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’ a eg Thaw Report , killed. ‘Two AL EDITION PRIOE ONE: CENT. ‘REEL GOVERNMEN T CALLS GREEK’ TROOPS; by The Press York World), illed Flying for France ————-4--- “18 “PAGES To-Day's Weather—FAIRy CONTINUED COOK, J PRIOR ONE OnNT. ‘ FIRST STEP FOR WAR ON SIDE OF ALLIES AGO NILLED BY pa eke Regerit Street Mostly Laid in Ruins, Declares Semi- ri Report, SHELL “aT A CRUISER. Sixty Sailofs Killed on the Warship and 400 Soldiers in Grimsby Barracks. BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, TL. L), Oct. 18.—The semi-officlal news agencf to-day issued the reports of “eye-witnesses” on the results of the latest “eppelth attacks on England. “Im the raid of Sept, 23 over one hundyed buildings were heavily dam- aged or partly destroytd,” the stat ment said, “With an estimated dumago! of more than $10,000,000. A British oruiser with four stacks, at anchor on the Humber, was hit and sixty men other warships were badly damaged, “Regent Street, London, wFy of commerce in the metropolis, * waa mostly laid in ruins. ern London suburb an ammunition factory was blown up. The Liverpool Street station and the bridge and tracks were so devastated that it will be impossible to use them for a long time, ‘Near the Thames seven benzol tanks were destroyed. The rice sheds of Denny Sons were destroyed. At the main In a south- Grimsby the barracks was hit and/ over 400 soldiers killed. At Hull quarters were completely only the walls remaining, At Leeds heavy damage was done munition factorieg and rafiroad stations, At Portsmouth the altohol factory of Pink & Son and the sheds of Elkers wid Fyfe were hit and twelve cars loaded with horse destroyed, one dock damaged and railroad cars exploded,” ome destroyed, The official British account of the Zeppelin attack on the night of Sept. 32, issued the following night, sail RO reports had been regeived of any military diimage. It wa® said a con- @iderable number of small dwelling houses and shops two factories, a railway station ang some empty rail- way trucks were Westroyed or dam- aged, and that’ thirty persons were killed and 110 wounded lence. More special polleemen are| lance corps in the Prench army, |ROFRANO LAUGHS AS HE CHATS) Edgar Rickard, an American, who Swath Ge the guard about} The part of the letter referring to WITH RELATIVES. | arrived in New. York yesterday on]. toupie zone has been strengts.| THAW is ws: “Two of the| Michael Rofrano, the accused man, the Ryndam, said to-day in referenco| 1° | : , mereneta- | American tors have gotten the} Made the opening of to-dny's session | to the Zeppelin attack of Sept, | Mire Sergeant Cram will figi uel wooden cr in the last week, We] 0f the trial a reception, His troubled} “L lived «within a few blocks of] 1.0 Douce order barring her out of {Mave Ju i that Bil Thaw, Yale| looking ttle mother and his hand- Regent Street until October 5 See cisucanae Ix-'15, was killed a few days ago,| Some, Weary-oyed wife brought ta) building on Regent Street was even ee en ney thing | 4 rap Duta Gane Jcourt with them a number of ac-| struck, There was no damage what-|) vot vd ori declared Are Cn bai) the date of Sept, 9, }@ualntances who are later to go on| ever in the metropolitan district ex-| 000" YOtr Mn x - Havarcel BURGIL Pa, Oct, 18,—In-| the Witness stand to testify to Ro- cept at Brifton.” {sy horities had es 1 dead | 1 f. Benjamin Thaw. [arenas wood character, Itofrang ad . ne, past which — she mid not | fither of Willam ‘Thaw nt the] | vanced to tho rail & them; | is on. “It is a most peculiar pro- | if informa-| Kossiped with them until Jus loeoding, 2 shall be much’ interested nel Mr, Thaw nor sny| Weeks took his place on the bench, WITH 15- MILE SPEED | in knowing on what grounds such ' f is family had been nott-| As has been the rule since the open- | tion ds taken," ! of T « and they were | ing dey of the trial, wien a swarthy Three Times as Fast as |crigein | Jthe witnesses of the Greatest Liners, | Chief of Police Michael Reilly, hows | At is published report last! tendance was iimited te 3 hav- ROME (via Paris), Oct, 18.—Italy |/€Ver 18 @ little dublous Apri Thaw w killed while| ing business there, But in the corri-| now possesses a type of warship whose Eltwabeth Gurley Fl ve Ve 1, but it hed out that] dors outst 6 court reom door were | speed is three times ax great as that |! °°" ed far HAaiing & apene e had rt wounded bringing | quiet, whispering group» Sicilians | of the greatest transatlantic liner, ac- {cided ahe had a right to make it, 7 | 18" * Pekker. 4 German aeroplane, | They were men for the most part, | cording to the Giornale Italia, don't know whether the courts would! He went to Parts to rec p and|though there were a few women | The sea trial of the first of these |sustiin us.” v a 1 popular he " was) among them, | ships to be completed was witnessed 4.200". A. Smyth | er the "Amerlean Eagle," As they gestured and shook eac by @ correspondent of the paper rtme {| Thaw. 4 hephew of Harry K. Thaw] ovhers arms, they whispered; at the Three others are building. All of the|in Bayonne at noon and n{ of! reh, took up Ayling tn this) approach of a stranger or a policeman | new vessels will use oll for fuel, . | investigation. intry before the war, A flight’ they fell silent, On east sjde of The English speaking workmen of h attracted attention took him the rotunda wera the friends of| The above would indicate a speed ‘He Standard Oil Company's plant a 1 New Haven to thts city, wheys imarl, staunch supporters of Foley, | of from sgyenty-two to seventy-fye ee te ee as fe ae) ireled the Statue of Li and On the ide of the building Hels miles an hour for the new type of men will march to the works in few und four Kast River a TEPPELINS, "seit ~LONDON'S LOSS$10,000, 000, NV ONE RAD, SAYS BERUN OIL STRIKERS COME. TD ASK HEARING BEFORE JOHN D.JR. Committee Ordered to Stay at Rockefeller Offices Until Audience Is Granted. that John D. feller ir. and other high offic Determined Rocke- als of the Standard Oi! Company shall tsten to thelr grievance / & committer from the the quarters 500 employees on strike at Bayonno plant went to the hi of the company, Broadway, to-day » commit tee has seven member » man from each nents, and Georg: onne newspaper man, leading the th are to stay « f the six depart Meleher, a Bay who has been v © Stan orders ard Oll of floers until the heads of the company give them an audience These orders we iven to the| committee by 2,000 strikers who met} in Mydosh Hall to-day and by a igreed to remain on | strike until all their ®emands have | been granted, As Superintendent] Hennessey, on behalf of the company, | told committee yesterday, the company would not krant an increase s, the principal point unanimous vote the in wag at issue, |the struggle promises to be of jong} | duration, | When the committee reported to| the strikers that Honnessey had an- | nounced the company would not even | arbitrate the q tion of an iner ! in wages, some ono moved that the! committee go over Hennessey's head and visit No, 26 Broadway. The mo tion was carried with a cheer. A mo-| ment later the meeting expressed its enthusiastic confidenee in Melcher, who wag barred frem yesterday's con ference by Hennessey. Meanwhile, Mayog Garvin and the other city officials are not being mis led by the quiet conditions that pre- vailed in Bayonne last night, They are going ahead with their prepara- tions for repelling a renewal of vio- body to-morrow morning, ORTED KILLED AT THE FRENCH FRONT | _ Montemagno, Confronted by Lawyer With Other Crimes, Denies Them Aff Stolidly | HALT CALLED IN TRIAL. | Sudden Illness of Juror Causes Postponement Until Sy WILLIAM To-Morrow, = THAW | A cag Rarrnsczye ransom Gaetano Montemagno, the youthful bootblack who ts under sentence to die for assassinating Michael Gal- mart in March, 1915, held steadfastly toMay to the story he told yesterday to Assistant District Attorney Broth- ers in the trial of former Deputy Street Cleaning Commissioner | Michael A. Rofrano for inspiring the murder, Montemagno resisted with a dogged) is atlence the efforts of Martin W. Lit- on to cause him to contradict his | airect charges that Rofrano not only | pald him ty ki}! Gatmart, but threat- jane he with instant death if he did fre the fatal shot when signalled to Me ascthas of Rofrano’s lieuten- | ants. The witn TRAGEDIE. AMERICAN AVIATORS ‘FLYING IN FRANCE? AMONG Wi reported m Thaw of Pittsburg, to-day as killed, Chapman of New York, 1916. kwell of Atlanta, Ga, Pa,, of Beverly , 1916, REPORT WNL THAW, AMERICAN AVIATOR, | KILLED IN ACTION Letter From Front to Former Yale Classmate Says Flier Got the “Wooden Cross,” # took full advantage of delays caused by the florid lan- uage used by the Interpreter in put- ting his briefly snapped answers into Enlish, Thus he kept cool and held| his temper when Mr, Littleton tried to anger him Into Incautious speech, In not a single gncident of his nar- rative about his first Introduction to Rofrango at the Home Rule Club, which was the centre of the revolt against former Sheriff Foley In the Second Assembly District, did Mon- the NEW HAVEN, © Oct. 18.—|temagno change his story; he didn't William ‘Thaw, a former Yale stu-|mlnd in the Jeast, apparently, ac- ent, who has been with the aviation |*"oWledsing that he accepted $200 from Rofrano to mect a debt tncur- ipa of, Se ae nee the | » affair and red In an underworld lo \tbreak of the has been killed | $300 more as expense money In bring- in action ording to word just re-|ing thugs from Brooklyn to terrorize ; the district on Primary Day—with clved here by 8. S. Walker, a mem. | pre |an Incidental promise “to stab some- hor of tho senior class at Yale body"—and went philandering with Mr, Thaw while in college played| the money instead of doing the things on his freshman and later on the|for which he was pald, varsity football squad In bis bootblack days Montemagno The let containing word of| could not have amtled away the bad- gering of an impatient patron more cheerfully than he took the sharp prodding of Rofrano’s lawyer. Thaw's death was written to Walker by Lyttleton BR, P, Gould, Yale 1918, now serying with the ‘rican am- bridges, jay [the rate of $34,000 a ROFRANO DEFENSE ATTACKS , SLAYERS STORY OF MURDER ~ BUTT STANDS UNSHAKEN HARRY S. HARKNESS DIVORCED, WIFE T0 GET$33,000 AYEAR Final Decree Against Young Millionaire Motor Racer and Aviator, An order granting a final decree of divorce to Mrs, Marte Marbeck Hark- ness from Harry 8. Harkness, son of the late L. V, Harkness, a Standard Olt millionaire, Justice J, has been signed by A@ison Youngs and was to-day filed in the office at White nesm Is and County Clerk's Plains, Young Hark- president of the Speedway a noted race driver and itor, The motor order was granted recommendation of Charles 8, Young, |the refefer, The papers wore sealed, |The decree carries with it allmony at year, payable upon the monthly Paul Street, V. Hoyler, of No, 27 was attorney for Mrs. Pine Hark- | MILLIONAIRE MOTOR RACER WHOSE WIFE HAS WON A DIVORCE | | HARRY HARKNESS. Omsneirona sree $20,000,000 THIEF TAKEN AS SOLDIER IN FRENCH ARMY Henri bachetis dre Arrested After Mysterious Absence of } + = ——_—___— LOVAL SOLDIERS GUARD KING IN THE ROYAL GREEK PALACE: ~ TROUBLE IN ATHENS GHOWS Government Ratablished by the Rebels | Seeks Recognition From the U.S. —Pro-German Leaders Arouse Demonstrations Against the Allies. ,RULER CALLS ON ARMY TO REMAIN LOYAL TO HIM ! ATHENS, Oct. 18.<:The provisional government established by . leader of the Greek rebels, to-day took its first step toward war on the side of the allies by issuing a proclamation calling for recruits of |the class of 1916 0n the Island of Crete, ‘i Threatened with attack by a great crowd of anti-ally demonstrators, the French marine ype which had occupied the Municipal Theatre, has aban {oned the building and encamped in the Zeappaleon Gardens, near ¢ Roy al Palace. he French marines on their way to the Garden’ marched throught the streets with bayonets fixed and trumpets blowing. ‘The front of the larger palace structure is occupied by Prince Andrew and Princess Alice. ® —————@ Midway on their march the Frend (NO ANSWER BY THE U.S. |octcre" trem 'the former Greek Beet | TO GREY'S U-BOAT CHARGE and who have now been formed inte infantry organizations When the Attention Called to Fact That a ’ Venize squads met the Greek sailors turned down another street, leaving the stadium street to the French. ness, Cornelius J, Sullivan, of No, Four Years. Spent : Visited . ars. enoh Cruiser Recently Visi 61 Broadway, represented Mr, Hark- See Ficesial Cre y PRO-GERMAN LEADERS URGW See eppiatOo tie eed P American Port, NEW DEMONSTRATION, f 3, Oct. —The disappear- Mr. and Mrs, Harkness were mar-| 1.6 of the notorious Henri Rochette,|_. WASHINGTON, Oct, —The Greek troops are atill yetodr Be } ried in November, 1906, but news of ; sy ri ‘| United States will not feel called eg streste and 0 Gresk hyo — 5 the wedding did not come out unti!|WNo Was sentenced to three years’) iy’ make public any statement Th suarding vied Revel perce ek i they had been two weeks on their|!mprosonment tn 1912 in connection! on the rald of the U-b8 or the sub- anon — a rey i honeymoon, At the the bride,|with vast bucketshop swindles, has! marine situation as a consequence of aul cet aca Ploeg ¢ | crowds, denouncing the allies for Miss Marle Moss Marbeck, gave her|/peen cleared up by his arrest at| the statement in Parliament by Via- seizing the Greek warships andat- | addres 7 ol Navarre, ‘1 2 co « Seere of j i addrens aa the Hotel Navarre, Thit-|Grunvitle to-day. Under the name|Count Grey, Hritish Secretary tempting to start new demonstra: | ty-elghth Street and Seventh Avenue, | |State for Foreign Affairs, that bia} 4 hostility toward the A oe of Georges Blenalmée, Rochette en-| 7, dies of- of hostility but inquiry there after the wedding ‘Govérnment would not make any of; allies’ sailors, ’ failed to identify her as one of the listed In Paris a motor cyclist! eial repre ns to this country! ooo te nit king Constantine hag | trons of the house. jin the frat month of the war and) till such neoment is made Bere) qeq gre denied by Greek officials he ceremony was performed at|way stationed at Amiens, | ‘This Government, it was sald, bide They say the King returned to Tate egtcehaes seemials shuren by the] ‘The Rochette cane was one of the) Nit frel ltvelt & eee ie ames un | Palace Monday night after reviewing e . James Burrell. There wer Jatatement to the allies abo ® Werelmost sensational in the history ot eatioar nt operations off the Ame 1- the Greek marines and attending @ only two witnesses and these pledged to secrecy. TWo Weeks aftor the wedding a de- spatch was received from Pasadena, Cal, saying Mr, Harkness and his bride had arrived there and gone to the ranch of Dr, Harry Mo the bride's brother-in-law, Pulctas, were cane at CHICAGO LEADS NEW YORK Halt a Million Women in Illinoi Entitled to Cast Ballots for President on Nov CHICAGO, Oct 18.——Ch » to day hag tore qualified voters than ny elty in the country, the total of men and women n the registration books being 808,728 or more th 000 in excess of New York's registr, tion Polit managers of all parties to- day sied Surprine at the big woman registration, It timated that 600,000 of that gex will be en titled to vote in inols for President Nov, 7 The tot men an@ women Ir 4 expected to be more than 1,900,000. > — Author of “Silver Threads Amoug the In Dead. BAY, Win, Oct. 18— Eben xford, Wisconain poet, au iver Threads Among the to-day of iyphold fever, > - THE WORLD TRAY Comber, | near] the French courts. Rochetto was ar- rested in 1908 charged with swindling Cabinet council! at which @ proeiae mation was drawn up calling upest the soldiers to remain loyal, Jean coast, than It would to report to ¢ the recent visit of a French on ap enormous acale, His operations |cruiser to an American port, Venixelist leaders to-day de Involved @ sum of more than $20,000,-|, AD investigation t# under way 10) obded to call upon the allies to Jeara vy at information the submarine formally recognize the new pre- 000 and at his subsequent trial it}, aptain may have secured when fn visional government set up at jwas stated that some of the most) Newport harbor. Viscount Grey's in-| atonica favoring Greece's inter |prominent men in French public life} timation that it might be made @ base! vention in the war. jhad been ¢ ther his ‘ jof claim axa th untry aroused | Negotiations have been begun liomplices. A Parlla tury inquiry], nent sin has been preased | informally with the United States : was made into charges that Antol France for inform: to permit recruiting of Greek Monts, former Premier, and Josep! ition gained by a U-boat at Cartagen, | armies in America in the event Caillaux, former Minister of Pin ‘he loss of French | that the United States recognizes were exerting their Influe t ps iat er the vessel the new governm: Reeruiting t ot it ‘prom t elena | agents will be sent to the United 0 © States, to Egypt, Cyprus and Pa- | bail, and succes THE CANDIDATES. | tris if the desired permission le ii peak ae ak Where the Kepresentatives of the St ene ASK UL 8 TO Pa ey ® 1 artios Are To-Day, g: predien, 18. ehan ha 9 alee a 5 ACT FOR THEM. . Chicacs Win But, Baked n the initiative of the central 6 French Government denn Pet icra eenereear empires Washington bas been asked his extradition, but Roel n ag ar eee Wega to permit the Amertcan Legation here j Warned in time and 1 4 \ eit i (sapere | to take charge of Austrian, Bulgarian |ticaal en t \ i will make three [and Turkish Interests in case of @ Ithat time u 5 Mrs W and Sec- decluration of war by Greece or oth linknawn, : ° wit complications, Permission has been ‘The Rochette case was revived Mt m HUGH given as regants Austria, {1 when Ga almette, ed t «a Nelive | Me k Government to-day gave a th t to death ' in ie out the following communications | wit rs ° 6 mn “The chief of the allied naval 1H 5. WHITMAN—Swinge | forces has advised the Govern. \ ‘ | ment that for reasons of security urges br t fe | entente allied troops have been 1 scandal of the f ner Min obliged to A measures: alleged with Ro-| iy for the contro! of all the police of } us | the State, for which detachments Ww connt | have been disembarked at Athens R A Cc I N G | and at Piraeus for control of the police and as 4 protective RESULTS ON PAGE 2 | measure,” ENTRIES ON SPORTING PAGE nd | ‘The trouble Dogan Monday aftape ntorests Boon, Great orewds hed gatheved | 4