The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1915, Page 2

hes a ae se 4 Fe. Severe of the War. * SS and Whole Blocks of Houses Collapsed. it HAE i Hi i HI -- iti Ula ahs iy ae | ef fi li Eg z | : i t j i HH ils fy y i ii: ait iE it Ht iit $4 i as § i a g i He sé ey £R rr | Oreayhe okra a "Jiges bodau tbe ies Anonymous Band of Heroes Along Yser. 2,000 SHELLS THROWN.|MOST OF THEM NOBLES. Started in Many Places|Work So Perilous That Its Members Have Been Wiped Out Twice. WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Oorrespontient, be steel | aE i it g Af H : i E be rf bt | Fy 7 iy! aH Fj it 3 i fi i i | 4 it i | | i i i i i i u i i i i A 2 Bt ‘3 2: | “4 7 z se i i | i Tx yam < Great Naval Battle Imminent as Thirty-two Warships Enter Dardanelles. SHELLS HIT 3 VESSELS. Twelve Inner Fortresses Still to Be Reduced—Turkish Fleet Awaits Enemy. sides of the Strait, There are thirty- two warships in the fleot. Twenty-five miles away the Turkish of the great naval battles of the war may be fought in the narrow, river- Nke channel. announcement that the pele nenernee of British Eratend lth pen a 64 AMERICAN ARTISTS REFUSED PASSPORTS BY EMBASSY AT PARIS. WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915. en genine | Famous GERMAN GUNS FORLORN HOPES [ALLIED WAR FLEET en MRE 400 MORE. | FALL TO “SEBRET | FNTNG WAY PAST HMSESHENS| 15°F BELG, THE THRO Latest Bombardment Reported Daring Feats Performed by Plunger in Wheat Who Testified at Bread Inquiry CANS BY ALES INSTI FHT AT TWO PINTS British Reported to Have Re- pulsed Attacks Along La Bassee Road. PARIS, Feb. 26 (United Preas).— Further gains for allies all along the of th ole bea Ligrpbartoaceae rd ee iy Negotiation. OMtthe men who buys for a few| Watching and apprehending Lody mont forest, were reported in oficial despatches to the war office to-day. The British repulsed another series of German charges along the La Bas- see-Bethune road. They counter-at- ' th tacked and threw the Germans back/iations of belligerents and submarine | More good than harm. It te the same) 154) piayeq his unconscious part, 7 ’ ouasion for two daya between the Ger-| if they open the Dardaneliee—down | Subsequently she moved to Omaha, Roasted bayonet the French forced the enemy|man imperial orities concerne3| will go the market! But you might] where she now is, according to Steg- Peanut Bar to evacuate several trenches. Fight-|and the American Ambassador. fe ven ee pecg ey] to guess DOW! 16, The “follow-up man” gleaned in- ing jn the Champagne region con-| The correspondent of the Associated | "\'T saw in 1897," said Mr. Leiter, with | formation which resulted in the sink- Baueneaes s SONS tinues, with the French making steady |Prese bas been assured ee e ana amalle, “that woent was seliag ing of the Audacious by a German 3 Progress around Perthes. The Bel- American proposals are regard as/at less an cost, submarine, Stegler adds. - @ians are stubbornly resisting Ger-|constituting a satisfactory basis for Due some, ore oe. Reine YouDe SAYS VON HORN WAS MERELY man drives against their positions in | 2esotiation and that they are gal ( the flooded area in Flanders. They |*“ycvernment omelais nave supreessed | and holding the commodity until At Your made @ successful attack yesterda: Dealers recapturing @ trench previously taken | ly be gid in boda these proposals have Germans. German artillery bombarded the|the American note deals with three | ment experts. I lost money. The only long the Aisne for | principal pmubjecta-—mnine, and | sub: nee 5, make money were the several hours yesterday. The French | marine 10 of ooas' Use of | "Mr. Becker's questions suggested replied effectively, silencing several | "sting mines and the entry of food-| 1.0 "Lie grain dealers, elevator own- German batteries. French positions pncnahne lation, TWENTY FORMER SOLDIERS |"27,be sala wits contasnce that it: |'85SR: ao. sata. mr. Letter! “when- ENGAGED TO GUARD BIG |‘ a y bi reaching a mutual agreement for the | °", the elevators JERSEY POWDER PLANT, |siesontnsance of noating nes. The | gran ftatalate "aad becker » Feb. 26.—Twenty | not been announced. watchmen have been easployed by the| WASHINGTON, Feb, 26,—Admin- Hercules Powder Company to guard |'stration officials are awaiting re- the large powder manufacturing | PO"rs” informal pro! in quarters near the office bulldings. Large orders from European nations at war have caused extensive jercules Company is following ‘ierisan propossis have been | Southern Russia.” ‘Du Pont Powder Com: | submitted by England to her allies, |FARMER 18 THE REAL SPECU- army men to Haskell. amelie THREE MEN LOST LIVES WHEN STEAMER CARIB STRUCK GERMAN MINE. oR fomsgioms poo apeiony vo | oastans reverted today tuat tree| WARNS STRIKERS THEY | a men lost thelr ives when the Ameri-| MUST GO BACK TO WORK. can steamer Carib sank off Nordeney. Congul General Listoe at Rotterdam LONDON, Feb. %.—Through Sir gent tala word to the State Depart-/ceorge Askwith, Chief Industrial Commissioner, the Government sent | Ose Bassell, Peneacola, Fila.; | peremptory order to-day to the 10,000 bad But taeegs & fen. ie = pulee on Von Spot be Bimesl? FARMERS BLAMED” site Sos Seed ean harvested, that he " & ( wesw) BY JOE LEITER FOR serves ssn | soe, sae cpr her an anonymous letter she had re- yuntry. walt two or three years. At times | ceived through the mall early to-day. Hike thi lies come out that have be HIG WH pet been ‘covered ih the Government ‘This letter threatened difficulties for eatimates. If it were not for this im-|heree and her husband if she did { — very wok i loge to-day would be|not “keep her mouth shut” and said “tle. Leiter declared that up to Feb, |*%® Bad precipitated an incident . 1 the United States had exported 245,-| Which would lead to dangerous reia- Grain Expert at Bread Inquiry a hele of wheat and Canada | tlone between the United States and Germany, ‘a Both Stegler and his wife swore Declares They’re the Real | “here that the handwriting on the onyelepe Speculators. 4 eoenblad’ taaie. theniven iy Stegier e hips rf it up wheat |from Capt. Boy-Ed. Grinkthe had ee Dries, imply wo buy |typewriting experts compare the my wheat and eat it. They ate some-|acript of the anonymous leter with HOARD UP THEIR GRAIN. | pe SE ntti saetetad’ doeentns typewriting sent formerly, by Boy-Bd tion doses not raise the price of wheat. He added: save bigs’ fg hkl pds over Board of Trade Speculation! caus proment very, eh prices, are that isn't contracted bushel before it broke and knocked! uistors the rise would have come| and of plottin is to send Stegter thers, him out of the market, was the Grst/ sooner.” too. If there is another accident in witness to-day at the State investi-| “Do you think the present low] the subway I'll be accused of having gation into the rise in the price of] Price of potatoes will affect the price| a hand in that. At all eventa, I was Has Tended Only to Keep the nat | 28 anonym manage il ns “Th to mal no fort ta # \ i Prices Down, He Says. “Yes, the farmers, There ien't any-|out of the Tombs and not to talk \ in the market. ‘The|further about her husband's connec- Ij Hl stayed 1 ti) tion with th alleged plotting of the Joseph Leiter, the young man who " margins secret service people. \ , , if \ i] ] istinguished himeelf in 1897 and 1898 Siete go Booed? had’ this 45 yl aig G f yy {i by establishing a grain corner that/ Speculati i s he en Comune? of baring wenre-money | “resent price 5 sent Lody WS UI a sent the price of wheat up 40 cents al TR {he Tener bee ‘spec-| his death in the ‘Tower ot London of flour?” not responsible for the earthquake in bee, ‘No, not im this country. TR would] Italy.” “anes “You had a great deal of experience | abroad, perhaps.” Investigation into the» record of See a ite ait us cal farmer from sellingt? | treet, Hoboken, who is under arrest ” " reet, Hoboken, who is under Tet ae ee “The farmer would rather have the|in connection with, the. fraudulent @ SAnd it came in « bunch?” wheat in his bin than money in the| passports, showed that he is ‘tinder , “Very much #0," he replied. “T| bank. He knows where the wheat is,|indictment for carrying ‘concealed dealt in grain markets all over the | but he can’t tell what might happen | weapons. are aud oun ralter dented emphatically the |ralgned before Recorser 3, Mccdvern ir. er emp! Ma @ | Talgnes fore ier J. ern ‘You have dealt in the grain wiar-| reoort that owners of “lin ators | in Hoboken on the charge of carrying ket since?” are holding grain back in order to| concealed weapons and held for the “Yes; at times.” make a profitable corner. Grand Jury, The December term of “This year?” the Grand Jury brought an indlet- “No,” sald Mr. Leiter, “I haven't Lng ae tid ent pe: odo been in the market for a year.” —— bond $500, and Assistant Street | Commissioner Thomas F, MoLaughlin ‘Then Mr. ‘ker asked him to tell acted as bondsman. Madd: about wheat, from the earth to the was Drought before Judge 7 consumer, Mr. Leiter began with his Jersey City on Feb. 4, when he’ en- experience when the western prairies i tered a plea of not guilty. were first sown to wheat, when hours pice Bon SAILING TO-DAY. of labor were twelve to thirteen a day, wages $15 a month and “found,” and SECRET SERVICE Manzanille, Santiage. the ground needed no fertilizer. In —_—— those days, 60 cents a bushel was a profitable Basset? ng! heticws a Ralindl with ‘wages more than doul , the working day cut down to eight or nine hours, (Continued from First Page.) the soil incapable of growing wheat and other costs : steadily mounting, the farmer must| he went to England, ostensibly on have at least $1 « bushel, he declared. | the mission to spy out the loeation of SPECULATION ONLY the British dreadnought fleet, Lody “FARMERS' TRUST,” H! V8, | was promised that in the event.of his According to Mr. Leiter, the specu-| death bia widow, then living in New lators in wheat are really the met | york, would receive either an annuity who oe sae price of flour from go- ing too hig! of $150 a month for life or a fat sum AMERI J N i tats he Std, “8 abolished spec: Of $15,000, ion grain, e rmers wou! ger together, asthe topeceo growers|. cot, Went to. England on this did in Kentucky, and fix a minimum | “STeement, but he did not know that rice, Then you'd get the farmers|h¢ was merely the “target” and that ON \)SF OF MINES te a beirod that won make all tee the “herr von" or “follow-up man” others look puny. you confihe|'was to follow him a short dealings to actual cash grain trans | lo¢ ag the teal work ee actions and stop dealing in futures the Busines would become highly “ itt ign that the German speculative immediately. nel nce Bureau actually contrived “ 1 1d have to take his : Sentiment Seems to Be That It|proats Tight sway, ‘You would ‘be| ‘0Dase the tip to the British Govern- driving people out of the milling busl.| ent thet Lody was a epy eo that if 300d Basi: ness and put it in the hands of| the activities of the British secret Provides G Basis for gamblers, who would take a real toll| service men would be centred on “\ Od BEBOP OGE IEF FETT BEGTTFTTTSIEHDPPOEEOS ISO ppearts “On Tr London Feather Hat $5 to $10 points’ rise or fall in wheat might as| While the real information gatherer ; well bet his money in a faro bank./ who followed him from New York BERLIN (via London), Feb. 2¢ (As-| But you can’t stop legitimate, speci: | would go about his task of discov- sociated Press).—The American not®| use of cocaine in surgery because | ering the whereabouts of the dread- to Germany and Great Britain on the|some people abuse it. There's no| nought fleet, unhampered by espi- tase nares subject of foodstuffs to civilian popu-|#ense in stopping it, because it does | onage. with speculation.” in confusion, gaining 100 yards of] activities at sea, a copy of which was| Mr, Becker asked what the next| Was caught and executed in ¢! % trenches, handed to the German Foreign Office| change in the wheat market will be. Tower. Then in New York ‘aac ‘AUERBACHS In the Apremont region French infantry attacks caused severe losses to the Germans, At the point of the by Ambassador Gerard the night of| “You'll see it jumping up and down | agents had Mrs. Lody write, “Paid in ras} ray, because there’ . Feb. 22, has been a subject of dis- VP eculation,” he restied. “Of course,| full on the back of @ $18,000 check. Chocolate I thought I'd make money by neg THE “TARGET.” Government o} ‘When Von Horn went to Vanceboro, themselves as impressed by the friend- Soule wall Lt Ott ee outs pend Me., Btegier says in his confession, he ners of bins and granaries that had| went as the “target” and another man ‘There Is good reason to believe that | 20t been anticipated by the Govern- | followed to do the actual work of dy- stuite tor ojvillan populations. edge | ors, raised the price of wheat by buy- of German policy ‘snd intentions, it ek Con Gre One BOHENE Gor epee, th (tse, a7: 7, wnrening: ey ge Advertioe’ Specials are on sale at all our stores. A Real. Banquet of Prime Week-End Specials. Special for Saturday, Feb, 27th. cH LATE COV. SPICE DE- - ia! The centres ode || oan cee aes attitude of the German At miralty on | FN ” Taine planting along hostile coasts has|,,,Absolutely,” | sald Mr. Leiter, “Just as Much as your reservoirs in which you gather and store the rain and snow that falls, as water for the City of New York.” posals to Conaitians atten, the one of tha war in jurope, he continued, made Britain and Germany for che climing, (the United States the grain market Hee oe sengtions include removal o¢ (of the world instead of Tiverpool en nesessary mines in the high |it Will so remain until at least next ‘and provide for the distribution | September. H ‘the German civilian | "If they open the Dardanelles, population the abandoument of |sa!4 Mr. Lelter it i et aot he rfare 175,000,! 10 200,000, Mm is ue Denn, COROANGS. WR on |iman food grain crops now stored in merchan’ ipa. mellow, ye ps Wa 4 France and Russia, for consideration.| LATOR, LEITER DECLARES, encased tno shell of oar intompara Damme has ordered that all ports | ,, Wen eked to tell the causes of|| | Sects” mite "tne 1 inthe “British Isles, including the | the Present situation Mr. Leiter sald: sme 2) - Continental sere of Bordeaux, be (QOOLATE COVERED MALAGA GRAPES—The made “special ports” requiring ES v, Tate: bes entins clal rates of war insurance from the ba a Pitti Miike CI Government bureau, One teaspoonful looms big in the nt Cream. Our res BRITISH GOVERNMENT shipyard engineers on strike in the Clyde shipyards that they must re- cune work on Monday, fas “important CEYLON TEA unitions of war urgently required by ty are being held up. and an wages of four cente am Bour. <= teins encenrpartins iio ‘ aie ’