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n kOAMAGE AT NEW YORK TOTALS >' MORE THAN S25.000.000 WRECKS SHIPS AND CARS —♦ String of Railway Care and Several Barges Blown up In Terrific Explo sions—Detonations Shake Cities in Radius of Twenty-five Miles—Loss of Life Problematical and Uncer- tain. - ‘ Property -loss estimated, at $25,- 000,000 was caused early Sunday by a series of terrific explosions of am munition awaiting shipment to the Entejite Allies and stored on Black Tom Island, a small strip of land Jut ting into Now York bay off Jersey City. The loss of life still was proble matical Sunday night. It will not be determined definitely until there has has been opportuity to check up the workmen employed on the island and on boats nearby. Three are known to be dead and at least five more are missing. Scores of persons were in jured, some of them probably mor tally. The detonation, which were felt in five states, began with a continu ous rapid fire of small shells, then the blowing up of great quantities of dynamite, trinitol tunine and other high explosives, followed by the bursting of thousands of shrapnel shells which showered the surround ing country and-waters for miles arfillnd. Fire that started soon after the rst great crash destroyed 13 of the luge wa'rehouses of the National forage company on Black Tom is land. in which were stored merchan- diso valued between $12,00(1,000 and $15,000,000. The fianteH, shooting plosion. Panic-stricken women ed baby carriage! about, nonte of them praying and others screaming. The fire on Black Tom Island still raged Sunday night The large rail road yarda of the Lehigh Vallfcy and the reclaimed meadow land for miles around virtually were covered with great piles of wreckage and count less shrapnel sheila, many of which had not exploded. Many of the spectators carried away shrapnel sheila as souvenirs. In some instances they had dug them from the earth two or three miles away from the scene of the explo sions. C. W. Leydon, chief of the Lehigh Valley railroad police, was killed while aiding an engine crew in at tempting to save a number of freight cars from -the fire. A quantity of dynamite exploded near where he was standing, it was said. The Lehigh Valley railroad sent a telegram to the bureau of safety of the interstate commerce copfinission, inviting co-operation in the investi gation as to the cause of the explo sions and fire. Warrants charging manslaughter were issued late Sunday night for the arrest of Albert M. Dickman, agent at the Black Tom Island dock for the Lehigh Valley Railroad com pany; Theodore B. Johnson, head of TEUTONS LOSE OFFENSIVE IN SECOND YEAR OF VAR ADVANTAGE WITH ALLIES For First Time Forces of Central Empires are on Defensive on All Fronts in War Theatre—Greatest Avalanche of Shells and Men Known to History Being Hurled Upon Teutonic Lines The second year of- the world war closes with the ‘ Battle of Europe,” a concerted effort of the Allies on three fronts to crush the central powers, which has developed into a titanic strut gle before which super latives, already exhausted, are com pletely beggr.red. . _ . ... . „ France and Great Britain in the I Russia in the east, Italy in the south, are hurling wave a^ter wave frtfttt extend from th to Rumania. The Teuton line* held firm in the north but to the eouth Oen. Bnitl- loff pwept with Irresistible force through the Austrian defenses, tear ing a great gap about 100 mllee in extent. Through this the Russians poured, capturing Cxernowltz, the capital of Bukowina and overrunning the crownland. The Austrian losses are declar ed to have been enormous, a month after the offensive began the Russians making an official announcement that over 200,000 prisoners has been taken and at least an equal number killed or wounded. to make their way to Buglish ports unmolested by German warships. The German official account of the fight says that the British were 117,150 tone as against $0 720 tons sunk by the British. The Brit ish admiralty makes no attempt to estimate the loss in tbnnage but un official British estimates place the German lose at 109,220 tons against 112*350 for the British. Officially the Germana have ad mitted the loss of only one capital ■hip, the Lutzow, 26.600 tons, a ves sel surpassing In tonnage and arma ment many battleships. The Britlfn claim to have sunk In addition two dreadnoughts and probably a third. The principal losses admitted By them for their side are the three bat IN TWO YEAIS* W»- ■ ■ ca% flns— ■ - M KlVvIJll PW«p©flOrlljr 0» , meats by Figures CO Per of Wounded Go Back to Fight. company, and Alexander Davidson, superintendent of the National Stor age company. They are accused of having illegally permitted explosives to be stored where human life was endangered. A statement issued by the Lehigh Valley Railroad company said: ‘Thirteen brick storage ware houses out of the 24 owned and oper ated by the National Storage com pany and six piers owned' by the stor age company and leased to the Le high Valley road were destroyed. Several others of the brick ware houses were badly damaged and some minor damage was done to the Lehigh Valley grain elevators. In addition, as far as is known, 85 loaded cars were destroyed. “According to the evidence ob tained by officials of the railroad, the fire started at 1.05 this morn ing in a barge belonging to an in- against orders. Info f hr clouds, were reflected. uraina \»w VwrVw "shjtfnp" of t<Fw-| road company's crlng office building*, which for a few momenta were aliaken to their foundationa aa If by an earthquake. Miles of streets in Manhattan were strewn with broken glass and shat tered signs Early rep«*rta of heavy loas of life were impoaalhle «*f verification and the authorlt'ea ■Svaaerted the number of deatha probably would he small. It was said that owing to the extent of the wrecknge It might be several days before the exact figures could be obtained. Hie cause of the disaster had not keen determine.! Sunday night. Of- flria’s of the Nat'onal Storage com pany and the i.ehlgh Valley railway, which also suffered heavily through loas of property, declared that re ports to them showed a fire started shortly after 1 o'clock on a barge h.'longlng to an Independent towing company that had been moored alongside a dock used by the rail road to transfer ammunition ship ments from trains to vessels in the harbor. * The barge. It was said, was there without authority either of the rail road nr the storage company. The officials refused to discuss the name of the Independent towing company, saying they were Investigating “to rertain whether the barge purpose- dock expressly of armed men on the Teutonic lines, together with an aralancheW shells and bombs such as the world has not known up to the present time. For the first time the Teutops are, tem porarily at least. On the defensive on the thousands of miles’ of the exist ing battle fronts. The change In the situation which the year has brought is striking, al though the results so far have been more potential and spectacular than radical. A year ago the Germans, continuing their great drive against the Russians, hurled the Slavs back along the entire eastern front, cap tured Warsaw, the great fortresses of Kovno, Novo Georgievsk and Brest-Lltovsk r.nd established* tinea far inside Russian territory un broken until within the last three months. They seised all Poland, a great slice of Russia to the south of dependent towing fompany which .. h » d *>—- p SSfiOA aiuntaidii «tl 1U tM JM* 1 ™ ^ ,BV “f As the offensive developed the Russians won new successes further north and at the close of the war year are engaged in a mighty strug gle for Lemberg, the capital of Gali cia. The fighting has also extended tp the extreme north, in the Riga- Dvinsk region, but here the Germans have hold their own and no decisive result has as yet been gained by either side. In another theater of the war the year was marked by other and im portant Russian successes. Follow ing the-disasters oa the eastern front In the closing months of 1916 the Grand Duke Nicholas was removed as commander-in-chief of the Rus sian armies and sent to take charge of the operations against the Turks in the Caucasus. After months of preparation he began a great drive across Armenia in January, 1916, which reaulted in the capture of Erzerum and the port of Treblzond and expelled the Turks from the greater part of Armenia After a comparatively lull of somo months the grand duke resumed bis advame simultaneous with a serious uprising against the Turks by the Arabs In Are-bi-i. The Arabs took the sacred city of Mecca, Jldduh and Taif, and besleg ed Medlno, the city where Moham med was bu. led aud one of the holt eat spots of the Mohammedan world In the meantime the Rusriana took Mamakhatmn and Balburt. but these operations have not yet reached definite conduaioj era from Galicia and Bukowtna. Field Marshals von Hindenburg and "M. T. Heniy, night general yard- ) r ° n the heroes of master of the New York division of these great succevaes. the I>ehigh Valley railroad, was on I ‘h* wtwtera front the changwe the pier when the fire started. He I *" !»'»"•• R** during the yesu-were rotn- said the explosion, which occurred at' paeaflveiy small but the twelve The German government baa issu ed officially the figures relating to the conquests at the end of the seor ond year of tho war in a statement which reads: "The central powers occupied 431,000 square kilometrea against 180,000 a year ago. Thn enemy oc cupied In Europe 22,00V'square kUo- tle cruisers, the Invincible, the Inde-| metres against 41,000 a year ago. fatlgable and the Queen Ma<y7 I ‘‘The central powers, Bulgaria and One other event on the sea arous Turkey captured 2,658,000 enemy ed ' Intense interest On June 6,1 Moldiers against 1,695,000. Of those Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, Great taken prttoneru by the Germane Britain’s famous minister of war. officers and 384,000 men were was drowned with his staff off the French; 9,019 officers and 1,202,000 Orkneys when the cruiser Hampshire men were Russian and 947 officers went down. It was at first thought 1 and 30,000 men were British, the cruiser had bee i the victim of a “The war booty brought to Qer- submarine but this theory was glen- many in addition to that utilized Un- erally discarded when it was learned mediately at the front comprised li,- that the warship hid struck a mine I 03 6 cannon, 4,700,000 shells, 3,450 and gone down in the midst of a ter-1 machine guns and 1,556,000 rifles, rifle storm. ‘‘According to the list of statistics The second year of the war was a I ^® u “ de , d ?? ldl , er, ‘ memorable one as far as the United ^. t - r « t . ur “ ed to , th « fron ^ ) A States was concerned. It marked ^ re “ nflt ? I r the apparent final passing of the ^ . . ?L d- , T* 1 ® mil1 ' crisis between this country and °* ^® * K,w ® r ®‘ many over the su .marine warfare L" K vacc “ atl o“-„™« which threatened more than onee a | neTer d ‘»t“rbed by epidemics. “ rupture of relations and even war. I ♦♦♦ i The sinking by a submarine with-1 DEFEAT OF SOUTH WAS “BEST out warning of the White 8U»r liner Arable, with the loss of two Ameri can lines, created a profound Impres sion in the.Untted States. Germany I sent a note ter Washington if Sep-| FOR ALL” SAYS TILLMAN tember pleading self-defense and of- 8 ® n a tor Admit* a Change Ha* Come fering to refer the question of com pensation to The Ha«ue but tils wai regarded with disappointment by tht Washington government and the sit uation became very tense. In Octo-1 her Germany disavowed and regret ted the sinking of the ArabM. Five months later the^ French I steamship Sussex was torpedoed | Over His Outlook of the War of Hecesaion. "I never believed It poeaible that I couyi do it, but slowly and by de grees. 1 have come to think that it was boat for all concerned that the South was defeated,” cald Senator 2.08. was In the barge where the fire started*. “Mr. Henly'a first thought was to remove the loaded cars on the pier from the danger zone He said that when he reached the end of the pier the.barge wa* burning fiercely all over and,the fire was beginning to communicate Itself to some of the cars near, east of the barge. “Two long strings <>t cars wrrs months were marked by three events of Interest. The battles of Cham- Vagne and Verdun and the opening of the great Franco-British offensive on the Somme took place In this period. The battle of Champagne opened on September 25, after a week's ter rific bomhardmant of the German lines by the French, British sad Bel gians Jn a week of the bloodiest ly had been set on fire as the result of a plot." The body of an unidentified man was recovered from the water near the Lehigh Valley pier. A child In Jersey City, according to the police, died from shock after the first ex plosion. Many men told stories of havilng been bloen hundreds of feet over land and water. Most of the f.o or more injured taken to Jersey City hospitals were strprk by shrapnel, falling glass or fiabria Nearly .i’ll were in the rail road yards or o*l rraft moored near the island. Included among them jre a few women and children whose liomes wire on barges. Every window in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, on Bedloe’s Island, opposite Black Tom, was broken and the main door, made of iron and weighing almost a ton, was clocked off its hinges. The statue Iti-elf. Itowever, was not (lamaKcd, ex cept from the rain of shrapnel which t>Cs|igttercd it. ^ Although the plant which furnished power for Bedloe’s island was shaken and partly put out of commission, the famous ‘‘Light of Liberty" burned steadily throughout the hours of confusion. Most of the damage at the immi gration station was wrecked walks and buildings and shattered windows and doorways. Two barges, ablaze ami laden with shrapnel shells drift ed to the island. An explosion on .one of thit.barges damaged the struc ture housing- the power plant. Two other fire-swept craft ground ed 6n the southwest corner of the island which contains the contagious diseasp hospital. The medical staff removed the 650 immigrants on the island to the battery. Many small craft as well as sev eral good sized steamers and sailing vessels were badly damaged. Crews on the big ocean Hners anchored in the harbor (r docked along the New Jersey and Ne\Y York water fronts, declared tlwt when the first two great explosions occurred, It appear- «>d as if their vessels were literally picked up out of the water and then hurled hack. All New York f|nd cities within a radius of 25 miles were awakened by the explosion. Within an hour 4I IIOO telephone calls went over th* indire wire from excited inquirers. Hundreds of thousamLs of persons, many of them scantily clad, ran ex- ^fc.1,,11) through the streets wliil* ^■utomohile*. containing poUcevnem, ^fcremcn and others, da»l»ed alon*. re * h ed to Maiden. TH" successfully removed from th* daa- fighting that had been known up to that time the Allies announced that they had taken 20 miles of trenches, six towns and 23,000 prisoners But there they halted. They could not break through the mighty German wall and. tho grim deadlock which marked tho western front for so many months waa resumed. The battle of Champagne marked the removal of Sir John French, the British commandec-in-chlef from the beginning of the war up to that time. In December. 1915, it waa announced that he had resigned to taka a horn* command and Sir Douglas Haig was appointed hit successor. In sheer human Interest the battle of Verdun crobably surpassed all other individual events of the war. On February 23 the German crown prince began htx matrtr of the hls- In connection with the Turkish campaign the year saw a serious re verse for tie Franco-Brltlsh arms and a less in portant, but highly dra matic. dlsast ip for the British. The dicastroua attempt of the Frerch and British to force the Dardanelles and seise Constantinople waa definitely abandoned in November. 1915, and the Allied troops withdrawn from the Gallipoli Peninsula About 150,900 troop* had been used In this venture, supported by mighty fleet Mix haulrwhlpo, fixe British, one French, were neat to the I**tons, aa well aa aome minor crnfl and the casual tie* were nnofflctnllv reported to he almoat equal to the without warning while carrying Tillman of South Carolina Saturday more than 3 00 passengers. Including 1 urging prstage of § bill dealing with s -rrnmtirr nf XTiTPTiran« ai'rnss fTie| AfUngton national cemetery. English channel! About flf.y per- "filrvery," he continued, “waa a sons were killed and this Incident I curse which had to be destroyed era brought the submarine situation to the South and the world couM ad- an acute stage. Germany at first dls- vance. It was a cares for which th* claimed responsibility for the attack South waa no more responsible than on the Sussex but the evidence accu I the {forth. Both sections wore re- mulated by the I’nlt *d States tppear-1 sponsible, and both paid four long, ed ao overwhelming that Preelder t bloody years .of penance- (or-their Wilson on April 19 dispatched to joint tin. It had to go, and while it Germany a note which was virtually went In the worst i*)**ihia way and an ultimatum, and on th* following | its going gave birth to aa apparent ly unsolvable problem, still 1. who waa born In and of th* old Soeth, am glad it la gone never to ret era. 1 am glad ‘.bet th* idea of nationality day persoif lly appeared before con gress and laid tbs entire problem be fore that body On May 10 Germany ger xone before the rapidly sptwad Ing fire engulfed the halaaee. "It has not as yet been definitely determined just what th* money loss will be. Some 40.000 tons of raw sugar valued at about- $3,400,- 000 Is kno* n to be lost. It Is be lieved that the other contents of the warehouses destroyed will greatly 1 increase thla amount. There were no explosioves stored In the ware houses. Two of the care destroyed were loaded with shrapnel, which would not have been a source of dan ger but for outside Ire The other care destroyed wer^ loaded pally with aalt and pork. "The scene of the explosion and fire is in no way adjacenut to the main passenger and.freight terminals of the Lethigh Valley rallrogd either admitted the submarine attach on I the Sussex and promised that no has supplanted that of eonfe more finers or merchantmen woul) 4 Ron. despite th* danger is be sunk without tmple opportunity I And so, 1 can Bad It la my heart to original ■ umb**r of the expeditionary for the escape of crews and passes | want to make the ampitheatre at princl- 1*,*?®" '® r 1 k ° r , !^® |torlc French fortress, known through- mishap will not interfere With the, out mtnr / enturie , M th(( gateway operation of buslnrea. , to France. For five months the de- Edmund L. Mackenzie, president fenders withstood a of the National Storage company, declared that the plant of his con cern was values at $7,000,000, while the contents of the warehouses prob ably were worth $J0,000,000. One of the warehouses chlch remainb in tact, he said, is filled with chemicals. Beside great quantity of raw sugar burned, there were 14,000 bales of tobacco, much matting from China and “Japan and other merchandise. The loss to his company and the railroad, Mr. Mackenzie said, was partly covered by insurance. ‘‘As far us I have been able to ascertain," said Mr. Mackenzie, "there apparently has not been a great loss of life. This undoubtedly w®s dgie to the fact that few persons live in the immediate vicinity of our plant. There were, of course, a num ber of private watchmen and fire men on the ground at the time, but all of these except two have been accounted for.” SHOOT AT BANDITS —^ _ Ilinois Cavalry Stop Attempt to Raid Picket Lines. Several shots were exchanged Sat urday night between outposts and guards at the camp of the First Illi nois cavalry and supposed Mexican bandits who apparently were at tempting to raid picket lines of cav alry horses. So far as is known there were no casualties on either side. ■ The shooting took place two and one-half miles north of Browns ville. I storm at the fury of which the world stood aghast. F«k>I hy foot, almost Inch by Incli, the (icmijinx forged forward, with- a reckless (H»r»‘gar<f*of their lives, a tenacity and cool courage which Is okIv equalled hy the hcr,.lc determination of fhe French, AIR RAID SATURDAY British Say Haiders Drop Bombs— No News of Damage. German airships raided the east coast of England early Saturday morning, according to an official statement just Issued. "The number of raiders," says the statement, "ha* not yet been established. The re ports as to the raiders crossing the const came from Yorkshire and Lin- Detectives were dustry. to guard against thlevas. In th# ddwntown section countless windows were broke*. * Scarcely an effle* beildisg from the battery of nftieeb street •****. 4s si jars—e ta Jersey City te the parks a£tr the (ret ex On June 3 an unofficial estimate of the German losses at Verdun placed the total at the appalling fig ure of 150,000. The assailants fought their way to within about three and a half miles of the fort ress but for several weeks have re ported no farther progress and the force of their attacks appears to have lessened. The Franeo-British offensive on the Somme onened on July 1, 1916. It was preceded by a bombardment of unparalleled duration and Inten sity, featured by the appearance of new and gigantic British howitzers. Under this awful hurricane of big gun fire the German first line de fenses crumbled. •When the British and wFrench troops advanced they reported that they found trenches in'which there was not a single survivor,' only the dead guarded the silent rifles and machine *guns. German first line* were carried over an extent of 135 miles and the second positions pierc ed a4 certain points but up to the present the fl.tht has been indecisive insofar as the forcing the Germans to withdraw, their main lines is con cerned. Jhe fighting has been of the bit terest possible description and the reports of press corespondents at the front teem w ! th accounts of the most* amazing heroism and devotion on both sides! 'Instances have been re corded of the sole survivor of a com pany, wounded and without hope, who manned a machine gun fcnd fought to th# last amid the bodies it his comrades; of isolated detach ments who stood off their foes for days untir succor reached Uiem or death; of captured surgeons who bound up the wounds of their cap- tore; .of. herolf rescues of wounded comrades under fire and of cojntleas simitar deeds that Thrilled fhe watch- HM Victory -4- Rassises Claim SM.tt A semi-official estimate of th* ■■■h nr of Bilaeaan lake* by th* 4 eriag .Ue tret half af tha TsSum? force. This was the result of tlx months of soma of tha most san guinary fighting of the war. The aeeond disaster of th* British was th* surrender of 19.C00 troopa under Gen. Townshrnd to the Turks at Kut-el-Amara ou the Tigris This expedition had made a xenaatlonal dash more than 300 miles up the river In sa attempt to sets* Bagdad. It was withla ten miles of the city when It was decisively defeated by the Turks and forced to fall back 100 miles. Here it was surrounded and forced to surrender after a re lief force had made several vain ef forts at rescue. Two new nations antered the ranks of the belligerents during the year. Otober 13, 1915, Bulgaria thrdw In her lot with the central powers and on March 1, 1915, Ger many declared war on Portugal after the republic had seised all Ger man ships Interned In hei' ports The entrance of arena was -ignaiiotl by a nunbinetl aNMiult oil Serbia hy Aa-tria, Ger many and Bulgaria which resulted In the complete overwhelming of the h<>|tclesNly outnumbered Serbians am* the subjugation of their country. The reipnanls of the Serbian arm/ were driven across the frontier Into the wilderness of Albania whence they were rescued by the British French and Italians. They were chipped to Corfu, where they were reorganized and re-equipped and later, to the number of about 100,- 000, joined the Franeo-British forces at Saloniki. The survivors of tho Gallipoli campaign were also gathered at the Grecian seaport as well as a large British army from Egypt. This com bined force is estimated at 600,000 men and is presumably being held for an attempt to wrest Serbia from the Bulgarians. , The principal suqcess won by Aus trian arms di.ring the year was a great offensive undertaken a^rinut Italy In May. The Austrian forces swept the Italian Invaders back over a wide stretch of country In the Southern Tyrol, reconquered about 270 square miles of Austrian terrl tory and carried the battle into Italy. The Itallanr rallied, however^and at tho close of the twelve months had regained a large portion of groynd and were vigorously pressing a cou'n ter offensive in accordance w'th the plans of the Entente for concerted action. On the sea the year witnessed an event of'- surpassing Interest The German grand • fleet steaming ou from its mine fields, at d Impregnable herbors at K el a .d Wi’helshaven. engaged the British fleet In the mightiest naval battle of history. The battle was fought off the coast of Jutland on May 31. Its re sults ere so obscured by the con fllctlng claims of the combatants that they wJU .probably-not h* defi nitely known until the war K over, if then. The Qermans assert that the British losses were far heavier |C IT* These promise* were considered satisfactory by tha president «nd th* war cloud lifted Since that time n Urge nember of ships have been tunk by German and Austrian sub marines but th* rules of interna tional Uw have been generntly ob served. Another cans* of frictloa between th* United Bute* end the Central Arlington national la ita FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS i South to 0*6 fU Appropriations totaling eight dred thousand dollars for*t{n powers waa also removed der.ng the of storm sad flood ■afferere la North year. Since th* outbreak of lb* war Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, certain propagandists have been A U bam a and Mississippi are provtd- bnsy instigating jtnkw in munition ed In Joint resolutions introdneed factories which had contract* with Tuesday la th# Hons* aad referred the Allies aad in endeavor.ag in to th* commute* on military affair*, other ways to latsrfer* with this Tbs resolutions also authorise the lrad * secretary of war to leans qaartnreton- For hU aetlvlt) in this respect th* ten’ aad medical supplies to th* recall cf Dr. ConsUnlln Dumbs, Au»- needy. trUn ambassador, was request**' by ■ t*. spproDriaUoni are divided failnvfnff twU^hlr 8 ? pt ®“ b ? , ‘ Tbe among tha states as follows: North rolloW . < ." g V?****- for ®f ln . U ®. r . r ®»-l Ohrpllaa, three hundred thousand in ner ports. .i* 4 ^ dollars; South Carolina, one hundred Bulgaria Into the paoe^ navLl thousand dollars; Georgia, two hua- ■ • - ^ „ .he thousand dollars; Alabama and respectively to the German enbarfsy. uisalaalppl. two hundred thousand A number of conuctlons were obtain- ,i 0 ii >r . ed In the criminal courts In ot.ier ...... cases and the propaganda cessed Th ® «»• hundred thousand dollars Apart from events m the actus Proposed for South Carolina by Rsp- war theaters the most striking evbnt resentatlve Whaley would be spent of tho year In connectioa w th'the • ,on * th « rtTer » nd iu Jr 1 *®- confllct was an uprising in Ire ana lu| forles, which went out of their banks April. The outbreak waa organized > week at the same time western by a society k'jown as the Sinn Fun, committed to the principle of an In- depen lent Ireland. Rloody fight'ng took place >n I*ub Hu. In which hundreds of lives were lost and the heart of the busine* section destroyed, at a cost oi many millions of dollars. The fight ng was sporadic elsewhere In the isla ds an>. of minor importanee. The revolt was finally, crushed and the ring leaders executed. It led, how ver, to an agitation wh ch resulted In the 4hp great Allied niad* by tbe Ing world. The flAt Jnotk in offensive was uotf Fraaco-British, however, bat by the Russians On Jan* 4 tbe troop* of tbe Emperor Mcbota# open ad a tre- *»t oa tbe i a North Carolina was flooded. APPAN PRIZE LOST > Court Awards Ship to British Own ers—Oew to be Interned. Possession of the British liner Appam, brought Into Hampton Roads last Februe.ry by a Gorman prise crew > was awarded Saturday to her government pretaring a temporary I owner *‘ the African home rule bill which it exnecte to I ^7 , * at ‘° n ? , * d *® t Wad - lass through par-lament this 'alK dill of tho federal district court. Just befare the outbreak of the Internment of the German prize rebellion Sir Roger Casement, for- crew of the liner Appam until the merly in the British consular service, end of the European war, state de- was arrested on the west ccast o f partment officials said informally, Ireland where he had atcem' ted to probably will follow the federal land a cargo.of arms sent from Ger- court’s decision at Norfolk awarding many. He was ‘ried later for high the captured ship to her British treason an 1 sentenced to lea'h. I owners. No uefin i.e figures can bo 0 iven the cost of the great war in blood and gold bat the most re.iabie esti mates preient figures so vai t that they bfcomo practic: lly mean ngless In Maich, 1916, tbe 1 ! United States general army staff estimated that the total losses In men to |pGl the hellig • rents since the wa> began w re 13. 033,000. As all the belligerents have ‘Teas MUST PAY THEIR WAY HOME Aid From Government Guardsmen Discharged. for Guardsmen at the border discharg ed because of the necessity of sup porting dependent relatives will hare ed Issuing casualty lists foi public I to pay their own expenses home. This consu.nptloi the exact figures fo was announced Thursday at tbe any country are unavailable. headquarters of tbe department of As to tha n oney question figures the East where It is said many let- are more •feliab e but still vague [ ters had been received from soldiers applying for discharge, indicating expectation that their fares home would ‘be paid by the government. They rresent sums which are so. yond anyth ng previously known to internrtionnl (Inane , so- (friposslbU of any human conrarison that they become little more than c. Juinble P r I stated fat the Hoes* of Common* t figures. . 1 In Mar'h Dr. Karl Helferricb, sec retary of the imperial treasury of than th®lr» and oa^kat ground claim ars-any, w^tioatod that tbe war was costing all the combatants $375,00$.- 000 s week or eleven and a half bll- lloa dollar: a year William Michae ls, another German A nan dal expert, t the yearly co*t at tbe vaster sun Tbe British, denVing greater loeef*. point-to the fact that they still control toe sea.’ as Ue basis of their right to tbe title of victors Loadea alee claims that siaca tha 0 British ships, which had Oh Inly H the expenditures for Grset Fr alone were $3.0,000,000 daily, did not say. however, how mod th'.o incredible sum represented ftX WRhla the last felr * talk of