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FRENCH STATEMENT.
PARIS. May II. ESQ pm,

PARIS. May II, ESQ Pm,
emy endeavored by night attack to
recapture the positions taken by US
the day before yesterday. They
were, however. repulsed.
To the north of Arras our progress has
continued. Monday evening We took
possession first Of the cemetery and
then of the eastern part of the vii
lage of Carency and also of the road
from Carency to Sauchez. Carency.
where we took 23O' moro prisoners.
including three officers. and captured
several machine guns. is now invest
ed by our troops on three sides and
Is reduced to precarious communica-
ton with the German lines.
The forces brought by the ef smy from
Lens and from Douai in automobiles
were not successful any place in get
ting the advantage. Four strong
counter attacks broke down under
our fire during the afternoon of Mon
day. at the same time suffering very
heavy losses.
These attacks took place in front of
Sauchez and at Neuville st. Vaast.
At this aforementioned place We
gained territory, at the same time
making about 100 prisoners. The
number OF officers taken Dy US up TO
Yesterday evening is more than fifty.
Monday night the enemy suffered a
further check. The counter attacks
to the north of Neuville ST. Naast,
preceded by violent bombardment,
were completely repulsed, and We re-
tained all the ground gained by US.
at the same time intlicting very
heavy losses on our assailants. On
the remainder of the front from Loos
to Arras there was no counter attack
yesterday.
Following the bombardment Of Dun
kirk, reported yesterday morning.
during which three shells fell, but
without hurting anybody or inf1ict-
ing any damage, the Germans threw
eleven shells en- the town of Bergues.
kirk Twelve persons were Killed
and eleven were wounded. Our bat
teries at once opened fire, and they
put a stop to the shelling of the en-
emy, which was not resumed during
the day.
On the rest OF the front there has been
nothing to report.
One of our aviators yesterday bonn
barded a hangar for dirigible bal
looms at Maubeuge and started fire.
An aviator of the enemy threw
bombs on the railroad station at
Doullens, twenty miles north OF
Amiens. but without doing any dam
age.
Another aviator Of the enemy pursued
between the Argonne and the Meuse
bv a French airman. was compelled
to come down within the Germa n
lines, where his machine took ire
On the other hand. the Germans
brought down yesterday a British
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TWO EARLY MORNING FIRES.
Sheds in Rear Of Houses Burn
5000 Damage in Northeast Home.

Sheds in rear OF five houses on the
200 block of 18th street northwest
we're Destroyed by fre about 1890
o'clock this morning. The fire spread to
the fence on premises 1903 w street
and badly damaged it. An investigation
made by fremen and policemen failed
10 disclose the origin. The damage was
estimated at $500.
No 10 engine company responded TO
alarm of fire about 3 O'Clock this
morning and extinguished a small fire
IN the house of Mrs. Susie Cosey, 4le
18th street northeast. About $500 dam
age rssultea-
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PROGRESS IN THE PLANS.
Additional Members Enrolled by
G, A. R. Reunion Committee.

Chairman w p. Van Wrinkle Of the
historic sites COMMITTEES for the ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic. announced this morn
ing that he had added the names OF
Gilbert II. Grosvenor and j. HAIRY
Shannon to the list OF his committee
men. and that the resignation of ii:
i, Randall Webb had been received ana
accepted.
w. T. GalIiher. chairman OF the COM
mittee on badges for the conveninc &
veterans, announced that designs ana
specifications for the badges had been
submitted. and that all bids for the
tions would he in by May -.
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PLEA IN LOCAL COURT
FOR CUSTODY Of CHILD
Former Wife of Herbert A. Hard Ac.
cuses Him of Kidnapping
Their Daughter.

= question of the custody Of
FL .abeth Hard. seven years old Of
Sa nav, Mich, is to be determined by
the District Supreme Court. Last Sat
urf ~ her father. Herbert A. Hard. was
arrNsted on request from the Michi-
- police on charge Of kidnapping,
~ eing claimed that he took unlaw-
fu the child from the custody of the
me her. Hard gave bail of $4,000, pend
iu;- d hearing.
J. .quisition papers were received
fro n the Governor OF Michigan, charg-
ing him with forcibly removing the
chi'd from the state. Chief Justice
90 ington will hear the extradition
ms ter this afternoon
Asks for Habeas Corpus Writ.
Catherine Hard, the mother, arrived
III Washington Sunday and today filed
petition In habeas corpus for the
custody of little Elizabet Justice
could issued the writ requiring the
father TO have the child In court to-
morrow morning.
The parents were divorced in Febru-
AIRY In North Dakota. and the decree
is said TO have permitted the father 10
have the custody of each child for two
months IN each year. The petition OF
me mother asserts that under the
Michigan law the custody of children
Ms exclusively In the mother until they
each the age OF twelve years. She
therefore claims she is entitled to have
Tie little girl returned to her.
Attorney NJ r. OBrien represents the
wife. The husband Is represented by
attorneys James a. O'Shea, Rufus S.
lay and Charles Roach.
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Too Late for Casuistry.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
Senator Stone. chairman of the SEN
ate committee on foreign affairs. has
issued a statement. as illogical as it is
ill-advised. suggesting that Germany
may not be legally responsible Tor the
loss of American lives on the Lusitania.
Does Senator Stone realize that, If by
any process of casuistry. Germany Is
absolved of responsibility for this
frightfuI tragedy, the responsibility
fastens itself at once upon the govern
ment Of the United States? For IL such
an act as the torpedoing of the Lusita-
MIA with her passengers is just,hable
and legitimate, it was the duty of the
United states government to warn its
citizens in advance that they had no
business on the Lusitania or any other
passenger vessel which few the British
flag
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RUSSIAN STATEMENT.

PETNOGRAD, May 10. via London, May
IL:
In the region Of Uzsok pass the enemy
made a fruitless attack Saturday.
Serried enemy columns attacked i'm
petuously a position held by two of
our companies in sector of the
Javorina mountain chain on the slope
above Lomnitza. The enemy's losses
were 80 heavy heaps of bodies inter
fered with the fire from our trenches.
Our troops, in spite of the enemy's $
machine gun fire. left their trenches
and swept the enemy from the whole
region.
The same day. after a desperate fight.
the enemy forced a Russian detach-
ment near the village of Zaleveki to
retire to the left bank of the Dnfes-
ter.
Sunday night our vanguards. having
crossed the Dniester. attacked the
enemy on the Chabourki front to the
mouth of the Stry. We took l.3oo
prisoners. one gun and many ma
chine guns. s.
In the region Of Shawl (Kovno) yes
terday our offensive continued with
success on a broad front. A BaVa-
rian cavalry division supported by an
infantry regiment OF RUSSIAN - Guaras,
which had surrounded on the east
our troops operating in the direction
Of Keydany and Besiagola (Cour-
land) was successfully attacked. in
the vicinity of Jeymi station by our
cavalry, which on the night OF the
9th pursued the enemy without in
PERMISSION for several dozen versts
"a verst is about two-thirds Of a
mile).
On the left bank of the Niemen and on
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AUSTRIAN STATEMENT

AUSTRIAN STATEMENT.
VIENNA. May 10, via London, May 11s
The Russian third army has been re-
pulsed with heavy losses from west
Galicia and the Carpathians, and is
now being pressed in the region of
Sanok and Lisko. The allied army is
advancing successfully and has taken
by fighting from the west the pas
sage of the Wisloka and has reached
from the south line Vernik, Haligrad
and Bukowsko.
On the northern wing of the west Ga
lician front yesterday troops from
upper Austria. Salzburg and the
Tyrol stormed several places east and
northeast Of Debioa.
The number of prisoners captured in
west Galicia has risen to $4,000, and
to these are to be added over 10000
captured during the pursuit in the
Carpathians.
The Russian third army, composed of
five corps-the 9th, 10th. 18th, 24th
and Sd Caucasian regiments, with
several divisions of reserves-has
thus lost 100000 prisoners.
Reckoning the number of dead and
wounded. the total loss of the Rus
slams is at least 100000.
The booty has not yet been completely
estimated, but so guns and 200 ma
chine guns have been counted.
Battles in southeast Galicia continue.
BY counter attack on the heights
northeast Of Ottinya a strong hostile
party was repulsed.
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the front of the Narew there has
been complete lull. On the left of
the Vistula We repulsed an attack of
the enemy at the mouth of the Nida-
In western Galicia. May and Q. the
fighting was chiefly on the Velepole-
Novotaneo front. After q desperate
engagement the enemy succeeded in
the region Of krosno ins crossing the
upper part Of Wisloka river.
In the actions of the last week we took
as prisoners several thousand un-
wounded Germans and Austrians.
The total number has not been veri-
fed.
In the direction of olti, in the eau
casus, our troops have dislodged the
Turks from their position and have
driven them back to the southwest
In their hurried retreat the Turks
abandoned a large quantity OF tents
and munitions.
In the direction of Tabriz the Turks
have been driven from South pass,
and we occupied the villages there.
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Is Piracy War =?

From the New Orleans Times -Picayune
What is Washington going to do about
it? What Is the American people going
to insist that Washington shall do
about II? Slaughter of American citi-
zens in contravention of all laws of
warfare has placed the United States
in a position that is intolerable. What
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Murder on the High Seas.

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
Germany should remember the Maine.
Unless the United States is another
China. the people of this country will
not tolerate the destruction of the lives
of Americans, who may be passengers
upon ships of commerce. no matter un-
der what flag these ships are.
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Unsettled Weather Predicted.

Unsettled weather is predicted for
tonight and tomorrow in the oficial
forecast of the weather bureau issued
today. During the remainder OF tho
week fair weather is predicted. Tenn
peratures will be moderate the fore
aster for this district believes.
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Germany's Crime.

from the Providence Bulletin.
In the face of the stupefying slaugh-
ter OF scores of Americans and hun
dreds of nom -combatants by the tor
pedoing of the Lusitania the American
people today are stirred to the depths
of strong emotions. Their feelings are
as IL they had been stunned with the
simultaneous news of the Maine and
the Titanic. They are burning with
the flame of Indignation and stricken
with sorrow. 1t is a heavy and an ur-
gent responsibility that the authors of
the Lusitania horror have laid at the
door of the United States government
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China has only about ono physician
trained along modern lines for each
600, 900 Inhabitants.
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TURKISH STATEMENT.

CONSTANTINoPI.E. May 10. via AM
sterdam and London. May II:
On the Dardanelles front the enemy
made four desperate attacks near
Ari Burnu Sunday night. but was re-
pulsed by bayonet attacks and suf-
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People and the President.

From the Brooklyn Standard Union.
There are times when any sacrifices
are rightly deemed small compare ed
with the duty of preserving all that
makes national existence worth while
President Wilson can rely upon the
American people to prove that they
realize this truth. and are ready even
now to act upon il. The voice of our
brothers blood cries unto him from the
seas.
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War Officially Reported.

aviator. and British soldiers were
successful in bringing down two Ger
man airmen.
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BRITISH STATEMENT.

LONDON. May II (report from Field
Marshal Sir John French, dated May
1O)i
Our line to the east of Ypres. in spite
of repeated attacks by the enemy
during last week. is substantially
the same as that to which we with
drew the night of May "a. During
the fighting in this quarter yester-
day the enemy made five unsuccess-
ful attacks. and his losses in these
failures were very heavy. On the
front tof the first army the fighting
today has been confined to artillery
action.
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Germany Turns to Piracy.
- Ri. nr.nH Pantd. Nave

\ From the Grand Rapids News.
| 1t is difficult for any American to con
| ceive of such fiendish warfare as that
which sends to the bottom Lusitania.
crowded with non -combatant passen-
gers, men, women and children. This
act on the part of Germany must be
considered her last insolent defiance Of
1 the neutral world
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fered heavy losses. Three enemy
battalions were annihilated.
Monday afternoon the enemy constant
ly carried away wounded to their
boats.
In the south, near Sedt I Bahr the en-
emy attacked under I. protection OF
naval guns, but owing to our coun-
ter attacks his assault was unsuc-
cessful.
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The Presidents Poise.
From tn. Columbus Journal.

|
In the new war crisis President Will
son takes his customary calm and
steady position. He will say nothing
until he knows all the facts. What a
Gods blessing it is that we have not
hothead in the presidency now. We
need more Woodrow Wilson's in the
public service and we need more Wood
row Wilson's in private life.
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Unspeakable Savagery.
F4om the Richmond v,rEinian.

From the Richmond Vng1nian.
Germany had no more right over the
persons and property of the neutral
non-combatant passengers than mon
of outlaws has over the persons ana
lives of helpless women. Slapped IN
the face, the whole world Is yet stunned
at the atrocity. And even had Ger
many a legal. an indisputably. legal
right over the lives Of the slain and
had exercised only her legal right. she
would have received the condemna-
tion Of history. The facts that face US
are these: Shall we resent the out
rage, and how? We cannot resent 1t
save as an unspeakable bit of savagery.
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Atrocious Doctrine.

From the Rochester Post Express
The German doctrine, new to interna-
tional law. Is that citizens Of neutral coun-
tries have no rights on any part of the
seas which Germany chooses to consider
war zone. If this contention is conced-
ed, principle new and broad enough to
deprive all non-combatants of every natu-
raj right on every ocean will be estab-
lished. The time to challenge this afro
cious doctrine has come and unless it is
comoated fearlessly and firmly this out
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Plea for Deliberation.
From the Pittsburgh Press.

Ff0m inc FlrtsUufgH fIes1.
In the presence Of such a crisis there
is supreme need of wisdom among the
great body of our people as well as
among those at the head. 1t would be
one Of the most deplorable tragedies
in human history if official spokesmen
of our government should now give
way to excitement and allow their
course to be determined by unconsid-
cred momentary impulses. 1t would be
equally tragic II emotional clamor
should take the place Of deliberation
in forming public opinion on the
course to be taken by the government
not only as to this one incident, but as
to others Of like character which may
follow it in no distant future.
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Germany Has Lost Heavily.

rrUIH tHe UtIca UbseTver.
As for the effect upon public senti-
ment. there is no doubt that Germany
has lost heavily by this act We have
been asked by German writer's and
speakers in the past to suspend judg-
ment as to the justification of that
country's course, and 1t Is proba BILE that
very many have attempted to do this.
But 1t will be harder to suspend judg-
ment in the future than it has been in
the past. Germany has lost heavily of
TRENDS by the sinking Of the Lusitania,
and if public sentiment in the United
States is of any value to her, she has
Haunted it in the face. 1t is difficult
indeed to see wherein she has gained.
IL is impossible to put ones self In
sympathy with the reasoning that will
attempt to Justify such an act
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Feeling Over the Tragedy.

rIOm tne newark Star.
Regardless of the sympathies people
may have with this one or that one of
the warning European nations, the
sinking by German torpedoes Of the
great ocean liner. tho Lusitania, with
the loss of hundreds of precious hu-
man lives. has created but one feeling
among mankind. and that a combined
sensation of horror, grief. resentment
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES at the mag
nitude of this tragedy of the sea; grief
over the fact that many men, women
and children, free from thoughts of
harm doing to persons of any cline or
country. were made victims; resent
ment that better safeguards to pas
sengers should not have been provid-
ed by the British nation against the
attack of the enemy of England, and
the act of the commander Of the Ger
man submarine in not giving ample
time for all the passengers and the
crew to leave the doomed ship in safe
ty. and apprehension as to the effect
the calamity will have on the United
States neutrality attitude. 80 long
maintained
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Provocative of War;
From the Knoxville Sentinel

1t is grave situation, indeed,
through which we still entertain tho
hope that our great, peace-loving and
peace-determined President will steer
the country clear of the catastrophe Of
war.
But we very much fear that the de-
structiop Of the Lusitania, the tone of
joy and triumph with which it has
been hailed in Germany as worthy
deed, and it's evident coincidence with
the policy authoritatively announced
by Germany confirms the growing sus-
picion we have felt of late that it is
the deliberate purpose of the kaiser's
government to disregard all the rights
of neutrals, to provoke them to war
and spread the flames of the conflict to
every corner of the globe, for reasons
best known to himself and to his ad-
visers.
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THE AMERICAN PRESS
ON GERMAN WARFARE
Kaiser's Naval Policy Declared One of
Assassination -Provocation for the
Strongest Action Strong Patriotic
Tone Throughout Country.

are Messrs. Wilson and Bryan and
Messrs. the Senators and Representa-
ives gong 10 40 10 re-estaoiish the
along the highways Of the world?
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Skull and Crossbones Flag,
Facing a Crisis.

From the spartanbury g. C) Herald.
Plainly the government Of this coun-
Try faces q serious crisis. It does not
seem possible to accommodate tho is
sues without resort to something more
forcible than words.
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Justifes the Attack.

From the Milwaukee Free ress.
The Americans who sailed on the
Lusitania took their lives in their own
hands. Any person in his right senses
and not hopelessly Anglomaniac must
have realized that the German warn
ings meant business, that the Lusitania
was a doomed boat when she sailed
from New York. Yet, there were plenty
of newspapers and individuals in New
York who shared the arrogance of the
Cunard company and openly scoffed at
the German warnings as a cheap scare
to injure the lines business. These
reprehensible mentors may well consult
their consciences today as to their share
of responsibility for the lives that were
jeopardized on the Lusitania.
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From the Lewiston Me.) Journal
The progress of imperial piracy on
the high seas. 1t is agreed. reflects the
desperation as well as the brutal heart
lessness Of kaiserism
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Trying American Patience.

From the St. Alban (vt.) Messenger
A ship flying the American nag has
been sent to the bottom American citi-
zens have become the target for the Ger
man torpedo There comes a point beyond
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Women's and Misses Separate
Coats, of tan Palm Beach cloth, in
full back and box-pleated effects.
with belt; trimmed with taffeta silk
collar and cuffs and pockets. Misses
sizes. 10 and l8; women's sizes, "a to
"A. $3.50 values, S6.95.
Suit Seetion
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-08-28
THE OPEN MIND.

What chance in the stern warfare
OF life has the man of an open
mind" when it comes to influencing
his fellows? Such man is by force
Of nature a mental hermit The bat
ties OF life are fought by people of
CLOSED minds" who do not think and
who only presuppose and remember.
The big deeds fall to the doing of in
dividuals who have one idea and no
patience with any other. Great states
men are as q rule as devoid of under
standing what they do and stand for
as generals are Of knowledge of that
for which they fight One man is
statesman, tribune and trumpet blow
er of q notion that may be right or
wrong-nobody knows which until it
is tested. The other has busi2ess in
hand of killing so many men as he
may, and let history play the coroner.
So 1t goes, The man of the open
mind is always, If you look at it that
way, a martyr to the great clashing
majority of preconceived opinions
raised on either side with O sort of
patent mental baking powder This
natural born philosopher of charity
and good humor has no place what
ever between the lines of the eternal
controversy between my doxy and
your doxy." If the intelligent man be
also intellectual, he may skirmish
around and gain a fortune, but he will
never gain the recognition that to the
average man is worth more than any
fortune that may come to him.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-08-28
ITALY NOW 1T WAR
WITH TIE TURKS
DECLARATION OF WAR DECLARED
BY ITALIAN GOVERNMENT
AGAINST TURKEY.
The Support Given by Turkey to the
Revolt in Libya ard Prevention of
Departure OF italian Residents
Given as the Reason.

London.-Itaiy has declared wa
against Turkey and the Italian ambas
Gador has left Constantinople.
Marquis di Garroni, Italian embas
sador to Turkey, on Saturday handed
to the porte a note declaring Italy
considered herself in a state of wal
with Turkey and demanded his pass
ports, according to an official telegram
from Constantinople, received at Am
sterdam and transmitted to the Cen
trail News.
The reasons given in the note fol
ltaly's declaration of war were tn
support given by Turkey to the revol
in Libya and the prevention of the de
parture of Italian residents from
Syria.
The Italian government, says a Stef
FAM dispatch from Rome, has sent to
all it's representative abroad a circu
lar dispatch setting forth the ques
tons at issue between Italy and TT
key. The dispatch closes with thess
words:
In view Of these obvious infrac
tons Of categorical promises made b.
The Ottoman government and follow
ing upon our ultimatum of August 8
provoked, by eyasions of the Ottoman
government, particularly with regarl
to the free departure OF Italian sub
jects from Asia Minor, the Italian gov
eminent has sent instructions to it
ambassador at Constantinople to de
clare war on Turkey"
Although Italy declared war on Aus
tria on May "a, there has never bee.
my declaration of war between Ital.
and Turkey, the ally of the centra
powers, nominally have been at peace
Friction between Turkey and Italy
however, has been in evidence sine
shortly after the latters entry into To.
war. Early in June there were reports
that Italian consuls were gradually
leaving Turkey and that American of
fcials were taking over the task OF
looking out for Italian interests. Late.
charges were made that the Ottoman
government was preventing these con
suls from leaving, and that similar co
ercion was being eXerted over Italia,
citizens who wished to quit Turkish
soil, a