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DRIVEN BACK AT KUT-EL-A The {“ Circulation Books Open to au.\ NO MORGAN LETTER DENOUNCING DEAL | / BRITISH | EDITION WEATHER—Fair to-night and Sunday; warmer. LANE | EDITION Circulation Books Open to Al 19, 1916. _ 12 PAGES CE ONE CENT. Copyeten P PRI YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 92,0 TURKS IN THREE: HOUR BATTLE FORCE BRITISH 10 RETREAT CALLED FINAL CLUE | NIRS POSONING TO SECOND LINE OF TRENCHES sc Prosecution to Contend Bottle Held Potion That Killed | | ~-FOR RAIDING FIRM. ON LUSITANIA NO ARMED SHIPS; | GRAND OPERA VALFOUNDM MUD GERMANY STANDS BY ORDERS T. WH ‘AR WHO IS SAID TO HAVE HAD A TILT WITH CARUSO, —+4 SHONTS TELLS OF APOLOGY MORGAN MADE AFTER LANE MADE A VISIT OF PROTEST ee $ Marian Lambert. —- ’ | —s Efforts to Relieve Garrison ole oa | Berlin Disputes Right of United | wa f Shut Up at ivelAmaa |FAUROT, CROOK EXPERT, HIDDEN UNDER SNOW.) _ States to Inquire Into ROW WITH FARRAR? \Interborough Head Tells Committee Fail Again, Protection of Warships. PINCHED BY SLEUTHS Analysis Proves That Cyanide Sacred Heart Crossing of the Chicago New Policy. YOU'LL NEVER HEAR His Talk With Director About RUSSIANS SWEEP IN. of Potassium Caused MIGHT AID THE ENEMY. | “ : $ ” ® side DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE! eat ot visi - —- | | “Obligations” Was Not Finan- Landing ‘Troops on Coast | — Kaiser's Advisers Refuse to] CAR | cial, but Merely Moral. North of Erzerum Under ; = WAUKBGAN, IIL, Feb. 19.~Aamall! Prepare Another Note on | matics Finger Print Chief of the De- glass bottle found in the mud at the Sinking of Lusitania. oaks CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 19 (via London).—An attempt British forces in Mesopotania ‘Tigris below Kut-el-Amara in an ef- fort to relieve the garrison bottled up by to cross the tective Bureau Run In as Suspect in Jacksonville, A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla., gives the news that Inspector Joseph A. Faurot, Chief of the Detective and Northwestern Railroad—a few hundred feet from the three big oaks where the Lake Forest schoolgirl, Marion Lambert, died—is now in the Possession of State's Attorney Dady. It is believed this bottle held the BERLIN (via Amsterdam), Feb, 19. —Germany has said her last word on the Lusitania matter and will not prepare another note dealing with that question, it ‘was strongly indi- “What Happens —_ Behind} Scenes,” Says Tenor, “Is Not for Public to Know.” | Patrons of grand opera who saw Sc |__ GERALDINE FARRAP NAVY ASKS MONEY FOR WAS TO GET NO BENEFIT FROM 10 PER CENT. DEAL President Theodore Shonts of the Interborough spent a strenuout | three hours on the witness stand at the Thompson Legislative Committer cated in official circles to-day. Geraldine Farrar play Carmen in in the city was repulsed after a battle play es i ji : : . n the city : ae oat Bureau of New York Police Depart-| Polson that killed the girl, Since it) QGmiuis are not commenting freely| Chicago last December can testify ANTI-AIR CRAFT GUNS inquiry tosday dodging questions about the “commitments and obliga- of three hours, the War ‘ ment, and Detective Sergeant Will- | Was stated that Will Orpet purchased n the latest reports from Wash-|that if Signor Caruso protested tions” in connection with the proposed dea for third-tracking the eh nounced to-day. tam Haley, the Taspector’s right hand |® two ounce vial from C. F, Haasin- meee shat Secretary Lanstug win] seein the strenuous realism of her ——aee ‘thes ho wis ’ : ae, levated The British in their retreat were) man tn the finger print division, were | ger, a druggist of Madison, Wis., there not recognize Germany's righte to peal + bike Thursday se he os Part of 757,000 Fund Needed to ines by which Engineer Stevens was to get 10 per cent, commission. nol. ths ench- | arre: : ny Ww when a off. ‘ ; a‘ f : pursued to thelr second line entrench Pogienlisabear celemieier rm has been a wide search for it, torpacé ariied cerchiitined ‘Bat tie (ces aia’ clans robe ber eh Install New Invention on Battle- | Mr Shonts recalled the talk he had with Director Lane, who later went | cksonville Police| ‘The bottle was found by Sheriff e ‘ bas ‘ 24 ime > 3° nee Keb. 19—Under cover| H&dauarters. ‘There the Inspector |Griffin of Luke County after the rain | sexed pap ME a ee ae a to °+ 1 Morgan 10 Protest. But Mr. Shonts declared that, Mr. Morgan Lo : | showed his credentials and two Jack-| bad melted away a snowbank at the| Germany does not believe the the Chicago Opera Company, Caruso! WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—A $%-| apologized to him for calling him to his office. He Jenied that he had of warship guns, Russian trausports| sonville sieuths suddenly acquired al gacred Heart Crossing. He admitted would still be all out of breath 000 emergency appropriation for 3 < . < : , ; United States should interrogate her} ay it was the theatre district was received a letter from Morgan de! oi now landing large forces of men) reputation that will stick to them |to-day he had found the vial, but] too closely upon the manner in which! «tin full of aun ; immediate necessary repairs of ma- | Tee ate rgan denouncing the deal, sventy | all the ; CAA The : wei A : still full of gossip to-day regarding | oy \yory Inttleships, torpedo de- on the Armenian sea coast, seventy! Al! thelr lives, ; | Dady was non-committal. Tho Mad-| the new policy is to be entorced.| Miss Farrar’s athlotic Interpretation |e nity IM Mattleships, torpede des| % Shonts insisted that he did not dis: niles cast of Trebizond, encountering Tuspector Faurot, on a leave of| ison druggist’s clerk, Hassinger, will! gnould the Foreign Office inform th gel , ; P pee |stroyers and submarines, to increase cuss the $2,000,000 " aia absence on account of sickness, and| be asked if it is the same he sold ta] w, 3 of the role Thursday evening and the | the supply of mines and for the first TAMMANY MAYOR RULES . pantech inant sel a h & be ask bs Washington just how German sub- A seat ~y bie ( ol only feeble resistance. |Sergt. Haley, on vacation, left here|Orpet just before the student teft| murine commanders will interpret| Var Of Words betwoen herself and jtime to equip battleships with ‘ntl | Mr Lane. He insisted that the “ob- While tho troop landing was being| by bout for Jacksonville last ‘Tues-| Madison to meet the Lambert girl in| the term “armed merehantmen” in| Corus? that 1s said to have followed | vincrafy guns, was asked by Congress | IN CITY HALL TO-DAY | ‘iaations 24 commitments” were not ade, Russian torpedo boats raided |day, arriving there yesterday morn-| Lake Forest. . ; ; 5. | Behind the scenes, Jto-day by Secretary Daniols, financial, but moral, made binding b: made, The later executing these orders, officials be-| in her film version of Carmen, the | — pe table i y the Black Sea coast, bombarding and e immense tourist business in| While counsel for the defense of| jieye Germany would be imparting | prima donna i» yanked off the gate — | Mitchel Goes Away . { js abandoning other important inking fifteen Turkish sailing ships Florida this season has lured an army |Orpet contended to-day that the| important naval secrets. Germany 3 ae sh And x . : : a 2 : RUMOR THAT LANSING che 08S way to Rest and] work to take the third tracking work. ai J 4 . pe of sure 8 * i hs ‘ A of the py her hatr, rush z ine F; The » fae haciaane ws agency disap! SUre-thing men and the sleuths of|Intest bit of evidence in the death| believes that this is a purely military | yiotently away, ree then stabbed, | Frank Dowling Fills nt Theodore P. Shonts of the Peng, teday seported thas in thelr] Jacksonville, Palm Beach, St. | tragedy of Marian Lambert will es-| matter concerning only herself and|wrereat. she dies at. considerable AND BERNSTORFF ARE OUT! His Place rouR was smiling -when BY pareute of the ‘Turks flecing from|A¥sUsine and other centres of |tablish that the girl committed eul- | her allies, length, facing the audience on her | New ‘York City bes! wt pla Thoinpson committee this aoeevitm the Husstans bave occupied |‘UTIst activity are Keeping a keon| cide, Prosecutor J. Dudy contended] Exactly what attitude the Foreign! knees with her eyes rolling upward 4s 4 Tainmany afternoon, but the smile soon faded several minor positi lookout for shurpers from the No'th. |just as earnestly it will prove ane| OMice will take, in view of the latest| in agony Clash Said to Be Due to Alleged| Maver to-day. He is Frank L. Dowling, ma OU se the words ‘commi Two of Jacksonville's plain clothes | was murdered. om Washington, 18 not deft- | 2 : N | who recently became President of the] Mens and obligations’ In your eon- etrograd dispatches to-day indl- reports from Washington, 1% not aieea acct 5 . siitatiz j x | resident of the | ™ Bese exe these forces will march | M* Met the boat and spotted the two] The discovery that it was cyanide] nitely known. It was stated tosday| ae Pre a ee iin +h Circulation of Unfounded Hoard of Aldermen, Under the enar.|Ye™tion aside with Gardiner M ves ae joining the troops now ad 1) dressed, alert looking New York-|of potassium, and that alone, which! that Ambassador von Bernstorft al-| tried we a sf wall but thi e rt! Stories, Jter the Aldermanic President acts as| He after the break-up of the Inter 9 , joining the troops now ad- a . ; opera, mn porough directora’ mee vancing on Trebizond from the diree- right away, Faurot and Haley |eaused Marian's death was consid-| ready has been fully instructed rela-| where he anes hen Psa rag pa WASHINGTON, Feb, 19.—"If this| Mayor during the absence of the P dick uses pple ete shed aie reerum. ‘Tho Turks are not|*eF t© be in town only for the day |ered by thoes who have followed the| tive to the Lusitania statement.! Ti. Chicago audiences, gasped, unfair propaganda is not ended a cer- | latter chart oe erat Beira expected to make a serious ‘stand at on their way to Palm Beach, so (hey ents of tragedy closely, as ‘These instructions permit him to make haps, but they liked it, and Miss Far- tain Ambassador will be shipped back Mayor Mitchel left jast night for the used one or both of them,” Mr, Shonts didn't jt pre! yOu, e! cha rmest ond Boe! dironda 4, ere onl . Trebizond, the city belng poorly for- register at a hotel, but just| merely weaving another mystery into| the changes suggested in his recent| yur got curtain calls innumerable, | hore: Adirondacks, where ho will rest. He] Ua"! one oF fara Heir loafed around, In the course of the|the case, conferences with Secretary Lansing.| “with Caruso, however, the stre This declaration wax reported to|WHl not be back In the City Halt un. | Te! hink that I said that alt ee froopa are being transported day they visited all the large hotels,| The defense's claims were based on| Officials consider that the Lusitania oli 4 ‘ae a . aaa have made this afternoon by a] til Wednesday morning the commitments f have made have trom Batam, where they have been|PUt met no one they knew. Tho idea | this premise, It has been shown that | case itselt was really cloved at these sibel ; Aas bam: @ Siven Up Fl United States official, and it was ru saieeacotommeead been on the basis that prices Bn held in readiness for several months. |'BAt they were being “trailed” by two| tiny erystals found beneath Marian | conferences. may Lave been all very well for b/c that & serious clash between Quality rust be equal: batons Sram The fact that they wore not used in{PPvinclal sleuths never occurred to| Lambert's finger nails wore cyanide} AMSTERDAM, Feb. _19.--Reports slim, tenap ike Muratore, “put the! sstary of Mate Lansing and Gor COLD IS NOT $0 coLlo— ship ‘commences. see aeior stayen of the Armenian| tem until last might, when the loval/ of potassium. The poison th her| that the United States will not aub- Motropolitan atac ‘ennnot do! any) | Ambassador fori Can 1 have a copy of that motte?* Pb 3 reads to the belict that the] Hawkshaws arrested them on the|stomach was the same, It is there-| mit to Germany's now policy of tor- rushing around or bending over with-in. One cause in th WIND MAKES IT FEEL COLD Oe niece feare Mrs. Kas uodar hia command [Atal fore shown, they contend, that the| pedoing all armed merchantmen, have| Ut endangering the life of the ‘of what the State Dopartment ‘It ls an imaginary motte,” end avo larger forces than was at first] “You all is pinched,” sald one of the|sirl, to et the cyanide beneath her| aroused indignation in ny, ac- {top note that comes his way. ‘There. jer MAE TN tet But It Will Be © ; Mr. Shonta, “I live up to it, 2e teu't wuspected and plans to push an ag-| Jacksonville “bulls.” nails, must have taken the poison in| cording to advices received here to-| fore, according to those who wit-| feeling that may toad tovan| ou’ Will Be Colder To-Morrow, | trumo sroasive campaign through Armen Faurot wanted to know why and|@ crystaline form herself, by taking} day. jnessed Thursday night's perform. | nd-out clash i» maid to have So Look Out You Don't "You seem to think in mottoes seeing westward toward Constanti.|Was told that he and Haley were in|it between her fingers from a box! ‘The Cologno Gusette, which hus|unee, Miss Farrar had to expend her | jeon brought to a climax by an incl Catch Cold, commented Mr, COUY.. NS Fat ayes ple, vor to tho southwest to join|the Judgment of the Jacksonville Po- |" paper container, clone relit Ith the German Gov-| surplus energy on @ convenient! dont that occurred last night way that ‘Honest hearts are more the British in Mesopotamia, lice Department a menace to the| The State's claims, on tho con-|ernment, declares Germany will not| chorus girl and in ono brief struggle} tary Lansing was asked by a corre-| yovgn ee tout tnlle-an-hour north. | than coronet’? ? The Turks endag ed all their heavy mmunity. Then Faurot ventured to| try, were based on this conclusion: | curtail the rights of her submarines | with Caruso, | ident ect: Gere truk thed iy wester made the cold wave which mingly Mr, Colby liked the werd hee Hey unewocsastul attermpta {reveal hie dontity, JOrpet had access to cyanide kept by|on account of reckless neutrals who| Final honora in this struggle seom | contemplated revising esruch the tanto Coast And extegse| Monee better Chali iian, sama ae Pyle “lear petro aneel ats, at's a new one,” laughed the! Ms father for use in gardening, A| insist on travelling on belligerent| to have fallen to the tenor, for the| ‘The report that ho mixht resign | ed well buck to te Ohio and Missis-| Mr. Tennyson wrote, reer oftect of the victory Im|Jacksonville men. “Cluimin’ to be| Ridden container of cyanide wan) shine {prima donna's foot slipped and she] gaid to have been rep a by the ee Valleys seem even more bitter| “My reading is not #0 extensive as apparent alre in Roumanta and|cops ix a right original idea,” [found buried beneath ashes wt M6) greatest uatoniahment at at down somowhat abruptly, Inct-| Secretary of State as part of lons| {nar evening the me iy Te Ea hebben Olay isp Ureace, despatches assert, Moysuges| Faurot and Haley said no inore,|OPet Breenhouse, The poison be- | from Washington, but for tho moat|dents of that kind tend to try an) campalgn of misinformation reward 5 ning the mercury dropped to 9) have vot so much language at my . i hs neath the girl's finger nails could| part awalt confirmation from Am-| artist's tomper, and the “little bird" dexreos wbove sero ut 8 o'clock to-| tongue's end." from Bucharest forecast that a mo-|They were content. ‘The sleuths took hal nS gg Meare by ras ee gy rl Relig nper, and th 1 "}ing the negotiations with Germany. | gay Pereniee bilization of Russian troops on the |them before Po! Chief F.C. Roaoh,| be accounted for in several ways ah — idea souls Pres- | ina always on duly behind the! pkBebe . , | OION'T WANT TO QUARREL WITH iy Where their credentials quickly estab. | She might have thrust her fingers | 8 scenes at the ope Dus reports t By noon the temperature had risen LANE Bessarablan frontier in March will | ofy then of wrongdoing. | : a j Hosnien At'She Opera house report: thet) to 14 degrees, but the Wt mM e ehihls Roumania to transfer troops) hes mnoeeare of wrongdoing into her mouth in an effort to re | there were words betwean Caruso at GERMANS RUSH THOOPS | ‘ooe, but the hiteba! Q. What did you say to Mr, Lane nigurian border, where Bul- lieve herself of the poison. lavinacitareor after 'tha purtadnsfall, Huilding prophets said the thermom-|as to cominitments and obligations? to the Bulgarian , 24 : thes gar-German troops are massed to AMERICAN SHIP HELD UP The ngle of , tnt iles in the Whou seen to-day Signor Caruso T0 THE BELGIAN FRONT e readings would begin to de-| A. Only that they were te Mr. Ste- ania, | ‘ ned no clearer to-day than IN BATTLE AT YPRES would not deny that ho and Mise Jerease toward sundown and that by|yvens, and that Lane and I needn't AYE RGIS ian ct ace: | BY A BRITISH GRUISER °°": since youn, Orpat admit. | Fatvar bad iudilesd: in afew arpett : daybreak w temperature of only §|quarrel. I'd put off my sailing. rum, the report adds, Kurds mer- | ted he had been in the woods with imu ¢ re > |_| tles as to each other's performances, | Many Trains Loaded With Infantry| dsters above zero may be expected,| “Did you say that you were com- cilessly massacred thousands of —eoenier the girl when she died | Lieut. G, Bache, One of England's} pur no courteously declined to com-| and Artillery Speed From Lot warming up by Sunday evening to] mitted to Stevens ed = M Armenian | Thirty Germans Taken Off ihe] The State intimated to-day many! Best Known Players, Killed | ment on them at ‘ fe t Paints Our O or 25 degrees, The high wind Is] Thompson, ‘The forts, the fortress itself and th hina ion. Her ovaea' to | polnte of the mystery may be cleared | in Action | tae eedure behind dhe aseneet vain and ler Points. Jexpected to die away this evening, “Yes,” replied President Shonte, “I surrounding country are full of Turk- Ai A ra a at the inquest Monday, | a that {s our business," he sald. "What| AMSTERDAM, Holland 1 Lon-| ‘The cold snap toughened up the|said Stevens had promised me he'd ish dead. H in Francisco, | At that time the report of Dr. Ralph | LONDON, 19 War Office) pcours on the sta that ts for the don), Feb, 1%—In the course of the} ice in Brooklyn so that skating ts|lay aside other work to attend to Sepia SHANGICAT, China, Feb, 19.-The | Webster, the ist who established | 1s informed that Liout, (i, Bache, one) public tt ts well to publish last sfx days great German troop| permitted in Prospoct Park, McCarren | this.” TURK ARMY IN FLIGHT American steamship China, whieh left, the nature of the polson that killed | of the best known football players, | things which ne art gaint | movements I irred in South|@nd Highland Parks, the Bushwick,| Q. Why didn’t you say that to the ABANDONED GARRISONS | *h00 trday, morning tor San! Murti, will be reed in full, Is txt hay been killed up another. We must bea happy family {and Central Belgtuin, says a despatch | Betsy Head, New Lot and Red Hook| full Board of Directors? A. I dtd; at : f bi 4 Jierancisco, Wax held up on the high | UPAet the Ftatets theory that a com- BERLIN (v Le Web. bore from the front t elegraaft playgrounds, Dyker Beach, Gravel Pit | lwast T think T did IN FORTS AT ERZERUM | Hrlileh vustiiney ceudacr, bination of polsons, suppusedly eyans) Now English ny , Miss Parra: and are stilt good{ ‘Trains with artiliery and infantry] and Sunset and MeKinloy Parks Q. Then why did you have to enll ccaabanonit PRIFLVGAIANE GERARD Woes Lalla de nnd sulphuric acid, caused Mar-|the positions conquers Gov=ttionds: Perhiupw something may have unt ‘iong the railroads to] 1 Manhattan and the Bronx there! Lane aside into another room? A. PETROGRAD (via London), Heb. WASHINGTON, I infor. | ian's death. . Jim ruthenst of YI ' eer heen sald in the heat of excitement; the weet aud th atl somo ginal, Was skating only at Van Cortlandt |foit that there was hostility to my 19,—The first story in detail of the i hing ’ uae of _> epulsed dan oft statement! it happens ut every performance; ehmen ore transported by way | Park oan tion on the part of Lane and capture of Wraerum by th 13- | faa 6 iy re Pires Burn Phete Home. fo War ort Afternoon, ix no mor ho public an what|of Louvain, Wavern and Gembloux| seem rman Teles rama, sians reached Vetrorrad seniieof |e iiy4 ’ ashen tt wires neat Un Wie bien eR a wan announced, ihe girector saya Lo Us at reheurdal. | to Lie suulhous AdISTT (via London), Feb. Q. Then why did you ask only Lane Hetally to-day. Apparently the Turks | bey int ahi ee ed a fire which gavalground and roud: depots neat Pera me artist says to tho} a {—-Thousands of grams from Ger-]into the side room? A, Ul quote from realized the fall of Hraerum was in- | will be imnade to fire ead Ha five whlel gave | Poperinghe othe! do like this STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY, | many have been delayed twenty-four to| Seripture wo women hall ja evitable and withdrew smost of Uueir| te Wat made (9 ind} 1a Southwest of Alilcirey ou ops time uld have [forty-eight hour account of damage! grinding at the mill aud one shalt s , ma ni P ‘ie ve yeni ” " ‘ ¢ year-al On penetrate n cnt on. Oi and uh It to lund wires b torm tm Ni nern |e . ‘ ‘ forces before the final enslaushts) removed — Uerinans Afatyr bétare thi Pha | pene , alee Evangeline, Bermuda Cae en nent of thece telearatee hare | be taken and the other left,” 1 don% Ttrom American. ships Apartment was only slip damaged, : Miss I declined Dryden, Manchester WAM | vcyehed Atnsterdam by mail and are Know but that was it, (Continued on Sevoud Page.) boan Sea. jbut the rate’ Lome wae destroyed utterly, throwers,” said the statement about the reported equab’ California, Havre 1P,M.! now being distributed. Q. You're going pretty fay back for