Occupation of Avlona, the Albanian Seaport London ~—Material gains on the ex- treme wings, in Flanders and in Al sace, bitter artillery fighting at many points and infantry actions of the ae verest kind near Soissons and in the Argonne are the principal features of the operations at front as describ ed in the official communiques of the French war office. The German General Staff annount 8 the repulse of French attacks near Rheims, in the Argonne, in the Vosges and also in upper Alsace. The cam paign against the Russians is said he proceeding successfully. A dispatch from Pontebba, Austroitallan frontier, says a man force of 10,000 men been rushed across Austria to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, where it is destined to reinforce the Austrians and aid them in a new attack on the Servians. The Germans boast that with their aid the Servians will be easily crushed and the Austrian defeat avenged. ‘The Russian War Office in a detail od report of the victory over the Turks in the Caucasus says that the Ninth Turkish Army Corps was almost om pletely destroyed, that the pursuit of the Tenth Corps continues and that prisoners and extensive war munitions have been captured. The Turkis my is said to have been comple! persed. Austria is reported to have protest ed against Italy's occupation of Aviona in Albania, and Italy belleved to have sent a firm reply, saying pursue her policy withou! 1on. A dispatch from that Rumania men, of which number 500,000 f¢ the field army. It is unofficially re ported in Bucharest that Rumania will strike even if Italy should decide not 10 enter the war. Austria is apparently either drawn or forced into the dang situation created by the rebellion in Albania and Italy's firm stand for the protection of her interests and obliga tions in that country the {oO on ae Ger nas in ar- dis ely IR she will interrup Buchar reported mobilizing i ol DOD is orm Deing rous VAST CONQUEST BY GERMAN ARMIES Conquered Territory Embraces 15,000. 00 Belgians, French and Russian Poles. hag conquer than the IRN Washington. —Germany ed territory inhabited by more 15,000,000 people so far during European war, it was stated on diplomatic authority This estimate is number of Belgians, sian Poles living in cities country occupied by af this based upon he French and Rus and in the German soldiers large : food German It is because increase pop tion that the question beginning to give govern ment much cond it was declared Figures presented by this aothority indicate that approximately 6.000.000 Belgians are under German rule, 4,000 000 French and 5.000000 Poles Belgium and part of France held by Germany, it was stated, two of the thickly populated portions of Europe, Russian Po land, now under German influence, is honeycombed with manufacturing com munities, very thickly populated ermany would have no trouble, i! was stated, to feed own normal population of 65,000,000, but when the number is increased to 530.000.0600 1 an entirely different proposition the ern, that are most while her RUMANIA PREPARES TO JOIN THE ALLIES Paris It is learned {rom a private source, but from one worthy of cred. ence, that arrangements whereby the interests of Rumania in Berlin and Vienna will be attended by the United States diplomatic service have been definitely made. This can mean but one thing In the opinion of the Ru: manian Legation here—that Rumania would prefer to wait until Russian op- erations through Bukowina hed fur ther developed across the Carpathians, Rumania, though ready (0 place 500,000 troops in the fighting Hine im mediately, is not wealthy enough io face unmoved the prospect of a long war. Every month that has beén pass ing has been reducing the period of Rumania’'s inevitable co-operation with the Allies. Only cold, practical facts have kept Rumania aloof so far. ets AUSTRIA TO REMEDY MISTAKE. Italian Hostage Taken at Belgrade Subject of Diplomatic Assurance. Rome, via Havre.—The Aunstrian! Government has notified the Foreign | Office that the Dual Monarchy is striv. | ing to ascertain whether four Italian | subjects were taken as hostages after the capture of Belgrade, as bas been | widely reported in Italy. The Austrian Foreign Office has giv. en notice to the Hallan Foreign Office that it is prepared to remedy the mis taky if one was made. London. —Advances by i battle-front extending from the Sea to Alsace were an outstanding fea ture of the latest war news. A further gain by the Alsace on the road the strategic point of Muelhausen shadowed for the time being the crash: ing blow the Russians appear to have dealt Turkish army invading Caucasus, A German tren long in the up by French in important aver {to the bh almost half a mile Argonne Allies, The Paris offi nounced that the lowed by an the { statement expid infantry attack, captured BION Wa half of the French In grandson Italian patriot Garibaldi was killed The death in action other grandson was said in Rome reawakened the spirit the ditch this charge a of the ¢ of recent an to have in Italy. The Italian Government a premobilization annour provides for the callipg war issued cement whic as to the color: (War ata Glance a —_—. ces. MONDAY. Dispatches from various quarters received at London are regarded there as indicating that Italy, Greece, Rou- mania and Bulgaria may soon join in the war. Activity by the Germans western battle front is indicated by from the Frence War which report attacks by the Germans at many points, but declare the attacks have been repulsed The German War Office reports that battle at Solssons has recom- menced, and that the Germans have made further progress in the Argonne, Continued bad weather hampers operations in the eastern theatre, and states that the ged along the along the the ages of try between years. This will give Italy an army of 3,433,160 men. It believed indi cate that the Government realizes that Italy will obliged to enter the WAT. The German War Office reports that the French were driven heights near Sonnheim Alsace and that material advan were made in Argonne. In Polan the Germans have rea River and captured 1.040 The Germans are still » Russian line, roads to In Western reinforced held 20 and 49 is to soon be from the (Cernay} In the bed the Sucha prisoners ammering at ently » drawn dir ¥ acre IER the Warsaw Gali the up the Gorlice. Lord Kil British fr the om where we ia, they have Austrians, they have Russian advance near hener, in a of Lords, confidence in the ability He said that recruit would sits the conflict through speech In House sald he had of the probably perfect Allies to win. more quired to ca a sn 2.000 0060 rey cessful conc! It was reported rad rushed troops battle line in Poland to the dam the Russian flood ginning to overrun Transyl save Bud In usion. that Kaiser 3 200.000 nl + | PS ai80 0 neip ip besieged Poland itself in and Russian ocke in t no notable change German ing dead] . Ka regions the atl Armies he Brura QUOTES GERMAN OFFICIAL AS PREDICTING DEFEAT OF GER- MAN ENEMIES BY JUNE. Amsterdam tion with the country the in a Inver German Minister in German Affairs ing statement "We do not have io are progressing excelle many. Let me make By the end will smashed The end of March the French army. In April we will fin. ally start reckoning with Great Britain, which | expect will be finished hy the middle of May. All Germany's ese mies will be beaten before June at any rte recen neutral Jagow For Eur pe, Under made Herr Secretary reign ' ntiy tae forecast have of Februar ry wi 1p will the Russians. see the end of I——-— PITH OF THE : WAR NEWS AIR en Paris sent out a report that Rumania and Italy have reached an agree- ment to enter the war simultane. ously, The Siberians are reported to be sur rounding the routed Turks in the Caucasus and taking them prisoners by thousands. Viscount Haldane, the British Lord High Chancellor, announced in the House of Lords that British experts are producing an equivalent to the German 42.centimeter gun. Military experts estimated that the counting the regulars, the reservists. the territorials and Lord Kitchener's new army. Details are given in Petrojrod of the Russian victory at Ardahan and Sari Kamysh, in the Caucasus. At the latter town the Turks are sald to have lost 100,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners. The battle is de- scribed as a “littie Sedan.” | The Germans are continuing their at tack to the southeast of Ypres, where their heavy artiliery has been stead. Hy bombarding the Allies’ trenches. There is a steady rainfall in most of Flanders, and the floods are ing. In the Dixmude area mans’ infantry in some places are advancing in mud. at of and semi-official announcement tells of the destruction Turkish merchant done to two Turkish cruisers Russian fleet in the Black Sea confirmation of {the sinking of the German cruiser der Tann by the British vineible off the coast of Brazil t received A many vessels the No by Is Von in ag beer cruiser SUNDAY With announcement that the Steinbach, in the advance in The Kaiser's Burnhaupt-le-Haut bach In the the against Warsaw has been dispatches telling of the intense as an ald to the armies of General Hindenburg, Swamps that have vented tk g out of his strategic plans have frozen, and it that his men fore ¢ the Bs efaken by riin German forces have | Alsace, confirmation in given conclusion that the 5 Alsace has been checked troops also recccuplied just south of Stein. offensive resumed, cold yon east German carryin is thought on the way 0 £ ity the are again ck on the Polish coordi an i ‘he Allies, ad gE to ired in three lines the Alsne fiatly con by de gain in statement, bh of ave capt German ches Berlin Office region {nce tradiets th cla¥ing that this Mail 3: 1 R ore French War (3017 Ans made a very same | Hy 3 advices from London say nad known as Ian regiment ceas Patriea’s Own was sent front Christmas Eve Canada to follow Tone Pope, In wer the Be In the The Scots were shortly another audience iran situation f the Russians s« unchecked. in their Boukowina. London ex vasion of Hungary to Progress rap The Austr that rain and mud iperations in Berlin cian battlefield of Alexander Michaeloviteh of Russia indicated enst Weep welts diy ian night stigte has ment RAYE checked all Galicia death on a Per Grand Du brotherin An in reports the the ke law of the Czar vasion of Persia is obiliza her Roumania is preparing a unofficial dis is expected patches say War i i reagaed d Turkey are flitary denies that been arrested has ! ed of libert watched or depriy ADY way SATURDAY Because of invasion of ritory by Kurds and Turks, Persia has ultimatum to Constantinople the Persian Minister at Rome states Preparations for the removal of the Turkish Government from nople are sald to have been made A communication from Russian headquarters in the Caucasus. recount. ing the recent Russian successes over the Turks that region, says it has been established that the Ninth Otto man Army Corps was completely that the booty taken included a vast Yersian ie an Constanti in de by Russians pile of cannon German attacks east of the Rawka river are progressing, according to an official announcement at Berlin, which says that 1.600 Russians have been An official announcement from | of Bukowina and in the Car lands Austrian forces Further progress by the French in The an: algo reports slight gains points in France, but says that. of a section of trenches in the Argonne, the French troops at this point were obliged to fall back a slight distance. Viscount Haldane announced in the British House of Lords that experts producing a gun which was at least the equal of the German 42-centimetre gun, FRIDAY. Dispatches from London state that reports received there indicate that the Russians, invading Hungary and advancing on Transylvania simultane. ously with their movement on Cracow, are engaged in the most gigantic operations of the war, In a report from the western front, a British military observer asserts that the offensive has definitely passed to the Allies, and that steady progress is being made in “the process of attrition which eventually will bring the war to an ond” The Yeo Neue Freie Press hears from the front that Russian artillery fire has slackened in a way to indicate that the Russlans are running short of ammunition, A Turkish announcement states that Ottoman troops have occupied Urumiah, a town in Persian Armenia, sald to be an lmportant basal position of the Russians. THURSDAY, Hard fighting continues in Upper Alsace. A Berlin dispatch says the battle in thie region is developing into the most violent of the war Paris reports the blowing up, by mine exploded by French troops, 800 yards of German trenches in Argonne. Berlin announces that sev eral of the French trenches in the same region have been taken by Ger- man troops. Little change eastern theatre, a of the the Ger- has occurred in according 1o the man War Office, which mentions, how- ever, an advance by the Germans west of the Vistula after an engagement in which 1,400 Russians were captured Petrograd announces that pursuit the Russians of Turkish which escaped af the by the troops flor i Kamys.. continues i The former German cruiser the Turkish flag, is to been seriously damaged striking two Russian mines {neighborhood of the Bosphorus Lord hener addressing the i British of Lords on the of ared that the were In a position to prosged rout at Sari Goeben, ted by now filving repo: have in ihe Kite Hou s¢ Progress Allies w the war, dec! ute it a riunyg WEDNESDAY. It is announced that the Russian troops have gained a decisive the Turks at Sari capturing the entire Ninth the Turkish Army. The the Turkish are de to be In full with the ians pursuing Of the situation in LInan announcement thas been little change, gains by the ipoints are claimed Vienna reports trians of & Russ to break throu of officially victory over i Kamysh, Corps of others of forees clared retreat i Russ the Poland Ger gays that there slight certain though Germans ut Aus. tried orihea the by fan fore which thei: i Gorlies According Petrograd Austrians a thr ! an ROnoun ment at ussians bh efeated tzzok Pas forcing ave the p by Alsace and gain French by the are Office TORTess in Belgium Freneh War a0 SERVIA A SECOND BELGIUM 100,000 Wounded There, Mme. Grouitch Over Writes Pp. C onditions in are eat Tes Washington devastated i of Bervia ry As gx 1 * etter the portions as distressing and the mis as in Belgium ceived at the ¢ ¥ irom according to a Red Mme Under Secretary for Forelgr: Cross headquarters fe} wife of Affairs of Were Grou the =ervia Every available bulld front bas been 3] onverted ital,” Mme. Groulteh wrot wounded in nded can floors only sr fourth das and gauze 18 hours a day Commitiees fire ¢ train She added wounded Sery ervia MILLION VOTED FOR AIRCRAFTS House Committee Alsec For Staff Corresponding To Admiralty Washington, D. C.—0One lars for aircraft was House Naval Committee agreed to incl in the appropriation bill provision for a “chief of opera tions,” with a staff corresponding to the=British Admiralty Provision was made for a 50 per cent. increase aviators’ pay, wita double pension al lowance in case of death while on duty. The committee agreed, after considerable discussion, on the provi Agrees million 4 voted by tf They oi he aiso ude | Admiralty, | subject to the direction of the civilian | Secretary of the Navy KAISER'S CONFIDENCE FIRM. {Wires Archduke He Expects Decisive Success. Berlin, via The Hague and London - Emperor William, replying to a con gratulstory message from Frederick of Austria, {follows: “My best wishes to your Imperial Highness and your brave Austro-Hungarian troops who, in the past year, have shown an unchanged spirit of comradeship toward their German allies. "With eur combined {forces we continue the fight, and with our eyes toward God we will win, A decigive success for our just cause will not be wanting. telegraphed as “WILLIAM.” MA A ARS PESTILENCE AT PRZEMYSL. Lemberg Hears Garrison Is Almost Without Provision, Lemberg, Galicia, via Petrograd and London.—-It is reported here that pestilence ie spreading in the city and among the garrison of Przemys], which it now almost without provisions. Ineffectual sorties still continue from Przemysl, but they are less vigorously pushed. As is due, it is thought, to the ‘s knowledge of the failure of the Avstrian relief forces to break through the Russian lines. IN PARAGRAPHS From All Over the State. coasting Accident Proves Fatal Saturday Session In 8S8chool—Two Hurt In Shamokin In Coast. ing Accidents, Sunbury, Stanley Ross was arrested by Dr. C. 8B. Hunt, a State health inspec tor. He paid a $50 fine When he lost control of his sled while coasting on a steep hill at Sun bury, Roberti Cope suffered a fractured sixteen ours of uncone« seventeen, dying IOUNNGESE skull after Two accidents, occurred near hour and in sim Sledr on which John and Claud« {lias riding ran through Walker and badly fatal ‘RINE manner Coasting One Carlisle at the the same Walker, aged 19 aged 23 Ort Ww Were fences killing ¢ Williams Alter court, at being out four hours, a jury in Sunbury, awarded Ralph Ferry, a Shamokin miner, $2,500 dam ages agains! the Mineral Railroad and Mining Company for a broken leg, suf fered In an accident in the Henry Clay Colliery at Shamokin Mrs. Ida Blair, aged is in the Harrisburg Hospital perhaps fatally burned. in a fire which destroy- ed her home and two other houses Firemen rescued her from her bed room on an upper floor after she had been cut off by the flames. Roy Blair, aged nine, was Injured by a falling ceiling but not ely sixty-two geriont Ruth O'%eill, daughter of Bellwood Hotel attending mass, a thief entered and stole a $350 diamond overlooking a diamond stick pin A stra who the hotel is believed to the gem, which he later gn Altoona jeweler Whi of the was hier ring, and registered at le Miss proprietor roomn pearl brooch ager have taken tried 10 sell to Filing his with the Board of Pdocation for the first half of Hl school term, Prof. Carmon Ross, super vising principal of the Doylestown Schools, asserted that most cases of truancy in the districts were due to the cigarette hablit—that the boys, of attending sessions, go (0 ou way places, and report t of the emoke } the public reuant first Chester history of schools, the to the Directors, will turdays in the in manual train evenings for instruction The instructors will Training School for Cheyney For the the West Gay Street action of the hereafter be open School, pu Board of on Sa afternoons for classes ing and in the in xym be #1 ippli ed by 131 3 $ i Galen Hanl« ¥ { for the emerging ie clerk Susque hanna Cosl 1 Company from his office at Shamokin, was run bob sled Shamokin knocked senseless and Holbich, four wid against a tele on another hill and was seriously if not fatally in jured on down by = gireet, and was badly YORE WAS | injured teen graph pole by a sled fee, wealthy retired farm throat with a razor while at the home of his daughter in Scran ton. Lee consulted with physicians They told him that he was a strong and healthy man. and that his ills were imaginary. He continued to brood however, and afte: the members of his daughter's family bad retired. ended his life with a razor Roscoe N er, cut his North check for Sheriff G. Grube, received a Deputy of ampton county. den Kemmerer, of East Penn Town ship, Carbon county. Last summer was hunting in Carbon county fire. Christian Charles, aged (wentyeight an East Indian, was arrested in Heol lidaysburg as a supposed “black hander” A black hand letter had been sent to Moses Brown, demanding $150 and threatening to blow up bis home If he refused. The money was to be placed in a can in the alley back of his premises. The police arranged a decoy, secreted themselves, and when Charles picked up the can ar rested him. He denied sending the letter, Four young women, natives of Aus trina, who were on their way from thei homes in Cementon to Coplay, where they worked in a cigar factory, step ped out of the way of a shifting engine on the Lehigh Valley tracks, directly in the path of an eastbound express traln. Katie Mada, aged sixteen; Mary Yurkoski, aged twenty-four; Katie Bankosk, sged sixteen, were killed instantly, and Mary Farenkopf, aged twenty, died soon after being sarried into the station at Coplay. THE BIG PARADE Bell Bids Farewell to Dauphin County Court PENNSYLVANIA CHARTERS General Edward deV. Morrell Selected As Grand Marshall-—Justice Brown To Administer QOath-—-W. H. Gaither Commissioner, General Edward deV Philadelphia, a persona ernor-lect Brumbaugh grand of parade i$ rell is a member of the Board of Education and a pron Guardsman. His was made by the gpecial committee in charge of the Inauguration from Dr. Bri The last inaus ed by General ( Wilkes-Barre, comma tonal Guard in gossip is 4% Morrell, I friend of Gov selected of was inaugural Mor iphia an marshal the on January General 3 LP Philad« 1 er Eeiection following advices umbaugh ural parad« head Bow war Dough nder of who wa 8 BisO Nn wees AE Hikelh The mined on his Elder Wi ingdon, form baugh and a i dl College BEC again new Governd personal ¥ lam J "et insinm friend Swigart, of er ctor of Ih member of the fa uniata was the of IVOCSA choi Governor the benediction He is i The ce ir the new ation pronoun mber iination J. Hay nister the religious Governor. Chief of Lancaster of office. The committee stand to be erected of Capitol Park at selected a badge of bro enamel carried by a blue The ceremony will immediately aft parade of military At night a Mm 4 IrOwY iil admi oat} for a the south ArTRanEgen iarge or ¢ State sireet nze with ribbon political firemen vy ihlic be held Harrisburg rates for the plants hat paper Bprings county, Haven a onburs cent advance of ten cents a declared to have bee: ( the advanced rate attacked as ur justifiable by William A. Glasgow, Jr before the Public Commi The case wae compl New York and Pennsyiva and the West V Willi io Are and d Johns ton ' reasonable Service the sSgiar ints of the nia Compan; irginia Pulp & Paper Co., and Mr. Glasgow asserted that the Penpsylvania hb flort to ascertain the cost of hauling the con modity or the rate, but easily handled ar tings we dele m ale by W lard, who rates are « kinds of « conditio question ad made no « nro profit had sin asperted restored siso said t crease rat properties future he Li i had to in . to mains 4 ucibie America attacked the den Pet Kailroad, declaring tha it was in some instances. The complaint based the handling of cases in works of the company in Pennsyivania ompany © rrage of the neyivania u nfair was the on western Bell Bids Farewell. Attorney General John C. Bell took leave of the Dauphin County Court indicating that he was not going to be Attorney General and was about close his work. The Attorney Genera! made the chief argument in the cos! tax case, and then said “As this is probably the last time that 1 shail appear officially before tunity to express to you my sense of genuine appreciation and grateful obl gation for the uniform courtesy I have perienced them, the happiness of Deputy Attorney General Hargest preceded Ni. Bell and advanced forty points to substantiate the contention tax of two and a half per cent ad valorem per ton may be levied on eonl mined and prepared for shipping Harrisburg Civic Club. The Civie Club of Harrisburg will bave to fight Tor the property be. | gueathed to it by Mrs. William R Fleming, of New York. a former resi dent of the city. It has been discovered by the executor, the Central Trust Company, of New York, that the club fe not incorporated, and on this ground a contest has been made. The be quest wae 8 mansion along the river front to be a home for the club, Wn Gaither Sworn As Commissioner. Walter H. Gaither, the new Public Bervice Commissioner, took his oath of office before Secretary of the Com monwesllh McAfee.
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