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OMAHA, MONDAY MORNJXd, .JANUARY 11, im.
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BRITISH WARSHIP
SINKS A GERMAN
BATTLECRUISER
Yon der Tann Is Sent to Bottom by
Invincible After Battle Off the
Coast of Brazil.
HOST FIGHT HOW
FOR INDIAN DEPOT
' E
Representative Lobeck Says Bill
Must Be Amended in Senate
to Save Station.
REPLY OF BRITAIN FRENCH REPULSE
TO AMERICAN NOTE. GERMAN ATTACKS
3 NATIONS MORE
ON EDGE OF WAR;
THAW BARS FIGHT
Roumania Thought Ready to Join.
Allies, While Greece and Italy
Grow Weary of Porte'f
Conduct.
MERfcY CHRISTMAS MISTLETOE which two British
soldiers have gathered near the front and are bringing
back to camp.
IS MADE PUBLIC
Bombardment in Region of Soissons,
Perthes.'Argonne and Vosjfs
Fail, Say French.
I
STORY OF BUENOS AIRES PRINT
Teuton Man-o'-War Reported to
Have Crossed' Atlantic, but
Arrival Not Recorded.
VICTOR IN AN EARLIER FRAY
BL'ENOS AIRES, Jan. 9. La
l'renza publishes the report that an
engagement has taken place oft Rio
Grande del Norte. Brazil, between
th British battle cruiser Invincible
and the German battle cruiser Von
Ir Tann, adding that the Yon Dot
Tann has been sunk,
Crossed Atlantic
Tho German battle cruiser Von Der
T.mii was reported several weeks ago to
have crossed tho Atlantic to Join the
other German warships In the South At
lnnflc or Pacific, Its arrival In thoBe
WHters has never been recorded. "
The Von Der Tann is of IN.StjO tons dis
placement, with a sped of 17.8 knots. an
hour. It carried a complement of 910 men
ami an armament of eight eleven-Inch
guns, ten 6.9 guns, sixteen twenty-four
1-ounders and four torpedo- lubes.
Invincible Buar Before.
The British battle cruiser Invincible is
of 17,230 tons displacement with a com
plement of 731 men. Its armament In
cludes eight twelve-Inch guns, sixteen
four-Inch guns and four torpedo tubes.
The Invincible was one of the British
squadron which sank the German squad
ron. Including the Gneisenau, gcharn
horst, Nurnbcrg and Leipzig, off the
Falkland islands.
Dernburg Says Fight
Of Germany is for
Freedom of the Sea
i
NEW YORK. Jan. lO.-The season In the
common property of all the world and
If its freedom is maintained it will mean
the cessation of war, asserted Dr. Bern
hard De;nbtirg, former colonial secretary
of the German empire, in an address
today before the Republican club. The
present struggle, he declared, was the
fight "on the one side for an absolute
dominon of the seven seas and oh the
other for a free sea. '
"The English -have time -and again
asserted," he said, "that Britannia must
rule the waves as a matter of safety.
The British doctrine leads further, of
necessity to tho claim that the British
empire begins at the three-mile limit "of
all other territory a claim that haa no
foundation either in the law of nations In
the higher sense or in the feeling of the
civilized world.
. "The sea is free to all. Any domina
tion exercised beyond that line Is a
breach and infringement upon the rights
of others. We must establish a free
sea to be plied on exclusively by the
merchant marine of all nations. Men of
war of any nation whatsoever must be
forbidden upon the high seas. When that
ir. done the world as it is divided now
will come to a permanent peace."
Kaiser's Slogan, 'Eat
K-Bread Becoming a
Cry in United States
CHICAGO. Jan. 10. Although the mere
threat of an attempt to obtain from con
gress a war embargo on breadstuffs was
largely instrumental ' today In breaking
the price of wheat almost 4 cents a bushel
as compared with top figures yesterday,
Chicago bakers, fighting a squeeze In the
flour market, took steps to get relief
without waiting on legislation at Wash
ington. The United States district attorney's
office here was consulted and the promise
of a federal inquiry as to flour and wheat
was obtained. Facts were presented
which seemed to demand government no
tice. The representative of the district
attorney said, however, that no evidence
of a conspiracy to create artificial val
ues in wheat and flour had yet been dis
covered. As a measure of relief, some Chica
g ans today ate K-bread and called It
good, it generally used, the loaves one
third potatoee and two-thirds flour
would materially lower" the livlnj coat.
At one of the leading hotels, K-bread, or
"kartoffel-brod," (potato bread), which
tli l kaiser recently endorsed for every
household in Germany, was served.
The Weather
Tenia rat a re at Omaha Yesterday.
Hours. Deg.
i a. lu Ai
a. m 3i
7 a. m .
I a. 111 :5 ;
a. m 3
14 a. rn :
11 a. m &
U in Si
1 p. m :w
2 P. m i
3 p. m 3N
4 p. ni.. 35
5 p. m 36
P. m 3i
7 p. in m
t omparatlT Lacal Record.
1915. 1914. 1913. 1913.
Highest yesterday. iw 2
M 1
Ixiwest yesterday 34 15
Mt-Hn temperature SS 22
Precipitation 00 T
Temperature and precipitation
14 -
24 4
.00 .00
de Par-
tcrrs from tr.e normal.
Non.ial terrrpeiature 20
) (. for the day u
"otal excin inee March 1 3I
Normal precipitation nS Inch
PelMency f'T the day K Inch
Total rainfall since March 1....36 01 Inches
Ik-.icit-iiry since March 1 4.j inches
1 i.-fi. i, ncy for cor. period. 113. 6.71 Inches
DclUlency for cor. period. l!12. t.hH Inches
iiidtiates below aero.
U A. WELKUI, Local Forecaster.
HOUSE MEMBER PASSES BUCK
i
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. Jnn. 10.-(Speclal Tele
gram.) If. the Indian supply depot at
Omaha is to be saved, it will begone In
the senate by nn amendment to the In-'
dlan appropriation bill now under con '
slir ration by the house. Last yea
will be recalled, an effort was on foot ,y
. ailII,, Ut'fll'19 M 1 1 U Kit HUUf
for Indian supplies to three In number
After considerable effort the limitations I
In the Indian appropriation bill were
broadened so as to Include Omaha and
one other station.
The Indian bill as it now stands after
several days of discussion provides for
an appropriation to limit the number of i
supply stations for Indians to three. In
number. It being up to the secretary of
the interior to determine their location.
It Is fulr to assume that he wl',1 select
New York. St. Louts and San Francisco.
Omaha Mast Klh.
Representative Lobeck said today that
hs had not received any great amount of
of Omaha to warrajrt'a fight for the re- j
lentton or tfie supply station In his home
city. He did say that the Commercial 1
club was Interested, as voiced by Its sec
retary, and he had received a few letters
from leading business people asking for
the contlnuunce of the' ,- warehouse at
Omaha. Under the red tape practiced by
those In charge of the several bureaus
In the Indian office, Mr. Lobeck doubted
if anything could be doqe to change ex
isting conditions, except f to get busy and
have the bill amended In the senate.
Petitions from Cities.
In favor of his bill to prohibit the ex
portation of wdr materials to belligerent
nations, Senator Hitchcock has received
large petitions from Scrlbner, Lincoln.
Pickreil, Hastlnga, Arapahoe, Hader,
Winslde. Hildreth, Albion and Gothen
burg. Resolutions favoring the bill have been
received from St. Anthony's parish, I
Platte Center; the Germans-American alli
ance of Columbus; Zlon Evangelical Lu
theran congregation of. Thayer; the
Schley lodge of Ta Image; Teutonla lodge
of Nebraska City; a German-Irish dem
onstration In Chics go; Chamber of German-American
commerce in New York
City; the Philadelphia branch of the
German-American alliance; congregation
of the Hanover Lutheran church of Pick
reil; the German-American alliance of
Stanton county; the Sons of Herman,
Stanton, Neb.; the German Ringing so
ciety of Stunton; St. Paul' Evangelical
Lutheran church of Hastings.
W. F. Coad and Richard Coad of.
Omaha, who have been In Washington
for the purpose of expediting the bumf
ance of patents to land which they owr.
In New Mexico..' left for Nebraska today,
Change of Registry
' Of Ships May Not Be"
Recognized by Lion
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. The status of
the former Hamburg-American steamer
Dacla, loading at Port Arthur, Tex., with
cotton for Bremen, Germany, is receiving
official attention here. It was learned to
day, because of an Intimation from the
British government that this ahlp might
be regarded as subject to seizure as Boon
as It passed the three-mile limit The
questions Involved are of great import
ance not only to Americans seeking to
purchase Interned German merchant
ships, but also to the southern cotton In
terests now exerting every effort to find
means 9 placing the staple In the Eu
ropean markets.
Details of the British objection to the
cruise of the Dacla have not been made
public, but It is understood that the Brit
ish embassy has acquired Information In
dicating that the sale of the ship by the
Hamburg-American company wan not
bona fide. This fact. If established, would
be regarded as grounds for the Objection
and consequently it would be unnecessary
for the British government to ralso -the
question of the right of the American
government to confer registry upon any
merchant ship belonging to a belligerent
power after the outbreak of hostilities.
Washington Moose
Chief Back to G.O.P.
- TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 10,-Lorenze Dow
retiring prosecuting attorney of Pierce
county, announced today his resignation
as progressive national committeeman for
Washington, in a statement saying that
"recent elections, general! as well as pri
mary, would seem to sound the death
sneu 01 the progressive partv
nd InV
dicate that but two parties are destined
to exist in the, country, republican and
democratic."
Dow said that he would return to the
republican ranks. In which he was prom
inent In thesplit in lit 11 '
TAFT AND T. R. ON THE
SAME TRAIN; DON'T MEET
.
BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 10. Former Presl-
dents Theodore Roosevelt' and William
H. Tsft. traveled on the same train from
New Havan to this city today. They
were In different cars and each said on
(caving the train at the Back Bay sta-
tion, that he did not know the other
was aloard. When a photographer ap-'
gestion that he pose for a picture with
his successor in office, the colonel ex
Claimed. "Young mau don't be slliy." '
POLICE SERGEANT IS
KILLED BY ROBBERS
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 10-Mlchael Gib
bons, a police sergeant, was shot and
killed today by robbers In a suburban sta
tion of the Wabat-h railroad. The man
bad bound the watchman In dhalr and
were In the act of robbing the station
when Gibbons entered. A bullet hit him
as he stepp"d over the tlileshold. The rob
bers then blew open the safe, from which
they took U and escaped.
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FRENCH FAIL TO
TAKE BDRNHAUPT
Once More Germans Repulse Attack
on that Station with
Heavy Losses.
WEATHER STILL BAD IN WEST
BERLIN, Jsn. 10 By Wireless to Lon
don.) The war office today gave out the
following statement:
The bad weather tasted through yes
terday In the western theater of war.
The Lys has in certain places flooded the
countrto a width of 800 meter.
"The cnemy'a attempts to eject ua from
our positions In the dunes at Nleuwport
failed. '
"Northeast of Soissons. tha French
right repeated their attacks. ' They were
all repulsed ysterday with great losses
to the enemy. We captured more than
100 prisoners. Battles at Soissons itself
recommenced today.
"Near Perthes, northeast ' of Camp
Chalons, the -French have again fiercely
attacked. Their attacks broke down with
very heavy losses to them. We took
about ftwrrTeen prisoners.
"In the Argonne we have rained fur
ther ground. Hi this district and also in
the neighborhood of Apremont, north of
Toul, the battles continue.
"On the evening of January 8, the
French again tried to take the village
of Burnhaupt by a night attack which
failed completely Our troops took 230
more French prisoners and one machine
gun, so that the war booty taken at Burn
haupt is increased to two officers, CO
men and one machine gun. The French
apparently suffered heavy losses on this
occasion also, as great numbers of killed
rand Injured are lying before our front
and in the neighboring woods.
-'Only trivial engagements took place
yesterday in Upper Alsace., At about
midnight, our troops repelled a French
attack- at Lower Aspach.
"The weather in the western theater
of war has not yet Improved. The situa
tion remains unchanged on tho entire
eastern frontier. ,
"Unimportant Russian advances aouth
of Mlawa were repulsed."
West Hartlepool as
Safe as Moon from
Teutons, Shock Kills
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
WEST HARTLEPOOL, England. Dec.
34 "Died of heart failure from fright and
shock caused by the bombardment of the
city by the Germans'." wa the verdict of
the coroner's Jury in the case of Cuthbert
Pounder, -who died at lleadlnulev ten davi
after the West Hartlepool raid.
Pounder's wife testified at the Inquest
that her husband was asleep In his room
when the bombardment began. She rushed
upstairs and awakened him with the in
formation that the Germans were shelling
the town.
"My dear," he replied, with a great bow
nt Indifirnatlnn. "von ara nuitn ailiv Th
i 0,'rran could.no more get to Went
i Hartlepool than tney could bombard the
J moon."
j : Ju"t tllen hl"11 came crashing In the
bedroom window and disappeared through
' the wall on the other side of the roorrw
j Pounder was prostrated by the shock,
! and, although removed to an interior city
j for treatment, sank steadily. .
'
j Emden's Commander
Prisoner in Wales
(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
.ON DON. Dec. 24. Captain Von Muller,
commander of the Oerman cruiser Em
den, has arrived In England, and Is a
prisoner In one of the officers' detention
camps Ip Wales. The place of his Bi tern
men t Is being kept secret
After the destruction of tha Emden by
tho Sydney, Von Muller was taken to
Colombo. Thence he was brought to
England by way of Port Bald. He was
quietly landed at Tilbury, near London,
and taken immediately to Wales.
NEUTRAL WORLD IS
BACK OF AHEMCA
Other Nations Not at War Stand
Behind United States in Pro
test to Britain.
REPLY MADE PUBLIC TODAY
WASHINGTON, Jan. lO.-Whlle no for
mal arrangement has been made as yet
for common action by all neutral coun
tries In respect to contraband and ship
ping during maritime warfare, it became
known tonight that the United States had
received the sympathetic support of prac
tically all neutral natlona In Its negotia
tion with Great Britain.
. Recognizing the Interest manifested by
the neutral governments In tha Initiative
taken by the United States, copies of
tha British reply to the American note
wort) ordered delivered by Secretary
Bryan to all tha diplomatic representa
tives In Washington.
The text of the British note will be
made public simultaneously In both
Washington and London tomorrow after
noon. it Is known that the British note does
not finally dispose of the question rslsed;
but Is in the nature of a preliminary
argument. Just how far a long-drawn
out correspondence is foreshadowed offi
cial here refused to say. In authoritative
quarters It was stated, however, that an
other note, perhapa more vigorous than
Its predecessor, would be sent to Great
Britain should the safeguards which Great
Britain Itself ha advised for American
commerce be disregarded by the British
fleet as the American government claims
has been done In the past.
Woman's Property
Goes to Mother of
Man Who Slew Her
CHBTENNB, Wyo.. Jan. 10. -(Special.)
One of the concluding chapters of the
case of J. Warren Jenkins, who mur
dered his wife that he might Inherit her
estate, but who did not live to reap the
benefits of hi crime, being hanged for
the murder, was written on the stepa
of the court house here yesterday, when
eighty-nine share of the atock of the
IWflngwelt Mercantile company of
Brighton,' Colo., were told at auction by
Dr. C Y. Beard, administrator of Jen
kins' estate. The purchaser was A. L. I
Lefflngwell. step-father of the muidered
woman and president of the Lefflngwell
company. He secured the stock, which
was appraised at more than H,(X). for
$0,100, two other bidders being discour
aged by the fact that Lefflngwell al
ready held a majority of the company's
stock.
The stock dlspoaed of by Jenkins', ad
ministrator, constitute 1 the greater 'por
tion of the motive for tho murder of
Mr. Jenkins. I-e than a year after
their wedding, and after she had executed
a will making him h?r sole loir, ho
clubb'ed her to death In their home here.
The proceeds of the eatate, less the
heavy expense of Jenkins' defense, now
pass to his aged moth ?r Mrs. Annie Jen
kins, formerly of Denver, but now a
resident of Cheyenne.
Terrihle Weather
Cause of Turk Rout
PKTROGRAD. Jan. lo. (Via London.)
A dispatch from TlflU to the Bourse Ga
sette describes the arrival there of of
ficers of the Turkish army who were
taken by the Russians at the defeat of
the Turks in the region of Sari Kamyah.
in the Caucasus. It says:
"Iskhan Pasha, commander of the Turk
ish army co-pn. has reached here witli
four division generals and other taptured
officers. He ascribed the Turkish de
feat chiefly to the terrific climatic con
ditions and said that only.C.OuO of the
corps, with whom wore the staff, reached
Sari Kamysh. The Russian surrounded
them and killod inott of the gunners. He
surrendered a hen only J00 men were left
near him.
"Several GVrnuo officer are among the
prisoners.'' ,
England Concedes Principle of U.
Government's Contention and
Promises Redress When
Justified.
S. j
DISAGREES WITH STATEMENTS
Communication Asserts an Increase
Rather Than Decrease in Cer
tain Neutral Commerce.
invitrfisr Trt wrriTftw aiTtAirg
a.ninuf, 1U imHvltSp,, 1K,rl(, (,,.KnR bl)(
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10-Uieat Hrl-
j tain's preliminary reply to the note from
I the United States "overnment request
ling an Improvement 'n the treatment of
American commerce by the Itrltlsh fleet
'.was made, public here and In 1-ondon
I today by mutual agreement between the
; State department and th British foreign
I office. .
The British communication concurs In
the view of the nlited States that com
merce between neutrals should be In
terfered with only vhen Imperatively
necessary and officials of the Washing
ton government construed It as conced
ing the principle expressed with the
American note, were Just an upheld by
the previous usage of International law.
The only formal comment made tonight
was contained In a brief statement Is
sued by Secretary Bryan, who said:
"This answer being preliminary and not
being Intended as a complete reply, we
will postpone comment until the full an
swer Is received."
Briefly tho British Bole, while con
ceding the principles of the American
government's contentions, points out dif
ficulties in actual practice, refers to al
leged fraudulent practices by shippers
and cites statistics showing an Increase,
rsther than a decrease, la certain neutral
commerce, In support of Great Britain's
suspicions that Germany and Austria
have been indldectly obtaining contra
band through neutral countries. The note
promises, however, that Great Britain
"will make redress" whenever the action
of the British fleet "may unintentionally
exceed" the limit of international law.
(Test of British reply to Ametlean
ota oa pace two.)
Shell-Riddled
Body, of Whalf
Floats to Shore
(Copyright 1915. by Frwi Publishing Co.)
ROTTERDAM, Jan. 10. -(Special Cable
gram to New YorK World and Omaha
Bee.) A dead whale his drifted ashore
on the northern part of the Dutch ooaat.
The carcass Is riddled with three-Inch
shells sh6wlng that the leviathan was
mistaken .for a submarine.
Proposal Made to
Pipe Gas to Omaha
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 10-(Bpeclal.)
Natural gus from the Little Buffalo
Bssln and Oregon Basin fields, thirty
miles southeast of Cody, Wyo., may be
piped 300 jnlles to Denver, .ninety miles
to Billings and flno mile to Omaha, ac
cording to a statement today by State
Geologist L. W.' Trumbull, who has been
consulted relative to plpe-llri transpor
tation of, the gas to tha cities named and
intermediate points, including Cheyenne.
Four walls In the two basin named
now are producing 66,000,000 cubic feet of
gaa dally. The gas escapes under a pres
sure of l.Ouo pounds to the square Inch
and the value of the amount now wasted
dally exceeds J4.000. The amount wast
ing each day, say State Geologist. Trum
bull, Is sufficient to supply Hillings.
Cheyenne, Denver, Omaha and numerous
other cities.
"Three companies have enbWed the
field," said Trumbull today. "Tne first
reached gaa last August Of three well
In the field, two are throwing 20,000,010
cubic feet of gaa daily, and' the other
ao.ooo.ono cubic feet. The ga reaerVolr
Mrs under a rock pressure of 1,000 pounds
to the square inch. I am led to believe
from geologic conditions that the depth
of the. ga lake la about 1 feet . It s
proven area is five square miles.
The three companies t pirating In the
Buffalo Basin field are. the Ohio Oil
company (Standard Oil). Midwest Oil
company1 and the Valentine ayndhate.
Brother-in-Law of.
Czar Slain in Fight
BERLIN. Jan. 10. (By Wireless to Say
Vllle, Ij. 1.) Turkish forces have occu
pied the liHi'n of Kotur, In the Persian
province of Aserbatjan and to the cast
of Lake Van, the Russians retreating
northward, according to a Turkish offi
cial announcement received today from
Constantinople.
The official statement reported that
Grand Duke Alexander Mlchaelovitch,
brother-in-law of Emperor Nicholas, hsd.
been killed In the fighting at Mlandoa,
Persia.
RETURNS MONEY STOLEN
FROM POOR. QUITS PEN
SALEM. Ore , Jan. 10. W. H. Chapln,
convL-ted of larceny as bailee In Portland
for appropriating to his own use t-V-M
belonging to Mrs. Marion Annie Grace,
was given a full pardon yesterday by Glv
ernor Oswald West, who executed the
Instrument upon receiving a bnpd signed
by Chapln' friends guaranteeing that he
would make restitution.
Mrs. Grace and her husband, an aged
couple, alleged that they had placed their
savings in Chaplu's hands for Invest
ment snd that he bad ronverted the
money to his own use.
"it seems more Important," said the
governor, "that these old people should
be provided for than that Chapln should
go to the penitentiary."
FRENCH ARTILLERY EFFECTIVE
PARIS. Jan. 10,-Thc following official
state!iiei,t was livsneil today by the war
nfl ice;
"l'"poin the oa to the Oise, their have
been mlllleiy duels.
'i'pon tin Alsne. In Ihe region
Solrv, . the enemy In spite of many
at-
tucks, has not bei-n able to recapture
the trench's which he had lost. At th
end of the day, he again bombarded
Solfsons.
"In the country from Rhelms to the
Aigonne, our artillery has shelled the
Ui rman trenches very ef fectlvcly, at sev-
'dies of
sappers.
"The positions which we have gained
at Perthes and around that village -have
been organise .1. A counter attack of the
enemy to the west of Perthes has been
tepulHcd. in the neighborhood of La
Kerte l)e Hesse Jou-, we have made a
two-fold prom-css. by gaining ground to
the uest ami by taking possession of a
field fort.
"To the north, In the Aigonne, the
enemy has bombarded tho region of Four
Do Paris; we have replied and destroyed
a Germnn blockhouse.
"The enemy's efforts have been
tinned on Hill 3.
con-
"To the west of Moureulllea. all our
positions have been maintained.
"Between the Argonne and the Meuse,
nothing noteworthy.
"On the heights of the Meuse, In lha
forest of Apremont, one of the enemy's
attacka has been checked by tho fire of
ur artillery.
"In the Vosges. to the northwest of
Wattwlller (in the region of Tlmnn) we
have also repulsed an attack."
Exile Idle Plutes,
Shoot a Few Army
Contractors-Wells
(Copyright, 1M4. by Press Publishing Co.)
LONDON, Jan. 10 (Special Cablegram
to New York World and Omaha Bee.)
H. G. Wells, author of "The World Pet
Free," when asked hi views on conscrip
tion tonight, laughingly said:
"England does not want conscription.
We ara getting volunteers a plenty In
deed, more than we care for. We could
not train or equip men any faster than
we are doing, and so It would be Idle to
call vast number to arm, because we
haven't the arm to give them.
"What we do want and hava crying
need of la compulsory expatriation of
useless, mollycoddle millionaires and the
occasional shooting of army contractor,"
Fifty-Seven Ship
In Canal Procession
, ... .
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. -Fifty-seven
naval vessels will jnake up the fleet
which will go t San Franctaoo by way
of the Panama canal next Marcb, ac
cording to announcement made today by
Secretary Daniels. There will be twenty-
one battleships, headed by the dread
nought Wyoming, Admiral Fletcher's
flagship; twenty-three torpedo bgju d
stroyer and thirteen auxiliary boat, In
cluding collier and supply vessel. At
Cristobal, on the Atlantic aide of the
canal, the fleet will be Joined by the
famous old Oregon and Dewey' flagship
at Manila, the Olympla, both of which
are being fitted out for the cruise, the
former on the Pacific coast and the latter
at Charleston, 8. C.
President Wilson will sail from Hamp
ton Roads on tha battleship New York
on March 5, or 7, the exact date remain
ing to be fixed.
Senn Wants State Aid
in Purging Deadwood
PIERRE. B. D., Jan. 10. -(Special Tele
gram.) E. L. Senn, who ha been devot
ing hi time and hi paper for several i
year In an attempt to "clean up" Dead
wood, resulting not only In trouble of
mind for the .militant editor, but troubles
of body as well several times, has ar
rived on the scene here with several Idea
which he want enacted into legislation,
with th view of helping hlin In his ef
forts to wipe out old time Deadwood
reputation. His bills will be ready In
a few days, snd his line of effort revealed
when they are placed on the desk of
the clerk.
Turks Off for Egypt
With 8.000 Camels
LONDON, Jan. W. "The eighth Turkish
army corps ha left Damascus for the
Egyptian frontier, well armed, provisioned
and provided with 8,000 camels for cross
ing 'the desert," says a diapalch from the
Athens correspondent of the Exchange
TeleKreph company. The message con
tinues: . ,.
"it Is reported from Beirut (Syria) that
all French and Greek subjects have been
taken to Damascus in chains because of
an effort to escape."
"I SQUEEZED AND SQUEEZED
HER THROAT TILL SHE DIED"
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., 4an. I.-Je
Cogglns, a M-yesr-old St. Iuls boy, held
here on a charge of murdering his step-
momer, airs, uiivt-coumi, tonight made
a new confesalon in which he assumes
Sll responsibility for the crime, according
to the police, who deny his earlier story
that a "warm personal friend' killed his
stepmother.
"When I seised her around the neck a
feeling of delight went through me,"i
Coggina said, according to the police. "I
had not Intended to kill her, but wf-.en I
felt my fingers sinking Into her soft
throat I couldn't seem to stopr L squeezed
and squeesed ber throat until she was
dead.
f i TURK
EXASPERATES THEM
Whole Eastern Battle Area Sea of
Mud, Making Operations
Impossible.
SNOW IS OFF THE 'CARPATHIANS
LONDON. Jan. 9. Should Rou
mania. now that the Ruselans art) on
tho border of, If not actually In,
Transylvania decide to participate in
the war on the side of the allies, Its
army will provide the missing link
In the chain of troops winding, from
the Baltic to the Adriatic, a distance,
roughly, of 1,300 miles. This battle
line would be composed of Russians,
Roumanians, Servians and Monte
negrins on the one side and Germans
and Attstro-Hungarlans on ta othsr.
While Roumania has not taken the fate
ful step, the belief exist In the countries
of the allies that It soon wilt do so.
Other developments are expected. The
relation between Greece and Turkey
have reached the breaking point over tha
alleged Ill-treatment of Greek In Ada
Minor. i
Italy Restless.
Italy Is growing; restless over Turkey'
delay In giving satisfaction for the vio
lation of the Italian consulate at Hodelda,
from which the British consul, who sought
refuge there, was forcibly removed.
Italy, also, It is reported, has agreed
that Servla should be granted a port in
the Adriatic. Roumania and Greece, it
Is thought, however, may delay taklrig
up arms until Bulgaria, which 1 anxious
for a part of Macedonia, ia aattsfted or'
the last efforts fall to satisfy that coun
try, which I at present maintaining Ita
neutrality, for a hostile Bulgaria on their
borders would compel them to divide
their forces.
Develop w Offensive.-
While there are no reporta of startling
developments on the battlefields, there
are extremely Important operations now
In progress In both east and west. The
Germans, simultaneously with the re
newal of their attarka on tha left bank
of the Vistula, ara developing a new of-.
fenslve from the direction of Mlawa. on
the
ast Prussian frontier, which tha
Russian are attempting to counter.
Soma of tha German attack on the
tiusatan line, which funs' along the Bsura
and Rawka rivers and thence southward
to Opocino and along the Nlda to
Opatowlcc on the lower Vistula, have
been particularly sovere, but according
to the Russian report, all have been re
pulsed. '
The thaw, which ha set In In outhern
Poland and Galiacla,' haa covered the
country into a sea of mud and even
cleared the snow from the Carpathians, so
that fighting in thia region la Impos
sible. Advance of Frenrh.
The French, after a heavy bombard
ment of the German position between the
Oise and the western end of the Argonne,
and after suffering several repulses, have
advanced their fronts at several point,
particularly to the east of Rhelms. where
their progress ha been low but steady.
In eastern Argonne the Germans have
been making a similar advance.
The progress which tha French strain
report In the vicinity of Fllrey. In the
V,'oevre district. Is of particular Im
portance, for should It continue they will
cut the road which link Bt Mlhel with
Met and may compel the German to
evacuate St. Mlhel. which they gained
long ago at great' cost. The German
have sent reinforcement to Alsace,
where tha French advance ha threatened
to cut off Muelhausen from the rest of
the German line, and have occupied
Burrthaupt-Le-Haut.
Fiji Islanders on Way
to Fightfor Britain
HONOLULU. Jan. 10-A contingent of
volunteers for service n the British army
arrived here yesteday from the rtjl
Islands on board the steamer Makura.
They are on the way to Vancouver. B. C.
Many of them are wealthy residents of
the islands, but sll sre traveling as steer
age passengers.
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