A
ALLIES PUSH AHEAD
BUT ATHEAVY GOST
HH
They Get Across the German
Lines of Communication.
Reports of Big Servian Victories
Deprecated.
(Latest Summary.)
Defeat of the south wing of the Rus
slan Army in West Galicia is an-
nounced at Vienna. The announce
ment states that the Russians, defeat
ed in a battle at Limonovo, were com
pelled to retreat, and that the Aus
trians are pursuing.
Continued successes by the Servians
against the Austrians are reported
NOMIRAL VON SPEE
WITH FLAGSHIP
TMPPED
London.—The Russian official state!
ment announces that the German at
tacks at Mlawa have been repulsed
and that the Russian troops by a coun
ter attack gained considerable ground.
Seven German attacks on Lowicz were
repulsed and great losses were inflict
ed on the Kaiser's troops. The state.
from Nish, but a semi-official state
ment at Vienna, while admitting the
retirement of the Austrian right wing
ment adds that the Russian offensive
south of Cracow continues and tha!
2,000 prisoners have been taken.
The official statements given out in
says the Servian claims are exag
Eerated.
The Russian General Staff an
nounce: “In the Mlawa region we have
brought our offensive to a guccessfu’
eonclusion on the whole front.”
Capture of 11,000 prisoners by Ger
man troops which successfully stormed
several Russian positions in North
Poland is announced at Berlin.
German attacks at the two extremes
of the Allies’ front—one northeast of
Ypres, in Belgium, and the other at
Aspach, in Alsace—are announced by
the French War Office, which save the
attacks were repulsed
Important gains by the Allies are
claimed, In a communication from the
French War Office, to have been made
in the woods of La Pretre
An attack by the French over a la:
front by the way of Cirey is reported
from German headquarters. The state
ment says the French lost 600 prison
ers and many killed and wounded
this engagement.
Italy has made a demand
key for public satisfaction
lation of the Italian
Hodeida.
The Dresden,
man warship which has survived the
battle off the Falkland Islands, is re
ported to have arrived at Punta
Arenas, on the Strait of Magellan
ge
cruiser the only Ger
GOVERNMENT IN PARIS
French President, Parliament and
Cabinet Return From Bordeaux
Paris.— With the return t
from Bordeaux of President I
the members of the Cabinet and P
Hament and the diplomatic
newed precautions have
to protect the city from
tile aviators
A Cabinet was held the
Palace of the Elysee, the first to meet
here since September 3. on which date
the lef Bordeaux
when the invaders within 20
miles of the capital The utmost
cheerfulness prevailed at the gession
8 singular contrast to the intense
anxiety shown at the last previous
meeting In Paris
Four hundred thousand o
19 and 20 years. forming the class of
1915, went into training in military in
struction camps and barracks through-
out France. Having had preliminary
driils at home, they will bs for
the spring campaign }
Services of prayer for the soldiers |
in the field are being held daily ir
churches throughout France These
Bervices are attended by extraor
dinarily large numbers of families of
the men at the front
Paris
O
CINCArs
ar
OIPE Tre
been taken
by
raids hoe
council at
m
Government t for
wers
youths f
ready
BELGIAN RESERVISTS CALLED
Consuls Throughout United
fssue Summons
St All Belgian reservists in
St. Louis belonging to the classes of
1899 to 1913, inclusive, were called to
the colors by the Belgian Consul here
Similar calls are being by
Belgian consuls in American
eity. Those belonging to the class of
1914, which is comprised of youths
now 18 years old, also were instructed |
to communicate with the Consul. The |
Comsul has further asked that all Bel. !
glans in this district between the ages
of 18 and 20 communicate with him as
pOON as possible
States
Louis
sent out
every
30,000 HORSES FOR GERMANY.
Dallas Also Hears 12,000 Mules Are
Negotiated For,
Dallas, Texas Negotiations for the
purchase of 30,000 horses and 12.000 |
mules, which it is said are to be ment
to Germany, are under way in Texas, |
According to an announcement her
It was stated that the animals
be shipped from this State to Genoa,
?
io |
!
Italy, but local dealers ex pressed the |
i
are
belief that they would be forwarded
from there to Germany it wag said |
European agents would gpend $3,000 i
000 for Texas horses and mules, }
KING PETER GOES TO FRONT.
Led By Him, Servians Take Firmer |
Stand Against Austrians.
London. King Peter of Servia, who
has been ill for many months. has
assumed command of the Servian
Army and, gxoording to a Nish report,
has checked the advance of the Aus.
trians, infifcting heavy losses on them.
The Austrian reply to this is that “the
occupation of Belgrade necessitates
the regrouping of our troops.”
Paris again report gains by the Allies
at numerous points on the battle front.
The Germans occupied part of a line
of trenches in a flerce attack on Ypres,
but a short time later the Allies recap-
tured the lost ground. The occupation
also announced.
War Office reports pro-
and successful at
lines
the French is
The German
in Flanders
tacks on the Allies
of the Argonne.
give In northern Flanders
to be progressing
The Servians continue to pursue
retreating Austrians, according to an
statement given out in Nish.
The Austrians have thousands of
men and are harassed by the SBervians,
are pressing back on
Belgrade.
to the east
The offen.
is reported
the
1081
who the enemy
British Ad
a cable from Vi
cretary of the
iritish
sqquad-
the naval battle
killed and four
dispatch
or wounded.
of 2,
in
wounde
the BAYS,
The G
men, a
The German
ceeded in reaching
Artillery
role from
Alene
(+eTman
Warsaw,
sistance by the :
m the fighting line
: we
depended uj
forces
i
in on despite
¢
Russians
miles
Franc
nth
aun
At
ircular
ROT
tretehes
! ' Ir Yi ¥ ie
nussians 0 be reported
nothing is given out
from Vienn:
about the lefeats in Servia
200,000 MEN LOST IN BATTLE
FOR POSSESSION OF LODZ.
hundred thougand
estimate, have fall
near Lodz.
estimates
region
Says
the
don —~Two
at the
1.
men, low est
en in the battles
The the
at
the
com-
officers
Jourse Gazetle
casualties in th
thousand, and
among
ed
German is
one hundred
percentage of
manders and comm!
particularly high
These costimates
fifty-five mile battle
No
ae
loss,
BHC is
based on the
front around Lodz.
available for
hundred
the
are
figures of losses are
remainder three
mile line along which at times,
fighting has been as desperate in char
acter as that at the more central point
of the
of contact.
Berlin Encouraged.
Berlin. An army headquartie
statement says
In Northern
man troops are
the retreating enemy the east
and to the south of Lodz. Besides
the extraordinarily large and san-
guinary losses reported, the Rus
sians have lost about 1.500 pris.
oners and sixteen cannon with
ammunition carts,
Much encouragement has
rived here from the recent Russian
reports, which are considered much
lesz confident in tone than former'y
If an investment of Warsaw should
result the operations,
military men say it will deprive Rus
sia of a most important centre of rail
way communications and :
place the
Russians in position
8
the Ger
pursuing
Poland
closely
0
been de
from present
a serious
NO CHRISTMAS WAR TRUCE.
Russia Declines to Accept Plan Pro.
posed by the Pope.
Berlin, (by wireless to Sayville, N
Y.) ~The proposal of Pope Benedict
for a truce among the warring nations
during the Christmas holidays is sald
by the Official Press Bureau to have
been declined by Russia.
The “ress Bureau previously an
nounced that Germany was willing to |
agree to a Christmas truce, provided
the other nations at war gave their
ranent, |
GOES DOWN
WHEN FLEET IS
The
that
under
§
ich
london
nounced
squadron
A Aves d
AUTH
British
German
Vice-Admiral
von Spee, wh sank the cruiser
Good Hope and Monmouth off
Chilean coast on November 1, was dc
feated by a British fleet under Rear
Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee off tis
Falkland Islands in the Atian
tic. Three German vessels, the flag
ship Scharnhorst, the Gneisenay and
Leipzig, were sent to
The Admiralty report follows
At 7:30 a. m., on the 8th of De-
cember, the Scharnhorst,
the
the
South
the the bottom
Gnelge.
nau, Nurnberg, Leipzig and Dres
den were sighted off the Falkland
Island: a Britdsh squadron
under Rear Admiral! 8ir Frederic
Sturde
An
urse
flying
von Spee;
by
K
ed, in
Sci
action follow
of which the warn he
flag of Admiral
Gnelsenau ane
sunk.
Dresden and
made off, following
Two colilers
Rear Admiral
that the Brit
few in
irvivors we;
Le
the
fhe
Leipzig were
The Nurnberg
the action.
the
were also captured
Sturdee reports
asualitie
number and that some
xi s were
very
LrDelsenay
The fight
anc
Was §
(Chile
made of
irnhorst
»OTINAT
Ginelsenau
Spee's flax
The
withdrew
Géman cruiser
’
forimm oy
Ton 1¥
ch
the Falkland
make her
islands an
escape in
Dresden,
e the iritish warships under
"rederick
Vice Admiral
were cruisers
§ it, senau and
detached units Engli
hunted down the ir criisers
the Nurnberg to the
This information was contained in a
British Official
Leipzig
ig and
cont bottom
statement of the Press
Bureau
RUSSIANS IN FULL RETREAT
IN HUNGARY, BUDAPEST SAYS
An official
CAVE
London)
issued here
Budapest (via
communication
The enemy wi
of Saros and Miemplin
verywhere In full
10 entered the
countie
in Hungary are o
reireat Our
in Galician
points. Oniy two or
munities in Hungarian territory
fire in the hands of the enemy.
iready
several
LOK p=
territory
fire a
at
reqs Om
a i
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS
ail fe LFA
IRR
HER
SIRE a HAO mI ea,
which for several days appeared to
be making steady progress in their
ed checks, says the official
from Russian headquarters,
|
GOETHALS CALLS
FOR WARSHIPS
Wants Destroyers Sent to
Canal Zone.
——————————
WIRELESS MAY BE CAUSE
Has Had Trouble Preserving
Neutrality the
Zone.
Washington, D. C
bas requested that destrovers be sent
In
explanation of the need for
naval vessels there was included in
the message. A reply asking for this
explanation was sent at
epecifie
once
neutrality of the
Many
and it is thought
Goethals has found
unable k of thelr
plants within the threc-mile
information Wa
the vicinity,
Colonel
are in
possible
himself che
lo ee
limit to to
ships at. sea
With
convey
to ald it
to regulate
swift naval vessels
matter
use of wireless
Recent Activity Alarms.
Reeent activity by British and Jap
anese warships the vicinity of the
Canal Zone, which followed the recent
disaster to the British fleet under Ad
has given rise to some
here, although no specific
porte of violations of neutrality have
been received
known
i
re
as
so fa:
previously
teports intgrrup
tion from Panama have led to the be
lief and warships
exchangi which, if
been
of wireless
that olliers were
they
bh
jal nee
REA OR,
have not otherwise to
have hindered
open
jection ron ore
of wireless to a considerable extent
w of Colonel Goethals
is believed code
picked up
to some exient
been
Enge t Mes ny
which disc
§ insed
been
the waters of the
made a "
pith of
»OvVernm
which
of neutrality
have base of of
Allie fleas
wishes to establ
or t
be the
by one
that
a
the
atrol will prevent
4 '
GOLD MEDAL TO WILSON
President Remembered For Aid Te
“Buy.a.-Bale”
Dn £* To
presented 2
Cause
Washingto: President
Wilson was
inscribed, “Neutra
ognition of
to the Red Cross bazaar in
of a bale of cotton which he
to forward the
movement The
by Edward P. V
on behalf
Senator Hoke Smith
ernor Glynn and Mavor Mitehe
gold
d Humanity
donation
N¢ w
medal
Hy a
his
in res recs
York
bought
buy-a-bale of cotton’
was presented
New York
including
(3ov
medal
Ritter. of
of 3a committee
of Georgia
1 of New
their territory toward the Bosnian
ed the Austrians advancing from the
north.
Up to December 8 the Servians had
captured about 25.000 prisoners, 115
guns of all kinds and great quanti.
ties of war material and ammuni.
tion.
8ix German submarines raided the Ad.
miralty Harbor at Dover, England,
One was declared to have been sunk
by the forts and others hit. No
damage was done to the British war/
ships at anchor.
Berlin announced the capture of Przas.
nysz, indicating that the advance on
Warsaw from the north is gaining
in strength,
French aviators dropped sixteen bombs
on Freiburg, in the Grand Duchy
of Baden. Berlin claims no damage
was done and complaine of the act
as being “outside the range of op
erations.”
INDIVIDUAL SUFFRAGE WORK
Plans For Campaign In Four States
Are Worked Out.
New York In t} campaign next
year for votes for women in the States
of Pennsylvania, New York. New Jer
sey and Massachusetts, the work will
be carried on along individual lines ex.
for an interchange of speakers
This decision was reached at a con
ference of suffrage workers from
four States The delegates said they
felt sure that the question of suffrage
people next
Campaign
Te
each of the fou:
in
States.
$1,803,923 FOR ACCIDENTS
This Amount Paid Out in Five Years
By Government
Washington, D. CA total of $1
803.923 has been paid out by the Fed
during the past five
more than 14.000 of em
ployes who met with accidents in the
ant under the
§ of 1508, ac
to ite
The act embraces at
persons, of somewhat lege than one
NO MILITARY INVESTIGATION,
Rules Committee.
Washington. D. C
military preparedness of the country
was voted down by the House Rules
five to three. All the Democrats voted
against it
NO CHRISTMAS TRUCE,
Vatican Announces Failure Of Plan.
Russia Opposed It.
Rome. -« The Vatican authorities
made public a docyment setting forth
the efforts made by the Pope to obtain
A truce in the European war during
the Christmas season. The efforts of
the Pontiff unfortunately failed, ae.
cording to the Vatican announcement,
“owing to the opposition of a certain
power.”
CARNEGIE 15
JGHINST TRUCE
Unchristianlike to Stop War |
Only Temporarily,
HE CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE
Hopes World wil
After War
Peace Will
Very Long.
Be So Horrified
That
Follow Before
Permanent
Washington, D. © Car
expressed
in the
Andrew
decided opposition
European war
holidays
he
slop
again
to
during
He declared
a truce
the Christmas
that Jt would
unchristianlike and immoral to
the fighting and then begin it
He added that he could not
any nation which adopted
suggestion was
{
such a
eerely
Mr. Carnegie
meeting of the
walked to and from the
through young
President was
negie praised Mr
behalf of peace.
Ready To Aid In Mediation
Mr. Carnegie
the world would be so ©
the war that permanent
follow He sald his
tion would continue its
ultimately
would
fro :
going int
gin-
after attending a
stitution,
White House
now ft The
golfing Car
Wilson's «
Carnegie In
a wm
Mi
fr
ort
out
he hoped
orrified
said that
aver
would
founda
and that
international
EL BOF
ne _oe
work
believed,
arbitration all disputes
He declared children khould be taught
the of than
brought admire and
thelr
Mr. (
Bn *
called
he
settle
horrors rathe;
up soldiers
deeds
armmegic showed interest
y ight
{io
at
be
gpestion to kh
bs
Peace
We
im tha he
the Prezident
wher
megs expressed
pathy
EDISON PLANT BURNED
Loss Put At $7,000,000, With $2 000,000
Insurance
000
reinforced
were =
COncr
Ip posed
burned out by the
edifice paved
laboratory
tific
machi
superintendence
Thomas A. BEdisor
Were
It is estimated that
made 10 save this
Oy men
’ thrown
In all
employed at
battery
the
and women will be
out of work because o
about persons were
the plant, but
buliding
main plant,
7 600
as the storag«
th
§
from
Other
ACTORS etreet
saved. with
| be poseible to
than half .th
Was
il =
something mors e
employed
Four firemen
{io
were and were
niured
but
hur
& hospital are not
to be seriously
HANS SCHMIDT ASKS NEW TRIAL
Died Of Operation
New York AE A
new
the
bazie for a
trial be granted
priest who mur
umuller and then threw
Hud
presented
motion
a
Schmidt
Anna A
dismembered body into the
river, | attorney
Hanes
her
io
in
which set
by
forth that the
operation and
ane,
was killed an
was The affidavits
Henry T. Cattell
ian Hospital of Phila.
Justin Herold. pro- |
medical jurisprudence at |
Decision on the |
motion was reserved |
the case
those of Dr
Presbyter
delphia, and Dr
fessor of
TWO SAVED FROM HANGING
i
When Stay Arrived.
Mise Two
and Peter
murder, were
Starkville negroes, |
Behien, con- |
saved from i
a few minutes before |
for the execution, when |
& slay on an appeal bond subscribed
i
Seals
victed of i
hanging
hour
here
apt
white citizens, reachtéd the sher
If.’ A big crowd Kad gathered to see |
the hanging, the negroes had put on
cofling had been brought
forming the procession
to the |
FIRE DESTROYS VILLAGE.
dale, Mich,
Vassar, Mich.—Three lives were
lost in a fire which practically de
stroyed the village of Owendale, near
here. The dead are John Noviae, his
wife and son. Their bodies were
found in the ruins of their home. The
property loss ie estimated at $75,000.
RS AERO,
MGUE LEGALITY
OF GOAL TAX LAW
Impost on Anthracite Product
is Attacked.
MUSTER IN N. G. P, HOSPITAL
Farmers Among Early Auto Registry
Seekers—To Admit Cattle Only
For Food—Asks $2,000,000
More Mothers.
Three
the
Fer
tye
iTg
Harrisb
is eharged
wherein
anthracite cos
funda
forth
points
th
tax act of 1912 ig a the
mental law of the
by counsel for the
trial of the test Dauphir
County Court and after testimony was
taken the Court fixed January 4 as the
for argun ppeals
filed by coal he (3
settlements of the Auditor General and
Iressurer selected
sixty They the
and the Plymouth
operating ir
8t. Clair
gainst
Slate
were get
coal companies ir
cares in the
Three a
{
compa
fron
Aldar
Coal Cogn
county
State
about
were
were
Luzerne
Coal
11 county
and the Compans
operating in Schuylik!
It was contended by counsel for the
companies that Ax is kind
of commodity therefore
form that
legislation and
required for sueh
: tha
Ls
and
red
on one
not un
act is
prelim
R88 Tequ the
special that
n
n
aries in advertising
were not compl with and
of the
of the calen
It was also cor
1 of distrib:
US
the coal appraised was ou Stats
when valued the ORE
dar year for taxation
tended tig
meth tion
of one-half of the revenue to counties
producing coal was in quitable because
1 wil
tf mine coal
in some case
Early Auto Re
nnlison
Applica
gistry Seckers
on of aute
at
ent at the rats
tions by egistrat
nobiles for 1915 are appearing the
State Highway Departn
of over 7 A TR nd it is expected
thousand =»
gistration fs
and fit
living
papers
Years ago the early ap
fu
ie
ticed ir
iral districts ing
whereas a few
ions came chiefly
the department that
by of the
will
leat ym the cities
believed at
the middle
not far from 60
consider
tion
be
0 or be
ably } r than at the same time last
Year
Heads Railway Men,
Rafiwas
annual con
officers as
Philadeiphian
The
Association
Pennsylvania Street
finish
anda
ed its
tion elected
here
follows
President, C. IL. 5
8S. Tingley, Phila
Thomas A
secretary, Di
Execu
Wright
Thomas
Crowles
of Phila
deiphia ident
Wright,
enry
tive
Gordo
Cooper.
Pittsburgh
delphin
Vice re x
Wilkes-Barre
M Harrisburg:
Committee, bomas A
Campbell York:
Pittsburgh H. 3
and 71 Jones
Stine,
H
Quarantine Raised From 14 Counties
The State Live
Board relieved fourteen
quarantine for foot and mouth diseass
leaving twenty-eight still on the list
in which of cattle }«
prohibited. The counties relieved are
Armstrong, Bair Butler, Cambria
Clarion, Clearfield. Fayette, Greene
Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset.
Stock Sanitary
counties fron
any movement
Wants Unclaimed Deposits Public.
Suit to reqgiure State Banking
Commissioner to require the publics
tion annually of lists of unclaimed
bank deposits has been started in the
Dauphin County Court in behalf of
Mary G. Brackney, of Pittsburgh. It
is contended that the institutions de
not comply with an act passed in 1847
requiring such publication
To Admit Cattle Only For Food.
The State Live Stock Sanitary Board
har issued an order that no eatile
from pointe oulside of Pennsylvania
will be permitted to enter any of the
counties of the State except for imme
diate slaughter, This appeals to sl
counties whether they are in quaran
tine or not
the
Muster in N. G. P. Hospital,
The adjutant general's department
announced that field hospital No. 2 had
been mustered into the National Guard
at. Tacony, Philadelphia. by Major
Frank D. Beary, deputy adjutant gen
eral. It will be commanded by Major
Fimor E. Keiser, Medical Corps. .
Ask $2,000,000 More For Mothers.
An increase of the State appropria
tion for mothers’ pensions by at least
$2,000,000 wax favored by login
Iative committee of the State Feders
tion of Labor.