THE WEATHER
CLOUDY TO-NIGHT
FAIR TO-MORROW
Detailed Report. Pace 8
VOL. 77—XO. 92.
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LIEUT. COM'DER BRICKER,
CHAMBERSBURG, DROWNS
AT THE TURKISH CAPITAL
Franklin County Navy-
Officer and Three
Seamen Perish In the
Bosphorus Off Con
stantinople When
Gale Capsizes Small
Boat in Which They
Attemptto Reach the
U. S. Converted
Yacht, Scorpion
BROTHER MET
A LIRE FATE
Mark Bricker, Several
Years Ago, Was
Drowned in the Dela
ware, at Philadel
phia, When Rowboat
Upset—Young Offi
cer Had Assumed
Command of the
Scorpion Only a Few
Days Ago, Having
Been Transferred
From the Embassy
In Paris
Lieutenant CommandeT William
Franklin Bricker, 1". S. Navy, of Chain
bersbiirg, Pa., was drowned with three
•American sailors in the Bosphorus. oft'
Constantinople, on Saturday night when
a rowboat capsized in which they were
heading for the United States con
verted yacht Scorpion, of which Bricker
■was in command and which was anchor
ed near the Dollmabaghoheh Palace.
This information was conveyed in a
cablegram received by the -ociated
Press this morning from Constantinople
by way of Berlin and London, dated at
London et 10.24 a. m. to day.
Lieutenant Commander Bricker was
the son of Mr. and Mrs. William S.
Bricker. of Queen street, near Second]
Ftreet, Chanvbersburg, and by remark
able coincidence, was the second son of!
the family to lose his life by drowning.j
His older brother, Mark Bricker, was \
drowned when a rowboat in the Dela-'
ware river capsized off Philadelphia, a
few years ago. He at that time held
a responsible j>osition in the office of
a Philadelphia traction company. Still I
another brother, the eldest of the fam-!
ily, is Edward Bricker. who is a gradu
ate of West Point and is now serving as
an officer in the I'nited States Army, j
Recently Stationed in Paris
The Constantinople cable message
gives the names of the three sailors
who perished with Brieker as Ford,
Dowell and Leverings. The four were
drowned on the night of March 20
while attempting to reach the Scorpion
with a rowboat whieh was swamped in
a heavy sea thrown up by a south
Lieutenant Herbert 8. Babbitt
and one sailor, who were in the boat,
were saved.
Lieutenant Commander Brieker ar
tived at Constantinople only on March
16 to succeed Lieutenant Commander
Edward McCauley, Jr., in command of
the Scorpion. The Scorpion is a eon
verted yacht purchased for the Navy in
1596. It has a displacement of 850
tons and has been stationed at Con
stantinople for some time.
Lieutenant Commander Brieker, who
formerly was naval attache at the
American embassy in Paris, left the
French city on February 28 for Con
stantinople to assume command of the
Scorpion. He *tes born January 18,
1879, in Chambi\sburg and appointed
to the Naval Academy from the same
State on September 19, 1896, after
having been graduated from the Chani
bersburg High School.
Brieker's Parents Informed
Brieker was graduated from the
Annapolis Academy where he stood verv
high. He had served much of his time
since then in the ordnance department
of the navy. Both his parents survive,
the father, Mr. W. H. Brieker, being a
retired traveling salesman. A telegram
from OhamberSburg this morning said
the [>arents were advised by the Navy
Department in Washington of the death
of their son.
Washington, March 22.— Great re
gret was expressed by naval officers
>ver the death of Lieutenant Com
nander Brieker, who was well known
'ere. .Seaman Irven Dowell was from
\nnapolis, Md., where his mother lives,
harles Ford's home was in Oxford,
Miss. Naval records here show no
•ailor named Leverings.
She Star- Jtikfeitknl
MRS. CEO. W. REILY. JR..
DIED YESTERDAY MORNING
After Several Weeks Spent at Seashore
In an Endeavor to Kegain Strength
She Was Taken to Philadelphia
Where Death Occurred
Mrs. Louise Harrison Roily, wife of
George W. Roily, Jr., banker, of Front
anil Reily streets, died at sunrise yester
day in Philadelphia where her husband
had taken her for expert medical atten
tion.
Several weeks ago Mrs. Reily went
to Atlantic City, hoping to gain health
i an l strength there. Few of her friends
realized her critical condition, but for
' the last few weeks her husband had
spent almost his entire time with her.
taking her from the shore to Philadel
phia a few days ago.
Mrs. Reily was Miss Louise Harri
son, of Baltimore, and was born in
1878 in that city.. She received her
education in the private schools of Bal
timore and in St. Timothy's school. Ca
' tonsville, Md. She was an accomplished
musician, possessed of a remarkably
sweet and cultured voice and she sang
frequently in entertainments for the
benefit of the Sunshine Society, the
hospital, the Visiting Nurses and sim
ilar charitable organizations.
Mrs. Reily was an associate member
of the Wednesday Club; a member of
the Board of Directors of the Visitiug
Nurses, and a member of the Advisory
Board of the Central Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Association.
Since her marriage fourteen years
since she had resided in Harrisburg
making her home in the old Reily
homestead at Front and Reily streets.
Almost from the first she identified her
self with church and philanthropic
work. She had been a member of Mar
ket Square Presbvteriau church since
1906 an<l she taught a large class in
the Sunday school. Mrs. Reily was a
member of a large and prominent
Maryland family. Two sisters and sev
en brothers survive her, but both her
parents are dead.
The news of Mrs. Reily's death was
conveyed to the Market Square congre
gation yesterday morning by the Rev.
William R. Cooke, acting pastor, who
at the close of the service, said:
"Again we are called upon to mourn
with those who mourn, but we must
also rejoice with her who this day has
won the glorious coronation of a" rich,
unselfish. Christian life, Mrs. George
W. Reily, Jr."
The body was brought home this
morning from Philadelphia.
The funeral services will be held to
morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the Reily home. Although the details
have not been fully arranged the serv
ices will probably'be in charge of the
Rev. Dr. C. 1. Scofield, the noted Bible
teacher, of New York City, who has
been a personal friend of the family
for many years.
TAKE IP OPTION
BUII
Members of House
Committee Will De
cide Whether to Re
port It This Week
WORKMEN'S BILLS
TO BE DISCUSSED
John Mitchell Will Address Joint Com
mittee in Behalf of the Laboring
Men—Full Crew Hearing Also Is
on the Day's Program
Four important hearings are to be
held in the Capitol to-morrow on meas
ures now before the House.
The House Uw and Order Committee
will take up the local option bill and
decide whether it shall be reported to
the House at onee or remain in commit
tee for a longer time until the word is
given by Governor Brumbaugh to let
it given a place on the calendar. If
it is sent out, it will probably come up
for first reading on Thursday morning
and second reading on Friday, if a ses
sion is held on that day. It will then
come up for final passage on Tuesday
of next week, when the friends and
opponents of the bill will rally their
forces for the clash. The opponents
of the measure still maintain they have
sufficient votes to kill it, but Governor
Brumba&gh is confident that he has suf
ficient votes to pass the bin.
The workmen's compensation 'ill
will come to-morrow before the joint
committee of the Senate and House,
and among those who will be present
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HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1915-12 PAGES.
WE MRS Ft
TO MD 1.12
200-Pound Grating
Doesn't Halt Young
Offender Escaping
Headquarters
3LUECOATS ARE
ALWAYSONDUTY
Yet Wiry Youth Gets Out of Detention
Quarters by Wriggling Through
Narrow Space. Hohl-fashton—May
Have Had Outside Aid
The detention of Clarence Ross, col
ored, 12 years old, charged with the
larceny of several bicycles, was so dis
tasteful to him that he escaped from
the basement at police headquarters
early to-day and used almost as much
ingenuity in doing it as did the late
bandit, Frank Hohl, in getting out pf
the Hollidavstourg jail by way of a
window six inches wide.
Ross early this mo r ning opened a
window from the basement and crawled
out under a grating in the pavement
in the blind alley which runs beside
the headquarters building. He used a
bench, similar to the benches in Front
street park, to get to the window level.
The 200-pound grate in the sidewalk,
was then dislodged far enough to per
mit the bov to force his little body
through and he escaped. The cuppers
cannot understand how the bov man
aged to move the grate, unless ne had
outside assistance.
Evidently Hoss wanted to cause all
the annoyance possible before he made
his getaway. He searched the custo
dian's room for something valuable to
take with him. He found nothing, but
he turned everything topsy-turvy and
gained the ill-will of John Grissinger,
who presides over that room.
if any ot the homeless meu who
were in the detention cells over night
happened to look out anil see the boy
at work on the window they gave uo
alarm.
Ross would not have been placed in
the basement at all if lie would have
behaved himself when discharged in
the custody of his stepfather, Moses
Taylor, of Kdgemont. He was arrested
first by City Detective White, charged
with larceny of a bicycle. That was oil
Wednesday. There being no house of
detention, the boy was given „»er to
his stepfather, who was to bring hint to
juvenile court next Friday.
On Thursday, it is alleged, the boy
was found trying to hide another bi
cycle near the Harrisburg Baking
O'Cmpany plant on South Cameron street
and Motorcycle Fatrolman Fetrow ar
rested him. The police decided to take
no more chances and the boy was
placed in the basement at police head
quarters. He was not under lock aud
key and had tile freedom of the base
ment, but escape was thought impos
sible, as policemen are always on duty
in the room at the head of the steps.
Ros< still was in the basement last
night, but this morning he was gone.
PROSPEROUS FARMER IS
GIVEN FORD AUTOMOBILE
Winner of Kellrer Street Hali Auto
Show Door Prize Already o,vns
One Machine—Saxon Car Not Yet
Claimed
M. R. Rutherford, a prosperous
farmer of Rutherford Heights, may
have come to town to-day in his auto
mobile to claim the Ford machine, the
door prize given away at the show of
the Capital City Automobile Dealers'
Association at Kelker street hall,
Fourth and Kelker strcetn. He did not,
however, and ran his prize home, mak
ing the auto population in his barn
two instead of one. He was holder of
ticket No. 002871 and claimed the
car at 12.30 o'clock to-dav in the
"Patriot" office.
Manager B. R. Johnson was enthu
siastic over the success of the show
last week and expects a prosperous
season. He declared the show to ba the
'best he ever manage I in Harrisburj.
The winner of the door prize at the
show of the Jlarriaburg Motor Deal
ers' Association at the Arena, Third
and Delaware streets, is given until
noon tomorrow to claim the Saxon
car. 01073 is first and nine others are
selected as follows: 00984, 01091,
03380, 00846. 02635, 00963 012777,
00554. and 03866.
If the tjrst mm does not appear the
second will have until noon Wednes
day and so on until the car is disposed
of. So far J. Clyde Mvton, manager of
the show, has heard from the holders
of the third and ninUi tickets.
From an actual business standpoint,
the show at the Arena was the most
successful in the history of shows in
Harrisburg. All of the exhibitors did
more business than in former years.
Bids for Asphajt Repair Plant
Highway Commissioner "Lynch to-day
'began advertising for bids for the con
struction of the municipal asphalt re
pair plant on Soutih ..infrh street. The
bids will br opened >»t noon on Ajwil 7.
CONVICTED AUTOIHOBILIST
MAY OE POT ON PAROLE
Court Suspends Morrow's Sentence Un
til June and Continues $2,000
Bail—Case of Hargest, Cleared by
Orand Jury, to Be Resubmitted
Samuel Morrow, who late Saturday
evening was convicted on a charge of
involuntary manslaughter, growing out
of an automobile accident in which
Ralph Witmer, 9 years old, was fatally
injured, will not ask' for a new trial,
so C. H. Backenstoe, his counsel, an
nounced this morning.
The Morrow case is the first of its
kind that has been decided by a jury
in Dauphiu county. Further than to
suspend sentence until the June Quar
ter Sessions .ludge McCarrell made no
anmmncepient as to his intention re
garding the final disposition of the
case, yet there is belief among lawyers
•that Morrow will be paroled in the
custody of tJounty Detective .lames T.
Walters.
The Witmer lad was a passenger in
a machine driven by Edward Miller.
This car and tho Morrow car collided
at Seventeenth and* North street# on
the afternoon of November 6. last,
and the youngster died from peritonitis
caused by the injuries.
After the jury's verdict in the
Morrow case was brought in District
Attorney Stroup asked and obtained
permission from Judge McCarrell to
resubmit to the Grand Jury, at the
June court term, an indictment charg
ing John J. Jr., with involun
tary manslaughter. Hargest was driv
ing the auto that crashed into a Valley
Railways Company trolley, at Trout
and Walnut streets, on January 1, last,
resulting in the death of Miss Grace
Maugans and serious injuries to three
ether passengers. The March grandl
jury ignored the manslaughter cparge
against Hargest.
At the direction of Judge McCar
rell Hargest and Morrow furnished
bonds in the sum of $2,000 each to ap
pear at the June court.
RUMORS PUT BURPEE AND
O'NEILL IN CAPITOL JOBS
Reported on the Hill To day That They
Are to Become, Respectively, the
Heads of the Agricultural and
Highway Departments
A story afloat on Capitol Hill tp
day was that 'he resignation of E. M.
Bigelow, as State Highway Commission
er, has been written and is all ready
to be placed in the Governor's hnnds
when the Governoi says the word, and
that Mr. Bigelow 'a successor will be J.
Denny O'Neill, Commissioner of Alle
gheny county, who is noted for his tem
perance crusades through the State and
his annual picnics to the school chil
dren of McKeesport, his home.
Mr. O'Neill was here a short time
ago 1111 d had a conference with the
| Governor, but it .vfls said at the time
but only local option wan discussed.
It is said that when Secretary of
Agriculture Critchfield leaves office, his
1 1 ommisgiou fiuving expired on February
27, he will be succeeded by W. Atlee
Burpee, of Philadelphia, noted as a
dealer in seeds. It is also said thai
should the Agricultural Department be
reorganized Mr. Burpee will occoine its
head.
HOTEL FOLKSPAY SIOO,OOO
That Amount Already Changes Hands
to Bind the Bargain for Site
at Third and Walnut
Confirmation of the purchase of the
site at Tiurd and Walnut streets by a
"western hotel .company was n.mie to
day, when it was learned t'hat the first
payment of SIOO,OOO. on the lot had
been made to the Weightman heirs, of
I'hiladelphia. owners of the lot, by the
Hamilton Hotel Company, of Indianap
olis. The site will be taken over this
week.
It is said the hotel company will put
bonds in the hands of financiers for
sale so t'hat there may be a local finan
cial interest in tiie enterprr.->e. The
company has constructed and leased ho
tels that are bein<r successfully con
ducted in a number of western cities,
and one in Hagerstown, Md.
The {.rice agreed'on for the site is
$225,000. It is said the Weightman
estate paid $160,000 for the lot and
the interest and taxes for the last eight
years will about make up the differ
ence between,that and the figure, $225,-
000.
INJURED WALKING IN SLEEP
Daniel Pyffer Breaks Nose and Both
Arms in Fall Down Stairs
New Cumberland, .March 22. —
While walking in his sleep at 2 o'clock
this morning at his home in this town,
Daniel Pyller fell the entire length of
a fliight of stairs.
His nose and both arms were
broken. He was, a dyer at the New
Cumberland knitting mill.
MOTOR LADDER TRUCK UPSETS
In Collision With Taxlcab Six Firemen
Are Injured
By Associated Presi.
Washington, March 22.—Six firemen
were badly injured to-day when a motor
ladder truck turned over in a collision
with a taxicalb on Pennsylvania avenue
near the Oapitol.
DENTIST ORDERED
TO SI POUT SOD
Dr. Horace M. Cumbler
Directed to Pay $7 a
Week for Young
ster's Keep
LAWYER'S HAVE
A LIVELY SPAT
Beidleman and Seitz Get in Wrangle
Which Judge McCarrell Cuts Short
—The Hoy's Church Contributions
Discussed
Mrs. Rebecca I. Behney, wife of Dr.
Byron S. Behney, a deutist, of • 809
North Second street, was iu court this
morning seeking to compel her former
husband. Dr. Horace M. Cumbler, also a
dentist, of Steelton, to support their
son, Horace M. Cumbler, Jr., seven
years old.
The amount of Dr. Cumbler's annual
income was the subject of a lengthy
argument between counsel, D. S. Seitz,
for Mrs. Behney, and E. E. Beid'leman,
for the defendant. Judge McCarrell
closed the controversy by making au
order directing Dr. Cumbler to pay $7
a week.
Dr. Cumbler himself said that in
years gone by he has averaged not less
than $3,500 a year, but during the
last twelve months lie got only about
$2,000. His expenses, he said, run
close to $1,200 a year, and in his list
of expenses he included his insurance
charges and club fees. He is a member
of clubs both in Steelton aud in Har
risburg. and he said that he spends
many of his evenings at one or another
of these clubs. \
Beid lonian thought the item of
charges covering the lad's church con
j tributions should not be included in
! the mother's schedule of charges and
1 besides, he said, many of the other
charges ''are high.''
"Why we are asked to pay $3.50 a
week for that little boy,'' began the
Senator, 'and the average workinigman
pays not more than $4.50 a week for
, board. And think of it," he continued,
; "$1 a week for laundry and s3.so'a
I month for shoes."
Lawyers In a Wrangle
Then the attorneys became involved
| in an argument on the question of
who had the right to speak to the
! court, Seitz arguing that the Senator
J had interrupted 'before he had finished.
I -fudge McCmell then immediately
| made the $7-a-weeU order.
In Judge Kunkel's court Hugh W.
Norris, an optician, who admitted that
Continued on Knurlb PaKr
SUICIDE INSTRUCTS CORONER
Woman Says She Was Perfectly Sound
In Mind and Body
Bit AfiHiH iattul Press.
Kingstown, X. Y., March 2'2.—Mrs.
I William P. Button and her 5-year-old
| daughter were found dead to-day be
; bind doors that had 'been nailed* fast,
| in their home at Bllenville. A note ad
dressed to the Coroner read:
"It is usual in cases like this to
| render a verdict of suicide while in-
I sane. Your verdict to accord with the
I facts in this case, should be suicide
1 with perfectly sound mind and body."
Buns Sharp Tile in Eye
j Calvin Reidlinger, 7 years -.id, son
j of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reidlinger, of
j Enola, fell on the point of a file at his
j home last evening, badly lacerating his
right eyeball. He was treated at the
j Harrisiburg hospital.
BRUMBAUGH AMTLINN
TO UNITE IN POLITICS?
Reported on Capitol Hill That Gover
nor Will Split With the Old Repub
lican Chieftains and Form New
Leadership for Party
William Flinn, former Senator from
: Allegheny, National Committeeman of
the Progressive or Washington party
in Pennsylvania and a leader of the
Bull Moose movement in this State
since 1912, is expected in Harrisburg
this week to hold a conference with
Governor Brumbaugh on the local op
tion bill, the party's support of which
was pledged' in one *of the planks of
the Washington platform.
The fact that Flinn is coming here
gave rise to a story on Capitol Hill to
day that a new political combine is
about to be made between Governor
Brumbaugh, Senator Vare, of Philadel
phia, the boss of the South Philadel
phia Republican, and former Senator
Flinn, the purpose bang to wrest the
leadership from the present heads of
the Republican organization and put
new leaders in their places.
Since the election last year Flinn
has been very silent and, although he
has had numerous conferences with his
lieutenants throughout the State, it
was given out that he was not likely
to be an active participant in any
more political movements in Pennsyl
vania because of several big contracts
for public works he has in New York,
and which will take up all of his time
and attention. Many politicians, how
ever, would be little surprised to see
him get back in the political arena.
MORTON CO. LANDS $270,000
BRITISH GOVERNMENT ORDER
Gets Contract To-day to Construct 01
Commercial Trucks—Work Will
Start Within Two Weeks and Plant
Will Run Day and Night
A cablegram received this morning
from Robert L. Morton, who now is in
Ijomlon demonstrating two armored
auto trucks that were manufactured at
the Harrisburg plant of the .Morton
Truck & Tractor Company, announced
the placing of an order with the local
concern by the British government for
94 commercial trucks to cost some
thing like $270,000.
Work will be begun on this order
within a fortnight, so one of the Mor
ton Company officials said here to-day,
or as soon as the signed contracts
which already have 'been mailed from
lxmdon are received here.
This order will mean blie start of
big. activities at the Morton plant at
Nineteenth and Manada streets. The
contract provides that the cars shall
be furnished ''at once" and this like
ly will mean day and night work until
the jo*) is completed.
This is tout one of several big con
tracts the Morton company has re
ceived. Before this latest contract is
finished work will be begun on the other
jmbs, including that for the Russian gov
ernment, the total cost of which will
run into the millions.
CHARRED BONES IN RUINS
Clinton L. Bixler Believed to Have
Perished in Burning Home
Authorities Investigating
(Special to the Star-Inrtependcni.)
Blain, Pa., March 212.—Charred
bones, believed to be the remains of
Clinton L. Bixler, were found in the
cellar of his destroyed home six miles
from this place, at o o'clock this
morning. Perry county officials were
engaged this afternoon trying to dis
cover if the home was set on fire by
thieves who got away with the man's
savings or if the man was trapped on
the second floor and could not escape
the flames.
Bixler lived alone in the farm
house, which is in a loneiv spot, since
last fall, when he wife was taken to
! the Harrisburg hospital for treatment.
Recently she has resided with her
daughter, ilrs. C. H. Bair, three miles
from Lovsville, and jt was there that
she learned of the burning of her hotie
and the probable death of hoj ln»*.
band.
COMPLETE PART OF BRIDGE
Second Section at Division Street to Be
Started Soon
The first half of the lfl-foot-wide
bridge spanning the Pennsylvania rail
load tracks at Division street has been
completed, according to announcements
made by company officials this morning.
This section of the bridge spans
twenty-one of the thirty-four tracks on
the west side of the yards.
The appropriation for the cost of the
second half of the bridge has alreadv
been authorized in the report of the
annual budget. No official announce
ment as to when work will be started
on this section of the bridge has yet'
been made, but it is understood it will
be a matter of the near future.
PERRUO.LIOIOR
IN FiliUPPl
Ten of Them Carry
Fight For Right to
Open Their Bars Up
to the Superior Court
HOPE FOR AN
RULING
Effort Being Made to Get Hearing Be
fore the Appellate Body in Pitts
burgh Session Next Month—Other
wise It Goes Over a Year
The ruling of Judge W. X. Seibert,
of Perry county, that technical errors
in all of the liquor license applications
recently presented to the Perry coun
ty court by the hotel men bar the
granting of licenses, thereby wiping
out the sale of liquor in the county 011
and after April 1, is attacked in" ap
peals to the State Superior court filed
to-dav by ten of the hotel men.
The appeals are marked for hearing
at the next Hairiaburg term of the
Superior court, which will not be until
.March, 1916. However, it was said, at
the office of William. Pearson, Protho
notary of the appellate court, where
the appeals were filed, that attorneys
in the cases intend filing supplemental
petitions asking that the cases be
heard at the Pittsburgh court session
which opens on April 19, next.
A test case is set for disposition,
the appelllant being Howard A. Keim,
proprietor of a hotel in New German
town. Nine other hotel men, however,
have taken steps so that if the county
court is reversed and the Keim license
allowed, they, too, will have the right
to obtain licenses. Perry county, in anv
lontlnurd oa Fourth Pave
POSTSCRIPT'
PRICE, ONE CENT.
PRZEMYSL
FORTRESS
SUCCUMBS
Austrian Strongftold.
Long Besieged, at Last
j Surrenders,isOfficial
Petrograd Report
SIEGE BEGUN
. EARLY IN WAR
With the Fall of Przemysl the Only '
Important Fortified Town in Galicia
in the Hands of the Austrians Is
Cracow
Petrograd, Via London. March 22,
2.54 p. M.—lt was announced officially
here to-da.v that. the fortress of Pr/e
--m.vsl surrendered to the Russians to
day.
London, March 22. 1.25 P. M. The
British official piess bureau this after
noon issued the following statement:
"Information has been received that
the fortress of Przemysl has fallen and
that the garrison has surrendered to
Russian arms."
The siege of Przemysl, an Austrian
stronghold in the province of Galicia,
has been under way since the fMly davs
of the war. It has been a bitter and
relentless siege, which has never been
relaxed for a day since the Russians in
vested the city.
With the fall of Przemysl the only
! important fortified town in Galicia
which is still in the hands of the Aus
trians is Cracow, in northwestern (ia
licia, close to the German border.
In the early days of the war the Rus
sian offensive campaign, as outlined of
ficially, contemplated the invasion of
j Germany through East' Prussia on the
; north and simultaneously into Silesia
from Galicia. The Russians succeeded
in penetrating Galicia, hut the success
iof the Austrians in holding Przemysl
and Cracow blocked attempts to invade
{Germany across the Silesian border.
I'he siege of Przemysl has been one
of the most picturesque phases of the
I war in the east The Austrian gnrrisou
(defended the city with determination
Continued on Fourth I'Hge
TURKS' OFFENSIVE CAUCASUS
MOVEMENTS ARE REPULSED
Petrograd, March 21, via London,
| March 22, 2.44 A. M.—An official
l communication from the headquarters
] of the army of the Caucasus says:
j "We have repulsed attempts of the
Turks to take the offensive in the coast
! region. In the district of Tchoruk, aft
ier an engagement, the Turku were
I driven toward Artvin.
''ln the region between Ardanuteh
anil Olti, the Turks are falling back
( to the westward. In the valley of Al
; ashgerd we occupied two important
forts after an engagement in which
! the Turks were put to flight.' l
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
The siege of Przemysl came to an
end to-day and the Austrian defenders
of the Galician fortress surrendered to
the Russian forces which have been
investing it for months. The fail of
Przemysl deprives Austria of her last
important fortress in Galicia with the
exception of Cracow, near the German
border, which the Russians have mado
several unsuccessful attempts to cap
ture.
The German war office announced
that the city of Memel, on the Baltic
Sea in the northern tip of East Prus
sia, had been retaken from the Russian
force which captured it last week, fol
lowing a battle near the city. The Ger
man announcement contains the asser
tion that Russians looted the city while
they were in possession.
Operations in France and Belgium
were of much the same character as
recently. Fighting continues in North
ern France, near Arras in Champagn
and in the Argonne. Two spirited bat
tles oscurred yesterday in the Argon
<|>ll tin III',I on Fourth Paice
WALL STREET CLOSING
By Associated Press.
New York, March 22.—Reading's
continued weakness was the feature of
the final hour, losing over a point,
while obscure specialties were advanced.
The closing was steady. Substantial
gains in specialties, with backwardness
in leaders and heaviness in Reading,
comprised the main characteristics of
to-day's market.