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Evening star., 1914-11-23
SURGICAL SUPPLIES
WOEFUL[YLACK|NG
Short of Anesthetics, Surgeons
Operate on Wounded
While Conscious.
MANY DEATHS FROM
SHOCK ARE REPORTED
Bandages, Cotton, Gauze and Medi-
cines Needed Badly by All
Warning Nations.

NEW YORK, November pa dis
tressing lack of surgical supplies for
the wounded of the battlefields of
Europe is shown by appeals received
by various relief organizations here
and by the tremendous orders received
from the warning nations by American
manufacturers of such materials. Re
ports received at Red Cross headquar-
ters from nurses attached to some of
the hospital units sent to Europe by
that organization show that the supply
of absorbent cotton, bandages, gauze.
anesthetics, iodine and alcohol and
similar necessities is utterly made
quate.
Servian hospitals ran short of anes-
thetics three weeks ago, and surgical
operations there have since been per-
formed while the wounded were still con-
scious, according to Red Cross reports.
Many deaths from shock of operations
are reported. From nurses in French
hospitals come such statements as
"bandages medicines and ambulance
necessities are like the treasures OF
kings. Gauze and anti-tetanlc Sc
rum are very difficult to get, and cot
ton is disappearing.
1t is also reported that there Is d
great shortage of surgical instruments
in the field hospitals behind the armies,
This country does not know the a"-
full need of medical supplies IN Ell
rope" said Cranton Brenton, New foi ~
war relief director of the Red cross.
imagination cannot exceed the nor
rors resulting from the lack OF them.
We are doing all we can. but there IS Il
great and pressing need OF money 10
purchase these supplies.
Rushing Supplies Forward.
American relief organizations and
American manufacturers of hospital
supplies are responding nobly to the
call for aid. Many manufactures are
being operated plight and day and are
still unable to fill the huge orders Tor
absorbent cotton. gauze, bandages and
first-aid packages. One mahuIaclurer
estimated that more than 2,ooo,ooO
pounds of absorbent cotton, hundreds
of thousands of bandaSeS and gauze
and first-aid packages nave been
shipped to Russia, SerNla. Austria, Her-
many and France since the war began.
One large order for surgical instru-
ments has been placed in New York by
the Russian government
No distinctions are made by the Red
Cross in making shipments of medical
supplies as fast as they can be pur-
chased or donated. One large ship
ment containing $50 bales of absorbent
cotton, 10000 yards of gauZe, 1000
pounds of bandages and twenty cases
of hospital supplies was sent to Ger
many. Other large shipments nave
been sent to Russia, France and Ser
via. Within ten days large shipment
will be made by the Red Cross to the
Belgian refugees. -
Great quantities Of hospital clothing,
supDlies and surgical dressings are be-
int. received here from voluntary Or
sanizations of women throughout the
country working under the direction of
the Red Cross. These are being for
warded to Europe as promptly as pos
Evening star., 1914-11-23
Men Suffer in Trenches.

ready bad, was rendered worse.
Men Suffer in Trenches.
THE condition of the trenches be-
came wretched beyond description.
From having to sit or stand in a mix
ture of straw and liquid mud, the men
had to contend with half frozen slush.
1t is an ill wind, however, and one
good point about the wet weather is
that it made the ground soft that
the enemyS howitzer shells sink some
depths before they detonate and eNpend
a great part of their energy in an up
ward direction, throwing the mud
about.
Nevertheless. the wet and cold have
added greatly to the hardShips of the
troops in the trenches, and the prob
lem how to enable them to keep their
feet reasonably dry and warm now is
ensa ging serious attention.
AT one place, owing to the kindness
o. the proprietor, certain works recently
were placed at our disposal as a whole
sale bathhouse, lavatory and repair
shop. In the works are a number of
watts large enough TO contain several
men at one time. They serve most cN-
cellently for the provision of hot baths
Get Hot Bath.
While the men are enjoying their
Undertaking washed or burned and re-
placed by Il new set. At the same time
their uniforms are fumigated.' cleaned
and repaired and buttons sewcd on.
The repairs are done by band of women
who are employed for the purpose. BY
this installation some 1900 men are
catered to in every Way.
What this rehabilitation really means
to the soldiers alone can be appreciated
from the realization of their previous
state. 1t must be remembered that they
not only had not bathed for weeks, but
they had not been able to take Off their
clothes; that consequently in many cases
the officers, well as the men, are
verminous.
LAS the latter troop up to the bath
they are unprepossessing in appearance.
weary. unshorn and haggard. They
are coated with mud, a good deal of
which is crusted on them. Some are
splashed with the blood of their COM
rades or of the enemy. When they
come out, clean, refreshed and re-
clothed. they are different beings. Not
only is this good thing from the point
of view of the happiness and comfort
of the individual, but it is distinct
gain in his fighting value and an asset
to the force. Nevertheless, bodily the
men are in good condition Food in
abundance reaches them regularly eN-
cept in d few cases such as are Incl
dental to trench warfare
Evening star., 1914-11-23
Cholera Is Reported in Prussia.

PARIS, November 23.-Sevcral cases
on cholera arc reported to have appear
ed in Prussia and upper Silesia, accord
ing to "A dispatch from Basel, Switzer-
land to the Havas News Agency. Two
deaths from the disease SO far have
occurred in those districts.
Evening star., 1914-11-23
EIGHT PERSONS PERISH,
OTHERS INJURED, IN FIRE
Two Probably Fatally Burned.
Blaze of Mysterious Origin in
New York Tenement.

NEW YORK, November 23.-Eight
persons are dead, two others were SO
badly burned that they may die, and
seven more, including two fire cap
tains, were injured as the result of a
fire of suspicious origin which early
yesterday virtually destroyed a five
story brick tenement house on East
18th street AS a result of disclosures
made to the police by tenant who
has been receiving BLACK Hand" let
ters for the last year. and upon whom
u demand for 1000 was made Frida Y
under threat of bodily harm, detectives
are seeking men known to them as
Black Hand leaders, whom they sus-
pect of responsibility for the fire
Panic which seized the tenants when
they were aroused by rescuers caused
the loss of life, the police say, as the
building was amply equipped with
fire escapes.
Evening star., 1914-11-23

Harry. the two-year-cld sen of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Thomas of Sharpsburg. Md.
died as the result of a severe Scalding
He fell from chair into pail of boil
ing water.
Evening star., 1914-11-23

James A. Knowles. a Baltimore motor
man, who was injured in street car col
lis on last Friday. died yesterday at
hospital in that city. He was twenty
nine years old.
Evening star., 1914-11-23
Shed Reported Damaged.

LONDON, November %. 3:05 a.m.-Ds-
patches from correspondents of severa'
London papers state that a Zeppelin di
rigible balloon shed at Friedrichshafen
was damaged during the attack made by
three British aviators Saturday, but that
the airshlp was uninjured. The Rotter-
dam correspondent of the Daily Mail as
serts that four bombs were dropped in
the town near the shed. killing five men
besides damaging houses.
According to the Basel correspondent
of the Daily Chronicle. bombs thrown
from one of the aeroplanes struck bal
loon shed and went through a glass roo,
damaging a dirigible within. The corre-
spondent adds that it is impossible to
ascertain the extent of the damage done
to the balloon.
Evening star., 1914-11-23
Bombs Close to Mark.

The Englishmen circled above the bal
loon hall for some time and dropped
six bombs, two of which came SO near
to the building as to cause a tremor of
apprehension among those watching the
novel combat. Two other bombs struck
houses in the city, damaging them
severely and killing a man and wound
ing a woman.
One of the fliers then made IA fearless
lattempt to cross the hall at a height
of only d. quarter of mile. Bullets
from the guns mounted on the tops of
building, however, pierced the aero
planes gasoline tank. causing the fuel
to escape and forcing the pilot to at
tempt to glide to earth. During the
descent of the machine the airman, a
| lieutenant of the British royal naval air
service named Briggs, threw two or
three more bombs at the hanDlr. but
| they missed their mark and did no dam
| age.
| The lieutenant on reaching the ground
| tried to defend himself with revolver.
but was captured by the employees of the
Zeppelin wharf after receiving q slight
wound in the head. The point where the
aeroplane landed was only 300 feet from
| the Zeppelin hall.
The other aviators. after seeing the ac
cident to their companion, did not throw
any bombs, but rose to a great height
| and disappeared across Lake Constance.
! The wounded man is being treated at
| a local hospital.
Evening star., 1914-11-23
1900 Killed in Charge.

a second attempt, made farther TO
the southwest, was pressed within five
wards OF our line before it was broken
by our rife fire. On this occasion the
Germans advanced obliquely across our
rifle and gun fire.
THE number of killed left in front,
of a length of some 500 yards of our
front is estimated at about 1900. The
assault was made by regular troops,
though. not by the guard.
About pm. they massed for the
third assault, but, being subjected to
a hot shell fire, they gave up the at
tempt. On the whole it was most
successful day for our arms.
"wednesday, the 18th. was another
shelling of our right. The enemy con-
tented himself with sapping. 1T is
stated. Owipg to the high tide the inun-
dation was extending satisfactorily to
the southeast of Dixmude:
Thursday. the 19th, also was un-
eventful. Our trench mortars were
used for the first time with good re-
suits. The successful resistance we
have up to the present made to all
the efforts of the enemy has had
very encouraging effect, in spite of
the eXhausting nature of the operations
in the past month. Our men show
great enterprise in making local coun-
ter-attacks. in cutting off the enemys
patrols and in similar affairs of out
posts.
Houses Filled With Dead.
Around ypres we continually are
finding fresh evidence of the slaughter
inflicted on the enemy. On the 18th one
of our battalions while advancing dis
covered a German trench manned by
seventeen corpses,r while there were
Ey-
On the next day a patrol discovered
sixty dead in front of one trench and
nifty more opposite another. All the
farms and cottages to our front are
charnel houses.
The significance of such small num-
bers lies only in the fact that they rep
resent the killed in very small area.
According to prisoners. the German
attempt to take Ypres proved costly.
One stated that there were only fifteen
survivors out of his platoon, which
went into action fifty strong.
Another reported that of $50 men
who advanced with him only nineteen
returned. 1t IS believed that one Ba-
varian regiment, 5000 strong, which
left Bavaria for the front October 49,
had only ZOO men left when an attack
was made along the Menin-Ypres road
November IA, in which it again suffered
severely.
The plight of some units of new for
HldtioiiS is even "oise, ohe IeSiiHell l
of the Sd Reserve Corps having 600
men out of 5000.
IF the period since the beginning of
the war is considered the numbers are
even greater. For instance, of the 18th
Corps, one regiment lost 60 officers and
1850 men. Another lost 5000 men.
These figures include casualties of
every kind-killed, wounded and miss
ing.
''On all four days. the weather has
been bad. Generally fine and frosty in
the early morning, it turned to heavy
rain as the day wore on. Thursday
snow started to fall about l pm. and
Evening star., 1914-11-23
AGAINST WAR
IS N|PPED IN RUSSIA
Several Members of Duma Arrested
When Police Raid Meeting
of Revolutionists.

PETROGRAD. via London, November
23.-The police have discovered revo-
lutionary plot in which several mem
bers of the duma are inculpated, ac-
cording to a semi official statement A
number of arrests have been made. The
semi official announcement says:
"At the beginning of the war most of
the Russian people. conscious of the
necessity of defending the dignity and
integrity of the fatherland, were unan-
imous in assisting the authorities in
the accomplishment of the tasks in
Cured by the operations of war
Evening star., 1914-11-23

continued until about 6 o'clock. 1t fell
in large. soft flakes, which covered the
ground for two inches and melted un
der foot. The state of the roads, al
ready bad, was rendered worse.
Evening star., 1914-11-23
BRITISH A|RMEN FAIL
TODESTROY zEPPEL|NS
German Preparedness to Meet At.
tack Makes Their Daring
in Vain.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN Germany, No
vember %. via Berlin, The Hague and
London, November 23.-Elaborate pre-
cautions which the Germans have taken
for an emergency were responsible for
the failure of the raid of three English
aviators who yesterday afternoon
swooped down upon this city with the
object of destroying with bombs the
Zeppelin balloon works. Anti-aeroplane
cannon and machine guns adapted to
high angle fire. defeated the accom-
plishment of the daring exploit and
succeeded in bringing down one of the
hostile machines and putting the others
to flight.
The British airmen were first seen
above Constance at o'clock, and their
presence Immediately was announced
to the authorities at Friedrichshafen
by telephone. When the airmen ap-
peared at Friedrischshafen the anti
balloon cannon and the machine. guns,
which had been placed in readiness, i'm
mediately opened fire.
Evening star., 1914-11-23
Seven Bodies in Hallway.

Seven bodies were found in the hall
way ON the top floor, near a stairway
leading to the roof, when the flames
had been subdued after an hours fight
by several fire companies and two fire.
boats. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Annie
Cataldo. Il tenant, who had been res
cued, died from heart failure, induced
by shock and exposure. Fire Captains
Daniel f. Dawson and William Ii.
Cozine were thrown fifteen-feet into Il
heap of debris and badly cut and
bruised when the stairs leading to the
second floor collapsed under them
Four men. two women and a baby were
burned about the body.
Facilities in Rosata Family.
OF the seven who were burned to
death, all but one were members of
the family of Marino Rosata, a piano
maker, aged sixty. Besides Rosata
himself, the dead were his wife, aged
flfty-five: his two daughters, seven
teen and eighteen years old. re-
spectively; two nieces, aged twenty
six and twenty -four, and Joseph Pola-
didi, twenty-four. The only member
of the Rosata family to survive was Il
seventeen-year-old boy, Gasparo Rosata,
who fed down the fire escape while the
others ran upstairs from their apart
ment on the third floor,
Evening star., 1914-11-23
Took a Different Attitude.

'An altogether different attitude was
observed by some mepbers of the So
cia1 democratic associations, who con-
tinued an activity aiming at the down
fall of Russia's military power by
means of an anti-war agitation, the
distributing of secret proclamations
and the conducting of propag ganda by
word of mouth.
The government in October last
learned of a plan to convoke a secret
conference of delegates of the social
democratic organization to discuss
measures aiming at the ruin of the
Russian state and the speedy realiZa-
ton of revolutionary plans.
Evening star., 1914-11-23
Maxims Stop Massed Force.

There is no doubt that on the 18th,
in massing preparatory to attack. the
Germans had committed certain faults
and our guns and Maxims> were given
a good opportunity, which they at once
seized, with devastating results to the
rear battalions.
.The fighting to the south of Ypres
continued without marked advantage to
either side, but the French everywhere
held their ground On the center all
was quiet On our right the enemy
continued to show some activity, push
ing forward the saps and throwing
bombs from their trenches and mortars
One of their sap-heads was successfully
attacked during the night and an
boring tool was captured.
Tuesday, on our left, the Germans
made another effort in the direction OF
Ypres. After shelling our positions TO
the east and to the southeast, they
made three attacks. About l pm. their
infantry advanced in strength against
our section on this line and took pos
session of some trenches out of which
our troops had been driven by shell fire
When the Germans endeavored to press
on our infantry made a brilliant coun-
ter-attack with . bayonets and drove
them out of the trenches and for some
500 yards beyond.
Evening star., 1914-11-23

sible. The French Line Steamship
Company is forwarding all donations Of
supplies for the allied soldiers in
France free of transportation charges
Evening star., 1914-11-23
Meeting Raided by Police.

"On November II the police discovered
that a meeting of the said conference
was to be held in a house on Niborg
road, eight miles from Petrograd. A
detachment of police arrived on the
scene and found there eleven persons,
including the following members of the
duma: MN. Petrovisky, Badaystff,
Mouranoff, Samilof and Chagoff.
There being no doubt as to the anti
government object of the conference
the members of the meeting were ar
rested after a search, with the eXcep-
tion of the members of the duma, who
were released. An examining magis-
trate was intrusted with the inquiry
and Immediately opened an investiga-
ton. Having examined the documents
seized in the raid the magistrate draft
ed an indictment against all the mem
bers of the conference under article
102 of the penal code and issued war
rants for their arrest
Evening star., 1914-11-23
.L0SSESAPPALL|NG
IN YPRES ATTACK
British Eyewitness Reports
1,2OO Germans Slain in
One Charge.
DEAD FILL TRENCHES
AND NEARBY FARMHOUSES
Prisoners Tell of One Regiment That
Lost 5000 Men and An
other, 2,560.

LONDON. November 23.-Col L. D.
Swinton. the British official eyewit-
ness with the eNpeditionary forces on
the continent. continuing his narrative
of the army operations and supple
menting his account of November 10,
writes:
November 20.-Once more there is no
change to record in the military situa-
ton on our front with the exception
of an attack in force again upon our
left November H., The four days from
the 10Th to the 10th have been un-
usually uneventful
THE great change that has occurred
has been in the weather. Winter now
has set in in earnest. A miserable aft
ernoon of snow and slush vas succeed
ed by q night of frost. This morning
is keen, calm and bright. and promises
we'll for the aviators, who have re-
Gently been so much hampered in their
work.
Regarding the exact situation at
YpreS. since certain Measurements TO
the effect that the Germans had pene-
trated the town and had been driven
out again have apparently been clrcu-
lated, it is we'll to state that 4pres Is
in the hands of the allies, and that,
save for prisoners OF war or p0ssipie
spies, no Germans have succeeded In
entering the town or even getting
near it. The allied position there Is
stronger than it ever has been.
Monday. November 16, our troops on
the left passed the most peaceful day
they had experienced during the last
month. There was little shellinG and
no infantry attacks. A prisoner as
serted that it had been the intention
of the Germans to assault this quarter
the 18th. but the damage 1nfilcted D!
our artillery the previous day had been
so heavy that it had been decided to
postpone the operation until reinforce
ments should arrive.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-25
.GLA11 HELD ON
BRIBERY CHARGE

Charles Glatt, a former merchant
of this city, and who came here from
Chicago this week, as a. witness in
ths> United tates court at this term,
was arrested Tuesday on the charge
of soliciting bribe. His bond was
fixed at $1,000, in default of which
he was remanded to the custody Of
Sheriff Barnes, and placed III Jail.
1t Is claimed that about two years
ago Glatt was mixed UP in a deal
to defraud, and was diligent In his
use OF the mails, giving advice in
the art. ..n.
Finding that he was q good witness
for either the defendant III the orig.
inal case, or the government. it is
claimed he undertook to work both
ends to the middle On the day OF
his arrest he ran ilto the arms of
United States Marshal Shea, TO whom
he offered his services for q consid-
Grafton. "NHE
Inasmuch as he is just such q man
as Marshal Shea is looking Tor at all
times, She's picked him up. PROPOSE
ton and all.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-25
MARTIAL Law =.
IN new YORK

N. ", March 24.-This vii
lage was placed under martial law
tonight, although the day had been
one, of the quietest since the strike
of the Gould Coupler works began,
two months ago. The order was is
issued by Colonel Wolf, of the Sew
enty fourth regiment. Crowds of
strikers and sympathizers gathered
on the corners were dispersed by the
soldiers, under orders to drive tie
men from the saloons whenever it
was thought trouble was brewing.
Rumors Of arms and ammunition be-;
Ing shipped to foreign strikers, most.
" labOrers, had considerable to do
with the declaration of martial law.
nc rs sHeafed' tlfJ, fOi residents NE
already armed, and an outbreak, IL
It occurred, would de serious The
arrival Of troops; had quieting effect
on the strikers. ~ Y,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-25
Fire Started Up Again After
Citizens Thought Il
Extl1gukhed
vithout Any flle Protection
Residents Fought Flames
Vanantly

Neville, N. D., March 24.-The
town of Kl0ten. situated 6 miles
southeast VI Neville, in Nelson coun-
ty. experienced a disasterous fire
during the early hours of today in
which two grain elevators were
burned to the ground, and the Rukke
machine and lumber yards badly dam.
aged. The elevators destroyed were
the Farmers and the Winter-Ames
company.
The fire was discovered at 1890
this morning in the Farmers elevator.
It started mysteriously under the
driveway and burned completely.
The house had moi: been run for sew
eral weeks aid the insurance was
only about $4,000, there was no
grain in the building.
There was no wind and it was
thought the Winter-Ames elevator
would be safe. However, after all
was quiet again, at 6 O'Clock fire was
discovered in that building, with evi.
dence. that the fire originated in the
same manner, as did the other one In
the Farmers.
This elevator also burned to the
ground with 10000 bushels of grain,
fully insured.
There is no fire protection in the
little village, but the citizens maaag'
ed to save the Rukke lumber yard.
after 1 loss of two cars of shingles.
two cars of coal and the large coal
shed.
The elevators will be rebuilt.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-25
81, o. Roberts.

I'D A
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Bismarck early Tuesday morning
and which later changed to heavy,
cov orod tho entire snnrt hwest
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ll'' A'e 'a'l - ~ ~ IN 1"A p''yn Z.
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reports received at the weather bur.
can Tuesday was thh heaviest, and
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SOIL was lree from lr'ost, tilus s1llow'
ing the meitinS snow 70 oe aDsoro. !.
ed, the storm OF yesterday was VI
lncalculaDle Vaiue TO the laf1aers
OF the state. ;,
me total uellc'eAcy III prec'pita'
tlon since January lst, l9l4' previous
to the storm OF Yesterday was one
inch, SO tnat the present 'acK VI
moisture does not exceed V.oo men.
;iz Raise o' H'ver expected. - IS
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