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and sight machine also have made progress wan the eT and race its of Lomza. In the fierce fi | tag which ‘accompanied these aperee > tons three officers and 1,400 men | Were taken prisoners, while seven | Machine guns and an arinored Lert ear wére captured. of Lomaa the Onrow. | ww Righroad was cromed and ‘al . Who incerta’ ones fered gtubborn —resisten . m of Novogeorgievsk also Wri) cut off in the east between the and Vistuls Rivers. “In the southeast Gen. Mackensen Gontinues to force the Russians back. centre and our right wings now line of Ostrow-Gans- kuchrusk.’ Unofficial reports to-day said that the Russian line east of Ivangorod -had been broken in the Stave’ tsor- | Gerly retreat across the Viepra River. | These reports are not confirmed by oMicial advices, though Vienna last is* reported the Russians routed in the fighting around Lubartow, with a | of 6,000 men. | THREE WOMEN SAVED AT ROCKAWAY BEACH Two Almost Drown Trying to Res- cue a Third Being Swept to Sea. Tn attempting to worian who @wam out beyond her depth in front of Tent City, Rockaway Beach, this Morning, two other women almost Jost their lives and two men finelly ' | brought the distressed rescuers and the woman they had saved ashore. ‘wothen wére taken to the Rock- Beach Hospital suffering from . and shock. ‘Mise Jane McLuekie of No. 919 Mad- Avenue, Paterson, N. J, Miss Green of No. 52 Vanderbilt Newark, and Mre. John of Bloomfield, N. J., were when Miss McLackie swam her depth, and finding it it to get back called for help. two other women swa mout to Hier, and although they kept her from ee ee latent TALANS SWEEP FOES WITH GUNS ON DIZZY HEIGHTS Carry Thal Artery Artillery to Moun- tain Tops, 10,000 Feet High. NOW CLOSE TO TRENT. Austrians Forced to Evacuate Whole Region Around Montozzo. GENEVA, Aus. 0A plunging fire from Italinn batteries stationed two Miles In the clouds has forced the Austriang to evacuate the whole re- gion around Montozzo, thirty-four miles northwest of Trent. Advancing from the Tonale Pass Tegion, Alpine troops first captured the Pass of Montosso, and then, mov- ing swiftly forward in a night attack, took Montosto Peak, capturing Aus- trian troope and guns on the sum- mit. Italien artillery was pheprneash bid the mountain paths and elled out of their faditihe * . oj ire Gurrounding peaks of the Val del Monte region. The Italians are making prepara- tions to defend themselves against an Austrian attack down the Adige Valley, which, it is believed, will fol- low the ending of the Warsaw cam- paign. Rock barricades are being built across the valley south of Ro- vereto and Italian guns mounted on wding own, they found it impossibic the heights on both sides, ROME (via Paris), Aug, %&—The @ millon-dollar | the) and! | committed hod tie fine was paid. e Court will learn what One Week’s Advertising Record For Week Ending Aug. 7th. 1,465 Separate Ads. printed in The World. B16 Separote Ads, printed in the Herald. 13,349 The World's Lead. A FEW Details 1,923 World “Help Wanted” Ads, Herald “Help Wanted” Ads, 6,872 The World's Lead. 8,980 World “Te Let” Ads. 1,087 Herald “To Let” Ads. S843 The World's Lead, 1,799 World “Summer Resort” Ada. 836 Herald “3um ner Resort” Ads TAGS The World's Lead. World “Business Opportunities,” JL Herald “Business Opportunities,” The World's Load. World “Real Estate” Ads, ‘721 Herald “Real Estate” Ads. 10 The World's Lead. we eee =| MISSING KINDRED following official statement, dated Aur. 8, has been given out by Italian gon- “In the Tonale Pass zone our Alpine detachments, advancing boldly along 4 aiMoult ridge of rocks which rises tiie “gouth over Val del Monte enemy entrenched southeast of tha peak of Ercavallo, capturing bombe, fuse cartridges and other material. “On the game day other detach- ments of the enemy entrenched at Malga Patude, northeast of the peak of Ercavelio, wete Griven from their Posivion by the accurate fire of our mountain artillery, which had been holsted to a height of more than 10,000 feet on the crags of Ercavallo. “In the valley of Sexter, in Cadert, after careful preparation by our me- dium-calibre artillery during the past few Gays, our infantry advanced grad- ually, forcing back the énemy, and reached from Monte Nero as far as |launen weak but frequent coun! attacks, which were jately re pulsed. He had tried to suretch wire entanglements before our lines, By accurat also caused explosions and out- flames in the neighborhood LED A DUAL LIFE AT WORK AND PLAY (Continued from First Page.) ‘was so mild and his bearing #0 nega- tive among @ certain set of his friends that they nicknamed his automobile “Mary” and Kindred “Mother.” Deevy denied @ report published this morning that tt had been learned Kindred kept a safe deposit box in a New York bank, “All of this talk about his running @round promiscuously with women and the like in rot,” he continued, “He was anything but a lady's man, Some time ago an employee of Booth @ Flinn introduced him to a young woman who lives in Long Island City. She knew him only slightly and he was in no way attentive to her, “There was & manicur! ployed in a barber shop near beh Aye- nue and One Hundred and Twenty- | fifth Street with whom he becam friendly once, but the friendship w about the same as that of any talka- tive man with @ young woman whom ploy a# & manicure, lutely no other women races, Deevy his men learned that tne pos man je took that money on the the moment,” said Deevy. it or where he was going. at the time.” ——_—_——— Boy's Body in Park Lake, years old, of No, 945 Bast One Mun and Sixty-seventh Street, was f ndion, Laks Cyan, nis sit i him. But, Deevy added, his conduct an narod’ paving played the had oc: casionally took a “filer” on a horse Har pur of | Yi ‘He "alan" tw know what he was going to do with He may| have been out of his head from ill-| #! ness, drugs or many another cause The body of Sydney Glicken, re complete. The | vere than Tig per cont. more than Feet te on | (ng stock. a | area rane cans FORMER BA BARONESS WHO ACTED AS AGENT OF RUSSIA IN BIG DEAL. Baroness NADINE yon KLIFUSS PROCT! iA EX-BARONESS HERE AS RUSSIA'S AGENT IN MILLION DOLLAR DEAL Former Wile ot P of Percy Proc- ter Says She Has Closed Large Leather Contracts. Hot weather shopping on a million dollar acale has been the novel experi- ence of Mra, Nadine Procter, divorced wife of Percy Procter, who says she has come to this country from her home in Rui to buy leather for Ghoes and accoutrements for the Rus- ian army. Mra. Proctor, who was the widow of Baron de Kiifuss when she married Procter in 1909, is also engaged in valsing @ relief fund for her country- men stricken ip the war. Mra. Procter, at the Hotel Cum- berland, to-day, explained that she GM. “It {a true that the selection of the lekther was left entirely to me," aaid Mrs. Procter, who seemed an- noyed that ber mission had been learned, “but you must understand that I was not appolated by my Gov- ernment to handle this deal. My father, a director in the Second Mu- tual Credit Bank in Petrograd, my home, bad this order, ana as long as intrusted me with the responsibility. T finally gave the order to two well known Chicago firms.” Mrs. Procter refused the names of the firms. She explained that the Jeather— mostly cowhide—will be ipped to Petrograd, where it will be made into shoes and other equipment. “Il am going home in about two weoks,” she sald. “There is so much to be done there. My poor country- women are Leter 4 80 much from want, and, along the border, from cruelty.” Mrs. Procter met Percy Procter, a rich, elderly Cincinnati soap ‘ee facturer, on shipboard in 19 8 couple fell in love and she began di- pid roceedings against her hase ron de Klifuss. The Baron Shed while the sult was pendin, ‘was married to Procter m i was o divorced Pe, him bi she refused to live in Cincinnati. pecenhy she brought suit against Procter for $40,000, claiming that mount as a promised settlement. lhe got judgment. Lee ois J SE STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 P. M. Ne aya fete Teeth Teno Steel “Bring jin | ILS ai ie, cary Northern Pacific’ for the year endini Tt will com: iM income for the your: after a ng operatin tox ‘and rentals, a Bit ni I was coming over here anyway, he e. | HR | $e | tion of the document was received to- 18} | Consul here, Just how soon the man- nis ifeato will hy 't| MEXICA a a 1 SAlttona for’ priere a4 commento; shee marke! in- omething ‘on its outstand- IN NIGHT BATTLES, SAYS PARIS REPORT Assaults at Souchez and Near! the Lille Road Are Hurled Back. CROWN PRINCE, HALTED. Drives Against French Posi- tions in the Argonne Said to.Have Failed Again. PARIB, Aug. 9.—Repuise of a furt- ous German night attack north of the Souches railway station with severe | lonses for the enemy was reported in official despatches this afternoon. The Teutons first exploded mines before the French trenches shortly after dusk. German guns opened a heavy bombardment, playing on the French positions for an hour, and Austrian and German ransArcope ie svtchig ak art of the Russians in Poland. Berlin Vistula at Warsaw and the taking of have been divided by telling blows. eastward from Praga. The German statement claims of Novogeorgievsk in the east, betw Mackensen’s armies to the south, the ous prisoners is reported from the v German attacks along the west cording to the Paris statement. Argonne, near the road from Vienne-| Berlin mentions the developme! Warsaw could not be removed in tim: of the Germans. were followed by an Merges aera Machine guns out short the Ge charge before it reached the wire @ a: tanglements, East of the Lille road ergo ber man onslau |The French aocnteeatania 4 wit grenades and drove the enemy back to their trenches, The Crown Prince’ determined prtdoerey 2 tgrnet Prone OR positions in the Argonne. noon's official communique higeber the repulse of all these attacks ag well as charges against the Franch positions in the Vosges heights. Following is the text of the War Office report: “There was mach going on last night in the Artois district. In the sector to the north of Arras a Ger- man attack at a point north of the railroad station of Souches was re- pulsed. In the sector of Neuville-St, Vaast, to the east of the road to Lille, the Germans, after exploding a mine, bombarded our positions vio- lently and endeavored to come cut from their trenches, They were at once checked by the fire of our in- fantry and our artillery. “In the Argonne, not far from the road running from Vienne-le-Cha- 4teau to Binarville, the enemy last night delivered an attack upon our advanced post and trenches, making of hand grenades and bombs. They were driven back to their lines by our fire. ‘in the western section of the for- which extends from Haute Che- vauchee to Vauquols, there was fight ing with , hand grenades and rifles which lasted a portion of the it. In the Vosges a fresh German a tack against our positions on tl Linge was delivered at about 1 o'clock in tl but resulted in com- plete failure. A curtain of fire main- tained by our troops inflicted per- SOUTH AMERICANS WILL WAIT ON U. 8. IN MEXICO TANGLE The bitin Pe of Finance and Force Is for This Country to Carry. ——y New York City has become the in- ternational summer capitol of the ‘world. Diplomats and financiers have found that this city is the best and most convenient place, and during the week there will be various confer- ences here relating to affairs of both Europe and the Americas. Mexico furnishes the most tangled problem of the day for financiers and diplomats on this side of the Atlantic The Evening World is informed on high euthority that the meeting of Ambassadors and Ministers of South American countries with Secretary of State Lansing a few days ago in ‘Washington resulted in nothing defi- nite or clearing for the chaotic con- ditions now prevailing south of the Rio Grande. There was informal discussion which the diplomats are particular to have called “conversation” rather ceptible losses on the enemy.” oe MEXICANS KILLED BY U. S. SOLDIERS IN BORDER FIGHTS (Continued trom First Page.) ing one for the success of the Pan- an ican conference. cials who were hoping Carranza join in a peace conference with versaris fforts of much disap- wou his pointed. It is said by Carranza agents that neither the Guatemalan nor the Bra- ailian Ministers had been on good terms with Carranza and that it had been Carranza’s intention to hand the Brasilian his A Pens as soon as he again occupied Mexico City. The ticipation of Brazil and Guatemala in the Pan-American conference they said brought Carransa’s resent: to a climax. It was recall tro, the dictator of Venesuel much the e action when o' by foreign nations pressing for a set~ tlement of affairs in his country. State Department advi said that Carranza wi to move hi to Mexico pression in Mexican cir jon hi that Carranga pro; to establish himself in Mextec proclaim himself Prov dent in the face of the Pan. wor to bring the factions together. LVBESTON, Tex., Au c Festal 1s preparing @ manifesto to |the American people in which he plans to review the Mexican situation | and make public the correspondence between his Government and the State Department. Notics of prepara- | day by Juan T. Burns, Constitutional be issued was not stated. ——— IN CONFERENCE ~ HERE NEXT WEDNESDAY WASHINGTON, Av; | Lansing announced to-day that the than by the more formal and binding term, “conference.” This conversa- tion is expected to be continued on ‘Wednesday in this city, probably at the Biltmore Hotel, in the hope that ie ited States may have some ™ore concrete plan to suggest for consideration of ‘the Pan-American diplomats, It may be authoritatively stated that no plan calling for definite action trian reports declare the Russian armies falling back in the Vieprz region Hindenburg’s troops closer to the fortress of Kovno and the cutting off The Russians also are being hard pushed by Field Marshal von continuing with apparently increased intensity, but without success, ac- ne of the assaults recorded octurred north of Souchez, another in the Neuville-St. Vaast sector, a third in the in the Vosges, where a position on the Linge was assailed. Ypres, but does not record the outcome. French attempts to advance in the Argonne were stopped, it is declared. The shooting down of French aeroplanes at various points along the front is reported. The French Ministry of the colonies reports further successes by French troops in the German Colony of the Kamerun, West Africa. It has been learned that the magnificent library of the University of e striking hard at the retreating lines to-day recorded the forcing of the Praga on the east bank, while Aus- The Germans continued to advance the pushing of Field Marshal von een the Narew and the Vistula. statement adds. arious fronts. ern front on the allied positions are Capture of numer- je-Chateau to Binarville, and a fourth! nt of a battle near Hooge, east of ¢ to prevent its falling into the hands SPOKESMAN TELLS KAISER'S VIEW OF [GERMANS EATEN | WAR NEWS IN IN BRIEF (ORIENTAL SYMBOLS /ITALY PREPARING ‘ONLY SIGNS SHOWN | TO AID THE ALLIES INGONSTANTINOPLE | Turkish Government Banishes| Officer Who Has Arrived to All Traces of Europe From Streets of Capital. DRUGGISTS PUZZLED. Don’t Know How to Put Up|?. tenth A ‘ Del Sanctis, of the Italian army, | Prescriptions Written in |wno arrived tostay trom Naples on ’ ‘ad the Duca d’Aosto of the Italian Line, Sultan’s Characters. Capt. Del Sanctis saya the Italian army has a half million reserve By Henry Wood. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) m : |coast near Tarento are nearly 250 CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 8 (bY) army transports, ready to rush ¢ courier to Dedengatch, thence by| reserve troops wherever they are cable).—In a determined effort to eradicate from the Ottoman Empire all traces of things European, the Young Turks have just ordered the removal of all business sicns written either in Latin or Roman characters. Only Turkish characters can be used | hereafter in sicns and advertisements. | | The same order applies to druggists’ | prescriptions, The order became effective yester- day and Constantinople arose to-day to find herself the greatest labyrinth of mystery in the world. Two-thirds | of the city’s 1,500,000 inhabitants are Greeks, Armenians, Jews and natives! tt I °o 1, e: co-operation with the allies this fall, which is planned to combat the @x- to Paris, according to Capt. roops stationed at Turin and 150,000 most needed. the Italian reinforcements are .des- tined for Northern France, where the Germans are expected to renew their efforts to reach Paris or cise push through to the Channel. is not their destination, he presumes to supervise a Government, mission here has to do with a large leather contract WITH BIG ARMIES Supervise Government Con-_ tracts Outlines Plans. Italy is preparing for a system of jected renewal of the German drive Victor nore at Tarento, and that on the In the opinion of Copt. Del Sanetia Ie France is the Dardane! el Sanctis wil les. To-night Capt. to Bethlehem, Pa.; eel order for his though his principal He ts under strict rders to be started for home by Sept. an indication of the timé when Italy xpects to need all her men. The Duca d'Aosta had nineteen WARSAND VICTORY German Chancellor saree Bass Eu- jof other countries. They have « alight | speaking knowledge of the Turkish tongue, but know little of the Turkish | printed characters, it exceedingly dificult to get about and the average citizen could not tell! you from its sign whether a building harbored a hotel or stable. Strangers found jcabin passengers aboard, sixty-seven second class passengers and one hun- ,dred and sixty-elght third. Among tho cabin passengers was Victor 5. Rothsehild, No. 25 Broadway, who wishes to raise a fund of $10,000 to send tetanus cnti-toxin to the troops in the Italian trenches. Rothschild is a son-in-law of William Sulzberger, news of whose death at Lake Con- stance, on the border line between rope Now Looks On It as Step to Lasting Peace. (Copyright, at, by the United Prea Copy. in Great Rritain ) On the | maesuish of the capture of Warsaw the United Press asked the German Emperor by wireless message for an expression on the historic sig- nificance of that victory and for a statement of the basis Germany con- siders peace in Europe and the surest advancement of civilization In reply the following message was received through the Sayville wireless station to-day from Dr. Von Beth- mann-Hollweg, Chancellor of the Empire: * jesty, the Emperor, regrets not to be able, for reasons of principle, to comply with tl» request of the United States for a personal expres- sion at the occasion of the successes of the allied German and Austro-Hun- farian armies in Poland. In having the honor to inform you thereof, 1 add the explanation that Germany connects with these victories especially the hope that the end of the war will be hastened through them. I beg to remind you at the same time that the Emperor in all his public utterances, and lately on July 31 of this year, emphasized that Germany is fighting for a peace which will ob- tain for it, and the powers which on its side wage the great struggle, such absolute securities as iv needs for a lasting peace and for its national future. “Beyond Germany's frontiers the peace which we strive to obtain will ere Be oe lene the freedom of the open for all nations the in Mexico has yet been put for- ward by the United States Govern- ment. The South American repre- eentatives decline to assume the in- itiative but are ready to take under consideration whatever suggestion is made. The interest of South American countries in Mexico is purely political. They have no desire nor inclination to participate in any form of direct action. The burden of finance and force ia for Uncle Bam alone to carry. Wall Street financiers are taking deep interest in Mexioan develop- ments. There are dally informa! oon- ferences of bankers, railroad offi- ‘{clale and mining and ofl interests, which have been prostrated by the ut | insurrections: “.nd they have all come to this on? cunclusion’ There .s no man in or outside of Mexico strong enough to restore order unaided by the United Btateg and therefore all discussion of dip- lomats about finding and agreeing upon a certain man is wasted. | The financial interests have no par- ticular candidate, Any available man |will do provided the United Btates | Government stands back of him and gives him the support necessary to compel the fighting factions to come to order, There is as much disgust and dis- trust in Wall Street with Carranza as with Villa or Zapata, The financial losers have been trimmed by cach of | them in sucossaion and have no fond- ness for any Mexican chieftain, Much press agent advertising has been given recently to Vasques Tagle as the coming man of the hour in Mexico, He Minister of Juatice In the Made binet and never re- signed. Hence he has been lauded as the legitimate successor to the It is understood that at nm, diplomatic “conver enor Tagle was definitely m consideration for va- | Pan-American conference on Mext- | rio can affairs would be resumed in New he did not know how prolonged 8 neutrality in the Eu- rain put on it by the meet. ie Se Sane ICRNS OO would be. week in New York of ¢: porars, particularly cotton export py ie. Yatens Mage moe ® protest interfere: ok a ropean war situation is to have re- | Ln! with posatbility’o of aiding the work of prog- ress gad civilization in free competi- ton. BETHMANN-HOLLWEG. SS warded as being “inspired” by pro- German influences. Some of the prin- ciples are credited with legitimate American indignation, but there is al- leged to be a great deal of the same kind of “accelration” that was no- ticed in the the Bridgeport strikes. The cotton exporting situation is still hanging fire unsettled. British diplomatic representatives in this country hold firmly to the policy of abe ened all shipments from reach- ing Germany and selsing cargoes con- signed to neutral countries on suspi- cion of ultimately being destined for the Teutons. The British Government's tentative prepeastien of buying up several mill- ions bales of surplus cotton has not been put forward officially and the |® Indications now are that it is likely to The removal of the European|Germany and Switzerland, reached language signs continued all day|him by wireless yesterday yesterday, several thousand men| Walter 8. Cramp of Philadelphia, being employed. No line of business | was exempted. Even doctors and . lawyers were compelled to take down ——————_ ‘ ertlah charners or go wine | CERMAN LOSSES TO DATE Most of the foreign professional men, 2,178,683, THE CASUALTY who could not read their own names LISTS SHOW, SAYS BERNE. Printed in Turkish, chose the latter courae, LONDON, Aug. 9.—A Morning Post American firms were hard hit. Standard Oil, the Singer Machine Company and concerns had thousands of signs and | tb advertisements all over the city | gj printed in English ang West Euro- ie pean languages. In some instances, they saved their signs by obliterating the English words and leaving only pictures of sewing machines or type- writers on their posters. The pharmacists made vain efforts to convince the Government that the carrying out “of the order would en- danger the health of the community. They pointed out that all medical formulas had their basis in the Latin languages and sald it would be im- possible to overturn the precedents of centuries. The Government in re- ply invited the pharmacists to keep their prescriptions and theit bottle labels in Turkish or go out of busi- ness. Another section of the order pro- hibited children from wearing sailors’ caps bearing on their band the name of any battleship save one in the Turkish fleet. German and Austrian merchants a y were permitted to have thelr sign: written in the language of their) countries, provided Gothic aad not Roman or Latin characters were used, Piantasecati> tattle MOTHER-IN-LAW IS HELD. Young Wife Says She Tried to Use Revolver, As the result of a story told to-| day by Mrs. May Held, aged twenty, to Magistrate Sims the Morrisanta | Court her mother-in-law, Mrs. Frieda Held of No, 634 East One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street, was held in $1,000 ball for further examination. Young wite of Wil Hi r mothe vial home, No. landt Avenu un. she's going te Kill you! hei band called to her © her mother-in- Her husband, be discarded entirely. CHOCOLATE COVE HE. story is in a thick cloak of land. Special for Monday. a Extra Special for Monday and Tuesday short and sweet. The Dates, full size and full Havored, are each hidden away fs combination that will make love to every sweet toot! the To start off earthen at Te Big Spoctel” Monday and Tueeday, you wet mother, RED SAIR DATES: Choicest Oriental jed Chocolate, produci: x 15c son of the Sewing | latest German casualty lists give the typewriter | total Prussian losses at 1,641,569 tembe: KNABE shipbuilder, was also board. He has been pursuing lter- ry and art studies abroad, lespatch from Berne states that the and one for Bavaria, Plier and Wurt- rg 537,114. This does not in- ude the naval loases nor the prison- rs of war in Germany’s lost colonies, Convenient Terms WAREROOMS ‘Can You Beat It? Lost valuable silver mesh bag. Testored to its owner the day following the announcement of its lose appeared among The World's ‘ “Lost ae Found" Ads. York, Aug. 7. 2016, Publiansr ot Ne CoH q Sovristus and: wiltogty 4 d nay turned i Bear ena its columns only, ary sruly youre 1905 aneleraatugelive New York Clty, A ‘Lost and Found’ advertise- ment printed in The World receives 100,000 more circula- tion than a similar advertise- ment appearing in any other morning This means that World ad ‘adv have the advantage of assistance of 100,000 more mi verticers of sny other : r~d

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