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ENGLISH PAPERS REFRAIN FROM COMMENT ON DE VELOPMENTS BRITISH BELIEVE BULGARIA NEUTRAL , . , .. .". Dispatch Denies Germans Asked Serbin to Remain Quiet While They Moved South. London, Sept. 22.-While Bul garia's mobilization, the war move that may solve tho riddle of the Bal kans. sCruck Ixmdon suddenly, after noon papers remained silent editor ially and England was none the wiser as to whether the development was considered a preliminary victory for Germany or merely another turn in the Balkan negotiations. London is inclined, to believe Bulgaria ls still neutral, still walting but armed. The Bulgarisn minister hero says general activity Jr reported on the Serbian frontier ana Nish denies that the Germans asked Serbia -to remain quiescent while the Germans moved southward. On tho eastern front the Germans claim ^ progrese save at the northern tip of the Polish* front where the Rus sians are on the offensive near Fried rienstat. Indications are that the German attempts to encircle the re treating Russians south of Vilna waa unsuccessful. ' Violent bombardments continue in *he^ Flanrlprs. section we^terauJinnt* Italian artillery 1B active in- Dolo mites. Tho Bulgarian premier as sured his supporters yesterday that Rumania and Greece would remain neutral. Athens. Sept. 22.-On : receipt of news that Bulgaria has ordered a gen eral mobilization < her troops. liing Constantine summonded to conference Premier Venizelos and the army gen eral staff. The premier was subse quently called to a 'ublnet meeting. QnVt activity arnonu Jie entente rep resentative?. . British, Prend.?) and Russian ministe;b conferred. It ' is understood here that four divisions totalling 200,000 infantry and several cavalry regiments will bo first mobilized'. .Several cavalry regiments have already left 8ofla for unknown destination. The entente diplomats generally re cognize that their cause ts lost and Bulgaria is manifesting clearly a ten dency toward the Germanic powers. This ls duo to dissatisfaction of the government at Serbia's reply In nego tiations for territorial concessions in Macedonia and the conduct of Greece 'in the same connection. - Government circles stated today that military measures are preventivo In nature and designod solely to guard against circumstances which might threaten Bulgaria's position in 'present situation, which is developing with extraordinary rapidity. These meas ures consist, in turning over the rail roads1 to the military and suspending ordinary traffic. Reports from many parts of Bul garia tell ot enthusiastic demonstra tions favoring the government. This ls considered symptomatic of public feeling. . German Opinion. Berlin. Sept.. tl.-German newspa pers -interpret tfte news from tbe Serbian frontier as the beginning on a large scale of an offensive against Serbia. A final reckoning with the state is regarded hom as responsible for tho war. . Newspapers make guarded references to Ute strength ot the army gathing on the Danube. Te Ley Kew Hine Field. Amsterdam, Sept. 22.--Berlin des patches announce thai a naw mino Held will be laid at the outlet rtian nels between tho Banish island^of Zetand and Sweden which connects the Bertie with Cattegat and Ibo Berti ssa; AMERICAN PH i CONQUER Bl Naples. Sept. 32. -^Dr. Riobard Strong, head Of the American sani tary commission In'Serbia, on his way home here, said that the Ameritan doctor?, wonidi leave Serbia October tenth feeling assure?! that another epidemic is unlikely to afKiei Ser bia. HON ELBERTON NEGRO KILLED BY POSSE Had Wounded Sheriff Haley and Chief of Police and Barricaded Self tn House. Elberton, Sept. 22.-helson Stat ham, a negro, was Bhot to death by a :>^sso after wounding Sheriff Haley and Police Chief Irvin in a fight to dislodge tho negro from a house w.V.ere be wns barrlrcaded. Ho was finally smoked out. Tho negro wounded ThohMK Robinson, a ruilroad conduc to Wednesday. None of thc white m e fatally shot. DUTCH STEAMER SUNK BY MINE Was Kept Afloat and is Being - Towed Up Thames--Pas sengers Transferred. London, Sept. 22.-The !?^iAh steamer Kenigen Emma, which struck a mine while en route to Amsterdam from Batavia, Jeva, kept afloat and ls being towed up the Thames river. Her two hundred and fifty pasaengws were transferred to the Dutch steam er BaLavier Fourt'i, whick is pro ceeding to Tilbury. It ts reported I bene that the Danish steamer Thor I valedon has been sunk and her crew saved. ?iv;-.; f?roNeitvEssEL AIDS ARMENIANS iFire Thousand Rescued After ] Holding Turks at Bay Since Jury. Paris, Sept. 22.-Rescue by French warships of a large- band of Armen ians from pursuing Turks ls recount ed in a statement issued last night by the marine ministry, which says B? 0C0 Armenians Including 3,000 wo men, children asd old men, took re fuge in the Djehel Mouses mountains at the end of July, and- kept ?he Turks off until the beginning of Sep tember when ammunition and provi sions gave outi They succeeded in getting word to a French crulaer. Immediately the French cruiser ot the blockading squadron off the Syrian coast went to their aid, and took them to Port Said. SAYS IB WILL CAUSE GENERAL DEPRESSION Former Senator Burton Predicts j Higher Interest and Loss Capi tal as Result of Conflict. . Denver, Sept. 22.-Higher rsto of Interest, doorcase in capital avail able for Investment, decline in ral^ ! road building and temporary shrink- j age in the volume of commercial and industrial activities will be results of j the. war in the opinion of Theodore E. Burton, former United States sen ator from Ohio. Burton ?poke St i a banquet of Hie Investment Bankers association. Ford rosiers With Da? lets. Washington, Sept. 22.-Henry Ford, of Detroit, discussed peace with the president, means of PA: feeling gasoline motors for submarines and aeroplanes with Secretary Daniels. Daniels premised to finnish Ford with a ? t story of the difficulty .fhe navy has with ga soi toe motors. Ford promised to try to correct defects, rSiCIANS EADLY TYPHUS The entire Serbian anny, (RC said, h .id mxi? inoculated against cholera and typhus and the people informed as to tba best way* to prevent con tagion. Tho epidemic was virtually, sup prescad in August and the spread of typhus in Montenegro . prevented. I -^rpTWrx^amatmTintftted to MaiM Loweri-Finding range for car Cannon have been placed tn position j near Brownsville for tho expected at tack of Mexicans on the city. T-'iose shown in this photograph are trained' on (M&tamoras waiting for tho first j sign of trouble. The lower photo- ; BELIEVES ANA FOLLOW REC CARRANZA Washington. Sept. 22.-Urging that a convention bc held and a pro visional government pet up in Mexi co despite Carranza'a refusal to par ticipaste. Roque Gonzales Garza, once president of tho Mexican con ventional governtpent issued a state ment tonight predicting that anarchy would follow recognition of Carranza In a military ?en i. Ho said neither Villa or Cofranxa control the situa tion and the peace convention plan means'1'protracted warfare with both factions exhausting ono another. Nogales, Ariz., Sept. 22.-Gen. Cal-. Iles, Carranza commander, whoso army iNGLO FRENCH LOAN il YE! ARRANGED Bankers Intimate There Might Be Elevcnlh Hoar Changes in Plans. New York. Sept.. 22.-The antic!- I pated announcement of the success of Anglo-French loan commission's work here was not forthcoming to- I day.' The commissioners were in sos- I sion until lato tonight but the mat ters discussed were not disclosed: I Several American bankers ventur ed the opinion that ihero might be an eleventh hour chango in plans. Germ ans Deny Action. Amsterdam, Sept. 22.-A semi-offi sftaSetpont issued from Berlin says after inquiry tho German ad ?Hy contradicts the statement of| C e British admiralty and it caa b ited thal no German submarine responsible for the attack on tb Hesperian. Another Sot* on Wai. P. Fri*. \ j Washington. Sept. 22. -Another note from Germany on the sinking of tho American ship Willam V?y? by Iho commerce raider l'rin;: !? .vi d?partaient president. the i y on Mexican Border. \mor.\ r across "from" Brownsville, nunn Fra m International Bridge. j graph was taken on thc International B 1dge. It shows American soldiers finding t'.re rango for the cannon near by. Now everything 's in place and an attack from Matan, JTOB may mean serious trouble. RCHYWILL OGNITION OF BY CONFEREES retreated before an attack by Yaqui Indians, is reported pre'parlag to make a stand a^ Molina, twenty-five i miles west of Cananea. Tilla Troops Moving. Washington. Sept. 22.- State de partment sdrtlccs confirm reports that j Villa ls moving all bis available; forces In northern Mexico into Sono ra, with the evident. purpose of at tacking Carranza troops under Calles. Reports says over a dosen V"!a troop trams have roached J us. ox, and proceeded toward' Sonora. DtWYSHhLl.tNGWARCAW tm RUSSIANS LEFT j Officiel Denial Made That Resi dence Portion of City Was Shelled By Germans, Berlin. Sept. 22.- The Gernun? [deny officially they shelled Warsaw lefter its evac?e J lon by the Russians. Sys an Gvoraeas Agency report. It serta that the German.-, never shell ed residential Warsaw and the for tresses were not bombard eui ofter the russians left, but the Bullens shell ed 'Warsaw from the other side of the j Vistula and systematically destroyed j lits factories. ItKPHHT'hT BFL.141UA HAS AGBKEft TO KKMAIN NEUTRAL London. St,^t" 2*.-M. Radeal I avoir. Bulgarian premier, announce d j to supporters tba signing of a con- j j ventlon with Turkey for future main tcttance ot armed neutrality, says the j Times' Sofls correspondent. French Bombard ?fattaart. Paris, Sept. 22.-French aviators I bombarded Stuttgart, tfta capital of ? Use kingdom of Wurt em burg, accord ing tn tonight's official. report. Their drop ?.eil a hundred ho'abs on the royal place and raliway station. ?MBsa5hl**&* . '^ilinWHBIliwni'HII^IMII if IM? TROLLEY DROPS IN HOLE CAOSED BY EXPLOSION DYNAMITE EXPLOSION WRECKED SUBWAY CAR IN NEW YORK BODIES OF SIX WERE RECOVERED Surface Car Carrying Eighty-Five Passengers Fell Fifteen Feet in Bebri?. Now York. Sept. 22.-dix bodies, two passengers and four laborers were removed tonight from fie wreck of tho section of tho Seventh avenue subway excavation which was de stroyed today by a dynamite blast. The passengers wero on the trolley which plunged into tho excavation when tho explosion destroyed its temporary supports. Comparatively few passengers were dangerously in jured. Four Investigations are under way. New York, Sept. 22.-Soven, as re ported by tao police, have been killed, and over a score of others seriously Injured, when a dynamite explosion in an excavation of the new Seventh street subway caused a cave in on gulfllng a surface car and numerous pedestrians. It occurred shortly be fore eight o'clock. Over half of the Injured are women and girls on tho way to work. There were seventy eight passengers on the car which fell fifteen feet. The entire block on Seventh avenue, between tho twenty fourth and twenty-fifth street caved. The car waa partly burled although standing upright. Many naas engere were badi? crushed. - People In a nearby sky-scraper, said there was a great roar_bB tho street caved, water and ga's mains -were broken and prompt work of city employees in shotting them off, saved a hundred or moro persons. The police reserve was called, there were two fire alarms and ffltecn m bulances were called. The police and firemen carried out t'..e dead and injured, while the contractors em ployees frantically dug away the .debris. The first body' was found, however, later, after fifty injured bad been taken out, two died on the way to the hospital. SLAVS ESCAPE GERMAN RING Some of Russia's Finest Troops Were Risked in Eluding Teu tons-Main Body of Russian Forces Safe. London. Sept. 22.-Specials from Petrograd agree that the Russians have withdrawn safely from tho Vilna aaltent, the strategic value of which was considered so great that the rus sian staff left justified In risking some of its beststroops to defend it to tho lost possible moment. The withdrawing Russians are said to havo destroyed everything of military utili ty. Although the main arm is probably safe it is hardly likely that the whole Russian force will escape without heavy-losses of men and gun?. Hin denburg's cavalry, which was expect ed to complete the encircling move ment atlll ls held up between Smor gon and Moolodochno, on tb? Vilna, Lida and Slomln flank. The German advance 1? proceeding steadily, but Prince leopold's progress is slower, while Mackensen ha? come'to a pause beyond Che Perl pet marshes. If the Russian retreat is to be stopped successfully, the swiftest H.nv Amen t must come from the south and the Germans must reap the full advantage of their efforts within a week. The Zamatvo conference at Moscow as predicted petitioned Rm per or Nich olas to recall tHe durna and snrnmon a cabinet responsive to the people's Tho protracted duels along tho western front ?ht.ve been relieved by cerera! infantry attacks. ?feen Ffrktlng In West. Paris, Sept. 22_Artillery fighting on tho western front bes broken out in Belgium, according to a French oillclal report,. an<* ahm near Arras, between Somme ?..:'? Oise, between the Aisne and Argonne aa J in Lor raine. Bight French aeroplanes bom barded a railway station ? between Verdun and Meit. Villijalrour Stefsnsson. Altor eighteen months, during whkfr time he had hean given up as lost lu the "wilds of th? Arotic, Vilh*nVmur Stofanssott, who went i'^ir the Cana dian govornment to gel more infor mation about the white race he found in tte ice, has sent word iie is safe. Stefansson set out n.^ro than two years ago to make further research among tho blond Eskimos whose ex istence he discovered on a previous Arctic trip. His message, via Nome. Alaska, was tho first direct tidings since April 17,1914, when Stefan sson'a supporting party turned back from Camp Separation, tho explorer atv* his two companions tanking for Banks Land. WITHWILSON ormer Secretary ol State sad Pr?sident Met For First Tor*. Since Bryan Quit Cabinet Subject Discussed Not Revealed Washington. Sept. 22.-President Wilson and William Jennings Bryan met et the White House today for the first time since Bryan resigned. Bryan, who sought the interview "to pay his respects," declined to reveal what the president said. As Bryan in contemplating s trip to Europe in peace interests and has already expressed opposition to large expenditures for national defense, official Washington assumed that these subjects were dlscnssed. It ts understood tho president is not dis posed to approve Ute trip to Europe. Brysn left today to continue his peace lectures. Treaty Ratified. Buenos Aires, Sept. 22.- The sen ate approved bio arbitration treaty signed or. May 28 by Argentine. Chllo.i.iW" Bravll. lt also ratified the protocol ?ntered into by Chile and Argentine, regulating the Beagle channel. * Postmasters Meet. Cincinnati, Sept. 22.-About ono thousand postmasters were presont at the opening of the annual conven* tlon ? of the National association ot Postmasters of the third and fourth class. It-will continue three days. DE^H^ECRE/ OF CIVIL WA Washington, Sept. 22.-Death de creased cae government's dell war pensions roll nearly tea per cent dur ing last year, according to tho anneal report of th'o commissioner of pen sions. DMMNH I BHB HQ HAS ASKED SAFE CONDUCT AND WANTS TO LEAVE SEPTEMBER 28. VIENNA'S REPLY MAY BE DELAYED Official* May Not Agree That Of fender Be Recalled By Gov ernment "On Leave?" Washington, Popt. 22.-After a confcronco between President Wilson and Acting Secretary Polk lt became knovn tonight that tho United States will make no effort to secure aafe conduct from tho United: States for Dr. Dumba' until Vienna has replied to tho request that the ambassador be recalled. . . ,; The American attitude was Indi cated when Dr. Dumba today tele graphed the state, department that ho had been recalled on leave. He ask ed safe conduct and said he planned ?to sall on September twenty-eighth. W?lle the delay In Vienna's. reply is believed due to the difficulty In communication between Washington and Vienna, lt ls not known whether Washington will be satisfied if Aus tria grants Dumba's request that he bo withdrawn "on leave." The president ts still considering the case of Captain Von Papen and other German and Austrian officials involved in the Dumba InoMUmt. DUMBA i-ETTF/Bft APPEAR TO INVOLVE COX. E. M. HOUB?. New York. Sept. 29. -Colonel Ed ward M. House. President Wilson's friend and unofficial Adviser, whoas nama appeared hi a letter that Dumba wrote to tr - Aua tro-Hungarian for eign ministe, which was made public last night, s aid today that be had spoken to Dumba on several occas ions, hut the only tims fae could re call, when tho question of ammuni tion came up waa some tune ago when he said he did not think the United States would stop tho expor tation ot ammunition to any coun try. He did not quote President Wil son, but gave his personal opinion. Dumba in his letter referred to House as follows: The true ground for discouraging tho attitude of the president Hes, as his confident Mr. House already in formed me In January, and baa now repeated in tact, that the authori'lss in a serious crisis would have to roly on neutral foreign countries, for all their war material. At no price, and In no case will Mr. Wilson allow this source to dry up. SPECIAL SESSION MAY BE CALLED President Map Call Senate to Meet Within Mouth to Coaattaf Matters of importance. Washington, Sept. 22.-The presi dent is seriously considering the ad visability of calling a special session of She senate within the next month. Today he ?iskod Senator Stone, chair man of the foreign relations commit tee for hiB opinion. The senator told the president that U ls believed a special session ehonld he celled to consider executive business and a re vision of mles to curtail debt, lt ls rioted at the White House the presi dent will reach a decision in a week or t?n days. Hockia Asks Pardon. Leavenworth. Sept. 22.-Herbert S. Hockln ol Detroit, former secre tary ot the Iron Works.? Union, con victed at Indianapolis in the dyna mite conspiracy cases, appeared be fore tho federal parole hoard here. 'He was the only one ot the ,13 con victed who did not appeal. He re fused to ask for- a parole declaring he wanted a pardon. Ill health oe Us ed today':', appeal iSESROLL R PENSIONERS A total of three Wund red and ninety six thousand three hundred and seven ty union v?t?rans remain on the roll which is thirty-4hree thousand.-two bnadred a?d fifty-flye lose than a year ago, The pension payment de creased about fUtaan mn ilona.