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EPITOME OF
WAR NEWS

With the territory between the Bel
qian coast and Dixmude SO com
pIeteIy Inundated that infantry at
tacks are impossible, the Germans
turned the fighting into a continuous
bombardment of the Allies lines.
london heard that Bulgaria has been
pacified, and with Italy and Rou-
mania is likely Don to enter the
var on the side of the Triple En-
tente. There is fear, however, that
Sweden and perhaps Norway and
Denmark may come to the aid of
Germany.
Berlin reported that two attacks by
the British Channel Squadron on
the Belgian coast had been beaten
off. German advances in the Ar
qonne Forest were announced.
Turkish forces, after defeating the
British, reached the Suez Canal,
ConstantinopIe announced.
The Servians are making a stand on
the Kolubara River, but are hope
Iessly o~utnumbered by Austrians,
and seem doomed to defeat.
In Asiatic Turkey it is reported that
three Christians have been murder
ed by the MosIem garrison at Ire
bizond.
Col. Swinton, British official observer
at the front, confirmed previous re-
ports of the tremendous loss of life
on the firing line. He said the Ger
mans had been repuIsed repeatedly
at Ypres, and that the bitter winter
weather was causing great suffering
in the trenches.
Above cracow, on the Germans south
eastern front, the Russians report
they have taken 1000 prisoners and
some machine guns. In Galicia the
Austrians have evacuated Novy-San.
DEE.
In France and in Belgium the enforc.
ed rest due to wintry weather, con.
tinues, except for occasional bonn
bardments. Ypres was again under
fire and badly damaged.
Berlin reports that bad weather stilI
hinders operations In France and
Belgium, but the troops are prepar,
ing for a further advance Of their
! lines.
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Won HINDENBURG'S DRIVE ON
WARSAW CHECKED BY RUSSIANS
Petrograd Reports Great Numbers Of Kaiser's Forces Are
Surrounded Near Warsaw
EXTENSION OF THE WAR NOW SEEMS CERTAIN

Iondon.-There were further indica-
lions in the latest dispatches that
the German invasion of Poland has
lost headway. London newspapers
heard from Petrograd that the Ger
mans were beaten at Kutno, losing
$4,000 prisoners; that the Russians
have captured Gumbinnen, in East
Prussia, and that the Germans are
on the defensive on the Silesian Dor
der.
The Petrograd Army Messenger,
official organ of the Russian General
Staff. in a detailed review OF opera
tions. states that the Russians have
won big victories in Poland and are
advancing steadily in East Prussia
and GaIicia.
The German General Staff admits
that the decision in Poland has been
postponed because of the appearance
of Russian re-enforcements from
Warsaw. Petrograd and Berlin agree
that hard fighting in front of Czen-
stachova and Cracow has produced no
decisive result.
The important news from the fight
ing in the west mentioned a series
of attacks by the Germans in the Ar
gonne, north of Verdun. Paris says
these attacks were repulsed after hard
fighting. Berlin asserts that the Ger
man troops are gaining ground slow
ly.
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The Audacious Sunk
By a Submarine, Is
Report From Berlin
Tale From German Capital Describes
How the British Dreadnaught Was
T~orpedoed by Underwater Craft
Sent on Spies Report.

Washington.-From Berlin comes a
report, a full week after it was
learned here from British mail ad-
vices that the British dreadnaught
Audacious had been sunk off the
Irish coast, that the Audacious was
sunk by a German submarine and not
by a mine. The reports received
here by mail from the north of Ire
land stated that the Audacious, after
being SO badly damaged that she
could not be saved, was sunk by the
British to prevent her becoming a
menace to navigation.
The Berlin report declares that the
Audacious was ~torpedoed twice, the
second torpedo causing her magazine
to explode. The German submarine
declared to have hit the Audacious
is said to have been one of the type
which is about ITO feet long with a
surface displacement of from 900 to
700 tons.
Reports from Berlin have declared
that the British ships of the first class
are being kept out of the North Sea
because they feared submarine raids.
The present report declares that
through their system Of espionage the
Germans learned that a battle ship
base had been established at Tough
Swilly, on the northwest coast of Ire
land. A submarine f1otilla was sent
out from Wilhelmshaven, and after
skirting the coast of Scotland worked
around to a position off Tough Swilly,
it is alleged. One of the submarines
is declared to have sighted the Au-
dacious at a time when the rough sea
made it feasible to approach close
to the dreadnought. The submarine
is then reported to have Owed and
fired a torpedo. At least two tor
pedoes are said to have been dis
charged.
The Olympic, ten miles away, got
the dreadnought's wireless call for
help and tried to get her into Tough
swiftly, but was unable to do SO, al
though her crew was saved.
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DENIES AUSTRIAN VICTORIES.
servian Statement Declares There
Were No Big Battles of Late.

Servian Statement Declares There
Were No Big Battles of Late.
Paris.-From Athens, the CORE
spondent of the Havas News Agency
transmits the following communica-
ton as issued at Servian Legation in
the Grecian capital:
"Great Austrian victories are denied.
The Servian troops retreated from
their positions around Valjevo, which
they had defended for two months
against superior forces. Now they
hold more advantageous positions, and
they confidently await the attack of
the enemy. The evacuation of Val
jevo and the retreat were effected
without incident or losses. Five can
non had to be abandoned on the
heights, as they could not be lowered,
and they were rendered useless.
mo important encounters have TAX
en- place since the order to retreat was
given; consequently great Austrian
victories are impossible"
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LAST SLAYER OF
MILL GIRL FREE
McAlIister Gets News of Parole
in Trenton Prison Corridor
ENDING OF NOTORIOUS CASE
Four Got Long Terms for B~osschieter
Murder-Three Got 3o-Year SEN
tences-only Man Who Testified
for State Served Full Time.

Especial Trenton Correspondence.)
T~renton.-Walter A. McAllister, one
of the slayers of Jennie Bosschieter,
the Paterson silk mill worker, was
standing in the corridor of Trenton
Prison talking to his sister, Miss
Eleanor McAllister, who has been a
frequent visitor to him since he began
his sentence of thirty years.
While they were talking Head Keep
er Madden approached McAllister and
said:
"You have been, paroled."
McAllister hardly seemed to realize
what was said to him. When he did
he burst into tears. Then he en-
braced his sister. Madden told NC
Allister that he could leave the prison
as soon as he chose, after he<had ON
pleted certain formalities.
McAllister lost no time. He was
one of eighteen men on whose appli-
cation for clemency the Prison In
spectors acted.
McAllister told prison authorities
that he was going to return to his
home in Paterson, but he did not know
what work he would pursue there.
The fact that he is we'll off and that
his record is on file in the prison
seemed to make this question I'M
necessary, and he a not pressed for
a more explicit answer before being
permitted to go. <
The only article McAllister took to
prison with him besides his clothes,
was a razor. This was returned to
him. His sister then gave him a
watch, which she had purchased for
him.
I'm mighty glad to be Free" he
said as he and Miss McAllister hur-
ried through the prison gates and en-
tered a taxicab, and the last of the
slayers of Jennie Bosschieter, all of
them prominent young men of Pater-
son at the time, had expiated his
crime. McAllister and his sister took
an express train to Jersey City and
went from there to Paterson.
Jennie Bosschieter, who was en-
ployed in a silk mill in Paterson, own
ed by McAllister's father and man
aged by the son, was slain in the win
ter of 1900 after she had been taken.
out for a ride by McAllister, Andrew
Campbell, William Death and George
Kerr.
Kerr the First to Leave.
Campbell, Death and McAllister
were sentenced to serve thirty years
each and Kerr, who turned States
evidence, was sentenced to fifteen
years. Campbell was paroled by the
Board Of Pardons in the summer of
1913. On June "a last Death was re-
leased on parole and now McAllister
has got liberty. Kerr, who served
his full term, less time for good be-
havior, was the first to leave prison.
The men began their prison terms
on Feb. 1, 1901, and had the Board
of Pardons not interfered Death,
Campbell and McAllister, with full al
lowance for good conduct, would not
have been released until Feb. 1, 1921,
when Campbell and Death will be for
ty,five and McAllister fifty.
Powerful influences were constantly
at work to gain freedom for all the
men almost since the day they en-
tered prison. McAllister was always
called the ringleader of the four.
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DENY FRANK WRIT OF ERROR
Lawyers Now Appeal Direct to Jus

Lawyers Now Appeal Direct to JUS
tice Lamar of Supreme Court.
Atlanta, Ga.-The Supreme Court Of
this State declined to certify to a
writ of error which would have per-
mitted Leo M. Frank to carry his
case to the U. S. Supreme Court.
One other recourse is left to Frank
to get his case before that tribunal.
He can apply to Justice Joseph R.
Lamar of the United States Supreme
Court, who acts for this district. for
a writ of error. Should Justice Lamar
grant the writ, then the case will get
on the docket of the Federal Supreme
Court, despite the failure of the State
Supreme Court to certify the writ.
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Smith and Nuaent Gave $4,000.

Former United States Senator
James Smith, Jr., and James R. MI
gent, former chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee, maintain an
active interest in the welfare Of the
Democratic party. The statement filed
by Richard J.. Franz, treasurer of the
Essex County and Newark City Com
mittee, with the Secretary of State
shows that the Essex county leaders
contributed $1,000 each to the cam
paign fund. The total receipts Of this
fun, which was used for all of the
candidates, amounted to $16,044.36.
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100000 BRITISH AT FRONT.
Fresh Troops Are Steadily Joinin.

Fresh Troops Are Steadily Joining
Army at Ypres.
PAr1s-It was learned here that the
British forces on the firing line in
France and Belgium now number from
100000 to 100000 men. The British
centre is at Ypres, with the right and
left wings extending south and north
from that point.
Fresh troops, the pick of the Terri
torials, are continually coming to the
Continent. The British losses amount
to $1,000 killed, wounded and missing.
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GERMANS LOSE 2 WARSHIPS

London.-The German navy has
suffered the further loss of a torpedo
boat destroyer and a submarine. The
destroyer was cut in two by the Dan
ish steamer Anglo-Dane in an acct
dental collision and sank when her
boiler exploded. The submarine was
discovered and destroyed by a Brit
ish destroyer off the north coast of
Scotland
The destruction of the submarine,
U-1S, one of the newer and most
effective types, is officially reported
by the Admiralty. There is an in
dication that the U-1S was at least
500 miles from her base at Wilhelms-
haven and was searching for the Brit
ish feet.
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GUARDS KILLED FOUR ALIENS.
British Fired Upon Prisoners in De
tention Camp With Deadly Effect.

Douglas, Isle Of Mantle grave
disorder which has prevailed among
the very large number of men in the
aliens detention camp near here, re-
suited in five of the inmates being
shot, four fatally, by guards. The lat
ter had been attacked during a riot.
The camp was established about
three months ago and the number of
persons there gradually increased un-
til nearly 1000 Austrian and German
civilian prisoners were interned. They
are guarded by 800 men of the Nation
al Reserve from Liverpool and the
Manx Territorials.
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GERMAN cAPTIvEs AT TOXIC.

Japanese Women Give Flowers to
Tsing-Tau Prisoners.
Tokio.-Three hundred and fifty
German prisoners from Tsing-Tao ar
river here. Two Japanese pre-
sented a chrysanthemum to each
greeting prisoners in German. The
prisoners were touched by the greet
ings.
They were taken in tramcars
TO a temple, where they were interned
Crowds who watched gave no evidence
Of hostility.
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FATAL BLACK HAND FIRE.
Eight Persons Perish in New York
Tenement Blaze.

Eight Persons Perish in New York
Tenement Blaze.
New York.-Eight persons died and
ten were injured as the result of a
fire that started in No. 403 East
Twenty-ninth street at 2.3O O'Clock,
a. M, thirty1six hours after Black
Hand operators had threatened the
life Of one Of the sixteen families
in the house.
The fire was set in the stairwell,
as is the custom of Italian black
mailers. Before any Of the occupants
could escape into Railways they we're
cut OF by smoke and flame and forced
to fee to fire escapes in the front and
real Of the building.
Mrs. Annie Cataleo, rescued by a
policeman, dropped dead of heart fail
ure in the home of her brother-in-law.
Death was due indirectly, a physician
said, to shock caused by her expert.
ence In the burning tenement
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Sentence Boys to spankInas.

Judge Shin, in the Juvenile Court,
Atlantic City, sentenced William Kern
and William KERN of Philadelphia, to a
spanking each to be administered by
their fathers and steady work in ma
chine shops for the next two years.
Their parents in court swore to car
ry out the decree. They admitted
going to the shore on 50 Kern
took from collections ne made for
a Philadelphia concern, and then
they stole a second time there to
sport along the Boardwalk. Both +
sixteen.
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Berlin.-It is admitted in Berlin
that the German armies in Poland
have not been able to break through
the Russian defence, and advance on
Warsaw. The German Government
makes no claim to victory and says,
in the latest statement that the issue
has not been determined. The fresh
est official statement from Petrograd
claims little more, although it had
been reported that the Germans had
been driven back near LODI and that
the German advance is definitely
checked. The immense forces of Kai-
ser and Car are in a death grip all the
way from the Baltic Sea to the passes
of the Carpathians, with no vital ad-
vantage to either side.
Official German reports show that
the Russians are we'll within East
Prussia and are in far greater force
than was the case in the early part
Of September, but the Russian ad-
vance in East Prussia has a long way
to go before the Dantzig-Thorn line
is really in danger or the railroad
system affected.
At least 1000, 900 men are fighting
In Poland, the Russians probably hav-
ing an advantage in numbers, al
though Gen. Won H~indenburg, the
German commander-in-chief has been
sending fresh troops to Poland from
Germany's seemingly in~exhaustible
store. Some authorities estimate that
Russia has about 1900, 900 soldiers in
Poland alone, while the German
strenith is estimated at jprobably $780,
900.
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All Jersey Guaranteed.

All Jersey Guaranteed.
The hoof and mouth disease quar-
antine was extended to all New Jer-
sey.
DR.. Robert M. Mullings, Jersey City
representative of the Bureau of Ami
NAL Industries, received minute and
strict instructions from the Depart
ment Of Agriculture as to the rules
governing shipments of all cloven-
hoofed animals and of milk.
The milk situation is looked upon
as serious, although it has not yet af-
facted the general supply nor the
prices. Following the discovery of
three more infected diaries at Secau-
Gus, DR.. F. c. Robertson, assistant
chief of the Division of Diaries and
Creameries, went there and dumped
out 1873 cans $500 quarts) of milk.
Simon Lieberman, one of the Secau-
Gus dairymen whose cattle were found
diseased, is said to have served milk
on the upper west side of Manhattan.
No more milk from this farm will be
admitted hereafter.
Frank D. Shove, treasurer of the
Borden Condensed Milk Company,
said:
There is no indication at the pres
ent time that the New York milk
supply will be affected by the quaran.
tine in New Jersey"
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Effort to Check Cattle Disease.

Effort to Check Cattle Disease.
1t is proposed that State and na-
tional governments unite in an at
tempt to check the foot and morEh
disease exists among several le &c
State. Governor Fielder received a
telegram asking the cooperation 3t
the State with the Department of
Agriculture. Secretary Houston adj
dressed the Governor as follows:
Am informed that foot and mouth
disease exists amonk several large
herds of cattle in your State. 1t is
necessary that all infected herds will,
be disposed Of a. early as possible
as the disease is so easily spread to
other cattle, hogs and sheep. This
department will undertake to bear so
per cent. of purchase and slaughter
of infected herds, including burial and
disinfection. Will not your State
bear some share?" Governor Fielder
answered as follows: Have had sub
ject referred to under consideration
with State Health Department for
several days. New Jersey stands
ready to do everything possible with
appropriation available. Will com
municate details of our plans"
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their loot have made raids on Audu-
bon yards. Mrs. William Martz, Mrs.
Hamilton and Mrs. Becker, neighbors
on Barrett avenue, lost more than
fifty chickens.
A portrait of the late William H.
Kemble, traction magnate of Philadel-
phia, who made possible the hand
some Kemble M. E. Church in Wood
bury, was unveiled. 1t was presented
by the family.
After a sharp contest Thomas H.
Norton has been elected by the Mill
vile City Commission a member of
the Cumberland County Board Of
Freeholders for the unexpired term
Of Jury Commissioner Samuel B.
Durham.
Mrs. Lydia G. Vanaman, 81 years
old, widow of Captain Nathan vana-
man, died from the effects Of a fall
sustained at her home in Millville
two weeks before.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has denied the petition Of the
Merchantville Civic Club for the re-
s~toration of the theatre train.
John Demka of Passaic, arrested
on a charge of non-support says he
cannot live with his wife because she
became a spirftualist.
Herschel milford, president of the
Millville National Bank, and n of
the most wi~dely-known ~1nanciers in
that part of the State, died suddenly
at his home at the age of 81 years.
He was first clerk, then cashier and
became president Of the bank in De-
cember, 1912. He is survived by a
widow and a sister.
Director Thorn, of the Ocean City
finance department, has received ap-
plications from private individuals for
$4,000 worth of the city's SGT 900 fund
ing bonds, and another person has
AA9UO dpPAlSdtNOn AO TIC WAOAO
amount.
A 100000 fire destroyed The
Franklin Cottage at Long Branch.
At Vineland the home of P. Neveria
was destroyed by fire with $500 worth
of handmade laces.
Samuel Grillo, a fruit dealer at
Grove and Twelfth streets, Jersey
City, was sentenced by Judge George
G. Tenant to not less Than twenty
no more than thirty years in State
prison and to pay a fine OF $1,000
for an assault on Catherine Weissen-
bach, IL years old.
Plans to complete by the first OF
the year and turn over to the man
ayers, free of indebtedness, the
buildings of the Burlington County
Colony for Feeble-Minded Boys. nea-
New Lisbon, are being made by i
Colony Committee.
The Pitman Stag Club Is p
for a big minstrel show to
after the holidays.
The new vocational
opened at Minotola, IL
Smith, OF New Yor'
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War Brings Work.

War Brings Work.
The European war is in the main
responsible for the Smith Novelty
Company, of which Mayor A. Smith
is the president and general man
ager, at Hopewell, securing an order
for the manufacture of 100000 clocks
for am American firm Of importers
who formerly bought in Germany. The
clocks sell for so cents each. MI.
Smith will be Obliged to make the
necessary tools and dies In his fac
tory before he can start the manu-
facture of the clocks. The Smith
plant now employs 40 persons, but the
big order will compel the doubling
of this force. The order calls for
the delivery Of 5000 clocks in Janu-
airy and after that time weekly de-
livery Of 5000. Mayor Smith is In
communication with firms in England
relative to making gas registers for
meters The English firms formerly
had these made in Germany. MI.
Smith has learned that the rate
charged in England for the registers
is four cents per register higher
than the rate of the local company,
and he is confident his proposal
will be accepted by the English
firms. The Smith Novelty Com
pany makes thousands of water
meter registers for American con-
Germs.
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VERA CRUZ GIVEN
BACK TO MEXICO
American Troops Depart and
Constituencies Occupy Port
EVACUATION WAS ORDERLY
No untoward Incident Mars Departure
Of General Funston's Army-Wash-
inston Feels That Crisis in Affairs
Of Southern Republic lie over.


Vera Cruz, Mex.-The American
forces Of occupation, under Gen.
Frederick Funston, after a stay in
Vera Cruz of sever months, embarked
on transports for the United States.
The outrosts began falling back at
nine o'clock in the morning, and two
hours later the first American soldiers
were going over the sides Of the wait
ing transports.
While at 1870 the last American
soldier was climbing the transport
~Cristobal's ladder, the Constitutional
forces marched through the city with
bands playing and flags flying.
Speeches were made at the city hall
by Foreign Minister Fabela and Gen.
Aguilar.
Great enthusiasm was displayed on
all sides with not a word against the
Americans.
The Cristobal. carrying Funston,
was lost OF the horizon at 2:3O.
Gen. Funston, previous to embark
ing, went over the situation with Col.
Edmundo Martinez, who has been in
Vera Cruz for some time as the per-
sonal representative of Gen. Candida
Aguilar, on whose staff he is serving.
w. w. Canada, American Consul,
called on Col. Martinez, and the two
had a friendly conference, at which a
working agreement was decided upon,
the efforts of each to be bent toward
maintaining peace.
Mr.. Canada exacted a promise from
Gen. Aguilar's agent that no Ameri-
ans are to be bothered in any way,
and that the safety of all Americans
be guaranteed.
WASHINGTON PLEASED.
Washington. = American troops
which have held Vera Cruz since last
April evacuated the city and sailed
for home.
Occupation of the Mexican port in
reprisal for Huerta's insult to the
flag at Tampico has cost the United
States more than a score Of lives,
S III
ana, aec5r ng 3 c mates IS
nnea D 100000. Bu Mexeo VII
5s asked . pay nc aity al.
r8ti n6ia toa fac
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81 lc rested uisnaship 81 the
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30 away VITA Goa Eunon The
refugee priests and nuns were given
places on the transports, and the
Americans who remain depend for
their safety upon guarantees given
to the United States by all the Mexi-
can factions and those American. war
ships which remain in the harbor.
The State Department was informed
from Mexico city that the situation
there is quiet and that conditions are
improving.