2 f^ »• Hs v / / l s*\ y U-'V \ •, \ STRUGGLE FOR NIEUPORT-YPRES UNE CONTINUES. ♦ ♦ French official reports say that from the North Sea to the Hirer • ♦ Lys the German action has been less keen and that the Allies are as- ? « suming the offensive. A German attack northeast of Zonnebeke and ♦ ♦ another south ef Ypres have been repulsed. as wall as an attempt to ♦ ♦ capture the bridge over the Yser at Ifieuport. The stubbornness of » ♦ the fighting may be judged from the fact that the French think worthy ♦ ♦ of official mention an advance from Bixschoote toward the east of one ♦ ♦ kilometre, or five-eighths of a mile. ♦ ♦♦♦♦ ♦-» • » ♦ ♦ » »♦ » » !IJ ' ' ■■ ■ A. 1 ggggaop—f RUSSIANS THRONG SALOONS o\ THK LAST I)\V OF SELLING Petrograd (by way of London), Nov. 16.—Thousands of men, women aud ■ fiildren stood siuce 4 o'clock y ester jav morning in a driving snowstorm be fore the doors of the liquor shops 011 the last day in which, it is possible to purchase light wiue aud beer under the prohibition act of the Russian govern ment. which to-day becomes absolute. Applicants for a filial supply of bever ges came with baskets, sacks, carts Mid wheelbarrows, many having pawned their last belongings to procure means to purchase. This final prohibition act is the iast of three distinct liquor reforms, the first urtailiug the «ale of vodka, and the second abolishing it aosolutelv. The third measure extends the prohibition " every form of alcoholic drinks in all portions of the empire under martial' law. Cities included under the prohibi - tion are Odessa. Riga, Warsaw, Mes on. Kiev ami virtually all cities in Western Russia. 0 R EXE L STR ETCH ER-BEARER UNDER CORPORAL'S ORDERS' Paris. Nov. 16. —Anthony ,1. Drexei,: 'iitertainer of Kuropean dukes and • riiices. is serving with a British am lulanee as a stretcher-bearer, under the igid orders of a cockney corporal. When Mr. Drexei visited Ix>rd Rob ■?rts Cecil, who heads the British Red ross here, and offered a fleet of auto mobiles to assist in bringing the wound-, 3d to Paris, Lord Cecil said Drexei i ould be most useful as a stretcher-1 bearer. Stopping in the best suite at the Ritz, Drexei is forced to rise at 7 a clock everyday and place himself at the disposition of the corporal, whose vivid language he generally fails to comprehend. 10AL WORKERS SENDING MONEY TO EAST PRUSSIA Hazleton, »Pa.. Nov. 16. — Latge sums; of money are sent dailv from Hai'.leton i by the banks and postoffices to the | scene of the war in Bast Prussia. Manv ! residents of the Hazleton coal fields have relatives living in that part of I Kurope. * A surprising commentary on the re potts of great carnage is the return oft receipts from many of the people to whom money is consigned. Peace Committee in Germany Basel, Nov. 16. —Private peace com mittees are being formed in southern Germany, with the connivance of the ■iuthorities. to start unofficially a peace propaganda. Why Are Ten Tons of Quinine Used Every Year? J | L his enormous quantity of Quinine alone (representing * about l-30th of all the Quinine produced in the world) is required for the preparation of Laxative Bromo Quinine, Seven Million (7,000,000) Boxes of which are used every 3*ear because of its extraordinary merit. After reading the accompanying label from the box of 5An excellent remedy lor Coughs and Colds, Relieves the? /Cough and also the feverish conditioal and Headache.) < which are usually associated with colds The second or? ; third dose will relieve the Cough and Headache aad will} ) move the bowels well within 8 or 10 hours, when the cold ) will be relieved. la treatise colds it is very important that { \ ">e bowels should move well every day This preparation ( ) moves the bowela gently without griping. aad arouses the ) / liver and allthesecretions to action Directions:- Adults > t two tablets mAKlose tjul should be taken imaed- f , 1 1 'ely iftgSome per-1 )to juat keeprae bow'ls openfreefy until the Cough and > \ Cold is relieved then take one-half the dose lor a Jew \ S days Children who are not old enouch to swallow pills, the \ t tablet can be broken or cut in half and given in proportion > be ready for shipment within a ' month, if nothing unforeseen delavs the I shipment. The Jones & Laughlin Company is j the first Pittsburgh concern to receive 1 an order for projectile steel from anv ' of the warring European nations. NICHOLAS DECLARES THAT TURKEY MUST BE CRUSHED I Moscow, Nov. 16.-—The municipality jof Moscow, having expressed to the Kmperor sentiments of fidelity and de- I votion on the occasion of the war with Turkev, the Kmperor has replied.' | thanking the people of the ancient : I capital. He declared they could not believe! j that Russia ever would agree to ipeace i t so long as the resistance of the enemy I j had not been crushed and so long as the problems which had been left by I their ancestors had not been solved. ' I Laxative Bromo Quinine, telling what it does and how it does it, you can understand why this remedy is used so effectively by so many millions of people. Whenever you feel a cold com ing on think of the name Laxative Bromo Quinine. HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER IK. 1914 TOWN 111 PAHI OF WARPILEOFRUIIIS Only Dozen Buildings Out of 600 Stand After Attack by Kaiser's Army AWFUL HAVOC BY GERMAN SHELLS Another Fierce Effort Expected From Dixmude to Arras as Soon as Ger mans Have Rested and New Men Can Be Procured Paris, -Nov. 16, 7A. M.—The di'| minisliing intensity of the German as j sauLts in Flanders is due to somte ex-1 tent to severe weather conditions. The flooded section is increasing in area as a result of the continuance of heavy rains and the country between Nieu- j port and Dixmude is a vast swamp in ■ which guns and ammunition wagons abandoned by the Germans lie em-1 bedded and in which float countless! corpses. The Germans have been wash-1 ed out of their trenches in several | places, says an eyewitness, who has just returned from the front, but they 1 continue to send an occasional shell to the French trenches. It is not probable that the Germans j | will make further attempts in this sec- j I tion of the front, but a fierce effort is I to be expected from Dixmude to Arras I as soon as the German troops have re | covered from their tremendous exer tions of last week and new men can! be brought up to fill the gaps in the ; ranks. Military Writers' View of Situation The fate of the war depends now. says Colonel Fey lor, an eminent ISwiss ' milij-ary writer, essentiallv on the re-1 serves of men that the armies are able to bring up. and in this respect, ac- 1 cording to military opinion here, Ger- ' many appears to be in a state of in-: feriority. Xot only doe? the Russian offensive prevent Germany from trans-1 • ferring men from the eastern to the i western front, they point out, but ! ! troops that are now being instructed ' | in the interior will necessarily be sent I against the Russians. | It is also pointed out that Germany | lias to operate on fronts totalling near-1 I l.v 1.000 miles with 25 active army j corps, while the allies have at their j disposal 29 army corps for a line less! , than half as loug. Thus from the point | of view of available troops it is argued j | the comparison is unfavorable to the i Germans. Infantry Equally Well Supplied . \ So far as the equipment is concern-- ed, the infantry on both sides is equal- j !y well supplied. At the beginning the ! Germans were much better off with | quick-firers, but the allies have now j caught up bv intensive production in i the arms factories. In the artillery the allies are said to have advantage as far as light pieces are concerned, but the German heavy artillery is superior, i They are not likely to retain that su periority long, however, since both the French and British arsenals are be ginning to deliver big guns and the allies have plenty of trained men to serve them, irrespective of the Japan ese gunners whose early arrival at I Marseilles is announced by rumor. ADVANCE OF RUSSIANS ON! CRACOW BECOMING SLOW London, Nov. IC. 3.19 A. M. The 'Daily Mail's'' Copenhagen corre spondent says: "It is rumored, here that Cracow j will not be defended, as the Austrians fail to see why that city should be bom-! bariled and laid in ruins for no reason.! It- is stated that the Russians would not be unwilling to give good terms for ca pitulation, because the town is entirclv Polish. The German colony fled to I Berlin and Bavaria and the populatim generally is fleeing to the mterior of I Austria. ' The advance of the Russians to ward Cracow lias become somewhat slow. They are occupied in driving j the Austrian armies through the C'arpa- ! tfcian passes toward Hungary and are barricading the evacuated j asses to i prevent the Austrians returning to harass the Russian arinv while ?t ij ' fighting in Silesia." i 1 RUSSIANS IMPOSING FIXES OX EAST PRUSSIAN TOWNS ijondon. Nov. 16, 3.4 6 A. M. A openliagen disrjatih to the "Daily Mail" says i* is learned from Berlin that tiie Russians are imposing fines on !'ie conquered East Prussian towns cor responding to the German fines imposed on Belgian towns. The military authorities in East Prussia, adds the dispatch, have given or ters that as ;he Russians advance the inhabitants must (roaudon their homes and rruiove all their flocks and herds, as well as their valuables, and burn their houses, so as to prevent the Russians subsisting on the country. Many villages are reported to have been evacuated already. The German general stafl has issued urgent orders for 10,000 sledges for the winter campaign in Russia. Pottstown Has S4O» Raised of fI.OOO Pottstown, Pa., Nov, 16. tions nearing $4 00 have been received here toward the J 1,000 to buy n, car load of flour for* the Belgian war suf ferers, which is exclusive of a SSOO contribution given at the Hill School. The Pottstown Business Men's Asso liation Saturday contributed SSO. British Ambassador Off to Canada Washington. D. C., Nov. 16.—Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British Ambas sador. left Washington last night to visit the Duke of C'onnaught, Governor General of Canada, at Ottawa. It was stated at the embassy that the Am bassador s visit was purely a personal one. FLOODS CHECKING GERIAK ASSAULT The Continuous Heavy Rains Interfere With Attacks of Kaiser's Troops in Flanders MANY WASHED OUT TRENCHES Two Hundred Persons Live in the Few Remaining Houses and Improvised Shelters Out of a Population of Nearly Three Thousand j teeruiaize-Kcs-Baius, Ffance, via, Paris. Nov. 16, 10.30 A. M.—This region&l town of 2,800 inhabitants before the German invasion is repre sentative of what happens to a place in the path of the hostile army. There | were 800 houses and now a Sozen ; bullet scarred buildings are stauding. All the others have been knocked to pieces by shells or burned, mostly j burned. W alls of 'brick or stone, constructed j with old-fashioned care, burst by the I heat, are tumbled in ruins across the ; streets. Home hundreds of chimneys j stand starkly. As for the rest there are left only irregular fragments of ' walls with vacant windows. Population Nearly All Gone Two hundred persons live in the | dozen houses or in improvised shelters j set up against some of the half of the I ruined walls. Where are the others? A couple of hundred men answered i the mobilization call pasted on City | Hall tm August 1. Then the French | army in retreat came through and up wards of 2,000 inhabitants took flight, some by their own conveyance others i on tiie wagous of the army transport and hundreds afoot carrying packages | and their small children. Under Shell Fire Five Days ' Sermaize, which is seventeen miles 1 oast northeast of Vitry-Le-Prancois, i n 'as on the battle line of 120 miles j chosen by General Joffre for the I French stand. It was under shell fire I when the French occupied the place. ! a fi ai " "hen the Germans held it aud when it lay between the two armies. This went on for five days. The fright ; ened inhabitants lived in the cellars : until the tumbling ruins began to j choke the entrances. Then the Oer- I mans, withdrawing for the last time ; the retreat having been sounded, it is I alleged they set fire to all dwellings left standing, and that most of thejn j were burned. The 200 residents remaining took j refuge in the open fields. An indeter minate number, it is said, were killed or wounded by accident, j Thus a prosperous little city in a ' district which is the center of sugar I manufacturing, was almost effaced. The ' j correspondent has seen seven such i j towns aud tliere appear to be a hun- j ■ dred more in the country recovered i from the Germans. EARL ROBERTS EIGHTH BIG BRITISH OFFICER TO DIE London, minster Abbey has been offered as a! burial place for Field Marshal Karl Roberts, subject to the usual condition that the body must be cremated. Lady Roberts, it is announced, is unable to accept the offer. The body of the dis tinguished soldier will be brought to 1 England in a few days. It is under-1 stood that Karl Roberts wished to be buried at Ail Saint's Church at Ascot, near lvis home. A definite announcement regarding the burial place .is expect ed shortly. According to a Paris dispatch, Karl Roberts was advised not to go to the front until the weather moderated, but he refused to postpone the program ar ranged for him. Karl Roberts, i> the eighth distin guished officer of the British army and navv to die since the beginning of the! war. The list includes Generals Grier-1 son, 1 ranklin, Kewicli and Carrington.! London. Nov. 16, 4.40 A. M.—The! correspondent of a French newspaper, (' who saw Earl Roberts just before he i started for France, writes to the! "Times," stating that Karl Roberts told hiin h c intended to speak to Gen eral French about the too great secret-v which, to his mind, was kept by the military authorities at the front and at i home-concerning the work and brave ; deeds of the British troops. He con-i --sidered that while military movements should be kept absolutely secret, the > knowledge of how the British soldiers i were lighting against great odds would '' greatly stimulate recruiting in Eng- 1 land. WARNS BRITISH PEOPLE OF BIG TASK FACING ALLIES London, Nov 16, 3.40 A. M. The Daily Mail s ' HetrograJ correspond ent warns the British people of the enormous task still fating the allies and declares that England will need all the troops that it is possible for her to raise. The correspondent points oat that it will take month? for tlic Russians to reach Berlin, saying that, even if the Germans are driven from the positions ther are now holding, they can fall back on equally strong lines of defenses they have prepared. He says he hears that the Germans are setting the Rus sians a formidable task to break through and that before is accom plished the Germans still may ibe able to send troops to France and Belgium. War Stops Hunts in F.ngUnd London, Xov. 16.—The extent to which hunts have been affected 'bv the war was indicated at the annual "meet ing of the Kssex-Suffolk hunt at Col cheater. It rvaa seated that ten masters of foxhounds were Berving in the Som erset and Devon Yeomanry, now quar tered near Colchester, and 200,000 horses 'had been drawn from various bunts this year WRIGLEY'S chewing gum, you get a Spearmint- Strength known the world over Peppermint flavor The coupons are good toward many attractive presents—for every member of the family. These 1-o-n-g 1-a-s-t-i-n-g, luscious sweets offer the most value , the most pleasure and the most benefit possible to get for 5 cents. Good for teeth, breath, appetite and digestion. Sealed air-tight, they are always fresh, full flavored and clean. If you like the spicy flavor of fresh mint leaves, take EEZZEEZE^ If you like Peppy-Peppermint, get Use either, or both, for 1-o-n-g 1-a-s-t-i-n-g delight. jm Be sure to get WRIGLEY'S » ! SAVES HIS BROTHER'S LIFE Gives Quart of Blood to Repair Loss in Hunting Field I Sunbury, Pa.. Nov. 16.—While hunt ing near his home at Klines Grove, Northumberland county, Saturday, Mot ley Ruggles, 19 years old, was accident ally shot in the back by his brother, Robert Ruggles. Uuconseious. he was ! dragged and carried a mile to his home by the brother. Sunbury doctors were rushed to his aid, and they lifted him on an automo bile, using a door for an litter, and 'brought him to the Mary M 7 Packer hos fital here. Whcu Dr.' W. h. Shindei, •the operating surgeon, said that a trans fusion of blood would be the only thing that would save his life, the brother of fered to give his own blood. In a half hour the pair were side by side on an operating table, and the life blood of the healthy man was being pumped into the weakened ibody of his 'brother. After he had given up moro than a quart of blood the doctors said that Ruggles will get well. Kooerr is apparently unharmed by the loss off so mush blood. BOULDER STRIKES FOREMAN Marietta. Nov. 16. — Peter Knsmin ger, track foreman on the Columbia and Marietta division of the Pennsylvania railroad, was badly injured late Satur day afternoon, when a huge boulder eame rolling down Chiekies rock, where the men were fighting a forest fire, and felled him. His right arm was badly cut, his en tile right side lacerated and his right leg almost crushed. He was taken to his home and medical aid summoned. It is feared he is injured internally. Mr. Ensmiuger is a man of about 200 pounds anil 66 years of age. He is a veteran of the Civil war. One Dead, 3 Hurt as Auto Upsets Greeusburg, Pi., Nov. 16. Lorenzo Jones, 20 years old, of Swissvale, was killed and three companions were in jured when the automobile in which they were riding went over an embank ment near here yesterday. The injured are Herman and iDei'bert Scholtz and ■Howard Waguer. all of Swissvale. The party was going to Indiana county on a hunting trip. Graduate in Music Dies Drumore, Nov. 16.—Mies Helen Mc- Comb, 26 years old, a graduate in mu sic, and who taught several classes, died Saturday from a complication of dis eases. Her parents were teachers in music. She is survived by a sister. Vote Against Death Penalty Portland, Ore., Nov. 16.—Complete unofficial returns indicated yesterday that the bill to abolish capital punish ment in Oregon -was carried at the elec tion on November 3, the total being: I Yes. 100,036; no. 99,078 MAKES 2.300 < OWKRTS Dr. George Wood Anderson Closes Suc cessful Revival at Coatesville Coatesville, Pa., Nov. 16. —With a total of 2,300 converts in six weeks, the Anderson revival closed here last night.'Among the men who "hit the trail" were 150 members of the fire department, nearly all the employes of the 10-al yard of the Philadelphia and Reading railway, hundreds of mill work ers, business and professional men, news paper men and girls from the various factories. Among the converts were a number ol' men who have been hard drinkers. i>ast night eclipsed all revivals «vei held in the county. One hundred and sixty persons went forward, and during the day many took the step at other services. 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