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m c •<0«' FRENt ffronyw break uke AISTRUSs REACH PLAINS CTDIIjJU IDC IOCCDC - "*W 1STUICK ON Mly ULnlMirlllL LUuCnu •OFFICIAL ADMIRALTY STATE MENT OF BATTLE ISSUED 1 FpothoM Gained In Front Trenchen Arserlo Supposed to be Captured— y GERMAN LOSSES HEAVY_ i “‘We Went Out to Fight and Drove ■ TJ " 9 '• * the <>emuuis to Port,” is British View of Battle—Every Kind pf Graft in Action—Range Altogether Too Close. The first official account In detail of the North Sea battle was given to the Associated Press at London Sat- « urday by a high official at the ad miralty. It was noticeable that among admiralty officials, who of course have access to all the official reports, the opinion was general that the depression caused'by the first'an- - nounceipent of the result of the en gagement was not justified, in the light of subsequent details. The admiralty is especially cau- tio'us about stating German losses, giving only those whoch are report ed officially or admitted by the Ger mans, meanwhile awaiting detailed reports from officers who partici pated in the action. It would have been possible to anticipate the German announce ment in regard to the battle received in Ixmdon by wireless Friday after noon, but the British admiralty did not have details until after Admiral Jellicoe reached port, and frankly issued the information which was in Its possession. Expurgating only such portions of wireless reports as might be of as- •oistance to Great Britain's enemies, ^^the admiralty official gave tho f, fol- ■PJowing details of the great naval Lfdhght: ‘We can only say that we were looking for a fight when our fleet went out. Stories that it was de coyed by the Germans are sheerest nonsense. In a word, with an in ferior fleet wc enxuad the antira. nwpminrTiigfc ' m ^ f>as fleet. Interrupted their plans and drove them back into their harbors. *Tn carying out the plan decided upon we sustained heavy losses, which we expected,” this official said, "but we also attained the ex pected result of forcing the enemy to abandon his plan and seek refuge after we had given battle in his own waters near hia coast. "With the exception of two dlvl sions. part of which was only partly engaged, the brunt of the battle was borne by the battle cruiser fleet and with one exception our battle fleet la ready for sea service. I must admit that we had exceptionally hard luck with our battle cruisers, but the lose of these thrge great ships does not in any measure cripple our control of the sea. "The great battle had four phaaes. The first opened at three-fifteen p. ra. when our battle cruisers, at a range of six miles, Joined action with •German battle cruisers. Shortly af terward the second phase began with the arrival on both sides of battler ships, the Germans arriving first. But before their arrival our three battle cruisers had been blown up, supposedly the result of gun fire, al though possibly they met their fate from torpedoes. "Such close range fighting with battle cruisers might be criticised as bad tactics, but our fleet, following "the traditions of the navy, went oyt to engage the enemy, and on account of weather conditions could do so only at short range. “The third phase was the engage ment of battleships, which never was more than partial. This phase in cluded a running fight as the German -dreadnoughts fled toward their bases. All the big ship fighting was -over by nine-flftaen p. m. “Then came one of thg Host weird features of the battle, as Gar- Immedlately Lost by Power ful Counter Attack. Several attempts made by the Ger- * ans Saturday night and Sunday orning to turn the French position at Fort Vaux ^on the Verdun front from the southeast were unsuccess ful, the French war office announced Sunday afternoon. The night attacxe resulted in their gaining a foothold in the French trenches in the .ravine between Damloup and Fort Vaux, but they were immediately driven out by a-counter attack. The assault Sun day morning was checked by the French curtain of fire. The French dispatches read: “On the right bank of the Meuse there was hand grenade fighting dur ing the night west of Thiaiimont farm. “At the close of the. day Saturday after violent bombardment the ene my made an attempt to turn the Vaux front from the southeast. At elgh o’clock they launched a power ful attack into the ravine between the Damloup and the fort which won for them a foothold in our trenches; Our counter attack immediately ejected the enemy completely. A second German attack Sunday morn ing directed against the same point was checked by our artillery fire. "On the left bank of the Meuse and on the remainder of the front there was the usual artillery activity on both sides., "In the Argonne an enemy at tempt against our small posts at Les Courtes Chausees were repulsed. "On the left ban kof the Meuse the artillery activity became intense during the caurse of the day in the region of Hill 304. Preparations for an attack reported in the German trenches were stopped by our barrier fire. “On the right bank the enemy con tinued to bombard our positions in the region of Vaux and' Damloup and, with particular violence, Fort Vaux. “German attack launched at three o'clock in the afternohn against the ■lopaa.wf -the- BoFw Fumlrr. northwest of the fort was arrested by our ma- ■chlne gun fire. Our heavy artillery greatly damaged three German bat teries in the Cuarleres wood. We advanced under the fire of our guns and dispersed enemy concentrations in the Caillette wood. "Sunday at noon a group of Ger man aeroplanes dropped several * Last of Mountain Defences Has Been Reached. Both the Italian and Austrian offi cial communications indicate that the Austrian advance toward the Vene tian plains continues. The outstand ing features of the reports were the occupation by the Invading armies of Monte Baldo, Monte Fiara and Gal lic, north of Asiago, and Monte Prla- fora. south of Arserio. On the lat ter height the Austrians obtained a foothold, but Italian counter attacks threw them off. Rome, however, said the mountain eventually was left in Austrian hands. ^ The main course of invasion is maintained in the Valley of the Astico, which leads to Vicenza. The battle line as it is divulged by the official reports, runs from the Adige south of Mari across Monte Pasubio to Forni Rlti, CampjoHa, Monte Pria- fora, Punta Gordin, Gallo and thence east of north to the Val Sugana. While there has been no positive word of the fall of .Arserlo or Aslago, it Is regarded as probable that the former, at least. Is In Austrian hands, since they are In strong force a mile and a quarter to the south and ars across the Posina to *he east. About Aslago they are <n positions west of the town and dominate it from all the heights to the north and north east. The Italian war office has let it be known that the defence has withdrawn from the town to the heights dverlooking the Aslago basin, but there has been no reference in. any dispatch to its occupation by the Austrians. Arserio and Aslago virtually mark the limit of the mountains and the beginning of the foothills which de scend to the seaboard plans. BRITISH BELIEVE TEUTONS LOST 18 MEN-OF-WAR BERLIN ANNOUNCES GAIN NORTHEAST OF VERDUN Hritish Attempts Against Position Won East of Ypres Defeated By the Teutons. 1 night declares that Lho Gurmawloeee*—Hmh -if f*.. , In the fight were not oniv relsttTPir . With all. the. weight and power of The German drive on the Verdun front between the Caillette wood and Damloup, northeast of the fortress. Is progressing favorably for the at tacking forces, the German war of flee announced Sunday, The cap- bombs on Toul. Six persons were! ture of more than five hundred prls killed and about ten.jyere .wounded The material damage was of alight Importance. No military establish ment was struck. "A pursuit squadron from Toul took the air immediately and vigor ously pursued the enepiy aeroplanes, one of. which was brought down in our lines at Sanzey. twelve kilo- metrea north of Toul. Two other enemy aeroplanes, struck by the mi trailleuse fire of our machines, de scended abruptly In the German lines.'’ Belgian communication: "Spirited actions by the artillery of both sides occurred in the region of Dixmude. There was the usual bombardment at various other points." OVER 300 OFFICERS KILLED Practically All From Five Sank Cruisers Perished. A to-lsl of 333 officers were killed in the Jutland battle, according to a list Issued by the British admiralty Monday. This list shows that prac tically all the officers of the cruisers Queen Mary, Invincible, Indefatiga- oners and four machine guns is re ported The text of the statement by army headquarters Is as follows: "Western Front—The British directed several attacks against th« position won by us east of Ypres. They were repulsed. The artillery battle north of Arras and In the re gion of Albert continued Saturday. British reconnoiteflng detachments were repulsed. "Several explosions caused by the enemy southeast of Neuville St. Vasst were without results. "On the left bank of the Meuse a minor enemy attack west of Hill 304 was repulsed. During the attack we captured one machine gun. "On the eastern bank of the river heavy fighting between Caillette and Damloup progressed in oor favor. Saturday more than five hundred Frenchmen. Including three officers, were taken prisoner and four ma chine guns ware captured, “West of Marklrch (Vosges re gion) several gas attacks by the ene my were unsuccessful. “Bombs were dropped in Flandera, causing the Injury of several Be]; d. gians. No military damage resulte hie. Defence and Black Prince and D ian^ e t r a s I hmnrh^ k rtnwn n h ,t,9h from the destroyer*Tipperary. Tur-I a rcraff^runT 0 *^ 1 ^- 0 ^ r * nt ‘ bulent. Fortune, Ardent, Nonnad, 1 Jin Nestor and Shark perished. All the officers except one from the cruiser Warrior were saved and all the officers from the destroyer Spar- . , . .. ^ row Hawk. On the other ships d ,fv tr ? n y r a r n,!. na ? e 1 , ,fU } ck at - twenty-three officers were killed and xck. like infantry following artillery twenty-two wounded. Eastern and Balkan Front- There is nothing to report." IF NOT “T. R.” THEN WILSON preparation, on our big ships. But these onslaughts were singularly fu tile, not a single torpedo launched by them getting home. “With the morning these attacks ended and the' scene of battle was swept by Jellicoe's fleet. Not a sin gle enemy vessel remained in sight. 'Tntil we get Admiral Jelicoe's complete record we can give only fragmentary incidents of the great battle. Among these is the torpedo ing of the superdreadnought Marl borough."which Is now safely in har bor. She must have struck a veri table hornet’s nest of submarines, as by skilled manoeuvring she avoided three of these before she was finally hit. "Early in the engagement, accord ing to Admiral Beatty’s report, a German battle cruiser, after being hotly engaged, blew up and broke in two. "Officers of the fleet also reported passing a closely engaged German battlecruiser which was left behind, while the British pursued the Ger mans. On their return this vessel was missing. Judging from her pre vious plight, she must now be at .the bottom of the sea. This accounts for two of the enemy’s battle cruisers, and we have their admission that they had lost two battleships "The admiValty has a report of the sinking of four Carman light cruisers and the Germans have acknowledged the loss of six destroyers. There is very good hope that the German loss Is even greater, but we do not Intend to make any estimates until we hav« complete official report trom .our commanders, who do not report the loss of antagonists without definite evidence. . ^^"Zeppelins did not plhy the impor- ^Rt part attributed to them. Only appeared. It remained in action a very brief time, retiring under ir is doubtful whether any aircraft could have been of much service. "The eneiry sprang no surprisas. We saw noting of any seventeen Inch gnrs No tricks vers used l^hleh were not already knows Is BRITISH LOSS HEAVY Fighting for May Bloodier Than in • April or March. ' -J ^ British casualties in May were much heavier than in either of the two preceding months. The total from all fields of operation as an nounced Wednesday from published lists is 1,767 officers and 28,470 men. The total in March, includ ing officers and men, was 20,454 and In April 20,511 naval warfare. "The weather conditions were the hardest bit of luck our fleet encoun tered, as may be judged from the following paragraph from the offi cial report: ‘Regret misty weather of thirty-first saved enemy from far more severe punishment.’ “From the standpoint of actual stnength the navy’s loss in personnel, while ^reat, was not serious, .as we have plenty of.men,to replace them. But the death of so many gallant of ficers and men has caused profound grief. Admiral Hood went down with his flagship Invincible, In the words of Admiral Beatty’s report, leading his division into action with the most inspiring courage. . J**® captain, Cay, went down d J 1 m ' C'Pk Sowerhy, former British naval attache at Washington perished with His ship, the Indefati-. gable, while Capt. Prowso died on the Queen Mary. ' "With a fight like Wednesday’s action occurring every day; we could stand the Tosis much better than the Germans. Our battle fleet Is Still In tact, while we still have considerably more battle cruisers than the Ger- not confirm tha great victory so jubi lantly announced In the German preaa. With out battle fleet Intact we eUl] hold the North Sea. aad we have prevented the enemy from ae- compliebln* any definite object’* Oscar Straus States Position of the Progressives. Oscar S. Straus, of New York, a delegate to the Progressive National Convention, declared Sunday night that if the Republican Convention did not nominate Col. Roosevelt the Progressives might formally endorse Presid -•nt. Wilson for re-election and adjourn without further action. "President Wilson has many friends among the Progressives," said Mr. Straus. "I would’ not be surprised if the Republicans named some candidate so unsatisfactory that we might endorse President Wilson. I am for Roosevelt first and I sin cerely hope the Republicans will him. Hughes, I think, would be ac ceptable to many Progressives. The only argument against him is drag ging the Supreme Court into politics. It would establish a dangerous prece dent. Some of the most powerful arguments against his running under the circumstances are his own pub lic statements on the subject." SUBS SANK 121 NEUTRALS Activity of Sea Terrors Accounted for up to March. Official figures published by the British embassy show tbit up to the end of April neutral nations had lost 121 ships sunk by submarines. Although the state department haA had a vast amount of diplomatic cor respondence oh this subject. In the list appears the name of only one American ship—the Leelanaw, sunk on July 25 last year. Norway was by far the heaviest sufferer, with sixty-two ships lost. Denmark lost twenty-two, Sweden, twenty; Holland, seven; Greece, five, and Spain, four shjps. ADMIRAL BETTY PRAISED Admiralty' Isuiee Statement Declar ing Naval Battle Resulted in Greater Losses for Germans Not Only Relatively Bat Absolutely— English Casualties Stand. 4 ^ The British admiralty Sunday night Issued a statement saying there was the strongest grounds for the be lief that the British navy in the bat tle with the Germans’off Jutland last week had accounted for a total of eighteen German men-of-war and that there was nothing to add to or subtract from the original announce ment of the British losses. The statement gave the German los'ses as two battleships, two dread nought battle cruisers, foyr light cruisers, nine torpedo boat destroy ers and a submarine. The pessimism which prevailed as a result of the admiralty's original statement of losses, which is now considered to have been needlessly candid and conservative in underesti mating the extent of the German losses as-compared with those of Great Britain has been greatly les sened by the latest statement. A dispatch from Copenhagen says rumors, are current in Hamburg that two additional German warships than those announced in the German communication—the battlqphip West falen and the battle cruiser Lutzow —were sunk in the battle. A wire less dispatch received in London Sat urday from Berlin said the German admiralty admitted the loss of the Westfalen. The 'admiralty statement Sunday xmmi MiTomiwg a* GERMANS ATTACK YEKDUN Another Attempt Failed on Sunday After Repented Attempt* > by Teutons. There le virtually no let-up In the German effort to push back the Frnech lines on the Verdun front northeast of the fortress. In their attacks Sunday on Fort Vaux. one of the outlying defences of Verdun along the froht east of the Meuse, the Germans axe hurling for ward their infantry in maseee^so compact that the first ranks are ob liged to advance to certain death. The assailing columns debouch from the village of Damloup below the fort# and separated from It by a ravine which they are. obliged to cross to attain the slopes near the fort. .For three days this spot has been the scene of carnage jjhich was saturated the ground with blood.' One German column advanced no farther than the bottom”of the ra vine. The front ranks, pushed on by those behind, fell as fast as they reached thb dead line swept by the French quick flrers. As they toppled over others came on to take their places and fall In turn. Returning French officers declare the butchery at Verdun surpasses imagination. After failing In an assault Satur day afternoon northeast of Fort Vaux the crown prince’s troops returned to the attack Sunday night, during against the French between the fort and the village of Damloup, to the southeast. There, as in other efforts, they were unsuccessful and General Ville’s forces remain in possession of the fort, Paris declared Monday. GERMAN DRIVE'MENACES FRENCH LINE AT VERDUN tremendous masses of men and metal Maintaining its practice | * ba J® delivering - - what may prove to be their decisive stroke against the main defense of V’erdun. The German attack of Thursday northeast of the fortress, which.gained them flrat line trenches in the crucial sector between Fort Douaumont and Vaux, has been fol lowed by fighting of extreme vio lence. Friday afternoon’s official bulletin from Paris reports the con tinuance of the struggle throughout the night, but fails to reeord the outcome, the implication being that the raeult so far la Indecisive. The crown prince’s drive U being preseed along a front little more than two mllee In width between the Thlaumont farm and Vaux. German progress here has been slight since the early days of flghtipg. The re cent pushing back of the French lines on the west bank of the Menee. however, le claimed to have stopped the French flanking fire from that back which hitherto had handicapped German attempts to advance on The opposite side of the river. West of the Meuse tLe French have been endeavoring to regain some of the ground recently lost In the southward drive of the Germans there and they claim to have made good progress Thursday night south of Caurettea wood in the vicinity of Cumleree. On their front In Asiatic Turkey the Russians reported the situation la nnchangod.-. Constantinople says that near Felahle. In the Knt-el- Amara region, the Turks two Brlttob guns and took la a In the fight were not only relatively but absolutely greater than those of tha British. Maintaining Ra practice of caution, the admiralty stil 1 re frains from giving the names of the lost German ships. The official list of the casualties among officers shows that hardly a single officer of the line escaped from the British cruisers sunk in the battle. An additional casualty list of petty officer* shows that forty- three of them were saved from the Queen. Mary, Invincible. Fortune, Arden and Shark. None was saved from • the Indefatigable, Defense. Black Prince, Tipperary, Turbulent, Nomad or Nestor. The list gives the names of sixty- five men killed aboard the Warrior and twenty-seven men wounded. On the ether ships engaged in the fight one hundred and fifteen men were killed and eighty-five wounded. Admiral Lord Bereeford in an in terview, while contending strongly for the view that there was no fail ure In the British strategy and that Vice Admiral Beatty won a brilliant success, though it was dearly declar ed that the only mistake made was by the admiralty in allowing the Ger mans to get first in the field with the news of the battle or as he puts It. with “impudent fabrications." Other- 'wise, said Lord Beresford, no fault can be found with the admiralty. The text of the statement follows: "Until the commander In chief has had time to ccrosult the officers en gaged and yrite a full dispatch, any attempt to give a detailed history of the naval engagement which began on-th«-aft«rnooa of-th^ tbirty*flrst of May and ended In the morning of the first of June would evidently be premature but the results are quite plain. "The grand fleet came in touch with the German high seas fleet at three-thirty o'clock on the afternoon of May 31. The leading ships of the two fleets engaged in a vigorous fight, in which the battle cruiser, fast battleship and, eubsidiary craft all took an active part. "The losses were severe on both sides, but when the main body of the British fleet came into contact with the German high seas fleet a very brief period sufficed to compel the latter, who had been severely punish ed. to seek refuge in their protected waters. This manoeuvre was render ed possible by low visibility and mist and although the grand’ fleet were now and then able to get in a mo mentary contact with their oppo nents, no continuous action was pos sible. "They continued the pursuit until the light had wholly failed, whilt the British destroyers wer.e able to make a • successful attack upon the men during the night. "Meanwhile Admiral Sir John Jel- llcde, having driven the enemy jnto port, returned to the main scene of the action and scoured the seas in search of disabled vessels. By noon the next day, June 1, It became evi dent there was nothing more to be done. He returned, therefore, to his base, four hundred miles away, re- .fueled his fleet and In the evening of June 2 was again ready to put to sea. “The British losses already have Progrees of Crown Prince's Troops May Mean Decision of BaU ' tie of Month*. ADVANCE INI® GREECE Greece. Sold to be Arc need Over Oc cupation of Force aad Terri- j tory by Trndittoaol Foe. On May 20 the Bnlgmilane, In ftvn regiments, occupied Fort Rnpcl, on the Struma, the most exposed oat- work of Greece, north of Demlr-Hle- sar, and then Forts Spatovo and Dragotio. flanking it on the west, south, and east Kanfvo and Dra* gotin are new forta, constructed in 1913-14. This occupation had been expected ever since May 13, when the Bblgara first crossed the border. It has been reported from Athens, via Paris, that the garrisons at these places had rje* celved orders to evacnate—at least, that Is what the Bulgar commanders told the Greek commanders. While awaiting confirmation of these orders, it is said that shots, without serious casualties, were exchanged between the Bulgars and the Greeks. It was also reported from Athena that feeling was running Very high in the capital and that Venlzeios’ paper, The Herald, had appeared In black border and with an article by the former prime minister condemn ing the king and present government for their alleged unconstitutional actions. The Franco-Brltlsh force st Salon- iki, originally eighty thousand, is now believed to number at least three hundred thousand men. To these must be added the reorganized Serbian army recently transported in its entirety from Corfu and number ing anywhere from eighty to one hundred and thirty thousand. The allied line extends from the Vsrdar, three miles north of Top- chin, where the railway crosses on its way to Monastir, north, envelop ing Dandbaba, Awattl, and Kafa Tash; then eastward south of Lakes I^gaza and Beokid to the Gulf of Revldlna or Orfano. They alto hold certain points north and east of the Salonikl hinterland. West of it at Avlona, on the Strait of Otrants, is an Italian army vari ously estimated Jo he->atwaen~ono~ hundred and fifty and two hundred. L thousand men. It is eipected that this army, when the time comet, wifi act in conjunction with the AlUed army at Salonikl with MonasUr, which lies between them, about one hundred mllee from either, as the objective. BRITISH FLEFr’filRSUlNG . DAMAGED GERMAN CRUISER GERMANS STILL GAIN to add to or subtract from the latest account published by the admiralty. Th,e enemy losses are less easy to de termine. That the accounts they have given to the world are false is cer tain and we can not yet be sure of exact truth. But from such evidence as has come to our knowledge the admiralty entertains no doubt that theflennan losses are heavier than the British, not merely relatively to the strength of the two fleets but ab solutely. . , ’’Thera sqema to be the strongwt ground for SUDOofna’ that ships, two dreadnought bgttle cruis ers of the most powerful type, two, of the latest Fight cruisers, the Wies baden and Elbing, a light cruiser of the Bostoek type, the light cruiser Frauenlob, nine destroyers and a submarias court Tuesday Forming Wedge. The OeHtt&n offensive west 6t the Mease lit the Verdun region Is be ing fllently pressed bit by bit the French are being* forced back. Gen. Nlfelle’s forces, which Monday were struggling to retain a foothold in the outskirts of Cumieres village, admit ted Tuesday they retired In this sec tor in the face of infantry attacks which followed an Intense bombard Bient. The conceded withdrawal was from a last line trench near Cau- rettes wood, south of Cumieres. In addition the possibly significant ad mission is made that .a detachment of German troops, under cover of fog, was able to penetrate to the vicinity of Chattancourt which lies more than a mile below Cumieres. This force, however, was annihilated by fire of the French artillery, the Paris war office declares. The German advance in this sec tor is fast driving a wedge into the French line just to the west of the Meuse, the movement being appar ently Intended to outflank the French in' the vicinity of their com manding Dead Man Hill and Hill 304 petitions. ... British Survivor* Think tleohlpa 1 linden berg la -Naval Fight, A Copenhagen dispatch says: A dispatch to the gtlfts Ttdeade from Rib*, Jutland, soys that the German battle cruiser SeydUta was sighted Thursday morning west of Faao In land going south pursued by British warships. She was badly damaged and had two large holes aft. An Edinburgh dispatch says sur vivors arriving there from British destroyers which made a massed at tack on a German battleship In the Jutland battle are convinced that they sent to the bottom the dread nought Hindenber^ the pride of the German fllvy. These sailors soy that the Hlndenberg was struck suc cessively by four torpedoes while the destroyer dashed la aloagslde of hor hull tearing her to pieces until the mighty ship reeled and tank. The Seydlltx Is a dreadnought r-h i r. n.i. .w* i>» jst'i.i 25 9oalt Of Jutland tbont eleven mllee from Ribs and Is in the Immediate neighborhood of the scene of the great naval battle of Wednesday. • Bidding Hens and Chicks of Lie* and Fl§a*. Lice live and breed on poultry and can be exterminated by greasing each fowl with 33 per cent, mer curial ointment which can be bought at a drug store. The grease is placed on the flesh below the vent, covering a space not larger than a 25-cent piece with umiBu iubbco aireaay nave n small amount of the been fully stated. There is nothing ointment. This ointment poisons the fVl drift- i xvv* msvivf i 11C d O Yirt ft 4a rwa/w-kaon a-*. _ _ _ 1 i a lice and it Is necessary to apply it only once a month) Sitting hens can be greased before the commencement of the hatch and when the chicks are dry. If the lat ter peep and stand with thejr eyes closed, examine the head minutely, and you will probably find one or more large head lice. Anoint th* head and the part under the beak with carbolized vaseline, or ono pprt of, the 33 per cent, merourial oint ment and four parts of grease. if JsfMUMMhaHaMiM — the breeder of the egg laying breeds of fowls Is short on his crop of pallets he shoaldcontinue hie hatching operations. Some of the record layers of these breeds were hatched in June. Eternal vigilance; however, is tha pries of ssetsm with the lata CANT ACCEPT BRITISH OFFER «—— *■ Germany Unable to Guarantee Food to All of Territory. Berlin announced Wednesday that Germany could not accept Great Bri tain’s counter proposals for the re lief of Poland. This deciaion. which had been expected, was reached at n conference at the American embassy Tuesday which was attended by Am bassador Gerard, Dr. Theodor Le- wald, director of the ministry of the interior; Prince Lubeckl, the Polish leader! and representatives of the Rockefeller commission. The British proposals were found to be Inacceptable to Germany large ly on account of tha fact that this country is unable to give the guaran tee demanded by Great Britain for the simultaneous feeding of Serbia, Mbntenegro and the section of Ro land occupied by Austria as a condi tion for penritting food for Poland to pass the British blockade. Ger many is willing to use her best ef forts to have the system of rationing introduced there, but those countries are outside her sphere of control and it would be necessary to obtain the sanction of the Austrian and Bul garian authorities. \ r ^ ^ Turks Claim Another Success. The Turkish war office claims more success against the Roaslaa army operating west of Erxerum. The Russians, who recently were compelled to evacuate Mamnkhtum, fifty mllee wpst of Eraerumfi have been forced to retreat some twenty- five miles altogether, according to Constantinople, sustaining large lose. Fleas attach themselves is the side of the face and under the henk Am-A A t _ Is SO. ■ ~ — ^ the fowls and chicks They are brown in eolo mercurial ointment. They'breed tn the sand where the ehiekepa are n» cu*toned to gather, and to rid the premises of flee* it In necessary to ssturste their breeding placet with a solution of one port of I