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CROP REPORT 75.3
DEPARTMENT ISSUES REPORT
ON COTTON CONDITION
72 PER CENT IN STATE
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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
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