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SEARCH FOR RAIDER 9 • • " " ■ , CRUISERS COMB SEA SWIFT GERMAN BOAT HAS THREE SUBS ALONG BiHtMfc C«ptai» Anaoucec ProMnce •' *1 UadcraeA TorrOrs—St. Tli«o- 4mA, Armed auid Manned bj the H*A4tar, is Aiding Work of !>•- sta^Mtion—Onljr Slight Mistreat- mmt of PHmmers by Capbors. N y ‘ - . ... Th% German raidor is apparently still at large. Th'a most authentic • .a' * reyart of her whereabouts indicated aa fkarsday she was speeding north ward with all ttie might of her pow erful engines. The steam packet Ba hia passed a vessel off the north- easternmost f)Mnt~df "South Amefjfca Thursday which she believed wa^Ihe sea destroyer. The stranger was making wel lover twenty knots. . The Bahia did not approach close enstogh to the vessel to permit an separate description. She Qoirld not ceaflrm the story qf survivors land ed at Pernambuco that the German eemmerce destroyer carried .'three PERSHING BEGINS MOfE TO REGAIN THE BORDER - 4 sahmarines of less than twenty feet length, apparently the latest inven- Vicn of German ingenuity in subsur- faee warfare. The British captain of tli© steam- • er Netherby Hall, landed among oth- • er s<irrivo£8 of prises taken by the £tfd©r on hoard the Hudson Maru, t rniahed thfe first description of the |dW and was tire first to announce itVthe f»ca terror mrrfpd f'ubma- I(m—and submarines jof such a tall alee as to mark a new era in submarine development. He 'estimated the length of the three undersea^boats with which the raider was equipped at about six —maters -aad-apeeified :ili,at —•—ue-a# eperatieit -was —— sanall, they_carried some sort of torpedoes, ammunition and dynamite. He added that the speed , sf the raider was about tVenty-two knots. The possible score of destruction * e? (lie raTdeF"was~reduced -to twenty- fve ships with announcement that the eleven thousand five hundred ton British steaknship Drina had arrived safely at Rio. The Drina was the biggest of all the Allied merchant- uien Reported as missing send be lieved to have .fallen victim to the German commerce destroyer. That ■’ she 'should have eluded the raider was a cause of rejoicing among Al lied ship Owners. . The southern Atlantic is being •oni.bed from both north and south in .search of the mystery shi£. Vos-j r sels-from the-British naval base at the Falkland islands dashed north ward uuder forced draft, scouring the byways of ocean travel. Two British auxiliary cruisers put out fr^irom Pernambuco to sweep the seas in that locality. Brasilian, Argentine Uruguy- • an warships and auxiliaries patroll- - ed the South Cbmerlcaiy coast, seek ing not only to prevent violations of neutrality in possible attacks by the raider or her aurlilariee qn mer- Preparations are Being Made for Re- „ lease of Militia Upoa Arrival , of the Regnlara. f l ' Preparations looking to the with drawal of Gen. Pershlpg s/ punitive expedition from Mexico are supposed to be ip' progress. “Stop orders” have been issued to the ordnance and supply department at the Columbus base, while from private sources it Was reported that the American out posts at £1 Valle, Charcois and San J&equin are being drawn into the field headquarters at Colonia DublanV However in military circles at El Paso lack of information is profess^ ed 9.8 to the actual movement American outposts. Replying to queries of Andres Gar cia, Mexican consul general, to the commander of the Carranzista garri son at Casas Grandes, the latter wires:. *;No troops have yet reached Colonia Dublan, but many empty trucks' ,have passed here south bound.'' Military officials in this district assert that huge <fuftntities^ of re-, serve supplies and ammunition must be moved to the border before the actual march of troops begins. They regard the present activity as the first of a series of necessbrj prelim inary .'ipoves. * After the order of withdrawal ^ actually issued, it will take at least two weeks for twelve thousand men to reach American soil. The infan try will be on .the march eight to ten days., Army men in charge of transpor tation state that the problem would be serious if Gen. Pershing’s men Teach Columbus to be distributed along an eighteen hundred mile^ front of border while the militia are homeward bound. They declare it xrll! ta!:c from two weeks to a month to move the num ber designated in Saturday’s order by Secretary of War. Bakdr. He an nounced that fifteen to twenty thousand national guardamen are to be selected by Gen. Funston to bo THE WAR LAST WEEK TEUTONS STOPPED IN R0U= MANIA ALONG SERETH WORK SAW NO PROGRESS m flussiaas and Roumanians Make A . . / . . ..» Good the I An# of the River-—New York Times Hi pert Predicts (>f- ' fonsivee in the Biset by .the Ger- % m ‘ ' » Next Spring. hG week past has been character ized by stubborn fighting in Roii- mania, particularly along the low J er stretches of the Sereth River, near the mouth. The advantages which have been gained as a result " by either side have been entirely insig- took the town of Vadeni, .the last town which remained in the posses sion of the Roumanians along the Dahube. Its importance lies in the fact that it is directly opposite the Sereth from Galatz, the latter being hidden away in the angle formed by the confluence pf the Sereth and the Ba^ubw.—-rr; — . On Wednesday, however, one of the strongest counter attacks which the Russians have yet launched was driven against the new Teuton posi tion and the town was recaptured. Thus the situation here is unchanged from that which existed last .week. The Teutons certainly seem to have the advantage of position in this British halda have J>een not without results. These generally may be grouped with that class of military operations whleh, In the days of mo bile warfare, were termed reconnols- sancea in force. A reconnoissance in forte was made by a strong body of troops, and, while 7 its nature was reconnaissance 'issontially, there wjls sufficient strength present to force the enemy to develop his strength and so dis close himself. The function of the raidIV:,; it • of to-day is somewhat similar, h. first object_ is, of course, hrfarmu- tion. Jt is important to the Allied command in the west that the enemy strength holding all purls of the line be known. The best way to find this out is to determine just what Ger man units are irr the immediate ch pt of in as may be of Interest. Once .the units are known, the strength’of the line is ^noWn. Also, it is .true that prisoners talk, and .from them may be gathered many bits of information,.which, when put together, ofteniell a complete story. This is* the reason that Instructions art invariably given to each raiding force to bring back at least one pris oner alive. There are two other reasons for Early in tha week the Germans These raTdsV the first is torblleve th® strain of monotony from the men in the trenches, the either to, cause the Germans, to worry, an’d "8o preyeftt their rest. The rhftls'tiave come and are still coining with such frequency— r in fact, they are of nightly occurrence—that tho Germans dare not rest quietly In any portion trf " the front-but must always be ready to receive their hos tile visitors. That this is wearing in the'extreme can be readily imag ined. It might be argued that the Ger mans could resort to the same tactics with the same results. So they could, of course,; but they do not,.and there* is* a very good reason why they re- RACE ISSUE IN SENATE Garrison Asks for Inquiry Southern Election Laws. Into er qj ner auxiliaries on mer- wt itmen in territorial waters, but Tto bill admittedly iB aimed at i •tanti to mn down scores of wild rumors current up and down the coast of the existence of a wireless station and German supply depot, lodged in some uninhabited spot. • The fact that the raider is capable ef great speed was established both by stories of survivors landed at Per nambuco and the packet Bahia. The captain of the British steamer Neth- erby Hall said he understood the Ger man rover was capable of more than twenty knots and the Bahia asserted ghe was speeding at that rate when Ae showed on the horizon line off In Grande de Norte. Unless the strange vessel sighted My the packet Bahia was the con verted raider, rather than the origi nal commerce destroyer, the German prize steamer, St. Theodofe, has been lost track of completely since her .capture! -All reports agree that the St. Theodore was ariiledr manned by a German crew' and converted into a raider to aid the supposed Moewe. The captain of the British ■ strainer Radnorshire, also landed at Pernam buco from the Hudson Maru. cleared up some the stories of mis treatment of prisoners which had first been attributed to him. Ho made it clear that live German commander of the raider had insist ed .that his prisoners “make them selves as comfortable possible” about the rr.!'1''r: Md that ke had no infoptuvn of ‘‘killing wo men and*children” and tyed enlv quartered t’ e r r i‘ ;: onp , s below, docks when a new victim was fdchfed t w s evident the storv of over The"' alleged disfranchisement of colored men in the South has led Senator Gallinger, Republican floor leader in the Upper house of Con gress, to propose a congressional committee for the purposo of invest tigating the matter, with a^view* pos sibly of reducJirg-Bouthern represen tation in the nation's legislature and in the electoral college/ The measure has been offered as an amendment to the Owen corrupt practices act, and virtually means that there will be unlimited debate on Southern representation if an at tempt is made to pass the Owen bill. The amendment would also in struct the joint committee, to con sist of five senators afid five repre sentatives, to “take into considera tion all conditions under which the suffrage is exercised, denied or abridged, no less than the laws themselves under which It is done,” and report its conclusions to Con gress. voting practices in Southern States. Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi, was one of those who so interpreted the proposed amendment, regard ing it he said: “As far as I and th« people I rep resent are concerned, we are willing for any sort of a fair and honest in vestigation of elections in the S >uth to be • made. The more the race question is discussed the mord I like it. When this question is understood In the North as it is understood in the South, the fifteenth amendment will be replaced and the fourteenth modified. These amendments are not violated in the South now, but when it becomes necessary to violate them to maintain white supremacy in the South, the white people are going to control.” DENIES CHARGE Germany Explains Methods of * Em ploying Belgian Laborers. • Germany through her embassy has- clairtitfd justification for her depor tation of Belgians. l*n a memoran dum made public and which, it was explained at the~embassy, was hand ed the state department several days ago, it is charged tbat the Allies are using the Belgian deportation “to tniiame public opinion in and hostile countries.” 1 The niemoramiu mallegqs that se rious unemployment in Belgium fins his region, and from the map ifrj fl * a l n from ftoing so; it is the basic bring the war nearer to an end ,'ouli ooeai that the control of the; ^ * n nf *rsonnel and traininpr|i 8 . | n Russia. If, then, Germany break through and foree a retire- ment of the French llnee over a con siderable area. * She hoped also for the weakening of the French army. She hoped to bleed it to death In the Meuse Val ley. The result of It we all know. We know, generally, without refer ence to actual figures, that the Ver dun offensive cost the Germans more than they were able to exact from the French. Their artillery was out- bvssed even though not outranged. e.r supply of ammunilion was‘al- ost « & listed, as we know from ^erman officuu statements made in explaining the Allied successes on the, Somme. As Germany now knows the strength of the Allies’ positions in the west, that only great superiority in shell production can break these positions, that she Is suffering from inferior shell production, that she is outnumbered grievously, and that there are reserves sufficient to make good her enemies’ losses, while she must go relatively unsupported, the west Is the last place she would want to attack. ‘ * ^ There are distant rumors tor the effect that she is concentrating on .’the Swiss frontier with (he idea ot violating Swiss neutrality and turn ing the French flank. That such'a move will be made is highly improb able, although it would be the only apparent reason why t German/ should launch another effort in the west. Rut if no other belligerent is added fo those already fighting, it is almost assured that the next German effort wil Itake place somewhere In the eastern theatre. It is highly probable that some thing will be done on the Haloniki front, but tills is a subsidiary Held, and even a marked success there would not add much to the lustde oi German arms and would arid less to that series of events which must hap pen in order that the war may be brought to a close. ’ T- . ^ The only theatre where victory AVUTDRS RESCUED ARMY OFFICERS FOUND AFTER BEING LOST NINE DAYS WERE WITH LITTLE F001 Spent Time^in Honors Radiator's Water to K< OCT between the individuals of the tvyj forces. The German is trained entirely ,to' he a cog in a wheel, aitd the wheel, in turn, to be part of a machine. m.:,n curia /° r } n ^ in fact, individualism is crushed al- lower Sereth w’ould of necessity pass eventually into their hands, llardly any position Which the Russians can take.up along the Sereth will.be free from an enfilade tire from the Ger G*e Danube. Such positions could then he raked from fhe flank while subjected to the fire from the front. It is this fact which mhkes the recapture of Va- denHiu]/ remarkable, although the town has such little military signifi cance. It is rapidly becoming ap- part*i)t that the German attack has lost its power, and that the lines are now established in the positions th^y will maintain. This may not prove to be the case. But it is the wfay matters look at the present time!. After all. if such does prove to he tri|e caio/it will be strict ly according'WTTfecedent, as such an outcome has ended* every important, advanefc. The battlevip this particu lar field is, however,* too young to advance an opinion as to Us ulti mate outcome. / - v . , The stages of the.Gerrnen advance from the line von Falkenhayn broke through the mountains until^he ap peared before the lower Sereth are worth noting. Until the Buzeau line was reached there was literally not a single day when it could be said that the advance had been halted. It was indeed a long, uninterrupt ed march through Roumania. Not even before Bucharest was an at- tefnpt tuad6 to cneck the invaders. Every move which the Roumanians made, the rapidity of their retire ment, the absence of engagements, the relatively small loss in men and material, all pointed to the belief that they were retiring with the idea of reaching some position in their rear behind which they felt the)r had an opportunity to halt the advance. The long distance which Russia had to travel in order to reach the fighting front lent color to this idea. The whole defense would be simpli fied, as is obvious, if the Roumanians were to fall back behind some strong natural obstacle, with both flanks resting in such a way that they could not be turned; a position at the same time within easy and short reach of some large railroad trunk line pene trating Russia. • > *- ^ The first halt-was njjade along tl.e Huzean, which, however, did not‘pos- sess these qualifications. It is a nar row, shallow stream, running behind a railroad rather than in front of one. The Roumanian resistance here, while not prolonged, was stHl suffi cient to indicate that anything re sembling a, panic that might have characterized their, former retreat had been eliminated, arid that now tfie situation, as well as the troops, were well in hand. * The line was eventually forced, but the Roumanians had showed more jpower than at any time" since the early days of their offense. At least i.V‘ delay they secured served io give more time for fortifying tne p.o.-utiu»t intended to be eventually^ occupied. The next Sc.trd was along the llimnicu. This- was much mere dt « ’dc<4 quarter feed a no !'■ u e.:ns-cd .h.v the Brithdi hm. ,*ad. * .j in rti.i;-d. held the advance uq for t! at it has-been necessary tor th ' 1 most before it can make its appear ance! TTris is characterlsflc'CirThe" entire, political belief of the empire and is shown not only in the army but in dealings with civjlians and with other'peoples. The German sys tem destroys all.individuality in the soldier, renders him Incapable of a t- ing alone, and once he is thrown on his own resources, practically de stroys his utility. German training and Germsn discipline cart drive the infantry against a fire before which the in-* . fantry of any other nation would * quail and recoil. But deprice the soldier of the moral support of a neighbor Co right ami left, permit him. to he alone where he must act as an independent link entire ly apart from the great machine itself, and he is lost. The soldier.of the Entente, dti the other hand, has th£ individual in stinct strongly developed and has a consequent genius for independent action. Whenever the’ commander would go, there the individual will go whether the commander is pres ent or not. Jle is trained to act in dependently, to think for himself and to act on his own initiative w hen it is 'necessary to do so. In other iMxiwlti tia tVir k tiomrf* 1 Hiffr**iw‘i* WT7 t vt n f tfiXTI vT *0 vXXxT Dcllllx? U111 vTYXIIvTTT between the two as there is between the forms of government which each individual serves/ The strongly centralized govern ment acts as a unit and ow s its strength to this cause. The more loosely formed government acts through a group of units and is, therefore, at times, incoherent. Th« raids such as the English are making against the German trenches demand this ability to act independently on the part of the individual in the highest degree. ~ The parties that go out on such enterprises are small and very often become separated and have to act t&s individuals. The resource of the in dividual is, therefore, the basis of success or failure.. In brief, the. .Allies on the weet are indulging in a. form of warfare that In peculiarly appropriate to their particular geni us, and this genius happens to be the 1 one that is diametrically opposite to! that iMKHsessed hy Germany. As the winter passes, speculation is rife as to what the probabilities are of offenses by fhis side or that* •in the spring, and when they will occur.' At the present time only brief refernce can be made to the problems, offensive and defensive, j which are presented^to Germany and j the probable location of the nexf Ger man offensive. For it is generally believed that- the early spring will be characterized by a German offen- -iye ns- we’l as by .the sort of movement on the part ot tne*Aluej. With reference to the coming Ger man offensive, the first question is, where will it take place** On the • oc-Km front? IIy judgment is that should be pidnmng an $utori on juiy-r tiling like the scale of the Verdun lighting, it will be e.xerted on the Russian "front. This effort will not he directed against Riga. The Ger- minis-lurvc-aliabted defeat Jo. the north... of terrain in* summer due' to large, impassable marsh areas, render im probable success .from whatever quarter the attack may t>® launched. .Further south we have the Bara- novitchi set-tor. The ground here is much more favorable to an offense, due to the firmer footing which is afforded. . Here, however, there is orf direct objective that would seem to offer any inducement for a major operation. - The principal thing that would be gained by success here would be de-< fensive in nature, add would consist in the elimination of that danger which threatens the. German, force lidding Pinsk by reason of its ad vanced position far ahead of the re mainder of the. German line.. Between jiarandvltchy and the mouth of the Stokhod there is an other large marsh area, which prbm ises little, hope of success for the' Germans. The Vilna-'RovnT) railroad is here behind 1 the Russian lines, and its cutting would undoubtedly seri ously hinder Russian operations. But the distance is too, great and the dif ficulties of terrain foo overwhelming to offer material chances of success. South of the mouth of the Stokhod all the way to the present position on the Sereth, the country is not of a character as to put undue limita tions on an offensive operation. Along' the Carpathian border and in Roum&nia, the country is mountain ous, it is true, and gives the defense the advantage. But until.the moun tains are reached the advantage of position really lies with the Ger mans. For these reasons, therefore, the most probable location of the attack is somewhere between Kovel and the Carpathian border. Victory here would affect a considerable stretch of the Russian line. That part of it which is threatening Lemberg would be forced to.give way and fall back once more behind the Zlota Lipa river and perhaps even further, the line south of the Danube would be uncovered and would have 16 carry mit a gimilar manoeuvre, while the line in Roumania would be turned, And the entire border outflanked. A like Yeault, would be obtained by a complete success in southern Mol davia, along-tb« lines which the Ger mans are at present following^ In brief, if the Germans launch a heavy movement against Russia In the spring it will almost certainly rorpe between Kovel and the mouth of the Serefh River. CAPTURED AMERICANS? Washington Wonders Whether Gcr- . many 'Holds Prisoners. * ^ . I German admiralty statements that neutral subjects in the crews of ves sels captured by the German raider In the South Atlantic “have been 5,111 RETREAliM , - —:— ' - • » . tr - Russian and Roumanian Armies Continue to Full Back. who- alno eiriplia^ired the r m'rh’iB presence’et* of a ve > J ‘ wKTel-i was .f*!PE^re?lfTy the sep ♦ er- -ror’s ■ auxiliary —evidently a drnijs- formed moroh.tnit ^hlu. arjn®d by tho original raider. ,r r-hf , t the destroyer was voB tirbvh'loned,, and was ia mined to the batches with iwn—f 4 , munition, was also asserted in Ttio i, .Aomis.^ori is ma .o by_P-tro ,iu » • .TsWtr* dWatch#/; Uysiaii and nwmaufcn - The only fault neutral* could forces In Moldavia have made ad find wBh the raider was P'? aet'on lional retirements ip the Oituz, Kar- of the Go-man raider, ilidednc f‘a a ^'I’.a and Scuchit/a rer,!f>n2,| biiv it is ^'the storv of the Radnorshire’s cap- « q^erted i^at the Teutonic allies wlia air. in-dietaimng -HTndoVi lo’-s and crb. ?cd the F*utna riven7nort . - - • Fpkshani have been driven hack heni to work in the*engine room avrocs.~A5he stream, suffering he^\ v okerq aboard his .vessel -and forcing* eni to work in the-rngine room. ... . L , It was also rumored amon'z t>.e i cqsualt^es. and leaving prisoners in : ^ ; \y;n during ' ' 1 been; going' on. , In b :ni,'• then, .tFa 'a.dvup 'p ha;; :.r;;;;al.y h!gu1\ 'nu. ea-h ly; a ?.;ov;er a loanee t 'an it c- .or,; tin^rl, ,-durin y the p' r tie lines nire -ilrnos.} in the pos iiions th^t • i b.ey.. were K Wd e f her this 'is a Derptanent chec* • eck •cie'-f'ij vl whev last Wet apostle of a war in the east, and, on m. ; ifl h. ;; r i.nhi uigod. Of course rhj - plf.'U-rr / supph nted vdn F -L- i Arnerjor ns on such ships could be 1 c keiidiayn. and ..the y<-oun -of western J considered as prisoner* of war ;on ‘ .'The ■Hhlhg! to sidef liktbe vessels. ■ ‘ dlin » perlence.'i That Ger'mkiiy Spei flng qjT tbe raiding aftuatjipu | u ‘fared « .severe and, crushing: - de- : 4wo veehs -ayo' a prominent Htate de- e known apparent- . _ . . . I, Mi _ __ serve'to Verdun offer dve w'as .r.taried was at • :;la«=s over any ^German invasion of « severe pnp ernsamg oe-iwo wee as ago a prominent i ; a in H e Vi (i in .s?c*or i- Wi ll < partmi nt oi liclr-l let it be wu. 11 * tl e •' is ahdther coo dd ti at 'place tnaneuvres^ now a t thottlma the f •> at a tap 1 Btlll» would wot Thirst—Were Without Fo«4 ar Water for tWnr Days-—Oaa cer Mad to Abandon Lieut. Col. Harry G. Bishop and Lieut. W. A. Robertson Jr., miatipg army aviators, exhausted from wulk- ’ng four d^ys ’n ihevuds of Sonora, * Mexico, withbut food or water, ware found Friday more than thirty-two miles south of the border by a civil ian searching party from Wanton, * Arts. Lieut. Robertaon was bracght~~ back to Wellton Saturday by the searchers. Lieut. Cob Bishop, too weak to walk, was left in charge of four searchers In the Rosario mona- tains, where he was found Thursday night at ten o’clock. , Two sandwiches and two oranges each was all the food the men had tasted since they left the North In land aviation base at San Diego Jan uary 10 on their flight, Robertaon told the searchers. Robertson was found Thnrmdny and was following the tracks of the automobile of_the searching party. He was trailfng^he base of the Gila mountains, 200 miles south of the / border?- - He directed the searching ^ party to the' •■ Rosario mountains, thirty mjles. farther sonth, where ho bald vhe left'Bishop the day before. Bishop' Tiad become exhausted and - • was unable to walk. , Leaving. Robertson in charge of two of the searchers, other members southward njut *. fooad Bishep lyiuK on tins ground Ti a mountain pass. He was unable to talk and, barely able to recognUa the searchers. Robertson said the members of the searching party were the first humanu'he^had seen since he land ed. He was unable to give definite information as to the district where in they landed, but thought It was 250 miles or more south of the Art- ’ zona border. Members of the party who took charge of Bishop are eix- •pected to arrive at Wellton Saturday. The scarchera said neither of _ tho men was delirious when found, v Lieut. Robertson gave hla story ia ’ detail Friday night to a representa tive of the Aasocfated Press as fol lows: “We left San Diego at 8.31 a. ra. January 10, intending to go asross ~ the mountains east tOsCale^ico. In sufficient maps made It necessary in rely largely on compass readings.. For this reason to keep north of tho Mexican bhrdpr we sailed a coarse twenty-five degrees north .of oast. I counted on This course putting mo into the Imperial valley well north of the border and then having to sail south for about fifty miles. “In 6rder to cross the high mona- • tains it was necessary to travel high, averaging more than 7,000 foot From this altitude it was Impossible to detect a very strong north wind which 1 encountered In tho moan- tains. “I then turned southeast. After about thirty minutes on this I could see distinctly through a a large body of wa^er we thought In be the Salton sea.''The only map of this section I had showed Salton sea much too ffir south so this confirm ed my belief that I was right. “Neither Col. Bishop nor myoalf could possibly figure on the drift of the machine. As it was hazy, it wan impossible to pick up objects clearly. The strong north wind also made our rate of travel much faster than was figured on. When about thirty minutes of search was made for ihd Southern Pacific Railway, which I knew to be near Salton Sea, I decid ed to land and investigate. Tho land ing was almost completed when tho aircraft struck soft ground and the plane tipped up. This was at 12.30 p. m.. and I still thought, we were at Salton Sea, and we wete dTHy con vinced of our error after close exam ination of the surrounding country. We th^n decided on walking back to the Imperial valley. “We put one gallon of water from tfte radiator in an extra oil can and, with a light lunch, started north west. That was at 4.30 p. m. Jan uary 10. “W® kept a northwest course, And day. J!)ur water gave out Sunday, January 14* By that time C61. Bi^iop was so weak our progress was slow. We agreed !t would be wise to separate when we ou!d travel no farther and take the to continue If possible, break Wednes- to the north- on the 18th the rescuing this ' trail. I the party about 9 a. m. horsday. They immediately set but to find Col. Bishop, and. following ■my directions, they founA^lm about j 9 r». m. .Rnuary 18// Ho was too \ve;ik to move, J bnt ridl Conscious. It wr.c ncoer-sry to Arrive him quiet for 'i few hours mvUl he could recover his •strength,vT was brought by mtomohilw^this afternoon, leaving t'«l , ip care of the rescul rartiethf w1r> corsolldated.'* J ! \ * - J ‘ .survivors that the stokers for t’>c German suffered great hardship and '/ were* driven to their task of forcing the Vessel at top sneed during the cruise bv German officers ^ho adopt ed,slave-driving tactics and demand ed that the engine . rnori crew put forth their greatest efforts. ^ For the most of the daytime all survivors agreed that the raider the tea at a - the hands of the Russians. Dealing with the fighting in this regibn, Ber lin merely says, there haa been n«- important events there, . of twenty-tyro knots—ceaselessly searching for her prev. Bivt at night .<he slowed down, although below decks the engine room was held reidf for cramming on all possible that il e defense is finally matching He offenre. • tMs proves to be the case, the tv\ u^ftl tpsult. of coqr 4 ^, will he the conversion of this theatre! which has given .reason to , ^ (O--r referized by extreme mo bility, into the prevailing unebang- >* front where trench warfare will he thig m!e. • * The only other eventa-of-the week ay* born the persistent midlm'’ which has been going on In tho west grains: tho Gorman trenches Tho ot yet begun., was threatening. [ months past. She had a vast supply of ammuni-! u is making no % threats M: ticn. and trad effected a hi? cqnecn ) moment, but the spirit of mmy tration of heavy guns to make us e of tc this supply. German victories had belfeve that the French defense, could be battered down and the line broken so that a readjustment, much nearer Paris, would hsve to.be effected. The rhe toric of the ntore enthusiastic of the German press ire may ignore. Ger many did not have such hopes as they Indicated. Bat she d*d hope to this offi cials is that Germany xniust be brought up to‘a short, sharp halt. And, while some of the talk* may be nut forth for German consumption there is reason to believe that this government-has seen the warlike handwriting On the waif, and is pre pared now to do more than merely talk if Germany has .taken the long step of making Americans prisoners MEXICO GETS PLA To Make Its Own Govern hvn Man meat Plai m it Ions Plant. In a A large shipment of machinery for ilpmea the making of munitions, purchased by the Mexican government In la- pin. fs expected to arrive at Man- remillo. Mexico,. In the next two or thre« dm- Wb*« th« pteat to ta oneration. it is ** , J