The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1915, Page 2

MANS HAMMER RUSSIAN LINES WEST OF LEMBERG The right wing of his combined arm- les is again on the offensive near Mosciska, on the Praemysl-Lemberg Railway, Though the War Office admits that the Russian Ine east of Jerosliau was bent back by superior forces of the enemy and the village of Tuchla cap- tured to-day's statement sald there was nothing alarming in the situa- tion west of Lemberg. The Russians are strongly entrenched, and the case with which they hurled back the enemy in the recent fighting around Mosciska inspires the greatest opti- mism here. Shortening of the Russian line south and southeast of Lemberg by the withdrawal of the Bukowina minor successes the Dniester, northwest of Washington. There is a belief in settled satisfactorily, In opening the inquiry into the liner was not armed would be convi aa Petrograd Admits Reverses, but Says Czar’s Troops Now Hold Their Ground. Seer TRIANS PRESS ON. with little opposition, is now challe “4 1 : f Italians on the Riva-Rovereto front. Heavy fighting has occurred on of Trieste. A despatch from Innsbr ualties in the vicinity of Gorz and of the lost positions north of Arras, Premier Asquith to-day moved al miles force In the north the battle for Mhavii ‘weat of Lemberg. continues, baa age eae pe bombarding wn, ant Mockensen's centre is attacking “De recaptured on the highway | tng ha the Germ north vg hypametbahepponinnetd | ex LONG RANGE GERMAN GUNS BOMBARD A FRENCH CITY GERMANS ANGERED BY DETENTION OF LUSITANIA WITNESS ‘Proceedings Against Stahl, Af- fidavit Maker in New York, Excites Criticism. doubt. Although Berlin and Vienna trenches 1 it is said officially at Petrograd that in London. ARMED, CAPT. TURNER SWEARS AT INQUIRY (Continued from First Page.) plosion between the third and fourth funnels. “I immediately ordered full speed astern, but there was no response. commission. The vessel within a few moments had listed about 15 degrees, rendering the port lifeboats practical- ly useless, ORDERED WOMEN AND DREN SAVED FIRST. “1 gave orders that'women and chil- dren should e placed in the boats | first and then went to the bridge. 1! remained {here until the vessel sank.” “wi part did Mr, Alfred G. Van- derbilt take in the work of rescue?” he wan asked. BERLIN, June 15.—The Vossische Zeitung comments as follows on detention, in Cincinnati, of Heing Hardenberg, said to \be a member of the German aviation corps, in con- ection with the investigation into the Lusitania disaster by the Federal Grand Jury in New York: “It ie decidedly a remarkable man- ner of conducting an investigation that persons who make statements varying from those of American port Officials should be intimidated by arrest on suspicion of perjury.” The Tages Zeitung, speaking of the ame case, remarks: “And what of Port officials who gave false teatl- mony?" ‘The Tagliche Rundschau refers to the arrest of Gustav Stahl In the same Cane, end declares the Hardenbeig in- cident is astonisht: “Ono is justified in asking if there is @ system in it,” this paper re- marks, “whether it is a plan to shut the mouths of or render suspicious in advance those witnesses who testify to anything against England (and against America, which permitted the armed Lusitania to leave port.) “In any event, thie interception of witnesses Gemands our full atten- tion.” ‘The Krous Zeitung publishes in the pbsition accorded ied @Very evidence that the enemy is pre- paring to launch & great attack to Weoover the village, whose capture of the most import- respunse. While the captain was still under crosa examination Lord ey, the presiding Justice, ordered ap adjourn- ment to an anteroom adjoining his chambers where the “questioning of the Lusitania’s master was continued in private. It was understood thi at this secret inquiry Capt. Fae | was asked about the instructions Admiralty issued to steamship com- manders passing through the war sone and whether he obeyed these instructions. TWO BROOKLYN HOUSES QUICKLY SWEPT BY FIRE Children Alone in One of Them|} When Blaze Starts—Woman In- valid Carried From Danger. Bix families were left homeless when fire swept through two three- story frame houses at Nos. 677 and 679 Hendrix Street, Brooklyn, to-day, Two sons of Mrs. Nathan Eesen- presser were in her flat on the first floor of No, 619 when the fire started there. She had gone to the estore, taking four children with her, but left Max, aged lx, and Harry, aged seven. Their screams brought neigh- bors to the apartment when the fire started, The children were uneble to explain what caused i An alrshaft gave the flames free play _and when the firemen arrived the first house was almost gone, A woman shouted that Mra, Anna Hertas was til in bed in her Mat 683, which the fire was threaten ‘and Fireman Paul Decker of the rty Avenue station went in and carried her out. pA SE KAISER 27 YEARS ON THRONE Willtam 11. od Faith in Army the Day He Became Ruler, William IIT. has been Emperor of Germany twenty-seven years to-day. The new Kaiser was twenty-nine years old. He announced soon after ho became the German ruler that his confidence was in the soldier and the army rather than parliament ma- ses olla hold the German fis naval paliey ee from read and was taken to for possible hostilities es wih Eni wand, aroeaes | 4 Smo ¢ by ‘er Ke preserv: ft peace. He auarrel with "ihe fron Chanoell Bis- marck, soon after his ‘accession to rakes threne, My pe, he cS een to Germany, |S anti-Engl Germany, the eS Soa Pe Rae tho sinking of the Lusitania and submarine warfare gonerally. It in- siete the Lusitania was armed. ee TURKS REPORT GAINS AT THE DARDANELLES Also Claim Successes Over the Russians—British Airship Shot Down. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 14 (via wireless to Berlin and London), June “On the Caucasian front we oo- cupied enemy positions in the diree- tion of Olti (on the Russian border in Transcaucasia). “On May 24 an aviator who went up from an English cruiser near Bndien (Khusietban province, Persia) was shot down.” to-day, Sir Edward Carson said President Wilson’s contention that the The Italian invasion of the Ti 25,000 Austrians left Trent yesterday and is advancing against the with nearly as large a total for the Italians. Although the German War Office claims to have recaptured some | to-«lay’s communication from the French War Office. of credit of $1,250,000,000, and estimated the expenditure of the next three months at not less than $15,000,000 daily. The losses of men in the British navy up to May 34 were given officially in London to-<lay as 13,547, of whom 8,245 were killed. The extent of the new Austro-German victory in Galicia is in a forty-three-mile front north and east of Przemys! was broken down, almost all the advanced trenches north of Przemysl lost on Saturday. Reports that the British battleship Agamemnon had been sunk by a German submarine in the Dardanelles were denied officially tony LUSITANIA WAS NOT |W. K. VANDERBILT ‘The engines had been put out of! stop. I mean that it was as if th CHIL. | ‘There were about five cars betwee “I never saw the gentleman, " was! Germany that the matter will be sinking of the Lusitania, at London incingly proved. rentino, which heretofore has met nged by the Austrians. A force of the Isonzo front, north of the Gulf uck, Austria, says the Austrian cas- Gradisca have amounted to 1,500, no mention of reverses is made in "in the House of Commons a vote assért the whole Russian line over the Russians recaptured on Sunday TESTIFIES IN PELL 250,000 SUT (Continued from First Page.) were going home from Long Beach ghortly after 10 o'clock that night. “I saw a train with two lighted care going to Long Beach come to a were two lighted cara, then a dark space, and then two other lighted cars, “The automobiles ahead of me had to stop I stopped my car, too. {mo alia’ the crossing.” “In approaching the crossing I ob- werved on looking to the right a Power house which obstructed the view.” Q. Did you hear any bells or whistles? A. No, Q. Did you see any train coming from the right? A. No, Mr. Patterson's testimony was in- terrupted and David C. Wills, a » | veyor of Great Neck, who had sur- veyed the scene and made maps of it, was called, His map was placed in evidence without objection from Mr. Littleton. Justice Aspinall was so in- terested in the map that he cot off © bench and carried it under a light, ages and scanned it ly. Wills ‘oatitied that the powerhou | was 40 feet high, 46 feet from the tracks and 386 feet from the hi The house of the fl trac! ide of the cross- the powerhouse, The tracks, s they as he might, Justice Van Wyck could not get on the record from the witness any testimony as to the ob- structions of the view of an incoming pee. by the aforementioned power- ‘Mr, ‘Patterson was boneliee, ; Q. pala) there a keyg stem) ing when you got there the accident? NM No, bt ment “st Q. Did you see any ome wa flag or a red lig! a red Shear anything at the t night? A. Yes; I left my motor car and went to the Kibo ing and I heard a man in railroad uniform say to some one: at down the line and get that flagman!” Ida M. Patterson, wife of the pre- ceding witness, who was in the motor bo ged Pa ee i Pld ot acol- mt, ve mony identical wit that of her husband. . Roland P. Sword a photo No, 61 Beekman Street, identified the pictures he had tak: be? scene of the accident in March, See BULGARIA REPORTED TO HAVE ORDERED ARMS THROUGH GERMAN BANK. ROME, June 15 garia has placed a big order for arms and ammunition in America, payablo through a German bank, cauned a senaation in politics! circles here this afternoon. ‘The source of the rumor was a mys- tery, but it ran through the financial houses in Rome. Bulgarian Minister Risow refused to comment on the re- port, but coming on the heels of the war party’s victory in the Greek elec- tions - the report that Rumania had id to ones the war on specul ‘Ten New Straus Milk Depots. mae Straus yesterday and children throu all, the STUYVESANT FISH’S SON, SIDNEY, TO WED MISS OLGA WIBORG. Miss Olga Wiborg, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Frank B, Wiborg, is engaged | to Sidney Webster Fish, youngest son of Stuyvesant Fish and the late Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. The formal an- nouncement of the engagement haa not yet been made because of the recent death of Mrs. Fish. Miss Wiborg is one of three daugh- ters of Mr. and Mra, Wiborg, whose New York home is at No. 11 East Forty-fifth Street. She is at present with her parents at their summer place at Easthampton, L. 1. The fam- ily comes originally from Cincinnati, O, Miss Wiborg finished her educa- tion In London and returned to New York in the autumn of the year 1918, Mr. Fish, the youngest pf three children, was graduated from Har- vard in 1908 He is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Racquet and Meadow Brook Clubs and the St Nicholas Society. OPERATION SAVES LIFE OF MRS. BELMONT, WHO IS RECOVERING RAPIDLY b ‘A report that Bul- |e! about decide. the side of the allies, it aroused wide lation, i Wife of Financier Soon Will Be Convalescent After Appendicitis Attack. Mrs, August Belmont, wife of the *!fnancter, who was operated on for appendicitis yesterday at the General Memorial Hospital, One Handred and Sixth Street and Central Park West, is reported to-day to be in such con- dition that her early convalescence is expected. Mr. Belmont told reporters the op- eration was a success and that he ev- pected Mrs. Belmont, unless there were unforeseen complications, to leave the hospital in ten days or two weeks, The banker's wife, fopmerly Miss Eleanor Robson, noted actress, had not been very well for several weeks and had gone to the Belmont country estate at Hempstead, L. 1., hoping she would recover there. She did not im- prove, however, and returned to her home at No, 44 Bast Thirty-fourth Street, last week. During the latter part of the week she became ao ill she was confined to her bed and a physician diagnosed her ailment as , | appendicitis. Early yesterday ner condition be- came go sorious the attending physi- clan sald an immediate operation was necessary to save ner life. She was removed at once to the hospit the operation performed, noon she was reported out apparently. Mrs. Belmont's illness is attributed her friends partly to the hard work ye has done for the philanthropies in which she is interested, particular- ly the Vacation Fund for working girls, Mr. and Mrs, Belmont were married Feb. 26, 1910, fcierrediinesoteie LOCKED IN, SHE SAYS, danger, Now Mies Warren Wants 95,000 From Mrs, MeKe: of No. Fitth eribed her as a young the West and daugh- Pay known puriie, official, ho her prisoner in t Heces because i porary, ous of wie JM and oo not pay er nvENING worn, TUE DAY, JUNE 18, 1919.'— RUSSIANS ADMIT LOSSES N GALICIA, BUT SAY LINE HOLDS WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. Despatches from Berlin say Emperor William will confer with Ambassador Gerard before the reply to the latest Wilson note is sent to Victor Emmanuel Eats With Men While a Battle Is Raging. ROME REPORTS GAINS. Iron Ring Around Gorizia Forts Is Being More Tightly Drawn. ~ ROME, June 15.—King Victor Emanuel sat in the Italian trenches while the battle was raging around Monte Nero and after the fighting squatted on the ground and ate with his soldiers, “It was the most dangerous and the most historical day of my It wrote an Italian artillery oMcer, “After the battle the King came over and sat down to eat with us. He gave one soldier part of his supply of cheese, another a sausage and he gave me some cherries, He praised our fire highly.” Oppressive heat is increasing the difficulties of the Itallan armies at- tacking Gorizia, For several days the fighting has been under temperatures of nearly 100, with high humidity add- ing to the sufferings of the heavily burdened soldiers and the cavalry horses. Despite these added disadvantages, Gen, Cadorna reported to-day that the spirit of his troops is of the best and that the ring around Goritz is steadily tightening. All Austrian attempts to dislodge Bersagiier! forces who crossed the Isonzo six miles north of Gorizia have been repulsed. Severe fighting has occurred near Plava and also in the region scuth of Gradisca in the last twenty-four hours. Around Monfalcone the Austrians have shelled Italian positions from long range, but fire from the Italian batteries caused the enemy to with- draw. “We have definitely ascertained that Austria is conducting an organ- ized campaign of brigandage in the territory we have occupied,” said an official statement from the War Office to-day. “Disguised Austrian gendarmes and landsturmers, each receiving 1,000 lire (about $250), have been ordered to snipe our troops in the rear, The ob- Ject is to induce our troops to take repressive measures against civilian non-combatants, but the plan has failed. Several of these snipers have been captured and have confessed.” GENEVA, June 15.— Reports that seven German divisions—84,000 men in all—are reinforcing the Austrians along the Italian front have been re- celved here from numerous sources in the past few days. Advices from Italy declare that not a German soldier has yet been found among the dead or wounded or has been taken prisoner. The heaviest fighting of the battle for Gorizia is occurring along the Isongo several miles north of the fort- ress. Along a twelve-mile front extending southward from Rosina the Italians are attempting to throw troops across the river at a dozen points. Their object is to reinforce the Barsaglieri troops who crossed at Plava, thus cutting Gorala entirely off from the east. UDINE, Italy, June 15 (via Paris). —The Mayor of the town of Grado, twenty-two miles southwest of Gora, recently captured from she Austrians, issued a proclamation to-day declar- ing the loyalty of the population to King Victor Emmanuel. The reunion to italy was impressively celebrated by the people. ‘The inhabitants, driven from their homes by the war, are now returning. In some places Italian names are being substituted in the streets for those bearing Austrian names. psi Beast Licata Wander American Woman Fo! ” ing in Lond: LONDON, June 15,—A well dressed, refned America wnoman, about twenty- seven years lod, is in an infirmary here uttering from loss om memory. She fan pleckd up at midnight last night on Westminster Bridge. A card in her on session, bears the name Mrs. A, R. 616 Grosvenor Avenue, Weat- her handkerchief were the arg P. ‘Knowles, New York man- for Lindeke, Warner & Sons of Broadway, was sued for separa- upreme Court Hie pi ela Es‘aras TALAN KING IN TRENCHES; 000 GERMANS AD AUSTR Austrians —_ Report Fresh Troops Hurried to Rovereto Front. LOSSES ARE ADMITTED. Ammunition Depot at Tolmino Blown Up by the Italians. INNSBRUCK, Austria, June {5.— Twenty-five thousand Austro-Hun- garian troops left Trent yesterday and are now advancing against the Italians on the Riva-Rovereto front. In the vicinity of Gorz and Grad- isoa heavy fighting occurred recent- ly. The Austrian casualties are re- ported to have amounted to 1,500, while the number of Italians killed or wounded totalled nearly as many. A new ammunition depot at Tol- mino has been destroyed by the Italians. The Austro-Hungarian troops are employing dynamite in the Alpine passes, blowing up rocks and loosen- ing avalanches on the advancing Bersagiierl. The heights dominating Caporetto, on the Isonao front, have been occupied by the invading Italians, ——— WILLIAM THAW TO FLY OVER TURKISH FORTS | Brothers Return From France on Liner That Brings Famous Woman Aviator of Paris. Benjamin Thaw jr. and 8. B. Thaw of Pittsburgh, brothers of William Thaw, who ts in the French army aviation service, were passengers on the Rochambeau, arriving to-day from Havre, They sald William Thaw was about to be transferred to the Dar- danelles because of his familiarity with hydro-aeroplane tactics. Recently, according to his brothers, the tall of William Thaw’s aeroplane was shot away by a German shell as he Was flying over the trenches. He shut off his power and volplamed safely to the French lines from a height of 2,700 metres. Miss Helene Dutrieu, an aviator since 1909, who has been acting a volunteer night air guard over Paris, was on the ship. She wears tho cross of the Legion of Honor, won before the war, She said she had been able three times to give the alarm that German airmen were over Paris 80 they could be driven away by anti- aircraft gui a BRITISH LOSE 13,547 SAILORS IN BATTLE Australians Have Lost Heavily In Turkey. LONDON, June 15.—Thirteen thou- sand five hundred and forty-seven officers and men of the British Navy, including marines and members of the Naval Division, have been killed or wounded or reported missing from the beginning of the war up to May 31, according to announcement made to- day. Of this total 8,245 were killed, SYDNEY, Australia, June 15.—Aus- tralian casualties in the fighting on Gallipoli peninsula include 1,113 killed, 6,472 wounded and 248 missing, accord- ing to an official statement to-day, The choicest, full grown, full fuilest fection, are As erous!: grant Cl late. EXTRA sapeial! for Tucsad RITTER —New baa REET gy Ri. "| conviction Official Figures, Too, Show That| Extra Special for Tuesday Chocolate Covered Sair Dates SPEC! AL FOR TUESDAY. |STRANSKY MURDER JURY CAN'T AGREE District Attorney Says Wife Slayer Will Be Tried ses Again. =n Benjamin Stransky will be tried again for the murder of his wife, wae 25,000 the statement of Assistant District Attorney Richard H, Mitchel of the Bronx to-day. At 1 o'clock this morn- ing the jury came into court and Fore man Graham announced that they could not agree on a verdict. Seven were for acquital, as far ae could be learned, and four favored of manslaughter, while © only one voted for a conviction of rourder in the first degree. The ver dict was a surprise to the District At- torney’s force, and as soon as @ trial can be secured preparations for @ new trial will be made, In discharging the jurors, Justice Weeks said: “I fail to see any reason for your failure to bring in a verdict. You have had ample time. It is especially regrettable in view of the great trou- ble and expense the State has been put to in the preparation and trial of this case.” Benjamin Stransky was chat with killing his wife by setting to her bed Dec, The principal witness against him at his trial wae his eight-year-old daughter, Sophie heal Narco | WILSON JOINS STONE MASONS WASHINGTON, June 15.—President Wilson to-day became a member of the local union of Journeymen Stone Ma- sons, Representatives of the union who were present when Mr. Wilson recently laid the cornerstone of the American Red Cross Memorial Building here Prought him @ card of honorary mem r ‘Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft also accepted honorary member- ships in unions during thelr tenure of office, Invaluable for Invalids, Nursing Mothers, Growing Children, Eliminates Fa Fatigue and Nervousness Deliciously te able— pone Ager the creation, None added. fanalty talks Payscane since 1808 Dictareot Baron teats Piette ca Licblg 25c per Bottle Buy it by the Cane arent SUMMER PRICES Crandall’s pos Mate at ray UNITED UPHOLSTERY CO. 9 WEST 14TH ST. eras Furniture Stored FREE Over . | MATHERS.—On Juno 36. 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