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Newark <f oetring ^tar AND HBWAlttS AUTERTISER j V ESTABLISHED 1332. NEWARK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1915. —20 PAGES. WEATHER: mmi ~ BODIES OE THE Stanton and Knapp Brought from Water Last Night, $> > Stephens Today. DIVERS FIND YOUTHS NEAR WHERE AUTO LEFT BRIDGE Stephens's Body Removed to Jersey City for an fci- Inquest. • - The bodies of the three young men drowned in the Passaic river, when their automobile went through an open draw at the Plank road bridge, have been recovered. Two of the bodies—those of J. Gordon Knapp, of East Orange, and Clarence Leon , .Stanton, of this city—were brought up by a diver late yesterday after noon. The third body, 'that of Eugene Clifford Stephens, of New ark, was found today. The finding of the bodies accounts tor the seven youths who were in the car at the time of the accident early yesterday after having attend ed a dinner of the Montclair Alumni Association, held in the Hotel Mar tinique, New York. The four occu pants who escaped death by swim ming to the shore were Alfred P. - Skinner and William Bittles, of this city; Lyman E>. Andrus, of South Orange, and Kenneth B. Hay, of Du J3ois, Pa. The bodies were recovered by a submarine diver, William Lutz. All were found to be similarly dressed. Each youth's overcoat was tightly buttoned. Stanton's overcoat was buttoned tightly around his neck and lie also wore a. muffler. Knapp’s overcoat was buttoned tight and his hands were clasped and folded across ’ Uis breast. Stephens, besides having his overcoat buttoned tight, wore yellow chamois gloves. He also hail a diamond ring on his finger. His gold watch was in his pocket. « The quick recovery of the bodies was due largely to the experience of Diver Lutz, who has figured in such work before. He gained distinction at the time of the sinking of the passenger steamship Empress of Ire land In the St. Lawrence river a • ample of years ago. Lutz went down into 140 feet of water and brought up '43 bodies. He is now a resident of Jersey City. Found in Channel. w Diver Lutz had been working only a half hour this morning when he name across the body of young jHephens. It was located in the centre of the channel, fifteen feet from where the ill-fated automobile was recovered yesterday afternoon. The body was taken to the float from which the divers wanked, - and - then placed in an undertaker's wagon for removal. There were no martts about the body. After the finding of the body of Stephens, is was taken to Jersey City under order of County Physician George W. King, of Hudson county, who will hold an Inquest. The order was received over the telephone by Superintendent of Bridges Thomas i>ugan, who was on duty at the Pas saic bridge. The body was taken to Or. King’s office and was accom panied by George H. Stephens, father ,f the drowned youth. The work of ■ mpaneling a Jury was started. The inquest over Stephens’s body is expected to be followed by an in quiry to settle responsibility for the accident. This work will be taken up by the Hudson county prosecu tor's office, as the accident happened from the Hudson county side of the bridge. Knapp’s Funeral. The body of Knapp was taken to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. \V. Nelson Knapp, 153 Glen wood ave nue, East Orange, about 9 o’clock last niglit. Announcement has been made that the funeral will be held on Fri day afternoon at 3 o’clock. Services will be conducted at the house by Rev. Charles Walltley, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Orange. Inter ment will be in Roserale Cemetery. The deceased was a member of Hope Lodge. P. and A. M. Objection has been taken to this story told by Louis Bemisch, a taxi ,ab driver, regarding circumstances uf the automobile tragedy. His story (Continued on Page 5, Column 3). „ Local Auto Parade Saturday bight to ' i Be on Large Scale Agreeable Surprise in Store for City's Sightseers—500 $ Cars Expected. Entries close today for Newark’s automobile pageant, which will be held through the city’s streets next .Saturday night. From preeent indi cations, the affair will be much larger than had been expected, and New arkers will see a parade which is far beyond what the most sanguine had expected The New Year’s parade of the "Mummers” In Philadelphia, and the "Rose Carnival” In Los Angeles i will have to look to their laurels, if the expectations of the autolsts are realized. Claude E. Holgate, manager of the parade, says that the cars in line will number more than 500. There will be iloats and other novel decorations, and there will be pleasure cars, motor trucks and motorcycles. Manager Holgate said that he had more than thirty calls at his office yesterday of prospective entrants, and that In one batch of entries received there were s forty cars. This Is the largest entry to date, and it represents the Loose Wiles Biscuit Company. There will be a meeting of the chairmen of the various sub-commit tees at ‘the New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club Friday night, to com plete final arrangements for the parade. William J. Morgan, the grand marshal, will then announce his as sistants. It will also be known then whether Governor Fielder will accept the Invitation of the parade commit tee to review the parade. Mayor Ray mond, it is announced, bus already , accepted. The reviewing party will assemble at <he Otty Hall. . POLICE BOARD < HAS NEW LEAD ON “INSPECTOR" ; Rumor Has It He May Guide Proposed Force of Po licewomen, THEFTS IN OLD PRECINCT STILL TO BE CLEARED UP • —— ! Commissioners May Know Their Minds Tomorrow—May Shift Captains, Too, Thai the Board of Police Commis sioners has under advisement the ap pointment of several policewomen was a'rumor current today. There ,1s a large field in the city for police work by women. If appointed they will be employed in investigating social conditions, will police theatres and dance halls, and perform other duties for which the policewoman ia said by some to be better fitted than the policeman. It is further rumored that the po licewomen will be under direct charge of Captain and “Acting Inspector" John E. Brown, who commands the Eighth precinct to justify one title and does nothing in particular yet to justify the other. The appointment of policewomen will thus further serve the purposes of the police board by providing something for Captain Brown to do in his capacity cf “act ing inspector.” The board appears to be casting about rather unsuccessfully to find something for an “acUng inspector" to do. From the statements of th? various commissioners it appear? that an ‘‘acting inspector” is under the chief of police, and also that he is independent of the chief. It fur ther appears that the “acting in spector” will see that the "orders oi the chief and of this board are being carried out,” and also that the board has not decided what the "acting in spector” will do. It depends on which commissioner one takes as authority. u imi luspecuir nay jjo. According to one commissioner, Captain Brown, in addition to com manding the Eigfhth precinct, will tour the city daily, spying to see that the orders of the board and the chiel are carried out. The chief’s executive duties make it impossible for him to do this personally, it is said, and h« needs someone “with more time to devote to the work." Captain Brown’s precinct, where the duties.,are so light that its com mander has “more time’’ for execu tive work throughout the city, po lices the Forest Hill section. Sc m^ny robberies have occurred there in the last few months that many ol the residents have protested to the board of the Inadequate police pro tection and talked of forming a citi zens’ vigilance committee to police the section. Newark has only one policewoman at present, Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, who is attached to the chief’s office. The work which Mrs. Hughes has ac complished has shown the possibili ties in this branch of police activity. Shifts Are Probable. It is possible that the board at its regular meeting tomorrow will agree upon the duties of an acting inspec tor. It is also possible that they will agree on certain shifts among the captains, which many insist are due. It is generally thought that the board will not leave Captain John Caffrey in the First precinct, and further rumor lias it that Captain Frank Tuite will not remain long In command of the detective bureau at police headquarters. It is said that the commissioners have not yet been able to agree on the shifts among the captains. Although one captaincy lias been made vacant by the death of Cap tain Ryan, and another will be by the retirement of Captain Stucky on May 1, it may be that the commis sioners will be in no hurry to make promotions. That is, not while they are demoting other officers at least. ADMITS U. S. NOT Not Thinking of It, Says Col lector Hamilton—Ban on Al lied Ships Still On. NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. April 7. “Ws are not even thinking about in ternment of the Prinz Eitel Fried rich now.” dehiared Customs Collen tor Hamilton todac after he had waited expectantly throughout the night iflofr the Oterman cruiser to leave this port. As the collector spoke he was preparing to again visit the ship on orders from Wash ington, although he had bade fare well to Commander Thlerichens and members of his staff last night. This declaration that the govem dent was not at this tide concerned with the matter of internment of the Prinz Eitei was the first authorita tive admission concerning the mcs terious negotiations relating to the ship in mane days. Internment, the collector said, would be a simple process when the occasion arises. One indication that the Eitel had not been interned early today was the continuation of the ban on de parture of merchant ships of the allies. Cuctoms officials here and at Nor folk were appealed to by British ship captains for permission to leave. They were told they could not leave port until further notice, and no as surances were given as to when they might sail. Local business organi zations are asking for some definite move, maintaining that the situation is injurious to the business of this port. Officers and men of tho Eitel had uo. shore lestvji RAISING OF AUTOMOBILE IN WHICH YOUTHS RODE TO DEATH —Photo by Koenig Studio. Those shown in the above pictures are: No. I—William Lntz. He is the submarine diver whor ecovered ail the bodies in the auto wreck. Lutz worked on the Empress of Ireland steamship disaster In the St. Lawrence river, recovering upwards of 140 dead. No. 2 picture shows the automobile which ran into the open draw. No. 3 shows the automobile just after being taken out of the water. No. 4 shows Lutz in his diving spit._ Mill PARK HOTEL IS RAZED; LOSS, Jl 25,000 / Famous Old Race Track Estab lishment in Long Branch Des troyed by Fire. _ Special to the Evening Star. LONG BRANCH, April 7.—The old Monmouth Park Hotel, famous in the days when horse racing flourished in this State, burned to the ground to day. The hotel was located close to the Monmouth Park race track, where many of the country’s most noted horses ran in their day. The building was unoccupied, and not even a caretaker was in it. No one had lived there since last sum mer, when it was occupied by some priests of the Paulist order as a re treat. How the fire started is a mys tery, although many believe that tramps unconsciously started it. The Are originated in the centre of the building and shot up through the elevator shaft. E. A. Lockwood, of Oceanport, riding from Red Bank on a horse, saw flames shooting from the cupola. The Oceanport, Little Silver, Shrewsbury, Eatontown and Red Bank Are departments responded to the alarms. They succeeded in saving some of the furniture, but the entire building was razed. The loss is estimated at *126,000. The hotel was built in 1891 by E. D. Withers, who died a year later, and It was taken over by a company com posed of Richard Croker, the famous horseman and former leader of Tam many Hall; A. J. Wolcott and Philip and Michael Dwyer. The original cost of the building was *104,000 and the furnishings cost *40,000. After 1898, when racing was aband oned, the hotel never was a paying proposition and it passed through many hands. Henry Cooper, of the firm of Seigel & Cooper, is one of the present owners. Earth Shock Recorded at San Jose Observatory SAN JOSE, Cal., April 7.—An earth shock was recorded at the observa tory of Santa Clara University on all three components of the seismograph yesterday morning, beginning at 8:28:22 o’clock, attaining its maximum double amplitude of 19.5 millimeters at 8:28:32, and steadily declining until 8:33:36. Prof. E. P. Nelin estimates the epicentre of the disturbance at 89.6 kilometers almost directly north west, or just north of the Golden Gate, where the big shock of 1906 SUNDAY, WITH HIS VOICE AND BODY, IMPRESSES CROWD THAT DAY OF REVIVALS IS NOT PAST Turns Platform Into Dramatic Stage, Assumes Role of Cod and of a Reformer to Show How There Always Will Be Need of Reformers Until Sin Shall Cease to Be. From a staff I'orrtttjiontlelU. PATERSON. April 7.—Considering that John Philip Sousa’s band was one of several large counter-mag nets to attract crowds here, the at tendance at Billy Sunday’s meeting at the tabernacle last night was un usually good. Talk of the evangelist's crusade fizzling out, which had been occa sioned by the smaller and less en thusiastic attendance at yesterday afternoon’s session, was silenced, or should have been, by the crowd that gathered at night to hear Billy "rip it into the sick devil.” Mr. Sunday spoke of revivals. He said that many believed that the day of revivals was past. To illustrate his point that the day of revivals was not gone and never would be until sin ceased, Billy Sunday turned his platform into a dramatic stage and gave an impromptu perform ance in which he assumed the role of God. He said: "Men say that the day of the re vival is over. Fellows harp on that in the Methodist conferences, in the Presbyterian meetings, in the Bap tist associations, in the Congrega tional associations—the day of the revival is over! No, it is not. Only with' the fellow who vomits out the sentiment: not with God. The day of the revival is over? God Almighty leaned over the battlements of heav en and looked down into the coal mines of Wales and cried: ‘Oh, Rob erts!’ And out of the coal mine came that grimy, coal-soiled man with dirty face and a little lamp stuck in his cap, and asked: ‘What is it. Lord?’ And God said: 1 want you to go and shako up Wales.’ And he gave Wales the greatest revival that ever swept over the land since the days of the first Pentecost. There was not a college professor nor preacher in Wales that God would trust with the job.” IUustruies llis Sermon. In telling how the Almighty leaned over the battlements of heaven, Billy Sunday lay face down, thrust his head out over the edge of his plat form and, holding his hands In the shape of a funnel before his mouth, he called down In a voice of thunder, as if into a deep mine pit. And then he imitated the miner, Roberts, com ing up out of the depths, witn a quiz zical look on his face to ascertain the reason for so loud a call. And then, In turn, Sunday Imitated a similar call from heaven on Tony Alexander, who swept Tasmania, Ireland, Japan, China, England and Scotland with revivals; and Gypsy Smith, whom God diverted from the vending of clothes-pins to preaching the gospel. He declared that St. Paul was the pattern of all revivalists. "Every where Paul went,” he said, "the cops had to be called out to preserve order. Everywhere he went he had either a riot or a revival. "Many people insist tha# revivals have but a temporary influence. Well, so has a bath, hut It does you good," he said. And then he added' "Why, there are revivals going on In almost every (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Norway Asks $70,000 for Torpedoing of the Belridge By the United Preen. CHRISTIANIA, April 7.—The Nyr wegian government today addressed a note to Germany, asking compensa tion of $70,000 for the torpedoing of the Norwegian steamer Belridge in the English channel on February 19. An official inquiry, it was stated, proved beyond a. doubt that the steamer was the victim of a German submarine. The Belridge was the first vessel to be torpedoed following the Inaugu ration of Germany's submarine blockade of the British Isles. She was attacked oft Folkestone. Her crew was rescued and she was beached, afterward being towed in to the Thames for repairs. Mirth, Music and Muvle Blessed Sacrament Auditorium, Clinton av. and Van Ness pi., tonight, 8 p. m. Dancing. Mualc by Schyceinfeat's Orchestra. Admis sion iOc.—A<iveniaejn«nt, ___ _ - * - . - ■ Moving Picture Concerns Form Distribution Agency NEW YORK, April 7.—Four of the largest moving picture companies of the country formed yesterday a cor poration, for the purpose of distribut ing direct to the exhibitor at least one feature film of four or more reels a week. They will open main offices in six of the large -ities of the United States immediately and will lay out a distribution program on a big scale. The corporation is composed of the Vitagraph Company of America, the LiUbln Manufacturing Company, the 8e$ig Polyscope Company and the Essanay Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $500,000. It is to be called Vitagraph-Lubin-Selig Essanay, Inc., with headquarters in New York. This action is considered a break with the General Film Company, through which agency features by these companies have heretofore been distributed, _4_, . .... _ SWEEPS CHICAGO; PLURALITY 138,891 Women Help Swell Figures tc Break All Records for Mu nicipal Elections. CHICAGO, April 7.—The women— 248.797 of them—voted Just like anv mere man voter in Chicago’s "munici pal election which today gave the Windy City its second Republlcar mayor since 1897. William Hale Thompson was th< winning candidate. Complete returra today gave him a plurality of 188,89: over Robert M. Sweitzer, the Hearst Sullivan candidate who led the Demo cratic ticket. The vote. 669.891, was the larges ever cast in any city in the Unitec States. New York formerly held the record with 642.768 votes cast for gov ernor in 1908. In the same year 641, 959 votes were cast for President. It 1912 New York's presidential vote wa: 627.864. Contrary to predictions, the womer did not combine on either candidate to wield a balance of power. Slxtj per cent, of Thompson’s vote wai cast by men: forty per cent, bj women. Sixty-three per cent, o: Sweitzer’p vote was cast by men thirty-seven per cenC by women This was one of the surprises of Chi cago’s bitterest municipal campaigi in years, told by today’s completi count. Table of nfnsfo figures. Revision of the police returns gav the following corrected figures: Candidate. Men. Women. Total Thompson, Rep. 246,119 144,564 390,68 Sweltzer, Pem. 162,074 89.718 251.79 Stedman, Soc.. 16,013 7,813 23,8! Hill, Pro . 1.888 1,072 3,59 Total vote ... 426,094 243,797 689,89 Thom pBon's plurality . 84,045 34,846 138,89 The vote cast was 87 per cent, o the total registration. Men. Women. Total Vote polled.... 426,094 248,797 669.89 Registration ... 486,534 282.483 769,01 Thompson's majority, 111,475, The total vote cast was 669,891 Thompson received 390,683; Sweitzer 261,792; Seymour Steadman (Social ist), 23,826, and John H. Hill (Pro hlbition), 3,690. Thompson’* plurallt; was the greatest any mayoralty can didate ever received in Chicago. Th largest previous mayoralty pluralit; it piyinutU m column FOR WORKERS GO ON STRIKE AT ; HOLLANDER PLANT __ ' About 400 Employes of Dyeing Factory Seek Higher Wages, ONE MAN ARRESTED FOR FLOURISHING A REVOLVER ! Police and Special Deputies on Guard, Although There Is No Violence. ' About 400 men, employed as fur ) workers in the fur-dyeing factory ; of A. Hollander & Sons, at 143 East Kinney street, went out on strike to- j day for higher wages. The men, it j is said, have been dissatisfied for j some time, and the climax was | reached Saturday, when four of the ! workers, who were accused of agita ting the men to strike, were dis- , charged. About 100 of the employes, disobey ing the strike order, went to work today, while 150 new men were put to work by the firm. The strikers assert that the new men are strike- ■ ! breakers imported from Brooklyn, ! but this is denied by the fur com pany. More than 100 of the strikers were : standing about in groups in front j of the factory this morning, but j made no effort to commit any vio | lence. Reserves and mounted police | men, from the Third precinct, as well 1 as deputies from a local detective ' agency, were on watch at the plant ; all day. One arrest was made shortly before ! the factory opened at 7 o'clock this : morning. The prisoner is alleged to be a strike-breaker, and is charged with pointing a loaded revolver at one of the strikers. The man gave his name as Louis Petroucestas, and said he lived at 116 Hunterdon street. He was arrested by Patrol men Nichols and Siegler, who were on watch at the plant. After being locked up In the Third precinct sta tion-house. he was arraigned before Judge Grice and held in *500 bail. Petroucestas told Patrolman Nichols that he went to the factory to look for a job. and brought the gun along so that he would not be molested. He drew the gun, he said, to scare off some of the strikers, who tried to prevent him from en tering the factory. hays Worksrs Are “Slays*." Henry Hilfers, secretary of the State Federation of Labor, and sec retary of the Essex Trades Council, speaking for the men today, said that the fur workers were compelled to work like slaves and received only from *6 to *12 per week. They now demand that their wages be vaieed to from *12 to *18, the scale paiffTar similar work in Brooklyn. “Conditions In the factor) are frightful.” said Mr. Hilfers. “The light and ventilation is very bad and the men are compelled to do the most insanitary kind of work and work long hours for but little money. None of the men at the factory get more than *12, while many of them are i working for *6 and *8. The girls and women employed at the plant are only getting *4 or *5 per week. “The fur workers In Brooklyn are organized, but the Hollander plant bus always been an open shop. The men here now intend to organize and to demand a decent living wage.” Michael Hollander, a member of the firm, denied that the men were under paid or that conditions at the fac tory were unsanitary "I think that I can safely say,” said Mr. Hollander, "that we pay higher wages for unskilled labor than any factory in Newark. We have many men now in our employ who have left other factories because we pay more money. "The average weekly wage of our men is about *13, and some of our ex perienced workers make as high as *22 and *25.” Mr. Hollander denied that any of the men were receiving only *6, but said that the pay of some of the boys employed at the plant were started a that amount- The girls and women, he said, received *5. None of the female employes are on strike. Mr. Hollander said. “Ninety-five per cent, of my men are satisfied with conditions,” Mr. Hollander said, "but there are just a feu. incited by labor leaders, who have stirred the others to strike. Most of the men are willing and anx ious to go to work, but fear bodily harm if they do so.’’ EX-GOV. GRIGGS Declares Attack Upon Chief Justice Gummere to Have Been Unwarranted. Special to the Evening Star. TRENTON. April 7.—John W. Griggs, former governor of New Jersey, and attorney-general in the McKinley cabinet, visited Governor Fielder yesterday and among other matters discussed the attack of Senator Hennessy on Chief Justice William S. Gummere. i Mr. Griggs did not hesitate to ex press his Indignation at the course of Senator Hennessy In writing an open letter to the governor under the guise of performing an official duty as a member of the Senate having a vote upon the confirmation of the new chief justice. Mr. Griggs said he was also surprised at the publicity given the charges made by Senator Henneesy and others, which, he said, were unwarranted. He also said Chief Justice Gummere was prevented from replying because of his Judicial posiUon. “The New Jersey judiciary,'* said Mr. Griggs, “stands too Ugh In the esteem of not only the cltlxens of New’ Jersey, but In that of lawyers and jurists throughout the land, to be made the object of such unwar ranted attacks as have been directed against the chief justice. Hls emi nent service on the bench, hls in tegrity and legal ability all entitle him to better treatment in hls boms . at l£&sV. __ _ .A NEW EFFORT i TO FORCE THE DARDANELLES ; -- I Two Allied Warships Hit by Forts, Says Turkish Report. halt and Serbia about TO CONCLUDE AGREEMENT Compact Makes Italy's En trance Into War imminent, It's Declared. 60.000 PRISONERS TAKEN IN WEEK. SAY RUSSIANS Both Sides Are Strengthening in Struggle for Car pathian Passes. Another attempt to force the Bar- ] dandles apparently is under way. An i official announcement from Constan- 1 tinople states that a cruiser and a 3 torped., boat were struck by shell* j during a bombardment of the outer 1 forts on Monday. The bombardment. I it is said, was without results and no serious attack was attempted yes- l. terdav. No official information ha* | come from London or Paris concern- i ing tills fighting. The Turkish war office also reports a resumption of hostilities in the Caucasian campaign. - It announces that a Russian force -! advanced on the Turks near the fron tier. but was driven back to Russian territory and that the Turks, after 7 eighteen hours of hard fighting, oc- | cupied several Russian towns. The Rome correspondent of a Pan* newspaper telegraphs that Italy and | Serbia are at the point of concluding S an agreement under which Italy will - not object to Serbia’s acquisition of | territory on the Adriatic, provided It is not fortified. If this agreement is concluded as is expected, the come*- g pendent says, Italy's participation in 4 the war may be considered iminenf ’ An official statement issued by the i Russian war office today declare* , that the Russian armies pushing -I i their way down upon Hungary hay* , captured more than SO.OOO Austrian* c ! and Germans in the la*t week of fighting in the Carpathian*. “noth maw a-,«<«■<• The Russians are bringing u# j heavy reinforcements in the expecta tion of penetrating the Carpathiag* x through weight of numbers. On the other hand, the Austrian and Ger man commanders also are making strenuous efforts to strengthen their forces. Petrugrad reports that the section near TJszok Pass, where Vienna ad mits a retirement, extend* for a dis tance of seventeen miles. To offsei this, Vienna claims a counter offsn I five movement near Lapkow Pass, i where the Austrians report the tak i ing of several Russian positions and ! the capture of 7,000 prisoners. A conservative interpretation of ;l j both the Russian and the Austrian ' j reports leads to the belief that the .'1 Russian offensive at Eupkow has been checked, while they have forosd their way through the Rostok Pass, capturing two villages on the south- ' ern side of the range. Bv the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE (via wueies* to Berlin and London), April 7.—Ah official statement issued today Uy the Turkish war office nays. "No serious attack was made yes terday' by the enemy on the Dar danelles. The day before the hos- ■] tile cruisers bombarded our hatter- ; !es at the entrance to the strait* ; but without result. One of the ■ enemy’s cruisers and one torpedo I hot struck by our shells. "On the Caucasian front the | enemy attacked our advance guard* j north of lshkan. near the fronttei 4 but was repulsed across the fron tier. After eighteen hours oi hard I fighting we occupied the enemy** ■ villages near Rhosor and korcez, | south of Tassakert." j By the A»««oiate<l Press. i PARIS. April 7, 6:15 a. m. -Italy " t and Serbia are about to conclude an agreement, telegraphs the oorre spondent of the Excelsior at Rome upon the following basin: Italy will not oppose Serbia's oceu Jjj patlon of territory giving her an out- !-t let to the Adriatic, on condition that :S this territory be not fortified. As to I th« queslon of Triest and Ietria, th5 has not even been discussed, the allies having recognized the Italian , character of these local cities. The present visit of T. Tittoni, the Italiar amhassador In Paris, to Rome is i' 1 connection with these negotiation! "If this Italo-Serbian agreement signed this week, as Is expected, the ; correspondent of Excelsior says, “the ■ entrv of Italy Into the European con- j Met'may be considered Imminent.” 4 8 By the Preen. PARIS (via London, 2:14 p. m.) April 7.—The French war office this afternoon gave out a report ou tht ,? progress of hostilities, reading: "A German detachment with three i machine guns succeeded In crossing to the left bank of the Yser, south of Diegrachten. It was attacked yes terday and dislodged by Belgian :|j forces. "An attack made by us in the vicin- 9 ity of Etain rendered us masters of s hills Nos. 219 and 221, in addition to J the Haut Bols and the hospital farms J "In Eparges we gained ground and maintained our advances, at the sante , time taking sixty prisoners, including ! three officers. "In the Ban-De-Sapt wo mined and ' | blew up a German position." Six Firemen Injured in $200,000 Philadelphia Fire — PHILADELPHIA, April 7.—Fir* early today destroyed the six-story , warehouse of the Columbia Storage Company, in the southern section of ? the city, causing a loss estimated at, 1 2200,000. six firemen, were , ;'!is 48d9!U)Xt : --3I