THE WEATHER
FAIR TO-NIGHT
AND TO-MORROm
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HANDCUFFS IE
TRIFLES II ROSS
12-Year-Old Houdini
Picks Two Pairs In
Effort to Escape From
Headquarters
JAIL MAY PROVE
TO BE AS EASY
Coppers Find Him in Cell With Locks
Picked and Fasten Him Again—
Pleads Guilty to Larceny of Bicy
cles and Is Sent to Glen Mills
The hardest person to keep in cap
tivity the police of this city have ever
liad to dea! with is Clarence Ross, 12
years old, colored, who twice escaped
from detention cells at police headquar
ters and who picked two pairs of hand
cuffs and was luckily captured before
he got out of his cell for the third
time.
A much relieved bunch of policemen
took Clarence before Judge McCarrell
in chambers this morning, and had the
satisfaction of seeing him turned over
to Sheriff Wells, to be ultimately sent
to Glen Mills. The Sheriff put the boy
to jail and the police are none too cer
tain that he will not escape there.
Writes Note to Policeman
After his fourth arrest and second
escape the boy was manacled to a
bench in a detention cell at headquar
ters. Methodically working on the
cuffs that held his legs to a park bencn
in the cell, he picked the lock with a
wire cork puller and was loose yester
day afternoon when found by Detective
Ibach and Policeman Shoemaker. Hav
ing been offered $5 if he would escape
1 rum. his shackles by Policeman Schel
lias. lie set about earning that $5, and,
to make sure of it, he wrote Policeman
tSchelhas a note on a cardboard, which
was found in the cell yesterday after
noon. The note reads:
"To Mr. Paul, night man. 1 told
you fellows I could get out. I'll keep
tlie others for myself (referring to the
liandcuffs and chain which were stili
on his legs, having gotten the cuff loose
from the bench) I got them off at that.
Air. Ross."
Picks Cuffs on His Ankles
The chain was then put through the
cast iron fixture of the bench an i a
handcuff fastened to both legs. This
morning he was loose again having
picked the lock on a set of handcuffs
on which the makers guarantee against
that to the extent of SIOO. That money
rannot be collected, however, because
the boy had them on his ankle instead
of his hands and hail both hands to
work with. This remains a mystery as
nothing was found in the cell by which
li rl could work them. This particular
pair of cuffs belong to Detective White
and he still refuses to believe that the
boy got them oft.
The boy pleaded guilty to two counts
of larceny in Juvenile court this morn
ing and was sent to Glen Mills. The
police had him charged with stealing
two bicycles. Judge McCarrell express
ed a belief this morning that a deten
tion house for the commitment of juve
niles was necessary.
PAYNE BUYSjjSICHOME
Tenant of Fleming Mansion, Recently
Willed to Civic Club, Will Move
to Front and Muencb Streets
Frank Payne, who occupies the
Fleming mansion, 612 North Front
street, which was willed by Airs. Wil
liam M. Fleming to the Civic Club
of Harrisbung, is preparing to vacate
that house on July 1, having purchas
ed the house at the northeast corner
of Front and Muench streets, from
Herman Tausig. The deal was closed
Saturday.
This house was built by L. 11. Kin
nard, vice president and general man
ager of the Bell Telephone Company,
and was purchased two years ago by
Mr. Tausig, who has occupied it sin e
then. Mr. Payne's lease on the Flem
ing house runs until August 1.
Argument on the question of
whether the Civic Club can legallv re
ceive the '.Fleming house—the clurb not
having been an incorporated body at
the time the will became effective —
will be held in court on April 4.
William Jennings, president of the
Commonwealth Trust Company, on
Saturday purchased the old Forstor
property, 7 South Front street, now
being used as headquarters of the
Home and War Relief Committee, from
Mrs. Herbert L. Clark. Je.nnini.js de
clined to say what use is to be made
of the building.
SKULL FRACTURED AT WORK
Highspire Man in Serious Condition In
Harrisburg Hospital
Jacob Albert, of Highspire, suffered
a fracture of skull, in a fall this morn
ing in the Bridge and Construction De
partment of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, where he was employed. He
was arranging a drain around a steel
bridge beam and fell about four feet,
striking his head on the steel.
He was taken to the Harrisburg hos
pital where he was opeiated on imme
diately to remove the pressure of the
fracture on his brain. His condition
is serious.
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® }t Star- Inkpcnkni
PLANNING COMMISSIONERS
DIVIDED ON $27,000 PLOT
Views of Members Differ and Sugges
tion Is Made That Site Further
North Be Bought—Ordinance Will
Not Be Acted on Finally To-morrow
The Taylor ordinauce providing for
the purchase ol a $-'7,000 plot at Fifth
and Emerald streets —proposed as a
new playground site—will not be acted
upon finally at to morrow's meeting'of
Hie City Commissioners, so it was said
by Commissioners to-day. The Cifv
I'lanning Commissioners took this meas
ure under consideration along with
other pending ordinances at a special
meeting this morning, but they post
poned making a decision, preferring
first, they said, to view the site before
approving or disapproving of the Tay
lor plan.
During the discussion the questiou
arose as to the advisability of paying
$9,000 an acre for the Fifth and Em
erald street ground, in preference to
obtaining a plot farther north at cheap
er cost. E. S. Herman, president of
the Planning Commission, this after
noon said the Commissioners are divid
ed on this question, but he added that
Cantlnnptf on Muth I'nsr
TAYLOR HURTJN HIS AUTO
Park Commissioner Is Showered With
Glass When Drift-pin Breaks
the Windshield
Park Commissioner M. Harvey Tay
lor received a cut on his right hand
and was showered with glass it noon
to-day when a drift-pin. being used
by the men constructing the steel work
on the Front and Mulberry street sub
way, crashed through the windshield
The drift-pin was being used by a
of his automobile.
gang o riverters. When it was knock
ed through a hole in connecting a joint
preparatory to the insertion of the
rivet, it struck the commissioner's
auto.
Tovlar was not seriously injured,
but narrowly escaped getting bits of
glass in his eves.
COL JAY FOUND DEAD IX BED
Vice President of New York "Herald"
Company Dies in West Virginia
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
March 29.--Colonel William Jay, of
New York City, vice president of the
New York "Herald" Company, was
found dead in bed he-re yesterday by
Mrs. Jay. He had been in poor health
for some time and came here about two
weeks ago. Physicians said death was
due to heart trouble.
Colonel Jay was 74 years old and
had practiced law in New York City
since 1869. He was attorney for the
Trinity corporation. He served in the
Civil War aud was a great grandson of
Chief Justice John Jav, of the United
States Supreme Court.
ADDICT ELK OF
READING S LODGE
Harrisburg Members of
Order Surreptitious
ly Send Stuffed Spe
cimen Here
ANIMAL HAS
TRAVELED FAR
First Purloined From the Elks' Club
House in Tacoma, Washington, and
Has Since Been Coming East, From
Lodge to Lodge
This is the story of the stuffed elk
that has been on its travels from the
Pacific slope to the various cities and
towns in which there are lodges of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks.
The stuffed animal, a noble specimen
of the Cervus Aloes, began its travels
in Tacoma, Washington, when some
eastern Elks, coveting the fine beast in
the lodge room in that city, did, by
divers methods known only to Elks, sur
reptitiously divorce the elk from said
lodge room and ship it East. It
found repose in a lodge room for a
short time, until a delegation of Elks
did bv various other devious methods
seize the animal—when nobody was
looking—and sent it farther East.
And so it went. The stuffed elk was
here to-day and gone to-morrow, and it
finally landed, after much travel where
by it lost its youthful freshness, in the
lodge of the Reading Elks. It was
turned over to a member of the Read
ing lodge, who keeps a hotel at Min
eral Springs, n<yir that city, to restore
its good looks and fix it up. The hotel
man was so pleased with the way he
had restored the youthful appearance
of the elk that he placed it on the
lawn in front of the hotel that all
might gee and admire.
Among those who saw and admired
on Saturday was a delegation from the
Hnrrisiburg Lodge of Elks, and to see
and admire was to covet, and to covet
was to scheme to get that elk to Har
r is burg.
Two of the Harrisburg Elks entered
the hotel and engaged the proprietor in
converse, thereby distracting his atten
tion, and the other three abductors re-
Coatlnued on Math Pace.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1915 12 PAGES.
WOIAII WRONGLY
USED LAWYER
AdmitsSheis Mistaken
in Man She Charged
With Breach of
Promise
J. W.OSBORNE WAS
SUED FOR $50,000
The Plaintiff Says She Alone Was Ra
sponsible far Identifying Him as
Oliver Osborae, From Whom She
Received Three Letters
Bit Associated Press.
New York, March 29.—iliss Uae
Tanzei, who i 3 suing James W. Osborne,
former Assistant District Attorney of
New York, for $50,000 for alleged
breach of promise, was mistaken in her
identification of Mr. Osborne as the
man who wooed her under the name of
Oliver Osborne according to Harold A.
Speilberg, who announced to-day that
he had been retained by Miss Tanzer
as her Counsel. Speilberg conferred
with United Stat.»s District Attorney
Marshall to-dnj,- and later said Miss
Tanzer would be produced at Mr. Mar
shall's office and auuounce that she was
mistaken.
Her Lawyers Not Responsible
The mistake, Mr. .Speilberg said, was
wholly due to Miss Tanzer, and Slade &
Slade, her former lawyers, were in no
way connected wth the erroneous
identification further lhan conducting
the case.
Assistant District Attorney Wood
corroborated Mr. Speilberg. Mr. Wood
admitted that the woman witness upon
whom the government relied to shatter
Miss Tanzer's charges was none other
than Miss Tanzer herself.
It was understood that Miss Tanzer
was prepared to tell the District Attor
ney that she alone was responsible for
identifying James W. Osborne as Oli
ver Osborne, author of the three letters
which she charges she received.
Whether the government's investiga
tion of the charges against Miss Tan'er
would stop there was unknown. Miss
Tanzer is at libeity under $5,000 bond
on a charge of using the mails to de
fraud. This Is an outgrowth of her suit
against James W. Osborne for $50,000
damages.
Mr. Speilberg reappeared with Miss
Tanzer at the District Attorney's oftii-e
shortly before noon. Before going with
his client into Mr. Marshall's office Mr.
Speilberg said that "it was not a ques
tion of a confession'* and that Miss
Tanzer would merely make a statement.
Miss Tanzer's Statement
Before United States District At
torney Marshall would tak» Miss Tan
zer's statement, he prepared a waiver
of immunity for her to sign. She af
fixed her name and her signature was
witnessed by her new counsel, Harold
A. Speilberg. Then she sat down in the
office of Assistant District Attorney
Wood and began to tell her story. It
was said she would be at it all after
noon.
Mies Tanzer, according to her law
yer, simply made a mistake in identi-
CoßtiniHMl on Mnfh Pnicr.
ACUILA IS SUNK BY GERMAN
SUBMARINE: CREW ISSAVED
London, March 29, 2.45 P. M.—
The British steamer Aguila was sunk
by a German submarine this morning
off Bishop Hook. Her crew of 23 men
was sav.ed.
The Aguila was a vessel of 1.204
tons. She was owned in Liverpool. Bis
hop Rook is on the Scilly islands at the
cutranee to the English Channel.
A dispatch from London last- night
said that the Aguila had se'nt out dis
tress signals to the effect that she was
being pursued by a submarine.
200 OF VILLA FORCES DEAD
170 Wounded and 60(1 Horses Also Left
on Field Upon Retirement at.
Matamoras Yesterday
By Associated Press.
Washington. May 29.—A dispatch to
the State Department says that when
the Villa forces retired at Matamoras
yesterday at 3 p. m. they lef 200 dead
and 179 wounded, and 600 horses on
the field after a fight that lasted four
hours and a half The Carranza losses
were given as 8 killed and 36
wounded.
Reports from Progreso said order was
being maintained there under repeated
assurances of protection to life and
property by Carra.iza authorities.
Dispatches received in diplomatic
quarters here to-day from diplomatists
in Mexico City said it was understood
there that General Obregon with Car
ranza forces was returning to the cap
ital and that Zapata forces were about
to evacuate.
JAMES M.LAMBERTON DIES;
TO BE BURIED TO-MORROW
Distinguished Harrisburg Lawyer, Who
Wis Friend and Classmate of Taft,
at Yale, Hud Reen 111 for Two Tears
—Picked Friends for Pallbearers
James M. Lamberton, one of the most
prominent citizens of Harrisburg, law
yer, teacher and historian, and active
in church, civic and Masonic, affairs,
died at his home, 111 North Front
street, at 8.30 o'clock last evening. He
would have been 59 years old in May.
Mr. Lamberton was secretary of the
class of 1878 at Yale, of which former
President Taft is a member, and was
known by hundreds of Yale graduates
throughout the epuntrv.
The funeral will be held to-morrow
afternoon at 3 o'clock from St. Steph
en 9 Protestant Episcopal church, of
which he was a vestryman. The serv
ices will be in charge of Bishop James
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H I
JAMES M. LAMBERTOW
Lawyer, Historian and Educator, Whose
Death Occurred Yesterday
Henry Darlington, of the Harrisburg
diocese of the Episcopal Church, assist
ed by the Rev. Rcllir A. Sawyer, rector
of St. Stephen .. Interment will be
made in the Lamberton plot in the Har
risburg cemetery.
Selected Friends for Pallbearers
Some time prior to his death Mr.
Lamberton prepared a list of personal
friends whom lie desired to have act as
honorary pallbearers at his funeral.
They are: Andrew S. McCreath, W. J.
Rose, Leßo.v J. Wolfe, Thomas L. Mont
gomery. J. V. W. Reynders, Spencer C.
Gilbert. Thomas T. Wierman, George S.
Comstock, Daniel C Herr, Henry B.
•McCormick, Vance C. McCormick, all
of this city; Judge George B. Orlady,
of Huntingdon, utid J. Henry Williams,
of Philadelphia. The active pallbearers
will be officers from the Masonic lodges
of Harrisburg.
Mr. Lamberton had been ill for the
last two yeats This compelled him to
withdraw from the practice of law.
Throughout his long_ suffering he
showed rare courage and cheerfulness
aud lost none of the charm of his per
sonality
Although rapidly sinking for several
months past, it was oulv recently that
Mr. Lamberton was compelled to take
to his bed. he displayed re
markable optimism and only a week ago
he spoke of planning a trip this summer
with an intimate friend,
t Born Here May 21,
James McCormick Lamberton was
one of Harrisburg's most prominent
citizens, being widely known in church,
legal, educational, historical and social
circles. He was born in Harrisburg
on May 21, 185 C, the son of Dr. Rob
ert Alexander aud Annie Buehler lam
berton. His father was one of the
state's most eminent attorneys, was
Past Grand Master of the Pennsylvania
Grand of Masons, and, on his
retirement from legal practice in Har
risburg became president of Lehigh
University until his death. His grand
father was William Buehler, for years
prominent in hotel and insurance cir
cles in Harrisburg, a courtly old-school
gentleman who for years managed the
Buehler Hotel, now the Hotel Bolton,
and later became the head of large in
surance interests here. Of Mr. Buehler
it was said by Charles Dickens, who
was a guest at the Buehler Hotel while
making his first visit to America, that
he was "the most polished and courte
ous gentleman" he met in this coun
try. The grandson inherited to a fine
degree the traits of his ancestor.
Mr. Lamberton was educated in the
Harrisburg Academy, St. Paul's School,
at Concord, N. 11., and at Yale Uni
versity, where he was graduated in the
Continued on Srroud I'QRr.
$41,100 IX NEW BUILDINGS
Kaufman Gets Permit to Put Up Store
That Will Cost $20,000
A permit for the erection of the new
store building at 6 and 8 South Mar
ket square that is to replace the Kauf
man stores, destroyed by fire on the
night of January 18, last, was issued to->
day at the office of Building Inspector
James H. Grove. The new building will
cost in the neighborhood of $26,000.
It will be built of brick and will be
three stories high.
' This improvement it" one of several
costing a total of $4 1,100, for which
permits were issued this morning. The
E. B. Mitchell estate will build a $lO,-
000 structure on the site of the Stieff
piano house. 24 North Second street,
for the use of the piano company.
Another permit calls for the erection
of a 2 '/j-story tile and stucco house on
Hillside road, south of Twenty-first
street, by Dr. B. E. Wright, to cost
$6,000.
John Snyder got a permit to build a
one-story garage at 1945 Kensington
street, costing SIOO.
ALL HOPE FORM
GREW ABANDONED
Navy Department Or
ders Report On Exact
Location of Sunken
U. S. Submarine
EFFORTS MADE TO
RECOVER BODIES
Heroic Attempts of Divers to Raise an
Object Thought to Be the Lost
Submarine Resulted in the Discov
ery of an Old Anchor
Bp Associated Press.
Washington, March 29.—The last
remote hope that any of the submarine
of F-4 crew might be alive has been
abandoned by the Navy Department,
and to-day Acting Secretary Blue order
ed Rea Admiral Moore, commanding
the Honolulu naval station, to report
the exact location of the sunken boat
and the de>, th at which she lies tnat
the department may estimate the prob
ability of salvaging the hull and recov
ering the bodies of her commander and
crew.
Honolulu, March 29.- —Hope of rais
ing the United states submarine F-4,
submerged outside the harbor since
Thursday morning, was again revived
last night when vessels engaged in the
rescue work reported tihev had finally
located Hie missing craft in Which
twenty-one persons are believed to have
perished.
Divers Go Down 215 Feet
■Heroic attempts of the last fbrfv
eiglit hours to bring to the surface fjrom
a great deptih an object that appeared
to be the submarine, resulted in the
discovery by two divers Sunday that
it was only an old anchor, probalblv tost
by the battleship Oregon. "Phe divers
went to a depth of 215 feet but fallea
to find any trace of tibe F-4.
Refusing to 'be disheartened by this
discovery, hundreds of rescue workers,
although tired by their long work and
without sleep for many hours, re
doubled their efforts when another body
believed to be the F-4 was located.
Portions of a vessel's upper ntruc
ture have been brought to the surface
! by tbe grat; pl'ug appai-scns of the vari
ous boats and it is this which maKes
the rescuers confident thev are from
the F-4.
Big Naval Crane Being Used
The dredge California, whose chains
are thought to have been securely fixed
on the body, will be moored in a po
sition directly above it and tug boats
wilj criss-cross it in all directions with
their drag chains in an effoTt, to wind
tbein into a net around the hulk.
A big naval crane having a lifting
capacity of 150 tons dead weight will
then attempt a direct lift on the sub
marine if the chains are made last to
the craft. The dredge will assist.
W. C. Parks, a civil engineer, has
started construction of an immense div
ing bell fitted wjtth heavy plate glass
ports which is expected to be ready for
use bv noon to-morrow. A hvdro aero
plane is being held in readiness for im
mediate flight, if required.
LOSS OF LIFE IS HEAVY AS
SUBMARINE SINKS FLABA
London, March 29, 3.4fi P. M. —The
report of yesterday that the British
steamer Falaba had been sunk by a
German submarine was confirmed to
day.
The Falaba was sent to the bottom
yesterday afternoon off Milford Haven,
an inlet on the coast of South Wales.
The loss of life probably was heavy.
The Falaba left Liverpool on Sat
urday for the west coast of Africa
with 14-0 [*assengers aud a crew of
120 men. Her oflicers stated that when
the German submarine appeared it
whistled thrice as a signal for the
steamer to prepare her life boats but
before this could be dome a torpedo
struck the ship near the engine room.
Three of the Falaba's life boats
were swamped. Many persons aboard
the vessel were thrown into the sea
where they struggled while the sub
marine circled about, offered, accord
ing to stories told by thoee rescued,
no assistance. A fishing boat appear
ed on the scene and saved 140 of the
passengers and crew.
Captain Davis, of the liner, was
picked up dead. Eight other bodies
were recovered. The survivors were
landed at Milford Haven.
The Falaba was considerably larger
than most of the British merchantmen
which bave been sunk by German sub
marines. Slie was 380 feet long and
her net tonnage was 3,011. She be
longed to the Elder Line, was owned
in Liverpool and was engaged in the
African trade.
Stock Exchange Open Good Friday
New York, March 29.—Memberg of
the Stock Exchange decided' by viva
voce vote to-day not to close the Kx
.change ou Good Friday.
AUSTRIA WILLING TO CEDE
TO ITALY A PART OF TRENT
Paris, March 29, 5.10 A. M. —Aus-
tria has made a definite offer to cede
to Italy a part of the province of Trent
at the close of the war, the "Petit
Parisiene's" Rome correspondent says
he has been informed. He adds that
the proposal was made on Thursday
and that the Italian government de
ferred its reply.
Geneva. Via Paris, March 29, 5.05
A. M.—Count, Stephan Tisza, the Pre
mier of Hungary, has returned to Buda
pest from Vienna, where he conferred
with Cabinet ministers regarding the
future coursp if the dual monarchy. Ac
cording to dispatches received by Swiss
newspapers, the leaders of different po
litical parties are trying to induce
Count Tisza to make any effort to per
suade Emperor Francis Joseph that
Austria should conclude a separate peace.
The Premier, however, is said to have
refused to make 3ueh an attempt.
Advices receded here from Austria
are to the effect that well-informed
public men i:i thai country profess to
believe that the intervention of Italy
on the side of the allies is imminent.
Count Andrassi. former Hungarian
Premier, is said to be one of (hose who
no longer attempts to conceal his con
cern.
Chancello? Vjn Bet'hmann-Hollweg,
of Germany, the Swiss papers declare,
remains inflexible in his determination
that Austria shall sacrifice some of her
territory to preserve the neutrality of
Italy. The Austrian Emperor is re
ported to be equally determined not
to cede to Italy any material portion
of the monarchy.
Reports from Bucharest regarding
the attitude of Rumania, it is said, have
increased the alarm in Austro-Hungar
ian political circles.
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
Germany's submarine warriors have
added two names to the long list of
vessels which they have destroyed in
the waters about the British Isles.
The British steamer Falaba, one of
the larger merchantmen to be sent to
the bottom, was torpedoed off the
coast of South Wales, probably with
a heavy loss of life. The British steam
er A&uila was sunk in the English
Channel but her crew of twenty-three
men. were saved.
General Von Kluck, who led the ad
vance of the German forces to the
gates of Paris in the early days of the
war has been wounded. To-day's Ger
man official statement says he was in
jured slightly by shrapnel and that hw
condition is satisfactory.
The new German oiVensive in Po
land has led to sharp fighting in which
the Russians are said in Berlin to have
suffered heavy losses. The war office
announces that Tauroggin, in Russia,
across the east Prussian border, was
stormed successfully.
In France and Belgium there were
minor engagements at various points
Coutinuod on Mntlt l*nge.
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BOYS BIN BUM
Hummelstown Youth
Who Makes Confes
sion Gets Another
Chance
PROMISES TO
QUIT SMORINC
Says He Was With Another Youngster
Who Dropped Lighted Match in
Hay in Barn—Pair Then Ran and
Rang Fire Alarm
Bad associates, improper nourish
ment and lack of proper home training
were among the causes of juvenile
crime mentioned by physicians and pro
bation officers at a brief session of
juvenile court this morning. Judge
MeCarrell presided. The smoking hab
it among boys name in for severe criti
cism. by the court. .Judge MeCarrell
required several of the boys to display
their hands in a search for nicotine
stained fingers.
A Hummelstown youth, whb became
16 years old shortly after he was ar
rested on several criminal charges,
said he has made a resolution to be a
better boy and then with a storv that
appeared to Vie truthful he related in
detail, even down to the minute, how
he had ro/bbed the grocery store of
Frank Brantner, Hummelstown; looted
the barber shop of Frank Frantz, also
of Hummelstown, and subsequently
fired tfae hay barn of Robert J. Walton,
Waltonville, causing a blaze that re
sulted in an SBOO loss.
Oi> his promise to do better Judge
MeCarrell decided to give him "one
more chance" and placed the lad on
parole in the custody of Mrs. Anna
Simonetti. The boy said another lad
actually applied the match to the hay
barn and he also declared that boy also
was a party to the store robbery. The
boy referred to recently was sent to
the Huntingdon reformatory.
Tells of Burning Barn
On December 11, last, at 8.30
o'clock in the morning the two boys
stole into the Brantner store, through
the cellarway, so the youth testified
this morning, and took a revolver, box
of oandv, sixty-three cents and some to
rontlnueil on Math I'aite.
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PRICE ONE CENT.
BIG GERMAN
LOSSES AT
SKWA RIVER
Whole Division of Kai
ser's Troops Suffers
Heavily In Assuming
the Offensive
OBSTINATE FIGHT
AT WACH NOW ON
Great German Forces Taking Part In
the Battle, in Which the Russians
Claim to Have Captured an Ambu
lance and Its Staff
Petrograd, March 28, Via London.
March 29, 4.47 A. M, —An official
statement issued to-night by the Rus
sian War Office says:
"In the German offensive east of the
Rkwa river a whole division was en
gaged. It suffered heavy losses and
not only failed to capture any of our
trenches, but was obliged to abandon
its first liue ot trenches at the village
of Tnrak.
"Great German forces are taking
part in an obstinate battle at Wach.
We have advanced some distance be
hind the enemy's first line and captured
an ambulance and its staff.
German Squadrons Set in Motion
"At the "illa?3 of Bomanewico. on
the Pilica river, the retreating Germaus
in their disorderly flight abandoned »
huge quantity ol correspondence. THis
contains manv letters from German
sources complaining of their immense
losses, nnd of starvation in the trenches
and expressing hope for a speedy end
of the war.
"The Russ'an force which conduct
ed reconiiaisiiuces toward Memel and
defeated two landsturm regiments, thus
causing the Germrns to concentrate
a<Jjve troops in this unimportant cor
-I*r and to set in motion the German
squadrons resting at Kiel, only consist
ing of 4,000 men, most of them belong
ing to the territorial army."
Forts on Bosphorus Bombarded
Petrograd, Via London, .March 23,
6.30 A. M.—An official statement is
sued last night by the general staff
says:
"The Black sea fleet on Sunday bom
barded the outside forts and batteries
on the Bosphorus on both sides of the
straits. (The Bosphorus, called also tiho
Stiait of Constantinople, is a narrow
passage which connects the Black sea
with the Sen of Marmora. Constantin
ople stands on its west side at its
let and partly on the Sea of Marmora. ~-
The strait is 18 miles long.)
Hostile Ship Reported Sunk
"According to observations made
from ships and hydroaeroplanes our
shells fell with exactitude. Russian
aviators flying above the Bosphorus'
batteries carried out reconnaissances
and dropped bombs with success. A
heavy artillery fire was directed at the
aviators who fled.
"The enemy's torpedo boats which
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VON KLUCK WOUNDED DY
SHRAPNEL FIRE AT FRONT;
10.000 RUSSIANS TAKEN
Berlin, March 29, By Wireless to
Sayville.—The report of the progress
of the fighting issued from headquar
ters to-day relates among other things
that General Von Kluck, the German
commander who led the famous Ger
man rush into France in the early
days of the war, has been slightly
wounded by shrapnel fire while in
specting advance positions of his
army. The condition of the general
is described as satisfactory. The text
of the announcement follows:
"On the west front the day of yes
terday passed rather quietly. Only in
the Argonne and in Lorraine was
there minor engagements and these
were successful for the Germans. Gen
eral Von Kluck was slightly wounded
by shrapnel while inspecting advanc
ed positions of his army, his condition
is satisfactory.
"German troops have stormed Tau
roggen, across the Russian frontier,
northeast of Tilsit and taken 300 Rus
sian prisoners. A Russian attack on
the railroad from Wirballcn to Kovno
at a point t near Pilwisxki broke down.
"The Russians suffered heavy loss
es in the Krasnopol district. More than
10,000 Russians were taken prisoner
among them being a squadron of lan
cers with their horses and five ma
chine guns. A Russian attack to the
northwest of Ciechauow was repuls
ed."
WALL STREET CLOSING
By Associated Press.
New York, March !i».— Bethlehem
Steel's feverish movement continued
to the end. Rock Island showed sud
den strength and activity. The clos
ing was strong. Another sensational
advanced In Bothlehem Steel, which
rose over 14 points to 89, with wide
gains In other specialties were the
I chief features of to-day's markot.