Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume], November 21, 1914, STATE EDITION, Image 1

About Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916

Image provided by: Rutgers University Libraries

                
I-1
I
ESTABLISHEpjl&M._’ NEWARK, N. J., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1914.—18 PAGES. WEATHER: PROBABLY CLOUDY SUNDAY.
FOOTBALL FAfi AT
NEW HAVEN ODAY
Records for AttendanP Broken
as Yale Meets Harftrd in
New ‘‘Bowl.
CITY IS ALIVE WIThCOLOR
FOR BIG GRIDIRIN CLASH
Cold, Snappy Wether and
Clear, Sunny Ski« Add to
Perfect Pictjre.
ji How Harvard an Yale
Line Up at Nw Haven
H.VKYARD. YALE.
i: T. Coolidge .. 11 ratio j‘
I.eft Knt
Parson .j,.... Talbott
Left Tart**.
Weston . . Conroy
Left Uui’d.
' Souty Whitt*
Cenlr,
Pennock .- Walden
Right titjrii.
i Trumbull . Iletta j
Right Tiakle.
Hardwick ........j..... SttJImun j
Right fnd.
Logan .j. A. Wilson
(Juarteriack.
Mahan . Ainsworth
Left llallbark.
lira tiler .I... Knowles |*
Right llallbark.
Francko . I* «"» |!
Fullbatk.
Referee, N. A. Tufts, Brown; j
umpire, llavld Fultl, Brown:
linesman, Fred Murphy, Brown:
1 Held Judge. Carl williams. Penn.
NEW HAVEN, Colin.. Nov. 21.—The
contest of the season on Eastern b_J° t"
ball fields, the Harvard and Yale
classic, was staged here today before
a gigantic assembly, as the dedicatory
game of the new Yale bowl.
More than seventy thousand ardent
followers of the game filled to the
brim this latest and greatest of ath
letic arenas for the championship con
test of 1914. it was a record crowd
bubbling over with intercollegiate
rivalry and enthusiasm, as we 1 es
eagerness for wlmt was anticipated
would prove the last word in football
strategy. .
Harvard was a sl'ffht tavorite be
fore the struggle began, although the
improvement In the condition of the
field after Thursday's storm narrowed
the odds to nearly even money.
The forenoon weather condi ions
were entirely favorable for good foot
bull The sky was clear and a
northwest breast was pufiteg down
from the Connecticut h 11s. It_ was
snapping cold and the ground in the
bowl was like asphalt early in the
d*The forenoon was spent in welcom
ing the crowd to New Haven. Th”
gathering of so great a multitude,
numbering nearly two full army
Sorp« occupied practically three dayv
yetP nine- tenths of those who came
planned to leave within a few hour
after the final whistle. The skirmish
line reached Yale precincts on Thurs
day- the vanguard marched In yester
day’afternoon and last night and to
day the main army stormed New
Haven. The city quickly capitulated
and especially the storekeepers hotel
and restaurant proprietors and flower
VVrom the railroad station, which
was the principal portal to the city,
stretching far out low-urd Yale field
for more than six hours, there was an
almost unbroken procession of be
rlbboned, bellavged and beflowered
ticket holders. The trolley service out
to the bowl was far below the speed
limit, while motor vehicles, w hi oh
dashed into the city by the hundreds
were shunted off on to the iee
crowded thoroughfares.
As curtain-raisers, the Yale man
agement provided for the morning an
intercollegiate cross-country cham
pionship run with fifteen college teams
and a Harvard and Vale soccer game
These events were held outside the
bowl. _
P. 0. WILL SEND
COTTON TB EUROPE
Burleson Agrees to Aid Plan to
Help Suffering People of
Warring Nations.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Amer
ican humanity will not have its ef
forts to save human lives interfered
with by red tape. Every man, wom
an and child in the United States
who wants to send an ounce of cot
ton to Austria or to any other war
ring nation can do so. And they
will have the active co-operation of
the poetofBce department in their
labor.
rostmuster-General Burleson made
this plain today. Enthusiastic ap
proval of the plan suggested by Will
iam G. Shepherd with the Austrian
army was expressed by the head o
the postal service. He stated that
apparently some postmasters had
failed to realize that the department
has the facilities to transmit to Aus
tria as well as to other points in the
postal union, but he insisted that this
apprehension will be removed.
Every postofflee in the United
.States will receive any package of
cotton sent to Europe's war zone
where supplies are needed, said the
postmaster-general.
It was pointed out by the post
master-general that shipments to Eng
land and France have been going
forward for some time, except to
northern France.
To Hear Dr. Shaw
Special to the Evening Star.
SUMMIT. Nov. 21.—Under the aus
pices of the Women’s Political Union,
of New Jersey, Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw is to speak here in the Sum
mit Opera House, December 2. Dur
ing her stay in this State, Dr. Shaw
is to be the guest of Mrs. Michael
O’Shaughnessy, of Short Hills.
Hav View Wheelmen.
Annual Reception anrl Ball, at Kreuger
« V(I* 14 1 f* ♦ 4 •
Riders Continue Fast Pace and
I
Are Far Ahead of
Record.
—
Ilawrence-magin and
j ROOT-CLARK TEAMS TRAIL
Second Division Pairs Are One
Lap Behind the i
Leaders.
j _ !
SCO HI. AT II O'CI.OI K.
Miles. JLaps.
j Goullet and tirrndt .2,555 0
1 Moran and .McNamara .2,555 ••
j Keg null \ rrrl .S.35B <> 1
Foffler and Hill .2,555 U
latvHon anti Drobach .2,555 »
Cameron anil Kaiser .2,555 0
Clark anti Root .2,551 9
Lawrence anti Muffin .2,654 U
Mitten anti Anderson .2,552 8
Lrendu leading. Former record, 2,522 |
miles, made by Root and McNamara In
1912.
I Special to tlie livening Star.
I MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
! NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Six teams in
j the six-day bike race entered the
| home-stretch today on even terms.
I after a night of sensational sprinting.
1 The efforts of Clark and Root and
1 Lawrence und Magin to regain the
i ground they lost last night kept the
i leaders on the move every minute.
J The fast pace continued through the
I early morning hours and the former
| records went by the hoard,
i At 10 o’clock the leaders were 26
j miles and two laps ahead of the old
record. Goullet was the pacemaker
I and at the end of the 130th hour the
leading riders had covered 2 nil miles
and two laps. The former record was
2,515 miles, made by Goullet and Fog
ler last year. Walthour and Halstead
and Magin and Lawrence w'ere one
lap behind.
REVENUE OFFICES
ARE MOVER TO
Headquarters Changed from
Postoffice Without Incon
venience to Patrons.
The headquarters of the United
States Internal Revenue Department
for the Fifth district were moved to
day from the postofflce building to
the ninth floor of the Kinney build
ing. i he department w»h occupy
offices 991 to 911, inclusive.
The employes of the department
worked until late last night packing
up the books and records so that,
early today most of the things not
being in daily use were transported
to the new offices. The remainder
of the furniture, books, records,
stock, etc., were moved after the
offices closed at noon today.
Collector Charles V. Duffy expects
to have all the moving entirely fln
ished late today so that the employes
and deput es can arrange everything
tomorrow preparatory to opening for
business on Monday without inter
ruption or inconvenience to patrons.
Special e*Press elevators will be
run to the ninth Hoor during the
unusually busy per ods of the In
ternal revenue year.
Numerous gifts and congratulatory
messages were received by Mr. Duffy
today.
Room 901 has been equipped with
heavy steel doors and window shut
ters. It will be used as a safe de
posit vault for the storage of the
cigars, diKtilled liquors, cash and
more valuable records of the depart
ment.
Adjoining the vaults in Room 902
is the cashier’s office, which will
occupied by Fred E. Fackrell and
his assistant, Henry Kress. Next
door in Rooms 903 and 904 are the
general offices for handling ferment
ed and distilled liquors, cigars and
tobacco. James P. McKenna. John
P. Fannan and Eugene Mancini are
in charge of this division.
Division Deputies C. Irving Den
nett and Joseph E. Cavanagh will
occupy Room 906. Rooms 906 and 907
will be occupied by Charles E. Bur
roughs in charge of oleomargarine
taxation, Morris Krieger, a clerk, a
switchboard operator and stenog
raphers Mr. Duffy’s office opens into
this room and also into Room 90S
which will be occupied by Deputy
Collector John V. Diefenthaler.
Rooms 909 to 911 on the south side
f the deputy collector’s will contain
the income and corporation tax di
visions in charge of James Heath.
Slayer of Husband Had
Murder Story Clippings
CHICAGO, Nov, 21.—A newspaper
cMpplng containing a list of fourteen
Chicago women acquitted of furder
'n Cook county was found in Mrs.
Bel’e F. Bernson's purse today, when
she was arrested, after she had shot
her husband.
On complaint of Mrs. Bemson last
night a warrant was sworn out for
her husband on a charge of disorderly
conduct. Police were searching fol
him when the telephone rang.
"Never mind looking for Jim any
more," said Mrs. Bemson. "I got him.
He strated to hat me ugain and I shot
him.”
Decisions in Morris Court
Speeinl to (lie Evening Slur.
Morristown, n. j., nov. 21.—
A verdict for the defendent was
handed down by Judge Day in the
district court yesterday in the case
of Meyer Cramer against Arthur J.
Shafer, of Lake Hopatcong. The suit
was for the amount of a note of $110,
given by A. J. Collins, of Lake Ho
patcong. to Cramer which was in
dorsed by Shafer.
Judge Day also took under ad
visement (he application of the 8. S.
Postcard Company, of New York, for
a new trial in their suit against
Harry May, of Butler, In which a
verdict In favor of the defendent for
$55 was returned by the jury a week
(ure
TURKS, DRILLED BY GERMANS, ON WAY TO BATTLE
.. ■■
—Copyright by Underwood dt Underwood.
Though the Turkish soldiers Imve not yet engaged the Russians in any big battles, in the skirmishes which they have hud with the czar's lighting men, the
Turks have been able to hold more tliun their own. The Turks huve been thoroughly drilled by the Germans and It Is said that German generals are command
ing them. The photo shows the Turkish regulars of the Infantry division dressed in their khaki uniforms marching across the desert sands on their way to meet
the Russians.
OF PRISON, WILL
i STAR! LIFE ANEW
! _
Last of Bosscheiter Murder
Quartet Leaves for West
After Getting Parole.
Special to the Keening Star.
PATERSON, Nov. 21.—Walter Mc
Allister. paroled from the State pen
itentiary yesterday afternoon after
serving thirteen years of a thirty
year sentence for complicity in the
murder of Jennie Bosscheiter. will
leave his father's home here this aft
ernoon for the West to start his life,
anew.
McAllister earn, here yesterday ac
companied by his sister, who went to
Trenton to meet him. He had often
said that he would never visit Pat
erson again, hut his freedom brought
on a longing to see his old home, and
he came here to spend the night at
the home of his father, James Mc
Allister, at 10G Park avenue.
The old man had been given a hint
that his son was coming, so it was
not so much of a surprise. His son
was not the rosy-cheeked youth who
left here in 1901, however. His face
is pale and haggard and his hair is
tinged with gray. He stooped when
he walked and otherwise showed the
effects of his long term in prison. He
refused to see any one, retiring early.
This morning it was announced that
he was too busy preparing for his trip
to the West to see any one.
Se\eral of those who took part in
.the Bosscheiter case have since died.
Judge Dixon, who sentenced the four
men. died about four years ago.
Prosecutor Emley, who had charge
of the State's case, died about two.
years ago. Ralph Shaw, assistant
prosecutor at the time, ended his life
by hanging himself five years ago.
Several of the jurymen arc also said
to have died.
Special to the Evening Star.
TRENTON, Nov. 21—Walter Mc
Allister walked out of the State.pris
on yesterday afternoon, the last bf the
'our Paterson men sentenced for the
murder of Jennie Bosscheiter, a Pat
erson milt worker. McAllister was
granted a parole by the Board of
Prison Inspectors after his applica
tion for a pardon had been refused
many times by the Court of Pardons.
lie did not lock like the man who
came here with Andrew Campbell,
William Death and George Kerr on
February 1, 1901, to begin serving a
thirty-year sentence imposed by Su
preme Court Justice Dixon, of Pat
erson for the murder of the young
mill girl. He looked twenty years
older than when he arrived here.
McAlister was said to have been
the leader of the quartet held re
sponsible for the murder of the
Bosscheiter girl on October IS. 1900.
He was convicted of murder in the
second degree. McAllister, Death and
Campbell were sentenced to serve
terms of thirty years each and Kerr,
who turned SI ate's evidence, was
given a fifteen-year sentence.
Keer served his time and, with a
deduction for good behavior, was re
leased February 10. 1912. Campbell
was paroled by the Court of Pardons
in April of 1913. and Death was pa
roled by the Board of Inspectors in
July of the present year.
McAllister was met at the prison
door yesterday by his sister. Eleanor
C. McAl ister, who stuck to him all
during it's trouble, even after his
father hud become reconciled to the
thought that he should stay in prison.
The sister has made many attempts
to have the Court of l’ardons exer
cise clemency, hut without avail.
When she met him yesterday she had
new clothes for him to don and to
gether they boarded the 4:57 o'clock
train for Jersey City.
The crime for which he and three
others were convicted of caused a
sensation in the country. They were
charged witli having drugged the
Bosscheiter girl and with having so
misued her that she died from the
treatment. They were all. convicted
of second degree mutder, although It
has been said that Campbell was a
victim of circumstances, as he had
no Intention of going with the crowd
on the fatal night.
McAllister's case was one of eight
een which were taken up by the board
to be acted upon yesterday. He had
hoped that he would gain his parole,
but he seemed the most surprised
man in the place when word was
tnoattnned on Run 11, Oolomn BA
PUT AT $100,000
BY ACCOUNTANTS
Revision of Assets and Liabil
ities of Missing Newarker
Is Completed.
Schedules of the assets and liabil
ities of Roland D. Crocker, the bank
rupt lawyer, who disappeared from
his offices in this city, September
23, will be filed in Trenton next Mon
day morning. The schedules were
completed today.
The schedu’es, as they stand at
present. Indicate there will be a de
ficit of more than $100,000 to be borne
by Crocker’s creditors.
There are mortgages covering twen
ty-five parcels of property in this
city that rise to $150itW0 more than
the ecu it lee in the property held by
Crocker and his many dummies. Of
these twenty-five parcels only three
are not mortgaged for far beyond
! their value. The rest have been
blanketed with from three to five
mortgages and In most Instances
those who have loaned the money
will lose all.
The only secured creditors of tin
estate are the First National Bank
of Roselle on" a n,*te of $1,800. se
cured by twenty-one shares of the
stock of the Liberty Trust Company
valued at $2,100; George W. Clark,
notes for $16,000. secured by an as
signment of a life interest in the es
tate of Samuel Lederer. and two
mortgages for $6,000 and S2.000, value
of mortgages doubtful; Newark
Trust Company, not for $5,000. se
cured by an $8,000 first mortgage on
the property of the Lackawanna In
vestment Company, and a note he’d
by the Roseville National Hank for
$500, secured by stock in the Hearth
stone Investment Company.
The largest unsecured creditors are
Robert L. Hopkins, $2,200, and Grace
IE. Moore, $2,600.
GEN. BLANCO AS
GO-BETWEEN FOR
MEXICAN CHIEF
—
i
Outlook Is for a Bloodless
! Change of Rule in Mexico City
Within a Week.
I MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21.—Il Is
i learned on the highest authority that
General Lueio Blanco will remain in
; the capital to act as the agent
! through whom the new government
I will take over the reins If necessary,
he will defend the Inhabitants from
the attacks of any of the three par
ties, but the opinion is expressed gen
erally that the adherents of Car
I ranza, Zapata and Villa will treat
I through General Blanco, thus mak
ing the change a bloodless one.
General Villa is expected here with
in a week. , , . t , . .
General Blanco declared last Tuffnt
that the lives and property of the in
habitants of the capital, both foreign
ers and Mexicans, are safe. This as
sertion was made after the general
had been visited by John Ft. S.lliman,
President Wilson’s personal repre
sentative. and the ministr from Brazil,
who complained that the city was in a
state of fright due to the appropr.a
tlon of cab horses and automobiles by
soldiers who were departing for the
front.
"I have 22,000 soldiers some of
whom are now fighting near Xochi
milee and other suburbs," said Gen
eral Blanco. "This city will not be
sacked nor will the inhabitants, for
eign or Mexican, be endangered with
loss of life or property.”
EL. PASO, Nov. 21.—The last ref
ugees to reach here before all traffic
on the railroads out of Mexico C.ty
was suspended today told of a re.gn
of terror in the capital. Thousands
are fleeing by every possible vehicle.
i -----
Key West Cneton-.-HoilHe II avail it
t'l«sr«. Made In b«n<i lioraiument nit
nntaeii - Advertiatunun*.
THm.EDU
—
ATTACK ON JEWS
Inventor, in Letter, Says They
Did Most to Build Up
Germany.
i
Thomas A. Edison, in a letter to
Jacob H. Schiff, the New York banker,
made public in The Day, a Jewish
newspaper, denies that he assailed
the German Jews in an interview with
a reporter for a Detroit newspaper,
i The Western newspaper credited
the following statement to Mr. Edi
son:
‘You know the business ability of
our Hebrew friends. They have con
trol of the business of Germany, and
the military gang which governs the
country does iheir bidding. As an in
siance of trus tne decimal uiisinesa
of i><-run is controlled oy a Jew, ana
it emp.uys aoout SB.uoO men.”
Comment on the arucie throughout
the country caused Mr. Schlfl to w rite
to Mr. r.aison asking if the .atter hau
been correctly quoted. Air. Edison s
repiy is as follows:
“My Dear Mr. Schiff—Replying to
your lav or of the loth instant, let me
say that I have not seen the news
paper article you refer to, but I re
member what I said, and It was this:
That the Germans took ali the credit
for the great advance of their nation
in commercial prosperity, whereas
the fact is that the military group]
that rules Germany had brains
enough to take the advice of the
great Jewish tankers and business
men, and gave the captains of in
dcstry a free hand, thus enabling
them to build un the enormous indus
try of modern Germany.
“I instanced the Blechroders. Bal
lin, Rathenau and Istewe, and said
that if one went down to the bottom
of things m the great and most suc
cessful industries one would dig up
a Jew who furnished the ability that
made them a success Yo-rs very
truly, “THOMAS A. EDISON.”
Chauffeur of Car Which Killed
East Orange Resident Out
on Bail.
Mrs. Ella K. Van Houten, of 37
Eaton place. East Orange, died at
life City Hospital at 3:15 this morn
| ing of injuries received Thursday
night, when she was run down on
South Orange avenue by an automo
bile driven by Philip Wangner of 150
Kidge street. Mrs. Van Houten was
on her way to the DeGroot M. E
Church, at South Orange and Little
ton avenues, where she was in
charge of a booth at the church fair.
Wangner was arraigned in th°
Fourth Precinct Court today, and
held by Judge Herr without bail for
the prosecutor’s office. Prosecutor
Guild fixed ball at *1,000. which was
furnished by Thomas Degnen. of «7
Hudson street.
Mrs. A'an Houten had followed her
daughter. Miss Hazel A'an Houten,
and Miss Jennie Vannatta across the
street in the rear of a westbound
car. halted to let off some passengers
This prevented her from seeing the
approaching auto and she stepped
almost directly in its path. The
diver of the auto said that he did
not know he had struck the w’oman
until he heard screams. He said he
he ieved the mud guard of the car
must have hit her.
The ribs on both sides of Mrs. Van
Houten’s body, from the second to
the eighth, had been broken, inflict
ing internal injuries. Her breast
bone and right shoulder were broken
and her scalp cut in several places.
The Best Mild 10c Cigar.
Ask for Somerset —®uu,—-AG
ffPtlfiemwiA
—
Stenographer for Insurance Co.
President Meets Death in
Mishap.
- |
One man was killed when an auto
mobile bus, carrying twe've persons
mostly women, overturned after col
liding last night with a touring car
, at the intersection of Park avenue
and Fifth street. A]1 the other pas
sengers escaped injury.
The victim of the accident was
Frank C. Young, twenty-eight years
old, of 5 Hui.-eim.rd avenue. Jiast Or
ange. a stenographer in the office of
Daniel H. Dnnham. president of the
Firemen's Insurance Company.
Arthur .Switzer, twdnty-one yta^
old, of 74 Day street. Orange, <lrit er
of the bus, and William A. Traud
twenty-seven years old, of JiS Maine
street, this city, a member of th
Arm of A'ex Traud Company , ma
chinists, of 124 Polk street, were held
today by, Acting Judge Oehring in th>
Second Precinct Court on charges
; of manslaughter.
Within a minute or two after the
accident Engine Company No. 15 and
fruck No. 7. who are in the immedi
ate vicinity of the scene of the acci
dent, were on hand to give aid. While
some of them were lending assistant,
o the passengers others had secured
lacks and had propped up the aut.
buss and succeeded in getting
Young’s body from beneath the
vreckage.
Prosecutor Guild, it is expected,
vill fix bail in their cases late today
When the accident, happened th
bus, the property of the Universal
Auto Bus Service, was going west
on Park avenue. The touring ca*
was go ng south on Fifth street, eye
witnesses say. The bus smashed into
the touring car c'itnbed up on thf
wheel of the smaller car and turned
I over on its s de.
Mr. Young was occupying a scat
I alongside the driver. When the bus
toppled over he was caught under
! the car and his head crushed.
The other passengers were tossed
about like pills in a box. Within a
tew seconds ah had scampered to the
street with the exception ol Mary
Twin'ng, of 221 Springdale avenue,
'as Orange who ippear’d to he
hurt. She was taken to the City
Hospital where an examination
showed her to be suffering only from
shock. She was removed to her
home.
Word of the accident was tele
phoned to police headquarters and
De'e t ve Edward J. Donovan was
d'sratched to the sc ne. He took into
custody the drivers i f the mu -ices
e d nv them to he Eif u pr-mlict,
where their statements regarding the
1re- instance, o-ound’n- o i- i,
dent were taken down in writing. Tile
prosecutor’s office took a hand in th
nvest'gaion. assigning Detective
Sergeant. Walter Godfrey to the case.
The body of Young was removed
Mui in’s morgue, where it ways iden
‘fled by W Russel Trawin. of 12S
Second street. When news of the ;ic
idert reeled Mrs. Young sh
swooned and had to be given medical
attention,
The police today experienced con
siderable difficulty in secur'ng the
names of the persons who were in
the bus at the time of the accident.
Immediately after the accident, eye
witnesses say. the occupants of the
bus ran in <11 directions and got
avav before their identity could be
learned.
Anyone the occupants was Miss
Nathalia Schwan, of 365 Littleton
avenue.
Mr. Young was on his way home
when he w-as killed. Usually lie
makes the trip to East Orange fron\
Newark by trolley, but for the past
three days his daughter. Grace
three years old. has been ill. In his
enx’etv to be with his ch'ld Mr
Young decided, in order to make
haste to go by the auto bus line.
Mr. Young wTas born and raised in
Newark He was married about five
years ago and took up a residence
in East Orange He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs Albert C. Young, who
survive h m. He also leaves a
brother. Albert C„ Jr., and a sister.
Miss ?chuh Young, all of whom live
at 165 North Centre street. Orange.
*— iril Berk I’m
“Better then ever! set oonnoieiwur*.—
/Vm-ertleemeaV x
GERMAN ARMY CHECKED,
SAYS PETROGRAD, BIT
BERLIN CLAIMS GAINS
Reported Capture of Battery at
Lodz Indicates Flanking Move
ment by Russians.
GERMANS' ATTACKS REPULSED
AT HOLLEBEKE, DECLARES PARIS
French Report Advance at Verdun and
Blowing Up of Several German
Trenches in Argonne.
Germany's effort to crush the great armies of Russia has met with •
check, according to statements emanating from Russian sources. Earlier in
the week both Berlin and Petrograd reported that the Russian centre was
falling back before the German advance over the snow-covered fields of
Poland, but it is now asserted at the Russian capital that this movement has
been halted. It is intimated ni the same quarters that the latest turn in the
campaign is likely to have “decisive consequences for the enemy."
The official Russian report of the capture of a battery at Lodz is inter
preted as significant, suggesting a Russian flanking movement. Large rein
forcements, it is said, have been thrown in by the Russians. From Berlin,
however, came no suggestion of a reverse. The Germans, it is said there,
are making steady progress, not only in the centre but in the north, driving
back the Russians from the frontier of East Prussia. I nofficial advices
from the west are to the effect that German reinforcements are still being
rushed to the eastern battlefields.
No chang in the situation along the extended battle line through France
and Belgium is reported in the official French statement this afternoon. Two
attacks by German infantry at Hollebeke are said to have been repulsed,
while the French have made progress in the vicinity of Verdun. In the
Argonne, the Paris report declares, several German trenches have been
blown up. 9
FIGHTING STOPS ALONG TH E YSER
In Belgium the fighting still drags on in a desultory manner. Along the
Vser attempts at military activities have been virtually abandoned, largely on
account of the weather. At Brussels the temperature is below freezing, and
an unusually severe winter is feared. The fall of snow has ceased, but the
abatement of the storm has brought no relief from the hardships of tho
soldiers in the cold and wet.
Servia has broken the silence she maintained for esveral days to deny
the Austrian claims to a great victory. The Servian legation at Athens, while
admitting that the Austrians compelled a retreat from Valjeve, states that the '
I Servians wihdrew in good order without any serious fighting, and that they .
I are now occupying advantageous positions, ready to engage the advancing jj
! Austrians. fl
The Khedive of Egypt, Abbas Hiimi. who was reported several days ago •
to have cast his lot with the Sultan of Turkey, his spiritual leader, is said in
Paris to have joined the Turkish forces in Palestine, preparatory to leading
an invasion of Egypt.
KAISER PARTIALLY CHECKED
IN POLAND, SAYS PETROGRAD
By the United Press:
PETROGRAD, Xov. 21.—Ot the three battle areas In the eastern
i nr that in the AA'arthe region is now being drenched Id blood.
The Russian war office claims that the German offensive in his see
t ion lias been partially checked. Losses on both sides have been exceed
ingly heavy und details bring frightful stories of a trap into which the
.icnnan cavalry rode.
The Russians withdrawing along the Bzura mined the hanks. The
ierntans pressed forward in hot pursuit seeking a crossing, when a heavy
etachment had reached the river the mines were exploded. The de-trnc
ion was terrible. Men and horses were blown to atoms. Wounded men
I .ere thrown into the river. The horses of survivors leaped into the
; water. The bed of the river had been tilled with barbed wire and men
nd mounts became entangled in a hopeless, struggling mass. Tins Kins
| -ians also opened Are on the tangle of men and horses and but few of
j nem escaped. Those were immediately made prisoners.
Tlie Russians are putting up a furious Aghi in the face of upward*
• if a half million Germans which the military authorities estimate mm
•ngaged in the advance toward Warsaw. On every hand, however, the
excellent German engine is evident. The troops have been poured into
! Poland by the network of German railways along the frontier.
FIERCE BATTLE STILL RAGING
IN POLAND, DECLARES BERLIN
3y the United Press:
BERLIN (via The Hague. Nov. 21).—No decision has yet been
reached In the fighting in Poland.
This was the statement from the war office, where practically all at.
tent ion is now centred to the itatlles of the eastern front. The main line
of German offensive against Russia is admitted to be under the direction
of General von Hindenherg, pressing forward toward Warsaw between
tlie W'arta and Vistula. The advance continues, it is declared, but an en
gagement on a tremendous scale is now In progress.
In order to insure complete clearness of German territory of Gus
.tints for the winter a line of communication has been established. whW(
it is declared will enable the Germans to hold what Russian lerrltorj
they may gain should General von Hindenherg take W arsaw.
Russian infantry has not proven as effective in the present fighting
as during the former campaign. The men are poorly shod, reports fron
the front indicate. The rough frozen ground has cut their shoes t(
pieces, many prisoners taken have been practically barefooted and scarce
ly able to walk.
By the Associated Press:
VIENNA (via London. Nov. 21, 4:35 a. m.)—The following ofticii
communication was made public last night:
“Everywhere in Russian l’oland we and our allies have been sin
i essful, but so far there is no decision in the fighting. The number <
Russian prisoners is increasing.
"Before Przemysl the enemy while endeavoring w> bring up reli
forceroents to the southern front of the fortress was thrown bark, suite
ing severely.**
I By the Associated Press:
PARIS, Nov. 21 (2:44 p. m.)—The official communication given a
In Paris this afternoon reads as follows: "The day of November I
generally speaking, was similar to the two preceding day*.
• In Belgium our artillery at Nieuport *»cur«*d the advantage ee