TRUCE IS DECLARED MEXICANS AT NACO SUSPEND HOSTILITIES FOR PRESENT. CARRANZA WILLING TO RETIRE Constitutionalist Chief Wishes Assur< ance That Retirement Will Not Mean Ascendancy of Villa. Naco. Ariz.—A truce has been de clared between the Carranza garri son at Naco, Sonora, and the Villa attackers. Pending the final solution of the peace problem by the conven tion at Aguas Calientes, Governor Benjamin Hill and Governor Mayto rena have suspended hostilities. The Maytorena troops are now at a point 35 kilometers southward. Serious admonitions from the Uni ted States government, through offi cers of the border patrol here, are re ported to have been the convincing arguments that moved the Mexican leader. Since October 2 there has been a bombardment of Naco, So nora, which has been little less ef fective against this American town. Protests were lodged by the citizens and by Governor Hunt with the war department and with the president In response the border patrol was in creased about 2,000 men with a ma chine gun platoon. Colonel C. A. P. Hatfield, the brigadier commander, came here from Douglas to assume command. The action of Hill in re treating to Naco, which backs against the American border, after his de feat by Maytorena near Santa Bar bara, was condemned by the Villa commander. Nevertheless Maytore na’s Yaqui Indian troops made many of their attacks from the south, their bullets usually going wide of the mark and endangering, and recently striking American soldiers and civil ians. Commissioner Sosa, after the announcement of the truce, said that the convention will devote its efforts to establishing a stable government in Sonora. The Hill partisans, however, fear that the uncontrollable Yaqui In dians will disregard the peace terms and attack when least expected. Nev ertheless the Hill forces have left the trenches and regard the siege as end ed for the present at least. Carranza May Quit. Washington.—General Carranza Is willing to retire from the post of chief executive of Mexico, provided General Villa is not instrumental in procuring his resignation. He also wishes to be assured that his retire ment will not mean the ascendancy of Villa. This explanation of General Carranza"s position made informally at Mexico City, has been received by the American government. Jhirteen Crowned in Flood. San Antonio. Tex.—A five-inch rain in less than three hours here caused a fifteen-foot flood in the San Antonio river, and put the San Pedro and Aiazan creeks out of their hanks from 100 to 1,000 feet. Thirteen deaths by drowning have been re ported, with indications that the rec ord will reach seventeen or more. To Comb Sea for Foe. London.—The admiralty has issued a statement outlining the steps that are being taken to round up the eight of nine Germna cruisers at large in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. These cruisers include the Emden, which has sunk or captured twenty British vessels to date in the Indian ocean and the Karisruhe which has taken thirteen British ships in the Atlantic. The statement says: “Searching for these vessels and working in concert under various commanders-in-chlef are upwards of seventy British, Australian. Japanese, French and Russian cruisers, not in cluding auxiliary cruisers. Among these are a number of the fastest British cruisers. France Needs Outside Help. Paris.—The greatest problem for France this winter probably will be to take care of the people at home The army will have the first call on the national resources. The 37,000,000 of people at home must get on as best they can. A wonderful spirit of gentleness and kindness is moving the French people to create a community of interest in everything they have, In which every person shall share. All private interests have shriveled up Neverthless. contributions from the outside world are sorely needed. Destroy a Submarine Base. London.—British war vessels hare destroyed the German submarine base in one of the uninhabited rocks of the Shetland islands in the North sea, according to a report from Scotland. Test of Army Preparedness. Washington.—To test the prepared ness of regular troops stationed in the capita], Major General Leonard Wood has ordered their mobilization on the Potomac river just below Mount Vernon, Va. About 800 men affected by this order. Kaiser and Staff Flee Russ Poland. Ijoradon.—Emperor William and the German headquarters staff have re . treated from Czenstochowa in Rus sian Poland close to the Silesian fron tier, into Silesia. More Venezuela Trouble. Washington.—A cabinet crisis has occurred in Venezuela and all of the members have resigned. American Minister McGoodwin lias reported to the state department that the resig nations were accepted, but he gave no details. U. S. Troop May Go to China. Washington, D. C. — American troops will probably be dispatched to guard the Pekin-Mukden railway, ac cording to a report by the war de partment HAMPERING THE GERMAN OPERATIONS This is the way the Belgians destroyed the railway which was the Ger man line of communication between the army in France and Brussels. DATS OF BUTTLE WITHOUT RESULT TO EITHER SIDE Many Rumors, But No Official Claims of Victory Have Yet Been Made. BRITISH WARSHIPS IN FIGHT Effective Aid to the Allies’ Land Forces—Dykes of the Yser Cut and Country Inundated—Portugal Joins Coalition Against Kaiser—Invasion of England Planned—General News of the War. Rotterdam, Oct. 23.—The intensity of the fighting in Belgium is so great that the people in Holland can hear distinctly the noise of it. Flushing continually heard the thunder of guns and the windows there rattled w ith the concussion. The Amsterdam X'ieuwe Van den Dag reports that the burgomaster of Wenduyne has telegraphed the fol lowing: “The victory is to the allies. They have taken a large number of pris oners between Chalons and Longwy and have captured 300 guns and 31 flags." Refugees from Ostend say that Westende Is being bombarded and that many trains filled with wounded are coming into Bruges. The correspondent of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant at Ghent says that big troop movements are taking place. The German staff left the town Wednesday for either Wetterin or Grammont. It is semiofficially reported in Pe trograd that the number of German troops sent to the Kastern and West ern theaters of the war since the mid dle of September is 1,000,000. On the western Belgian coast there is being fought a battle which, for display of advanced military and naval science, for spectacular effect, for ferocity of action and appalling losses, is a realization of the most fantastic dream picture of the "war of the future'’ ever put on paper or canvas. The Germans, heavily re-enforced by fresh land troops and by a naval brigade of 10,000 men, have extended their base from Ostend to Maria kirke and Middlekirke, halfway be tween Ostend and Nieuport, and from these positions are shelling the Bel gian line, which extends from N'ieu port south along the River Yser, a distance of 18 miles, with their left flank resting on the coast. The Belgians are being aided by the French land forces, the Britilsh warships on the sea and the British monitors and small gunboats in the canals and rivers. When not directing the fire of their huge 17-inch guns against the Belgian position, the Germans are replying to the cannonading of the British dread naughts, which added their strength to the British fleet. The fire of the British guns is di rected and corrected constantly by ob servers. The flying machines circle low about the German positions, risk ing death at every swoop, in order to be within effective observation dis tance. German submarines, with deadly torpedoes charged for their destruc tive thrust resting ready in their tubes, are constantly menacing the hulls of the great fighting ships. The dykes of the Yser have been cut and the banks for considerable distances have been flooded; while stretching away in the direction of the attacking German front at high. tide, the land is so inundated as ef-1 fecti,vely to preclude the possibility of any advance in force. The ferocity of the three-cornered bombardment continues undiminished. In the British naval bombardment the town of Slype, which was held in force by the Germans, was utterly destroyed, and the house occupied by the German headquarters staff was blown to bits. One of the British balloonists, while signaling the range to the ships, was killed by the fire from the German guns. A wireless dispatch from Berlin claims that the German artillery dis abled one of the British destroyers PORTUGAL JOINS WAR. New York, Oct. 22.—Lisbon news papers of October 6 and 7, received at the Portuguese consulate today, as sert that more than twenty-five thou sand Portuguese troops are aiding the French and British forces in the bat tle line in Belgium and France. The position of the troops is kept from the papers by the censorship. THREE BATTLE FRONTS. London. Oct. 22.—While British war ships shelled tho German trenches— one report from Berlin says they bom barded Ostend—the allied armies along the Franco-Belgian border rallied and gained decisive advantages over the invaders on three battle fronts over a total line of 45 miles. The Germans have been forced to flee from Courtrai, according to an other report; they abandoned and set fire to portions of Lille, against which today’s fiercest attacks of the allies j were directed. And retreating Ger I man armies along the Belgian sea coast are said to have bombarded Nieuport, where fighting has raged be tween the two opposing forces until two days ago. I he German advance on Dunkirk ; was checked by the Belgian army, [ supported by French and British de I tachments, who repulsed the invaders and took some further territory in the line of battle extending from Nieu port south of Dixmude, on the Yser Ypres canal. King Albert was in the thick of the engagement. Battle Lines Changed. A wedge of the allied armies fought the Germans along an east and west front extending from Ypres to Memin. This battle line bisects the battle line of a few days ago in which the allies drove the Germans back from Roulers to Armentiere. It is reported, al though not confirmed, that the allies’ wedge was further extended, so that the Germans, as above stated, were forced to evacuate Courtrai. The third battle of the day was i fought along a north and south line ! from Warneton, Belgium, to LaBassee. France, where the allies tried ineffec tually to dislodge the Germans from their position. Apparently this battle marks the attempt of the allies to follow up the advantage gained at BaBassee, when a vigorous German attack was re pulsed, and press the offensive move ment closer to Lille, headquarters for the whole right wing of the German army. The battle from Ypres to Me nin is believed to be part of the move ment for its capture and to have men aced, if not interrupted, its commu nication with Ghent. Seek Important Positions. What the capture of Lille would mean to the allies, the occupation of Dunkirk would mean to the Germans. Re-enforcing the Belgian army along the coast, the allies threw their troops into the fight with desperate abandon. Not only did the Belgians and allies hold their ground against the at tempted march on Dunkirk, but they forced the Germans to fall back on their reserve lines between Nieuport and Ostend. The pick of the allied troops appa rently has been intrusted with the task of stemming the movement against Dunkirk. Could the Germans seize this seaport they would doubt I less press on to take Calais. There fore It is thought the pick of the Ger man right wing has been intrusted with the task of seizing Dunkirk. This makes the battle ground the grapple of the choicest troops of the line on both sides. PLAN INVASION OF ENGLAND. The Hague, Oct 21.—Germany, ac cording to information received here from Berlin, is preparing to deal Great Britain a decisive blow. The scheme is to disembark several army corps somewhere in the south of Eng land, while the grand fleet is occu pied with fighting the German fleet in the North sea. German experts believe the plan will be entirely successful. According to this information, as soon as the last resistance of the Bel gian army is disposed of there will be a great movement of laudsturm troops from central Germany to Os tend and Zeebrugge, where they will await an opportunity to cross to the English shore and march on London, where Zeppelins and Taubes will have caused havoc and demoralized the population. Plans Great Sea Fight. While this is taking place Admiral von Ingenohl's fleet, now confined at Wilhelmshaven, will steam out into the North sea for the great fight. » These German calculations rest on the hypothesis that the south coast of Ergland will be left absolutely with out protection, all of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s ships being engaged in the great North sea battle. The German newspapers, by way of preparing public opinion for this great stroke, publish extravagant dispatches dilating on British nervousness and the fear of unavoidable destruction by Germany. Germans Are Impatient. The German fleet is described na awaiting with passionate impatience the moment when it can make a dash at the enemy. Prince Henry of Prussia is actively engaged, it is an nounced. in the work of inspecting the fleet, and he i6 continually keeping the men on the run by surprise calls. The prince is reported to be in Bel gium to take command of the general operations against England. On these operations, by means of which the war will speedily be brought to an end, the public opinion of Germany is now focused. Should they fail, the disappointment engen dered may have incalculable conse quences. SAY GERMANS RETREAT. London. Oct. 23.—According to the Petrograd correspondent of'the Daily News, a message has been received in the Russian capital from Warsaw which says that Emperor William and the German headquarters staff have retreated from Czenstochowa. in Rus sian Poland, close to the Silesian fron tier, into Silesia. London, Oct. 22.—The preliminary battle between the Russian and Aus tro-German armies in the eastern the ater of war has moved more swiftly. Reports from Russian sources stated that the first German offensive move against Warsaw, the Polish capital, and the fortress of Ivangorod has i been further repulsed. The accounts refer to this as a great victory. The official communication issued by the Russian general headquarters staff at Petrograd says: •The rapid retreat of the Germans from Warsaw continues. The bom bardment by the enemy’s heavy ar tillery has caused no essential damage to the fortifications of Ivangorod or the bridges. “In Galicia desp^ate engagements are still being fougnt. During the ad vance in the region between Prze mysl and the Vistula we captured more than thirty officers, 2,000 soldiers and many rapid-fire guns. To the south of Przemysl the Russian opera tions are developing, also with suc cess.” Germans Claim Success in North. Against this Russian claim of suc cess is an announcement from Berlin that the Russians have been repulsed on the East Prussian frontier, indicat ing a renewal of fighting after some days of quiet in this region. The Ger man official statement says: “In the northeastern war theater our troops are pursuing the retreat ing enemy in the direction of Osso wetz, Russian Poland. Several hun dred prisoners and machine guns were taken. "Near Warsaw and elsewhere in Russian Poland, after several days of battle, no fighting was reported yes terday. The situation is 6till in a state of evolution.” Ossowetz is the fortress which was in range of the German guns several weeks ago when their advance on the Niemen failed. GENERAL NEWS OF THE WAR German Cruiser Emden Continues to Capture and Sink British Ships— Lille Destroyed. Sinks and Captures British Ships. I^ondon, Oct. 22.—A Lloyd dispatch from Cochin says that the British steamer Exford has been captured by the German cruiser Emden off the Malabar coast. Another Lloyd dispatch reports the sinking of the British steamer Chil kama, Troillies, Benmohr and Clan Grant, as well as a dredger off the Colombo coast. The German cruiser Emden has to her credit the sinking of 15 British steamers and the capture of three other vessels flying the union jack. Allies Destroy Fort Near Cattaro. Rome, Oct. 22.—A Cettinje dispatch to the Messagero says that the British and French war fleets in the Adriatic have destroyed Castelnueve fortress just outside of the gulf of Cattaro and north of the entrance. The Austrian fleet is reported to have taken refuge in the gulf of Cattaro, having lost a submarine and a torpedo-boat de stroyer. An engagement between Ger man torpedo boats and hostile sub marines in the Baltic near Rugen is land, off the Prussian coast, is report ed from Stockholm. British Seize U. S. Ship. Halifax, X. S., Oct. 20—The Brit ish auxiliary Caronia arrived in port with the American oil tank steam er Brindilla, formerly the German steamship Washington, as a prize of war. It is claimed the Brindilla car ried a cargo of contraband. A prize crew had boarded her. The capture was made by a British cruiser off the port of New York. The commander of the cruiser designated the Caronia to bring the ship to Halifax. The Brindilla is now at anchor in the har bor, flying the American flag. Half Million Wounded in France. London, Oct. 19.—Dr. Leslie Haden Guest, who established six Anglo French hospitals in France, declared that the number of wounded in France is estimated at half a million. Germans Command Turkish Army. Milan, Oct. 21.—The special corre spondent in Constantinople of the Secolo telegraphs that to all intents and purposes Turkey has become a German colony. The grand vizier fol lows orders from Berlin. About six hundred German officers have arrived in Turkey since the war started and brought siege guns, field guns and am munition with them. The German colonel, Weber Pasha, has taken com mand of the Dardanelles forts and big German guns are being mounted in them. Say Lille Is Destroyed. London, Oct. 22.—Lille, the principal city of northern France, practically has been destroyed by German can non. The most beautiful buildings have been shot to pieces. Flames have laid waste the principal streets. The details of the bombardment were received from an eyewitness by a correspondent of the Daily Mail in the North of France. Germans Lose 11,500 More. Berlin, Oct. 22.—A German casualty list issued today contains the names of about 11,500 killed, wounded and missing. Diet Grants Big War Credit, Berlin, Oct. 22.—The Prussian diet met today and passed war bills, in cluding one granting a credit of $275, 000,000. Belgium Being Germanized. London, Oct. 24.—All Belgium is be ing ‘'Germanized” as rapidly as pos sible, says a correspondent. “A fort night ago,” says this writer, “hundreds of Belgian postal clerks went on strike, refusing to work under German regu lations. Hundreds of Germans are being imported to take the places of the strikers. The grounds at the pal ace of Laeken, one of the summer residences of King Albert, have been turned into a camp. German officers occupied the king's palace for several days.” BELGIAN AMBULANCE CORPS AT THE FRONT .... 1 ' WBOMOWW—M«—— ----- - __ - HISTORIC CASTLES IN ARMS Scotland’s Old Landmarks Swarm With Soldiers as They Did in the Days of Old. Yesterday Stirling and Edinburgh castles were reminders of the days of Scott’s ballads and novels. This morning they have changed character —are swarming barracks, says Les lie’s. Regiments in khaki stream in and out of the portals through which knights in armor used - to gallop. Long lines of drab uniformed men wriggle up, snakelike, from the base ments of railway stations. Armed giants in kilts pour down from the hills, up from the valleys. The first army to respond appeared and disap peared again so quickly that the spec tator was led to wonder if the troop3 had been stored in castle cellars or in the railway luggage rooms. And when these were gone, another army, larger than the first, began to mobi lize from shops and farms and fac tories. In trains and motor cars, on foot and on horseback, they appeared by squads and by regiments. You heard the thud of their heavy shoes and the skirling of pipes as you ale your breakfast; and the rumble of gun carriages and the clatter of hoofs awoke you at night. Yesterday you visited old Holyrood and its ruined chapel, trying to pic ture to yourself the days when battle was life’s chief business and the castle yards were thronged with men at arms. This morning you pass there again to discover that battle once more is life’s chief business, that war has claimed its own. A city of military tents covers half of the yard behind the cattle. A battery dashes across the green, uulimbers its held pieces, whirls away again. Cavalry men are herding the sheep in King'i park this morning instead of the park of shepherds. A column of infantry swing into the winding road at the foot of Arthur's Seat, and, as you retreat uphill before it, sentries sil houetted against the morning light on the hillside bar your way. EPIT1E0F EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. HRE SHORT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What la Transpiring In Various Sections of Our Own ana Foreign Countries. WASHINGTON. The house has defeated, 193 to 91, the bill proposing a government de posit of $250,000,000 in Southern banks to be loaned on cotton and to bacco, * * * Calls for additional medical and surgical supplies have reached the Stale department from American Red Cross officers in France. Russia and Servia. * * • Seventy-four foreign-built vessels, with an aggregate of 206,373 gross tons, have sought protection of the stars and stripes by taking American registry since the European war be gan. * * • The war department has admitted that the Philippines are being armed and provisioned rapidly. In part, the reason for this is a compre hensive armament plan sanctioned by congress. • • * The house has adopted the confer ence report on the war tax measure that will provide about $90,000,000 a year. The tax on beer will remain at $1.50 a barrel and the 2-ccnt tax of gasoline will be emitted. * * * The comptroller of currency has given an order to the director of tfcfc Bureau of Engraving and Print ing for the engraving of $250,000,000 of federal reserve notes for the use of the twelve federal reserve banks which are about to be opened. * • • A protest against labor conditions in the Panama canal zone has been made to the canal commission by representatives of the executive council of the building trades depart ment of the American Federation of Labor and the operative plasterers’ international commission. Shortening of details of troops to the Philippines from three to two j years, is under consideration by the War department. Troops will be kept in better physical condition by serv ing only two years in the tropics, staff officers say. * * • President Wilson has signed the Alaskan coal land leasing bill opening the coal fields of Alaska. Because of restrictions put on the output of coal from Canada to Alaska since the Eu ropean war began the bill was hur ried through congress at the request of Secretary Lane and several west ern senators. DOMESTIC. Resolutions protesting against the government tax on oteoinargine were adopted at the closing session of the American meat packers’ association convention at Chicago. * * * "Raise wheat,” is the advice E. C. Hamilton, British consul at St. Paul, Minn., gave farmers of the United States. He says that, irrespective of the duration or result of the present war, American wheat will be in great demand in Europe next year. • * * Complete recovery of the wholesale dry goods market from depression due to the European war was announced by large dry goods wholesalers in St Loqis, whose sales during August and September exceeded by 15 per cent those of a corresponding period in 1913. * • * For the first time in sixteen years the meat packers at the Chicago stock yards are working day and night in the canned meat and hide departments in order to fill orders. The unusual activity has been caused by the large orders received as a result of the Eu ropean war. • • • A petition for higher wages for women and children in important Mil waukee industries, signed by Mrs. Carl G. Stern, president of the Mil waukee Consumers' league, and by other prominent social workers, has been filed with the Wisconsin indus trial commission. * * » Corporal punishment has been abol ished in the public schools in St. Louis, except for extraordinary cases, as a result of the petition of George E. Dieckmann, chairman of the Hu mane society executive committee. • • • Rev. Joseph A. Cottam, former pas tor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Dearborn, near Detroit, charged with arson, in connection with the burning of the parsonage there last winter, was acquitted after th jury had deliberated twenty min utes. * * • Winnipeg, Minn., has just celebrat ed the third annual anniversary of its Municipal lighting and power plant, which provides the cheapest light and power in the world to householders_ 3 cents a kilowatt. * * * An agreement by the East St. Louis, 111., packing plants with the city of St. Louis has ended a twenty-year fight by the city to do away with the nox ious smells from the plants wh»ch are wafted over St. Louis from th* un closed vats In the National Stock Yards. » * • Delegates, representing seventeen national organizations of women, at Pittsburgh, decided on the permanent organization of a national central body to be known as the Council of National Organization of Women. The suit of the government to dis solve the United States Steel corpora tion has begun at Philadelphia * » * State wide prohibition and woman suffrage amendments, which will be submitted at the state election on No vernber 3, were largely responsible for record registrations In Ohio cities * * • New Yoik regard disease epideinii - as a certain outgrowth of the war in Europe, and are making every arrange ment medical science suggests to pr. vent diseases being brought to thu country by immigrants. * * * F. Augustus Heinze lost his halt > to have the Ohio Copper Mining com pany proceedings set aside when United States Judge Meyer ruled *hut the federal court at New York has jurisdiction in the case. * * * W. C. Robinson. Grinnll, la., aviuior flying in a home-made mouoplan* broke the American record for non stop flight from Des Moines, la. t Kentland, Ind.. nearly 400 miles in four hours and forty-four minute * * • Barbed wire factories in Pitt.sburi and in Sharon have a record breaking order for France. An order for cm automobile trucks, also placed by France, has caused a large Pennsy! vania concern to resume day-arc! night operations. » * • "One farmer out of every three in this country is losing money, as a re suit of inefficient methods,” said Thomas Cooper, director of the Soui’ Dakota experiment station, before the International Dry Farming rongres at Wichita. Kan. • • • "More than 100,000 men. women and children of Albania will die of starva tion before Christmas unless succored by the United States,” declared Rev W. W. Howard of New York, a mis sionary, before the weekly meeting o: Baptist ministers at Chicago. > • * * An American commission will, a the result of an agreement, reached between Belgium, Great Britain and Germany, take under its charge the care of hundreds of thousands of Bel gians, who are threatened with star vation in their own country * * * After forty-eight hours' imprison ment in quicksand, twenty-live feet below the surface of the earth. Mau rice Allen of Ware, Mass., was res cued by a gang of fifty firemen They had to dig a ditch fifty feet long and thirty feet deep to reach him • * * William L