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

*’ roel [nn we RICE ONE Cc FRENCH SWEEP ON AT ARRAS AND LENS; ve ENT. “ by The Freee Pubtteting ot Bone Che (*Gircutation 3 Books Open to o All. 7 a a? __ Police Guard Crowds From Further Subway Cave-Ins NEW YORK, MONDAY, BEPTEMBER 27, 1 . Fn t. —_ Books Open to 14 PAGES J? Circutation 915 PRICE ONE CEN MEET PARTIAL CHECK IN CHAMPAGNE FEAR MORE ROCK SLIDES MCALL GETS CITY TO CLOSE. HALF OF BROADWAY BLOC Pedestrians Kept Off Sidewalk 38th and 39th Streets. Between MAYOR GIVES ORDER. | John Hays Hammond, Noted Engineer, amine gaged to Ex- System. Reporta to Public Service Commis- gioner McCall regarding the situation in the Broadway subway cut between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Gtreets, where Saturday night's cave- issue tals afternoon that there fn occurred, caused bim statement was very grave danger of further to a rock slides between Forty-second and Thirty-fourth and that the etmost to keep @own the jar of traffic Streets be used in that dis- trict and to carry forward the steel the care must and cement work of permanent subway structure mible. He made the announcement ert Ridgway. As a result of the reports of the engineers the east sidewalk of Broad- way for half a block above Thirty- eighth Street was completely closed. The Knickerbocker Theatre manage- ment was told to go ahead with to- night's performance, with only the re- striction that patrons must be ad- mitted at the Thirty-eighth Street entrance, The foundations were found unimpaired, The Casino The- atre had permission to use both the Thirty-ninth Street and entrance, The sidewalk on the west front of the Herald Building was closed, Pollcemen were ordered not to interfere with pedestrians on the other sidewalks who stated they had real errands and were not sightseers. The Mayor's Committee, in its gen- eral inspection, Commissioner Woods as rapidly as pos-| after a conference with Engineer Rob- | Broadway | "AUSTRIA AGREES TO RECALL DUMBA AS WILSON ¥ WISHED : hehenaier Fat Penfield Is Noti-! 2 fied That This Action Will Be Taken. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Austria has notified Ambassador Penfield that ft will recall Dr, Dumba, the Abatrian | Ambassador to the United States, as| requested by President Wilson, = | This Information was given to Am- | ador Penfield when informally he advised Austrian officials, on instruc- tions from Washington, that the! United States sought the “recall” of | Dr. Dumba and would not be satisfied | with his departure on leave of ab- sence. Mr. Penfield was assured that the wishes of the United States would be complied with, and that a formal note| bi him soon. Until the formal expres- the Ambassador's request for safe) conduct, Dr, Dumba had engaged | passage on the steamship Rotterdam, due to sail on Sept. 29, but it is not | known whether arrangements can be made in time for him to leave on that date, LENOX, Masa, Sept. 27.—Dr. Dumba refused any statement varturo, He received the repr sentative cordially and expressed re- Bret at his inability to discuss the subject, but said he felt he had made too many statements already and that henceforth he would have noth- ing to say to anybody concerning anything relative to the affairs of either himself or of the Austrian Government, iS es ROCKEFELLER CONFERS WITH MINE OFFICIALS regarding his on the subject would be handed to| ? sion is in the hands of State Depart- | 4 ment officials they cannot act upon! « Y oung Rockefeller a as He Looked Wearing the Jeans ofa Miner 12 2 $ I ii i} ‘ i i GOO9GO404.000 @ The above photograph shows John D. Rockefeller jr. — ©int NEws SERVICE ener &@ miner's garb just before ho descended tnto the Frede benno 3 DODO dressed in ck mine owned by him at Valdez, Colo, to work among his employes and study their conditions at first hand. Mr, Rockefeller is shown to the right talking to Ar etelson, the miners’ representative GERMANS RUSH 200,909 FROM EAST TO WEST Five Army Corps Are Shifted to GERMANS SINK BRITISH WARSHIP, BERLIN REPORTS Two Others Said to Be Dam- aged by Coast Batteries at Zeebrugge. BERLIN GERMANS REPORT ; BRITISH DEFEAT IN DRIVE AT We Sectors, Says Berlin War Oftice. FRENCH GAINS, ———— | Also Makes the That the French Lost = | 3,756 Men. | | ADMITS But Claim | BERLIN ‘Sept. 2 (via wireless to London), The southwest British offensive move- | Lille has been brought to a standstill by strong Ger the war office reported this afternoon Pngilsh attacks north and south of| Loos, where the British made gains on Saturday, broke down under heavy German fire yesterday The Pritish attack in ment of man counter-attacks, other sectors also ts said to broken down | with very heavy losses to the attack ing forces, The War OMce concedes that the French further progress b the Argonne. It is declared that the 3,768 men and thirty-nine offcers in the Champagne . It is admitted, the Germans suffered a reverse. On the Ypres front two British officers, 100 men and six machine gunn were| captured. | Following is the text of the German War OMice report “Quiet reigned on the coast. Only & fow shots wore fired on the environs of Middolkerke by veawels of the an- emy which were lying in the far dis |tance, and these were without result, | | “The enemy has not repented his Jattacks in the Ypres sector “Southwest of Lille the great en Jemy offensive has been brought to a standstill by a counter attack, Flere separate attacks by the enemy north and South of Loos broke down, with very heavy losses to the British Sassacraaipernmeeciae “BULGARIAN ULTIMATUM TO SERBIA REPORTED) rnsive has made ween Rheims and French lost where Reported in Berlin That mats of Alfles Are to Quilt Sofia. HEALLIN (via wireless to Bayville, L. L), Sept, 27.—Unconfirmed rumors reached here this afternoon that Bul- garia has sent Serdia an ultimatum, The diplomats of the allies are said to be preparing to leave Sofia, French papers received here to-day give evidence that the allies have abandoned hope of inducing Bulgaria Diplo- i & wireless to Tucker- +, remain neutral | ton, N. J.), Sept. 27.—One British war- ——— ship as sunk and two ot e) here were CAMERONIA HALTS ON TRIP, damaged by German coast batteries! | in the bombardment of Zocbrugge by Anchor Liner Has Tronbie with the Hritish fleet, according t Machinery on Start for This Po: Helal statement teeued here tant nigin LAVERHOOL, Bingiand, Kept 97 The Uritish squadron then retreated, | The Anchor Line steamahip Camerania, + adel which aailed for Now yoaterday The | ave suffered heavy a 6a8 red. io the. pee seu, Bett nye auitorad ayage wan interrupted by e defect of 4 stated, the|+he mac! anid, had found no positive danger Meet the Great Drive by points save on those stretches of . % feventh Avenue and Broadway al-|John D. Jr. Befleved to Have Dis- Allies, rey SII cris vant Saal cussed His Tour of Inquiry in PETROGRAD, Sept. 27.--Five corps, fam convinced,” sa airman . »r about 200,000 mon, are being trans McCall, “wo are facing a most] Colorado Strike Region, ferred from the eastern to the west. serious situation, due to ‘the rock | . i a5 aks Gheuite Ge aaeiby ihe Garman formation on the \mst aide of Broad-| DENVER, Col, Sept, s7.—John Dil io ste ig meet the ay hood. The city | Rockefeller jr, to-day conferred with | higdeels nee’. the Alltes' of. way {n (his nelghborhoo he city . b fonsive, according to reports received | ' eas hich | officers of the Colorado Fuel and Tron| here {n this district is built on rock which C te seen of treacherous and dangerous| Company, While the subjects taken ———-._—. nots, particularly on the east side of | UP Were not disclosed, It was gene! ‘Headway. ‘There are many fissures | ally belleved that matters investi. KAISER MAY HURRY wirondy Ke re gradually | #ated by Mr. Kockefeiler during his| and some ¢ mS aee’y | tour of inspection of ampany prop: | T0 WESTERN FRONT opening, Buginesrs may ovat : erties last week were discus: spot and pronounce it safe and) Mr. Rockefeller, who spent shtnin five minutes a @ssuro may de- | quietly at the ranch of J. F. W ; r of the company, returne: . Velop which will cmuse another slide. | Prey! aver : urlyt conpany, returned) imsterdam Reports That He Will ENGINEER PUT HI FIST IN | Remove His Headquarters t | emove SS Meadquarters to FISSURE. founa a tise, TIPS COST THEIR JOBS, “One of iny engineers found a | Luxerbure eure early this morning Into which be| rusrener could barely insert a finger, Just now 4, naturalization department of his} LONDON, Sept. 27 Emperor Will he visited it aguin and was able to office, County Clerk Willlam — F,) jam intends to remove bis hendquar thrust his doubled fist into it, Untll sehneit ny naked for the resigna-|ters to Luxemburg in October, it is the stee) and concrete structure Ly in tions of three of his clerks, because declared in a pateh from Amster place there is continuous danger of a announced, they had accepted tips from | dan to thy Exchange Telegraph Com @lide, Under such conditions when our @llepa Gitsanenih papers Cae eon ors come in and tell us they (neat were rs Matructions already bave been js enna langer it is folly to Me. Schnelder said, After receiving thol sued regarding the (ransfer, accord have found rea ang three resignations Mr aft hnelder di Mace A ecam ian; ignore their warnings caved that ad vatablished a atriet | ne to ady nb : R ; ave ant! Gpping rule in the department and “Traite mi be m wate. T hav that uny man caught acceptin ® 7 The Grand ” f Lune asked the Building Department to ore cigar would b be dealt with ammarily thr which Germ trooy der the abandonm by pedestrians v hi of the east sidewalk between Thirty- nue ¢ elghth and ‘Thirty-ninth ets, A ten | cial my the western verg careful examination is being f city of Luxemburg is hi more __— than fifty miles in @ direct Une from (Continued on Fourth Page.) | Verdun, prisoners uding tor, in mmander @ Germans als The in offictal statemont of st night as relayed to the Untted Siates via London contained no men tion of the sinking of any British Warships in the Zeebrugge bombard at, though It stated that the bum- bardment wes ineffective #une at this point, | |Wents to Qult Stemmering Hnshand Becau io her husband stutterod, Marie Fransenea Lonasil of lAvonue, Tiranklyn he fuuprema Court to have har mat polled Aho wald that Joseph eee rod in apeech, but In ind as he would not work fihe did nat dlenover her husband limpedimont during thar courtship, she | adde, Josoph remained more or Jeaa mut and jet hia er and brother make ali (he arrangements, | jous that the Germans atill alive ant |traine carrying ‘SHOOTS HIS WIFE DEAD rs: Auhting haw been wo ‘In the Artois district we have fis alee 3 wong on with ten- IN UARREL AT HOME Maintained our positions, sil *d ail the front. We have ‘To the eat of Houohos our ad~ | “4 “sy at several places, notably at —_——-———_ Yanve, previvudly reported as haying | ¥ vee if to the north of the 7 reached the destroyed telegraph line | VO°UUSs Farm, several positions tm Woman Was Preparing for Visit to). the north of Thelus, has not, as @ whe ts r af our te lines where oar- q t matter of faot, weed the orchards | 418 Jetachments of the enemy bad Court to Testify Against Hus hin La folle and the highway from|0*#n able to maintain themselves, band, Rich Farmer Arras te Lille, This adv how The previous staiement that we 2 . , ever, has been at ail pointe main cuptured 200 German officers ts Petpet ree ssid a iNeal A ue “if tained, er us, We have taken prisoner Aniith Haines, & weal Pati ha “Along the front te the south of ) 00 German officers in the Champagne gun, He thon made his escape, ‘The| fsnting with bombs and torpedoss Herwoen the Meuse and dhe shnoting lw salt to have followed an it the vieinity of Andrechy, OUr at | Monell, and ta the Loraine distriet argument over the question of hiring | tiliety bas Visors oou + | there bas Deen Revere artillery Aght. @ team to (ako Mra, Maines to sourt tacked the batteries of the enemy |) on both sides. to teatify ngainwt her husband, who Whiok Were oAOneNading our positious) =A violent storm in the Vosges tna was charged with having bealon her &t Quentevieres for the ~oment suspended all opera- last Thuraday, Tho couple w ath “In the Champagne District cheltions in this distriet," in the how Three of their four children w wway al ao nd the ak 7 * other, Jawon, slyteen yours old 1 hi C t od H ll 70 Peg the! tutes tone ts tran, British Capture i port, 7 . The aon, Jason, whe tad g I I Bi t Bi tt a mort ai tht na fFurtous bayone attle pushed bans ‘ : Ky LONDON, Bept. ¥.—Despatches day, The Anglo-French batteries are of the kitehen ‘ f Hors and from Dutch pointe|deiuging the German works with @ standing noart tiga that the great battles |blosting fire, Perhaps no other bate Ax the youth ran rer t Avran northward 4 sea and|tlos of the western front have seen eee Oe er bh Champagne raged without in-|such savage hand-to-hand bayonet running tow neighbor's house notified ption throughout Sunday and dxbting, FRENCH CLAIM NEW GAINS IN THE GREAT DRIVE WHICH ~ COST GERMANS 100,000 MEN | |Reinforcements Prevent Further Ad- vance at Some Points on 15-Mile | Front Where Great Gains Were Little or No Musketry as the) Made in Yesterday's Hard Fighting Bayonets Did Work of Conquest. FRENCH HOLD GROUND THEY GAINED AT SOUCHEZ.. PARIS, Sept. 27.—French troops have occupied several more Ger- | man positions in the furious battle now being waged in the Champagne | feigon, it was officially announced this afternoon. It ts claimed that the \total German losses will reach 100,000 men. No estimate is given of the casualties in the ranks of the allies. FRENCH INFANTRY TAKE TRENCHES IN Halls een 60 Hours Before Charge | Is Made ROCKETS GIVE LIGHT. PARIS, Sept. 27.-—-Reports from the front say that only twenty minutes wan required for the French infantry to complete the victory prepared for by sixty hours of violent shelling and overrun the "first line of the German trenches north of Perthes, in Cham- pagne. While awaiting the moment for the attack the French soldiers) Th ;, , 4 ¢ French attacks contin m | my rerisal RGRInE Ghai LIAM ea aa | continue on the whole Champagne front and ft putting their arms in perfect order. | '5 stated that 300 German officers have been made prisoners in that sec- The bright the slow) tion. burning illuminating rockets and the | glow from Under heavy German counter-nttacks the French are matntatning glare of exploding projectiles Nghted | their newly won positions at Souchez and elsewhere in the Artois region. | up the entire sone of action during Midway between Arras and Lens, they have made important progress jeepers . ¢ intense fre, | (OW the Arras-Valenciennes Railway. " r a few hours of intense , ie cr caine ‘s our hopes that our batteries were Since the French reoccupled Arras on Oct, 2, 1914, they have made dominating the situation were trans-| determined efforts to reach the railway leading from Arras to Douai and formed to certain conviction,” .ays Valenciennes—German supply bases. In the recent rene’ & wounded oMcer who took part IM) gucht thel Pr ; cent drive French troops the battle, ‘The moment for the at-| ve fought their way over the Arras-Lille highway, north of Thetus, tack was set for dawn, when the) only six miles from this railway. The French are aiming to reach the charge wan scan Gp. Lidiigerasirrs railway a few miles from Douai. fons, reinforced by reserves, boun y : 1 forward. ‘The rush was so lapel At one point near Paris yesterday 120 aeroplanes went into the air jin @ spontaneous demonstration of joy over the victories for the arms unwounded in the battered works) of the allies to the north and east. The arrival of te » Ger. seemed dazed and unable to resist 1) brought th fi st Indicati ¢ 3 gai They were disarmed and pushed back 4M prisoners brought the first Indication of the successes, for our reserves to plok up, while German reinforcements have been thrown Into the Champagne re the attacking line went on. | glons by the thousands since the French swept forw: “There was little or no muaketry. (oe at was officially ad Pt forward on a fitteen-mile fone taponete did mest of the work, | was ofticlally admitted this afternoon that at many points the The proportion of dend to wounded | chemy ts successfully resisting the efforts of the French to continue the and prisoners was Jarge. What was) advance, Everywhere the battle of the Champagne is | left of entire companios throw UP! toe gi C pagne Is raging with the | thelr handa at the aight of the Goaaty | y: execution by the Zouaves,” The most desperate fighting ts occurring between Bricot and the The general impreasion of wound-| sector north of the Wacques farm, Both ski ‘men brought from the field ts that| hy Birk po} es 7 helt Nh sides aro reaorting to the use the affair of Perthes te only a be. | fF doth high power explosive shells and shrapnel, The Germans have ginning of the Frenoh effort, brought up a number of heavy pleces and are bombarding the French A report was spread that meny| works, evidently In preparation for a counter attack, On many sectors both Germans and Prench have abandoned their rifles and are relying almost solely on bombs. The ground between the wounded aoldte: were arriving outside Paria, but lat | trenches In several sectors Is full of struggling figures, The text of the communivation tol. @—— it wae learned that these traine we Allied with @ Germ arp none the authorities, Sunday niga, and is continuing te- Teousands ef dead and wounded