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

i} American Steamship Torpedoed Last Night On Way From Liverpool to This Country PLPOVDOHP HOSEL OO VOCE LOOOD Ree re eee ing ‘al vill Alpine peaks, the the capture of Val 4'l raking fire Into the defiles. ‘These offensive operations resulted in the occu jon of Austrian terrt- tory all the frontier from Lom- bardy to the Adriatic. Pt : + + : ° NESRASKAN ORRIN PRES” Wssecmmen | COCO ODES SEES ERIE DEED DD FLED DEES OEE OEDD EEN LID DDDEDEE EEE DGB EO GROUND LOST TO THE ALLIES REGAINED, BERLIN REPORTS 203 BOMBS FALL ON GERMAN LINES INFRENCH AIR RAID Hangar md that the members of the crew were taking to the boats. Later an ermed trawier wirelessed that she was standing by. Capt. J. S. Green of the steamship Nebraskan sent to-day by wireless to Liverpool and by cable from that point the following message to the @fices of the American-Hawalian Line in this city: “Struck by either mine or torpedo forty-eight miles west of Fastnet. Am steaming under convey te Liverpool. Water in low- er held. No one injured. GREEN.” Pastnet Light is at the extreme southwestern end of Ireland, about sixty miles southwest of where the Lusitania was sunk. A point forty-eight matles west of Fastnet te well out in the Atlantic Ocean. Officials of the The Paris War Office Insists ‘American-Hawaiian line doubt that a floating mine would be struck so far @6t at sea and incline to the opinion that the Nebraskan was more probably} That Several Furious Attacks @ruck by a torpedo. Were Repulsed. a ‘The officers of the Nebraskan besides Capt. Green are, Henry Gillespie, ‘Mret mate; W. J. Fralie, second mate; Wilfred Senior, third mate, and F. C. Yandell, Chief Engineer. She carries @ crew of forty men. ‘The Nebraskan is an American built, American owned and American fanned vessel. She was launched at Camden, N. J., in 1902 for the Amer. feap-Hawatian Line and was the first American cargo s}ip to pass through the Panama Canal. She is of 4,409 tons gross, 160 feet long and 46 feet beam. ‘The Nebraskan left New York for Liverpool on May %, with a general ‘ergo, under charter to the White Star Line, for one voyage. She @ischarged her cargo and on May 24 len Liverpool in ballast for the Dela- ware Capes. ‘The charter to the Atlantic Transport Line expired when the Nebraskan @elivered her cargo in Liverpool. Even though she might have taken mun!i- tiens of war to England on her eastward voyage ehe was strictly an Ameri- eam ship, in ballast. bound for an American port when she was damaged. Before the war the Nebraskan plied between New York and Hawaii. (via London, 3.30 P. M.).—The British eteamer Imber arrived here today from Liverpool and reports thet ehe in the vicinity of the North BERLIN, May 2% (via London).— The German General Army Head. quarters Staff to-day gave out the following statement: “A night advance by the enemy against our newly acquired position west of the forest of Beliewaard easily was repulsed. The sumber of machine guns taken from the En- Glish was increased to ten. “Northeast of Givenchy colored British troops mucceeded tast night in capturing @ projecting part of our outmost trenches. PARIS, May 26.—The Paris War “Further south, between Lievin and | Omce to-day reported a great air raid the Lorette Hills, an extensive French | over the German lines. Pie ogame in the afteracon,| “During the day of May 25,” the report said, “dur aviatora showed “In the region to the north and t0/ great activity along the entire front the south of the highroad between cas wane donee 4 Goucher and Bethane the enemy had |enigrvore te bovaberd the eeene, first quccesded in penetrating oUF |mney threw down in all 208 projectiles. Wwenches, but our counter attacks Of these #2 were large bombs of a again put us ip full possession ef OUF | weight of ton kilos (about 22 pounds Stations and Fuel Depots Near St. Quentin Reported Destroyed. 3 THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, VALLEY OF THE WFERNO. | CAPTURED BY THE ITALIANS First Offensive Reported to Have Given King Victor Emmanuel’s Troops Control of Frontier. ROME, May 26.—Italian armies have invaded Austrian Tyrol, occupy- ye and important mountain passes and capturing bigh ‘ar Office announced in an official bulletin to-day. The high defiles of the Brenta River Valley have been occupied by the invading forces. A bayonet battle along the Carnia frontier resulted in rno by the Italian forces, the enemy's trenches with great daring, while machine guns poured a| | Liner Ryndam Which Was in Collision Early To-Day and Is in Sinking Co 4 EAGER DERE FID EDO BODE Deed, See ee eheesee al eee apr ache ee fereveeerererrr.. Alpine troops assailed . POOH1 090 0OFOOO0OSOOCVOOOF 8 PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF STEAMER HIT BY FREIGHTER ITALY FORCED AUSTRIA TO END SERBIAN ATTACKS. LONDON, May 26—The Times Practically all the territory re- Ported captured lies In the Trentino diatrict, an object of contention tn the negotiations that ended in war. An Itallan army that moved north- | ward through Verona apparently met With little opposition as it crossed the Trentino frontier into Austrian | Tyrol, Monte Balldo, a high peak) between the Adige River and Lake Di Gardi, wan occupied by Italian troops. Following is the text of the report: “Everywhere on the 24th our troops took the offensive, oceupying For- cella, Montezzo, Tonale and Ponte! Caffaro in Val Giudicaria, the ter- ritory north of Ferrara and Monte Baldo. “They also occupied Monte Reorno, and Monte Foppa on the slopes north of Lessini; Monte Pasubia and Monte Baffelan, at the extremity of the Agno and Leogang Valleys, and tho | | Gefiles of Val Brenta, We took a! number of prisoners. | the Jer ia eany Austria, Baron Sonning, the § tan Foreign Minister, by yaks J in Feernaey, notified Austria bye | on the ra ne, w e nt with, Italy, Gravest sonse- draught of 27 feet, She was built | Belfast in 1901 The Ryndam was loaded well down to her FPilmaoll mark when she sailed The Cuneo files the Norwegian fag and is commanded by Capt, C Aamodt, She has a gross tonnage of 874, im 201 feet long and has a 30- foot beam. WASHINGTON, May 26. — The Hattleship South Carolina wirelessed the Navy Department to-day that she had 260 persons from the Ryn- dam on board and expects to land them in New York to-night — (Continued from First Page.) vast quantities of ball bearings to Germany. Her friends who saw her off yesterday asked if she feared the ship might be sunk by a mine. She replied Imughingly that she was a good swimmer and was not worrying Another passenger, Ernest Dobler, 4 Swine, who is the agent here porting firm previo reem: would have the quences. Stampalia, but on o Italy not to sail on an Italian ship, changed to the Ryndam. “In Cadore we occupied aft the| Other Americans on board were| RYNDAM CARRIED .78 STOPS frontier defiles. The enemy's medium von Pham oa a PASSENGERS; 21 IN FIRST, Calitre artillery opened fire on the Bay of Misitrina, but without results. “On the Carina frontier on the night of the 24th, we took by a bay- net attack the defile of Val D'In- ferno and the extremity of Val Dagno. “On the Frieul frontier on the tb in the midie of the Isonzo region, we successfully continued our offensive Seventeenth Street, > ork The Cuneo hails from Christiania and is under charter to W, W. and) ©. R. Noyes of Bo consigness the Cuneo Importing Company, a competitor of the United Fruit Com- | pany in the banana trade. \ The Ryndam's cargo is valued in round numbers at $1,000,000. Shipping men commented on the nature of the 34 IN SECOND CABIN The Réndam carried twenty-one first cabin passengers, thirty-four second cabin and twenty-throe steer- age. The first cabin passenger list, given out at the Holland-An ‘ompany’s office here, follow: “The Long Service That I Get From My Gea" Silk Stockings is because of the puri ty of the Silk—there is no ‘load- ing’ oF artificial weighting of the Leper ee the Gold Stripe of course absolutely stops those fiendish Garter runs, which have tuined more of my Stockings than | can count. fig % the Shop, bait operations near Catoretto. We have Lap tyres Air ees Meet was) wir, and B.A. L disposed troops on the conquered | “There were listed 246,114 bushe Mine Nelle Boden. Mra heights betwen the Judrio and the Inonzo. Medium calibre artillery of the Austrians at Santa Maria and Banta Lucia to the southwest of Tol- mino opened fire op the heghts be- tween the Jurdio and Isonso but without result, “On the lower Iaonto we also con- Unued our offensive to attain the line of the river. verywhere ¢ newy corn, hundreds of tons of tobacco, 5,000' bags of cornstarch, 6,000 tons of | linaeed of cakes, 2,000 bushels of “cat | 000 kegs of wire natls and a| quantity of corrugated tron. | The whole was consigned to the Netherlands Over Sen Trust. ‘The Ryndam had a gron Masters and Boden. George; Stenger, Walter Simon Viasveld, Adam Yount, Miss Cornellakrnest Driver, Dorrepaai E, O. Tobler, Miss Grete Egerer Mrs. Martha Daly, H. K. Vandergoot, Julio Franco, J, C. Hayer, Aaron Wheel, J. Vandermey, Walter Noéib 4. Hendrick Salm, — Lincoln positions, One hundred Frenchmen Femained in our hands. “In the region south several repeated strong attacks di- rected by the white and colored French troops agai our lines com- pletely broke down before our en- tanglements, Our opponents ouffered heavy losses everywhere. During the FORCE IN PERIL _—— and reinforcements the capture of Preemyal is but « few Gaya distant, It t predicted here. PETROGRAD, May 3% {via London). ~ Although German activity continues in Central Galicia, on both sides of the fan River between Jarosiau and Preemyel, the Ftussians assert they now have the situation well in band. ‘They state that the German érive from Cracow through Galicia and also the parallel movement om the left side of the Vistula, which reaphed the Kisice and Radom districts, have loat nd that the Russians BG RUSSIAN Teutons, After Daring Stroke, Have Two Armies Across San River. infantry regiment especially distin- qulshed itealf. “An advance of the enemy in the eastern part of the forest of Le Pre- tre was easily repulsed. A flying machine was brought down at & point south of Lens by our avi- ators” PARIS, May 26—The Vrench War Office this afternoon gave out the foi- lowing report: “The checks inflicted upon the enemy yeaterday in the region of An- BERLAN (via wireless to London), ‘Mey %—Austro-German armies un- Gar Gen. Mackensen have crossed the et Radymo, vis miles worth of after capturing the town of WOW IN BERLIN, SPEAKS KINDLY OF ITALIANS. ae baw P = . STEAMSHIPS DUE 10-day. whee Beremeree somone aw ’ ‘ . teonmine, Petree Naw ’ « . * 446 ——— when mohere wey feriiiiete SAILING TO-DAY, , — j Veetmmew Vote tor Pewtitttion Berm dee Cermute Nam HV AND Mey 6 te Loveys, semene “uu siendeg the Nations) Mieentel Con S vhomas Aliana ‘pecan litte ~~ ean: if Boucher battles in the Lorette Hills « Silesian | hostile | nok), 14 shells weighing 100 kilos (200 | pounds) and 65 weighing 43 kilos (95 | pounds) each, together with missiles. “The eMcacy of thie fire was proved @t several points, particularly at the German aviation park, located at Hervilly, to the southeast of Roisel, where « hangar and a machine were set on fire, At the German reserve aviation camp at Urand Priel, to the jnortheast of St. Quentin, where a hangar was shattered, and at the St Quentin railroad tion, whe: the gasoline supply tanke were destroyed “During the course of the preced- ing night four shells were thrown om the air on the rallroed station Doual The outoreak of @ Ore the vicinity of the freight depo wan vbserved. “An artillery engag aiderable severity developed yeater- j day in the region of Holasons, There ant of vx ‘The oficia! aAnruncemen: f: the} their impetus ‘Wer Ofice reported that Chaar aan are now ready to take the initiat area and ot & point to the north of | was fnotber euch encounter pear ing & now proceeding southeast of| Less optimistic observers believe the Meighta of Larette determined | MEIN 1. reet of the front no re. Ratyms, in the direction of Vree-| that the checking of the German | the Germans to come bark with he received.” 7 move ie due to the nacessily of bring. |stiack of eatreme violence, ‘The givehe arvused the greatest nth * which their agaressive wii re. |4uring inet night. We Gleam in military circles here WHR euime iis former intensity 100 ta roleinlon Oh) our caine, | Se Gwe armies across the Han, one above! In the district between Praemyei | (Toone weve ae me —_ thes Japedies on4 another between Jeroe- and the Dniester marches the Kus apiraes ohh Gawee oplendia tenscity | a, ent ” of purpose — —s ad _—— pos door pyran be of The Germans to the beginning de og hE Vilage ne the lot bank of tng) Urered « counter attack aasinet ¢] WEMICE DARK AT WIGHT Jarerias and ot the same time i in | Lmienter work captures by the Gertheest ; a te i thie powtion were made by them Ume! ae heat jend time wenin bn apie of the es: | - German s04 Aviivian we optionally wvardment to! 14 - a defies are sending #helie aaa ane ta » eubjected, we) habitants Seem to Enjoy the AGrinn the werlere forte of Vreem | Montay the epiured Mur | reins of ol) our wow!) Changed Conditions, Hut Watch Ve. Mackensen's arm We nen, Huhhow ine | pre — ara jouee artillery tre . of the dar Mm Airship feet, and pone! charge The Museen troops oy te pe " WMG Seward the furisene from he | however, revered ihe Wrenches ‘ ve 10M, Vio Ports, May 06.—The ertth Unless the enemy can bring | be wame day ~ oy ene vf gh Bango Ra i . |dere that no ligbie be pa beni ow rary a “ of there Ve * wheern eunee ond ow nt . ’ ange & on te een from ahowe the ‘y Heoitione Wf either ose stierk by aeroplanes *? one eelimele the TY oy ‘ <0 changed by thie order, The ya PRINCE VON BUELOW, oof Veuie are normally @ ae “ Mritiee Omete rower of Critietom ¢ Lamon ou Fhe whe recent # eo ae on the ane yerer retired, destroying bridges and cut- ting communications, “Our aviators bombarded the elec- tric power bouse and ratiroad station at Monfaloone, AMSTERDAM, May 26.—An Italian aeroplane was shot down by Austrians near Gorite and two ataff officers killed, according to despatches re- jayed hore to-day from Berlin. Italian troops who crossed the Aus- trian frontier were reported yeater- day within of Gori p> ital of the province of the same name, —iipemane GIRL FLIES OVER THE SEA. 9 City Mall to Let Me y Make Fii ATLANTIC CIT Because edmir ry wanted other officials to witness the fight, Mayor William Riddle elosed the City H mn hour to-day when Miss . eighteen, hin secretary, went £ serial epin over the ovean With Keaneth Jacuith, let and the ‘Mayor “handea ” inte th An Comat wd Wileon | » by nvention -> | WHITMAN OFF TO ‘FRISCO, ALMAMY her You wi Mattes 1" 480 colore the hop where. ¥ | sammie will We adbole WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. The American steamer Nebraskan was torpedoed by a submarine yesterday off the south coast of Ireland. No lives were lost. The Nebras- Gotham Hosiery Shop, | kan carried no passengers, The damagé was slight. 27 West 34th Street Your Dealer now has Gotham 6toeh An official communication from Rome indicates that the Itallan in- ‘ew or ‘can get than for you vasion of Austria has been extended over almost the whole of the Austro- Italian frontier, It is stated the Austrians retired everywhere, destroying | bridgeu as they fell back ‘The new attack of Gen, Mackensen against the Russian Ine north of Pryzemys), in Galicia, is reported from Vienna and Berlin to bave been at- tended by conspicuous success. ‘The War Office at Petrograd admits this much, but says attacks on the Russian ne along the San River were scattered In the West the British have been compelled to give ground in Belgium to the Germans. The allies apparently have offset thix German victory, however, by a French advance further south, in northern France near Arras. An Italian destroyer sunk in @ battle of torpedo boate off Bar- Jetta, in the Adriatic, yesterday, according to an official reportfrom Vieana. The Italian army's sweep toward Triesie, now only twenty-five miles away, continues Premier Asquith, Foreign Secretary Grey and Lord Kitchener retain | their portfolios in the pew British Cabinet, Winston Churebill leaves the Admiralty and Balfour takes his place London hears Germany will curb ber submarine stop It altogether in reply to Germany's announcem nt of the capture of 000 Mussiaos ar Preemys! and the occupation of several lowne of atrategic importance, Feports that German attacks near Opatow and Jorisiaw have uleed. rfare, but will not The Home of Loft Sweets | Daily Helps to Prosperity! Pw | When you keep in toveh with Waele Ade you herp 8 towel with bri ‘chances to beter your home ‘od book nese conditions 1494 WOLD WELLE WASTED” abs. 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