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(l,UMN(i >'i:w lOKIw STOCKS PAGE 16. k.H?t Week's ^wora Set Circulation? Ually Average* 73.0681 Sulaj, 5CS7. No. 19.SS-J. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1915-TWENTY PAGES. ONE CENT. Newspaper Man and Writer on Sociological Problems Succeeds Maj. Sylvester. TAKES UP DUTIES APRIL 1; YOUNGEST IN THAT PLACE Commissioners, in Announcing- Ap pointment. Exonerate Present Head of Park's Charges. IvavmiHitl \\ . l'ullinan. Wash ington ne\v?|M)Hrman and writer on sociological jirohlcnis. was ap 7?'inte'l l>\ tlu t ominis^inners te <l.iv to l?c inaji>r ami .superintend ent of police of the I listrict of Columbia, succeeding Maj. Rich ard Sylvester, who yesterday ap plied for retirement. 1 lis appoint ment becomes effective April I. Acceptance of Maj. Sylvester's request that he be relieved from further active service on account of ill health and appointment as his successor of Mr. Pullman, who is hut thirty-two years old and the youngest official ever se lected to head the District's police de partment. were agreed to by the Com missioners it t a hoard session this morning:. With announcement of their action the (v?mmissioners gave out a state ment in which th'-y practically exoner ate Maj. Sylvester on charges of offi cial misconduct preferred against him by Representative Park of Georgia. This statement is as follows: Not Strong Enough for Trial. "The preliminary examination made of the charges filed against Maj. Syl vester by Representative Park, which were withdrawn yesterday by their au thor, while indicating minor derelic tions that might have resulted in some disciplinary measures, did not, so far as the examination extended, present a sufficiently strong case to require the Commissioners to proceed with a trial. The charges having been with drawn, Maj. Sylvester is retired upon liis own request. ''The board of commissioners takes this occasion to express the thanks of the community to Maj. Sylvester for his long and able service to the Dis trict of Columbia." Appointment of Mr. Pullman, who is an j intimate friend ?>f both Commissioners INfwman and Brownlow. was made on kmotion of Mr. Krownlow, who lias ? upervision of police matters. Qualifications Considered. * In selecting Mr. Pullman to be major and superintendent of police I he Commissioners were actuated by a knowledge of his exceptional qualifica tions for the place," said Commissioner Brownlow this afternoon. "Mr. Pull man has lived in Washington practi cally all his life.* was educated in the Eastern and the Business High Schools, was four years in the Washington High School Cadets, serving as captain, and since leaving sehool has had a varied experience in journalism and in the forest service. "For many years he has taken an strive interest in the police adminis tration in Washington, and. aside from th<ti. has made an exhaustive study of police matters in many other American cities. He has been a deep student of all the varied and ?"omplex problems that are so intimately connected with the police. "A man of the highest character, of demonstrated executive abilitv and broad social vision. I fee! that the peo pl" of Washington are t.? be congratu lated upon securing the services of su? h a man for this position." Lived Here Nearly All of Life. Although a Virginian by birth, the new hear) of the police department has lived in W ashington since he was two years old, when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Pullman, moved t<. the cap ital from their farm m Fairfax county. In ISO:;, his graduating year at Busi ness High School, Mr. Pullman was rapt.'tin ..f Company K in the High S< bor i ? t Regiment, editor of the school paper and publisher of the first issue of the sehool annual. The Orange -??J Klue. During his high school also took an active interest in ? ? promotion of athletics. In the *?? ? following his graduation he was appointed firj-t graduate manager of the annual fieTd and track meet of all tl-' high schools by the general board of faculty athletic advisers. Imme diately after graduation he also was appointed a teacher in the public night schools, arid during two years' service at the Creenleaf and Jefferson schools he took an active interest in settle rnent work in the Barney Neighborhood House. Mr. Pullman began his business ca reer m the fall of 1S04. when he en tered the advertising and business of fle* of a local printing establishment, but resigned six months later, when hf was offered a position 011 h local newspaper. Sociological Student. From that time he has continued ac 1:v?: 1 y in local newspaper work. For i?evera! years he was in charge of pub-! iicity and chief of the office of infor mat ion of the Fnited States forest! ser- . ? . under Oifford Pinchot. He was! also in charge of publicity for the' White Houst conference on the care ofj ? impendent children a few months be-1 fori the close of the last Roosevelt ad-1 i?.. istration. Mr Pullman early became interested! sociological problems, and has spe-j ? . ../? <i in writing on the scientific re ? ? r- he.- carried on .by the United .Sui u .- government. Nt th? po*w.nt time he i.s the author ?' syndicate letter bearing on the v. o k ot all the departments, which is punished it. .1 number of large papers ; d:Mcr?-:it parts of the ?*ountrv. He ? s the Washington repr^sentative of the Detroit Times and of the Sur ? * . a social service magazine- ?>f \vw York H? is single and resides with his parents at ..5 Ivy street southeast If! politics he is classed as an inde pendent. Tli- ''omnnnslorierH- action in t,nm? ?iiat?ly naming a Burrfn*or to Maj Sylvester ?ifil h surprise in the I>i?trict building. There wan not candidate for 'he vacancy, wilh the . xeeption of :in application rll.-.I tin-' aso by f r|#*ii(jn 0f ,iKn , )ttf, l-afcc, ; >kiiiK l hat hit- name I,,- KIV,.? connideration in tin; ??vent a v:,r> ? should occur. Hfgnib Duties April 1. . The new .-titer of police will begj,, |,js duties April J. the date on which the retirement of Maj. Sylvester goes into (Continued on Second Pagej j Clark Wants Leading Mem bers of House to Sit on Joint Committee. SENATE MEMBERS HOLD PRELIMINARY MEETING Senator Saulsbury Says First Sitting Probably Will Be Fixed for i September. 1 I can i set any one to serve on the committee.'' said Speaker Clark today, when asked whether he hail made ap pointments for the House member ship of the joint committee which is to investigate the relations between ?he I nited Slates and the District of Columbia. Tl Is likely that another day will pass without an annouYicement as to the congressmen who will represent the House on the tribunal which is direct ed lo report to Congress not later than 1 January 1. 1916, |ts findings and rec- ' ommendations in the matter of the fiscal relations between the National Capital and the federal Treasury. It is understood that the Speaker conferred with Representative Kitchln of North ( arolina and also Representa tive Webb of the same state regarding their willingness to serve, but that both declined. Kepresentative Kitchin will be the leader of the democrats in the next Representative Webb is chairman of tlie committee on judiciary ho,<' thc same position in the next i ongress without doubt. Thev are leaders and veterans and men of the highest character and the House has confidence in them. Big- Men for Committee. The fact that the Speaker had thern >n mind indicates to other members interested in the appointments that Clark is endeavoring to find a committee of the highest ability, and that, moreover, he will endeavor to ap point a committee whose report will be accepted with confidence by the next Congress. cJ,!iL?P,SkCr wa" in h,s office at the w*.? m?i ty' a toId lnciuirers there was little chance he could make an an nouncement today. , 'S?"a,t?r Saulsbury of Delaware, who Lre^w ,a meml?er, of ,he Joint con *rressiona.l commission that is to re ?firt. to Co"Sr,'ss next winter upon the I relations of the District to the general i fi?.n?r"'"e. ?"?' to r"ake recomnienda- j tions as to definitely and permanently S ,Jt"eSe . ^s at the ?> nite House todav. j,, '1 "ot think we will have a meet ritl ,L,l commission to get down to real work before September," said the Delaware senator. "Of course. I do not know w-hat the House members of the commission will want to do about be ginning work but I had an under standing that I would not begin my service before September. * Senate Members Meet Today. The Senate members of the commis sion, of which Senator Chilton will be chairman, are to have a brief prelimi nary meeting today, but no agreement as to a time for beginning work is Hkel> to be made until the House e?er liasn "real ,nforma,lon f<3m who Senate Bill, Signed by President, Provides Social Civic Centers. liie House bill providing for the use of the public school buildings of the District of Columbia as social civic centers was passed by the Senate with out debate during the closing hours of the session which ended yesterday The President signed the bill soon after The provisions of this bill are' as follows: ?That the control of the public schools In the District of Columbia by the board of education shall extend to, include and comprise the use of the public school buildings and grounds by pupils Of the public schools, other chil dren and adults for supplementary educational purposes, civic meetings for th^ free discussion of public ques tions, social centers, centers of recrea tion. playgrounds. The privilege of using said buildings and grounds for Kny,v. vs .4purposes may be granted by the board upon such terms and con ditions and under such rules and regu lations as the board ifiay prescribe. ! Services May Be Volunteered. That the board of education is au thorized to accept, upon written rec ommendation of the superintendent of schools, free and voluntary services of the teachers of the public schools, other educators, lecturers and social workers and public officers of the Unit ed states and tlie District of Columbia provided that teachers of the public schools shall 'not be required or com pelled to perform any such services or solicited to make any contribution for such purposes 1'rovided further that the public school buildings and grounds i of the District of Columbia VhaJl be used for no purpose whatsoever other than those directly connected will, the ' public school system and as further ! provided for in this act." The Senate passed also a House bill authorizing (he health officer of the District to issue a permit for the e? 1 moval of the body of the late Itoh.rt Caldwell Culbertson from Woo.laL^ cemetery to Rocky .Spring cemete? Chambersburg. Pa. 8 cemetery. Five Years for Making Opium NKW YORK. March S.-Tom Shlyan president of the Chinese Merchants'' Association and known as the mayor I of New York's Chinatown, was sen tenced today in the federal district l ? ? ? ! 1 I II fll'O irauru' ; ? ' ' ' urt to five years' imprisonment ....... ntlary at Atlanta for mariii ..T?: Fi'fo.rr ? th ,. , . , .awi.r ciiitned that he was Innocent and that a rival long had accomplished his conviction by false evidence. He said he would appeal to President Wilson. FOOD SITUATION GIVINGCONCERN Conditions in Mexico City Complicated by Carranza Order to Merchants. I I j DISPATCHES ARE TAKEN TO CABINET MEETING Rival Carranza Factions Striving for Supremacy at Progreso. Washington Interested. The food situation in Mexico City, al ready causing serious concern to offi cials .here, has been further compli cated by a new decree by (Jen. Obregon, the Carranza commander, ordering' all merchants In the capital to open their shops and accept constitutionalist cur rency. The Spanish ambassador, Mr. Riano, discussed the situation with State De partment officials today, and Secretary Bryan took tlie latest official dispatches to the cabinet meeting. Many of the merchants in Mexico fit v are foreigners, mostly Spanish. It is probable that the State Depart ment will make representations to fieri. Carranza. For refusal to accept Carranza's cur rency the penalty in Gen. Obregon's decree is imprisonment. Officials here fear serious disturbances in Mexico City unless the food and money con ditions improve. The.. seriousness of the situation at Progre&So, where there has been an embargo in force for some days, is in dicated in official dispatches. An announcement from the State De partment last evening: said that in a dispatch from Vera Cruz if. had been advised "that the conferences among the Carranza officials regarding the set tlement of certain differences bearing on the closing of the port of Progreso have been unsuccessful and that the port will be closed until further no tice." Rival Factions in Contention. Rival Carranza factions are trying to maintain themselves at Progresso, it is said. In the meantime the State De partment continues to receive requests from American manufacturers of har vest binding twine to have the port opened. Thousands of tons of sisal fiber from which twine is made are said to be lying at Progreso awaiting shipment to this country for the 1915 harvest. The State Department was advised that'the British and Spanish vice con suls at Acapulco. on the west coast of Mexico, who with a Spaniard named Jose Fano, were arrested by Carranza officials recently and taken aboard the gunboat Guerrero, had been released on representations by the department and were taken aboard the American cruis er Cleveland at Maitzanillo. The con suls were both Spanish subjects, Ra fael and Benjamin Fernandez. It is not known here on what charges they were arrested. Carranza Agency Statement. The Carranza agency gave out the following dispatch from Piedras Ne gras: "The Villistas under the command of Rosalio Hernandez were defeated by the constitutionalist forces under the command of Gen. Mociovio Herrera at Soledad yesterday. One hundred and sixty prisoners captured by Herrera have arrived here. One machine gun and much ammunition also captured. "Gen. Ricaut reports that a gang of eighteen Huertlsta filibusters, who crossed from the American side near l^ajara. was ambushed by the consti tutionalists when it landed on Mexi can soil and the entire gang was cap tured."' STILL CLAIM "FRAME-UP." Carbone and Abarno, Alleged An archists, to Plead Monday. NKW YORK, March r?.?Counsel in the case of Charles Carbone and Frank Abarno, accused of attempting to ex plode a bomb in St. Patrick's Cathedral Tuesday, agreed with Judge Swann to day to have, the men plead to the in dictment against them Monday. Meantime Judge Swann will have a conference with the attorneys and listen to informal arguments by coun sel for tlie prisoners, who claim that they were drawn into the plot by the police. Their attorney said in court to day that he believed and thought he could prove that the men were vic tims of a "frame-up." DANIEL L. DRESSER WEDDED. Marriage to Miss Marie Walther Se cret Since Last December. NEW YORK, March 5.?Announcement was made today that Daniel I^eroy Dres ser of New York and Newport, one time president of the Trust Company of the Republic, was married to Miss Marie Walther of New York December >2. The ceremony took place in Albany and was private, so that news of the event only leaked out today. Mr. Dresser was much in the public eye a few years ago, fol lowing the collapse of the U. S. Ship building Company, for which the Trust Company of the Republic, of which Mr. Dresser was president, underwrote $4,1 750,000 of the bond issue. Mr. Dresser is a brother of Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt and Mrs. John Nicholas Brown. The latter is the mollier of the boy who was called "the richest baby in the world." FORMAL REPORT ON SEIZURE. Case of U. S. Steamer Dacia Sub mitted to Prize Tribunal. BREST, via Paris. March 5. 1 a.m A formal report on the seizure of the United States steamer Dacia, drawn up by Chief Naval Commissioner Lenioyno has been forwarded to the prize trib unal at Paris. The ship remains here under the tem porary command of Ensign DuPonta vice. Th*. crew was to have^left last night for Havre, but its departure was postponed because instructions had not been received from the United States embassy. Women as Assistant Judges. PHILADELPHIA, March 5.?Women active in the work of the juvenile court in this city will act as assistant judges in cases involving the moral delinquencies of young yirls, accord ing to an announcement made by Judge Gorman. Instead of testifying publicly, youthful delinquents will toll their stories to the woman court of ficials, who will submit a transcript of the testimony to Judge Gorman, with a recommendation as to the deci sion in the case. THE POST-SEASON PARADE. GERMAN SUBMARINES SUNK IN BRITISH WATERS, IS CLAIM U-8 Reported Victim of French Destroyer; English Collier Rams Another. Hospital Ships Chased. LONDON, March 5.?Two ^ German submarines have been eunk in British waters, according" to an official an nouncement given out in London today. The official news bureau confirmed the report that the British steam col lier Thordis had rammed a German submarine and sent it to the bottom. The text of the statement is as fol lows: "The secretary of the admiralty makes the following announcement: The steamship Thordis now being ex amined in dry ijock and injuries to her keel and to her propeller confirm the evidence of Oapt- Bell and the crew that on the 28th of February the vessel rammed and, In all probability, sank a?German submarine, which had tired a torpedo at her. "Yesterday afternoon the German submarine (J-8 was sunk in the channel off Dover by destroyers; the officers and men were taken prisoners." U-8 One of Those Xrost. The French ministry of marine an nounced last night that a German sub marine had been sunk by French tor pedo boat destroyers, and the crew taken prisoners. This submersible the French authorities called the U-8. The crew of the U-8, numbering twenty-nine, was landed at Dover to day and was taken to Dover Castle un der an armed escort. The submarine U-8 was built in 1908rj arid was a vessel of 300 tons displace- i ment. She had a speed of 13 knots on the surface and 8 knots submerged, j Her maximum radius of operations was 1,200 miles. The vessel carried three torpedo tubes. Her complement was twelve men. : The U-8 was a sister of the famous U-9. which early in the war sank the I British cruisers Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy in the.North sea and in October j sent the British cruiser Hawk to the bottom. Wreckage picked up late in February off Chnstiansand was said to belong to the U-9, and it was rumored in Norway that the submarine had I been lost. Adventure of Thordis. The British steam collier Thordis, ! while making her way recently from Blyth to Plymouth, sighted a sub- I marine. The undersea boat fired a torpedo at thetrawler, but the cap tain of the British ship succeeded in dodging the missile and then drove his j vessel at the periscope showing above the surface of the water. He claims to have struck and sent her to the bot- j torn. His contention was supported by his mate and the members of his crew, and now it has been accepted as cor- ' rect by the British naval authorities. The captain and crew of the Thordis probably will receive.rewards amount ing to $5,800, which had been offered by various agencies to the first mer chantman which sank a submarine. The Thordis has gone into dry dork at' Plymouth. It was then learned that one of her propeller blades had been torn off and that her keel was damaged badly, indicating the force witli which the craft struck the submarine. Hospital Ship Pursued. The Daily Mall today publishes the following: ??A German submarine pursued the British hospital ship St. Andrew on the latter's latest trip across the English Channel, but the hospital ship increased its speed to twenty-five knots and escaped." A French torpedo boat cruising oft Nice, France, yesterday, stopped a Spanish steamer and an officer inspected the pas sengers. Among those on board were I four Austrian reservists and one Ger man, who had taken passage to Italy In the hope of being able to join their rag 1- I Intents at the front. The men were taken prisoners and fiave been sent to Mar seille. Reports Loss of Two Ships. BREMEN, via London, March 5.?The destruction of two freighters by tor-i pedoes in the English channel was wit nessed by the captain of the American ship Golfllght, from Galveston, which arrived in the Wesrer Thursday morn ing with a cargo of cotton, according to a story printed in the Morgen Post. The captain is quoted by the news paper as saying the ships were at-: tacked by a submarine. One of them is reported to have been loaded with rice and the other with coal. The captain, says, the Morgen Post asserted, that he passed safely through the mine fields by following directions issued tfy the German admiralty. UNDER COMPENSATION LAW. Total of $200,000 to Families of Men Killed in Mine. CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 0? State officials estimate that nearly $200,000 will be paid out of the work men's compensation fund to the fam ilies of men who lost their lives in the Layland mine of the New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company, where an explosion occurred Tuesday. The estimate is based on reports from Layland that the fatalities will num ber in the neighborhood of 150. The widows will receive $20 per month and $5 per month,for each child under fif teen years of apre. Five more bodies were taken from the mine today. The latest estimate of the number of dead is between 150 and 175. A discovery in medical science of importance to ninety-five out of every one hun dred persons is related in By Edwin F. Bowers, M. D. The article is one of the best in the series by this well known authority. See the next Sunday Magazine of The , , Sunday Star t Great Western President Denies At tending Caucus to Agree on In creased Bates Demand. CHICAGO, March 5.?That the rail roads operating throughout the west must be permitted to earn more it" they are to keep pace with the public's demand for increased service was the substance of testimony given before W. H. Daniels, interstate commerce commissioner, today in the hearing of the application for forty-one western railroads for increased freight rates. S. M. Felton, president of the Chicago Great Western road, resumed his testi mony under cross-examination l?y Clif fordNThorne, representing the shippers, who oppose the proposed increases. "Do you think the western railroads ought to be guaranteed a 6 per cent profit 011 their capitalization?" asked Mr, Thornc. "The railroads certainly should be as sured a reasonable profit," replied Mr. Felton, "How about investments in other lines of business?ought they to be assured a definite profit?" "The difference is that other lines of business are not restricted on the price of what they have to sell, as the rail roads are," said Mr. Felton. "Under present conditions one road is not earn ing a profit on half of what it would take to build the road." All Need Help. A. E. llelm. representing shippers in Kansas, asked Mr. Felton whether the Chicago Great Western was typical of the forty other roads which ask for in creases. "Do you think all the roads should be given increases just because one of them needs more revenue?" was the query. "One road is typical," responded Mr. Felton. "The reason we are combining our efforts is that all of us are in the same need." 1 Luther Walter, attorney for certain packers, asked Mr. Felton if the railroad presidents evet met to agree on tiow | much advance should be requested.' Denies a Caucus. Mr. Felton replied he never heard of such a discussion and that none took place. Festus J. Wade, St. Louis, a banker, appearing for the railroads, testified that the value of railroad securities had greatly decreased as investments. "It is due to the constant tirade against the railroads, and it has re sulted in discrediting the roads," said Mr. Wade. "The decrease in railroad values may be explained in various ways. If you are a democrat, you will blame it 011 the' European war. If you are a re publican, you may blame it on adverse legislation, but the fact remains that the depreciated credit of the railroads is hurting not the railroads alone, but the whole country. Many of the west ern roads not now paying ^vidends narrowly escaped receivers^js last year before the war. The war had nothing to do with it." Three Missing After Hotel Fires. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 5.? Three guests ?t the Astoria and Fred erick, two small hotels on Hennepin street, damaged by fire today, arc missing. Another suffered probably fatal burns and several women were cirried to the street bv firemen in time t'n nresent. their being injured. The loss was placed at $50,000. Death of Mrs. Amanda Smith. NEW YORK. March 5.?Word has been received li^rc of the death in pebrins. Kin.. of Mrs. Amanda Smith, the famous i-.olorcd evangelist. Mrs. Smith was seventy-eight years old. She founded In Chicago an orphanage for children of her raoe. Czar's Black Sea Fleet May Have to Deal With Turk Squadron. CONSTANTINOPLE PANIC STILL REIGNS, IS CLAIM | Allied Warships Continue to Ham mer Fortifications Along the Dardanelles. LONDON. March 5.?The Russian Black sea fleet is steaming toward the Bosphorus, says a dispatch .rom Home. The Bucharest correspondent of the Giornale d'ltalia of Home telegraphs that the Russian ll#?eL has passed Bur gas, Bulgaria. Burg?*s is situated 011 the western shore of the Black sea, near the eastern extremity of the Bal kans. It is seventy-six miles north of Adrianople. Should the Russian fleet attack the Bosporus, it presumably would have to deal with the Turkish fleet, which is supposed to be in that region, and the most powerful member of which is the eruiser Sultan S^lim, formerly the Ger man cruiser Goeben. The Bosporus is about eighteen miles long, and from one-half to one and a half miles wide. It is defended with modern fortifications, which guard the approach to Constantinople at the west ern end. * Panic in Turk Capital. While the allied fleet continues to pound away at the Dardanelles fortifications, the panic. and the general exodus from Constantinople shows no signs of abatement, ac cording to most reliable advices re ceived in London. Turkish officials, however, profess to believe that the fleet can never penetrate the inner line of fortifications, they declaring that the Ottoman government always has expected that the forts gaurding the outside entrance of the Dardanelles would be easy to reduce. Notwith standing this profession to security it is declared that Austria has been asked to send her warships to the Turks* aid and Field Marshal von Der Goltz, who was sent to the Turkish capital from Germany, has asked the kaiser to send him artillery officers to assist in resisting the allies* onslaught. British Statement. The Britisli admiralty has issued the following statement in regard to the Dardanelles bombardment: "The attack upon the fortress in the Dardanelles continues. The admiral has not reported on the results obtained with in the straits. "Outside, the Dublin demolished an ob servation station on the Gallipoli penin sula and the Sapphire bombarded guns and troops at various points in the Gulf of Adramyti. "Six modern field guns at Fort B have been destroyed, bringing the total num ber of guns demolished up to forty. "French battleships bombarded tiie Hu lair forts and wrecked the Kavak bridge." French View of Attack. The French ministry of marine is sued the following concerning the al | lied attack on the Dardanelles: "Methodical operations against the defenses of the Dardanelles continued March o, despite an annoying northeast wind. "Numerous trawlers dragged the en tire strait from its entrance to the south of Dereoh (on th?- European side almost opposite Pardanus) in or der to permit the warships bombard ing Ghanak Kalesi to move about with security. "The observation post at Kaba Tepeh (on the Aegean side) has been de stroyed by a cruiser. Troops Are Cannonaded. "At various points on the coast Held ! batteries and formations of troops have been cannonaded by the allies' vessels. "On the Syrian coast the French cruiser D'Kntrecasteaux. demolished Semaphore D at Arsus tin the Gulf of Aiexanarettaj, ami the batticsnip Jaureguiberry destroyed the oil depot at Saida (in Palestine, about thirty miles south of Beirut)." Nothing Achieved, Says Turk. An interview with Anver Paslia, as given in a copy of the Frankfurter z,eitung, is as follows: "The action, which began February I 19, so far has achieved nothing more than heavy damage to some forts at : the extreme entrance to the Dar danelles. The second day the bombard- ] ment overturned six guus, killing four men and wounding lourteen, but the itrst day only an observation officer was killed and one mail was wounded. "Of the overturned guns three were again placed in position the following morning. Subjection Counted On. "The outer fortifications are the old est in Turkey, and their speedy sub jection always has been counted on. The real defense line lies further in, where the difficult waterway deprives ships of the power to maneuver freely and obliges them to move in a narrow dellle which is commanded by artillery and mines. The real defenses of the Dardanelles have not been affected in ar.y way by anything that iias occurred so tar." German papers declare that the real lighting at the Dardanelles has not yet begun. The enemy has damaged only the oldest fortifications, and has not reached the modern fortifications in the part of the straits where free movements of ships are impossible, it is generally declared. Austria Asked for Aid. . A dispatch to the Tribune from Bucharest, lioumania. says: "Turkey sent urgent telegrams to Austria, asking the aid of the Austrian fleet. Vienna replied that this was not feasible at the present. Turkey was advised, however, to transfer her cap ital to Asia Minor and not lose hope of an eventual victory. "The panic and exodus at Constanti nople continue. \ dispatch from Munich says that Field Marshal Baron von Der Goltz, who was sent to Constantinople from Germany <o act as the adviser of the Turkish government in military af fairs, lias telegraphed to the German military headquarters asking for flftv German artillery officers, on the ground that tl.ey were needed urgently for the defense of the Dardanelles. The Held marshal received a laconic reply, the dispatch says, stating that the Ger mans needed their artillery officer* and addlnff. "Do your best." AUSTRIANS SUFFER TERRIBLE LOSSES IN VIOLENT FIGHTS London Gets News of Annihila tion of Whole Divisions , by the Russians. CARPATHIAN BATTLES " ARE RAGING WITH FURY Czars Forces Also Declared to Have Been Severely Punished in Engagements. ADVANCING IN BUKOWINA Soldiers of Dual Kingdom Reported in Danger?Teutons Slowly Forced Back to Own Frontier, Is Claim. I,0\'D0X. March S. r.iOS p.m.?Til* Bueharewt correspondent of the Kveo los tflncrnphrd today that the Rufinian offpoiiivp iiiovtmfnt In 4?aliria had forced the AuntrlnuN to rvaruatf ( ternoBItr., the capital of Bukowinn. The dlnpatch addn that the main Aus trian force* In thla region have retired In the direction of Franaenthal, to the south of the Carpathian**. LONDON, March 5.?Report? received here from various sources tell of llie terrible losses suffered by Austria in the recent fighting. A Petrograd dispatch to Renter's Telegram Company says Gen. BroussilofFs forces con tinue to repulse desperate Aus trian advances in the Carpathians and that officers who have been taken prisoners declare their troops never before suffered so severely. Some divisions are re ported to have been completely annihilated. The abundant snowfall has not diminished the violence of the battles in the Carpathians. While on the western wing, where the Russians have suffered their heaviest losses, the intensity of the Russian attack has decreased, the battle in the center between Lupkow and I'zsok passes is rag ing more fiercely than ever. Austrians Threatened. "The Russian counter-offensive in Ga licia continues with success and is be ginning to endanger the Austrian forces in Bukowina," says a Bucharest dispatch. "The Kussiaus, advancing toward Kelomea, now threaten the right flank of the Austrians. The Rus sians are assembling north of Buko wina, to cut off the Austrian retreat toward the Carpathians." Kven if no decisive battle develops from the present Russian offensive o?i the eastern front, the allies today ur? advancing the claim that the Ausiro iiermaii plans for thHr spring e;.m paign in the east have been measur ably interfered with. Tables Are Turned. A few weeks ago Field Marshal vr?n Hindenburg was .-weeping vietori??usly through northern Poland, while in the south the Austrians were pressing for ward both in Galicia and in the crown land of Bukowina. Today th.-sc rol a appear to be reversed. Russian troops are attacking along the German line from the Niemen to the Vistula, and. although the Germans are clinging tenaciously to their positions beior# Ossowetz and at oth?r points north of the Vistula, their thrust toward War saw has been brought to a standstill, and they are being slowly forced back to their own frontier. The German contingent in the Chj - pathians has been reduced to three army corps, according to report in London, which leaves the Austro-H un - garians to bear the brunt of the fight ing. Situation at Frzasnysz. The Russians on re-entering Frzas nysz, after its occupation for three days by the Germans, are reported to havtf found nearly every house filled with wounded or sick German soldiers, in addition there were Russians who had been prisoners for four days. Ex cept for the small services rendered them by the inhabitants, these men virtually had been without care. Hundreds of men had died from lant of medical attention and their bodit - lay unburied. The streets were bai ricaded with agricultural implements and household furniture,.and tl ure van a great scarcity of provision*.. Score* of houses had been riddled by shc.is and the municipal building was part.y destroyed. Many prisoners are being nrougtt back to Frzasnysz, having been cap tured from the German rear truard by the Russian cavalry. Along tin roaus there are evidences of a hasty retreat. According to the German otheial statement issued today the situation ? northern I'oland is un. haiiRed, all Ki, - vian attacks beme repulsed. The I" ? to tlie czar's forces is said to Ik Russian attacks northeast and east ... I 0111a are reported to tiave failed .il.^o with heavy losses. Numerous |i. iso - ers are said to have been taken. 1 lie situation at other points tn the eastern arena Is declared ttnchanned Germans Are Fighting to Recover Ground in West, it Is Asserted LONDON. March 5.?In the western arena of the war the Germans, Judsiu* from dispatches reaching here, are righting hard to recover the ground lost during the last fortnight Near Arras they haye torged ahead some what. but the alllM **port pro?r??