ARMIES LOCKED FOR Paris.—The onfall of winter has numbed the energy of Allles and Ger Snow is falling. Gales from the sea have driven tidewater far inland, widening the fantry operations possible. Neither side can do more than ham- mer the other with big guns. Two big battles are being fought én Poland and a third conflict of vast are wellnigh im Of the three battles ¢he one now at its height between the Vistula and Warthe rivers is exciting the greatest interest, Decisive Battle. The Germans, it is believed, have brought up by their line of strategic railways in Posen and Sllesia at least 600.000 men to reinforce General von Hindenburg in an effort to Russian line at this Weather conditions, the frozen ground and the situation of the bat tlefleld favor a really decisive ba to a degree which has not any other field of the present war, The other battle in Poland is tak- ing place on the Cracow-Czenstochowa front, and both the Russia: Germans say it is proceeding satls factorily for them In East Prussia the vance is m siowly th country surrounding the Lakes, which is of passage Russians Seizs Pagses. In Galicia the Russians are going steadily westward and at the sams time are seizing the Carpathians In the w point. tte existed 8 and ad the Russian rough Mazurian wing passes of the tern theatre erations it is officially announced that the Cer mans were forced to abandon heavy guns because of the spreading waters Near Ramscapelle the Alles salv two large mortars whiclf the Ger had been unable to rer Both have lost artillery motor the flood changed the character of operations. ad weather has increased the haustion of the and much illness in the trenches The Germans have ma a new fort to extend the wedge they have driven between Verdun and Toul at St. Mihie! on the Meuse French Advance, Frenth appear to have antic plan to have advanced a lit tie fra m A north and south line, which forms three parts circle around St. Mihiel. The Germans have again taken the Western part of village of Chau voncourt, on the Meuse. For the time being this centre of interest. The of op ged ms nove, sides 1 cars since ox r 1 roops there Is de f The pated the the west region is a French are lines east of St. Mihlel cut off a large German force The Germans are trying as desperately ‘o in the barrier of fortresses. The operations to the north and east are closely connected with the fighting around St. Mihiel. mans in the Argonne are attempting to break the French line, which bars their connection with the German line on the heights of the left the Meuse, and three attacks deliv: ered by them were repulsed made Germans’ Ruse in East Von Hindenburg’'s Army Checked in One Area of Mighty Battle. While von reinforced by driving the f.ondon. Hindenberg's mighty army, men, has been railroad town but 40 miles from War saw, the German force that defeated the Russians on the Vistula below Plock, has continued to advance, so that the vanguards of the two forces form the point of a wedge being slow. ly driven toward Warsaw, Reinforcements are being rushed up on both sides and the Russians are said to have 500,000 men along the front between Warthe, while the German invaders are nearly as numerous, The Russian General Staff asserts that the Germans were defeated in one area of the great battle in Po land. It seems apparent that the Rasgians have halted their retreat and are making a vigorous resistance be tween the Warthe and Vistula rivers AUSTRIANS CAPTURE 73 GUNS FROM SERVIANS Cross River Kulebra — Opponents Falling Back Toward Belgrade. london, — The following dispatch was received from Berlin by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com. pany: In the latest fighting against the Sorvians the Austrians esaptured 42 guns and 31 machine guns. After three days’ fighting the Aus trians defeated the Momtenegrine near Prabowr, Big Naval Battle Is Fought in Black Sea | cruiser Goeben Escapes Riddled With Shells—Petrograd Official Report Contradicted by Berlin. Petrograd.—The fo lowing | statement was given out by sian Ministry of Marine regarding a naval battle in the Black Sea b tween Russian and, Turkish fleets “A division of the Black Sea fleet, returning from its cruise to Sebaasts i pol, the coast of Austr sighted, twenty-fi from the Chersones Light, a Turkish detach and im official the Rus We ne near { ment, con the Breslau. I drew up the enemy ne a fire cabbie mediately bringing lengths “The { Adn struck eben and plosion amidships, set 4 Evstafry hips Oe ned guns giving an exce hemselves the series of exvlosiona was th of the Goeben, pened fire The ed not to have expected to m« Germans fired heavy guns, dire ly at the flag: ntinued for { which the Goel appeared in the fog, ta of her speed “The Bres!a: fight, holding slowly enemy The salvos ‘ting them excl wn ant, th ine saflors lleuten ree or killed, een. sallors five sallors slight ninet serious] and ly wounded.” TURKS CLAIM VICTORY. Herlin Rus: cruisers, off Se an official rv ing to r from C port reaching Berlin tinople. onstan One of erious! ¥ { the Russian battle lamaged and the otl Turkish ships » to Seb 1 sels, with the suit, fled astopol Eighty Big Guns and 7,000 Troops 8ent to Northern France. Rotterdam.—German officers Dutch frontier confidently assert ais will be occupied December 10, Eighty big Cal north ert battleground in France. Seven thousand troops, mostly engineers, left Liege for Dixmude. They carried much material for pontoon bridges and will be employed to cope with difficulties In the flooded flelds the Germans their cut to Calais, the endeavoring to force Dixmude, where they many guns are still | massed EPITOME OF WAR NEWS | Russian and Turkish fleets in the cisive result, With the territory between the Bel gian coast and Dixmude so com. pletely inundated that infantry at. tacks are impossible, the Germans bombardment of the Allies’ lines. The Germans reoccupled the destroy. ed portions of the Town of Chau voncourt, Paris admitted, This means that they are again estab lished on the west bank of the Meuse. said, state that in the fighting near Bixschoote and Dixmude the French lost 20,000 men and that 1,500 Brit. ish were drowned in the Yser Canal, The Canadian Council has forbidden foreign airships to fly within ten miles of the principal Dominion ci ties, as a precaution against a pos sible German airship invasion. Russia is sending more troops against the Turks in the Batum district, and reports the defeat of the Kurds in Persian Armenia. British reports of the fighting in Ara. bia claim victory where the Turks previously reported a British de- feat. German reinforcements are pouring into Poland where, between the Vis tula and Warthe Rivers, a big bat tie is raging. Turkey, through Berlin, reported the defeat of British forces in Egypt, and Russian troops in Transcau casia, GERMANS DRAW NEARER WARSAW | Gen. Von Hindenburg's Army Continues Advance Into Poland. Successful in South, (Latest Summary.) The terrific struggle between the Germans and Russians In the eastern arena along the Vistula and the Warta continues, and the Russians claim to have taken 2,000 prisoners and some machine guns. The Germans say they are pushing their attack along the en tire line. The German column between Vistula and Warta Rivers six army corps and covers miles In extent The German advance has further into disclosed, and Warsaw second time, the Ger: 40 miles from the Polish capital There were 887 men in the British cruiser Go whom, together with the down with the ship in the German cruisers off the The French claim that in artillery dus the comprices a front 56 ‘trated previously pen Poland than is threatened a ans being only the crew of all of went battle w Chilean ron the Arras ished od Hope, officers I in the region from to the Oise the French fire demo many lines of German Fifty the nd Pol Cracow, alld din g tl trenches fled from eir sufferings to Galician refugees ns claim to Bervians those of the The 13.000 Austriz have taken prisoners since No vember 6, The Russian Hea 60 miles out There of Ypres, was destroyed A British Turkish sailing two German officers In disguise littoral of the Black for a distance of from the has been mined CORE! bor which the ibardment hall was a violent during tows dea! ured a which were Troyer has capt vessel on JAPS READY TO SEND ARMY. Big Force Awaits Call To Aid Allies in Europe. mdon Diosy, founder of i nd an authority on ngloJapanese affairs ment that Japan is A large army if it is to increase the allied f¢ ail rone “ey rope The complete » Japan 8 ety Eays in a slate ready to furs found necessary irees in Eu Japanese Army is in a Mr NeCsEsaAry {io in state of readiness.” says and if it is crease the allied forces in Europe Japanese are willing and ready to sup ply immediately a admirably equipped and highly trained army. The Trans Railway and an ample supply of Japanese steamships make the transportation of 500.000 Diosy the large Siber men in two months easy.” GERMAN PRISONERS 296,869. Military Authorities Give Number Of Captives On October 21. New York The German press bureau in New York gave out the fol lowing “The following statement has been officially iszued by the German mill to the number of prisoners of war in detention on tober 21 Officers 2.472 Men (bb) Russians {ec) Belgians Englishmen 296 869 104.52 547 218 including generals (2 and 3 Belgian “Additional transports of war are route to 8.669 € French commanding generals of prisoners the campa.” “Total en JEWS INVITED TO BE TURKS Empire “Offers Right Naturalization To Russians. New York.—The Turkish has assured the State Depart at Washington that it will not Russian Jews residing in the to become naturalized Turkish sub jects en bloc, The committee stated that 5.000 Jews for permission to take advantage of More than 25,000 Rus- KAISER TO RETURN TO BERLIN. Will Attend Reichstag. “A dispatch Emperor Opening Of London to the Bx Hague says Emperor William has de cided to return to Berlin shortly to be present when the Relchstag opens. The correspondent adds that instrue tiona have been issued to the officials of the Emperor's Berlin castle te pre pare it for a long sojourn there by him, CHOLERA FOUND IN PRUSSIA. Disease Sald To Mave Appeared Also in Silesia. Paris —Several cases of cholera are reported to have appeared in Prussia and Upper Silesia, according to a dis patch from Basle, Switzerland, to the Havas News Agency. Two deaths from the disease thus far have occurred in those distriots. SN IN PARAGRAPH Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. ————— Dies Working on Coffin—Hotel Wrecked; Held—8 Mille Work-Teacher Fights Madman, Suspects latington Resume Mise Grace Jones, of Washington, teacher of a country school near there, risked her life when Robert Dreamer a young man of the neigl to be demented, room, waving head, and hborhood, said ito the above his rishe d | i chiool A corn cutter to kill the declared he was going the teacher and every pupil in room The girl, after a ba i succeeded in forcing Dreamer from room and locking the As the struggle with pupils in the ners and hid under door upor risked her 1 teacher room nuadal desks ire, of red ! n MeCh a Chester, routed a assailant af ter a r tabbing him three The mar aprang upon her along the roadw Engle str skirts bed hin He cu: itl Again, sizing her wrist Wrenching tabbed the pin ay on + she him with fled y herself { twice The colored then n the his Episcopal ane of Women tory Church were ognized on eight boards wien the ynoda « in session Pittsburgh, decided that the Provincial Board « herealter be st time of } Rant ithe denor third provinces iwo harlex Ch imel at Exchan piace of bt WEE IN A isiness whe in i 10 have harged by - eph Parkewich kK Warsack, enemies of the The suspects arrested Was Wi d by dynamite, sal« been disc A Tear recs hotel man were sub aril 5 1114 ntly fry and Ma after being The again neess and are The Post & med operation chine idle for the rolling mills Shops, Slating started after several months employ Sheldon Monday Andrew Crossley, a maker. of Bloomsburg, who years ago made his own tombstone a expected to make his to be interrupted in the work by sick ness, died at the of eighty two years tTeleran wagor several Pe | ~ own coffin, only age Shooting a pheasant, Edward Houtz, aged eighteen, shot his playmate Charles while hunting near Miffiin. Houta declares that he did not see his friend concealed in the The ahot which ‘® face may prove fatal Shover Mayor Stratton of Reading issued the streets of funds for Christmas din as Santa Claus. It was found that last solicitors got fifty per cent of the proceeds Jacob Haussman, of Glen Carbon, unconscious near Buckley Station He died five minutes after being found. A severe wound at the lieve that he had been murderously ae sauited Aaron Seifert, seventy-seven years old, was the plaintiff in a suit In court in Reading against Sarah Trate, sev- enty-five years, a sister, to tract. as a battery runner at the Lehigh Coal Tamaqua, was caught by a rush of coal in a chute and instantly killed. neck was broken. The Board of Managers of the Ches- William W. MacMarlane, wood Extract Company Harry Walters, thirtean years old, died at weeks ago. Spinal meningitis develop od from the accident. While endeavoring to from a moving train at Coalport, for a little hut which he had built, Stephen Utrata, aged fifteen years, was thrown under the train and killed. It cost Jacob Smith, Demoeoratic Representativeelect from Carbon county, $306 to be elected, according to his expense accounts filed In the office of the Clerk of Courts. ol OP ACCID Must Work Together. Major Taggart Severe Critic Of N. CG P. Infantry-—Bluecoat Who Shot Boy Granted Full Pardon. State Canital Notes. Harrisburg. —John Commissior Price Ja Blate or of Labor dustry, ond conferend slruck the keynote of t indus =ilare and ple of preven trated Lackawanna Major Taggart On Infantry acquir and pr “All proved nt inn tention to organizations could have im- their appearance by more at hair and cutting and shaving liness wer far greatest weakness the of the alone in his standing position, the manner of grasping the rifle at the order and in arms." Clean neatners ever above the normal. The Was soldier and th nogition POR: a executing Bluecoat Granted Full Pardon. Frederick Kilmer, who while altempting to malicious mischief last the William arrest shot Murphy him March, police man WAR the un ace of own case que eaxperis argued and bein the bar of the board any applicant had ever done so wae submitted by John H allied him to the front and Lite His case Fow, who and two special officers had accom. panied him. stumbled when firing the air and that the bullet had hit the unintentionally. leased on parole by Judge Martin after serving thirteen daye and asked par he could be restored to Law To Ald Domestics. William F. Long, of Pittsburgh, president of the State Laundrymen's tion by demanding of Paul N. Furman, sociation, why his program of pro posed legislation did not provide hours for domestics. Mr. Furman had just of child labor legislation, including prohibition of night work by boys under sixteen, regulation of street trades, a forty: eight-hour Hmit, physieal examination and continuation schools when Mr. Long made his demand. The Pitts burgher said that it had been found that domestics had longer hours than girls in factories. Mr. Furman answered that he understood that it would be cared for in the women's employment bill, causing the rejoinder by Mr. Long that he understood that there had been an agreement in a con- ference to include regulation of hours of servants — ? vorTE EY AFTOREBY av La» ELLArONTE fe Cm Darth of Cow: Bouse - rrr EE ——— a a RASRMOF WelLy xs ATTORNEY AV 1.49 SELLEMEYE 0% ns ow Bt bw “0 prevalent) Sunes §eows EY aT oC TN ER — | « B Gewese ve I Powis Vb emaly “3 BTTIA BOWRE & SKRDY ATTURY RY HATA beans bogs BEILLBVONTE Sacoumars Ww Ouvie Bowes 4 Osviy Whelton in Pugled 2nd German a. 3. rARGLER ATTORNEY 47 LAW EELLEFOFTRSG Prostiom tn all Bs senrm Ceseniamion b English snd German Ofos (riders Bavemag Suiiding pe ———— J INERT Dallk ATTORFEY AT Law VELILEBFONTA Pe Ofics BW. soraer Dlament two doses Son fust Fetions! Bask. lee Pent is Valley Bankin g Company Centre Hall, Pa. DAVID H. 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