The evening world. Newspaper, February 29, 1916, Page 1

nn an i ands aieaineiee ae . . slit aiat UL i acide ail wih 160, 000 REPORTED LOSS OF GERMANS AT VERDU ena suskind AE! Pic sitsal Li ann ae ~ Snow probable to-night; Wednesday clearing. = Lceenincitiddinhaisie f “Circulation Books ks Open t to All.” |“ Circulation Books Open to All.”’| | ————— = PRICE ONE CEN Comreinss, Uthe New Nor te NEW YORK, TUESDAY, “FEBRUARY 29, 1916. 18 PAGES PRIUE ONE CENT. —-— = FORMER FRENCH LINER PROVENCE SUNK; © 4800 ON BOARD: NEARLY (,099 LOS ————EE $< 4o—— FRENCH ADMIT NEW LOSSES; SEAMEN" RYANFORVSI es, ean TWENTY We SHS HUNT “GERMANS CLAM CAPTURE ‘aa vA MLO (VER MEDITERRANEAN SEA NS, 17,000 MEN | FOR SURVIVORS OF DSHS t Whether Fast Liner, Which Had Verdun Defenses to East and South- o— | PROBABLY FOR BALKANS > } Hed ud ot tweeters Fought Likely to Head Nebraska Dele- Sill Refuses i Give Up Books teseereetensseees ee } ve any :| Been Turned Into an Auxiliary i ? at lard to Get Time Until | gation; Solid for the Presi- | Jan. 10, | dent at St. Louis. ate Bryan is for I east —Paris Claims Check of Firm for Committee's {3 Cruiser, Was Torpedoed, Hit a North. of Fortress. | Inspection. Mine or Met With Accident Is 29,—By ¢ Suddenly shitting their attack, the Germans have launched Gas the life of t vice inves until July 1. a heavy drive on Verdun trom the eastward, aiming to sq resol the French out of Verdun by a threat of envelopment, vr The German War Office this atternoon announced t bil eles! vm: 1 cap. The Democrats voted with Senator ture of the villages of Manheulles and Champlon, eleven miles atonipaon, wie’ southeast of Verdun, and the advance of the whole German until Jan. 10, 191 front, northeast, east and southeast of Verdun, and the capture Folowing the int of nearly 17,000 prisoners, The report says the Germans passed iL ol aM aati the villages of Dieppe, Abancourt and Blanzee. The first two liana Ranator! Grown towns are in territory which was already supposed to have been leader, explaining th in German hands. ale From D 1 an ex ension . - PARIS, Feb, 292.—Belween 900 and 1,000 persans are believed to > | lave perished in the sinking of the French auxiliary cenlser Provence tae 2 | the mid-Mediterranean Saturday. Announcement or the a ae 7, | made until te , 4 OF 1,800 persons abourd the cruiser, the latest statement from the : ihe ry of Marine declares, about 870 have been saved. Twenty vessels t » | have - to the scene in search of more survivors, Perete nee vo hundred and ninety-six of the crew have been landed at Malta Wileon'é fonomination: Br ~}and about 400 on the Greek ishind of Melos. ) extending the! % life of the comm: until next Jan amendmen Pr that 45,000 Ger- {elude its rings July 1, 1916, and 1 Jan. 10, 1 fir ch sources came reporis mans were killed in the frontal attacks upon Verdun fortress and estimates that the Germans have lost at least 160,000 in killed, | began. wounded and missing since the sma wn to have been oper Ati in the mid-Mediter- obably be one of Nd Wilson | Subniarines are k The nee h War Office, repor ot vor aN a Mow Eran Manre ee Ho ne Es ranean for some time, the British steamer Fastnet and a Swedish steamer the Crown Prince's onsiaught north “ hy . : iis platform he wil 1} having been torpedoed in those waters within the past few days, of Manheulles and confirmed Berlin re i sek R ect planks-oltheron| wre is nothing in the despatches to indicate whether the Provence in the Woevre region east of Verdun, A\malave! Gh GorAIntites m4 record'| BF 6 Administratic foed by Ut, hit amine or met with anvaccident. a =. j diplomatic 5 a would re lily the British censor has eliminated all references to subma- - 1 Gaaaeaes etinesre ik anat pudiate President Wilson's position ine altacks alle y messitges stating thi eamer has been torpedoe Villages Captured by Germans \paraid Bt Nays teretweulliaal These thrice aeons : ime i a owing mewsgs sal Ua sre bs Dele < | tho dhvattingn Of the commit garding the former Cabinet premi |‘ ) 15 SUNK, te French censor, however, has pei a % tent ime when it was in a fair| Political plans were made here to I respondents to cable the fact that ships have been submarined, j In Renewed Drive at Verdun » 1» 1»: sry sss as aa ae ne ee ay, sles Pledge| WOMAN PEDESTRIAN IS ‘that ships have been: subrnesiag f Ne i | vee | Referred Only to Un- KILLED AS AUTOS GRASH) . Uzeveer Sas tie Frencn Line service between New York and sit. with armed Merchantmen. | Havre, and wot the coming of the Lusitania and Mauretania held several of Bryan's closest | = ane Bie T i R oO { | records for speed, After the outbreak of the war La Provence made but one personal and political friends and] wastincroN, Feb, 29—Foltow-|Pi& Touring Car Runs Overs Her! ity iy New York und was then Mken over by the French Admiralty as an advisors ‘ boone nage Mtter Crashing Into Anotner auxiliary crulser 4 : hderstond Mr. Rryants {i are the exact terms of the Ger »/ man note, submitted yeate | Ainbaysador Von Bernstorff BERLIN (via London), Feb. 29.—Progress tor the Germans in their} in drive toward Verdun in the Woevre district was announced to-day the | War Office. The German troops have passed Dieppe, Abacourt and |e Blanzee, and also have taken Manhuelles and Champlon |! te Chairm: tle SI | He has just come fre ef-| Where he paid an exten Bryon, He is wn ivate le tha ses should be cor [Dieppe is about six miles directly east of Fort de Douaumont Machine in Brooklyn. | Tnasimuch a the steamer has been under the direct orders of the Gov- & has as yet reached the French Line office in New York as # ten miles to the south and east of Vet Renator Lawson wail New York City were vitally « 5 and Blanze dun, Manhuelles is still further to the south. There was hard ment, }to the disaster the. investigation, :and © new U-Boat warfare planned | § j 7 i La Provence entered the Tradsatiantic service when the speed ri \ ghting yesterday at this point, ‘The French report admits the Se GNGKE to begin to-night ante Map wae : 7 } when the SpetOiys vais anigivanen ub fae r among the Briish, Mrench and German lines was at it nd ongaged ol loss of this village.| ie wn + RAMS adiowt Hoa HuInber selling races, in one of which she defeated the Cunarder The War Office announced that 10,575 French soldiers and 228/000 1 ca's delegates v en on Sept. 1 And] way killed in an au | Mauretania | officers have been taken in the Woevre region southeast and east of | vote Louix convention. | Oct, 15, 1915, and does not consider ars passing ¢ he- | La Provence was built at St. Nazaire, France, in 1906. She had a gross 9 lelogation will be for the] ¢hat these agsuran ces have been mod- uld step out of the of 141 id Was 602 feet in length Verdun. The booty includes 78 cannon and 86 machine guns, The text he steamer was capable of renomination, Whether \ ; ified by subsequent events. ‘The ne nine that killed her wa five knots an hour for se | years, a1 of to-day’s official statement is as follows 4 or uninstructed, Mr. Bryan REERH RIS ORE 2 wr owned by Franl i = Sart, Dh oO ee 7 tiller: 1 “Twill probably be among the Nebraska conducted between — the bd cAriatost val Hs enty-one knots, © Was built on cruiser lines, “Very strong artillery vity has continued at, several points t Patten wiiha Petras jan and German Governments] >” nd driven by Huish Canmp.| Hike the other stean the French Line fleet East of the Meuse we stormed a small armored work directly | ber to be app vernon |acne to a 1 ls for concerning the Lawsitanta incident}? oN Ne ANE Phaly aacodd Hee Shipping list a second steel steamer Provence, but. she is of northwest of the village of Douaumont. Repeated enemy attacks in 1H Senat ad ymin, tO} president W never referred to @rmed merchant- fey ! | 1 tons Joubtful whether such a small boat would be this region were stopped at the very outset Jconfer w th the Gover and Li - arding the one term Prest-!! . ; his machine were Mr Ke crowded reons, even In such an emergency as carrying troops, “In the Woevre our troops have passed Dieppe, Abaucourt and | !tures of advining * with @) dential plank, Chairman ‘Thompson oa tne Seu teery: ee EN ot Ihe or daughter, Vera, af N | ’ roops elther from or ta Blanzee. They have cleared the’ yxtensive wooded region northeast IAW 0h 8 ttex Te) sald he bell yan would not| can aaa | - aiiy venty-third Street, Brooklyn. Aw | sal Th 1 survivors were landed, examina ronidi sa expreasly of ‘unarmed mer ; i . of Watronville and Hrudiomont and haye taken In their herole ad- eS ay adie should be agate | £2 ny Gueihautiediths enemuin Avena re off the southeast const of Greece. It is vance Manheulles and also Champlon. acuihed tis vee 5H stig v | asreod upon by both Governments o i vax sunk somewhere between the Greek west “Up to last nigh counted unwounded prisoners 228 officer pear eae . =" i opt, 1 contained the provi ings ARE AN fulandic niin and 16,579 men and further 78 cannon (7 of these heavy and of the | Senator 4 nu vided that they do not offer resint ‘val ie — eae aEREEEEneeeeeeeeeeeed most modern kind) and £6 machine guns, While uncounted war ma we pla are ince,” - St N A terial Is reported as boot The presenes of armament on | We! SMALL FIRE HOLDS UP IN YEAR BRITAIN SPENT “At the forester’s house at Thiavil theast of Babonviiler i 7 * 0 Viens A large number of prisonors remained in our hand i me ra 5 B Jthe oceupants of either car was ir | Wat cities gives vio estimate of (he German losses of of. the je min EARCHED BY BRITISH gewate seul BILL ie Arne i Forty-secontl| Salton! Expenditure fore the: Il number of French kiled | comn 1 Chairman | Collapse When Stripped A wieank atatlenslcie aan Looked Lik ula elve 1 ireatest of ee Lhomp the cummittes has won| W#s Nea 9 - Pl IN MAXWELL’ $ F VOR? a , i While | All Belligerents, 7, nee . the confidence of the people and that at Downs on Her Way to ors und the AS wong i oe ‘| i : use. ve Avenue i Lupe this] Chamber o' @ to-day, Rext- " en rH r Per erintendent’ Emeritus in ofan ' ni Mekenna, O ad i In Hot Battle at Douaumont\¢™ are aire vier his Ci ab rt mals Solenna: Chants let ae ad IN KEEPING BOOKS k Vhis City | ! stimated the National ex- PARIS, Feb, 29.—An official uincement by the French War iil ssh a KS vey | the Bat f hy ALBANY fa ia rd se t s for the eurrent year would ‘ Ale ‘ sarin FROM COMMITTEE | (0, iblication, w bade 29.-Senator 0 vel iguntic total of 1,509,000,000 Ojtice tins afternoon indicates that mbardment north of Verdun is hal Wa Hriitat troduced 1 to amend = ; - ; A A nt \ ? rot New York City by auth | DOUNGS Ste Fae is continuing with greater intensity, There was hand-to-hand tightiag near} ae biitan FF Falm i pnolatmient atten Get 4 |" ' " rh vinent, he sald, was pre e vi » yi 1 ide the ‘tured n f ty supe f achovis| | pared give assistance for the de- the village of Douaumont, outside the captured for Jlespie Company { nse por oe ; b 4 Je n 6nd | velopr of forelxn trade’ in’ oxaie Admission is made that the German forces captured the village of | “8! yi Alba pit , ' 1 \ © Davia’ t A a ut who were “Great Britain's ‘ / ; \ in his | *” whould not, aa th the Manheulles, ten or twelve mile itheast of Ve fortress, but it i {at the "Thomp Min, f ' ma vontrol of the foreiga ' asserted that the French regained part of ri ind a re | by acegey: a Dim ae | ellor sald Great Britain's } Jand before he went in before the sub-| other Aur eon nal, expen ateeeien weal ol re | — — to have been disro ov examinae f apt) Max ° cas the mean time be 1 ‘© |higher than that of any of the other 4 (Continued on Second Vage,) (Continued on Second Page.) tiou. Caly schools, will be tree, smoke fagtory beneath, belligerent power / Satie