The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1915, Page 1

Sl eeeteeee nee FINAL Copyright, 1018, bp ¥ t* - PRICE ONE CENT BRITISH STEAMER SHELLED FOUR HOURS IN CHASE B GERMAN U-BOAT, THEN SUNK PRESIDENT AWAITS ALL FACTS BEFORE. ACTION ON IN ON ARAB: | ; Captain and Other Oflicers ‘of the Diomed Killed Trying to Escape RAIDERS IN DISGUIS Two Submarines Had Dummy] Funnels—Anc her Steam- ime apa +“Our Course Will Then Be De- hip Seen Sinking, | . . termined,” Declares Sec- QUEENSTOWN, Aug. a retary ‘Tumulty. steamship Diomed, owned by th | Blue Funnel Line of the Ocean P Bteagship Company of Liverpool, has|__VASHT aay SOR be gunk. by. a German oubmarive. | announcement w mad at the . White House to-day that “as soon as Her captain, quarter: i] ard were killed by shells fired by the| submarine during a pursuit of four, 4scertained our course of hours. An officer of the Diomed, who land- edthere to-day with other survivors, says that two submarir hts e4. According to his report, they were rigged with dummy funnels, One of them, this officer asserts, subjected the Diomed to a heavy shell fire The liner attempted to es , but surrendered after being pursued for four hours. Two boats were lowere aa and forty-nine members of the crew ster and stew all the facts regar*'ng the Arabic are action will | be determined.” | ‘The official Secretary Tumulty after President Wilson announcement was ara given out bj a conference Mr all he was authorized to say. The statement bore out previous unofficial statements made at th | White House and State Department that President Wilson had not deter- with Tumulty sald the statement was mined what action the American fot away, taking with them (he pod eee eee ene lke and, would bed ear | suspend judgment while aiting ri Shortly afterward one boat Wa een a rivet nwaitable. from. all swamped. Two Englishmen and five) SR" Chinese were drowned. The others | cleat ONT en's Ae were picked up hy the se boat. | SA OPAI ISMIAG AERRLON GA This boat, being overcrowded, wan] {M1 been feceived from Anibassader in danger of being swamped, but | een ee ee occupants were saved by the orrival lecantniet (tosdas) Thby wore HEL Ice of a steamship. pete) immediate publication, it was stated, urvivors say hat ¢ he Fiat Sanne Secretary Lansing to-day cabled Pp t Queenstown om landing, al ost immediately The American Embassy | 10 SUMMER HOME ee | will be expected to find survivors and y (Cabinet embe: thely statements, which ora, Too Many Cabinet Members Away et aa y to Holl a Meeting To- | It is possible that the plan of Presi- Morrow. dent Wilson for dealing with the | Arabic situation may be made public WASHINGTON, Aug. 28%.—Prest- | to-day, Inside circles have informa-| dent Wilson ha» given up for the tion that the White House will not pfesent his plans to return to his delay in the matter of the sacrifice of summer home at Cornish, N, H,, and) American lives on the Arabic, Action will remain in Washington, He had | ts anticipated at any minute, although hoped to go to Cornish late this week, |every precaution will be taken to The President does not expect to hold | procure a full and unprejudiced re- the usual Cabinet meeting to-morrow, |port of the sinking of the vessel, ‘All but three of the members are out| Those who are authority for thia of the city. A meeting will be held | statement even outline the details of Cireulation Books Open to Al The Rew York World ON PETRO he Prem # Be BRITISH FLEET BOMBARDS TOWNS ON BELGIAN COAST Germans Reply With Coast Defense Guns—Fires at Zeebrugge. FLUSHING, Landon). Holland, Aug, 28, (vin Several British warships | peared to-day off Knocke, Belgium, | d bombarded the coast, A despatch! that shells burst o a factory | bet ween Zeebrugge and Lissewerhe, The Germans replied with their coast defense guns, but their fire t1 ally ceased. Heavy clouds of smoke over Zeebrugge, but no visible Two large British still off Knocke at morning. appeared fires were warships were 9 o'clock this To-day’s German official statement says that a hoatile fleet of about forty ships appeared before Zeebrugge and subsequently steamed away to the northwest, which would take them In the direction of England. This is the first report of any naval movements | of conse in the North Sea for onsiderable period, The last im- portant naval action in these waters occurred on Jan, 24, when the Ger- may cruiser Bluecher was sunk, ceils MEXICANS AGAIN FIGHT AMERICANS ON BORDER Fire on U. S. Troops in Arizona and Clash With Texas Posse—Sev- eral Bandits Reported Dead. DOUGLAS, Ariz, Aug. 23.—Troopers of the Tenth Cavalry, doing border patrol near Lochiel, Ariz. were fired | upon y and returned the fire, which is supposed to h me from renegade Mexicans professing alle- stance to Carranza, There were no casualties, The Mexican commander sent an apology, »sterday sult. the Chinese firemen of th BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Aug. 23.—A Diomed refused to continue stoking, | Ambassador Gerard at Berlin asking | sneritt's posse and Mexican bandits 4 the work was undertaken by if the German Government had re-| were to-day reported to have fought eM ; ‘ihmarine stond om |eeived an official report on the sink- Jin Hidaigo County, weat of here. It deckhands, The submarin ing of the White Star liner Arabic. lwas said several Mexicana w 4 at a distance of about hilt a mite ee ee ene a owevers wag mat | Killed, but this report lacked con- e jomed sunk . x P firmation. WOUh the QIN AN ee ak aa tructed #0 ask for one. It was of-| “ine Mexicans were believed to be he assista a C eel icially stated that the American Gov- | the band of Carranza deserters who, Diomed states that another | ernment is not yet at all sure of the| according to reports from Carranza was in sight at the time and appar-| pices and considers ite information | military authorities in Matamoros, ently was sinking, ‘This vessel, in his| gr? pane sone last Week crossed Into Hidalgo opinion, was attacked by a second! “Siurgtary Lansing sald the altua-| oon” ———ge——— submarine, 7 | tion was exactly as it 1 Saturday, LONDON, Aus. Tho aa that no steps had been taken other COURT CENSURES BOARD; masted British schooner = Marth®/inan to get accurate information as Edmonds has been sunk by & Germanys, viit had taken place. MUST AWARD CONTRACT submarine, dt was announced to-day | Prodi dhe feat Goat Wetbaansdon Her crew has been landed, Gerard was not directed to seek an The Martha Edmonds was one of vtion, the inference was drawa| Declares Estimate Body Acts in the oldest schooners in service, being | that the State Dep: t has do-| iukuithe We built in 1873, She-had a tonnage of 185. | clded to let the German Government Unbusiness-like Manner The steamship Diomed was a! initiate any explanation it may have About Subways, freighter of 4,672 tons gross. 48 | to offer. Ambassador Page at London | (ioe 219 feet long and was built in 1895, | t by mail somo affidavits and) The Board of Estimate and Appor- She was last reported as having ar-|other da but has been Ingtructea | Honment must approve the contract rived at Swansea on July 24 from | to cable a synopsis of the matorial, | f" the construction of the Times Amsterdaia, on a voyage to New] EMBASSY TO GET STATEMENTS | ot tte Section of the Broadway sub- oe ay. This Ix the decision of Supreme ccaniale —— FROM SURVIVORS, Court Justice Shearn, handed down The department accounts for the ap-| to-day, upon the ation of Hol- WILSON WILL HOT 60 f arent delay In securing affidavits by| brook, Cabot & Hollins, lowest Aid » fact that the Arabic survivors] ders for the contract, who sought a writ of mandamus. Commenting on the cotfrae pursued the Hoard of Estimate and Ap- | portionment, the Court declares: “The course pursued In respect to this contract 1s, to say the least, most unbusinesslike. If it wore to p 1 no bidder for city work would ever know where he stood. There must be some reasonable certainty in uiese large matters and in the end the city would be a heavy loser by having the Court approve such methods 4s are by hereby disclosed where an attempt was made to coerce the contractor into 4 ting @ materially different contract,’ The World Travel Bureaa, Area ‘Park How, ina ae ket orn BS at Mg vette, f one paxkabe base Kee: it Fy for sale. ire, Check rooin as soon as conclusive evidence about the sinking of the Arabic 1g received, \ @ontinued on Second Page) Goad end aight, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 191 Cc ts Are Known WEATHER Fair to- might ond Tuesday. . FINA “Circulation Rooke Open to All.” | Rooks Open to AIL” 5. 12 PA GRAD IS HALTED BY ROUT F GERMAN FLEET, WHICH LOST [1 S Sane OSSOWETZ FORTRESS FALLS TO VON HINDENBURG'S ARMY Has Been Under Intermittent Bombardment, Since Last Winter—Germans Now Hold All Railroads Feeding Petrograd- -Warsaw Line. ing the Petrograd-Warsaw trunk lin chine guns were captu Ossowetz Hes 110 miles northeast Army group o? Field Marshal von of Warsaw. The swamps before the} yackensent eo crossings over «| fortress hindered the movement of triputary of the Pulva have been cap- heavy siege guns for the German at tured aft flerce resistance ot eo tack and enabled the Russians to re- Lopate ae ates ie Russians to Fe-| front between Ruzna and the mouth mee Biter Lomsa, bees ial = of the riv An ack a athe Bug snyad and other fortresses of the Rus- sian first line of defense had fallen, Gen, Von Gallwita's drive eastward through Bielsk and Von Hindenburg's progress in a southeasterly direction |from Kovno threatened the envelop- above the tributary of the making progress, “Bofore Brest-leitovak the situation remaing unchanged, On both sides of Svitjoze and at Piszoza, cast of Via- Pulva is ment of the Russians in the Ossowetz J0va, the enemy was defeated yes- district terday and driven back toward the The official statement follows: northeast.” “Army group of Field Marshal von| | PETROGRAD, Aug, 22.—More than Hindenburg: ‘The troops of Gen, | 250,000 Austro-Germans are being von Fichorn are making further prog-| )¥tled against the Russian Ines from Riga to Galicla in an attempt to crush the Grand Duke's armies. A seml-official statement to-day es- timated that 120 divisions of infantry reas east of Kovno. “On the Bobr we occupied Ossowetz fortress, which was evacuated by the Russians, Racing Results and Entries CARD IS SCRATCHED TOPIECES BECAUSE 7p Qlace driving Winner, br. a. by Knight Errant [Matharet ftoche tiwnce’” Mra Fe Atmbruee Rockfish, the favo; wrong course early in the steeple r chase and when his stublemate Con f quistador went down afterward | favorite players sot a shock, af Hibler went to the front and was never caught. He won by «a dozen - > . engiha from Mesbach, who lasted long Korfhage, Favorite, Afterjenoush to beat Wels) King for th Place money, The rest were never in it PHD RACE Winning First Race, Bid Up From $700 to $1,150, Hanstieap: all SARATOGA RACE TRACK, Aug. 2 ough ie ¢ yas cle, c ie 23.— Although the d°y was clear th Pyaar 9 Miaitecar, f track was heavy when the fleld went Seratched Leowhars, Ca t r Maid to post in the opening scramble this | .4,tnton snd, Tne (irader ware te afternoon, As a result the programme Aye Handicap, third on the card, The Was scratched to pieces, making new | Grader won and Hanson finished out handicaps necessary in almost every | # le the money aster having \ a u event. The crowd was up to the| jon to well into the stretch and then standard in size, having come out! went to the front. In the final six- expecting to see a good day's sport, teenth Harry Shaw closed with a FIRST RACE, winning rush, but was a trifle late, For three-year-olds and upward)» » Grader going past the judges a $400; firo and a half furlongs, font d to the good, Hanson went all to] dy nt Wee me a Fak pieces at the end and Grumpy was! fam, “Owner, 8, Spencer, ‘fyainer, "W up in time to take third money, Mon- Fin: eo oBetuing treso ran second for an eighth, then In Honea, welt ant Jockey, Su FE Sh dropped back, skinnod the rall at the a4 Too. Meta og 18 invite turn, bul failed to profit by tne So Keverly Jame, 04 la Palle) 10 52 48 advantage. He evidently is pounds f Apcon, Maule K.. Bastana i. in below his best form now, ininia, St, After seven were withdrawn from Lanarian, — oo DROWNS SELF IN BRONX LAKE the first race Korfhage was made the favorite, He won, of course, but not = by any big margin. He was only a Pleasure Seekers Yee Middle-Aged length in front of Devil Fish, passing Man End Hin Life, the judges after having led all the) Pleasure seekers in Bronx Park way, Beverly James was a Kood Luke to-day saw a middle-aged man third and the others were strung out, Jump into the lake, His body was Korfhage was bid up from $700 to | recovered an hour later 4,150 by Emil Herz, owner of Devil! A Jetter addreased ‘Dear Mac," Fish, but was retained by the owner.|and a card bearing | ne Heldruin SEOOND RAO! \™ cHeady were in hia ket. ‘There a Maidens: threesearoide and, wp. | WAR Aleo an envelope addressed to, W want, 6500 added; about ts pile aot 2.50,| A. W N 406 to 610 Cainp Tile Get 6,01, time, 43a,“ ocart quod,” Woo easly) ‘rose, Rockaway, \ a WEARS AGTRESS KNEW BANKER CUNEO HAD WIFE samacipllecanss Man Who Introduced Miss de Von to Financier Tells of Meeting. § RERLIN (via wireless to London) and 77 machine guns tel Aur The Russian fortress city | hands of Ossowets has been captured by| Desperate Russian counter attacka] “Ian't it atrange that every nice the Germans, it was officially an bey eantatp meee hin ete oy gel ee ee ‘ nounced this afternoon. L advanced aduth of thistown, This was the first remark Yvette ‘The capture of Ossowetz, which has| “Army group of Prince Leopold of | De Von made when she was intro- been under intermittent bombard. | Pevaria: ingaged in stubborn | duced to Andrew Cuneo, the Itallan ment by the Germans since last win. | [hting, this army group haa crossed | panker," according to Eugene Cas- ter, gives Von Hindenburg possession | he Kleszore-Leranza line and ts en-| saga, the man who Introduced them, aged in further favorable attacks. of the last of the Polish railways feed-| We took 2,050 prixoncrn and fifteen | Ad Who was testifying this afternoon before Magistrate Corrigan in the Centre Street Court in Miss De Von's perjury hearing. the $50,000 breach of promise suit Miss De Von In complaint in her asserted that she did not know Cuneo was married and that she took his proposal in good faith, On this state- ment the banker charged her with perjury. Cassaza, who Is an Insurance broker, her, asked him for an introduction, | “North and South of Tykocin suc and twenty divisions of cavalry are| which was brought about in the Watl| “ . s “]operating against the Russians. This| street Subway Station a sho! 6 cessful engagements took place. Ty-|°! eas 8. This| Street Subway Station a short time includes about 40 per cent. of all the!jater. Ho sald he told the young kocin was taken. On this occasion] German forces and 7) per cent, of | 5 1,200 prisoners, including 11 officers! the strength of Austria. woman all about Cuneo, mentioning among other things that he waa the husband of Mrs. Cuneo, the well known automobile racer, Miss De Von sald she had heard of Mrs, Cuneo, testified the witness, and xlous to meet the banker, » did you atid Miss De that introduction?” John Reilly, counsel for Miss De “To the Broadway ‘Theatre, Brooklyn.” “What ‘play “'A Fool There Was, the audible Vou asked Von, in did you see?’ * replied Ca delight of the ators. ——. ~--_-- ITALIAN TROOPS SAIL TO FIGHT THE TURKS Transports, Convoyed by Warships, Leave Ports, Probably for the spe Dardanelles. ROME, Aug. eral transporte laden with troops and escorted by warships have departed from Naples, use, Taranto and Brindisi for an tinatlon, Syra unknown ¢ ‘They sulled under sealed orders, It generally believed they are to be employed for operations against Turkey. os SARATOGA ENTRIES. RACE ‘TRACK, Saratoga, N. ¥, Aug. 26.—'The entries for to- morrow's races are as follows TRACE For three-year-olds and 4 Mivatat ” 1 isn ee a; nie hance, farbary, 102; Pan Maid,” 9; "Reliance, wing With. 166. RACE Por halt frloni " Heottian Irrawaildy, 105: Lawvortat Alta two-year-olda; _peliiny Helpiug Mand, might, 118) High Horse, Silkk Beauty, I 4 110, Madam Ht fon, *Spanaie Duo the Kitchen, it THIKD RACE For two olde; condits and «half furlones,—Hroomrale, 116; 1: F 5 tot Lh | 110) By 4 Tis, Tron Dake, 4 Huron ope wile. aud tl 116 weet a Wh SIXTH HACE and a halt ftlongn 8° Mer Link, 100 *Aatvanity Weather ‘HUSBAND MUST SUPPORT GES 8 PRICE ONE CENT. BG CRUISER MOLTKE SUNK BY BRITISH SUBMARINE IN BATTLE IN GULF OF co Besides the Moltke, Kaiser Loses Twe Cruisers and Eight Torpedo Boats —Russians Lose One Gunboat, Which Goes Down Fighting. 8,000 GERMANS WIPED OUT IN THEIR EFFORT TO LAND LONDON, Aug. 23.—An official Russian communication descrip: tive of the naval battle in the Gulf of Riga* was forwarded from Petro grad to-day by the correspondent of the Central News. It gives the German losses as one dreadnought, two cruisers and eight torpedo boats, The statement follows: “In the Gulf of Riga, between Aug, 16 and 19, the Russian fleet sank or damaged no fewer than two German cruisers and eight torpede of No, 1600 Avemuo T, Brooklyn, testl- | boats. At the same time a British submarine sank one of the best Ger fled ae ee met a ee in man dreadnoughts. vember, 1910, at a French Students’ a 7 a. “ a Bull at the Terrace Garden and be- ‘The Russian gunboat Sivutch was sunk in a brilliant fight in the came a companion of hers. Cuneo, ) course of which she sank a German torpedo boat while she herself was ng them at dinner at the Astor! | Sabina te Hotel, and becoming infatuated with | in flames and sinking. ————— )s[Tho President of tho Duna bad Previously announced that the German dreadnought Moltke had been sunk. It is believed that this was the warship that was the victim of the British sub marine.) Tho Petrograd correspondent of thy Times telegraphs that the victory won by the Russian Baltic fleet te of such magnitude that Germany wit be cumpeiied to revise her project for co-operation between her land am sea forces and abandon further offem sive developments around Riga. ‘Tho threatened advance on Petro grad is effectually halted. The Petrograd correspondent of thy Daily Nows wires that the streets a Petrograd are filled with crowds de lirious with joy over the sea victory Before the offices of the Admiralty great throngs are surging, singing pa CHILDREN AFTER DIVORCE Supreme Court Decision Will Mean a Lot of Trouble for Cer- tain Married Men. means a lot of ried men was Court Jus- A decision which trouble for certain 1 handed down by Supreme tice Delehanty this avternoon in the case of Dalton vs, Dalton, The Court held that a man was rosponsi- ble for the support of his family even though the wife deserted him, Philip Dalton, whose original name was Philip Kratowsky, was deserted hy his wife nine years ago because of| alleged cruel treatment, She took her two children with her. Dalton went to Pennsylvania and secured a divorcee, Returning to this city, he|ttlotic airs and begging for more ang met an actress named Nan Russell| still more details. ‘The people regart and married her the reported victory as the turning Learning this Mrs, Dalton began|of the tide in favor of Russia, two actions, one for absolute dive ‘Tho Dally Mail's Petrograd corre. and the ot to recover $14.5 ‘spondent says that the German fleet which she in the Baltic is still strong in spite and children, spent in caring for he The wife secured rit of attachment through her attorney,| of the whipping it has received, There Phillip Fonpe of No, on Coamt 8) are eight battleships and nine cruisers which tied up the husband’s| j, > s. It was in an effort to have| ft but this reported defeat, i which the British destroyers are eal¢ to have played @ very useful part must at all events delay operationa It has put a fresh heart in the Rus | Slan fleet and in the nation, and has come just at the moment when goog news was needed. It would appear from the Petro. grad despatches that the commandey » writs vacated that the decision RUTH BREWSTER WEDS WITH SURF AT FEET Htor’s re en .|of the Russian fleet of torpedo boats itor’s Daughter Becomes Ro-|o) cubmarinas in the Gus o@ Riga mantic Bride of Duncan Dobie | permitted the German fleet to work its way through the narrow entraned Jr. on Island, to the gulf, Then he directed hi How Miss Ruth Browater, die suy-] Steck that cost the Germans so entoen-year-old daughter of Eugene] dearly, V. Brewster, lawyer and managing|MORE THAN 8,000 KILLED IN BF; editor of the Motion Picture Magazine, FORT LAND, was seoretly married more than al ‘The Russian yfetory, however, did month ago to Duncan Doble Jr. al not end with the defeat of the Germaa prominent student at Columbia, be-|nayal forces, Invading fleet was ae came known to-day companied by four large transports The wedding took place under ro-| heavily laden with troops, ‘Thess mantic circumstances on u break-| troops attempted to make a Iai water on the ocean shore of Fire Is- see re land, Saturday afternoon, July 17,{0% the shore of Pernov Bay, on Efforts to hide the news of the cere- mony from both Mr, Brewster and his wife, from whom he waa separated last December, failed at the last m« ment when the father arrived on th scene just as the young couple we @bout to be maried, northeastern shoulder of the Gulf o) Riga, Either the accompanying wary ships were unable to support the land. ing of the troops or the Russiag strategy in some WAY overcame thy advantage of German naval guna, foe if