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j i é 82RD eT \ still remains closely encircled. The fighting is lees spirited. the plateaus to the north of the village of Vaux, in the the enemy yesterday evening and last night as- of greater activity. The railroad station et Hix, and recaptured several times by the attacks and counter attacks of the two opposing forces, now remains in our possession. “tne attacks against Hill No. 266, te the southeast of Eis, @e region of Van de Sapt. “In Belgium our batteries have bombarded German organiza opposite Bteenstrate. Treks Chamagee, tn the region of the Mavaria Murs, to the north @f Bouain, the enemy was successful by & surpriee attack in ccou- prying certain trenches of our edvance line ‘They also took a sup- porting trench.” Some reports say the German offensive on a twenty-five mile front orth and northeast of Verdun is now crumbling to a series of local Trainloads of wounded moving Parisward to-day are bringing evi- ence of the nature of the carnage north of the French fortress, Other trains laden with fresh troops and munition supplies are hurrying east- ward to fill the gaps in the French ranks. Germans Sweeping Ahead, 15,000 Prisoners, Berlin Claims BERLIN, Feb. 27 (via Lapdon).—Attempts by the French to retake the fortress of Douaumont have not only failed, but the German advance @ Verdun continues steadily, according to the reports from the front. In rapid succession Louvemont, Champneuville, Cot® de Talou and Hardaumont have been stormed, and the Germans, with 15,000 French prisoners in their hands, now stand less than five miles from the centre of Verdun, Following Is the text of the Berlin War Office report: “In the Verdun district, new masses concentrated by the enemy were exhausted in unsuccessful attempts to attack the German positions in and near the fortress of Douaumont and Hardaumont. The Ger- mans have cleared the Meuse Peninsula of enemy forces. [The “Meuse Peninsula” refera to the loop of land about five » miles northwest of Verdun, on the east bank of the river, incloed by the bend of the Meuse. In thig loop lie the village of Champ- peuville, previously reported captured, and the heights known as Cote de Talu.) “The Germans advanced their lines further in the direction of Vaoherauville and Bras, “In the Woevre, the foot of Cote Loriaine was reached from the east at several places. “On the front north of Arras there has been intermittent min- ing activity. The Germans blew up about 40 metres of an enemy position. -) “Ia the Champagne the Germans, after eMcient artillery preparation, began an attack on both sides of the road from ‘Somme-py to'Souain. They captured the Navarin farm and Frenoh positions on both sides, about 1,600 metres long, and took prisoner 26 officers and 1,009 men, and captured nine machine guns and one mine thrower.” The available railroad lines do not approach closely and miles of fads had to be repaired by hundreds of men in order to make pos- sible the transportation of heavy cannon to within range. Wretched weather added its difficulties to the situation, and the French telephone lines of communication had to be destroyed in order to prevent the French artillery from interfering with the setting up of the «heavy pieces. Verdun’s fa vithin possibly a fortnight, was predicted by German THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1916. wren PT. Ge MARRE FT.DE BOIS BOURRAS \FEOE Shaded portions of the above map show the territory gained by the Germans since their drive at Verdun be @an eight days ago. Whether the line has been changed west of the Meuse River is not indicated by the reports. Paris despatches at Bix, southeast inilitary critics to-day as stories arrived from the front, telling of the awful destruction wrought by the great German howitzers. They pointed out that no fortress since the beginning of the war has withstood the German battering, once the ring of defending forts has been breached. Douaumont was laid in ruins on Thursday, the day before the Brandenburgers stormed and captured the wrecked positions. “Four shots of our heavy guns were fired against Douaumont and every one scored a bull’s-eye on the distant target,” sald de- spatches from the front. “Explosions in the intertor of that proud ulwark followed the hits. A second fort not far off blew up, just as did old Fort Loncin at Liege, as the result of a single large eallbred shell crashing through the ammunition magazine.” All the correspondents with the Crown Prince’s army point out the | extensive preparations made for the attack. | “Our artillery opened a murderous fire on the morning of the 21st,” the Vossiche Zeitung’s correspondent telegraphed. “Thanks to the splendid activity of our fliers, the enemy aeroplanes were unable to force their way into the air zone behind our front, preventing observations that might have disclosed our plan. | “Our fire raged with increasing fury until iate in the afternoon of | that day, crushing trenches, tearing wire entanglements to shreds and barring all approaches from the south, “At 5 o'clock in the afternoon we advanced. The whole section of woods have been transformed into one great entanglement by barbed ' our infantry rushed in with but slight losses. strongest redoubt on this sector. artillery and infantry the Germans rushed forward again, taking new posi- directly north of Verdun.. French in the hamlet of Brabant-sur-Meuse. The mortars and howitzers sent death and destruction against these strong field fortifications and on the twenty-second the Brabant position and the village had been taken. “The driving power, the endurance and discipline of our troops in all these fights was incomparable, Our losses, happily, were not very Boe Mary ENGLAND AMAT { followi letter from the | Sisters of St. ' AS NEXT ATA Prince Henry, in High Naval Post, Preparing to Strike, London Believes, Medicine tok ot cough m We recommend Fat for the most stubborn coughs and colds, >. Sit of St. Mary, Fara- LONDON, Feb. 28—With all the resources at his command, the Kalser is now etriking for an immediate and overwhelming German. victory Planned to end the world was. The great onslaught directed against Verdun Is but the prelude to a grand assault by the Germans slong the whole western front—tho most tremendous offensive movement the world has ever seen, { if h- waa sive ee rebuild wasted tissue. Medi BELL-ANS Prince Henry of Prussta has taken| ” of Feb, 22, when the fighting in the Haumont region was intense, @ soldier suddenly appeared at one of the German positions, having crawled from ’ her ithe French firing line. He said that @ French captain and sixty men de-| amet Sikh sired to surrender, but were unable to give themselves up on account of | the intensity of the German fire, The direction of the fire was changed somewhat, the correspondent says, whereupon the sixty Frenchmen surrendered, Others then gave themselves up. On the next day the Germans held Brabant and the surrounding posi- tions, also cannon between Haumont and Samogneux and the village of Samogneux and Herbe woods. On the 24th the Germans took Hill 344, east of Samogneux, which had been the enemy's strongest point of support. At sunset the Germans took Cotelette Hill. i of the approach of a great Zeppelin over @ high command fn the German navy, preliminary to the Beginning of the new submarine campaign against Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package midnight Tuesday, London js tense g¥ith excitement, waiting for news that. the German fleet In coming out tongtve battle in the North Sea, or the signals Warning proves it. 25cat all druggists, armed merchantmen at the stroke of hands time and again since the Bran- troops circle Fort de Douaumont and that the ratiroad station hands. There were attacks at Hill No. 256 and Man- heulles, but both are sald by Paris to have failed. wire, but our powerful artillery had destroyed this net. Consequently an. “By 8 in the evening the wood was firmly in our hands, likewise the i s “The German offensive gradually spread to the eastward toward An Ores, Then, after the same game of clockwork co-operation between ta tions and shifting their direction towara the east bank of the Meuse,|¢ c “The objective at that time was the so called Brabant position of the] ¢ A German correspondent at the Verdun front reports that on the night | in GERMANY'S FLEET mont the French are projecting a i Map of the Great Battlefield at Verdun; French Hold Heights Around Captured Fo rt MICHEL, @ Mourainwid Les eearers compres 9 GENICOURT today declare that French en- of Fort de Vaux, remains in French WALL STREET Influence of the war situation, both military and diplomatic, was clearly indicated in opening prices, which were weak. Reading made an advance to 81%, or % above Saturday's high. United States Steel sold down to 82. Specialties and oft stock suffered most in the decline, which was followed by a rally, but was quickly overtaken by & wave of recessions in which prices were carried below the opening. Re- “YELLOW DOGFUND’ “BRANDED MYTH BY YOUNG GILLESPIE Counsel Declares Company's! Books May Be Inspected but Not Retained. SEEK MORE ACCOUNTS, Investigators Want — Inter- borough Figures Since Organization. ‘There is no “yatlow dog fund” of slush fund, accorting to Thomas ft Gillespie, #on of the head of the T. A. Gillespie Company, who was in at- tendance this afternoon before th aub-committes of the Thompson fer islative Investigating Committee. Mr. Gillespio was waiting for the sub-committes to ask him auentions | about the $500,000 the New York of- fice of his firm had sent to Pitts- burgh during the last two years, Paul D. Cravath, of his counsel, was answering questions, “Perhaps there's a wrong impres- sion about Mr, Gilespie's attitude,” said Mr. Cravath. “He is perfectly willing to bring all records here and time of the formation or organiza. tion or your company to date and to what aecount of accounts those pay- ments were changed.” ‘Travis H, Whitney, secretary of the Public Service Commission, and Le Roy Harkness of the commission's legal staff, aecused of misconduct by Senator Lawson of the Thompson com- mittee, to-day issued statements an- ewerlng the Senator. Mr. Whitney in his statement says certain plans referred to by Senator Laweon as having been transmitted to the engineering department of the commission by W. 8. Menden did not require the approval of the commis- sion, as the Senator insisted, The Lawson attack involved the injunc- tion proceeding of Fred C. Williams against the commission In connection with the third tracking work in Ful- ton Street, Brooklyn, and an affidavit made by Mr. Whitney. “Senator Lawson seems to claim,” says Mr. Whitney “that {f the Court in the Williams case had known of the presence of these plans in tho office of the Engineering Department it would not have dissolved the tem- porary injunction, He is apparently one of the few people who did not read the newspaper accounts of the Proceedings in Court, for the suit was dinmissed on the application of the Plaintift.” Mr. Harkness in his statement says: “Senator Lawson, while admitting that Mr. Whitney's affidavit was ‘technically correct,’ assumes to crit!- olse him because certain immaterial matters were mentioned in his ami- davit, If there be any just ground for criticism in this connesction—as there {s not—I, and not Mr, Whitney, am solely responsible. I was the counsel in charge of the case and I determined what papers should be preserted to the Court and what answer questions about them, A sub-|SHOUld be included in them. Also as Poena duces tecum directs a witness |COUnSe! I permitted Mr. Monden to to bring documents with him for ex-|V!thdraw certain detailed plans. That amination, but does not Include the|WWestion was mine to decide, aid not surrender of the documents. “Mr. Gillespie has done all that the law requires—even more—but will not leave his papers here to be roamed through at will. I have no doubt that an examination of the books of the T. A. Gillespte Co. mate in an orderly way will show the committee that every dollar ts prop- erly accounted for in the books.” “Yes,” added young Mr, Gillespie, newed selling In first hour of after- noon carried prices below the previous low pulnt. In late trading there was a few slight recoveries from the low on ac- tive trading. Closing Quotations, With net changes from previous closing. Roeper gen der att Ailis-Chalmers a a Allisaelmers i i #8 =} Am Beet Su My UH — 8 ae. ab 48 ; Bx x Be my Oe iy "Sty = 2 OR ote et H30 We ly = 2% 127 1s — at” Sim a. } ny ity % fe Ge at bef § — ah we ete 3” F: 1% — 2 & (ed ag 101% a ie ie r. 4 aN Hd Ghito. Couper batt = % 1, Funk @& trons. 424 Me — 25 ¢ an 1h a— 1% € Re ey io =s% Corp, Sh -i Kale. ist pf, Sie = ¢ FW, Woolworth... =} General Kleotzic «2. 10855 =a Goodried Co. on bid fits Caw, Oh OM Hy ity nterboro i ¢ it BI=, Toterbano as 2 320 14 er. Paper. i o% (9% — 18 Inter, Paper 8 HE Ha oy Inter, Sickel 4% 0 6 —1 Kan. City BH My By % ‘ By Ga Rat t. Packawanna ie fhe fy 18 Thy Me i Me 1 : Sa a. Bf 0% ‘ Motor ist pf.. 64 3 ax, Motor it Pt ‘ x ay % 4 Mexican Petroleum, 100% Mak bby Mex, Petroleum os s we Miami Copper. 30 “ue oD | Nat Pn, & By BB | Natlonal “Lead WS Oly Nevada Cov thd | oh ih} Nort, & } 6 Hos 115) NYA 1 13K 1am! | So same se ua) | ay my fs ae 1S Lok 3 ‘ee i a ri Ps) PS BEBES: ae } | “construction?” ‘and they won't find any slush fund or ‘yellow dog fund’ in our books.” Young Mr. Gillespie was asked when his father would return from Palm Beach. He sald he did not know. He promised Chairman Thompson last Net | week that he would telegraph his] (he, $ father the committee's request that he|irip to Sen Franclaco, come here at once for examination. Frank Moss, counsel to the Thomp- son Committee, seemed pleased when he read Mr, Cravath's statement. “They seem to have come down,” he said, “Mr. Gillespie on Satumfay re- fused to hand his records to the chairman of the committee when re- quested to-do #0, In that he made himself the judge of the relevancy of the papers—judge and witness to- gether, That was where the matter broke. Mr. Cravath's statement indt- cates that now the witness 4s ready to give the Information required, going back Into December, 1913. The third- tracking contract February, 1914." The Thompson comm!ttee served to- day on the Interborough Company a subpoena with fifteen subdivisions re- quiring {t to furnish a complete ac- counting of every penny of stocks, bonds, &c., issued from its crea ton, A similar subpoena ts to be sent the B. R. T. for information cover- ing all recelpts and expenditures since 1908, J.P. Morgan & Co, took $160,000,000 of Interborough bonds at 93%. They had to be accounted for at par. The Thompson Committee wants to know how that 6% per cent. difference was accounted for, Was it charged to If so, that makes an item of $10,400,000 to be ‘deducted from the receipts under the pref- erential arrangement before the city can begin to share in the profits of the new subway. Among the most interesting requests for information are: “Dates, names and amounts of all payments to spe- cial counsel for services rendered in connection itwh the formation or or- concern Mr. Whitney and was not submitted to him.” econ Sn STATE HELPED KEEP T. R. FIT. Paid $30.50 for Pun Bag Oat- ft When He Was Governor. ALBANY, Feb, 26.—Since the Thomp- son committee's prorating of expense bills was exposed, a half dozen poli- | ticlans on an average appear at the! State Comptroller's office each day in-! tent upon discovering items charged to the State that might prove embarrassing to their political enemies, Records have been combed over re-| Deatedly by friends of Gov. Whitman anxious to disclose something detri- mental to ex-Senator Elgar T. Brackett, chiding Whitman about charged on the Gove ore Tt appears that Brackett never participated tn funkers or served on a committee where his ex- penses were paid by the State. | Yesterday records of money spent for} the upkeep of the Executive Mansion | were hauled out for one investigato: wh went back to the time Roosevelt. was | Governor, The worst unearthed | againat the Colonel were these two items FRENCH SURPRISED GERMANS: STOPPED RUSH NEAR VERDUN Premier Briand Tells How Af- ter Four Days’ Fighting Po- sitions Were Retaken. PARIS, Feb. 29.—Premier Briand has Informed newspaper correspon- dents that the tide had been turned after the first four days of the battle for Verdun. “Caught between two fires,” sald M. Briand, overed with shrapnel from all sides, attacked by our fresh divi- sions surging upon the field of battle at an unexpected moment, the Ger- mans saw their efforts stopped short. The struggle was a titanic one. Our herole troops went into the melee frantically, Our light and heavy af- tlilery dug sanguinary furrows in the compact ranks of the Germans. “Finally exhausted, their ranks dect~ mated, the Germans recoiled under our furious counter attacks. We have re- gained the advantage. Installed upon formidable positions, our heroic sol~ diers remained masters of the fleld ot battle.” Proportionate Hates from Other Pointe ASHINGTON 3-DAY TOURS TBs uae ‘a tnd 18 $13.50 $15 $16 Aoife Proportionste Rates from Over Points a fm. 8 Be ate Soe hg ARSE Satie” © Pennsylvania R. R, PREPAREDNESS!!! PUBLIC MEETINGS FEB. 29TH Carnegie Hall, 8F.M. Cemary Theatre CHATRMAN CHAIRMAN Hos, Robert 5, Bacon Hon, Oscar 8. Addresses by kininent HON, JOSEPH Ex.Ambassador to England. HON, DULLEY FIELD MALONB, ‘Collsetor of the Port of New York. son OX, A. (. GARDNER, ‘Con gresaman’ from Massachnsette HON UkO. W. WICKERSHAM, Ex-Atwomey Geveral’ of the United Staten, COME EARLY ADMISSION 18 TREB, SMITH.—On G R. eral o'clock at To one set of horizontal bi 50, | To one punching bag outfit, $30.50. —_—_——_ NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. Open. High. March . 1.18 11.20 May . 11.39 June“) 141 July 11:59 ‘Aug. 11.69 Sept. 11.65 Oct. 11,77 Dee. <+ 11.90 9 an. woe . 11.95, Market’ closed steady 6 4 off. days. 23 The fact that February 29th, 1916, is an extra day on the cale; not provided for in our leases, contracts or agreements, it will' be seen that our Candy Making and Selling Organization be running on that day at a minimum of We have decided to make it a day of intense interest #0 generously contributed to our phenomena’ 100,000 Brand New Shining Pennies h received from the United States Mint, every coin as Bright, at which it is sold, whether at 10c per Pound Box or $1.50 per Pound PENNY A POUND PROFIT GOFS TO YOU TO-MORROW. Vhese ure the ¢ ‘onditiona ol ‘They wre generously covered with our unexcelied, rich, tras lates the men and non- ances to thelr families. There was no disorder. Several of the Deputies, im- presged by tho pitiful demonstration, addressed the women, promising re- | Het, ment of allow. LONDON, thus far in the present session, The | be members have been engaged princi- pally in recriminations, the disputes wiving rise to frequent duals, eee ee Greece Looks to United States for Sulphate of Copper. Feb. 28.—Reuter's Little has been done by Parliament |pagrempongent, save, aamauat at Athens SUIT EVERY TASTE aod POC! on gccmunt et S's eae ews Hall to the "Y lt eel oe so fleet, Great flame of artillery fire across |} 3 @ ganization of your company and to|| to our patrons who “It 1s the real thing at last,” wrote|Talu Ridge and the approach to the ie eg ¢ what account or accounts those pay- |] success, the military oritic of the Times to-| slopes of the Pepper Heights, barring | mente were charged; also dates, day, “The decision of the enemy to| the German advance on Verdun. From | names and amounts of all payments ped di put his fortunes to the touch will be|Louvemont to the northeast and |! to spectal counsel and the nature of || Fresh, New and Clean as LOFT CANDY it jrecetved with flerce delight by every|Samogneux to the north the great | 7 services rendered from the time of |] toourtrade. You will receive one with ev allied regiment in the west.” German and Austrian field pieces are the formation or organization of your|} at any LOFT Store To-morrow, Four milea from Verdun the greatest| hurling tons of explosive shells into r company to date and to what account at wt artillery and infantry battle perhaps | the armored slopes of Pepper Heights | % Jor accounts these payments were lackage. \in the history of the world is being Ls Pa beeen yl blast away the whole |t. & 4 charged. By ay Loy {a meant Extra Special for Monday and Tuesd. r . 4 open through 11 those employed other than your VERED DATES. |waged over the ruins of Fort|tidge, leaving the row | a CHOCOLATE, COVER Thm wader the mow’ tay 1 ont. The position has changed . regular legal department. Fipened ty I je | Douaum pos! ge f “Dates, names and amounts of all ait; id to any one for! |denburgers stormed the — shell- T | Wertingbon my ig | cash bonuses pal wrecked pile of debris late Friday DESTI UTE GREEK WOMEN WHET aca hed Bor hares, S| epectil serrions of oexd xing rendered Special Tor To Day, Monday? fter the most terrific cannonading ere or tor property of a id, the na~ N MOLASSES LUMPS of Aes whole Verdun assault. PLEAD WITH DEPUTIES ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. ture of such special services and de- ailhese eyo more of iielictous Old Two m! of Douau- sreemirierest pEouitnern Ratlerey's Freie Not artor| tated list of auch property from the formed" inte. ig eh = Barefoot ‘'and Ragged, Workers tnx ingreaed Hever months | ——— = FOUND nox i increas 238, Nel Beg for Relief From Distress | fax"fncreased $4,119,604, JOYS OF THE SUBURBS Cae ar Netation|uc gaan Stee eee aa cg Big ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 26 (via Paria, ye ? to, stock & er |gheed ie are not for favored wis Ping Feb. 37).—Barefoot and ragged women | Seven mon! TEINES ANGE AAS {A+ | ne i Tae eet Cpecatare aontlty thle ‘ents in Jarge numbers, many with bables|TeMeet #72080 City Children. vercaveet Chocalae Meatlfy thls co in arms, proceeded from the quarters | CHICAGO WHEAT. AND CORN]! Live where Ls POUND BOX of the working classes yesterday to MABEST. ParMament, stopped ingoing Deputles | gawriap vas rot |] Yours can ~om Peanuts and. a. opt and pleaded that the Chamber relieve ir Th Ws aac} is] enjoy life. | ‘covering. the distress caused by mobilization of | tio Say. 08 M4 SUBURBAN HOMES Along the line of the New Jersey Central Put “up in attractiv Brooklyn. Lost, FOUND AND REWARDS, 2 Mi & Signal O mosey ‘Thee ot Nmwterdaan or rat phn of Bis Vowurt, eo. doesent etuml 700, OO Wall at. R TO-MORROW, Febru: we hi planned a heat vel hy Com- mercial Celebration at all LOFT Stores to commemorate the eatra day, which this year Father Time has seen fit to couple on to Feb- ruary’s usual allotment of ndar—a day which le wif expense. We have therefore elest- ed it a RED LETTER DAY, whieh will mark a brand new epoch in . 'l be Distributed ry Pound of Candy Purchased ruary 29th, regardl of the price oruble 6 eRe Specia! for To-Morrow, Tuesday: € sity OLATE cHeaM iis )UND BOX rms