THE WEATHER
FAIR TO-NIGHT
CLOUDY TO MORROW
DetaUei Report. Pace •
BfffTW 0 VOL. 76—NO. 150.
50,000 LOSS
OF GERMANS
IN POLAND
Surrounded by Russian
Troops, Whole Corps
of Raiser's Army Sur
renders in a Body
ANOTHER CORPS
IS PUT TO ROUT
Official Vienna Beport States Fighting
in Russian Poland Is a Continuous
Battle With the Czar's Troops Be
ing Bepulsed in Western Oalicia
■ Paris, Nov. 27, 4.50 A. M.—Tele
graphing from Petrograd regarding tho
fighting around Lodz in Russian Po
land, the correspondent of the "Ma
tin" says:
"One German army corps which was
surrounded by Russian troops surrend
ered in a body. This represents nearly
fifty thousand prisoners. Another corps
which also had been cut off, has now
been completely put to route.
"The Russians are attacking along
the Czenstochowa-Cracow line with re
doubled intensity.
Berlin, by Wireless to London, Nov.
sued in Vienna says:
"The fighting in Russian Poland
has assumed the proportions of a con
tinuous battle. In Western Galieia, our
troops have repulsed the Russians.
Marked progress has been made in the
fighting in the Carpathians.
"Near the Kolubara river in Servia.
the enemy's center is in a veiy strong
position near Lazarevatz, but we at
tacked and took 1,200 prisoners, three
giir,: lour ammunition wagons and
three machine guns. To the south of
J'j'd ('). we took tbe eastern heights
and 300 prisoners. From Valjevo our
troops have advanced to Kosjovici."
Petrograd, Nov.- 26.—An official
communication from the general staff
of the army of the Caucasus savs:
"In tire direction of Erzerum the
pursuit of the routed enemy h-as been
terminated. In the past few days a
series of engagements have taken
place south of the Valley of Alasch
kert, where we have disposed of con
siderable Kurdish forces, who were re
inforced this time by regular troops.
In other sections no important changes
have taken place."
BRITISH WARSHIP BLOWN
TO PIECES AND OVER 700
PERISH IN THE DISASTER
Amnion, Nov. 27.—A mysterious ox
plosion on board the British battleship
Bulwark, off Sheerness, at the mouth of
the Thames, 35 miles "from London, to
tally destroyed the vessel early yester
day morning, and of her crew of be
tween 700 and SOO officers and men
only 14 escaped. The*news of the dis
aster soon reached this city, and Wins
ton Spencer Churchill. Fi'rst Lord of
the Admiralty, officially announced it
yesterday afternoon.
1 he explosion is believed to have oc
curred in the ship's forward magazine.
Whether it was caused by accident or
design is a question to be determined
by :i commission which has been ap
pointed by the Admiralty to investigate
In the opinion of naval men, it was an
internal explosion that put an end to
the battleship, which for 12 years had
done service at home and abroad, and
lately hail been doing her part in guard
ing England's shores.
Thtre was no great upheaval of wa
ter, such as would have occurred if
she hail been torpedoed or struck by a
mine. Instead, the ship was enveloped
in smoke and flame, and when this had
cleared nothing could he seen but
wreckage floating on the water. Houses
in towns seven and eight miles awav
were shaken by the explosion and,
oven before men on ships anchored
jiearb; could reach their own decks, the
Bulwark had disappeared. The neigh
borlioff was strewn with an enormous
amount>,f wreckage, while pieces of the
ship w(k. thrown six or seven miles
upon th^pg 3 ex shore.
The B\wark in her early career was
quite a r» ored ship. For a long time
she was tl flagship of Admiral Charles
the Mediterranean. She
w » s °f Ip'CO tons displacement, cost
$5,000,000_ a build and was completed
in 1902. l e s )]ip was 411 feet long,
75 feet WK and drew 29 feet of wa
ter. Her <'mament consisted of four
12-inch an 12 6-inch guns, 16 12-
pounders, <3-pou*ders and four suit
merged tor)j 0 tubes. She had a com
plement of 50 men.
via London, Nov.
27, 2.25 A.,—-it ig believed here that
the
caused by t fall and bursting of a 12-
inch shell her magazine.
W Infopcnkni
ITE WAR MEWS SIMMY
The campaign In Fraqce and Bel
gium, commonly regarded as the main
conflict of the European war, seemed
to-day to have entered, at least tem
porarily, upon a new phase. For the
time being Germany has relinquished
the offensive, which she held so relent
lessly during the earlier weeks of the
war. Official statements from Berlin
and Paris showed that the fighting,
which has been diminishing steadily in
severity for at least two weeks, has now
flattened out to a mere series of de
tached skirmishes involving only small
numbers of men. It remained to be seen
whether this state of affairs was the
prelude to another German onslaught,
as London has been predicting, or
whether it meant that Germany had
adopted new tactics which would thrust
upon the allies the burden of the at
tack in an effort to drive out the in
vaders.
The French statement said that In
the Argonne, where some of the most
spirited fighting has been in progress
recently, there were only small engage
ments yesterday. Ground was taken by
the Germans and retaken by the allies
but the insignificant scale of these op
erations, measured by the magnitude of
the war as a whole, is shown by tbe
statement that fighting involved no
more than one battalion and the dis
puted ground extended over no more
than 25 yards. The German statement
reports some progress in this region. At
a few other points, further west in
France and in Belgium, there were
small brushes.
The situation in Russian Poland, the
present object of such great concern to
Continued on Fourth Page.
HELMANIFTAUNCH IS
BLAMED FOR THE TURKISH
FORTS FIRING ON VESSEL
■ •
Washington, Nov. 27.—The Turkish
commander of the forts at Smyrna lays
all responsibility for the firing upon
the cruiser Tennessee's launch "to the
indifference of the helmsman of the
laiunch," who, it is said, did not heed
the warning's of tbe presence of mines.
Secretary BTyan to-day issued a sup
plemental statement on the Tennessee
incident based upon the latest- communi
cation from the Turkish Minister of
War to \ mbassador Morgorathau in
Constantinople.
"The War Minister's report," said
the statement, "states that lie ascer
tained from the commander of Smyrna
that two blank shots of warning were
first fired and that the sentinel, after
waiting two minute*, was obliged bo
fire thefPftrd shotaw»bh»r direction
from that of tihe launch, which latter
shot was merely ho prevent; the helms
man of tiie launch from holding his
course which would lead directly on to
the mines at the entrance of the port,
and to rescue him from a very certain
danger. The commander of Smyrna ex
presses very great regret that such an
obligation was ["resented to the sen
tinel of the port which he aifctri'buites to
the ind iff ere nice of the helmsman of the
launch."
Secretary Bryan said this latest re
port closes t'he incident.
BRITISH COLLIER KHARTOUM
W AS BLOWN UP BY A MINE
Ixindon, Nov. 27, 5 P. M.—The Brit
ish Admiralty this evening announced
that the collier Kluartoum .had been
blown up to-day by a mine off Grims
by. The crew of the Khartoum was
landed at Grimsby.
Grimsby is on the south bank of
Humiber, fifteen miles southeast of
Hull.
New York, Nov. 27.—The Khartoum
was of 1,930 tons net. She was 315
feet long. 4 0 feet beam and 20 feet
deep, 'liie vessel was built at Stock
ton in April, 1893.
WITH BRITAIN'S FIGHTING INDIANS IN THE
' , ■ f nnnE
In thP rrll!eh« ble slm P ?r heß 'T? l"* T* ln Franoe ' and ln fact from ■» Quarters of war activity. tell of the terrible condition of the troops fighting their country's battle.
In the trenches. Sometimes waist deep ln water, mud and damp straw. It takes a soldier of Iron wfll and determination to stand the strain. The above photograph is the first picture show-In*
tnd blood That the Indian troops, from a warm clime, can stand the strain spealcs well for their ffchtln*
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1914 14 PAGES.
11 AGAINST
DROPPING HIS
Disapproves Attacks
by Aircraft on Cities
Occupied by Non-
Combatants
PERSONAL LETTER
TO AMBASSADORS
President Careful Not to Take Hatter
Up Officially and Even Did Not
Make His Communication Through
tbe State Department
By Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 27. —President
Wilson has communicated unofficially
to the diplomatic representatives of
the United States in the belligerent
countries of Europe his disapproval of
attacks by bombs from air craft drop
ped on unfortied cities occupied by
non-combatants.
The President was careful not to
take the matter up officially and did
not even make his communication
through the State Department but per
sonally addressed the American am
bassadors abroad. The President took
this course, it became known to-day,
nearly two months ago. The facts came
to light through the publication of a
report that the President had discuss
ed the matter with European diplo
mats here. This however, was denied
by some of the prominent diplomats
mentioned in connection with it, in
cluding the German ambassador.
•lust how the American diplomats
abroad were to convey President Wil
son's feeling in the matter to the for
eign governments has not been dis
closed, as White House officials, in the
absence of the President, declined to
discuss the subject.
It is believed here, that the Presi
dent called attention to the article in
The Hague convention of 1907, to
which all the principal belligerents are
signatory, which provides for notice of
twenty-four hours before bombardment
or attack in order that non-combat
ants may remove themselves from the
danger zone.
Whether there have been an unof
ficial responses from the belligerents,
was not known here to-day but Ameri
can diplomat* v'cre instructed by the
President, it is understood, to handle
the matter with such discretion and
1 delicacy as would tend to end aerial
attacks without notice and at the same
time preserve the friendship which the
United States feels toward all the
belligerents involved.
It is not believed that the President
mentioned any specific violation but
expressed his views on the general sub
ject of aerial attacks.
It is supposed that the American
diplomats used their good offices con
sequently, in a personal way with the
belligerent governments without per
haps even mentioning the fact that
they were doing so at the request of
the President, as such methods of ob
taining a desired end are not unusual
in diplomacy.
Woodman Chops Foot
William Knapp, of Dauphin, a wood
man employed bv the Zortman LunVber
Convp'any, was painfully hurt this morn
ing when an axe lie was plying slipped,
striking him ill the instep of his left
foot. The laceration was five inches
long, ligaments and blood vessels being
torn. He was brought to the Harris
brug hospital for treatment.
001 Convictions for White Slavery
Chicago, Nov. 27.—'Nine hundred
and one persons have been convicted
under the Mann white slave act since
ilts passage, according to statistics re
ceived to-day by Arthur Burrage Far
well.
DISCUSS THE UNION OF
TWO LOCAL CHARITIES
Representatives of the Nursery Home
and the Children's Aid Society
Consider Consolidating These Or
ganizations
The consolidation of the Nursery
Home and the Children's Aid Society
as a means of economizing and at the
same time of making the work more
effective was advocated at a meeting
of representatives of those charitaible
societies held in the offices of the Dau
phin County Directors of the Poor this
morning.
Besides Harry A. Walters and Charles
L. Boyer, representing the Poor Board,
there were present Mrs. Georgo Kunkel
and Vance C. McCormick, representing
the Children's Aid Society, and Mrs.
J. 'H. Pation and Mrs. J. D. Hawkins,
representing the Nursery Home. No
definite plans were laid, although it is
expected that the committees again will
meet in the near future at which time
action will be taken.
The Nursery Home now is located in
the Watts homestead, at the Maple Hill
playground, in the extreme uppor end
of the city. The Aid Society coufines its
wftrk chiefly to finding pro'per homes for
boys and girls, outcasts and youngsters
whose home surroundings justify their
removal.
Tbo directors of the Poor suggested
the consolidation of the two societies.
This would include a plan to educate
the children, the cost of which, Mr.
Walters assiured the committee, the
county would bear its proportionate
share. The county, through the Poor
Department, now is paying twenty-five
cents a day for the maintenance of
homeless children.
"What the Directors of the Poor
would like to have done," said Mr.
Walters, "is to educate and train these
children until such time as they are
able to go out and l>e self-sustaining
and this department is willing to work
toward that end."
TROLLEY HITS STEELTON LAD
Little Albert Ferenia Is in the Harris
burg Hospital With Prob
ably Fatal Injuries
Albert. Ferenia, 6 years old, son of
Frank Ferenia, 681 South Second
street, Steelton, was so seriously hurt
when he was struck by a trolley car at
Front and Highland streets, Steelton,
ait 1 o'clock this afternoon that, physi
cians at the Harrisburg hospital, where
he was taken, hold out little hope for
his recovery.
So serious was his condition that op
erations were immediately begun. He
suffered three severe injuries, all of
which may have fractured his skull.
His right hand was crushed off at the
wrist and it will have to be amputated
near the elbow. His body, is covered
with bruises.
The boy, according to friends of his
family who accompanied the griet'-
stricken parents to the hospital, say
that he was playing in the street and
happened to get in the way of a rapidly
moving trolley car
One Club Beady for Parade
Thep arade conimitee of the llarris
burg Slummers' Association will meet
to-night at 9.30 o'clock in the office
of Clarence O. Baekenstoss, seereetary
to Mayor Royal, to lay plans for the
New Year Day celebration. The first
return blank of an organization for en
trance in the parade was received from
(be Keystone Motorcycle Club, which
will have a large nunvber of men in
line.
PIMITS
cm TAXES cm
Appeals for Revised
Assessments on the
Properties to Be Raz
ed Down Town
C. V. R. R. ALSO
MAKES PLEA
Owner of Buss Building in Market
Square Declares $08,0:10 Is Too
High an Assessment —Board Gets
25 Appeals by Noon
The City Commissioners sitting to
day as a Board of Revision of Taxes,
by noou had received about twenty-'
five appeals from property owneVs who
raised objections to the revision of j
the assessments against properties
which have been erected or improved'
within the last year. Some of the ap
peals will be allowed, the Commission
ers said, but they would not indicate
which ones, saying they will defer ac
tion in all cases until after 4 o'clock!
this afternoon by which time all ap
peals must be filed.
The appeals involving the greatest
number of properties were filed by the
Cumberland Valley Railroad Company
and the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. These concerned properties in
the First ward, principally on Mul
berry and South Second streets, which
have been or will be razed in connec
tion with the construction of the Mul
berry street subways and the building
of tlie Pennsy's warehouse.
Railroad Companies Appeal
The properties of the Cumberland
Valley razed or to be razed include
two buildings on South Front street; !
twenty-eight on Mulberry; twenty
three on South Second tuld four on
River avenue. Seven properties on
which the company declares the assess
ment is excessive will not be razed.
The Tax Revision Board this morning
said a general inspection of tlie prop
erties will be made before a decision
is reached.
Williajn Rll9B, owner of the Russ
building on Market square, is another
appellant. The assessment against his
property is $98,630 and he contends
it is too high. In support of his glaiin
he cites the assessment* levied
other properties in the business section
including the following, Bolton House,
$109,000; Commonwealth Trust Com
pany building, $178,560; Bergnnr
building, $143,255; Telegraph build
ing $84,935; Union Trust Company
building, $111,560.
A real estate firm which is erecting
a dozen houses on Market street, took
an appeal saying that the properties in
question have not yet been completed,
that none has been sold and that all
yet are in the hands of the contractors.
Coal Dealer Objects
When asked about the railroad com
panies' appeals members of the board
said that in most cases some changes
will be made. This is due, it was said,!
to the fact that the buildings have
been or will be removed and that the
value of the ground will not be in
creased to the amount of the assess
ments by reason of the planned im
provements.
A coal dealer objected to the' in
creased assessment against his coal
sheds, while several property owners
basd their appeals on the assessments
levied against houses in their imme
diate neighborhoods.
Burned to Death in Auto Accident
Wilmington, Del., Nov. 27.—An au
tomobile accident in which llarrv
Doughty, of Franklin City, Va., was
burned to death happened about four
miles south of New Castle, last night.
PLAN TO ROB STEELTON
POSTOFFICE A FAILURE
Steel Drill Such as Cracksmen Use Is
Picked Up at Bear Door of Build
ing—Evidence That the Burglars
Were Frightened Away
The finding of a steel drill just out
side the rear entrance to the first floor
of the Steelton postoftice, at Second
and Locust streets, early this morning
was the first intimation employes of
the oflice had that cracksmen last night
had planned an attempt to smash the
safe. That the plan was nipped in the
bud is the belief of postoffice employes,
who are of the opinion that the would
be robbers were frightened nwa,v by the
passing of some one in the street" who
did not actually see the cracksmen.
The steel drill is highly tempered
and is the kind used by postoflice rob
bers in attempting to open safes. The
door near which the drill was picked up
is the one.used by letter carriers in go
ing to and from the building.
The last previous attempt of bur
glars to rob the Steelton postoffice was
made during President Cleveland's ad
ministration, when Christian Hess was
postmaster. At that time the office
door was forced and several holes
drilled in the safe door noar the com
bination lock. The holes were charged
with some explosive, supposed at that
timeto have been nitroglycerine. The ex
plosion which followed was heard for
some distance and before the burglars
could follow up their advantage a num
ber of men appeared on the scene. The
safe-ib'-eakers fled and were never ap
prehended.
THIEF'S VISIT TOO LATE
Thanksgiving Night No Time to Steal
Turkey
One day too late a thief at t'he ihome
of W. A. Hupp, 1515 State street, at 9
o'clock last night, was so incensed be
cause the turkey and cnuvherry sauce
were gone tha't he threw the contents of
t'he refrigerator on the rear porch and
over the rear yard.
The family discovered the presenco
of the marauder aibout 11 o'clock last
niglut and telephoned Hie police, who
to-day are investigating the visit. The
polic? are of the belief that the thief
got his i\ ites mixed and instead of
finding a big, fat turkey, found only
the ingrediients for turkey hash. Food
stuffs to the value of $3 were de
stroyed.
STOCK EXCHANGES TO OPEN
New York Starts Business To-morrow
and Philadelphia Monday
New York, Nov. 27. —The Stock
Exchange announced that the plans for
restricted trading in bonds, which will
•be renumed to-morrow, had been revised
to permit actual transactions being
printed upon the tickets.
It bad previously been the plan of
the exchange to have prices anid 'trans
actions distributed to brokers upon
printed slips. The committee of five, it
was expected, would make some an
nouncement regarding minimum prices
during the course of the day.
Philadelpnia, Nov. 27. Announce
ment was made to-day that tihe Phila
delphia Stock Exchange will be reopen
ed on Monday, Novemlier 30, at. 10 a.
m., for the transactions in all securities
listed on the regular and unlisted de
partments of the exe'hange.
PAY UP FOR FINE WEATHER
Temperature to Drop and Rain Is in
Prospect
Ilarrisburg seems about to suffer in
the mat'ter of weather to pay up for the
extraordinary fine day yesterday.
Weather Bureau forecasters hold up lit
tle hope for the continuation of fine
weather, saying there will be a con
siderable drop in temperature with in
creasing cloudiness which will li'kely
'bring rain to-morrow.
Last night's minimum temperature
v/as unusually high, the 50-degree mark
being the lowest. To-night's mark is
fixed at 3 S degrees by Weatiher Bureau
officials.
POSTSCRIPT
L i
PRICE, ONE CENT.
SIOUGH BAT smr
ID WEEK
He Would Sacrifice
Rest Between En
gagements for Good
of Local Campaign
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
MARCH TO-NIGHT
Following Sermon at Tabernacle Last
Night Ml Persons Hit the Trail
—Thanksgiving Service in the
Afternoon
That the evangelistic campaign in
this city be extended beyond the six
weeks specified in the contract lias not
yet been definitely decided ii|>ou, but is
altogether possible, according to a
statement made by Dr. Sto ugh this
morning when ho was asked concerning
such nn extension.
The end of the specified six weeks
will be December 13, tw 0 weeks from
Sunday. Thero li'as been some talk about
continuing the tabernacle meetings un
til Sunday, December 20. The campaign
111 Altoona does not open until the fol
lowing Sunday;
Dr. Stough did not say whether the
likelihood is that the campaign in Hai -
risburg will cover six weeks or seven
weeks.
"That depends on the people of lint
city, he said, "as much.as upon us.
Our crowd is always glad to dig tor
home after a busy six weeks. In ease:t
where there is an actual demand, how
ever, for the continuation of a cain
paign, the party is glad to sacrifice a
week of rest between engagements, if
it can accomplish good by doing .so."
Sunday Schools to March To-uight
To-night will be Sunday school night
at the tabernacle. Members of Su. .lav
schools of city churches will gather at
their separate houses of worship and
march in bodies to the tabernacle,
where a large part of the seating capae
ity will be roped oil' for them.
But forty-six persons hit the trail at
the tabernacle last night, following tho
sermon by Evangelist Stough, who told
of the leper who came to .lesuß to be
'healed. The speaker compared the rav
ages of leprosy to the ravages of sin,
saying:
"A little spot on the skin is the first
Indication of leprosy. It continues to
grow until the tissues dry up and the
skin begins to erack. It causes the
body to rot. That's the way with sin.
When it enters the soul ono is uncon
scious of it, but it starts to grow
and spread until it leaves the soul and
the conscience reeking with remorse."
In a representation of the beggar 's
appeal to Jesus, Dr. Stough fell to his
Continued on Thirteenth Page.
FIRST PERIOD j¥ IN TIE
Scrub Teams of the Two High Schools
Battle on Island—Fraach Runs
Thirty-five Yards
Central and Tech scrubs battled to no
scor® in the first period of their auuuaj
game on the H. A. C. field at the Is'
land this afternoon.
Central High kicked off. Succeeding
rushes by Tech failed to gain the re
quired distance and they were com
pelled to kick. Central returned tlw
kick when Frasch electrified the fans
by making a thirty-five yard) run. Tech
lacked the power to push the ball over
although it was within twenty yards of
the goal line. Killinger played the best
game in this period.
At the end of tihe first half nei'theh
team lad scored.
The teams which clashed to-day are
those that gave practice all season to
the first teams of the respective schools,
doing lots of hard wofrk nearly
afternoon but getting vittte credit for
it other than from the tcllow
who realize what a good
means in developing a strong ele\ 'i. ,
Schools were closed to-day, for til A
regular Thanksgiving vacation, and
many went to see the game. The
teams entered the game as follows:
Central Scrubs. Tech Scrubs.
Grissinger L K McCurdv
Mutzabaugh .... U T .. .. MacFarlaml
Doehne L G Phillips
Mark us (' Snyder
Frank KG.. Sliellenberger
Segelb&um R T Ijittle
Me Maine RE Cocklin
Froehlich (j B Killinge-
Sanders L H B Yoffe
Hall K II B Frasch
Zimmerman .... F B Mell
Officials—Referee, Bob Good, L»ehig i
and Tech; umpire, Smeltier, Oberlin.
POSTAL MESSENGER HUHT
Cloyd Stengler Seriously Injured In
Collision With Auto
Cloyd Stengler, 124 8 North street,
special delivery messenger for the local
postofflce, is iu a serious condition to
day suffering from internal injuries
received last evening when he was
struck by an automobile at Second and
Cumberland streets.
The collision was unavoidable, wit
nesses say. The ear with Harold Whist
ler at the wheel was going north on
Second street when Stengler shot out
from the corner on his bicycle. TJic
front of the car struck Stengler ttn-i
the front wheel passed over him. lie
was taken to the Harrisburg hospital
in another automobile. Several of hi*
ribs were fractured.