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pINAL Che oo eae Books Open to All.”’| to All. PRICE “ONE CENT. Conrrtaht, 1910; be, The, Frees, Eubtioeg NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1916. J“ Circulation Books Open to All.” | Books Open to All.” 10 P A G = 3 WEATHER—Fair and warmer to-night and Sunday, » | EDITION VILLAS MEN IN TWO BATTLES BEYOND DRIVE OF U.S. TROOPS , SUBMARINE SENDS TORPEDO "aN! TARTS NT STEAMER LENE a oer FFT OF THE GREW RESOUED 2.7 Punish Writers of Death Notes Reveals the Fact. ——— oo \g Dutch Ship Which Had Been Held Up and Delayed by British WAR \S_ INSPIRATIC dN. Sent to Bottom as She sige ries “the President Since His Nears Home Port. | Inauguration, LONDON, March 18.—The Dutch steamship Palembang ha t ned ‘dent Wilson has received an musual jerpedoed. umber of letters threatening Me ife| Squre Garden a week from to-night, | organization bill, Chairman Huy of Moran owns & email! red car which|the House Military Committees de- Fifty of her crew have been rescued a sy. ‘ The New York agents for the Rotterdam Lioyd-Funeh, Hiye & Oo., Ne 8 Bridge Street, have received no word concerning the torpedoing of the Palembang. The Palembang was bound for Rotterdam from Senator Culbertson of Texas offered orted passing Gtbraltar on Feb. 15 the Dill, which provides @ fine of] in the shortest possible time. stituted « repudiation. Retavia, Java, and was last re It was said at the offives of the agents that the steamer had probably $1:009 or two years’ isonment for been held up off the English coast thus accounting for the elapse of time ""Y Writer or sender of a letter ning the President, Vice Pras since passing the Rock. Had she not been delayed by tish ties she should have been in Rotterdam a fortnight ago The Palembang |s freighters flying the Dutch flag ahinet m rpedoaing ed, and there was rent of Justice officials ad- was built In 111 and Is ¢ no reason peing 1 lent has received The steamer is 430 foet in lene tS ater, it dae be agian Far ARN ora eal tara’ four feet | mand haga depth of ine qarger sien waa the vietim| has been nu means which the thirty-six fret f th bmar writers, even if mur wn, could he There is another Dutch freighter of WASHINGTON, March 18.—Two)| prosecuted. War conditions, it was the same name ed from) citicers and lookouts of the destroyed | said, were responsily n a measure Philadelphia for Norway. | Hutch liner Tubantia, the Amorican| for the numerous threata. the latter vf wh Consul at. An dam, Frank W.| Under existing laws, in order te waar taken *) Mahin, reported day, “swear the r it must be the March 10. This steamer is of b steamer was torp "He add tons. Inasmuch as the latter steumer| that passengers were of the wa was well north of the place w inton, —_ Five Big Raids ; s; 32 Battle CROPSEY SEES GOVERNOR. In the Air on Verdun Front| oe 1 » Appointment er incites murde or arson, and that the nto the hands of a third person came » infantry District. Attorney © PARIS, March 18 ; a County refused to-day to discuss the tacks wer made hat Hight In ¥ off of Gov, Whitman to appoint him Verdun region, according to this af- > Supreme Court bench to aue ceed 4 dox, who died last ropsey was summoned M © was a violent bombard- Monsey ry Cronesy: Nas, Senne region of Vaux, east « to talk the matter over Verdun, and the Woevre sector, to the ’ Mr. Cropsey told hia frienda be ternoon’s report of the French War Office T Mr ment in th would accept the ntment only if southeas! of the fortress » allawed to @ his successor There was great activity yesterday tet ae - ih re lg at and last night jong the French} prt emey gi We} ibe - Y air squadron operating on the Verdun tion as Surrogate by a narrow margin front | —e— by Surrogate Ke nm, would satialy Five great raid were made on| German cities and important post- tlons. Aviators engaged in thirty-| but the British Embassy at Ne eae. vite yast| Washington Is Sceptical. twenty-four hours have been almost ——--- without precedent in the history of} PARIS, March 18.—"We have |) dae Faweett, aerial warfare. Seventeon aero-| reached the decisive hour,” said Alex- hho. Supreme planes attacked the ratiway station|ander Ribot, Minister of Finance, | Albany yesterday and saw at Conflans, through which the) spe jig in the Chambe f Deputies Crown Prince draws his supplies. | last night on the financial and mili-! 4 Sunday Forecast Fourteen bombs were dropped on|tary situation, “We can say without | 2°” cad London Revives Peace Rumors, | s¢ceptable to him ie former Hai term of a} tepublican 1’ idge Fawcett, who ha French aviators made twenty-nine | without vain optim) that we now Directory will contain approximately S eapiita af about idual advertise flights in pursuit of enemy planes, | see the ond of this horrtbl pkout a ef | Following 4s the text of the report| M, [ibot's utterance is taken to be! — convey tant mossag fasuied by tho French War OMce: of the utmost Importance, as indicat. dered f 4 be the two “During the day of yesterday, in| ing official opinion with urd to the ohiece : i ¢ 1 ordi | advertisement of the man or womar epite of a tog amt low clouds, French result of the Battle of Verdun. Heer enyAe ainclavintnt oe che lateer aviators were active in the region of} LONDON, March 18. Peace rumors, Help Wanted Advertisement of the Verdun, A German aeroplane of the squeiched a few months ago, have co biteh nt ready Jokker type appoared and was seri-|beon revived to pone extent by the egies overthrow of the Von ‘Tirpitz faction ously damaged. verthrow of th n pita fa i t means to “During the night of March 17-18] !n Germany and the results of the ted ° pro- | fighting at Ver will by group of seventeen French aero- | M6! ane will > . INGTON iatate and planes equipped for bombardments was threw down fifty-four large callbre| menting of ghells, forty on the railroad station at| Asquith —w« Gonflans and fourteen on the station | whether t et Metz. These shells fell accurately | to 4 peace & aumber of explosions were ob- such ac Hon soon wax he perved on the tracks and three fires | yy i pect, eae were eet in the Metz raflroad station. |rycties" to bein a pea “The French machines were sub-|while Germany iee Jooted to a violent cannonading dur-|led territory aw she nuw does onforer AContinaed on Second Page) Mealtlie a’ i and prosper, WASHINGTON, March 15.—Preat- nee his inauguration, it was re- A nnection with the introduction of @ bill in the Renate. mber, The Mil hy Attorney General nation ¢ Kings Mr. Cropsey, Another’ who would be | vanguards a : # _— jty miles of ‘Trebizond, accor: Y @ablons station at Metz. exaggeration, without jusion and To-morrow's Sunday World Want| despatches recetved here to-day | rave to attain: the |puor « GUYNEMAR HIT AFTER MANY FRANK MORAN HITS WILSON AND BAKER TROLLEY, HIS AUTO! FAVOR ARMY BILL S KNOCKED COLD, INHOUSE, SAYS HAY Fighter Gets Off Without a|Declares War Secretary's Let- Scratch, but Has a ter Does Not Mean Re- Narrow ape. pudiation of Measure. Frank Moran, the chatlenger of SENAT Jess Willard, indulged In the pastime | of running his aute car on the wrong aide of the atreat in ; ; the Bronx this afternoon and almost 800,000 Men—Two Meas- cheated himself out of $23,760. By « ures May Be Merged. near miracle ho eacaped injury, which would undoubtedly have incapacitated him from meeting Willard at Madison he drives. Few people ride in the car|clared tn the with him more than ones, for Moran drives a car the same way he fighte He endeavors to reach his destination | Driviag up Third Avenue this after- noon In the car tracks and held to the | pil opened, Repre: car tracks by piles of snow on each| asked Hay if, in th side of the street, he found his way] tary Baker's letter, the Hay meas blocked by a northbound trolley.|ure had White Houso approval Trailing a trolley car is no business “tT am authorized in Moran's judgment so he swung (o/ President, that the bill has his ap the left with the intention of passing | proval,” Hay answered It s his the car on the southbound track | bill, It embodies the Administra Too late he saw @ southbound | tion's Ideas, and goes a little further ley ear approaching, He puton speed! “The President thinks that as th and tried to sawing into the north act is drawn it makes the national bound track tn front of the north.!Guard an efficient for » thine bound car, with the result that his war mobiie was jammed between the “It 49 the President's bill nd 0 cars. |thoroughly approves it, The Sec Phere wns a loud orash, but the tary of War agrees with little red automobile proved staunel | President.” and wes not crushed Moran leaped! Hay said the Presid: fram the car, climbed over the snow |te abandon the Garrts banks to the sidewalk, ran up Tiird army plan, believing th: Avenue and disappeared, Hie told | federalizing the National ¢ people who asked questions that be) the situation hadn't received a scratch The street cars were backed up and | aimoat $0,000 men to-day was recom a man who was in the automobile ended to the with Moran went to @ garage at One| report on the modified Chamberlain a Hundred and Fifty-ninth Street and) This ia the largest force that Aitache of London Embassy Expects ~Masetield Sails to tow Moran's little red wagon (0 | legisiation his training quarters. Indications are the Senat by a After the accident Moran phoned | large vote, Will pags the Chamberialn | to hia training quarters that he would | bill; that the House will pass the Hay | be a little late in starting his reguiar| act, drafted on radically diffe: work. A big crowd was on hand at| lines, and that the confers f the the time and waited patiently for ihe | two Houses will settle tie flnal form wie of the army, 1 i fighter, ry Haker's views y wil RUSSIAN VANGUARD een tes Chamberlain's bil provides NEAR TREBIZOND | & vx Army Is Less Thar Twenty Mile i Away, Petrograd Hears—Briti e Repulse Purkish Attac PRETROGRAD, March 18.—Ruew » within less than tw LONDON, March — 18.—Turki#h| troops were repulsed in an attac a Britieh outpost at Imad, near Thuraday, it was officially announced to-day The Turks left se t ' Jead The British casualties Killed _and seventeen wout 10 SAVED FROM | SINKING BOAT: Q «De Pont Men PHILADELPHIA, Ma ¢) Ph | Powder Com t h 1 ath Witrn ¢ #96 $ 40 1 your steamer Mali r B07 shortly before 10 f i for the fitney hi ont y Mially th the Malm. re f I atin was with IN AIR FOR FRANC E. BILL IS READY. »bile pant street Tt Calls for War Strength of | WASHINGTON, March 18.—-Prest- dent Wilson approves the Hay army ise to-day, Tle also | declared Secretary of War Baker ap- | provea the bill, denying that Baker's letter to Representative Gardner con- When the House debate on Hay's ntative Moore w of Secre- » state, by the Se ROEAN F, SY NEMAR mor BA NEWS Om Sergeant Pilot G » French flying corps was reported t was willing n continental mm as one of the } An army with a war strength of had brought nate in a committer) Battle Soon renee that President Wilson and) Maane- | uring this coun sid he was mac EGRAPH LINES CUT ted Croas work-|of Duke Decazes, Trustworthy report Amertoane were near, ‘FRENCH DUKE'S BROTHER KILLED IN AIR BATTLE | Count Decazes Had Brought Down One Aeroplane When Hit by Shot From Another. Deco zs, nulitary aviator and brother has been killed in He had just mucoesded in bringing when his own was struck by an inflammable dart, fired by another German aeroplane. the German ALLA 1S 110 NILES AHEAD AS TWO AMERICAN FORCES JOIN AT CASAS GRANDES \26 Killed in One of Two Battles Waged by Carranzistas and Villa’s Menin Torreon and Durango Dis- tricts, Beyond U. S. Drive. FUNSTONSAYS PERSHING HAS FREE HAND IN CAMPAIGN. Mex., March 18.—Fighting has been in progress since early yesterday between Constitutionalists and Villistas at Canon Chor- , near Noe, in the Torreon district. The Villa commander is said’ to be Juan Madrid and Canuto Reyes is said to be with him. stated that twenty-six men had been killed and thirty-two captured in a battle between Constitutionalists and so- called “pacifists” somewhere in the region of Durango, Mex. The “pe-' i were said to be under the leadership of Gens, Banuelos and Miguel Hernandez. SAN ANTONIO, ‘Tex., Maroh 18—-American cavalrymen pursuing Fran: claco Villa wore camped at dawn today at Colonia Dublan, one of the environs of Casas Grandes. They arrived in the night. Through Colonia Dubian runs the road to the Geleana District, twenty-five miles southeast,’ where Villa was last definitely reported. The news of the encampment at Colonia Dublan dispelled fears of himjany disputes with Constitutionalist authorftles over what position the nowt dar- | American troops should occupy at Casas Grandes. | Mormon scouts dashed into Colonia Dublan Jast night with the news The column which wes firet into @is important American settlement, was sald to be the cavalry from Haohita, Col. George W. Dodd with the Seventh and Tenth Caveiry compose thd coimmn sent from Hachita, Whether the Amertean troops @hould enter Casas Grandes or not ts tor . Pershing to decide, Gen. Funston announced today. Unless other wise inatructed by the War Department, Gen. Funston is élaposed not te interfere with the details of Gen. Pershing’s operations. [An official statement was made at Washington today saying thet was not the intent of the American troops to occupy any Mextean cities! * EL PASO, Tex, March 18—Vilt. is in the neighborhood of Las Cruces, 110 miles south of Casas Grandes, ao- cording to information received te- day by Gen. Gabriel Gavieg, Carransa commander at Jueres, Gen. Gavira also declared that the crisis In the relations between the United Stat 1d Mexico is past and that there is no further need to fear trouble, Despetohes direct from Mextce and the announcement from Major Gen. Funston at San Antonio made it evident to-day that the two Ameri- can columng, one from Coltumbua, N, M., under Gen. Pershing, and the other from Hachita, N, M., under Col, Dodd, had come into close comnmunt- cation with each other and probably had formed an actual janctton when a litte more than half way on the route to Casas Grandes, Something of the strategy of tte dash on Villa's trail also was re- ENVER PASHA IS BACK AT POST, ATHENS CLAIMS: { Been Reported who has been re om a@ tour of tn- Turldsh troopa in the Kussians in Armenia, vealed. ‘The Hechita column made ts start from San Bernardino Raooh, which Is about the sine of « large county, where the State of New Mexico extends some forty miles south of the general east and weat line of the American border, By using this Amertoan territory for the first part of their advance from ta, the flying cavalry command 1. Georme Dodd was able to strike into Mexico at the shortest distanes from Casag Grandes, a lite le more than sixty miles of march, The mata column, under Gen, Pershing, at Columbus, N. M, start- | ing from a point considerably further nor h of Casas Grandes, did aot ga