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

"GERMANS CLAIM TH = TO HOLD BACK THEI be Fortify Mountain StopesThat/ DUTCH STEAMER SUNK | sve So Steep Batteries Have | BY MINE OR TORPEDO “F< to Be Dragged Up. he Cone On Val Grande-Val Piccolo Capt. Buys believes the steamer ‘was torpedoed. Ho said he saw a tor- pedo boat nearly half an hour before an explosion wrecked his vessel. ‘The Ceres was 8 1,749-ton ateel screw steamer, owned by the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company and registered from the port of Amster- dam, She was built in 1908 and was 276 foot in length. GERMANS DEFEND USE OF THEIR GAS BOMBS —, Say French Used Gas First— Parallel in Trenches Flooded by Belgians. BERLIN (via wireless to Sayvitie, L. L), June 26—An oficial statement defending the use of aaphyziating gas bombs by the Germans was te- sued here to-day. The Government first makes the point that the French and British armies used gas shells many months before the Germans adopted that method of attack. The atatement further declares that the Germans’ aim in using gas was simply to drive the enemy from his trenches and that the slow approach of the gas cloud made it possible for the enemy troops to flea, In this connection it is pointed out that the allies flooded the German trenches emy. Our infantry, supported by the ‘P20ire of field and heavy batteries, ad- bravely and tenaciously, how- no between the use of water and a gas oloud, “If our enemies attempt to arouse 4 to their inhabitants, was loca- | 441, to * ted to-day and became the object of | 1899 voted 2 ‘exe ® well directed fire from our artil- a? Immediately afterward a large wounds." DEFEATED JAP OFFICERS END LIVES BY HARI-KARI Rather Than Face Traditional Dis- grace of Capture at Lemberg, Two Commit Suicide. ABOUT GERMAN 6000S =): fomé Face Ruin if Products Worth coh TOKIO, Jt %.—Major Nakajima $50,000,000 and Paid for and Capt. Hashimoto, Japanese oM- * ‘Are Held Longer. cere fighting with the Russian army ) ¢%o ° WASHINGTON, June 26.—The oe- *4jousness of tho situation American importers face as « result of the Eygropean allies’ embargo on ship- ments of. goods from Germany was represented to Secretary ing to-day by a New York dele- "gation headed by Leo Kohns of L. | ‘Btraus & Bons. A petition for relief which his vis- laid before the Secretary de- a the firms which they repre- ented had $50,000,000 worth of Ger- man products, which they actually Anave paid for, ready to ship from Neutral European ports, They can- mot get them, however, owing to the ile aaoger of seizure by the allies’ war- nt ahips. a No general recommendations wero ‘made, but the Secretary was assured #28 that unless some ramedy could be found for existing conditions, many tmporters would suffer complete ruin, S= In reply Mr. Lansing said that the administration would do al in its power to help the importera, He ex- Plained, however, that the Govern- nt did not want to engage in any- thing which might look like bargain- ing with the allies, inasmuch as to do so would perhaps be interpreted as Fecoguition of thelr embargo. Such recognition, he stated, it is highly im- it to avold, the ers being that the embargo | ab- solute violation of neutrals’ rights. Every effort, however, will be made to end the present situation, he promised. BISHOPS URGE POPE TO MOVE TO SPAIN Berlin Hears That the Pontiff Has ** Been Assured of Safety There. '§» BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, June 26.—Spanish Bishops have than suffer what they considered the dishonor of being made prisoners of war, according to official advices re- ceived from Petrograd. Hari-kari is a Japanese method of committing suicide, formerly widely Practised by military oMficers. In the days of the old Samurai system om- cors usually killed themselves when it became nesessary to surrender the troops under them, TURKISH GARRISON LEAVES ADRIANOPLE Bucharest Reports Troops Have Been Withdrawn in Anticipation of Bulgarian Attack. ROME, June 26.—The Bucharest correspondent of the Messagero wired to-day that the Turkish garrison at Adrianople has been withdrawn, prob- ably in anticipation of a Bulgarian attack, and that the Turkish forces are retiring to new lines northwest of Constantinople, ROME, June 26.—-All Bulgarians in Italy were to-day ordered to hold themselves in readiness to join the colors at A moment's notice. CONSTANTINOPLE (via wireless to Berlin and London), June 26.—An of- ficlal statement issued to-day at the eh ‘ “During the night of the 28d o1 ft our right wing patrols surprised and munition and other war booty, —— STOCKHOLM PAPER ACCUSES BRITAIN OF BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, L. 1), June %4.—The Stockholm newa- r Svenska Dagblad, soph to-day, alleged duplicity to ban aboedl “ Social Democrats Say Ger- MISTREATING NEUTRALS. | “EVENING WO Se LD, BATV RDAY, JUNE 26, 1915. GERMANY URGED BY THE SOCIALISTS TO ASK FOR PEACE Appeal to the Nation to Make First Move Is Published in Berlin. * “IN NAME OF HUMANITY.” many Is Unconquerable and Can Afford to End War. BERLIN (via London), June 26.— ‘The Board of Directors, or Managing Committee, of the Social Democratic party in Germany has caused to bo published in the Vorwaerts a full page appeal for peace. ‘This document calls for a peace ‘under circumstances which, will make ritorial conquest and annexation! The people want peace, it declares, and the Government is called upon, in the name of humanity, to make known its readiness to enter peace Regotiations, ‘The appeal is published under the heading. “Social De: to the fact that the Socialists fore- saw the coming of the war, They Understanding, but when war did ome they placed themselves at the disposal of the Fatherland. It then refers to the declaration of the party, made in the Reichstag Aug. 4, 1914, which sala: “We demand, as soon opponents are inclined to peace, that the war be brought to an end through ®@ peace which will make possible friendships with neighboring nations.” ‘The appeal closes with these words: “The managing committee of the been opposed to a policy of conquest and annexation. Wé now raise anew our sharpest protest against every effort and every proclamation the purpose of which is the annexation of foreign territory and the oppres- sion of other nations, efforts and proclamations which have become public in Germany, particularly through the demands of great e10- nomic associations as well as through the speeches of leading non-Sooialist politicians, ‘Even the recital of such efforts serves further to postpone that peace which is warmly desired by the whole nation. The people want peace. If this war which daily demands new sacrifices is not to draw itself out needlessly, to endure until the full exhaustion of all the nations in it, one of the participating powers must offer the hand of peace. “Germany, who, attacked by greatly superior forces, has thus far victori- ously defended herself against all her enemies, brought their starvation hai naught, and . demonstrated unconquerable, should take itep to bring about peace, “In the name of humanity and cul- ture, and supported by the favorable military uation brought about by the bravery of our comrades in arms, we demand of the Government that it make known its readiness to enter peace negotiations in order to put an end to this bloody conflict, “We expect our Socialist comrades in other belligerent lands to. exert their influences on their own Governments in this same sense.” ARMY MEN MAY QUIT AFTER EIGHT YEARS _ Garrison Can't Hold Those Who Want to Leave After Serving That Long. WASHINGTON, June 26.—That tho Government cannot refuse to accept army, navy or Marine Corps officers’ resignations after they have served eight years was the preliminary con- clusion reached to-day by War and Justice Department officials. Hitherto resignations have not been humerous enough to be troublesome. The European war has created such a demand, however, among American munition manufacturers for experts in their line that they have been of- fering enormous salaries, a retire- ments from the serv threatened to i Secretary Garrison took the view that an officer should have some bet- ter reason than a mere desire for higher pay for quitting the service, even in peace time, if his resignation was inconvenient to the Government. {ter accepting four ord~ ignations recently, he held up two others and asked the Justice Department for a ruling. y bearing on the subject 1 experts had found to- $21 of the Revised en articles, with rents, or guar- by which he shall engage to bt years unless sooner dis charge: \ Tho view was that this law author- o fight for the freedom of i ee and his on if; Christian Scientists Erect Memorial At Graveside of Founder o ges ee erm ema an A memorial colonnade, as a tribute of Christian Sctentists to the memory of the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, will soon be erect- possible friendships with neighboring |¢4 in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cam- nations and it sete forth most clear- | bridge, at the founder's grave, it was ly the opposition of the party to ter- | announced to-day. A fund of $110,000 was raised for the WAR NEWS IN BRIEF | Pesst German attacks north of Warsaw are increasing. Petrograd ad- Peace.” It begins with a pe Bee mits a forced retirement from trenches in that region. The left bank of the River Dniester has been entirely cleared of the worked vainly for an international] T¢utonic troops who forced their way across at two points early this week, according to the latest Russian official statements, but the Austro- German forces are making desperate Bridging operations were begun by the Germans and Austrians south of Bukaszowice on the night the remnants of the detachments as safety has been secured and our | Which had previously crossed in the Kozany District and in the region of Martynow-Stry were being driven back in the former and captured in the latter region, the Russians report. point of contact. The Italian armies are continuing their work of keeping clear the Boolal Democratic party always has| ground in front of them in the Tyrol-Trentino and in Cadore and Car- niola by artillery fire and isolated infantry operations, Progress is being made along the Isonzo, according to the Italian statement. The most recent definite news f of a report by the Turkish War Office that on June 23 a Turkish patrol had destroyed a party of the invading forces and captured arms and other war booty. The French report comparative inactivity along the western war Berlin claims that all ground lost at Souchez has been regained. front. KAMMER AND PLATT WIN WAY T0 FINALS ATFOX HILLS CLUB Both Players Score Easy Vic- tories in Invitation Golf Tourney. on (Special to The Evening World.) VOX HILLS GOLF CLUB, CLIF- TON, 8. L, N. Y¥,, June 26.—August Kammer, Staten Island champion, and Percy Platt, a graduate of the Van Cortlandt Public Links, won their way to-day to the final round of the Fox Hills invitation golf tournament. Both had easy victories, Platt defeating 8. ©, Clark, 5 and 4, and Kammer beating Harold Slater, 7 and 6. Kammer's playing was the feature of both matches, The home club star essayed to perform the difficult feat »f both, competing in match and medal play in the annual Fox Hills handicap. To do this Kammer was compelled to play stymies, He en- countered one right at the start on the first green, where Slater's ball stood in the line to the cup. Kamer, trying to avoid the ball, made a kiss shot, which cost him a penalty stroke, This miscue cost the home titleholder # count of seven here. ‘After this Kammer played steady golf, He was out in 41 and home in 36, His card: Out T5696 3644 4-41 In 8435543 4 4-85-16 Young Perey Platt, who learned his gamo ut Van Cortlandt Park, over- whelmed 8. C. Clark Platt started off in a heavy rain storm, Despite the wet going he rau up an early lead and was 4 up at the turn, ‘Clark coulden’t hold his steady op- ponent on the return trip, the match ending on the fourteenth green. * ‘Together with the tournament divi- sions a big fleld participated in the annual handicap event. E, C. Van Vieck of Baltusrol, with WORLDS RECORDS BY BOARD | SOME RACE Resta Makes 160 Miles 1.16.44, an Average of 99.2 Miles an Hour, f Faith in SPEEDWAY PARK, MAYWOOD, HL, June 26.—With Dario Resta on the ‘rail in his Peugeot, twenty-one of the | world’s most famous drivers got away to a flying start at 10.31 to-day in the first international 500-mile auto derby. The cars got away in five lines of four cars abreast. With Resta in the first line were Wilcox, Anderson and B. Cooper, the famous Stutz team, Limberg, in @ Sunbeam, was alone in the rear when Starter Wagner dropped the flag. Resta had a fifty yard lead on the Stutz team as they rounded the bow! for the first lap. For four laps Resta, averaging 107 miles an hour, was well out ahead. A+ the start of the fifth Wilcox crept UP on equal terms. At twenty-two miles Earl Cooper stopped for a tire, the terrific pace having Iterally melted it off. A min- ute later Anderson slowed up for a tire, As he passed the stand one of the tires blew out, Wilcox grabbed the lead when Resta did a lap at a 108-mile-an-hour average and then stopped for repairs, At fifty-eight miles Chandler, in an Ogren, dropped with a broken shaft. Ho hoped to get back within the time limit memorial, which is to be from the de- sign of Egerton Swartwout of this city, the designer of the George Wash- ington Memorial at Washington. The plot on which the memorial; will be erected is approximately eighty feet square and slopes from a roadway to the banks of a lake ten feet below. In a stiff brush between Resta and Wileox that lasted a lap about the seventieth mile Wilcox, with a light- ning burat of speed, passed the judges’ stand a car's length ahead of the Ital- fan, The two cars were averaging over 107 miles an hour. At this time the general average of the leaders was about 102 miles an hour. Porporato was leading on the for- tieth lap, his time being 4.09.11 for the eighty miles, Chandler was unable to get a new crankshaft for his Ogren and was eliminated from the race. On the forty-fifth lap Howard Wil- cox In his Stutz was eliminated by a broken piston, Earl Cooper, in a Stutz, was ahead at the end of the fiftieth lap. His average for the distance was 104 miles an hour, Cooper's average set a new world’s record. The average time was eleven miles an hour faster than that set y De Palma at Indianapolis on May 0. efforts to effect a passage elsewhere. The battle still is raging at the new tom the Dardanelles is in the shape At the end of the sixtieth lap Earl Cooper led, Resta was second, Por- porato third and Van Raalte fourth. Resta spurted into the lead during the eightieth lap and finished it well ahead. His time was 1.36 45, an av- erage of 99.23 miles an hour. At 140 miles the leaders: 2.05.275 2.06.18, Resta, Porporato, 2.05.22; E. Cooper, Henning withdrew. t withdrew at 100 miles. made 160 miles in 1. record, His speed wi miles an hour, or approximately ten miles an hour faster than the pre- vious record made by De Palma at Indianapolis. Automobile men here predicted that the race would shatter every competitive speedway record in $40,000 ROBBERY NOT ‘NSIDE” J0B, SAY DETECTIVES (Continued from First Page.) the world. : Resta led at 200 miles, followed by Cooper, Porporato, Grant, Ricker- backer, Van Raalte, Chevrolet and Anderson in the order given. Resta's average was 97.1 miles per hour for this distance. It was announced that Resta had broken the world's record for 200 miles and for 320 miles, at an average speed of ninety-eight miles an hour. Sxact figures were not given. At 300 miles the first six drivers were: Resta, Grant E. Cooper, Por- porato, Rickenbacker, Anderson, “SERIOUS BREACH OF NEUTRALITY LAWS” Prosecutor Says So After Investi- gating British Recruiting in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 26.— Harry G. Lane, alleged to have been a recruiting agent here for the allies in the European war, has been arrested here on a Federal warrant and held as a witness in an investigation con- ducted by John W. Preston, United States District Attorney. Subpoenas were issued to-day for four men said to have enlisted here. All swore they are British subjects, Mr. Preston, after examining wit- nesses, asserted that their testimony indicated a sorious violation of neu- trality laws. ‘ A second special session of the Grand Jury was called for, Monday to continue the Investigation, Seven alleged recruits, arrested in New York City recently, are due to rrive here to-day, They will be used as witnesses. _—: ee SAILING TO-DAY. jana, Havana learned to-day that one of the cases contained jewels worth $3,000, Mr. Hackstaff reported his robbery to the East Hampton police, who ad- vised the greatest secrecy. Then a detective agency was called in and a reward of $500 for the return of these valuables was offered. Two other East Hampton homes were robbed in the next few nights, again by porch climbers, These rob- berics also were reported to the East Hampton police, and again secrecy was imposed. So accretly did the East Hampton police operate that they did not even inform Southhampton police, and Deputy Sheriff Clarence Moore of Southampton, always active in such investigations in Suffolk County, was not told, New York police authorities deny most emphatically that they have any report of the jewel robbery. Such robberies usually are reported directly to headquarters and, if necessary, a secret alarm 1s communicated to the branch bureaus in nhattan, Kings, Queens, Bronx and Richmond. No alarm, secret or otherwise, has been sent to the bureaus, Amoug t).> prominent New Yorers V.n0 recently acquired summer homes at Southampton are Henry Phipps, who rented Windymere, the home of tirs, De Lancey Nicoll; J, Steven Ullman, Mrs, Russell H, Headley ar., Mrs. G. Bric W. McDonald, Stephen | C. Clark, Mrs. Jefferson Caddington, George F. Maxwell, Mrs. Herbert A. Scheftel and Frederick Y. Ballel. Some members of the Southampton colony denied having heard of the robbery, They included Newbold Ed- gar, Mrs. George Dadmun, Miss Helen Trevor, Samuel Parr Charles Steele, Mrs. Goodhue Livingston, Mr, Phipps, L. EB. Terry, the Rev. George Russell and Albert Boardman, GROUND LOST REANED Last of the French Soldiers Driven Out Last Night, Says War Office. ATTACKS BEATEN. French Reported to Have De- stroyed Their Own Works by Accident. BERLIN, June 26.—(via London).— The official communication issued to- day by the German Army Head- quarters Staff was as follows: “Close range fighting which had pro- ceeded uninterruptedly for some days around the portion of our positions which remained in the hands of the enemy north of Souchez, and halt- way between Souches and Neuville, has come to an end. “During the night the last of the French soldiers were driven out of our trenches. So recently as yester- day evening the enemy received strong reinforcements at this point as they also did on both sides of the Lorette Heights. As they advanced to attack south of Souches they were beaten off. “In the Champagne, near Souain, we blew up a portion of an enemy tion. “East of Perthes the French acci- dentally destroyed by a mine some of their own defensive works.” “On the heights of the Meuse, at Combres, hard fighting is going on. “On both sides of Detranchee road the enemy brought up troops four deep over a front of three kilometres (1.8 miles) long ready for an attack, They everywhere broke up under our fire. Where the enemy pressed for- ward into our trenches he was beaten off with heavy losses and driven back in the fray which followed, In an attack made by us afterwards we captured an enemy advanced pos'tion east of Detranchee, In this district the enemy still holds a small part of a trench which he captured on June 20. ALL “Attacks made by advance patrols of the enemy near Leintrey, east of Luneville, failed. “Since the commencement of the great struggle near Arras our airmen have been struggling with those of the enemy for mastery in the air. This st le has caused losses on doth sides, but ours have not been in vain. For some.days we apparently have had the upper hand.” —$—<—— Bishop Johnson of Missourl Weds, NEWTOWN, Conn, June 26,—The Right Rev, Frederick Foote Johnson, Bishop-Coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Missour married to Miss Elizabeth Beers of this place to-day in Trinity Episcopal Church, the Rev. James H. George, rector and brother-in-law of the bride, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Smiffen of South Lee, Mass. E DEFEAT OF FRENCH NORTH OF ARRAS AT SOUCHEZ BERLIN CLAIMS Paris Reports That Rains Have Partly Halted Advance of French Troops. GAINS IN THE ARGONNE. Heavy Cannonading Reported at the Souchez Sugar Refin- ery and Elsewhere on Line. PARIS, June 26.—The ‘French War Office this afternoon gave out the fol- lowing report: “Considering the front as a whole, last night passed with relative quiet. In the region to the north of Arras there is nothing to report, with the exception of some infantry engage- ments, accompanied by a lively can- nonading, between the Souches sugar refinery and the national highway between Bethune and Arras. “Our progress has been checked by the condition of the ground, which in certain places has been rendered al- most impassable by the recent storms, “On the Champagne front and in Argonne the fighting with mines has been going on and to our advantage.” BRITISH CENSORSHIP EXTENDED TO MAILS Warning of Prosecution of Those Who Disclose Localities of Zeppelin Raids. LONDON, June 26.—The War Office to-day issued a warning that any at- tempt to communicate to the enemy “either directly or indirectly” the lo- calities visited by German aireraft in , England will render the writer liable to prosecution. ‘The official statement also notified the public that all correspondence to neutral countries should be easily legible and brief as possible. Persons who send through the mall any in- formation that may be useful to the enemy will be lable to prosecution, The British War Office statement regarding airship raids is thought to have been prompted by the fact that many corespondents from neutral countries, unable to communicate, cabled details of recent Zeppelin raids because of the English censor, mailed their stories to New York. Com- plaint was recently made in the Lon- don press that stories so ciroulated eventually reached Berlin in a round- about way and furnished the German eveenmaaet with valuable informa. tion. 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