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Slskti M?£§ 1% &» II *^!I W'M it rm. i'i E VENING s?EDITION VOL. 10, NO. 182. If VESSEL TRED Seven Men Meet Death when Boat is Sunk—Details Not Certain. SHIP ENGAGED IN MUNITIONS WORK Question of America's Viewpoint rests Upon Mfnner of Handling Situation —Believed that Ship was Ordered to Stop, but failed to Heed Warning. Queenstown, July 31.—, Four of seven men killed when the steamship Iberian was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine are said to have been Americans. London, July 31.—The Leyland liner, the Iberian, has been sunk by a German submarine. Five members of the crew were killed, two died aboard the rescue boat and 61 landed safely. The Iberian was of 5,223 tons |£(G«5v ter, whfcre sne was reported to havfe rstrrived on July 20T She was 437 feet long, built at Sunderland in 1900. The Iberian has been used for several months for trans portation of war supplies be tween the United States and England. Casualties aboard the Iber ian were caused by shell fire. The submarine then torpe doed the liner and the vessel went to the bottom. Upon her arrival at Bos ton from Manchester and Liverpool on July 2, mem bers of the Iberian's crew told of toeing chased by a German submarine when only a few miles from the Mouth of Mersey. Captain Jago maneuvered his ship out of danger, however. Washington, July. 31.— Consul Frost at Queenstown reported that the Iberian dis regarded the German sub marine's orders to stop, and consequently was shelled. The case of the Americans (killed in the shelling of the llberian turns on whether the lip was warned by the Ger man submarine and whether t|he attempted to escape. rSi State department of*I had no details.^ 0 Kansas Loses 23,000,000 Bu. of Winter Wheat as Topeka, Kas., July 31.—Kansas farkners will harvest 118,790,000 bush el* Of winter wheat' this year. aecord-, ing to the estimate, based on condi tions July 24 In the juljr. report,of! the state board of agriculture, lsiued laat'-nlsht. .»•• Continuous rains and' hall durlnc JtM .harvest seaeon have cogt thiTirtate fSftftMOO bushel* of wluN|t,. fh* re ... -... —f polnts out, the rt, based on conditio been lli,JM,0W +i ut c\.?*U pv THREE ARE GIVEN VERDICT OF GUILTY Los Angeles, July 31.-^-The Jury In the trial of the government's eult against Charles A. Elder, president, and ten other former officials and em ployes of the Los Angeles Investment company, charged with conspiring to use the mails in a scheme to defraud, returned a verdict late yesterday of guilty, against President Elder, W. O. Deeble and George M. Derby. The other defendants were acquitted..: This is Statement of Captain of Eastland When Testi fying in Case. Chicago, July 31.—Captain Frank A. Dority, commander of the Eastland from 1903 to 1908, as a witness in the federal inquiry into the disaster, tes tified that while he considered the Eastland safe if she had the water in her: ballast tanks properly distributed, in his opinion water is the most dan gerous form of ballast. Dority testified that about the mid dle of the season of 1904, the East land careened while crossing a bar outside of South Haven, Mich., and was 40 minutes late in reaching Chi cago as a result. "I deemed the water ballast was properly distributed when it was in No. 3 tank, which was in the middle. The water in the tanks shift with the list of the vessel. In my opinion water is the most dangerous form of ballast." Struggle Starts When Cap erton Tries to Land Blue* jackets and Marines. Washington, July 31.—When the Haitiens resisted the landing of Rear Admiral Caperton's bluejackets and marines Thursday, six of the natives were killed and two wounded in the fighting. Admiral Caperton made this report as a forecast of further revolutionary disturbances on the island. Two Americans were killed during the fighting in the outskirts, started when the revolutionists attempted to seize the city. THE WEATHER. North Dakota: Unsettled weather with showers tonight and Sunday. Warmer tonight. UNIVERSITY READING. 7 a. m„ 56 maximum. 74 min imum, 49 wind northeast, 6 miles barometer, 80.0ft. Berlin, July. 31.—Klajor Ernest Moraht, the military, correspondent of the. Berliner Tageblatt, reviewing the twelve'months of the war for the As sociated Press, says: "A year ago & coalition with a powerful numerical superiority de clared war pn Austria-Hungary and Germany. The -hostile countries have .. .. a far larger population than have the '•est *'4 bush two central powers, and their com bined armies originally outnumbered those of the latter. The central states.' however, have known hpw to im prove this- difficult jrituation by alter nately, taking 'the offensive and defen sive on the western and eastern fronts. "In the west the .German armies In a rapid, triumphant adifa^ce carried their standards within &0 miles of Pa ris and have k^pt them, flying there since mid-September. 9ven though the right apd left Wing* .of our wide flurtg battlefront In aiid bei glum have beep bent ^aek slnee then (because there was i^o 'other 'method 1 1 for the time being of the nutnerica^euperiori^ of ih* Brt't^ tah, French-' and Belgl^iV ntil we hold the position* firtlfled dit'ring the Pine month* flrmly ln tour hpnda, so that almost jMl at Belgium and the northeastern 4ep*rtmente of France have been occupied by the troop* of Germiuiy. "In the east the Apstro-German ar mies first held up the RussUnmlllions on the GaUelKa frontiers and then 44 vtfy shortly. The Russian for«ses were-forced to retire befo.re manf- will hi destroyed or forced to flee fold iiamerlcsal ,*uperiorlty. a Jacob Luban With Two Oth ers Arrested in New York Gambling Joint. New York. July 31.—Jacob Luben. a witness for the people In the first trial of Charles Becker, was arrested with two other men yesterday when the police raided an alleged gambling house on lower Sixth avenue, said to have been operated by ''Dollar John" Langar, frequently mentioned in the Becker case- The names of sixty-five men who were in the place were tak en and much gambling paraphernalia was confiscated. FROM WIMP Was Gone Almost Year and Distributed Much Money to Needy Americans. New York, July 31.—The armored cruiser Tennessee returned yesterday from nearly a year's cruise in Euro pean waters in relieving American refugees in the war zone. She left New York August 7,'.1914, .with $6, 86.7,000 in gold and- returned. with *169,000. THe balance was distributed to needy Americans in Turkey and Asia Minor., She aided also, in rescu ing nationals of belligererit 'countries bqrr" JSiurd' to the pubitreaitfry ti'ei& Were Charged with Violat ing City Ordinance in Selling Explosives New York, July 31.—Eleven con tractors were discharged with a re primand when arraigned yesterday before Chief Magistrate McAdoo as a result of an investigation started by the police after Prof. Erich Muen ter, alias Frank Holt, who shot J. P. Morgan and later committed suicide, disclosed the ease with which he ob tained explosives. The contractors were charged with violating a city ordinance in that they did not properly record the purchase and disposition of the explosives. After the contractors pleaded Ig norance of the law Magistrate McAdoo lectured them and warned them that any future violations would be severe ly dealt with. was able to destroy several large Rus sian armies and free East Prussia to occupy conjointly with Austrian troops Poland almost to the' Vistula and in the northeast to carry-the war into the Russian provinces. "While the positions In the Wftr in the west continue to surge to and fro .and three great attempts -to break through our lines in the winter, spring and summer, were repulsed with \awful losses to our enemfes, the German and Austro-Hungarian armies on May 1 launched a great offensive against the Russian main armies in a a "In a series of battles and tinder constant pursuiti the Russians were hunted out of 41,470 square nrtles of Galicia, their'principal force was sev ered at several places and. they -were driven'eastward and northward.' "The west, bank of the Vistula In Poland has been cleared of Russian armies. The sifge tff Warsaw about to befeln'and Field Marshal yon Hln denburg in the northward has pressed forward against Riga and' now has* reached the vicinity of the clty after numerous victories. The/sUc'eesses of the Germans have cost the Russian armr many millions iq dead, wound ed and prisoners.' The Russian em pire possesses only fragment* *of It* mighty amles and no-ldngVir can! sup ply these adequately wlth ^arms and munltl.0H*-' Their fate- win ^b« dedid- to In- deejr into the Interior to the trfpeh themselves on.tho cawit «f the warii C^CpaihlanB and to beatr back until -The battle* In the, west h»ve May 1 the Russian assaults with so deeply into the French strength heavy losses. Jkteenwhile Field M*r-1 that now 19-year-old lads muki he*!' ehal von Htndenbux* fn Best PrussU arms.' Great Brian's AH^phFtomy OAlMlffii •r-^r GREATEST GRAND FQRKS, N. D.. SA^flpDA* EVENING, JULY 31, 1915. Scheme -Bcdposed Would Bring oii «6ace Parleys BetWeen iration Leaders .: -.41— LAST CHANCE FOR SETTLING TROUBLES .. •,^T Definite StepaJfefeyt*! Pending Return to Cajtltel of i^rident WUHm—Pre liminaries. However, Ave All Cared for in the Mettkime. 'Vi. Mexico City, July SI.—(By wireless.)-—Paul Hudson, presi dent of The Herald Publishing company of Mexloo Oity, an American citizen, together with members of his family and staff of his newspaper, has been im prisoned and threatened with courtmartial. The charges are not announced. Allan Mallory. an American, was amMilted by followers of Zapata while carrying American diplomatic correspondence. Leading Men of Nations at War Review Past Year's Developments has been destroyed and only enough, substitutes -can be ralsM-. tO^shold a -44-mile front in Belgium^ 'The Brit ish losses, particularly thoM^of offi cers, have'been very- heavy. The army of #,000,000 men which Lord Kitchener: promised six months ago has not yef-appeared and PVt*? oppo nents In the west never will be ablerto raise superior fora§)o ex pel the Germans from, the country. '•The.^ftrUdn in th.e.r pawiinelles whichhM/.^een in progress for mootKs mgalnst the Turks «hows: re sult* fpr"'the British and Ficench, only In 'gre%cl oefes:. of men, .ship*, and war *UppU«|^ dt 'ail kind*, Turkish army/stea-diiy is impf^Vittg 'in nun ben aind .quality. The Turk$s|i' fortl flcatons are quite as '.itRonp, ^s they weire. at tbe outset. The -prpiipects of the attaekers reaching .Conatjuitinople, therefore,". 16ave vanished aitdsince none ,-Ofythe^Balkan states willing to enter tA^.Anglo-French siwrlce and since th^ RiiiiBien annf' whlch should .Igpaied from CMhttsa has iq Oalii^auJ^is diffl chanee-for niince and ." W ,. „UT. aeeretjy/for'Qlrie mo^ntoventered the field aVsdiM Aufb^^Uiiitipry' mt the O0O,OO^Tmien strong,- li» been at temptintfr for two piOBthi/Jto sweep APPEALS FOR of Washington, 31.-^Officials the United States government are going ahead wfttv plans tor the pacifi cation of MQXICO. Definite action, however, will awaijt .President Wilson's return to Washington next week. Reports genet-ally credited here said that a message will be sent to the Mexican factional. leaders giving them the last Chaqce to end the strife within a limited itlme. The plan is said to comtomtjlate bringing about through ptf|ce parleys. this Reports, greatly belated? ^pme of them a week old, coming from Mexico City, 'indicate that a reign of terror is on in the Mexican capital, and that for eigners are being arrested and executed. Americans of prominence have been arrested and ^assaulted, and Zapata and his leaders are ha rassing American, diplomatic agents and openly de fying the United States. The Brazilian minister is unable to do anything for foreigners, as he has no power to appeal to. PEACE CALLS ON HEADS OF NATIONS FOR ACTION Rome, July SI,—"In the holy name of God, our heavenly father, and Lord Jesus, whose blessed blood was given as the price for human salvation, we beseech you whom Divine Providence place at the heads of the belligerent na tions to end the bloody carnage which, for a year, hns dishonored Europe." The foregoing is the concluding paragraph of anew appeal which Pope Benedict XV. has issued to the rulers 'of the belligerent pow ers of Europe to bring about peace. It was issued'yesterday, and published today in the Osser vatore Romano. "Today, the sad 'anniversary of the outbreak of this tremendous conflagration, a more ardent pica arises from our hearts for a sud den cessation of hostilities," says the pope. "The longer we cry for peace, the more loudly may this cry reach the people of neutral coun tries and their rulers, inducing them to higher counsels." "Yo«i are assuming before God and man tremendous responsibil ity. O. you warriors, heed our prayer!" Pope Benedict invites the rulers of the powers at war to abandon the idea of mutual annihilation, as nations never die. but always prepare for revenge. "Why not begin now to ex change views with the idea of ending the confflct?" aides the pontiff. "Blessed Is he who will first raise the olive branch." The pope ends by extending his blessing to everyone working for peace, be they Catholic or Protes tant. Mallory was carrying au Ameri can flag, which was torn and in sulted by his Mexican assailants. Zapata personally destroyed the correspondence taken from Mal lory. Zapata broke the legation JJ®*" J»ylng at the same time that the Americans were fools. The Brazilian ambassador made mi effort to obtain the release of ttodaon. but he was openly flout ed. Terror prevails, and all gov ernmental control is lacking here. cost of the attackers has been hun dreds of thousands In dead and wounded. Austria-Hungary grows stronger day by day and although its valiant struggle is a difficult one against Italian superiority In numbers it will be able to bar the way to the coastland and to Trieste and Tyrol. "Meanwhile Italy has lost her en tire colony at Tripoli to the Arabs and apparently Is about to declare war on Turkey. "The Serbian army after great loss ®", the winter has undertaken no military- operations, being content to flruard the frontiers of its country on which there no longer is an Austro Hungarian army. "The-other Balkan states are about to decldy which side they shall take in the ,, Since Russia's forces nave been driven back and .badly beaten mmt a. German and Austro Hungarimi army has been arrayed n*ir tfxmmzss *ront*er.. of Roumanla, Bul to an understanding with Turltgr. and Greece remains the opponenvof Italy, and an Increase in the numb^ of our enemies under control of: the entente alUes no longer is to be anticipated by A^strla-Hun- "The Germans have every reason, therefore, at the end of the flrat yew of the war to consider their sacrlflees In blood and treamirls have been -re warded: We are well prepared for a continuance of the war.' Our nation •till possesses determination to con quer and to make the necessary sacri fices. Our supplies of war material are assured by efflclent organization*. Our finance* are far from exhauated and there i* no laefc of provision*. Our- fleet, despite, ^^few'-^oeet#. among or if you wsait -coritmunication. Besides the capture of Lublin and the seiEure of the railway, German forces have' crossed ..the Vistula river between' Warsaw alid Ivangorod, and the problem for the Russians to hold their wings north and south of War saw, while the center retires, becomes more acute. It is argued that the conduct of this retreat without great loss will en tail the necessity of the ljublin-Cholm front holding firm. of the increasing German forces driv en from Kovno and Suwalki, toward Vilna, the capture of which would cause the northern line to retreat. With these developments Great Bri tain is greatly concerned, and some sections of the newspapers are seiz ing the opportunity to emphasize Rus sia's task to press for conscription here as best proof to give Russia that the western allies purpose to stand by her In exerting all pressure possible in the west. The Russian press, according to spe cial dispatches reaching London, feel that the western allies should have in itiated some movement in France or Belgium to relieve the strain on Jtus sia did by her Invasion of East Prus sia. With events ehaped as they now are, it is realized here that the Russians have lost the initiative for the remain der of the summer, which will enable the. cruisers, is .ready to be thrown into .the struggle at the proper mo ment and in full strength and our submarines in all the seas are the dread of our enemies. Thus their of fensive has changed to a defensive and the prospects of eventual victory for the central powers is materially Increased." ,v..- London, July 31.—Sir Edward Grey, the British minister for foreign affairs, has given the following authorised statement to the Associated Press: "I have been asked to send a mes sage to the United States of America at the end of the first year of the war. "The reasons which led Great Bri tain to declare .war and the ideals for which she is fighting have been fre quently set forth. They are fully un derstood in America. I do not feel, therefore, there'is any need to repeat them now. I am quite contented to leave the rights and wrongs of the causes and conduct of the war to the judgment of the American people. The United Kingdom, and the en tire empire, together with their gal lant allies, .have never been more de termined than they are today to prosecute this' war to a successful con clusion which will result in honorable and enduring peace based on liberty, and not burdensome militarism." Paris, July Jl.—A year of war find* "France is fit to continue the struggle to the end and confident of the out come,'V say* Count Adrlep Lannes de Montebelto in a revtew of the first twelve months of hostilities to the A*sooiatod Couat de Montebello, rviK n'* CUT OFF, AS TEUTOftS MAKE DESPERA ATTEHPIS TO GAIN KOKTHERN POSITKM Vienna, July 31.—Austrian cavalry entered Lub lin Friday afternoon, according to an official state ment issued at the Austrian war office. •. By the occupation of Lublin, 95 miles southeast of Warsaw, the Austrians have cut the Russians' ail- t£v important means of communication connecting the whole southern Russian front between the Vistula and the Bug rivers. The Russians have battled desperate ly to prevent the Teutonic allies from gaining posses sion of the Ivangorod-Lublin-Cholm railroad, which for some distance parallels the Vistula river. The Russians rushed to the front new reserves and veteran troops, whose ranks have been recruited to full strength. These forces fought valorously to retard the progress of their antagonists, and adminis tered serious checks to the Austro-German forces, and although exposed to merciless fire, Field Marshal Von Mackensen evidently has been successful at last, how ever, in forcing the advance. Until a few days ago the allies considered the Russian defense of the Lublin-Cholm railroad one of the hopeful features of the campaign in the east. Con trol of the Lublin-Cholm railroad will afford the Aus* tro-Germans means of quickly massing troops at any point desired, and will deprive the Russians of one of their main avenues of retreat. The military railroad built by the Russians south from Lublin during their occupation of Galicia, through the region which for strategic reasons had hitoerto been left without"'t'ailr6ads, proved ofifereat Now that it is broken, quick action on the part of the Russians becomes imperative, as also does the stemming ern Poland. oa Page 4.^ EVtNfll^ EDITIONS EIGHT PAGES—PRICE FIVE CENTS. •*v Jf In the meantime General von Bue low continues his drive toward Vilma, seeking to cut off the northern rail way from Warsaw to Petrograd. The predicament of the Russian army, seeking to withdraw intact from War saw. unless the main forces are al ready out of the district, becomes more perilous. Warsaw's 800,000 in habitants. laden with what household articles and supplies of food they can carry, are fleeing the city toward the ast. and every dispatch from Russia makes guarded reference, though quite colorlessly, to some phase of the evacuation of the city. sSvf i.K the Austro-German# to' strike 'hard at either Prance, Belgium, Serbia or ^1 Italy. London, July 81.—An official aiii" nouncement that the Austro-German cavalry had entered Lublin supple menting the German claims of last night that the Russian grip along thla stubborn front has been broken indi cates that the important Lublin-Cholm railway is now strongly held by the invaders, cutting oft one line of re treat for the Russian forces in south- The official announcement of its abandonment, which even now may be a fact, has not been forthcoming, '^4 however, although the slender hope of the entente allied countries is that the Germans might be held on the thresh- S.T'X hold is dissipated and military writ ers are confining themselves to debat Ing Grand -Buke *Hcl»afeuf chances of extricating his armiee from the hard pinched triangle without d««»W Norwegian and Belgian Boats Sunk, Crews Saved ,| The Belgian steamer Prince also Siil'. was sunk by striking a mine. Th» fel crews of both vessels were saved. Attempt is Made to' Re-capture peiagoiiit Rome, July 31, via Parts.—An at tempt was made by a squadron of Austrian cruisers and a flotilla of tor pedo boat destroyers to recapture the Italian island of Pelagoea In th* Adriatic, which was occupied by lt«l lan naval forces last Monday, accord-' lng to an official communication is sued today by the 'Italian ministry of marine. The attack was repulsed, the state ments adds, and some members of the Austrian landing party were foived to swim to their ships. GERMAN SCHOOLERS ARE SEIZED SY U. S ™an_ schooners,. the Ntpttnt and lt« las, interned in Oakland harbfiir the commencemsnt of. the.. Stir w. were artsed yMterday by B. Holohan, Dnlt«l ltst«k j&U UPOBI libels for $1».M» and *1^1 spectlvely, issued by theUnited 'district oouit. ••Tho'vsssjltfe by ^the Jaluit .C" burg, Gefndwr commenced by Co^ t» reeever the crews' f* 'hi 01 .ft: 'i W*h I ffiS'll •a* it jt?v CM •The Norwegian SSgjj. London, July 31. steamship Trondhjemafjord was Tor pedoed and sunk by a German sub marine. sM v- s' 1