The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1915, Page 1

» — } -” * Grodno and the GERMAN INVADERS ARE NOW ON OLD. Face a= VON HN CE ONE CENT. KAISER FOR AMERICA DENBURG CAPTURES The [* Circulation Books Open to All,” OLITA IN DRIVE TO CONTROL WMOLE UNE Czar’s Two Retreating Armies Are Split by Austrian Cav- alry’s Wedge. GRODNO ALONE LEPT. Invaders Now for the First Time Battling on Soil of “White Russia.” BERLIN (via wireless to London), Aug. 27.—The Rusffan fortress of Olita, one of the two last strongholds | of the Slavs defending tho Warsaw. Petrograd ra\lway, has been occupied it was officially announced this afternoon. The capture of Olita, which ts on the right bank of the Niemen Rivér, ot Koyno, by German troops, thirty-five miles south leaves the fortress of Grodno, forty- four miles south of Olita, the only still guarding War- line. Grodno’s evac- stronghold the eaw-Petrograd uation in the near fature is a cer- tainty in view of the retreat of the remainder of the Russian Kovno- Brost-Litovsk line The Germans who captured Olita are now moving eastward against the Warsaw-Petrograd Railway, only twenty-four miles away. Thetr left is In close touch with the right of the army advancing on Vilna. The joint yperations ar Gen. von Hind ynbu Phe official staten Office said the Russians evacuated Olita without resistance and moved eastward. Another detachment from von Hindenburg’s army at the same time defeated the enemy southeast of Kovno, East of Ossowetz and southeast of Mitau battles are in pro- gress. nt from the War Prince Leopold’s Bavarian troops sre making rapid progress in their advance upon the Brest Litovsk- Minsk railway a line of as gr im. portance to the third line of Russian defense as was the Warsaw-Petro- grad line to the first. The Bavarians have reached a position northeast of Kamenez Litovsk, less than twenty miles from the rallway. Moving on from the Brest Litovek region, Gen, Mackensen has driven the Russians across the Ryta River, —~— TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES NOW RETREATING SPLIT BY INVADERS’ W. LONDON, Aug. 27.—Even more im- portant than the capture of Brest- Litovsk and Bielostok, officially an- nounced from Berlin, is the news, un- official, but emanating from Austrian) army headquarters, that the Austrian | cavalry pus Bug, beyond Kovel, has eut the com- munioations between the norta aud south wings of the Russian army, Nevertheless, both Berlin and Petro- grad reports agree that the Russian forces are yet intact, and Petrograd insists Grand Duke Nicholas will be able to save them from the trap, Berlin says the pursuit is i full swing. Petrograd tells of the steady retreat along the 185-mile line between ripet River Grodno itself is now threatened, ‘The Austro-German invaders have not only pressed their opponents into (Continued on Second Page) under the direction of) )DGE) Ing forward across the! TO PETROGRAD WIL OBEY ORDER; GEN WOOD WIRES TO CARRSIN Brief Message From General Probably Final Move in Roosevelt Incident. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Seeretary of War Garrison to-day received the following telegram from Major Gen. Leonard Wood at tho Plattsburg, Y,, citizens’ training military camp: “Your telegram received and tho policy laid down will be rigidly ad- hered to.” When asked if he had seen Col. Roosevelt's comment on the rebuke to Gen. Wood, Secretary Garrison sald it was not his duty to save the Colone! from himself. “Ho's a very active man," con- tinued the Cabinet member, “and I'm a very busy one, and It's going to be a pretty hard job for me to keep my eye on him all the time. The Secretary Ukened the Colonel attitude toward himself to that of the Maine farmer “who was on his way to the railroad station one morning when he met 4 friend. “Where you goin’? said the friend. im goin’ down to Bangor,” sald the farmer, “to get drunk—and Great Lord, how I do dread it,” The Secretary intimated that he “expected” this would be the end of the matter, At the White House it was said, the incident was thought to be closed and no further development is ex- pected there. ————— CHOICE SEATS 25 CENTS AT HANGING OF NEGRO Denton, Md., Takes a Holiday and River Men With Craft Overlook- ing Jail Profit by Execution, DENTON, M4.,* Aug. 27.—Owners of river scows did a big business to- day, when Wish Sheppard, a negro was hanged for attacking fifteen- year-old Mildred Clark, Tho jail yard in which the gallows was erected borders on the river, The ecow men fitted up their craft with seats, drew in close to shore and charged 25 cents @ seat, Every tree and houketop within sight of the scaffold was filled with spectatora, Sheriff Templeton said that Shep- pard confessed his gully. KING OF SWEDEN THROWN BY JERK OF TRAIN STOCKHOLM, Aug. 27 (via Lon don).—King Gustave had a narrow escape trom serious Injury yesterday at Jerna, As he was entering his car to proceed to Stockholm the train started with « sudden Jerk, throwing him down, His foot way jammed be- tween the cur and the platform and ho fell bavily. He was picked up and assisted into his car, Except for a slight lameness he ia little the worse for the accident, CT Tae ie Sek at NEW YORK BANKS FIMNCIAL CENTRE OF ENTIRE WORD For First Time in History Bills of Exchange Must Be Drawn on Us, NEW YORK IN THE LEAD. Total Income Tax Nets $80,- 190,695, This State Paying $27,638,745. The pricé of the English pound sterling in the New York foreign ex- change market fell to-day to the lowest figure on record. It was quoted as worth $4.63%, as compared with a normal value of $4.8665. This is a dis- count of 23 cents in the pound, or 5 per cent. Back of this fall in the quotations lies a struggle between the greatest financial interests to transfer the} centre of world finance from London to New York. This takes the form of a demand by New York bankers that bills of exchange, which for centuries have been drawn on London, be drawn on Now York hereafter and be figured in American dollars instead of in English pounds, International banking and com- mercial transactions always have paid their tribute in commissions to London, The bills of exchange, wher- ever dated, have been drawn on some London bank, and every payment had to be made through the medium of the great financial institutions around the Bank of England. At leading houses it was said that no news had been réceived from Lon- don as to what the British propose to do about thelr international financing, but it was extremely necessary that something be done soon if the credit of Great Britain is to be maintained, especially in connection with war purchases, The suggestion made here ts that the British banks—not necessarily the British Government—arrange to| | establish in New York a large credit balance, which they could eusily do} by sending over their American se- curities. | With this as the basis of credit, | then bills of exchange in American dollars could be drawn on New York Instead of continuing to insist that the bills be drawn on London, But this is just what the English banks do not wish to do. It would rob them of the immensely profitable commissions that all the world has been compelled to pay to London on international transactions of every character. New York insists that Wall Street is now the money mart of the earth; that all nations are compelled to look te this country for both money and supplies and that payments must be made here instead of in London. The iatest proposition to adjust the situation Is for a joint English, #rencn! and Russian loan to be floated in the United States, Ordinary Governmen: bonds of these countries at relativey ieee t rates would not be ac- ceptable tho United States, In- vestors demand better security and higher recur Delegations of fnanclers from both gland and Frace are scheduled to ail for New York next week to con- sult on plang for re-establishing their credit in this new money center of the world. The Department of Commerce to- day announced figures showing that for the first time the United States leads the world in export of domestic and manufactured goods SAILING TO-DAY. Cymric, Liverpool Antilla, Santiago. Tuscania, Liverpool... intere in » 12M, » 12M, 6 M i NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1915. TO MAKE FULL REPARATION TWO JOCKEYS FALL INTHE FIRST RACE AT SARATOGA TRACK a Henry and Mink Luckily Es- cape Injury When They Lose Their Mounts. SARATOGA IRA’ 27.—The crowd at TRACK, Aug. the track to-day taxed the capacity of the grand stand, It was Ladies’ Day, and they surely took ad- vantage of it. Hundreds of them and their escorts could ot find seats fleld stand and club house, on the stand, and as a result the lawn Presented the most animated picture imaginable, This is next to the last day of tho meeting and it seemed as if race lovers came from near and far to be in at the last innings. The track was as fast as it could be ex- pected after two days' rain FIRST RACE For three yearolls an! $400; five and a half furk 108, Rtart 4 th eanily iriviog, Winner, ch, f by Alau-A-Dale img Gussie,” Owner, T, C, McDowell. Trainer, G, Denny. Fin- —- Betting lah, Homo, weight and jooker Se Ph Bh, 1. Huntress, 110 (Martin) oS Ld 14 2. .4an Vows, 110 (alley) 2 5 Oe 8.:Boverly Jaman, 100 (laivalile) 20 8 4 Alto ran-—tiloamming, Saota, Malabar, Jem Jr. Mamie K.. Voiusoe, Harry, they Oakwood, Ancon, Dakota, Sinai, Two of the big field of starters in the opening event lost their riders among the flying feet of the horses in the run from the far turn to the stretch. Jockeys Henry and Mink were the boys who went down, but luckily neither was hurt, Huntress, the good thing of the race, won after outpacing the field all the way from the first #ixteenth, Bevelry James stuck close to her in the run to the stretch, but at this point Martin drew away as if to make victory certain, | Bevelry James ti a bit in the run and San Vega, closing strongy t him out place money, Gloaming, the second choice, was back in the bunch, but in the final six- teenth he was running over horses. He was a fast-going fourth, SBOOND RACE, 45, Winner, eh, Belmont, by Drain Fin. th, Horse, weil 1.) Fernrock, 114 y 'Mtart! i A Rochester, 11 PASSENGERS SEARCHED BEFORE CYMRIC SAILS Extraordinary Precautions Taken to Guard Heavily Laden White Star Liner, A camel's dificuity wetting through the eye of a needle was only Aelittle greater than that of getting aboard the White Star Liner Cymric, which salied for Liverpool to-day, un- loss one was @ passenger and properly identified. The most marked secrecy was maintained as to the names of those who sailed as passengers and the number of Americans among them The Cymric carried @ vast cargo, but nothing was disclosed as to its character beyond that it was “general.” She had 66 cabin passen- | gers and 126 In the steerage, and) every one of theso was subjected to the keenust scrutiny before being per- mitted aboard, No friends of passen- gers were allowed to ascend the gang: | in plank, AD baggage was closely in- | spected STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Maracaibo, San Juan. 10 A.M, Lord Downshire, Havre. 11 A.M, rgenetiord, Bergen..as.. 2P,M, Racing Results and Entries nt; selling: purse bon 2 84, “itt | 10 OTTAWA WINNERS, wie | Hest ( “0 ahh be von Mes Tiadrianbd ‘oor AECOND RACK. Twos nirme 4400; fits, a one tal! Je PN ee bar Dito J. fmt mn CORD Leiwia) i“ Joe Gaiety, ‘The SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug The entries for to-morrow's races are as follows FIRST RACK For three [wards selling: si furlongs Kungle 101, Woodmont,” 101 evelyn Co. lany * Dey ok wechase. ree year-olds and 3, about ip, WA: Kuniglit of Meret, 14: Fold ioe Philbin, 208 atin aa yo TM. igi Howe, 11 a in Aina” ibe thats! Kenna, 100; Ingot, 112. owance claimed. ‘Track fant OELRICHS RACES IN AUTO WITH HIS MOTOR BOAT Stolen Water Flier Was Run by Man Who Stuck Close to Shore During Pursuit. GUILFORD, Conn., Aug. 2%7.—Thoe Cassandra, Herman Oelrichs’ $11,000 motor boat which was stolen from Newport, R. I, harbor yesterday, was recovered late in the day by Inspector Tobin of the Newport police, and a man who said ho was George Bassley of Maine, charged with the theft The capture followed exciting chase of the boat by an automobile taining Mr. Ovirich and the in- ctor, Who raced wong the shore from Newport oxpecting that the Cassandra would be driven into one of the inlets along the coast. The boat is @ fast one and Was able to get a long lead, It 1 of five hours from y York, TRAIN HITS AUTO PARTY; ONE KILLED; 5 INJURED (Special to The Evening World) LONG BRANCH, N. J,, Aug, 21 One man was killed and five were injured when a Pennsylvania freight Was arrested an train, on tho New York and Long Branch Railroad, hit a touring car at the Roselle Avenue crossing, Deal, 2 o'clock this morning The man Killed was Jean Noetel, head chef at the Ross Fenton Farm. A wife and two children, who reside in New York survive, The injured men are Ben Brenner, of Asbury Park, walter at Ross Fenton Farm; three ribs broken on the right side and numerous contusions and lacerations about the body Henry Glassberg, of No, 1101 Main Street, Asbury I bartender; con tuslons and lacerathni Jou Duchatel, barte 31 on back of right hand severed, Jacer- ations and contusions. William Carr, of No. 1017 Sewell! Avenue, Asbury Park, driver of the car; contusions and lacerations, Lewis Rega, Sunset Avenue, As- bury Park, bartender. Laceratfons and contusions. All the injured men exce were employed at the Ros Farm ! Care to take thor fo 1 ey ¢ throw John, of Aeb i The rty arted in pect r? o'clock, When they saw the Approaching train there was no thine to Jump. ‘ Circulation Rooks Open | 10 PAGES 1 FLAMES KILL WIFE. ~ AND CHLORE OF GEN PERSH |Four Victims Trapped by Fire While They Sleep at Home in San Francisco. ONE CHILD IS RESCUED, Mrs. Pershing Was Daughter of Senator Warren and Prominent Socially. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 27.—Mre, Jobn J. whing, wife of Brig. Gen, John J. Pershing, was burned to :|death with three of her four children at her quarters. at the Presidio, Ban Francisco, early to-day, The obildren whose lives were lost were Helen, elght years; Anne, six years, and Margaret, five years. Warren Persh- Ing, five years, old, eurvi Mra. Walter O.. Boswell, a relative of Mra. Pershing, with her two children and three servants also escaped the flames, The explosion of a night lamp ts believed to have caused the tragedy. The fire gained great headway in the wood structure at the main post of the Presidio before sentries dis- covered it. Warren, the reacued child, was found unconscious tn his room. He later was revived. The bodies of Mrs. Pershing and the other children were found badly burned in a bedroom in the front part of the house. Mra. Pershing and one of the children were lying on the floor and the other two children in bed. Gen. Pershing is now in command of the Pighth Brigade at Fort Bliss on the Mexican border and only you- terday received orders from the War Department to dispose his troops to prevent a concerted Mexican invasion of FE) Paso and other border towns, The marriage of Helen Frances Warren, who was the only daughter of Senator Francis L. Warren of Wyoming, known because of his im- mense sheep ranches as "the greatest abepherd since Abraham,” to John J. Pershing, then captain In the Fit- teenth Cavalry, Jan, 26, 1905, was one of the most notable soctal events of the Roosevelt, Administration, The Senate met an hour earlier than usual so that its members might attend. President and Mra, Roosevelt oecu- pled @ front pew. There were over 1,000 guests at the following reception at the New Willard Hotel. The ush- ors were twelve high oMcers of the army and navy. For years Miss Warren, as the head of her father's elaborate establish. ment in Washington, had been a prominent figure In the life of the capital, and her departure for the East was commented upon as taking from Washirigton one of the pleas- antest features of the social affairs of the Roosevelt Administration, Capt. Pershing, who had been ap- pointed military attache to the Jap. anese Embassy, took his bride to Tokio on their honeymoon, Capt, Pershing was aide to Special Am- bossador Philander C. Knox at the \tuneral of the Japanese Emperor, and in the absence of Mr, Knox, repre- death of the Emperor, EL PASO, Tex,, Aug. 27.--News of the death of Mrs. Pershing and three of her children reached Gen, John U. Pershing here to-day, Gen, Pershing has been preparing a home here for his family He expected them to leave San Francisco for El Pago thie week. Ile J he would leave imme. diately Mrancisce > RUSSIA’S SO SOIL WEATHER—Cloudy te right, ein prebeble Ootarta ° 9 All’ 8 PRICE ONE INAT EDITION NS LOST ON ARABIC “MORE THAN A DISAVOWAL, ° g| GERMAN ENVOY: PROMISES, IF ARABIC WASN'T WARNED Controversy Growing Out of the Sink- ing of the Lusitania as Well as the Whole Submarine Question Is Likely to Be Settled. WILSON TO INSIST UPON AMPLE AMENDS FOR LOSSES WASHINGTON, f \ug. 27.—Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, acting on instructions from Berlin, notified Secretary Lam sing to-day that “full satisfaction” would be given to the United States for the sinking of the White Star liner Arabic. situation. ferred with Secretary Lansing nearly cans lost on the Lusitania, but that conference. The disposition of the step at a time. BISHOP HEFFRON SHOT BY PRIEST HE REBUFFED ae Assailant Fires When Refused an Appointment—Arrested at Point of Pistol. WINONA, Minn, Aug. 27.—Right Rev. Patrick R. Heffron, Bishop of the Winona Roman Catholic Diocese, was shot and seriously wounded to-day by Rev. Father Lesches, a priest, whom the Bishop had refused an appoint- ment, The Bishop was shot through the right lung and in the hip, Phy- siclans said he would recover unless complications set in, Father Lesches was arrested, Bishop Heffron was sitting reading in his Mbrary at Terrace Heights when Father Lesches entered and fired twice at him with a revolver, The priest then returned to his room at St, Mary's College and locked him- self in. He was arrested soon after by Sheriff Parr, who forced entrance at the point of a revolver, Father Lesches recently failed, tt te said, on two assignments given him sented the United States at the tun- | by Bishop Heffron. He returned from ary Ea Nogi and h 2, | pe in Manwato and St. Paul after their suicide in honor of the/aboyt week ago, His work at both places was said to have been un-~ aptisfactory to the Bishop, who then wanted him to take up college work, Friends of the priest say they be- Meve he brooded and became a vic- tim of melancholia. t Frost Kills Vegetable Cropn A } in igan, |} GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug. Reports re © Y to-day from Ca jdillac, Bet Travers City in dicate that the bean, ¢ Potato and buckwheat crops in Northern Michigan are practically ruined as the result of heavy frost lust night. Garden truck also eulfered extensively, it wae e Count von Bernstorff called at the State Department early The Ambassador explained that Germany would make more than @ mere disavowal if itis found that the Arabic was sunk without warning, Secretary Lansing admitted to-day that “considerable” more informa. tion was being received from Ambassador Gerard regarding the Arable and con» half an hour. It had been ingneab. that perhaps Germany was ready also to make reparation for the Amerie subject did not come up at to-day's German Embassy is to take up one The Ambassador did not make nm lc the extent of the instructions from Berlin on whieh he acted, but it was understood they coincided entirely with the statement of the Germas Chancellor im Associated Press despatches from Bertin yesterday, ex~ Pressing the willingness of the Ger- man Government to make fullest reparation if it is shown finally thet the Arabic was torpedoed without warning, The German Ambassador frankiy stated after his interview with Ma Lansing that his Instructions embode fed the declaration by the Berlin Gowe ernment that it would give full satioe faction to the American Government, That, he declared, meant much more than @ disavowal. Of course, he aad, the giving of satisfaction would de- pend upon the circumstances of the atiack on the Arable, The Corman Government did not know yet, he said, whether the Arabic was eunk by 4 German submarine and without warning, but, if investigation proves that to have been the case, Germany will make full r ion, NEGOTIATIONS OVER LUSITANIA Too The Ambassador said he believed the negotiations over the Arable would be followed by negotiations over the Lusitania, in view of the official statement in Berlin that # submarine policy satisfactory to the United States would be announced, Count von Bernstorff said he did Not see the message sent to the Btate Department by Ambassador Gerard, It ls known, however, that Ambase sador Gerard's despatch agrees with Count Bernstorff's advices that gube marine commanders have been ime structed to attack no more peaceful merchant ships without waraing, The American Government, nevere theless, Will press for @ clearing up of the entire submarine controversy before It will consider the Arabic and Lusitania incidents closed. Unofficial word has been conveyed to Admins istration officials that Count vou Bernatorff believes the position of the man Government will be deters mined by the Imperial Chancellor Foreign Minister, rather by the Ministry of Marine, and thas stringent efforts will be made to see that submarine commanders follow ‘ their Instructions, President Wilson 414 not Bold the | by the