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"fcUSSIAN FLEET TO ATTACK THE BOSPHORUS FORTS London. That three new Russian dreadnoughts, rushed to completion at the Black sea shipyards, have joined the Russian fleet-in. its de scent upon Constantinople was the report in admiralty circles today. The admiralty refused confirmation and declined to comment on Bucharest dispatches that the Czar naval forces in the east are steaming southward to attack the Ottoman capital through the Bosphorus. Before tomorrow night, according to Bucharest dispatches, the Russian Black sea fleet will be pounding at the Bosphorus forts, less than eight een miles from Constantinople. In armament this Russian fleet is vastly sueprior to the Turkish naval forces, reported to have been with drawn into the Bosphorus for a final defense of the Turkish capital Admiralty without information of progress of the Angle-French fleet bombarding Dardanelles forts. Ath ens reported last dispatches from scene of fighting showed allied war sliips pounding away at forts Chanak on the Asiatic shore and Kilid Bahr, Birectly opposite, on the European side. French squadron was continu ing its efforts to reduce the Bulair forts on Gallipoli peninsula from the gulf of Saros. o o POLICE TO GRILL BURKE AGAIN ' 'A severe grilling is in store for Clarence Burke, who is described by Chief of Police Michels as the "most likely suspect" captured since the murder of Emma Peterson in Aurora. He is their last hope. One by one other clues have been run down and disproved. Burke is the only man who cannot give an account of himself on the night of the murder. He is an ex-convict and is addicted to heroin. The police base their suspicions of him on a state ment of his daughter that he came home the morning after the murder with blood on his hands. JANE ADDAMS AIDS IN MEET OF NEUTRAL LANDS WOMEN New York, March 6. Responding to a call of Queen Wilhelmina of Hol land, Miss Jane Addams is here se lecting American delegates to attend an international convention of wom en of neutral countries to meet at The Hague in April. The invitation to American women came in a cablegram from Amster dam to Miss Addams as president of the Woman's Peace Party and Miss Adams will visit Washington and oth er cities of the East Speaking yesterday at the Cort theater about the countries at war and the "women's war tax" Miss Addams declared that the status of women in the countries at war had been reduced to the tribal concep tion of womanhood to bear fighters for the next generation. "The report comes from Ger many," she said, "that a corps of nurses and midwives has been organ ized to go into districts first occu pied by the soldiers and bring back to the land of their fathers all the chil dren who owe their births to the ad vance of the army." o o HOLD CANADA BANK SUSPECT Geo. Webster, 1227 N. Clark; John Bingham, 418 N. Dearborn, and a woman whose name the police will not divulge, accused of some con nection in the robbery of the bank of Montreal, Westminster, B. C, in 1911, were taken into custody yester day following an attempt to change Canadian money at Jos. Fekete's bank, 1967 W. Grand. Little of the stolen $317,000 has been recovered. o o IN DEMAND "See that man?" said one of the two people who were talking about success in life. "Yes." "He has left behind lots ofjieople who struggled to overtake him." "Who is he?" - "Conductor of an omnibus." ,