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EVENING LEDGBE-PBlEADBLPHIA, TtfEgDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1916
ZAIMR RESIGNS;
ENTRY OF GREECE
INTO WAR SURE
ReUrn of Venizeloa
Power Predicted Fol
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ENTENTE POLICY WINS
ATHENS, Sept. 12, Premier Zalmls
Imm strbmtttcd the reftlfrnatlen of the
Greek Cabinet, It was officially an
iMeed today. The Prime Minister
aid various incidents of an interna
tional character have, prevented htm
from dealing satisfactorily with the ex
ternal situation, and for that reason he
I desires to be relieved of farther respon
sibilities. King Constantine is making
every effort to persuade him to recon
sider. TAIIIS, Sept. 12.
The Greek cabinet, headed by Premier
Alexander Zalmls, has resigned. It was of
ficallr announced hero today. This clears
the, way for the return to power of Klu
therlos Venlxelos, stanch supporter of the
I Entente Allies and leader In the movement
to align Greece- In active war operations
against the Central Powers.
It Is reported, but not yet officially con
firmed, that Venlztlos will assume the post
of Minister of War as well as that of
Premier. French officials believe that
Greek participation In The war Is certain.
aZImls. stronc supporter of King Con
stantlne's declared poltca of "benevolent
neutrality toward tho Kntente." Is credited
with having kept Greece out of the war up
to" this time. The Cabinet which he headed
was formed on October 7, 1915. Zalmla also
held the poBt of Foreign M.nlster, and It Is
possible that he may retain this post In the
new Cabinet.
Despite his opposition to Greek partici
pation In the war, Zalmls Is regarded as a
friend ot the Kntente.
FRIGAR HELD WITHOUT
BAIL FOR GRAND JURY
Centlnned from Tate One.
gangs a short time before this affair hap
pened." aonooN HALTS SCOTT
Just as Mr. Scott had Interrupted the
Cordne. so did Sir. Gordon Interrupt the
Congressman by saying: "The case of the
Commonwealth Is closed. It Is not neces
sary to call Miss Sykes."
Congressman Scott was apparently an
gefed. "You have no right In the Cor
oner's Court unless the Coroner lets you.
Miss Sykes will refute the testimony of
Miss Lyons."
Coroner Knight Interjected:
"There Is an understanctng between my
self and the District -Attomej 's of nee that
he" Is to be represented In every homicide
ease that comes before me. All I have to
establish Is the couse of the death and who
did the shooting."
Congressman Scott had remained silent
during ' this speech of the Coroner's, but
ne started again as soon as the Coroner
stopped;
"Tour duty does not end there. You
must not forget that when you send the
list of witnesses to the Grand Jury, which
Is the higher Inquest, you send the names
only of those witnesses who have been
heard .before you."
GIRL DETECTIVES
EXPOSE DOPE TRAFFIC
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their story to the house sergeant, who, after
having been shown the "snow" or cocaine,
detailed District Detectives McClure and
Lear) to run down the dopesters.
Accompanied by two detectives, the young
women again returned to the Tenderloin
district, and after entering several places
frequented by the dopsters, arrested Bella
Bush, twenty-seven yearj old. Winter street
near Ninth, In the Arsenal; Annie Lewis,
twenty-three years old. Winter street near
Ninth, and Nellie Hornfeld, atlas Nellie
Derkln. twenty-five years old, Winter street
near Ninth. They were arrested In the back
room of a cafe at Tenth and Spring streets.
The three? women prisoners were ar
raigned later In the day before Magistrate
Mecleary, In Central Police Court. The
Magistrate said he was reluctant to dis
charge the women, but that he had no
alternative under the law as Interpreted
by the Suprame Court, In holding Section
I of the Harrison narcotlo act unconsti
tutional. Magistrate Mecleary said the drugs had
changed hands several times and did not
come directly from the main source of
supply.
Had not section 8 of the Harrison act
been stricken out, making the law one
which might be compared with a pro
hibition law that does not prohibit, the de
tectives saldrtnose whose arrests resulted
from the work of the young West Phila
delphia girls would have been guilty and
subject to a heavy fine or Imprisonment or
both.
At the hearing both girl detectives re
lated their experiences in the Tenderloin
only to be told at the end of their testi
mony that the "law" could not make a
prima facie case out of It.
Much chagrined, the young girl detec
tives' left the courtroom. They wondered
"why a civilized, English-speaking nation
should have such queer laws."
The three girls who had been arrested
eat btfore the Magistrate in the courtroom
today haggard and worried.
When the Magistrate explained why they
sou) d not be held, a smile crept across the
faces of the trio, and, following the words
f the Magistrate, "I discharge the prison
ers," they rose and wearily, with Just the
toast trace of a grin, hurried from th
owtroom. t
Prom what was learned d bring the night
H now becomes evident that even a stranger,
It he has the price, can procure "narcotlo
4ru" in Uie Tenderloin of this city with
out eserting any great amount of strategy.
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GAFFNBY RIDICULES
TAX RATE FORECASTS
"Guesaea Purely," Finance Com
mittee Chairman Says of Fig
urea From $1.85 to $2,80
Joseph P Gsltneyv chairman of Councils'
Finance Commute, today riddled the
various estimates of the tax rate Increase
necessary for city's needs In 1S1T which
have been made public from time to Urns,
and declared that neither himself nor any
city official could make a fair forecast at
this time what th Increase will be. The
estimates have placed the Increase at be
tween thirty-lire and eighty-six cents, or
a lax rate. Including the fifty cents school
tax, ranging somewhere between I1.S5 and
I2.J.
Mr, Gaffnty would discuss no definite
figures. To make forecasts In exact figures
at this time, he said, would be an Injustice
to the people, December 1, nccordtng to
the Finance Committee chairman, will bo
sufficient time to determine the 1917 rate,
and before this time a series of public
hearings will be held.
"There Is not a single man In Philadel
phia," Mr. Gaffncy said," who ran tell at
this time what the tax rate will be In 1917.
A number of tentative estimates have been
made, but they are nothing more or less
than pure guesses, and they are worse
than that, for they deceive tho public and
the taxpayers.
"When the budgets have been made for
the various departmental needs next ynar
the tsx rates can be determined with matlxs
matlral exactness. It will be merely a matter
of addition, subtraction and division. But
until those departmental budgets have been
made up In definite figures, estimates of
the tax rate cannot but bo ridiculous.
"Before any definite decision la reached
a series of public hearings will b arranged.
As every phase of the situation Is to be
threshed out. the meetings may continue
for six weeks. December 1 Is early enough
for Councils to fix the 1917 rate."
Chairman Gaffney several weeks ago sent
a call to the various department heads for
early estimates of tho amounts needed to
run their departments. These estimates are
now being prepared and It Is upon them
that the 1917 rate will be based. They will
probably be made public when Councils
receive them late this month.
Th.i fact that a considerable Increase In
the tax rato would be needed became .ap
parent same time ago, but a number of the
deciding factors are still u.nletermlned.
The administration program Included In
creases In the number of firemen and police
men nnd salary and wage increases
throughout all" tho departments. Even a
ten-per cent Increase In tho city's payroll
would mean an added burden of Jl. 500, 000
for the taxpayer.
The change In the water rates now pro
posed, will bring additional revenue, but
this will be so small that It will In nowUe
offset the Increased needs of the city.
BULGARS IN RETREAD ALONG
BALKAN FRONT, LONDON SAYS
Reading Has Second Case
ItEADINO. Pa.. Sept. 12. Another case
of Infantile paralysis has been discovered
In Heading, the second in less than a week,
and the city health authorities have taken
strenuous measures to prevent a spread of
the disease.
CnHne4 Inn rase One.
hurling a rain ot shells upon Rumanian
territory,
Tho full fury of the Bulgarian bombard
ment Is being concentrated upon Olurgeto,
thirty-fire miles from Ducltarest, and con
nected with tho capital by a railway and a
fine military highway. From tho forts of
nustchuk, opposite aiurgevo, the Bulgarian
gunners are battering the defenses of the
tatter town to pieces,
Several fires have broken out In Glur
gevo and most of the civilian Inhabitants
of tho town have fled. The rtumanlans have
brought up considerable artillery to de
fend the place, but tho Sofia dispatches
state that the Rumanian gunners are being
excelled In every particular by the Bul
garians. It Is possible that the Bulgarians will at
tempt the crossing of the" Danube at sev
eral points. Along the southern bank more
than 300,000 Bulgarian veterans have been
concentrated for the great drive Into their
enemy's territory. This army has been
gathered, Sofia reports, without weakening
tho lines north of Salonlca, whore defensive
operations will be the policy until tho ltu
manlan campaign Is ended.
GERMANS ADMIT LOSS
OF GLNCIIY; SAY OTHER
ATTACKS OF FOE FAILED
IIERLIN. Sept. 12. Capture of the vil
lage of Olnchy, on the Somme front, by
British troops wns offlclaty ndmltted by the
German War Office today. Tho following
report on operations In the western theater
of war was Issued:
Front of the Crown Prince of Ba
varia On both Bides of tho Somme
enemy attempts to attack were frus
trated. In Foreaux and Lcuzo Woods
the English fruitlessly attempted to
gain ground. The village of Olnchy
fell Into the hands of the enemy early
yesterday. An artillery battle continues.
RUSSIANS DEFEAT SULTAN'S
FORCES IN CAUCASUS RATTLE
AND CAPTURE ARMENIAN TOWN
PRTItOGnAD, Sept. 12. A victory for
the Russians over Turkish troops In 1'crs a
was reported In last night's War Office
statement. In the region of Sakkls the
town of Bana has been occupied by ltusslan
forces, following a battle In which the
Turks were defeated. ltusslan troops are
now pursu'ng their beaten foe, adds the
statement, which follows:
On the Caucasus front, in the region
of Sakkls, the Russians have occup.ed
the town of Bana, after an engagement,
and are now pursuing the enemy.
Diiftng Saturday and Sunday a fierce
battle continued In the region of Og
nott (west of Krzlngan, In Turkish Ar
menia), where on .Saturday the Rus
sians captured four officers, 2(0 As
karls, one machine gun, one howitzer
and two cannon. Tho cannon ws had
to destroy and throw over the cliffs, as
it waS Impossible to carry them away.
ONLY GUNS ACTIVE ALONG l
SOMME; TEUTON MUNITION
DEPOT TWICE SET AFLAME
LONDON. Sept 12.
Military operations on the Somme front
hae been confined to the artillery, the
British War Office announced today. A
German ammunition depot was twice set
on fire by British shells.
The War Office statement follows:
In the evening heavy artillery fire
caused two large conflagrations In the
enemy's ammunition depot at Orand
court. There was hostile artillery fire
during tho nldht between DelVllle
Wood and Mouqulel Farm. Otherwise
there Is nothing to report. .,
PARIS, Sept 12.
Repulse of a German attack south of the
Somme River nnd. a slight local success
for the French troops operating there are
reported In today's official war communique,
the text of which follows:
South of the Somme an enemy attack
on a trench cast of Belloy-Knsanterre
was easily repulsed. In an operation
with grenades we occupied a German
trench south of Berny Cemetery.
Kverywhera else the night saw the
customary cannonade.
Aviation On the night of Septem
ber 10 one squadron bombod the rail
way station at Mett-Hablons and mili
tary establishments at Dllllngen. One
of the pilots brought down nn enemy
aeroplane. It fell cast, of Rancourt on
tho Somme.
ITALIAN TROOPS REPULSED
IN SEVERAL TRENTINO SECTORS,
SAYS AUSTRIAN STATEMENT
VIENNA, Sept. 12. Italian attacks In
various vectors of the front have been re
pulsed by the Austrlans, says the official
communication Issued by headquarters last
night. Tho statement readu:
On the front between the Adlge nnd
Astlco Valleys the Italians dev-limnl
Increased nctlvlty. Our hill portion In
this sector were subjected to strong
artillery and mine fire yesterday. n.-
the Monte Spll-Monte Testo sector the
advance of several enemy battalions
was repulsed.
In the Pasubla region the enemy
penetrated our trenches nt two points.
Our counter-attacks drove him out Im
mediately, sixty-eight prisoners falling
Into our hands. An enemy attack
against Monte Ma to fulled.
Miss Cramp Betrothed
SEW .YORK. Sept. 12. Announcement
has been made of the engagement of Miss
Dorothy Cramp, of G8 East Seventy-seventh
Btreet, daughter of the late Edwin S.
Cramp nnd Mrs. Cramp, of this city, to
Reuben J. Ross. Miss Cramp Is the grand
daughter of the late Charles If. Cramp, of
Philadelphia, and Is a sister of Mrs. Theo
doro XL, Pell, of New York. Mr. Ross Is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben W. Ross,
of this city. No date has been set for
the wedding.
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ROMA, 12 Settembre.
11 Mlnlstero della Guerra ha pubbllcato
oggl II seguente rapporto del gencrale Ca
dorna: Nella glornata dl lerl tra la Val
larsa e la testata della valle del Poslna
II nemlco cerco' dl rlprcndcro la
poslxlonl conqutstnte da not domentca
soorsa. I suol attacchl pero' furono
tuttl resplntl. Le nostre truppo Invcce
hanno fntto progressl In Vallarsa e nel
I'atta valle del Poslna In segulto a
ptccoll combattlmentt.
Sul Monte Lagazoes, a Clma Bocche
e sul .Montcnero II nemlco e' stato
resplnto con perdlte.
Sulla fronts dell'Isonzo non vl nulla
da rapportare.
Un aeroplano nemlco ha bombardato
San Pletro e Gorlzla senza pero'
causaro tlannt.
It Mlnlstero della Marina ha annunciate
uffldalmente cha 249 persons perdettero la
loro vita nel dlsastro della dreadnought
Leonardo da Vtnct che si Incendlo' ed
esplose nel porto mltltare dl Taranto 11 2
dello scorso mese dl Agosto. II comunlcato
dice:
Ventuno ufflclall e 227 uomlnl dl
equlppaglo pcrlrono nell'lncendto ed
csploslone a .bordo delta dreadnought
Leonardo da VI nel II 2 del mese dl
Agosto.
Una prima raplda Inchlesta nssodo'
II fatto che II dlsastro non fu causato
da cattiva quailta' delle munlzlzonl o
da un attcntato crlmlnale est-rno.
Xonostante qussto rlsultato della
prima Inchlesta, II mlnlstro delta Ma
rina nomlno' una commlssiono su
perlore dl Inchlesta con plenl poterl o
presleduta daU'ammlmgllo Canevaro,
per stablllre so II dlsastro era dovuto
ad azlane crlmlnale della stessa na
tura dl quelle che recentemente si eb-
bero In Italia fuorl dells, maris da
Ruerra. , . .
II Mlnlstero della Marina ha anche
nomlnato una commissions tecnlca che
ha llncarlco dl studlare I mezzl plu
adattt per rlmettere a galla e rlparare
la grande corazzata.
(L'ErKsriNO LCDosm aveva pubbllcato la
notlzla del dlsastro della Leonardo da V:ncl
fin dal IE Agosto, quando un telegramma
da Parlgl dlceva che 200 uomlnl erano pe
riti nel dlsastro awenuto nel porto mllltare
dl Taranto, I.a Leonardo da Vinci spostava
22,009 tonnellate ed era una delle' prime
dreadnoughts Itatlane, armata dl tredtel
cannonl da 205.)
ICcco I particular! del dlsastro della Le
onardo da Vlncl:
Verso la mrzzanotte del 2 Agosto le tens
bre che coprlvano Taranto furono Improwl
samente dissipate da una colossale lingua,
dl flamma che st Innalzava dal Mare Pic
colo. Tutta la popolazlone, spaventata si
rl verso' nells strade In preda nl panlco.
Quasi Immedlntamente dopo si ebbero una
serle di vtolcnte osploslonl che fecero tre
rnare le case e Infransero una qusnttta In
numcrevole dl vetri. Gil spettatorl atterrltl
poterono vedere t'effetto spaventoso dl un
Immcnso Incendlo sul mare. Una grande
corazzata era In flamme. Era la Leonardo
da Vlncl.
Tonnellate dl metallo e dl rottaml erano
lanclatt In aria a grande altezza dalla forza
dell'esploslone, ed una grande quanttta' dl
granate, tenute pronto per 1 ttrl d'eserclta
zlone dcll'lndomanl furono le prime ad
csplodere aprendo un'immensa falla dl circa,
quaranta pledl In tin flanco della nave.
Alto scopo dl evltare un plu' grave dl
sastro, It commandte .della nave, capltano
dl vasccllo marchese Galeazzo Somma
Plcenardl, dlede online dl aprlre I bocca
portl e mettere In movlmento la nave. Nel
far do' e nel complere altrt attl dl erotsmo
21 uftlclall e 227 uomlnl dl equlpaggo dettero
la loro vita. II rlmanente, cloe 13 ufflclall
e 927 uomlnl dl equlpaggio, potettero
sbarcare. Moltl ferltl furono trasportnti
dalle torpedlnlere accorse, mentre gll altrl
furono raccoltl mentre nuotavano per sal
varsl. Tra questl ultlml era II marchese
Plcenardl, comandante della nave, ed II
comandante In seconda, capltano dl fregata
Ferrlcro. Ambedue pero' erano ferltl, e
poche ore dopo morlvano.
11 governo ttallano sta preparando una
llsta dl comerclantl ed Induatrlall esterl
che alutano apertamente gll Imperl central!
e che sarrano esclusl dalle relatione co
merclall con l'ltalta sla che rtsledano In
Europa od In America. SI tratta di una
llsta simile a quella compllata recentemente
dall'Inghllterra e che ha provocato le pro
teste 'del governo degll Statl Unitl.
Telcgramml da Atene dlcono che e' stato
ufftclalmente annunclato che 11 presldente
del conslgllo greco Alessandro Zalmls si e'
Mark TVs
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menie uopo i recenii attacchl di Yd
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Le nostlzle che st hano dal ltd
canlco della guerra dlcono che 1-
generate Sarrall hanno rlpreso la lone
siva ane hii, i coniingenii incleii I
aiiraversaio n iiume airuma ed in
coniro 10 mrze uuiHrc, avenao per (
evldentemente Seres.
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ratio una perquisisione neue abttul
due membrl della dlrezlone d-ll'A
zlone Glovanlle Soclallsta, che eraarf
gla' arrestatl, e vl ha sequestrst-j
quantlta' dl cople dl un manifesto-
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