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Omaha Daily Bee The unrivalled special feat ure pafes of The Sunday Dee are in a class by them selves. Best of them all. THE WEATHER Cloudy VOL. XIX NO. 2. OMAHA, FIJI DAY MOKX1XO, JULY 1 PI 5 TWELVE PAGES. On Trains ana at Bote) Mews Stands. Bo, SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. The MULE GRAFT SUNK ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OFNATIONS Sinking of Armenian Justified by Reported Attempt of Ship to Escape and Its Being a British Transport. SUCH IS WASHINGTON VIEV7 If Press Dispatches Officially Con finned it is Unlikely Com plaint Made td Kaiser. LITTLE TENSION OVER INCIDENT WASHINGTON. July 1. Official Information regarding the sinking of the British steamer Armenian with the loss of a number of American lives was lacking tonight, and until all details are available Secretary Lansing stated that the position of the American government could not be determined. From news dispatches, however, and a doner reading of offirinl reports of yes terday officials were Inclined to the view that Inasmuch as the Armenian appar ently refused to submit to the warning command of the German submarine to halt and attempted escape, according to International law. the sinking- of the vessel was Justified, even though non comhatante were on board. There was little tension over the Inci dent In official quarters here after It be came known that the Armenian ahd sought to evade capture. "No Cause of Complaint. It was admitted that If official reports bore out the press dispatches there was no likelihood that any new cause of com plaint would be added to the issues pend ing between the United States and Ger many. ! One or two officials suggested that last-much as Germany had In effect given warning that enemy ships would be tor pedoed without warning, a merchantman carrying contraband might be justified in attempting to escape, since to halt would mean certain destruction, with no assurances of an opportunity for the crew to escape. It was pointed out that the last American note to Germany on the Lusltanla and Falaba cases said: "Nothing but actual forcible resistance or continued efforts to escape by flight when ordered to stop for purpose of visit on the part of the merchantman ever has been held to forfeit, the Uvea of its passengers and crew." These officials were Inclined ti. argue that the German submarines might not order vessels to stop merely "for the pur pose of visit-" Others, however, de clared that the rules of warfare do not require the commander of a warship to state his purpose when directing a mer chantman to halt. In Admiralty Business. The only fact of Importance received officially by the State department came In a report from Ambassador Page, who said the British admiralty had informed him that the Armenian was engaged In admiralty business. Officials at the department declared the question of whether a ship so en gaged should be treated by hostile ves sels as a public ship of war or a de fenseless merchantman was "a close question of international law, ' and an opinion could not be given until the ex tent of the belligerent government's con trol over the ship and crew was defi nitely known. When It was suggested to officials that if the Armenian were a public ship of war it could not have sailed from the United States without violating neutral ity. It was pointed out that there had been cases before the federal courts In which this point arose and It had been ruled that the chartering of a vessel by a foreign consul for his government to transport munitions of war or supplies did not constitute a violation of federal ' statutes. Treated as Ships of War. In the case of vessels which are loaded to supply a belligerent fleet at sea, how ever, the American government has ruled that such ships must be treated as ships of wae. The question of charter and belligerent control was overshadowed In official quarters by the press dispatches telling of the desperate attempts of the Ar- (Continued on Page Two, Column One. The Weather Forecast till 7 P- m. Friday: r or umn, Loumii muiis ana icinuy Cloudy; slightly cooler. iTtststrstsn at Omaha Yesterday. Deg. , M m 63 8S K7 70 73 77 Hour. 5 a. m... a a. m... 7 a. m... a. m... n a. m... 10 a. in... 1 a. in... 12 m 1 p. m... 2 p. m... 1 p. in... 4 p. m... fi p. m... 6 p. m... 7 p. in... p. m Caparatlr Lacai Record. , . 1'1S- 1911. 1913. Highest yesterday 82 s2 Ik lowest vesterday h c hn S Mean temperature 70 71 jZ Precipitation T .00 T ' j) Temperature and precipitation depar tures from the normal. Normal temrerature Deficiency for the day i Total deficiency slnt March 1..'. in Normal precipitation lsVnVh l'eflclency for the duv I? Inrh Total rainfall since March 1. .11 .SH inches DefU-iency since Mrrh 1 t 74 Inch. Ien'lency for cor. period. 1914 y M, n Deficiency for cor. period. ..'. nri Heports frnm tlaifas at T P. M. Station and tate Temp. HlKh- Kain- of Weather. 7. p m. est. fall Cheyenne, psitlv cloudy.. J -r rav.nMrt, cinr 71 penver. clu'idv ft) M ', Ies Mclii.-a, clu'ltlv 70 V) 'fti Nor- , p!stte. dv.ir ' I" luha, rlnudv 71 t- ' I.apid City, cloudy..'.'.'.'.'.' 7i -i Htieridan. rain fj c Sioux 'lty. nlfiir 7; '4,1 Valentin rlur -jt rr, "T'" Indicate 1 1 0 ri ectpit.tien. I A. WELH. Lotal Forecaster. HI Pf.dBIJVT U i PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN DIES AT HIS HOME. .1 S : . J, ' f ALFRED C. K ENNBDY. ALFRED C. KENNEDY, LONG ILL, IS DEAD J Omaha Business Man, Widely Known for Pnblio Service, Passes Away. HEART TROUBLE CAUSES DEMISE Alfred 0. Kennedy, one of the most prominent of Omaha's business men, widely known for his activity in public affairs, died at 4 o'clock yesterday at hla home, 102 4 South Thirty-second street, after a linger ing Illness, which cut short his life at the age of 53. More than a year ago It was learned that Mr. Kennedy was suf fering from a serious heart trouble. For the last two months he had been unable to leave his bed and for eight months he had been confined to his home. The members of the family were at the bedside ' when death came. Alfred Conkling Kennedy was born In New Lebanon, Columbia counly. New York, April 7, 1S62. He was brought to Omaha by his parents when he was a child and grew up here, obtaining his education In the Omaha public schools. Ills father, Howard Kennedy, was one of the pioneers of the city and .was the first school teacher here after the public school system waa inaugurated, Novem ber 10, 1859. Alfred C. Kennedy began his business career going out with a Union Pacific, surveying party from April to December, 1879. He then became clerk In the coal department of the Union Pacific, which position he held until September, From then until March of tho following year he was clerk to Herman Kountze, receiver of the Kouth Omaha Land com pany. He was assistant secretary of the South Omaha Land company from March, 1887 until 1K00, later becoming a member of the firm of Howard Kennedy & Bon. In 11)05 he engaged in the real estate business for himself. In which he con tinued until the time of his death, with offices in the First National bank build ins. Public Services In Omaha. Mr. Kennedy was an active participant in public affairs. For two terras ha was a member of the Omaha Board of Edu cation and for two terms a member of the board of directors of the publlo library. He served a vice president of the Board of Education, president of the Prospect Hill Cemetery association, di rector and corresponding secretary of the Omaha Masonic library, and treasurer of the Omaha City mission. Mr. Kennedy wss a member of learned societies and stood hlgn in Masonic cir cles. He was a member of Correspon dence circle, Quatuor Coronatl lodge 207ti. I,ondon. England, a member of the Bt. Andrew society of Edinburgh. Scot land, and a member of the Nebraska Academy of Science. He belonged to Capitol lodge No. 3. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and to Clan Gordon, Order of Scottish Clans, and was a thlr-ty-second degree Scottish RHe Mason, a Knight Templar and a Chillier. He was a member of the Omaha club and the Happy Hollow club, and an e'der in the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Kennedy wis msrrled twice. His first wife was Elizabeth H. IxiHennnir. j to whom he was married In Omaha, Feb ruary ai. lsss. She died March S, l3. In September, 1837, Mr. Kenneiiy married Jessie Came:-on Godso In Omaha. The following children have been born to hhn: Donald L., Margaret. Alfred C. Jr., Gilbert Verncr, Jean Gardiner and George I-ong. Judge Iioward Kennedy of the State Board of Control Is a brother. Jealousy Causes Tragedy at Oxnard OXNAKD, Cat. Juiyl. William "S'.lm" Wheeler a negro, shot and killed C. K. Crcxler. driver of a 5-fent fare autonio. bile, her today, and fatally wounded. "Hupps" Adams, a negro. Ruby Miller, a nrgrras, was also injured by the fire from Wheeler's revolver. The whooti.ig occurred at the railroad station. Crex Icr was killed In Ills automobile. The trascdy was due to Jcaliusy. . Six Are Killed by Oklahoma Tornado MUSKOGEE, OkU July l.-A tor nado that swept psrt of Ottawa rounty, nothesstorn Oklahoma last night, today was reported to have killed six fersons Three deaths hsve been verifi-d. Tha cssualties were In tha rural districts, near Miami, difficult to res?n, the trlephone lines being out of commission. Consid arable property damage is reported. nrnflajutw v TOAiiiGAISNOW IN KAISER'S HANDS Note rrobably Will Be Presented! by Foreign Office to Ambas- j sador Gerard on Monday ; or Tuesday. j ' OFFICIALS SEEK SETTLEMENT ; They Have to Reckon with Public Opinion. Which Opposes Grant-, j inj Demand. j LIKELY TO BE A COMPROMISE BERLIN (Via London), July 1. As (he result of conferences on (he German reply to the American note It Is now in the. hands of Emperor William. The emperor's decision Is expected so that the note can be pre sented to James W. Gerard, (he American ambassador, probably July 5 or 6. High officials are endeavoring to bring about a friendly settlement of the ques tions with America, nnd there 1.1 every reason to believe that they are anxious to make the proposals as acceptable us possible. The officials, however, have to reckon with; publlo opinion, which undoubtedly will oppose anything savoring of a com plete asqulescence In the American posi tion. Friends of a settlement are working with considerable dlfftrulty and the note probably will represent a compromise not In accordance with their desires. Austrian Salesman Who Threatened Wilson Under Arrest NEW YORK. July 1. The federal grand Jury today indicted Rudolph Malik, an Austrian salesman, arrested here last night, charging that In a letter mailed June 23 to President Wilson he threat emed the president with "a political crime" should the president refuse to pay him 1300. The money. It wss charged, was demanded as an lndeiilty for Malik's inability to return to his family In Austria. The letter rend In part: "My finances are exhausted and I am here without any help. Tho Austrian consul will not help me, as he Is in duty bound to do, because his government had called for this horrible war. The United States is also guilty of my mis fortunes. '-Through the delivery of war materials to the allies, yott are prolong ing the war Indefinitely. "1, therefore, have the right to demand indemnity from your government. This amounts to a sum of $aod, which you will send to my address within a week at the latest. Should this amount, how ever, not be placed within the time, f will, without further ceremony, commit a political crime, for it is absolutely Im possible for me to- live longer In my critical situation. "Observe once more that it Is my firm resolution to give no wit, my knowledge isle) no longer any rest. I must do something for my rescue. Should you deny me the Indemnity ssked for, then pray let me be immediately arrested, whereby you can still prevent the great est misfortune." The salutation to the letter was"honor Mr. President." Senator Sues Head of Anti-Saloon League for Libel SIOUX FALLS, S. D July USperlul.) The commencement of a damage suit by Stat Senator W. E. Van Demark of Alexandria against R. N. Holsaple, pres ident of the State Anti-saloon league, will create a sensation throughout South Dakota, where both the defendant and plaintiff are well known. The plaintiff formerly was assistant United State, attorney for South Dakota. He has pent his entire life In Hanson, Cook and adjoining cour.tlea. and has instituted the action for the purpose of being vin dicated of charge.! which were made against him by Mr. Holsaple In connec tion with his official course In the state senate last winter. The plaintiff has engaged the services of Gamble, Wacner & Danforth of Sioux Falls, who will represent hlln at the trial of the cae, which will take plat' n Hanson counly. The trial In Hanson county will be in accordance with the wishes of the plaintiff, who wishes to be vindicated among the people with whom he has resided all his life. The plaintiff does not seek to profit financially from his suit, so he has Placed the amount of dsmagea st $99 the lowest amount possible under the South Dakota statute. He seeks only a vin dication snd will prosecute the suit vigor ously with only this object in view. The dumaae milt is hssed on sn artlrln sllcgrd to hsve been written by the de ferdMH and published in the April, IMS. iHAue of the American Isnue. a monthly periodli si published at Westervllle, O. Cotton Area is Reduced by Nearly Six Million Acres WASHINGTON. Jury l.-Itepeated ap rral by t'.e governirrnt to southern farmers to reduce th'Hr' cotton planting In. lew of the stagnation in the market raunn by the war has resulted in a re duction of 1,871,000 acres from last year s acreage, which would, according to last year's yield, reduce cotton production approximately I.i'4.078 bsles of 600 pounds esch. A totsl area of Sl,(B5.0no acres of cotton Is tndT cultivation In tha t'nlted States, ! the Department of Agriculture announced 1 today. j The condition of the growing c rop on June was 10.1 per cent of a normal. LORD NORBURY, one of Britain's wealthiest noblemen, who has "taken a job" in an aeroplane factory to do his share and encourage by his example others to go to work in the shops for the country. Ql .JJ """annnnununxuunnnnnn. L .. vn i i i a i n DAMAGE BY HAIL IS THREE MILLION Crops Over Large Area in Vicinity of Giltner and Fairfield Prac tically All Destroyed. BIG DAMAGE NEAR TECUMSEH HASTINGS, Neb., July 1. (Spe-c'al.)- Damage to crops estimated at I M04,n)r tijr fratf yesterday-ln an area (wnty-flve rulles square be tween Giltner and Fairfield, near here, follows a Jl.OOO.oOO loss by hall a few miles west of Hastings. Heavy Dinnngit Near Teromseh. TECl"W8EIIt Neb.. July 1. (Special. j Thoyands of dollars in damage waa done to growing crops trees and farm build ings In Johnson county Thursday in a circuitous storm which prevailed In Ne maha, Lincoln and Maple Grove precinct a The damage was principally from hall, though In some places, where there waa not a great deal of hall, the wind blew tho wheat over. As nearly aa can bo learned the entire path of the storm waa some fifteen miles In length, though the 'aniae was not severe the entire length. At the widest point, which is directly east of Tecumsph in Lincoln precinct, the damage extends for four or five miles. Whrat that promised to make from thirty to forty bushels to the acre was driven into th ground In places. Corn was stripped to the ground and alfalfa waa riddled. Soma of the farmera think that a part of the corn will make half a crop, while other fields are past redemp tion. Krult trees were stripped of their branches, window were broken from houses and barna where ths storm waa the most Intense. A hard windstorm pre vailed and fully an Inch of rain fell In a comparatively short time. Soma of the farmers will put In "ninety-day" corn, mll!'t, rape and other grains In the hope of getting feed. If nothing better. A very few of those affected had hall Insurance. One Man's Loss Two Thousand. STELLA. Neb., July l.-(Speclal) Fsrmers estimate their loss from Thurs day's hallHtorm into the thousands. The loss to the wheat and oata on the W. B. 1'iitt'a farm alone is more than $2,000, and betides on this same farm a hundred acres of corn is ruined. Two neighbors, escii on elghtv-acre farms, describe them selves us "cleaned out." Wheat and oats are leveled to the ground, and corn cut off and rldled. An area noarljr ten miles In length and in some places mora than four miles wide Is badly devas tated. Municipal Saloon With Two Bars Starts STI RGI8, 8. D., July I. (Special Tele gram.) The Sturgls Municipal company, recently organized, opened Its saloon hern this morning for business. The ti-rce saloons whleh nere running here for s number of ytars rinsed their doors last right and quit. Sturgls Is entitled to only two ssloons, therefore the new LOiipsny took oct two licenses, a double set uf bar fixtures being insisted In one place. Omaha it a well illumi n ted city o that people can go about by night al most aa well at by day. The bright lights offer the visitor a continuous welcome. ZAPATA TROOPS ARE INCITING RIOT Conditions in the Capital of Mexico Are Growing More Chaotic Each Hour. FEAR IS FELT FOR AMERICANS WASHINGTON, July 1. Officer, of the Zapata forces In Mexico City, disregarding orders of the conven tional government, nominally In con trol there, are charged with inciting the manses to violence, In dispatches carried from the Mexican capital June 25 to Vera Cruz by courtier and cabled today to the State department. The texts have not been made public, but they are known to state thaa the Insubordination of "some Zapata of ficers" Is making the situation more icute. No prospect of relief for tho starving civil population of Mexico City Is held out In the dispatches. It Is declared that until the railroad to Vera Crux la reopened there can be no abatement ot the suffering. The convention officials It Is stated "claim to have repulsed" the Carransa forces, under Cienorsl Gonzales. Apparently whatever fighting has taken place has been lu the more remote suburbs, so dlstsnt from the residence and business sections that no definite knowledge of the result has come to tho foreigners in the city, who probably do not venture Into the fighting aone. Battle Mar Be la Proaress. Today's report was the most recent word from Mexico City from any source. What may have happened in tha mean time no ona here can conjecture. There has been no report of tha occupation nf the city by Carransa troops, although all rolling stock at Vera Crua has been pressed into military service and a larva shipment of relief supplies of the Ameri can ea c ross for Fachuca hss been held up tor lacK or cars. ReDorta from Vara Crua said it was hoped the shipment would go forward today. Indicating that tha troop movements had been finished. If this Is true, a battle for possession of tha city may now he In progress. Much concern Is felt for the safety of the 20,000 or more foreigners. Including many Americans. Advices from the Carransa unvarn. ment to its agency here say General Oon sales has been Instructed to use every effort to Induce the Zapata troops to evacuate tha capital without endangering noncombatants. The Zapata forces are said to number 2i000 men. All are on tna flerenee lines about the city, leaving the business and residence districts with. out military guards. Ths Carransa forces are smaller. Carransa Reports Loot In a. The Carransa agency announced that serious looting by Zapata forces la re ported In Meslco City. A dispatch from Vera Crua headquar ters. It was announced, ssld a special train of elKht cars of food had been sent forward to General Gonzales for distribu tion when he enters. Other food hss been sent to Monterey and Iaredo. Corn, tha agency ssys. Is selling In Meslco for $o a ton less than In the 1'nlted Plates. Famous Bison is Sold to Butcher ; NEW YORK. July l.-Blsck niBmc.nd. i the famous bison of the Centrsl park zoological garden, whose Image adorns ; one side of the nickel, will be slain within a few days, but his massive hesd will be f preserved and mounted. The animal hss i been the model tor iiuinv sculptors snd ' painters. Despite hla fame there were no ; iililders when lie was put up at auction, but yesterday the bison mss sold to a j dealer In poultry and game for about t $7ifl. Hlark Diamond was born nineteen I years ago In the zoological garden. HUERTA-OROZCO l TRIALS POSTPONED Conspiracy Cases of Mexican Lead ers Go Oyer Until July 12 at Request of Prosecutor. VILLA REPORTS A BIO VICTORY EL TASO. Tex., July 1. The rase agalnpt Vlctorlano Huerta, ras ?ual Ornzco snd four others charged frith conspiracy lo violate the United States neutrality laws was postponed today to July 12. The defendants tvere continued under the same bonds. The postponement was grsntcd on request of attorneys for the prosecu tion. H. F. Crawford, assistant I'nited Rtates district attorney, tsted that the government had been unable to collect and arrange all ita evidence or to bring Important wit nesses into court; that the stste would proceed to trial on July 12. Counsel for the defense agreed to the governments request and briefly ex plained the status to th defendants, who nuletly left the court room. This agree ment as reached shortly before 10 o'clork, the hour set for the hearing. The spectators filed out of the court room quickly and the crowd that surrounded the federal building, unable to unln ad mittance, dispersed rapidly. As Huerta emerged from the federal building he wss greeted with "vivas" and hand clapping by several hundred Mexicans, adherents and sympathizers. ho thronged the streets. Huerta waa taken to the offices of his attorneys and later driven to the home of his daughter. 1. 1st of Defendants. General Vlctorlano Huerta. 115,000 bond; Oeneral I'asrual Orosco, 17.500 bond; Uenersl Marceln Caraven, tn.nco bond; Jose Zosaya. Kl Paso, 17,600 bond; Ike Alderete, El Paso, $4,000 bond; Frank Ablerete, El Paso. $4,000 bond. The detention of Huerta and the sub sequent arrest of five others haa given a glimpse of an alleged plot to launch a military expedition from the United Slates by ntembers uf the old Clentlfleo party and adherents of Huerta In Mexico. Tor weeks, government officials here nave been cognizant of activity among refugees on this side of the border. Sup plies of machine guns, rifles and am munition auspected of connection with the new movement had been lonated. In El Paao and kept under surveillance. Villa RepdrtS Victory. Although thejifhlaf Interest hate today centered In the'- appearance of Oeneral Huerta In the ' fed'ersl court, more In terest has developed In the news of the fighting south of Aguaa Callentes, Villa reported last. n!ght that he had Woken Garraaisa'a offensive movement fey ting to the rear cf hla enemy at Lagos. After bard fighting. Villa officials said, they drove Oeneral rtenjamln Hlll'a men into a retreat towards Leon. Officially It was announced that Villa captured many prisoners, two field pieces and caused Hill to abandon three trains, which were burned, however, before the Villa forces could get to them. Tha vlotory and the reports that Zapata has betn able tc check the advance of Gen eral Dablo Gonzales at the outskirts of Mexico City caused Villa partlstans here to believe the turning point In the strug gle with Carranza was near st hand. Miguel Diaz Lomhardo, Vllla minister of foreign affairs, expects to leave today for Washington to place before President Wilson a plan to establish peace In Mexico. He Is expected to suggest that a commission of men selected from the ranks of both Carransa and Villa ba named to choose a provisional president. Carranza Forces Win Successes Near The Mexican Capital GALVESTON, Tex., July l.-General Ralphael Pacheco, In command of Za pata forces In Mexloo City, waa killed yesterday during an eight-hour engage ment with troops under Pablo Oonzales, according to a cable gram reaching tha constitutionalist consulate here this afternoon. General Gonzalea reports Ban Pablo and Tacama, near Mexico City, had been occupied by his troops. 1'1'BBLA. Mex., June .-Via Havana, July 1.) Fighting for possession of Mex ico City by the forces of General Car ranza and General Zarata haa been In progress for eight days. Hk'ports received in Puebla indicate that General Pablo Oonzales, at the head of tha constitutionalist army ot 30,000 men, which murrhed on the federal cap ital from Puebla, met with severe re sistance by General Zapata's army and armed citizens, who barricaded the ap proaches to the cly. The constitutionalist forces on June 20 penetrated to Xochomllco, a auburb, hop ing to gain possession of tho water works, but they are reported to have been driven back with heavy losses. Buffering among the poor In tha capi tal Is thought to ba intense as trafflo at preaent la rut off entirely and tha pr Jected Red Cross relief haa been indef initely Interrupted. According to some advices received here, the people of Mexico City are as id to oppose the return of the constitution alist forces because they say in the previous occupation of tha capital by Carranza fortes they were not treated -.'roperly. Tha stubborn resistance of the no'Hilatlon Is reported to have greatly surprised tha constitutionalists, as they expected to march Into the city without much opposition. Becker is Given a Short Reprieve ALBANY. N. T., July I. Governor Whitman today granted Charles Backer, the former New York police lieutenant under sentence of death, a reprieve until July Tho governor said that ha would take no further action in the case than tha granting of the reprieve. This means that If the I'nited States supreme court does not Interfere Becker will have to die. ENTENTE ALLIES ABOUT TO TAKE THE OFFENSIVE London Experts Say French and British Troops Are About to Make a Strong Drive North of Arras. GREAT ACTIVITY IN OALLIPOLI Supreme Effort Being Made to Clo ture Hill Which Dominates Pe ninsula Below Narrows. DRIVE AT WARSAW C0NTINUE3 t.OXPOX, July 1. While th.i Austro-ttcrmen armies continue to push the Hussions back over the Oa'l p'an border in their own territory, there are rumors in London of con templated offensives by the entente allies. The Trench are credited with the Intention of making a formidable attack on account of the enormous expenditure of artillery ammunition to the north of Arraa, where a per alatent bombardment haa heen kept up for the last fortnight, while the Anglo-French forcea on tne Oalllpoll peninsula are said to be on the po nt of making a supreme effort to cap ture the massive hill of Achle Piaba, which dominates all the country gouth of the narrows of the Darda nelles. The recent galna rtnlmed by the Brit Ish and Trench on the southern end cl the penlnsult are considered Important because they Indicate sn nppronch to tin hill on three sides. Way to Wirinw Oprn. On the eastern front every eJ-an;o leaves Warsaw, the capital of Russian Polland more open to the drive V. hi' h the Germans nnd Austro-l lungsrlsna evidently are milking toward that city. Along tl.n northern line the Auetr" Germana appear to be experiencing tl.o Rreutent surress, for the Russians seem to be making r. stubborn fltht along the GnMa Llpa, while retreating generally between the Vistula and Bug rlvera to ward Lublin. In the west both sides have attacked in the Argonne forest and beyond tha Meuse hills without decisive results. Ths fighting of tha last night haa been without permanent result except In tha Vosges, ' where the French have con solidated substantial gains. From Vienna the Italians are reported lo ba showing renewed energy along tha laonzo river, they . having brought up meresna) and guna, but no decisive ac tion la reported. . French Official Report. PARI?. July I, Tha French war office this afternoon gave out a report which reads: "Last night passed quietly in the north In the vicinity of Arras and as far as Champagne. The German attack In tha Argonne, reported yesterday, waa par ticularly violent. It Is estimated that tha forces engaged amounted to two divisions. Thla attack, however, waa checked. Furthermore two freah move ments ngslnst our trenches at the eaat of the Benarville road were repulsed. "Another violent attack delivered by tho Germans In tha vicinity of Metxeral has been compleaely checked. The Ger mans suffered Important losses." Carransa Troon Train Wrecked. LOREDO, Tex.. July l.-Threo hundred Carranza soldiers and their wlvea and children were killed, and aeveral hundred Injured In a wreck of a military train near Monte Moreloa. between Tamplco and Monterey, according to an American, who arrived here today from the Interior. Tha accident took place ten days ago, ha aald. The American traveler's story was the first 4nttmatlon here of tha wrack, but thla was attributed to tha censorship, which haa bene extraordinarily strict re cently. Tha train waa heavily loaded and proceeding at full apeed when It left tha track, tha American aald, and tumbled Into a email canyon. Tha soldiers with their wives and children and scores of women camp fol- (Contlnued on Page Two, Column Two.) The Day's War News OFFICIAL W llllTOM It wait ing for full Information regard Ingr the sinking; of the Armenian from It representatives abroad. The situation, however, was re garded as clarified to n great de gree, dispatches telling of at tempts by the Armenian to evade the submarine after being ordered to stop. Parh an attempt, It was held, would justify tho sinking of th vessel nude, tho rules nf In ternational law. ALLIES ARB APPARENTLY snak ing determined attempts to gala Important ground on Oalllpoll ne alnsuln. FRENCH STATEMENT Indicates that the Gallle armies hare been chiefly occupied In repalslnw tiermnn attacks. . ITALIANS CLAIM a favorable nut come front nrtlons la th Trentlno district and th rrpuls f Aus trian attacks along th I so as. R18SIAN LINES ar still being swnng back la northern Gallcla aad southern Poland In aa effort way for determined uav n Warsaw. GERMAN ATTACK by water on Wladaa, la Courlaad, on th Sal. tic Just south f th Gulf of Riga, was repulsed br th Russlass, their official statement says. GERMAN SIBMARINE activity, brought shnrply to tho front by th sinking of th steaatvr Ar menian, with th lues f a number f American lives, 4 further shown by new ,nt ttti4 sinking ml British bark iaistlrbaak and the Norweglaa ., strasscr Uirssi through torpedo attacks.