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FINAL cel TION — * Ciroutat i Pa Tt ONE CENT. Copsttat v1, by rculation Books Open to All.” (The New York World). 1 ‘The Press Publishing NEW YORK, _WEDNESDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 23, ‘Weather—Rain or enow to-night and Thursday. Colder, \ AL EDITION — 1916, 16 PAGES PRICE ONE ONE CENT. GERMANS MOWED DOWN IN CHARGE ____ THAT TEARS THROUGH FRENCH LINES GILLESPIE ON THE STAND REFUSES 10 AID THOMPSON'S HUNT OF $2;000,000 FUND Contractor Declines to Furnish Ac- "counts Showing Why Money Was Sent to Pittsburgh —Is Threat- ened With Arrest. ‘The chain of the Interborough “yellow dog” was rattled before the Thompson Committee this afternoon, but they did not quite get hold of the xs. Young Gillespie of the engineering firm that supervised the third tracking of the elevated roads declared on the witness stand that he would hot let the committee's expert examine the accounts showing what became of $2,500,000 that was sent to its Pittsburgh office in the last two years, Senator Thompson told him he must show the accounts and Frank backed him up by saying he has the promise of District Attorney ‘Swann to Go all in his power to back up the committee in punishing any Sghitness in contempt. Young Gillespie burried away bearing a subpoena obs tecum omering him to let the expert examine the Pittsburgh account. Bainbridge Colby testified to his PRNCE SHOCKED ON SEEING YVONNE IN FILMY MY NIGHTIE Miskinoft Told “Lit “Little Pu | Mamma W| ‘hen She peared in S Ap- scanty Garb. |CASE HALTED BY BABY. |Lawyers Seek to Solve Mystery of Alleged Child of the Prine cess. \ noisy, elbowing, shoving nen of eager pushed Supreme noon into that part of the Court where |has been taking testimony in the sep- Alexandre Mis- Princess Aimee aration suits of Prince kinoff and his wife, tell how she became tired of her titled jand marry her |ter daughter, old for- with eighteen-yea! Yvonne aud, throng | nd women this after-| Justice Clark | husband and suggested he divorce her] WILSON READY FOR BREAK IF BERLIN TRIES 10 DELAY DEFINITE ane naan President Ready to Submit the Whole Incident to Congress Within a Few Days. {OLD DEMANDS STAND. And Germany Must Withdraw Her Decree Against Armed | Merchantmen. WASHINGTON, Feb, 23 | tions between the United States and this entirely upon instruc! ‘The rela- Germany afteypoon depended jons believed to Crocker - Ashe = Gillig - Gouraud - i Ms Pee Las bo en route from the Kaiser's Govern- Miskino mont to his Ambassador in. Wagh- They wanted to hear the Princess j is ‘ wah ington. 1 ame known that President | Wilson has determined to permit no more pariéying in the submarine con- U-BOAT REPLY WILSON TELLS HIS FAITH IN FOREIGN Recognizes They Are Just Much American as Any Native of the Country. —elehie WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Speaking tomidarge delegation of Hungarian born citizens of New York, President Wilson to-day expressed “unqualified confidence” in the representatives of that country now in Aierica, BORN CITIZENS GERMAN CROWN PRINCE WHO HAS WON A GREAT VICTORY OUTSIDE VERDUN o6-0-8 D304 Sitrooreopraw 2960 0094094. O46 CHARGE BRANDEIS ENTIRE BATTALIONS TALIONS LOST ASTHE CROWN PRINCE MAKES DESPERATE DRIVE AT VERDUN Ee \Berlin War Office Claims the Capture | of Six Miles of Trenches and 3,000 Prisoners — Paris Admits That Great Battle | Is i in Pro TESS. GAINS IN UPPER ALSACE REPORTED BY GERMANS LONDON, Feb, 23.—The Crown Prince has delivered the greatest smash against the allies’ Western front since the English lines were broken at Ypres last May. Ia a mighty offensive against the French outer positions defending »+|the great fortress of Verdun the Germans have captured nearly six miles ~ land a half of French trenches, according to an official statement from Ber- | |whom he had carried on a marked] troversy, If @ermany, as Adminis-| 4,5). a i aaah lin this afternoon, The German War Office also reports the capture of @tforts to bring witness George W. |firtation, ‘They wanted to hear Hitle| tration officials now believe likely, gare Ober Savamecoecmee ehh 3,000 French prisoners and great quantities of boot Young back from Florida and said he Yvonne, pink cheeked, fluffy hatred,/endeavors to bring about further} Moment,” the President said, “the b prs great qi s y. will do all he can to help the com- |sharp eyed, tell of her experiences} complications, the President is pre- feeling that gentlemen, such asx your. ——— 2 tho French War Office admits inan Bee arets war when she wont to Kdgemere for four] pared to ut matters short hy plactng [elves have tow America, 1 TRIES T0 HUG THEGIRLS official statement this afternoon that Bainbridge Colby, former coun: months as the flancee of her foxier- whole incident in the hands of | Tecognize you ure just as much ’ the Crown Prince is hurling @ «reat te the committer, was the first wit- father-in-law. ‘They wanted to hear! i Am as anybody born in this arm inet t "4 ness to-day before the Thompson in the baby alleged to have been he Pregident, officials said to-day, | country BUT GOES 10 THE ISLAND 'y against the Fronch lines north vostigating commit Before Mr. V to the Princess Aimee a yeart|is done with parleying, Already, they “T have deplored, and | am sure ane of Verdun, on @ front fifteen miles Ain . homp= when she was, according to her|say, as the result of vigorous activi- | ¥oU have united with me in deploring . } , tomen| W« No similar attack has bee! Colby was called Ch P | as the resu iB be | Hanson Bombarded by Women % id that his gre t |lawyers, fifty-two years old jties on his part in the past few days] the spirit which has been manifested | ; ae made by either side in the west in aan: Hal But they did not hear a thing, The! the tat n z Democrats in| PY some who have imisrepresente When a Policeman Comes centred in obtaining the apnea \ y di he}the agitation among z 4 lor . bat 7 many months, excepting the French of George W. Young before the ¢ was immed! journed until|Congress for a resolution warning | those for whom they profess to speak, | Fifty-five Lawyers Join in Ac- Along and Rescues Him. fecal Garahvcl j 4 at 10,30 o'clock and the law-|Americans to keep off armed Jand my public protest has been} | "+ Es s , 4 € lampagne last Seftem- mittee, ;, . Pat ey bs : Against what they said anc cusing U.S. Court Nominee |) Wiliam Hanson, a husky dock} pgp “Mr. Young is the man t want"|May Combine With Progres- at the suggestion of Justice |chantmen has collapsed anise Aevsdigee th item) re i builder, was a sad affair when are] Pts. : 4 , f Clark, took Dr. George B. Foster with} Investigation this afternoon dis a misrepresentations of what I of Unfair Practices. raigned in Harlem Police Court to-| The battle tx raging less than ten Se “Coley wae not-aworn when he sives to Wage War on isin to she aioe of padey paiva closed that Democrats favoring nosh deh cniey wae. the senilinens of the . day by Patrolman Snowden of the| miles from the city of Verdun itself, and Frank Moss, his Roce? nihbe awrence of the counsel of the Prin-}a resolution have not changed their bai bi pyheediclealed UR oy ey eee yey eee Kast One Hundred and Fourth Street | on the east be > \taa: the capaci is tha Gomumnits Boss” Barnes. cess to examine him privately in the|mind, but the idea that the White | born on the other side of the wa WASHINGTON, Feb, 23.—Maxsing ¥ aeresauiedi | ast bank of the Meuse River, abanoaal ee a cate chan — of the Justice's secretary and|House would support the action hav-| Who have come and enriched America| their final attack on Louis D, Br bumps and Berlin reported the Germans have ae eel He cily before the commit.| GOV: Whitman came to town this}. rapher. If the — physician’s}ing been blasted, the desire to press |D¥ giving us their talent and their | dois fifty-tive Boston lawyers, through} there we fazed look in his eyes, | Muted back the French on a wide me voluntarily be ne co ee | ea a ae Ratna poi , Es ere dazed tool is eye tee and not under force of subpoena, | #fternoon and at the St* Regis Hotel] * inate TeEEtlng. Hie protessionl/a reolutian: Tyan, Giaap 4 trust : “80 rey ig thelr counsel, Austin G, Fox, to-day| “He tried to hug @ couple of girls! front between the village of Consea- sqwinl you kindly tell us about| conferred with George W. Perkins, employment by the Princess a year] To-day it was declared, nm trunt- b come this oveaston cforred threo new charges of{@t One Hundred and Sixteenth street] Yove on the Mouse, and the village y . ee ara adimmlentsce /teuyinoa (hal warthe anthers, t the President | 4s an opportunity of expressing my i “ ot Asaunes, eight miles George W. Young and how we ¢an|tinancial backer of the Progressive . nd ‘Third Avenue last night,” said east of the him?’ asked Frank Moss Bressive| Court there was no child, counsel for| intends to make his refusal to tem-| Unqualified confidence in those tuble dealing” against the Presi) 10 policeman, “aud he alo sought to find him?” asked uy Lega se Bo party, and Tenry L, Stoddard, who} Miskinoff, it Is said, will consent to] porize so emphatic that there would| thoughtful citizens like yourselves, | den’ nominee for the Supre caress a plump middie aged woinan oi gee le ae aha ih is prominent in Bull Moose|a verdict against him be no doubt left of his purpose to re-| Who have {dentified’ themuelves in| pench Sas was hese & bee Clean Colby, “that Mr, Young had ean The Prince's lawyer, John C, Old-| quire a closing of the Lusitania nego- | heart, as well as in fortune, with this! The chars . Palin Beach on Monday. The mo- ci t is understood that their v : & About fifty women sailed into him and| + % a mixon, questioned him through an in-|tiations in keeping with the original] reat country which ts so dear to all! ‘That in 1906 Brandeis acted for a : es ‘ enemy has been fortifying fi ment I learned in the newspapers that | meeting related to possible combina ¥ f ae they were tearing him to pleces when ying for one ALTA be pte ai be TN ae i terpreter at the morning session. The] demands of this Government. Since} of us, which is compounded of all of | protective committee of stockholders! | ran up and pulled him out." year and a half with all means of the committee desire nis presence C]tion of Whitman Republican and testimony was in French any is not expected to withdraw | U4 and which does not belong to any {against the officers of the Hrult Hanson pleaded guilty. He said he] fortress construction in the bo dlgrere atic HERE ‘ON "Bom vee BTORe ‘sive forces against! Q, Did you kiss Yvonne's hand|the armed merchantman decree, it one section or portion of us. TE have! Life Insurance pany and lives at No. 364 Bast Ono Hundredl| Meighborhood of the village of Se RAY Bow" Barn after the French custom of polite-| was pointed out, one thing only will] tried to show on various oecasions| within n months he a wed forlandg ‘Twenty-third Street with his wife] Gensenvoye in order to mainta; e . . The Governor has definitely split! ness A. Certainly so! It is so 1|be left for the President to do and} My passion for t quality whieh] compuny an opposed to George] and a child Mugistrate Sins wens an embarrassing effect on our di "Do you think he Soule get here) with the “Old Guard” Republican ma-| was brought up, If T kiss the hand| that is to cut off diplomatic relations, | OUshE to obtain amongst all thowe|(, Peters, a stockholder tenced him to the Island for a month.| fenee in the northern sector of Oy Béturde: asked eat me, chine since last week's State conven-|of Yvonne, also I kissed my wife's| This would mean the handing of his} Whe profes allegiance to the United That he acted as attorney for a —_—— the Woevre. 1 think so, ane wire nin". - tion when Barnes started to boom| hind; certainly. passports to Ambassador von Bern. | States.’ Mr. Stewart against the officers of th “The attack was delivered on # Mr. Young has nee held a aires eihu Root for the Presidential nomi-| ‘The Prinec said “Madame” was | storff. delegation, headed by Alex.! Gillette y Razor Company, al 13 HO0D00 WAS BUSY front extending well over ten serve witness, Ie had not concluded jnation, Mr, Whitman is timing| disagreeable to Yvonne during their] The President, it is declared, is] Kenta of New York, called at the! teging mismanagement and that with kilometres (six miles) and we we testimony. i : | lis support of Justice Hughes in na | rite is and said to him: “Only| committed to the move, but does not} White Housa to present resolutions!in a few months he deserted these ON STEAMER HO00D00 penetrated as far kil "I learned from Mr. Young's doctor | tional politics and his opposition to| now I fnd Lam too old for you. You! desire to act without first laying the | Paxsed at a mass meeting in New| clients and atded Gillette againat them. i metres into the enemy lines. yesterday that he was not in geod | Barnes in st politic should marry Yvonne." | hatter before Congres: York on Jun. 80 That he aided BH. Hf. Harriman. to Wawpanal Thirteens “Apart from considerable san- shape, that he had a racking cough| ‘The Governor confided to political) Madame, according to the Prince,| 11 was evidently on the suggestion wr the delegation, Konta said: | gain control of thee Hlinois Central Everything Happened in Thirtee guinary lo the enemy to: and he would be better for a few |friends that Hughes or Roosevelt are| went so far to accuse her adopted! of ihe White House that § tor} “Your Excelleney's reception of us| from Stuyvesant Fish in a deat whic | on Board During Trip to more than 3,000 men in prisone days under better climatic condi- the only Republicans who have any | daughter of Mirting with men in tone unnouneed this faternoon that|!* the proof we want of your faith in] caused Col. Re to call Harriman| South America and great quantities of material, tlons,” said Mr. Colby chan beating: Wilson feral and His Highness in y ie might abandon hiv plan to answor | CUM fidelity to the United States.” | an undesirabl It wan at thiel _# the extent of which cannot yet be Mr. Colby showed this teleg Ked concerning his nominees! Q, Did you speak to Madame re-|yiiy Root's ertticism of the admin: | Ve represent our fellow citizens in| time Brandeis was alleged to The Stephen, the hoodoo peeled whieh he received this morning for New York City Public Service| garding the conduct of Yvonne? }isiration's foreign policy. While to { 2! Parts of the country, who author-!heon attacking officers of ton | teat of the Booth Line, noses ris reported the heaviest fighting ‘ au Gallic, Fla, Feb, 28, Commission, whose confirmation is|A, Yes. My room was tirst, Madame's| give no reason for hiv determination | ized us to speak for them and to make} and Maine Railroad for th mpd FN: rough the fox this after-Taround the Haumont woods, just “Bainbridge Colby: being held us the Senate, Gov.| was next and Yvonne's next, I told{{t was apparent. tha saw the | renewed professions of our allegiance, | practices which Afty-five allegs,| Noon With every soul on board dis-Tyouth of the Consenvoye-Asannes "Have telegraphed Thompson as Whitman said: “tl have no intention| Madame Yvonne was constantly ap-| possibility of opening up the whole | if the country beltey \ ou: | he aided. Harriman to perform witht Suemnl figure 13, On the triplitnes, indicating that the Crown lows: of withdrawing the numes of Hervey | pearing at the night dress pe panes ; y the Mlinois Central. from New York to Vara, Brazil, the] prince is atempting, to blast a way Stop en route Palm Beach on ad- sand Whitney, and the story that 1) and listening rs and maids | ) pepunl can! jena who ha have been misrepresented in| pox to-day al 4 that Brandeis] Vessel took thirteen days, It took} through to the outer forts of Verdun of physician, Dr pbell intended doir is not based on the| about the hote her aaak arrenta Gantiilaels a period of history which is full of ried before a legislative cominittes| thirteen days to muke the home pas The German infantry attack was h M |dent at this parti Jeni 8 | Douglas, West Fifty-eiglth Street. (ruth. Q, What did you suggest’ A. Phat} would have felt ntations, insinuations and|in Massachusetts that he had ever| Stee, and at t the Stephen was] preceded by forty-eight hours of con No intention or desire to avoid fur Tue Governor will attend a dinner) she get another f way, moved had Stone . nder, It was important! | oteq directly or directly for Harr hirteen hours tinuous bombardment, which evi ther examination. Expect return by to-night ot the Wald wiven in ¢T witne ppavently y ed to! en + 5 Nese eed eee F In the jan, but said his partner had, Wad-| 08 Feb. 14 Dr. B. HM, Br thel dently wrecked the advanced French fore adjournment committee, If you poner of Col, Daniel Yvonne) Hive misrepresentations, those Insin- {dill Catehings of J. Plerpont Morgan] SHiv'# surgeon, who was twice thir-} positions, The Crown Prince is desire will return at once, Wéuld ap tiring commander of tae seven Q. What did Madame say? 4 Administ ns, those slanders’ were repute! @ Co, will bef d; Bok sald teen sears old, died and was buried] smashing southward, hoping to con preciate few # here if possible. 14 ‘ was furious and jeu ind was outta. MO rend OF} Drove Brand personal p-|#t sea And when the purser counted | quer the outer defenses of Verdun ‘Telegraph me of John H, Hanan —_—_-—_- wround every moment of the d ” airth ku down in ‘ found he had thirteen pas-| and bring up German 43 centimetre: Brap) rout can histor unt peaved ' 2 centimetres GEORGE W. YOUN( MUST BREAK PRUSSIAN Q. Did Yvonne write jetiers to you? Aen ah J record whieh we ure endea > engers. (This is the thirteenth time] to level the great fortress, 8.47 A. Mt” ay Wiote letiera to me ail ‘ nich we think RPET PRICES GO yur hip news reporter has tried to] Announcement of another im: Y 1 al serve i | p ne ; ¢ port The following telegram was sent by POW R, SAY r ase eva CA RIC! UP. got over a thirteen story.) ant gain in the offensive on the Weet Senator ‘Thompson to. George W $ ASQUIT 4" iv) 1 some of 3 rene mae tim Afeion,| 40ne ts Yard] 4 tre Not Ca py] ern front wax made by the Berlin Young, care of John H, Hanan, Ps of the oo. |B i Westerent ag Pe ee ‘ nha pink War Oftice statement says that Beach, Fla.: LONDON, Web, 2%.-N nu: , 1 of the! nessa by mn und action Poppeslibar ee HILADELMLA Ca TORONTO, — Feb: Abandoning] in Upper Alsace the Germans cap- f ! w 7 1 i th bomb 1 th “Accepting your assurance to eatin Lis Tawa a un Cong whi rmany migh nanute imnounced general ad weory that a boinb caused the! tured a position 100 yards dainbridge Colby that you would rx eh ‘i 1 samite | 0 ligh Mog ane Lis |recent explosion. inthe Amérioan. Clyy| (ured, ®, Posttian. 10 wide and r eon 1 pi fry ae Fo Wari 1 in lGuring the fire that damaged the build baited p turn immediately upon reque the tha 10 lik und the oilitary i) ne of Prine de 1 * re iaglad ‘ak ; | x, the inquiry bard to-day pelieved PARLS 3.-—-The Gerhans have » reque: nat you present ny ree: " nu uxpected s the blast Was Caused by a sudden in- aa committees requost that you present Prossi 20N ead Mi iW oxbien on the tmoulaer. | Wunched a heavy offensive around yourself at the plu numed in the), fest 1 t j r ham for WHAT EH C bh ay ra A Tekeanei her RE ry Verdun, from the right bank of the —_—_—_ Heonments to peace, Hreinen A Bulb] fe Hera iit | nla a vratule yl Wor 1 aly toa ioniarial H wewrcity of faite ele, Galen an Cupless held’ after Meuse to the Herbe woods the War (Continued on Sagem Wame.) elured in Commune tule allermoon, (Conunued on Sixih Page.) ‘is "Gepacity “a Adinuater Of Blockade. tow, 1, City, Delep one bectanass dooaaee | stuff are given as the reasons. the fire hus not. yet ‘been determined. Office announced this afternoon. They ne