THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Dec. 20, 1914,
Von Hindenburg advanced fur
ther toward Warsaw.
Russians crossed
burning the bridges.
Serbians and Nontenegrins
again invaded Bosnia.
Turks made gains near
Urumiah.
Allied fleets bombarded interior
forts of the Dardanelles.
Russians drove Turks toward
Van.
Belgian provinces agreed to pay
tax to Germany.
the Bzura
Lake
Dec. 21, 1914,
Allies extended offensive oper
ations in west, gaining in center,
Russians won over Turks. in
Armenia, capturing equipment.
Allied aviators dropped bombs
in Brussels and made night attack
near Ostend.
Chile protested against viola
tions of her neutrality by German
navy.
Germans driven
of North Poland.
across border
Dec. 22, 1914,
Germans claimed
stopped allies in west.
Germans accused of
hospital in Ypres.
Russian army threatened
way to Thorn and Germans
formed to protect it.
Von Hindenburg's left threat
ened by new invasion of Germany
Germans crossed branches of
Bzura and Rawka rivers.
Austrians defeated in the Car
pathians.
Arabs
Hodeida
seized.
Allied fleets bombarded German
positions on Belgian coast.
French destroyer shelled Turks
Allied fieets shelled Kilid Bahr
Many Austrian soldiers killed in
troop train accident.
to have
shelling
rail
re
menaced Christians In
and French consul was
Dec. 23, 1914.
Allins made slight gains in west
Austrians defeated in southerr
Galicia.
Portuguese retreated before the
Germans in Angola, Africa.
Turkish army left Damascus
and marched on Suez canal.
Russian destroyers in Black sea
sombarded Turkish villages.
King of Belgians sent message
of thanks to Americans.
Dec. 24, 1914,
British using new howitzers in
west: French artillery demolishes
German trenches,
French cruiser damaged by Aus
trian torpedo.
French submarine sunk by Aus
trian shore batteries.
German aviator dropped bomb
n Dover.
Germany denied French charge
of hiring neutral ships to lay
mines in Mediterranean.
Dec. 25, 1914.
Unofficial Christmas along much
of the western front, the allies ane
Germans in some instances ex
changing gifts and visits.
French shelled the outer forts of
Metz.
Civilians of East Prussia begar
movement toward interior of prov
ince.
Russo-Turkish operations
stopped by intense cold.
Two German aviators flew
the Thames.
were
up
Dec. 26, 1814,
British made naval and air at
tack on German fleet without im
portant results.
Zeppelin dropped bombs in
Nancy German aeroplanes made
raid in Russian Poland and French
aviators attacked Metz.
Fighting in Flanders was haiteo
by dense fog.
Russians
south.
French attacked Austrian nava
vase at Pola in the Adriatic.
Germany notified neutral nation:
their consuls in Belgium woulo
not be recognized further.
made gains in the
Unqualifiedly False.
“Skinner boasts that he never lets
anybody get ahead of him-—that he
takes nobody's dust.” “Skinners a
falsifier; he takes everybody's dust he
can lay his hands on."—Hoston Tran
script.
Driven to Desperation.
“1 am so tired of being conventional
and customary and correct,” stated I,
H. Harsh, “that one of these days |
shall stop right in front of a church
and in a firm voice ejaculate ‘Drat!’ ~
~-Kansas City Star.
His Opinion of Brown.
Smart Young Man—"What do yon
think of Brown?” Indignant Old Gen.
tieman--"Brown, sir! He is one of
those people that pat you on the back
before your face, and hil you in the
eyo behind “your badk!”—Tit-Bits
True Mappiness.
To watch the corn grow and the
blossom set, to draw hard breath over
plowshare and spade, to read, tn
think, to love, to hope, to pray —these
are the things to make man bappy.—
Ruskin.
Hl OWN FRIENDS
De La Barra Tells Story After
Long Silence.
DEFENDS HUERTA CABINET
Got First News Of Tragedy When
Huerta Told Him They Had Been
Slain By Bandits Who At.
tempted To Free Them.
Paris. -— Francisco de la Barra,
former provisional president of Mex-
ico, and minister of foreign affairs at
the time of the death of President
Madero and Vice-President Pino
Buarez, told the circumstances attend
ing that tragic event——the first state
ment he had made on this or any other
Mexican subject during the long period
of turbulence and disorder in that
Senor de la Barra came
ambassaqor
the provisional
i
ohift of administs
Mexico he gave up his diplomatic
tion and devoted his attention
“Personally 1 would have prefs
rred
to have continued said Be 1
“and have
calumnion
de la Barra, to
attacks
some books an
that they have fallen
weight On the
: a4 legend put in cir
pers, believing len
by their own othe:
hand, not
politic al
, and also be
I do 1
not wish my
duty t
His Story Of Tragedy.
and
Mr
“l declare in the most solemn
manner that the death of
and
brought about
Pino was
&8 a resul {i 4 cou
cabinet and
had of
, asking if they ha
ficlal knowledge of the detent
Madero and
ilies were 1 ive
Pino Suarez
and I thereupon
ed the sirict necessity
ing with the most scrupulous
to the requirements of the |
hat in case the examination of
documen
Secor
com
Some
mi
HNOWs
of Jus
’
cocuments,
ali
FW PROGRAM FOR
Department,
Also
Howitzers,
Calis For
Anti-Alrcraft
and Big Ammunition Sup.
sCneme
Guns
ply—Fort at Cape Henry.
hington
diplovellneil
Lis nebile
The exclu
Slain By “Friends.”
General
at, owing to the lack
the apartments at the
Mr.
rez, he was goir
“Following this,
Na
cupied by Madero
8 10 give
removal from the
the penitentiary, where there
additional security
in regard to acting
law,
o'clock
strict
ly within finished this
meeting al 1 on Friday after
noon. 1 have in my hands several let
ters from the ministers
giving foregoing
statements
“1 did not return the National
Palace until midnight, Saturday, Feb
ruary when 1 was called there by
the we
other cabinet
confirmation to the
to
yy
:
i
i
nent of
of reserve
that will allow each
defenses
gun
rounds
of the gu
inany
For Mounting 12-inch Guna.
The imm
Of this
$71,000,000 would b
n the Unit
L000 on defenses in the
nearly $14,
for the Panama
Ard
Ana
factor in the increased
nd is the new plan to
reserve
have been pro
build
ammunition Herelo
r coast defen:
with
basis
and
0s
ammunition
hours cont
$46,000,000 of
of two
firing, about the
inform me and the other ministers
that a very grave event had occurred.
General Huerta then told me that Mr.
Madero and Pino Suarez had been
killed in a fight while they were being
moved to the penitentiary. He
stated that as the automobile bearing
them and the escort were proceeding
toward the penitentiary, two armed
bandits opened fire with the apparent
purpose of freeing Madero and Pino
Suarez, and that in the affray which
ensued, both had been killed, also two
other men and a fifth man who was
wounded and taken prisoner,
WANTS LABOR RECOGNIZED.
Gompers Asks President For Place On
Defense Commission.
Washington. — Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, told President Wilson that
organized labor was ready to give its
support to the defense of the nation
and should be allowed a voice in mak-
ing preparations,
Mr. Gompers asked the President to
appoint a representative of labor to
the commission he may name to con-
fer with army and navy officers on the
mobilization of the nation’s resources.
Bince the war started, Mr. Gompers
pald, belligerent nations had included
representatives of labor In every im.
portant activity.
The President said he would con
sider the suggestion cavefully.
This in
increased
shoot.
the
they can
explained by
volume of fire at
modern warships
The War Department is
work developing three
arms
plan. They are the semi-mobile 18
inch howitzers and approximately 11
inch howitzers for use of the mobile
artillery and the anti-aircraft guns,
The 16-inch howitzers are designed
to be shipped by railroad or by motor
truck and to be fired from specially
built emplacements or from special
railroad cars. Where railroad lines
run along the sea coast it is planned
to run from the main track a series of
curved spurs from which the big guns
could fire at any seaward angle in
line with the track. In this the tre
mendous recoil of the big guns could
be taken up not only by recoil springs,
but by allowing the ear to roll back
ward under the force of the explosion
The War Department is now experi
menting along theae lines,
A new fortification is planned at
Cape Henry to guard the entrance to
Chesapeake Bay and it will be started
at once, according to the program. It
will mount four 16-inch guns and eight
16-inch mortars,
munition
now at
new artillery
o———
BURNED TO DEATH IN AIR,
Captain Smith's Aeroplane Suddenly
Burst Into Flames.
London, — Captain Smith of the
Royal Flying Corps was burned to
death while flying an aeroplane at
Farnborough. When in the air the
aeroplane suddenly burst Into flames,
The pilot tried to reach the ground,
but succumbed just before landing,
ARE BROKEN
mated at $9,873,000,000.
of
Recommends Legislation To
prove
Secretary Agriculture
im.
Handling and Stor.
age Conditions.
tary Hou
icultural
eX
ended June
tL year of the war
$1,470,000
of $356.1
ose of
$423.000
per cent. over the
years 1810-14."
needed more, perhaps,
Secretary
“were
extended its
its funds would
of common live
t diseases, from
sid to be
a materizl
“i
mated.”
which losses are
enormous, would result in
increase of the meat supply
bas been conservatively est)
the
basis of data for 30 years, that the an
nual from animal dis
Es approximately $212.000.000
indirect losses, which
ted
cannot be estimated at all
report continues, “on the
direct losses
are
The
AlR0D Are
The
direct loss 3
“Hog
fever
cholera, $75,000,000; Texas
cattle ticks, $40,000,000:
$25,000,000; contagious
$20,000,000; blackleg, $86,000,
$1.500,000:
and
anthrax, scabies
other live stock diseases,
22,000,000; parasites, $5,000,000; poul
try diseases, $8,760,000."
The potash situation,
continues serious,
practically no potash available for
the
supply for that purpose will not be in
creased materially next year,
Recommendations for legislation
made by Secretary Houston to Con
gress include the following:
Legislation designed to promote bet
ter handling and storage of farm prod
ucts and trading on the basis of fixed
grades and standards, including a per
missive warehouse act, a cotton stand
ards act, a grain grades act and pro
vizion for a market news service.
A land mortgage banking act intend
ed to inject business methods into
handling farm finance and to place
farms socurities upon the market in a
responsible way.
Authority to grant water power per
mite within the national forests for
fixed periods.
DU PONTS CUT BIG MELON.
Dividends Amounting To $18,000,000
Distributed.
Wilmington, Del.-8tockholders of
the Du Pont Powder Coripany received
Wednesday the 30 per cent. dividend
on the new common stock of the pow
der company. This dividend repre
sonted a distribution of about $18,000,
000, of which more than $13,000,000
was paid to residents of Wilmington
and its suburbs. Bankers, merchants,
clerks, laborers, stenographers and
even office boys were among those who
rece ved checks
ILLIES HAVE
AN OPEN AOAD
From Serbia te Saloniki.
TEUTONS' MOVE IS AWAITED
Complications Expected If They At
tempt To Pursue Enemy Across
Border — Snow On
Gallipoli.
ch
London.—The
troop ave
British
successfully
and Fren
carried out
thelr retirement from Serbia across
the Greek frontier, and by an
nent with the Creek
Arrange
* road has be
Saloniki
which is being
who al
A, | .
i veg ney
wild be weld ed ir
offensive week
official report
altacks at Kut-Fl
Bh reinforcement
ave been repulsed
made from all
hh position was so st
wer
ion on RK
unable to
Macedonia Free Of Allies.
Berlin The French
been entirely
Macedonian territory, it is officially
by German Army
Ancing army
forofl
have expel
noun
eral To occupying
declared that two
It is
gions
Word
nearly wiped
advance,
GREECE MAKES TERMS
and Teéutons Passage,
Let Allies Fortify Saloniki.
The Allies have concluded a
agreement with the
containing the following
Paris
military
Government
provisions:
First—The Greek troops shall tem
Lsreek
age to an invading Bulgarian or
AustroGerman army.
Second—-The Allies are authorized to
remain at Saloniki and fortify them.
selves there.
Third—Greece undertakes to reduce
her contingent so oocupying the forts
and batteries at the entranec to the
Gulf of Baloniki
Greece has already begun the execu
tion of the first proviso. A dispatch
to the Temps from Saloniki states
that the Government has ordered the
fifth Greek Army Corps to withdraw
from Saloniki.
A dispatch from Athens states that
the reports that Bulgarian troops Lave
entered Greek territory is officially de
HOLDS 200 TONS OF GOLD.
New York Assay Office Has Accumula.
tions From Europe.
New York-—Two hundred tons of
gold, worth $102,000,000 and occupying
the space of three cords of wood, are
stored in the United States Assay
office here, The pold is in 16,3456 bars.
It represents the accumulations of
British sovereigns and other foreign
coins brought to the United States
within about six weeks in an effort to
maintain the financial balance between
European nations and the United
Hintes.
The bars have been melted down to
§16.¢ fine, this being finer than the
gold used in the United States mints.
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