GERMANS GHECK FRENCH ADVANCE ON METZ ARMIES IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTS IN ALSAGE RUSSIAN VANGUARD ON-PRUSSIAN FRONTIER 3 0 mc — Kaiser’s Forces Claim a Victory and the French Admit Being Driver From Trenches Which They Won the Day Before 10: + © | m— fighting London.—The batile for the trench now! es in Flanders and France desperate which, with few exceptions, Is confined to the eastern end of the almost without cessation battle line in France and Alsace, each {sea to the Swiss border, witl not of the opposing armies, according to] able advantage for either side, In the the official reports, has practically off- mud of Flanders, the floods of the set the advantage gained by the other. Alsne and the snows of the East of Verdun the Germang have | Argonne and the soldier made two slight advances, in one re-jof Germany and the allied nations taking the trenches around Apremont, keop up a continual fight to hold what near St. Mihiel, which the French | they possess, and take something from captured, and in the other gaining a! that held by small portion of trenches in the Forest According to a of Le Pretre from the column which of the fighting during is threatening Metz mouths, issued by the In the Argonne forest, other Office, the side of Verdun, the Germans made largely great efforts to break the French line, while they without success. Near the village of | most every Fontaine Madame the invaders driven back twice, and at another region, that of Soissons, point of defence, called Marie T They are being test, how the French were holding their posi ever, similar to that which obliged tions after a desperate fight. them to retire south of Aisne, near Fight Hand to Hand in Alsace. because the Germans, realiz Probably the most violent engage- In danger to their communica ment of the whole front is now in tons with Metz as a result of the progress around Thann, in Alsace, French advance near Pont-a-Mousson although the official reports give scant sent reinforcements information. The French army in this begun a baftie for positions region is apparently firmly fixed, as Which they lost. The Germans have the Germans, operating from the great regained a portion of them, fortress of Muelhausen nearby as a [ I.e Pretre. base, have been fruitlessly attemp! Fast of Rheims the French have de ing to expel them for several weeks. molished German field and The French, however, are still within | Wrecked a German ammunition depo! a couple of miles of Cernay part heim), which has been their Alsace, there ate objective in their attempted move i ment on Muelhausen The battle in the Hartman kop! hills this region, according to n atempt by the officlal T reports, is actual hand-f cut off hand fighting. News dispatch situation in Poland north’ of the Vistula, In of Lipnow, Russian are within twen'!y mi man frontier Paris.—In the from the 10ut Valley Vosges the the enemy. official the Past two French War operations favored Allies, who, have gained ground on al part of the front, forced to give way long report on the HisloTyY Of siege has the have been in only one were herese, put to a Folssous, the have there, have rest of works (Senn At other points, icularly near St. Mihiel been and infantry the immedi have n-Weile icmg toward ing ia near Tho ¢ report that a force of Gern rthwest of Wares Rus advan yen-Mlawa are in small merely deta but a vicinity | peared ng advance guards 3 ithe of the Qer id the ind the fans les of Dobr Germans appear to be 10 reconn er is thought to be are observed Plonsk riiwest of that the orthwest P that the and sent heavy SUBMARINE OPENS WAR ON BRITISH FOOD SUPPLY back of them along to Goslitza, the road {re Plons 8 40 mil Warsaw i Russian oland continue ron Hindenburg's commu the field m Sinking of Merchant Ship Starts Cam. paign to “Starve” England. London.—A hrill of excitement passed through London learned that Germany had struck her COmpeiie 0 in first blow in what was accepted a 3 opening of the Kaiser's campaign Waier mpaign. There British merchant marine Chan in the general boat of iesians of the open : nn 3 oRitions from F was tor } iiway from Le submarine long the Dunaj the bot arpathian passes. Dis e Dur stress upo into their small Hoa Transyl Austria when arshal terrapt the remal: the against the The 00 tons, was the ing attack The Durward pedoed by the German U-19 sending her to tom the submarine ordered {iw ward's cr and af hours until the D situatio hold firms rer Durward, ’ nim victim Stean Tarnow ” . . : Before palic nthe F ow ania tra Bel Weg teh coast Durward ca go, among which were ging GOVERNOR OF CRACOW PREPARES FOR SIEGE Budapest Cracow provis belon Relief dispatch The the ions Commi 1, from The Hague London newspapers {rank sinking of the Durwarc beginning of policy urged by Admiral German Minister of Tir pits apaerts that tarve England by merchant red the partial and women, chili “1 ne men military The aight leave, milit have The Vie "a vIiennR. : uburbs cept ¥ Maye men ire still active svi $58 ped Vie guarg the the pub von Tirpitz, the Navy Germany torpedoing ¥ w hours to The Over Ary age been formed banks have Provi Are Ba but who into a been transferred to slong of all kinds, it arce in Cr The Austrian War Office ha in both ar- an order calling up the sturm men up to and aged sixty. The order Ausetri vessels y stated, BOOW land Lose London~The fighting of the war, because of severe weather conditions, consists largely of artillery duels, cul An exception was region of Point-a-Mousson, where French they made further progress in encounter with the Ger all of the including applies thr an Empire, €as the the tae AT TB TY TR PITH OF THE WAR NEWS BRR RT RRR eR ae ni assert a foot-to-foot mans This is a point to which military men both sides attach great im. portance, and it is predicted in news dispatches that the Germans will start at once a heavy offensive, as they did with much success at Soissons, to put a stop to the French advance toward the roads leading to Metz. Trenches in the Argonne were cap-! tured by the Germans in bayonet charges, but the French official report says the ground was retaken in hand to-hand clashes, In Poland and Western the Germans and Austrians isolated attacks agains{ the Russian kne, which, says the Russian report, have been repulsed with heavy losses to the attacking forces. The Russians are advancing slowly | through the mountains separaiing Bu- | kowina and Transylvania MHEG ENTER on Artillery duels continue all along the 350-mile battle from in Belgium and France, with the usual varying for tunes. Germany sent her former Ambassador at Vienna to Rome on a secret mis sion and Austria sent the present for the purpose of averting the in. tervention of Italy and Roumaria. The Germans have halted the French advance designed to cut communi. cational with the important fortress of Metz, in Lorraine, and isolate the German army in the 8t. Mihie! re gion, A hard battle has been raging in Bel. gium without interruption between Nieuport and Ostend for three days, despite rain and flooded trenches. { News of the German air raid on En PRISONERS T00 FREE. | land was recelved with acclaim by . | the German le. Paris Paper Says German Captives officially St a. Yuar Office : insulted Shopkeeper, fortified towns on the ground that Paris. The Intrangigéant asserts the aircraft were fired on from that the German officers held prison- them. ers are allowed undue freedom and behave with insolence, [It adds that He Gee wan Win ar, Alou. the prisoners are permitted to wa'¥ hayn, has resigned, and he has been freely in the streets and that some replaced by Major General von Moh officers entered a shop where were enborn. The former War Minister sold postcards showing German “atro- has been made a general, and re cities,” insulted the proprietor, and tains his position as Chief of Sta# demanded the removal of the cards " from the window. The. Russia aly is In pinay Gallela continue BATILE N NORTH SEA 7 Damage Two Others Their Own Mine Field, Which British Ships Dare Not Enter, London.-—An attempt by a German squadron to repeat the attack made on Scarborough, the and other British coast frustrated Sunday by the and in a fight the German armored Bleucher wae sunk and two cruisers were seriously recently Hartlepools towns was running cruiser damaged The Bri slight injury, the B tish ships suffered only So far as Is known only 1echer's crew of 885 were saved, A battle algo oct lHght c1 and ocompanying the big the result of this engagement reached the admiralty The British were superior in ships engaged, weight of armament and speed, and the flight of the ships Into the mine and submarine in- fested field possibly saved them fron further losses Bluecher a Fine Ship. The Bluecher was a cruiser of 15.550 tons displacement, and, although com- missloned in 1808, was completely re rigged last year She was not classed 88 a battle cruiser, but was in th those urred between the the German ships, uisers destroyers ac but not has German © next clase to formidable fighters With he; atept (Ger h had the were the Derflinger, whic hands, and and Moltke Goehen ’ ’ many battle cruiser, Just le the builders’ battle the formerly o i German. which by the Russians in Seydlite latter a sieter ahip of the but Was now of recently British squadron ommanded by Rear Admiral Sir David Beatty who also was in command at bat tle off Helgoland last August, congisted of the battle crui Tiger Prip Royal, New Zealand ar domitable The first three of cruisers mount eight 13.5-ineh even the New Zealand 12-inch gu the Lion d In thes gers Cees and ne which and Indomitable carry are equal to those of the the only one of the German ship had better than 11-inch guns each, Derflinger that “NEVER AGAIN"--NOYES. Watchword Of Allies, Declares Poet, Who Arrives In New York. the glisk iting Alfred Noyes. En advocate, and vis English aboard York poet and peace New professor of reac The hed hers word of waich pronounced militari Allies sald M: again When the comes there will attempt to establish lective responsibility 87 up reducer to have nter future A system of NOY “e gettiemont certainly be Eome sort among nation: } again be nity. The whole to whether we are goings the that treaties tor: with lwp thing itself pational wars in international distant idea, but I don’t principle of international alk nnot be worked out.” rather a why the Hances en 257 OFFICERS IN 13 DAYS. Casualty List Published That Loss In In England Shows landers. London. — There officers’ casualty list an and which the British army days lost a total of 2567 men 2 were killed and 133 wounded Thirty-two were reported missing. Added to the previous totals January 12, the 266; wounded. 2.418, and misging, 662. JAPS MAY KEEP KIAUCHAU. China's Realm, New York. Dr. Teyokichi Iyenaga, former professor ef polities! science at Chicago and Columbia Universities, declared in an address before the Japan Society here that the retention of Kiauchan by Japan would not be » violation of Chinese integrity inas much as Kiauchau had been leased to Germany for 99 years and was, there fore, not a part of China. RUBSIANS BLOWN UP, Railway Station Full Of Troops De stroyed By Austrian Shell, Berlin (by wireless to London). It is officially announced here that the Russian raflway station near Chenciny (about 10 miles southwest of Kielce, Bouthern Poland), which the Austrians destroyed by a single heavy shell, was filled with Russian troops at the time all of whom were killed, Fm (WELL YOUNG MAR wiHAT HAVE YOU TO Sf? pip you Zi Atv THAT NY “ZI BALL AT MITE | DWADD PLE 7 " ourRT MARTIA L7 [IME TO EXPAND FOREIGN TRADE cussed at Convention. EUROPEAN WAR OPENS DOOR Declares American Products Should Be Exploited To Get Firm Foot. hold In Markets Of the World For Future, 8t. Louis European Mo. "One week of the war more than 10 years of academic Tine ion to the Americar sople that tirade is } convince foreign lement in dome prosperity that the if § gry iGreen No doubt remain: ermined to see iis of uarded and increas opinion relate only and all eiements inited in patriotic the comm This statement A. Farrell, on end.” war made by James the United States Steel Corporation, in an address at the banquet to delegates to the foreign trade vention in session here Mr Farrel] said ‘What ad the European Inrgely trace president of con disadvantage bring us de changes In indus antage or war will CnaGe that cannot be Pp trial i fc Mean while the interests of are sufficient to oper respect al com ed will, mainisining its trade at high level AX a Just regard for belligerent inter serve the larger and per of those gaged recast y United States war for neutr States merce and the Unit &I& LOTTE € 8 permits, interests not en Time For Action Here atever may be the politics come of the that t pagent European war, it is ap each of the belligerents ial vigorously to pur the parent will find sue ita foreign trade to repair ravages of iis domestic commerce returned and to ameliorate provide iabor to soldiers peaceful pursuits, ie burden of taxation “Diplomacy of past, will be in con agegrandizement of vital consequence to future position that taken of the present opportu ploit the products of American inven tion and to establish a fi he markets of the either political effort, sation nor low sail ® For Certified Cargoes John Bassett Moore, forme: sellor of the State Department, address before the convention on Prob. lems of War and Commerce, aseertod the ae of the concerned with and it is America’s sdvantage be nity to ex future mately mercial rm foothold in world, which tariff di surcesfully scrim: prices can coun the United States and Great in regard to the right to visit and search, and British interference with American ships and cargoes could ro» sult in nothing better than a make shift: that the points at issue be settled only by the abolition of con ditional contraband, and the coopers- tion of neutrals and belligerents in the certification of cargoes. 22 HELD FOR MANSLAUGHTER. Deputy Sheriffs Arrested As Result Of Roosevelt Riots. Roosevelt, N. J With 22 deputy eherilfs as defendants in a blanket warrant charging manslaughter, in vestigations are under way by the Fed. eral Commission on Industrial Rela. tions and the prosecutor of Middlesex county into the shooting here of 19 etriking employes of the American Agricultural Chemical Company. One man died from his wounds and soveral others of the strikers are in a serious condition. Twenty-one of the accused depution pleaded not guilty when ar. rajlgned before County Judge Peter PF, Daley, in New Brunswick, and were re. leased on bail of $2,000 each, bonds being furnished by a surety company. They were sent back to guard the com- pany’s property. INGULT 10 FLAG SIARTS INQUIRY Washington Asks England to Explain Greenbrier Case. AMERICAN SHIP NOT A PRIZE Why It Was Necescary For Brit To Bearch Ship Pro. vided With Certificate. ish W alter H American ambassedor been cabled by the 8 k the British an cxplanstion of the uit to the American flag on steamship Greenbrier, to all the tain Far now at detention of the ship and as charges m by Cag who with his ship other nde under certifics at New York, a British British flag to a und detained two days before her voyage to cruiser British port being al lowed to Hremen The was brought to the itate Department by Farley, her come Farley North complete Greenbrier they detension of the aitention of telegrams m ander, now stated that at Atlantic, which latitude overhauled on Decer aint on the fixed by longitude and (sreenbr ber 20 by & British cruiser. The board required him to continue fe COnYeyYet or two wi for arme src hed the cruiser placed abe additional the British 6 crew who BOLE officers who hoisted navigated the ’ Capta n Far bf and a prize ship 20 that, according ley, she damaged ought! into Kirkwal remained for WA re she was There the three dave. sail her American finally sreenhrier Farley further except fag. The British onsented 1o the raiving of Ameri can flag and Captain Farley took his ship to Leith pilot was picked snd the was {aken to destinatic Bremen he pointe which the The ment refusing to under the authorities the where a Greenbrier her mn at upon Wants Was the Greenbrier In ficate New York, and svegen]l was her flag when under no known could she be regarded as a prize State information are necessary to search the consul at tral first, why it Yivw of certd British why issued by the second a ney MANNING VOIDS BLEASE ORDER. it is Thought, Re. Militia. Governor Manning here declaring " the action of Gover disbanding the Governor's Action, stores Columbia, 8S. { issued an order and of no effect Bilease in Adjutant-General Moo feved the order automatic. he retired be unnecessary $2.500000 YO REPAY FARMERS. Senate Adopts Bill To Cover Loss On Cattle Killed, Nashington, D. CO -- An Urgent Deficiency bill was adopted by the Senate carrying $2500.000 to reim burse farmers for cattle slaughtered in the campaign to eradicate the foot and-mouth disease. In presenting the measure Senator Overman said farm ers were complaining at the slowness of the Government in paying or cattle destroyed. WOMEN SUPPLANT MEN. Soprano “Helios” Now In City ONices At Washington, Washington, D. C.—-Soprano “hellos” will supplant bass in all city offices, the Commisioners having ousted all men at the private telephone switch: boards and appointed women operas tors. ARMIES HOLD THEIR POSITIONS Neither Side Seems Able to Make Important Headway ae Y RUSSIANS ADVANCE IN NORTH Also Russian Fleet Reporied To Bs Continuing Their Raids On Turkish Bailing Vessels in Black Sea. Except in Alsace battle has been in days, but whic receives briefest mention in the off the fight been com eastern and heavy) for a but no battle a proportion in this where a Progress London stubborn for several only the cial reports has paratively light on wegtern bombardments and and there ag is cons worthy xter titanic Ar The glege to the opinion of will go on un sufficiently manders to move a large body of ng both routs. There have been gun trench here such sidered o ded mention ceording perts continy hardens com men {to er the with surprice a speed that il rmit bim fo enable hin weak spot in the line i= opponent and io find a in the the lower Carpathi about the game two months ago break seemingly Russian Austro-Gery east, along the old front from Vistula to Galicia and in the An the two rimies rems ans, 14 » Bin ! n positions as they were all efforts by Rusisan re failed, and the racow the Ger ans to down the sistance have the attempt to drive forces back to C in the north, sian offer them well however new Rus apg has carried toward th ; ian frontier the sive arently meeling ser istance Transy) ecked fous advance sorted to have been o large Aust fh riay hile Enow $ ey readiness for th weather will the forward No last few days of remnants of the Russian had been believed by militar permit IMOYeImer mention has been made during fate of the les which said asus, but men here the the the 1 arm reporis previously defeated in the Cau Russians, having use for thelr clsewhere, have decided not to Erzerum Russian fleet still is busy that the men ish on to ding to re £ is as evidence tha reports thet at the had beer irr Goeben were not ex AT 100,000,000 MARK Population Of the United States Will Soon Go Beyond 1t ton. D. C At4 P.M ation of the United nied Apri States passed the bun ging to { n the Bureau ho estimates the populatios 100000000. J. 8 Census ati that hour will be $ McCoy, a the easury De partment however, calculates the population will be 016.000 on Feb ruary 1 The di from fuary of 1 (03 10m sagreement in the the dif i computation employed by the (wo eslimates arises erent systems of Clans In he Ce direct ference i nsus By increase ar shown by population in 1900 apd 1910 is taken By thai m the country would con 104.999 318 July 1. 108,000,000 om owed #yete tain i815, an July 1. the Persons on than 1900 consus s more 1820. The population to be TE.894575. while the 1910 fiztre was 91 972.266. By the census estimates the population of all United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, would be 110.750.0000 July 1. 1915 Actuary McCoy arrives at his con clusions, upon which Treasury state ments of the per capita wealth are based, by including in the calculations His efiort increase within show the increase By the con is to the ferences, that system he estimates at S9.875.000; February 1. 100.016.000 100725000. On July 1, 1820, Mr. CeCoy estimates it will be 109.330.0600 GARY RAIL MILL To REOPEN. creased By 1,500 Men. Gary, Ind-~The Cary rail oud closed for three months, is to be open ed on Pebruary § and other depart ments of the lilinoiz Steel Company's plant will take on'more men within a few weeks, according to an announce ment made bere by the company. The present working force of 3,000 will be inoreased by 1.500 men, a CAS VRE AGAINST SALE OF ABSINTHE. Se — Favorable Report On Prohibition Te French Deputies.
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