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iS ARMS ALONG 1 Von Scholtz, Von Gallwitz, Von Eichhon, Von Mackensen and Bavarians Victorious. CITY OF LUKOW TAKEN. Zambrowo Sa Also Captured, ys Berlin, Atter Violent Two-Days’ Battle. BERLIN, v Aug. 12.—Gen, von Scholtz's army has captured at Vizna, east of Lomza, leading over the Narew River, This afternoon's of- flolal statement also reported the capture of the Waln bridgehead. South of Vizna, where a violent bat- tle has been in progress for two days, Gen. von Gallwitz has occupied Zem- browo, saw-Petrograd wireless to London, the important bridgehead from the War- The falling back against twelve mile: Ratiway Rus- sians are the railway on the entire line from Lom- ga south to Novo Goorglowsk. Bavarian troops moving north from Ivangorod have captured the rallway town of Lukow, only seventeen miles Sledice, the Russians who fled from Warsaw are retreating the shortest rallway route between War- saw and Brest Litovsk, making it imperative for the retreating Rus- sians to take a roundabout course in retiring upon the fortress, “Our air forces have bombarded the Bialostok railway Junction,” said the south of toward which Lukow stands on official statement, “causing several sharp explosions, “In the north Gen. von Elohhorn has repulsed a Russian attack south of the Niemen River in a bloody battle, the enemy suffering heavy losses. “In the southeast Gen. Mackensen has penetrated strongly fortified Rus- sian positions after sharp fighting on the whole front between the Bug and| Parozev, the enemy retreating.” In the Western theatre of war the! only combats of importance are oc- curring in tho western Argonne, where the Crown Prince is attacking the Fronch ines, The War Office re- ported the capture of a group of for- tifled French positions near Vienne- je-Chateau, SEVA, Switzerland, August 12 Paris).—A despatch to the ‘a Tribune from Innsbruck, capi- tal of the Austrian Tyrol, says: nan operations have been sus- on the Kovno-Suwalki-Grod t because of a lack of reinfor ents, no new troops having arrt since Aug. 4. “The Russian offensive at Kovno is of the greatest importance, as the German first line troops, ehiefly Prussian Landwehr, suffered terrible Yosses on Aug. 8 and Aug. 9% In this section as well as in the region be- Lomzu and the Bug, It is re- that many regiments are ‘age in strength.” ADRIATIG IS SAFE Se 6 LIVERPOOL PIER White Star Liner Reported Arriv- ing With Load of War Munitions, (via LONDON, Aug, 12-—The White Star Line steamship Adriatic, which sailed from New York on Aug. 4, ar- rived at Livernn>' this afternooa, ” ogee Pon kL PRICE ONE CENT. Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). Che “ Cireylation Books Open to Au.” | NEW YORK, RUSSIANS BEATEN IN FIVE BATTLES MEL ERLIN REPO UM ee ea nice ] fs “THURSD HURLED BACK WITH. TREMENDOUS LOSSES HE ENTIRE LINE FIND JEWEL TAKEN IN $15,000 LOOT FROM PAWNSHOP ——e Arrest May Clear Up Robbery | in Stern’s Third Avenue Store. The diamond, sapphire, and ruby tie-clasp, worn by Antonio de Lalla when the police brought hin down from Waterbury, Conn., to-day, was | positively Identified by Adolph Stern }as one of the pledges included in the $15,000 Juwelry theft wineered in Stern's pawn shop, No, 1508 Third Avenue, at 8.30 o'clock on which was en- the morning of Jan. 30. | Stern's private mark, which viaces on all articles left with him. was on the inside of the clasp, and when this was pointed out de Lalla, |who had vigorously denied any | Knowledge of the robbery up to that time, refused to way another word until his case came up tn court In hunting de Lalla, Captain of De-| tectives William Jones followed the scant clue offered by tho fact that among the $189 taken from the cash drawer by the robbers was a $1 bill that had been initialed and inscribed by Stern because it was the first one he took !n when he went into busi- ness ; Capt. Jones learned that this bill ‘had been passed in a First Avenue, restaurant largely patronized by members of the gang which sup- ported the late Giuseppe Galuchi, who \had been a leader in that section. Working with that as a basis, Jones found that de Lalla was missing from his usual haunts, and by letters which the missing man wrote to a girl here he was traced to Waterbury. He was Jarresteg there to-day on instructions \from the New York Police Depart- |ment and at once brought down here \to Headquarters, According to the story told by Mor- ris Deckler, manager of the pawn- shop, he and a clerk named Jerry | Stern and an errand boy were in the |shop on the morning of the robbery | when three men came in, held them up, bound them, gagged them and |hauled them Into the rear of the place, ‘The robbers then filled with jewelry and cash several suit cases and bags which they selected from Stern's stock, Deckler sald he and his com- panions managed to roll out to the front of the shop after the hold-up men had gone, and by knocking pair of scissors off a desk, succeede Tinally in cutting their bonds, description Deckler gave the thieves was vague. De Lalla, who is twenty-one years old, glyes his occupation as a driver, and formorly lived at No. $00 East One Hundred and Nineteenth Street Detective De Martin! brought him from Waterbury, The detectives ex- pect that other arrests in the case will follow. | of —— Robert G, Martin Dtes Suddenly, ‘Robert G. Martin, thirty-two years of age, and associated with the Wall Street firm of Albert Phillips & Co., died sndddnly to-day ut his home, No. St. holas Avenue, His father, Robert Marin, ja @ well known uowspaper man. “{LINER LAPLAND SAILS CANNOT IDENTIFY OWN SON, SO PUT IT UP TO GRANDMA | Mir, and Mrs. Glass Bringing Baby from Oklahoma to Jersey City. | BOY WAS KIDNAPP |Parents Study Youngster Four! Hours, But Are Not | Quite Sure. The more Mr. and Mrs, Charles | Glass of No, 19 Lineau PI City, look at the Ittle boy police of Norman, Okla, thought was who the thelr missing son, the more uncer- | tain they become whether It 1s really thelr little Jimmy, |is so incredible is able to |foundling whom they went out there. to identify 1s not their son, and the! {child is to be brought back to Jersey | | City for Jimmy's grandmother to look | Jat. If it ts Jimmy she will know| |him, sh says, and the parents be- lieve she is right. She has had the cure of the child far more than they have, Yesterday Mrs. Glass wired her als-| ter, Miss Mathilda Englebreck, as fol- lows: “Disappointed again. Child} not James. Resemblance so remark- | able it took four hours to make us| | positive 1t was not our little boy.” — | | But to-day Miss Englebreck got an- other telegram saying that her sister | and her brother-in-law would remain in Norman another day, at feast, ause they were atill uncertain whether It is the same four-year-old hoy they believe was kidnapped last The resemblance that neither parent | say | May On receipt of this telegram Miss wlebreck consulted Deputy Com- missioner Norton of the New Jersey Police Department, and it was on his advice that It was decided to bring the Oklahoma waif back to Jersey Clty The father of the missing Jimmy 8 is away from home on business great deal of the time, and his As a result the l\ittle chap's grandmother is the one who 1 had the intimate handling of him, and the parents rely on her |to make the decision which will give the Oklahoma baby a home or turn him adrift on the world again, The Glass family, consisting of the father and mother, Jimmy, and two younger sisters of his, Madeline and | Blanche, were spending a vacation | a | mother also travels. feet from the Host Office at Greeley, Pa Mrs. Glass and the two little girls had gone to the Post Office on} the morning of May 12 and left little | Jimmy by a hedge in the yard where his father could keep an eye on him from the window. ‘The father turned his head away for Continued on Second Page.) —$—<@—_— WITH BIG WAR CARGO The Lapland, operating for the White Star line, left New York to- day for Liverpool with sixteen first- | ass and ninety second-class pas- ngers, and her capacity in freight. The Lapland was delayed for nearly quantity of Virginia tobacco in hogs- heads and the bracing of many aato trucks on the decks, By order of the White Star line, no one save passengers and em- ployees was permitted aboard the ship, and every piece of baggage was refully examined, Private detec. | tives and two policemen were on the! pies, 4 at the farm of Edwin Faust, some 300 | 4 two hours by the loading of a large |} 5 ‘ British Submarines Penetrate Straits Inté Black Sea. | LONDON, Aug. 12.—A despatch to! the Daily Telegraph from Athens says | that the Turkish cruiser Goeben (re- | named Sultan Selim after her pur-| chase from Germany by Turkey) has been torpedoed by an allied submarine near the Bosporus. The despatch adds that the crew succeeded in running the cruiser aground in a narrow creek, where | workmen are now building a dike all| Jersey | around ber to enable repairs to be! firmed the report that the German | [ “Circulation Books Open to aii") AY, AUGUST 12, 1915. 14 PA ILLA ANXIOUS FOR PEACE IN MEXI PROPOSES A TRUCE OF TURKISH CRUISERS GOCBEN AND BRESLAU ‘TORPEDOED (MRS, HEVENOR WINS ‘BLACK BAG DIVORCE but have succeeded in running through) Wife, Sued by Husband, | tho Bosporus into the Black Sea and have there torpedoed the cruiser Bresiau and ar krmed Turkish trans port. Twice Exonerated and Then Is Granted Decree. GET —>— RUSSIAN WARSHIPS REPORTED BOTTLED UP Berlin Claims That Czar's Fleet Has Been Trapped in Guilt of Riga. SHE WILL SONS, tinue to Pay Her $15 a Week. BERLIN (via Wireless to London), Aug. 12.—The Admiralty to-day con- | Th Heve martial troubles of Harvey ft. or jr, wealthy lumber merchant, made. squadron operating in the Baltic has R ‘A despatch to the Datiy News| {fabped several Russian warshipe tn and Mra. Grace Dimon Hevenor, which from Athen ways it is reported | MA UME OF MR a tags have passed through many exciting there that the British subma-| folowing last. Sunday” yeara of legal battles, came to an end rines operating in the Dardanelles off the entrance, it was state to-day when Supreme Court Justice DADDY'S ChOlcE | * WINS FIRST RACE AT SARATOGA TRACK’ — i | SARATOGA RACE TRACK, N, Y.,| Aug. 12.—-The weather was clear at race thin afternoon, but there was no telling when the rain would come down, [t spattered a bit early in the day, but really did not get started up to post time in the opening | event, The crowd was up to the standard in size and the programme promised aport above the ordinary Roamer worked in public before the fivst race for Saturday's Champlatn | Handicap, in which he Is allotted top weight, 132 pounds. He covered a mile and an eighth in 1.55 4-5; very good considering the slow track. fractional time 0.48 3-6, 1,01 8-5, Lad and 1.65 4-5, FIRST RACE. furious. Start goo! Pray Trainer, natn Owner ner, rb. 0. BY Halleubeok 5 Mw ’ outhera tar, Celtghel, Tatiana wins Auten, 3 Water Waren, Spangle Dow mn and Tah Seratehed: re, ov o' Tank, Helen Marie. The firat race was full of tips, and for once one of em won, This was Daddy'e Choice, said to have beer heavily played in Now York and va- rious parts of the country, After run ning close to the ,pace of Southern Star in the early running Byrne wer to the front with him at | RECORDER TESTIFIES ; Scudder in Brooklyn granted Mra. Hevenor an interlocutory dec: In granting the confirmed a report submitted to him by former Supreme Court Justice Marean, who was named as referee to hear testimony in Mra, Hevenor'a sult. | Since the action was started Hevenor dale had more than a sixteenth of @ advantage over Dixon Park THIRD RACE re earlla a fae | had been paying his wife $16 a week. Pant al, Under the decree granted to-day he MR Wits, Oren | will continue to pay her that sum. be baiese Meio | Mrs Hevenor, before her marriage 0 Metinhes & ag |to Hevenor at Lake Placid on Aug ane é rq 1905, was Grace Dimon, a belle of Also ran— He |Hammondaport, N.Y. As a@ society Sonene—e |mirl there she had become engaged to when Tp wiiisan Gnaily won a race Charles J. Drake, ‘The engagement handicap, thitl on the card’ beating {Was broken off and Drake married a muth talked of Leochares in easy | Brooklyn girl, who tn 1906 sued her slate Superintende was third |hushand for a divorce and named ixy stole a bi 4 the back evenot 20-respo atPtch and was never cnught. Leo- | Mr # id bead ce respondent, Mrs ce) . off none too well, ran around |Drake won her suit. his field the end of the stretch | In December. 1912 Hevenor began had heade: xy rom th home a sult for divorce, following the kid- it seemed a cinch for him, bul/ng of their child, Harvey 1H. Kederin made a very wide turn, los: Napping of pate cd 1 ing three lengths which he never |Hevenor Jr, now seven years old. could make up. MeCahey hugged the |Mrs. Hevenor alleged that the little rail afl the way fellow was taken away by ber slster- Senos f {n-law, Mrs. Marion Nixon. SARATOGA ENTRIES. ‘The kidnapping was followed by a “paid on Mra. Hevenor's home, and PIRSP RACK For fies and geldings two! then the divorce sult was filed, George arm ol nelle: five, a half fur After | 1h Mack { W. Shirer, a real estate man, being fi bales named as co-respondent. Meantime pags, A Mra. Hevenor learned that her son was v, welling: mix fur wld akewood, N. J., i tellngs at wing being held in Lakewood, J, went erator, Ws; Ate ‘oN bat there and* recovered him. She then selling; pe mile. — Dens sents came out victorious in the divorce arial pei Hevenory began a new action tn No- 13, and named five men as co-respondents, although at the trial he confined the evidence to one, F, C. Wells, who, he said, acted improperly earolda an vember, ton Figinns rebel with Mrs. Hevenor at the Hotel Oa Navarre. A black bag found in the SChianers hotel, which it was belleved woull Sint furnish ample evidence for a divorce, Gis. ner Rey fn was fntroduced in court. When opened St was found to contain a hand- hief, an empty bottle and a few other harmless articles. Mrs, Hevenor won this sult Her victory suit against now has won. Weather, 111 4 dan LPL tt was followed by the her husband, which she One of the stipulations | THEN FREES MARA pole and then drew away. Hig Tod of the present finding is that Hevenor another tip, ridden by young Garner, | must pay for the education of their come w aA ag geal sg furious von, Who remaing in her custody but yut second was the best he could do. uring the recent ate! ' . , DHE Meee ed tha wine mii |. During th strike at th be seen occasionally by his Duly's Noll just got up in time to] Standard OM. plant at Constable Hook, | father head Southern Star out of third| which was so pieturesquely handled — oe money, ae ee by Sheriff Hugene Kinkead, the OOND RACK MEOOND ka sherttt late one night arrowed city |FRENGH IN AIR RAID 00 at Commissioner Hugh Mara of Bayonne | following morning, when he found Mara attending to his duties, the saamnemeainiend ‘n sheriff ordered him into custody ani oe Posai {ai Homo, weight ant eckes ai, | oh mani : corner, with a {Hurl Bombs on the Cities of Zwei 4 Re alice attic wer him. Tha bruck i if ela ig yA a brucken and Saint Nestor Knuth Cain of Bayonne, had Kinkead releax Inbgert. Bryndor won the steeplechase very Mara in his custody Kert. easily after Dixon Park fell at the To-day Recorder Cain heard the ™ 9 water jump and Chester Krum threw|case. It was a novel procecding, for, SERLIN (via wireless to London), his rider in the back streteh first | th rident which led to M Aug, 12.—-French aviators bombarded time round. his left Archdale the | rest occurred in the pre ree , miexitind only contender for Dixon Park when rder, and during the ne man cities of Zwelbrucken caught and remounted was about a use by himself ¢ and Saint Inbgert yesterday, Killing awarter of a mile out of it, Bryndor] gave bis version of what took place. eight elvillans and wounding several woo by about Ove lengths ad Arch: Yuen he dismissed the charges, vihere, ‘ THREE MONTHS Pa Lumber Man Must Also Con-| ree of dectea: the dustion | 0 SOOlh, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and American WEATHER—Showers to-night and probably Friday. t R INA] - EDITION 4 PRICE ONE CE GES NT, TROOPS OF MEXICAN CHIEF STOP FIGHTING, AS PROOF HE WANTS 10 END THE WAR In Making Proposition to the United States He Tells Gen. Scott and Others He Will Go Full Length to Reach Agreement. {WILSON APPROVES PACT WITH PAN-AMERICANS WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Gen. Villa has informed the United States Government that he is willing to sign a truce of three months or more duration with his opponents, during which time a peace con. ference shall be held. Villa, who has been in conference at El Paso and Juarez with Major Consular agents, has expressed in a definite way his willingness to do anything that might bring about an early peace, according to reports from Government agents at the border to-day. Villa Is understood to have ordered his commanders to avoid fighting, evacuating places threatened with attack, as evidence of a sincere desire to make Peace, > _ With the return of President WN- "ARMY AVIATOR KILLED [sue way" | IN PRACTICE FLIGHT American peace plan dose not com: | template in any way the use of feres, or the Impairment of Mextee’s’ sovereignty or interference in her domestic affaire, The purpose of the appeal is to Influence the Mexloane themselves to hold « peace convention and the government created by thet action will be accorded recog: whether or not the acquiescence of all: the factions is obtained. President Wilson ang Secretary Lansing conferred at length to-day om ‘the Mexican situation. Details of yes terday's conference in New York of the Latin-American diplomats were given to the President by the Gecre- tary of State. ; Just before Mr. Lansing went tothe White House he announced that the @ppeal to the factions and leaders in Moxtoo will not be sent to-day, as am rangements for its transmission by elegraph and mail to remote parts of Mexico are not complete, The communication has been @&m- shed and signed and jt has been ap. proved by the President. State Department officials were gge- jparing to-day the list of Govermere and Generals to whom the appeal ts to be sent in the hope that the petithen will have widespread effect on public opinion in Mexico. Secretary Lansing declined to com~- ment on Gen. Carranza’s letter to protest against the Pan-American peace plan. He said no reply bad been made, The letter, however, Bas not disturbed officials, for they are convinced that Carranza does not control the individual opinion of the many Generals and leaders who are reported to be under his command. ‘The feeling is that when the Pan- American conferees’ appeal ts read Capt. G. H. Knox Falls 500 Feet at Fort Sill—Lieut. R. B. Sutton, His Aide, Badly Injured. FORT SILL, Okla, Aux. termaster Capt. George H. the First Aero Squadron, U. 8. A. was killed, and Lieut. R. B, Sutton, his aide, probably was fatally injured to-day when an aeroplane in which they were flying fell 600 fe The squadron had just been transferred from California, Capt, Knox's address in the Army Record Is No. 4 West Tenth Street, New York. He is said to be the son of Col. E. M. Knox, the hatter, Knox Is said to be the richest man in the army. a ARRESTED 1N FLORIDA | AS AN AUSTRIAN SPY! 12,—Quar- Knox of Prisoner Accused of Making Draw- ings of U. S. Reservations at Different Points. WASHINGTON, Aug. leged Austrian spy was in the Govern- 12—An al- ment’s hands at Tallahassee, Fia., to- day. Desribed in the warrant issued} | by Commissioner McCord as “August, | allas Rudolph, allas Adolph Orbolph," | No was arrested Wednesday in the Florida city, wed of entering pr perty under control of the United States Government, “for the purpose of ace obtaining Information concerning B&-)\ wit be evident that Carransa has tional defense to which he 1s not en-|).6n misinformed as to the purposes. titled.” His case was set for prelimin-|5¢ the peace plan, and there te @ ary hearing this afternoon confident hope that some of his According to Justice Department] pitnerto close supporters will give officials, who only reluctantly ad | their adherence to the idea of a peace conference, Carranza issued from Vera Crus ‘tos | day, through his Washington agents, a denial that any outrages elther were committed or contemplated against foreigners within his jurfediction, Hits massage sad: mitted the arrest, the prisoner made | drawings of military reservations and | |lighthouses at Flag Island, Port St | Jose: Crooked Island, M no Poin Santa Rosa Island, Apalachicola Bay, St. Andrew's Bay, Panama City, Fort Pickens, Barancas and Cedar Keya . ? “You may deny through the press SAILING TO-DAY. that foreigners of any nationality are Jacksonville. in danger in Mexico, for the Conatitu- Colon tlonalist Government offers an@, will am Patria, Maresilies. ' ; wive every sort of guarantee to the he

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