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WHKN AWAY FROM HOME The Doe Is The Paper you uk for; If you pl to Ve absent more then a few Says, have The Bee atu4 to you. Omaha .Daily Bee H THE WEATHER. Cloudy VOL. XLV NO. 84. OMAllA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER. 24, 1915 TWELVE PAGES. Ob Tralae. a Motel Tews ItuU, era, M SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. I. SUNDAY PREACHES DHDISTORBEDjSAYE BY A CRYING BABY,' Squad of Detectives on Hand to Prevent Any Attempt Upon Life of Evangelist at Ap pointed Hour. MANY CURIOUS ARE PRESENT Revivalist Delivers His Sermon on the "Secret of Failure" to Audience. ON THE JOB FOR THE MINISTERS Although death te dynamite at the Thursday afternoon meeting had been threatened In a "blackhand" letter sent to 'Billy" Sunday, nothing distrubed the revivalist's sermon ex cept the Innocent crying of a baby, whose mother bad smuggled it past the line of ushers instead of putting It in the "Tab", nursery. Many curious men had been at tracted to the "Tab" by the report; of the theratened bomb throwing, tut the women were in far fewer numbers than usual, supposedly for j the same reason, so the total attend ance was considerably below normal. A squad of police detectives, headed by Sergeants Patsk Have? and Tom Donahue, watched the crowd care fully in anticipation o a possible at tempt on Sunday's life. Baby Only laterraptlon. At S:l o'clock, the hour appointed for khethreatened dynamiting, all was quiet - and peaceful, except for the evangelist's Jalklng, and the meeting- was conducted (without interruption except by the crying fcaby. Preaching about "The Secret of Fall tire," the revivalist made these state Jnents la the course of his sermon: "I don't give three whoops this -side of hell whether the world likes my j reaching or not. If you don't like It. that's no compliment to you." ' "God's rlchea make Andrew Carnegie look. Ilka a plug counterfeit cent along side of a $1,000 government bond." "Not society, low wages or other none enslcsl excuses, but the blackhearted kiesa of Individuals, is to blame for sin and cussedneas. Greatest Corse of Day. , "Popular novels and other miserable puke from the modern press Is one of the curses of the day." "Can you pray Ood to bless you, with oose In your cellars and the beer wagon at the doorT Ha will damn you Instead and some of you old deacons had better pcoot dowa out of sight" I "Envy U one of the' greater robbers itodxy. Don't envy the man with an auto If you can't afford one. Tou can get a street ear ride for a nlokel If you don't flke tba smell of gasoline." "The hardest Job nowadays is to be gastor of the average church. Me can't kin 'em like I do, so I'm on the Job tor him." ' SBsavassaBBSsBSBaaasBBasBSssjssMaBssasjBis Iron Workers Wire Greetings, to Ryan BAN FRANCISCO. Sept 21 The Inter national Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, In session hore today, telegraphed greetings. to former officers now serving prison terms. In cluding Frank N. Ryan, former president, in federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and J. J. McNamara, former sec restary, and Eugene A. Clancy, former member of the general executive board, in Pan Quenttn, Cal., ' penitentiary. Similar messages also were sent to M. iH. Schmidt and David Caplan, facing trial In Los Angeles, Cal.. on charge of ynurder as the result of the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building In 110. British Steamship . Groningen is Sunk LONDON, Sept. 21 The British steam ship Oronlngen, Set tons gross, has been blown up. On member of the orew lost bis Ufa and several others were wounded. The survivors were landed today. The Weather Forecast till 7 P. m. Friday: For Omaha. Council Bluffs and Vicinity -raruy c-iouay; cooler. Temperature at Qnmba Yesterday. Hour. Deg. a. m o a. m. 0 7 a m 1 8 a m 61 a. m 63 10 a. in 64 11 a. ra OS 12 m 67 1 p. m 68 t p. m 68 8 l. in 69 4 p. m 70 6 p. m p. m 6 7 p. m S 8 p. m 6s Comparative Loral Record. Official record of temperature and precipitation compared with the corre- sponaing period of the laet tnree years: 1915. 1914. 1S11 1W3. Highest yesterday 70 7 W 7 IjowmI yesterday........ ft) &0 66 60 Mean temperature 65 63 70 64 Precipitation Ou ' .0 .05 .00 Temperature and precipitation depar tures from the normal: Normal lempersture 63 Kxcesa for the day t Total deficiency ntnco March 1 Normal precipitation Oe Inch iJefictency for the dav 08 Inch Total rainfall since Murch 1 23.46 Imhet peficlency since Marc h 1 82 Inch !ricieiicy for cor. i eriod. 1UI4. i.ai inches Deficiency for cur. period. 1U13. 7.41 Inches Reports from Ktatloua at T P. M. Station and State Tomp. Hlah- Rain- of Weather. 7p in. t. full. 7 . 'e . H .00 : .oo 'i .00 Ml .00 70 .'O 74 . 7 .0) 74 .00 74 .00 Cheyenne, pt. cloudy Davenport, cloudy... leiver, clear lict Moines, cl-ar... North 1'lntle. clear.. Omaha, cloudy Pueblo, clear Rapid City, cioudy.. ha lit a Fe, clear Sheridan, cloudy Sioux tlty, cloudy.. 64 m 7i ex ;s M 70 Valentine, clear Ine, ciet A. W "0 LtilI, Local Forecaster. "BILLY'S" SMILE AN When "Billy" Sunday smiles he gets a warm response from PREACHERS HAYE CAMPAIGN CARDS Large Number of Candidates at the Methodist Conference for Quad rennial General Meet. TO SELECT LAY DELEGATES activity at the bis conference of Ne braska Methodist preachers now' in session at First Methodist church, and for whom the municipal welcome arch la now decorated. ' The ministers are not making a political campaign out of their meet ings, but in the halls and anterooms of the conference, and after each session, a large part of the talk deals with candidates and "the elec tion." Campaign cards are even be ing circulated by trlenda of some of the candidates. The wire pulling will be brought to a head at the conference this morning at 10:30 o'clock, when the election will be held. Ten ministerial delegates are to be elected to represent the conference of Nebraska at the quadrennlel general con ference of the Methodist Episcopal chuech of the world, to be held throughout the month of May next year . at ' Saratoga, N. T, All Strive for tke Ho or. Because election as a delegate prob-' ably constitutes the highest honor within the power of the church to bestow, -there are many candidates. The general world wide conferenoe la held only once every four years, lasts thirty days and all ex penses of delegates are paid by the church. An equal number of lay. delegates to the same conference will bo chosen Fri day by the Nebraska conference of Meth odist laymen, which will meet at the First Congregational church. Prominent among Omaha' Methodist preachers who are candidates are Rev. Titus Lowe, pastor of the First church; Rev. W. H. Underwood ' of MoCabe church. Rev. C. W. McCasklll of- Hans- com Park church and Rev. U. G. Browni superintendent of the Omaha' district. Omaha laymen mentioned as candidates for lay delegate are M. D. Cameron, a member of the First church;. John Dale of Hanscom Park church, and John Lewis of McCabe. Two women are prominent among the candidates for lay delegate, Mrs.. Emma J, Cox of Wilcox, and Miss " Ella Watson of Lincoln. Other ministers being urged as candi dates by their congregations Include: Rev. J. R. Qerrys of University Place, Rev..T. W. Jeffry, Rev. J. F. Boeye and Rev. Charles M. Shepherd of Lincoln, Rev. II. H. Millard of Norfolk, Rev. E. (Continued on Page Two. Column Five.) Physician Predicts Early Elimination of Tuberculosis PHILADELPHIA, Bept. 23.-Pr. Jeffer son D. Gibson of Denver, pre dent of the American Association of Clinical Re search, declared In an address at the Hahnemann Medical college here today that within ten years medical science will probably have succeeded In all but eli minating death from tuberculosis rrom vital statistics. Dr. Gibson, whose address opened the seventh annual meeting of the' associa tion, said that recent discoveries by which the presence of tubercular tenden cies can ba detected, even before the gernis appear In the sputum, together with a later and higher development of the X-ray. will In a short time remove tuberculosis from the list Of aaosasaflly fatal disease. i 1 ) l) I f .,): Y Mr, A, t - ' I J IMPORTANT his whole face lv" -P, and all who hear or see him then. LABOR LEADERS ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Seven Officers of New York Union Arraigned on Charge of Hiring Sluggers to Kill Man. . DEFENSE ALLEGES A FRAME-TIP SV 8evsn . . , , , 7. . . . . . . we tjioaa ana biui Makers' , union wore placed on tHal here today charged with morder in the first de- gree. They are accused of having procured the death of Abraham Lieb ovlts, a member of the union, during the garment makers' strike In 1910. They were Indicted as the result of the alleged confession of a notorious East Side gang leader, Benjamin Fein, who told the authorities he and his men were employed by the defendants to "beat up scabs." Liebovlts, it Is alleged. Incurred the enmity of the union by procuring work during the strike In a nonunion shop at Hunter, N. T. He was lured baok to New York, It la charged, and beaten to death la the . headquarters of the union. The seven men who will stand trial the largest number at ens trial In the history of the state. It la said are Max Slgman, Morris Btupnlcker, Sol Mets, Julius Woo If, Maa Blnger. Isidore Auspits and Abraham Weldtnger. A fund of 1X0,000 is said to have been raised 'by the United Hebrew Trades union-for the' defense of the men. It Is Intimated that' the defease will be that the charges were a "frameup" by a rival union. WARM ARGUMENTS MARK CLOSE OF CONN ELL TRIAL LAS CRUCES, N. M., Sept . -Special Telegram.) In the closing day of argu ments In the Porter esse, personalities and. the bitterest of feelings were In dulged In by Attorneys Frank W. Clancy and H. B. Holt, Clancy for the state and Holt for the defense. Following an attack upon Clancy by Holt. In which Holt questioned the pro priety of the attorney general's presence in the case, Clancy took forty-five min- uates In which to defend his position. He declared that he was In the case to get justice for the stats of New Mexico and that he had quashed two Juries be cause he did not believe Justice could be obtained " in" Otsro county. Then he brought the case to Dona Ana county In order to get a fair trial. He attacked Holt's private life, his career in the state senate and said that Holt had worked to get a law passed preventing the change of venue in criminal cases to prevent this case from being changed from Otero county, where a fair trial could not be obtained. Holt also declared that an effort had been made to exclude Spanish-American from the jury. This was objected to by Holt, who declared It to be an effort to prejudice the present Jury, which Is com posed of eleven Spanish-Americans and, one American. This objection was sus tained. The case was expected to go to the Jury late tonight as Judge Clancy's argu ment was the last and Judge Nebietl'e Instructions followed It. PRINCES THEATER IN MONTREAL IS BURNED MONTREAL, Sept. .-Ths Princess theater, located on St Catherine street la the heart of the city, was partly de-1 stroyed by fire today. The loas Is estl soated at more than $100. Out, the Interior being so badly damaged that It will be neoessary to reconstruct the house. The fire started from eieotrto wiring. ubilMANS LOSE A QUARTER MILLION r.lEU NEAR ViLtIA Russian War Authorities Anert Teutons Suffered Terribly in Battles About the Fortress. THEIR WITHDRAWAL COMPLETE Muscovite Ax myNow Believed Ex tricated from Perilous Posi tion it Was In. BERESINA CROSSING PLANNED PETROORAD. Sept. 23. (Via London.) The Russian military authorities regard the withdrawal from the very difficult position near Vllna, which for a time seriously menaced a large army, as rirtally completed. They assert the Ger mans have lost 250,000 men in their recent operations In this region. According to latest Information reoeived here the line now runs from Osmlana to Smorgon, which is on the left bank of the Vlllya, west of Vlletka. From Smor gon the line extends to Lebedevo, protect ing; the Molodechno railway Junction. Thence It parallels the Vilna-Ltda rail way, crossing the Lida-Moiodeehno rail way, and extrnulng across the Oasda river at a point eighteen miles east of Lid a. The line then runs to Novlny, itolchad, Mllovldy, to the east of Lake Vygonovskl and eastward along the Of tnskl canal to Lyscha and the Junction of the Jaslolda river, with the Wlna east of Plnak. The remainder of the line Is unchanged. Russian officers admit that the new front in the Vllna region la Interrupted In planes. The region to the east of Llda and south of Molodechne la intersected by a multitude of rivulets. These are embarrassing the German advance, neces sitating a detour northward, and conse quently co-operation between the German group In the vicinity of Vllna and that near Llda will be difficult. The Russians believe that the Qennaas contemplate a rare for crossings of the Bereslna river, particularly at Borlaaov, thirty-eight miles northest of Minsk, where Napoleon came to grief In 18U. The Red Cross hospitals evacuated Vllna In good order. Two local hospitals. with SfiO wounded, remained la the city, It being Impossible to move them. Knropatkin Shares Command of Armies LWithWaLMiiJsterJ RERUN. Sept sV-fBr Wlramss to hsayvfllaV - The report reached Berlin to. jday from Fetrograd by way of Btoak holm tn radloal changes In the leadership or tne Kussian army, arreoung trae high- est military officials, were sooa to be made. This report was contained la a dispatch from the Btookholm correspondent of the Lokal AnseiKer, as given out here today by the Overseas News agency. Quoting from this dtsptech, the News agency says: "The well Informed Russian press re ports that Emperor Nicholas Is com mander-in-chief of the Russian forces In name only. The actual power la in the hands of the exportenoed leaders. General Poltvanoff, minister of war, and Oeneral Kuropatkln. Plans soon will be con summated for radloal reforms, including reorganisation of the highest military ofTloers. "The disorders which followed the prorogation of the Duma were viol eat. Work was stopped In a third af the factories at the capital and there were demonstration by crowds la the streets. Oeneral Froloff, commander of the mili tary dJstrlot of the capital. Issued a proclamation te the workmen eaytag that suspension f work wovld be re garded by- Oeneral Ruosky as high trea son and that although the nation - fett heavily the events eoeurrtag m the war, popular outbreaks were unjustifiable 'The dowager empress ha been desig nated te assist th empress, whose oon dltlcn of health Is such as to interfere with the perform an oe of her duUea." Boycott Aimed at Germany Would Hit Switzerland BERLIN, Sept .-(By Wireless te Tuckerton, N. J.) "Particulars of the French-Italian economic conferenoe at Cernobblo, Italy, are beginning to teak out" says the Overseas News Agency today. . "The chief subject of discussion was a boycott of German commerce after the war, te be accomplished by providing di rect lines of communication from Eng land to Italy via Marseilles and Genoa, thus doing away with the present sys tem of International traffio and shutting out the German railwaya "A realisation of this plan means seri ous damage to Swltserland, as that coun try Is the connecting link In the north and south route. Swiss publlo men are carefully following the course of the ne gotiations with a view to preventing the proposed boyoott of Oermany from hav ing injurious effect upon Swiss Inter ests." Free Coupon For the Best Movies By special arrangement with eight at the leading moving Picture theaters THE BEE Is enabled to give its readers a combination coupon good for a free) admission to any one of them oa days specified. In Sunday's Dee United States Wins Important Diplomatic Victory in Fryc Case WASHINGTON, Sept. -Germany's Istest not on the sinking of the Amert oan sailing ship William P. Prya, mad publlo today, by the State department. discloses an Important dlplomatlo victory tor the United State Germany's accepts the proposal to fU damages by commission and to let The Hague pasa upon disputed treaty rights Involved. It also give assurances that no .mora Amertoaa ships carrying condi tional contraband will bo destroyed under any circumstances. American ships carrying enatrahand, however, stMl may be destroyed. What affect this can have In praetloal opera tion la problematical beoauaa Germany and Great Britain In their retaliations have made absolute contraband praotkv ally everything which was conditional under the declaration of London. One thing seemed certain to officials JOHN D.'S ATTITUDE TOWARD UNIONS He Says He Does Not Care Whether His Employes Are Members or Not MtTST TREAT ALL MINERS ALIKE ROUSE, Colo., Bept. 23. John D, Rockefeller, Jr. today stated flatly that the Colorado Fuel and Iron com pany does not care whether its miners belong to a union or not. The state ment was made In a conference be tween Rockefeller, David Griffith, grievance mediator of the eompany. and C. A. Mitchell, grievance repre sentative of the Rouse miners. Mitchell Is a negro. In the course of the conference, which was la the open air under a slssllng sun, somebody asknd Mitchell whether mem bers of the United Vine Workers came to him with their grievances against the eompany. "I don't remember that any union men have complained since I was elected representative," said Mitchell. . "I don't believe Mitchell knows whether they are union men or not," broke in Rockefeller "I am quite sure the offi cers of the eompany don't, and, let me tall you, the Colorado Fuel and Iron eempany doesn't . care whether Its men belong to the union or not. "Look . here," be flashed, turning t Griffiths, "do you make any distinction between union and nonunion men la set tling the grievances appeal to you by the mlnerst" "I certainly don't,' replied Griffiths. "Are not all the men treated alike as long ' as they are willing to work and behave themselves T" persisted ' RockefeV- Hl ,n .IT- ' r .- . -t. -1 "Yes," Griffiths answered. The Rockefeller party mads the thirty mils drive from Trinidad, arriving shortly before 10 o'clock. Ekiroute tire trouble on the Rockefeller machine caused .a Slight delay near-Apgullar. the scene of considerable fighting and disorder during the 'Strike. After the conference the party proceeded te Lester and expected to reach WeUccburg for tooglht's stop. Meets Roth Mediators. Mr. Rockefeller today had his ' first meeting with Griffith who was selected ss the oompany mediator when the plan of dealing with labor grievances through representatives of the men was Inaugu rated several months ago. Immediately Rockefeller announced that he wanted te confer with Griffiths la the presence or toe labor representative. So the pit boos was ordersd to find Mttohell, who was working a mile fnside the mine. Mitchell wee produced and the conferenoe began.' . Rockefeller, costless and with his hat pushed back from bis persperlnff brow, shot rapid fire questions at Ortftiths and i Mitchell la turn. . "How do yea happen to be the grlev. I enee representative of the tnenr he asked Mitchell. "They eltotad me, sua," ' re piled the aegro grinning with prida . "Bow did they elect your , "At a ansae meeUng." "Ofeas meeting of whom?" "Of all the men at the eamp, sun." "Any company officers there T" Rocke feller bored in. Oh. no, sun." -How do the men feel, free to come to you with any complaint they have against the eompany V "Tea. dey does" Mitchell replied. "De you sometimes find that the fore man or the pit boss has been in the wrong, and treated a man unjustly?" per sisted Rockefeller. "Oh yea, suh. and when dey has, I go to Mlstau Griffiths and he fixes it up." Qaeatfoaa for Griffiths. Rockefeller whirled on Griffiths, "do these grlevanoe repereentatives over have to take anything over your head to the president of the eompany T" he demanded. "They never have yet." placidly replied Griffiths. "Usually the grievance Is ad justed with the superintendent without even reaching ma" "How do these complaints reach your' "Well I go from camp to oamp myself and talk to these grlevanoe representa tives," said Griffiths. "Don't you wait for them to send for s-our "Not on your life. I don't I hunt them up and ssk them If anything is the mat ter between them and the superintend ents. That's what you hired me for, Isn't ItT" By this time a crowd of miners were standing around gaslng with noticeable excitement at the man, who Is reputed to control the big corporation for which they work. "Well, let's look at something else," remarked Rockefeller, and with Orlfflths on ons side and Mitchell oa the other, he strolled across the camp, carrying his coat over his arm. Having concluded his Inspection. Rocke feller and party drove to Lister eamp for lunch. I . DtM'"l Order. x WASHINGTON. Sept. 'Specie! Tel egram.) Mrs. Mary Danielle was ap pointed postmaster at I Ann junction. Linn county. Iowa, vt.-e Frank iHtrnelle. l'h,rUi TlllmaK of Oranse dir. la.. has been appnlntad ssslsisnt observer in the field service of the weather bureau. The postofflces at lialgler and Ktaule ton, Neb., will become International money order offices on October 1. German naval commanders now are or dered to exercise the rights of visit and search with rcrpect to all American ships to determine what cargo the vessels carry, thus making It practically sure that none will be attacked without warning or ample time for passengers and crew to be transferred Irrespectively of the cargo Considered with reference to the entire controversy between Germany and the United States the Prye note Is regarded as an indication that the Berlin foreign office la afixioua to avert a .break with the Washington government. This In creased today the Interest In Germany's attitude toward the negotiations over the Arable. Teat of the Kote. The note follows: "With regard, first, to the ascertainment of the damage by experts, the German (Continued on Page Twelve. Col. Kour.) RUSSIAN EMBARGO WILLBE LIFTED Formal Agreement it Signed by Bee retary of State Laniing- and the Ciar'i Ambassador. IMPORTERS MUST GIVE BOND WASHINGTON, Bept 18. The formal agreement lifting the Russian embargo against exports to the United ' States has been signed by Secretary Lansing and George Bakh meteff, the Russian ambassador. Russian goods will be allowed to come to the United States consigned lo the secretary of commerce on con dition that the Russian government Is given guarantees that the mer chandise will not reach Its enemies. Most Give Bond. American firms must give bond cover ing the value of shipments, if any part of such goods Is exportsd the bond will be forfeited and the firm involved will be prevented from obtaining any farther Russian merchandise. The arrangement la expected to release millions of doliare worth of goods to American Importers held up since the beginning of the war and will cover practically all goods of Russian production or manufacture. "In order to carry out these arrange ments," said an announcement today by the Department of Commerce, "It will be necessary for American firms to file an application In triplicate with the com mercial agents In oharge of - the New York office of the bureau of foreign and domestlo commerce, asking for approval for the release of certain, shipments of goods from Russia, 'i . - -' !-'." It ."Amsrtoan firms must also Indicate their willingness te furnish upon request to the bureau a statement shewing the sales of all or any part of the shipment of goods covered by such agreement Says Water Power -Be Developed' for- This Generation PORTLAND, Ore., Sept M.-Future generations must be cared for, but so must we, Senator Clarence D. Clark of Wyoming told the Western States Water Power conferenoe here today while the resolutions committee was busy over Its majority and minority reports. ' "Within the last twenty years,' 'Mr. Clark said, "there has arisen a sealous and busy cult which has taken upon it self the duty not only of protecting our selves against ourselves, but of saying la affect that this generation shall not eat lest those whe come after may not have a banquet spread that our homes shall not be warmed tor tear that coming generations may not be fully supplied. I am net unmindful that we should not waste or destroy the Bounties which He all about as, but wo remind these ever enthusiastic gentlemen that unless this generation is sufficiently warmed and clothed and sustained there, will be few future generations te take advantage of the rich supplies now so strenuously sought to be hoarded with miserly eara, "I believe in placing a careful guard around our resources. I believe la hold ing to strict accountability, etvtlly ' and ertmlaally, any man or set of men who, directly or Indirectly, seek to acquire by ths least exercise of fraud or deceit any tights or claims whatever in the publlo resources of the nation; but for one I protest most strenuously against any sys tem of administration that casts sus picion upon the Just as well as the un just He would be an uninformed man who would assort that such a system has not prevailed to a very great extent" Too Much Local Color in Mining Camp at Expo BAN FRANCISCO, Sept St. Thirteen roulette wheels, an assortment of crap tables and a faro game in a mining eamp concession at the Paaeme-Paolfto exposition were suppressed today by sx position authorities after the California state commission had protested against this amount of local color. No money was paid out on tha games, but It was charged that scrip Issued to winners was redeemable In money or merchandise at various plaoea Send One Hundred Thousand More to Dardanelles Front BERLIN, Bept tt-(By Wireless te Rayvllls.) A new army of 114,000 man has been sent te ths asslstaaoa of the allied for cose at the Dardanelles, accord ing to the Overseas news agency. This ' tnfutnatlon was contained, the news agency says. In e dispatoh trom Athena The reinforcements for the French and British forces are said to have landed st Mudroa oa Lsmnoa island. In the Aegsan sea. TEUTON ARMIES BEGIN DRIVE AT CITY OF DVINSK Fortren on Dying Which Blocki the Road to Petrograd it Now the Objective of the Teutonic Movement. RUSSIAN TRENCHES ARE TAKEN Ccan' Forces Gain Minor Snooett at Friedrichitadt, Farther Sown the Rirer. BULGARIA CENTER OF INTEREST Bl'lXIOTIlt. BERLIN, Sept S3. (Via London) Th new German offensive move ment, with its object the capture of the important Russian fortified ctty of Dvlnsk, has made definite pro gress. The war office announced to day that Russian advanced position! west of the city had been pen tr a ted, and that more than 2,000 prisoners and ssveral machine guns had been captured. ' . LONDON, Sept. 13. -The strongly fortifed Russian ctty of Dvinsk, on the Dvina, 110 miles southeast ot Riga, hag become the new German objective, now that the Russian arm let apparently have escaped from the Vllna net The German forces east and southeast of Llda are now mak ing rapid progress, but their in creased speed at this time la ex pected to gain them little In view of the fact that the safe retreat of the greater? part ot the Russian forces now aeoma to be assured. The chief success of the Grtnana In th. last day or two has been along the Dvlna cront, which bars the road to Petrograd. Southwest of Dvlnsk, the Invaders cap tured Russian trenches on a front of nearly two ralles, taking 1.000 prisoners and eight machine guns. Further down the river, near niedrlchstadt the Rus sians nave gamed minor sueoeaa . Por the tint besnsr tha dmtiMtln ttn. atlon In Russia la quieaoent The strike in protest at tha prorogation of the Duma Bag oeen suspended.'but may be revived If the government Benrtsts in Its onon. 1 rltlon to the movement In favor of re assembling Parliament and nertnltttne ths formation of a new cabinet Alone the western front tha VMnrii report destruction of a namnii t.tmi i Champagne. V Berlin states that the patrol "wag withdrawn after , destroying Preaeh werha v , ... MobitisatiSO erf SulMriui tnrfm tinues to sxelts keen Interest but the belligerent aa well as. the neutral world seems to be in tha dark as to the purpose which dictates this movement Preach, Official Report. PARIS, Bept .-The violent artlllsr fighting which has characterised the op erations in Pranoe for more than three weeks past was continued yesterday and last night at a number of plaocs along ths battle line., according to announce ment, given out this afternoon by ths French war office. . The engagements were particularly severs near Rocllnoourt and to the north and south of ths River Avre. .'.' The text of the communication follows. "In the Artels district the enemy last night bombarded violently the sector of Roollncourt, ss well aa our trenches lo cated to the south of the River Soarpe, In the department of Pas de Calais, Our artillery responded vigorously. There have been some engagements In the re gion of Neuville. Our artillery has di rected an Intense and efficacious fire against the Oarmaa trenches to the north and south of the Rivet Avre, as well es upon Beurelgnsa. 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