YEAR AGO THIS WEEK 1914, important posi: flov. 29, Allies captured tions near Ypres. Montenegrins defeated Austrians in Bognia. Russians split German army and defeated relief column at Gombin. German aviators bombarded Lodz. Princes Abbas and Osman ban- ished from Egypt for anti-British conspiracy. Germany paid $37,500 indemnity to Luxemburg. Nov. 30, 1914, Three big battles were fought in Poland. Russians captured ten miles of German trenches near Lowicz, but failed in attack on Darkehmen. Russians won successes in the Carpathians and Galicia. British ships again bombarded Zeebrugge. Germans were expelled from Pe- trograd for raising funds for war ships. Dec. 1, 1914, Germans prepared for new dash toward the sea in West. Battle on the Yser was renewed. Germans broke Russian wing near Lodz, capturing 12,000 prison. ers. Russians seized German ammuni- tion barges on the Vistula. Serbians captured 1,500 Austri- ans on River Djid. Premier Rushdi Pasha .of Egypt declared for Britain. Dec. 2, 1914, British, re-enforced, took command of the Ysar region. Austrians took Belgrade. Russians won at Szczercow entered Wieliczka. Montenegrins repulsed Austrians. Hungarian chamber of deputies voted war bills. Prince of Wales fund $20,000,000. over and reached Dec. 3, 1914. Germans took offensive ders but lost heavily trying cross the Yser on rafts. French occupied Le Mesnil. Tete de Faux in the Vosges and Burnhaupt in Alsace taken by the French, Germans attempted to flank Rus sian right wing. Austrians repulsed assaults Przemysl. Russians took Bartfeld. Riots in Belgian concentration ramps. italian pariiament opened, Pre- mier Salandra saying Italy would oreserve armed neutrality; Bel gium was cheered. in Flan to cn Dec. 4, 1914 Allies made repeated attacks on German line in Flanders. Russians won a victory at Lodz. Allies landed troops in Montene gro. France called youths eighteen years old for military examination. Mohammedan soldiers from Tu nis sent to fight in army of allies Turkey proclaimed holy war against Serbia and her allies; riot ing in many towns. American students at Oxford took up relief work in Belgium. Dec. 5, 1914, Allied aviators bombarded den. italian chamber of passed vote of confidence ernment. British steamer Batiscan sailed from America with food for Bel gians, French made gains in Alsace and attacked Germans at St. Mihiel. Germans in Poland, re-enforced, formed new battle line and moved on Piotrkow. Ba deputies in gov Dickens Drew From Life. Smike, Charles Jickens” character’ in Nicholas Nickleby, secms to have been drawn from the life, Said the author in a letter apropos of that novel: “The rasecality of those York shire schoolmasters cannot be easily exaggerated. 1 have kept down strong | truth and thrown as much comicality over it as | could rather than disgust’ the weary reador with its fouler as pects.” Case of Hating Oneself. Proprietor of a Concert Party (en gaging a soprano)--"Now, | want you to understand, Miss Deerly, that 1/4 like mw boys and girls to be one big; family—no quarreling, no jealousy.”' Miss Deerly—"0Oh, that's quite all’ right. I've never heard anything in the work.of any other singer to give! me the slightest cause for jealousy.” Fool's Paradise. . Originally, In Christian mythology, a region “near the abode of the blessed,” but not a part of it, a sort of borderiand, "where dwelt the praise. less and the blameless dead.” Today used to denote the mental condition of those who, by their vain hopes, are “fooling” themselves, Stretching Steel. By the modern process of spinning metal thread it is possible to make a single pound of steel stretch a dis tance of 70 miles, READY TO STRIKE Massing of Big Force on Bul- garian Frontier. MORE TEUTONS ON WAY Serbians Driven Back To Border. Probable Retirement Of French Troops Also Indicated By Dispatches. London.—The Serbian main army having been driven back to the bor. ders of Albania and Montenegro, where they are being attacked by the Austro- Germans, the Bulgarians, with the as sistance of General von Gallwitz's forces, are now giving thei: to the Anglo-French troops. Important | military i attention developments may, therefore, | cn th rd Bulgars appear to definitely for the x wot v Monastis i river The have aban JIN ime 5 in 1: «1 i) the French position on the heen where fightis nas alread Eyes Now On Russians } have held t from Saloni ars 0 the southwe enforcement While the re a RINE Russia army While the PEACE TELEGRAMS PILE UP. 20,000, Incpired By Reach White House. the Fore Move, Washington ce of to the more han received in Brand Whitlock, Mini who all the mes ter to Belgium one of a ent telegrams followed th Addams of age Miss peace. The for it.” House is telegraphic peac Jane “Work for mothers pray White nerica The on the bom agilent MAKING CARRANZA MONEY. $250,000,000 In Currency Being Printed In New York. Vera Cruz to the value of being | printed in New York for the Carranza Government and will be put in circula- tion on a basis of equal exchange for | the currency now in use in Carranza territory as soon as it arrives here. | Plans for the creation of a new na- | tional bank issue of currency to re place the existing bank’ notes have been completed and will be published soon. The specie reserve at present | cn hand will be utilized as security, | It is declared that the banks at pres | 3 Mexican currency £250.000.000 is ANOTHER MYSTERY = feat. LHS {LISTEN TO PAPAL CO | S\RIGHT TO BED HEAR =1ME 7 PAPAL CET» ¢ WHAT ARE es SA Y GRACE . You POIN'UP ? TROOPERS FIRE ON MEXICAN INVADER Kill a Number and Capture a Wounded Prisoner. BELONGED TO VILLA'S ARMY Mex Had Been the cane its Across Dared Hurling and si Border the Americans To Fight. LW Washing State Depa Obregon, Car word t« in the they en Wan take gent State n safely 1 hers power in that broken Navy Department advices said Topolobampo, on the west caused by “half the Car coast of Mexico, wi tached to neither 1 ranza nor Villa factions CITY RAISING $100,000. publican Convention. Philadelphia A whirlwind cam paign to raise a fund of §100,000 re quired to bring the in 1916 Philadelphia Cham ber of Commerce. According to the announcement of the secretary of that organization, Napoleon B. Kelly, $40, 000 of the amount has been pledged the CAPTAIN BOY-ED AGGUSED IN COURT i | Attorney Wood Says He Has Rid- { den RoughshodOverl, S.Laws. 1$750,000 FROM GERMAN Refuges Teo Acc Prefer By Test sovernment German Importer Chief Witness. and to the relief! of wire German warshis lies in the Atlantic which ually case, follow virt ents eed 3 a the jury by Roger B. Wood, As District Aft Wood said tha that “the shod over the | istant 1'nited which Mr. t the Government would defer States srney, in show dante rode rough of the United States fis contemptuously as raps of paper.” Proscculion Rejects Concessions. William for { fendants, concede charges of 12 = mitted Ciliates counsel 10 Rand, offered the Government, involving . and in his concession ad. that Dr. Buenz and his asso. had sent out the vessels as charged to meet German warships in the Atlantic and deliver their supplies Mr. Rand said that {vessels hix clients were acting on legitimate orders which came to them camer company in Hamburg lut the Gov. ernment lawyers rejected the conces- [sion and sought to prove thelr case pore; ! A AAO 3 00 - BRITAIN GETS $50,000,000 MORE, Secured By Government Bonds and To Run Six Months. New York.—The committee of bank. | ers which recently was organized to perfect an additional British mercial credit announced that a six | months’ loan for $50,000,000 bearing’ weok the end of this WOULD MAKE NATION “DRY.” Sheppard and Webb To Reintroduce Bill In Congress. Washington. —8enator Morris Shep national prohibition amendment in the Senate, and Representative EY. { “The defense is not willing to admit [the facts; it is trying to smother bem,” was Mr. Woods’ retort to Mr. | Rand’s ‘offer. I “Quite the contrary,” replied Mr. {Rand smilingly. "We are willing to | admit that $750,000 has been spent as ithe Government is trying so hard to prove. Why, we are willing to go | mit that $2,000,000 of German money {was &pent in chartering and supplying £11,000,000 British Government bonas | had been arranged. The bonds are to by the borrowers, who represent eight | proposition in the There has offer the same House of Representatives, neither is the forces In Congress; { “And how much more?” asked Mr, | Wood. “That iz all I know of,” was the re. ply: “but, admitting the facts, we do tions. ment known. fraud, as charged in the indictment.” REVOLT OF Turkey Reports Execution of 11 Plotters a Beirut. Embassy Secret Planned Dismemberment Of Turkey and Formation Of New State Under Great Britain, Declares Washington — Execution at Beiruf 11 members of un Egyptian secret so ciety, which, It ig claimed, had for its object the of and the | Arabian | of | by ¥ bere of dirmemberment Ff Turkey creation gtatle under the Britain, wag ann rT Fur Grea ounced here ihe { legen, planned ¢ Yo ow KAISER APPEALS TO TROOPS. Wants Them To the Back With Bloody “Send Enemies Heads.” TO NORWAY FOR CHRISTMAS, 250 Western Farmers Stop ington On Way East. ington Two hundred from Was! and fifty Norwegian ota farmer Minne: and other their pockets bulging with mone gale of their wheat, are in Wash. to sailing from where thes the ington preliminary York for Norway, i apend Christmas will WINTER SETTLES ON VOSGES. Enowfall Causes Lull West Front, Heavy Along Winter has set in along the line in the mountains of { France. A snowfall in the Vosges is | reported in the communication from {the War Office which reads as follows 1 "In the Vosges snow fell heavily, en: pecially in the region of the Fecht and | Thur rivers.” ! Paris | fighting KILLED IN TEXAS STORM, Ten-Minute Tornado Does Much Dam. age In Houston, Houston, Texas. One man is dead, several persons are injured and sev. feral warehouses and sheds are in ruins, the result of a storm that struck Houston. 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