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a «heavy i © ‘ -, Pemaiped %, She was still debating in her mind “GERMANS deer. John Lynch She wote a mourning Lieut. John Becker, Mrs. Lync Jackson Becker and his sister were in the second car- veil Hage. In tho third were Inspector P Williams, former Capt. Dennis Bren- an and Alderman Peter Scheikert. A Man and a woman whose names were hot given out occupied the fifth, The sixth carriage was unoccupied When the procession arrived at the church, only a short distance away, ‘the police again had difficulty in Holding back the curious, who were hot ad'o to Ret into the church. Ad- . Mission to the church was by presen “fation of the heavily bordered mourn ‘Wng card of Mrs. Becker. ‘The build fag was filled to the doors except for 5 w few pows at the front of the nave Teserved for the mourners * $000 CAUSE GREAT UPROAR aT CHURCH. ~~ phe shoving and wrangling in the “pireet caused such great uproar that from the time eight acolytes with candies met the coffin at the door and 4 Preceded it to a dais before the altar Suatil, Father Dermody had finished winging the mass the priest's voice inaudible except by those nearest to Mrs. Becker sat at the foot of the casket, beside her brother, John Lynch. There was no music, _ ‘The disorder outside was not dimi ished when the body was brought out. Uniformed policemen on foot and one . mounted man, charged repeatedly, but the three thousand or more who gupged back to the sidewalks fo’ a back again as soon as the policemen tupned in another direction. ‘The services at the grave were of the simplest. While Mre. Becker and relatives knelt beneath a tempor- awning erected beside the grave, “the undertaker’s men filled it and . then Mr. Struhe read two prayers. Large numbers of policemen in plain ) Glothes and about a thousand other Persons stood at a distance from the grave. There were occassional noisy eutbreaks when women in near-by plots tried by force to keep members of the crowd from intruding on the Ja lines by a squad of thirty police ‘Men, climbed the stairs to the Beck- » had the doore closed. /iNePEcTOR ‘REMOVES MURDER PLATE FROM COFFIN. authority, will ignore the He decked to overlook it be- brought into any church. ig information was given Becker for a long time undecided as to her course. ef when Inspector Faurot and Acting Capt. Wines arrived. It is understood her two brothers and Lieut. Beoker Mrs. Jecker gave her consen: to the removal of the plat $oined in persuading her, At any rate STN | BACKS KAISER’S VOW TO WIN WAR Newspapers Praise His Procla-' mation and Declare Effort to Starve People Failed. 8,000 GUNS CAPTURED. | —— 1 Berlin Reports 1,695,412 Men, and Officers Taken From Russians, BPRLIN, Aug. 2.—In a statement given out to-day the Overseas News Agency says: “The entire German press has ap- proved with enthusiasm the procia- mation given out by Emperor William | on the anniversary of the outbreak of | the war and published yesterday. Tt unites in pointing out that every word im thie statement breathes his accus- tomed high-minded seriousness. “The conviction of Emperor Will- fam that the entire German nation fe animated by a firm resolution to secure a lasting peace, thus opening the road for an unparalleled national development, ts shared by All the people. Yesterday the people went to church and thanked the Almighty for the blessings of the past year and prayed for a speedy ending of the fearful struggle. “Newspapers publish also exhaus- tive reviews of the army and navy happenings of the past twelve months, and point out particularly that the plan to starve an entire na- tion has been frustrated by the care- ful organisation of all resources.” The German War Ministry fur- Dishes interesting figures relating to the successes of the central powers, saye the Overseas News Agency. The etatement follows: “Germany and Austria-Hungary cooupy $9,000 square kilometres in Belgium 21,000 in France, 120,000 in Ruosta and 10,000 in French Alsace. “Prisoners ned In Austria 3,190 officers and 10,000 non-commissioned officers and grees ‘total 8,790 officers and 1,830,- men, eer Ayo on S- were ke with the treops and are being used against their former owners. While exact figures are not available, it is estimated that nearly eight thousand guns and three thousand machine guns have been captured.” —_s——— PAINT BIGGER SIGNS ON NEUTRAL SHIPS IS GERMANY'S REQUEST. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Ambas- eador Gerard to-day transmitted the following to the State Department: “The American Ambassador at Berlin has been informed by the Ger- man Admiralty that merchant vessels wishing to indicate their neutral nationality by painting their national colors on the ships sides often com- mit the mistake of painting these signs too smatl, so that they cannot be recognised at some distance, The Foreign 01 requests American steamship companies be accordingly informed.” The despatch brought out no com- Ment in offictal quarters, but it was in that evidence of desire by many to avoid attacks on Ameri- can ships was gratifying. RUSSIAN DESTROYER FOUNDERS AND SINKS. CONSTANTINOPLE REPORT CONSTANTINOPLE (via Berlin wireless), Aug. 2.—A large Russian destroyer has foundered and sunk off Koeken, east of Schile, according to official despatches to-day. The de- spatches said it was not known whether the warship was mined, tor- pedoed or swnk by an internal ex- plosion, amaiatainnin NEW GERMAN U-BOAT LOST ON TRIAL TRIP; 12 DEAD, LONDON HEARS} LONDON, Aug. 2—A Reuter de- spatch from Copenhagen sa. that fishermen who have returned from Lubeck are authority for the atatond ment that a new German submarine, while on a trial trip between Kell and Fehmarn, was totally wrecked some twelve of the crew being ——-———— An Oklahoma Woma: WASHINGTON, Aug two cows and a drow! __THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1915 CLAIM TO HAVE TAKEN ere 1,695,412 RUSSIAN PRISONERS | betel Aa ta. TCT Te Aten tear y We a RY eo 00 Se Y # |Scenes Marking Sailing of U. S. Forces Now on Way to Hayti to Preserve Peace FRENCH REPORT STORIES OF CRUELTY BY THE GERMANS Commission Declares That Civilian Prisoners Were Used as Shields in Battle. PARIS, Aug. 2—The commission presided over by Georges Payelle, President of the French Court of Ac- counts, has presented to Premier Viviant the final report of the investi- gations into acts on the part of Ger- man soldiers, This report contains 12,000 words, and gives in detail the evidence gath- ered concerning the use by German troops of military and civilian pris- oners shields against the fire of French troops, as well as of the em- ployment by the troops of Emperor William of cartridges in which the bullets were reversed in order to cause more serious wounds; split bul- lets and other bullets cut to make them more rending. Continuing, the report cites orders given by Gen, Stenger, Commander of the Fifty-eighth German Brigade, or- dering hie soldiers to kill the wound- ed enemy and to take no more pris- oners, Evidence confirming the issu- ing and the circulation of this order was obtained from German prisoners belonging to the One Hundred and ‘Twelfth and One Hundred and Forty- second Kegiments, The report contains also evidence of the massacre of French soldiers as a result of this order as well as the massacre of wounded men after the battle of Fethe in Belgium. It pre- sents the allegations of many indi- vidual soldiers, who d re they saw their wounded comrades put to death by a rifle snot, a revolver shot, the thrust of @ bayonet or « blow from the butt of a musket by German sol diers, su) altorns and officers. Tho report devotes considerable space to allegations of the inhumanity of the Germans to their prisoners of war, which, It says, is proven by the evidence of the victims, Many pris oners of war have been shot, At St, Die thirty French prisoners were assassinated in this manner by Bavarian troops. The truth of this {s vouched for by five men who say they witnessed the executions, ict ated QUOTES J. P. MORGAN AS SAYING WAR WILL BE OVER IN A YEAR, LONDON, Aug. 2A New Yorker who {8 4 personal friend of J, P, Mor- gan arrived yesterday on the steam- hip New York and said to-day he had discussed the war with Mr, Mor- gan tho day before sailing and th.. the financier said he was convinced that twelve months hence would see the end of the war, U. S. CONSULAR CLERK SET FREE BY GERMANS Wilson, Who Was Accused of False- ly Certifying to 4 Passport, Must Return to America. BERLIN, via The Hague, Aug. 2.— Clerk Wilson of the American Consul- ate, who was arrested by the Berlin police on the charge of falsely certi- fying to @ passport by use of which an Englishman escaped from Ger- many, was to-day released through the efforts of Ambassador Gerard. One of the conditions of the release was that Wilson must return imme- diately to America, The Bedilin police id they found $800 in cash in Wilson's clothing and letters from members of the American Cabinet, who addressed him in a most friendly manner, Gerard to-day presented to the For- eign Office a tpemorandum from Washington regarding the alleged use of forged American passports by spies. pcan Pan WALKERS’ CLUB TO TRY FOR BUFFALO RECORD. Members of the American Walkers’ Association will attempt to establish an amateur record from New York to Buf- fuld of 9 days, ainst the profes- stonal record Weston of 18 @ays 12 hours, Tho start will be ma from Times Square next Saturday, Those who will make the try for the record are F. Gage, G. H. Swartz and W. Probst, who will be accompanied for the first twelve hours by P. J. Hughes and H. Haisser of the Pastine A. C., both veterans 8 belleve that n of the be will _——— ANOTHER REMINGTON STRIKE, Armas Makers at Ilion, Say Company Violated Agrees LITTLE FALLS, 'N. ¥., Aug. 2.— Eight hundred employees at the Ilion plant of the Remington Arms Company oft thelr work to-day as a result of a Hsagreement over Wakes, The company put the eight-hour day schedule into] OMMISSIONS, WILSON SIGNS C Acts Quickly So We: nt Gradu- ates May Get Army Assignments, CORNISH, N, H., Aug, 2,—President Wilson to-day signed commissions of 160 West Point graduates, which had boen sent to hing Washington with & request that them as quickly as possible in order that the young off cers be assigned to thelr new com. mands, > — intimate Shows Loan, NGTON, Aug This year's) p will be approximately 11,-| julvalont pound bales, com- | was cotton 970,037 Neures hether ¢ greater or less depends onditions from now un- jyePDye Bl TRENCH CAPTURED, ATTACKS REPULSED, SAYS PARIS REPORT Hand Grenade Fighting at Ar- tois, Souchez, the Argonne and Other Sectors, PARIS, Aug. 2—The French War Office this afternoon gave out the following atatement: “The evening of Aug. 1 and the night of Aug. 1-3 were marked by various infantry encounters. “In the Artols district, after having repulsed several German attacks with hand grenades, we took possession of @ wection of a trench along the road between Ablain and Angres, to the north of the national highway run- ning between Bethune and Arras, “In the vicinity of Souches the fir- ing has been going on with hand grenades and bombs, but it has brought no change on the front line elther to one side or the other, “In the Champagne District, along the front between Perthes and Beausejour there was yesterday fight- ing with mines in which we had the advantage. “In the Argonne, not far from Marle- Therese, and in the vicinity of St. Hubert, the Germans, after a spirited fight in which bombs were used, made several attempts to launch attacks, but they were repulsed. “On the heights of the Meuse, be- tween Les Eparges and the Chalonne trench, the enemy yesterday made three different attacks upon our posi- tion. Our artillery and our infantry fire succeeded in checking these at- tacks. “Pont-a-Mousson and the villages of Maidieres and Manoncourt-Sur- Seille were bombarded yesterday from the air with Incendiary shells.” od STEAMER FAST ON REEF, Off to‘ Ald Pacific Freighter With 90 Aboard, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.—Life sav- ing crews and tugs early to-day went to the assistance of the American- Hawallan steamship Georgian, on Dux- srttea that They expected tovrecaive | DUTY reef, a few miles north of the inder ita terms, the suiue payment as| Golden Gate, where the freighter went for the ten-hour day, heretofore Infashore in a dense fog last night, Cor Meee eM maeredule was! Capt, Nichola and a crew of more it was not satinfactory am the company | than thirty men are aboard the atrand- had violated Mts agreement regarding|ed vessel. “Uonferences are in progress and the| Col, olanx, mannan company managers say the difficulty Apuay danatal, evedas. oO RIS, Aug. 2.—Francois Desclaux, master General of the French army, who on March 27 was sentenced by a military court martial to seven year®’ solitary confinement, after being convicted on the charge of stealing mil- itary stores, was degraded to-day at the Military School without incident. —_——— Teo IWC 8 TT BRUSSELS IS TO WEAR TORN BITS OF PAPER ON~ “SCRAP OF PAPER” DAY. THE HAGUE, Aug. 2.—The Echo Belge says the population of Brus- sels will wear a piece of torn paper on Aug. 4 in commemora- tion of von Bethmann-Hollweg’s now famous remark concerning the Belgian neutrality treaty, which he called “a scrap of paper.” GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE OF MITAU ~ NEAR BALTIC SEA — Big Force Also Reported to Have Reached the Narew River. MACKENSEN PUSHES ON,.| Field Marshal Attempting to Get Grand Duke’s Army in a Trap. BERLIN, Aug 2 (via London).— Mitau, the capital of the Russian Province of Courland, twenty-five miles southwest of Riga, has been oc- cupied by German troops, according to the official statement issued to-day by the German army headquarters | staff. Northwest of Lomaza, capital of the Province og Lomaa, seventy-two miles southwest of Suwalki, the statement adds, the German troops have reached the Narew River and are overcoming obstinate esistence on the part of the Russians. Before Warsaw, the announcement says, the situation is unchanged, LONDON, Aug. 2.—An enveloping movement that has far more than the capture of already deserted Warsaw for Its object is being worked out by the German forces in Poland and is being fought desperately by the Grand Duke, What little information can be gleaned from the Russian front tends to show that the main line of the Kaiser's attack has been shifted again, this time further east in one final ef- fort to annihilate the Czar’s forces. Field. Marshal von Hindenburg, evidently weakened in order to give more men to Mackensen, who is mak- ing the effort to cut off the retreating Russians, is making no progress over the Narew toward Warsaw. But military critics here find little conso- lation in that. He needs to make no progress at present. The fall of War- saw is assured and few more Ger- man lives would need be sacrificed to take the city. How great the German losses were in the last month's fighting in the East 1s not known yet. But the Rus- sians’ must have been tremendous if the figures regarding prisoners given out at Berlin and Vienna are correct. Berlin says: “In the month of July, between the Pilica River and the Baltic, we cap- tured 95,023 Russians, 41 guns, among them two heavy pieces, four mine- throwing howitsers and 230 machine guns. “In the southeastern war thatre, the German troops captured in the month of July 303 officers, 7,571 men, 10 guns and 126 machine guns. An official report In Vienna says: “The troops, under the Austro-Hun- garia: supreme command, captured in July 627 men, sixteen cannon and 202 machine guns.” ‘The Geneva Tribune prints the fol- lowing despatch from its Innsbruck correspondent: “The capture of Lublin cost Gen. Woyrach 70,000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners. Four miles north of Lublin Ru sare isputing @ I gpd Ges covering tl ele res round while treat “In an advance of seven miles with ven army corps, Field Marshal Von Macheneen lost 38,000 men. jl FEWER PRISONERS IN TOMBS ¢ Due to Four Parts Year's Deer: of Court Being Open. In swearing the Grand Jury for the m of General Sessions to- Crain said there were but 212 prisoners in the Tombs as against ¥80 on Aug. 2 last year, Of the 212 prisoners are are awaiting trial, while 54 are awaiting the action of the Grand Jury. The District Attorney's calendar shows @ total of 656 indictments pend- ‘§ a8 against 821 last year. The de- rease is due to the fact that under he new schedule four parts of Ge Sessions are open during the while only three were kept | t erat summer, going last year. f - |L. T. WOODCOCK DROPS DEAD. Heart Disease Kills General Man- ager for Dig Chicago House, CHICAGO, Aug. 2%-—Lindsey T. Woodcock, general manager of Marshall Field & Co.'s store, dropped a of heart disease here to- He was born in Baring, Me, in , came to Chicago in 1876 and @ year later enteed the employment of Field, Leiter & Co., which later was succeeded by Marshal Field & Co, WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.~Treasury receipts for July, the first month of the new fiscal year, ran $16,000,000 behind expenditures.’ A working bal- ance of approximately $100,000,000 ie ilable, however, ‘from all eed can STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Rotterdam,.... ..10 A.M, IT ALM, eet QM, -WAR NEWS IN BRIEF While there are increasing indications that Grand Duke Nicholas is withdrawing his army from the Polish salient there is also evidence that the capital is still in the possession of the Russians, Petrograd announces that the German forces before Warsaw have been heavily reinforced from the west, thereby “creating favorable con- ditions for active operations by our allies.” There has béen heavy fighting on the Narew front, where the Ger- mans have made some progress in the desperate battle which is raging between the Narew and the Oje Rivers, Latest reports from Vienna are to the effect that the Russiare are retreating further east, pursuing German regiments having passed through Chelm, Prisoners taken by the Italian forces now number 17,000, including 380 officers, according to an announcement made by the Stefani News Agency. MISSION MOBBED ‘AT PORT-AU-PRINGE ‘WITHIMARINES NEAR Wesleyan Building Stormed by bly desire to elect tb the Presidency M. Dartiquenave, but these members are in sharp conflict with the Revo- lution Committee, which desires the election of Dr. Rosalvo Bobo, leader of the successful revolution In spite of the assurances given by the American, naval commander that Congress will enjoy the protection of the American forces present, in order to deliberate with freedom, the Sena- ters and Deputies have decided not to elect a President at the present time. They are forced to this course by fear of attack from the partisans ‘ of Dr. Bobo, Crowd Seeking Slayer Be- A delegation of four Congressmen, i . including the Archbishop of Port-au- lieved Hidden There. Prince, left here yesterdsy the American naval auxiliary Celtic for Cape Haitien in an endeavor to bring : . about conciliation between the vari WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The Wes-| ous political factions leyan Mission in Port au Prince was| The American marines on shore continue to disarm Haitien civilians. attacked Saturday night by a mob|° ‘The detac t marines who attempting to seize a man who had] came ashore lust night from the murdered a prisoner in jail and had: Preven cruiser Descartes ty now in occupation of the French Taeation been secreted there. Rear Admiral Caperton reported the affair to-day, but gave no details, The city is now being controlled without difficulty. The Navy Department issued this summary of its dispatches: “The commander of the cruiser squadron, Rear Admiral Caperton, reports from Port au Prince that the city ts being controlled without any difficulty. While apparently overy- thing is quiet and the Haytian sol- diers are said to be disarming and| turning in thelr arms to the naval! Ask your authorities, it is believed that many | arms are being retained secretly. The soldiers apparently retain their or- ganization, although without arms. Daily inspections are made for arms and whenever any are found they’ are taken and placed in charge of{ the United States forces “The assembly of citizens in any, numbers during the night has been: forbidden, During Saturday night! the Wesleyan mission was mobbed. | One of the men, who had murdered! a prisoner in jail, was secreted in this AD: DRESSING Mayonnaree De Luxe Purity Premier Says— “Try this delicious dressing on bot weath- er food — salads. and creamed ¢; Fe tree Salad Recipe Boo mission. ask Francis H. 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