WILSON SHOWS CABINET HIS BELIEF IN PRA YER When Affairs Were at Crisis, President Called Heads of De partments Together and W ent Down on Knees Before Them in Appeal for Divine Guidance. BUL6AR ARMY DEPLOYED TO ALL BORDERS Troops From Sofia Are Moving Toward Serbian, Greek and Rumanian Frontiers, Dispatches Say. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED Men Up to Age of 58 Are Being Mobilized—German Offi cers Will Aid in Di recting Army. London, Oct. 2.—A telegram from Amsterdam says that Austria Is about to send an ultimatum to Ru mania demanding the free passage of munitions to Turkey. This information was received in Amsterdam from Cologne and for warded by the correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company. The message says Austria’s ultimatum will be couched in friendly terms, and that a short interval will be given in which Rumania may reply. Paris, Oct. 2.—Reports originat ing in various places that an im mense number of German and Aus trian troops has been concentrated on the Serbian front appear to have been greatly exaggerated, in the light of advices received here. These reports gave the size of the Teutonic army as 200,000 to 600,000 men. It is now known that only about 60,000 men are threat ening Serbia. German Crown Prince May Lose His Command on Western Front CLAIM GAINS IN SPITE OF GERMAN FIRE •Kaiser’s Forces Subject French Positions in Artois Region to Heavy Bombardment , to Check Rush. BRITISH HOLDING GROUND . Returned Officers Say Recent Offensive Has Shown Teu tons Are Now Topped in Guns and Shells.' Berlin, (via London), Oct. 2.— An attempt by the British to re take the ground lost north of Loos was defeated with a heavy loss, the war office announced today. Several French attacks also were repulsed and a number of prison ers were taken. Paris. Oct. 4.—There has been a heavy German bombardment in the Artois district, according to the an nouncement made by the French war office this afternoon. Nevertheless the French forces have made perceptible progress In this district on the heights of La Folio. With the exception of some ground lost, the British are dinging tena ciously to the positions wrested from the Germans. The series of engage ments on the French front In the last few days has not altered conditions appreciably. Special dispatches from Petrograd all speak of the Improvement of the Russian position although there has been no noteworthy change on ths eastern front for some days. The text of the French communica tion follows: Indianapolis. Ind., Oct. 4.-—How President Wilson led his cabinet In prayer at a recent meeting was told here yesterday by Bishop William P. Anderson, of Cincinnati, at a session of the Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference. A United States senator told the bishop of the incident, he said. The senator had heard it from one ;>f the cabinet members who prayed r witli the president. "When the president arrived at the cabinet meeting.” said the bishop, “his face wore a solemn look. It was evi ient that the serious affairs of the nation were on his mind. He said to the cabinet members, "I don’t know whether you men believe in prayer or not. I do. Uet us pray and ask the help of God.” MIne peril HNS EH SOLID information Reaching American Navy Circles Shows Brit ain Has Beaten Ger man U-Boat Game. "And right there the president o the United States fell upon his kneet and the rest of the members of the cabinet did the same, and the presi dent offered a prayer to God. While the war rages in Europe, we in this country should.thank God that in this crisis of tho world we have a chief executive who is a servant of God and who stands with his hand in the hand of God. Every minister in the land should, every time he offers a prayer, take Woodrow Wilson by the hand and lead him into the presence of God, and ask that he be given strength to continue to be the great apostle of peace among men.” Later a telegram expressing the con fidence of the delegates in him was sent to the president. CROWN PRINCE FREDERICH WILHELM. Cable dispatches intimate that the crown prince may lose his ymmand because his costly failures to smash the French line have brought about a physical and mental breakdown. It is rumored Field Marsnal Von Hindenburg may replace him. The crown prince is here seen studying the French positions in the Verdun region through a periscope. Washington. D. C„ Oct. 4.—Tho American naval policy for the coming your, tentative plans for which recog nized the submarine development of European submarine warfare and make provision for a large number of under sea boats, will be broadly affected by the British admiralty's development of successful means for combatting the submarine peril. Confidential reports to the United States government disclosing that the destruction from 50 to 70 submarines - had been effected by the use of nets, t submarine telephones, new types of T mines and by covering the submarine area with a fleet, of thousands of high speed motorboats armed with rapid fire guns have fulfilled the convictions of American naval experts that means would be found to successfully combat undersea warfare. Likewise these re ports have reaffirmed the faitli of American experts in the all-big gun ship—the dreadnaught—as the effec tive lighting force of any navy. Will Apply Lesson. One immediate development of this newest lesson drawn from the Euro pean war probably will be provision in the new naval bill for continued ad ditions to the dreadnaught fleet instead of building submarines on such an ex tensive scale as has been desired by many. ■ . It is plain, however, that the develop ment of successful means of repelling submarine warfare will not mean the abandonment of substantial additions to the American submarine fleet. The new naval building program probably will include more than the usual num ber of submarines and they will all be of tlie high speed, seagoing cruiser type, carrying rapid fire guns recently developed in the naval gun factory, but the official plan will not contem plate development of the submarine arm of the service at the expense of tlie big gun ships. New methods of offense and defense that may revolutionize naval warfare have been adopted, and high British naval officers are of tho opinion that unless the effectiveness of (lie subma rine is increased it wall no longer con stitute tlie menace that it has to com merce and battle fleets. The British censorship has prevented the disclosure of details concerning the developments, but within the last three weeks confidential reports to various government departments from repre sentatives in European capitals of neu tral as well ns belligerent countries, have confirmed the British admiralty’s view that an effective means of dealing with the submarine has been found. These reports are being closely scru tinized on account of tlie bearing they may have upon the naval policy of the United States. They reaffirm officers of the navy in their conviction that the dreadnought still in the mainstay in warfare on sea and tend to dissipate tlie profound impression by the spec tacular and for a long time apparently unsupported operations of the German U-boats around tlie British isles. Celebrate Achievement. A dinner was given recently in Lon don, wiiich while not a formal state af fair. was attended by high government officials, in celebration of the destruc tion of the 50th under water enemy. Reports of the dinner apparently were suppressed by the censor in accord ance with Great Britain's policy of keeping Germany in doubt as to how many of the boats have been destroyed. Although greatest secrecy is thrown around the means employed, the United States government has information concerning the principle methods which have been successful in meeting the German war zone campaign. A sub marine telephone has been developed by which it is possible to detect the sound of approaching submarine from observation boats or stations planted off shore and connected with points in the mainland. For tlie capturing of craft whose presence has not been de tected or even suspected, the govern ment’s representatives describe bow huge nets have been stretched across the channels through which the sub marines may be expected to attempt to pass. In open waters, near steam ship lanes or in the vicinity of war ships. nets suspended between floats have been spread broadcast. Armed patrol boats watch, and when the floats disappear beneath the water, showing that a submarine has become entangled, the patrols congregate at the place. When the victim comes to tlie surface, as it inevitably must to disentagle itself, it is destroyed by gun fire or captured. A special type of mine has been devised that has proved particularly dangerous to submarines approaching steamer lanes. Discover Supply Bases. The German methods of supplying submarines with oil and provisions either at sea or from concealed places all along the coasts of the British isles have been ferreted out and practically disposed of. This compels the boats to return to their bases at more frequent Intervals and leaves them only a com paratively short time In position or equipped for effective duty. SEIZE HORSE GOODS. London, Oct. 2.—Reuter's Amster dam correspondent quotes a decree1 published in the Official Gazette, of Berlin, requistioning all blankets, ! horse clothes and piece, goods used for manufacturing these articles. DENY HAMPERING AMERICAN TRADE Britain Submits Statistics to Show Re-Exports Have Not Increased Like Those of United States. Washington, D. C.. Oct. 4.—Great Britain's answer to reports circulated in this country that she has been in terfering with legitimate trade of the United States with neutral nations, is given in a note handed to Ambassador Page at London by Sir Edward Grey, the foreign minister, and made public here by the state department. The note, which is in response to the British ambassador's report of a ref erence at the state department to the unfavorable impression created here by reports of increases in British trade with northern European countries since the war began, suggests that statements concerning Great Britain’s policy have been inspired by German agents. As tending to illustrate that Ameri can commerce witli neutral nations has not been hampered by the British or der in council or the activities of the British navy the following llgures are suhmitted. British re-exports of cotton to Hol land and the Scandinavian countries January to May, 1915, 503,895 centals of 100 pounds each; United States ex ports to same countries, 3,353,638 centals as compared with 204,177 cen tals for same perior in 1914. British re-exports of rubber to Hol land and Scandinavian countries Jan uary to May, 1914, 17,726 centals; Jan uary to May, 1915, 16,693 centals. Uni ted States exports of rubber to same countries, January to May, 1914, 1,579 centals; January to May, 1915, 5,040 centals. British re-exports of lubricating oils to Holland and Scandinavian countries increased 709,370 gallons while United States exports to same countries in creased 3,857,593 gallons. British re-exports of unmanufac tued tobacco of the same countries show a gain of 2,937,244 pounds, whTie United States exports increased 6,081, S48 pounds. British re-exports of cocoa increased 11,500,000 pounds, while United States exports increased 16.000,000 pounds. British re-exports of coffee were 263,488 hundred weights, while the United States exports were 285,760 hundred weights, an increase from 7, 376 hundred weights. British re-exports of wheat flour to same countries increased 47,046 hun dred weights while United States ex ports increased 2,555,953 hundred weights from January to May, 1915. Sir Edward Grey’s statement adds: “I could point to many other in stances of similar proportionate in creases in the exports of the United States to Scandinavia and The Netherlands as compared with exports to the same countries from the United kingdom during the last five months. In respect, to the great majority of ar ticles for which figures of United States trade can be given the increase in this trade are greater, and in some cases very considerably greater than the increases in the United kingdom trade. "In many cases increases in United kingdom re-exports are due to the fact that the products of British In dian and colonial products, which for merly went direct to continental ports, such as Hamburg, Rotterdam or Co penhagen, are now sent to the United kingdom and thence distributed to old customers In Scandinavian countries and The Netherlands. Among such may be mentioned, paper, cinnamon and other spices (largely the product of the British East Indies), Indian tea, palm kernels (mainly from British West Africa) and copra (mainly from the Straits settlements and Austra lia). The direct trade of the British overseas dominions with the port of Hamburg alone is very great in nor mal times. PRESIDENT TO VOTE FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE Wilson Is Expected to Favor Measure in New Jersey— Holds It State Issue. Washington, II. O ,. Oet. 2.—Presi dent Wilson is expected shortly to an nounce his intention of voting for the New Jersey state constitutional amend ment granting suffrage to women. A special election on the amendment will he held October 19, and the president will go to Princeton to vote. Secretary Tumulty, whose home is in Jersey City, said today he expected to vote for the woman suffrage amendment, it was reported that Secretary Garrison, who is also from New Jersey, had author ized the statement that he would vote for woman suffrage. The president on several occasions has refused to support an amendment to the federal constitution to give na tion-wide woman suffrage. He has said he believed the question to be a state issue. Rcently he said he w'ould make known ills position on woman suffrage before the amendment to the New Jer sey constitution was voted upon. Paris. Oct. 4.—It is reported from Athens that Bulgarian troops from Sofia are moving in the direction of the Serbian frontier, and that other forces are being dispatched toward the Greek border. This information was forwarded to day by the Athens correspondent of the Havas News agency, who asserts it was obtained from a reliable source. It Is believed the principal point of con centration will be along the upper Strouma river, southwest of Sofia, near the Serbian border. Milan. Italy, (via Paris). Oct. 4.— Bulgaria is mobilizing all men up to the age of 58 years, according to the Corriere Della Sera Bucharest corre spondent. No citizen under 45 is per mitted to leave the country, and mar tial law has been proclaimed. Pro Gorman manifestations are reported in Bulgarian cities .along the Danube. Bulgarian artillery, the correspond ent asserts, is being massed along the frontier of Dobrudja, a part of Ru mania bounded by the Black sea and the Danube, which was taken from Bulgaria in 1878 and given to Rumania. This section has a cosmopolitan popu lation. , ALLIES URGED TO STRIKE FIRST BLOW IN BALKANS London. Oct. 4.—The situation on the eastern front is still regarded in London as of the greatest immediate Importance, notwithstanding the new offensive In the west. To transfer the center of gravity of the war to the western front is the task now before the French and British. The menacing attitude of Bulgaria doubtless is having a marked bearing an the activity of the allies in France jnd Belgium for increasing pressure on the German lines would exert a de cided influence on plans of the Aus trians and Germans to concentrate a heavy force on the Serbian frontier, Bhouid they commit themselves to a fresh campaign in the Balkans with the assistance of Bulgaria. That na tion now occupies, as Foreign Secre tary Grey phrased it yesterday, the position Turkey held during those weeks of uncertainty before she cast her lot openly with the central powers. Some sections of the British press are urging Greece and the allies to strike quickly the Instant it is deter mined that diplomacy is no longer able to avert a crisis. "To wait until Bulgaria actually moves,” says the Manchester Guar dian, “is to surrender the strategic Inititive to her. Between an Austro German attack on Serbia and a Bul garian attack there is no practical dif ference. For the allies the moment of decision has come. As soon as they are convinced Bulgaria is determined to make war they should dispatch an ultimatum to her and give her the choice of peace or war. "Should Bulgaria accomplish the - Germanic design of linking Berlin . with Constantinople,” the Guardian I continues, "a very grave change will have come over the complexion of the | war in this zone, a region where a far reaching result might be achieved I hy the allies with relative speed and • economy. * * * The strategical in- ' iative must not he frittered away by / faith in meaningless hopes or fear of i resolute action." I GERMAN OFFICERS WILL DIRECT BULGARIAN ARMY London. Oct. 2.—Foreign Secretary Grey announced this afternoon that German and Austrian officers wepe ar riving in Bulgaria to direct the Bul garian army. The secretary said this tvas a fact which the allies regard 'with the utmost gravity.” STRIKE RIOTS ARE STAGED IN MOSCOW Unemployed Men Are Causing Trouble — Serious Out breaks Intimated. Washington. Oct. 4.—Delayed dis patches to the state department report conditions of unrest in Moscow, fore shadowing the riot mentioned in news J dispatches. Unemployed, thrown out of work by strikes, were said to be causing trouble and more serious out breaks were threatened. Officials be lieve no Americans were injured. CANCEL CABLE DELAYS. New York, Oct. 2.—The French gov ernment has cancelled the 48-hour de lay imposed Thursday upon all mes sages to and from France, Switzerland and other neutral European countries, according to an announcement by the cable companies here today. BIG BUT SANE NAVAL PROGRAM IS PLANNED Daniels to Ask Congress for Approximately $225,000,000— Large Increase in Personnel His Aim—Believed Con gressmen Will Favor Proposed Expenditures. Washington. Oct. 4.—The navy de partment estimates, as they are now planned by Secretary Daniels and leading navy officials, will provide for a total expenditure cf $225,000,000. This is the information which came today from high sources, and is believed to represent the approximate figures on naval expenditures which the admin istration will recommend to congress. Not less than four new superdread naughts and a number of swift battle cruisers and many smaller craft with ample provision for submarines and aeroplanes will be recommended. The estimate of $225,000,000 would be, roughly speaking, about $75,000,000, more than the usual outlay on the navy. It would mean a large outlay for warship construction. It is cal culated by the navy department that If $226,000,000 a year could be had for three years, then the country could settle down to an expenditure of about $200,000,000 a year for the navy as a steady policy, and in doing this keep the fleet up to the standard needed to meet all probable requirements as to preparedness. It would keep the navy up to a point which would make it the best navy in the world next to that of England. Whatever may be the fate of army expenditures at the coming session, it is believed congress will appro priate liberally to the navy. A large increase of personnel is one of the things for which Secretary Daniels will provide in the estimates and an increased number of cadets at Annapolis. TIGRIS EXPEDITION HALTED TURKS SAY Constantinople Advices Declare the British Drive Toward Bagdad Has Been Turned Back. Constantinople, (via London), Oct. 4.—Announcement v.as made by the war office today (hat the British forces In Mesopotamia were repulsed in the recent fighting. The report follows: “On September 27 the British re ■ sumed the offensive. The battle was very violent and lasted until evening, but the attack finally failed, notwith standing the fact that the British forces were four times stronger than ours. “On the Irak front our advanced de tachments on September 28 surprised a hostile force which landed on the bank of the Tigris, north of Korna, under the protection of gunboats. We in flicted heavy losses on them." Announcement was made in the house of commons Wednesday that the British, under General Nixon, had de feated the Turks, who were said to be in full retreat toward Bagdad. In a dispatch. General Nixon report ed that one position carried by the British constituted a long line of de fenses astride the Tigris river. Seven miles east of Kut, two brigades crossed the river from the right bank and by a forced march reached the left wing of the Turkish position, carrying it by assault. By nightfall the whole posi tion had been carried. The Turkish losses in dead were de scribed as severe. The Turks clung to their trenches with great tenacity, and these were filled with corpses when the British carried them. General Nixon gave the British cas ualties as “under 600.” MILLIONS IN PRIZES FOR BRITISH SEAMEN London, Oct. 2.—The amount of prize money for officers and men of the navy which has accumulated during the war is said by the Morning Post to be $20, 000,000. None of this has been dis tributed and the Post makes the com plaint that purchases by the govern ment of confiscated cargoes deprives the navy of prize money. STRIKE IS AVERTED. Pittsburgh, Oct. 2.—Leaders of the workmen at the Bast Pittsburgh plants of the Westinghouse Electric & Manu facturing company today announced that the men had decided not to strike. More than 9,000 of the 15,000 employes voted on the proposition and only 2,496 favored the strike. KIN SHOULD WED, SAYS PROFFESSOR Pennsylvania Scientist Says Race Would Be Improved By Intermarriage, Philadelphia. Pa.. Oct. 4.—The mar riage of blood relatives, prohibited by law and church since time immemoral. Is championed by M. J. Greenman, di rector of Wistar Institute of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, who has been experimenting with rats for the past four and a half years and has found that Inbreeding does not lead to de cadence and decay, but produces a finer specimen. ■'There seems to be no reason why first cousins should not marry, nor even brothers and sisters,” declares Director Greenman. HARD LUCK PURSUES “DOG” COOK, EXPLORER Arrested as Spy, Movie Outfit Confiscated, and Forbidden to Climb Mountain. — San Francisco, Oct. 2.—Dr. Freder ick A. Cook, who left San Francisco In June to climb Alt. Everett in the Himalayas, was arrested In Rangoon, Burma, as a German spy, and his mo tion picture outfit was confiscated, ac cording to Curtis W. Allen, an Ameri can timber buyer, who has returned from an 11-months' trip In the far east. Allen said that Dr. Cook was released later, but permission to climb Alt. Everest was withheld. The timberman, born In Anacortes, Wash., said he himself was arrested as a spy seven times in 11 months and at Rangoon was in the same pail with the explorer. _ _ IOWA U TO FURNISH WIRELESS PIGSKIN SCORES Iowa City, la., Oct. 2.—Scores of the football games of east and west will be sent out from the University of Iowa wireless station each Saturday night. There are about 50 wireless stations in Iowa, which will be able to receive the university reports. Alost of them are operated by amateurs. If they will “listen" through their instruments from 7 o’clock on Saturday evening, they should be able to catch the foot hall news. A full account of contests elsewhere, gathered by telegraph from all over the country will be relayed through the wireless Instruments. The operators of the wireless sta tions in the various cities and towns of the state and surrounding territory will be at liberty to give the informa tion to their friends or to the news papers If they wish. in me Ariois district me artillery of the enemy yesterday bombarded very violently our positions to the east of Souchez, Nevertheless we made per ceptible progress from trench to trench on the heights of La Folle. Conquer Strategic Point. "In the Champagne district the Ger mans bombarded last night our new lines near St. Legrange. To the east of the Navarin farm our troops con quered an important section of th* positions of the enemy which consti tuted a salient of the actual line to th* north of Mesnll. "In Lorraine German reeonnolterlng parties have attacked two of our post* near Moneel and near Sorneville. They were repulsed and pursued by French troops back to their own lines. Ths night passed quietly on the remalnde* of the front. "Squadrons of French airships have thrown down a very large number of projectiles on the railroad stations and the railroad lines behind the German front, particularly at the Junction of Guignlcourt-Amlfontalne. "During the past night guns mounted on aeroplanes were successful In bomr bardlng the German lines.” Preponderance of Shells Wins Day London. Oct 4.—"As In the earliei battles of the war, the victory in th* latest of the fighting was mainly • question of which side had the blggesy supply of shells—our supply was un limited, but the Germans had t* economize In ammunition, therefor* they lost," writes a London artillery officer In a letter giving a detailed ac count of the past week's battle \t northern France. “There was no element of surprls* In our success," says the officer. "Although the actual advance cam* on Saturday we knew of the plan of the previous Sunday and began pre. Umlnary artillery operations on Tues day. The Germans must have knows what was up. as soon as we begat systematic wire cutting operation) along the extensive front. They trie* to turn the tables on us by firing Inti our wires, but they did not have hall enough guns or ammunition to kee| up the pace we set "On Tuesday we began the work o: wire cutting, and parapet pounding Eighteen pounders with shrapnel an* howitzers with high explosives starts* at dawn and continued throughout thi day. systematically smashing the Ger man defenses. At night the Germane came out to repair the damage, buf were swept back by the most prodiga use of machine gun fire. "Wednesday was a repetition of Tuesday. There was no stinting of ammunition anywhere along our line* although the number of guns In actlot was wonderful. It was noticeable thai the Germans already were husbandinf their ammunition, making only a feebl* reply, and their guns were palpably Inferior In number and strength t« ours. Wednesday night repair wort again was attempted with trernendou* German losses. “On Friday we intensified our fir* All along our section of the front th* German wire was dewn and parapheti were badly breached. The German* had brought up more guns and ammu nition and Increased their artillery fire, attacking our trenches and search ing for our batteries and observiny stations. But the weight of our inex haustible supply of shells began t* tell. The German front trenches be. came well nigh uninhabitable fron constant pounding and it was evident that the front line was very lightly held. "Meanwhile, the superiority of oui aeroplane equipment also was evident The number of our machines was s* great that we were able to keep ob. servers in the air about the Germa* lines at all times, with plenty of ma chines in reserve to foil every Germat attempt to make observations abov* our positions. "On Friday night the machine gut fire was like rain, falling constantly o* the German positions and preventing repair work on the wire. Then at 4:j) o'clock Saturday morning the real cannonade began. Along our section of say five miles, there must hav* been 3,000 shells fired in five minutes The bombardment was the biggest thing In the history of the war. Th* flash of guns was so continuous as t« give an alma unbroken light in th* grey dawn. FIVE MEET DEATH. Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 2.—M. Zell. age4 50, and four school children were Rilled when their automobile was struck by * Pennsylvania express train at a grad* crossing near Leola. Two other chil dren were so badly injured that they may die. i