The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1915, Page 1

PRICE ONE “CENT. © 1911 ‘The Press Publishi beds’ 4 Phe New York World, =) NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, “AUGUST: 11, 1915, f . Cirenlation Books Open to All.” “4 14 PAGES 8 Weather—Cloudy to-night; showers probable Thuredap , FARE TLANTIC FLEET ORDERED READY T0 airships on Georgievsk and Brest-Litoysk. “The army group of Prince Leopold | registered of Bavaria during a sharp pursuit on | in 1903 and was 3 the deft wing reached the region of Kaluszyn, On|trious, Calm, Trevire, Welcome and the right wing the army of Gen, von) Utopur On the Upper Bug and on the PETROGRAD, Aug. 11.—All govern: | ment institutions in Kovno are being | Continued on Second Page.) SEEPS ARES three-story and basement dwolling, BIG EARTHQUAKE RECORDED, |)" | Vesuvius Observatory. William K. Vanderbilt's yacht: Nirvan which had been ashore on the mud ftars in the Hudson near Barrytown since last sunday, was floated last night. A chan» One Hundred and F Brel hud to be cut to Ket her out The World Travel Puliteer (World) Bae 3 Park Itow, ket Grice for all Coast ith American I and pony order fo fo for ‘iige. are iy a saa RAE, top floor to the basement, and the qite HINDENBURG MOVES ON RIG: SLAVS RETREAT AT LON KOVNO IS ABOUT T0 FAL trlin Reports inaders at Every Point in Long Battle Line While Petrograd Admits Preparation for Flight to Vilna. BERLIN (via wireless to London), Aug, 11—The entire Russian line| /¥rom Lomza south to Novo Georgievsk is in full retreat. An official statement from the War Office this afternoon announced the “Deepture of Benjaminow fortress, east of Novo Georglevsk. | “The army group under Fie!’ ©@————————_ von Hindenburg,” ‘War Office "atrong advances made by the Russians @uring the last few days along the IN GERMAN WAR ZOWE ‘Riga-Mitau road. North of the Nie- / men there are no changes. An at- _}tack by strong Russian forces from|Two British Steamers, Russian and > Kovno tailed. sians taken prisoners there since the Bth of August has been increased to Submarine. 2,116 and of machine guns to sixteen “East of Lomza our troops are ad-| LONDON, Aug. 11 vancing in the direction of the Bobr-| night four merchant vessels, one of Narew line. the bridgehead at Wiznia. South of Lomra the entire Russian line is re- treating. The tions of the Caerwony-Brok position | Baltaer and tt could not be held by the enem pursuing troops crossed the Caerwony- | sunk, her Captain and crew reaching Brok position and are advancing to the |land. ‘The Rosalle was beached. east thereof. southeast of Ostrow was captured Norma was sunk. This was followed Novo Georgievsk tho| by the sinking of the British stea fortress of Benjaminow, which was|Oakwod, « 4,279-ton freighter. The ceport, “eanty vepstsea| NINE MORE SHIPS LOST The number of Rus- Norwegian Barks Attacked ‘by Since last ‘The enemy still holds! them a neutra hin, and five trawlers have fallen victims to German sub- marines, Th strongly fortified sec- small Russian bark British steamer Ro- Our} salie were attacked first, ‘The former The railway junction] Early to-day the Norwegian bark mer the enemy, was oc-;Admiralty announcements do not Bombs were dropped by our| state where the vessels sank. the fortresses of Novo] The Oakwood was owned by the Oakwood Steamship Company and at Sw. 0 feet long, of the allied troops| The trawlers lost were the Mlus- lie crews were saved. 1 > by storm early this morning rear guard positions on both BURGLARS IN HOME sides of the Dianka, west of Lukow More than 1,000 prisoners were taken. | “The army group of Field Marshal von Mackensen is engaged in making attacks on enemy positions behind the sectors of Bystrea, southwest of |Mrs, Mitchel’s louse nb. RES eget s. Mitchel’s House Is Robbed OF MAYOR'S MOTHER the Ostrow-Uchruck | While She Is Spending Sum- Zlota Lipa the situation is unchanged mer in Country. —— RUSSIANS GETTING Discovery was made early to-day READY FOR A QUICK that the home of Mayor Mitchel’s FLIGHT FROM KOVNO. mother, Mrs, Mary P. Mitchel, at No. 447 West One Hundred and Sixty- second Street, had been robbed some time within the last three weeks and Bobrinsk. Despatches |that the burgiara evidently had indicated an early /e4mped In the place and eaten what- soni ever food they could find there Mrs, Mitchel closed the house, a spend the summer, ‘She has been no- smograph nt tified of the burglary and the police |the value of the property taken from Aug. 11.—The meteorological |the house: apparatus at Vesuvius observatory was! ‘The house was on the list of those destroyed to-day by violent earth dis-! cjosed for the summer and had been Scientists here expressed the belief that the volcano may be ap- proaching another state of eruption. meteorological observatory 1 located on westerly ight of active since voleano’s last violent eruption occurred watched by detectives. from thi Fourth Branch Bureau and the men on post nearby, but in. spite aulder of ¥ of this guard the hou fot, V ure supposed to have been boys, man 05. The | aged to enter the basement fr the rear, either throug the yard of a preakers, whe iceman tone n One Hundred and Six Vanderbilt Yacht \ vana Floated. (y-third Sureet N. Y¥.. Aug. 11— up an alley which leads to the back yard of the Mitchel house. Patrolman Ubelacker, of the West fty-second Street Station, found a window Into the basement open this morning, The house was found strewn with crumbs, y {cigarette stumps and empty bottles, Drawers had been ransacked from the SL — whole place was in confusion. sea, She was built | ind went to Avon, N. J., to} are awaiting her return to estimate held in $1,000 bail for Special Se SKY PILOT WINS ; ing Wins First Race Over —— a Dead Track. | $26,000,000 in Coin and Se- curities Sent Here for Brit- SARATOGA RACE TRACK, N. Y., is A " 7 Aug. I1.—Racegoers enjoyed the first ish War Supplies. of the meeting fternoon. The sky was| rally pleasant ¢ re this | eioudtias and the sun shone with a} LOAD FOR 25 TRUCKS. | warmthy befitting August. The track was dead, however, but it promises to dry out by to-morrow, providing, of course, the month of n is over. Big Shipment Brought by War- Honan Sing viing, suo| Ships to Halifax and Thence inner, re Star by Specia! Train. is" sta Wo Frances Hisdoo, ‘Owner: Guitcr stable, Aruiver, 4. Fitasimavons, Fin <= Betting tah lome. weight and jorke aS Te .Sky Pilot, 107 | McCalve 485 13) Twenty-five» motor trucks witit #6 "165 | Buston) M10 28) 85 “Poppe, "120 Martin) % 22 5) armed guards on board them and Als ran —Diatmiber, Ueria, Serva. Broomst rave Beratched—Big Todo Tralee.) mounted policemen riding alongside moved through the city streets to-day Disturber, sold before the race to . Andrew Miller for $2,000, wax the fa-|M@tlY forty-four tons of gold. Iu vorite in the opening race, but he did | the trucks were also securities val- | not get anything. Sky Pilot won after | Wed at over $6,000,000. The treasure | a well Judged ride by McCahey, who | was from the Bank of England, con- sipped from fourth place on the in- 5 ‘i side at the turn for home and caught |#¥ned to J. P. Morgan & Co, and the carly pacemaker ip the final| was for war supplies purchased for hth. Sky Pilot was going on to : |wi neasily when Chivator camo fast | ¢ British by the banking frm. at the end, but wax nailed, Pope} ‘The gold and securities arrived at was third, Sky Pilot w rul up fre * 7 $1,000 te $1,800 by W. Puicra ober the American Express Company's de- of Chivator pot at Tenth Avenue and Thirty- SECOND nact or maidens: tliere.sear bon tien aatiens jood Won. ealtoptn af"Wwinner, beg : Cities, Owner.” # ne Willan Vaults of the Sub-Treasury in Wall Street, Regarding its third Street on a special train from Fin Ih Home, seright and jocke } y (Foils) Hamilton of J, P. Morgan & Co. made /3 a0 tuckes)! this statemen' Valentine, making his debut as a] 1,050,000 ounces of United States gold bgt blpel ay) a wet forces in} coin, worth $18.604 per ounce; so iis ie Steeplechase on the ground o s pe | having schooled well enough to t| total value was $19,534,200. good horses. After leading n all the way he tired badly at the far] exact value of the securities in turn last time round and both| shipment, but declared that they a Golden’ Vale and Suwanee passed! ait Americ Golde fe, once a ene ane eee i ities | about one-third as much as the gold. the end. Suwane handily for the place money, Val-| vaults, entine may have been only qualifying in this ras ————— Company for years quit his job rather FORT ERIE RESULTS. than handle the money which he FURST KACE ‘Pures 00 mitenzeeraide: thought was to be used to buy arms ‘rus « meatal and ammunition to shoot his coun- lace Tamer), ato Hela's Plame, Dix’ Rogers, Moxlet and Hi. aino ran. precious metal. "ioe ‘Shae Tine, 1 $4.10." vin SECOND RACK + fire When the twenty-three big motor trucks and the two small trucks had all been filled with the boxes of gold the squad of twenty-five mounted police under Sergeant Darrow of TraMec C formed in twos at the edge ' HOTEL FORGER IS GUILTY. | of the Tenth Avenue yard, The big eae gates swung back and the procession Admtin Crime and te Held tn matt] % Vehicles came out, Squads of re- serves kept the crowd at a distance. Police Commissioner Woods passed Carl T Crocker, twenty-two, wholahead of the procession in his car, says his father is the head of a manu | taking a last look at the arrange- facturing company in Evanston, UL |pleaded guilty before Magistrate Krotel | Jin the Yorkville Court to-day to eash Jing a worthless checks for $85 show 8800. third, Bins, Meeliok newer! tit 7 Ciintock and Marjorie of #1000, (Continued on Third P Page.) —_——- SARATOGA ENTRIES. BARATOGA, N. ¥., Aug. 11.—The tries for to-morrow's races are a4 fol [tows |The check was cashed by 1 |Dunlop, Vice President of the Hotel McAlpin Company, when — Croc! jshowed a membership card in "The the hotel clerk's assoctation. ¥ Complaints against Crocker have been | silin received from Detroit, Albany, Puffalo |" and from the St and) Brogtel Hotels in this elty ee MINNEHAHA I$ BACK. en ST RACE- For maidens, oo eo and «halt furlongs. No foe. in and Gute OT. Dadays Stiaw | Thilit, LOR Spangie Ing The) felon Me star Mit Woe Wh Ost lence “Vecbvlate, Lith Hes Irs hdloe Atinutic Bimee tad) THIRD! RACE | ards ha Caught Fire on Trip From Here, | |}! Lage Phe et - oy | UME The Atlantic Transport Line theme | oa ia 0 ee 3 Which caught fre when | thiwe-sear ole. vue heavily Vaden with explosiv ad other war munitions her way from New York to Liverpool five w: ago, | resehed this port to-day on the frat re turn voyage sinee that time The fire aboard (he Minnehaha oc curred on the day whieh Erieh: Muenter lias Frank Holt, the asaailant of J.P oMrgan and the Man who cet a bomb in the fon Capitol, had designated in & letter to tis wife a» the time when an ocean liner ‘should sink, God willing,” pebah South Americaa Continue Conference With Secretary of State. While chaos ing more rampant and defiant hourly in Mextipo, the foremost diplomats of) rived within the war son this} Coast of Ireland so marine experts w York late urs behind ting aboard of ber the enormous amount came|of ammunition and other war sup plies with which she was loaded | and erime were grow- | the Western Hemisphere to | ment of that ¢ to Ambassadors Ministers who found New York| She carried 288 pasengears, many Anadians Ko nt Washington for Halifax at 6.15 o'clock this morning) and by noon the gold was in the! of ck| WILSON COMING HOME, eighteenth floor the hotel they « alue W. P.) ssadors Da Gu |, Naon of Argentine, were present Amb mi Moeshack, Moonstone, Grecian Bend. “The gold shipment was made up of | and | deat W Da Pina of Uraguay. Only one person outside the diplo matic ranks participated in the con- w ‘rly| Mr. Hamilton would not tell the| (he | ference. n and that they are wortit beat Valentine} They were taken to the Morgan| An old German laborer who ha8)gecretary Lansing aatd to worked for the American Express! 9. phe Evening World sting is a continuation of lost week's gathering in W where discussion of the 3 cannot say in whington, {4 \Swearme |trymen, Four others cursed ax they | handled the 200 pound boxes of the | There may be some announcement t ut its conclusion, 1 expect to return to Wu ton to-night.” The South American diplomate were | courteously silent quested by the robably y of State to/ cloy Continued on Second Page.) ee JOLT FOR DEMON RUM v9 GIVEN BY THE SULTAN | ‘eves Prohibiting Drunkennes CONSTANTINOE the Sultan to-day ma enness a crime fective for the name of Allat ground that such use another Zeppelin dropped bombs on a yspital train at Stedice, Russtan condemned wh in Condate Edison Company and face [Was to have afternoon by Ganger of losing hie WALL STREET HAS. RUMOR ADRIATIC WAS TORF a the steamship Adri ‘MEXICO’S TROUBLES 2: eee.crrs y WAS wa agencles, 1 the im various 1 had been destroyed | World failed | Star Line p word of news from her figured ont She left last Wednesday, six i time, owing to the delay In xe down to the plimsoll mark them Englishmen and ¢ ing over to fight and sev jeans loen Amer PREPARED TO ISSUE of! CORNISH, N. IL, Aug. 11.—Wrest Ison Was preparing to-day to | © the summer capital for Wash other foreign question# with Secre the President did not pl spent by the Pr Pres tly, was halted by a man near Cor nish Flate, The man, who said that President, told Mr. Wilson that b had presented another President rs ago with anc n four-leaf ¢ « nt Wilson left here late th afternoon and is due to arrive , Washington to-morrow caceaiiees ** ZEPPELINS ATTACK TWO HOSPITAL TRAINS AND many rt | KILL RUSSIAN WOUNDED, Wich Carranz® has prepared was being held back awaiting the out-| From Gen, Funston @ report was by} LONDON, Aug. 11.—Reuter's Pet. s public drunk- rovince of Minsk last Saturday ppelin airship droppe y! wounded and injuring othe Two papers on which cars were damaged, Two hours © correspondent adda, previously killing many - > Halty Tennis Tourney sons, t Hatn CHICA the second round of the national ein imat nt in doubles wht 4y. The mate eat, t ‘yevere and he is In to-day probably will be played to-mor- row. | | | | | »| pression was intensified by frequent | i cj} calls on the wire by various persons Diplomats asking If it were true that the ship! Diligent Inquiry by The Evening discover who was . the author of the rumor. ‘the White| Mexican water: e had not heard one} At the rate the Adriatic jy travel- ling nowadays, she has not yet are off the NOTE ON MEXICO, ington to discuss the Mexican and tary Lansing and other members of York lawyer, who has been acting w4! nis Cabinet. special emissary for President Wilson| 4), revolutionary anticipation of leaving Cornish y wolf this morning but remained in his study working on official business received from Washington, He paid particular attention to the Mexican situation but would make no comment for publica tion, Most of the morning hours were sident in writing, An |to Argentina and Chili protesting announcement on Mexico is expected ‘| soon after his réturn to Washington. | nt Wilson, while on an out- ing to-day with members of his fam- H., and presented with thirteen four-leaf clovers “for luck.” President smilingly accepted the nd thanked the man warmly had picked the clover espeelally for the r buneh rograd correspondent says that in the a@ bomb on al train, Killing three of th 1, Auk TL —Rain prevented ) played on the tenni He |courts of the Onwentata Clubs L nie For jek for SAIL FOR MEXICAN WATERS 44 TONS OF GOLD MOVED OAS HS SES t mh Joe MeCahey’s Clever Pitot POLICE GUAR Diligent Efforts, However, Fail Trop SENT BY CARRANZA WASHINGTON ACTS AFTER DEFIANT NOTE aaenceeaensttifi Lansing Is Told Mexicans Will “View |man submarine, was circulated | With Displeasure” Attempt toFrus- trate Success of Carranza Army —Pan-Americans Also Named. J ican affairs. with its action toward M | ventatives of all the Latin-American | 4larmed." He declares he hi Republics participating in. th cate to the Secre! n conference, saying that any at-| | n them and tho Ameri tempt betwe |can Government to aolve the internal | to § situation of Mexico “would involve an | Profound conviction that Americ the tru with levity, as (t would mean on the} yng, act which could not be looked upon part of the Latin-American nations | just accep » acceptance of the pre fairs of a sister nation, with the co- | 0) sities and popularity, | operation of the United St ino far as it may affect the rela- tions b nations themselves, and also because it might Involve the any future de of similar The Carranza Agency to- nounced that ause It iferences.”” ay an- raticipation in the and dppar- against their py Pan-Amertean conferen: \Brazil refused to join the conference |has despatched a not lelro expressing his gratification for representing the he the Mexican people zil's action. Carranza took oceasion, however, in the note to Brazil to attack the Bra- Despatch as jis now ic ing for the United States. | Governor that Minister Car- said Carranza, “has “L regret to 4a losso de Olivera, been one of the persons who have] speech Re-| Orders | brought the greatest evil on public of Mexico and who in a cer-|fesular troops o: tain way may be responsible for the] Were loo! Secretary Garr' present status of our relations with would be issued, Jeome of the Pan-American confer- ived telling of frequent ence. Argentina already has replied/raids by Mexicans, extending west- to Carranza’s protest, saying the) ward from Brownsville more than 100 Mexican people should regard the miles. In one case it was stated the conference a% a proof of friendship |invaders penetrated ninety-four miles Mex [into Texas Carranz communication, de-| Secretary Garrison significantly livered on his behalf by his Wash-/|adimitted to-day that three army ington agent, Elesio Arredondo, was) transports are at Galve regarded | bring all the Mexican factions into al for Mexican waters. | conference for peaceful settlement of| (Under M Mexican affairs. In a letter to | Pan-Amert braken to devine n co! WASHINGTON, Mm 11.—Orders have been issued to the Atlantic fleet now at Newport, R. |., to be prepared to sail for WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Gen, Carranza, through his Washing: ton agents to-day notified Secretary Lansing that “the Mexican people view with displeasure” any attempt tending to frustrate the success of | Carranza’s armed forces. Carranza’s message referred to the Pan-Amer- ican conference and was taken as plainly signifying he would not agree Carranza also has sent a similar @——————— notification to the diplomatic repre-| tutional Government to feel justly Mex). |/mstructed by Carranza to communi? ary on the subject, ir, Carranza and the persons wi co-operate with him,” says the letter etary Lansing, “are of the Government. would know situation in Mexico it would stand that the only possible, lo solution would be edent that |to leave the revolution to follow tts lthey can take part in any internal |"&tural course until the complete vie- ’ tory of the party representing greater tes, some-} The Conatitutionalist Government, thing absolutely undesirable, not only represented by Mr. Carranaa, abatains from passing any comment on the * etween the Latin-American |"0oferences that are being held, be- as no knowledge of their sral support of {Character and of the conclusions lon which grows out {Which may have been reached, and tse it does not want to afford the supposition that they tacitly oon- rranga had sent notes "ented to it; but at the same time it considera it its duty to inform the American Government of the dis- Pleasure with which the Mexican ently having been imisinformed that|G0Vernment and people would view any act which would tend to fru to Hilo de Jan.|tTate the success practically accom- plished against the reactionary face what he understood to bave been Bra-|t!ons by the Constitutionallst army, es and ideale of from Vera Cruz to the jan Minister in Mexico City, who| State Department to-day said the id given out a public precating the anti- Fy sorters and incendiary and that quiet was restored. would not @ the Government of the United|cus#’ the matter, but had in confer- aise? ence with him all War Depfftment An address to the American people] officials through whom such an order ton and an- little less than a defiance uther at New York, ready to sail, pre- of the United States in its effort to sumably, althourh he did not aay so, jor Gen. Funston’s com- mand on the border are nine pegi- retary Lansing} mente of cavalry, six and @ne-halt Arredondo expresses surprise that a|regiments of infantry and two full rence had under-|regiments of fleld artillery, im all a plan for the pacifi-|about fourteen thousand tro@pa At cation of Mexico and says reports to other posts in Continental Usited that effect “have caused the Consti- States are about twelve thousand