THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Jan. 31, 19185,
Kaiser directed German assault
on La Bassee.
French zouaves and East Indians
won the Great Dune west of Lom:
baertzyde.
Turks were defeated
Kamysh,
German submarine sank two Brit
ish steamers in English channel.
Riots by the war party took place
in Rome.
near Sari.
Feb. 1, 1915,
Germans evacuated Cernay and
burned Alsatian towns as the
French advanced.
Russians retook Borjimow trench.
es and captured many of German
landsturm,
Severe cold hampered operations
in Galicia.
Turks withdrew forces from
Adrianople to defend Tchatala.
German airmen dropped bombs
on Dunkirk.
Official order issued in Germany
reserving all copper and other met.
als used in war materials for the
army.
Feb. 2, 1915.
Germans advanced, with heavy
losses, southward toward the Vis
tula and eastward between Bejoun
and Orezelewo.
German submarine attacked Brit.
ish hospital ship Asturias.
Men from Swedish warship were
killed by a mine.
French aviators burned castle in
Alsace where German staff officers
were housed.
Second contingent of Australian
troops reached Egypt.
Werner Horn, German, tried to
blow up Canadian Pacific railroad
bridge over 8t. Croix river at Maine
border and was arrested.
War relief clearing house for
France and her allies organized In
New York.
Feb. 3, 1915,
Germans tried to
Great Dune, Belgium,
Severe fighting at Westende.
Russians again poured into Hun-
gary, Austrians yielding important
positions.
Portugal sent
Africa.
Many anti-British rebels in South
Africa surrendered.
Turks tried to cross Suez
and were routed by British.
British gunboats drove
back at Kurna.
German auxiliary sunk by British
cruiser Australia off Patagonia.
Swiss troops fired on German air
men.
retake the
re-enforcements to
Angola,
canal
Turks
Feb. 4, 1915,
Von Hindenburg huried 50,000
men at Russian lines near Warsaw.
Germans evacuated Angola.
Turks defeated in two engage
ments at Suez canal,
British ships shelled Germans at
Westende,
Germany proclaimed waters
around Great Britain and Ireland a
war zoftle and warned neutral ves
sels,
Steamer Aymeric sailed from
New York with relief cargo form
12 states for Belgium.
Feb. 5, 1915,
Allies in strong offensive in Bel-
gium,
Russians recaptured Gumine.
British captured many Turks,
Werner Horn sentenced to jail In
Maine.
Allied
general
ters.
airmen drove German
from Altkirch headquar
Feb. 8, 1915,
Russians shifted troops in East
Galicia and Bukowina, looking for
general German offensive.
Germans repulsed at Kakamas,
Cape Colony.
Lusitania, warned of submarines,
flew American flag in irish sea.
British aviator sank German sub
marine.
Archives of Turkish government
moved to Asia Minor,
WORTH KNOWING
Henry VIII was the first English
sovereign to be styled "his majesty.”
Serbia is particularly the country of
centenarians. One man in every 2.250
bas lived to be one hundred years old.
An Italian scientist has developed
a method of identification of individ
vale by means of the veins in their
hands
A New York woman has invented a
dining table for schools and institu
tions in the form of a ring, children
being seated both inside and outside
to save room.
Italian army engineers will sink a
large number of artesian wells in an
endeavor to convert a large area of
desert land in Tripoli into an oasis
by irrigation
Flour made from the kernel of the
cotton seed after the oil has been ex-
tracted has been found to have much
food value,
Scituate, Mass., has won the prize
offered by the Massachusetts Forestry
association to the city or town in the
state making the best showing in the
planting of shade trees. Additional
trees constituted the prize.
The wolf is at the door of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma. This Is no fig
ure of speech, for the campus is said
really to he infested by the beasts
It is ap “allied” movement, including
gray and black wolves and coyotes,
THREE TONS OF
BOMBS HIT PARIS
Twenty-Four Persons Killed, 27
Wounded By Zeppelin.
Majority Of Victims Killed In Their
Beds—Bombs Weighed Six Hun-
dred Pounds Each—Fire
Engines Give Alarm.
Paris. -—A
swiftly over Paris
day night, dropping a dozen great
bombs whose weight aggregated about
three and a half tons, which killed 24
persons and injured 27
The raid lasted about
and a half, while in the first
Zeppelins to Paris, on March 21,
four of these aireraft
the neighborhood of
They came at
entirely different
conditions,
Zeppelin dirigible
a section of
passed
Satur
one minute
visit ol
1915,
were over or in
the capital for
that
time under atmo
spheric
visible in
being Ia
niy
a clear sky Saturday night
fog
of
fact
seriously interfered with the
the Parise aerial guare
that
1 leads
Was
The only one German
to the belief
Zeppelin making a recor
ig trip, and the supposition
Germans have in view
scale,
Warnings of the presence
were hurriedly
Paris were di
raid ti
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LIVES WITH NECK BROKEN.
York Man Making Plucky Fight
Life.
Works
U. 5. SUBMARINE MISSING.
Off Cape Romain.
Charleston, 8S. One of the faur
g of the K type, which were
ite from northern ports
ing
iIryan declined to give
information than to confirm the
report that one of the submersibles
Was ing. The buoy tender Man-
grove left here for the vicinity of
gubmsi
en 1 to Pensa
mis
Captain any
other
mis
Cape
Romain,
TELEGRAPH TICKS
Much of the $15.000 stolen from the
Washington Park National Bank, in
Chicago, was recovered by The police,
and among 13 persons taken in custody
the authorities believe that they have
the five who participated in the rob
bery.
WwW. W. Chapin, who recently pur
chased the Newark Morning Eagle and
Evening Star from the receivers of
Senator James Smith's estate, trans
ferred his property to Harry 8. Thal
heimer-and N, C. Wright.
A cooperate chain of cold storage
warehouses from Kansas City, Mo, to
the Atlantic seaboard and incioding
Baltimore, is to be founded.
Shipment of $1,600,000 gold coin to
Buenos Alres by today's steamer wae
announced by the AngloSouth Amer
can Bank, in New York.
PRESIDENT FIRES
DEFENSE GUN
Liberty and Honor More Import-
ant Than Peace.
THE COUNTRY WANTS ACTION
Says Men Of High Character
Who Becloud the
Are Provincial,
issue
New York President Wilson open
ed his personal appeal to the
for national defense here
He gave warning that plans for
readjustment of the army
formulated arried out
and
predict
country
without de
and «
red he could
look for
bright to
solemnly de cli
that
United States
Morrow a:
lay,
not the out
would be
today
in Fighting Mood.
Mr. Wilson
throughout his
fighting
address in a
delivered early ir
wa in
speech
day
he always accepted an invit t
At night he
was
fight
men he
had
told the railroa
an advocate of peacs
struggled to
but
keep
i Al peace,
and honor of
thi Tg)
ny mar ¢
ho plays
marplot
tO maka party
ambition ake precedence
hono id unselifigh, un
service!” said eo Pre
candor
partisan ident
‘
Lore
in speaking of hi plan b«
the
the
raliroad
men
country exped
vear of accounting
t be definite on
d on the part
wie he
enea
Mr. Wilson
WW
1e rest
The Pre
his Mexican
that
to invade Cit PO m the
losing of the confidence of the rest of
i
i
the Western He cits
the freeing of uba a2 an in
good done by the United State
“if we are drawn int the male
now
in Europe ™
i )
ident deels , + ah not
i which
the Pre
be
rom
permitted
would pref
to do
Concerned About Men, Not Details.
The President defended the conti
nental army plan drawn up by Seere
tary Garrison and said that he did not
the plan a
long as
vided as reserves under the
500 000 trait Men were pro
Federal
i advocated
ening the National Guard, but
Constitution itself put the guard under
the state He that the United
States will not in the direction of
Government He {rength
added
turn
militariam
Outlining
should prepare, Mr
the United
Wilson said
must protect out rights as a nation and
the rights of own America
and outside of it as the consensus of
civilized has defined
must insure the unembarrassed
realization of our political develop
ment within our own borders, and
must protect the peace and political
autonomy of the Americas
wh
citizens in
peoples
OWNS 7 HOUSES, BUT BEGS.
Blind Man, Reaping Fortune In New
York, Arrested.
New York. Aleck Azarwicz, a blind
man arrested in Brooklyn for begging,
owns seven houses in Pennsylvania
Azarwiez has been making begging
expeditions info New York to pay off
mortgages on three of them. His re
ceipts range between $7 and $15 a
day. Aszarwicz will spend 30 days in
the workhouse,
KAISER 59 YEARS OLD,
He Expresses Conviction That Victory
Will Rest With Teutons.
Berlin~Flags were oul everywhere
in Berlin Thursday in celebration of
the fifty-seventh birthday of Emperor
William. ‘The only formal observance
consisted of religious services. The
Emperor granted amnestios in several
canes.
Ar ASS MS
LORG BURNING
CIGARETTE TORACCO
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ht Ine by
B.J Reyn
ds Tobaeos Co,
i's enny to change the shape
and co of unsalable brands
to imitate the Prince Albert tidy
red tio, but it is impossible to
imitate the flavor of Prince
Albert tobacen! The patented
process protects that!
It's the most cheer-
or roll intp aciga-
rette. And it's so
good you just feel
you never canget
enough. The pat-
ented process
fixes that— and
cuts out bite
and parch!
the states and all over the world!
fine pound crystal-glass humidor with
J.
It can be bought all over
and-—t hat
sponge-moistener top that
JIATE NEWS
AlEFLY TOLD
Latest Happenings Gleaned
From All Gver the State.
IVE NOTES AND COMMENTS
; te Poultry A
reorganize and se
would
ded field
ebanon, the
with B
Lary
which on
xiey
presi
t. will
MceOrans
plan is to e
in charge
Lancaster, HOOT
tablish a represen
¢ in each county and
organization.
fF wWenivave persons have
filled a
petition asking for a jury to view and
i West and Phila
to free it from tolls. This
road is eight and one-half ong
through townships of
Haverford, Marple and
will be
condemn the Chester
delphin Pike
miles
1 ey
“Y ¢
ana the
Upper Darby,
hearing bad
Newton A
: February 26
rived u
Saturday,
from farm
ars for good, stout, In y farm hands
are being received at the new State
Employment Bureau, Harrisburg, The
farmers want to be sure of their
pring and summer labor and are evi
dently acting early because of the in
duetrial situation
Dozens of applications
15KY
At the monthly meeting of the
Lavedale Doard of Trade, it was
unanimously voted to help booat the
Lansdale Gun Club, which will enter
tain the Pennsylvania State Shoot
there, in May, and the board will offer
gome very valuable prizes to the high
scorers at that time,
John T. Willams and Edward
Greager were hurled forty feet down
n breast Burnzide Colliery,
Shamokin, by exploding gas. One of
the men lodged against a prop and
caught his comrade as he was about
to fall 260 feet into & chasm. Both
were badly Injured.
at tho
GOVERNOR HEADS
Se Survey Before State Con
en-Charles E
Post.
Carothers
Gets
Committee, W. C. EI]
H GM
Mathew Rodgers,
Geagier's
Mexico: B F
Paupack:, William FF. Biddle
W. A. Perbam, Varden: W
Espyvyille: Dr. W. Frank
Beck, Altoona: J. Aldus Herr, Lar
ler: Charles E. Patton, secretary
fico
Advisory
Tower,
{yOowan,
ex
Committees, 3 E E
Joel A
Killam, Pr:
usquehanna
Herr, Millhall: B. F
Legishative 1
upack
ommitiee, H. GC. Me
Mills: Robert
Mathew Rodgers
Mansfield
Park
Resolutions, J. New
John A. Wood
ward, John Shaner, Schuyl
km Frank Wamboid, Schuyl
kill; John Piloplette, Bradford counts
Memorial Committee, John A. Wood
ward, Howard; Joel A. Herr, Millhall:
{ P. M. Smith, Westmoreland county,
| M was decided to hold the spring
meating of the board at Reading
| The commission selected Charles BE
{ Carothers, former legislator from
Washington county, to be deputy sce
| retary, in succession to A. L. Martin,
{of lawrence county, who resigned
| Gowan, Gelger'
| Lohr, Boswel
C. H
Hutchison, Warrior's
Committee
Glover,
Mex
Dew itt George
on
tor Vicksburg;
Howard:
county
{of investigation of marketing condi
| tions in Pennsylvania to the office. The
deputy secretary has supervision of
the farmers’ institute and farm coun
sellor services, and the marketing in-
vestigation will be made at eke di-
rection of the Governor.
Secretary Patton announced that he
would spend several days with Presi
dent Sparks, of State College, in study
of the plan for closer cooperation in
agricullural education work suggested
by the college trustees,
Arrangements were made for studies
of marketing conditions for milk in
Lancaster county and vegetables in
other districts; of health regulations
as regards milk supplies in typhoid
outbreaks, and maintenance of live
stock ear slreams.
iovernor Brumbaugh, who was
asked to address the board, said that
the Stale stood in need of a better
ptem of marketing, =o that the urban
communition could obtain more food
and at lower prices from the country,
and urged that means be provided for
a systematic soll survey, which would
| 4
! ghways
i o
Highwxy
pported In
township road
of tows
POOEN IZING
SUP VIROT
bas been
=, and
on of road
be in
overlapping
nd marked
" The Town
Bureau / yas upheld,
criticisms of ome of be
in feolag wil
1 unfounded
should
which
nelances:
and often
| by “intricate verbosit
{ ship Road
there
Inwe, tared to
i miany
omple %
illy considered.”
ite features
Charters Issued.
Charters were Philadel
! phia electric oom
| panies in Berks and Huntingdon coun
{ ties John E. Zimmerman, Berths
| Marx and R. C. Shields, Philadelphia,
| got a charter for a $5.000 company to
be known as the East Broad Top
Light, Heat & Power Company,
operate it Orbisonia, with offices in
Mt. Union. Charters were issued io
| 8. D. Warriner, R. H. Wilbur and H
F. Baker for the Ruscomb Manor and
Rockland Township Flectric Com
panies, to operate in townships of
those names in Berks The
capital of each fs $10,000
Other charters issued
Adams Light Company, Butler:
capital, $5,000; treasurer, C. C. Tennis
Carlisle Realty Company, Carliske;
capital, $10000: treasurer, H. F
Rhinesmith.
Apex Manufacturing Company, oot.
ton, ete, Philadelphia; capital, $50.
000; treasurer, J. Disbrow Baker.
Imperial Coal Company, of Seran-
ton; capital, $5,000; treasurer, J.
Stone,
Republic Motor Sales
Philadelphia: capital, $5000; tress.
urer, L. H. Hyneman.
—. AA ASA
36 Verdicts Against the State.
The State agreed to thirty six credits
in favor of defendants in coal tax casos
issued to
people to operate
county
| Verdicts in favor of the State for $18,
£12 were rendered against the Union
; National Gas Corporation for State tax
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