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LEWIS V. HARCOURT
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
Large new reinforcements including
& great number of Caucasian troops.
are being massed by the czar on the
Béssarabian frontier to renew the 'at-
tacks on the long battle line from
‘Cartorysk "in Velhymiai to “Brencze,
ndrtheast’ of ' Czerndwitz, ‘thé Buko-
wine capital. ’
spatches from Berlin quote Rus-
sian officers captured in the recent
fighting as :sserting that on the é&ve
of’ the new offensive thé char visited
Trembowla nd issued the orders'to
his offices ' :taff “fo” bréak through
the Téuto Ines at any cost.” The
Russian 11 0 is said to have guaran-
teed his g rales. sufficient troops tor
this purpose.
The Brii.sh conscription bill has
passed its lrst reading in the hodse
of! common:, 403 to 105. The labor
congress, representiing the unions,
has ‘passed ‘resolutions condemnin
the bill! ‘ Three labor members “of the
cabinet have resigned, one saying ‘he
will net accept dictation of the unions,
but will support the bill.
"The" Gertian government has as-
sured the United States that her sub-
marine operations will be conducted
in strict conformity with international
law, guaranteéing the safety at sea of
noncombatants of either belligerent or
neutral nations.
General Sir Ian Hamilton reported
to the house of commons that the
{danger ‘of ‘failure in régard’ to He
on the atfacks “that are being tion‘is ‘Fushing Wo
BEPUBLIGAN VOTES NEEDED
If Bill Is to Pass House It Will Have
to Be With Large ‘Republican 8Sup-
port-—-Oppesition Exceedingly Active.
nth consumers who
have placed the huge orders for Bik.
horn coal are not divulged at this
time, but it is intimated that they re-
present some of the IaPg ac-
| turidg plants in tHe
The Consolidaion is" aking
Persoms who expect that the appro- ; 3 TRS ERE 5 Arr «3%
priations for a larger navy and greater | provision t5 Hardie RL evil
army are to be carried through easily | Promptly. Necessary prove:
on the wave of sentiment caused by | have been made to increase mining op-
the European war’are headed toward j erations in the Elkhorn valley, and the
a disappoiniment. The president and | Consolidation is also opening up new
his advisers are now alive to the fact ee on its other properties * take
that it will require all the power of | gare of the eno git
the admthistratiofl} supplemented by Pex Bho ta oe amous business” which
Republican #iipport, 6 pith the pro. Pe Olt Togs,
gram through, and ‘there id" gra¥e | The current year will be probably
) the best in the ufitory of the Chnads:
army even then. dation to date. No tonnage figures are
* The foreign complications invelving ! being made public at his tims, but
the United States have tended to ob ' they will be forthcoming shortly. They
scure the developments In the pre- will show that the earnings of the cor-
i . inistration
Darednces Hove om Ram Ris _ w Doration far exceeded those for the
un. Previous fiscal year, 7 no#E
strong pubiic campaign must be” un-
en wnd mo-time Jost-4in “com- At the present time the Consolida
1108" Work on its neW mines
® in thé “Helet's Rih district or West |
0 SongT erg heing Doe Virginia. These mines will be reached
been made on.the defense bills. Also by the Western Maryland Company,
Ro consideration has been given to Which is now building an extension in
measures to raise revenues t6'Wefray these regions at a cost of over half a
It is time the country awoke to a
realization of the fact that President
Wilson's preparedness program is
threatened with defeat.
*he préeillent’s program’ t- 27
adefon”
the cost of the army and navy ex- million dollars;
pansion that the president insists is The Western Maryland expects that :
iu significant that all tie tgunags from the Tineh wif be at |
“ ¥ a” eek v y
speeches on the subject of defense de- least’ 5,000,000 tons annually Within
livered thus far this session by house the next three or four years,
Democrats have been harshly critical : = Bn
of the president's program.’ 'Sig-
nificance also is attached to the fact
that up to date no administration lead- KEYSTONE P ARAGRAPHS
er in house or senate has taken the .
pains to make a speech in support of ' Discovering two men engaged in
the program or to reply to the party breaking into the postoffice at Sum-
erities who have assailed it. merville, near Punxsut@wney, Pa., W.
( It Is now known By ‘everybody in W. Haven was held up ‘at the point of
the house, ‘where defense bills'are t6 a revolver boufid and gagged and
be orfginated, that the president will forced to stand by and watch while
have to depend on Republican votes the two men dynamited the postoffice
to put his program through that body. ' safe, robbed it of $50 in money dnd
Prediction is made that approximately ' a like amount in stamps, and’scaped,
sixty Democrats will desert the ad- | after walking Haven several’ Blodks
ministration on this proposition. As ' away from the scene and freeing him.
the Democrats now only have a ma: | ' Trem A
“jority of ‘twenty-five In the house 1t John Cittash, aged twenty-six, . of
tion. will be compelled to ‘steer ‘a Successful in his third attSfmpteic iy
course that will assure the support of | his life when he fired a bullet info his
& Considerable number of Republicans. temple. ' A year ago Cittash was. pre-
The Democratic opponents of the : Vented from throwing himself from
defense bills have been active and the Point bridge into the Ohio river.
alert from the beginning of the ses- About six months later he was arrest-
sion, whereas the supposed support- ed after trying to throw himself “in
Dardanelles expedition was lost when
in sight of victory through failure "bf
ors of the administration's program front of a swiftly moving Coraopolis
have been singularly passive. # street car.
the war office to Supply mbre mien.
A great battle has been raging for
over two weeks in Bukowina, with the
Rusaians, 800,000 strong, at last re
ports driving ifi“the Teutons” first line
over a long front. The objective seems
to be to relieve pressure on the allies
at Salonika and to postpone of prevent
the drive into Egypt. }
A dispatch from Houlon tells of the
interning cf the central powers” con:
suls arrested at ‘Salonika ‘on board
the French™aukiliary “crulser: Savéie,
formerly in the New York-Havre serv-
foe. This: would indieaté: “that” the
consuls had not yet been released as
Was reported’ from various sources
late last week, UE ana rAd
The British battleship King Edward
VIL has Bees Sink’ ha striiibg' 7a
mine. The entire crew was sawed.
It is officially announced a h
complete eVatuatidh of "the Gallipc
Peninsula has been successfully car-
‘ried out. a
"German forces have recaptured the
trenches near Hirsstein, so th of
Hartmgnnswetlerkopt, in upper AT
sace, that were taken by the Fremch
op Dec. 21.
chausseurs and 16 machine guns we
captured from the FremcH. ! Gs
Greece has again entered protest
against measures taken by the entente
powers, which, it declares, render 'dit-
ficult the supplying of Greece with
food" from Bulgaria, secordiig te” an
announcement by the ‘Overseas News
agency. wr EL io Tw EEE EL
The Turco-German expedition
againit Egypt’ fs’ held in abéyance
owing to the refusal of Djemal Pasha
to attack the Suez canal without ‘a
German vanguard of 25,000 picked
troops.
- A dispatch from Constantinople says
that in reprisal for the arrests by
the allied ‘staffs In Salonka ‘of the
Turkish consul and other Ottomans in
thé Greek port, the Turkish govern-
ment has arrested ten British and
French citizens, including the remain-
ing embassy officials. Altogether 1,000 | Thessaloniki
subjects of the entente governments
have been interned, the dispatch says.
It is learned “from a diplomatic doned steamship Thessaloniki, of the ' victims.
is now being| Greek Ine,
source that an effort
made by Austria and Germany to limit
the purchases of foodstuffs.
exchange.
consists in tne wholesale requisition-| sister ship,
ing of foodstuffs in Bulgaria, the pay-| they
ment for these shipments being made
in paper money.
There are now in Italy 58,000 Aus-| was plentiful and the
trian prisoners besides 62.000 which | not suffer from
| companied the gales.
have been transferred from Servia.
asm: es —ciie ~
Twenty officers, 1,083
fected a good’ working organization ia I d the fusials
and they are playing for delay. In ‘OR ©f newlyelected officers’ o
furthering the campaign of delay they .°38¢ of the Sons and Daughters of
have “the support of Representative ' Liberty at Monsca. Seofse Becket,
Kitchin, the Democratic house leader, | a fifty-five, of Piugurg » 4iStiC
and are being openly encouraged to 9°PULY counsellor of the
“The “little navy” members have per- | interrupted
Willthus be’ seen that ‘the maministra- « Fittock, Allegheny county, Pay id
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lodge, |
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YOU CAN DEPOSIT 25 OR 50 CENTS, OR MORE
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COME IN—WE WILL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT.
AN 7.4 © ed
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CH WEEK AND
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SECOND NATIONAL BANK
; MEYERSDALE, PENN’A.
| Beht' tha ai dropped dead a few minutes after en-
eR alin By Wl 3 tering the Hall wikre he Was to give
% acl iE Vy
In‘its eAdeavoFs {6' Pus the defense 1° Cath to the offiéers of the lodge.
bills through congress the administra Manufacture of 2,500 freight cars
ton Kas ‘undoubtedly been handi- forthe Pittsburgh and Lake Erie rail-
capped by the attitdde of the respon- road 15 16 bs"
sible Democratic leaders in the two
arted at” Once‘dit the |
Bouses. “Mr. Kifehin is an out and out
opponent of tas as advocat-
4d by the president,” While Senator it ible for the Work to be
“Kerf, the sents Tekder, is a aritic of prac _ Be will be
the a Tid no help to the Stven steady employment” @ “A
admin tion NE . iN
pany at New Castle, Pa. Settlé-
ment of the strike of the laborers has
ey arose trmearas | An immediate heavy demand for
LONGSHOREMEN T0 STRIKE seamless tubes is causing ithinense
: —— Shipments by express of this product
Tie-Up Threatened at Baltimore; Will ‘of the Pittsburgh Steel Praducts com.
Hider Grdin’and’ Minitten' Shipments. ; pany in Charleroi to plants in Har:
What is said to be the beginning of | #ison, N. J., and Canton, O° The tubes
a ement which is expected to tie @&re to be used for roller bearings in
up “#1 shipping on’ the Atlantic coast &utomobile and motor truck’ many
started at Baltimere Sunday with the facture. n
anhouncement of "the longshoremesn me
thet’ a strike’ is imminent. *! Judge Marshall Brown of Pitts
They refused té load the ship Swan. burgh ordered the jury sitting In the
more. There are 4,000 members of ©8se of W. L. Butz of Chicag6, on
the local union. President Ferguson frial charged with corrupt solicitation’
of the federation of ‘labor addféssed In trying to procure gambling privi-
the men and urged them to agree to leges from former Magistrate William
arbitration, but they hobted hiti°down H. Robertson, now a member of the
and decided to “strike. “The matter City council, to return a verdict of not
was then ‘taken up By thé executive euilty. tt i
it erect
tee which is considering the Mrs. Frank Batch, thirty years old,
: f Salemville, about six miles from
Th d © Lemviie : 08, pon
of She ay Bg ran inciegee Greensburg, is dead and her two chil
a half for overtime. They also ask dren, Netta, three months old, and
for a change in the gang rules. Anna, two years old, are in the West-
Sowers men Strike 1 will pom MOMOISH] Busptiglih § Serfods Soatt
possible to handle the grain and muni- tion as the result bj S exp 0sion
tions awaiting shipment. , 8n oil lamp in their ome.
: Their skiff smashed by .a huge log
This ‘is | and had insufficient meat for a'longer Stead was demolished by a Baltimore
said to be the main cause for the low period, when they were transferred in and Ohio passenger tain: sy The
The only possible remedy | a gale-swept sea to the Thessaloniki’s Thirteenth street crossing, Braddock.
while they were crossing ‘the “Cone-
PASSENGERS ON SHORT
RATICAS FOR DAYS maugh river at Sand Patch, near La-
trobe, three men, all Italians, were
Had Only Half Cup of drowned before they could bs rescued.
Water Daily For Voyagers. i Anthony Coco, boarding ‘boss, and two
The 177 passengers of the abap-' of his boarders, unidentified, were the
had been living on a half!
cup of water each day for three days,! 4A bakery wagon of West Home-
the Patrie, aboard which Bugdon Zasiroff, aged thirty-five, of
New York. West Homestead, driver, was hurled
bread and vegetables from his seat and painfully injured.
sufficient. Coal! Frank Miller, aged thirty-eight, of
passengers did Q@reenville. while on a visit to rela-
tives at Hastings, was run down and
arrived in
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