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S;T A ? , ;«V?. ED VOL. 77—NO. 85.
BOTH AUTO SHOWS
TO OPEN TO-K GHT
All Floor Space Is En
gaged Both In Relker
Street Hall and In
the Arena
CARS BETTER;
SOME CHEAPER
Exhibitions Are Within a Few Blocks
of Each Other—Doors Will Open at
7 O'clock—Music Is a Part of Both
the Programs
Gee! Isn't it awful be poort
Two automobile shows, with scores
of machiues, all better and some cheap
er than last year, displayed for enlight
enment of the general public—a source
of envy for the unfortunate poor and a
source of delight for those rich enough
to enjoy a car this season!
Actually, though, there are cars at
prices to suit the pocket-books of every
body—that is, everybody who ever con
sidered buying an auto.
Hard times avaunt! Two shows
within three blocks of each other!
Prosperity is in the air!
The Harrisburg Automobile Dealers'
Association will open its show in the
Arena, at Third and Delaware streets,
this evening at 7 o'clock and it will
remain open until 10.30 o'clock.' The
exhibition will continue throughout
next week, opening daily at 10 a. m.
and closing at 10.30 p. m.
The Capital City Motor As
sociation will open its show in the Kel
ker Street Hall, Fourth and Kelker
streets, at 7 o'clock and remain open
until 11 o'clock. It also will continue
all next week and be open from 10 a.
si. to 10 p. m. dftily.
The decorations in the hall include
strings of incandessent electric lights
and bunting and United States flags.
The floor space is all taken and the
show will prove instructive. A string
orchestra will play during the hours of
exhibition.
The regular lattice work decorations
of the Arena are supplemented for the
show there with bunting and the effect
is pleasing.
Every bit of exhibition space in botih
shows has been engaged. The acces
sory booths are conspicuous as never
before. In the Arena music is to be
provided by a harpist and violinist.
One of tie features of this show will
be a Hudson machine mounted on a
platform with all four wheels in mo
tion, a feature which was arranged too
late for the New York show. This is
the sixth annual show of the Harris
burg Automobile Dealers' Association.
Few mechanical changes have taken
place in autos in the last year. Among
these the Ford machine shows a dif
ferent dashboard.
There was activity at the
places of both shows tl.is morning as
the dealers got their exhibits readv.
"What looked at first to be a "jitney
bus ' at the street hall proved
to - be nothing more than a Stanley
steamer 12-passenger mountain car.
All types of machines, from the busi
ness car to the luxuriant pleasure ve
hicle, are to be shiwn at both places.
CONSISTORY TO SPEND $5,000
Committee to Carry Out Improvements
to Scottish Kite Cathedral
Important improvements are con
templated at the Masonic Scottish Rite
Cathedral, North and Capitol streets, in
the near future, if certain arrange
ments can be made.
At last night's meeting of the Con
sistory a committee, consisting of Wil
liam M. Donaldson, Henry W. Gough,
William B. Bennett, Livingston V.
Bausch and W. H. H. Baker, was ap
pointed to carry out proposed altera
tions to the interior. It is planned to
take possession of the building adjoin
ing the Cathedral proper, to the East,
■which is the property of the Consistory,
and make use of it. The lower floor
Iront will be attached to the office and
the rear rooms will be aiLded to the
present dining room as will also the
rooms now used as social quarters. The
second floor will be attached to the re
tiring room adjoining the auditorium,
making a roomy space, but the audi
torium will not be enlarged. The sec
ond and third floors will be used as the
social rooms.
The committee will look over plans
and specifications, and if the alterations
can be kept within $5,000, they will
very likely be made, the work to" begin
at once.
Nothing will be done for the present
with the Diven property which is di
rectly on the corner, which is also the
property of the Consistory, nor with
the two properties i« the rear on Capi
ta. street. Until the Consistory de
cides to erect an entirely new cathedral
these properties will be left as they are
at present.
Increase In Bank Reserve
By Associated Press.
New York, March 13.—The state
ment of the actual condition of Clear
ing House banks and trust companies
shows that they hold $129,739,530 re
serve in excess of legal requirements.
This is an increase of $145,790 over
last week.
die Sttkpcnktii
FUNERAL OF PROF. STEELE
WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY
Services at 2 O'clock at the Home-
Teachers and Pupils Will Have an
Opportunity to View the Body
Earlier in the Day
The funeral of Professor William
Sherman Steele, principal of Central
school, who died in L«akewood, N.
J., on Thursday, will be held here Mon
day afternoon at 2 o 'clock and will be
in of the Masons. The services
will be from the Steele home, 1622
State street. The body arrived in this
city at 6.55 o'clock last evening ac
companied by Mrs. Steele.
Arrangements have been ma-J'e to
enaible the close friends of Professor
Steele as well as city teachers and the
Central High school student body to
view the body. Students may visit
the home Monday morning between 10
and 12 o'clock, and the tesu'hers be
tween 12 and 1 o'clock.
The services will b e in charge <jf Pil
grim Commandery, No. 11, Knights
Templar. The Rev. Dr. W. B. Cooke,
acting pastor of Market Square Presby
terian church, of which Professor Steele
was a member, will conduct the funeral
service at 2 o'clock. Interment will
be made in the Paxtang cemetery..
The honorary pallbearers will be
Harry A. Boye'r, president of the Har-
Contlaurrt on Twelfth Page.
HOUSING EXPERT COM IMG
Harrisburg Societies Invite John Ilder
to Investigate fconditions
The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce has joined with the Associated
Charities and the Civic Clu.b in extend
ing an invitation to John Ilder, field
secretary of the National Housing As
sociation of New York, to spend sev
eral days here in April to have hhn
make a brief survey of the housing
conditions in Harrisburg.
He will speak to the members of
three local organizations during his
stay on moral and phvsica.l effects of
good housing—the value of housing
regulations—building and management
of wage-earners' dwellings, the em
ployers' and workers' interest in good
housing, financing the small house,
limited dividend companies, co-part
nership, building and loan associations
and securing outside capital.
PEACE PICKED FOR POST
Reported He Will Be Appointed Head
of the City Asphalt Plant
Ashton D Peace, formerly president
of the old Common Council, whd is
foreman of one of the departments at
the Central Iron & Steel •Company,
it was reported to-day, is to be un
pointed superintendent of HarriAurg's
municipal asphalt repair plant, which is
to be built at Ninth and Shanois
streets.
City Commissioner William H. Lynch,
in whose department the appointment
is to be made was out of the city to
day. Other Commissioners, when
asked concerning the report, would nei
ther confirm nor deny it.
IflilD;
IS MipiS
As Jury Frees Him on
Conspiracy Charge
New Complication
Turns Up
SEEK TO RETURN
HIM TO ASYLUM
Motion by Deputy Attorney General
Cook to Recommit White's Slayer
to Matteawan—Counter Motion of
Thaw's Counsel Argued Monday
By A floriated Prcst.
New York, March 13. —Harry K.
Thaw was acquitted to-day of conspir
acy in escaping from the Matteawan
asylum August 17, 1913, the charge
upon which be was brought back to
New York from New 'Hampshire. Rog>-
er Thompson, Richard J. Butler, Eugene
Duffy and Thomas Flood, the four men
who assisted him in his
flight by automobile from Matteawan
to Canada, likewise were acquitted. "
The jury which acquitted Thaw had
labored all night and until 12.20
o 'clock this afternoon in an effort to
reach a verdict. As soon as the verdict
was announced Thaw was given Ynto
the custody of Sheriff GrifenhageiJ, of
New York county. The four co-de
fendants were discharged.
A motion to have Thaw committed
to Matteawan asylum as an insane per
son was made by Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Cook immediately after the jury
had rendered its verdict. This motion
was combatted by Thaw's counsel, who
announced that, inasmuch as Thaw was
brought? here on the conspiracy charge
and found not guilty, he should be
returned to the State of New Hamp
shire as a sane man.
Formal motion tkat he be so re
turned was then made by Thaw's law
yers.
Justice Page announced that he
would hear arguments on this motion
next Monday afternoon, March 10.
In the meantime Thaw was remanded
to the Tombs.
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1915—14 PAGES.
SENISBVLLETI
BRAII DIES
Jacob RordnerCommits
Suicide at Noon To
day in His Enhaut
Home
WAS UNDER A
DOCTOR S CARE
Watchman Employed by Pennsylvania
Steel Company Gets Sick Leave and
Soon Afterward Fires Shot That
Takes His Life
Broken in henlth, due to rheumatism
and nervous trouble from which he
had suffered three years, Jacob Bord
lier, 40 years old, of Front street, En
haut, at noon to-day took advantage of
his wife's aibsence from the house
when she went to a nearby telephone
to summon Dr. William 11. Seibert, the
family physician, and blew his brains
out. He placed a pistol to his head,
back of the right ear and pulled the
trigger. He died almost instaintly.
Bordner for many years was a
moulder employed in the steel foundry
of the Pennsylvania St/el Company, in
Steelton, but since his breakdown in
health he had been engaged as a pa
trolman at the steel works, being sta
tioned at Xo. 10 watchbox, at the B.
and C. department. On his way to work
at 6 o'clock this morning be obtained
medicine from I)r. Seibert, of Steelton,
to whom he complained bhat he was
ill.
At 10.30 o'clock, at his own re
quest, he wa-s relieved from duty at
the watchbox by John O'Brien, the
Steel company chief of police, and on
his arrival home advised his wife to
hurry dinner preparations. Later, how
ever, he complained of suffering much
pain and his wife went to summon the
physician by phone. That was nbout
11.50 o'clock and at noon his body
was found lying in a pool of blooa in
the "summer kitchen."
Dr. Seibert arrived ten minutes
later. Bordner leaves his widow, who
was his second wife, one son and an
adopted daughter.
MEXICO CITY REPORTED QUIET
U. S. Officials Expect Conditions to Im
prove Under Zapata
Washington, March 13.—Mexico
City was reported quiet to-day and of
ficials here expected all conditions to
improve with the occupation of the
Zapata forces. Secretary Bryan said:
"I think we are in pretty good shape.
Carranz* has promised to [>ermi't people
leaving the capital to travel over the
portion of tiho railroad he controls,
while the Za; ata general in command
there has undertaken to admit food sup
plies."
No further reports were received to
day on the killing of John B. McManus
bv Zapata troops. With the assurances
from the Zaj-ata commander that the
guilty men would be punished, officials
awaited tfhe result of the detailed in
quiry, and a response from the Zapata
authorities to the American demand for
indemnity to the American's family.
FALLS FROM C. V. RnlDtiE
Harry Appenzellar Suffers Depressed
Fracture of Skull
Harry Appenzellar, 35 years old, of
Chambersburg, eugaged on moving the
steel bridge of the Cumberland Valley
Kaliroad Company at Mulberry street,
who was thrown' forty feet from the
bridge late yesterday afternoon when a
jack he was helping to operate slipped,
was slightly better at the Harrisburg
hospital to-day, having regained con
sciousness.
He struck a stone in falling and
suffered a depressed fracture of the
skull, which lacerated the brain tissue.
He was removed from the water by
fellow workmen, who embarked in a
boat from the Cumberland county shore,
and taken to the Harrisburg hospital,
where he was operated on immediately.
Scopolamin, a local anesthetic, known
as "twilight sleep," was used for tihe
operation. This anesthetic has been
used several times before.
MAY INV ESIH,AIt LLIHOAI
Mayor to Decide If Further Inquiry Is
Necessary in Case of Phillips
Mayor Royal late this afternoon had
not decided whether in his opinion fur
ther investigation of the allegation
that Patrolman George Phillips was in
toxicated when on duty is warranted
by tihe facts in possession of the de
partment. If the Mayor decides it is
Phillips will have a hearing.
The policeman was called in from
his 'beat early this morning after a
telephone message regarding him had
been sent to Lieutenant Warden, but
the lieutenant afterward sent Phillips
back to duty. Warden later reported
the incident to Chief Hutchison.
Two Sentenced to Death nh^ r
Lancaster, Pa., March 13.—Augus
tine and Tony Vitale, found guilty of
the murder of Tony Collato, a fruit
merchant, near this city, on October
31, 1913, were sentenced to death in
the electric chair this moriltng by
Judge Landis. Rocco Tassone, convict
ed of the same crime, was electrocuted
> last Monday.
WOMAN UP ON CHARGE OF
SCALDING RER NEIGHBOR
Inquiry Scheduled for This Afternoon
Based on Allegation That Minnie
Davis Threw Bucket of Hot Water
on Isabella Temple
Minnie Davis, charged with throw
ing a bucket of hot water on her
neighbor, Isabella Temple, 108 Christy
court, scalding the latter woman about
tihe face, back and arms, was scheduled
for a hearing late this afternoon before
Alderman Laudis in Police Headquar
ters. Her arrest was made yesterday
by Constalble Wil«s and Detective
Diehl, at the instance of Chief of Po
lice Hutchison who, with District At
torney Stroup. took a statement from
Isabella Temple in her cot at the Har
risburir hospital, where she had been
since Friday a week ago.
It is alleged a fight took place in
the home of Minnie Davis, at 110
Christy court, during which she threw
the hot water on the Temple woman.
The latter says a man, who haipipened
to be in the house at the time, parted
the two nomen and Chat as she was
departing the scalding water was
thrown upon her from behind.
The authorities say the Davis woman
contends that she was attacked by
both the mail and the Temple woman
and that she used the hot water in
self-defense. The fight occurred last
Friday night, according to the police,
! and the burned woman was taken to
j the Harrisburg hospital in the police
ambulance.
"HAD IT ALL WED OUT'
' Note in Book in Pocket of Suicide Who
Shot Woman Given Out
by Widow
The contents of a note presumed to
have been written by Stephenson W.
Keys, 1117 James street, before he
shot Mrs. John Hosie, 1624 North
Sixth street, and then committed Bui
cide at Basin and Wyeth streets at
9 o'clock Wednesday morning wfcs
given out by .Mrs. Keys yesterday aft
er the effects taken from the body of
her husband were turned over to her
by Coroner Eekinger.
The note, which reads. "Lady name,
Mrs. Johl£» Hosie, 1H24 North Sixth
street; my name, Stephen W. Keys,
1117 James street; we had this all
planned out,'' is »aken to indicate that
Keys planned to shoot the woman and
then commit suicide. Xo statement
was made by Mrs. Hosie, who is still in
the Harrisburg hospital. Her condi
tion continues to improve.
Funeral services for Keys were hc.ld
this at 2 o'clock at the home
of his brother, Martin Li. Keys, 31
South Court street. Burial was made
in the Knola cemetery.
OFFICIALS GET NEW TRIAL
Court of Appeals Reverses Lower Trib
unal in Conviction of National
Cash Register People
By Associated Press,
Cincinnati. O. March 13. —The
United States Court of Appeals to-day
reversed the lower court in tthe ease of
the government against John H. Patter
sou, president, and 26 other officials or
former officials of the National Cash
Register Company, of Dayton, 0., and
remanded it back to the district court
for a new trial.
Mr. Patterson and his associates were
found guilty of violating the Sherman
anti-trust law and sentenced to serve
prison terms and fined
E(i(JS DROt* TO 2J CENTS
Custard Pie and Queen o' Pudding m
To-morrow's Menu
The hens roundaibout Harrisburg
that furnish eggs for local consump
tion put one at-ross on the farmers by
laying something terrific in the past
week despite the cold weather. So
great was the supply of etitgs this
morning that the prevailing price in
all of the markets was twenty cents
a dozen.
Custard pies, cakes with real eggs in
'em, queen o' pudding and other deli-
I cacies will be on the Sunday menus
now. The ancient and honorable game
of "holdup" is again the absoS)ing
pastime among the youth of the city.
P. K. R. ORDERS 100 CARS
Contract for Freight Equipment Placed
With Altoona Shops
Altoona, Pa., March 13.—Orders for
100 steel flat cars of the F-21 type
were placed with the Pennsylvania
Railroad shops here yesterday. The
type was adopted for the M. W. serv
ice in 1910 and the cars have a ca
pacity of 100,000 pounds. They are
40 feet long and have drop sides. Ma
terial will be assembled and work com
menced on the order May 1.
Injured In Fall From Bicycle
William Holbert, 446 South Four
teenth street, an employe of the El
liott-Fisher Company, suffered a frac
ture of the right hand and wrist at
noon to-day when he was knocked
• from his bicycle by an auto truck be
longing to the Bell Telephone Com
pany. He was treated at the Harris
burg hospital. '
Hardscrabble Viewers to Meet
Paul G. Smith, Karl Bteward and
James D. Salts man, the viewers named
to assess damages and benefits incident
to the razing of "HardacrabMe"
properties, will hold their first meeting
on the ground of the proposed im
provement on Monday, beginning at
10 a. m.
TUB BITEL'S COMMANDER AND THE
WIFE OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE FRYE
■Off MM
That the action of the Gferman converted cruiser Prlnz Eltel Frledrich in
sinking the American merchant ship William P. Frye ultimately will be settled
by the German government making reparation to the American owners of the
ship and cargo to the extent of their losses, atid by repudiating the action of
Captain Thierlcbens In ordering the destruction of the ship. Is the opinion
expressed by officials in Washington, based on the evidence already presented
The picture shown above, which was taken on board the Pritiz Eltel Friedrlch
shows Captafn Thierichens. of the Prinz Eltel Friedrlch. and Mrs. H. 11. Kiebne
wife of the captain of the Krye.
IT BE APPEALS
IN PEWIT
Depends on Whether
Judge Seibert files
Opinion in the Liquor
Cases
WHOLE STATE
IS INTERESTED,
Recalled That Harrisburgers, Until a
Few Years Ago, Used Forms of
Application That Are Now Declared
Faulty
The printed forms for liquor license
applications which Judge W. N. Seibert
of the Perry county courts yesterday
held are not strictly in accordance with
the liquor laws and on the strength
of which ruling the applications of four
teen of the seventen Perry county ho
tels were rejected, are the same forms
that were in use in Dauphin county for
well on to half a century prior to 1905,
HarrisAmrg lawyers said to-day.
Some of the forms are for applica
tions for "tavern licenses," while
others are for "restaurant licenses."
George R. Barnett, a Harrisburg law
yer, representing remonstrants, attack
ed the Perry county hotelmen's appli
cations, contending they were not in
proper legal form and tihe law judge
sustained him. Judge 8. W. Bernhisel,
the associate or "lay" member on
the bench, however, felt disposed to
grant the licenses, but because of the
disagreement between tiho court none
of these fourteen licenses were allowed,
and Perry county is to go dry, three
other licenses having been rejected for
other reasons.
It was in 1904 when the State ap
pellate court pointed out the flaws in
the "tavern" and "restaurant" li
cense applications, this decision coming
when John T. Brady, a local attorney,
appealed from the decision of the Dau
phin county court which had rejected
his client's application for "retail"
liquor license for a restaurant at tbe
Philadelphia and Reading station, this
city.
New Forms Adopted Here
For many years prior to that time
here, and, Ln fact, in most of the coun
ties of the State, the practice had been
for the courts to grant the "tavern"
/ Coatinncd on Twelfth Plfe.
CREW OP BRITISH BARK SUNK
BY DRESDEN IS AT VALPARAISO
Valparaiso, March 13.—The crew
of the British bark Conway Castle,
sunk by the German cruiser Dresden
off Corral (a seaport of Chile) on her
way to Liverpool with a cargo of bar
ley, was landed here to-day by the
Peruvian ship Larton.
The Conway Castle., a ship of 1,591
tons left New Castle, Nerw South
Wales, September 11, for Valparaiso,
where she arrived November 28. Her
movements after that date are not re
corded in the maritime records. The
sinking of the Conway Odstle is the
first exploit of the Dresden reported
since the naval battle off the Falk
laads in which she took part.
sll OF IKE
FRYE DEFENDED
German Ambassador
Stands Ety Captain of
Cruiser Prinz Eitel
Friedrich
FRENCH CAPTIVES
TO BE CARED FOR
Two Cruisers Supposed to Be British
Used Searchlights Off Coast At
Virginia Beach Last Night, Say
Besldents
By Associated Press.
Washington, March 13. —The full
story of how the American sailing
ship William P. Frye was sunk in the
South Atlantic with her cargo of wheat
by the German commerce raider Prinz
Eitel Friedrich, was officially laid be
fore the American government to-day
by the Frye's commander Captain
Kiehne.
When Captain Kiehne's formal
statement is made before Stete De
partment officials, the United States
will decide upon its course, which prob
ably will be a deinamd for an expres
sion of regret from Germany and pay
ment for the loss of the ship and cargo.
Gorman Ambassador Defends Action
Washington, March 13. —Count
Bernstorff, German ambassador in dis
cussing with State Department of
ficials to-day the sinking of the Ameri
can ship William P. Frye defended the
action of Captain Thierichsen of the
German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel
Friedrich, contending that the captain
under the declaration of London,
which was that official's only guide as
to the disposition of prizes.
Count Bernstoff did not presemt any
note to the State Dei*artment, ho said
he received no instructions from his
government. He said he called to dis
cuss the question informally and to
learn what was the view of the United
States.
Followed Declaration of London
In defending the action of Com
mander Thierschsen, the ambassador
contended that when the officer left
Tsing-Tau at the ouflbreak of the war
last August, he had nothing to follow
but the Declaration of London in de
ciding what to do with vessels he
might seize. For that reason the am
bassador argued, he had a riijfht to
sink the Frye, as its cargo of wheat
was consigned "to ordei " and destin
ed to a fortified port Of the enemy. So
long as there was no port into which
he could take his prize he had a right,
the ambassador contended, to destroy
not only the cargo but the vessel it
self.
Furthermore, the ambassador argued
that the commander of the.Prinz Eitel,
when he sank the Frye, did not know
that a German prize court on August
3 had held that the mere fact that a
merchant ship was bound for an enemy
port was not sufficient proof that her
cargo was destined for the enemy.
The case of the Frye, however, the
ambassador said, would have to be set-
Contlnued on Seventh Pift
POSTSCRIPT
PRICE, ONE CENT.
NEWATTACK
BYGERMAHS
DEVELOPING
Artillery Battle Now in
Progress In Attempt
To Recapture City of
Przasnysz
PLACING NEWLY
ARRIVED TROOPS
Kaiser's Forces Under Cover of the Ar
tillery Endeavoring to Clear the
Arena for the Advance of the Ger
man Infantry
Petrograd, March 13, Noon, via Lon
don, 1.05 P. M.—The Germans appear
to be setting the stage with much de-
for the new attempt on
the city of Northern Poland,
against which their new and formidable
attack is directed. An artillery engage
ment now in progress evidently is in
tended to feel out the Russian positions
and clenr the arena for the advance of
the German infantry. Under cover of
the artillery fire the Germans are
placing newly-arrived troops.
The Russian general staff is alive to
these preparations and expresses confi
dence as to the outcome of this new
phaso of the campaign. Oontem
poraenoitsly with their artillery attacks
the Germans are putting out flanking
columns to the right and left. Russian
forces have come into contact with the
coiumn protecting the German right
wing in the Plonsk district at the vil
lage of OheJtonaw, four miles east of
Plonsk, at which place there was a
lively fckirmieh yesterday.
In the Carpathians the Russians have
dislodged the Austro-German forces
from their fortified positions at L»ap
"if'W and Siholnik, driving back their
opponents toward the mountain pass
commanding that district.
In East Galicia the efforts of the
Austrians to turn the Russian position
in the region of Stanislau have been de
feated. '
SERVIAN ARIYINHEARDOF
AND DISEASE IS RAMPANT
London, March 13, 12.32 P. M.—
There is considerable speculation in
England as to what has happened to
the Servian army, concerning which
nothing has been heard in weeks. The
official announcements from Nish
ceased some time ago, and it is not
known what, if any, operations the
Servian army is engaged in.
Disease is rampant throughout Serv
ia, according to special news dispatches,
one of which describes this sinister at
tack as far worse than the first Aus
trian invasion. The city of Nish,
whither the Servian capital was re
moved when Belgrade was bombarded,
is said to be overcrowded with the sick
and the dying. Everywhere hospital
conditions are piteously inadequate,
and the country faces devastation worse
than war.
COUNT WITTE, FIRST PRIME
MINISTER OF RUSSIA, DIES
London, March I' 3, 9.3*6 A. M.—
Count Sergiua Julovich Witte, Rus
sia's first prime minister, died last
night, says a Petrograd dispatch to
Reuter's Telegram Company.
Count Witte, wbo was bom June
29, 1849, at Tiflis, wae one of the
Russian plenipotentiaries at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, in the ( nego
tiations for peace' with Japan in 1905.
He afterwards waß made a count and
appointed president of the new min
istry but retired in 1906 and held 110
important post after that time.
IATEWARIWS SUMMARY
The British army, to 'which has been
assigned the task of leading the pres
ent attack on the western battle front,
is still attempting to push forward,
and thus far German efforts to drive it
back apparently have failed. To-day's
official report from Berlin says that
an effort to recapture Neuve Chappolle
made progress for a time but was
abandoned later when the Germans en
countered superior forces of British,
The correspondent of a Paris news
paper telegraphs that the British artil
lery fire was so accurate that the Ger
mans moved their headquarters from
Lille. •
Spasmodic fighting; was in progress
yesterday in Champagne and the Vos
ges, but apparently the French army
is leaving the initiative to the British,
Cuatlnned OH Twelfth Pace,