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^ ' VQIA^IK .Vk-\UNinKR 20. CIIESTERFIKLD, S. (A. AUGUST 5. 1915. ----- CROP REPORT 75.3 DEPARTMENT ISSUES REPORT ON COTTON CONDITION 72 PER CENT IN STATE \ # j Crop Sliows I>eterioration Throughout Southern States?South CureJ' Una Crop Loses Four PoinCs in ***t t Thirty Days and is Seven Points J liehind I>ast Year This Time. The condition of the erowlnir cot ton crop of the United States on July 25 was 75.3 per cent, of a normal, the United StateB Department of Agriculture's crop reporting board announced at noon Monday in its third condition report of the season. That condition compares with 80.3 per cent, on June 25 this year, 7 6.4 per cent, on July 25 last year, 7 9.6 per cent, in 1913 and 78.5 per cent., the average condition on July 25 for the last ten years. The area planted to cotton and under cultivation on June 25 this year as previously reported was 31,535,000 acres, a decrease of 5,871,000 acres,- or 15.7 per cent, from that under cultivation on June 2 5 last year. A condition of 100 per cent, of a normal on July 25 would bo equivalent to a yield of 241.3 pounds of cotton to the acre, the bureau of crop estimates lias announced. ? Weather conditions generally have been favorable to the crop through out the month except In Texas, where ia there was a lack of rain. . 3 ln 1,10 northern portions of the tj belt the weather was too cool for bijT rapid growtli during the first week ft of the month, and wet weather de layed proper cultivation, especially In 3 Oklahoma, Mississippi, and portions *ji umur Biuies. i no nraugiH in Texas was largely relieved, and the crop m&de satisfactory growth in that ^ as well as in most other states of the belt. Boll weevil continued to increase In Texas, and were reported from several other sections. During the second week of the month moderately warm weather, With local showers, over the central and eastern portions of the belt favCred a generally satisfactory growth, lthough the plain was reported as , still small in some northern localities, due to cool weather, and the fields as grassy in others. In Texas and Oklahoma much clear weather, with warm sunshine, favored cultivation and rapid growth over the greater part of those states, but in southern Texas the absence of general rains for several weeks retarded growth. Boll weevil continued active in many parts of Texas, as well as in Mississippi and Alabama, Texas marketed its first bale on July 9. The third week found warm nights throughout the belt with generally sufficient soil moisture over central and eastern districts. That greatly favored cotton and good growth generally was reported. Dry weather prevailed in Texas, but the plant was standing the drought well and it was said to be developing rapidly In Oklahoma and Arkansas. I Cultivation had proceeded satisfac torny and the crop generally was | very clean. Tioll weevil became less j active in Texas during that week, but ; they were reported as far east as the I Alabama-Georgia line and in western I Florida. Georgia's first bale was marketed I July 22. Comparisons of conditions H by states follow: July Juno July 25 Yr. | 25 25 191 4 1913 Av llVlrgtnia .... 79 78 89 81 82 S. Carolina . . 72 76 79 75 78 | Georgia .... 76 79 82 76 79 In. Carolina .. 78 79 86 77 79 Florida .... 78 78 86 82 82 Alabama ...71 78 81 79 78 Mississippi . . 76 84 79 77 76 Louisiana ... 75 83 76 79 75 Texas 76 82 71 81 79 Arkansas ... 80 85 72 87 79 Tennessee . . . 85 87 73 90 81 Missouri .... 83 86 75 86 87 Oklahoma ... 69 71 75 81 80 California . . . 96 90 100 100 *99 United Stntos. 80.J 76.4 79.6 78.5 Five-year average. WARSAW STILL HOLDS London Heceivcs no News From Pol| ish Capital Monday. No direct news from Warsaw ha |be*?n received in London Mondav While there are increasing indications that Grand Duke Nicholas 1: withdrawing his army from the Pol Ish salient, there is evidence that the capital still is in possession of the Russians, since Petrograd correspon dents of Warsaw papers were direct _ed to send accounts of the duma't; opening for Monday issues. That Russia has not entirely abandoned hope of a diversion in the west which would relieve the pressure is shown by the announcement from Petrograd that the German forces before Warsaw have been heavily reinforced from the west, thereby "creating favorable conditions for active operations by our allies." There has been heavy fighting on the Narew front, where the Germans have made some progress in the desperate battle between the Narew and OJe rivers. Latest reports from Vienno are that the Russians are retreating farther east, pursuing German regiments having passed through Chelm. Government Controls Cotton. Rotterdam, via London, Monday.* German newspapers report that government is taking over the entire control of the German try In Westnh^f^ttKgB^HH^B| has been be part for * ! LAWLESS ISLAND OVERRUN BY NOB OF INFURIATED MEN "No Man's Inland" is Combed of Building* Where Outlaws Have Harbored for Years. Eight white footleggers are in jail at Osceola, fifteen miles south of Blytheville, Ark., the county seat of the county, ten negro bootleggers are in jail at Marion, Ark., the county seat of Crittenden, the next county south of Blytheville; every house on Island 37, near the Arkansas shore of the Mississippi river is in ashes, and the surrounding country is in a fever of excitement as the result of the killing of Sheriff Sam B. Maiden of this, Mississippi county, early this morning following a raid on a dive accused of bootlegging and many outrages along the river for months past. Two hundred and fifty citizens swept the island with torches Saturday. Maiden was killed early Saturday f n a hnttlA hot wnnn a nnaao nf off i cors and citizens and residents of the island, who barricaded themselves in a cabin and contested the right of the sheriff to arrest a negro accused of the illicit sale of lipuor. After SherifT Maiden had been killed the posse riddled the cabin with bullets. The occupants surrendered after they had exhausted their ammunition, and one of their number, a negro, had been killed. Later a mob of several hundred men visited the island, set lire to the buildings and arrested several men who had escaped from the sheriff's posse. Late Saturday night the mob had not disbanded, and it was feared an attempt would be made to lynch the prisoners. For years Island 37 lias been virtually a "No man's land," because of a controversy as to whether Arkansas or Tennessee authorities had jurisdiction. MARINES SLAIN AT HAITI; , FRENCH SAILORS LANDED Over a Thousand Marines are Ilelng Hushed to Preserve Order on the Island. The United States government has taken elaborate steps to maintain peace in Haiti, pending tho establishment of a stable government. The transport Hancock, carrying seven hundred and fifty marines, will probably follow the battleship Connecticut, which Saturday left the Philadelphia navy yard for Port au Prince with five hundred marines. The gunboat Nashville has arrived at Cape Haitien, to support the Eagle. The navy department announced also that the hospital ship Solaco will go to Haiti. It is anticipated that some illness will develop among the men on account of the tropical climato. Admiral Caperton informed the department that six Haitiens were killed and two wounded during the fighting Thursday night when two American seamen were killed. French marines have been landed at Port au Prince, Haiti, where a revolution that overturned the government last week necessitated the landing of an expeditionary force from the United States cruiser Washington to restore order. The landing of the French was with the consent of the United States, it was stated Sunday night, a detachment from the cruiser Descartes having been sent to guard the French legation, from which President Guillaume was taken by a mob and assassinated. CHEWED THEIR SHIRTS How Drug Fiends Secured Supply of Their Needed I>ope. For several weeks a number of the inmates of the Tombs prison at New York have been observed industriously chewing their linen collars and munching their shirts. The prisoners told their keepers that they had been tobacco or gum chewers for years and that, not having either, mo/ nuu?iuuieu niuir mien, ijui ino keepers were sceptical. Saturday wlien fresh laundry arrived it was subjected to a test. A chemist found that the starch used in the linen sent to the prisoners by relatives contained solution of a drug taken by habitual drug-users. NONE IN THIS STATE P. O. Department I logins 20H Auto Hural Delivery Koutes. Two hundred and eight automobile rural delivery routes, distributed ovor eight states, went into operation Monday. This means that approximately 11,400 miles of rural post roads will bo traversed six days a week during August by automobiles. In all 298 motor routes have been authorized. The routes vary in length from a r>0-mile minimum to 64 miles, and will bo operated from 9 to 12 months a year. The 208 automobile routes started Monday are distributed by states as follows: Oklahoma 88, California 24, Geor Kin 01, i.oiurtiuo I, IVanHRH a, I.OlltSlana 1, Florida 13, and Texas 14. Hattlfl (VIuser Von llindenherfc. According to a Router dispatch, tho emperor of Germany ordered that the latest battle cruiser, which was laundhed 8unday, should be named Von Hlndenberg. It is 28,000 tens and was to have been finished in 1916. Plata Taken Off Hacker's Coffin Police offlcla's have prevailed upon the widow of the late Charles Decker to remove the plate on his frin which read: "Charles Becker. Murdered July 30, 1915, by GovBernor Whitman." Rnbmartne Gain Fight Trawlers. I The Oerman aubmtHneegpt eight LBritlsh trawlers 8a tu Mmo menu mm of any crew was RUSSIANS RETREAT DEFENDERS EVACUATING DEFENSES OF WARSAW ARMY STILL IN DANGER German Cavalry Attack Aimed at Vllna I tail road May Mean Effort oi Teutons to Follow Huge Russian Army When it Falls Rack and Force Decision. London: The Russians around Warsaw for several days have been withdrawing, leaving' small forces to fight rear-guard actions so that the main armies may make good their retreat. These rear-euard actions have I developed into fairly large battles, as .the Russians, whoso steadiness has been phenomenal In the face of retreat, are offering stubborn resistance and delivering powerful counter attacks. They have prevented Field Marshal von Hindenberg from throwing more of his troops across the Narew, repulsed German attacks northwest o' Warsaw and driven back to the river some of the invading troops, who crossed the Vistula south of Warsaw, In the southeast Field Marshal von Mackensen continues his victorious advance. He has swept aside the resistance of the Russians and forced them to retreat along both banks ot the Bug. The Germans already have passed Chelm in pursuit. Thus 011 this front the retirement of the Warsaw armies is seriously threatened. During the month of July ltcrliu says the Germans captured more than ninety-five thousand Russians between the Plllca river and the Baltic alone. The Russians, according to Petrogrud, have stopped Gen. von Huelow's advance in Sovno Province, toward the Vilva-Petrograd Railway If Grand Duke Nicholas is to hold the Brest line after his retirement from Warsaw it is necessary that Gen. von Buelow's offensive be arrested, for should he reach the railway he would interfere seriously with the Russian communications. It is not yet certain whether the P11 Rqip , nrniioa nnn molrn nrnn/l 1*^1 retirement from Warsaw. The Austro-Germ&ns have moved up very strong reinforcements to hasten their encircling movement. The appearance of fresh troops also suggests that the German staff will not be satisiled with the capture of the city or even the destruction of part of the Russian army, but, should this be accomplished, will attack the Brest line and endeavor finally to crush the entire Russian forces. The Russian troops are falling back on the Brest-Litovsk line where strong fortifications have been prepared. The retirement is being conducted in orderly manner and it is believed here that Grand Duke Nicholas will save the bulk of his army. Despite the cutting of the LubllnCholm railway, the Russians still have a double track line running through Menek and the road from Ivangorod through Lukow to the north. la addition there are scores of roads which radiate from Warsaw, all of which are in good condition. It is along these that the greater portion of the population is taking flight, carrying with them what things they could save from their abandoned homes. Meanwhile the Germans are rapidly closing in on the Polish capital from the north and south, while the army of Gen. von Buelow in the far north constitutes what is at present the most decided menace to the Russian plan of retirement. This army, which is composed largely of cavalry, is making a determined effort to reach Vilna, weld an iron ring about that important point and cut the Warsaw-Petrograd railway. IT It is successful, the Grand Duke's position will be most critical and the loss of a great portion of his forces probably would result. This army is moving rapidly, and at present there appears to be no adcqjuate Russian forces in that territory to cope with it. Ilerlin has clamped the lid on tight on news of the activities of this forco and till; fact is causing serious apprehension in military circles. The Austrians have occupied Lublin, the most important city in southern Poland, about ninety miles south of Warsaw, and the entire AustroGerman lino between the Vistula and the Bug is pressing northward, attacking the Russians at all points. To the east, in the vicinity of Cholm, according to Beriln advices, the army of Gen. von Mackensen is engaged in a tremendous endeavor to break through in the direction of BrestLlvovsk and cut off the retreating Russians. The Russians are cut off from retreat to the south and it is purely a matter of speculation how many will succeed in retiring from the LublinCholm to the new Brest-Lltvosk dofenses, in view of the great pressure being exerted by the German* ami the fact that their important Btrateglc railway haa been lost. The Russians have taken away 01 destroyed everything tliat could |H>sslhly l?e of use to the Germans in Warsaw and along the line of theii retreat. For the one hundred and twenty miles between the Polish capital and Hrest-Lltovnk farms are being stripped bare and crops destroyed, the farmers being paid an indemnity for their losses. Warsaw Itself, when the Germans enter In a couple of days or a week, will be but a shell. Every ounoe of metal has been taken from the city. The historic edifices have been stripped haro ol the art treasures and the banks ol their gold. The homes of the city are empty.- More than three hundred and fifty thousand persons have taken flight from Warsaw alone, while fully as many more 'it Is estl' mated have deserted the surround Ing districts* Ik Plans for the evacuation were com\let^Blt is reported, more than a ACTED "WITHIN THE LAW" IN SINKING THE IBERIAN ' German Submarine Ordered Skip to Stop and Shelled it for Trying to Kscape Capture. The Leyland liner Iborlan. flying the British flag, bound from Liverpool to Boston with a cargo of general merchandise, has been sunk in the war zone by a German Bubma; rine. Five members of her crew were killed by shell Are as she attempted f to escape after being hailed by the submarine. Two others, one an ' American, Mark Wiley, of Boston, I died in a small boat from superficial wounds and shock. The rest, sixtyone in all, were landed at Queenstown. 1 According to official advices the 1 Iberian was fired upon only after she ' tried to run away from the undersea 1 boa* The men aboard were given ' ample time to take to the boats. 1 Then the submarine fired a torpedo nnri hn llnon or nlr nuu vuv unci oi.uiv ui1uuol i lu 111 wu itllo* 1 ly. She was a vessel of 5,223 tons and had been employed In carrying horses and mules from American ports to England. : NAVY TO HASTEN WORK ON 6 CRUISER DESTROYERS Plans are Completed after European 1 Ives sons Were learned?lllds to bo Opened in October. , Plans for six big cruiser destroyers, authorized by the last congress, have been approved. They will be the first vessels whose design has been Influenced by the European i war. Naval Information from abroad , was scrutlnlzd closely by constructors , before the plans were drawn, says a department statement. The vessels will have a maximum sustained sea speed of thirty knots; they will displace 1,12 5 tons, measure 310 feet over all, have a width of thirty feet, seven inches and a mean draft of eight feet. Each destroyer will carry eight triple torpedo tubes, a main battery of four four-Inch guns and two onepounder anti-aircraft guns. Bids for construction will be opened October 6. ACCUSED BY UNCLE SAM Postmaster at Mai lory Arrested by Deputy Marshal. Deputy Mays of Charleston, reprei senting the United States marshal, i arrived in Mallory Saturday and took into custody J. A. McCall, who was deposed as postmaster Tuesday by : W. H. Willimanfl a post office ini spector. The inspector visited this office twice week before last and discovered alleged irregularities, and on i Tuesday, July 20, came back and made Vernon Parham the acting postmaster, pending an examination and appointment. Deputy Mays and Mr. McCall left for Marion to appear before" Commissioner W. F. Stackhouse to arrange bond for appeari ance at court. CARRANZA'ACTIVE First Chief Orders Food Trains to His Capital City. Announcement of the reoccupation of the City of Mexico by General Gonzales' army was followed Sunday by a statement from General Car; ranza's lieadquaj^rs at Vera Cruz that immediate ettorts would be made to send food:.luffs to the starving population. Heavily guarded trains, it was asserted, were being prepared to leave Vera Cruz with provisions to supplement food being taken into the city by the army of occupation. 11 970,037 BALE OU)P Government Figures Indicate Small Crop Tills Year. Tills year's cotton crop will be approximately 11,970,037 equivalent 500-pound bales, compared with 16,134,930 bales last year. That estimate, unofficially calculated, is based on the government's condition report, issued Monday, and official figures of acreage and normal yield. Whether the crop will be greater or less depends upon growing conditions from now until picking time. fortnight ago and so complete were they that every individual was assigned to the reed by which he must travel and permitted to take with him just so much that there might be no loss of time along the way. Warsaw is completely isolated. Thft Atitirp PAnan In r nnrna u/lth Ihn exception of Hernando Do Soto, the America consul, all the foreign resii dents and all the civic officials are 1 gone. Mr. Do Soto has laid in a stock of supplies and says he will stick to his post. Every kind of 1 vehicle Is being used in the great flight in which it is believed seven hundred thousand civilians are taking part. Italy Has 17,000 Prisoner*. Rome, Sum: iy, via Paris, Monday: Prisoners taken by the Italian forces now number seventeen thousand including three hundred and eighty officers, according to the Stefani Nowb agency. Prisoners come from all parts of Austria-Hungary. Austria Dotting Wheat. I^ondon announces that the remainder of the Roumanian wheat crop is being shipped Into Austria at the rate of 360 railroad carloads a day. It had been hoped for the Allies to purchase this wheat and prevent its shipment. Aeroplanes (7olli(ls in France. During a trial flight near Chartes, France, two French aeroplanes hit together about 200 feet In the air and crashed to earth. One aviator i burned,, to jjeaU^ NEWS OFJHE WAR SCATTERED ITEMS GATHERED ABOUT WORLD CONFLICT BIG NEWS IN SHORT SPACE Interesting Pointers About the Signican Things Which Oftentimes Escape Attention?War Goes on in Many Fields of Activity?What the Various Nations are Doing. About 33,858 pounds of bombs were dropped one day last week by a French aeroplane squadron of thirtyfive machines on and near the railroad station established by the Germans for strategic reasons at Vigneulles-les-Hattonchatel, the station serving the region of the Calonne trenches and that of the Forest of Apremont. The squadron, working in the face of n (nrtv.mllu or> Kirt.ir. galo, dropped, according to the official report, 171 bombs of 90 kilograms each (about 198 pounds). The Germans have been assembling large quantities of military stores at the station.. The bombardment started several fires. All the aeroplanes returned to the French lines. British troops are now in Serbia fighting with the Serbians against the Austrians, so it was stated at Liverpool on Thursday by Crawford Price, the British eyewitness with the Serbian forces. He said that the British army authorities now permitted him to make this announcement. * Shells have been dropping into Arras for more than 250 days. When the war began the town had a population of 35,000; in December the population was 4,000; now it is 1,000. A few score of the inhabitants have been killed or wounded, while the rest have left, under persuasion of the military authorities. Those who remain sleep in cellars. The streets are overgrown with grass. A few underground shops arc doing business. American travelers who have reached Greece from Turkey state that the native Christian inhabitants of the Ottoman empire, the Armenians and Greeks, are being evicted fro mtheir homes by tens of thousands, driven to distant places, and given the choice between accepting Islam or being put to the sword. Their houses and property are seized by Turks. Able-bodied men are being drafted into the Turkish army. Many Armenians, who are faring somewhat worse than the Greeks, have been massacred. Gold Is flowing into the Bank of France from private hoards, in response to the request of the French government. In two days more than 10,0cj persons deposited gold. The certificates given for the gold state that the exchange was made for "national defense." Cholera Is raging in Ix?mberg, recently captured from the Russians, and the Austrian and German troops have been withdrawn in consequence, so reports from I'etrograd state. Civilian refugees are pouring into Russian territory. At Kiev the Lemberg cabmen are plying their trade. The British Navy League is urging the government to seize all German, Austrian and Turkish ships detained in the ports of the British empire "as a set-off, in some measure, against the destruction of British merchant vessels w.thout warning by German submarines." * Plans are being made in Germany for the formation of a central body, acting under the direction of the Imperial government, and composed of equal numbers of producers and consumers, to improve the economic war machinery during the next harvest year, especially in regard to the fixing of maximum prices and the control of the food supply. The government plans to establish a systematic control of prices of all goods necessary to the conduct of the war, taking all matters of this kind out of the hands of the individual states. * Nearly $3,000,000,000 has been subscribed by the people of Great Britain to the war loan, this being, in the words of Chancellor of the Exchequer McKenna, "by far and away the largest amount subscribed in the history of the world." The total number of subscribers through the Bank of England was 550,000, their subscriptions being $2,850,000,000, while 517,000 persons have subscribed $7 5,000,000 through the post office, with more subscriptions through the latter channel yet to come. ? * Reports from Rome state that over 80,000 Turkish wounded from the Dardanelles are now in Constantinople and that the streams of wounded which keep pouring in from the front are having a most depressing offect on the spirits of the Turkish troops who have not yet been sent to the firing lino. It is said that an infantry division which was recently sent to the Dardanelles from Smyrna marched through Constantinople weeping. The Russian minister of finance has issued an order prohibiting the export of gold. ? Sir Robert Rorden, premier of Canada, last wp> attended, on the invitation of Premier Asqulth, a meeting of the British cabinet, this being *he first occasion on which a minister from the colonies has takon part in a cabinet meeting in England. The entente allies have occupied 450,000 square mile of German colonial possessions s e the war began, says an official British estimate ^ v Two British river monitors Ave MEXICANS ARE STARVING IN THEIR CAPITAL CITY Washington Confirms Carrnnza's Occupation ? Efforts Made for Relief. Official confirmation of the re-occupation of Mexico City by Carranza's army under Gen. Gonzales reached the state department Monday from American Consul Silllman at Vera Cruz. A message to the American Red Cross from Moxlco City says there have been no cases of death and collapso from starvation in the capital. The Red Cross message was from Charles J. O'Connor, the society's relief agent in Mexico City. It said: "Prices already are prohibitive. There is practically no corn in the city. Authentic cases of death and collapse from starvation. Some people are eating leaves, grass, weeds, horses and mules." Pnnoill QllUmnn'a ?V* vvuoui uiiuuiuil P IIICOOU^O QUIU Mexico City was occupied by Gonzales forces Friday night "on urgent orders of Gen. Carranza," and added : "A severe fight occurred Friday afternoon at a point east of Guadeloupe. Director of telegraph states telegraph communication is expected by Sunday afternoon at the latest Communication with Tula via Pachuca anu is being pushed northward. Occupation of Zacatecas by Obregon's forces confirmed. "It is stated that Gen. Gonzales is going directly into Mexico City instead of lingering as before, and it is expected that communication will be restored at once. It also is expected that Carranza will move his entire government to Mexico City during August." BRITISH NOTE ARRIVED IN WASHINGTON ON MONDAY Germany Answers Wm. P. Frye Note ?Publication Arranged For Wednesday. Germany's reply to the last American note on the sinking of the American ship William P. Frye by the auxiliary cruiser Prinz Kitol Friedrich began to arrive Monday at the state department. Time for its publication will be arranged later. Great Britain's supplemental note in reply to American representations on interference with neutral shipping also reached the state depart ment Monday and will bo published in Wednesday morning's newspapers, with the note received last week on the same subject, and a third note regarding detention of the American steamer Neches which also arrived Monday. WATCH NOTE TO ENGUND Germans Have Not l>ecido<l Whether to Answer Our Note. Herlin, by wireless to Sayville: Among the news items prepared Monday by the Overseas News agency was the following: " Notwithstanding reports to the contrary the German government has not yet decided whether the American note regarding German submarine warfaro will bo answered. The government awaits the text of the announced American note to Great Britain before deciding what further steps will be taken." wrecked the German cruiser Konigsberg, which found refuge from the British fleet last October in the Itufiji River, German Kast Africa, going up tho stream so far that only shallow draught vessels could get near her. Aeroplanes directed the range of the monitors, the Konigsberg being surrounded by a jungle. * Huge new German aeroplanes are being built, according to news from Basle. They aie stated to have three tiers of planes, with eight Maybach motors, such as aro used in the Zep pelins. The engines are coupled in pairs, each couple driving a propeller, of which there are four. This type of aeroplane is said to be able to carry twenty men. The wholo machine is armor-plated. Six of these big machines are declared to have been completed. Reports from London show that much squabbling is going on in the British cabinet over the question of responsibility for shortage of high explosive shells. Some of the newspapers are again laying the blame for the trouble on Lord Northcliffe, it being charged that he is trying to force Priemier Asquith out or office, so that Lloyd George may take the premiership. The London reports say that Asquith is keenly annoyed over the squabbling and is doing all he can to bring peace in his official family. One hundred Indian troops of the British army have arrived at Kabul, Afghanistan, after a four months' march from Constantinople. The men wero captured in Flanders by the Germans and were sent to Turkey in the hope that, being Mohammedans, they might Join the Turks. Hut they remained loyal to Great Britain and finally escaped, heading for Afghanistan. They now intend to join their regimental depot in India, so it is reported. I.arge quantities of war munitions have reached Serbia. The Serbian National Assembly has voted a credit (Continued on last page.) I fivers Get Two More Bodies. Divers in Lake Michigan secured the badleB of two more victims of tJhe Eastland disaster, which now totals 889. Many who were at first supposed to be deed have later turned up. Crew of Ship is Saved. The crew of the British steamer I Pulgens, 2,860 tons, landed in England Monday. The ship was destroy> ed. ?j. r\. i?,nr\. UN l\LJ V WHAT EXPERT SAYS PLAN OF BATTLE ALTERED BY WARSAW'S CAPTURE ? RACE TO WIN IN WEST Washington Authority Says German* Will oXt Push Further Into Poland Ilut. Will Mnke Western Drive at Calais?Seaport Towns Ikeome Important. "Erope and the world will now watch a race between the Kaiser and Lord Kitchener for the weakest spot in the western line." This is the belief expressed in # y. Washington by a military expert of high standing in commenting upon the fall of Warsaw and its probable effect upon military operations In Europe. "If Lord Kitchener has a large raniy in Kn gland to-day ready to bo shipped across, the quicker he ships them over to the western front and 'digs them in' the better It will be for the allies." This officer expressed the belief that the German forces would not at- ^ tempt to progress further in Poland, H but would content themselves with H tlio construction of strong fortlflca- fl tions extending through the small Dj railroad centres facing the lines to H which the forces of Grand Duke H Nicholas have been withdrawn. fl "Nicholas has chosen his own new H line, and no doubt has had plenty of I time to prepare himself to hold it. I I can not see where it would avail |fl the Teutonic allies greatly to advance further at. this time on the eastern front if they can use a com- H paratlvely small force to hold the H Russians where they now are and H withdraw their seasoned troops for a fl new attempt to break through to fl Calais on the western front. With strong fortifications at Ostrow, Sled lice, I.ukow, Vangord and Dublin and I along the Narow River on the north, I they should he able to leave the Aus- 1 tro-Hungarlan forces in command of 1 a defensive campaign and release nioro than a million men for operations elsewlvere. No doubt a large force will he employed in an attempt to clear the way through Serbia for reinforcements of the Turkish forces defending the Dardanelles against the land operations of the allies "Of course of the withdrawal of the Russian troops really is due to a serious shortage of ammunition, time may yet be left for a new offensive by the Russians if enough supplies of ammunition are shipped in. Hut in all probability the time for a grand offensive in the Russian campaign will have passed in another two months, and it is doubtful if the Russians, even with new supplies of ammunition, will be willing to project another offensive in the time. "Every indication from reports we get points to a growing and very marked dissatisfaction in Russia with the inaction of the allies on the west-'|M ern front. Russia feels that she has Bfl been left by her allies to bear the brunt of the light at a time when she was unprepared to meet so vigorous an offensive. Having kept his H armies virtually intact by a masterly H retreat to a line of his own selection,^^| Grand Duke Nicholas is expected toBHV rest for the time being and let the western front do. some of the work in stemming German aggression. "I have little doubt that the fortymile British front will again be the scene of a tremendous drive by the Germans. Calais must be taken if the Germans hope to place themselves in position to make peace term*, and this front must bo either |H pierced or eliminated before Calais H can be taken. H "Of course, there always is the H possibility of throwing enough roops fl against another part of the line to 99 break tiirougli and execute a flank lng movement against the line of H trench fortifications which the allies have dug themselves into the west. I This would deman da vigorous ofTen- I sive along tho entire line to keep it 9 busy while the piercing of ono point T| and the flanking movement were in progress. "Not that the use of a tremendous reinforcement from the Cast would accomplish this in itself, for there is no telling how many men Kitchener is holding in reserve or where he is holding them. A well equipped British army behind the line in readiness to be projected against an unwarned force of Germans which had been permitted to break through could play havoc with the German plans and result in throwing them back "" for some distance in order to rearrango their lines. "German strategy Is worked 'ou^^ with mathematical precision but is not subject to rapid readjustment. It largely is based on the theory that strategy may be made surprise-proof. nu/ inrutMiiH uu w 11 ui txiat muury always results in serious delays for an movement involved. American officers had ampld opportunity to observe tliis in the Uoxer campaign,. and German officers were considbr-^Jl ably embarrassed by the fact. A well | directed surprise movement with an j unexpected British army might play I havoc v/lth the German offensive In I the west." I * * * .. r m Illg German Guns on Way. liomlon, Monday: Several forty- l two-centimeter guns to be used In fl the bombardment of Russian forts fl passed tlirougli Merlin last week on fl the way to the eastern front, accord- I ing to a Central News dispatch front H Amsterdam. fl it(H) Ituildings Destroyed by Fire. Rfl ..Athens, Greece, via London,. Mon-j^B day: Arrivals from Constanttnoplafla report that three hundred bntldlngs^fl| including the German hospital fllleaiflH with wounded soldiers, were destros^Bfl ed Inst week by Are. HB British Steamer Hunk. fl London reports Monday that fl^^H Clintonla, 3,838 tons, has been Fifty-four persons were M