The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1917, Page 1

— —— : f —— “Circulation Books Open to PRICE wecets crt ie tah Hudson County, N. Sloewhere, Co. (The Coporight, 191 1917, by The Press Publishing Now York World). NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, HALICZ CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS; _“Cirenlation Books Open to » All." 19 17. 16 PAGES { ONE CENT in Greater New York and (Madson County, N. J. TWO CENTS elsewherss PRICE AUSTRO-GERMAN LINES BROKEN KAISER PROMISES REFORMS IN EFFORTS TO PUT DOWN UNREST THROUGH EMPIRE PRESIDENT WILSON 10 DRAW FIRST ARMY DRAFT NUMBER; LOCAL BOARDS DELAY WORK Drawing May Be Considerabiy Postponed by Failure of } Exemption Committees. (ORDER MISUNDERSTOOD Physical Requirements for Conscripts Will Be Kept Unusually High. By Martin Green, WBepoial Staff Correspondent of The » Evening World. WASHINGTON, July 1L.—The Pro- Vout Marshal General's office of the Wnited States Army ts ready to draw to-day or to-morrow the numbers which will designate the order in which 9,600,000 registered male citt- zene of the United States are to be called for examination as to their fit- ness to serve in France under the Btars and Stripes, but the States are hanging back. From reports reach- ng Washington it appears that the fnstructions as to the organization of local boards and the procedure to be followed by such boards are being ignored or misunderstood in many instances. It 1s quite safe to say that the President will draw the first num ders from the contai; already filled and sealed, which heads the serial mumbers marking the registered citl- zens liable to duty in the army. Sec- retary of War Baker may draw the cond number, Members of the Cab- inet may then take out the numbers one by one. This hag been deter- mined, but the date—which had been set in the methodical manner of army executives for the latter end of this week—may be set back considerably, The army made the rules for the Selective draft and the President has Promulgated them. The trouble is that the trained army officer ts an @Mclency machine. In his environ- ment he anticipates and exacts obed!- @noe, The selective draft machinery fe now in the hands of civilians, many of whom do not understand the rules and regulations they have received. COGaL BOARDS ARE RESPONSI. BLE FOR THE DELAYS. B® the rules and regulations been strictly adhered to by the local boards, anti if everybody appointed On the local boards had accepted serv- ice, the comparatively simple opera- tion of numbering the registration @ards in serial figures and ‘would have been completed by time and the drawing could be to-day or to-morrow, Army officials, accustor Prompt returns from orde: @re still hopeful that the President may, on a date not later than July 15, determine the serial numbers call- Ing the first draft of many thousands of men for examination, the probabilities now indicate the drawing cannot be held be middle of next week. this held ed to There ts the difference hetween military efficiency in preparation and elvilian efficiency In execution, Dis patohes received here show that Jocal boards have not organized ar that many boards which have orm ized have not selected a headquar or taken any steps to gath tration cards in order to give their serial numbers, The matter of raising a gr the rerts them t arm ts now jn the hands of thousands of ’ tinued on Second Page.) had | red ink] & issued, | GERMAN U BOAT BASE IS FOUND IN BRAZIL Rio Papers Announce Important Dis- covery by Destroyer Matto Grosso. RIO JANBIRO, July 11—The newspapers announce that the de- stroyer Matto Groeso has discovered an enemy submarine base Pantos, near ENSIGN VINGENT ASTOR IS ON DUTY IN FRANCE Tidings Contained Cablegram Announcing Arrival of His Wife in Paris, PARIS, July 11.—Mra, Vincent As- tor, who arrived in Paris last Thurs- day with Miss Ethel M. B, Harriman to engago in war relief work, left her hotel immediately to visit her hus- band at a French port, ‘This cable from The World's Paris | correspondent gives the first news of the arrival of Ensign Vincent Astor| in France, Mr, Astor has been an| enthusiastic worker for the Govern- | ment since war with Germany began, He received a commission as en- sign In the New York Naval Militia some time ago, Since then he has done actual duty in guarding Brook- lyn bridges. He offered his yacht Noma to the Government, and the of- fer wus acepted, BOTTLED CABBAGE HANDY NEXT WINTER Women Put Up Good Parts of Seventy Carloads Saved at Piers. There will be plenty of bottled cab- bage next winter if the work begun yesterday at the city canning and de- hydrating kitchen, under the Will- Miss jamsburg Bridge, is kept up. Nellie Johnson and a corps of volun- teer workers got busy upon seventy | Jeartloada of the vegetables which haa |! |been saved at the food plers on the previous day by boy scouts, The discolored outer leaves of tho| cabbages were cut away and the| crisp white leaves within were | stearned, sterilized, boiled and sealed | glass jars. very volunteer worker who alded, | ther at a pler or at the canning | station, got a card, punched for every hour worked, These cards will be redeemable next winter in canned | | COCCHI ACCUSES DETECTIVES WHO SEARCHED CELLAR e Ruth Cruger’s Body Covered Only by Box Then, and Search Merely Pretense. Alfredo Cocchi’s sworn confession, which further convicts New York policedom of inefficiency and child- like credulity, and the statement that James W. Osborne probably will be the special prosecutor at the pro- posed extraordinary session of the Supreme Court, are to-day’s princt- pal developments in the Cruger cane. “The reputation I had with the police was 80 good,” reads Cocchi’s confession, @ 1,000-word document, just cabled from RBulogna by Joseph W. Grigg to Police Commissioner Arthur Woods, “that these detectives told me they made this tnapection merely t© be able to say that they had done it.” When the detectives were In the shop, according to Cocchi, only a ‘vox, hurriedly drawn over an excava- tion in which the girl's body lay, pre- vented thelr discovery of his crime, “They didn't notice anything, reads the' document. “I never saw tno girl until that morning,” Cocchi stated over his signature. “When she came into the shop the second time I tried to em- brace and kiss ber and she resisted and called loudly for the police. I tried to smother her cries, but she was strong and resisted. I, struck her and she fell. She got up and I struck her again. He asserted that after he had struck her the second time he pushed the girl through a trap door in the floor and jumped after her, “In the cellar,” he went on, “I grabbed a round piece of weod and struck her three times in the back of the head, She moaned and fell down, I took the girl's body, atill warm, and threw it into the cavity in the corner of the cellar. I pushed the bead in first and put @ box over it." There was still no earth over tho body, he sald, when the detectives made their cursory inspection. Coo- ch! asserted that after he arrived in Bologna he at once began an affair with another young girl. “I did it just asa Joke,” he told the police when they learned of his at- tentions to this girl through a letter. The confession went on to say that Cocchi planned the attack after Ruth Cruger’s first visit, It states that immediately the murder he visited various shipping agenoles in an effort to obtain passage abroad, He does not tell where he hid trom Feb, 15 to Feb. 24, which latter date is now believed to have been the one on which he ealled. According to information in the District Attorney the most recent possession of the the steamer was not the Giuseppe Verdi, as was once believed, but @ French or British v el, The Grand’ Jury ye rday exoner- foods. ated Police Licut, William Browne > of the perjury charge brought against | PRINCE OF UDINE SAFE. him in connection with his testimony at the Wallstein 1 y, Browne) Italian Mi to Amertea Reaches| was before the Grand Jury three French Port. |hours and made a distinctly favor WASHINGTON, July 11,—The first able impression. cipal wit- ynouncement that the Itallan War|ness to-day will Mra, Grace Mission had left the United States) Humiston, who will ¢ w the was made here by the Itallan Em- police hamp a r igation, | bassy On receipt of word that the pane | wity had arrived safely at a Krench THE WORLD TRAVE! BUREAD, | t after having left this countr ony | | secvetly June 80, : 7 | RE - South American ular Basse Sse tetatlag Ferent- Sean me, “| saddle and the Prussian Jun |nations” of Helffe Junkers Back Hollweg in C ypen| Boast of “War fer Conquest.” | COPENHAGEN, July 11.—All the influential Danish papers to-day openly discuss the possibility of a revolution in Gemany, Travellers reaching here from Berlin declare the situation is very grave, | The German General Staff has clamped down the censorship on all news and private messares Ivev itt | Germany, and only insignificant of | ficial messages, irying to gloss over the situation are permitted to pass to-day, If the National-Liberal party, merly stanchest advocate of the Go ernment, does not have its way, it threatens a coalition with the Cath olie Centrist and Socialist parties for the overthrow of Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. | The statemont of the Chancellor, backed as he was by Wilhelm, t r Lord, that Germany was openly in a war of conquest, In which shé would demand both tn demnities and has aroused the peace element in Ger many to a fury, To appease them it is now believed universal suffrage for Prussia will be granted immediately. | Hollweg and Wilhelm are appar ently determined to carry dn thelr bloody war of conquest, and to recon- ctle the German people to the losses they must sustain, they are pledging themselves to internal reforms, Dan ish papers doubt that these pledges will avert the possibility of a revolt inside the Empire, eon EE HOLLWEG AND JUNKERS = ARE FIRM IN DEMAND | FOR WAR OF CONQUEST fener LONDON, July 11, — Chancellor | von Bethmann-Holweg and his n torlous policy of “War for Conqu are receiving the complete backing of | Kaiser Wilhelm. Hollweg {4 in the for annexations, even sumpreme. A shake-up in th man Minstry will result throw of Hollweg’s en ing the dismissal of Fo: Alfred Zimmerman, who promised Mexico she could have sev eral Amertoan State; Dr, Carl Heit gn ah ster comica ferich, Secretary of the Interior and Vice Chancellor, and possible Ad miral von Capelle, Miniater t Marine and straw-man for the torious von Tirpitz in the pirat submarine policy. There come from Germany some rumors that Hindenburg may final be named to succend Ho! jthen the Junkers will be sndiied firmly on the necks of the G n people, It is reported In Amsterdam, # the correapondent of Ex Ke Telegraph Company, weg—ar ided upon by mann have been dec Kaiser, BAY PRUSSIAN MINISTERS ARE ASKED TO RESIGN (Continued on se 1 Page) —— Every one recommen “Russia Will Pull Through,” Asserts Root PETROGRAD, July 11. AHU ROOT, head of the American Commission, which has completed a month's survey of the Russian sit- wation, voited the conclusions of the commission as folows "The fmission has accom- pilot! what we came here to do, und we are greatly encouraged. We found no organic or in- curable malady in t Russian democracy, Democracies are always in trouble, and we have seon days just As dark in the progress of our own, “The colid, admirable traits in the Russian character will pull the nation through the present crisis. tural love of law and order and capacity of self-government have been y day since The co lack is demonstratec the most revolution, serious fn transportat and adequate We shall do what we help in both GOAL GARD SYSTEM FOR PARIS IN FALL Police Prefect Working to Obtain| Full Supply—City Is Buy- ing Food Stocks, PARIS, July 11—Coal cards will be issued in Paris in September, and the new Prefect of Police is mak« g the most’ strenuous efforts to have plenty of fuel available, The elty has purchased 800,000 tons! n England, That more may be al- owod to householders, it is proposed | 'o increase to 800,000 tons can to | the gas company. | An jncreased amount of wood also| ts available, the City of Paris having | ought 100,000 cords. Besides stocking up with fuel, aty 18 laying in food supplies, ag huge stocks of dry vege , ce and other staples for selling dur- | ag the winter SPY SUSPECT HELD; HAS FACTORY PLANS eral Offic the uy-4 us Be: That Plot st Munition Plants Were Averted by Arrest CHICAGO, July 11 Plots against sunition plants in the Calumet region ave been frustrated, al official wre believe, through the arrest at na Ha r of Karl Kaufman, eigh urs old, suspected t aG spy found at f re tail bound over vee a Grand durys 1917 UBERTY LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED $4,000,000 000 ° Government Could Have Sold Three Times Amount of Bonds Issued, Special Prom 4 Stat Correpondent of Tho Krening World.) WASHINGTON, July U.—An offi- cial dental that the next Liberty Loan | of $3,000,000,000 1s to be called in Sop- |tomber brought to light, in an unofft- olal way, that the total subscriptions to the first Liberty Loan were over five billion dollars and may approaeh six billion dollars, or thres timen the umount of the sum desired by the Government, Since the first statements showing that the foun hed bee oversubscribed nearly @ Ddilio\ dollars were pub« shed, Uttle epevific news bas beon given out by the Treasury Depart- ment. As a matter of fact the returns are not in, Probably 40 per cent. of the country has not rendered anything like eomplete figures on the first sub- scription. When the final figures are issued It will probably be whown that, in the last two weeks of the Liberty Loan campaign, the small subscriptions, anging from $10,000 down to $50 were sufficient in themselves to make up possibly half of the two billion dollare required, At any rate, the necessity for @ loan {» not tm minent and there will be enough sub scriptions on har standing from the first loan to insure the unquall fled success of the next cull Preparations to F Are Made While Secretary McAdoo formally denies a Wall Street report that the |nexr offer of the Liberty Loan would be made on Sept, 15, a representative of the Liferty Loan mittee is makimg arrangements to obtain quar- tors in the Equitable Bullding, No 20 Broadway, for a publicity bureau, He was acting on the order of Gov Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Before leaving for Denver, Monday, Mr, Strong requested Guy Emerson, Cor the former Liberty Loan Publitcity | Committee, to supervise details of the work of the new oflice —__—— Auto Sales Comp. of No, d= the| Vice President of the National Bank | Aut NAS SOMORRY, OF MGs, SEL8, Beas amount of reserve fuel allowed to|of Commerce, who was Secretary of|standrouth of Ne 6 LEMBERG, GALICIAN CAPITAL, ISEXPCCTED 10 FALL SOON: BRUSILOFF'S DRIVE SPREADS Rejuvenated Russian Armies Pour Through Wedgein Teuton Armies and Force Great Retreat—Cossacks Advance 20 Miles in Pursuit of Foe. THOUSANDS OF CAPTIVES AND MANY GUNS TAKEN LONDON, July 11.—The-Russlan armies that three weeks ago were arresting their own officers, fraternizing with thelr Austro-German enemies and deserting to their homes by the hundreds and thousands, have captured Halicz, the strategic key to Lemberg, capital of Galicia; driven a wedge twenty miles deep between the Austro-Hungarian and German armées in Galicia, captured 15,000 prisoners and fifty-five guns, and to- day are advancing with irresistible fury upon Lemberg. The news of the fall of Halicz comes in a despatch from Reuter’s | Petrograd correspondent. The disorganized and thoroughly beaten Austro-German armies, divided by a great gap through which Russian troops are pouring by the | thousands, are falling back with desperate speed from their present lines Wong the Zlota Lipa te the Gnila Lipa, and it is doubtful even if they will be able to make a determined stand there, TWO AUTOS WRECKED; | SIK HURT IN COLLISION Brooklyn Street Send Two to Hospital—Chauffeur Is Blamed, Two persons in the’ Mothodia and four more were result Hallca I sixty-three miles south- east of Lemberg, which ta Gen. Bru- slloff's present ebjective, It is a most important railway and bridgehead po- siUon, sixteen miles north of Stania- lau. Its capture by the Russians in the campaigns of 1914 and 1915 was followed by the speedy fall of Lem- berg. MOST REMARKABLE RECOVERY IN MILITARY ANNALS, Milltary men assert that history does not bear @ parallel to the re- markable recovery of the Russian arms from {ts recent revolution of disorder and lack of discipline to a horoughly equipped, thoroughly dis- was driven by George |ciplined organization the Teutons can- Crash on are Episcopal Hospital, injured as @ collision early of an automobile to-day at Thirty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn. One car, belonging to the Maxwell Avenue, LACK OF CAMPS DELAYS MOBILIZATION OF GUARD. New York and P Pane nsylvania Troops Likely to Be Held in Hor Armor The N nal Guard of New York and Pennaylvania cannot be mobilized on July 16, as originally ordered, for the reagon that not one camp exisis adequate for the mobilization of a a vision or even a by de of troops. his fact is annou ol, Fiiley, head of the reau at Governor's Island. that the guard would pr He said bubly be lied into the F ral eer and held in readiness at its various home stations New York and Pennuylvanta are States wht ‘ e lers an entire a n of guardsmen The divisional cantonm now er construc w eady J been exy ‘ « 1 Entertain A ope 20k, Musi nar, UAncoln Place,|not halt. They point out that before and carried five passengers, The other,|the Russians fought merely as eerte owned by Mra, Rone Levy, was being| of « Caar—now they Seht with won- driven t ri , 0 riven to ite garako by Albert Levy, | erful clan as citizens of Free Rubeta ident of the American Stamp Man- 1 ” A which they will save for themselves facturing Co ot No, 85 John altel Manhatten | from thelr enemies. Both cars wete wrecked. Frank Love,| Thé offensive is spreading, too, for Sanve ae 08 Marcy Avenue, waa|the other rejuvenated Slav armies, removed to the hospital with a@ frac- | thrilled nost to the point of mad- ed hip, and Thomas Ownens, twen-| ness by Jeeds of Gen. Korniloff's ty-one, of No. 687 Redford Avenue, ac-|men, are demanding permiagion to fompantod fim with sovere aosip! strike, ffenaive ts spreading into anararions. or Injuries were re-| Northern Gal Volhynia and even ceived by y, Standrouth, James|s, the Riga front 4 ‘th Burke, elghtecn, of No. 63 Lynch Steret, | the Rika front. Intense artillery and James Holden, eighteen, of No, 698 | SCt!vity south of Braesany 18 fe Bedford Avenue, ported by both sides, while Berlin p Policeman Seidler of the Fourth Ave-| states that fighting has increased nue Station, who saw the accident,| near Riga, Dvinsk and Smorgen, on handed Standrouth @ summons oharg-|the northern front Ing him with reckless driving. Along a front of twenty miles Gen, : in Kornitloff, acting under orders of Gen. Under Investigation aw A. A. Brusitoft, the Commander-in- Chiet, has broke n the hb ieachan ‘aval t, has broken « gap in the line of , Austro-German armies between Kation into the Na "arpa Al Retan are lez and Carpathian Moun- Baty ag toman ba t and his loyal Cossacks are 4 Jury Unite nited here to-d through and cuttin’ up the 1 hout merey, hav- ing already pet 4 twenty miles thy Hindenburg’s nes wari euer of Hoan | THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS ARE Port Huron, M Svorwtary TAKEN BY RUSSIANS, ot In his offensive from July 2 to July A Wnt ¥ ROME, SoM rg DRINK, 8 Gen, k niloff took 14,000 prisoners ay « oene* and 55 guns, of which 12 were her In addition he took more thi 1 prisoners Monday, and also n fleld guns, many trench mortars and a quari\ty of war material, Gen, Kopfilof’s cavalry aad Coax utons w throughe ne aft at Disirisn ‘Wesowagon line tm ts city any An woul @ Pl,