2 WICKED DRIVE FOR WARSAW Germans Renew Altack Wit? Tremendous Fury FEW TRENCHES ARE CAPTURED Petrograd Reports That Enemy Is a Heavy Loser Russians Claim to Have Nearly 600,000 Austro-Gerrr.an Prisoners German Offensive Be coming Vigorous In Western Thea ter of War, French Report Says. Petrograd, Feb. —Renewal of a fier e often 1 ve by the Germans in the region of Sochaczow and Borjimow on u.„ vvui'.-ii'ii' i.j in an official statement issued here. The German attack, the statement says, was exceedingly violent. The fighting reached its fiercest along the whole line last Saturday and is now continuing in the same pitch. The Russians admit that part of the assault on the Russian line, particu larly in the highly important territory in the region of Sochaczew and Borji mow, on the road to Warsaw, has been successful and that the Germans drove them back to the second line of trenches, but the Russians depre cate the value of anything like gains made by their enemy. On the other hand, the Russians claim gains on the lower Vistula and say that they were able to repulse attacks of the fiercest nature at other points. Military readers of the communica tion of the war office say that they believe the Germans feel that they have maked time long enough and that if Warsaw is to be won they must drive on with all their power, regardless of the cosL The fighting was so intense that at one point in the trench line near [Borjimow 6,000 Germans were killed 'in one mile. } Headquarters issued another state •ment, which is as follows; . ' German officers are deceiving their jnen when they affirm that the Rus sians are being defeated in Poland and Galicia. On the contrary, the Austrians are fleeing. The mountain passes are held by the Russians. Rus sian cavalry has penetrated the Hun garian plains and is now approaching Budapest. The number of prisoners of war in Russian hands now is: Germans —Of- ficers, 1,476; men, 173,824. Austrians —Officers, 3,621; men, 410,257. Little Doing in West. London, Feb. 5. —The French state ment of the war in the western thea ter reports cannonading at various points in the line but few attacks. The British were repulsed at Guinchy, the heaviest attack of the day. The French say that the vigor of the German at tacks is increasing. Berlin says that there "is nothing important to report." Army Ready to Invade Servia. Paris, Feb. —A dispatch from Nish, Servia, to the Balkan News agency, say f : "Confirma'ion has been received of the report raat it is the intention of a great Au-tro-German army, under ■command of Archduke Eugene of Aus tria, to attempt a third invasion of Servian territory. These troops have been actually concentrated along a line extending from Tekia to Shifka on the Danube river. Schifka is the junction point of the Hungarian, Rou manian and Servian frontiers. The at tack has been delayed by the rising of the Danube and the Save. "The Servian general staff is fully •onfident that the issue will be favor able to Servian arms, as the troops both morally and physically are de clared to be in excellent condition." | TO SEIZE FOODSTUFFS Wilhelmina's Cargo Found For Ger i many Will Be Taken by England. ' Washington, Feb. i. —The state de partment has been officially in formed by Ambassador Page that Great Britain will seize the cargo of 4he steamship Wilhelmina, destined tor Bremen, and all other American ehipments to Germany as a result of ithe German government's assumption of control over food distribution. Ambassador Page has been in formed, however, that since the Wil helmina sailed from New York with her cargo without knowledge of this German decree there will be no pro ceedings against the ship and that the owner of the vessel's cargo will be preserved from any loss. It is under stood that the intention of the British igovernment is to pay for the cargo what the consigners would have re ceived if they had sold it in Hamburg as intended. I The state department has received from the German ambassador official assurance that under the terms of the decree regarding foodstuffs, im portations of food from the United States will be exempted from its provisions and that the government ( will guarantee that cargoes of this character consigned to and intended for the civilian population of (Will not be taken over by the govern jnent. The British communication however, shows that his majesty'' government does not accept this as surance as satisfactory. Austria's ?' i Forsi^n Mi , 1 1 i \ IP ) L J BARON STEPHEN EL'RIAN. | BREWERIES TO SUE STATE Will Seek Reimbursement From West Virginia For Ruined Business. Charleston, W, Va., Feo. ... —The brewery interests of the state have employed < lunsel to file suit against the state of West Virginia for dam ages that will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars for the loss of their profits for a year as a result of prohibition putting them out of busi ness. The brewery interests have abandoned their project to introduce a bill into the legislature to have the state reimburse them to the extent ol $300,000 for lost profits. The suits will be based on the fact that the Yost prohibition law suit put the breweries out of business when the state authorized them in their charters to continue business. Tlu breweries, it is said, continue to tah back their kegs and cases cf bottle carrying on that portion of their bus ness that is not in violation of tli 'Yost law, in order to make their cas as strong as possible. WATER HIGH AT PITT. GURGM Rivers Go Three Feet Above Flood Stage—Business Interests Warned. Pittsburgh, Feb. 7.--Close to twenty five feet was the high water mark registered by the swollen rivers here this noon. This is three feet above flood stage. Baltimore and Ohio railroad trains abandoned the Allegheny station be cause of the high water and all of lower Allegheny is under water. The wharfs presented a busy scene this morning Twboats plied here and there, signaling in the fog that rose from the water, and making coal ileets ready to ride south on the crest of the flood, The flood warning started great ac tivity among the business houses near the river fronts. Employees were busy removing merchandise and other goods from basements as many of the downtown buildings adjacent to the rivers • become filled with water through the sewers at twenty-two feet. PROTEST AGAINST FIGHT El Paso Ministers Align Themselves Against Johnson-Willard Match. El Paso, Tex., Feb. ". —El Paso min isters protested against the coming championship battle in Juarez be tween Jack Johnson and Jesse Wil lard, saying; "We are surprised that vice should be so bold. Already the infamy of the thing rests upon the fair name of El Paso and the more so because one of the principals is training on this side of the river." Willard went through some hard work at his training quarters today. His wind still seems far from perfect and he boxes a good deal with open mouth. Looked For Gas Leak. St. Clair ville, 0., Feb. —Albert McVey, aged forty-seven, a storekeep er at Jerusalem, near here, was killed at his store, and his daughter, Ivy Mc- Vey, aged twelve, was badly burned and her brother injured as a result of a gas explosion. Ivy McVey went into the basement with a lighted lantern io look for a gas leak. The flame in the lantern ignited the gas and the store and dwelling was blown up. Mo Vey was killed by falling timbers. The building was burned. • WEATHER EVERYWHERE. * • • • Observations at United States c • weather bureau taken at Bp. m. • • yesterday follow: • • Temp. Weather. * • Pittsburgh 48 Rain * • New York 35 Rain * • Boston 30 Rain * • Buffalo 18 Snow • • Chicago 30 Cloudy * • St. Louis 38 Cloudy * • New Orleans.. 54 Clear * • Washington... 42 Rain • • Philadelphia... 42 Rain • • • The Weather.. * • Rain or snow tonight and • • probably Wednesday. • ANNAPOLIS CADETS FROM THE RANKS. ' v "'B - :•- ■&' . . ' 1 : •-rites* ' d - ■ ■ ■ v; '- '■ ;• ":: . •• ... J* ' " j Lndei the new law* the secretary of the navy can appoint fifteen men from the ranks of the navy each year to the Annapolis Naval academy. Here are five of the men who have been named. From left to right they are John W. Howe, Horace S. Corbett, William W. Warlick. Harold H. Hungate and William Burk. | War News Oddities j So many German civilians are buying "bullet proof" breastplates an otfMal warning has been sent out that when hit the armor causes worse wounds than the bullet. A moratorium on dueling bas been declared in France, because it is held a Frenchman must not kill one of his countrymen during the war. A num ber of duels have been postponed until peace has been declared. Ralph Soubiran of New York, auto mobile expert and former chauffeur for Richard Croker, who is on the fir ing line for French as an aviator, has charge of a thrashing machine tempo rarily in an effort to save some of the harvest. A Swis3 mother sent her four sons to war. Two were by her first hus band, an Austrian, and went with the Germans. The other two, by her sec ond husband, a Frenchman, joined the French. They were against each other in their first battle, and all were killed. A method of curing fatigue, suggest ed by a Paris doctor, is being tried in the trenches. The soldier takes off his boots, lies down with his head on his sack, sticks his legs straight up and supports them against a tree, the side of a trench or the back of a comrade and then wiggles liis toes. It Changed His Mind. A switching engine prevented a Chi cago man from committing suicide the other day. With a rope arouud his neck and fastened to the mils of the Rock Island railroad he was crawling between the ties, prepared to jump from a viaduct, when a switchinf gine came along and cat the rope Ai he had lost his chance of hanging I m self, he thought better of his proji .. u Good Advice. "What would you say," said the prophet of woe, "if i were to tell yon that in a very short space of time all the rivers in this country would dry up?" "I would say," replied the patient man, "go and do thou likewise."— Stray Stories. BELGIANS BUILDING WINTER QUARTERS. Photo by American Press Association. The good spirits of the soldiers are shown by one of them performing acrobatic feats on the ladder for the amuse ment of his comrades. THE PATRIOT Art Criticism. It is related that almost the la si work Sir Edwin Lund seer was eugag ed on was a life sized picture of Neb Gwyu passing through an arctnva> on a white palfrey. This picture, in which the horse alone was finished, was bought by one of the Rothschild family and given to Sir John Mil la is to complete. One morning a celebrat ed art critic called on the painter and was much impressed by this work. "Ah. to be he said, going up close and examining a deerhound in the foreground of the picture; "how easily one can recognize Landseer's dogs: Wonderful, isn't it?" "Yes; it is wonderful:" said Sir John, lighting his pipe. "I finished painting that dog yesterday morning and have done the whole of it myself." German Army Shoes. Leather used for German army shoes is the result of many tests. It is rath er dry compared with American vege table tanned leather. However, it is made dry so that the oxidizing oils and fats will not rot the leather fiber dur ing the many years that it may be held in storage. Every soldier when he gets his army shoes also gets a can of shoe dressing, with which he dress es his shoes. This keeps them pliable and water resisting. The boots are crimped. They have only two seams. They are practically water ti£ht. The thread used for stitching them is band waxed. The absence of blackings of any nature tends to save the life of the boot. It rejects the sun's rays too.—Hide and leather. Argentina's Natural Bridge. In Argentina there is a natural bridge that is one of the most wonderful in the world. It spans the Rio Mendoza and is known as the Inca bridge. It is the work of nature and not. as was once popularly supposed, of the lncas. The road on which it occurs was prob ably a highway made by the Peruvian incas, wfio took advantage of the phe nomenon by leading their road over this natural viaduct. A Prosperous Scheme. "Doing any good?" "Yep. Got a business man's athletic class. Tuition. $5 a year." "Well, those rates are attractive, bat too low to pay you." "Yon don't get the idea. They all drop out in about two weeks. Then 1 start another class."—Judge. THE GOLDEN FLEECE. An Ancient Method of Collecting the Precious Yellow Dust. In the legend of the golden fleece lies hidden the record of an ancient method of the Tibareni. the sons oi Tubal, fur the collection of gold. The north coast of Asia Minor produced largs quautities of the precious meta.'s as well as copper end Iron Gold wa found in the gravel, km often happen* still in streams draining from coppe? region*. The gold in copper ores, orig inally containing insignificant amounts of the precious metal, accumulates in the course of ages and sometimes forms placers of astonishing richness. The ancient Tibareni washed, the gold bearing gravel first by booming which concentrated the gold into rela tively small amounts of sand. This was then collected and washed through sluices having the bottoms lined with sheepskins The gold would sink into the wool, while the sand would be washed away in the swift current writes Courtenay de Kalb in the Min ing Age. The skins were removed from the sluices, the coarser gold shaken out and the fleeces, still glittering with the yellow metal, were hung upon boughs to dry so that the rest of the gold might be beaten from them and saved I'he early Greek mariners, witnessing this process, carried home tales of the wonderful riches of a land where a warlike race of miners hung golden fleeces upon the trees in the grove of Ares. The natives of the country of Tubai Cain still cull the high grade copper ore and break it into smalls, which they cover with wood and roast to matte: they still work the matte in forgelike furnaces to black copper which they ship to Alexandretta and to Euxine ports. They still make the famous carbonized iron that was eele brated as Damascus steel because it was distributed through this mart to the rest of the world after receiving a 3nish by local Damascene workmen. Much Traveled. First Tourist—Did you ever see tne Cats kill mountains? Second Tourist— No, never, but I have seen them kill mice. Vanity dies hard. In some obstinate cases it outlives bc man.—Stevenson. ZEiTEU BOMBS F,__ J ENGLAND Eycwi ijss Vividly Descrioos trii.ajji Qi Air Graff. CHILD Ilk* NARROW ESCAPE Deadly Mtssiie Bursts Where Little One Had Been Lying and Wrecks Ruoin—C.i.zens In Panic as Explod ing Bombs Tear Great Holes In Street —Just Miss Royal Palace. The German Zeppelin raid on the 701111 ly of Norfolk, on ike east wast of blag land, was not Yarmouth's first ex i [lerie..- < of war's terrors, nor England's dim uisu* of an aerial attack. Several tteekc ago a German fleet from ilelgo uod o- the month of the Elbe made i raped dash to itie English coast and ap'foached to within a few miles of Yarmouth. It was driven off by a Brit ish fleet, but managed to sink a sub marine and damage the scout cruiser Halcyon in escaping. The previous aerial raid was a minor affair, a piick flash made by an aeroplane over Do ver and the dropping of a bomb or two ' that did little damage. Sandringham. the seat of Sandring ham hall, long the country seat of Ed ward VII. and acquired by the late king in IBt>l. when he was the Prince of Wales, lies northwest of Yarmouth, from which tt is fifty-two uillcs dis- ffint. If the raiil at this point was made by the same vessel or tleet which bombarded Yarmouth the Germans must have steered a course over a con siderable stretch of that land which extends in the shape of a camel's hump iuto the North sea. It was about 8:31) p. m. when resideuts of Sheringham and Sandringham experienced the same excitement and alarm as had stirred Yarmouth. A correspondent of the Daily Mail interviewed a resident of Sheringham. who was not too clear about details, but had a very lively recollection of some features of the visitation. Sees Outline of Airship. "It was certainly about B:3b o'clock," said tills tuar "*vtun the Zeppelins came to Sheriirgnam. I say Zeppblins because I am practically certain there • were two air craft over this town. The 1 one I saw was flying at a great height, it least 3.000 feet. 1 could just make ' out a dim cigar shaped body. It was 1 very dark, but the outline of the air ship was unmistakable. "It carried searchlights which threw a weird light upon the countryside. It was feeling its way along, hunting for our town as a dog picks up a scent. Suddenly there was a crash and explo sion as bombs began to drop. At least four fell in this town. One went through a house. Another dropped upon waste ground, (.me dfid not ex plode, and I don't know what became of the other. "In the bouse where one exploded a child had a miraculous escape. It had been put to lied, but had grown rest less. so its parents took it out of bed aud kept it with them in the lower part of the House. A few minutes after it had been removed from the nursery room the bomb burst right where the child had been lying and wrecked the room. Tear Great Holes !n Streets. "There was tremendous excitement In the town and something of a pania for a time. Crowds poured into the streets. Few persons were injured, I believe, and the damage was not great. One or two of the bombs tore great holes in the streets These craters were so hot that their edges could not be touched for three-quarters of an hour after the explosions. One house caught fire—the bombs seemed to splash fire In all directions the instant they exploded—but the fire did not spread. The Zeppelin I saw disap peared in the direction of Cromer, where six bombs were dropped with out causing much damage so far as I have been able to ascertain." At Sandringham. a short distance from Sheringham, an attempt was made undoubtedly to wreck Sandring ham Hall and to destroy any of the Lithium. Pure lithium, which is the lightest metal known, has at present no practi cal use. pThT Submarine ] Hid in a deep sea cave I lie Mid the drift of the silent years. And I laugh at the pride of human power And the sorrow of human tears — For I know I hold in my heart of fire A Btrength o cruel and vast I can blight the earth and air and sky Like flame from the furnace blast. When I slip along through peaceful sees And peer with my Cyclops eye, No stately ship that ever was built. Though never so fast she fly Can race with me: I strike In the dark Below her water line; I am ruthless, cold as the sword fln shark. Like my brother, the floating mine. Drenched with the salt sea brine I bid* The menace of the sea; A grim, gray wolf, my fangs I hide. And man is afraid of me! —B. H. Whitman in Kansas City Times. FARM PRODUCTS OF 1914 ARE WORTH TEN BILLION
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