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THURSDAY, AUGUST it?, 1915.
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Pli I ft.' ?.YI?' i'la'Vr lei'llref >ew "n-elt. >ew?rlt. Jerae? Ui? ?od M??hnl.aai.
1 ' ? ' r? i r..\ i nanrNHM two rnTB,
MARIETTA PROTECTS
FRANK'S LYNCHERS;
LAW MOVES SLOWLY
City Where Mary Pha
gan Lies Has Uni?
versal Alibi.
ALL SUSPICIOUS
OF STRANGERS
Scene it Prison Expressed
by All Hands Were
Asleep."
BODY HERE TO-DAY
Governor Harris Talks of "Blot
on Name" of Georgia and
Promises Action.
Bj JOHN J. LEARY. Jr.
Ma' ? . Aup. 18.?This is
alibi da) il Marietta. Not a lead
itizen but ha*? or.e of those use?
ful legal ?evicca ready for use, ye:
not a shadow of a doubt
?hat ti-Uy every man ?nd
Marietta knows who
rank, any more than
is doubt in my mind th.it I
: with members of the mob
<>fternoon.
R?-?oic coming here I WM
?her New York
to keep out of town, and just
i rfori 1 loft the Western Union of
\iianta. the representative
f one of .America's bippest corpo
. ations, and one in close touch with
- in thil section, -dvised ihat
i investigate by telephone, or at
?rafal t?> *'takc my hard?
Therefore, in Marietta, where I
nospiUbly received, I refrained
I ? personal in my
?ion- after those with whom I
??mated that strangers
ng into town should be careful
? they did and sai?l.
This '.ei.'pram was Bent to New
if, -noon:
'William J. Burns, cue Burns
"tiv< Agency. New York*. Leo
I rank lynched here yesterday.
and hei*' investigate.
**H. H. LOOXEY.
"Chief of Police."
Sua-picioM of Stranf-t-r?..
re nel wanted in
thev show
?it that they aie not
t? detect i Secret *??
When on? ei his
?v, however, information, minus
-, -.nd alwayi prefaced with "I j
_. , , | ,? ? . ' or "I under
.." is forthcoming. This, boiled
leave th? M conclasioni clear:
lynching of Frank was carefully
ed week.? a?o.
l?verai o*
? the lynchera quit for
? or (another.
ren two groupa, one of about
men working iu Milledge-.-ille
? the way for another ?roun of
? ? ? ron this place.
local mob was mad. up of men
rain of th?- town
At ;i Pro?
ve League) a sort of chamber erf
well known faces
? iay liiRht.
". ill take no action un- i
? 0 by outaide forces. '
ent ll now on foot m At
? ? the murder.
ferina a lar^c if ward
? ading citizem there fear
ob prit is becoming too ram
' i part of the state.
Bl ex-Judge Newton A. I
^'ori - that Krank'.- body whs
ne?l by a mob led by an ex-cot?- j
?i local bad man.
irt wa i victim of
Rare Prejudice Minor lasse.
ten? al-?., lal : rejo?
:. ana next to politic? in im
idea of ehivalr* i
.- *hat the political
' ? John M.
red .?ince thai nighl four
when the Cobb i ounty
1 ommittee resolved apai'i<-t
the earn beca um bis ;
irtner, Luther Rosier, ?as ofI
.r sel.
al-o dear, ?lespnr repeated
' ?? 1 tank would be taken
and lynched; ?ha*. "?
"i- of Joaiah Garter, jr., editoi
irnal," "all hand- out there
i
I* ?as tfrat ?Irn.lr.l to lynch Krank1
hu sentence wa? commuted '
delivered to the i ?
? --it il waa the plan to lynch
law Phagan wa- boni.
' the plans leak?'.I. oji.t with
? ?it that militia were called out
II. After the convict
?t'ejr pt|.,| to murder bun the
plan was left n, abeyance um H Sunday,
" "t'l ?aim fr.im the prison that
to be discharged from
ospital a? recovered from nil
Ihr .-?-If-appoint, ?i execution
bast (ioi i,,.t wiah i" hang a
- ?n.
Jail 170 M'lce A?->.
i tanned that twfnty-tive
? ould li ?v<- this plac?' for the
?iilv Monday efiongMa and
?*?_.iiiiu..i ..r. urnas? i. i alema ?
FRANK'S LAST WORD!
UNDER FATAL TR
[Tret I But >???-: ? ? .?I Th? Tsjfg
Marietta. (.a.. Aug. 1H.?It
told here this afternoon that Fr
just before he isas hanged, rece
an opportunity to make a d?
declaration.
"Mr. Frank," the leader of
lyncher? is quoted as saying,
I are now going to do what the
said do?hang sou h> the neck u
sou are dead. IK. sou want to m
any statement before we do it?'
"No," came the answer.
"We want to know." the lea
persisted, "whether or not you kil
little Mary I'hagan?"
"I think more of tny wife and
mother than I do of my own lil
Frank is said to have answei
Then he was hoisted to his death
raM??EATH
DUE TO SLATON
EX-PGE SAT
Action of Any Other G<
ernor Would Have
Stood, He Asserts.
Krom a Staff ('orrr<?v?tidei?t of T ,? TMbiJ
Atlanta, Ga.. Aug. 18. The foil
ing statement was made for The T
une by Newton A. Morris, ex-judgi
the Superior Court, and former Spea
of the General Assembly of Geor
who rescuoil Frank's body from
mob.
"Governor Slaton is directly resp
sible for the lynching of Frank. If i
other Governor but Slaton had ini
fared with the verdict in the case
action would not have been resen
and Frank would now be in the pi
tentiary serving his sentence of 1
imprisonment, although the people
, Cobb County, of this section of
state, believe that Frank wa- *~-*i.
Inal a- i do.
? "We feel that the money that \
back of Frank almost subsidized I
pies? of the country. The partit
side of the case has been put in papi
and magazines and pictured, while c
side has not been printed.
"I do not charge that money 1
been directly used, but the Jewish e
ment is a very thrifty element, and,
a rule, a very law-abding element. Th
do moft of the big advertising. I I
llore that had a great deal to do wi
the attitude of the press in tin- mi
tor But in it all, with all the edito
als outside the state and in pape
within the .-t?te, I have yet to hear th
one ol the grand juroi-, who indict
him or a member of the trial ju
which convicted him, has said that !
would not again vote the ??y that i
did.
".Nui il ti,c?e any question but th
there was plenty of money back ?
Frank and that lots of it was used.
Says People Were i'atient.
"In this county i*9 per cent of .'.
people are of American stock, law abi?
ing and God fearing. They were pi
tient when thi? case arose, content I
let the courts pass upon every pha>
and willing to await the if suit of a
the appeals that able and resourceft
counsel could make. But when tho
appeals were exhausted and every coui
had decided against Frank they fei
and felt truly that the law should hav
its way.
"And they felt a great sense of oui
rage that Governor Slaton should b
a member of that law firm which pro*
ecu'id those appeals, and they fel
that when ho was lentenced to deati
Frank gal but his just deserts.
"Slayton'l integrity ha- been que?
tioned in this matter, but I am no
pf tho-e who question it. thougl
John M. Slaton is not my pol?tica
friend. 1 behove be credits me mor?
thany any one else with having defeatei
him in bis race for the united State
Se?alo. 1 do believe that be was over
roa?iie?l by his intimate associate h
Atlanta and bv members of his lav
linn.
"Slaton juat before he became Gov
?rai a member of the law Arm oi
i Ph ?Hips. Hi? parti er m thai
i i ir. Phillips. ?? a ,ieu. and its busi
ne-- vu- largely from that element in
ommunity. This Arm ??- merged
with the Arm of Ko-ser it Brandon, aiiil
became RoBBer, Hrandon, Slaton &
Phillips tli- ui-t before he took the
oath of office a? Governor, and that
tirni continued all through his terin and
existence to-day. Slav ton's name
On all the Arm literature anil on
the (.?.ice door was Mohn M. Slaton.
pris .it:- office
Figure? in Politics.
'That t,rin was Frank'.- counsel when
the Senate nue began, and I was the
Aral t?. call attention to tho Governor'?
connection with a ease thai waa almos?
certain *o come before him for action.
I brought it up m tin- ? "?.'" County
KxecutiM Committee, when | offered
a resolution calling upon Governor ?'la
ton to retire from office. Hgree !<> paai
this Frank case on to his lUCC?
or pledge himself not 1" commute
Frank's sentence if the case went to
him. That was the Aral time the Gov
ernor's connection siith the case a?
counsel ?amo up. His onl) answer t"
that resolution and to the lame idea
repeated time after time was that the
?ase lia,i not yet been put ill? to him,
"Now, then, a? you know. Frank was
found guilty and sentence,, to death
The case waa fought through the state
OOUrtl and then taken t?. the Supreme
? ?,'if of the Un i ten Slate- In each
h tun?'. i he decision ?a- against
I .?ni ?mi. ?I nn |?i>s?- I. loliimii '.'
TEETH BRING $50 APIECE
Enthusiastic Dentist Has toi
Pay for Pulling Too Many.
Montclair, N. .1.. Aug. im. Ju?Jgo|
Mylod awarded $150 to-day to Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Herrick, of Fast Orange,
Who IihiI jointly sued Pr. Joseph M.
Borwald, also of Fast Orange, for ex?
tracting four of Mra, Herrick's tooth,
when she wanted only one taken out.
Mr. Herrick sued for the loss of his
wife's services and the woman for tho
pain and anp-uish caused svhon she
found that the extra tooth had been
pulled.
SODA SHOWER IN NEWARK
Children Wistful as 3,000
Quarts Are Destroyed.
I>r. I. M. Shaw, State Board of Health
Inspector of New Jersey, and Samuel
G. Sharrell, chief sanitary inspector of
the Newark Board of Health, dumped
three thousand quarts of soda water
into a sewer yesterday. It bad boon
taken from the bottling establishment
of Edward and David Wigder, at M7
South Fleventh Street, Newark Be?
cause the soda was sweetened with
saccharin, the use of which is a viola?
tion of the state 1 ?w, it was destroyed.
Hundreds of children watched the in?
spectors longingly, wondering why they
could not have the soda.
SON OF 76 SOLDIER DEAD
- i
Asa Terry Was Last Surviving;1
Child of Revolutionary Officer.
Hazardville, Conn., Aug 18. A?a '
Terry, son of Colonel A?? Terry, an
officer of the Revolutionary army, died I
here to-day.
He was born at Fnlield eighty-live I
years BRo, and was the last surviving ;
child of a Revolutionary officer in Con?
necticut, and, it is believed hero, in
tha 1 mted States.
HUGHES CRUSHES
1916 BOOM HOPES
?-.
His "No" to Presidential Offers
Final. Me Tells Ex-Governor
Stokes of New Jersey.
Charles Evans Hughes has declared
once and for all time that he will not
bo a candidate for President in 1910.
He has cone further. He has said that
if the Republicans should nominate
him he would not accept the honor.
These emphatic statements, which
put to rest the question of consider- '<
ing the name of Justice Hughes as a
pos.-ible Republican Presidential can?
didats, were made public at T.-entoi.
yes Urda y by ex-Governor Fdward C. '
Stokes of New Jersey. They were in?
cluded in a letter received in answer to
a note to Justice Hughes from Mr.:
Stokes.
The jurist's emphatic refuaal to be
considered as a possible standard ;
bearer in the next campaign is, how- '
ever, only a repetition of similar utter
ianees that he has made.
Mr. Stokes wrote to Juitici Hughes |
I some time ago. He said that New Jer?
sey mon were especially anxious that.
nis name be placed in nomination tori
' the Presidency. He suggested that in
view of this fact Justice Hughes allow
l.ls name to be considered. Mr. Stoke
pointed out that as a candidate ?fui? i
tue Hughe! was especially available,
' that he owed it to his country to run
tor the office, and that lie should do .so
because of the great confidence the
peop. ? ot the country placed in him.
MUNITIONS IN PERIL
FROM CHURCH BLAZE
Two Roofers Caught on Steeple
Slide to Ground- Rectory
Also Destroyed.
Garfleld, X. J.. Aug. 18.-A lighted;
cigarette thrown in a pile of shavings
is believed to have caused a $50,000 ;
Aw lure, which destroyed the Russian .
Orthodox Greek Church and endan
gored the Hoyden Chemical Company'!
plant, which is manufacturing phenol
for war purposes. The factoiy is oppo?
site the church.
Two roofers who were recoppenngi
th! teeple were nearly cut off by the !
li?mes, but managed to .slide to the ?
streit by ropes and ladders.
The tiro w?i extinguished after a
hard light by tho Garfleld Fir. De?
partment and Engine No. ? of Passaie.
The home of the rector, the Rev. Alex?
ander Alikiii, was destroyed and two
nearby houses damaged. A large blaz
iii?' timber fell on the roof of the
Hi yden plant, causing; considerable ex?
citement, but little damage.
LINER A WAR STOREHOUSE
Baltic Sails for Liverpool with
16,000 Tons of Munitions.
Another huge cargo of military nec?
essaries for the Allies left 'his port
- esterdav for Liverpool on tho White
Mar liner Baltic. She carried about
|f<,000 tons of munitions and ammuni?
tion.
?she had onl] sixteen saloon pa
;,i- lii? econd cabin had ninet
eight passengers and the steerag"130.
In the latter class were tifty-two Las?
car?, members of the crew of the Ger
t-'.an steamship Liebenfcls, interned at
haltimore.
When the Baltic had backed out into
the stream fifteen Aromen, who had
leen refreshing themselves m a near
by saloon, rushed madly to the pier.
where a tug took tiiem out to the ?i? -
parting liner. _
JERSEY GARDENS GROW
Strawberries and Easter Lilie**
on Metuchen Tables.
r
Metuchen, N. J, Aug. 1?. I?r. L
Chalmers, ?ho preaches in the Re?
Formed ? horch Suttoaya and works in
h il garden wool days, had a treat for
Ins dinner. On his table were fresh
ripe strawberries and a bouquet of
Ku-ter Mies, 1, ,th products of hi.- gar?
den in Manaplan Road. Nobody else
in Spotswood ha? strawberries.
Mr Lydia Behringea and ???
other "amiliea base Later lil.es III
bloom ?
189 KNOWN DEAD
IN TEXAS STORM;
LOSS MILLIONS
(hilf Coast Swept by Hur
ricane and Tidal
Wave.
GALVKSTON AGAIN
A WRECKED CITY
-
Five Hundred Buildings Blown
Down, 25 Persons Killed
Death and Damage (.ommon.
illy Mena i., tii- Tribun. I
Houston. Tex., Aup. IK. The known
?leath list in the tropical storm which
I has swept the ?'ulf Coast for three
days mounted to ]s<i to-oight, when a
newspaper correspondent of this city
arrived from (?alveston, direct from the
scene of destruction, and gave the first
detnils of the loss of life and property.
Twenty-five were drowned in Gal
veston and immediate vicinity; twenty
five at Virginia Point, just across the
bay from ("alveston; fifty-five were lost
when the barge Sam Houston sank;
fifty-two were drowned at Texas City,
including twelve United States soldier?;
La Porte reports six deaths; Port Ar?
thur, six; Seabrook, three; Morgan
Point, eight; Houston suburbs, two,
and Hitchcock, seven.
The death list at (?alveston prob?
ably will be increased, as many bodice
?.?.r-re seen floating in the water, few
of which so far have been recovered.
live hundred buildings and homes
were actually destroyed in (?alveston,
not including many which watt badly
damaged. The buildings wrecked in?
clude the big grain elevators near the
bay front, the contents of which were
lost. One thousand feet of the sea
wall which was depended upon to save
the city from destruction was washed
out in front of the G.h?>z Hotel, but
it is said the hotel itself has escaped
with slight damage.
Great Causeway Rama-ted.
The causeway, which cost $4,i'UO,uO(i,
is destroyed at both ends and 5,000
feet of it was destroyed in the centre,
which will make it impossible for
trains to enter the city for about two
weeks.
The victims lost when the Sum Hous?
ton sank, had fled to the boat for
safety. Their loss was at first denied
by the city officials.
The large loss at Virginia Point was
caused when the Causeway Hotel there
collapsed. Seventy-live persons had
fled there for safety, and only fifty
escaped. Others who were injured
may die. One man, driven insane by
the catastrophe, drew a revolver and
killed himself at the hotel while crowds
of women and children looked on.
One hundred men, women and ebii
di.ii are still marooned on Ked Fish
Reef, and so far it has been impossible
to send them aid or supplies and their
suffering must be intense.
, Fires have started, and it has been
impossible to control them because
there is no water sei vice or power. The
greatest suffering has resulted from
lack of drinking water.
Despite conditions which have made
thousands homeless, Mayor Fisher has
issued a proclamation declaring that
otaUide help, either financial or in the
way A food or clothing, would not be
welcomed. He says the city neither
needs nor desire? >utside help, as it i?
able to care for its own sufferers.
Town I nder Martial Law.
The Santa Fe .-tation has been nearly
destroyed. The town has been r'aced
under strict martial law, and the sol?
diers at Fort Crockett ar' patrolling
the streets and helping in rescue work.!
The wind at (?alveston reached a ve?
locity of ninety-five miles an hour, and {
while it has subsided the danger II
not yet over.
The loss of crops in South and ('en?
trai Texan will reach at least $10,000,
000, as 50 per cent of them have been
ruined. Th? property loss at Galveuton
is roughly estimated at 119,000,000.
The oil fields around Beaumont suf
fe-ed damage to the extent of 1100,000,
while srwral cities in Fas*. ie\a>, in?
cluding Por? Arthur. Sabine an?! .-'abine
1 a-- suffered ioss to the same extent. '
For more than forty-eight hours
(?alveston was wholly out of touch
\>,th thr world, except for a few feeble
wireless messages which told but scrap
of news. Soon after 6 o'clock Monday
night the wire? went down, after sev?
eral ??..-patches to outsiile points
told of the increasing vigor of the
storm which had been brewing all th? .
afternoon. From that time until lat ?
to-day only the wireles< has been able
U .-end a few fragments of fact from
the Tinted States transport Buford to
the army wireless s?ation at San An-l
tonio.
Despite the fact that a thousand feet
( iinlinnrd on page ft. column ;
BRITISH PLAN
BIG COUP WITH
NEW EXPLOSIVE
Kitchener Delays Advance
for Powerful Guns
and Shells.
PROMISES HAVOC
UNPRECEDENTED
Returning Travellers Reveal
Significance of Hint of
Special Programme.
Recent arrivals from Kurland arc
_ble to ft*ff?ir?l some explanation of the
delayed Britiih advance, which as much
in Kngland as throughout the rest of
th? world, ha.i caused considerable be?
wilderment.
Their explanation is that Lord Kitch?
ener has been waiting to launch "his
?real surprise." And this surprise lies
i:i the completion of new guns and a
new type of shell which it is believed
v ill revolutionize artillery ?>perations
and make the path of the Allies to Ber
l.n more possible than hitherto.
Soon after the beginning of the war,
when it became patent that high ex?
plosives were to be the dominating
lut tor in the struggle for victory, the
combined effort! of British chemists
and ordnance experts invented a ?hell
uno.uestionabiy more powerful than any
I rcviously used. In destructive power
it was without doubt superior to any
previously known. A variation in ex
ploaive composition rendered it likely
to supersede all types in use.
The government ordered experiments
to be made with big guns then being
t manufactured ht Woolwich Arsenal.
Theac took place, with a ?esuli that
I every gun so used was either almost
blown to pieces or rendered unfit for
! strvice for a considerable period. The
j ? lily way out was to lind guns suitable
; *' rthe tusk. ?
As fui hack as la. t November govern
?r. -nt export! were at work on this
problem. They experimentell with va
1 lieu- alloys of steel, trying to find one
thai would stand the strain of such a
i -1 ell. Finally they succeeded. They
1 produced a 17-inch gun that would suit
' thil purpose. Various experiments have
boon made, ainl ale believed to have
boon entirely successful, lt is state.I
: that the shell will tie carried twenty
live miles and will work havoc ou a
?ale entirely unprecedented.
Thus li aniwered the queation why
. no advance was made when Warsaw
about to fall and the main bulk of
the German troops wore concentrated
I en that front. It also explains why
i after the great movement of Kitch?
ener, army to Fiance early in July
? til? troops were not Used. .Nothing was
! to be done until these guns, which the
; great armament factories of Britain
I have been working on for lis months,
i had been delivered in sufficient quan
i t.iie' at the front.
Last Wednesday the second Cana?
' ?l'an contingent, numbering 43.0U0
! picked troop?, an overwhelming ma
Ij'rity of whom had seen previou
i vice, tailed for France. With their ?lis
I patch Kitchener's movement was ready
! -o begin. The resuit may soon be ap?
parent.
Speaking in the House of Commons
1 ?>:i July 28, Lloyd George, Minister of
| Munition!, said :
"We have reserved a good deal of
the available shell power for a special
programme we are about to develop,
i and if members who know that in their
| diltrietl there is a good deal of lathe
: !.?1 in.?chine tool power which has not
been u.-ed yet to the full extent will
only wait for a short time they will
1 now the reason why we have not
utilised thoae workihope for the mo
r.eiit. It .? because we need them for
i lothcr itirpoee which in our judg?
ment il for the time being more im?
portant."
Although the phra.-e* relating to
time d? deliberate!* refer more
to the future than to the past, the
mini-ter's meaning was an open secret
in the Route of Common.? when he re
fcrrod ta. the "ipeeial programme" and
I "'another purpoae.** It was to Kitch
? ?? r'l great guns and wonderful shells.
670 NEW CHOLERA
CASES IN AUSTRIA
Minister of Interior Announces
Spread of l.pidemic Oa
licia Suffers Most.
Paria, "??ii?*,. ? **? A llavas ijiapatch
from Zurich sa\- that the Austro-Hun
garian Miniatcr of the Interio states
bolero la .-preadine.
Six hundred and ?cve-nty new cases
have been officially reported, the ma?
jority m Galicia.
Basal?^???^?^M*^^^^^^^"**"****^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .
Denmark and Holland
rhc United States is not the onlj neutral country in a
delicate position. Re?d two noteworth) inicies next Sunday
one about Denmark, h) r. Loihf.-r Stoddard, an autborit* on
1 uropiin politics, and one rtoul Holland, h Prolessoi A H. H
Struycken, a member of Vueen u/llhelmina's Private Council.
These are but two cd the manj unusuallj importan! features
?Ahull come to you mi-cI? if |*ou tell jour newsdealei i?-da-,
thai you wanl
?bt ?uttimg (?nbit?ia.
First to Ldst-the Truth: New*--Edto'tih Advertistments
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Kovno Yields to Hindenburg;
Czar's Army Faces New Trap;
Mackensen Crosses the Bug
COUNT VON BERNSTORFF.
German Ambassador to the United States, who paused to pose for a Tribune
photographer.
Bernstorff Sends Aid
To Capital with Reply
Papen lakes Papers?Ambassador Believes Unneutrality
Charges Will Collapse?Communicates Hourly
with Berlin on Answer to Latest Note.
After a conference with Count von
BernstortT. the German Ambassador,
which lasted all evening, Captain Franz
von Papen, Military Attach? of the
German Kmbassy, was sent to Wash*
; ington last night. It was reported that
he carried among other important doc?
uments a reply of the Ambassador to
the recent charges which have been
made against officials of the German
Kmbassy. As Captain von Papen is one
of the principals involved in the al?
leged expose, it is thought that he was
charged with laying before the State
Department his version of the cone
: pondence between Dr. Heinrich Albert
and himself, which formed part of the
basil for the allegation made by the
"New York World," that officials of
the (ierman Kmbassy conspired to fo?
ment social and Industrial unrest in
tins eountry in favor of Germany.
Count von BernstortT did not per?
sonally go to Washington, because ii.
is understood that he is in communi?
cation with the B' lin Foreign I
which i| now .-aid to be framing the
reply to the last American note, and
?re. to be m?r the summer em
ba--y ai Cedarhuitt, Long (aland.
Messengers ami fficiai- of the Ger
ni-tn Kmbassv wer.' kept busy ft
day, travelling back and forth between
?he I.it'-i'arlton Hotel, where the Am
?or has taken quarter?, and
?.'edarhurst. '.
Prom sources close to Count von
I'-r i.-torff it wns learned that the ara
baaaodor is conlident that the charges
made against him and his associates of
the Gorman Embassy will collapse.
While he would not consent to talk for
publication, it is umlerstood that the
ambassador has expressed the belief
that the diplomatic relations between
the two countries have not been af
foctod by (lie alleged exposures of a
(ierrnan conspiracy, supposed to have
been inst'gated and fostered by the
German Embsi If
Adhering to his "war" resolution
not to take part in any public cele?
brations Count von Bernstorff last
night declined to attend the mass meet?
ing which had been arranged by the
Au.stro-Munganan Society of New York
to celebrate the eighty-fifth birthday
anniversary of Kmperor Francis Josepn
I of Austria-Hungary, which was hell
at Terrace Garden. Dr. Constantin
1 >umba, the Austrian Ambassador,
dropped in for a short time, but di?l
not take part in the "patriotic" speech
making which characterized the affair.
A mes-age of congratulation written
by Count fen Bernstorff was read t>
the -av?rai thouaoud -ubj'i-ts and ad?
mirer- of the "('reise Kaiser." There
real much patriotic -pecchinaking, sing?
ing of Austrian songs and general jubi?
lation at the success of the Austrian
aims among the Au.?tro-Hungarian ?,
and Cerium- who crowded the halls of
Terrace Garden.
WORKERS APPEAL
FOR WORLD PEACE
French Federation of Labor
Urges International Movement
to Prevent War in Future.
Paria. Aug. IS. The General fedora
tion of Labor, the French Uesolution
ary labor body, lost night a?lopte?l a
.tion appealing to the interna?
tional working tlas-es to .'...>-.
that peace ma> represent the triumph
of right over might, and that through
the aecptanc* by all countries of ah
ligatory arbitration, the ?uppre
seeret diplomacy and of the burdens of
armament may ariae the possibility of
I a federation >f nation assuring to all
I peoples the right to' dispose freel-, of
' themselves ntid shfegUarding the ind?
I pendente of all nationalities."
KAISER ASKS WAR
GOLD FROM NATION
.Ministers Appeal to Scholastic
and Religious Officers to
Obtain It.
I ? au'.e ?o Th? rrili.ji? |
Zurich. Aug. I*?. The German Min
i-?ers of the Interior and Finan,
?ent circulan to all communal m-hol
e -tie and religious authorities,calling?'?!
them to use every effort to ol.ta'i a
h in ?gain-t Germany'? enemies."
"Frankfurter Zeitung"
that the government will mase *
??I -tatement to the Budget Commis*
sion ii ? ? roi te h "'? and '
gent to provont tho proceed?
ing!? of the commis-?n being divulged.
The re,iui?itlon bv the government
| of au the eouatry and th?*
order that textile factories ?hall wori.
exeluaiveh for the armv have treat".!
terna! .In masking an,i
l clothing trades.
400 Cannon and Greai
Stores of Munitions
Captured.
ROAD TO VILNA
IS NOW OPEfs
(iermans Menace Petro
grad Railway and Move
on Brest-Utovsk.
FLANK RUSSIAN UN?
Invaders Are East of Seconi
Defence Front Grand Duke
Hastens Retreal.
LoiWon, Aug. 18. K'i\iii>. one o
the crucial points in the Russian ?l<*
tensive in the north, was capture?
by the (Iermans last night. The roa?
to the Yilna-Warsaw-Petrograd rai'
way i.s now open to the Kaiser'
troops.
The capture of the fortress \\ ii
another triumph for the (ierman
sixteen-inch gun.**, which throughout
the war have not failed once in bat
tering down fortifications. With UN
fortress of Kovno the Germans tool
more than 400 guns, and, aceordini*
to Berlin, an enormous quantity of
*war material.
Besides opening the way to Vilna,
an open town, from wnicn most or
the inhabitants have fled and every?
thing that might be of use to the in?
vaders removed, the fall of Kovi ??>
removes the last protection to th*
main line railway to the capital an I
place? tho Germans in a position lo
threaten the flanks of the Russian
| armies retiring to the Brest-Litovs'c
line and those operating in southern
Courland.
Russian forces still are holding
fortifications at Jesia, two and one
half miles south of Kovno, according
to an official statement issued to?
night by the War Office in Petrogra?!.
The communication says:
On the 18th. after eleven days
of fighting near Kovno, the enemy
succeeded in seizing the fortifica?
tions on the left bank of the Nie
men. To the west of Jesia, and op
the right bank of the Niemen, a ?
are hoding all the fortifications.
Retreat from Poland Hastens.
Grand Duke N'iclula? apparently e\
pected the fall of Kovno, for his
rrmies are hastening their retirement
in Poland eastward. They still hoU'.
their own from Kovno to below Osso
weti, but south of that they are b?
ing pressed, on the northeast by Gen
! erais von Scholz and von Gallwitz and
, on the west by Arcr.duke Leopold, who
has ciossed the Bug River, and is ap?
proaching the Brest-Litovsk and Bielo
stok railway. In the south, General
rofl Mackensen, a**ter many rebut? I,
, linally has succeeded in driving t?.?
Muscovites into the outer positions of
the fortress of Brest-Litovsk. T?"
more of the forti cf Novo Georgievsk
have fallen.
For the fust time since he began
? his retirement from western Galicia
in May, Grand Du*?* Nicholas, in the
opinion of militai \ observers, finds
part of his army in serious danger of
envelopment. The military writers
e.\press curiosity as to how he ?ill
extricate it.
Orderl) Retreat Continue?
The Russian commander continu? -
an orderly retrea'. Outside of tn?
guns taken with the fortress of Komi..
or captured in the torts of Novo ?
gievsk, the Germ-ins make no claim
to the capture of artillery. It woubi
appear also that few pr'soners h* .?
been taken, v?. hielt doubtless mean.?
that the Austro-Geimans have not m< ?.
with serious lighting.
?With Kovno in Oerman hand' ?? i
another German amiy acro-s the Bu?.
south of Brest Litoral?, a ?pcr?ly e\ ,
military observer* say, is the only
? safe one for tbe Ku-smns if they arc
I to escape before the second tet o?
pincers are closed
Berlin Celebrates Victor...
Tidings of the fall of Kovno MM
greete?! in Berlin by a salute of li! ..
?"Victory" shots at noon to-day in th?
Lustgarten. All the church bell?, in
the capital rang at the same tim-v
GKKMAN OFFICIAL
The text of the statement loaned to?
day by the (ierman Army H?'ad'|uar
tr t? Staff follows:
Army group of General Field Moi
shal von (linden)urg: The C??
of KoVno, together uitn all itl
and innumerable ??uan'itier? of ?mm.
? ? it, Including I ?? i '* '
cannon, fell into German : 'a
in the ?ourse of the ni;:ht. Tko
fortress wa? lakes !?'. it?rai lo fac^
of the mo?? -.'uWlmrn rooietaae?
the part of the ?aoSSf.
The armies of Geperal tot,
and General von GarUiU penetrated
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