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Salli DEFY | French Army on Way to the Dardanelles. LONDON, March 12 (United Press).—The Turkish commander of has refused a Gemand for surren Rear Admiral Peirse’s equad- ing the port. Des eay the British squadron, having reduced the outer forts, was ehell- inside the harbor. at Kilid Bahr, on the Buropean side after a hour truce, E i Dattertes ? f is 3 i i f | Ta . | iff ! lf | | ! g 5 : i } re | ti | | 3 ao uit : F 6f°94,000, to get you out of @tate? asked Mr. Cook, eaid be was advised that has resumed BRITISH FLEET. IE T GE UP SMYRNA CNDING PART REPLSED ombariment of the City Resumed After a 24-Hour Truce — Big Of the Straits, He could sve the fire of either side and note bow all the shote fell. 3 = i 2 el H g ii H : i ane if Fg i i fi ie f af Hf : i i E ¥ is : + EHyHpEts Fri EEE, bepbhiayé i i i f a si nih Hi Es Pi ft H i] il | i H z | i i if iy i: its tt ? i i the Postal Telegraph Company, g fi iff z£ 2 THIS IS A SAMPLE OF NEWS AS PASSED BY BRITISH CENSOR. The following despatch, showing how the British censorship had othe, Willem rr Prye, sun by ° im P. Frye, oun the German oruteer Kitel Friedrich, reached this city last night, Later despatches showed that the ef the incident had become LONDON, March 11,—The sinking of the American ship William P. Frye by a German eubmerine was only announced here late this evening in a de- epatch from Washington, No friar | were given, At the jouse of Com mens news created considerable excitement, and Washingt claim is await- ed _with interest, The German Admiralty has full information from its agents in North and South America of the Of ships for British a and the of the incomit the ' sod in their hands pro! ly and submarine commanders are in a position te know what ships a and distinguish therefore, is taken for @ submarine sink- @ was knowingly iberately done. amined, and at 11.10 A. M. John B. Stanchfield addressed the Court with ® motion that His Honor take the case trom the jury on the ground that the prosecution had not established a crime as charged in the indictment. He maintained that Thaw was co: fined in Mattoawan not as a prisoner be an § ward of the State, itate’s machinery of justice commit a crime unless he does something to obstruct chinery. Thaw had been taken out of the hands of the court and com- ae fo this institution for treat- end of Mr. unty. case stands in this county. ‘Mr. ed by due process of law. “Therefore upon all the groundé the Court denies the motion.’ Abraham Levy then moved for the dtech: of Richard Butler, Eugene Duffy, Thomas Flood and Richard (‘Roger’) Thompson, jointly indicted with Thaw. eng he urged the @iecharge of jood, who had been identified by only one witness as hav- i iri jutomobile to a hotel MR. STANCHFIELD ? FINAL Stanchfeld began his summing 11.40 o'clock. ohfield said that under the should have been com- Mi wan not “until dis- incareerat in il imprisonment. the 4 that commission of the homicide, Mr. Cook, being « lawyer from up- State, said M tans amased at the fact that $6,000 was by Mr. Thaw for an automobile. ir. Btanchfield then told of an In- cident last summer in Burope, when at Vichy. The war had started and the atmosphe: pleasant, and he paid $1,000 for an automobile to take him from Vichy to Dieppe. ‘When Mr. Stanchfield concluded, “T $1,000 for that because I lehy,” there throughout the fact that swenty-four citizens of New Hampshire, among whom Thaw hind lived for the last year and a half, had come here of | their own volition “to speak a word for Harry Thaw." “Why would those people of New field, eae conduct while Ii among them that he was entitled to his liberty? Why ie it that we read in the newspapers that there was presented to the House of Congress a petition signed fected to this line of argums nide the case, Justice tained the objection. Mr. Stanchfield said he would take an exception. “Very well, take your exception and ruled Justice y Mr, Stanchfield concluded by a pealing to the jury to include in th verdict a specification as to their The 10, sine makes friends for the character of “Roger” | life. Forty delicious cups. “EVE y 700 RUSSUNS REPORTEDTAKEN INTWOBATLE | Berlin War Office Claims the Repulse of the British in Flanders. WARSHIPS SHELL TOWN. Germans Declare 70 Shots Were Fired at Westende by Big Guns. BERLIN (via wireless to duyvitlo, L. March 12--Capture of 1,500, Ru ws in «two «(battles §around, Augustow and Przasnyss was an- nounced in the official War Office statement this afternoon Among the prisoners are two regimental com- manders. The War Office also announced the repulae of the British who attempted to advance from Neuve Chapelle, near La Bassee. The official state- ment ridiculed Russian claiins of vic- tories around Praasnyaz and esserted that since the Germang retired from Praasnyas eight days ago they have taken 11,460 prisoners in the Sighting tn that region, The most decisive victory over the Russians wag scored in the woods northeast of Augustow. Here a Rus- sian force that attempted to pierce the German line was almost surround- ed. To escape capture the Slave made a hurried retreat toward Grodno, losing 4,000 im prisoners, . three nonnon and ten machine guns From the entire distyict around Au- gustow, where the Russians were at- tempting an offensive, they are nuw retiring mm the direction of Grédno. Northwest of the fortress of Oatro- | ¢ lonka the Germans delivered a series the fighting ‘north and northwest of yesterday more Rus- nore ware taken. ing still cont! but the Bri Neuve ‘Chapelle have been unable to advance their lines, The French bave Westende, on the Belgian facoamt ot este! yeat y, the War Balke a to-day. @ shell fire was ineffcetive. The warships retired when the Ger- man land batteries ‘ecame active, opinion of Thaw's sanity or insanity. le said the law entitled Thaw to this. Justice Page corrected Mr. Stanchfleld by stating that law permite the igh in his discretion to so charge Jury. Justice Page ed court prompt- ly at? ter an wae reg bed hear a mn ol a torne: General Cook tor ro “4 twe worrd, ? MISS KATHERINE PAGE, DAUGHTER OF U. S. ENVOY, WHO IS SOON TO WED. LONDON, March 12.—The engage- ment of Miss Katherine Page, daugh- ter of American Ambassador Walter Hines Page, to Charles P. Loring, an architect of Boston, was formally announced here to-day. BRITISH ADMIRALTY ADMITS A BATTLE WITH A SUBMARINE. LONDON, March 12—The Ad- miraity to-day announced that the armored vessel Vandurra was en- gaged with a German submarine in the Irish Sea on Feb. 1. The result of the engagement was not stated in the official announcement. The Admiralty denied the German charge that the Vandurra failed to hoist her colors before firing. This anmouricement probably re- fers to @ recent Berlin despateh de- submari to aii ed fire upon a.submarine with: hoisting ter colors. _——— RUSSIAN GENERAL REPORTED A SUICIDE IN BERLIN DESPATCHES. BERLIN, March 13 (by wireless telegraph to Sayville, L. 1I.).—The Frankfurter Zeitung has received a ‘hells | private despatch from Petrograd timating that General Sievers, com- mandant of the Russian Tenth Army committed sulct: Mine authority for this inference seoms to hg eee, that re been in c! Soerman service held for the General io a Letheran church, —— BULGARIA TRANSFERS HER HEAVY ARTILLERY TO GRECIAN BORDER. LONDON, March 18 (Associated o| Press). — Bulgaria is transporting heavy artillery to Janthe, near the Greek frontier, according to a Sal- oniki despatch to the Dally Mail, _— —. SAILING TO-DAY, Advertioed specials are on sale at all our stores, A Temptin: Friday and Sa me contort A if ree tat ws PS EBINND TELLS HOW BRITISH | HURRY TO FORCE Official Story of How the|Grants Interborough Seventh Town of Neuve Chapelle Was Captured. LONDON, March 13 (Associated Prem).—A report of the recent activi- ties of the British army in the fled from the headquarters of Field Mar- shal Sir John French, was given out to. by the official Information Bu- reau. It is dated March 11 and do- scribes the fighting which led to the capture of Neuve Chapelle, an- nounced yesterday, as follows: “Binoe my last communique the ait- uation om our front, between Armen- teres and La Basses, has been ma- terially altered by a successful initia. tive on the part of the troops engaged. Shortly after @ A. M. on March 10 these troops assaulted and carried German trenches in the neighborhood of Neuve Chapelle. “The co-opération between the ar- tillery of all branchen and the tn- fantry wae very good, with the result that the losses incurred were not great {in proportion to the results achieved. The mutual eupportswhich individual battalions aff: each other during the operations was a marked feature of the attack. “Our heavy artillery was very ef- fective apart from the observed re- sults, prisoners’ statements confirm- ing the accuracy of our fire and the damage caused by it. “Before noon we captured the whole village of Neuve Chapelle. Our infantry at once proceeded to confirm and extend the local advantage gained. By dusk the whole of trenches on a front of about four thousand yards was in our hands. We had established ourselves about 1,200 yards beyond the enemy's ad- vetthe number of German prisoners capture® and brewght in to head- flag during the day was 760. st more to come in. “During the tee enemy made repeated efforts to recover the ground lost. All his counterattacks were re- Mt with loss. ' Extension—March 19 Is Date Now Fixed. The Public Service Commission this afternoon garnted the Imterborough Rapid Transit Company another ex- tension of time in which to say whether it will obey the Commission's order of Jan, 1 2requiring it to dis- card the 478 wooden cars from the subway. Commissioner J. Sergeant Cram entered vigorous protest against the extension. Despite his objections the other members decid- ed that one more extension would do no harm, When the Public Service Commis- sion, after a crusade by The Evening World, issued the order demanding the subway be cleared of the old fash- foned inflammable wooden cars, the Interborough assumed a semi-deflant attitude, counsel for the Interborough, insinu- ated at a hearing on the question that if the Interborough was not per- mitted to transfer ite wooden cars from the subway to the elevated lines it would vigorously fight the order. Under the terms of the order of Jan. | 13 the Interborough was told that it! had until Jan. 20 in which to file an: answer. arrived, however, the railway com- extension to . 8. | When Feb. 8 arrived it was learned that the Commission had again heen | be with the Interborough. An had been tones up granted until ON Ie overcome in utnil y and still another until Feb. 26, But that was not all. Through the kindness of the Public Service Commission the Interborough was granted another stay, this time until! March 9. { It_was at to-day’s meeting of the | James L. cata By the time that date had! ae RAS: alge Texte eral Sevens ony 4g: Commission that the; | ana was ti i thought the ought to be given until Mi explained that counsel engineer for the have a report read denied that delaying Tt is not about its DEFEATEDGERMANS| WOODEN CARBAR}: wooden cars varibus causes a from valng thie Bree ie com! Ee the nei jatern and roakes The ite of the Olive rge Forecast: Fair Tonight and Tomorrow; Sunshine. A GOOD Day for Drugs Are Harmful! — Ifa coffee drinker, have you stopped to think that, with every cup of coffee, you are taking from two to three grains of caffeine, a slow, but powerful, drug?" : According to medical authorities, caffeine is a cause of nervousness, heart trouble, indigestion, constipation and other ailments. 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