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T ‘ >X' •« ; ' ■ . II has HAPPENED IN 1915 f ON THE uATTLEFlEDS , j , ^ , GERMAN GAIN IS GREAT . • —*4— . 1 , r ’ "t’ , *.■• Area Conquered is Gre&ter Than the Kmjtire, but Allies Stand Together as Firm as Ever While German Mouths Need Food and German , ■ • ' sn / Hopes Ixwk Towards Peace.. n the year 1915 Teutonic arms ave conquered an arfea greater tBitf Germany. What’ the Germans Gained. The Kaiser and his allies have overrun the rich industrial and farm ing regions of Poland, Lithunia and the Baltic provinces; have wrested Galicia and Bukowina from - their enemies; have crushed Serbia; have stood off the opposing armies on Gal lipoli, the Italian border and the great siege line across France and a corner in Belgiutp; have hurled back reeling the British Indian invaders of Mesopotamia. What the Allies Gained. On the other hand, the solidarity and resolution of the Entente Allies seerq as strong as ever; the British navy retains absolute control of the seas; and the undoubtedly for the moment victorious Germany is fac ing a serious food famine which fills hermewspapers with such peace talk as is practiea41y. unknown among her opponents. ; v The Ma/.urian Iiakes. first important military op.era- t^VJlMbe year was the second Ger- ^^Jvtrtorv of the Mazurjan Bakes. *1^01 the year opened, the Musco vites stood far within the East Prus sian border w hile holding all but the west salient of Poland and pressing through the passes of the Carpa thians after overrunning Galicia and of Bukowina-. — In mid-February, breasting their way through deep snows, the marvel ously mobile troops of the "Grand Old Man of the Bakes,’' Field Mar shal von Hlndenburg. encircles the Russian army of Fast Prussia, much as they had done near the. aame spot several months before. Again the Russians, realizing fully what was going on. were unable to allow the celerity in movement neces sary to check the German concentra tion. Only shattered remnants reach ed Poland; on February 22 the Ger mans announced more than 100.00ft of their enemlei had been captured while the slain are untold. The Ge^ians pursued across the frontier, took Przasnpsz February 20. but were checked by the border fert- resses. and on March 1, the Russians recaptured Przasnust after a consid erable victory nearby. - Kusnians Make Heavy Score. (/; The Russians did a little further to even up the score on March '£1 when Przcmysl fell after heroic de fense and I lO.tMHt prisoners w»re marched off by the Czar. The next day. however, the Germans announc ed the recapture of the seaport Kernel, in the extreme northeastern corner of their country? which had I been seized In a sudden raid. To prevent a similar raid the Germans proceeded to send strong bodies of cavalry Into the. adjacent Rurstan Baltic provinces where they found little opposition. Meanwhile, the Germans were con centrating for the greatest offensive movement of human history. It start ed April 30, when Field Marsha! von Mackensen exhibited something new In warfare—a battcf'ng ram of heavy artillery. —-— Galician Drive Starts Forward. • Three thousand guns pounded the Russian lines N^t Grrlico. northern i. for three days and nights and he German bayonets swept all them. On and on they went, making steady progress day by day, forcing the Russians to retreat in dis order from the Carpathian passes to k < avoid the threat in their rear, cap turing fortress after fortress. The Russians, lacking ammunition _ for their guns, lacking even rifles • and sometimes fighting with sharpen ed sticks, made a desperate resistance and were killed and captured by the tens of thousands. Przemysl was recaptured Juqe 4; Tarnogrod June.19; Bemberg June 22 and then the Germans turned from east to north. Bubiin fell July SO. With Teutonic armies closing in on Poland from the north, west and east, the capital. Warsaw, fell August 5, ami the next day the stronghold of Icangorod. On August 8, ; the Germans arrived . at Serock; on August 9 at Bo.mza; • OTi Aupnst 1 2.at.Siedlice; on..August. 17 at KovuoV on August 19 at Neve f ,Ge’orgieosRT~X»n August 23 at Ofesiv wiee; nji August ?■> at Brest-Bifovsk; . ' on August 28 at Ollta; on Septeipber \ 3 at Grodno; On September 1 Ger many. announced' slu had taken 1,- 100,000 prisoners since May 2, • ~ ' The debacle unseated the Grand Duke Nicholas as commander In chief of the Russian armies: On Septem ber 2 the Czar sent him to the Cau casus and assumed command in per- B °Still the Teutons pressed on. The second line of Russian fortresses proved as easy ‘to them as On September 15 the. took Pies 11 ^ and. on September 19 Vilna. Ih the vicinity of the latter dty a battle was fought yast enough to stand out even in this succession of major engage ments For several days it seems thafc-the Russian armies had been Jntted. but with r burst of elan t OPraf’s men smashed through the Iron ^eltcle and for the most part escaped ^ ^ ^ the line j—of TW nvtna-rtvrr awt had eetamwft- f ed • great siege wall right arrow Russia with the centre based oa the plank marshes and the south end oa the Hfrtpa did the Teutons stop. Harbta Feels Teutonic Might. . twice. She o the way to the Turks, who could supply their Allies with some < foodstuffs, copper and cotton, while themselves needing arms and ammunition. * * , ‘ ■ On October 7 an irresistible inVa- sleh of Serbia started. The expedi tion consisted principally of artillery, With a relatively small proportion of iaantry. Its task was rendered easy bf’the attack of Bulgaria on Serbia from the flank. Seizing the present as an opportune moment to rehlizo his ambitions, Czar Ferdinand Invad ed his neighbor at three points peto- ber 11 and 'was soon able to raid almost across ‘‘the harassed little country. , Belgrade fell to the Austro-Ge^- mansf October 10 and ten days later the Bulgarians cut the Nish Salpnikl railroad.' The Serbians fought des- pe/ate rear-guard, action. They died by thousands. There was never one single great Serbian defeat, but the American Consul Bristow at Port Said cabled Monday that no warning wa% gfven the Japanese liner Yasaka Maru before she Was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean last Tues day by a submarine of uneatablished nationality. The liner, he added, made no attempt to escape. The consul’s, dispatch skid the sub marine was not seen until after the Unto had been torpedoed and that then, only her periscope was visible. mous losses Meanwhile the French and British had come to the assistance ot.Jtfap Serbians with small forces. They landed at Saloniki October 4 and on October 18 attacked Strumitza, Bul garia. On October 14 Greece re nounced the treaty by the terms of which she was bound to come to Ser bia’s assistance against Bulgaria. Even Great Britain’s offer of the island of Cyprus was unable to tempt her from her neutrality. Every day showed progress for the Teutons and the Bulgarians. Krupilt fell October -24 and Uskub the. next day. On October 26 the Bulgarians and Teutons affected a ‘Junction and oh November 1 the arsenal of Kragu- jevac fell. On November 22 the Serbians be gan to retreat over the border into Montenegro and on November - 29 Germany proudly announced, the suc cessful completion of her Serbian campaign. SHIP HAD NO WARNINfl S. CONSUL Japanese ier Was Destnwjefr tiy. Sub, Whose Natfon- is Not Certain. and the survivorj^- one, hundred and twenty passengers including an American, W. J. Leigh, and the one hundred and sixty-two members of the -crey^-were picked up by a French cruiser and landed at Port Said from where the first reports of the sinking came last week. Tlje outcome of the Yasaka Maru case is generally regarded by offi cials and diplomatists as surrounded with wide possibilities ... regarding Japan’s fhture course in the war. It has been suggested that she might answer the challenge to her shipping by a wide participation in the war even to the extent of taking part in the operations in Europe. As Germany already has given as surances * Hi ap her submarine com manders were under instruction not to attack liners without warning there was a disposition to believe the attacking boat was -an Austrian. If that assumption proves true, it is feared that', the situation over the sinking of the Ancona will further Serbia was a desert inhabited by.. ^j rr LEj* ca ^ e a . n ^ diplomatic corre- women and children. The forlorn “ponnence with Austria will be broad- nianhood of the little nation with drew Into tlie mountains of Albania and Montenegro, where their ene mies continued to press them. On December 5 the Bulgarians at tacked the French and British in Serbia with great energy and the lat ter, after inflicting severe 'losses, were obliged to withdraw to Saloniki, which they fortified strongly. Blood and Indecision in West. The fighting in the west of the year was of a sanguinary ami indecisive character. The first trick went to the Germans when on January 14 they took advantage of a freshet which cut the French communications to drive the French across the river Aiane at Soissona with heavy loss. On January 17 the Germans estimated that the Allies had lost 150,000 in recent futile offensives on the west front. On April 20 the British at great cost took Hill 60, Flanders, but It proved a victory vfhlfchMhey could not follow up. On April 24 the Ger mans let loose great quantities of asphyxiating gas upon the Allies north of Yprea. The "Princess Pats.’’ a Canadian regiment in which were many Americans, was almost anni hilated. But after several villages had been lost the Kaiser’s troopa were,checked. In June the French made a suc cessful attack north of Arras, cap turing the Lftbyrinth June 23; but the Iron men of Crown Prince Ru- precht of Bavaria held their 'lines; which were only dented. Joffre’s Guns Tear German Lines. It was September before'the Allies were ready to try another great of fensive. Then Joffre directed at least a mijlion shells upon the German lines fn the Champagne in a tremen dous three-day bombardment. The. German first and second line trenches were leveled. When the charge came the French were able to rapture SS,- ooo Germans and take about sixteen square miles of territory, bnt the third German line held firm. Simultaneously the French attack ed in Artois and the-British in Flan ders. The British bungled, as usual, and after breaking the German lines at lioos, they left their gallant storm ing imrtics unsupported and the Ger mans in a counter attack were able to regain most of the lost trenches. Both the French and the British boasted of a victory In this Septem ber battle, one of the greatest of all time, making Gettysburg look small; but the Germans asserted their ene mies' loss was greater than their own and pointed to the practically un changed siege line. What the higher British authori ties thought about it Was shown in the second week when Sir. John Frenqh whs recalled and Sir Douglas Haig given his post as commander- in-chief in France. Italy Assails Austria. On January 6 Italy called 3.000,- 000 men to the colors and on May 21 war for the conquest of ‘Gtalia Irre denta” Was declared on Austria. The Italians occupied Montfalcone June 8 and Gradisco June 10. Then jhey assailed the immensely strong Teu ton positions in many places with great gallantry and (loggedness. Bosses were-heavy on both sides. So, far the invaders have not shown much progress, although ’•Opertz seems about to fall' into their hanAjs,,. Allies 1/and at Dardanelles. On FeSruaty ”2l and succeeding days a great Franco-British fleet tried in- vain to force the Dardanelles and open a path of supplies to Rus sia. On March 5 the Allies landed 100,000 men at the Dardanelles In the face of a frightful fire which made this one of theymost gallant exploits of the war. Otace ashore the Turks checked them on the stepp hills. Later the Allies landed at points on the west shore of Gallipoli, but here, too, they were unable to penetrate more, than a few - miles from the shore. ' '"" The War in Mesopotamia. . A strong expedition from British India drove up the Tigris river Into Meeopotemla. won a victory at Kut- el-Amara and pressed on to about a dozen miles of Bagdad. Here the re inforced Turks fsll upon them, in flicted a great slaughter and forced a disastrous retreat Owe German Oolewy Left la the colonies the Germans at the end of the year still hold East Africa ened to take in the subject of attack without warning, as it did in the last stages of the negotiations with Ger many. REPORTS CONFLICT l/nndon Hears Various Humors to as Balkan Attack. Conflicting reports continued to reach Ixindon Monday -Irom the scene of the near eastern campaign. Statements from some sot-rces ma’:e it appear the Teutonic allies are pn paring steadily for an offensive mo ment in conjunction with the Bui garlans and Turks. Other advices, however, are that the Bulgarians fear to attack, lest they be caught be tween two fires in. the strip of terri tory from the Saloniki-Dorrien to the Salonlkl-Gievgeli railroads. The central powers still are nego tiating with Greece. An interview with Premier SkocWudls forecasts failure of the efforts to prevent sn invasion of Grecian Macedonia. It is estimated that if an invasion is un dertaken the Athens government will devote its efforts toward obtaining guarantees of the evacuation of Greek territory immediately after completion of military operations. WANT 8JIG SHIPS GENERAL board recommends NAVY BIGGER THAN ANY . ■ ; v , , ' v V CONFIDENTIAL REPORT and part of their Kanierun colony. Premier Botha of South Africa, after putting down a Boer insurrection, hgd reduced the last German strong hold in Southwest Africa. Submarine Blockade Fails. On the sea. the outstanding fea ture of the year was the German at tempt. beginning February 18, to blockade Great Britain by submarine. With trawlers, aeroplanes, swift motor boats; nets and ingenious scientific contrivances to locate the position of the undersea craft, the British were ablfe to hold the Ger mans to minor successes, compared to the enormous tonnage attacked. The von Tirpitz submarine campaign may be declared definitely a failure, and seems to have been abandoned. In other quarters submarines were more successful. At the Dardanelles battleship after battleship of the Allies fell victim to the unseen foe, until the great fleet was forced to withdraw to. a well guarded harbor, leaving only swift craft to roam the infested Mediterranean. American Lives are Lost, From the American point of view the chief event of the year in the war was the sinking of several passenger ships by Teuton submarines and the consequent loss of about one hundred and fifty American lives. This brought us perilously near to a break with Germany and has had still more serious consequences with Austria. Germans Talk of Peace. In German newspapers the place of prominence has been taken from German victory by'the German din ner N table. Food scarcity in the first winter brought the bread card and war bread. On January 27 the Ger man govemment-taok over control of all corn, wheat and. flour. . , . The first winter was weathered well,,but last summer thq crops, ex cept potatoes, were a failure in the central empires. As u consequdpce the poorer classes in Germany- are complaining’ bitterly that, while not starving, they go insufficiently nour ished. ’ ’ 1 ■ CARRANZA WINS Secretary Daniels Publishes July Re port of the General Board’Trans mitted by Admiral TVexvey—First Tear Program Contemplates Eight Capital .Ships and Auxiliaries. Secretary Daniels has made public the original special report of the navy board prepared at the secretary’s re quest when the administration deter mined last, July to take up the ques tion of preparedness. Critics of the administnjtion five- year building program fof"the navy have declared this report was sup pressed in part by the navy depart ment arid if published w : ould disclose the inadequacy pf uie government’s plans. ■* .~ The board does not say that the British ‘ fleet could be equalled by 1925 by continuing this first pro gram, but indicates that heavier ex penditures would fotlow if shipbuild ing facilities were increased. The board reports says in part: ^’Confidential,'July 30, 1915. ' “From president general board: “To Secretary of the Navy: Subject, NaYGr Policy With Present Re quirements: - “In compliance with the oral order of the secretary of the navy to ex press his opinion at the earliest prac ticable date as to a policy which should govern the development of the navy and'a building program, the general board reports as follows: “Policy: “The navy- of the United States should ultimately be equal to the most powerful maintained by any other nation of the world. It should be gradually increased to this- point by such a rate of development year by year, as may be permitted by the fa cilities of dhe country but the limit defined should be attained not later than 1925. “2. In pursuance of this policy, and having in mind the present facil ities of this country, the board is of the opinion that the following addi tions to the navy he authorized this ear, and recommends the same for your consideration; this addition is believed by the board to be within and practically at the limit of the facilities at present existing: “Four battle cruisers, four dread noughts, six scouts, thirty coast sub marines, seven fleet submarines, twenty-eight destroyers, six gunboats. "Auxiliaries: One destroyer tender, two fleet subarine tenders, four fuel oil ships, one supply ship, one trans port, one hospital ship, one repair ship, one ammunition ship. “Aircraft service, lump appropria tion, five thousand dollars. “Personal, eleven thousand men. This number will provide for the needs of the ships of the navy includ ing those nearing completion but It must be borne in mind that the per sonnel. commissioned, warrant and enlisted, will have to be further In creased as the new construction pro gresses. “Increased facilities for the navy yards and shore establishments gen erally such as dry docks, berthing places, building ships, structural ■hips, cranes for handling heavy weights, ^hop machinery ammunition and other storage facilities, civil per sonnel, etc. “George Dewey.” NO CHANGE IN VAR P0UCY SAYS NEW GREEK PREMIER GERMAN TROOPS WILL ATTACK ALLIED SOLDIERS AT SALONKI • I . ' Ycnizelos’ Clajm to Victory is Contra dicted by Hellene W^o Wants to Remain Neutral. Paris reports Monday: The Athens correspondent of the Matin sends the following: “Having interviewed M. VenUelos on the. Htibjdct of the elections and obtained from him an affirmation that his triumph was demonstrated by the small number 6f votes polled, I called upon M. Copnarls, who de nied there was any considerable num ber of absteutions and claimed that even if the three hundred thousand soldiers mobilized had been able to vote the result would have been tne same: “T-tlen sought to ask about the foreign policy of Greece, but M. Gou- naris interrupted me, saying: a “ ‘Greece’s policy is unchanged. Greece is a small state which does not want to be dragged into the war which might involve a catastrophe like those which have befallen Bel gium and Serbia. We are Greeks and nothing else. I am neither a Gei^ man ophite nor a Francophile but just a Greek. Germanophlles do not exist in Greece. ; “ 'AH Greece, even under the pres ent circumstances, remained attached to England, France and Russia to which she owes her existence and her development. But you can not ask that the sentiment should go so far as to lead us, without absolute necessity, into the conflict, and we believe nothing now requires us to cease our neutrality. Greece always will feel keenly whatever happens for better or worse td France, but we rail not do more.’ “I then asked M. Gounarls to ex plain how, if the Bulgarians are the hereditary enemies of Greece, the Greek people could agree to the Allies army falling b-ck indefinitely before the Bulgars on Greek territory. " ‘Now you ar going into the do main of the future,’ he replied, ’and I can not enter into that. I am speak ing only of accomplished facts and the attltqdet they impose upon us. I can pot speak of the future.’ "I remarked ’ that such silence Vnfglft be considered significant and M. Gournarls explained. “I don't even authorize you to draw a deduc tion from my silence.' ” High Greet Military AnthofiOee tfey Teutonic Attack la Inevitable— Allies are Prepariag. ' A Saloniki dispatch through Paris pays the highest Qreek military authorltlea express the belief that aa Austro-Oerman attack on Saloniki ia inevitable. The Greek general staff vjrill. quit Saloniki. ’’AH Greek troopa except one infantry regiment have been trapsferred to Kozlani. The Entente allies have ordered the evac uation of several villages around Saloniki by the civilians for military reasons. The Saloniki correspondent,W the Petit Parlslen, a Parts neWSAa&er, in dispatch concerning hostilities in re of FORD PARTY’S PEACE PLANS Originator In Ready to Furnish Necessary' t'asli A dispatch from Christiana London says the first detailed All via an- : n« rd expedition headed by Henry Ford was made Sunday at a meeting held under the auspices of the Students and Pro fessors of the University of Chris tiania. Besides the one hundred and fifty Americans already in the party ten people are to joip from each of the following countries: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Spain and Switzerland. After Stockholm and Copenhagen have been all will assemble at The Hague. It is stated that William Jennings Bryan will be among the Americans if he accepts the Invitation., Twenty- one delegates will be empowered to sit indefinitely. .They will have a two-fold missiqn: ’ . First, to suggest possible means >.f pqace; second to re ce * ve overtures for peace directly from the bellig erents. ’ Mr. Ford, it was publicly'announc- ed, would place unlimited fqtiuKhack of the permanent pea< <r cohferencbNat The Hague. ^ Augmented by' other peace advo cates, thf; party will leave for Stock holm. • . • , FRENCH SHIP SINK ' WITHOUT WARNING PaNnenger Steamer U Torpedoed In the. Mediterranean Sea ’ and 79 Drown. Seventy-nine persons were drowned In the destruction of the French liner Ville de la Ciotat, the American con sul at Malta repo ts Mondhy to the state department. No Americans ware aboard. The ship, he reports, was torpedoed without warning at ten fifteen o'clock on December, 24, and sunk in fifteen minutes. ■ The American consul reports fur ther that the rescued were picked up by a Moss liner after they had been in small boats two Lours. The tor pedoed ship, the consul reports, waa on her way from Japan, China and Hawaii to Marseilles. The lost in cluded one woman, a first class pas senger, a stewardess and two chil dren. The Ville de la Clcotat was one of the largest of the steamships sunk reecntly In the Mediterranean. Her gross tonnage was six thousand three hundred and seventy-six. She was four hundred and elghty-sevon feet long and fifty feet beam. She was built at La Ciotat, France, in 1892 and was owned by the Mcssagerles Marltimes of Mantellles. The French official statement fol lows: “Tire steamer VilMt Be Clcotat was torpedoed pndaunk on the twen ty-fourth, in the Mediterranean by an enemy submarine, without warning. A majority of the passengers and crew were picked up by aa English ateamer. Details have not been re ceived. ” Hi e Serbian theatr waf\ shys: • V r "The Germans have begun again to concentrate forces apparently with the object of freshoperations., Th* Bulgarian army is seriously weaken ed and will be replaced In these oper- ' ations by Turkish forces. Turkey has been instructed and. has agreed to principle to give an undertaking to Greece to evacuate from Gredk soil as soon as the Entente allies are de feated, but it remains to be seen whether Greece will permit the Turks to enter her territory after refusing to have the Bulgarians.” ' The Athens correspondent of the Figaro, another French paper, says that the German answer to the Greek protest upon the question of the en try of Bulgarians into Greek terri tory was handed in at noon Satur^ day. Germany, tt is understood, de clared that notwithstanding the ihin- tary necessity which.required the pur suit of the retreating Entente allies, the Imperial government taking ndte of the popular Greek sentiment, has ordered the immediate halt of the Bulgarians. The concentration of Anstro-Ger- man forces for an invasion is said to be underway. When this concentra tion has been completed a definite' decision will be taken. Thus the question has not been settled by the reply but in official circles optimism reigns. The Austro-Germsn forces are estimated at about one hundred and twenty thousand with much heavy artillery. It Is said that they will be entirely ready next Thursday. CHRISTMAS HAS NO TRUCE; EN6L1SH CITIES ACTIVE TWO STEAMERS SUNK. Villa Generals Give x Over Control of Mach Territory. The Carranza de facto government is in official control of the former Villa state of Chihuahua by,Virtue of an agreement reached by Gen. Rob erto Limon, Gen. Mauel Banda, Lieut. Col. Flaviano Paliza and Col. Euar- do Andalon and Andreas Garcia of the Carranza consulate by which about four thousand troops and the organization of the Villa government. Including the cities of Juarex and Chihuahua and aH herder points,, ac cept Carranza domination. Th6 agree ment grants amnesty to all except Gen. Villa and his brother, HipoUto. V Henry Watterson’s Courier-Journal "says Tharitsgiving turkeys at 30c a pound In New York makes thankful those who can afford it. Others tffe thankful, says the Chesterfield Adver tiser, that they do not ha«ve to have turkey to be’ thankful. Belgian and British Vessels are Sent to the Bottom. poking of the Belgian steamer Ministre Beernaerte la announced by London. The crew left the steamer In boats, two of which are missing. The British steamer Cottingham of five hundred and thirteen tons has been sunk. The crew was saved. The steamer Ministre Beernaerte was a vessel of four thousand two •hundred and fifteen tons gross, last reported as having arrived at London on November 23 from J^a Plata. She was built at Newcastle in 1907 and was ow ned by . the Royal Belgo-Ar- gentine Company of Anvers. No (’reeatlon of Artioa on the Ret- ^ UeAekU—British Cabinet Attacked. Christmas pa—cd without heavy fighting anywhere on the European fronts. It also passed without a truce, which gave a touch of human ity to Christmas day a year ago. The United Kingdom, however, witnessed s general abandonment of the truce between tbe political parti—, which was observed during the early months of the war whan tbs coalition gov ernments was formed. . The past w—k has been n study growth of tbs newspaper attacks on the government, tbs general burden of which Is tbe slowneu, the lack of for—Ight and decision, and the mis management of tbe Dardanelles en terprises While all newspapers dis claim any partisan motives, all the more prominent on— participating la the opposition belong to.tha Conser vatives wjth tbe exception of the Manchester Guardian. The newspapers generally hold Premier Asquith responsible for the conduct of affairs. The Northcllffe group headed by The Times and Tha Daljy Mail with the support of The Morning Post, waa joined by The Ob server, which Is the foremost Sunday paper, and The Referree, which baa a large audience among tbe masses. David Lloyd-George la the only candidate advanced for succession. He commanded Lord Northcliffe’s support some time ago in bla speech charging the government with being . "too late’’ at the most~'1inportant crisis of the war and at the same time gained for himself a larger fol lowing. ’ ^ The tyro latest counts of the In dictment of the cabinet are the post ponement until after the holidays of the munitions bill and the postpone ment of giving the country any In sight of Lord Derby’s report on hia e recruiting results. In the meantime ' the verdict of union labor on m Lloyd-George s appeal to re!ax union rules in munitions works to permit of the entry of eighty thousand un skilled laborers is awaited with in terest. One hundred and fifty dele gates of the Engineering society met in London this week to consider terms for settling all differences with the government. Bub Find Man Dead. • Pou, -23, . of Wa,repeat Revolution la CUaa. About SO.OfiO soldiers hava joined tha insurgent Tsai-Ae. and fogr prov inces have declared their independ Saluda, was found dead on the side walk of his town Sunda£ morning. Blood stains on the floor of the home Fred Kneece caused hiin to be ar- rested.- Chester Lad at the’ Front. • J. t<ylee Glemr—of ’CtreBtCT, American Rhodea scholar, la one of the volunteer ambulance drivers with the American corps at the front in France. • Costs TurVs More. .... . Tl<e opening of railroad communl- cationNfrom Tutkey to Austria and Germany has resulted in a consider able increase in jhe price of neces saries of life in Turkey, says a Havas ditspatch from Athens. v— » Big Profit in Hosiery. Investigation has disclosed . that American hosiery manufacturers who opposed the tariff cut on their goods are making a profit of nearly 12 per cent, on their investments. Storm Hits New York. A wierd storm hit New York Sun day. Rain, hail, snow, thunder and lightning, accompanied by a 90-mil.e wind./caused seven deaths. ' ♦ —«» Ktll^ ttlto mMut Mother. Ernest Ashy,, forty-nine, living near Madison, Tnd., killed .his wife and mother-in-law Monday and then killed himself Ford Party Up la the Air. Bays Gaaboag. Several members o' the Ford Cpba has purchased from the Daft-1 have deserted the Joeraey ed States the eld tralalag ship Vkka-1 whole expedition seem* to bar*. - • " * doialtety BRITISH LEAVINQ GALLIPOLI Troops Evacuated Sulva and Districts on Peninsula. The British troops at the Sulva and Anzac districts of Gallipoli pen- intuila have been withdrawn. The following official statement was issued at London Friday: “All the troops at Suiva and Anzac. together with their guns and stores, have been successfully transferred with insignificant casualties to an other sphere of operations.” Father Saves Child. Tfapk Edgerton of Central Vil lage, Crinn., saved the life of his five- year-old daughter when she slipped through the railing.of a river bridge, by diving forty feet Into the water and rescuing her. _____ To Attack..SiJUMRikl. . -iiii Observers belie-} that the central powers are preparing to launch • for midable attack upon Saloniki. In which Germane, Austrians. Turks and Bulgarians are to participate. '