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NUMBER 19,878.
RICHMOND, VA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1914.?TEN PAGES
64th YEAR
TO-DAY'S
WEATHER
FAIR
PRICE. 2 CENTS
GERMANS START GENERAL OFFENSIVE;
GAIN AT SOME POINTS AND LOSE AT OTHERS
MRS. CARMAN IS
CONFIDENT JURY
WILL ACQUIT HER
Accused Woman Probably
Will Know Fate by
Nightfall.
BOTH SIDES PROMISE
TO END CASE BY NOON
Summing Up and Delivery of
Charge Then Will
Follow.
DAY FOR DEFENSE IN COURT
Defendant Submits to Grilling Cross
Examination*, and Others A p.
pear in Her Behalf.
M1NEOLA, October 23.?Mm. Flor
ence Conklln Carman, on trial hero for
the murder of Mrs. Louise lialley, inay
^know her fate by to-morrov/ night.
Her counsel and District Attorney
Lewis. J. Smith to-day Informed Justice
Chnrlca II. Kelby they undoubtedly
would complete their case before the
noon recess to-morrow.
The entire afternoon thus will be left
for the summing up and the delivering
of the charge to the Jury. The case
should bo In the hands of the Jury be
fore nightfall.
This was the defense's day. WltnesB
after witness gave testimony for Mrs.
Caiman. The defendant herself sub
mitted to a grilling cross-examination.
Kxplalnlng her Installation of a me
chanical "eavesdiopplng" device In
the olllcc of her husband, Dr. Edwin
Caiman, she told how men friends of
her husband had asked him In her
presence how "all, of his girls" were.
Other men, she said, solemnly, had
told her the doctor was a "devil with
the girls."
She brought her story down through
a long period, during which she kept
hcirlng things about her husband and
"4?I?
ADMITS SHE BE f.O.MKS
SISl'IClOl'S OF HCSHAMD
men ?ne au muted ?ne. oecame ???- j
y I t,-I n us of Dr. Carman and had the "me*
Chart leal uvesdrojiped" installed in his :
office. She admitted that If a woman |
patient came to her husband's of
fice many time* nho became suspicious
of the woman and also of hor husband.
Mrs. Carman frequently was con
fused and ut times hesitated and fenced
with the prosecutor. When interrogated
regarding her failure to write a note of
condolence to the family of the woman
killed or to call at the house to
express her sympathy, Mrs. Carman ap
peared on the verge of a breakdown.
When It wan over she hurried to her
beat nnd watched her little daughter
TCllzabeth, walk to the witness stand.
Then she listened intently while the
t-hlld testified in her mother's defense.
Meanwhile. Mrs'. Carman showed In
creasing signs of nervousness, and
when her aged, gray-haired mother
took the stand and begun her testi
mony. the wom. n on trial for her life
burst into tears.
All members of Mrs. Carman's family
-testified In her behalf to-day. Their
stories were corroborative, and each
witness denied there wax tho least
truth In tho story told by Cella Cole
man. the servant, who gave testimony
on Thursday intended to connect Mrs.
Carman directly with the murder.
Another witness wae Ferdinand Q.
Morton, a negro lawyer, employed to
got a statement from Cella Coleman for
the district attorney. This statement
afterwards was turned over to tho de
fense. In this statement Cella denied
she knew anything niQro about tho
'murder than she had told at the inquest
when her story was favorable to Mrs.
Carman. The maid has declared she
lied at this hearing, because Mrs. Car
man had asked her to and because she
then felt sorry for her mistress.
NOT SLIGHTEST DOUBT
OF VERDICT OK ACQUITTAL
Mrs. Carman declared to-night sho
had not the slightest doubt the Jury
would bring in a verdict of acquittal.
Mrs. Carman, smilingly stepped into
tho witness stand for tho ordeal of
cross-examination by District-Attorney
Smith.
"Mrs. Carman," began tho district
attorney, "you said you were suspicious
of your husband. When did you get
suspicious?"
"About a year ago."
What caused her suspicion she could
no*! say. A woman did not cause it?
"Just rumors."
"Were the rumors about a woman?"
"No. Just some one asking him about
his girls. Somebody told me he was
a devil with tho girls."
Sho could not recall who told her
this.
"Somebody was asking him, "How are
all your girls?' a11 the time,"- she
said. "I thought' maybe there might
be some truth in what they said. Thoy
would say to me, 'The doctor la some
devil.' "
"Did you have an inclination to hear
what tho doctor had to say to his
women patients?"
"In a way, yes. Some of his patients."
"Did your suspicions Increase with
time?"
?They increased right up to the time
of the murder. Thoy have all been
dispelled now."
"Ilow long have you been in that
frame of mind?"
"Ever since the terrible tragedy.
What I heard, or rather what I didn't
hear, ov-^r the telephone Instrument re
assured me."
For pcveral minutes Mrs. Carman
nought to evade a direct answer to tho
district attorney's question as to
whether nhe thought h'?r husband was
truthful. Finally she said:. "Wo."
She explained that she had no real
reason to doubt tym, howover. She
was suspicious at first of the women
t> called frequently at his office;
lly she was suspicious of nearly
ipf his women callers. ? F
f got tired of hearing' things," sno
sald? ? ?? I ?
> "Attd the fact (hat a woman would
come' to hie office, afterwards was
(Continued on Second Page.)
? i /-ag?* ? ?tt"??
tpJrCe oil?>nrlrid&<=e. 3ir'<5iex3JV<^ JQsujJh.
pjxjfo jSwcA /ram C/rta(orm*X> J' ? 2^e/-n?.d ?iw: (
Sir George Paish (right),-adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
of Great Britain, who is hwfr for the purpoiie of' exchanging ideas .with the
Federal Reserve Board and"the admlalstratiorias.t'o the quickest and most
feasihle method of re-establishing a hasifc of exchange between'Great.Britain
and .'the United Ht^tes. ? $ir Cecil Spring-Hi ce, the Btitish ambassador to the
United States, is ajt'left of the'phbto. .
m IMSHy TESTIFIES
IN HER OWN DEFENSE
Breaks Down Through Nervousness
und Weeps, but Recovers
und TelLs Story.
all. evidence before court
Case Will Go to .Jury Tills Morning,
and Verdict I'robuble Before Night.
Finding for Defendant or Mistrial
Is Consensus of Opinion.
ISpaclal to The Tlmcs-Dlspatch.]
CHARLES CITY COURTHOUSE, VA.,
October 23.?Evidence in the. Harrison
Ramsay libel suit, on trial In the
Charles City Circuit Court, was fin
ished late thi.s afternoon.. The case
will go to the jury to-njorrow morning,
and the result probably will be known
before night. The court has indicated
that there will be-no adjournment un
til the Jury has reached a verdict, .or
unfil it reports that it is hopelessly
divided.
No evidence of a startling rtTiturc was
brought out 011 -this,- the fourth day of
the famous $10,000 suit. The plaintiff
opened with the introduction of char
acter witnesses, and closed after Mrs.
Grace Harrison had been put on to sub
stantiate the testimony of her husband.
The real feature Of the day was the
testimony of Mrs. Ramsay, the defend
ant. She was the flrs/t witness for the
defense, and, after breaking down
through nervousness in the first stages
of her testimony, she .caine back vig
orously, and was a real match for tlio
shafts of II. M. Smith, Jr., chief coun
sel for the. plaintiff. ,
ARGUMKNTS TO JI HV
MAI' BE SItOItTENED
With all .witnesses examined, the
case has come to its last stage.. In
structions will not be argued, but will
be made "by Judge R. Gardiner Tyler
after-study of the suggestions-of the
opposing counsel. It Is expected that
some agreement will be reached' to
night whereby the arguments to the
Jury may be shortened.
It Is the .consensus of opinion hero
that the jury will either lindjfor the
defendant, or will be divided. Tho
principal evidence for the plaintiff is
that of hlrnself and his wife, both In
terested parties. They have been con
tradicted on many points by witnesses,
while the.lr bare denial ip all that stand
against the testlirtony offered by Mrs.
Ramsay and her eldest Bon. It will
narrow down to a question of veracity,
with the preponderance of witnesses In
favor of the defense.
It is expected that the arguments}
to-morrow will bo brilliant ones. Both
sides have exhibited much feeling, and
the counsel were bitter and sarcastic
by turns In their opening addresses.
With the added material, gained by tho
testlntony, they will have' a wider
scope.
CROWDS ATTRACTED
BY KAJIOl'S TRIAL
The courtroom has been "jammed all
week, and an Immense crowd Is .ex*
pected to-morrow. ? Tho spectators havo
been chiefly supporters or friends of
Harrison, ?nd evory point In his favor
or bit of -humor by his counsel have
caused audible sounds of ?f.-nusement.
Tho- Intent- to Influence the yury was
so evident that It caused Mr. Byrd to
make'.a protest to the court this after
noon! Comparative silence reigned for
the balance of the day.
Probably the most Impressive piece
of testimony to-day was'that of Mrs.
Ramsay In regard-to her treatment by
neighbors, particularly mpn. AdcVpd
force .was given to her statements by
extracts from a letter Introduced by the
. (Continued on .Second.Page.)
WIN JPPEITO WILSON
B?SOUTHERN MEMBERS
President Declines to Receive Sup
port ers" of Plan for Cotton
Relief Legislation. .
ARE VISIBLY DISAPPOINTED
Congress Tied Up by Lack of Quorum
in Both Houses, After Adjourn
ment Is Blocked by Obstructive
Tactics.
\\ ASHINGTON, ' October 23.?With
Congress tied up by lack of a quorum
in both bouses, Southern Senators and
Representatives to-night mado a vain
appeal to President. Wilson for aid In
securing cotton-relief legislation whlcfc
would clear the way to final adjourn
ment. After they had blocked ad
Jorunment by obstructive tactics, the
cot ton-relief supporters went' Into con
ference to appoint a committee to wait
upon tbe President. The President,
however, when asked for.an Interview,
said he would be bqsy. with an Im
portant State Department conference
until lie left Washington at midnight,
and..therefore, could not meet the com
mittee.
The departure of the President. for
Pittsburgh, where he will address a
Y. M. C. A. celebration to-morrow, set
at rest a rumor that the extraordinary
conditions, under which Congress Jounfl
Itself unable to adjourn, might be me?
by tbe president exercising his pro
roguing power.
Continued efforts of Democratic lead
ers to secure an agreement to adjourn
failed completely, rind to-night South
ern rqembers reiterated that.this would
prolong ,the session indefinitely, cer
tainly until after the elections.
GENERAL. EXODUS
Oli* MEMBERS CONTINUES
' Meantime, the general oxodus of
member* of both houses, continues.
The House to-day had 157 members
present on a roll call, nearly slxty
short of a quorum, and tbe Senate
showed forty-six, three less than a
quorum. Senator Clarke, president pro
tempore of the Senate,:though a cham
pion of cotton legislation, left the city
aftei* ^characterizing further efforts of
his colleagues to obtain relief as
"grand stand playing."
Representative Henry, ? of Texas,
lending the cotton forces In the House,
refu?cd various offers of compromise
He frustrated an effort of. Majority
Leader Underwood to sepure agreement
to allow passago of the pending cotton
bills, insisting on consideration of his
plan for a $250,000,000 . bond . issue.
Speaker Clnrk advanced a proposal to
m^ke the pending bills the first busi
ness to come before Congress when
it/meets* In December, but Representa
tive Ilenry-nlso rejected this.
At the, conference of cotton belt
members .to-night, Representative*"
Henry declared he.would flght adjourn
ment until he secured, fi. vote on hia
bonding plan. Sermtors Smith, of
Georgia; Smith, of South. Carolina;
Ovorman, Lea, Sheppnrd, Goro and
Whito and othors were- present. Vari
ous .proposals were discussed and re
jected before the conference decided to
appeal to the President. When the re
ply came tfrat Mr. Wilson would be
busy all ".evening, the conferees ad
journed.. They >were visibly disap
pointed. > ; '
Romnlo S. Napn Elected.
WASHINGTON. October 23.?Election
of Romulo S. Naon, the.Argentine am
bassador, to honorary mismbershtp in
the American Bar Association was an
nounced to-day. Tiila honor, is con
ferred upon somo prominent Interna
tional Jurist, at tho^clqse of each an*-,
nuil'.session of the association.
FINANCIAL FORCES
TURN T6 PROBLEM
OF READJUSTMENT
Representatives of America
and Great Britain in
Conference.
i ? ?
NO NOTE OF PESSIMISM
SOUNDED BY ANY ONE
\ t ?
Committee Appointed to Con
sider Further Details
of Plan.
U. S. READY TO PAY IN GOLD
Prominent Part in Calculations
' Will Be Played by
Cotton.
WASHINGTON. October 23.?Finan
cial forces of the Federal government,
aided by the friendly counsel of Amer
ican bankers and. representatives of
Great Britain, were turned to-day to
ward readjustment of the foreign ex
change market, disturbed by the Euro
pean rrar.
For more than three hours the Fed
eral Reserve Board. Sir George Palsh
and Basil B. Blacken, representing the
English Treasury and some of the best
known bankers In New York, discussed
the situation in all Its aspects. Accord
ing to those present, no note of pessi
mism was Bounded, and to-night there
was every reason to believe all the
financial problems will be solved with
out great difficulty.
The salient conclusions reached by
the conference'are:' American bankers
stand ready to pay their obligations to
England In cash. The 1100.000,000 gold
pool,- $lrea<ly formed, and ?80,000,000
raised by a New York syndicate to meet
New York City'* obligations, probably
will be enough/ however, to satisfy
English creditors.
The New York and London Stock
.Exchange's will not bo opened soon,
possibly not before the beginning of
1915. A. joint' committee of the two
exchanges will consider this matter.
TO HASTEN"CONSIDERATION'.
I . . plan
Reserve Board is ex
,pe.cied:>t$' hasten consideration of the
prop/iscd rutton loan fupd plan, .de
signed,; in > part,, to give support to the
cotton', market.
.The. cotton exchanges in New York,
Now OrleanB. and' Liverpool probably
will be opened as soon as possible. The
New York:exchange'probably will con
fer through,a committee with the Liv
erpool exchange before,such action Is
taken. ? ? . ...
. A-committee consisting, of Benjamin
Strong, Jr., A. ,H. Wjggln,. James Brown,
of New York, and Gdvemo'r Hamlin and
Paul "M. "Warburg, of the reserve board,
will hold further conferences with Sir
George Palsh and Mr. Blackett about
details of the readjustment plan.
According to some of those at the
conference, the optimism was surpris
ing. Sir George, it was said, did not
Indicate that he had come to demand
payment of American debts; ho had no
concrete plan to lay before the Ameri
cans, but listened to what they had to
bay. The American bankers, made It
clear there was every reason to bellevo
American could and would meet all obli
gations In gold.
Although there was no expression
us to how much gold, actually, must bo
paid to England. It was the opinion of
many of those present, that but llttlo
ir.oro than that already arranged for
will bo neccssary.
COTTON WILL PLAY
PROMINENT PART
prominent part in the calculations,
all agreed, must he played by cotton,
and, for this reason, the desirability of
finding a bottom for the market and
making of the arrangements for ' tha
reopening of the aotton exchanges were
discussed at length. Sir George voiced
again the opinloir' that English manu
facturers would buy cotton when they
knew bottom had bepn reached, and
that competitors could not underbuy
them. Just how much England's buy
ers would take was not Indicated, but
the steadying efTect buying t)io~e will
have on foreign exchange' was gen
erally admitted. Mr. Blackott denied
there was an agreement in Europe to
keep down cotton purchases, thereby
limiting teh power of the United States
to pay its International Indebtedness.
Sir Georti) felt confident English
holders of" American securities would
not throw them 011 the market if the
London exchange opened. England, he
explained, was fighting the war on her
savings and on her current receipts.
A selling of American investments
might come, he said, but that would bo
accounted for by the large exportatlons
of cotton, grain and other commodities
In the ne^t few months. He added
that all securities had been taken care
of up until January 1. By that time
the balance of trade probably will
swing back towards the United States.
SHORT-TERM Pj? PBIl
IS NOT UISCUSSMO
The question. of .short-term. papnr to
tide over- tho period before Amorlcan
commodities .began appreciably to re
duce* the Amorlcan debt to England was
not discussed tprday. It was expected
it wou|d come up In the .conference
t8 ?morrow and form a basis for somo
arrangement, by which even a portion
of the >100,000,000 gold pool need not.
be actually transferred for several
months.
No direct reference was made at the
conference to the cotton loan fund
plan, which the reserve board Is con
sidering. It was discussed by member's
of the board, unofficially and will be
taken up formally to-morrow.
Upon Its success, in the opinion of
many officials, depends largely the sue?
ceBs of the present conferences. Little
doubt was expressed ;fto.-nlght that the
reserve board would approve It.
? The bankora proscnt at the confer
ence to-day were: Benjamin Strong, Jr.,
H. P. Davison, T. II. Price, Samuel Mc
Roberts, F. Q. Brown, ? Charles Starek,
William Woodward, James Brown and
?J S. Alexander; of New York; Foptus
J. ; Wfide, of St. Louis,' and D. C. .Wing,
!of Boston. . ?
<s>
z/jvxjt^taroof* tf
~rfjt
jirj!&v*'*>'r?lgrey *v*d/uj Cozajxti, thao^erj^jnktle^^osrt.^
Great Britain's ? Minister of Foreign-Affairs, whose brother, during an
nerlalraid a few days ago into German, territory? was made a prisoner of
war. .The .minister Is seen talking with his cousin, Trooper Monk Mason, at
the cajrip of the Second King Kdward's Horse at Langley Pork, Slough, Eng.
Admiralty Issues ? Statement Out
lining Steps Taken to Round
| Up Enemy's. Ships.'
EIGHT OR NINE NOW AT I.AHGE
'
Upwards of Seventy Vessels, Work
ing in.Concert, Scouring Atlantic,
' Pacific and Indian 'Oceans in Ef
fort to Destroying Preying Craft.
LONDON",'? October. 23 ;(7 P. M.).?The
admiralty to-night issued a statement
outlining- steps that are being .taken
to round up the eight or i,|no Gorman
cruisers nt large |? the Atlantic. Pa
cific and Indian Oceans. These cruisers
Include tho Emden, which has sunk or
captured twenty British vessels to date
in I he . Indian Ocoan and the Karls
ruhe. which has taken thirteen British
says" lho At,antle- The statement
"Searching for these vessels and
working in concert under various com
manders-in-chief are upwards of sev
enty ^British. Australian. Japanese;
i * rench and Russian cruisers, not In
eluding auxiliary cruisers. Among
these are a number of Britain's fastest
cruisers.
The vast expanses of seas and oceans
and thousands of islands ofTtr almost
Infinite cholco oS movement to the
enemy's ships. Despite every effort to
cut off their coal-supply. It lias be^n
ma^iahred.. Iii the face of Increasing
difficulty, the discovery and destruction
or these cruisers largely is a matter of
time, patience and good luck.
NIMBER OP SRAncniXf;
CRUISERS AUGJUiXTED
Out commanders so* far have been
occupied, in a serious, and import
ant convoy duty, . but this worlf has
lessened and the nunj'ber of'searching
cruisers Is being augmented. Mean
while merchant shlps'must 'observe the
admiralty instruotions. which It Itj :
obviously impossible to specify, and'
use all precautions which have been i
suggested. ' On. routes ;where these in-!
structlons havo been followed, they i
have so far proved very effective On
the other hand, where they have been
disregarded captures have been made
Tho same vastnoBn of the sea which has
so far enabled, tho German cruisers to
avoid capture will protect trade.
"Tho only alternative to the methods
now adopted would be the marshaling
of merchantmen in regular convoys at
stated intervals. So far it has not been
thought necessary to hamper trade by
enforcing such a system. I
I "The percentage of loss is much less!
; than was reckoned on before the war
Of our 4,000 British-ships engaged Iii
the foreign trade, only thirty-nine havo!
I been sunk by the enemy, or less than 1 i
per cent in nlll. Besides seven vessels
are now.overdue In Atlantic waters.
"Tho rate of Insurance for cargoes
which, at .the outbreak of war, was
fixed at 6 guineas per cent, has been
reduced to'a guineas' per cent.
1 ESSELS PROCEEDING
WITHOUT PRECAUTION
"Between S.000 and 9.000 foreign
voyages havo been undertaken to arid
from United Kingdom ports, less than
flvo per thousand of wlrtch have been
Interfered with;-and of these losses a
large number' have been caused by
merchant vessels taking everything for
granted and proceeding without pro
cautions, as If thoro wore no war.
On tho othor har\d, German oversea
trade virtually < has ceased to exist
Nearly all their fast ships, which could
havo been used as auMllary cruisers,
were penned Into neutral harbors or
took refuge In their own. Among the
comparatively few German ships which
have put to sea, 133 have been cap
tured, or nearly four tltnes tho number
or thoge. lost by the very largo British
mercantile marine.
- "In'theao circumstances thero Is no
occasion fox* anxiety and no excuse for
complaint.
THIRTEEN BRITISH SHIPS
SUNK BY EERNIIN CRUISER;
, ?-,.Vr i
Tlie Karlsruhe Successfully Preys in.
i Soutli erii Waters on English
. . Merchantmen.
MORE THAN 400 PRISONERS
Destroyed Vessels Largely Engaged
In South , American Tra^de, With
Total Tonnage of About 00,000.
Eventful Career in the Atlantic.
LONDON, ' October 23.?A dispatch
from Tonerife, Canary Islands, to the
Dally Mall under date of Thursday, re
ports tl'at the Gorman cruiser Karls
ruhe has sunk thirteen British mer
chantmen in the Atlantic.
. The news of the Karlsruho's exploit,
according to the Dally Mall's Tonnerlfc
correspondent, was brought to that port
l>y the German shjp Crefeld, which ar
rived thero with tho" crews of the Brit
ish steamers Strathroy, Maplebranch,
Highland Hope, Indranl, Rio Iguasua,
Farn,'Nlceto, Maria DeLarrlnaga, Cer
vantes. Cornish City,-Pruth, Condor and
I.ynrowan. all of which were .sunk by
the Karlsruhe. The Crefeld was accom
panied Into port by the German, steam
ers Patagonia, Rio.Negro and Asuncion.
A later message states that over 400
men of the- crews are prisoners.' and
that the merchantmen- were mostly
sunk in the'Atlantic. The ships were
mostly engaged in tho South American
trado.and their total tonnage is about
CO,000..
Tho cruiser Karlsruhe, a ship of a
trliio less than 5,000 tons, has had in
this war u career as eventful in the
Atlantic as that of her smaller sister
sliiu! the Emden, In the Indian Ocean.
The Karlsruhe ilrst came into notice
at the outbreak of the war, when she ap
peared in the vicinity of Sandy Hook
apparently ' In wait for British mer
chantmen leaving New York. Kor a few
days the British shipping hugged their
piers, and then caine news that tho
Karlsruhe had been driven away by tho
approach of several British cruisers.
On August 9 tho Karlsruhe appeared
In tho harbor of San Juan, I'orto Rico,
where she coaled and then again took
to tho seas.- Soon after it was learned
that tho Karlsruhe had been In a sen
sational running fight at sea with tho
British cruisers Suffolk and Bristol.
It appears that the British cruisers
came unexpectedly upon the Karlsruhe
while she was coaling from tho German
steamor Kronprlnz Wllhelm. The '
cruisers enguged In a running fight
while the Kronprinz Wllhelm, through
her superior speed, easily escaped. Tho
Karlsruhe also eluded her. pursuers,
and an unconfirmed report had it that
she damaged tho Bristol in this light.
Since then the Karlsruhe has ap
peared in several West Indian ports for'
coal, after preying in various S-juth
orn seas on British commerce An of
ficial statement, given out in Berlin
on October 3, said tho had sunk seven
British steamer? In the Atlantic.
The Karlsruhe Is a comparatively
-new ship, having gope Into commission
early In 1913. She is very fast, having
a speed of twenty-seven- knots, which
has enabled her thus far to success
fully elude the persistent British pur
suit, Her main armament consists of
twelve 4.1-Inch guns, and she carries
a crew of 373 men.
BANK GOVERNOR NAMED
Trohnbly Will ReeciVe Salary of ?S0,
000 lu Chicago District.
CHICAGO, October 23.?W. B. Mo
Dougal. bank examiner for tho Chicago
Clearing-House Association, was elect
ed governor of the Chicago District
Federal Reserve Bank to-day. The di
rectors did not decide on tho gover
nor's oalary.'^but It Is understood It
'probably: will =bo $30,000 a'year.
ALLIES FORCED
TO GIVE GROUND
IN SOME PUCES
Attack by Kaiser's Forces
Particularly Severe
in West.
ADVANCE IS ATTEMPTED
AGAINST BELGIAN LEFT
This Rests on Coast, and Is Sup
ported by English and
French Ships.
LITTLE CHANGE IN SITUATION
Russians Score Important Victory
and Capture Many
Prisoners.
Dents at Last Made
in Part of Battle Line
After days of inc??uiit fight
ing, dent* at last have been $
made In that part of the battle line
which had run virtually atralght
north and south from Ypres.'ln Bel
glum, to the bend In the elbow In
the vlclntty of the foreat of Algne,
In France. ?
Jnst a abort distance above Ita
centre, thin line now curves like
an Inverted letter "S," the allies
having pushed the Germana east of
Armentlerca In an endeavor to,press
on to Lille, and the German* hav
ing force-1 the alllea to Rive ground
around ;<nha*see, probably hoping
to obtain control of Ilethunc, a
railroad centre seven miles went of
Labaaaee.
That ground baa been won and
I oat In thta <JI?*Flct lo mJiultted In
the lateat French Official report. It
qeeina Improvable, howtver, tliut
either engagement wab decisive, aa
the report dttilitrea action* near
- Ijabasaec and Aruientlerea, near
Arras, on the same line a abort dla- ?
1 tnnce aouth of Labaaaee, continue
with great violence. In fact, the
report saya that, generally speak
ing, the situation on this part of
the war front remains the aame.
Of fighting near the const, where
llrltlsh apd French naval vessel^
are endeavoring to aid the allied,
troops In holding back the Ger>
itvan advance, nothing was vouch
aafed In the report.
Attklrch, In Upper Alaace, near ,
the Swiss frontier, Iiaa been taken
by the French at the polat of the
bayonet. Since the outbreak of the
war this town has been the scene
of much fighting, und several times
has changed hands.
Petrograd clnlms the Germans
continue to retreat, and that
Kniperor Nicholas's forces ^ have
crossed the -Vistula without resist
ance. The Austrlans are gtvea
credit In the Russian report for
continuing to fight stnbbornljr on
the Vistula, on the San and south
of Prxentysl. !*o reports, were re
ceived from Germany or Austria,
and Servin likewise was allent re
garding operatlouM lu the s >uth.
LONDON, October 23 (0 P. M.).?The
Germans have undertaken a general
offensive along the lino extending from
the mouth of the iUvcr Yser, on the
Nortli Sea, to the River Meuse, and
while they have forced the allies to give
ground in some places, they themselves
have lost positions in others. This,
briefly, is what is gathered from of
ficial French and German reports Issued
to-night;
To-day's German attack waB par
ticularly severo in tlio west, where
their right wing, strongly reinforced,
attempted an advance against the Bel
gians holding the allies' extreme left.
I This left rests on the coast, and is
| supported by English and French war
ships and by Anglo-French troops,
| which form a front extending from a
; point sonjowhere in the vicinity of
I Dixmude, southward to Labassec Canal.
Both sides claim successes, but the
J French alone admit that In places they
have fallen back.
I There is, however, little change In
the situation, the lines swinging and
I swaying as they have done for weeks.
NO DECISIVE IIA'ITLE
HAS YET 1IEKN FOUGHT
! Although It now Is Just two months
since the allies concentrated on the
Franco-Belgian frontier to oppose the
German advance, and the invaders have
been almost to Paris and back hi the
interval, no docislve battle has been
fought.
Neither side has destroyed or party
destroyed an army. Even the Belgian
army $scapcd almost intact after that
country was overrun by the G'ernmns.
The same can be said of operations In
the enst, except In the case of Liexj
tenant-General: Sa'msonoff, the Russian
commandcr wliose army was partly de
stroyed by the GermanB in the battlo
at Tannenberg, East Prussia.
In the present battle on the River
Vistula, from Warsaw south to the
River Pllica, the Russians have scored
an Important victory, and have cap
tured many prisoners, besides guns and
ammunition. But tbe retreating army,
when It gets back to Its selected posi
tion, can lntrepch and start another
siege battle, such as that on the River
Alsne in Frapce. Southward of the
Pllica, the Germans stlJl hold the River
Vistula, except In front of the fortress
nt Ivangorod, where they were driven',
back by attacks from that stronghold,
AUSTRIAN ARMY AGAIN
SPRINGS INTO JjIFB
The Austrian army, so often de
scribed as routed and destroyed, a&tn
has sprung Into life, and la attacking
the Russian left wing. The Austrian*,