The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1917, Page 3

L) | Berlin War Office Reports , Another Big Success Along * the Roumanian Front. RUSSIAN Four Attempts to Recapture an sland Near Dvinsk Are Frustrated. S ARE REPULSED ? * BERLIN, Jan. & (by wire! to Bayville). —The Russian bridgehead f position before Brain was pierced ) Westerday by Teutonto troops, the War Office annouhces. thlan towns were captured and 1,400 + Prisoners were brought tn. Regarding the Roumantan line the Army headquarters statement reads: “Front of Archduke Joseph—On the Golden Bystritza the artillery fire was Pively, Advances by Russian com- and raiding detachments be- Czokanestt dhd Dorna Watra Palled with heavy hostile losses. “Attacks delivered yesterday by German and Austro-Hungarian troops fighting under General of Infantry ‘von Gerok’s command tn the moun- tains situated between the Transy ‘vania eastern frontier and the low- Wands of the Sereth secured us a wonsiderable gain of ground. Several ‘hundred prisoners were brought in ‘from the captured positions, “Army group of Field Marshal von Mackensen: In the main body of the tmountains northwest of Odo Besti « ‘Wurttemburg mountain battalion, to- f gether with Hanoverian, Mecklen- burgian and Bavarian rifles, stormed several intrenched height positions. “In the Rimnik Sarat sector West ®ruesian Infantry Regiment of the German Order, No. 152, took Slobozia and Rotesti by storm and in hand-to- hand fighting. “South of the Buzeu the Russian bridgehead position of Braila was pierced by a German division, with tts @uxillary Austro-Hungarian battal- fons. Gurguet! and Romanul were captured in a severe struggle from house to house. Prisoners to the number of 1,400 and six maohine guns remained in the hands of the victors. “On the right bank of the Danube ‘the German and Bulgarian forces are advancing toward Bratla and Galata.” Concerning the operations on the Russian front the statement says:: “Front of Prince Leopold—Between the coast and Friedrichstadt there was @ temporarily strong arfillery duel. In the early hours this morning Russian battalions attacked portions of our positions. The fighting ts still tn progress, The Russians, in addi- tion, attacked unsuccessfully four times an island taken from the north- went of Dvinsk, using many men and much ammunition.” BATTLE AT VERDUN. PARIS, Jan. 5.—-There was active Artillery fighting last night on the Ver- Bun front, in the vicinity of Douaumont nd Vaux, the War Office announces, flsewhore the night passed quietly. ‘An official report from the Macedon: fin front issued here says engagemen ocourred on Wednesday among a- Yanced posts tn the sector held by the “Twenty aviators last night carried out various bombing expeditions, The (German aviation grounds at Matigny, Harcourt, Flete and Bernes, the rail- ‘way stations at Poullly, Athies and rt and the barracks at Roye avere bombarded with numerous projectiles.” tible material in the form of ashes, so the food and drink taken day after certain amount of indigestible terial, which if not completely elimi- Four Rouma.- | + TA00 MEN, TAKEN | U.S. EMBASSY AT BY MAGKENSEN), VIENNA (S ILL DRINK HOT WATER AND RID JOINTS OF RHEUMATIC RUST Why theumatism and lumbago sufferers should drink phos- phated hot water each morning before breakfast Just as coal, when it burns, leaves | stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels behind a certain amount of incombus- | the previous da day leaves in the alimentary canal al for ma- | stomach. nated each day, becomes food for the | phate costes very millions of bacteria which infest the | store, but is sufficient to muke any howels. From this mass of left-over | rheumatic or lumbago suf ran en waste material, toxins and ptomaine- | thusfist on the morning insi path, like poisons, called uric ac are) Millions of pecple keep their joints formed and then sucked into the blood | f from these rheumatic acids by where they continue to circulate, col- | practicing this daily internal sanita Tecting grain by grain in the joints of | tion, A’ glass of hot water with a ¥, much like rust collects on teaspoonful of limestone phosphate, the hinge as shown above drunk before breakfast, is wonder. fully invigorating; besides, it is. an lent health measure beeause it cleanses the alimentary organs of all phosphated hot water, not as a means the waste, gases and sour fermenta- to magic relief from pain, but to pre- | tions, making one look and feel clean, vent more uric acid forming in the sweet and fresh all day, ystem. Before cating breakfast each Those who try this for one week morning, drink a glass of real hot) may find themselves free from sick water with a teaspoonful of limestone hee phosphate in it. ‘This will first neu- tacks, sallowne Tratize and then wash out of the | stomach acidity | Norw |sweetening and freshening the entire Several Members Compelled to | Leave for America, Leaving | Penfield Only One Assistant. VIENNA, Jan. 5 (via London).—A® & result of {liness the entire staff of the American Embassy hae been dis- organized, U, Grant Smith of Penn- | sylvania, the counsellor of the Em- | baasy, left Vienna last night for the United States to recuperate from a nervous breakdown which kept him in @ looal sanitorium for si ‘al wooks. | Frederic R. Dolbeare of New York, the second Secretary of the Embassy, ' left the Austrian capital a few days ago bound for America in order to recover from an operation for appen- dicitls which wags followed by @ se. vere attack of diphtheria. Allen W. Dulles of New York, the third secretary, who is a nephew of Secretary of State Lansing, ie now | convalescing at the home of Frederic Cc. Penfield, the American Ambas- | sador, from @ severe atjack of rheu- matic fever Sheldon HR. Crosby of New York, the first secretary, was operated on for appendicitis Wednesday, but he is now doing well. | The fact that the Ambassador's pri- vate secretary, Cardei will be obliged to leave for the ited States within a few daye will further ro- duce the staff, leaving the second seoretary, Rutherford Bingham of Washington as the sole eupport of the, Ambassador, Mr. and Mra. Penfield have practi-/| cally converted their palatial home) into a hospital, having made it a) rule to take care of the sick members of the Embassy as soon as they are| able to leave the sanitorium. ao GERMANS PIERCE A BRITISH TRENCH Berlin War Office Reports a Suc- cessful Rald at the Edge of Loos. BERLIN, Jan, 6 (by wireless to Sayville).—The following report was fesued to-day by the War Office: “The unfavorable weather caused the artillery activity to be of a iMm- ited nature on the western front. In several sectors of the front small pa- trol enterprises were successful. “A detachment of Altenburg infan- try, Regiment No, 163, belonging to the army group of Crown Prince Rupprecht, advanoed this morning into the fourth hostile trench on the easterly edge of Loos and infilcted sanguinary losses upon the British while clearing out and blowing up several galleries, and returned with fifty-one prisoners,” GREEK STEAMER SUNK. Twenty-Five Members of Crew Ne- ported as Rescued. LONDON, Jan. '6.—Lioyds Shipping Agency to-day announced that the Greek steamship Tsiropinas had been torpedoed and sunk. wenty-five men of the crew landed. Tho vessel measured 3,018 gross © Norwegian, steamship Helgoy in teh bell to have unk. PARIS, Jan, 5.—A Havas Ges; from Brést reports the sinking of the steamship Odda, 1,101 tons a submarine, Her crew was were tons = xross, saved. A telogram from Cartagena, Spain, save the sinking of the steamship Lean: dro, which was announced yesterday, has caused a sensation in Spain, Pro- sumably the vessel was aunk by a sub. marine. Her crew was composed of residents of Cartagena, all of whom ere eaved. toxins and poisons, thus cleansing, alimentary canal putting each more he the morning food into A quarter pound of limestone phos- little at the drag aches, constipation, bilious at- nasty breath and '# accumulation of |‘ THE EVENING WORLD, FRI FOUR MORE TOWNS, ENTIRE STAFF QF fodern Soldier No Roman tic Hero; He Goes to Trenches as to a Factory, Says Gibson, ‘“‘Poet of the People’’ Writer of Most Remark- able Poems Inspired by the War Takes Pessi- mistic View of Condi- tions Sure to Follow the Conflict, Which Is Pro- ducing Reactionaries, Not Progressive Revolu- tionaries. And It’s Going to Last a Long Time Yet, Says the Powerful Poet of the Man in the Trenches, Whose Verses Are Not Pretty, but Deal With Mud, Blood and Mad- ness. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, the youthful Engllehman who has written the most remarkable poems inspired by the war, has just come to New! York, Bince the death) of his friend, Ru- pert Brooke, the most beautiful and imperishable 4 figure in modern ¥ { REA iterature, Mr. Gibson steps easily into the position of leader of the younger choir of Eng- Heh poets. And in the latest of his several volumes, “Battle and Other Poems,” from which he is to read to American audionces, he has done something distinctively new in verse. He bas shown the realistic instead of the romantic soldier; the man who In the trenches bets on football and wonders what has happened to the sick cow or the unstoppered beer bar- rel he left at home; the man to whom wer trails no clouds of glory, but who nevertheless ajicks it out—‘‘car- Ties 01 ‘until he dies or goes insane. There is mud and blood and madness wv? feels that the only resolution of all im Mr. Gibson's poems. They are not} .. pretty, and after reading them one | Trem: the discords ts in what he has called | Ri WILFRID WILSON GIBSON for freedom and happiness are only quiet and not But so manyof them are d of the labor union ge: So many of the young m the natural revolutionaries, have been killed.’ And then, inevitably, we spoke of that beau sabreur of freedom, art, love—Robert Brooke, who died at the Dardanelles, “the most autiful per- son I have ever seen,” Mr. Gibson said simm®y. He has written of Brooke in a better poem than any realistic verse of fights or factories, you being far away hills and. bewattitn Dayple, ms desk, (oo tire WAR THAT MAKES NO HEROES MAKING NO BRUTES, EITHER. And when Mr. Gibson gave me his fret interview yesterday afternoon I discovered that he apes not share in} the fine militarist dreams of a race purified and regenerated by war, “You do not see the fighting man a &@ romantio hero?" I asked him, War doesn't make dashing heroes of most men,” he said quietly, diffidently. “It doesn't make brutes of them either. Men go to the front fatalistioally, as they go to their work in shop or factory. They talk to each other, in the trenches, about the little details of home life, to which they long to return, They are not su- perlatively afraid or superiatively brave or superlatively crue! They are just everyday human beings, as they were before the they will be after it ie over. “They buttress themselves against the cold, the dirt, the nerve-torturing noises, the wounds, the general dis- comfort and suffering, the ultimate dangers — with homely trivialities ‘That ts Nature's way of helping them to stand the business of killing and being killed. If they could not bold before them a shield of petty thoughts and Interests they Would go mad. Of course @ large number do “No, war 1s not romantic to me," he ended, his long face settling into lines of weariness. Poets so pride themselves, nowadays, on being bus- ness men that it is rather refresh- ing to moet @ writer of verse who) doesn’t look like a Wall Street | broker. Mr, Gibson has his iight| brown hair cut according to poetic | se, and his blue eyes are un amedly dreaming | “There are many herote indiviluals at the front," he added the next mo- | ment, “although this {8 a war of} guns and hines, rather than of charging And compasslonate ness, ful sacrifice, have | brought out by the struggl: as by a mine n, an earthquake, | great disaster, But I » about average men, and there} lamour about their part in war, nd what is it golng to mean to| them after it is over?” I asked the man who has been calle Mf the people” because he has sought out and chosen for his verse the in timate tragedies of mine-werkers, | hinists, tenders of coke ovens. “Will they be better off ox worse?” THINKS WAR A SETBACK TO DEMOCRACY. “For @ time I am afratd it will be answered, country at war thore awing toward the re- 1 should think they must give women the suffrage in England; they have done so much, put themaelves by their work’ 0 completely on a level with men, But demooracy has Ditteush Tat cengat an fovewon onthe stale b ” t "a cwigit ‘no footeten on the stele, ‘The Quiet. Like mudden Apal at ny open door th could oot nna s ‘of “Thaugh now beyond earth's farthest hills you fere, esac, carkmeee tn, th x Bongerowned, Sumortal. ometines it eerie to me ade ae 4 a e. i. hat if 1, listen very quietly, , | Anitte hou ctonding with sour sped ais al yttahi te, 140, paumt at nothing, ‘om’ tie wiande of cverniiy. wad thew axmgow wat i'wus ising | "The dost of this generation has ‘Among “the other deed.” gone,” mourned Mr, Gibson, “the men | young granddaughter, ‘It's 1 | fortable | are riding In your own carria who could speak and work for the suffering and yolceless, Perhaps | take to sertously the condition of the world’s laborers, They have « certain light-heartedness—IL try to catch as much of {it as I can, But the teagedy of their grinding poverty is alWays hanging over them. They ve ali the natural, inescapable s rows—death, 1!Ines: aration, gratitude, betrayal — but each sharpened and made heavier want.” “As a wise Frenchwoman told he: jor in- | by} to ery, my dear, wh when you are walking in the street,’" T sugested, “Exactly that,” assented Mr, Gib- son. IMPORTANCE TO THE WORLD OF HUMBLE MEN AND WOMEN. “And yet to me the humb! men and women in the world le st y in them that » than | can find ~then we drama, Bu ‘ent, so lacking in rebellion, so enduring. ' ‘Their patience is the most hopeless thing about them; it makes them dificult to help.” | | | | “How would you help them?" 1) asked “1 don't know," he eald frankly. "I'm not & propagandist; L can only tures. What I hc jo may gain unde from the plictures, But the w hardening us, coarsening us there are many soldiers who ari of it, Who never want another, ton is filled with men whose one 11 is to get well enoug so that they may & some more, I ev years after the war seem romantic, But a long time oD luded soberly, ——_—_- KAISER IN CONFERENC WITH HIS WAR CHIEFS | enburg, Archduke Frederick and Other Field Marshals Attend, Jan. H VIENNA, 5 (via Amsterdam! and London),—An important confer ence was held at the fleld camp of the yorman Emperor on J 4. Field Marshal Archduke Frederick of Aus- tria, Commander in Ch of the ar. mies of the Dual Monarcvy, and Field Marshal Conrad Hootzendorff, | Chief of the Austrian General Staff, | made a special and hasty lait to the| dquarters and took lunc | hea heon with | Emperor Willlam. | Others present at the conference | were Crown Prince Boris of Bulgaria, | Field Marshal von Hindenburg, Chiet | of the German Imperial General Stat, | and Quartermaster General yon Lu dendorft | received a severe setback. | hope | want to ~Advt. believe that the people who etand The German Emperor bestowed the oak leaves of the Pour ln Merite on Archduke Frederick, | says, BIGGER U-BOAT RAIDS SUGGESTED IN BERLIN Naval Expert Says Allied Com- mercial Shipping Will Suffer Greatly, LONDON, Jan. 6.—Confidence in the effect of Germany’s submarine campalgn Is expressed by Capt. Per- sius, the German naval critic, in Mis review of the naval war in the Ber- lin Tageblatt, according to a Reuter despatch from the Amsterdam. Capt. Perstus says: “We firmiy beleve that the com- mercial shipping of our enemies will JANUARY 5, 1917. IIS CHILDREN KILLED AS TORNADO BOWLS OVER SCHOOL HOUSE 'Many Others Hurt and Much Damage Done by Storm in the West. MUSKOGPE, Okla., Jan. 6.—A total of fifteen dead and the injury of a number who are expected to die was the report to-day from the district which was swept by @ tornado yea- terday. All the dead were school- children ranging In age from stx to clehteen years The loss in life and the bulk of the property damage occurred In the v ley town of Vireton, thirteen | miles northwest of McAlester, ‘The schoolhouse was carried off Ite foun- | dation, and screaming ehtldren and | timbers were hurled through the alr) by the fury of the wind. Of the twenty-nine persons within the building, only two escaped injury. our are be 4 to he wo badly tn- jured that they cannot recover. The teacher, Miss Vera Carter, at first be- lieved to have been killed, suffered a | Okla, double fracture of the jaw, besides) other painful Injurtes, She is ex- | pected to recover. The Choctaw Indian misston at} Vireton was destroyed, and virtually Jail the residences suffered from the | storm. Quinton, Okla, twenty miles north. east of Vireton, also @uffered from the tornado, Seven persons were injured ind five houses were destroyed by Its activittes there, What ts belleved to be the same | tornado caused damage estimated at! $50,000 at Success, forty miles north | of Little Rock, Ark, and caused se- vere loss of property at both Dar- | danelle and Danville, Ark, | ——_ > PROBATION OFFICER'S PLEAS SAVE HIM FROM SING SING Mintz, Who Stole $20,000 from Employer, Got $8 a Week for Handling Thousands. “He was paid by a wealthy than $4 a week for handling thousands, Money was abundant; his salary was so meagre, the temptation was so stron ho deserves some clemency'—the arguments presented by Proba- tion Officer Irving W. Halpern before Judge Nott in General Sessions Court to-day saved Herman Mints, twenty- bocome stilt less active in 1917, This} fay waved : ‘ : Nil: be Keeori olla js hve, from the maximum sentence o: will be accomplished by our dally) five years in Sing Sing for robbing growing submarine weapon, Our! pis employer of $20,000. confidence for the now year is based on the expectation that our subma- rines will continue with growing suc cess the process of wearing away the economic fe of our enemies.” ———————- FRENCH SOLDIERS WANT | PEACE, BERLIN CLAIMS Prisoners Reported to Have Said German Offer Has Divided Enemy’s Army. BERLIN (via Jan. ‘Tuckerton wireless), 5.—Germany's peace proffer has resulted in the formation of two par- | tles among French soldiers, the Prass Bureau declared to-day, one small party constituting those in favor of prolonging the war, and the larger, mbracing those who hope for a con- ce and peace. This latter group,” the statement “is sharply protesting agatnet the war attitude of the press. Bri- and's unpopularity with the troops is till further increased by his hostile tuitude toward peace. There was sven a rumor about Briand's assas- spread, resulting tn many expre « the hope that such @ re. port would become a fact era of the Thirty-third Infan- ured?)—sald that Deputy lament, was thelr man, and that it would begbest tf Brisson goon replaced Briand.” Be Carson Asks Mandamus for Seat tm TRENTON J, Jan, 6.—On behalt | f Robert Carson, Republican, the preme Court was asked yesterday for mandamus to compel the State Board of Canyassers to give him a@ certiticate of election from the ‘Third Congres: District, despite the fact that the re. Kopresentative count Seully plurality o A Cen The Standard Rye » voted for peace in Par. | | was re-elected by « H Mintz had confessed his guilt to his employer, Robert Olyphant, a philan- thropist, and to the court. Judge Nott sentenced him to the Elmira Reformatory, from which be may be released, on good behavior, within a yean or fourteen months. Probation Officer found Mintz had een in Olyphant'’s about y to $8 a week, which 1 at the time ihe conf checks of his employer CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES MUST LIVE IN THE STATE Hits wetting: forging Appellate Division’s Ruling Many Who Reside in Jersey and Connecticut. Tn a decision to-day the Appellate Division in Brooklyn ruled that civil service employes of the City of ew York must be a citizen and must restde in th Many employes living In Jersey and @ few in Con cticut will have to move into this tate to hold their jobs ne decision was in the case of Rob rt Hillyer, who applied before Jus a tee Kelly to issue an injunction re | straining Comptroller Prendergast ath Health Commissioner Emerson from continuing to employ Bugene 8. Pren | kel as a supervisor of nurse Hillyer urged that the const tution and & city ordinance restrict civil service employment to. resident | of the State who were eltizens Justie: ily granted the injunction, but the city officials appealed > Ansonta Ansonia of the h was four days overd lassed as miswing, do gf. She left London De Turner on surprised that the the safety of had no » he had a very r uted to MpeRK Of the 1 Phe Andania 1 kes The ‘ | whi ni wan fear fo: vaid that he Hem tury Favorite of America {mont in Washington of @ university |making of by Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Colum. bia, Berkeley, Chicago and other unt- | versitios Hosten 8 DEATH OF POLICEMAN GALLS FOR INVESTIGATION |x-~’s~ McKlernan Dies of Arsenical Pol soning Following Treatment for Disease of Man Who Bit Him. 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