Entire Battalion of Allies' Landing Force HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV — No. 106 MIES LOSE HEUVILY ID ENGAGEMENTS Oil GALLIPOLIPENIIISUIIt Bombardment ofDandanelles' Fortifications by British and French Proceeding Successfully, According to London Dispatches AUSTRIA PREPARES TO MEET ITALY ON FIELD Hopes That Differences Ex-j isting Between Two Coun tries Would Be' Settled Peacefully Are Reported to Be Fading; Germans Leaving Rome Official announcement Is made in a dlspaten from Constantinople that severe losses have been inflicted on the French and British troops which land ed on Gallipoli Peninsula. It is said one entire battalion was annihilated in an attack on the left wing and that In another encasement the British lost heavily, both in men and war munitions. Reports reaching London from the Dardanelles, while containing no new details of the land fighting say that the bombardment by the allied fleet of the Turkish fortifications is pro-! ceeding successfully. Some of the' forts at Chanak and Kilid Bahr and probably others on both sides of the straits up to the narrows are said to have been silenced. Results Still in Doubt The exact status of affairs in the great battle of Western Galicia re mains in doubt. German and Austrian reports of a spectacular victory are optimistic. They state that the resistance of the Russians is being broken down steadily and that the whole Carpathian army of the Russians has been placed in a precar ious situation. Petrograd advices, however, while conceding a measure of success to the Teutonic allies, say these claims are greatly exaggerated The Russian war office announces a victory In a battle Stry, in the Carpathians further east than the scene of the present main battle. Hopes that Italy would settle peace fully her differences with Austria ap parently are fading as speedily as fhev were revived a few days ago. The Austrian governmtnt is reported to have Informed Italy of the extreme concessions it is willing to make, and Austrian?' and Germans in Rome are represented as having lost confidence In a favorable outcome. A German school in Rome was closed on receipt of a telegTam from Berlin and the exodus of Germans from Italy is con tinuing in Incerasing numbers. Aus tria is making energetic military prep arations for a possible attack by Italy. BRITI ,H STEAMER TORPEDOED fly Associated Press London, May 7, 12.56 P. M.—The British steamer Candidate was tor pedoed by a German submarine yes terday at "W'aterford, Ireland. The members of her crew were saved. AUSTRIA READY FOR ATTACK By Associated Press Paris, May B.—Austria is continuing to make extensive preparations for de fense against a possible attack bv Italy, according to a dispatch to the Petit Parisien from Turin. Railway service was suspended for six hours last Friday and Saturday at Graz and Pabache to permit the passage of mili tary trains carrying artillery and am munition to Trieste. Show the American Spirit This is the time of all time for the U. S. A. to , make vast strides. Let's all get busy. Buy-lt-Now THE WEATHER For Harrlaburg and vlrlnityi Rain thia afternoon and to-nlghti s n t urday fair and aomewbat cooler. For Eastern Pennsylvania: llaln to-night i Saturday partly cloud v and somewhat pooler; moderate to fresh aouthweat to weat tvlnd>. River The main rtver will rlae slowly or rrnal* nearly atatlonary. The trlbntarlea will probably rlae aa a reault of the graeral rain In dicated for the Susquebanna Val ley In the neit twenty-four hoars. A since of about 4.S feet may be expected for HarrUburg Saturday morning. General Conditions The atorm that w«« central over Weat Texas, Thursday morning, baa moved rapidly northeastward and now covers the l.ake Hf crlon and the Central Valleys wMli Its center o»er Wisconsin. It lias caused general rains east of the Rocky Mountains tn the last twenty-four hours, except In the Atlantic .States. Temperature: S a. m.. IW. Sun: Rises. 4iO(l a. n.| seta, TitM p. m. Moon i New moon. May 18. 10i3t p. m. River *tagei 4.0 feet above low water murk. Yeaterday's Weather Highest temperature, 72. l.oweat temperature, 1(1, >lean temperature. .10. formal temperature, .*>«. LUSITANIA TORPEDOED AND SUNK OFF COAST OF IRELAND THE LUSITANI A SUNK OFF IRISH COAST ~.' _7 " : : ! ISN : . " . ... ■% ■ . i j . a ' § i ■V " * a, ~-". ,1" *' - I"V^naglMi \ ' i .Unwiniw iiff-»i'.< « i ■ < »w » _ _ 1101FI SWEEPS ENOLA FRAME ROW Two Houses Burned to Ground; I Another Pair Badly Damaged CITY COMPANY ASSISTS I Girl's Screams Arouse and Save I Family, Who Rush to Street in Nightclothes Fire, believed to have been of in cendiary origin, swept through a row of frame houses in Enola early this ; . morning, burning two completely to j the ground and badly damaging two j1 others. The loss is estimated at, SIO,OOO, practically covered by insur ance. One of the houses totally destroyed 1 was occupied by C. E. Kuntzleman, who lost all of his furniture. The, other was unoccupied. The homes of I Carl Snyder and Robert Kautz were badly damaged. Most of their furni ture was removed before the flames reached it. The row, located in Perry 6treet. was owned by Zinn & Frank, of Newport. To the Friendship Fire Company, which made a record run from this city shortly after 2 o'clock with the motor apparatus, credit is given for! saving the entire row from ruin. The flames, which were then raging beyond control, were soon placed in check by the higher pressure streams. Girl's Screams Arouse Parents For some time the building at the western end of the row has been va cant. Soon after 1 o'clock Miss Helen Kuntzleman. the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. Kuntzleman, was awakened by the odor of burning wood and dense smoke. She screamed for ner parents and the three fled from the house in j their night clothes. Flames were then raging on the first floor of their home and within a few minutes the roof of the vacant house, next door, collapsed. The Enola fire department and the Pennsylvania Railrond apparatus was called out and the fire whistles wre sounded. Before anyone arrived the fire had virtually destroyed the Kuntzleman residence. It spread to the home of Carl Snyder, but before It had made any great headway the furniture was removed. Realizing that with their hose and apparatus it would be impossible to check the flames, members of the Enola fire company telephoned to this ; city for aid. The Friendship com pany rushed to the scene. Before it arrived the flre had spread to the ! home of Robert Kautz. There the flames were extinguished with the aid of the motor apparatus. Furniture in I all three of the homes was fully in sured. The Kuntzlemans are in the homes of friends. They did not save any of their clothing. Efforts are being made to discover the origin of the flames. County offi cials are now conducting an investi gation. Foreigners in Rome See Early Entrance Into War By Associated Press Paris, May 7.—A Havas dispatch from Rome says the Austrian ambas sador is reported to have handed to Foreign Minister Sonnino at a confer ence yesterday afternoon the Vienna cabinet's final proposals to Italy con taining the extreme concessions the dual monarchy is willing to make. While the utmost secrecy Ib observed tegardlng these concessions, Austrian* and Germans in Rome have lost con fidence in a favorable outcome of the negotiations. Prince von Buelow, the German ambassador also called uporv Baron Sonnino yesterday afternoon. I TVKE men CROSS MONEY London, May 7. —A dispatch from Havre to the Dally Telegraph days Prince de Eigne, president of the Bel gian Red Cross, reports that General ■von Blssing, thp German governor of Belgium, has dispossessed the Red Cross from its powers and seized funds amounting to 200,000 francs. u HARRISBURG. PA., FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1915 JAPIS ULTIMATUM j PRESENTED TO CHINA Delivery Made to Foreign Office by Japanese Minister This Afternoon ' DEMANDS ARE MODIFIED I Peking Dispatch Says China Is Prepared to Concede Everything 1 By Associated Press Washington. l>. C., May 7. The I'nited States, within the last twenty four hours, through Its embassadors abroad, has consulted Great Britain, France and liussia, as the allies of Japan, to learn their attitude toward the present status of the .lispanese- Cliinese negotiations. Bv Associated Press Peking, May 7. 6 P. M.—Eki Hloki, the Japanese minister to China, went to the Chinese Foreign Office between S and 4 o'clock this afternoon and presented the Japanese ultimatum which Insists that China accede to the , demands presented by the Tokio gov- I eminent. Previous to this action on the part of the minister the secretary of the legation visited the Foreign Office and Informed Vice-Minister .Thao Yulin that the u'timatum of the Japanese governr" "nt contained certain modifi cation." %jf the twenty-four demands presented by Toklo. Peking, May 7, 5.05 P. M.—There Is good reason to believe that China is prepared to doncede everything de manded by Japan, realizing that the | situation is hopeless. This possible outcome to the pre sent tense situation is not generally comprehended In Peking; consequent ly a number of foreign residents, as well as Chinese themselves, are to [Continued on Page 18] CREIGHTON ANSWERS CHARGES OF HOYER Declares Former Mayor Did Not Appreciate the Danger of the Uprising By Associated Press Washington. D. C.. May 7.—The Federal Industrial Relations Commis sion to-day continued Its examination of witnesses as to labor conditions on the Pennsylvania railroad when G. W. Creighton, general superintendent of that road at Altoona, Pa., resumed the stand. He testified in answer to state ments made before the commission yesterday by Samuel H. Hoyer, former mayor of Altoona, in connection with the strike in the Pennsylvania shops there in 1911. Hoyer testified that the striking shopmen were peaceful, but that Creighton had repeatedly urged him to arrest strike-breakers and labor organizers. He declined to do so. ho\yever. he said, because he had no right to do it. Hoyer told of his efforts to settle the strike, saying that he sug gested to Creighton that he take the men back, but that Creighton declined to do so because the time limit for them to return had expired. The wit ness said he told Creighton that unless he allowed the men to return to work he (Hoyert would lead the strike him self. This, Hoyer said, resulted In an order to take the men back and that most of them returned. Replying to the testimony given by Hoyer. Mr. Creighton disputed other testimony that the Brotherhood of i (Continued on Page 18] J MYSTERIOUS FIRE IN IECH HIGH SCHOOL i— — Blaze Discovered by Janitor Guir pert at 6.45 O'clock While on First Round ENGINEER LOSES HIS BOOKS Steam Indicator Destroyed; Ceil ing Drops; Fireproofing Saves the Building A fire, whose origin is baffling tho school authorities, was discovered in the southeast corner of the engine room of the Technical high school this morninK hy Chief Janitor Gum pert at 6.45 o'clock as lie was making his first round of the building. That the building was not consumed may he attributed to the fireproof con struction of the building, against which the flamps could make little progress. A pile of valuable hooks on history and mechanics belonging to Engineer J. Grant Koons, which were in the corner and furnished fuel for the flames, were destroyed. His loss is S2OO. The damage to the b.uilding is slight. No theory has been advanced as to the cause of the fire, which must have taken place some time after 10 o'clock last night, when Mr. Gumpert left the school. A hasty examination of the eiectric apparatus indicates that it Is all in good shape. While it might have been a "mouse and match" fire, the Tech janitor says there were no matches In the room. The entire engineroom was smoked, part of the ceiling in the southeast corner being so badly parched that it dropped to the floor. About fifty square feet of tiling also dropped to the floor because of the heat. A val ua'Je steam indicator was destroyed by >he flames. Officials of the School Board went over the situation to-day with a fire inspector In an effort to solves the mystery surrounding the blaze. The damage will he repaired at once. WELERS' PATE IS I IT YET ESTABLISHED Believed, However, in New York Offices That All on Board Were Saved ■ By Associated Press New Tork, May 7.—The Cunard Liner Lusitania, one of the fastest steamships afloat was torpedoed and | .sunk this afternoon off the coast of Ireland ten miles south of Kinsale. She had aboard 1,253 passengers, i She sailed from this port last Satur | day, May 1, and carried in addition !to her own large passenger list 163 ! passengers transferred to her from the Anchor liner Oamperonia. The news of her sinking was an nounced *>y the iftcal office of the Cunard Line and was based on cable advices received from the home of fice of the company in Liverpool. Three dispatches received in the or der named, were made public by the line and read as follows: "We received from the Land's End wireless station news of re peated distress calls made by the Lusitania asking for assistance at once. Big list. Position ten miles sontli of Kinsale. Subsequently received the telegram from Queenstown that all available craft in the harbor had been dis patched to assist." The second message to the local office read: "Queenstown. 4.59 P. M.— Wire be gins about twenty boats of all sorts be longing to our line are in vicinity {Continued on Pace 7.} PASSENGERS WERE WARNED BEFORE BIG . STEAMER SAILED Told the Lusitania Would be Sunk; Precautions to Exclude German Spies THE LUSITANIA Launched at (Jlasgow, June 7, j 190(1. Cost 87,000,000. Tonnage, 32.500 tons. Best speed, 27 knots. Knginos' horsepower, 70.000. Built to carry passengers as fol- | lows: First cabin. 550; second cabin, 500: third cabin. 1,200. (By International News Service) New York, May 7.—The office of the Cunard Steamship Com pany to-day received from its Liver.r pool agents an unconfirmed report that the great liner Lusitania has been torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine. The following statement was issued lat the Cunard line office at 1 :p5 o'clock this afternoon: "The Cunard Steamship Company has received an unconfirmed report of the Lusitania having been torpedoed by a submarine off the Irish coast. "Any information positively con firming or denying this report will be promptly notified by the Cunard com pany." ' Many wild and conflicting reports were in circulation when the state ment was issued by the Cunard line. One was that the Lusitania had been torpedoed at 8:20 o'clock this morn ing. Another was that the liner had been torpedoed at 2 o'clock this after noon and had sunk in thirty minutes. In giving out the statement, Cunard officials emphasized the word "uncon firmed," but stated that they were making every possible effort to ascer tain the truth or falsity of the report. That they believed it true was indi cated by the fact that they imme diately transmitted cable to England the full passenger list of the Lusl tania. The Lusitania sailed from New York for Liverpool last Saturday with 1,388 passengers, the largest number carried eastbound by any trans-Atlan tic liner leaving New York this year. Just prior to the sailing of the Lusl ! tania the German embassy had warned persons against going abroad, because of the dangers from subma rines and the following advertisement was inserted in the New York news papers: The big Cunard greyhound was com manded by Captain W. T. Turner, of the British Royal navy reserve, with Captain J. C. Anderson acting as his staff officer. Both were rated as the ibest seamen in the trans-Atlantic trade, faring yet cautious. Passengers Warned j Just before the Lusitania pulled away from her New York pier stew | ards reported that fifty passengers had I received telegrams warning them to ! cancel their passage. At the same time, it was said, mysterious men, [speaking with foreign accents, had : passed among the passengers warn ing them that a trip on the Lusitania [ meant death. Later it was denied that | any telegrams had been received by j passengers, but warning had been given in other ways. Extraordinary precautions had been taken by the Cunard line to prevent German spies from getting on board and to keep mysterious packages, which might contain explosives, from getting upon the ship. Each passenger had to identify his own baggage before the ship sailed and all luggage was inspected. At the last minute 163 persons, who had booked passage for Europe from New York on the Anchor liner .Cameronla were placed on board the Lusitania, the sailing of the Cameronla having been cancelled. She was chartered by the British admiralty just a few hours be £ Continued on Pace 18] ALL PASSENGERS ON BIG CUNARDER ARE BELIEVED TO BE SAFE Vessel Sailed From New York Saturday; Cunard Line Officials Say They Will Gr 3 Full Details as Soon as Received Liverpool, May 7, 5:35 p. m.—The Echo has been in formed that a message to the Cunard Line reads as fol lows : / "The Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk at 2:33 p. rr. off Kinsale. There is no word of her passengers or crew, who number over 1,900." London, May 7, 5:55 p. m. —A dispatch from Liver pool to the Exchange Telegraph Company says it is not known how many of the Lusitania's passengers were saved. London, May 7.—The Cunard line steamer Lusitania from Nev York, May 1, for Liverpool with 1253 passengers on board, was tor pedoed this afternoon at 2 o'clock at a point about ten miles off Old Head, Kinsale, Ireland, and later went down. It is believed that her passengers are safe. No details of hov they may have been rescued, however, are at hand. One message received here says it is not known how many of the Lusitania's pas sengers were saved. When the Lusitania sailed she had aboard 1310 passengers. Some nervousness had been caused because of the publication in the | morning papers of Saturday of an advertisement warning intending travelers that a state of war existed between Germany and Great [Continued on Page *•! jjf PASSENGERS REPORTED SAVED I T New York, May 7.—The Dew-Jones Company ticker ' 1 t service in a report from London declares the Lusitania wab I f f beached and passengers and crew, according to Lloyds were I saved. ( > 4 l CREIGHTON WOULD STOP ORGANIZATION j Washington, May 7.— Commissioner Lennon asked thit > j I afternoon what the Pennsylvania Railroad Company would ' , do ii he should go to Aitoona to organize workmen and < I G. V. . replied: "We would do all we could to pre- 1 ' vent organization of unions to affiliate with the America • , Federation uf Labor or any organization which would sub- ® 1 ject u: to sympathetic strikes or the closed shop." ITEMS IN GROUP 5 OMITTED « I 1 * Co.cio, Pvlay 7, 4.40 P. M.—ln presenting its u'timatun l to China, Japan omitted from the present negotiations a! | > < ® iti i in Group sof the amended list of demands, with tht j e. ion of the portion dealing with concessions in Fu-Kien - l on whifch an agreement already has been reported. The X. de. r,ds in Group 5 are reserved for future discussion. AGREEMENT ON TAX QUESTION ' reached between Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George t an ", :e preservatives of the liquor trade in the matter of the t t j \ proposed taxes on beer and spirits. The statement is made X. j i that the chancellor has agreed to drop all the next taxes in ' j the form originally proposed by him. ■' « London, May 7. The Lusitania is reported to have ® > ! been flying the American flag when torpedoed. It had used { , the United States emblem on two former occasions. I | i New Orleans, May 7.—Storms generally over large sec i , tions of Louisana, Mississippi and Alabama late yesterday I > ! * and early to-day resulted in thirty deaths, the injury of at | least three score persons and heavy propeity damage. With > | i ' one exception all those killed were negroes. New York, May 7. —Heavy gun hi e off the coast was < • :-ard to-day aiong the Long Island and New Jersey shores, 1 as well as in Staten Island. Apparently the firing was a J I repetition of the recent target practice of British warships ' * off New York harbor. f MARRIAGE Homer R. Fortrnbaugh, pity, and Anna Bell DeWalt, Welt Fatr-rlew. I Willi.! in Alunr.o Mmila anil Catherine U alrrn, city. i I L f'""!", ?; » n| l Knima WallU. ShlrrmnnatoTTn. phla David Phillip*, \\ lcnnlnco, anil Catherine Jane Lrnli, Phllaflel-^ 20 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT.
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