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New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
Announces Reprisals in
Poland for Destruction
i'm East Prussia.
CARS TROOPS NOW
OVER FOES BORDER
Approach Memel on North Bank
of River Niemen-Take Big
Guns and Prisoners.

Petrograd. March 1s.-Russian troops
are now fighting in East Prusslan ter
ritory, on the north bank OF the Nlemen
River. east of Tilsit The engagement
with the retreating Germans Is IN
progress on roads leading from Gorzda
10 Memel, according TO to-nlghts re-
port from the General staff.
Berlin (via London). March 1s.-For
each East Prussian village burned o.!
the Russians the Germans VIII put
three in Poland t. the torch, the GER
man General Staff announced TO-DAY;
Government buildings in SuwaIKi anu
,ther Polish provincial capitals VIII pe
sacrificei in retaliation Tor the harn.
lone by Russian troops TO the clty ol
Memel. The Russians are now NEE.
ing determined resistance III H"s'
Prussia, near the border. -.
Statistics furnished by the president
of tho proyince of East Prussia show
that 10000 houses have been destroyed
In East Prussia by Russian troops.
Three hundred thousand refugees are
said 10 be unable 10 return TO East
Prussia because they have no means OF
livelihood. Out of 100000 horses only
5000 remain.
"a dispatch from Berlin by WIRE
less telegraphy on Wednesday
night described these $4,000 houses
as pri ate apartment. and SAID
they had been completely pillaged
and their furniture removed TO
Russia by train.)
Following is the text of the reprlsals
plan given out by the General Stah;. ,
"Hordes of the Russian imperial
militia have gained a cheap victory
by invading the most northern !corner, |,
OF East Prussia in the direction OF
Memel. They pillaged and burned VII
lagos and estates. AS retallatory
measure, towns on Russian territory
occupied by us will be compelled TO
make payment of large sums:
"For every village burned down by
these Russian hordes on German ter
ritory, and for each estate destroyed
three villages or estates on Russian Ter,
ritory occupied by us will be sacrificed
10 the flames. All damage caused by
fire in Memel will be answered by the
destruction by fire of Russian govern
ment buildings at SuwalN and other
provincial capitals in German hands
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19

vvyHE.N a man does one thing
w "t'r especially we'll people
are apt to associate HIM
with that one thing-and that
alone. e.
It's true that Frank n. Simonds
writes particularly well about the
war. but that is only one field
which engages his pen on The
T'ribune's editorial page.
On one day recently his page
touched subjects as varying as
the art Of shovelling dirt and the
preparation of Chicken a la Kingl
Il is an entertaining page that he
and his associates are making, an
authoritative page-but a vastly
human page as well.
The Iriburlf
First to Last tho Truth
News - Editorials - Advertisements
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
BRITISH KILLED KAISERS
COUSIN, COMRADE SAYS
Leopold of Hohenzolern One Of Three Princes with
Troops Slaughtered in Furious Fighting at
Neuve Chapee.

,b. enemv WAS discovered by British
patrol. The men came upon dummy
figure stuck in the ground in front OF
the German trenches. Upon bclng
moved the figure exploded, and one OF
the British soldiers was injured.
Describing the shelling of Aubers nv
the British howtzcrs. the eyewitness
saws n certain tower which was
prominent feature of the landscape was
suddenly projected into the arr. IL dls-
solved in midair and came down IN
cloud Of dust.
Prisoners who have been all through
the war declare that never have they
experienced such bombardment as
that which preceded the assault upon
Ncuve Chapelle. One wounded Prus-
sian officer declared Indignantly. You
do not fight. you murder. My regiment
never had chance from the nrs,; :;
Nothing could live under such hre'
The resentment Of prisoners against
the British artillery has been frequent
ly expressed.
In spite of their exhaustion. the ms.
pect of the prisoners spoke highly OF
German discipline. Their persons were
extraordinarily clean. and most OF theni
were fresh shaven. They were unahl-
mouslv optimistic, believing they soon
would finish with the Russians, and
that they then would crush France ana
Great Britain. emu.
In conclusion, the eye witness says
he believes the Germans lost le,ooo
men at Neuve Chapelle.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
Germans Hide in Villages.

An attack was delivered at the viii
lage of Stegna by infantry. Jednorojec
was shelled and evacuated at once, and
Stegna was taken, the Germans falling
back in considerable disorder across
the river.
All this country northeast of PrZas-
nysz TO the river is still the hiding
place of a great number of Germans
left over from the rOut which carried
the main force back to Khorjele. They
are found in each abandoned village
and often come tramping in, desperate
with hunger, iE groups of from ten to
fifteen to give themselves up. The
roads northward from Przasnysz are
still Uttered with the abandoned gear
of flying Germans, and many hundreds
of bodies of men who died Of cold and
exhaustion are found.
A little more than a week ago 1t
was thought that the battle would COM
bine the scattered and diffused opera
tions into a single immense action with
a single and important result. This
was while il still appeared that the
German invasion had a definite objec-
tive against the communications Of
Warsaw, such as the attempt TO take
and hold Grodno and then cut the main
roadway, but il now appears that this
was merely an incidental hope rather
than the real purpose and that the
whole affair originated in the kaiser's
visit 10 Lowicz and his dissatisfaction
with the impossibility Of making prog
ress on the Rawka-B BZura line. Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg needed vic
tory, and his purpose was simply TO
find the Russians and beat them, any
where and at any cost However, the
Russians have taken more than 10000
German prisoners, the greatest num-
Der yet taken in any single operation;
inflicted three or four times that num-
Der OF casualties and have given the
Germans an undeniable thrashing.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
BERLIN.-A French advance q
EASTERN FRONT.

PEIRoGRADEln Russian Poland the front between ,k W Wsa
and ZOWe and also in the region north Of P1sny the % 1--WE
On the right Nemen battles fought
the leading Gods
We here machine automobiles
and a number of prso Iri
On the left the Vsua violent
On the Bura River Pila Bgusswoh
dispersed the enemy opened offensive
o..,tl
In the Crpathians Near t
annhilated attacked
survivors prisoners, the number of and
after a bayone charge.
NENNA-On the heights of Laberosrev
superior forces repused after battle with s
the enemy several companies being annihlated.
Repeated vantage
positions forces
the defenders also failed. We prisoners
BERLIN the
orzy rivers in Northern Poland northeast OF sN
nued yesterday
prisoners of and Of the and four
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
BRITISH BUYING BULLETS
Ten Trainloads, or 600,000,- =
600, Leave Omaha for Front.

Omaha. Neb., March lS.-Ten solid
trainloads of rife bullets in the shape
of pig lead were started from Omaha
to-day direct to London where they
will be used by the British army. The
lead is shipped from the Omaha plant
Of the American Smelling and Refining
Company and aggregates six thousand
tons, which will make up into six hum
dred million rifle bullets OF standard
size and weight.
Each train consisted Of twenty cars
and each car was loaded with three
hundred tons of the lead. Trains were
started as rapidly as they could be
loaded, and the last train will not get
away until daylight tomorrow.
Captain Sweeney was drilling the
Eas: Side boys of the Juveniel Police
Force when the alarm came in. Twenty
Of the youngsters Immediately volun-
teered for service. and set out with
the reserves for the station, where
they found the crowd still streaming
to the street. II was half an hour be-
fore traffic could be resumed.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
MOTHERS BILL GOES OVER
Hinman Gets Delay on Pension
Measure in Assembly.

Albany, March 1S.-Consideration OF
the widowed mothers pension bill was
deferred to-day until Wednesday after
a spirited debate between the majority
leader, Mr.. Hinman, and Assemblyman
McCue, sponsor of the bill. Mr. Hin
mans motion 10 defer was carried by a
vote of 81 to ~, Republicans lining up
almost solidly behind their leader,
while Democrats and Progressives vot-
ed with McCue.
McCue charged that "a secret oppo-
sition is working underhandedly against
this BILL" and declared if action were
deferred the motives of those opposing
immediate action might be miscon-
strued.
Mr.. Hinman resented the charge that
there was anything secret abou, his
opposition.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
BRITISH ACCEPT
TRADES UNIONS

London, March lS.-0ne phase q
the negotiations looking to cover.
ment control of factories with yisE
to increasing the output OF mun!,iet
of war is particularly pleasing to ssN
leaders. II is the suggestion Of =,
government that it will undertake
guarantee the integrity Of labor unio,i
to insure the success OF the pro.s
as well as to protect the unions .:s.
decentralization after the war
"If this is done it will have g'sil
possibilities for workmen," said t,s
labor representative at the eonist,et
which is still in progress. ~ VII q
tantamount 10 recognition by ne STATE
of trades unions throughout the Vsiisa
Kin rdom."
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
SUBMARINE TO BE FAST
Daniels Signs Contract for
New 20-Knot Craft.
From The Tribune Bureau. ]

Washington, March 1S.-The new sea-
going submarins of the United States
navy, a contract for which was signed
to-day by Secretary OF the Navy Dan
iels with the Electric Boat Company,
of Groton, Conn, will have Irface
speed of 20 knots an hour, thus en-
abling her to keep pace with the bat
tie fleet with which she will operate,
both in offensive and defensive actions
and manevres.
Unlike the defensive submarines, she
will have a name to designate her in
stead of a combination of letters and
mum, ers. She will be known as the
Schley, in honor Of the late Rear Ad-
miral w. s. Schley.
The new ship will also have a dis
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
HAPSBURGS INVEST
$l4,OOO,OO0 IN u. S.
Austrian Emperor'S Relatives
Make Use of Brokers Here
ChateauS UnSOld.
tBy Cable to The Tribune.l J

Geneva, March 18.--According to in
formation which has filtered through
from Vienna, certain Innsbruck men,
bers Of the Hapsburg family have
through the medium of New York brok-
ers invested 70,000,000 crowns (S14,-
600, 0,O00) in the United States. Owing
to the rate of exchange the purchases
were made at heavy loss. The En-
peror has not made any investments
abroad, and those of his Innsbruck rel
atives probably were made without his
knowledge.
Several archdukes and archduchesses
who offered private houses and cha
teaus for sale in the early days of the
war are still unable TO find purchasers.
There is no ready money in Austria,
not even among the wealthiest.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
Belgian Monument to America

Brussels (via London), March IS
Prominent Belgians have initiated a
movement TO erect monument to
America in token of gratitude for the
assistance given by the United States
in feeding the war sufferers in this
country. The monument will be erect
ed at the intersection of the Avenue
Louise and the Boulevard Waterloo,
the most conspicuous spot in Brussels.
The design of the monument will be
decided later
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
LOW ROUND TaIP FARES DAILY
VIA The SCENIC HIGHWAY
TO CALIFORNIA; EYp0SIrIoNs.

Very low round trip fares are now in
effect via the Scenic Highway OF the North
ern Paclhc Railway which viii permit you 10
see both the San Francisco and San Diego
Expeditions at no additional expense The
Exposition really begins when you board it,
through transcontinental trains from Chi.
cago 81. Louis or Kansas City 10 North
Pacific Coast points and Puget Sound--tho
Mediterranean OF America
II you Will advise me about when vou
VIII plan your 1915 vacation. | will be- very
literature. including illustrated Exposition
FOLDER, and assist you In any way possible
w. L. MERSHON. Gen'l Agt, l24i Broad.
York City.-Adyt. ~
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
Young Student Disappears.

Frederick Weiss, nineteen years old,
son OF Jacob Weiss, Of lO7 Jamaica
Avenue, Astoria, has been missing
since last Monday. and last evening
detectives of the Queens Headquarters
were asked by his parents to search
for him. He was a student at the Col
lege of Pharmacy in this city and one
of the honor men of his class. He left
home last Monday, presumably to go
TO school, and that was the last heard
of him. His parents said he had been
lately over his studies.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
Subscribe S45,500,000.

Berlin, Mash 18. (By Wireless to
Sayville, n. New subscriptions to
the war loan a Mount to s45,5O0,0 900. In
cluded in this amount is S5,000,000
from depositors in Berlin savings
banks and s7,500,000 from the city OF
Berlin
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19

placement of something like 1000 .o,s
The Secretary also signed eon,rss.s
with the same company for the CO...
struction of the coast and harbor q.
fence submarines OF a type similar 4
those added to the navy within the hg
few years. These ships will be hoE,
as NJ, NJ and N-3. They will be q
moderate size and speed.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
PROTESTS ARREST
OF GERMAN CONSUL
Embassy Claims Immunity for
Seattle Official Accused of
Conspiracy.
LErom The Trlbune Burean-l l

Washington, March 1S.-The arrest
of the German Consul, William Muel-
Ter, and his assistant. B. VI. Schultz.
at Seattle, on a charge of attempting
10 influence corruptly employees of the
Seattle Dry Dock and Construction
Company, was made the basis of pro-
test TO the State Department to-day
by the German Embassy.
The embassy contended that the ar
rest of the consul was violation Of
the consular treaty and that the au-
thorities of Seattle had exceeded their
powers in serving a warrant of arrest
upon Mueller and searching the con-
sulste.
In response to the protest the State
Department Immediately took up the
case. At its request the Department
of Justice directed its special agent in
Seattle to make an investigation of the
circumstances attending Mueller's ar
rest and Counsellor lansing gave his
attention TO the legal status of con-
suls under the German treaty.
Seattle. March lS.-Counsel for Muel-
Ter and Schultz to-day furnished 81 900
bail for each, binding them to appear
for trial in the Superior Court when
ever ordered.
County Prosecuting Attorney Alfred
II. Lundn, after reading a summary OF
Ambassador Won Bernstorff's complaint
TO the State Department, denied that
the German Consulate was searched.
Not paper was even touched, not
a door broken open," he declared.
Consul Mueller said to-day that the
bills of lading alleged to have been
stolen by Murdock from the Seattle
Construction and Dry Dock Company
showed the shipment of many cases
of engines and parts, anchors, chains.
supports, connecting rods and many
other articles, including mattresses.
which might well be used in the equip
ment of submarines, and that he would
so report to Ambassador Won Bern
storfi.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
Polish Fortress, Changed
Since October, Proves
UnWelcome Surprise,
INVADERS IN HIDING
ABOVE PRZASNYSZ
Many Isolated Groups Starved
Out-Czar's Troops Take
Over 10000 Prisoners.

Petrograd, March 16.-Of the fighting
which flows to and fro on either hand
Of Przasnysz and along rivers one main
and salient impression is to be gath
cred, and here in the capital. where all
threads join, that impression is con-
firmed in the highest military and OF
fetal quarters. 1t is the impression
that, for the Russians, things are 60
ing well; that their plans are maturing
favorably, and that the situation has no
longer any elements unforeseen or un-
provided for
The line to the east and west Of
Przasynzs is lengthening daily. Osso-
wetz is giving rs good as it gets, and
the German force which is now she'll
ing that fortress is depleted by the
need of detaching strong reconnois-
sances.
The attack on Ossowetz has never
been an actual siege, and communica-
, tion with the little town has never
been interrupted. Like Warsaw, its
Notifications have been greatly modl-
fed and improved since last October,
when it withstood and fought off as
sault, and now it is one of the strong
est fortresses on this front. In the Oc-
tober fighting its guns were able TO
keep the German batteries at a dis
tance and the forts did not suffer. This
time the Germans have brought up the
heaviest artillery yet seen on this
front, including monster howitzer,
which is variously described as the
great Krupp which took part in the
bombardment of Antwerp, and as u
inch Austrian howitZer, besides large
quantities of ordinary siege artillery.
Offences Are Improved.
The German gUlLcrs are handicapped
by the fact that the guL positions of
the fortress have been entirely remod-
elled since they last had the oppor-
tunity of observing them. Such brill
liant work has been done in devising
the new fortifcations that they are al
most impossible to reconnoitre from an
aeroplane. In addition, Ossowetz, which
has seen big guns before, had a sur
prise ready for the attackers in the
shape of her own armament, which is
peculiar to the fortress, and which may
not even yet be described in any par
ticular. The Germans, as usual, are
very strong in aeroplanes, OF which
several have been shot down, and one,
which is said not TO have been hit,
turned over, fell on the railway track
and was there blown to pieces by the
explosion of its own bombs.
The Germans who have just suffered
defeat on the Orzyc are not the kind
of men who last year disputed every
inch of the way from tno Niemen back
to the frontier. They are mi ch more
mixed division than that which de
Tended the villages Of Jednorojec and
Stegna, and across the river they in
cluded Austrians, Nungarians and ST.
lesian Landwehr . oops, further rein
forced by four battalions of Prussian
active troops, which had fallen back
before the Russian movement at the
bridge head of VIOLA Drazewska. Rus
sian cavalry. moving parallel with them
along the left bank Of the river, frus-
trated an attempt to C. ss on the ice,
which at some points was strong enough
to hold heavy guns
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19
Official War Bulletins
WESTERN FRONT.

Zeppelin bna
railway
killed
Champagne have made sensible the nora
repused Our n'"
Ridge 1876 the direction o
north Vdun, carried two U"
man prisoners
At Hartmann eerkopf have gained little ground in re
The His ene
full Of dead.
ISSUED 3:4O p M)-The Belgian army pogre"
the User Its artillery bombarded of the enemys on the ~
Dxmunde Lessen
to artillery The enemy a
barded particular the of the hill at Nore Dame de L "
the Of Carnoy nd
artillery bOmbif
the railway a Conhans.
BERLN-A southern
Of he Lore hills repulsed. -.
in to Mesnl
brought ndsti fresh
there repused
yesterday fighting astors
bombs undeended Shlttstadt
falling
children and severely wounding In German ayos ' no
dropped bombs of big the at
New-York tribune., 1915-03-19

Amsterdam, via London, March 18.-
According to the Berlin Tages-Zei-
tung." the American Ambassador in
Constantinople, Henry Morgenthau, has
with the permission of the Turkish
government left Constantinople for the
Dardanelles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-06
NEED OF "eIe BROTHERS."
Many Unfortunate People in Augusta
Who Should Have Clothing
Ask Salvation Army.

Can't. NJ. H. Price Of the Salvation
Army urges the people OF Augusta to
respond to the relief Of the poor in the
city. At the Salvation Army headquar-
tiers is kept q card system of people
in unfortunate circumstances, and at
the present time 40 men, women and
children are receiving aid in the form
Of wood, coal and groceries from the
Salvation Army. Many Of these peo-
pie, particularly children. are in need
Of winter clothing, of all sorts, includ-
ing shoes. The recent cold spell has
caused intense suffering among some
OF these families, and but for the aid
Of those who make it their life work
to hunt out and assist deserving poor
actual tragedies might have been re-
corded.
In many homes of Augustus well-to-
do are all sorts of cast-off clothing,
which would be of great value if plac-
ed in the hands of such as the Saliva
ton Army. Had the matrons of Au-
gusta households had these things in
mind and prepared bundles of cloth
ing, not likely to be worn again about
their homes, they could have prevent
ed a great deal of actual suffering
among the poor of our city in the re-
cent cold spell. A noble work is being
done here for the Belgians, and other
victims of the war in Europe, but al
most at our doors are cases just as de-
serving and just as pathetic. If little
bundles Of clothing could be made up
and a card dropped to the Salvation
Army at e21. Chapel street, Capt.
Price would see to it that some one
called to take the bundle away and to
distribute it where It will do the most
good.
Should there be in this city a man
of the pig Brother" class, who would
like to give his personal attention to
some family, or become guardian an
gel for some bright boy or girl. who
is in the need Of shoes or coat, the
address of deserving families can be
found in the card index at Salvation
Army headquarters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-06

1t was learned Friday that what might
have been disasterous fire was mar
rowly averted Thursday night at the res
idence of Phileas Dostie, &c Mt. Vernon
avenue, by its timely discovery and good
assistance on the part of people in the
neighborhood. The house is a siX-tene-
ment structure, Mr. Dostie and family
living on the ground floor and there were
in the house at the time about 2S people.
At about 11.30 Thursday night Mr.. Dos
tie, who with his wife occupies bed
room off the kitchen, smelled smoke.
and on going into the kitchen found the
woo3boX near the stove in flames, 1t
apparently having been ignited from the
overheated stove. In his excitement it
is supposed that he either dropped the
kerosene lamp which he carried or al
lowed it to overturn, for the Oil ran
onto the floor and igniting served to
spread the blaze faster Mr. Dostie sue
ceeded, however, in making his way out
of side door and calling for help. to
which neighbors quickly responded and
succeeded in drowning out the flames
without calling the fire department The
damage done by the fire was small and
is covered by insurance in the C. E.
Downing agency.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-06
COLONIAL THEATRE 8
1.-THE Master Key No. 10'; Pauline
Bush Feature; VIM. Garwood and
Vivian Rich Feature; Broneho Fea-
ture; "Our Mutual Giri"; Keystone
Comedy and Others.

If you did not see the Master Key
Yesterday make it point to see it
today. 1t is far better even than any
Of the preceding chapters, action first,
last and all the time, is the password
of this episode.
William Garwood and Vivian Rich
are in good feature called The
Sewer Reaps." This is a stirring story
and will appeal tosall.
Miss Pauline Bush. one Of the most
popular film favorites of the picture
world, appears in "A Night Of Thrills. .
1t is some big night, too.
The Broncho feature is great 'Our
Mutual Girl is interesting and the
keystone comedy is a dandy
Remember the big 10-reel matinee
today. TWO full shows tonight at $50
and SIS P. M.