LODZ TAKEN BY GERMANS City After Series of Hard Battles. Forward Movement by German Wings Begun Thursday. (Latest Summary.) | lying 756 miles to the west-southwest occupied Sunday, ac official announcement arms. It was carding to the {from Berlin. Around this important «desperate battle has raged for Here countless thousands have town a days fallen from the shells of hundreds of guns. It was evident from the occupation of lLodz' by the Germans that heaviest kind of fighting has going on, for late advices told vicious attack and bombardment been of a the city, and previous to that of opera tions 20 miles ‘west of Pitrokow, northeast of Lodz, to the Vistula River. lodz has long been an point of the German Army. It has grown in recent vears from an in significant place to be one of the most populous cities in the Russian Empire In 1810 its population Aas a base it is expected that the Ger mans will make a strong effort reach the Polish capital of Warsaw. The Germans, having been cessful in their attempt to pierce the Russian have begun, with the ald of an attempt to envelop the Russians on both flankd Advices from Berlin via Copenhagen and London that 40 British French warships are gathered place, the name of which is but the way t! While are ward In and in ¥'rance, the Germans explain are giving ground for eons, Russians occupied two towns In the eastern part of Turkey, in Asia, near the border, as the of engage ments fought on the Persian, Dilman and Khoi routes. King Nicholas of Montenegro is said to have admitted that he had lost a third of his army. The war strength of Montenegro had been estimated at 50,000. Thousands men are engaged in digging trenches and otherwise pleting the work of fortifying Vienna the capital of Austria A dispatch from Bucharest Roumania has definitely decided enter the war on the side of the Allies unsuc center, reinforcements, Say and at a withheld, supposedly the Dardenelles, with evident intention of forcing their rough. the Allies Flanders pushing Ny th ¥ Northern at they strategical rea- result of com gays to CONFIDENCE OF ITALIANS, “Chamber Passes Vote Concerning the Government, Rome, a vole of confidence ment, 4132 to 49. Admiral Betiolo, ex-Minister of Ma presented the resolution calling for a vote of confidence in the Cabi net. The Admiral said he approved of in the rine, Premier Salandra country, Admiral Bettolo said. but the t that Italy was not obliged to follow the central empires of Europe The former Minister added: “Our neutrality must be strongly armed to enable us to defend the su. preme interests of the country if they mre threatened unrecognized. Our fac or » Signaled Germans. fondon. How 500 French in a church at Lampernisse some way gained access to the belfry and displayed lights which notified the German artillery of the presence ,of the troops A bombardment immediately fol fowed, and, the exact range being known to the enemy, the steeping men were cut to pieces by exploding shells, which also set fire Mo the straw on which they had been lying. REPORTS HEAVY GERMAN LOSS. Copenhaven Dispatch Says 658,483 Have Fallen, London.—~A dispatch to the Times from Copenhagen says: “The latest German casualty list contains the names of 13,721 officers and men killed, wounded and missing. This makes a total of 658,483, not in cluding the previous Wurtemberg, Saxon and Bavarian lista, “The Bavarians suffered heavily, ac cording to the present list, with over 9,000 casualties cut of the total of 13. 000. One regiment of 3,000 lost 1,600 rf RUSSIA, PETROGRAD.—On the the Vistula thers has fierce fighting on the Glowno-Lowicz and also In the west ern roads toward Lodz and Plota kow. On the other fronts there were no essential modifications In the lines. On fronts in the Caucasus there important fighting. 4 bank of some jeft been front the was no GERMANY. BERLIN.-—In the western theatre ol war French attacks against our troops in Flanders were repeatedly repulsed, as they were also in the region northwest of Altkirch, where the French suffered considerable losses. In the eastern theatre of War the eemy's attacks east of the plain of the Mazuran lL.akes were repulsed with heavy losses to the Russians. Our offen sive in Poland is taking its normal course. FRANCE. At no place along thé entire front has there been any notable incident On our right wing have made progress in the direc tion of, and near to, Altkirch. We took 991 prisoners in the region of the north alone. In Belgium there has bee an intermittent but fairly spirited cannonade between the railroad from Ypres to Roulers and the highway Becelaer: Chendaele, the gain ground, but quite cess. At ing the sitions taken from the we between where the Pass try of enemy endeavored withou Vermelles we are conting work of organizing the. po Somme to the in Lorraine Alsace AUSTRIA, VIENNA.—In the Carpaihians, «I West Galicia, South Poland quiet prevails generally. The ing in North ntinues, to report in in and in figh Poland e« CHRISTIANS FLEE TURKEY AS HOLY WAR COMMENCES Wash ment have proclaimed a War a general exodus of Europeans Ottoman Empire has commenced. news came from Charles J merican Minister at his informa. ngton The State Depart Turks that aa was advised that the holy and from This Voplicka, Bucharest, who tion from the Servian Minister the Roumanian capits The Slrvian Governmet has announced that all between Turkey and Servia the received treaties inoperative, Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Constantinople reported unrest among foreigners and the expulsion of about are at Mr. Morgenthau has received. as. surances from Turkish officials that citizens of the United States will not be molested Airman Drops Bombs on Krupp Gun Works Unknown Aviator Makes Flight Over Germany's Great Plant at Essen, Shells the Building and Escapes Uninjured Daring ‘GERMAN ARMY SLIPS THROUGH GAP LEFT BY C¢AR’S TARDY GENER/L mand After Spoiling the Grand Duke's Inclosing Movement in West Poland. London.—Reports fighting in We tern vioient agree the northern the still both battle front *trograd and Berl claim t in Duke succeed in : hougl admitted the Nicholas dic his Grand enveloping General Rennenkampf, wh t hia alloted pe to reach 1 wi 5 aid to have defeated the pian, has been superseded in mand. While Berl! mans taken the Poland fighti: clare still more. Five leamers been claim tl have £0,000 prisoner Russian have tak g. the the Czar's armies i German towis munitions hav Plock, with war capiured at on the y tuia the appears atngle ¥ The Ru Rieg®e puns reach tl trongh iau and Ihe Germans Berlin arly and bo Ong nt in France scaded attempt of #5 18er In Lhe dis They £0 far were TSING-TAU WAS RICH PRIZE. Tokio tured by man Al of the war Japan at Tesingtaun. stronghold public by army booty « Ap the Ger China, in hit made headquarters It in cludes 2.5 rifles, 100 mar 10 field guns, all needing small amount of ammunition. $6.000 in cash, tons of coal, 40 automo biles, and provisions sufficient to feed 5,000 persons for three months All ships in the harbor were destroyed. WAR 00 hine guns, repair; a 15.000 WOUNDED FILL MANY TRAINS. Geneva The number of arriving by train Duessel Luxemburg, Cologne, and Kolmar, is so great that mans nition trains way to i} ave been sidetracked, according dependable advices coming to Geney wounded goidior at even immu 1¢ front ton on the This has been going on for the ten In Luxemburg. large quantity | tion walting to be forwarded. last efpecially, of ammuni days, ped bombs on the Krupp factory at Essen, Germany, the great plant at which are manufactured famous German siege guns, as well as smaller arms and ammunition, according to a dispatch received from The Hague This message quotes a dispatch from Berlin to the effect that the bombs were dropped on the bulld ings devoted to the manufacture of cannon. the uninjured and that the extent of the damage has not been ascertained. More than sixty thousand workmen and clerks are employed. Krupp works are located, has more than 100,000 inhabitants, and depends for its existence almost entirely the gun factory. ———— IRISH NEWSPAPER SEIZED. Police Raid Office, Confiscate Edition, of Pre-German Monthly. Dublin.~~The police have raided th» office of the Irish Freedom, a monthly newspaper, which has been opposing enlistment and expressing pro-German sentiments. All coples of the news paper on newsstands were conflacated, The police also have prevented the distribution of another newspaper of similar tendency. There has been widespread agitation erals, The Russian army is closing on thy Austrian fortress of Cracow, the complete envelopment of the city being temporarily delayed only by desultory German attacks, Cheered by the presence of Lord Kitchener and the King of England, and feeling that now is the time to strike, the Allies are taking the offensive in real earnest. The Poles have protested to the Pope and neutral states against the use by the defenders of the historical buildings for observa. tion towers, thus inviting their de. struction, 4 Gen. French, who is in charge of the Allies’ forces in the North, is said to have 700,000 men at his disposal for & drive at the German line, while 160,000 fresh troops have brought the Kaiser's forces in that section up to nearly the same number, Volunteers from New Zealand and Aus tralia were disembarked in Egypt to help defend the British from the Turks, who are said to be marching on the Suez Canal, The Germans are trying at all costs to keep Zeehrugge and the Bruges ship canal in order te cope with the naval bombardment. gress—Ships Our Greatest Washington, Dee. 8.—The necessity f our commerce by sea was strongly urged by President Wilson in his essage to congress today. The president pointed out that the markets only of the coun. but also of tae coun trier which hitherto have looked to Europe for their supplies. The gage in part follows: The session upon #hich you are now the needs not mes the Sixty-third congress, a congress, | venture to say, which will long be re membered the great body of thoughtful and onstructive work which it has done, response to the thought and needs try. for i ad of the coun worked at our tasks of of the whole age have been altered by war What we have done for our own land and our own the best that was in us, whether of char acter or intelligence, with sober enthusiasm and a nce in the principles upon which we were acting which sustained us at every of the difficult undertaking: but it is done, It has passed from our hands. We new task {acing them these six months, must face them them nen have the we peace circumstances wople we did with I ¥ of confide atest D face have been ty 40 without who the to come-—face feciing, like months partisan have on duty and the represent wi atives hat all us but pf w te Lhersel nd » thought is 1 America owes to mankind these upon which v kK amazed and Anxious Europe Will Need Our Help War has trade n of produ id services as them bef havi we needed be we never hould ready, met of 4 Yigg ready than A have ever heen if is of equal consequence that the , . nations whom Europe has P eq manufacture usually sup arMicles Wf “Ow wit) innumerable and merce oan get only a small part shat they formerly to markets must ¢ means imported to supply their all Hore ipply of action We Need Ships. It is a very practical matter, a mat ter of wavs and moans resources, but are we fully use them? And if = what have have hand to distribute it” We are ready: neither have we the means of distribution We are w but are not fully able, We have the wich and to serve greatly. gener ousiy; but we are not grepared as we should be. We are not ready to mo bilize our resources at once. We are not prepared to use them immediately and at their best, without and without waste To speak plainly grossly erred in the way in which we have stunted and hindered the development of our merchant marine And now, need ships, we have not got us are markets and we must We have the 3 ready to can made ready we means at not fully wo the 1lin ian we to serve To) ow Geiay ve have we ask to remedy mistakes and omis time the circum extraordinary, and I have come to and correct The are you thes and 80 Use and Conservation. Fortunately, conceived, two great measures, the one to unlock. with proper safeguards, the resources of the national domain, the other to encourage the use of the navigable waters outside that domain for the generation of power, have already passed the house of representatives and are ready for immediate consider ation and action by the senate With the deepest earnestness | urge their prompt passage. And there is another great piece of legislation which awaits and should receive the sanction of the senate: I mean the bill which gives a larger measure of self-government to the peo ple of the Philippines. | cannot believe that the senate will let this great measure of constructive justice await the action of another congress Its passage would nobly crown the record SNAKES ON DINNER TABLE Novel Banquet at Philadelphia Honor of Curator of Bronx Zoo Starties the Guests. A score of writhing snakes, one of them more than five feet long, created terror among a quantity of supper guests at Cafe L'Alglon, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, says the Phila deiphia Public Ledger. The occasion was a “snake” dinner, given for Dr ® in Need—New Tasks and Du- of these two years of memorable la- bor. An Important Duty. But 1 think that you will agree the toll of our duty Carry our goods to of which 1 not the certain and cons of transportation upon which ali profit able and useful And how are we How are we the empty have spoken if we i tant commerce depends? we 10 get the ships walt for the trade to develop with out them? The routes of trade must be actually opened-—by many ships sailings and moderate charges streams of merchandise will flow free ly and profitably through them Must Open Gates of Trade. Hence the discussed at pending the by n suct last session, but as yet passed either he legislation and The tively needed postponed Cant govern open these gates of trade ently this The great subje still to hope that the exceedingly ren it 1s a matter of deep regret that difficulties subject h to render it the ave geemed impossible to complete or passage at this But be perfected yet BCEEIQN Economy Is Urged. One of th ment exper The sort be effecte i ards, | application to particular The National The other topic 1 sl mention | ples of our Defense. all take | goes deeper in national life it is the subject of nati it cannot answering some tions It is sald in are not prepared meant by being prepared? that are not ready tice to put a nation in the field, a tion men trained to arms? course are not ready .0o do that: and we shall never be in time of peace so long as we retain our pres ent political principles, instito- tions. And at is it that It is gofted we ould be prepared to To defend ourselves #gainst attack” We have always found means to de that, and shall find them whenever {1 is necessary without calling our peo from their necessary tasks to render compulsory fn times of peace Fear No Nation. We are at peace with .ll the world No one who counse: based {on fact drawn from a just and candid interpretation of realities can say that there is reason for fear that from any quarter our indepen dence or the integrity of our territory threatened Dread of the power of any other nation we are incapable of. We are not jealous of rivalry in the fields of commerce or of apy other peaceful achievement We mean to Hive our lives as we will: but we mean algo to let live. We are. indeed. a true friend to all the nations of the world, because we theraten none covet the possessions of none. desire the overthrow of none Our friend ghip ean be accepted and is accepted without reservation, beeausge it is of. fered in a spirit and for a purpose which no one need ever question or suspect. Therein lies our greatness be discu ver Very that we What is it meant brief some quarters for war is we upon no aa Of ¢ os we and sug « In do” ple aways speaks or in We are the champions of peace and a And we should be very Jealous of this distinction which we have sought to earn Just now we should be particularly jealous of it, because it is our dearest present hope that this character and reputation may presently, in God's providence, bring us an opportunity to counsel and obtain peace in the world and reconcifation and a healing settles ment of many a matter that has cooled and interrupted the friendship of nations the above all should wish and ree ge lf -pose our in preserving ancient principles of action, Ready for Defense. From the gettled olicy of concord. This is time that we gession, fluence by our had a clear regard never our never standing army. ready to defend #1 assured- first we have a nd ith ana with nave nad, and while we retain and ideals we large you reply, m shall have, If seked, are We ly to the utmost; and yet we rm America into a 18t depend in he future every and BOCUSLL right enough, righ upon o practices which is gations CEtAD~ And Co Ness our slwarke. When will what kind we frynct will the together, fy 1 -and when ten Years om" of cra continues ciency “t kinds and change as wa have under our uses geen it change very these last months? 1 turn away from the subject. There is no new need Let there country be no miscon- has been misin- not been negligent We are not un great responsibilit We shall learn and of experi circumstances; bave I defense lesson every new eeded will be adequately Great Duties of Peace. I close, as 1 began, by reminding tasks and duties of which challenge our best powers build what will last, which we can address and at all times the you of the great peace and the invite us to {asks to gifts of constructive wisdom we pos- To develop our life and our re- sources; to supply our own people, and the ple of the world as their need ariees, from the abundant plenty of our flelds and our marts of trade: to enrich the commerce of our own states and of the world with the products of our mines, our farms, and our fae tories, with the creations of our thought and the fruits of our charae- ter—this is what will hold our atten- tion and our enthusia n steadily, now and in the years to come, as we strive to show in our life as a nation what liberty and the inspirations of an emancipated epirit may do for men and for societies. for individuals, for ORK pe slates, and for mankind. Raymond 1. Ditmars, curator of the Bronx 200. The snakes were placed upon the dinner table in a glass recep. tacle from which they could easily have escaped When they appeared, several women at nearby tables, not knowing that they were tame, hastily departed Hut the snakes were not alone There was a large jar of frogs and toads of many strange varieties. that kept the cafe frequenters interested ‘with an undertone of croakings And MINNIS NANNING by a fern filled with chirping insects, known throughout Japan, whence they came, as “walking sticke” The menu was arranged in keeping with the decorations. There were, of course, eels and frogs’ legs. There was a “Bronx Zoo salad,” which was full of mystery, even to the guests. be- cause the ingredients were sot re vealed. But the most peculiar dish of all was porcupine steak. the center of the table was occupied ® The average husband is a silent partner,
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