The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1915, Page 2

sp dbaeietiakmerioaes 3u3 SV LONDON me | from ® sore throat, the District At- port, Pa., 0 letter was received which “ torney failed to dwell on the Ben- | read: tia case, He went more elaborately! “1 plead with you to grant Mr. tie Anto other lines of argument. Becker a new trial. No man ought to suffer on evidence from the source from which the Becker evidence came. Personally I believe he in not guilty.” On a ¥. MLC. A. letterhead « letter was received inclosing a newspaper clipping dealing with an interview with Jack Rose, which read as fol- Jo Something apparently occurred last night to bring to his understanding that the decision of Jus- Hooker in the Benham case might ee have & most Important bearing on the ‘ @utcome of tic Becker motion, The i sapplemental brief filed by the Dia- Attorney may call for a supple brief from the other side and d@lay matters. GERMAN LOSS OF 50,00 TOO? hy os 3 bs “Where will you be next Wednes- day, the day of the execution, Jack?” hey « | be suffering the tortures of/ Claim Is Made That Sweep Is UR eSUDOE MAY GIVE DECISION THI | noe teenie tome, ae P <q AFTERNOON. ys ented Halted on Entire ‘However, Justice Ford is believed 10) wi 'neliave,” proceeds the writer of ’ ‘be Of the opinion that he will be abl¢ | the fetter, “this proclaims the inno- Line. hand down a decision late this|cence of Becker and the gulit of Or to-night. Tho idea, gath- | Rove. Why should an innocent man —--—- from his actions yesterday, that |4uer the tor Ge te come LONDON, July %—Though the She might summon Becker and other | ho is chief witness a Germans now hold a great line from From No, nue, Orange, ceived signed “W. Cortes,” in which there i Scriptural injunction ‘Blessed are th merciful, for they shall obtain c J, W. Fowler, who says i * poor, humble workingm: that he is a Christian and a Catholic, writes to know why those who are opposed to Becker do not go after a certain other public official whom he names, and who, he says, is charged with practically the same offense a Becker, The communication with the worda, “God bieas you John Broad of No, 3 Oak street, Hartford, Conn., offers to be of uny assistance he can to elther Mr, Cock- ran or District Attorney the matter of demonstrating Becker's Innocence. A letter was received from sympa- thizers, ‘was dissipated to-day. It is unde: «1 tl. ‘\@ Court has de- to adhere to his determination in court on Monday to take affidavite in the case “at their value” and refrain from calling ‘the makers of those affidavits to give ‘testimony. - justice Ford of the Gulf of Rigo sweeping southwest- ward around Warsaw, thence en- to the Galician frontier, near Sokal, It Is estimated they have lost 600,000 men, perhaps more, in this, the most ambitious movement of the war, and the Russian front is not yet broken. On the Narew River, north of tho Polish capital, the Russians have made a stubborn show of resistance, holding Field Marshal von Hinden~ burg for the time being in check, while to the south the combined Au: tro-German f 5 sieling fe annoyed that the & despatch from Al. stating that Gov. Whitman was lagt night by telephone from @ man familiar with the ‘the decision was to be in 2 of fact, Oo ate for days on the threshold of success without being able actually to achieve their goal, Fighting on this latter front has been renewed with great intensity and ir position on the extreme right, which is resting on the Bug River, Immediately west of Warsaw com- parative quiet prevails and it is along the Lublin-Chelm Sector or in the Narew River region that ts is believed @ crisis will be reached, ——>_—— DAY OF PRAYER SET FOR GERMAN CHURCHES Fund to Be Collected Next Sunday for Widows and Orphans— Message From Pope. BERLIN, July 28 (hy wireless to Sayville.)—The Protestant Church A prominent Brooklyn clergym: whose name is withheld sent to Ju tice Ford a letter in which he setw forth that he ki and knew Becker personally ciated at the funeral of Becke ‘As to the guilt of Becker,” hy doubt not that he is guilty of graft- have had a hand in Rosenthal and get but I have every reason to believe that the murder of Rosenthal was much on the lines Indicated by Becker In_his statement.” The clergyman claims to have in- formation bearing upon the subject from a man who knew Bec! Becker's friends believe if he es- cal the chair Friday morning will begin « fight equalled for per- only by the Albert Patrick the Court will listen to my story from my own lips,” Becker is quoted as ba aid in Sing Sing yester- day, iL ure he will believe it. to say will go far more toward convincing Justice Ford than any aMdavit or groups of aMdevits would.’ If Becker has to go to the chair Friday, however, it is understood he ve a long statement reiter- and in addition speech from the chair. PREPARING “LAST STATEMENT.” Becker is confident that ceedin, 9) if the be de: T BRIEF MAY AID COURT IN of the District Attorney will id ‘the Court in coming to a speedy Prospect divine services invoking aid for the national cause. day are to Be devoted to the succor of widows and orphans. This announ: ment was made to-day by the Over- sens News Agency, This agency also states that Bishop Korum, of Treves, has received an au- tograph letter from Pope Benedict thanking him for the Peter's Pence contribution, The Pontiff adds that he deeply regrets this bitter and pro- longed war which has robbed the Holy Father of the Possibility of maintaining personal relations with his best friends. The Pope closes his communteation by sending the Apos- tolic blessing to the Bishop of the Clergy and their nation, which, like all others in these hard times, ts de- pressed by the Prolonged and deep- ex-champion pugil- McAulifto innocent and has an affidavit which, however, for Becker did not use, From », Maine, where the genial Jack the « mmer, he sent this ro: before Justice Ford ta possibilities of api e i tage) for a new trial should js no more cheerful man in ing Sing death house than While preparations are go- lowly for his electrocution ry t work on his papers in ex Pectation of a long delay, a trial and eventual freedom, be given cutit he dies, Becker wil tell veh out F will te! the story of his . trom early boy: @ heart, judge, have a SUD“E TO GIVE BECKER A CHANCE. ; tif | From D. Benjamin Bowie of Cleve- |hood, through his police career: up| ted sorrow of the war, ad, Ohio, a mensage was received ‘to his arrest. does not intend to ese |refer to graft, nor will he attempt to ‘involve ny ciher pereons in the gambl! situation or its relations! 4 [to the Police Department. He wi |deny there was any motive other ithan th already given i Keli Dr. William George Butler of eee en one eat ul liven pus Btate Norinal School at Willlams- jjc now. TAKES 110 AEROPLANES FOR BRITISH ARM Arabic, Sailing To-Day, Also Carries 31 Americans Among Her 204 Passengers. There were 110 aeroplanes in the cargo of the White Star steamship Arabic when she sailed for Liverpool this afternoon. Her departure was delayed by the late arrival of some of the air machines and a number of automobile trucks, The Arabic car- ried 204 passengers—thirty-one Ameri. cans—and 16,000 tons of freight. Among the passengers were twenty- five skilled mechanics who have been foremen in munitions planta here, They on, to help speed up the British ammunftion workers. Miss Elizabeth Margaret Thompson, @ trained nurse, sailed on the way to the Dardanelles. Her flance, Roger Knox, is fighting with the British forced there and she d she had dreamed recently that @ was wounded. Anyway, she said, if the dream were wrong, there would be plenty of other nursing to do, COP TOLD NOT TO ACT LIKE “MOVIE” HERO "Oh, you needn't act and strut like a moving pleture hero in this court," said Magistrate Folwell in the Gates Avenue ¢ to-day to Policeman Frank P, Gleason, Gleason was tell- ing and “acting out” how brave he was when Richard Vanderheit of No, 227 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, had threatened to beat him at Ralph Ave- nue and Sumpter Street late last night, The prisoner is a giant well over six feet and weighing 280 pounds Oleason showed a black-jack which ho sald he took from Vanderheit, | “That's a Me; L never carr Dlack-jack,” cried Vanderheit, Phe cop puts his own black-jack in evi- dence and calls it mine. I've com down from Bing Sing lately, where I did nine years for highway robbery, and this man is trying to hound me because I live in his precinct. 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PARIS, July 28—When Gen, de Maud'huy blocked the Kaiser's le- Dunkirk, Calnis and Boulogne, he scored for France one of tho biggest Great War. The Germans even place this battie first in importance, and their verdict in this matter might well be taken, since they, better than anybody else, should know just what success there would have meant to them, Whatever else a victory of the Imperial arms would have meant, it would have brought them ih sight of England, the whole course of the war would have been changed and the re- sult probably have been disastrous to the allies’ cause. \As it turned out, Gen. de Maud’- huy’s success completely used up Germany's initial strength, or what was left of it after the Marne, lengthy ened the battle front considerably and inaugurated the strength-eapping winter campaign in the trenches, each of these a hard blow to the Teutonic hordes, For not only were they thus doomed to months of immobilisation, when time was so valuable to them, but Gen, Joffre was given time to re- now urgent and necessary thing. After the battle of the Marne, in man offensive began—the dash for the sea. Gen. Joffre began a similar Movement about the same time, his object being to turn his opponent's tight flank. A series of surprises followed. Everywhere they went in their turning movement northward they found the Germans a little ahead of them, and though at the start von Bulow'’s move seems to have been taken for an endeavor to turn the French left, It was now perfectly evi- dent that the mass descent upon Paris had been transformed into an advance against the Channel ports. By the middle of Ovtober a formi- dable front was presented by the Germans clear to the North Sea and the situation looked sertous, There are really three’ gates to the Channel: The Yser River, La Bassee and Arras, the last being considered by far the best, since it not only opens the road to the coast but to Parts well. Against Prussians were Gen. d’Urpal's Eighth Army, the Brit- ish Expeditionary Force, the tattered remnants of the Belgian army and Gen, de Maud'huy’s Tenth Army, the last named holding the critical point between Albert and a point to the north of Arras, against the whole of von Bulow's command, Military writers agree the atiack on Arras was prohably the critical moment of the terrific attempt of the Germans to reach the Channel coast. The bombardment of the city begun Oct. 6, while Gen, de Maud'huy, just outside the city to the eastward, was holding in check the rapidly increas- ing army of von Bulow, the Bavar!- ans to the north trying to outflank him. The great battle for the possession of Arras continued until Oct, 26, the Germans at one time entering the city. The famous Prussian Guards hammered away at the French, mak- ing some of the most desperate as- saults of the war, They hoped to slash their way through to the coast, cutting off a large slice of France and what remained of Belgium, and witn this territory tens of thousands of prisoners, including the entire Bel- gian army and the whole of the Brit- ish Expeditionary Corps, not to men- tion seriously hampering communica- tions between France and England. But de Maud’huy held firm and more-—he drove the Germans, includ- ing the Prussian Guard, from Arrus, He kept open the lines of communi. cation and train-load after train-load of reinforcements poured into the north of France, The allies owe him @ great debt, for his was one of the finest performances of the war, After Arras. the Germans tried to break through on the Yser; they tried to get past Dixmude, defended by the his gallant Admiral KRonarch and jevil Breton Marines, La B saw very stubborn fighting ‘tly one of the greatest engageme! of the whole war came at Ypres wita the British, in bulldog fashioy ing practically the whole of t ut after all, Arras ite to the coast, mi be Arey 4 failed there, ehting curred, one. de the other victory was the decisive | — (To: article will deat Gen. * meee o ‘How a French General Scored One of the Biggest Victories of the War—British Forced to Hire a Business Manager—Germans Intro- duced New Methods of Warfare. FRENCH BLOCKED WAY TO | HOW THE BRITISH HIRED ,GERMANS INTRODUCE A BUSINESS MANAGER. By Ed. L. Keen. (United Pi Staff Correspondent.) Third Story. LONDON, July 28,—It took John Bull ten months to discover that what|of war gions in their smashing drive for|he needed most was a general busi-; France and shamed the English. ness manager. Of course he has learned several other lessons, among the Lublin-Chelm railway, have been| victories of the first year of the/them: that it doesn’t pay to conceal the truth; that the British people re- sent being treated like children; that they can stand hearing bad news, and that when the situation is put before them with frankness they can actually be as patriotic as Frenchmen—or Germans, But the one big lessan—which the Germans have taught him—is that war now-a-days is quite as much of a business as it is a science. He has seen all the old theories of warfare upset. He wasn't prepared for the change in styles. He had no idea the system of trench warfare would be- come #0 highly developed; that such an amount of high explosive shells would become necessary; that a pre- ponderating supply of machine guns might spell all the difference between success and failure; that the Germans would introduce the use of asphyxia ing gas, liquid fire, and other like agencies hitherto unrecognized in the conduct of civilized warfare—but Board in Germany has decided that organize his resources in men and|*bove all that the German superiority next Sunday shall be observed by| material both on and back of the line, |!" the new style of fighting was due to the mobilization of the entire in- dustrial resources of the Empire co- The funds to be collected on this| early October, the second great Ger-|{ncidentally with the mobilization of soldiers, Take the matter of machine-guns alone. The Germans concentrated upon their manufacture. Result: weapons have practically ren- the rifle useless, and caused the slaughter of British troops, when on the offensive, in numbers entirely dis- Proportionate to that of Germans in similar clroumstances. Machine-guns cannot be improvised. The machinery for making them requires some nine months to build. It was this question of munitions that finally brought home to the British Government appreciation of the absolute necessity of mobilizing the industry of the nation if the war was to be brought to a successful con- clusion. It is up to Great Britain to help not only France, but Russia, as well as herself. The driving of the Russian armies out of Galicia was due solely’ to thelr lack of ammunition. Hitherto Britain has been concen- trating upon soldiers. Now she is concentrating on munitions. “Get into the factory line and supply the firing line,” has replaced on the posters the old familiar “Your King and country need you at the front.” With the realization that organiza- tion of the country’s industries for the manufacture of munitions had be- come imperative came appreciation of the fact that the, machinery of the Government was inadequate. Lord Iitehener had not only been over- loaded personally, but the antiquated system of the War Office had proved itself incapable of handling the prob- lem. So the Government—mostly Prime Minister Asquith—decided to appoint a general business menage! Lioyd George, the little Welsh solicitor who so successfully had been running the nation’s finances, after a record of constructive reform leg! tion without parallel in history, was chosen. He was given the title of Minister of Munitions, but his com- mission was practically to take charge of the industries of the coun- try. The first thing he did was to tell his fellow-countrymen the truth—the grave danger confronting the Empire through the deplorable slackness hitherto prevailing in the manufac- ture of the Instruments of warfare. Next he brought both labor and capi- tal into line, Finally, to insure an uninterrupted flow of munitions in the largest quantity possible from the United States and Canada, he sent hot-foot to America one of England's ablest business men, D. A. Thomas. Meantime, just to demonstrate, Lioyd George went out into one of the the old system of sub-contracting, about 10,000 shells a month were being ‘produced, injected a little ginger, and started an output of 150,000 shells a | month, which he expects to have in- creased to an average of 300,000, He believes that under the system al- | ready inaugurated the United King- dom alone will soon be able to ex- gen would not have oc-| ceed the éstimated product of the| weighs the military value to Ger- , ne Continental Powers of 250,000 a ESDAY, JULY 28, 1916. 00,000 IN WARSA 4 W DRIVE NEW WAYS OF Leche kat By Carl W. Ackerman. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Third Story. BERLIN, July 28.—Germany’s year in .10 west has crippled From the outset of the war the Ger- mans developed an initiative that gave them a superiority over their enemies, and sincs then no effort of the French and English cpg has been equal to the task of over. | powering Teutons. Only once has Germany been su- perior in numbers to her western op- ponents, according to the claim of Teutonic authorities, That was dur- ing the rush through Belgium and to Paris, The superiority at that time was due to the slow mobilization o2 ue French and the breakdown of the English plans for hurrying a large! army to the continent. Krom the| days of the battle of the Marne the Germans have had to fight with! weaker forces than their enemies, and yet never have they beep over- whelmed. The Germans taught the French and English the secrets of defensive entrenching; the Germans revealed the superiority of a! guns over tho strongest fortresses; the Germans) first discovered the modern necessity for high-powered shells and machine guns. All these factors of warfare were introduced by the Germans in the west. The Germans have kept ahead of their antagonists as new! problem after new problem has come to the front, and the year’s balance is, therefore, greatly in their favor. Only once did the German military machine miscalculate. That was in the battle before the ga’ of Paris. Gen, von Kluck was not informed that a field army had been hidden away in Paris, prepared to strike at his flank, and the German General Staff did not suppose the French army had in Gen, Foch @ great mill- tury leader capable of splitting the Teutonic centre east of Paris and| driving it back to the Aisne. Gen, von Moltke, who was a sick man| throughout the summer campaign, | was later replaced as Chief of the General Staff by Gen. von Falken- hayn, and since then Germany has been well satisfied with the progress vf events in the west. The retreat from Paris will go down in German history as a@ brilliant feat of arms becase of the manner in| which it was checked at Aisne, Su puzzled were the allies by the German manoeuvres that Sir John French ac- tually reported in the early days of the battle of thd Alsne that it prob- ably was only @ rearguard action on the part of the Germans. In the conflicts that followed the battle of the Alsne the Germans com- pletely out-manoeuvred their antugo- nists, It 18 customary in Engluad to say the Germans are defeated be- the numerically weaker Calais, If those two towns had been captured, the English would now be proclaiming victories for themselves, say the Germans, pecause Dieppe and Havre were id from the Kaiser's grasp. As a matter of fact, while the capture of Dunkirk and Calais wouid the security of those rts is not a strategic defeat for the Germans. By retaining Antwerp and Ostend, the pressure which Germany can bring to bear on England in the peace confer. ence after the war will be sufficient for Germany's purposes, The French and English were able to save Dunkirk and Calais, but their offensive plans were sadly overturned by the Germans. When Gen.. Joftr started northward after the battle of the Alane it was his Intention to out- flank the Germans, or failing that to save Western Belgium and to prevent the fall of Antwerp. Sir John French's transfer of the British expeditionary force from Soissons to Ypres was manufacturing districts where, under | © for the express purpose of preventing the Germans advancing beyond Brus- sel sewhere In the west the Germans have more than held their own aginst superior numbers. have deliv- ered counter attacks for e' offen- | four hours, but eventually gave way cause they didn't get to Dunkirk and | oy have been welcomed by the Germanr, | © going on for approximately a week with stubborn determination. garded as of especial importance. there any clear indication of a definite outcome. reports continue to claim a succession of successes, The Austrians are contesting every foot of the Malian advance They have lost 3,200 prisoners to the Italians, according to an official statement given out in Rome. At three points around Warsaw the German manoeuvres are re- WAR NEWS IN BRIEF The severe fighting on the Italo-Austrian frontier which has been shows no signs of a let up, nor is The Italian official These are the operations on the lefi bank of the Narew, to the north of the Polish capital; against the town of Chelm, to the southeast, where possession of the railroad is the point at issue, and along the Bug. The Germans, according to Russian official reports, have brought up enormous reserves, but nevertheless the Russian authorities say the troops of Emperor Nicholas have taken the offensive successfully at several points. Capt. Eugene Delk of the American steamer Leelanaw, sunk by a German submarine off Scotland July 25, reports from Aberdeen that he and his crew were treated with the utmost courtesy by their German captors. POLISH CAPITAL NEARLY HEMMEDIN, GERMANS CLAM Reports From Berlin Declare That Warsaw Is Two- Thirds Surrounded. BERLIN (via The Hague), suty | 28.—The Germans have closed in rap- idly on Warsaw in the last forty- eight hours, The Polish capital is now two-thirds surrounded, But two rall- ways feasible for use when the ex- pected Slav retreat begins remain in the hands of the Czar’s armies. Gen, von Gallwita's right wing has reached the River Bug, only twenty miles north of Warsaw, according to despatches received here to-day. The Russians counter-attacked vigorously on both banks of the Narew, holding u. the German advance for twenty- and retired southward through Se- rock. Von Gallwitz's centre.and right are now moving forward, pressing the Ruasians back steadily toward their last defensive position on the Bug. The advance is necessarily slow be-, cause of the nature of the country,| but the Russians have been unabie to administer any serious check to the, German offensive, ! South of Warsaw, the Germans who } reached the Vistula sast of Gora Kal-} warja have moved three miles nearer the capital and are attaching the Russian lines on a thirty mile front extending from near Blonie through Nadarzyn and Piaseczno to the V! tula, At no point on this thirty mile front are the Germans more than six. | teen miles from Warsaw. Gen. Mackensen, according to latest official dispatches, is making “satis-( factory progress” in the region south- east of Lublin, ——<»———- Cut Its Tax Anseanment, TRENTON, N. J., July 28.— For some time past the officials of the American Bridge Company of Jersey City have been fighting an as: ment of $60,100 levied upon their property by the Jersey City Tax Board. The company appealed to the Hudson County Board and it re- duced the a mont £0 $100. Jer ite Wuerd upheld the County board ment of $100. ——— Rassta Calls Your 19 to Colors, PETROGRAD, July n Imperial | issued to-day calle to the men born in 1896. 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A most’ in charge of painstakin, re attention to ail orders assistants insures careful int within a 150-mile radius ficient mail order department pecking and incle intrusted to the care of sive developed by the enemy, and in the minor exchang @ OC- curred since the slege of trenches be- gan, the Germ: fully held r own. The most satisfactory of all these encounters to the Germans was the recent battle north and east f Ypres, at which the English were forced to give ground and were put on the defensive. This engagement followed soon after the date fixed by Special for Wi ae ie Special for Thursday PLANTATION BON BONS — The heart of b Lord Kitchener for the lot English offensive to bey Alsace to the Frenc! tinental defeat the knowledge at the close of the firnt| year of the war, The sentimental im~- | portance to the French of seizing a part of Alsatii territory far ou! the only con- rmans must ac- many of driving the the Vosges. 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