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
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