counsel," replied Sec: retary Travis. CITY PAYS BIG PRICE FOR THE COMMISSION. pays those salaries of commiasioners and secretar, all other expenses are met by the City | of New York," He Mills wanted to know who determined whether informal com- plain shovid be handled by ordinates or be made the subjec formal inquiry by the commission The witness stated that this matte was up to the subordinates to mak report Q, Then informal complaints do not always get the loners A. No, not usual: Mr, Hayward asked Mr, Whitne: in detail about the real estate pur- chases of the commission for rapid transit. purposes. Senator Foley | asked how much the commission had expended in real estate purchase | wince 1907, HAVE SPENT $12,000,000 BUYING roperty have not to easements, light and air,” $1,000 a yea: ‘The wit eNppinga subscribed for by the mission cost $10 u month in 1914, The of accidents. udded, Q. (By Mr, the Ibrary, “counsel attorneys were $972,210, But thi not even report paid $1,000 the find out what thi to do while t siders to re! & Wethlebem ieet 'kiyn Caton Gas, a Petrie Canadian Paciti Chea, & Ob M. & a. sistant counsel,” at which s let by cont side stenographic firm. ‘The commission has so many sten- ‘snot only in the legal de- Assistant Walker kept some of the clippings he . paid mi 000, an aggregate aalary of $61,800, plus $20,000 for clerks and stenographers, making a total of printing item of ex- @mmission was the annually to the ref- ee library employees. This Verery not contain, Mr. Whitney adi “74 Ld r. ress explained that the preas ‘om clippings were obtained to keep track Secretary q@. (By the Chairman)—Did clippings have any effect upon Commission? A. I think you'd better usk the Commission that? Haywood)’ who the Comminsioner? A. It in extensively used by the employer and engineers who consult the refer- these the | hi uses ence books in their construction work. In the law department of the com- mission there were twelva ‘employees who wtre lawyers or wore the title, Mr, Whitney stated. at $10,000, ‘These ran from to “junior as- In 1914 the ion to an d $1,200 per year—thi investigators began probing to y possibly could find mission hired out- Syngesea: seztse & #6 F otBaz See 2.83: oe FR PEPELERE OF PSSIREE $e: Hp sttnographers do earings, out. STOCK QUOTATIONS 11 A. M. ¢ Cores ,| to him. ta SENATE FILIBUSTER Republicans in Endurance Fight on the Ship Bill Pre- pare for Siege. 12-HOUR TALK BY SMOOT ' Succeeded by Sutherland, Who Is Ready for All-Day Argu- ment—Democrats on Guard. WASHINGTON, Jan, 30,— With Senator Sutherland of Utah speaking, the Republican filibuster in the Sen- ate to kill the Ship Purchase Bill had at noon to-day been in continuous force for twenty-five hours, the ses- wion starting at 11 A. M. yesterday and continuing all night. During the past week the filibuster had been carried on only during the day, but a night session was forced last night and to-day Senator Oliver, acting as the Republican whip, de- clared he had two weeks continuous talking at hand, and it would be used if necessary. Republicans frankly admitted their intent to block the bill and to en- | deavor to wear down the Democrats in an endurance contest. At sunrise to-day Senator Smoot, who had held the floor all night, was till speaking and continued until 9.26 A. M., when he yielded to Senator Sutherland, his colleague. He had talked continuously for 11 hours and 36 minutes. In the Vice-President’s chair sat Senator Hollis watching for the op- portunity to drop the gavel and order ONALL NIGHT MAY | SWEEPING GAINS LAST TWO WEEKS the hard-fought-for roll call, but down in the seats of the chamber new Republican sentinels began ar- riving, fresh and keen’ from a night of sleep, their drooping eyed col- leagues began retiring, the full dress suits began to disappear and at the same time fresh forces of Democrats came on to replace those who had kept the battle going through the night. ‘Thus the contest became again one between men fresh in mind and body. Senator La Follette, who holds t! long distance talking record, was an early arrival. . The length of Senator ‘ecalled other notabi: Smoot peecht Senator thirteen len spoke four- repeal of the all- ver pure’ ye in the Sherman law. In 1901 ator Thomas H. Carter spoke fourteen hour: River and Harbor Bill, In 8 0 Senator William V. minutes on the Vreeland- mergency Currency Biu, enator Burton twelve hours al n minutes on a River and Harbor Bill, Senator Edward W. rmack in 1907 made a notably speech on the Ship Subsidy Measure Senator long speech on the admission of Ari- zona to the Union. and twent; Aldrich and in 1 a record-breaking endurance talk. Never before in the memory of Sena- tors, or as rvealed by the records, was so long @ speech made without the aid of quorum calls, interruptions and reading by the cler! THIEVES BIND TRIO WITH $15,000 GEMS IN SHOP AND FLEE (Continued from First Page.) The $15,000 loot consisted of articles pledged for loans, for the lows of which Stern 1s not Hable. Stern's clerks say the operation of cleaning out the safe and filling the sult cases occupied about half an hour, The thieves had the advantage of Stern's solicitude for the privacy of his customers, for no one from the street could see the interior of the store because of the ground glass in the doors and Shelves in the window: Btérn's clerks say the thieves, when their work,was finished, warned them to keep quiet for half an hour and then leisurely departed, one man et rying Both sult cases, They slammed the door behind them, and the snap lock clicked Into place. ‘Witnesses have been found who saw three men, one carrying @ suit case, board a southbound “L” train at the Eighty-fourth Street station about 9.80 o'clock. It was 9.46 o'clock when the Stern clerks managed to release themselves and notify the proprietor of the ‘ob- very. Stern's firet impression was that the thieves had taken from $40,000 to $50,000 worth of stuff, but an inven- tory fixed the value of the loot at about $16,000, Althoug® there were many valuabie articles and considerable je in ator La Follette spoke eighteen hours |}, ‘Owen, in 1908, another | th Bmoot's speech is taken as actually | Ch, ISTRA CLAS SEEK ROBBERS W ATG WO Mrs. Stern’s Screams Brit Policemen, Who Save Her Life. OVER RUSINS Offsets Reports of Czar’s Ad- vance in East Prussia by Counter Move. Mrs. Mary Stern, wife of Stern, a restaurant proprietor, is @ serious condition to-day at home, No. 222 West One Hundre@ FIGHTING IN THE SNOW. Vienna Insists That the Russian Lines of Communication Are Threatened. beating she suffered at the hands @ two robbers who invaded her hom last night, took all the money tn th | flace, lighted two fires and left he ‘locked in the smoke-filled apartment | The robbers, as they dashed ow through the main hall of the building Petrograd of Russian success in the turned on every gas jet they came t advance of two armies into East| without lighting them. Prussia and the capture of the town! Mrs, Stern, thirty years old, was t of Pillkatlen on the road to Koenigs-|the parlor when the men entere berg are ritet by sweeping claims in| through a rear window. One of Vienna of military successes along| held a revolver to Mrs. Stern's virtually the entire eastern front. It| and sald: is asserted in Vienna that in Poland,| “Now come across with all on the Warsaw front; In Galicia, Bu-| money and what else is in the houm kowina and Northern Hungary the| Where is it?” Austro-German allies are battering; Mrs, Stern, whose husband was down the Russian resistance. at home, told the robbers that all ‘The rearward communications of| money she had—§18—was in a purs the Russians in Galicia are threat-|on the table. One of the men too} ened, the Vienna. report says, while! this, and then while his compasio! the Aussian forces which invaded Mu-| held Mrs, Stern with the revolver h kowina and Northern Hungary are|begansearching the apartment, H declared to have been unsuccessful,| ripped open a mattress with a knif and in Poland, it is asserted, the tren-| and, finding nothing, dropped a lighte) ches of the Austro-Gernlan armies are} match into it, The mattress began t) approaching the Wardaw forts. blaze. | Reports from the Russian war of- into the kitchen to contin fice recently have indicated that the | his search, he set a pile of paper Austrians have gained some advan- | fire with a lighted candle, The pl tage in the fighting in the Carpa- | Was becoming dense with emoke. M: thians but neither the Petrograd nor | Stern ran to a front window to ec! Berlin statements have shown im-|&"d was knocked down and beate: portant changes on the Warsaw front. | Then the robbers fled, Mrs, Stern! The forces of Russian aro battling |4feams brought the police, fu the snow in the Carpathiaas Moun. | 9?oKe in the door, put out the fire tain passes, but as is usual with |Te#cued the somi-conscious woman, mountain fighting, the situation ts | gti are ene confused, each side maintaining that the tide of battle is running in its favor. Déspatches from London and Paris tate that the Rusians havo inflicted @ defeat on the Turkish army which invaded Persia, and have reoccupied Tabriz. An official communtcation from the Commander of the Russian Army of the icasus say that the ‘Turks were defeated and put to flight 1y an engagement near Tabriz, but makes no mention of the reoccupa- tlon of that city by the Russians, —_——_ NEIGHBORHOOD DANCE A HIT. w LONDON, Jan. 30.—Reports from morning in the apartments of Afi Marie Panebrane at No. 218 Aveni A, This was revealed by the a of the men accused of the crime. of Mra. Panebrane, who ing her and taking jeweiry val $1,200 from her trunk they tied to the back of a kitchen stove which there was a fire. At that she was unconscious. Regaining consciousness Mrs. Pi brane, who had not been burned, ie herself from the ropes. The police were notified and the old woman in ving a description of the robbers id one of them had a deep scratch ‘on the face. The police arrested Joseph Ricoo- bani of No, 184 First Avenue and Rosario Conigliane of No, 26 Market _ Give One Every Friday at School 45, Street. The latter bad a scratch on A novelty in the way of social enter- | his face. Both were locked in Police 3 |tainment was launbhed last night in| Headquarters. Public School No. 45 at No. 226 Weat Twenty-fourth Street, in the Neighborhood Dance, promot Instituteg, Circular invita- it thousands to houses and factories of the trict ween Fourteenth and Forty- second Streets and Fifth Avenue and the North River. Neighborhood Dance will be con- tinued every Friday evening during the Potter is Chatr- ts more ep than getting well, Butld up the reserve force to the resisting point by drinking jaing the dances Dr. John L. Elliott, 8. G. J. Hart, F. J. Brownscombe, Mrs. ge Ross and Miss Marjorie Wain- Rar Eee LOFT MAY SEEK NEW JOB. Congressman Said to Have Am tipm to Be New York Postmaster, Friends of Representative George W, Loft, wealthy candy manufacturer, said to-day that he might become a candi- date for postmaster of New York to succeed Edward M. Morgan, whose term i) expire on Dec. 15 nex! It w med by Mr. Loft’s friends that dent Wilson will appoint Democrat. Prominent members of Tammany Hall, of which Mr. Loft is a membor, said they heard nothing of his re- it will make well, Now New Al (at both restaurants) WBUSTANOBY’ Si} postal service for forty-on: promoted from aussi: postmaster in 1907. that time was not considered political. _——— N. This Weak ot B0th 64; to **BABY WEEK’ ’ CABARET & DANCING wi’ European Artista, Botertainment Ends Lite With Gas. wheon and lasts. till close, justanoby" When Morris Benjamin went to his home on the ground floor of No, 930 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, at 2 A. M. to- day, he could not get in and called Policeman Minneman, who climbed in a back window, Mrs. Jennie Benjamin, twenty-seven, wife of Morris, was dead ‘on @ mattress placed against the door, Try “Dining Out be in her mouth, Her Tisbana “could give no reason. for her IS SUNDAY suicide, A gM eaoked, » ain ttaty Ce Arms Soldiers of Two Catewert DINNER ROME, Jan. 90.—A royal decree has For One Dollar been issued calling to the colors the Italian soldiers of the firat category, born in 1888 and belonging to the field artillery, and also Alpine troops d the soldiers of the third category, born in 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894, be- longing to the Alpine troops. Served from 1 to 9 P.M. fietioed Entertainment, Our Famous Tée Jock Day unebeon, GULDEN’ All lest or found articles of- ‘ vertised in The World will be ( Meted a¢ The World's Informa- tien Bureas, Pulitser Arcade, Park Rew; Werld’ wera” asa, TRY IT ON Wertt's Marien ones ‘aus West 125th &&., Steaks, Chops Breckiyn Office, 202 Washing= = ase ee SE nw Fourteenth Street, from the shock a iI | Wt