NIGHT . EXTRA NIGHT EXTRA txiva VOL. I-ltfO. 73 PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1914. PIHOE ONE CEHT CoptKioiiT. 1014, bt tub rustic Lcmfcn CoutiKt. germans press in Double drive PEDESTRIANS STRUGGLING WITH HIGH WINDS AND DRIVING RAIN AND SLEET """"'"'''"""''" "' ' '' ' ' ' '" " ' -! I II !.! !!.. ! .!!! I lenWSeWSwaMHI ! I I 1 1. l III III 11 Ill -I """f. TOWARD WARSAW Victory at Lodz Opens Way for Advance by Both Hinde.nburg's Wings, and Vigorous Assaults Are Made on Railway Centres Lead ing to Polish Capital. Capture of Lodz and German suc cesses at both ends of the main Poland battle line have opened War saw to a double drive. The Kaiser's qrmy has taken several railway points and is pressing" assaults on others which command direct communica tion with the Polish capital. Reports from Petrograd admit tliat Lodz is in flames, but do not acknowledge the Germans have seized the city. , Both Vienna and Nish claim im portant (rains in the fighting south of Belgrade. , In the .western theatre of war the Allies' offensive is being pushed with vigor from the coast to the Argonnc. The French communique today de clares that the Allies' attack has dem onstrated its superiority and that the big .French guns have gained a mark ed advantage over the Kaiser's ar tillery. At four points long the battle line the Allies have gained ground in the last 24 hours and have maintained all their positions against counter at tacks. Turkish 'troops routed a British landing force at a point north of the Persian Gulf. Capture . of Kcda, east of Batuni, is also claimed by Ottoman forces. Two Turkish cities near the Persian frontier were cap tured by the Russians. They are Eara-Kei and Baschkal. ' CAPTURE OF LODZ EXPOSES WARSAW TO DOUBLE DRIVE VotfTHndenburg's Armylffakes 30 Mile Advance Toward Capital. w BERLIN, Dec. 7. A new drive on Warsaw, the objective of the second German campalgnjn Poland", will follow the advantage gained by the capture of Lodz. Official reports tat that this heavily fortified position and important manufacturing town, for tho oast two weeks the centre of the battle In Poland, was captured on Sun day nlghtr -This success has Been accom panied by other successes along the line nnd there aro strategic possibilities that tho new movement on Warsaw may be pressed from the right ond left wings of the German army of Invasion, which has apparently gained 30 miles on each Hank. Turning of the battle In Polund to the advantage of the Germans Is announced in tho official statement Issued today, Ths statement assorts: "The Germans occupied Lodz yesterday. The Russians retreated with heavy tosses." QFJtMANB CONTROL RAILROADS With Lodz taken ond advances of 25 ttlles having been made on both flanks, the Qermins n Poland aro gaining1 cort trol of tha main railroads leading direct to Warsaw. They are also threatening- tha commun ications of the Russians on the southern front of Grand Duke Nicholas' army. Should, they -continue to meet with sue? eess, the Russian movement toward Czenstochows. will have to bo abandoned i.nd the forces about Cracow might be xorcea to witnaraw This Is the situation today on the east am front, as Indicated by the aernla.il announcement, and the mention of fight ing on both the northern and southern flanks as mentioned from Russian sources The Germans have advanced along the Vistula, and fighting; is reported at Vow to the north of Lods and In the vicinity of Plotrkow to tha south Boih of these towns are on the Important railroad lines leading to Warsaw In addition to the capture of Lodz, uri emclal advice) indicate that the Ger mans, are making a notable, advanoe along the entire line In Central Poland Petrograd dispatches say that fighting Has taken place near How and north of Lodz and at Plotrkow to the south. Ttiis would Indicate that the Germans have gained almost SO miles on both flanks between .the VJstula and the Warthe Rivers The latest reports had tha Russians occupying Ploek. on tha Vistula njver. and sttemgtlng: to crow It to turn the left flank of the invaders. How a more ta,t SS mils southeast of Tlock and only a little rme than 4 r .miles from Warsaw on the roafn road to ii the south of the Vistula The Russians .Jvsve been reported recently in heavy force near Gambia, which la about 50 milts due west of Haw, KAISjart GAINS JbltLKg jThe last fighting Itr the dlreotlon f PJotrkow was reported at Skmiww, which is about 38 wile south of wet f that point and about hajf way to. - i ' i m' V i fioneltujfd on lse Ifonr THS WSATUSK fW tfhtiadtlfAta and viainty mrtktHHt winds thtftmg t wmtk VMt Umght ami immki. OITIGIAL WAB BEPOItTS FRENCH. Jn tho region Of the Year we con tinue to nttnek some trenches which the enemy has maintained upon the loft bank of tho canal. In the lesion of Afcmentleres nnd of Arms, oh In that of tho OIso, tho Alsne ami th,e Argonnc, thcro Is hoth ItlK to ropoi except that In a gen eral way the superiority of our of fensive has been demonstrated. In the Champagne district our heavy artillery, In several engagements, liftn gained a marked advantage over tho artillery br the enemy. Thero is nothing now on the eastern front, where the positions of tho pre vious day have been maintained. GERMAN. Headquarters reports that the Ger mans are In possession of Lodz. The "G-armtuiti have gained Important suc cesses In Northern Poland. They have fought great battles with strong Hus sion forces around T.odz, which town la now In full possession of our forces. We are unable to give the details of the battle of Lodz, owing to ths extent of tho battlefield, but tho Rus sian losses wcro undoubtedly great. Austro-Germah activities to the southwest of Plotrokow prevented Jho ItusslaiiB coming to tho assistance of tho threatened Russian armies In Northorn Poland. Ucadquartora announces that no spe cial reports have been received from- the western theatre of war or from the. region east of tho Mazurian Iakes (Kast Prussia). ALLIES' OFFENSIVE PUSHED WITH VIGOR ALONG ENTIRE LINE French Attack Showing Su periority From Coast- to Argonne Kaiser's Artil lery fit Disadvantage. PARIS, Dec. 7. A determined offensive la now belhg pressed by the Allies from the coast to tho Argonne. The official communtnuo sWaThniirrVV-aWOmclroHSyMJclafcr" thb French attack Is greatly superior to the German, and the heavy French artil lery ! gaining the advantage over that of tho Germans This Is the first time that France has made the claim that Its guns are superior to those of the Ger mans. Tho offensive taken along the Vser River by tho Allies continues, but tho communique claims no great progress. The"Gormana are resisting: stubbornly in this region. GAINS AT FOUR POINTS. Official Information from tho front says mat me Allies have gained ground at the following "points: On the Yser Canal, south of Dlxmude, where British and Trench, troops sup ported by heavy artillery, rlrove the Ger mans from their advanced positions. .NQrth of Cambrln, between Bethune and La Bassee, where the heavy artillery of the French caused such havoo In the invaders' trenches that the Germans abandoned them, lealng many dead and wounded behlndr , Northwest of Verdun? on tha Apremont Clermont highway, wlrere the German artillery which had been planted to com mandcrt,he Varennes-Ste. Menehould road wab silenced. , Near DammerklrcX In the southern ranges of the Vosges, where the French are moving forward largo bodies of re inforcements. Hard lighting Is. In progress around Asplch, where the French arn earrvrnir on a vigorous bombardment with guns passes of tho Vosges wtth enormous diffi culties In west Flanders the British are striv ing to push toward Sladem. which U only eJKht miles qouthwest of Thou rout and Ave miles northwest of Roulera. It Is at this pplnt that the French aver thoy have demoilsheda German field fort, IIABD FIGHTING NEAR COAST. It Is reported from Fumes that severe fighting Is In program around Blver dlnghe. which la on the railway line connecting Ypres with Furnes The Genuana are deiherl&g counter attacks under srat difficulties there because the flooding of the country by the Belgians left only a few roads they could traverse In a forward movement, and all of these A.re Jn range of the Allies' artillery. 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Six Lives Lost Wires Down in City-r-Ships in Distress. i COST Off STOBM IN CITY AND.AXONO THE COAST Six lfva lost, three In or near Phila delphia, one at Atlantic City. -Two men went down with the bay schooner William Donnelly off Thimble Hhoala lightship. Property damage along tho coast estlmatdat 1000,000. Trolley, telephone, . telegraph and electric light wires and trees down In this city, signs smashed or ""blown away, pedestrians endangered by dangling live wires. Atlantic City's loss more than 110,000. Including damage to music hall of Bteel Per and destruction of cottages, some owned by Fhlladelphlans. Many ships In distress along the coast Revenue cutters are racing to their assistance. 8ea walls of solid concrete under mined and washed away or battered down by boardwalk plants at nearly every New Jersey resort. New stom from off North Carolina now raging. Gala not expeoted to spend Itself for twoJ days. Numer ous ships olIong the coast not reported and believed to be In distress Wind velocity yesterday 60 miles at Delaware ' Breakwater and BJoak Island. 18 miles at Nantucket, JS miles at Atlantic, City, and SO miles In this clti- The wind Since has Increased In violence off, the Jersey coast and saa, faring men say It has reashad a velocity at some points of 90 mites an tour. Phe wost Storm In ysr Is ttattrtns the Atlantte tceast (rom Maine to the Carinas tdty w the erest f a gale blowing at a'averago, rat) ef tt ml)a a out. smashing through oak a.nd $Ofwrte burkfctads, toai-lng away tbe foundatWa of piers and osttages aaddrivlng seoM of (ip baXara It Tim (ess suffered so far Is baUavad w axeaaid fLikaXoeo. LH&a mwm cutiers are rlkina da-1 smuuMt sus im cok U Bsbx thaJr vav t vaJs In dlstrwa aod otlMra that hav (aU4 to respond to IststotatU calls ol M win. From Capo Uaitatas to Nw stejB)ad(peiBi tfc Uwn Is as plUy svre. Saasnasi te toll at Mps and Uvae wtll ba tha tsurgwt la many yearft- bbow la fauins to ua usoar "1'ilsitiinl 1-a.ka aud PUin tMiM "TaTas ami "ii IMm44 to New tSiyjlaud and Naw Tork. Tsw tvn of U wind baiaod la not m saa.t m at . bt the tUm. mat ttrto r 'v m tkjnrnMijk ml MIT mrallfff fsMsMt "JffMsBasasaBKk- MmWtSBKi ibWW"--' - T-iar-T-ff 'W&-rrrs? t Mrm "Si -J&ssm-zz?' &&?r&3&i STRANDED WARSHIP FREE AFTER VAIN CALL FOR AID Vessel Believed for Time to Be the Kansas Puts to Sea. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-A essel be lle ed to be a foreign warship, aground oft pecan City, Md , got off shortly be fore noon today after sounding her siren Incessantly for hours In n vain 'coll for assistance. The sea was too rough for llfesavcrs to put out. The vessel put to sea, according to llfesaveis who re turned from North Beach. The ship, which had four funnels, had her siren blowing Incessantly for assist ance, according to a message to the Navy Department from the keeper of the llfe savlng station at Ocean City, The mes sage received In response to an Inquiry by Secretary of the Navy Daniels read: "Am unable to ascertain nationality or kind of ship. Has four funnels, two masts, fighting top on each as far as pos sible to see. Weather thick. Ship blow ing for assistance." Rumors were current about the de partment that the stranded vessel was the battleship Kansas, but this was doubted by navy officials. Admiral Fletcher, commander qf the Atlantic fleet, pointed nut that the Kan sas had only three funnels, while the vessel off Ocean City had four, TWO SCHOOLS CLOSED BY - - QARLET FEVER CASES Institutions Will "Be. Opened Only After Fumigation. s ' Discovery of two scarlet fever tases lr two oity schools today resulted In the dismissal of c'asaes until the buildings are fumigated Frank Bernstein, a pupil at the Walton, School, Mth and Huntington streets, who had been 111 for Beveral days, was suffering rrom scarlet fever, ac cording to a dlagnosl Saturday The George W. Chllds Sehool, 17th and Tpsker streets, was closed after It was (earned that George McGulre. a sixth-grade pupil, was ill from scarlet fever. Both sjhools will be closed; until they aro thoroughly fumigated. Frank fStep Nearer Gallows WASHINGTON, Dae T.-The United Stataa Supreme Court today dnil, the writ of error iwtiyad for t tlje at torneys of La rV-ank, eenvlcte4 In tha Georgia, eeuUa a tha murder of Mary Phagan. Ttois aitUm leas tha. Gov eroor's riwRey as the only aaqs through whlefc tlw eondwunad watt oan scRe the death nanalty. Govarnor Siayton baa awaouocad hi purpose of giving the Usltsjaopy1 in the eaaa a carr flU asd ImpajHIaJ axaaaluaUos. and said ha would t BitMed. by Uta ras4H of Utla aramlBstii "Dr." Flower Sentencad to Two Years NKW iOHK Dc 7 Two er In StajC aUti m tbe puoUkUKiil wttni out losay to n-yaairoist t Kichard c Flowsr woo was Indicted lu mi tor wlndUtm aftteress ibt aattad him atmsm "Dr Fiowr had nsuiy vletUna ii) yhUadBlpbia wr fee ojawattd. lor mwat yawa. of street cars and suburban trains. to hold. Few persons ventured out of typical scenes in the streets and parks. WARLIKE ITALIANS' WEAPONS SEIZED JEVeserviBts Going Home on Ancona Talk of Going to Front. Fifteen hundred Italian Reservists, os tensibly "going homo for Christmas," left the Municipal pier, at Vine street, on the Italia liner Ancona shortly after noon today, after each man had been searched on the deck of the liner for weapons. The men are going home to Join their regi ments In the Italian army, according to their statements through Interpreters. A detail of police from the 1th and Race streeta station, under Lieutenant McBrlde ond six detectives from City Hall, was sent d keep order In the crowd of MOO Italian men and women who went to the pier, disregarding the driving rain, to cheer their returning fellow countrymen Officials of the line explained the un usually large number of stalwart men between tho ages of IS nnd 3S years re turning on tho Ancona by saying that they probably were going home for Christmas. Few of the passengers on the liner bore out this statement. Most of them proudly said they were on their way to join the colors of their native land. A good-sized arsenal of revolvers of all makes and dates, stilettos arid ordinary knives were collected In the search of tha reservists, Police headquarters sent a tip to the officials of the boat that many of the men returning home probably would be armed. They advised that the passengers be searched, This was done on the deck as the reservists came aboard Men on the ship who made the search said that nearly every man had soma kind of a weapon. Fears that the German cruisers- said to be In the Atlantic might make an at tempt to halt the Ancona and prevent the return to Italy of the reservists were expressed at the pier by some of the minor officers It was said that in Ital all the newspapers" were "playing- up" the necessity of mobilizing the army to Its greatest strength The war spirit is everywhere Through the Italian papers It ha.t apparently penetrated to the Italians living In the United States. Tbe Ancona will stop at New Voek and then, win go to Naples, Genoa ana Pal ermo. s i The detectives detailed to the crowd to keep order were Lynch. Farrell. Mul holUnd, Garr apd Walsh They had no trouble. WhJle the hawsers ware being cast off the great throng stood barehead ed and sang stirring songs In their native tongue, ONE KILLED, THREE HURT IN SWARTHMORfc AUTO CRASH Salesman for Allen Faeklng Company Loses JJife in Head-on Collision, One pvan was. Instantly kitted a,4 tferee Where wore badly injured at, S-otol&ck tfela moralBK when an automobile jfuek of tbe AUsr Packing Coapar" at Media aa.4 atvNfeae aMtoaaobU crafted baed-oo at HvaW a4 BatHwtora. aveai&s. atwatmrowa. Tbe dead sms waa a aalajnsan for ta BAaklBg1 eOMjwwr and wa on tk fronc seat ' He waa ewsnad to. death batwaas th wreaVaae 'wo ma chinas. 9UjPry road that caused the toa crdoaa to slid ware rpooibl for the accident. Driver of both mausiaaa had Uudr brakea u" t the umt but tha aiilos aU4 lur.wu .1 iu ptri eptibie re ductloe of spaed Tbe wreckage blocked trasoe 00 tha Southern Paaa ivaola TraetWa Company it ask tor inura toao an aour b. lsiurd t war tAkan In a nfiattalpl' Thotlsands df'persoris vefe Wfe"" Crossing a street corner was a doors who could avoid it and at YACANT CHAIRS TELL 'LAME DUCK' STORY AS CONGRESS OPENS Final Sitting of Sixty-third Session Begins President to Read Message Tomor row. WASHINGTON. Dec 7.-After voting for a Joint session of Congress for to morrow to hear the President read his message, both the House and the Senate adjourned this afternoon. The third and final session of the 63d Congress con vened at noon, and today's proceedings wore of a routine character. In both the House and the Senate there were many absent seats, being vacated chiefly by members of the "lame-duok" variety. The House got under way for Its last lap with a wave of cheers. Speaker Clark was swamped with applause. Democrats yelled themselves hoarse. The galleries were crowded with visitors In the Sen ate more decorum was observed. The 63d session expires by Constitutional limitation on March t. SEVENTY-NINU ANSWEB, FIRST BOirCAil IN THE SENATE WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-When the Sen ate assembled at noon today for the last session of the B3d Congress. 79 Senators answered to their names on the call for a quorum. The Senators eame early and tha hum of conversation soon resembled an afternoon reception. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, had warm welcome from his Republican and Democratic colleagues, returning to tbe Senate an overwhelming vlQtor after one of the most sensational campaigns In re cent years. As. the hand of the big clock over the entrance of the Senate Chamber marked aoon Vtca President Marshall rapped for order The Senate chaplain, tbe Rev forest p. Prettyman, offered tha prayer, asking that the. Senate now assembllag be guMUd ajong tha right path In tha delicate conditions existing today. The Vlee President then declared the sBa.ie in saaaum. WiW.SS 8,enr nov! bw Tw reawu- senator nananeaa. ef Alabama presented the credentials of Oeear W. Underwood, the present major ity leader of the House, who coma to tbe Senate at-jha close of the pressent Congress; w iSenAter OiUe James, of Kaatnekv. u- seataA the eredantiaje of Senator Oua. fen, who was rtrjAaaud for the ajsait tae andiag March 4 and ssjiSljt Camden took th. oatb of 0M0. . aanaior Ifetn. of Iadtan, and gtrutaf geiww ! oomjnitos IWsjf tt nwiMIW BHti invssrw WWII SSW TBJI JTfJSl. m a lanwn mo taaajy to rooaaias Kp intaaaa oa daaurad to submit. Tha rtrst manwrials sUad war the os- t nun of a large auntear of uu staa ' ud woowo club to I uiawout ttao urytu the adosUou of a uwatituutuial a mndnMat tu-vbiUUna fcol)aai aa v-ie-poaed In t4 Wweka-GUUu raawLutton. Tna Sule ;uac4 uiots I di.k ttjta UNITE I BIl "L'TROTEST Representatives of 10.00$ Businessmen Oppose Costello's Scheme for Higli Speed Line as Subterfuge to Obstruct Taylor Plan. Meetings of Protest Against Gostello'-s Hold-Up Transit BiU TONIGHT ' Paseunk Avenue Duslness. Men's Association, routhnest corner Pass yunk avenue and Mobre street. North Philadelphia Business Men's Association, 11S0 Germantown avenue. TUESDAY NIGHT. Cohockslnk Business Men's and Taxpayers' Association, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Fortieth and Market Streeta Busi ness Men's Association. THURSDAY IGIIT. East Germantown Improvement As sociation. FRIDAY NIGHT. Kox Chase Improvement Associa tion. MONDAY, DECEMBER It South Oak Lane Improvement As sociation. And (nets are only Ins advanca guard. Philadelphia will not accept Cortello J transit. A mighty protest against -the hold-up ordinance. Introduced by the Congressman-elect from Frankford on Thursday, haa been registered In every section of the city. The United Business Men's Association, representing a membership of 10.0)0 and 33 other affiliated and unaffiliated or ganizations In every part of the city, have gone on record as opposed to the Cos telle plan. Officers of these organisa tions, together with representatives of numerous civic and Improvement bodlaa. declare Philadelphia will not be held up such by a short-sighted ordinance and are planning a demonstration to show their approval qf the Taylor plan. It is the consensus of Opinion that s more unpopular measure concerning the welfare of the people has never been In troduced In Councils., with the possible exception of the IS0G ga lTi- Not onlv those who live In Mtreme parts of the city, but residents of Cos tello's own district, declare bis Mil is the result of "a sinister, unexplained, pleeemeal, selfish scheme for per! political purposes" Bmphatle proof as to where the entire city stands on tbe matter la anaws bv the faet that protest meetings wttl held In different leoatltls ry uishl this week, and wasting will ee avi. every Councilman tSt they 1M be ex pected to hav the iBereats of tait cu atltuents In rniad wnn ronstdaftpg tran sit measure, U Many Couaallman nave alrajy gene cm record deelartng themselves mMMt th CosteUe anU-anaed bill, and kf an 1 tacnot l made to force $ lltdtems maasttfe through by gag mle tlia JBiiisjjw will search to tbe Council enatnjMJejL a they did In tae days of tha saa taaje and expreaa their efwn opinions fetfSs toattar. OlfctaU of bnalnasa aww's t nnelntltj and ImBanvamant organltationa ti m eanehidert est fis ate 3(PSES?0SE zoyx AX8 kjtd e Oataoi fa SO ut Ami tan, at tn. u Qflytaa fe M ti- T( . I IV! ITT fat I ntltliM C W f- L M. j i fief's iijl.l "it UWf-Vrtej e j t aju a lejMaw . I av " ' " i ' I Jt Sal wSIb an aifc) l-c hCm PmwKak a 00 a4 M km UMktjraai 9U. aiw1 at " SMV Uw Jii( i. rtaiJr. . 41 . ,..,..:. ij JJ .si JrJ P - m 1 5 1 1 n n 1 1i -i i 1 4 ;i:
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